Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 16, 1903, Page 2

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. The latest physiognomical wrinkle fs the alum face. Is Wisdom wise when it goes to the tevels of Folly? If so, it is foolish, The Vanderbilt-Neilson merger goes into effect under the most flattering auspices. : With racing and baseball in full -bloom spring might as well settle down to business herself. There is another crisis in the Bal- kans. It is the fourth that has come along since a week ago Friday. The Missouri man who has been working for twelve years on a crazy quilt. must have a mind of that pat- tern. Dr. Cyrus Edson says that grip is caught through kissing. And. yet a kiss has caused many a man to lose his grip. The Mad Mullah’s mother is sought. Now if they could catch his mother- in-law, perhaps he’d quiet down and live in peace. It is a wonder the people of Den- mark have never risen in their wrath and thrown vegetables and things at the stage Dane. They have discovered George Washington’s little hatchet, and it cannot tell a lie, for didn’t Parson Weems invent it? A bald-headed men’s club has been formed in Cleveland. Isn’t it about time for the people who wear glass eyes to get together? A New York goat ate its owner’s mackintosh and $50 in bills which were in the pockets. Moral: Don’t leave money in your mackintosh. Thieves stole a statue weighing a ton from a Chicago office building. They probably concluded that the building was old and not worth tak- ing. A clergyman in New York announc- es that he will write no more Sun- day sermons for the papers of that city. Perhaps they have stopped ask- ing him; Rockefeller is now troubled with in- somnia as well as dyspepsia. What’s the use of being a multi-millionaire if you must have sleepless sleeps and eatless meals? Because a New York policeman ould not show that he had a bank account he was declared insane. This may be called prima facie evidence— in New York. The attorney general of New Jersey has been fined for running his auto- mobile too fast. The people of New Jersey must be taking their laws seri- ously this spring. Springfield, Mass., has a millionaire who works as a day laborer. But he is probably doing it for fun, and pot because he is afraid of losing his job if should rest up a bit. In the 10 years ending with 1901 the world’s production of gold was 4,905 tons, worth $2,291,400,510. Even Mr. Rockefeller isn’t rich enough to corner the gold market yet. _ The ex-Crown Prince of Saxony and wher former husband have made up and jwill be married again “for the sake of the dynasty.” That dynasty must ‘be pretty hard up for material. There is absolutely no truth in the story that Harry Lehr barked like a dog on his way home from the Van- derbilt wedding. He may have barked like a puppy, but not like a dog. A beautiful girl has married a titled Englishman who had to go to the workhouse because of his poverty. ‘The wonderful thing about the case is that she isn’t an American heiress. Betting on horse races is a fascinat- ing sport, and when conducted threugh race betting firms the opportunity to lose money is quite as good as if the customer were present in the pool ring. The larger the wheat crop the hap- pier the railroads. The smaller the wheat crop the happier the operators who wish to corner it. The consumer, as usual, has the privilege of paying in either event. The new Shamrock’s spinnaker hoists 140 feet, is 78 feet across the " foot and is exceptionally full.’ There must be cloth enough in it to make canvas trousers for a whole orphan asylum full of boys. Count Robert de Montesquiou is say- ing uncomplimentary things about Americans since his return to that dear Paris, This is unkind of the count. Didn’t he find the people smil- ing wherever he went over here? The Economites, a community of celibates who once flourished near Pittsburg, have died off or deserted until only half a dozen are left, and they have just sold out and retired * from business. It’s pretty hard to keep any community up to the standard op celibacy. From the Capital. Commissioner Richards leaves for Minnesota soon and will examine into the work that has been done in classi- For the ten months of the feu fiscal year goverment receipts exceed- ed expenditures by $35,419,646. The war department has adopted a new set of standards and regimental, battalion and other colors for the army. The cause of the United States in