Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 28, 1903, Page 2

The Rerald--Review. By BE. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. ’ he man that beat the Russian cori ‘trust was a'corker. Fortune smiles on the few; to the ‘majority she gives the laugh. The valued Detroit Tribune asks, “Is hell hot?” But why this im- tatience? Abram S. Hewitt left an estate of $7,000,000, But he did not die dis- graced, nevertheless. Peary thinks of trying again to reach the north pole. Isn’t there any: thing people can take for this? The unfortunate man that ate $100 im paper currency must have been ac- customed to patent breakfast food. The doctors are once more prepar- ng to perform the historical feat of cperating on the sick man of Europe. J. Pierpont Morgan says newspaper- men are good fellows. He has missed a lot if he has just made this discov- ery. Yes, Eugene, a girl can give you her lip without being saucy. Have you never caught her under the mis- tletoe? Western boys make the best sail- ors, according to navy officials. That is natural. They also make the best jandsmen. ‘ Congress proposes to stop pelagic sealing by killing all the seals. The remedy has at least effectiveness to commend it. Wireless telegraphy is a grand achievement of the century, but it will never be complete until it results in poleless streets. President Roosevelt has written to congratulate cordially that mother of quadruplets. Now let the father of them cheer up. - “Drink and the world drinks with you,” observes the sage of the Marys- ville Tribune, “but settle the bill and you settle alone.” Wherever she is the great Ameri- ean girl—be she three or three-and- twenty—is accustomed to hold the center Of the stage. It should be quite exhilarating for the Utah man to go home on health day and find his several wives clean- ing house all at once. Life must seem sweet indeed to those 4,000 or 5,000 horses in Brook- lyn who are being fed on molasses, be- cause it is cheaper and better than oats. Over in Russia a large number of writers have demanded the abolition of the press censor. Let us hope they have their furs ready for the trip to Siberia. Inasmuch as Correspondent Blowitz @ppears to have left a handsome for- tune it will be hard to make a case of cruelty and neglect against the Lon- don Times. No doubt the troubles of the sultan of Morocco seem serious to him, but they are not big enough to get him on the first page of the American mewspapers. Brazil and Bolivia are at war over a boundary question. When the South Americans have nothing else to fight for the good old boundary question always remains. Mrs. Annie F. Eastman, a woman preacher of Elmira, N. Y., says super- annuated ministers should be shot. Annie ought to draw well now for a week or two. The cable brings the news that Rus- sia and Austria are about to “move against Turkey.” Probably they are contemplating establishing a Thanks- ‘giving day of their own. The Washington Post states that ‘Mr. Carnegie has varied the monotony ‘by giving an organ to a Pennsylvania church. What! A Scot encourage the use of “a kist o’ whustles” in the kirk? No, Clarence, the fact that a baby is born in New York every ten minutes does not mean that the size of fami- ies is increasing. The births that are ten minutes apart are not in the same family. Seven months and a half was the time taken in traveling around the world by a picture post card, which has just been delivered to its sender at Berlin.: It is estimated that 4,826 people read it before it got around. ———_____* The most shining mark for the fool- killer is the man who thinks he knows just what a woman will do in a given situation. Profane history relates that even Methuselah received a few jars in his nine hundred and sixty-ninth _ year. A Baltimore girl has married a man whom she had arrested for picking her pocket. Perhaps she thinks a fel- low who is: able to find a woman’s pocket without assistance will be a handy fellow to have around the| Washington Notes. A pension of $72 a month has been granted to Col. William Thomas of Mankato. Seventeen letter-carriers have been suspended from the San Francisco postoffice for alleged political activity during the November campaign. The postoffice department issued orders establishing free delivery ser- vice at Livingston, Mont., and Rock- ford, Colo., beginning June 1. It is reported that Hon. Edward Blake has been retained by the Do- minion government as counsel before the ‘Alaska ‘boundary commission. Queen Wilhelmina may be request- ed to name the