Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 20, 1903, Page 2

“Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. MINNESOTA. * In the war on the mosquito benevo- lent assimilation is not good enough. GRAND RAPIDS, - Does the possession of great ‘wealth predispose its possessor to appendici- tis? The “Please Shut the Door” sign can now be laid away to gather dust till fall. In the case of the high-speed auto- mobile race prejudice is for once com- mendable. The Humberts are now paying for the cake they ate several years ago ‘with such gusto. Sir Thomas Lipton has temporarily postponed consideration as to where he will keep that cup. Evidently the Russian censors have not yet succeeded in corking up Count Tolstoi and Maxim Gorky. No girl should be satisfied now un- less she is assured by her young man she is worth her weight in radium. The vegetarians are going ‘to found | a colony in Arkansas. How can such a colony expect to make ends ‘meat? A yackt race without ‘a ‘breeze is like a kiss without a mustache, which is proverbially like «an egg without salt. tee Baa a Housewives who ‘have only an eyen dozen silver spoons are always super- , Stitions about having thirteen at table. aren The man who talks in his sleep has at least the happiness of knowing that he does not hear all the Se, he utters. The women who have to wear old hats are quite willing to heed the ministerial request to take them off in church, Thirteen hundred slot machines were burned by the police authorities in Philadelphia the other evening. No insurance. Persons who send whisky by ex- press ought to have more regard for the express agents than to inject ar- senic into the bottles. Baron de Rothschild has been sen- tenced to one day in jail for fast auto- mobiling. The novelty of the thing will probably be really enjoyable to him. A man found a pocketbook and re- turned it to the owner, who accused him of taking $100 out of it. This in- cident teaches that virtue is its own reward. John Bull’s recent merger of 100,000 square miles in northern Nigeria was accomplished with a smoothness and celerity that must have made Mr. Mor- gan almost envious. that Citizen George Francis Train is going to let a little thing like smallpox interfere with his psychic‘ machinery very long. The Federation of Musicians, in session at Indianapolis, voted to abol- ish the color line. Now if they would only abolish the trombone solo- ist all would be forgiven. A million is to be paid for a patert which will make it impossible to refill the bottle to which the patent is ap- pHed. There would be short shrift for the inventor in Kentucky. The chambermaid who secured noto- riety by refusing to make up Dr. Washington’s bed has been robbed. Evidently this young woman is pre- paring to go on the stage. If you could pick the winners of horse races, or knew just which stocks were going up and which were going down, wouldn't you keep the information and get rich quick your- self? ‘4ne dropping of Greek at Yale as a sity an easier proposition for the young man who wants the Yale label on} social rather than educational grounds. Foxhall Keene was not hurt in that French automobile race because he was unable to start, Mr. Keene miss- ed a glorious chance to have his col- larbone broken in the interests of gentlemanly sport. A college professor says that “a fiower pot and a little grass would prevent many a divorce.” Perhaps he was afraid to add that, in some cases, these articles should be the top dress- ing of six feet of sod. “What is the main object of life?” asks Rev. Thomas B. Gregory, and then he adds: “The answer is close at hand. The main object of life is to ne Jove the good and to serve it forever.” ‘We move to amend by changing “it” to “her.” Bi Having survived the attacks of Ig: Americans will decline to believe | required study will make that ‘uuniver- | From the Capital. Rev. T. T. Harty of St. Louis has been appointed by ‘the pope as bishop of Manila. The dock trial of the new revenue cutter Mackinack, built for the Great Lekes service, was a success. The Philippines census is progress- ing, and reports thus far réceived in- dicate a Christian population of 7,000,- 00. 