Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 14, 1903, Page 3

JEWS NEED HELP| MANY OF THEM ARE STARVING | : TO DEATH IN WESTERN 3 RUSSIA. HARROWING STORIES ARE TOLD CZAR’S GOVERNMENT IS BLAMED FOR MUCH OF THE SUF- FERING. FAMILIES FROZEN TO DEATH RELIEF HAMPERED BY CONDI- “ TIONS WHICH NULLIFY ALL EFFORTS. Berlin, Feb. 11.—Harrowing stories of starvation among the Russian Jews are reaching the Hebrew charity or- | ganizations in this city. Thousands i of families in what is called the Jew- i ish conzentration district in West ! Russia, between the Black sea and the Baltic, are reported to be freezing and starving to death. Debarred from ag- ricuitural pursuits the Jews are com- 4 pelled to huddle together in the towns ~ where oppressive laws prohibit them from engaging in trades or industrial employment. Statistics show that ’ } the present winter has reduced them to complete destitution. It appears | that the desire of the czar’s govern- ment to exterminate large sections of these unfortunate people is on the eve of fulfillment. Whole families have been found frezen to death; oth- ers are ' Prostrated by Hunger and typhoid. Scores of communities are without food, fuel or clothing. The provincial governments of Kovno, Wilna, Ninska, Grodnow and Mohiley are attempting to ameliorate the suf- fering, but their means are almost ex- hausted, and the population is now de- pendent on public charity. That the need of these Jews is urg- ent is proved by the fact that official Russian newspapers have been per- mitted to paint the situation as black in the extreme and to describe the suf- ferings of the people sympathetically. In response to appeals for permission to establish loan societies and relief committe in the stricken region the Russian ministry of, the interior has laid: down conditions that practica‘iy nullify all attempts of communities to help themselves. The official orders insist that the officers and two-thirds of the members of the relief organiza- Reserves Orccred to Get Ready to Join Their Regiment. London, Feb. 11.—It is announced in a dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg that all the officers of the j Russian army reserves have been no- tified to hold themselves in readin¢ to rejoin their regiments in twenty- four hours, in the event of mobil . 5 tions must Christians and that | Joans be mace cnly on real estate. , oe y : f_S3SIA IS WARLIKE. tion orders being issued. The meas- ures, it is added, appears to be con- nected with fears of trouble in the Balkans. FINLANDERS ARE BITTER. » Young Men Pledge Themselves to Ig- nore Russian Conscript Law. St. Petersburg, Feb. 11.—The oppo- sition of the Finlanders to the new military service law does not abate. Meetings are frequently held in towns and villages at which the young men pledge themselves to ignore the Rus- sian conscript law in spite of the pun- ishment meted out to delinquents by the czar’s decree. SAVED THE CREW. ‘Men From Lost British Vessel Are Landed at Queenstown. Queenstown, Feb. 11—The British bark Crown of Germany, from San Francisco for this port, arrived yes- terday and landed thirty of the crew of the Bergian steamer Haskelyne, Capt. Tanner, from New Orleans and Newport News for Antwerp. The steamer was abandoned in a sinking condition on Jan. 31. STEAMERS IN COLLISION. One Is Sunk and Five Members of the Crew Are Lost. London, Feb. 11. — The steamer Watchful of Liverpool yesterday sank the steamer Arthur of Cardiff, in col- lision off Barry. Most of the crew of the Arthur were asleep at the time of the accident, but eight of the men were saved. Five others were lost. IN FOR LIFE. Rubino, the Anarchist King Shooter, Sentenced. Brussels, Feb. 11.—Gennaro Rubino, the Italian anarchist who has been on trial here since Feb. 6, charged with attempting to assassinate King Leo- pold Nov. 15, was found guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment for life at penal servitude. Church Burglarized. Newark, N. J., Feb. 11. — Burglars made a rich haul at Grace Episcopal church yesterday. They gained an entrance into the vestry and ran- sacked the church, securing vestments valued at $10,000. Loomis. Installed. Wasington Feb,. 