Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 18, 1904, Page 2

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Rain may keep people away from church sometimes, but from the cir- cus—never. The California orange trust is about to dissolve. What good does that do at this time of year? « Speaking of fish, there must be some redeeming feature about the German carp. What is it? “The man that bets on the races is an idiot,” says Charles T. Yerkes. Mr. Yerkes seems to be a hard loser. Just to satisfy plain curiosity, will somebody kindly report how work is progressing on The Hague palace of peace? The discovery that the empress’ crown jewels are bogus is about the worst blow yet to Japanese national confidence. Those Boston girls who broke the record as high jumpers will cause some of us to revise our notions of Boston dignity. The General Federation of Women’s lubs has officially thanked Gov. Odell for saving Niagara falls. We stand right beside the ladies. Richard Strauss says Boston stands as high in musical taste as any city of Europe. Boston will call that jamning with faint praise. A Zion City dentist claims that he and his wife can live on $1.68 a week. {t is to be understood, of course, that he doesn’t use an automobile. The government is going to try to reclaim 100,000 acres of arid land n Washington. Determination will do almost anything, and we have the sand. The New Jersey judge who has ruled that a boy’s life is worth twice as much as a girl’s has probably changed his opinion since he was twenty. A St. Louis preacher now declares that Santa Claus is a myth. Some clerical iconoclast will be calling sa- tan a figment of the popular fancy be- fore long. There are 13,000,000 children en- rolled in the Sunday schools of the country, and the parents of most of them buy oil from young Mr. Rocke- feller’s father. Now that the season for thunder showers is open, remember how calm- ing the statistics are, and make up your mind firmly that this year you won't be scared. Of course it is more or less annoy- ing to the emperor of Korea to have the Japanese take possession of his country, but then, he’s used to trou- ble. He has 100 wives. “Chicago presents no immor&lities to the visitor,” says Anthony Comstock, who is spending a few days in the Windy City. Certainly not. She charges an admission fée. It is to be hoped that, when the Jap: anese get hold of Port Arthur, they won't feel it necessary to change the name. It’s about the only one of the lot that’s at all pronounceable. ‘We wonder whether the Yale wait- er who, although he carried a rab- bit’s foot, refused to wait on thirteen students at his table, is superstitious enough to refuse a tip of 13 cents, We doubt the authenticity of this story that Gen. Kuropatkin is carry- ing his coffin around with him. His martial cloak would answer all prac- tical purposes and sound much better in the poems. A London court has held that a): man is not liable for his wife’s dress- making bills. Doubtless some soulless creature will now stamp himself with the mark of the beast by bringing a test case over here. A pitcher that is 2,000 years old is being exhibited at the St. Louis expo- sition. We know of several ladies who would like to obtain the address of the girl who worked for the family that owned the pitcher. A Chicago woman was granted a divorce in just thirty-six minutes after filing her application. But if the thing has to be done, why delay? In some places the courts dawdle over these watters for an hour or two. It’s as natural for a girl’s shoe strings to keep coming untied when she has on fancy open-work stockings as for a man to speak with a careless familiarity of his rich friends when they are out of the country. A press agent story says that an en- thusiastic audience threw real jewelry ‘at an opera singer. The practice should be followed with care. The most avaricious person would object to having an eye put out, even with a diamond tiara. The Princess ‘of Wales is one of the most expert typewriters in England. She can rattle off 100 words a min- mute. If anything ever happens to make the British people quit support- ing their royal family the princess weedn’t worry. ; Capital Gossip. Although not officially announced, it is understood that the order of merit of the battleships in the recent target practice, so far as completed, is as fol- lows:Oregon first, and probably win- ner of the pennant; Wisconsin second and Iowa third. Two million five hundred thousand dollars of the irrigation reclamation fund have been set apart by the secre- tary of the interior to be used in con- mection with the Uncomphagre irriga- tion project in Colorado. It is esti- mated 1,250,000 acres will be reclaimed by this project. ' Ex-Senator Walcott of Colorado has geen selected to present the name