Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 5, 1903, Page 2

Ferald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Miss Goelet gets $1,000,000 worth of rifts. “Them as has gifts.” Trust recipe: To a large amount of water add a little stock and serve hot. Any girl baby born on the isthmus now is eligible as a Daughter of the Revolution. Lou Dillon must bave quite an ear for music, as she beats time with great regularity. y From present indications it will take Mr. Harry Lehr a long time to live himself down. In cases where the Boston man “shivers with apprehension,” the Chi- cago man “throws a fit.” All the world Ioves 2 lover and especially the tailor who makes a spe- cialty of creasing trousers. A literary conspiracy between Czar Nicholas and King Oscar may be looked for. Both write poetry. The U. S. marines used cotton bales for bulwarks down at Colon, just as if cotton didn’t cost anything this sea- son. Duchess May can tell the other girls to go and get them a duke apiece be- fore they criticize her taste in coro- nets. Beware of emptying the contents of the cold water pitcher on the pet poodle. It leads to litigation and no- tasty: A learned scientific man says that the earth will last at least 100,000,000 years longer—and doubtless he thinks be knows. It doesn’t worry a girl nearly so} much to be courted by the wrong man as it does not to be courted by the right man. The Philadelphia dog who mistook | a stick of dynamite for a bone will never be caught doing that foolish thing again. The postoffice at Schuyler, N. Y.. has been destroyed by fire. We are not informed whether it caught from * a love letter or not. You can’t cast off troubles like last year’s garments. You have to dig them out from the inside of your brain—for that is where they are. ‘ A Denver man eloped the other day with the hired girl. {ft was a mean trick to play on his wife, with girls us scarce as they are at present. Just as we were becoming proficient with the jawbreaking names from the far east along comes a fresh variety of tongue twisters from South Amer- ica. D. M. Parry is afraid this republic is going to smash. We would re- spectfully prescribe for Mr. Parry a brisk walk, a sbower Lath and a good rubbing down. A year or two ago J. Pierpdnt Mor- | gan was supposed to hold a mortgage on the earth, but it looks now as if he had Jost the document, before he had time to foreclose. Onr champion football team should challenge the Hungarian diet for a game after the season is over. Judging from their training the two bodies should be well matched. Prizefighter Corbett says that foot- ball is too rough for him. “Why, in this game a man hasn't a chance to defend himself,” he adds. But what a jovely chance one has to slug one’s tellowmen! It’s curious how moderate an ex- pense a dollar a day for drinks seems when you pay it out in quarters, and bow extortionate a water tax bill of $24 for a year when you pay it out in a lump sum. ‘ It is a wonder that no great finan- cier has thought of the possibility of organizing the eligible noblemen of Europe into a trust and forcing Amer- ican heiresses to get their coronets at monopoly prices. The New York Sun's editorial on the Massachusetts supreme court de- cision denying 2 man liberty to get drunk in his own house is headed “Domiciliary Drunkenness”—which sounds like Boston. Schwab's valet, dressed in heliotrope livery, is so attentive that the young woillionaire doesn’t have to do any- thing but think. It wouldn’t be sur- prising if he were doing @ good deal of thinking just now, too. A young man was arrested for mak- ing eyes at a young woman in a Chicago park. The fact that he kept it up for half an hour and that the maiden was observing the animals all the time leads us to suspect that she did not notice the difference between the inside and the outside of the mon- key cage. {BS iieineties Cera S If a man is a chronic kicker it shows in his countenance, and he grows uglier every day. Look at the frog. Isn’t he ugly? ‘nd he’s always kicking about the water he is in. Neeervrive PAGE From the Capital. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones recommends that the Indians should be taught they must work or starve. Citizens of Walker, Mina., have ask- ed for troops to be sent there again to protect them from probable Indian up- risings. Evidence against alleged “‘crimpers” in San Francisco has been presented to the state department by the British embassy. 