Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 21, 1903, Page 2

5 1 The Herald--Review. By E. C. KILEY. — GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Still, when you come to use the word “fewwhere” it doesn’t look well in print. : 5 A man is known by the company he keeps; a woman by the company she keeps out. For the best way to manage chil- dren, consult bachelors and women without any. Wireless telegraphy seems assured, but wireless politics is as much of a dream as ever. The cost of the coal strike hearing is estimated at $750,000. And the public will pay that, too. Now that the danger is past, it should be noted that no one has called him the Bowen of contention. RES MET Sa Sezie x Now that a use has been found for the pituitary body there is renewed hope for the vermiform appendix. Later on Miss Thaw may wish she had minded mamma, but girls will be girls, and there is no use talking to them. Good news for the little herring canners down in Maine! The sardine fisheries in France this year have failed. Keep in mind that most of the well- to-do people of to-day acquired their property on the get-rich-slow-but-sure principle. When all the novelists are in the legislature and all the pugilists are on the stage we may look for some stren- uous uplifting. Rudyard Kipling has lost a lawsuit, which will doubtless occasion some chortling over among the Goths and shameless Huns. The committee reviewing the United States statutes has decided that the United States “is.” Yes, is and ever shall be. The government’s snake expert gets a salary of only $50 a month. But that’s as much as anyone who deliber- ately becomes a snake expert ought to get. Sir Charles Beresford says that bat- tleships are cheaper than war. Dr. Hale would add that the costs of The Hague court are cheaper than battle- ships. Secretary Cortelyou asks only a trifle of $7,000,000 for his new depart- ment building. Let him have it. What’s a dot like this tor such.a rich nation? A man from Kentucky was driven crazy by a quart of whisky which he drank in Kansas City. He must have been a son of Kentucky merely by adoption. A New Jersey court has decided that palmistry is ‘a crafty science in- tended to deceive the simple-minded.” Perhaps that court thinks it has made a discovery. Again Dr. Koch is proved mistaken. Dr. Koch’s brain seems to have been a breeding ground for the germs of error. That is, conceding that his critics are right. A poet named Vrchlichy has been elected a member of the Austriaa house of peers. If his poetry is any- thing like his name he must belong to the Browning school. A Topeka minister recently prayed that the mayor of that town might either be converted or killed, as the Lord might sce fit. It is always well . to give the Lord a choice in these matters. The Baltimore burglar who tried skirts as a disguise came near being caught by the “pesky things.” This teaches that each sex should accept philosophically the handicap of its own clothes. A Mississippi judge has instructed the grand jury to indict people for playing progressive euchre for prizes. Perhaps he has a nice, flattering pic- ture of himself that he would like to have published. Those ladies who are writing to the . white house to make suggestions in regard to the arrangement of the fur- niture might send along certificates showing how their husbands voted at the last two elections. A Cleveland minister says that the modern prayer meeting lacks “juice.” If the observation is based on the absence of the old-time “hurrah” we can name several kinds of juices which might remedy the defect. ‘ An Eastern contemporary remarks that all this “less” business began with the “chainless bicycle.” We may be in error, but it seems to us the bottomless pit was mentioned earlier. If the pituitary gland is responsible for the physical growth of such giants as Abraham Lincoln, Winfield Scott and Phillips Brooks, let it alone. Oil has recéntly been discovered in Dublin, Ireland. If they find it in pay- ing quantities Ireland may yet be taken away from the English. | who owned the house, his wife and | From the Capital. Charles M. Pepper has been ap- pointed to represent the United States in the interest of a Pan-American railroad. The secretary of the treasury has received from some person a con- science contribution in the shape of a watch, from Pittsfield, Mass. The dredges on the Great Lakes have lost in their fight against the proposed policy of the war depart- ment in constructing dredges for river and harbor