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THAW WINS BIG LEGAL VICTORY Fugitiv's Gase May 6o to Fed- eral Supreme Court, EXTRADITIEN HEAR'NG NEXT Federal Judge Decides That Thaw Has Right to Hold His Hadaes Corpus Writ in Abeyance. Littleton, N. H., Sept. 17.—Counsel for Harry Kendall Thaw laid the foundation for plans to carry his case to the United States supreme court. When the governor of New Hamp shire passes on the matter of the ex tradition of Thaw to New York, at the hearing to be held at Concord on Tuesday next, the findings, if adverse to Thaw, will be reviewed by the United States district court and should a decision against him then be render ed successive appeals will be taken until the case reaches the highest court in the land. This was the announcement by the Thaw lawyers after the most notable court victory for the fugitive either in Canada or in the United States since his. escape from the Matteawan asy lum for the criminal insane. It was made after a hearing on a federal writ of habeas corpus ob tained in Thaw’s behalf and invoking the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution had been indefinitely sus pended until such time as counsel saw fit to begin arguments after the extra dition matter had been decided by the governor. United States Judge Aldrich for the district of New Hampshire, in decid ing that Thaw had the right, in effect, to hold his habeas corpus writ in abey ance, explained in his rescript that this was the petitioners’ privilege in that should he be ordered extradited, *“it would still be open to federal au thority to afford such protection as the COnstitution and the laws of the United States require.” Mr. Jerome had little or nothing to say. “Thaw is tied up now with a fed eral writ,” he said, “and there is no getting around it. But the questions to be decided by the governor are sim ple and we hope fcr victory.” BOMB FOR GENERAL OTIS Unknown Person Tries to Kill Los Angeles Publisher. l.os Angeles, Sept. 17.—For the gecond time within three years a bomb jeopardized the life of General Harrison Gray Otis, owner of the Los Angeles Times, which was destroyed by dynamite Oct. 1, 1910. That he escaped injury probably was due to the watchfulness of his Japanese servant, who received from the postman an infernal machine, mailed in this city, and called his em ployver’s attention to it. The present attempt on his life was attributed by the general to agencies friendly to those whose conspiracy eventuated in the destruction of his newspaper plant and the killing of twentiy-one men three years ago. “But the police and postal authorities believed something might be devel oped from the theory that the Mexi can question had a part in it. ACQUITS DIGGS AND HARRIS Jury Finds Them Not Guiity of Su bornation of Perjury. San Francisco, Sept. 17.—Maury [ Diggs, former state architect, and At torney Charles B. Harris of Sacra m-nto were found not guilty by a jury in the United States district court of subornation of perjury in connection with the Diggs-Caminetti white slave cases.’ This acquittal closes the series of cases resulting from the elopement from Sacramento to Reno, Nev., of Maury 1. Diggs, F. Drew Caminetti, Marsha Warrington and l.ola Norris, with the resultant arrest of Diggs and Caminetti and their conviction of violation of the Mann white slave act. WOMEN ARE RIDDEN DOWN Troopers Attack Wives of Strikers, Who Make Demonstration. Calumet, Mich., Sepi. 14.—State troopers with drawn sabers rode down a mob of copper strikers. Many per gous, a goodly- portion of them women, were knocked down and trampled up on by the horses and: several were in jured, mone seriously. The -rioting started early in the_ morning when strikers and women sympathizers from ail over the copper country gath :imd in Calumet for a big demonsira on. Wt Dt b EMERGENCY BILL IS PASSED Measure Provides SIOO,OOO to Bring ~-Americans Out of Mexico. : Washington, Sept. 16.—Waiving any reference to committee on the ground that it was an emergency measure the senate passed the house resolution appropriating SIOO,OOO to meet the ex penses of bringing destitute Ameri cans out of Mexico. WILLIAM J. GAYNOR. ~ | Mayor of New York City Stricken on Ocean Liner. RETURNINGTOUNITED STATES Body of Mayor Gaynor Placed on Board Liner Bound for New York. Liverpool, Sept. 14.