Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 4, 1903, Page 7

AE ee “on good The Fieratd-Beview. GRAND. ore = aanReaGTR And a get rich quick investor also is born every. minute. Mr. Kipling prefers the bagpipes, but he can also touch the lute. English earls and American poker never have become thoroughly ac- quainted. In the matter of swelling the death rate the late Dr. Gatling easily headed his profession. There are plenty of men who will never grow round-shouldered from car- rying their brains. Some people are already beginning to fidget for fear panama hats may be Stylish again next summer. Cornell professors will get pensions of $1,500 per yéar if they escape ty- phoid until they are seventy. Kipling’s new poem would seem to indicate that he wants to hedge on the flanneled fools and muddied @afs. The lioness Aesop tells about, you remember, entertained a somewhat different opinion concerning large fam- ilies, Count Boni de Castellane says he is delighted with America. Evidently the Gould checks have been liberal of late. The news that the author of “All Coons Look Alike to Me” is a bank- rupt should cause genuine regret in Indianola. The Louisville Courier-Journal rises superior to local prejudices in an ed- itorial on the “Value of Kentucky Waterways.” Sir Thomas Lipton has served no- tice that he is coming for the cup this time. He is tired of being merely a@ jolly good fellow. Theatrical managers love a full house, but it is a sad sight for the man whose three aces have induced him to pay to witness it. From recent numerous scandalous eruptions in royal circles abroad one gathers that the sarsaparilla market is on the verge of a boom. Prince Albert Kakailimoku Kumuia- kha, last descendant of King Kame- hameha of Hawaii, is cead. Let us hope he has gone where the good are oO. K. Great Britain has purchased the cruisers offered for sale by Argentina. John Bull may be a little bit slow, but he rarely overlooks a naval bar- gain. The messenger boys can never ex- pect to conduct a successful strike until they invent a scheme by which they can exercise authority over their mothers. “Oh, that’s only his way,” we often hear pleaded in excuse for some one. But when a man’s ways are offensive to his fellows he’s called upon to al- ter them. The big supply of smokeless powder that the sultan is arranging to buy in Germany is not designed for toilet use by the female members of his happy family. Congratulations continue to pour in on Mrs. Ormsby, the mother of the famous quadruplets, while the mel- ancholy plight of Mr. Ormsby is per- sistemtly overlooked. A Philadelphia minister advises young women never to marry a man until they have thoroughly reformed him. Why not make sure of him first and reform him later on? A Kansas City telephone girl has been awarded $12,500 damages be- cause the manager shook her, not figuratively, byt literally. Moral: It is better just to talk to a telephone girl. Count Tolstoi maintains that the accumulation of vast riches is not a good deed, but an evil one. The beauty of this theory is that the good deeds will always outnumber the evil ones. King Edward of England has join- ed four clubs during the past year. Now if the queen doesn’t believe him when he gets in late it will simply show that she isn’t willing to listen to reason. Baltimore’s new city directory gives the city a population of 664,725 —155,768 more than the census enum- erators found in 1900. Evidently the Baltimore directory publishers are en- terprising people. England again has been consider- ing the problem of a food supply in ease of a foreign war. The best way to dispose of that matter is to keep terms with the United Btates. In that case there will always be food and to spare. ‘There would be no talk of race sui- cide if all married couples were like Mr. and Mrs. Cormac McCallis of Hazleton, Penn., who have just had their twenty-third child born to them. Mrs. McCallis is forty-five. She was married at the age of seventeen, From the Capital. E. E. Clark of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is now mentioned for the head of the bureau of labor. President Roosevelt has made ap- Plication for membership in the Oyster Bay board of trade. Admiral Dewey is to feview and in- spect the North Atlantic squadron, which is off the Virginia capes, on its return North from Southern waters about April 27. The secret service division of the treasury department has received a new counterfeit silver certificate, se- ries 