Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 6, 1904, Page 2

By C. E. KILEY. j —— GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Boston teachers who are victims of the chicle habit should chew nothing but beans. A young man seldom feels inclined to complain because a girl lisps, when she says yes. Fitzsimmons, however is confident that he could effect another landing on Corbett’s solar plexus. Russell Sage has quit keeping regu- lar office hours, but he has not yet given up the 10-cent lunch. The Shanghai men who sent “news” during the Boxer troubles have ap- parently moved north to Kobe. Boston teachers-do not chew gum. They masticate an insoluble sub- stance that exudes from certain trees. The man who was ambitious to drive the water wagon on Jan. 1 is now content to cling to the left hind wheel. Marie Corelli is described as being “short and plump.” Be it far from us to intimate that her stories are long and thin. If a good New Year’s resolution be- gins to show wear and become a little frayed at the edges that is no reason for discarding it. New York city, we are informed by several exchanges, is’ to have a “mon- ster cat show.” Where are the mon- ster cats to come from? The American prohibition year book in its statistics on whisky, neglects to credit the stuff with the jobs it lost for its intimates during 1902. Of course the young chambermald of Ogden, Utah, who has just married a 70-year-old millionaire, believes in the predestined affinity of souls. The sketch of the career of King Peter of Servia recalls the late Noah Broooks’ remark as to the fierceness of the beat that ‘lights upon a throne. Clyde Fitch recently wrote six plays in one month. Mr. Fitch writes plays so quickly that they must seem new to him when he sees them on the stage. When Mr. Schwab’s 9,993 $1,000- bonds were exhibited to the court, the participants in the trial sat about a long green table. How very appro- priate! Let us hesitate before we rashly go against such a formidable military ar- ray as Generals Ortiz, Uribe-Uribe, Bustamente—especially this fellow— and Novo, 2 The number of horses eaten by Par- isians has grown from 10,000 in 1900 to more than 30,000 a year. The pass- ing of the horse in Paris is by way of the abattoir. When a woman finally thinks of a place to put her money where nobody would ever think of looking for it, it is very trying indeed for her to forget where it is herself. It appears that the late Henry D. Lloyd left an estate of $250,000. And yet there have been few men who cared less for wealth, for wealth’s sake, than Mr. Lloyd. So many children were named for Ruth Cleveland that it is interesting to know that she herself was named for Ruth Tappan, a classmate of Mrg Cleveland at Wells college. Common sense is leaking through even the density of the minds in con- trol of the French army, it being pro- posed to give the enlisted man a chance to win shoulder straps. With the coal in the bin getting lower and lower all the time, Edward Atkinson would confer a general fa- vor if he would hurry up the produc- tion of some of his nice mud fuel. An Alabama girl who is heiress to a fortune of $8,000,000 is mysteriously missing. It might be a good plan to call off the detectives and get some titled foreigner to come over and find her. A trainload of doctors and surgical supplies stationed at convenient points along the right of way may soon come to be indispensable to the successful operation of the railway business. A St. Louis paper states that out of twenty-two American novelists there is only one handsome man. As each of the twenty-two will consider himself the exception referred to no offense will be taken. An Arizona man committed suicide a few days ago because he couldn’t get his salary raised from $9,000 to $12,- 000 a year. We know quite a lot of people who would be willing to take $9,000 a year each and live even in Arizona. The “original hero” of Amelie Rives’ novel, “The Quick’ or the Dead,” ex- pired the other day at Richmond. It will be news to a large majority of the people who read novels now that there ever was such a story as “The Quick or the Dead.” From the Capital. Philippine imports for eight months ending August, 1903, aggregated $22,- 266,521, and exports $20,867,313. The controller of the currency issued a call for the condition of national banks at the close of business on Jan. 22. The president has appointed dele- gates to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, to meet in St. Louis next September. + Representative McCleary of