Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 1, 1903, Page 2

~ SRR AE ESLER NE ee er 4 Herald-Review, By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - _ MINNESOTA. What is news? Anything the reader wants to know, The rational man carefully abstains from doing anything rash. The average man firmly believes that he is above the average. Favorable comment has but one leg as 8 rule, but slander is a centipede. It is capable of proof that many a lean baby grows up to be a big, fat man. Chronic loungers should not treat their busy friends’ private office as a public snap. Mrs. Nat Herreshoff’s husband seems to be the only man able to beat Nat Herreshoff. Conscious that he is not an Adonis Oom Paul has taken to repulsing cam- era fiends with a club. Colorado has discovered a cowboy poet. And now the west knows where to look for its poet-lariat. These contradictory dispatches from Somaliland leave one in doubt whether the Mullah is mad or glad. Designer Watson of the Shamrocks has just married. Which shows that he can win something, anyway. It may be that Lynbomir Zsixkovits was one of the leaders of the Servian reyolt, but we suspect the linotype. The latest scientific dictum is that the mustache is unsanitary. So is the corset, but the girls insist on both. Going, going—two German counts and a French marquis. Now, girls, who will close the sale by saying “Gone”? Mr. Gates says the worst has been reached in the stock market. This is not consolation to the man who reached it. According to a dispatch from St. Petersburg Russia and Japan now agree. Korea may well be alarmed if this is true. King Peter now has an opportunity to decide whether or not he will sleep in the room in which his predecessor was assassinated. A Pittsburg doctor has received a fee of $34,000 for treating a man who died. He will never need to take any- thing for his nerve. Mary MacLane announces that she will write another book. Then Mary will probably discover that she struck twelve some time ago. Mr. Lincoln Steffens, the Asmodeus of American cities, has got around to Philadelphia, and taken the lid off in his usual masterly style. One of the most important elements of successful humor is surprise, and it was not missing in comical little Marshall Wilder’s marriage. “If the price of potatoes goes too high,” says the Boston Gtohe, “eat rice.” Was there ever a more painful example of disloyalty to the home food staple? If impatient lovers would only wait a few days it is possible the appeal to carbolic acid would not be required, but love is blind and very, very foolish at times. People are beginning to wonder what the next get-rich-quick scheme 1s going to be. All of the old avenues to hasty wealth seems to have been successfully plugged. It is announced that Clyde Fitch is going to spend the winter in Wash- ington, and will probably dramatize either the department scandals or the Congressional Record. As the navies of both powers are now in prime condition France and England feel that this is an excep- tiorally opportune time in which to entertain proposals for permanent peace. Two elderly parsons deserted their wives and eloped with young girls. And the strange thing about it is that with neitner of them had marriage been a failure. One had five children and the other eighteen. Jeremiah Buckley, whose poem on Shamrock was so thoroughly appre- ciated by Sir Thomas Lipton, is one of those ready writers who can tear it off by the column without stopping to measure lines or count feet. Mr. Gourlay, M. P., of Nova Scotia, says he would rather live in Algiers than in the United States. Donkeys do most of the work, in Algiers, and Mr. Gourlay prefers to live where he would be sure of regular employme>* The Queen of England, with a bon- net on her head, looked over the gar- @en wall the other day, and it is now reported that bonnets are coming into fashion again. The king may make us wear white vest slips, but only a queen could possibly turn the women back to bonnets. Washington Notes. Representative Buckman is in Wash- ington to confer with Land Commis- sioner Richards regarding the rear- rangements of land districts in Minne- sota. Frank Brown, formerly of Mansfield, Ohio, who has been in prison in Gua- temala several months without trial, has appealed to the state department through Minister Combes at Guate- mala City. A. O. Wright, supervisor of the third Indian school district, has been trans- ferred to the fifth, comprising Wiscon- sin, Minnesota, Michigan and North