Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 12, 1899, Page 6

——— The Aevais-—-Review. E. ©, KILEY, Editor. MINNESOTA, GRAND RAPIDS - is to One way to prevent seasicknes remain on land. Dewey left Port Said as soon as his ship was coaled. Enough Said. The wicked mosquito is never satis- fied until he lands behind the bars. A musician ought to enjoy the com- pany of the banjo he picks himself. Money makes the mare go, but rail- way officials prefer to run trains on A true friend speaks of your vices to your face and of your virtues behind your back. The man who can honestly say he doesn’t believe in luck has all the money he needs. Now that the preliminaries in the Dreyfus case have gone beyond the hugging point they will soon get down to real business. Tom Reed has demonstrated that it is just as easy for a big man to drop out of sight as it is for a small man to leap into temporary prominence. The St. Louis professor who sug- gests the name of Usona for this coun- try has missed his calling. He should be writing advertisements for biscuit makers. The Boston police’are looking for a missing girl whose name is given in full as Mary. Possibly this is the Mary whom the lamb loved. Her surname was also withheld. Spain is not yet barren of colonies. A glance at the map will show that she still possesses tne penal settle- ments of Ceuta and Fernando Po and a piece of the Sahara desert as big as Texas. The Dons are probably hold- ing these choice lots to await a rise in current prices, Another burglar has been routed, horse, foot and artillery, by a Chicago woman whom he met as he was carry- ing away a bag of hard-earned plun- der. The man must have been a stranger. Native burglars have long since learned that the Chicago woman in her wrath is more terrible than a ten-acre lot full of policemen. American superiority in every art is becoming recognized the world around. A somewhat embarrassing indication of the high appreciation awarded e kill is given in a dispatch from Sweden, which states that Swed- ish banknotes are being extensively counterfeited and that “the excellence of the counterfeit seems to prove that the plates were made in America.” The people of other states will be os to learn how Missouri gets on h her new statute against depart- ment stores. It classifies merchandise under 88 separate heads, and imposes a special tax upon any merchant who sells goods of more than one class. As the freedom of trade has hitherto been among the unenumerated rights of the citizen, the courts have yet to pass upon the question whether the legislature can restrict the freedom. Such is the tendency to specialism in these days that Prof. Hadley, the president-elect of Yale, who is chiefly known as a political economist, would doubtless shrink from being examined in his father’s Greek grammar. But after all, of what great use is the Greek language to Americans? What we want to know is the truth: What kind of national, state or local legislation will produce the greatest good to the great- est number? College endowments keep collegians away from a chance to get at the truth. Whether Hadley’s ideas are wrong or right they will provoke discussion in a fertile field of reform. The agricultural department has is- éued a bulletin treating of the probable success of the efforts of the depart- ment to establish the Smyrna fig in- dustry in California. It appears that the fruiting of the Smyrna fig is de- pendent upon the introduction from the south of Europe and the establish- ment in California of a little insect which fertilizes the fig. Experimental introductions of the insect were there- upon begun, and some of them brought over in 1898 have suceeded in pene- trating the closed flowers of the Capri figs growing at Fresno, making the first step of the experimental work a success. The bulletin adds: “Since the insect has maintained itself for an entire year there is reason to suppose that it will continue to breed, and that California in the near future will be able to place a fig upon the market which will possess the same superior flavor as that which has given the im- ported Smyrna figs their pre-eminent commercial rank.” ——$—______. Chicago has at last occupied the po- sition London has occupied for so many years, the distinction of adding every year a good-sized city to its pop- ulation, The best estimates of the di- rectory experts show that during the past year the city has increased in population 