Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 16, 1904, Page 3

Se | es Berald-Reoiew. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, “The horrors of war are unspeak- able.” So are the names of the gen- erals. In the slow motion of Russia there is always something terribly sugges: tive of a glacier. A Boston paper has a half column article on Huldah B, Todd. Let’s see; who is Huldah Todd? It is said the people of the United Btates “eat $150,000,000 worth of candy in a year.” Fudge! The Anaconda Standard notes the advent in its town of the first “robin.” Graft?—or only. porchclimbers? Thought is the most wonderful thing in the world. No man ever kick ed a bulldog after stopping to think twice. It was all up with the Bashostchad- ni and the Stereguschtchi when they went down entangled with their nom- enclature. Turkey is buying 1,000,000 Mausers, perhaps under the impression that its Macedonian subjects are not enjoying life as they should. The Atlanta Constitution asks, “Should a lawyer enter politics?” Well, as a practical question, it’s large- ly a question of practice. Those physicians who insist that eating apples will elevate the moral standard seem to have forgotten what happened to Adam and Eve. College athletes are wanted in St. Louis by the company that has the roller chair concession. This looks like a great chance for pushing young men. A German journalist says that King Leopold of Belgium is the “American among European monarchs.” This is the severest thing said about America lately. Imagine Patti sitting in her state. room with her husband, cheerfully counting the $200,000, and tieing up the bills in bundles, on her way across. Travelers from Vladivostok report that the winter there has been so un- unusally mild that the sea is now frozen only six miles from the harbor. How balmy! It has been decided that Washing- ton will have a baseball club this season. All doubt concerning the team that will be at the tail end is, therefore, removed. Perhaps the average man would as soon fail for $17,000,000 as for a paltry $5,000,000. What is the difference in millions anyway to the man who is everlastingly broke? The town of Brookline, which it costs $1,220,844 a year to run, con: sumed 781,279,636 gallons of water lact year. Total quantity of cham- pagne consumed not stated. Fear that China will join Japan should the first land battle be won by the mikado ought not to worry Russia. All she need do is to go out and win that particular battle. Referring, as a Berlin paper does, to King Leopold as “an American among monarchs,” is as doubtful a compliment as it would be to refer to Harry Lehr as a typical Belgian. sO A big gun that is being cast at Reading, Pa., is to have a range of thirty miles. It may yet come to pass that a shot may not only be heard around the world but fired around as well. Marquis Ito has been presented with a house in the Korean capital. After looking at pictures of a few Ko- rean houses we are not disposed to believe that Ito has much to brag about. . It is mentioned as one of the praise- worthy traits of the Duke of Cam- bridge that he didn’t forsake his wife. Has it come to pass that such a sac- rifice is worthy of the world’s special attention? King Menelik has a glorious future before him. He will bring to the St. Louis exposition some ivory, tropical fruits and the like and take back the cakewalk, the rag-time song, the opos- sum and the persimmon. A Pittsburg Sunday school teacher vouches for the story that a New Zea- land whale not long ago swallowed a man and then delivered him, safe and sound, to light again. This ought to silence the heterodox brethren. Dr. Bull of New York, the famous appendicitis expert, is suffering, not from appendicitis, but from intestinal indigestion, and instead of obeying the injunction, “Physician, heal thyself,” he called in three other expert doctors right away. The illustrious Bob Fitzsimmons has gone into training for his next great struggle, which will be that or conducting a restaurant on the “pike” at the St. Louis exposition. It may be that he aspires to the honor of being the champion heavyweight cook. MNeeCeecTIVE PAGE Notes From the Capital. The president has sent to the sen- ate the nomination of Irving F. Baxter of Omaha to be United States district attorney for Nebraska, to succeed Williamson Summers. Senator Hansbrough’s ‘bill relating to the creation of forest reservations on the public domain, as amended by the committee on public lands, has been