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THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOURNAL NfOKKOIK , NKBUARKA , FRIDAY , JANUARY 19 , 1912. BT. LOUI8 PATROLMAN I OREWSOMC FIND. \ WE MAD.NOT LONG BEEN DEAD The Body of a Man , with Head Mitt- Ing , l Found In the Row of 1122 Worth Ninth Street , St. Louli , Frl- rfqy Dody Still Warm. fit Lotilfl , Mo. , Jon. IB. The head- tata body of n man waa found In an tmh pit in th rear ot 1122 North Ninth street by a patrolman at 9:30 : o'clock this morning. The body wnu yet warm , and the man apparently had not boon dead toy great length of tlmo. Fight Called Off. The flRht In which Jock Sullivan of O'Neill waa to moot on Omaha man ut Omaha thla month baa been called off. All the Sullivan fighters are now at O'Neill. Nellgh Firm Dissolved. Nollgh , Neb. , .Inn. 19. Special to The News : Tbe general merchandise and grocery business for the pant aov- 4hU years conducted under the llrm oamo of Mllla & Hurry in this city was jtaeolvcd yofltorday , Mr. Derry pur- tibaslng the Interest of his partner , and It IB reported that other persona ot high financial otandlng have become interested in the bualnee. It la ru- raorod that the name of the now firm 'in the future will bo Ell Berry & Co. . Incorporated. PROBING HARVESTER TRUST. Congressman Lobeck of Nebraska Wants to Know Certain Things. Waahington , Jan. 19. Representa tive Lobeck of Nebraska asked the house committees conducting an In vestigation of the International liar- > O6ter company , to recommend there t > o nacertained what considerations pero paid to J. P. Morgan and George \V. 1'erklns for their part in the for mation of that corporation in 1902. Mr. Lobeck declared that E. II. Oary , directing head of the United States Steel corporation , while not in the business of manufacturing farm machinery , was identified with move- tnonts to form n farm Implement pool bofort the International Harvester company was organized. Ho also urged an inquiry into how the steel corporation acquired $20,000,000 of stock in the harvester company. TURKIKSH SITUATION GRAVE. People of Macedonia Appeal to the Powers for Intervention. Constantinople , Jan. 19. The peo- yjlo of Macedonia have prepared a Be- - iet petition to the powers , asking for intervention , according to the report ot the commission of inquiry sent by ttxj Ottoman government to investi- -sate the conditions in Macedonia , .shortly after the recent dynamite out rages in that region. The greatest de jection is manifested by the people , it in found. Assassinations are multi plying day by day , and dynamite out- vanee everywhere arc on the increase. Hven officers of the Turkish army are unable to hide their gloom. Every where the people speak of a general uprising which , if it is not curbed im mediately , will take place. The con ditions are due to the presence of of ficials who are utterly unworthy of the confidence the Turkish govern ment has placed in them. They disarm the Christian popula tions and supply arms to the Mussel- men. Innocent people are condemned y them on the merest suspicion and v'ast into prison. At Istib violence and assassination continued throughout an entire we.k , and there , as in other towns and \il- lages , consternation prevails. Early in December u bomb outrngo in a mosque at Istib caused the ileath of twelve persons The. Turks ; utnge ] tbo outrage on the Bulgarians , of whom they killed and wounded a larsc number. ITALIANS MARKING TIME. They're Strengthening Their Posltlor In Tripoli. Tripoli , Jan. 19. The military situ ation In Tripoli during the last month to all appearances , has undergone uc change. All the fighting that has occurred c-urred has been begun by the Turks who have repeatedly attacked the Kalian troops at different points ant bave just as often been repulsed. As a matter of fact , the Italian com tiiandera have been using tlmo as ai lUly. They have been busily engagec in strengthening the positions held bj their troops and preparing for an ad vance into the interior. Transports tJon Is on an enormous scale here , am material for the construction for : railroad. Into the desert Is arriving li Urge quantities. The only possibli danger of the plans of the Italian staf telng upset is that peace may be de dared at an early date. The