rr 0 l&r INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. AFTER TWO BIG SEC. BALLINGER Increased The Standard Oil company has the fire, hindering the work of the fire, INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. the wages of its workmen department considerably. The warehouse from 6 to 10 per cent The order is "where the oil was stored was retroactive and became effective May owned by E. J. Kimball, 1107 University E PRESS PUB. CO., Publishers. SUFFERING 1. It is estimated that the company avenue southeast, and A. Harris, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. will add from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000 of the Harris-Culver Company, which to its annual pay roll expense. The had $5,000 worth of machinery in the new scale affects employees engaged place. in the company's works and factories, The Russell Grader Company estimates ONE YEAR but the office men will not be benefited its stock loss at $30,000 and M. SECRETARY'S ADMINISTRATION ENTIRE BLOCK OF BUILDINGS AT by this increase. Most of the A. Strand says he lost $10,000. The SEVENTH AVE. AND THIRD.. IS NOT WORTHY OF A NAME, employees who will get the increase Van Tilburg Company Jbst $3,000 and are laborers, and the advance applies ST. S., DESTROYED. DECLARES PEPPER. the machinery stored in the -ware to all the subsidiary companies in the house was valued at $5,000. The buildings United States. The company has approximately burned are estimated to be worth OF A Cored by Lydia E. Pinkham'sVegetable 70,000 employees. The $25,000. IS COMPARED WITH GARFIELD IMPLEMENT CONCERNS VICTIMS Standard Is one of the very few big A feature of the fife was the appearance Compound concerns of this country which has on the scene of a squad from the never had a strike among its employees. university track team. They were led I WEEK'S EVENTS I Milwaukee, Wis.—"Lydia E. Pinkham'8Vegetable Vertrees Tries to Defend the Accused Spectacular Fire in Southeast Minneapolis by Coach Dick Grant and seemed to Compound has made Oliver Spltcer, former superintendent take pleasure in running through the Official.—As Good "Conservationist" Destroys Four Big Plants me a well woman, of the docks of the American Sugar smoke clouds in their scanty attire. •S-IS and I would like to —50,000 Gallons of Oil as Any One, Refining company In Williamsburg, explained tell the whole world Burn. He Says. of it. I suffered in court at New York why he ILLINOIS SENATOR IS INDICTED. fromfemaletrouble did not confess during the trial which Latest News of Interest and fearful pains in ended last February with his being Perjury Charged by Grand Jury Probing my back. I had the Minneapolis, May 28.—Fire starting Washington, May 28.—With the attorneys sentenced to two years at Atlanta. Boiled Down for the Alleged Bribery in Legislature. best doctors and in the seven-story brick building occupied on one side scoring Secretary Such a confession, he declared, would they all decided I Busy Man. by the Great Northern Implement Ballinger as a man unfit to be at the "have carried him to a cemetery." In Springfield, 111., May 28.—An indictment that I had a tumor company and the Rock Island head of the department and an attorney to mv other words, he would have implicated in addition for prejury was returned against Plow company, Seventh avenue south female trouble, and on the other side defending a dead man, Henry O. Havemeyer, late State Senator D. W. Holtslaw (Democrat) and Third street, at 12:40 o'clock advised an operation. PERSONAL. him and denouncing his accusers, of the sugar trust. head of Luka by the Sangamon country spread to many adjoining buildings, Lydia E. whom he termed the "Glavis-GarfieldGifford After he had mowed the grass on grand jury, which is probing alleged Pinkham's Vegetable Compound mado Theodore Roosevelt has added to causing such a conflagration as Minneapolis Pinchot group," the BallingerPinchot his own burial lot in preparation for bribery in the Illinois legislature. me a well woman and I have no more the string of letters he is entitled to had not seen in many months, Investigation committee listened Memorial day at Battle Creek, Mich., backache. I hope I can help others by write after his name the LL. D. of threatening the whole milling district to summing up argument by William E. Parmless, seventy-five telling them what Lydia E. Pinkham's The indictment is based principally Cambridge (England) university. and entailing a loss that will foot up counsel. years of old, fell dead, rake in hand. "Vegetable Compound has done for upon the testimony of Senator Holtslaw With quiet ceremonies the signal honor into the hundred thousands. Attorneys Brandeis and Pepper told me."