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THE VALE EXPOSITOR FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 11)08. F REVIEW OF II WEEK'S EVENTS RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM IZED FORM. HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS Information Gathered from All Quar ters of the Civilized World and Prepared for the Perusal of the Busy Man. THE THAW TRIAL. " The Thaw trial was adjourned be cause witnesses from Europe were de layed by the Atlantic coast storm. Justice Dowling decided to limit each side In the Thaw trial to three expert witnesses and two of the defense's trio were heard as to the facts of the men tal and physical examinations they made of Harry Thaw in the Tombs prison. In the Thaw trial Anthony Corn stock told of letters he received from Thaw concerning Stanford White's apartments, and the defendant's mother testified as to insanity in the Thaw family. District Attorney Jerome's long and severe cross-examination of Mrs. Eve lyn Xesbit Thaw at the trial of her husband came to an end and the at torneys for the defense placed tn evi dence a letter written by the defend ant In the fall of 1903 which com pletely corroborated the claim that the girl who was to become his wife did tell him the story of her relations with Stanford White much as she ha3 related it upon the stand at this and the former trial. Miscellaneous. At the request of the board of di rectors of the National Bank of North America of New York, the comptroller of the currency ordered the bank to be closed for liquidation and appointed National Hank Examiner Charles W. Ilanna as receiver. It was believed the bank was solvent, but its resources had been drained by a long run. Attended by a division of Argentine torpedo boats, the American torpedo boat flotilla, which left Rio Janeiro January 21, entered the port of Buenos Ayres. Mrs. Mary G. Baker Eddy, founder and head of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, left her home, Pleasant View, in Concord, N. H., and by a circuitous route in a special train went to Chestnut Hill, Brookline, Mass., to a house recently purchased by the Christian Science denomination, where she will reside permanently. The Mine Owners' association of Goldfield, Nev., abolished the card sys tem and declared "open shop" In the mines. Miss IiOiiise de la Ramee, better known by her pen name of Oulda, died In the home of her faithful maid, lollna Cervelll, near Florence. Her death was due to old age. Burglars -entered the Jewelry store of F. R. Darcy In Kalamazoo, Mich., and took goods valued at 110,000. Three men were killed Instantly and five others seriously Injured by a pre mature explosion of dynamite In the Bergen Hill section of the Pennsyl vania tunnel at Homestead, N. J. The Illinois Central Railroad com pany entered suit against the town of Herrln, 111., for $700,000 on the grounds of Interfering with traffic. A Herrln police magistrate recently as sessed a fine against the railroad for shipping Into the place beer and whisky after the territory had become anti-saloon. Lady Showing Ichljo, mother of the empress of Japan, died, aged 80 years. Fire in Clinton. Ia., caused $150, 000 damage to Fish Brothers' wagon works. Nearly a million dollars' damage was done by a fire in the wholesale district of Portland, Me. T. Tchlgorln, the noted chess master,- died In St. Petersburg. He was born In 1850. R. H. Rogers was taken from his home near Hopklnsvllle, Ky., and se verely whipped by night riders. Secretary Taft submitted a report on conditions In the Philippines In which he took a very optimistic view of the future of the Islands. Rev. Father Maria Tiernado of the Capuchin order, who was sent by the pope in July last to Addis Adeba with . a decoration for King Menelik, is re turning with an autograph letter from Menelik and two lions as a present for the pontiff. Mrs. Mary Frances Reiley, who said she refused to marry Abraham Lin coln in 1839, died at Sioux City, la., aged 83. Mrs. Mary Roberts Clark, a mani cure, shot and killed Frank Brady, a newspaper advertising man. In the restaurant in Macy' store in New York, and then committed suicide. She was enraged because Brady had left her to make a home for bis aged mother. Robert Boyd Burch of Cincinnati, member of the Junior Academic class, was elected captain of the Yale foot ball team. The girls' dormitory of Bethany col lege at Bethany, W. Va., was partial ly destroyed by fire, a hundred girls being rescued by male students. Socialist suffrage demonstrations In Brunswick, Germany, led to a collision with the police, In which several per sons were wounded and many arrests were made. Morris J. Jessup, retired banker and ' long prominent in civic affairs In New York, died from heart disease. Thieves in New Orleans held up a United States mail wagon and were reported to have secured about $5,000. George L. Thomas, a freight broker of New York city, and L. B. Taggart, his clerk, pleaded guilty In the United States district court at Kansas City, to the charge of conspiring