Arab ? do not understand thi vflasons for tb Italian delay and an impressed with the idea that the Hal . ( an army Is unable to encounter cl fioctlvely the insignificant number o moalema opposing it. Under the cli cumstances oven should the Turkls troops bo withdrawn the Arabs are d < termlned to continue the fight agalns Italians. CONDITION OHIIE WEATHER Temporatur * for Twenty-four Houra. The Forecast. Itixlmum 16 tlnlmum 16 Worago 0 laromctcr ItO Chicago , Jan. 19. The bulletin lu- ucd by the Chicago station of the United Btatea weather bureau given ho forecast as folio WH : Nebraska : Increasing cloudiness nil probably unsettled tonight and aturday , warmer la east portion to- Ight. South Dakota : Increasing cloudl ess tonight and Saturday ; warmer to- Ight. EBERLY TO SUCCEED HANLON 8 ELECTED PRESIDENT OF STANTON - TON BANK , FOLLOWING HAN. LOH DEATH. Stanton , Nob. , Jan. 19. Special to he News : At a meeting of the di- ectors of the Stanton National bank , ailed for the purpose of filling the 'acancy in the office of president of hat institution , caused by the death f Col. Frank P. Hanlou of Omaha , ohn Eberly , the present cashier was manimously elected president and Frank Mlttelstadt was elected cash- er. Appropriate resolutions were adopt- d concerning the death of Col. Han- on. ROOSEVELT NOW DRIVES AUTO ormerly He Forbade Cars to Even Enter Sagamore Hill Grounds. New York , Jon. 19. Theodore Roosevelt , colonel of the rough riders , ias at length yielded to the tendency f the times , and sits behind tbo steer- ng wheel of his automobile. Residents of Oyster Bay on several ccaalons recently have seen Col. loosevelt driving through town with is hand on the wheel steering the car s if he was roughly familiar with the Hysterics of the lovers and pedals vhich must bo manipulated. The iglit was a surprising one , because of 'ol. Roosevelt's love for the horse and ils aversion to automobiles. When ic was at Oyster Bay during the sumner - ner while ho was president , he for- ado automobillsts to enter his grounds In their machines. In spite of Col. Roosevelt's prefer- nee for the horse he found an auto- nobilo indispensable when he began o make regular trips between Oyster Jay and his editorial offices in New York. If he went by train he was be- leged by persons who wanted to talk vlth him. Gradually he picked up the nformation about the mechanism of ho car , but it was only recently that 10 began to drive. The colonel still prefers tlfo horse , lowever , and takes dally horseback rides. AB a concession to the automobile , Col. Roosevelt recently built a broad macadamized road from his home on he crown of Sagamore hill to the pub ic highway below. GETS ERASER IN HIS EAR Albion Man Won't Use Pencil to Probe That Member Again. Albion , Neb. , Jan. 19 : Special to The News : A. L. Steele , grocer , Buf fered a pcciuliar accident. By means of tbo eraser end of a lead pencil he attempted to overcome an Itching within his ear. In this act the rubber iccame loosed from the pencil and edged in his ear. A doctor was called to remove same. Gregory Court Postponed. Fairfax , S. D. , Jan. 19. Special to The News : Owing to the presenta- ion of a petition by the attorneys antl others interested , Judge Williamson lias ordered tbo adjourned session of Mi-cult court which was to have been : onvoncd here Jan. 24 continued over o March 12 , at which time the regular : erm begins. The series of farmers' institutes held by H. II. Stoner , W. E. McGee. Mr. Van Camp and Mr. Robertson , In this section of the state , closed here. Sessions of two days each were held at all the South Dakota towns from Winner to Fairfax. Good attendance in spite of the extreme cold weather , and great interest was manifested. TWO TI1HJN ARE KILLED Frisco Freights Collide at Full Speed at Elttenberg , Mo. Wittenberg , Mo. , Jan. 19. Two men were instantly killed , one waa Injured seriously , two others were hurt slightly , and two engines and twenty freight cars were demolished when two Frisco freight trains collided , head on , a inllo below this place early to day. day.Both Both trains were going almost at full speed when the craah occurred at a dangerous curve on the Mississippi river banks. Charles Board , engineei of the northbound train , and Clark , the fireman , were