Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 28, 1903, Page 2

.the loop in automobiles, -Fierald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. “Let us have peace—at least till spring,” is Russia's latest motto. Persons who are looking for trouble should try to organize a platonic friendship. Maybe the Chinese eyes grew that way through the habit of looking as- kance at Russia. The humorists are going into poli- tics and the politicians are becoming unconscious humorists. “There,” says Lou Dillon, 1:58%, as she retires for the season, “I guess that’ll hold ’em for a while.” Capt. Herreshoff is rapidly getting well. He couldn't do anything that ‘would please the people more. Santo Domingo has been inoculated with another revolution and there is every indication that it is going to take. It is one thing to pay money to hear an old lady of 60 sing, but it is an- other thing to pay money to hear Pat- iti sing. In Germany there are tile roofs that ‘have been on buildings for 600 years. This must be very discouraging to the ,roofers. David B. Hill has no cause to feel @iscouraged over his matrimonial prospects. Next year i. will be ladies’ choice again. Peary announces that there bre ‘three ways of reaching the North Pole. He doesn’t explain how he found ‘them, though. Strychnine put in pie for rats killed ® man the other day; at least, the cook claims that it was the strychnine jthat killed him. It is claimed that the czar has too many advisers, though theoretically the czar is supposed to know what to ‘do without advice. King Peter must look at the alma- mac occasionally and muse to himself ;that it is getting to be a long time ‘between assassinations. That woman who has just been le- gally detached from the same husband \for the third time seems to have con- tracted the divorce habit. Over in Berlin they are now looping The public generally can find some reason to be happy if it only looks around. A Providence inventor has made a baby carriage that is self-propelling. Now if some inventor would only de- vise a baby that is self-soothing. The more that shipbuilding trust matter is explained the more appar- ent it becomes that there are some very rich scalawags in this country. If complaints continue to accumu- late against promoter Schwab, the ex- perience gained by that gentleman in dodging about Europe may come in handy. Ezekiel Ezekiel was defeated in Massachusetts and Adelard Archam- bault was put to the bad in Rhode Island. Who says there is nothing in a name? Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson, the Eng- lish novelist, says American women are degenerates. But he has had a chance to study only those who have | married Englishmen. A woman is as old as she looks, a man is as old as he feels, and a U. S. senator—well, we have had two illus- trations lately of how young U. S. senators think they are. The girls belonging to the senior class at Smith college have decided that Shakespere’s heroines were un- lovely. Gentle Will would never say that about the smith girls. To appreciate the full humor of Punch’s sobriquet for the new wom- ‘an’s paper, “The Daily Female,” you have to remember that London has a “Daily Mail,” also run by Mr. Harms- worth. ‘We might merely remind Russia that it is not the number nor the size of the ships that count in a naval struggle, but the way they are man- aged and the number of shots that hit the mark. A Turkish artist who drew a carica- ture of the sultan has been sentenced to 101 years in prison. We have no doubt, however, that he may succeed through good conduct in having it | marked down to 99. “America is the greatest coal pro- ducer in the world,” says a newspaper correspondent triumphantly. And in- cidentally the American coal con- sumer is something of a producer when it comes to footing the winter bills. There will be a shortage of canned corn the coming winter, but there will be more of that commodity than there was when the pilgrim fathers were chanting the anthems of the free in order that the sounding aisles of the dim woods might ring. o DEFECTIVE PAGE Washington. Representative Crumpacker of In- diana introduced a bill making it a crime punishable by death to partici- pate in the lynching of an alien. Secretary Wilson, Senator Burrows and a number of Michigan delegates in the house will leave Washington early next week to inspect the beet sugar factories