Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 18, 1903, Page 6

“t. ——— ' GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, Pe The Herald-Review. By E. ©. KILEY. Perhaps ‘the world is ready for the voiceless colluge yell. It is seldom one woman praises an- other without. adding “But—” Once more we are forcibly remind- ed that the wages of sin is death, Rents are going up, but never mind. A dispatch from Portland, Me., says lobsters are lower. It must be a great comfort to the Buffalo police to reflect that some one of their theories is probably right. We eat Sea hk 2. 5 A sacred calf from India has arrived at the New York zoo. The veal from this animal is said to taste like angel food. The eternal feminine question is: “Is my hat on straight?” The eter- nal male question is: ‘What’ll you have?” If Miss Pauline Astor winds up by marrying a man without a title it will probably be over the dead body of her father. Perhaps the New Jersey barkeeps formed a temperance union because they knew what Jersey ligktnin’ was made of. Trainmen must be more careful. In some parts of the country it costs a great deal.more to kill a man now than it did formerly. A woman spiritualist in New York has said that men who smoke in this world will smoke in the next. This is putting it delicately. The exact right and wrong of the Balkan situation will not be clear to everybody until Mr. Kipling gets time to write a poem about it. “Of old bachelors and old maids,” asks Max O’Rell, “which are the hap- pier?” Wouldn’t “Which are the un- happier?” be putting it more proper- ly? Mr. Schwab began by having his luncheon at his desk on his first busy day after his long rest. Another man who hasn’t learned wisdom by ex- perience! i So great is their desire for equaliz- ing the distribution of wealth that the Vanderbilts and Astors are continual- ly swearing off some of their taxable valuation. “The dickens,” “You bet” and “Holy smoke” have been declared to be pro- fane by the president of Hamline uni- versity. Why were “Cricky” and “Oh Ja” left out? King Edward has ordered four bar- rels of Kentucky whisky. Col Watter- son might send over a few choice shoots from his mint bed to round out the consignment. Three hours from proposal to wed- ding is the record of a Chicago couple. The success of the experiment will depend on the length of acquaintance before the proposal. A young man went into Wall street with a million and came out with a car load of experience. He wasn't satis- fied with the million, but will he be with the experience? Possibly the far-sighted Pennsyl- vania lawmakers who passed the anti- wife-kissing law thought thereby to make the kissing of one’s wife an enjoyably exciting pastime. A Minnesota college president pro- poses to change the college yells so that those expressions of jubilation shall be less vulgar and slangy. How would “Oh, joy! Oh, joy!” do? The cake wajk is the latest fad among the smart set of New York. And this gives Henry Watterson an opportunity to remark in his usmal delicate way that “blood will tell.” Over in Russia a man may now pray without a license from the state church. How old Metropolitan Pobied- offskiwizcsvensensikoffskyvitch must be wriggling and worrying about his liver. John D. Rockefeller got an $8,000, 000 quarterly dividend from the Stan- dard Oil Company the other day. It is understood that he also continues to have a large assortment of kind words on hand. Great Britain wants nearly $200- 900,000 this year for warships in or- der to maintain her place at the head of the nations in naval strength. If things go on as at present for a few years more England may be com- pelled to trade the royal family off for armor plate. Mrs. Madeleine Yale Wynne has told the Chicago Women’s Club that it is perfectly proper for a woman to be- come a blacksmith if she has an in- clination for that kind of work. It is still held to be unladylike, however, for a woman to want to do her own housework. A St. Louis judge has ruled that hereafter children will not be allowed to hear the testimony of their par- ents in divorce trials. Thus\one by one are innocent and ennobling pleas- sures of childhood being tabooed. Washington Notes. Rear Admiral Belknap, U. 3S. N, ts dead of apoplexy. P. C. Burfening is appointed post- master at Kulm, La Moure county, N. D., in place of H. L. Kelly, removed. Judge Jacob M. Dickinson of Chi- cago, David T. Watson of Pittsburg and Hannis Taylor have been selected as counsel for the United States be- fore the Alaskan boundary ‘commis- sion. Inspector Gould has reported ‘on the consolidation of the several postofiices at Superior. It