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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-03-06, Page 2PRIESTS MARKED FOR DEATH BY ITALIAN ANARCHISTS. Declaration of Chicago Priest ---Expects to be Murdered ---To Stop Emma Goldman, Chicago, March i'. --".A murder will be committed in Chicago within a month similar to the Denver assassination, where the Rev. Father Leo IIe]nrielis ' was shot down while administering holy communion in St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church," asserted Chancellor E. • M. Dunne, of the Chicago archdiocese last night "1 am positive that anarch- . ists, anti -clericals, or whatever they calf themselves, have prepared lists" of priests and clergy to be killed and am certain that some Chicago man has }leer- marked," he said. ".1 am the most logical man for aAgassination and al- though I have thousands of friends in the Italian colony, I also have ?nany bit- ter enemies." Father Dunne said if he was not chos- en to be murdered the other candidates would be, either Archbishop Quigley, the Very Rev. F. S. Angelluci, of the Church of the Assumption, or the Rev. lather Francis Gerard, Provincial of the Church of Resurrectionists. Detectives Bernacchi and Longohardi reported to Chancellor Dunne at the chancery office and told him they were instructed to serve as his personal body- guard. A personal threat against the Very Rev. E. 31. Dunne, D. D., chancellor of the Chicago archdiocese, was discovered to -day by the pollee. It was contained in an announcement of the anti -clerical Giordano Bruno Club published on Feb- ruary 8th in the Tribuna-ltaliana Trans- atlantica, edited by Alessandro Mastro Valeria. The agitation efthe anti -clericals has stirred both priests and laymen in Chi- cago and made them determined to take special precautions independent of the police, even to the extent of organiz- ing a special vigilance committee in ev- ery parish. According to the translation made by the poliee the threat against Dr. Dunne sets forth that he must sbed tears of expiation more bitter than the salt of the salt mines of Service. Chief ;hippy announced to -day that be had taken measures to prevent Emma Goldman, the anarchist leader,. from appearing at a meeting within a few days in which she has been adver- tised to speak. The chief said Miss Gold- man would not be allowed to talk in public on any subject. MURDER EPIDEMIC. SERIES OF COLD BLOODED CRIMES IN BERLIN. Ten of the Perpetrators Caught—Last Victim a Widow, Who Was Found Dead in Her Room With Myster- ious Letter. Berlin, _March 2.—Berlin's epidemic of mysterious marchers of women and. little gime,. which the, police are apparently powerless to cheek, has elaimeal a fresh victim. A widow named Wiesner, thirty- eight years of age, was found dead in her bedroom in the north end of the city with her head curt open. The murder wars committed twelve days ago, apparently by a ratan, who left behind a blood-stained, unsigned. love le'ttrer, containing threats against the wanaaeds Life. 'The murthtrer forged n note to the walaaaan'as lodger, saying that she had. left 41t a four-day trap into the country, but avQnen at the end of twelve days no trace of her could be found the police broke into her room and found her dead in bell. Two men who were accustomed to 'visit the wenean were arrested on wnspieion. The widow is said to have possessed £300, acrd robbery is suggest- ed es the motive of the cmune. The newspapers comment on the dim qudeting fact that annrcders in Berlin are ital}owtng one another in alarming suc- cession, while none ..1 the perpetrators as caught.. MARRIED YOUNG GIRL. Henry Graham of Prescott Charged With Perjury. Borckville despatch: Henry Graham, a Prescott man, 27 years old, was ar- rested in that town this morning, and brought here on a charge of making false oath to procure a marriage license. The charge was laid by Charles F. East- er, father of the young girl; who is six- teen years old, and who now says she was enticed away by Graham. Last Sat- urday morning (graham, accompanied by his prospective bride, came to Brockville to have the nuptial knot tied, He applied amt took out the necessary license from J. E. Chrysler in the usual way, making oath that his full name was Henry James Graham, and his age 27 ears, while his bride-to-be was Miss year, Jennie Easter, nineteen years old. %e ceremony was performed the same day at 1.30, after which the couple left an their return to Prescott. They were met at the station by the father of the bride, who directed that his daughter return home, which she did, while he at ocne resolved to punish Gra- ham and start proceedings for an annul- ment of the marriage. The defendant was brought before P. M. Deacon this afternoon and a remand made until Friday on bail of $800. Cra- ;+ham's first wife died eleven weeks ago, leaving him with a family of three small children, JAPANESE DEPORTED. Two Men Whose 'Case Has Occupied the Courts. Vancouver, .larch 2.