Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - February 15, 1916, Waterloo, Iowa v No Cheaper Way to Keep Folks Posted AND WATERLOO DAILY REPORTER WEATHER FORECAST Chicago Feb Fair to night and Wednesday warmer Wed and In west and central por tions tonight L COURIER ESTABLISHED IBM REPORTER ESTABLISHED WATERLOO IOWA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15 PAGES TO mm IN Iward King Admits He Was Not in City on Day of Accident to Boy Crushed By Car IMPLICATE Sailors Save Battleship From Serious Fire Philadelphia Pa Feb work by sailors on the battleship North Dakota at the Philadelphia navy yard saved the ship from serious damage from fire last night They umped from their bunks at the sound of the fire alarm and extin a slight blaze in the engine room in about three minutes The started by the blow out of a fuse in a dynamo Oil caught and ignited the woodwork When the sailors discovered that oil was ablaze they threw sand on the burning fluid putting out the ATTORNEY LOREN RISK avid A Scott Tells of to Get King to Testify New Attorneys Withdraw The was a good teat ot the ency of fire drills on various ships Approval of Franchise By Voters 1602 to 769 Assures Early Erection of Improvement David A Scott faces a charge f subornation of perjury and Ed lard King faces a charge of per Lry in connection with the trial If the Scribner case against the JW Ackerman fho was a witness in this case is swing time in or perjury and serious ions are made against Loren Risk Lading counsel for Scribner at trial in September 1914 Officers have King and Scott after conviction Iving a middleaged man with family a blacksmith had re His conscience troubled Lim BIG IF BEB m OF NOT TESTED SCORES OF COMMUNITIES TO BE FURNISHED LIGHT Building and Equipment Will Coat to Build Sea wall Along Cedar River At the special election held yes the voters of Waterloo by a vote of 1602 for to against British Parliament Reconvenes King Pleads for War to Finish London Fob reassembled today King George in his speech from the throno said My lords and gentlemen It has been my duly to summon you aft er a short recess to renew your deliberations The spirit of my allies and mv people who are united in this conflict by ties of sympathy and steadfast In tho to secure reparation for the victims of unprovoked and unjustifiable outrage and effectual safeguards for all nations against the aggression of power which mistakes force for right and expediency for honor With a proud and grateful confidence I look to tho courage tenacity nnd resource of my navy and army on whom wo depend worthily to perform our part In the attainment of tho BOSI Gentlemen of the house you will be asked to make due pro vision for the conduct of tho war My lords and gentlemen the only measures which will bo submitted to you are such as In opinion of my advisers tend to attainment ot our common object I commend them to your and loyalty and I pray that the Al mighty will give his blessing to your councils PRICE THREE CENTS Mentioned for New War Chief Action to Insure Good Seed Corn for Black Hawk Farmers is Imperative the result the electric company I will expend over for la bor and material in Waterloo be tween now and Jon 1 1917 and It requires approximately twelve will within the next two ears of corn to plant an acre of completely erect and equip a ground If these twelve ears are voitage electric power plant which taken at random from a crib that has and power not been proven to test but 75 per cent Waterloo but to scores of Stowns and rural districts in these twelve ears will be fit for seed northern and eastern Iowa MR MURDER CASE IN BF M Ml of Judge Considered More Unfavorable to Defendant Than Was Expected Winterset la Feb cas of Mrs Ida Meyer ago GO charged with the complicity in the murder ot of tho New Haven no er Mrs Ethel Mey r July 25 last was given to the ury shortly before noon today Instructions given the Jury by Dla Finding of Poison in Ashes a Home Gives Clew Put There By Gardener STATES ATTORNEY CLAIMS NEW CHAINS IN EVIDENCE Asserts Students Gull Can Be Established Before Coroners Jury Chicago Fob for I tho bottle in which was curried the I of Refutes Testimony of CW high school girl was to 3 111 II 11 1 3 poison which caused tho death Marian Lambert Lake Forest ron Before Senate in Wire to Walsh Washington D O Feb day by detectives who arc oring to establish a connection bc the girls death hist Wed nnd the mysterious absence from Madison Wis on that day lot William 11 University Charles S Mullen former president Oi Wisconsin junior The There will therefore be franchise under which the rict Judge with In securing the confessions Coun Wenner Sheriff Hender lon Court Reporter Matthew West late and and Bob lurray special agents of the street ar company sleep lunday night and night It Ivas Monday morning when Iving finished signing his name on Tach page of a long confession