is expected tne con- solidation will be made, as jit will not involve a material increase in ‘the ‘cost of service. It is practically admitted that ‘the new commercial treaty between the United States and China has been es- pecially designed to test the sound- ness of Russia’s promise ‘to maintain the open door of Manchuria. Authority has been granted for the organization of the First National bank of Mohall, N. D. Its ‘capital is $20,000. H. H. Steele, N. H. Peck, E. B. Page, H. J. Ruhland and M. A. Ben- son have been named as incorporators. The Washington Humane society has elected President Roosevelt an honorary member in consideration of his message to congress recommend- ing the exercise of kindness toward the cavalry and artillery horses of the army. i Charges have been furnished by Act- ing Postmaster General Wynne against W. M. Lewis, chief of the divi- sion of supplies. The charges allege that the hand stamps and ink pads now being supplied to postoffices un- der the present contract are inferior in quality and not up to the contract standard. Gross violations of the laws and lax administration of the affairs of the salary and allowance division of the postoffice department has been discov- ered, and as a result the salaries of many of the postal clerks throughout the country may be reduced $100 a year. George R. Beavers, who resigned a short time ago, presided over this department. Minister Lelshman has at last had his interview with the sultan. He ca- bles that he has presented the presi- dent's letter to the sultan and has re- ceived satisfactory assurances on all points mentioned. These relate | to the recognition of diplomas issued by American colleges in Turkey to native graduates and a general admission of Americans in Turkey to the privileges enjoyed by other nationalities. Sin and Sinners. The evident author of the recent se- ries of burglaries at Penn Yan, N. ¥.; was killed while operating in a store at Himrods. He was a stranger there and apparently about thirty-five years of age.. 4 B. P. Brown of Redlands, Cal,, who has been making threats against Pres- ident Roosevelt, has been arrested as a precautionary measure. He was taken into custody before the last. vis- it of President McKinley for the same cause. State Senator Walter J. Peake, one of the leading members of the Tennes- see legislature, assaulted J. M. Cant- rell and W. J. Dowling, prominent citi- zens of Chattanooga, with a heavy stick, and Dowling was seriously bruised. While trying to force his car through a parade of Italians in Hal- stead street, Chicago, Motorman Zorab was shot and seriously injured by the marchers. A riot ensued in which several were cut and bruised. Two Italians were arrested for the shoot- | ing. Thomas F. C. Seixas, president of | the Twenty-cighth district school board; Secretary Travis and B. Frank Brown and David G. Johnson, mem- bers of the board, were found guilty at Philadelphia of accepting bribes from women candidates for positions as school teachers. G. H. Sims, collection clerk of the Capital City National bank of Atlanta, has been placed under arrest by United States Deputy Marshal Scott upon a warrant sworn out by the president of the bank, charging Sims | with embezzling $94,000. He has} moved in the “most exclusive” society cireles. From Other Shores ‘The bubonic plague has reappeared in some parts of Egypt.. Cholera cases are reported at Alexandria. The Danes are said to hope for war between Germany and the United States, believing the kaiser would be humiliated. ¢ The French Bishop of Sze Chuan, the middle province on the western frontier of China, predicts a general Boxer rising throughout the province. The Mexican government has ex- ténded the low rate on wheat from the United States until June 1, when it is i thought the government will restore the regular rate of duty. Through service on the Siberian railway from Moscow to Dalny was begun on Feb. 18, says United States Consul General Miller, reporting to the state department from Niuchawang. James S. Stewart, who gave Brit- ish workmen an object lesson in Jight- ning methods of construction at the electric power works for the Metropol- itan railway in London, will in two months finish. the tallest chimney stack in London, which it would take the ordinary English contractor eight months to construct. It’s all done by kindness and. good wages for good work,” Mr. Stewart says. | runaway as she was driving to The high court has sequestered the estate of Lady Granville Gordon, who disobeyed the order that she restore her child, Cecile, to Erin Gordon, het first husband and the father of the child, Rev. John J. Glennon of Kansas City and Bishop Moeller of Columbus habe been appointed coadjutor arch- bishops. The former will locate in the St. Louis district and the latter at Cincinnati. Dr. Labordi, one of the most emi- nent French physicians and a member of the Academy cf Medicine, is dead. Probably his most notable achieve- ment was the invention of the method .