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Willmar Tribune.
By The Tribune Printing Co.
WILLMAR. MINN.
NEWSOFAWEEKIN
RECORD OP MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST
MANNER POSSIBLE.
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Happenings That Are Making History
—Information Gathered From Ail
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
Washington
Secretary MacVeagh invited popu
lar subscriptions to a $50,000,000 Issue
of government bonds to reimburse tbe
treasury general fund lor expenditure
on account of the Panama canal. The
government's announced intention is
to give preference to small bidders.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
designated 47 additional savings de
positories, making a total of 176 that
have been created to date. The offices
named will be made ready to receive
deposits on Monday, June 12.
Work will begin immediately on
the construction of the new $1,000,
000 temple for the Scottish Rite Ma
sons in Washington. President Taft
will lay the corner stone in Octo
ber.
Domestic
The general assemblies of the Pres
byterian church and the Southern
Presbyterian church met in annual
session, the former in Atlantic City
and the latter in Louisville, Ky.
A drunken negro, recently released
from Sing Sing prison, killed two
white men, stabbed three other white
men, two of them policemen, shot a
fourth white man and a little girl, in
a wild fight when a passenger on an
elevated train at New York city at
tacked the negro for smoking on the
platform of the train.
The ten Chicago meat packers un
der indictment charged with violation
of the Sherman anti trust law, won an
opportunity to reopen their case.
Judge Carpenter in the United States
district court at Chicago granted them
permission to file a motion for a re
hearing on the demurrers to the in
dictments.
President Lynch of the typographi
cal union has brought suit for $100,
000 damages against John Kirby and
the Manufacturers' association for
blaming the typographical union for
the Los Angeles Times dynamiting.
The principle of arbitration of prac
tically all disputes between nations
assumed vitality when Secretary of
State Knox submitted to the British
and French ambassadors the draft of
a convention to serve as a basis of ne
gotiations The fact that this move
ment •would be inaugurated with
France as well as Great Britain came
as a surprise.
The Helm committee reported to
the Illinois state senate that in Its
opinion Senator Lorimer's election
could not have been brought about ex
cept by bribery and corruption. No
recommendations were made In the
report for taking the matter to the
United States senate and outside of
the recital of the facts set forth there
was no comment.
The altar in St. Peter's Roman
Catholic cathedral at Erie, Pa., was
consecrated by Most Rev. Diomede
Falconio, papal delegate to the United
States, who celebrated pontifical high
mass.
The supreme court of the District of
Columbia, on its own initiative, insti
tuted proceedings for contempt
against President Gompers, Vice-Pres
ident Mitchell and Secretary Morrison
of the American Federation of Labor.
If adjudged guilty the men may be
sentenced to imprisonment.
The Supreme court of the United
States set aside the sentences of im
prisonment against President Samuel
Gompers, Vice-President John Mitchell
and Secretary Frank Morrison of the
American Federation of Labor, im
posed by the District of Columbia su
preme court for contempt in the Bucks
boycott case. The court decided that
the officials had been erroneously sen
tenced.
George Dryer, son of a New York
banker, revealed his identity to offi
cers of a boat at Seattle, Wash., on
which he was working his way to
Alaska, after it was rumored that he
committed suicide, following his disap
pearing from home.
When swimming in Tippecanoe lake
Bernard Minear and Morris Gary, high
school pupils, were drowned at War
saw, Ind. They had been missing and
search for them resulted late at
night in the finding of their bodies.
John Ellerman, trusted employe of
the Continental and Commercial Na
tional bank, has fled from Chicago in
the company, it is said of Miss Grace
Frost, a trained nurse. Ellerman is
alleged to have stolen more than Si
500 from the bank.
By the will of Walter E. Duryea of
New York, the crippled athlete and
broker, the bulk of his fortune, esti
mated at $2,500,000, goes to Miss
Eleanor Peregrine, a trained nurse
who acted as his housekeeper for the
last twelve years of his life.
Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts
preached the sermon at the service
of the blessing of the $250,000 Protest
ant Episcopal cathedral of St. Paul at
Detroit, Mich., which was opened for
public worship a few weeks ago.
Former President Theodore Roose
velt told about 1,000 New York clergy
men that materialism and paganism
are a serious meance to the welfare of
the United States. He declared that
men who blow up the buildings of
capitalists at the behest of labor lead
ers are murderers, and that unless
something is done to remedy present
conditions, the results will be dire.
To decide the ownership between
nations of $7,000,000 worth of property
now on the American side of the Rio
Grande river, in the southern section
of El Paso, an international commis
sion met at El Paso, Tex.
Publishers, clergymen, professors,
scientists and others signed a petition
presented to congress asking for an
inquiry into the manner in which
C. Worcester has conducted his office
as Philippine commissioner.
