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OHIO WILL PROBE
LIFE INSURANCE
'Buckeye State to Follow the Ex
ample Set by the Empire
State.
Journal Special Serrioe.
Cleveland, Jan. 6.Ohio will investi
gate the national and state insurance
companies. A griddle has been prepared
forthe concerns and the legislature will
be asked to light the fire under it next
week. The probing may rival the fa
mous New York inquisition. A joint
committee of the house and senate and
an appropriation of $50,000 will be used
to learn how the companies operating
in Ohio have cared for the interests of
the policyholders.
This movement is being engineered
by republican legislators. One of them
has been in consultation with Charles E.
Hughes, the inquisitor of the New York
legislative committee. An effort will
be made to wcure the services of
Hughes for tlve investigation in this
!state.
Governor Pattison is president of the
Union Central, an Ohi6 insurance con
cern. During the campaign the govern
or invited an investigation, claiming his
company was clean. He still wants an
investigation. The inquiry, however, is
really aimed at the companies under
fire In New York.
Reform in Kentucky.
Louisville, Jan. 6.The most import
ant insurance legislation ever attempted
in Kentucky is now pending before the
legislature in session at Frankfort and
the legislation is favorably ^considered
by the legislators. Senator Grayps is
author of the bill. The main provision
is that every dividend-paying company
'doing business in the state shall, before
'the expiration of three years and annu
iftllv thereafter, make an apportionment
and accounting of surplus of each poli
cyholder, the method known as the
"contribution plan" to be employed
to determine how much each policy has
contributed to each surplus.
Jerome with Cleveland.
New York, Jan. 6.There is a ^good
,chance of Grover Cleveland and Dis
trict Attorney Jerome working
double harness to prevent rebating by
'life insurance agents, which is a mis
demeanor under the penal code.
Doubt as to the sinceritv of the new
est joint move of the Equitable, Mu
tual and New York Life to prevent re
lating, notwithstanding their employ
iment of Mr. Cleveland, has brought dis
cussion of the best plan to adopt to
prove that the companies are absolutely
in earnest.
As a result of this discussion the
scheme of working for the criminal
?he
rosecutio
1
of offender^ is regarded as
most efficient, tho some of the of
fleers fear it may prove too radical.
Those who favor the plan say that if
(Mr. Cleveland will get ironclad evidence
fin a single case when a rebate has been
forney,antd
iven present it to the district at
i will have a stronger moral ef
fect upon all rigents than any number
'of manifestos against the evil. Presi
dent Paul Morton of the Equitable is
said to be one of those who favor the
most radical steps that can be devised.
Woodruff and Philanthropy.
Timothy L. Woodruff has out-philan
thropied Thomas F. Ryan as a life in
surance philanthropist. It was an
nounced today that Mr. Woodruff had
been elected president of the Provident
Savings Life association in place of Ed
ward W. Scott, resigned, and that he had
'also become trustee of 1,125 shares out
of the total capital stock of 1,250 shares.
There was a meeting of the general
agents of the company yesterday at
which Mr. Woodruff presided and made
a long speech.
It developed that Mr. Woodruff had
purchased with his private funds the
1.125 shares from Mr. Scott, "to save
the company and protect the policy-
holders.'*
I also developed that Mr. Woodruff
had gone Mr. Ryan one better by not
only trusteeing the stock under an iron
clad trust, by which even the dividends
are to be paid into the treasury of the
company for the benefit of the policv
i holders, but he has taken the office of
'president without a dollar of salary.
'Later on, if the affairs of the company
permit, he will draw a salary.
Scott Drew Good Salary.
E. W. Scott, as president, drew a sal
aray of $36,000 a year. As chairman
of the board, an office which was cre
ated for him upon his retirement as
^president, Mr. Scott gets a salary, but
'it is very much smaller than the one he
has been drawing. Mr. Scott's reten
tion by the company as chairman of
the board is expected to be only tem
porary.
In* explanation of his sudden appear
ance as a life insurance philanthropist
'Mr. Woodruff told his friends that he
felt it incumbent upon him to make
some sacrifices on behalf of the policy
holders of the company, of which he
had been a director for four years. He
admitted that he had been nothing
more than a dummy director and that
he had ntever known of the scandals in
the management until they were uncov
ered by the Armstrong committee.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
John B. King Accounts for First Year
of His Stewardship.
The annual report of John E. King,
state librarian, was filed with Governor
Johnson today. It shows 1,916 volumes
added during 1905, making a total of
55,540, of which 7,000 are United States
documents, 5,000 Minnesota state and
territorial documents, 2,000 volumes of
legal periodicals, 1,500 volumes of Min
i .nesota supreme court briefs and 39,000
volumes of statutes, session laws, text
books, reports and digests.