| of rythmical traction of the tongue. Margaret Neve, King Edward’s old- est subject, died at her home in Ger- many. For 110 years she had pre served her health, strength ‘and even her eyesight, and was known through- out the United Kingdom. The postponemerit of the czar’s pro- posed visit to Rome was due to re- ports from Russian detectives that there are so many suspects in Italy at present that the czar’s safety would be endangered if he went to that coun- try. Casualties. The cottage which John Brown used as the headquarters of his under- ground railway burned at Tabor, Iowa. A fire entailing a loss of $70,000 and destroying fully half of the town oc- curred at Shingle House, Potter coun- ty, Pa. Fire in the engineers’ barracks at Fort Leavenworth for a time threat- ened the entire barracks. The fire was extinguished with $5,000 loss. Mrs. Henry L. Page, a daughter of ex-Goyv. John .P. St. John of Kansas, is dead at Fort Scott of inflammation of the stomach, caused by poison eaten in some canned fruit recently at St. Louis. Two negroes were killed, two seri- ously hurt and nine slightly injured by falling walls in a brick tenement house at Louisville, Ky. Otherwise. Daniel Butler, aged 104 dead at Enfield Falls, N. Y. The tower of Philadelphia's $20,- 000,000 city hall is crumbling. Work in laying the cable from Hon- years, is | olulu-to Manila will begin soon, and completion is expected by July 4. Rt. Rev. George Montgomery, co- adjutor archbishop of San Francisco, has been appointed archbishop of Ma- nila. The Kokomo Co-operative’ associa tion of Indianapolis, formed by the Socialists, has gone into the hands of: a receiver. Most of ‘the striking miners in the bituminous coal district of Indiana have returned ‘to work under the new wage scale. Attorney General Webb of Califor: nia has rendered an opinion declaring the use of the Bible in the public schools ureonstitutional. By vote of 79 to 18, the Michigan house passed the primary election bill, providing fo ra direct vote on all nom- ‘inations, including state officers. ‘Gov. Bates of Massachusetts has signed a bill providing for an appro- priation of $100,000 for a state repre- sentation at the St. Louis exposition. Bandmaster F. N. Innes and Miss Frances Boyden, who accompanied the Innes band on its tour last winter, ap- pearing as the principal soloist, were wedded at the bride’s home at Cin- cinnati. s Charles A. Parker, chairman of the ‘Colorado Railroad association, has been seleeted as traffic manager of the Colorado Fuel and Ircn company, to | succeed A. C. Cass, who goes abroad for his health. As the result of a long crusade, the board of commissioners of the District. of Columbia has adopted a resolution forbidding expectoration on. the side- walks, making violation thereof sub- ject to a fine of $1. An old oil well in the vicinity of Cadiz, Ohio, has been spouting salt water and eyeless fish. The fish are dead when they come to the surface and are being belched forth at the rate of two tons a day. Mrs. McKinley’s team started on a the cemetery at Canton recently. The horses were stopped in time to prevent injury to Mrs. McKinley and the other occupants of the carriage. E. E. Harriman is to get a valuabie Jand and cash concession from Presi- dent Diaz of Mexico on condition that he build a railroad in Lower Califor- nia that shall have a connection with the Southern Pacific ain California. A telegram from Lewis Nixon, pres- ident of the United States Shipbuild- ing company, received by W. G. Dodd, president of the United Iron works at San Francisco, indicates that the men will be granted the nine-hour day on May 1, with a 10 per cent increase in pay. The Essex county (Mass.) court has been asked to pass upon the question |- of the influence of Spiritualism on a sick person, and whether or not through a medium George A. Caldwell, eighty year sof age, late of Lynn, was unduly influenced to give away his property. Allegations made by the growers of citrus fruit in Southern California that lower freight rates and quiceretime for shipments between the coast and the Middie West and Atlantic points are imperative, were considered at asec | ond hearing before C, A. Prouty of the interstate commerce commissiqn. NORTHERN SECURITIES COM. PANY VIOLATES