Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 6, 1903, Page 6

Rerald-Review. By ©. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. A large head indicates brains; a big head, a lack thereof, Japan is speaking softly and carry- ing a big gun loaded for bear. The first step costs, but it is apt to be worth the price if it is in the right direction. As soon as King Edward heard that Mr. Morgan had come over he hurried back to England. A woman can be jealous of the de- votion of a man to the very work that earns her bread and butter. When the island of Heligoland was named there must have been a present- iment as to the way it would finally go. Sometimes a woman will stop lov- ing a man just because she thinks he’s far enough gone to love her any- way. Some Kentuckians act as if they would be perfectly at home in that part of Europe referred to as “The Balkans.” The strike of the Montreal grave- diggers is the worst of all. It incon- veniences people who have no way of retaliating. There is talk of a corner in dia- monds. This is terrible, but we have come to the point where we refuse to worry any more. The present position of Europe seems to be that Turkey is not to be allowed to fatten herself even if she should win a war. ‘When a man sees two women whirl- ing along alone together in an auto- mobile he always looks instinctively to see the smashup. Little girls under 10 years of age can no longer be employed in South Carolina cotton mills. This shuts the babies out at any rate. No doubt King Edward will put his own construction on the fact that an enormous crowd of Parisians assem- bled and cheered when he took his de- parture. Booker Washington says that the education of the negro at Tuskegee is begun with a toothbrush, and now there is a loud demand for bathtubs down at Yale. Mr, Sully and his friends, with est! mated profits of $5,000,000 made in cornering cotton, can now afford to take a tour through the South and see how cotton grows. Five years’ total abstinence is said to be required as a permanen* cure for the drink habit, and as John L. Sullivan once went through five hours of it he has hopes. A New York exchange states that Molineux hasn’t spoken to his wife since his acquittal, but there is no evidence of Mrs. Molineux having en- tered any complaint. Possibly Bonilla was not elected president of Honduras, but he has one of his opponents in jail and the other on the run in Nicaragua, and things seem to be coming his way. The people of this country sym- pathize with that smuggled in Chinese leper, Dong Gong, in his affliction; but the main thing is to get his Dong Gong carcass back to China as soon as possible, { Whenever a woman finds that. she can make a man utterly, hopelessly miserable she is pretty sure he loves her and that she can. make him very happy. Women have lots of sense. Can’t fool ’em! A resident of Gotham has petiticned the board of aldermen to pass a reso- lution forbidding a man from kissing his wife on Sunday. Does this man realize that he has been sidetracked for about a century? The next day feelings of the gentle- men who accompany the president on his western horseback rides, although they hadn’t mounted a horse before in many years, may be far better im- agined than described. A man who could swiftly solve the most difficult mathematical problems and easily duplicate the feats per- formed by lightning calculators has just died in a New Jersey asylum. Genius and insanity again. One of the late Millionaire Swift’s maxims was: “Business, religion and pleasure of the right kind should be the only things in life for any man.” All right except, perhaps, as to the order in which they are enumerated. Not only did Andrew Carnegie tell @ lot of funny stories at the annual dinner of the iron and stee] institute fn London, but the renorts of “peals of laughter” indicnte tnat those pres- ent saw the point the same night, A movement has been started in France to decrease the infantile death rate so'as “to provide the requisite number of recruits for the army.” By the way, which is the better way, to let a baby die while in swaddling clothes or to have it grow up to be what? ' ; , Washington Notes. Consul General Bellows at Yokoha- na cables the department of state shat plague exists there. United States Consul Goodnow at Shanghai writes the state department that He Wong Kah leaves Shanghai on Tune 3 to make arrangements for the Chinese exhibits at the world’s fair to re held in St. Louis. Manila newspapers contain an inter- esting account of an expedition that nas gone into Mindoro in search of