Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - January 17, 1905, Waterloo, Iowa max WEATHER INDICATIONS Chicago Jan Ing with probable tonight or warmer tonight and In the east Wednesday FIFTEENTH WATERLOO IOWA TUESDAY 17 1905 HO ALLIANCE and Russia of Conspiracy Against Embarks for Homo Japs In Port Arthur A CHARACTERISTIC REPORT St Jan telegraphing yesterday ed an attempt of a de- of infantry cavalry and ar- tillery to cut off a of Gen cavalry The Japanese out- flanked the Russians and a battle en- in the retiring of the Japanese losses The sian losses were five officers and forty men STOESSEL EMBARKS Washington D C Jan state department has received lowing from Harris at Nagasaki Stoessel staff and about five hundred officers and men with their families have embarked on the Odessa RUSSIAN RAIDERS ESCAPE St Jan dispatch from states the Russian ing column has except for- casualties sustained fighting the Japanese It is stated that SCO sians were killed or wounded although Kqurqpatkm in an official report admits men killed and sixty-nine wounded TOGETHER London Jan St Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph claims good authority that foreign v friendly Russia already is reckoning with thi the wa.r: sooner than tho uninitiated and is benevolently smoothing Russia's way The essence of the scheme is for- mation of a temporary triple powers ing undone to down Japan's claims future peace conference Germany it is declared will take initiative The scheme has with Dr Koch was a good witness He was boyish in and he told his story In a straightforward manner than ry weight with it When court adjourned for the noon recess there was only one feature of the case about which he had not been That the chief the dead dentist's room But he has said though not under oath lie knows nothing about it STATE FOR is for some strong evidence in rebuttal Tlie sum ni on ing of several witnesses gives the report that the state try testimony of Asa P Brooks swore positively that the irian he saw leaning over body was It is also sible will be sworn to testify that Div father toid him that George had arrived at 10 o'clock on tlie night of the thus frying to impeach the elder nullify the alibi HAY ACTS PROMPTLY Another Diplomatic Chock for and iho Door to bo Associated Washington Jan on merchant marine and fisheries today authorised a report on the shipping reported to the special Merchant rine commission COAL MINE FATUITY Six Minors Dead and One Fatally Injured in Firo at Illinois Decatur 111 Jan August incl Charles sky miners are known to be dead and a score or more of other miners are entombed by fire and smoke in a 000 foot coal Rescuing parties have gone into the mines but have been unable to do anything on dense smoke The fire broke out yesterday after- Paris Jan V today od by noon in the mule stable Firemen though arrangements yet haVe been made The negotiations are being on with the greatest It that results by the same after the ese cannot be attained but other anticipated that dis- orders due to orders con- He troubles in eff Perm and increase In activity of both armies 011 the Sha river Is confirmed St Tokio The Russians gradually are advancing wing ARMY ENTERS PORT ARTHUR Headquarters of Third Japanese Army at Port Jan 14 yia Jan The victorious anese army yesterday formally entered Port Arthur Gen Nogi with his staff en through the old town and took his in the public square ol the new town The army was sented by one regiment from each The procession which was five miles long three hours the base after troops passed but of the city through the new town The correspondents ed the city for the first time The town were badly smashed by shells but in the new town the damage was slight vGen was much blamed for what as a conclusion of a splendid defense wbich with the death of Major General Kondratenko who loved by the soldiers and was the life of the services were held in or the spirits of the dead north of the qf a distance from Port Arthur Regiments representing the entire Japanese army were present A shrine erected on the of a small hill arid the troops formed a cle Gen Nogi staff served after- in the open to all the officers 1 present t was spectacle KOCH were called out and they took a line of hose down the shaft COO but were unable to suppress the flames A mile away is an escapement shaft and to this most the miners ed SIX ARE DEAD Decatur 111 Jan of the miners entombed by yesterday's lire are dead and one fatally FIFTY-NINE PERISH Avalanche of Norway Which Swopt Away and Property Associated Christiana Norway Jan nine persons perished as the result of an avalanche of at north of Bergen last Sunday Tlie rocks was suddenly ed into the lake from the neighboring bills causing immense waves feet high which swept the shores Houses people and cattle were swept away in the rush of waters Synopsis of Russian Noto Franco Washington D C Jan is an- that Secretary Hay has made an international move the highest importance which is designed to pre- sent any attack upon the territorial integrity of China or the maintenance of the open door in that empire On Friday last Secretary Hay cabled instructions to the ambassadors of the United States abroad directing them to ask formally of the governments to which they respectively are accredited they still favor the observance of this policy abolition Replies yesterday and laid the president