Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - January 9, 1911, Waterloo, Iowa The Best Iowa Newt Service i Chicago HI Jan Increasing cloudiness tonight becoming unsettled warmer tonight and In the east portion Tuesday ESTABLISHED 1858 WATERLOO IOWA MONDAY JANUARY 91911 NO 7 OXLY CHIMNEY TOPS APPEAR SNOW mm SPEK Hoosier Senator Attacks While Chicagoan De fends Himself FORMER SUBMITS A RESOLUTION Says Election is Invalid Un s der Any Possible View of the Law Washington D C Jan figh to prevent Senator Lorimer of Illinois from retaining his seat in the United States senate opened today with a con test between Beveridge and Owen o Oklahoma both of whom contested fo r the right to fire the first gun in the same cause Beveridge by virtue of being a mem ber of the committee on privileges ana elections which investigated the charges of bribery against Lorimer gained a tactical victory by filing a minority report attacking the position of his colleagues on the committee who voted to expel the Illinois senator Owen however introduced a resolution to declare the election of Lorimer il legal and void but he was not permit ted to address the senate In its sup port The senate held that the resolu tion under the rules would have to go over until tomorrow Submits Resolution Beveridge then submitted his report the conclusion of which was that this election was invalid under any possible view of the law If the senate so con cludes it is our duty so to declare Therefore I submit tho following reso lution Resolved That William Lori mer was not duly legally elected to a seat in tho senate of the United States f by the legislature of Illinois Makes Defense Before the report was filed Lorimer made a brief speech declaring his In of bribery and the innocence of his friends of any participation in the corrupt practices in connection with his election He pronounced his intention to be present during the dis cussion of the case Sherman Reversed in Appeal Turin Italy Jan lanches from tho Alps of ordinary extent are hi certain district near hill many have becu iso lated In ono valley the only dungs appearing above tlie snow are chimney tops upper ends of telegraph poles SWS rats SHOT IT TRUSTS Court Upholds Estimation of Dirt By State Washington D C Jan power of the state to pass on the question of how much dirt was likely to be found In a carload of grain the supreme court today sus the Missouri statute thus abol ishing the rule of the board of trade of Kansas City for deduction of 100 pounds from the weight of each car load of grain bought by its members as estimated dirt Stamp Tax Also Upheld A stamp tax on the sale for future delivery of stocks grain provisions or other commodities may be imposed by a state without violating the federal constitution according to a decision today of the supreme court passing on the Missouri stamp act of 1907 Jefferson Simplicity of Ohio Governor Bars Out Dry Discourse Kan Jnn and other republicans state were inaugurated today There is a universal sentiment among outpeople said Stubbs In his In augural address demanding the en of rigid plainly written laws that will loosen the Iron on the commerce of the nation bj monopolies and trusts A false and Columbus O Jan Har illegal industrial system has been cs mon was inaugurated governor of Ohio in America which robs tha today for the second time with tho people of the benefits of severest Jeffersonian simplicity The I and compels every one to pay a ceremony was one of the simplest In uto In excessive profits the history of the State tho governor which aggregate many hundreds o stepping out of his private office Into millions annually to tho trusts com the reception room of the executive j and monopolies chambers and there subscribing to the oath The parade social receptions inaugural ball Inaugural address and other customary incidents of tho in auguration of a governor were omitted The omission of the inaugural ad dress made Harmons inauguration un precedented As far as known the governors of Ohio have always made an address after inauguration ing their policies Most of tho demo cratic officials entered upon their du ties today BUILD ft HALL Unique And Wholly Feasible Idea is Presented by H E Burt ENCLOSED PASSAGE FOR PEDESTRIANS L HURT Doorkeeper of the National House Former lowan Run Over by Car ESTRADA RESTORES RELIGIOUS REFORM New Orleans La Jan re ligious for ten years denied the people of Nicaragua has been re stored by an edict of President Es trada The Moravian Mission schools of German Protestant denominations along the east coast of Nicaragua have been permitted to reopen They were closed almost a decade ago by Zelaya on the charge that they were ideas of a revolutionary char acter