4 Representative Stevens of St. Paul is expected to offer an amendment to tne military bill prohibiting officers ‘being detailed for duty in the Indian service, President Roosevelt started the elec- tric lights for the opening of the cele- bration of the 220th anniversary of the landing of the first German colo- nists in North America. Maj. Gen. John C. Bates, command- ing the departments of the lakes and Missouri, has turned over the depart- |ment of Missouri to its new com- mander, Maj. Gen. S. S. Sumner. Senators Gamble and Kittredge and Representatives Burke and Martin of South Dakota secured assurances from President Roosevelt that the state would not be overlooked in the matter of patronage. They recommended Ly- man J. Bates for postmaster at Pres- ton. People Talked About. Maj. John Newton of the Sixteenth infantry died at the general hospital at Washington barracks of Bright's disease, aged 53 years, George Ignis, mayor of Poughkeep- sie, N. Y., from 1862 to 1866, is dead, aged eighty-one. He was one of the New York presidential electors in 1868. T. N. Hooper, president of the Iowa Northern railway, and formerly super- intendent of the Des Moines division of the Great Western railway, died at |Des Moines of malarial fever, aged thirty-six years. Col. Nathaniel P. Sawyer, aged sev- enty-four, former postmaster of Pitts- burg, banker, manufacturer, politician |and a close friend of the late Gov. ‘andrew G. Curtin and of Presidext | Andrew Johnson, is dead. | Charles Runyon, aged seventy-nine years, died at Leadville, Colo., of gen- ‘eral debility. Runyon went to Colo- jrado in the forties with Gen. John C. Fremont and was one of the original party that accompanied Fremont in the San Juan country. Casualties. The private car Lone Star, owned by |B. H. H. Green, son of Hetty Green of |New York, burned at Terrell, Tex. E. Heinrichs, a German farmer liv- ing near Palmer, Iowa, was frozen to death, being thrown into a pool of wa- ter by a runaway team. | Fire laid waste a half block of the principal business portion of Danville, | Ky. The loss will probably reach + $50,000, partly insured. | Fire in the Summit tannery of the | Elk Tanning company at Curwinville, |Pa., destroyed the main building, en- | tailing 2 loss of $100,000. By an explosion of dynamite in a burning store at Sharon, Mich., three |men were killed and a fourth so se- verely injured that he may die. D. M. Flannagan and wife were fa- \tally burned and their six-months-old child disfigured for life by the explo- | sion of a gasoline stove at Logansport, (nd. | ‘The number of men killed in the col- \lision of work trains on the Big Four ‘railroad at Tremont, Ill., is twenty, in- | stead of thirty-two, as at first report- ed. Fire destroyed the old Masonic tem- | ple, occupying a half block in the heart ‘of the retail business district of Lou- lisville, Ky. The loss is about $250,- 000. ‘Two persons were killed and a half dozen injured in a wreck near Gwnedd, Pa., which the railroad officials be- lieve was due to a deliberate attempt et train wrecking. Notes From Abroad. Striking weavers engaged in a riot at St. Quintin, France, and troops were called out. ‘The Victoria, B. C., board of trade passed resolutions indorsing Joseph Chamberlain’s fiscal policy for the British empire. ‘The transfer of Russian ambassador Ourousoff from Paris to Rome, and that of Ambassador Nelidorff from | Rome to Paris, are gazetted. Extradition has been granted at Lon- don for Taparee and Kebear, the two Canadians who were arrested at South- ampton Oct. 21, charged with the mur- der of St. T. Ferguson at West Mid- dletown, Pa. The United States fleet, which had been stationed at Beirut ever since the late attempt to assassinate the United States consul there, has been ordered ‘to leave port on the general ground | that there is no longer any necessity for its remaining there. The South American republic of Ecuador has sent agents to Europe to | negotiate the sale of a*group of its islands, advancing the argument that the islands will be a great advantage | to a continental nation in view of the | assued construction of the isthmian sanal. Resume of the News. | Sin and Sinners. George E. Price was killed and R. E. McCandless mortally injured in a duel at. Edmonton, Ky. Sergeant Frank Overheister, Nine- teenth Coast artillery, pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy at Ngwnort, R. I, Dr. Francis Gray Blinn and two women nurses have been arrested in New York charged with criminal oper- |: ations. Burglars visited the home of Mrs. Edward W. Clark, Brookline, Mass., in daylight, and took diamonds and gems worth $5,000. Robbers blew the safe of the Citi- zens’ bank at Yetter, lowa, and es- caped with $1,800. The loss caused by the explosion is $800. Jedd Grant, a