from sador Choate in London Ambassador Tower in Berlin and Ambassador vou Meyer in Rome The responses are identical -each power de- claring earnestly desires that China's integrity shall be respected and that there shall bo no made to close the trading door in any pan of the empire Prance has not yet been heard from and her answer is delayed it is ex- because ot the wish ot M casse minister of foreign affairs of the republic to consult Russian government and also because the fall of the Combes ministry and tho position of those in temporary power to handicap their successors In view of the past pledges made by tho Paris government however no exists that it will fall into line with the er powers FORESTALLS RUSSIAN NOTE Mr Hay's action did not follow the presentation of the Russian note ing that because of the failure of China to maintain neutrality she was mined to reserve for herself such of procedure respect to prosecution of the war ia as might lie deemed advisable It was determined upon even before Count delivered the tion to this government The slate department was actuated however by information indicating that Russia was about to make some such move and it was therefore ed that American interests as well as those of the whole world demanded a reiteration of the purpose of the powers to uphold the principles of integrity and equality of op- in China When the replies of all the groat powers are received they will be sub- mitted to the belligerent nations and it is expected that they will exercise a momentous moral effect upon them It is nob said a high official today that either Russia or will menace either of these im- portant principles when the rest of the world has announced and now tlie neutrality of Chinese territory and announced its decision to the last February That Russia however distinctly as a condition precedent to her agreement a strict observance on tho part of China of the duties of u neutral and also a loyal attitude on tho part of Japan toward tho spirit the purpose and the ot the ington expressed in the circular note which Secretary Hay addressed to lust run ry A TO CHINA Washington Jan at- tention has again been indirectly by tho American government to the for a of not only in hor but in tho interest of he MUST SERVE SENTENCE Southern Iowa Man Con- of Combes mul Ills Mis Step Out In a mooting of the Prowler Combos lotier announcing iho Throo Hoad of Cattlo to Cost Him Throo Yoars In Prison 111 Jos H Haas or a in I bo Tan Cook county senate today for tho abolition of Hit grand jury In THE CASE IS HARD FOUGHT Miss Lulu Wants of the C G W Court Hands Down an IOWA DECI- SIONS Hannah King Richardson vs William 11 ot al district M C judge Suit to recover legacy A ll opinion by B Herman et ill John Herman ot A S Blair Judge Action to sot aside conveyance opinion by Allen Co vs Linn district W N judge ing opinion by Redhead Bros vtt Wyoming Oat- tie Investment Co appellants Polk district W if judge Action to recover money Reversed opinion liy Weaver Louis T trustee vs cago Ai Nor Hi western Hallway appellant Linn 1 W Preston Suit lo recover opinion by Clain For of Nor Who Was in said to effected by alleging that they night before the fire tho good horses the bail been removed ami plugs put In their places This is that ho knew thing about Uio stolon animals having boon whipped with hiss stock UK in- that ho knew nothing of the Whatever That been consistent defense all way through lie convicted in March 1903 Tho case was and WHS decided last by ho court which of the on- court The petition for rehearing was at that time und was ed Tho attorneys then snld that hey would ask the governor Vor a rary suspension of because of tho law suits which Greenland had in tbo of Decatur county and In which hiH would suffer unless were sco to thorn Hut many of milts have been disposed of so tho same showing can ly bit with effect is that a suspension of will lio for Greenland ban many friends Tho county of oc that and of It In which tho family liven IB Kald to divided like Kentucky and it is not a political exactly lint social If 1 go to the pen I'll he running in In two Greenland is to have said HEALTHFUL WATERLOO List Horo Now Than far torn Ft Dodgo Hursts and Bottor Stay at WEISS ON WAR PATH Eminent Counsel on Each Side Contesting tho Case One of the hardest fought cases that have been heard In the Black Haw It county district Is the one on trial The in Alias Lulu Heeser and the defendant Is the C G W railway company Tho is risking for damages for tho death ot her mother Melissa who met death train Inaugurated In Associated Dover Del a Jan today was inaugurated governor of Delaware Stocks Inaugurated Associated Trenton Jan Stocks was inaugurated governor of New Jersey today Casper Defendant Goes on Stand nml Makes Witness Burkott Elected Associated Lincoln Jan J republican today received a majority of the votes cast in the legislature for United States senator that it is vitally interested and would view with concern any change in the status quo in the Celestial em- pire ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR HAY A few diplomats in Washington who were informed of Secretary Hay's tion regard it as another master stroke ot diplomacy That the powers again would inform the United States that they are in favor of these principles there could be no doubt To have re- to answer would have been courteous and