Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 31, 1898, Page 3

— KILLEDIN. =| — ACOLLISION DISASTROUS WRECK ON THE PEN i SYLVANIA ROAD. we Persons Were Killed and at) Least Ten Badly Injured —One Train Had Ecen Stopped on Sig- nal, and Owing to the Dense Fog the Engineer of the Following Train Cogld Not See It and His Train Crashed Into the Other, ‘Tearirg the Rear Car Into Kin- dling Woed—Men and Women Pinned Down by Debris, Dec. 23. — Two of the s trains of the Pennsyl- ilroad came into collision. at small station in New Jersey just beyond Rahway. The early Wash- ington express crashed into the rear end of the Pittsburg Flyer, tearing the rear car into kindling wood and kill- ing two persor nd badly ring ten ethers. A heavy fog prevailed at the time of the dent and the flyer was going slow while the engine driver was endeavoring to read the signals. The engineer of the Washington ex- T s supposed he had a clear track. When three miles from Rahway, N. J., the Pittsburg flyer was stopped, ac- cording to its engineer, by signal. A er thick fog prevailed. The Wash- on express, coming up from be- nd at about twenty miles an‘ hour, dashed into the flyer, sending a bag- > car off the track and crushing ugh into the Pullman sleeper Bar- sldi, which contained fifteen passen- , the pullman conductor and col- New York, LV ored porter, ‘The engine of the Wash- ington express did not come to a stop until half the sleeping car was kind- ling wood. The colored porter and the pussengers were caught upon the top of the boiler, their bodies twisted by the debris and badly mangled. The ne of the Washington expr was aged and the tender thrown ik. Beyond the smashing of hern Express car and car plat- forms the Washington express sus- tained no other damage and none of its passengers were seriously hurt. ious to the collision John V; ft, the engineer of the Washing and fireman jumped off. soth scalp wounds, The i flyer was composed of mail and ex- press cars. The rtholdi was the | ° passenger car it carried. The | rear baggnzge was empty and proved but slight impediment to the engine of the other train, which forced its way thr The passengers in the Bar- tholdi were thrown forward, amid | broken woodwork, escaping steam and flying glass. The car toppled over on its side and lay slanting against the bank The ubhurt passengers fSerambled through the windows. For two hours two women and two men lay pinned down under the debris, suf- fering from their injuries. It was im- possible to get them out until the ar- rival of the ef train. A DESPERATE FIGHT. Revenue Officers and Moonshiners Have a Deadly Conflict. Richmond, V Dec. 23. — A Big Stone Gap, Wise county, special re- ports a fight near Flat Top, Letcher county, Ky., between revenue officers and moonshiners in which Sam May, of Coburn, Wise county, one of the rev- enue raiders and two of his compan- ions were killed. The fatalities among the moonshiners are not known. The fight occurred at the place where Capt. Gates of Louisville and cne of his men were shot about a month ago, The moonshiners are thoroughly organized and hayvé served notice that all in- formers will be ambushed. Cat. Gates to have gfected a junction with the raiders fired upon, but his plans miscarried. Deserter Arrested. Monnett, Mo., Dec. 23. — Israel Me- Cauley, private, Company E, Second regiment, Missouri volunteers, was ar- rested here for deserting at Albany, Ga. Capt. Raupp, Company E, tele- graphed that officers are now en route to Monnett, and that McCauley will have to serve aterm in the Leaven- worth, Kan., prison. Charged With Embezzlement. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 23.—S. A. Sil- vester, formerly agent of the Eqwitable Life Insurance company at Hillsboro, N. D., has been arrested here on a warrant charging him with embezzle- ment. He admits owing the company $500, money spent in the expense of his agency. He will be held until ex- tradition papers arrive. Bank President Guilty. Boston, Dec. 238. — The jury in the case of W. 8. Jewett, formerly presi- dent of the Lake National Bank of Wolfboro, N. H., charged with the em- bezzlement of $25,000, said to have been committed while settling the af- fa of the bank, brought in a verdict of guilty. Panama Canal Gets Six Years. Panama,, Colombia, Dec. 23. — The governor has received from Senor Zubieta, in Bogota, a dispatch giving assurances that Colombia will grant an extension of six years to the Pana- ma Canal company for the construc- tion of the canal. Killed by Carsless Soldiers. Meridian, Miss., Dee. 23. — Lucy Thomas ard her four-year-old boy were shot at Eutaw, Ala., by soldiers of the First Missouri volunteers who were mustered out at Columbia, Tenn, The boys were drunk and disorderly, Cincinnati Sails North. Washington, Dec. 23.