Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 3, 1898, Page 3

adty jos MURDER IN NEGRO SOLDIERS GO A;GUNNING FOR WHITES. Several White Soldiers Are Shot by the Murderous Negroes—Provost Guard Is Fired Upon and Com- pelled to Retreat—News ‘of the Trouble Infuriates the White Soldiers and They Are Prevented With Great Difficulty From Wreaking Summary Vengeance— Citizens Arm Themselves and ‘Take Part in the Riot. Anniston, Ala., Noy. 26—Members of the Third Alabama, the negro regiment ‘with murder in their hearts, caused the greatest excitement last night that this town has ever known. Shortly after te Gildhart, Company B, ‘ond Arkansas, while returning to amp from town wag shot in the head {by a negro soldier who also stabbed jhim in the back. Gildhart was taken ito the regimental hospital. A little 2 member of the Fourth Ken- y is reported to have been shot on alnut street by negro soldiers who lay in a gully shooting at the white men who passed. Firing was heard in the negro quarter of the city, is not far from Walnut street, squad of the provost guard went tigate. As it turned the corner of Fifteenth and Pine streets a large crowd of negro soldiers, without warn- ing, opened fire upon the guard with Springfields, The guard returned the fire, but had few cartridges and soon had to retreat. When reinforcements and ammunition were secured the ne- groes had disappeared. In the engage- ment Sergt. Dodson, Third Tennessee, vas shot in the arm, and Private Gra- 2 Third Tennessee, in the stomach. If any of the negroes were shot it is not known, as_ no dead or wounded have been found. Two members of the {provost guard are missing. When news of the trouble became known white soldiers who were in the city gathered around the provost guard hheadcuarters and Begged for Guns and emmunition but were refused. Citizens armed themselves andare- paired to the scene of the battle. May- or Hight had the saloons closed, Sev- eral negro soldiers, one with a SOE. field which had just been fired, arrested in various parts of. ie city and locked up, though it was with dif- ficulty that the infuriated white sol- die nd citizens were prevented from wreaking ,summary vengeance upon them. Armories of the two military companies were broken into and every gun and cartridge appropriated by un- known parties. Gen. Frank, who is in charge of the troops, came out and was on the streets until a late hour. Gen. Colby, commanding the Second brig- ade, brought in two companies each of the Third Tennessee and Second Ar- kans: They scoured the city and carried all soldiers not on duty back to camp. A member of the Fourth Wis- consin is said to have been shot but the report cannot be verified. One negro soldier while under arrest was shot in the arm by a citizen. A negro soldier was dangerously beaten by some white soldiers on Tenth street in the after- noon, and this incident is supposed to have caused the riotous actions on the part of the negroes, who are said to have slipped out of camp through the guard lines. A later report says one negro soldier has just been brought in dead and another fatally wounded. SIX MEN KILLED. The Hercules Powder Works Ex- plosion. “oulsiana, Mo., Noy. 26.—The pack- ing house of the Hercules Powder works near Le Mctte was demolished, several other building damaged and six men killed by an explosion. The ex- plosion was so terrific it was felt a dis- tance of twenty-five miles. During the day men were engaged with buckets, gathering up such bits of flesh and bones as they could find. A piece spinal column was found half a from the scene of the explosion. Th who were injured were employed in another building. They were struck by fiying de but none of them were fatally injured. GOOD BYE BLANCO, encral Resigns and nil for Spain. The Captain Will Soon - The new pers announce ‘the re ignation of Capt. Gen. Blanco as published in the Madrid Ga- upen the truth of the irculation that Gen. Bla Havana in a few d. on the steame The members of the colonial cabinet tendered their resignations to Gen. Blanco* who aecepted them, but requested the secre es to continue the exer functions until his successor shall have taken sosses- sion. An Ohio Bank Robber. Utica, Ohio, Noy. 26. — The Wilson bank was robbed while the officials were absent for a period of fifteen min- utes at the dinner hour, $2,000 in regis- tered bonds, $5,600 in coupon bonds and $5,600 in gold and currency being taken. Tramps are supposed to have done the work. Entrance was effected through a back window. Locomotive Explodes. Cincinnati, Noy. 26.