The Detroit times. [volume], September 04, 1908, FIRST EDITION, Image 1

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Nq Tainted Ads,
EIGHTH YEAR, NO. a9 x.
CONFESSES OF CUT
WIFE'S BODY UP
AFTER MURDER
BOSTON ACTOR, ARRESTED
THROUGH CABMANS ALERT
NESS, TELLS POLICE HE IN
TENDED TO SAIL FOR EUROPE.
ATE BREAKFAST IN
PRESENCE OF CORPSE
"My wife an«l I uuurnleil at bur
home In Collierville, on Tuesday
ntKlit. hlit* Htnu'k nit* flrut and then
I kno< k**d her ilowii und was ter
rllletl to tlnd I hiitl kill.-.I her.
"I put the liuily in the kltehen and
went tu inil anti fell asleep. When
I nwoke the next inoiiilnK I went
Into (lie kltehen, hut 1 1i• I not touch
tin hotly. 1 prepared iny own hreuk
lust and ate it in the presence of
my dead wile.
"I went out and bought a butch
er** knife and with the aid of a
ha« k .-aw I Mevercd the head. I put
the scalp and iiair in tiie kltctien
lali to and plated tin skull in the
furnace in the i-ellar.
' Then I cut off the aim* and legs
1 hi iced the llehli from the bone* and
pul the bone* whore I hud put the
Skull The strip* of Hi mli I put in
the trunk along with tlie torso
■ 1 brought the trunk tu ItoMton
on Wednesday, arrlvlnK late in the
afternoon. ! exported tu Mail lor
New Vork on tite m'earner Harvaid.
hut the vessel did not leave. The
trunk stayed at the* North station
until noon yesterday (Thursday)
and tin it 1 hired a lift' kinan to take
ine to the hoard In ir house In Hun*
tock-st. There I was arrested.”
BOSTON, Sept. •(. —After having
niurdt red his wife?, cut off her head,
legs and arms with a butcher knife
and burned them, jammed ner torse
into a trunk which was shipped from
his home in Somerville to this city,
Chester Jordan, tin actor, is in Jail
today He has told the police oi his
crime and of the incidents leading
up to it.
Jordan, who is 30 years old, is a
brother of Mrs .lease L. Livermore,
wife of the New York (peculator, who
lias recently been accredited with
making million? out of cotton and who
a few days ago is believed to have
lost a large pari oi his fortune, ills
parents. Mr. and Mrs Phineas Jo--
dan, and a sister, Mrs. Kendall, are
prominent In society circles in Somer
ville
Not Unnerved by Crime.
Either Jordan is the coolest self
ronfesseu murderer the police of Bos
ton have ever had In their clutches,
or else he is a better actor than he
ever appeared to be on the atage.
Jordan has not attempted to conceal
any details of the murder, or of his at*
tempt to hide the ('rime, but this fact
has not unnerved him in the least.
The murdered woman was known
on the vaudeville stage as Irene Shan
non. She was 23 years old and a
handsome woman, though of late she
Imd been dissipating, according to
Jordan.
About to Sail With Body.
j.»rd«n >'iu arreaieiLhy tlie Boston
police last-night. after he had Drought
the tiunk with the nutilateJ torso
front hi homo, 500 Medford-st., Somer
ville. H«* cairn* horo, hoping to Bail
for New York with his gruesome trunk
load. He believed he could dr >p the
trunk and Hs contents from the steam
er Harvard and that his crime never
would he discovered. He probably
would have succeeded, had not the
steamer .Harvard met with an acci
dent which prevented her from mak
ing the regular trip yesterday morn
ing.
m m |iw arrive l n-u.Ho-
Jordan engaged Geo. \V. Collins, a
hack man. to take his trunk to the
South station, where h f Intended
boarding the train for New York after
he found thut the Harvard would not
sail.
He changed his mind, however and
fHtrehasiwg; a- ticket cn the Canard
steamer ivernla, which sails today for
Liverpool. again called the same hack
man and had him take the trunk to a
hoarding house. When the trunk was
taken into the house, Jordon accom
panied it and sat on the trunk smok
ing a cigarette while he talked with
the landlady.
Jordan then went away and bought
a roll of wire, wire nippers and eight
window weights which lie described
as "sinkers” and several of
heavy wrapping paper. Wnh these he
intended to wrap tip the parts of the
body of his wife, weight them and
throw them Into the Charles river.
