Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 7, 1903, Page 3

| GRAND RAPIDS, - Ferald--Leview. By E. C. KILEY. MINNESOTA. It’s the early spring bird that catches cold. . 1 The man who proposes to cross the Sahara desert in a balloon has sand. Renewed health to Ian Maclaren of Drumtochty. We really couldn’t spare hin. It isn’t at all likely, however, that the empress dowager will consent to stay dead. Mr. Rockefeller has given $100,000 to the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A.—ten sec onds’ income. Things that seem serious to you might look funny if they happened to someone else. It is rumored that Miss Thaw of Pittsburg has melted the icy heart of the Earl of Yarmouth. John W. Gates talking of retiring? He has never yet shown himself to be of a retiring disposition. Probably those French explorers will find the south pole fully as coy and evasive as the north pole. Discretion is not exactly a brilliant or fascinating characteristic, but it is most indispensable to success. The discovery of gold in Indiana has not affected the price of rings, so far as we have been able to find out. And now Mexico puts in a claim. Venezuela seems to be thé Mme. Hum- bert of the international money mar- ket. A Kansas editor printed an elabo- rate notice of “Calomel,” meaning “Camille.” Probably it affected him that way. If Edward Atkinson succeeds in his experiments toward making cheap fuel out of mud the coal dealer’s name will be the same. Now that a veteran Yankee whaling captain is to make a dash for the pole ,amateur contestants may as well pull out of the race. Still, if you run out of breakfast food and the grocery store is closed, there is always a chance to fall back on ham and eggs. Some people seem to get a great deal of solace and satisfaction out o1 moralizing over Mr. Rockefeller’s dyspepsia and insomnia. Automobilists who will race through a foot of snow © would prob: ably want to keep right on scorch ing if the earth were buried under soft soap. In Utah drug stores are allowed to sell not more than five gallons of li- quor at a time. Those who are real thirsty, however, can go back a sec ond time. The St. Louis girl to whom a re- jected suitor has left a bequest of $35,- 000 is more than ever impressed with the usefulness of the old adage, “Learr to say ‘No.’” A Chicago milk dealer has given up his business because he has become converted. Evidently he didn’t put water enough in the milk to wash away his sins. A Baltimore specialist comes to the front with the declaration that all Americans are neurotics. Well, who wouldn’t prefer being neurotic to be- ing an oyster? China commenced to coin money Jong before any of the other nations thought of the idea. The trouble within China is that she didn’t coin enough of it. A New York playwright assaulted an editor for calling him “Gussie.” It is to be hoped that the editor will now concede that the playwright has asserted his manhood. For consistency’s sake the enthu- siast who wants “manywhere” incor- porated into the language should ad- vocate it in all ways and at all times —manyhow and manywhen, so to speak. While looking for the causes of the divorce evil which Cardinal Gibbons so properly deplores some attention at least should be paid to the causa- tive factors contributed by the reck- less’ marriages. When little Prince George of Wales was baptized the other day he yelled like a young wild cat and seemed to be half scared to death. Royalty has to grow on a person, like whiskers and some other things. The market editor says that nine- tenths of the lobsters packed in Can- ada are shipped to Europe. From the United States only the most select Jobsters, such as William Waldorf Astor, go to the European market. The London Lancet has issued a solemn warning against the insidious American quick lunch, which threat- ens to invade the British metropolis. There seems to be a fear that our quick lunch will finish what stomach the railway buffet has left the op- pressed Britisher. 