The Herald, 1908-05-29, Page 2JENNIE OLSEN.
Her Body Identified as One of the
Victims of Mrs. Gunness.
The Murderess Now Said to be the
Daughter of a Norwegian Laborer
Laporte, Ind., May 25. --•-The issuing
of a certificate of death of Jennie 01 -
sen and the turning over of the body
by Coroner Mack to her relatives in Chi
cage puts the official stamp of identifi-
cation upon one of the bodies found at
the Gunness farm, regarding which there
has been much controversy. Although
identified by the brother and sister,
many refused to believe that the girl
was dead, as Mrs. Gunness had informed
a number of persons that Jennie had
gone to Los Angeles to attend school,
and had arranged little incidents that
would help to make this point strong.
A letter was received saying that a girl
answering her description had been seen
in a convent near Los Angeles. This,
however, was not substantiated.
The grand jury resumed its sessions
to -day. The seven unidentified bodies,
one female and the other males, exhum-
ed from Mrs. Gunness' barn yard, were
to -day buried in the Potter's field.
Laporte, Ind., May 25, --Following is
a tabulation of the money supposed to
have been obtained by Mrs, Gunness
from various victims: From Made Sor-
ensen, her first husband, life insurance,
$5,000; from Peter Gunness, second hus-
band, life insurance, $4.000; from
Charles Eardman, New Carlisle, Ind.,
$5,000; from Herman Konitzer, Chicago,
$5,000; from fire in Gunness' store,
Grand avenue and E'lizabet'h street, ehi-
eago, insurance, $3,500; from fire in
Gunness' house in Austin, Ill:, insurance,
$1,500; from Ole O. Budberg, Iola., Wis.,
$2,000; from John 0. Moe, Elbow Lake,
Minn., $1,500; from fire in Gunnees'
'Renee in Austin, I11., insui:ai ee, $1,500;.
from Andrew lielgelein, Aberdeen, S. D.,
$2,900; from George Berry, Tuscola,
$1,500; from Henry Gerhalt, Iola, Wis.,
$1,000, whose bodies were found in Mrs.
Gunness' graveyard. (estimated at $1,000
each), $4,000; from fifteen other men,
who were in correspondence with Mrs.
Gunness and mysteriously disappeared
(estimated at $1,000 each), $15,000. This
gives a grand total of $448,300.
It is considered that an estimate of
$1,000 loss in the case of victims where
the actual amount is not known is
within the fact. Mrs. Gunness wrote
many letters stating flatly: "If you
haven't $2,000 don't come,"
Sheriff Smutzer and his men have
made careful inquiries in endeavoring
to ]earn what Mrs. Gunness did with
all this money. They are as much in
the dark •after theirs investigation; as
hhethey were before. Tb .is 'likely that the
4$720 that Mrs. Gunness put in: a safety
deposit vault the day of the fire was.all
the money -she then. possessed.
Scenes of last Sunday were repeat-
ed to -day at the farm of Mrs. Gun-
ness. Thousands visited the place and
viewed the skeletons of the seven un-
identified dead. One look was enough
ffo most of the curious.
Hundreds brought . their luncheons
along, for the day was ideal. At noon,
'family groups dotted the orchard and
the large front ]awn. Souvenirs of
all kinds were sold on the grounds,
the people buying freely. Refreshments
also were peddles',.
Who .les. Gunness Was.
Tronhjem. Norway, May 25.— Mrs.
Bella Gunness, ti'. Laporte, Ind., alleg-
ed murderer s. i. believed here to be a
daughter of haul Petersen, who was a
farm laborer and quarryman at Stor-
sethgjardet, on Lake Selbo. She was
born in 1$59, and emigrated to the Unit-
ed States about 25 years ago. Her
brother, Peder, a stonemason at Selbo,
said she gave evidence of bad character
when young. According to the foregoing
the previousstatement that Bella Gun-
Hess was the daughter of a travelling
conjurer and magician is erroneous.
DEPOT ROBBED.
Agent Who Had Resigned Held Up
Night Operator.
Tort Willian, Ont., despatch! Agent
Forrester, of the Canadian Northern
Railway, at Atikokan, resigned on Fri-
day night. Early on Saturday morning
he returned to the station and told the
night operator that he was going to
take the cash out of the safe. His state-
ment was backed up by two revolvers,
and the operator could not object. About
$600 was secure&
Then Forrester marched the operator
over to his (Forrester's) boarding house
and compelled him to help him pack up
his belongings. This done, Forrester re-
turned to the station and then made off
northwards. The night operator was
afraid to return to the station and
walked 19 miles to the next station and
gave the alarm.
