Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 4, 1903, Page 6

a SID i ; H Herald-Review. By Cc. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. A talkative friend is often more dangerous than a silent enemy. China admits that in the door busi- ness Russia practically has a cinch. The bolo rush would appear to be pretty nearly as strenuous as the cane Tush. The message will get there while you are saying Marconigraph. Think up a shorter one. The racing automobile is the dead- lest toy that millionairism has ever amused itself with. Japan does not“seek war with Rus- | sia, but it cherishes the hope that war may be forced upon it. | Miss Littleboy is to be married, ac- cording to a Los Angeles paper. Many | happy returns of the day! } It’s curious how many sizes larger | a woman’s feet grow on her way from j the shoe shop to her home. | Daniel J. Sully has made so much money, “handling” cotton that he has got to go to Europe to spend it. The astronomers have formed a trust. Within another year the people will have to pay dearly to look heaven- ward. Patrons of the Roman amphitheatre never knew what they missed by liv- ing before the automobile was in- vented. Wouldn’t it be a sight to see the two Shamrocks and the three American 0-footers all together in a big race over here! | It seems a pity that about the only way for a man to learn what kind of a woman he ought not to marry is to marry her. The Reliance is said to have “a full, blunt nose.” So long as it is not out of joint and she wins the race we can probably forgive the rest. It needed no Minnesota supreme court to establish the fact that a mash- er is a parasite. But it may make the job of scraping him off easier. No one who has observed the ten- acity with which a woman clings to an opinion once fixed will ever again refer to her as a member of the \weak- er sex. New York is to have a building 40 feet long, 26 feet wide and 17 stories high. They might save valuable space by using the building as its own chimney. It is claimed that Carnegie has more than $100,000,000 left. This, however, may be a mere rumor started by his enemies who want the tax man to get after him., John L. Sullivan casts an X-ray on Emerson’s essay on the Over Soul by suggesting that “he was full when he wrote it.” Set a sostonian to catch a Bostonian. Few things make a man madder than going to the theater and seeing about everybody that owes him money absorbed in the performance from a seat in the box. That Burlington, Vt, blacksmith who became mayor a few days ago is already greatly surprised at the large number of people who seem to be able to use the hammer. Next to the man who volunteers ad- vice on how to cure rheumatism, the man with a panacea for political ills is entitled to a place in the race for the position of leading nuisance. a ma a Two Austrian princesses and a baro- ness will attempt to swim across the English channel. Whether they suc- ceed or fail they will have taken a step materially nearer the variety stage. Pind fo eae Sa Kentucky is priding itself on the death of a centenarian in his bed. We hazard nothing in saying that he dia not live in either Clay or Breathitt county, where forty is considered a green old age. bh a Se a It is pretty hard to work up much sympathy for the American girl who thinks she has married a titled foreign- er and then finds that he is a first- class waiter or has an honorable record as a coachman. Sa Eighteen languages, including Eng- lish, were spoken in New Amsterdam. The principal difference between that time and this seems to be that, while more than eighteen other languages are now spoken, English isn’t. ff Nid Sie a SA Some of the Russian newspapers want their government to furnish the American press with facts concerning the real condition of affairs in the czar’s country. The censor will be getting after them if they don’t watch out. ae eee Douglass Gordan, a rich young-man- about town in New York, whose sister married Senator Hanna’s son, gave @ ~ From the Capital. Jesse F. Dyer of Minneapolis has passed his examination as second lieu- tenant in the marine corps and will get his commission in a few days. -President Roosevelt will not inter- fere in the prosecution of Edward F. McSweeney, former assistant commis- sioner of immigration at New York, charged with abstracting public docu- ments. Two hundred and six of the Ameri- can residents of Chihuahua have signed a petition to the secretary of state asking that United States Con- sul W. Mills of that place be removed for