Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 14, 1904, Page 2

a By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. You can’t tell by the looks uf a mouse how far it can make 2 woman jump. The world could better have lost a fleet of Petropavlovsks than one Ve- restchagin. A Chicago girl is the latest Ameri- can heiress to capture a Frenchman with a title. Great feat! A “Parsifal” company got stranded in Buffalo the other day. Life is not wholly devoid of joys for Frau Wag- ner. A recent due] in Gay Paree lasted two hours and fifteen minutes, Peo- ple ought not to get as gay as all that. There is only one hat, that ap- proaches that worn in Korea in grace, and that is the plug hat of the Cau- casians. A Cleveland baby was crushed to death by a whisky keg the other day. It isn’t the first case of the kind on record. The hero of a new novel is worth $400,000,000, It wouldn’t be safe to bet that the author is worth more than $399.98. Nordica’s divoreed husband wants to get her back. Evidently he wasn’t wise enough to save anything out of his allowance. The growing popularity of Ameri- ean “quick lunch” in England should shoot a gleam of joy over old Kru- ser’s declining days. A New York paper describes J. P. Morgan as “the man who was.” But considerable of what was that be- longed to him still “is.” If a young man doesn’t get out of patience when he is trying to explain a baseball game to a girl it is a good sign that he really loves her. Sea serpents have been sighted at Avalon already this season, but it will be remembered that prohibition does not obtain there to any great extent. The sorrow expressed in Japan over the death of the brave Makaroff shows that human hearts beat under brown skins. A man’s a man for a’ that. A Phoenix man dropped dead when invited to have a drink, but no strict meral can be pointed from this, as the man would doubtless have died sometime anyway. Former President Jiminez of Sante Domingo has arrived in New York. He has not announced whether he will establish a fruit stand or become a St. Louis fair attraction. If a merchant could subtract from the sales of Any day of the year the businéss brought to him through ad- vertising, that day would be easily the dullest day of the year. The Trenton man who claims he hasn't slept a wink for ten years would have made his story more in- teresting if he had claimed also that his home was in Philadelphia. High on the roll of heroes goes the name of Gunner’s Mate Monson of the Missouri, who saved the good ship’s crew by leaping into a hole of éeath and pulling the door shut after him. The Emperor of Abyssinia is said to have 100,000 pounds of gold bullion in his vaults. His royal highness seems to have been overlooked somehow in the world’s great diplomatic grab game. The New York woman who says flirting is as necessary as it is pleas- ant will please pardon us for assum- ing that she speaks from experience and is not gladdening us with mere theoretical guff. A minister in New Jersey delivered his Easter sermon in verse, and his parishioners have no other recourse than to deny him a vacation and force him to remain in the state through the mosquito season. Young John D. recently satd to his Bible class: “A man who is proud and puffed up is sure to fall.” True. And a man who climbs too high on a slender pole is likely to break it off and run it into himself. An erudite contemporary says that 27 per cent of the public school teach- ers in this country are men. It is probable that the average pupil would by the addition of the little letter “a,” make them out “mean.” Smokers will read with regret the story ef the fire that burned $300,000 worth of tobacco’and fine cigars in the factories at West Tampa. But Aunt Hannah will say grimly that that’s the only way that tobacco ought ever to be burned. The negro who killed Andrew H. Green in New York says he has an agreement with the devil, who will stand by him, and that he is going to kill two more prominent men as soon as he gets out of jail, which makes it look as if he wouldn’t. Berald-Review. Washington Notes. Charles W. Johnson of Minnesota has been agreed upon as general sec- retary of the Republican national con- vention. Judge Goodwin of Aurora, Ill, has been selected by Postmaster General Payne for the position of assistant attorney general for the postoffice de- partment. The secret of Senator Clark’s Euro- pean trip has leaked out, it being stat- ed that when the senator returns he will