Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 21, 1903, Page 2

es erald-Review. [SENATOR INDICTED By CG. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. There isn’t any fun in kissing when ‘the wires are burned out. Little Willie declares that the “tan that won’t come off” is the rattan. The barber who committed suicide with bay rum certainly stuck to his last. : ‘ Patti is here on a farewell trip that means farewell to our dollars, at least. A woman who throws herself at a man’s head usually fails to aim straight. Lord Bute has just married @ pretty actress, who is now presumably a ver- itable Bute. A woman never marries her first | love unless she is quite sure that he is | also her last. One game of football makes more work for the hospital than all ef the army maneuvers. To a man up in a balloon it must look as though the air were clogged with flying machines. Jealousy is a sleight-of-hand artist which easily turns the most innocent actions into suspicious ones. With the battleship Missouri and the Missouri mule, what nation can beat us at the game of war? The man who started the Mary Ann question is named Warbeck, and he lives in Jersey City. Now go-for him! Sometimes the man who proudly wears a campaign button in his coat lapel has to fasten his suspender with a nail. A man can find fault and lose his temper simultaneous.y, thus demon- strating his ability to do two things at once. Moving as fast as he does Dan Patch finds it easy to do an important day’s work in considerably less than two minutes. In the growth of a son a mother loses ever so many children. Every step in his progress represents some- thing she has lost. The powers of Europe are evident- ly preparing for a grand concert, at which the menu served after the per formance will be Turkey. The Standard Vil Company has be- gun to operate in Japan. This settles it. The Japanese needn’t be afraid tnat Russia will get them. A Philadelphia pup the other day mistook a stick of dynamite for a bone. He succeeded in making Phila- delphia wide awake for a second or two. A Kansas farmer is authority for the statement that a full-grown and able-bodied cyclone will lift every- thing on the place except the mort- gage. Football cannot be as bloody a pas- time as some persons think it is. Fre- quently you hear of the players stop- ping a game in order to indulge in a real fight. . Greater New York has a population of nearly 4,000,000. In that number of people Col. Watterson believes that there ought to be more than “400” worth speaking to. Lieut. Peary might convince Sir Thomas Lipton that it is easier to lift the pole than iit is to lift the cup, and seek no furtner for means of financing his expedition. Sir Thomas Lipton failed to carry any substantial reward back with him but that other great promoter of Anglo-Saxon amity, Sir Henry Irving, may be relied on to even up the score. Another insanitary feature of sleep- img car life which the doctors over- looked is the dangerous practice of descending from the upper berth by the stepladder when the stepladder is not there. As football coaches have reached the conclusion that too close applica- tion to the game makes the players stale, some of the men are said to be finding an hour or two a day to de yote to their studies. President Castro of Venezuela finds that wars may be threatened in the Balkans and the far East and be put off from day to day for months and perhaps for years, but where he is the revolutions go on forever. The co-eds of the Northwestern uni- versity of Chicago have been for- bidden to whistle, perhaps because when they got their lips pursed up in the preparatory pucker they looked just too tempting for their fellow stu- dents to resist. As recent events show, it was a master stroke of sagacity and fore wight that led the Alaskan boundary commissitmers to hold the speech- making dinners and the display of Anglo-American alliance enthusiasm before the award instead of after it. . x DIETINCH OF NEBRASKA “DEFECT is CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY AND BRIBERY. POSTMASTER IS ALSO INDICTED ALLEGED THAT DIETRICH RE- CEIVED PAY FOR PROCURING APPOINTMENT. SAYS THERE’S POLITICS IN Hl EDITOR ROSEWATER SAYS THAT SENATOR DIETRICH HAS A GOOD DEFENSE. ‘Ymaha, Neb., Nov. 18.