Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 1, 1902, Page 2

The Herald--Review. By E. C. KILEY. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, - King Football {s rapidly running up his score of broken bones. Zola was buried in a style that he a would have delighted to write about. ge declares that prices He must need a new ty early for members of ian commonwealth to talk Pir vogue pong ought to have remarkable winter. It is a great pro- All that we can hope for now is that Yohe and Strong may not get divorced and do more harm. sian professors are not in- i to treat the w comet with Some wall paper, costing $25 a roll, which reached Kansas the other day, is called Wall street paper. The coming vogue of the mutton leg be regarded as another protest against the beef trust. sleeve n Putting fancy prices on coal when there is none in the market is a harm- less amusement of the dealers. Another pie famine has been averted and the ion is relieved of the fear “Should bachelors be taxed?” They are taxed now with all the faults and foibles to which sinful man is prone. nge reports that a Maine zone crazy through fear the would get him. There are g can’t secure privacy in his 1e, which is five miles from a ation, he will doubtless try new rail a balloon. ay Unfortunately, most of the advice given about climbing the ladder of success iven by those who are at the foot o A New York woman claims that the novelist “Ouida” is an American. What | America done to this New York woman? Harvard this year has more than 4,000 students—a few of whom will see their names printed frequently in ily papers. ne a horse wins at 100 to number of foolish people feel y have lost money by not playing the races. When Prof. Zeublin told the Minne- apolis convention what he thought of the coal strike Mr. Baer’s left ear must have burned. “Let us clear the atmosphere,” says the Lowisville Courier-Journal. ! another smart set thunder-clap from Colonel Watterson? ble to teach monkeys to ta as Prof. Garnier still insists, but it is unnecessary. There is too much monkey talk already. If the coal barons ever saw some of the verses written about them, which editors receive every day by the dozen, they would settle the strike in- stanter. A Judge in Salem has ruled that money is not a “gambling imple- ment.” The learned gentleman is evi- dently unfamiliar h poker, our na- tienal game. | Pa Zimmerman has given to the Manc or baby $250,000. The duke will now be able to work up quite 2 popularity with chorus girls or two. A Chicago girl has applied to the Circuit Court to have her name There are lots of other girls changed. who could tell her a quicker and more satisfactory way of securing the same result. Sir Tommy is a jolly good fellow, and all that, but he might as well know first as last that we can beat Sim with an airship or any other kind , of a ship, except, possibly, good fel-; lowship. A woman writer claims to have discovered a new.walk practiced by men. She calls it the “J. Pierpont Morgan walk.” To do it properly you must think you are walking on the; necks of your enemies. King Leopold of Belgium sends word that he will not while in Ameri- ca drink wine from the slipper of any chorus girl. That is an old habit, and he isn’t coming here to do things that he has been deing in Paris for vears. “Bury me quietly. I was led like others’—the pitiful self-written obitu- ary of a pretty girl who died alone. One of those warning minor notes al- , ways kept from the ears they ought to reach by the blaring notes of the gay t city’s wild dance music. | Toads? MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC CIRCULA? NO. 3. THE PROTECTED — IRON RANGE MERGER. February 25, 1902, six weeks after the inauguration of Governor Van Sant, the United States Steel corporation of New Jersey incorporated with a capital cf $1,100,000,000 and merged the two Iron Range railroads of Minnesota, in vio- lation of the state statutes, into one consolidated company. The Diluth and Iron Range road and the Duluth, Missabe and Northern are parallel roads wholly within the boundaries and jurisdiction of the state of Minnesota. They begin at the Minnesota Ranges and end at the Minnesota docks. In the case of this merger, therefore, the state administration would seem to have unquestionable jurisdiction. The iron ore rates charged by these roads are so high, that the state rai:- road commi8sion appointed by Governor John Lind issued an order reducing these rates 25 per cent—an order which the present Republican commission, elected on the same ticket with Governor Van Sant, promptly