—Mrs. EmmaImse,833FirstSt., Commissioners of the Presbyterian that he did not know and had from one of the world's oldest and The first alarm was followed Milwaukee, Wis. the committee they had produced evidence general assembly at Atlantic City, N. never arranged for a meeting with most famous universities was bestowed The above is only one of the thousands promptly by a 2-11, which in turn was which they said established that J., object to Speaker Cannon having J. W. Knox of Chicago, representing of grateful letters which are upon the former president. followed by a general alarm, which Ballinger was not "vigilant" and the power of appointing the proposed the Derby Desk company of Boston, constantly being received by the Robed in a white lace gown that calls out the full fighting force of the "resolute" in resisting the aggressiveness federal commission for the investigation Mass., which company was the lowest Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn, cost $15,000, Miss Mathilde Townsend, department. of the liquor traffic in the United of special interests, and that his Mass.,which prove beyond a doubt that bidder to supply the assembly with one of the best-known girls in Washington, The building where the fire originated States. course had been characterized by a Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, furniture, but did not secure the con-* D. C., daughter of Mrs. May is practically destroyed. The fivestory made from roots and herbs, Motion for a new trial for Dr. Haldane lack of fidelity to the public interest. tract. Scott Townsend, was married to Peter actually does cure these obstinate diseases brick structure occupied by the Cleminson, convicted of the murder Attorney Vertrees' reply was that Other indictments are promised towith Goelet Gerry of New York, son of Mr. of women after all other means Waterbury Implement company was of his wife, was overruled by Mr. Ballinger was as much of a the names of two other members have failed, and that every such sufering and Mrs. ELbridgo T. Gerry of New so badly damaged as to be nearly a Judge McSurley at Chicago. A motion a "conservationist" as any one in of the senate mentioned as possibilities. woman owes it to herself to at York. total loss. The J. I. Case company's in arrest of judgment was granted and proper sense, but did not belong to least give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable A Boston (Mass.) patrolman, Stephen building is separated by Seventh avenue sentence deferred to allow appeal. the "Pinchot brand of thirty-third degree Compound a trial before submitting Senator Holtslaw had just returned Higgins, is standing a lot of joking from the Waterbury building and A union of washerwomen has been to an operation, or giving up conservationists who have gone from a church missionary convention from his fellows because he mistook the firemen directed their efforts to hope of recovery. formed at Orange, N. J., with a membership to seed on conservation." in Baltimore, where he attended as a, Thomas W. Lawson for a second-story saving this structure, in which they Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., of 300. The officers announce The lawyers for the "prosecution" delegate from Illinois. worker the other night and actually invites all sick women to -write that the standard of wages will be succeeded. finished their speeches, but Mr. Vertrees "captured" the financier. her for advice. She has guided Many of the adjoining buildings raised from $1.25 to $2 a day and was not nearly launched in his JEFFRIES IN FINE FORM. thousands to health ana her Leroy Hendricks, eighteen years were small structures and these went the hours of labor will be reduced argument when the committee adjourned,. advice is free. old, son of Mayor A. R. Hendricks of quickly. The old Sixth Avenue hotel from nine to eight. Brandeis and Pepper will Crowd Is Favorably Impressed With Sterling, 111., has started on a tour Illness of a son of H. Clay Pierce in at Sixth and Washington, a threestore make short arguments in rebuttal. Her Laugh Broke. Appearance of Big Fighter. around the world on a motorcycle. He St. Louis prevented Pierce from being frame, was badly damaged, its It was his "constant yielding under She was a little fairy of seven, with expects to earn his expenses by painting San Francisco, May 28.