Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 26, 1898, Page 2

The Mierald--Review. By ©. Kiley MINNESOTA, GRAND RAPIDS - The financial discoveries of Nansen in this country are more potential than any of his discoveries up there. The mayor of Baltamore has nine thousand applications for five hun- dred offices. When New York con~ siders this thing it blushes for its sis~ ter city, Captain Dreyfus in his disgraceful exile is a factor in French politics far greater than he might have been ff he had kept his freedom. It is certain fhat his guilt was not conclusively proven, and he ought ‘to have had the benefit of the doubt tn view of the magnitude of his punishment. Governments can- not afford to be'unjust, and the suffer- ing of one ‘fmocent man because of hatred of ‘his race may bring about suffering to the nation which is respon- sible for his'undoing. A New York judge has granted a wife a separation from her husband for six months, ‘with alimony at the rate of $10 a week. The plaintiff was a wife 30 years Uld, the defendant a husband of 70. Doubtless the young woman feels herself happy in being rid of the old gentleman ‘for six months,.receiving in the meantime $10 a week. At the end of the ‘first term of separation she can apply'for an extension.and the old hus- band ‘is not likely to survive many de- crees of ‘court. Anything is possible under our divorce laws, and the prece- dent set by Judge Gaynor of New York may be extensively followed and separ- ation ‘take the place in court records extensivély occupied at present by the disagreeable word divorce. Secretary of the Navy Long sent a recommendation to congress for an ap- propriation of $50,000 for improve- ments in the battery of the cruiser Chicago, and accompanying it is a strong report of Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, in which he points out some weaknesses of'the navy. Mr. Roosevelt says: “I-earnestly wish we could as-soon as possible withdraw from active -service the cruisers fitted with slow firing guns and substitute ships with rapid fire batteries. At present the real fighting efficiency of ships like the Raleigh, Cincinnati, Marblehead, Montgomery, and Olym- pia compared with foreign vessels of the same ‘nominal class stands high, while the reverse is the case of ships like the Baltimore, San Francisco and Yorktown.” Three 6f the five deaths of students in Chicago University the past year are attributed to actual starvation by Pres- ident Harper, who also affirms that in every large university poor and ambi- tious students sacrifice health, comfort and life itself in the thirst for an edu- cation. Startling as is the statement, it emphasizes one of the greatest needs of the age, a proper understanding of the chemistry of cooking, and the detri- ment to mind and body of unsuitable or insufficient food. Two kittens of the same litter were recently set apart by a scientist and brought up under identi- cal conditions, except that their food was tiametrically unlike. At the end of four months whenever the scientist held out his ‘finger to one, the kitten rubbeti lovingly against it; whilst the other ‘would bite:xand draw blood. No wonder, says a witty commentator, that around some family tables the women scratch and'the men swear. The Chicago wheat ‘deal is attract- ing much attention. Joseph Leiter continues ‘to hold ‘his immense pur- chases of high grade winter wheat, an amount ‘now estimated at 15,000,000 bushels. ‘In :the meantime prices are advancing ‘in all -parts of the world, and it is difficutt to predict the figure which will ‘be reached by May wheat. The Leiter Clique claims that the far- mers have'lang since parted with their wheat, and poimts to ‘the fact that “dollar wheat” Tatls ‘to materially in- crease the receipts at the -principal points. Amn interesting feature of the situation is the development ‘that hun- dreds of millers and wholesale flour dealers have been mixing corn meal with flour and selling this blended :mix- ture as high grade wheat. This is:said to account for “black bread,” and the further fact that flour has not .ad- vanced in price in proportion to wheat. This matter has been introduced into congress and some legislation may ‘fdl- Jow. The reports of a Russian short- age which were at first vigorously denied, are found to ‘be true, and the government will probably repeal the duty on wheat so as to permit imports. The stocks now in Russian ports amount to 11,600,000 bushels, as against an average of 19,904,000 bushels for same dates in the last ten years. The London Times prints a telegram from St. Petersburg saying that the failure of the crops threatens a worse dearth than that of 1891. Russian editors are forbidden to refer to the matter of the soming reduction in import duties, Maine is again to enter the list of copper mining states. The deposits, which are mumerous and valuable, were worked more than twenty-five years ago, but a sudden and great de- cline in the priee of copper made them unprofitable; improved and cheapened method of production is the cause of resumption of work. Copper ig a met- al with which the market is never over- stocked; although consumption in- creases rapidly from year to year, 4 good copper mine {ig more valuable than a gold mine. LOSS OF THE MAINE A UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP BLOWN UP IN HAVANA MEE HARBOR, wo Hundred and Fifty-Elght of Uncle Sam’s Brave Sailor Lads Meet a Terrible Death=Cause of the Explosion Is Veile@ in Mys- tery, and Only Investigation by a Court of Inquiry Can Determine— Conflicting Theories Are Ad- vanced and Suspicion of Treach- ery Hinted at—Spanish Authori- ties Express Regret. Havana, Feb. 17.