revoked. The surplus applicable to dividends, earned by these Iron Range merger roads, amount to, as shown by their own reports to the state railroad commis- sion, 40 per cent upon their capital stock outstanding—all of which is turned ever to the billion-dollar steel trust of New Jersey. . One of the merged roads, the Duluth and Iron Range, has been specially favored by the state of Minnesota with a land grant of 606,720 of iron range lands—a mineral domain equal to three-fourths of the area of the state of Rhode Island. The Rockefeller syndicate operating the sister merger road has for years been favored by the state with the lease of the great state mine, the Oliver, at a royalty so low that the syndicate has been able to sub-lease this state pro,- erty to Carnegie at double the royalty paid to the state of Minnesota. Notwithstanding these special grants and privileges at the hands of the state of Minnesota, those two Iron Range merger roads have charged Minne- sota traffic among the highest rates known on the continent, and during the Republican administration of the past two years have successfully defied the power of the state to in any manner regulate or reduce their extortionate charges. Within the past sixty days, at the time of the Minnesota State Agricultural fair, these two merger roads refused to aid and encourage that invaluable state institution by granting the usual half-fare rates issued by all other railroads within the state of Minnesota. The last session of the state legislature by joint resolution instructed the state administration to investigate and bring action to enforce the Jaws in re- gard to the Iron Range merger; but no action has yet been taken, either since the legislature adjourned, or at any time since the merger was formed in February, 1901. Meantime, since the above date, and during the present Republican state administration, the parent trust of this Iron Range merger has raised the price of pig iron and steel billets upwards of 60 per cent, with a corresponding trust tax upon hardware, machinery, and all other iron and steel products used by the people. Organized in violation of the anti-trust laws of both the state and the nation, it assesses the American people 25 per cent to 50 per cent higher prices than foreign consumers abroad—the difference between its American and foreign prices, if applied to its total product last year, amounting to $40,000,090. This $40,000,000 tax of pure discrimination against the American people is the product of the nearly 200 protective duties which the steel merger receives from the Dingley tariff law, a measure which the Republican managers of this state, as of the nation, are sworn to maintain. It is this measure that enables the great steel merger to pay its president a salary of $1,000,000 a year, to issue to its stockholders $56,000,000 of dividends on the first year’s operations, and announce that its net earnings for the cur- rent year will reach $150,000,000. In view of these facts, IS IT NOT FAIR TO INQUIRE OF THE PRESENT STATE ADMINISTRATION WHY THIS OF ALL MERGERS SHOULD BE OVERLOOKED AND PROTECTED? Why is this merger cf February, 1901, passed by? Why is this merger which earns 40 per cent dividends by extortionate rates protected? Why is the merger whose lines are exclusively within Minnesota bound- aries and jurisdiction forgotten and ignored? Is it because the iron and steel merger is a Republican ward—protected and supported by Republican tariff laws? Is it because of the peculiar and unusual services which the Iron Range merger interests have rendered the Republican party in controlling elections during the past three state campaigns? Is it because one representativeof the Republican state administration, holding the no less important position than that of railroad commissioner, came to his public office from the employ of one of the Iron Range merger LY Do the people of Minnesota propose to continue the conditions thus re vealed and endorse the favoritism and extortion thus exposed, by re-electing to office the present state administration? Or, will they start anew with a clean slate, and elect to the office of governor a man of backbone whose party is free from trust affiliation—by electing Leonard A. Rosing on the platform: ‘That the law of Minnesota shall be no respector of mergers; That the trust and merger laws shall be enforced without fear or favor; That the power of the state to regulate rates shall not be surrendered; That the laws governing railroad rates shall apply alike to the line of the ! billion-dollar tariff-protected