the Alaskan boundary dispute has been delivered at the ritish embassy. It makes a volume of 650 pages. The Philippine commission has put a premium on matrimony by making an increase of $15 (gold) per month in the salary allowance of married offi- cers of the constabulary. The remains of Alexander F. Shep- ard, who died at Batopilas, Mexico, were buried at Washington recently. He was once governor of the district and was known as “Boss Shepard.” The state department has been’ ad- vised that the Salvadoran congress has refused to pay the award in the case of El Truano, an American corporation which securéd judgment of more than $500,000 for the annulment of its char- ter. Senator Aldrich, who is spending a few weeks at Hot Springs, Va., has invited Senators Aldrich, Platt ‘of Connecticut and Spooner, all Repub- lican members of the finance commit- tee, to visit him there for the purpose of conferring over the provisions of a finance bill to be introduced early in the next session. Crimes and Criminals. W. C. Linneburger of Ennis, Tex., after chopping his wife and son to death, blew his own brains out. A stranger giving the name of Charles Frank is under arrest at San- dusky, Ohio, for the murder of Miss Reichlin. Bob Bryant and Will Morris, assas- sins of W. H. Legg, were hanged to the Yazoo bridge at’ Haynes’ Bluff, Miss., by a mob. Joseph Trepani of New York was con- victed of defrauding life insurance companies by foisting deaths upon companies for persons who had been insured John J and Joseph Prince and John Blackmar, who floated the British Af- rican Finance company, have been ar- rested in New York for fraudulent use of the mails. Andrew Freemyer, a wealthy stock- man, died at the insane asylum at St. Joseph, Mo., from injuries received at the hands of attendants, one of whom is under arrest. By locking Tom Cockrill in the né- gro compartment of the smoking car, the conductor of the Louisville & Nashville east-bound train prevented a meeting between the sole survivor of the Cockrills, a young man not far in his twenties, and Alexander Hargis. Cockrill killed Ben Hargis about a year ago when the Hargis-Cockrill feud was especially bitter, and James Cock- rill, the deputy marshall who was as- sassinated in the court house at Jack- son last July was his brother. Hargis is one of the surviving brothers. Casualties. Three unknown men were eaten by sharks at Coatzcoalcos, Mex., while bathing in the surf. Burglars blew open the postoffice safe at Ravenswood, Pa., and escaped with nearly $10,000. Mrs. Abbey O. Brown of New Bed- ford, Mass., was killed while attempt- ing to ride her horse astride. Three sheet metal workers were killed and two injured by the breaking of a scaffold at the union station at Pittsburg, Pa. Seven men were burned by an ex- plosion at Furnace D of the Edgar Thompson steel plant of the Carnegie Steel company at Braddock, Pa. Sixty-five French seamen who left St. Malo, France, on the fishing brig Sans Souci, reached New York on the steamer St. Andrew, having been res- cued from their craft April 28. They reported a most perilous trip. Six members of the crew were washed overboard and drowned in a gale on April 25, and one. man died. From Other Shores. The British government is framing a meat bill fraught with important consequences to American beef pack- ers. At a joint session of both houses of the Swedish riksdag it was decided by 192 to 181 votes to retain the duty on maize. President Loubet of France will vis- it Rome. The pope, after consulting with the cardinals, has decided not to receive him. The recent defeat in the Rio Chico Gomez and Ferrer, at the hands of the revolutionists under Gen. Rolando, has been fully confirmed. ‘Ihe Mad Mullah recently attacked a British column at Gladi, Somaliland, and was repulsed. The British suf- fered considerable losses. John E. Smith of Hilo, Hawaii, for- merly United States minister to Skag- way, has important evidence favorable to American interests in the Klondike boundary dispute. A French-Belgian syndicate has been formed in Europe with a capital of $3,000,000 to work the Chilean mines, according to the Valparaiso (Chile) correspondent of the New York Herald. i Cholera is gradually increasing throughout the Philippine archipelago with the return of the hot season. The deaths from the disease at Manila ay- erage twenty weekly. Three hundred troops have relieved the besieged town of Arzila, Tangier. Two hundred and