bring a bride, she being Miss Anna La Chapelle, daughter of a prominent physician in Butte, Mont., now de- ceased. “Bven at the risk of being accused of declining that which I probably could not get if I desired it, I answer most unequivocally that if the nom- ination were tendered to me.I would not accept it under any circumstances whatever,” said Speaker Cannon with reference to the vice presidency. Minister Conger has cabled the state department from Pekin that some of the exhibits of the empress dowager of China, which will be dispatched to the St. Louis exposition on the Siberia, May 28, will be donated by the em- press dowager to the United States government after they have been ex- hibited at the fair. The court of claims decided that du- ties collected on goods from the United States at Manila and other ports in the Philippines during the insurrec- tion, levied by the executive proclama- tion for the support of the military government, were entirely proper and carXgot be recovered. The decision in- volves $7,000,000 in revenues collected. People Talked About. ‘Ashbel P. Fitch, 56, president of the Trust Company of America and for- mer controller of the city of New York, is dead. Miss Geraldine Farrar, the American singer, has gone to Stockholm to fill a six weeks’ engagement with the Roy- al opera. Col. W. G. Welch, a prominent law- yer, who served as colonel in the Con- federate army, died at Stanford, IY; from blood poisoning. Rey. Byron Alden is dead of pneu- monia at Streator, Ill. Mr. Alden was licensed as a Methodist minister in the Rock River conference in 1837. Mrs. Charles H. Spidel ,the largest woman in Mount Vernon, N. Y., is dead. She weighed nearly 500 pounds. A child was born to her only a week ago. Pan Antonio Dvorak, 63, the com- poser, formerly director of the con- servatory of music, New York, died suddenly at Prague, Bohemia, of apo- plexy. Foreign Gossip. Franz von Lembach, historical and portrait painter, and president of the Munich Artists’ association, is dead at Munich, Bavaria. An automobile in which six persons were driving was struck by the Basle- Paris express on a grade crossing at Roissy-En-Brie, twenty-five miles from Paris. All were killed. Sir Thomas Lipton, who is visiting Naples on his steam yacht Erin, was entertained at a dinner at the palace by King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena. Subsqeuently his majesty cre- ated Sir Thomas a knight commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy. A hurricane swept Cochin-China May 1. About a hundred natives were killed and great damage was done. All the telegraph lines in Saigon were de- stroyed. Many native vessels sus- tained injuries, but otherwise there was no damage to shipping, though small craft in minor ports suffered. Casualties. Tony Lespaurence, 17, and his sis- ter, 18, fell from a boat into the La Salle river at Starbuck, Man., and drowned. Mrs. Hoover Turpin ,a bride of two days, was seriously injured by the ex- plosion of dynamite set off by a chari- vari party at Lebanon, Ind. Drew college at Carmel, N. Y., one of the pioneer educational institutions for women in the country, has been destroyed by fire with a loss of fully $100,000. Supt. George Hall of Bessemer mills of the American Steel and Wire com- pany at Cleveland was instantly killed by a rapidly moving crane in one of the mills. ‘ Fire, thought to have-been of incen- diary origin, completely destroyed the home of Presecuting Attorney John Cummisky at Escanaba, Mich., and caused a loss estimated at $10,000. The losses from the fire which prac- tically destroyed the building of the Anthony & Coswell company, furniture and upholstery dealers at Baltimore, will amount to about $400,000, partial- ly covered by insurance. Everett Warren was instantly killed and Eric McLaughlin, William Locke and Joseph Lefevre were injured by falling bricks at the burning of the Hotel Rotunda at Capac, Mich. The loss was $20,000. Fire at the Union stockyards at In- dianapalis caused a loss of $300,000 to the Belt railroad and Union Stockyards company. The insurance is $100,000. Thirty-five head of cattle were burned and forty acres of cattle sheds and live stock pens were totally destroyed, to- gether with about 500 tone of hay and 10,000 bushels of corn. Sins and Sinners. Dr. W. E. Woodend of W. E. Wood- end & Co., the suspended stock brok- erage firm, was arrested at his home in New York. The ticket office of the Pitcairn, Pa., station of the Pennsylvania