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Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVI_LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , NOVEMBER H>. 1908 NUMbEK 2
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CONDENSATION OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS.
BOTH ST HOME AND SBB8AD
General, Political. Religious. Sporting.
Foreign and Other Events Re
corded Here and There.
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Political.
The Kings county (X. Y.) repub
lican commiteemen have endorsed
Chairman Timothy Woodruff to suc
ceed Senator Platt.
Secretary Metcalf of the navy has
resigned and has been succeeded by
his assistant. Truman Newberry.
Senator Burkett of Nebraska, who
arrived at Washington after a visit
with President-elect Taft, says tariff
is certain 10 be revised and rates
lowered.
The appointment of Colonel George
H. Torney as surgeon general of the
army to succeed Surgeon General K.
M. O'Aeilley. was announced by the
secretary of war. Colonel Torney is
nowr in charge of the general hospital
at San Francisco.
John Motley Morebead, a republican,
who was elected to congress in a
North Carolina dictrict. regrets his
success.
Five hundred farmers, members of
the grange, visited the president.
The tariff revisers discussed ditties
on imported wines and liquors.
Three Kansans were elected gover
nors of as many states in the election
—Herbert S. Hadley in Missouri; W.
F. Stubbs in Kansas, and James H.
Brady in Idaho.
Seventy days were required to get a
second Ruef jury. There are sixty
more indictments upon which to try
the man. Time is money, and San
Francisco is spending a good deal on
Ruef.
Democratic members of the house
ways and means committee seek to
have the tariff on barytes raised.
Allegations are made that the death
of former Senator Carmack was the
result of a deliberate plot to assas
sinate him.
General.
Francis J. Heney, prosecutor in the
San Francisco graft trials, was shot in
ihe court room by .Morriii. Haas,-a.
venireman, who had been rejectea
from former Ruef jury because he was
an ex-convict. Heney will probably
recover.
Colonel Duncan B. Cooper and his
son, Robin Cooper, were indicted joint
ly on the charge of murdering ex
Senator Carmack of Tennessee. The
former sheriff is charged with being
accessory before the fact.
The presidential commission inquir
ing into agricultural conditions is in
vestigating farm life in Tennessee.
Emperor of China is reported dead,
and the Dowager empress, Tsi Ann, is
said to be dying in Peking. Great
secrecy is maintained as to actual con
ditions because of the hostility to the
Manchu dynasty.
Three hundred and sixty miners are
believed to have lost their lives in the
wrecking of the workings at Hamm.
Westphalia, Germany.
A Chicago physician who examined
Miss Mae Otis, who is charged with
plotting to kill her mother, says she
is sane.
A Taxicab in New York was de
stroyed by explosion of an infernal
machine left in it by a woman.
Park theater in Brooklyn was totally
destroyed by fire within an hour after
the audience had left the house.
Vice President-elect Sherman and
other leading political men of the na
tion were at Hot Springs for a con
ference with President-elect Taft.
Both liberals and conservatives are
confident of success in the Cuban elec
tion.
Venezuela has completed prepara
tions for the threatened blockade of
her seaports by Holland.
The government will carry the
Standard oil case to the supreme court.
Assistant Forester VV. L. Hall says
a lumber famine is coming in the near
future.
Over three hundred perished in a
mine explosion in Germany.
Charles Pool of Johnson county is
said to be slated foi speaker of the
lower house of the Nebraska assembly.
Ex-Sheriff John D. Sharpe has been
arrested in Nashville charged with be
ing accessory to the murder of former
Senator Carmack.
Postmaster General Meyer in his
report on the postal finances advocates
rural parcels post to help pay for this
service.
An explosion of a glazing mill near
Kansas City caused the injury of a
number of passengers in a Kansas
City Southern train standing near.
The question of war or peace in the
Balkans is said to depend upon the
tenor of the note to be issued by
Austria.
The delegates from the Flint Glass
Workers' association were excluded
by the American Federation of Labor
at Denver after a lively debate.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor delivered his an
nual report to the convention at Den
ver.