fifty Jews have been brought there in steamers. They are in a miserable plight. The correspondent of the London Post at Helsingfors claims’ to have in- formation that coercive quartering of Russian troops in Finland on a large scale is contemplated, partly as a pun- ishment and partly in the hope of pro- voking disturbances which will have to be quelled by bayonets. The coal mining industry at West- phalia, Germany, is being . seriously hampered by sickness among the min- ers arising from an interesting worm parasite which has recently spread so rapidly that the sickness has become almost universal. Twenty thousand men are affected. Personal Mention. Judge A. H. Maxwell, except Senator Vest the last survivor of the Confed- erate States senate, died at Chipley, Fla. , Edward M. Wilson, a well known newspaper writer of Denver and Chi- cago, died at his home in Denver of consumption. At a meeting of the board ‘of re- gents of the Western Trotting asso- ciation in Chicago W. F. Knight was elected secretary and treasurer. Capt. E. W. Brady, for many years a well known newspaper correspond- ent in Washington, died there of Bright’s disease, aged fifty-four years. David L. Brace, a prominent real es- tate broker of Lincoln, Neb., filed in the federal court a petition in volun- tary bankruptcy. Liabilities $263,712; assets nominal. Robert L. Delaney, president of the Delaney National bank and director of the Vandalia road, died at his home in Marshall, Ill. Mr. Delaney was widely known in financial circles. Capt. Michael Madden, well known to vesselmen all over the great lakes, died at Saginaw, Mich., after an ill- ness from lung trouble lasting two years. Capt. Madden sailed for years and of late had become an owner. James B. Wilson, editor and pro- prietor of the Knights of Fidelity News, the national organ of the Knights of Fidelity, an organization of saloonkeepers, dropped dead in his of- fice at Indianapolis from a stroke of apoplexy. Bishop Randolph S. Foster of the Methodist Episcopal church died at Newton, Mass., aged eighty-three years. Death was due to apoplexy. For about three years he was presi- dent of the Drew theological seminary at Paterson, N. J. Otherwise. The Illinois house passed a resolu- tion in favor of the national inspection of grain. Miss H. C. Oscher, a student from the University of Minnesota, died at Stanford university of typhoid. The ninth annual Yale-Princeton de- bate was won by Yale, making five times out of the series that Yale has won, Col. Martin Erickson, millionaire, has been captured by the Yaqui In- dians of Sonora, Mex., and held for ransom. An inquiry as to the sanity of Otto Heim, author of threatening letters to President Roosevelt, will be held in Chicago. Daniel T. Hodges, formerly a mil- lionaire of Sioux City, died in his bath tub at San Francisco of heart disease, aged sixty-five. The entire congregation of Father Curran’s church at Wilkesbarre, Pa., over 1,200 persons, took the temper- ance pledge for a year. The fashionable district of Evans- ton, Ill., is terrorized by a negro “hug- ger,” and women are afraid to venture out after dark unattended. A party of German agriculturists have arrived in New York and will visit the principal cities, among them St. Paul and Minneapolis. Rose Coughlan is suing John T. Sul- livan, actor, for divorce at Butte, Mont., that she may marry a rich Montana mining man and politician. Frank S. Powell of St. Louis, arose from his sick bed, went down town and paid a premium due on his $5,000 life insurance policy, returned home and was dead in six hours. James Swann, member of the cotton brokerage house of Inman & Swann of New York and president of the Atlan- ta, Ga., National bank, is dead at the Buckingham hotel, New Yor. Students who put an iron elephant above the dome of the academic de- partment of the state university at Columbia, Mo., are being investigated and some suspensions afe in order. Charles M. Schwab was re-elected president of the United States Steel corporation. All the other outgoing officers were re-elected. John F. Dry- den of New Jersey was elected a di- rector in the place of the late Abram S. Hewitt. The rivers and harbars committee of the house of representatives at Washington made a tour of the navi- gable waters about New York to see what improvements are needed to im- prove shipping facilities. Members of congress from New York and state and city officials accompanied the com- mittee. : GRELD OF COLOMBIAN STATES- N.CN STANDS IN WAY OF CANAL TREATY. THEIR DEMANDS — EXORBITANT IMPRESSION IS THAT TREATY WILL BE RATIFIED WITHIN THREE MONTHS. TURN TO NICARAGUAN CANAL IF COLOMBIAN CONGRESS DOES NOT PROMPTLY RATIFY THE TREATY. Washington, May 13.