certainly would have aroused the suspicion that their past pledges were not paper upon which they were written There never was any question as to how Great Britain stood Germany's friendly neutrality towards Russia since the war began naturally aroused some question as to whether she was willing to make a declaration at this time which might embarrass her neighbor but it was not forgotten that tue Berlin government was responsible for the suggestion that the hostilities between Russia and Japan be limited to Manchuria and Corea though it was the United States that obtained the adoption of this suggestion by the by the collision of i of the defendant company with a gy In which decedent was riding The in at the Sycamore street crossing near the passenger The attorneys for the plaintiff are Attorney General C W and law partner C E Pickett Miller Williams and an attorney from DOS Moines are representing the C G W Mr Williams who is city attorney of Waterloo is conducting the amination oC witnesses in an adroit anil skillful manner Claim Agent is also conferring with the attorneys In the of the case lan and Pickett are exerting their most endeavors to bring about a dict for their client Mr Pickett con- ducted the questioning of most of the witnesses for the prosecution Owing to the care exercised In curing a jury it was late yesterday bo- fore a panel could bo secured which would be satisfactory to both This forenoon was devoted to the ex- amination of witnesses for the plaintiff wno included a number who testified to the facl thai Sycamore street the where the accident occurred is one of the busiest in the city used by people from the eastern and parts of the county witnesses testified that it was used by many teams and people in the month of year of tlie accident The outcome of the case will bo Dos Moines Jan lown court yesterday overruled tho for a rehearing in tho caso of F A Greenland convicted of ity in tho sale of three not belonging to him In Chicago ami to years in the Greenland is one of tho wealthiest men Iowa Ho has a long line of relatives who arc very wealthy They have sought earnestly to necessity for his doing time and to the supreme court for a rehearing in his case but in vain Tho cattle in it is said were In a shipment by land which he denied personally for and were recovered eventually in Indiana REDHEADS ARE The Wyoming Cattle company Swears Out Warrant for Arrest of Curtis for Perjury Man Arrested at Marshalltown by a Lady Detective the Redhead Bros iti the premo court yesterday gaining a new trial of claim made by tile cattle men of Dos against them The lower court W H judge de- in favor of the Redheads nnd the jury gave them a verdict of The company declined to receive them claiming that they were ot inferior quality Among them was a calf five months old The Wyoming company offered to introduce evidence to show thai this animal was not the kind of bull which it had been proposed to sell The court excluded the evidence Tho defendants wanted a chance show that all bulls could not be included as bulls in such a contract On account of the error in excluding this evidence tho ease ia re- versed A QUEER STORY The case was one of the most extraordinary with which Iowa attorneys authorities have come In contact for many years Greenland Is ono of a number of Some Interesting Developments in Case are Expected Jan case of A 1 Weiss who was arrested about a month ago in n hotel In this city on complaint of 11 W Curtis of Omaha took a sensational turn at noon day when Weiss caused a warrant to be issued for tho of Curtis on a of perjury claims tiss commuted perjury when he swore to a warrant In the justice court IUK which the on Weiss Weiss since the grand jury failed indict and bin Saturday Is full if fight and said yesterday afternoon This is tho far Many Tho followin from tho Fort Dodgo Messenger casts a slur upon the condition of health of tbo people Waterloo It tells about an expected of undertakers and doctors from that village to this city because the are represented to be ter bare for tbo prosecution of various professions The fact of matter la that Waterloo is one of the greatest health resorts in the west and the death rate Is lower here than in most cities of its There has heen very little contagion in loo last fall and this winter and no death from a disease One of the oldest physicians in tho city states that during his location in Wa- ho had fower calls in December than In any previous month At the present time there Is very little ness and the physicians have more case and Idleness than is good for their accounts There are a few cases of typhoid fever but none is and the number is not proportion to what may be expected In a city of thin lit season year The Messenger article is as The trained nurses undertakers and doctors of the city have had one ot the dullest years they have ever ex- There has heen sickness in Fort Dodge for many months A number ot the followers of these professions are positively con- hunting up a new location whore there is something doing in their line It Is understood that they are figuring strongly on going to Wa- where there will he no cause a complaint It is a fact that the trained nurses of the city have had employment not more than one week in six the entire summer well as up to present time this winter and a ber of them have not made expenses for a year past The doctors are