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f Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1909 « NUMBER 25 CONDENSED A Boiling Down of the More lmpor= tant Events Here and There Foreign. While the situation in Persia en grosses the attention of the Russian foreign officers, the Turkish crisis is assuming a position of importance by the shau with Russia's ultimatum that a six days' armistice must be declared at Tabriz for foreigners and non-com batants in that city, it is felt that in tervention in Persia cannot long bo postponed. The receipt of the news here, says a Constantinople dispatch, that the American government had ordered the cruisers Montana and North Caro lina to Alexandretta, in Asiatic Tur key. for the protection of Americans, has brought satisfaction and even a sense of security to Americans here and in the Syrian coast cities of Mes ina. Beirut and Alexandretta, whither the information has been forwarded. The official scandal in Tokio dis closed by the arrest of nine members of the lower house of the diet in con nection with the alleged misconduct of the officers of the Japanese sugar company. is steadily growing and more arrests among the legislators are expected. The American visitors to Rome are so numerous that Mgr. Kennedy, rector of the American college, is pre senting about fifty of them daily to the pope. connrmauon nas peen received at Constantinople of the killing of two American missionaries at Adana. The murdered missionaries were Mr. Rog ers and Mr. Maurer. The others con nected with missions are safe, includ ing Mr, Christie, who is at Tarsus. There is a serious situation in Asia Minor, where an outbreak of Moslem fanaticism, for which no precise cause has yet been assigned, has led to ter rible massacres of Christians. The murder of two American missionaries has been fully confirmed, and it is possible that many Christians have fallen before the fanatics. George Nox McCain, formerly pub lisher of the Colorado Springs Gazette, bu. row a resident of Philadelphia, was arrested in Constantinople by the sultan's soldiers on suspicion of being a spy. General. James L. Dixon, 24 years old, thinks that the United States marine corps is a good place for a man to be, even though he is worth $125,000. He en listed in Chicago for four years. Big hats and those ornamented with the skins or bodies of “birds, reptiles or insects” are prohibited under heavy penalties in a bill introduced in the Illinois house. Because George .Tones of Keokuk, la., while playing, spanked him. Chas. Alexander, 9 years old, shot and killed him. Jones was to have mar ried the boy s aunt next day. Nebraska is to be the next battle ground in the general campaign for prohibition, according to Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, national president of the W. C. T. u. The bottom has dropped out of the wheat corner in Chicago, and the cereal is rapidly declining. Miss Ethel Hart, daughter of Britt Hart, a member of the Pennsylvania legislature from Washington, Pa., died at Boulder, Colo., on the eve of her wedding to W. H. Ferguson, a young Denver attorney. Moslem fury in Asiatic Turkey has resulted, it is said, in the massacre of ten thousand people, men, women and children. The biggest question now to the front in Washington is revenue, and on it hinges many others. Of the thirty-six applicants for the privilege to operate saloons in Lincoln next year twenty-five of the twenty seven in the business last year have reapplied. Captain George C. Bunnell, signal corps. United States army, is dying from the effects of a bullet wound in flicted upon himself at Laurel sani tarium, maryland, near Washington, where he had gone, suffering from a nervous breakdown. Republican criticism of the pending tariff bill on the ground that the rates were too high was prominent in the senate, when Senator Nelson of Min nesota and Senator Dolliver of Iowa attacked various schedules. Senator Cummins of low’a intro duced an income tax amendment to the Payne tariff bill. Uncle Sam has despatched a cruiser squadron to Turkish waters to see that Americans and American inter ests are protected. The Burlington has announced a voluntary reduction in rates to 2*4 cents a mile in Missouri. The Japanese have turned their at tention to South America as a field for immigration. An indictment was returned at To peka against the Cudahy Packing company at Kansas City. Harvey W. Scott of Oregon may suc ceed D. E. Thompson as ambassa dor to Mexico. The German-South American Cable company has begun the laying of a ca ble between Emden and Teneriffe, in the Canary Islands. A telegram from Smyrna. Asiatic Turkey, declares that Andre Kopassi. Effendi, Prince of Samos, has been murdered. Municipal elections in Illinois gen erally resulted favorable to license or local option. James J. Jeffries announces that he will soon re-enter the ring. It is said that President Taft is keeping a sharp eye on the Patten wheat corner. Six persons were killed, nine fatal ly hurt, at least fifty