*yhe weights, paper-aind wire were
found on a innntel in the room with
the trunk.
“Cabby" Becomes Suspicious.
The cabman became suspicious
about the contents while carrying the
trunk into the house. Its weight made
him think it contained stolen silver
ware and the nervous manner of Jor
dan satisfied him that the man was
a burglar. There have been many
robberies of silverware recently and
Hu* hack driver, believing he was on
tin* trail of tin* thief, went to the po
lice and told them of the mysterious
trunk. He described the room In the
house to which lie iiad carried it.
Sergt. Michael Crowley was detail
ed to go to the Hancock st. house and
investigate. When he reached the
house, Jordan wa.A not in. but the po
lice man was shown the back room on
the second floor which Jordan had en
gaged and ground the trunk. Crowley
4M ten open the trunk
About 5:20 Jordan returned and on
being aci osted in the hailway by the
officer at first denied his identity. La
ter, he admitted who he was. Asked
a shorn tffs trunk, he denied he had
one. He was ordered to his room by
the officer, however, and commanded
To up.'tr the trunk.
.lonian did not appear nervous or
nlurmed. but hesitated to open the
trunk and It was not until after con
siderable argument on the the
officer that he produced the key to
the trunk and Inserted it in the lock.
A Dramatic Moment.
Turning his head to one side so he
could not ace inside the trunk. Jorduu
Mrs. ingersoll Hasn’t Got ‘Bob’
On the Spirit ‘Wireless’ Yet
Mr*. liigi'rkiii,, «.««« til’ «„«* ailntiiiKUi •*. «•« .4 .until tinier! (•. 111 ..emoll, nlm
In endeavoring to emnmunti'iile with her ileml hiiNlinnd'M spirit. Picture
of th-* lnt~ llobiTt Initrrwoll Is shown klnii i>, The lower picture show *
the Initcrnoll hotue Mt l)ohli« l-'err y, \. I* >et Mrs. Inucrsoll report*
no “wlrelea*" coiuniunlcatloii.
threw up the cover and then sank
back on Ids knees, burying his face
In his hands.
Sergt. Crowley staggered bark
aghast at the sight disclosed. In the
open trunk before him lay a sickening
mass of hacked flesh, a woman’s torso
filling the greater part of the trunk,
while pieces of flesh from other parts
of the body were stuffed into the cor
ners, the entire Interior of the trunk
being bespattered with blood. There
was no covering of any sort over the
remains.
Turning to Jordan, who was on the
floor, his face ashen white, and every
muscle In his body quivering, Crow
ley said:
‘‘You are under arrest."
Jordan submitted without protest
10 the handciuTs and was led to sta
tion 3 and locked up. Giving bis name
and address, he declared the body in
the trunk was that of his wife ami
appeared perfectly willing to tell the
officers everything concerning the
case. _
(Qlye, tha Horribie^Detallt.
For more titan four hours last night
Jordan was closeted with the police
officials of Boston and Somerville and
time after time went over the horri
ble details. While professing that he
was dazed when the crime was com
mitted. yet by the clearness and con
chmhess. of his _ statement it seemed
apparent that whatever preceded the
actual killing the most careful plans
wi re laid for the disposal of the body
and the covering up of the crime.
Mrs. Jordan was Mrs. Ilonoran
Eddy, whose maiden name was O'Keil*
ly, and whose homo was in Sotnervillo
in September, 1904. Jordan did no;
know who his wife’s first husband was,
or what had become of him. The coup
le went on the vaudeville stage, Jor
dan taking the part of a tramp umt
his wife that of a nurse, in a sketch.
They went first to Butte, Mont., four
years ago. but only remained three or
four weeks as the climate did not
agree whth them. —latter they went
Chicago and appeared In some of the
smaller theaters there, remaining
three months. About three years ago
they returned to Somerville ami took
the tirsr flat in the house at 509 Med
ford-st.
jealousy Cause of Deed.
Mrs. Jordan, according to her hus
band, hud taken to drinking if late
and he says was associating wl'h tie*
other men and he became Jealous.
The murder was prompted by Jealousy,
the police say.
Jordan was born in Indianupolis and
his wife was born at sea. Both had
been appearing at the Pastime theater,
a Boston vaudeville house, for several
weeks until last Saturday when their
contract expired.
