Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 30, 1903, Page 3

wi oa —— | i »4 colon THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, May 26. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern 78@79 1-2c; No. 2 Northern, 78@79c; No. 8, 76@771-2c. Corn — i No. 3, 46@47c; No. 4, 44@45c; na \grade, 41@44c. Rye—No. 2; 47@48e Da ae grades, 45@55c: feed ~ &rades, 35@40c. Minneapolis, May 26. — Wheat—No. 1 hard, 801-8c; No. 1 Northera, 79 1-8¢; No. 2 Northern, 78 1-8c. Duluth, May 26. — Wheat — No. 1 hard, 801-2c; No. 1 Northern, 78 1-2c; No. 2 Northern, 76 1-2c; flax, $1.14 1-2; oats, 341-2@35c; rye, 50c; barley, 35 @5lc. Milwaukee, May 26. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 83 1-2c; No. 2 Northern, 82 @821-2c; July, 73 1-4c. Rye firm; No. 1, 531-2c. Barley lower; No. 2, 59¢; sample, 46@57c. Oats lower; standard, 36 3-4@371-4c. Corn—July, 44 3-8c. Chicago, May 26. — Wheat — No. 2 red, 80c; No. 3 red, 72@77c; No. 2 hard winter, 74@77c; No. 3 hard win- ter, 72@77c; No. 1 Northern, spring, 80@81c; No. 3 spring, 73@80c. Corn —Cash, No. 2, 45c; No. 8, 441-2 @ 443-4c. Oats—Cash, No. 2, 33c; No. 3. 32c. Sioux City, Iowa, May 26. — Cattle —Beeves, $4 @ 4.90; cows, bulls and mixed, $2@4.25; stockers and feeders, $3.50@4.60; calves and yearlings, $3@ 4.50. Hogs, $6@6.35; bulk, $6.15@6.25. Chicago, May 26. — Cattle — Good prime steers, $4.90@5.40; stockers and feeders, $3@4.55; cows, $1.60 @ 4.50; heifers, $2.50@4. calves, $2.50@6, Texas-fed steers, $4@4.75. Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $630@6.55; good to choice heavy, $6.60@6.80; light, $6 @ 6.35; bulk of sales, $6.35 @ 6.60. fair to choice mixed, $3.75 @ Western sheep, $4.50 @ 5.25: native lambs, $4.50 @ 7.10; Western lambs, $4.50@7.10. South St. Paul, May 26. — Cattle — Good to choice steers, $4.50@6; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.25@4; good to choice feeding steers, $3.75@ ” 4.25; common to fair stock steers, $2@ 2.75; steer calves, $2@3.50; good to choice milch cows, $35@40. Hogs— Price range, $5.90@6.50; bulk, $6.10@ 6.25; light and inferior grades, $5.90@ 6.15. Sheep — Good to choice shorn Jambs, $5.75@6.50; good to choice shorn yearling wethers, $4.75 @ 6; heavy, $4.50@5; good to choice shorn ewes, medium weight, $4@4.50; heavy, $3@4; culls and stock ewes, $2.50@3. COSTLY FIRE EXPLAINED. Montana Club Was Burned to Amuse a Colored Boy. Helena, Mont., May 26.—The hand- seme Montana Club, which was de- stroyed by fire a short time ago, en- tailing a loss of more than $100,000, was lost as a result of the wish of a young colored boy to see the fire de- partment operate. The police have: arrested Harry Anderson, who was employed as an elevator boy, and he has made a full confession. Anderson is fifteen years old and an employe of he club. When the club secured new quarters he remained in tts employ and was preparing to burn that build- ing also. Anderson acknowledged that he had started seven other fires ir. the past few months, “to see the fire engines run,” as he expressed it. QUEER DIVORCE CASE. Capt. Amerin Asks It to Purge Himself of Bigamy. Sioux Falls, S. D., May 26. — Capt. John Amerin, a veteran of the Civil war and the military governor of Louisiana during the reconstruction period, has been granted a divorce as a sequel to one of the most romantic and interesting cases in the history of South Dakota divorce courts. Capt. Amerin married a second wife, believ4 ing the first to be dead. On her reap; pearance he secured an annulment of the second marriage so that he could obtain a divorce from his first wife. He will now remarry his second wife. Ye CAUGHT IN THE ACT. Cavalryman Nabbed While Burglariz- ing a Store. Sturgis, S. D., May 26. — Philip J. Sharon of E troop, Thirteenth cayv- alry, was caught in the act of burglar- izing the place of business of Fruth & Co. in this city and was placed under arrest. The prisoner was taken be- fore Judge Madison and waived exam- ination. He was placed under $500 bends to appear before the next term oi court. DISCOVERY BY POLICE. Butte Authorities