Nebraska Newspapers

    Loup City Northwestern
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 25, 1909
VOLUME XXVI
NUMBER 16
* A Boiling Down of the More impor
* tant Events Here and There
Congress.
President Roosevelt transmitted to
congress the report of the engineers
who inspected the Panama canal.
President-elect Taft announces he
will call an extra session of congress
to meet March 15.
The naval ’bill carrying abont $136.
000,000 passed the senate after being
considered three days.
Senator Burkett made a speech
protesting against “filibustering" in
the matter of appropriations.
Senator Brown will try to get provi
sion in the army bill, permittihg the
signal corps to sell the gas to private
parties for ballooning.
Senator Dixon of Montana provoked
sharp criticism of naval methods in
the senate when he referred to maga
zine articles making special strictures
upon construction at navy yards. He
quoted an article as charging that ten
or twelve members of the naval affairs
committee of the senate had navy
yards in their states.
President Francis of the I^uisiana
Purchanse Exposition company, be
fore the house committee on appropri
ations, urged a provision in the sun
dry civii appropriation bill by which
the government wo»!d re^nquish its
claims to moneys in the treasury of
the exposition company.
The house passed the bill reducing
the salary of the secretary of state to
$8,000 a year. The bill admitting Ari
zona and Ne* Mexico as separate
states was also passed.
By a vote of 173 to 117 the house
passed the bill removing the bar to
Senator Knox’s eligibility for the of
fice of secretary of state.
Chairman Goethals and General
Counsel Rogers, of the Isthmian canal
commission, and Capt. F. C. Boggs of
the Washington office, appeared be
fore the subcommittee of the house
committee on appropriations, which is
preparing the sundry civil bill. Col.
Goethals explalqed the estimates for
appropriations for 1910.
Representative W. I. Smith of Iowa
introduced a bill extending the time
for the Central Railroad and Bridge
company for one year to commence
and three years to complete a gen
eral traffic bridge across the Mis
souri river at Council Bluffs.
The minority of the house commit
tee on ejections made an advance re
port on the bill decreasing the salary
of the secretary of state. It contends
that the measure should be referred
to the judiciary committee.
Thomas F. Walsh, formerly of Colo
rado, will have charge of the arrange
ments for the inaugural ball.
Judge Birdsall, who formerly was
on the house judiciary committee, said
he did not believe the ineligibility of
Senator Knox could be cured by pass
ing the bill which is now under con
sideration. Judge Birdsall may vote
against this bill when it comes up in
the house.
George M. Rommel, formerly of the
Iowa State college, now with the de
partment of agriculture, has arrived
from South America having been
there as one of the ten delegates, sent
by this government to attend the con
gress of scientific research at San
tiago. Chile.
Generai.
President-elect Taft made a fare
well address to his Cincinnati neigh
bors at the. Chamber of Commerce.
Horace G. Burt, president of the
Great Western road, issued orders
prohibiting smoking in the headquar
ters building of the company.
Office Edward Lowery of South
Omaha was shot and killed by a Greek
called “John,'' whom he had arrested.
A bill prohibiting foreigners hold
ing any property in Cuba, has been in
troduced in the house at Havana, ac
cording to a cable dispatch.
United States Steel corporation an
nounced that it will make such prices
as will enable it to retain a fair share
of the business.
When Governor Stubbs signs the
anti-liquor bill passed by both the
house and senate Kansas will have a
prohibition law which is absolutely
“air tight,” even providing that phy
sicians shall not prescribe liquor for
the use of patients.
The officials of the United States
Steel corporation and subsidiary con
cerns held a conference in New
York to consider price cutting by the
independents.
The senate passed the postoffice ap
propriation hill, carrying $232,000,000.
A shanr colliquy between Senators La
Follette and Penrose was a feature
of the debate.
R. Mead Shumway, the Nebraska
murderer, was granted a stay of exe
cution until March 5 by the supreme
court, the announcement being made
while he was preparing for the gal
lows.
Senator Brown of Nebraska has in
serted in the Indian bill an appropria
tion for continuance of the Genoa In
dian school and also for two new
buildings.