MAN IS POISONED POLICE GET WIFE Pa Jan M Strobaker is in the south sido hos pital slowly recovering from strych nine which was put In his food and his wife Is at the police station The police refuse to prefer charges against tho woman yet they will not release her though her husband de clares she is innocent of any com in the attempt to kill him She states that as soon as he is able to leave the hospital ho will free her The case came to the attention of the police when Strobaker col lapsed Saturday afternoon while working as superintendent of a grain elevator In the Sheridan district Physicians who attended Strobaker identified as strychnine a sub stance sprinkled over the bread and jam he had for luncheon The marital relations of tho Stro bakers furnish no clew to tho mys tery for as far as is known they never quarreled MANS III A HANK NOW St Mo lim last night it from of lust night hat Mils animated bank at ono I into con 00 mils and a penknife on tho dimes and u All the quarter withdrawn by i surgeon in Col and tho bank is now iti hunting eight yours companion fired ill and drove coins mill Into tho hip ROBERTSON TO BE FT DODGE POSTMASTER All City Offices Would Be Located Over Bridge at Park Avenue Tho following communication from II R Burt a former cit izen of Waterloo now spending the winter with a daughter at Kaston Pa outlines a unique hut apparent C Jan Unlay nominated Samuel J tu bo postmaster of Fort Dodgo Iowa ly feasible plan hall Ho would Ji The parliamentary tangle in the sen rate as to which two senators desiring to open the attack upon Lorimer should have precedence was not set tled until after an appeal was taken from the ruling of Vice President Sher man and he had been reversed Owen was first recognized but Bev eridge demanded the regular order The vice president ruled the Owen resolu tion the highest privilege and had a right to the floor Promptly appealing from the chair was support ed by a majority of the senate in his contention that the Owen resolution would have to lie over ono day under the rules minority report was then read in the senate Money Tells tho Talc The report reviews the testimony bearing upon the of bribes by four members of the ture and the testimony of these men that the bribes were paid by three other members The minority report declares it is an undisputed fact i of conclusive force although the majority ignores It that the confessed bribe takers were shown to have had in their possession unusually largo sums l of money soon after the dates whea they swore to having received the al i bribes j Disputes Contention t Beveridge then devoted considerable attention to the claim of the majority that at least three of those who con fessed to having received bribes nad been compelled or to make these confessions because of treatment received from the officers of Cook and Sangamon counties in Illinois In this connection the report says What the senate must determine is it believes as a matter of fact that these men actually did receive i the money which they testified to hav received He said the conduct Continued on page 5 Washington Jan George H doorkeeper of the house of representatives and well known to the present and former members of that body was perhaps fatally in jured when run over by a street car last night while on his way to church Mrs was with him when the accident occurred slipped and fell just as he left the car and rolled beneath the wheels His foot was so crushed as to necessitate amputation and he sustained other injuries His advanced age years renders recovery practically impossible was a former resident of Manchester Iowa where for many years he was the recorder of Delaware county ARRAIGNED Cedar Falls la Jnn Special Waterloo young men Joe Har ris and John Keenan were arraigned here yesterday before Judge Cum mings on a charge of disturbing the peace Their complainant was a street car conductor who stated that the men had attacked him while he was flagging a crossing at 11 p m Saturday The fines and costs amount ed to each REPORTED El Paso Texas Jan Mexi can Herald prints a special from the frontier of Mexico that the Mexican steamer was sunk in storm near the mouth of Gri jalva river recently four persons be ing drowned and many others Injured Technical Foe Discovered by COURTS Washington D C Jan civ il courts have no jurisdiction to review the proceedings In an army board for the promotion of officers according to a decision of the supreme court to day MINISTERS NOMINATED Washington D C Jan president today nominated Elliot Northcott of Huntington W Va to be minister to Nicaragua and H Clay Howard Paris Ky minister to Peru An unfortunate coincidence has been caused by the accident to W R Scott this