to pay rebates to shippers. Judge Smith McPherson then fined Thomas $7,000 and Taggart $4,000. The Central hotel at Pontlac, 111., was destroyed by flre, the guests es caping In their night clothes. The greater part of two business blocks in Madison, 111., was burned, the loss being over $100,000. The Haytlan revolution has ten suppressed. Jean Jumeau, the leader of the movement, was captured at Dessallnes, and was at once shot to death by the government troops. Gonalves has been occupied by a gov ernment force. Believing that a restoration of the old passenger rate law In North Caro lina will prevent the reduction ex pected in their salaries, the em ployes of the combined railroads of the state will petition the legislature to repeal the present 1xk cent per mile law. CapL Charles F. Brown, aged 74, civil war veteran and well known min eralogist, died in a St. Louis hos pital a pauper. The Minnesota board of pardons commuted to life Imprisonment the sentence of Merton S. Munn, who was to have been hanged at Bemidjl on February 7 for the murder of Au gust Franklin. A fire which caused a property dam age of $1,000,000 destroyed the city hall and police buildings in Portland. Me., and endangered the lives of more than 700 persons. Andrew Jackson Detsch, who was charged with murdering Harry Ferree in a boarding house in Philadelphia, was acquitted on his plea that he thought Ferree was a burglar. The police asserted Detsch had discovered an intrigue between his wife and Fer ree, but he denied this. Emily Yznaga, mother of the dow ager duchess of Manchester and of Lady Lister-Kaye of England, died at Natchez, Miss. After administering a huge dose of laudanum to her young son Kenneth, Mrs. George Stetson of Burlington, Wis., drank the remainder of the vial in an attempt at suicide Friday. The boy, nged nine, is dead. W. Leo Bockemohle, cashier of the suspended Bank of Ellinwood at Ellin wood. Kan., under arrest for making a false statement of the bank's condi tion in December, shot and killed him self when his bondsmen surrendered him. Gilman Mitton was burned to death near Kewanee, 111. Charles Bradley, a fire captain of Minneapolis, Minn., was run over and killed by his engine. A fierce blizzard swept the Atlantic coast, endangering and delaying ship ping, and doing great damage "in numerous towns. In New York heavy snow fell and the storm caused four deaths. The International Harvester com pany of Milwaukee was Indicted at Frankfort, Ky., for violation of the Kentucky anti-trust laws. S. R. Hamlll of Terre Haute, Ind., associate counsel for John R. Walsh, died in Chicago of pneumonia. Paul Kelly, the motorman who was Indicted for homicide In connection with the New York elevated wreck in which 16 people lost their lives on September 1, 1905, was found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. A drastic prohibition proposal was unanimously and favorably reported In the Michigan constitutional conven tion by the committee on liquor af fairs. Rev. Dr. P. F. DIssez, a member of. the faculty of St. Mary's seminary, Baltimore, and who was one of the in structors of Cardinal Gibbons when he attended that institution, died, aged 80. Aurel Batonyl began suit in New York against Frank Work, his father-in-law, and two others for $1,500,000 for their alleged alienation of the af fections of his wife, Mrs. Burke Roche. Margaret Fulton, aged 86, and Jane Fulton, aged 82, sisters, were burned to death In their home near St. Clalrs ville, O. Miss Georgia A. Smythe, a waitress In a Boston lunch room, has received news from her home in New Bruns wick that she Is entitled to a fortune of $200,000 by virtue of being a great-great-grandaughter of Maria Fitzher bert, celebrated in history as having been married to King George IV. of England. Hocking, la., a small mining town, was partly burned. ' The powder house of the mines exploded and started the flre. Dr. Farmano Lopez, who was con nected with the recent conspiracy to blow up Premier Franco of Portugal with a bomb, made a daring escape from the San Julia prison, a strong fortress at the mouth of the Tagus river. James II. Smith and his daughter, Mrs. Mattie Halpin, were burned to Jeath at Irvington, Ind. The Haytlan revolutionists captured the town of Port-de-Paix. Fire destroyed a baggage car con taining all the baggage of a party of 100 Shriners from St. Louis, Chicago and Kansas City, returning from the City of Mexico, where they had been to institute a new organization. To the booming of guns and the iheers of thousands on the accom Danylng pleasure craft, the American warships sailed from Rio Janeiro, jound for Punta Arenas. The Michigan constitutional con tention committee on elections unani mously reported out a proposal grant ng women suffrage, with a recom mendation that it be passed. It was announced at an alumni ban quet in New York that $50,000 needed to obtain the gift of $50,000 by Andrew Carnegie for the Illinois college at Jacksonville, 111., had been raised. All the missing passengers and crew of the steamer Amsterdam