Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 27, 1903, Page 2

} } } i t — a SI EE Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, AS + MINNESOTA, American flour barred from Brazili So much the worse for Brazil. Some of these western tornadoes are almost as deadly as automobile races, The man who tells all his troubles tc his friends soon has no friends left to tell them to. That New York man who lives with @-bullet in his brain should be able tc do some heavy thinking. The reassuring information comes from Colombia that President Marro- quin has not resigned again. Gen. Castro continues to do very well for a man who has a revolution and a large indemnity on his hands. France is to have $2,000,000 worth of nickel coins, worth five cents each. They will be useful in purchasing cigars. Max O’Rell owed much of his popu- larity in this country to his wife, who translated his writings into lively English. “Summeg thoughts” would be suffi- cient clothing for the sultry days. And then the “thoughts” should be “light and airy.” Once upon a time there was a man 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 Lakes service, was a success. The Philippines census is progress- ing, and reports thus far received in- dicate a Christian population of 7,000,- 000. 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 letfr 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 aucticn of the Spanish copper coins remaining in the Philippines. This is part of the Philippine currency scheme. The saloons have been closed at Bre- who was too lazy to lie, so he invented} merton, Wash., and it is probable that a machine to do it for him and called it a gas meter. A Missouri man lived a month on water, says a western paper. Well, the slow steamers are sometimes the most comfortable. “Is poverty an obstacle or an oppor- ~* tunity?” asks a contributor to one of the current magazines. Poverty is usually a necessity. Some of those absurd Filipino girls seem to think their marriages to soldiers ought to be binding/even after the boys come home. Russia has been giving the powers a glimpse of her hand in the far East. There appears to be four aces and a club, also a Manchuria, in it. Panama hats are not to be worn by fashionable men this summer. Now let the victim who paid $25 for a new | one last summer gnash his teeth. A team of English golfers is to visit this country. Evidently they do not think the tees and caddies sufficiently | represented by Sir Thomas Lipton. Selfish peasants who persist in get- ting in the way of racing automobiles are inconsiderate brutes to litter up the next county with their remains. Undoubtedly the reason that no » one has organized a cucumber trust is that its stock would have to come under the head of undigested securi- ties. A French woman who had been in a trance for twenty years woke up the other day and died. Some people don’t know when to leave well enough alone. The simon pure Turkish sportsman is taking advantage of the open sea- son in Macedonia. Only forty-eight of the 500 inhabitants of one village escaped. The newspaper picture of the coun- tess who is planning to jump from the Brooklyn bridge shows that she has no intention of being hampered by a bathing suit. “No politician makes money honest- ly while in office,” says an Ann Arbor professor. The/same sentiment was expressed long ago in the phrase. “Where did you get it?” Now the dispatches say that the sul- tan of Turkey knows he is wrong, but will not give up until he has to. This shows that the sultan would make a successful politician in this country. Perhaps that projection on Mars is simply a device of some kind from which the people up there are trying to fire a reply to the message for- warded by Nicola Tesla a few years ago. The Kansas City Star speaks of Mrs. Hetty Green’s “superfluous and bur- densome wealth.” Mrs. Green may have a lot of superfluous wealth, but we don’t believe. she finds any of it burdensome. A man with a pad containing sey- eral sketches in his pockets, who was killed by a train near Yonkers, is thought to have been an artist in spite of the fact that he had $5 in cash and a gold watch worth $25. It was necessary to give a con- demned murderer five distinct shocks before the authorities at Sing Sing could kill him. New York may be obliged to give each of its murderers anautomobile if it insists that they sholl.be electrocuted. The memoirs of the Princess Metter- nich, who is now approaching her ninetieth year, are all completed, but they are not to be published until after her death. That is why some of the people who are mentioned in them are wishing a long life to her. ae 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 smaller 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 vest through a trestle east of Rat Portage, taking Engineer W. Johnson and W. Knott, his fireman, to watery graves. John W. Cropp of Compton, Minn., 