a white colony that has gone into Min- joro in search of a white colony which t has long been claimed lives in the interior of the island. The state department has issued a warrant for the surrender to the Bré~ ish authorities of Minna Williams, alias May Parker, charged with lar- zeny and jewels valued at £5,000 in Lendon, and now held under commit- vent by Commissioner Shields in New York. Personal Mention. Capt. C. Webster Wilson, a retired naval officer, died at Baltimore. Dur- ing the Civil war Capt. Wilson com- manded a vessel in Admiral Farra- gut’s fleet in Mobile bay. Col. Charles G. Burr, a prominent at- terney, died at Columbus, Ohio, aged fifty-five years. His death ir directly traceable to the bite of an insect which caused blood poisoning. James L. Evans died at Noblesville, Ind., aged seventy-eight years. In 1874 he was elected to congress by the Republicans of his district and served three terms. He served two terms later. Maj. E. B. Kirk, retired army officer, is dead at his home at Toledo, Ohio, after an illness of several weeks. The deceased served throughout the Civil war and had a brilliant record in the tegular army. Casualties. Two. Icelandic fishermen named Johnson and Thorkenson were drown- 2d in Lake Manitoba, near Winnipeg. A storm blew down a large section of the elm tree in front of the old Lincoln homestead and that interest- ing relic is practically ruined. A building in Brooklyn occupied by Frank Jenner & Co., manufacturers of fireproof flooring, and eight other buildings, chiefly apartment houses, were destroyed by fire. The locs is $100,000. Mrs. Thomas Countess of Meridian- ville, near Huntsville, Ala. and a 3ervant, Margaret Morris, were struck by lightning during a storm and in- stantly killed. Two daughters nar- towly escaped death. The boiler plate mills of the Central fron and Steel company at Harrisburg, Pa., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $200,000 and throwing a large number of men out of work. The loss is fully covered by insurance. The Seaboard Air Line shops at Norfolk, Va., were destrayed by fire with a loss of $1,000,000. One man was almost cremated while fighting the flames. The engines and cars in the shops and roundhouse and almost all the buildings were consumed. President -T. C. Power of the Mon- tana state board of sheep commission- ers fixes the total number of shéep lost in the recent blizzard at 900,000. Ur to the time of the storm 600,000 had been frozen in the snow of the previous blizzards, making a grand to- tal of 1,500,000 since December. At an average of $2.50, this means a mon- etary loss of $3,750,000. Notes From Abroad. Prince Henry of Prussia is visiting ‘ing Alfonso and the Spanish court. The Bolivians were routed at Ma- naos April 24, and since then hostili- ties have been suspended by mutual agreement. A motorcycle swerved into a crowd of people at Bristol, England, two of whom were killed and many others se- ricusly injured. Pedro Diaz has been sentenced to hang at San Juan, P. R., for a murder committed by him during the riots on Aug. 26, 1902. The emperor has given permission to Princess Louise of Tuscany to re- side in Austria provided she seeks se- clusion in a convent. Dr. Pere of Berlin advocates bee stings as a cure for rheumatism, claim- ing to have tested their efficacy suc- cessfully in 500 cases. United States Minister Bowen was received by President Castro and cab- iret on his arrival at La Guaira. He declined a public reception. The theatrical profession of Great Britain will oppose the parliamentary bill prohibiting the appearance of chil- dren under fourteen years of age. The police allowed car strikers to hold a parade at Montreal and the pa- raders held up several cars, assaulted the motorman, and two motormen are | in the hospital seriously injured. M. Capazza, a Belgian aeranaut, Is bvilding an airship in which he will attempt to cross the Atlantic from Lis- bon to Buenos Ayres in the spring of 1904. M. Elisee Reclus, the famous French geoprapher, and others will ac- company him. Theodore Rickman, the baritone singer, is dead at Marback sanatarium az Lake Constance, Baden. Since his return from the United States he had been a member of the Vienna court opera company and also one of the principal artists at Beyreuth. Ex-Senator Hechelin, who is now re- siding at Stockholm, has been served with an order from General Count Bob- |. rikoff, governor of Finland, forbidding him to return to Finland. Hon. Mrs. George Keppel discovered two burglars in her apartments in Lon- don, just ready to leave with $5,000 worth of