—Giving his occupants getting out none too soon. present to testify in the ouster pressure" that Brandeis thought most eyes like diamonds and hair like spun signs. second public boxing exhibition since Cinders and blazing brands, borne by filed by Attorney General West of unfitted Ballinger to carry forward gold, and she was romping with a half Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt visited he began training, and making what the wind, covered the whole neighborhood. Oklahoma against the Waters-Pierce dozen playmates. Touching a finelooking the broad policy of conservation. Pepper Buckingham palace and had a long is said probably will be his last public Oil company and the case was continued youngster on the shoulder, advanced as the reason Ballinger chat with Alexandra, the queen mother. appearance before the fight on July 4, until June 15. The streets were filled with halfclad should be supplanted as secretary that she challenged him with, "You can't The call was made at the suggestion James J. Jeffries surprised more than After falling four stories down an people from the hotel and lodging catch me." Off they started, she twisting during his regime there had been "no of her majesty, who, when 2,000 enthusiastic ring followers by elevator shaft and landing in four houses, and some of them were and dodging with the dexterity of administration worthy of the name, she received Mr. Roosevelt, expressed his apparently excellent condition and feet of water, in which he was nearly burned by falling sparks, but slightly a half-back on a football team, and he but only a series of acts unwise in the hope that she might see the former speed when he boxed three rounds drowned, John J. Sloggart, a carpenter none seriously. following her every movement in close themselves, referable to no principle president's wife. with his brother Jack and three with of New York city, escaped with a Although only the roof of the Sixth pursuit. The excitement of the chase of action, and the cause of embarrassment Wearied of publicity, tired of fame, broken arm and many scratches. Joe Choynski at Dreamland rink. Avenue, or Laman's hotel was attacked made her scream with laughter. The to the president and of injury to of newspaper praise and abuse, James The big fighter was fast and snappy As* a result of what the Chicago by fire, the entire structure is little fugitive finally brought up the public." A. Patten, the wheat and cotton king, in action and suprisingly quick on his police charge was a fight among little less than a ruin, as it was soaked against a fence, breathless and panting, is to retire with his millions from business Vertrees Makes Contrast. feet. thieves over the division of their with water from attic to cellar. and her pursuer, throwing his July 1. spoils, one man was shot and killed, This, with his appearance, the utter Nothing but a triangular pillar of arms about her, shouted: "There, I've Vertrees said Ballinger was to be Commander Robert E. Peary received another is believed to have been absence of avoirdupois and every indication caught you!" "Oh, yes," gasped the brick remains of the Rock Island Plow commended for the so-called "Garfield the honorary degree of doctor wounded, and a third is under arrest. and Great Northern Implement^coftipanies' that his training has put him in little fairy, "but it was 'cause my policies" he had reversed, and of laws from the University of Edinburgh. fine form, made a favorable impression Bitten by his pet dog, which he had building. The roof fell soon laugh broke and I couldn't run any contrasted former Secretary Garfield The conferment was made before been teasing, Jackson Edwards, seventy-four upon the big crowd, which howled more." after the firemen arrived, as the fire with Mr. Ballinger. He said the former a notable company, which gave years old, of Denver, Col., became itself hoarse with approval. The only was not discovered until the building thought he had the right to do the American explorer a cordial welcome. "Show Me Another." alarmed over the thought that adverse comment heard was that he was a mass of flames. With the roof what he was not specifically prohibited Soon after twins had arrived at the "looked older." hydrophobia might set in. Two hours went one after the other of the seven by law from doing, while Mr. Ballinger Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, brother home of a prominent dry goods merchant later he was dead. floors, leaving the bare skeleton of always was guided by law in of President Taft, will make no recently the proud father led Beaten by a woman with a cuspidor FIRES IN TIMBER BELT. walls standing, but not for long. his official acts. fight in Ohio this year for the United his son Richard, aged four, into the and a rolling-pin, Louis Gratch, a The wall nearest the Waterbury Defending Mr. Ballinger's action in States senatorship, but instead will go room to see the little strangers. The burglar, fell out of a third-story window Worst Blaze in History of Country building fell with a crash that could restoring water power fights withdrawn to Europe, leaving the field clear for father first pulled down the covers in a New York house which he Raging In Manitoba. be heard for blocks. It was followed during the last days of Garfield's Charles Dick, the present incumbent. and showed one of the babies to his had entered and was dashed to death. rapidly by all the others, and brick Winnipeg, Man., May 28.