Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 28, 1904, Page 2

————_ pemne ene By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - A world’s fair ode is so ealled be cause it is paid for. Consider also the grass—how every spire of it that grows has to hustle for a living. Naples has seen Pres. Loubet, an¢ Pres. Loubet has seen Naples and it in no haste to die. The president of a Chicago woman’s club says “the cradle must go!” Al) right, but save the baby. A discouraging feature of the base ball outlook is that half of the teams of each league lose every day. Two checkbooks with but a single bank account may be the death of love, as Nordica’s case shows. It may be true that money stupe- fies the conscience, but disappointed greed for office sours the disposition. Panama wants to disband its army. As it is not going to have any revolu- tions it does not see the need of troops. Mrs. Russell Sage says that Mr. Sage will not give up his residence in New York city, taxes or no taxes. That settles it. Andrew Lang doesn’t find George Ade funny. But what of that? Per- haps George Ade doesn’t find Andrew Lang funny, either. People who are disposed to discour- age the practice of hitting a thing after it is down should not overlook the case of poor old steel. It might be well for the Japs to have a detachment of Russians con- stantly on hand to be placed in front when they pursue the enemy. A Salt Lake girl received $4,000,000 the other day when she became /3 years old. Her friends are now anx- iously waiting for her to pick out her duke. A Chicago woman secured a divorce the other day thirty'six minutes after filing her bill. This may justly be re- garded as rapid transit to single bless- edness, Probably a shortening of our politi- cal campaigns is one of the earthly impossibilities, but it would be a good thing if they were materially con- densed. In proof of Prof. Coe’s assertion that baseball is a part of thereligious life of a boy, it is only necessary to point to the career of tite” Rev. Will: iam Sunday. Lieut. Rutropoff’ was _ seriously wounded on the pontoon near Khus- san the other day. It is said that he Khussed frightfully when the Japs am- putated the pontoon. The president of the University of Michigan says the college graduates are to be the captains of industry of the future. Pass the pick and shovel to the self-made man. Bass and trout fishing in early morn- ing is now declared to be a mistake, as game fish do not rise before 8 o'clock. This will certainly increase the popularity of the sport. The theory that boys are descend- ed from monkeys has received an ugly setback. A Philadelphia gentle- man possesses a monkey who washes himself with soap and water. A Norwegian chemist has discov- ered a new and cheap process for making alcohol from sawdust. After this it may be easier to induce tramps to operate on the wood piles. It is officially announced that “the last obstacle” in the way of the canal project has been removed. Eyidently several thousand cubic yards of earth and stone do not count’as “an ob- stacle.” Pennsylvania is considering a pro- posal to equip herself with voting ma- chines at a cost of $2,823,500. The people are used to expensive political machines over there and aren’t a bit staggered. A man may feel like 30 cents, and be told by his wife that he’s worth less than a penny, but if he gets hurt in a railroad accident he never sues for anything less than $5,000.—Boston Home Journal. Young Willie K. Vanderbilt hasn’t broken an automobile record of any kind for nearly three weeks. Young, Willie must be rapidly nearing the: point at which he will consider life/a’ mere waste of time. A Louisville man of the name of Smith invites the entire Smith family. of the United States to hold its next! reunion in that city at his expense. Either he is a man of prodigious wealth or he underestimates the size of the family. A man who had $2,000,000 and who was heir to a lot more committed sui- cide in Chicago the other day. No doubt he could, if he had cared to do so, have given the world some im. portant particulars tending to prove that “money is not all.” MINNESOTA. Washington Notes. The department of justice is prepar- ing to again take up the subject of peonage in the South. The retirement of Edwin C. Madden, third assistant postmaster general, is ‘ooked for within a few days. The Battleship Rhode Island was launched at the yards of the Fore Riv- er Ship and Engine company at Quin- cy, Mass. The secretary of the interior