Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - February 27, 1895, Waterloo, Iowa DAILY ESTABLISHED 1890 FIFTH YEAR COPIES FIVE CENTS WATERLOO IOWA FEBRUARY 27 1895 WHOLE 1318 Harry Hayward Turned Over to the Tender Mercies of Attorney Hall HIS LOOSE BUSINESS METHODS KENTS LAST CHANCE Previous Loans to Miss Point Brought Out THE FOILER COMPANY Wholesale Grocers If so it should receive your prompt attention not tomorrow or next day but NOW Do not persist in straining your eyes more and more better assist them all you can This is best done with correctly fitted lenses which if obtained from us are guaranteed to give perfect tion Our optical department is in charge of a competent optician EYES TESTED FREE Opposite Logan House 206 East 4th Street Waterloo J C F JACKSON No 215 East Fourth St WATERLOO IOWA 3 Waterloo Dental Parlors WEST FOURTH STREET WATERLOO STATE J G D D S DR G J MACK SPECIALTY DISEASES OF THE Lye Ear Nose and Throat SPECTACLES FITTED Office In Bridge Street WATERLOO IOWA GEO B MILLER AT LAW 605 ST MINNEAPOLIS Feb 27 When the ferial of the Hayward case was resumed it was announced that County Attorney Nye could not be present owing to a funeral in the family and the defend ant who was still on the witness stand was turned over to the tender mercies of Assistant County Attorney A H Hall for cross examination Mr Hall plunged at once into the questions of the various loans made by Hayward to Miss Ging the aim of his questions ap being to show that Harry had loaned the dressmaker money Freely Without Security and in a loose and unbusinesslike man ner Harrys connection with the loss Miss Ging made on the flour mill at Hamel and the collection of the loss when it suddenly burned was thor ventilated and Harry was asked whether he had not driven out to Ha mel with Miss Ging the morning after the fire This and other questions were asked for impeachment purposes the state proposing to show on rebuttal that Harry is Not Telling the Trut a Harry described how he had turned the lot given him by his father into cash first by mortgages and then by disposing of the equity to Elder Stewart The proceeds had been nearly and this he had partially lost at gam bling while the rest he had given to Adry in a sealed envelope and it was put in the safe He declared that the most money he had ever lost at one sit ting was 700 at the Twin City Ath club Failed To Trip The entire morning was taken up in cross examination with regard to the loans Mr Hall went through and through the subject but was quite un able to entrap the witness into any con which he could not explain There were many sharp tilts between the two embittered no doubt by the animosity Harry bears against the assistant prosecutor for arranging the sensational scene at the morgue Mr Hall expressed his surprise that Harry should have trusted Adry with money after learning that he had no conscience and had a mania for crime Harry re plied that he would trust Adry now with money if he gave it to him openly and asked to haye it kept for him Thats the difference between us he added Adry cherishes a grudge and I dont Its his feeling against me now and not mine against him It also came out that Harry and Elder Stewart had enemies for two years and that he did not put his money in the bank but kept it with him fearing that the elder might get hold of it Dakota Murderers Case Before tlie Supreme Court FARGO H D Feb entire time of a days session of the supreme court was taken up by the attorney for the defense in the famous Kent murder case He presented four points which were argued at great length Hp held that the judge had erred in not calling another judge to try the case as the de fendant had filed an affidavit that the court was prejudiced that the judge had erred in admitting Attorney Nye of Minneapolis in the case he not being a practicing attorney in this state that defendant was convicted on the testi mony of his alleged accomplice Swi denski whose testimony was orated and should be inadmissable that the information filed by States Attor ney Voss was incorrectly drawn and was therefore invalid After the prose is heard an early decision is anticipated Kent was sentenced to hang last Saturday but a stay was granted pending the hearing for a new trial A CUBAN REBELLION Uprisings of Occur in All Parts of the Island SCHEME HATCHED IN NEW YORK Spanish Government Calls Them Brigands and Auth Suppression AS TO AIRSHIPS FURNISH SEED GRAIN Chicago Board of Trade Offers to Help Oat Farmers OMAHA Neb Feb special letter to The Bee from says A meeting was called at the town hall for the purpose of considering a sition purporting to some from the Chi cago board of trade relative to furnish ing the destitute farmers of the county with seed grain So far as learned the proposed terms are that the farmers are to give their notes for such grain as is needed the validity and payment of the same being conditioned upon the pro duction of a crop the coming season The sentiment of the meeting favored the idea It is understood the Chicago board of trade will duplicate this sition in a number of counties HAVANA Feb is reported that several revolutionary parties have risen in arms in different parts of the