merger, as to the lines of any non-tariff-and-trust- | protected Minnesota and Northwestern company. H. L. BUCK, Chairman of Democratic State Central Committee. i FRANK A. DAY, Chairman of Democratic Press: Committee, ; AMERICAN TRUST PRICES ABROAD. (Dispatch Bureau, 1345 Pennsylvania Ave.) Washington, Sept. 27—Senator Harris of Kansas has injected some life into the rather listless congressional campaign. The senator has just returned trom Europe after a three months’ sojourn. He is wearing a pair of shoes of American make which he bought in London 20 per cent lower than the same shoes made by the same firm is selling for in Washington and other cities. Sen- ator Harris in an jnterview today says: “Everything of American make is cheaper abroad than in this country. My work for the St. Louis exposition took me to all great stock farms and I was particular to ask what the Englishmen paid for American farm machinery, pitchferks, hatchets and other necessaries of farm management, and I found that they paid a great deal less than I am forced to pay in Kansas City for the same articles. “It seems a very great injustice and imposition for American citizens to be forced to pay such high prices here when foreigners secure the same things at a much lower rate. The American manufacturer says that he must be pro- tected against the foreigner. This is not true. He has nothing to fear from the foreign manufacturer because he is successfully invading the foreign mar- ket. “Neither is it true that the American goods which are sold abroad are sur- plus products. i “The American manufacturer is ‘selling his goods at a fair profit abroad and at a tremendous profit at home.” “What is the remedy?” “It seems to me that on certain schedules it would be very easy to lower the tariff which would give fhe American consumer an opportunity to purchase American goods at a decreased price, and if necessary the American manufac- turer could raise the price slightly abroad. “Something ought to be done. The present condition of affairs is not just to the American consumer, and I do not believe the American people will stand it much longer. Something is radically wrong when I can buy American shoes abroad for less than I pay for them here, notwithstanding the fact that freigh' for 2,000 miles has to be paid upon them.—St."Paul Dispatch. > SHEVLIN’S “MAN FRIDAY.” Hon. W. D. Smith, editor of that rank Republican sheet, the Winnebago City Enterprise, has this to say of the Republican candidate for lieutenant gov- ernor: ‘ “You may just as well elect Thomas Shevlin for lieutenant governor as to elect Ray Jones, his man Friday. Are the people awake to the necessity of baving a man in complete sympathy with their interests or are they asleep? What is the meaning of this apathy? Gentlemen, lieutenant governor is not a figurehead. He is all powerful, Why do not the country papers take more Interest in the matter.” Ree ‘ ghee Gates re BANK IS LOOTED MASKED ROBBERS GIVE PEOPLE OF AN IOWA TOWN A LIVE- LY TIME. AND GET FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS DYNAMITE THE SAFE AFTER WORKING OVER THREE “HOURS. HOLD SEVEN CITIZENS AT BAY HUNDRED SHOTS EXCHANGED WITHOUT ANY ONE GET- TING HURT. Prairie City, Iowa, Oct. 29. — The boldest bank robbery in Iowa in re- cent years took place here yesterday morning when four masked men dynamited the safe of the Bank of Prairie City, secured $4,000 and es- eaped after holding seven citizens at bay for three hours. The 1etreat of the robbers through the eastern part of the town was the signal for a battle in the streets that lasted for ncarly half an hour. A large posse has been organized and with the aia of bloodhounds is now on the trail of iae bandits. The rokbers were discovered ap- proaching tue bank between 1 and 2 o’clock yesterday morning by Night Watchman Erskine, who was patrol- ing the streets. One of the robbers instantly covered the policeman with his rifle and another proceeded to dynamite. the safe of the bank. The other two men patrolled the street and by a system of signals succeeded in holding at bay six other citizens who appeared on the scene. The man in the bank took three hours to dyna- mite the safe, five shots being neces- sary to do the work. Keep Up Running Fire. At 4 o'clock, after securing $4,000, the bandits began their retreat through the eastern part of the town. They formed into a hollow square, each carrying a part of the plunder. As they started east all opened fire on Erskine, who was the nearest of the citizens. The policeman replied and a fight began which was carried on as long as the