Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 30, 1903, Page 2

Rerald-Review. Kentucky and Macedonia might get Up an international feud syndicate. What is man, in the presence of a great national calamity like house- cleaning? The bear merely went over the mountains into Manchuria to see what he could see. A grand monument in a graveyard fails to hide the meanness of a dead man’s relations, The idiot who thinks he understands women is understood by women all right.—New York Press. Canadians in New England have formed an annexation league. Want to annex us to Canada, probably. If these survivors of Waterloo keep on dying soon there will not be many more left than were in the battle. M. M. Mangasarian says an only child never rises to renown—probably because he never gets enough neglect. Manila rope has always held a high reputation, but it has remained for the Manila cable to put a girdle around the earth, ‘ Before Bulgaria starts in to fight Turkey single handed it should reau a few chapters of the modern history of Greece. Kipling’s poem “Gunga Din” has been barred out by a Massachusetts school board. There may be a Kip- ling revival. Women will tell you that they “aim” ‘ at truth. Perhaps that is why they do not hit the target—New. Orleans Times-Democrat. The Adirondack sewing class of New York city is to hold a kiakat. A kiakat.is different from a cat because it is a church fair. A man on the Denver Post says that horse dinner recently given in New York by C. K. G. Billings must have been a stable d’oat. The success of the Vanderbilt-Neil- son merger may suggest to the pluto- cratic element the sort of combination it can safely cultivate. A 72-year-old Bayonne man has killed himself. Suicide at such an ad- vanced age comes almost under the head of “wasted crimes.” Now that the baseball season is on expect to find the card reading: “Gone over to the court-house; back at 5:30,” on the lawyer's office door. New York milliners have decided to tse no more song birds for the purpose of decorating hats. There is no indi- cation, however, that hats will be cheaper. J. Pierpont Morgan before leaving for Europe said: “Our prosperity is not fictitious.” Some of our popular au- thors contend, however, that it is toa large extent. Some European monarch would seem to have a chance to make a hit with his fellow rulers by appointing the younger princesses as the official kiss-receivers, Good joke on the Pennsylvania legis- | lature. Now that it is safely ad- journed, the announcement is made that there is a surplus of $2,000,000 in the state treasury. The fines of the beef packers, with costs added, will put $27,136.75 into the Missouri state treasury. The money has already been collected by the pack- ers from the people. William G. Rockefeller has given permission to the small boys to play baseball on Sunday near his grounds. This should give John D., Jr., a text for at least one sermon to his Bible class. Some of the large powers are going to protest to Russia concerning the Manchuria case. It remains to be seen whether protests will have as much effect on Russia as they usually have on Turkey. Nearly every European power would be glad to pitch in and reform the sul- tan’s government were it not re strained by the fear that the other powers would insist on helping along the good work. ‘The openwork stocking is beautiful, of course, but a Chicago woman has found that it is not good to carry money in. Some of the threads gave ‘way and now she mourns the loss of a $300 roll of bills. Globe-Trotter George Griffith says that South Africa is a poor place for a poor man. Will some one kindly do us the favor of locating a spot which is a good place for a poor man. Our own investigations have proved fruit: Jess. For the tip of her shapely nose, to be grafted on the mutilated proboscis of a countess, a New York chorus girl asked and received $500. This is the Jatest New York quotation on No. 1 moses, and the figure seems decidedly cheap. DEFE From the Capital. Postmaster General Payne denies that he intends to resign. Secretary Root has ordered a court- martial of Second Lieut. Oliver P. Rob- inson, Thirteenth infantry, on charges of being short in his accounts of can- teen money. Secretary Hitchcock will soon ap- prove the contract providing for the sale to the Stearns Lumber company of about 100,000,000 feet of timber on allotments in the Lac du Flambeau reservation in Wisconsin. The record of immigration during the fiscal year will exceed that of 1882, the banner year, when 788,992 was the figure. For the first ten months of this year the record is 