improvement. A. W. Pontius of Minnesota has been appointed a student interpreter at Pekin. Pontius, under the law, is pledged to remain in that capacity for ten years at a salary of $1,000 a year. The confirmation of William A. Day for assistant attorney general may be held up till charges growing out of a divorce suit against Day in Cham- paign, Ill., about ten years ago, have been investigated. For six years not a woman has been selected from the civil service list of eligibles for positions in the pension office. In 1902 twenty-seven women typewriters were appointed in various departments, while 114 men secured similar positions. | Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston has | received unexpected orders calling | him to Washington for a conference. Gen. Funston has been ordered to as- | sume command of the Department of the Columbia, embracing Washington, Oregon, Idaho and the whole of Atas- ka, succeeding Gen Randall, who sails for the Philippines April 1. Accidental Happenings. Mrs. Georgia Stanley, found uncon- } scious from asphyxiation at Denver, is dead. Miss Ella Leyde, aged twenty-two, | a telephone operator of Pittsburg, was suffocated in a street car jam. The bodies of two shepherds have been found in Wyoming. One was that of C. Huffman of Doniphan, Neb., and the other that of William Daly of Rawlins. J. Robert Herrick, former President | of the Produce Exchange, in New! York was perhaps fatally hurt at the} Union League club by falling down) a stairway. The steamer Montreal burned at her | dock at Montreal, and in a_ panic; among spectators caused by a falling | shed at least three were killed and | many were injured. | A Rock Island train from Kansas | City crashed into the smoker of a de- layed train, and the dozen or more | persons inside all sustained injuries | but no one was killed. A destructive windstorm visited | Hiattville, ten miles south of Fort! Scott, Kan. One house with its occu- | pants, a family named Masslin, was | lifted up and carried half a_ mile, | Masslin being probably fatally injured. | Five persons were burned to death ! in the Aurora roadhouse on Hunker | creek, in Alaska. Charles Berneke, two children, and Thomas Baird. The | Berneke family came from Portland. | Baird was from Ontario. Personal Mention. } Michael C. Murphy, long a Tam-| many officeholder, died of heart dis- | ease. The Rev. Maurice Ronaine, S. J., is | dead in New York from old age. He} was born in Castlemartyn, Ireland, in | 1828. Samuel Day of Wesley, Me., for many years champion bear slayer of Maine, died recently, aged sixty-| seven. Maj. Gen. William Buel Franklin died at his home in Hartford, Conn., aged eighty years. He served in the Mexican and Civil wars. Capt. William A. Winder, eighty years old, died in Omaha of cancer. He won fame on the battlefields of the Mexican and Civil wars. Rey. Arthur Wilson, pastor of the First Christian. church of Blomington, Ill., died of congestion of the brain, | due to overexertion in conducting a | revival. Ferrari Romolo, a member of an} | aristocratic Italian family and _ for | twenty-two years a waiter in hotel cafes in Chicago, has just fallen heir | to an estate in Italy valued at $1,500,- 000. Notes From Abroad. “We feel the strength to battle for the church another ten years,” said Pope Leo XIII. a few days ago. The abbess of an old ladies’ asylum at Munich has been sentenced to six years for attempting to murder a serv- ant. The number of theological students in the great seminaries in Germany has fallen off greatly in the past few years. Street demonstrations at Budapest by 10,000 Socialists to protest against the government's military bills led to collisions with the police and the breaking of windows. A remarkable demonstration of Franco-American cordiality occurred ‘at the banquet in the Hotel Continen- tal, Paris, to President Francis of the St. Louis exposition. 