Expenditures for the year were $10,-
674, of which $700 was spent in moving
the library from the old capitol. The
balance on hand Jan. 1 was $4,899.68.
cj DENTIST BOUND OVE^
Harley Benjamin, arraigned in police
court yesterday, charged with practicing
dentistry without a license, had a pre
liminary hearing to day and was held to
the grand jury in $200 bonds. Evidence
was introduced by the state tending to
f~ show that he treated a tooth for Free
rj" man Gray and accepted a fee for the
same.
j* The defense offered no evidence and
f-lifk Judge "E. F. Waite denied a motion to
%i dismiss the case.
Liver and Kidneys
i-J It Is highly important that these organs
^/ihoold properly perform their functions.
When they don't, what lameness of the
side and back, what yellowness of the skin,
whafc constipation, bad taste in the mouth,
!-jfiiok headache, pimples and blotches, and
Islpss of courage, tell the story.
jlvp The great alterative and tonic
Hood'sSarsapariUa
Gives these organs vigor and tone for the
proper performance of their functions, and
cues all their ordinary ailments. Take it.
WOULD CHLOROFORM
POVERTY'S BABIES
Spinster Sociologist Rivals Osier
and Has a Sister in the
Theory Business.
Journal Special Service.
Philadelphia, Jan. 0.A proposal
to chloroform the children of the hope
lessly poor in the slums of jjreat cities
was made here yesterday afternoon by
Miss L. Graham Crozier, a lecturer on
sociology. She said:
I would personally rather adminis
ter chloroform to the poor, starving
children of New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and other American cities, than
to see them living as they must in
squalor and misery.
I am not speaking of the children of
those persons who are merely victims of
circumstancesthe children of honest,
hard-working mechanics and laborers..
I am speaking of the offspring of
the criminal .classes that infest the
slums. These are fit subjects of chloro
form.
Miss Crozier's remarks were made at
a lecture to society women and made a
decided sensation. She continued:
"There is no ground to believe that
any human life is inviolably sacred and
to be preserved, no matter with what
results to individuals or to others. On
the contrary, there are lives to which
every reasonable consideration urges
that an end should be put."
ANOTHER SPINSTER'S SCHEME
Miss Hall Evolves a Plan for Killing
the Weak and Dying.
Journal Special Service.
Cincinnati, Jan. 6JMiss Anna Hall,
who advocates painless death for per
sons helpless in the grasp of extreme
age and those suffering agonies from an
incurable disease or injuries that mean
death after a period of excruciating
pain, has evolved a scheme for putting
into operation her ideas.
She advocates the plan of having a
board of physicians of not less than fif
teen years' experience, act as the inter
mediaries between life and death. One
of herbeliefs is that people should have
the death struggle in which she lay for
form of a will, that they wish to be
aided into eternity when the end shall
be approaching and the agony of death
comes upon them. The board should be
subject to 'the call of this person and if
satisfied the end is near, hasten its ap
proach by gently administering some
anesthetic*
Miss Hall was prompted to take up
this unusual theory by the death of her
AMUNDSEN TO HAKE
TESTS IN CALIFORNIA
San Francisco, Jan. 6.Professor
George Davidson, president of the Geo
graphical Society of the Pacific Coast
and member of the faculty of the Uni
versity of California, has received a
cablegram from Eoald Amundsen, who
located the north magnetic pole and
made his way thru the northwest pass
age, asking about the facilities -for mak
ing his final magnetic observations here.
A reply has been sent to Amundsen that
facilities and help will be given by tho
University of California and. the Cali
fornia Academv of Science, Technical
society and the Geographical Society of
the Pacific Coast.
ORLANDO PECK HURT
Former Mlnneapoiitan Seriously Injured
by Auto In New York.
Orlando H. Peck of New York, a for
mer resident of Minneapolis and known
thruout the northwest thru the photo
graphic supply house which he formerly
owned and which still bears' his name,
was* seriously injured in an automobile
accident in New York city. Mr. Peck
"lost his hat at the windy Flatiron build
ing corner, Fifth avenue and Twenty
$500,000 LOSS IN
KANSAS CITY FIRE
mother, Mrs. Murcie Hall, the widow of gineer. The fireman and five passengers
the late Dr. John Hall, the Arctic ex-1 also were hurt,
plorer. Mrs. Hall suffered for weeks
from cancer of the stomach before death
ended her agony. Miss Hall, who was
with her mother thru it all, says that
she can never eradicate from her mem
ory the thought of her parent's suffer
ing.
I pleaded with the doctor to end
the death struggle in which she law for
twelve hours and begged of him to give
her something to end it all," she said.
"Why, the most frightful illustration
of Dante's Inferno could not be more
hoJfible than the terrible agony de
picted on the face of my dying
mother.''
24th Annual Reduced-Price Sale.
The Great Plymouth Clothing House.
4 WEDDINGS ON BETS
NOW 4 DIVORCE SDITS
Journal Special Sendee.