Dakota, and J. E. House, of the fifth, goes to the third district. Casualties. Four young men were killed tear Avondale, Ohio, by a passenger train. A heavy hail storm, followed by a cloudburst, has done much damage at Trinidad, Col. In a collision between electric cars at Cleveland, E. I. Garin of Oberlin was killed and several were hurt. A man drowned in Lake Michigan near Chicago has been identified as Nels P. Neilson, an inventor and sculp- tor. A magazine blew up near Roanoke, Va., and killed two men. Sixteen oth- ers were injured. The cause of the explosion is unknown. Major Edward Hughes, for twenty- five years head of Louisville fire de- partment, was run over and instantly killed by a trolley car. A horse at Trenton, N. J., stepped on a stick of dynamite, which exploded and blew off one of the horse’s hoofs, but the occupants of the carriage were not hurt. By a side collision of trains, Mrs. Carrie Crawford and Henry Ellswick were fatally injured and ten others seriously hurt at the union station at Cincinnati. Twe boys, using a red shirt as a flag, stopped an Illinois Central passenger train just in time to prevent its run- ning into a burning bridge near Al- hambra, Ill. Robert Woods, aged eighty, and his wife, were fatally burned at Philadel- phia. William F. Buck, their son-in- law, was also painfully burned trying to rescue them. Edwin H. Low, chairman of the re- ception committee of the Atlantic Yacht club, was drowned when his knockabout, Pickininny, was capsized in a race off Sea Gate. Richard Hudson was shot and se- verely though not fatally injured at Lexington, Ky., by Mrs. Madge War- ren, who was amusing herself with a revolver. She didn’t know it was loaded. E. R. Cohen, Frank Thompson and John Brown were drowned near Phil- adelphia, and another man broke his neck by diving into shallow water. Twenty-one persons got beyond their depth at Atlantic City and were res- cued by life guards. From Other Shores. A severe earthquake, shock was felt throughout the Island of St. Vincent recently. It is said that Russia has arranged French captalists for a loan of $26,- 000,000. General Brailjmont is dead at Brus- sels. He was regarded in Belgium as the greatest military authority in Europe on fortifications. It is reported in diplomatic circles in London that the duke of Marl- boroug is slated for speedy appoint- ment as under secretary of state for the colonies. The London Times says it is antici- pated in official quarters that parlia- ment will be dissolved early next ses- sion, and that general elections will be held early in March. The American squadron arrived at Lisbon recently, but festivities ‘were postponed owing to the proclamation declaring a mourning period of three days because of the death of the pope. About 1,400 employes of the ma- chine shops of the Austro-Hungarian state railroad at Anina have struck. Three thousand coal miners and foun- dry employes in the same district also intend to go out. Representatives of the steel trust are expected at Brussels in order to discuss the adoption of a commcn price for steel rails. They will en- deavor to organize an international rail syndicate on American lines. Sin and Sinners. There were seven fist fights in Frankfort, Ky., one day recently, and not a pistol was used. A negro fight on the Robson planta- tion in Caddo parish, near New Or- leans, resulted in the serious wound- ing of six persons. A. Parsons, a former brakeman. is locked up at St. Louis on the charge of killing his wife, whom he _ shot, thinking her a burglar, he said. Gov. Hatterson of Wyoming says every effort will be made to bring to justice the men concerned in the lynching at Basin. George Collins, who was convicted at Union, Mo., of having murdered Detective Schumacher, has been sen- tenced to hang Aug. 28. Oscar Szontaugh, a prominent min- ing man, recently manager of the smelter at Northport, Wash., commit- ted suicide by shooting at Spokane. He was one of the most distinguished chemists in the United States and had @ national reputaticn as a metallur- gist. ‘ Warrants have been issued at Niag- ara Falls for the arrest of twenty New York Central railroad clerks in con- nection with the robbing of freight cars. 3 James Ford of Marengo, Ill., shot and+killed Mrs. Louise E. Harding and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Both were colored. As a result of a free-for-all fight over cards at Morgantown, W. Va. Tom Carter was killed outright, Charles Lewis was mortally wounded and Will- iam Jensen and