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Startling Discoveries Hade on a
Farm Near Laporte, Ind.
FIVE BODIES UNEARTHED
Victims Believed to Have Been Slain
for Their Money or Their
Life insurance.
Laporte, Ind., May 6,—With five
bodies already unearthed Sheriff
fimutzer and Coroner Mack will con­
tinue their search for other alleged
victims of Mrs. Bella Gunness, who,
to all indications, was one of the most
fiendish murderesses of the century
and who was recently killed with her
three children through the burning of
b«r country home one mile northeast
of Laporte.
Of the bodies so far unearthed two
have been identified. They are those
of Andrew Helgelein, a wealthy bach­
elor of Mansfield, S. D., and Miss Jen­
nie Olson, eleven years old, step­
daughter of Mrs. Gunness. The other
three bodies are so badly decomposed
as to make identification impossible.
The discovery of the bodies was
brought about by the appearance of
A. K. Helgelein of Aberdeen, S. D.,
brother of Andrew Helgelein, in search
•of the missing man. With informa­
tion that his brother Andrew had
come to Lapoite to wed Mrs. Gun­
ness and that he had turned over his
property to her, he became convinced
that he had been the victim of foul
Play.
While questioning Joseph Maxson,
a hired hand on the Gunness farm, he
learned of the mysterious digging of
holes by him, all of them being filled
at a later date by Mrs. Gunness.
Officers Male* Investigation.
He led Helgelein and the officers to
the spot where the holes had been
•dug about 150 feet from the house
and there after digging a few minutes
there was uncovered the body of
Helgelein. The remains were only
four feet under ground and wese en­
closed in a gunny sack. The legs and
arms were dismembered but were with
the trunk.
About thirty-five feet further on the
remains of the four other bodies were
found. Lying on top of a mattress
were the skeletons of two men and a
woman. Underneath the mattress
was the body of an eleven-year-old
-girl, said to he Jennie Olson. All the
bodies were taken in charge by the
•coroner.
It is recalled that the two husbands
of Mrs. Gunness died under suspicious
-circumstances, both meeting violent
•deaths. The first, Max Sorenson, was
insured for $8,500, and the second,
Gunness, for $3,500. The insurance
was paid over to Mrs. Gunness.
Ray Lamphere, the former hired
man of Mrs. Gunness, who was arrest­
ed after the woman's house had been
destroyed by fire and the bodies of
Mrs. Gunness and her three children
had been found in the ruins, was
charged with murdering the family.
He wiH now he accused of being an
accomplice of Mrs. Gunness in the
murdering of alleged victims of the
Laporte woman.
ELEVEN OF THE CREW LOST
Steamer Off Oregon Coast -Hit by
Huge Wave.
Newport, Ore., May 5.—During a
storm on the coast the steamer Minne
EI Kellon shifted and sprung a
bad leak. A few hours later a
huge wave struck the vessel and
washed her deck and cahin, leaving
the vessel waterlogged and unmanage­
able.. Eleven of the crew were
drowned, same while trying to launch
a boat.
Four men an a raft tried to get
Ashore, but only one succeeded and he
sustained a broken leg. The Jifesav
ing crew of this place took nine men
elf the vessel and landed them on the
shore about fifteen miles north trf here.
The Minnie E. KelJon was bound from
Aberdeen to San Francisco loaded
wtth lumber in command of Captain
James McKenna. The vessel was
picked up by the steamer Washington
and towed to Astoria.
JAP CRUISER SINKS.
Training Ship Wrecked by Explosion
of Magazine.
Tokio, May 1.—Admiral Yoshiinat
bu, commander of the training squad­
ron, reports that an explosion occurred
in the stern magazine of the cruiser
Matsushima while anchoring at Ma
kang, a harbor on the Pescadores isl­
ands. The Matsushima immediately
eank until only the bridge was visible.
Efforts at rescue by boats from the
cruisers Hashaidate and Itsukushiraa
continued for several hours, saving
the lives of 141 men, including some
officers. The majority of the officers
were not saved and at the time of
the admiral's report the cadets num­
bered fifty-eight out of a complement
of 300.
Jury Out Only Two Minutes.
San Francisco, May 2.—Tirey L.
Ford, chief counsel for the United
Railroads, charged with bribing for­
mer Supervisor Daniel G. Coleman to
vote for
a
United
to a
trolley franchise for the
Jteilroadfl, was
tomui not gallty
jury here. The jury was out but
two minutes.