robbers were in sight. As the bandits ran toward the railroad they fired over their shoulders at the ap- proaching citizens. Strange to say no one was jujured on either side, though several hundred shots were ex- changed. A general alarm was given and the citizens of the town formed a posse nnd set out in pursuit. Bloodhounds were sent here from Des Moines and were set on the trail. They took up the scent on the railroad tracks just outside cf town and took an easterly course, following the line of the rail- road. The money secured by the robbers was mostly in silver the bank officials say, and it is hoped that this may militate against their ultimate es- cape. At a late hour the robbers had not been seen, but the posse was still on the trail. THRESHERS DRIVEN AWAY. South Dakota Farmers Alarmed by the Appearance of Smallpox. Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. 29.—Farm- ers in the vicinity of Fulton have driven from that part of the state a threshing crew which went there from the vicinity of Canistota. Soon after arriving there one of the men was taken sick and sent home. Another of the crew also became ill, and when a doctor was summoned he discovered that the man had a well-developed case of smallpox. The discovery caused considerable alarm, and the re- sult was that the entire crew was forced to depart from the locality. WANTS EIGHTY THOUSAND.” Montana Man Has Big Claim Against Government. Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 29.—Capt. J. S Lathrop of this city is preparing an $80,000 claim growing out of the In- dian depredations about the time of the Custer massacre, and will soon have the matter ready to present to the court of claims at Washington. The claimant is Martin V. Boughton, now a poor man, living at Great Falls, Mont. At the time of the Indian trouble Boughton owned 1,000 head of cattle and about 100 head of horses in ‘the Black Hills, which were driven ‘off by the Indians. * INSANE MAN WITH A KNIFE. Carpenter at Yankton Tries to Slash His Own Throat. Yankton, S. D., Oct. 29.—Carl Carl- son, carpenter, employed on Frank Wells’ new residence, attempted sui- cide Saturday. He went insane sud- denly while at work, and, seizing a jack-knife with which he had been cutting siding, attempted to cut his throat. The other workmen hastened to him and prevented him doing him- self any great damage. He is not confined at his home. z Heavy Snow in Michigan. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 29.—Specials to the Tribune from Cheboygan and Cadillac report that the northern part of the state was visited yesterday by the heaviest fall fo snow that has been seen so early in the season in many years. A_ strong northwest wind has driven several boats into .Cheboygan -harbor for shelter. Large Ice Houses Burned. Kenosha, Wis., Oet. 29—A message from Loon Lake, Ill., a small village just over the state line, says that the large ice houses owned by Esch Bros. & Rabe, situated on the lages, were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $80,000. Police Chief Resigns. Faribault, Minn., Oct. 29.—A. A. Me- Laughlin, chief of police of Faribault, has resigned his position in order to take charge of the Commercial hotel [oe te TWO PRIESTS PROMOTED. August Ceremony Witnessed at the St. Paul Cathedral. “St. Paul, Oct. 29. — For the sixth time in twenty-seven years the august ceremony of Episcopal consecration was witnessed yesterday at the Cath- olie cathedral, and the eighth and ninth bishops chosen within the same period from the province of St. Paul received their elevation in the per- sons of Bishop Keane, the new bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Bishop Stari- ha, the new bishop of Lead, S. D. At least 3,000 persons crowded the ca- thedral to view the coronation. Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Ireland. assisted by Rev. J. J. Lawler, pastor of the cathedral, and the deacons of honor, Rev. J. N. Solnce of St. Agnes churen and Rev. P. J. Danehy of Min- neapolis. Rev. John Rejuda_ was deacon of the mass and Rev. F. R. Schaeffer, master of ceremonies. The assisting bishops were Bishop James Trobec of St. Cloud, Bishop J. B. Cot- ter of Winona, Bishop John Shanley of Fargo and Bishop McGolrick of Duluth. The sermon was preached by Bishop O’Gorman of Sioux Falls, S. D. The chaplains of Bishop Stariha were Rev. A. Ogulin and Rey. P. R. Heffner, and the chaplains to Bishop Keane were Rey. James O’Reilly and Rey. John Slevin. SOUTH DAKOTA COAL. Attempts to Mine Deep-Sunken De- posits So Far Fails. Yankton, S. D., Oct. 29.