Chicago, Jan. 6.Four years ago
Frank Swigart, then a student in a
business college at Galesburg, made a
bet with his classmates that he would
win for his bride a pretty young wom
an who sat opposite him at dinner.
When Swigart made his wager, three
of his classmates also bet that they
would win certain of the girls who sat
at the table.
Today, as a sequel to the wagers, Swi
gart, who, his sister says, was the third
among his assistants to make his wager
good, filed suit for divorce from his
wife, whom he charges with desertion.
Swigart, who is a clerk for the J.
V. Farweli company, was married Sept.
22, 1901. On March 10, 1903, he says
his wife left him.
According to Swigart's sister, the di
vorce suit of her brother is the latest
to be filed by the betters of business
college days, all of whom, she says, are
either alreadv divorced or haye filed
divorce papers.
it v.*
Flames and Water Damage Na
tional Bank of Commerce
Property on Walnut St.
Kansas City, Jan. 6.A revised es
timate of the losses in last night's fire
places the total damage at slightly
more than half a million dollars and
the insurance at two-thirds of that
amount. The property damaged and
destroyed occupied two-thirds of tht
block on the west side of Walnut
street, between Ninth and Tenth
streets. The fire,was under control at
2:30 this morning. The losses are dis
tributed^ follows:
National Bank pf Commerce, office
building and fixtures, Tenth and Wal
nut streets, loss $100,000, fully cov
ered by insurance. Woods building,
918-20-22 Walnut street, owned by Dr.
W. S. Woods, president of the National
Bank of Commerce, loss $150,000 in
surance $100,000. Cplumbus Buggy
company, stock loss $100,000 insur
ance $75,000. W.' W. Kimball Pi
ano company stock, loss $35,000 insur
ance $30,000. Pettinger Brothers' Man
ufacturing company, surgical instru
ments and physicians' supplies, stock
loss $8,000: insurance $50,000 Eidge
office building, loss $15,000. Occupants
of office in Bank of Commerce build
ing and adjoining property, $25,000.
The rooms of the National Bank of
Commerce were damaged and rendered
temporarily uninhabitable. The vaults
containing $3,000,000 and the bank's
records were not damaged. The bank,
which is the largest financial institu
tion in the city, opened for business to
day in temporary quarters.
WRECKERS CAUSE
A FATAL CRASH
Train on Boston & Maine Ditched,
and Similar Peril Threat
ened in South.
Hoosic Falls, N. Y., Jan. 6.Seven
fhe
iersons were injured, one fatally, when
Montreal express on the Boston &
Maine railroad was wrecked at Waloom
sac early today.
The most seriously injured was
Charles Wardwell of Bristol, Vt., the en
The wreck was caused by the train
running into an open switch and the
railroad officials believe the switch was
opened deliberately for the purpose of
wrecking the train.
Boy as Train Wrecker.
Cincinnati, Jan. 6.Samuel Sweeney,
aged 14 years, residing near Junction
City, Ky.*, is under arrest on a charge
of attempting to wreck the Queen &
Crescent's Florida special, which passes
his home daily.
A knuckle from a patent freight "car
had been saddled across the track by
the youngster and $he heavy train and
its human freight were saved by the
track walker, who discovered it just in
time. Detectives were notified and lay
in wait at the spot, supposing that the
perpetrator would return, as he had not
been apprehended. The boy made bis
appearance next day with another -of
the knuckles and was arrested. At "the
place where the wreck was attempted is
one of the steepest embankments along
the road.
FOE OF RACE SUICIDE
27 TIMES A FAT1ER
Journal Special Service.
Chicago, JanJonathan 6, -For the" twenty
sev
time Alle Monroe
nt
aged 62, has been brought to a reahza
tion of the fact that he is a father-.|
third street, and in attempting' to recover .Viapped up the articles in a large bun-
it was struck by an automobile driven |Ue for they must have made an un-
'by Philip ehman, a cotton broker. sually large package. The loot con-
The accident was apparently unavoid- sted of pencils, stationery and Other
able. Mr. Lehman was not driving at Bbock and a new overcoat valued at
high speed. Mr. Lehman did not see
the machine until it was too late for
either the driver or himself to avoid the
accident. Mr. Peck was severely bruised
and suffered a fracture of the skull. He
was taken to New York hospital where
his condition is said to be serious. The
driver was charged with criminal care
lessness.
YALE ALUMNI TO MEET
New Haven Graduates qf Northwest to
Assemble in St. Paul.
The twenty-second annual meeting
of the Yale Alumni association of the
northwest will be held" at the Minne
sota club, St. Paul, at 7 p.m. today.
Following a business session, there will
be a dinner. A special interurban car
will leave the West hotel at 6 p.m., to
take the Minneapolis men tp St. Paul.
