Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 10, 1903, Page 6

Chicago City Council Takes the i srcucruents | OF TORNADO Chicago, Oct. 7.—After hearing an explanation from Mayor Harrison con- cerning the municipal “graft” charges, ST. CHARLES, MINN., IS ALMOST WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE the Chicago city council last night BY A STORM. mules of Grand Meadow Saturday af- ; oon. A number of farm buildings: and several miles of telephone lines DISHONESTY IN CRIPPLE CREEK were wrecked. No persons were seri- CAMPAIGN OF COLORADO . ously hurt as far as can be learned. GUARD. Considerable damage was done te grain in stacks, and groves of trees | were laid flat. Deluge at Ashland. By C. E. KILEY. EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A ae CONDENSED FORM. : GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. ev From the Capital. : President Roosevelt and family are now in Washington, after an absence of thirteen weeks. on Public Printer Palmer at Washing: China is still opening port and noth voted to establish a system of espion- ing in the bottle. age over the city employes. It also appointed a committee of nine alder- men to conduct an investigation of GOV. PEABODY CALLS A HALT As to Manchuria, Russia also is op- | posed to a policy of scutile. After holding off for eighteen years sulky record has given in to Lou Difon. One's favorite sin looks awful wick- ed when committed by somebody you don't like. Next to keeping a good resolution the hardest thing to keep is a good bank balance. No matter how many times the air- ship problem is solved, it remains as much a mystery as ever. The world will give the sultan credit for being seriously annoyed at the slaughter of those 50,000 Bulgarians. Possibly the decision of the govern- ment to cease making pennies is the first blow at the slot machine octopus. An Italian naval officer could not withstand the attacks of a newspaper. What kind of defense wotld he make in war? Tell a man that he is smoking too many cigarsf and if he thinks he’s smart he'll answer: “I’m smoking only one.” Nobody is taking any particular in- terest in the strike of the gold miners in Colorado. It is the coal strike that affects the public. A New Jersey man, 71 years old, married a woman of 30 “just for a joke,” and still refuses to admit that the joke is on him. |her so badly that she died. ton has named a commission to sift the charges of executive prices for government work. President Roosevelt will soon visit the Adirondacks as the guest of Will: iam H, Seward of New York. He ex pects some fine deer hunting. Indian Commissioner Jones says the Indians in Minnesota and the Dakotas should be prohibited from leasing their lands except in cases of physical disa- bility, ard required to become farm ers. Casualties. Fire destroyed the Prospect house at Bay Shore, Long Island. The loss was $75,000. Fire destroyed a number of ware- houses and factories at Saginaw, Mich., causing an aggregate loss of $190,000. Gases in a well at Westline, Pa., caused the death of Archie Jones and A.D. Putnam. Two others were over- come temporarily. Carrie Schrader, a Syracuse (N. Y.) chambermaid, smoked _ cigarettes, which set fire to her dress and burned The body of W. W. Gotham was picked up off Long Point, Canada. He was captain of the steamer Sylvanus J. Macy, lost last November. The ship Marion Chalcott, which sailed from San Francisco on Sept. 10 for Honolulu with a cargo of oil, has arrived at Honolulu after a tempestu- ous voyage in which three of her crew were lost. ; From Other Shores. The Russian government has for- the city departments. Three confi- dential agents or detectives, it is pro- vided by the action of the aldermen, shall be employed by the civil service commission, to be assigned in differ- ent departments at different times. and furnish the commissioners with information which may lead to the de- tection of d:shonest dealings.: In this way the council proposes to make dis- eharges for “graft” possible, even under the present rigid civil service laws requiring proof. 4 BOODLING AT KANSAS CITY. Sensational Disclosures Are Being Brougt to Light. Kansas City, Oct. 7.—An investiga- tion of alleged boodling in the board of education of Kansas City, Kan., promises to end in sensational dis- closures. The admission of M. Q. Jones, clerk of the board, that he had received «rebates from insurance agents on premiums, has started an investigation in other lines. A mem- ber of the committee asserted yester- day that he has positive proof that several teachers in the public schools have been forced to pay from $5 to $50 before being guaranteed appoint- ments. Charges also have been made that there have been irregularities in the granting of contracts fer coal and furniture. WILSON S. BISSELL DEAD. Was Postmaster General land’s Cabinet. