Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - May 16, 1914, Waterloo, Iowa Popular Paper of ati Sections in Waterloo m m a AND WATERLOO DAILY REPORTER FORECAST May Fair IB portion cloudy portion to nod Sunday with probably temperature Blotter WATERLOO IOWA SATURDAY MAY Hi 111 THREE CENTS NORWEGIAN SMOKES PIPE UNDER WATER REPLY Cumulative Incident of Privates Disappearance Through Mexi can Federal Lines May Be Stumbling Block to Peace Ne NOW IN POSSESSION OF TUXPAN Plans for the Assembling of Medi ators Delegates and Other at Niagara Falls Go ward Rapidly Washington D C May department waited today a reply from the Huerta government to the urgent inquiry made by trie Brazilian minister in Mexico City ai the request of Secretary Bryan for information concerning the abouts of Private Samuel Parks Spanish Ambassador Riano today re a dispatch from the Huerta j government promising immediate in Mr Bryan said he had received no proof from the Brazilian envoy that Parks who went through the Mexi can line in his uniform was ed but it is known that the minister aswell as General Funston in Vera Cruz have been told repeatedly that the young private had met with a summary execution Last nights report corroborated from Vera Cruz by American Consul Canada that Tuxpan on the east coast of Mexico is in the hands of raises a ques tion here as to the possible occupa tion by the of Lobos island which lies only a feu miles off Tuxpan The Huerta houBe keepers turned over the light house to the American naval forces who have kept the light burning The state department since has ad Justed the matter by offering to turn the lighthouse back to the Huerta beepers if they would maintain the light Interest in the mediation program in the Mexican crisis centered in the arrival here this afternoon of the Huerta delegates Secretary Bryan said today that the of permitting the ship ment of arms fom the United States to Mexican ports was not before the state department for consideration MEDIATION PLANS PROCEED Plans for the assembling of the mediators delegates and other at Niagara Falls for the peace negotiations went forward rapidly today after the delays and postpone ment of yesterday Minister will leave at 7 oclock tomorrow night to begin preliminary arrangements at Niagara Falls Mon aThe departure of Justice Lamar and Mr Lehmann and the American officials is dependent somewhat on the plans of the Mexican delegates who arrived from the south this aft but it is probable the vari groups will get away Sunday night or Monday Ambassador da Gama of Brazil and Minister Suarez will follow probably Monday All participants in tbe mediation conference will meet for the first time at the dinner given tonight by the Spanish ambassador in honor of the arriving Mexican delegates In to the dinner have been ac by the three South American envoys who tendered their good of their respective countries by the two American delegates Justice Lamar and Mr Lehmann and by H Dodee secretary to the mission Other will be the ips and other attaches accompanying the Mexican delegates Renor Riano the dor planned to meet the Mexican fit the railroad station and later to take the three representative to call on the South American mediators Plans for the arrival of the Mexi can party at n m today were being made nt the Pennsylvania sta tion HIGH SCHOOL ROY BREAKS RECORD Cook Fulls Into Water and Stays Mt Biloxi Miss May tho great chagrin of local Irishmen a Norwegian cook has achieved the i feat of smok ing a pipe under water The rine trick was not rehearsed and its author makes no promise that it will ever be repeated Ivan is the culinary ar tints name He juggles flapjacks on the powerboat John T White The boat lay alongside a fishing schooner and Ivanson who was smoking his corncob pipe prepared to jump from i his boat to the other Rain was fall ing and a mist caused the cook to misjudge his distance and plunge Walter ran to rhe rail in time to see Ivansons head disappear under the water as the sides of the two boats ground er He must be crushed to death cried Hodgins Some of the regret in his voice was due to the fact that j good cooks are hard to find He pushed the boats apart The only sign of Ivanson was a derby hat that floated in the water lie White started up and Hodgins ran back to see if he could discover the body He did There was the unruffled Ivanson holding on to the stern of the boat and being towed through the water His pipe was still between his teeth and he was still puffing its smoke Why didnt you call for help they asked as Ivan was dragged aboard Ay aint bane a fool said Ivan if Ay had opened my mouth Ayd have lost my pipe Neither Ivan nor any of the rest of them can explain how the pipe kept on burning while the cook dived under the boat TOILS Him I Where Did the of the Stockholders Evaporate OF NOTED CASE HEARD IX COURT OK APPEALS Charles Millet Chief Prosecutor Again Appears for Government la May a triangular track and field meet bej tween Grinnell and j Toledo high school today Packer ofi Marshalltown broke the state record for lo in flat Vogt of Marshalltown created a new home record for the mile run in Hastings of Grinnell won the century sprint a feature event of tho meet Marshalltown took the meet with n total of fifi and was second with 52 Toledo scored fi points Chicago May W Miller former United States district attorney for Indiana who prosecuted the dynamite conspiracy case against a number of labor leaders in 1912 appeared again for the government in the United States circuit court of ap peals when the rehearing on the granting of new trials to Olaf A of San