Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 3, 1903, Page 2

j - Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - Uncle Sam may yet be able claim the north pole by right of dis- covery, MINNESOTA. As the sultan has taken to oratory, he may yet adopt other modern means of warfare. Success rules are like nails—they must be driven into something or they will soon rust. Cod liver oil is getting to cost al- most as much as champagne, but it doesn’t taste as good. ’ The Spanish government has a sur- plus of income, which is so novel that it may prove embarrassing. With plenty of dogs and sleds Lieut. Peary may yet reach the north pole before Mr. Morgan puts a tag on it. Francis Joseph’s notion to abdicate the throne of Hungary did not last long. He recovered in a day or two. Washington’s tomb is crumbling, but his place as first in the hearts of his countrymen is not being contest- ed. J. Pierpont Morgan has started suit for $500 against a steamboat that dam- aged his yacht. He must need the money. Roland B. Molineux will get even with the cold, unfeeling world sooner or later. Now he is going to publish a novel. “Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “sleeps soun’ because dey’s got a clear conscience an’ some because dey's got none at all.” So long as the public is willing to pay to see a vanquished pugilist on the theatrical stage, there is consola- tion in defeat. Commander Peary is going to make another dash for the pole. Mrs. Peary will stay at home. Some men are mighty ingenious. Like the baby reaching for the soap, Sir Thomas Lipton won’t be happy till he gets it. And the baby’s chance for happiness is small. When a girl is sitting on a dark piazza with a man she always has an idea he thinks her eyes glow like stars.—New York Press. Longfellow’s “Hiawatha” may be a higher grade of literature, but it looks as if the other fellow’s “Hiawatha” would make more money. } It must be gratifying to the crown prince of Saxony to note that he is identified for general purposes as th husband of Princess Louise. ‘ Automobile runs to the arctic circle are the latest strenuous fad. Now we know the north pole is in danger of something worse than discovery. Russia agrees to leave Manchuria if China will undertake to keep the ter- riiory fron other powers—presum- ably until she wants to occupy it again. There has been a cut of $1 a ton in the price of pig iron, but somehow, er other this doesn’t seem to offset the rise of 25 cents a ton in the price of coal. The coffee drinking habit was first established 617 years ago by an Ara- bian dervish named Hadji Omar, but the cure for it has not been discov- ered even yet. There are four approved spellings of Beirut—Beirut, Beirout, Beiroot and Beyroot. With all this latitude, even a stenographer would have hard work to spell it wrong. The postmasters will please devise some plan by which the man who “is sure there must be a letter in the office” for him can always be supplied with the letter he wants. One thing which should restrain the brurks and Bulgarians from war is that ino matter who wins neither will have ‘much to say about the terms of peace. ‘The “disinterested” powers will attend ‘to that. The Boers are not yet subdued. An emissary from South Africa is quietly buying rams in Ohio and shipping them home. The average ram is more to be dreaded in close fighting than the pompom. Washington Notes. Secretary Wilson says there will be | plenty of corn. Rear Admiral Evans makes a scorch- ing review of the findings of a court- martial. Action in regard to the Miller case by the national executive council of the American Federation of Labor is stopped by a telegram from Roose- velt. According to a statement issued by the state commissioner of agriculture the cotton crop of this season for Georgia is 1,070,000 bales against 1,470,000 last year. The state department has received a telegram from United States Consul Hanna at Monterey, Mex., reporting that yellow fever has broken out there. He adds that the doctors hope to con- trol it. The reopening of bids for the money order department supplies outside of the bland order forms already con- tracted for has made a saving of $51,- 000 for the government for the next four years. Carroll D. Wright, head of the de- partment of labor, says that at no tme in the history of the county were the workingmen in such good condi- tion in respect to their earning capac- ity as now. Personal Mention. Mark Smita, the