11. — Francis B. } Loomis yesterday was formally in- stalled in office as assistant secretary of state, succeeding D. J. Hill, who re- : ed to accept the office of minister ; to Switzerland. BIG FRAUDS CLAIMED. Indictment Made for Man Supposed to. Represent Indians. Ida Grove, Iowa, Feb. 11.—An indict- ment was returned yesterday against A. O. F. Powers of Oklahoma City, _IN ‘LINCOLN'S “BIRTHPLACE. Okla., formerly emigrant agent of the, Woman Living in New England Whose Father Was Born in the Historic Log Cabin—Stories of the Early Days. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway company, charging him with obtaining money under false pretenses. It is al- leged that Powers represented to Iowa real estate men that he had been se- lected as the agent of the Creek and Seminole Indians of Indian Territory to dispose of their lands after the al- lotment made by the Dawes commis- sion. According to evidence presented to the grand jury $5,000 worth of drafts drawn on the First National | Bank of Hutchinson, Kan., have been returned as worthless. Powers’ pres- ent whereabouts are not known. KILLED HIS FATHER. The ‘Latter Was Intoxicated and At- ! tacked His Son. Webster City, lowa, Feb. 11—Dankie | Flygstad killed his father, Daniel Flygstad, at the family home about ten miles southeast of this city. The father came home drunk and engaged in a quarrel with the son. They came to blows, and the latter defended him- self with a heavy stick, with which he beat the old man to death. The coro- ner’s verdict says he came to his death “as the result of blows administered by Dankie Flygstad, under great proy- ocation.” BABIES ARE SOLD. Said to Be Half a Score of Baby Farms in Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Feb. 11.—Supt. Spindler of the poor department has discovered that babies are sold in Milwaukee without precéss of law. He has found that there are nearly half a score of places in the city where babies are taken and no questions asked on pay- ment of $15 ¢ or $20 the one dispos- ing of them. Afterward they are turned over to any person who is will- ing to pay a few dollars for them. If they cannot be sold they are given away. DIES BY SUICIDE. Cyanide of Potassium Used for Self- Destruction. Sioux Falls, S. D., Feb. 11.—The in- quest yesterday afternoon upon the remains of Anton Kleiser, a jeweler who was found dead yesterday morn- ing in his apartments under circum- stances which indicated that it was a case of suicide, resulted in the discoy- ery that he died from cyanide of potas- sium poisoning administered by his own hand. ANOTHER LIBRARY. Missoula Profits by Scotchman’s Lib erality. Missoula, Mont., Feb. 11. — At a meeting of the city council the offer of Andrew Carnegie to donate $12,500 for a public library, providing the city furnish a site and agrees to contribute annually $1,250 for the maintenance of the institution, was formally accepted. A commission to secure a site will be selected at the next meeting of Mie council. YOUNGER’S PARDON COMPLETE. The Last Document Has Been Signed by the Attorney General. St. Paul, Feb. 11. — Attorney Gen- eral Douglas has signed the pardon of Cole Younger, which is now com- plete. and Mr. Younger will probably bid a final farewell to Minnesota and leave for his old home some time this week. The proposed reception at Kansas City has been abandoned at Mr. Younge’ request. KILL IS KILLED. Found Dead With Bullet Through His Heart. - Clinton, Iowa, Fed. 11.—Henry Kill, aged forty, a weyy known contractor, was found dead in a miserable shack with a bullet through his heart. He at one time was an expert mechanic, but his life was ruined by drink. He lived alone in a room in which there was no sto\> or furniture. It is\a clear case of suicide. CATTLE ARE FINE. South Dakota Ranges Have No Bad Reports of Conditions. Evarts, S. D., Feb. 11.—Wi!liam Hal- loway, who has been out on pasture No. 4, reports no snow at all and cat- tle in fine condition. There is no snow north of the Cheyenne river or south of the north line of Standing Rock res- ervation. Never has there been a more favorable winter in this terri- tory. Must Go to Prison. Denver, Colo., Feb. 11.—Peter John- son of Chicago, convicted recently of using the United States mails for the purpose of defrauding ex-Sheriff W. K. Burehinell out of $17,500 in a stock deal was sentenced to the peniten- tiary for fifteen months and was fined $1,000. New City Hall. Albert Lea, Minn., Feb. 11. — The special election held yesterday to pass upon the question of issuing bonds in the sum of $20,000 to build a city hall resulted in the proposition carrying—247 to 128. Injured While Hunting. Anoka, Minn., Feb..11.