--:1'he two .Japan- ese detained in New Westminster under the Natal act, Chictf Justice .hunter sub- sequently deriding the act does not ap- ply to Japanese, have been deported by the Dominion immigration officials nn - .dor the order in council forbidding any foreign immigrant to enter Canada , bola any country other than that of his birth. At the City Council last evening Ald. aideGuigarn gave notice of a by-law to fprevent the anti -Asiatic parade, The ree use of the City Hall to the Asiatie Exclusion League was refused. A Meet- ing of the league is called for/to-morrow aright. BADLY SHOCKED. For Five Days Seismic Disturbances Rock Pacific Coast. Mexico ('ity. -llareh 2.--A series of severe earthquake shocks have been felt throughout a large part of South. ern Mexico during the last five days. The centre of the disturbance seemed to be at Chilpancingo, State of Guer- rero, which was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake last April, The latest shocks did little damage to property at that place. At Chilpa, Tixtla and in' the mountain district of the State the shocks were at great intensity. al The seismic disturbances were felt for a distance of 300 miles up and down the Pacific coast region, its southern limits being below the isth- mus of Tehauntepec. O -O MURDERS OF ALIENS. Senator Cloran Will Call Attention of Government to Frequency. Ottawa despatch: The recent start- ling increase of murderous affrays am- ong the foreign -born population of Mon- treal has led Senator Cloran to give no- tice that he will call the attention of the Government to the deplorable con- dition of things in that city and other parts of the Dominion, regarding the re- spect and safety of human life which is in daily jeopardy owing to the en- try and presence of an undesirable class of immigrants into Canada. He will ask what measures the Government intend to take to prevent a further influx in- to Canada of such enemies of life, law and order. Senator Baird will move that when the .Senate adjourns Friday, it will. stand adjourned until Thursday, March 5th. This is done because the Senate does not sit on Mondays, and next Wednesday neither House will sit, it being Ash Wednesday. WOODCHOPPER'S CONFESSION. ale Attempted to Wreck Express Train That He Might Rob It. Seladia, Mo., March 2.—C. W. Cox, a woodclfopper, whose home is at Frank- lin Junction, Mo., confessed to Missouri Pacific Railway officials here this af- ternoon that be removed the rail from the track on the top of Otterville Ilill. fifteen miles east of here, on Friday night last that resulted in the derail- ing of a freight train; from St. Louis. Cox said he had intended to wreck and rob the fast Missouri Pacific Kansas City -St. Louis messenger train, whieh was due at Otterville a few minutes after the freight was wreeked. Cox was taken to the scene of the wreck and after close questioning con- fessed. He said he committed the deed alone, steed had no "accomplices. Cox is thirty-five years old and has a wife and child. BENEATH THE HUDSON. First Train Passes Through the M'Adoo Tunnel. New York, March 2.—Bearir:,: eight hundred distinguished guests, in,•io:iine Governor Chas. E. Hughes and Governor .John F. Fort and their staffs, an official train of eight cars, marking the formal opening of the $40.000,00 tunnel and submarine system. linking.New York and New 'Jersey, rolled out of the Manhattan terminal at twenty minutes to h- o'clock this afternoon, and two minutes after President Roosevelt at the White House bad flashed the starting signal.' About ten thousand persons witnessed the start. As the train passed under the red, white and blue lighted signal mark- ing the cbiviaing line between New York and New Jersey the two Governors arose and clasped hands, while the railway of- ficials, who, with State Executives, oc- eupied the first car, shouted mutual con- gratulations, Can the crowded train was but one Nemeses Miss (,race :Bigelow, wdorho atoeeoGreampta lliet'dIther father, John Bige- low, the publicist and former Ambassa- aiu. In spite of his iwth year, Mr. Bigelow appeared to hugely enjoy the oerasion. kite had a seat ns did Miss Bigelow; but n'rariy others sere less fortunate. lien of mullions asni traction promoters them- selves swung from straps as the train dipped deep at the centre of the river. Among the netnber was E. H. Harri- man, who clang gamely to a strap, and' Cot•neli.us Vanderbilt., who kept a firm grip on a door jnmb. ®.w MAY BE DEPORTED. Authorities Think Alleged Murder- er Terrace is of Weak Mind. Toronto, March 2.