Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 12, 1903, Page 6

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Sultan Dosoon should have his name changed to Toosoon. Geronimo probably has confessed that he was an old chief of sinners. Jamaica should be a good market for cyclone cellars during the next few months, “I sleep like a babe,” says Corbett. What poetic language these hard-fist- ed fighters use! Apparently Mount Vesuvius’ grudge against the existing order of things is deep and lasting. The new college of journalism i¢ primarily intended, however, to pro- duce newspaper men. Undoubtedly Russia and Japan are merely bluffing. Neither has begun to invest in Missouri mules. It would be well worth going many miles to see Mr. Jeffries and a good swift red devil collide head-on. Thomas Cooksey Ward, “The Sage of Maryland,” is dead at the age of 111. It takes a sage to reach that age. A St. Paul girl tried the old reli- able test to discover if they were mushrooms or toadstools. It worked. California regrets to report that she has not prunes enough this year to create trouble in even the Hungarian diet. Literary people should live as near as possible to nature without getting too far away from the publishers.— Puck. Perhaps if they had allowed Mr Corbett to take an ax into the ring with him the result might have been different, Prof. Langley should not be discour- aged. If his machine will not fly per- haps it will be a success as a sub; marine boat. A Chicago professor has undertaken the task of writing six large books about money. That’s his scheme for getting money. If a man will only keep on making Jove to a woman after he has married her they can keep on fooling them- selves indefinitely. Live shells were fired at a French warship without any apparent effect _ upon it. However, Dewey’s men were » to have a few of the rocks dug out ] |. not behind the guns. Unfortunately the people the world would like most to be rid of are never the ones who get mixed up in those tunnel accidents. Lawrence, Kas., had a wind storm the other day that made some of the old settlers think for the moment that Quantrell had come again. How would it do for the nations, be- fore further increasing their navies, of the oceans, so the boats will have room? “The sheep which were imprisoped in the turret of the French cruiser Suffern”—that’s just what they were doing, even if they were not seriously injured. * —____ It is generally known that potatoes contain a large percentage of alcohol but are we to infer that this is most generously liberated in ‘the ppocess of mashing? There is a man at Laurel, L. L., whc claims that in the sixty years of his life he has eaten 87,000 pancakes. Some people don’t seem to have any sense of shame. Representative Baker of Brooklyn, who will neither accept railroad passes nor appoint cadets to Annapo- lig, must have got-into politics by mis- take.—Buffalo Express. That man in Mount Vernon who let his wife compel him to sleep for a month in the chicken coop has shown unconsciously that it, takes a wife to measure accurately the dimensions of ter husband. The San Francisco earthquake and the eruption of Mt, Colima, following the outburst from Vesuvius, afford am- ple evidence that the disturbance in- side the great round ball on which we live has not been settled yet. “If you are bitten by a rattlesnake,” fays an authority, “and can’t get whisky, eat tobacco—a pound if nec- essary. It will cure you.” Life is sweet, and there are men, doubtless, who would pay even this price for it. The Toledo Blade says: “Miss Fairy ‘Titmarsh has a pair of calves that can not be beat in this section of our glorious republic.” Perhaps somebody will write a poem about them, as somebody did about Mary’s little lamb. Some immense waterspouts have been seen in Nome, and it has been hailing blocks of ice in Colorado, but not a solitary sea-serpent has shown . up at any of the seaside resorts this summer. ‘he sea-serpent liar must be daking a vacation ‘this year, DEFECTIVE PAGE Washington Notes. An extra session of congress before Nov. 9 is not expected. Agitation by the agricultural depart- ment has resulted in an improvement .n the milk supply. The cruiser. Cleveland showed bet- ter than the required speed on her trial trip at Portland, Me. The general staff of the army is con- sidering the rehabilitation of the nu- merous forts and posts throughout the country? President