—The feders} | grand jury last evening returned true bills agaimst United States Senator Charles H. Dietrich and Postmaster’ Jacob Fisher of Hastings, Neb., charg+ ing them with conspiracy and bribery,’ dn connection with the appointment of, Fisher ‘to the position of postmaster. The indictments were brought into the Unitted States district court at o'clock, Judge Munger presiding, an@ were placed ‘on file. The court merely, accepted the report of the grand jury, making no remarks on its contents be/ yond making an order to the clerk for ‘filing the bills. The indictment against Senator Dietrich charges that he accepted money and property in consideration of his recommending Fisher for ap- pointment as postmaster at Hastings. The bill against Postmaster Fisher charges him with Making an Agreement with Senator Dietrich by which Fish- er was to pay in property and money $1,300 for securing to Fisher the ap- pointment. Evidence was presented to the grand jury to show that Fisher had bought postoffice fixtures from thei Grand Army post at Hastings of the} value of $500 and later turned the property over to Senator Dietrich, to whose building it was removed, and to whom was paid a rental by the gov- ernment. In addition to turning over this property, it is charged that » asher paid to the senator $800 in cash. Last night it was said that the grand jury had been investigating the Hastings postoffice case for nearly three weeks, and that a number of witnesses were present from Hastings and other points in Nebraska. Four cther cases, said to be of a similar nature, are said to be under investigation by a grand jury, and a report on ali, or part, of them is ex- pected soon. All are cases in which post offices and postmasters are concerned. Result of Political Quarrel. Washington, Nov. 18. — Senator Dietrich ana Kditor Rosewater of the Omaha Bee have arrived in Washing- ton. and last night all inquirers as to the indictment of the senator were re- ferred to Mr. Rosewater, who de- clared that the indictments were the result of a political quarrel. Mr. Rose- water asserted that Senator Dietrich had a good defense, and added that he and the senator had come to Washing- ton at this time to bring about the re- moval of District Attorney Somers. He said they already had been at the White House on this mission. Mr. Rosewater declared that District At- torney Somers had pushed the charges against Senator Dietrich for the rea- son that they were politically antago- nistic. KILLED BY FALLING WOLLS. Three Firemen Meet Death at a Dis- astrous Fire in Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 18. — Three firemen were killed and two injured early yesterday in the largest fire this city has suffered in months. ‘Ine fire was in a large street ear barn of the Cleveland Electric Railway company, on Holmden avenue, and started about 3 o’clock. Employes of the street car company believe that it was of incen- diary origin. The flames spread like a whirlwing, necessitating the calling out of all available fire-fighting ap- paratus in the eity. The loss is esti- mated at $230,000. The fatalities was eaused by a wall falling suddenly upon Duffy, Schweda, Reed Corrigan and Vandervelde. The first three were killed and the others seriously injured. HARDWARE STORE ROBBED. Burglars Secure $100 Worth of Booty at Cumberland. Cumberland, Wis., Nov. 18.—Burg- lars broke into the furniture and hardware store of Cliff & Levings last night, and got away with/one Win- chester rifle, two double-barrel shot- guns, six revolvers, a lot of jack- knives and some silverware. The value of the plunder taken aggregates $100. PADDING PAYROLLS. Two Men Charged With Taking Van- derbilt Money. Asheville, N. C., Nov. 18.—Daniel C. Champlain, formerly mayor of Bilt more, and cashier of the Biltmore es- tate, and George R. Tennent, hereto- fore timekeeper for the estate, yester- day were indicted by a grand jury for embezzlement of office funds from -George W. Vanderbilt. The amount taken, it is alleged, is $11,000. The money, it is said, was secured by pad- ding payrolls. E PAGE IV BOMBARD THE CITY. Insugents Are Again Making an Attack Upon San Domingo. — San Domingo, Nov. 19.—The polit: ical situation here is serio The (n- surgents are bombarding the city. Generals Wincelo, Figuero and Juan Francisco Sanchez are refugees in the foreign legations. i The city is completely invested by 4,000 men under Pichardo and four other generals. A general attack iis expected within the next few days. Gen. Wos y Gil refuses to capitulate and it is believed that the fighting will be severe. } The situation is desperate Brel fighting im the strecets is likely to pc- cur at any moment. The United States cruiser Belti- more has been compelled to leave to recoal. United States Minister Pow- ell is endeavoring to Protect American Interests with the limited means at his dis- posal. A German naval vessel! 