It Us about 5 oclock this morning affixed his signature to similar statement SEE ACCIDENT In the former trial oE the case was to recover damages for loss of a leg by Charles Scribner old son of Glen Scribner he awarded a verdict of Che boy had climbed on the fender bf a street car on Fourth street near jucker to ride After the car had tone 150 feet he fell off Tho car passed over his leg severing it Ackerman and King both testified they saw the accident King testified that he was passing along the street at the time that he saw eering out of theboy looked as tho he was trying a warn ne to stop Ackerman said he was mately three ears that will never raise company now operates would not any corn Every ear of good seed for ten years but it corn produces corn impossible for the concern to to according to the prevailing satisfactory arrangements for price of corn This would mean a tne of bonds the oK loss of from to an acre which will become void cause these three bad ears were th the adoption of the new fran planted If this ratio were carried BIG IMPROVEMENT SURE result a loss on the 100000 acres corn annually planted in Black Hawk county of from to 000 This statement can be verified by every school boy who is to do simple problems in arithmetic It does not expert knowledge to demonstrate this fact The enor mous loss possible from planting only three ears of poor seed cornto the acre must startle the most conserva tive but what would the result be if the corn used as seed tests but 50 The granting of the new franchise by a vote of more than two to one means a big and highly Improvement It mean that Waterloo will become the elec trie power center least lhc that a drug clerk in Madison had admitted he D of Boston for tho susold an empty bottle and pierne court bench that he had no the hiding of poison crystals in 21 IIS LOST ftS RESULT OF FIRE J H dealt facts to substantiate the charge by the manner in which C William Barron of Boston that Mr circumstantial evidence should be The court Instructions were ess favorable to the defendant than iad been hoped for by her counsel Circumstantial evidence where ac curate may be as convincing as direct evidence said Judge Applegate In making his charge Human exper show that witnesses giving di rect evidence may testify falsely or Brandeis has helped wreck tho New Haven road When the hearing on the nomina tion was resumed today Sons tor Wash read this telegram from Mr Mellen I have no of any character that would bo of any value to the subcommittee on the Brandeis nomination I have no papers that on the case TJn ever are not inaccurate and they do not falsify Meyer was found dead in her home near here on the morn Ing of July 25 1915 A bullet wound equipping of it and the 1 with loss or six ears or from to to tho acre and from to on the entire 100000 Black Hawk vast sum counties in northeastern Iowa as i was jn and a revolver at her well as of many Her husband Fred Meyer and ing counties It means the Mra Ida Meyer ment of a Jarge number of men in charged with her murder building a seawall along the com land on the east side of the river the laying of railway tracks In he excused from attending Senator Welsh said that in the ah sonce of Chairman Chilton he wired Mr Mellen Mr Barron testifying before com Thursday assorted you could testify to facts establishing th charge that Brandeis was employed to wreck the New Haven road Hav ing In mind your telegram today please wire whether you can give tho committee any information that will riding in the car saw the motor lan look out of the window and say Get oft you little fellow or fou will fall and be run over Heres the truth according to the confessions Ackerman was not on the car King was not in town on tho day of the accident Ackerman charged Kisk had offered him money to testify as lie IM King is reported to have said in is confession that Scott after much and treating to liquor ask led him to testify but there was to Ice no reward except that when the lease was over and the money was on the judgment they would Itake a trip and have a good time Can the farmers ot county afford to lose t the coming year right on the heels of an enormous loss during the sea sonof 1915 Even suppose that the farmer is extremely lucky in that he plants but one ear of bad corn to the acre That will mean a loss of from to an acre or from to on the 100000 acres Surely even that loss is worth saving and unless the days of miracles are not past it would under the present condition of corn be impossible to select seed corn from any cribs in the county however strong the corn may score after testing only a comparatively few ears of it and plant 100000 acres with the loss of but one ear to the acre There are cribs of 1914 corn in this county from which ev ery one of the beet appearing ears been taken and tested only to score 20 per cent strong CONCERTED ACTION NECESSARY Black