Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 5, 1904, Page 2

By C. E. KILEY. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, - Spain might telegraph its sympa thy. Chamberlain’s son rises, a8 som‘ would say, when Chamberlain’s sun is setting. The Russian admiral has * cabled home: “We have met the enemy and they are peaches.” Radium punch and radium cock- tails have arrived. Now for the ra dium 5-cent cigar! Russia wants to borrow $200,000, 000. Most of us would be satisfied with a loan of half that sum. “Henry Seton Merriman” left a fortune of $260,000. Another of those poverty-stricken literary felleral The new Baltimore doubtless will have an additional monument, to mark the spot where the fire started. The imports of foreign perfumes into this country are said to be in- creasing by a very large per cent. Whew! This would seem to be about the time for Kipling to tune‘up with a few polyglot stanzas of choice Anglo- Japanese. When a man’s only salvation is a woman, he is generally pretty far gone on the road to destruction.— Town Topics. Sad, isn’t it, to reflect that the translators of the St. James version of the Bible were so lamentably shy on “literary form.” Bertillon has discovered a method for making the dead lifelike. He will be honored for inventing a plan to wake up some of the living. A writer in Harper’s Weekly asks: “Does civilization shorten life?” What can we do about it, even if it does? sre all want to be civilized, don’t we? Nobody dares say “Look pleasant” to royal personages when they have their photographs taken; at least, nobody could have said it to the mi- kado. What worries some of the other powers now is the question whether if the Japs win this war there will be any living with them on that side of the globe. “After prolonged cheering by the banqueters the slogan was taken up by nearly all present.” Attentive wait- ers had been around and filled up all the slogans. A gastronomic expert says “there are those who eat pour passer le temps.” Odd, isn’t it, that some of the high-toned restaurants have over- looked this dish? The St. Louis doctor who says whis- ky is good for consumptives might make more of a hit with his towns- men if he could say a good word for beer and plug tobacco. As another sign of stable financial conditions please note the enthusiasm with which each insurance company since the Baltimore fire has risen to! shout, “Never touched me!” A Connecticut man has lost a for. tune on a technicality. The only way in which he can get even is to go inta the bribing and grafting business and then get off on another technicality. People of the District of Columbia are accused of loving dogs better than man, woman or child. Perhaps they can set up the claim that they do not love man, woman and child less, but dogs more. Young John D. Rockefeller says no man can fool his conscience. This no doubt is the truth, but the trouble is that some men have consciences which wouldn’t be worth fooling even if it could be done. The author of “Mrs. Wiggs” has bought herself a $10,000 home in Louisville. That’s rather modest. But perhaps the report that the lady’s roy- alties have amounted to $400,000 are slightly exaggerated. GARE eS When Rose, the Cleveland defaulter, found he was $20,000 short, he rea- soned that he could make it up by go- ing on speculating. So he speculated and speculated until he was $187,000 short. Why say more? Professional osculationists should bear in mind that attempted kissing without the consent of the kissee means $100 or thirty days in jail. The choicest things in life naturally come high.—Des Moines Capital. The way to cure pneumonia is to have a cough and refrain from bath- ing, according to Dr. J. Dill Robertson, whose Indian name would be “The Man-Afraid-of-Water.” Some may fancy that the cure is worse th n the disease. A British schoolboy is held respon- sible for the following commep% in his school examination papers upon one of our national institutions: “In the United States people are pat to death by elocution.” Indeed, thy; boy spoke truer than he knew. “Rerald-Review. \JAPAN IS READY FOR GENERAL LAND FIGHT Departure of Genearl Stalf for Korea Is TaKen as an Oliicial Announcement That General Land Movement Against the Russians Will Now Begin. Xo Confirmation of Monday’s Reported Bombardment of Port Arthuz Has Been Received and it Is Belicved the Battle Is Now in Progress. Russian Statements That Large Bodics of Cossacks and Russian Riflemen Fiave Penetrated Far Into Korea Are Denied by the Japanese—Flee Before Russians. Tokio, March 2.