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

DON’T KNOW WHO KILLED H Mrs. Burdick Says She Has No Knowl- s edge of the Crime. ~Ghe Herald Review. PACKERS’ COMBINE ); = ' By E. C. KILEY. eghacpet te \G@RAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA, Kind words are all right, but they never stopped a Swedish famine. Hobson threatens to write a novel. Guess who'll be the hero of it. It should be the ambition of every woman to live up to her best photo- grapb. You will not sleep any the worse for giving a few dollars to help the famine sufferers. * If there are any other Mrs. Smoots let them now come forward or for- ever after hold their peace. Social distinctions at Yale are to be abolished. Thus the march of democracy goes inevitably on. If Honduras don’t look out she may have to call in old Dr. Monroe to prescribe for that tired feeling. King Edward again has been allowed to amuse himself with the de- lusion that he has opened parliament. Germany has another court scan- dal. This one, though, concerns merely a countess and her hair- dresser. Having discovered the American peanut, France is more than ever glad that Columbus luckily discovered America. Mr. C. Dana Gibson, with his $100,- 000 income, is a convincing proof that sometimes, at least, art, has its com- pensations. Boston is consistent as well as cul- tured. The new head of its public li- brary was born, raised and educated in Reading. They are giving away Havana cigars in New York. That’s the kind of a cigar war the. smokers can stand without a growl. As to Mrs. Russell Sage’s remarks on eschewing social life, Uncle Russell may be depended upon for a@ resounding amen. The American girl has been crowned the world’s queen of beauty—and by a woman. This should make her ex- alted position secure. In spite of all the good things said in behalf of slang, it is fair to admit that a little grammatical English once in a while is desirable. The oldest man in the world, a Californian, weighs only ninety pounds, and has never tasted any of the new breakfast foods. A seat on the New York Stock Ex- change was sold the other day for $82,000. It must make Patti terribly jealous when she reads about such | things. Up to the hour of going to press | the complacent sultan had not taken any active steps toward introducing the reforms that he so willingly agreed to make. A New York woman who weighs 300 pounds and has several million dollars has eloped with a hack driver. At last he has a fat fare who may command his respect. , The old maids of an English town have formed a society “for promoting man’s indifference among women.” If they are trying to dodge matri- | mony this must be considered reck- less. There is to be a congress of phil-| ologists this.year in London. A phi- lologist is a man who not only knows about languages from a to izzard, but also can tell you how izzard got its) name. We are pleased to learn that Wil- liam Rockefeller has had his assess- ment reduced from $1,000,000 to $300,- 000. We are opposed to grinding the poor by taxation or any other method. New York dressmakers are said to be able to beat the Parisian crea- tions. They will hardly succeed, how- ever, in getting the trade, because they don’t charge as much as their French competitors. A plumber died the other day at Lodz, Poland, aged 116 years. He was probably waiting at the time, for his helper to bring something they hadn’t expected they would need when they started out. City people who make it possible for the proprietors of gambling dens to live in palaces are always ready to laugh at the gullibility of the farm- | er who comes to town and lets him- self get stripped by the bunko man. The company formed in Mexico to operate a line of airships between the city of Mexico and Washington has | only $500,000 capital. The whole amount might be wiped out by the damage suits resulting from the first | disaster. John Mitchell has refused to enter politics, to lecture, to accept a house or to Jet his friends raise a fund for him. If John keeps on it will be sim: | ply impossible for him to prevent the | ~ people from raising a good big mon- | ument to his memory some day. | The News \. From the Capital. Maj. Weller, who marched across Samar, has been made a lieutenant colonel. Certain naturalized Italians who wished to visit Italy were barred out on the ground of contagious eye trou- ble. The battleship Massachusetts, in firing with subcaliber guns at a mov- ing target, distance 200 yards, made