Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 25, 1903, Page 2

ore j The Heratd--Review. By E. C. KILEY. i renter GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. The British taxpayer is paying @ good deal of freight nowadays. The threat of a cigar famine turns out to be nothing but clouds of smoke. It is a great deal easier to get out of a job than it is to get into one again. " Gates says he is going to quit speculating. The water may yet turn and run uphill. The hand that is “loving and con- siderate” would not be so persuasive without the smile. Sir Thomas Lipton is habitually as full of hope as Lord Dunraven habit- ually was of prunes. The wife of England’s chief pawn- broker has just been received at court. You can’t keep money down. Mr. T. McGovern staggers to the ropes to remark that he was robbed. He’s a wise man who knows when he is all in. Even after the north pole is at last discovered, there will remain the south pole. And, after that, the rest of the universe. It took fifty-seven congresses to en- act a law prohibiting the sale of liquor in the capitol. It will take fifty-seven more to enforce it. The Chicago News innocently asks: “How does the dressmaker know what the ladies are going to wear before she has asked them?” The south polar continent is be- licvyed to cover an area nearly as large as Europe. And land there is free to anybody for the asking. Whistler the artist is to be made an LL. D. by Glasgow university. It is evident that there is at least one uni- versity which can take a joke. The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius is to be sold as junk. What predictions there were that she would make the navies of the world look like 30 cents! Two enthusiastic London aeronauts are building a 24-horse power airship, but the cautious passenger will wait until he sees it develop one-bird power. A criminal sentenced in England to imprisonment for life is released at the end of fifteen years, but any one married for life there has to stay clean through. The agricultural authorities had to work with themselves a long time before they felt entirely safe in de- ciding that there is no such thing as corn wheat. Another advance of 5 per cent in the price of diamonds. This makes an advance of 15 per cent in six months. Meanwhile, black ones are quoted lower. President Schwab, who said that he went abroad to study nature, must have acquired the habit, for he is now reported looking at some steel plants near Pittsburg. According to the reports Miss Thaw exhibited all the signs of a severe frost when the earl of Yarmouth be- gan to quote himself at figures rising above $25,000 a year. ‘According to Said Pasha there is no doubt that Turkey is trying to live up to modern notions regarding the moral responsibilities of nations. At least that is what Said said. Feathered millinery is a bar be- tween woman and heaven, according to a Boston preacher. She who sighs for “the wings of a dove” should not lesire them on her Sunday hat. The declaration of a New York physician that golf causes cardiac ‘hypertrophy, will be especially dis- quieting to golf players who do not know what cardiac hypertrophy is. , No fe t many people in this coun- tiy will be stiined with amazement to read that a Missouri court has de- cided the public has some rights in the streets along with the trolley car. The shirt waist girls have gone into executive session on the question of abolishing themselves, and from the reports that reach the waiting world outside the discussion must be some- thing fierce. They are making collections of the Pennell love letters. The consensus of expert opinion seems to be that the one about the lady’s gloves found in the Tuxedo coat pocket is the sweet- est one of the lot. . It seems a great pity that many of the things that are the tutti-frutti’ of gilt-edged perfection in theory often turr. out to be the cold pancakes of stern reality when the attempt is made to put them’ into practice— Judge. ae Why shouldn’t Admiral Sir Henry Keppel follow Admiral Dewey’s ex- ample and seek the highest happiness there is in life, even though he is 92 and in the ordinary course of things tan hardly have more than eight or _ ten years to live? ] From the Capital. It is understood in official circles that Mexico will adopt the gold stand- ard, with silver in the ration of 32 tol. Application has been made for the organization of the First National bank at Hatton, N. D., with a capital of $25,000. The Elkins law is arousing deep in- terest among shippers. Even the half rate to soldiers on furlough is said to be