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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
FRANK HOLT TAKES
OWN LIFE IN CELL
CORNELL PROFESSOR, WHO SHOT
J. P. MORGAN, COMMITS SUI
eide IN MINEOLA JAIL.
MANNER OF DEATH UNCERTAIN
Dr.. Guy CIe9horn, After Performing
Autopsy, States Prisoner Died Of
Hemorrhage of Brain Caused
by Fracture Of Skull

Mineola, n. Y, July 8.-Frank Holt
the Cornell university professor who
shot J. p. Morgan in his home near
Glen Cove several days ago, has com
mitted suicide in the Jail here.
While several of the jail authorities
declared that Holt killed himself by
climbing through the opening at the
top of his cell door and then plunging
to the narrow court below, Hollis keep
er said he was positive that the pris
oner was killed in his own cell, where
he said he found the body
There were many conflicting reports
as to the manner in which Holt met
his death, but it was definitely estab
lished through Doctor Cleghorn, the
jail physician, that Holt died of frac
tured skull.
Keeper Hears Loud Report
Several of those about the Jail said
they heard an explosion, the report
coming from Hollis cell. This noise
it was believed, was due to the falling
of boards from the top of the cell. T..
Jeremiah Organ, the keeper who
was detailed to watch Holt, said he
was Is feet away from the cell when
he heard loud report. He looked
in the direction of the cell, but it was
dark. Entering, he found Hollis body
in a pool of blood in the corner.
The excitement that followed the
noise brought Warden Hulse and other
Jail authorities to the scene. District
Attorney Lewis J. Smith and Doctor
CleghOrn, together with several con-
stables, we're soon on the scene and
Immediately began an investigation.
Death Caused by Fractured Skull.
Doctor Cleghorn denied a report that
Holt had killed himself by chewing
a percussion cap. He repeated that
death was caused by fracture at the
top of the skull. An explosion which
would have blown his head off would
have followed an attempt by Holt to
chew percussion cap, the physician
said. A thorough examination OF
Hollis cell failed to disclose, according
to the Jail authorities, any weapon or
implements of any kind which Holt
could have used to kill himself.
Coroner Walter R. Jones, after view.
ing the body, said:
Undoubtedly suicide, and I'm.
doubtedly the man jumped. l cannot
give an official version until an autop.
sy is performed by the Jail physician
DR.. Cleghorn."
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
Ships First 1915 Bale OF Cotton.

Brownsville, Texas, July 9.-The
first bale of cotton of the 1915 season
has been ginned at Lyford, Texas,
near here and shipped to the Houston
Cotton exchange This is the third
successive year Lyford has shipped
the United States
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
HiIIyer May Judge Lawson Case.

Denver, Col, July 9-The Colorado
supreme court has denied a motion
filed by attorneys for John R. Law
son, strike leader, convicted of murder,
for writ of prohibition to prevent
Judge CRANKY Hillyer from taking any
further action in the Lawson case.
The action of the supreme court
means. according to attorneys on both
sides of the case, that the motion for
a new trial for Lawson will be argued
before Judge Hillyer at Trinidad.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
Banker-Farmer Conference OPENS,

oanNeT-T dT"eF conference "opens.
Chicago, July IA national confer
ence of bankers and farmers opened
in the Hotel La Sale this afternoon
with a session devoted to agricultural
educators, addresses being made by
the heads of agricultural departments
in various state universities. Tomor-
row afternoons session will be given
over to the editors of farm Journals.
For each day symposiums of bankers
are on the program.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
y. S. Unable to Secure Dye Stuffa.

q. S. Unable to Secure Dye Stuff9.
Washington, July S-Efforts of the
United States government to secure
dye stuffs from Germany for American
manufacturers have reached a dead
lock which appears unbreakable and
officials here expressed little hope OF
satisfactory arrangement being
made. State department officials will
continue their negotiations, but it is
practically certain that Germany will
not permit the expectation of dye:
stuffs unless some Arrangement is
made which will give Germany a much
needed supply of cotton.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
Personal

John NJ. Studebaker, only survivor
of the five brothers who founded the
Studebaker corporation at South Bend,
Ind, has retired and has been sue
ceeded by Frederick S. Fish as chair
man of the board Mr.. Studebaker
vas president of the company
Gen. Porfirio Diaz, former president
OF Mexico, died at Paris. Colonel Diaz,
Jr.. in announcing the death of his
father, expressed the opinion that the
cause was a complication of diseases,
due to advanced age. Diaz was born
at Oaxaca September Is, 1880. For
IS years he ruled Mexico, all of that
time, with the exception of four years.
as Its president. He remained in Of
flee until his resignation in 1911.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
HOLT TO BE BURIED IN TEXAS
Body Of Alleged Wife-Murderer and
Would-be Assassin to Rest
in Dallas.