were taken Into port at Hook of Holland by the Norwegian steamer Songa. District Judge George M. Bourquin at Butte, Mont., approved a loan of $200,000 by Edward Crelghton Largey to the State Savings bank, a suspend ed Heinze Institution, to resume busi ness. The will of Mrs. Lydia Bradley, who died at Peoria, 111., leaves $4,000,000 to the Bradley Polytechnic institute, affiliated with the University of Chi cago,' and only $5,000 to heirs and others. Three valuable miniatures of the duchess of Fife, the queen of Norway and Princess Victoria, all belonging to Queen Alexandra, were stolen by burglars from the studio of an en graver in London. Turle Nordstrom, wanted in Chica go for passing a forged check amount ing to $15,000, was arrested at May port, Fla.. on board a yacht which he had purchased at Brunswick, Ga. Several hundred men were clubbed by the Chicago police and a number were more or less seriously hurt in the loop district when 200 uniformed patrolmen and detectives charged an "army of the unemployed" in efforts to disperse them. The "army" was marching toward the city hall to de mand work. It was finally disrupted. Frank J. Constantine, who killed Mrs. Louise Gentry In Chicago and who attempted suicide in the Jollet penitentiary by throwing himself from a gallery, died. Several severe earthquake shocks terrified the inhabitants of towns in Calabria. Italy, and did great damage to buildings. An attempt to overthrow the mon archy and proclaim Portugal a repub lic was nipped in the bud by the prompt action of the government. The plot was organized by a small group of advanced republicans, the leaders of whom were arrested. The plan was to assassinate Premier Franco and then depend for success upon street risings, supported by secret, republican and labor organizations, armed with bombs and revolver. Believing that bis illness would re sult fatally, John Fetter, aged 73 years, of South Bethlehem. Pa., confessed that he murdered his daughter, Ella Fetter, aged 3D years, in November, 1S94. Fire at Deer River, Minn., destroyed a block and a half of the business portion of the town, causing loss es timated at $100,000. Mrs. Henry A. Alexander, daughter of the late Gen. Joseph T. Torrence of Chicago eloped from Hyeres. France, with William Graham Blakes ton. an Englishman. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad cut all salaries of officers and employes receiving $150 a month and over. Three firemen were killed and 15 Injured in the worst flre Baltimore has had since the big conflagration of 1904. The loss is estimated at $500,000. Charles Mitchell, aged 70 years, a retired wholesale dealer, died at St. Joseph, Mo. He was wounded on the Merrfmac in its first day's fight with the Monitor during the civil war. Rev. J. W. O'Bryant, who has been pastor of the Hyde Park Methodist church of St. Joseph, Mo., has re signed to become a street car con ductor on a suburban line. King Alfonso of Spain while hunt ing had a narrow escape from being killed by a wild boar. The supreme court of the United States denied the petition for an ap peal In the Chicago Street Railroad re organization case. In order to prevent the spread of scarlet fever, the board of education of Minneapolis decided to burn a large number of text books. At Dowaglac. Mich., an audience of about 150, mostly women and children, was thrown into a panic by a flre In a moving picture theater. No one was seriously Injured. Three men were arrested In Mes sina, Sicily, charged with complicity in the murder of a paymaster at Portage, Pa., several years ago. Dr. W. E. Carter, a veterinary suf geon of Meadvllle, Mo., was tortured by whltecaps. Bennie A. Walker of Canton, O., Is thought to be lost in the mountains near Los Angeles, Cal. He has been missing since January 15. It is announced In New York that W. D. Haywood, who was acquitted on the charge of murdering ex-Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho, will be the can didate of the Socialists for president Nils Nlelson, tender of the light house on the New Haven breakwater, committed suicide by cutting bis throat. He had saved many lives. Gov. Warner of Michigan announced that former Gov. John T. Rich had ac cepted an appointment as state treas urer to succeed Frank P. Glazier, who resigned. Fire Commissioner Lantry of New York said the city's flre hose was so old and rotten they had never dared to test It. N Judge Phillips at Cleveland, O., In deciding the case against the Amalga mated Glass Workers' union held that the organization was In restraint of trade and ordered Its dissolution on the ground of public policy. At Albuquerque, N. M., the trial of the divorce suit of Mrs. Pearl Turner against Mark C. Turner, a federal clerk, was discontinued when the court was notified by telephone that Mrs. Turner had shot and killed her self. The Free Methodist seminary at Wesslngton Springs, S. D., was de stroyed by fire. The loss is $15,000. STATE TREASURER RESIGNS THE RESIGNATION WAS PREPARED AND SENT TO LANSING, TUESDAY, FOR DELIVERY TO THE GOVERNOR