International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926
December 22, 1910 · Page 1 of 8
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INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS. sation at all for tjfe loss of the breadwinner, INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. The fourth KILLS 13 ROMANCE ENDS WELL. victim of poisoning from 24.20 per cent, ^received $1,000 drinking hard cider out of a paint keg or less, 14.08 per cent received from is dead at Summit, N. J. The four, Uncle'' Sam Halts Progress of True PRESS PUB. CO., Publishers. $1,000 to $2,000, and 11 per cent from Italian laborers, were members of a Love, Cannot Stop Consummation. $2,000 to $6,352. In other words, half III NEW YORK CITY cider party at the home of a friend. INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINPk. of the families were left by the industries While playing with a lighted candle Albert Lea.—A foisaance which had LABOR DEPARTMENT'S REPORT with nothing to depend on. Talcing its beginning in Denmark, and in in a "make-believe" Christmas celebration, the 54 cases th'e average price paid RECORDS 8,583 ACCIDENTS which Uncle Sam had a part, culminated at Atlanta, Ga., Virginia, the for human life was $536 and funeral four-year-old daughter of President M. in this city when Carl Madson —MANY FATAL. expenses. M. Mason of the Georgia-Carolina railroad, and Miss Yolborg Johanson were married The report says that fortunately the was so severely burned that she by the Danish Lutheran pastor. BOILER EXPLOSION SHAKES families of the decreased workmen died a few hours later. The young people were engaged STARTLING FACTS BROUGHT OUT BUILDINGS AND DEALS INJURY were not entirely dependent for future The American Society for Judicial while in Denmark, and the young man support upon the industries in which TO SCORES. Settlement of International Disputes then came to this country, locating in there bread-winners were killed. began a three-day conference in Albert Lea, where he secured employment Twenty-five of the families received Washington with many distinguished as a carpenter. When he had Mines Responsible for Largest Number.—Cause some form of insurance afid four received Americans and foreigners on the program. been here several mouths he sent for IN NEW YORK POWER- HOUSE and Effect Set Forth aid from charity. In seven his sweetheart, who Immediately embarked VI03T IMPORTANT EVENTS OF —Families Unprovided cases the insurance did not exceed Federal government officers simultaneously to join her lover. When she THE PAST WEEK, TOLD IN For. $500. raided and closed the offices reached Ellis island in New York hei Six cases of total disability were 6everal Passengers Lose Lives and CONDENSED FORM. of the Capital Investment company progress was barred by the stern maw studied by the field agents. Three of and four branches in Chicago, Others Are Hurt.—Many Miraculously dates of Uncle Sam and the immigrant St. Paul.—Eight thousand five hundred the workmen were paralyzed, two one in Aurora and one in Joliet, all officials, as the young lady had only eighty-three accidents, 252 of Escape in the Near-by were crippled and on^*wa3 a physical comprising what is said to be the last ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD $3 with Ler, and the required amount which were fatal, occurred in Minnesota Buildings. and mental wreck. Two of the six received of the great private wire bucket that a person must have before entering during the year ending July 31, respectively $160 and $175 shops, and which is reported to have this country is $25. She told the 1910, according to report pompleted a from their employers, one $4,500 and transacted a $10,000,000 business annually. officials that she had come to marry by Don D. Lescohier, special agent of New York, Dec. 21—Thirteen periost Complete Review of Happenings of the others nothing. The one who received a young man in Albert Lea, but they the state labor department under the their lives, at least 123 were Greatest Interest From All Parts of $175 paid his attorney $75. The Ohio river is practically closed would not be satisfied until they received direction of W. E. McEwen. injured and fully 1,000 badly shaken Four of the other men are now living the Globe—Latest Home and Foreign to navigation from Gallipolis to Pittsburg, the written assurance of the Besides this number there are 60 up in an explosion of lighting gas car wholly or partially dependent upon Pa., because of ice. Gorges Items. young man, signed before a minister fatalities and 1,400 accidents, which tanks and dynamite in the new sixstory charity. have been formed at a number of of the gospel, that he would marry occurred on railroads bringing the power station