in Michigan. The monthly statement of the col- lections of internal revenue shows that the total receipts for October, 1908, were $21,021,584, an increase as compared with October, 1902, of $381,- 125. The report of the pension bureau shows that the pensions issued during the first four months of the present fiscal year exceed the same period of last year by 25 percent. The pension issue last year was the largest in ten years. Representative Richardson of Ten- nessee has introduced a bill to place all trust-made articles on the free list aand to reduce the rate of duty on all articles manufactured in the United States and sold more cheaply abroad than in this country. People Talked About. Dr. J. D. West, a member of the Onio Battlefield commission, died at Tiffin, aged sixty-seven years. Thomas Shaughnessy, father of Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific railroad, is dead in Milwaukee. Chevalier Luigi Petich, former am- passador of Italy to Mexico, was found dead in his bathroom in New York. He had been dead three days of apo- plexy. Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse, known to the Indians as the “Chief of the Six Indian Nations,” is dead at her home in New York. Her death was due to apoplexy. James R. Gilmore, well known in the field of letters under his own name and his nom de plume, Edmund Kirke, is dead at his home in Glens Falls, N. Y. He was eighty years old. Gen. Isaac Kahn, the Persian min- ister, has resumed his diplomatic du- ties at Washington after an absence of eight months, during which time he has visited several South American countries, exchanging ratifications of treaties of friendship and commerce. Casualties. Fire at Wasco, Ore., has destroyed $134,000 of property. Jenkins City, Mo., a town of 400 in- habitants, was practically destroyed by fire. Fire in the business section of Pres- ton, Jackson county, Iowa, did damage estimated at $35,000. By an explosion of dynamite in a burning store at Sharon, Mich., three persons were killed and one fatally in- jured. Sam Andrews, 56 years old, white, while filling a cotton gin at Lafayette, Ga., fell into the hopper and was ground to pieces. A’work train ran into an open switch and another train of flat cars on the Kirkella branch at Brandon, Man. One Galician was killed and four injured. Col. E. M. Boykin, president of the Farmers and Merchants’ bank of Camden, 8S. C., was killed accidentally. E. C. Zemp, cashier, committed sui- cide a few hours afterward. A destructive fire is raging in Ar kansas county, Ark., and much cotton and fencing has been burned. Flames over the northern portion of Sassafrass county are burning over 2,000 acres. Robert Duffy, James Schweda and Robert Reed, firemen, were killed and Michael Corrigan, Harry Vaudevelde and Battalion Chief Andrews injured in the largest fire Cleveland, Ohio, has suffered in months. Sin and Sinners. Charles Jones of Geary, W. Va., has killed three men because of their at- tentions to Mrs. Sarah Respass, a widow. An effort to arrest James Abeel in New York for impersonating Robert Goelet disclosed the fact that Abeel has fled. Harry J. Rose of New York, who murdered his wife last year and was found insane, pleaded guilty to man- slaughter. John Otto was arrested at Denver while endeavoring to obtain access to Gov. Peabody. He carried arms and threatening letters. Edward Hoover was hanged at Michigan City, Ind., for the murder of his father-in-law, Frank Sutton, in Indianapolis last May. The grand jury at Jefferson City is investigating a report that a jury in the bribery case of Senator Farris, which failed to agree, had been “fixed.” The federal court of Porto Rico has quashed the indictments for smug- gling in the cases of Alonzo Truzen, the collector of customs; Capt. An- drew Dunlap, U. S. N., commandant of the naval station, and Robert Giles, a former cantractor in Porto Rico, on the ground that the fines had been paid and the offenses expiated. The nine Sioux Indians who were arrested for participation in the fight im which Sheriff Miller and Deputy Falkenburg of Converse county were killed, were discharged at Douglas, Notes From Abroad. War between Russia and Japan now seems probable. The king and queen of Italy are in England for a visit. Chinese troops are guarding all the passes to Manchuria. Honduras is reported on the verge of anarchy, with danger of a revolution. Two