Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 11, 1903, Page 6

he Merald-Review. By E. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, The trotter Rea Pepper ought to ‘win a few heats down the circuit. Wireless telegraphy we have now. Shall we ever have wireless politics? W. K. Vanderbilt's new yacht the Tarantula is said to be a regular stinger. The tailor-made woman is often more or less ashamed of her husband, the self-made man. King Edward is rapidly losing flesh, so henceforth a slender form will be good form in loyal London. The name of the new cup defender appears to have been selected from a hat by some blindfolded person. Spain would like to raise the Maine in order to ascertain the cause of the explosion. Better let sleeping dogs lie. A tax on bachelors would only even things up. The married men already have their tacks—on the bedroom floor. Even if you are not a Christian Scientist, you may find the absent treatment a pretty fair cure for love- sickness. War is threatened between Guate- mala and Salvador, but the American consuls may succeed in separating the combatants. Somebody asks: “Can the universe last forever?” That’s another one of the things that we propose to let pos- terity worry over. A revolution has broken out at three different places in Uruguay. It is un- derstood that two men and a boy are involved at each point. This is not the first time the Turk has heard the powers talk of tying a can to him—a fact which may account for his present lofty calm. By means of an “acousticon” the deaf are now made to hear. The new age of miracles wrought by science promises to rival those of the “age of faith.” That St. Louis get-rich-quick man who carelessly left ¢246,000 where the courts could get possession of it must have been & new hand at the business, Mr. Marconi promises to send mes- Sages across the ocean for 1 cent a word. Wireless telegraphy is going to be a big thing for the down-trodden millionaires. According to vital statistics, the baby born in 1903 has nearly three times a better chance of living than it would have had 50 years ago. Now is the time to get born. It is said that the Czarina is largely responsible for the reforms that have been started in Russia. If this is the case it is to be hoped that the lady will keep on talking to him, Mrs. Madeline Wynne’s theory that a woman should forget she is a woman may be a good thing, but it is one of those good things of which it would be very easy to get too much. 5 Pa aE It is pleasant to be able to announce that by the action of Assistant Secre- tary Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Hagob Avi- dian, nee Ouchgaradashien, and Asa- dor Avikian are once more “in our midst.” The civil war in Honduras was started by a girl who was jilted by the president-elect. Yet some of the re- formers think woman isn’t playing a large enough part in the affairs of the nations. s A singular feature of the turf syndi- cate investigation is that nobody seems to have made any money in the transactions. The investors lost heavily and the syndicates claim to be bankrupt. Andrew Lang complains that the world isn’t reading anything but newspapers. As the world has pat- ronized liberally Mr. Lang’s prodig- fous output the complaint seems a lit- tle unreasonable. Patient waiters are no losers. The state of Vermont is to become name- sake of a new United States battle- ship bigger than any now afloat. At “this rate what will Rhode Island get ‘a few years from now? J. Pierpont Morgan, throwing con- fetti and serpentinas from a balcony at the carnival masqueraders in Ha- vana, makes a pleasing picture. He has not been hitherto regarded as a pleyful, sportive character. Prince Henry of Prussia suggests as a motto for the automobilists: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” We “Wight add: “His children, his man-, servant, his mafdservant, his ox, his ass, his dog, his chickens and all that are his.” King Edward and Queen Alexan dra, with three of the children of the prince of Wales, went to see Buffalo Bill's wild West show Saturday, just like other people, not because they cared for it, you know, but so as to take care of their grandchildren. Washington Notes. _ The cost of the anthracite coal strike commission will be only about $38,000, much less than expected. Secretary Wilson is not going to leave the cabinet to accept the presi- dency of: the Iowa agricultural col- There was a gain of $10,572,995 in Chinese exports to the United States last year. The