4 Stanford Newel, at present Ameri- can minister to The Netherlands, has also been made minister to Luxem- burg. Judge Henry C. Caldwell of the United States circuit court, retires yn- der the age limit. His home is at Little Rock. There are indications that the long- continued campaign of the letf€r car- riers for an increase in their pay will be renewed at the next session. John D, Jackson, at present Ameri- can minister to Greece, Roumania and Servia, has also been designated Amer- ican diplomatic agent to Bulgaria. Wayne McVeagh will represent only the United States and Venezuela in The Hague arbitration, and not all the non-blockading nations which have claims to present. The Spanish government is serious- ly concerned over the sale at auction of the Spanish copper coins remaining in the Philippines. This is part of the Philippine currency scheme. The saloons have been closed at Bre- merton, Wash., and it is probable that several of the ships of the Pacific squadron now at San Francisco will go there for docking and repairs. E. W. Stanton, acting president of the Iowa agricultural college, conferred upon Frank B. Armstrong, assistant secretary of the treasury, the honorary degree of master of philosophy. William Nelson Cromwell, general counsel of the Panama Canal com- pany, states that while the debate may be prolonged, the Colombian congress will finally ratify the canal treaty. Secretary Root has agreed upon the general officers who are to be mtm- bers of the general staff of the army, but owing to the absence of Gen. Young he will not make the announcement until next week. It has been stated that the general officers will be Gen. Young, Gen. Corbin and Gen. Bliss. Casualties. | Miss Clara H. Nichols, twenty-nine years of age, society editor of Chi- cago Tribune, was crushed to death in one of the elevators in the Tribune | building. While the new monitor Nevada was at target practice, the shock of the explosion of one of the big guns tore up the turret, inflicting considerable damage. In trying to frighten his brothers, | Eugene and Albert, with a gun, at Co- shocton, Ohio, James Smith, fourteen years of age, killed the latter outright and fatally wounded Eugene. The Breakers, the smalier of the two largest hotels at Palm Beach, Fla., the power house, Gory block of stores, the Casino south of the hotel, and one large cottage burned; loss, $250,000. The locomotive and a car of fisa at- tached to the east-bound express went through a trestle east of Rat Portage, taking Engineer W. Johnson and W. Knott, his fireman, to watery graves. John W. Cropp of Compton, Miun., is in the hospital at Batavia, N. Y., fatally injured. He either jumped or fell from a train on the West Shore railroad in front of a passing train. His skull was fractured. Accompanied by his brother, Kopp was on his way to Germany on a visit. From Other Shores. Four Bulgarians convicted of par- ticipation in the dynamite outrages at Saloniki, have been condemned to death. The French punitive expedition bombarded Figuig, the stronghold of the rebellious tribesmen. The native loss was heavy. There have been ten cases of the | plague at Lima, Peru, believed to have | been imported by cargoes of rice and wheat from Australia and India. The kaiser and the czar will visit Vienna simultaneously at the begin- ning of September. The czar will continue to Rome by way of, Trieste. The Venezuelan goyernment has re- joceupied San Felix on the Orinoco river, This is the first step of the march of the government troops to ‘Ciudad Bolivar. Colonial Minister Doumergue of France has received a dispatch that Mont Pelee is again active. For sev- eral days the volcano has been emit- ting flames and clouds of vapor. It is officially announced that the Bolivian government has signed a treaty with Chile the basis being a ces- sion of the Bolivian coast lands, now \under the virtual control of Chile, in return for a pecuniary compensation. The Panama municipal council has adopted a resolution in favor of peti- tioning congress to ratify the Hay- Herran canal treaty, and asking the municipalities of the other districts in the department to send a similar peli- tion. The French naval board has con- demned the system of superimposed i natius Donnelly, the probability is that % the shade of Mr. William Shakespeare will not be perceptibly disturbed by the air from the Chicago stockyards jdlown at it through the medium of ‘pr. Watt. FETA H DEFECTIVE PAGE turrets in warships because in an ex- periment three out of four sheep which had been placed {n the lower turret to represent men were killed after ten shots had been ‘fired. Crimes and Criminals. Jessie Thorson of Topeka has been refused a new trial for the murder of Clara Wiley. Mrs. Robert Secter was chloro- formed and robbed at Seattle of about $1,000 in her apartments. The steamship Park City was fired on by several men on the way to Bowling, Green, Ky. No cause is known. Samuel Mitchell, white, who led the mob who lynched Thomas Gilyard, a negro, at Joplin, Mo., was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. John Dennis, a negro, was lynched by a mob of 200 men at