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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1903-01-22, Page 2T THOUSANDS FACE FAL1INE IN NORTHERN SWEDEN. Sterving T housands Live on Pine Bark and Iceland Moss. London, Jan. 20.—TAegrnre from 8teekholm, Strode'', confirm the ,l'e. trimming aonounte of the femme in Northern Sweden. About 700011 persons are affected by the fondue, which extends from tho 01st to the 87th degree north latitude, mid from the Uuif of Bothula and the Dundee border far into the tutee - lar, The starving people are eating pine bare, whin is dried, grouud to powder, mixed wJ'h 'towed Ice- land most and made Into 0 kind o! famine bread. Coincident with the failure of the crops Is the extreme scarcity or fh. The fah ermen return from their expodi,tione empty-handed. Wren Ptarmigan grouse of the northern regions—usually found un great numbers in the etriokon die- trlet, have almost completely dis- appeared. It Is estimated that the expendi- ture of about $th.l00,000 will he oeeessary to flare the population from decimation. Thus far le00,- 000 has been subsorlued, of wh,eh /atm over $12,e00 was rent by 'Sidon in the Un+le(I State'. Title amount (1000 not iuolu(1(1 the money ucclsrary to Dave the cattle of supply real for the spring rowing,. The peacoat are making pathetic eaerlficee to avert the extermina- tion of the hardy, northern cattle. Dn provl000 times of scareily good folder was obtainable by mixing reindeer moor and acme bark. Now thle lel not available and Jldely olaop- pevl twlge of birch, willow and ash are eubstltuted. The mixture le boiled and fed to the cattle warm, but It it found that milk of cattle that have been ted thlr iu eubjoot to typhoid fever, and disease Is certain to [pread ualess relict l0 obtained. The oltuat;on threatens a return of the famine of 187)1. A epactal commissioner of the Sweetish Government, who lou Just returned from the toene of dletrese, urger the neoeoslty for the adopt- ing of plans to abate the (betimes. Ills report has caused a most pain- ful lmpreosion, and will, It to hoped, enhance the natlon'0 efforts to pro- vide remedial measures. Up to the present 1,000 carload+ valued at over $100,000, repreeent the total quantity of provisions and fodder shipped to tho famine - stricken area. DISBROW ON TRIAL FOR POSTER'S MURDER. Sketch of the Now Celebrated to D'mnle" Lawrence Case. Riverebead, I. L, report; The )I1ry La the trial. of Louie( A, Dis- brow, charged with kriling Clar- ence Footer at Timm Buy on the night of June 'tit, was completed yesterday and the trial progree0- e d rapidly. Clarence Foster and Sarah Law- rence, whore friends called her "Dimple,' mot violent deaths on the aIgbt of June WO last, lu Tana lay, near Good Ground, L. I. Their bodies were found five duyr later In the shallow watery of the bay. They were teeth young, strong and expert ewlmmers. The theory of acoldental drowning seemed untes- able. Louie A. Disbrow, who was known to have spent the evening of June with with Foster and ells Lawrence, was mysteriously 'Mim- ing. He rentalaed m.emlug for 20 days, while detectives searched for him. Sarah Lawrence was 17 years' old, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J ohn 'r. Lawrence, of Ilempotead, L, L i Foster was a stalwart fellow, 22 years old. He wail married, but he was noted among the young men about (last Ground for his popular- ity among women. Dabrow came d a good family, but was estrang- ed from them on account of a marriage contracted fire years ago. He was known am rather wild, but was popular with Ills set. D1.brow had been attentIre to "Dimple" Lawrence for more than a year. She seethed to lose Inter-, est 1n blur somewhat after elle set Fouler. Nevertheke', Disbrow con- tinued to go out with her as often ss she woad let him. Oa the eight of the tragedy, IMobrow, Foster and "INmp.e' Lawrence drove to the Hampton Phlee C,ub and had ripper. 