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 ezar will visit Vienna simultaneously at* the begin- ning of September. The czar will continue to Rome by way of Trieste. The Venezuelan government has re- occupied 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 voleano 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 peti- tion. t The French naval board has con- demned the system of superimposed turrets in warships because in an ex- periment three out of four sheep which had been placed in 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 lynchei 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 Greenvilie, 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-year-old 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 to aid Ward, was given a similar dose. Otherwise. Baron Speck von Sternburg and fam- ily will summer at Governor's Island. BURNED AT STAKE HORRIBLE EXECUTION OF A NE- GRO MURDERER BY A MOB IN DELAWARE. WARDEN MAKES SIRONG FIGHT BUT THE MOB. OF FOUR THOU- SAND WOULD NOT BE CHEATED OF PREY. BODY RIDDLED WiTH BULLETS COWERING WRETCH CONFESSES TO CRIME OF MURDER AND ASSAULT. Wilmigton, Del., June 24.—A north- ern mob, led by a Virginian burned a negro at the stake last night within a few miles of Mason and Dixon’s line. The victim was George F. White, a negro just out of the workhouse, who was accused of having feloniously as- saulted and stabbed to death Miss Helen Bishop, the seventeen-year-old daughter of the Rev. Dr. E. A. Bishop. The crime was committed last Mon- day afternoon and ever since then there has ben mutterings of lynching the man. An effort was made Sunday night to get White, but it failed. Last night, however, as a result of the law’s slow- ness and much agitatiom on the part of those who cried for vengeance, a mob that was estimated at 4,000 men and boys gathered in the neighborhood of Prince’s Corner, four miles from here. They came from everywhere, including Wilmington and the smaller towns to the south of Prince’s Corner. It was after 10 o’clock when the march to the workhouse, a mile away, was taken up. The chief warden of the workhouse and his guards, who have been on almost constant duty since the negro was landed in the prison, has been Warned of the Coming of the mob and prepared to defend the man at all costs. Armed with pistols, shotguns and other weapons, ‘the mob reached the jail. A battery of railway ties soon carried away the great outer door of the workshop. Then the would-be lynchers were momentarily halted by a hail of bullets from the inside. A great howl went up from the leaders but they were pressed forward by those in the rear. More shooting was heard and there was a scramble to get out, but the braver ones in the at- tacking party stood their ground. In the fusillade that followed four per- sons fall, all members of the mob. They were quickly carried to the rear and attended by those who were not Gov. Yates of Illinois has declared4praye enough to be at the front. It 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 belles now prom- enade the streets of New York, iat- less, and wearing their hair in long 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, Ill, 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, will 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 i $10,000 which he had just taken out, J. 8. 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 the 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 tine 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 Ccl. 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. was evident that the warden did not wish to slaughter the mob in the pris- on corridor, so he directed that the fire hose be turned on the crowd. This also held the mob for a time, but not for long. The general rush was made, |the guards were brushed aside and a | man-hunt of the jail was made for the | negro. There were many negroes confined in the prison, but with the aid of a man who knew White he was quickly found. His cell door was battered open and the cowering and accused man, Begging for Mercy, was dragged from the cell and the prison. Attempts were made to shoot White on the spot, but the leaders of life at the stake. With torches to show the way, the negro was led tothe road and to al- most the very spot where the assault took place. White was given a last chance to speak, and he confessed to the murder of the girl. A stake had been arranged by an advance guard. White was quickly chained to the post and the dry underbrush, soaked with oil, was ignited, and the horrible ex- ecution was on. White, suffering in- tense agony, fainted and his body hung limp. Shots were fired into his body and the victim of the mob was soon dead. Satisfied with its night’s work, the greater number of the lynchers im- mediately left the neighborhood, many ‘of them fearing arrest. However, a large number of persons loitered at the scene, awaiting developments. The failure of the county court to give White a speedy trial is in great measure responsible for the tragedy. BIG LEGAL CONTEST. Appointment for Receiver of Ship- building Company Opposed. Treton, N. J.. June 24.