total of the trade was $27,189,283 gold. The commissioner of patents has ruled that the use of the coat of arms of the United States in a trademark will. not be allowed. Capt. Eugene T. Wilson of the artil- lery corps, in command of the garri- son at Fort Liscum, Alaska, strongly condemns the abolition of the can- teen. Inspectors of the postoffice depart- ment are investigating the methods of several firms of racing tipsters and turf investors that have been doing a big business. The president has selected Wayne MacVeagn of Pittsburg 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. At the instance of Senator Hanna, the stat2 department is making earn- est efforts to succor a little band of Cleveland men who went prospecting in Honduras. Acting Secretary Dar- ‘| ling cabled Admiral Coughlan at Puer- to Cortez to send a relief boat. There is war on between the South Dakota delegation and the interior de- partment over the appointment of an Indian agent at Yankton. The delega- tio wants Supt. Staley, now in charge of affairs, dismissed, and the secretary is determined he shall be retained. The president has made an interest- ing talk to the Society of Foresters on the general subject of the preservation of forests and of forestry as a profes- sion. He said that the object of the forestry policy was to make prosper- ous homes and to see that they were kept so. Gen. Greely, chief signal officer, has received a dispatch from the officer in charge of the telegraph lines in Alas- ka stating that the port of St. Mich- aels, at the mouth of the Yukon; Val- dez, at the mouth of ‘the Copper river, and Fort Ebert, on the Upper Yukon, will be connected with the United States by wire in May. Considerable interest is manifested among the officials of the large cor- porations regarding the course to be pursued by the bureau of corporations of the department of commerce in looking up the workings of corpora- tions engaged in interstate commerce. Commissioner Garfield is in almost daily consultation with the president. The department of justice is close- ly watching the developménts of the merger by the beef packers in Chicago and will be ready to meet any new move to circumvent the injunction granted by Judge Grosscup. It is maintained by the department that a merger of all the packing plants will not affect the injunction. That in- junction must be dissolved before the peef packers can ignore it. From Qther Shores Emperor William has decided that von Bulow shall precede him on his trip to Italy. The passion plays at Brixlegg, Ty- roll, will be resumed this year after a long interval. The minister of war of Greece has resigned because the premier refused to support his army reform plans. Largely attended mass meetings are being held in the republic of Mexico to promote the candidacy of President Diaz for re-election. Terrible distress is being experi- enced by thousands of refugees whom the revolutionists have driven to the mountains of Macedonia. According to advices from Agram, capital of Croatia-Slavonia, riots broke out there and the entire garrison has | been called out to clear the streets. The Russian consul at Oskub, Euro- pean Turkey, confirms the reports of the dangerous spread of the revolu- tionary agitation in the vilayet of Kossovo. Tangler has sent passing letters to Fez, asking for assistance, without which, it is alleged, the diSturbances among the mountain tribes will be very serious. The Chinese throne approved the sale of more than one hundred offices throughout, the empire, ranking from. submagistrate to prefect, and accepted the purchasers as the incumbents. A number of oil tanks at Bajbaj, province of Bengal, India, belonging to the Standard Oil company and two other concerns, were burned. The damage amounts to about $1,200,000. United States Consul Gowdy has lo- cated in a private sanitarium in Paris Moses Fowler Chase of Lafayette, Ind.,, whose whereabouts have been the subject of a diligent search for several years. The opinion is generally expressed at Port au Prince that the interruption of the sitting of the chamber of depu- ties by the firing of rifle shots was due to the complicity of certain of the ministers, and that their object was the dissolution of the chambers, prin- eipally the senate, which opposes the financial projects of President Nord. Sin and ‘Sinners. The fumes of formaldehyde were used by the police of Lexington, Ky., to dislodge six fugitives from a house in which they were barricaded. An alleged plot by