Forrester, however, made a clean get-
away, and bas not yet been located,
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PLACATING THE COREANS,
They Must Not Be Treated as Con-
quered People,
Seoul, May 25.—Conditions through-
out Corea are improving. The de-
termination of Prince it•o, the Resi-
dent -General here, to suppress the dis-
orderly element so that the peaceful.
farming population may prosecute
their work in the outlying districts,
whore argued bands are harrying the
farina and 'villages, is shown by the
nivel of reinforcements of .gen-
darmes numbering about 5,000, whi will
scattered throughout Corea,
Prince Ito has iesu.edl strict instruc•
tions to Japanese soldiers and civil-
ians that they must not treat the.Cor-
cans as- a eontlueped people, but that
the rights of all law-abiding. citizens
must be respected under penalty of
severe pittiishtnent. lour thousand
C'orean police, under Japanese offi-
cers, will be enlisted and trained.
DYNAMITED CAR.
Rioting at Cleveland Over the
Street Railway Strike.
Woman's Jaw Broken and Man's
Head Cut.
Cleveland, Ohio, :May 25. ---Shortly af-
ter 1: o'clock this morning a D treat•
avenue ear was dynamited near 100th
street. The trucks were badly damaged,
but the single passenger and the crew
were not injured. At 12.30 o'clock a
small hex whieli the police say contained
deadly explosives was found on the
tracks at Broadway and East 55th
street. Tlie box was discovered with a
ear less than 50 feet away.
Rioting began near the \indmer
barns in East ('leveland early this morn-
ing, when strikers cut six trolley wires,
Linemen for the Municipal :.fraction Co.
turned out in force to repair the dam-
age, but -were driven hack by a gang of
300 men. A briek was thrown at a
Woodlawn car while it was passing east-
ward at Fast 104th street and Wood -
lawn avenue. David Benjamin and his
wife, who were on the car, were both
struck by the missile: Mrs. Benjamin's
jaw was broken, while her husband's
face n -as laid open by the briek.
A mob stoned a Woodln wn-Loraine
car at 9.45 o'clock and seriously injured
the ,only passenger, Mrs. !Elizabeth
Meiser,
More Cars Running.
Notwithstanding the widespread dis-
order whi<•b prevailed in carious parts of
the city last night, the Municipal Trac-
tion Co. to -day claimed to have more
cars in operation. than at any time since
the strike began. With the approach of
daylight the lawlessness had in a large
measure ceased, and ears were run on all
lines without molestation. No one was
seriously injured. so far as reported,
during last night's disturbances, al-
though many were slightly hurt.
BUY JOBS.
Why Foreigners Are Preferre
British t5eria
Toronto, Ont.,- despatch: One reasce
why foreigners are preferred on public
and other works to English, Scotch oT
Irish, wale given ley Crown Attorney Cor-
ley, in the Police Court to -day. William
Plewes, a foreman for Kelly & Com-
pany, contractors, was charged with
fraud in having accepted from a num-
ber of Italinne a dollar each to give,
there work and then having discharged
them after they had worked a short
time. Crown Attorney Corley said that
all foreigners were in the habit of pay-
ing the foreman to obtain their jobs.
and that it was a regularly recognized
practice. Men of the British race would
not do this, so that the foreigners se-
cured the preference in work. The case
was remanded to secure further evid-
ence, Magistrate Kingsford remarking
that it looked very crooked.
WOULD NOT STRIKE.
Montreal C. P. R. Men Will Stay
at Their Work.
Tried to Get Thein Out to Heip
:Western lrakemen.
Montreal, May 25. --An effort was
made. to -day to get trite Wren at welds at
the 0. P. R. Angus shops to go oat strike
as a protest against the decision of the
Arbitration•Oonimiss]on sitting at Win-
nipeg to take up only the claims of the
western section of t•he company's em-
pleYees. Representatives of the western
labor organizations interested in the
fight against a reduced sehedu.le pro-
posed by the company, have been at
work, and it was stated to -day that a
strong appeal was made to the men to
strike for the purpose of strengthening
their western allies. The Angus shops
men, !however, decided that while they
were in ; entire sympathy with their
western lilies, it would he prejudicial
to their ieterests to strike at present, In
the first place, it would separate then
from thele interest in the company's
pension. Scheme; in the second they
would be violating the spirit and the let-
ter of the 1 rmenx act, and at the same
time `ieoubt be prejudicing their case
before the arbitration commission. In.
consequence rho tnen decided not to lis-
ten to the appeals to lay down their
tools.
