Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 17, 1903, Page 2

— Berald-Review. wa By C. E. KILEY. MINNESOTA. After all, the corn crop is able to sit up and notice things GRAND RAPIDS, - The Turks seem determined to keep up the slaughter until they run out of Macedonians. _ It would be a great joke if Boston should be obliged to send to the Phil ippines for codfish. Sir Thomas lost his binnacle, but he will take his vermiform appendix back to England with him. Secretary Chamberlain was all right until he became so well known that people called him “Joe.” Naturally the rural mail carriers object to country roads out of which the bottoms have dropped. Connecticut will have to whittle its cigars out of something else this year. Its tobacco crop is a failure. A woman who knows how to make good bread can lack a lot of brains and her family will never miss them. Stuart Robson left $31,992, mostly in cash in the bank—which is about the most satisfactory possession, after all. Now for a rush of hunters to Alas- ka! Dr. Frizell, government scientist, reports seeing fresh mammoth tracks up there. The assets of the $12,000,000 Na- tional Salt company have been sold for $337,000. Evidently the salt mines were salted. After submitting to an interview the sultan of Turacy has the nasty habit of turning the interviewer over to the executioner. , Perhaps Mrs. Peary was afraid that ‘after another dash for the pole there would be no use trying to make Robert tee the mark. A lack of expert management in the present crisis in European affairs ig painfully evident. Where is Corre- spondent Creelman? We learn by telegraph that a bather ac Asbury Park was arrested for wear- ng a high hat into the water. If that was all, no wonder. If Harry Lehr ever comes to grief . in a financial way he can soon re- establish his fallen fortunes by start- ing a man-milliner shop. When the United States army goes up against the football players of this country it will meet the fate that sooner or later comes to every cham- pion. Having sold the first two Sham- rocks, perhaps Sir Thomas Lipton has got a quarter of the money that he will need to pay his expert doctors’ bills. Capt. Wringe will make a first rate American citizen, but there are three or four available skippers between him and the job of sailing a cup de fender. Another American word, “nickel,’ has joined “biftek” and “rosbif” in the French vocabulary. It is used in speaking of the new Frencna five-cent nickel coin. A daring Frenchman is coming across the Atlantic next May in an airship. Prof. Langley will meet him on the banks of the Potomac with an automobile. With the friendly help of Mr. Rocke- feller and other well-known citizens, young Cornelius Vanderbilt h@s just “made” $10,000,000 in the stock mar- ket. Who lost it? Following his plan of commemorat- ing the army and navy in music, Mr. Sousa’s next composition should be a spirited symphonic poem entitled “Uncharted Rocks.” Recklessly discharging a revolver at a@ concert at Middletown, N. Y., a man sent a bullet through the bass horn of a member of that band. Perhaps you can imagine what the band was playing. An Eastern woman on the eve of her wedding wanted the word “obey” ruled out of the marriage service. But why couldn’t she accept the word in a purely Pickwickian sense as the rest of ’em do? _ Uncle Sam’s income is over $2,000,- 000 a day, which is somewhat larger than Mr. Rockefeller’s income. But Mr. Rockefeller’s percentage of profits is greater than Uncle Sam’s. He has less competition. The trouble with some well-meaning people is that they think religion and loud professions of piety synony- mous. Religion is good conduct. Love and justice—this is the law and the prophets. This will be great news to some editors. If the late Mr. Newton's theory of gravitation is false we are at iast re- lieved to know that we haven’t been walking around like flies on a ceiling, after all. It always seemed an undig- nified proceeding and we're glad to bo set right—and upright. E From the Capital. The navy department recefved a ca- blegram from Rear Admiral Cotton, dated Bierut, Oct. 8, stating that Kha- bel Pasha, former governor general of Broussa, has succeeded Nazim Pasha at Beirut. The United States treasury is in stronger condition than ever before. The stock of gold is larger than held by any other depository in the