2 An old Frenchman named Charbier, who had made a small fortune in Can- ada, returned to Paris last week and was at once robbed of the $5,000 he ‘ brought with him. | imstructed the marshal to arrest the | gan an investigation of | treasury shortage, for which Joseph S. | ty-year sentence. | signed the law making gambling al | ment of the water. | from the charge of not paying his | | school longer: The Porto Rican house of delegates unanimously passed the million-dollar insular loan bill. The bill is now be- ing considered by the council, but it is not probable that it will be approved by that body. The Bible seems to be the chief top- ic of public interest at the present mo- ment, both in Great Britain and Ger- many. London last week witnessed a Jewish lord mayor presiding at the celebration of the one hundredth an- niversary of the British and Foreign Bible society, and the Germans are still considering the emperor’s pro- nunciamento on the same subject. Bostock’s purchase of the giant ele- phant from the London “zoo” for his American menagerie has been a topic of earnest comment in the newspa- pers. The “zoo” authorities are bit- terly criticised for selling the animal, which is a great favorite with the London children. Jingo weighs six tons and is eighteen inches taller than Jumbo was, but has not so well- shaped a body. He is twenty-two years old and is perfectly docile. Sin and Sinners. After accusing his wife, Cordelia, of receiving the attentions of another man, Medard Fiest of Leominster, Mass., killed her and then shot him- self. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dickerson were fatally wounded by a burglar near Cordova, Ala., and their home was robbed of all its valuables. A negro is suspected. , Mayor J. B. Smith of Deshler; Ohio, was arraigned for drunkenness. He first man he found intoxicated, with the above result. Charles T. Molony, general superin- tendent of the Pennsylvania Ware- housing and Safe Deposit company of Philadelphia, cashed what is alleged to be a forged check for $7,000, and then disappeared. A special committee of the lower house of the Nebraska legislature be- the state Bartley was convicted of embezzle- ment and served five years of a twen- The city of Philadelphia is startled by a series of six murders and four murderous assaults committed within a month. Five of the victims were women. The police are now attempting to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of a golden-haired little girl whose body was found packed in a box.of sawdust. Cecil Steeves, sixteen years old, was fatally shot at Bridgeport, Conn., by Lilliv Lavichi, seventeen years old, a lamplighter. The lamplighter was in the habit of frightening little girls by thrusting his burning torch at them. Steeves warned Lavichia several times to stop the practice. Recently the boys had a quarrel and the Italian shot Steeves. Otherwise. Count Boni Castellane is in New York with a red necktie. The governor of Washington has felony. A cargo of 300,000 bushels of oats left Portland, Me., recently, for the starving Finns. Chaplain C. Gavitt, U. S. A., has) been exonerated by court-martial | debts. Monday, June 1, is the date for a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Tongue of Oregon. The Kansas supreme court has de- | clared invalid the section of the law making places where liquor is sold common nuisances. The birthplace of ex-President Lin- | coln at Hodgenville, Ky., will probably be sold under the hammer. The old | cabin has been removed. i Returning to Chicago after a long absence to find his wife remarried, Michael Glenn pitched into Husband No. 2, and both men were locked up. A million dollar packing plant is | soon to be built on the site of the Sioux City plant of Armour & Co., which was recently destroyed by fire. The cruiser Chattanooga was launched at Elizabeth, N. J., recently. She was christened by Miss Nell Chamblis, daughter of the mayor of Chattanooga. The high school principals of Chi- cago are talking of forming a bureau to secure employment for graduates, with the idea of keeping pupils in! The recently discovered cholera in- fantum serum has been injected into animals in the Wilson sanitarium in Baltimore and has been found to be wonderfully efficient. The effect of the serum, however, has not’ been tried yet upon human beings. Miss Eva Cook, a telephone opera- tor of Kansas City, has been awarded $12,500 damages against the Missouri & Kansas Telephone company fcw in- juries inflicted by Manager Graves, who, angered because she had not carried out some trivial order, rough: ly whirled her about, causing her to strike and injure her shoulder and knee. Word has been received in Boston that William Miller, a Boston mis- sionary, who went to Russian Polland to work among the poorer classes, has been arrested by the police and ex. fled to Siberia. | train. AMERICAN SAILORS SHOW THEIR PLUCK AND PRESENCE OF MIND. ; SAVE CUBANS FROM DROWNING DOLPHIN VOLUNTEERS SHOW COURAGE IN TERRIFIC STORM. WHILE BRITISH SAILORS LOOK ON / VIOLENT SQUALL SWEEPS HA- VANA HARBOR AND FIVE LIVES ARE LOST. Havana, March 17. — While Secre. tary