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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-10-23, Page 2THE � ��, A delegation of he poen suffragettes, 1 which legati o o the policy cordon and were formally refused admission to PRO L T , ball rusharlicrush. ,but attetmheptedpolice e mrepulsedake a f �1�® boot- , the 1. women with the least possible rough- ` nem. Two bodies of the unemployed, however, who approached the line were driven off with little saving grace, one across Westminster bridge and the other to St, James' Park. The police were pelted with 'vegetables and some stones in a few minor skirmishes that occ:nrred, but nobody was seriously hurt. Twenty-four suffragettes and twelve of the unemployed were placed under arrest. Many persons fainted in the crush; a few were 'tra.mpled upon and taken to . the hospitals, Mrs. Pa.nlc- hnrst, Miss Cristabel Pankhurst and Mrs. Lawrenee were summoned to court yesterday for inciting a breach of the peace, This morning they coolly re- fused to obey the summons, but agreed to surrender themselves at the police court in the evening, which they did, spending the night in the Bow street station. The suffragettes and unem- ployed have kept practically the whole police force on duty continuously for 48 hours. Wants to Cultivate the Friendship of Other Nations. Advance Industries United With Other Countries. Position of Peaceful and Conserva- tive People. Yokohama, Oct. 19.—The Official Ga- zette this morning publishes an Imperial rrsseript countersigned by Premier Kat - sura, in which the Emperor says: "The east and the west are dependent upon one another for the promotion of their mutual welfare, and on this ac- count we should endeavor to cultivate the friendship of other nations. At the same time it is highly important in these post-bellum days that we should be unit- ed with other countries in advancing the industries. In this we shall be acting in accordance with the eaered traditions of our forefathers and our glorious nation- al history. We trust that our loyal sub- jects will assist us in glorifying the vir- tue of our forefathers' Tokio, Oct. 10.—The Imperial rescript published to -day, and which is intended to be addressed to the foreign powers as well as to the people of Japan, became public property because of an address made to -day by Premier Katsura before the prefectural governors, assembled in this city. The Premier outlined the Gavenunent's economic policy and em- phasized its determination to reduce un- productive expenditures. Speaking as Premier, Marquis Kasten said the rescript must be considered a definite command from the Emperor for the people of Japan to demonstrate. their intention of following closely every form of economy and take a position be- fore the world as a peaceful and conser- vative people. v•m WO "''' EN EXCLUDED. TelFY CANNOT ENTER BRITISH PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. Women Spoke on the Floor of the House of Commons—Gained Entry by Strategy—Hundred Thousand People Gathered About Parliament Houses. London, Oct. I9.—Tile climax of the suffragette campaign was reached to- night, when an enormous mob hemmed in Parliament and stopped the traffic in all streets leading to Westminster. For more tban three hours the crowds scuffled good naturediy with the police, interfered with theatre -goers, broke A LonJoir cable: A great crowd sur- rounded the Bow Street Pollee Court this morning, when the women suffrag- lits and the men without work who were arrested yesterday during the disorders in front of the )louses of Parliament were arraigned. in the throng were many women wearing badges with the words, "Votes For Women.' The three leaders of the militant suf- fragists, Mrs. Drummond. Mrs. Pank- hurst and Mise t`rystabel .Pankhurst, de- manded a trial by jury. Their eases were postponed until Oct. 21. The pollee superintendent testified that traffic had been disorganized for four hours, and that eight policemen had been injured by the demonstrators. Mies Pankhurst muted as attorney for Mrs. Drummond. and Mrs. Pankhurst, and her cross-exannnation of Superin- tendent WelLs furnished much amuse- ment for the spectators. Most of the other prisoners were ordered to give bonds for their good behaviour, but preferred to go to jail instead. When one of them was offered her freedom on her personal reeognizanees she raid to the presiding Magistrate: "You won't get any of my money. I will go to prison. Down with Asquith!" Another declared that she had not ob- structed the police. Far from it. It was the police who had obstructed her. windows and disorganized things gen- erally in the centre of London. The heroine of the day was Mrs. Travers Symons, formerly secretary to James