ten hits out of ten shots with a turret gun and six hits out of seven shots with a broadside gun. L. H. Gilmore, a colored soldier of Washington, has been commissioned by the president a second lieutenant in the Philippine scouts. The president of North Carolina that Lieut. Gilmore should have the first vacancy in the Philippine scouts. There are a large number of peti- tions pending for the establishment of rural free delivery in Minnesota, Wis- consin and the Dakotas, but it will be Impossible for the department to act on all of them. It.is probable that from 500 to 600 routes will be estab- lished in Minnesota during the coming fiscal year. Members of the committee on bank- Ing and currency of the house, who are still in the city, have had several talks with President Roosevelt in regard to financial legislation in the next con- gress to ward off financial stringency In the future. Students of financeféar that the lack of elasticity in the cur- tency will cause some serious times in the financial world during the next ten or twelve months. The department of agriculture is giv- Ing special attention to the matter of collecting seeds from pine cones, espe- cially for the jack pine variety, for planting in the semi-arid and other sections of the West: It is found by the experts of the department that the jack pine is hardy enough to make tapid growth in the section where wa- ter is scarce. A large quantity of seed is being collected, especially for Nebraska and Wyoming. Accidental Happenings. D. D. McArthur, brother of J. D. Mc- Arthur, a contractor, accidently shot ‘himself and died almost instantly at Winnipeg. The overhead trolley wire in the Bronx, New York, broke, falling on a motorman ,who was instantly killed by the current. Fire at Pepperell, Mass., destroyed M. C. Griffin’s shoe factory early this morning and extended to several near- | by dwellings. | A cave-in in the five-foot vein of the | Delaware & Hudson No. 3 colliery, left a hole fifteen feet in diameter in Wil- low street, Edwardsville, Pa. The Omaha through express on the Wabash, was wrecked at Elm Point, Mo., and nine persons were injured. All will recover. Among the injured are Mrs. J. L. McGee, Council Bluffs, fowa, and D. R. Truehoft, Des Moines. Crimes and Criminals. There are rewards of $19,000 for the murderer of Policeman Mendelsohn at Waterbury, Conn. Two men are reported to have been killed and several wounded in a pay- day spree near Baggaley, Pa. Miss Julia Toombs, a twenty-three- |year-old girl of Providence, R. I., was {shot and killed by William Stevens | Morse, a crazy rejected lover. Bud Higgins, a mulatto, on trial at | Chicago for the murder of Mrs. Annie |Butler, confessed on the witness stand that he committed the crime. Dr. J. F. Turner was killed and C. |B. Bishop critically injured by two masked robbers who attempted to hold up Losteau’s cafe at Pueblo, Col. Many physicians and business men of Indianapolis believe they have been |duped by two young men forming a |so-called medical alliance of America. A duel fatal to both took place be- |tween James King and John Gibbons, |prominent young men of Brazil, near |Lobdell, Miss. They quarreled about |® girl. Detectives are trying to solve the problem of who sent a bottle of poi- |soned champagne to John C. Fisher, the theatrical man of New York. It \came from Chicago. ' Fourteen armed and masked men en- ‘tered the house of Mrs. Jacob Reisch- |elderfer, an aged and wealthy widow |near Criderville, Ohio, bound the in- ‘mates and secured several thousand | dollars. | | Notes From Abroad. | A Chinese loan of $40,000,000, guar- ‘anteed by Russia, is announced. | A papal proclamation of the canoni-, | gation of Joan of Arc is expected. | The French chamber of deputies has | begun a debate on the religious or- | ders. | The Dominion parliament will take up the question of grain transportation | from the Northwest. | Prof. Behring of Vienna claims a serum by which children may be vac- |cinated against consumption. In the Prussian diet $25,000 for Prus- |sia’s educational exhibit at the St. | Louis exposition was voted after some harp opposition. Apprehension concerning German designs upon the sovereignty of the Netherlands continues to be strongly | felt at The Hague and Amsterdam. Very Rev. George G. Bradley, D. D., LL. D., dean of the Order of the Bath and dean of Westminster Abbey from 1881 to 1902, is dead. He was born in recently promised Senator Pritchard |* j 7821 Dispatches from two Hebrews