4 From the Capital. . The internal revenue collections for January were $17,954,729, a decrease of $2,902,042 from January, 1902. Minister Combes has cabled the state department that Senor Arias was elected president of Guatemala by congress on Feb. 15. Col. Charles E. Humphrey, who told the president of thé United States when he was colonel of the Rough Riders to “go to the devil,” or words to that effect, will be appointed quar- termaster general upon the retirement of Maj. Gen. Ludington. Soon after the adjournment of con- gress Secretary Moody and Postmas- ter General Payne will take a trip into the Caribbean sea regions for the pir- pose of inspecting the proposed naval training stations in Cuba and to look into the postal affairs of Porto Rico. The case of the Northern Pacific Railway company against John Soder- burg, involving the question as to what constitutes mineral lands, as used in the act of July 2, 1864, was de- cided by the supreme court of the United States in favor of Soderburg. When Apostle Reed Smoot appears to take his seat in the senate he will be confronted by charges that he en- courages polygamy, and is therefore a law breaker, and that the church assisted in his election in violation of the pledges given by Utah to gain statehood. The subcommittee that went to Bos- ton to investigate the subject of coal transportation reported» to the full committee that there was no evidence that there was any deficiency in the matter of water transportation be- tween the terminal coal ports and New England. Accidental Happenings. Three men were killed in the Fort Lafayette explosion at New York. The Hotel Deveau at Toledo was al- most completely destroyed by fire. The inmates escaped without trouble. Four mail clerks and one passenger were killed and several others seyere- ly injured in a Big Four wreck near Berea, Ohio. « The bodies of six Mexicans, three women and three children, who had frozen to death, were found on the river eight miles above Goliad, Tex. Seven persons were injured in a col- lision between a crowded electric car and a Chicago & Grand Trunk freight train at the Center avenue crossing at Chicago. Claude de Lorraine, who was chief engineer of the Monitor when that ves- sel fought the Merrimac, and his son Edward, aged twenty-four, were found dead from asphyxiation at their home in Brooklyn. The car sheds and sixty-seven stiteet cars of the St. Louis & Suburban Rail- way company at De Hodimont, Mo., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at nearly $200,000. The origin of the fire is not known, but it is said to have started from an elec- tric wire. Fire partially destroyed the new brick car barn at the new winter quar- ters of the Barnum & Bailey circus at Bridgeport, Conn, and burned a num- ber of cars belonging to the circus. The loss is estimated at $100,000, on which there is an insurance of $33,000. Fourteen elephants were rescued. Personal Mention. Louis F. Schade, a well known du- thor, correspondent and lawyer, died in Washington, aged seventy-four. Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of How- ard university in Washington, has re- signed owing to advanced age and in- firmities. ¢ Miss Ellen Smith, who, during the past twenty-five years has been in turn instructor, professor and regis- trator of the University of Nebraska, is dead. Sherman M. Bell, a member of Roosevelt’s rough riders during the Spanish-American war, has been ap- pointed adjutant general of the Colo- rado national guard by Gov. Peabody. Capt. Francis A. Cook, the senior captain in the navy, has been granted six months sick leave, which he will employ in an effort to regain his health. Capt. Cook was in command of the Brooklyn during the war with Spain. Dr. H. H. Hood, seventy-nine years old, died at Litchfield, Ill. He served through the Civil war as surgeon ‘in the 117th Illinois infantry. He was a Republican member of the state legis- lature during the Logan and Morrison fight of 1880. Notes From Abroau. Several cases of cholera are report- ed among the English members of the Somaliland expedition. It is reported at Tangier that El Menebhi, the minister of war, was killed in battle Feb. 12. A thousand of the poor of Rome were guests at dinner in the Vatican in honor of the pope’s jubilee. Six hundred Americans attended the George Washington reception at the American embassy in Rome. Colombia’s historic gunboat, the Boyaca, sunk in the channel at Port Bethsabe. All on board were saved. Speaking at the mayor of Kensing- ton’s dinner on schemes for the im- provement of London transportation, Cc. T. Yerkes said that it was not a matter of making money with him. ‘What he wanted to do was to accom- plish something for London. Resume of the Rews. (2%) ig | gg oPIT Princess Djemil Tousson, sister of the khedive and wife of Prince Dje- mil Tousson, recently made an unsuc- cessful attempt at self-destruction by taking poison. : There is a probability of