—One of administration, and in subsequently A bronze statue of the late Samuel son. He then walked to the other Belle Moore, the negress convicted were thrown for great distances, but, the worst fires in the history of the re-withdrawing them, Vertrees Spencer, first president of the Southern side of the bed and exhibited the in New York of placing two girls for so far as could be learned, no one was Swan River branch of the Canadian said Ballinger merely had carried railway, presented to the city of other twin. Richard gazed at the two immoral purposes, was sentenced to hurt. Northern, the pioneer road of northern out the wishes of the president, for a moment with a noncommittal Atlanta and the state of Georgia by the Auburn prison for women for not Chief Canterbury confined his efforts Manitoba and Saskatchewan, is now and that he was fortified in his construction 30,000 employees of the railway, was look on his face, and then demanded: less than two years and six months to saving surrounding property, raging in the timber belt to the west of the law by the opinion of unveiled at Atlanta. "Show me another, papa." nor more than five years. as he saw at once that the two buildings of Hudson Bay Junction, a few miles the law officers of the government. Mrs. Hetty Green has been haled to State's Attorney Magill has summoned A Dirge. were doomed. After sending in west of the Manitoba boundary. News "When the ambitions of Pinchot court in a suit for $550 in New York. an army of witnesses in the She laid the still white form beside the general alarm, St. Paul volunteered of the scope of the forest fire first and Garfield were shattered," Vertrees A safe deposit company says she owes Rock Island (111.) grand jury investigation those which had gone before no sob, help, and several engine companies reached here yesterday, when a flash exclaimed, "then revenge took the the sum as rental for boxes used to of fraternal insurance scandals. no sigh forced its way from her heart, were soon on their way and from Mistatim said that the fire was place of that which before was good store papers belonging to the estate It is now said that 50,000 members of throbbing as though it would burst. proved of great assistance, as two of her father. working up toward the depot. The intention, and they endeavored to the societies involved are affected by Suddenly a cry broke the stillness of other fires in different part of the city Albert J. Snell, son of the milionaire, fire took a number of poles, and consequently drive down the man that was- doing the alleged embezzlements. The state's the place—one single heart-breaking broke out at the same time. Amos J. Snell, whose murder communication is difficult. the things he thought was right." attorney feels confident that indictments shriek then silence another cry This is the first time since April 23, here, in 1888, created a widespread A report says that the Cowan Construction Vertrees indulged in a scathing denunciation and convictions will follow the more silence then all silent but for sensation, was found dead in bed at 1907, that a general alarm has been company's tie camp was of Glavis and Kerby, referring a guttural murmur, which seemed to grand jury investigation. a cheap rooming house in Chicago. sounded in this city. That was on burned out. A relief train left here to the latter as "that creature well up from her very soul. She left James A. Patten was forced to "take President Taft, Mrs. Taft, Col. Theodore the occasion of the burning of the this morning. The principal damage Kerby." the place. She would lay another egg the count" in one of the liveliest bouts Wisconsin Central freight depot on Roosevelt, King-George of England, is to settlers. He said Pinchot had testified that tomorrow.