The Reichstag gave Emperor Will
iam severe censure in the course of a
’y debate on interpellations with respect
to the published interview’ of the em
peror in England.
The Methodist committee on foreign
missions has decided to ask the con
ference to raise $1,500,000 next year.
The federal court of appeals has de
cided that the American Tobacco com
pany is a combination in restraint of
trade.
Returns from the Nebraska election
indicate the republicans have certain
ly elected Kinkaid to congress in the
Sixth district.
The United States court of appeals
at New York refused to admit Charles
W. Morse to bail pending application
for a new trial.
There is a possibility that Hep
burne has. after all, been elected to
congress from Iowa. The vote is very
close and there will be a recount.
By running av.-ay of a freight train
on the Union Pacific west of Cheyenne
there was a collision, in which nine
men were killed and three seriously
injured. Three of the victims were
Chinese.
The United States circuit court of
appeals overruled the petition for a
rehearing in the case of the govern
ment againsl the Standard Oil com
pany. The case will be taken to the
United States supreme court.
Secretary Root will probably be
elected ’ United States senator to suc
ceed Thomas C. Piatt.
Victorien Sardou dean of French
dramatists, died in Paris Sunday. He
was 77 years old.
Unofficial returns indicate that Mr.
Bryan's majority in Nebraska will be
4,500.
Railroads of the west which were
forced by the legislature of the west
ern states to accept a reduction of 2
cents per mile for passenger fares are
again uniting to make 2 cents the
minimum as well as the maximum af
ter January 1.
Governor Sheldon of Nebraska is
seriously considering camng an extra
session of the legislature to pass a
county option bill after having sent
messages to members of the present
legislature asking their position on
the subject.
Washington.
The formal opening of the army war
college was signalized by an import
ant address by Secretary Root, popul
arly known as “the father” of the in
stitution. On account of the limited
capacity of the lecture hall in which
the exercises were held, the attend
ance was limited.
“Secretary Taft's religious faith is
purely his own private concern, and
not a matter for general discussion
and political discrimination.” says
President Roosevelt in a letter to J.
C Martin of Dayton, O., in which he
answers numerous correspondent?.
The president says he deferred the
ptibtteetion of the letter until now to
avoid any agitation likely to influence
the election.
Important recommendations for im
proving Mare Island strait and for the
approaches thereto are contained in
the report of the board of engineer
officers of the army and navy and an
estimate is made of $1,767,000 for the
work, this amount to include a seif
containing and self-propelling dredge
whicli will require about $15,000 per
year to maintain.
What may be the final chapter in
the story of the fight against racing
in the District of Columbia is record
ed in the dismissal by the district
court of appeals of the appeal of Wil
liam Davis, the New York bookmaker,
convicted in the spring of 1906 of set
ting up a gaming table by making
books at the P.enning race course. Al
though sentenced to serve two hours
in the district jail it is unlikely that
Davis will be brought here to carry
out the sentence, as bookman-ing ap
parently is a sport of the past in the
district.
The tariff commission have com
menced on their work of revision.
Foreign.
The German Reichstag, after .
further exciting debate concerning the
interview with Kaiser Wilhelm in a
London paper, refused to adopt a
formal address to the emperor calling
his attention to the possible effect of
his utterances on foreign relations >'f
the empire.
—The burial of Victonen Sardou was
accomplished at Paris with general
public mourning.
A man selected by lot to kill King
Manuel of Portugal committed suicide
instead.
Calcutta, India, is terrorized by an
outbreak of political crimes.
Personal.
William D. Cornish, second vice
president of the Union Pacific railroad,
died suddenly in Chicgo.
William Hayward, secretary of the
national republican committee, was
given a rousing welcome home at
Nebraska City, Neb., on his return
from Chicago.
Indication^ from Washington are
that Mr. Cannon will be re-elected
speaker without much opposition.