Lord Cur- zon being recalled from India shortly, and Mr. Brodrick, minister for war, being raised to the peerage and sent out as viceroy. : Former Archduke Leopold Ferdi- nand Leopold, brother of the crown Princess of Saxony, has telegraphed to his parents at Salzberg that he in- tends to become an officer in the Unit- ed States army. Sin and Sinners. The body of Christian B. Smith, a self-confessed embezzler and suicide, was found in the lake near Hammond, Ind. The number of suicides in Chicago thus far this year is 50 per cent great- er than in the corresponding period of 1902. Because he would not pay his moth- er a board bill, Uber Frye of Logans- port, Ind., has been sent to jail at her instigation. E. Y. Shook, a carpenter at Cimar- ron, twenty-two miles east of Springer, N. M., was shot and killed by “B. S. Payne ,a liveryman, as the result of a quarrel. ‘ Peter Farrell, one of the leading New Orleans Democratic politicians, and state coal gauger, was shot énd killed by his eldest son, Edward, who claims self-defense. Oscar Brown, the faithful groont of the famous Hanover, that died a few years ago, and for twenty years fore- man at McGrathiana stud, was assas- sinated at Lexington, Ky. Drunken white men started a riot in the negro car on a Kansas City Southern train near Lake Charles, La., in which one colored men and three white men were seriously injured, one fatally. Henry Flemming and Mrs. Jones were shot and slightly wounded by the jealous wife of the former as the. two stood talking in the store of Mr. Jones at Marion, Ind. Mrs. Fleming then wrecked the store. Seven: men have been arrested in New York charged with running a fake lottery which is said to have victith- ized thousands. The drawings were supposed to take place in Pueblo, Mex., but never came off. In response to two anonymous let- ters the Chicago police broke into the house at 56 May street and arrested fourteen women upon the assumption that the place was a pool room and gambling joint for women. Edward Woods, the seventeen-year- old son of a prom/sent farmer of Frankfort, Ind., killed his father, shot and fatally wounded his mother and sister, and then committed suicide. The motive is not known. 3 The New York police have secured a confession from Louis F. Messir, the eighteen-year-old bellboy charged with robbing hotels. Messir and Cullen, another bellboy, had planned to rob hotels all over the country. Otherwise. John Mitchell, president ofythe Mine Workers, says that he will not enter politics. Both houses of the Wyoming legisla- ture adopted a joint resolution strong- ly indorsing woman suffrage. The Pennsylvania state supreme court has decided that belief in Spir- itualism is not proof of insanity. A movement is on foot among the Chinese merchants of San Francisco to force admittance for their sons to the public schools. Andrew Carnegie will give $100,000 to Western Reserve university of Cleveland to establish a school for the training of librarians. The long strike among the clothing makers of Chicago has ended. The lo- cal organization will be absorbed by the United Garment Workers. Dr. Lee de Forest of New York was in Buffalo recently making arrange- ments for the establishment of a wire- less telegraph station for the Great Lakes, Col. Paul R. Hawkins of Springfield,” Mass., was elected commander-in-chief of the Legion of Spanish War Veter- ans at the national encampment at Lawrence, Mass. State’s Attorney Deneen of Chicago says that owing to too few judges there are three hundred more prison- ers in the jails of Cook county than there should be. : The secret marriage of Joseph Hin- kins, twenty-four years old, and Miss Barbara Reel ,aged thirty-eight, came to light at Flora, Ind., recently. He was her foster son. Claiming descent from the duke of Sutherland of three generations ago, Mrs .Edmund D. Hennessy, wife of a lawyer living in Brooklyn, is planning a fight for a part of the estates of the dukedom of Sutherland in Scotland. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and his brother Kermit, sons of President Roosevelt, will go to Maine this year to hunt with Wilmot Dow and Fred Sewall of Island Falls, as their father did years ago to hunt with the fathers of the two Maine boys. The Virginia State senate passed a bill, prepared at the suggestion of the attorney general and the governor, providing for an increase of the ap- propriation to defend the suits brought by negroes to test the validity of the constitution. ‘TERRIFIC EXPLOSION CAUSED BY THE IGNITION OF A QUAN- TITY OF GAS. THIRTY OTHERS ARE INJURED FOREMAN OPENS COAL BIN AND A VIOLENT EXPLOSION OCCURS. PLANT IS PARTIALLY DESTROYED WRECKAGE TAKES FIRE AND THE FLAMES SPREAD QUICKLY. Easton, Pa., March 4.