of York the New places. the young woman as soon as she PERSONAL. total number up to 312 fatalities and Central railroad, of construction. under course Earl Ward, thirty years old, who SITE FOR CATHOLIC COLLEGE. reached Albert Lea and accompanied 9,983 accidents. The largest number The scene is the heart Eldress Anna White, head of the near robbed the State bank of Paradise, by $22, the balance necessary to comply of accidents occurred in mines, where of the city. Nine bodies have been, North Family of shakers, is dead at at Paradise, Kan., securing $2,500, Winona Board of Trade Gets an Option with the letter of the law. 83 fatalities were reported. Railroading recovered and the bodies of four workmen Mount Lebanon, Mass., at the age of killed himself when surrounded by a on Land for Bishop. The young woman came to this city comes next with 64 fatalities, and are in the wreckage. seventy-nine years. She was a member posse of farmers 14 miles north of a few days ago, and the marriage took then lumbering with 55, general contracting of a wealthy New York family, A trolley car filled with high school Winona. The committee of the that place. place as soon as possible. with 37, public utilities with und was herself possessed of considerable students was blown from the tracks Winona Board of Trade has secured During 1909, according to a report 19-and agriculture with 12. wealth, which she devoted to on Lexington avenue. Four passengers an option on the 105-acre piece of issued by the census bureau, 1,265,000 Of the 8,583 accidents outside of OWNERS OF STEAMER J. S. SUED. the shaker propaganda. were killed and the others were injured. property at the foot of Gilmore valley, cords of wood were consumed in the the railroads 19 caused total disability, The E. H. Harriman dairy at Arden, The car fell off on an automobile owned by Mrs. C. C. Beck, upon which industry of wood distillation in the a fate in many cases worse than Claims for Damages Aggregating Over N. Is to be closed. Mr. Harrlman's which had been hurled before it Bishop Heffron has looked favorably Y., United States, at an average value of death. Three per cent of the accidents $14,000 Are Filed at Winona. iaughter, Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsay, by the force of the explosion. with the idea of locating his $300,000 $3.21 a cord. resulted in the loss of some portion will undertake sheepraising on the Catholic boy's college. No more chickens may be kept at Panic as Buildings Totter. of the body. In 469 cases bones Winona.—In connection with suit place. Fire Chief Croker says that in his The committee, which declares it a West Point. Heretofore the officers were broken or fractured. Nearly 2,500 Mrs. R. R. Brown, a sister of Gen. monition proceedings begun by will have no trouble raising by subscription opinion the first explosion was that and and soldiers have kept a few of the injuries were reported as "crushed," Stirling Price, former governor of the Acme Packet company in the the money for the purchase of lighting gas and the second explosion fowls for eggs and broilers, but General "bruised" or "maimed." The Missouri, died at her home In West United States court here, claims for of the land, holds the privilege of buying that of 100 pounds of dynamite Barry has directed that they shall majority of these were ol a serious damages aggregating over $14,000 Seattle of blood poisoning resulting the site for $25,000 should it be which lay within 50 feet of the gas not be permitted after a certain date. character. Besides these ttitere were from a scratch on her hand from a were filled here with Court Commissioner accepted by the bishop and it will be tank. The force of the explosion shattered Surrounded by 27 trustees of his 284 burns and scalds, 793 injuries to splinter of wood four days ago. H. M. Lamberton. given him outright. On the land, hundreds of windows in the big choosing, comprising former cabinet the eyes, and 60 internal injuries reported. Carl Hagenbeck, the collector and which figures in the option, is an old The proceedings, which will likely hotels and apartment houses in the members, ex-ambassadors, college presidents, trainer of wild animals, died at his and romantic residence, which could be threshed out at the coming May neighborhood of the big railroad terminal, lawyers and educators, Andrew home In the midst of his vast zoological easily be utilized as one of the minor term of the court in this city, is a direct Causes Assigned. causing alarm among the guests. Carnegie at Washington transferred garden at Stellingen, a suburb The principal causes of the accidents aftermath of the recent spectacular college buildings. $10,000,000 in five per cent, first mortgage Walls, in many cases, were