railroad was robbed by safe-blowers . Four hundred dollars was taken. The office is badly wrecked. Gust Heldberg, a tailor, aged 35 years, of Peshtigo, Wis., committed suicide in a padded cell at the jail at Menominee, Mich., by hanging himself with a pair of suspenders. With a story of having been drugged and robbed of $15 in a saloon on West Thirty-seventh street, New York, the Countess Alvina Mercedes von Vettel appeared as a prisoner in a_ police court. Two Italian families who were about to sail from New York for Pal- ermo are locked up at police head- quarters charged with stealing more than $3,000 from a fellow countryman at White Plains. The O’Brien county, Iowa, grand jury has voted four.indictments against Edward C. Brown of the Iowa railroad commission and president of the de. funct Sheldon State bank. The indict- ments charge embezzlement of $72,000. Mrs. Caroline Volkman, who is be- lieved to be insane, threw her three children, Annie, aged 11; Willie, aged 5, and Otto, aged 2, into Lake Erie at Cleveland, and then jumped in herself. Fortunately boatmen were near by, and the whole party was rescued with- out any ill effects. Albert Wood, a constable ,was killed and Curtis Gregory, a constable, was seriously: wounded in a fight in Far- rington township, near Mount Vernon, Ill, with two men alleged to have been William and Robert Howard, brothers, one of+whom the officers sought to ar- rest on a warrant. C. David Frey, a butcher of Los An- geles, was shot and killed by A. Car- penter, a special officer of the Humane society. The shooting occurred near Tropico, on the outskirts of Los An- geles, and resulted from a raid by half a dozen humane officers on a cocking main at that place. Carpenter was ar- rested and is now in the city jail, charged with murder. Burglars dynamited the safe in ‘the postoffice at Hanna, Ind. Postmaster G. A. Trigger heard the explosions and gave the alarm. The marauders es- caped, however ,and a posse, armed with a variety of weapons ,is in put- suit. The ‘booty secured is estimated at $1,000 in cash, stamps and merchan- dise from the general store in which the postoffice is located. General. The grain elevators at Cincinnati have suspended operations for an in- definite period. Between 11,000 and 12,000 coal min- ers in the Eastern Ohio subdistrict went out on strike. J. P. Morgan practically has retired from Wall street speculation and will give a free field to the Standard Oil crowd. i Andrew Carnegie is mentioned as a successor to the late Senator Hanna on the executive committee of the Civic Federation. Six theaters in New York are closed until they make alterations to conform with the requirements of the commit: tee of public safety. Preparations are well under way for the fourth annual convention of the American Federation of Catholic soci- eties in Detroit, Aug. 2-5. Dr. Patrick H. Collins of Detroit, Mich., appeared at Bellevue hospital in New York and asked to be examined as to his mental condition. Thirty-five thousand loaves of bread have been received in Chicago from Pittsburg to relieve the famine threat- ened by the strike of bakers. The total attendance at the Louis} ana Purchase exposition on the open- ing day, April 30, 1904, has been offi- ciajly announced at 187,793 persons. At a meeting of the Harvard Advo- cate board, Claude Carlos Washburn, 1905, of Duluth, was elected editor. The Advocate is the oldest college magazine at Harvard. Absolute suspension of freight traffic on the great lakes between Buffalo and Chicago has been decreed by the Lake Carriers’ association on account of de- mands for wage increases. All the retiring officers of the United States Steel corporation were re-elect: ed at the regular monthly meeting. In the finance committee, Henry Phipps succeeds Henry M. Schwab. Mrs. Adelaide Ingraham, New York, has been elected president of the gen- eral Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Miss Martha Scott Anderson of Minnesota wag chosen a member of the board of man agers. A dinner in honor of Secretary oi War Taft was tendered at St. Louis by the Commercial club of Cincinnati, which had escorted Secretary Taft tc the opening ceremonies of the world’s fair. Seven children have died within the last few days in New York and others are suffering from a new disease. Ai jeast twenty cases are reported from one hospital. The doctors believe the disease to be due to germs from the walls of old tenements, the lowe1 floors of which are being rebuilt inte = stores. ‘ . ADMIRAL TOGO’S FLEET IS SHELL- ING THE CITY, FIRING AT HIGH ANGLE. RUMOR OF JAPANESE VICTORY FIRST ARMY HAS SEVERE EN. GAGEMENT WITH RETREAT- ING RUSSIANS. PORT ARTHUR IS AGAIN OPEN RUSSIANS SAY TELEGRAPH AND RAILROAD COMMUNICATION IS RESTORED. Tokio, May 11—Another bombard- ment of Port Arthur is proceeding. Admiral Togo’s fleet, lying safely be- hind Liaotishan promontory, is firing at a high angle. Three hundred Russian prisoners ar- rived at Moji yesterday and were sent to Matsuyama and Marugame. Rumor of Jap Victory. Shan Hai Kwan, May 11.