18 ready to land troops at a moment’s notice. The insurgents endeavored to have Minister Powell recognize them, but this the minister refused to do. The revolutionists fired on the Clyde liner New York as she was en- tering the port of Samana. The ves- sel was uninjured. The Dominican government has appointed Minister of Foreign Rela- tions Galvan and Judge George Gray of Delaware as commissioners to arbi- trate the Santo Domingo Improve- ment matter as the result of Minister Powell’s determination to compel the carrying wut of the terms of the pro- tocol. Protests Against Blockade. New York, Nov. 19. — The United States government has refused to rec- ognize the blockade of Dominican ports, made two days ago, and has protested against it. This was con- firmed yesterday by Nevada N. Stran- ahan, collector of the port of New York. The collector received tele- graphic advices from the treasury de- partment advising him that the state department does not consider the blockade effective, and has entered a vigorous protest against it. The col- lector, in conformity with his in- structions and the protest, has noti- fied masters of vessels sailing to San Dominican ports that clearance pa- pers will be issued for any ports in Santo Domingo, thus officially refut- ing the effectiveness of the blockade. At the offices of the Clyde line it was said that the Cherokee will clear to-day for her usual trip, calling at the ports which the local Dominican con- 3ul says are “closed.” TIE UP THE WHOLE CITY. Chicago Threatened With Greatest Street Car Strike in History. Chicago, Nov. 19.—Arbitration fail- ing in the present crisis thrust upon CShieago by tho South side. street car men, eight divisions of organized trainmen on all the lines in Chicago, 3outh Chicago and the Calumet region threaten to plunge the community into the greatest street railway strike in the city’s history. Representative officers of these eight divisions met last night with National President Mahon, leader of the strike, and a resolution was adopt- ed to appoint a special committee to irge arbitration of present difficulties through Mayor Harrison, and in the 2vent of failure of this effort a special meeting of all divisions will be called immediately to plan united sympa- thetic action. Peace Negotiations Progress. Peace negotiations looking to an amicable settlement of the struggle between the Chicago City railway and Its striking employes were begun yesterday afternoon and the indica- tions are that both sides of the con- troversy will agree to submit their differences to arbitration. After a sonference which lasted several hours between Mayor Harrison, the officials of the company and the special alder- manie peace committee appointed by Mayor Harrison at the direction of the rity council, followed by another meeting in which President Mahon of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes and his le- zal advisers took part, Mayor Harri- son declared that the outlook for a settlement of the strike by arbitration was Decidedly Flattering. “I was agreeaably surprised at the vonciliatory attitude displayed by both sides to the controversy,” he said, “and we made more progress at our first meeting than I anticipated.” He declined. to enter iato the de- tails of the discussion that took place, but it is said that a further confer- ence with the railway officials was ar- ranged for to-day. The object was to bring to two sides to a point where arbitration is possible. This, the mayor believes, has been accom- plished. Despite the promising outlook for a peaceable ending in tke near future the management of the road will to- day renew their efforts to break the strike. Announcement was made that an effort will be made to-day to open another branch of the system. PRISONERS BREAK JAIL. Beat Officer Into Insensibility and » Make Their Escape. Washington, Nov. 19. — Lawrence Miner and Tony Pierce, charged with murder, beat Deputy Sheriff Samuel Howe into insensibility last night, stole his keys and revolver and es- caped from Washington county jail. County Detective McCleary fired two shots at the fleeing prisoners and hit One of them, but both men escaped. A posse is in pursuit. PANAMA SAYS NO COLOMBIA’S PROPOSAL THAT THEY RETURN TO THE FCLD TURNED DOWN. ASSURANCES COME 100 LATE PANAMA’S POSITION SO STRONG THEY SEE NO REASON FOR CHANGING. COLOMBIANS MAKE A THREAT WILL ATTEMPT TO ENFORCE THEIR RIGHTS ON ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. Colon, Nov. 19.