nephew of Apostle Grant, the fugitive polygamist, was ar- rested at Salt Lake on a charge of passing counterfeit money. D. V.. Miller and Joseph M. Johns were acquitted at Cincinnati of the charge of conspiring to extort money from John J. Ryan, the turf commis- sioner. Burglars attempted to cut off the fingers of Edith Shippey, in her fath- er’s house at Marion, Ind., to get her diamond rings. Three men were ar- rested. Adam Hollinsworth, his wife and eleven children, ranging from 1 to 19 years of age, were arrested at Alton, TL, for stealing a family washing. Hollinsworth escaped. Harry Lafferty, a released prisoner from the Nebraska state penitentiary, tells the ‘police of Omaha a shocking tale of cocaine and morphine habits acquired by the prisoners in that insti- tution. State Senator George E. Green was placed on trial at Binghamton, N. Y., for conspiracy to defraud the govern- ment in connection with the sale of time recorders to the postoffice de- partment. Joseph Sorice ,who was shot in the desperate struggle with Father Le- pore at Denver, succumbed to his wounds, refusing to make a statement, and the secret of the tragedy prob- ably is lost forever. Lulu M. Brannan, wife of a wealthy insurance broker of Denver, Col., ¢om- miited suicide at Chicago because she had lost her beauty. A disease of the skin had marred her face and she brooded over the fact continually. Carmine Gaimai was put to death in the electric chair in Sing Sing prison for the murder of Mrs. Josephine Lan- ta Patro in New York city on Oct. 6, 1902. A dispute over the money due Gaimari from the woman’s husband led to the shooting of Mrs. Patro. John Dalton, the night watchman at the Philadelphia & Reading railway station at Girardsville, Pa., was at- tacked by four masked men at mid- night, who locked him in a room, rob- bed him of $75 and stole three valu- able express packages. Dalton jumped from a window and raised an alarm. tains. Otherwise. Crude oil was advanced five cents a barrel, to $1.82, at Pittsburg. De- creased is alleged. Mayor Harrison’s “ticker” ordinance, to prevent handbook gambling, was passed by the Chicago council. The Farmers’ National bank of Hen- rietta, Tex., failed. Its resources and liabilities were given on Sept. 9 as $289,742 each. Patrick A. Collins has been renomi- nated for mayor by the democrats of Boston and Swallow was nomirated for mayor by the republicans. A search has resulted in the discov- ery of Governor John Endicott’s tomb in Boston which has been unidenti- fied for more than 150 years. Charity workers in session in Phila- delphia were told by tae Pennsylvania railroad police supertendent that there are 150,000 tramps in the country. Blocd poison caused by wearing an- other girl’s earring caused the death of Miss Hattie M. Saylor, niece of Dr. W. H. Saylor, a prominent physician of Portland, Ore. Officials cf the St. Louis exposition are said to be unwilling to meet repre- sentatives of the live stock interests of Canada till the latter decide wheth- er or not they will exhibit at St. Louis. The big consolidation of the window glass interests of the country is a selling agency, to be known as the Manufacturers of Window Glass com- peny, and will be in operation Dec. 1. The fourth annual tournament of the National Association of Amateur Bil- liard Players, for the amateur cham- pionship, the Eagle trophy and other prizes, will open at the club house ot the Liederkranz socitey, New York, on Feb 4 Entries close Jan. 18. The will of Annie J. Tree, wife of Lambert Tree of Chicaago, disposes of an estate of $1,187,500. It bequeathes $100,000 to the son; $3,000 to the en- dowment fund of St. Luke's hospital, and the remainder to the husband. The Pennsylvania branch of the Na- tional Reform association has adopted resolutions deprecating the avoidance of the use of the name of Jesus Christ in Thanksgiving day proclamations, the execution of criminals by mobs, and polygamy, and advising the pro hibition of political honors to Mor mons. TION MADE PUBLIC BY GEN. PAYNE. THE PRESIDENT COMMENTS ON IT PERRY S. HEATH’S NAME |S INCI- DENTALLY MIXED JP IN THE SCANDAL. CORRUPT METHODS ARE EXPOSED MOST OF THE CASES TOUCHED ON HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE PUBLIC. Washington, Dec. 1. — Postmaster General Payne has made public a 12,- 000-word abstract of the report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow on the investigation of the postoffice scandals, which he has been investigating since last March. The report itself is ten times as long, but the abstract gives in as few words as possible the result of the work of the