of enator Fairbanks to the Chicago con- vention as a candidate for vice presi- lent. It is stated here that Mr. Fair- banks will be a candidate and that he jwill have practically no opposition for the second place on the Republican na- tional ticket. People Talked About. Mrs. Samuel M. Clemens, the wife of “Mark Twain,” the American author and lecturer, died of syncope at Flor- ence, Italy. George F. Phillips, who won renown as engineer of the collier Merrimac, sunk by Hobson at the mouth of San- tiago harbor, is dead at his home in Cambridgeport, Mass. : Mrs, Christina Lang, aged 105 years, the oldest woman in Iowa, died at the orphanage of St. Francis at Dubuque, Weath resulting from a paralytic stroke. Mervyn Edward Wingfield, Viscount Powerscourt, is dead in London. He was born in 1836. Crimes and Criminats. | The lifeless body of Nels Heming- ston, one of the old and _ respected farmers south of Webster City, Iowa, was found hanging in his barn. The old man had been slightly demented of late. George Richmond, engineer, author and translator of technical books, was found dead in his office in New York. He had committed suicide by drinking chloral and brandy and then turning on the gas. . Mrs. Minnie Rainer, 33 years old, was found by her husband hanging from a beam in a shed at Menomonee, Mich. She was dressed in her wedd- ing gown. In a note to her mother she gave unhappiness as the cause of her suicide. Edward McCormick, a young farmer of Brownsburg, sixteen miles from Lexington, Va., shot and killed John W. Wade and Arthur Blackwell. The shooting was the result of bad feeling that had existed between the men for three years. McCormick was arrest- ed. ’ After killing two of his children by strangulation and carbolic acid poison- ing, and guarding their bodies in his home all day, Joseph H. Pouch, a skilled mechanic of Roselle, N. J., be- lieved to be insane, killed himself and a third child and mortally wounded a fourth. Mrs. Hattie E. Carlisle was found in her room at Jacksonville, Fla., lying in a pool of blood. Both eyes were closed from terrible blows and her body was a mass of bruises. The ob- ject of the murder could not have been robbery, as two diamond rings and $10 in money were found on the dress- er. Curtis McLain, a cripple, who is wanted at Caruthersville, Mo., on a charge of murder, was arrested at Grand Tower, Ill., and while being .| taken to Thebes to be turned over to the Missouri officials, made his escape through the car window by jumping from a rapidly moving train. He has not been recaptured, and all trace of him has been lost. From Other Shores, A bill providing for the reorganiza- tion of the Brazilian navy includes the purchase of twenty-eight warships. | The government steamer Thistle, with 500 workmen aboard, sank in the Queenstown harbor. All were rescued. The London Daily Mail’s correspond- ent at Simla says that the British ad- ‘vance on Lhassa has been ordered for June 16. Rudolph Strakosch, a member of Goerz & Co., one of the leading Rand ‘corporations, committed suicide with revolver. Lord Minto objects to the subscrip- tion of $500 by Mr. Carnegie toward the Minto parish organ at Ottawa, Ontario, : The Casino Espanol, the Spanish ‘club of Manila, has decided to partici- pate in the forthcoming Fourth of July celebration at Manila. President Diaz of Mexico has issued a formal decree announcing the end of the Maya war in Yucatan peninsula. The war cost many lives. Tibetans recently attacked the Brit- ish post at Khangma. The _British losses were one Ghurka killed and five wounded. The Tibetans left 174 men dead around the post and many others were killed in the pursuit. The White Star, Dominion and Allen dines have decided to cut steerage rates from Liverpool and Glasgow to American and Canadian ports to $15, “commencing June 11. The cut will be suet by the Canadian Pacific railroad ine, Formal announcement has been made in London that a marriage has been arranged between Edward Perci- val Clarke, son of Sir Edward Clarke, K. C., and Miss Norma Whalley, the Bolrens, bel ronndy, secured a di- vorce in New York. varia She is a native of The revolutionary Dominican forces sustained a defeat Sunday at Concep. tion de la Vega, leaving 100 men dead or wounded on the field. Alexander Dowie has arrived at Ber. lin from Switzerland. He has taken rooms lately ocaupied by one of the Vanderbilts, costing $40 a day. Andrew Carnegie has added $5,000 to the donation of $30,000 that was made to the International Arbitration league May 5, by William Randall Cremer. Emperor William is sending Dr. Grabensee, one of the best known horse-breeding specialists in Germany, to St. Louis to study American breed ers’ methods and experience. Accidental Happenings. The main building of the Renssaeler Polytechnic institute at