Humboldt County Independent (Newspaper) - October 29, 1903, Humboldt, Iowa 36 16 WHOLE NO 1870 Important Events of the Week in the State of SHOOTING SCRAPE AT DANCE red Fills Up on Bad Liquor and Proceeds to Attend a Where He Starts a Rough a dance six miles east of here at the home of occurred a shooting affair which will probably land Fred Cling of In tho state pen at Fort There was a social dance given at the home of and Fred who has been gathering apples for the Allen Packing company of Glen presented himself and wanted to although he Is said to have been considerably under the Influence af Alonzo when drew his revolver nd commenced shooting Into the He emptied the gun of seven before ho was and three Alonzo Osier sustained three One ball look effect In his right one in hip and grazed he lower part ot his right Samuel the son of received a ball In the right but The daughter of Ronk received a glancing ball In the fight lower As soon as tho had commenced the house wan and the male members of the Ronk In the started for He was soon overpowered and beaten In to Insensibility and brought to this where he Is awaiting his prelim inary IS Second Convention In the mer District Named Shell Soesbe of Greene was declared the republican nominee for senator by the Bremer convention which met for the second time here thus ad tlie famous controversy to the Everything was carried out as Tho only feature of the convention was the Im passioned speech of Burton district of who urged that all parties connected with the previous convention bo for gotten and a new man named In the Interest of The breach between the two coun ties was not healed and the Bremer delegates went home declaring that Soesbe could not be Lar kin said he would vote for neither Wade or Brodie of chairman of the lost was not pres ot was the only man missing from the Butler del Lark the deposed nominee of tho first took a deep Interest In tho Previous to calling the convention to order pressure was brought to beat on Soesbe to Induce him In the est of to but to no After dinner the Bremer dele gation caucussed at Phil Frays hotel and decided to urge the nomination o Whaley of Butler former senator from this Des Physician In Jail on Serious Des with residence at Seventh and offices in the Jood Is In the county charged with having violated tho laws ot thex state by preforming a criminal operation upon the person of Miss Cora a pretty young the daughter of and Lacey of Cora Lacey died at the home of after a serious Illness which began last Friday evening Trotter called a consultation of Ryan ot tills city was called and pro the patient beyond medical Finally Ryan was called and a final consultation at which the physicians agreed that Alias Lacey could not live more than twentyfour Ryan stated that after the laat examination and consultation he had ad drugs to alleviate the young wom ans pain as much as possible until the hour of her The parents of the young woman were called to this The father was much excited over the death of his daughter and demanded a probing af the Coroner Beck was called in and the decision was reached al most Immediately to hold an Charles Kenry Ryan and Biggs of were selected by the coroner to hold the post No statement as to the findings has been officially but Hoffman stated that ex amination leaves no doubt In the minds of the physicians that a crimi nal operation was A warrant Is out for Roy a young man who has been keeping company with Cora and to whom she was KREAGER Howard County Jury Finds Her Guil ty of Murdering Her Mason Sophia aged 68 was convicted In the Howard county court of mur dering her The jury recom mended Imprisonment tor No motive was shown for the which was most He was killed In the night with a The wife went to a aroused borrowed their bitched up a loaded the corpse Into the drove it to the tied a stone about Its neck and rolled It Into the middle of the Three days later the corpse was and two days later the murderess was ar rested and has since been confined In The family was well to do and had good family Students Must Quit dent James Marian has announced that in accordance with action tak en at the annual professors meeting last June that Cornell students can no longer smoke If stud ants persist In the habit they will be given their dismissal from the In Farm Hand Kills a farm hand working for Daniel one mile east of Zear committed shooting him self with a shot gun through the A affair is supposed to the DES MOINES OFFICIALS BRIBERY Charged With Accepting From Law Des In charging public officers with taking bribes were returned by the grand Jury yesterday between 2 and 3 Five peace and ono former policeman were the latter only on a charge of racy to The men who were indicted are of the peace of Saylor John of the court of Justice of the Peace William Christy of Lee John of the court of Justice of the Peace Fritz of Lee John assistant constable to John