Greenville, Miss. The negro attempted an assault on a well-known young woman. Because he locked up cattle belong- ing to his neighbor for trampling on his property, John Felkman of Wau- kegan, Ill., was terribly beaten. His assailants have been arrested. After sending Isaac Wormer, a Chi- cago teamster, to jail for arson and murder, Arthur Brensinger, a bell boy of Battle Creek, startled the police by declaring his testimony false. W. T. Wyatt, a colored school teach- er, was lynched at Belleville, Ill., for shooting County School Superintend- ent Charles Hertel, who had refused to renew his teaching certificate. A ten-yearold son of Michael Hart, defended his parents’ property in their absence with a double-barreled shot- gun and fatally wounded an Italian boy who was ransacking the house. In a street duel at Eagle Pass., Tex., both City Marshal Kinard and W. L. McDow were fatally shot. Before death McDow remarked, “We have killed each other, but we are now friends.” George Washington, a colored wait- er, was struck on the head and his skull fractured by Michael Connaugh- ton, a saloonkeeper, because he spoke to a little white girl. The negro will probably die. Dan Hinds, colored, aged eightcen years, was caught and a rope thrown about his neck at Madison, Ind., by young men employed at Melish’s but- ton factory, for an attempted assault on a white girl named Humphreys. The sheriff secured the prisoner, how- ever, and held him for the grand jury investigation. John Ward, a telegraph lineman, who had made preparations to elope with the wife of aWynee business man, was taken from, a train by whitecap- pers and unmercifully whipped with leather straps. A traveling salesman named Thomas, who attempted ito aid Ward, was given a similar dose. ae Otherwise. Baron Speck von Sternburg and fam- ily will summer at Governor’s Island. Gov. Yates of Illinois has declared himself a candidate for renomination and re-election as governor in 1904. Settlements have been signed at Chicago with striking cooks, daiters, laundry employes and electricians. Prominent society befles now prom- enade the streets of New York, hat- less, and wearing their hair if Jong braids. The first rain for nearly two months fell in the vicinity of Utica, N. Y., re- cently. It came in time to save the major portion of the crops. Rey. Charles H. Thompson, pas tor of the African Methodist church at Belleville, Ul., is receiving letters warning him to leave town on penalty of personal injury. In his address before the convention of Progressive Friends in Philadel- phia, William Lloyd Garrison said that “special privilege is the only foe that labor has to dread.” Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), Mrs. Clemens and two daughters, wii! sail in September for Italy. It is probable that they will make their home there in the future. While indorsing a check to pay the premium on a life insurance policy $10,000 which he had just taken out, J. S. Farrier dropped dead in the Farley bank at Montgomery, Ala. Breathitt county, the scene of Ken- tucky feuds, will be invaded by a band of twenty-five preachers, who will spend the summer in trying to exter- minate the feudal feeling. Judge Paul J. Corby of La Porte, Ind., after a thirty-year fight, is award- ed a pension. He deserted tiie Confeder- ate army in 1863 and afterward served with distinction in the Union ranks. Dr. Hendricks’ wife has sued Laura Biggar, the actress for $1,000,000 for alienation of the doctor’s affections. She also sues the doctor for limited divorce, alimony and counsel fees, Count Charles Fitz de Morganstein, who planned to change waier into oil at 1 cent per gallon, and who was tie mainstay of the billion dollar oil and gas company which was to be a rival of the Standard Oil and Gas trust, has mysteriously disappeared in New York. Mrs. Jane Douglas Champlin, from whom her husband is seeking divorce at Chicago, has asked the court for $1,000 for defense and $100 a month temporary alimony. A millionaire New York yachtsman will be named by Mr. Champlin as co-respondent. John W. Gates, associated with Col. Isaac Elwood, “Tin Plate” Reed and a few other millionaires, has engi- neered a corner in July corn at Chi- cago. Reports are that the Gates crowd are long 20,000,000 bushels of the July option. The profits ready to pocket are estimated at $500,000. ao iy ASSASSINATED MILITARY REVOLUTION OVER: THROWS REIGNING DYNASTY. OF SERVIA. MARAGEORGEVICH IS PROCLAIMED THE KING ALEXANDER, DRAGA AND SEV: ERAL MINISTERS ARE SLAIN. CHIEF CONSPIRATORS ALL MEN OF HIGH RANK PEOPLE GREET THE NEWS WITH SHOUTS AND GREAT RE- JOICING. — Belgrade, June 13.