umpire who shall pass on the claim of the United States against Venezuela in the event that the persons named cannot agree. The Indian bill, as it passed the sen- ate, contained the amendment provid- ing for the sale at public auction cf the eleven townships on the westtra side of the Red Lake reservation in Minnesota. No effort was made by the Dakota delegates to incorporate in the bill the Rosebud and Devils Lake treaties. Casualties. Hight persons were killed and four injured by an explosion in the Peter & Fox Magazine Cane factory at Fos- toria, Ohio. S. S. Glasscock, a farmer of Cairo, Ill, took off his red lined coat and flagged a passenger train where he found a broken rail. He was badly frozen. At the Buckeye mine at Bowie, Ariz., William Steel and William O’Donnell were killed and a number of others slightly hurt by an explosion of dyna- mite. Fire at Quebec destroyed La France’s book bindery, Mercier’s printing office, George Belleau’s whole- sale dry goods store, the rooms of the Canadian Yacht club and the office of the Canadian Express company. Loss, $100,000. The Detroit Sulphite fiber works in Delras, Mich., were destroyed by fire. The loss is $100,000 and is covered by insurance. There were several nar- row escapes from death among the employes and firemen who were fight- ing the flames. Crimes and Criminals. A thief resembling Grover Cleveland has been robbing boarding houses at Port Chester, N. Y. Paul Blackmar was granted a di- vorce without alimony at Chicago be- cause of his wife’s adultery with Baron von Answeldt. Engineer James N. Davis, killed in the Central railroad wreck at Plain- field, N. J., is blamed by the coroner’s jury for the accident. Mary Martin of Springfield, Il., saved the lives of her fifty pupils by dropping them from the second story of the burning school house. George d’Asseauer of Chicago was given an indeterminate sentence in the penitentiary for embezzlement. He had been in the county jail for two years. More than 400 complaints have been filed against the concerns by which Adolph Jacobson of Bayonne, N. J., is said to have conducted a gigantic “merchandizing” swindle. Helen Z. Robinson of Rochester, N. Y., was fined $50 for passing Mexican money, although a secret service agent held that she had committed no crime, as she did not pretend that the coin was of United States mintage. From Other Shores Part of the navy department build- ing at Buenos Ayres was burned. Loss about $800,000. The pope has appointed Cardinal Martinelli to be a member of the Con- gregation of Rites. Andrew Carnegie’s library donations | in England still fail in some cases to be received with gratitude. Four hundred Americans observed the fifth anniversary of the destruc- tion of the Maine at Havana. German women, who outnumber the men by 1,500,000, are being strongly urged to emigrate to the United States. The craze for bridge whist has been the cause of several scandals in Brit- ish “smart” circles, where some of the | players have been caught cheating. About 1,500 dock laborers employed by one of the contractors of the North German Lloyd company struck work at Bémen, owing to the dismissal of | a comrade. é The negotiations between the United | States and Cuba for the lease of the two coaling stations, one at Bahai Honda and the other at Guantanamo, have been completed. Many churehes in the central dis- tricts of. London, each occupying ground worth $1,000,000, have congre- gations on Sunday morning of not more than a’ dozen persons. Russian newspapers claim that a man in the hospital at Tomask is 200 years old. They say this statement is supported by documents. The man has been a widower for 123 years. A cablegram to the Boston Globe from London says that the prince of {Wales is quite likely to come over to America with Lord Roberts and the rest of the delegation from the Hon- orable Artillery company, in response to the invitation from the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company of Bos- ton, People Talked About. Joseph Parry, the musical composer and director of the South Wales school of music, died in London. Phineas Howe Young, the youngest son of the late Brigham Young, and a prominent business man of Salt Lake, Utah, died suddenly of heart disease. Rear Admiral Lewis W. Robinson, U. S. N., retired, died at his home in Philadelphia of typhoid pneumonia, after an illness of two days. He was sixty-three years old. Charles Davenport, who invented the first railroad passenger coach which became serviceable, is dead at the home of his son in East