The government won its case in the
Supreme court of the United States
against the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey, it being held that it is a
conspiracy and monopoly in restraint
of trade. The decree of the lower
court was affirmed, although the time
for the combine's dissolution was ex
tended from one to six months.
Elgin, 111, and the entire country
roundabout are aroused over the dis
covery of the unidentified body of a
woman four miles south of Elgin bru
tally murdered, her skull battered in
three places, her throat slashed and
her clothing set on fire, resulting in
the burning of her body.
In going after a patient the Indian
apolis city hospital ambulance was
struck by a street car at East Tenth
street, killing Dr. Andrew G. Cooper,
an interne, and injuring Miss Gladys
Freelund, a nurse.
The wealth produced on farms of
the United States was $8,926,000,000
during 1910, as estimated by the de
partment of agriculture in a statement
just issued. This is an Increase of
$104,000,000 over 1909.
An auction sale by the government
of 2,000 tracts of unallotted land in
the Seminole, Creek and Cherokee
nations was begun at Wewoka, Okla.
Not more than 160 acres will be sold
to one person.
James A. Patten, the Chicago bro
ker, who has given $250,000 to aid in
the fight against tuberculosis, was
dealt a second blow by the scourge in
the death of his son, Thomas Bever
idge Patten, seventeen years old. The
boy's uncle, George Patten, died last
September of the same disease.
The United Confederate Veterans
and allied organizations opened their
annual meetings in Little Rock, Ark.
Personal
Stuyvesant Fish, III., arrived in this
world late Monday night at the house
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stuy
vesant Fish, Jr., in New York. The
new arrival is a grandson of the for
mer president of the Illinois Central
railroad.
It is reported that the engagement
of Claude Grahame-White, the British
aviator, and Pauline Chase, the
actress, has been broken.
After two years of life among the
Bagobos, a little known Philippine
tribe, Miss Laura Benedict of the staff
of the American Museum of Natural
History has returned to that institu
tion with a collection of 2,100 speci
mens illustrating the life and cus
toms of the tribe.
At the annual meeting of the Brit
ish Iron and Steel institute in London
the Carnegie research scholarship of
$500 was awarded to R. M. Keeney of
Colorado.
Miss Emilie B. Grigsby, ward of the
late Charles T. Yerkes, sailed to take
up what is expected to be her per
manent residence in London. Her
magnificent home in New York has
been virtually stripped of its art treas
ures and wonderful furnishings.
Foreign
It was said at the home of Dowager
Lady Decies in London that Lady
Decies is making satisfactory prog
ress toward recovery following the
operation for appendicitis.
Anna Besant, who has arrived in
London from India, announces the im
pending reincarnation of Christ.
Reports that 5,000 persons are star
ving on the Labrador coast are dis
credited by Captain Kean of the
steamer Home, which plies between
Curling, N. F., and Battle Harbor, Lab
rador.
The terms which President Diaz is
willing to grant in order to restore
peace to Mexico constitute practically
a complete surrender to the insur
rectos. President Diaz and Vice-Pres
ident Corral will resign before June
1 and a new election will be called
within six months.
The American Academy of Art in
Rome has purchased the Villa Aurelia,
on top of one of the historic hills near
Rome, where American artists can
work under the most favorable
auspices.
It Is reported in Mexico City that
the government, by several arrests
made, frustrated a plot to kidnap
President Diaz and carry him in an
automobile to Pachuca, 55 miles from
that city, where the rebels are in con
trol.
Amendment to the Canadian copy
right law, to affect American authors
and publishers who are protected in
Canada by only British copyright,
was introduced in the house of com
mons at Ottawa, Ont, by Minister of
Agriculture Fisher.
STANDARD OIL
LOSES ITS CASE
TOBEDISSOLVED
U. S. SUPREME BENCH DECLARES
CORPORATION ILLEGAL COM
BINATION, MONOPOLIZING
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
GUILTY OF VIOLATING
SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST LAW
Tremendous Struggles by the Govern
ment Ends in Great Victory*—
Six Months Given De
fendants te
Act.
SUMMARY OF DECISION.
In the Standard Oil Decision, the
supreme court holds:
That the Standard Oil Com
pany is a monopoly in restraint of
trade.
That this giant corporation must
be dissolved within six months.
Corporations whose contracts
are "not unreasonably restrictive"
of competition are not affected.
Other great corporations whose
acts may be called into question
will be dealt with according to
the merits oftheir particular cases.
A
Washington, D. C. The Standard
Oil company of New Jersey and its 19
subsidiary companies were declared by
the supreme court of the United States
to be a conspiracy and combination in
restraint of trade. They also were
held to be monopolizing interstate
commerce in violation of the Sherman
anti-trust law. The dissolution of the
combination was ordered to take place
within six months.