Francisco Richard H Houlihan of Chicago and Wm Bernhardt of Cincinnati came up for oral argument Originally 30 of the convicted men filed appeals for new trials The United States circuit court of appeals upheld the conviction of 24 and j granted new trials for six As to j three of the han and government requested a hearing which was granted Miller said the court had properly held that the general conspiracy had been established and that 24 of the defendants were directly connected with the conspiracy to transport and nitroglycerine on ger trains The evidence he must be largely circumstantial but that every link in the chain of is present and that the verdict of the jury is sustained by substantial evidence on every mate rial point that a clear facie case was established against Tveit moe Houlihan and Bernhardt The government lawyer next took the case of the three defendants indi vidually touching on the evidence brought out in the trial of the casej and argued that the testimony was such that the defendants were entitled to new trials Elijah Zoline for the defense plied that the three men had not been i convincingly connected with the con at the trial and were entitled to a new hearing 1 DESTROY AMERICAN PROPERTY Eagle Pas Tex May j evacuating Monclova their final stand on the Mexican National rail way between Piedras and Salj tillo the federals destroyed practical ly all American property in the town according to a dispatch received to day at Piedras The message came from General in com mand of tin force at Sabinas He also said the fed who left Monclova yesterday j were reported to be over land to Saltillo to join the garrison there under General Velasco and Joaquin Maas Senator Walsh of Montana Makes Declaration on Floor of the Senate Today PRESENT SECRETARY OF STATE APPROVED WORDING Western Statesman Refuses to Follow Bryan in Change of View on Question Washington D May statement that Jennings Bryan deliberately approved the tolls ex emption plank of the Democratic platform as a member of the sub committee on resolutions which pre pared the platform was made in the senate today by Senator Walsh or secretary of the subcommit tee Senator Walsh declared an open repudiation of a solemn covenant by a political party would cause all to recoil from it with horror were it proposed by any other man than the president of the United States For myself its normal aspect as sumes no different hue because he commends it added the senator As a substitute for the repeal Senator Walsh urged the adoption of former President Tafts proposal to submit the controversy to the su court The Montana senator took up at length the Baltimore plat form because he said it had been in the tolls plank had been in surreptitiously and he de clared his belief that the of 11 elected to draft the platform received the proposed tolls plank from Senator OGorman There was no debate on it simply because it was generally approved or acquiesced In said Senator Walsh PLATFORM He said Mr Bryan and Senator OGorman were asked to put the platform In appropriate language and that they invited Senator Pom erene and himself to assist When the tolls plank was pre sented said Senator Walsh Mr Bryan expressed his approval but said it should be accompanied by another plank declaring against the admission of ships to the canal and so the platform reads after the declaration concerning tolls We the vor legislation forbidding the use of the Panama canal by owned or controlled by railroad carriers en gaged in transportation competitive with the canal Senator Walsh said he had no temptation to escape from the tram mels of the platform or the puerile suggestion that the plank was con by another against dies Why in that view the canal it self is a subsidy to the shipping in he declared Why did we spend to build it ex cept to aid the shipping interests H Rosenbergs Widow Says Jack Rose Negotiated Deal She Saw Blood Money Divided Webster City la May 1 r Justice of lay fixed the bonds of II anil J I president and cashier of the defunct bank nl at They arrested on charges of John i IT TESTIMONY is CRUSHING BLOW TO THE DEFENSE However if they do they will U on sworn out in City find now in the hands of Sheriff Nelson County Attorney Henderson of this city is determined that in order to protect local who are alleged to hold around in spurious notes of the Farmers hank the must remain In custody at least long enough to mil a thorough Investigation books and tho full extent of the al forgeries ascertained j his young wife promise to tell the H lias developed that fortyfive truth about the murder of Herman men mimes appear on notes put up as collateral have repudiated their signatures us forged Most Intense Moment in Trial of Former Police Lieutenant on Charge of Murder New York May 18 Lafty wont to his death he nude Corning la May to thp first national bank hero which suspended yesterday without passing into the hands of a receiver are being made today by the owners of the Institution Deposits amount ed to WW Smith of St Louis national bank examiner is now in charge of the Institution It was closed Friday on the demand of the comptroller of tbe national treasury Charles S Mellen former president of the New York New Haven and Connecticut railroad is doing to tell what he knows of tbe vanishing millions lost by small stockholders In the financial wrecking of the great property He has gone to his New Haven home to search tho great mass of papers in which he expects to find answers to the questions which will be asked by Chief Counsel Folk of the Interstate commerce commission Examination of papers and