'rhoi) they drove to Tunnel u hotel. where Disbrow stayed. witch le one mile nevus Tian& Bay from the Ocaao Clew House, where the Lawrences were staying. The theory of the defense le that Fowler undertook to row the girl home, but they had some Bort of dleagreement or accident :n the boat and so fell overboard and were drowned. Against this are the !note that both were expert swimmers and that the water of the bay to nonvhere more than three or four feet deep. Disbrow text morning left Good Grognd early and went to East- port. There he met a friend to whom he made mention of having hod a fight with Foster the n'ght before. Then IMabrow disappeared,' and was not appreh'nded for near- ly three weeks. Subsequently, It was learned that he tried to got passage on a schooner to Hayti; oleo that on the day after the tragedy he called on hie wire, whom he had not seen for several years, bade her good-bye and said he was going away for a long time. In Me opening addreu Diatrlot Attorney Smith said that he would elbow there was a wound over Foe- , titer eye when the body was found„ are( that death was due to ooncus- slcm of the brain, caused by a blow. We theory, however, was not borne out by the evidence of the wltnesees far the proeecothn, err-' eras of whom testified that there Was hardly any perseptlble woand' rM lit• bead, On the District Attornoyei at- tempting to bring i'o tertiwouy re- ' logien to the death of "Dimple" Law- rouce, Juotice 1laddox ruled that It sea. not adwl.e ale, the prieouer being only under Indictment for the lilllug of Foster. Rieeralde, L. 1., later; Nothing more rewuine to be toed aguwrt Louts A. Disbrow. Deputy elm•Lfr were utwble to /erre a subpoena on Miss P,xtre,d,, where Lai lr Staying at Atlantic C.ty, and her eveleuce, taken at the latl:minary hearing last Ju,y was udmitted and read to the jury, Nothing 1001 far produced in the trial has made so groat an fin- preeslon on the twe,ve mon That wits easily seem by the.? clime atten- tion. The District Attorney swore a dep- uty sheriff who had been to Atiantic C1.y and failed to nerve Mier leeareall, and Judge Maddox rued that the de- poLion was udmldelele, aud tiruoree it read. Disbrow's face turned pale when Ude decision wee given, and, an the toatinioey proceeded, everyone con- ncoted with the defence showed evl- dcnee of grave concern. *Jun tel with A'ostcr. 111N t' aroalt overheard the quar- rel between Disbrow and Foster iu Dleurow'i rotate, at the Terunh hour°, wise shu reed her fete'. were board- ing. In graphic lienguuge Duo der corded to the Mag,etrate al. Good Ground the occurrence of the futal night. • "I was awakened at three o'clock in the murnsng," she said, "by voices stylug "Good-ey, goo,i-by, and sty goo(} -by jo the hid,' Tuen 1 heard steps go down stake. 1t was Foster.' Tien 1 heard him come up agate and sty to Disbrow, '1 can't leave this.' Deleeuw s voice said, 'Can you look m+• In the face and ens that?' Then there wore angry words nod eound0 of cum one jumping on the floor. There were mutterings and an- gry sonde, and I heard Disbrow say loudly, 'By Cod, 1'11 settle this In the "Next I heard Foster sty, '1f I get the boat will you go with us?' Die - brow geld 'Yoe: Foster nub I, 'Will you meet in at the wharf?' Disbrow said, 'Yes.' Then I heard the voice of Mise Lawrence out on the lawn sty, 'What 411 Louis sty ; wI 1 he oomo with us, U we get the boat 1' " T' ue the story was rend. It was the testimony of a refined young women. as they all knew, rind It was the only testimony they hod herd which' seemed to connect Disbrow with the de th of the two young people. The testimony wee read by Magi* trete Fester, before wb0m It lied been token lost rammer. When he had finl!hed, .Tu lore of eidn• rrke to the Dletrict Attorney, asking him to pro• owed as rapidly as possible and call the next witness Proee0 'ton 1leete. "east a moment, Your Honor;' send Mr. Seethe and alter a brief consul• tattoo with hie 0r'f.tint ceen.r(1 he turned to the Judge and Bald: "N tela eloeor, the people rest." ]hen Judge Maddox seemed aeon - !shell at the ebrupt closing of the prosecution. It caused a great stir In th courtroom. Mr. MI ee Immedt 'tely moved that Disbrow be deacherged on the grated that the people hod fel'ed to establish the rorpnr dellen, had not esteht:shed n Cele etrrrft enonah to hold 111m anti had felled to thew a motive. Tho motloo woe dented, and 1.t . Mi ou elated that lie wt I be ready to proceed with the detuuoe in the morning. Disbrow wont dglootedly back to Itis ccil. For the first time people In the courtroom said to one another,, "It looks 110 though ho might be COO - Vie ted after a11." 