in Russia were printed in a New York Jewish paper to the effect that the ezar’s recent decree * proclaiming re- ligious freedom will not affect the Jews. : Reynolds’ Newspaper of London pub- lishes a story that the prince of Wales, who is the recipient of $100,000 yearly in addition to $30,000 from the duchy of Cornwall revenues, is unable to live on that amount. Ason of Director Koch of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin was recently so severely beaten by his tutor that the land, who was fifteen years of age, died from the effects of the castiga- tion. The tutor has been arrested. Sir William Van Horn, while visit- ing President Palma at Havana, of- fered to purchase the state penitenti- ary property, valued at $500,000, his purpose being the erection of a $1,000,- 000 hotel. The president promised to take the matter to congress. A government commission of min- ing engineers has discovered sixty-five miles northeact of the Piura railway, in Peru, a mountain of\iron sesquiox- ide which is 50 per cent pure. The surrounding country is full of the same metal. Personal Mention. Admiral Tyrtoff, Russian minister of marine, died of heart disease. Thoms P. Sanborn, an organ manu- facturer, died at Indianapolis. He was born at Sanbornton, N. H., in 1823. Commandant Joubert, one of the members of the visiting Boer delega- tio, is at Mexico City visiting in search of health from the results of a wound received in the South African war. Former Congressman John W. Candler of Brookline died of heart dis- ease at Providence, R. I. Mr. Candler was interested largely in the Florida Southern and other railroads. He was born in 1828. Maj. Weller, U. S. M. C., who was with the first relief force to enter Pe- kin, and afterward marched with the United States forces across Samar, which resulted in a court-martial, has been promoted to the rank of lieuten- ant colonel. Robert G. Hedrick, commissioner of Indian affairs under President Lincoln and brother-in-law of Caleb B. Smith, who was Lincoln’s secretary of the in- terior, was buried at Indianapolis from an undertaker’s establishment. He died in poverty. He was born in Balti- more in 1821. Otherwise. The Missouri legislature refused to move the capitol to St. Louis. The shipbuilders of Chicago won their strike for nine hours and a 10 per cent raise. A band of about 200 whitecaps has undertaken the moral regeneration of Northwestern Ohio. James S. Harlan, attorney general of Porto Rico, resigned his office and sailed for home. He received a great ovation. The strike is on in the Cripple Creek district in Colorado. President Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners notified the miners. Schuyler R. Moore, a junior in Cor- nell, is dead at Trumansburg, N. Y. His death is the twenty-fourth among the students from typhoid fever. Henry S. Loomis, the eight-year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Loomis of New York, died of hydrophobia caused by the bite of a pet spaniel. Sixty per cent of the flat janitors In Chicago will receive an increase in wages ranging from -10 to 50 per cent, according to the terms of the agree- ment. — Miss Alice Murphy of Zanesville, Ohio, has stirred up trouble by whip- ping seventeen of her pupils, ages from twelve to sixteen, fourteen of whom were girls. Edward W. Cullen, well-known attor- ney and clubman of Chicago, whose disappearance was reported, has re- turned and is now in a sanitarium ih a state of nervous collapse. George Gibler Rambaud, director of the Pasteur institute in New York, says that within the past six months there have been twelve deaths from hydrophobia in that city. Former President Cleveland will make an extended trip through the West. His first stop will be at St. Louis on April 30, when he will attend the dedication of the fair grounds. A verdict for $70,000 against the New York Central railway was award- ed by a jury in the supreme court at White Plains, N. J., for the death of Ernest F. Walton of New Rochelle. Grief for a brother who died because of unrequited love for an Italian opera singer has caused Bishop Tikhon of San Francisco, head of the Greek Rus- sian church in this country, to decide to abandon the cathedral and return to his home in South Russia. Mrs. Ann Augusta Thomas, widow of Gen. Samuel Thomas, and her children, Edward R. Thomas and Mrs. R. Liv- ingston Beeckman, have given $50,000 to the Manhattan eye, ear and throat hospital of New York to endow a ward of ten beds to be known as the “Sam- uel Thomas memorial ward.” Attorneys and representatives of striking teamsters and transfer com: panies of Kansas City have reached ap agreement and the wagons are run ning as usual. The transfer compa nies agree to recognize the union and made other concessions. NEW ORGANIZATION WHICH EX- PECTS TO CONTROL THE MEAT .TRADE. IT TAKES IN SEVEN CONCERNS ALL ARE NOW CONTROLLED BY ARMOUR-SWIFT-MORRIS INTERESTS. MILLIONS OF CAPITAL INVOLVED COMBINE EXPECTS TO DO A BUSINESS OF $150,000,000 ANNUALLY. Chicago, March 25.