big erman banking houses have arranged a community of inter- ests. : A battle occurred recently between American troops and the Moros of Jolo. Three American soldiers were killed by Moros in the neighborhood of Lake Lano. Remarkable cures of consumption are reported to have been effected by a Russian. j The death is announced at Brussels! of the Duc d’Ursel, president of the Belgian senate. The report of the British commis- sioner shows a rapid increase of trade with South Africa. Great Britain hopes by her move upon Thibet to lessen the pressure of Russia upon Japan. A public scandal is caused in Ger- many by leniency shown a prince who committed an unprovoked murder. The Rome police have discovered a plot to kidnap Princess Yollande-Mar- guerita, the year-old daughter of King Victor. The government at Stockholm will conduct experiments to secure seed grain calculated to withstand night frosts, A special dispatch from Brussels says it is definitely decided that King Leopold will visit the United Stated in the spring. German troops have surrounded Karrersburg, in German Southwest Africa, where the main body of the Hottentot rebels are posted. The pope appointed Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary of state, to be prefect of the sacred palaces, 4 position distinct from his present one. Hugh S. Scott, the novelist, better known by his nom de plume, Henry S. Merriam, died at Merton. His best known work probably is “With Edged Tools.” Sig. Marconi has begun work on tha powerful wireless station at Pisa, through which it is intended to estab- lish communication with the Argen: tine republic and the United States. It is stated that the late James Mc Neill Whistler’s picture, “La Princess: du Pays de la Porcelaine,” which w: sold at auction in 1892 for $2,205, hag just been sold to an American buyer for $25,000. Otherwise. Application has been made in New York for a receiver for the Compressed Air company. ' Christian Science has been deelared a legal practice by a decision of the Ohio supreme court. The transport Logan brought 28 offi- cers and 625 men of the Fifteenth cavalry home from Manila. One thousand striking Colorado miners have emigrated. Cold weather is causing much suffering. John M. Pinckney, Democratic con- gressman from Texas, clecied to suc- ceed T. H. Ball, has resigned. James Murphy, a former owner of Star Pointer, drove the pacer Dan Derby (2:04%), a half mile in :57%. Mrs. Blanche Cheeseborough-Moli- neau-Scott will not sing in vaudeville after all. She could not face the or- deal. The Pittsburg mare, Dolly Dillon, trotted to a wagon record of 2:06%, lowering her record to sulky from 2:07. The daughter of Senator Clark of Montana, Mrs. Everett Mallory Culver, is suing for divorce and the custody of her child. William Ziegler, the one-time bak- ing powder king, will resist requisi- tion to stand trial for bribing the Mis- souri legislature. Joseph F. Fullong, who shot Irving P. McDonald at St. Joseph, Mo., was exonerated by the coroner’s jury on a plea of self-defense. E. B. Moore of Kenilworth has leased for ten years the Biltmore es- tate, except 1,000 acres surrounding the mansion, and will convert it into a hunting preserve. Mrs. Florence Boyer Whittel of San Francisco has consented to a divorce from her husband, who is a son of George Whittel, the millionaire, in consideration of $26,000. : A peculiar illness, accompanied by: high fever, has prostrated a number of students at Williams college at Williamstown, Mass. The college au- thorities are endeavoring to ascertain the cause of the epidemic. “Old Kaintuck” Kimble, one of the most popular bicycle riders in Amer- ica, has just returned from Burope, where he defeated all the bicycle champions on the continent, including Ellergarde, the world’s champion; Jacquelin, the French champion, and “Major” Taylor, the black wonder. Next season he will try for the world’s championship, and he says the chances of winning the honor look rosy. The transport Logan arrived at San Francisco from Manila with 28 officers and 625 enlisted men of the Fifteenth cavalry. [STRIKE 1s ENDED I CHICAGO STREET CAR TROUBLES AT LAST HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED. A VICTORY FOR THE COMPANY AS FAR AS THE ORIGINAL DE- MANOS OF THE MEN ARE CONCERNED. TO REINSTATE ALL STRIKERS 18 THE ONLY iMPORTANT CON- CESSION MADE BY THE COMPANY. Chicago, Nov. 25.