—The general staff and a regiment of the guards yester- day left Japan for a port on the west coast of Korea, probably Chemulpo. This virtually is taken as an official announcement that plans for the gen- eral land movement against the Rus- sians have been. completed. It is expected that within the next week or ten days news of an impor- tant engazement in the vicinity of the Yalu river will be received. By some it is believed that Port Ar- thur and possibly Vladivostok may be taken before a serious land battle is courted by the Japanese. Also it is said that Russian state- ments that large bodies of Cossacks and Russian riflemen have penetrated far into Vorea are baseless. The Jap- anese are informed that the enemy is represented in the regions near Anju and Bilju only by strong reconnoiter- ing detachments, which speedily will retire as the Mikado’s Advance Guard moves ,northward. Moreover, the opinion is still held in Tokio tnat the Russians do not intend at present to risk a serious campaign south of the Yalu. Such operations would expose the invaders to flank attacks from the forces landed on each side of Korea, besides giving the Japanese the oppor- tunity that they so much covet to ef- fect the landing necessary to isolate Port Arthur and cut the Russian com- munications between Kiao Yang and the Korean frontier. According to the stipulations of the protocol the Japanese minister at Seoul has notified the Korean govern- ment that the building of a railroad from Seoul to Wiju for military use will be commenced forthwith. Engi- neers and surveyors have already left Seoul. Naval Battle May Be On. London, March 2.—No confirmation of the report published yesterday that the Japanese had bombarded Port Arthur Feb. 29 has been received from any point. The wires from the scene of war practically have been silent for the past twenty-four hours, and in some quarters this silence is supposed to indicate that Japan’s great attack on Port Arthur actually is in progress and that consequently the use of the wires has been discon- tinued.. The Daily Mail’s Chefu correspond- ent telegraphs: “Yesterday I saw a cruiser of the Nitaka type beached at the entrance of Nam Yang creek. She was deserted except for a Jap- anese guard.” St. Petersburg, March 2. — Direct telegraphic advices received here from Port Arthur make no mention of the bombardment of that place as re- ported by the London Daily Telegraph yesterday. On the contrary, these advices say the Japanese fleet has disappeared from the horizon. off Port Arthur. Soldiers Suffer From Cold. St. Petersburg, March 2.—According to a meteorological bulletin the ther- mometer at Irkutsk, in the province of Trans-Baikalia, has fallen to 56 de- grees below zero, Fahrenheit. At ev- ery village station on the Trans-Si- berian railway. soldiers suffering from severe frostbite have been left behind, often without medical attention and almost destitute of supplies. Pneu- monia and bronchitis have found numerous victims and smallpox is epi- demic in East Siberia. In Manchuria the civil and military authorities are tireless in contending against dis- heartening difficulties. Donations to the Red Cross society are pouring in. More than 2,000,000 roubles has been received by the St. Petersburg office of the society. The gloomy state of the public mind has been somewhat relieved by the knowl- edge that Gen. Kuropatkin has left for the Far East and that M. Witte has returned to power. Crusade Against the Jews. Berlin, March 2.—Dispatches from Russia state that the Russian press is stimulating anti-Semitism among the people. They are accusing the Jews of purchasing large numbers of horses in Russia, nominally for Eng- land, but indirectly for Japan. The anti-Semites are exploiting the story to excite feeling against the Jews. Widesperad Jew baiting and on- slaughts are expected. Merely Russian Feelers. Seoul,“March 2.—Advices from the North report that 1,400 Russians are at Chongju, 500 at Kusong and 50 at Anju. These forces probably are only feelers sent out to locate the position of the Japanese. All the Americans formerly at Sun Chun, with the excep-. | tion of one family, have arrived at Pingyang. Quai d’Orsay Is Uneasy. ‘Paris, March 2.