Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 23, 1904, Page 2

—— Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. “Aguinaldo is coming to the United States this summer.” Who the deuce ts Aguinaldo? If any curious person asks you where Shan-Hai-Kwan is, just tell him it’s west of Yin-Kow. Yucatan is enjoying a greater era of prosperity than ever before in its history.’ Well, buy gum! ~ As Colombia has reduced her stand- ing army from 11,000 men to 5,000 this country may breathe easier. It appears that two newspaper men have bought the Washington baseball club. But where on earth did they—? Tom Lawson of Boston tells of clearing $46,000,000 in one deal. Some- body must have forgotten to cut the cards. “Show me your garden, and I will show you what you are like,” says Alfred Austin. By jingo, we’d like to see Alfred’s. Prof. Langley says that with $25,000 more he could fly. Canada has har- bored many an American citizen who flew with a less sum. . Robertus Love, a St. Louis poet, thinks of running for Congress. If he can poll the poet vote he'll be able to ride Pegasus in on a walk. The estate of ex-Mayor Grace of New York is estimated at from $10,- 000,000 to $20,000,000. And nobody asks disparagingly where he got it. If the people to whom John L. Sul- livan, now sick and .penniless, has given money would repay even 10 per cent the ex-champion would be fixed for life. Now the fashion editors say that no self-respecting woman will try to get along without a new hat for every month in the year. This is too, too much. A twelve-inch shell dropped into a city from a distance of seven and one-half miles may be ineffective in a military sense, but is apt to produce general insomnia. What a woman likes about buying a thing on the instalment plan is that if she died before it was .paid up she would be that much money in. —New York Press. The horse is slowly but surely be- ing deprived of his constitutional lib- erties. A court of justice has just de- cided that he has no right to get scared at an automobile. A man wants a woman to look like an angél, and yet if she really ran around clad in her wings. and a lit- tle rag of cheesecloth he would put her in an insane asylum. Even the woman most anxious to trespass upon a man’s preserves lets him enjoy his bald head in. peace. The most advanced woman would never star4 for a bald head.’ ‘ A Harvard professor says college students are singularly lacking in im- agination. , But some of the professors seem overstocked with it, so the sup- ply is about normal, after all. Please, where 1s the glory of living a century? An animated mummy is not pleasant to look upon, and ,the majority of us find it hard enough having to rub through half the time. Men with a system for beating the horse faces are always present at each meeting, but they change from year to year. The same old faces are to be recognized among the book: makers. For the protection of the masses, and in order that they may readily de- tect it on their $100 bills, we will state, that the name of the particular bacil- lus which infests green backs is sta- phylococcus. A Chicago woman makes the asser- tion that “there are no good husbands but dead ones.” The moral-of that seems to be, when marrying, marry a dead one.—Journal. A good many do. The Japanese have not succeeded in getting a single Matanzas mule in all their bombardment of Port Arthur, one Russian lawyer, who was num- bered as a victim, being as near as they could approximate. A St. Louis man has willed $2,000 a year to his pet horse. Now, if the horse has found out how to live on twenty cents a day he ought to be able to leave quite a neat little sum to his relatives when he dies. A New York language sharp will soon publish a volume treating the correct use of the prepositions, con- junctions, relative pronouns and ad- verbs in English speech. We trust 1¢ will not overlook the classic question: *“Where am I at?” Eyen if the worthy Marquis of Queensberry has gone into bankrupt- cy for the fourth time, it is some con- solation for him to know that’ the rules that bear his family name stitl control the social revelings of the prize ring performers, 4 Washington Notes. The general deficiency appropria- tion bill-was reported to the house by bill carries $10,388,744. Consul Davidson of Minnesota has been assigned to duty at Shanghai, China, until the close of the Russo- Japanese war. The McCall special committee ac- quits members of the house of repre- sentatives of