neglect of duty and other causes. Casualties. Four men were killed in a freight wreck which occurred four miles east of Rawlins, Wyo. John Matsos was burned to death by the tilting of a vat of molten slag at the South Chicago Iron works. J. Paulson and Edward Sellinger, ex- cursionists, engaged in a struggle on a San Francisco boat, and, falling into the bay, were drowned. Clearing away of the debris caused by the flood at Heppner, Ore., is pro- gressing rapidly. One hundred and seventy-seven bodies have been re- ported missing. Will Zimmerman, the young man who fell and suffered a broken skull while attempting to “loop the loop” on a roller skate in the Cyclorama building at Indianapolis, is dead. Genevieve Peats, the eight-year-old daughter of Alfred Peats, the million- aire wallpaper manufacturer of Green- wich, Conn., is dead from the effects of burns which she received in the fire which destroyed her parents’ home. In a head-on collision between two South Carolina freight trains at Niag- ara, near Southern Pines, N. C., En- gineers S, D. Stewart and W. P. Walle, both oy Raleigh, were instantly killed, and Fireman Wright of Raleigh was dangerously hurt. Notes From Abroad. The Irish potato crop has been ru- ined by frost and rain. Crown Prince Gustav of Norway and Sweden will pay a visit to the St. Louis exposition. Advices from Shanghai tell of the burning of a temple at Ping Tu, in- volving the loss of 150 lives. A great strike of workingmen is on in the province of Andalusia, Spain, and troops are being concentrated. The Turkish embassy at Vienna de- clares the rumor of the sultan’s inten- tion to abdicate is a “malicious inven- tion.” Holland will station a warship in the West Indies, because the isthmian canal will increase the importance of Dutch Guiana. Officials of both the court and the ministry of the interior say the re- ports that an attempt was made on the life of the czar are untrue. Charles Dixon of Boston was vic- timized at Paris by a sharper who got $2,800 on the faith of his story of a suit to secure the inheritance of a millionaire uncle. The anti-clerical mob at Brest at- tempted to seize the host from the hands of a priest in a procession, and a free fight ensued in which fifteen persons, mostly women, were injured. The funeral of a negro boy who be- longed to one of the ships of the American squadron was attended at Copenhagen by Danish officials, and all the flags of the town were half- masted. Vesuvius is again in full eruption. A comet was discovered by Borelly at Marseilles June 21, 469 G. M. T. in R. A. 21 hours 52 minutes 52 seconds and Dec. 8 degrees 10 minutes. Nu- cleus and tail were observed. | The revolutionary agitator Ger- schunin has, been arrested at Kief. He was the organzer of the murder of Bogoliepoff, Russian minister of pub- | lic instruction, and of Sipiagune, Rus- sian minister of the interior. The Mexican government has ex- tended the period in which wheat may be imported into that country free of duty from June 30 to Aug. 10. Heavy shipments of wheat have been made from the United States to Mexico | since the duty was temporarily re- moved. | | Sin and Sinners. In a fight at a picric at Portsmouth John Short shot and instantly killed John Brown and fatally wounded Brown's father. Frank C. Jappe, cashier for the Frank Leslie Publishing company, is under arrest at New York charged with embezzling $10,000. Elmer Heath, aged twenty, shot and instantly killed his sweetheart, Miss Katie Adkins, and then fatally shot himself at Salisbury, Mo. Safe blowers relieved the State bank at Oakley, Kan., of about $5,000. Arthur Nagel has absconded with $2,500 from the Third National bank of Buffalo. Four men who attempted to rob the Center Hall bank at Bellefonte, Pa., were captured after one of them had been so severely wounded that he can- not recover. $1,400 check for a “tip” to a barber who ‘shaved him afew days ago. Young Douglass and his money are soon parted. Sanford Northrup, until recently secretary and general manager of the American Refrigerator Transit com- pany, committed suicide at St. Louis. No cause is known. Strenuous measures will be taken to rid Berrien county, Mich., of hun- dreds of tramps who are terrorizing residents of the smaller villages. Lieut. Gov. W. A. Northcott of Illi- nois was robbed at Indianapolis by a hotel thief of his watch, chain and charm, valued at $300; and $35 in money. In the fraud investigation at Scran- ton, W. P. Boland of the Dalton rail- way testified that Select Councilman David Evans demanded