—Princeton Tiger. he has ever had'with the bears on the President Diaz of Mexico and lower Hennepin avenue. he knew of nothing himself to substantiate Chicago board of trade. The big speculator William Jennings Bryan were made Shortly after 2 o'clock it appeared Taft's Secretary Promoted. charges he preferred against Gets in Out of the Rain. acknowledged defeat by life members of the World's Sunday that the fires were under control and Washington, May 28. President Ballinger. Knicker—Is Jones a man who quells throwing on the market several School association in the convention there seemed to be small danger that Taft appointed his secretary, Fred the storm and rides the thunder? "It remained for this hireling of the million bushels of September at Washington amid scenes of great it would spread outside of the square Warner Carpenter of Sauk Center, Glavis-Garfield-Pinchot group to insinuate Bocker—No, but he borrows an umbrella. wheat at quotations said to average enthusiasm. For each of those so where it originated. Minn., as minister to Morocco to succeed and intimate what they did fully ten cents a bushel under the honored $1,000 had to be subscribed. H. Percival Dodge. not dare to charge and could not purchase price. Many of his followers Strictly Accurate. No successor has been chosen by Minneapolis, May 28.—Fifty thousand prove," Vertress said, shaking a finger likewise suffered losses which in Lawyer—So you say the defendant GENERAL NEWS. the president to succeed Carpenter, at Braideis. gallons of oil made spectacular the aggregate amounted to a large pushed you against your will? but it is likely he will appoint Rudolph I' the fire which destroyed the plants of sum. The trump card in the prosecution Witness—No, sir I said he pushed Porster, the present assistant secretary. the F. L. Manteufel Refrigerator Company, VEVO GETS 14 YEARS IN PRISON. of Charles R. Heike, secretary of the Word received at New York from me against the door. 2419 University avenue southeast American Sugar Refining company, Atlanta, Ga., indicates that Charles Russell Grader Manufacturing Man Convicted of Third Degree Murder HARD ON CHILDREN. was played at the sugar trust underweighing W. Morse, the convict banker, is ill Rheumatism Cripples Sen. Tillman. Company, 2429 University avenue Is Sentenced. When Teacher Has Coffee Habit. conspiracy trial when Prosecutor and has been removed to the hospital southeast factory of M. M. Strand, Atlanta, Ga., May 28. Suffering Simpson called as the government's of the federal prison. He is said to be maker of boats, in rear of the refrigerator from a severe attack of rheumatism Minneapolis, May 28.—Mike Vevo, "Best is best, and best will ever first witness Oliver Spitzer, superintendent suffering from kidney trouble. plant, and the warehouse United States Senator Benjamin R. of the Williamsburg convicted of murder in the third degree, live." When a person feels this way Fire destroyed the downtown car of the Van Tilburg Oil Company, 1030 Tillman of South Carolina arrived in about Postum they are glad to give docks, who some months ago was convicted was sentenced to 14 years in the barns of the City Railway company at Washington avenue southeast. this city and was taken to a local testimony for the benefit of others. of underweighing and sentenced penitentiary by Judge John Day Smith. Des Moines, la., burning 20 street cars sanitarium for treatment. The total loss is estimated at $75,000, A school teacher down in Miss, to two years in the federal penitentiary. The prisoner told the court that his and crippling the service. The loss Is the insurance being small. says: "I had been a coffee drinker since real name was Mike Murillo, and that $160,000. The 30-foot brick chimney on the Mr. Ballinger's Lawyer in New Role. my childhood, and the last few years E. F. Hutton & Co., one of the most his father, Raphael Furillo, lived at Because she refused to give her age refrigerator plant fell shortly before 1 Washington, May 28.—John J. Vertrees, it had injured me seriously. prominent brokerage firms in New Fratzino, near Naples. to the census taker, Miss Sarah E. o'clock and Capt. J. C. Gravelock, F. counsel for Secretary Ballinger "One cup of coffee taken at breakfast York, was suspended from membership Vevo was found guilty of killing Peck, head of the normal department J. Grabow and M. Mclnerney, firemen, in the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, would cause me to become so on the New York stock exchange Nels Munson, a cook, in the saloon of of Union college, has been indicted by who were working under it, were appeared in a new role in Washington. nervous that I could scarcely go for one year for having violated a a grand jury in the United States Anderson & Johnson at Third street struck by the falling bricks, but es Mr. Vertrees is a member of the commission through with the day's duties, and strict rule of the exchange in regard district court at Lincoln, Neb. and Seventh avenues south. appointed on behalf of the naped serious injury. this nervousness was often accompanied to splitting commissions. James M. Anderson, formerly confidential state of Tennessee to reach an agreement While dragging a line of hose by deep depression of spirits While trying to dive under a ferry secretary to Emil Winter, J. J. Hill Bank Director. through the oil warehouse Capt. J. E. with a similar body authorized and heart palpitation. boat in the English channel, the president of the Workingmen's Savings Chicago, May 28.