forenoon He was hurt by a Hock Island engine and taken to hos pital for treatment where his wife was also taken for an operation DEMOCRATIC DIES Jersey City JST J Jan Davis the democratic leader of Hud son county and a power in the demo cratic council of state died this af of cancer death will complicate further the senatorial sit in New Jersey Ho had ed to vote the Hudson delegation to former Senator Smith for a convention havo the now im provement erected as a ture over tho new cement bridge which will soon bo built across the Cedar at Park avenue The close studious nml critical at tention of tho public IK called to the plan outlined Editor Courier In your of Jnn 3 under the caption Waterloo Boosters to Continue Forward March in 1911 Mr J E Sedgwick men as ono of tho greatest of Waterloo a PUBLIC EXHIBITION HALL In a letter to Mayor Hector Nov 28 1910 T outlined a suggestion for a LARGE CONVENTION HALL PUBLIC EXHIBITION SPACE find CITY OFFICES all under ono roof Tho Idea grew out of tho agitation going on In Philadelphia over tie question of a suitable location for a groat CONVENTION HALL Of all the sites so far mentioned In that city for location centrally for on part of tho traveling pub lic ns they alight from or take rail road trains the one generally con ceded to be the most desirable would be OVER the river One of the leading architect firms in that city has made plans for such a struc ture arid no one Hns criticised It as lacking in feasibility and desira I have followed the discus sions with much interest How then can this matter interest you of Wa Well sooner or later there will he a BRIDGE constructed across the Cedar above tho dam connecting East and West Park avenues It oc on Pago Five FAIL TO AGREE ON POPULAR ELECTION Washington D C Janj Hon ate commit IRQ on judiciary this morn ing failed to agree upon tho report the resolution providing for popular election of senators Question of Drinking Water Strangely Is An Import ant Problem SANITARY FOUNTS FOR BOTH HOUSES Democratic Committee on Committees Will Prob ably Be Voted Down TRIM Judge Denies Motion That Such Prosecution Be Forbidden Chicago Tan Carpenter of tho United States district court today denied the motion of the indicted meat packers that prosecution against them be forbidden Their plea was made on the premises that If they were guilty of conspiracy to restrain trade they then were violating Circuit Judge injunction of several years ago against such a practice Car penter gave the packers ten days lor further preliminary motions which they might before plead ing to the indictments Defending Fleet Washington T C Jan At battleship fleet was discovered by the defending fleet 1380 miles east of St Augustine Fla Sunday morning while approaching tho shores of the United States as a tech The navy department was advised to this effect in a wireless telegram re today from Rear Admiral Staunton commanding tho defending fleet TUBERCULIN TEST HELD NECESSARY TODAYS NEWS FROM OVER IOWA ROBBERY XO CLUE Elmgrove W Va Jan First National bank was entered by robbers during the night Tho vault was dynamited and all the money between 53000 and was taken There is no HUD OF FAMILY MAJORS FOUND DEAD NEAR BLAKESBURG TODAY instantly killed at the depot cross ing of that town yesterday morning by Northwestern train No 7 He was hard of hearing and failed to hear the alarm bolls at the crossing His team was also Instantly killed Ho was popular and KILLED IN PLUNGE BOXING CONTEST TONIGHT Kansas City Mo Jan of Chicago and Johnny McCarthy of Sari Francisco light weights will meet in a ten round box ing contest In this city tonight Domestic Infelicity Said to be Cause of the Suicide OHIOAN AS NEW SECRETARY Washington D C Jan Thompson of Ohio was today nominated to be second assistant sec ot tha Was the Shellsburg Agent Thief a Woman Masquerading as a Man Davenport la Jan or not the clever crook who as tempo rary agent of the Rock Island road In Shellsburg Iowa was a woman dis guised as a man Is absorbing tho minds of tho townspeople there just at present Those better acquainted with the man sines his sudden disappear ance along with an amount said to be between and 3000 of the com money have a clear recollection that he had delicate features He gave his name as and N went to Shellsburg a stranger just before tho holidays The regular agent C D Wilson had applied for a few days leave of absence around the hol idays And with a free and easy trustworthy manner was given charge of the office About that time an operator giving his as Benson was employed at Mediapolis station Benson only ono day and came to Shellsburg It is asserted that he wrote letters to a number of diamond dealers in the cities enclosing Ottumwa