On the dresser in Mrs. Jordan’s
room in Somerville a torn unstamped
envelope was found addressed, to "\ti-,*
(TT - Dutton. No. t‘>4o4 l). Squad, 17th
Lancers. Meerut, India."
The handwriting was that of a wo
man. It Is believed that Mrs. Jordan
had written a letter to Dutton and
had it sealed and ready for mailing
when It was torn open and its rot
tents taken The police believe that
Mrs Jordan nxpccLed to meet Dutton
on hlf return to England.
fcAST lit FK X 1.0.
HITFAIA S< pt I Sipcclst.)—Cat
tle- Receipts' Ila hi and sternly. -
Receipt* G.flft". strong heavy, $7.25 ft
7 15; vork'TS. 97.10 w 7.25; arassors, |S.Rn
ft »’> SO; pigs, $6 ft 6I 5. Sheep— Receipts
t.ftftft, steady; lambs. 16.25. CalVes
Strong. i;*.so
i Alexander, t'mbrellaa, 2* Mourn*.
NEVIUS ELECTED
HEAD OF G. A. R.
EX-MICHIGANDER CHOSEN ON
FIRST BALLOT—BRS. GILMAN
RELIEF CORPS LEADER.
TOLEDO, 0.. Sept. 4.-—< Specal.)
Henry M. Nevius, of Red Bank, N. J.
formerly of Michigan, yesterday wa-;
elected commander-in chief of th *
Grand Army of the Republic, on the
first ballot, defeating former Gov Van
Sant, of Mlnnenota and L. T. Dickason,
of Illinois. . The election was made
unanimous on Van Sant’s inoti; n.
_ Utiua w»*re -rflnrerr - TUTTbT"
lows: Senior vice-commander J.
Kent Hamilton, of Ohio; Junior vice
commander, C. C. Royee, of Califor
nia; chaplain-in-chief, J. F. Sperce, of
Tennessee; surgeon-in-chief, G, Igirn
Tannehill. of Maryland.
Col. Nevius, a native of New' Jer
sey. was studying law with the late
Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, when
TTfe wT»r broke nut. and cnttKtcT-frnm
tli.it Kiate with the Lincoln cavalry
Young Nevius • rose to a commission
with the Seventh Michigan and Twen
ty-fifth New York cavalry regiments,
and lost an arm in front of Fort Stev
ens when the union army was en
gaged with Gen. Early. Col. Nevius,
bes'des being twice department com
mander of New Jersey, lias Ic-en n
judge and president of the New Jer
stab* senate.
The Women’s Relief corps elected
Mrs. VV. 1.. Gilman, of Roxbury, Mass.,
president.
FORAKER DENIES HE
DEFIED JUDGE TAFT
CINCINNATI, Sept. 4. —Senator For
aker was so fatigued after his experi
ences in and about Toledo, that he
went home, on returning to tills city
and remained there all day. He dic
tated a statement denying an alleged
sensational interview in a Toledo pa
per. In this statement he says:
‘I told the reporter there had been
no agreement of any kind, neither
made or suggested; that there was no
trouble between Judge Taft and my
self; that the trouble no much talked
about In the newspaper was manufac
tured; that I had not made at any
time any request of Judge Taft and
he hail not made any of tne; that we
have met on the reviewing stand at
the public meeting which we both ad
dressed; that our conversation on the
reviewing stand was only social and
that which would be naturally sug
gested by the character of the occa
sion; that at the public meeting we
whet we had said at the meeting
spoke for Itself.
"That is all there was of It.”
Excursion Rates to Grand Rapids vis
Michigan Central.
On account of the West Michigan
Sta» » Fair, round trip tickets will be
sold September 14-1 K inclusive the
rate of $5.1 o, good fur return until
September 10th.
Rgvlnro-tlkr l-rintlna. So fuss and
no fonthr-m. The plain, neat kind, what
looks right. Time* Prlailag Ca, II
John R.-IL Phon* MIS.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1908.
CHILDREN'S DRY AT
STATE FAIR, NOW
ON FULL BLAST
RECORD CROWD ON HAND OPEN
ING DAY—PLENTY OF FUN URE
PAED FOR KIDS—POSTAL TO BE
RE-LECTED.