favorably reported. The state department has received the resignation of Andrew D. Barlow, United States consul-general at Mex- ico, and has accepted it. No succes- sor has as yet been named. i Bishop Spalding of Peoria, a mem- ber of the anthracite coal strike com- mission, has urged the plan of arbi- tration contained in the Foss bill be- fore the house committee on labor. William G. Masters of Mankato, Minn., in the postal service in the Philippines, has been promoted to be assistant director of posts for the en- tire archipelago at a salary of $3,500 a year. The secretary of the interior has withdrawn from entry 103,680 acres of public land in the Salt Lake, Utah, land district, and 13,480 acres in the Seattlé, Wash., land district, both for forestry purposes. Secretary Wilson has decided to ex- tend assistance to the cattle interests in “Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota in the extermination of cattle itch or scab. Approximately fifty ex- perts will be in the field making prac- tical demonstrations of the methods by dipping cattle to stamp out the dis- ease. The department of agriculture has received word of the outbreak of coit, a serious horse malady, in Van Buren county, Iowa, and an investigation has begun to determine whether the dis- ease was imported from a foreign country. The infection was found among horses shipped here from France. \ People Talked About, Winfield Scott Palmer, the last sur- viving brother of the late United States Senator John M. Palmer, died at his residence at Litchfield, Ill., aged 85 years. Mrs. Abbey Mortan Diaz, the writer end reformer, died at her home in Bel- mont, Mass. She was 83 years of age. Mrs. Diaz devoted the greater part of her life to the education of women. Patrick Henry Winston, former at- torney general of Washington, at one time United States district attorney, and editor of Winston’s Weekly, died suddenly at Spokane of heart failure. Guy Wetmore Carlyl, the author, died in Roosevelt hospital, N. Y.. He had been editor of Munsey’s Magazine and Paris representative of Harper & Brothers. In 1898 and 1899 he was a foreign correspondent for Munsey’s, Outing, Collier’s Weekly, and other publications. Accidental Happenings. Fire at Newark, Ohio, caused $75,- 000 loss in the Wehrle Stove works, the largest plant of its kind in the world. Three hundred feet of the Burling- ton bridge which spans the Platte riv- er between Grand Island and Phillips, Neb., has been destroyed by fir The nail department of the Ameri- ran Steel and Wire company’s plant at Rankin, Pa., has been burned down, causing a loss of from $175,000 to $200,000. The Burlington passenger, north- bound, was wrecked near Cuba, Kan., two coaches going into the ditch. No one was seriously hurt. The accident was caused by the rails spreading. Three firemen, Marcellus Stou- binger, Horace Strine and Harry Saltz- given} were buried beneath falling walls at a fire which totally destroyed the large plant of the York Carriage company at York, Pa. Fire started in the office of Caswell’s livery stable at Rapid River, Mich., destroying the barn and burning thir- teen horses. The building was in- sured for $1,000. The fire also burnea Hotel Rushford and several smaller buildings in the block. A seven-story factory building on Canal street, N. Y., was burned, en- tailing a loss of $100,000. It vas occu- pied by Theodore W. Morris & Co. and the Highland Glass company, plate glass; Bruner & Dreyfus, lace; Ger- mania Knitting works, Henry Wall- pot, pearl worker. Over 800 persons are thrown out of employment. Sins and Sinners. Senator J. R. Burton of Missouri was sentenced to serve six months in jail and to pay a fine of $2,500. William J. Sharwood, an instructor in chemistry in the University of Cal- ifornia, is lying in a serious condi- tion, the result of an attack by foot- pads. « Counterfeit half and quarter dollars are being manufactured in China and shipped through Seattle into the United States. The imitation is near- ly perfect. The coin is of the standard degree of fineness, the weight is from one to ten grains short, and the de- sign is almost perfect. ‘A quarrel over a schoolgirl has re- sulted in the killing of sixteen-year- old Paul Jelick by Henry Schaze of Otis White of Ransomvyille, N. Y., an old man, committed suicide at Pros- pect point, Niagara Falls, N. Y., by deliberately walking into the rapids, where he sat down and was carried over the falls. Shot through the neck by his wife, stabbed in the