—The navy de- partment has been informed that the cruiser Cincinnati has sailed from Santiago for Havana. She will remain but a short time at that port and then proceed to New York. | BLISS’ SUCCESSOR. Ethan A. Hitchcock of Missouri Gets the Job. Washington, Dec. 23. — Ethan A. Hitchcock of Missouri, was nominated by the president to be secretary of the interior to succeed Mr. Bliss. ‘Lhe senate confirmed the nomination, Mr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, at present am- bassador to Russia, was until his ac- ceptance of the Russian mission, the head of the Pittsburg Glass Co., in St. Louis. Mr. Hitchcock was born at Mobile, Ala., 68 years ago. He is a great grandson of Col. Ethan Allen,the hero of Ticonderoga, a grandson of Samuel Hitchcock, who was promi- nent in the early history of Vermont, and a son of Henry Hitchcock, who was chief justice of the supreme court of Alabama. Mr. Hitchcock came to St. Louis in 1851 and engaged in busi- ness here up to 1860, when at the ur- gent request of relatives he left for China as the representative of impor- tant business interests. Returning to St. Louis in 1874, Mr. Hitchcock was up to the time of his appointment as minister to Russia, actively engaged in business as president of several large manufacturing and railway corpora- tions, which position he resigned to accept the portfolio tendered him by President McKinley. He and the president became close friends when Mr. McKinley was framing his tariff law. Mr. Hitchcock was at Washing- ton frequently in connection with the making of tariff schedules on s and naturally became intimate with the then chairman of the ways and means committee. The president ac- cepted the resignation of. Secretary Bliss, which occurred shortly after the meeting of congress and invited Sena- tor J. C. Spooner to take the seat va- cated by Mr. Bliss. And Senator Spooner, it said, took the matter under advisement for two or three days, but after considering it notified the president t he felt obliged to decline it. GEN. MERRITT CALLS. He Was Given an Ovation at the War Department. Washington, Dec. 23. — Gen. Merritt has arrived in Washington and called at the war department and the White Tiouse. He will appear before the war investigating commission and inform them as to the conditions attending the cainpaign in the Philippines, a branch of the subject not exploited up to this point. Gen. Merritt, on the first of the year will take charge of the department of the East, relieving Gen. Shafter, now in command. one seemed to know of Gen. Mert presence soon as he entered the ; building, and his reception wherever | he went was a mild ovation, though not quite so vociferous as that accord- ed Admiral Schley on his return. TARIGF CONTROBERSY Between Uasited States and Germany Looked For. London, Dec. 2: he Berlin corre- spondent of the Daily News says: If symptoms are not deceptive new tar- itt controve are iinminent between the United States and Germany. The protectionists here assert that Dr. yon Holleben, German ambassador to the | United States, has been instructed to demand a reduction in the duties on sugar, wines and textiles. With re- gard to the wine, Germany will claim | on the ground of the “most favored | trea arrangement” the same reduc- tion as is granted to France. LONG WILL STAY. No Foundation for the Report That He Would Resign. Washington, Dec. 23.—Secretary Al- ger is authority for the statément that there is no truth in the report of a change in the head of the navy depart- ment. He said that he was with Sec- y Long a great deal of the time ng his visit to the South with the president and ke heard nothing to just- ify the report that he contemplated leaving the cabinet on account of ill health or any other reason. MERCER NAMED. He Will Be the New Indian at Leech Lake. Washington, Dec. 23.—Capt. Mercer, at present Indian agent at the Omaha and Winnebago reservation in Ne- braska, has been transferred to the new agency at.Leech Lake, Minn. Capt. Mercer is now in Washington and has been ordered to proceed there at once. he details of the establish- ment of the new agency will be ar- ranged later. Agent Old Landmark Destroyed. New York, Dec. 23. — Continenatl hall, an old landmark of Paterson, N. J., was destroyed by fire. The build- ing, which was three stories high, was occupied on the ground floor by store- keepers, while two families lived above. Flames, searting in the base- ment, gained headway so rapidly that the occupants of the building, awak- ened by the smoke, had a narrow es- eape from suffocation and burning. Loss, $75,000. Fast Trains Collide. a Worcester, Mass., Dec. 23. — Two fast moving cars on the Worcester and Suburban Electric road collided head- on at the foot of the long hill in Let- cester. John Kerrigan of Cherry Val- ley and Walter Holbrook of Leicester, passengers, were killed and several others received dangerous injuries. The accident was caused by fog, which made it impossible to see an approach- ing car. More Troops at Havana. Havana, Dec. 23.