—The opposi- tion to the canal treaty at Bogota is said to be largely due to the exalted expectations of some of the Colombian statesmen. The report that the new Panama Canal company has offered to give $12,000,000, or about 30 per cent of the money it is to receive from the United States to promote the ratification of the canal treaty is pronounced ridicu- lous by William Nelson Cromwell, the general counsel for the company. Mr. Cromwell says the company has not paid a sou and does not propose to. But there are statesmen in Colombia like statesmen elsewhere, who know the ways of graft. They are looking for a fair share of the $40,000,000 by promoting the ratification. Their de- mands are exorbitant. They want big pay, and there has had to be a Drawing of the Purse Strings to prevent the Colombians from carry- ing off the whole contents. The state department is not disposed to Worry over these reports or pay much atten- tion to them. The impression here is that the treaty will be ratified within the next three months and that all the reported opposition is for the purpose of warning the canal company to get busy and look after the opponents. The greed for graft is said to threaten the present government, as there are several factions seeking to secure con- trol. The special session of the Colombian congress has been called to ‘| meet June 20, just one month before the regular session begins. The state department has_ received no official news regarding the proposed retire- ment of President Marroquin in order to give control to Gen. Manuel Reyes, the second vice president. He is said to be not bitterly opposed to the treaty. In fact, he has advocated it as he has oppvsed it, but as president, and responsible for Settling the question one way or the other, he will not throw overboard the opportunity to have the canal completed and secure: the pay- ment of $10,000,000 for the concession and an annuity of $250,000 as rental from the United States. This government will stand by the treaty which has already been ratified by the United States senate. Colombia must accept that treaty or become re- sponsible for the failure of the Pan- ama canal. If the Colombian congress does not ratify the treaty this summer the United States will turn to the Nicaraguan canal. In fact, Secretary Hay has already within the week talked to Senor Corea, the Nicaraguan minister, and Senor Calvo, the minis- ter from Costa Rica. It is said by parties to the negotiations that if they are resumed it will be upon the gis- tinct understaning that the United States government definitely abandons the Panama route. CLEAR UP DYNAMITE MYSTERY. New York Detectives Know Who Did | the Work. New York, May 13.—Much of the | mystery surrounding the placing of an infernal machine on the pier of the Cunard company was cleared up yes- terday and an arrest may be made at any moment. The police have learned that the box was taken to the pier from a boarding house in West Thirty- first street, known as the “Cwwrie house” and patronized principally by theatrical folk. The police also know the name of the man who sent the box from the house and have a de- scription of him. Who this man is, however, Inspector McCluskey de- clines to say. When asked what the motive for placing the infernal ma- chine on the pier was, Inspector Mc- Cluskey contented himself with the mysterious reply that it was “obvious.” SOAKED THE SALT TRUST. Convicted of Violation of the Sherman Law. San Francisco, May 13. — Fefore Judge DeHaven, in the United States district court, the Federal Salt com- pany, of which D. E. Skinner is pres- ident, was convicted of maintaining a monopoly, contrary to the Sherman anti-trust law. Physician Suicides. ‘Gadsden, Ala., May 13.—Dr. W. L. Funderberg, a physician, committed suicide yesterday by taking morphine. Efforts were made to save his life, but the doctor stood off his would-be res- cuers with a drawn knife until he was past relief. R. H. Stoddard Dead. New York, May 13.