—John Terrace, the young Englishman charged with the murder of William Curry, the aged farmer, at life farm in Toronto Town- ship, near' Brampton, on the night of Dec. 25 last, may never face trial. The provincial authorities will ex- amine him with a view of deporting him to England, when he came to this country rifteen weeks ago from New- castle -on -Tyne. Dr. Bruce Smith, pro- vincial inspector of asylums, was in Brampton this week collecting data as to the history of Terrace's life and family. He learned from Terrace that throughout his life he has suffered front fits, or seizures, during which time he has not been conscious of his actions. There is also said to be a strain of insanity he his family. It appears that there is a strong feeling in the County of Peel against the case ever coming to trial. This feeling is growing in strength as the time for the spring assizes, for which the case is set, draws nearer. A ver- dict of guilty might bring about an execution, something which has never yet occurred: itt the county. If not deported, to be taken in charge by English authorities. he may be placed in an asylum in Canada. LORDS SPIKED GUN. PIQUANT SITUATION IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Two Rejected Measures Pushed—Each House Simultaneously Passes an Act Which the Other Had Re- jected. Lodon, Marc 2.— There was • a piquant situat in Parliament to- night; eath-lf.uuitawreously push-. rmg� zntee�tty? th.$ ottjor had re- jeete'd. le t n , eti the part of , the •leers, .t ;itt uupt to checkmate the Government's eh }nige with the view to compelling r ignition of the para- mountcy of the House of Commons by returning to the i„la.per House the Scot- tish band hill, ,enol another, which the Peers rejected lest year. This matter was explained in n recent cable des- patch. The Opposition Peers to -night introduced a Scottish Land Bill of their own, applying to Scotland the terms of the English Small Holdings. Bill, an application which the Government last year refused to make. The Peers passed the bill on its second reading, Lord Rosebery strongly supporting it. Meanwhile, the House of Commons, by the help • of closure, rushed through the Government's Small Hold- ings Bill, which the House of Lords re- jected last year, and this is now ready to again go to the House of Lords in accordance with the • challenge thrown down by Prune Minister Sir Henry Campbe]l-Bamterman. The Opposition press claims that the House of Lords, by superior energy and generalship, have thus spiked the Go'v- ernment's biggest gun: The outcome is awaited with amused interest. TURNED IN FAKE ORDERS. Merchants' Portrait Company Said to Have Been Swindled. Toronto, :March • 2. -Acting as agents far the Merchants' Portrait Company, of which J. A. Shepherd is mnnager, .Jacques Sil cete.r, 500 Church street, anal Ernest .Tinker, 1110, York.street, are charged with obtaining fake arelers and drawing comazidss oat on them. While in the employment ni the company, it is said, they went out canvassing for orders io make enlargements from por- traits and came back With various or. dors from residents hi the city. On these they were paid sante small snot's a com,miseion. Upon inquiry- being .made the names on some of the orders were discovered to •be fietitia7us, The police were noti- fied. CHURCH WILL ADVERTISE. ,t'l:lrlwind Pubiic]ty Campaign to be Conducted. - New Yark, March 2.-•-•I,j'dern adver- tising methods for the exploitation of up-to-date missionary effort through- out the United .States will hereafter bo employed by the National Presby- terian Board of Home Missions, ac- cording to an announcement made to -day. In connection with this gen- eral plan, a one -day whirlwind pub- licity campaign will be conducted in about fifteen cities, beginning Mon- day, March 16. The discussion's will deal with the social, the economic, the religious and the general national problems rn" ' {,i.ng the Church •'in the United Steles. THE MURDER OF KING AND PRINCE. MYSTERY BEHIND TRAGEDY TO REMAIN A MYSTERY. The Government and the Republicans Anxious to Have Inquiry Smoth- ered—Franco's Life Was Sought— Rising Stopped by Young Lieuten- ant's Treason. Lisbon, 1.