Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 9, 1903, Page 2

GRAND RAPIDS, - By E. C. KILEY. MINNESOTA, Ignorance of the law is no excuse— even for a lawyer. European monarchs are getting to be as “sociable” as village spinsters. The politician who sets out to save the country is frequently hauled up for robbing her. The flying machines and automo- biles are helping a good deal in the race suicide business. Diamonds are going to be marked up 5 per cent. Lay in your summer stock before the rise. How could C. Oliver Iselin continte to be famous if-Lipton were to quit ghallenging for the cup? Dr. Parkhurst’s ideal newspaper may be handicapped by the shortage of ideal people to support it. | The valued Cleveland Leader asks: “Why not boil the trusts?” True, | roasting doesn’t seem to answer. | A good many: men act on the prin- | ciple that the early worm who caught | the bird stayed up all night to do it. | What Matos it who is president of | - Venezuela, now that the customs re- ceipts have been properly distrib- | uted? | | Mascagni is telling the Europeans that the Indians who inhabit America are much worse than they have been painted. SS SRL Bate ee Rid! e A new comic weekly is to be start- ed in New York. It is one of the eas- iest things in the world to start a comic weekly. The news that Haiti is on the verge of a revolution is not surprising. The revolution microbe is always active in the tropics. Buffalo Bill admits that he is a millionaire, and what is better still, that he will soon retire from the show business. The Turko-Bulgarian debate is as- suming a more threatening attitude daily. In South America it would be called a war. The man who is to cross Niagara falls by hanging to a wire with his teeth will probably turn out to be a new-fangled dentist. : From the Capital. Admiral Schley has gone to Mexico ‘to inspect mining property in which he is interested. Gov. Grant of Leyte province will resign as a result of charges preferred against him. Gov. Grant went to the Philippines as a captain in the Twenty- ninth volunteer infantry. The total amount of 3 and 4 per cent bonds so far exchanged for 2 per cent consols is $50,087,500. It is the belief that the $100,000,000 offered will be refunded within the next few weeks. The navy department has issued or- ders that the birthplace of the late Rear Admiral Sampson at Palmyra, N. Y., be marked with one of the five-inch guns of the Spanish warship Oquendo. M. O. Chance, private secretary to Secretary Root, has turned over to Postmaster General Payne $6,000 which he found on C. W. Neely when he was arrested in connection with the postal frauds in Cuba. Accidental Happenings. Practically all of the town of Mel- bourne, Iowa, was burned. The burned area covers about three blocks. Albert Martin, conductor; was killed, and Grant Hodgins fatally injured in a collision of electric. trains at St. Jo- seph. Seven firemen were severely burned in a fire on Sturdivant wharf, Portland, Me. Lumber to the value of $50,000 was destroyed. A six-story building at Cleveland, oc- ecupied by the Central Printing com- pany, a candy factory and several oth- er manufacturing firms, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $75,000. Fire on William K. Vanderbilt’s es- tate, Idle Hour, Oakdale, Long Island, destroyed a large portion of the woods just south of the mansion and threat- ened the dozen or more cottages, sta- bles and carriage houses of the estate. People Talked About. Dr. George Boardman, author, orator and preacher, died at Atlantic City, N. J., after a long illness. Capt. John A. Stoner, a well known seaman On the great lakes, died at his home in Monroe, Mich., aged seventy- one years. “Buck” Franklin of Tennessee, a widely known horseman, died in Louisville of bladder trouble. He trained many winners. George Seeger, one of the best known ‘horsemen in the Middle West, died at Nashville, Tenn., of acute pneumonia. He was thirty-eight years old. Wilton Laeckaye has signed a five- The baseball player who scores the | year contract with Manager William first home run of the season is great: er than he who ruleth at the city hal! —in the minds of some. The New York actress who has undertaken to write a play in twenty- four hours probably won't get it pro- duced in twenty-four years. : Dr. Jacques of Boston says he can make electricity from coal. More fame for him if last winter he had made coal from electricity. | Young Rockefeller is a chip of the old block. He insists that, for the| purpose of taxation, his vast wealth is more than offset by his <olossal debts. Dr. A. Conan Doyle is the only man in the world that can unravel the Burdick murder~ mystery, and