illegal. Admiral Higginson’s report to the navy department upon the fatal ex- plosion on the Iowa shows that a de- fective shell was not the cause, but that the gun had been weakened by 127 discharges. Minister Squiers -has outlined to President Palma and Foreign Secre- tary Zaldo the details of the perma- nent treaty between Cuba and the United States in accordance with the propositions prepared in Washington. At the request of the secretary of the navy, Admiral Bowles, the chief constructor, has prepared a staténient of the nature of the repairs to be made on the Maine, in which he says the damage done to the turrets conssts largely in the loosening up and break- ing of fastenings and rivets, and in no respect is general structural weak- ness of the ship. bd The war department has taken offi- cial cognizance of the reported state- ment of Gen. Frank D. Baldwin, com- mander of the department of the Col- orado, in disparagement of the ne- groes and Filipinos as soldiers, and Secretary Root has directed that a for- mal inquiry be addressed to Gen. Baldwin asking whether or not he has been correctly quoted. Casualties. A tornado killed nine persons near Evergreen, Ala. Beran’s saw mill boiler at Gallipo- lis, Ohio, exploded, killing five men. The body of Charles Helberg, a fish- erman, aged sixty years, of Portage Entry, was found in Portage lake, near Houghton, Mich., by workmen on the Copper Range docks. Redna Dahi of Calumet, Mich., fell twenty-five feet into a deep pool above the Houghton-Douglas falls and was rescued with difficulty just as she was about to be carried away. The boiler of the Charles Bevans sawmill at Ruby, Ohio, exploded, kill- ing Charles Bevans, Richard Houck, Rufus Houck and two boys named Houck and Cottridge. Several others were badly injured. The new Iron Mountain shops at Barring Cross, Ark., had a narrow escape from a total destruction. by fire. The freight car repair shop was burned, including about thirty-four freight cars and two cabooses. Loss, $20,000. The east-bound limited on the Balti- more & Ohio railway was wrecked at Dillon’s Crossing, a few miles north of Mansfield, Ohio. The heavy rains had undermined the tracks where there was a culvert. Four persons were injured. Personal Mention. John Geagea, one of the most noted and distinguished engineers of Mexico, is dead. John K. Lincoln, a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln, died at the home of his son-in-law in Kansas City, aged eighty-two years. Dr. J. C. Gordon, superintendent of the Illinois institution for deaf and dumb at Jacksonville, died shortly af- ter an operation for appendicitis. Four structures in the business part of Wilmington, Mass., were burned, entailing a loss of $20,000. It looked for a time as though buildings over a large area would be destroyed. Former Congressman Abner Taylor of Chicago died in Washington, aged seventy-four years. He had been ill for several weeks with a complica- tion of diseases, Mr. Taylor was a native of Maine. §. Morgan Smith of York, Pa.} pres- ident of the S. Morgan Smith com- pany, died in Los Angeles, Cal., aged sixty-five years. Mr. Smith was one of the largest manufacturers of water wheels in the United States. He went to Los Angeles two months ago for the benefit of his health. Notes From Abroad. The bogus tiara of Saitarphenes has been traced to one Ronchomonski, a Russian artisan. Advices received at Madrid from Fez, Morocco, say that the rebel Ka- byle tribesmen have left Tasza to at- tack Fez. Waldeck Rosseau’s retaining fee as general counsel in France of a life in- surance company of New York, is said to be $20,000 a year. Prof. Birkeland of Copenhagen has just demonstrated with great success the powers of his electro-magnetic cannon at the Royal Norwegian acad- emy. ‘ Rev. John Zahn of Notre Dame, Ind., ts in Paris making arrangements to send the expelled members of the Holy Cross to the United States and Canada. 