IIT THREE TIMES,
But Kalamazoo Man Now In Critical
Condition
Helainiixoc Mich.. May 25. ----Struck
three times by lightning in as many
years is the record of David Bucks: -
too, owner of a confectionery store
in this city To -day Mr. Buckeloo lies
in an unconscious condition at his honkie
with chances against his recevery. Short-
iy after 11 o'clock last night,. while ire
was sitting at his desk and7a dozen
people were in his store to escape the
rain, !he 13ttckeloo was knocked from
this clreir by a holt of lightning, which
struckthe ground outside, and then
entered the store, No other person in
the stos;e It the shock.
EY go, while Mr. Buckeloo
was n ome, he was struck by
lightx for two menthes hovered
bet -t d death. Two years ago
he -f his clothing stripped.
ing. During the time
the second stroke
agony.
t e,:ts
s, Kale-
bnney, and the
E. F. Ide home was.
ree people in the house
slig ed,.
Li Bruck two barns helonginf
to Oh ' .Aeon One of the barns burn-
ed eat: g a loss of $3.000. Three
horses, a dog and a oat burned to death
in the barn. •
Lightning gtrnck a barn oe the
Henry Martin farm, a mile sena of
the city, and set it on fire. The barn
was destroyed,the lose being $3,500.
A calf on the Martin farm Was killed by
lightning,
CANNOT GO.
Three Men Not Going to Bisley—
Their Substitutes.
Ottawa, May 25. --Capt. T. J. Mur-
phy, of the London 7th, has notified
the militia authorities that owing to
ill -health he will not be able to go
to Bisley this year.
Sergeant Richardson, of Vancouver,
and Major Bethune, of Montreal, have
sent word that they will not be able
to go. The men who take their places
are ,Sergeant Martin, of Calgary,
Major Jones, of Prince Edward Is-
land, and Private Williams, of Nova
Scotia.
BY-LAWS VALIDATED.
Railway Board Issues Circular Letter to
Municipalities on New Act.
Toronto despatch: The Ontario Rail-
way and Municipal Board is sending to
the clerks of all the municipalities of
the Province a circular letter calling
their attention to the Ontario Mumicipal
Securities Act, passed at the last session
of the Legislature. • This measure per-
mits the board to validate by-laws, in
spite of, technical irregularities, where
the law has been substantially complied
with. Formerly •a special act was ne.
cessary. The board, however, points out
that the provisions of the law must be
observed as in the .past.. It indicates,
that the power given to it to certify,
debentures and place then beyond ques-
tion in any court will tend to increase
their value, and advises that in all cases
provision should be made for a sinking
fund to redeem the securities, as this is
preferable to repayment by instalments,
At the same time the municipalities suf-
fer no loss, because the treasury of On-
tario will pay four per cent. on all such
funds deposited with it,
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CHINESE TAX.
Only One Chinese Immigrant Came
to Ontario Last Year.
ing laet about 11 o'clock 011 the country
road, and the injured man eiuines in his
charge that he was waylaid by his bro-
ther, while the' accused claimed in his
evidence that he cominitted the act in
self-defence, as he had understood that
Henry had threatened to kill him.
The ease was tried before Magis-
trates '.t'ate, Richardson and McLelland;
and was adjourned for a week. The
injured man Will recover.
SHOT BY AD - ° IRER.
Young Woman Starts Journey With
Three Bullets In Arin.
Jamestown, May 25; --On the arrival
of an .Erie passenger train in this city
at 11 o'clock this morning a harid-
eome young w:omfui, Miss Violet Mar-
cy, of Greenville, Pa., left the train and
went to the W. C. A. hospital, where
physicians' who examined her found that
elle had been shot and succeeded in re-
moving three bullets from her left arni.
The wounds were quite serious. Miss
Marcey said that she was shot by Louis
Thomas, a young man of Greenville,
after she left cher home to take • the.
train on a journey she had planned to
Buffalo. Thomas, who had an at-
tachment for Miss Marcey, objected to
her going away. She thought her in-
juries were not. serious and instead of
returning home, continued on her "way
to the station and. took the train as
originally • intended. The wounds be-
came so painful by the time she
reached Jamestown that she could.
stand it no longer, and here sought.
relief by appealing to e local physi-
cian, who removed the bullets.
Miss Marcy then continued her trip
to Buffalo, without making any legal
information against her assailant. She
is a very handsome young woman
and showed most remarkable nerve in
controlling herself under the circum-
stances.
Ottawa, Ont., May 25.—The poll tax
of $500 on each Chinese immigrant com-
ing into Canada brought the Federal
treasury no less a sum than $690,000.