well known comic opera comedian, and the original Pooh Bah in “The Mikado,” is dead at his home in New York of dropsy. Harry A. Garfield, a son of the late President Garfield, has accepted his appointment to the chair of political jurisprudence at Princeton university. James McCord, aged seventy-eight, died at St. Joseph, Mo, He was the controlling factor in many large busi- ness enterprises in several Westetn cities and is xated several timés a millionaire, Judge H. Tyler Campbell of. Bristol, Tenn., has resigned his position as as- sistant to Attorney General Knox, to which he was appointed a few months ago. The position kept him on the road a great deal, which was objection- able to him. Casualties. In a railway collision in Chicago five women were injured. Two oil tank cars exploded and four houses near by were burned at Nor- wich, Ohio. Norman and Grace Higley, small children, played with matches in a hay loft in Chicago and were burned to death. Mrs. Smith, Misses Mamie Smith and Mollie Sadler, were killed and two others injured in @ runaway at Galia~ tin, Tenn. Morris Gaylord, aged twenty-two, a student at the University of Wiscon- sin, was killed by the fall of a derrick at Rock Island, Il. The steamer A. A. Parker, ore laden, foundered five miles north of Grand Marais, Mich. The crew was rescue’ by the life savers. At the street carnival at East St. Louis, Ill. an angry lion tore off Keep- er Ricardo’s right hand. Ricardo was rescued by attendants. t The industrial center of the village of Gardenville, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $300,000. No insurance. John Delater and Jacob Manni fell from a car and under the wheels at Grand Rapids, Mich. Delater was killed and Manni probably fatally in- jured. . Fifty-six firemen were overcome by smoke at a fire in the wholesale drug store of C. D. Badger & Co. in Boston. All will recover. The fire loss was about $55,000. Henry Joyce of Cape Breton, N. B., and two other men were found @rown- ed by surfmen at Lewis, Del. They are supposed to have been members of the crew of the wrecked schooner Hattie A. Marsh. From Other Shores. The pope is suffering from rheuma- tism. Linares, Mexico, is dead commercial- ly on account of the prevalence of yel- low fever. rire % Nobei’s Biliebat naphth works at Baku, Russia, has caused damage of $2,500,000 and is_ still spreading. Sergeant Buntz has been sentenced to sixteen months’ imprisonment at Berlin for killing a private soldier by ill treatment. James L. Ferriere. a New York newspaper man, died in Paris of par- alysis. His wife was so affected that she committed suicide. Goy. Taft has ordered that the fran- chise for furnishing power to manu- facturing plants in Manila be sold at “Radiograms” is what wireless mes- sages were called at the recent Berlin international conference. Radiograms include marconigrams, teslagrams, aerograms, etherograms, and all the other varieties of wireless grams. pio sur bth RAs 8 Eh If we had Vesuvius in this country some enterprising show manager would have secured the necessary concessions long ago and had it fenced in with an assortment of merry-go- rounds, roller coasters afid shoot-the- chutes devices. The sultan is promoting the people who were in the plot to murder that Russian consul a short time ago. In case the czar protests the sultan can set up the excuse that the promotions don’t amount to anything because he DEFE CTIVE PAGE auction to the highest bidder. The sultan of Morocco has request- ed the French military mission, which, snce 1887 has been training the troops, to leave the capital. The steamer David Weston was burned on the St. John river at St. John, N. B. Three persons were drowned and eight slightly injured. The new $50,000 bull ring was opened at Jaurez, Mex., with an audi- ence of 10,000, mostly Americans. Six bulls and several horses were killed. - The Dominican government has re- fused to recognize the claims of the American Improvement company or to appoint arbitrators to consi@er them. United States minister Powell has no- tified the government that it must do 80. } * v/END-OF MOB RULE] Crimes and Criminals.) An alleged murderer in Nebraska adopts the tactics of Tracy, the Pa- cific coast outlaw. ‘Curtis Jett was sentenced to death for the murder of Town’ Marshail Cockrell in Kentucky. Two Cherokee Indians attacked the son of Mayor Russell of Fort Smith, Ark., and were shot by the mayor, Sam Grady shot Miss Cora Seaman and then attempted