—The assassina- tion of King Alexander and Queen Draga, the latter’s two brothers, the Servian premier, minister of war and former minister of war, perpetrated in the dark hours of Thursday morning by a band of officers, and the procia- mation by the army of Prince Peter Karageorgevitch, the pretender to the throne, as king of Servia, has appar- ently, it may be said, now that thirty- six hours have passed, been accepted by the capital and the Servian people without a murmur. The meeting of the skupschtina on Monday next is now looked forward to to confirm the proclamation as king of Prince Kara- georgevitch and to regularize the new situation. The only new element in the situ- ation is a feeling among the intelligent classes in favor of the abolition of a Servian monarchy altogether and the creation of a republic, and this senti- ment is shared by at least one mem- beer of the provisional government. Differences of Opinion on this point developed yesterday at a meeting of the cabinet when the new foreign nister, Ljubnir Kalievics, expressed himself for'the estabiisa- ment of a republican form of govern- ment. The majority of the ministers, however, declared themselves in favor of a new king in Prince Karageorge- viteh. They strengthened their declaration by the strong argument that it was certain that Austria and Russia would not countenance the cre- ation of a republic. This is the view generally shared by politicians. The remains of the ill-fated king and queen were buried almost stealth- ily Thursday night in the chapel of St. Mark, where tts members of the Obrenovitch family are interred. The government has laid claim to the possessions of the late ‘monarch. The following is a narrative of the revolution given by men who took an active part in it: Story of the Revolution. Army officers to the number of nine- ty having formed a project of a revolt, among them being delegates from al- most every garrison in Servia and the majority of the cfficers of the Sixth regiment, Col. Mitschitsch invited his comrades on Wednesday evening at 11 o'clock to meet in the Kalimagden garden, and there the immediate car- rying out of the intended deed was or- ganized. At 1:40 a. m. the officers in eight groups went to the konak, the royal palace. Each had a cue and especial directions regarding his part in the revolution. In the konak palace itself the revolutionaries had two important partisans in the king’s bodyguard— Col. Alexander Maschin, Queen Draga’s cousin (not brother-in-law), and the king’s personal adjutant, Lieut. Naumovics. Two officers of the high military academy appeared at the appointed hour, 2 a. m., at the gate of the konak, where the king’s adjutant, Panajotovic, who was In the Conspiracy, handed them the keys to the garden gate, which is always kept locked. First stepping before the guard at the konak, one of the two officers called “throw down your arms.” a fight en- sued, with shots from both sides, in which several persons were wounded. The revolutionaries then entered without hindrance and reached the courtyard, where Lieut. Naumovich was awaiting. He opened the lock of the iron door leading to the front room on the first floor. By this it was seen that the konak was carefully closed and that danger was suspected. Hur- rying upstairs, the revolting officers at- tracted the attention of the palace at- tendants and the royal couple by the noise of the shooting. Lieut. Lavar Petrovitch, alarmed by the unwonted hubbub, hurried forward with a drawn revolver in one hand and in the other @ sword. “What do you want?” he cried. “Show us where the king and queen are,” came the reply. “Back!” cried Petrovitch, and at the same moment a ball : Stretched Him on the Ground. The revolutionaries pressed forward, when suddenly the electric light gave out. All stood in darkness. In the greatest excitement and feeling their way, the revolutionaries climbed the stairs and got into the dark ante-room to the king’s apartment. Here they found candles and lit them. This seem- ingly slight circumstance was decisive to the’ whole action. Without light they could not have found the victims, who fied from their sleeping apart- ment through corridors and numerous rooms and might have escaped, but Part of the officers, with burning can, dies and others with pistols com menced to search for the royal couple. In breathless haste the conspirators ran through the rooms, opened ward: robes and looked behing curtains in vain. In the ante-room connecting with the corridor between the old and new konak, the sergeant of tne gendarmes was sleeping. Awakening, he stepped before the revolutionists, who felled him. At last Queen Draga’s servant was found. He wounded Capt..Dimitrevic