Crawford Kennedy of Albion. Neb.,
who traveled 18,000 miles with Taft
special train distributing buttons and
tracts, has returned home.
Judge Taft and Chairman Hitch
cock went over the work of the cam
paign. Mr. Hitchcock stated that no
promises or pledges had been made in
exchange for personal services or
contributions.
The postmaster general announced
that the president has decided to re
move George M. Stewart, postmaster
of Seattle, Wash., as the result of an
investigation of charges that he so
licited campaign contributions.
Colonel Ludlow, commandant at
Fort Hamilton, denies stories that of
ficers’ quarters at the post have been
the scene of orgies.
Federal officials emphatically deny
the report that a lake ha= been found
under the proposed site of the Gatun
locks of the Panama canal.
REAL RULER IS DEAD
TSZE HSI AN. DOWAGER EMPRESS
OF JAPAN, PASSES AWAY.
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Date of Death Given Out as Two
O'clock Sunday, but is Eelieved
to Have Occurred Earlier.
Peking—Tsze Hsi An. the dowager
empress of China, the autocratic head
of the government which she directed
without successful interference since
1801, and without protest since 1881,
died at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The announcement of the dowager
empress' death was- official and fol
lowed closely upon the announcement
that Kuang Hsu. the emperor, had
died Saturday at 5 o'clock in the after
noon. but it is believed the deaths oe- j
curred a considerable time before that
set down in the official statements.
An official edict issued at 7 o'clock
placed on the throne Prince Pu Yi,
the 3-year-old son of Prince Chun* the
regent of the empire, in accordance j
with a promise given by the dowager
empress soon after the marriage of
Prince Chun in 1903. An edict is
sued cn Friday made Pu Yi heir pre
sumptive.
The foreign legations were notified
by the foreign board of the death of
the emperor and the succession of
Prince Pu Yi. Troops have been in j
readiness for several days to quell
any disorders that might ar’se on the
death of Kuang Hsu. and the possi
bility of uprisings was made greater
because of the fact that the death of
the dowager empress was known to
be close at hand. Two divisions of
troops have been held in reserve and
these are now stationed in various
quarters of the city. Twenty gen
darmes were dispatched to guard the
approaches to the legations, but ttp to
the present the duties of the forces
have been slight. It was announced
that the legation guard was ordered
out at "the special call of the lega
tions on account of the emperor’s
death."
Prince Chun, the regent, has ordered
the viceroys and governors to take pre
cautions for the continuation of the
administration of the provinces as
heretofore, and he has ordered a hun
dred days of mourning. The court will
go into mourning for three years.
OUTCOME IN NEBRASKA.
Democrats Get Two State Officers
Governor and Railway Commissioner. !
The democrats will have the two 1
principal offices of the new state ad
ministration, while the republicans get
the six other offices of the new re
gime.
Complete election returns from all
hut Richardson county show that the
democrats have elected Shallenberger
for governor by a plurality of fi.(i<!2
and Cowgill for railway commissioner
by a plurality of 477. The republican
pluralities are as follows;
Hopewell, for lieutenant governor,
432; Junkin, for secretary of state,
1,874: Barton for auditor, 5,342;
Brian, for treasurer. 3.425; Bishop,
for superintendent, 3,927; Thompson,
for attorney gereral. 4,800; Cowles,
for land commissioner, 2,002.
The state congressional delegation
will be evenly divided ~etween the re
publicans and democrats. The demo
cratic congressmen elect are Maguire,
in the First; Hithcock, in tne Second,
and Latta in the Third. The republic
ans have elected Hinshaw in the
Fourth. Norris, in the Fifth and Kin
kaid in the Sixth.
WATTERSON IS LAID TO REST.
Eody of Man Who Met Tragic Death
is Buried at Louisville.
Louisville, Ky.—The body of Har
vey Watterson was laid to rest Sunday
afternoon in Cave Hill cemetery.
“He was from his babyhood,” said
his father, speaking of his dead son.