THE ANTI TRUST LAW. GOVERNMENT WINS THE CASE UNITED. STATES COURT OF AP PEALS RENDERS A UNANI- MOUS DECISION. U COMBINE TO RESTRAIN TRADE COMPANY ENJOINED FROM EX- ERCISING ANY CONTRO’ OVER THE TWO ROADS. St. Paul, April 11. — The Unites States circuit court of appeals de- clares that the Northern Securities company is a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, in that in owning a controlling interest in the stock of the Great Northern railroad and *he Northern Pacific railroad it is in effect a combination in restraint of inter- state trade, within the meaning of the Sherman act. The decision of the court sustains every contention of the government. The case will doubtless be appealed to the United States su- preme court. The decision was filed in St. Paul yesterday by Judge Walter H. San- born. The opinion is written by Judge Amos M. Thayer. All the judges that heard the arguments in the case — Judges Caldwell, Thayer, Sanborn and Van Deventer, assent in the opinion. Tied Up by Injunctions. The court’s decree enjoins the Northern Securities company from ac- quiring any more of the stock of the Great Northern or the Northern Pa- cific, and restrains the Securities com- pany from voting any of the stock it now owns. The Northern Pacific and the Great Northern are not to permit the Securities company to vote any of their stock; they are not to pay any dividends to the Securities company, and they are prohibited from permit- ting the Securities company to exer- cise any control over the two roads. The Securities company is permitted to return the stock’ of the two rail- roads. Destroys Competition. Judge Thayer’s opinion is an ex- haustive discussion of the questions involved. The court holds that the Great’ Northern and the Northern Pa- cific are parallel and competing lines. Control of the two railroads, the court finds, is placed in the hands of the Northern Securities company. ‘This control] destroys competition between the two roads on interstate business, because, their interests being com- mon, one road cannot fix rates regard- less of the other. Whether these rates are reasonable or unreasonable, the court holds, does not affect the ques- tion, sincé the violation of the law lies in the power to fix unreasonable rates. The fact, that each road has its own board of directors does not affect the question; the court holds that compe- tition could not be more restrained if tthe two roads were operated Under a Single Charter. The charter of the Northern Securt- ties company granted by New Jersey the court does not consider as a de- fense; for a state, says the court, has no right to authorize what is prohib- ited by federal statute. Nor does the court consider as valid the defense that this action would destroy liberty of contract, for a contract, also, to be considered, must be lawful, That the purpose of the Northern Securities company was not to restrain trade, but to promote , it, that in fact the company serves a good public purpose, as contended .by the defendants, the court refuses to consider, since the law is violated if there is a combina- tion that has the power to restrain trade, and the court finds that the Se- curities company has that power. State Case May Go On. Attorney General W. B. Douglas said yesterday afternoon that he had not consulted Gov. Van Sant or his as- sociates, but he was of the, opinion that the state must likely go on with its suit against. the Securities com- pany for the purpose of inviting a de- cision by the courts as to the force and-effect of the state laws. The state’s action, now pending, is based upon the statutes of the state prohib- iting the consolidation of parallel and competing lines of railway and the federal anti-trust act, upon which tho federal action was based. Hill Makes Statement. New York, April 10. — President Hill made this statement: “Tam not satisfied with the reports thus far at hand. They are too meager to give us a definite idea as to how the decision was reached. All I can say at this time is that the roads of the Northern Securities company are showing good earnings, the properties are paid for, and they cannot be taken away. The decision, as I under- stand it, does not disturb the owner- ship of the properties.” THE POPE AGAIN ILL. His Holiness Suffers From Shortness of Breath. j Rome, April 11—The correspondent of the Pioneer Press is informed that the pope is again ill. He is suffering from extreme feebleness and short- ness of breath. Notwithstanding this, his holiness is determined to at- tend the concluding Lenten sermon with the cardinals and to receive pil- grims on Monday and Tuesday. The