world, with possibly one exception, and the only complaint is that the cash bal- ance is too large. Acting Secretary Ryan of the inte- rior department at Washington has sent telegraphic orders to the Dawes Indian commission to suspend the allotment of lands in the Cherokee Nation pending the approval by the department of the segregation of the 157,000 acres of land in the Cherokee Nation claimed by the Delaware In- dians, provision for which was made in the Curtis act of 1898. People Talked About. Jerry Bosarth, aged 101, and Julia Ann Jenkins, ninety-nine, were mar- ried at Parksburg, W. Va. William Cramp has resigned the presidency of the Cramp Shipbuilding company of Philadelphia and retired from active work. Chief Justice J. Brewster CeCollum of the supreme court of Pennsylvania died at Montrose, Pa., after an illness of about two years. Gen. Orlando Smith, ex-vice presi- dent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and a distinguished officer during the Civil war, died in Chicago. Col. Leanidas William Spratt, one of the surviving members of the South Carolina secession convention, died at Jacksonville, Fla., in his eighty-fifth year. Mrs. William H. Mestayer, known professionally as Theresa Vaughan, died at Worcester insane hospital of peresis. She was a member of the Ott family, famous in theatrical cir- cles. George P. Barber, husband of the late “Faith Templeton,” the author- ess, died at Muskegon, Mich., aged seventy years, death resulting from injuries he received in a runaway ac- cident three years ago. Dr. John B. Johnson, aged eighty- six, for over sixty years one of the most prominent physicians in St. Louis, died from uraemia. Dr. John- son was the first vice president of the National Medical association. Gen. Robert N. Pearson, assistant city paymaster, dropped dead of heart disease in his office in the city hall in Chicago. The deceased entered the Civil war as a private and came home with a brevet title of brigadier gen- eral. Casualties. Ignatz H. Klement of Scranton, Ya., “didn’t know it was loaded,” and shot dead his bride of two weeks. Lightning struck a tent in a railway laborers ’camp, klling two men, in- juring five and shocking firteen oth- ers. Mrs. Annie Martin, a nurse of New York, while temporarily insane, threw herself from the roof of a five-story building. Andrew Baker was killed and Amos Jannison and Joseph Miller fatally in- jured by a south-bound train on the Ohio River road at Moundsville, Va. Four men were killed and two in- jured in a head-on collision between a double-header freight train and an extra engine four miles north of Silo- am Springs, Ark. A tornado struck Mendota, [ll., and did much damage north of that place. A Wild West show was demolished, four of its horses killed and a number of Indians and cowboys slightly in- jured. As a result of an automobile driven by State Senator Frank B. Glasier of Chelsea, Mich., becoming unmanage able and crashing into a curb at De- troit, five occupants were thrown to the street and one, Mrs. Lucy T. Mudge, was so seriously injured that she died a short time after. Notes From Abroad. Emperor Francis Joseph and the czar are at the imperial hunting lodge near Muerszteg. The Russian and German postoffices have arranged to construct a telegraph line between Berlin and St. Peters- burg. The port of Guyaquil, Ecuador, is closed against vessels from Callao, Peru, on account of bubonic plague there. . A large seminary, chapel and library at Castres-sur-l’Agaut were destroyed by fire, believed to have been incen- diary. The government of Peru has added 1 per cent to import duties at Callao, to raise funds for building a national theater. Emperor Francis Joseph and King Leo poldof Belgium have been recon- ciled, and the king will visit the em- peror soon. In a riot between strikers and non- unionists, the Berlin police charged with sabers and many persons were wounded. , Robert Cordes, a military student, has committed suicide at Berlin to escape persecution at the hands of his superior officers. The September report of the London board of trade shows an in- crease of $18,433,500 in imports and a decrease of $2,401,500 in exports. — t |COURT’S TURN NOW FIRST TRIAL OF THE POSTOF- FICE CASES IS ON AT CIN- CINNATI. The unfavorable weather during the month of September will, it is feared. affect the yield of cotton in