[areh 3.--'I'he mystery be - bind the murder of Ring Carlos and Prince Luiz is not likely ever to be completely lifted. The new Portu- guese Government prefers that the crime should be regarded both at home and abroad as the deed of in- dividuals carried away by the pol- itical passions of the moment and in- asmuch as the Republicans are also anxious to clear their skirts of re- sponsibility for the regicide, both sides are glad to see an investiga- tion, which would probe the affair to the bottom, smothered. There is no suggestion that there was a repetition of the Belgrade plot aimed at the King's person, but that some of the desperate political lead- ers were involved in the series of abortive plots against Franco's life which preceded the murder, is be- lieved here in well informed circles. Franco himself told a friend the day before he left Lisbon (virtually upon the order of the Government), that it was impossible to reveal to the , world what he had learned of the in- trigues of the enemies of the King and himself and it was, therefore, better for him to retire forever from the political arena. The commotion between the Re- publicans and the Regicides is equal- ly difficult to establish. The dis- claimers of leaders like Bernardino Machado must be accepted so far as the "peaceful wing" is concerned, but this cannot be said of the advanced or radical wing as there is plenty of evidence that they have planned a rising on the night of the crime. Signals to the ships in the harbor and the barracks on the sloop of St. George's Hill were shown toward mid- night front the roof of the National library and bands of men went to the barracks of an artillery and an in- fantry regiment, which were to join in the proclamation of a republic. The signals brought no responses and the doors of the barracks were found locked. The entire conspiracy fell through, it is said. because of the treason of a young lieutenant who, after the as- sassination of the Ring, confessed to his father, an officer, the role he was to play. The young roan claimed that he had been deceived; that he did.' not know regicide was contem- plated having been led to suppose that only the life of the dictator was. to be taken. 4t. AFTER BRIDGE. Card Playing Society Women in Fear of Arrest. Hartford City, Ind.. March 2. --Mem- bers of the Women's Club which under the reign of blue laws invoked by Mayor James Lucas were ,prohibited from playing Bards have just made the startling discovery that there is a teai- tor in their midst. All society is ex- cited under fear of arrest for violating the laws. When the Mayor issued his ultima- tum prohibiting card playing for prizes under pain of prosecution, the practice was never stopped. Now the Mayor has ereated great confusion among the club members by announcing that he has on file in his office a list of practically every woman card player in the city, along with a list of those who have won prizes in the games played since the "lid" was put on. These lists ,he says, were furnished him by one of the women attending the meetings and will be held for evidence when the grand jury meets. SILENT FIREARM. THE LATEST ARRIVAL IN DEATH - DEALING INVENTIONS. Son of Sir Hiram Maxim Patents De- vice Which Renders Discharge Al- most Inaudible—How the Device is Operated. a. Washington, March 2.— Aeeordiug to the Patent •Office Gazette, a patent for a "silent firearm" has just been granted to Hiram Percy Maxim, of Hartford, Conn., son of Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the machine gun that br..rs lois name. The patent covers 23 claims, the device being designed to render the discharge of a gun or revolter practically noiseless. Broadly, the principle involved is similar to that ina•de use of in the automobile muffler, the noise of dis- charge due to the sudden release of gas at the muzzle of the gun being prevented through 'the action of a transverse -acting piston valve, which allows the gas to escape gradually. The device consists of a silencing arrangement that can be applied to the barrel of any ordinary firearm. In an ordinary firearm the bullet, when it emerges from the muzzle, crates the high pressure, gases, which, ly •striking the air suddenly, rause the loud explosion. In The new gun the gas- es are shut off just before the huiiet passes This valve is actuated entirely by the pe pressure in the gun bare , and is free from. all actuating mechan- ism. After the bullet has passed oat of the barrel the gases are allowed to es- cape gradually through small holes - This annuls all noise except a slight hfs- sing sound. The piston valve is arranged to re- turn to the open position when the gas has all escaped and a safety bolt, working in connection with the fir- ing mechanism, prevents the firing of a new cartridge unless the valve is in place. The construction is extremely simple, the gun having the appeal/am- of the usual rifle with, a small crosrTpiece in the barrel about five inches from the end. a.o MINISTER'S PLIGHT. Rides in Hearse to Save Himself From Freezing. Pittsfield. Mass., March 2.