“a little gentleman. He was the only
one of our children I had never to pun
ish. He was born with a strong will
and a fierce temper, but he completely
mastered them. He had written his
mother just before the awful mishap,
a tender and breezy letter m which
be says:
“ ’I am pretty hard worked, but we
are as happy as two bugs in a rug.’
"Our hearts are broken now.”
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS
President-elect Taft Announces He
Will Call One.
Washington.—That a special ses
sion of the Sixty-first congress will be
called soon after March 4, to take up
the matter of tariff revision, became
known positively Sunday, when Will
iam H. Taft, president-elect, after
spending the day at the White House
as the guest of President Roosevelt,
stated that he intended to call the
special session to meet as soon after
his inaugration as w-ould be reason
able.
Standing of Next House.
Washington—The temporary- roll
call of the house of representatives
for the sixty-first congress has been
completed and published. It presents
a complete list of members of the new
house as shown by unofficial returns
and gives the politics of all of them.
According to this publication the next
house will consist of 219 republicans
and 172 democrats, a total of 391, as
against a total of 389 in the house
during the last session, of w-hom 223
were republicans and 166 democrats.
The republican loss is four.
I TIMELY ADVICE.
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HUNDREDS DIE IN A MINE
AWFUL RESULTS OF EXPLOSION
IN GERMAN COLLIERY.
Dead Number 339—Efforts to Reach
Their Bodies Are Frustrated
by Fire.
Hamm, Westphalia, Germany. Nov.
13.—The greatest mine disaster in
many years in Germany occurred
Thursday morning at the Radbod
mine, about three miles from this
place. There was a heavy explosion
in the mine about 4 a. m., and almost
immediately the mine took fire.
Of 380 miners working under ground
at the time only six escaped without
injury. Thirty-five were taken out
badly ipjured and 37 were dead when
brought to the mouth of the pit. The
remaining 302 have been given up for
lost.
The explosion, which was unusually
violent, destroyed one of the shafts,
which had to be partly repaired before
the rescue work was begun. In addi
tion, the flames and smoke proved al
most. insurmountable obstacles in the
early efforts of the rescuing parties. A
special corps, composed of the men
who rendered such valuable aid in the
terrible mine disaster at Courrieres,
France, in March of 1906, arrived upon
the scene shortly before noon, but
were unable to enter the mine, being
forced to await the result of the deter
mind efforts of the firemen to keep
the flames in check.
Meantime heartrending scenes were
being enacted at the mine when the
dead and wounded were brought to
the surface, and there were similar
scenes in the town when the injured
were transported through the streets
to the hospitals.
At one o’clock the fire had made
great headway, and later in the after
noon, after a consultation of the en
gineers, it was decided that any fur
ther attempts to rescue the entombed
men were vain, owing to the impossi
bility of entering the galleries. At the
same time an order was issued to
flood the mine.
First reports indicated that the acci
dent was the result of an explosion of
coal dust, but the statements of the
injured men render them improbable,
and it is not clear just what caused it.
BANK EXAMINER IS DEAD.
E. B. Shaw Is Suddenly Stricken at
Carroll, la.
Carroll, la—The second tragedy in
the affairs of the failed First National
bank of Carroll, whose president, W.
L. Culbertson, recently shot himself,
occurred here Thursday in the death
of the national bank examiner in
charge, E. B. Shaw of West Union, la.
Although apparently in good health
Wednesday night, he was found dying
at eight o'clock in the morning when
the clerk at his hotel sought to arouse
him for breakfast. He had been
stricken while undressing to retire,
and had lain across the foot of the
bed all night unconscious. He was
removed to the hospital and there
died at ten o'clock of hemorrhage of
the brain.
Bold Attempt at Blackmail.
Denver, Col.—A woman giving her
name as Mrs. H. C. Cones Monday aft
ernoon compelled Mrs. Genevieve
Chandler Phipps, divorced wife of
Lawrence Phipps, the Pittsburg mil
lionaire, to take her in her automobile
to a bank for the purpose of getting
$10,000 that she demanded of Mrs.