—Six men are thought to*be dead and twenty-five or thirty others are injured, several of them seriously, from the effects of an explosion at the Edison cement plant at New Village, N. J., seven miles irom here on the line of the Delaware, Lack- | awanna & Western railroad. A large part of the plant was.burned, Six men are missing and it is feared their bodies are in the ruins. Their names have not been learned. The explosion occurred in one of the large coal bins and was caused by the ignition of a Quantity of Gas. The day force had discovered a slight fire about 5 o’clock, but the men thought they had _ extinguished it. | Foreman Rose went to the bin just be- fore quitting time and as he opened a door a terrific explosion occurred. The bin was blown to pieces and the work- men who were near it were injured. The wreckage took fire and the: flames | spread rapidly. For a time no effort was made to check this progress, the | attention of the uninjured being di- rected to the care of their less for- tunate companions. The coal bin, the | coal blower house, the fine coal house, the coal storage building, three con- veyors and one receiving tower are in ashes. Assistance was asked from the Washington, N. J., fire department. ONE FIGHT ENDED. Delaware at Last Secures Full Repre- sentation in the Senate. Dover, Del., March 4.—For the first time in four years the State of Déla- ware yesterday secured full repre- sentation in the United States senate. At a special session the state legisla- ture elected State Senator J. Frank Allee (Union Republican) to the sena- torship which expires in 1907, and Congressman L. Heister Ball (Regular Republican) to the term expiring in 1905. The selection was undoubtedly due to pressure from Washington brought to bear upon the Regular Re- publicans in the legislature who have all along been opposed to the election of J. Edward Addicks or any of Ms adherents to the United States senate. Congressman Dick of Ohio came to Dover yesterday in the interest of Re- publican harmony. He advised the acceptance by the Regular Republic- ans of the Union Republicans’ . Proposition Agreed Upon in Philadelphia Saturday, that a Union Republican be elected to the long\term senatorship and a Regular Republican | for the short term, Addicks himself to be eliminated. In expectation of a settlement of the senatorial difficulty, politicians and prominent men from every section of the state were present at yesterday’s sessions of the legislature. The elec- tion of Messrs. Allee and Ball was an- nounced to an audience that filled the house of representatives to suffoca- tion. The noise and confusion on the part of those who came to witness the proceedings was so great that many of the legislators became bewildered and apparently did not know how to vote when the roll was called. The election is regarded here as an Addicks victory because of the refusal of the Regular Republicans to agree to a compromise with the Democrats. t MYSTERY IS UNSOLVED. Buffalo Police Still Working on the Burdick Mystery. Buffalo, N. Y., March 4—Nearly four days have elapsed since the body of Edwin L. Burdick was,found in his “den” on the first floor of his home in Ashland avenue, with his skull crushed to a pulp. During that time the district attorney’s office and the detective force of the city have worked night and day on the case. Scores of persons have been called into the district attorney’s office at all times of the day and night. The “third degree” has been worked in some cases by the authorities in their endeavor to follow a clue to some tangible end. There does not appear the remotest possibility of an arrest, though the authorities will not deny that they are working along some definite lines. Three women are now under suspicion. ALL RECORDS BROKEN. First Peaceful Transfer of Salvadorian Presidency in Fifty Years. Panama, March 4.