assistant con stable to John indictments charge Livingston with having received a bribe from Harry the Dally and Roe were Indicted on a charge of receiving bribe from Suel the and Flo John who keeps a disorderly and were j ed on a charge of receiving bribes from Suel i Indictments on a charge of malic threats to extort and on a charge of conspiracy to extort are returned on the basis of testimony that the peace Dally and threat ened May Alice Williams and Flo keepers of disorderly with arrest unless they paid blackmail to Roo and Clary are Indicted on a charge of con to extort blackmail from one or more of these In all seventeen Indictments were returned against the six Justice Livingston was Indicted Con stable Dally was Indicted five Constable was Indicted three John Eggerman was Indicted three Roe was indicted four and Clary was In The grand jury has not completed Its Yesterday It issued between fifty and sixty subpoenas for persons who are supposed to have knowledge of the scandals relating to the central police These mat ters the grand jury will enter Into the coming The subpoenas are re Monday and A Hat of names was furnished to the grand i Jury yesterday and subpoenas were i Issued for all of those Among the people who are sum i are members of tho city coun newspaper members of the police force and pro of houses of prostitution and keepers of the wide open gambling The grand jury has Indicated a deter to go to the bottom of the whole Every rumor and suggestion of Illicit relations between the police and law breakers will be investigated by Its members have To this end the subpoenas were Issued It is said that these fifty or sixty witnesses are to be but a prelude to all those that will Clinton Grocer Found a wellknown groceryman 61 this city was convicted of After the jury had been out an hour they re turned a verdict of Murphy was Indicted on twentyfive counts and has been tried on and con on It was alleged he hat been an accomplice In robberies here for He can get a life sentence on thU Soule it Soule cashier of the Home Savings bank Iowa accused of appropriating of the banks was In dieted for NEEDS OF Greater Support Is Needed For Iowa City Des has received from President of the Iowa State he biennial report ot that t Is a voluminous report and contains a vast amount of Information of gen eral President Maclean de clares that In the light of tho experi ences ot tho past two it U that the permanent support fund of tho university should be This Is not simply a matter of ab stract justice in view of the use In earlier years of the endowment fund of the university from tho United States In the supposed Interests of the development of tho state by tho sale of university says tho but It Is a practical ques lon ot retaining properly prepared in the competition with richer It Is further sary In these days of scientific edu cation that thero should bo modern In the way ot apparatus and We are underpaying our staff of Instructors and Tho university has reached a point ot blos and It can easily bo blighted jy the frost of false Wo need our moneys for the development of our schools and depart ments already nnd not tho multiplication of It would be folly for the state having such a good beginning to waste In a measure what has already been Invest id by falling to supplement tho sup port fund at this President Maclean likewise submit ted to tho governor tho board of reg ents approving follows needs are granted conser It will require the seeming large addition to our Income ot a thus General 000 Special appropriations arc needed as follows To make good fire loss and complete and equip the new medi cal building land to be pur paving and Tho regents further state that a creditable and really valuable modern university costs Iowa can have and maintain such an institution only by providing to support There can be no question about tho desirability of doing nor of the states ability to support such a As servants ot the entrusted with the management of this important Institution we feel we would be derelict In our duty If we did not urge that suitable provision be made to supply these The Universi ty of Chicago has an Income of Minnesota Nebraska and Missouri lying on our borders of or while our Income for support Is less than If this should bo increased 000 tho university would Immediately different nnd Increased but the board does not expect such an In crease nt this Tho amount It asks for It very earnestly hopes will be so that tho university will be to provide bettor for the many hundreds of young men and women every year graduating from the high academies and who will otherwise continue to flock over the borders of where they can find what they need under more fav If wo do not get their support other universities will continue to rob us of Instructors nnd STOLEN Gems Valued at Are Brought Back to of the strangest endings of a diamond rob bery on record occurred