—A locomotive on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad at Jones station, near Hamil- ton, exploded, wrecking fifteen freight cars and destroying the locomotive. The engineer and fireman are missing. ' Fatally Frozen. ‘Alexandria, Minn., Nov. 26.—An un- known man was found on the track east of town terribly frozen. He had a hole in his head and cannot live. His thands and legs are frozen solid. He is thinly, clad and is about fifty years old. ye | THEIR HEARTS + supplies and provisions. | THE MARKETS, Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Nov. 28. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 64@65c; No. 2 eae ern, 61@621-2c. Corn — No. 3 ye low, 311-2@32c; No. 3, pias tee, Oats—No. 3 white, 25@251-2; No. 3, 241-2@25c . Barley and Rye—Sample barley, 34@40c; No. 2 rye, 48@48 1-2c¢; No. 3 rye, 47@47 1-2c. Duluth, Noy. 28.—Wheat—Cash and November, No. 1 hard, 711-4c; No. 1 Northern, 671-2c; No. 2 Northern, 64 1-2c; No. 3 spring, 61 1-2c; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 671-8c; No. 1 Northern, 66 1-2c; December, No. 1 hard, 65 7-8¢e; No. 1 Northern, 637-8c; May, No. 1 hard, 665-8c; No. 1 Northern, 65 5-8¢e. Oats, 253-4@263-8c; rye, to arrive, 50c; barley, 36@42c; flax, to arrive, 95c; December, 94 1-2c. Minneapolis, Nov. 28.—Wheat — No- vember closed at 65e; | December opened at 63 7-8¢ and closed at 63 5-8c; May opened at 647-Se and closed at 641-2c. On track—No. 1 hard, 66 1-2c; No. 1 Northern, 65 1-2c; No. 2 North- ern, 63 1-4c. Chicago, Nov. 28.—Wheat—No, 2 rea, 10. 2 Sime ne corn, 33 oats, 27 a Milwaukee, W steady. Wheat lo’ . 68 8-4@69e; No. 2 Northern, 67@68e. Oats stead et 3B-4e. Rye stead, Barley firm; No. 2, aRaamise mple, 43@ 48c. Ch icago, Noy. 28. — ple — Light, 30; heavy, $3. 20@3.60; rough, Cattle —Beeves, $4.15@5.70; stockers and feeders, $3@4.35. Sheep — Natives, $2.60@4.55; Westerns, $8.90@4.40; lambs, $4@5.75. South St. Paul, Nov. 28. — Hogs $2.85@3.40. Cattle—Cows, $2.25@2. steers, $2.25; stockers, $3@3.85; heif- ers, $2.60@3; bull: $4.50. Sheep, $3. Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 23. — Hogs — $3.30@3.45. Cattle—Canners, $2; cows, $3.25; heifers, $3.30@3.: bulls, $2.70 @3.2 stockers, $3.75@3.! yearlings, $3.85@4; calves, $4@4.30. Sheep, $3.50 @. CHEERS FOR SCHLEY. Naval Hero Receives a Warm Wel- come at Brooklyn. New York, Nov. 27. — Rear Admiral Winfield S. Sshley was tendered a cemplimentary dinner in the Brooklyn club. Covers were laid for 150. The club house and dining room were dec- orated with flags of all nations and potted plants and flowers. Rear Ad- miral Schley was escorted to the club by Congressman Charles C. Bennett} and he was accorded a hearty recep- tion by the guests when he took his place at the table along with Chauncy M. Depew, Benjamin F. Tracy, Col. Hester and St. Clair MceKelway. Let- ters of regret were read from Gen. Woodford, William C. Whitney and Supreme Court Judgeelect A. F. Jenks. Mr. MeKelway acted as toast- master and intreduced the guest of the evening. When Admiral Schley arose to speak he was greeted with prolonged cheers, which were renewed. at intervals during his telling of the destruction of Cervera’s fleet. “It is a high tribute to my profession,” he said, “to say that not one ssel of the Spanish fleet escaped us. The other; speakers were Chauncey M. Depew and Benjamin F, ‘Tracy. GEN, woods GOOD WORK. Orderly Town. Washington, Nov. 27. — Gen. Leon- ard Wood, commanding the depart- ment of Santiago, has sent an official report to the war department, of which the following is an extract: .“I have sent rations all along the sea coast and by pack trains into the interior, using every effort to scatter the ra- tions about in such a manner as to enable the people desiring to return to their farms in the interior to do so with a reasonable assurance that they can obtain food while waiting the de- velopment of their first crops. Santi- ago to-day is as clean and healthy as any town of its size along the Ameri can sea coast south of Fortress Mon- roe. Excellent order prevails. There , has not been a murder in the city since | our occupancy.” Santingo Is Now a Clean, 3 DAMAGED BY WIND. Oil Region of California Suffers Se- verely. Los Angeles, Cal. ble wind storm caused meh .dar s and ywod overhead pulley ks were blown | y falling nd the oil is running through the streets, No casualties are report- ed. Two hundred men are clearing | a y the debr Generals Shafter and Garcia Meet. - New York, Nov. 27.