Keir Hardie. the Socialist and Independent merLer of Parliament, who reached the door of the House of Commons by rategy. The House was solemnly debasing a bill to prevent children from smoking cigarettes when the women leash: d past the doorkeeper to a positon hi front of the Speaker's chair and shouted shrilly: "Leave off discussing children and talk about the women." Three officials seized Mrs. Symons and carried her out bodily. She was then led to the outer door and dismissed. As a result of the coup an order was issued that hereafter women should not be ad- mitted to the building on any pretext whatever, and in future the historic grille will not screen feminine spectators. The appeal issued by the suffragettes a few days ago for fifty thousand per- . sons to help them "rush" Parliament at 7.30 o'clock this evening was the most successful stroke yet. , Not less than twice that number responded to the call, and nine -tenths of these were young people who came to see the fun. There were also a few hundred of the unemployed and their sympathizers. Parliament was in a state of siege. A close triple line of police was drawn around the three sides of the square in front of the building. The yard be- tween the gates swarmed with pollee, and two hundred guarded the terrace in the rear against assault by water, which the women twice attempted. A small force of police boats also patrolled the Thames approaches. All the mounted police in London and the suburbs had been mobilized at this eentre, and loads of hay were unstacked in the streets for the horses. The whole police force, to- gether with cavalry, infantry and mar- ines, numbering more than 5,000, was kept busy in restraining the pushing, struggling masses, and especially about Trafalgar Square, where the Nelson monument looked dawn upon dense crowds in all directions, with 'busses, motor cars and cabs, mostly filled with sightseers, trying to thread their way through. The police kept the steets adjoining the house of Commons clear; else- where they .endeavored to the best of their ability to keep the people moving. The crowd cheered, sang songs and hooted, giving voice to all the sareast'ic remarks that a 'London crowd is capable of. ''These were aimed in a semi -good - /AM ed emi-good-natin.hd manner at the suffragettes, who, dietingui:shed by their orange sashes, swarmed everywhere, ceistr ebeeing t''aacts. MURDER SUSPECTED. Suspicious Circumstances Connect- ed With Death of J. J. Hughes. AN HEIRESS K1 NAPPED. TORN BY FORCE FROI'1 HER GRAND- MOT11ER'S HANDS. May Be Work of 11Rother--Seizure is Made in Sixty-fifth Street, Chicago, After Machine Had Trailed Woman and Child. Chieago, Oct. lie—While she was walk- ing beside her grandmother yesterday afternoon, efargaret 1'ranoes`Mitchell, d years old, heiress to $200,000, was seized by kidnappers, They threw her into ,an auton,obile and drove madly through the streets of the city and the surroiuiding country towns for four hours before they finally disappeared, taking the child with them. Robert H, Mitchell, father of the child, an employee of the city law department, is convinced that his daughter was stolen by persons hired by his wife, from whom he separated three months ago. The entire police force of the city was thrown into the cause, but at midnight they had made but little progress with the mystery beyond a clew that the kid- nappers probably had taken an inter- urban electric to Joliet. The detectives also failed to find Mrs. Mitchell, who has been followed from one hotel to another anring the last four weeks in an effort to servo upen her no- tice of .the beginning of divorce proceed- ings by her hueband. Attempt at Kidnapping Feared. An attempt at kidnapping had been expected for some tivie. A close watch was kept upon the little girl at all times, and the attack finally was made in broad daylight within sight of dozens of per- sons. Since the separation from his wife Mit- chell has made his home with hie mother, Mrs. J. P. elitebeil, 4,829 St. Lawrence avenue, and has been sending his daugh- ter to the St. Xavier convent school at Forty-ninth street and Evans avenue. Her grandmother made a practice of calling for her every afternoon. and yes- terday took her from the school about 4 o'clock and started to visit a friend on Sixty-fifth street. As she boarded. a Cottage Grove avenue car she noticed an automobile that had been standing oppo- site the school was following them, and again as she left the car at Sixty-third street she noticed that the occupants, three men, were watching her closely. After nimuging cars on Wentworth avenue she lost track of the automobile, but she had walked only a hundred feet on Sixty-fifth street when it dashed up almost beside her. A