of the Navy Moody and his party were making a visit on shore yester- day afternoon a squall of tremendous violence swept over the harbor. It became as dark as night and the wind and the downpour were terrific. Com- mander Stoney of the Dolphin, realiz- ing the peril to the small boats in the harbor during such a squall, called for volunteer rescuers. The entire crew of the Dolphin responded. Boats were instantly manned and sent off. The launch returned with four half- drowned Cubans and the captain’s gig with another, who was lifted aboard apparently lifeless, but was later re- suscitated. The courage and heroic action on the part of the Americans are especially commended, as_ the British ships did not rise to the emerg- ency, although one of the capsized boats was much nearer to the Ariadne than to the Dolphin. Five Lives Were Lost. Secretary Moody to-day will sum- mon the Dolphin’s crew and commend them for their pluck and presence of mind. It is known that five Cubans were drowned by the capsizing of boats during the squall. The arrival of the British squadron, consisting of the warships Ariadne, Indefatigable, Retribution, Tribune, Fantone and Columbine, from Kings- ton, Jamaica, gave the harbor a naval aspect. The morning was occupied with exchanges of salutes and calls. Secretary Moody and party dined yesterday with Minister Squires. They will pay visits to President Palma and the members of his cabinet to-day. To-morrow they will proceed to Bahia Honda, and on returning to Havana will go to Santiago by rail and re- turn on the Dolphin. They will look over the site for the naval station and general situation at Guantanamo. MEMPHIS FLOODED. People Moving About in Skiffs and Business Is Suspended. Memphis, Tenn., March 17. — The flood situation between Caruthsville, Mo., and Baton Rouge, La., is serious. The gauge at Memphis marks 34.5, a rise of 1.4 during the last twenty-four hours. This is the ever recorded here. The situation around Memphis is becoming serious. Without a single exception the numer- ous lumber plants in North Memphis have suspended owing to the encroach- At Fourth and Market streets people are moving about in skiffs and the street railway has abandoned all schedules in that part of the city. The Coctaw railway has suspended operations between Hopefield and Wolf River and all trains are being sent over the Memphis bridge. A dangerous place in the levee is re- ported from Holly Bush, twenty miles north of here. Engineers of St. Francis levee went to the scene yes- terday afternoon. The water was running over the levee for a distance of 600 feet. Men and material are be- ing sent there and a strong fight is being made to hold the embankment. Refugees and hundreds of horses and mules continue ‘to arrive on every People Begin to Hope. Vicksburg, Miss., March 17. — The river gauge here registers 48.4 feet, a twe-tenths raise in twelve hours. This was the first clear sunshiny day in two’ weeks, and with a cessation of the rain there is a hopeful spirit among the dwellers behind the levees. ‘ People from the low lands with cat- tle and household goods continuéd to arrive,in every sort of craft from a steamboat to a home made craft. REBELS WHIPPED. Nicaraguan Troops Reeccupy a Town Recently Captured. Caracas, March 17.—A body of gov- ernment troops was sent from Mar- | garita island March 13 to attack the rebels at Carupano, which, during the blockade, was taken by them. After three hours’ fighting the government forces reoccupied the town, recaptur- ing the guns and Mausers and taking sixty-three prisoners, thirty-nine of whom were Wounded. NEGRO GOES VIOLENTLY INSANE. Pneumonia Patient Starts to Clean Out a Hospital. Louisville, Ky., March 17.—William Hamilton, a negro who was taken to the city hospital suffering from pneu- monia, became violently insane on re- ligion and, overcoming his attendant, George Campbell, caught up a chair and brained France Winder, an insane inmate sixty years of age. Dr. Bron- ner, who attempted to subdue Hamil- ton, was also slightly hurt. Campbell received a few minor bruises. HamiJ- ton was finally overpowered. highest waier | -| eause of the probable fatal injury of BURDICK INQUEST. Dead Man’s Daughter Most Interesting Witness... Buffalo, N. Y., March 18. — Miss Marion Burdick, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the late Edwin L. Burdick, was the most interesting witness at the inquest before Judge Murphy yes- terday. Like Mrs. Hull, she volun- teered no information. She answered in monosyllables