Dallas, Texas, July 9.-The body Of
Frank Holt, alleged wife-murderer
bomb-maker, would-be assassin and
suicide, will be buried here, it was
announced, because the woman he
married five years ago cannot bear to
think of her husband lying in a dis
tant grave"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
Mexican Revolt

Hand-to-hand fighting, splitting sal
vos OF machine guns, cavalry charges,
and the slaughter of many woman
camp followers are revealed in dis
patches carrying details of the battle
between Villa and Carranza forces
near Villa Garcia, midway between
Paredon and Monterey.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
Detroit Educator Passes.

Detroit, Mich, July 9.-The Rev.
Francis Dooley, S. j., president of the
University of Detroit, died in a hos
pital In New York following an opera
ton for cancer, according to private
telegram received here.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15

Fifteen persons were killed outright
and three died later of injuries when
an international railway trolley Cat
jumped the track on the last curve at
the boat landing and crashed into a
tree, near Queenstown: village, Ont
All the victims were Toronto people.
who were part of three Sunday school
picnics to Niagara Falls. Forty per-
sons were hurt.
Lawrenceville, KY, was visited by
terrific windstorm and two persons
were killed.
Frank Holt, the Cornell professor
who shot j. P. Morgan in his home at
Glencove, n. Y, committed suicide by
jumping from a jail window to court
yard. Holt ended his life after he knew
that positive proof had been obtained
that he was Doctor Muenter of Har-
ward, the wife-murderer, and that the
house in Central Park, L. l., where he
had stored 200 pounds of dynamite
for the manufacture of bombs had been
located and searched by the police.
Four expert cracksmen blew open
the vault and safe at Midway Gardens,
Chicago. after overpowering two watch
men. and escaped with $4,000.
George Riddell, mayor of Grand
Rapids, Mimi, shot and killed himself
at his home, according to announce
ment by the coroner Mayor Riddell
was forty-fve years old. He is sur
vived by his widow and one child.
Coal syndicate of eleven companies
lost it's $1,250,000 damage suit at Fort
Smith, Ark, against union miners for
destruction of mine property in the
Prairie Creek mine riots.
The town of Wilmanock, Lancaster
county, Virginia, was wiped out by
fire, the loss exceeding $150,000.
Paul Franzen, mechanician for Will
liam Carlson, a driver in the 250-mile
Montamarathon race held on the
speedway at Tacoma, Wash, was
killed. Guy E. Ruckstell finished first
in two hours and f1fty-seven minutes.
A bomb was exploded adjoining the
basement of the police headquarters
at New York, directly under the de-
tective bureau. Five prisoners were
hurt
The dedication of the $4,000 Royal
Arch Mason hospital brought Masons
to Sullivan, Ill.,, from nearly every
city in the state. Twenty thousand
attended the dedication.
twenty-five thousand advocates OF
temperance gathered at Atlantic City
for war councils on the campaign
against the liquor traffic in the United
States. The Anti-Saloon League of
America and the Catholic Prohibition
league are meeting separately, but
these two bodies have similar aims
and work together
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
Domestic

Ludlow, KY, was practically wiped
off the map by tornado. More than
a hundred persons were killed and
many injured.
Anxiety over the safety of the two
transatlantic liners Saxonia and Phil
adelphia, on which Frank Holt con-
fessed placing bombs before they
sailed from this port for Liverpool,
was not wholly relieved by wireless
reports to New York from the two
vessels that the cargoes had been
searched and no bombs found.
The issuance of writ for the arrest
of Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw for con-
tempt of court was issued at New
1ork.
Fifteen persons were killed and fifty
injured by a tornado that swept Gin
cinnati, o., twenty buildings were
demolished. A Pennsylvania train was
wrecked at Plainfield, O., as result
of the storm and eight persons killed.
Forty persons are reported to have
been killed at st. Peters, Mo-, by tor
nado Town was practically de-
stroyed
Indianapolis was visited by a cy-
clone and three persons killed.
A national conference of bankers
and farmers was held in the Hotel La
Sale at Chicago. The session was de-
voted to agricultural educators, ad-
dresses being made by the heads of
agricultural departments in various
state universities.
Thomas r. Marshall, vice-president
of the United States, has been threat.
ened with death in more than a dozen
anonymous letters which he has re.
ceived during the last six weeks.
Vice~President Marshall made this
statement at St. Louis.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15