136,000, making a total grand population of 2,019,000. Pass- ing the 2,000,000 mark and adding a city of, say, about the size of Indiana- polis every year, Chicago. will enter the new century with a prospect of leading all its records in the matter of phenomenal growth. PITH OF THE NEWS DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- egraph Reports — The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Attracted Attention, Sporitns. Edward Ten Eyck wins the champi- on ship in the national rowing regatta. McDuffie, at New Bedford, Mass., bikes a mile in 1:28, breaking the world’s record. The money for the new gymnasium at the Phillips-Andover academy at Andover, Mass., $50,000, has been raised. ©. D. Borden of New York, class of 1860, gave $20,000. Dr. Newman of Chicago and M. Mil- ligan of Ottawa, Ont., swam from the latter city down the Ottawa river to Besier Grove, a distance of ten miles, for a wager. Newman won the race by about fifteen minutes. The distance was covered in three hours and thirty minutes. Washington Talk. ‘The department of state has received a cablegram from Minister Hunter at Guatemala City stating that he had entered a protest against the expulsion from Guatemala of the American cit- izen, J. B. Richards, and will make an examination and report upon the sub- ject. The monthly statement of the pub- lic debt shows that at the close of bus- iness July 31, 1899, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,161,- 587.671, an increase for the month of $5,267,436. Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden has issued an order calling the attention of postmasters everywhere to the fact that packages cannot be mailed to the Yukon district. Letters and postal cards only can be sent. Automobile mail delivery carts may soon be seen on the streets of St. Paul and other large cities in the, United States. Experiments indicate that harseless vehicles will meet with the approval of the postoffice department. Accidental Happenings. A boat which was being used to convey sailors to a warship at Buda- pest was capsized and five of the men drowned. The harbormaster’s cutter was cap- sized at Kiel by a waterspout and three of the members of the crew were drowned. The power house and car sheds of the North Jersey Railway company, New- ark, N. J., were burned, causing a loss of $300,000. The fire was caused by lightning. M. Huber, a Swiss deputy, while mountaineering with his daughter near the Gamuluchilee, fell and was instant- ly killed. His daughter was seriously injured. Frank Curry, of Curry’s hotel, be- tween Blumen lake and North Creek, N. J., was instantly kiJled by lightning and his two sisters rendered insensi- ble. W. H. McConnell and his wife, and eged couple, were killed by lightning at their home near Cottage Grove, Henry county, Tenn. both had their clothing burned off. Lightning struck the big brick power house and car house of the South Or- ange avenue electric road at Newark, N. J. The building caught fire and was destroyed with sixty-five cars. Loss, 300,000, A light engine ran into the rear end of a freight at Dennison, a few miles west of Winslow, Ariz. Engineer Mc- Leod and Brakeman Constable were killed and Conductor Frame was seri- ously injured. Criminal Mecord. Congressman Lovering of Massachu- setts was robbed of $13,000 in money and valuables, while on his way from Brussels to Ostend. Louis Henderson, a negro, Was lynched at Blakeley, Ga., for attempt- ing to assault the six-year-old daughter of J. W. Bowman, a planter for whom he worked. Ernest Pakahquer, a graduate from the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., shot and killed Edith Morell, aged seven. teen, at the home of Mrs. J. F. Morell, in South Amherst, Mass. The murder owas, without doubt, the result of Miss Morell’s refusal of his attentions. Point Township, near Mount Vernon, Ind., was the scene of a killing. Joseph Bagwell and Joseph Robinson became involved in an altercation and Robin- son drew his revolver and fired at Bag- well, but missed. Bagwell returned the fire, killing Robinson instantly. The board of commissioners of Cook county have offered a reward of $500 for the capture and return to Chicago of Daniel Coughlin, wanted for alleged jury-bribing. Coughlin was once sen- tenced to the penitentiary for life for the murder of Dr. Cronin, and was ac- quitted on a second trial. Foreign Between 300 and 400 people lost their lives in a recent hurricane on the Japanese