Find Band of An- f archists. Butte, Mont., May 26. — The Butte police have discovered the presence in this city of a band of anarchists fvith whom Rosseau is alleged to have affiliated. The officials all believe Rosseau is in the city. The anarchisis in question number five. it is said, and have been here for three years. NEW COLONEL CHOSEN. “Wright of Austin Will Lead the Gal- lant Second. New Ulm, Minn., May 26. — At the, ‘ejection held by the officers of the Sec- ond regiment, national guard, here, Maj. F. W. Wright of Austin was ‘named as colonel, succeeding Gen. Jo- seph Bobleter. Maj. George S. Whit- ney of Faribault was made lieutenant el, and the majors elected were F. B. Wood of Austin, A. G. Chase of Ye! 2 and N. Nicholson of Austin. SCH4.CHT NEEDS THE MONEY. Employers Set Detectives on His Track. tain money to prepare for his wedding to a Chicago society girl and provide a suitable home, Willlam A. Schacht, representiig George W. Heath & Co. of New York, embezzled nearly a thou- sand dollars from the firm, according to his own confession, and further op- erations by him along the same line were prevented only by the fact that his employers became suspicious. Schacht was arrested at Whitefish Bay, two miles north of the city limits, by Detectives Schweitzer and McMan- us of the city force and Charles Mar- low, a detective representing the firm. He had been at the village for the last three days living in seclusion on his! heneymoon, and the officers took him cempletely by surprise. His wife is stil. in ignorance of his arrest. NEW ELEVATORS. Big Crop of 1904 Will Be Properly Housed When It Comes. Duluth, Minn., May 27.—Duluth is to Lave three new grain elevators, to be completed in time for the new crop of 1904. There have been rumors of new houses, but the first definite in- formation was received in a communi- cation to the common council, in which the Eastern Elevator company, the Pioneer Steel and McCarthy Bros. jointly petition fo. the vacation of a part of a certain plat on Rice’s Point, where all three are to be constructed. The first-mentionea will build a million-bushel plant, cost- ing $200,000, with other associate im- | provements costing $25,000 more; the; | Pioneer Steel company will build a big Sheev—Good to choice wethers, $3.75 | cievator, costing $300,000, and the Me- Carthy Bros.’ house will cast the same. The latter’s capacity will be 1,500,000 bushels. WOULD ‘STEM THE TIDE. Catholic Pastor Appeals to the Protes- tants to Fight Divorce. Milwaukee, May 27. — A movement to Stamp out the practice of divorce or at least reduce the number of cases to the minimum was begun here yester- day by the Protestant and Catholic churches. At a meeting of the Mil- waukee Ministers association Father Cassidy of Chicago spoke on the evils of divorce and asked the co-operation of the Protestant churches in the field in which the Catholic church has so long striven. Ten years ago said Fath- er Cassidy, there were only 10,000 4i- vorces a year, while now the number is 19,000. He said that in New York there was one divorce to every twenty marriages; in Philadelphia, one to nineteen; in Boston, one to eighteen, and in Chicago, one to nine. BULLET GOES WILD. Young Man Tries to Kill Himself Be fore His Sweetheart’s Face. . Duluth, May 27. — Discouraged be- cause he was infatuated with a young woman, and not having what he con- sidered sufficient means and good pros- pects to marry, Charles H. Greve, Jr., of West Duluth tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the presence of the object of his affection. In his ex- citement Greve shot himself through the hand at the first attempt, and men in the adjoining room rushed in and prevented another attempt. STEAMER IS DAMAGED. The Gazelle Strikes the Protecting Hl Pier at Hastings. Hastings, Minn, May 27. — The steamer Gazelle, with a raft of logs in tew, had her wheel considerably dam- aged by striking the protection pier of the railway drawbridge. The accident | was due to the wind and a strong/| cross-current. Several of the logs were sent adrift} but recovered, and the tow, which remained intact, was taken down river by the Jessie B. Sent Them to Bed. Albert Lea, Minn., May 27.