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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 8

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4 if MS i THE DETROIT REE PRESS 8 SECOND SCHOONER JK ZELAYA SAYS inest Clothing STILL PRESIDENT SUNK BOSTON syx America In May Now Be Yours for per cent UNDER PRICE ALRED IIOOPEIL Detroit to wear our superb garment We want every man of good taste in ALRED HOOPER TAKEN BY DEATH de 4 Neckwear One Half 1 so You May Any Regular $200 Tie Any Regular $250 Tie for ANCY VESTS 25 Large variety to select from I delay making selections as early as possible the POWER MERGER IS Electric Power RAPPED BY ELLIS Eliminates riction Suicide Travels rom Cuts Out Shafting and Bells Reduces Losses Coffee CONSTIPATION PAW PAW PILLS Energy all Have our representative call on you MAIN 5222 The Edison HEAD TRUST IN DENIAL GETS 12 LOCOMOTIVES MUST NOW GO TO PRISON I others 7 4 a I 3 I 1 do do 1 I descriptions one were 1 I1 I i Boon puts condition In my of the other Attached to booms and 25c 50c 75c $100 $125 WIDELY KNOWN AS EXPERT IN THE VARNISH BUSINESS (Solid Blacks and Whites excepted) for life in a fall They into gentle i They do they they OERS GIRLS TO RESORT Andrew Murray Arrested on Boiling spoils coffee while filtering saves the full flavor delicacy and strength WITH OUT the bitter harmful acid Tlnllnl Xti'h August Krause designer Buss Machine works may business made him a national urominenee In He was a member of the board of the Varnish association activ meth not not not Odd Things Not Seen Else dispatcher in ordering I TA HPn I1A ne BUTLER MO Republicans of the sixth Missouri district chose Philip Griffith of Dade county as their candidate for the seat of the late Representative De Armond is most ailments en i 11 be weeks before the people in the SO acres that are binder water every high tide will be able to re turn to their homes GOING AWAY UNTIL AAIRS SETTLE DOWN do not boil the coffee it makes a pure healthful infu sion by a filtering process culiar to itself and takes posi tively one third less coffee We have these equipped with electric and alcohol burners or adapted to the range We are showing some very original patterns brass and copper Tea Kettles Use Koholia as a burning fluid Special to The ree Press Norfolk Va December 2S 'Wrecked waterlogged and aband oned by master and crew the three masted schooner Nettle Champion which sailed from Nor folk December 22 with a cargo of lumber was sighted Mondav 35miles southeast of Cape Henry Dunn of the British steamer liadiance The fate of the crew of the Champion which was composed of Capt Lloyd and perhaps five men is unknown They evidently took to the yawl to save themselves as the stern davits of the schooner were turned out and the blocks tackle were swinging near the in luaKitiK it evident that boat had been launched Wife Said Hubby Grabbed Her Money and Slapped Him When She i Called HiA Thief CongreMman'K Son Kills Self'4 St' Louis December Coudrey 1years old 'son of Congressman Jiarry Coudrey of the twelfth congressional district shot and killed himself tonight in his apartments ats the Buckingham club Any Regular 50c Tie for Any Regular Tie fc Any Regular $150 Tie fc King Co 103 Woodward Ave Arm December 1 lint Man on Probation ails to Report to Court lint 'Mich December 2S Neglect to comply with the order of the court which said he must report every 60 days has cost Charles Wines his liberty lie Is 21 years old and last July wag involved in the theft of a sum of money from his roommate The court was lenient with him because of bis mother but insisted that he must re port to the county as part payment for his freedom from prison Wines went to Lo gansport Ind and failed to make good his probation promises Judge Wisner then sending an officer for him' Wines must serve from one to '14 years in the Ionia reformatory Saves Her Tet Bitten by Bulldog' Corunna Mich December 28 In protecting her pet puppy a Christ mas gift 10 year old Buelah Jar vis daughter of George Jarvis was attacked by a bulldog owned by Da vid Evans and severeiv bitten on the neck Neighbors rescued her and beat off the bulldog fa ther lassoed the bulldog yanked him to a barn and shot him Evans was prostrated over th affaXg OUGHT OVER 14 CENTS DIVORCED lai Christmas afternoon At that time the sailors were on deck rinsing and celebrating the holiday in true sea fashion all unknowing of the fate that awaited them with in a few hours at the entry to their home port Yesterday's roll of wrecks was increased today The schooner Ada Damon the sole support of her aged master Captain A Brew ster of York Me went ashore near Ipswich She will probably be a total loss Her crew managed to reach shore safely In Chelsea where a' tidal wave broke a dyke and flooded the homes of 2000 people a high tide today opened two new breaks Many of the cellars on higher ground which naa oeen pumped