coast. , Thomas Bain, Liberal member for Wentworth, was elected speaker of the Canadian house of commons to succeed Sir James Edgar, deceased. The Rome correspondent of the Lon- don Daily Mail says: The pope has ratified the decisions of the council of arbitration held there recently. These decisions are a mortal blow to Ameri- can liberal Catholicism. j It is reported that quantities of mili- tary supplies are arriving at Pieter- maritzburg, capital of Natal, South Africa, daily. A dispatch received from Paris states that Miss Electa Gifford of Chicago has been engaged as prima donna at the Amsterdam opera. ; The queen will present to the Na- tional Portrait gallery Hayter’s cele- brated picture of her majesty in her coronation robes which is nowfat Ken- ‘ sington arty exhibition, It is officially announced from Pan- ama that the yellow fever has ceas to be epidemic there. The total num- ber of cases reported since the out- break of the disease is 88, of which 45 resulted fatally. The pope, in a letter to Queen Wil- helmina of Holland, expresses the hope that he will soon be able to establish harmony between the South American nations, which have submitted their dispute to his arbitration. The Madrid correspondent of the London Standard says that the Span- ish minister of finance declares that the rumor that the government is try- ing to induce the United States to pay for the amortization of the Cuban debt is without foundation. Personal, Sir James Edgar, speaker of the Canadian house of commons, is dead at Toronto. Senator Tirman, Republican, former- ly governor of Algeria, is dead. He was born in 1837. Eliza Sanford, one of the sixteen daughters of revolutionary soldiers on the pension list, died at Montclair, N. J., aged eighty-four years. Joseph Alford Smith, dean of the colony of actors and actresses at the Forest home at Philadelphia, is dead, aged eighty-six years. Dr. W. H. Parker died at_ his resi- dence at Richmond, Va., aged seventy- five. During the civil war he com- manded the celebrated Parker battery of the Confederate service. George Averoff, the wealthy Greek whose gift of a million francs for the restoration of the stadium at Athens, led to the revival of the Olympan games a few years ago, has just died at Alexandria, Egypt, in his seventieth year. Mrs. Alice West, wife of Maj. Parker W. West, adjutant and inspector gen- eral of the department of Texas, died at San Antonio from the effects of a surgical operation for appendicitis. Mrs. West was widely known as a social leader in tnis country and in Europe. John Kelly, the Tammany leader and sporting man, better known as “Smil- ing John” Kelly, died at New York, aged fifty-five. He is said to have been Richard Croker’s closest friend, and he had a wide acquaintance among turfmen, having owned and raced many fine horses. Otherwise. An immense iron and steel company has been organized in Alabama. Wholesale boycotting results from the Cleveland strike. The war cloud that has been hover- ing over the Transvaal is disappearing. A serious yellow fever epidemic pre- vails at the National Soldiers’ home av Hampton, Va. Nebraska volunteers land at San Francisco and are given a rousing re- ception. A Detroit firm proposes to raise the level of Lake Erie three feet by means of a dam. The wholesale liquor dealers of the country propose to do battle with the whisky trust. The wholesale liquor dealers of the country propose to do battle with the whisky trust. The anti-Goebel Democrats in Ken- tucky will hold a convention Aug. 16 and nominate a state ticket. The Harriman Alaska scientific ex- pedition returns, having made interest- ing and important discoveries. The commission sent to Samoa makes its report, reccmmending the abolition of the kingship and other governmental reforms. The Great Northern is said to be con- templating paralleling the Northern Pacific between Portland and Puget Sound. The Iowa Republicans renominated Goy. Shaw, and other state officers, and nominated John C. Sherwin for su- preme judge. The hospital ship, Relief, reaches San Francisco from Manila, bearing a large number of invalided soldiers, including twenty-one Minnesotians. Three hundred employes of Critch- ett, Erbley & Co., at Belfast, Me., shoe manufacturers, struck against a gen- eral reduction of wages of 10 per cent. The Consolidated Cattle company expects to round up 600,000 head of cattle on the big ranches in Texas and Eastern Mexico for breeding, fattening