sustained inju ries. and property valued at more than $1,000,000 was destroyed in a tornado which swept through Cleve land and northern Ohio. James W. Van Cleave, president of the Citizens’ Industrial Alliance, St. Louis, tendered his resignation. On motion of Senator Aldrich the senate agreed to a resolution of the house for the return to the house of the tariff bill in order that the oil I schedule might be amended by adding ; to the words "petroleum crude and re- j lined" on the free list, the words 1 "and the products thereof. At Adla, Okla., a mob took four j cattlemen from the jail and hanged ! them. They were accused of killing a United States marshal. Three big department stores in Omaha are boycotting the World Herald on advertising because the paper will not give cut rates. Charged with having paid money to an officer of the United States navy j to obtain a favorable report on an in- j vention, Albert F. Shore of XewT York j was arrested and held in $2,500 bail. Bills providing for a tariff eommis- | sion were introduced in the senate by Mr. Beveridge aud by Mr. LaFollette. j Mr. Beceridge said the tariff eommis- ! sion idea had been more widely ap proved by the newspapers of the country than any other proposed legis lation. Dissatisfied with a recent decision of the food and drug inspection board of the department of agriculture re garding the labeling of canned sal mon and whitefish. representatives of the salmon industry have asked Secretary Wilson for a readjustment of the ruling. Washington. President Taft has ordered that un- i classified laborers in the civil service | may be assigned incidentally to classi- I fled work, but not as part of their i main work, where such work can be thereby done more conveniently and | economically. Realizing the impotencv of the Tit- | ltish and the Persian governments adequately to safeguard American ' lives and property in the present d:.s- j turbed conditions in their countries. 1 the State department has intimated that it will welcome any assistance in j this direction from the governments! Of threat Britain -aed Russia Iowa postmasters appointed: Bar ney, Madison county, Milton Stephen son, vice S. Beardsley, resigned; Mor rison. Grundy county. Miss Marie Jen sen. vice R. F. Jensen, resigned. It was decided that the annual cruises of the combined naval militias of the great lakes will take place frcm Aug. 9 to 19. In this cruise eight ves sels will participate, including the gunboat Nashville, which will leave Boston April 30 for Chicago, in charge of a crew from the Illinois naval rai litia. The census bill was sent back to conference by the senate in order that its amendments relating to the civil service law and requiring the con struction of a building for the work of the census in this city might be fur ther considered and insisted upon. Japan will be represented at the opening of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition on June 1 by a training squadron of two cruisers, commanded by Admiral Ijichi. The squadron will arrive on the Pacific coast April 25 and remain until June id. Thomas Creigh, Jr., and J. W. Cudahy of Omaha were in the city, presumably to ascertain the status of the Cudahy company in the recent ac tion begun by the state of Kansas for alleged violation of pure food laws. On or about May 18, representatives of the bureau of plant industry, recla mation service and state experiment station in Nebraska and of the Scott's Bluff Commercial club will meet at Scott's Bluff to determine certain de tails for an experiment station to be established near the North Platte re clamation project. The proposed sta tion will be devoted to experimental work appropriate to that section and will include both irrigated and dry land farming. An American named Baskerville. a teacher in the Presbyterian boys' school at Tabriz, who has been ac cused of complicity in revolutionary movements, was killed in battle, ac cording to a dispatch from Consul Doty at Tabriz. Persona!. The prediction is made that the Hains case will never go to the jury. Ambassador White will not attend his daughter's wedding at Paris. An American named Baskerville has been killed at Tabriz, Persia. Senator Tillman paid a visit of courtesy to President Taft. Minister Espinos of Nicaragua with drew his resignation of the post at Washington, according to a statement made at the state department. Col. Isaac Taylor, aged 74, con ceiver of the lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterway idea, died at Peoria, 111. The Buck Stove company insists that Gompers and others shall be im prisoned. Harriman, railroad magnate, is about to take a European tour. Miss Koten. who killed Dr. Martin W. Auspitz in New York City ast summer, and recently pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was spared prison penalty. Miss Alice Jones, daughter of J. P Tones, former United States senator "rom Nevada, is to marry Frederick Mac Monnies, the American sculptor, aow in France, who was recently di vorced from his wife. TURKS TAKE THE CITY CONSTANTINOPLE SURRENDERS TO ARMY OF INVESTMENT. THE SULTAN IS A PRISONER Guard Around His Palace Replaced by Troops From the Constitutional Army. Constantinople.