in the same boat Aside from the cases and the people who imagine they are 111 whether there is anything the matter with or not they have watched with interest The court BLANDFORD HELD New tilm Minn Jan 17 The moment in the Koch murder trial reached the defendant was as a witness That which the defense had promised and which tlie state had doubted that it would do was brought about when the young dentist look tho stand E veil i then the state was doubtful that Jie Would be fully examined as It was thought the defense would be afraid to turn over to the state The state was mistaken for the had not continued five minutes Abbott had asked Dr Koch about the testimony In- the of the hammer the mailing the poison and the of the word well as the relations that existed between him and STATE This simply throwing down the gates and saying to the the man i Examine and do whatever the court Investigation at Colfax Into sault an Mel Slaughter Associated Colfax la Jan mysterious assault on the person of Mel Slaughter growing out of an old family feud ated through unequal division of erty was the subject of an tion which closed today by holding Charles Blanford to the grand jury The local magistrate claims to have evidence tending to show that ford was actuated by jealous motives He struck the blow that was intended to take the life of Mel Slaughter his cousin and If there thing In ov relations with the Unit will the case lit of the Jury hid It Prof A W Rich la Name Cedar falls Jan Prof A W Rich who has been absent for several days arrived home last night This morning he was given a cordial welcome by the faculty and er the students gavo him an ovation in the Prof Rich has been In Chicago for several days on business Ho U a very influential member of tho Normal and arithmetic and other branches of mathematics belligerents Italy today is more amenable to British than German In- fluence hut she has displayed erable independence in policy France always has stanchly declared that her policy is to respect Chinese integrity and the open door and it was inconceivable that she should change at this time It looks if there would ue clear sailing in securing the fresh declarations which are considered in order to prevent the sion of the war to Chinese territory other than Manchuria The results have justified this view THE RUSSIAN NOTE The long heralded Russian note reached Secretary Hay from the sian embassy direct It was in French and its substance was given the tary several days ago by Count Cassini the Russian ambassador during a call at the state department The text of the Russian note is re- as confidential and for this son the state department has not made it public The Associated Press has obtained an approved synopsis of the note which without purporting to give the language presents in accurate sequences the subjects to which Count Lamsdorf refers The Russian ambassadors to the eral powers are invited by Count Lamsdorff the circular note to call to attention of the ministers for foreign affairs of the government to which they are respectively accredited the fact that at the beginning of tho war the imperial government for mane reasons agreed to tho proposal Of the Washington cabinet regarding room was quite well filled with tators this morning and every one seemed hi the brilliant col- thai have between the attorneys Mrs was riding in a rig en by Kev Skinner at the time of her tragic death With them wils also Skinner They wore ing- to the Skinner home after ing divine worship one Sunday at M church crossing the railroad track the vlg was run In- to and all three thrown out Mr and Mrs Skinner escaped with minor in- juries but Mrs was killed im- mediately MITCHELL IN DENIAL Tho Indicted Oregon Senator Uses Strong Language In Defying His Enemies Associated Washington D C Jan Mitchell of Oregon made a statement in the senate today regarding his in- in connection with Oregon land frauds At the outset the senator declared the charges him if true unfit him to occupy a seat In the senate He then detailed the charges and said I assert In the most positive and unqualified manner that each and every one of the charges hi so far as to or involve me is absolutely alse and t here and now indignantly and defiantly denounce their authors and each and every one brothel's Among them they have about acres of land In township in Boca tar county worth about Their father and er are yet living and Frank Greenland is now thirty-nine years of ago but unmarried He is the manager of the properties of the entire family He is a giant in stature a man of mous force who lives on the strenuous plan to the nth power His home Is a castle and his cellar ft ed with barrels of rye without tho rode it is said Mco the feudal lords nf old For years ho has dominated a large faction In and at Grand River No one has cared to be- come interested in an altercation with him but be iias been In many suits and some of these are now ing and may be the basis for an cation for a pardon for Greenland He always has kept about him vn the op- of the Greenland acres and the control of from to head ot cattle a large crowd of young men built more or less on tho strenuous western frontier fashion TillS BASIS OF THR CASE It was some of these young men on whom Greenland Jays tho for tho act which it seems probable now will land him in the penitentiary Dick Pray Port Woodward are under in- charged