1 Accu,ed hlan'e Cunl'eeem. Wil1Ltm Walton, one of the prorw- Cutlou r most important WItienue0, 10)10wed with his recital of Die- brow irbrow • partial tuutssrlon to him, noun atter lar. Lawrence bad left the mute(. ile told how lie met Die- brow ubuut ten o'clock Iu the maru- lug at Eldrhlgu'e Hotel, in blood Ground, and hew, atter having a few drinks Dtebrow irked him to go with lhlm to Quogue. Tele was the morn - tug ))1101 Foster and "Dimp;o" had dioappe0red. "What did Dlobrow say and how did he act during tete night?" "Weil," slid Walton, "about three in the morning' he woke up and maid, 11117, I m heartbroken.' Then he told UM Foster and the girl had been to- gether the eight before and they had lead trouble." "Whore did he say they were?" At the Hamptoe Pineal Club and at Turned's. He meld Foster called blm down and told him lie and the girl were going away together and wanted to say goodby to hMin. Foe - ter and the girl said they loved each other uud tees were going away," "Anything elre?" asked Mr. Smith. "Yee; Disbrow said after that he and Foster had a tight down ou the beach and Feiner grabbed hhu and choked him teed threw him down." "What did he tell you became of Foster and Biles Lawreuae 7" Walton simply elwok Ills head. Attorney M11es, couneel for Louie A. Disbrow. charged trill) having ouused the death of Clarence Foster, opened the ease to -day for the dev- isees in an address lasting an hour. Jls said he would prove that the ;wake on the body of Foster and 'Dimple" Lawrence were caused by ,fade 'sed a stake witch bad been taken from Tian& Boy, where the bodies were found. The filet wituers for the defence war EW.011e H, Smith, who tootlflad to the [lading of a stake la the bay. Although Mr. Miler presented wit - news to show that there was no cut on Foster', forehead, yet he In- troduced one witness to explain It If the Jury should betters it were there. Harold Squires au express- man, testified that an the day be- fore Faeter's death, he talked with Foster at the railroad station. He weld that Footer Insulted him and that he struck Footer a blow on the head, just above the right eye. The blow knocked him ngalnst the ticket office and bumped his head. Dr. W. A. Scored the Dtobrow fam- ily physician, declared that In April he was called by Disbrow to attend to a fractured shoulder and that he set the break. Ile was called again May 7011, hearth!, and found that Dis- brow hied Injured the 'Moulder again while It was growing together, and that he had a broken rib. Disbrow was very weak and run down at that time. Ills arm wag then In such te condition as to be practically use - lea for three months. Dr. George H. Donahoe, after hearing a des- cription of the fracture of the shoul- der, wild that the young man would not regain the full strength of that nem for from four to eat months. This evidence was introduced to ,aces that Disbrow was physically unable to overcome Foster without the nue of a weapon. DROWNED WHILE SKATING. on Gare Way ant! Tweet,, Perwtns went Into the 1Vrter. Washington report; While a large crowd war skating on the bathing basic near the Waehington nuns Meat this eveuing the Ice suddenly gave way and precipitated twenty or more p. wooers lotto the water. Three perOoual are known to have lost their neve, and It to possible other deaths may have been caused by the break- ing of the ice. Mies Jessie C. Thomas, a young woman, twenty years of age, employed am it clerk In the Bureau of Ethnology, died at the Emergency Hoepltal, The Manton of the two other dead persons are un- known an yet. Eight other persons were treated at the Emergency Hue- pltal and recovered. Later,—Th • other two were Identi- fied as Arthur Wasserbaeh, an em- ployee of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and Henry G. Hamill, a clerk In the War Department. A VA. UABLE DOG, Swallowed Diamond Ring — Now Worth ,One Thouennd Uollare. New Yel�l( Jan. 00.—Nero, a Great Dane owned by William Oppehheim, a dress goods dealer, of No. 1B0 blest 71st sweet, le ordinarily worth $. 