severely but was spared because 26 was needed in finding The Fleeing Couple. Indeed, this servant showed the offi- cers where King Alexander and Queen Draga had gone to secrete themselves. When he had told this he was shot. -Col. Maschin now joined the revolu- tionists and led them back to the sleeping apartment, where the kijig’s adjutant tried to hinder the search. He shot at Lieut. Naumovics, who fell dead. The others killed the adjutant. After « long search a small door léad- ing into an alcove was discovered, but it was found locked. It was broken in with an axe, and here the royal couple were found in undress. ‘The older officers first intended forcing the king to abdicate, but the young officers were in no mood to be held back and shot at the royal couple. After the murder King Alexander's body was found entirely covered with blood. That of Queen Draga was badly torn by bullets. The report that the bodies were thrown out of the window into the garden is untrue. At 2:12 all was over. Col. Maschin issued from the gate of the konak, around which great crowds hed collected, and made a speech, saying: “We have now destroyed the dy- nasty of the Obrenovitch and have got rid of the, dishonorable woman wlio was the king’s evil spirit. Long live Servia.” The people responded: “Long live the army.” Buried at Midnight. Shortly after midnight the bodies of the dead king and queen were carried to their last resting place. It was a pitiful sight. All day long the victims were repcsing in rough coffins and had lain exposed to the gaze of those who had killed them and to the privileged curious. There have been unpleasant evidences of the public resentment against the late royal couple. Some persons even spat on the remains. Outside the palace a vast crowd awaited the removal, not only of the corpses of the king and queen, but of the bodies of all the other victims, which were similarly interred, being conveyed in hearses to the Belgrade cemetery. The burial services was brief. Not a single relative or fricnd of the deceased was present. The remains of the royal pair were interred in a chapel. Two wooden crosses alone de- noted the spot, marked “Alexander Obrenovics” and “Draginja Obreno- vies.” The other bodies lie outside in the cemetery in rough graves. New King’s Policy. Geneva, June 13. — Prince Peter Karageorgevitch, the newly proclaimed king of Servia, gave an interview yes- terday in which he repeated his di claimer of any complicity, direct or in- dtrect, in the assassination of King Alexander and Quen Draga. He ex- pressed his detestation of the crime and gave a brief outline of his own political tendencies. Replying to a series of questions, Prince Peter said: “You ask what will be my attitude when I am in possession of the crown. We will assume that I am called to the throne. I shall not fail to take inspira- tion from the admirable institutions of Switzerland, which I have learned to apprecizio highly. I 1m in favor of ab- solute liberty of ,ce.+. I hope to see Servia prosper under the constitution of 1901, which is liberal. “Regarding foreign relations, it has been alleged that I am systematicaily hostile to Austria. This is false. Maybe I am in special sympathy with Russia, to,which country I sent my son in the hope that he would take service there.” Troops March on Belgrade. London, June 13. — The correspond- ent of the Daily Express at Semlin, Servia, a short distance from Belgrade, says that contradictory rumors are ar- riving there from the capital. They are all verbal, as every telegram is censored. The only piece of news on which implicit reliance can be placed, because it comes. from a_ trusted source, is that the army is not unani- mous for Prince Peter Karageorge- vitch. The leaders of the troops in the Nisch district did not acquiesce in wie killing of the king, and there is much anxiety at army headquarters concern- ing the course the Southern troops are likely to adopt. The correspondent adds that a report is current, for which hhexdoes not vouch, that troops from nisch are marching on Belgrade for the purpose of driving out the ministry and proclaiming Prince “Mirko of Montenegro as king. Lucky Sarah Amelia. From numerous applicants the Car- diff town council has selected Sarah Amelia Roberts, a domestic servant, as the recipient of the\Bute marriage dowry. The fund for this dowry was left by the then marquis of Bute in 1897 to commemorate his silver wed- ding, and consists of £1,000, the year- ly proceeds of which are to be given to some poor girl or girls unable to get married for the lack of money. The’ recipient, who was left an orphan in infancy, will, after her marriage, _at- tend