Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 19, 1903, Page 6

: Dickens wrote. .-Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Little Lou Dillon his made a killin’, New York has a Don’t Do That club. No city needs one more. Of course, the Crawford brothers exist, but their name is John Smith, Jeffries reached every vulnerable point on Corbett except his vocabulary. The world is divided into two cless- es—those who work and those who work them. Lou Dillon has succeeded in demon- strating that it is possible to win fame in two minutes. It is fortunate that St. Paul didn’t say that women ought to wear their hats in theaters. Some strong power should take the Turk by the back of the neck and toss him violently over into Asia. It is really fortunate for a good many of us in the vacation season that there’s no place like home. The man who got drunk and took a monkey home with him unconsciously paid Darwin a warm compliment. Sometimes a suspicion will intrude itself that the powers don’t really know what to do about the Balkans. King Peter by this time would like nothing better than a chance to trade jobs with some American millionaire. It has been shown that a horse can earn as much distinction in two min- utes as a prize fighter can in two hours. That saloonkeeper of St. Louis who gives a revolver with every drink evi- dently does not belong to the hold-up men’s union. The Massachusetts is too good a vessel to be used for the purpose of finding uncharted rocks on the New England coast. The New York city father who lost his watch at a meeting of the board of aldermen must have known what com- pany he was keeping. Two stockmen out in Montana who killed a steer have been sent to jail for a year, This price beats the best efforts of the beef trust. College training alone can not make a good newspaper man, but college training can make a good newspaper man much more efficient. If we were to have a banana famine it may result in much suffering, but let us not give up hope as long as the pea- nut-crop seems to be all right. The demand for fireproof railway ears, like the demand for the restric- tion of the toy pistol, is becoming faint. How quickly we forget! Since that man shot his wife think- ing she was a burglar perhaps women will be more careful how they go through their husband’s pockets. One of the summer lecturers at the university of Chicago has declared that Longfellow’s poetry is no good. We are surprised that he didn’t say N.G. Why is it easier for the humorist to write paragraphs about women that will make men smile than it is to write paragraphs about men that will mcke women smile? A writer in the Paris Figaro says the sultan of Turkey is doing more for civilization than any other monarch in Europe. Still, that isn’t saying so ‘much for the sultan. With so many Macedonians, Turkish ‘and Russian names brought into prominence now the proofreader cer- ‘tainly has a good argument in favor ‘of an increase of salary. A Chinese-negro has been discover- ed who does not care for either water- melon or rice. As he claims to be a mative of England, it would be inter- ‘esting to know how he stands on roast ‘beef. Chauncey Depew knows how to make married life one grand sweet song. “My wife consulted all the physicians of fashion in Paris,” he says, “and purchased several stun- ning gowns.” The bald-headed eagle which has been presented to Sir Thomas Lipton may, on his return home, serve as a happy and emblematic remindgr of the nation that owns a yacht cup he would dearly love to possess. “Tampa leads the world in clear Ha- vana cigars,” says a Tampa paper. Connecticut leads the world in Pan- ama hats and Kansas City in Frank- fort sausages. Thus does the Ameri- can enterprise get the better of the effete old geography. Some one who has counted them finds that there are 1,425 characters in the twenty-four books that Charles And any admirer of Dickens will tell you that there is no one of them that is in the slightest degree like any of the other 1,424, 4 trate. DEFECTIVE PAGE _ Che News Washington Notes. The St. Paul Foundry company will build for the government a bird cage at the St. Louis fair as large as the treasury building and ninety feet wide. The official test of the cruiser Cleve- land showed a speed of 16.495 knots. The required speed is 16.5 knots. Ac- ceptance is recommended at a reduced price. The state department has cabled Minister Beaupre at Bogata that he will not be hampered in any way in his negotiations with the Colombian gov- ernment in the canal matter. Of the pensions paid during the fis- cal year ended June 30, Minnesota re- ceived $2,294,000; South Dakota $509,- 000; North Dakota $231,000. Nearly 41,000 names were dropped from the volls by death during the year. People Talked About. Herman Zumpe, a composer and mu- sical conductor, died at Munich, Ba- varia, of apoplexy. Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Clark, bishop of Rhode Island, died suddenly at his home in Middletown, R. I. Richard Brown, the pioneer iron manufacturer of the Mahoning valley, is dead at his home in Youngstown, aged seventy-five years. E. P. Moulinier, second assistant district attorney at Cincinnati, has been promoted to first assistant and Thomas H. Darby has been appointed second assistant. The Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tut- tle, bishop of Missouri, has become senior bishop of the Episcopal church by the death of Rt. Rev. Thomas Merch Clark, bishop of Rhode island. Dr. Tuttle was consecrated bishop in 1867. Jolin Bullock Clark, formerly a mem- ber of the house of representatives from Missouri, died in Washington, aged seventy-two years. He saw active service in the Confederate army, en- tering as a lieutenant and rising to the rank of brigadier general. Joseph E. Morcombe, librarian of a Masonic library at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been engaged by the sultan of Turkey to act as press agent of the Turkish government. He will have charge of all the communications given to the public concerning internal trou- bles in the Turkish empire. Casualties. Two boys named Epstein were } burned to death in an incendiary fire at Scranton, Pa. Six people were killed and twenty- five more or less seriously injured by a railroad wreck near Yorkville, S. C. Six men were badly injured by an ex- plosion of a boiler in the engine room of the Hanson-Van Winkle company at Newark, N. J. Damage, $10,000. Mrs. William Billman, Mrs. Attie Peters and Miss Blanche Gill were struck by a train on the Lake Shore road near Ligonier, Ind., and killed. Mike Jesey, John Cranz and Dan Sa- bin, three laborers, were crushed. to death by a caving in at the excavation for the site of a new hotel at Los An- geles. { County Judge Arthur E. Sutherland of Rochester, N. Y., was accidentally shot while duck hunting on Stony lake, Canada, sustaining a serious wound in the forearm. Price Joyner was probably fatally hurt and about a hundred others in- jured by the falling of a tent of Rob- inson’s cirens durirg a windstorm at Anthony, Kan. Mrs. Michael Wolfe was killed and eleven others wer injured near Wilkes- barre, Pa., by a trolley car striking a rock on the track and plunging down a thirty-foot embankment. Two Mexicans and a negro lost their lives by a fire in one of the mines of the Dawson Fuel company at Spring- er, N. M. While rescuers were at work an explosion occurred ,injuring about thirty. Three men were instantly killed and two other men and a boy injured in the Bride mine near Everett, Wash. The killed are Frank Kausaan, Joe Valentine and Morris Vanulti. The injured, A. Nieman, Joe Colish and Orville Kimball. Notes From Abroad. In Homberg and vicinity 200 persons are suffering from triconisis. Thirty-six international disputes have been settled by The Hague tri- bunal. China protests vigorously against the conditions imposed by Russia in her agreement to evacuate Manchuria, The tin plate strike at Swansea, Wales, is under an agreement to arbi- Over 20,000 men will return to work. ‘ President Harper has secured con- cesions from the sultan for explora- tions in the vicinity of ancient Baby- lon. Capassa, the aeronaut; Berget of the Sarbonne, and M. Reclus, the eminent geographer, are planning to cross the ocean in a balloon. The arbitration conference has un- der discussion a resolution to the ef- fect that the good offices of The Hague tribunal is never an unfriendly act. Marshall Field of Chicago, who is in Munich, Bavaria, says he is not among the Americans who are report- ed to have applied for building space in Kingsway, the new thoroughfare in London. me '\ Of the Week The three sisters of Pope Pius X., who lived with him at Venice, arrived at Rome recently, after a separation of about six weeks, and were warmly welcomed. France has postponed the delivery of the exequateur of the Dominican consul at Havre on account of alleged violations of law regarding foreign holders of bonds. The Dutch plan, which resembles the monetary system recently