Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 26, 1904, Page 9

be ctl ad GRAND RAPIDS, - Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. MINNESOTA. Crinoline must be coming into fash- ion again, as Vassar college needs six new buildings. Rice may be declared a contraband of war. Well, let’s be glad it is neither beans nor prunes. Schwab broke one of the banks at Monte Carlo the other day. They are probably drawing him on. The name of the Emperor of Korea is Hi-Li. For the next few’ montns his highness had better lie low. Somebody at Port Arthur ought to be able to set up a fine business in scrap iron when the trouble is over. “Panamans” is the official word. And it ought not to be objected to by those who call themselves “Ameri- cans.” The news comes from London that the Prince of Wales is not coming to the St. Louis exposition. Sorry for the prince. The Japanese shell that discovered the Newsky works at Port Arthur con- firmed the suspicion that there was such a place. The New York Mail states that a professor of Greek has been arrested for begging. Got tired of digging for roots, perhaps. Did Mr. Spreckels fancy Santos- Dumont was flying too high when he aspired for the hand of the sugar mag- nate’s daughter? Herr Conried says the proposed pro duction of “Parsifal” in English would be a “desecration” For heaven’s sake, let it go at that! Laureate Austin is said to be incu- bating a poem on the Japanese vic- tories. Somebody should shoo Mr. Austin off the nest. The crown prince of Germany may take comfort in the thought that he’s not the only young fellow hopelessly ensnared by the American girl. A bunch of celluloid roses was re sponsible for the latest Chicago thea- ter fire. Here is one more argument against the celluloid collar style. One of Ibsen’s plays has been stop- ped in Chicago because of a fear of spontaneous combustion. Chicago is taking no chances on these things now. New Jersey comes forward with a woman highwayman. No, she didn’t go through her husband’s pockets. She held up a woman who kept a res- taurant. It will be time enough for us to re- joice over the soaring price of wheat for export when we find out how it is to affect the price of bread for home ccrsumption. A Chicago casket manufacturer drew $60,000 in a lottery. If he had remained steadily at work a more cer- tain thing than a lottery would have paid him as well. President Harper declares that stu. dents at the University of Chicago are affected with “mind-wandering.” They have probably been taking their pro- fessors too seriously. The quartermaster’s clerk who was discharged for insisting on spelling “route” with an-‘e” is said to be a native of Chicago. It’s absolutely cer- tain he isn’t from Boston. The Korean army has been ordered to join the Japs in the field. In order to cause panic among the Korean sol- diers it will only be necessary for the Russians to shoot their hats. The popping of champagne corks gave an alarm of fire in a New York hotel. Might be a great anti-prohibi- tion argument, if it were not for the fact that ginger ale would do the same thing. A prisoner in a Brooklyn police sta- tion refuses to eat anything and has lost forty pounds since his arrest. “If all prisoners would refuse to eat, the tax rate might be brought down to where it ought to be. The German court which decided against the use of the red necktie seems to have taken the matter with an amusing seriousness, but there are lots of people in the United States who applaud the finding. Peru and Ecuador have submitted their boundary dispute to the king of Spain for final decision. We shall con- tent ourselves with commending the principle of arbitration without com- menting upon the arbitrator. Admiral Togo’s plan of stepping in, giving the enemy a few swift jabs and then making a quick getaway before receiving any damage must commend {tself forcibly to the judgment of Mr. Corbett and other great American strategists. Is it any wonder that the rooster crows? A Missouri farmer hauled a load of baled hay to town, and on that hay he carried a basket of eggs. Both the hay and the eggs were sold at the market price, and the hay brought only two cents more than the eggs, Che News Washington Notes. The United States supreme court— 5 to 4decided against the Northern Securities company. The war department opposes the proposal to make the Red river non- navigable above Fargo. Gen. Miles indirectly announces himself as a prohibition candidate for nomination for president. Rural free delivery