back by his -brother-in- law, Albert Collow, and pounded with flatirons by both, John Pelkola, a well- to-do Finnish farmer of Bruce’s cross- ing, fifty miles from Calumet in On- tonagon county, Mich., lies in a pre- carious condition, is insensible and will die. The affray was the climax of family troubles. From Other Shores. A severe earthquake shock was felt throughout Servia recently. Great damage was done at Vranja. - Former Queen Isabella of Spain is ill with influenza. Considerable anxi- ety is felt regarding her condition ow- ing to her advanced age. Bubonic plague has reappeared at Antofagasta, a seaport and the capi- tal of the province of Antofagasta, Chile. It is of a bad character. A papal bull was received at St. Johns, N. F., creating Newfoundland an ecclesiastical province and elevat- ing Monsignor M. F. Howley ,the pres- ent bishop of St. John, tothe arch- bishopric. The London Daily Mail says there is reason to believe that in the forth- coming budget Austen Chamberlcin, the chancellor of the exchequer, will propose an import duty on petroleum and petroleum products ,probably a penny a gallon. Diplomats at Vienna are doubtful as to whether the powers will accept the plan of Servia to settle the regi- cide question, which, they say, while removing the regicides from the Ser- vian court, promotes them to the high- est posts in the army. ‘ " Gayton de Ayala, the first Spanish minister to Cuba, arrived at Havana last week, and was paid special at- tention. He was brought ashore in the president’s launch and was ten- dered a reception by prominent Span- jards,.being conveyed to the function in President Palma’s carriage. Domestic. The Illinois miners and operators have signed an agreement for two years. On account of the coal strike in Iowa, the railways have announced that at least 500 men will be laid off at once. Suit for divorce has been instituted by Mrs. Wilkinson of Paterson, N. J., on the ground that her husband per- sists in smoking a pipe. Six hundred East side eviction cases have been called in the Fourth district court at New York. An advance in rent shas made the difficulty. The Humane society of St. Louis has given notice that prosecution would follow every attempt to furnish dogs as food to Philippine savages. The Iowa senate has passed the bill doing away with the board of regents for the state educational institutions, and placing them under a board of con- trol. Rey. Isaac Trible has filed a divorce petition at Des Moines, i nwhich he alleges that his wife has harassed him by hiding his ministerial garb on Sun- day mornings. The Irish Nationalists of Cleveland, Ohio, have ‘adopted strong resolutions protesting against an arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Members of Grace church in Brook- lyn have broken the collection record in the “City of Churches” by contrib- uting $90,000 as Easter offering toward an endowntent fund. The town of Wellington, Kan., has been boycotted by 500 farmers, who have signed an agreement not to buy any goods in that town till the authori- ties close the saloons. é An avalanche in the Cascade moun. tains near Hamilton ,Wash., carried 2,000,000 feet of timber down the mountain side and uncovered a large vein of bituminous coal. Representatives of nine Western colleges, composing the conference committee of the “Big Nine” universi- ties, decided that the annual track meet be held at Chicago on June 4. Kansas City is to have two new Union stations. One is to be built by the Burlington, east of Grand avenue on the river front, and the other will be built by the Rock Island and the Santa Fe, west of Grand avenue at Twenty-second street. 2 The steamer Newport, which arrived at San Francisco, brought news of an earthquake at Manzanillo recently. Much of the new big breakwater that is being built by the Mexican govern: ment for the improvement of the har. bor has sunk from sight. Clark Ridley of Newbedford, Mass.. having reached the age of eighty-five years, decided that it is a disgrace te die’ rich and announced that he will at once give all his property to de serving persons of his own selection Already he has disposed of three houses and lots and says he has sev- eral left, together with other property valued at $15,000. In an amended bill filed in St. Louis, the same age at Chicago. He hascon-| an insurance company which is resist fessed and declares he shot in self-| ing the payment of policies for $200, defense. The boys became enemies when Schaze escorted the girl from school a year ago. 000 on the life of James LL, Blair claimed that Blair had obtained the policies by fraud. APS KILLED IN AN AMBUSH aoeaiawe SURPRISE A PATROL OF FIFTY JAPANESE d SCOUTS. ALL “ARE KILLED OR DROWNED OFFICIALS AT ST. PETERSBURG HIGHLY ELATED OVER THE EPISODE. FIGHTING ON THE YALU RIVER ACTIVE HOSTILITIES ARE NOW BELIEVED TO HAVE COM- MENCED. Seoul, April 13.