XITCHEHEB ON THE LIST
Included Among Europeans Marked
for Assassination.
Calcutta, May 6.—The police are in­
vestigating the native plot just re­
vealed here to murder Europeans by
means of bombs and the more they go
into the matter the more serious and
widespread does the conspiracy ap­
pear. Documents seized at the house
Where bombs and explosives were be
fcig manufactured reveal that it was
LORD KITCHENER.
part oi the plot to kill Lord Kitchener,
commander-in-chief of the British
forces in India, and other high offi­
cials. The authorities believe they
are facing an attempt at revolution.
A number of prominent Bengalese are
implicated and sensational arrests are
expected to follow.
THAW'S CASE IS GALLED
White's Slayer Temporarily
Out of Insane Asylum.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 4.—Tem
•porarily at least Harry K. Thaw is out
•of the Matteawan hospital for the
criminal insane. As a result of pro­
ceedings on the writ of habeas corpus
sued out in an effort to have him le­
gally declared sane he will remain in
the Dutchess county jail until the
final decision on the writ is handed
down. The formal hearing in the case
will come before the supreme court
here next Monday.
The adjournment was taken upon
the request of a representative of the
district attorney of New York county
to give District Attorney Jerome an
opportunity to appear in person to op­
pose Thaw's release from the asylum.
In the meantime Thaw will remain
in the Dutchess county jail here in­
stead of being returned to Matteawan.
Thaw appeared to be in excellent
health, having gained fully twenty
pounds in weight since his transfer to
the .asylum from the Tombs.
An interesting feature of the pro­
ceedings was an announcement that
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, although she has
"brought suit for annulment of her
marriage, will appear, if necessary, as
a witness in her husband's behalf.
FINES AGGREGATE $13,150
Railroads Convicted of Violating the
Twenty-eight-Hour Law.
Chicago, May 4.—:In ninety-five
cases brought by the government
against six railroad companies charg­
ing violation of the twenty-eight-hour
law for the transportation of cattle
Judge Landis, in the United States
district court, imposed fines aggregat­
ing 13,150. The railroads fined were
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific,
forty-five cases, fined $6,550 Chicago
and Northwestern, twentyrSix cases,
$3,600 Illinois Central, nine cases,
$1,100 CMcago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul, seven cases, $950 Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe, six cases, .$750
Chicago, Burlington and Qninqy, itwo
cases, $200.
OVJEB A HUNDRED PERISH
Ferryboat Filled With Russian Peas­
ants Capsizes.
St. Petersburg, May 5.—A ferryboat
on the river Pneiper capsized near
Bykhoff, in the government of Mohi
leff, and 120 persons were drowned
as a result. The boat was filled with
peasants and their wires and children
returning from church. It was over­
crowded and became unmanageable in
midstream. The passengers got into
a state of panic and overturned the
boat by crowding to one side.
Cleveland Continues to Improve.
Lakewood, N. J., May 4.—Former
President Grover Cleveland continues
steadily to recover from an attack of
digestive trouble which has prevented
him from returning to his Princeton
home. All reports from the Lake
wood hotel were to the effect that he
continues to improve and that his con­
dition is not alarming.
Connecticut Delegation Polled.
Hartford, Conn., May 2.—At a meet­
ing of the Connecticut delegation to
the Denver convention Alexander
Troup secured a poll as to the per­
sonal preference of the delegation.
The
raralt showed
New Avefine Hotel at Fort Wayne,
Ind., Destroyed.
DOZEN SERIOUSLY INJURED
Building Was Erected Half a Century
Ago and the Woodwork Was
Dry as Tinder.
Fort Wayne, Ind., May 4.—The
death roll in the New Aveline hotel
fire stands at eleven known dead,
with several persons still unaccounted
for. A revised list of the dead fol
lows:
J. B. Miller, traveling salesman,
Sheboygan, Wis. J. E. Ellis, traveling
salesman for Carson, Pirie, Scott &
Co., Chicago Isaac Hirsch, traveling
salesman, Chicago William Pitcher,
traveling salesman, Duluth R. S.