inspectors and it is ac- companied by a “memorandum” writ- ten by President Roosevelt, in which he comments upon the facts set forth in the report and delivers a denuncia- tion of the corruption that has been exposed. One of the most interesting parts ol the president’s memorandum is his in- direct reference to the indefinite charges made against Perry S. Heatn who was first assistant postmaster general in the McKinley administra- tion. President Roosevelt expresses no opinion as to the guilt or innocence of Mr. Heath, and contenting himself with calling attention to The Fact Set Forth in the Bristow report that Beavers, the former chief of the salaries and allow- ance division of the fourth assistant postmaster general’s office, who is now under indictmeat, made a direct charge that in at least one instance he was compelled to share bribe money with Heath, a statement that, it is ad- mitted in the report, Heath denies, and the evidence in support of it was not regarded by the district attorney as sufficient to warrant his indictment. The president expresses regret that the statute of limitations expires at the length of three years from the time of wrong-doing of officials, and he urges that the limit be extended to at least five years, as recommended by the attorney general A surprise is the accusation of Gen. Tyner, who was summarily removed from office of attorney for the posi- office department and who, the public has heretofore believed, was the hon- est victim of designing subordinates The president, however, says that Tyner was knowingly and wilfully cor- rupt. He promises to use every en- deavor to convict the indicted man, and in closing his memorandum, uses this phrase: “The toleration of the wrong, not the exposure of the wrong is the offense.” The so-called Tulloch charges, re- lating chiefly to the lax methods em- ployed in the department when Heath was first assistant postmaster general, are not referred to in the report now made public. They involve charges against the accounting officers of the treasury and postoffice department, ac- cused not of downright corruption, but “complacency” in the methods of Heath and other officials, and they are now being investigated by Charles J. Bonaparte and Holmes Conrad. the special commission appointed for that purpose by the president. The report of this commission will be dealt with later. There is a separate paragraph in the | Bristow abstract declaring that a thorough investigation failed to sus- tain charges against H. H. Rand, form- er confidential secretary of the post- master general, who was accused ot forcing worthless mining stock on em- ployes of the department and with be- ing interested in the Parish ice claim Jobby. The greater part of the abstract is taken up by history of the scandals in the salary and allowance division, the administration of Supt. Beavers, according to Mr. Bristow, having been “more demoralizing upon the integrity ‘of the service than that of Supt. Machen of the free delivery division.” With regard to the notorious “pro- motion syndicate,” which operated ex- tensively in New York, the report says: “Otto F. Weiss, a clerk in the New York postoffice and an intimate friend of Beavers, secured from $8,000 to $10,000 from clerks upon the pretense that it was to be used in securing fa- yorable legislation. Many of the clerks in New York and New Jersey post- offices stated under oath that they had contributed to Weiss’ legislative fund under the promise of promotion. Henry C. Hay, a clerk in the Jersey City postoffice, states that Weiss told him that the money would be paid tc Beavers after the expenses for col- lecting had been deducted.” The report says that the appropria- tion for clerk hire in the third and fourth-class offices, averaging over 3 million dollars a year, was distributed by Beavers largely by personal favor. As a result of the investigation four officers and employes have resigned, thirteen have been removed and forty: four indictments have been found in- volving thirty-one persons, ten ol whom have been connected with the postal service. IS LAID BARE REPORT ON POSTAL INVESTIGA- WILL CALL Woop. | Testimony Against Him So Strong That He Will Be Asked to Explain. Washington, Dec. 2.—Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke, retired, former governo? general of Cuba, yesterday gave testi- mony before the senate committee on military affairs which charged insub- ordination against Gen. Leonard Wood. Gen. Brooke was before the committee more than two hours and eccupied the entire time in telling of Gen. Wood’s conduct at Santiago. The witness offered in support of his statements many documents taken from records at the war department and several papers from his personal collection. . At the close of his testi- mony a member of the committee said that it is probable Gen. Wood will have to return from the Philippines and testify. One of the charges made by Gen. Brooke is that Gen. Wood violated the order which required him in making improvements in Santiago, to submit estimates to the governor general. Gen. Brooke said also that Gen. Wood continually sent communications to the war department over the head of his commanding officer. The witness as- sured the cemmittee that he cared nothing for the Ignoring of His Authority, but'said that the proceeding had -been detrimental to military discipline. Gen. Brooke called the attention of the com- mittee in support of an allegation that Gen. Wood had neglected to work in harmony witb the military govern- ment the matter of Gen. Wood’s atti- tude toward the newspapers at Santi- ago, which repeatedly made attacks on Gen. Brooke’s administration. Gen. Brooke read a number of these at- tacks and also his recommendation to the war department that the papers be suppressed unless they cesisted. Gen. Brooke told the committee that on Jan 4, 1899, Gen. Wood, without con- sulting his superior officer, obtained permission to visit Washington, even though he left in abeyance matters needing attention, In the course of Gen. Brooke’s testimony he said that Gen. Wood Became Unduly Excited when the Cubans held indignation meetings at Santiago for the purpose of protesting against the centraliza- tion. The witness declared that the attitude of Gen. Wood was responsible to a great extent in adding to the dis- quiet of the Cubans. Maj. Rathbone was before the com- mittee for half an hour, and as a re- subpoenas were issued. Dr. Pablo Desvernenie, who was secretary of finance under Gen. Brooke’s administration, will be called to tell what he knows concerning or- ders issued to the courts by Gen. Wood, which are alleged to have brought the conviction of Maj. Rath- bone. It was decided also to recall Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, of the general staff of the army. EIGHT-HOUR LAW IS GOOD. stitutional. Washington, Dec. 2. — The United States supreme court yesterday af- firmed the constitutionality of the eight-hour law of the State of Kansas regulating labor on public works. The law. was enacted in 1891, and it pro- vides that eight hours shall constitute a day’s work for workmen employed by or on behalf of the state, or by any county or city or other municipality in the state. It also prohibits contractors from requiring laborers engaged on work for the state to perform more than eight hours’ labor a day. The case decided yesterday was that of W. W. Atkins vs. the State of Kansas. Atkins had a contract with the corpor- ation of Kansas City, Kan., for paving and he was charged with requiring a workman named Reese to labor ten! hours a day. He was prosecuted in the state courts, where the decisions were uniformly against him. i LIES TO SELL STORY OF HIS LIFE.| | Degencrate’s Confession of Numerous Murders Looked on as a Joke. Greensburg, Pa., Dec. 2. — A story emanating from a mysterious source} to the effect that Charles E. Kruger, a} degenerate who is to be nanged on Jan. 14 for the murder of a constable, had confessed that he murdered two policemen in Chicago, and as many 4s sixteen persons in Kentucky, previous- ly, is looked on as a joke, even by the; murderer himself. Jt was given out) last night that the story has been con-/ eocted for the purpose of selling an al-| leged history of the murderer's life to| be placed on sale in a few days. ADMITS MANY MURDERS. | Man Under Sentence of Death Makes a Startling Confession. Chicago, Dec. 2. — Chief of Police O’Neil stated yesterday that Charles Kruger, in jail at Greensburg, Pa., has confessed to the murder of Policemen Pennell and Devine in Chicago. <Ac- cording to Chief O’Neil, Kruger has also confessed tothe murder of six- teen other persozus in Kentucky and tne East. The prisoner was arrested on the charge of burglary originally and has been sentenced to be hanged Jan. 14, 1904. BANK CASHIER ARRESTED. He Is Charged With the Embezzie ment of $60,000. Chicago, Dec. 2.