whenever possible. She was not easily confused and there was no sign of agitation or emotion when the district attorney questioned her closely regarding the events that occurred at the time her father was murdered. Nothing of importance was elicited from her while she was on the stand and the district attorney finally gave her up in despair. Dr. William M. Macy, the family physi- cian, and the first person to see the dead body after the murderer covered it up, was the first witness of the day. Howland, the medical examiner, that if it was suicide, or looked suicidal, it to make it out a case of suicide. Later he agreed with Dr. Howland that the suicide theory was untenable. READY FOR FINAL VOTE. Amendments to Canal Treaty. Washington, March 17.—The senate spent six solid hours in executive ses- sion yesterday in its effort to pass on the amendments to the Panama canal treaty in preparation for the final vote on the treaty to-day. The greater part the matter insuring American defense of the canal, the Democrats contending that the United States should be given of this country are sufficiently safe- guarded by the terms of the treaty as it stands. The treaty will be ratified to-day by a very large majority and without amendment. On the final bal- lot many of the Democratic senators will vote for it. PRESIDENT’S WESTERN TRIP. Itinerary of the Tour Has Practically Been Completed. Washington, March 18. — Several senators and members of the house of representatives from Western states yesterday had conferences with Pres- ing tour of the West and Northwest. Dates for the president’s visit to cities of the several states to be included in his journey were discugsed. A few changes were made, but the itinerary of the trip has practically been com- pleted with the exception of the time of arrival and departure of the presi- dent from a few of the places. The party will leave Washington on the morning of April 1 and will return on June 5. The party will be in the Twin Cities on April 4. THE CUBAN TARIFF. Why Germany Will Ask for the Same Treatment. Berlin, March 18--Germany, as soon as the reciprocity treaty between will ask both the Cuban and United | States governments for identical priv- ileges. Intimations have been made | that other governments intend also to request the same treatment. While | annoyed at the prospect of the United States trade having lower tariffs in Cuba than that of Germany no one supposes that even a collective protest on the part of the continental coun- tries would cause either the United States or Cuba to recede. But Ger- many’s position is to be defined clear- ly, so that the United States may not complain when Germany gives other nations preferential treatment. 1 | BANQUET WAS NOT SERVED. | | i} Festivities Stopped by Fatal Injury of | One of the Guests. Columbus, Ohio, March 18. — The tables had been spread for the annual banquet of the stockholders of the Columbus Brewery company last night but the banquet was not served be- one man and serious injury of another of the assembled guests. The break- ing of a wooden cover over an exposed elevator shaft precipitated Bernhard Buehler and Fred Kleinheim into the shhft, the former sustaining a frac- tured skull and a broken leg, and the | latter having three ribs broken. THANKED BY PALMA. | | Cuban President Appreciates Heroism | of Americans. | Havana, March 18. — President | Palma yesterday sent a letter express- | | ing his appreciation of the gallantry | | shown by the sailors of the Dolphin in | rescuing several Cubans whose sail | poats were overturned during the squall in Havana harbor and inclosing $100 to be distributed among the life savers. The American sailors have requested the captain to thank the president and requested that the | money be given to the parents of a | youth drowned during the squall. | WHITECAPS AT WORK. Tar and Feathers Are Conferred Upon Shiftless Citizens. Toledo, Ohio, March 18.—A band of whitecaps composed of 200 of the bet- ter class of young farmers has under- taken the moral regeneration of North- western Ohio. The organization is di- vided into three or four sections, and apparently has the quiet sanction of the authorities. Since its organization a few weeks ago this band has fldzged or tarred and feathered four men and Dr. Macy admitted that he told Dr. | would be all the better for the family | Senate Spends Day Trying to Pass) of the day was devoted to debate on | | the initiative in that respect, and the | Republicans urging that the interests | ident Roosevelt considering his com- | Cuba and the United States is ratified, | FIVE MEN KILLED THREE TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS OCCUR AT THE CARDIFF MINES. WHOLE THING IS A MYSTERY EXPERTS AT A LOSS FOR AN EX PLANATION OF THE DIS- ASTER. THREE OF THE VICTIMS STILL BURIED IN THE WRECKED MINE. Pontiac, Ill., March 18.