—While hunt- ing the fifteen-year-old son of Jacob Oehman dropped a loaded gun. The piece was discharged by the fall, the charge grazing the lad’s face. His nose was lacerated and eyes injured. Boiler Explosion. Sheboygan, Wis., Feb. 11—One per- son was killed, two perhaps fatally in- jured and four others badly bruised as a result of a boiler explosion in the foundry operated by Charles Helming- er at Adell, Sheboygan county. Lincoln has been dead thirty-eight years. Most of those who personally knew him have also passed on into silence, , and, like Washington, he has become ‘in the popular mind a sort of mystical figure, associated with a bygone age of dramatic heroism—a patron saint. Although New England loved Lin- coln as much as any other section of the country did, when it came to know him, yet he was always regarded as a characteristic product of the pioneer ; country, and, although efforts not alto- gether successful have been made to show that he was of Hingham ances- try, never till now has Massachusetts been conscious of the presence in this locality of any living connection be- tween the immortal rail-splitter and our own soil. Nevertheless for seventeen years one of the environs of Boston has har- ; bored a woman who makes the proud boast that her father and Abraham Lintoln were first cousins; that both were born in the same rude log cabin in Kentucky, but three months apart, in 1809, and that she herself is a grandniece of Lincoln’s mother, the famous Nancy Hanks. She is Mrs. Nellie M.'Moore, who was born not many years before the outbreak of the civil war, in the then exceedingly primitive town of Frank- ford, Mo., and has been for three months past a resident of East Pep- perell, Mass., where her husband, Charles W. Moore, is engineer in a mill. Miss Hall, for that was Mrs. Moore’s maiden name, spent only the first thir- teen years of her life in Missouri, hav- ing been sent to a Kentucky boarding school] at that age. She was married and lived in Louisville for some years, later removed to Cincinnati, and after the death of her husband came East, married Mr. Moore, a native of Massa- chusetts, and they lived for seventeen years in Atlantic, a part of Quincy, un- til they removed to Pepperell. When asked to define her relation- ship to the martyred President, Mrs. Moore said: “My father, William S. Hall, was a son of Martha Hanks, sister of Nancy Hanks, who married Thomas Lincoln and became the mother of Abraham Lincoln. So, you see, my father was first cousin and I was second cousin to the President. “My grandfather, who married Mar {tha Hanks, was Levi Hall, and they and Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were living together in the little log cabin in La Rue county, Ky., in 1809, when Abraham Lincoln was born there. My father was born three months later in the same cabin.” When questioned as to the antece- dents of the Hanks, Lincoln and Hall families, Mrs. Moore says it is a tradi- tion of all three families that they emigrated together from New Englana about 200 years ago to Pennsylvania, from there to Virginia and later to Kentucky, as they eventually did tu Indiana and finally to Illinois and Mis- souri. She has been for some time engaged in investigating the possible early connection of the families with New England, and intends to prepare a genealogy embodying the results of her labor. ~ Continuing her story of the vicissi- tudes of the Lincoln, Hanks and Hall families, Mrs. Moore says: “My aunt, Rosanne Hall, who rode from her home in Maryland to Ken- tucky behind her husband on his horse told me that there were Quakers among my ancestors, as there are said to have been in the Lincoln family. She also said that my great-grand- father was killed by the Indians at the same time that Abraham Lincoln’s grandfather was, while they were clearing the ground to plant corn, on their arrival in Kentucky. It was she who jold me my father was born in the Lincoln log cabin. “Aunt Rosahne said that Abe Lin- coln’s mother used to walk five miles to mill to have her corn ground, or to buy a side of