cardinals are impressed with the in- creasing lassitude of the pontiff. SOLONS TELL ALL. Missouri Legislators Confess to the St. Louis Grand Jury. St Louis, April 16—More than one of the state legislators who accepted bribes for voting for the alum law have made full confession to the St. Louis grand jury investigating bood- ling in the Missouri assembly, and have implicated those who were with them in this disgraceful deal. Those state senators who already have sworn before the Cole county and St. Louis county grand juries that they did not accept bribes for tleir votes and knew nothing of bribes be- ing offered for votes against the re- peal of the alum law will be indicted for perjury as well as bribery. The boodle investigation already has as- sumed that wide cope which was predicted.. Not alone the alum affair, th@ text book ‘scandal and the race track deal will be probed, but every important peace of legislation enacted or defeated by the last assembly will be made the * Subject of Searching Inquiry. Competent witnesses have declared that boodle was used in every one of them. Former Governor and now Senator William J. Stone appeared before the St. Louis grand jury yesterday to tes: tify concerning the alum legislation, with which he is said to have been intimately associated. Stone was clos- eted there for a long time. Four witnesses were examined by the Cole county grand jury yesterday afternoon. It is now known positively that the grand jury at Jefferson City has already found one indictment against a member of the late state senate. In St. Louis a dozen or more witnesses were examined, some of them in regard to the seven $1,000 bills flashed by State Senator John P. Collins of St. Louis after his return from the legislative session and the deposit of $5,000 in the Lafayette bank. Other witnesses testified concerning the means used to defeat legislation inimical to the Cella-Adler-Tilles race track syndicate, which controls horse racing in this city and does not even pay taxes on its property. SHELL THE MOROS. Six Hundred American Troops Have Fierce Fight With the Rebels. Manila, April 16. — Six hundred American troops under the command of Capt. Pershing, who were pursuing the Moros retreating from Bacolod at- ter their defeat by Capt. Pershing’s force last Wednesday, had an engage- ment with a number of the enemy near Calui. They were occupying a fortified position, and attempted to cover the retreat of the other Bacolod Moros by delaying the American pur- suit. f The Americans shelled their’ posi- tion for eight hours, ruining the forti- fications and killing many of the Moros. Capt. Pershing met with no further opposition and marched to Marahui, which was occupied. Later he and his command joined the Ameri-4 can camp on the north side of Lake Lanao, ‘completing the occupation of all the lake district. Datto Nonucan, one of the most friendly of the Moros, has died of cholera. He sold some of his own land to the Americans fowa military post and sincerely co-operat- ed with them. A detachment of the Tewenty- eighth infantry surprised the camp of a ladrone band at Cagayan, Mindanao. Highteen of the occupants. of the camp were captured and thirteen bolo- men were wounded. The entire force of ladrones were not present when the camp was rushed. It is estimated that the full band numbered 400 men. DROP 1N NORTHERN SECURITIES. Downward Course of Stock Prices Is Turned. New York, April 16—The downward course of stock prices, the most sen- sational feature of which was the slump in Northern Securities stock on Monday from 1033-8 to 94 was turned yesterday by the influential support in the face of continued heavy liquidation at the opening. When the heavy outpouring of stocks was once stopped the bears began to look about for stocks to cover their short’ con- tracis. In the early stages of the re- covery this was done in a very leisure- ly and indifferent manner, but toward the end of the day the buying for bear account to cover became decidedly urgent. The tone of the market dur- ing the opening struggle between the two speculative parties on the. ex- change was extremely feverish and irregular, the bidding up of prices be- ing constantly met with heavy selling while at'the declines the buying or- ders were executed with » increasing determination. A substantial recoy- ery in Northern Securities on the curb at the opening and a subsequent re- lapse to near Monday night’s level had quick sympathetic response on the stock exchange, and a final recovery to about 98 confirmed ihe sieller tone of speculation on the exchange. Final prices of the principal active stocks were