01, On Monday night he suddenly a0- quired u value of $1,000 Tho Oppenheims had some guests at dinner on that night and when the coffee was passed Mrs. Oppen- h' lm cathed In Nero, and showed the guests how cleverly Nero could catch ernck•re which she threw to him. Then ole accidentally let her $S0t) dlomond ring slip. Nero caught that, too. A veterinary eurgeon, Geo. Cohen, tiled elx different stomach pumps on Nero, but none of them troubled Nero or brought out the ring. R ,SLBLRY ENIIAGED. Said to be Betrothed to Mhos Alice Carr Channoev. Loterrille, Ky., Jan. 20.—A letter received here to -day from Mrs. Jos. Armstrong, who Ie at present in Vevey, 3wltserland, says the en- gagement Is reported there of Mrs. Alice Carr Chauncey, formerly of Lenlerllle, but now refolding In Cas- tle. abnes "'anew and turd laeebery. RESTRICTION ON MINING COAL. Testimony of Men Who Complain Against the Rules. Philadelphia, 1'11., Jan. e0.—Testi- neon e► memuer or the union netll many regarding the practica... ark_ tined $L for working one night out of Ing of the mines, the dockage rye_ Wreaker time. He testified that bee fore tom and 6 the union ruler rertrictin , sent earn;; trout then until the resent00 tho miner'0 labor wee given before eti'ike he had been restricted to els the strike comml'sion yesterday. George Maxey, a member of the un- ion at Forest City, tertifixl to the general good health of mluer0, and then toucued upon the car restrlo- lloe rule. He said he had talked with the head of Ilia local union about the restriction, and complained that he had to lose much Uwe to let mei) be- llied him In work catch up to bin. The lender had replied that the ramp thing had been done to hint, and he had to put up with It. He did twt,jhink It right. John Mitchell (Wiwi: "fen'( tide re- striction for the purpose of making au even distribution of the care?" "I don't know. Possibly it bo." "It you (&'ere given more than an- other men, wouldn't you injure him?" "Not 11 he wag nut au capable mac as I." "Could the mine each day hotrt more coal than It doer?" "I think It maid." In renewer to further questions by Mitchell, Maxey said ouch a system restricted the output of the mines and also made good workmen lore time to let poor workers oateh up with them. Patrick Mitchell Bald that for thir- teen sear' he has been a miner with the Pennglyanls company. He bad or seven. Practically, ho said, he could work only half a day beam* he could not get the laborer, to load more than the restricted am- ber of oars, The witness further teotl(led that he ,was orltloleed by a member of the grievance committee bee:tugs 10 got out too many cars and Its bad replied that he had a family to aup- purl and naturally wanted to earn all he could. He sold that the res- triction rule was probably made te have an even distribution of oars, but that some miners either did not or could not work their full quota. Ho sold he gets all the care he wants now and one day Met week him 411ft mlned cars lr.eteaof the six, to twelve they had been reetrleted. Chairman Gray, who had Ley absent from the hearlago of tin onmmloian for about u week, me account of illness, was preseut at toilay'0 semeiotic Counsel for the Erie Company, wiech control. tea Hillside Coal and Iron Compete,' and the Penneylranla Ooal Com- pany, Introduced an evidence ser - talo extracts from reports of State mine inspector0, tending to .how that most mine accidents are dei to the negligence of the workless themselves, MISSIONARIES RED FROM FEZ. Armed Mountaineers Menaced Them With Threats of Violence. London, Jan. 20.—Letters receiv- ed hers recently from Fee, Moros- oo, says the rapidly growing anti- Eatopean sentlmeat necessitated the hurried departure from that city of the 0. 8. missionary, Mr. Simpson, and his wide and three English wome0. For two days prior to their departure the wo- met) were Openly cursed In the otrmotr, the Moore shouting as they passed: "What's thin filth la ler etreetiee' It ken the American holomionatbe from Mequlnes arrived at Fee, the Moots exclaimed: "Oh. God, we thought they were sending the ,arced dogs from us, but they ass owning back!' Subsequently a hand of armed mountaineers met the woam and wheeled around gond curved them Is 0130)4)5• The m1001ouaries were tipe- clally urged from authoritative quarters to leave ao.soon ae pooe)bla Mr. and Mrs, Simpson Intend to tee - main at Tangier fur the present, StTTLIN6 WITH SUFFEHEHS@ a. T, R. Has Compromised MCDY Wansteal Clams, German (lodger's Method 01' Enfor- cing Orders, Puerto Cabella, Jan. 20.