Roosevelt has announced that Henry C. Ide will succeed Gen. Luke Wright as vice governor of the Philippines. The government has finally selected a site for the Albert Lea federal build- ing at the corner of Newton and Wil- liams streets. President Roosevelt has notified our representatives in China that the “re- form” editors must not be given up for punishment outside the legation settlement. The United States geological survey has established seven new stations and renewed four old stations in North Da- ota for the purpose of determining the amount of water available for power and irrigation purposes. The Honolulu Bar association has drafted a memorial to congress ask- ing that the number of supreme jus- tices of the territory of Hawaii be in- creased from three to five owing to the large number of cases awaiting decision. Casualties. Engineers James Rodenberg of Bellevue and J. G. Bartholomew of Conneaut were killed in a wreck at Toledo, Ohio. George Adams and Owen Bower were killed by contact with alive wire at Beaver, Pa. Adams attempted to rescue Bowen, when he met his death. A reservoir containing 1,500,000 bar- rels of oil was burned at Sour Lake, Tex., at a loss of $500,000. It was owned by James W. Syayne of Fort Worth, Tex. Wesley McChesney was instantly killed and Archie Lemontague prob- ably fatally injured by the caving in of a slope in a mine in which they were working, near Cameron, Col. James H. Ackley and two others were in a skiff which was over- turned at Pittsburg, throwing them out. Ackley was reached by rescu- ers, but refused help until his com- panions were safé. Then it was too late and he was drowned. Crimes and Criminals. An attempt is thought to have been made to hold up a passenger frain in Montana. The jury found Caleb Powers guilty of complicity in the killing of Goebel, and the death sentence was imposed. Two street railway employes,in Chi- cago were killed and two others are in- jured by three robbers, who escaped with $3,000. A. B. Rown of Clarinda, La. shot and killed himself because his horse, K. C., had lost a race and he had lost a wager of $100. Wm. T. Tucker, a prominent club man of Baltimore, trustee of his father’s estate, has disappeared. His accounts are $500,000 short. L. A. Planving, a negro educator, was killed from ambush near Oscar, La. He was principal of the Pointe Coupee industrial college, an institu- tion for the education of negroes.@ Aloysius Cavanaugh of Washington Grove, Md., a patient in a sanatorium near Baltimore, shot and instantly killed his business partner, M. H. Guiney, of Washington, DB. C., and then shot and killed himself. Albert Fleming, a foreman in the Carnegie steel plant at Bellaire, O., was found dead in a field with his skull crushed. He was last seen in the company of two veiled women. He was married and had two children. Judge Cavanaugh of the, Chicago criminal court sentenced Assistant State’s Attorney Barnett and Detective | Thomas J. Howard and Louis Houillion to ten days’ imprisonment, fining Bar- nett $50 in addition, for contempt oi court. They attempted to serve state papers on Walter B. Hoyt while he was being tried before Judge Cavanaugh. Notes From Abroad. Emperor William praises the zeal of his tutors. A general insurrection in Northern Macedonia has been proclaimed. The Alaskan boundary commission- ers are now hard at work in London. A new fissure openéd in the cone of Vesuvius with tremendous detonations. The police at Florence, Italy, have unearthed a plot to steal works of art. Turks in Macedonia have started a movement for autonomy under Boys pean control. Colombia is reported willing to allow the building of the Panama canal un- der a new treaty. The British East African Jewish col- only scheme is generally looked upon in a favorable light. Berlin is indignant because H. Wie- man of Baltimore refused an invita- tion to visit the kaiser. It is shown that the Humberts were abetted or protected by members of the chamber of deputies. Foreigners in Venezuela who present. their claims against the government aet with horsh ininetina - Kilauea. ywali shows rolsanp. of Mlaneh, ate of smoke are ascending from the crater. The Danish West Indian commission reports that the population of the islands is satisfied to remain under Danish rule, The North Coast Siberian company, which includes Americans, is explor- ing and developing Siberia with Rus- sia’s permission. Baron Henri de Rothschild