Egypt. The French lugger, President Car- not, has been wrecked off the Hook of Holland. Thirteen persons were drowned. People with claims against the Mo- rocco government criticise the sultan for spending money on an exhibit at St. Louis while their claims are un- paid. M. Lebaudy, the young French mil- lionaire, will attempt to found a state along the northwestern coast of Af- rica, peopled by negroes from the Southern states of America. An electric car on an experimental line in Germany was run at a speed of 1254-5 miles an hour, the highest speed yet attained. The engineers will try for 140 miles an hour. Gen. Francois Bourbon y de Cas- tillvi, a cousin of King Alfonse and formerly military commander of the Aragon division of the Spanish army, who was arrested last December at a gambling club, and who challenged the prefect of Madrid, has been sen- tenced by the supreme military court to two months’ detention in a fort- ress. CONSPIRACY 1S THE CHARGE MILLER AND JOHNS ALLEGED TO HAVE SOLICITED A BRIBE. MIXED UP IN THE TURF SCANDAL JOHN J. RYAN THE PRINCIPAL WITNESS FOR THE GOV- ERNMENT. Cincinnati, Oct. 14—The first trial under about two dozen indictments against postoffice officials, secured in different parts of the country by the government recently, was begun yes- terday. The defendants are Daniel Voorhees Miller of Terre Haute, Ind., formerly assistant attorney general for the postoffice department at Washington, and Joseph M. Johns, an attorney at Rockville, Ind. The government charged a conspir- acy between these defendants for the purpose of obtaining money from John J. Ryan, a turf commissioner with of- fices in St. Louis and Cincinnati, for protecting him from postoffice officials in the use of the mails in his scheme. Miller claims absolute ignorance of any transactions that may have oc- curred between Ryan and Johns. Johns claims he made An Ordinary Contract with Ryan as attorney to assist in se- curing a decision from ihe postoffice department efter the presentation of the case. Both defendants absolutely deny any understanding between themselves or with Ryan, or any con- spiracy. The most eminent counsel are engaged on both sides. Miller and Johns are old friends, having lived in adjoining counties in Indiana for years, where both have been prom- Sin and Sinners. Miss Alma Rideaut, a stenographer of Grand Rapids, Mich., was gagged and bound and the office safe robbed of $184. Anna Evans, twelve years old, com- mitted suicide at Clinton, Ind., with carbolic acid, because she was placed in the children’s home. George B. Williamson and Marvin Welch, clerks for the General Union Telephone company at Indianapolis, and close friends, shot themselves. Frank Sepitowski, a grocer’s clerk, at St. Louis, shot and killed his wife. To avoid being captured by angry neighbors he afterward shot himself. Miss Mary Layton Johnson has been arrested in New York on a charge of embezzling $33,000 from the United States Playing Card company in New York. J. Welles Reed, formerly cashier of the Los Angeles branch of the Califor- nia Fruit Commissioners ‘association, has been arrested in St. Louis on the charge of embezzlement. J. J. Kresley, a mining broker of Spokane, formerly wealthy and prom- inent in society, has been sentenced | jnent, to five years in the penitentiary for} While District Attorney Sherman forging certificates of stock. McPherson and his ‘assistants, Mouliner and Darby, have been work- ing on the case for some time, they were assisted yesterday by Charles H. Robb, assistant attorney general of the postoffice department at Washing- ton, D. C. Cochran, chief of postoffice inspectors, Postoffice Inspectors Vick- ery and Fulton, who arrested Miller and Johns, and others. The defend- ants have been Indicted Jointly on six counts of conspiring to obtain a bribe from John J. Ryan & Co. of Cincinnati and St. Louis. The gov- ernment has called a dozen witnesses and the defense three times, that many, so that it is not expected argu- ments will be reached until the latter part of the week. The witnesses yes- terday were Richard M. Webster, a clerk in the legal department of the postmaster general at Washington; J. N. Morrow, telegraph operator at Rockville, Ind., and John’ J. Ryan, the latter being on the stand when court adjourned. As Ryan’s direct examination has not been completed, it is thought most