adopted in the Philippines, is generally ap- proved for adoption by the coming in- ternational exchange commission. The Pekin government proposes to insert an article in the American commercial treaty instructing the United States consul general at Shang- hai to promptly suppress any newspa- per published in the foreign settlement containing seditious or offensiveparti- cles. The “Supao” affair is still dead- locked between the consul and diplo- matic bodies, each leaving the Cecision in the matter to the other. i Sin and Sinners. Patrick F. Conklin, a New York wife murderer, was put to death in the elec- tric chair in Sing Sing prison. “Sheeney” Harris, a murderer, and Kelly, burglars, dug their way out of the county jail at Schoharie, N. Y., and escaped. Two men attempted to kill Mayor MeMasters of Tuscola, Ill. with paving bricks, felling him twice with blows on the head. Charles Jones, a negro twelve years old, confessed to the police that he murdered Miss Caroline Link on Aug. 8, in Baltimore. Postmaster M. W. Wales was re- moved from his office at Randolph, Mass., on account of an apparent short- age in his accounts, and was stricken with paralysis from the shock. Demurrers to the indictments against Curtis Jett have been over- ruled by Judge Osborne at Cynthiana, Ky. Jett is charged with the assas- sination of Town Marshal Cockrill at Jackson. Mrs. Helen Worthington Purinton, wife of Col. Holman G. Purinton, prom- inent in Masonic and natioal guard cir- cles, committed suicide in her home in Chicago by shooting herself in the mouth. ¢ Judge Hazen at Topeka, Kan., has sentenced Mine Operators John Jack and John Bell to jail until such a pe- riod as they might conclude to answer the questions of the attorney in the coal trust inquiry. Senator John Raines of Rochester, N. Y., had his pocket picked of $1,520 in bills and two promissory notes on his way from the Yates hotel to Ath- letic field at Syracuse, where he went to witness a fireworks display. Accused of having been guilty of conduct “unbecoming an officer and a gentleman” in having insulted the Wife of a fellow officer, Lieut. McClune Hamilton has been tried by court-mar- tial in the Philippines, found guilty and sentenced to dishonorable dismis- sal from the service. Mrs. Amelia Mueller. of Philadel- phia ,aged forty-five years, who at- tempted to commit suicide last week on her daughter’s grave, a few days later drowned herself in a bath tub, and a few hours later her nineteen- year-old son sought death in the same manner, but was prevented from drowning by two policemen. Otherwise. The Chicago city hall faction’ will boom Mayor Harrison for re-election. At the fusion conference in New York, Seth Low was indorsed for re election. Grasshoppers have destroyed the crops of the Picuris Indians in Taos county, N. M. The United Society of Christian En- deavor will hold its 1905 meeting July 5 to 10 in Baltimore. The date of the unveiling of the McKinley memorial statue at Adams, Mass., has been fixed for Saturday, Oct. 3. The journeymen stonecutters of New York have signed an agreement to arbitrate their differences with their employers. » Peaceful settlement of the new Chi- cago stock yards wage scale, whereby 20,000 employes will receive a 10 per cent increase, is assured. The American Anti-Boycott associa- tion has applied for a perpetual in- junction against strikes or boycotts on the business of Contractor John M. Stiles of Chicago. Judge Miner of Dichmond, Va., died at Norwich, Va., of Bright’s disease, He had been judge of the superior court pf Virginia and served in the Confederate service during the Civil war. . A 3-cent fare ordinance was passed, by the Cleveland city council, the first of its kind in Cleveland. Mayor Johnson is said to be interested in the new line, which, according to the con- ditions of the grant, must be in opera- tion by April 1, 1904. Samuel Wagenhils, a Lutheran min- ister of Fort Wayne, Ind., has secured an injunction to prevent the city coun- cil from passing a franchise granting the General Electric company a right to enter the city for thirty years. He is at the head of the local municipal ownership league. BULGARIANS SUMMON A FORCE OF 10,000 RESERVES TO THE COLORS. WILL HELP GUARD THE FRONTIER REPLY FROM POWERS TO BUL- GARIA’S NOTE 1S ANXIOUSLY WAITED. HEAVY —FICATING IN MONASTIR TROOPS SENT TO DISPERSE IN- SURGENTS SUFFER HEAVY Loss. Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 16. — No im- portant step is likely to be taken at the present critical juncture, pcuding the return to the capital of Prince Ferdinand and a reply from the pow- ers or some intimation trom them in response to Bulgaria’s note. The air here is filled with rumors af mobilization. It is alleged that the first three divisions of the avmy, hav- ing their centers at Sofia, Phi'ppop- olis and Slivanic, have been caile. out. In official quarters, however, it is de- clared that the only step actually de- cided upon is the summoning to colors of the first three divisions, who re- tired from the army during the last three years. This will give a force of some 10,000 men who wiil be chiefly employed in strengthening the troops Along the Frontier. It is expected that a week will suf- fice to enable the ministry to judge of the extent to which its final appeal to the powers is likely to prove success- ful. Doubts are expressed in diplo- matic circles whether the Bulgarian note will bring any decisive results, but there is every disposition to recog- nize the sincerity of the ministry’s at- titude and its complete justification for issuing such a document in view of the immense fcrces that Turkey is gathering in threatening close proxim- ity to the Bulgarian frontier. It is stated that the porte has pro- tested to Austria against Austrian and Hungarian firms being allowed to furnish the Bulgarian government with cartridges at the present time. More Fighting Reported. More fighting is reported from the vilayet of Monastir. A large body of troops sent to Pelister mountains to disperse the bands concealed there were attacked by the insurgents and suffered heavy losses from bombs. The Turks also lost many men in a fight near the monastery of Kamilia at Okrida. It is announced that a de- tachment of Turkish troops which went to the Greek monastery of Bareshani, near Monastir, to seek a number of revolutionaries supposed to be hiding in the building, finding none there, set fire to the monastery and killed the servants and the women. At Kenskiglavi, near Rosengrad, a budy of Turkish infantry and cavalry, accom- panied by a mountain battery, fought a three hours’ engagement with a number of insurgents. The Turks had thirty killed and many wounded. Mob Sacks a Monastery. Berlin, Sept. 16.—A dispatch to the Tageblatt from Constantinople reports that the Russian monastery at Jeru- salem has been sacked by a Moham- medan mob and that ail of the monks there were murdered. WIRES ARE STILL DOWN. Large Part of the Storm-Swept Area of Florida Has Not Been Heard From. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 16.—Further news of the storm continues to arrive, though a large part of the storm- swept area has not been heard from. Wires are still down and it is impvus- sible to get trains through on account of washouts. Three negroes were killed by falling timbers at the camp of the Cummer Lumber company near Gainesville. At Mulberry the phos- phate mines are said to be greatly damaged. They have been compelled to shut down on account of the high water. From all parts of the state great damage to the turpentine indus- try is reported. The damage of the orange groves is very great. Orange- men estimate the loss to the crop from 25 to 40 per sent. BUNCH OF KISSES Given Young Man as Reward for the Rescue of Two Drowning Girls. Centerville, N. J., Sept. 16.—Joseph Durbin, who is said to be a nephew of Indiana’s chief executive, was the hero of an exciting rescue in Morris canal, below the Centerville bridge, yester- day afternoon. Durbin heard cries for help coming from the canal. He saw two young girls struggling for life. He threw off his coat, dived into the water and rescued both. Durbin’s reward was a “bunch of kisses,” as he after- ward expressed it. The girls were Misses Helena and Leonore Frear. CAUGHT AT MEMPHIS. Pair of Desperate Counterfeiters Who Are Also Wanted for Murder. Washington, Sept. 16.—Chief Wilkie, of the secret service, has received a telegram announcing the arrest at Memphis of Irvine Trolley and Luke Ray, two ex-convicts, together with a man named Willis, all charged with counterfeiting, in raising notes to higher denomination. The men were captured after a chase lasting over a month, and in which one man was killed. ie TO RECLAIM ARID LANDS. Irrigation Movement Takes on Nation- al Instead of Sectional Scope. Ogden, Utah, Sept. 16.