—The United States transport Chester, which sailed: from Savannah on Dec. 18, with the Fourth Virginia on board, has arrived here. Trick Rider Killed. Syracuse, N. Y., Dee, 23.—Arthur A. Hall, a well known bike trick rider, was instantly killed yesterday by be ing struck On the head by a timber which fell six stories, crushing his skull. He was at work on the building. Victory Bateman Insane. New York, Dec. 23.—The Press says Victory Bateman, the actress, has been placed in the insane pavilion of Bellevue hospital by her mother. The girl has been showing signs of a men- tai breakdown for several days. | tears. “A GLASS DARKLY.” (Romance from a New Year’s Sermon.) y LIVE THOMPSON o sat in her low un- cushioned seat in i the little country church, paying strict attention to the New Year's ser- mon, It was her habit to pay strict attention to the LAN MI Wl 4 regular Sunday sermon, but this Sunday being New Year day she was very devoted in her attention. Her eyes never wandered from the face of the preacher, the face that had been her Sunday study for thirty years. She was five years old when she began the study. The face had never grown any older to her. There were the same little semi-circular wrinkles under the lobe of the ear nearest her, which she had always seen, and the devious creases above the eyes continued al- ways of the same elevation, except that they had grown inwards, tending to the horizontal ripple above the | nose, and deepening at that point. The sermon, to the mind of Olive Thompson, was “more beautiful” on this particular day than had ever been before. “Now we see through a glass dark- ly, but then face to face,” he said. TAKE IT; “The mists of our present condition cloud our view; stormy days have sent dust and sleet against our windows until, for the dimness of cour glass, we cannot see the sky.” Olive Thompson’s eyes filled with IT IS GOOD. She remembered the “dust and sleet” of weary years, How the storm had breathed upon the windows of her soul, turning into frosted tablets what otherwise might have been avenues for sunlight. “Take heart” the preacher went on, “spring days are coming when the windows will be open to the sky, and we shall see face to face what has al- ways been, but which we could not see for looking through a glass dark- ly.” A few months later Olive Thompson stood making apple pies in the pan- try. The pantry window was up and the song of birds came in. Also there came in the voice of Joseph, the hired man, who was coaxing the new calf to drink, “Take it,” he was saying to the inexperienced animal; “it is good.” “Take it; it is good,” Olive repeated to herself in the pantry. “What is good?” asked. the old wrinkled mother knitting in the warm kitchen. “Why, everything, I suppose,” Olive answered, still listening with one ear to what Joseph was saying. “It doesn’t seem good now, bossy; but it is good, take it.” “Olive,” said her mother, “it is time to wash the windows. The frost is all off and they look dingy.” “I know it,” Olive said, “I will do it tomorrow.” “Olive Thompson obeyed her mother from a life-long habit, and from re- ligious principle. Was she not her mother’s child, and ought not children to obey their parents; old, wrinkled, feeble parents?” in tne morning she took her pan of suds and the polishing cloth and stood in a chair to wash the windows. She would begin in the kitchen, she thought, and go clear around to the parlor. She tried to pull out the old fashioned spring of the upper sash, but it would not yield. “Olive,” said her mother, “Joseph had better help to wash the windows. He can stand on the ladder on the outside.” “Joseph,” she called at the door, “come in and pull the spring for Olive.” And, “Joseph, polish the glass on the outside, it is too hard for Olive.” Joseph was obedient. He had been “the hired man” for five years. No one would have known he was the hired man except the two women. He might have been the old lady’s son and Olive’s brother, so kind and true had he always been to these two. Olive stood on a chair on the in- side and Joseph on the ladder outside. The features of each were dim through the glaes, and the two scrubbed away with soap and polish. What was left of smoke and frost yielded to double persuasion, and Joseph called from the outside: “Is it clear, Olive?” “Olive, scrutinizing closely, . called back, pointing to the upper corner. “Just a little more rubbing right there.” She did not notice that Joseph was looking into her eyes, and thinking to himself “how clear” they were. He rubbed away at the filmy place, and then called again: “It isn’t quite clear down in that corner.” Olive polished away on her side catching Joseph’s eye