620,711, and a total of 850,000 is expected. Chief Justice Fuller has ordered the permanent release of the two Louis- ville attorneys, W. W. Watts and David A. Sachs, who were committed to jail in Indianapolis last February for con- tempt of court in connection with bankruptcy proceedings. The controller of the treasury holds that contractors who agreed to fur- nish coal to the government last win- ter, but who were compelled to pay a higher price on account of the coal strike, will have to stand the loss themselves. : Casualties. A quarter of the population of St. Hyacinth, Que., is homeless owing to a $400,000 fire. Several industrial plants were burned. Frank Daniels, the comedian, was thrown from a horse at Rye, N. Y., and so seriously injured that it will be many days before he can return to the stage. Fire at Glenshaw, Pa., destroyed the plant of the Glenshaw Glass company, the Wittmer Brick company and Jack- son and Murray hotels, and the resi- dence of John H. Meyers. The loss 1s $100,000, with little insurance. The $10,000 automobile in which Henri Fournier broke the world’s one- mile record on the Coney Island boule- vard in November, 1901, was smashed between two New York electric cars while being towed by another ma- chine. M A waterspout broke in the valley of the Pappio river, near Omaha, and in a few minutes the little stream was a raging torrent. Great damage was done to crops. Plattsmouth was a heavy sufferer. The damage will ap- proximate $75,000. Thomas Collins, a tramp who had become weakened from hunger and a long ride on the bumpers of a freight train, fell from the steps of a Newark, N. J., residence and was impaled on a picket fence, one of the iron points penetrating his lung. “He may re- cover. Crimes and Criminals. Mrs. Elvan Bachman of Allentown, Pa., while suffering from melancholia, killed her two infant children and cut her own throat. Washington Seligman, banker and broker, while suffering from a nervous ailment, attempted suicide by cutting his throat, at New York. Testimony before the St. Louis grand jury is to the effect that $10,000 was paid to defeat the bill to reduce the fees of the excise commissioner of St. Louis. Thomas McMasters, wealthy and a | Burgess of Jamestown, Pa., has com- mitted suicide by shooting himselt three times and then hanging himself with a halter. Herbert Woodcock, hardware dealer of Bridgeport, Ohio, who had been un- | der treatment at the sanatorium at | Battle Creek, Mich., committed sui- cide by shooting. A moh secured the keys from the night jailor at Madison, Fla., took out | Washington Anderson, a negro, and | lynched him. He was accused of mur- | dering his cousin, John Walthrop. | Samuel Temple of Montana was ar- rested at Newark, N. J., on a charge of having blown open the safe of the Catasauqua Steel and Iron company | and stolen $1,000 worth of platinum. | Lee Turner of the “Quarterhouse,” | where several persons were recently | killed, shot and killed his half-brother, | “General” Turner, at Jackson, Camp- bell county, Tenn. Self-defense is | claimed. John McMahon, captain of a fire company at Terre Haute, Irfd., com- mitted suicide with poison because | after seventeen years of abstinence the old habit reasserted itself over him. From Other Shores. Spain is reorganizing her navy. Mme. Emma Calve, the singer, who took an overdose of aconite, has re- covered. The Philippine government has sup- pressed two seditious plays, one in Manila and one jin Batangas. It is reported that Turkey has agreed to buy two warships which have been built for the Argentine Re public. The Brazilian commission was en- thusiastically received on its arrival at Santiago de Chile, and will be gen- erously entertained. Argentina has notified Sweden of her intention to equip an expedition in August to search for the Nordensk- jold expedition in the Antartic. The supreme court at Manila has decided that Dorr and O’Brien, re- spectively proprietor and editor of Freedom, are not guilty of sedition. CTIVE PAGE A father and son, named respective- ly Max and Karl Bradt, who were con- victed of murder, have been executed at Straubing, Bavaria. The son was beheaded first. The father wept when he was brought to the scaffold. The commemoration of the anni- versary of the death of Jellacio, the former banuj of Croatia, was the occa- sion of renewed disturbances at Agrain. A crowd stoned the police and thirty-five arrests were made. It is reported that Signor Marconi has been indisposed for several days in Rome. A physician found him on the verge of a nervous collapse and ordered that he take a prolonged rest. He