—The Jap- anese first army is vigorously follow- ing up the victory on the Yalu. It is already threatening the Russian posi- tion at Haicheng. Marching in three divisions, the second army pushed quickly up to co-operate with Gen. Ku- roki’s force, and defeated the Rus- sians near Wafungtien with great loss. The Japanese artillery was splendialy handled. It is reported from another source that the first Japanese army corps, having followed the Russians retreat- Ing from the Yalu river, overtook them twenty miles south of Liao Yang yes- terday anda Severe Engagement Ensued. The Japanese dragged their guns up hills believed to be unsurmountable. The Russians thereupon continued to retreat north. A division of the First ¢orps is ap- proaching Niuchwang, which is now garrisoned by a handful of Russians. Japanese scouts have been seen six miles from Niuchwang. Nineteen women were the last civil- jans to leave Niuchwang for Shan Hai Kwang. They arrived here last night and confirmed the reports of the evac- uation of Niuchwang. Cemmunication Reopened. St. Petersburg, May 11.—The most important official news from the front up to this hour is that telling of the complete re-establishment of railroad and telegraphic communication with Port Arthur, though how it was brought about and whether a battle was necessary to accomplish it are mysteries which Viceroy Alexieff failed to clear un. : According to information received by the general staff, the bridge blown up by the Japanese near Port Adams, Liao Tung peninsula, has been re- paired and the permanent way is un- injured. Telegraphic communication with Port Arthur is not yet open. Czar Greatly Tickled. It is reported that Lieut. Gen. Stoes- sel, commander of the military forces at Port Arthur has successfully en- gaged and driven off the enemy. The general staff has no confirmation of this report and explains the withdraw- al of the Japanese from the railroad as being either due to forces left by Gen. Stoessel or to the forces left by Gen. Kuropatkin at Kai Ping and other points on the railroad. The emperor received the news of the reopening of communication with Port Arthur and seemed greatly pleased. He had a message from Port Arthur an hour before by pigeon post via Liao Yang, reporting that all was well at the fortress. ? Cause for Worry. The elation of the authorities, a natural consequence for this achieve- ment, is sobered by official dispatches showing the activity of the Japanese jin Eastern Manchuria. . Kuang Gen Sian (Huang Tiang Sai?), fifty miles northeast of Feng Wang Cheng, was occupied by the Japanese April 5. This enables an advance along the bad roads to the flank either at Liao Yang or Mukden. ‘The territory between the main road to Feng Wang Cheng and the River Tayang has been penetrated by such a strong force of Japanese as to lead to the suggestion that another ermy has landed at Takushan, of which the outside world has not heard before. The activity of the Japanese, how- ever, has been expected, and, there- fore, has not diminished the satisfac- tion felt at the opening of communica- tion with Port Arthur. , Japs Take a Rest. Lieut. Gen. Sakharoff, commander of the First Siberian army corps, in a tel- egram to the general staff dated May 8, says that the Japanese having occu- pied Feng Wang Cheng, are remain- ing there and are making reconnais- sances of the main road to Liao Yang and both flanks of the road. On May 5 Gen. Sakharoff says the Japanese occupied Huang Tiang Sia (fifty miles northeast of Feng Wang Cheng.) Quiet at Niuchwang. < Niuchwang, May 11. — Reports of panic and disorder here are unfounded.: The situation is quiet and: unchanged, although the landings of Japanese troops on the Liaotung peninsula have | ‘ting the marshal. |} caused some uneasiness among. non combattants. Railroad communication with Port Arthur is uninterrupted now. _ The Russians are strongly in- trenched at Anping, where the guns from the Niuchwang forts have been sent. Scene of Coming Battle. Shanghai, May 11. — The Russians who retired from Feng Wang Cheng, and the troops under Gen. Kuropatkin from Liao Yang, are collecting at Mo- tienling pass, where heavy fighting is expected. The Russians, who are re- treating from Niuchwang, are taking the same direction. Ruin in Wake of Russians. Kobe, May 11.