Henry Horner serious- ly wounded, All are negroes. Orrin Carter of Harrisburg, IIl., slip- ped up behind Will Rhine and struck him over the head with a fence rail, inflicting injuries from which he wil) die. The difficulty arose over a quar: re] Rhine had a few days before with Carter’s mother. General. Plans for consolidating the surface car lines at Chicago have reached an advanced stage. Charles Berrick a millionaire con- tractor and buildcy of Buffalo, is dead from a surgical ¢’peration. The first bale of cotton of this year’s crop sold at New Orleans for $136, or at the rate of 20% cents a pound. Rey. S. #sborne, eighty years old, dropped dead at a camp meeting of Seventh Day Adventists at Lexington, Ky. A panic occurred on a river steamer at Philadelphia. No lives were lost, although passengers were taken off in small boats. Miss Clara Hough of Dublin, Ind., put a snail on her toe as a cure for a corn. Blood poisoning developed and she may lose her foot. The operators and miners in the New River coal fields in West Virginia have settled their differences after an eighteen months’ strike. Hundreds of human skeletons, many arrow heads and spears and other im- plements of Indian warfare have been found near Beeville, Tex. Because some militiamen made some remarks about a girl who had accom- panied him to the encampment at St. Joseph, Mo., Marvin Winton whipped eight of them. James A. Boyd, aged seventy-two, is dead at the printers’ home at Colorado Springs. He was well known as a newspaper man of Milwaukee, St. Louis and Chicago. Seventeen representatives of the Paulist order from various states have assombled in Now York for,tho annual conference called for by the rules adopted five years ago. Mrs. C. A. Parker and Mrs. James Court, society women of Kalamazoo, Mich., broke the swimming record on Gull lake for one and one-eighth miles, covering the distance in 32:14. Work has begun on the ship canal which is to be built from the Buffalo harber near Stony Point to the new Buffalo & Sysquehanna iron plant. The waterway will cost $1,000,000. The body of William J. Fritz, a lum- berman, was found by thé crew of a freight train in a car half filled with lumber at Chicago. Death is thought to have been from natural causes. Frederick W. Holls, secretary of the American delegation to The Hague peace conference, and more recently member of the international court, died suddenly at his home at Yonkers. Louisville will be a candidate for convention honors next year. A coli- seum will be built to accommodate 15,- 000 people, and both the Republican. and Democratic conventions will be sought. Prof. Smiley, the Smithsonian insti- tution photographer, will take pictures of Prof. Langley’s flying machine. The camera has been made especially for the purpose and is operated like a gun. Estimates received from all parts of the state show clearly that Nebraska’s wheat crop wiil exceed any previous crop in her history. The acreage, which is 15 per cent greater than last year, will yield at least 8(,000,000 bushels. In the report made public by the bureau of industrial statistics the pro- duction of steel in Pennsylvania in 1902 compared with 1896 is as follows: Production, 1902, 8,511,19§ tons against a production in 1896 af 3,345,- 529, a gain of 154.4 per cent, The American Fisheries society at | Woodshole, Mass., dedicated tke mass- ive boulder erected on the lawn of the United States fish commissior station there as a memorial to the late Spen- cer F. Baird, the first Unitel States commissioner of fish and fisheries. Jared O. Smith, United States spe- cial agent in charge of Hawaiian ex- periment station, has been successful in his experiments in growitg cotton and sumatra tobacco. He believes such articles thay become a product of the island. Mme. Lavelle, the “subject” of a man named Holt, was buried alive re- cently near Camden, N. J. She was to remain in the grave two (ays, but on the second day a: terrille rain storm came up and the Mig dices to flood the.woman’s coffin. at the grave and heardt the woman’s screams through the tube, ani it took half an hour’s hard work to dig her up. She was nearly frightnea to death. | \ J. M. Shepperd, editor of th} Stand- ard Herald of Warrensburg, No., was fined $500 because of his critbism of the supreme court in the Oglesby case. ‘olt ‘was | Ritter, wife of a policeman, is dying T|MANY PAY TRIBUTE THOUSANDS OF THE FAITHFUL PASS BEFORE LEO’S SARCOPHAGUS. ALMOST READY FOR CONCLAVE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO PERMIT BETTING ON RESULT. MAY NOJ LAST OVER TWO DAYS CARDINAL SVAMPA THINKS CON- CLAVE WILL BE OF SHORT DURATION. Rome, July 28.