island The governor general has issued a proc suspending constitutional guarantees There is great excitement throughout the island Many well known separat ists have been arrested It is reported here that there has been an engagement between the government troops and the insurgents A rumor has also been circulated that many per sons who were expected to join tho movement left Santiago last week for New York and San Domingo HATCHED IN NEW YORK PARTHENON IN DANGER It Will Require a M illion Drachmas to Ee pair Damage Done ATHENS Feb architect who was commissioned to examine the ancient buildings of this city and neigh declares that most of them particularly the Parthenon and the Temple of Theseus are in a dangerous condition owing to the recent earth quake shocks and that it will cost a million drachmas to repair them As a result the society has is sued an appeal to the people of all coun tries asking them to assist in raising a fund to be devoted to the restoration of the buildings mentioned J E SEDGWICK A AND EXAMINEE OF LAND TITLES Complete set of Abstract Bridge Street We offer special facilities to operators large or email for trading on margins in stocks grains or provisions Market letter issued reg giving latest confidential advices Or ders received on one per cent margins Our book Speculation or How to Trade mailed on receipt of stamp VAN WINKLE CO 5th floor Gaff Building LaSalle street Chicago UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA of a THEY WERE SKATERS in Providing for Establishment National School WASHINGTON Feb tive Hainer of Nebraska a to establish the university of America in which each state territory and congressional district shall be en titled to an proportionate number of students chosen by means of open competitive examinations Instruction in all branches of all departments of knowledge is to be given and facilities furnished for scientific and literary re search and investigation The govern ment of the university is to be vested in a board of 20 regents DALTON BURNING F Ql 5 DN Have yon Sore Pimples CopperColored Hi B Write Co of cures I I Capital Pa nine I afro today and well SPRINGS MO WATERS Regent and Ginger Ale Do Y OU 2 Medals and Diplomas Chicago 1893 far Illustrated Pamphlet Sold by JAMES J KNAPP and C B HENDERSON CO WATERLOO IOWA One of Trops of tlie Defense Hayward Case Knocked Out MINNEAPOLIS Feb While Harry has been testifying in his own behalf state has been looking np new witnesses for the rebuttal and has secured two whose testimony is ex pected to knock ont some of the sup ports from under the defenses theory of the murder The defense has had witnesses who have sworn that shortly after the murder of Miss Ging accord ing to statement of time two men were seen whispering together near the ice house at Calhoun The two men in whispered conversa tion on a lonely road were pointed to as suspicious characters but it seems as if the state will knook out that theory without an effort It developed that those persons whose actions on the night of the murder have caused so much comment are quite reputable citizens and when seen by young Springstad they were returning from a skating trip to Lake Calhoun Penitentiary Board Upheld BISMARCK Feb 27 The penitentiary committee reported the result of its in which was conducted by the attorney general and in which all testimony was taken under court rules of evidence The testimony denies in every material point the charges made in the affidavits The committee says there is not a scintilla of evidence to sustain any one of the charges con in the public examiners report Manslaughter the Verdict DEADWOOD S D Feb The neck of J Lance the Sioux Indian tried for the murder of the squaw Her Good Horse and child on the Rosebud reser vation has been saved the jury bring ing in a verdict of manslaughter on both indictments Salt Lakes Population SALT LAKE U T Feb The ter census completed last year shows that on Jan 1 Salt Lake City had a population of 47980 This is an increase of 3240 compared with the federal census of 1890 Strike in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE Feb 27 One hundred employed by the Wisconsin iron works are on a strike for an increase of 20 per cent in wages The men are averaging about a mouth Tlie Town Suffers from Another Dis Fire DALTON O Feb broke out in the large Schultz wagon plant and quickly spread to the Presbyterian church and adjoining buildings No water is to be had nearer than a mile The west end of the town will appar ently be destroyed Fire companies from Massillon and Wooster are on their way here by special trains The town suf severely from a series of diary fires several months ago Minnesota Birds for Hawaii ST PAUL Feb Markert of St Paul has shipped to A S Wilcox of Honolulu a dozen live prairie chick ens six males and six hens to be put in the national game preserves of the islands for breeding purposes The game birds of the islands at present are mostly brant and a species of quail sim ilar to the California quail A few Jap anese pheasants have recently been bred with success and it is believed that prairie chickens can be successfully pro in Hawaii Minneapolis Blaze MINNEAPOLIS Feb in the old Centenary church