Hawk county must have as machinery at a total cost of thing like 700000 or I am certainly well pleased with the result of the election said Austin Burt manager of the Citizens in Nicaragua Under Probe shed light on the truth of falsity of the charge Senator Walsh received another message from Mr Mellen reiterating that he had no information on tho subject After some discussion the com decided ot leave open the m ash in cellar of the Or pet homo are the principal do of the past Covtyeigh lours in the Lake A gardener on the es tale ot which father is caro taker is said to have admitted pu ting the poison In tho ash heap Th was explained hy the elder b tho statement that the poison ha been used to kill insects on shru bery but that its Inferior had rendered It useless States A torney Dady of county said I day he regarded tho discovery tl poison and the clerk who sold th bottle as the last link in the cha of circumstantial evidence hy which he expected to convict and said ho was ready to present his evidence to the coroners jury GUILTY SAYS Mr Dady last night that after a weeks Investigation he is certain the girl was murdered by Letters Taken From Alleged Ac complice of Jean Crones Re veal Wide Conspiracy I PLOT TO WRECK CHURCHES AND TO KILL WORSHIPERS Banquet Poisoning Work of An archist Band of International Scope Police Think Chicago Feb at tempt to blow up the state penitentiary at Joliet was among the plans of the alleg ed plotters the police Bay Recently a quantity of mite sufficient to destroy many buildings was found se in the penitentiary The police aay among the let ters found was an unsigned one which said There are many good men penned up like dogs in Joliet What a wonderful tiling it would be if we could free them Two Overcome By Gas Ten Others Missing in Disaster in the Copper District is not dead by any means the battle of rtuaLlu in TI 1 c Can tl Gas Electric company when seen Washington D C teb e ot Mr Mell should by a reporter this morning It ators are discussing ly today shows that the booster spirit which the report that Germany had offered AT has made Waterloo what it is today Nicaragua a larger sum than A I na anv means Now offer made by Brandeis was b Samuel the ballots is over I States for an option on the Winslow president of the United Klad to say that the officials of anic canal while awaiting a vote on Shoe Machine company of which Mi the company have nothing upon the Nicaraguan treaty Brandeis was formerly which to look back with regret From Administration senators are using counsel K the beginning we absolutely report as an argument for early lOBIon ed from entering into personalities of the pact Chairman or from saying or doing anything stone of the relations comago in an that would cause any one sorrow and lle deferred asking I ur fe pain or cause ua regret who feared he might become Involved in a scandal and Marian had boon sweet hearts They had been Intimate and last fall the girl believed the crisis had come She let her supposed condition be known to and he sent her a powerful drug It made her worse because there was nothing the matter with her She thought it was not doing the work and thru a girl chum again asked aid of am been years not the time of the accident King as working as a blacksmith for a grading gang at Brandon The grad lers were preparing the road bed for the W C F Ns interurban ex towards Cedar Rapids 1 Worse than all King did know that any little boy had lost his leg by being run over by a street car nine months after the accident This statement is made in the con Tession He says he was working at R Siscos in March 1914 and I that Scott came around to visit him The boy lost his leg June 4 1913 Scott he says urged him to go to Risks office Finally on March 17 he went first to Risks office and then to the office of J T Sullivan he made a statement of what I he knew about the case DETECTIVES MATTER In reading over the evidence given King at the Scribner trial Welsh and Murray thought It peculiar They started an Investigation to find more about result was that they went to Mason City to get tho books of the contractors who did the grading near Brandon There they found that King was employed at Brandon on the day of the accident When brought face to face with the charge of perjury on Sunday large a crop of corn in 1916 as it is possible to secure We cannot do anything to assure an ideal season so far as weather conditions are concerned but we can assure our selves good seed corn Do this and tho crop will be enormous if weather and other conditions are favorable Do this and the crop may be large despite weather conditions for in many an Instance good seed has given corn so fine a start that it did well in spite of adverse circum stances It is absolutely essential that every ear ot seed corn planted In Black Hawk county this year should be tested Test every crib is better than no test