—The strike of the employes of the Chicago City Street railway was settled at an early hour this morning at a conference between the mayor, the aldermanic peace com- mittee, President Hamilton. and EB. R. Bliss, counsel for the company, and the executive board of the local univn of the strikers. The basis on which the settlement was reached is a complete victory for the company as far as the original de- mands of the men are concerned. The agreement reached will be ratified at a meeting of the men at 9 o'clock this morning, and it is expected that traffic on al] the lines of the company will be resumed to-day. Only One Concession. The only important concession made ‘by the company was an agreement to reinstate all the strikers, including the outside unions who went out in sympathy with the trainmen, with the exception of those who resorted to vio- lence during the trouble. The arbitra- tion of the wage scale is to be accord- ing to the Wages paid outside of Chi- cago, and not on the basis of the local street railways. These are the two points that have been the stumbling block to a - -aceable adjustment of the strike for the past week. The company has insisted that it pays high- er wages than any similar corporation in the country. The Men Were Fearful that the arbitration on the scale paid in other cities would decrease their wages, and they fought stubbornly for their point. Ever since the inauguration of the strike; thirteen days ago, the com- pany has been gradually gaining the upper hand of the men. While there was considerable violence displayed by sympathizers of the men during the first few days of the strike still there was a remarkable dearth of disturb- ances when the extent of the struggle is taken into consideration. Numer- ous cars were damaged during the riots that developed, but the loss to the company on this score is small. Hundreds of arrests were made in the thirteen days that the trouble lasted and a number of shots were fired by rioters, but not a single death occur- red that can be charged to the strike. WARE WILL RESIGN. Does Not Like Job of Commissioner of Pensions. Washington, Nov. 25.—It can be an- nounced that Eugene F. Ware, the commissioner of pensions, will retire from that office about the middle of November of next year and will re- turn to the practice of law in Kansas. His contemplated retirement is under- stood among Kansas politicians and has been the subject of several inter- views with the president which have occurred recently. The decision to re- sign and return to private life is the result of his long felt dissatisfaction with.the nature of the duties of his of- fice, a feeling that has grown steadily since the early days of his administra- tion of the bureau. MYSTERY CLEARED UP. Man Makes Confession Regarding Car Barn Murders in Chicago. Chicago, Nov. 25.—The. mystery sur- rounding the hold-up of the cashier’s office of the Chicago City railway last August during which two of the em- ployes of the office were shot and killed without warning, was cleared up yesterday by the confession of Gus Marks, who was arrested last Saturday night for the murder of Detective John Quinn, whom Marks shot down while trying to escape arrest. Harvey Van Dine and Peter Neidermeier are named by Marks as his accomplices in the car barn murders. Port Arthur Opened. St. Petersburg, Nov. 25.—Port Ar- thur was opened yesterday as a trad- ing port. Ship dues and commercial taxes will be levied in accordance with the governor’s orders. Charged With Bribery. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 25.—Charles Cook, former alderman of the Fourth ) ward, was arrested last night, charged with soliciting and accepting a brige of $1,000 from John E. Fitzgerald of the Milwaukee Boiler company. German Educator Dead. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 25. — Prof. Emil Dapprich, aged 61 years, a well known German educator and for some time president of the German-English ‘academy of Milwaukee, is dead of cancer of the stomach. _ ELEVEN ARE DEAD. Miners Lose Their Lives in a Terrible Explosion in a Mine. Connellsville, Pa., Nov. 24.