The Blanco-Toral controversy in
Spain 4s growing in bitterness
President Roosevelt opened the con
ference of North American nations to
promote the conservation of natural
resources
bread.
Tom G. Earnum of Cass county,
Nebr., stockman and land owner, was
killed instantly in a Missouri Pacific
wreck at Union.
President Roosevelt sent a special
message to congress on the care of
dependent children.
Three hundred persons were burned
to death in a theater at Acapulco,
Mexico, Sunday.
John Caseuba. a laborer at the Cud
ahy packing plant in South Omaha,
fell into a vat of boiling water and
was almost cooked alive. He lived
several hours.
An unidentified man stabbed a num
ber of women in Berlin, and the po
lice department have been unable to
secure a trace of him
The bodies of fifty-two victims of
the wrecked steamer Penguin have
been recovered.
Van Goodell. who killed Edna Ken
nett of Lincoln, was found guilty of
murder at Omaha.
Real estate dealers and others who
would invite foreign money to Ne
braska propose to make mortgages
exempt from taxation in fact, without
causing holders the trouble of dodging
the assessor.
Secretary Garfield wants an addi
tional $100,000 to prosecute land and
timber thieves.
The Western Base Ball league play
ing season will open April 20 and
close September 2S.
Congressman Daniel L. D. Granger
of Providence. R. I., who represented
the First district of Rhode Island dur
ing the fifty-eighth. fifty-ninth and
sixtieth congresses, died in Denver of
heart failure. He was fifty-seven
years old.
The University of Missouri base
ball team has prepared a schedule of
eighteen games It will make a ten
days' tour of Nebraska. Iowa and
Kansas' late in April.
Venezuela has revoked the decree
prohibiting the traffic of small ves
sels between Curacao and Venezuela.
Congress must work overtime in
order to finish bv March 4.
Chiefly for rest and recreation, but
Incidentally with the purpose of exam
ining some of the Southern Paci:3c's
new lines. E. H. Harriman left on an
extended trip to the south and to
Mexico.
Washington.
The sundry bill reported a few days
ago provides for continuing the work
on a large number of new public
buildings in Nebraska, Iowa. South
Dakota and Wyoming.
The select committee appointed to
investigate the wood pulp and paper
situation recommended a reduction of
the duty cn print paper to |2 a ton.
The federal commission reports a
saving of (500,000 yearly on the gov
ernment's printing bills and shows
that tons of books are printed and
not distributed.
In one day the senate passed the
army and pension appropriation bills
and forty-five other measures.
An international conference for the
conservation of natural resources will
be called by the United States to
meet at The Hague in September. In
vitations will be issued to forty-live
nations.
The inward and outward movement
of aliens for the twelve months, end
ing with November, 1908, indicates
that the emigration has been greater
than immigration.
Arrangements have been perfected
for the great inaugural parade of
March 4. The military show will be
the most impressive since the grand
review in 1865. when the armies of
Grant and Sherman marched down
Pennsylvania avenue.
Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks
are contemplating taking a trip
around the world shortly after t.he
adjournment of congress. They prob
ably will take a steamer at San Fran
cisco, visiting Hawaii and the Philip
pine islands, then China and Japan
and returning via Europe.
Major General J. Franklin Bell, who
will have command of the inaugural
parade March 4, and his chief of
staff. Brig. General John A. Johnston,
are rounding out the details of the
pageant.
Field agents of the commission are
still in California studying the
foreign additions to the population
Detailed information concerning the
number of Japanese in this country,
their occupation, and their relation?
to communities in which they live has
been collected for the federal govern
ment during the past year by the im
migration commission, created by
congressional resolution in 1907.
Personal
Chief Geronimo was buried accord
ing to the rites of the Apache tribe,
tempered bya Christian minister.
Congress has made it possible lor
Knox to enter the cabinet.
Secretary Wilson argued for a de
natured alcohol plant at Lincoln.
President-elect Taft was made a
Mason at sight by the grand master
of Ohio.
Hilini Pasha has been appointed
grand vizier of Turkey and has reor
ganized the cabinet.
Mr. Bryan is said to have offended
democratic senators by an assault an
the Carnegie pension fund for teach
ers.
King Alfonso has concluded his visit
to the king of Porutgal and returned
to Madrid.