is going to the Riviera. The sultan’s envoys who are charged with a pacificatory mission to tie rebels have arrived at Melilla, Moroc- co, with $16,000. The rebel chieis have chosen a new pretender named Hubelkader. He is a Moor of good family. A letter from Dr. Koldeway says that the excavation of the Ishtar gate at ancient Babylon is finished. of imposing size. Six hundred cases of tiles, relics and other objects which once decorated the palace of Nébu- chadnezzar have been shipped to Ger- many. It is announced that Mr. Kruger, the former president of the Transvaal, will pay a visit to St. Petersburg in June to attend the 200th anniversary of the laying of the foundation of the city by Peter the Great. Mr. Kruger will come with a deputation from the Dutch town of Zaandam, where Peter the Great worked as a ship’s carpen ter. ¥: Otherwise. Before adjourning, the O. R. C. dele- gates decided almost unanimously to continue the headquarters at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. President Roosevelt will attend the wedding of Miss Ruth Hanna and Jo- seph Medill McCormick of Chicago at Cleveland, June 10. Manual training has been made a qualification for entrance to the col- lege of liberal arts of Northwestern University of Chicago. The Weaodmen of the World’s con- vention took a new departure in add- ing to its eligible list coal miners and seafaring men employed on lakes and rivers. H. B. Martin, a nephew of Bradley Martin and said to be quite wealthy, is employed at Denver as an ordinary dairy hand. He is seeking to recuper- ate his health. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin has bought the extensive Blanchard estate at Pittsburg, the most northerly town in New Hampshire, and will probably use it for a stock farm or game pre- serve. sie Gov. Yates of Illinois has approved the amendment to the Torrens law giving the probate court discretionary power to compel the registration of realty belonging to estates under the Torrens system. Absolute proof that Mrs, Charles L: Fair died before her husband in the automobile accident in France is said to be in the possession of the attor- neys who have charge of the interests of Mr. Fair's relatives. News has been received from Rome that Rev. Henry Ormond Riddel, an Episcopal clergyman, has become a Roman Catholic. He was once chap- lain to Bishop Charles Grafton of the diocese of Fond du Lac, Wis. As the result of an order just issued by the Canadian customs authorities, no more Americans will be permitted to go into Canada with their automo- biles without paying the full duty of 25 per cent on the machines. * The twenty-ninth biennial conven- tion of the Order of Railway Conduc- tors closed at Pittsburg. The grand officers were re-elected with an in- crease of salary in every instance, and eligibility service was reduced from 313 to 156 days. An autopsy performed at Cleveland on the body of Iona Mason, the thir- teen-year-old girl who it was supposed had committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid, showed that her death was due to a ruptured heart, a cause rare enoug to be remarkable. Descendants o@ Washington’s French brethren in arms and other Frenchmen allied to the United States by their associations purpose presenting to this country a faithful reproduction of the original bust of Washington by the sculptor Pierre Jean David of Angers, who executed works for the Pantheon in Paris. R. F. Conger, special agent of the rural free delivery service at Nash- ville, Tenn., who is investigating the intimidation of Allwood, the negro mail carrier near Gallatin, reports an almost unanimous sentiment at Galla- tin deprecating the occurrence. Post- master General Payns said the route would probably be discontinued. Clarence H. Venner, a wealthy brok- er of Boston and president of the New England Waterworks company, the Boston Water and Light company and the Alton Waterworks company, all big concerns, was fined $1,000 and sen- tenced to serve six months in the San- gamon county (Ill.) jail for contempt in the federal court. Venner placed himself, in contempt of Judge Humph- rey’s court when he refused to pro- duce certain books in the foreclosure suit of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust company against the Alton Water- works company. It is: THREE TORNADOES CAUSE LOSS OF LIFE AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. SIX KILLED AND MANY INJURED HEAVY RAINS SWELL THE RiV- ERS AND A BIG FLOOD IS FEARED. NEBRASKA AGAIN CATCHES IT TORNADOES ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN—MANY TOWNS FLOODED. Des