Phipps on pain of being blown to
pieces with dynamite. At the bank
Mrs. Cones was overpowered by spe
cial Qfficers and placed under arrest.
She talked incoherently to the police
and is thought to be insane.
Life Sentence for Train Wrecker.
Spartanburg, S. C.—Clarence Ag
new, the negro charged with murder
and the wrecking of a passenger train
an the Southern railway near Duncan,
3. C., which resulted in the killing of
ihe engineer and fireman, was found
guilty Thursday. He was sentenced
to life imprisonment.
Serious Fire in Bismarck, N. D.
Bismarck, N. D.—Fire of unknown i
origin destroyed the yards and war's-,
house of the Acme Harvester Com- I
pany, causing a loss of $150,000.
KAISER WILLIAM CENSURED.
Members of German Reichstag Use
Severe Language.
Berlin.—Emperor William never has
been so severely judged by his parlia
ment as he was Tuesday during the
debate in the reichstag on the inter
pellations concerning 'the conversa
tions published with the permission of
the emperor in the London Daily Tele
graph, on October 28.
The criticisms of his majesty’s
court, his ministers and his majesty’s
treatment of the constitution, as wrell
as of his freedQm of speech, went to
lengths that astonished observers ac
quainted with tile traditional caution
of the chamber in dealing with the
personality of the sovereign. And
the emperor seemed to have no de
fenders.
Chancellor von Buelow made an ad
dress lasting 15 minutes, but he
lacked his usual spirit, and a person
high in confidence is authority for
the statement that he also had told
the emperor that neither himself nor
his successors could remain in office
unless his majesty was more re
served. The house received his ex
planation in icy silence.
The conservatives, representing
largely the landed nobility, were al
most as relentless as the socialists,
the radicals and the national-liberals.
SIX CHINAMEN DROWNED.
Attempt to Smuggle Orientals from
Canada Is Disastrous.
Buffalo, N. Y.—A motor boat con
taining ten Chinamen and three white
men was wrecked on the breakwall off
the foot of Michigan street early
Thursday. Six of the Chinamen were
drowned or dashed to death against
the rock-ribbed seawall. The four
survivors were rescued by the crew of
a police boat. The three white men
escaped.
Mock Quong, one of the rescued
Chinamen, speaks fairly good English,
which he learned in a South Bend
(Ind.) Sunday school class. He told
the immigration inspectors that the
ten Chinamen left Toronto a week ago
and had been lodged in a barn on the
Canadian side of the lake opposite
Buffalo, awaiting a favorable oppor
tunity to make a lauding in the Uni
ted States. Wednesday night they
were taken to the lake by three
white men and placed in a motor boat,
which also had a rowboat in tow.
They had been on the water about
half an hour when thev were wrecked
EMPEROR OF CHINA DEAD.
Dowager Empress Also Said to Be
Dying at Peking.
Peking.—The emperor of China was
reported dying Saturday morning. It
has, however, been impossible to se
cure official confirmation of this an
nouncement. His majesty was trans
ferred to the death chamber at two
o’clock Friday afternoon. At that
hour he was still breathing, it was
said.
Two imperial edicts were issued
from the palace Friday afternoon in
quick succession. The first makes
Prince Chun regent of the empire and
the second appoints his son, Pu Weir
heir presumptive.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSIONS.
Sergent, Ky.—In a boiler explosion
at the Miller Lumber Company’s plant
at Pound, near Pound Gap Friday,
four men were killed gnd four more
severely injured.
Norton, Va.—Three men were killed
outright, two were fatally injured and
two others were seriously hurt in an
explosion at a sawmill plant in Wise
county Friday.
“Pauper” Padded with Money.
Peoria, 111.—Upwards of $1,000 in
cash and certificates of deposit and
deeds amounting to $4,000 were found
by asylum attendants at the Barton
ville institution Friday sewed in the
clothing of Mrs. Mary McMasters, an
aged and supposedly poor woman.