Friday 1* Children’s day at the
Michigan state fair and all young
| puts under the age of 12 are admitted
free. In addition there are a series of
rai es and games on the progrum for
the little ones. Including pony races,
eating contests and nail driving
mutches. Just to test the mental facll
tty of the kids there will also be
mathematical tests for prizes.
The start of the big fair this year
has been a most auspicious one. The
paid admissions were four times as
numerous Thursday afternou as on
opening day a year ago. That cer
tainly means that people around De
troit ore taking the liveliest interest
in the show’.
The big Inrush of visitors from out
through the state is not due until Sat
urday, when the races start. Front
then on, there will be a Jam until
Friday night next week. The fireworks
begin Saturday night.
Final touches are being put on tho
exhibits now and everything will bo
fully in place by Saturday noon. In
fact, one would have to he told that
the fair is not fully complete yet, for
the mass of exhibits this year is so
; great that a visitor will Pnd himself
I unable to s«*e everything in an after
noon and evening, as it is.
Exhibits Surpass All Records
There is building after building full
of exhibits of fruits, of needlework, of
[animals, of furniture, of musical in
jstrumenfs —everything that a fai~
'should have; then there are acres o;
farm machinery and. more acres of
carriages, these latter housed in tents.
Last, there are dozens of minature
tbeaters and shows, a multitude o?
lunch rooms and dining hulls and
aisles of club and society booths to
welcome the ley-wear? alfhta—r.
It sure is a big show.
To lovers of fine stock, this year’s
fair will especially appeal. There is
an exhibit of Holstein cattle from the
State Agricultural college which in
snid to be as good as can be seen
in this yurt of the country. The horses
and sheep are also of high type. Some
examples of cross bred animals from
the state college wdll attract atten
tion from the progressive farmers.
The Michigan Institution has won a
uauio throughout the country, fur the
success of its experiments.
Something should he said of the
fruit exhibit. This was not complete
until Thursday evening, as some ship
ments came in late. Particular inter
est attaches to the plums as tills fruit
is one which has been given much at
tention of late years, since California
grove-owners have shown its profit
able possibilities. Michigan's product
now ranks well up. The stats has
long ranked as the price peach state
of the union and the exhibits of this
fruit are good, of course.
Melons, which have not been grown
here to the same extent as in many
other states, furnish it very good show
ing. however, the Michigan growers
who have taken them up having
achieved excellent results.
Lively on the Midway,
From the time that the Midway
shows opened up Thursday noon, there
was something doing every minute.
•Tin 1 vrirlnuTr-perTormeiM, \lTio~meet and
part as their paths cross or diverge
on the fair circuits, struck up ac
quaintance anew and the first rush of
visitors made the loug amusement lane
lively for awhile.
"I never seen cowboys with glasses
on and chewin’ gum before,” remarked
one fair damsel to her sweetheart.
“Cowboys has to get up-to-date same
as us or anyone else,” responded the
swain.
Two sets of perfume sellers located
at different doors of the administra
tion building struck up a hitter feud
at once. It was a mean man, of
course, who started It. He told each
set In turn that the others had said
that It was easy to compete against
such unattractive rivals. From that
time on, there was a combat of smiles
and blandishments that threatened
trouble for any married men that wan
dered that way with Jealous wives—
also perfume sales picked up notice
ably.
The real ready money fakir was a
trith tan shoes and a mystic sort
of hooded hath robe who stood near
the main avenue and drew out for
tunes from a metal receptacle. His'
assistants passed through the crowd ,
collecting the money and the method]
wj#s to write the initials of the fortune
seeker on a blank sheet of paper, hand
It In and have the complete written
document come out on the same she«*t
a minute later. The trick of the device
lay in the act that the blank sheets,
when once Inside the metal tube, de
veloped the ink that had been invls
ible on them theretofore, although only
a few figured it out.
“I got to get rid o’ this.” declared j
one bearded man as he hastily tore up '
his paper after a glance. ”lt says I'm j
goin' to be married inside six months
an I c’d never explain that to spy
wife/’ _ . .
- ft Tk profrnbte that Fred rrnn
the other officers of the fair will be
re-elected during the week. Their In
hors have shown wonderful results so
far.
Minor accidents have I>een numer
ous at the fair grounds so Tar and the
hospital conducted by Peter J. Abt has
been busy.
