Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 5, 1903, Page 6

Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Meantime the bear is stealthily pushing his big paw a little farther into Korea. E “The gods send thread for a web begun,” says Andrew Carnegie. And flies for a web well spread. The women editors should not over- look that story concerning the man who talked himself to death. French assassins are now close ri- vals of French duelists in bloodthirs- tiness. They hurl the deadly tomato. Those persons who don’t like Uncle Russell Sage may as well cultivate a spirit of resignation. He is here to stay. Honduras is showing signs of an- other revolution. ‘Now, how many days ago was the last Honduras revo- lution? While the newspapers are quoting Russell Sage at 87, uncle Russell is just bullish enough to believe he is going to 100. ¥ King Edward appears not to have kissed the blarney stone while in Ire- Jand, but perhaps it was because he didn’t needgto. The uprising of unpaid veterans in Eastern Cuba has been narrowed down to four men and the person who started the story. Over in China the graduate, instead of stopping to throw out hints as to how the world should be run, starts for the nearest woods. That Chicago thief who was held by the neck until the police arrived did not need to be told that his cap- tor’s name was Mrs. Huske. It is learned that the latest Centra] American “revolution” started because a general got drunk. This is a more reasonable cause than usually appears. The same boy who is taught to be- lieve that the drumstick is the best part of the turkey, grows up to im- agine that his wife always gives in to him. Russia is not entirely satisfied with an apology this time. Turkey will have to do something more, or the sublimity of its Porte will get a seri- ous jar. When Tsi An goes into a Chinese newspaper office to ask the editor “if he wrote that” it is generally consid- ered to be a bad day for the editing business. If all revolutionists in Latin Amer- ica fought to a finish as in Venezuela, | the business of breaking up a govern- ment in that part of the world would be less popular. Being a reformer in China is such a perilous job that the man who un- dertakes the part has to look in the glass every morning to see if his head is still on. It is said that 10,500,000 people are employed on the farms of America. Nobody appears to be able to explain why they have not gone to the charms of flat life in the cities. The editor of Punch, Sir Francis Burnand, will publish in October “Reminiscences of My Life.” It will show that to get out an English hum- orous publication every week is no joke. According to Prof. Zueblin we are @ people that multiply our bath tubs and the need for them at the same time. But then this is not quite so bad as leaving out the bath tubs alto- gether. The news that another Mayflower descendant is dead was read with great interest by hundreds of New Englanders who are themselves des- cendants of Mayflower passengers and don’t know it. These must be great days for the teachers’ agencies. The Philadelphia Press remarks: “If there is a single county in the state that is not having trouble to get enough teachers it has not yet reported.” A New Orleans shirtmaker’s state- ment that he has discovered the long- hunted yellow fever parasite is arous- ing some interest. If he lived up North he would be advertising a para- site with every shirt. Safeblowers may be traced because they left their coats in a sewing-ma- chine office from which they were scared while working at their pro- fession. Safeblowers should take warn- ing and adopt the shirt waist. Monsieur Humbert pleads that he left business matters entirely to madam and devoted himself “exclu- sively to art and poetry.” There has been a growing suspicion that mon- sieur would turn out a good deal of @ cur. And now comes another mosquito expert and says that the smoking joss sticks have no terrors at all for the thing that sings and stings. At this rate the suffering public will lose all faith in science and return to the screen and the slap. From the Capital. It is again rumored that Emperor The cruiser Cleveland in its trial | Francis Joseph may abdicate as king trip developed a slightly better speed of Hungary because he is tired of po- than the 16.5 knots required by ves-| litical life. Private information de- sels of its class. Maj. Samuel Reber, signal corps, general staff officer, has