The total arrival of Chinese was 1,380
each paying $500 on entry. Under flee
terms of the act, half the tax goes to
the Dominion • and half' to British Colum-
bia, where nearly all the Celestials re-
main, To -day the Finanee Department
is forwarding a cheque to the Provincial
Government for $345,000, being half the.
total amount received. Entries of Chin-
ese in other provinces were as follows:
Ontario, 1; Saskatchewan, 1; New
Bruuswiek, 4; Nova Scotia, 3; Quebec,
74.
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STABBED BROTHER.
The Outcome of an Old Feud at
Luther.
Orangeville., despatch: Al a result of
bad blood that has existed for about
three years . between them, Walter
Mournahan, of East Luther, was arraign-
ed in.court at Grand Valley on Saturday
last on the charge of wounding his
oldest brother, Henry Mournahan. The
wound was caused by the stab of a
knife in the left breast, and had it not
been for the fact, the crown contends,
that the blade of the knife first came in:
contact with the man's watch, the
wound might have been fatal. As it
vests the knife ;pierced his side, striking
one of the ribs.
Tlie ill -feeling between the two bro-
thers is said to have existed for a num-
ber of years, but the "cause it not defin-
itely known. Differences are supposed to
have first begun when the father, James
Mournahan, divided his property of three
or four hundred acres among four
brothers. The quarrel, of which the
stabbing of I•lenry llournahan was the
outcome, took•pla,ce on Thursday even -
TRIED SUICIDE.
Preferred Death to Four Years In
the Penitentiary.
New York, May Z.—Jennie Blunt,
the young woman who yesterday was
sentenced to four years in the peniten-
tiary by Judge Dike in Brooklyn for
shooting (Varies M. Sanford, a lawyer,
attempted suicide to -day. She was
found unconscious in her cell in the Ray-
mond street jail from inhaling illuminat-
ing gas. Her life was saved by the
prompt action of a physician who was
hurriedly summoned.
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CABBIES' STRIKE WENT WRONG.
Questionable Whips of Rome Sorry They
Tackled the Motor Issue.
Rome, May 25.—Two thousand Roman
cabbies struck the other day because
the Mayor allowed five motor cabs to
ply for hire. The strike lasted three
days, during which the profits of the
five motor cabs were were $525. .
The strike is now over, but 400 Roman
cabbies have lost their licenses. It
seems that a large proportion of the
cabbies were bad characters, who had
done time for theft, stabbing or other
offences and were' under police surveil-
lance. Legally they had no right to act
as cabbies, but the municipality winked
rather than throw them out of employ-
ment.
These men are now lamenting that
they organized the strike, while the
1,600 righteous cabbies and the five mo-
tor cab drivers are rejoicing over the
decrease in competition.
A RUNAWAY AUTOMOBILE.
An Exciting Incident on the Kingston
Road.
Toronto despatch: An automobile be-
longing to Mr. J. ;Carry, 95 St. George
street, and which got beyond the control
of the driver, Fred •Ryckman, crashed.
into one of the poles of the Toronto &
York Radial Railway with such force
about 2.30 yesterday afternoon that the
pole, although fourteen inches in diame-
ter, was cut in two as if severed with a
sharp axe, With R;yekman in the
motor was Bernard Whitney, a repair
man of the Dominion Automobile Com-
pany, who was directing a test run,
when the steering gear suddenly got out
of order, and it was impossible either to
steer the car or slow down.
They were some two miles from West
Bill, and when, the driver saw their
lives were being endangered they
jumped from the swiftly moving auto
and were just in time to escape injury in
the terrible collision "which followed.
sod.
HEALTH OF ONTARIO.
Scarlet Fever, Smallpox and Diphtheria
Prevalent in April,
Toronto May 25,—Scarlet fever, small-
pox and diphtheria were more prevalent
in April last than in the corresponding
month of 1907. In all 118 cases of small-
pox were scattered over 24 municipali-
ties extending from Dundee County to
Elgin County. Only one death was re.
ported. Of scarlet fever there were 351
eases and 15 deaths, as compared with
225 cases and six deaths hi 1007. There
were 20 fatal cases of diphtheria out
of 105 reported, as against 10 out of 165
in April, 1907. There were 87 cases of
measles and one death, 27 oases of
whooping cough and 10 deaths, 213 cases
of tuberculosis and 197 deaths. The
total number of deaths from all causes
was 2,523 in an estimated population
of 2,125,000, or a death rate of 14.2 in
1;000.
PARESIS GERM.
Doctor Discovers It and Says Disease
Is Curable.
Dr. O'Brien Has Cured Patients and.
Is Curing Others.