of the time to-day will be taken up with his testimony regarding his transactions with postal officials in Washington and later with Johns, as the alleged middleman at meetings in Terre Haute, Cincinnati and St. Louis. William Deiblin was ambushed and shot three times, his throat cut and left for dead on the road at Hot Springs, Ark. He was found and re- covered long enough to tell who were his assailants. The trouble arose over a woman. Because he was supposed to have a large sum of money which he refused to produce, John H. Herman, an aged hermit of Kansas City, was terribly tortured by masked robbers. The robbers secured but a few dollars, but Herman says it was all he had. After chasing William H. Bonner, alias William Bernard, a negro, from St. Louis to New York, thence to Cleveland, and from there to Chicago, detectives arrested the man. He is wanted for the theft of diamonds val- ued at $4,000, and $200 in cash. Isaac N. Ross a fermer special deputy collector, is under arrest at Pittsburg by collector of Port Garland on a charge of abstracting $600 from a package containing $3,000, which he had taken to the express office Sept. 27, to be sent to the subtreasury, Philadelphia. Condutor John Mullin, in charge of a@ palace car on a Grand runk train; Porter N. W. Crawford, colored, and Charles Thompson, of Boston, a tour- ist agent for the Pullman Palace Car company, are under arrest at Port Hu- ron, Mich., charged with smuggling merchandise and a Chinaman. LYNCHERS HELD BACK. Guards Make a Successful Stand Against a Mob. Berlin, Oct. 14—A number of would- be lynchers at Bamburg surrounded the carriage in which guards were taking Andreas Dippold to the peni- tentiary to begin his sentence of eight years for whipping to death Heinz Koch, son of the director of the Deutsch bank. The mob almost suc- ceeded in getting Dippold, when the guards fixed bayonets and drove their assailants off. Dippold was struck in the back by a piece of metal. Dippold was young Koch’s tutor. Otherwise. | Negroes have formed the American Negro Co-operative and Industrial as- sociation, to promote industrial enter- prises for their race. It has been learned that Jimmy Kerrigan, the Molly Maguire leader who turned state’s evidence thirty years ago, died at Manchester, Va., in 1898. The syndicate organized to finance the $200,000,000 United States Steel corporation bonds made over $35,000,- 000 on the deal. J. P. Morgan’s share is $5,000.000. The Honorable Artillery Company of London arrived at Boston as the guests of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, and was welcomed with a brilliant parade. Several hundred men in the non- Bessemer mines of the United States Steel corporation in Michigan, Wis- consin and Minnesota have been laid off because of overproduction of ore. Dowie and his followers are going to New York in ten special trains and will reach there by Oct. 16. They have engaged Madison Square Garden and will also hold meetings on the streets. Steamfitters and helpers to the num- ber of 1,600, who have been on strike in New York for several weeks, have signed the arbitration agreement of the Building Trades Employers’ asso- ciation and taken in as members of the unioh'139 men who had been em- ployed to fill their places. They will get $5 a day. * cae Little Girl Killed. Helena, Mont., Oct. 14.—W. P. Ad- ams was seriously injured and his three-year-old daughter was instantly killed by a cave-in of gravel at Spring Gulch placer diggings. The daughter was playing behind her father when the cave-in occurred without warning, purying both. Adams was rescued alive by neighbors, but the girl could not be reached in time to save her life. ; School Girls Are Heroines. Chicago, Oct. 14.—In a fire that de- jstroyed two iesidences in Irving Park three children were rescued from death by girl students of Jeffer- son high school. Raymond Saunders, five years old, 1s believed to have perished in the flames. Miner Killed. Helena, Mont., Oct. 14—Thomas J. Doyle, eighteen, a. miner, was caught in a fall of rock at the St. Lawrence mine, Butte, and received injuries which proved fatal. | DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT MENASHA. Man Kills Himself and Wife and Wounds Another Person. » Menasha, Wis., Oct. 14.