PERSONALLY. State Treasurer Glazier has resigned. The governor filed specific charges against Glazier several days ago, charging him with misfeasance and malfeasance in office, among other things being criticised in the manner of depositing the state's money in the Chelsea bank without adequate secur ity. This followed Glazier's refusal to reslfn, which it appears he reconsid ered. The letter of resignation follows: To Fred M. Warner, Governor of the State of Michigan : Sir I nave the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your official communication. In which you are pleased to make certain specl nc charges against me with the view of my ultimate removal from the office of etate treasurer. When these charges were first made I declined to accede to your request to resign. I then stated publicly that I could not at that time atate my reason ror that decision. I am now at UDeny to do so. At the time of closing the Chelsea Savlnga bank I, as state treas urer, naa on deposit in tne uirou United bank, of which you were vice president. $250,000 of state funds. Your bank had given a bond of only $50,000 to secure such deposit. I had been In formed that the Detroit United bank had of Its funds of $200,000 on deposit with the Knickerbocker Trust Co. of New York at the time of Its failure. Atty.-Gen. Bird, within a few days of the closing of the Chelsea bank, ad vised you and advised me that the de posit of $250,000 In your bank was un lawful for the reason that the Detroit United hank was not a legal depository for state funds, and Insisted that the deposit be turned back Into the treas ury. I knew that It would reaulre some effort on the part of the bank to make such payment In view of Its condition, and should It fail for any reason, a greater burden than I now have would be cast upon me. and the sureties upon my bond. I knew you would not make an fTort to remove me from office, not withstanding your statement to the public prexs until after the bank had refunded to the state the deposit re ferred to. It is my Intention as soon as my health will permit, to Interest myself in straightening out my business affairs so that the people of the state will re ceive every dollar which has come Into my hands as state treasurer. To con tinue to hold this ofllce would not bene fit me In any way. for the reason stat ed, and regarding my duty to the state, my family, my friends and myself, and In view of the circumstances, which surround me, I hereby tender my res ignation as treasurer of the state of Michigan, to take immediate effect. In doing so. however. I wish to state before retiring that the charges you have preferred against me, of gross neglect, malfeasance and mjsfeasance In office are not well founded. Your first charge is that the deposit ing of $., 000 and upwards (two hun dred and ninety-two thousand of which was deposited subsequent to January 1. 197) In the Chelsea Savings bank. In which I was a stockholder, director and president, was In violation of section 1201. compiled laws. 1897, Is erroneous. I never understood that I was violating that section of the law when 1 de posited any money of the state in the Chelsea Savings bank, because I was a stockholder therein, and I deny that I have violated that or any other pro vision of the statute tn making that deposit. You have not properly con strued that statute. This section forbids any custodian of public moneys to accept any pecuniary or valuable consideration that might Induce him to subsequently deposit public funds In some certain bank, or with some person, firm or corporation. I consider the violation of the above section to mean that the acceptance with corrupt motives of a pecuniary or valuable consideration as an induce ment or temptation to do a subsequent wrong-. This section admonishes all custodians of public funds against ac cepting any pecuniary or valuable thing In the nature of a bribe. You do not. and cannot, justly charge me with such corruption in office. Therefore, your first three charges are not sup ported bv the law you quote. I might remark further In this connection that you. for nearly three years, were fa miliar with and cornlzant with the fact that I had deposited some of the state funds In the Chelsea Savings bank, and were fully aware of the fact, during all that time, that I was a stockholder, director and president, yet you never Intimated that I was violating any law of the state or any rule governing the conduct of the busi ness of the office of state treasurer until after the crash In New York that apparently necessitated my Detroit creditors simultaneously to call In all loans. As bearing upon the question of your knowledge, you will remember what Mr. Klmmerle had to say In the campaign of 1906. Do you want to be understood as having for nearly three years condoned a violation of law that would Justify my removal and never took any action In the premises until I was financially embarrassed? Your fourth chnrge Is that of gross neglect of duty in depositing $685,000 and upwards In the Chelsea