and marketing. C. W. Marks of Chicago has sold his great pacer Joe Patchen, 2:011-4, to Ed Mills of Boston for H. Y. Haws of Johnstown, Pa. .Mr. Marks says that the price was $20,000 in cash. A Brooklyn manufacturing company has just shipped forty-three hundred- pound anvils to the Chinese Eastern railway at Vladivostock, where the company also shipped thirteen large machine shop anvils in November last. Hay rake manufacturers of the Mid- dle Western states decided to advance the price of rakes because of the re- cent advance in prices of iron and steel. The amount of the advance was not definitely determined. Secretary Easley, of the Civic Fed- eration, is working up interest every- where in the conference on combina- tions and trusts to be held at Chicago Sept. 13-16. Thirty-five governors have agreed to appoint seven delegates each. The senate Republican finance com- mittee, which has been in session for some time at Narragansett Pier, R. L, has completed its work for the present and adjourned subject to the call of Chairman Aldrich. The new Distilling Company of America, whose capital is $125,000,000, has extended the time for the deposit- ing of stock by the stockholders of the four companies which it merged to Sept. 1. ‘The depository is the Central Trust company. Lewis Morrison, the tragedian, will take a company of players to Japan, It is Mr. Morrison’s intention to leave San Francisco in May with a company of twenty-two people, scenery, etc., and play a year in Japan. From there the company will go to Australia. The American Glass Company of Pittsburg has sent out its circulars an- nouncing to the trade an advance of 5 per cent in the price of glass, taking effect Aug. 1. The last advance in price was made June 20, which, in- cluding the present increase, makes the advance in the price since the open- ing of the fire about 20 per cent. SITUATION HOPEFUL NO FURTHER SPREAD OF YELLOW FEVER. < Medical Officials Report the Situn- tion Favorable and Encouraging —No More Cases Have Been Re- ported and There Have Been No Deaths Under ‘Treatment—Contagion Will Prob- ably Be Confined to the Soldiers’ Home and Phoebus. Among Those Washington, Aug. 5. — The yellow fever situation at Hampton continues favorable and encouraging in the opin- ion of the officials of the marine hospi- tal service. According to official re- ports there has been no spread of the eontagion since Wednesday nor has any of the cases now under treatment proven fatal since that time. It is hoped to confine the disease to the sol- diers’ home and Phoebus, but Surgeon General Wyman thinks it too early to make a definite prophecy regarding the outbreak, as it is orly four or five days since the presence of the fever became known to the officials here. Last night Dr. Wyman received the following tel- egram from Dr. Vickery, stationed at the soldiers’ home: “Situation favora- ble and encouraging; no new cases and no deaths.” ¢ Dr. Wyman received from the home a list of the members of the institution who were furloughed on and after the 22d of July, the day after a number of the inmates became sick with the fe- ver. Accompanying the names were the exact dates and time of the fur- loughs and the destination of those to whom they were granted. The sur- geon general gave this information to the press and asks that newspapers in the places to which these persons have gone publish it, and that medical of- ficers hold under close observation for a period of at least ten days after they left the home such of the inmates as they may be able to find. Most of the inmates furloughed fortunately nave gone to Northern cities. Sergeant Pettus wired from Fortress Monroe that there is nothing new aud that a good patrol is being maintained. Acting Assistant Surgeon P. St. L. Me- Clure will be on duty at Craney Island. He will go there with persons held in detention at Berkley. Some from Nor- folk were sent over yesterday. Dr. John Archinard of New Orleans will reach Washington in a few days for duty that may be assigned to him. Regarding rumors said to prevail in Newport News that government ex- perts had pronounced the disease not to be yellow fever, Dr. Wyman and Gen. Sternberg each said that no such information had been sent to either of them, and that no reason was known for questioning that the disease was yellow fever. Norfolk, Va., Au —Dr. F. 8. Hope, quarantine officer of the port of Nor- folk, who is in charge of the quaran- tine here, gave out