docu ments now In possession of the com MAY SEEK TO RESTORE MONEY chlef Coun D C May JosePh W Folk pointed out that who got the vanished millions ll became really a practice ol certain ing to the stockholders or the interests to buy up proper Haven railroad and how the deals were carried out by which these mil lions were diverted from the roads treasury to the pockets of favored fi ties which they had hern led to be lieve the Haven wanted and then unload them onto tho New Haven at from two to four what they are questions which the for commerce commission ex In the view of the commission and of to answer through the pending Mr Folk suit would ne against investigation into the New Havens interests by which they could affairs forced to restore money so obtained Thus was stated authoritatively to to the New Haven stockholders Mr Folk said neither he nor the day the purpose of the commission in forcing the examination of Charles H commission had received further Mellen former president of the New communication from tin department Haven and ol other witnesses of justice concerning the testimony Patients From Vera Cruz Are All Doing Well New York May of the pa including the amputation cases brought here from Vera Cruz by the hospital ship Solace are doing well according lo Dr C G Smith in charge of the naval hospital in the Brooklyn navy yard Such a quantity of flowers and dainties has been sent to the hospital that the authorities are at a loss to know what to do with them The navy department has ed to the request of the 4 1 cents that they be permitted to re join their comrades in Vera Crux They will go back in the Solace whe she sails provided their condition is favorable have been or will be called on to Mr Mellen already adduced or about to be given i Physician Gives Version of Case Tokio Japan May Watanape a Korean was sentenced to death for the murder two months ago of Dr Edward IV Mott Stryer formerly of X J who was head of the hospital near Korea The murderer was condemned by the criminal court on May 1 to imprisonment He ai superior court not o decision but also ch tence On the delivery of Watanape recited a p Washington May ican constitutional forces under Gen eral GonzaleR now occupying Tampi oo have assured States Con sul Miller that Americans and other foreigners may return to the city and that every consideration will be shown them Consul Miller reports and the everything quiet and that the city has been in order since its pation by General Gonzales A report from American Consul he judgment I Bonney now on his way home from 11 of his own i san Luis states that KO far upheld In ged tin sen REBELS CUT OFF HER nil On hoard U S S California Ma zatlan Mex May 15 by wireless to San Diego Cal May water supply is still cut oft by the be sieging rebels and sickness and the death rule Is Increasing with alarm Ing rapidity An outbreak of ence Is feared The governor of disarm ed the police today on the plea of lack of ammunition for the defense of the city Ills real motive It Is be was fear of internal revolt General Obregon commander of the Is apparently working southward for the purpose of cutting the railroad from Man to Guadalajara and Mexico City before attempting other opera tions If he succeeds in cutting the railroad thereby shutting off muni tions of war it is thought tbe west coast cities will fall without further fighting Obregon has given full assurance that American and foreign owned property in the Tepic territory will be protected Huerta Promises an Investigation Washington D C May ish Ambassador Riano today received a dispatch from the Mexican minis ter of foreign affairs stating that vig investigation of the disappear ance of Orderly Samuel Parks Imme would be made by the Huerta authorities Thp dispatch was in a i eply to a note sent by Mr Riano calling attention to the anxiety of the States government as to Parks Rosenthal So took the stand In her wid black yesterday In the trial of former Police Lieut Becker and told the Jury that the composition pnt Farewell ould learn no Americans were World WATERLOO MAN NOMINATION Washington D C May 16 The president nominated B Sweeney of Seattle Wash to be as secretary of the Interior El aoma cigar for 6c advertisement If through error of the car rier boy or other cause this pa per should not be delivered at your homo by oclock please phone 3330 and a copy of tho paper will be sent After p m please tele phone all complaint to the night phone or No after 8 p m The local physician who has been accused by several boys of selling heroin declares he has treated a number of Waterloo young men for the heroin habit but denies that he has been selling the drug illegally states that some time ago the parents of a young man addicted to the habit came to his office and asked him to give tho boy treat merits He declares be refused at first but finally started giving the boy a course of treatments The physician declares he gradual ly reduced the amount of heroin and finally switched to another drug in an effort to cure the patients He states that be treated several boys for a short time but rejected them because they failed to follow lions There were no new developments in the case today The information gathered by the pole officials ha been turned over to the county at torney and further action now rests in his hands Today in New York tity the marriage of Miss V Mr W R Johnson at received from that friends The rner resident of Jane ed in this city for se1 ing connected with th leum company On J parted for New York tion with the pany and it was wl that establishment acquaintance of the today became