Niagara Falls despach: Believing that the man 'whose body was found in the lower Niagara on October 3, with the initials J. J. H. tattooed on his left forearm, was murdered, Coroner W. L. Thompson called he attention of Chief Mains of the On- tario police, and he will communicate with Buffalo in an effort to bare the matter investigated. The body was yes- terday identified, as that of Joseph J. Hughes. a sheet metal worker of Buffalo. The man carried a handsome pearl -handled Smith .0 Weason revolver, the chamber of which was filled with rim -rife cartridges. while the revolver was of centre -fire type. An effort had been made to fire each cartridge. A deep gash was found on the man's head. YORK LOAN LANDS. New York Capitalists Said to Have Made Suggestions. Toronto, Oet. 19.---A proposition is said to be before the liquidators of the York Loan Company by which the entire amount of unsold lands of that institu- tion may be turned over to a New York syndicate. During the past ten days or so representatives of New York capital- ists have been in the city, and after in- vestigating the nature of the property held by the unfortunate company it is understood their proposals have taken definite shape. The lands and proper- ties in question are mostly in the west end, and are generally looked upon as favorable residential sites. It was stated last night that the same capitalists had practically secured a large amount of property in the east end for residences and factory sites. ICE CREAM SUIT. efforts to learn if the children was with the couple, but Trite unable to learn arn9- thing directly antil, he says, about ;five tit^cavies ago, when he met his wife ekt State street in, company with the span Thomas. He followed them, and succeed- ed in calling her aside for a few min- utes heated eonversation, She told hien frankly exough that she was living at a downtown hotel, and, upon his re- peated demands for information concern- n,g the child, deelaa•ed that the girl was,. care in the care of a colored woman whom elle formerly had employed as Of xua id. 1iit'.clrell knew this woman. was mar- ried and lived on the south side, and, after some difficulty succeeded in find Ing her and persuading her to give up Margaret. The mother's discovery of her loss led her in turn to seek to gain possession of the child. To acomplish this she went to the Mitchell hoarse and declared her penitence, asserting that she was willing to return to her husband. The reunited household was not at peace for a moment. The husband sus- pected that the woman intended to steal the girl and watched her so constantly that there were frequent quarrels, which continued until Mrs. Mitchell do a fit of temper made such a scene that a patrol wagon was called to the house. At the end of two days she left the Mitchell home when she found that Mar- garet had been taken away. At that time it is said she threatened to lied, the girl and kill her unless she was given per- manent custody of her. Child Seized by Force. `One of the two men in the tonneau sprang vitt and seized Margaret around the waiati;': she told the police, "and threw her to the other man. I tried to hold onto her, but she was torn away and then I tried to reach into the ma- chine and seize her hand. "I stepped on the edge of the running board of the ear and the man who was just getting in pushed his hand in my face and knocked me down. "I screamed and I could hear Maagarsb scream, but the men were trying to keep their hands over her mouth. Some people tried to follow the automobile, but it went so fast we last track of it going east on Sixty-fifth street. Men who had seen the kidnapping as- sisted Mrs. Mitchell in going to the En- glewood police station on Wentworth avenue, near Sixty-fourth street, only two blocks away, and there she told her story between sobs of grief. Can Sell It On Sunday If Consumed On Premises. London despatch: Magistrate Love this morning gave a decision of the greatest interest in regard to the selling of ice cream on Sunday by Greek restaurant keepers, when he held that Peter Man- ilas was perfectly within his rights as long as he sold ice cream to De consumed on his premises. The court, however, fined Mr. Mendes $5 and casts, amount- ing to 83.85, for selling ice cream on Sunday to parties who took it away from the store to eat it. The ease was a test one, and excited the greatest inter- est among confectioners, eviro have a strong feeling., against the Greeks for selling on Sunday. Mr. Mendes has an- nounced his intention of appealing against the court's decision in regard to the Inc.i Search for the Motive. While the police at once began their search for the automobile, the number of which-9,480—had beeai caught by a wit- ness, they