— The Panamian commission, composed of Senors Arias, Morales and Arosemena, which left Panama Monday to meef the peace commission from the depart- ment of Bolivar, boarded the May- flower yesterday and held a_ short conference with the Colombian peace commission. The Colombians asked the Panamians if they would return to the republic of Colombia, and as- sured them of concessions and con- siderations on the passage of a canal treaty. The Panamians replied that they would not return to the republic of Colombia and declared that the as- surances came too late, as Panama’s position was so advantageous and strong that they could not see any reason for changing. The Colombians returned to Sava- nilla yesterday afternoon on the British steamer Trent. They did not land at Colon, but remained on the Mayflower until 3 p. m., when they were transferred to the Trent. Colombians Make Strong Plea. During the @onterence Nicanor In- signares, who was the spokesman of the Colombians, made a strong appeal to the Panamians not to disrupt the republic of Colombia, and he supple- mented his appeal by the solemn as- surance that Colombia would grant all the rights demanded by the isth mians and eventually carry out their grand project of building the canal. Replying to Senor Insignares, Senor Tomas Arias, representing the junta, said that the Bogota government and the Colombians generally did not ap- pear to grasp the actual conditions prevailing on the isthmus. The revo- lution, Senor Arias said, was born absolutely of the unanimous desire of the entire people of Panama and Was Irrevocable. It was the act of a now independent government, already thoroughly. or- ganized and formally recognized by the United States, France and Italy. Senor Insignares, in answer, ex- pressed his deep sorrow at finding that the hopes of reconciliation were impossible of realization and that the actions of the people of the isthmus of Panama were irrevocable. He dev clared that all the people of Colombia would unite in an effort to enforce the rights of the republic on the isthmus of Panama, even at the cost of great sacrifices. The threat of Senor Insignares that the republic of Colombia would en- force its alleged rights in isthmian territory did not cause apprehension to the Panamian commissioners, who received it with equanimity. Panama Flag Saluted. Panama, Nov. 19.—At 8:30 yester- day morning the United States flag- ship Marblehead hoisted the flag of the republic of Panama and saluted it with twenty-one guns. The Tresnovi- embre, a gunboat of Panama, display- ing the American flag, answered the salute. The shore batteries also fired |a salute of twenty-one guns, which the Marblehead answered. At 10 a.m. Rear Admiral Glass, Consul Gudger and Commander Phelps, accompanied by Lieutenants Philip Andrews and S. W. Trellin- wider, officially called on the junta. The people of Panama are happy over the official recognition of the flag and the event is being celebrated enthusiastically. WORK FOR MANY MEN. Consolidated Lake Superior Company Plants to Start Up. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Nov. 19. — The manufacturing plants of the Con- solidated Lake Superior company will nearly all be in operation in a few days. The sawmill will be re- opened with a force of 125 men as soon as it can get the men to put to work. All the mills will require a force of 800 men, exclusive of the gang which will go into the woods to get out raw material. It is also an- nounced that as soon as a reorganiza- tion is effected the other plants will be started, giving work to 1,000 addi- tional men. BILLS AND PETITIONS Occupy a Twenty-Minute Session of the United States Senate. Washington, Nov. 19. — The senate was in open session for only twenty minutes and the greater part of that time was consumed in the introduc- tion of bills and presentation -of peti- tions. Most of the bills were for pen- sions and the bulk of the petitions related to the case of Senator Smoot of Utah. COLOMBIA KICKS. Protests to England Against United States’ Action. , London, Nov. 18. — The Colombian authorities have cabled to London a lengthy protest against the United States’ action toward Panama, in which they claim that the “main re- sponsibility for the secession of Pan- ama lies with the United States gov- ernment; firstly, by fomenting the separatist spirit, of which there seems to be clear evidence; secondly, by hastily acknowledging the independ- ence of the revolted province, and, finally, by preventing the Colombian government from using proper means to- repress the rebellion.” The cable message goes on to say that PresiZent Marroquin has ener- getically protested to the United States and wishes that his protest should be known throughout the civ- ilized world. Protests to President Frye. Washington, Nov. 18.