The members of the dinner committee
are G. W. Dulanev, Jr., C. Reinold
Noyes arid E. N. Saunders, Jr. The of
ficers of the association ^je: Cyrus
Northsop, president, and at. M. New
port, Jr., secretary and weasurer.
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The latest remindere came yesterday in,
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buyc
Union stockyards, and is well known
about the district both as an enemy of
race suicide and because of his general
affability.
Jonathan Allen Monroe was born in
Swansea, Mass., April 27, 1843. When
he was 18 years old he married Isabella
Hunter of Albany. Mrs. Monroe died
after having given birth to twelve
children, six of whom are still living.
Some time later Mr. Monroe married
his present wife, Ella, who is now 39
years old.
KENTUCKY FEUDISTS,
FIGHT DEADLY BATTLE
Cincinn-ati, Jan. 6.A report reached
Mount Vernon, Ky., late last night that
in a general fight between the Norton
and Arnold famil ss, near Sand
Springs, "Big Jim" Arnold and his
son were killed and Mrs. Arnol,d was
shot thru both arms. The parties were
related by marriage and had been in'
town attending court, there being a suit
pending to get control of a grandchild
of Arnold, whose daughter nad married
a Norton. Trouble was precipitated
before the parties left town. Torty or
fifty shots were fired. All the county
officers have gone to the scene.
SUSPECTS EMPLOYEE
W. H. Budolphi Thinks He Know* "Who
Bobbed His Shop.
W. H. Rudolphi's printing shop at
3117 Nicollet avenue was looted by a
thief Tuesday night and articles val
ued at nearly $100 were taken.
The thief entered the shop by means
tf a skeleton key, and evidently
Mr. Rudolphi has given the name of
a former employee to the police, who
are now looking for him. This young
man worked at the shop until the day
of the robbery, but Wednesday he could
not be found and suspicion was at once
directed toward him.
CHANGING HIS VIBWS.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
According to Professor E. Beniamin
Andrews, "football breeds not callous
ness, but restraint."
If the professor had been thumped
and bumped in the same tender spot
a^dozen times or more he might change
his views about the absence of callous
places.
A GUARANTEED CUBE FOB FIXES.
Itching Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Your druggist wUl refund money If PAZO OINT-
MENT falls to cure you In 6 to 14 days. 60c.
"We're All Indiscreet at Times."
But if you happen to over-indulge in
Pickwick Rye, don't worry, you '11 rise
bright as the sun the next morning..
Saturday Evening, THfe "MINNEAPOLIS JOURNA3 ^Jftfiuiary 6f 1906.
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CATHOLIC CENSUS^
SHOWS INCREASE
total Population in the United
States Is Given as
12,651,944.
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 6.From ad
vance sheets of the official Catholic di
rectory published in Milwaukee, it is
found that the total Catholic popula
tion of the United States is 12,651,944,
an increase of 189*151 over the pre
wious year. The total number of Cath
olic priests, including seculars and reg
ulars, is 14,484, an increase of 627.
There are in the United States one pa
pal delegate, one cardinal, fourteen
archbishops, ninety bishops, and twen
ty-one abbots. The majority of the
clergy are seeulars, there being 10,789
secular priests and 3,695 .regulars, who
are members of religious orders. The
total number of Catholio churches in'
the -United States is 11,814 an increase
of 427 over the previous year. There
are eighty-six seminaries for ecclesi
astical students.
In addition to the secular clergy
there are foj ty religious orders of
priests represented in the United States,
the principal ones being the Jesuits,
Benedictines, Capuchines, Franciscan,
Domincians, Holy Cross Fathers, Paul
ists. Ee'demptorists and Oblates. Repre
sentatives of 122 sisterhoods are en
gaged in teaching in the country.
Catholic Populations.
The archdioceses of New York and
Chicago are rated as having 1,200,000
Catholic inhabitants. In this count the
villages and suburban towns are also
included. I must'be taken into consid
eration, however, that the archdiocese
of New York does not embrace the city
of Brooklyn, which is a diocese itself.
Boston follows witk a Catholic popula
tion of 700,000, while the diocese of
Brooklyn is fourth with 500,000. The
archdiocese of Philadelphia is fifth with
485,000 and the archdiocese of New-Or
leans sixth, with a population of 450,-
000. while the diocese of Pittslajirg,
archdiocese of St. Louis, diocese of
Cleveland, diocese of Newark and dio
cese of Hartford follow... The archdio
cese of Milwaukee is the fourteenth
largest in the country with a popula
tion of 235,000. The, reason Milwaukee
falls behind this year is because when
the state of Wisconsin was ecclesiasti
cally redivided, Milwaukee lost 60,000
people.
The archdiocese of New York heads
the list as to the number of priests,
there being 824 in Gotham. Chicago
follows with 643 clergymen, Boston
598, Philadelphia 521, St. Louis 507,
Pittsburg 422, Baltimore 405, Milwau
kee 362 and Cleveland 353.