3 Prof. Lazarus of Berlin university ‘died at Moran, in the Tyrol. He was a celebrated specialist in the com- parative. psycological characteristics ‘of the races. ‘Gov. Hunt of Porto Rico has ordered ‘the removai of the municipal judge at “Mayaguez and substitution of insular police. This is the otiteome of frauds ‘amounting to $20;000. Crimes and Criminals. , George Hussey, the negro herb doc- tor, and Mrs. Danz have been indicted at Philadelphia for the murder of Mrs, Danz’s husband. t Police Officer C. Leslie of Joplin, Mo., was shot and instantly killed while trying to capture several ne- groes suspected of theft. Lynching is feared. Matthew Alexander, a negro,,was hanged in the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan City, Ind., for the the mur- der of George Burke at Terre Haute last September. William Phillips, a young farmer living near Arlington, Tex., shot and killed his wife and then killed him- self. It 1s said the couple had’ not lived contentedly, although but re- cently married. Francis Copartelo and Guadeloupe Mendoza, Mexican miners at Santa Rita, sixteen miles northeast of Silver City, N. M., were shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Muse while . resisting arrest for disturbance. A barroom row between German ana Austrian soldiers in Pekin, China, cul- minated in a street fight in which fif ty men on each. side were engaged, and bricks, clubs and knives were used, several of the-combatants being severely injured. While temporarily deranged, Frank Hush of Erie, Il, ten miles east of Clinton, Iowa, shot and killed his wife on the way to church and. then re- turned home and killed himself. heir little daughter startled the congrega- tion’ by running into church and tell- ing of the tragedy. Decoyed to his death and tortured, probabl yin an effort to cause him to reveal a secret before being murdered, was the fate of an unknown Italian of the upper class in New York. Hts body was found in a barrel in East Eleventh street, near the docks. he man’s throat was cut from ear to ear. . General. Rt. Rev. Mgr. Michael Bourchet, vicar general of the Louisville Roman Catholic diocese, died suddenly. Rear Admiral Schley, in an inter: view at Chicago, intimates that he may go on the lecture platform and write a book. The policemen of rie, Pa., have organized a union and are talking strike unless their pay is increased from $60 to $75 per month. .The lower house of the Virginia legislature voted to remove from the bench Judge Howard of Cowgill coun- ty, who cowhided Rev. Dr. Crawford. The excessive crop of political can- didates is causing the farmers of Low isiana so great annoyance that they will hereafter decline to entertain them gratuitously. News of the engagement of Miss Helen Davida, daughter of President Harper of the University of Chicago, to Charles Scribner Eaton, a gram- ate, has leaked out. Maj. Charles M. Howell, one of the eldest and most prominent Masons in Pennsylvania, is dead from the in- firmities due to old age. He was born in Philadelphia in 1814. Rt. Rev. George Montgomery, who recently was appointed archbishop of Manila, has refused that post. He pre- fers to stay in San Francisco, and ex- pects to be archbishop. Three owls which were pets of Mrs. C. T. Yerkés in New York, made such a row at her house that no one could sleep, so she gave them to the zoo in Central Park. In the Fair will case in New York, Alfred J. Moranne of France gave evi- dence that Mrs. Fair survived longer than her husband after the fatal auto- mobile accident. : The Chinese have made a demand upon the United States government for $100,000 indemnity for depreda- tions committed upon Chinese miners at Mormon basin, in Oregon, last sum- mer. The Idaho supreme: court decided the Seven Devils mining case, brought by Granville Stewart against ex-Gov. Hauser of Montana and others. The decision is in favor of the defend- ants. z Alfred C. Vanderbilt, Paul Sartoli, his chaffeur, and Reginald C. Vander- pilt, were each fined $10 and costs at Newport for running their automo- piles at a greater speed than ten miles an hour. Binger Herman has been nominated for congress on the twenty-fourth bal- lot by the Republicans of the First dis- trict of Oregon, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas H. Tongue, President Roosevelt has sent to Car- dinal Gibbons, and his eminence has forwardei by special messenger to Pope Leo XIIIL., a gift to be presented on the celebration of his jubilee, con- sisting of ten.handsomely bound vol- umes, containing all the messages and official documents of the Presidents of the United States from Wa'shington to Roosevelt. . The De Forest Wireless Telegfaph company of New York will connect Puget sound and Asjatic countries by wireless telegraph, establishing stations at Cape Flattery and thence by the Alaskan coast, Bering sea, Aleutian islands, Siberia and Korea to China and Japan, ‘Thirty-nine years, ago the father of Miss Minnie Peterson of Scipio, Ind., died of smallpox. Miss Peterson has just died of smallpox, having taken the disease two weeks ago after she had opened an old trunk containing her father’s clothes for the first time J since his death. COLLISION BETWEEN A PASSEN GER TRAIN AND A FREIGHT TRAIN. BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION SEVEN BODIES IN SUCH A CON. DITION THEY CANNOT «BE IDENTIFIED. FIERCE FIRE FOLLOWS WRECK SEVERAL CARS ENTIRELY CON: SUMED—DISPUTE AS TO THE CAUSE. Jamestown, N. Y., April 22.