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 7. — Wilson S. Bissell, formc: postmaster generai, died at 10:15 o'clock last night. At about noon he sank into a deep sleep in Cleve- SEVEN KILLED, A HUNDRED HURT PROPERTY LOSS IS ESTIMATED AT $300,000 WITH LITTLE INSURANCE. FINDS VICTIMS IN OTHER PLACES FARMERS SUFFER HEAVY LOSS TO GRAIN AND FARM BUILDINGS. The Dead—John Ebben, Will Ebben, Edward Murphy, George Jesson, Will- iam Vest of Dixon, Ill.; W. O. Critten- don of Dover and John Holm, farmer, Winona, Minn., Oct. 6.—Seven lives crushed out, about a hundred persons injured, some of them fatally; half a hundred store buildings and residences destroyed .or partially wrecked, caus- ing a loss now estimated at $300,000, on which there was very little in- surance. This, in brief; is the terrible work of a tornado-which Saturday afternoon struck St. Charles, a town twenty-five miles west of Winona. Two storm clouds met over the southern limits of the city and formed one storm which, with a terrific roar, swept through the center of the town, scattering death and Destruction in Its Path. Over fifty buildings were badly dam- storms in years. Most of the farmers in this region had estimated that the rain will cause them to lose thousands of bushels, which will rot in the ground before they can be taken out. After the rain had subsided a fierce wind storm, which prevailed for geveral hours, fol- lowed. Thousands of feet of lumber were blown into the bay off the lumber docks, At the little towns of Marengo and Sanborn, south of here, the wind was almost equal to a tornado. Larke trees were uprooted and blown across the roads, making them impagsable. Many small buildings were blown from foundations. Two Men Killed. Winona, Minn., Oct. 6.—The village of Independence, on the Green Bay road east of here, experienced a terri- ble cyclonic visit about 2:30 Saturday afternoon, The storm came from the southwest. It was only about a min- ute in duration, but in that time did a great deal of damage, roughly esti- mated in the neighborhood of $100,000. Two lives were lost and several per- sons hurt. The most serious loss was the new city hall which was being completed at a cost of $15,000, But one wall of this was left standing. Three Killed in Illinois. Princeton, Ill., Oct. 5. — A tornado passed two miles southeast of this city Saturday evening, killing three per- sons and destroying a large amount of farm property. _ Ashland, Wis., Oct, 6—This section was visited by one of the heaviest The rain fell in tor- rents for two hours, deluging the Streets and causing much damage. COURT-MARTIAL WILL BE SUM-- MONED TO MAKE THOROUGH INVESTIGATION. not yet dug their potatoes, and it is GRAFT WORKED TO THE UMIT THE CHARGES COVER EVERY” CONCEIVABLE FORM OF DISHONESTY. Oct. 7.—In connec- tion with rumors that a scandal of wide reaching character had devel- oped in the management of the Crip- ple Creek campaign of the Colorade - national guard, Gov. Peabody yester- day gave out the following statement: “Charges and specifications against certain men and officers in the Colo- rado national guard i:ave been filed’. with me, which will b> immediately inquired into. They are charges of a most serious nature and [ shall order a court-martial to investigate them thoroughly, and any one found guilty of the charge made, no matter who he is, will not be permitted to escape punishment, no matter whether it is an officer of tae highest rank or a. private without rank. “Gen. Chase has not been removed, but he will remain in denver for the present.” Denver, Colo., Names Not Given. The governor declined to give the names of any of those against whom . PROD 4 a it i - abl ty bidden Count Tolstol to stay in Mos-| 214 it was with difficulty that he was |@ged. Those totally destroyed were: SIR aN charges have ‘been made, but it ts ex One of the London ‘dailies is print-| °°” aroused at intervals during the after. |Spencer’s, Ebben’s and Logan's sa- | Austria and Russia Join in Sending a Te Gai ba aaa ene Pe ncon on P Reports of impending rebellion in} noon for nourishment and medicine, |loons, the Chicago .Great Western : Rell, Gob rece esi Seen Pesan meee ing a special edition for women. A snewspaper divorce is one of the possi- ‘bilities of the future. Dr. Wiley says