he will want about a dollar a word for the work. , Russell Sage has retired from ac- tive business, but it is not true that he is going to spend three afternoons a week playing ping pong with Mrs. Hetty Green. Missouri has gained considerable notoriety by making chicken stealing a felony. As a logieal sequence it ought now to make mule stealing a capital crime. Henry Ward Beecher’s experience with the contribution plate gave him great skill in detecting coin values. The congregation never could fool him with pants buttons. Minister Bowen told the Yale stud- ents that Venezuela is no place for young men from the United States. Good. For American young men of the right sort there’s no place like home. Granting all that Sir Thomas may say as to the terrific speed Shamrock Ul. will make during the races, it is still fair to suppose that the Reliance will not be exactly standing still at the time. The Maine man who has worked up a business of exporting cat-o’-nine- tails to London, where he finds a mar- ket for all that he can get, certainly thought of something that had never occurred to any one before. A. Brady and is to play Curtis Jadwin in a dramatization of Frank Norris’ novel, “The Pit.” Frederick Kernoehan of New York, the society leader, polo player and steeplechase rider, was appointed a ileputy assistant distriet attorney by Distriet Attorney Jerome. Commander Julian St. Clair of Penn- sylvania, a prominent naval veteran, died at the university hospital at Philadelphia from an organic ailment contracted in the Philippines. Notes From Abroad. Mateo Fajardo, mayor of Mataguez, Porto Rico, charged with fraud, has of Gov. Hunt. Claremon* Ganneau, the fakir of the Saitapherines tiara, is organizing a display of his handiwork at the salon of Frenci artists. | H. S. Bird, editor of the San Juan, | P. R., News, has been sentenced to five days’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $20 for contempt of court. The cardinals of the propaganda have bea informed that a meeting of the congregation will be held May 4 to choose a bishop of Buffalo, N. Y. An appeal has been issued by the United Irish league asking Irishmen throughout the world to start immedi- ate subscriptions to the parliamentary fund of 1903. | ©. A. Pearson, proprietor of the Daily Express in London, has bought the St. James Gazette. The policy of the Gazette, which is conservative, will not be changed. Twelve hundred persons took part | in a brawl between troops and ma- rines at Kronstadt. Several police were wounded and the rioters tore up paving stones and wrecked h¥ses. H. M. F. Grafton, flagship of the Pa- cific fleet for Great Britain, has been ordered to proceed to San Francisco | to take part in the naval demonstra: | tion in honor of President Roosevelt. The deputies of the Columbian de- partment assembly of Cartagena, by a vote of 9 to 8, have rejected the peti- tion to address a memorial to the com- ing congress praying that body to re- ject the canal treaty. ‘ Announcement has been semi-offi- cially made that King Alfonso has rat- ified his confidence in the Spanish min- istry since the elections. The cabinet, therefore, will not resign unless the senatorial elections are adverse, The Most Rev. Paul Bruschesi, Ro- A poet writes piteously to the New York Times to explain that he wrote “Bud-scented April Evenings” and the printer made it “Bad-scented April Evenings.” The obvious moral is that he ought to improve his hand- writing. On March 20 the Philadelphia In- quirer boldly asserted itself in these words: “Stock is freezing out in ‘Wyoming, but here the buds are blooming.” And the chancen are two to one that the next day it snowed dn Philadelphia, DEFECTIVE PAGE man Catholic archbishop of Montreal, in a pastoral letter condemns labor leaders and organizers and advises the laboring class to pay no attention to strike agitators, but to look for arbi- tration on just and reasonable de- mands. There is uncommon interest in Prince George, heir to the throne of Saxony, and there is now some pros- pect that he may become a king much sooner than was expected, owing to the elopement of his mother, Princess Louise. | kxrown ‘woman suffragists of the coun- tendered his resignation at the request’ TWO Crimes and Criminals. Henry Meeks, the notorious ‘Mont- |: pelier bank robber, has been adjudged ‘insane at Boise, Idaho. A negro named Hensley Johnson, charged with assaulting a five-year-old white girl, was lynched at Carthage, Texas. ‘ , J. J, Aughe, the manager, has been arrested for setting fire to the Colum- bia theater at Frankfort, Ind., a few weeks ago. ‘ Herman Webrle has been held at Toledo in $5,000 for embezzling that