la Jan Majors aged 40 years committed suicide at his home three miles south of Blakesburg by shooting last night His body was found In a corn field near nis home this morning nearly frozen and covered with blood which had flowed from a deep bullet wound and frozen In large clots over his dead body Domestic troubles are said to be the cause of the tragedy He leaves a wife and five small chil MRS DE BEAK OF MEETS SAD FATE Slipped This Forenoon Going Into Cellar and Died Suddenly dren He was prominent and known In this vicinity well STORM LAKE MAX SUD DENLY COLLAPSED J L Christensen Was at Neighbors Homo When Informed Chicago Jan of Health Evans stands vindicated In his contention that the tuberculin test for cows or the pasteurization of their milk IB essential for the preservation of health Reports from the laboratories of the government at Washington and from the laboratories of the University of Chicago and the Northwestern univer sity wore made public simultaneously last night They show that all the ex arrived at about the con that onehalf of 1 per ccut of Chicagos unpasteurized milk is tu Dispatches from Washington last night indicated that In a series of ex conducted by the exports of animal industry it waa found that tu developed from one of 200 samples of Chicago milk selected at random from tho incoming supply This sample was traced to the farm ot Its origin where three out of the twen cows supplying the milk for city consumption wero shown to be infected with the disease DCS Moines la Jan thing is In working or dor in tho general assembly this af both houses having opened formally this morning The first fea ture out of tho ordinary was the in of tho democratic scheme for a committee on committees Dabney Offers Mr Dabney of Davis county offered a resolution to provide that the house committee be made up by a tno made up of nine members ot the house elected from the house thus out of the hands of tho speaker The resolution was not acted upon Drinking Water In Issue The subject of drinking water camo up on tho warning from the stats of health not to drink Dea Moines water In tho senate the cus was Instructed to Immediately provide two sanitary tains with distilled water The house will take Its chances on germa for an other day Message Due Tuesday Tuesday at 2 p m was fixed for the timo of the reading of the messaga to the general assembly In the senate President Clarke pre sided and was by Rev R H Bell of DCS Moines On motion of Senator Hunter the officers of the last general assembly were made ary The credentials commit tee consists of Hunter Adams Larra bco DeWolf and Legel The new members were sworn In then perma organization effected the denio crata not making any nominations Committees to notify tha hause and governor were named and provision made for codes chaplains etc Senator Gets Clerk A motion to provide each senator with a clerk waa opposed by Senator Smith of Shelby but finally carried money orders and ordering the costly stones sent to him at Shellsburg C O D When they arrived It is said the collect sign was disregarded and and Benson supposedly working together the spoils There was the usual heavy Christ mas traffic and express packages The receipts for the tickets freight ox press and other Incidentals also never found their way to the coffers of the company and when the auditor arrived on the scene a few days afterward he found tho depot deserted and bared to the walls Nothing remained only that which was nailed down or which waa too bulky or which could be regarded as of no use to them On was a cleverly written little of poetry telling them that they had de to leave Nothing has been heard of them since June the loss to the road will be has not as yet been ascertained but it is said that it will not fall much below Residents of the did town state that the relief agent departed bedecked with spark lers INM PERDU DEAD Perry la Jan Press 77 years of age for more than a quarter of a century Per rys leading citizen four times elected mayor passed away at midnight last an Illness of two years The fatal ailment which is thought to havo been caused by was but of short duration Mr Breed was president of the Perry Savings Ex change bank and of the First National bank and very wealthy The funeral will be held Wednesday under the auspices of tho Blue Lodge with Knight Templar escort Parkersburg la Jan down the cellar stairs this forenoon at her homo Mrs J K De Hoar sustained injur ies which caused her sudden death She was 72 years of age and had a wide acquaintance Struck Hrad on Iron Bur Though quito Mrs De Bear had been halo and hearty This forenoon when she attempted to go down cellar for something she wna in the best of health Just before