from one to over two points above last night. GOING TO THE ISLANDS. Capt. Chittenden Ordered to the Phil- ippines. Washington, April 16. Capt. Henry M. Chittenden, who has been in charge of improvements of the upper Mississippi river for several years, has been ordered to Washington to take command of a company of engi- neers now under orders to the Philip- pines. His district is placed in tem- porary charge of Maj. Hoxie at St. Paul. f q HIS AWFUL FATE AN UPPER CLASS ITALIAN DE- COYED TO HIS DEATH IN | NEW YORK. TORTURED AND THEN MURDERED HIS BODY WAS STILL WARM WHEN FOUND IN A BARREL. HE EVIDENTLY HELD A SECRET THROAT CUT FROM EAR TO EAR ‘AND MANY STAB WOUNDS ON BODY. New York, April 16. — Decoyed to his death and tortured, probably in an effort to cause him to reveal a secret, before being murdered, was the fate Monday night of an unknown Italian of the upper class. His body was found yesterday morning in a barrel in East Eleventh street, near the” docks. The man’s throat was cut from ear to ear. The body was warm when found and the work of ferreting out the crime was begun at once by detectives. A scrubwoman on her way to work, noticed the barrel on the sidewalk and she saw hanging on it a man’s coat, soaked with blood. She informed the police. The only clue at first found during several hours’ search was the letters “Ww. T.” painted on the bottom of the barrel, but the police think these. let- ters will aid them a good deal in Unraveling the Mystery. It is supposed tended to throw the body into the river, after bringing it there in a wagon, but found the pier at East Eleventh street slosed and dropped the load in the street in a hurry, fear- 4 ing discovery. The well-kept condition of the hands and nails of the dead man indicated that he was not a laborer. He wore expensive shoes and evidently was in good circumstances. The police discovered the address, 364 Third avenue, written in pencil on the bottom of the barrel, and in the coat pocket of the dead man a bit of paper bearing the words in Italian, translated as “Come, come in a hur- ty.” The police believe this was a part of a decoy letter. A woman's » handkerchief, perfumed, was found in the barrel. At 364 Third avenue is a furnished- toom house. The proprietor, Albert Voecks, was taken to the police sta- tion, but he said that he had never seen the Barrel or the Body before. Of two hundred Italians sum- moned to the police station, none has been able to identify the body. Coroner's Physician Dr. Albert T. Weston, who performed the autopsy on the body of the murdered man, said that he had found eighteen ad- ditional stabs in the neck besides the two deep ones that had severed the jugular vein, thereby causing death. Of the wounds newly twelve were on the left side of the neck and six on the right. Some of them were hardly more than scratches while others were froma quarter to a half-inch deep. All the wounds were inflicted by a dagger. The physician said that the autopsy revealed no evi- dence that there had been a struggle at the time the man was killed. He advanced the theory that the man had been held so that he could not move, while his assailants, in order to force him to tell something they wanted to know, tortured him by making slight stabs in his neck. GIVEN UP FOR Lost. Schooner Has Not Been Heard of for Some Time. Philadelphia, April 16—The Phila- delphia schoner George C, Thomas, which sailed ftom Grand Connetable Island Feb. 5 for New York, has been given up for lost. She was command- ed by Capt. Morris and manned, by a crew of ten men. No tidings of the vessel have been received since she sailed. The trip under ordinary con- ditions should have been made within two weeks. The schooner was owned by George C. ‘Thomas of Drexel & Co., and was valued at $30,000. FOUR MEN DROWNED. Scow Turns Turtle and Cabin Ficato Away With Imprisoned Crew. Philadelphia, April 15.—During the severe northeast gale which prevailed © last night the scow Hughes capsized in the Delaware river off Marcus Hook, Pa., and four men, of the crew were drowned. When the scow turned iurtle the cabin floated away with the « men within. The bodies have not yet been recovered. CHANGE IN POLICE. Gov. Hunt Discovers Extensive Frauds in San Juan. San Juan, P. R., April 16. — Goy, Hunt has ordered the remoyal of the municipal police at Mayaguez and the substitution of the insul: Re. This action is the outcome se Hear amounting to $20,000. The chief of public works has been arrested and the treasurer is making an investiga- tion. It is possible that the mayor jahd other officials may be remoyed. \») discovesed, _,,) « that somebody in+) ¢ &