he russian resistance 10 the AUS
trian advance into Poland is increas-
ing in strength, Says a dispatch to
Vienna,
According to the official report from
the war office at Berlin the town of
Arras has been shelled and set on
fire and the cathedral, built in 1775,
containing many art treasures, is in
flames.
According to an official appeal issued
by the French Relief society, the
French casualties from the beginning
of the war up to June l, 1915, total
100000. Of this number, 100000 are
reported killed. 100000 wounded and
100000 taken prisoners.
Petrograd, in an official statement,
says that a flank attack on Archduke
.Joseph's army has resulted in Sc
we're check for the Teutons and has
brought a halt to it's northern move
ment. Two thousand were killed and
many prisoners taken.
A German submarine was sunk by
the government trawler Notre Dame
de Lourdes near Boulogle, the Paris
war Office announced
The Teutonic allies have pierced the
Russian front at Krasnik and split
the Russian armies defending the Lub-
lin railway, Brest-Litovsk and War
saw
A British airship squadron, accom-
attack the German naval base on the
North sea was defeated by detach-
ment of German warships and forced
to abandon the attempt, according to
an official statement issued at Berlin.
The Italians are again mbarding
the summit of Stelvio pass. Many
fashionable tourist hotels in that Sec
ton of the Alps are being destroyed
by the artillery fire, says dispatch
from Rome.
The Italian Third army, advancing
in four corps, on the lower Isonzo, was
repulsed with terrible losses, accord
ing to an official report from Vienna.
German army headquarters gave out
the following statement: AN Eng
fish attack north of Ypres and a
French attack against Souchez were
Tepulsed with sanguinary losses
Preparations are being made in
Constantinople for siege Of the town,
which is expected soon, says a dis
patch to Athens.
The big British steamship Anglo
Californian limped into Queenstown
harbor, a veritable floating shambles
after having outrun a German sub
marine. Captain Parslow and eleven
members Of the crew were killed.
She was laden with transport animals
Cor the British army.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15

Seven men are dead after cordite
explosion at the plant of the Canadian
Explosives company at Beloeil. Que.
Ten persons were severely injured.
Premier Asquith announced in Lon
don the engagement of his eldest
daughter, Violet, to Maurice Bonham.
Mr.. Asquith's principal secretary.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
Washington

Washington
A deficit of over $10,000,0OO in pos
tai revenues is forecast by Postmas-
ter General Burleson in statement
issued at Washington.
An explosion caused slight damage
in the public reception room of the
senate wing of the capitol building at
Washington. The damage which is
confined almost exclusively to the re-
ceptto1f room, was estimated by Su-
perintendent Woods of the capitol at
about six hundred dollars
The Sayville radio station on Long
Island will be taken over by the
United States government and will be
operated by the navy department in
the interest of American neutrality,
probably until the end of the war in
Europe, it was annc,uced at Wash
ington.
The railroads traversing what il
known as western Classification Ter
ritory' will receive practically all of
the advance in rates for which they
asked, It was announced unofficiallv
at Washington.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
news NOTES Of
GENERAL INTEREST
KERNELS CUILEO FROM THE
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS.
STORIES FROM OVER GLOBE
Items From Happenings Of World
Arranged in Their Briefest and
Most Succinct Form for the
Busy Reader.
European Wa," News

The Russian resistance to the Aus
trian advance into Poland is increas-
ing in strength, Says a dispatch to
Vienna,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-28