bacon, which, with corn- meal mush or johnnycake, comprised their bill of fare the greater part of the time. “My grandparents, Levi Hall and Martha Hanks, both died of the milk- sick, in Indiana, in 1818, about the Same time that Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, and her uncle and aunt Sparrow died. All were buried to- gether in rude coffins construced by Thomas Lincoln, who was now a wid- Ower with two small children. After Lincoln became President, someone erected a monument over his mother’s grave in the wilderness, but Aunt Roseanne told me that the selection of the grave for the monument must have been mere gtesswork, since none of the graves had ever been marked, and there was no means of identifying any one of them:” Coming to the subject of the migra- tion of the survivors of the three fami- lies from Indiana to Illinois Mrs. Moore says: “Joseph Hanks, who taught Thomas Lincoln, Abe’s father, the carpenter’s “A0UNO FOR tell me stories of her early life in the pioneer days in Illinois. “One story was in regard to a fresh- et such as used to come almost yearly to those who lived along the river bot- toms eighty years or so ago. Grandma went several miles down the river on a raft, one day, to the mill, to have some corn ground, leaving the chil- dren in the log house. The river had been threatening to rise for several days, but the children well knew from former experiences, that if the river invaded the house they were to climb up on the roof for safety. “The river rose while grandma was away and she toiled laboriously to get home as soon as she could. When she got nearly home she found everything afloat, and as she passed a tree that was well submerged she thought she heard a cry from the branches. She paddled to the tree, and there found her baby, John Hanks, afloat in his cradle, which had been washed through the door of the cabin, and had drifted “LLINOIS wiV 1830 CRS WELLE +7: S7O0RE COUS/N OF ABaRAMAI trade, just 100 years ago, was one of the first settlers in Illinois, having gone there from Kentucky about 1820. It was his son, the famous John Hanks, still living in Missouri, who in 1830 induced Thomas Lincoln, Dennis Hanks and my father to pull up stakes and also remove to Illinois, where Abe was destined to achieve that fame that gained for him the Presidency. “Having arrived in Macon county, lL, the party, which numbered thir- teen, settled for a while. My father and Abe Lincoln were in their 21st year, and they, with John Hanks, Abe’s | second cousin, built the log cabin which some say was éxhibited on Bos- ton Common thirty years or more ago. They also split the famous fence rails at that time, samples of which did much to arouse the enthusiasm in the Illinois convention in 1860, which se- cured the Presidential nomination for Lincoln. “After serving as major in the Black Hawk war, in which Abe Lincoln was captain, my: father became one of the earliest settlers in Missouri, and dur- ing the greater part of his life kept a tavern, first at Hannibal and later at Frankford. “Frankford used to be visited by In- dians sometimes, and if they didn’t find whisky before they arrived, they were harmless, and their presence caused no uneasiness. But if they were drunk the news would quickly spread and school would be dismissed for the day. “After a while a brick schoolhouse was built one and one-half miles from town, and to get there we had to fight our way through wild animals and snakes, for Missouri takes the, blue ribbon for snakes. At the brick school we were furnished with a horn, and if wild animals or Indians were seen prowling about ‘ve blew the horn and the neighboring farmers got their guns and came to our rescue. “When I was a little girl Aunt Sally, Abraham’ Lincoln’s stepmother, used to visit us, and she frequently put me to sleep in her arms, but I never thought much about it till I was grown up and others reminded me of the distinction I had enjoyed. “I often visited around among the Hankses in my childhood, too, and my especial favorite was Grandma Hanks, as we called John Hanks’ mother, wha lived in what is now known as Quincy, Ill. I used to hold her skein of yarn for her when she wound it into a ball, and during the operation she would PORTRAIT OF LNCAN 1858 SALLTTING RAUS MNMMLMOS about till it found lodgment in