cracked. of Hamburg. were inexperience, callousness to burning of the palatial excursion Three acres of the land is given A cloud of smoke hung over the scene bonds, value $11,500,000, to be Every wheel on the system stopped danger, fatigue, youth, and the speeding over to an orchard, 90 acres to a farm, steamer J. S. at Bad Axe, below Lacrosse. and bodies were scattered here and devoted primarily to the establishment burning and every employe on the up of the machinery. Thirty-one a greater portion of which is on table of universal peace by the abolition there. The Grand Central cut, where Central of Georgia road ceased to per cent of the persons injured had land, although some of it is on the The packet company sought to have of war between nations and such new track levels are being excavated, work for five minutes during the funeral worked less than one month and 12 slopes. Ten and a half acres is woodland. their liability of the burning of the friction as may impair "the progress looked as if a battle had been fought at Macon of Maj. J. F. Hanson, per cent less than one week. Many The remainder of it is given steamer limited to the value of the in it. and happiness of man." president of the road. reports revealed that the workmen over to residence property. hull and contents, exempting the Acme As a result of an explosion in the Fire Engine House Wrecked. President Gomez has accepted the were injured either because they did Packet company as a corporation from mine of the Bond Coal company at The shock, which could be felt for resignation of Maj. Gen. Pino Guerra any claims for damages. The corporation not know how to perform their work Greene, six miles east of Norton, Va., COMMERCIAL CLUBS TO CONVENE many blocks, partly wrecked the fire as commander-in-chief of the Cuban properly or were not aware of the invoked a law passed in 1854, 12 men lost their lives. Thirteen were engine house near-by and prevented army. applicable originally only to the high danger which surrounded them. in the mine and only two escaped, one Annual Meeting of Minnesota Federation the firemen from getting their apparatus Governor-elect Frederick W. Plaisted seas, but later amended to reach inland Nearly 13 per cent of the men injured of whom died shortly after being taken Is Announced. into the street. Monsignors of Maine, who was unable to attend had been at their work more streams. The claimants in this out. Lapette and Hayes and Fathers O'Connor, the dinner to the Democratic than five years. Two explanations are St. Paul. The annual meeting litigation, it is said, will maintain According to reports received at McQuade, Sinnott and Byrnes, of governors-elect in New York, is ill at given for these accidents. The dangers of the Minnesota Federation of that inasmuch as John Streckfus, Jersusalem, the Bedouin tribesmen of St. Patrick's cathedral hurried to the bis home at Augusta with bronchitis. peculiar to an industry such as Commercial clubs will take place in president and manager of the company, Syria have begun to attack Christians scene and administered the last rites Senator Lafayette Young of Iowa the St. Paul Commercial club assembly moving trains on railroads and falling was on the steamer at the time following thier massacre of the Turkish of the church to many of the injured. made his maiden speech in the senate. room, Jan. 25 and 26. The decision of fhe burning of the boat and had rooms in mines are dangerous alike troops. The Christians were At the postoffice substation, Fortieth Incidentally he stepped on the to the experienced and inexperienced was reached at a meeting of D. personal direction the company should spared at the beginning of the uprising. toes of his colleague, Senator Cummins, street and Madison avenue, the explosion workmen. Moreover men who .Save M. Neill, of Red Wing, president of not be exempted. and, while admitting that tariff slightly injured several clerks been accustomed to a danger become the federation F. E. Wade, Fairmont, By a vote of two to one, a subcommittee revision was necessary, refused to indorse and scattered the mail over the floor. careless. vice president Major H. V. Eva, of of the national senate committee MORE PROTECTION FOR GAME. the Cummins proposal to amend In the New York Nursery and Child's More than 17 per cent of the injured Duluth, secretary S. B. Nelson, of on judiciary authorized a favorable the rules of the senate and house to hospital ceilings were partly shaken were under 21 years of age. The Luverne W. W. Siveright, Hutchinson, report on a resolution for a constitutional Uniform Hunting License Is Recommended. bring such a thing to pass. down and the windows broken, but and C. Van Hul, Jr., assistant report says that boys between 17 and J. amendment to provide for the none of the 300 children was badly 21 are characteristic for their curiousness, manager of the Consolidated Publicity election of United States senators by hurt. thoughtlessness and rashness, bureau, St. Paul. GENERAL NEWS. direct vote of the people. St. Paul.