Savings bank, without ample security therefor, the security being for $200,000. If this charge Is true, why did you neglect to take action? Was It be cause you were a borrower at the Chelsea Savings bank? and had been carried by said bank for a long time? Was it because the Detroit United bank, of which you were vice-president, had been favored with a deposit of $250,000, which deposit was solicited by your self? Was It because your friend, A. C. Bird, had been favored with a loan of thirteen thousand dollars ($1.1.000) by the Chelsea Savlnga bank? If the In demnity bonds given by the Chelsea bank to this state by security com panies of 29 per cent of the deposit, filed as security for the safe return of the state funds, are by you held as In sufficient and because of such Insuffi ciency you are Justified In charging me with gross neglect, and at once Insti tuting proceedings for my removal, how can you consistently Justify your own conduct In personally soliciting and ob taining from me a deposit of the public moneys of two hundred and fifty thou sand dollars ($250,000) for the Detroit United bank, of which you were vice president, and only giving an Indem nity of fifty thousand dollars, or 20 per cent of the amount loaned? If the se curity of over 29 per cent given by the Chelsea Savings bank for the protec tion of the state funds Is deemed by vou Insufficient, and therefore a lust cause for my removal, what should be your duty In view of the fact that you solicited and obtalnrd atate funds far the Detroit United bank, ef which you are vice-president, and only gave 20 oer cent security, and that, too. In face of the fact that you asked and received a deposit of state funds In an Institu tion that the attorney-general says Is not a proper depository for public moneys And, too. notwithstanding the securi ty of only 20 per cent given by the Detroit United bank, of which you ere vice-president, you governor of the Delegate Russell's antl cigarette proposal, which passed the constitu tional convention on first reading, was defeated cn second reading. Many of the members apparently changed their minds after voting In favor of the pro posal and shifted their votes. The proposition Is now lost entirely. General Superintendent Brown and Assistant Snow, of the Michigan Cen tral, of Dctro't, were in the city Tues day to Investigate the wreck of last week. The officials held that the train trews cf the extra freight and Detroit passenger, No. 203, were equally re sponsible with Operator Spore, who forgot to clcse the switch. atate of Michigan, and presumed to conform to and enforce the lawa, did, as auch vice-president, solicit an addi tional loan of thirty thousand dollars, which, had the same' been granted, the Indemnity rate of the Detroit United bank, of which you are vice-president, would have been only 17 4-5 per cent. If I have violated the law and should resign, what should you do? Your fifth charge Is of gross neglect In depositing state funds in the Chelsea Savings bank, of which I was a stock holder, director and president, and should have known of the bank's finan cial condition, and that the security given for such deposits were In no sense sufficient, I believed the bank was solvent before It was closed and that it was solvent when the last deposit of state funds was made therein. And I believe that it Is solvent today. My answer to the fifth charge covera also your sixth and seventh charges. You certainly will not claim you were Ignorant of compiled laws Sec. 6132. by which the commissioner of the banking department Is required to make an an nual report to the governor of the state, which shall exhibit a summary of the state and conditions of every bank, with an abstract of the whole amount of rapltal returned by them: the whole amount of their debts and liabilities: the total amount of means and resources, and separating the re ports of such banks and other corpora tions and specifying the amount of lawful money held by the banks at the time of their several returns, and such other information In relation to such banks and corporations as In his Judg ment may be required. Neither will you claim that the commissioner did not report to you as required by this section. The Chelsea Savings bank made and filed with the commissioner the report required by this statute. You have stated in the public press that Mr. Zim mermann. the banking commissioner, called your attention to the condition of this bank. Upon what do you base your charge that I knew the bank was In such a condition that the security for the safe keeping of the state funds was not sufficient? If he did report, and In his report showed the condition of the bank and my knowledge with reference to it referred to above, why was this delay In taking proceedings against me until a universal financial crash prostrated us? Respecting the charge contained In paragraph 8. wherein you charge that ! the deposit made In the Chelsea bank : was made as an open account when in : fact It was Intended as a time loan, is j like the other