service will be established n two routes at Mora, Kanabec county, Minn., and addition- al service at Canby, Yellow Medicine county. Rear Admiral Charles O’Neil has been retired on account of age. He is assigned to make a personal inspec- tion of the principal ordinance estab- lishments in the United States and Europe. Harry S. New has informed the standing committee of correspond- ents that there will be about 275 seats for the use of the representatives of the daily papers at the Republican convention. Cecil Lyon, millionaire lumberman of Texas, is in Washington to per- suade President Roosevelt that a cross-country hunt with hounds, after gray wolves, would be worth a trip to the Lone Star State. Accidental Happenings. Fire at Frederick, Okla., destroyed an entire block of brick buildings, causing a loss of $100,000. Insurance one-third. Fire tn the chemical establishment of Apfel, Murdock & Co. in Chicago spread to several adjacent concerns, causing a loss of $50,000. The Michigan state capitol was threatened with destruction by fire re- cently. The fire was extinguished be- fore it had done any but nominal dam- age to the furnishings of the gov- ernor’s room. While Tommie Kelley and Jesse Gustin, each ten, were hunting at Hastings, Iowa, a gun in the hands of the Kelley boy was accidentally dis- charged, blowing off the top of the Gustin boy’s head. Thirty girls employed in the On- tario Biscuit works at Buffalo, N. Y., were thrown into a panic when an ex- plosion wrecked the plant. Fortu- nately the stairway remained intact and the girls escaped. Twenty-eight passengers embarked from Nome, Alaska, on the _ ill-fated steamship Discovery on Oct. 16, which has not since been heard of. Some of these may not have been lost, as it was their intention on leaving Nome to disembark at way ports. People Talked About. Nelson Mills, eighty-one, a pioneer lumberman and capitalist, is dead at his home in Marysville, Mich. Louis M. Fing, aged seventy, Catho- lic bishop of the diocese of Leaven- worth, Kan., died of pneumonia. Countess Wachtmeister, formerly Miss Beulah Hubbell of Des Moines, has arrived from Paris for a visit at the parental home. Henry T. Thurber, private secretary to President Cleveland during his sec- ond term, died at Detroit, Mich., after a two weeks’ illness of appendicitis. Col Jacob J. Deforest died in Rot- terdam, N. Y., aged eighty-three years. He was intimately associated with Horace Greeley during the abolition movement, At a dinner given in New York by Oscar Strauss, chairman of the execu- tive committee of the National Civic federation, to the labor members of the federation, Andrew Carnegie was elected a member of the executive committee. Judge Jonathan W. Crumpacker, as- sociate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico during President Mc- Kinley’s administration and a cousin of Congressman Edgard D. Crum- packer, died at La Porte, Ind., of ty- phoid fever, aged fifty. Augustus Cook, father of Eleanor Robson, the actress, is dead at his home in New York. His greatest suc- cess was achieved in his impersona- tion’ of Napoleon in “Madame Sans- Gene.” His last appearance, a few days ago, was in the Olcott company. Sins and Sinners. W. E. Brown has been indicted at Storm Lake, Iowa, on a charge of re- ceiving deposits after he knew his bank was insolvent. Robert Kenney, a wealthy young farmer of Chapman, Kan., shot and killed his wife, Alice Kenney, at their home, and then killed himself. Frank Ely Rogers, the boy kid- napped from his home in Evanston, Tl, in 1901, is supposed to be in or near the city of St. Catherines, On- tario. The safe in the Pennsylvania pas- senger station at Irwin, Pa., was dy- namited. Owing to an overcharge, the building was wrecked. The burglars secured nearly $1,000. Judge Voorhees, in the district court at Pueblo, Colo., issued an order for a special grand jury to be called forth- with to-investigate the alleged irregu- lJarities in municipal and county af- fairs. An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the bank at Bronson, Kan. Nitro-glycerine was used to blow up one corner of the building, but the door of the vault where the money was remained shut and the combina- tion lock was not, disordered. The rob- bers fied after the explosion and they haye not been captured. wi ‘\ Of the Week | Foreign. All but one of the six boats launched from the wrecked steamer Aramac, near Brisbane, N. Z., have been picked up by the steamer in search of them. The Lokal Anzeiger, at