—The constitutional forces are in complete control of the capital. The sultan is practically a prisoner in the Yildiz palace. His formal submission has not yet been given, but he anil the troops with him are at the mercy of the army of occu pation. Mahmoud Schefket Pasha, the com mander-in-chief of the invading forces, desires to finish the work without fur ther bloodshed. He is in negotiation with the sultan's representatives and has extended the period of grace with in which the sultan must make his final decision. The Yildiz Kiosk may be rushed during the night, for some 5,000 infantry are disposed within a mile and a half of the palace. What disposition will be made of the ruler of the empire when he is in tee hands of the constitutionalists is unknown to the embassies, although the opinion is held in authoritative quarters that he. will continue as the nominal constitutional executive with a ministry responsible to parliament. Complete tranquility prevails in the city at the present moment, but anxious looks are cast in the direction of the Yildiz because of the refusal of part of its garrison to submit. General Schefket is concentrating large forces near this point. Troops have been pouring in since noon and several bat teries have been planted on the neigh boring heights. But it is feared that the task of capturing this well guard ed stronghold may he extremely diffi cult owing to its excellent defensive position and the thorough prepared ness of the garrison. The other positions already cap tured by the investing army were not provided with artillery, which gave the assailants an immense advantage, since they were able to shell the bar racks without reply from artillery. The Yildix garrison not only pos sesses artillery, but it is believed that the neighborhood is mined. Apparent ly General Schefket and the other leaders of the Saloniki troops are anxious to avoid further bloodshed, hence their desire to give the sultan and his advisors good time for con sideration. The sending forward of the advance posts of the Saloniki army to within two and one-half miles of the palace foreshadowed the attack on the city which began at 5 o'clock Saturday morning. The bridges had been picketed and small parties of cavalry reccoitered the ground. Constantinople.—The Yildiz garri son surrendered Sunday to the consti tutionalists. The commanders of these battalions began sending in their submission to Mahmoud Schef ket Pasha Saturday night and the whole of the troops protecting the palace gave their formal and uncon ditional surrender hortly after dawn. Sultan Abdul Hamid has been permit ted to stay within the walls of Yildiz Kiosk, where, in company with his ministers, he waited for the outcome of the struggle. Death of Senator Stewart. Washington.—Former United States Senator William A. Stewart of Ne vada died at the Georgetown hospital here, following an operation. The body will be taken to Nevada. Mr. Stewart had been at the hospital since March 30. On March 31 he under went an operation, the nature of which the physicians have not made public. About a week ago his con dition became worse and he sank steadily. The River Congress. Washington.—Senators Gamble and Crawford of South Dakota invited President Taft to attend the Missouri River Navigation congress at Yank ton, S. D., July 7, 8 and 9. The presi dent said he would like to attend but could not do so on the dates men tioned The senators said they would see if a change of date could not be made to suit the president’s con venience. THE INCOME TAX. It Is Possible There May Be No Ac tion Upon It. Washington.—-Frequent utterances by President Taft, expressive of the hope that congress will hasten the passage of the tariff bill in order that business may be restored to its nor mal condition at the earliest possible j day. may postpone the real test of strength over the income tax propo sition. At present sentiment of the senate is pretty evenly divided for and against an income tax amend ment to the pending bill, and the whole matter may go over. Bomb Shatters Cathedral. New Orleans.—The famous old St. Louis cathedral in Chartres street was shaken Sunday afternoon by an explosion believed to have resulted from the placir.:. of a bomb in the south tower of i.-e building. The ex plosion was heard for many blocks, and created wild excitement in that section of the city, occurring when the church was practically empty. A priest, a woman rnd a child were the only occupants and none was injured. One of the smaller altars was wrecked and windows broken. UNEASY LIES THE HEAD, ETC. STURTS FIGHT ON HARRIMAN TAFT FOLLOWS NEW POLICY IN ANTI TRUST WAR. Sends Complaint to Attorney General Instead of Interstate Com merce Commission. Washington. — In directing that Attorney General Wickersham in stead of the interstate commerce com mission investigate the charges made by Senators Smoot and Sutherland and Mr. Howell of I'tah against the Harriman railroads, President Taft Wednesday put his own anti-trust pol icy. into action. The roads named in the complaint filed with Mr. Taft are the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific. Oregon Short Line, Oregon Railroad & Navigation. San Pedro, Los Angles & Salt Lake, Denver & Rio Grande, Missouri Pa cific. Colorado Midland, Colorado & Southern. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Rock Island, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The charge is made that these roads discriminate in rates against Salt L'ke and other intermountain cities on shipments from the east. The com plaint cites numerous instances. As examples, they say that a car of co coa beans shipped from Chicago to Utah cities costs |594 in freight tariff, while the same shipment to San Fran cisco costs but $225. A car of nails, 40.000 pounds, costs $440 to Utah points, wnile the same car, if carried 1.000 miles further west, to the coast, costs but $100. In letters to the president accom panying the complaint it is pointed out that the enormous earnings of the Harriman lines from which big divi dends are paid on stocks indicate that the railroad rates complained of are enormously profitable, and that Har riman derides power of any less im portance than the federal government, and apparently cares little for that. KIDNAPER TRIES SUICIDE. Boyle Found in Cell, III from a Drug— His Sickness Prevents Escape. Mercer, Pa.—The Mercer county au thorities are greatly worried over an alleged attempt of James H. Boyle, the Whitla kidnaper, to commit sui cide and later a well-planned attempt on the part of supposed friends on the outside to liberate the prisoner from the jail here. While both affairs were frustrated, their successful conclusion seems to have been averted by the narrowest margin. Late Thursday afternoon it was learned that Boyle suddenly be came ill Wednesday. He was found lying upon the floor of his cell in the agony of convulsions. Excepting that his illness was such as would have re sulted from some powerful drug noth ing can be learned. A few minutes after midnight an at tempt to liberate Boyle failed on ac count of the prisoner's illness. At that hour guards found a 20-foot lad der in position at a window in Boyle's cell. The supposition is that the men who were to free Boyle climbed this ladder and then found his cell empty. Catch Kidnaper at Cairo. Paducah, Kv. — Robert Lee Haw kins, alleged kidnaper of the 15 year-old son of James F. Estes of this city, is being held in jail at Cairo, 111., pending the issuance of a requisition paper at Frankfort. Reverses Church Case Decision. Indianapolis, Ind.—The appellate court of Indiana has reversed the judgment of the Vanderburgh county circuit court at Evansville, which held that members of the Cumberland Pres byterian church who attempted a con solidation with the Presbyterian church were entitled to the property. Weston Reaches Bloomington. Bloomington, 111.—Edward Payson Weston, on a trans-continental pedes trian trip, arrived Friday night. He covered 53 miles Friday. TEDDY SLEEPS IN TENT. Ex-President Begins Rea! Hunt in Af rica— Lions Prowl Around Camp. Kapiti Plains, British East Africa. | —Theodore Roosevelt has reached the hunting grounds and Friday night spent his first night in Africa under canvas. A big camp has been established near the railroad station here for the ! Roosevelt expedition, and lions prowled about in the vicinity of the tents during the night. The country is green, owing to the recent rains, and there is every pros pect of good sport. The commoner varieties of game are plentiful, and the huntsmen will lose no time in get i ting started on their shooting trips to-day. The camp established for Mr. Roose velt is most elaborate. The caravan will have a total of 260 followers. There are 13 tents for the Europeans and their horses, and 60 tents for the porters. An American flag is flying over the teut to be occupied by Mr. Roosevelt. All the native porters of the expedition were lined up on the platform when the Roosevelt special pulled in, and as Mr. Roosevelt stepped down from the train they shouted a salute in his honor. In response Mr. Roosevelt raised his hat. Mr. Roosevelt was on the cow catcher of the engine when the train pulled in, having occupied that posi tion for the 79 miles between Makindu and Kapiti Plains. He said he was intensely interested in the country and expressed his gratitude and de light at the hospitality shown him by i the acting governor and Mrs. Jackson. MOVES FOR FREE WHEAT. Representative Scott of Kansas Pre pares Bill to Be Presented to the House. Washington.