killed. Mlllhouse brakeman of the southbound train was scalded UNLESS PREMIER CONCEDES DE DEMANDS OF REPUBLICANS. AND OEFORE JAN. 28 , AT THAT Drastic Demands Are Made by the Rebels , Including Abdication of the Throne and Surrender of Sovereign Powers. Nankin , China , Juu. 19. It appears now to bo absolutely certain that 'Ighting between the revolutionists and the imperialists will bo resumed on ( he morning of Jan. 28 unless Pre- tiler Yuan Shi Kal concedes the de mands of the republican government. These demands , which were tele- ; raphed today to Premier Yuan Shi Kal at Pekin , are very drastic and substantially as follows : Make Drastic Demands. 1. The abdication of the throne and the surrender of the sovereign rowers are demanded. 2. No Manchu may participate in the provisional government of China. 3. The capital of the provisional government cannot be established at Pekin. PROBING BUTTER COMBINE. Civil Suit Brought at Chicago No Criminal Action Now. Chicago , Jan. 19. The present high price of butter lent additional Interest 0 the proceedings against the Chicago cage butter and egg board which were scheduled to bo resumed today before Master in Chancery Morrison. L. J. Judson , former secretary of he Elgin butter board , and his suc cessor , Colvin W. Brown , were sub poenaed to appear today. The pur- > ese of their testimony , it was said , s to try to show that the Elgin and Chicago boards unite to fix prices of jutter The action is a civil proceeding to ? njoin the quotations committee of he board from fixing the price of but- er and eggs at their regular sessions , 1 custom held to in defiance of the Sherman anti-trust law. WHITE IS RE-ELECTED. Again Heads Mine. Workers of Amer ica Gompers Not Denounced. Indianapolis , Ind. , Jan. 19. John ' . White of Oskaloosa , la. , was re- lected president of the United Mine Workers for America by a majority of $45,423Ifc over his opponent Thomas T. Lewis of Bridgeport , O. , according to the report of tbo tellers made at he convention this afternoon. White received 104.015& votes to Lewis' 58- 591 Frank J. Hayes was re-elected vice- president by a majority of 61,821 over Samuel Dascoo of Illinois. Secretary- Treasurer Edwin Perry was not op posed for re-election. Delegates elect ed for the American Federation of Labor convention as announced this "ffteruoon were as follows : John Mitchell , New York ; John P. White , Iowa ; Thomas L. Lewis , Ohio ; Frank J. IIay.es , John II. Walker and Duncan McDonald , Illinois , and Will- am Green , Ohio. Five hundred dollars was appropri ated for the fund of the striking but ton workers at Muscatine , la. Social- st delegates , after succeeding in put ting the convention on record for 'government ownership of all indus tries , " had determined over night it would bo prejudicial to their cause to press the resolution endorsing the so cialist party as the-"political party of the laboring class. " A bill providing for old age pen sions tor men and women past 60 , in troduced m congress by Representa tive Victor L. Berger , wa endorsed , antl an invitation to Mr. Berger to come to Indianapolis to address the convention was extended. A resolution providing for secession from the American Federation of La bor , and charging that Samuel Gem pers , John Mitchell and other labor leaders were "in the grasp of the capitalistic class through the influence of the National Civic Federation" was defeated. A NEW SERIAL STORY. Mystery of the $40,000 Robbery is to Be Unravelled. "The Lash of Circumstance , " a story dealing In the mystery of a $40,000 robbery a thrilling , exciting tak starts in tomorrow's News. Don't miss the first chapters. ROBBER SHOOTS WOMAN. Mrs. George Piercy of Trinidad , Colo. , Dying Robber Killed. Trinidad , Colo. . Jan. 19. Mrs. George B. Piercy , wife of the cashier of the Colorado Supply company's store at Segundo , west of this city , was shot in the back and probably fa tally wounded last night by an uni dentified man who was attempting to rob the store. The robber in turn was shot and killed by Earl Tucker , city marshal of Valdez. a camp ono mile south -of Segundo. Wilson at Ann Arbor. Detroit , Mich. , Jan. 19. Gov. Woodrow - row Wilson , of New Jersey today , the second of his brief tour through Mich igan , was scheduled to address meet ings at Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids , LIFE'S ' DISAPPOINTMENTS ( Coparrlflit. J. E. FREDERICKS GIVES IT AS HIS HOME. HE HOLDS UP AN OMAHA WOMAN After Securing $1,000 Worth of Diamonds mends He Fires a Shot at Her Hus band and Flees , Shooting as He Runs Caught by Police. Omaha , Jan. 19. After robbing Mrs. Sylvia Salvilo of about -11,000 worth of diamonds last night in her own apartments , 124 North Sixteenth street , a daring holdup fired a shot at her husband , but was run down and captured uy an officer who was at tracted by the fleeing robber's full- sade of shots to stop pursuit. The hold-up gave his name as J. E. Fred ericks of Norfolk. He claims that ho came to Omaha as plaintiff in a suit for damages against a railroad for injuries re ceived in a wreck near McCook last summer at the time several players of the Omaha baseball team were in jured. Fredericks secured a room of Mrs. Salvito on Wednesday. The apartments are located over Johnson's saloon , Sixteenth and Cass streets. Last evening shortly before 8 o'clock Fredericks entered the sitting room , which is used also as an office. Mrs. Salvito waa in the room. Her steps were directed to a fire in ate to give him her money. She supposed at first that he was Joking. She dis covered that he had a revolver , but told him that she had no money. "I want the diaraouds that you carry there , " he said , pointing the gun at her bosom. Fires at Her Husband. She drew from her corsage a small chamois sack containing the jewels and gave them to Fredericks. Salvito entered , and he was backed up against the wall on the farther side of the room. The robber overlooked a $300 diamond brooch which the woman wore. Fredericks fired ono shot at Salvito and ran Salvito , anticipating the shot , had ducked and the bullet lodged in the woodwork of a window- about where his head would have been had bo not dodged. Fredericks ran through the hall and out the back way down a flight of stairs. At the front of the stairs he shot at a dog that happened to cross his path. He opened the rear door of the saloon and fired three shots into the place , supposedly to stop pursuit in case of alarm. Vaulting a back fence , Fredericks ran toward the part ly completed Estabrook flntB on Cass street , near Seventeenth , where he hid. He threw away the empty revolver - volver while running. Officer Hud son , who was attracted by the shotB , found Frederlcka hiding In the build ing. At the police station Fredericks claimed that the woman took hla gold watch away from him and that he snatched the diamond * from her cor sage in retaliation. He claims that ho had "no revolver and fired no shots. Detectives Ring , Vandusen and Hell found a pawn ticket showing where Fredericks had pawned his watch. They also found bullet marks and eye witiWsBes who corroborated the family's atory. Wlien Bearched at the police station Fredericks had the diamonds , all mounted In rings , intact In the cham ois sack in an inside pocket. There are five ringa. The gems vary in slzo from n quarter of a carat to stones , up. and cuff buttons of $5 gold pieces. No such name aa J E. Fredericks Is given in the Norfolk city directory , and no such man is known , so far as The News has learned. Arrest Four Chicago Robbers. Chicago , Jan. 19. In the arrest of four men early today the police be lieve they captured the gang of saloon robbers which has been operating freely here for weeks. The rashness of the four men in robbing the saloon of Joseph Byrne caused the arrest. Before closing time they locked Byrne in his icebox and then rifled bis cash register. A passerby saw the robbery committed and called the po lice. The prisoners gave the names of Jerry O'Connor , Lee Lake , Edward 'Stillwell and William Whoter. Taft to New Haven. Washington. Jan. 19. President Taft left Washington this morning at 7:35 : for New Haven , where ho will attend a dinner party given by the chamber of commerce and a meeting of the Yale university. Starting back after the Yale corporation meeting to morrow , the president will stop in New York from 7 p. m. until midnight during which time he is scheduled to attend banquets given by the New York Bar association , Society of the Genesse and the Twenty-four Carat club. Sec retary Hllles , Maj. Butt and Dr. Thom as