Thus ended the tremendous struggle
on the part of the government to put
down by authority of law a combina
tion which it asserted was a menace.
At the same time the court inter
preted the Sherman anti-trust law so
as to limit its application to acts of
"undue" restraint of trade and not
soning of the court in arriving at its
this point that the only discordant
note was heard in the court.
Justice Harlan's Contention.
Justice Harlan dissented, asserting
that cases already decided by the
court had determined once for all that
the words "undue" or "unreasonable"
and similar words, were not in the
statute. He declared that the rea
soning fthe court in arriving at its
finding was in effect legislation that
belonged in every instance to con
gress and not to the courts.
The opinion of the court was an
nounced by Chief Justice White. In
printed form, it contained more than
20,000 words.
Distinguished Audience Present.
Before him sat a distinguished au
dience of the most famous men of the
country. Senators and representatives
left their respective chambers in the
capitol to listen to the epoch-making
decision of the court. Most eager to
hear were Attorney General Wicker
sham and Frank B. Kellogg, special
counsel of the government, who had
conducted the great fight against the
Standard Oil. None of the brilliant
airay of counsel for the corporation or
individual defendants were present.
By far the greater portion of the
opinion of the chief justice was de
voted to the justification of the court
In requiring that the "rule of rea
son" be applied to restraints of trade
beiore they were held to be violations
ol the Sherman anti-trust law. The
court found this justification in the
common law of the forefathers and
in the general law of the country at
the time the Sherman anti-trust law
was passed. This meaning of the
words, according to the court, called
for exercise of reasoning in determin
ing what restraint on trade were pro
hibited.
Chief Justice Reviews Proceedings.
Chief Justice White in his opinion
first reviewed the preliminary pro
ceedings in the case in the circuit
court of the United States for the
Eastern district of Missouri. He re
stated the essential points in the bill
of the government asking for the dis
solution of the Standard Oil and the
answer questioning the jurisdiction of
the court and denying the claims of
the government.
He then came to tl* teguments as
to the law and tho facts in tbe case,
saying that out of the "jungles" of
law and facts both sides were engaged
only in one thing and that was that
the determination of the controversy
rested upon the proper construction
-and application of the first and second
sections of the anti-trust acts. The
views of the two sides, as to the law,
the chief justice said, were as wide
apart as the poles. The same he said
was true as to the facts.
ENGLISH LUTHERANI8M PA8SE8. TWENTY-TWO ARE LOST.
Denomination Merges with German
Congregations in Missouri Synod.
St. Louis, Mo. English Luther
anism lost its identity as a distinct
denomination, when the 80 congrega
tions comprising this branch of the
Missouri synod became merged with
the 3,000 German congregations.
Henceforth the English churches will
comprise the first of 24 districts of
the Lutheran church in the United
Btates.
HISTORY OF OIL TRUST.
1862—John D. Rockefeller start
ed In the oil business with HMO
1886—Rockefeller became the
owner of a refinery In Cleveland.
1870—Organization of Standard
Oil Company of Ohio effected by
Rockefeller and ethers.
1871—South Improvement Com*
pany arranged for rebates from
railroads.
1879—Organization of "Vilas
Keith-Chester trust."
1882—Organization of socalled
"Standard Oil trust."
1890—Passage of Sherman anti
trust act.
1892—Resolution of "Standard
OH trust."
Reorganization of Standard Oil
Company of NewJersey, as a hold
ing company.
1892—Dissolution of "Standard
cases.
1910—Circuit court in St. Louis
decrees dissolution.
1910—Appeal made to the su
pureme court.
1911—Supreme court orders dis
solution.
"Thus on the one hand with relent
less pertinacity and minuteness of
analysis," said the chief justice, "It
Is insisted that the facts established
that the assailed combination took its
birth in a purpose to unlawfully ac
quire wealth by oppressing the pub
lic and destroying the just rights of
others, and that its entire career ex
emplifies an inexorable carrying out of
such wrongful intents, since, it Is as
serted, the pathway of the combination
from the beginning of the time of the
filing of the bill is marked with con
stant proofs of wrong inflicted upon
the public and is strewn with the
wrecks resulting from crushing out,
without regard to law, the individual
rights of others. It is as
serted that the existence of the prin
cipal corporate defendant, the Stand
ard Oil Company of New Jersey, with
its vast accumulation of property, be
cause of its potency for harm and the
dangerous example which its contin
ued existence affords, is an open and
enduring menace to all freedom of
trade and a by-word and reproach to
all modern economic methods.
