Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 9, 1904, Page 2

erald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. . GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. One hundred and thirty thousand dollars for a set of Dickens! Great Scott! A 26-year-old woman in New York has had thirteen children. She has gone insane. x If the czar ever does conclude to go to the front he will not have any trou- ble in finding it. Of all the birds of spring, however, the most welcome song is the lay of the early pullet. Judging from the increase in prices the country is up against a peanut famine—or the peanut trust. There are points of resemblance be- tween the ezar’s flying squadron and Prof. Langley’s flying machine. It is generally some one who does oot have to live on fifteen cents a day who figures out how it can be done. How we envy the man who cen tandle kerosene with one hand and violets with the other, and be happy! Women may not sing in church any mcre, but they’ll hold fairs to raise the money to pay the choirs just the same. Japan claims to have all the money she wants. Mr. Rockefeller will be ikely to consider the Japs weak- minded. A man of the name of Castor has deen elected to Congress from Phila- ielphia. He is reported to be smooth, out not oily. Eliza, the oldest hen in New York state, is dead at Middletown, at the age of 17 years. She was born one year after Ann. Great gunning in far eastern waters when they toss projectiles seven and one-half miles and pink the enemy, at frequent intervals. Newerk schoolboys are said to be “crazy to learn to sew.” Well, they may not be crazy, but for boys they certainly are peculiar. The fashion writers say that per- fumes are coming in again. When perfumes come in most of us feel a strong desire to go out. “Let us merge,” exclaimed the trusts. “Thou shalt not merge,” re- marked the supreme court; anda very notable divorce was recorded. King Menelik is sending a howling hyena to President Roosevelt. ' The president might add to the gayety of nations by turning it over to James J. Hill. The mikado’s household is to live strenuously while the war lasts, but we rather think the royal family can still have chicken pie about any day it sees fit. Well, let’s allow the claim of the distinguished British athlete that the Britons can run faster than we can. The glory thereof is ambiguous, to say the least. The New York elevated road con- ductor who drew $800 out of the bank to play poker with and admits having bet $75 on a pair of fives evidently ueeds a guardian. Buffalo Bill, after being married nearly forty years, wants a divorce. One difference between measles and divorce is that as a rule only the young have measles. The empress dowager of China: has ordered fifty more automobiles. She evidently intends to get even with the people who have been starting all these rumors about her being dead. St. Petersburg dispatches say that Admiral Makaroff’s name is on every lip. It’s easier to manage in that po- sition than some others—Col. Wnuchi- terinuyskivitch, for instance. A preacher preached a violent ser- mon recently to prove that there were no female angels in heaven. This is \mportant if true. We had always un- derstood that heaven was inhabited. When a woman’s bank account is overdrawn and she has to make it up she acts just the way she does when she says the grocer charges her for things she never bought.—New York Press. The maharajah of Jeypore, who is coming to the fair, wears $3,500,000 worth of diamonds when in’full dress. He will be placed in the safety deposit vault of that bank at the fair grounds every night. A South Dakota woman was killed a few days ago by poisoned candy anda New York family has been stricken down by poisoned sausage. Is it go- ing to be necessary for people to give up all the dainties in self defense? Mrs. Fannie Blackburn of Cleveland has received fourteen offers of mar- riage since she drove three burglars out of her house with a club. Eyi- dently there are a great many men who don’t want to get up every time their wife thinks she hears burglars in the house. G Che News \. Washington Notes. Commissioner of Pensions Ware has returned to Washington from the South, much improved in health. The house committee on naval af- fairs authorized a favorable report on a bill placing George F. Phillips on the retired list of the navy as a war- rant officer. Commander George L. Dyer, com- manding the cruiser Albany of the Asiatic fleet, has been assigned to duty as naval governor