—A riot tcok place at Glenville, a samll village eight miles south of this city, a day or two agoo, and the excitement was in- tense at one time. It seems that a gang o? railroad men went on a spree and drove the marshal off the street and} insisted upon the citizens going to bed. | Several of the ringleaders paid fines| and order has been restored. Wealthy Farmer Probably Drowned. La Crosse, Wis., May 27.—Thomas Cain of Brownsville, a wealthy farmer, is supposed to be drowned below here, and his wife is offering a reward for his location. He came here Friday in a small boat. The waves in the Mis- sissippi were dangerously high, and it is thought he was drowned on the way heme, as he has not been seen since. Horses Cremated. Ruthton, Minn., May 27.—Early yes. | terda morning fire large livery barn Peterson, together with twenty-five head of horses and a small quantity of feed. Loss, $4,100; insurance $1,300. Origin of fire unknown. destroyed the Bad Place for Cows. Tomah, Wis., May27—The fast mail passenger train No. 57 on the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul, struck cows here belonging to A. Cady. The cows were on the track in the yard. Seven out of the nine were killeed. Boy Killed by a Fall. Deadweod, S. D., May 27. — Walter Geselius, nine years old, the son of Mrs. William Stevens, was instantly killed by falling from “Brown Rocks,” a cliff over fifty feet high in the lower part of Deadwood. Become Suspicious and Milwaukee, May 27.—In order*to ob- Elevator company | of Gilbertson &| May 30 is Memorial Day, the day when pious hands the country over will place floral tributes upon the graves of the dead of the civil war. The following version of the origin of the custom is told by a veteran who wore the blue. “It was just forty years the 13th of last April,” said he. “Two little girls —children of a Michigan army chap- lain—were the first to lay spring flow- ers on a soldier’s grave dug in Vir- ginian soil, and from that little act of childish impulse grew up the custom which is now nationally observed, north and south. “I was a member of the Second Regiment, Michigan Infantry, Col. J. B. Richardson commanding, which saw most of the fighting of the army of the Potomac until the war wis well nigh ended. The chaplain of the regiment They must have had in mind the little acts of remembrance they had seen at the gravesides in the gtass-grown cemetery at home. “On their way home the little ones planned to go next day, gather arm- fuls of flowers and put them on all the graves. When they were about to set out on the morrow, Josephine told Mrs. May of their project, and the Sweet thoughtfulness of this child fancy appealed to the older woman as it only could have appealed to a moth- er who knew a hospital camp at first hand and had folded the hands of more than one young fellow in his last sleep. With her companion, Mrs. Evans, a young Red Crdss nurse, Mrs. May joined the children in gathering flow- ers, and together they placed the blos- soms on thirteen graves—all that they found, Union and Confederate alike, hand, has advanceé the claim of a celebration held at Watertown, N. Y., May 27, 1866. Certain it is that Gen. Logan often referred to his first decor- ation Day order as the ‘proudest act of his life,’ and the year it was issued the first great observance was held at Arlington cemetery with Gen. Arthur as the orator of the day. It is equally certain that further to the south, a few years before, those two little Mich- graves in a small way that as certain- ly developed into the national memor- ial. Yet so far as I know no recogni- tion has been paid to its girlish orig- inators. “Chaplain May, his wife Marcia, and their two daughters lie buried in Mountain Home, Kalamazoo, Mich. With the exception of one year, the chaplain’s family remained with him throughout the war. Mrs. May was called ‘an angel of mercy ‘from God’ for her work at Alexandria. I recall circumstances when she literally stole dying men and smuggled them into the city hospitals that she might minister to their wants. She had of course.the connivance of the surgeons—it was either that or leave them to die of neglect and lack of nursing, for in those first months of the war every- thing was ‘red tape.’ “Later on she had a chance to serve SAILOR DEAD REMEMBERED. The Sunken Maine Being Decorated by the American Ladies’ Memorial Committee. was Franklin May, a Methodist min- ister, who resigned his charge at the first call to arms and marched to the front. There were three Mays in the regiment, brothers—two chaplains and ‘the chaplain, for war blood seemed to ‘run in their veins. Three Mays did I say? Four, for there was the cap- tain’s wife, and no pluckier patriot served the Union cause than the wom- ran who followed him to camp, first at ‘Arlington and Alexandria and then at ‘a point near Mount Vernon, which jwas known as Camp Michigan. She ‘brought with her their two daughters, ‘Josephine, aged thirteen, and Ella, erhaps five years younger. “One spring day at Camp Michigan Lit happened to be April 13, the first ianniversary of the fall of Sumter— ‘the little girls were wild-flower gath- ‘ering. Their hands were filled when ther came across a grave—a rough, nmarked mound that had closed in ver some northern boy for whom taps ad sounded that first twelve-month. \ “‘Ob, let’s put our flowers on this grave,’ cried Josephine. ‘He is a sol- dier boy.’ “In a trice the two were down on their knees heaping nosegays over that bare hillock and clasping their hands in delight at their happy contrivance. among the thousands that later were to rest at Arlington and along the shores of the Potomac. “The next year they did the same thing, and the next, each time in May, and now for the soldiers who fell at Fredericksburg and other battles in the Old Dominion. What they did was noticed and soon others began to do the same. There was opportunity for all, for as the months went by graves were multiplying faster than ever before in history, and before the close of the war the custom had spread quite widely. “In 1868 Gen. John A. Logan issued that famous order of his as command- er-in-chief of the G. A. R. which set apart May 30 as Memorial Day—a date chosen late in the spring in order to give the flowers a chance to outflank every snowbank in the north, however late the spring. Since then many of the states have made the day a legal holiday. “There has been some controversy here and there as to what source to attribute the honor of suggesting a decoration day. Gen. Chipman attrib- uted it to a Cincinnati soldier whose letter concerning such a custom in Germany he laid before Gen. Logan. Gen. John B. Murray, on the other her country as well as humanity. She was at Alexandria in the spring of ’63 when Lee began a series of suspicious movements, and no plan could be hit upon to ascertain his intention. Mrs. May’s woman’s wit found a way. She would assume her maiden name and under it visit the wounded and dying Confederates. As she cared for them she gained what she could of Lee’s movements and plans. With the sanc tion and promised aid of friends at Washington and Alexandria she then went to the Mansion House hospital, ignoring the Union men and offering sympathy to the prisoners. “She gained not only definite knowl edge of Lee’s past movements, but a clue of the future—of his proposed ad- vance on Fairfax, Alexandria and Washington. She even secured figures of the supposed strength of his com. mand and the proposed points of at- tack. These facts she repeated to Secretary Stanton and accompanied him to President Lincoln. The prest- dent listened with interest. Soon after he made a tour with his cabinet of the locations referred to, and found them but lightly fortified. They were at once reinforced. When, at the exact day and points anticipated, Lee made his attack, they were not surprised. COLON CEMETERY, HAVANA, CUBA, igan girls had begun the decoration of | lived in Wright county about | Redwood Falls. DEFECTIVE PAGE 1 80 00 00 OF 00 08 68 OF "7 State News of the ‘Week Briefly Told. C. Varley has begun the erection of a large potato warehouse at Clear Lake. Lindenberg & Klein, grocerymen of ‘Medford, will open a new store in Fari- bault June 1. Arrangements are being made to hold a catnival at Crookston early in August. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Jaeger of St. Cloud are the parents of triplets, two girls and a boy. pias D. C. Wells, aged eighty-five, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Marshall, at Monticello. Capt. T. F. ‘Dwyer of Fort Snelling inspected Companies A and C of the National guard at Duluth. Thomas P. Brown, aged sixty-six, a prominent iron mining man and brok- er, died suddenly at Duluth. Steve King} deputy sheriff of Becker county for the past ten years, was drowned in Detroit lake near the sand bar. Senator Moses E. ‘Clapp will be one of the speakers at the meeting of the Old Settlers ‘association at Willmar, | June 17. Moses Leifer, who was in jail at Little Falls on the charge of larceny, | escaped by digging his way through | the solid wall. Roy E. Barnes, a young man of Moose Lake, near Bemidji, accidenial- ly shot himself. The ball entered his right side and he lived only about two hours. John Haglen was arrested at North- field on a charge of selling liquor to minors, but pleaded not guilty and was cleared by a.vote of the council of 5 to 3. D. C., Wells, eighty-seven years of age, died at Monticello. He was one of the pioneers of the state and had aifty years. Jerome Kellerer of Brairerd is erect+ ing a large brick block on Third ave- nue at Hibbing. The block will be three storics high and will have four stores. The special election to vote on the) question of issuing an additional $10,- 000 of water and light bonds was heid at Blue Earth. The bonds failed to carry. The Minueapolis Brewing company plans to build a two-story brick puild- ing on the property recently purchased on West Water street, Northfield, at a cost of about $10,000. John Oliver of Slayton was sen- tenced to two months for selling mort- gaged property. Austin and Robert McCullom, brothers, were sentenced to the reformatory for stealing horses. William Koelner of Collegeville town was possibly fatally injured in a saw miil accident. He was struck by a driving belt and thrown on the car- riage. He sustained a fractured skull. Andrew Carnegie has presented the public library at Alexandria with fac- simile copies of the Declaration of Independence and of Magna Charta. Tuey will be framed and placed in the library. The Rock Island has begun the work of replacing its wooden bridges in the vicinity of Faribault with the best steel arch bridges. The grade of the road at Faribault will be raised three feet. John Watt, one of the best known citizens of Long Prairie, died at the age of sixty-one years. He repre- sented the district in the legislature and served his county as register of deeds for six years. The semi-annual conference of Epis- copal ministers for the Appleton dis- trict was held at Appleton, Bishop Hd- sall presiding. Many clergymen from Minneapolis and St. Paul and other parts of the state were in attendance. The Methodist congregation of Blue Earth held its first election for lay delegates to the annual conference at This is a new de- parture in the church. FP. H. Davis was elected delegate and A. C. Tib- betts alternate. R. F. White, the son of one of the most prominent business men of Cleve- land, for whon the pelice have been ,0oking for ter days, is in Duluth. He bas communicated with his parents and will return home. John Fischback, one of the pioneers of Jordan, fs dead, at the age of eighty- five. His death occurred in St. Paul, where he was living with a son. He was born in Germany and came to Minnesota nearly half a century ago. S. R. Stout died at Grand Meadow in his seventy-third year of hemorrhage of the lungs. He came fiom Phila- delphia fifteen years ago and bought a large farm in Grand Meadow. Mrs. Stout died last August. They had one son and two daughters, all resi- jents of Grand Meadow. nt