—Charged with em- pezzlement of $60,000 frcm the First National Bank of Dundee, Ill., which closed its doors on Nov. 22, Cashier Francis B. Wright was arrested yes- terday on complaint of Receiver David A. Cook and brought to Chicago. sult of the conference a number of! New York had SION OF ALL PROPERTY IN HIS CONTROL. RECEIVERS :0R ZION CITY CREDITORS START BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST “ELIJAH.” ¢ HIS HOWLS FOR MONEY UNNEEDED: INSTEAD THE FAITHFUL PRO- CEED TO DRAW OUT THEIR ACCOUNTS. Chicago, Dee. 2. — Financial dift- culties which began during the eru- sade’of John Alexander Dowie, the self-styled “Elijah IU,” and his restor- ation host to New York a month ago, and which have been rapidly increas- ing since Dowie’s return, culminated last night in the federal courts taking possession of all the property con- trolled by Dowie in Zicn City, nt This town, which was {feunded two- years ago by Dowie, has a population of over 10,000, is the general head quarters for Dowie’s church and is said to represent an expenditure of $20,000,000. Fred M. Blount, cashier of the Ch1- eagu National bank. and Albert D. Currier Were Appointed Receivers of the property. ‘Their bonds were _fixed at $100,000 by Judge Kohlsaat of the United States district court, whe made the appointment on the petition of several creditors. The receivers | left for Zion City jast night to take | possession of the property. | ‘The bankruptcy proceedings against Dowie were based on the allegation that Le is insolvent, and that while in |} this financial condition he committed an act of bankruptcy by making @ preferential payment on Nov. 2 to the E. Streeter Lumber company for $3,- 770. Dowie has been hard pressed by his creditors, especially since it was announced that his recent mi proved unsuccessful, | financially. Dowie is lated a large sum Christian Catholic known to have accumu as the head of the hureb, the assets of the organization being estimated at between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000. ‘There was a Large Outlay of Money, however, when Zion City was started. Then lace and candy industries were started, and as both of these ventures have never been a paying investment | a great deal more meney was tied up. Dowie’s differences with his brother- Supreme Court Says That It Is Con-| injaw, Stevenson, over the manage- ment of tite lace factory cost more than $100,000, and other suits recently begun in Lake county by creditors are said to aggregate a large sum. Last Wednesday Dowie’s first con- fession of weakness was made at a rally in the tabernacle at Zion City. “A Jot of you people have cash in your pockets,” Dowie said to his followers. “Dig down and get it out. It is God's, and we need it in his work. You're cowards if you don’t give it up. De- posit it.” Dowie Pleads for Money. Dowie talked in the same strain for more than an hour, tears glisten- ing on his cheeks as_ he told of the financial straits in which the Zion in- dustries found themselves. Instead of frightening many into de- positing, his appeal sent a long line of people to the bank on Friday, when thed lined up at the paying teller’s window, jirawing out their money. Yesterday Dowie asked the membe-s of Zion more urgently than ever for. money. He declared that he must have $500,000 without delay. It is de- clared to be a fact that the employes of the manufacturing industries have pot been paid in from four to six weeks. Dowie Says He Will Pay. Dowie declared to the receivers that the entire proceedings in court were unnecessary, as he was entirely solv- ent. He deciared that the receivership would be very short, as he would im- mediately pay all he owed and secure the discharge of the receivers. Eloping Couple in Minneapolis. Hawarden, lowa, Dec. 2.—Ray Hor- ton and Laura Walrod, two prominent young persons of this village, who eloped a week ago, have been heard from. They write friends here from Minneapolis, saying they were mar- ried in Orange City. They will make their home in Minneapolis Town Votes to Incorporate. Two Harbors, Minn., Dec. 2.—-At ihe election held at the town of Aurora. on the Iron Range road, the incorpora- tion boomers won over their oppon- ents in a score of 38 to 8. The town of Aurora was platted last August, and many lots were sold and some build- ings have been erected. Air Blasts Become Alarming. Houghton, Mich., Dec. 2.—Air blasts in the» Quincy mine are becoming oz alarming frequency, seventy-three having been noted in the past two days, fortunately without serious re- sults, though shaking the entire city of Hancock, built above the mine. which is 4,700 feet deep and two miles long. The cause and nature of the air blasts are unknown and greatly puzzle many scientists who have in- Wright’s arrest was not a surprise, as he had been under surveillance since the institution failed. vestigated them. The effects on the surface are compared only to earth- quakes. FEDERAL COURTS TAKE POSSES- n to °