"On the other hand, in a powerful
analysis of the facts, it is insisted that
they demonstrate that the origin and
development of the vast business
which the defendants control was but
the result of lawful competitive meth
ods, guided by economic genius of the
highest order, sustained by courage, by
a keen insight into the commercial sit
uation resulting In the acquisition of
great wealth, but at the same time
serving to stimulate an increased pro
duction, to widely extend the distribu
tion of the products of petroleum at
a cost largely below that which other
wise have prevailed, thus proving to
oe at one and the same time a bene*
faction to the general public as well
as an enormous advantage to individ
uals."
Government Fully Upheld.
Commenting upon the Standard Oil
decision, Attorney General Wicker
sham said that the court unanimously
affirmed the decree rendered by the
circuit court in favor of the govern
ment in every particular, save that
give the defendants six months in
stead of 30 days' time in which to
comply with the decree.
President Mum on Decision.
President Taft and his cabinet hi
the regular session today will take up
the solution of the "trust question"
brought sharply before them by the
Standard Oil decision.
CHINESE UPRISING FEARED. INDIGNANT ACTORS STRIKE.
Europeans Flwe From Canton to
Hongkong by Thousands.
Hong Kong, China. There alarm
ing rumors of a revolutionary upris
ing at Canton and the surrounding
districts. Europeans in Shamien,
foreign district of Canton, are pre
pared to leave. The restlessness is
widespread and tens of thousands of
persons are fleeing from the disturbed
AS&VOA to this city.
The president himself had nothing
to say about the decision. He wished,
he told callers, to read it carefully*
to discuss It with the cabinet and to
dissect it with Mr. Wickersham. Un
til these things had been done, he
had no opinion to voice.
Washington, May 16.—Setting aeitic
the sentences of imprisonment in*
posed by the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, for alleged dis
obedience to a boycott injunction, the
supreme court of the United States
held that Samuel Gompers, John
Mitchell and Frank Morrison, presi
dent, vice-president and secretary re
spectively of the American Federa
tion of Labor, had been erroneously
sentenced to jail on a charge of con
tempt of a local court.
The court unanimously held that
the only sentences that could be im
posed upon the labor leaders were
fines. In so holding the supreme
court of the United Stater found that
the court of appeals of tfoe District
of Columbia and the supreme court
of the district erred in treating the
contempt proceedings as a criminal
case and not a civil one. The effect
of holding the proceedings a civil one
was to make jail sentences impos
sible. Hence the jail sentences had
to be set aside.
Inasmuch as all of the differences
between the labor men and the Buck
Stove and Range company have been
adjudicated including the boycott
case out of which the contempt pro
ceedings arose, today's decision Is
probably the last to be heard of this
famous action.
French Fishing Boat Founders Near
the Grand Banks.
St. Pierre.—The probable less of
the French fishing schooner Victoria
with her entire crew of twenty-two
men was reported by the captain of
the French brigantine Robinson. The
Victoria is thought to have gone down
with all on board while anchored on
the Grand bank in April. She hailed
from Port St. Malo.
Manager Said Act Was Poor La
Crosse Audience Disappointed^
La Crosse, Wis. After a local
theater was filled with spectators
ready to witness the performance,
"White Rats," who constituted prao*
tically the entire bill of players, went
on a strike because one of tho acts
was cancelled. The audience had to
be satisfied with motion pastures, and
the manager of the theater AM at
tached the actor's property.
DIETZ GETS A
LIFE SENTENCE
DEFENDER OF CAMERON DAM IS
CONVICTED BY JURY AT
HAYWARD.
WIFE AND SON ARE ACQUITTED
First Serious Rebuff to Noted Back
woodsman in Celebrated Case Which
Has Been In the Courts For
Nearly Ten Years.
Hayward.—-John Deitz, guilty of
murder in the first degree, and his
wife, Mrs. Hattie Deitz and his son
Leslie, not guilty. Such was the ver
dict of the*jury in the famous case of
the Wisconsin backwoodsman. For
the killing of Oscar Harp, a sheriff's
deputy, for which crime he has been
convicted, John Deitz was sentenced
to prison for life, and will be in soli
tary confinement one day each year,
Oct. 8, the anniversary of Harp's
death.
Deitz announced his intention of
filing an appeal, and will employ an
attorney. He acted as his own at
torney in the present case.
Clerical Error Cause.
A clerical error, the omission of a
mention of a reservation of rights for
the Mississippi River Logging com
pany and the Chippewa Lumber and
Boom company, the original owners, to
maintain Cameron dam and flow the
land after it had been transferred to
Mrs. Cameron, is declared by many
to have started the controversy which
ended with the jury's verdict today.
The rights of the dam and the flowage
of the land has always been the con
tention of John Deitz on the grounds
that it is located on the property
which is in his wife's name and as
much has been ascertained by survey
ors for the lumber company.