—The effort being made at Viborg to tap a seven- foot vein of coal said to exist in the bowels of the earth in that neighbor- hood may be successful, but in the light of experiments which were made for a similar purpose at Center- ‘ville some years ago the attempt does not look very encouraging. At that point a local company sunk $10,000 or $15,000 twelve years ago prospecting on a similar theory, and it is said they found the coal all right with the drills, but that it had no _ substantial roof over it, and is overlaid with an im- mense body of sand and water, mak- ing its mining a practical impossibil- ity. A large shaft, nicely timbered, was sunk nearly 100 feet deep on Ja- cob Jenter’s farm, but at that depth the water broke through the bottom and filled in so rapidly that the work- men barely escaped with their lives, and the tools still lie at the bottom of the shaft. MAY BE MUCH WANTED. The Stillwater Authorities Detain a Stranger. Stillwater, Oct. 29. — A stranger claiming to be Frank Simmons is un- der arrest here upon suspicion of be- ing the man wanted by express com- panies for raising money orders in many of the larger cities in the East. He entered the office of the United States Express company in a great hurry yesterday afternoon and wanted Agent Ward to cash an order for $10. The agent did not like the appearance of the order and the man, and thought he bore a strong resemblance to the man wanted for having worked ex- press companies at intervals for sev- eral years. He reported his suspicions to Cant. Burns of the police force, and the officer depot, where he was waiting for a train to leave. When searched at the jail another order for $10 was found, drawn in favor of W. Cooper at St. Paul Monday. FINDS THE BOUNDARY. Frenchman Succeeds in Tracing the Marks Set Up by the Russians. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 29. — Advices were received from Juneau on the steamer Dolphin that the missing Russian boundary monuments which have been so energetically searched for by Lieut. Emmons for the past two seasons, has been discovered by a prospector-of the Porcupine district named James H. de Blondeau. The line marked by these monuments is about five miles inland from Pleasant camp, which is seventeen miles from tidewater on the Chilkat river. This makes the Russian survey line ap- proximately twenty-seven miles in- land on the summit—less than ten marine leagues and just where it was expected to be from the language used in the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1825. The Rainy Hollow district is within American territory. PLANNING BIG FLEET. Steel Trust to Build Steamers for Ore Shipments. caught the man at the! epee REBELS GIVE IT UP LARGE* QUANTITY OF ARMS AND SUPPLIES. ADEATH BLOW TO THE REBELLION COMPLETE PACIFICATION OF THE COUNTRY WILL SURELY FOLLOW. : A CAUSE FOR GREAT REJOICING REVOLUTIONISTS NOW OCCUPY THE ISTHMUS OF PAN- AMA ONLY. Panama, Oct. 29.—The revolution- ary general, Uribe-Uribe, with ten can- non, 2,500 rifles and 300,000 rounds of ammunition, has surrendered to Gen. Marjarres. at Rio Frio, near Santa Marta. The revolutionary forces un- der Gen. Uribe-Uribe, which were de- feated Oct. 14 at La Cienaga, retreat- ed to Rio Frio and took up positions there. Gen. Marjerres with 2,000 men, proceeded against the rebels from La Cienaga and engaged the en- emy two days ago. The government general succeeded in Rounding the Rebels and forcing them to surrender. Castillo was with Gen. Uribe-Uribe. The news of this victory was received here by Gen. erdomo and Gov. Salazar yesterday morning in a telegram from Gen. Marjarres. Details of the en- gagements are, lacking, but heavy cas- ualties on coth si are reported. The surrender of Uribe-Uribe is said to complete the pacification of the de- partments of Magdalena and Bolivar. The revolutionists now occupy the isthmus only. In the fight of Oct. 14 at La Cienaga the revolutionary force consisted of 1,300 men. Both Made Prisoners. Colon, Oct. 29. — The government gunboat Gen. Pinzon arrived here yes- terday afternoon from Sayanilla. She was especially sent from that port by the govcrnor of the department of Bolivar to bring to the isthmus news of the defeat of the revolutionists un- der Uribe-Uribe and Castillo at Rio Frio. Both these generals were made prisoners. There is much rejoicing in Colon and Panama over the success of Gen. Marjarres, and _ especially over the capture of Uribe-Uribe. Confirmed in Washington. Washington, Oct. 29.—Confirmation of the Lews of the surrender of Gen. Uribe-Uribe was contained in the fol- lowing dispatch received at the Co- lombian legation here last night: “Panama, Oct. 28.