been detailed as secretary of the army war college. He is a son-inlaw of Lieut. Gen. Miles, retired, and formerly was his war nec- retary. Considerable surprise was created by an order from Public Printer Raim- er to the heads of divisions in the gov- ernment printing office to appear be fore a notary public and take the oath of allegiance to the United States. as subscribed to by clerks under the civil service law. As fast as possible ev- ery employe of the office will take the oath. 3 Personal Mention. Lieut. Commander Frances 0. Davenport, U. S. N., retired, died at his residence in Detroit, Mich., from heart failure. John Q. Thompson, sixty-four years old, editor of the Washington Chron- icle, a weekly publication, is dead. He was a native of Indiana. Robert Stevenson, a pioneer whole- sale druggist of Chicago, is dead of heart disease. He was stricken sud- denly while visiting at the home of friends. N. W. Mcllvar, formerly United States consul gergral at Yokohama, has received ghe decoration of the double dragon from the emperor of China. David B. Henderson, former spcak- er of the national house of represcnt- atives, and his wife and daughter. Miss Belle Henderson, who have been spending the summer at Brockwater, Fresh Water Cove, Mass., have cut short their stay owing to the iliness of Miss Henderson, due to close ajpli- cation to her studies. Casualties. J. F. Cassidy and his four-vear-old son were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at New- berry, Mich. ¥ Fire in the freight house of the Chi- eago, Rock Island & Pacifte railroad at Chicago destroyed the building, to- gether with a lot of outgoing freight. Loss, $500,000. By the explosion of a locomotive on the West Shore railroad, while it was ascending a grade near Girard, Pa., the engineer, the fireman and a brake- man were blown out of the cab and fatally injured. An electric car ran down an am%ju- lance, an ice wagon and a dirt wagon at St. Louis, injuring the drivers. The ambulance driver righted his vehicle and picked up the other drivers, tak- ing them to the hospital. Albert Sivyers was drowned by the capsizing of a small catboat at Nan- tucket, Mass. He and his two com- panions had just rescued William Howe, an eighteen-year-old boy, from the bottom of an overturned boat. The newspaper special on the Néw York Central jumped the track near Little Falls, N. Y., while running a mile a minute. Engineer Robert Lilly and Fireman Conley were killed and several employes of the New York pa- pers were seriously injured. From Other Shores. King Peter of Servia threatens to abdicate. A mighty eruption of water is en- dangering the city of Huare, Peru, a place of 20,000 inhabitants. Prince Henry of Prussia is to be re- lieved next fall of the post of chief in command of the first naval divi- sion. 4 The Cayman islands were swept by a hurricane recently and it is feared great loss of life and praperty has resulted. Attenberg, the smallest republic in the world, embracing one and one-half square miles, has been absorbed by Belgium. The Danish expedition to Green- land proved commercially profitable, having shot thirty-six white bear in Spitzbergen. The Krupns of Berlin have begun a campaign to secure American bridge contracts in competition with the American steel trust. The London board of education com- plains that the professional life of the women teachers is only eleven years, “owing to the havoc wrought by mat- rimony.” Cardinal Moran, archbishop of Syd- ney, N. S. W., was received in private audience by Pope Pius and presented to the! pontiff the congratulations of the Catholics of Australia. The Canadian department of ma- rine and fisheries is determined to put a stop to illegal fishing on the Great Lakes, and will put on a number of fast patrol boats for that purpose. The czar will pay a five-day visit to Emperor Francis Joseph at Vienna at the end of September. The funeral of Menotti Garibaldi, son of the Italian patriot, took place at Rome, and was the occasion of a big demonstration of men who had fought under his father and uncle. It is beiieved that apart from those who were killed by jumping from the buildings, only ten persons perished in the fire which broke out in Gold- berg’s fancy goods warehouse at Buda- pest, endangering the lives of 200 workren : clares the emperor is not ready to grant the army concessions demand- ed. A general strike began Aug. 20 at Ekaterinoslav, Russia, resulting in