jewelry, and succeeded in de- taining them until the arrival of the pelice. It is rumored that the Standard Oil company has gradually bought the con- trolling interest in the Russian petro- leum and liquid fuel company with tte view of getting a footing in the Baku oil district. M. Fournier, the correspondent at Paris, of the London Pall Mall Gazette, has received a windfall of £1,500,000, bequeathed to him by an acquaintance of the name of Barker, an Austrailian, who has just died. Heine, the cartoonist, will be prose- cuted as the chief author of a printed picture representing Chancellor von Buelow instructing Baron Speck von Sternburg in the act of servile adula- tior of the Stars and Stripes. Sin and Sinners. C. J. St. John, president of the Colo- rado Springs city council, is accused of taking $300 for his vote on a franchise. I. Simms, arrested for the murder of Joseph Dabney, colored, actually died of fear at the county jail hospital, Chi- cago. Joseph Killoran, the noted burglar and bank sharp, has been taken to Springfield, Ill., to stand trial for post- office robbery. Col. Bob Ammon has been arrested in New York for receiving $30,500 from “Get Rich” Miller, knowing it to have been fraudulently obtained. Thomas H. Dickinson, traveling pas- senger agent for the Santa Fe road, ccemmitted suicide at his home in Los Angeles by shooting himself through the head. Charles Grannis shot Mrs. Della May Ryhal at Cascade Park, Newcas- tle, Pa., and then shot himseif. Neither can live. Unrequited affec- tior is the alleged cause. Amos Leedy, aged sixty years, post- master at Leedy, Okla., pleaded guilty to detaining valuable letters in land ecntest cases and on account of his age was let off with a fine. Fred Letty, a laborer, and his wife were found in their home at Independ- ence, Mo., with their throats cut. The weman was dead and Letty was dying. A bloody razor lay on the floor. An unknown man sitting in an open car crossing Brooklyn bridge, New York, suddenly alighted when the car was in the middle of the center span, jumped into the river and was drowned. In a family quarrel at Marion, Ind., L. D. Baldwin, president of the Bald- win Gas and Oil company, stabbed his stepson, his stepdaughter and his wife. He then fled from the house and dis- appeared. C. A. Belch, son of A. J. Belch of ‘Winnipeg, Man., and a member of the Canadian contingent in the South Af- rican campaign, has been drowned in a creek in Log Island City. It is con- sidered a case of suicide. An old feud, arising from the elope- ment of a man-named Stewart with a Miss Coughlen, culminated in a street duel at Meridian, Kan., in which two of the Coughlens were killed, a third badly cut, and three of the Stewarts seriously injured. Ald. Donohue of Wilkesbarre, famous for thrashing wife-beaters brought before him, was arrested for assaulting his own wife, carried dis- gracefully to the station with fewer clothes than modesty. requires, and later held under $300 bonds to appear tefore the grand jury. General. Thomas F. Dewar, the noted whisky gauger, was found dead in his bed at Cincinnati from asthma. It is probable that the crown prince of Sweden will head the Swedish werld’s fair commission at St. Louis. The liabilities of Porter Bros. of Chi- cago are placed at something above $1,000,000, with assets considerably over $1,500,000. The firm expects to resume. Savings deposits in Chicago banks lave passed the $100,000,000 mark. In the past year they have increased up- ward of $22,000,000, or more than 26 per cent. s William J. H. Bohannan, ex-mayor of Stamford, Conn., and now practicing alw in New York, thrashed Irwin Wood, a commuter, because Wood had insult. ed a woman. Jim Jeffords of San Francisco and George Feeley of Sioux City, heavy- weights, met for a twenty-round con- test at Savannah, Ga. In the third round Feeley went down under a left on the jaw and took a count of six. As he came up, groggy, Jeffords sent an- other to the same spot and Feeley was counted out. Dr. Samuel A. Matthews of Chicago has discovered that a salt solution will eure lockjaw. Other stubborn aii’ ments for which it is said to be a complete or partial remedy are ure mia, locomotor ataxia and morphine peisening. The Nebraska Republican state cen- tral committee has selected Lincoln, Aug. 18, as the place and time for holding the state convention. A reso- lution was adopted indorsing the ad- ministration of President Roosevelt and pledging him the support of the party of Nebraska. ~ i j; could be seen from Kansas City, Kan., SEES SOME HOPE KANSAS CITY PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THE PROMISE OF’ BET- = TER THINGS. GREATEST DANGER IS PAST RAIN CEASES, THE SUN COMES OUT AND THE WATERS BE- GIN TO RECEDE. IMPROVEMENT ON EVERY SIDE CITY ESCAPES BY NARROW MAR- GIN VERY SERIOUS SHORT- AGE OF FOOD. Kansas City, June 3.