L. Rhodes are accompanying the president on the trip and Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts went as far as Now York with the party. U. S , Troops Reach China. Pekin , Jan. 19. The Fifteenth Reg iment of United States infantry , which is to act as guard for the protection of n section of the railroad from Pekin to the coast , arrived at Chin Wang Tao today on board the transport Lo gan. Capt. J. II. Reeves , military at tache of the United States legation , was on the quay to greet the troops as they disembarked. Henry Kaus Dying. Neligh , Neb. , Jan. 19. Special to The News : Mrs. C. II. Fuerst re ceived a message last night announc ing that her father , Henry Kaus , Sr. , was dying at Latimer , la. She left at once for that town. The family is known around Norfolk and Battle Creek. 60 BELOW ZERO THERE ; BUT GOLD RUSH IS STAMPEDE FOR GOLD DIGGINGS JUST DISCOVERED IN ALASKA. Dawbon , Yukon , Jan. 18. With the temperatures fiO degrees below zero , the stampede of gold diggers at Sixty Mile continues. Prospectors already are sinking shafts. The gold commissioner has changed the name of the main south fork ot Sixty Mile river , on which the discov ery was made , to Matson Creek after John Matson , the discoverer , who first prospected tue ground fourteen years ago. EWRATEJTEPHENSON Sub-Commhtfa In Senate Finds He Has Not Been Guilty. Washington , Jan. 18. The Heyburn nub-committee which hao been investi gating the election of Senator Isaac Stephenson , of Wisconsin , today un animously agreed on a report which holds that the charges of corruption and bribery made against Senator Stephenson have not been proved. The report will be made to the senate com. mlttee on privileges and elections. FOR THE TOGA INSURGENT NEBRASKA SENATOR WANTS SENATORSHIP. HE FILES FOR THE PRIMARY Banking on the Support of Nebraska Insurgents , Congressman N orris Formally Enters Race for United States Senator. Lincoln , .Tau. 18. Congressman George W. Norrls of McCook , Neb. , entered the fight for the United States senatorshlp with Norris Brown this morning , when he filed his application for a place on the republican primarv ballot. Mr. Norris will , it is said , have the support of the insurgent faction In the atate against Senator Brown , who Is backed by National Cninniitteeman Rosewater of Omaha. 2 ARRESTED FOR PAIR OF EX-CONVICTS HELD FOR KILLING ST. JOE MAN. St. Joseph , Mo. , Jan. 18. William Steffens and Enos Stoner , ex-convicts have been arrested by the police for the murder of Farmer Lykins , near here this morning. Steffens , who was wounded by Lyklns * companion , has confessed and says Stoner fired the sboL Sieffens has served time for coun terfeiting and Stoner was sent up for life for murder at Smithville , Mo. , but was pardoned several years ago. WILL REfllllRF TO KEEP UP RESERVE COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY TO ENFORCE DRASTIC MEASURE. Washington , Jan. -Comptroller of tbo cuiency Murray today took steps to compel ! all national banks to maintain their legal reserves. The law regulating the reserves , the most drastic in the national bank act , never has been .strictly enforced , It is said. The national bank examiners now will report all banks whoso reserves are continually below the legal limit , under the statute the comptroller is authorized to appoint a receiver for any bank that fails to bold its legal reserve or to revoke the charter. HIV m MIL ! SHE Both Sides In Conciliatory Mood , Will Make Concessions. Lawrence. Mass. , Jan. 18. An earlj t ttlement of the strike of the 15.00C icillle mill workers was looked foi today by officials who have assumed a conciliatory attitude. Both aide ? probably will make concessions. STRANGLE 'EH TO DEATH Three Men Who Hurled Bomb at Yuan , Are Executed. Pekln , Jan. 18. The three men whc were arrested after the throwing o ! a bomb at the carriage of Promlei Yuan Shi Kal , were put to death to day by strangling. " BWBnwna FBMLAST SENTENCE COMMUTED OY TAFT. MORSE TO SANITARIUM. MAY VISIT GERMAN RE8ORT8 While Greatly Elated at the Commuta tion of His Sentence , Morse Is Per mitted to See but Few Persons , by Military Physicians. Atlanta , Ga. , Jan. -Arrungomenln for moving Charles W. Morse , the Now York banker whoso flrteen-yoar HOD- LCMICO was commuted last evening