of the Island of Guam. ' The navy department is informed that Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans has left Hongkong on his flagship Ken- tucky for Colombo, on his way to the United States. Senator Nelson has obtained a fa- vorable report from the committee on public lands of his bill proposing to set apart 20,000 acres of lands in Min- nesota for forest reserve purposes. Arbitration, as proposed by Volney W. Foster of Chicago, and providing for a permanent national board of ar- pitration in labor disputes, has been discussed by the house committee on labor. f The right of the Canadian govern- ment to object to the transportation over Canadian territory of American troops destined for Alaska has pre- vented the award of a valuable con- tract to the White Pass and Yukon Route companies. The United States consul general at Cape Town, in a report to the state department, says that business in the Cape of Good Hope is in a very de- pressed condition and that there are thousands of Americans in the coun: try in unfortunate circumstances. Personal. Mrs. Cornelia Grinnell Willis, widow of the author, N. P. Willis, is dead at Washington. Morton McMichael, aged sixty-eight, a@ prominent banker of Philadelphia, died suddenly of heart disease. Henry A. Bogardus, perhaps the most widely known telegraph operator in America, is dead in an sanitarium at Chicago. ‘ Octavius Dunham Baldwin, for many years a conspicuous figure in financial circles in New York, is dead from heart disease. He began as a poor boy. A. Cystitch, a gas, oil and brick speculator of Independence, Kan., has given $75,000 for a fine arts depart- ment to Washburn college, Topeka, in memory of a son and daughter who at one time attended that institution. Casualties. Fire destroyed eleven houses ~ at Berkley, Va. Louis Copen, twelve, was killed by a falling chimney. Fire on the eighth floor of the Coop- er building, one of the largest office buildings in Denver, for a time threat- ened to destroy the structure. The machine shops of the Pitts- Pa., was destroyed by fire. Thirty buildings, including the postoffice, were destroyed. Miss Bertha Vandercamp Green, a very well known young woman in the cities of central New York, was burn- ed to death in her home in Detroit. J. Harding Davis, a wealthy Minne- apolis broker, sojourning at Ocean Park, fell from the end of a pleasure pier at Los Angeles and was rescued with difficulty. Fire in the Hotel Newcomb at Quin- cy, IlL, resulted in the death of Rose McDonald and Antoinett Broniski, two employes. The guests were aroused and poured out in their night robes. The fourth fatality in two neighbor- ing families at Black Jack, Mo., re- sulting from the use of kerosene, oc- curred when- Barney Sutter died from burns received while trying to light a fire. Evidently suffering from, insanity, Mrs. Fannie C. Watrous, a middle- aged woman, went into an outhouse at New Haven, Conn., and after saturat- ing the place with kerosene, set fire to it. She burned to death. Foreign. The Republicans and Democrats at Manila are organizing to elect dele- gates to the national conventions. The Cunard steamship company’s report for, 1903 shows a profit of $1,- 259,830 and a dividend of 4 per cent. The first Oxford scholarship to be awarded an American under the terms of the will of the late Cecil Rhodes has been awarded Chester Martin of St. Johns, N. B. A settlement of the difficulties be- tween Servia and certain of the pow- ers resulting from the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga will be announced soon. The Siechle says that M. Rouvier, French minister of finance, is examin- ing a scheme for a state monopoly of insurance, which will be proposed in parliament after Easter. A Belgian, accused of stealing the historical pearl necklace belonging to Princess Alice de. Bourbon, daughter of Don Carlos, pretender to the Span- ish throne, has been arrested at Paris. The necklace, which had been pawned, is in the hands of the authorities. The Anglo-American league of Eng- land. has adopted a resolution to the effect that “It was desirable that the British government endeavor to enter into a treaty with the United States with the view of systematic reference to arbitration of differences arising between the two powers which diplo- macy might fail to settle.” Crimes and Cn xinals. Martin Lavitski, a convicted mur- derer, has escaped from the Carbon county (Pa.) prison. James Lobbins, a negro, has con- fessed at Lincoln, Neb., that he killed