—Blue sky was visible about Kansas City yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock, the rains hav- ing ended. The sun was visible for the first time in a week, and it is thought the greatest’ dangers of the flood are past. -The waters of the Kaw river have fallen eight inches and are steadily de- clining at the rate of about one-half- inch an hour: In the Missouri the high stage of 35 feet is still main- tained, but this is due to the flood which has been coming down the Mis- souri proper, and has been able to off- set the fall in the Kaw. It is the waters of the latter stream, however, that has caused all the damage in this city and in Kansas City, Kan., and with it at a normal stage Kansas City will shortly resume normal conditions. Kansas City has by a narrow margin escaped a Serious Shortage in Food, has been utterly helpless lately to avoid its consequences; it has suffered millions of dollars of damage to prop- erty and sustained a loss in life that in all probability never will he ac- curately measured, and now it is commencing to believe in the promise of better things. The situation shows improvement on almost every side; the waters are falling, the water works will resume operations to-day; the gas has been turned into the mains once more---and while there is no superabundance of food, there is no immediate danger of a@ serious shortage. The city has cared for her own in royal fashion and is abundantly able to do so still, but there is not sufficient food on hand to permit the relief committees and the municipal officers to feel easy Over the Outlook. Provisions from the outside will be cordially welcomed. The transporta- tion facilities at the present time are so limited that not much freight can be brought in at a time, and there is danger that the demand may overrun the supply unless the stock on hand is speedily replenished from outside. Two men lost their lives yesterday while endeavoring to save others. There is very little probability of much more financial damage than has already been done. ‘There have been some reports of the settling of vari- ous large buildings in the wholesale district, but they appear to have set- tled in a remarkably even manner, and an expert examination will be required to prove that they are in a dangerous condition. _ The close of another day brought a night of wretchedness to the thou- sands of refugees at Kansas City, Kan. Without water, save for urgent needs, without beds, the upper part of the town unable to house in any com- fort the Horde of Refugees, the night bid fair to be merely a repe- tition of others since the onslaught of ' the flood. The wretchedness, howev- | er, was more mental than physical, al- | though the discomforts due to herding large bodies of people in buildings not built for the purpose, and trying to | feed an army without a commissary department, are many. People on buildings in Argentine and a number of rescues were effected. Nothing came to light yesterday ta base even an approximate number of the victims of the flood. Bodies were seen floating yesterday, but even this is valueless, as they may have floated down the Kaw from Topeka, and it is not at all certain that observers have not in some instances mistaken partly submerged wreckage for-bodies. Passenger Train Is Lost. The Journal says: Chicago, Buriing- ton & Quincy passenger train No. 3, from Chicago to Kansas City, due here at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, has been lost track of. It is not deemed possible, nor the thought entertained by the railroad officials, that the train has run into the flood. Nevertheless, General Agent Harmon was notified yesterday from the Chicago offices of the extraordinary occurrence and Supt, Mulhern was urged. to exercise every possible effort to locate the missing train and relieve its passen- gers at all cost and hazard. SIXTY THOUSAND MEN IDLE. Strike of Textile Workers in Pennsyl- vania Is Spreading. Philadelphia, June 3. — The strike of textile workers is virtually com- plete. Of the 550 plants which have not granted the demand for a fifty- five-hour week, there are not half a dozen in operation, and these are working short-handed. In the Ken- sington district, where are located the majority of the mills, the number of idle hands is said to be more than 60- 600. ‘ rh LINCOLN’S REAL ASSASSIN. He is Identified as a Recent Suicide in Oklahoma. ° Enid, Okla., June 3.