Minnc- sota has introduced a bill appropri- ating $100,000 for a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington. The civil service commission, in its annual report, recommends the adop- tion of a provision retiring superannu- ated government employes. Representative Van Duser of Wash- ington has introduced a resolution in- quiring if any supplies for the postof- fice department are made by convict labor. A request for an appropriation of $1,050,000 to carry on the work of construction on the naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba, has been trans- mitted to the house from the navy de- partment. The house committee on postoffices and postroads has authorized a favor- able report on the resolution of Mr. Tawney of Minnesota asking for infor- mation as to the number and condition of railway mail cars in use by the gov- ernment. The senate committee on public lands has authorized a favorable re port on the bill providing means for acquiring the groves of sequoia gi- gantea in the State of California with a view to making these tracts a na- tional park. The house passed 209 pension bills and adopted resolutions calling on the secretary of war and the attorney gen- eral for information as to the number of horses and carriages maintained at government expense for officers of the respective departments. On the recommendation of Rear Ad- miral Capps, chief constructor of. the navy, Secretary Moody has directed that the historic ship Constitution shall be retained in ordinary at the navy yard at Boston and repaired from time to time, so that it may be preserved in- definitely. The starboard side will be made a naval museum. People Talked About. William Toothe, a financier of New ¥ork, and formerly well known as a journalist in Chicago, is dead from heart failure. General William Chauncty Kibbe, an old Indian fighter and gold hunter in California in 1849, is dead at his home in Brooklyn from tuberculosis. Senator Emile Deschanel, father of Paul Deschanel, former president of the chamber of deputies, died in Paris, He was born in 1819. Justus C. Adams, former speaker of the Indiana house of representatives, died at Indianapolis after a prolonged itIness. He was sixty-three years of age. Judge Robert Lowry, former mem- ber of congress from the Twelfth In- diana district and one of the best known jurists in the state, died at Fort Wayne, Ind., aged eighty years. Ned Howard Fowler, leading man of the Empire Theater Stock company at Columbus, Ohio, shot himself through the right temple shortly after 3 o’clock in the morning, and died an hour later. The body of Miss Sarah Schafer, teacher of Latin in the Bedford, Ind., high school, was found in a carriage house. She had been assaulted and robbed. The body was badly muti- lated. J. L. Broderick, former president; W. L. Collins, former cashier, and Wal- ter Brown, former director of the de- funct Indiana National bank at Elk- hart, Ind., have been arrested on charges of embezzlement. Gen. Stephen W. Kellogg, a former congressman and a delegate to the Republican national convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, died at Waterbury, Conn., aged eighty-two years, after a brief ill- ness. Notes From Abroad. President Harper of Chicago univer- sity has been decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor. Friedrich, the reigning duke of An- halt, died at Dessau, the capital of An- hault. He was born in 1831. Ernest Cashel, the murderer who es- caped from the Calgary police garri- son, was caught a few miles from Winnipeg. The Turkish consul general at Ant- werp will probably die from burns sus- tained when his mistress threw vitrol upon him. ; Raw silk and silk goods to the value of $1,932,000 are en route across the Pacific to Vancouver, B. C., on board the Empress of China. A son has been born in Paris to Maj. John MacBride and Mrs. McBride. Mrs. McBride was better known by her maiden name, Maude Gonne, “the Irish Joan of Arc.” Panic in the Deutsches theater in Berlin, caused by the fall of a large strip of plaster from the ¢eiling, was subdued without injury to any one ex- cept an usher, who will recover. The sultan of Turkey has ordered that general amnesty be granted to the Bulgarians and Macedonians who have been imprisoned for participation in the disturbances of last summer, ly for the open shop. George Lockhart, the well-known elephant trainer and circus proprietor, | was accidentally crushed to death by an elephant in London. United States Minister Powell has recognized the provisional