—Richard Henry Stoddard, the poet and author, died at his house in this city yesterday of rheumatism of the heart and ills inci- dent to old age. He was born in 1825. ‘en Great Ovation. San Francisco, May 13. — Heartier greeting was never given to a presi- dent of the United States than that of- fered by the city of San Francisco to Theodore Roosevelt. Through miles and miles of densely cheering, patri- otic and enthusiastic citizens, the na- tion’s chief rode, bowing his acknowl- edgements on all sides, until apparent- ly tired of maintaining that position in his carriage, but buoyed up by the en- thusiasm of the demonstration. It was @ magnificent ovation. After viewing the parade the president was driven to the Y. M. C. A. building, where a throng had gathered to participate in the burning of mortgages cancelling an indebtedness of $125,250 upon the property. The president, by request, touched a lighted match to the docu- ments, and the flames litked up the papers. He joined with the assemblage in singing “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.” The president was banquetted last night at the Palace hotel by the citizens’ committee. TO FIGHT LABOR UNIONS. Employers Combine for Aggressive Ac- tion—100,000 Men Affected. New York, May 13.—The most im- portant development in the strike situ- ation was the expressed determination of the building trades association, composed of the most prominent con- cerns in the building business in Man- hattan and the Bronx, and of the Iron league, which includes most of the em- ployers of ironworkers in this vicinity, to combine for united and aggressive action against the aemands of the labor organizations. Upward of 100,- 000 workers will be affected by the ac- tion of the employers. While some instances of violence oc- curred among the strikers in Brool- lyn, an understanding was reached be- tween a committee of the Central Fed- erated union and the leaders of the striking rockmen and excavators that the men on the subway shall return to work to-day. The governors of the building trades association met yes- terday and practically decided to form a union similar to the labor unions. The meeting was attended by all the governors of the association with but two exceptions, and the sentiment 10 favor of aggressive action was unani- mous. INJUNCTION IS SWEEPING. Labor Unions in Omaha Appeal to the Courts. Omaha, May 13. — Judge Dickinson in the district court last night, on ap- plication of John O. Yeiser, an at- torney representing the labor unions whose members are on strike, issued an injunction against the business men and proprietors even more sweeping than that issued by the federal court against the unions last week. The order restrains the business men from refusing to sell goods to dealers who employ union labor, prevents them from boycotting union labor, requires the business men’s association to cease holding meetings or conspiring against the unions, or in any way inter- fering with the unions in the manage- ment of their affairs. GOV. NASH REFUSES TROOPS. Holds That There Is No Emergency Warranting Such Action. Columbus, Ohio, May 13.—A request from the sheriff of Sandusky county for troops to guard the workmen at the Claus Spear works at Fremont was refused yesterday by Gov. Nash, who held there was no emergenty warrant- | ing the calling out of tue militia. The | feeeling growing out of the strike at the Claus plant has been very bitter since the killing of Otto Meik last Saturday, which resulted in the arrest of three non-union men employed at the plant. | WAINWRIGHT IS WANTED. — | France Will Be Asked to Give Up the | St. Louis Millionaire. | St. Louis, May 13.—Gov. Dockery, at | the request of Circuit Attorney Folk, officially requested Secretary Hay to use his good offices with the govern- ment of France to have Ellis Wain- wright, the St. Louis millionaire, ar- rested and returned to St. Louis to stand trial on the charge of bribery. | Wainwright was indicted eighteen months ago on the charge of having | committed bribery in connection with | the passage of the ordinance granting | a franchise to the Suburban Electric | railway company, in which he was a director. 