—The United States cruiser Maine was blown up in Hay- ana harbor, between 9 and 10 o’clock Tuesday night. Of the crew of 354 otficers, blue-jackets and marines, only 101 have b accounted for. This means that perished in the fright- ful explosion, which tore the stout bat- tleship to shreds and shook the city of Havana from end toend. Many of the survivors are suffering from painful wounds. Wild excitement and still wilder ru- mors followed the concussion of the ter. rible blast. The explosion shattered windows and electric lights and threw the city into a tumult of excitement, | such as it has rarety witnessed before. | Crowds that had gathered in public places dispersed in quiet order and) other knots gathered, to follow :a mo-) ment later at the hotels some leader who knew no more where he was going ' igation bureau, has arranged for as well as could be from this distance. ‘The wounded sailors in the Havana hospitals, on the Spanish flagship and elsewhere, when not in condition to be brought back to Key West will be carefully looked after by Miss Clara Barton, who has been given carte blanche to buy any and everything necessary, food, clothing, delicacies and hire the nurses and physicians. The wounred able to get across to Key West will be taken care of in the ma- rine hospital there. The sound sur- vivors will be quartered in the spare army barracks there, As for the Maine herself, notwith- standing discouraging reports from Lieut. Hood as to her condition, the navy department will make the effort to raise her. They say they are bound to remove the hull from the small har- bor in any case, and it may be as easy to raise her as it would be to destroy the hull and machinery by the use of divers and dynamite. It is believed that this work can best be done by private wrecking corporations, and ne- ‘gotiations are already afoot for placing the contract, based on work by the ‘day, at an estimated cost of $200,000. Spanish Sympathy, New York, Feb. 18—The Herald cor- respondent at Madrid says: Yesterday all the political asperities were swept away in the general wave of sympathy at the fate of the poor fellows of the Maine who have lost their lives and those who suffer from their wounds. Early in the afternoon telegrams that came from Capt. Gen. Blanco and the harbor master at Havana were at once forwarded to Minister Woodford, accompanied by a letter expressive of deep sympathy from the minister for tleship, and last, but not least, in meet- ing with unwavering courtesy and pa- tience the exacting demands upon their time of the press representatives. Quick Work of Officers, Havana, Feb. 18.—The Maine, at the time of the explosion, was at anchor abaut five hundred yards from the ar- senal and some two hundred yards from the floating dock. The explosion put out the street lights near the wharf and blew down telephone and telegraph wires in that vicinity. The first explosion is said to have been caused by ever six hundred pounds of gun cotton, and the subsequent explo- sion is alleged to have been caused by shells and cartridges. Lieut. Wainwright, of the Maine, was half-undressed at 9:45, and was smok- ing in his cabin, next to that of Capt. Sigsbee, it is said, when the explosion occurred and put out the electric lights. Wainwright then lit a match and went to Capt. Sigsbee’s cabin, The captain, it appears, had been thrown from his bed but was uninjured. They ‘both went on deck and gave orders to flood 2,500 pounds of gun cotton which was aboard. ‘The order was carried out, but the men who fulfilled it never returned. Havana, however, was saved from a still more terrible explosion. THEIR LAST RESTING PLACE. All Havana Turns Out at the Fun- eral of the Maize’s Victims, Havana, Feb. 18.—The interment of ‘the martyrs of the Maine took place Thursday afternoon about 5 o'clock. Shortly before the hour all Havana was in movement. The flags on the public buildings were at half-mast and many of the houses were in mourning. All classes were represented in the ‘the lost seamen whose residences are in Wash- ington. ‘You may say absolutely that there has been no secret cabinet meeting; that nothing has taken place in the cabinet that the public have not been informed about; that the whole policy. of this department has been to give the public all the dispatches: that the department has no more knowledge on the subject of the cause of the disaster or even of the circumstances tending it than have the public, and that the report that Capt. Sigsbee had warned the de- partment that the Maine was in danger from submarine mines or torpedoes is utterly with- out foundation, no such report ever having been received from him or anybody else. The secretary also denied briefly and comprehensively wild rumors that he had requested the chief of police of New York to guard the Vizcaya, and that he had selected Constructor Bowles to go to Ha- vana and raise the Maine. The last work of the