Moines, Iowa, May 27. — Iowa has been storm-swept for the past twenty-four hours. Three tornadoes, two Monday night and one last night, wesulted in the loss of six lives, the fatal injury of three and the serious injury of a score of people besides great property loss, The dead at Gienwood are: Maggie Biettner and Hazel Wright of. Adaza, Iowa. Near Buxton: Georgia Blakeley and Herbert Rhodes. At South Des Moines: Russell A. Knauf and Floyd Knauf, his eight- months-old son. : The ‘victims at Glenwood were all inmates of the school for the feeble- minded. The tornado first struck the girls’ dormitory, commonly known as_ the old building. The roof was torn off and With a Terrible Crash fell back again upon the wrecked building. All of the buildings of the group, including the hospital, dormitory, boys’ building, custodian’s building, farm college, and the boiler room, were more or Jess damaged by the storm. The superintendent esti- mates the loss at $75,000. At Buxton the houses occupied by the Rhodes and Blakley families were smashed to kindling wood. A string of half a dozen box cars was smashed inte unrecognizable debris and scat- tered over the surrounding country. The property damage in South Des Moines and vicinity will reach $50,000. The Knauf house and the Christian church were completely wrecked and about forty other buildings were bad- ly injured. About the same time what was apparently another storm struck the packing house section of town a mile to the northeast of the scene of the South Des Moines disaster. In this locality the Agar Packing com- pany, Des Moines elevator and Des Moines malt house plants were The Greatest Sufferers, although a large number of other buildings were damaged. The loss in this section cannot be estimated. High winds prevailed all over the city and minor losses were general. Telephone ecmmunication was cut off throughout the greater part of the city and the electric street railway system had to be abandoned in East and South Des Moines for the night. During the past twenty-four hours heavy rains have been general over -Iowa.. The upper Des Moines river is rising rapidly and a repetition of the flood conditions of last June are feared. Iowa railroads suffered se- verely from the excessive rainfall and trains into Des Moines are from three to five hours late on all lines. Supt. Horton of the Des Moines and Sioux City branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul has suspended all traffic un- til the roadbed can be examined. NINE KILLED IN MISSOURI. Town of Elmo Destroyed by a Tor- nado. destructive and fatal tornado struck |the town of Elmo, Mo., eight miles | scuth of Blanchard and just across the | Missouri state line, at 5 o’clock last evening. Nine persons were killed outright and five were injured, some of whom may die. The storm came on with great suddenness and had de- stroyed the town almost before the pecple realized what had happened. COUNTRY IS FLOODED. Great Damage Is Done by the Storm of Sunday Night. Stewartville, Minn., May 27.—The worst, storm of the season struck this place Sunday nigkt. A heavy rain set in about dark and continued to pour down all night. The waters are within six inches of high-water mark of eight years ago. The mill dam at this place kas gone out. The loss will be abovt $10,000. The raiircad track north of here is washed out and traffic is sus- pended. The wagon roads on the north and west of town are covered by about five feet of water, and all travel is cut off till the waters subside. A terrific eiectrical storm accompanied the rain in the early part of the evening, and several buildings were struck by lightning. Faribault, Minn. — The rain of the past two days has _ raised the rivers here to an unusual height. Jackson, Minn. — The worst rain in years fell here Sunday night. The Des Moines river is the highest it Has been for years, washing out several bridges. KANSAS TOWN FLOODED. Damage Will Reach Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars. Salina, Kan., May 27.—This city is the scene of the worst flood in its history. Fully a hundred | families Blanchard, Iowa, May 27—A most | | Nave been driven from their homes. and the extent of the damage is esti- mated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. Another rain fell last night, making four inches of rain that has fallen during the last twenty-four, hours. The northwestern portion of the city is entirely submerged, and wemen and children were rescued frcm their homes in boats. The Mis- scuri Pacific grade on the west is holding back a large threatening body of water. If the water succeeds in crossing the tracks the entire western portion of the town will be under water. A passenger train on the Lin- ecln branch of the Union Pacific is eld between two wash-outs two miles north of here. The passengers were brought to this city on hard cars. The ertire district for miles northwest and scuthwest from the station is flooded. As far as the eye can reach the wheat fields have been transformed into a great lake of raging water. Crops arc ruined and homes deserted. Nebraska Towns Under Water. Omaha, May 27.