The company claimed that when the
land was deeded over to Mrs. Camer
on, who later sold it to Mrs. Deitz,
they retained the perpetual rights to
the dam and flowage, but this reserva
tion was left out of the warranty deed
which Mrs. Deitz now holds and it is
on this omission that the Deitz family
base 'their claims to the dam.
Since 1904, at which time the
trouble began, when Deitz refused to
allow the lumber companies to send
the logs over the dam, there have
been ten efforts to capture. In the
wholesale violence which attended
these attempts one man, a deputy
sheriff, met his death, three were
wounded, on the one side, while with
the defenders of the property Myra
Deitz was wounded in the back, Clar
ence shot in the head and John Deitz
wounded through the hand. The
shooting of Bert Horel is an addition
al outgrowth of the trouble.
Lumber Held Up.
The lumber piles which proved such
points of vantage in the battle of
last October are composed of lumber
sawed from part of a drive of 6,500,000
feet which Deitz held up when the
lumber companies refused him $8,000,
which he claimed as his due for about
80,000,000 feet of logs which had pass
ed over the dam since his wife bought
the quarter section on which it is lo
cated. When an injunction was issued
by Judge Parish, Sheriff Peterson, in
stead of personally serving it on the
members of the Deitz family, mailed
it, with the result that it was burned.
For not doing his duty and serving the
paper, Sheriff Peterson was deposed,
fined and sentenced to imprisonment,
but was later released from the fine
and sentence.
Sheriff Fred Clark during a previous
term was the next officer of the law
to call upon Deitz. Without papers
Clark went to the cabin and tried to
get Deitz to go with him to the county
seat, but no attention was paid to
him.
Sheriff Wiliam Giblin, with William
Eliot and armed posse, moved on
Cameron Dam, May 10, 1904, but were
met in the woods and after an ex
change of shots without Injury gave it
up as a bad job. Valentine Weisen
bach, who assisted Deitz in resisting
this service, is now serving a ten-year
sentence at Waupun for his complic
ity.
A warrant brought to the cabin by
Thomas Grist, a G. A. R. man and the
next sheriff, was promptly consigned
to the flames.
Posse in Vicinity.
A posse hovered in the vicinity of
the Deitz clearing for several days in
1905, but left without accomplishing
anything, and later Sheriff Colon vis
ited the occupants of the cabin and ac
complished as much. He was followed
by Deputy United States Marshals Jo
nas and Merklln, who were thrown out
of the cabin bodily when they tried to
serve their papers. When they were
ordered from the clearing at the point
of a gun Deputy Sheriff Waite Ackley
and another man who were the next
Famous Athlete Is Married.
Lenox, Massachusetts. Percy D.
Haughton, famous as the coach of
Harvard's football teams of '08, '09but
and '10, and Mrs. Gwendolin Whistler
Howell, a popular society woman of
New York, were married today at the
home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Joseph
8. Whistler, in this city. The wed
ding was a brilliant affair and was
attended by many Havard alumni
from New York and elsewhere. There
will be a large reception this evening,
after which the couple will leave for
& honeymoon in the south.
Collision Fatal to Trainmen.
White River Junction, Vermont.—
Two freight trains on the Boston
and Maine railroad collided head-on
during a fog, killing four trainmen and
injuring three others. The wreckage
eaught fire and several of the bodies
were partly burned. The wreck was
due to overlapping orders.
Bill Lange Wins From American.
Sydney, New South Wales. Bill
Lange got the decision over Jack Les
ter, the American heavy weight, in the
sixth round
legal visitor* did not waste time in
fond good-byes.
Then Deputy United Btates Marshal
Pugh of Superior came and deposited
on a stump some more papers which
were thrown into the Thornapple.
Sheriff James Gylland, with John Rog
ish and John Heft and armed posses
hired in Milwaukee and disguised in
the uniforms of Wisconsin National
Guardsmen, crawled on the cabin.
Rogish was shot three times and
Clarence was shot in the head. The
posse left for Milwaukee just ahead
of a fusillade of Deitz' bullets and
ahead of them was Sheriff James Gyl
land. Last December in the municipal
court in Hayward, John Deitz, Mrs.
Deitz, Leslie, Myra and Clarence were
bound over for trial on charges of as
sault with intent to kill.
Bert Horel Affair.
Then came the Bert Horel affair,
September 6, 1910, which changed the
sentiment of the community against
Deitz and his family. During the pri
mary election in Winter on that day,
Deitz was arguing with G. G. O'Hare
of the school board, when Bert Horel
interfered. Blows were exchanged and
Deitz was knocked in a ditch. Deitz
arose and shot Horel through the neck
and the shoulder. On the charge of
assault with intent to kill Bert Horel,
Clarence was freed last year.