—Eleven men were killed as the result of an ex- plosion in the Ferguson mine, adjoin- ing the ill-fated “Hill Farm” mine, Sat- urday. When the books of the company were consulted yesterday it was found there were twenty-one men in the mine at the time of the explosion. Ten bodies were taken from the mine Saturday night. Of the ten injured one died yesterday and one man is missing whose body is supposed to be still in the mine. Strange to say only one of the bodies was disfigured. All the others were in good condition and scarcely a scratch could be found on them, indicating that death was Due to Suffocation. The officials deciare that no fire ex- ists in the mine, but this is not es- tablished, as it is believed the fire is burning further back than where the explosion actually occurred. Pit Boss McGurk is the only man who can give any definite details of the disaster and the scenes that followed it. He was seen at his little home yesterday and said: “I think the explosion was caused by the flames from the old Hill Farm breaking through the wall that had been erected when the Ferguson slope was opened. Ferguson mine is prac- tically the old Hill Farm mine. “When the explosion occurred I was standing in a room with ten or twelve men about men. The place was rent with a terrific noise and men were thrown in all directions. I must have been knocked unconscious for a few minutes. When I regained conscious- ness I felt the blood streaming from a cut in my head but filled with The Fear of Death I jumped to my feet and éalled to the men to follow. None of them moved, and, going to several of them, I shook them roughly. Then I lost conscious- ness again. In a few minutes I was back on my feet. The room was filled with smoke, broken timbers and flames. I made for the mouth of the mine and fought my way back through the smoke and flames, but fell ex- hausted thirty yards from the pit mouth and was picked up and assisted from the mine by the rescuing party.” The doctors fear that McGurk can- not get well. The flesh is burned from his face and his hands, and in many places the bone is exposed. A mine inspector made a thorough investigation yesterday. He says that the explosion was caused by fire from the old workings igniting gas in the Ferguson mine. No blame, he says, can possibly be attached to the em- ployes of the mine or the mine in- spectors. THREE HUNDRED MOROS KILLED. Result of Five Days’ Severe Fighting With American Troops. Manila, Nov. 24. — Three hundred Moros are known to have been killed and many others were carried off dead or wounded as a result of five days’ severe fighting in Jolo between the American troops under Gen. Leon- aard Wood and the insurgents. Maj. H. L. Scott, of the Fourteenth cavalry, and five Americans were wounded. | Gen. Wood landed near Siet lake, in Jolo, Nov. 12. The Moros were soon located and fighting began immediate- ly and continued until Nov. 17. Maj. Scott was taking Tanglima Hassein, the Moro leader, who hai been taken a prisoner, to Jolo. While en route Hassein asked to be allowed to see his family. His appeal was granted and he thereupon led Maj. Scott into an ambuscade, where the American detachment was fired upon. Maj. Scott was shot in both hands. Hassein succeeded in es- caping during this unexpected attack, but is supposed to have been killed the | following day. The fighting took place in a country covered with swamps and rocks. The | Moros were driven across the country from Siet lake to the town where Hassein had made his headquarters, and where it was reported the Moros were 2,000 strong. The rebel position was attacked in the flank by the American troops who occupied the town and inflicted a loss of fifty killed on the Moros. Hassein, with a small party surrendered. Moros went into the swamps, out of which they were driven on Nov. 16, Leaving Seventy-Six Dead behind them. On Nov. 17 the American forces renewed the attack on the re- maining Moros, of whom forty more were killed, The rebel forces have been literally destroyed by these operations by Gen. Wood, who says the indications are that there will be no extension of the uprising, which was handled without difficulty. On Nov. 18 Gen. Wood started on an expedition against a body of 2,000 Moros who are in the mountains back of Tablibi. No news has as yet been received as to the result of this move- ment. WORK OF DESPERADOES. Two Killed and Several Train Wreckers. Philadelphia, Nov. 24.