Henry White (white) at Oskaloosa, Iowa, Sept. 23, 1903. Gus Thode, an alderman of Galena, Ill, has received an infernal machine in a box of lemons shipped from Du- buque. It was exploded when tested. An unknown young man has been found murdered near Humphrey, Neb. He was well dressed, had $7.35 in his pockets and a card bearing the name of William O’Brien. Another murder may be fastened on one of the condemned car-barn ban- dits, as Gustav Marx fits the descrip- tion of the murderer of A. C. Mead, a boy of fourteen years, at West Lib- erty, Iowa. Demurrers were sustained in the United States court in St. Louis in the cases charging complicity in al- leged naturalization frauds against ‘Samuel J. Boyd, a police captain, Na- than Lavin, Adolph Fein and Jacob Kahlan, former policemen. Miss Nellie Maguire, daughter of Richard Maguire, a former ink manu- facturer of New York, has been ar- rested and held in $10,000 bonds, charged with forgery, at Philadelphia. Her accuser is Mrs. Henrietta E. Cros- by, at whose home Miss Maguire and her mother had apartments, Lee Overstreet, a member of the truck drivers’ union of Kansas City, was found guilty of violating the re- straining order which is in operation against the union and its members to prevent the interruption of the busi- ness of the transfer companies, in the federal court at Kansas City. Timothy Sullivan, a mill worker of McKeesport, Pa., aged twenty-nine years, shot and instantly killed Ce- cilia Farrell, aged twenty-seven, and then put the pistol to his own head, inflicting a fatal wound. Sullivan was engaged to marry the young woman, put she had tired of his attentions and declined to marry him. General. Reports from Nome say the output of gold next spring will be the great- est in the history of the peninsula. The Iowa senate has passed a bill providing a penalty of $100 for the docking of horses’ tails in that state. What is believed to be the germ of mumps has been discovered by Dr. Samuel Darling, resident pathologist of the Baltimore city hospital. Frank E. Snow, a sophomore of De- troit, has been expelled from the Uni- versity of Michigan for the part he took in a hair-cutting fracas. The Commercial Trust company of Indianapalis has closed its doors in anticipation of a suit brought in the superior court for the appointment of a receiver. The American-Hawaiian line steam- er Nebraskan has arrived at New York from San Francisco with a large cargo of wine. The Nebraskan burns only oil as fuel. Ephriam J. Dean, a pioneer of Wa- verly, Iowa, has filed a claim of $100,- 000 with the state legislature against the State of Iowa for fa!se imprison- ment twenty-eight years ago. Representatives acting for Baron von Sternberg leased one of the most beautiful estates at Lenox, Mass., for the use of the German ambassador during the summer and autumn. So heavy have become the importa- tions of sugar into New Orleans since the 20 per cent reduction in duties on the Cuban product went into effect that the customs service there is swamped. A compilation by the New York Journal of Commerce of dividends so far announced by industrial corpora- tions payable in April shows an in- crease of more than $2,300,000 over the same month in 1903. Returns have been received from seventy-one out of seventy-five coun- ties in Arkansas and these show that Gov. Jefferson Davis fifty-three and Judge Wood eighteen counties in the Democratic state primaries. New legal complications promise to tie up the legacy of $500,000 left to Jose Seveilla to found a home for poor girls near New York. During the six- teen years since Sevilla died the be- quest has grown to nearly $800,000. The board of trustees of the Car- negie institute at Pittsburg received a cablegram from Rt. Hon. John Mor- ley, the distinguished British author and statesman, accepting the invita- tion to make the principal address at the Founders’ day exercises, Nov. 3. The Pennsylvania supreme court has directed that an injunction be is- sued perpetually restraining the Jones & Laughlin Steel company of Pitts- purg from such operation of its fur- naces as to produce clouds of ore dust that would injure surrounding prop- erty. The effort to drive the Royal Ar- canum, a fraternal insurance order, from Nebraska has failed, the Nebras- ka insurance auditor haying decided that the fraternal sections are exempt}. from the reciprocal features. The students of the University of Missouri have circulated a petition asking that foreigners be excluded from the men’s dormitory. The