Iowa legislators are having a hard
time paring appropriation estimates
to fit income.
President-elect Taft, enroute north
from New Orleans, addressed great
crowds at many points in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama.
The death of Prof. Sait-'el Qac-'n,
founder of the Nebraska Institute for
the Blind, closes a remarkable life
SOUTH OMAHA RIOTING INCITED
BY A MASS MEETING.
BING POLICEMAN’S DEATH
A Number of People Wounded, the
Torch Apolied to Buildings, and
Much Damage Done.
Omaha.—For six hours Sunday at
ternoou and evening the Greeks, the
Austrians and the Roumanians ol
South Omaha were at the mercy of a
howling, half drunken mob, during
which time at least twenty men and
boys were more or less seriously in
jured by beating or shooting. Prob
ably fifty buildings, mostly boarding
houses and retail business places be
longing to men of the three national!
ties, were gutted and damaged all of
the way from demolished window
fronts to almost complete destruction
by fire, and in which practically every
man, woman and child of the three
nationalities, estimated at from 1,500
to 1,800. fled from the city.
The desperate rioting immediately
followed a great public mass meeting
held early in the afternoon, called as
a protest against the presence of the
Greeks alone, following the murder of
Police Officer Lowery the preceding
Friday night. The. call, which was
largely signed, also made other serious
charges against the Greeks, tending
to incriminate them of insults and
outrages against respectable women.
The meeting itself was largely attend
ed by the better class of citizens ot
the city, and in so far as the acts of
that meeting would advise the follow
ing criminal acts by the mob were not
justified. But at the conclusion of
the meeting several hundred rowdies,
attracted by it. began a course of riot
ing and crime, which at the beginning
brought forth many encouraging
cheers from the supposedly better
I class of citizens, who rapidly melted
away, however, as soon as they saw
I the dangerous proceedings started.
Soon the disreputable element was
left alone to continue its terrorism,
checked only by a small police force,
until the arrival of Sheriff Brailey
with a large force of deputies from
Omaha. By that time darkness gave
cover to the actions of the mob, and
not until 9: f!0 p. m. was the situation
gotten so under control that tut spo
radic outbreaks followed.
For six hours, with revolver and
club and brickbat, with torch, with
blow-s and abuse did the ruffians march
from place to place, crushing in win
dows, drinking the stolen liquors
from wrecked saloons, stealing mer
chandise, assaulting those whom the}
sought, until the blood flowed from
cruel wounds, in cue instance shoot
ing a respectable groceryman through
the leg. and in another dragging a ter
ror-stricken youth, clad only in his
underwear, from a street car, where
he had sought refuge, and beating
him still more. Fifty buildings have
been more or less damaged and the
property loss will mount into thou
sands.
BIG FLEET REACHES HOME.
Squadron Now Lying Outside Capes
Waiting to Come in.
Fort Monroe.—The returning battle
ship fleet reached the southern drill
grounds, fifty miles off the Virginia
capes, early Sunday and the battle
ship Connecticut was in constant wire
less comunication throughout the af
ternoon. The fleet will remain on the
drill grounds until 5 o’clock Monday
morning getting under way at that
hour in order to make the capes by
10 o'clock and begin passing the May
flower at the Tail of the Horseshoe
in Chesapeake bay one hour later.
Adlai E. Stevenson III.
Chicago, 111—Adlai E. Stevenson,
former vice president of the I’nited
States is ill at his home in Blooming
ton. 111., according to reports received
here. The activities of the recent
campaign, in which he was defeated
by his republican rival for the gover
norship, is said to have proved a
severe strain on his 74 years and he
has. it is stated, visibly weakened
during the last few weeks.
Slayer of Cashier Is Taken.
Pittsburg, Pa.—William Gallagher,
who is alleged to be wanted at Troup,
N. S., for murder and bank robbery,
has been arrested at Greensburg, Pa.
Gallagher is said to have gone into a
bank at Truro last June, and when
questioned as to a check for $28,000,
which he had presented, shot the
cashier and made off with the money,
which had been counted out hud
placed at the cashier's window.
Well Known Banker Dead.