—While passing out of the Fifth Avenue hotel last night Gen. Shafter and Gen. Garcia met for the first time since the capitu- lation of Santiago. The generals sa- luted simultaneously, then shook and conversed pleasantly for several minutes. Each seemed much pleased at the meeting. Two Horrible Accidents. Montgomery, Minn.. 27. — Rob- ert, the fourteen-year-old son of Au- gust Hartwig of Lexington, had both hands torn to pieces by the accidental discharge of a shotgun last Sunday. The eighteen-months-old boy of Frank Waceks fell into a tub of hot gvater, dying from the effects. For Violation of Trust, New York, Nov. 27.—George H. Stud- | well, formerly of the firm of Studwell & Sanger, leather merchants, was ar- | rested un the charge of converting to his own use $60,000 which he held in trust for his sister-in-law, Helen Stud- well, and Fanny Atwell, her daughter. Oregon and Iowa. { Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 27.—The United States battleships Oregon and Iowa and the collier Celtic have ar- rived here to recoal and take on board { | —~— ap i { } | nate Chanden Sing. Then, LANDOR’'S OWN STORY OF HIS AWFUL SUFFERIN ‘He Undoubtedly Would Have Been Killed Had It Not Been for a Strange Superstition. [LONDON There are few less known regions on the earth’s surface than Thibet. Ow- ing to the jealous exclusiveness of the Chinese authorities, the religious fa- naticism of the Thibetans themselves and the wild and difficult nature of the country, Thibet has remained isolated from the world longer and more com- pletely than any other region in Asia. Nevertheless, from the fourteenth cen- tury onwards explorers have entered and crossed the country. A few have even penetrated to Lhasa, including one Manning, in 1811. But since two French missionaries got there in 1845 foreign feet have not entered the cap- | ital of Thibet. The practical reason why, which is the outcome of the causes just mentioned, will be found in Henry Savage Landor's account of his recep- tion by the Lamas and the tortures he endured at their hands. When the first accounts of his suf- ferings reached England, there was a not unnatural disposition to regard them as “travelers’ tales,” but Mr. Landor has, very properly, appended to his own statement the official docu- ments of the government inquiry into his case, documents which completely establish the truth of the tale of the terrible cruelty to which his character- istically British love of adventure ex- posed him. Mr. Landor arrived in India in April, 1896, and made his first attempt to en- ter Thibet towards the end of May. But the Forbidden Land was equal to its reputation; thé Thibetan authori- ties prevented him from entering the country by the Lippu Lek Pass—the easiest route—and it was only in the middle of July that he entered Thibet by the Lumpia Pass, was again turned back, but ultimately succeeded in get- ting across the mountains to Mansaro- war. Soon after that his followers, originally thirty in number, were re- duced to two, the rest having gradually come to the conclusion that the air of Thibet was not healthy for foreigners. Before that, however, Mr. Landor had been rewarded for his trouble in get- ting across the frontier by the savage grandeur of the Thibetan scenery. The “natural castle” is a good example of the physical character of that wild and rugged land. It was, he says, only with the aid of a telescope that he was able to make out that the supposed castle was nothing but a work of nature. Finding himself left with only two attendants, Mr. Landor was at the mer- cy of the natives. He was engaged in buying a horse at a place called Tuck- er when he and his servants, Chan- den Sing and Man Sing, were treach- erously attacked by an overwhelming force of Thibetans, thrown down, beat- en, kicked, and finally led off, tightly LETTER. | but most effectively and it is best re- produced in his own words: “It was in reality the wooden frame of a very high-backed saddle, from the back of which some five or six sharp iron spike$ stuck out horizontaly. As I sat on this implement of torture, the spikes caught me in the small