—The body of the late Mayor Gaynor of New York was removed from the Liverpool town hall, where it had been accorded un precedented honors by Great Britain, and taken to the Cunard line steam er Lusitania. A special guard of six policemen watched over the body in the town hall throughout the night. Later the body was re-embalmed. A death mask of the features of the mayor also was taken in accordance with instructions received from Mrs. Gaynor. —The lLiverpool clergy, head ed by the bishop of Liverpool, per suaded Rufus Gaynor to consent to the holding of a religious service. In the dim light of candles and in the great fog which enshrouded the hallway Rev. Theodore A. Howard. vicar of St. Mathews, conducted an impressive Church of England funer al rights over the remains. COUNTERFEITER AS WELL AS MURDERER Further Charge Made Against Father Hans Schmidt. New York, Sept. 17.—Not only did Father Hars Schmidt, assistant priest of St. Joseph’s Catholic church, carry on his functions @fter he had butcher ed pretty Anna Aumuller, but he was a partner in a counterfeiting estab lishment. This was the assertion of the police fellowing the arrest of Dr. Ernest A. Muret, dentist, and a wom an who said she was employed as a maid in _ his flat. : | A squad of detectives entered an 'other flat on One Hundred and Thir ‘ty-fourth street and found a printing press, a. partly burned bill, a copper 'plate for the printing of currency and a quantity of paper adapted to the making of bank ‘notes. l Mrs. Mary Bowles, owner of the buflding, and Margaret Rutledge, the janitress, said that the flat. was rent ed by a man who gave the name of George Miller. They identified Miller as Dr. Muret and the man who accom- panied him as Hans Schmidt. . The receipt for the rent of the -flat was found among Schmidt’s belong ings, together with a copper plate for one side of a S2O bill. The discovery of this plate in the flat where Schmidt confessed he murdered Anna Aumul ler started the police on the trail which resulted in the arrest of Muret. S CALLED TO WASHINGTON Secretary of Legation at Rome Must Answer Charges. ¢ Rome, Sept. 14.—Post Wheeler of New York, first secretary of the United States embassy here, has been summoned to Washington by the state department to explain charges on file against himh there. . Wheeler and: Am bessador O'Brien refused -to make gtatements.. .;; Lt i Lot i For .several weeks .a rumor. has been‘current: in. Rome that an Amér ican, whose name i 6 ‘withheld, made a complaint to the state department at ' Washington accusing Wheeler of abusing his diplomatic f;j,y}wma in the matters of receiving imports duty COLORADO ~MINERS STRIKE General Walkout Ordered to Go Into Effect Sept. 28, Trinidad, Colo., Sept. 17.—A general strike of coal miners in district No. 15 was declared to go into effect on Bept. 23. S gai s A resolution of the executive com mittee of the Unitcd Mine Workers -of America, ordering the strike, was 4dopted by a umanimous vote. : News of Especial Inferest 10 | Micaesoia Readers. MINXESOTA BUTTER IS BEST Highest Score Known Made by Alfred Camp of Owatonna in Tests of Four States. Minnesota butter again has walked off with high honors, this time taking most of the $725 of prize money at the Centra! States butter contest in connection with the Northern lowa fair at -Mason City, according to word received by Joel G. Winkjer, state dairy and focd commissioner. The high score in the whole milk class, and the highest mark known to have been received for butter in years, was made by Alfred Camp of Owa tonna, whose entry scored Y 73 per cent. An lowa man scored second, but F. W. Hedtke of Norwood was third with 97%, and J. R. Bloomquist of North Branch and E. A. Gudvan gen of Kiester tied with another lowa man for fourth place, with scores of 97. In the gather cream class Henry Hanson of Cylinder, la., was first with a mark of 951%, and Mrs. A, B. Mec- Loughlin of Elgin, Minn., came second with a 95 score. The contest had entries from Min nesota, lowa, Wisconsin and Nebras ka. Illinois dropped out this year. GIRL OF TWELVE ENDS LIFE Mildred Rommel of St. Paul Dies After Quarrel With Sister. Following a quarrel with an older sister, Mildred Rommel, twelve years old, of St. Paul made a successful at tempt on her own life by taking car bolic acid. She died in a hospital twelve hours later. Mildred was one of five children and was playing with the three younger than herself. During the play trouble arose and she was heard by her older sister, Ruth, sixteen years old, scold ing the younger ones. Ruth immedi ately upbraided Mildred for her im