Mateao. an Igorrote tribesman died
Wednesday nlgld. leaving i family.
[ :HE WSAT HE R~|
l»<-iroll end tlrlßllfl Kflday nI«M
■ ltd Saturday, pertly rlondyi warwrr
taal(kt| fresh *nnlknr«trrly nlula.
I.nwrr >1 leklann t Urarrally fair In
■lahi and VaiurdNJi nariurr lualgkt.
Baroness Von Sternberg to
Be Given Liberal Pension
BARONESS SPECK VON STERNBERG.
DRESDEN, Sept. 4. —Baroness Speck Von Sternberg, widow of the late
ambassador of Germany to the United States, Is the guest of old friends,
the Count and Countess Vitzthun, at their country place near here. The
baroness will enjoy a pension from the German government as the widow’
of a diplomat who died in the service. The precise amount of this pension
is not yet known, hut it probably will he between $3,000 and $3,7500 a year.
DROUGHT THROWS
HUNDREDS OUT
OF WORK
PENNSYLVANIA SUFFERING FROM
EFFECTS OF DRY SUMMER
PLANTS CLOSE, PASTURAGE
KILLED, MILK PRICES RISE.
OREENSBURG, Pa., Sept. 4.—’The
H. C. Frick Coal Ai Coke works at
Mammoth has suspended operations,
having no water with which to run
the engines. Three hundred men are
thrown out of work. Never In the his
tory of the county lms there been such
a dry summer.
►
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Sept. 4.—Two
big reservoirs which have supplied
Johnstown with water have gone dry
and a third is now the ouly hope of
the city. Today many homes in the
central part of the city are without
water. A disease epidemic is feared
unless conditions improve quickly.
K ITT ANN ING. Pa.. Sept. 4 Claim
ing the cost of f'-»*d is high and pas
turage is becoming poor us a result Os j
the continued drought, dairymen have i
announced an Increase in the price of
milk from G to 8 cents a quurt.
BRIDE OF A WEEK
DESERTED IN DETROIT
Just a week ago Mr. and Mrs. Har
vey Parker, aged 22 and 23 respective
ly. arrived at the Wayne hotel iu a
big
murried and were in their honeymoon.
Wednesday morning developed thut j
the groom had no money, and during
the day he disappeared, taking his |
automobile with him. The bride h tath- j
er, Charles K. Schmidke, of Saginaw, j
was notified by telegraph ot the
plight of his (laughter. Ida, and he
came to Detroit, settled the hill and
took his daughter home. He says no
effort will be made to trace his son
in-law. Parker* Is a commercial <rav
eler. and came up firm t’onneaught
0., to meet Miss Schmidke. The news
of the marriage was a shock to the
bride’s parents.
THREE MEN HURT
FIGHTING FOR JOB
While 1,000 men were clamoring for
admission to the Light Guard armory
Thursday night a railing on a stair-:
way gave way, and ten men fell int *
the basement, a distance of 12 set.
H. J. Dusenberry. of No. 240 West
Wlllls-ave., suffered a fractured an-1
hie; John Hould. of No. li*u Beech-si..j
was severely cut alxuit the neck and
face, and Isidore Heldncr. of No. 153
Wilkins st., sustained painful lacera- j
lions over the right eye and about
the face. All the injured were taken to
St. Mary’s hospital In the East Km 1
ambulance. The men had gone to the
armory In response to an ad. for 300 i
men to participate in Sheridan's last
ride, on** of the scenes in Paine’s
war spectacle to he presented during
the state fair.
PART DOG SINCE HE
WENT TO HOSPITAL
11, CITY. Pa.. Sept. 4.—ls Harry
Bemus.W Warren, h aves th«Y hospital
alive, and th« <l< ■ ■ ] M l!U
will he part dog.
Herons fell from a trestle at River
side Junction and broke his neck. It
was necessary to remove a vertegra
from the spinal column and in its
ill ace was inserted one from the neon
of a dog.
RECEIVER FOR ATHENS BANK.
BATTLE CREEK. Mlcb. Sept. 4.