—Kight persons were killed and ten injured, three of them seriously, in a. collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the ‘Erie railroad near Red House, N. Y., yesterday. Of the dedd, only one, Robert N. Hotchkiss of Meadville, a brakeman, has been identified. Seven bodies, ap- parently those of three men, three women and a child, were burned be- yond recognition in the fierce fire which followed the wreck. The passenger train was derailed by striking freight train which was taking a siding at Red House. The wreck at once took fire and the com- bination car, two day coacher and two sleepers, together with several freight cars, were consumed. There is’ some dispute as to the Cause of the Wreck. The passenger train was running east and the freight, which was west- bound, had orders to go into the siding at Red House and wait for the passen- ger train to go by. The siding is about a mile and a half long and there is a tower of the block system near the west end. The freight was drawn by -two engines. Some trouble was experienced in entering the siding and the foremost engine of the freight was sent in along the siding with a flagman to hold the express. It is al- leged that the operator in the tower, Lawrence Vale, a boy seventeen years old, saw the light engine of the freight, which was bringing up the flag, and supposed the freight was on the siding behind it. Vale then dis- played a white signal toward the pas- senger train, indicating to the engi- neeer that he had a clear track. The engineer on the passenger train Failed to See the Flagman sent out from the forward engine of the freight train, and sa wonly the clearance signal from the tower, The train ran toward the east end of the siding at high speed and collided with the second engine of the freight train just as it was about to clear the main line. The passenger engine crashed into a small wooden structure used as a feed store and school house. The first half-dozen cars of the freight were wrecked. They were box cars loaded with coal. The coal filled in amongst the wreckage, causing an in- tense heat. All but three of the cars of the express followed the engine and the whole mass of wreckage waS soon in flames. The tracks were strewn for rods with burning wood and coal and heaps of twisted iron work. OVER ONE HUNDRED KILLED. Government Troops Lose in an At- tack on Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo, April 22.—Trops of the government shelled this city Fri- day and several houses were damaged. The government soldiers attacked the city in force at several different points and the fighting lasted for one hour. The government troops sus- tained heavy losses, Gen. Cordero, minister of the interior; Gen. Alvarez, governor of Puerto Plata, and Ge» Quesada being killed. Over 100 gov- ernment soldiers were killed or wounded, and the government forces were obliged to withdraw. The revo- lutionists.made several prisoners and captured horses and ammunition. Their losses were slight, only a few men being killed or wounded. Presi- dent Vasquez narrowly escaped being shot. The rebel gunboat Independen- cia has returned here and it is re- ported that Gen. Navarro, with a quantity of ammunition, landed from her near Monte Christi. The revolu- tionists are surrounding Monte Christi. ——————__—_—— TORNADO IN MISSOURI. White Springs, a Summer Resort, Is Nearly Destroyed _ Fredericktown, Mo., April 22. — A tornado, accompanied by hail and rain, passed over this section yesterday, nearly destroying White Springs, a summer resort, five miles south of here. Seventeen of the thirty houses were wrecked. The large hotel of Stubblefield & Mathews is a wreck. No fatalities are reported. ALL PLAN TO STRIKE. Thousands of Men Contemplate a Walkout on May 1. New York, April 22.—Six thousand pdilermakers, 3,000 building material drivers, 2,000 truck drivers, 5,000 shirtwaist girls, 5,000 excavators, 2,000 coal wagon drivers and 1,000 ship and machinery riggers in this city will strike if their demands for higher wages are refused on May 1. Efforts are being made to avert a strike of 50,000 garmentworkers on that date. TEN IN THE TOILS. St. Louis Grand Jury Will Indict Many State Senators. St. Louis, April 22.