Q0IonQanCS lnCerIor6Q Win the QeIlV-
cry of an ice machine to the McEvoy
Brewing Co. in February, 1914. The
machine was shipped~from York, Pa,
by the York Manufacturing Co.
NO. 3
Michael Boyle, business agent
Electrical Workers union; Frank A.
Landmark, business agent Electrical
Workers union, No. 713; Ray Cleary,
assistant business agent Electrical
Workers union, No. 1874; Lester L.
Hampton, alias Jack" business
agent Electrical Workers union, No.
1874; Otis B. Duncan, officer ]. Lang
& Co.; Warren Ripple, officer ]. Lang
& Co.; Julien ]. Nielsen, officer
States Electric Co.; James Obermil-
Ter, formerly officer States Electric
Co.; Gustave w. Berthold, officer
Electric Apparatus Co.; Edward E.
Berthold, officer Electric Apparatus
Co.; Geo. E. A. Kohler, Kohler Bros;
Franklin Kohler, Kohler Bros; Henry
Newgard, Henry Newgard Co.; Mar
tin Newgard, Henry Newgard Co.;
Charles ]. Peterson, formerly with
Henry Newgard Co., now with the
Cuthbert Electric Manufacturing Co..
Charles Kreider, employe Kohler
Bros; Allen S. Pearl, officer Delta
Star Electric Co., and John Cuthbert,
president Cuthbert Electric Manu-
featuring Co..
Besides the individuals named the
companies or firms represented are
included in the indictments. The
charges are that the contractors
formed the Chicago Switchboard
Manufacturing assn and made an
agreement with the indicted business
agents to keep all business of that
nature out of Chicago.
BELGIANS FOIL USE OF GASES
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-28

| line around 81. Julian, winch II is be-
| ieved Sir John French has deter
mined must be recaptured
AdVices from Belgian headquarters
say that last night Germans distrib-
uted great quantity of their asphyx-
iating gas along line held by Belgians
and attempted an advance. Belgians
lay close to ground, each man with
his nostrils stuffed with cotton, with
which all troopseon front line now
have been supplied and waited. When
Germans, believing enemy uncon-
scious, charged in massed formation
their lines were literally cut to pieces
by machine gun fire and fell back in
disorder. German losses enormous
1t is stated that at certain points the.
dead lay piled on each other like
freshly cut f1rewood.
Although northern end of French
battle line attracts most attention;
because of spectacular nature of
fighting, officials are watching close
ly territory between Mouse and Mo-
selle and in Upper Alsace, where Sc.
rious fighting is known again to be,
in progress. Gen. Joffre has let it be
known that he hoped to have his real
offensive well under way by May 1.
Alvices from Gallipoli peninsula,
where allied troops under Gen. Ian
Hamilton are slowly pushing their
way along both sides of Dardanelles;
to cooperate with fleet in attempt on
Constantinople say that fighting con-;
tinues.
Paris.-Big French armored cruis-,
er Leon Gambetta, of 1882 tons dis
placement, has been torpedoed and
sunk, presumably by an Austrian
submarine, in the Adriatic off Otran-,
to. Not known how many were
drowned.
Stockholm. - Swedish steamer
Centric, coal-laden, sunk by mine in.
Baltic. Crew saved.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-28
BELGIANS FOIL USE OF GASES
r GERMANS CUT DOWN

London.-OffensiVe in France and
Belgium has passed into the hands of
the allies. Despite strength of Ger
man line it is wavering under repeat
ed assault at certain points. Weight
of Belgian rench-British combined
forces in Northern France is being
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-28

St. Paul, MIMI men injured, 1
probably fatally, and city blocks in
prominent part of st. Paul were
either burned or damaged in fire still:
raging. Loss probably $500, 900.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16
Notice Of Mortgage Foreclosure Sale

Notice is hereby given that that certain
executed and delivered by
James S. Burwell and Beulah Burwen, his
wife, mOrtgagOrS, to w. w. Hurd, mort
gagee, dated September 18th. 1908. and filed
for record in the office of the register OF
on the 9Th day of November. 1908, and
recorded in boob 81 of mortgages. on page
200, and assigned by said mortgage. to
= Grace e, Wood on January II. iSU9, whlch
said assignment was recorded IN the once
of said registerof deeds in book 90 OF mort
cages at page 4S2. and which said mort.
gage vas thereafter assigned by sald
Grand Forks. North Dakota. which said
assignment was recorded in the office of
said register of deeds in book 81 OF mort
cages at page 81, will be fOreclOsed by a
sale of the premises at the front door OF
the court house in the city of Bottineau,
kota, at the hour of 200 O'Clock p. NJ. on
+. the 24th day of April. 1915 to satisfy the
amount due upon said mortgage upon the
day of Sale.
The Premises described in such mort.
gage and which will be sold to satisfy the
same are described as follows: The South
east one Quarter Of SECTION seventeen la0(
Range Eighty-three .(ssl West of the Fifth
Principal Meridian, in Bottineau County,
There will be due on such mortgage at
the date of sale the cum Of Two
ei9hty-nine and 4a-100. 02089. 4eO
~ Northern State Bank.
Assignee.
Bottineau, North Dakota.
Attorneys for assignee.
<march 1875 apr 29-l62H
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16
Making the Little
Farm Pay
BY {. {. BOWSF.ElD