the time is coming when the human race will have neith- er hair nor teeth. What will second childhood be like then? Following the heavy floods of water in stocks mildew has appeared in New Jersey corporations, and the year’s crop is seriously affected. Prof. Langley is becoming almost as good a loser as Sir Thomas, yet no one has thought of giving him a banquet or dubbing him a jolly good fellow, Jacques Lebauay, emperor of the Sahara, has just bought himself a ‘throne, but the Moors have not let him stay on shore long enough to sit 4n it yet. ; When it comes to using an electric whip on a balky horse it really seems fas though human beings were making fan unfair use of their scientific su- periority. rat : If China will promise not to let Great Britain have any more terri- tory Russia will agree not to take any more territory than it has already de cided to take. While there were some very excel Jent papers read before the American Pomological Society, most of the mem- bers are willing the society should be judged by its fruits. Prof. Stagg of Chicago states that “during the past ten years the great newspapers have been steadily im- proving’—in spite of the lack of a yehildren will prefer them to the old- fashioned building blocks. _ Lillian Bell wrote in her wishes for Kwangtung province trouble Chinese authorities. Elisee Reclus, Baron Alpbonse Ber- get and Aeronaut Louis Capazza are planning to cross the Atlantic in a balloon. The duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon, died at Gordon castle, Banff- shire, in his eighty-sixth year, as the result of a chill. At a meeting at Mount Pleasant, Towa, the remainder of the $100,000 necessary to raise the debt on the Iowa Wesleyan university and to found The end came easily and peacefully, Mr. Bissell suffered from complica- tions thought to be akin to Brighc’s disease, although not well understood. During the latter part of his illness numerous messages of inquiry were re- ceived from Former President Cleve- land and the members of the cabinet in which Mr. Bissell served as post- master general. OLA IS SMOOTH. Insurgent Leader in Albay Has Se- an endowment fund was subscribed. Ignoring the unanimous request of the consuls, the porte has appointed Khalia Pasha of Brussa as vali at Bei- rut. It is feared that disorders will en- sue on the departure of Nazim Bey, the acting vali. The Paris police have arrested M Mutajinski, formerly a member of the Russian mission to Abyssinia, on the charge of having formed a society to exploit mines which he had discovered in Abyssinia, but which, it is claimed, do not exist. Crimes and Criminals. Another attempt was made near Elliston, Mont., to wreck a Northrn Pacific train by placing dynamite on the rails. Charles West of Greenvale, Ill., a prominent stockman, committed sui- cide because of grief and shame over the arrest of his brother, who is charged with a serious crime. Mayor Francis Menke of Mattoon, Ill., was indicted by a grand jury on twenty-nine counts charging him with malfeasance and misfeasance in office, and was arrested and his bond fixed at $2,500. In the trial at Birmingham, Ala., of | Aaron and Archie Dill for peonage, tious. James Hagens rescued Henry Os- mors and Nicholas Mayhe, whose boat cured Immunity for Himself. Manila, Oct. 7.—Gen. Ola. leader of the insurgent armies in the province of Albay, Luzon, continues to turn over the guns of his command to the American authorities. During the campaign 100 insurgents were killed and 700 men and 100 guns were cap- tured. At the time of the surrender Ola’s men were in rags, hungry asd covered with sores. He has promised the authorities to help to capture the insurgent leaders still at large. Gen, Allen says he has promised to grant immunity to Ola. BOLD ROBBERS. Two Philippine Constabulary Officers Loot Treasury at Missamis. Manila, Oct. 7. — George Forman, chief inspector, and C. J. Johnson, constabulary supply Officer, both sta- tioned at Missamis, Mindanao, whose accounts were under _ investigation, took $6,000 from the safe, seized a steamer and have started for Borneo. Running short of coal, they stopped a native vessel and took from her a new supply. A steamer has. been sent to Borneo to intercept the fugi- tives. AUTOMOBILE GETS UNRULY... sentence next Monday. depot, Hendeé & Siveley’s wagon fac- tory, St. Charles Furniture house and stock, L. Sheridan’s jewelry store, Sorenson's store, Stevenson's elevator and Snell's elevator. Almost every building on the main street had its front torn off and was partly of wholly unroofed. Part of