an interview in which he says there is not a case of yellow fever nearer Norfolk than Phoebus, on the other side of Hampton Reads, adjoining the soldiers’ home. There is a cordon of soldiers separat- ing Hampton and Old Point Comfort from Phoebus. Newport Nev also maintaining a strict quarantine, not only against Phoebus, but against the soldiers’ home at Hampton as well. Norfolk, Portsmouth and all other municipalities this side of Hampton Roads have quarantined against all the points mentioned on the peninsula. ADDRESSED BY ROOSEVELT. Guest of Honor at the Ocean Grove Summer School. Ocean Grove, N. J., Aug. Theodore Rooseveit of New the guest of honor at the Ocea summer school, whe address upon Polities and Decent Pclitics” before an audience of 10,000 people. Crowds met Goy, Rcosevelt at the New Jersey station on h’s way from New York, cheering him heartily. At Ocean Grove he was met by a great crowd and 100 bicyclists es- corted him to his speaking place. In front of the house a company of boys, dressed as rough riders, saluted him to his great delight. The audience then was extraordinarily enthusiastic that Goy. Roosevelt was obliged to beg the pecple to moderate their cheering. LARGER ARMY. Secretary Reot Evidently Means to Increase the Force in the Philip- pines. Washington, Aug. 5. — It appears probable from developments during the past few days in the war department that Secretary Root has in contempla- tion an army of 40,000 available men for the Philippines. While Mr. Root has been at the head of the department only a brief time, he has been making diligent inquiries among bureau chiefs regarding supplies and equipment and tae trend of his questioning ha& been in the direction of an increase in the available force for the Eastern archi- pelago. Physician Dies on the Street. Kansas City, Aug. 5.—Dr. C. W. Ad- ams, a prominent physician, who was one of the founders of the University Medical college of this city, and for five years dean of the faculty, died on the street from an overdose ef chloral taken at his office. Another Protest From the Pope. Rome, Aug. 5.—There is good reason to believe that the pope will shortly make another solemn protest against the position of the Vatican in Italy. It will be the most vigorous and care- fully worded protest ever issued from the vatican. Struck by an Iceberg. St. John’s, N. F., Aug. 5.—The French dispatch boat Mancba, which arrived here last night, struck an iceberg waile off the coast of Labrador and had her bows stove in. It will take about four weeks to repair the damage. Killed by Runaway Team, Glyndon,; Minn., Aug. 5—Jerry Reedy, an old man and well known character, was killed in the town of Riverton by a runaway accident while raking hay. The horses kicked him in the abdo- men. a A ets | THE CABLE ERRED, Thirteenth Minnesota Will Sail on tac Sheridan. Washington, Aug.-6.—Gen. Otis yes- terday cabled the foflowing: “Error cable yesterday. Minnesota and South Dakota take wansport; not Montana.” The cable of yesterday caused con- siderable dissatisfaction in Minnesota, as it had previously been announced that the Minnesota regiment was to sail next. Inquiries from the war de- partment developed the error. AILING MINVESOTANS. Cheering Reports From the San Francisco Hospital. San Francisco, Aug. G6—TNe Minne- sota boys invalided home who arrived or the Relief are being well cared for, thanks to untiring efforts in their be- half by Col. Ames, who is also on sick leave. The colonel sends daily con- signments of delicacies to the disabled wen of his command and the boys ap- preciate his solicitude. Rheumatism and fever contracted in the trenches at Manila have crippled the boys and they will not recover their usual health for a long time. Of fifty sick Minne- sctans at the Presidio hospital over forty are convalescent and able to take care of themselves. Louis Ulmer, Company L, is in the worst condition, Ivor five months he has been disabled by rheumatism. ‘he attack is so seri- ous that treatment does not help him. The Dakota men are all right. CZAR IS SICK OF IT. Disappointed and Discouraged he Wants to Abdicate. London, Aug. 6.