the’ miners to dynamite a mine of W. P. Bend at Charleston, W. Va., while it is filled with men, has been discovered. William L. Hartley of Pittsburg shot and instantly killed Ernest O. Johnston. Hartley said: “I killed Johnston because he deserved it.” Severn Kutson, a waiter, has been locked up in Chicago for annoying the daughter of N. H. Higingbotham with love letters, bouquets, etc. He is sup- posed to be insane. William J. Peppler was shot and killed by William E. Dobson in the former’s home in New York. Peppler came in and found Dobson with his wife, and a fight ensued. Eighteen men were arrested at Phil- adelphia for creating a disturbance in the People’s theater at a performance of “McFadden’s Row of Flats.” They pelted the actors with eggs and caused a panic. Arthur Welhausen, a fifteen-year-old lad of Marine City, Mich., went to his room to dress after a heated argurgent with his parents as to whether he should go to church, and shot himself through the brain. mig fo Albert Stroheimer of Kansas City, aided by his wife and son, kidnapped Lola Young, the adopted eleven-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Young of Omaha. She is the daugh- ter of Strohmeier by a former wife. Feliz Scalzo, president of the Scalzo Fruit company and one of the largest commission dealers in St. Louis, is under indictment charged with keep- ing an immoral resort. Scalzo was arrested and gave bond for his ap- pearance. Two valuable pictures have been stolen from Robinson hall, in the Har- vard architectural building at Cam- bridge, and the authorities are in- clined to believe that a secret society is responsible. Both pictures were by Samuel Prout, the famous English colorist. Casualties. While answering a fire call one fire man was killed and three others badly injured at Pittsburg. A fast east-bound passenger train on the Grand Trunk Western railroad split on a switch at Swartz Creek, Mich., and Fireman Wagner was ter- ribly scalded. Five men were killed and four fa- tally injured by an explosion in a coal mine at Sandoval, Ill. The accident was due to an accumulation of gases from imperfect ventilation. One of the camps of the Wolverine Lumber company, near Northland, Mich., which has its offices and head- quarters in Menomonee, Mich., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $1,000 to the Company and men em- ployed. Freight train No. 31, on the South Shore, due at Houghton at 12:15, was wrecked at Newton Siding, near Ke- weenaw bay. The St. Paul and North- western passenger trains, due about noon, were held up for eight hours by the blockade, The overturning of a heavy piece of artillery in the drill hall at Fort Mey- er, Va., during the drill of the fourth battery of field artillery, commanded by Capt. Stephen H. Foot, caused the death of one and injury of three other soldiers, The dead man is Corporal James H. Slavin, aged twenty-five years, of Washington. . Otherwise. Robert Winscott, who was married recently to Mrs. Mary Harmon, died suddenly a few moments later while receiving congratulations. | Tw young men, dressed in feminine attire, attempted to sec a girls’ bas- ketball game at Asbury “Park, N. J., but were detected. Six pounds of nails, buttons and other rubbish were taken’ from the stomach of Fred Cerrow, a patient who died in the insane asylum at Kal- amazoo, Mich. The supposed woman who for years bas peen kissing women on the street as Westfield, Mass., was captured and turns out_to be Joseph Wheel, a mar- ried man, forty-eight years old. The divers employed on the lakes have gone on a Strike to enforce their demand for recognition of their or- ganization and an increase of wages from $5 to $6 per day to a flat rate of $10 per day: William George Tiffany of New York, Paris and Arkansas secured @ divorce from his wife, the former Mrs. Fernando Yznaga, nee Miss Mary Vir- ginia Smith of Mobile, Ala., on the ground of desertion. She insisted on living abroad. Officials of the various railroad brotherhoods in Chicago are alarmed over a bill which has been introduced in the legislature by which they be- lieve the right to strike would be taken from them. The bill provides for making them all deputy sheriffs. A Princeton correspondent says that Grover Cleveland’s especially happy, buoyant manner of late is not ascribed by the family’s more intimate friends to hopes of interests of a political na- ture, but to a whispered rumor that a stork may journey in the direction of Princeton before long. MOB OF GREEK MILLWORKERS, STARTS TROUBLE AT LOW- ELL,~MASS. RIOTERS ARE LED BY A WOMAN MOB IS DRIVEN THROUGH THE STREETS BY THE POLICE AL- MOST A MILE. SERIOUS OUTBREAK IS AVERTED TROUBLE GROWS OUT OF A MASS MEETING HELD BY THE GREEKS. Lowell, Mass., April 9.