—The Ger- man emitter Vlneta at @unmet last night fired a shell at La Vlgla, the fort crowning the Mlle behind this port. The shell, which was fired bee clause men were believed to be la the fort, exploded without causing _TAANGE FACTS BRoUGHT OUT damage. The people of Puerto Ca - A Montreal despatch nays: One t,0 Io were at a UAW last night ti Ger- of tit most remarkable incidents uuderrtund the •ciao of the man emitter. To -day, Maweree, com- modore Scheller sent the following communication to the Venezuelan aatteuritles through WLllum fL Vo,kmar, acting Awerieau Covell here: "Referring to wy letter of the bth Instant, I nave to Boom yes that I fired a shell at Fort La VlgIs otale of the datum department of because, against my ,chick prublb- the railway have been boxy set - ed the presence Ilam been °beer*- Olio: Malmo wish the Injured, and ed there of unauthorized per0ous. with tho fumf.ier of the dead. Al- Judging from reporte there persons though settlement ham not a0 yet l were soldiers." From liform.ttlea been toads ht any of the more statement et aeries, cases, the amount paid out the German Commodore that there gathered to -day the to the thawed has already amount. were unauthorised persons 14) the fort le lncorreet. In connectlun with the recent die- a0troue accident on the Grand Trunk hallway at Wanstead 1e the unprecedented manner In wit h circumetanee5 hese pinewood them- relemo lhet tended to cut down the am0uut the railway would have to pay out In damages. Ever 'duce the day of the accident the offl- el. according to the statement made by an official of the elu,m0 department, to over $00,000. The moist remarkable circum- KEPI' WARM WITH $5 BILLS Cullom. in connection teeth the ret- tiement for damage. is that no- oording to Canadian law in the cite° of death only relatives of the fleet degree In the ascendaut or dueeendaut order can claim •.lum- ag00. On this account, In the cameo brought of the only two coupled who roe( day to serve ton days for stealing ,heath together, Mr. and Mrs. W. y Stewart, and Or. and Mom. Delmar- 0031 to Pelham Manor, which be maw des, no claim whatever ell have he took to keep Ids fuml.y from frees - to be pak1. Atter inquiring dill- ln& had his legs bound with rolls of gently, the 011)0)010 of the cow - COO. Warden John Plne found pony have found that neither had $100, In ', any family, and that In both cages $ and jz biter, dropped to the parents had died. Had either 1110 right log, while on the other Ing c0npM hid any chtdren, the dam- were 120 $. bOt.. ages would lave been very Weary. Aeked why be didn't buy coal with Of the injured still modeled to hie money, he gild: "Tia dealers the hospital at London, the most wouldn't roll it to aq w t stole Hee x01110110 case, as far at least as t 0teo13 raid he didn't betters to poeslble damage+ are concerned, is banks, and, as lie had to carry the that of W. Quinn, of Oakrllo, who money, thought bent to use It ae s who le on hie warrftnd�mangoliaduehie ttiletmoney against und toorhie legs dwihth heeds badly burned, and it 10 ve'7 ' loather +leaps doubtful whether he will ever be able to provide for till family. The officiate of the oompany state that, with the exception of two (mere, they were able to make an :micelle settlement at once, In the eases of the serious damages payment will be made after the official report of the acadent is newel by Mr. C. M. Hays, general manager. Strapped Money Around Lege-Jalked tor Mealleg (oaI. White Plains, N. Y., Jan. 20.—Joe epi) (toted], ], of Pelham, W110 wnc rouge to the White Plaine jell te- Infantile, Indeed. Indignant Customer—Hee, waiter 1 You sold this was young chicken broth Walter—Made exit ret the water we b'Iled the eggs in, sir 1 Chicken coulee n't be uo ycurger than that, could It 7 $3)000 FOR HIS BODY Notorious Desperado Killed In Battle With Federal Of Iclats. South McAlester, I. T., report; The hot) of a bandit killed in a fight with United Stales deputy marshals et Spiro, atter he had slain Depot, Samuel Barrel), hae been fully Iden. tined as that of Samuel Morley, for whose capture $3,000 reward wee oetets.nding. Morley had killed three men before his Inst bottle. At San Antonio, Tex" several years ago, he killed a bctrhir; at Chiekaeha he killed another man, and recently he killed Sheriff Jacob Hartman, of CI Reno, Okla.