—Several thousands of the faithful crowded St. eter’s yes- terday to pay tribute before the sarcophagus containing the remains of the late pontiff, on which is the fol- lowing inscription in gilded letters: “Leo XIIL, pont max.” Meanwhile requiem masses contin- ued in the Chapel of the Sacrament as well as many other Roman churches. The will of Leo was read yesterday. While nominally leaving his estate of Carpineto to his nephew, Ludevico Pecci, it really makes no change, as the whole family property, amounting approximately to $120,000, had already been divided among the three neph- ews, Count Camillo having already sold his share. The congregation again yesterday, made further progress with the ar! rangements for the conclave. Cardinal Gibbons arrived yesterday, but did not attend the meeting. A wall is being built around th apartments where the conclave wil be held. It is already ten feet high. Some of the Italian bookmakers here proposed to conduct public Betting on the Chances ofthe papal candidates, and in order to obtain permission to do so offered to donate their gains to charitable in- stitutions. The government, however, promptly refused the request. The ceremonial of the conclave es- tablished by Gregory XV. is to be fol- lowed at the coming meeting. The cardinals decided during the conclave to eat in common in order to facili- tate their work. A local paper quotes the response of Cardinal Svampa toa question as to whether he believed the conclave would be of lengthy duration, as follows: “On the contrary, I think it will be very short. I believe that two days will suffice to reach an agreement.” Another paper quotes Mgr. Fran- cisca Nava as to the possibility of the election of a pope who would reconcile the Vatican and the Quirinial, thus: “No pope ever hated Italy. The government must recognize itself to the pope. Certainly Italy, on the oc- casion of the death of Leo showed her- self well ¢isposed for a reconciliation.” POPE LEO LAID TO REST. Rome, July 28. — The remains of Pope Leo XIII. were Saturday evening interred temporarily in St. Peter’s. The ceremony of interment was begun at 7 o’clock, the cardinals and pre- lates conducting the services. Only 700 invitations were issued. First came the monks of St. Peter’s, ‘who entered the chapel where the re- mains have been lying in state, chant- ing the miserere. 2 The cardinals were already assem- bled in the chapel and met the monks as they entered. The coffin in which the body had been lying was raised on the shoulders of the monks and the procession started. The procession advanced, winding through the church, and passing be- fore the tomb, finally ending at the choir chapel. Here the chants changed to “In Paradisium,” and a few drops of Moly water were sprinkled on the remains and the last absolution pronounced. In the coffin were placed the ponti- fical ornaments and all the medals of the pontiff’s reign and also at,the feet a scroll telling of the principal events of the pontificate. The face and hands were recently covered with a veil. Then amid a recitation of the bene- diction the coffin was placed within ‘one of lead and sealed by the major domo. BOYS POISONED. Reform School Inmates Are Suffering From Unknown Cause. Whittier, Cal., July 28. — Seventy- five boys in the state reform school at this place are ill. Some of the boys are in a serious condition and it is thought they were poisoned. The physician in charge is investigating ‘the epidemic, and until the investiga- tion is completed it will not be known whether the boys are suffering from ptomaine poisoning, contracted from food, or from poison intentionsliy mixed with the food. POURS ACID OVER WIFE. Dying Woman Makes Charge Against Husband. u Cincinnati, July 28.—Mrs. Charles F. from carbolic acid burns which she says her husband poured over her after breaking into her room. Ritter, later, met another policeman and ex- plained that he burned his hands and “a NEW CASE FOR LORENZ. ae f Son of Brewer Busch Will Be Operated Upon for a Bad Hip. St. Louis, July 29.