—The movements of the Chinese troops near the Man- churian frontier are causing a certain amount of uneasiness at Quai d’Orsay, where it is feared Japan may follow up her domination of Korea by induc- ing China to form the third party ina combination of yellow peoples against Russia. The French minister in Pe- kin has been. instructed to join the other foreign representatives in strongly.urging on the Chinese gov- ernment the necessity of maintaining a strict neutrality. Koreans Welcome Japanese. Keumchyon, March 2. — The situa- tion in Central Korea is quiet. The Japanese troops are behaving with rare order, and are everywhere pay- ing for everything taken at full mar- ket prices. Their behavior is both sober and restrained. The people ap- parently welcome them as friends. China May Get Into the Game. Shanghai, March 2.—Confidence is growing that the war will shortly in- volve China. Troops and money are steadily being drafted northward. The principal arsenals and powder mills are working continuously. The vice- roy is directing the land mobilization at Kaingyin and at the same time placing the Yangtse squadron on war footing. Jap Fleet Does Not Linger. Harbin, March 2.—The Vladivostok correspondent, writing on Feb. 26, says some alarm was caused on that date by the appearance of the Japan- ese fleet in the distance. Nine war- ships remained in view for two hours and then retired. Flee Before the Russians. Seoul, March 2.—Missionaries from Sienchin, about thirty miles north- east of Pingyang, report that the vil- lages along the whole road are depop- ulated. The inns are closed and the people have fied to the hills in fear of the approach of the Russians, The Russians have captured the prefect of Anju and confiscated public docu- ments. They have also assumed charge of the telegraph office at Yang- ben. The governor of Pingyang and all afficials have decamped, the Korean soldiers have deserted and the bar- racks are empty. In an engagement at Pingyang on Sunday two Cossacks were wounded. They were carried off by comrades. The collision took place about a hun- dred yards outside the north gate, close to Ki Jah’s tomb, at 9 o’clock in the morning. A few shots were ex- changed and the Russians retired. Forty Russian scouts are billeted at the American mines near Unsan. Many Japanese Wounded. Nagasaki, March 2.—The hospital ship Kobe Maru has arrived at Sas- abo from Port Arthur, bringing sev- enty-one wounded, six of them engi- neers of the Idzumo, Kasumi and Shekishima. They are seriously in- jured. Sixty-five are slightly wound- ‘ed. They report that only fourteen of the Russian men-of-war are now capable of action. v. Japs Claim Cavalry Victory. Tokio, March 2.—Reports issued by the Japanese war office state that Russian cavalry has been defeated near Anju and Pingyang, and that con- sequently the residents of that part of Korea are working as usual. Russians Warn Chinese. Pekin, March 2. — Reports from Russian local headquarters at Neu- chwang indicate that Admiral Alexieff and his principal commanders are striving by means of manifestos to bring the morale of the troops to a high standard. In the garrison at Port Arthur the force that mans the works that protect the fortress on the land side is being given daily lessons in patriotism. The men are told that for them Port Arthur is Russia, and that to a large extent the fate of the ezar’s army in the Far East depends on the valor and endurance of its de- fenders. Similar missionary work is going on at Vladivostok. The commanders of the Chinese frontier army have been warned by the Russian. viceroy that the Japanese are inciting their men to hatred of Russia for the purpose of getting them into the mood to attack the Russians at the first sign of Mus- covite embarrassment. Revolt Menaces Russia. Berlin, March 2—Authoritative in- formation reaches Berlin to the effect that Russia is threatened with serious internal disorders in the Caucasus and that the movement of Muscovite troops in Europe is connected with dangers there rather than in the Far East. _ Czar Weeps. \ Bertin, March 2.