out by lire glnes were again Hooded It WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 29 1909 THE IDEAL NO MORE HEAT PH ONE Si Walnut City 1009 DETROIT COALETTE UEL CO Seventeenth and Hancock DETROIT MICH Enjoy Good 'J Scaffold all a ive Men Hurt Lansing Mich December 28 By the breaking of a scaffold upon which they were working five men fell 20 feet atuthe Seager Engine works this morning Edward Lar kina was so severely hurt he was tix the hosuitalZ Tlw were removed their WEEHAWKEN STAYS SINGLE Six Jersey Towns Consoli date Referendum Vote Light New York December 28 Wee hawken is saved Paragraphers who find the name productive of humorous quips along with Po dunk Squeedunk and the like have cause for congratulation in that six Jersey towns including Wee hawken voted on a referendum to consolidate today and overwhelm ingly snowed under the proposal Weehawken Union Hill North Bergen West Hoboken "West "New York and "Gnftenburg with a total population of about SODQO will re main separate Incidentally the election showed that the referendum again failed in New Jersey as a means of pop ular expression Less than' 30 per cent of those entitled to gp to the polls availed themselves of the right to vote Newport Is Not Yet Connected With the Vice President and General Man ager of Berry Bros Ltd and Popular Clubman American Sugar Refining Co Not Buying in Philippines New York December 28 The American Sugar Refining company gave out the following statement looav "Mr ue American panv states that the company has purchased direct ly or indirectly any properties in the Philippine Islands' is without foundation The company has no investments in the Philippines 's nd lias no intention of making Two Captains Report Dissimilar Masts Above Water in Sep arate Locations Schooner Waterlogged Off Virginia Coast Crew Gone in Yawl fl ire Loss 950000 I5e'wton Annis after examination of nls' fur stock damaged by smoke and chemicals when fire broke out in the show windows of the store at 'Woodward avenue and Clifford street Monday night yesterday es timated his loss would amount to about $a0000 Paw Paw ills are unlike other laxatives or ca thartics the livei itv bv Ods scour gripe weaken: but they do start all the secre tions of the liver and stomach in a wav that these organs in a healthy and corrects constipation opinion constipation responsible tor There are thirty two feet of human howelf which is really a sewer pipe When this pipe becomes clog ged the whole system becomes poisoned causing biliousness Indi gestion and Impure blood which often produces rheumatism and kid ney ailments No woman who suf fers with constipation or any liver complaint can expect to have a clear complexion or enjoy good health Paw Paw Pills are atonic to the stomach liver and nerves They invigorate instead of weakening they enrich the blood instead of impoverishing it they enable the stomach to gat all the nourishment from food that is put into it These pills contain no calomel no dope they are soothing heal ing and stimulating They school the bowels to act without physio Price 35 cants in the tw positions Therefore it is not impossible that two schoon ers went down and it might even be true that'thev had been In col Usio during the storm Probably the last person to see the Palmer before she sank was Cart Sookamp of the barge Hopat cong which docked at Lynn today from Hoboken lie reported pass ing the runner ott tape rod Thomas of ugar Refining com rnp rpniirr tiijt 'Demes That He is a Prisoner Probably Will Go to Belgium for a Temporary Residence Cordoba Mex December 28 Jose Santos Zelaya declared tonight that Jie is still president of Nicaragua although he may never go back to that country to enjoy the privileges of the office Madriz he asserted is only a provisional president and that he has not relinquish ed the executive office about the conditions im posed by the British government in reply to his request for an asylum aboard the British cruiser Shear water Zelayadnutted that he was told he could board her only with the understanding that he was to agree to leave Nicaragua forever inesc conditions ne saici ne dined to accent: i Mexico on the other hand he de clared made no reservations in granting him permission to board the Guerrero Leaving for Indefinite Stay He Was leaving his country for an indefinite period in the hope that affairs there wquld quiet down He exhibited papers attached to whieli were government seals and ribbons These papers he said contained the proof ol the truth uf his statement that lie was still the head of the government In further support of hisjasser tion it was pointed out bv mem bers flns paiiy That me viuerrero floated the Nicaraguan flag at the masthead in addition to the Mexi can flag He might go to Belgium lie said The reports concerning his wealth Zelaya said were grossly exagger ated' His fortune was not over $2000000 gold and was invested