Berlin, says Emperor William ha sordered rein- forcements to the number of 1,000 men with 1,200 horses, to be sent to South- west Africa. The French chamber of deputies, by 318 to 231 votes, adopted the first sec- tion of the bill prohibiting members of religious orders from any kind of teaching. Large herds of seals are being car- ried' against the northern coast line of Newfoundland by the inshore winds, thus enabling the coast dwellers to kill them. Gen. Jappi, senator for Bellfort, France, is dead. He was a hero of many wars, including the Crimean, Franco-Prussian wars, and wars in Italy, Africa and Mexico. A French steamer, which has just arrived at Colon, brought the news that the Colombian government has definitely desisted from any move- ment to recover its lost territory. The prefect of Verona, Italy, has closed the Seghetti school for girls, .| which is conducted by nuns, because the children have been allowed to take part in an amateur theatrical performance in which Jews were shown to kill a Christian girl to use her blood in certain religious rites. General. The discontinuance of the Puritan line of steamships plying between Boston and Antwerp is announced. Hughey Murphy is not averse to a meeting with Abe Attell and will probably be given a date by a Chicago club. . Johnny Reagan has written the matchmaker of the Chicago Boxing club asking for a date in the near fu- ture. An extension on its franchise until Jan. 1, 1905, has been granted the Chicago city railway by the city coun- cil. In Jack Munroe’s stage act, which is making a hit in New York, the miner illustrates the blows used in his fight with Sharkey. G. C. Bredow, en route from Wino- na, Minn., to Los Angeles, was found dead in a Pullman berth on the South- ern Pacific train. A special grand jury, called to in- vestigate the recent riot, is in session at Springfield, Ohio. Judge J. K. Mow- er delivered a vigorous charge. Marvin Hart and Jim Scanlon, have been matched to meet in Memphis, April 5. That is ,if the Memphis au- thorities will permit the match to go through. Ten thousand lithographers through- out the country are out of work as a result to agree on the acceptance of a plan of arbitration to be operative for one year. The program for the inauguration ceremonies opening the Louisiana Purchase exposition on Saturday, April 30, will soon be officially an- nounced. Thirty sailors, picked from Italy’s navy, have arrived in St. Louis to take up their duties as world’s fair guards at the Italian government pavilion at the world’s fair. The Presbyterian board of foreign missions has received by cable con- firmation of the murder of Rev. Ben- jamin W. Larrabee, aged thirty-four, near Khoi, Persia. Al Weinig says he will never fight again, and it may be remarked that in his entire public career he has never uttered a sentence that invites the ap- plause that this one does. Wagonmakers employed in the thir- ty-one carriage factories in Rochester, N. Y., and who are members of the carriage and wagonmakers’ union, will go on strike for higher pay. At the Lancaster (Neb.) county primaries, practically every precinct has declared for Congressman B. J. Burkett for United States senator to succeed Charles H. Dietrich. Announcement has been made at St. Louis that the board of women man- agers of the world’s fair had decided to abandon the project of, establishing a model day nursery at the exposition. Margaret Gallagher, a novice at Mount Loretta convent, New York, and about to take her first vows, while violent from religious mania smashed furniture and severely injured Patrol- man James Ford. Fifty children of the Bear Rocks school in Dean township, Pa., stood a siege of nine hours the other day while a catamount remained on guard in the boughs of a maple tree near the school hoyse door. A Brooklyn milk dealer has secured a verdict of $5,000 against the city after undergoing a remarkable test be- fore the jury. Hot irons were applied to one arm and leg, and the flesh was pierced with surgical instruments. By a decision in the superior court, based on a demurrer to answers to an appeal by William J. Bryan from the decision of the probate court, which ruled against him in the Philo S. Ben- nett will case at New Haven, Conn., Mr. Bryan has the right to contest for the $50,000 bequest left to him by proving that the “sealed letter” is a part of the will. Because Louis Kremer, as best man, cannot get a pair of gloves large enough for him, the wedding of Ed- ward Barry of Louisville, Ky., had to be postponed until the gloves were made to order. AGAIN ATTACK PORT ARTHUR JAPANESE FLEET OF BATTLE- SHIPS AND CRUISERS BOM- BARDS THE CITY. NO GREAT DAMAGE SUSTAINED TORPEDO BOATS TWICE DETECT- ED ATTEMPTING TO MAKE NIGHT ATTACK. ACTIVE EAND OPERATIONS SOON BIG BATTLE IN NORTHERN KOREA CANNOT LONG BE DELAYED. St. Petersburg, March 23.