government of Gen. Morales as the de facto govern- ment of Santo Domingo. Lord Londonderry and Gerald Bal- four say there is no truth in the Daily News’ statement that further British cabinet resignations are imminent. The British government has decided to postpone indefinitely the issue of the first instalment, amounting to $50,000,- 000, of the Transvaal loan, totaling $150,000,000. Gen. Caseres has fought another bat- tle during which Ramon Tanarez and seven others were killed. Gen. Caseres now occupies Castillo City and Gen. Jiminez has retired to the fort. His forces are short of ammunition. Germany’s pig iron production for 1903 was 10,085,634 tons, an increase of 1,682,999 tons, thus outstripping Great Britain for the first time in history. The coal production of Germany for 1903 was 116,664,376 tons, an increase of 9,215,842 tons. A dispatch to the Central News from Madrid says it has been learned that during King Alfonso’s levee at the palace recently the police discovered an infernal machine near the doorway “to the palace. The answer of the Countess Ester- hazy, against whom a suit for $100,- 000 damages, in which she is charged with having alienated the affections of the plaintiff’s husband, was filed by Louise M. De Lang, declares there never was a legal marriage between Louise McDowell, the plaintiff’s maid- en name, and Martin De Lang. Ina A. Milroy of Detroit has passed the most brilliant examination in Ber- lin university and has been made a doctor of philosophy with double hon- ors, a distinction acheieved by only one other woman in the university’s his- tory. Casuaities. Fire destroyed the Stoddard storage warehouse at Louisville, Ky., entailing losses upon several wholesalers which aggregate about $225,000. Fire at Dawson caused a loss of $105,000. The temperature was 35 be- low and firemen suffered greatly. The American Mission College for Girls at Erzerum, Armenia, was de- stroyed on Jan. 10 by fire, believed to be incendiary. Fires to the number of sixty-three employed the Chicago fire department the other day, their work being much hampered by the intense cold. Young women students to the num- ber of 550 escaped from the burning state normal school dormitory at Greensboro, N. C., in their night clothes. Former Circuit Court Commissioner Gerritt H. Albers was found guilty by a jury at Grand Rapids, Mich., on a charge of perjury committed on a for- mer trial for bribery. The remaining water deal cases have been postponed. Fire of unknown origin at Baltimore caused a damage of about $100,000 to the New York Clothing store which occupied a seven-story warehouse. Several firemen, including District Chief Emerich, were injured by broken glass or by the icy pavements while they were fighting the flames. Domestic. Boxing may be permitted in Denver within a month or so. City officials of Cleveland have been enjoined from enforcing the 3-cent fare ordinance until Feb. 13. The match between Mike (“Twin’’) Sullivan and Willie Fitzgerald, which was scheduled for the Tammany. club, Boston, has been called off. Application has been made at Tren- ton, N. J., for the appointment of a re- ceiver for the Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelting company. Champion Joe Jeffries is in Boston to defend a suit brought against him by a sporting writer whom, it is said, he claims he does not know and has never met. Chicago has a deaf mute fighter named Herbert Gott. He is a feather- weight of some promise, but has trou- ble in knowing when to walk to his corner. Judge Grosscup has held against the city of Chicago in the 75-cent gas case. He decided that the state did not dele- gate to the city the power to regulate the price of gas. The presence of smallpox among the troops at Jefferson barracks, Mo., has resulted in the vaccination of all ‘the men in the Fourth and Bighth regi- ments of cavalry. The Hardwood Manufacturers’ As- sociation of the United States, in ses- sion at Cincinnati, Ohio, decided to in- crease the price, of thick oak and ash from $4 to $5 pér 1,000 feet. Drunkenness in Indiana was greater in 1903 than in 1902, according to re- ports of county sheriffs made to the board of state charities. The number of intoxicated persons harbored in jails in 1903 was 12,394, and in 1902, 11,866. The employing contractors and builders of Detroit have formed an ass tion patterned after the Nation- al ding Trades Employers’ asso- ciation and have declared emphatical- —- FORMER SECRETARY OF THE NAVY PASSES AWAY UN- EXPECTEDLY. DIED UNDER INFLUENCE OF ETHER PHYSICIANS WERE MAKING PREP- ARATIONS FOR A SECOND OPERATION. WAS FATHER OF THE NEW NAVY FIRST TO HEAR CRY OF “MODERN SHIPS AND MEN TO « MAN THEM.” New York, Feb. 3.