—M. De Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, gives an extraordinary explanation of M. Delcasse’s present mission. He assert that it was decided on quite suddenly for a “reason which admitted of no delay,” and then gives the story, which he says he has from ‘a source to which I am bourd to attach im- portance.” This is the explanation: “Emperor Nicholas is disappointed and tired of the throne. The absence of an heir excites his superstitious feelings, and he connects himself with a Russian legend, according to which an heirlsss czar is to be succeeded by a czar Michael, predestined to occupy, Constantinople. The death of the ezarewitch and the failure of the con- ference at The Hague, led him to de- cide to abdicate on the occasion of his coming visit to Darmstadt. On this becoming known in Paris M. Delcasse was sent in hot haste to dissuade him from carrying out his intention.” G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. General Order From the Acting Com- mander-in-Chief. Cincinnati, Aug. 6. — Acting Com- mander-in-Chief W. C. Johnson, of the G. A. issued what may be his last official general order. It ap- plies to the coming national encamp- ment in Philadelphia, Sept. 4. It es- tablishes the national headquarters at the Cortinental hotel. All national ofti- cers are to report at that place Mon- day, Sept. 4, at 10 m. The national council of administration will meet in the Continental hotel at 4 p. m., Sept. 4. The thirty-third national encamp- ment will convene for business at 1 p. m., Wednesday, Sept. 6, in the Grand opera house. The parade will be Tues- day, the 5th, at 10 a. m. REPARATION DEMANDED lor the Invasion of the American Legation in Haiti, Port au Prince, Haiti, fi of ihe recent inva ho were se¢ vier, the newspaper net been definitely settled. It is un- derstood that the American minister, William F. Powell, will demand reparation for the outrage. Mr. Pewell, when interrogated by the cor- respondent of the Associated Press, de- clined to go into particulars, but said the situation was scrious. SEDUCED HIS WIFE. Charge Upon Which One Wealthy Man Sues Another. Chattanooga, Tenn.. Aug. 6,—Infor- mation reached here that Thomas Gil- lespie of Spring City, Tenn., one of the wealthiest and most prominent citi- zens in East Tennessee, filed suit for $25,000 against W. S. P. Brown of Spring City, who is considered one cf the wealthiest men in this section. Mr. Gillespie charges Mr. Brown wita sé- ducing his wife and aiienating her af- fections. Mrs. Gillespie yesterday filed a suit for divorce at Dayton against her husband. ARMED FOR TROUBLE. GGriffin Trial at Manchester Likely , to Be Interesting. London, Ky., Aug. 6.—Fifteen mount- ed men, heavily armed, passed here last night, going in the direction of Clay county. They are members of the Griffin faction, and it is supposed they joined those who have gone to Manchester to attend the preliminary trial of Green Griffin for the killing of Edward Fisher two weeks ago. Trouble is feared when the factions : meet. Suspected Thief Shot. Barnesville, Minn., Aug. 6. — An al- .eged horsethief was caught here by Chief Forsythe and is locked up. He gave his name as Pat Padden. He emptied his revolver at the policeman. Padden was shot through both calves of his legs. Escaped From Lynchers. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 6. — John Thomas, a neg-e, was surrounded in a swamp near Cuba, Ala., by a lynch- ing party. He finally managed to make his escape after wounding several members of the posse. Murdered Children. Susquehanna, Pa., Aug. 6.—Charles Yager, thirty years of age, while tem- porarily insane, murdered his three small children by cutting their throats and then committed suicide by the same means. Italian Hanged. New Orleans, Aug. 6.—Frank Naska, an Italian, was hanged at St. John, La. ,Naska killed three people and wounded two others about three years ago. His victims were his own country- men. a R 3 2 5 ® a = es ERY SNA nc RR 2 RI ee a ec cee Sar aL B Tepublic. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY A SCORE OF PERSONS MEET AN AWFUL FATE. Collapse of a Gang Plank Plunges One Hundred and Fifty Persons Into the Water—Work of Rescue ‘Was Begun at Once, but in the Panic the People in the Water Clutched One Another and Many Sank Thus in Groups in a Death Grapple. Rar Harbor, Me., Aug. 8—A score of persons were killed yesterday by the collapse of the gang plank of the Mount Desert ferry. Seventeen were drowned and three died from the ter- rible immersion in the water and in- juries while struggling for life. The Maine Central railway ran ex- cursions to Bar Harbor from all sec tions of its line in Maine, the attrac- tion being the warships which were expected yesterday. All the morning trains packed with