—Another attac. by the Japanese fleet on Port Arthur, beginning with operations by torpedo boats and ending with a bom- bardmext by battleships and cruisers, ace after midnight Monday. patches to the emperor from no great damage, having only five sol- diers killed and ten wounded. Viee Admiral Makaroff claims that one cf the Japanese vessels was struck by a shell. All information which has reached St. Petersburg shows that the defend- ers of Port Arthur had taken seri- ously to keart the Coup of the Japanese torpedo boats at the beginning of the war, ana were now maintaining a sharp lookout. The Japanese torpedo boats were twice discovered sneaking toward the harbor entrance under cover of dark- ness, but both times they were de- tected far out at sca and were driven off by the bot fire op2ned upon them. The breaking of Gay necessarily pre- vented fur r terpedo boat opera- tions, but Admiral Togo brought up his battleships and cruisers. The di- vision of his fleet was for the purpose of making a cross-fire upon the har- bor in the hope of Destreying the Town and of dameging the Russian ships lying in tke vasin, or at least of de- moralizing the personnel of the de- fending force, Tke bombardment of March 9 showed to the Russians the advantage to the enemy of the position off Liao- tishin, which Vice Admiral Togo’s ships took up yesterday morning, and Vice Admiral Makaroff sought to minimize this advantage by so station- ing the battleship Retvizan that her shells could reach the Japanese bat- tleships. The fact that the Retvizan was used for this purpose proves the falsity of the report that her great guns had been removed and installed as a battery at Pigeon Bay, and it has given rise to the impression that there is an inadequacy of great guns at Port Arthur, as otherwise the battery would have been erected to protect the town at the only point which Vice Admiral Togo seems to regard as Vulnerable From the Sea. When the first official dispatches were received the belief gained ground that Vice Admiral Makaroff had put to sea, and that a naval fight had taken place. While this would be in keeping with his character as an intrepid officer, which is further indi- cated by his use of a cruiser as his flagship, it was not in accord with the plans of the Russian authorities. Later advices established the fact that the admiral had simply gone with the undamaged portion of his fleet to the outer roads where he could more effectively support the batteries and at the same time take advantage of any weakness which might develop in the enemy’s attack. Active Operations Soon. London, March 23. — With the ex- ception of the official dispatches no news has reached London of the latest bombardment of Port Arthur. The Japanese legation last night had noth- ing to communicate. News is received from Neuchwang that a south wind is dispersing the ice points, which means the beginning of active operations that at last will reveal the carefully concealed Japan- ese plan of campaign. According to the Standard’s St. Petersburg correspondent the Russian government has privately informed the senators that since the outbreak of the war exactly 100,000 troops have been forwarded to the Far East by the Siberian railway. Korears Rise Against Japs. The Daily Telegraph’s Seoul corres- pondent, cabling under date of March 22, reports the rising of a mob of Koreans against Japanese soldiers at Samung, north of Gensan. The Jap- anese dispersed the mob, killing five men and wounding twenty. The Daily Chronicle publishes un- confirmed rumors from Chefu and Neuchwang of bombardments of Port Arthur on March 13 and March 17, five Europeans and many Chinese be- ing killed in the former, and two guns being dismantled and fifty soldiers killed in the latter. Japs Losing No Time. St. Petersburg, March 23.