mostly In Nicaraguan government bonds He advanced the $50000 paid on the Emery claim as a personal loan out of his own funds there having been no money in the gov ernment treasury at thaU tlme This amount he said had never been refunded to him He strongly denied thathe had wrongfully ob tained any part of his fortune through concessions of which he had the disposal He declared that a vote of thanks had been tendered him officially before he left home for services rendered to his country Denies He Is a Prisoner Zelaya denied that he was a pris oner the' hands of Mexican offi cers in any sense of the word He was asked whether in giving him a refuge the Mexican government accepted responsibility for his per son and in doing so looked upon him as a' prisoner lie said em phatically that such was not the case and that he was free to go where he chose Zelaya declared that he favored friendly intervention on the part of Mexico and the United States to the end that a consolidation of all the Central American republics might be brought about He believed Secretary Knox was now realizing the injustice of his attitude Salaries Stanley Donlm Very Low Stanley Donlin whose skull was fractured when the automobile in which he was riding tfwith two others was struck by at Baker line car Sunday was reported to be In a very serious condition atfKed Cross hospital this morning ENDS TROUBLE WITH POISON Alpena eweler Victim of Drink Swallows fatal Dose Alpena MichDecember 28 Jokin' P'Roerig a local jeweler committed suicide in his room in the Globe hotel this afternoon by taking a large dose of potassium evanide Roerig and his wife came to Alpena from Bartow Polk 'county lorida about two years ago and opened a small jewelry store Domestic troubles and drinking lost Roerig his store and made him a frequent visitor to the police station Roe rig was 45 years of age and his oc cupation as optician gav him the title of doctor 'We have left over from our enormous Christmas of NECKWEAR thousands of the most beautiful patterns ever offered in any city of the world We bought heavily for this particu lar purpose Wishing you to come here before the new year and make it an object for you to do Will Help Relieve reight gestion Around Saginax Saginaw Mich The Baldwin locomotive day delivered 12 mogul Pere Marquette Six of tf tives were placed in ser1'' today three more arrives and the remaining three an Huron on the way Ail service by Wednesday nig The engines are of the la largest design known as i solidated type and the 12 coy 000 reight traffic on quotte is the heaviest in they will aid greatly r' the situation on the Luoinr ledo and Port Huron din 'K Chicago to New York Hanging rom Beam New York December 28 Dang ling from a rafter of an Illinois Central freight car in which it had apparently traveled all the way from Chicago the body of a miu dle aged man was found in the' Bal timore Ohio yards on the west side this afternoon ive pairs of trousers and three coats dis covered on the victim while papers in his pockets showed that he was Kovace Sandnr an Austrian forty years old There was $17 in cash in the pockets Special to The ree Press Boston December 28 rom ports made by Capt Broxxn of the steamer Belfast and Capt Kemp of the tug Ariel there has risen an impression that perhaps another schooner was wrecked just outside Boston harbor in addition to the five master reported yesterday There is no longer and doubt that the five master that went down in blizzard was the Davis Palmer She met her fate at the entrance of Broad Sound channel where she lies a menace to shipping that passes through the sound Capt Kemp of tile Ariel reported sighting three topmasts of a large schooner projecting out of the wa ter about one and one half miles northeast from the gas on the Graves On two of the masts weie gilt balls but the end mast was broken off the masts were gaffs Other wreckage Not only were the at the two cantai ns that fivA mast pail projecting out of the water and the other that three topmasts were vis ible above the surface but also DISPATCHER IS BLAMED Liner Celtic Afire ive Days at Sea but Passengers Not Liverpool December ire was discovered in the hold of the White Star liner Celtic last Wednesday when the vessel was four days out from New York The liner arrived here safely yes terday The fire was still burning but its presence was known to none of the 400 passengers Immediately upon arrival the work of discharging the cargo in an effort to reach promptly the origin of the blaze was begun The work was continued today The fire started among the bales of cot ton in hold No 6 i Illuminating Company STATE AND WASHINGTON Hillsdale Also Criticizes Block' System Hillsdale Mich' At the coroner's inquest "completed today before Justice John 'L ris bie regarding the wreck iof pa senger train No 1 1 December 21 causing 'the death of Engineer James? KnappI of Toledo ax verdict