—Rastern Nebraska was visited by another series of storms yesterday, several of which de- veloped into small tornadoes. One visited Hastings, near which place was the scene of Sunday’s heavy storms, and reduced buildings to splinters. Another struck twenty miles north of Omaha, and the scene ot the tornado four years ago which killed eight people. The home of D. Harris was demolished and Mr. Harris, | his wife and a child were seriously hurt. Omaha also received a storm which blew several houses from their fcundations and unroofed others in the southwest part of the city. Ac- companying the severe wind in each instance was a rain storm of unusual Severity, and as a result several towns in East Nebraska aie flooded, Spring- field, Papilion and Plattsmouth report- ing the worst conditions. At Platts- mcuth two feet of water was in the Burlington station and covered a num- ber of streets. The railroads have suffered washouts in a score of places, and a number of bridges have been carried away or badly damaged. The financial loss Las been heavy and esti- mates place it at several hundred thousand dollars. Tornado in Michigan. North Branch, Mich., May 27. — A tornado passed over this section late yesterday afternoon, entailing a prop- erty loss that will amount to thou- sands of dollars, and injuring several persons. The Pontiac, Oxford & North- ern depot and freight house and the mammoth hay barn of the North Branch Grain company were demol- ished. WAS BADLY BURNED. Saved Woman's Life at the Risk of His Own, New York, May 27. — Prompt and heroic work by two policemen, one of whom was so badly burned that he was crazed by the pain, saved the lives of several women and children who had been caught in a burning building in Fulton street, Brooklyn, at an early hour yesterday. When the police and firemen reached the scene women and children were at the windows of the building, calling for help. Policeman James F. Haven entered the building, and on the top floor found Mrs. How- ard Murray, unconscious. He carried her to a window and then succumbed, having been burned about the face and hands, The burns crazed him, and he had to be placed in a straightjacket at the hospital. In the meantime the firemen had rescued the other women and children. At the hospital it was said that Haven could not live. Two other policemen were seriously burned. NEW YORK CELEBRATES 250th Anniversary of Establishment of Municipal Government. New York, May 27.—New York yes- terday officially commemorated the 250th anniversary of the establishment of municipal government in New Am- sterdam, afterward called by force of treaty between Holland and England, New York. The whole city was gay with bunting. The city hall, where the main exercises were held, and City Hall park were the center of at- traction, the decorations there being especially elaborate. In'the public schools half a million children took part in special patriotic exercises. NEGRO NOT BLAMED. Awful Crime Is Now Believed to Be White Man’s Work. Lawrenceburg, Ind., May 27.—While the sheriff. and deputies and many farmers are still scouring the country for the murderer of Rosa Keiser, it is now believed that the assault on both Rosa and her father was by a white man ané not by a negro, and that re- venge instead of robbery was the mo- tive. Martin Keiser and Frank Aust, an uncle of Rosa Keiser, are both of this opinion. Aust said: “The man who did the deed is closer at home than any negro.” TEN PEOPLE HURT. Freight Train Crashes Into a Heavily Loaded Trolley Car. New Baltimore, Mich., May 27.—Ten people were injured yesterday in a col- lision between an electric par and a freight train that runs on the com- pany’s tracks hauling freight during the night and early morning. The tender of the freight engine was driven half-way through the passen- ger car, smashing it to splinters. EXPLOSION IN A MINE. Four Men Are Killed and Two Badly Burned. Pittsburg, May 27.