—Vice Ad- miral Togo’s activity at Port Arthur is being emulated by the commander of the Japanese forces in Korea. The report of Gen. Mistchenkow stone : that the Japanese have taken the pre- caution to erect earthworks near Anju which are being held by a Japanese division until the remainder of the First army corps comes up from Pingyang, about forty miles away. The advance of the Japanese shows that they are losing no time, and that they are more rapid than the Russians expected. Nevertheless, the fortifications at Anju shows the Jap- anese operations are accompanied by all proper military precautions. Will Not Attack Anju. So far as the Russians are con- cerned they have no intention of at- tacking Anju, but the province of the five or six thousand cavalrymen under Gen. Mistchenkow will be to harass and retard the Japanese in every way possible. The authorities here believe that it will be only a matter of a short time when active land operations begin, but at first these will take the form of | skirmishes, athe main Russian force remains in occupation of strategical points on the Yalu river. Blockade Port Arthur. London, March 23. mee correspond- ent of tne Times at Tokio, under yes- terday’s date, cables that it is ru- mored that the Japanese have suc- ceeded in blockading the entrance to Port Arthur. Russians Expect Siege. St. Petersburg, March 23,—Russians are continuing preparations for a prospective siege of Port Arthur by rushing large quantities of supplies to that point. According to the Novi Krai as many as forty cars loaded with barley, chickens and other foods arrive there daily. Japs Are Advancing. The following dispatch has been re- | ceived from Viccroy Alexieff, dated Mukden, March 22: “Gen. Mistchenskow reports that on March 17 our scouts approached Anju intrenchments made by the enemy. Up to that date the enemy had not appeared at Yong Pyon (fifteen miles northeast of Anju). It is supposed that there is one Japanese division at Anju and that the remainder of the | First Army corps is at Pingyang. “In consequence of the report that two squadrons of the enemy had ar- rived at Pak Chong (fifteen miles northwest of Anju) 200 of our cavalry was dispatched for the purpose of Preventing the Enemy from crossing the Pak Chong river. Our cavalry found three Japanese squadrons on the left bank of the river, but they withdrew toward Anju on the arrival of our detachment with- out fighting. The Japanese squadrons number about 190 each. “On the night of March 19 two dis- patch riders encountered a Japanese patrol between Kasan (about fifty miles north by west of Pingyang) and Chenchu (about twelve miles north of Kasan). The patrol opened fire but our dispatch riders escaped unhurt. “According to a report 3,000 of the enemy’s cavalry occupied Yong Pyon March 19, and material for pontoon pridges have been placed in readiness north and south of Anju.” CUBAN TREATY RATIFIED. Senate Places Its Seal of Approval on the Compact. Washington, March 23.—The senate in executive session yesterday ratified the treaty between the United States and Cuba, signed at Havana May 22, 1903, embodying the Platt amend- ments to the army appropriation bill, approved March 2, 1901, defining the future relations of the United States with Cuba. The treaty recites the Platt amendments and enacts them in treaty form, comprising eight articles. RANGE KING INDICTED. Millionaire Charles K. Cunningham and Six Others Are Indicted. Washington, March 23.—The interi- or department yesterday received the following dispatch from Portland, Or., reporting the latest developments of the investigation of the public land frauds’ in the West: Charles K. Cunningham, the million- aire stockman of Eastern Oregon, and six homesteaders procured by him, in- dicted to-day for conspiracy. BRIDGE BILLS PASSED. House Acts Favorably on Measure In- troduced by Buckman. Washington, March 23.—The house yesterday passed the bill introduced by Representative Buckman authoriz- ing the construction of a bridge be- tween Sherburne and Wright counties in Minnesota. The bridge must be constructed in accordance with rulcs and regulations prescribed by the sec- retary of war. ICE GORGE AT DAVENPORT. Water Power at Rock Island Arsenal Is Cut Off. Davenport, Iowa, March 23. — The heaviest ice formed in the Mississippt for years started to move yesterday afternoon and became gorged below the city, causing a rise in the river of several feet. The water power of the Rock Island arsenal was cut off and several hundred men were thrown out of work. AGUINALDO IS COMING. Filipino Will Make Tour of United States During Summer. Washington, March 23.—According to information received here Emilo Aguinaldo, former head of the Fil- ipino republic, expects to visit the United States during the world’s fair at St. Louis. He will make a grand tour of the country for the purpose of studying American people and insti, tutions. FLOOD AND FIRE BELOIT, wIis., EXPERIENCES GREATEST DAY OF TERROR IT HAS KNOWN. STREETS ARE RAGING TORRENTS FIRE BREAKS OUT IN SOUTH BELOIT IN WHICH ONE LIFE '!S LOST. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HOMELESS FLOOD ALSO CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE IN ROCK AND RACINE COUNTIES. Beloit, Wis., March 23.—Beloit was fire and flood swept yesterday and a large tract of country is still under water, but the worst is over. The water is receding and the city streets are free. Rock river also is falling. The total damage is over $250,000. Clanging fire bells and shrieking whistles awakened the people to the day of the greatest terror ever known in the city. Shortly after 3 o’clock treacherous Turtle creek began to rise rapidly, and it was only a half-hour until the water flooded the valley. Fifteen minutes later the water rose over the St. Paul railroad tracks and swept down St. Paul avenue and Broad street, and the residents, called from their slumbers, found their homes surrounded by a seething tor- rent. Came Like a Deluge. | South Beloit was entirely sub- merged and the water continued to rise until 10 o’clock, when the flood reached the depth of three feet on Broad and State streets, and extended | almost to the corner of Grand avenue. The heavy thunder storms that raged far into the night brought a heavy rainfall, and, as the creek was already high, the flood was expected by old residents. It came like a deluge. At 6 o’clock South Beloit was under water and the torrent had crossed the railroad tracks and had swept down St. Paul avenue and Broad street. Fire Breaks Out. With South Beloit cut off by flood a most dramatic incident occurred in the breaking out of a fire in that dis- trict which destroyed the gas engine plant of John Thompson & Sons, en- tailing a loss of $150,000, with $40,000 insurance. N. M. Wood, a watchman, was burned to death and James Ward and Bentley Dadman were seriously purned. The cause of the fire was an explosion of gasoline. Five hundred persons were driven from their homes, many of them hav- ing been taken from their windows in boats. So great was the excitement during the day that the shops closed and the children remained away from school. Houses and Factories Inundated. Burlington, Wis., March 23. — The rise of water during the last twelve hours in White and Fox rivers has been the greatest since 1881. Both rivers are over their banks. The mill dam at Vienna went out last evening and the dam_ here is threatened by heavy ice. Should it give way a large property loss will result. Houses in the flats of the city are inundated and several factories may be closed. Heavy Damage in Rock County. Janesville, Wis., March 23. — Dam- age to the extent of $100,000 in Rock county has resulted in the last twenty- four hours from Turtle creek over- flowing its banks. Rock river is also on the rampage, and in the low fac- tory districts in this city the damage has been extensive. pee ee WILL COMPLY WITH LAW. Ninety-Nine Per Cent of Northern Se- curities Stock to Be Retired. New York, March 23.—Following @ day of great excitement in the stock market and numerous conferences among the leading financial interests, the new plan of the Northern Securi- ties company was made public last evening. In substance it provides for a stock dividend of 99 per cent, this to be effected by a reduction of that amount in the capitel stock of the Securities company. For every share of Northern Securities stock surren- dered the company will deliver $39.27 stock of the Northern Pacific Railway ‘company and $30.17 of the Great Northern Railway company. The shares of the Northern Pacific which were taken over by Northern Securi- ties at 115, and those of Great North- ern at 180, will be distributed on this basis. The other assets of the Se- eurities company, consisting chiefly of its Chicago, Burlington & Quincy holdings and Northern Pacific coal lands will remain in the treasury of the company until some plan for their distribution has been evolved. HORSE DISEASE ALARMS. Maladie du Coit Is Discovered and May Spread Far. Des Moines, Iowa, March 23. — Dr. Paul Koto, state veterinarian, made known last night the breaking out of maladie du coit among the horses of -Van Buren county. The federal gov- ernment is sending a representative to look up the disease. It is not known how widely the disease has been dis- seminated. There has been only two previous outbreaks of this disease ‘