peti- tion followed upon the announcement that an Egyptian student at the uni- versity had prevailed upon several of MIKADO’S ARMY ENTERS WHI ADVANCE GUARD OCCUPIES THE TOWN WITHOUT MEETING RESISTANCE. MAIN BODY CLOSELY FOLLOWS ANOTHER DIVISION !S NEAR THE YALU RIVER AT CHANG-SENG. JAPANESE ARE HIGHLY ELATED FEEL THEY HAVE ACHIEVED HALF THE TASK THEY SET OUT TO PERFORM. Seoul, April 6—The advance guard of the Japanese first army yesterday entered Wiji, and the main body is re- ported as closely following. Another division is nearing Chang- seng, fifty miles up the river from Wiji. If there is any serious fighting on the Korean side of the Yalu it will probably be near Chang-seng. Big Army Near Wiji. Seoul, Korea, April 6.—The Japan- ese first army, consisting of 45,000 men, including the imperial guard, and the Second anc Twelfth divisions, which had been concentrated at Anju, is moving on Wiji by three routes. It was the advance guard, composed of 450 infantry and cavalry, which re- pulsed 600 Russians and occupied Pingju and Chongju, sixty-five miles southeast of Wiji March 28. Lieut. Kato and four Japanese were killed on that occasion and Capt. Kurowaka and eleven men were wounded. The Russians had ten men killed. Start for the Front. London, April 6—The Daily Mail’s correspondent at Kobe cables: “The war correspondents accom- panying the first Japanese column left here last night. The Mail’s corres- pondent at Tokio left Saturday.” No Signs of Warships. A correspondent of the Times, cabling yesterday afternoon, says that he has been cruising for fifty hours in the vicinity of Port Arthur and that he has seen no sign of the navy of either belligerent, not even scout boats, but that he has_ seen large flotillas of junks steering northwest, presumably going to Laio Lishin to land provisions for Port Arthur. Port Arthur, April 6—There is no signs of the Japanese, and there is no notable change in the situation. Half the Battle Won. Tokio, April 6—When the Russians evacuated Wiji without a serious at- tempt to oppose the Japanese they did precisely what the mikado’s mili- tary council expected them to do. Apparently a few Russians remain on the hills on the south bank of the Upper Yalu, but their position is un- tenable owing to the danger that the Japanese will cut off their retreat. It is believed that those scattered de- tachments will speedily follow the force that retired from Wiji, and that in a few days the Japanese will be in undisputed possession of Korea. Thus will be brought to a successful con- clusion the first main object of Japan’s land campaign — the occupation in great strength and the elaborate forti- fication of Korea. Now that this object practically is accomplished a feeling of deep gratifi- cation pervades the whole empire. It is felt that An Enormous Advance has been made toward defeating Rus- sia’s ambition to put Japan at its mercy. However large may be the army Gen. Kuropatkin may succeed in deploying to Manchuria, the mikado’s advisers are convinced that he will be unable to eject the Japanese troops from Korea and thus clear the road for other adhievements fatal to this country. “We feel that we have achieved at Jeast a half, and that the most im- portant half, from the standpoint of Japanese security, of the heavy task we set ourselves to perform,” said a high official. “Jt is true that nearly all the shedding of blood lies before us, but the emperor’s troops now are in possession of territory we deem the key to the strategic position of our empire.” FEARS MASSACRE OF JEWS. Governor Prohibits Public Gatherings and Carrying of Weapons. St. Petersburg, April 6.—The gov- ernor of Bessarabia has proclaimed a strict prohibition of gatherings in the streets and private houses; also of the carrying of weapons. This action was taken in consequence of threats of anti-Semitic disturbances. EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE, Six New Yorkers Seek to End Their Troubles in Death. New York, April 6. — An unusual number of suicides, at least half of them due to despondency because of inability to secure employment, were reported to the police of Greater New York yesterday. Three of the six vic- tims chose carbolic acid as a means of ending their troubles, one chose death by shooting, another by hang- his countrymen to enter the university! ing and the sixth accomplished his next year. purpose by turning on the gas. _ WOMAN ON CAKE OF ICE. Bells and Guns Summon Brainerd Citizens to Rescue. Brainerd, Minn., April 