—A dispatch from San Salvador received here yesterday says that Gen. Regalado handed over the presidency to Gen. Pedro Jose Escalon, who was declared elected feb. 19. This was the first peaceful transfer of the presidency in fifty years, and has caused great rejoicing | throughout Salvador. “DEATHS IN FLOOD. ‘Have Been for Twenty Years. Toledo, Ohio, Mareh 4. — Although the danger of a serious flood in To- ledo passed yesterday when the ice moved out of the Maumee river. it is not true of cther towns in this section of Ohio. Specials from Northwestern Ohio towns show that the situation is serious at Findlay, Lima, Tiffin, Marysville, Upper , Sandusky and neighboring towns. Several deaths from drowning are reported. All the rivers are higher than they have been for twenty years, steam and electric railway tracks have been washed out and bridges are in danger. Persons living in the lowlands have abandoned their homes. Much Damage Will Be Done. Cincinnati, March 4.—The Ohio riv- er will reach the danger line, fifty feet, by noon to-day, and will probably con- tinue to rise to-morrow. The rise here the past twenty-four hours has been 6.4 feet. With the rapid fall at Pitts- burg and at Charleston, W. Va:, where the Kanawha fell 2.2 feet, and with continued cold weather, the rise here will probably not be disastrous, al- though much damage undoubtedly will be done. Serious in Indiana. Indianapolis, March 4. — Dispatches show that at several points in the state the flood situation is serious. The Wabash river at Vincennes con- tinues to rise and the government gauge now registers 12 feet. It is es- timated that the damage to farms along white river from Indianapolis to Mount Carmel, IIl., will reach $120,000. This does not include heavy losses of live stock that has been drowned. Above the Danger Line. Memphis, Tenn., March 4.—After re- maining stationary for twenty-four hours, the Mississippi river at this point began to rise slowly again yes- terday and is now 1.2 feet above the danger line. LADRONES ARE ROUTED. Scouts and Constabulary Do Some Good Work. Manila, March 4.—A detachment of scouts under the command of Lieut. Nickerson attacked and. defeated a body of ladrones near the village of Mariquina, seven miles from Manila, yesterday. Lieut. Nickerson attacked before daylight. After an hour’s fight- ing the ladrones scattered, and nine- teen were killed and many wounded. There were no casualties on the side of the scouts. The constabulary tast Wednesday surprised and ‘captured the stronghold of the ladrones in the mountains of Albay, Luzon, where a force of ladrones attacked a small de- tachment of constabulary Feb. 20. The constabulary on Wednesday met with some resistance from the ladrones, who were defeated with a loss of ten killed and four captured. The la- drones’ stronghold and supplies’ were burned. Brig. Gen. Sumner, com- manding the department of Mindanao, telegraphs that he expects trouble along the military road north of Lake Lanao. He says that the dattos of the sultan of Mindanao are friendly and anxious for peace, but are unable to control sections of their unruly fol- lowers. Gen. Sumner has warned the soldiers to avoid any conflict and to carefully guard against surprises. THE COAL REPORT. The Commission's Finding to Be Made Soon, Washington, March 4, — The report of the coal strike commission will be given to the president-in a few weeks. The early decision is due to unlooked- for unanimity among the commission- ers on the main points involved. They have gone over the testimony of the 565 witnesses, which covers 10,000 typewritten pages, and have discussed the chief points. It is expected that the report will be unanimous as to the main features. The commission- ers hope there will be no minority re- port, but if there is one it will relate only to minor features. CAN’T ESCAPE TAXES. Interstate Commerce Will Not Shieid Pullman Company. Washington, March 4. — In the su- premé court of the United States yes- terday an opinion was handed down by Justice Holmes in the case of the, Pullman company vs. Wirt Adams, state revenue agent of Mississippi. The case involved the validity of a special ®tate tax on sleeping cars which the Pullman company resisted on the ground that the law is an inter- ference with interstate commerce. The law was sustained by the Mississippi supreme: court and yesterday’s decis- ion affirmed that judgmept. GARMENTWORKERS OUT. Three Thousand Employes in Phila- delphia Go on Strike. _ Philadelphia, March 4.—Two strikes involving 3,000 hands were inaugur- ated here. Four branches of the United Garmentworkers of America, including coal operators, tailors, press- ers and buttonhole workers, struck for better conditions, shorter hours and recognition of the union. * WORK OF WRECKERS. Freight Train Derailed and Two Train men Severely Injured. Washington, Ind., March 4.