2 | CHEERED BY THE SCOTS. King Edward and Queen Alexandra Given Enthusiastic Greeting. Delkech, Scotland, May 13. — King Edward and Queen Alexandra are he- ing enthusiastically greeted by the Scotch people. Twenty thousand gathered at the palace gates to grect. their majesties, and when the royal couple appeared the phlegmatic Scots broke into wild cheers. Killed His Father-in-Law. Indianapolis, May’ 13—Frank Sut- ton was shot and killed by his son-in- law, Edward Hoover, yesterday Hoover had separated from his wife and she went back to live with her mother, and this caused bad feeling. Killed With a Club. Albuquerque, N. Mex., May 13. — Epitacto Crespin, manager of a fruit TWIN CITY SHIPPERS WILL CON- FER WITH GREAT NORTH: ERN COMMITTEE, BUSINESS MEN’ AS MEDIATORS WILL TRY TO FIND BASIS OF SETTLEMENT OF DIFFER- ENCES. GENERAL MANAGER IS HOPEFUL LOOKS FOR PEACEFUL SETTLE- MENT BUT THE MEN DO NOT AGREE WITH HIM. St. Paul, May 13.—Some of the lead- ing representatives of the commercial interests of St. Paul and Minneapolis yesterday offered to the committees representing the employes of the Great Northern road to act as medi- ators between the men and the com- pany in the present controversy over the new wage scale. Several of the large shippers of the Twin Cities will meet the men’s com- mittee to-day to see if some common ground cannot be found on which the. men and the company can meet and reach an agreement satisfactory to both sides. The entire point at issue remains the double-header proposition. The com- pany is willing to grant the increase in wages demanded, but objects to in- serting a provision providing for double pay for double-header trains. It dies agree not to run more double- header trains than are run. now. The men insist either on double pay for double-headers or an agreement to abolish double-headers except on specified helper districts. In spite of the fact that the general committee did not reply to General Manager F. E. Ward’s communication sent yesterday morning in reply to the committee’s note of the evening before advising him that his proposition To Insert a Clause in the schedule binding the company to run not more than 3 per cent of double-headers, was not satisfactory to the committee, Mr. Ward expressed the belief Jast evening that the out- look for a peaceful settlement of the trouble is brighter than it was Monday evening. The men do not share Mr. Ward’s view. They had considered negotia- tions closed until the proposition of a conference came from the business men, and all that remained to be dorie was to give the word to strike. President Hill and a party of New York capitalists started for Duluth last evening to inspect the iron mines. They will be absent several days. There is very little red tape connect- ed with ordering a strike after it has come to the striking point. The gen- eral committee already has the assur- ance that the 21,00-odd men on the sys- tem who are interested in the negotia- tions will sustain any action deemed best. LIFE LOST IN A FIRE. Many Narrow Escapes and Exciting Scenes Witnessed. Peoria, Ill, May 13. — Edward Schradski, the seventeen-year-old son of A. Schradski, proprietor of the Ma- sonic temple, lost his life by a fire which destroyed that building yester- day afternoon. The fire caught from defective wires. The three upper floors were occupied by manufacturing concerns and many exciting scenes and narrow escapes were witnessed, The. property loss is placed at $150,- 000. A THIRTY-FIVE-MILE TROLLEY. Contracts Let for Grading the Spokane & Coeur d’Alene. Spokane, Wash., May 13.—Contracts have been let for the grading and bridges of the Spokane & Coéur d’Alene electric railway, a distance of about thirty-five miles. About 100 miles of heavy copper wire will be re- quired for the overhead trolley sys- tem used. The road is to be in opera- tion Aug. 1. Hit by Lightning. Clermont, Iowa, May 13—During a severe electric storm yesterday after- | noon the depot hotel was struck by | lightning and badly damaged. Two of | the girls in the. hotel were. knocked down by the shock, but not seriously hurt. Long Life Ends. Upper Sandusky, Ohio, May 13, — Peter Stanley, aged 110 years, dropped dead, leaving a widow 106 years of age. They had been longer married than any other couple in America. Their wedding took place in 1818. #. Church Struck by Lightning. Cedar Falls, Iowa, May 13.—During the storm Monday evening lightning struck the Congregational church and damaged it $3,000: Covered by in- surance. Ministers who were meet- ing in the study discovered the fire and saved the church, Lightning Hits a Church. Red Wing, Minn., May 13. — Light- ranch at Las Corrales, was killeed by unknown persons and left hanging in his wine cellar. He apparently had been killed with a club, ning struck St. Joseph’s Catholic church, cutting a big hole in the roof reas knocking large stones from the lower. : ‘ Y