—Representative Scott of Kansas will ask the ways and means committee of the house to curb the wheat-corner movement be ing conducted by James Patten in Chi cago by temporarily removing the duty from wheat Mr. Scott has prepared a bill which he will submit to the committee ask ing it to report the bill to the house, recommending immediate action. The bill, as jlrawn, suspends the duty of 25 cents a bushel on wheat. There is little chance that the com mittee will confuse congress by the interpolation of any legislation while the tariff bill is being considered. Members who heard of the Scott bill could see little good in it. TORNADO KILLS TEN. Many Are Hurt and Much Property Damaged at Cleveland and Ash tabula, O. Cleveland, O.—Nine persos were killed, six fatally hurt, at least fifty sustained injuries and property val ued at more than $1,000,000 was de stroyed in a tornado which swept through Cleveland and northern Ohio Wednesday One man was killed and a dozen hurt at Ashtabula. An unidentified woman was blown into a pond at Wade park and drowned. In the blinding rain pedestrians were blown off their feet and hurled against buildings, in many cases struck down by flying bricks and tim bers which filled the air. Steamer Sinks; Nineteen Drowned. Christiania.—Nineteen passengers were drowned off Christiania Friday by the sinking of the Norwegian steamer Edith after collision with the British steamer Oxford. Those who went down with the Edith are the captain and his wife, one passenger, and 16 members of her crew. Hanged for Double Murder. Spartanburg, S. C.—Lawson Addi son, a negro, was hanged at Chester, S. C., Friday for the murder of two women near Lowrysvrlte. PARDONS FOR EXILES ALLEGED CONSPIRATORS IN GOE BEL MURDER FREED BY KEN TUCKY GOVERNOR. MAY RETURN TO THE STATE Taylor, Finley and Four Others Ac cused as Slayers, After Nine Years Are Relieved of Charges by Action of Executive. Frankfort, Ky.—Pardons were grant ed Friday night by Gov. Willson which clear the dockets of the Ken tucky courts of all charges growing out of the assassination of Senator William Goebel, who had been de clared governor in January, 1900., ex cept those against state's evidence witnesses. Those pardoned without trial are: Former Gov. W. S. Taylor and former Secretary of State Charles Finley, who have been fugitives in the state of Indiana for nine years; to John Powers, brother of Caleb Powers, who is believed to be in Hon duras; to Holland Whittaker of But ler county, John Davis of Louisville, and Zach. Steele of Bell county, un der indictment and who did not flee the state. Those over whom indictments are left hanging are Wharton Golden of Knox county, now in Colorado; Frank Cecil of Bell county, now a railroad detective in St. Louis, and William H. Culton of Owsley county, said to have died in the west a few months ago. . These cases, with the possible ex ception of Cecil, will be dismissed, leaving Henry E. Youtsev, now serv ing a life sentence in the state peni tentiary, the only person to suffer for the taking off of Goebel. Keiterating the belief he expressed some months ago, -when he granted pardons to Caleb Powers and James B. Howard, that no one but Youtsey had part in the murder, and that it was not a conspiracy, as the common wealth charged. Gov. Willson says fce believes it a "sacred duty, which I must no longer delay, to carry this belief into effect,” and grant pardon to the men charged, and who tied the state as they "had the greatest rea sons to believe” that they could not "have a fair trial,” and if they stayed t here would be forced to trial before a partisan jury under conditions which would give them no chance at all for a just decision. In extending clemency in the Taylor case, the governor, after reviewing the state gubernatorial election of 1899 and the contest instituted before the legislature by Senator William Goebel, says: “For years it seemed as itf there never would be an end of the political use of the Goebel murder to keep up hatred and contention. In the cam paign of 1907 it was again brought up. as it had been in every campaign since 1899, by speeches in which it was claimed that the Democratic nominee for governor would not pardon Taylor, Powers and others, and that the Re publican nominee would pardon them if elected. "I made no answer to these speeches until I came to the home of Powers in the mountains, where 1 told the peo ple, his friends, that I would not pre judge these cases; that I would not promise anybody either to pardon or not to pardon these men. but that if the cases ever came before me I would take them up officially and decide them on their merits, and that I was as anxious for the conviction and pun ishment of every person guilty of the murder of William Goebel as anyone in Kentucky. i nere is no need to repeat Here the statements of the Powers and Howard cases; they are well known to the people. The study of these records constrained me to believe, to the ex clusion of a doubt, that Howard did not fire the shot which killed Goebel. “The only evidence in all of the four trials of Powers and three trials of Howard by which the prosecution in any way attempted to connect Gov. Taylor w-ith the murder was the testi mony as to his writing to get Howard to come to Frankfort to kill William Goebel, and tending to show that How ard, on