by the president , to a tmtiitarluni , were held up today pending the arrival of Mrs. Morse Irom Washington She IH duo to reach Atlanta at 5 o'clock thin afternoon. .Mr Morse is occup > lug hla room at the army honpltal now as a 'Kuent" of the government , his free dom Inning been given him yesterday Ij.v Warden Moyur of the federal pent tentiary on telegraphic ndvlceu from Washington. It Is expected he will go to tt local Hospital and later to New York , where tie will prepare to visit one of the German resorts if his condition per mits. mits.While While Mr Moiue was greatly bright , ined today at the IICWB of commuta tion , the military physicians would permit few persons to see him. Acordlng to the surgeon-general' * report to the president of hla condi tion , Morse could not live , one month longer In confinement , and oven at lib iirty probably would not llvo sli months. The commutation does not restore Morso'B civil rlghtH. NOW A CURE FOR PNEUMONIA. A Serum Developed at the Rockefeller Institute. New York , Jan. 19. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research is prepared - pared to announce a serum cure for pneumonia. The reason the demonstrations of this new discovery have not been giv en to the medical profession and the public up to thin time Is the hick of patients on which to try the serum Elaborate preparations ha NO been made at the hospital of the Insti tute for the reception of pneumonia patients. One resident physician , three of the most highly trained nurses and throa orderlies are to lie assigned to each Individual patient Each sufferer from the dread disease is to have a large private room , and the modern cold-air treatment for pneumonia is to be given on him. The anti-pneumonia seimn has been developed through experiments on monUi > * . The process used was thaf which has proved so successful in hy drophobia and diphtheria , and lately in typhoid fever. The lymphatic fluid of an animal which had pneumonia was injected into another one. ThiH was kept up until immunity was proi duced , and it was this fluid that wxa hypodermic-ally introduced into one stricken with the disease. It Invariably caused the death of the bacteria of the disease and aborted tlie attack on the animal. STARVED HER TO DEATH. Murder Tiial at Seattle Brings Out Sensational Testimony. Seattle , Wash . Jan. ! ! > . How Olalie Williamson , a wealthy Knglisli woman , starved to death under the immediate- care of Mrs Linda Murfield Hazard , n sanitarium keeper \vt > n N nllrp'il to have wanted her money anil hov. Dor othea Williams-oii M-IIT of tlu > c'part woman was rescued a living 1-V.H-ton. by the nurse of hi r rliililhoml. " i < ' -e counted to a jury today by 1'rosecntor Prank II. Kelly of Tarnina. Mi * > . Hi7.- : zard Is on trial for muidnr. Her lius band , snid to be a West Point srail uate , was the only relative allowed to remain in the room. In the jury the state claims aie .sev eral who are opposed to the deiitli pen ally. The starving Bisters , vvlin hail put themselves In Mrs. Hax/arcl's raiu last February , were talien to Ol'alu , where , it is asserted , Mrs. Hazzard in duced Claire to ad a codicile to her will endowing the Hnzzard sanitarium with $125 annually and obtained an or der on banks holding funds belonging to the Williamson sisters. Claire died May 19 , literally re duced to skin and bones. No notifi cation was sent to relatives but a fam ily nurse in Australia , hearing or Claire's death , hurried to Ollnla ami found a living spectre. Hazzard , as serting that the girl was insane , al ready had applied to be appointed , guardian for Dorothea and administra tor of Callre's estate. England May Avoid Strike. Birmingham , Eng. , Jan. 19. The conference of delegates of the miner * ' federation baa decided to serve notice for the national stoppage of work at the Cowo mines In Great Britain. Thft- end of February , however , is the flret data at which the notices can become effective. The notice IB accompanied by aa intimation that the men are ready to continue negotiation for a settlement. The conferences has ad journed until Feb. 1. AB both aidea appear to be heartily desirous of find ing a way out of the deadlock there Is a general feeling that a national Btrlke , which would affect about 900r 000 men will bo averted.