\t u conference u> t h«- circuit court
between Bank Examiner Zimmerman
and Assistant Attorney General Hen
-1 ry Chase, representing the state hank
ing department, and Attorney Wm. E
Ware, In behalf of the Athens Btate
Savings hank, a decision was reached
to appoint a receiver to take tempor
ary charge of the hank’s affairs. Th*.*
receiver will be named aoou
MURDERERS ARE
STILWT LARGE
The police are still without a defi
nite clue to the men who shot down
Daniel Walser in his little store at
No. 7()5 Woodward-ave. Wednesday
night. They have but little to work on.
The fact that the murderers had no
* pportunlty to carry out their original
plan »<; robbing Wilier la a aorious
handicap.
Champion Pauper *.Dies
In Poorhousc IF here He •
It'as Porn 85 Years Ago
UTICA. N. Y., Sept. 4.— The cham
pion pauper la dead after having been
a public charge for 85 years. Hezeki&h
Monk was born In the Hergimer coun
ty poorhou.se, spent all his days there
and tiled in that institution yesterday.
INSURANCE MAN~SHOOTS
PHYSICIAN DEAD IN CAR
HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Sept. 4
Dr. A. 11. Sayres, a prominent physi
- lan of Bluefleid. wll> shot and in
siantly killed by Wealey Wilkes, an
insurance man of the same city. The
shooting occurred in a Cullman car of
a Norfolk &. Western train, just as 1*
was pulling into Kekmun. Two shots
were fired, ht>th penetrating the left
side.
Dr. Sayres and Wilks had been
enemies as a result of the latter til
ing charges against the other, ending j
*in the physician being «explld from
(li Elks. Tli tun met on the train and '
Dr. Savres struck Wilkes felling him -|
, Wilkes, wTiTu'Tlown, drew his revolver i
and killed his uni agonist.
Brief Telegraph
Items of Interest
JOHNSTOWN. Ca.. __Sept A.-r»Tim.l
! Hardman railroad interests have cloa- j
!«•(! a contract with the Cambria Steel!
ICo for fiUU steel gondola cars. I>e
tails of the transaction could not he
obtained. Delivery will begin at an
early date.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Following a
meeting of the creditors of A. O.
Mrown ti Cos., It developed that sev
eral creditors objected to LlUlcfleld’S }
appointment on the ground that he Is
u newcomer at the New \ork bar and
may not be wholly familiar with New
York exchange customs.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4. It is stated !
That Charles tt. Schwab, president of!
the Bethlehem Steel corporation, dur- '
ing the next 12 months at least, will
devote the greater part of his time to
the development of the Bethlehem
company and will make his headquar
ters in Bethlehem, Pa., where the
plant is situated.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4. —A sen
sational incident occurred 111 Judge
l.awlor's court during the examination
of talesmen for a Jury to try Abe Rues
for the seeond time on the charge of
bribery. One of the prospective jur
ors, J. M. Kelly, said he had been of
fered by one (j. S. A. Blake, s2.odd to
vote against the conviction of Kuef.
in the event of his being accepted as
a Juror. An Investigation will follow.
DORPAI 11 ilt, Sept 4 \
geant of police and six warders of the
h>cal prison were convicted of tortttr
ing political prisoners with the idea of
extorting confessions. Each was sen
tenced to one year’s imprisonment.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.- Evading
the vigilance of her nurse. Miss Helen
Cullen, a young woman of wealth who
has been 111, swallowed the contents,
of a bottle of byline. made her wav to]
a third story window at the
mnr apartments, and without warning
leaped to the court yard lielow. She
died a few hours later.
■ . ■■ ■
Tli 0 man who can make children
smile does not need to worry over
his Inability to preach sermons
Chicago Tribune. J
HRST
edition
ONE CBNli
FRAUD IS CHARS 9
PRIMARY VOTE TOl
BE RECOUNTEDI
LATE RETURNB FROM WARN*I||
DISTRICTS HAVE BUSR ICI Otis'!
LOOK TO BRADLEY LEAOKRS-«|
WARNER LEADS IN RETURNS.
t ut XT IP TO DATK.
"Hh II prtrlnolH nlMiac Mt
or 2.01.1 Im the Millie, Ike vote w
reported from rii«* vortou* row
lion, lii.i itulit, KtuadMi
WARNER 87,633
BRADLEY 87,307
Murorr'e I’lurnlll.v SM
While the face of ilic complete ro»
turns from Tuesday’s primary vote
shows a slight plurality for Warner
our Dr. Bradley, there is to be a no
count and the Bradley men arc con*
vincod that their man will win.