was sen- tenced to one day’s imprisonment ant a fine of 10 franc8 for scorching in his automobile at Paris. The Turkish consul general at Mar- seilles, M. Gaetanki, died suddenly while preparing to give a great feast in honor of the sultan. The battleship Slava, which is one of the largest vessels in the Russian navy, was launched at the Baltic yards in the presence of the czar and the royal family. Sir Edward Cartwright has given notice in the Canadian parliament of @ resolution to make provision for a subsidy not exceeding $133,333 a year for’a steamship service between Can- vada alld France. ‘The Spanish minister of the interior says the report published in America that thirty officers have been arrested for conspiring to prevent the queen mother from returning to Spain from Vienna, is absolutely unfounded. Dr. Finley, the head of the Havana health department, says that there is not the slightest foundation for ihe report published in the United States that a disease resembling the plague has developed at Daquiri, Santiago. The police at Florepce, Italy, have succeeded in finding a valuable Della Robbia bas-relief representing the de- scent from the cross, which was stolen last January from the oratory of the Brotherhood of the Annunciation at Lepi. M. Timaschen, formerly assistant to M. Pleske, who left the governor- ship of the Russian Imperial State bank to succeed M. Witte as minister of finance, has taken M. Pleske's place as governor of the imperial bank. The buildings on the Prussian crown estate at Boonheim, near Pots- dam, the use of which are enjoyed by Prince Henry of Prussia, have been set on fire by a servant. The crops and machinery in the buildings were destroyed. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain ca. bled an authorization,to the colonial banks at Kingston, Jamaica, to advance £50,000 to the planters whose planta- tions were recently destroyed by the storms, The planters had asked for a loan of about £200,000. Fred Bonge, one of the best known newspaper men from New York to the Middle West, died in Superior, Wis., of typhoid pneumonia. Mr. Bonge went to the head of the lakes from Chicago last winter. He has done work on the New * York, Chicago and Twin Uiy newspapers. People Talked About. Senator Hanna, who has been ill, is better. Arthur Larcom, of the British for- eign office, has been appointed Brit- ish agent in the Venezuelan arbitra- tion proceedings. Ernest Hastings, an actor, who com- mitted eighty-five parts to memory in two and one-half years, is suffering from a nervous breakdown in New York. y Editor Bowser of Laporte, Ind., who is fighting the negro coloniza- tion movement in Northern Indiana, announces that he will publish the name of every white man in Porter county who is employing a negro. While reciting a prayer in the pul- pit of St. Paul’s church at Inwood, L. L, the Rev. Gilbert Combs stopped in the middle of a sentence. One of the congregation, hastening to his side, found the minister, who was sev- enty-nine years of age, dead from heart failure. Otherwise. Champion Jim Jeffries and Jack Monroe have agreed to meet in Los Angeles Oct. 16 for a twenty-round contest. President Callahan of the hotel and restaurant employes’ alliance of Chi- cago failed in his efforts to induct the memebers to strike. Abe Attell of San Francisco re- ceived the decision over Johnny Rea- gan of Brooklyn at the end of the twentieth round at St. Louis. Owing to the existence of yellow fever at Monterey, Mexico, a rigid quarantine has been established against that and other fever points. The “leading citizens” of Roseville, Ill., have organjzed the People’s Na tional Protective assocjation, that promises speedy death to trusts of all kinds. State organizers are being .sent out. The San Francisco promotion com- mittee has sent a telegram to the resident of the New York Yacht lub, inviting the committee to select San Francisco harbor as the next course for the defense of the Ameri- ca’s cup. Labor disturbances have arisen it the glassworking trade which have culminated in a strike of 1,400 glass workers in New York, and a threat- } ened strike by the Amalgamated In- ternational Glass Workers union all over the country for a uniform rate of e FRAUDS IN POSTOFFICE ‘DEPART: MENT MAKE WORK FOR THE courts. a eat GRAND JURY INDICTS SIX MEN NAMES ARE WITHHELD UNTIL PARTIES INDICTED ARE - ARRESTED. BEAVERS GIVES HIMSELF UP STERN, THE MISSING BALTIMORE CONTRACTOR, LOCATED IN CANADA. Washington, Sept. 10.