Johnson, traveling salesman, Pana,
111. Joseph W. Deviney, traveling
salesman, Philadelphia Charles Ben­
jamin, traveling salesman, Detroit
unidentified body of woman, supposed
to be that of Miss Mary Burkett,
Mishawka, Ind. unidentified woman,
supposed to be that of Miss Sarah
Hathaway, Mishawka, Ind. unidenti­
fied body of man, consisting only of
trunk and head almost burned off, sup­
posed to be that of Burke, hotel por­
ter unidentified body of man, so bad­
ly burned as to be practically unrec­
ognizable.
Of the dozen persons seriously in­
jured by burns or by leaping from the
burning hotel all are doing well at the
hospitals except E. M. Matthews of
Columbus, O., whose death is hourly
expected.
The fire was discovered at 3:30 in
the morning in the elevator shaft by
Night Clerk Ralph H. Hopkins. He
rushed to the upper floors alarming
the guests until flames, which had
spread with appalling rapidity, drove
him back. His efforts, however, saved
many lives.
The hotel was erected half a cen­
tury -ago and the woodwork was dry
as tinder. It burned like matchwood
and within a few minutes from the
time fire was discovered the whole in­
terior was a mass of flames that filled
the corridors and rooms with suffo­
cating clouds of smoke and laid fiery
barriers across all means of escape
save by the windows.
The fire department rescued many
by means of ladders, but some, fren­
zied by the onward rush of the flames,
leaped from high windows to the
paved street-
EXPRESS COMPANY ROBBED
Reports Loss of $63,000 Consigned to
Mexican Bank.
Laredo, Tex., May 2.—The loss of
$63,000 in Mexican currency has been
reported by the Wells-Fargo Express
company to the authorities of Torreon,
Mex. The company claims it was
taken from a through safe on their
City of Mexico irain. The money was
consigned to one of the banks of Chi
huahua.
Two arrests have been made in Tor
reon, although it is not believed by
the officials that the men who were
arrested have the money.
It appears that one of the agents -of
the company boarded the express train
at a station between the City of Mex­
ico and Torreon, afterwards leaving
the train. It is said that he was the
only man who was in the car who
knew the combination of the safe. He
has not yet been apprehended.
REVOLUTION IN PERU.
Outbreak Occurs in the Viciaity of
the Capital.
Rio de Janeiro, May 2.—News has
been received here by telegraph from
the west coast of a revolutionary out­
break in Peru. The movement is said
to have started at the town of Cho
sica, near Lima. The revolutionists.,
under the command of Augusto Du
ran, cut the wires that carry the cur­
rent for the electric lighting of Lima
and they also took possession of a
railroad train. Government troops
were at once sent out against them,
but the dispatches do not give the
outcome. There was said to be much
excitement at Lima.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
President Expresses Earnest Desire
for Legislation.
Washington, May 5. President
Roosevelt expressed to Senator Carter
of the senate committee on postoffices
and postroads his earnest desire to
see a postal savings bank bill become
a law at this session. Senator Carter
told the president he thought the bill,
which had been favorably reported to
the senate, would be taken up by that
body at an early date and that it
would pass both houses and become a
law without serious opposition.
Young Millionaire Loses Sight.
Muskegon, Mich., May 5.—Charles
Moore Hackley, the twenty-five-year
I old Muskegon millionaire with a fond
ness for common labor, snch as work
I ins in the fields, handling horses and
I working 4n bis lumber camp, will be
«blind for life. While blasting sttunps
In
six vote*
Ik
for Bryaa,
two for Johnson $nd six. Qon-oonunit
tal. The delegation is uninstructed.
lumber camp near here a few
days Bfo he struck a crowbar into
two vtfckfi of dynamite. His face was
blown fttR of sand, bits of stump and/
powder.
Thursday, April 30.
House—Consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill resumed. Mr.
Townsend (Mich.) offered an amend­
ment increasing from $50,000 to $350,
000 the appropriation for the enforce­
ment by the interstate commerce com­
mission of the publicity clause of the
Hepburn act.
Senate—Agricultural appropriation
bill under consideration during the en­
tire session.
Friday, May 1.
Senate—Time of senate taken up
for two hours with a speech by Sen­
ator Jeff Davis of Arkansas asking
that the committee on the judiciary be
discharged from further consideration
of his bill for the suppression of trusts.
The remainder of the day was given
over to the consideration of a resolu­
tion suspending until Jan. 1, 1910, the
commodity clause of the Hepburn
railroad rate law.