6. — Excite- ment was created last aight when the city was aroused by the ringing of bells and firing of guns. When a large crowd gathered at central hose house it was learned that Mrs. John Brackner had left her home at 6 o’clock, leaving word that she was go-; ing to drown herself. Posses were formed and men went to the river bank with lanterns. One party of men had not been gone long before they saw the form of a woman on a floating cake of ice in the middle of the river. They secured a boat and rowed out just in time to rescue the woman who had evidently decided not to jump into the water, but was hang- ing on to the ice. Mrs. Brackner is the wife of a local blacksmith. She was returned to this city from the Fergus Falls insane asylum only last Suaday. MAYOR ROSE RE-ELECTED. Democrats Carry Milwaukee in Mu- nicipal Election. Milwaukee, April 6.—Mayor David S. Rose, Democrat, carried the city in the municipal election yesterday, hav- ing a plurality of 5,912 over Guy D. Goff, Republican. The Democratic candidates for controller and treasur- er were also elected. The Democrats control the council, electing 26 mem- bers, Republicans 11, Social-Demo- crats 9. Louis K. Luse of Superior, non-partisan, for justice of the su- preme court, carried the city over James C. Kirwin of Neenah, non- partisan, by about 1,500 majority. Questions relating to bond issues for various city improvements requiring the expenditure of about $2,000,060, carried. Returns from municipal elections in the state outside of Milwaukee from which returns have been received up to midnight showed Republican and Democratic victories to be about evenly divided in the contests. CATTLE SHIPPED ARE POOR. Big Movement of Stock Over Milwau- kee Road Begins. Mitchell, S. D., April 6. — The big movement of stock over the Milwau- kee road has commenced for the spring, and yesterday there were forty cars of Texas cattle in the yards being fed on their journey through to the Alberta country in Canada. There are 3,500 cars of these cattle to be shipped this spring, and the entire lot will pass over this division of the Milwaukee road. The cattle shipped are a poor lot of animals, many of them being so weak that they cannot stand up in the cars. When they reached here a number were taken out dead. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. While Playing About Bonfire Her Clothes Are Ignited. Winona, Minn., April 6.—The little four-year-old daughter of Marvin Harwood, a farmer residing about four miles from Chatfield, was fatally burned while playing at the house of a neighbor whom she and her father were visiting. A pile of brush was being burned, and while playing about it with some other children she came too close and her clothes were ignited. Before the flames cotld be extin- guished the clothes were burned from her body and she was so severely in- jured that she died a few hours later. HANDS CLASPED IN DEATH. Three Children Venture on Thin Ice and Are Yrowned. Tustin, Mich., April 6.—The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holmes, residing three miles south- west of Tustin, were drowned in a large pond less than forty rods back of their home. The pond was covered with a thin coat of ice, on which the children ventured. They sank to- gether in thirteen feet of water. When the bodies were recovered two hours later the childrens’ hands were still tightly clasped. PROBABLY DIED IN WOODS. Fish Company Employe Cannot Be Found by Searchers. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., April 6. — William Newman, in the employ of the Dominion Fish Company of the Canadian Soo is missing. He was left at one of the fishing stations on Lake Superior to take out ice. He went to look at traps set in the woods and never returned. A search has been in- stituted, but he cannot be found. He is probably dead in the woods. Warehouse Bursts Open. Portage la Prairie. Man., April 6. — The annex grain warehouse in con- nection with the oatmeal mill and elevator of Metcalfe & Sons fell apart yesterday afternoon. There were 10,000 bushels of oats in the building, and the pressure of this caused the floor, which was raised some feet from the ground on the south side, to give way. Booze Leads to Suicide. Sioux City, Iowa, April 6. — August D. Martens, one of the proprietors of Martens Bros.’ flour mill, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by hang- ing himself. He had been drinking and was despondent. Prisoners Escaped. Rhinelander, Wis., April 6—James MAKE HARD FIGHT STRONG