the high school was torn away. The Congregational church and a big livery stable were unroofed and the opera house was badly dam- aged. The new flour mill was dam- aged to the extent of $10,000. It being Saturday, the country peo- ple from the surrounding farms had Gathered in Large Numbers in the main street to do their cus- tomary shopping. At 2:30 the storm cloud was seen ap- proaching from the southwest and there was an immediate scramble for places of safety. The tornado struck the town from the southwest quarter and made a clean sweep through it, following almost entirely the line of the main street and devastating the buildings on either side. Then the res- idences further back from the business center were struck and many of them blown completely away. It seems almost ‘miraculous that there was not a greater loss of life. Four of those killed were in John Eben’s saloon when it collapsed and they were buried Beneath the Wreckage. Two others were in a dry goods store, which was blown away, and they were killed by the falling walls. Ed Peters of Dover was killed in the wreck of the hotel. A relief train was sent from Winona as soon as the news of the serious nature of the storm was_ received and physicians were soon busily en- gaged in caring for the injured and and mainied. The storm came upon the town with built. The stricken city has received Mayor Convicted. offers of assistance from surrounding towns and individual losers are ad- jand cruelties from which the peaceful Note to the Sultan. Vienna, Oct. 6—As an outcome of the conference between the czar and Emperor Francis Joseph at Muevzsteg the governments of Austria and Rus- sia have sent the following identical telegrams to the ambassadors of those countries in Constantinople. The tel- egrams were couched in the following terms: “You were recently instructed to de- clare that Austria-Hungary and Rus- sia adhere to the task of pacification which they have undertaken and are resolved to persevere with the pro- gram drawn up at the beginning of the year, notwithstanding the difficulties hitherto opposed to its execution. For ndeed, while on the one hand the rev- olutionary committees have provoked disturbances and deterred the Chris- tian population of the three vilayets from co-operating in the execution of the reforms, on the other hand, the representatives of the sublime porte intrusted with their application have oeen generally wanting in The Necessary Zeal, and have not been imbued with the idea which inspired these measures. “Both powers are united in the de- termination to show that it is their firm resolve to insist upon the execu- tion in their entirety of those reforms which was accepted by the porte and which are calculated to guarantee gen- eral security. In this connection you will receive detailed instructions with- out delay. “While the powers recognize to the full the porte’s right and duty to sup- press the disorders fostered by the in- surrectionary agitation of the Mace- donian committee, they at the same time deplore the fact that this sup- pression was accompanied by excesses inhabitants suffered. It therefore ap- general; Col. Frank Kimball, assistant paymaster general; Maj. Arthur H. Williams, Gen. Chase’s adjutant, and perhaps others, have been ordered to Denver at once, though whether to» stand trial or to. appear as witnesses is not positively known. Among the charges gated are said to be: Padded pay rolls; the employment of superfluous generals and colonels, who draw the salary of their rank but who performed sergeant’s duties; gen- eral extravagance in the purchase of supplies for the commissary depart- ment; the charge that certain officers have been Securing a “Rake-off” frem contractors; the issuance by wholesale of transportation between Cripple Creek and Denver to officers and enlisted men, their famHies and friends, and charging the same to the state; the charge that the beokkeep- ing of.the camp is kept in such a way as to admit of grafting; the sur- reptitious raising of men with a “pull” from non-commissioned officers to vaptains, majors and colonels; the erection of quarters for each. colonel, thus involving the state in a heavy but practically needless expense; the pur- chase of spoiled beef for the enlisted men at exorbitant prices and careless- ness and recklessness in the handling of finances that, is said to be appall- ing. The charges are said to have been filed by Gen. Chase against subordi- nate officers, while charges of exceed- ing his authority and disregarding the direct orders of the commander-in- chief, Gov. Peabody, are said to lie against the commanding general him- self. to be investi- SIGNS BOND ON SICK BED. Thirty-Fve Men Demand Free Trans- portation on the Great Northern. Kalispell, Mont., Oct. 6.