guilt in connection with the “influence” report. Representative Lind has_ resigned his position on the committee on claims in favor of Representative Mar- tin Emerich of Chicago. The senate has received a com- munication requesting an appropria- tion of $250,000 for the purchase of a site and the construction of a capitol building at Juneau, Alaska. Senator Clapp has secured the pas- sage in the senate of his bill propos- ing to pension the surviving defend- ers at New Ulm and Fort Ridgley at the time of the Indian massacre in that region forty years ago. Six of the twelve Mormon wit- nesses for whom summons were is- sued by the senate committee to ap- pear in the Smoot case have disap- peared. All efforts to find them have been vain, although a search is being kept up. Senator Hansbrough Has secured the passage of a bill to reimburse the settlers on Fort Lincoln reservation, North Dakota, for the appraised value of their entries, which paid in addition to the homestead price of $1.25 per acre. The reservation was opened to settlement Aug. 23, 1894. The bubonic plague is spreading in alarming fashion along the west coast of South America. The state depart- ment has received the following ca- blegram from United States: Minister Wilson at Santiago de Chile: ‘Exten- sive epidemic of bubonic plague at Anafogasta.” This is one of the most important shipping ports on the west coast north of Valparaiso. Casualties. A large portion of the business sec- tion of Winona, Miss., has been de- stroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. Jack Tennill, Charles Haskins and Smiley Baxter were drowned in Lake Manawa, near Council Bluffs, while hunting ducks. Tony Carrello, aged 30 years, of Kenosha, was shot and seriously if not fatally wounded by the ‘accidental discharge of a revolver which he was cleaning. After living for a day in a diving suit, imprisoned in seventy-three feet of water in the great reservoir af Boonton, N. J., a diver succumbed to the continued air pressure. The north-bound Pan-American ex- press, Queen and Crescent, ran into an open switch while going fifty miles an hour at Arklet, Miss., and was wrecked. Engineer Chiles was killed. Rev. John Long, seventy years old, pastor of the Pine Bush Methodist church, died of asphixiation a ta ho- tel in West twenty-sixth street, where he was staying during the New York conference. A prairie fire started near Brewster ing clear across Loup county and into Garfield, burning all the range be- tween the North Loup and the Cala- mus rivers, a distance of twenty miles in width. The Cadillac Automobile works at Detroit, the largest plant of its kind in the United States, was totally de~ stroyed by fire. The loss to buildings and materials will reach $200,000. The firm had orders for $3,000,000 of work on hand. : A street car loaded with passengers returning to town from the Old Mis. sion ran off the track at the intersec tion of Garden and Mission streets at Santa Barbara, Cal., and five deaths have resulted. All of the dead were Santa Barbara people. Foreign. A ‘wolf entered Minsk, Russia, and attacked and bit six people before it was killed. Some slight disturbances followed a demonstration at Barcelona, and sev- eral persons were injured in a conflict with the police. At Antofagasta, Chile, there have been twenty-two deaths from bubonic plague and fifty-one persons are now suffering from the disease. The results of elections for the elec- tors for president of Argentina ‘are favorable to Manuel Quinatana, whose election is practically assured. The London board of tradé returns for the month of March show an in- crease in the imports of $8,879,000 and a decrease in exports of $1,840,- 000. The British house of commons, by 270 to 61 votes, adopted a resolution sanctioning the employment of Indian troops for the protection of the “po- litical mission to Thibet.” Col. Marchand, the hero of the| Fashoda affair, has written a bitter open letter, denying that his ap proaching marriage induced his resig- nation from the French army. Hede- clares that he is suffering from mili- tary ostracism. Peo King Christian of Denmark recently celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday in excellent health, United States Min- ister Swenson conveyed to the king @ greeting and felicitations from President Rogsevelt. Congratulatory telegrams were received from all the "Sovereigns. Julian Sturges, 63, the author, is dead in London. He was born in Bos- ton. Sidney Moyer, a newspaperman