—The two lead- ers in the boeodle investigation, Cir- cuit Attorney Folk and Attorney Gen- eral Crow, joined forces yesterday to jointly conduct the local inquiry which adjourns temporarily this afternoon. The Cole county grand jury has taken a recess until April 27, and this leaves the attorney general free to come here for atime. It is hinted that at least ten state senators will be indicted for either perjury or bribery before the inquiry is concluded here and in Jefferson City. During the day an emissary from Lieut. Gov. Lee called upon Circuit At- torney Folk with the proposition that upon agreement to question Mr. Lee only about the alum deal, he would appear before the grand jury immedi- ately. Circuit Attorney Folk informed his visitor that he would not promise to restrict himself in any part of the inquiry, and the conference was fruit- less. Robert F. Lee, brother of the absent official received another letter from Gov. Lee yesterday which was mailed in Chicago. In further explanation of his brother’s absence, Mr. Lee said: “He will remain away until I think it advisable for him to come back. One reason that he is away is that he does not want to assist the St. Louis | grand jury in indicting for perjury cer- tain members of the legislature who have testified before it. My brother is not vindictive, and, although these men have proved themselves his bit- ter enemies, he does not want to assist in indicting them.” Mr. Lee concluded by saying that his brother did not fear indictment himself. ROOSEVELT SEES GEYSERS. The Grand Canyon Is His Next Ob- jective Point. Cinnabar, Mont., April 22. — Presi- dent Roosevelt has about completed his tour of the Yellowstone Park. Yes- terday he was at Firehole geyser basin. To-day he will return to the Norris geyser basin, and will go from there to the Grand canyon, where the upper and lower falls are situated. He expects to return to the post head- quarters Wedneséay, and will remain in the Vicinity of that place until Fri- day afternoon, when he will resume |, his trip. The members of the presi- dent’s party, who have been living on the train at Cinnabar sinve April 8, probably will join the president in the Park on Thursday morning. SHEEP HAVE “BIG HEAD.” Shepherds of Western Districts Are | Threatened With Heavy Losses. Salt Lake, Utah, April 22.—Between | the ravages of an unusually severe winter and the breaking out of a malignant disease known as “big head” among their flocks within the past few weeks, the Herald says the sheepmen of Utah, Southern Idaho and Eastern Nevada are afraid that by the time they get their sheep to the summer grazing grounds their losses will amount to about 50 per cent Should this estimate be correct the | loss in Utah alone will amount to about 1,000,000 head and would be an unprecedented loss: to sheep owners of this state. “KEEFE KILLS TWO MEN. Policeman Attempts to Arrest Him and He Opens Fire. Rawlins, Wyo., April 22. — F. J. Keefe, head of the Keefe commercial house and former city treasurer, shot and killed Thomas King and Police- man Baxter last night and made his escape. Sheriff Horton and a posse are in pursuit. Policemen Baxter and Spencer had gone to his place of busi- ness to arrest Keefe, who is said to have been drinking heavily for some time, and to have been disorderly. Keefe suddenly appeared at the door with a gun and began shooting. HiS SIXTH MURDER. City Marshal Dies From Wounds Made | by Outlaw. Bakersfield, Cal., April 22. — City Marshal T. J. Packard died yesterday from the effects of the wounds inflict- ed by Outlaw McKinney and his com- panion, Al Hulse, making the sixth victim of the former's murderous career. There is intense feeling against Hulse, who is secure in the county jail. It is positively known that the ax found in McKinney’s room and the ammunition which McKinney was using were purchased by Hulse. CANTRACTOR KILLED. Heavy Beam Strikes Him on the Head With Fatal Results. Battle Creek, Mich., April 22.—Ed- ward Frobenius, a prominent econ- tractor of Kalamazoo, met an unusual death yesterday. He was superintend- ing the erection of the Michigan Cen- tral freight house when the wind blew a heavy beam on him. The sharp end struck his left temple, and as he fell another girder struck his right temple. Bither blow would have been fatal, and the man received the two death- blows almost simultaneously. Germany Will Retaliate. New York, April 22.