suicide at Martin- ville, Ind. Jealousy was the cause. Cole Younger has been arrested on the charge of embezzlement, but he declares it to be a case of retaliation. Levy Stimson and Benjamin Parks of Harrisburg, Ill., fought over a girl, and Stimson received probably fatal Clifton Branham, aged forty ,a farm- er, trapper, woodsman, preacher and twice a murderer, was executed at Norfolk, Va. Annie Wosenak, aged twenty-five, was shot and instantly killed at Bet- semer, Mich., by Ed Mileskl, her for- mer fiance. William Marshall, a negro, was cap- tured at Chicago after an exciting chase, on the charge of beating a young white woman. McClelland Rockwell, an oil driller, has been arrested at Toledo, Ohio, on a charge of selling his baby’s body for dissecting purposes. He denies the charge. Burglars stole $500 worth of rubber tires from the Hartford Rubber com- pany at Buffalo, N. Y. They are thought to have disguised themselves at automobilists. William Wilkerson of North Vernon, Ind., who drove his family from home and killed Marshal Schwake when the latter attempted to arrest him, shot and killed himself after he had heen surrounded by a posse. Robert Allen, Jr., one of the most prominent lawyers .in New Jersey, committed suicide at Redbank, N. J., by shooting himself through the head. He was eighty years of age. Business troubles are supposed to have been the cause. Advices from Jackson, Ky., indicate that a virtual reign of terror is still on there. Several persons identified with the prosecution of the feudist Jett, sentenced to hang at Cynthiana for killing Town Marshall Cockrell, have been threatened with death, it is said. Otherwise. The earnings of the Northern Pa- cific show an increase. Cardinal Gibbons says there will be another American cardinal: Directors of the Consolidated Lake Superior company give up the strug- gle. Wolves are so numerous in Laporte county, Indiana, as to be seriously trovblesome. The Delaware & Hudson Coal* com- pany has reduced the working day of| miners to five hours. | Fred Bogart, aged twenty-one, of | Ithaca, N. Y., has lost his reason through cigarette smoking. Gov. Yates has made formal an- nouncement of his candidacy for an- other term as governor of Illinois. | Booker T. Washington will sail for} Europe in a few days, and will remain} there several weeks, seeking rest. An American® correspondent of a London newspaper says that Ameri- cans devote more time to business than formerly. The first convention of coffee plant- ers is in session at San Juan, Porto Rico, They hope to bring about bet- ter conditions in the coffee market. Favorable news has been received from the Zeigler Arctic expedition. The explorers are in longitude 45-30 east, latitude 75-32, and are all well. Hamilton Fish, assistant United treasurer at New York, who has just returned from a Western trip, says the West is enjoying great prosperity. Young men who have shown special skill in military tacties will have op- portunities to go to the Philippines as third lieutenants in the insurlar po- lice. Trooper Davis of the Eighth cavalry | was the first of ten starters to reach West Point from Oklahoma. He made the trip of 2,000 miles on horseback in thirty-nine days. Masters and pilots, angered by the action of other steamship owners in towing United States Steele company barges, have threatened a _ general strike on all the lines. With the low price of whisky all houses at Peoria, Ill., are experiencing an enormous demand, and the whisky trust has ordered an increase in the capacity of several plants. The steamer Texan has sailed from Tacoma, Wash., for the Delaware breakwater by way of the straits of Magellan. She is to make the trip of 13,900 miles without stopping. The first strike in twenty-one years is threatened in the piano factories ot Steinway & Sons by the Piano and Organ Workers’ International union, to force the firm to emplox only union ren, John Hazeltine, known throughout Central New York as a philanthropist, has announced a plan to take a colony of 1,000 Syracuse people to Montana to establish a town. Hazeltine has obtained a list of practically all the poor familes of the city, and it is from them that he proposes to select his colonists. | MEN IMPLICATED IN RIOTS AT CANADIAN SOO ARE AR- RESTED. WORK IS OFFERED THE IDLE MEN THAT, WITH ABSENCE OF DESTI- TUTION, HAS BRIGHTENED THE OUTLOOK. MORE TROOPS ARE ON THE WAY WHEN THEY ARRIVE ALL WHO REFUSE WORK MUST LEAVE THE CITY. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Sept. 30. — The arrest of nine mén charged with being implicated in the riot at the Canadian Sco Monday of a mob of dis- charged employes of the Consolidated Lake Superior company and an at- tempt of a number of the men forcibly to resist detention by the concern at Wilde station on the Algoma Central were among the developments in the situation at the Soo yesterday. Numer- ous requests by employment agencies for the services of many of the em- ployes thrown out of work by the clos- 4 ing of the concern and its various af- filiated companies, to which they are responding, and the absence of desti- tution have Given the Men Hope, and, with the exception of the incident mentioned, everything was again quiet yesterday. Mayor Plummer up to yes- terday has, with the sanction of the municipality, readily aided the needy, who are declared to be few, but he an- nounced in a statement last night that with the arrival of a detachment of the militia to-day all unemployed men of the company who have refi:sed to ac- cept the offers of work elsewhere will be forced to leave. Last night and since the attack by the mob on the company’s office, the local militia, re- inforced by the pclice, has guarded the plant and offices of the ecmpany, But Order Was Observed yesterday, and communication be- tween the two Soos, which was or. dered stopped Monday night, was re- sumed. There are 500 woodsmen in the camps of the company, but as a measure of precaution the company, according to William Coyne, assistant to President Shields, will not allow them to come in until to-day, when all of the troops en route will have ar- rived. Although they are said by Mr. Coyne to be well provided with food and to have been given good sleeping quarters, the men, he says, are dis- satisfied, which has caused them to protest against being left at Wilde sta- tion, which ended in a demonstration similar to that which occurred here Monday, but not so serious. BIG STEAL ALLEGED. Fraudulent Transactions Amounting to $50,000 Charged. Indianapolis, Sept. 30. — Addis 8S. Pratt of New York filed a complaint in the United States district court against Charles Medias, Emil Mantel and Harry R. Wallace, deputy county recorder, charging them with conspir- ing through the Western Undergar- ment company with Louis Levin of New York, lately of Indianapolis and now missing, to rob wholesale and supply companies of $50,000 worth of goods used in making women’s gar- ments. The court issued ,an order summoning the three men to appear Thursday morning and show cause why a receiver should not be appoint- ed for the company. TROUBLE FOR AN EMPEROR. Hungarian Premier Hands in His Res- ignation. Budapest, Sept. 30.—In consequence of an adverse vote in the lower house of the Hungarian diet yesterday Pre- mier Hedeveray again submitted his esignation and telegraphed to Emper- or Francis Joseph begging for its ac- ceptance. The resignation of the pre- mier will be formally: announced in the lower house to-day. Count Hed- everay resigned in consequence of his own party voting against him, on the ground that his repudiation of the at- tacks made by the Austrian premier, Dr. von Koerber, upon Hungarian na- tional rights in the reichsrath were not pronounced enough. The situation is critical. Shot Dead on the Street. San Francisco, Sept. 30.—Marie Jor- dan, saleswoman in a cloak store, was shot dead on the street yesterday by Edward de la Bromsse, who then fired a shot into his head, inflicting a wound which probably will prove fatal. The tragedy was the result of jeal- ousy. British Steamer Lost. Valparaiso, Chile, Sept. 30. — The British steamer Laurel Branch, Capt. Lee, has been lost off Stewart Bay. Twenty-eight of her passengers and crew were saved. It is feared the rest were drowned. Found No Indictment. Elyria, Ohio, Sept. 30—The grand jury which has been investigating the Reichlin murder case has reported no indictment. Nothing definite as to who killed Agatha Reichlin was brought WILL NOT DISMISS MILLER. President Makes Final Decision After Conference With Labor Leaders. Washington, Sept. 30. — An impor- tant conference took place~ at the White House last night between Presi- dent Roosevelt and five members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. including Presi- dent Gompers and Mr. Mitchell, head of the miners’ union, during which the case of Foreman Miller of the govern- ment printing office, who was dis- missed because he