—A report reached here yesterday that last Friday night a number of Russian sharpshooters ambushed about fifty Japanese scouts in boats on the Yalu river. The boats were sunk and the Japanese were shot or bayonetted or were drowned. The Russian Report. St. Petersburg, April 13.—Gen. Ku- ropatkin, in a dispatch to the emperor bearing yesterday's date, says that Gen. Krasnalinski, on the night of April 8, ordered a detachment of sharpshooters to cross to the left bank of the Yalu, opposite Wiji. The sharpshooters landed on the Island of Samalind and surprised a patrol of fifty Japanese scouts just as the latter were approaching the east side of the island in three boats. The Russians allowed the Japanese to land and then fired on them. Near- ly all the Japanese were shot, bayo- netted or drowned and their boats were sunk. The Russians sustained no losses. Jap Fall Back. On the following day the Japanese lowered their flag at Wiji, and their outposts, which lately have been seen, fell back. On the night of April 9 four Russians crossed the Yalu to Yongampho and made toward a Rus- sian village, where they found a squadron of Japanese cavalry. They remained there twelve hours, when they were betrayed by Koreans and found themselves obliged to swim the river, their boat having stuck on a sand bank. One soldiér lost his life. The Japanese pursued the Russians in a boat, but they were in turn at- tacked by a Russian boct which had come to the rescue of the swimmers. The Japanese wereall killed and their boat was sunk. Big Naval Battle Raging. Chefu, April 13.—A correspondent of the Associated Press at Teng Chow, forty miles northwest of here, tele- graphs as follows: “Sounds of very heavy firing were heard at 6:30 o'clock this morning. The firing evidently was being done between here and Port Arthur, It is pelieved at Teng Chow that the long expected sea fight among the Miaotao islands has taken place. “The Japanese battleship Asahi, flying an adimiral’s flag, was seen off Chefu yesterday going to the west, and there is no doubt that the remain- der of the Japanese fleet was in the vicinity of Port Arthur. The Russian fleet was also seen outside Port Ar- thur yesterday.” Koreans Will Fight Russians. Seoul, April 13.—Six hundred Kore- an soldiers, fully equipped for war, left this city this morning for North- east Korea. Their wives and families thronged the streets, filling the air with lamentations and bidding them heartrending farewells. Youn Oung Nyeul, minister of war, accompanied the detachment through the suburbs of Seoul. The Japanese authorities here say there have been frequent skirmishes between Sakju and Wiji. The main body of the first Japanese army is in the neighborhood of Wiji. Fighting on the Yalu. Tokio, April 13. — It is believed here that fighting has commenced on the Yalu river. It is known ‘that the Russians occupied the right bank of the river in force. No direct informa- tion frgm the Yalu district has been received here, but the position of the Russians is known, and while it is doubted that they will be able to pre- vent the Japanese from crossing the river, that they will offer some oppo- sition is regarded as certain. It is not believed, however, that there will be any sevyious engagement during the Japanése operations to cross the Yalu. Russian Fleet Goes Out. St. Petersburg, April 13. — The emperor received a telegram report- ing that all is quiet at Port Arthur, that the naval squadron is again put- ting out to sea and that Vice Admiral Makaroff has sent a few torpedo boat destroyers to explore the coasts where’ some of the enemy’s torpedo boats are believed to be lurking. Nearing the Front. Chinnampo, April 13. — Fourteen foreign correspondents, a majority of whom are English, arrived here yes- terday. * Russians Highly Elated. St. Petersburg, April 13—Gen. Ku- ropatkin’s report to the emperor of the annihilation of Japanese detach- ments on the -Yalu river is a matter of general satisfaction in official cir- cles. Again, in the view of the au- thorities, the Russian soldier has proved his superiority in strategy . and in manner of attack which left no. chance for a single enemy to escape. ~ Qne feature of the message which is not pleasing to the authorities is the action of the Koreans in revealing to the Japanese the presence of the Russians at Yongampho, and the be- lief prevails that the Koreans are not so unfriendly to the Japanese as has been announced. Incidents such as that at Yongampho indicate that the view held of the Korean attitude is a mistaken one. Rumor of Naval Fight. Tien-tsin, April 13.