also made an inquiry into the affairs of the Mitchell family, which sup- plied the motive for the kidnapping. Ten years ago Mitchell, who was a Chicago boy, was travelling in North Carolina, when he met Margaret Trimmier, an heir- ess and the belle of the town of Spar- tansburg. Two years before her uncle, Frank '.lrimmier, who owned much pro- perty in the town, had died, leaving a fortune estimated at $200,000. The provision of this uncle's will was that the income from this was to be given to his favorite niece, "folly," as she was called, but that in the event of her marriage and the birth of a child, the title to the estate was to be vested entirely in the child upon conning of age. Mitchell's Sister Bartholin's Victim. There was a romantic elopment to Chicago, and the city shortly afterward was stirred by the sensational minder of Mitchell's sister, Miss Minnie Mit- chell, by William llortholin, who later committed suicide in Iowa, after it had been learned that he murdered the girl to keep secret the fact that he already Lead killed his mother. To escape the notoriety created by this case the Mitchells took up a life of travel, the wife's income of $10,000 a year furnishing ample funds for a life of idleness, which did not cease until re- cently, been up to the last summer they were together mueh of the time, but three months ago the husband left his wife and the little girl at Asheville, N. Ci., as he was compelled to return to Chicago. There was a second motive in his leaving her, it is said, as she had in- sisted upon being permitted to spend much of her time in the company of an old girlhood friend from Spartanburg. Tile slight difference that occurred at teat time was not repaired by corres- pondence, and Mitchell says he began to hear reports that his wife was trav- eling through the south with the man to whose presence he lad objected. This roan is said to bear the name of Thomas. Meets With With Other Mani. The husband made one of two futile NO CLEAN SHIRT. AFTER THE NORTH POLE. Has Dr. Cook Reached the Muck Coveted Spot When Last Heard From Was Mak- ing Dash For It, But May Have to Send Rescue Ship, After Him. New York, Oct. 19.—Dr. Frederick E., Cook, the architect, explorer, is believed. by explorer Anthony Fiala to be close to the north pole, if he has not almady reached that target of many historical. expeditious. No word has been heard from Dr. Cook since 'liatelt 17 last:. He was then on the polar ice north of Cape Thomas Hub- bard, about 560 miles from the pole. He was the only white man, with several la'squimau..c and a big equipment of dogs: sleds and, supplies. When he wrote then he was on the eve of making a des'era dash for the pole over the ice. Dr. Cook's wife and two children live at 670 Bushwiek avenue, Brooklyn. Mrs.Cook is not alarmed about her husband, and is confident be will return in his own time safely. Dr. Cook's attempt to rea& the pole was unpremeditated. A year ago last spring he started on a hunting expedi- tion with John R. Bradley, a wealthy New York man, in the Celoueester schooner John R. Bradley, Dr. Cook be- ing in command. At the hutting trip end in Aug. 27, 1907, the schooner start- ed from Aunertek, on the northwest coast of Greenland, back for `Taw York. Almost up to the last it was-apeetcd Dr. Cook ,would return with the party, but he decided to remain and, make a one-man try for the pole. One of the crew of the schooner, Rudolphe Franke, volunteered to stay at Annortok and watch the supplies. Franke has just got back. While at Annortok he received a letter from Dr. Cook by Esquimaux messengers, dated March 17th, ''The Polar Sea north of Cape Hubbard," in which Dr. Cook re- ported all well, good supplies and his dogs and his Esquimaux aides in fine shape. Dr. Cook ended with "(food -bye, and now for the pole." Franke says: "I believe that every- thing is 0. K. with Dr. Cook, but of eourse something must be done next year for his relief." Members of the Peary ChM and the Explorers' Club have for some 'weeks been discussing the advisability of fit- ting out an expedition to hunt for Dr. Cook. No relief measures can be taken, however, before next spring: Anthony Fiala, on reading, Dr: Cook's letter last night, said: "It is very good news this letter brings from Dr. Cook. It places him .o March 17th, 1908, on the Polar ice, north of Cape Hubbard, and on his way to the Pole. "If Croker land is where is is supposed to be, and turns out to be a chain of islands, as has been suggested, then Dr. Cook will have the advantage of a high northern base, and next summer we may receive the news of his successful reach- ing of the pole. "I)r. Cook's march from Etah to Cape Hubbard, across Ellesmere land and up to Nansen strait in