of the back. My guard having been augment- ed by twenty or thirty mounted men, with muskets and swords, we set off at a furious pace. A horseman riding in front of me led my pony by means of a cord, as my hands were manacled behind my back, and thus we traveled across country for miles, But for those awful spikes in the saddle the ride would not have been so very bad, for the pony I rode was a fine, spirited an- imal, and the country around was cu- rious and interesting. “As we rode I was shot at from be- hind. The bullet narrowly missed me, whizzing past my left ear. Probably the speed at which my animal was pro- ceeding saved me, as the marksman could not take a very steady aim, but my pony, startled at the sudden report of the matchlock at such close quarters (not more than four yards), took fright, and began rearing and plung- ing. I managed to maintain my seat, though the spikes in the saddle were lacerating the lower part of my spine horribly. Nor was this all. “Then in order to accelerate our speed, a horseman rode by my side, lashing my pony to make it go its hardest. Meanwhile the horseman who held the cord did his utmost to pull me out of the saddle, no doubt in the hope of seeing me trampled to death by the cohort behind me. As I leaned my body forward so as to maintain my seat, and with my arms pulled violently back- wards by the rope, the flesh was rubbed off my hands and knuckles by the chain of the handcuffs. In places the bone was exposed, and, of course, every tug brought me into forcible contact with the spikes and inflicted deeper wounds. The cord, though strong, eventually and unexpectedly gave way. The soldier who was pull- ing at the other end was clumsily un- horsed, and I was myself all but thrown by the unexpected jerk. “I was then hustled to the execution ground. On the ground was a long log of wood shaped like a prism. Upon the sharp edge of this I was made to stand, and several men held me by the body while four or five others, using their combined strength, stretch- ed my legs as wide apart as they could go. Fixed in this painful position, the brutes securely tied me by my feet to the log of wood with cords of yak- hair. Several men were made to pull these cords, and they were so tight THE NATURAL CASTLE. bound, as prisoners into the presence of the “Pombo,” or governor of the province. At first Mr. Landor himself was not tortured, the “Pombo” only trying to intimidate him by the sight of the cruel scourging of the unfortu- on pre- tense of conducting him to the frontier, the Thibetans put Mr. Landor on @ pony and took him across the country in a spiked saddle, the most terrible tortures of the many which they in- flicted upon him. The devilish ingen- uity of the thing he describes simply that they cut grooves into my skin and flesh in several places round my ankles and on my feet, many of the cuts be- ing as much as three inches long. * * * ‘You have come to this coun- try to see. * * * This, then, is the punishment for you!’ And with these dreadful words the Pombo raised his arm and placed a red hot iron bar parallel to, and about an inch or two from, my eyeballs, and all but touching my nose. I instinctively kept my two eyes tightly closed, but the heat was so intense that it seemed as if my eyes, the left one especially, were being des- iceated and my nose scorched. “This ceased and I was enabled to open my eyes. The spectacle before me was overwhelming. By the “Pom- bo’s” tent stood in a row the most vil- Jainous brutes I have ever set eyes upon. One, a powerful, repulsive indi- vidual, held in his hand a great knob- bed mallet, used for fracturing bones; another carried a bow and arrows; a third held a big two-handed sword, while others made a display of various ghastly instruments of torture. The crowd, thirsting for my blood, formed up in a semicircle, leaving room for me to see the parade of the torture im- plements that awaited me, and, as my eyes roamed from one figure to an- other, the several] Lamas shook their various implements to show that they were preparing for action.” The culmination of the tortures was to have been beheadment by a naked sword, but a curious circumstance en- abled him to escape with his life and those of his followers. The reason was because after they had stretched Mr. Landor and Man sing on a rack with their feet tied to a log and their hands to a post high in the