building con the plants of the Crown Litho graphing company and the Housekeeper Publishing company The contents of the building was badly damaged entail ing a loss of over Brooklyn City Hall Scorched BROOKLYN Feb did f 50000 damage to the city hall Although the entire building was flooded with water it is not believed that any of the records either in the comptrollers department or in the city clerks office have been destroyed The Cuban Outbreak the Result of Revo of This Country NEW outbreak in Cuba is said to have been hatched here in New York It is said by members of the Cuban revolutionary party that date set for the uprising has been known since Feb 9 Jose Marti twice banished from Cu ban soil because of his hate of the Spanish domination aud General Max imo Gomez who commanded the East ern wing of the Cuban rebels in the revolution of 1808 left New York two weeks ago Their arrival in Cuba was to be the signal for the uprising Marti will be the head of the provi government if the revolutionists are successful General Gomez is the chief of the revolutionary forces Can Arm Men Men who are high in the councils of the Cuban party here say that with the arms that have been smuggled into Cuba during the last few weeks and which are landed near and other points and those already in posses sion of the patriot forces General Gomez would be able to arm 3000 men at once and many more within a very short time The plan of campaign is more com plete than in any of the numerous revo lutions which have drenched Cuban soil with blood Call It Brigandage MADRID Feb the conclusion of the special meeting of the cabinet at which the minister of colonies Senor and General Lopez Doming uez minister of war announced that the government had authorized the is suance of a proclamation by the gov general of Cuba in order to suppress the armed bands of brigands which have appeared in the provinces of Matanzas and Puerto Principe the ministers mentioned said that if rigor measures had been adopted in Cuba their sole object was to suppress brig andage by giving full effect to the law The ministers denied that any serious disorders had occurred and they also said that there was no truth in the re port that troops from the Phillipine islands had been landed in Cuba for a Hundred Thousand Bonus to Inventors WASHINGTON Feb Brice from the committee on interstate com merce has reported without dation the introduced in the early part of tho session authorising the secretary of the treasury to pay the sum of to any inventor from any part of the world who shall prior to 1900 construct a vessel that will demonstrate the practicability of safely navigating the air at a speed of BO miles an hour capable of carrying freight and passengers The object of the report is apparently to print the information available 011 the of experiment in aerial tion since the days of To those who have not given this subject much attention says tho report it may seem somewhat visionary to seri entertain the idea of navigating the air safely since efforts in this tion have been in most instances fail ures yet the committee maintain that the eventual solution of the problem will in one of the greatest Social and Industrial revolutions in the history of mankind and have the greatest possible influence on the civilization of the world Whether they continue commer cial results will be achieved as early as 1900 is a question your committee do riot undertake to an swer It is believed however that tho passage of the will act as a stimulus to the work already in progress looking to the of this great problem of aerial navigation and in that respect it cannot but do great work That tho problem will eventually be solved we see no ground on which to rest a rea sonable doubt We are cleaning house in the store and office but with im proved facilities and a nice as of goods at lowest prices ever known we shall be ready in a lew days to offer our customers extra inducements Cutler Hardware GO FOR GOOD ROADS BY JEWELED ADJUSTED p WATCHES Martial Law Proclaimed WASHINGTON Feb 26 Secretary has received a cable from United States Consul General Williams at Havana announcing that martial law has been declared in Cuba The Span ish minister here Senor also received similar advices As nearly as can be gathered here this measure is rather precautionary at this time LET THE MULES GO An Indication Mexico and Guatemala Have Readied an Agreement CITY OF MEXICO Feb 27 The secre tary of the has wired tions to the customs authorities at Taba quila Chiapas for the return of the 200 mules which have been delayed at that point for some time by order of the gov The stock belongs to the American contracting firm of Park Thornton who are engaged in con the Guatemalan road in Gua where the animals which were purchased in this conn try were urgently needed Their entrance into Guatemala at a time when the peace relations were threatened between that country and Mexico evidently caused the Mexican government to order them detained until further development regarding the international dispute were made The fact that the embargo on mules had been raised strengthens the impression that the diplomatic conference between Emilio de Leon