yesterday when Seeley found worth of rings on her back when she was Last Wednesday night some ono wont through the house and stole her The matter was reported to the police and a vigorous investigation The city marshal yesterday that they knew who the guilty party but did not cause any arrest to be for that by getting tho thief they would lose the and were hoping to catch tho party with the stolen Seeley states that no tion will ho as ho Is pleased to get the rings MAN AND Farmer Near Steamboat Rock Meets Fate in Minnesota While has reached here of the murder In Minnesota ol Fred of Steamboat Rock five miles north of had just been released from jail here after serving a sentence for some pot ty crime and had sold his home at Steamboat taken the cash with him and gone to It Is presumed that he was as no money was found on the person of the murdered He was a trifle de at times and was an habitual user of cocaine and other narcotics No full particulars as to where he was found are Murder Charged by Grand Jury of county returned Indict ments yesterday against Blydenburg charging murder In the first degree Blydenburg Is accused of poisoning his third wife to secure her fortune Poison was reported to have found in the stomach when examine at Ann The Investigation wu begun by relatives of the wife living in was held with out LEEf KILLED LONDON Sagatel President of the Revolutionary Is Shot ONE ACT IN THE VENDETTA Rival Factions of the Armenian Rev Forces Are in a Bloody Feud and Is the Latest resident of the Armenian lonary society In was mur dered In the suburb ot The crime has created a sensation nn it lias overy appearance of being 4f a political and has been pro by the assassinations of er of brunches of the society on the j who only returned to Lon don yesterday after up the affairs of an associate In who was recently assassinated by was entering his residence when a man rushed across the joad and fired four shots at In tJm last bullet en tering the region of the Tha who The only clues the man In possession of the authorities are a felt hat and a silver plated re made In New which he dropped In his The murdered who a became In Jie and devoted his o the Armenian His society was entirely passive and to violence and It Is thought this atti tude Inspired the advanced of Iho Armenians with a desire for venge the latter claiming that Sagou nls society devoted funds to which would have been bettor appli ed to violent remedies for the Ar menian la said to have moved to England from New York early In It Is stated that been threatened on of his participation In the by the editor of a Boston Young after the of funds by a faction of tho Armenian Theao men are to have collected In America In and to have put tho money In their own In stead of pushing the propaganda fur the emancipation of tho for which the was subscrib Attempt to Kill Diaz Causes Excite ment In City of excitement was caused hero yesterday by what looked like an attempt oil the life of President who a guest of the state government during the festivities Tho his and guests wore pausing by tho garden In a street when a man of the lower class by the name of lillas approached tho car shouting and llred five from a revolver at the doing no Pablo of the presidents out of tho car and caught the wrench Ing the revolver from his The police took Toscano to Ho la a man with a bad criminal record and was but recently released from prison at whore he had served a term for The matter will be One Is i that Toscano was drunk and he deliberately planned to shoot the The president perfectly cool and was acclaimed by the crowd of citizens showing their joy at his rec ord makes the theory of a deliberate attempt at assassination appear The has receiver tho felicitation of die citizens and corps LOU New Time Made by Little Mare In Exhibition Mile at Memphis Dil the first owned by of Chicago and driven by trotted a mile In under adverse weather Tho trotter was THE HORRORS OF paced by a driven by and another runner foil iphis The track of the Men Driving club never showed to hotter but a strong wind from the north swept down the long back After the Sanders her said I am not a bit at the result of Lou 1 expect ed to break the worlds record the adverse I desire to lay that It Is my candid that Lou Dillon can trot as fast as any horse In the world can and next year I will demonstrate I this With perfect conditions I would be afraid to say how fast the mare would have trotte 1 the When Japan and Really Get Busy It Will Be a Terrible Blow to the Reading MORE PEACELIKE IN It takes more money to be a mil now than It did fifteen years I Drafts of Convention Are Approved by the Informa tion from Toklo and says tho Berlin correspondent of tho Is to tho effect that drafts ot the convention have been approved by tho czar and by Count Russian foreign Only slight alterations In these drafts are needed to effect a settlement of all by