with complicity in the theft of the cattle for which land was convicted on a charge of grand larceny Another man was also said to have been in the crowd was said in the trial that Pray Woodward and their companion went to the farm of Dan Moran In township there took or four of steel's out of the yards where they were feeding on grass and drove them to Van Wert where they were put in a car with stock shipped that day by Greenland from Grand River The animals were traced to Chicago to tho commission firm lauding them thence to the Indiana purchasers and were brought hack to Iowa and used as exhibits in the trial of Greenland Pray and Woodward have not been tried Pray is in the penitentiary serving time for arson Greenland owned a livery barn in Grand River and across the street was another One night the of latter barn was covered with coal oil and It waa ert down Pray was charged tho that he proposed If possible to bring Curtis and push the criminal tion to tho limit He Intimated that in case the criminal action failed hu would bring civil sut Weiss insists that ho will slay hero and light the case through claim Ing that It was here Curtis caused his name to be dragged Into the gutter Weiss appears lo he a man of cation and Is a fluent talker The story f his arrest and his ex- with the woman defective Mrs A M is in substance the same as told by Curtis although It differs widely in details He says Mrs Roberts enticed him to her room and It was she and nut he who was ing violent Jove and caused them to lit found In each other's arms when tho who wore concealed by appeared In the room Weiss claims his does not a di- vorce and has no with him but he says tho wife's brother opposed marriage and has been endeavoring since then to have her secured divorce He hinted that it was very likely all news of his arrest and Imprisonment bore had been kept from her Weiss explains his waiving nation at the preliminary hearing by had practically no business There was as usual a small amount of typhoid this fall but it amounted to very lle considering the stee of the town There a dozen or so cases As far -as contagious diseases are concerned there never was a yean since the city passed the size of a lage when there was correspondingly as few cases as there have been during the past twelve months Prom July to December there was not antine sign in the whole of Fort Dodge and even now there are not more than a case or two There is even a lack of the usual children's diseases that are almost Invariably in evidence at this time of year The general health is not in the city alone but this entire section of the state is almost from dis- ease The of the city are not attempting for vailing excellent health of this ity They are merely cognizant that conditions are such and ling up odd to make their office rent for the month Iho fact that whom tis had to came to 111 in before the hearing and told him that lie represented the hotel and that this management was very angry at him on of tho disgrace and the publicity such a scene might bring to the house He advised him according to Weiss that easiest way out oC it to waive examination Weiss I Hi did not learn that the ney had deceived him until after he had boon In jail several weeks STRIKE IN RUSSIA INDIANA ELECTS TWO Legislature Returns to tho Senate and motes Hemonway of them nml brand them publicly as malicious and atrocious liars Grand Associated fBy Associated Indianapolis Jan two branches of the legislature today voted separately for United States Senator Albert J to succeed himself and Representative James A way to Vice President-elect Chas W Fairbanks received the vote of the republican members Preceding the casting of the vote by each branch the members held a joint session crime and convicted Greenland's barn once burned also Judgment of com- He recovered a against tho Dew pany on that account but his It la has been set aside by Judge Weimar Jan Isaac Corbett of Dps OHS of Is dead Date Is Fixed Thousand Out at the Iron Works St Petersburg Jan 17 housand at Iron vorks have struck While sis previously stated the trike is the outgrowth of the question as to of the union the are trying to seize the for the organization of c strikes in other industries of St with the object of xn mion originally was organized by M under the direction Qf the ate Minister oC the Interior Von in order to combat the Ic democrats but the latter are now In control of the union and are using the instrument for their own purpose A priest is the ostensible leader of is composed of six circles and has a membership of five thousand The Iron Works are ing government orders for small arms ranid fire cannon and tives which fact induce the authorities to make every effort for an adjustment of the between the workmen and their em- J The socialistic democrats have oil a meeting for January 1.0 at which It Is expected resolutions will bo lit favor of an advanced socialistic program Associated Washington Jan the in stance of Senator Cullom the senate today adopted a resolution setting February 17 as the time for receiving Iho statute of Frances 13 the temperance advocate presented by the stalo of Illinois to hall in tin for the Insurance company IH The statute is a bust figure I l Down Bown real estate dealers yesterday sold J L tara 160 acres four miles town to A Wilsop for ft atlon of This of per acre for the entire tract vvv every