full of a light that shot right through the obscurity and made her remember the text of the New Year sermon—‘‘Now we see through a glass darkly.” Around the house went the two, Olive on the inside and Joseph on the outside, and only the last perlor win- dow was left. The morning had sped away like a glint of sunshine from the pan of water in the chair. Olive had watched this broken bit of rad- iance, as it played on the ceiling above the table with the album and pictorial Bible on it. It was like a halo above the precious spot. She moved her chair up to the window with a little sigh. Joseph moved his ladder up to the same window on the opposite side. “Let it down from the top, Olive,” he said. : “I can’t,” Olive sticks,” Joseph was on her side in a moment, His fingers just touched hers as they pulled on the spring together, and something which was not unlike a glint of sunshine passed through the two. The spring slipped back and Joseph was on the outside again. Joseph low- ered the window tq bring it within easy reach of the woman on the other side. Strange he hadn’t thought of that before. Standing straight up, Olive on her chair and Joseph on his ladder, the two looked into each other’s called back, ‘“‘it “IS IT CLEAR, OLIVE?” eyes. There was nothing on Joseph’s side and nothing on Olive’s side to dim their vision. It was all clear. “But now face to face,” thought Olive. The old mother passing by the par- lor, smiled, and spoke not a word. From the kitchen she called: “Are the windows all clean, daughter?” “All ciean, mother,” came the an- swer, and Olive Thompson recalled the words of the sermon, “Take heart; spring days are coming when the win- dows will be open to the sky; and we shall see face to face what has always been.” When Autumn dies at last upon her throne Amid the ruin of a regal state, Boreas’ clarion trumpets sound her fate, And Winter knows the realm thence- forth his own; Calling his minions in the Arctic zone And making them through his own greatness great, He journeys forth to his possessiond straight, The’ winds’ wild music aye before him blown. a! A lock of frost he fastens on the land, And makes the air with keenest cold to sting; A The waters lie ‘neath fetters from his hand; And while his white snows toss and whirl and fling, Robed royally and crowned for all command He proudly cries, “Behold me: I am King!” —William Francis Barnard. Christmas Eve. By Mary N. Prescott. Christmas eve the wide world over, And Christmas chimes are sounding; Christmas trees their buds discover, With Christmas gifts abounding. The moonbeams on the snow-drifts shed Strike out a sudden splendor; And all the heavenly fields are spread With starlight bright, yet tender. The window-panes are white with frost, In tracery of flowers, Bringing again the summers lost To bloom through Christmas hours. O, happy night, whose blessed days Acrogs the ages shine, Lighting the darkness of our days With promises diyine! Twelve Hundred Miles of {Coral Reef- The great barrier reef which fringes the coast of Australia north of Bris- bane, in the direction of, Torres straits, must always rank among the wonders of the world. For 1,200 miles the coral animalcules have raised a solid protec- tion against the rage of the ocean swell at a distance varying from 20 to 150 miles from the shore, leaving a comparatively safe and calm inner passage, suitable for navigation by the largest steamers on their voyage north and east. Sundry channels penetrate the reef at intervals, and whole fleets of trading schooners are regularly en- gaged amid the intricate labyrinth of coral inlets—London Standard, Idlot. “The average American woman,” said the tiresome ler, “as any ar- tist or any physician will tell you, is misshapen.” “Some of them,” said the Cheerful Idiot, “have matronly figures.”—Ex, WORK OF CONGRESS Washingten, Dec. 20. — The house gave the day to the Indian appropria- tion bill, passing it substantially as re- ported. This is the third of the ap- propriation bills to pass and it clears the calendar of the bigs upply bills, aithough another, the agricultural, will be ready and knocking for attention by to-day. Mr. Sherman (Rep., N. Y.), ex- plaining the Indian Dill, said that the appropriation had been approved by the executive authorities. He said the principal increase was for the In- dian schools, more than $2,500,000 go- ing for.that purpose. This amount did not include contract schools, as the question of sectarianism was complete- ly eliminated. Nor did this figure in- clude the New York and Indian Ter- ritory Indians, whose educatien is paid for out of their own funds. Washington, Dec. 20. — The senate had a busy day and there were several important speeches. Mr. Platt of Connecticut spoke against the Vest resolution which declares that the United States has no power to acquire territory. He