the request in that letter, did come to FYankfort, entered into the plot and committed the murder. “But Howard did not kil Goebel, and Gov. Taylor could not be guilty of getting Howard to do what he did not do. “From the fair, impartial study of all of the trials and from my knowl edge of the conditions of these times, I believe that William S. Taylor had no guilty knowledge of the murder of William Goebel, and that he would never have been indicted but for polit ical excitement and passion.” The governor then reviews the cases of the other defendants, against whom he says there was no proof of conspiracy. In a statement issued at Indianap olis Taylor and Finley expressed their gratitude for relief from the burden of being exiles. Taylor will remain in Indianapolis but Finley will return to Williamsburg, Ky. Convicted of Slaying Father. Mason City, la.—After having been on trial for five weeks on the charge of having killed his father, Edward McNamara was found guilty of mur der in the %econd degree. He will be sentenced to imprisonment for life. Taft Witnesses Third Degree. Washington.—President Taft Thurs day night attended a regular session of Temple Masonic lodge of this city. The president saw the third degree worked upon several candidates. ILLINOIS WOMAN THE VICTOR MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT TO HEAD D. A. R. Administration Candidate Defeats Mrs. Story of New York by Eight Votes. Washington. — Men and women of Illinois here in Washington are happy over the victory of Mrs. Matthew T. Scott c{ Blooming ton in her race for the presidency of the Daughters of the American Revo lution. Backed by the administration Mrs. Scott defeated her rival, Mrs. William Cummings Story of Xew York. 43G to 428. Mrs. Scott's election was a victory for the administration faction. A number of delegates refused to make the election unanimous on Mrs. Story's motion. The second office in point of honor, that of vice-president general in charge of organizations, however, went to the anti-administration fol lowers by the election of Mrs. Miranda B. Tulloch of this city. The congress approved the election of the various state regents. The3* in cluded the following: Alabama, Mrs. Robert A. McClellan; Arizona, Mrs. a Mrs. Matthew D. Scott. Walter Talbot; Arkansas, Mrs. John Barrow; California. Mrs. Frederick J. I^aird: Colorado, Mrs. Frank Wheaton; Florida, Mrs J. M. Mahoney; Georgia, Mrs. P. W. Godfrey; Idaho. Mrs. David H. Tarr; Illinois, Mrs. John C. Ames; Indiana. Mrs. John J. Dinwiddie; Iowa, Miss Harriet Bake; Kansas, Mrs. George T. Guernsey; Kentucky. Mrs. Sarah H. Chenault; Michigan, Mrs. J. P. Brayton; Minnesota, Mrs. Edgar H. Loyhed; Missouri, Mrs. Samuel G. Green; Montana, Mrs. Emil H. Ren isch; Nebraska. Mrs. O. S. Ward; New Mexico, Mrs. D. B. Prince; Ohio, Mrs. Clayton R. Truesdall; Ok lahoma, Mrs. William J. Pettee; Penn sylvania; Mrs. H. P. Perley; South Car olina, Mrs. Robert M. Bratton; Ten r.essee, Mrs. William G. Spencer; Texas, Mrs. Seabrcok W. Sydnoi: Washington, Mrs D. A. Gove; VVest Virginia, Mrs. R. H. Edmondson; Wis consin, Mrs. Ogden H. Fethers; Wy oming, Mrs. H. B. Patten. LAKE SHIP SINKS; FIVE DEAD Steamer Eber Ward Strikes Ice Flee in Lake Michigan and Goes to Bottom. Mackinaw, Mich.—Five men were drowned Tuesday when the steamer Eber Ward collided with a heavy ice floe and sank five miles west of here. The dead are John Hern, James Perry, John Meberotb, Kinney McKay and an unidentified deckhand. The survivors arc Capt. T. Le May, First Mate A. P. Galiuo, Chief En gineer Frank Baldwin, Second Engl neer S. R. Shipman, Wheelsmen Charles Lester and Frank Gutch. Deckhand August Palmer, Steward John Winterhaler and Mrs. Winter haler and A1 Quin. The boat went to the bottom in one of the deepest spots of the Straits of Mackinaw and will be a total loss to gether with her cargo of corn. She was bound from Milwaukee to Port Huron, Mich. So completely was the bow of the steamer shattered by the collision with the ice floe that she was flooded from stem to stern almost instantly. Five of her crew were caught without warning asleep in their bunks and went to the bottom with the sinking steamer. No Parole for Stensland Now. Joliet, 111. — Paul O. Stensland will not be pardoned nor paroled at present, in spite of a most eloquent appeal made In his behalf by Attorney Clarence Darrow of Chicago Tues day afternoon. While the decision of the board had not been made public and will not be until the official report of the board is made to Gov. Deneen at Springfield, the attitude of the board is known. Commits Suicide on Husband’s Grave. Detroit, Mich.—Mrs. Amy Wilkie, SO years old, whose husband died last November, was found dead Friday lying on her husband's grave in the German Lutheran cemetery. A car bolic acid bottle and a small glass lay near the body. Ex-Senator Stewart Dead. Washington.—The body of former ■United States Senator William M. -Stewart of Nevada who died at Georgetown hospital Friday will bq taken to Nevada for burial Saturday,