patience with her little sisters and brothers, whereupon Mildred went into the house, picked up a dime and hur ried to a drug store, where she bought the acid without being questioned. .. Returning home she drained the contents of the bottle and dropped on the lawn. Dr. Edward Olander was called by Ruth, who was the first to find her sister. He took her to the hospital in his automobile, but it was too late to save her life. IS SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD Oid Employes Honor J. J. Hill in Glacier Park. James J. Hill, builder of the Great Northern railway, received a great ovation in the Glacier Park hotel from more than three hundred and forty employes of the road, men who have seen service under him for more than twenty-five years, while many remember railroad days when the Great Northern was known as the St. Paul and Pacific. ’ As a testimonial of their friendship for their leader for so many years the employes presented Mr. Hill with seventy-five American beauty roses, this being his seventy-fifth birthday celebration. , : Mr. Hill, with officers of the Veter ans’ association of the Great North ern railway, oecupied seats at the head of the banquet table. Mr. Hill called many of the old timers by name and was visibly affected when several employes, men of his own age, carried the" great bouquet of roses and presented them on behalf of their fellow 'em?loyes. CORPORATION TAX IS UNFAIR Duluth Judge Asserts Law Imposes Burden on Cities. The gross earnings tax system in effect in -this state; which practical 1y exempts railroads and other cor porations to which it applies from the payment of special assessments for public: improvements, is unjust to the municipalities of the state and unfair to general taxpayers in cities with terminal facilities, according to an ‘opinion handed down by Judge Bert Feslér in the St. Louis county district court at Duluth. Judge Fesler's opinion follows his decision of an appeal taken by the Northern Pacific, Railroad company irom an agsessment to defray the ex pense of xrépaving and improving a eity ‘highway. - . - The" court holds that the raiiroad company, ‘'under;’ & strict interpreta tion of the gross earnings tax law, cannot be ‘assessed for ‘special im provements, 'and ‘orders the assess ment canceled. ¥ _ g Pioneer of State Dead. Gilbert Hall, one of the oidest citi gens of Mankato, is dead in that-city, where he had resided since 1886. He was a native of Vienna, N. Y., having where he had resided since 1866. He was engaged with Genéral Lyman Matthews in the manufacture of shin gles in Michigan and also with him in business enterprises in Kentucky. He subsequently came to Minnesota and took a claim near Mountain Lake, where he lived until 1866, when the grassheppers drove him to Mankato. GGVERNOR IS STILL IN DOUBY Has Not Decided on Date .of Extra Session, Governor Eberhart announces that he is still uncertain as to the date be will fiy for the special session of the legislature, but that he still in tends to call the legislature together for passage of a state public utilities measure. “I rea.ize that the special, £ession idea is net popular,” he said,’ “but special sessions never are, espe cially with the members. But we can get much better results in a special session, I am convinced, if it can be confined practically to the one sub ject and kept free from log rolling and politics.. As to the date I am not certain, but the scession still may start in October, as .I only need to give ten days’ notice. I know many members object to that date and some have assured me that they would agree to take up nothing else but the utilities bill if I would defer the special session until winter. 1 wish that arrangement could be made Otherwise the October date is prefer able because it will mean a shorter and more businesslike session.” BOY SHOT WHILE HUNTING Companion Carried Him Two Miles in Futile Attempt to Save Life. Accidentally shot while out hunt ing birds with several companions, Theodore Maki, ten years of age, was carried nearly two miles by Dewxey Knutson, seventeen, to the Ely hospital, where he died. The boys, in company with two oth er lads, set out armed with .22-caliber rifies. The youngster’s gun caught on a bush and as he turned to dislodge it it was discharged, the bullet pass ing through his left side near the heart. Young Knutson was the only one of the companions who stayed. The others were too frightened to offer the victim any