IlIr owl 90 crops for seed is he
coming hi%hly J. o"t.Ilc ia II number OF
localities AZ! i; :; tOlnMundlDlr feature
Of fam industry for amy good. careful.
s~ySttuUa.i" ui!n Ia imtv"Gu G and prac-
tic IN cU.GIC I II with his other farm
duties. There. hi% never been a more
work. In the iI.St place. this l. Il good
thing to do as n matter Of economy
and protection iOr ones W crop ~
terest> In the next place. the multi
plicitA OF opportunities for putting
good cUrn or other seed on exhibition
SO it will become an cducational force
and tend 10 better agriculture makes
the growing of farm seeds dcSirnlr"
Miss Maude NJ Griffith Of -. Claire
county. Mo. is making her farm lr'f
for seed This product pays we'll ~
Il hay crop 81 think SO muc.l Of En-.
lish blue grass ~ a money maker an
as a fertilizer" said Miss Griffith in
discussing the line Of farming in which
she has specialized with such marked
success. that ! am planning to get the
greater part OF my farm seeded down.
and especially" ! am working on weak
err soil which has had successive corn
crops
"English blue grass is. in my opin-
ion. one Of the most important crops
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16

to he grown. for there are so many
sources of advantage. 1t is a paying
proposition from any point Of view
The seed is always in demand and
commands IA good price. generally
bringing from ID to 20 cents per pound.
After raising seed worth $50 to SO
an acre we have the pasture left for
stock. Another advantage is that three
seed crops may be harvested following
one seeding. This means a decided
saving Of seed n labor"
Miss Griffith finds great pleasure as
we'll as profit in her work and Is an
ardent advocate Of the back to the
farm movement. especially for III
During the season of 1912 a farm in
Mitchell county. Ia. produced 10000
bushels Of onions from twenty-seven
acres. Single acres produced as high
as 1000 bushels. but a raid Of the
onion maggot upon n side Of the
field cut down the average. The soil
used was heavily enriched. but it had
been cropped in onions for years.
About thirty years ago the owners
Of this farm went to Iowa and con
tracted for forty acres Of land near
| town. going into debt to the extent Of
$4,000. The neighbors called them
crazy. Since that time they have been
offered $1,000 an acre for this same
forty. but have refused it. For ten
years they have secured a gross re-
turn from this land Of $4,000. or an
income Of over IS per cent upon a val
uation of $1,000 per acre.
One of the secrets of their success
is to have the land very rich. Orig!.
nally it was a black loan. with about
2 per cent of sand; six feet down lime
stone The land is MANFRED with we'll
rotted barnyard refuse every year. 1t
Is plowed about eight inches deep. and
a subsOiler is used in the bottom OF
the furrow to loosen up three or four
inches deeper. Then the harrow Is put
on and kept going until the surface IS
perfectly level and the soil is thorough
ly fine. In fact. it is as mellow as the
proverbial ash heap.
Onion seed is planted in rows, which
are placed fourteen inches apart. The
seeds are dropped about six inches
apart in the row. 1t requires one and
one-half pounds to plant IN acre. This
method results in no waste Of seed, and
the back breaking work Of thinning ia
not needed.
It is rare that any hand wedding Is
found necessary. The use Of the wheel
hoe and hand cultivator Is persistent.
particularly in the early part Of the
season. Careful figuring shows that
the 1912 crop was produced ut a cost
Of 8 cents per bushel. After the 6rst
seed was secured the farm produced
its own seed. The largest bulbs are
always selected and those which keep
best for growing the seed. By doing
this a strain has been developed which
is not only large. but keeps well into
the following summer. with practically
no loss from ~sprouting. A part OF tho
business now Is to grow onion ssed for
sals In large quantities.