has or- dered the withdrawal from entry of 322,000 acres of land in Montana for addition to the West Little Belt moun- tain forest reserve in that state. Ex-Gov. Murray E. Crane of Massa- chusetts is said to be the president’s choice for secretary of commerce and labor in the event of Secretary Cortel- you’s selection as chairman of the Re- publican national committee. The Moros who attacked the Amer- ican troops on May 8 and killed two officers and a number of men will be severely punished by Maj. Gen. Leon- ard Wood, who is marching on the band with a force of 450 officers and men. The interstate commerce commis- sion set June 2 as the date for a fur- ther hearing in Chicago of the “ter- minal charge” case, being the com- plaint of the Cattle Raisers’ associa- tion of Texas and the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy and other railroads that the terminal charge of $2 a car for live stock is exorbitant. People Talked About. John N. Barr, formerly vice presi- dent of the Milwaukee road, is dead at his home in Libertyville, Ill. Alfrederich Smith Hatch, twice pres- ident of the New York stock exchange and at one time one of the leading financiers in Wall street, is dead. John S. Dymock, vice president of the Calumet & Arizona Mining com- pany and interested in other Michigan and Arizona mining properties, died at Calumet, Mich., aged 66 years. Rev. J. G. Murray, rector of St Michael’s church, Baltimore, Md., has been chosen bishop of the Kentucky fliocese of the Episcopa] church to suc- ceed the late Bishop Thomas Under- wood Dudley. - Richard F. Newcomb, organizer and formerly president of the American Strawboard company, and later an or- ganizer and president of the Ynited Box Board company, died at Quincy, lll, of nervous prostration after an ex- tended illness. He was 67 years old. Casualties. The Anchor line steamship Furnes- sia, Capt. Young, ran down and sank -a-geheoner-off- Nantucket in-a den fog. The crew was rescued. A spark from a miner’s lamp strat- ed a fire in the Republic iron mine at Marquette, Mich., in the 1,500-foot level, and 200 feet from the shaft. The plant of Maxwell Bros., box manufacturers at Chicago was de- stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $75,- 000, which is fully covered by insur- ance. Basil L. Mickey, brother of Gov. Mickey of Nebraska, while riding on horseback at Indianola, Ind., was caught under the chin by an electric wire and so badly injured that he will die. Mrs. John Phillips, a bride of two months, residing near Milburn, II1., ac- cidentally shot and killed her husband just as he was about to go to a coun- try dance with a friend. It was the eustomary “didn’t know it was loaded” cause and the wife is prostrated as a ‘result. Sins and Sinners. Fred Schuetz shot and_ seriously wounded Mrs. Minnie McCormick and then fatally shot himself over a love affair at Pittsburg. Henry Schotty and Harley Waynick have been arrested at Chariton, Iowa. charged with starting the fire which entailed a loss of $40,000. Because she could not have a wed- ding with music and flowers, Miss Bes- sie Hilton of Newark, N. J., committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. William and Ianola Wrenn, prison- ers in the Ohio penitentiary, were united in marriage Sunday by the chaplain during the morning services. Nora Howells, the daughter of a wealthy farmer of Peoria, Ill., was shot and fatally injured by William Lougren, a young farm hand, and her sweetheart, as the result of a quarrel Fred Barker of Red Cloud, Neb., is guilty of murder in the first degree and his penalty is death. Barker was con- victed of the murder of his paramour ‘gd his brother’s wife on July 10 last. Frederick Moore, son of H. Morton Moore, a wealthy contractor, has told the New York police a remarkable story of being kidnapped and of his escape after a ransom was demanded. Mrs. William Heinmiller, a- widow living near New Hampton, Iowa, com- mitted suicide by throwing herself in the creek near her home.- She is sur- vived by four small children. There is no known cause for the deed. Alonzo Bristow of Bedford, Iowa, has ported to the police the loss of $10,- 700 which he received from the sale of 83 lots at the Union Stock yards, Chicago. Hé says the money was ina small satchel and that the thief slash- ed the side with a knife, thereby ena- bling him to insert his hand and pur- loin the two packages of greenbacks. Foreign Gossip. 