of him $500 for himself and $400 for each of the ten other councilmen. The gang of postoffice safe blowers which has been operating so exten- sively in central Illinois, blew open the safe in the office at Colfax, secur- ing $200 in cash and $200 in stamps. Bioodhounds are on the trail. Mrs. Isabella F. Shepard of St. Jo- seph, Mich., turned on the gas and then stretched herself out in a bath- tub. When found she was dead. Two years ago her husband killed himself in a precisely identical manner. Howard J. Hill of Bristol, Vt., for- merly teller in the Farmers’ National bank of Vergennes, which was wreck- ed two years ago by Cashier Lewis, has been arrested on a charge of ab- stracting funds from the bank. Sanders, a negro, pleaded guilty at Maysville, Ky., to assaulting mem- bers of the Farrow family and was given five years in the penitentiary. Man and Morris, his companions, were found guilty and fared likewise. A gang of robbers arrested in the Seven mountains, Pennsylvania, had evidently committed a postoffice rob- bery recently, as they had a package in which were postage stamps of de- nominations from 1 to 10 cents, aggre: gating in value $167.44. General. Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by two maids, has gone to Oyster Bay. Commander Peary is confident that with another trial he can reach the North pole. A state primary election for United States senator will be held in Missis- sippi on Aug. 6. The American Master Mechanics’ association held its thirty-sixth annual convention at Saratoga. ‘ Former President Cleveland and his family will spend the summer at Gray Gables, Buzzards’ Bay, Mass. Miss Eleanor Calhoun, an American actress, has been married in Europe to Lazar Lazarovitch, a Servian. Chinese in the United States are organizing a patriotic society to op- pose Russia’s growing power in China. John Mitchell, president of the coal miners’ union, is writing a book which will deal with the industrial problem. The New York stock exchange will open a campaign against get-rich- quick concerns centering around Wall street. Former Judge Henderson recently pummeled J. D. Johnson,*a prominent attorney, in the probate court room at St. Louis. Samuel, Vernon-Veele, for many years one of the best known dramatic and musical critics in Chicago, died from bronchitis. The withdrawal of the Cunard line from the Atlantic steamship combine, it is thought, will precipitate a seri- our rate war. John Brooks, a prominent planter of Holly Springs, Mass., died from hy- drophobia as the result of a dog bite received more than forty days ago. William Lyman Squire, treasurer of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway company, died at Meriden, Conn. He was seventy-two years old. The sheriff of Elizabeth, N. J., ad- vertises the sale of the United States cruiser Chattanooga for the payment of claims against it unless these are liquidated within three months. & large cargo of perishable goods has arrived at Dawson, and eggs have drépped from $22 a case to $12; pota- toes from 20 cents a pound to 7 cents, and all other staples in proportion. Timothy Gleason, who was prom- inent in the Fenian uprising in 1867, and was a brother of the late Patrick Gleason, the “battle axe” mayor of Long Island City, has been found dead in a furnished room in Brooklyn, The New York court of appeals, in a decision reversing the judgment of a lower court, ends the effort of William S. Devery to secure a place on the oye committee of Tammany all. The Zeigler polar expedition has sailed on the stenm whaler America for Franz Josef land, where the Amer- ica will pass the winter and whence expeditions wili be sent out with sledges, D: George Howard McDonald, a Boston laborer, is said to have been identified as the sole heir to $2,000,000 cash and valuable gold mining claims left by an uncle, William McDonald, who died re- cently in California. Dr. Nelson H. Henderson, executive head of Lakeside hospital, died at Chi- cago of sepsis. The disease was con- tracted last May while the deceased was performing an operation on a pa- tient afflicted with virulent septi- cemia. Herman F. Robinson, a young lawyer of New York, son of Dr. Bev- erly Robinson and prominent in social and club circles, has committed sui- cide by shooting. Young Robinson was graduated from Harvard in 1898. His family knows of no reason for his suicide: | the shaft and ac 2 AWFUL MINE CATASTROPHE EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP IN A COAL MINE IN WYOM- ING. 234 LIVES ARE SNUFFED OUT SCORES ARE