— Riding eight miles inside a hearse to ,keep from freezing, was the unusual experi- ence of Rev. Charles Palmer, an Episco- pal minister, who was called to lex Ashford to read the committal service over the body of one of the oldest resi- dents of that town. The thermometer was 15 below zero and there was a bit- ter wind. Committing the body to the earth, the rector took the place of the casket in the hearse and rode to Lanes- boro, stretched out inside the carriage. The minister said to -day that he expect- ed to have but one more ride of the kind. •.i AUTOMOBILE DISEASE. A New Malady Caused by Gasoline Fumes. New York. March 2.—"The gasoline- {driven automobile has added a new disease to the woes of civ-ilizutiun--a ' disease which may cut ten years. off the life of the persons afflicted. I would call it 'automobile disease-; aid have discovered that not only in New York, in streets frequented by such motor cars, but in Paris, London and Berlin, it also exists." Dr. Henry 0. Becker, a prominent physician, of 112 West One Hundred and Fourth street, made this statement last night, alter conducting tests torr nearly a year on patients suffering from the new malady, which affects the tissue of the thoat and lungs, causing congestion and decay, and giving a working area for the bacilli of consump- tion, pneumonia, grip and other affee- tions peculiar to the respiratory organs. "About a year ago," the doctor said, "a. man whom I later found to be a. member of the traffic squad stationed on Fifth avenue, at .a point where the gasoline fumes from cars often choked him, came to me ' complaining of chronic sore throat. Hies case baffled me. - Exatnination showed it was no ordinary disease, and 1 conducted an investigation. I found that one week after the bluecoat had been transferred to a distriot not haunted by motor cars he got well. "Other similar cases came to my at- tention, and I communicated with phy- sicians in European cities. The inter- national investigation proved that my tentative theory was right. "Some • device should be used to ab- sorb the fumes from these machines, ,as they endanger probably thousands of lives daily, especially those of the traf- fic squad policemen." JUMPED INTO THE SEA. Percy Gallagher, a C.P.R. Conductor, Attempts Suicide. Vancouver, March 2.—'Phis afternoon Percy Gallagher, a C. P. R. conductor, from New Brunswick, prominent in the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, was admitted to flew Westminster Asylum for the Insane. On Friday afternoon Gallagher leaped from the deck of the steamer Umatilla into the sea just op- posite the Heads et San Francisco while the' vessel was bound for Seattle. Ile was picked up in the lifeboat. Gal- lagher was bound for V9etoria. He had been visiting Mrs. Gallagher at Los An-' geles. It is said he was disappointed because Mrs. Gallagher declined to return imme- diately. As the ship drew away from the Heads he stole, apart, and with some rope yarn held in bis teeth he hound hie hands together at the wrists. The slack as be struck the wa,:er brought reason to his brain and he struggled to keet, afloat. THREE PERISHED IN FIRE. Tragedy in Briers, a Town Near Brain- ard, Minn. Brainard, Minn., March 2:--- De- spatches to the Minneapolis and Tn- ternational Railroad pffices bring news that three persons, a servant girl, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. M V. Owens, and a brother of Mrs: Owens, perished last night in a fire in a store building at Briers, a town near here. Mr. and Mrs. Owens wore badly burned. - *4. WATER VAPOR ON MARS, This in indicated in Photographs 'of Spectra at Lowell Observatory. Boston, March 2. --Percival Lowell an- . nouneed to -day that Mr. Slipper, of Lowell Obttorvatory, has photsgraphed" comparison spectra of Mars and the moon, elro ring on repeated platels that the little band is stronger on lata.t'5 than an the moot. This is said to in- dicate n'a.ter vapor in the attnosphe:re of the planet.