of Toronto, Ont., died at Kansas City of tube-culosis, aged forty-nine. Richard Hospes, 67, cashier of a German savings institution and one of the best known financiers in St. Louis, is dead. Thomas F. Watson, 42 years of age, writer of verse and paragraphs and known to the reading public as “Tunnbling,” died at Milwaukee from pneumonia. Capt. Hans D. Dexrud of the Red Star steamer Kroonland has been dec- orated with the Order of St. Olaf by command of the king of Sweden and Norway for saving 368 lives. Maj. Ebenezer W. Stone, U. S. A., retired, died in Washington. He served in Massachusetts regiments during the war, after which he en- tered the regular army. Maj. Stone was the father of Surgeon E. P. Stone, U. S.A. Rev. Clayton Hall, a well-known minister of the Christian church, duopped dead at his home two miles north of Athens, Ill. He was 84 years of age and was one of the earliest set- tlers of Illinois, coming from Virginia to Menard county in 1830. Ivon D. Heath, who gained some no- toriety years ago through his explora- tions of South and Central America, died at his home in Kansas City, Kan., aged 67 years. He was a broth- er of Dr. Edwin R. Heath, also a well- known traveler and explorer. Crimes and Criminals. Thomas Paine, 75, a wealthy form- er, is under arrest at Benton Harbor, Mich., charged with murdering his wife. ‘ Mrs. Elsie Schaaf, aged 50, formerly @ prominent advocate of woman’s rights, committed suicide with a re- volver at her home in Charloteenburg, near Berlin. With a baby in-her arms, Mrs. Cath- erine Bruncardo, aged 31, of Brook- lyn, jumped from a second-story win- dow. She may recover. The child was not hurt. In revenge for an alleged betrayal, George Duncan, a_ prisoner, | fatally wounded “Burglar Jim” Anderson, an- other prisoner, at the Ohio peniten- tiary at Columbus. Policeman Charles Buckholtz of Chicago shot and fatally wounded Frederick Shall, a fugitive from jus- tice, without aiming at the man or in- tending to injure him. ¢ The murder of John Thomas, night watchman at the Houston club of the University of Pennsylvania, has been cleared up by the arrest and confes- sion of Lawrence Gibson. Frederick Wilke, 60 years old, hanged himself at his home in Gut- tenberg, N. J. He was always inter- ested in the career of William J. Bry- an, and told his friends that as Bryan was out of the race there was no us¢ of living. David Kelly, aged 23 years, is in jail at Smithton, Pa., sharged with the killing of Shepherd Moore, aged 18 years. Kelly was employed as a porter and had been taunted by. a crowd of boys who called him a“white nigger” on account of his occupation. Mrs. Ella Graham and Mrs. Victor Robinson of Wheeling, W. Va., dis- agreed and quarreled over the atten- tionss Mr. Robinson was alleged to have lavished upon Mrs. Graham, ahd in consequence Mrs. Robinson is dead and Mrs. Graham is in jail cherged with murder. General. Impelled, by an increase of 1 per cent in the retail price of bread, 200 Chicago grocers have organized tc be their own bakers. A thousand residents of Cleveland have protested against the erection ol a monument t oGen. Tadeusz Kossciu- sko, the Polish. patriot. Experiments on the efficacy of an old formula known as the Bordeaux mixture for the purification of water is under way in New York. The Kansas supreme court hag ren- dered an opinion which in effect de clares that the Bible may be read in the publie schools of Kansas. Physicians and others interested in the prevention or control of tubercu- losis have formed the St. Louis So ciety for the Prevention of Tubercu- losis. State Railroad Commissioner John W. Thomas of Wisconsin has reported that four railroads operating in Wis- consin owe the state $67,923. 07, in back taxes. The St. Louis court of appeals has handed down a decision that when hop tea causes intoxication the pre sumption that hop tea is beer is strong enough to warrant a conviction. The next general convention of the Episcopal church will be held in Bos ton, Oct. 5-25. It is estimated thai some 7,000 people will attend. The woman's auxiliary will also hold | its ‘wiennial convention in that city, Oct 6-10. The officials of the Great Laker Towing company and the representa tives of the Linseed Tugmen’s Pro tective association at Cleveland have agreed on the several points in dis pute and only the igeprse of weer bi aecnan : het Al PORT ARTHUR sheik FROM VARIOUS SOURCES THAT ANOTHER NAVAL BAT- TLE IS ON. RUSSIANS LOSE ANOTHER. SHIP BATTLESHIP IS SUNK WHILE MANEUVERING AT PORT ARTHUR. ALEXIEFF THROWS UP HIS JOB OBJECTS TO APPOINTMENT OF SKRYDLOFF, WHO IS HIS WORST ENEMY. Shanghai, April 20.