—Four men were killed and two badly burned by an ex- piosion of gas in the mines of the Chartiers Coal and Coke company at Federal, a mining town, yesterday. The mine is but slightly injured. GET-RICH-QUICK TURF INVESTOR MAKES A CONFES- SION. AND TWO MEN ARE ARRESTED MILLER, THE POSTOFFICE OP- FICIAL, AND ATTORNEY JOHNS IMPLICATED. RYAN AGREES TO BE A WITNESS FURNISHES THE DEPARTMENT ALL INFORMATION IN HIS POSSESSION. Cincinnati, May 27.—John J. Ryan, whose confessions caused the arrest of D. V. Miller, assistant attorney general of the postoffice department at ‘Wash- ington, and of Joseph M. Johns, pros- ecuting attorney of Parke at Rock- ville, Ind. operated his “get-rich- quick” turf investment concern from here and from St. Louis and ran win- ter races at Newport, Ky. Other war- rants have been issued as a result of the investigation of the postoffice in- spectors. Ryan is here now and says: “I was sore because I heard others doing business like mine stood in with the postoffice department by giving up $25,000, and I felt that those who were standing in with the department were behind the investigation so as to get me out of their way.” After returning from Washington to St. Louis last November Ryan se-s he got a telegram from Att.rney Joins of Rockville, Ind., that Johns could be of service to him with the department at Washington, and later Ryan and Johns met in Terre Haute. There, Ryan seys, Johns explained how close ke was to Miller and how Miller had ac- cepted a $2,000 job in the postoffice de- partment at Washington with the idea that the job Had Certain “Trimmings.” Ryan declared Johns asked $5,000 to get from Miller a letter from the at- terney general’s office showing Ryan was entitled to the use of the mails. After a little dickering Ryan says Johns came down to $2,500 and the proposition was accepted. A proposi- tion to pay $2,000 for literature so worded that it would pass muster if ic was ever taken up in the mails was later accepted. Ryan asserts that Johns delivered the letter and literature to him Dec. 16. Ryan says he gave Johns $1,100 cash and checks dated Dec. 17, one for $2,000 and one for $1,400. Then Ryan says everything went elong smoothly until the trouble on Feb. 9. A week later a fraud order was issued against him and Ryan says &n effort for another shake-down was put on foot. He says that he received more telegrams from Johns. Ryan Says he preserved all the telegrams and letters. He has agreed to be a witness for the government. He has furnished the department with all the information in his possession, includ- ing the documents. Miller left yester- day for Terre Haute, Ind. RELIANCE AGAIN LEADS. Defeats Constitution by About Three Minutes. New York, May 27. — In a gamely contested race the Reliance again led the way across the finish line, winning her second victory over the Columbia. and her first over the Constitution. Two minutes and fifty-one seconds Jater the Constitution finished, and the crew of the new boat gave her such a cheer as she deserved. The Censtitution had sailed a plucky race and had a right to shore in the honors. From the start to the finish she had fought out every mile over the thirty- mile course, and on two of its legs had actually outsailed the new boat, a per- formance which restores her prestige imperilled in her disappointing show- ing in the drifting match last Satur- day, and makes her a factor to be reckoned with in the selection of a cup defender. Columbia was, for the day, outclassed. From the very start she was never for a moment in the race. While the Reliance and Consti- tution weré having it out between themselves all the way around the course the former cup defender was dragging along miles astern of them, and when the Reliance sailed across the finish line the Columbia was more than two miles almost dead to lee- ward. The Reliance beat her by fifteen minutes and fifty-two seconds, actual sailing time. The wind held true at 9 to 12 knots during the race and fa- vored none of the racers. fine BUR EEL? SREY), Had Lived a Century. Elmira, N. Y., May 27. — Dennis Connelly, a native of County Cork, Ireland, is dead here, aged 103 yeare. He read without glasses up to the time he was 100 years old. He married at forty and reared three sons and tno daughters. _ ee eee aE Oe aie ar Military Prisoner Killed. San Francisco, May 27.—Charles A. Hurd, a military. prisoner serving a sentence for desertion. from the coast artillery, was shot and killed by Pri- vate Charles M. Hew, while attempting to escape from the guard at Ft. Mason. naan Fishing Vessels Suffer. St. John’s, N. F., May 27.—The se- vere gale which swept the coast Sun- day did much damage to the fishing sorta: on the Grand Banks. One yes. reports having lost peony : twelve men