amount while postmaster at Middle Bass Island. o. B. B. Spafford, deputy game warden, shot and killed Christ McLain while resisting arrest for spearing fish at Frankfort, Mich. Alpheus J. Loveland, a:cabinetmak- er, is under arrest at Rockford, Ill, for) creating the recent presidential assassination scare. John Dempsey was fined $600 and costs at Atlantic City, N. J., for fasten- ing a firebrand to a cat’s tail. The an- imal took refuge in a barn, which was burned. After four trials at Detroit, Mich., which cost Wayne county $148,000, Edward Asher was convicted of the murder of Valmore C. Nichols of Pitts- burg, Mich., in 1898. Mrs. M. Barber, cashier of the Great Northern hotel at Chicago, was over- powered by two masked men, choked into insensibility and robbed of dia- monds and jewelry worth $1,200. The dead body of Mrs. Myrtle Tay- lor of Kansas, aged twenty-three, was found burned to a crisp and tied to a tree near Joplin, Mo. Two men who reported the discovery suddenly de- camped. George L. Mills, manager of the Syndicate Loan company, missing from Los Angeles for several days, was found murdered in an empty house. All valuables had been taken from the clothing. Witnesses have testified before the grand jury at St. Louis. that the rec- cords of the state senate were falsified to make the journal show that the alum bill had been reported by the committee on judicial affairs. Walter N. Dimmick, the former em- ploye of the San Francisco branch of the United States mint who was re- cently convicted of stealing $30,000 from the vault of the government building, has been sentenced tq five years at hard labor in addition to his former sentence of four years. General. Young Corbett failed to stop George Mensic of Chieago in four rounds at Portland, Ore. Mrs. Sully Fay, one of the best ty, died at Toledo, Ohio, from heart disease. The estimated output of the Klon- dike for the year is estimated at $15,- 000,000, against $12,000,000 last year. Robert C. Ogden of New York has been elected president of the educa- tional conference which has just closed its session in Richmond, Va. Louis Cameron’s hound, missing from Greenville, N. H., for six weeks, was found in the woods nursing a fox | terrier that had lost a leg. The Transcontinental Passenger as- sociation adopted a form of round-trip Pacific coast ticket that is designed to reduce the scalping of such tickets to a minimum. In an interview published in New York the Chinese minister stated his | intention to establish schools in the United States for teaching the Eng- lish language to Chinamen, Col. Joseph Rickey, said to be the originator of the famous drink known as “gin rickey,” died suddenly at New i York of heart disease. He was for- | merly a resident of St. Louis. | Citizens of Brackettsville, Texas, Lave appealed to the secretary of war to reprimand Gen. Fred Grant for his charges against the saloons of the town, which they maintain are libel-| ous. | Herman W. Hilprecht, the world- | famous archaeologist and professor of Assyriology and Semetic philology, at | the University of Pennsylvania, has | just been secretly married at Phila-| delphia to Mrs. Sallie C. Robinson. | The Western Union Telegraph com- | pany has closed its office at Butte, | Mont., because-the men hired to take | the places of the striking messenger | boys were attacked by strike sympa- | thizers and prevented from working. Aaron Bark, a farmer who died sud- | denly at his home in Muhlenburg coun- | ty, Ky., was discovered to be a woman, | whose name is Mrs. Fred Green. She | came to Muhlenburg county about | thirteen years ago with a small child. | Copies of the printed record in the appeal of the Northern Securities company from the decision in the merger case were sent to twenty-five of the interested parties. No date has been agreed upon as yet for the hear- ing in the state case. ‘James Stanley, known as “king of the Gypsies,” who died in a traveling wigwam near Haverhill,, Mass., has been buried from a tent in West Rox- bury. His will ieaves $25,000 in’ cash anda house in West Roxbury assessed at $15,000, to his widow and his eight children. Andrew Carnegie has contributed $12,000 toward the amount needed for the erection of Emerson hall, the new philosophical building for which Har- vard university hopes to lay the cor- nerstone on May 25, the centennial an- niversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birth. : ] ‘ONE OF THE STEAMERS SINKS | clung with desperation to this freight, TOASTWISE . STEAMERS ‘CRASH TOGETHER DURING A DENSE FOG. FWENTY OR THIRTY LIVES LOST ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AF- TER COLLISION. MER ENTIRE STERN tS CUT AWAY FIRST BOAT LAUNCHED FROM DOOMED VESSEL SINKS WITH FIFTEEN LIVES. Norfolk, Va., May 7.