—Uribe-Uribe and Castillo (another revolutionary gen- eral) surrendered at La Cienaga with a large quantity of arms and ammuni- tion.” The legation officials declare that with the surrender of Uribe-Uribe the life of the rebellion in the interior of Colombia has received its death blow and that the complete pacification of that portion of the country must in- evitably follow. RD ROOSEVELT WILL VOTE. Will Go to Oyster Bay to Cast His Ballot. Washington, Oct. 29. — President Roosevelt next Monday will go to Oyster Bay, where he will casi his | vote on Tuesday. He will receive the Chicago, Oct. 29.—The biggest fleet ' of steamers on the great lakes, whose * total cost will exceed $10,000,000, is to be built for the United States Steel corporation. The steamers will all be of the following dimensions: Keel, 550 feet; beam, 58 feet; depth of hold, 35 feet; on a mean depth of 18 feet of water they will carry 9,000 tons. It is believed the new boats can carry iron ore from the head of Lake Su- perior to the furnace docks of Lake Erie and Lake Michigan at less than | 50 cents per ton. At present the rates 75 and 80 cents. é i Damaging Prairie Fire. Fergus Falls, Minn., Oct. 29.—Farm- ers from the flats to the westward yesterday state that one of the most disastrous prairie fires that has oc- curred in a number of years swept over that section last week, burning over a strip of territory fourteen miles in length and destroying at least 500 tons of hay. The fire is said to have been started by threshers. It is estimated that it burned over 5,000 acres of land. Goes Back to Soul-Saving. Two Harbors, Minn., Oct. 29.—Evan- gelist T. M. Burwick has finished his summer’s work as conductor on the Duluth & Iron Range, and will leave Nov. 1 on a three months’ tour of the country under the auspices of the Na- tional Y. M. C. A. Railroad Man Killed. Ottumwa, Iowa, Oct. 29.—The fail- ure of the drawbar to stand the crash of cars coming together caused the instant death of Thomas Schrecken- ghost, night foreman of the Milwau- kee yards. He was coupling cars. Given Twenty-Year Sentence. Red Wing, Minn., Oct. 29.—Stockey Whittemoor, indicted for assaulting Richard Furu, aged eleven, of Kenyon, was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary at | Stillwater. i TR A AE ESRI EMER eR Se ee ene ea election returns at Sagamore Hil] tat night and on Wednesday will attend a Masonic celebration in Philadelphia, returning to. Washington Wednesday night or the following morning. Mrs. Roosevelt probably will leave Oyster . Bay at thc game time as her husband and come direct to Washington, prob- ably taking up her abode in the re- modeled White House. Several of the remodeled living rooms in the second story are now ready for occupancy. WARNED BY ERITAIN. Turkish Troops Are Encroaching on British Territory. Constantinople, Oct. 29.—Sir Nich- olas O'Connor, the British ambassa- dor, has informed the porte that Turkish troops have advanced into British territory near Aden, and that unless they are withdrawn Great Brit- ain is bound to expel them. A minis- terial commission deliberated on the question Sunday. The second drago- man of the British embassy has start- ed for.Aden. Aboundary commission is now delimiting the Anglo-Turkish frontier. Canada Gets Her Desperado. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 29.—On the au- thority of extradition papers issued at Washington, Robert Thompson, a criminal in the Nebraska penitentiary whose term expired yesterday. was turned over to officials from Canada, who started with him last night for Toronto. He was chained to one of the officers. Thompson, according to the Canadian officials, is a desperado, one of Canada’s worst criminals. Close Call for an Emperor. Vienna, Oct. 29. — While Emperor Francis Joseph was driving, from his country place at Scheenbrunn yester- day the horses attached to his car- riage became unmanageable and he jumped out of the vehicle and walked the remainder of the distance to the Hoffburg. No one was hurt, but great excitement was caused ‘by rumors that the emperor had been injured. . ‘Killed by a Train. Veedersburg, Ind., Oct. 29.—While returning home from a politica! meet- ing yesterday County Commissioner Daniel B. Hutes and Allen Smith, prominent farmers, were run down and killed by a freight train. Grief Killed Her. Pana, Ill., Oct. 29.—Grief and the shock due to the death of her hus- band last night caused the déath of Mrs. T. N. McNutt. Her husband fell into the coal shaft in this city and was killed. ; i b «