—Three more terrific explosions occurred at the Car- diff mines Sunday night and yester- day, following that of last Thursday. The nature of the explosions remains |a mystery. Six miners were in the mine Sunday night, cleaning up the | wreckage of Thursday’s explosion, when the first of the last series of ex: | plosions occurred. Men were sent be- low at once to their aid and recovered William Humphrey alive, but terribly injured. The dead bodies of the two | other Bohemians were also recovered, but three of the party are still buried in the mines. At 9 o’clock yesterday morning the most violent explosion of all occurred, | blowing out the top of the shaft and wrecking the top works. Chief Me- chanic Michaels was at the mouth of the pit and was so seriously injured that he died three hours later. Anoth- | er explosion took place at 3 o'clock in | the afternoon, but with no fatalities. The state mine inspector is at the mine but is unable to give an explana- tion of the disaster. The mine will be flooded. LEVEES GIVE WAY. | Mississippi Rushing Through a Three- | Quarter-Mile Crevasse. | Memphis, Tenn., March 18.—The St. Francis levee gave way late yesterday afternoon at Trice’s Landing and the waters of the Mississippi are rushing through a three-quarter-mile crevasse in the embankment with a roar that can be heard for miles. This is the first break that has occurred in the vicinity of Memphis, but the fact that the water is still rising at a rapid rate and that three other points on the Ar- | kansas levee north of Memphis are in |a precarious condition lead to the fear |that later reports will tell of several | other serious crevasses. | At Pecan Point, Fogelman’s Landing | and St. Thomas, the flood is abreast of the crown of the levees and hundreds of men were working by lantern light last night to f Save the Levees. The engineers of the levee board claim that the damage from the break at Trice’s will not be as severe as would have been the case had the crevasses occurred at any other point on the embankment. The river at Memphis’ shows 39.7 feet on the gauge and is rising. This is an advance of a foot and two-tenths in twelve hours, which is an extreme increase with the river spread over so much country. In the city the situ- ation is the worst that has so far been reached. In North and South Mem- phis many homes and business houses | have been flooded and families driven | out. Street car traffic has practically | been suspended in North Memphis, one bridge having been Rendered Unsafe, while others are threatened. Appeals are coming into the city from all di- rections for aid by those who have taken refuge on high points along the river and who are now surrounded by water. All the local packets have goné strictly into the rescue business, but their capacity is completely overtaxed and they are unable to respond to all demands that are received. All day cargoes of refugees and their property were discharged at the wharf here and there are several hundred destitute persons in the city who are being cared for by charity. Reports from Natchez also tell of a gap two miles wide being cut in the fifteen-foot embankment of the Texas Pacific road at Bougere, thirty miles below Vidalia, Miss. This gap was followed by a break in the lower Bougere which lapped the railroad em- bankment on the south. Floods in Kentucky. Paducah, Ky., March 18—Floods are causing many animals to venture into higher points in and about Paducah. Portions of the city are fairly alive with rabbits and men and boys hunt them on outlying streets. A plague of snakes is reported in the suburbs, moccasins being especially numerous. AWFUL EXPLOSION. Ton Weight of Metal Is Thrown a Half-Mile by the Force. Toledo, March 18. — In a boiler ex- plosion which‘wrecked a large portion os the East Toledo mills of the Repub- lie Iron and Steel company yesterday, one man was killed and two others burned so badly that they may die. It will never be known how the accident occurred as the dead man was to only one near the boiler. The top of the boiler, weighing a ton, was blown through the air for half a mile. ' TOP WORKS OF SHAFT WRECKED: a eeepenen ieee anil 4