As these figures are given by the au
thority of the various dioceses they
may be taken as official.
CHICAGO WOMAN
SLAIN AT HOME
Mystery Shrouds Motive of Mur
derer Whd Killed Mrs. .v
A. W. Gentry.
Chicago, Jajfc6.Mrs. A. W. Gentry,
26 years, old, ^ife ofthe president of
the Universal'jrrading and Supply com-
Eany,nwas he
mny&ered today for some un
now motife by a man who, the police
declare, is E. J. Constantine, a boarder
in the Gentry home. Mrs. Gentry died
before she could make a statement, and
Constantinefled from the building with
out either his hat or his coat.
At the time of the murder Mrs. Gen
try and Constantine were alone in the
apartments where/ihe Gentry family
lived.
Mrs. Gentry was"'about to leave pre
paratory to gding downtown when Con
stantino attacked her, and after cutting
thra
fro
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pus
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wit
her out into the hallwary and
he
mak the apartments occupied by Dr. David
dow
fli
Th
woma gairs fel againstf tht dqpr of
took Mrs. Gentry into his office. His
efforts to save her life were futile. Dr.
Doherty at once telephoned the police,
but Constantine had escaped before
they arrived.
Thomas Lindboe, the janitor of the
apartment building, said Constantine^
came running down the back 'stairway'
without his hat or coat, and asked
Lindboe to go back and get his hat
for him. Before he could comply with
the request .Constantine dashed into the
street and fled. A blood-covered razor
was found in the flat where the crime
was committed.
Mr. Gentry arrived at his home a
short time after, his wife had been
killed, but was unable to throw any
light upon the cause of the tragedy.
I cannot conceive," he said, "of
any reason why any person should at
tac my wife. The entire affair is a
complete mystery to me."
GABBE DIES SUDDENLY
Stillwater Pioneer Found Dead in Bed
by Wife.
Sptcial to The Journal.
Stillwater, Minn., Jan. 6.Alex
Garbe, one of the pioneers of this city,
died suddenly today of heart disease.
When his wife .went to call him for
breakfast, she became alarmed at his
condition_ and sent for a physician. An
examination showed he had been dead
more than two hours before his wife en
tered the room.
Mrs. William J. Mary died at the city
hospital of pneumonia today. She was
36 years of age.
Ice racing on Lake St. Croix will be
gin at a matinee next Saturday. The
track is being cleared for the season.
MCKRE REGISTERED MAIL
The registry division of tho postoffice
has just completed a report for the six
months ending Dec. 31, 1905, which
shows a marked increase over the
amount of mail registered in the same
period of 1904. In the period, 64,572
S[inneapolimaipostofficeregistered
ieces of were at the
and its sub
stations. The total for the correspond
ing months in 1904 was 54,121 pieces,
and the increase exactly 20 per cent.
The figures covering the registered
mail received are larger, but the in
crease is not so great. The receipts for
1904 amounted to 68,287 pieces, and
for 1905, to 74,596 pieces. The in
crease was 9 per cent. These figures
cover only the finabhalf of each year.
Included in the report are the sep
arate figures for the month of Decem
ber, which shed light on (the volume of
business done during the Christmas
rush and its increase over that of last
year. Tn
the single month of 1905
19,579 pieces of^registered mail were
received, an increase of 30-- per cent
over the 14,916 pieces received in the
same month of the previous vear. The
number 'of pieces sent out was greater
than the number,. taken in, but the per
cent of increase was not so great. The
total for December, 1905, T\as 20,781,
and for December.1904, 18,351 pieces,
an increase of 13 pT^-cent.
ROGERS DEFIES
MISSODRI PROBE
Continued From First Page.
Mr. Hagerman objected to the ques
tion and said he wanted the right of
Mr. Hadley to get' at the list of stock
holders of the company decided by the
courts.
Mr. Hadley said the question bore on
the question of the credibility of the
witness as showing his interest.
John D. Johnson, of counsel for the
con^panies, said the state called Mr.
Rogers and should not question his
oreclibility.
I beg respectfully to be excused,"
said Mr. Rogers.
Mr. Hadjey then asked thai! the ques
tion and the-refusal to answer be cer
tified to the supreme court.
As to Majority of Stock.
"Do you know who owns a majority
of the stock of the Standard Oil com
pany of Indiana?" asked Mr. Hadley.
Mr. Rowe again advised Mr. Rogers
not to answer and the commissioner
told him he would have to request him
to leave the room if he interrupted
again. Mr. Rowe said he knew his
rights and would continue to advise the
witness. The commissioner told him to
leave the room, but Mr. Rowe declined
to do so. The commissioner stopped
proceedings and said they would not go
on unless Mr. Rowe left.