the top of the tree, where his mother found it. “Another of her stories was about Guinea niggers. I suppose you don’t know what Guinea niggers were, do you? Well, they were not uncommon in the days when slaves were brought from Africa. They were very small in stature and very unprepossessing in appearance and they were said to be cannibals. | “Grandma said that in her youth she knew a young couple who bought a pair of Guinea niggers. One day their little child disappeared and it was never seen again. They afterward found that the cannibals had eaten the child, and they were hanged for it. “Grandma, like most of the Hankses and Lincolns, was an ardent Metho- dist. In her old age she always knit- ted just so much on a stocking every week day. One morning she was in- dustriously engaged in the perform- ance of her allotted stint,,when some of the younger folks came in with their best clothes on. “*Why, grandma! What are you do-— ing?’ somebody asked. ‘Only knitting,’ she replied, with some surprise. ‘What, knitting on Sunday, grandma?’ ‘Is this Sunday?’ asked grandma, in amazement. When convinced that it was she unraveled every stitch she had done that morning, in order to atone as far as possible for her dese- eration of the day.” Mrs. with some amusement Abraham Lin coln making a political speech in Mis- souri, arrayed in a long and exceeding- ly crumpled linen “duster,” and a tall hat of ancient pattern. She says that when Lincoln was nominated for Pres- ident his humble relatives among the Hankses held up their hands with amazed incredulity and exclaimed with . practical unanimity: “Abe Lincoln for President? I don’t believe it!” “There was always something queer | about the Hankses,” she says; “for al: | though they wefe among the earliest settlers in Illinois and had their pick of the land, and plenty of it, and some of them had large, productive farms, | yet every one of them turned out as poor as Job’s cat. “My mother owned slaves before tha war, but my father never did, nor did any of the Hankses, and for that rea son they were called ‘poor whites’ by their neighbors who had slaves. All| tue Hankses were stanch supporters of the union during the civil war.”— ton Globe. Moore describes having seen itis. Therefore 621bs. per 601bs. in the East. Area = jer er in Western Can: HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 160 ACRES FREE, the only charge for which 1s $10 for making entry. cheap, good grass for pasture and hay. a fertile soll, a suificient rainfall, and a climate giving an assured and adequate scason of growth. Uterature. and also for certificate giving you re- duced freight and_ passe: Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to E. T. Holmes, 815 Jackson St., St. Paul, Minn., the authorized Canadian Government ¢ THE WAITRESS WAS WITTY. Called Herself the Pearl Cast Before Swine. . “Tt does not always pay to be too smart,” said Attorney Albert P. Mas- sey. “At our boarding house a new waitress was employed and a young chap asked her what he should call her. “*Call me Pearl,’ she said. “Are you the pearl of great price?” he asked. “‘No,’ answered the girl, ‘I guess I am the Pearl that was cast before swine.’ ”’—New York Times. / Hard to Identify. Jack Mason, the actor and former husband of Marion Manola, was much bothered in a barber shop at Billings, Mont., by the proprietor of the place, who insisted upon carrying on a con- versation with Mason while he shaved him. When, ‘after some questioning, $. he discovered that Mason was an actor, he inquirea; “First visit here?” “No, I’ve been here berore.” “Is that so? Well, now—” “You ought to remember me,” inter- rupted the victim, who was now quite savage. “I’ve been shaved here.” “It’s funny I don’t recall your face,” retorted the borber. “Well, come to think of it, you wouldn’t be apt to,” snapped Mason. “It’s all healed up now.” And the barber kept on shaving — ‘There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a gteat many years doctors pro- nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly Ley to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven 'catarrh to be a constitu- tional disease, and therefore requires consti- tutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, man- nfactured by F’. J. 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