—A collision at sea that cost the lives of twenty or more “people and the sinking of the Clyde line steamer Saginaw, by the Old Dominien Steamship company’s Hamilton, occurred between Quarter lightship and Fen- liner Winter wick Island lightship on the Virginia | coast at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. A dense fog had settled along the coast shortly after nightfall, and while going through this fog at reduced speed the Hamilton crashed into the Saginaw’s ‘side about twenty feet from the stern. The fog whistles of both vessels were distinctly heard by each other for several minutes before the collision occurred. According to Capt. Boaz of the Hamilton, his ship was making about nine miles an hour and the Saginaw about ten. The fog was so thick that objects a ship-length away were invisible, and when the :two crafts hove In Sight of Each Other there was but a moment’s interven- tion before they met. The Saginaw veered, as did the Hamilton, but they had not time to clear cach other, and the knife-like steel prow of the south- bound vessel struck the Clyde vessel on the port side about twenty feeet from her stern, cutting the entire rear of the ship away. The inrushing water eaused the Saginaw to settle rapidly in the stern and the impetus of the Hamilton took her out of sight of the crippled vessel. Engines, already re- versed, were put full steam to the rear and the Hamilton circles to the scene of the wreck, at the same time lower- ing her life boats. Great was the con- sternation among the passengers of the Old Dominion vessel, and the first thought was for their own safety, but jt was found the ship was uninjured save for a few plates stove in. All efforts were then devoted To the Rescue of.those on the Saginaw. When the Saginaw was again sighted her stern was under water and her prow was high in the air, Panie-stricken people rushed over her decks and scrambled toward the bow. The life boats were Jowered and into the first fifteen col- ored women were placed, according to Second Officer F. L. Norris, who was in command. The boat was swamped as it struek the water and its occu- pants were thrown into the sea. All were drowned save the second officer. In the meantime the inrush of water into the bow of the Saginaw had caused the decks to burst with a re- port like the roar of big guns. and tons of freight soon littered the sea. The struggling people in the water and many of them were rescued by boats from the Hamilton. Before the life boats of the Hamil- ton had reached the Saginaw the lat- ter had disappeared beneath the waves and nothing but her topmasis were visible. To these several per- sons were clinging, among them being the aged captain, J. S. Snell. When he was taken off it was found he suf- fered severe internal injuries. Perhaps Thirty Lost. The Hamilton hung round the scene | of the wreck for more than an hour, but no signs of life could be seen amidst the mass of floating freight. According to. the Slyde line officials the names of only eighteen passengers are known, and it is admitted py Sec- ond Officer Morris that fifteen colored women. all of whom are now dead, were swamped in the life boat. The crew of the Saginaw numbered twelve. Just how many of the passengers | were included among the known Inst | in the swamped boat cannot be de-| termined as yet. The passengers and | most of the crew of both ships were asleep below when the disaster hap- pened, and when the terrible shock and grinding noise awakened them a panic-stricken rush for safety took place. The discipline of the crew was admirable. “Women first,” was the initial command of Capt. Tunnel after the lifeboats had been prepared for lowering. The _ frightened colored women piled into the first boat from the Saginaw and lost their lives. ‘STEAMER GOES ASHORE. 3 { Vessel Lands High on the Beach Be- low Delaware Breakwater. Philadelphia, May 7. — The tank steamer Ocean (Dutch), Amsterdam for Philadelphia, went ashore off In- dian river, seven miles below the Del- aware breakwater, early yesterday. The ship is well up on the beach. but is in good condition. The wrecking tug North’ America. has a hawser to the Ocean and expects to float her at high tide. . PRESIDENT IS A GODFATHER. Present at a Baptism in Old Cathedral at Santa Fe. Sonta Fe, N. Mex., May 7.