charges, without founda tion; In fact, the books of the treasur er's office will show that calls were made on that deposit the same as upon i the other like deposits whenever the 'necessity of the state required It. ! By the ninth charge you claim that I bv reason of my gross-neglect of duty jahd malfeasance In office, the state Is now unable to obtain the use of its .funds to the amount of $00.000 and upwards, and threatened with a loss of several thousand dollars which were l Illegally deposited by me and retained j on deposit during the year of 1907 In the Chelsea Savings bank, there was never an Illegal deposit made by me In the Chelsea Savings bank, or any other bank, except possibly that made In the Detroit united tutiK, or wnicn you were vice-president. Every deposit of state funds made by me In the Chelsea Sav ings bank was made In strict compli ance with the statute, and there is no reason to believe that the state will ultimately lose a dollar by reason of the deposit of state funds In the Chel sea Savings bank. In round numbers the deposit of the state funds In the Chelsea Savlnga bank Is $685,000. and the surety bonds given for the safe return of that money amounts to $350,000. and I have every reason to believe and do believe that the Chelsea Savings bank will pay dol lar for dollar on every deposit, and everybody who has Investigated the matter at all. Including the deputy bank commissioner, admits thst It will nav at least 50 cents on the dollar, and If It pays no more than that, then the total security for the safe return of this $6$6,000 Is t92.r.OO. Respectfully. F. P. GLAZIER. Gov. Warner has accepted the resig nation of Frank P. Glazier and has ap pointed ex-Gov. John T. Rich, of De troit, to succeed Glazier. He announces his belief, that Glazier is not mentally responsible and quotes 'Atty. Gorman for Glazier, to prove it. Gov. Warner instructed Atty.-Gen. Bird to proceed with the public trial of Glazier for his offenses as state treasurer. Mr. Bird refused on the ground that Glazier's resignation ad mitted the charges and ended the case. The governor then directed Attorney Seward L. Merrlam to proceed with the hearing, which was done, Mr. Bird withdrawing completely. Seward L. Merrlam, personal attor ney of Gov. Warner, in the Glazier hearing, charged that Glazier in his handling of both his bank and stove company has committed criminal acts. In addition to being presented in the governor's Investigation evidence of these acts will be placed in the hands of the prosecuting attorney of Wash tenaw county for prosecution. Attorney Gorman says that plans are being made to have a Chicago com pany take over and operate the Glazier Stove works and possibly offer 75 cents on the dollar to Chelsea bank victims. Glasier's point that he did not violate the state law by depositing $680,000 of state funds In the Chelsea bank is overturned by the decisions of the su preia court in similar cases. MMy report is In the hands of Gov. Warner," said Attorney Merrlam. "lie will take such action as he deems best. What that action will be I do not know, but I know this, If this had occurred in Wayne county and I was prosecutor, I would treat Mr. Glazier Just as I would treat any other crim inal. No man. no matter what his sta tion, should be allowed to break the laws with Impunity." Frank Martin, of Lennon, fell asleep In the union depot in Durand early Tuesday morning and when he awoke found that his gold watch, valued at $100, and a fine fur overcoat had been stolen. Grand Trunk Detec tive J. F. Foley, of Detroit, was noti fied, and Tuesday afternoon he arrest ed Joseph Furdy, a tramp, who had the articles in his possession. By kicking out a board from the cow stable In the Grand Rapids Jail yard, Harry Lamphere, serving 90 days: Jack Harris and Charles West, 60 days each, escaped. They were wanted for other offenses when their sentences were completed. Money and a Title. The wedding of Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbllt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Count Laszlo Szechenyi, member of the Hungarian nobility, lieutenant of Hussars and hereditary member of the Austro-Hungarlan par liament, took place at the New York home of the bride's mother shortly after noon Monday. The ceremony was performed in the presence of about 350 guests in the salon on the Fifth avenue side of the Vanderbllt resi dence. At one end of the long room an altar was placed under a bower of bending palm trees, the tops of which came together, forming an arch under which the bridal party pro ceeded to the altar. About the trucks of the palms were twined thousands of orchids. The new Countess Szechenyi was born in Newport, R. I., 21 years ago, the youngest of the six children born to Cornelius and Alice Gwyne Vander bilt. Her father, the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, died in 1889, leaving her a fortune esti mated at $12,000,000. She has three brothers and one sister, the former being Cornelius 1 Alfred Gwynne and Reginald C. Vanderbilt, and the