—Thirty-five our over a twenty-three-mile track. Drowned in Lake, Marquette, Mich., Oct 7.—By the ia : ‘. pears to them to be their wu y i Pulitzer school of journalism. evidence showed horrible brutality to- such suddenness that it was filling the 1s ohio’ th: Hie aevice 4 ak duty | James N. Tyner Will Probably Never - a au i air with the debris of demolished |‘ assistance of the vic- Be Tried. —___ is ward Charley Hudson, a negro, includ-| Crashes Into a Curb and a Woman bi tims of these regrettabl 3 oh oe fi 8 eli y ; er buildings before the citizens fully real- aye @ occurrences Washington, Oct. 7. — It is pretty Canada is steadily drawing immi-|ing beating until blood fiowed in a Receives Fatal Injuries. and the above mentioned instructions |} y. % y e ion from the United States. By |stream. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 7—As a result {47ed the nature of the calamity. Many | — 5 Git soa wells nidcrsipod. hy: LNG: Roeser arefon i 2 of those injured received their hurts |W!!! acquaint you with the details of | officials that James N. Tyner never Seger cpesret:s> Specthe- Amer Detectives ended a chase of three | of an automobile driven by State avy from flying missiles, while others were the will be tried on the indictment re- ican farmers will be in Possession of | blocks at Chicago by arresting Walter | ator Frank B. Glasier of Chelsea, this caught beneath the wreckage of their Hunianitarian Action turned agsinetihin.-Mouday dpeaetcde the better part of the dominion. Stoddard Chatfield, said to be wanted | State, becoming unmanageable and r Chi ; . 7 g business houses or homes and re-| which they deem necessary with the | An announcement of his death at any ——_—___——_——- at Far Rockaway, L. I., for embezzling | crashing into a curb, five occupants i : A ‘< i > eid mained pinned down until rescued by | object of supporting the inhabitants | time would not surprise his friends. King Edward sent a gold pin lately | $6,000 from the American Express| were thrown into the street and one the relief party. who have been deprived of all means | He is in his eighty-fourth year, and — ‘toa shoemaker in Brooklyn who made | company, appending so seriously injured that Ota Hike CHER EL of existence, facilitating their repatri.| helpless from paralysis. He has not unle nces ete na ar bet becan: CE cee ieee ae pcUen aiscaeures On es The cyclone formed near Chatfield. {ation and restoring the villages, | left his bed since last April. With the jn ian hayhee de eau ap rt y Blin, nai erie ne pe pai of FOUR) MEN_-KILLED. About five miles from St. Charles the |churches and schools destroyed by | members of erabinis! x standing about 1 ggg as eacaaton : the Take, Shore task Seca: so house and barn of John Patterson ae ae: és ni vee iia ah hile pn ames : ; Collision Between a Double-Header | Were blown down and his son was oS vee une atian: and’ us| Aer sae. sone, os tenes One 4 At: its Pag ae eg tates’ el ornate ele ney wees Freight and an Extra Engine. seriously injured and his daughter had | Sian governments entertain the firm | for his appearance in court. No one mareiand Br. a ihe a ot : Siloam Springs, Ark., Oct. 7.—Four |@ leg broken. The storm then struck | hope that their continued endeavors to | liere can recall a more pathetic end- Mown in eine eee et losin dh The indictments against former men were killed and two injured in a | St. Charles and continued northeast, establish a lasting peace in the sorely | ing of a public career. Tyner entered —— haath Y ie ha sede yn fay abe dirt aly ie Driggs of Brooklyn head-on collision between a double-| Passing through Bethany, Altura and | tried provinces will attain their object ae, we apt Bet Sraient from {Maryland is fully q and George F. Miller of New York for header freight train and an extra en-| Oak Ridge. It then crossed the river |@nd they are convinced that their im- | !ndiana forty-two years ago, and since ‘honors. participation in the postal frauds have gine four miles north of here on the | Without dipping into the valley and | Partial advice will be heeded by all to | that time he has been postmaster : 5 rear beat sustained in the United states ensds City Soutionn read: caught the farm houses on the ridge | Whom it is addressed in their own in- | Seneral and attorney general for the Woe, pet Lah a eedeat phieik as pi istrict court at New York. near Fountain City, Wis. At Fountain paints eee ‘ postoffice department. ‘ shooting an S 4 ildi “By command oj is majesty, my eat eee ; Cowart Pleads Guilty. City the Reformed church building }King Feist, Lah aaron ppitead ay Saoligt Ate Brenton: Rod MOK yah a L, Cow- | was totally destroyed. It passed north- | 2ugust nay I request you to com- 125 MILES AN HOUR. ‘ ea ‘ . ae «te . 