—Junius Brutus Booth, the actor ana nephew of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Lincoln, has ideutified the body of the mysterious suicide, George, at this place, as his uncle. Among the dead man’s papers was a letter addressed to K. L. Bates, Memphis, Tenn., which was forwarded to Bates, who says he was Booth’s confidential agent forty years. He came here, identified the body as that of Booth, and then went East, where he says Junius Brutus Booth, Joseph Jefferson and Clara Morris also identi- fied it from pictures and physical pe- culiarities. He had the body em- balmed and will have it buried. Bates says Booth escaped from Garret plan- tation disguised as a negro, went to Kentucky, later to Texas and other parts of the country, where he, Bates, kept track of him. Bates had all of Booth’s letters and papers. Booth, under the name of E L. George, com- mitted suicide here three months ago. TORNADO’S AWFUL WORK. Death List at Gainesville May Exceed One Hundred. Gainesville, Ga., June 3.—The 6,000 inhabitants of this city have just be- gun to realize the extent of the appall- ing disaster of Monday. It now seems certain that the death list will not be much short of 100; perhaps somewhat over 100, considering the number of dangerously wounded whose chance for recovery cannot now be fortold. The story of the work of destruction has already been told. ll that re- mains is an accurate list of the dead. Figuring from all available sources and giving credence to those reports which are believed to be trustworthy, this is a summary of the tornado in Gainesville and its environments: One hundred xilled; 150 injured, of whom 20 probably will die; 800 homeless, their residences having been wiped out of existence; property loss of about half a million dollars, none cf which was covered by storm insur- ance. PLOT TO ASSASSINATE. Circuit Attorney Folk Is to Be Mur- dered by Unknown Men. St. Louis, June 3.—A detail of de- tectives is scouring the city for four men who have entered into a conspir- acy to assassinate Circuit Attorney Joseph W. Folk for $5,000. The police not only are satisfied that such a plot has been made, but that an attempt has been made to carry it into effect. Sunday night four men, whose identity has not been established, entered the French restaurant owned by Theodore Vincent, and there discussed their plans. According to Vincent, who overheard the conversation, they were to receive $5,000 for putting the cir- cuit attorney out of the way. The men are thought by the police to have been friends of the boodlers whom Folk prosecuted and sent to the peni* tentiary the past year. PEACE IN LABORDOM. Situation in Chicago Is Greatly Im- proved. Chicago, June 3. — Signs of peace yesterday crept into the Chicago labor situation from all sides, where for three months strikes and lock-outs had been increasing to a point more widespread and foreboding than at any time in years. Two more railroads signed contracts with their freight handlers, making four that have agreed to grant their employes a 4 per cent increase, thus averting a strike. Laundry owners and employes at 2 conference agreed on terms and the laundries will resume operations on Thursday. TONGUELESS MAN TALKS. Sailor Astonishes Physician Who Op- erated on Him. New York, June 3. — William An- drews, a sailor, whose tongue and tonsils were removed at the city hos- pital during an operation for cancer, can still talk. Even a portion of the larynx was clipped off. A small hole was left in the throat just above the larynx, so that the patient vould breathe. While a physician was re- newing the dressing the patient sur- prised him by speaking indistinctly. He continues to talk whenever the dressing is removed, but the doctors say he will die within a year, owing to the spread of the cancerous affec- tion. CHANGE OF VENUE. Jett and White Will Not Be Tried at Jackson, Jackson, Ky., June 3.—A change of venue has been granted in Jett and White’s cases to Morgan county be- fore Judge Kenner, and the trial set for June 28. Commonwealth Attorney Byrd introduced the motion to change trial of White and Jett for the murder of James Marcum and in the case of Jett for the murder of James Cock- rell to another judicial district on the ground that there is such a state of lawlessness existing in Breathitt county that a fair trial cannot be had in this district. FISHERMEN’S PARADISE. Buffalo Fish Are Being Hauled Away by the Wagon Load. Sioux City, Iowa, June 3.