—The Japanese here expect the Japanese will attack Niuchwang before long. They must first, it is expected, smash the Rus- sian fleet or block it up in Port Ar- thur. It is thought they are trying to entice the Russian warships outside and then prevent their return. The Japanese fleet is reported to have fought a decisive engagement off Liao Tsishan yesterday. Russians Are Fortifying. Chefoo, April 13.—An arrival from Port Arthur says that foodstuffs are plentiful in the fortress, the supply being estimated as large enough to last a year. The authorities control the prices, which show an advance of 6 per cent. Chinese coolies are kept at'work day and night on the fortifi- cations in Pigeon bay and Liao Tsi- shan, which are nearly finished. The damage done to the town and docks by the successive bombardments is in- significant. SPANISH PREMIER IS STABBED. Senor Maura Wounded by Youth at Barcelona. Barcelona, April 13. — Premicr Maura was attacked and wounded yesterday by a would-be assassin, armed with a dagger, while entering the palace of the council general. Senor Maura’s wound is not serious. The premier had just returned from attending a requiem service cele- brated for the repose of the soul of the late Queen Isabella and was en- tering the palace when a youth nine- teen years old named Miguel Artao approached, and, shouting “good day,” “Long live anarchy!” struck the pre- mier in the chest with a dagger he had concealed in a handkerchief. The premier was able himself to send to Madrid the news’ of the attempt on his life. STEAMER COLON IS ASHORE. Pacific Mail Steamship Company Re- ceives Word of the Accident. New York, April 18. — A dispatch from Acajutla, Salvador, which was received at the office of the Pacific Mail Steamship company here: yester- day states that the steamer Colon is ashore near that port. All of the pas- sengers were saved and the steamer’s cargo is now being transferred to lighters. The Colon was bound from San Francisco for Panama, carrying both passengers and freight. Her commander is Capt. William A. Irvine. NEW YORK’S BIG FOUR. Delegates at Large to Republican Convention Are Named. New York, April 18. — The Repub- lican state convention in session yes- terday named as delegates at large to the national convention at Chicago: Senator Thomas C. Platt, Senator C. M. Depew, Gov. B. B. Odell and Frank S. Black. The platform strongly in- dorses the administration of Presi- dent Roosevelt and Gov. Odell and the delegates at large are “directed to use all honorable means to secure the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt.” FOR CONSCIENCE FUND. Minneapolis Woman Sends Ten Dol- lars to Capt. McCardy. Washington, April 13. — Capt. J. J. McCardy, auditor for the postoffice department, yesterday received a let- ter from a woman in Minneapolis en- closing $10 to be sent to the “con- science fund” of the treasury depart- ment. The Minneapolis woman said that she had cheated the government out of $10-in 1896 and wanted to clear her conscience. The letter was un- signed. MAY BE INNOCENT. Death Sentence of Idaho Man Is Com- muted to Life Imprisonment. Boise, Idaho, April 13.—The state board of pardons last night commuted the sentence of George Levy to life imprisonment. He was to have been hanged on Friday for the murder of Davis Levy in October, 1901. The feature of the application for clem- ency was showing an indictment that another man may have committed the deed. IOWA SOLONS THROUGH. Three-Mill Levy Necessary to Meet Their Appropriations. Des Moines, Iowa, April 13. — The Towa legislature adjourned sine die yesterday afternoon after passing the ways and means committee bill pro- viding for a 3-mill levy to raise $2,- 000,000 to meet the extraordinary ap- propriations of the session. Resolu- tions on the death of Former Gov. Francis Marion Drake were adopted by both houses. EXPECTS JUDGSHIP. | Gov. Hunt of Porto Rico Sails for New York. San Juan, P. R., April 13. — Gov. Hunt sailed yesterday for New York to confer with President Roosevelt relative to Porto Rican affairs. It is understood that the appointment of Mr. Hunt as a federal judge in Mon- tana will be announced shortly after his arrival in the United States. 