at all but is far from being sufficient Test every ear should be the slogan not only of every farmer but of every business man whose prosperity depends upon the prosperity of the farmer As a citizen of Waterloo declar ed H B Maynard secretary of tho company I am proud that we have embraced this opportunity to add to our commercial and manufacturing importance The city will never re gret tho step taken yesterday WORK AT ONCE According to Messrs Burt andl Maynard steps win be immediately submarine taken for the commencement of the testimony for a vote until the absence of several Democratic senators The question of the fitness of American submarines warfare was inquired for into Mont Feb tyone men probably pcr according to rescue workers nt tho Pennsylvania of tho Copper Mining in fUo which broke out in mo of tho levels while minors were at last night bodies been raised from the mine before noon and I a men arc still for today hy house naval committee in continuation of its hearing on the naval appropriation he had uae knowledge gained thru his tlon with it to attack as illegal and modern criminal the very acts and system further Qf which he assisted to cre V Tic wrote arranging a meeting In Holma woods He rumpled up hi bed so his landlady might not he had left Madison lie wrote a alibi letter which he gave to a I friend to keep until the following day j mail H He left Madison on in Lake Butte Mont Fob least on miners lost their lives in a fire which started last night In the air shaft of tho mines ot the Anaconda Copper Mining company and which still was burning fiercely early today A dozen others were missing but vas believed that all but three or four of these went home without re porting off shift Two of tho dead William Mitchell assistant foreman and Neil Bernnan were overcome by smoke and gas while engaged in rescue work on the 600 foot level Tho cause of tho fire Is unknown Chicago Feb was started today for the principals in what is believed by the police to hayo been a plot to destroy buildings and kill members of the clergy and laity in cities in all sections of the United States Discovery of the alleged plot ac cording to the police resulted from examination of the personal effects of John Allegrini confi dant of Jean Crones who is charg ed by the authorities with putting poison inthe soup at the banquet given Archbishop Mundelein and causing the illness of one hundred of the guests Chief of Police Healey Nicholas Hunt chief of detectives and depu ty chief of Schuettler announced today after studying the YOUNG WIFE OF FARMER HANGS HERSELF IN BARN wn Weeps as She translation of letters found In Alle grinis rooms that they regarded x established the existence of anti clerical organization destroyers headed by the Committee of Fif teen of which Crones and Allegrini are believed to have been members The police are searching for Crones who is a former assistant chef of the Chicago University club Allegrini is in jail charged with conspiracy to commit murder The were guarded in raak ing public contents of correspondence but it was stated that plans and specifications were given for several large downtown buildings in Chicago which It is said had been marked for tion by the committee These includ Goodbye Feb 15 Mrs M ed the Peoples Gas Light Coke building one of the est office buildings In the downtown ate and which he advised were legal Mr Bailey charged that Mr Bran dnis representing it the same time the Rear Admiral Albert W Grant the lessees and lessors of the Warren Pa commander resumed mills and Involving a estate had been guilty of acts te work ot improvement The first task The committees of both j which favored one set ot interests to be taken up will be changing or senate continued the the course of Virden creek where it of defense measures to In passes property a pian of the others and the erection of a seawall along guards to create a reserve the river The creek at present pur force for nation sues a crooked and meandering course but this will be changed so the river From the point where tO that the stream will flow directly into Organization for a campaign having for Its object the securing of from 15000 to 16000 bushels of seed corn ever ear of which has been tested and found strong should be will then enter the Cedar to a point opposite where the Illinois Central belt lino makes a circle away from the river the seawall will be erected The blue prints of this wall have already been completed and have been approved by the city engineer It is proposed to build the wall of reinforced concrete twentytwo feet high Excavations will be made to 1 bedrock so that the found itiou of the wall wiU be upon solid rock In fact the company will go deeper than even the city engineer deems sary It Is understood that the W C F N and the Illinois Central will later erect a wall in front of their perfected at once Farmers business