—New laws providing for a which is mainly responsible for Governor Eberhart will make the The powerhouse, which is of stone Helpless In the face of a powerful uniform hunting license and requiring The Lorimer investigating committee their injuries. opening address. President J. H. and brick, and six stories high, caught foe, with its standing army about onethird non-residents to procure a license to submitted its report to the full Worst, of the North Dakota Agricultural fire after the explosions and the interior as large as it should be, supplies fish with rod and line are recommended Comparisons Are Made. college, will speak on agriculture, sommittee on privileges and elections. was practically burned out. lacking and military organization defective—this A comparison of fatal accidents for by the game and fish commission The report vindicates Mr. Lorimer, and Will Campbell, of the Omaha Just what caused the double explosion each 1,000 men employed in the Minnesota is the alarming picture in its biennial report submitted to Qnding the bribery could not be traced Commercial club, will speak on "Municipal probably may be never known. mines with those in other countries of the situation of the United States Govvernor Eberhart. The purpose of to him and that bribery had not deitroyed Advertising." drawn by Secretary of War Jacob M. show that there are four fatalities these laws is to increase the fund for Scores Thrown to Floor. his constitutional majority. The entire two days' program will Dickinson in his secret report to the in Minnesota to one in France or the better protection of game. The In the Bible teachers' training The report is unanimous, being signed be devoted to educational treatises regarding house. Belgium, three to one in Holland or report deplores the violation of the school on Lexington avenue, directly by the seven members of the committee the building up of the state the United Kingdom and two to one in Mexican federal troops were completely game law in this state and predicts opposite the power house, 125 men from every standpoint. which conducted the investigation. Germany. The fatal accident in Minnesota, overthrown in an engagement that unless some action is taken, the and women who were on their way to The Chinese throne has issued an however, has been decreasing lasting several hours at La Junta, a state soon will be without game. breakfast were thrown to the floor by idict refusing to create a constitutional small town near Minaca, on the Mexico during the past few years, falling from STATE GRANGE NAMES-OFFICIALS The commission recommends that the blast. Many of the men and cabinet in compliance with a memorial 7.25 per 1,000 men in 1906 to 4.05 in Northwestern and Orient railroads, a plan should be devised requiring the women were injured and several ol recently presented by the national 1910. according to authoritative information licensed hunter to repoit all game Sarah G. Baird, Minneapolis, Is Elected them were taken to hospitals. All the assembly, and also declining to received by railroad officials at El In the study of mine accidents in Master of Order. killed by him during the hunting season. windows in the building were blown iccept the resignations of the grand Paso, Tex. The remnant of the federal Minnesota, the report makes analysis This would enable the commission in and the ceilings fell. councilors. St. Paul. The officers of the troops, numbering. 150, surrendered of the methods and processes of mining to determine just how many animals The damage to the power house and Three jurors saved Attorney Charles used in Minnesota, describing the Minnesota State Grange elected their arms and ammunition and are killed each year. The commission other buildings has not been estimated, E. Erbstein from conviction on the open pit, the underground and milling at the session of the state grange, were allowed to depart in the direction favors a federal law prohibiting but it was stated that it will likely Bh&rge that he bribed Grant McDutchen, of Chihuahua. system in considerable detail. Dec. 13 and 14, for two years, are: the spring shooting of migratory ceed $2,000,000. juror in the second trial of Master, Sarah G. Baird, Minneapolis It was decided by the National One of the important chapters in the birds. This law is enforced in Minnesota Legislator Lee O'Neil Browne, to vote Of the 17 firemen in the fire house overseer, James Morton, Dodje League of Baseball Clubs at New York