—A body of police officers marching in solid front from curb to curb drove a thousand noisy Greek millworkers through the streets of Lowell for nearly a mile last night and prevented what might have developed into a riot growing out of the return to work of a‘number of ring spinners in the Lawrence hosiery who left work a week ago in sympathy with the strike order of the textile council. Last night’s disturbance in front of the gates of the Lawrence corporation was the first breach of the peace since six of the seven big mills in which a strike was ordered by the textile council shut down, throwing approximately 17,000 persons into idleness. The police realize that it was a narrow escape from a serious clash between the strike sympathizers and themselves, for once orders were given to the officers to draw their night sticks. The crowd fell back and the danger .was passed for the time being. A woman figured prominently in last night’s demonstration, leading a great body of men through the streets to the point where the Police Were Encountered. Confusion then-came and the unknown woman was lost in the crowd. The trouble had its inception in an at- tempt of the Greeks to hold a mass meeting in the heart of the colony. The police stopped this. Then the Greeks went to the South Common, where the mass meeting was held. Greek orators urged the men around them to keep up a stiff fight for the 10 per cent. Constantin, the Greek so- ciety president, said to his country- men: “Don’t go to work until you get your rights. Stay out as long as any one stays out, and don’t let any one go to work until you all go to work, until you all get your raise.” Enthusiasm was shown by the loud cheering. After the mass meeting broke up the Greeks and the people, who by this time numbered thousands, drifted down town; finally, as though by common consent, headed for the mill section, chiefly toward the Tre- | mont and Suffolk and Lawrence cor- porations. Supt. Moffatt of the city | solice, however, had anticipated some | surt of a gathering, for word had gone | about that at noon a large number of | striking ring spinners had returned to the Lawrence. | MAY CLEAR DREYFUS. Possibility That the Famous Case Will Be Reopened. | Paris, April 9. — It seems that the debate in the chamber of deputies Monday and yesterday which resulted, by a vote of 281 to 228, in the invalida- tion of the election of the Nationalist deputy, Syveton, is likely also to lead to the reopening of the Dreyfus case, and, perhaps, to the rehabilitation of the former prisoner of Devil’s Island. This is mainly due to two facts | brought out by the Socialist leader, | M. Jaurez, in the course of the de- bate. One is a falsified document bearing alleged annotations by the German emperor which were forgeries and helped to convict Dreyfus, and the other is the letter written by Gen. Pellieux to M. Cavaignac, when the latter was war minister, in 1898, was suppressed. This letter was written just after the discovery of Col. Hen- ry’s forgery and reads as follows: “Duped by men without honor, un- able any longer to covnt on the con- fidence of my subordinates, without which it is impossible to command, and’on my side being unable to feel confidence in those of my chiefs who have made me work with forgeries, I ask to be retired.” M. Jaurez’s speech in the chamber yesterday constantly lashed the Na- tionalists to the highest pitch of fury, the chamber resounding with cries of “traitor,” “liar,” “go to Berlin,” and other shouts, drowning the speaker’s voice, FIRED FROM ITALY. Russian Student, Suspected of An- archy, Escorted to the Frontier. Rome, April 9. — Police Agents es- corted the Russian student Michael Goetz to the frontier yesterday even- ing. This action of the authorities followed a decree of expulsion issued against the students. Goetz was re- cently arrested at Naples on the charge of being implicated in a plot to kill the czar during his proposed visit POLICE STOP RIOT | the house of delegates, members of the ROW IN HOLLAND. Strike Is Extending to Other Trades, Paralyzing usiness. yor? The Hague, April 9.