—Twenty-six states and territories of the Union are represented at the eleventh national irrigation congress, which began a four days’ session in the Ogden taver- nacle yesterday, this being the largest number ever represented since the be- ginning of the movement for the reclamation of the arid West, showing how the movement has taken on a national instead of a sectional scope. Delegates were present even from New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont, while from the states of the Western plains and mountains representatives of state and municipal governments and commercial org inizations of all kinds came by hundreds, An interna- tional aspect was lent tu the proceed- ings by the presence of two repre- sentatives of foreign governments, Mexico and France, while the govern- ment at Washington was represented by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. At both morning and afternoon ses- sions the building was , packed with delegates, and the keynote of the present congress, as expressed both by Gov. Wells of Utah in his speech of welcome, and President W. A. Clark in response, that' “the time has come to do things,” was heartily cheered. Important results, beneficient to the cause of irrigation, are confidently ex- pected by both deljegates and officials from the present congress. FLAG ABOVE THE LAW. Porto Rican Socialists Are Sent to Prison. San Juan, P. R., Sept. 16—Eduardo Conde and Leonidas Guillot, two So- cialists who spoke in a recent meeting of the American Federation of Labor, were put on trial yesterday for insult- ing the American flag and threatening the life of Gov. Hunt. Their speeches teemed with abuse of the government. One of the prisoners was accused of advising the workmen, upon the re- turn of Gov. Hunt on Oct. 1, from the United States, to parade, carrying black flags, and then to make demands upon the government. If these de- mands were refused, the speaker add- ed, the alternative of killing Gov. Hunt remained. The cther orator was said to have declared that the Ameri- can flag was a rag fit only to covjr rascals and criminals. The accused vehemently denied the charges. They were tried before Justice Kopel, con- vieted of anarchistic conduct and sen- tenced to six months in prison, Justice Kopel says that the flag is higher than the law, and that anarchists need nev- er expect mercy in his court. INITIATION WAS FATAL, Nine Members of High School Secret Society Indicted by Grand Jury. Bluffton, Ind., Sept. 16.—Ralph Me- Bride, aged seventeen, died, the result of initiation into a high school secret society. Ralph and four other students of the Bluffton’ high school were in- itiated last spring, and it is stated the ordeal caused the injury to the bone of McBride's leg, the immediate cause of death being septic inflammation of the leg. The grand jury returned in dictments against nine students in con- nection with the affair. WOMAN GOES TO PRISON. Confesses to Chloroforming a Family Owing to Jealousy. Wabash, Ind., Sept. 16.—Mrs. Belle | Fountaine yesterday pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill after she had confessed to chloroforming the Harnish family near Dora last week and was sentenced to from three to fourteen years in the Indianapolis re- formatory. Miss’ Lola Harnish, of whom the prisoner was jealous on ac- count of the attentions of Albert Tur- ner, is now able to sit up and will re- cover. . VACATIONS AT THE VATICAN Delay Several important Appointments in the American Church. Rome, Sept. 16,—The members of the congregation of the propaganda having left Rome on their autumn va- cations the appointments of a new archbishop of Milwaukee, a bishop of Columbus, Ohio, and an auxiliary bishop of New York have been post- poned until November. MAXIM WILL FLY. Inventor Is Devoting His Genius to Perfecting an Airship. London, Sept. 16.—The Westminster Gazette announces that it has learned that the important invention which Sir Hiram Maxim referred to yesterday is an airship and that he will shortly make public the result of his experi- ments BIG FIRE AT THE SOO. Entire Block of Stores Destroysd — Loss About $700,000. Sault Ste. Marie, Sept. 16. — A fire which originated in Klosser’s candy store here last night destroyed an en- tire block of stores in the heart of the business district. The damage was about $700,000. PREVENTED A CATASTROPHE, Heroic Work of Nurses and Physicians During Hospital Fire. Salt Lake, Utah, Sept. 16—Heroic work on the part of the nurses and physicians prevented a serious loss of life in a fire that started from a de- fective flue in the Keogh-Wright hos- pital in this city shortly after noon yesterday. The loss will not exceed $10,000. Two patients, William Dalton and George Black, were so badly shocked by the excitement that their recovery is doubtful. CROP IS NOT LOST REPORTS OF THE DAMAGE BY HEAVY RAINS IS EXAG- GERATED.. WHLL SECURE GOOD RETURNS. ALL THE WHEAT IN THE SAME CONDITION, SO PRICES. WILL BE Gooo.. REALLY NO CAUSE FOR ALARM’ MAY NOT GRADE SO WELL, BUT IT WILL BE PRETTY GOOD AT THAT. St. Paul, Sept. 16.