—Argument was commenced in the United States | circuit court yesterday before Judge Kirkpatrick in the case of the applica- tion of Holand R. Conklin and others for the appointment of a receiver for the United States Shipbuilding com- pany. Each side had a big array of counsel. Z DEATH IN MINE. Fourteen Workmen Caught in Fata: Gas Explosion at Tamaqua. Tamaqua, Pa., June 24—By an ex- piosion of gas in the No. 4 mine four- teen men were so badly burned that it is thought six of them will die. Daniel Lewis, a miner, succumbed to his injuries. Two English-speaking miners and three foreigners are in a critical condition, and their recovery is doubtful. The explosion, it is be- lieved, was due to a defective safety lamp. the crowd would have nothing but his‘ BOMB FOR ROOSEVELT. Workmen Find It While Raking the State House Lawn. Montpelier, Vt., June 24.—Laborers raking over the state house yaid yes- terday found a dynamite bomb. It had been laying in the grass apparently for a long time, as it showed marks of ex- posure to the weather. Its aspect and the fact of its being found near the state house promptly recalleed the visit of President Roosevelt to this city last September, and the question has arisen whether or not the bomb was to be used in connection with a plot against him. President Roose- velt spoke from a stand on the state house grounds and the opinion has been expressed that whoever had the bomb found no opportunity to carry out his plan owing to the vigilance of the officers guarding the president. Consequently the bomb was quietly dropped on the ground and trapled into the soft soil to remain hidden until the laborers’ rake brought itio light. DOWIE !S CHALLENGED. Hindoo Wants a Duel of Prayer to the Death. ? Chicago, June 24.—Elijah Dowie has been challenged to a praying duel to the death. The challenger is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Quandian Panjaub, India. “Come thoa, O self-styled prophet, to a duel,” says Mirza in his defi. “The weapons shall be prayer, Let us kneel on our knees in the dust of the earth, you and I together, and petition the Almighty that of us two whoever is the liar shall perish first.” Elijah has not accepted the challenge, but neither has he declined. OPPOSITION WITHDRAWN. Irish Land Bill Expected to Be Speed- ily Passed. London, June 24, -— A compromise was reached yesterday between the Nationalist landlords and the govern- ment whereby serious opposition to the Irish land bill is withdrawn, and, unless unexpected difficulties arise, the measure, which comes up again in the house of commons to-day, is likely to be speedily passed. The compro- mise consists in the landlords’ ac- ceptance of an amendment to clause 1, enlarging the purchasing rights of tenants. CHARGED WITH THEFT. Two Men Arrested for Stealing $15,- 000 Worth of Jewels. Chicago, June 24.—The police last night ‘arrested Charles Reinlein and John Ergwahl, who are charged with the theft of jewels valued at $15,000 from the safe of the Hotel Melrose in Los Angeles, Cal. The robbery oc- curred Oct. 28, 1962, and from that time until last night nothing had been heard of the two men. At the time of the theft Reinlein was employed as clerk in the hoiel and Ergvahl was a bell boy. GIANT POWDER IN PRISON. Enough Explosive to Blow Up the En- tire Institution. Canon City, Colo., June 24.—Enough giant powder and nitro-glycerine was found in the penitentiary yesterday to blow up the entire prison. This dis- covery was made after the convicts who had attempted to escape Monday were put through the,sweating pro- cess. It is believed the nitro-glycerine was manufactured by Kuydendall, the convict whd was killed Monday. FIGHT FOR CHANGE. Tillman Does Not Want to Be Tried for Murder in Columbia. Columbia, S. C., June 24.—The ap- plication for a change of venue for James H. Tillman, charged with the murder of N. G. Gonzales. was con- tinued yesterday. The morning ses- sion of the court was devoted to the reading of affidavits of the prosecu- tion. The defense will present sev- eral affidavits in rebuttal. Tillman appeared in court. SECURED SMALL SUM. Robbers Hold Postmaster Prisoner While They Loot the Safe. Liberty, Ind., June 24.—A gang of robbers dynamited the safe in the postoffice here early yesterday morn- ing and escaped with $50. The rob- bers placed a guard over Postmaster Groves, who lives next door, and com- pelled him to remain in his house while they ransacked the safe. He was a prisoner three hours. CABLE END LANDED. Pacific Cable to Manila Is Almost Completed. Manila, June 24.—The Pacific cable from Guam to Midway island was landed at the latter place yesterday. The cableship Anglia left Midway for Honoiulu yesterday to complete the connection. Storms delayed the landing of the cable at Midway. Mail Carrier Arrested. Mason City, Iowa, June 24.