—In the haste of their retreat from Niuchwang and other points to escape being cut off by the Japanese armies, which have landed on both sides of the Liaotung penin- sula, the Russians have burned and destroyed their stores and set fire to many villages. Russians Lose Heavily. Paris, May 11.—The Matin’s St. Pe- tersburg correspondent says it is per- sistently rumored that there has been a big fight near Mao Tien Ting pass between the Russians and Gen. Kuro- ki’s army. The Russians, he says, lost heavily, Lieut. Gen. Zassalitch being among the killed. Port Arthur Not Blocked. A high officer of the naval general staff declares, according to this corres- pondent, that the entrance to Port Ar- thur is still free and that the squad- ron went out on May 9 as fa ras Pitse- wo, where the torpedo boats sunk a number of Japanese transports. Japs Continue to Advance. Shanghai, May 11. — The Japanese army in Manchuria is advancing in three divisions. One of the divisions, that holding Antung and Feng Wang Cheng, is ad- vancing toward Liao Yang. The second is moving from Pulan- tien and Chuchan to Yungyaochung. The third division is pushing for- ward from Suliencheng to occupy Kun- ‘lienhaien, with the object of cutting the Russian communications in the rear of Liao Yang, where small prep- aration’ for defense have been made. General Retreat Ordered. St. Petersburg, May 11. — The war office announces that Gen. Kuropatkin has ordered a general retreat. For the moment he will hold onto Liao Yang put there is no intention on his part to fight a general action there if he can possibly avoid it. The plain truth is that Kuropatkin has not enough troops on the ground to risk a general action. Pending the arrival of rein- forcements he will, if hard pressed, retire from Liao Yang to Mukden, and from Mukden, if necessary, to Harbin. Russia Buys Big Liner. Berlin, May 11.—A special dispatch from Hamburg says that the Hamburg- American Steamship company has sold to the Russian government the trans- Atlantic liner Auguste Victoria, and that negotiations are proceeding for the purchase of the Pretoria. The cor- respondent says that the Auguste Vic- toria has already started for Libau. THINK WENTZ A SUICIDE. That Dead Millionaire Killed Himself. Big Stone Gap, Va., May 11.—D. B. and J. L. Wentz, brothers of E. L. ‘Wentz, whose body was found in the mountains near Blackwood, accompa- nied by a detective and photographers arrived here yesterday afternoon and went immediately to the place where the body lay, where an inquest and post mortem examination were held. It was adjourned last evening until to- day. It is the belief that Wentz com- mitted suicide. Only one gunshot wound was found in the body, near the heart, and the ball was a 32-cali- ber, corresponding with the pistol found nearby. The clothing and place where the body was found point to su- icide, and the verdict wili probably be suicide or accidental shooting. SOLDIER ROBBERS. indications Two Guards at McKinley Tomb Ar- rested as Highwaymen. Masillon, Ohio, May 11. — Paul D. Anderson and Joseph F. Gunch, two members of the detachment of regu- lars guarding the McKinley tomb at Canton, are under arrest here, charged with knocking down Charles Bradwell of East Greenville and robbing him of $14. ROOSEVELT’S HAT A STONE. Campaign Panama Is Converted by Im- mersion in Mineral Spring. Omaha, May 11.—President Roose- velt’s campaign Panama hat has been transformed to stone by several months’ immersion in a mineral spring at Thermopolic, Wyo. The hat weighs fifteen pounds and is in possession of K. E. Buckingham of this city. Woman Forfeits Bond. Wahpeton, N. D., May 11.