INJURED AND A VAST AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DE- STROYED. EXPLOSION HEARD FOR MILES HUGE TIMBERS AND RAILROAD IRON HURLED FROM MOUTH OF MINE. Hanna, Wyo., July 1—Hanna was the scene of a terrible holocaust : at 10:30 yesterday, when an explosion of fire damp in mine No. 1 of the Union Pacific Coal company snuffed out the lives of 234 men, injured scores of others and caused the destruction ofa vast amount of property. The explosion was terrifié and com- pletely shattered the timbers of fhe main shaft and numerous entrances, filled the working with debris and those of the miners that were not killed outright by the explosion were buried alive. The explosion was heard for many miles around and attracted people from the adjoining settlements. Huge timbers and railroad iron were Hurled From the Mouth of the shaft a distance of two and three hundred feet. Supt. E. S. Brocks and a large force of men went to work with a will to remove the debris from reach the eniombed miners. Their progress into the mine was blocked by the foul gases, and several times they were forced to re- turn to return to the surface. All day the rescuing party worked. About 1 o’clock in the afterneca four men were taken out alive, ard a half-hour later they ‘were followed by forty-two others. Many were unconscious and had to be carried from the workings. Some were injured, but none fatally. Several are in a serious condition, but it is believed all will recover. Two hundred and eightytwo men went down in the mine at 7 o’clock, and up until a late hour only forty-eight had been Accounted For. Of this number two are dead. The rescuers were unable to get further into the mine until additional open- ings had been made to permit fresh air to reach the lower levels and clear away the foul gases. The work is progressing slowly, owing to the nar- row space in which the rescuers are compelled t6 operate, but in a few hours the mine should be opened suf- ficiently to permit of deep explorations and the rescue of the dead bodies. Late last night a party of the rescuers reached four mules that were alive and this caused hope to rise in the breasts of the tired workers and the anxious women and children gathered about the shaft. It is faint hope, how- ever, for experienced mine bosses and miners say that when the imprisoned men are reached All Will Be Found Dead. Some of the miners that escaped said they saw twenty dead bodies in entry No. 17. They reported that many of the men were crazed by the explosion and ran hither and thither in the mime. Many of these could have escaped, but they laid down, buried their faces im their hands and gave up the fight. Of the 234 dead about 175 were married and leave large families. The Hanna mines are among the best on the Union Pacific system, be- ing established in 1878. The town was named for Senator Mark Hanna, when he was a member of the Union Pacific Coal company. Mine No. 1 is practically a new property. It has twenty-six entries, fifteen miles of workings and a main incline shaft of one and one-half miles in length. The mine has been recognized as a dangerous property for some time on account of the large amount of gas, but the system of ventilation has been so good that an accident was not an- ticipated. LOVES A MILLINER. Prince Yee of Korea Infatuated With Pretty Cincinnati Girl. Cleveland, Ohio, July 1—Prince Yee, son of the king of Korea and heir to the throne. who is attending the Ohio Wesleyan university, is infatuated with Miss Clara Bull of Cincinnati, a pretty milliner who has been em- ployed in the City of Delaware. Since her return home he has called on her and several times made her valuable presents of jewels, including a dia- mond ring. He denies, however, that they are engaged. SHE LEAPS FROM TRAIN. Female Hold-Up Artist’s Bold Piece of Work. Milwaukee, July 1—Upon returning from Chicago Mrs. F. F. Adams, Jr., wife of the vice president of the F. F. Adams Tobacco company, reported to Inspector Riemer of the police depdrt- ment that she had been sandbagged and robbed of $18,500 on the train en route to this city. The thief, a woman, is said to have leaped from the train while it was running forty miles an hour. — * fi, ADLY BURNED. DENTIST. i Gasoline Engine Explodes With Very Serious Results. Sioux City, Iowa, July 1.