day for him was to consult the representatives of the wrecking compa- nies, who probably will have charge of this work, and endeavor to arrange for both of them to work together so as to secure the use of each peculiar plant and to save time. The secretary, when asked what was the department’s estimate of the conduct of Capt. Sigsbee in the terri- ble situation in which he had been placed, replied: I think I express the feeling of the presi- dent, as well as my own, when I say that Capt. Sigsbee has conducted himself as an officer of our navy should. He was the last to leave his ship when she went down. His dispatch to me that night was so complete. Since then I have thought of no question of fact to ask him which is essential to the situation and which he could answer, which is not covered by that dispatch. Its tone, too, is that of a discreet and level-headed man who realized the im- pression any word from him at that time would have on the public mind. Nothing is harder than for a naval officer to lose his ship, so that I have great sympathy for him. I await, with confidence, further repo*ts, During the day the department was in receipts of a number of telegrams from different parts of the country asking in behalf of the relatives of the > THE RUINED WAR-SHIP MAINE. than they. Fire engines came bound- ing down the narrow streets from no one knew where and going no man knew where. Allithe populace turned out, and the throngs gradually trended toward the water.front, but for half an hour or more no one in the midst of that jostling, pushing, half-crazed crowd knew aught of The Awful Tragedy that lay just beyond. The streets be- came congested, and one had a hard task to force his way through. The re- port was first that the arsenal had blown up, and thenit was said that the Spanish man-of-war had torpedoed ‘the Maine. And this was while the men of the Alfonso XI. were struggling in the work of rescue. The Ward Line steamer City of Washington and ‘the cruiser were the first to reach ithe scene, and their crews did all that could be done to rescue the drowning. Three boats from the Maine were there too. In fact, there were more boats to pick up swimmers than there were swimmers to be picked up. Some of the survivors were brought to the land. ing place there and turned over to the firemen, who carried :the wounded on stretchers to hospitals. Others were brought alongside the:City of Washing- ton, and still others were carried an board the Alfonso XII. The wreck took fire and burned the long night through. When broke the solemn, pitying dawn, dark wreaths.of smoke were still curling upward from the shapeless mass. At sunrise al flags in the harbor were at half-mast. | The News in Wavhington. t Washington, Feb. 17.—The appalling nature of the disaster and the gravity of the situation that would arise showd investigaticn give a besis for the under- current of suspicion of treachery and foul play that ran through all minds, had a sobering effect upom public men of all shades of political opinion. Pub- | lic men expressed their opinions with | reserve when approached for inter- wiews, but everywhere there was a de- mand for an investigation and full de- itails, in the light of which the horror may justly be viewed. Secretary Long undoubtedly sum- marized the general opinion of the ma- joxity of the naval experts in finding it impossible just now to state the cause of the destruction of the Maine. ‘There are a great number of theories, but most of them are.of a character that makes it easy to prove or upset them by a single investigation by a diver. Seeretary Long has taken immediate steps to make this investigation. He telegraped Admiral Sicard at Key West to appoint a board of naval officers to proceed at once to Havana, employ divers and generally to make such in- quiry as the regulations of the navy demand shall be made in the case of the loss of a ship. ‘The large majority of naval officers are inclined to the belief that the explosion resulted from spoitaneous cmbustion of a coal bunk- er, the overheating of the iron parti- tions between the boilers and the mag- azine or from the explosion of a boiler, though the last theory finds little sup- port. The disposition of the, survivors Capt. Dickens, acting chief of the nay- the colonies, Senor Moret, in the name}; throngs that filled the streets along of all the members of the government. Almost simultaneously the Spanish ad- miral called at the legation in the name of the minister of marine and the of- ficers and men of the Spanish navy to express extreme sorrow at the mews of the disaster. Havana, Feb. 18.