had been expelled from the local bookbinders’ union, and afterward was reinstated by di- rection of the president, was the prin- cipal topic of discussion. The confer- ence was granted at the request of the labor leaders. The Miller case was very fully presented by the members of the exeentive council, at the close of which the president made a state- ment in which he announced that his decision not to dismiss Mr. Miller was final, and the question of his per- sonal fitness must be settléd in the regular routine of administration. JOHNNY BULL REMOVES BAN. American Cattle and Sheep Are Now All Right. Washington, Sept. 30. — Secretary Wilson said yesterday that the receipt through the state department of an of- ficial notice that Great Britain had removed its embargo from cattle and sheep was the conclusion of the great work in which the department had been engaged since Dec. 1 for the eradication of foot and mouth disease from the New England States and the restoration of the traffic to where it was before the break occurred. The secretary regards this as one of the most impeortant and valuable pieces of work the department has engaged in for the benefit of American agricul- ture. “No country before,” he said, “has succeeded in stamping out such an extensive outbreak of this disease. The work was accomplished under great difficulties.” LONG AND BITTER FIGHT Will Result From the Attack Upon the Dawes Indian Commission. Washington, Sept. 30.—A long and bitter fight is ahead for the Dawes In- dian commissicn and it will develop into a struggle between conflicting in- terests representing a large amount of eapital. Chairman Tams _ Bixby will become a central figure in the pending controversy and his friends here as- sert that the fight on him is provoked by men who could not get his aid and influence in carrying out their own ends. While Secretary Hitchcock and his subordinates will not talk, it is learned that the department will stand by the Dawes commission and furnish legal advisers to defend the charges of corruption against the commission, which claims to have carried out a pol- icy which was outlined and ordered from Washington. TILLMAN TRIAL MAKES SPEED, Large Number of Witnesses Examined During the Day. Lexington, S. C., Sept. 30. — Good speed was made yesterday in the trial of former Lieut. Gov. James H. Till- man, who is charged with the murder of N. G. Gonzales, editor of the State. A large number of witnesses were ex- amined yesterday. Mrs. J. H. Tillman and the defendant’s mother occupied seats within the railing throughout the day. One line of examination pursued yesterday by the state was with a view to laying the foundation for the intro- duction of dying declarations. Four of the physicians who participated in the operation on Mr. Gonzales after he was shot were on the stand yesterday. Much of the testimony of the doctors was technical. 4 UNIQUE LEGAL CASE. Children Prevented From Geing to Schcol by Obscene Language. Laporte, Ind., Sept. 30.—One of the Judge Richter to enjoin his neighbor, Hamilton Hooper, from swearing at the former’s children. Poyleck is the father of five children who refuse to attend school for the reason that they are compelled to pass the Hooper house, and are thus forced te listen to the profane language in which he in- dulges. Attorneys said that it is the first case of its character on record in the couris of the state, and the action is declared to be within the law. MANY CASES OF YELLOW JACK. Fever Situation at Laredo, Tex., As- “ sumes Grave Phase. Laredo, Tex., Sept. 30.—The yellow fever situation here is beginning to assume a very grave phase. There are now in this city thirty-seven cases of fever, sixteen of which have been pro- nounced genuine by the marine hospi- tal service experts in charge, ten cases have been pronounced suspicious and eleven new cases were reported yes- terday, some of which have been an- nounced as genuine, and others as sus- picious. Among the cases in Nuevo Laredo that are reported very graye is that of United States Vice Consul J. G. Kimball. Girls as Caddies. Eau Claire, Wis., Sept. 30.