his brid sister of the company While he resided in this city Mi Johnson made main v arm friends i killed in his district before die j lie left but that all the railroads were paralyzed chiefly from lack of fuel He left the charge of the vice consul i Admiral Badger has reported the j today at Puerto Mexico from i Tampico of t Mexican Bravo and the tun Tam The Taeoma and two Primary Election Returns in Oregon Ore May as for the Republican nomina tion for governor were eliminated by the returns of the first nights count of yesterdays primary vote in re aon The race reduced itself today to Dr lames of Corval know they were working for Becker when they shot down and that she eaw them the pay for tho murder Martin Manton chief for the defense on did all that any lawyer could to blunt the effect of that story when he asked Rosenberg If she had not testified in the trial of the gunmen that ehe had not heard a word of the talk between her husband and Jack Rose at the time Rose went to hire the gunmen but ehe turned her eyes on the foreman of tha Jury and spoke 10 words Well I lied to gave my at that time Mrs Rosenberg entered the court room In the late afternoon The first Impression yon pot of her was that she is an pretty woman She didnt weep She found no use for the wisp of a handkerchief that showed In her black gloved hand She needed no supporting arm Her voice was clear and steady and her gaze upon the Jurymen was tering Mrs Rosenberg testifying under the direct questioning of District At torney Whitman said I was the wife of Louise Rosen berg until April 13 when he was electrocuted Jack Rose came to my house many times On one occasion about a week before the murder of Rosenthal he came In and saw the boys Louie Harry Horowitz Whit ey Lewis and Frank He said to my husband Becker Is sore at Rosenthal and he Is sore at your boys too He Is also sore at Jack Zellg The best thing you fel lows can do Is to stick Inside the house The first time you poke your heads outside the door he will get you for carrying guns Then my husband gald But wo dont carry any guns To that Rose replied But hell frame you up hell put guns your pockets Well said Toule well do anything we can for Becker but we dont want to be framed What can we do Then Rose told Ton four fellows killed Rosenthal for Becker and everything will be all right After the murder of Hosenthal the four boys were In my apartments I saw them dividing a roll of money I think there was In roll Mrs Rosenbergs testimony dis counts the confession alleged to been made by Dago Frank Just before the gunmen were electrocuted In the confession he was quoted as saying he heard the name of Becker mentioned In connection with the murder plot SCENE DIFFICULT TO It Is difficult to picture the scene as Lefty Louies widow dropped her words Into the utter silence of the courtroom Every man of the jury bent toward her Justice Sea bury missed no syllable of her story Becker from whatever emotion It may have been simple astonishment gripped hard the table in front of him His lawyers what time they were not objecting sat with sober faces Mrs Rosenbergs testimony pied less than half an hour of tha time of the court but was of such compelling interest that it eclipsed other sensational features of todays Pitt Beckers spy had turned states witness and will speak against his former master on Monday that the state according so but resid ral years be lowa Mauso iary 1 he do i take a Film com at work in e mad the lady that for she is the oT the film destroyers are with thorn lis and Jus C Moser of Portland j to tjie district attorney established with chances seemingly favoring of tiie mouths of decent men that Becker was in communication with Of live aspirants for the Demo Rosp immediately before and imme cratic nomination for governor after the murder and that although he knew early on thp of the second day after hp Rose was wanted for thp said nothing did who will learn of the culm this pretty romance with pleasure After a short honeymoon trip the couple will be at home to friends it the metropolis at an apartment on K nodes street ATTACK OK HEART KUU RK Mrs A K Kline of Denver Colo who has been in Waterloo for the past three months taking treatment for articular rheumatism was strick en with a seyre attack of heart failure yesterday a her rooms 11 n Mulberry street Today she seemed to be resting more comfortably IOl DONE Foundation for the new African Methodist church on Mo bile street has just been completed ami af preparing to start on the building liev I W Bess pastor of the church thinks that it be completed by tbe fore part of July were eliminated leaving the contest between A S Bennett of The Hallos Manning of Portland and Dr r J Smith of Portland Candidates whose nominations wor made certain by tbe partial re turns received are States senator Republican i Robert A Booth of Eugene Demo Ceo K Chamberlai nof Port laud Progressive Wm of Representative in congress district W C j of Salem Second dis Republican N J of i The Dalies I Governor Progressive L 11 Mc Mahau of Salem g toward Roses arrest Jrace Boeller rLO Lime street has been added to the list of scarlet fever patients CONSUL DELAYED Washington D C May ther assurances reached the state de today froni the Brazilian minister in Mexico City that Amor Mean consul John R Silliman who has been in prison at Saltillo is en route to Mexico City but that his ar has been delayed by interrupted railroad conditions Latest state that bo should have reached the Mexican capital early last night oj early today but that operations were very uncertain Smoke El Verso Havana lOe