House—Entire day spent in consid­
ering and passing paragraph by para­
graph under suspension of the rules
the sundry civil appropriation bill.
Monday, May 4.
House—Committee on appropria­
tions overridden in connection with
several items in the sundry civil ap­
propriation bill, the sums appropriated
being increased in spite of the oppo­
sition of the committee.
Senate—Mr. Bulkeley (Conn.) spoke
four hours in defense of the negro sol­
diers of the Twenty-fifth infantry.
Sum of $250,000 voted to Southern tor­
nado sufferers.
Tuesday, May 5.
House—Lively debate was kept up
all day on the sundry civil appropria­
tion bill.
Senate—Extended speech in opposi­
tion to the forestry service made by
Mr. Heyburn of Idaho. Mr. Warner
of Missouri continued his speech on
the Brownsville affair.
SIX PERISH IN FIRE.
Catastrophe in Thickly Populated Sec­
tion of Brooklyn.
New York, May 4.—Six persons
were killed and four injured in an
early morning fire at 17 Humboldt
street, a thickly populated district of
Brooklyn.
Every member of one family, con­
sisting of a mother and four children,
are among the dead. There were
many thrilling rescues by police and
firemen. A half dozen or more per­
sons who were trapped in the upper
stories were saved by jumping into
life nets.
The Abrams family lived on the
third floor. For some reason the
flames swept through their apartments
so that the only way of escape was
by jumping from the windows.
Charles Abrams and his sister Anna
did this. Both struck an iron railing
and were dead when picked up. Mrs.
Abrams and her other children, Sadie
and Carrie, were burned to death,
clashed in each others' arms.
Says Government Was Cheated.
Washington, May 5.—In a speech
in the house Representative Hitchcock
of Nebraska charged that the govern­
ment had been cheated out of no less
than $57,000,000 by the sale by the in­
terior department of 8,000,000 acres of
timber and stone lands at the mini­
mum price. He contended that where­
as only $2.58 an acre had been re­
ceived much more could have been ob­
tained if the department had not sold
the land for the lowest price fixed by
the law.
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Minneapolis Wheat.
Minneapolis, May 5.—Wheat—May,
$1.0834 July, $1.07% Sept., 91*4
91%c. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.11%
No. 1 Northern, $1.0914 No. 2 North­
ern, $1.07% No. 3 Northern, 99%c@
51.04%.
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.
St. Paul, May 5.—Cattle—Good to
choice steers, $6.00@6.75 fair to good,
$5.00@5.75 good to choice cows and
heifers, $5.00 veals, $3.75 @5.25. Hogs
—$5.40@5^0. Sheep—Wethers, $5.25
good to choice lambs, $6.25@6.50.
Duluth Wheat and Flax.
Duluth, May 5.—Wheat—To arrive
and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.11 No.
1 Northern, $1.09 No. 2 Northern,
$1.05 May, $1.06 July, $1.06% Sept.,
91
%c. Flax—To arrive and on track,
$1.20 May, $1.19% July, $1.21%
Sept., $1.22% Oct., $1.21%.
Chicago Union Stock Yards.
Chicago, May 5.—Cattle—Beeves,
$4.75@7.25 Texans, $4.60@5.50 West­
ern cattle, $4.75@6.00 stockers and
feeders, $3.70@5.80 cows and heifers,
$2.50@6.60 calves, $4.75@6.25. Hogs
—Light, $5.35@5.75 mixed, $5.40@
5.80 heavy, $5.35@5.75 rough, $5.35
@5.50 good to choice heavy, $5.50@
5.75 pigs, $4.40@5.20. Sheep, $4.25@
6.10 yearlings, $6.25@6.75 lambs,
$f».75@7.50.
Chicago Grain and Provisions.
Chicago, May 5.—Wheat—May, $1.
'02% July, 90%@90%c Sept., 85%#
85%c. Com—May, 70%c July, 64%c
[Sept, 62%c. Oats—May, old, 53%c
tMay, 53c July, old, 46%c July,
l45%e Sept., 37%@37%c. Pork—May,
$13.37*013.40 July, $13-57% Sept.,
$13.82% @13.85. Butter—Creameries,
19®25c dairies, l§@24c. Eggs—14%c.
Poultry—Turkeys, 14c chickens, lie
broilers, per doxen, $3.50@5.50.
IS ELECTED
Democratic Candidate for Mayor
of St Pan! Successful.