—The Schleissche Zeitung publishes a statement, said to have been received from the court circles in St. Petersburg, that the czar was overcome with emotion at the friendly spirit shown by Emperor William’s recent letter to him on the war in the Far East, and when, he read it he burst into tears. Russians Feel Better. St. Petersburg, March 2. — All the papers here print prominently this morzing, but without comment, Com- maander Marshall’s report of the Vicksburg incident off Chemulpo and the reasons assigned in the United States for his not uniting in the pro- test of the other naval commanders against the action of the Japanese. These statements will doubtless clear up the misapprehension existing here concerning the affair. Coming simul- taneously with the announcement that the state department had decided to -countermand the orders that Edwin V. Morgan, appointed United States consul at Port Dalny, proceed to his post, Marshall’s report should have good effect in. allaying the anti-Ameri- can irritation. : Russians in Bac Fix. Paris, March 2.—The correspondent of the Journal] telegraphs from Cing- Kan: Russia’s preparations cannot begin for a month, and then, whatever re- verses previously are sustained, all the lost ground can be recovered and the Japanese finally annihilated. A man having business transactions in Port Arthur tells me that there are not sufficient provisions there for a fortnight. The ammunition for the forts was to arrive by sea and can- not now reach its destination. The informant says there is a considerable risk that communication on the Si- berian railway will be cut off for a time at least. The quantity of provis- ions for the troops in Manchuria is in- adequate. Reinforcements proceeding daily to the front have to take their own supplies for the long journey, while the provisions for the army already in. the East have to be forwarded by the same route. This causes a congestion of traffic and delays the arrival of troops. My informant has _ heard that as soon as the hot weather sets in sickness among the troops will cre- ate a serious difficulty for Russia. DIES AT AGE OF 132 YEARS. “Uncle Noah’ Raby Said He Had Seen George Washington. New Brunswick, N. J., March 2. — Noah Raby died yesterday in the Piscataway poorhouse, of which he had been an. inmate for the last forty years. If he had lived until April 1, according to his own statement, Raby would have been 132 years old. He yetained his memory and could recall many incidents of his long career until very recently. Raby is said to have been born in Eatontown, Gates county, N. C., April 1, 1772. Almost up to the last the mind of this re- markable man was clear and his mem- ory, carrying him back to the days when the republic was in its infancy, made him a most interesting conver- sationalist. One of the aged man’s most positive statements was that he had once seen George Washington. at Portsmouth, Va. He described the first president with remarkable accur- acy, and his words carried conviction. POSTMASTER RESIGNS OFFICE. Four Relatives Killed in Feud and He Is Going to Leave the State. Washington, March 2.—Postmaster FE. S. Parnell of Junction, Union coun- ty, Ark., has resigned his office, and in his letter to the ‘postmaster general says the action is due to a political feud, to escape which he is going to leave the state. His letter follows: “I beg leave to tender to you my resignation as postmaster at Junction, Ark., and return herewith all papers sent since my resignation. My rea- sons for resigning are that my family has become mixed up in what is known in this county as the Parneli- Tucker feud. This is a political feud, and as four members of our family have been assassinated within the ie fifteen months, 1 feel that it is clearly my duty to my family and friends that I leave the state. I hope the department will relieve me at the earliest possible moment.” OFFICE FOR MARLBOROUGH. The Duke Is Likely to Become Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. London, March 2. — There is now much more likelihood of the duke of Marlborough becoming viceroy of Ireland than heretofore. Lord Dud- ley shortly will be obliged to give up the lord lieutenancy owing to the pre- carious state of the health of Lady Dudley, and it is generally believed that the duke of Marlborough will succeed to the post. For Big Beet Sugar Plant. Milwaukee, March 2. — The Janes- ville Sugar company, with a capital of $600,000, has just been formed. Preliminary work will begin at once for the erection of a large beet sugar factory at Janesville. Wagon Plant Is Burned. Waterloo, Iowa, March 2.