4 Herbert Chamberlain, a brother ot former Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, , died in London. King Edward, in an autograph letter to Lady Stanley, lauds the services H. M, Stanley has rendered to the world By ‘a majority of 55, Premier Balfour successfully defeated the attempt to upset the government upon the fiscal question. King Edward VII. has definitely an- nounced his intention to visit Emper- or William during the regatta week at Kiel, which begins June 22. The enormous budget demands for the Austrian army and navy (carrying a total of $51,791,200) have caused the utmost bewilderment among all par- ties. The Vali of Biltis reports seventeen villages have been destroyed by Ar- menian insurgents in the district of Sassoun. More than 600 families have taken refuge in Mush. A serious fight occurred between Ar- menians and Turkis htroops at Chek eauson. The Turks lost 136 killed and wounded, while the Armenians had their leader and many others Killed. Germany receives the announcement: of King Edward’s intention to visit Kiel in June with chilling silence. Not a single newspaper dignifies the news with so much as a word of routine comment. French government circles are con- sidering whether the pope’s protest against President Loubet’s visit to Rome should not be promptly followed by the recall of M. Nisard, the French ambassador to the Vatican. Harry M. Vernon, under the allias of Julian Ralph, has been convicted in London of stealing a ring valued at $500 from Ethel Clinton, the American heiress, who inherited the bulk of Prince Soltykoff’s fortune. The radical press of Havana, Cuba is urging congress to expel the French and Filipino Catholics who have ar- rived there in large numbers during the last six months. Their methods are distasteful to the Cuban Catholics. who have appealed to the clergy tc have them expelled. According to a dispatch from Talla: Marnia, Algeria, the followers of the Moroccan pretender recently attacked the sultan’s troops near Ujda and the former were repulsed after severe fightin. Fifty of the sultan’s troops were killed. The rebels’ losses are said to have been heavier. : The Berlin correspondent of the Cologne Gazette telegraphs that pri- vate dispatches from the Cameroons say the Cross river rebels have been completely crushed after an obstinate fight by a British force in the territory of Southern Nigeria. “The British losses were heavy. Thirteen officers and non-commissioned officers were killed. The remains of Sir Henry M. Stan: ley were buried in the churchyard of the old Surrey viliage of. Pirbright. Prior to the burial the British nation and the United States, in the persons of Ambassador Choate and Consul Gen- eral Evans, paid honor to the departed African explorer with an impressive funeral service, held in Westminster Abbey. General. It is the purpose of the Baptist church to raise an endowment fund oi $500,000 to be used in the education of a native ministry in foreign mission fields. fil Mrs. Clarence Dunkelberg of Water- Joo, Iowa, is one of the three heirs to the estate of her uncle, Dr. G. E. Rob, jnson of Boston, Mass. Her share will] be $1,125,000. Attorneys for the heirs of Mrs. Ame- lia Noques, an accentric old woman who died about two weeks ago in New Orleans, broke open an old safe in her home, finding $40,000. ffl To extend and complete for the whole civilized world the pacific insti- tutions which are ultimately to dis: place war is the ambition of the Amer. jcan Peace society, in session in Bos- ton. Prof. Philip of Princeton university, who is generally known as the discov- erer of American radium, has accepted an invitation to attend the St. Louis ex. position and deliver daily lectures on the new element. m The establishment of centers in all sections of the United States on the plan of social settlement was offered as a solution for the negro question at the session of the Western Unitarian conference in Chicago. The Des Moines & Fort Dodge board of directors will meet at Des Moines June 2. The Rock Island lease of the property expires Jan. 1, 1905, and an ey, who is believed to hold the con troling interest, to swing it to Edwi S. Hawley for the purpose of merging the road with the Minneapolis & St Louis. rN Pretty Miss Frances Walsh, who un til a few. weeks ago was cashier at the Wilson hotel newsstand at Salt Lake is now the wife of John McGrath, one of Ohio’s wealthiest horsemen, and mistress of 2 handsome country villa near Springfield, Ohio. The American Federation fo Musi cians, after declaring against the em: ployment of governmen bands in com: petition with civic bamds, and order. ing its members to refuse to play with mon-union men, adopted a resolution refusing to admit enlisted men of the effort will be made by Edwin S. “con army or navy into its ranks, CHINESE REPORT JAPANESE VIC- TORY IN FIGHT NEAR NIU- CHWANG. — SEVERAL HUNDRED JAPS KILLED LAND OPERATIONS AGAINST PORT ARTHUR MEET WITH LITTLE SUCCESS. BUT THE FORTRESS IS DOOMED JAPS MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR AN ASSAULT THAT WILL MAKE GOOD. Shanghai, May 25.