—Forty Japanese werskips and transports passed Chefu last night. They appeared to be bound toward Port Arthur or the Gulf of Liaotung. Chefu, April 20.—It is rumored that another naval battle is on at Port Ar- thur. Paris. April 20.—The Journal prints a dispacch from its correspondent at Yinkow, dated yesterday at 5 p. m., which says that it is affirmed that a fresh battle is raging at Port Arthur. Cheiu, April 20—An unconfirmed re- port irom Port Arthur says that two Russian battleships collided while maneuvering in the outer harbor yes- terday and that one was sunk. A later report says that the ships were the Sevastopol and the Pallada, and that one was badly damaged. Alexieff Wants to Quit. St. Petersburg, April 20.—Viceroy Alexieff has applied by telegraph to the emperor to be relieved of his posi- tion of viceroy in the Far East. It is expected that the request will be immediately granted. While no official announcement haa yet been made, there is reason to be- lieve that the above statement is cor- rect. The immediate cause of the vice- roy’s application is reported to be the appointment of Vice Admiral Skryd- loff, one of Admiral Alexieff’s strong- est enemies and sharpest critics as successor to the late Vice Admiral Makaroff, in command of the Russian navy in the Far East. Vice Admiral Skrydloff had an in- terview with the emperor yesterday and discussed with his majesty the question of his (Skrydloff’s) relations with Alexieff. Czar Will Relieve Him. The relieving from command of Viceroy Alexieff would not surprise intelligent observers of the Far East- ern situation who are familiar with the gradual change in the emperor’s attitude toward the yiceroy and M. Bezobrazoff, who represented the militant, or advanced element which was anxious that Russia should re- main in Manchuria. It was to these two men that the Anglo-Japanese en- tente first lost its terrors. They be- lieved that Great Britain would not go to war and that Japan could not do so. To the indignation of Japan they succeeded in turning the Policy of the Empire from carrying out the treaty for the entire evacuation of Manchuria, pend- ing further demands on China. On Aug. 12 last, after Japan had sub- mitted an inquiry as to whether Rus- sia was disposed to reopen the nego- tiations respecting Manchuria and Korea, a viceroyalty in the Far East, a special secretary of state and an advisory committee were created, Alexieff being appointed viceroy and Bezobrazoff secretary of state. Seventeen days after these appoint- ments were made, M. Witte, who had been opposed to the policy of Alexiefft and Bezobrazoff, was relieved of his portfolio as minister of finance. It was through his new official ad- visors that the emperor conducted ne- gotiations with Japan, and it is claimed that they p Misjudged the Temper and purpose of the Japanese and left the emperor in ignorance of the preparations for war which Japan was making and the rising war spirit of that empire. The enemies of Alexieff have per- sistently asserted that as the man on the spot he should have kept the em- peror informed concerning these vital points. On the eve of the war Alexieff ap- parently still had the confidence of the czar, but the lack of preparedness of the Port Arthur flect, as shown in thé cases of the battleships Retvizan and Czarevitch, called the attention of the emperor to the slackness of the naval administration in the Far East. Blamed for Naval Disasters. The anti-Alexieff party in St. Pe- tersburg held that Vice Admiral Stark, who was the viceroy’s repre- sentative, was responsible under him for the first reverse at Port Arthur. Viceroy Alexieff recommended tho appointment of either Vice Admiral Deubassoff or Vice Admiral Makaroff to command the fleet in succession to Vice Admiral Stark. “The emperor se- lected Makaroff and at the same time issued a special ukase making him ab- solutely, independent. This was the first blow publicly given to Alexieff. The second was the appointment of Gen. Kuropatkin as commander-in- chief of the army in Manchuria. Ku- ropatkin sided with Count Lamsdorff, the foreign minister, and M. Witte, against the policy of Manchurian an- steel aoe ey Stated to the Chinese minister to Russia, Mr. Hoo Wei Teh, that the whole trouble ; Originated With Alexieff. That there might be no doubt of Ku- ropatkin’s exact jurisdiction