—It is presumed in Berlin, says a London dispatch to the Tribune, that if the Canadian tariff proposals become law the Ger- man government will at once obtain authority from the reichstag to apply ta special prohibitory tariff on all im- ports from Canada. The Agrarian or- gans declare that the British govern- ment is the real author of Canada’s behavior toward Germany, and they advise retaliatory measures against Great Britain. % OMAHA BUSINESS MEN BAND TO- GETHER FOR THAT PUR- POSE. BATTLE ‘WITH ORGANIZED. LABOR HAVE BACKING OF NATIONAL MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCI- ATION. THEY WILL FIGHT TO A FINISH LABOR LEADERS ARE GREATLY AGITATED OVER THE MATTER. my Omaha, April 23. — The employefs’ federation alluded to in the report of the committee of resolutions at the meeting of the National Manufactur- ers’ association at New Orleans has become a fact in Omaha. ‘ Yesterday the Business Men’s As- sociation of Omaha gave to the press a statement showing that more than 800 business men of the city had banded themselves together to fight the different labor organizations, and each pledges himself to assist any member who had trouble with his em- ployes. The National Manufacturers’ association is said to be behind the movement in Omaha, and it is further said that this city has been chosen by that organization to fight the labor or- ganizations to a finish. The local Business Men’s association will have the support of the national associa- tion in the the fight. Should this prove true there is no doulft that all labor unions in the country will support the Omaha unions, and that the fight will be to the death. The publication, of the statement has caused great comment among the: labor unions, and a special meeting of the central labor union has beer called to discuss the matter. The | platform of the association embraces the three principles: “Freedom to employ union or non- | union labor without «discrimination; no limitation or restriction to output; no sympathy strike.” MUST GO TO WORK. | Executive Boards of the Miners Union | Take Action. Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 23.—The ex- ecutive boards of the three anthracite | districts of the United Mineworkers of America in convention here, issued instructions yesterday that all miners now on strike or locked out return to work immediately, pending the ad- justment of all differences by the board of conciliation provided for by District Presidents T. D. Nicholls of Scranton, W. H. Dettry of Hazleton and John Fahy of Shamokin were se- lected at the miners’ representatives | on the board of conciliation. The hoard is to consist of six members, three appointed by the operators and three by the miners. The miners’ executive boards held | two long sessions - yesterday behind closed doors. A final meeting will be held to-day. When the meeting ad- journed President Mitchell said he had nothing to say about the Instructions Issued to the men except that he expects the coal companies to appoint a similar conciliation committee so that the grievances complained of can be ad- justed as soon as possible. The instructions issued to the men are as follows: “To all members of the United Mineworkers of America in the an- thracite coal field: “Gentlemen—The executive boards of Districts 1, 7 and 9, having under consideration the situation in the an- thracite region, have, after careful consideration, concluded that the best interests of our organization will be- conserved by immediate resumption of work at all the mines where strikes or lockout’s are now in force, and the reference of all matters of dispute to- the joint Board of Conciliation provided for in the award of the an- thracite coal strike commission. In order that adjustments may be facil- itated we have selected the presidents of Districts 1, 7 and 9 to act as our representatives on the board of con- ciliation, and we have decided to noti- fy the presidents of the various coal- carrying railroads that we are pre- pared to meet the representatives of the coal companies at the earliest possible date for the purpose of cén- sidering and adjusting all questions: at issue growing out of the interpreta- tion or application of the award. In pursuance of this action all mine workers are advised and instructed to: resume work immediately and to continue at work in order that the esl ferences may be adjusted in the ner as prescribed by the strike coms mission.” IDENTIFICATION COMPLETE. Son of Madoni Recognizes the Body of His Father. New York, April 23.—Salvator Ma- doni arrived from Buffalo last night, accompanied by Detective Sargent. Petgosini, who took him immediately to the morgue. There he positively identified the body of the barrel vic- tim as that of his father. Young Ma- doni could throw no further light on the snbject. He said his father had been in prison in Italy, but for what: offense he did not know.. the anthracite coal strike commission- _ oo oD ee {i} x nw h & My Ne