—The protest of the Colombian government against the recognition by the United States of the independence of Panama was received yesterday by senator Frye as president pro tem. of the senate. The document was not laid before the senate because of the diplomatic re- quirement that it should be trans- mitted through the secretary of state. It will be sent to the secretary with the request that it be speedily re- turned, when Senator Frye will lay it before the senate. No Hand in Revolution. The president yesterday transmitted | to the house of representatives the correspondence and other official doc- uments relating to the recent revolu- tion on the Isthmus of Panama, as re- guested by the resolution agreed to by the house at the instance of Mr. Hitt. The correspondence shows that the Washington government had no hand in the revolution previous to the out- break, however strenuously it has up- held the new republie after the proc- lamation of independence. May Remunerate Colombia. Panama, Nov. 18. — Rear Admiral Walker and Consul General Gudger, who is in Panama to direct the rela- tions of the United States with the de facto government, called at the palace yesterday afternoon and in the name of the United States government, paid their respects to the members of the junta. The visit of Rear Admiral Walker and Mr. Gudger has been construed by the junta and by the people of Panama as a formal official recognition of the new republic and has provoked many gratulations on the. new order of expressions of satisfaction and con- things. The junta yesterday appointed a commission composed of Senores Arias and Espinosa to proceed at once to Colon to confer on board the Unit- ed States steamer Mayflower with the Colombians who arrived Sunday night on what is understood to be a peace mission. If the commissioners are properly empowered and recognize the republic of Panama, the matter of re- muneration to Colombia for the loss of the isthmus may be broached. The Panama commissioners, however, are fully determined to do nothing that may in any way weaken the position of the young republic or endanger the independence of the isthmus. WARNING FOR BOB EVANS. Must Not Repeat Offense Committed in Censuring Members of Court. Washington, Nov. 18.—The protest of Paymaster Biscoe and Lieut. Will- jams, of the navy, regarding the lan- guage used by Rear Admiral Evans in reviewing the findings of the court which tried Assistant Paymaster Rishworth Nicholson, has presented to the navy department such a knotty problem that the legal authorities of the war department have been con- sulted as to the attitude which should be assumed toward the admiral, an unusual proceeding. At Secretary Moody’s instance Assistant Secretary Darling took up the matter. Although his opinion has not been made public it is understood he takes the position that Admiral Evans in no unequivocal terms attacked the integrity of the members of the court, and that having done this, and if he hau the evidence at hand to sustain his charge, it was his duty at once to order a court-mar- tial af the officers to whom his re- marks was directed. Not having so acted it is understood that Mr. Darl- ing holds that the admiral was dere- lect in his duty and should be repri- manded. It is said that it is Secretary Moody’s present intention to return to Admiral Evans the findings in the Nicholson case, with a notification that he had decided to dismiss the pro- test of the two officers, Bisco and Will- iams, but warning the admiral not to repeat the offense. KILLED HIS FRIEND While Trying to Shoot Men Who Had Insulted Women Companions. Chicago, Nov. 18—Dazed by blows struck by men who had insulted the young women he was escorting, Ru- dolph Ludwig drew a revolver and fired two shots. Both struck Frank Sanders, his friend and companion, who also was struggling with the ‘Washington, Nov. 13.—The speaker announced the ways and means com- mittee as follows: Republicans—Messrs. Payne (N. Y.), Dalzell (Pa.), Grosvenor (Ohio), Taw- ney (Minn.), McCall (Mass.), Babcock ~ (Wis.), Metcalf (Cal.