the em- peror issued another ukase defining it and giving the former minister of _war complete control of military ope- rations in the Far East. Officials in St. Petersburg say it must have been evident to Alexieff that his star had waned: He had neither the army nor the navy. under his control, being charged merely with the civil administration, but in time of war there is no civil adminis- tration, or at least little. - Viceroy Is Snubbed. The viceroy received the official dispatches from Makaroff and Kuro- patkin, but even this last spread of his dignity was removed when the two commanders rectly with the emperor. It is said that AdmiraleSkrydloff, in his interview yesterday let his majes- ty understand that he does not care to assume command of the. fleet until Alexieff has withdrawn. Arthur. When Alexieff severs his connec- tion with the Far THastern question none of the men responsible for the policy pursued pefore the war will be in power. Russians Massed on Yalu. Tokio, April 20.—It is reported from Wiji that 50,000 Russian troops are between Kilienchung and Antung on the Yalu river. They were engaged yesterday in erecting fortifications at all the important points on their line of defense. The spirit of the Japanese troops is high. It is expected here that an impor- tant, engagement will take place soon. The Japanese consider the enemy’s defensive works on the right bank of the Yalu, even with their wire en- tanglements and mines, as not likely to constitute serious obstacles to the Japanese advance. DELEGATES UNINSTRUCTED. Pennsylvania Democrats Refuse to Bind Delegates. Harrisburg, Pa., April 20. — The Democratic state convention which was held here yesterday, refused to instruct the national delegates from Pennsylvania to vote for the nomina- tion of Judge Alton B. Parker of New York for president. The delegates will go to St. Louis uninstructed and will be bound by the unit rule. An at- tempt was’ made by the meetings of the resvlutions committee to amend the platform by substituting for the unit rule plank a paragraph instruct- ing the delegates for Judge Parker. It failed, and the platform as adopted by the committee' was unanimously adopted by the convention. The dele- gates at large to the national conven- tion are Col. James M. Guffey, State Chairman J. K. P. Hall, ex-Gov. Rob- ert E. Pattison and Robert E. Wright. TO RESCUE WOMEN. Wyoming Ranchers Cut Long Road Through Snow by Hand. Kemmerer, Wyo., April 20.—Ranch- men near Daniel have just completed digging a road by hand fifteen miles long through snow drifts several feet deep. Mrs. James Roy, a woman rancher, was cut off from the outside world by the storms of last winter, and only succeeded in getting word to Daniel when she was out of provisions and her cattle were dying. The snow was too deep for horses, to break ground, and the work of digging a path to the ranch was commenced ten days ago, and has just been com- pleted. Mrs. Roy was ill when found and nearly all of her cattle were dead. HEAVY TAX FOR BRITONS. They Are Called Upon to Make Good the Heavy Treasury Deficit. London, April 20.—Mr. Chamberlain estimated the expenditures of 1904-5 at $714,400,000 and the revenue, on the basis of the existing taxation at $695,- 300,000, leaving a deficit of $19,100,000 to be made up. He _ proposed, there- fore, to increase the income tax by 2 cents. He also proposed an additional tax of 4 cents per pound on tea. The chancellor further proposed a readjust- ment of the tobacco duties, imposing a duty of 81 cents on tobacco stripped before imported; also an additional duty of 12 cents on cigars, and an ‘ad- ditional 25 cents on foreign cigarettes. REPORTS FROM ALASKA. Klondike Output Will Be at Least Ten Millions in Gold. Seattle, Wash., April 20. — Reports from Dawson say: The Klondike will produce at least ten millions this season. Nome has done wore work this winter than ever before and will swell the total several millions more. The first sluicing of the year in the Klondike has begun. » The clean-up will be in full blast in three weeks, WATER CAUSES EPIDEMIC. Cream City’s Supply Is Contaminated by Ice. Milwaukee, April 20. — A disease which the physicians term intestinal influenza is almost epidemic here. Some physicians ascribe it to the condition of the drinking water. It is said that on account of the thickness of the ice in the harbor for so long a period the water became contam- inated by deposits on the ice. Drowned in Flooded Stream. Winnipeg, Man., April 20.