a complete tieup of business. In a clash with the soldiers eleven strikers were killed and twelve wounded, work be- ing resumed under military protec- tion. After frinking together in a saloon at Queenstown Sunday night, a num- ber of German sailors from the war- ship Stosch and English artillerymen fought in the roadway. .Knives were used, and two of the artillerymen were stabbed and seriously wounded. Sin and Sinners. There has been no clue found as to the murderer of four-year-old Alphonse Wilmes at Detroit. An electric car was held up at Los Angeles and the conductor and motor- man were robbed of $14 and two watches, Four masked men held up the guard of the Featherstonchaugh mines in Atlan, Alaska, and stole nearly $20,- 000 worth of gold dust. While crazed by drink, John Brown, a laborer, ran amuck at .Lancaster, Pa., stabbing three men, two of whom are in a critical condition. Alfred Crosby Owen is under arrest in New York fd impersonating the son of Senator Elkins and signing checks in the name of S. B. Elkins. An attempt was made to wreck two passenger trains near Quindaro, Mo., but without success. Dynamite ard an open switch were the means used. Maidie Demrow, stolen by gypsies ten years ago when but ten years old, escaped from them in Alabama and reached her parents ‘home in Urbana, Ill, recently. F Sam Stiles, colored, convicted of murder at Cuero, Tex., was granted a two days’ reprieve as he stood upon the gallows awaiting the adjustment of the black cap. A thief smashed the window of W. A. Worthman’s’ jewelry store in the heart of the city of Canton, Ohio, and escaped with a tray containing $2,000 worth of diamonds. , Claude Bird, son of Auditor C. D. Bird of the Chicago, Burlington % Quincy road, is under arrest at Chi- chago charged with forging the payee’s name on a check for $274. Marcey K. Brown, a’ prominent law- yer and Democratic politician of Kan- sas City, shot and seriously wounded Frank Hunter, a shipping clerk. Hun- ter was attempting to force an en- trance into Brown’s house. Amos Acre and son, Doc, were shot to death by Granville Tabor and Eph Rector at Mount Union church, near Somerset, Ky., and Pierce Hubbard, a bystander, was hit by a stray bullet and killed. An automobile containing W. H. Kirkpatrick of Cleveland, his wife, mother, and a man named Cavanaugh, became unmanageable and backed down a hill. It upset, killing Mr. Nitz- patrick’s wife and seriously injuring the others. ~ Mrs. Fanny Land of Louisville, Ky., will probably die, and her daughter Mattie, and Enoch and Palmer Gore, are seriously ill as the result of ar- senical poisoning, the arsenic being taken in coffee, presumably prepared by ‘some one bent on murder. Winfield Baker, formerly of the mountains of Kentucky. was convict- ed in Danville, Ill., of assault to mur- der Sheriff Whitlock, and was sen- tenced to a term of from one to four- teen years, this being the first trial and conviction of a member of the mob that attacked the Danville jail in July, after having lynched the ne- gro James Metcalf and burned his body. General. The Lackawanna county (Pa.) Dem- ecratic convention indorsed Judge George Gray of Delaware for presi- dent. A movement is on foot for the con- solidation of all German soaieties in America composed of men who served in the German army. Judge Raymond has decided that the Dawes commission has a right to al- lot lands and funds to Cherokee freed- men who were not on the rolls in 1898, ; Because of failure to secure author- ity from the Turkish government, the American expedition for the excava- tion of Ur of the Caldees has been abandoned. Congressman John Stephens of Texas declares in favor of establish- ing a penal colony in the Philippines to which all negroes shall be deport- ed who commit crime. Sympathizers with Macedonia held a mass meeting at Chicago and passed resolutions denunciatory of the Turk- ish government, which will be sent to President Roosevelt. The American Shipbuilding com- pany has received an order from, A. B. Wolvin for what will be the largest boat on the lakes. She will be 560 feet long and will cost $500,000. Consolidation of all Chicago street car lines is contemplated as the means of solving the traction problem. Com- mittees from the various lines are now working on the plan. MACEDONIANS PROCLAIM AN IN- SURRECTION IN NORTHERN MACEDONIA. ON THE SULTAN’S ANNIVERSARY FIGHTING PROCEEDS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS WITH HEAVY Losses. ANOTHER MASSACRE OCCURS ENTIRE POPULATION OF A VIL- LAGE KILLED BY TURKISH TROOPS. Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 2—The Mac- edonian vevolutionaries awaited the anniversary of the sultan’s accession to proclaim the long-anticipated gen- eral insurrection in Northern Mace- donia. The proclamation was issued yesterday and it was signed >by all the |) members of the insurgent general staff. At the village of Armensi, after a day’s fighting, the Turkish troops ia the nighttime massacred the entire population of 180 men and 200 women. The Turks also have massacred the inhabitants of the village of Velesi. It is reported th: Hilmi Pasha, the inspector general for Macedonia, re- fuses to leave his headquarters in the Konak at Monastir. The insurgent leader Grueff, in a letter to Hilmi Pasha, demanded that he prevent the Barberous Acts of the soldiers at Bashi-Bazouks, oth- erwise the revolutionists would mas- sacre all the Turkish in habitants. The insurgents have occupied the mountain pass of Gergelee, on the main line from Salonica to Uskub, and Turkish troops have been sent to dislodge them. -The town of Malkoternovo is re- ported to be in a state of anarchy. The Turks are plundering the houses and committing unspeakable atroci- ties on the women. A strong furce of Turkish infantry cavalry and artillery recently at- tacked the village of Stcilovo, north- ward of Malkoternovo, which had been Occupied by Insurgents. The latter retired, after which the Turks entered the place, massacred the entire population and destroyed the entire village. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has arrived at Euxinograde, Bulgaria, where he has been joined by Premier Petroff. The prince is expected to remain there for some time. According to the latest Turkish es- timates, about 1,500 Bulgarians were killed at the recent fighting at Smi- lero, Neveska and Klissura. The Turkish losses are not stated. This estimate does not include further losses in the Smilero district, where fighting was renewed Aug, 30 and con- tinued until yesterday. It is reported that 650 Bulgarians were killed in the last battle. Five Arrests Made. Constantinople, Sept. 2—The porte has notified Minister Leishman that five arrests have been made at Beirut in connection with the shooting which led to the report that William C. Magelssen, the United States vice and deputy consul there, had been assassinated. The Turkish officials continue to insist that no attempt was made on the vice consul’s life, and they reassert that the whole story originated in a feu de joie fired on the occasion of a native marriage and in accordance with customs. Mr. Leish- man, however, refuses to accept such an explanation without conclusive proof that the judicial investigation continues. TURKISH VERSION OF IT. No Attempt Was Made to Assassinate Vice Consul Magelssen. Washington, Sept. 2—Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister, has from the minister of foreign affairs at Constantinople a dispatch giving the Turkish version of the attempt on the life of Vice Consul Magelssen at Ket- rut. It was dated Aug. 30 and orig- finally was sent the minister’s sum- mer home at Sayville, L. I. After de- claring that the report of the assas- sination of Mr. Magelssen was abso lutely false, the dispatch gives a ver- sion of the affair practically tue same as has been told before in the dis- patches from Turkey. It says that the pistol was fired by a man returning from a marriage fete. the shot was fired in the air and that it happened just as Mr. Magelssen was passing in his carriage. This, the dispatch says, led the vice consul to believe that an attempt had been made against his life. The man who did the shooting already has been delivered to the ju- dicial authorities. Chekib Bey’s dis- patch also asserts that order and tranquillity prevail at Beirut. Committed Many Murders. Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 2. — Fernando Venzeula, for. whose capture, dead or alive, a large reward was offered, has been shot and killed by Mexican rur- ales at Santa Cruz. Sonora. He was accused of having committed half a dozen murders along the border with- in a few months, Child Crushed to Death. Calumet, Mich., Sept. 2. — Ovila Becotte was crushed to death beneath a loaded hay wagon while playing un- der the wheels _ received |. “ASSAULTED BY MASKED MEN. Two Men Seriously Injured as Out-|) come of Miners? Strike. Victor, Colo., Sept. 2. - were assaulted and seriously injured, one probably fatally, yesterday as a result, it is believed, of the present strike of the miners of this district. The first assault occurred at Ana- conda, the victim being John F. Hawking, justice of the peace. His assailants are unknown, but it is be- lieved the assault was connected with the trial some days ago of two guards at the ElPaso mine charged with carrying concealed weapons. One of them was fined $25 and the other was released. The second out- rage happened late last night. Thom- as M. Stewart, a carpenter employed in the construction of a high fence around the Golden Circle property, was taken from his home at Inde- pendence, terribly beaten and shot through the body. His assailanis were five in number. Some of them wore masks, but the victim claims to have recognized those who were not masked. He declines to name them at present, TELLS MANY TALES. Man Who Told Details of Chicago Robbery Now Says He Lied. Chicago, Sept. 2—John W. Sluder, ex-employe of the Chicago City Raul- way company, who, on Monday night gave the police an alleged confession of the circumstances surrounding tfle murderous raid on the company’s barns last Sunday Morning, informed Chief O'Neil, in the presence of a number of newspaper men last night that all his startling yarns about the tragedy were talse. “That was all a lie, chief. I don’t know why I teld it, but I was not there at all when the shooting look place.” The chief declared that Sluder’s de- nial was no surprise to him, as ever since the young man had been arrest- ed he had been telling one story and contradicting it in the next breath. The strange thing about Sluder now seems to be, as the police view it, his familiarity with every move made by the robbers, details which Henry Biehl, one of the clerks in the office, | alone was supposed to know, except- ing the robbers themselves. MOB IS BAFFLED, Attempt to Take a Prisoner Jail Is Frustrated. Hawanee, Wash., Sept. 2.—A gang of fifty masked men went to ‘he jail early yesterday morning and demandé- ed that Jailor Galloway turn over to them James Griffin, colored, who was under arrest for attempted assault on Mrs. Jane Hobbs, a white woman liy- ing near here. Griffin had been fright- ened away by the woman’s screams and was arrested a short distance away. When the mob demanded that Galloway turn over Griffin to them. Galloway armed himself, and after arguing with them, told them any attempt to enter the jail would be at their peril. After a few inet- fectual attempts to break down the doors the mob dispersed at dnylight. A few colored persons thinking it was a race riot, left town. The negro has been taken out of town for safe keep- ing. From DARING THIEF CAUGHT. Run Down Within a Few Minutes of Making Good Haul. Milwaukee, Sept. 2—The Germania National bank was robbed of $500 yesterday by a daring thief who gave his name a& George P. Johnson. The money taken was a package of cur- rency and was extracted from the paying teller’s desk by means of a short piece of copper wire while the teller was engaged at the telephone. The thief was run down and captured and the money recovered all in the space of a few minutes. Johnson ac- knowledges that his real name 1s George Shea and the Bertillon meas- urements establish this fact. He is credited in police circles with having robbed the Metropolitan Nationa: Bank of New York of $10,000 on July 28, 1899, and various other robberies. pak nL Yue. Pr COS TWO KILLED IN WRECK. Engineer and Fireman Roasted to Death. Minocqua, Wis., Sept. 2. — A col- lision on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road between a work train and a logging train near Star Lake resulted in the death of Engineer Charles Blair and Fireman Thomas Close, who failed to jump. The men were pinned in the engine close to the boiler and roasted to death. SAVED BY A DOG. Whole Family Would Have Been As- phyxiated Only for It. Milwaukee, Sept. 2.