excursionists were running to Bar Harbor. The train which left Bangor at 8 consisted of twelve cars jammed with people. At Mount Desert ferry, the terminus of the line, the train is left for the boat, for an eight-mile sail to Bar Harbor. Fron: the wharf a slip or gang plank forty feet long and ten feet wide led up to the boat. The slip was hinged at the inner end, 1 or low- ered to suit the tide. The wharf ex- tends on both sides flush with the end of the wooden gang plank. Five tim- bers, 4x12 inches, set vertically, ram the length of the plank and these were crossed by two-inch plankin; It is said that there was no support for the plank between the hinges at the outer end. When the ‘ursion train from Bangor arrived at the rry there was a rush for the steamer Sapphett. The first few passengers had sed the gangplank safely, and it estimated that 200 people were massed upon the plank. Suddenly they felt the plank Give Way Beneath Them. The long timber supporting the plank broke in the middle. The hinges held up oue end and the chain the other, while the broken ends of the plank dropped and a struggling, screaming mass of humanity was plunged into the water, fifteen feet below the wharf. A few clung to the inclined sides of the ank, but at least 150 were struggling in th The piling of the wharf penned them in on three sides and the boat lying at the wharf closed the other end of the opening After the first moment of stupefaction the work of rescue began. Ropes and life preservers were thrown to the crowd, but in the’ panic the people in the water clutched one another and many sank thus in groups in a death grapple. Many were taken from the water un- conscious and were revived with diffi- culty. Doctors were summoned from all directions but it was half an hour before the first arrived. The freight house at the ferry was turned into a mergue, the bodies being taken there for identification as fast as recovered. By noon seventeen had been recovered. ee other persons were taken on beard the Sappho and died on the way to Bar Harbor. The exact number of dead will not be known for some time Yet as a strong tide sweeps under the pier and some bodies may have been d away by it. A diver is at work g for bodies, MANY LIVES IN DANGER. Steamer Has a Close Call Foundering in Lake Mi South Haven, Mich., Aug. 8. — 'The passenger steamer City of Grand Rap- ids, with two hundred people on board, narrowly escaped foundering in mid- lake. The steamer was bound for Milwau- kee and was thirty-five miles out when rge amount of water was discoy- ered in the hold. The water was pour- ing in from many leaks, and to make the situation more desperate the en- gineer was unable to start the pumps going. When the water rose until it was within two iaches of the fires the steamer was turned around and head- ed for South Haven. The passengers were awakened and told to prepare themselves for what might happen. A wild scramble for life-saving appliances followed. Just before the fires were put out by the incoming water the engineer succeeded in rigging up one of the pumps, which held the water in check until port was reached again. Two inches more of water would have shut off the supply ef steam from the boilers and the steamer must have sunk in midlake, most likely with a great loss of life. it is thought the leaks were due to defective caulking. From higan. WASN'T THEI RFAULT. Spanish Generals Acquitted in the Court-Martial on the Santiago Sur- render, Madrid, Aug. 8. — The supreme court martial before which Gen. ‘oral and Gen. Pareja have been on trial, charged with surrendering Santiago to the United States forces without nav- ing exhausted all means of defense, has acquitted both officers on the ground that they acted upon the or- ders of their superiors, and only sur- rendered when it was impossible to do otherwise. NOW EXPECT MUSIC. Jiminez Has Left Havana for Santo Domingo. Havana, Aug. 8. — Gen. Juan Isidro Jiminez, accompanied by six Cubans and four natives of San Domingo, is believed to haye left for the Dominican Sunk in Collision. Detroit, Mich. Aug. 8—As a result of a collision the steamer W. B. Mor- ley, witn a cargo of hard coal lies sunk in the river two blocks above Wood- ward avenue and the car ferry steamer Lansdown is sunk in its slip at Wind- son. i Train Wrecked. Harmony, Minn., Aug. 8.—A train was wrecked one and one-half miles west of this place. John Melheim of Prairie du Chien, a bridge carpenter, — “was injured. ‘a