said that the power of a nation to acquire territory was as in- herent as its sovereignty. The United States had the right te govern them in the best possible manner until the peo- ple of the acquired lands were capable of self-government. Mr. Proctor of Vermont and Mr. Hale of Maine e changed divergent views upon a com- mission of senators to visit Cuba. Mr. Proctor thought such a commission was hecessary, while Mr. Hale thought it would be in extremely bad taste and useless. The Nicaragua canal bill was up during the last part of the day and Senators Berry, Allen, Hoar, Caffery and Morgan discussed the measure. In the House. It was suspension day in the house and several bills were passed, the most important of which was the bill appropriating $350,000 for the Phila- delphia exposition of 1899. The vote was exceedingly close. It had but two yotes more than the necessary two- third: Bills’ were passed under the suspension of the rules to authorize the distribution of the assets of the Freed- ma bank; to enlarge the scope of the fish commission to include birds; for the relief of the Fourth mounted Arkansas infantry, and for the relief of John W. Lewis of Oregon. Mr. Bailey of Texas introduced a resolu- tion in open house directing the ju- diciary committee to investigate and report on the question whether mem- of the house who accepted com- ons in the army had forfeited their seats in the house. He made the resolution the text for some rema in the course of which he took o casion to bitterly denounce a new paper statement to the effect that in his attitude on this question he bad been made a catspaw of by certain Re- publican members. He denounced the Republican who had instituted the statement as an infamous liar challenged him to father it. There was no reply to Mr. Bailey tatement and the resoluticn was referred to the com- mittee on rules. Washington, Dec. 21.—Senator Teller occupied the first half of yesterday's session of the senate with a speech in advocacy of the theory that there are no restrictions upon the right of the United States to expand its borders so as to include far distant territory. He went quite thoroughly into the legal points bearing upon the question, and also incidentally discussed at some length the form of government for the Philippines, saying that he would en- courage self-government among the islands and would give them the most liberal government which they were capable of managing, but that he would not take down the American flag where once _ placed. The re- mainder of the session was given up to the Nicaragua canal bill. Senator Caffery was the only speaker on this subject, and he opposed the Morgan bill. In the House. The house listened to the first speech on the subject of annexation of the Philippines. Mr. Williams of Missis- sippi, a Democratic member of the for- eign affairs committee, in an hour's speech, stated his opposition to a pol- icy which would bring the islands un- der the sphere of United States infiu- euce. He contended that it would be hostile to the spirit of our institutions to assume control over 9,000,000 unwil- lung subjects, that annexation would cost us $40,000,000 a year, that the an- nexation of the islands met none of the terms that applied to our past ac- quisitions of territory and would be a mistake from a social and political standpoint. Mr. William’s remarks re- ceived careful attention and several times drew applause from his Demo- cratic colleagues. The agricultural ap- propriation bill was passed without material amendment. It carried $3,- 696,322, or $187,120 more than the cur- rent law. Several resolutions from the river and harbor committee call- ing upon the secretary of war for esti- mates as to the cost of certain pro- posed river and harbor work were adopted. Washington, Dec. 22.—The absence of a quorum of the senate saved Sen- ator Proctor’s resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of senators to investigate the conditions in Cuba and Porto Rico during the Jong recess of congress from over- whelming defeat. An effort was made by Mr. Daniel to secure consideration of the resolution, but his resolution mustered only 8 of the 38 votes cast. No business of importance was dis- posed of. Only some routine business was transacted. In the House. ‘The last session of the house before the holiday recess lasted but an hour. The Bailey resolution directing an in- vestigation into the right of members who volunteered during the Spanish war to the seats was adopted and sev- eral minor bills were passed. Petition in Bankruptcy. Duluth, Minn., Dee. 24.—The copart- nerskip of Stryker, Manley & Buck and the individual members filed a pe- tition in bankruptcy. The liabilities aggregate about $450,000 and the as- sets aggregate about $35,000. 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