—Anna Radtke died from asphyxiation in a bed room in the home of William Graff. The barking of a dog which was in the room with Miss Radtke aroused the rest of the household and saved the lives of four others who were in close proximity to the leaky gas jet. Fined for Seining. Wabesha, Minn., Sept. 2. — Deputy Game Warden Ira Weeks arrested Frank Thorpe and Albert Bates for attempting to catch fish with nets at Pile lake. They pleaded guilty and got twenty days each in jail. t Took Everything. Glencoe, Minn., Sept. 2. — The State Bank of Silver Lake, Minn., was robbed of $2,500 in cash and all notes and securities. The safe was com- pletely destroyed. There is no clue to the perpetrators. Two men that | Nats ISTHMUS OF PANAMA IS ALIGHT. WITH THE FIRES OF REV- OLUTION. ARMED FORCES ARE GATHERING REJECTION OF TREATY SIGNAL FOR DECLARATION OF IN- DEPENDENCE. THEY WANT THE CANAL BUILT REVOLUTIONISTS ARE THOSE WHO FAVOR THE CANAL TREATY. San Jose, Costa Rica, Sept. 2. Travelers from Panama report the isthmus alight with fires of a revolu- tion. It is inspired, it is believed, by men who, in Panama and Colon, have systematically engendered the pro- American fecling to bring about tie | building o fthe isthmian canal by the United States. The Indians have risen, and the late followers of Gen. Herrera are mustering in the moun- tain villages preparatory to joining an organized revolt caused by the rejec- tion of the canal treaty. Hundreds of stacks of arms, con- fiseated by the Colombian govern- ment at the close of the late revolu- tion, have reappeared from some inys- terious source, and thousands of rifles that look suspiciously like the Maus- ers the United States captured in Cubaa are being issued to the gather- ing forces at central points.. With the arms goes ammunition from the: factories, showing the movements are carefully plaanned. In Panama the people are reported to be almost a unit for the declaration of independence. The government forces in Panama and Colon, number- ing less than 1,500 men, are reported to be a little more than friendly to The Revolutionary Spirit. Travelers from Panama to Puenta Arenas say that in Panama it is re- ported that Gen. Herrara has disap- peared from his home near Bogota, ‘|and is presumed to be on his way to the isthmus. If this is true Herrera probably will again assume control of the revolutionary forces and cast his. lot with the isthmian people, as was his intention had the late revolution terminated in favor of the Liberal party. ° Gen. Victoniano Lorenzo, who was banished to Coucau after the surren- der of the Liberal forces last Decem- ber, has escaped, and is presumed to be in the marshes, making his way back to the isthmus. Lorenzo had | 7,000 Indians in his following, and it is believed he will have little difficul- ty in rallying the old forces if he suc- ceeds in making his way back to San Carlos or to any contiguous point. From Chorrerra comes the report that he is in that locality mustering the Indians. At Reujokoa, Col Rouka is in command of well mobilized forces. SAT ON HIS HEAD. Athletic Omaha Girl Captures a Bur- glar Single Handed. Omaha, Sept. 2—Mamie Corrigan, an athletic Omaha girl of eighteen years, encountered a man emerging from her apartments when she re- turned home last evening. Miss Cor- rigan dragged the man back into her rooms, saw the place had been ran- sacked, and when he attempted to fight she felled him with a piece of furniture and sat on his head and screamed for the police. He is now in jail. EXPLOSION OF BENZINE. it Kills One Workman and Fatally Injures Another. paints in the shop of Joseph Muk- losky at Homestead, Pa., a can of ben- zine exploded, killing Adam Louchey and fatally burning Sinus Watley. Arion Condusky, a mill man, was seri- ously burned while attempting to ex- tinguish the flames. The building was destroyed. The cause of the ex- plosion is not known. Parks Out of Prison. Ossining, N. Y., Sept. 2—Samuel J, Parks, the New York walking dele- gate convicted of extortion, was re- leased from Sing Sing prison yester- day on a certificate of reasonahie doubt. He was taken to New York by a deputy sheriff. - ‘ Amateur Detective Thumped. New Albany, Ind., Sept. 2. — As a reward of his services as an amateur detective to run down a Dill raiser,» Charles Marshall of Orange county was so badly beaten by his prospect- ive prisoner that he will die. The prisoner escaped. Close Call for Morgan. New York, Sept. 2—While J. Pier- pont Morgan’ was on his'way from his’ yacht last evening the driver of his brougham drove the vehicle into an excavation. Mr. Morgan was not in- jured. He proceeded in a car. Harvest Not Yet Completed. Steele, N."D., Sept.’ 2. — The past week was the wettest on record for this season of the year. The rainfall in five days was 4.02 inches. There is still much cutting to do. No thresh- . Pittsburg, Sept. 2. — While mixing , ik Pe - ( 4 i —- oa a ow