report is the result of the investigation and has resulted in a marked [or his client's acquittal. The first ballot opposite only one was injured. A little Center lecturer, C. L. Rice, Austin to make the schedule 154 games for on the "employers' liability." The increase in the number of game. stood nine for conviction to three school girl was about to enter a steward, A. J. Holm, Harris assistant the 1911 season. Last year 168 games investigation covered 54 fatalities, 6 The report says the propagation ol tor acquittal. At the finish the division candy store on Fifty-first street when were played. steward, Arthur Parkins, Lansing complete and permanent disablements, Chinese pheasants has not been successful was six to six and the jury was discharged. the blast came. She was picked up. chaplain, H. G. Hickok, Owatonna "Bobby" Leach's proposed trip over 60 partially permanent disablements, in this state. Partridges, bodily and carried through the plate 50 serious but temporary disablements treasurer, Laura Van Nest, Minneapolis Niagara falls in a "safety" lifeboat of prairie chickens and quail are thriving. President Taft, in an address before glass door of the store and dropped and 135 minor accidents. secretary, Augusta J. Adams, Minneapolis his own invention has been postponed the American Society for the Judicial uninjured in front pf the candy counter. gatekeeper, Andrew Hawkinson, owing to the wrecking of the boat in a Homes Affected. Settlement of International Disputes, Harris ceres, Hattie Rinehard, trial trip, in which it was sent over The 54 fatal accidents investigated In Washington, gave assurances that FAMOUS MILL CITY LOT SOLD, District Attorney Whitman visited Medford flora, Elizabeth S. Wilson, the falls without a passenger. occurred in 28 industries. Thirty-nine the country need not fear the so-called the scene of the disaster and conferred Mrs. Aileen Christopher, the woman Minneapolis pomona, Dortha Morton, of the men killed were married and war scare. He said: "There is not the with a number of officials of the New whose charges inspired the federal Dodge Center lady assistant steward, Home of Late "Elder" Stewart Brings had 118 persons dependent upon them. slightest reason for such a sensation York Central. He said the explosion Harriet Parkins, Lansing members of brick tru.st investigation at Chicago No child was considered a dependent $500,000. because we are at peace with all the was caused by illuminating gas. Cornelius but who defied the court in trying to the executive committee, A. W. Bigelow, who earned $5 a week. nations of the world, and are quite Vanderbilt also made an investigation. shield an unknown person involved in Dodge Center George H. R. In 13 cases the heirs received absolutely Minneapolis. The famous "Eld likely to remain so." the alleged conspiracy, was sentenced Brush, Owatonna, and Samuel E. Adams, no compensation or aid from the er" Stewart corner, an entire hall Former Minister of Justice P. A. to 30 days in the county jail by Judge chairman, Minneapolis, and A. industry, not even funeral expenses. block at Fourth street and Hennepin Alberti of Sweden, the revelation of Landis for contempt of court. Her R. Hammergren, Harris, whese terms In five cases three received some compensation, EARTHQUAQE A FAKE. avenue, and considered one of the besl whose banking frauds in 1908 scandalized counsel, John A. Brown, was committed expire in 1912. but less than the funeral business sites in the city, will be sold the country, was sentenced to for 70 days. expenses. In nine cases the funeral to John and Samuel Friedman foi eight years' penal servitude. Alberti Island in Ilopango Lagoon Still on The fight of Beatrice Anita Baldwin expenses and doctor's bill were paid. SEINING OF LAKE PROTESTED. $500,000. suffered a physical collapse in March, Turnbull for a two-ninths share the Map. In 27 cases the family of the deceased The property which has been maintained 1909, while awaiting trial. in the $11,000,000 estate of the late was not compensated for the loss of Otter Tail County Farmers Appeal to in its primeval state since the At least 70 families, variously estimatetd J. Baldwin began before Judge E. San Salvadore, Dec. 20.—The report their wage-earner. The income was State Authorities. late "Elder" Stewart built his littk at from 150 to 170 men, women Rives and a jury in the superior court emanating from Port Limon, Costa taken away and no substitute offered. Fergus Falls.