—Dr. James O. Mess, a well known dentist of Sioux Falls, S. D., may lose the sight of both hi® eyes as the result of the explosion of a hand gasoline engine at. Homer, Neb. Dr. Mess is a traveling representative for the Sioux Falls Dental company, and had a temporary office in the Richards hotel at Homer. He afose at 5 e’clock in the morning to do some work on gold filling while the air was cool. With his sleeves rolled up, he lighted the engine and immediately there was an explosion, burning gasoline being thrown in every direction. Dr. Mess’ clothing was set on fire. He seized a rug from the floor to put out the flames, but this did not succeed, and he ran up the stairs wildly and threw himself upon a bed. His agonizing cries brought assistance, and the fire was put out. His face, back, arms and both hands were frightfully burned, and his eyes are in bad condition. His physician declares there is doubt of his recover- ing the sight. HEAVY ORE SHIPMENTS. Movement From the Head of the Lakes Keeps at the Top. Duluth, July 1—The ore shipments from Minnesota are now 297,034 fross tons greater than they were on the same date one year ago, and the heav- yest for any corresponding period in the history of iron mining in the state. There has been a great deal of talk of late that the shipments from the lake region will this year show a decrease as compared with last year’s bumper movement, but Duluth, Two Harbors and Superior are to the good, individ- ually and collectively, as yet, and it is believed that they will be at the end of the season. The total shipments from Duluth, Two Harbors and Su- perior to date were 5,195527 tons, as compared with 4,916,493 tons for the same period in 1902. TAKES UP THE BONDS. South Dakota Is Buying Up Its Former Issues of Paper. Pierre, S. D., July 1.—State Treas- urer Collins has taken up all of the registered bonds of the state, a total of $92,500, none of which were due until 1912, and by securing the surren- der: of these securities has saved the state practically $30,000 interest. With the taking up of these securities the bonded debt of the state is left at $289,000. While none of this is due for several years, Treasurer Collins expects to secure an issue of $52,000 before the end of the present year and leave the bonded debt at less than a quorter of a million dollars. sie SUE SS TROOP MUST DRILL. South Dakota Men May Go to Fort Snelling Soon. Pierre, S. D., July 1—Capt. Logan’ of Troop B, this city, has received netification from the war department that the troop is requested to také a two-week course in drill either at Fort Snelling or Fort Meade, with all expenses paid, and the officers and men to receive the same pay as regu- lar soldiers for the time they are out. The matter of acceptance is yet unde- cided, but the selection of this troop for such work shows the standing which they secured at the recent en- campment of the state guard. DIES IN AWFUL AGONY. Young Child Plays With Matches and Burns to Death. Plainfield, Wis., July 1—The little two-year-old son of James Burr of Coloma, this county, met a frightful ‘death a few days ago while playing with matches. His mother was in the garden and the child was alone in the house with other children, and his ag- onizing cries of pain brought Mrs. Burr into the house, only to find her baby boy burning alive, his clothing being one mass of flames. By the time the fire was put out the child was so severely burned that he died in hor- rible agony in a few hours. ——————" MULLINS GROWS VIRTUOUS. Proposes to Stop Prize Fights After the Carnival., Butte, Mont., July 1.—Mayor Mullins announced yesterday that he would draw the line on prize fights in Butte after the present carnival is over. Three championship bouts are to take place here within a week. The mayor says they are plainly against the law, and that he will overlook the violations of the statutes no longer. Butte has become the Mecca of American pugilism, and the city is now full of fighters. « RONK FOUND GUILTY. Convicted of Manslaughter in the First Degree. Blue Earth, Minn., July 1.