—Twenty- five caddies at the country club links, all boys, have struck for 25 cents a round during the street fair, instead of two for 25 cents. Some players have hired girls at the old scale. Labor Dispute Ended. Appleton, Wis.. Sept. 30. — The trouble between the members of the tailors’ union and their employers has been adjusted by the majority of the merchants deciding to adopt the label and pay the union prices. sal complaints on rec- | crd was filed in the circuit court here | on behalf of James Povlock, who asks | REBELS OPEN UP OPERATIONS IN EASTERN MACE- DONIA BEGUN BY _IN- 4 SURGENTS. HOPE TO AROUSE WAR FEELING AND FORCE THE GOVERNMENT TO ESPOUSE CAUSE OF MACEDONIANS. PEASANTS FLOCK TO BAUNN EVERYWHERE WITH EN- THUSIASM. Sofia, Bul >: ia, Sept. 30—A telegram received here from the camp of Gen. Zontcheff, the commander-in-chief of the Macedonian insurgents at Razlog, fifty-five miles east of here, announces that a general rising was proclaimed Sept. 27 in the districts of Razlog, Nevrokop, Demirhissar, Melnik and Seres, and that all the insurgent bands in Eastern Macedonia had received di- rect orders to begin operations. The chief hope of the revolutionary erganization now centers in the out- expected to assume considerable pro- portions, as the leaders there are all officers of the Bulgarian reserve. This, the sympathizers with the Macedonian cause hope, will Arouse a War Feeling in the Bulgarian army and force the government to espouse the Mace- donian cause. A dispatch from Rilo monastery says the town of Razlog has been in flames since Sunday night. The insurgents are attacking Butch- evo and severe fighting is reported to be going on between the insurgent bands and the Turkish troops. The sound of artillery is plainly heard at Rilo, Another fight is reported to have taken place near Okhrida, twen- ty-eight miles from Monastir, in which fifty Turks were killea and many wounded. It is reported that all the intelligent Bulgarians of the tewn of Okhrida were recently Arrested on Suspicion of communicating with the insurgent bands and were sent in chains to Mon- astir. A letter from Phillipopolis, dated yesterday, says the authorities there have distributed rifles and am- munition in all the frontier villages for use in case of an attack being made by the Turks. Dispatches received here from vari- ous sources say Gen. Zontcheff has been greeted everywhere with the greatest enthusiasm, and that all the peasants are flocking to his banner. A dispatch from Rita Jirila reports continuous fighting all along the lines across the Turkish frontier, results of which are at present unknown. HARRISON IS WRATHY. Says Chicago City Hall Is Full of Grafters. ing on in the city hall. It is going on in nearly every department from the top to the bottom. I know it as well as a man can know anything he can’t absolutely prove. If I had the power I would discharge as many people as George B. Swift did when he became mayor. The ‘grafters’ would be flying out of every window.” Mayor Ha m made these remark- able declarations last night. He ad- mitted everything that had been re- | peatedly charged against his adminis- tration. His admissions were not the result of a hasty illconsidered burst of confidence. The mayor was talking about the charges against the health department scandals when he sudden- ly disclosed his knowledge of the uni- versal “grafting” that is- going on. CHICAGO’S GREAT PARADE. Big Feature of the Centennial Celebra- tion. Chicago, Sept. 30.—The great parade of the centennial celebration which filed for three hours last night through the streets was a wonderful success. A crowd estimated at a million people lined the streets through which the procession passed and cheered its features lustily. A large number of floats were exhibited in. the parade, some of them of great beauty. BLOWN TO ATOMS. Two Men Killed and Two Seriously Injured by Powder Explosion. Wallace, Idaho, Sept. 30. — Two miners were killed last evening and two others were injured by the acci- dental explosion of powder at Mam- moth Hot Springs, a short distance from the mining camp of the Black Bear. The dead men were literally blown to atoms. The largest piece that could he found of either of the two men was a foot. RETAIL GROCERS COMBINE For Protection From the Wholesale x Grocers’ Trust. Cincinnati, Sept. 30.—A combination of groceries in Ohio, Indiana and Ken- tucky with a capital of $3,000,000 was organized here yesterday. This com- bination is composed of retail men, some of them having as many as fifty stores, and its announced purpose is to protect itself from the recent com- bination of wholesale grocers in the Middle States who recently organized der the New Jersey laws. INSURGENT LEADER IS GREETED~ break in Eastern Macedonia, which is - Chicago, Sept. 30.—‘“Grafting is go- .