1899, check letter “C,” Lyons reg- ister, Roberts treasurer, A protest has been received from Representative Steenerson against the proposed location of the new land office at Cass. Steenerson urges that it should be at Bemidji. Gen. Greely, chief signal officer, finds difficulty in keeping civilian em- ployes at work on the telegraph lines in Alaska, owing to the gold finds in the Tanana country, to which they desert. President Roosevelt has issued an order extending to su¢h large cities as may be agreed upon the registration system for laborers to the civil ser- vice outside of Washington, where it already has been established. The number of immigrants has risen from 31,851 in January to 47,267 in February. The country furnishing most of these citizens is Austria-Huh- ‘gary with 16,003. Italy is not far behind with 13,050; the Russian em- pire, 6,670; England, 1,271; Ireland, 562, and Scotland, 311. From Asia there came 2,310, of which 1,855 were Japanese. A naval court-martial at Cavite, P. I., for the trial of Lieutenant Com- mander Fidello S. Carter, found the accused guilty and imposed the sen- tence of dismissal. The charges were based on the grounding of the Pisca- taqua and the allegation that he had attempted to compel a warrant offi- cer to withdraw the charges against him. The state department received a ca- blegram from Minister Bridgman at La Paz announcing that Bolivia has agreed to the Brazilian modus vi- vendi under which Brazil is to occupy the Acre territory south of parallel 10 degrees 20 minutes, and in the event of a failure to settle the controversy within four months Bolivia will agree to the arbitration of the question. Personal Mention. William E. Annin, a special agest in charge of the river mail route ser- vice of the Denver division, is dead at Phoenix, Ariz., of typhoid fever, aged forty-seven years. Joseph Jefferson, the distinguished actor, will appear at Palm Beach, | Fla., in a new role as president of the Electric Light and Power company which has been organized with a cap- | ital of $50,000. Cardinal Gibbons has accepted an invitation to attend the inaugural cfre- monies of the St. Louis exposition, and will offer the opening prayer on the occasion, as he did at the world’s fair at Chicago. Dean R. Wood at present United States vice consul at Madrid, has been appointed United States consul at Ceiba, Honduras, to fill a vacancy | caused by the death of Virgil C. Rey- | nolds of Kentucky. |. Charles L. Fish, the oldest attorney in Cleveland, Ohio, and a practitioner at the bar up to three years ago, died of pneumonia, aged eighty-five years. He had practiced since 1865 and was well known as a maritime expert. Accidental Happenings. The Marine Villa hotel at Cape May, N. J., owned by Mrs. John M. Rogers |f Wilmington, Del., and valued at | $60,000, burned; insurance, $30,000. Asa and Charles Bigelow, aged four and two years, were burned to death jat Kansas City, the mother having locked them in while she went to the store. Three women were instantly killed |and a fourth was probably fatally in- jured while walking from Pawtucket to Philipsdale, R. I., on the tracks of the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford railroad. A $150,000 fire at Pittsburg in the eight-story brick building occupied by the McElveen Furniture company gut- ted the three upper floors. On the up- per floors many girls were employed and a panic ensued, but all reached the street in safety. | Crimes and Criminals. Mrs. Robert J. Drake of Harveys- burg, Ind., was arrested charged with poisoning her husband. The threat of a police captain to ar- rest the players broke up a proposed social euchre party in Brooklyn. Thieves drove off with a wagon loaded with fifty-seven cases of mer- chandise valued at $5,000 from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy freight depot in Chicago. Oscar Dibelow of Kansas City, aged | nineteen years, shot and seriously wounded his two brothers, James and George, aged twenty-six and thirty, as the result of a quarrel. A jury in the McLean county (Ill.) circuit court found four men guilty of chicken thefts and decided it was burglary and that the men should be sentenced to the penitentiary. Notes From Abroad. La Soufriere is in violent eruption. The ex-crown princess of Saxony is broken in health. Peace has been declared between the Uruguayan government and the rebels. Two of the students injured in the Louis Kossuth birthday riots at Buda- pest died. George Chapman, a_ Southwark, Eng., saloonkeeper, who was charged with the murder of three women, was sentenced to death. The report that the British cruiser Pallas has been seized by the Vene- zuelan gunboat Restaurador at Trini- dad, is without foundation. The Arbeiter Zeitung asserts that the Austrial war minister has issued a secret decree enjoining the military commanders to use all their efforts to arrest the spread of the socialist pro- paganda in the army. According to advices from Pekin, Yung Lus’ illness seems to be of a se- rious nature and his recovery is doubt- ful. The Japan Mail says his death would be an event of greater impor- tance than the death of Li Hung Chang. “ A panic took place at the review of Chang Chin Tung’s modern drilled soldiers and sailors in the province of Yangtse, and a large number of lives were lost. The sham battle caused a stampede and many children were drowned in the river so that their pa- rents might escape the faster. The message of President Palma re- garding. the. amended. reciprocity treaty was read in the Cuban senate. The president considers that the amendments made by the United States senate should be adopted. He explains that the exchange of ratifica- tion must be made in Washington be- fore March 31 or the treaty will lapse. Twelve natives were killed and six- ty were wounded during rioting at Port of Spain, Trinidad. The govern- ment building was entirely destroyed and the police barracks were dam- aged. All the government records were destroyed. The rioting had its origin in the opposition to a new wa- ter ordinance, which reduced the wa- ter allowance per head and increased the water rate. Otherwise. Manhattan Elevated railway em- ployes in New York threaten to strike unless granted a nine-hour day and wage concessions. The board of classification at New York upholds the duty on wood pulp imported from Quebec, but not on that imported from Ontario., ‘ Mrs: J. N. Reeve of Succasunna, N. J., who had been in a trance for five days, is dead. Just before she died she opened her eyes and said good-by. Three kittens are on exhibition at Frankfort, Ind., joined by a_ strong membrane an inch wide at the ab- domen. The kittens are a week old and healthy. The promise of Mayor Hays of Bal- timore to get married if re-elected is likely to cut a figure in the campaign, especially as he claims not to have a bride in view. Edwin Smith and Fremont Morse of the coast and geodetic survey are preparing to exchange telegraphic time signals over the new cable to de- termine the precise difference in time | | | | | | MAN FIMDS ANOTHER WITH. HIS, ‘WIFE AND A. FIGHT > ENSUES. JEALOUSY MAKES HIM FURIOUS THROWS INTERLOPER OUT AND FIGHTS HIM DOWN TWO FLIGHTS. IS SHOT DEAD BY WIFE’S FRIEND BULLET PASSES CLEAR THROUGH HIS BODY, KILLING HIM INSTANTLY. New York, April 1. — Filled with jealous anger at finding another man being entertained by his wife yester- day afternoon William °J. Peppler of East 119th street, threw the visitor out into the hall, fought him from the third floor to the front door of the apartment house in which he lived, with his wife screaming and weeping at their heels, and was there shot dead by the man who he thought had wronged him. This man was William Harl Dob- son, a cashier in a stock broker's of- fice. He filed and the police have sent out a general alarm for him. Peppler was twenty-six years old and a clerk. He had not been married long. A policeman, summoned by the cries of the other tenants of the house, who were alarmed by the shooting, rushed into the building, and in the hall stumbled over the dead body of Peppler on which his wife was lying unconscious. Peppler had been shot in the side, the bullet pass- ing clear through the body. After being revived Mrs. Peppler said that she and Dobson were to- gether when her husband returned unexpectedly from work, and a fight followed, resulting in Dobson being thrown out of the room and pursued down stairs by her husband. In the lower hall the men clinched again and Dobson fired one shot. After that the woman remembered nothing. Dobson is said to be a married man with a wife and two children living some- where in North Carolina. HAVOC OF A STORM. | Heavy Damage Afloat and Ashore Along Southern Atlantic. Newport News, Va., April 1. — Heavy damage ashore and afloat was wrought by wind and water during the storm which has raged the past twenty-four hours. The storm cul, minated yesterday in a veritable gale. The tide reached. a danger point within two feet of