—Chinese report that there has been an engagement near Niuchwang, which ended with the Russians fleeing and abandoning fifty guns. The Russians are concentrating to the rear of Port Arthur and they are greatly strengthening their defenses. Gen. Kuropatkin, after inspecting the defenses of Liao-yang, advised Viceroy Alexieff to retreat to Harbin. Desperate Sorties. London, May 25.—The Telegraph’s Niuchwang correspondent says that the Japanese land operations against Port Arthur are meeting with little success and that Lieut. Gen. Stoessel and Maj. Gen. Fock continue to make well directed but desperate sorties against the advance of the Japanese, who are fighting with stubborn deter- mination, almost unequaled in history. Several hundred Japanese have been killed during the past few days. Rumor of Jap Defeat. Liao-yang. May 25. — A report has been received from Niuchwang saying that on May 18 five battalions of Jap- anese troops reconnoitered to the south almost as far as Kin Chou and ran into Maj. Gen. Fock’s artillery, which was strongly posted on the heights in a narrow section of the Liaotung peninsula, and that the Jap- anese were entirely wiped out. The report lacks confirmation. Captured by Russians. Mukden, May 25.—It is reported on good authority that Gen. Rennes- kampf’s Cossacks have captured two Japanese transport trains. Evidently the Cossacks are begin- ning to seriously harrass the Japanese communications. They have already destroyed most of the, Japanese sup- plies available before the enemy’s ad- vance has reajly begun. that the Japanese are in a mountain- ous country without adequate supplies and with their communications open toattack. It may be said, indeed, that their position is difficult at least. Americans I!!-Treated. St. Petersburg, May 25.—An Ameri- can caravan marching to Fungyang from the colony of the American min- ing concession near Gensan ‘was stopped by a division of Cossacks and escorted to the nearest Russian police station. F Although they showed documents proving that they were Ameridans, the men; women and children were treated as prisoners and marched many miles across the country. Two men who pro- tested most vehemently were ill treat- ed by the Cossacks. When they ar- rived at the Russian police station the Americans were released. To Reduce Port Arthur. Shimonoseki, May 25.—Active prep- arations are now in progress for the reduction of Port Arthur. It is under- stood that the place will be attacked by a portion of the Fifth division. forming part of the third army. This force has been carefully chosen. It consists mainly of veterans drawn mainly from the Yamaguichi prefec- ture who have had experience in the Chino-Japanese war and who have served the longest possible period with honor. Very heavy artillery is being landed on the Liaotung penin- sula. The Japanese are determined on the reduction of the fortress by storm no matter at what cost of life. The second army will not take part in the operations against Port Arthur, but it will join the first army, which is now marching toward Harbin. There has been no modification in the Jap- anese land plans. The present seem- ing inaction merely is due to the un- expected successful course of events. The resumption of aggressive land op erations will be shared by all he land | forces. In no way have the recent naval losses affected Admiral Togo’s general plans. Skirmishes Frequent. Liao-yang, May 25. — There is con- tinued skirmishing between the Rus- sian cavalry and the Japanese. Cos- sacks are pressing the Japanese in the hills and byroads, generally driving them back. The general plan of the Japanese has not been divulged. They are ap- parently making time, awaiting the ar- rival of reserves from Korea who have been delayed owing to the im- passibility of the roads. The Japanese are sending all invalids in the direction of the Yalu to a central hospital. The Chinese report the destruction of another battleship off Port Arthur, put the report is unconfirmed and is not credited. Several Japanese who Janded from junks near Port Arthur and started to- j ward the town with the intention of "fhe present situation is, therefore | Faeag ° | Japs Defeat Cossacks. Tokio, May 25.