—Capt. Gen. Blanco has sent to the Spanish charge d'af- faires at Washington a cable message on behalf of the colonial government, requesting him to tender to President McKinley the condolences of the eabi- net upon the terrible disaster that de- stroyed the United States warship Maine, requesting him, moreover, to “tender our profound sympathy to the American government and assurance of how deeply we regret that this port should be the witness of such a tre- mendous accident to the American navy.” A number of messages were received at the state department from foreign governments expressing regret in con- nection with the Maine disaster. Waiting the Investigation. Washington, Feb. 18—The govern- ment has settled back into a waiting attitude in respect to the terrible Maine disaster in Havana harbor. The great shack caused by the news has given way to a calmer and more judi- cial state of mind, and, realizing from the events of the day that the court of inquiry is the sale dependence in the which the funeral procession passed to the cemetery. The funeral started from the principal entrance of turned to the right on Mercadores street, then up O'Reilly street along the right side of Central Park and finally to the right along San Rafael street to the cemetery. The population that lined the route gave every indication of the profoundest respect. WARLIKE RUMORS, ‘Naval Officers Kept Busy Contra- j dicting Them. Washington, Feb, 20. — The feature of the day at the navy department was the large number of rumors of war-like tendency that came to the attention of the officials as requiring attention, and in every case contradiction. So formidable had grown the list that President McKinley decided to make the following statement regarding the Maine, which was given out by his sec- retary: Based upon Information now in his possession, the president believes that the Maine was blown up as the result of an accident. If it is found that the disaster was not an accident prompt and decisive steps will be taken in the premises. The finding of the naval court will develop the cause, and until that is submitted nothing will be done. Secretary Long, at the close of office cortege | the city hall on Weyler street, then | dead sailors that their remains be brought back to the United States for interment. While no decision has yet | been reached formally upon the appli- cation of the Spanish government for | authorization to examine the wreck of the Maine to ascertain the cause of the explosion the officials seem inclined to regard this request as one that could not properly be refused, and it is likely that each government will make an investigation of this character cov currentiy. Sei PLOT AGAINST LEE. Proclamation Expressing Bitter ness Toward the Consul General. Tampa, Fla., Feb. 20.—The Havana horror and the suspicions it has aroused shows up a bitter proclamation secretly circulated in Havana some time ago of a plot to blow up Gen. Lee and the consulate. The following is a | literal translation of the proclamation: “Spaniards! The time has arrived when the patience of the loyal has vanished before the decided protection which the Americans lend to the bands of turbulent foragers who lay waste our country. Death to them! The moment has arrived to lower the colos- sal head of the Americans and prove to them that our unconquerable nation can reach the doors of the capital at Washington, demand reparation for the grave offenses which they daily ent » atl SIDE VIEW OF MAINE, SHOWING POWDER MAGAZINE, BOILER ROOMS, MEN’S AND OFFICERS’ QUARTERS, et ae search for the cause of the Maine’s loss, the naval officials are now re- signed to await the results of that in- quiry by a court named by the navy department. No telegrams came and all that could be gleaned was a denial of some absurd story or other that had crept into print or become current gos- sip. All the news of the day came in the Jate afternoon in the shape of Capt. Sigsbee’s report of the authorization of the funeral of his dead sailors and Gen. Lee’s graphic story of the terrible struggle for life in the dark hull of the Maine. The officials of the navy de- partment devoted the day to the effort to correct the lists of living and dead; to answering frantic telegraphic ap- peals from relatives of men on the bat- hours, issued the following statement: Really no information has been received since Capt. Sigebee’s first dispatch adding anything to our knowledge of the disaster. All we know is that the Maine blew up. There is abundant room for speculation in all reports, .| but no conclusion can be arrived at until an examination has been made by the divers and more facts obtained. It is a simple fact to say that such a’thing might happen by design, or it might happen by accident. As yet there is no indication of design. Therefore my im- pression has been all along, and I rather think the general opinion preponderates in the same direction, that It Must Have Been Accidental. At the cabinet meeting to-day the matter was not discussed except as any body of men talk about an event of that kind, and most of that talk referred to the terrible loss of life and a sympathy for the sufferers. It certainly was a very kind thought in the president to send flowers to the families of Capt. Sigsbee, of the executive officer, Wainwright, and of inflict upon us, expel, yes, expel, with- out delay. Consul General Lee, who, with his family, is nothing more than the miserable secretary of the bandits. Away, away with the Yankee con- sulate protector of criminals of the lowest degree. Every moment the ac- { tion of justice is impeded by Ameri- can interference. Are we to continue our toleration? No, no, a thousand times, no! Consul General Lee, when the stupendous explosion comes that will carry consternation to the whole city, if you have strength left, it would be well for you to hie yourself to your country and relate what has happened te you. 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