The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, September 08, 1905, Page 14, Image 14
V The Commoner. 14 VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3, .action In any dispute, except as the 'soveral nations agree to refer contro versies to arbitration by special or general treaties of arbitration. ' 12. The armed forces of all the na tions represented to be at the service of the congress for enforcement of any decreo rendered by The Hague court, according to treaties, of arbitration. Congressman Townsend of Michi gan, one of the authors of the Esch Townsond rate making bill, in a letter to a Baltimore newspaper says he has no reason to believe that President Roosevelt has given up his intention of calling an extra session early in No vember. Mr. Townsend says he will introduco a bill containing the main provisions of the bill he introduced in the fifth-ninth congress. E. S. Holmes, Jr., formerly a sta tistician of the department of agri culture has been arrested on the charge of conspiring to defraud the government by permaturely divulging the cotton reports. Holmes was re leased on $10,000 bond. Lawrence Hanley, a well-known ac tor died at Los Angei.es, Calif. ... A 'dispatch to the St. Louis Globe Democrat under date of Milwaukee, August 28, follows: It is said that if the General Paper company is forced to go out of existence as a selling agency, a paper trust will be formed, composed of all the mills now in the selling organization. The statement is made that options have already been secured on eleven of the largest paper mills in anticipation of adverse decisions regarding the General Paper company. The new organization, if completed, it is said, will be on the lines of the Standard Oil company. The plan is understood by all the -members of the General Paper com pany, and it is asserted that all will go in if a new organization is neces sary. Nothing will be done until a decision is had on the 'appeal, which has been made on Judge Seaman's decision directing the witnesses to answer the questions of the govern ment's attorney. tfThe Springfield, 111., city council by "a ''vote of eleven to three authorized Mayor Deveraux, who has been' lead ing a municipal ownership fight, to take over the Springfield electric light ing plant valued at $100,000. The mayor has waged a long and deter mined fight in. Springfield in favor, of municipal ownership. his hold had no effect. The last time 1 struck him Williams cried out in terror: 'My God, don't kill me. Help me 'up on the bar." The Globe Democrat adds: Scan Ion says that an entirely different feeling took possession of him After hearing William's appeal. "When we left the earth Williams was unmis takably drunk, but when he called up to me to help him he was sober and thoroughly cognizant of his peril. I will never forget the agony depicted on Lis face. His eyes protruded far out out of their sockets, his face was and great drops of perspiration stood out on his forehead, while the muscles of his face, twitched in the most violent manner imaginable. I never saw such suffering before. I tried to raise him to the bar with my legs, which I had gripped about his body under his arms, not being able to reach him with my hands. When I failed in raising' him in this way I realized that I could do nothing mpre for him." Scanlon stated that when he reached up to cut the rope by which his parachute and trapeze hung from the gas bag he did it with the idea fixed firm in his mind that it would be the last voluntary act he would ever bo capable of. "I firmly believed it would be a swift and cer tain death," he said. "Just as I sev ered the rope there occurred a loud explosion. Our combined .weight had proven too much for the balloon and the top had blown put. We were then so far up in the air that the crowd looked like a swarm of ants. I am not given to braggadocio, but I was never calmer in jny life than when. I felt the air rushing up by me and knew the danger we were in. I was waiting for the jolt which I knew would occur when the parachute opened out, and which I realized would certainly throw Williams from the bar. When the jolt came It snapped tliree of the ropes which act as stays on the parachute. This slight acci dent distracted my attention for an instant, and when my mind turned again to Williams I thought I heard a dull thud, which I believe was caused by the impact of his body striking- the ground. In live minutes I had alighted safely,,. in a clump of willows, 200 yards from where .Wil liam's body' fell." . " ; feet in the aid and explode dyrfimite at intervals. Today he mounted 1,500 feet in the air. Every eye among the thousands of spectators below watched him until he became almost a mere speck. Suddenly a cloud of smoke appeared. It hid the airship from view, the spectators supposed, as the balloon had vanished completely from sight. In another moment the sound of the explosion reached the strain ing ears of the watchers, but the air ship did not again appear. For a moment the crowd waited expectantly thinking that a view or the aeronaut would be obtained. Then a groan of horror arose from the multitude. The airship had vanished. Searchers immediately began looking for frag ments of the wrecked airship. A half mile away they- found pieces of silk cloth from which the balloon was made and splinters of the basket-like framework on which the aeronaut had been perched. Scattered about a twenty acre . field were found frag ments of Baldwin's body. The dis tance at which the remnants -of the airship fell was so great that the crowds had not seen the fragments fall. No one can tell how the acci dent occurred. The six sticks of dynamite which Baldwin carried with, him exploded simultaneously, as only one report was heara. It. is supposed that in igniting the fuse connecting with the dynamite he fired the gas in the balloon and that it exploded caus ing the dynamite to explode. Bald win's business was aerial warfare demonstrations. General McCaskey, in his annual report for the department of Colorado recommended the re-establishment of the canteen. John A. Williams, a young St. Louisan was killed recently by a fall from a balloon. Robert E. Scanlon, an aernaut was to make an ascension on a trapeze bar. Some one bantered 'Williams to go up and quick as a flash' Williams leaped toward the trapeze to which Scanlon was strapped, threw his arms around Scanlon's waist and the two were whisked in a A Toledo balloonist says he greatly admires President Roosevelt's daring as shown by his trip In a submarine boat and he intends to invite the presi dent to take a trip in an airship. The steamer Poconlc, commanded by Captain Jones, was lost