4 SENDS: UNITED STATES \ MAKES RULIIg MERGER! ‘ll de- HOLD. SIT HAS NO the DECISION REVERSES THEY OF THE CIRCUIT COUR‘. MINNESOTA. CASE REMANDED TO STATE COURT SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WERE UNANIMOUS IN THE OPINION. Washington, April 13.—The United States supreme court yesterday de- cided the case of the State of Minne- sota vs. the Northern Securities com- pany and the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railway companies, involving the validity of the merger of the two railroad companies. The court holds that it was without jurisdiction and reverses the opinion of the court below. Justice Harlan, who delivered the opinion, said that the circuit court should not have entertained jurisdic- tion’ in the case, the effect being to re- mand the case to the state courts. Justice Harlan cited the facts bear- ing on the origin and history of the case, saying that originally the suit was Instituted by the State in its own court, but that before an opinion could be reached there it was, on petition of the Securities company, transferred to the circuit court of the district of Minnesota by which court it was dismissed. Much controversy arose over the right to remove to the federal court, and after hearing the case argued once the supreme court ordered a second hearing on that point. Justice Harlan called attention to the fact that the proceeding was for the purpose of enforcing both the state laws and the federal anti-trust act, saying that the circuit cotrt could not have taken jurisdiction if only the state statutes had been involved. Taking up the federal law and an- alyzing its provisions, he said that it was clear that the case did not belong to any of the classes provided for by it. “It is,” he said, “not a criminal pro- ceeding, Not a Suit in Equity in the name of the United states to re- strain violations of the anti-trust act, nor a proceeding in the name of the United States for the forfeiture of property, nor an action by any person or corporation for the recovery of three-fold damages for injury done to business or property by some other person or corporation.” The contention that the case in- volved proprietary interests of the State was not allowed to influence the opinion. “For the reasons stated, we are of the opinion that the suit does not—to use the words of the act of 1875— really and substantially involve a dis- pute or controversy within the juris- diction of the circuit court for the purpose of a final decree. That being the case, the circuit court, following the mandate of the statue, should not have proceeded therein, but should have remanded the cause to the state court. “The decree of the circuit court is reversed and the case is.sent back with directions that it be remanded to the state court.” The opinion of the court was unani- mous. NEW ROAD TO DULUTH. Company to Build New Railroad From Kansas City to Duluth. Kansas City, April 13—The Times says: Plans are now in progress for the building of and important railroad system reaching from Kansas City to Duluth, with a cross-line from St. Louis to Sioux City, Iowa, by way of Council Bluffs and Omaha, and a con- necting branch from Marseline, Mo., through Des Moines, Iowa, to connect with the Duluth line at Coon Rapids, Iowa. The company is said to have floated $80,000,000 with French capital- ists at 80 cents on the dollar. STRIKER !S KILLED. Is Shot Down by Private Detective Without Provocation. Rochester, Pa., April 12. — As an outcome of the strike trouble at the Rochester Tumbler plant, Frank John- son, a union glassworker, was shot and killed by Joseph Finler, a private de- tective employed by the plant. It is alleged that the shooting was done without. provocation, and Detective Finler is in jail, charged with killing Johnson. Two other officers are held as accessories to the crime. VICE NET HAULED AGAIN. | Three More Arrests at Soo on Various , Charges, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., April 13. — There were three more arrests under grand jury indictments yesterday. John Hartton was arrested on a charge of running a gambling house; Thomas Quinn, on a charge of selling liquor to a minor, and Mabel Fisher, charged with running a disorderly house. All were bound over to the next term of the circuit court, which opens May 16.