Water- town, Mass. He was ninety years old. The postoffice department has been officially informed of the death in Berlin of Gustav Adolph Sachs, the former director of posts of Germany, and latterly an imperial privy council- lor. Rev. Horatio Gray, a retired Episco- palian clergyman of distinguished an- cestry and with a wide acquaintance- ship, is dead at Boston. He was a Brown alumnus, was ordained to the priesthood in 1853. Capt. Wiley M. Egan, aged seventy- two, member of the Chicago board of trade and for many years a business man of Chicago, died of heart disease et his residence. He was president of the Chicago, board of trade in 1867. Dr. J. L. Curry is dead at Asheville, N. C. During President Cleveland’s first administration Dr. Curry was an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain. He also was general agent of the Peabody fund. Otherwise. Seventeen ‘letter carriers of San Francisco have been suspended for al- leged political activity. There have been three more deaths from typhoid at Cornell university. A $150,000 filtration plant will be put in. The McKinley Memorial association has collected $500,000, but wants $100,- 000 more before work shall commence on the monument. Five hundred schoolboys at Kokomo, Ind., were found to have 22-caliber re- volvers in their pockets when searched by the principals. Prof. J. W. Jenks of Cornell univer- sity has gone to Mexico to confer with the authorities regarding the establish- ment of a new monetary system. A Russian boy dropped dead with joy at meeting his parents after a separation of several years, on the arrival of the Graf Waldersee at New York. The Methodist Book committee has’ decided that the meeting place of the next quadrennial conference of that body shall be at Los Angeles in May, 1904. News from Douglas, Ariz., says that great excitement prevails over a rich gold strike made in the Turres moun- tains, forty miles from the terminus of the Nacohari railway. Further conferences have been go- ing on in New York looking to the | organization of a Southern cotton yarn combination, under the name of the Southern Textile company. John Henry McCracken, president of Westminster college, Fulton, Mo., has resigned to accept the position of assistant to his father, who is chan- cellor at the University of New York. The Massachusetts electric compa- nies controlling all the electric street car lines in Eastern Massachusetts outside of Boston, have granted their employes an increase in wages of 2.18 per cent. : The Pettebone colliery of the Dela- ware, Lackawanna & Western at Wilkesbarre, Pa., has been closed as a result of the refusal of the men to accept the company’s price for cer- tain work. Joseph B. Davy, instructor in botany at the University of California, has been appointed chief agriculturist and botanist of the Transvaal government j at an initial salary of $5,000 a year and expenses. Reciprocity with Italy and no re- striction of immigration to this coun- try were the keynotes struck by the speakers at the third annual banquet of the Italian chamber of commerce | of New York. The United States circuit court at Boston has settled the controversy be- tween the Union Pacific and the gov- ernment by giving the latter $600,000, now in the hands of the American Loan and Trust company of Boston. The special committee appointed by the New York County Medical asso- ciation to investigate the office of coroner, recommends such legislafion as will abolish the office and distrib- ute the duties to other city and county departments. With the exception of the chief en- gineer, a member of the marine engi- neers’ union and a few laborers, all of the employes of the Chicago Ship- building company have gone on strike in support of the machinists. One thousand men are idle. Steps have been taken to save 10,- 000 starving elk on the Jeton-Yellow- stone reserves in Wyoming. Snow seven feet deep covers their feeding grounds, and temperatures as low as 40 below zero have added to their suf- ferings. It is learned at Batavia, N. Y., that findings adverse to the Rev. George N. Howard, charged with receiving com- promising love letters from a number of women, have been handed down br | a council of Free Baptist ministers. BOY’S GORY WORK KILLS. FATHER AND FATALLY WOUNDS HIS MOTHER AND SISTER. WINDS UP BY KILLING HIMSELF THE MOTIVE FOR THE BOY'S AWFUL SLAUGHTER IS NOT KNOWN. DOES SOME VERY TALL LYING TELLS NEIGHBORS THAT THE BLOODY WORK WAS DONE BY ROBBERS. Frankfort, Ind.,’Feb. 26. — Edward Woods, the seventeen-year-old son of a@ prominent farmer several miles north of here, killed his father, shot and fatally wounded his mother and sister and then committed suicide last night. The motive for the crime is not known. After the shooting the young man went to,the. home of a neighbor and said that robbers had entered the Woods home and killeed his father, mother and sister and that he escaped after a running battle with the desperadoes. He was appar- ently greatly excited and said he was Organizing a Posse to pursue the murderers. The boy then continued on his way toward this city, and, stopping at the next house, told the same story. When he was questioned concerning the shooting he became confused and resented the in- quisitiveness of the farmer to whom -|he told the story. Young Woods said he had no time for further words as he had to run down the robbers, and he started toward the barnyard at the farmer’s home. After the boy disap- peared behind the barn a shot was heard, and the farmer to whom the boy had been talking but a moment before, hastened to the barn to find the youth with a bullet through his breast.” CHINESE ARMING. Increasing Seriousness of the Situa- tion Causes Alarm. Washington, Feb. 26. — Representa- tions have been made to the state de- partment by the Russian ambassador, Comte Cassini, regarding the increas- ing seriousness of the situation in China, in the hope that the United States will co-operate with the other powers to stop the illegal importation of arms which has reached an alarm- ing stage of activity. Similar repre- sentations have been made through the Russian representatives to Bel- gium, Germany and Great Britain. The Chinese officials claim they are powerless to stop the practice and the Russian government, in the interest of peace, has called the matter to the at- tention of the powers. Secretary Hay and the Russian ambassador have had several conferences.on the matter, but it has not been decided Just What Course the United States, under the constitu- tion, can take toward preventing the exportation of arms. It is probable that the only relief lies in special leg- islation by congress, which is deemed impossible at this session. The Bel- gians are the chief offenders in this illegal practice, though it is said many arms are. entering China from the United States, Germany and Great Britain. Ambassador Cassini, who has spent many years in China and is re- sponsible in a great degree for the success of the Russian policy there re- gards the Chinese situation as de- serving of the serious and immediate consideration of the powers. Reports received at the state department also indicate that mischief is being wrought by the importation of arms into China. SUPPOSED DEAD MAN TURNS UP. He Fled to Avoid Commitment to In- sane Asylum. Council Bluffs, Iowa, Feb. 26.—John McGill, believed by his family to have been killed twenty-five years ago, re- turned to this city yesterday and is now reunited with his daughter after an absence of a quarter of a century. In the meantime McGill has grown in- dependently wealthy. Twenty-five years ago McGill lived in the central part of the state with his family. He became insane, was sent to an asylum and escaped. He was never heard of afterward and-his family thought him dead. His wife died some years later and his daughter moved to Council Bluffs. McGill, afraid of being re- turned to the mad house, went to Kan- sas, recovered his mind and took 4 new start in life. He has been stic- cessful and is now wealthy. Through newspapers he learned the where- abouts of his children and joined thém here. FATAL DUEL FOUGHT. Fathers Take Up Quarrel of Children and Fight It Out With Revolvers. Springer, N. Mex., Feb. 26. — E. Y. Shook, a carpenter at Cimarron, twen- ty-two miles west of here, was shot and killed by B. S. Payne, a liveryman, as the result of a quarrel between the children of the two men. The fathers took up the quarrel with fatal results. Both men had large families and were highly respected. END OF DEADLOCK. Omnibus Statehood Bill Is Abandoned by Its Friends. Washington, Feb. 26.