air, and allowed them to remain there for twenty-four hours, it was discovered in examining his hands that the web between the fingers was quite high. “He who pos- sesses such fingers has, according to the Thibetans,” says Mr. Landor, “a charmed life, and no matter how much one tries, no harm can be done to him. Apart from the question whether there Was much charm or notin my life in Thibet, there is no doubt that this trif- ling superstition did much towards hastening the ‘Pombo’s’ decision as to what was to be our fate.” They were accordingly taken to the frontier and allowed to return to civ- THIBETAN CASTLE WITH GIGAN- TIC INSCRIPTION. ilization. Truly Mr, Landor must be made of fine stuff to have endured all these horrors and have come out alive. His powers of physical endurance alone entitle him to our respect; his mental fortitude entitles him to our admiration. And through all that ter- rible time he kept his wits about him and his eyes open, observing and set- ting down his observations in his mind to be here reproduced, Such Spartan heroism desei'ves some lasting memo- rial. Largest Sun Dial. The largest sun-dial in the world is Hayou Horoo, a large promontory, ex- tending 3,000%feet above the Aegean sea. As the sun swings round the shadow of this mountain it touches, one by one, a circle of islands, which act as hour marks. LITERARY NOTES. George W. Cable is busy on a novel of the civil war, which he expects to call “The Cavalier.” Most of the char- acters are New Orleans creoles and the scenes of the tale are in the region just north of New Orleans. It is surely one of “life’s little iron- ies’ that the great laughtermaker, Max Adeler, whose real name is Charles Heber Clark, a man with a world-wide reputation as a humorist, should sit in the office of the Textile Record and write ponderous editorials about the exports of the last fiscal year, the protective tariff, free trade, pig iron and the currency. He is a stanch tee- totaler, but a great smoker, and he lives in the country at Conshohocken, where he is at the head of a great firm of manufacturing chemists. Apropos of Mr. Kipling’s new book a good story is being told of him. Re- cently he sold a book to his publisher at a rate that worked out to a shilling a word. The publication of this fact came under the notice of a London newspaper humorist, who, “for the fun of the thing,” wrote to the author say- ing that, as wisdom seemed to be quot- ed at retail prices, he himself would like one word, for which he enclosed a shilling postal order. The reply came, in due course; Mr. Kipling had kept the shilling postal order and po- litely returned (written on a large sheet of paper) the word “Thanks!”, Marian Crawford’s new book is “Ave Roma Immortalis: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome,” in two volumes. He begins with a brief historical study of the rise of Rome, with sketches of some of the great men who made her greatness, and afterward takes the fourteen different regions or wards into which the city was divided in mediaeval times and goes through them, one after another, describing the characteristic buildings of each as they have been in different ages and as we see them now and giving the histories of the people who lived and fought and loved and died in them. If eheerfulness knocks for admis- sion, we should open our hearts wide to receive it, for it never comes inop- portunely. ~ is not kndwa, WEALTH IN LITTLE THINGS. Great Fortunes Have Been Bullt ‘Ope Small Inventions. It has become almost an axiom with the majority that larger fortunes are to be raised from some simple inven- tion than from difficult and expensive inventions that involve a great outlay of money to manufacture, This is toa certain extent true. A certain patent for fastening kid gloves has yielded a fortune of several hundred thousand dollars for its fortunate owner, and the inventor of a collar clasp enjoys $20,- 000 royalty a year as the reward for his endeavor. A new kind of sleeve but- ton has made $50,000 in five years for its patentee, and the simple twisting of safety pins in such a way that there is no possible danger of the point sticking in the child promises to en- rich its owner beyond any of his early dreams of wealth. A man one day turned a piece of wire so as to hold a cork more securely in a bottle, and forthwith somebody saw a brilliant idea, and patented the