August 28 on the Florida coast. Out of the 22 men on board, only two were rescued. A Washington . dispatch by the As sociated Press .follows: Worn out and germ-permeated currency is be ing turned into the treasury redemp tion at such a rate . that the govern ment's facilities to supply the demand is being taxed to its utmost capacity. United States Treasurer Charles H. Treat says: "The bureau of engrav ing and printing has just about reached the limit, and as soon as possible the .force must be increased and new ma chinery provided for. The business of the country must have, what it wants in the ,way of. currency. The national banks are increasing their circulation at a remarkable rate. . In the present month there has been an increase of oyer $7,000,000, and in the last year the increase "has been $59,000,000." A dispatch to the New York World nrwlfir date of "Washington. Aiienat, 22. f flash, a hundred feet above the heads follows: Mrs. Mary Emily Donelson uj. liic nuniutju jjuuuiiur. oyuuiuug wncox, sum to uuve uceii me nrst ' to the representative of the St. Louis -'Globe Democrat, Scanlon said: "Wil liams' foolhardy act was nothing short of suicide, whether he considered his . chances for coming out of the adr 'i venture alive or not, from the instant we left the ground. I realized that lone, or both, of us would be. killod. My first thought was of helping "V Williams out of danger, and, acting ,on thia impulse, I tried to force him .to let go his hold on the trapeze be fore we had reached a high elevation. If he had dropped to the ground then he would not have been killed. After I had succeeded in swinging mystff into a sitting position on the trapeze bar I kicked Williams, and then struck him with my closed fist between .the eyes. Wo were probably "between ,v'75 and 100 feet above the ground, child born sin the White House, the grandniece of Andrew Jackson, and a .descendent of John Donelson, the pioneer of Tennessee, died here to day aged, seventy-five years. Her hus band, John A. Wilcox, was at one time a representative from Tennessee, and also represented Texas in the con federate congress. An Associated Press dispatch under date of Greenville,. Ohio, August31, follows: In sight or 2,500 persons Professor John Baldwin was blown to atoms here this afternoon by the explosion of six sticks of dvnamite when 1,500 feet in the air. His wife and three children were among the spectators who witnessed the tragedy Baldwin had been giving daily - ex- muiuuus at me countv fair horn Under date of New York, August 31", the Associated Press carried the fol lowing dispatch: Announcement was made by the officers of the Equitable Life Assurance society that the in debtedness to the society of the Depew Improvement company was paid this afternoon, the principal and interest amounting to S293,850.82. The correspondence incident to ttie transaction was also, at the sugges tion of President Morton made public, to the end, Mr. Morton said, that an impression unjust to Senator Chauncey M. Depew might be removed. The correspondence consists of three let ters of even date, tho first addressed to Mr. Morton by Henry B. Anderson, Of the law firm of Anderson & Ander son, attorneys for the Depew Improve ment company, announcing that the re-organization committee df the De pew Improvement company, having perfected the title to the property not covered by tile Equitable mort gage, was prepared, to take over the property which secured the loan, paying in cash to the Equitable the face of the loan and interest. The second letter, also addressed to Mr. Morton, is from Senator Depew, who states explicitly,,' part in the trans action between he improvement company and the Equitable society and points out what he declares are inaccuracies in published statements, through which a grave 'injustice, has Senator Depew said: "i ila,i nM., to do with the organiAV ft Depew " Improvement comnnnv ?? even authorizing the use of m'n . SP ?S8 1 in any way connected S t until, five years after its incOrn0fa. tion, I purchased for ?100,000 in 5 a 'one-fifteenth interest in the S of the company. The company at that time had a tract of land , u.r UWDUU z'm sub-divided lot. and 265 acres not subdivided Tht Equitable Life loaned $250,000 upon 1,575 of the company's lots. Thesa lots were selected as constituting ha most valuable tracts there. At the time the mortgage was made these lots were selling the lowest at $300 and the highest at $600 each. The valuation placed upon tho plot by the Equitable appraisers at that time was $393,750, and upon the balance of the land owned by the company $540,000, a total valuation of tho property of $983,750. An appraisal was at tne same time made and sub mitted to the Equitable by William B. Cutter, one of tne leading real es tate men of Buffalo, in which he ap praised the value of the lots loaned on at $768,000. In 1901 a real estate depression set in in and about Buffalo, which lowered values and checked tho growth in the town of Depew. It was at this time, October 7, 1901, and not when the loan was made in January, 1898, that the iusuranco company appraised the part of tho property covered by the Equitable's mortgage at $150,000." Mr. Depew then recites the charges that havo been made against him, denying each. Of the charges which related to trans actions resulting from tho default of the company and the foreclosure of the loan by the Equitable, he says that as a result of the company's embarrassment a re-organization was determined upon, and though there were unavoidable delays the plan was progressing as rapidly as pos sible. The: company was to he in corporated and was to issue bonds for $750,000 to supply funds to take up the Equitable mortgages, principal and interest, and to pay tho other debts of the company. There was never any other purpose than that tho Equitable should be rally protected. The foregoing communications wero acknowledged in the following letter: "Mv Dfiar Sfmator I am very much pleased to receive your letter and communication of the re-organization committee of the Depew Improvement company, which disposese of the mat ter in a manner entirely satisfactory to the Equitable. An impression of thd situation which was erroneous and unjust to you has prevailed. J think that it can -best be removed by making these two communications public and will do so if this action will be agreeable to you. Yours ery truly, ,rtXT "(Signed.) PAUL MORTON. fiend ayoarWM absolutely wr. re. you wor . explain tneuueinou iuuj, (omom. ..-- Write a on" of fof or evory day's work, absolutely sure. oP,niietrolt,HU' KOIAL WAmWoTUUINQ CO, Box 1 J5UW"' . 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