—Gen. Kuroki reports that a section of Japanese infantry en- countered and defeated 200 Cossacks at Teutao-Kou, eight miles northeast of Kuang Tien. The Cossacks fled to Ai Yuang Pienman, leaving twenty dead. The Japanese sustained no losses. ‘ 5 piel Additional details of the fight at Wang Chiatun, near Taku-shan, May 20, indicate that the squadron of Cos- sacks was almost annihilated by the Japanese infantry, which surrounded and completely routed the enemy. All the Russian officers were killed wounded or captured. Natives report that some of the Cossacks escaped on foot, abandoning their equipment. Many killed and wounded were found on the battlefield. Rumor Not Believed. St. Petersburg, May 25. — No con- firmation has been received of the re- port received from Russian consul at Chefu that the. Japanese had made a Jand attack on Port Arthur and had Jost 15,000 men killed and wounded, and that the Russians had lost 3,000 and the report is not given credence. The consul in his telegram said that his information was obtained from Chinese sources. The war office ‘has nothing to confirm his report. Through Dardanelles. Vienna, May 25.—It is reported here that Russia has obtained the consent of Turkey for the passage through the Dardanelles of the strong Black sea squadron, which is in course of mo- bilization. After Russian Raiders. Seoul, May 25.—A Japanese force is marching in the direction of Gensan to deal with the Russian raiders in Northern Korea. A company of Jap- anese from Fusan yesterday routed a company of Cossacks at Sementsu. FALLS UNDER STREET CAR. Young Man Tries to Get on Board and Trailer Kills Him. Winnipeg, Man., May 25.—A young man named Fred Atwood, manager of the Winnipeg Candy company, was in- stantly killed yesterday afternoon. He was attempting to board an _ electric ear for the baseball grounds when he slipped and fell beneath the wheels of the trailer and his brains were crushed out. , Citizens to Have Ice House. Winona, Minn., May 25.—Citizens of Winona are planning to operate an independent ice company in this city. It is said that a close organization will be formed among a large number of citizens, an ice house will be erect- ed and a sufficient amount of ice will be put up to supply the demands of the stockholders. This ice will be dis- tributed at cost. The complaint now is that local icemen have advanced the price. Fined for Seining. Storm Lake, Iowa; May’ 25.—C. H. Babcock of Odebolt, Iowa, was cap- tured by Deputy Game Warden San- tee last evening while engaged with four others in seining near the inlet The rest escaped unidentified in the darkness. Mr. Babcock pleaded guilty and paid in $35 fine and costs. Pre- cautions are being taken and the wholesale seining which has gone on for some time will be checked if pos- sible. Death Due to Poison. Grand Forks, N. D., May 25.—State Chemist Ladd went to Bottineau last night as a witness before Justice Pey- ton in the examination of Mrs. Gillette and son, Elmer Gillette, who are charged with the murder of husband and father, Chauncey Gillette, whose body was found in a well several weeks ago. Chemist Ladd analyzed the stomach and found death was due to morphine poisoning. Mutes to Graduate. Faribault, Minn., May 25.—The state school for the deaf and dumb, located in this city, will graduate on May 31a class of eleven. These graduates will leave the school on commencement day with honors, and many of them especially the young men, will be able to immediately enter into business for themselves, as they have learned at the school a good trade, The Corwin Not Wrecked. Seattle, Wash., May 25.—The steam- er Cottage City, from Lynn canal, re- ports passing the Nome steamer Cor- win May 21 between Ketchikan and Wrangle narrows. This information disproves the sensational report that the Corwin was lost on the Vancouver coast. So far as the Cottage City of- ficers could observe the Corwin was in no trouble whatever. Driver Drops Dead. Minneapolis, May 25—Charles Swan- son, a driver for a local fuel company, fell dead from his wagon yesterday, and the falling of his body at the horses heels so frightened the animals that they ran away, overturning a heavy load of ewood onto the dead man’s body and crushing it frightfully. Lightning Kills an Editor. La Crosse, Wis., May 25. — W. J. Brewers, editor of the Onalaska Rec- ord, was killed by lightning at his desk yesterday afternoon. The Ona- laska German Lutheran church was struck and burned to the ground. Shotgun as Toy Is Fatal. Le Sueur, Minn., May 25.