modern wire stopple holder, which is now used an- nually on several million bottles. The accidental bending of a hairpin by a woman to prevent it from sliding out of her hair so easily produced a for- tune for her husband, who immediately saw the possibilities of a crinkled hair- pin for women. Instances could be multiplied indefinitely of large fortunes being made from small inventions, but fortunately for those inventors who make a life study of intricate problems of mechanics and disdain to waste their talents upon trivial, popular arti- cles of the day, there is often also am- ple reward held in store for the prod- ucts that take years to reduce and which revolutionize existing methods of industry and mechanics. Edison has reaped honors and riches of a princely character from his discover- ies; McCormick has realized in his reaper the fortune of a millionaire; the Corliss engine brought honors and dec- orations to its inventor and enabled him to amass a great fortune in a few years; Professor Bell found in his telephone not only the consummation of his early hopes and ambitions, but a substantial pecuniary reward; Har- veyized steel armor has become syn- onymous with the inventor’s name, and it brings an annual income of huge proportions to its discoverer; Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing ma- chine. realized millions from his in- ventions, and Nikola Tesla, though still young and rich in promises, finds an abundance of money in his work. USE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS Sort of Passive Watchdog for the British Constitution. The house of lords cannot now pro- fess to make the laws of the nation, but it can, and does, prevent vast changes being made in the consti tion by a snap vote or a scratch + jority, says the Spectator. the British constitution what a w ten document, unalterable except der certain special conditions, does 1. other forms of government. But for it the whole of our laws and liberties would lie at the mercy of any man who could get control of the house of com- mons for twenty-four hours. siders all legislation, and though in practice it seldom ventures to make changes, it is able to insist on a refer- ence to the country if it holds that a great and far-reaching revolution is being made without the electors be- ing really aware of what is happen- ing. In fact, it views the laws sent up to it in the light of this question: “Ought this law, if not amended, to be rejected until it has been referred to the nation with the demand. ‘Is it your pleasure that this bill shall be- come law?’” The house of lords is, in a word, an old servant who has passed out of active employment, but still holds one very important office in the national household. The master has said to him in effect: “You are past very active work, and I do not expect you to take any great share ir the regular routine of law-making That must, as a rule, be left, the accounts, to my younger servants I should like you, however, to kee} an eye upon them, and if you notice something being done which appear to you quite contrary to my wishe and to sound management, I want yo to help it until I have been aske It con- —— like al__ t i ] i ; : | | j i } i i Tt d0e8 ener seer whether I really want it carried ous Of course you must not always b worrying me with such questions, nc do I want you to refer things back t me merely because you do not lik them yourself. I only want to be aj pealed to when you feel reasonab sure that I shall object to what is pr’ posed.” a UNDER THE BLACK FLAG. Two Women Known to Have Been Pirat on the Spanish Main. In the old days, when piracy flou ished along the Spanish main and wh buccaneers had headquarters in ma’ islands of the West Indies, Mary Re, and Anne Bonny sailed under t black flag. The firet named was English girl who had worn bo clothing from childhood to hide a fa ily secret. For awhile she served an English warship and then sai for Cuba on a merchant vessel, wh’ was captured by pirates. She joir the gang and thus met Anne Bon The latter was also disguised as a m and, not knowing Mary to be a fem: fell in love with her, revealing | own sex. Mary was then obliged make a similar revelation. The 1 served at their profession for m: years. Finally they were taken p oners by a war vessel. Mary Read» sent to a prison in Jamaica, where ended her days. What became of A ee aaa i wants.