—Announcement was made yesterday by J. P. Lyman, president of the G. H. Hammond com- pany, that his company, along with others, had been incorporated in what is to be known as the National Pack- ing company. The capital stock is $15,000,000, all of which, it is said, has been paid in. The companies included in the new combine are the Omaha Packing com- pany, the Hammond Packing company, the G. H. Hammond company, the Hutchinson Packing company, the Anglo-American Provision company, the United States Beef company and the Fowler Packing company. The corporation was formed a few days ago under the laws of New Jersey, with the following directors: J. P. Lyman, J. Ogden Armour, G. P. Swift, Edward Morris, P. A. Valentine, Arthur Meeker, L. F. Swift, E. F. Swift, Ira Morris, James D. Standish and Kennith K. McLaren. The combination, with its millions of capital, includes but two local com- panies, the Anglo-American company and the Hammond company. The oth- ers are all outside concerns. According to Mr. Lyman, the Na- tional Packing company has for its ob- ject, aside from killing and packing cattle and hogs, the ambition to reach "the fields of Europe and America and compete with the Armour-Morris- Swift combine. As all the companies included in the National company are controlled by the “Big Three,” this proposition seems rather dubious. The new company, according to the formal statement, has made the purchase of the independent compa- nies for “investment,” and expects to do a business of $150,000,000 annually. It is declared on La Salle street that the combination of the smaller prop- erties is the first step on the part of the larger packers to get complete control of the meat trade. MAMMOTH MEAT CONCERN. Superior Expects to Be a Great Pro- vision Center. West Superior, March 25. — Boston capitalists are figuring on making Superior the distributing point for a mammoth meat and packing concern which is being organized to oppose the meat trust. A number of easterners have practically agreed to compete with it, and plans are now under way for the organization of the corporation. The headquarters will be located in Indiana, close to Ilinois, TO BE REVIEWED BY DEWEY. Admiral Receives Orders to Look Over North Atlantic Squadron. Washington, March 25. — Admiral Dewey is to review and inspect the North Atlantic squadron which is off the Virginia capes on its return from Southern waters. Orders yesterday were issued by the navy department to Admiral Higginson, who is in com- mand, to proceed to the drill grounds, twenty miles east of Cape Henry, on the morning of April 21, and there await the admiral of the navy. Ad- miral Dewey will join the fleet either with the Mayflower or the Dolphin. He will remain with it 10 days. PANIC AT A FIRE. | Women and Girls Make Hasty Exit From Burning Building. | Pittsburg, March 25—Fire yesterday | in the eight-story brick bu#ding occu- | pied by the McElveen Furniture com- | pany, gutted the three upper floors and damaged the stock on the lower floors. On the upper floors of the building many girls and women were employed in the manufacture of | clothing, and a panic ensued, but all reached the street in safety. AMERICANS ARE HELD. Government Refused to Give Them the Necessary Passports. San Francisco, March 25. — Eleven passengers booked at San Juan, Guate- mala, on the Kosmos liner Theben, which has arrived from Central Amer- ican ports, were detained, as the gov- ernment would not give them their passports. Head Is Crushed. Duluth, Minn., March 25. — George Shea, foreman of a crew at the bank- ing ground of the Alger, Smith & Co. sawmill at Rice’s Point, Duluth, was instantly killed by a log, which rolled on Shea, crushing his head. Quarrel Fatal to Three. Lewiston, Mont., March 25. — Jack Pearce shot and killed Mrs, Barney Hediger and a man named Patten and then shot himself at Gilt Edge last night. The man had quarreled with the woman. . =_ ' Warfield has confessed. Buffalo, N. Y., March 