she had been and laughing Near the top of the steps her foot slipped and she plunged headlong to the cellar bottom striking with her head against an iron bar Tho was such that her death almost im mediately followed The sad affair has caused a pall of gloom to rest over the relatives and near friends Storm Lake la Jan being told that his home was on J L SS years of ago dropped dead Ho was at a neighbors home when informed of the fire He listened to the story and then suddenly turning pale collapsed and fell to the floor When picked up he was dead IOWAN SUCCEEDS IN PHILIPPINES la Jan Evening John Gibson well known all over this state and several years ago one of the wealthiest resi dents hero la meeting with great success in the Philippine Islands dealing in the fine lumber peculiar to that locality lie has worked for ten years and is now beginning to reap the rich harvest from his toils BuTlER FIRMER KILLED Cedar Falls la Jan Spe telegram was received to day at New Hartford stating that U J Strand a and well known farmor living near that place was accidentally killed yesterday at Rock Island 111 No particulars of the accident havn leen learned TEMPERATURE TAN Markings supplied by Buchanan Op tical Co Syndicate block 12 night 6 7 a m minimum i 10 a in s 1 p A committee was named to join with the house in selecting additional em ployes as needed A committee consisting of Repre Larrabee Harding and O Connor was appointed to decide as to the of candidates for committee clerks and that the number be limited to 35 of which the demo crats should select 10 The Dabney resolution to have house members choose the standing committees went over under the rules until tho next day The house ad until for the selection of seats The senate meets at 10 a m tomorrow No Action on Senator Dos Moines Jan 9 p most significant ac tion in the Iowa general assembly which convened today waa the failure on the part of the demo crats to take any action In their caucuses relative to the senatorial situation It was expected they would decide to vote for some democrat first last and all tho time The house democrats elected Frank OConner of as floor leader for the ses sion and the senate selected Senator Wilson of Clinton as permanent cau cus chairman It is stated that Wilson in case tho democrats cannot select a senator favors the democrats of tho second district voting for Geo Curtis who asks only the short term up to the 1912 primaries A concur rent resolution was passed fixing tha joint assembly at 2 oclock tomorrow to hear the governors message In the house John W Jacobs of Cal houn was made temporary chairman Stillman was nominated for perma nent speaker by Karl Johnson of Mitchell and received the votes of all republicans and democrats Smoke Martins Standard DC cigar Nate Tardy Receives in Settlement of Ancient Debt For Felice 6c cigar SICKNESS IN FAMILY DRIVES TO SUICIDE HARD OF HEARING KILLED AT CROSSING Donison la Jan Evening a prominent farmer living near West Side was Jan a do farmer living three miles west of committed suicide by himself early yesterday morning Worry over the critical illness of his wife and three chil dren who arc down with pneu monia Is to have caused his DORCAS NEW Iowa City In Jan Evening H C Dorcas university has been elected registrar of the the university to succeed E E Barrett resigned Dr duties as examiner do not cense as the two positions have been blended together Tho board also elected Ralph Otto mayor of Iowa City as professor of law was a more surprised man than Nate Tardy tho veteran harness man of Waterloo when he opened his mail this morning and from one en closure postmarked at Reinbeck tumbled a five dollar Accom the money was a brief note of which tho following is a verbatim copy 1911 Tardy 85 years ago T owed yon 40 or cents Interest SCI I HACK IS POSTMASTER DCS Moines la Jan Evening postmasters named for Iowa offices today was E 12 Parkersburg DEAL The address on the envelope was as follows Nato Tartly The Harness Man Waterloo Mr Tardy has searched his mem ory but he has no recollection of any one owing him that amount at that time although there are doubtless several of them on the books of that day Mr Tardy thankful ly devoted the to his personal needs and feels better toward the world in general by reason of tho re of tho sum of money which say the least was not expected Mr Tardy of course is anxious to meet the repentent debtor but he has little hope of that and all ho can do is speculate as to the causes which led the individual to make at this late day Many will ute the circumstances to the ing occasioned by the Sunday meetings but be that as it may Mr Tardy declares that it ho ever the person on the square they will part upon