1—E. ‘ : rie td of anpopular rulers by the as | Lace nan eae i hinaman, has | art, cashier of the Navesink National |east of Arcadia and struck Independ- pag atta hantck ali ts eaerarciar | PPS ar eps EME ART ar Eee ‘ting rid of unpopu y taken out a license to marry Carrie bank at Redbank, N. J., which is now |ence. It will be a week before the ex- |S0Vernment, after you have. arrived | Slectri wenty... People | sassination route. E. ra eniey nue ta They first ay thie hands of a receiver, pleaded | tent of the damage through the coun- at an understanding with your Rus- i nang et ue ie bend | —_—_— met ina ton Baptist church. guilty to" two charges, one of them |try can be learned. sian (or Austrian) colleague, who has erlin, - ‘—The world’s speed | Confectioners now sell educational) prof, Ludwig Hektoen of the Unt . received identical instructions,” record has again been beaten on the | ‘chocolates, in cakes, marked off into fT ff Chi embezzling $20,000, and the other in The people of St. Charles are al- olectric railroad when a ninety-five-ton | ty Se aceivehawings acteee ol the Msi i Soe declares that hy- | aiding of the making of false reports, | ready at work repairing the ruins left car carrying twenty persons yesterday Fe Bigrnck temas ts. taltare tae drophobia, smallpox and yellow fever | to the treasury. His bond of $10,000 | by the cyclone. So far as can be| SEIZE A TRAIN IN MONTANA. nada) apend vate MedSk ntlibe hee if prnnavet. are not toxic diseases, but are infec-| was continued for his appearance for | learned the entire city will be re- ‘3 f | | i} | her baby: “May the public pass her had been overturned in the North by in utter ignorance and never know ‘of the existence of my little maid.” ‘But the baby has been introduced to ‘the publie before she is three weeks wid. The three French professors who think that they can cross the Atlantic jn a balloon from the Canaries to ‘vrinidad, British West Indies, are in no wise to be compared with the three wise men of Gotham who went to sea in a bowl. from the Glover estate. river at Hoboken, N. J. A dog belong- ing to Mahe was so delighted at his master’s rescue that he continued to fawn upon Hagens after all were qn shore. James A. Bailey of the Barnum-Bai- ley circus has signed agreements for the erection at Mount Vernon, N. Y., of a $150,000 house and a $4,000 stable, which are to go up this fall on the foxty acres purchased recently by him Mattoon, Ill., Oct. 7.— The jury which heard the evidence in the case of the people against Francis Menke, mayor of this city, for malfeasance iu office, found him guilty on three counts of the indictment. New York Tax Receipts. New York, Oct. 7.—City tax receipts or the first day of the annual collec-, tion have amounted to $10,225, This great sum was borne after night in a’ rickety four-wheeler to a bank in! Wall street. ‘ vised by big houses in Chicago and the Twin Cities that they will be given money and extension of credit. The city will be practically rebuilt before snow flies. Five Men Killed Near Sheridan. ‘Waupaca, Wis., Oct. 6. — The tor- nado which struck Blain and Almond Saturday night killed five persons near Sheridan, and blew down twenty build- ings as near as'can be ascertained here. Other persons may have met death. ;men took possession of a west-bound Great Northern passenger train at thispoint. They refused to pay fare and demanded to be given transporta- tion over the road. At Marion station, west of Kalispell, they were put off the train and loaded into a box car of a freight train going east. The door was locked and it was planned to ar- rest them when the train pulled into the city. Upon its arrival it was found that the door had been broken open jand all had escaped. id A bad washout delayed trains, capsizing of his sail boat, John D. Me- Martin, assistant lighthousekeeper at Granite Rock, was drowned last Fri- day, the news being brought yester- day by Lighthouse Tender Marigold. Storm Causes Great Damage. Burlington, Iowa, Oct. 7.—A heavy, storm of rain and wind, accompanied! by a fierce clectrical disturbanee, pre- vailed here last night, prostrating tel-' egraph, telephone and electric wires.’