—Residents of the vicinity cottage on the gvound will give place and children, were drowned following at Los Angeles, Cal. Rica, that as a result of an earthquake In eight cases where compensation exceeded of Pelican Lake, a short distance to one of the finest office buildings ir the sinking of their island home. The The stocks and bonds commission, an island in the Ilopango lagoon, in funeral expenses it did not exceed from Ashby, have decided to appeal the city. It is probable that a hote] Island is in the center of the Ilopango appointed by President Taft under the the interior of Salvadore, had disappeared, $500. In three cases the compensation to the state game and fish commission may be included in the plan. The ex lagoon, off Salvatore, disappeared, aftera authority of the railway act of the last drowning many persons, is was from $501 to $750, and in to prevent the seining of the act nature and designs of the improve series of earthquakes. session of congress to investigate the without foundation. A slight earthquake two cases from $750 to $1,000. Five lake for buffalo fish. They set fire ment will be announced later. Famine threatens more than a million report ori the best method for federal has recently occurred in this families were paid from $100 to $1,500, to the netting of the men who had The later "Elder" Stewart received Chinese in the northern part of regulation of the issues stocks and of section, but without loss of life. Ilopango three families from $1,500 to $2,000, arranged- for the seining of the lake, many offers during his life for the the province of Anhui, a section of the bonds of interstate carriers, re-opened lagoon, which lies to the southeast two were paid $2,500 and four from but other nets have been brought in property, but each time refused with country subject to destructive floods its sessions in New York city with of San Salvadore, is in a normal $4,000 to $6,352. and fish are being taken out by the the explanation that his "wifte" would from the Huai river and its tributaries. President Arthur T. Hadley Yale In condition. of Fifty per cent received no eompen- carload. not let him sell." the chair. The Farmers and Merchants' National Seven hundred Harvard students Rhodes Scholars Athletic. bank of Anson, .Tex., has been listened to an address which Col. BABY SETS BROTHER AFIRE New York, Dec. 20.—Reports of the GET MONEY AND JEWELRY. Find Logs on River Bottom. closed by its directors. Drought and Theodore Roosevelt delivered on annual freshman games at Oxford Fergus Falls.—The Great Northern bad crops are given as the cause. "Politics" before the members of the show that the Rhodes scholars from General Store at Grand Rapids Entered is constructing a new concrete bridge Fatal Results From Children Playing The Kentucky court of appeals has class of government of that university. the United States gathered in their and Loot Easily Taken. across the river in this city, and in With Matches. allowed a woman who defended and The colonel advised all the share of the honors. W. A. Zeigler of excavating for the foundations it finds won her own case $5 as _attorney's members of the class to go into politics Iowa was the star of the meet, winning Grand Rapids.—^The general store that the bottom of the river is literally Brainerd.—Two little sons Of Thad fees. when they are graduated. He three firsts. He hurled the 16-pound of M. Ponti was entered Thursday filled with logs. When the city Cooley, a farmer residing twelve miles England is in the throes of the worst declared that the training they are shot 40 feet, 5% inches, threw the eight and the safe blown, $75 in cash was established in 1870 its first industry east of Brainerd at Bay LaKe, were floods the country has experienced in receiving at Harvard will eminently hammer 130 feet, 2 inches, and took was a« sawmill and logs were and some jewelry being taken. playing with matches. One set fire 30 years. The water in some sections 'fit them for political work. one of the jumps. R. Lange of Oklahoma, floated down in large numbers to be The authorities have been unable to to the other, aged 2 years find the is 12 feet deep, the result of almost The Ottawa Free Press publishes a won the "hundred," E. Hubble sawed into lumber here. Many of find any trace of the robbers and the little one succumbed to the terrible incessant rains since the first of this London dispatch saying it may be of Chicago university won the high'"ump work is supposed to be that pf burglars, these logs appear to have become watersoaked, month. In many villages the people burns received. Doctors wer« sum necessary to postpone the coronation with 5 feet, 5 inches, and H. who have been active all over gradually burying themselves R.t have been forced to seek refuge in the moned from Brainerd, but Ute child of King George owing to an "interest Scholz, California, took the quarter. in the bed of. the stream. the northeast part of the state lately. died before they could arrive. stories of their housse. lvg event in the royal family."