I should like to be in his place,"
said Mr. Rogers.
Mr. Hadley suggested that Mr. Rowe
be allowed to (remain, but the commis
sioner said he would consent only if
Mr. Rowe agreed to stop interrupting.
At this point the hearing adjourned
until this afternoon.
Typewriter Installed.
The, installation of a typewriting ma
chine altfd an operator in the hearing
room before the session opened by or
der of Mr. Hadley indicated an effort
on his part to save the commissioner
from the necessity of writing down in
longhand the words of the questioner
aim witnesses, which was insisted upon
yesterday by counsel for the Standard
Oil company.
The first witness today was Mrs. Ida
M. Butts of Marietta, Ohio. When the
examination of Mrs. Butts was begun
the typewriter began his work, out
Frank Hagerman, for the Standard Oil
company, demanded that the operator
repeat each question* and answer after
he had written it. Mr. Hadley agreed
to this.
Mrs. Butts said she was a stepdaugh
ter of the late George Rice of Marietta,
and had been employed in his office.
Mr. Rice was an independent oil opera
tor, and was engaged in litigation with
the Starftlard Oil company, almost con
stantly for more than twenty years up
to the time of his death about a year
ago.
Trust Men Object.
When Mr. Hadley asked the witness
if Rice was ever connected with the
Standard Oil company, counsel for all
the oil companies represented, objected,
but the witness said:
"If holding certificates is a member
ship, he was a member of the Standard
Oil trust."
"Were those certificates issued by
the Standard Oil trust?"
"Yes." Counsel also objected to this ques
tion and answer.
Witness said the Standard Oil com
pany was organized in 1882.
George Rice died last year and wit
ness ntow holds those certificates as his
administratrix.
"So far as you know, are these the
only certificates of the Standard Oil
trust in existence?"
"So far as I know," Mrs. Butts re
plied. She said that suit was brought
against the -Standard Oil company of
Ohio to drive them out of the trust or
out of the state if they remained in
the trust.
1
a azor
Story of Ohio. Suits.
In response to a request by Mr. Had
ley for a statement of the history of
that litigation and what the Standard
Oil company did in defense, Mrs. Butts
said:
"The Standard Oil trust moved to
dissolve in 1892 and these were liqui
dating trustees' certificates. This went
on until about 1897,verv few certifi
cates being liquidated. General Mon
nett, attorney general of Ohio, brought
suit and I think the supreme court de
cided that the +rust should get out of
Ohio in 1899, and then the Standard
Oil company of New Jersey became the
holding companv."
"Was this move in 1892 to dissolve
the Standard Oil companv, after a
judgment of the Ohio courts against
the Standard Oil company of that
state asked Mr. Hadlev.
I think so.''
Mr. Hadley asked if. after the ad
verse judgment Qf the Ohio court, the
Standard Oil companv did not enter
on a dissolution by using liquidating
certificates in place of the original
trust certificates and if, in 1899, when
the Ohio state courts enforced the or
der of dissolution, the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey became the
holding company. Objection Was Futile.
Mr. Hagerman objected, but Mr.
Hadley said he has a right under a
decision of the supreme court of Mis
souri to ask leading questions.
Mrs. Butts said in reply to Mr. Had
ley's question, that the statement was
exactly correct.
Mr. Hadley asked if the Waters
Pierce Oil company was one of the orig
inal members of the Standard Oil com
pany. Counsel objected, but Mrs.
Butts replied:
"It is one of the companies named in
the trust agreement."
She never saw the original agree
ment, but saw certified copies. She
does not know where the original trust
agreement is now. She said that she
does not know of a"n'y other trust cer
tificates and the liquidating certificates
than the ones she holds.
Many Companies in Trust.
Asked for the names of the compa
nies which composed the original Stand
ard Oil company, she said there were so
many of them she could only give them
from the trust agreement.
Mr. Hadley showed Mrs. Butts three
different kinds of trust certificates.
"One of them," she said, "repre
sents six shares in the original Stand-
bears the name of a company.
UNDEVELOPED
Chicago Tribune.
REPOBLIC FORMED
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burned down that night. So was my
lumber plant and everything else that
I owned except 10,000 rouBles, which
I had buried.
The civilized world will-never know
the extent of the shocking outrages
that are constantly inflicted upon the
women of our faith.
I saw a Russian town attacked on
Oct. 18 and 300 Jews were put to death.
The women were thrown out of the
windows and men were beaten over the
head by rifle butts and bayonets were
run thru the bodies of children."
'Kill Them Young."
near
Wolf Sobak, from Crinishoff,
Odessa, said:
I saw the body of a Rusisan boy
of about 11 years of age lying dead
the road, and on his breast was a
label which read: 'This is the way
to kill them offyoung.'