—Fire en- tirely destroyed the large plant of the Waterloo Wagon, and Omnibus com- pany and several adjoining buildings. The loss is $50,000 or more. Buried by Falling Walls.) St. Louis, March 2—The wall of a ‘puilding in course of construction fell yesterday, burying three workmen. All ‘three were seriously injured and one may die, _. DEFEAT OF REBELS) KILLED BY TRAMPS MORALES EXPECTS TO KEEP CONTROL OF DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT. NO BLOCKADE OF PORES ALLOWED PRESIDENT MORALES !S COM- PELLED TO RESCIND AN ORDER REBELS SEIZE AMERICAN TUG CONSULAR AGENT AT SAN PE- DRO DE MARCORIS REPORTED IN DANGER. San Domingo, March 2.—Indications now are that the Morales government will win, since the siege of the capital has been raised. The Morales forces have, however, met reverses at Guerra and San Pedro de Marcori:. Gen. Zapata, of the revolutionists, has been caught at Navarate, and has been shot. The insurgents have re- quested aid and ammunition from Haiti, which were refused. They are now making a forced loan at Azua, levying upon foreign merchants for $200, and on sugar estates for $1,000. Americans are requesting that the training ship Hartford be sent there, as the insurgents are destroying lives and property. They have even at- tacked the American consulate. Busi- ness ‘has been paralyzed and tele- graphic communication interrupted. No Blockade Allowed. Washington, March 2. — President Morales, of the Dominican republic, has been refused permission. to block- ade his own ports to keep out the rev- olutionists, as shown by the following report to the navy department by Capt. James E. Miller, commanding the cruiser Columbia: “This morning (Feb. 18) the Amer- ican, three-masted schooner W. R. Perkins came in from the eastward and our boarding boat went alongside. The captain informed me that he had been warned off Macoris and not al- lowed to enter by the gunboat Presi- dente, and was told that he must pro- ceed to this port. “Immediately upon receipt of this information I communicated with the minister, requesting him to communi- cate with President Morales and in- form him that I would not recognize his right to blockade Macoris and re- fuse entrance to vessels flying the American flag. The minister informs me that the president demurred at first, but finally agreed to the fact.” Rebels Seize American Tug. San Domingo, March 2. — United States Minister Powell has been in- formed that the insurgents at San Pedro de Macoris have seized the tug boat Burro, belonging to the Clyde line of New York, and armed her. The Clyde line steamer Cherokee has gone to Azua de Compostle, con- voyed by the United States training ship Hartford. Many arrests have been made here and several politicians were sent out of the country yesterday on. board the steamer Julia of the Cuba line. Edward C. Reed, United States con- sular agent at San Pedro de Macoris, is said to be in danger. Minister Powell has taken steps to secure the protection of all interests. The situa- tion here remains unchanged. TO ACCEPT JOINT STATEHOOD. New Mexico and Arizona Interests Brought Together by President. Las Vegas, N. Mex., March 2—A tel- egram from Delegate Rody says that the president has just declared him- self in favor of joint statehood for New Mexico and Arizona and prom- ises his influence to secure the pass- age of a joint bill in the present con- gress. Gov. Otero, Territorial Secre- tary Reynolds and Chicf Justice Mills have been opponents of the joint statehood bill, but the message has led them to abandon the fight for sep- arate statehood and express their *| willingness to accept a liberal meas- ure admitting New Mexico and Ari- zona jointly. TRAINS IN COLLISION. Express on Illinois Central Cuts a Freight in Two. Princeton, Ky., March 2.— Express No. 104 on the [Illinois Central rail- road, New Orleans to Louisville, ran into a section of a freight train in the yards here. The engine was thrown down a forty-foot embankment into a creek. The engineer, George Tage, was killed and buried in the wreck. Conductor McKinney was badly in- jured and Fireman Tom Jones suffered a broken leg. None of the passengers were injured. The freight was cut in two at a street crossing, but a part of it had backed onto the main track. Champion Woman Swimmer Dead. New York, March 2.—After an ill- ness of three weeks Ethel Golding, the champion oman swimmer, died yesterday from Bright’s disease at the home of her parents in Bath Beach. She was twenty-three years old. Operated on Harper. Chicago, March 2.