fourteen days was a splendid achievement in itself, and the brave doctor deserves good fortune on the ice pack." •P Resulted In Prosecution and Liquor Selling Conviction. A Toronto despatch: Ellory McComb, restaurant keeper, 160 York street, was convicted yesterday of selling beer with- out a license. Several witnesses testi- fied to having bought beer at McOomb's place and consumed it on the premises. Abraham Myers, who claimed to have roomed at the McComb establishment, said the traffic had been carried on for a long time. Myers acknowledged to Mr. Robin- ette that he was the instigator of the prosecution.. "From a perfectly honest desire to en- force the law," added Col. Denison, but the witness frankly confessed his mot- ive was revenge. "I went to him and begged him with tears in my eyes," said Myers, "to let me have a clean shirt so that I could go to the synagogue on the Day of Atonement, but he turned me out of doors.' Myers admitted that McComb claimed rent, and held on to his clothes as secur- ity. There were three charges against Mc- Comb, but two were withdrawn. ider- tence was postponed for a week to ena- ble McComb to be ready with his fine, as the law allows no delay when sen- tence is pronounced. BALLOONISTS SAFE. Spanish and United States Aero- nauts Found and Rescued. Cuxhaven, Oct. 19.—The Spanish balloon Catilla, one of the three miss- ing contestants in the race for the International cup that was started from Berlin Sunday, dropped into the ocean six miles north of Heligoltend this morning. A fishing boat Turas in the vicinity and sent out a small boat to the rescue. Montena, the pilot, and his assistant Robor, were picked up and taken back to the fishermen. Later in the day they were landed here. Berlin ,Oct. 19.—N. H. Arnold and Harry J. Hewat, the two American aeronauts of North Adams, Mass., who were rescued from their balloon, the St. Louis, in the North Sea yes- terday arrived here to -day. They ex- pressed themselves as most apprecia- tive of the kindness received on every hand. Mr. Hewat's right hand was badly lacerated by one of the anchor ropes of the balloon, but otherwise neither of them sustained any harm. CHILDREN TORTURED Stories of Sufferings of Little phans In Illinois. Or - New York, Oct. 19.—A despatch to The Herald from Chicago says: Rev. Charles 'Virden, agent of the State Board of Charities, in an address to the State Conference of Charities yesterday told of having found children who had been placed in homes throughout the State tortured with hot irons, stubbed with toasting forks and .scissors, limbs broken, hair torn out by the roots, lashed until black and blue from head to foot, faces eut and scarred and eyes blinded. In three years ten persons had been sent to the penitentiary for abusing children. A. girl of seven, having only one par- ent living, was in the home of a family at Alton, Ill. The evidence showed that this child was covered with bruises. Her feet) was burned, her hands were hacked with a red-hot knife and the sight of one eye was destroy- ed. The foster -mother changed with inflinting these wounds, was fined for assault and battery and will be tried under the cruelty act. , KISSED HIS WIFE. Connecticut Man Arrested Under Old Blue Law. New York, Oct. 19.— A despatch to The Times from Waterbury, Conn.,. Bays: Dennis Burns, of Bridgeport, and. his wife, made themselves objection- able on a trolley car running from Bridgeport to Waterbury late last night. Because the man insisted on hugging and kissing the woma12. dramatically, to the disgust of the passengers, he was stopped at Nauga tuck and arrested under an old blue ls•w which says a man may not kiss even his wife in such a. ptiblie and ostentatious manner. Judge Hungerford did not Bare to. entertain the Marne of wife kissing on Sunday, and t urns was fined for disorderly conduct enough to make a total with costs of nearly $20. Burns justified his conduct by the tateanent, "I love ray wife dearly and have a right to kiss her, law or no law." e.s THREW BOMB. Trouble Over tie -Strike of Nevi York Choffeurs. New York, Oct. 19.—A bomb made its first appearance to -day in the struggle' between the New York Taxicab Coma parry and its striking chauffeurs, wltioie has been in progress for more than * week. While no one was injured ani no serious damage '•vas done, still the controversy, . which from the first has been marked with violent disorders, lute by this fact reached a stage where it is likely that the sternest repressive meas- ures will be required. The bomb was thrown early to -day into the big enelo- sure in Eighth avenue, between Fifty- eighth and Fifty-seventh street, where 250 taxicabs belonging to the Neve' York Taxicab Company were stored for . the tight.