New York.—Henry Seligman, inter
national banker, at one time one of
the best known financiers in the
United States, and a man who played
an important part in finance during
the civil war. died at Frankfort-on
the Main, Germany.
Government Collects Fine.
San Francisco.—The fine of $2,500
imposed upon Henry Lair by United
States Circuit Judge Landies in Chi
cago was collected in this city by
United States Marshall Elliott.
Nephew of President Killed.
Cambridge, Mass.—Stewart Douglas
Robinson, 19 years old. a nephew of
President Roosevelt and a sophomore
of Harvard college, fell from a six
story window of Hampton hall, a dor
mitory on Massachusetts avenue, and
i was killed.
THE UNFORTUNATE ORNAMENTS.
“7«0* s-ncL.r
S COLO^l-t
Gov. Hadley of Missouri has caused consternation in gold lace circles
of his state by decreeing that each member of his state shall ta*e a prac
tice ride of sixty miles, to be covered in three days, in order to insure cred
itable equestrianism by his colonels taking part in the inaugural parade in
Washington.—News Item.
HITS THE TOBiCCO TRUST
COMMISSIONER SMITH WANTS IN
VESTIGATION OF COMBINE.
Relates America's History and Tells
of Millions Controlled by
Few Men.
Washington.—in a report transmit
ted to President Roosevelt Thursday
night Herbert Knox Smith, commis
sioner of corporations, presents some
highly interesting history of the or
ganization of the “tobacco combina
tion.’’ which, in the magnitude of its
business operations, is one of the
greatest organizations in America.
The report sets forth the rise of one
of the great combinations of the coun
try. In his letter of transmittal. Com
missioner Smith says that it “deals
with the history, from the standpoint
of its organization, or the great toba
co combination. Starting in 1890 as
the American Tobacco Company, a
manufacturer of cigarettes, with a
capital of $25,000,000. the combination
has now a net capitalization (exclud
ing inter-companv holdings) of $316.
346,821. It has absorbed about 250
separate concerns.
Its history also presents important
features of stock manipulation. The
financial transactions centering around
the organization of the Consolidated
Tobacco Company in 1901 are especial
ly noteworthy. At that time a small
body of directors and stockholders in
the combination believed that the
profits of the combination could be
greatly increased in the immediate
future. They organized the Consoli
dated Tobacco Company and offered
its bonds in exchange for the common
stock of the American and the Con
tinental, in order thus to secure for
themselves most of the increased
profits about to accrue.
“The profits accruing to the com
mon stock of the American and the
Continental, after its acquisition by
the Consolidated, increased greatly;
and the small body of men controling
the last-named company—so small, in
fact, that six of them held a majority
of its stock and thus controlled the en
tire combination—became entitled to
millions of dollars which, had it not
been for the Consolidated transaction,
would have gone to the original com
mon-stock holders.
“The conduct of this group of men
is a proper subject for criticism, how
ever, because they could foresee much
better than outside stockholders the
large profits about to accrue. They
occupied a fiduciary relation to the
outside stockholders, and should have
shared with them equally the special
knowledge acquired by their posi
tion.’”
Senators Would Protect Pacific.
Washington.—One-half of the United
States navy should be kept on the Pa
cific coast at all times is the opinion
of the senate. An amendment to the
naval bill was agreed to Tuesday
night providing that in the discretion
of the president one-half of the navy
shall be kept in Pacific waters, so far
as practicable.
The president already has the au
thority to so divide the fleet, but the
amendment amounts to an expression
of congress in favor of such.
Mrs. Lemp Gets a Divorce.
St. Louis. — A decree of divorce
with alimony of $6,000 a year
and the custody of her son was
awarded Mrs. William J. Lemp, Jr.,
by Judge Hitchcock in the circuit
court Thursday. The derision fol
lowed a sensational trial which lasted
more than a week and closed Tuesday
last.
Driscoll Defeats Attell.
New York.—Although no decision
was given, the majority of spectators
at the fight between Abe Attell, feath
erweight champion of the world, and
Jem Driscoll, champion of England,
Friday night the spectators believed
Driscoll had the best of it.
Bloodhounds Trail Bank Robbers.