—After delib- erating for several weeks over a mass of documents submitted by the post- office inspectors the federal grand jury in this city yesterday returned seven indictments in postal cases, in- volving six different persons. All the postal indictments were kept off the public records and both the officials of the district attorney’s office and of the postoffice department refused to discuss names and details of the indictments until the parties in- dicted are arrested. The indicted in- dividuals’ identity thus was left a mat- ter of conjecture. It is expected ar- rests will occur to-day, and that the postoffice department will have some Announcement to Make during the forenoon. The grand jury’s action probably marks the beginning of the end of the investigations that have been in progress since the middle of last March. Voluminous evidence has been laid before the grand jury as the result of the inquiry, and while the present report of the jury disposes of most of the cases, there yet remains several cases to be passed upon. When |, the latter are disposed of, according to postmaster General Payne, the investi- gation, so far as the work at Wash- ington is concerned, will be at an end. Several of the persons indicted yes- terday live outside of Washington. They will be arrested as soon as bench warrants can be served. Postmaster General Payne and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow received word of the Grand Jury’s Action shortly after that body reported, and subsequently they had a long con- ference on the subject. Both officials refused to divulge details pending of- | ficial notification of arrests. Two oth- er important events occurred yester- day in the postoffice inquiry. _ Leopold Stern, a Baltimore con- tractor who disappeared from Balti- more before he could be arrested on an indictment returned July 31 last, was located at Toronto, and the long delayed surrender of George W. Beavers, the former head of the salary and allwance division to the New York authorities took place. PREFERS DROWNING. Man Lost in the Swamps Plans Suicide to Escape Mosquitoes. New York, Sept. 10. —-A man was seen floundering about in the swamps at the foot of the Palisades in Hobo- ken early yesterday morning by Pa- trolman Young, who got him out and took him to police headquarters. There the man said he was John McGraw, a truck driver out of employment. Mc- Graw said he had wandered into the swamps while in the dark, and had been trying for more than two hours to get out. He was attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes, he said, and was so tortured by them that he was.on the point of attempting to drown him- self when Young came along and res- cued him. McGraw’s face was swollen from the bites. After he told his story he began to talk wildly and said that in addition to the mosquitoes he had been attacked by swamp rats) He pointed to holes in his shoes which he said the rats had made. McGraw was removed in an ambulance to St. Mary’s hospital. It was said there that he was demented and that the story he told about his suffering in the swamps was probably exaggerated. ‘ ARMY OFFICER DISMISSED. Guilty of Insulting Wife of Fellow Of- ficer. New York, Sept. 10. — Accused of having been guilty of conduct “unbe- coming an officer and a gentleman,” in having insulted the wife of a fellow of- ficer. Lieut. Hamilton, son of Dr. Ham- ilton of this city, has been tried by court-martial in the Philippines, found guilty and sentenced to dishonorable dismissal from the service. The ver- dict may be reversed by the judge ad- vocate genvral at Washington, to whom the papers. have been for- warded. FOR MARCONI STATION. I hala Site for One Assigiied at the World’s Fair. St. Louis, Sept. 10. — Twenty-five square feet on a hill just east of Art hill, on the world’s fair grounds, have been assigned by the exposition man- agement as a site for a demonstration station for the Marconi wireless tele- graph. From here wireless messages will be flashed during the fair across many miles of land and sea to’ far dis- tant corners of the old world. FIGHT AT BEIRUT. - Musstilmans and Christians. Washington, Sept. 10.