—Herbert Cleghorn was drowned while attempt- ing to cross the flooded Pipestone riv- er with his team. » communicated di- |. Therefore, , the two men will not meet at Port} FIRE LOSS IS TEN MILLIONS | HOLOCAUST OF FLAMES SWEEPS WHOLESALE DISTRICT OF TORONTO, ONT. SPREADS WITH GREAT RAPIDITY FIREMEN MAKE GALLANT FIGHT AMID) THE FALLING ) BUILDINGS. | SEND URGENT APPEALS FOR HELP BLOCK AFTER BLOCK OF SPLEN- DID STRUCTURES LICKED UP BY FLAMES. Toronto, Ont., April 20.—Fire swept through a section of\Toronto’s whole- sale business district\last night, caus- ing a loss which will teach ten million dollars. The fire started in a factory in Wellington street about 9 o'clock. In less than an hour the flames had spread from building to building on both sides of the street until the whole blosk was a mass of flames and the fire was utterly beyond con- trol of the local department. Appeals were sent to every surrounding city where fire apparatus could be ob- tained, asking for assistance, Monire- al, London, Hamilton and Buffalo. at once responded} but it will be hours before they can be of assistance. Wind Fans the Flames. It was believed at 11 o’clock that the fire was under control, but a sud- den shift in the wind again fanned the flames into a roar and clouds of sparks and burning brands were car- ried down side streets until three en- tire blocks were doomed. The firemen were making a gallant fight amid the falling buildings and a mass of tangled wires, but their ef- forts at midnight seemed to be fruit- less. Chief Thompson of the fire depart- ment and George Dowkes of Montreal were cut off by the flames while di- recting the work of firemen from a roof. Thompson jumped six stories to the ground and rf .-Miraculously Escaped. with a broken leg. A mass of tangled wires broke his fall near the ground. Dowkes has not been seen since and it is believed he perished.. From the Currie warehouse on Wel- lington street, where it originated, the fire spread with astounding rapidity Wellington street to the Queens hotel. The thick walls of the hotel and the concentrated ®fforts of the fire fiight- ers stopped the flames there, but in the meantime the fire had swept across the street and the block of buildijgzs from Bay street west to the National club was wiped out. At that time the firemen believed the fire was under control, but a shift of wind sent the flames roaring down Bay street, Destroying Every Building on both sidesof the street from the National club to Front street. Nothing could resist the force of the flames as they swept down Bay street toward the lake, and firemen fought back the fire from side streets, con- fining the fire zone to the ‘one thor- oughfare wherever possible. Several frame buildings which threatened to cause a spread of the fire were blown up with dynamite. At 1:30 this morning Bay street was on fire from Wellington street down to the lake front, but the fire- men were meeting with success in their efforts to prevent a further spread an dit is believed the fire will burn itself out there. The total doss will reach $10,000,000. UNITED STATES BUILDS IN CHINA Cornerstone of First Legation Build- ing Laid in Pekin. Pekin, China, April 20.—The corner- stone of the first legation building ever erected by the United States was laid in Pekin yesterday by Mrs. Con- ger, wife of the American minister, in the presence of the entire legation staff, the legation guard and many other American citizens. Speeches were made by Minister Conger and Nealy Lowry, the arclitect of the building. SOLDIER’S LONG VOYAGE. Will Sail in a Small Boat From To- ledo to Panama. Toledo, Ohio, April 20.—A. Stanley Parker of this city will start early in June on a 7,500-mile trip to Panama in a fifteen-foot sailboat. The trip will be from here by lake to Chicago, through the Chicago drainage canal to the IIli- nois river, and down the Mississippi river to the gulf. He will skirt the coast of Panama, sleeping nights on the béach. He is an ex-soldier of the ae Bites Out His Tongue. Wheeling, W. Va., April 20.—While in a drunken convulsion Patrick Moran of Moundsville, W. Va., bit out his tongue and threw it into the fire. He almost bled to death before a physician could reach him. Thirteen Killed by Avalanche. Brieg, Switzerland, April 20. — An avalanche from the Spitzhorn at 2 o’clock yesterday’ morning swept the hamlet of Muehlbach. The inhabitants were asleep at the time and thirteen were killed. to the west, making a clean sweep up .