was rendered in which block systein'was 'criticized and 'the dis patcher blamed reight No 94 into which No 14 clared not to havev been properly safe by the rear and conductor The verdict states the col lision was primarily caused by the unwise and unwarranted acUof the chief i train dispatcher in ordering outs freight No' 94 when the pas senger was so near the city lett arm which "aa by a rapidly moving Krause was leaning on the table of the plaining a drawing when tit Accident occtti Ann Arbor Mich December 28 A quarrel 'over the "ownership of 1 4 cents was: cited as one of the rea sons why 'she be' granted a legal separation £rotn her husband when the case of Grace Ij Latham against James Latham was called up in the circuit this afternoon 'Pi The7 Lathams were married Jan uary 1: 1906 'at Jackson Mich and soon went to withAa smalt outfit of 'furniture the greater portion of whieli Mrs Lath am testified came' her parents She? stated she was in the store of'rank J'Bates in Hanover one day making a few 'small pur chases with 'her funds when her husband veanie store When the had taken the amount' of the rbill dtit of a coin and had counted out her 14 cents her husband grabbedsfor the money and putit into his pocket when she jokingly rentarked rthat he was a testified that he became so enraged at this that' he slapped her subjecting her to great humiliation ttTefore" a large crowd gathered in the store Latham is now playing a piano in a moving picture show in Akron 'Judge Kinne granted her a di vbrcefand gave herdhe custody of a bright little girl of 5 years One Child Dead Six Others III and Both 'Parents Aire Invalids Muskegon Mich'December28 One child vdedftwoyothers at doorfotir others 'sick and mother and father' Invalids is the record of the family pfred Mel throp of Muskegon Heights An infant died moaning six other 'children 'are ill with measles' The father is rinvalidedwitha broken leg anT the mother hasj justctindergone ah operation atthe 7 DOUSED WITH HOT? WATER Grand Rapids Severely Burned Accuses Neighbor Grand Ka'pids Mich? X)eceniber'28 Suffer ingjs terribly fronr burns about Lack Martha' Owen was5 carried into Prosecutor Brown's office today to llle an af fidaviti against' Aukge Kooptnan charging her with dashing a pail of scalding water over the" com plainant Mrs Owen charges that when she came in from a visit to neighbors she was deluged by the steaming 'water thrown bv Mrs Koopnian'frwholives "above "her in the same house Her clothing had to be' torn front and itis feared that her injuries will prove fatal Should Vary With the Supply and Demand New York December 28 The law of supply and demand should regu late the paj of women school teachers according to the report of a special commission tiled with Mayor McClellan today concerning the much agitated question of equal pay for women teachers in New York city schools The Commission fails specifically to recommend an Increase sug gests that the pay of all women iiu siAuisrnue oe ratsea 10 increase the salaries of all women Washington Ind December 28 I tochers vrould cost the city an ad William Ritter an aged dttiopal $11000000 a year preacher and his wife were pois oned is the theory advanced tonight by the coroner at the close of to investigation of the death of the pair When the bodies were found yes terday at the Ritter home it was believed that both had been mur dered by a robber or that the hus band had first killed his wife and then committed suicide by taking poison The coroner will send the stomachs of both husband and wife to the state chemist for analysis' Charles Enoff who lives near the Ritter home said that last riday night he heard Mrs Ritter scream ing but gave no attention to her cries as he knew she was subject to attacks of hysteria A' A Ji BAUMGARTNER i r' ASHION SHOP I CHAMBER COMMERCE BLDG If you have a small shop or a mammoth we can serve you Aged Couple Poisoned is Latest Theory in Indiana Death Case it World by Telegraph Newport It I December 28 Newport has now been three days without wire communication with the outside world as a result of the Christmas night storm It is estimated by telephone of ficials that the damage to their system will reach $100000 Today as yesterday of fices were without their usual mar ket quotations The train service too is delavedowing to the failure of the tele graph operating system Meteor Coffee Percolators Liberal Contributor to Charity and Member of Many Local Social Organizations Alfred Hooper popular clubman and well known businessman died yesterday morning at his residence 677 Jefferson avenue Mr Hooper had been ailing for over a year but his illness did not become serious until Saturday when lie was obliged to take to his bea He became rapidly worse and died at 11 yesterday morning or almost 40 years Mr Hooper had been connected with Berry Brothers Limited manufacturers of varnish Born in England 54 years ago