El Paso, Tex.—Robbers blew open
the vault of the state bank at Kilgore,
rex., early Friday and escaped with
|3,400. Bloodhounds have been put on
their trail.
SMOOTH THE PATH FOR KNOX.
House Finally Settles the Constitu
tional Question.
Washington.—The controversy over
the legislative appropriation bill, in
connection with the much discussed
salary of the secretary of state, involv
ing the eligibility of Senator Knox for
that office, was settled in the house
of representatives Thursday when the
bill was sent to conference and the
committee authorized to consider the
salary provision as if in disagreement.
This gives the committee power to re
duce the pay from $12,000 to $8,000, its
former figure. The Republicans were
caught napping when a resolution by
Mr. Fitzgerald was adopted disagree
ing to the senate amendments creating
the office of under-secretary and fourth
assistant secretary of state.
The post office bill, carrying appro
priations of over $232,000,000 was
passed by the senate after a stormy
debate during which Senator Penrose,
in charge of the measure, made an
angry assault upon Senator La Follette
who had entered into a general criti
cism of senate committees of what he
termed their unwarranted delay in re
porting great appropriation bills.
URGES WAR PREPARATIONS.
Gen. Bell Says America’s Prospects
for Conflict Are Increasing.
Albany, N. Y. — Maj. Gen. J.
Franklin Bell, chief of staff, U. S. A.,
addressing the member of the Nation
al Guard association of the state of
New York at its annual dinner Wednes
day night, declared that in his judgment
the prospects of war in the future are
greater than they have been in the
past. “I am no glutton for war,” said
Gen. Bell, "but if war must come 1
want to see my country as well pre
pared as it is possible to be.”
Gen. Bell discussed the lack of mili
tary policy in the United States and
the need of preparation for war. "I
hope our country may never be in
volved in trouble,” he said, “but in a
time of peace we must prepare for
war, and it is gratifying to know that
such preparation is being made. In
my judgment our prospects of trouble
in the future are greater than they
have been in the past.”
GERONIMO DIES AT FORT SILL.
Noted Redskin Leader Passes Away
in Prison in Oklahoma.
Lawton, Ohio. — Geronimo, the
noted Indian chief, died Wednesday
at Fort Sill, where he had been con
fined as a prisoner of war for a num
ber of years. Geronimo died at the
hospital at the Fort Sill army post,
where he had been held for several
years as a prisoner of war. He died
of pneumonia after two days’ illness.
Geronimo was buried in the Indian
cemetery near the fort Thursday. The
funeral was conducted by Christian
missionaries, the decedent having pro
fessed religion three years ago.
Geronimo was the war chief of the
Apaches. He was captured with his
band at Skelton canyon, Arizona. 22
years ago, having surrendered to
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who, with his
soldiers, had pursued him for months.
7,000 Killed by Earthauake.
Teheran. Persia.—It is now believed
that fully 7,000 persons lost their lives
in the earthquake in the province of
Luristan, western Persia. Sixty vil
lages were destroyed.
The province of Luristan is very
mountainous and sparsely settled. It
is about 300 miles southwest of Tehe
ran and the only communication with
the Persian capital is by courier.
Kills California Racing.
Sacramento, Cal—Gov. Gillett signed
the W7alker-Otis anti-race track gam
bling bill. The bill becomes operative
60 days after the governor’s signature
is attached. This means that the
Emeryville and Santa Anita tracks will
not be able to finish their present ses
sion.
Ends Her Life with Fire.
Beloit, Wis.—Mrs. George M. Allen,
wife of a prominent man, set fire to
her clothing Thursday while insane
and died soon afterwards of the bums.
EMERGENCY BILL APPROPRIATES
$9,971,625 FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
AIDS WESTERN STREAMS
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Michigan
Rivers to Be Surveyed—House Slaps
at Roosevelt by Continuing Lim
itations on Secret Service.
V\ ashington.—Chairman Burton of
the house committee on rivers and
harbors Friday introduced the emer
gency and maintenance bill for water
ways improvements which carries a
total appropriation of $9,971,625.
It provides for a large number of
surveys, for the maintenance of im
provements previously authorized, and
for continuing the operation of gov
ernment dredges and other works.