—The omnibus statehood bill has been abandoned by its friends. The Democratic senators in caucus yesterday rejectéd the Re publican compromise for two. states, with a provision for a third, and ap- pointed a committee to canvass the Republican side for votes to keep the omnibus bill on the postoffice bill as a rider. The committee made a profitless canvass; the Republicans were to- gether in favor of the compromise bill and none of ‘them was willing to re- turn to a contest which meant nothifig but A Death Struggle. # Senators Quay, Elkins and Foraker, who formed an alliance with the Dem- ocrats on the statehood bill, preferred to capitulate to the majority of their own party, and, having done this, the senate is again divided on political lines, with all Republicans favoring the substitute bill which will be re- ported by Senator Beveridge to-day, and all Democrats opposing it with the old omnibus bill. The result will be no legislation for the admission of new states. The omnibus bill will not be added as an amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill or the ag- ricultural bill. All appropriation bills will be passed without +h‘s rider, and if there is sti: time enough for Sena- tor Morgan to finish his remarks the canal Treaty Will Be Ratified by March 4. The long fight over the statehood bill has been more than ap- peared on the surface. It was a fight against the leadership of the majority. Quay, Elkins and Foraker rebelled against the leadership of Aldrich, Al- lison, Platt, Spooner and Hanna, and, not being able to run over the ma- jority, combined a Republican faction with the Democratic minority on this bill. When they found that they could not compel the majority leaders to surrender, they capitulated and re- turned to the party fold. PUNISHED BY STOCK EXCHANGE. Man Who Instigated Peter Power Suits Is Suspended. New York, Feb. 26—Camille Wied- enfeld, a member of the stock ex- change since 1890, was yesterday found guilty of acts “detrimental to the welfare and interest of the ex- change,” and was suspended for one year. This decision was reached unanimously by the governing commit- tee after an executive session which lasted almost six hours. The exact character of the “charges and specifi- cations” against Mr. Wiedenfeld were not disclosed, but it was accepted as a matter of fact that Mr. Wiedenfeld was regarded as the author and insti- gator of the Peter Power suits, and that the stock exchange believed these suits to be conceived in bad faith. TROOPS COME TOO LATE. Ladrones Flee to the Mountains. Manila, Feb. 26.—Gen. San Miguel’s force of insurgent ladrones has aban- doned Mont Alban, sixteen miles from here, and probably has fied to the Morong mountains. Reports from Bosoboso indicate the presence of la- drones in that vicinity. Reinforce- ments for the government troops reached Mont Alban too late and failed to overtake the retreating la- drones. San Miguel has about 300 men with him. It is not believed that they can subsist for any length of time in the mountains. The government is preparing to occupy the valleys and passes and force San Miguel to fight or disband his followers. San Miguel’s ROBBERY BY BELLBOYS. Far Reaching Plans of Hotel Thiev- ing. New York, Feb. 26.—The police an- nounced yesterday that they had se- cured a confession from Louis F. Messie, the eighteen-year-old bellljoy who was arrested charged with rob- bing hotels. The confession, they say, shows that Messie and Cullen, another bellbey who was arrested with Messie, had planned to rob hotels all over the country. Maps and diagrams of the interior of the hotels, the names of prominent guests who made a habit of stopping in them, and a synopsis, writ- ten in shorthand, under the name of | each hotel, describing its plan, were found on both the prisoners. COAL LOSS IS HEAVY. Railroad Makes Big ‘Kick on Thiev- ing. Chicago, Feb. 26.—Revelations as to the value of coal stolen from railroad cars in Chicago each year were given in the Maxwell street police tourt yes- terday when four boys were brought before Judge Dooley charged with stealing coal from Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad cars. It was shown that the loss by petty coai thieves is thousands of dollars, a year to the companies. This road alone is robbed of coal valued at $1,200 each weeek, and sometimes more. The loss for a year can be estimated at $50,000 or more. BIG FIRE AT RACINE. J. 1. Case Plow Works Damaged to Extent of $100,000. Racine, Wis., Feb. 26. — Fire last night in the plant of the J. I. Case Plow company did damage to the ex- tent of $100,000 before it was got un- der control. ‘he blaze is supposed to have started from spontaneous com- bustion among the oils and paints in the finishing department on the first floor. The plant employed 500 men, In the House. Washington, Feb. 19. — The house yesterday, by a majority of 2 to 1 re- jected the conference report on the army appropriation because of its pro- visions for the retirement of civil war officers at an advanced grade, and permitting officers to deposit money with the government at 3 per cent in- terest. In the Senate. There was lively debate in the sen- ate yesterday over Senator Quay’s res- olution declaring it to be the sense of the senate that there should be a vote on the statehood bill before the ad- journment of congress. To this propo- sition Senator McComas _ reoffered Senator Platt’s cloture resolution in- troduced two years ago, and a motion was made to refer the whole proposi- tion to the committee on rules. This was pending when the senate went into executive session. In the House. Washington, Feb. 20.