They expect to show a wide-reach
lug plan to hold bacg returns, alter
them and to gain the nomination of
Warner by fraudulent methods.
How much basis there Is for thea«r
suspicions Is evident when it is re
called that the utmost efforts were
not sufficient to get absolutely com
plete jelurns more than two days aft
er ihe primary election was over.
The counties which were held hack
were all Warner counties and the plur
alities in these increased more than
proportionately sis the precincts con
tinued to come In.
Several counties in the Thumb dis
trict, where Warner made his bigge3t
run. with the exception of the iron
country in the upper peninsula, show
ed a bigger Republican vote In the
primary than was shown by all par
ties in the regular elections of 1904
and 1906. Sanilac county alone came
in Thursday, 56 hours late, with 1,000
plurality for Warner.
Ilrudley men have been dispatched
to investigate conditions in every one
of the suspicious districts, Taken in
coneotion with the wholesale voting of
Democrats for Warner In the cities,
the Bradley men feel that they have a
right to claim that attempts are be
ing made to steal 'he nomination.
Huron, Sanilac and Ogemaw aro
the counties whose vote will be par
ticularly Investigated,
“The returns were held back and
altered to give Warner a plurality,”
was the blunt statement from one of
the Bradley managers Friday morn
ing.
The recount of vote will not bo
asked until nfter reports have come in
from the suspected counties.
Some of the Warner men contend
that Bradley cannot get a recount,
but must take the result of the offi
cial canvass, and the matter may have
to be settled by the supretn court.
Dr. E. W. Haas, Warner’s Wayno
county manager, attributes the ex
trentely nonvy vote in the Thumb dfe
trict to the many speeches “made
there by Warner and the fact that
there is but one enrollment in ths
country districts instead of two as Iti
the city.
"I understood that *he country waa
fully enrolled,” he says, “Warper’s
plurality will be at least 1.000 when
tin- full vote is in ”
Wht-n asked why the vote had not
1 been proportionately as heavy in tha
western nortfon of the state in tha
TTiTTirDT uistriefsi f)r Tilaass stated
that he is not suffielertly conversant
with general state politics to give
teason.
WRIGHT FLIES, BUT HIS
MOTOR GIVES OUT
I.E MANS, Sept. 4 —Wilbur Wright,
the aeropianist, ol' Dayton, ()., made a
lu-minute tliglit here yesterday, at an
altitude of 75 feel, and covered *1&-
miles. Another attempt made later
was a failure, owing to trouble with
the motor. The aeroplane bumped
against the ground three times In a
distance of 400 yards.
The Freneh experts were greatly
astonished at the demonstration given
by Wright of his ability to leave the
ground again after having touched It.
it had been supposed that it was Im
possible for him to launch his machine
without the aid of an apparatus. This
teat apparently assures Wright the
prize for high flight, one of the condi
tions of which is that the machine
shall leave the ground without the uso
! of outside help. 1 ■
i pi
NITROGLYCERINE BLOWS
WOMEN FROM HOUSE
PARKERSBURG. W Va.. Sept. 4.
Three houses were completely wreck
ed. many others damaged and two per
sons injured last night, when 800
quarts of nitroglycerin exploded in a
skiff near Belleville on the Ohio river.
\ Waves of a passing steamboat upset
the red signal lantern which Ignited
[sawdust around the cans of nltrogly
, cerin.
The homes of John Shuraaky, Seth
Rudolph and Phillip Wells were total
ly destroyed. Mrs. Shuinaky and her
daughter were blown out of their ho
and serloqslj Injured.
PREPARING TO TRY GLAZIER.
LANSING. Mich.. Sept. 4—John
Ontley. t»f this city, a member of tho
grand Jury which indicted ( former
State Treasurer F. P. Glailer waa
i drawn on the petit which will try
I hint. Prosecuting Attorney Foster ex
pects to try the Glazier caae and pea
sibly other grand jury cases at the
t rm !.< ginning Sept. 28.
Great Britain Importa about |140,*
o hi worth of timber, wood and
manufactures thereof yearly, of which
the United States supplies about 121.-
UOO.OOO worth.
No man will admit that he aould
marry a woman smarter than hlineeU
I— because he doesn’t oelleve there it
[ cne.—Chicago New*