—President W. R. Harper of the University of Chicago was yesterday operated on for ap- pendicitis. The patient withstood the shock successfully. His condition is said to be highly satisfactory. DEAD BODY FOUND NEAR FARI- BAULT GIVES POLICE SOME- THING TO DO. CASE SHROUDED IN MYSTERY MAN BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED AND THROWN FROM TRAIN. ROBBERY EVIDENTLY THE MOTIVE THE MAN WAS STABBED iw THE HEAD WITH A LONG KNIFE. Faribault, Minn., March 2. — Mys- tery surrounds the death of William Krouse, whose dead body was found near this place yesterday. It is be- lieved that Krouse, of whom little is known, was killed by tramps for his money while on a freight train. Every effort is being made to locate the car on which the grim tragedy was enacted. The alarm has been sent out broad- cast, and local authorities hope that arrests of suspects will bring about the solution. of the mystery. A deep stab in the head reveals how Krouse came to his death. Minneapolis Police Notified. Minneapolis, March 2.—Sheriff Ray of Faribault yesterday afternoon no- tified the Minneapolis police depart- ment and the local sheriff’s office to watch incoming freight trains on the Milwaukee road for signs of a murder and to arrest all suspects. Sheriff Ray said that early in the af- ternoon the body of a man, whose name appears to be William Krouse, was found four miles this side of Faribault. The man had been stabbed in the head with a long knife, and ev- idently had been thrown from a movy- ing train. It is believed the man was murdered By Members of a Hobo Gang. Nothing of value was found in his pockets, and it is evident that he was robbed. He was a middle aged man and dressed in the garb of a laborer. The sheriff immediately dispatched men to Mendota, where they met freight No. 71, which was made up mostly of empty cars. The crew was questioned closely, and the cars were examined, but no signs of a struggle was found. The members of the crew said that they had noticed no suspicious characters on the train. Cars had been left at different towns between here and Faribault, however, and it is possible that some of these may show evi- dence of the crime. All trains com- ing in on that division will be watched closely. Nothing is known of the murdered man beyond his name. BECOMES A CABBAGE KING. Former Sheriff of Brule County Get- ting Rich on Farm. Sioux Falls, S. D., March 2.—C. S, Jordan, ex-sheriff of Brule county, who, since retiring from office, has devoted his attention to farming near Pukwana, is becoming the cabbage king of South Dakota. He is now marketing an aggregate of 45,000 head of cabbages, which he _ raised last season on six acres of ground. The heads are very compact and the prod- uct will compare favorably with that of any other state. Thus far he has sold four-fifths of his cabbage crop at prices ranging from 11-4 to 2 cents per pound. Mr. Jordan will realize more money for his cabbage patch than. many farmers will from their farms of 160 acres. For a single car load he received about $500. HUGGINGS ARE COSTLY. Two Society Belles Sue a Man for $10,000. Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 2.—Becaus> he is alleged to have hugged two pret- ty society belles of Danbury, G. W- Canty, one of the leading business men of that city, is called upon to pay $10,000 damages. Two suits were filed yesterday, demanding $5,000 each. Anna Weir, who is engaged in the bakery business, charges Canty with having hugged her against her will in her bakery on the night of Dec. 26. Della Jacques, a milliner, says Canty shut his arms about her waist when she recently ventured out on the streets of Danbury after dark, and neglected first to obtain her consent. To Have Free Mail Delivery. Little Falls, Minn., March 2.—Post- office Inspector Noile is in the city laying out the routes so that three carriers can handle the mail of the city. Postmaster Fuller will move the postoffice into new and larger quarters immediately. Free delivery will be introduced before May 1, Use British Vessels Only. London, March 2.—Referring to the rumor that an American firm is con- tracting to transport Chinese laborers to South Africa it is said the imperial government has stipulated that the Chinese be conveyed in British ves- sels exclusively. Lemon Extract Fatal to Five. Stillwell, Ind. T., March 2.—Five young men of this city are dead and others are critically ill as the result of drinking lemon extract in large quantities for a stimulant,