—William Collins Whitney, former secretary of the navy, died a few minutes after 4 o’clock yes- terday afternoon at his home, 871 Fifth avenue. He died while under the influence of ether administered preparatory to a second operation for appendicitis. By his bedside were his son, Harry Payne Whitney, and his daughter, Dorothy Whitney, as well as Dr. Will- iam T. Bull, the chief surgeon in at- tendance. Mr. Whitney was in his sixty-fourth year. He was taken ill Friday night at the performance of “Rigoletto” at the Metropolitan opera house and had to leave before the opera ended. Dr. Walter B. James, the Whitney family physician, was summoned and found that the { Condition of the Patient was such that after consultation an operation was decided upon and was performed by Dr. Bull. The patient rallied so well that it was fully be- lieved he would recover. Mr. Whitney’s condition was very grave, however, on Sunday and Mon- day, and at a consultation held yester- day afternoon the conclusion was reached that the only hope for the pa- tient lay in a second operation. A bulletin issued in the morning stated that there had been a slight im- provement in the patient’s condition, but shortly after 3 o’clock alarming symptoms were noted and hurried preparations were made For a Second Operation. Mr. Whitney was placed under the in- fluence of ether, but whether the op- eration was proceeded with or not is unknown. When the physicians per- ceived that the patient was in danger of death Harry Payne Whitney and Miss Dorothy Whitney were immedi- ately notified. They hastened to the side of their father and in a few minutes he had breathed his last. Oxygen was used and all the skill of the physicians and surgeons prought jnto play to save the life of the dis- tinguished patient, but to no avail. It was 5 o'clock before the simple fact of his death was made public. Later the following statement was is- sued: : “Mr. Whitney died at 4 o’clock of peritonitis and blood poisoning fol- lowing an operation for appendicitis.” Father of the Navy. Mr. Whitney is acknowledged as the father of the new navy. He found the navy, except for the Chicago, the At- lanta and the Dolphin, a collection of antiquated ships. He believed that there was no reason why the United States should not have as fine ships as any power in the world. The offi- cers of the navy had already raised the cry of “modern ships and men to man them,” and Mr. Whitney heard it. When he retired from the navy depart- ment in 1889 he had caused to be built thirteen modern ships of war and had nine under construction, and the new navy was an accomplished fact. FATAL AND COSTLY FIRE. Two Firemen Killed and Property Worth $400,000 Destroyed. Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 3. — Fire in the heart of the wholesale district which broke out at 8:30 o’clock last night caused a loss of $400,000 and cost the lives of two firemen. The fire started in the six-story Phoenix building. - The firemen were unable to check the flames, which spread both north and south, into the store of Cul- len & Newman on the north, and into the store of M. L. Ross & Co. on the south. On the south the fire did not make further progress, but on the north, after gutting the Cullen & Newman establishment it spread to Cullen, Q Shields’ store, which was en- tirely destroyed. The fire was stopped before it damaged M. B. Arnstein © Co., on the north, except slightly. T e firemen had three lines of hose on t.e Ross building, which is four stories high, when the wall of the Phoenix building crumbled and _ crashed tthrough the roof of the Ross build- ing. The floors were carried down, but out of the seven men, in the build- ing only two were caught, although there are rumors that two spectators lost their lives. /Loan for Exposition. Washington, Feb. 3. — The senate committee on appropriations yesterday authorized a favorable report on the urgent deficiency bill. An amendment was adopted appropriating $4,600,000 as a loan to the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Students Arrested. St. Petersburg, Feb. 3. — Seventy | students have been arrested here, charged with starting a secret revolu- tionary society calleed the Northern Union. ee ee Chance Acquaintance Is Good Luck for Poor Swede. Bui Mont., Feb. 3.