—Carl Busch, the nineteen-year-old son of Adolphus Busch, the millionaire St. Louis brewer, the youth whom Dr, Lorenz declared he could cure when he saw him here a year ago, is now at Saranac Lake, N. Y., waiting for members of the Busch family to arrive and author- ize an operation by Dr. Lorenz for con- genital hip dislocation. The original plan was for young Busch to be taken to Vienna this summer, but this long trip is avoided owing to the fact that Dr. Lorenz is forced to return to re- turn to America to remove the plaster casts from Lolita Armour. It is re- ported that a $40,000 fee will be paid Dr. Lorenz if he cures the Busch youth, who has never been able to walk. FOUR YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED. Sad Accident Witnessed by Hundreds of People. Pittsburg, July 29.—A sad accident followed shortly after the formal opening of dam No. 1 in the Allegheny at Herr’s island last evening, in which four young people were drowned. Three boys and three girls were riding around below the dam in a skiff, and, getting too close to the structure, the suction from the “bear trap” drew the boat, in spite of the boys’ frantic ef- forts, under the water flowing over the dam. The accident was witnessed by hundreds of people and rescuers were quickly at work, but before the party could be reached, four of the number were drowned. WRECKED A SAFE. Burglars Made So Much Noise the Town Was Aroused. Duluth, Minn., July 29. — An unsuc- seccful attempt was made to break the Missabe bank safe at Proctor, a sub- urb of Duluth. The outer door of the large new safe was blown off by one explosion and the entire safe, except for the cash box, was wrecked by a second. This explosion aroused the town and scared the burglars off. The big inner door was blown 100 feet away. Put Bullet in His Brain. St. Paul, July 29.—Because of a mys- terious malady caused by his teeth, which made him an invalid, and about which he consulted twenty-six phys- icians without results, William Isler, twenty-three years old, took his own life by shooting himself in the head. His aged grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Le Claire, with whom he lived, found him dead when she returned from church, | whither he had begged her to go. Editors Set Type. Spokane, Wash., July 29.—No agree- ment has been reached between the printers and the three daily papers which were tied up by Sunday night’s walk-out. The Spokesman-Review is- sued a small paper yesterday morning, enough type being handled by mem- bers of the editorial force to set forth the paper’s statement as to the strife, which it declared was “in open viola- tion of a contract.” Drowned in Superior. Duluth, Minn., July 29. — Hjelmer Johnson, an old resident of this place, was drowned in Lake Superior yester- day. He was out in a small rowboat, and about 11 a. m. the boat was found outside the breakwater with only a few articles of clothing in it. It would appear that Mr. Johnson was standing up in the boat and lest his balance arid fell into the water, as the boat was not capsized. Accidentally Killed. Hurley, Wis., July 29. — The coro- ner’s jury returned a verdict of “acci- dental death” in the case of Gus Neu- meyer, killed by a Chicago & North- western passenger train at Kimbail, ‘Wis., Saturday morning. He was a brakeman on the freight train side- tracked for the passenger to pass, and fell asleep while waiting. He resided in Ashland. Freight Cars Wrecked. Jamestown, N. D., July 29. — Fast freight No. 53 on the Northern Pacific ‘was wrecked in a peculiar manner five miles west of here and traffic was blocked for twelve hours. Driven by a terrific wind, three box cars left the side track and met the west-bound freight. Seven cars were wrecked. The trainmen escaped uninjured. Wheat Blighted. Beresford, S. D., July 29. — Small grain, especially wheat and oats, has suffered the past week from blight and rust It now looks as though wheat will fall below the average yield, while oats will finish strong. Killed in Drunken Quarrel. Gillette, Wyo., July 29.—In a drunk- en quarrel among a number of Italians at Felix yesterday two men were killed and another probably fatally wounded. Dead With Baby on His Knee. Fergus Falls, Minn., July 29—Halver O. Halvorson died while sitting in his home with his baby on his knee. Death was evidently due to apoplexy. Killed While Intoxicated. Red Wing, Minn., July 29—Ole Vold, thirty years old, while intoxicated, fell down a fifteen-foot bank by the Zumbro river near Zumbrota, and was killed. He rolled into the river, where he would have drowned had he not al- ready been dead. Three Small Robberies. Little Falls, Minn., July 29.