"In the street I saw 2 and 3-year-
old children torn limb from limb by
the insane ruffians, who were inspired
to the deed by the police themselves,
who thus hoped to take the minds of
the Russian populace from the real rev
olution that is spreading thruout the
empire.
I saw one young woman slashed
open from her throat to her abdomen,
and then saw the fiends stuff feathers
from a pillow which they had thrown
from the window, into her body."
Thousands In Vienna.
Vienna^ Jan. 6.There are about 10,-
000 Russian refugees in Vienna. They
reside mostly in the Jewish quarter,
and the hotels in that section of the city
are filled with them. A woman who
fled from Ekaterinoslav with three
small children gave the following ac
count of her experiences and of con
ditions in Russia:
"It was no easy thing even to get
out of town. So many people were get
ting away in a hurry that I had to wait
five days for a chance. I had to bribe
the ticket-seller at the railroad station
for tickets for myself and the children.
Ticket-sellers all over Russia are reap
inga rich harvest thru such methods.
With evidences of lingering terror,
the woman described the actions of the
troops during the Jewish massacres at
Ekaterinoslav. The soldiers ranged
themselves openly on the side of the
rowdies.
Jews Falsely Accused.
"It was the custom for some rowdy
to conceal himself in every Jewish
hous^e," she went on, "and as soon as
he saw the troops passing he would fire
a shot from his hiding place. This
was called a 'shot of provocation.' It
was an excuse for the assertion that the
Jews ha/l fired on the soldiers, who
would at once begin shooting into that
house, and then loot it and kill the oc
cupants. This course of procedure
seems to have been followed almost
everywhere where Jewish massacres
took place."
In the gray light of early morning
this woman fled with her children thru
side streets to the house of a neighbor.
Firing was going on generally thru the
town. When the soldiers #nd the
rowdies approached her house of refuge
she had her children hid in the cellar.
Food was passed down to them thru a
trapdoor, and they stayed in hiding for
twenty-four hours. She declares that!
on this and the following days 500
Jews were killed in Ekaterinoslav,
TO DRAMATIZE IT
of "Piaywrlght Enthusiastic Over Book
Fort Snelling Captain.
Edwin Brandt, playwright and the
"villain" of the Andrew Mack company,
now playing at the Metropolitan theater,
is engaged in dramatizing the book,
"Brown of the 'Steenth," which its au
thor, Captain John H. Parker of the
Twenty-eighth infantry at Fort Snelling,
expects to put in the printer's hands
soon.
Mr. Brandt and Captain Parker are old
friends, and in confidence Captain Par
ker has frequently consulted the actor
relative to the book, which is a tale of
the Philippines, from where its author but
recently returned. It is, of course, an
army story. It tells of the life and ad
venture of "Captain Brown" of the
'"Steenth." It is a tale of love and ad
venture, livened with unusual situations
and predicaments A feature which ap
pealed to Mr Brandt was the story's
great worth for dramatization. It has
taken him some time to convince Captain
Parker how good a play It will make, but
now both men are enthusiastic over it,
and Mr. Brandt is to have the dramatiza
tion completed so that next fall he can
head a company, himself playing "Captain
Brown." and probably present it for the
first time in the Metropolitan theater,
Minneapolis.
DE. BENDEKE DEAD
Pioneer Practitioner Succumbs at Hos
pital, After an Operation.
Dr. Carl O. Bendeke an old resident
and well-known phvsician of Minneapo
lis, died yesterday at St. Barnabas hos
pital, following an operation.
Dr. Bendeke was born in Christiania,
Norwav, in 1841, and was from a dis
tinguished family of that conntry. He
received a classical education and latet
studied medicine at the University of
Christiania. In 1867 he came to Amer
ica entered Bush Medical college at
Chicago and after his graduation set
tled at Kushford, Minn. From there
he came to Minneapolis and soon aftei
was elected to the city council and
served two terms. Of late years Dr.
Bendeke confined his work to special
practice.
Dr. Bendeke is survived by a wido\f
and an adopted daughter, Miss Pran
cesca Bendeke, who is studying music
in Trag, Austria. He also leaves two
brothers, one an army officer in Nor
way and. the other a resident^ of
Egypt.
ard Oil trust. The seconcT is a share classified in alphabetical order, was
of an assignment of legal title, and the Irouglvt to him. The number of vouch-
third a share of assignment converted rs the monthly budgets will aver-
into scrip of the twenty different cor- sge about 800, making an aggregate for
porations now in the great grand divi- ,the year of about 9,600. Each one of
sion of the truBt. Each piece of scrip these vouchers Mr. Kain must scruti
lize with the eye of an eagle for mis
tikes and irregularities.
He has spent a month on the books
and has checked them all, as well as
eaminedal the pending contracts, and
iiformed himself of the charter pro
to- Msions regarding the city finances. In
tther words, he has spent about a
There was a noticeable hoareeness in
Bessie's voice as she come down
breakfast
'You'll have to take something for
that frog in your throat, child," said
the mother.