amic able In an Interview yesterday said ho deeply regretted the sensational re ports circulated In he were Referring to tho diplomatic situa tho premier remarked Tho Japanese government pursues Its ne In strict accordance with tho spirit of the alli which at the preservation of and the status It only fair to presume that Russia In actuated by tho samn peaceful spirit 111 which the dual alliance Is extended in tho far fall to son why the present should not to mutually In nny nothing In the present situation any crisis In the fur east apparently bus boon telegraphs thn Che Foo correspondent of tho Morning Russia In tho meanwhile in strongly augmenting hnr fleet in those waters and concentrat ing troops in the vicinity of the Yalu She holds all tho available river frontage nt and the Shado Tho em of the correspondent is In favor of POWERS TO Want Suzerainty Over Macedonia for Two scheme of tho powers for tho ation of affairs In Macedonia has boon submitted to tho It has for Its guiding principle control and surveil lance over all branches of tho admin of the disturbed provinces by Austria and for a period of two The proposals Include the appoint ment of one Austrian and one Russian to ha attached to the of Hilmi tho Inspector goner with a corps or secre taries and whoso duties will bo to have control over all tho acts of the provincial An European general In tho Turkish ser vice Is to bo appointed to command the and he will be as by an adequate number of Rus sian anil Austrian with the languages of the and If necessary by Austrian and Rus sian A couple of further Important which will bo bitterly opposed by the provide for the establishment of communal autonomy and the roe of the present communal boundaries with the view to tho bet ter distribution of tho various com tnd the creation of spheres shall be more homogeneous In nationality and Opposition to the whole scheme Is expected on the part of the but the Austrian and Russian dors demand Ihu adoption of tho plan with the least possible It Is thought sumo of tho other powers may object to the appointment of ex Austrian and Russian asses and demand that the commission of control be given a more Interna tional Borne men get tight because they screw up their courage with REVOLUTION IS Major Well Troops Start After Is known hero that a revolutionary force consisting of about seventy landed on or about 11 Oat the port nt the mouth of thn on the Atlantic coast ot ami after raveling a cor tain distance returned to the and marched toward This according to Infor In tho hands of Governor Is under the leadership ot LURO and Juan An tonio was one of thu liberal revolutionists who took part In tho capture of Colon In Lugo was ono of tho military chiefs In tho Domingo expedition of which was defeated by forces under tho lato General Carlos after considerable fighting along tho rail mad between hero and Noth ing Is known of It Is believed that tho revolution ists wore expecting but that they were disappointed In nnd consequently re turned to tho Tho telegraph lines on the Isthmus are working nnd the government bus been to follow thn movements of the forcon undor to thin tc the Tho ouoiny hna had to travel through a rough nnd wild pud H Is not believed thut will bn to stand before UIG well disciplined troops undor Little importance Is attached to tbo DOMINICAN Town of Santiago Surrounded by Friends of town of Santiago In the Dominican republic was surrounded yesterday morning by Insurgent troops under j the command of Rod After severe fighting which 1 lasted for several and during which a number of men wore wound the revolutionists triumphed nnd Santiago foil Into their me revolution which has broken out In tho northern part of the republic of Santo Domingo and which has in ready resulted In tho establishment of a provisional government at under the presidency of Gen eral was according to advices received by the num erous customs house frauds and thi prevarications of the ministers of war nnd The signal for tho out i break of tho revolt was given at 2 oclock on Saturday afternoon by throe cannon That same oven Ing all the partisans of President Won y Gil at Puerto Plata were The Inhabitants of Monte La and Loca united and attacked Telegraphic communion i tlon between Santiago and La Vega I has been Tho revolutionary outbreak Is ox and the general opinion In i Hint tho government of President Wos y ill Is has ar rived here In n small sail boat from Monte tie has abandoned New Records by Dan Patch smashed two worlds records In succession on the track of tho Memphis Trotting association yes First he wont against the I worlds half mile pacing record of hold by Prince and clip pud a second and a half from the i negotiating tho distance In 58 1 he established a new worlds record for a mile pacing to making the mile In i two seconds butter than the time of I which ho made at tho recent 1 mooting on the the worlds record until