With the growing determination in
Sawyer county to capture John Deitz
at all hazards, the armed posses under
command of Sheriff Mike Madden, Fred
Thorbahn and Roy Van Alstyne, the
latter one of Deitz' worst enemies, sur
rounded the cabin and laid siege to it
for three days, ending Oct. 8 on the
surrender of the head of the family
after he had been shot through the
hand and Deputy John Harp had been
killed by a bullet.
A coroner's jury in Winter attrib
uted Harp's death to John Deitz, his
wife and his son Leslie. Myra was in
the hospital at Ashland and Clarence
Deitz was in jail at Hayward, where
they had been taken after they had
been captured on the road to Winter
one week before the fight, when they
ran into an ambuscade of deputies.
The members of the family appeared
in the municipal court of Hayward on
the various charge and were bound
over to the circuit court. All were la
ter released on bond. Deitz retained
but one attorney, and when his efforts
to secure a change of venue had failed
Deitz severed connection with him and
took up his own defense before the
law.
START OF CORONATION FETES.
King George Dedicates Victoria Me
morial.
London, England.—The presence of
the German emperor and empress and
their daughter, Victoria Louise, who,
rumor says, is to be given in marriage
to the prince of Wales, at King
George's dedication of the great Vic
toria memorial, and the opening of the
Festival of Empire marked the
beginning of the three months* reign
of merrymaking with which the Brit
ish empire will celebrate the corona
tion of the king and queen in June—
incidentally putting millions of dol
lars into the pockets of British trades
men.
The dedication ceremonies took
place near Buckingham palace, where
the great monument to the late queen
overtops the Mall and rears its stately
proportions high in the air, crowned
by a gigantic bronze statue of Peace.
A troop of the famous Life Guards
preceded the open carriage of the king
and queen, then followed many more
carriages bearing the prime minis
ter, members of the parliament and
many other persons of note. At the
foot of the monument a great plat
form had been erected and it was
there that the actual ceremonies at
tendant upon the dedication took
place.
IRON SAFE BEFORE GRAND JURY.
Taken From Closed Offices of Carnegie
Trust Company.
New York, N. Y. A big steel safe
was taken by force of law from the
closed offices of the Carnegie Trust
Company and hauled into the grand
Jury room at the criminal courts build
ing, where it will be examined for evi
dence it may contain regarding the af
fairs of the defunct institution.
William J. Cummins refused to open
the safe and professional safe workers
were called in to open the doors. Dis
trict Attorney Whitman declined to
say whether papers valuable in the
grand jury investigation had been
found.
Provisional Officers for Cananea.
Cananea, Mexico. The major por
tion of Juan Cabral's army moved
away from Cananea, marching west
ward. It is not known whether the
force is headed against Hermosillo or
Nogales. Cabral himself has not left
Cananea. The revolutionary leaders
at a meeting presided over by Judge
Cabral, selected the provisional offi
cers of Cananea.
Berkshire Fires Out.
Millers Falls, Massachusetts. A
heavy shower extinguished the forest
fires which have been burning in this
region. The loss is estimated at
$100,000.
Will Be Sentenced to Be Hanged.
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It
took a jury in Sault Ste Marie, Ont,
40 minutes to find William Carroll,
65 years old, guilty of the murder of
George Thibault. Carroll will be sen
tenced to be hanged by Justice Brit
ton. Carroll, after accusing Thibault,
a much younger man, of persistently
annoying him and stealing his cloth
ing, practically decapitated the young
er man with an ax while the two were
in the bunk house of a lumber camp,
59 miles northeast of Blind River,
Ont., on Jan. 18.
Mutiny at Fez.
Tangier, Morocco.—A report reached
here that a large part of the Fez gar
rison had mutinied and that the cap
ture of the city by the besieging re
bels of the city and the overthrow of
Sultan Mulai Hafid were imminent.
Wall Falls Six Hurt.
Chicago, Illinois.—By the collapse of
a portion of the front wall of the old
Hunt hotel, six persons were hurt, one
woman fatally. The building was be
ing demolished to make room for the
new borne of the Hamilton club.
SCANDINA VIAN NEWS
PHnolnal Events Gathered in the
OldScandinavian Countries
DENMARK.
About 8,250,000 oysters were caught
In Limfjorden during the past season.
The Frederikberg commune of
Copenhagen has voted $50,000 for the
aid of private schools during the next
three years.
London.—It is definitely announced
that Queen Alexandra will be absent
from London throughout the corona
tion festivities.
Reykjavik.—The Iselandic parlia
ment has passed a bill giving the
right of suffrage to all women who
have reached the age of 25.