Massillon, Ohio, May 25. --In the la-
boratory of the Massilon State Hospital
Dr. John D. O'Brien to -day reiterated a
statement by him before the American-
Medico Psychological Association's Con-
vention at Cincinnati that he had dis
covered the germ of paresis, and that
the disease is curable. He summed up
the results of his experimentsin these
two declarations: That paresis is un-.
doubtedly is a germ disease, and that
the germ has been discovered; that while
in the experimental stage, sufficient
tests have been made to show that pare-
sis is curable and that he has specific -
cases to »pint to as definite results,
Dr. C]' 3rien does not believe it would
be proper to make public the names of
these patients whom he claims the
treatment has cured, but he gives the
specific case of a newspaper man of'
Washington, D. C., who. was treated for
paresis and again is at work, a cured
man; a civil engineer of prominence in
Nashville, Tenn., who is cured and at
work, besides a number of people in
Ohio, who were brought to the hospital
with severe forms of the disease, and
mired. Others who are now at the hos-
pital still under treatment are showing
marked progress toward recovery.
Dr. O'Brien has at hand, in,addition
to his own statements, and reports from
hospitals in regard to the successful
treatment of paresis, patients' photo-
graphs, which show the historical form
of attack when brought to the'_VIassilon
State Hospital and the patients when
discharged rrom the hospital as cured.
"I know." said Dr. O'Brien, "that it is
a bold statement to make that the germ
of paresis has been discovered. People
ntay doubt it. Many scoffed when the
germ theory of diphtheria and tubercu-
losis was disclosed. We feel warranted
from the satisfactory results of the ex-
periments Wade in stating without quali-
fication, that paresis is a germ disease,
We also feel that from the work done
we have found the bacillus. We have
cured. patients, are helping ni.any now
and expect to go forward with the
work." Dr. O'Brien had confined his
work to living subjects; no ,pathological
investigation huts been done on post
mortem subjects. He now has germs
'cultures." One of the favorite 1
of cultures used is bouillon. H
that, like a farmer, he is secicin
the best culture in which to
11 from serum extraeted fro
and to that ehd is doing corgi
perimenting, Since Dr. 0
paper at Cincinnati he
many letters from doctors ure
to receive patients for treat
'paresis. Dr. O'Brien was gradu
the Jefferson Medical College, iil,
phia, in 1903. He had passed•fo
a half years at Massilon Hospita
laboratory work.
LIQUOR ON RAILWAY WORK.
Its Detection Keeps Constables Busy All
the Time.
Winnipeg, May 25.—As the result of
the strenuous efforts of Commission-
er Quibell and his assistants to keep
the illicit sale of liquor in check along
the route of the National Transcontin-
ental, numerous convictions have been
secured and considerable liquor con-
fiscated and destroyed. Within the
Peet few days Charles Arehimbault,
whiskey peddler, was found guilty and
assesses? $50 and costs; Stephen Vedus
was fined $50 and costs for a similar
offence; George Prince was fined $5 and
costs for interfering with an officer on
hdirty.
Frank Nelson, keeper of a disorderly
ousea, Iva8 fined $20 and costs and
bound over to keep the peace for a year
on a charge of interfering with and
threatening to shoot an officer who at-
tempted to search his house. William
George Prince and William Brennan,
charged with unlawfully having liquor in
their possession, were discharged.
As an illustration of the strenuous
work to keep clown the traffic in liquor
along 250 miles of line, it may be
stated that during the absence ' of the
constable for a few days, some unscru-
pulous individual brought a large
supply of liquor to one of the camps,
with the result that the entire force of
eighty employees vent off on a grand,
hilarious drunk; 1, ndemonium reigned
supreme, and for two days not a man
did a stroke of wo, k.
BALDWIN AL1SHIP FLEW.
A Slight Accident Put an Abrupt Stop
to Flight.
Hammondsport, N. Y., May 25.— The
aerodrome Whitewing made a short
flight here to -day, carrying its designer,
F. W. Baldwin, to a height of about ten
feet. Tile pressure of the air upon the
edge of the lower aeroplane caused it to
foul the propeller, and the aerodrome
was therefore brought down to the
ground after having traversed a distanee
of 93 yards. The r'anage, it is said,
woukd be easily repaired.
The new steering gear attached to the
front wheel worked satisfactorily, so
that there is now no difficulty in keep-
ing the machine on the race track while
running on the ground. The race track'
has been widened by plowing up a.
portion of adjoining field and smoothing
it with a roller.
The lefthand u'nnin of trains on
double ;track is practised by two imp
portant railways in the United States
—the take Shore and 112ichi.gan South.,
ern Railway and the Chicago & North.
western Railway,