—Train wreckers attempted to wreck the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern fast train near Lebanon, Ill. A freight train struck an open switch and was wrecked, two trainmen being severely injured. Railroad officials think rob- bery was the intention. — All Rivers in Ohio Higher Than They | EX-MAYOR DOES NOT PROPOSE — TO RETURN TO MINNE- APOLIS. : — BRINGS HABEAS CORPUS SUIT BEGINNING OF A LEGAL FIGHT -TO PREVENT HIS RE- MOVAL. i” PROBABLY WILL NEVER RETURN POINT RAISED WHICH MAY DELAY. EXTRADITION FOR THREE YEARS. Hancock, N. H., Mareh 4—A petition for the writ of habeas corpus which counsel for ex-Mayor Ames filed yes- terday was granted by Judge Pike of the superior court-at Manchester, and made returnable in Manchester May 11, This is the beginning of a legal fight to prevent the removal from the state of the fugitive former Minneapolis of- ficial for trial on the charge of bribery. The move was not unexpected, and if it does not prevent the doctor's ulti- mate return it will cause a long delay. Nine different questions are raised by the counsel for Ames. The point is made that the state law of New Hamp- shire permitting the fixing of a day for the delivery of such a prisoner as Ames rather than on demand is in op- position to the Constitution and the laws of the United States. On this point alone it will be possible To Make a Fight which, if carried to the United States supreme court, would make a delay of three years in the extradition of Dr. Ames. The order of Judge Pike ties up the delivery to Sheriff Dreger of Hennepin county, Minn., ordered by the governor a couple of weeks ago. He cannot now be yielded up to the Western officers until after the hear- ing, and not then until all appeals from the decision of the court upon them have been settled. In regard to the question of his guilt of bribery, Dr. Ames freely states for publication that he began to sus- pect that some of the plain clothes po- lice were trading with criminals, and that ke told them “grafting must stop.” Before he had time to go fur- ther the agitation and investigation which led to the final upheaval of Min- neapolis began. 3 Sheriff Dreger is expected to arrive to-day. He will be confronted with the habeas corpus, which he will pre- sumably take measures to legally com- bat. SANTO DOMINGO GIVES IN. Willing to Issue Decree Requested by Minister Powelt. San Domingo, March 4. — The Do- minican government yesterday in- formed United States Minister Powell that it is willing to issue a decree, as requested by him, to place Mr. Ros in the full possession of the benefits of his concession upon the terms indf- cated by the minister. The Dominican government had refused until now to take over certain improvements made by Salvador Ros, including the build- ing of a wharf and warehouses and fie improvement of the Macoris channel. AGREE ON NAVAL BILL. Senate Gives in on Principal Item of Disagreement. Washington, March 4. — The con- ferees of the two houses on the naval bill o’clock last night. The senate sur- rendered on the principal item of dis- agreement, the amendment relating to the increase of the navy. The pro- vision as agreed upon provides for three battleships of 16,000 tons dis« placement and nine battleships of 13,- 000 tons displacement, and entirely, eliminates the provision for cruisers. - HOTEL BURNED. Guests Leap From Burning Building at Lead, S. D. Lead, S. D., March 4—The home- stake hotel, conducted by John Blatt, burned this morning. The rooms were filled with guests and several had narrow escapes, leaping from upper story windows. The building is a total loss. It belonged to the Home- stake Mining company. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE. Finest Block in Portland, Ore, De stroyed. Portland, Ore. March 4—¥Fire burned the Dekum block, the finest in the city, causing a loss of $1,000,000 The structure was eight stories high. The Lipman-Wolfe department store was,occupying the two first floors. Their loss was $400,000. WILDCAT INVESTMENTS. Missouri Legislature Takes Stand Against Small Concerns. Jefferson City, Mo., March 4—The senate committee appointed to investi- gate turf investment companies, buck- et shops and get-rich-quick concerns, submitted its report yesterday, recom- mending legislation designed to pro- hibit their operation. Gold bond com- panies and home co-operative invest- ment companies also come in for a reached an agreement at 10.