—Steve Ozer, a poor Swede working at odd jobs at Whitefish, Mont., has fallen heir to $20,000 by the death of a sister in San Francisco. Ozer was the only heir and @ search had been made for him since kis sister's death in October. While drinking in a Kalispell saloon two weeks ago Ozer met a chance ac- quaintance to whom he confided he had a rich sister in San Francisco, but that they had not communicated with each other for two years. This ac- quaintance happened to read a notice from the Swedish consul making in- quiry for the missing heir, and this is how tke man was discovered in this locality. Ozer has gone to California. SWUNG INTO ETERNITY. Ernest Cashel Pays the Penalty for the Murder of Rufus Bell. Calgary, N. W. T., Feb. 3—At 8:06 o'clock yesterday morning Ernest Cashel, the murderer of Rufus Bell, ema penalty of law. A small gr , about a dozen persons, including renresentatives of the press, Doctors Ruie. McKind and Stewart, witnessed the execution. Cashel came to the seafi-:« a.tended by Rev. Kirby, a methodist mitister, who feels that the yours mun kas sincerely repented of his crime While the Lord’s prayer was being recited the drop fell and the soul of Cashel passed into eternity. Radcliffe, ‘ke hangman, made all ar- rangewents, which passed off satis- factor’ according to his view. Be- fore leaving cell Cashel broke down and confessed to Kirby that he had murdered Rufus Bell, but after- ward walked firmly to the scaffold and asked the pastor to pray for his soul. TROUBLE FOR BARBERS. State Board Has Started on Its Exam- ining Tour. Superior, Wis., Feb. 3. — President Axel Douham of the state barbers’ ex- amining ‘board promises there will be trouble throughout the state for many barbers. The board has started out on its inspection of the shops of the dif- ferent cities, and those that do not come up to the standard will be closed and reported to the board of health of the state. The board de- clares that every barber in the state must be able to pass a satisfactory ex- emination and be entitled to a license before he will be allowed to practice his trade at all. GEN. CARR WILL SUCCEED KOBBE New Commander of Department of Dakota. Washington, Feb. 3. — Brig. Gen. Camillo C. C. Carr was designated by the war department yesterday as com- mander of the department of Dakota to succeed Gen. W. A. Kobbe, pro- moted to major general and retired. Gen. Carr is now in temporary com- mand of the department of Missouri. Gen. Theodore J. Wint has been des- ignated for the command of the de- partment until Gen. Wint’s return from the Philippines. Gen. Wint is ex- pected to return soon, and it is not an- nounced whether Gen. Carr will be or- dered to St. Paul at once or whether he will remain in the department of Missouri until Gen. Wint’s arrival. SNOW HOLDS UP MUCH TRAFFIC, Mercury in North Dakota Drops Fifty Degrees. Bismarck, N. D., Feb 3.—The tem- perature dropped Monday night from 87 degrees above zero to 13 below, a drop of 50 degrees, and a wind that attained a velocity of forty-eight miles an hour drove the snow in a raging blizzard for about five hours. All rail- road trains on, the three roads leading out of this city were suspended. Butte, Mont., Feb. 3. — Advices re- ceived from the state tell of a terrific windstorm Monday night. At Helena the wind reached a_ velocity of sixty miles an hour. Tin roofs were torn off and several small buildings were over- turned. GETS THE LiMIT. Antonio Calderone Sentenced for the Killing of Salvator Battalia. Minneapolis, Feb. 3. — Antonio Cal- derone, who killed Salvator Battalia, Nov. 18, on the Franklin avenue bridge, received yesterday the maxi- mum penalty of twenty years. He was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. The prisoner was brought into the court room for sentence at the noon hour. F. L. McGhee made a plea for leniency, but Judge Brocks said he did not believe Calderone’s self-de- fense story, and gave him the limit. McGhee still hopes to secure a reduc- tion of sentence. Connect Winona With Twin Cities. Winona, Minn., Feb. 3. — By a con- tract just closed between the Winona Telephone company and the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph company the latter agrees to build a long-distance telephone line into Winona from the Twin Cities by Aug. 1. The line will follow the Mississippi river down, touching at intervening cities. Forfeited Their Bonds. Dubuque, Iowa, Feb. 3. — Herman Kombacher and George MceGuiness, indicted for keeping a house of ill fame, forfeited their bonds of $1,000 each yesterday by their non-appear- ance, and bench warrants were issued for their arrest. They escaped from