The woman, for years, lived as a re
cluse and recently had made threats
to set fire to her home and burn the
place and herself. The mon-? was 1
brought to Superintendent Zeller, who
is jnaking efforts to find some kin of
the unfortunate woman.
METCALF STEPS OUT
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WILL
LEAVE CABINET DECEMBER 1.
LONG ILLNESS THE CAUSE
President Accepts Resignation with
Regret—Truman H. Newberry
of Michigan Will Be Appoint
ed to Fill Vacancy.
Washington.—Secretary of the Navy
Victor H. Metcalf Friday tendered his
resignation to the president to take
effect December 1 on account of ill
health. Assistant Secretary- of the
Navy Truman H. Newberry- will be
named as Mr. Metcalf's successor.
For more than a year the fact that
Mr. Metcalf had suffered serious ill
ness has been well known at the navy
department. Formerly of vigorous
health, his friends expected that he
would be able to regain his strength,
but constantly recurring illness con
vinced him that the only course for
hint to pursue was to sever his con
nection with all active work.
Too III to Perform His Duties.
Mr. Metcalf has suffered from a
nervous breakdown that has rendered
it impossible for him to remain at his
desk for any length of time, and the
chronic nature of his trouble has
caused him to abandon hope of re
covery- while burdened with the cares
of office. On April 15 last, he went to
California and to review the Atlantic
battleship fleet. He took a long vaca
tion, hoping to be permanently bene
fited thereby, returning here Septem
ber 1. Upon his resumption of of
ficial duty, his illness promptly re
curred and he frankly told the presi
dent that he could not remain in the
cabinet.
Mr. Metcalf was thoroughly versed
in naval matters, having served on the
house committee on naval affairs while
in congress. His first appointment
under this administration was as sec
retary- of commerce and labor, w-hich
he relinquished in order to accept the
duties of secretary of the navy on
December 17, 1906.
Praise from the President.
The president’s letter accepting the
resignation was as follows:
“My dear Mr. Metcalf: I accept
your resignation with real reluctance,
and only because you tell me that it is
imperative that you must go on ac
count of the state of your health. I
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had earnestly hoped that you would
be able to continue with me through
out my term. I thank you warmly for
your faithful and efficient service in
both of the departments, at the head
of which you have served under me.
But, my dear Mr. Metcalf, you have al
ways been more than the head of a
department; you have been a cabinet
minister upon whose aid and advice,
and above all. on whose staunch and
steadfast loyalty I could rely upon
any and all occasions. No president
could wish more loyal and hearty sup
port than you have given me. I thank
you for it. I shall miss you when you
leave the cabinet, and I wish you
well in whatever work you may un
dertake and wherever your life may
lead.
“With regret, therefore, I accept
your resignation to take effect upon
the first of December.”
Newberry Good Man for Place.
Mr. Newberry had never filled any
important public office prior to his ap
pointment as assistant secretary of
the navy November 1, 1905. Before
that he was in business in Detroit,
Mich. The intelligent interest he has
displayed in connection with his post
has caused much favorable comment.
Mr. Newberry has entered into the
spirit of naval improvement and has
co-operated, whenever possible, in the
development of naval matters. He will
have an opportunity to use his per
sonal prestige with the naval affairs
committees of both houses in securing
desired naval legislation.
Not Guilty of Embezzlement.
Pittsburg, Pa—Addison C. Altaffer,
formerly discount clerk of the Alle
gheny National bank, was found not
guilty Friday on a charge of aiding
and abetting former Cashier William
Montgomery in the embezzlement of
over $200,000 from the bank.
Col. Torney Is Surgeon General.
Washington.—The appointment of
Col. George H. Torney as surgeon
general of the army to succeed Surg.
'.^en. R. M. O’Reilly was announced by
tne secretary of war Friday.
FRANCIS J. HENEY IS SHOT
PROSECUTOR OF ’FRISCO BOOD
LERS BADLY WOUNDED.