LANDSLIDE FOR THE PARTY
Democrats Secure Controller and
Treasurer and Eighteen of the
Twenty-one Councilmen.
Daniel W. Lawler, Dem., was elect­
ed mayor of St. Paul over Joseph Mc
Kibbin, Rep., by a plurality of 4,500.
The result was a landslide for the
Democratic ticket, Louis Betz being
elected controller and Otto Bremer
treasurer. The Democrats also elect­
ed eight of the nine assemblymen and
ten of the twelve aldermen.
Mr. Lawler carried all but four
wards by pluralities ranging from 224
in the Twelfth to 1,308 in the Fifth
and he lost the First, Seventh, Tenth
and Eleventh wards by pluralities
which surprised the supporters of Mr.
McKibbin.
MINNESOTA OIL INSPECTION
Further Discrepancies Alleged in
Books of Department.
An additional alleged shortage of
$4,755.20 in the accounts of John A.
McDermott, former state oil inspector,
and of $3,52^.92 in the accounts of F.
G. Warner, his predecessor in that
office, were reported by Public Exam­
iner Anton Schaefer in his final re­
port on the examination of the ac­
counts of that department during the
incumbency of these two men.
This report covers the entire period
from February, 1903, to November,
1907, being from the beginning of Mr.
Warner's term to the close of Mr. Mc
Dermott's.
The first report on Mr. McDermott's
accounts covered only the collections
in Ramsey, Hennepin and St. Louis
counties and disclosed an alleged
shortage of $6,199.75, which was
turned into the state treasury by W.
E. McEwen, the present oil inspector,
through his monthly reports, except
the last payment of about $3,400,
which was turned in separately. The
present report makes the total al­
leged shortage in his accounts for the
entire state $10,954.95.
The previous report on Mr. War­
ner's accounts showed a shortage of
$12,010, this report only covering the
Minneapolis and Duluth divisions. The
total alleged shortage as now report
ed is $15,536.92. Attorney General
Young holds that about $3,000 of the
shortage charged against Warner
should not so appear.
GRANITE MEN ON STRIKE
Polishers and Quarrymen at St. Cloud
Demand More Pay.
Fourteen granite shops at St. Cloud
were closed when sixty polish­
ers and seventy quarrymen went
on a strike for higher wages. The
polishers are receiving $2.25 a day.
They ask for $2.75. The quarrymen
are getting $2 a day and want $2.25.
The granite cutters were obliged to
lay off, but did not strike. They will
try to bring about a compromise. The
employers say they will make no con­
cession. About 400 men are out of
work.
Hill and Lowry Donate Land.
James J. Hill and Thomas Lowry
have given to the Minneapolis park
I board a tract of land needed for the
enlargement of the Lyndale farmstead,
approximating in value $40,000, with
the only condition that the park board
repay $13,000 paid by the donors as
I taxes on the property. The donation
represents all that Mr. Hill and Mr.
Lowry originally invested in the prop
erty.
Five Suspects Released.
The authorities of Marshall county
have released five of the Stephen
bank robbery suspects, holding J. E.
Raymond, alias Joe Zalinsky, and
James Nolan. The St. Paul police de­
partment says that Nolan is a well
known yeggman, who has been oper
ating in the East and that his photo
adorns the rogues' galleries of nearly
every large city.
Poles Denounce Prussia.
The Poles of Winona, representing
more than 4,000 citizens, in mass
meeting assembled adopted strong
resolutions protesting against the
treatment accorded the Poles in Prus­
sian Poland by Prussia in the expro­
priation act and in other matters and
asking Congressman Tawney to sup­
port the Bates resolution in congress.
Jury Acquits Minneapolis Man.
The jury at Minneapolis in the
case of William Griswold, accused
of having shot and mortally wounded
Bennie Navratil, six years old," re­
turned a verdict in Judge David F.
Simpson's court of "hot guilty." The
young bride, who has been constantly
by the side of her husband during the
trial, wept with joy at the good news.
Falls Dead at Wife's Feet.
Kissing his wife goodbye James
Fanta placed a revolver to his temple,
pulled the trigger and fell at her feet
dead in their home at South Part
near St. Paul. Worry over business
troubles is believed to have prompted
the suicide. Fanta had lived in South
rPark for the pftat frwo years, coming
(here from Oelwein,
la.
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