A Danish balloon that ascended in
Copenhagen landed at Knutstorp,
Sweden, where the aviators met
Count Wachtmeister, who invited
them to dinner.
Fifty convicts from the Horsens
penitentiary have just been transport
ed to Jylland, where they will be em
ployed in clearing wild land during
the warm season.
A Danish paper suggests that the
Danes boycott German goods as a pro
test against the manner in which the
Danes are treated in South Jylland, or
Schleswig, as the Germans call the
province.
Members of the Danish noblemen's
club and of the Danish noblemen's
union have bought a house at number
seven, Dronningens Tvargade, Copen
hagen, where those organizations are
going to establish their headquarters.
London.—Uneasiness is manifested
here over the report that Alexandra,
the queen mother, was ill during
the Mediterranean trip that she has
just completed. There are conflicting
reports as to her present condition,
giving rise to the fear that the corona.
ation program may be affected.
The Mormons have been carrying
on a very vigorous agitation in South
Sjalland. Three missionaries who
have their headquarters at Nastved
made a house to house canvas. They
finally felt strong enough to hold a
publio meeting. Some ministers were
there, and they discussed Mormonism
in such a manner that a large majority
of the 500 people who were present
voted in favor of a resolution urging
the government to take radical steps
against the Mormon propaganda.
SWEDEN.
The Hngon (small, red berries) ex
port was much smaller in 1910 than
in 1909.
The Swedish shipowners' union has
taken steps to establish a nautical
library in Stockholm.
The Swedish lady artist's union re
solved to hold its first exposition in
March, 1912, at Malmo.
The Swedish church in Copenhagen
is going to be dedicated, June first.
King Gustaf is going to attend the
ceremonies.
Vart Fosterland (Our Country), a
periodical, went to the wall, and the
assets proved to be 30 kronor and the
liabilities 21,967.67 kronor.
A number of prominent men in
Stockholm are contemplating the es
tablishment of a home for ex-convicts
in some rural community.
The Stockholm general telephone
company, the oldest pioneer in the
Swedish telephone industry, made a
clear profit of more than $1,000,000
last year. The company has large
plans for the future, especially in
Russia.
A very large number of ships were
wrecked along the coasts of Sweden
in 1910, and several new life stations
will have to be established. Fewer
ships were stranded along the danger
ous coast of Holland than in former
years, but in the Baltic sea and the
Gulf of Bothnia the loss of ships and
human lives was very great. In two
shipwrecks the entire crew was lost.
A Swedish art exposition was open
ed in Brighton, England, April 22. The
Swedish paintings filled three rooms.
The city mayor opened the exposition,
after which the Swedish ambassador,
Count Wrangel, made the main
'peech. A great number of prominent
lien were present. The English
Speakers, of whom there were several,
praised Swedish art in glowing terms.
Anders Zorn had 28 numbers, Carl
Larrson 20, and Prince Eugen 8.
The board of managers of the Sew
dish prisons has made a report on
the results of the application of the
system of conditional pardon. Dur
ing the past year 28 convicts were
set free on certain conditions before
the end of the term. Eleven of them
had been found guilty of manslaugh
ter or assault and battery, thirteen of
rape, one of arson, and three of forg
ery or embezzlement. Eleven out of
the whole number kept ttaeir pledge
and were restored to complete liber
ty. None of these had done any wrong
during the probation period. Ten
others had established a good reputa
tion, and only one was reported to
have misbehaved and to have been
loath to do honest work.
England has commenced to pro
hibit the importation of butter con
taining more than sixteen per cent of
brine. This change will compel the
Swedish butter testers to take much
greater pains than before in testing
butter from the 502 creameries that
have agreed to comply with the re
quirements of the English butter laws.
The Jewish conscripts cannot, on
account of religious considerations,
eat the food provided for the soldiers
by the government, and now they
will receive cash in place of the regu
lar board, so that they may buy what
ever they wish to eat.
At the beginning of this year the
Swedish employers' union had 1,332Socialist
members employing 158,915 persons.
The maximum amount which they are
pledged to pay in case of labor
troubles is about $4,400,000. Over
$50,000 was paid out last year on ac
count of strikes and lockouts.
O. B. Haglund, an engineer in Hel
sfngborg, has joined the great cara
van of inventors of perpetuum mo
biles. Those who have seen the ma
chine agree that it is a very clever
contrivance, but as to its ability to
run Itself forever—well, that is a diff
erent question.
The Svardsbro hotel, which was loo
ated a few miles south of Gnesta, was
destroyed by fire in the night. A store
and the town hall were also burnt up.
There was no water to be had, and
so the fire swept up everything with
in reach. An insurance of $5,000
covers o«Iy a part of the loss.