level of the floors of the piers and threatened to bring great disaster to the property along the water front. The two-masted schooner William B. Hall, bound up the James river to Norfolk with 35,000 brick, sank at her anchorage. The captain and crew, the latter negroes, were exposed to the storm in a small open boat for two hours and were rescued, almost frozen, by the Chesapeake & Ohio tug Alice. Two deaths have been re- ported. The four-masted coal schooner and longitude between San Francisco | Charles L. Davenport went ashore at and Honolulu. Announcement has been made of the | total loss. secret marriage March 16 of Ernest H. Coolidge of Washington and Miss Old Point Comfort. She will be a The crew landed safely. Storm Plays Havoc. Norfolk, Va., April 1. — The north- Jean M. Thurston, daughter of For-| east storm that swept down the At- mer United States Senator Thurston of Nebraska. Miss Thurston is seven- teen years of age. The executive council of the United Textile Workers of America gave its unqualified indorsement to the request of the operatives in the cotton mills at Lowell. to enforce their demands for an increase of 10 per cent in wages. An event in the social world at Montclair, N. J., is the coming mar- riage of Miss Eugenie Jefferson, the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson, to Rumsey Wing Scott of Louisville, Ky. Miss Jefferson is a granddaugh- ter of Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor. Harvard defeated Yale in debate, having the affirmative of the question, “Resolved, That the United States should permit a European govern- ment to seize and hold permanently territory of the debtor state not ex- ceeding in value the amount of the award.” Claims for about $500,000 against the city of New York for personal in- juries received at Madison Square on last election night, when several bombs exploded in the crowd, have be- gun to appear. Suits will be institut- ed in each case if they are not settled by the controller. Charles A. Towne, formerly of Du- luth but now of New York city, as- serts with great positiveness that he is out of polities, and he declines to discuss political subjects. He claims to “be devoting his entire time and attention to business, with results sat- isfactory to himself. The British home office has declined to adopt Whitaker Wright’s sugges- tion that it withdraw the extradition proceedings and allow him to return to London from New York of his owr _____. | accord. lantic coast Sunday and yesterday morning played havoc among the | small shipping and tied up coastwise trade almost entirely. The high tide here prevailing in the river flooded the streets in the lower sections of this city and for a time traffic was sus- pended. BURDICK INQUEST CLOSED. No Arrests Will Be Made and No War- rants Will Be Issued. Buffalo, N. Y., April 1. — Justice Murphy is to announce his findings in the Burdick inquest in police court to-day. No arrests will be made; no warrants will be issued. The court’s findings will be interesting as a clos- ing commentary on the famous case. The inquest was closed formally by Judge Murphy yesterday after hear- ing the testimony of Quinn and King, the former bartender and cashier of the Hotel Roland in New York about Pennell’s alleged statement to them of his willingness to kill one man even if he went to the gallows for it. No other witnesses were called. The Pennell inquest, which Judge Murphy announced would begin yes- terday morning, was postponed in- definitely. The reason announced was the absence of witnesses from the city. HELP FOR FINLAND. Cargo of Grain Starts Out to Aid the Famine District. Portland, Me., April 1. The Elder-Dempster steamship Yola will sail to-day for Hango, Finland, with a cargo consisting of 163,822 bushels of oats, 10,000 bushels of rye and 30,715 bushels of barley and a large supply of clothing, money and othef articles contributed for the famine-stricken Finlanders. This is the third ship- ment of the kind, each of which came from Canada. _ * Makes Good His Title as the Feather weight Champion. San Francisco, April 2. — William Rothwell, better known as “Young Corbett,” of Denver, showed decisive- ly last night that his victory over Terry McGovern of Brooklyn at Hart- ford a year ago last Thanksgiving was no fluke, by defeating McGovern in the eleventh round after a fight in which there was not a second of idle- ness for either man. In nearly every round Corbett, fighting like a ma- chine, never overlooking an