assistance. Picking up the wounded boy he carried him to the hospital. MINNESOTAN RESIGNS PLACE Representative Anderson Quits Ways and Means Committee. As a climax of the vigorous Repub lican condemnation of Democratic leg islative methods which has marked the currency debate Representative Syvdney Anderson of Minnesota, on the floor of the house, resigned as a mem ber of the powerful ways and means committee. In a speech bitterly assailing legis lation by caucus action through t(he partisan consideration of the Undger wood tariff bill and the Glass cur rency bill in committees Representa tive Anderson declared that the “sys tem of legislation. established here” made his efforts on the committee a “farce and a fraud.” 00D FELLOWS IN SESSION Sovereign Grand Lodge Assembles at Minneapolis. “Odd Fellowship” and the spirit of fraternalism pervades Minneapolis. Twenty thousand members of the 1. Q. 0. F. were in the city when the first session of the annual conven tion .met. The opening meeting was held at the Unique theater, where Governor Eberhart and Mayor Nye of Minne apolis welcomed the visitors and joined with officers of the lodge in defining the spirit of fraternalism. C. A. Keller of San Antonio, Tex., grand sire, responded to Governor Eberhart and Mayor Nye, largely on the principles of the order. ~ WOMAN IS BURNED TO DEATH Aged Housekeeper Perishes When Residence Is Destroyed. Mrs. Becky Sandburg, sixty-nine years of age, was burned to deatn at Pine City by a fire which totally destroyed the home of Mike Dean. Mrs. Sandburg, who kept house for. Dean, it is believed, was starting the fire with oil while Dean was out. - Neighbors heard the woman scream as she ran out of the burning house. She was enveloped in flames. A wom an wrapped an old carpet around her and she was taken to a neigh bor's where she died several hours later. Parts of her body were char red. LABORER IS BLOWN T 0 BITS Meets Death While Dynamiting Stumps Near Duluth. - Erick Hanson, thirty-five years old, was killed by dynamite with. which he was blasting stumps. Tbe accident cccurred on the farm of Theodore Hollister, two miles north of I.ester park, ‘near Duluth. e TR Y T 4 Hanson was working at the time and it is not known just How: he met his death. It is believed that he may have fallen while carrying sticks of the dynamite in his pockets. 'His body was blown to bits. " ol - s 'MILL CITY NEGRO KILLED Witnéssés ‘Say’ His Slayer Acted In o 7 “Self-Defense” - - " Samuel Barney, a negro, was shot while in his room at Minneapolis lreceiving wounds frem which’ he died a short time after at the city ;hospltal. In an ante mortem state ' ment to. the county attorney Barnpey ‘charged John Hudson, also a negro, 5 with the shooting. - Wilnesses say ‘that the shooting was done in self ‘defense, a result of a quarrel be tween the two men. ) Long ago we decided that unless a stove or range was a fuel saver it was useless to stock it. In these days of high cost of living we have to consider our customers’ pocketbooks. Let us show you the stove or range you. want. We have the largest line of ' COOKS, RANGES, WOOD, HARD AND SOFT COAL HEATERS to be found in this section of Minnesota, includ ing the CELEBRATED MONARCH | AND HOT BLAST RANGES They burn any fuel it is convenient for you to secure---hard and soft coal, coke and wood, and are sold under a positive guarantee to give service, GUNS AND AMMUTION Of the best make are a specialty at this store. Once a buyer, always a customer G. Hillerud & Company Do You Want a SILO? This is a Silo Age. The Silo on a farm indicates a Progressive Farmer.---Why pay for patesi rights in buying a Silo when you can save the cost of these royal ties by buying a COMMON SENSE SILO Which is decidedly STONGER and BETTER than any other Wooden Silo built today. Mr. Farmer, if you are interested in a Silo it will pay you to investigate the merits of the Common Sense Silo. COMPLETE | PLANS FURNISHED FREE LEE & GINGERY COMPANY " ED. EVANS W. M. Morgan, f = ' FID B Corner Second and Main Streets’ ‘ s N A S I MRS Tonsorial Pailqr T—— and POOL HALL |} = GENERAL & BLACKSMITHING - ‘We guarantee high-grade work e ~ais v x , in the barber line, with prompt BEST-EQUIPPED SHOP IN | and courteous service. THE CITY A - Our pool and billiard tables are T T Tle TN S gfgt in- Ui& be?tt poslsible CO&; I have recently installed a New | VNN SBARING 10 & - Ploastto '® Gumming Machine and am pre play. 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