—Three business houses were broken into by clothes trying to prevent his wife from committing suicide. Ritter can- not be found. The couple had been separated. tell burglars last night and cash registers robbed of their contents, amounting to about $ COLLEGE DIVIDED TWO CAMPS OF CARDINALS DAILY ~ BECOMING MORE IRRECON- CILABLE. ‘ SOME CHANCE FOR FOREIGNERS. ANTI-RAMPOLLA FACTION IS DE- TERMINED TO DEFEAT OP- POSITION. GERMAN CARDINAL SPOKEN OF SERVANTS OF CARDINALS ARE ONLY ENGAGED FOR THREE DAYS. Rome, July 29.—The two camps into: which the sacred college is divided ap- pear to be becoming daily more irge- concilable and it is said that the anti- Rampolla faction has declared that, if necessary to defeat the opposition, they will even go to the length of sup- porting a foreign cardinal. The name of Cardinal Kopp, bishop of Bresiau, was mentioned in this connection, but was hardly considered seriously owing. to the belief that unuer present con- ditions the elevation of » German to the papacy might mean the irreparable loss of France to the holy see. It implies no disrespect to say that the papal caucus is developing on much the same lines as the caucuses: held on the eve of an American nom inating convention. Divided Into Three Classes. There are, however, three classes— Cardinal Rampolla’s direct supporter’, those who will vote with him, and those who will vote against him and his policy. His supporters argue that if the policy of the late administration was Leo’s, then Cardinal Rampolla is: the best man to continue it. If it was dictated by Cardinal Rampolla, then there is greater reason that he should continue it. His opponents urge that the old ad- ministration sought to ingratiate the papacy with the governments, not the peoples. Hence, when the French gov- ernment showed its teeth the church did not have the French people back of it. The cardinals who argue thus, including the supporters of Cardinal Vannutelli, Agree With Cardinal Gibbons that the church will be strongest when its is absolutely independent of all political powers. That there is a conviction at the Vatican that the conclave will be of short duration is proved by the fact that all those who are to enter the con- clave to minister to the wants of the cardinals have been engaged for only three days. The Tribuna says that as the fish- erman’s ring, which could not be found after the death of the pope, may be discovered in some drawer which was sealed up and cannot be opened until after the election of the new pope, the camerlengo, Cardinal Oreg- lia, has ordered a new one for use in the symbolic ceremony which occurs immediately after the successor to Leo XIII. is chosen. BRITONS ARE JEALOUS. Uncle Sam’s Diplomats Win Out in the Sparring fc» Gpen Door. London, July 29.—Considerable jeal- ousy is displayed in London papers over America’s success in securing from China—or, in reality, Russia— definite promise of the opening of sev- eral Manchurian ports, and tNere is an inclination to criticise the British gov- ernment for its slow methods. How- ever, the Daily Chronicle, on the au- thority of “a usually well informed cor- respondent,” hears that peace certain- ly will be preserved in the Far East throughout the coming winter. The correspondent says that Russia has made important concessions to the United States and Japan, while Gréat Britain, which has conducted her nego- tiations on more sober lines, also has obtained her desires. The Chronicle adds that an important Russian dec- laration will be issued shortly. . COW EATS DYNAMITE. Not Even a Beefsteak Was Left and Bossy Is a Total Loss. Owingsville, Ky., July 29—A peculiar accident took place at Bedford, Ky. Some workmen were engaged in dig- ging a pond on Mrs. Chandler’s farm, and left several sticks of dynamite on the ground while they worked. A cow was grazing and swallowed two sticks. The workmen noticed that the ani- mal seemed distressed, but did not know what ailed her. Finally the cow {began running, disappearing around a hill. A few minutes later there came a terrific explosion, and when the workmen reached the spot where the animal was last seen there was noth- ing left except a-few pieces of ‘bones and hide. King Charles Honors Americans. Lisbon, July 29.—King Charles gave a luncheon on Monday at Cintra, a re- sort fourteen miles from Lisbon, in the mountains, in honor of the officers of the American squadron, and last‘ night a banquet was given in honor of | the officers at the ministry of marine. Crop Damage Rumored. Appleton, Minn., July 29,—Reports have just come of a severe hailstorm in the town of Edison, east of here, which completely destroyed the crops pxer a large portion of the township. .