oppor- tunity to send home his blows, had a shade the better of the argument, and when finally, in the eleventh round, he got the Brooklyn boy fairly going, he never let up on him until Terry sank to the floor, a badly defeated man. Corbett put McGovern down in the first round for a count of seven, and repeated it in the second. There was some question as to whether or not McGovern was not down at the count of ten, and for a few minutes it looked as though there would be ‘ A Free-for-All. Fight. McGovern tried to get up, tried hard, and was on his feet an instant atter the timekeeper counted him out. George Harding, the club timekeeper, who counted McGovern out, stated af- ter the fight, that the blows that knocked McGovern out were left and right swings on the jaw and a right uppercut on the chin. Harding said McGovern was in a dazed condition; that when he had counted nine he motioned him to get up, but McGoy- ern was too confused to notice and was unable to rise. At the count of ten McGovern started to rise, but it was too late and the referee awarded the fight to “Young Corbett.” Hard- ing said that McGovern was complete- ly out’ and that it was a mercy to him that he was unable to get up. As it was, it was nearly a minute after Me- Govern had been Carried to His Corner before he was able to sit up or under- stand what had happened. The men in McGovern’s corner claimed that the decision was an outrage. They claim that at the count of ten he was on his feet and, although dazed, knew what he was doing. They also claimed that he had plenty of fight in him and would have lasted the rest of the round. Harding’s position in counting McGovern out was sustained by “Chalky” Roberts, another time- keeper. Paddy Sullivan, the titrd timekeeper, was very much in favor of McGovern, and contended that the count, as accepted by the referee, was wrong. Referee Graney’s decision seemed to meet with the approval of most of the spectators, as McGovern was apparently thproughly beaten. TURKS MASSACRE. All the Inhabitants of a Macedonian Village Put to Death. | Sofia, April 2. — The Macedonian committeé announces that ‘a revoli- tionary band of thirty-one men and the inhabitants of the village of Ab- alitcho, near Istib. have been massa- cred by Bashi Bazouks. The band, it was added, was sur- rounded in. the village, artillery was brought up, and after ten hours’ fight- ing the village was completely razed and burned, and all the inhabitants, without distinction, were massacred. The Turkish losses are reported to have been even greater than those of the other side. Spreading Dangerously. | St. Petersburg, April 2—The Rus- sian consul at Uskub, European Turkey, confirms the report of the dangerous spread of the revolutionary agitation in the vilayet of Kossovo. He adds that the revolutionists are spreading the belief that Russia is aiding the movement. The Russian consul also confirms the report that a plot to destroy the Turkish military depots at Istib, Mace- donia, with dynamite recently was discovered, and says the railroad and telegraph lines have been cut, and hat Bulgarian officers are joining the insurgent bands. The inhabitants are compelled, by threats, to support the insurgents, supply them with money ‘and provisions and transport arms. | The consul, however, considers that | the movement is artificial and not really approved by the bulk of the | population, ard adds that the revolu- | tionary committees are doing their | utmost to incite the Mohammedans to |engage.in a general annihilation of the Christians, with the object of se- curing the intervention of the great powers. Causes Great Uneasiness. Vienna, April 2. — The news from the Balkans is causing uneasiness in official circles here. The situation is considered to be graver than a few weeks ago. Two particularly sig- nificant reports were received yester- day. The first, that the czar had pre- sented to the prince of Montenegro eight batteries of quick-firing, small- caliber guns, with ammunition, and the second that Russia has addressed another warning message to Bulgaria. CRAZY MAN RUNS AMUCK. Kills Deputy Sheriff and Terrorizes Whole Car. Jacksonville, Iil., April 2. — P. B. Campbell, a deputy sheriff of Mc- Donough county, was stabbed to death by an insane man on a Burlington train near Chapinell yesterday after- noon. Campbell had charge of the man, whom he was bringing to Cen- tralia insane hospital. After stabbing Campbell the insane man secured Campbell’s revolver, and terrorized the whole car until he was overpowered. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT STEEL PLANT AT BRAD- DOCK, PA:. SIX DEAD AND TEN ARE DYING PIT WHERE THE MEN. ARE. — WORKING.. CAUGHT LIKE RATS IN: A TRAP’ LARGE STRIPS OF FLESH PEELED? OFF BODIES OF SOME. OF THE VICTIMS.. Pittsburg, April 2—Am accident at Furnace I, of ‘the Edgar Thomson plant of the Carnegie Steel company at Braddock yesterday is expected to’ prove one of the worst in: the history of the plant in the number of. deaths resulting. Twenty men were injured,. six of whom are dead and ten are in. the hospital and are not expected to recover. The other injured went to their homes and are suffering from. painful burns. , The accident was caused: by a “hang” in the furnace dropping and forcing large quantities of white-hot. dust down a large pipe’ into a pit where the men were at work. The- victims were caught like rats in a trap, without means of escape, and all were burned and blistered over their entire bodies. Large: strips of Fiesh Peeled Off of their bodies when they were pulled’ out of the pit by fellow workmen. The cries of agony of the victims as they writhed in the lava-like stuff, from which they were vainly trying to extricate themselves; could be heard for nearly a block away: Hun- dreds of workmen from other portions of the plant rushed to the rescue of, their fellow workmen and as quickly. as possible pulled them from the pit’ and carried them to the emergency: hospital. Seven of the men were: completely nude when their bodies’ reached the emergency hospital and the others had but a few shreds of’ clothing upon them. The bodies of} the fatally burned could scarcely be recognized as_ such. Many of the men had _ large blotches burned through the flesh, caused’ by large splashes of molten iron that had struck them and burned through to the bone. POINTS TO PENNELL. Statement of Judge Regarding Evi- dence in Burdick Case. Buffalo, N. Y., April 2.—The verdict in the Burdick inquest handed down by Judge Murphy yesterday, while: stating that the identity of the mur- derer of Edwin L. Burdick has not been proven, practically charges Ar- thur R. Pennell, the dead lawyer, with the crime. Pennell had a stronger motive than any one else, for putting Burdick out of the way, Judge Mur- phy says, and all the facts brought out by the inquest constitute just grounds for the issuance ‘of a warrant against Pennell if he were alive. The verdict is softened somewhat so far as it relates to Pennell by the statement that if Pennell were alive he would be given the presumption of innocence until he was proven guilty. In the opinion of Judge Murphy Burdick had no woman guest in his “den” on the night of the murder and the crime was not the work of a burglaar. He exonerates Mrs. Ger- trude B. Paine and Miss Hutchinson from any connection with the crime, and in conclusion criticises Mrs. Maria A. Hull and censures Mrs. Burdick, the former for her attitude toward the authorities and the inconsistency of her actions with the theory that she had no knowledge of the murder. Judge Murphy stated yes- terday afternoon that he will hold the in- quest into the death of Arthur R. Pen- nell the latter part ef this week of the first of next week. JOB FOR WAYNE MACVEAGH. Will Represent United States in Ven. ezuelan Arbitration. Washington, April 2. — The presi- dent has selected Wayne MacVeagh of Pittsburg, who was a member of the cabinet of President Garfield, to represent the United States at The Hague when the arbitration tribunal considers the question of preferential treatment of the allied powers having claims against Venezuela. IRISHMEN ON BAIL. Philadelphia Court Holds Rioters on Charge of Malicious Mischief. Philadelphia, April 2—The eighteen men arrested as a result of a riotous demonstration during a performance of ‘““McFadden’s Row of Flats,” were arraigned for a hearing, and seventeeni of them were held in $500 bail, on a charge of malicious mischief and as- sault and battery. The eighteenth man was discharged. NOT FOR WOOD. He Will Not Succeed Taft as Gov- ernor of Philippines. Washington, April 2.—It was stated at the war department that Gen. Wood is not to become governor of the Philippines as a successor to Gov. DEFECTIVE PAGE Taft, even should the illness of the Jatter cause his resignation. This statement is made because of rumors afloat regarding the government of the Philippines and Gen. Wood’s com mission. WHITE-HOT DUST FORCED INTO i . wert | | ‘ é Bs \ 1