—Frederick Crawford of Oshkosh shot and killed his wife in this city last night, wound- ed a man named L. J. Jourdain and then blew out his own brains. Craw- ford and his wife had been separated for some time, A meeting had been Planned between the two for last night. As Mrs, Crawford was passing the public library Crawford stepped out and met her. Just what passed between them no one probably knows. Crawford drew a pistol and fired on the woman at short range, the powder burning her clothing. She sank to the ground with a groan and died almost instantly. Mr. Jourdain, who is en- gaged in the insurance business, stepped up and asked Crawford what the trouble was. Crawford, without making any reply, fired at Jourdain. The ball struck him near the heart and his wound is very serious, but there are hopes of his recovery. Craw- ford then stepped around the building and sent a bullet through his brain, dying instantly. WITHDRAWN FROM ENTRY. All Desert Lands in the Great Falls District. Great Falls, Mont., Oct. 14. — The Great Falls land office has received instructions from Washington to withdraw from entry under the desert Jaw all lands in the district lying south of the Missouri river. The order affects approximately 1,150,000 acres. The officials were instructed also to suspend pending investigation all des- ert entries upon which patents have not been issued. These orders are the result of a report made by Special Agent Chadwick, who recently was sent to this city by the interior de- partment to investigate the charge that gross frauds were being com- mitted in this district. The report is said to have been a sensational one, sustaining practically every charge made by United States Senator Gibson of Montana. STORE LOOTED BY BURGLARS. Break the Door and Steal Jewelry. St. Paul, Oct. 14. — Purglars did a bold job at the jewelry store of Ave Cohen at 10 o’clock last night. They were evidently overburdned when they left the store, as watches, opera glasses, brooches and other articles were strewn about the alley in the rear of the building. Mr. Cohen es- timates the value of the missing property at . $200. The burglars gained entrance by forcing the lock on the rear door. The police have no clue, Thieves FIFTY YEARS IN PRISON. Sentence Given Man for Murder in Montana. Helena, Mont., Oct. 14. — Judge Loud at Glendive, has sentenced John Kenahan, convicted of second degree murder, to fifty years in the peniten- tiary. The jury in the case of John Wilson, arrested on the same caarge as Kerahan, has brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree. The men were charged with killing Thom- as McGowan and an unknown man in a box car on a moving train, two months ago, for the purpose of rol bery. 7 SIX HORSES ARE SHOT. Glanders Breaks Out in Logging Camp. Superior, Wis., Oct. 14. — Fifty horses quarantined on account of an epidemic of glanders is the situation that exists at Brule, on the Northern Pacific road, in this county. Six horses have been shot on account of their affliction with the disease, while three more died before the state vet- erinary department was cognizant of the condition of affairs at Brule. Strict watch is being kept over the horses to prevent a spread. HORSES DIE IN FLAMES. Forty-Six Cremated in a Fire in Wil- kin County. Fergus Falls, Minn., Oct. 14.—Light- ning struck the large barn on the farm of Moses Ferguson, across the line in Wilkin county. The building burned rapidly and forty-six head of horses perished. Mr. Ferguson car- ried very little insurance. Probable Fatal Injury. Pierre, S. D., Oct. 14. — Parties in from Pedru, at the forks of the Chey- enne river, report that J. M. Priest, at one time state senator from Butte and Meade counties, and later a member of the state brand commission, was so seriously injured Thursday that it was not believed that he could recover at the time they left. He was at work in a well aud a large stone fell, strik- ing him on the head. Scarlet Fever at Blue Earth. Blue Earth, Minn., Oct. 14.—There are eight cases of scarlet fever here, put all are under strict quarantine and there is no danger of a spread of the disease. Killed on Bridge. Tony, Wis., Oct. 14.—Frank Dolezal, a tailor from Ladysmith, and prom- inent in business, was struck by a Soo line freight train while crossing the long bridge over the Flambeau river. He died a few hours after. Blackleg Among Cattle. Centerville, S. D., Dec. 14.