25—“Have you received any information as to who killed your husband?” , “No sir.” “You swear you have no knowledge or information as to who killed him?” “1 do.” . These questions were addressed to Mrs. Alice Hull Burdick yesterday af- ternoon by District Attorney S- worth at the inquest into the death of her husband. The answers were re- turned by Mrs. Burdick in a calm, clear voice. To complete the examination of every one known to have been in the Burdick home on the night of Feb. 26 when Edwin L. Burdick was murdered the district attorney yesterday called to the stand the two youngest Burdick children, Carol and Alice, aged tre- spectively thirteen and ten years. The district attorney questioned the chil- dren closely about the events that oc- curred at their home on the night be- fore and the morning after their father’s murder. The children dis- played no more emotion than did their grandmother or mother, or older sis- ter, while talking about the terrible death of their father. The recollection of the happenings at the time of the tragedy was rather hazy, and “I don’t remember,” was usually the answer they gave when the district attorney pressed them closely on any point. Before leaving the stand Mrs. Bur- dick took occasion to say, in reply to questions from her attorney, that noth- ing improper or immoral had occurred between her and Pennell. KILLED BY ROBBERS. Cut Victim’s Throat With a Razor and Throw Him Into Water. Brainerd, Minn., March 25.—Napole- on Germaine was held up and robbed a mile west of Pillager and will die from injuries received at the hands of the highway robbers. With a razor they hacked his throat three times and threw him in a ditch of water to die, after taking from him $1§. Germaine crawled on his hands and knees into Pillager and reported the case. A posse was organized to go in pursuit of the robbers, who took to the woods. WANTED TO SEE ENGINE RUN. Incendiary Proves to Be a Weak- Minded Boy. Boone, Iowa, March 25.—The police have captured the firebug. He is a sixteen-year-old lad of not very strong mind, who claims that he was induced to set the fires by other boys, who wanted to see the new fire engine work. He confesses to setting the four recent fires in barns, which have greatly puzzled the officers in the past ten days. His name is Ralph Leonard and he is the oldest son of a highly respected family. TWO IOWA FIRES. Gilmore City Sustains a Loss of Fif- teen Thousand Dollars. Fort Dodge, Iowa, March 25.—Two Iowa towns were called upon to fight fire in the storm yesterday. Heavy damage was done by flames at Gil- more City and West Bend. The loss at Gilmore City was $15,000. At West Bend Link’s saloon and Delano’s bil- liard hall were burned. A family named Douglas, living over the saloon, had a narrow escape, and lost every- thing. NEW JUDGES APPOINTED. Governor Names A. Grindeland and M. A. Spooner, St. Paul, March 25.—Gov. S. R. Van Sant has appointed the two new dis- trict judges provided for in laws re- cently enacted by the legislature. A. Grindeland of Warren is named as new district judge in the Fourteenth district, and M. A. Spooner of Be- midji is appointed new judge in the Fifteenth district. May Be Made Illegal in Wisconsin. Madison, Wis., March 25.—The as- sembly committee on state affairs last night decided by a vote of 5 to 2 to recommend the Williams anti-negro marriage bill for possage. The action came after a long and spirited hearing on the bill. The measure prohibits marriage between whites and negroes within the state. Presented Church With Mortgage. Red Wing, Minn., March 25.—Fred Pusch recently took up the mortgage on St. Joseph’s Catholic church amounting to $2,000 and interest, mak- ing this a present to the congregation. Two Children Burned to Death. Kansas City, March 25.—At Kansas | City, Kan., yesterday, two children were burned to death in a fire, the mother having locked them in while | she went to the store. Col. Moore Is Dead. La Crosse, Wis., March 25.—Col. L. M. Moore, one of the best known mili- tary men in the state died here yester- day of dropsy. He was seventy-six years of age. : Gamblers Defied Police. West Superior, Wis., March 25—The municipal court received $187 in fines from a bunch of gamblers who were arrested in a raid on a joint that had the temerity to start up after the chief had said he would not permit it. Confesses the Theft. Milwaukee, March 25.