Saloon Man Attempts to Kill Lawyer
Because Latter Brought Out Fact
He Was Ex-Convict.
San Francisco.—Francis J. Heney,
a leading figure in the prosecu
tion of municipal corruption in this
city, was shot and seriously injured
Friday by Morris Haas, a Jewish sa
loon-keeper, who had been accepted
as a juror in a previous trial and after
wards removed, it having been shown
by the prosecution that he was an ex
convict, a fact not brought out in his
examination as a venireman.
The shooting occurred in Superior
Judge Lawlor's courtroom during a re
cess in the trial of Abraham Euef, on
trial for the third time on the charge
of bribery.
At six o'clock at night Mr. Heney
was conscious. He said:
“I will live to prosecute him."’
The physicians in attendance on
Heney expressed the opinion that he
would live. It had been ascertained
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Francis J. Heney.
tnat tne bullet, which had entered the
right cheek, had lodged under the left
ear. and had not entered his brain, as
at first feared. Mr. Heney was taken
to the Lane hospital, where he is re
ceiving the care of skilled surgeons.
When he was arrested, Haas said
he shot Heney because he had ruined
him. He is a married man and has
four children. In a statement made to
Police Captain Duke he said:
“Heney denounced me in public,
which ruined my life and branded me
as an ex-convict. It was an outrage.
I am the wronged man. I do not care
what becomes of me now. I have sac
rificed myself not for my own honor,
but for those who are situated like my
self. I would not have brought my
four children into the world to bear
such a brand if I had known that the
fact that I was an ex-convict would be
come known. Heney ruined me. That
is why I shot him.”
HIRES MEN TO KILL HER MOTHER
Cold-Blooded Plot of Chicago Woman
Is Exposed.
Chicago. — Plotting matricide in
the most cold-blooded manner, in
order to obtain $7,300, May L. Otis,
3G years old, carried her plans to the
point where she believed four days
would see their fulfillment, then was
arrested by the men she believed her
fellow conspirators.
She was to point her mother out to
the man she had hired to commit the
crime, that he might make no mis
take. She had paid over $100 cash
and signed a note for $2,400 to procure
the commission of the crime. She
had outlined in detail how her mother
was to be done to death and had
warned him that she wanted a “good
job” and did not wrant it to be “any
ambulance case.”
All her planning was due to the
fact that her mother, in a recent will,
had made Miss Otis her sole heir. The
woman’s supposed fellow conspirators
were the head of a private detective
agency and two city detectives.
Oil Rehearing Denied.
Chicago.—The petition by the
United States government for a re
hearing of the appeal of the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana from the $29.
240,000 fine of Judge Landis was over
ruled Tuesday by Judges Grosscup
Baker and Seaman in the United
States circuit court of appeals. In a
brief opinion, delivered by Judge
Grosscup, the original opinion of the
court, reversing Judge Landis’ de
cision, was upheld.
New Head for Wesleyan.
New York.—William Arnold Shank
lin, president of Upper Iowa univer
sity, Fayette, la., was elected on Fri
day president of Wesleyan university.
Middletown, Conn. Dr. Shanklin.
who has been president of Upper Iowa
university since 1905, graduated at
Hamilton college, this state, in 1883.
Receivers Tor Cleveland Car Lines.
Cleveland. O.—Judge Taylor of the
federal cotirc Thursday appointed
Warren Bicknell and Frank A. Scott
joint receivers for the Municipal Trac
tion Company and the Cleveland Rail
way Company.
True Bills Against Coopers.
Nashville, Tenn.—The grand jury
Friday afternoon returned a true bill
against Robin Cooper, Col. D. B.
Cooper and ex-SheriS John D. Sharp,
charging them with the murder of
Senator E. W. Carmack.
New Divorce Law Was Carried.
Sioux Falls, S. D.—The new divorce
law, increasing the period of residence
from six months to one year was car
ried on November 3 in South Dakota
by a vote of two to one, according to
unofficial figures.