Karlsruhe, Germany, May 4.—Kaiser
Wilhelm, Kaiserin Auguste, and Prin
cess Louise, and also King Gustaf and
the queen of Sweden are the guests
of the grand duke and the grand
duchess at this place. The King and
queen of Sweden came here on theii
way home from a visit to the King
and queen of Italy at Rome.
Major H. Sindencrona and Captain
H. Berglund of the Swedish army in
vented a car coupling which bids fail
to excel all others. Several railroadt
in Sweden have introduced the new
invention. The government of Prus
sia has tried everything in this lm«
without ever finding anything satis
factory, and now is going to make
a thoro test of the Swedish inven
tion.
A. P. Gunnerson, a contractor, used
to pump sand out of the bottom ol
the sea at Lundakra, near Malmo
But both the fishermen and the farm
ers of the neighborhood objected, and
the provincial government stopped
the traffic. Mr. Gunnerson comp'axn
ed to the higher authorities, but the
provincial government is still in hif
way.
The spring work was done ucdex
very favorable conditions in south
ern Sweden. Frosts and thaws alter
nated during the winter, and this
made the soil mellow. At the ap
proach of the seeding season came
mild winds, drying the ground suffi
ciently for plowing and dragging
The seeding^of the small grains was
finished at the close of Arpil, and im
mediately afterwards came the plant
ing or sugar beets and other root
crops.
NORWAY.
No one can tell what Roald Amund
sen's south pole expedition is doing
at the present time. He may be push
ing for the pole, or he may simply be
making preparations to start next fall.
Fridtjof Nansen thinks that there
would be no sense in starting for the
south pole at this time of the year,
exposing men and dogs to the rigors
of the antarctic winter, which lasts
thru our summer.
Ditlef Martens and wife, nee Smith,
of Bergen, have celebrated their diam
ond wedding at the home of their son,
a banker at Moss. The bridegroom
is 85 and the bride 80 years old. Both
of them are hale and hearty. His
parents died at the ages of 84 and 80,
and he is himself the youngest of
twenty brothers and sisters. The par
ents of the bride also lived to cele
brate their diamond wedding.
The bautasten (granite monument)
which the people of Norway are going
to present to the city of Rouen on the
occasion of the millennium of the es
tablishment of the duchy of Norman
die is 22 feet high and weighs fifteen
tons. Prof. Magnus Olsen has written
the dedication in the Old Norse
tongue used in Norway one thousand
years ago, and this Is to be cut in
runes on the front of the stone. There
will also be a French inscription oft
the monument. The work of prepar
ing the stone must be rushed, and four
men are engaged in the day and three
others at night. The plan is to put
up the stone in the botanical gar
dens of Rouen before the millennial
celebration.
The impending labor conflict was
avoided, and there is rejoicing all
over the country. At the present time
the men work 57 hoars a week, but
this will be cut down to 55.5 hours.
The wages are to be as follows: first
group (eastern part of the country),
experts will have their pay raised
from 34 to 37 ore (100 ore, or one
krone, is about 27 cents) per hour
the second group (the western part
of the country), experts will have
their pay raised from 32 to 35 ore per
hour the third group (some specified
factories), experts will have thein
from 30 to 33 ore, and in 1914 to 35
ore. A corresponding raise will be"
made tor the apprentices and the
helpers. The above figures represent
the minimum rates. The women will
also get more pay in the future, and
the compromise seems to be a victory
for the employees along the whole
line. The agreement further provides
that both parties shall have a right
to form unions that the employers
shall have full control of the work
that the employers shall have a tight
to discharge laborers whether they
are members of unions or not that
no one shall be compelled to work to
gether with persons suffering from
some loathsome disease, nor together
with notoriously immoral persons
and that controversies shall be settled
by arbitration.
The exposition in Kristiania in 1914
Is to be a strictly Norwegian aCair,
and no other nation will be invited.
But Norwegians in America, Africa,
and other parts of the world will be
invited u»d received with open arms.
It now looks as if a large island. Hove
doen, in the Kristiania fjord will be
used for the exposition. This means
that said island as well as many small
islands will be made apart of the city.
The municipal electric plant and
street railway of Trindhjem did so
well last year that the surplus for the
year was $43,000 in excess of the esti
mates.
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Rev. Alfred Ericksen, the ablest
in the country and the pas
tor of the Vaalerengen parish, Krist
iania, is somewhat liberal in his re-v
ligious views. Now he is going to
have more or less trouble in his own
flock. A number of influential mem
bers of his congregation have organiz-
i£
ed a union on a strictly orthodox §SfeT"*'
basis. S
Prof. Odland of the Free Church s^^gg
faculty is coming to America In a fev* 1/^f^
weeks. He will give a course of lect
ures at the Minister's summer schoo*
at Augsburg seminary, Minneapolis
llinn.