—Presi- dent Roosevelt spent three hours. and twenty minutes yesterday in this city, whose historic buildings and monu- ments seemed to be of interest to him. Ai the capitol he made an address, speaking for twenty minutes to an au- dience of fully 10,000 people. A brief stop was made in the capitol, after which a drive was taken.over the gaily decorated streets, all of which were lined with a cheering multitude. A stop was made at San Miguel church, the oldest church edifice of the United States, and at the cathedral, where the vicar, Edward Fourche, baptized the son of George Armijo, a sergeant in the rough riders, President Roosevelt being the godfather. The child was named Theodore Roosevelt. After this pleasing incident the president ad- dressed 2,500 school children. EVIDENCE !S SOLICITED. Mr. Payne Asks Tulloch to Substan- tiate Charges. Washington, May 7. — There were two important moves in the postoflice investigation yesterday; first a letter calling for the evidence in the posses- sion of the former cashier of the Washington city postoffice to substaa- tiate his charges against the adminis- tration of the department several years ago, and, second, the announce- ment that the present investigation was urged on early last winter. Post- master General Payne, in his letter to Mr. Tulloch, said he would be pieased to receive any statements, accounts or documents confirmatory of the allega- tions mace. Mr. Payne subsequently said that he personally would so over these papers and decide whether the matter should be referred to Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow for information in his general investi gation. WITNESS IN DUNGEON. One Way to Bring Out Desired infor- mation. St. Louis, May 7.—Maj. Emmet New- ton of Springfield, spent a quiet and lonesome three-quarters of an hour with himself yesterday in the dark room adjoining the grand jury, where he had been put at the direction of the circuit attorney. His incarceration followed his appearance before the inquisitorial body as a witness who was supposed to know something about the methods pursued by Col. Phelps and the lesser members of the third house during the last session of the general assembly. When Newton came out for his second inquisition it is said he added considerably to his former testimony. Still the circuit at- torney was not satisfied. After about twenty minutes he was excused, with the request to return for further inter- views to-day. MATOS IN THE FIELD. Friends Fear That Castro’s Troops Will Catch Him. ) Caracas, May 7.—It is believed here in some circles that Gen. Matus. the leader of the revolution, has fallen into a trap. His object in landing again on Venezuelan soil was to re-estab- lish harmony among the chiefs of the revolution, who are fighting among themselves. Gen. Matos, May 1, reached Barquisimeto, where a reyo- Intionary army of 20,000 men is con- centrated under Generals Penaloza and Jacinto. The government was at first inclined to disbelieve the news that Gen. Matos had returned to Ven- ezuela, but after this was confirmed it concentrated its forces, which are now encircling the rebels. CAUGHT BY YAQUIS. Texas Capitalist Held for Ransom ef Half.a Million Dollars. El Paso, Tex, May 7.—Col. Martin Erickson, worth several million dol- lars, and known throughout the South- west, has been captured by the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mex., and held for ransom. Two weeks ago he left Mexico City for Sonora after securing | a concession for a large tract of agri- | cultural and mineral lands on the Yaqui river. While on his way to his property he was captured by the In- dians, who have since demanded a ransom of half a million dollars for his release. This sum the American refused to pay. and he is still held. Troops have been sent to his rescue. MILLERS NOT YET SATISFIED. Will Appeal to Interstate Commerce Commission to Adjust Rates. Chicago, May 7.—The millers of the Northwest are not satisfied with the recent reduction of 2 cents in rates on grain and flour from the Twin Cities to the seaboard, and have decided to appeal to the interstate commerce commission. This fact will not, it-is said, interfere with the operation of the mills in the meantime. It is an- nounced on behalf of the millers that their greatest complaint is regarding the discrepancy between the propor- tionate rate on grain and flour from Buffalo east to the seaboard. EIGHT PEOPLE HURT. ° + Trolley Carona Pennsylvania Line Runs Away. Rochester, Pa., May 7. — A Beaver Valley traction car bound for Beaver Falls. ran away last night and was wrecked. Conductor Charles Miller was probably fatally hurt. Motorman Roscoe Shepard was badly cut and bruised, and six passengers were more-or less seriously injured. It is thought the accident was due to wet THE RAILROAD A CALM REVIEW OF THE CONTEN- TION OF THE EMPLOYES WITH THE GREAT NORTHERN. [From Grand Forks Daily Herdld, Wednesday morning, April 29th, 