—At the end of a protracted session the house: yes- terday passed the naval tion bill. A great many amendments were offered to the provisions relat- ing to the increase of the personnel and the authorization of new ships to , be built. The most important amend- ment adopted was one to authorize the secretary of the navy in his dis- cretion to purchase, er construct, four submarine torpedo boats after investi- gation of their merits, and appropri- ating $500,000 for that purpose. In the Senate. The senate met at 11 o'clock yes- terday, but spent only an hour and twenty minutes in open session. This time was devoted to routine business and passing bills of no great general interest. In the House. Washington, Feb. 21. — The house yesterday passed the fortifications ap- propriation bill, adopted the confer- | ence report on the bill for the protec- tion of the president and on the leg- islative, executive and judicial appro- priation bill, and then spent three hours wrangling over the Fowler cur- rency bill. After a half-dozen roll calls the house finally got into com- mittee of the whole to consider the bill, but it then being 5 o'clock, on motion of Mr. Fowler, the house ad- journed. In the Senate. The senate spent the entire day in executive session. In the House. Washington, Feb. 23. — The day in the house was devoted to debate upon the Fowler currency bill. Mr. Fowler, the author of the measure, spoke for over two hours. The other speakers were Messrs. Thayer (Mass.), Loyer- ing (Mass.), Lewis (Ga.),Prince (Il.) The general conviction that the bill has no chanee to become a law, and the fact that there are divergent views on both sides of the house detracted from the interest in the debate. In the Senate. Washington, Feb. 24.— A iarge crowd was attracted to the senate yes- terday, most of them visiting Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. Washington’s farewell address was read by Mr. Dubois of Idaho. The om- nibus public building bill was passed and the postoffice appropriation bill was considered without final action. Mr. Tillman spoke nearly two hours, principally in reply to Mr. | Spooner, on the Indianola postoffice case. He said that if the policy of the administration in regard to the equal- ity of the negro was carried on and Booker Washington should be appoint- jed to the cabinet he would vote Yor his confirmation. He did not conclude his remarks. In the House. The house yesterday passed the general deficiency appropriation bill, the last of the regular supply bills. It carried $13,698,781. The only amend- ment of importance was one appro- priating $1,100,000 to replace the stores and storehouse at the Rock Island arsenal recently destroyed by fire. | In the House. Washington, Feb. 25. — The house | yesterday passed the Philippine cur- rency bill accepting the senate bill so far as it relates to the islands. The committee amendment, striking out | the international monetary conference, | Was agreed to. In the Senate. The Indianola, Miss., postoffice case occupied’ the major , portion of the senate’s time yesterday. Mr. Tillman spoke for three hours in continuation of his remarks begun Monday on the | race question, and was followed by Mr. Carmack of Tennessee. During the morning hour several bills and res- olutions were passed. SENATOR GAMBLE’S BILL. Favorable Report on Plan to Allow Second Homestead. Washington, Feb. 26. — The senate committee on public lands» yesterday ordered a favorable report on the ill introduced by Senator Gamble of South Dakota permitting the entry of second homesteads: The bill applies only to those who‘have commuted on a first homestead. : Obtained Pension by Fraud. New Haven, -Conn., Feb. 26.—John Page, an inmate of the soldiers’ home in Noroton, who was charged with having obtained a pension by imper- sonating his father, who served in fhe Civil war, was yesterday sentenced to | three years in state prison. appropria- ~ \g