DEFENSE WILL BE MADE AGAINST THE HARRIMAN PETITION. MANY POINTS WILL BE RAISED FIVE IMPORTANT CONTENTIONS AND MANY OBJECTIONS WILL BE MADE. SHARP BATTLE IS PROMISED QUESTION OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURT WILL COME UP. St. Paul, April 6—Five important contentions and many minor objec- tions-will figure in the answers to be filed by the attorneys of the Northern Securities company to the petition of President E. H. Harriman and Wins- low S. Pierce to intervene and secure the return of Northern Pacific stock transferred by them to J. P. Morgan & Co., and eventually to the Securi- ties company. The circuit court’s hearing on the petition will bring on a sharp battle, and will be the begin- ning of a long fight, even before the subject matter of the petition is be- fore the court for consideration. Whether Harriman and Pierce, as trustees of the Oregon Short Line, have the right to establish a case in court must be determined, and a Battle Over Jurisdiction is promised. This will be of the great- est importance since it may block the petition right at the start. Attorneys admit that there is much doubt of the jurisdiction of the court. If the court assumes jurisdiction the Securities company will stand its ground on the assertion that the pe- tition seeks to establish Harriman and Pierce as preferred shareholders, entitled to special consideration against hundreds of smaller share- holders in the Securities company, who have equal rights. One of the important questions which it is considered certain will be brought out in the preliminary battle is the right of Harriman and Pierce to demand that they be permitted to Absorb the Profits from the increase in value of North- ern Pacific stock during the life of the Securities company. The question of the legality of the purpose outlined in the petition will be fought in the preliminary battle and is admittedly a ground on which the company will oppose the petition. The right of the Oregon Short Line to acquire a majority interest in the Northern Pacific will be questioned, since under the laws of Montana and other states to which the Western line is subject, there is grave doubt that it could legally hold the Northern Pa- cific if it desires. These laws, the company will contend, prevent the Oregon Short Line from either own- ing or voting the stock which it de- mands. Sold Stock to Morgan. An additional point which has been raised involves the manner in which the Northern Securities acquired the holdings of Harriman and Pierce. It is asserted that the fact that the stock held by the petitioners was transferred to the house of J. P. Mor- gan & Co., and not to the Securities company, will be brought to the atten- tion of the court. It will be main- tained, it is stated, that the Northern Pacific stock which they transferred was secured from J. P. Morgan & Co., and not from the petitioners, and that the only interest legally entitled to ask leave to intervene is the New York banking house which sold the stock. Stripped of legal technicalities the assertion is that if Harriman and Pierce want the stock back again, Morgan & Co. are the parties to whom application should be made and not the courts. BRITONS MEET DISASTER. Many Soldiers Killed in Battle by Natives of Nigeria. London, April 6. — Meager details have arrived here of heavy fighting in Nigera, British West Africa, and of a reverse sustained by the punitive ex- pedition sent against the Okpoto tribe, who in December cut up a British patrol, killing two British of- ficers and forty or fifty native troops. In the recent fighting the Okpotos fought their way into the midst of the British square and killed and wound- ed many of the British. Fire at ‘Waupaca. Waupaca, Wis., April 6—Fire at 3 o’clock yesterday morning destroyed the city opera house, St. Mark’s Epis- copal church, Park hotel barn and two private barns. Total loss, $10,000. Cuts His Throat. Warroad, Minn., April 6.—Charles Anderson, aged 85, of Hillsboro, N. D., cut his throat here yesterday. He was found in a hotel bedroom with his throat cut from ear to ear. He is low from loss of bloqd. Forgery Is Charged. Duluth, Minn., April 6.—John Chip- Shedore and W. M. James, prisoners at the county jail, bound over to the circuit court for larceny, escaped last night by tunnelling under the wall of the jail. seit ty of Fort William, Ont., was arrested here last night on charges of forgeries amounting to $300. He is a lumber. scaler and came here recently with ; bis family, } |