—One of the most extraordinary criminal cases ever tried in Faribault county, the Bert Ronk murder ~ trial, terminated yesterday morning with a verdict of guilty.of manslaughter in the first de- gree. Ys Strikers Get Full Pay. Boone, Iowa, July 1—At a meeting of the trades and labor assembly last | 7 night it was voted to pay the tele- phone operators of this city and Ames full wages during the entire strike. No settlement is in sight. STE SCH i sna AESS ‘ Acquitted of Charge. Buford, N. D., July 1—Thomss Zim- merman, whose preliminary examina- tion on the charge of murdering John Kalbensvick was held here yesterday before Justice Mumby, was acquitted of the charge. $ a ish * tie r 2 . = a Bue Seem TALE OF HORROR AWFUL BRUTALITY PRACTICED UNDER .THE PEONAGE SYSTEM. ALABAMA PEOPLE ARE AROUSED SHOCKING FACTS BROUGHT OUT iN PEONAGE AND CANSPIR- ACY CASES. WOMAN TORTURED TO DEATH HORRIBLE TALE WHICH GIVES AN IDEA OF THE CRUELTIES INFLICTED. Montgomery, Ala., July 1. — Several more arrests have been made since Saturday in the peonage and conspir- acy eases. Among them are those of L. A. Grogan, deputy sheriff of Coosa, charged with “assisting in carrying Emma Paesron to condition of peon- age,” which means that he used his badge and his office to delude this and other negroes into thinking they had! really’ been arrested for something, and of J. Wilburn Harrison, against whom there are five indictments for conspiracy to injure and oppress. Harrison is to be tried for being one of the “affidavit men” whose particu~ lar part was to fake and trump up ac- cusations against friendless negroes; who it was desired to place or to con-; tinue in bondage. . Grogan protests, that he did nothing that he recognized) as wrong, and that if he did all the white people of Coosa county Are In the Same Box with him. But there are indications that the men involved in the conspir- acy knew well enough that they were to assist in getting prisoners fined without a trial, then to dispose of them at an advance on the amount of the fine and to withhold from the coun- ly treasury the money so collected. {This could hardly appear to any officer of the law as right. Some idea of the grave abuses com- mitted by quarry owners, landlords, constables, magistrates and guards in- volved in “depriving citizens of Afri- can descent” of their liberty, and which the federal courts are undertak- ing to end can be had from the sworn testimony of blacks, often corrobor- ated by whites—testimony on which the grand jury unanimously found ninety-nine indictments and wanted to find more. If any man _ entertains doubts as to the cruelties practiced he has but to read the following story of @ negro woman Tortured to Death. A negress in good health was beaten so much and subjected to such awful torture from 8 o’clock until 2 o’clock that she died an hour later, 3 o’clock. After being beaten until her back was plistered and bloody, she was strung up by her wrists, her feet being tied together. Sbe was hoisted till her toes barely touched the ground, In this position she was kept from 10 o’clock in the morning till the dinner bell rang at 12, when she was ordered cut down. She was still alive and went behind a log, on the brow of a hill, to lie down. When the dinner hour was over the guard went up to where she lay and ordered her back to work. He mistook ber inability to work for stubbornness; he struck her on the bead with bis pistol. Then “he jumped upon her stomach.” The guard then returned to the place where the other peons were at work, and Sent Word Back after a while by one of the peons or dering her to “come on down to work.” It was then about 3 o'clock. The peon said: “Boss, she can’t come to work. She's dead.” ‘The grand jury of that county un- dertook an investigation of this death. At the trial the witnesses did not tell anything because they “Didn’t want to be thrown in the river and feared we would be killed.” The propriears “Told us we bad better not tell any- thing.” Some forty negroes and negresses have been found whose grievances as to whippings have heen outlawed by the statute of limitation, three years. The details are distressing and do ‘not vary much, ARMY OF WORMS. Walla Walla Farms Are Devastated by New Pest. Tacoma, Wash., July 1. — Mighty hosts of army worms. in a solid col- umn 150 yards wide and nearly three miles long are. marching through Walla Walla county. The origin of the worms, which bave never heen seen here before, is not known. Grow- ing crops and vegetation are being denuded. The worms are from one and a half to two inches long and are brown and fuzzy, like caterpillars. The ranchers are alarmed for their garden truck and wheat. Aged Farmer's Bloody Work. Altoona, Pa., July 1. — John Claar, farmer aged seventy-five years, while temporarily insane attacked his wife with a butcher knife while she was in bed. He stabbed her four times, in- flicting fatal injuries. He then at- tackeed his son Justin with an axe, but the son overpowered him after a strug- gle and took the weapon from him. The son ran from the house and in- formed neighbors. On returning he found that his father bad hanged him- self to a tree near the house. He w: dead when cut down. Cros, ere