the state to escape the penitentiary. Killed by Natives. Berlin, Feb. 3. — The statement is made that one hundred soldiers have been killed in German Southwest Af- rica during the present troubles there. FIGHT ON ISTHMUS INDIANS AND COLOMBIAN TROOPS. WILD RUMOR REACHES PANAMA IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN RELIA- BLE CONFIRMATION OF REPORT. RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY ANTICIPATING EVENT SECRE- TARY SHAW WILL CALL IN SOME MONEY. Panama, Feb. 3. — A report has reached the isthmus that Colombian troops are fighting with the Indians on the San Blas coast, which is in Panama territory. It is impossible, however, to obtain reliable confirma- tion of this. The United States gunboat was to have sailed yesterday from Colon to Bocas del Toro, but the orders were countermanded at the last moment, be- cause of a report of fighting on the coast. A letter was received here some time ago from Capt. Torres, command- ing the Panama troops at Chepo (on the south side of the isthmus and di- rectly south of the San Blas country), saying he had decided to cross over to the Atlantic side. There is a possibil- ity that the Indians are fighting with Capt. Torres’ command, mistaking them for Colombians. Shaw Will Call in Money. Washington, Feb. 3.—It is the gen- eral impression in administration cir- cles that the Panama treaty will be ratified about the middle of the pres- ent month, and in anticipation of that even, Secretary Shaw will take steps looking to the recall of a portion of the public fund now in the hands of the national bank depositories. Just what percentage of these public depos- its will be called for has not yet been definitely determined, but there is reason to believe that it will approx- imate 20 per cent or $30,000,000. CHAMBERLAIN IS THE STAR. Defended in the House of.Commons by His Own Son. London, Feb. 3.—‘*My right honora- ble friend, the member from West Birmingham,” as Austin Chamberlain described his father, was the central figure in the drama that marked the opening of parliament yesterday. No playwright could have conceived a more curious situation. For the first time in years Joseph Chamberlain took his seat as a private member of the house of commons and saw his son act as leader of that body, a position which Joseph Chamberlain, with al? his years of parliamentary experience never attained. Premier Balfour was laid up with influenzia and therefore was unable to be present. When Aus- ten Chamberlain arose to reply in be- half of the party of which his father is believed .to be the most powerful menvber, the house was spell-béund- Austen Chamberlain spoke haltingly and under evident strain, while de- fending the fiscal policy of Premier Balfour and Joseph Chamberlain. Now and then jeers greeted the young- est member of the cabinet, whereupon with unmistakable anger, his father turned his glance in the direction of the offender, and occasionally Joseph Chamberlain cheered his son on with a “hear, hear.” The house finally ex- pressed its relief when the speech was over, and generally termed the open- ing as one of the most extraordinary personal situations that ever had oc- curred and the speech as one of the weakest defenses of the government’s policy ever made. GRIND CANADIAN WHEAT. Congressman Stevens Introduces an Important Measure. Washington, Feb. 3. — Representa- tive Stevens of St. Paul yesterday in- troduced his bill to permit the milling of wheat from Canada in bond, while in transit. It is contended by those who favor the measure that it has no direct relation to the subject of reci- procity with Canada, but is merely in- tended to give the mills a chance to grind wheat which is being shipped through the country, the saving being on the freight charges on the trans- portation of the by-products if left in this country for sale. Mother Follows Children. Council Bluffs, lowa, Feb. 3. — Mrs. Peter Christensen, mother of five children who perished in their burned home Monday night, died yesterday as a result of her burns. All of the bodies of the dead children have been recovered. Three Killed in a Wreck. Houston, Tex., Feb. 3.—In a freight wreck yesterday near Findlay, east of El Paso, three men were killed. A Southern Pacific freight was derailed on a curve and was struck by a Texas & Pacific freight. Mrs. Maybrick Located. London, Feb. 3. — The report that Mrs. Florence Maybrick had been sent to a house of refuge preparatory to her release from prison is officially con- firmed. She is in a home in Devon- 1g ee eee a>