1903, editorial column.) The Matter of Strikes. To strike or not to strike seems to be the question to be decided by the Great Northern trainmen. It is con- ceded that this is the matter on which a voto is now being taken all over the system, and the result will be awaited with not a little interest throughout the Nortiawest. The particular matter of disagree- ment at this time is the compensation to be paid trainmen for work on dou- ble-header trains, After a long con- ference, in which all the subjects in controversy were thoroughly gone over, agreement was reached on every point except this, and on this both the committees representing the employes and the general manager of the road remained firm. The conference was therefore broken off, and the men are now voting on whether they will ac- cept the situation as it now is or not. General Manager Ward has issued a pamphlet in which the proceedings at the conference are reported, and the summary of the contents of that pamphlet, so far as they apply to the question at issue, is given in another column. Still more briefly stated, the controversy resolves itself into this: The trainmen claim that the com- pany, by running trains with two ‘en- gines and only one train crew, is im- posing work on the single train crew that would ordinarily be performed by two, with a proportionate increase of responsibility. The idea seems to be that any train too heavy for éne engine is too heavy for one train crew. They demand, therefore, either that the practice of double-heading shall be discontinued or that the train crews employed on this work shall re- ceive double pay. The company claims that there is practically no double-heading done on the road except on the mountain di- visions, where an additional engine is sometimes employed to belp . heavy trains over the steep grades, and that the company is expending large sums of money to avoid even this. Mr. Ward admits that the men have a right to a voice in the decision of questions af- fecting their comfort, wages and con- ditions of work, but denies that any of these elements enter into the ques- : tion of double-heading on the Great : Northern road. He says that the | company cannot permit the emptgyes to dictate as to the make-up of trains, as that is solely an administrative matter. As in all .questions of this kind, there is a third party which is in- tensely interested in the question, the general public. The public is inter- ested primarily in the regular runnitz of trains, that business may be car- ried on with the least possible delay and inconvenience. For that reason the public is always injured by a strike. At the same time the public is interested in the fair compensation of all who serve it, whether as owners | of railroads or as employes thereon. A strike is an act of war. War is sometimes justifiable. There are times when it is the only means left for the prevention of abuse or the accom- plishment of reforms. But fora war to be justifiable there must be an ade- quate cause. It would be inexcus- able tor nations to appeal to force for ‘the settlement of a trivial question. | without sufficient cause would not be | viewed patiently by the great ship- ping and traveling public which must suffer the inconvenience and eventu- |ally pay the bills. In the present case there does not appear to be any- thing of real value to either of the parties involved in the controversy. It does not appear that the question is of sufficient importance to warrant re- sort to extreme measures. A Little Too Good. Prospective Empioyer—You don’t drink? Applicant—No, sir. “Don’t gamble?” - “No, sir.” “Don’t smoke?” “No, sir.” “Wouldn’t touch the filthy weed, eh?" “No, sir.” “Never swear?” “Never, sir.” “Consider it a vile habit, I suppose?” “Yes, sir.” “Well, I guess I'll try . somebody else. I wouldn’t feel quite comfortable: if I had a coachman so much better than I am myself.’”—New York Times. ‘ - Not Appreciated. Bjonks—It certainly seems to me that a man like Bjackson, who has worked hard all his life and brought up a family of sixteen children, de- serves a great deal of credit. Bjones—No doubt. But he can’t get it at the stores.—Sommerville (Mass.) Journal. Equally Divided. “You allow no beer in the house?” “No; my wife and I never drink anything but wine and water.” “In what proportion do you take ft?” .“I drink the wine and my wife drinks the water.”—Lippincott’s Mag- azine. © ————_____. Back Home Again. Jolky—After all, it’s the theatrical manager who sees success in the long run, Colkey—Yes, and it’s the poor actor rails, caused by a broken water main. ' who sees failure in the long walk.— Similarly the precipitation of a strike |