—Huge buf- falo fish by the thousands are »eiug taken from the overflowed waters of Crystal lake, just across the Missouri river in Nebraska. Many farmers:re- siding in the vicinity of the lake and many Sioux City people are taking ad- vantage of the flooded condition to get a lot of fine sport as well as all the fish they cdn handle. Fish by the wagon loads are being taken away. si BAILEY ASKS AID KANSAS GOVERNOR SEEKS HELP 1 FOR THE FLOOD SsuUF- FERERS. KNOWN DEAD IS FORTY-EIGHT RIVER HAS FALLEN THREE FEET AND IS RAPIDLY RE- CEDING. DISTRESS WILL BE VERY GREAT DEPUTIES GIVEN ORDERS TO SHOOT LOOTERS WHEREV- ER FOUND. Topeka, Kan., June 3.—The flood sit- uation at Topeka can be briefly sum- marized thus: Known dead, 48. River has fallen three feet and is now receding at the rate of two inches an hour. Distress will be great among the refugees. Goy. Bailey has issued a proclama- tion calling for aid for flood sufferers of the state. Fifty deputy sheriffs, armed with Winchesters, go to North Topeka to protect property with orders to shoot looters whenever they are caught stealing. iy Gov. Bailey’s proclamation calling for outside aid was decided upon at a mass meeting yesterday afternoon, The plan is to make Topeka headquar- ters, and to Distribute the Aid from here to the other parts of the state. There will be, in addition to this general appeal, an appeal to fra- ternal organizations, and meetings in North Topeka and the South side were held yesterday to arrange for the pro- tection of property. Immediately after the meeting a large number of armed men left in boats for the North side, where they will guard property, and their orders are to shoot. The river is three feet below high water mark. The water has receded on Kansas ave- nue to the platform of the Rock Island depot, a distance of twenty-five feet. It is the opinion of experts that the river wili go down rapidly from now on. The Blue, the Republican and the Solomon have spent their force and the volume of water spread over the Kaw bottom will hunt its channel quickly. Situation Is Better. The situation in the flood-stricken districts is better than it has yet been for the reason that fewer people are marooned in trees and on islands. Nobody is now clinging to trees. Those clinging were either rescued or dropped into the river. Not to exceed 300 people are now in North Topeka. The work of rescuing them was hegun at an early hour yesterday and it is be- lieved few are left in the flooded town. There is no way of getting at the amount of damage in Topeka and vi- cinity. It may reach $2,000,000. It may go beyond that aud it may be much less. Crops in the Topeka bottoms are destroyed. This means an enor- mous loss to farmers. Gov. Bailey will communicate with the federal authori- ties and no doubt he will be able to secure the use of tents needed. ST. LOUIS IS THREATENED. Danger Point Is Passed and Water is Still Rising. St. Louis, June 3.—TLirty feet—the danger point—was reached yesterday. and passed by the flood that is coming down the Mississippi .river. The river continues to rise rapidly and a point considerably higher than 34 feet, which Weather Forecaster Brodie nad predicted, will be reached by Thursday or Friday will be an accomplished fact. The crest of the flood from the Missouri river is yet to come, and when it shall reach and find augmenta- sippi river some loss of life is feared and destruction of property must en- sue. FIGHT FOR FITZ. Efforts to Match Lanky Bob With Gardner. New York, June 3.—Efforts are un- der way to bind a match between Bob Fitzsimmons and George Gardner, and from present indications it looks as if the contest will be arranged. Bruce L. Baldwin, representing the Sioux Falls, S. D., Athletic club, who is in Chicago, has offered a purse of $10,000 and 10 per cent of the gross receipts to the men. John Brown Is Dead. Helena, Mont., June 3—John Brown, prospector and woodsman, living in this vicinity for many years, coni- mitted suicide last night by swallow- ing morphine in a restaurant. He had no relatives. Indicted for Bribery. Quincy, Il., June 3. — Ald, J. Fred ‘rellbuscher was yesterday indicted on two charges of offering and accepting bribes if connection with the passage of the competitive telephone franchise. Three others have been indicted. Passenger Train Wrecked. Peoria, Ill, June 3. — Rock Island passenger train was wrecked near Alta, fifteen miles from .here, last night. John Snyder, a passenger, of Henry, 011, was fatally injured and sev- eral others seriously injured. _ tion in the high water of the Missis- - we ed —_}—— i T | . ‘ ‘ | eee —-, + —__