—The strike de- clared by the railroad men and dock laborers is spreading, and it promises to become the most serious labor dis- |. turbance ever experienced’ in Holland. The bakers throughout the country have decided to cease work in compli- ance with the proclamation of the workmen’s committee. The gas work- ers, however, have refused to join in the strike. Workmen employed in the building trades threaten to join in the strike. A general lock-out will be pro- claimed to-day by all the local ship- owners and warehouse companies at Amsterdam, and traffic at that port will be entirely stopped. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck a passenger train which left Rotterdam during the night. M. Meichers, the well known So- cialist member of the chamber, said yesterday afternoon: “This movement is of international | importance. We are fighting the bat- tle of labor everywhere against the Encroachments of Injustice. If the government had kept its word | and proceeded constitutionally there | would have been no strike. We in-| formed you that if the government | sought to pass the anti-strike bill hur- | riedly and by arbitrary means we | should bring about a general strike. The government paid no heed to its | promise, but essayed to place the | workers under the heels of the sol-| diers and then to carry things in the | legislature with a high hand. | “This action was insulting to labor and full of peril to the liberty of the subject. Premier Kuyper aggravated | the situation by making a speech in | the e¢hamber which aroused the ani- mosity of every workingmen in the | country. The strike is likely to be | prolonged and will only stop when the | government withdraws its offensive Jaws and when the directors of the railways grant the demands of the railway servants. How extensively the strike may spread depends on de- | velopments that may affect every man | i the country who works for a liy- ing.” Premier Kuyper professes to be opti- mistic as to the outcome of the labor | disturbance. He states that the gov- ernment is strongly intrenched against all devices of the mob, and will go any length to protect the kingdom from anarchy. | CARTER HARRISON IS IT. | | Elected Mayor of Chicago for the! Fourth Time. | Chicago, April 9.—Carter H. Harri- son was elected mayor of Chicago yes- terday for the fourth time, his ma- jority by unofficial count over Graeme Stewart, the Republican candidate, being 6,070. The total vote for Har- rison, 143,335; Stewart, 137,265; Cruice, Independent Labor, 7,500; Breckon, Socialist, 7,200; Haines, Pro- hibitionist, 1,875. In the last may- oralty election the total vote was, Harrison, 156,756; Hanecy, Rep., 128,-| 413; Hoyt, Prohib., 3,328; Collins, Soe., 5,384. The early returns were in favor of Stewart, and at one time he was 2,000 ahead, but the later returns eut down his plurality steadily and the Republican leaders in private con- versation admitted Stewart’s defeat | by about 5,000. VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS. Elect Candidates in St. Louis by Large Majorities. St. Louis, April 9. — A Democratic victory was won in yesterday’s city election, the majorities. ranging from 8,000 to 10,000 on the vote for six councilmen, twenty-eight members. of board of education and inspector of | weights and measures. At midnight almost complete returns showed that every Democratic candidate had been elected. The Republicans claim gross frauds were committed at the polls. Throughout the state the Democrats lost in three cities that they formerly controlled, but made enough gains in others to fully preserve their political equilibrium. THE RUSH TO CANADA. About Six Thousand Immigrants on Board Ships. Montreal, April 9. — There are at | present en route to Canada 6,000 im- migrants distributed on board the Allan and Elder-Dempster steamships. The Allan line is using every available ship to accommodate those who desire to cross to Canada and is diverting steamships that ordinarily operate between British and American ports. FATAL FAMILY FEUD Results in Murder of Two Men in Kentucky. West Liberty, Ky., April 9. — Sam Trace killed Legan Elam, and Sidney Elam, the murdered man’s son, avenged his father’s death by killing Trace. Young Elam surrendered and was placed in jail here. The Elams and Traces were relatives and neigh- bors, and the killing grew out of a family feud. SUICIDE AFTER DEFEAT. Bagger Loses a Small Lawsuit and Then Shoots Himself. Huron, 8. D., April 9—Jens J. Bag- ger, aged about: sixty, committed sui- cide by shooting. His:dead body was found in a field yesterday afternoon. A revolver was used, whose muzzle was placed in his mouth. Bagger was attending court, and was defeated Monday afternoon in a suit of smai! !to Italy. | week. The acreage will be as large importance. {In Minnesota. 