—James J. Hill of by congress for the settlement of Thielen of No. 19, Pipeman Henry Jurgeson am a teacher by profession, and French submarine Pluviose wag Bank and Trust company of Pittsburg, St. Paul, head of the "Hill system" "I counter claims on the part of the government and Emil Hockenstad, an employe when under the influence of coffee rammed and sunk with all on board. who pleaded nolle contendere In of railroads, was elected a director of and the state. of the company, were slightly had to struggle against crossness The Pluviose carried a crew of 23 men the recent graft cases, was fined $250 the Illinois Trust and Savings bank burned by the oil. when in the school room. and four officers, and all went down here to fill the vacancy caused by and costs. He was alleged to have Bluefields Is Surrounded. when the vessel sank. The fire started in a pile of rubbish "When talking this over with my mutilated the bank's books. the death of William H. Mitchell, father Washington, May 28.—The Madriz physician, he suggested that I try between the plants of the Russell Grader The story of how a bribe of $2,000 of John J. Mitchell. Thousands of persons marching In forces have completely surrounded the Postum, so I purchased a package and Company and the refrigerator concern. was offered Representative William C. double file on either side of the catafalque, It spread rapidly through the city of Bluefields, the last stronghold made it carefully according to directions Blair of Mount Vernon to vote for the on which rests the coffin of Edward Factory Creates Stir. building of the latter company, two of the Estrada faction in Nicaragua, found it excellent of flavor, and anti-local option bill in the last Illinois VII. passed through Westminster St. Paul, May 28.—Residents of Merriam nourishing. stories high, and back into the hundred-foot according to a cablegram received at general assembly was told the Sangamon hall, and when the doors were closed Park neighborhood have raised square three-story wooden the navy department from Captain "In a short time I noticed very gratifying county grand jury at Springfield at night there were seemingly miles of objection to the erection of a baby Gilmer of the United States gunboat by Ernest A. Scrogin, assistant superintendent them still in line. structure of the boat company. Fanned effects. My nervousness disappeared, food factory at Pierce street and Selby assailed of the Anti-Saloon league. by the strong breeze it I was not irritated by my pupils, The mother queen, Alexandra, received Paducah. avenue, St. Paul. The contractor The Mississippi Valley Historical the Van Tilburg oil warehouse adjoining, life seemed full of sunshine, and Mr. Roosevelt at Buckingham declares he will pay no attention *to association held its semi-annual meeting which was soon demolished] Large Sum for Legs. my heart troubled me no longer. palace. The two had a long chat, the opposition. in Iowa City, la., with a large attendance. Minneapolis, May 28.—A judgment "I attribute my change in health and during which her majesty took occasion Roof Collapses. for $10,462.24 was awarded W. E. spirits to Postum alone." personally to tell the former Kansas City, Mo., May 28.—A resolution J., next As soon as the roof of the warehouse MontcJair, N. will vote Cawley by a jury in Judge Simpst-i's Read the little book, "The Roaa to president how much she appreciated was adopted at the annual convention the feel the 700 barrels of oil containing Thursday on the adoption of court. Cawley sued the Great Northern Wellville,"in pkgs. "There's a Reason." the sympathy exhibited for her in of Railway Mail Clerks' Asso plan to 50 gallons each, stored there, municipal art commission's road for loss of bis legs last fall, America at the time of her bereavement. ciation of America, appealing to congress Ever read the above letter? A new on one appears from time to time. They £P§.8d a "city beautiful." caught fire and from that time claiming it was the railway's negligence^ of a in the interest retiring H,JQQ$0Q for aw senulne, true, and foil of of smoke poured from dense clouds interest* scale of pay for railway mail clerks. iMi MMm 1 mamm