latter Mrs. Harry Tayne Whitney. Cannot Use Oleo, How a clever bit of legislation stalled a saving of $40,000 a year has just been disclosed. Back ia 1S91 a law was enacted which prohibits the use of oleomargerine or butterlne in any state institution. It makes it a misdemeanor for the manager or sup erintendent to use the manufactured product instead of the home-made. Last week the boards of control of the several state asylums were in ses sion at Kalamazoo discussing ways to economize and they finally decided to use butterlne. This law, however, will prevent the saving they propose. Would Lose an Island. An ill-considered amendment to the boundary line article was made In committee of the whole of the consti tutional convention by changing the language so as to specify the St. Marys river. Following the St. Marys river leaves outside our boundaries Drummond's Island, though Michi gan's by treaty with Great Britain. Not to Include it in the language of the existing constitution is to relin quish Jurisdiction over It. Darragh to Retire. Congressman A. B- Darragh an nounced Monday that he will not be a candidate to succeed himself. He says his decision Is irrevocable. Coinci dent with this came announcement from Alward, secretary of the state central committee, saying that he will be a candidate for nomination to suc ceed Darragh. . Probably George Covell, now district attorney, ML Pleasant, will also be in the race. THE MARKETS. Detroit Cattle Extra dry-fed steers and heifers. $5: steers and heifers. 1,000 to 1.200 lbs., $4 25i4 65; steers and heifers. 800 to 1.000 lbs.. $3 75 iff 4 15: steers and heifers that are fat. 500 to 700 lbs., Sf3 50; choice fat cows, $3 50 04 25: good fat cows. $303 26; com mon cows, $2 25 2 85: earners. $1 60 02; choice heavy bulls. $3 75(74 25; fair to good bolognas, bulls. $3C3 50: stock bulls, $2 5003: choice feeding steers, 800 to 1.000 lbs., $3 50(84; fair feeding steers. S00 to 1 000 lbs.. $30 3 25: choice stockers. 500 to 700 lbs., $2 753 26: stock heifers, $2 6003; milkers, large, young, medium age, $40 50; common milkers. $lR(fj)25. Veal calves Market, good grades 25o and common 60c lower: ouallty poor; best. $707 60: others, $3f8 60. Milch cows and springers Steady. Sheep and lambs Market, lambs Rfla lower; sheep steady. Rest lambs. $6 $5; fair to good lambs. $6 3006 75; light to common lambs, $5(Jr6; fair to good butcher sheep. $406; culls and com mon. $303 50. Hogs Market. SOc lower. Range of prices: Light to good butchers $40 $4 10: pigs. $4: light yorkers. $404 10; roughs, $3 75; stags, 1-3 off. East Buffalo Cattle: Market. 15$ 2Sc lower: export steers. $4.6036.25; best shipping steers. $4 6005.25: best 1.000 to 1.100-lb.. $4.6304.90; best fat cows. $3.5004: fair to good. $2.7603; trimmers. $202.25: best heifers, $40 4.50: medium, $3.2503.50: common, $2.5003: best feeders. $404.25: best stockers. $3.2503.50; export bulls. $3.75 04: bologna bulla. $3.2503.60: stock bulls. $2.5003; fresh cows, steady; best. -?45; medium, $23033; common, $20 023. tiogs: Market strong: medium and heavy. $4.5004.55; porkers, $4.5504.60; pigs. $4.60; closed steady. Sheep: Market active; best native lambs. $7. 6007.63: culls, $606.75; best western lambs. $707.40: yearlings. $60 6.60; wethers, $5.5006: ewes. $4,500 5.25; closed steady. Calves steady; best. $909.50; medium to good, $60 8.50; heavy, $404.50. Oral a. Kle. Detroit Wheat Cash JCo. 2 red, $1 00H; May opened at $1 04VI. a break of ic declined Ac more, advanced to $1 04U. declined to $1 04 and closed at $1 044: July opened at 99c. declined lie. advanced again to 99c. declined to e and closed at 99Hc: No. 3 red. 97c: ssmple. l car at 96o 1 car at $1 004; No 1 white, tl 004. Corn Cash No. 3. SSc: No. S yellow. 1 car at R4c; sample, 1 car at 65c, 1 car at 6R4 Oats Cash No. 3 white, 1 car at 64c; Mar. 66c. Rve Cash No. J. 8So nominal. Beans Cash. February and May, $1 bid Clovtrseed Prime spot. 60 bags at $10 45; March. $10 55: iimnif, 25 bags st $t0. 10 at $10 25. 15 at $9 75. 12 at $ 0. 7 at $9 25. 13 at $8 50: prime lslke. $9 75: sample alslke, 12 bags at $9. K at 88 60. Timothy seed rrlme spot. 40 bags at 82 10. ACTTKMXT nsjTtOtT Week End la f February 1,190. TlHPI.1 TRI4TRR AHP WOWPKRL A1T Afternoons 1:15. 10s to Kvenlnta 8; IV to too. "Toe Tlanophlends." Whitkkt Ofrra House Mattneee dally except Wednesds. aon, S)o. The hanker. The Thief and The (Url. Ltckom Theater Krery Night Mats. Hun., Wed.. Hat IV, jr. 60c Nat Wills In A Lucky Do." La va V ette Ma tlnee fun.. Tues., Tburt and Hat. ? Ices -he. H6 6dc and 7N-. AU Matinees K.xcept Mu.idje Htc. Captain Bwlfi. About 100 Pav City and Siglnaw f rerTien organized an pssciat'on to fght the law prohibiting fishing In the river and Its tributaries. They say they have about $300,000 invested In equipment which would be useless in lake Ashing. The election of Dr. J. M. Mowry, of Bronson, as pecretary cf the 6tate beard of charities and corrections Is held Illegal by Gov. Warner and At torney General Bird, because his resignation as a member was not first accepted. Gov. Warner