—It is re- ported that blackleg has made its ap- pearance among the cattle,in this part | of the state. Several farmers report having already lost quite a few head from the disease. oe WAR IN THE SOUTH NICARAGUA AND GUATEMALA WOULD TACKLE SALVADOR AND HONDURAS. PREPARING TO DECLARE WAR FORCE OF GUATEMALAN SOL- DIERS MARCH TO SALVA- DOREAN FRONTIER. SALVADOREANS GETTING READY WAR WAS AVERTED LAST MARCH BY THE UNITED STATES MINISTER. Panama, Oct. 14. — According to news received here from Central America President Zelaya of Nic- aragua, and President Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala are preparing to declare war against Salvador and Honduras, Ten thousand Guatemalan soldiers are reported to be marching toward the Salvadorean frontier with @ powerful force of artillery. At Santa Ana, thirty-five miles northwest of San Salvador, a Salvadorean army is being organized under Gen. Regal- ado. Many war elements have been transported from the port of Acajutla to La Union, which is near the Nic- araguan frontier. Nicaraguan emigrants are receiving arms from Gen. Regalado which have been transported to Amapala. It is reported that Salvador and Hon- duras will back the Liberal movement in Nicaragua headed by Dr. Francisco Baca against President Zelaya. Guatemala Wants War. Information was received in New Orleans Oct. 2 that President Cabrera of Guatemala was considering the in- vasion of Salvador and had endeay- ored to enlist the aid of the Honduran government, but had failed. President Cabrera, however, had not abandoned his plan, and between 6,000 and 7,000 Guatemalan troops were at that time gathered at various points on the Salvadorean frontier. A week previously advices had been received of an expected invasion of Nicaragua by Honduras to inforce that country’s opposition to Nicar- agua’s action in giving a territorial concession to James Dietrich of Pittsburg, in which Cleveland capital- ists are interested. There is also a frontier dispute be- tween the two countries regarding their respective rights in the valley of the Wanks' river. ' Nicaragua and Guatemala. have apparently now joined hands against Salvadore and Honduras. Last March Salvador and Guate- mala were on the threshhold of war which was averted by the friendly in- tervention of Leslie Combs, United States minister to Guatemala. PRELATE PASSES AWAY. Archbishop Kain Dies After a Long IIhiess. Baltimore, Oct. 14.—The Most Rev. John Joseph Kain, archbishop of St. Louis, Mo., died last night at the St. Agnes sanitarium, this city, where he has been a patient since May 12. Death, which came peacefully, had been hourly expected by his attending physicians for several days. Heart disease was the ailment for which the archbishop was first treated when he arrived at the institution, but a general breakdown from overwork caused him much trouble. Recently appendicitis developed and the pre- late rapidly sank, an operation, which was deemed necessary, being imprac- tieable owing to the enfeebled condi- tion of the patient. MONUMENTS DEDICATED. Many Distinguished Personages on Antietam Battlefield. Hagerstown, Md., Oct. 14—The ten monuments erected on Antietam bat- tlefield by the State of Ohio, including the one to the memory of President McKinley, were dedicated yesterday with appropriate exercises and under most auspicious circumstances. The presence of so many distinguished personages was a prominent feature of the day. Gen. Hamilton, the famous British general, and party, including Sir Kay Muir, his brother-in-law, wit- nessed the dedication with great inter- est. Succeeds Devonshire. London, Oct. 14—Lord Londonderry has been appointed lord president of the council in succession to the duke of Devonshire. It is understood that his lordship will retain the portfolio of education, and his new appoint- ment will thus make little practical difference to his position in the cab- inet. Textile Strike Ended. Philadelphia, Oct. 14. — The dyers and mercerizers’ union has given the dyers permission to return to work, thus finally ending the textile strike which began in this city on June 1. The dyers are the last of the 120,000 strikers to return to work. Cuts Wife’s Throat and His Own. Jonesboro, Ill., Oct. 14—Dent Pitts, living’ on the Cliford farm, east of © Anna, while intoxicated, cut his wife’s throat and afterward his own. Pitts died but his wife is still alive, ae Oe ——— - wile