—Paul Dar? renberger, the seven-year-old son of Gephard Darrenberger, accidentally killed himself yesterday while playing with a loaded shotgun. ALE IS GHASTLY MOTHER MURDERED HER HUSBAND. WITNESSED THE AWFUL WORK GIRL’S UNCLE ASSISTED THE MOTHER IN CHOPPING UP THE BODY. BONES FED TO THE CHICKENS BODY OF THE VICTIM IS BURNED TO ASHES IN THE KITCHEN STOVE. Monticello, N. Y., May 25.—Ida N&ky Dekay, the daughter of Mrs. Kate Taylor, who is undergoing a second trial for the murder of her husband, Lafe Taylor, yesterday told the story of the killing of her stepfather as witnessed by herself. In her testi- mony the girl asserted that her uncle, Peter Yerkins, was at the Taylor house on the night of the murder and assist- ed Mrs. Taylor in dismembering the body. She testified that she was awakened from sleep by a shot. Go- ing into the next room she saw Taylor holding the door leading into the kitch- en with one hand and trying to pull on his boots with the other. She saw her mother trying to open the door in order to Get at Her Husband. The witness said she then went out on the stoop for a few minutes. She told of hearing a second shot, and, go- ing in, saw her father’s body on the floor with her mother standing over it with a revolver in her hand, which she tried to fire again. The girl related the details of the disposition of the body, which were of the most revolting character. Her mother, she said, cut off Taylor's head with an axe, and put it in the stove. Then the older woman took a lighted lantern and swung it around three times from the doorway. This brought Peter Yerkins to the house, the witness continued. He asked if Lafe was dead and received an affirmative answer. Mrs. .ayler Again Took the Axe and tried to cut off one of Tayior’s legs. then laid the axe down before she had succeeded. Yerkins took up the axe and finished cutting off the leg. Ida says she went to bed and left Yerkins and her mother together with the body. When she arose the next morning Yerkins had disappeared ané her mother was still burning the body At the previous trial it was brought out that Mrs. Taylor cut up the trunk of the body and put it in a cloth sack and placed the sack in a‘washtub, which was put in the cellar. Mrs. Taylor took the ashes and bones from the stove and pounded up the bones an@ fed them to the chickens. The skull was not burned and it was brought back to the house and put in the stove again. SENATOR JEWELL ACQUITTED. Not Guilty of Soliciting a Bribe in Con- nection With Baking Powder Legis- lation. Kansas City, May 25.—A jury in the criminal court last night brought in a verdict of acquittal in the case of State Senator Jesse L. Jewell of this city, who was charged with soliciting a bribe in connection with certain baking powder legislation in the state legislature. BAPTISTS IN LINE. Declare for Uniform Divorce Law and Against Remarriage of Divorcees. Cleveland, May 25. — The Baptists put themselves in line with the other great Protestant denominations by the action taken on the divorce question at the meeting of the American Baptist Home Mission society, declaring for a uniform divorce law. and against the remarriage of divorced persons. NEGRO IS LYNCHED. Mississippi Mob Is Hot on the Trail of His Companion. Vance, Miss., May 25. — A negro name unknown, has been lynched at O’Neall, ten miles north of here, on the charge of murdering Robert Logan a saw mill man. Another negro sus- pected of complicity in the crime, is being hunted and will be strung up if captured. ISLAND WANTS LOAN. Porto Rican Legislature Begins an Ex- tra Session. San Juan, P. R., May 25.—The in- sular legislature adjourned yesterday but immediately reopened for the first day of an extra session called for the purpose of negotiating a loan of $5,- 000,000 from the United States. Snow Storm in Montana. Butte, Mont., May 25.—Reports from throughout the state last night tell of a general snow storm of considerable severity. Snow fell in many places during the forenoon, changing to rain later in the day. Last night the tem- perature was lower than it has beew for weeks past. Quay Will Get Well. Beaver, Pa., May 25.—Senator Quay has an excellent chance of recovery. This is the statement of physicians who held a consultation yesterday. b- ———— be