has called an-r-thcr mefttng and someone else prob ably will be appointed. THE STATE III GENERAL WAS COMPLETELY CHARRED AND THE FLESH DROPPED FROM HER BODY. A JEALOUS LOVER'S CRIME The Horrible Death of an Aged Cold, water Woman Shot His Girl and His Rival. Mrs. L. D. Halstead, a prominent resident and pioneer of Coldwater, was burned to death at noon Saturday. Mrs. Halstead was making a fire in a grate and in some way her clothing ignited. An alarm was turned in and firemen arrived In time to extinguish the burning garments. Her body wa completely charred and burned and the flesh in pieces dropped from her body. Mrs. Halstead and her maid were alone in the house. The woman's screams called the maid, who threw a rug over her and then ran out of doors crying for help. Mrs. Halstead was 77 years old, and had lived in Branch county 69 years. She is survived by two daughters. Mm. W. R. Russel. of Washington, D. C, and Mrs. T. W. Dunn. of. Grand Rap ids, Mich. Mrs. Halstead was a life long member of the Presbyterian church. A Lover's Crime. Jilted by the girl with whom he hai been keeping company for more than a year, and whom he had hoped to wed, insane with jealousy over the attentions she had been giving anoth er, Arnold Van Der plauche, of Kala mazoo, shot and seriously wounded Miss Lera Cole and Harvey Keefer, at the home of the girl's sister, Mm. Warner. Keefer's nose is partly shot away and he has a bullet In his hip, the latter wound being conslcfered dangerous. Miss Cole has an ugly gash over the right eye, where one bullet plowed through the flesh and has a gash on the right temple, where an other grazed the skin. Van Der Plauche was captured tea minutes after the shooting by Peter Do Vries, who was in the Warner house at the time of the attempted murder. Both of the injured people are in the hospital. The girl's wounds are slight and it is not believed that Keef er will die. Traverse City's Hermit. Sam Vint, of Traverrp City, has money to buy shoes, but they cramp his feet and he much prefers to go about the city shoeless. During the re cent "January thaw" Sam was on hand dressed Just as he likes to be and probably would be still limping along barefooted had not a zlizzard put an end to his plans. Vint Is a hermit, al though he does ditch digging as a sid line. Some time ago a neighbor under took to care for the hermit and to see that he was properly clothed. This was the result of a visit of offlcers to Sam's home, chickens and other live stock being found to be contentedly dwelling with him. Sam was III then, but having recovered his health, he is now as independent as ever. He Is possessed of some property and some money and works whenever he can get a stray job. but nevertheless, he doesn't believe that the Lord meant for men to wear shoes, hence he scorns them whenever the weather will permit. Horribly Mangled. By the pictures of a girl In a sailor rult, tattooed on the arm of a man killed late Friday night by a Michigan Central freight train, the victim was Saturday identified as Mattnew Mur phy, a laborer, residing south of Grand Rapids. Murphy was walking down the railroad tracks when he was struck by a freight train. A short time after the passing of the train. Switchman J. F. Monahan picked up an arm. For two blocks Monahan followed a trail of gore, stopping occasionally to gather lip parts of anatomy. At the end of the trail he met Switchman Drew, who had found the man's headless trunk. On one of the dismembered arm was tattooed the letters "M. M." an.T a picture of a girl. By means of these Murphy's sister established identifica tion. Murphy is survived by a widow and nine children. Found the Woman Guilty. Large crowds have attended the trial In Stanton of William Emmons and Frances Emmons, his wife, wh. are charged with the burning of barns worth $8,000 last November on the farm of N. E. Miller. M. L. Dunham defended Emmons and Frank A. Mil ler defended Mrs. Emmons. The Jury rbout midnight Friday returned a ver dict of not guilty for Emmons, but !ound Mrs. Emmons guilty of the ar on as charged. She had quarreled with Mrs. Miller. MICHIGAN BRIEFS. John Tracy, while working In th woods near Reed City, dropped dead of heart failure. He Is the third brother to die In the same manner. At the annual meeting of the Are nac Aerleultural society, Jas. Didson was elected president, and C. R. Hol den secretary. The society Is prosper ous and figure on giving the best fair ever this year. Still anrther "lifer" has been re re'vfd at the Marquette prison. He U Thames Lawrnr. recently conv'cte.f st Pero!t of robborv while armed with i deadly weapon. Out of a population if a few more than 300 men In th penltentlarv, 13 per cent are convicts who have been sentenced to the Insti tution for the remainder of their days. Osman E. Calkins, one of the plo aecrs of Hopkins, was burled Monday, iged 90 years. Barn In Ohio, In is 1 9 ne came to Michigan In 1S44, and had' neen a resident of the place Rlnee 1856. Two sons. Byrcn. of Hopkins and Henry, of Tustln, Mich., survlv him. .