—Although thresh-- ing it at a standstill and wheat in the shock is thoroughly soaked, railway officials do not believe that the long continued rains will seriously damage the Northwestern crop. Wheat traffic, which was just beginning when the big rain storms came, is at a standstill and cannot be resumed at once. What wheat is now moving was threshed be- fore the rains, and the supply is lim- ited. Railway officials have been investi- gating conditions in the western part of the state and North Dakota and they believe that the farmers will yet secure good returns from their har- vest. Damage Not So Heavy. “The rains have damaged wheat, of course,” said a Great Northern traffic: official, “but the scare reports should be very liberally discounted. Contin- ued wet weather will bleach the grain, discolor it, and may cause it to sprout. Should all these things occur the farm- ers will still be in good condition, “Present conditions are an old story. Wet weather comes and the farmers say they are ruined. After several weeks of rain they résume threshing and find that although some damage has oceurred, the wheat is not really so badly off. All the whéat 1s in the Same condition and they begin to cheer up. Presently sume one says, ‘This wheat isn’t so bad after all,’ and since it is all the wheat there is, the elevators take it at about the usuak vrice.” No Cause for Alarm. A traflic officer of the Northern Pa- cifie said: “There is no cause for alarm. I re- member a year when we had rains just like these for thirty days in sue cession. Everybody said the crop was ruined, but it wasn’t. The farmers threshed it and sold it for about the usual price. The huge Northwestern crop hasn’t gone to the dogs just be- cause the farmers forgot to take it out of the wet.” State grain inspection officers look for no general damage of consequence and they believe that while grain from some sections may not grade as well as it would have prior to the rains, it is still good wheat and will bring good prices. she ERO ANI SE RAILWAY TO HUDSON’S BAY. Plans of the Canadian Northern Rail- way ompany. Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 16. — The Canadian Northern Railway company has a party of engineers in the field, running lines for a railway to Hudsow Bay, the engineer in charge being Mr. Burns, one of the ablest members of the Canadian Northern railroad engi- neering staff. The party started out. from Erwood, Man., the northwest corner of Manitoba, early in June, and. has not been heard from since they left that place. Their objective point was Port Nelson on Hudson bay, the intended terminal of the road. So soon as the engineers have made a thorough examination of the country and decided on the most feasible loca- tion for the line, they will return to. Winnipeg and make their report. NINE HURT IN WRECK, Accident Is Said to Be Due to Neglect of Conductor. Manitowoc, Wis., Sept. 16.—In a col- lision between a street car of the Man- itowoc & Northern Street Railway company and a freight train on the Chicago & Northwestern road at the crossing of the tracks in Quay street nine persons were injured and the street car demolished. It is said that the accident was due to the neglect of the conductor properly to flag the train at the crossing. NEW CHARTER BEATEN. Result of a Special Election Held at % Northfield. . Northfield, Minn., Sept. 16—A spe- cial election was held here yesterday with the adoption of tne new city charter as an issue. The total vote cast was 459, of which 226 was for the charter and 233 against. making a de- feat by a majority of 7 votes. Phy: in Becomes a Monk. Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 16. — George Haardt, a Philadelphia physician, has entered the monastery of the Trappist monks, near here. It is said that he is very wealthy. For two years he considered the advisability of joining. Eleven Persons Burned. London, Sept. 16—A special dispatch from Christiana, Norway, says that, as the result of a fire in some business’ premises on Kongens Gade there, eleven persons were burned to death and great damage was done. _——}-_——