I dess not, mama," said Bessie.
''It isn't a fwog. It's only a little pol
ly wog.'' Hoodwinks the Oculist. Maddeu Bye
Medioin cures eyes. (Don't smart.) 25c.
"Merit Wins Every Tinv"No
man with a keen appreciation of whis
key goodness is ever disappointed in
Pickwick Rye^
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ih i^M
JUST A FEW
Assistant Public Examiner M. F.
Kain, who is to check the books of the
city controller and the city treasurer,
awoke to a realization of the magnitude
cf his work today when he asked for
the vouchers for the past year. A dray
laad of stuff, separated by months and
month in preparing himself for the ex
amination of the bills.
HENNEPIN PAYS
The November tax settlement for Hen"
nepm county was made today with the
state auditor. The total collections were
$1499,989.92. Of this amount, $100.-
358.80 gees to the state. $90,913.19 is
for county revenue, $720,099.98 for city
and village taxes, $36,753.85 comes from
the statutory 1 mill local school tax and
$228,480.95 from special school taxes.
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The Common Ground,
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There was a time when
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into solid articles and
light reading.
McOlure'a Magadne has
proved that it is no longer
necessary for a timely article
to be dull any more than it
is for a short story to be
frivolous.
If you do not yet know
how intensely interesting a
real news story can be made,
read Steffens' account of the
Mystery of Mark Fagan,
Mayor of Jersey City, in the
January Mc&ure's.
If you wish to know what
power can be put in a mere
short story, recall Kipling,
London and Stewart Edward
White in November, Decem
ber and January McClure's.
The writers McClure's
recognize "the story" wher
ever they find it.
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Heart Trouble
The heart Itself has no powerno wlf-eontrtfl.
It 1B made to beat by a tender nerre Bo tiny
that it is scarcely visible to the naked eye Tet
ten thousand times a day this delicate nerre
must assist the heart to expand and contract.
Tills nerve is only one of the branches of the
great sympathetic, or inside, nerr* system.
Each branch of this system Is so closely aUled
with the others that weakness, or lrremlmzitj at
rny colnt Is apt to spread. Heart trouble fre
quently arises from Stomach trouble through
sympathy, and Kidney trouble may also foUow.
For each of these organs is operated by a branch
of these same sympathetic nerresthe insid*
nerves.
In Heart, Kidney or Stomach troubles, it is of
but little use to attempt to doctor the organ lt
stlf-the most permanent reUef Ues in restoring
the inside perves. Dr. Bhoop regards these
lervcs to be the real cause of such troubles.
The remedyknown by physicians and druggists
everywhere as Dr. Snoop's Restorativeis ths
result of yesrs of endeavor along this very line.
It does not dose the organ to deaden the pain
but it aims to go at once to the nervethe ln
blde nervethe pov*r nerveand builds it up,
and strengthens It, and makes it weU.
Ei err heart sufferer may have Dr. Snoop's
book on the Heart, it will be sent tree, and
with It you wUl receive the "Health Token," aa
intended wtfiort to good health.
For the free book Book 1 on Dyspepsia,
and the "Health Book 2 on the Heart.
Token" you must ad- _^.k tcMn-r*.
dress Dr Sboop, Box
4
3 on the Kidneys
Boo
1620. Kaclne. Wis. Book 4 for Women.
State which book you Book 5 for Men.
want. Book on Rheumatism.
Dr. Shoop's Restorative Tabletsgtv full
thre* weeks treatment. Each formliquid or
tablethave equal merit. Druggists everywhere*
Dr. Shoop's i
Restorative
TWO ISSUED BDRGU1S
ROB MONTANA SALOON
Special to The Journal.
Butte, Mont., Jan. 6.Two masked
men entered the saloon of Hays Axtell
and got away with $1,000. Axtell start
ed for the bank a few hours before
with about $800 in his pocket. En
route he met Captain Winn, aa old
friend, whom he had not seen for some
time, and chatted with him until it W
too late to enter the bank. Axtell
tucked the roll of bills into his wallet,
intending to deposit the amount later.
The saloon safe was opened and $200
taken. Axtell was alone when the
bandits surprised him. After .taking
every firearm in the place and bidding
Axtell goovd night, the robbers disap
peared* Several posses of miners are
scouring the mountains for the cracks
men.
TO CURE Jk. COLD IN OVE SAT
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Drug
gists refund money if it faita to core. B. W.
Grove's signature is on each box 35c.
SOMEWHAT PUZZLING i
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Her enunciation is a little indistinct,
isn't itf
It certainly is. I never know wheth
er she is singing a Georgjg, coon Bong or
an Italian aria."
Sturdy
Bruins
Win.
Grape=Nuts
Is the one true Scientific
Brain Food.
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