—Cablegrams | Were received at the state and navy department yesterday from Minister Leishman at’ Constantinople ‘and Ad- miral Cotton, commanding the Ameri- can squadron now in Turkish waters, respectively, giving an account of: the riot which occurred at Beirut Sunday. It was stated at the navy department that no new instructions had gone to Admiral Cotton in consequence of yesterday’s reports. Instructions sent to Minister Leishman yesterday con- template that he keep the state de- partment constantly informed as to the situation that the department may know to what extent protection is be* ing afforded American citizens. Leishman’s Report. Minister Leishman’s report’ says that seven Christians were killed and several wounded by the Mussulmans. Two houses occupied by Christians were pillaged by the soldiery. The panis was general. An officer and a, signal man from Admiral Cotton’s fleet are now in the consulate, and an investigation of con- ditions at Beirut is being made by a flag lieutenant, Consul Ravndal and other consular officers. Minister Leishman says that the origin of the trouble is not distinctly. stated by our consul. He further says that it is claimed by the sublime porte that conditions at Beirut‘are again quiet and that the force now there is’ sufficient to guarantee the safety of the city. May Land Marines. The navy department received the following cablegram from Rear Ad- miral Cotton, dated Beirut, Sept. 7 ‘ “Violence and bloodshed between Mohammedans and native Christians occurred at Beirut Sunday. Six Greeq Christians, two Mohammdans and one Turkish soldier killed; three Greek Christians, three Mohammedans and three Turkish soldiers wounded seri ously. Other murders reported. “Flag lieutenant and United Stated consul were present Sunday and Mon- day in the disturbed quarter and veri- fy details of statement. Turkish gov- ernment willingly § Afforded Facilities for their investigation and guard;, } promise 1,000 more Turkish soldiers. Turkish soldiers present sufficient if properly disposed of to handle situa- tion at Beirut. Well patrolled and alf quiet Sunday night and to-day. Turk- ish governor promises to do all in his power to restore authority. Many houses closed and business suspended. “I have prepared to land a force for the protection of property of American’ citizens if situation demands. Will act with caution. Present trouble’ 4 to animosity between inimicable an native Christians and failure to cons trol crimes.” As Reported From Beirut. Constantinople, Sept. 10.— A con sular dispatch from Beirut, received at one of the embassies here, states that a fierce brawl occurred there Sunday’ between parties of Mussulmans and Christians. It was due ‘to a.shot fired by a Mussulmans at a Christian em- ployed at the American college. The Christian was wounded. The fight broke out while the vali was on board the United States cruis- er Brooklyn, returning Admiral Cot- ton’s visit. No further details have been rcceived. In diplomatie circles here the affair is regarded as being ‘serious, and a renewal of the disturb- ance is feared. Grows Blacker and Blacker. London, Sept. 10. Everything seems to point to new and terrible de- velopments in Macedonia. On top of the appalling accounts of the results of the Turkish methods of “restoring order” .in the vilayet of . Monastir comes the threat by the insurgents to resort to reprisals on the same scale. The porte’s anxiety to suppress news’ by expelling newspaper correspond- ents from the operations is held to have but one meaning. This mornings papers comment upon the significance of the news that Russia and Austria are seeking to persuade the powers to, coerce Bulgaria as showin a belief that war is inevitable. 150,000 Persons in Hiding. Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 10.—The Mace- donian interior organization estimates that 150,000 women, children and old men are hiding in the mountains and forests of Macedonia. The Turks ar burning the forests in the districts of Leren and Kostur, and killing fugi- tives who attempt to escape to the plains. Worked for Daniel Webster. Madison, Wis., Sept. 10.—Henry C. Delano of Marshfield, Mass., died of paresis here yesterday while he was visiting his granddaughter, Mrs. M. W. Keeley. For thirty years he was em- ployed by Daniel Webster and was the last to look on the great statesman’s face, closing the lid of the coffin. Logs Rolled Over Him. Weiser, Idaho, Sept. 10.