The president is requested to open
negotiations with Great Britain for a
treaty for securing the maintenance of
ample water levels for the uses of
navigation in the great lakes by the
construction of such controlling and
remedial works in the connecting riv
ers and channels of the lakes as may
be agreed upon.
The secretary of war is also author
ized to fix a just and reasonable com
pensation to be paid for the use of
water and water power now or here
after owned in the St. Mary s river by
tbe United States.
Six hundred thousand dollars is ap
propriated for examinations and sur
veys, contingencies and incidental re
pairs for rivers and harbors for which
there is no special appropriation.
Among the most important waterways
for which preliminary surveys and ex
aminations are provided, aside from
the inland intracoastal waterway along
the Atlantic and gulf coasts are:
The Chicago and Rock rivers, Illi
nois; the harbors and rivers at or
near Chicago, including Chicago har
bor, the Chicago river. Calumet har
bor, the Grand and the Little Calumet
rivers. Lake Calumet and the Lake
Shore from the mouth of the Chicago
river to the city of Gary, Ind.. for the
purpose of reporting a plan for a com
plete systematic and broad improve
ment of the harbor facilities for Chi
cago and adjacent territory.
Other surveys are: The Wabash
river. Illinois; the Des Moines. Cedar
and Iowa rivers. Iowa: the Marquette
and Muskegon harbors: the Pigeon
river and the Livingstone channel of
the Detroit river, Michigan; the Mis
sissippi river between St. Paul and
Minneapolis; and reservoirs at the
headwaters of the river, the Minne
sota river and reservoirs at its head
waters, the Rainy river and the Du
luth (Minn.) and Superior (Wis.)
harbors; Ashtabula and Lorain har
bors, the Maumee river at and above
Toledo, and a survey of the Ohio river
with a view to the selection of sites
for the additional locks and dams be
tween locks No. 8 and No. 25 and for
the preparation of plans.
No single channel or improvement
is to be allotted more than $50,000
out of the appropriation for emergen
cies. The bill repeals the act that
authorizes the Mount Carmel Develop
ment Company to draw water from
the Wabash river in Wabash county,
111., and authorizes the secretary of
war to grant lesases for the use of the
water created by the government dam
at Mount Carmel.
Two more disputes between the
president and congress were revived
when the house committee on appro
priations reported the sundry civil ap
propriation bill.
One was in regard to the limitation
of the use of the secret service of the
treasury department. The other was
the appropriation for the examination
of accounts of railroads, under section
20 of the Hepburn rate law.
The house, despite the president’s
special message, decided to keep up
the limitation of the use of the secret
service. Mr. Roosevelt declared such
action an aid to criminals.
SAYS INDIANA IS BANKRUPT.
Governor in Message to Legislature
Points to $400,000 Deficit.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Gov. Marshall
sent a special message to the legisla
ture late Friday afternoon informing
that body that the state treas
ury is bankrupt and there is not
enough money in the treasury to pay
the state expenses longer than March.
No more money is coming in until |
June 1, when the county treasurers
will make their semi-annual settle
ments. The deficit will be about $400,
000. The governor asks the legisla
ture to pass a law to require ".he coun
ty treasurers to pay in the state's
share of the taxes before that, to meet
the state’s expenses. The governor
says unless the money is forthcoming ,
the state institutions will have to close
or the state must borrow money to
pay expenses. It is said the money for
use during the present six months was
anticipated and used in the preceding
Six months, and that this action ac
counts for the deficit.
Austria Will Declare War.
London.—Unless Servia disarms by
February 27. Austria will declare war
and rush a big army across the fron
tier. This became known Friday
through the receipt of the details of
the note recently 'sent to Bel
grade.
World Conservators to Meet.
Washington. — President Roosevelt
announced Friday that a call would be
issued for a world's conference on the
conservation of resources at The
Hague next September.
INDICTMENTS FOR EDITORS
trand jury acts in canal li
bel CASE.
New York World and Indianapolis
News Chiefs Charged with Vili
fying President and Others.
Washington.—Bench warrants were
issued Wednesday for the arrest of
Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb M. Van Hamm
and Robert H. Lyman of New York,
proprietor and editors of the New
Y'ork World, and for Delevan Smith
and Charles R. Williams, owners of
the Indianapolis News, for criminal
libel in connection with the publica
tion in those newspapers of charges of
irregularities in the purchase by the
United States government of the Pana
ma canal property from the French
owners.