}), Hill (Conn.), Boutell (Il.), Weston (Ind.), Curtis (Kan.). Democrats — Messrs. Williams (Miss.), Robertson (La.), Swanson (Va.), McClellan (N. Y.), Cooper (Tex.), Clark (Mo.). Mr. Payne introduced - the bill to make effective the Cuban reciprocity convention, which, without objection, was read by title and referred to the committee on ways and means. Mr. Payne said a meeting of the ways and means committee would be called and he hoped to report the bill to the house to-day. For the purpose of “providing homes and employment for the homeless poor, and making them self-sustaining home owners, independent of being hired,” Senator Hoar yesterday, by request, introduced in the senate a bill to cre- ate a bureau of national homes to be placed under the direction of the sec- retary of agriculture. Washington, Nov. 14.—A vote on the bill making effective the Cuban reci- procity treaty will be taken up at 4 p. m. next Thursday. The house com- mittee on ways and means yesterday by a vote of 14 to 2 authorized a favor- able report on the bill. The house was in session seventeen minutes, adjourning at 2:17 until Mon- day. Mr. Payne (N. Y.), chairman of the committee on ways and means, re- ported the Cuban bill and gave notice that on Monday he work call it up for consideration. By unanimous con- sent the minority of the ways and means committee was given further time in which to submit a minority report. Representative Dalzell of the com- mittee on rules introduced a resolu- tion, which was referred to the com- mittee on rules, providing for the con- sideration of the cuban biR. No pro- vision is made as to the amendments or time fixed for taking a vote. It is understood that when the resolution is introduced it will fix ‘hursday at 4 o’clock for final vote and amendment to the bill will be denicd. Washington, Nov. 17. — The house yesterday made a tair start on the leg- islation for which it was convoked in special session, adopting a rule under which a vote will be taken at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon on the bill to make the Cuban reciprocity treaty ef- feetive and entering on debate of the Cuban bill. The rule was adopted by a party vote with the exception that six republican members from Michi- gan and California joined the minority in opposition to the rule. The Dem- ocrats opposed the rule on the ground that it was drastic and prevented a vote being taken on any amendment to the bill. While the six Republican votes cast against it included opposi- tion to the measure as antagonistic to beet sugar interests. The short debate whieh preceded adoption of the rule was followed by several speeches on the merits of the measure. Mr. Payne opened the de- bate in a speech whose keynote was that the measure would not affect in- juriously sugar, tobacco er any other interests, and was demanded by na- tional honor and good faith. For the minority Representatives Wiliams of Mississippi, Swanson of Virginia and Robinson of Indiana, made speeches, criticising the Republicans for their | tariff policy and the exeessive taxa- ! tion of the public. Washington, Nov. 18—The house yesterday resumed consideration of the Cuban bill. The only notable incl dents of the day were the speech o! Mr. Stevens, a Republican member | from Minnesota, who spoke in opposi- |tion to the bill, and the speech of Mayor-elect McClellan of New York. Mr. Stevens opposed the measure for, reciprocity with Cuba at the last ses- sion. Yesterday he argwed that the bill was a “cruel blow” at one of the most promising agricultural industries of this country, and that the measure will imperil our vast foreign trade. Mr. McClellan delivered his valedic- tory to the house, makiag an argu- ment in favor of the bi, during the course of which he criticised the ad- ministration. of Gen. Wood: in Cuba, and charged the Republteans with re- sponsibility for what is lacking in the fulfillment of the duty ef the United States to Cuba. Four heurs were de- voted to debate on the measure, ten members speaking. Under the rule two days more is given for speeches. Small Burglary. Garner, Iowa, Nov. About $50 was stolen from the meat market of R. A. Finette last night. The burglars entered through the baek door. They unlocked the safe. Blow Open Bank Safe. Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 19.—Cracks- men blew open the safe of the First National bank at Lyons, Neb., early yesterday mouring, securing about $1,500 in gold and silver and escaped. They stole. a team from a retired farmer and drove north. Nitroglyc- erin was used. The outside doors of a heavy Hall safe, the inside steel doors and the doors of te burglar proof chest were blown across tho bank, wrecking the furniture. Ofi- crowd, and inflicted wounds from sers are in pursuit of the robbers. which Sanders died two hours later. } ce” ee —_+—__—