—A young man named Earl Willoughby was killed at Fuller’s sawmill, about twelve miles from Cambridge, this county, about noon Sunday. He was banking logs with a team of horses when th logs began rolling. A large log canahe young Willoughby and rolled over him. His head was crushed into an unrecdg- nizable mass. He was about twenty years of age and the son of an Advent- ist minister. ierce, Street Brawl Occurs” Between ii THE PARADE + CAGO. IN CHI AN EMPLOYER IS ASSAULTED FOR DRIVING ONE OF HIS OWN TEAMS WITHOUT HAVING + UNION CARD. CHASED BY A MOB OF 1,000 MEN HARNESS CUT, HORSES COM. PELLED TO RUN AWAY AND DRIVER BEATEN. Chicago, Sept. 9. — L. J. Thornton, the proprietor of a warehouse and van company, was assaulted yesterday during the labor parade because he was driving one of his own teams without having a union card in his possession. Thornton hitched the horses to one of his vans in the morning and took a score or more of children out to tee the parade. He attempted to haul noth- ing but his guests. For three hours he stood with his wagon at the corner of Jackson Boulevard and Clark streets and watched the parade. When he attempted to drive away he was stopped by some of the teamsters in .| the parade, who asked if he had a union card. He Tried to Explain that he needed no card, that it was his own team and that he was doing no hauling. Several hundred men gathered around the wagon and at- tempted to pull him off. An escort of police enabled him to get several blocks away, when a mob numbering fully one thousand caught up*with him. He whipped up his horses and for nearly a mile he was pursued, when finally the mob cut the harness of his horses into small pieces, beat the ani- mals with canes, compelling them to run away and then beat Thornton bad- ly. Thornton employs a large number of teamsters, all of whom are members of the union, and has never had any trouble with the organization before. Murdered at a Picnic. St. Louis, Sept. 9. — The building trades council paraded 8,000 strong. They celebrated the afternoon and evening with a picnic at Forest Park Highlands. Here, late in the after- noon, Andrew Barrett, a private watch- man, was killed. He attempted to ar- rest a man who was making a disturb- ance near the scenic railway. Friends of the man set upon the watchman and so brutally beat him that he died be- fore the arrival of an ambulance. Twenty officers went to Barrett’s as- sistance. They were attacked by the crowd. Revolvers, clubs and batons were freely used, and a number of per: sons were seriously injured. HOPE FOR THE WORST. Europe Would Like to See an Indus- trial Crisis in America. Berlin, Sept. 9.—Industrial_ Europe's eyes are eagerly fixed on labor condi- tions in the United States. The ex- pected financial crash not having oc- curred, Europe is hoping that Ameri- can commercial supremacy may be ar- rested by the spread of labor diseon- tent. American strikes, lockouts and trade union seandals are extensively reported in the European press and accepted as signs that American work- ‘ngmen are losing their heads and hastening the day when the United States need’ no longer be regarded as 2 dangerous competitor in the world’s markets. This feeling is particularly prevalent in Germany, whjch is becom- ing more and more dependent on its export trade and is anxious to profit by the misfortune of its rivals, fore- most among whom it ranks the United States, THREE PERISH IN A MINE. Cut Off From Escape by Fire — Res- cuers Are Injured. Springer, N. Mex., Sept. 9. — Last Friday afternoon Mine No. 1 of the Dawson Fuel company caught fire and is now burning. In room No. 8 of the mine were three men, all of whom perished. Some one set fire to a cur- tain at the entry of the mine, and from this the fire started. Saturday evening the superintendent of the mine, with a posse of men, started to rescue those inside and put out the fire. The fans were working ana when the force was quite a distance inside a terrible explosion took place, throwing some of them as far as thirty feet. All came out scorched and scratched and some badly burt. The mine is still on fire and the bodies of the dead have not been recovered. ss , CIRCUS TENT BLOWN DOWN. One Hundred Persons Receive More or Less Serious Injuries. Anthony, Kan., Sept. 9, — During a severe wind storm yesterday Robin- son’s circus tent was blown down. An immense crowd of people were in the menagerie and when the poles came. down with the canvas one hundred persons were hurt. Price Joyner was probably cages were overturned, some falling ‘VERY EXCITING INCIDENT DURING fatally injured. Animal °