The indictments on which the war
rants were based were returned by
the United States grand jury sitting in
this city and the warrants were issued
later by the clerk of criminal court
No. 1. The warrants are directed
against all five of the natural defend
ants of the two newspapers. The
summons requires 'he corporate de
fendant (the Press Publishing Com
pany) of New York to appear in court
forthwith to answer to indictment.
Theodore Roosevelt. William H.
Taft, Elihu Root, J. Pierpont Morgan.
Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson and
William Nelson Cromwell are named
in the indictments as the persons al
leged to have been villified by the
stories appearing in the two newspa
pers.
Copies of the summons and of the
indictment were served Wednesday
evening upon the Press Publishing
Company by services on Otto Carmi
chael, its agent in this jurisdiction.
The certified copies will be filed with
United States Commissioner John R.
Shields, in New York, who will issue
w-arrants for the arrest of the natural
defendants of the New Y'ork World
who will be brought before him to
show cause why they should not be
extradicted to this jurisdiction for
trial.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Delavin Smith.
Charles R. Williams, owners of the In
dianapolis News, who were indicted
by the federal grand jury in Washing
ton Wednesday, announced that they
will contest extradition to the District
of Columbia for trial on the ground
that it was committed in Indianapolis,
the place of the publication of the
News.
BOMB TERRORIST NABBED.
Plot to Abduct Kansas City Merchant
Is Roiled.
Kansas City, Mo. — He’d at bay
by a revolver and a dynamite
bomb in the hands of a determined
stranger who obtained entrance to his
home Tuesday, Lawrence M. Jones,
president of the Jones Bros. Dry Goods
Company, and one of the wealthiest
merchants in the city, was given the
alternative of death upon failure to
hand over $7,000. He overpowered the
man in a desperate struggle after his
wife and son had also been brought
to face death at the hands of the
blackmailer.
In the arrest of the man, who gave
his name as C. H. Garnett of Omaha,
the police believe a well laid plot to
extort money from several wealthy
men has been bared. Following the
confession of the prisoner, a house in
a lonely spot in Independence was
explored and found to have been pre
pared as a prison for the man’s in
tended victims. Secret closets were
found in which heavy chains, fastened
to rings in the walls, were found,
along with strong padlocks and bars.
Garnett said that the house had been
rented and the prison like features
Installed so that his victims might be
held until he hai obtained what money
possible and made his escape.
MURDERER OF GIRL CONFESSES.
William Gagle Tells of Luring Child
from Home and Slaying Her.
Chicago. — William Gagle arrested
on charges of having attacked two
South Chicago girls, confessed to
the police Tuesday that he killed lit
tle Lizzie Schrader of Gary, Ind., more
tJKn a year ago, while she was carry
ing lunch to her father.
The confession was made to Capt.
Halpin of the South Chicago police
station, Chief of Police Rimbacb of
Hammond and Chief of Police Martin
of Gary, Ind. The theory that Gagle
was the murderer of the little girl
whose dismembered body was found
in the woods near Tolleston, Ind., was
suggested by Gagle himself, who. while
being examined in regard to the at
tack on his two latest victims, jumped
from his chair and shouted:
“I attacked those girls, but I never
killed Lizzie Schrader.”
The death, of the Schrader girl had
not been mentioned.
Grand Duk: Dies Suddenly.
St. Petersburg.—Grand Duke Valdi
mir Alexandrovitch died here Wednes
day evening.
Death was caused by asthma. Yes
terday the grand duke participated in
a military parade here.
U. S. Soldier Commits Suicide.
Vallejo, Cal.—Sergt. W. H. Dawson
of the United States marine corps, at
the Mare Island navy yards, commit
ted suicide Friday by shooting himself.
Disappointment in love was the
cause. He enlisted from Forest.
Ind.
Arrested for Phone Abuse.
Bismarck, N. I).—Former Adjt. Gen.
T. H. Poole is under arrest, charged
with using improper language to wom
en while talking o*'3r the tele
phone.