the town hall with her husband, to be reminded by the mayor of the origin of the dowry, and in accordance with the terms of the gift the mayor will read to them the first eleven verses of the second chapter of the | Gospel of St. John, descriptive of the marriage feast at Cana, where water was miraculously turned into wine. The dowry, about £40, will then be handed to the bride—London Chroni- cle. ‘eurred at the Heppner hotel. vault in the cemetery j BURYING THE DEAD BODIES OF FLOOD VICTIMS HASTI- , LY INTERRED TO PREVENT EPIDEMIC. DEATH UST WILL REACH 500 THREE HUNDRED BODIES FOUND AND THE WORK ONLY HALF-BEGUN. TOWN PRETTY WELL SEARCHED EVERY AVAILABLE MAN FROM SURROUNDING COUNTRY PUT TO WORK. Heppner, Or., June 17. — Willow creek, which on Sunday night wiped out more than half of this town. has shrunk to the size of a brook. About $500,000 worth of property has been destroyed at Heppner. Several thou- sand persons have arrived from out- sid@e places and an army of men and horses is sifting debris. Three hundred bodies have been found and there are men who say the work is only half be- gun. People are coming from all direc- tions in wagons and on horseback and the work of recovering bodies and burying the dead is proceeding as fast as possible. The work of inter- ment is carried on hurriedly, as it is feared that there will be an epidemic, and many of the bodies are buried in rude boxes. A force of seventy men is digging graves on the hillside. Prompt measures are being taken To Prevent a Plague. Heppner itself has now been pretty well searched, except in piles of debris, where it is thought great numbers of bodies will be found. Between Jone and Heppner there are great piles of debris, but the fluod passed so quickly that the roads have not been seriously damaged. The rail- road track, however, from Lexington on is badly torn up. Heavy steel rails were bent and twisted like corkscrews and the heavy timbers were splintered like matches. In Heppner itself ihe flood swept a clean path a mile long and two blocks wide through the town, following generally the course of Wil- low creek. Perhaps the greatest loss of life oc- This house Was Carried Away. It is supposed that there were about | fifty guests in this hotel, all of whom are reported to be lost. Around the depot the rising water left great heaps of driftwood piled higher than the roof of the’station, and the rescuing parties were forced to demolish these pyramids of timber in order to extricate the corpses. Un- doubiedly many of the bodies were carried by the rushing waters down the valley. No systematic effort has, as yet, been made to find the dead who are undoubtedly strewn along the canyon. every available man from a radius of sixty-five miles has been pressed into service at Heppner itself. Gangs of men are dt work clearing away the piles of debris, rocks and timbers which are piled in heaps in Heppner’s streets and taking out the corpses which are thus concealed. SAVED BY A HAIR. Colorado Burro Drags Eastley From the Jaws of Death. Denver, June 17. — Ralph Eastley, secretary of the National Civie feder- ation, was saved from being dashed to death over a precipice while scaling Pike’s Peak by grasping a burro’s tail. Seeing his perilous position, Bastley decided this was the only means which could hope to save his life and the burro carried him safely out of harm’s way. Eastley still retains in a neatly done up bundle the bunch of hair which he pulleed from the burro’s tail in the struggle. BELGIAN STEAMER CAPSIZES. Captain and Six Members of the Crew Are Drowned. Christiansand, June 17—The Belgian steamer Rubens, bound from Sunder- land, Eng., for Pillau, East Prussia, capsized and sank June 10. The cap- tain, mate and six men were drowned. Seven other members of the crew drifted in a small boat for twenty-two hours, during which time three of them died from exposure. The others were picked up. Convicted of Grand Larceny. New York, June 17—James McHugh, a driver for an express company, was convicted of grand larceny for steal- ing a package of jewelry valued at $10,000. The jewels have not been re- covered. Fugitives Are Surrounded. Glasgow, Mont., June 17—A_ report has been received .here from Sheriff Cosners’ party in pursuit of the es- caped murderers near the Missouri river bad lands, that the officers are certain that they have Hardee and Mc- Kinrley surrounded and will capture them within a day or two. Pope Is Improving. Rome, June 17. — Dr. Lapponi yes- terday visited the pope and changed his treatment. The doctor said that he found the pontiff in better health, » { ‘ deg | j— 4 ad cy ) i} ‘| | ( f nal i++ By} ‘ al ow, if : \a meee