—Gilbert War- field, a member of the Sylva Opera company, was arrested at Eagle, Wis., | charged with robbing Treasurer Nird- | linger at a hotel in this city of $2,700. MOB OF RIOTERS AT PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD, DOES GREAT DAMAGE. TWELVE NATIVES ARE KILLED GOVERNMENT BUILDING IS EN- TIRELY DESTROYED BY THE RIOTERS. FURTHER, TROUBLE IS FEARED BRITISH BLUE JACKETS ARE LANDED AND ASSIST IN RE- STORING ORDER. Port of Spain, Trinidad, March 25.— Twelve natives were killed and sixty wounded, many of them non-combat- ants and women, during Monday’s rioting. The government building was entirely destroyed by the rioters and the police barracks damaged by © fire and water. All the government records in the colonial secretary's of- fice, the court house, the crown lands and other departments were de- stroyed. The rioting had its origin in the op- position to the new water ordinance, | which reduced the water allowance per head and increased the water rate. | The court house was surrounded while the legislative council was in session discussing the water ordinance. The mob broke through the police lines and stoned the building. The rioters then demolished the contents of the lower floor of the government building and set fire to it. All those attending the meeting were assailed with mis- siles, many personse being struck by stones and bottles. The fire drove the people from the building and, aided by a part of the local military force, they Defended Their Lives with rifles. The rioters then evidently with a view to plunder, threatened to burn the business portion of the town. The commander of the British cruiser Pallas, lying in the harbor, was in- formed of the serious situation and he landed detachments of blue jackets from the Pallas and the torpedo boat destroyer Rocket with four machine guns. Two hundred citizens were armed and sworn in as special con- ‘stables. The sailors and volunteers rendered invaluable service in patroll- ing the streets throughout the night and guarding the bank, treasury and other public buildings. Order was then restored. More speeches are being made against the water ordinance and there is @ probability of further serious trouble. The-court house, which cost $350,000, is completely gutted and the contents of the vault totally destroyed. The chamber of commerce is holding a meeting with a view to cabling the home government requesting the re- call of the high officials here. SELECTS NAVAL STATION. Secretary Moody Decides on Guantan- amo for the Site. Guantanamo, March 25. — After a | personal inspection of the proposed | site, Secretary Moody has selected | Guantanamo as the principal United | States naval station in the West | Indies. Secretary Moody, Senator | Proctor and Congressmen Cannon, | Foss and Gillette arrived here yester- day on board the United States dis- patch boat Dolphin, which anchored in | the lower bay. Secretary Moody ard | his associates have worked incessant- |ly during the past two days under a |hot sun examining the strategic points, the transportation facilities the water supply and the surrounding | fortifications, surveyed the coast line | and conferred with the owners of the land it is proposed to acquire. JILTED BY HER LOVER. Former Minneapolis School Teacher Drowns Herself. San Jose, Cal., March 25. — Ruth | Zeigler, aged twenty-five years, lately | public school teacher of Minneapolis, | committed suicide near Saratoga ast | night by drowning herself in Campbell creek. She received a letter from | Minneapolis yesterday from a young | man announcing that he desired to | break their engagement. After read- | ing the letter she left the home where |she had been staying, and was not | seen alive again. GETS HIS REWARD As a Valuable Member of the Coal Strike Commission. | Washington, March 25. — President . | Roosevelt has decided to appoint as | assistant secretary of the department of commerce and labor Edgar E. Clark of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, chief of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, and one of the members of the anthra- cite coal strike commission. Acquitted of Robbery. Logansport, Ind., March 25.—Lewis Clark and John Blight of Dennison, Ohio, who have been on trial here on a charge of attempting to rob the Ad- ams Express company of a box of gold last September, were acquitted. Boiler in Mill Explodes. Fulton, Ky., March 25.—McCauley’s sawmill, near Wickliffe, was totally destroyed by an explosion of the boiler. Three men were blown to | atoms and six others seriously in- a ae