Guatemalas envoy and Mexicos secretary of foreign affairs has reached a peaceful conclusion The Minnesota Has a Scheme for Improvement ST PAUL Feb Good ell of the state Good Roads association has drawn a which will be intro in the legislature providing for the betterment of the public roads with out at all increasing the burdens of taxation The provides that the state audi tor shall prepare lists of the untaxed railroad lands in each county in the state and then direct that there shall be paid out rf the receipts from the gross earnings tax 5 cents per acre an for each acre of untaxed railroad lauds so listed The fund so derived shall be distrib when tho auditors of the several counties shall make up rolls showing untaxed lands these rolls to be certified to the state auditor whereupon the moneys accruing from the amounts taken from the gross earnings receipts shall bo paid into the road and bridge funds of the several townships in the counties affected The is very brief but quite com prehensive and it provides means for the accomplishment of a much needed work without increasing the burdens of the taxpayers The Good Hoads associ ation will actively press the passage of the A Pension Decision WASHINGTON Feb deci sions on pension questions have been promulgated by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds In the case of the dependent mother of Abraham Woods of the New Jersey Volunteers who died in the service the department holds that where the father and mother are with out property and the father is unable to support the family the mother is de pendent within the meaning of the law Will Build Better Bridges ST PAUL Feb 27 Great West ern this summer will rebuild 102 cul verts and bridges all over its system replacing 30 of them by permanent stone and steel structures 47 by stone and and only 25 by wood at a total cost of about Contracts for this work will be signed in a day or two The total reduction of bridge from those of stone steel and earth projections will be 5045 feet or about 1 miles L S PARSONS I And Jewelry Stock Complete Everything on Easy Payments Proprietor and Manager Music HALL Capital and Surplus W W Miller President W It A J Edwards EC C Waterloo Iowa A T KINNEY 521 WEST FOURTH ST CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Estimates cheerfully furnished to those con the erection of buildings of any char acter R K ODELL COLLECTION ATTORNEY AND NOTARY PUBLIC 627 ST u Continuance ONEILL Neb Feb alleged lynchers of Barrett Scott appeared in court during the morning to stand trial for murder Attorney General Church ill for the state made a motion and asked that the court grant a continu ance until March 20 It was granted An Epidemic of Influenza LYNN Mass Feb epidemic of grippe prevails in this city to an alarming extent there being at present at least 500 cases physicians have re ported upwards of 200 cases since Friday There have been many f atal especially acred Two Killed at a LINDEN O Feb 27 A westbound freight on the Nickel Plate road run down a rig carrying a party of people to church at a road crossing near this place Two persons were killed and two others will likely die as a result of their injuries The dead are Miss Allie Hunt aged 19 and Miss Bessie Hunt aged 16 Wyoming Judge Dead LARAMIE Wy Feb Judge J W Black of the Second judicial district of Wyoming is death at the age of 49 years He was sick but two days He was a native of Maine served in the Civil War and came to in 1872 Must lie Able to Speak English ST Louis Feb H L Ed munds of the criminal court has adopted a rule requiring that all foreigners who wish to be naturalized in his court must be able to intelligently speak and un the English language The causes leading up to this course are many but chiefly based on the fact of the poor jury service in his court Kansas G A R Encampment LAWRENCE Kan Feb 14th annual encampment of the Or A R is in session here Several hundred dele gates have arrived and prospects for the biggest attendance inthe history of the organization in this state The encamp ment wiil last till Friday To Honor a Centenarian GLASSBORO N ments are being made to celebrate the birthday of Hannah Chard the oldest woman in this state She was born on April 20 1788 at Ferrell near this place where the celebration will take place Five generations of her descendants will gather to do her honor Worse LONDON Feb condition of Lord Rosebery is not favorable He passed a sleepless night and there is an increase of weakness The premier was confined to his bed on Saturday last owing to a sharp attack of influenza which is now epidemic throughout Lon KENTUCKY EGG Mined in Kentucky is a Bootless Soft Coal free burning kindles easily and leaves less ash than any other coal and it not clinker It is broken to a size ready for the stove Price the same as Illinois coal JB YOUNG Sole Agent Waterloo Iowa IN AIlt OP DRAIN TILINGS CEMENT and Charcoal a Specialty Telephone No 18 Office near C G W East Side Depot Waterloo Iowa P L WHITE kLER anl RETAIL DEALER Office and yards near old I C R R depot Telephone No 10 THE OLD IOWA STATE Saves its Policy Holders to per cent on the cost of their Property Insurance E A EVANS Dist Agent 224 E Fourth Street