—C. G. Miller, a rural mail carrier, has been arrested on a charge of rape preferred by Miss Pearce, a school teacher. Made His Word Good. La Crosse, Wis., June 24.—The body of August Sousel, who deliberately jumped into the Mississippi river Friday night, was found by two men near the soap factory. About a week ago Sousel threatened suicide. New Brewery at Winona. Winona, Minn., June 24. — Winona citizens are organizing the Park Brewing company with an authorized capital stock of $150,000, to erect a six-story brick brewery adjoining the east end of Riverside Park. pote Ba BONES AS RELICS CORONER FINDS LITTLE TO VIEW AT THE SCENE OF THE LYNCHING. WORK OF MORBID RELIC HUNTERS CINDERS CARRIED OFF AS MEMENTOES. THE EXCITEMENT HAS SUBSIDED PUBLIC SENTIMENT DEPLORES RESORT TO MOB Vi- OLENCE. Wilmington, Del., June 24.—The ex- citement attending the gruesome tragedy enacted Monday night out- side the city limits whea George F. White, the negro who outraged and murdered seventeen-year-old Helen S, Bishop, was burned at the stake, has subsided. The swift and dire punish- ment meted out to the perpetrator of the terrible crime is the sole topic of conversation, but the details are calmly rehearsed. Public sentiment appears to deplore the resort to mob violence, but the concensus of opin- ion is that summary vengeance alone could atone for the outrage upon the | life and honor of the young girl. It is generally believed that had the courts brought the murderer to a speedy trial, the tragedy would have’ been averted. It is not known as yet what action the state authorities will take. Deputy Coroner Ki!llmer, who yes- jterday visited Price’s Corner, the scene of the lynching, found littie to view. All semblance of human form in White’s body had been obliterated by the avenging fire and the morbidly curious relic hunters. A small portion of the trunk and one or two Charred Bones were recovered and taken to the morgue. Of the hundreds of persons who yesterday visited the spot where the funeral pyre was lighted scarcely | one, left without some ghastly me- mento. Fragments of clothing. pieces of wood, cinders and any article that bore mute testimony of the mob’s work were eagerly sought. One arrest was made last night by State Detective Francis The pris- oner’s name was not divulged by the police, but it is said he is charged with having beeen a party to the lynching. White was put to death within a few hundred yards of the Bishop home, and the glare of the fire and howls of the mob could be plainly seen and heard at the house. The arrangement for the horrible execution of White was complete. Bundles of straw were secured from a near-by barn, and upon these were piled dry underbrush. Fence rails were split and added to the pyre, which was thoroughly sdaked with kerosene. The negro was then bound from shoulder to foot with a heavy rope and thrown upon the blazing pile. Before the torch’ was applied White confessed his guilt and prayed fer- vently for mercy. FIGHTS WITH STALLION. Horseman Has a Narrow Escape From Vicious Brute. Bloomington, Ill., June 24. — A. M. Grady, a horseman of Colfax, had a battie with a stallion in that city yes- terday. When he stepped into the stall the animal scized his arm and attempted to kill him with his hoofs. The horse shook the man as a cat would a rat. The arm was terribly bitten, the flesh hanging in ribbons. During the attack Grady managed to reach a club and belabored the horse on the head until he finally released his victim. The arm will have to be amputated. Blood poisoning is feared. CONSCIENCE HURTS HIM. Former State Senator Will Confess His Misdeeds. St. Louis, June 24—Circuit Attorney Folk yesterday received a letter from a state senator whose term expired in January last, stating that he would re- turn and confess his misdeeds com- mitted while a member of the upper branch of the assembly. He said his conscience had been hurt by them and he did not care to stand the strain any longer. TUG IS CAPSIZED. / Captain and Two Men Ars Drowned by the Accident. Buffalo, N. Y¥., June 24.—The grea* lakes tug O. W. Cheney was run down by the propeller Chemung early yes- terday about seven miles up the lake. Three members of the crew, inclnd- ing the captain, were drowned. The propeller’s bow hit the tug amidship, capsizing and sinking it. Tornado in Nebraska. Valentine,-Neb., June 24—A tornado struck Valentine yesterday afternoon, lifting the roof off James Galloway’s house. It is reported that several buildings near Britt were demolished. Crops sustained damage by hail. Rio Grande on a Rampage. El Paso, Tex., June 24. — The Rio Grande river at Bereno, N. Mex. ig six miles wide. Santa Fe trains are coming in over other tracks. The Mex» ican settlements near Sierra Blanca, Tex., have been swept away. FRAGMENTS OF CLOTHING AND | ¥ y 7 { ! | | ' 4 af