he came to Detroit when 15 years old He was a cousin to the Berry brothers and entered their employ lie was advanced from time to time until at the death of Joseph Berry two years ago he was made vice president and gen eral manager of the company He held this position until his death His years cf service with his ability and assiduous application to the varnish person of 1 that line executive facturers Mr Hooper was married but' the marriage was annulled several years ago lie had no children and lived alone He was a member of almost every large social club in Detroit He was treasurer of the Grosse Pointe Evangelical' church and a man of wide charity His gifts though al ways quietly made were extensive Mr Hooper is survived by ers and sisters in England his nearest relatives in this country are cousins Mrs Edwin Lodge Mrs Henn Sherrard the Misses Lottie and Sarah Berry and Thomas Berry of Detroit uneral services will take place at the residence Thursday afternoon at 2 The pallbearers will be George Russel rank Blair Edgar 1 Lewis John New berrv Moran Henry Rus sel Howie Muir and Strathearn Hendrie Electricity is the simplest safest cleanest mosi reliable and economical Muskegon Lad alls on Chisel Lip and Tongue Are Cut Off "Muskegon Mich December 28 James Nolen tlie 6 year old son of Dr Nolen a prominent Muskegon 'dentist' was disfigured this morning The youngster was 'climbjng on a shelf covered with: tools and the supports oft the shelf gave wav precipitating him to the floor The child fell on "a chisel which gouged out his under lip and' cud off half his tongue The stunted tongue will be a life long Impediment i Grand Rapids Mayor Asserts It Means City Will Tay Dividends on Watered Stock Grand Rapids MichDecember 28 Claiming that" fears watered stock Mayor Ellis presented a mes sage at last meeting of the city council! calling upon that body to Investigate the purported merger of tlie Grand Muskegon Power Co and the Grand Rapids Railway Co It is a positive asser tion of the jna yor that the combine will force the city to pay dividends on watered stock and he a new company as an The law enacted by 'the Jast legislature aimed to prevent stock watering was specifically' jto' This law' makes ID 'mandatory upon all corporations intending to "Issue bonds or securities in excess 'of their present obligations to submit li proposition to the state railroad commission for "approval "In this manner bond issues without the necessity for the same Appearing or' without adequate eompensatioin being evident are forbidden "If a holding compaYiy issues se curities in excess of sor carrying a higher rate of interest or larger dividends than the sfectfrities the total companiesstakenvover it will surely mean there has been an infla tion" and "that our people must pay more for service recei ved? contin ued the message Explaining this passage later the' mayor 'said "our years ago tile street rail way common was selling' at To day it is being quoted atill5 in pre the merger It has been stated that the intention is to raise the amount 'of "common stock fronr the $2000000' water to $2300000 and the interest rate will be jumped from 4 per cent to 6 per cent This means' $138000 an nually whlchthe citizens of Grand' Rapids must payi jto i the company upon tnot one cent "of in vested and with'outc With individual motor drive the power is at the machine to be energized saving all transmission losses Story Keeper of Place Tells Summoned to a house on St Antoine street about 11 last night Motorcycle Patrolman Ray 7 mond took into custody a man who gave his name as Andrew Murray 38 years old and said he is a salesman from Pontiac The woman conducting the place which is of questionable character told Raymond the young man offered to bring to her today two young girls who he said live bn East Elizabeth street and are employed in a large local establishment She notified the police and "suc ceeded in detaining Murrav until Raymond arrived The prisoner had the appearance of one under the in fluence of some drug He is held at Central station pending investiga tion Madriz Only a Provisional Indi vidual He Tells Corre spondent in Mexico for every sale guarantees us results that will be far reaching No man can wear a SUIT or OVERCOAT from our establishment without reflecting credit upon us Therefore we haye decided to offer to everybody an opportunity to demonstrate that with a 20 per cent benefit to themselves Beginning Today we offer a selection of any ancy Busi ness Suit or Overcoat stock at a Discount of 20 from former price No need to go into details The splendid garments tell their own story To make this sale as interesting cis possible we also offer our entire assortment of ANCY TROUSERS at a similar discount kJ xX 1 I I WltlR 20 4 Ml Jr 5 'V Is J' ISr Mr hmMM I WT rzT7i CMTl? a 3 rnv i'ii xit' I 4Z9 Ea2jIW5SHw i.

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