00 90 00 » b tally shot and instantly killed his cou- sin, late from Sweden. Bemidji’ will not get the land office, which will :be located at Cass, af originally intended. D. L. Philley, one of the old settlers of Wabashaicounty and a prominent citizen of Mazeppa, is dead. @ Fred Buscho, a young farmer of Faribault, had his arm torn off while operating a corn shredder. SOAS or Sh ce te Alfred Bartlett has been appointed postmaster at Verdi, Lincoln county, vice Albert J, Enke, resigned. Seeding will be in full blast this as last year in McLeod county. The canning factory at Chatfield is almost completed and will be ready for use long before the season opens. Too much basketball resulted in the expulsion from the high school at Slayton of eleven of the fourteen béy scholars. “ Ed Bushow, who resides in Deer field, near Waseca, had his right arm mangled almost to the shoulder by a corn shredder. Supt. C. A. Patchin of Zumbrota and his entire corps of teachers have been — re-elected. This will be Mr. Patchin’s fifth year at Zumbrota. -C. L. Woodbeck; who was injured by falling from the roof of a house at Mora, is dead. Several ribs were broken and driven into his lungs. Rev. Frank E. Brandt, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal church in Pipestone and St. James’ church of Marshal, has a resigned on account of throat trouble. The electric light company at Glog * | coe has made a contract with the vil« lage council to furnish electric motor power for the operation of the water: works system the coming year. A man supposed to be Amund Peter- son, a farmer, was run over by a train at Barrett, and his body ground to shreds. He was married and about forty years old. William Pennington of Waterford has been granted an absolute divorce from his wife, Mrs. Estella F. Pep, nington upon the ground of deser- tion. They were married March 12, 1888. -; Frank Root was placed in St. Jo» seph’s hospital, Mankato, to be treated for alcoholism. He became violent and had to be put in a cell at the police station, where he died suddenly. His home was at Amboy. The organization of a commercial club was perfected at Waseca last night with a membership of ninety- five. Dr. F. A. Swartwood was elected president; Thomas Boucher, vice pres- ident; F, L. Farley, secretary, and J. B. Sullivan, treasurer. A meeting of the ‘St. Paul convocs. * | tion of Episcopal clergymen will be held at Wabasha this month, the con- | vocation taking in all the counties along the Mississippi from St. Paul down to the state line. Some thirty, clergymen will be in attendance. o Ben Rogna was killed at Mora by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting. He was standing on a windfall leaning upon the muzzle of the gun, when he slipped and the gun was discharged. He was a young, single man, living with his parents. : In the civil case of Helm ys. the Northern Pacific railway at Fergus Falls a verdict of $3,200 was stipulated” after the plaintiff had made her cas She sued for $5,000 for the death of « her husband who was killed by being crushed in the coal shute at Detroit. The United States court at Fergus Falis has a large amount of busines# on hand. Twenty-six indictments have already been returned by the grand jury. Nearly all of the cases are fo! selling liquor to Indians. There ar some land and postal cases still to be considered. ) For some time there has been a de: termined fight on the part of Asa lowing Clarke to be discharged by the court as a bankrupt. Fisher has con: ‘ tended that Clarke was holding back some of his property. The contest has bee: waged for over a year and Clarke has been unable to get his dis- 1 ; Fisher ,one of the heavy creditors of | seas N. P. Clarke of St. Cloud, against al. i f 1 ( i charge. An agreement has co —. reached and N. H. Chase, attorney for Fisher, has filed a stipulation with. j drawing all objection. The school board at Harmony has re-elected the following teachers: Sup: erintendent, C. G. Selwig; high schol, Mary M. Graling; sixth and seventh grades, Decorah M. Harden; fourth and fifth grades, .H, Isabell Wilson; | third and fourth grades, Wildred Chal- pant; first and second grades, Otelia Langum. A new room will be opened next year with Laura Franklin as teacher. The addition to the building completed this year affords ample pro- vision for the growing high school de partment. \ } SES eee