—Two persons were killed and a half-dozen others were injured late Saturday night in a wreck near Gwynedd, a short distance from this city on the Philadelphia & Reading railway. While the injuries to some of the passengers are serious, all of them will recover. The railroad of- ficials believe the accident was due to a deliberate attempt at train wrecking, Injured by The rest of the | activity. REBELS WIN OUT SAN DOMINGO IS NOW IN THE HANDS OF VICTORIOUS IN- SURGENTS. THE GOVERNMENT SURRENDERS PRESIDENT AND CABINET TAKE REFUGE ON A GERMAN WARSHIP. DAMAGE FROM BOMBAROMENT ALL CONSULATES EXCEPT UNIT- ED STATES ARE STRONGLY. GUARDED. San Domingo, Nov. 25.—The govern- ment surrendered to the insurgents at 10 o’clock yesterday morniug. Presi- dent Wos y Gil and his ministers took refuge on a German warship in the harbor before the victorious insurgents entered the city. President Wos y Gil requested the ministers of the United States, Belgi- um, Haiti and Spain to intervene in be- nalf of the government. The insur- gents refused to accept the terms of- fered and demanued the immediate capitulation of the city. Firing on the city was resumed at 8 o’clock Monday night, resulting in further damage to houses here, and | the bombardment was continued in the morning. Fired on the Lighters. A Hamburg-American line steamer, with ammunition on board, consigned to the government, arrive@ Monday, and began discharging her cargo into jighters, whereupon the revolution- ists opened fire on the lighters, and the fort returned the fire in order to protect the lighters and facilitate the discharging of the steamer’s cargo. There was little firing Monday night, but yesterday morning the bombard- ment was resumed with such vigor that the government surrendered. All the consulates except that of the United States are strongly guarded. A German steamer yesterday land- ed her cargo under the guns of the German warship. Agreed to Surrender. Washington, Nov. 25. — In a cable gram received here yesterday from Minister Powell, dated San Domingo, Nov. 23, he announces that the presi- dent of Santo Domingo has agreed to surrender the city to the revolution- ists. The articles of capitulation were peeing drawn up. The surrender, the cablegram said, would occur the fol- lowing day (Tuesday.). WANTS WAR WITH RUSSIA. Chinese General Ready to Invade Man- churia With an Army. London, Nov. 25.—Private advices from Pekin are to the effect that Gen. Yuan Shi Kai, governor of Chili prov- ince, has informed the emperor that he is prepared to declare war aguinst the Russians in Manchuria. Gen. Ma is said to be ready to march into Shan Hai Kwan at the head of 18,000 men. The correspondent of the Standard at Tien Tsin says that the Russians have reoccupied Hai Cheng, thirty miles north of Newchwang. No News at Washington. Washington, Nov. 25. — Dispatches from Tokyo received at the Japanese legation here late yesterday make no mention of Japanese warships being dispatched to prevent Russian war vessels reaching port Arthur. On the contrary the advices are to the effect that there is a favorable outlook re- garding a settlement of the questions at issue between Japan and Russia. Japanese Impatient. Yokohama, Nov. 25.—No reply has been received from St. Petersburg on the subject of the Japanese overtures, and there are many indications that the delay in the negotiations is em- barrassing Japanese foreign trade and raising impatience in Japanese popu- lar circles as shown by public meet- ings at Tokyo, Yokohama and Ohaka, protesting against the ministerial in- GO INTO POLITICS. Business Men Advised. to Fake Hand in Enactment of Commercial Laws. Chicago, Nov. 25.—Im an address be- fore the Chicago Credit Men’s associa- tion, Charles Griffith of Denver urged the business men to take a more lively interest in state and national politics. The wide differences in the commer- cial laws of the various states, he said, could be regulated only through the efforts of such organizations as the one he was addressing. Mr. Griffith also declared in favor of a compulsory law for arbitration. Elopement Frustrated. Osage, Iowa, Nov. 25.—Two young men employed in one of the local cigar factories attempted to elope with two young ladies of MitchefK The two couples are all in their fifteenth year. The young women were brought to Osage and tickets purchased for Wat- erloo, where they intended te be mar’ ried. It seems the father of one of the young ladies was infermed of the, state of affairs and came to Qsage in time to march the girls heme, th¢ boys “taking a sneak” as seww as be appeared on the scene, * ee