—In dis- trict court here yesterday a hearing was had in the case of the State vs. Agnes Comstock for violation of an injunctional order forbidding her to continue the sale of intoxicants. When the case was called the defendant did not*appear and her counsel stated that he did not know her whereabouts. Her bonds were declared forfeited and a bench warrant issued for her arrest. Marshal Is Exonerated. Belle Fourche, S. D., May 11. — The jury in the case of James Couch vs. Lee Brooks, tne city marshal, and his] pondsmen, Edgar Giles and H. T. Ad- ams, has returned a verdict exonera- It was a case of $20,000 damages. Couch was being held a prisoner in the city jail when the marshal is alleged to have turned a hose upon him for misconduct. The suit was for alleged injuries. LANDS AT AUCTION RED LAKE RESERVATION LANDS WILL BE AUCTIONED ON JUNE 12. THIEF RIVER FALLS THE PLACE PLAN URGED BY CLAPP, STEENER- SON AND RICHARDS IS ADOPTED. COMBINATIONS ARE SHUT OUT PURCHASERS ARE LIMITED TO BIDDING ON ONLY A QUARTER. Washington, May 11. — Thief River Falls is the place and June 12 the date for the opening of the lands for sale within the Red Lake reservation in ac- cordance with the terms of the Steen- erson act, passed at the recent session of congress. The lands will be sold at public auction in accordance with the recommendation of Senator Clapp and Representative Steenerson. One of the requirements of the reg- ulations is that purchasers must de posit one-fifth of the price of the land within twenty-four hours after making the bid. If this rule is not complied with the sale will be cancelled and the land reoffered. Under the law a single purchases can purchase but one quar- ter-section. It was the latter provision that prompted Secretary Hitchcock to Adopt the Suggestion of Land Commissioner Richards and Messrs. Clapp and Steenerson that the land pe sold at public auction. The secretary, guided by his experi- ence in selling timber under the Mor- ris act, was constrained to make the sales at Red Lake under sealed bids. His purpose was to prevent the forma- tion of combinations and pools. The Minnesota members pointed out in a strong way that as purchasers were limited to bidding on only a quar- ter-section that it was not possible to form combinations to keep prices down. The view of the Minnesotans was concurred in by Land Commissioner Richards, and yesterday afternoon the secretary approved the regulations submitted to him by Commissioner Richards. SHOT BY HIGHWAYMEN. Victim of Robbery Disregards Order Not to Run. Hardy, May 11—Two highwaymen held up and robbed a school teacher named James Walsh, taking 180 from him and threatened to kill him if he started to run. After securing his money the robbers. started to leave him, and Walsh thinking he could es- cape, started to run. One of the high- waymen shot him through the breast, inflicting what will probably prove 2 fatal wound. Bloodhounds have been put on the trail of the highwaymen. TRAGEDY AT THE FAIR. Member of Jefferson Guards Commits Suicide Owing to III Health. St. Louis, May 11. — Capt. Walter Allen of St. Louis, connected with the world’s fair Jefferson guards, and a brother of “Private” John H. Allen, national world’s fair commissioner from Mississippi, committed suicide late yesterday by shooting himself through the heart in a room in the dormitory of the Washington univer- sity, now utilized by the exposition. He left a note stating that ill health had driven him to commit the act. DROVE OUT PERUVIANS. Fierce Fight Is Reported to Have Oc- curred Near the River Chandlos. Rio Janeiro, May 11. — A dispatch from Manaos announces that an im- portant battle has been fought be- tween Brazillian forces and the Pe- ruvians near the River Chandlos. The Brazillian troops, under Gen. Medeiros started from Manaos, going directly to the front when the Acre dispute be- came acute. In spite of the impor- tance of this news, it'is the general opinion here that. there will be no war between Pern and Brazil. OHIO COAL MINERS STRIKE. Two Thousand Five Hundred Men Idle in Sixth District. Zanesville, Ohio, May 11.—As the re- sult of a wide disagreement between the operators and miners of the Sixth Ohio district 2,500 miners are ordered to go on strike next Monday. The op- erators asked a general reduction of 21 per cent in machine mining, while the miners would accept only 5.55 per cent from last year’s scale, as agreed upon at the Indianapolis convention. THE CORPSE OBJECTED. eJohn Cupsick Comes Out of a Trance on the Dissecting Table. Hazelton, Pa., May 11. — John Cup- s.ck, a miner, was taken ill here sev- eral days ago, and later was pro- nounced dead by the doctors. As he had no family or friends to bury him, his body was sent toa Philadelphia hospital for dissection. When placed on the table, and just as the knife was about to be put to him, Cupsick ; amose and wanted to know why he had been “undressed.”