respective properties along the river men bankers the commercial or should unite in this movement The welfare of the coun ty and every town and city in it de upon good us take no chances which will join that ot the electric company thus forming an unbroken wall from Virden creek to the dam Work upon the wall will begin as soon as possible by the electric com pa Wreck Warship at Vera Cruz Washington T C officials Oie department they linve heard of R plot to blow uji the battleship Kentucky in harbor In which Consul Canada is alleged to lie involved tho object being to force Amer ican intervention The officials been requested to present any proof they may the report as a of the the consul has been under for a month who charge him as an to their government EIVERS AND HARBORS BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE Washington D C Feb naval rivers and harbors carry spent part fathers garage tate that night IF age 33 wife of a young district the Union League club the i time in his j farmer near Tiscomb committed sui Federal building and Grace hotel esj cide late yesterday by hanging herself In the barn When her husband left The next morning he mot the for this city in the morning rl thp next seen of her she was cried as she kissed him And no bottle was Upon asking why she wept found men boys Mrs Mishler replied that he would hunted for it poison was a mixture of cya ot potassium and sulphuric acid of potash It look pleasant a man who knew the nature of the i poisons to mix it when ho returned home cause for the act is known as the do relations of the family were knew U S TO STAND FIRM poisons His father had Introduced QN SUBMARINE QUESTION r them into Forest as an exter of insects 116 chemistry for a year Ho had access to various poisons in Madison nilgai ni VT Washington u u fen 10 A Ing in the aggregate an appropriation GIRLS CON MCKI that the senate of for continuance of Mr Mrs are con Senate Resolution Manifesto Washington D C Feb work and maintenance of esis projects was taken up by the tee today for report to the bouse The Theres killed their daugh the recent armed German that merchantmen may be sunk vmii in arme mc nothing that warning introduced by i has been completed except for Iuro to believe him innocent of South final consent on sought for b He had T asserts that Kast river channel in New York har v bor It provides for numerous examinations and surveys in lie knew their UBP he want i there should be no in i illicit rmw LI ni wt od to kill my girl bo fortified him By the United States or rti mot in arious of the country and mot her in He admits he saw her din admits to the full of the other neutrals BANDIT SUSPECT IS CAUGHT IN IKS MOINES But the boys father and mother j believe him innocent His father ITALIAN TOWN SHELLED BY AEROPLANES SIX KILLED The attempt to wreck St Patricks Roman Catholic church In New York recently Is believed by Captain Hunt to have been a part of the alleged plot According to the detective who did the translating certain ringlead ers in a conspiracy which is said e international in scope have head in Rome Italy He added hat some of the letters contained de ailed descriptions of bombs used by he conspirators Some of these he aid were designed to wreck build ngs others to kill policemen and till others to spread death among church goers when walk ng away from church discussing the sermon MANY CHURCH FIRES In connection with the alleged lans of the reputed conspirators here to destroy public buildings and church property it was pointed out two score or more Chicago churches have suffered fire losses within the last few years At the Moody church it was snid no less than six fires ob of incendiary origin have been discovered and extinguished with small loss past year Des Feb him yesterday Tic Raid he others Wounded in Air At rissey 27 years of age was arrested here today accused of being one of the two men who blew a St Paul a week ago nod escaped In a desperate revolver battle with the po lice Thc pollen said will bo taken back to St Paul as soon as arrangements can be made San Felice a quality cigar advertisement would stand by his son to he if U took every cent he had If thru error of the carrier boj or other cause this paper not be delivered at your home by G oclock please phone 3330 ana a paper will be sent After 630 oclock call Tel No 2 on Schio Near London Fob corres pondent at Italy says that hostile aeroplanes bombarded the Italian town of Schio fifteen ruiles from Vicenza yesterday persons and wounding others mild Havana lOc cigar advertisement T Other churches in which fires have broken out include Grace Episcopal church which was destroyed Dec 26 Oakland Methodist Park Methodist church Auburn Park Methodist church St Sebastian Roman Catholic church Evangelical Lutheran church StNicholas Trinity Reformed Episcopal and three other Episcopal St Chrysostoms All Saluts Albany