Troy, N. ie was destroyed by fire. The loss is $75,-| 000. Damage of $400,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a_ seven-story building at Canal street, Chicago, known as Machinery hall. An explosion in a trunk, believed to be the property of some one connected with the University of Minnesota, hurt | four baggagemen in the union station in Kansas City. The business section of Johnstown, Licking county, Ohio, was destroyed by fire, about a doze nbuildings being consumed. The loss is estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000. Wabash express train No. 3, west- bound, ran into a Big Four freight train at the Danville, Ill, crossing. Several freight carse were smashed and a number ditched, but no person was hurt. Oil derricks were razed, houses were unroofed and twisted from their foun- dations and lives were imperiled in a flerce tornado that swept the town of Amos, W. Va., recently. Loss is esti- mated at $75,000. A tornado near Comanche, f. T., de stroyed several houses. Four persons were severely hurt, but no deaths are reported. The school house at Will- iamsport was demolished and heavy damage to crops done. Fire in the tobacco district of Dan- ville, Va., destroyed three warehouses and 4,000,000 pounds of leaf tobacco. The American Tobacco company was the lessee of the buildings. The esti- mated loss is $600,000, covered by in» surance, The wrecking of the heavily loaded Pittsfield and New York express near Great Barrington, Mass., was averted by Raymond Perbezet and Stephen McCue, boys, who discovered a wash- out and with a red sweater stopped the train. ‘ A heavily loaded electric street ‘ear on the Valley street line at Burlington, Towa, was wrecked against a shade tree. The passengers jumped as the ear flew along. Mrs. Joseph Keehn was killed and sixteen others were se- rious] yinjured. Fire partially destroyed “Woodside,” | the mansion of James A. Burden, a millionaire iron manufacturer of Troy, N. Y. Many valuable paintings were destroyed, and the building, which was the finest in that section, was flooded by the firemen. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Ex-Ald. Walter Graham of Philadel- phia died after suffering for several months as a result of eating fragments of an oyster shell, Doctors say the sharp edges of the shell literally cut the inner coat of the stomach to pieces. It was at the banquet of the American meo’lanics that he swal-) lowed the foreign substance. Domestic. Beautify the barren subject and you become an artist. Mrs. Thomas Murkey is seriously ill in New York as the result of a three weeks’ search for a flat. R. T. St. John of Riceville, Iowa, has been elected department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of Towa. Mrs. Cornelius Storers of New York has paid $20,406.67, the amount with intnerest of the forfeited bail for Dr. Richard C. Flower. Among the honorary degrees award- ed at Columbia university was that of doctor of laws upon Elihu Root, for- mer secretary of war. Tufts college at Medford, Mass., has copferred the honorary degree of LL. D. on Secretary of the Navy Moody and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. At the commencement exercises of the Catholic university in Washington, the baccalaureate degree was con- ferred upon Rey. Aloysius Ziskowsky of St. Paul. The $75,000 library given the city of Springfield, Ill, by Andrew Carne- gie was formally opened last week. United States Senator Cullom deliver- ed an address. Thomas Sharkey, pugilist, has been married in New York to Miss Cather- ine McIntosh of Michigan, the profes- sional nurse who attended him during his recent illness. ‘“ The music cure has been taken up by Boston society and its devotees are said to be numbered by hundreds. Its advocates assert that music has an extraordinary power to cure many ills, especially those of a nervous origin. No particular instrument is favored, but a violin is most frequently em- ployed. 4 Antoine Spran, a life prisoner in the state penitentiary at Hartford, Conn. being granted a release on condition that he returin to Italy, became very excited and said: “I cannot go back to Italy and work for 15 cents a day. I would rather stay in prison.” |@, ; MANGUARDS OF OPPOSING ARMIES IN A GENERAL EN- GAGEMENT. RUSSIANS HOLD THE POSITIONS EACH SIDE REPORTED TO HAVE, * SUFFERED VERY HEAVY 3 LOSSES. FINAL ASSAULT IS NEARLY DUE JAPANESE READY TO MAKE DES- PERATE EFFORT TO TAKE PORT ARTHUR. Niuchwang, June 15. — A battle be- tween the vanguards of the opposing armies occurred yesterday at Vafan- gow, a station on the railway about sixty miles above Kinchou. < It is reported that each side lost heavily, but the Russians retained | their positions. The fighting is said to have assumed the nature of a general engagement. It is believed that the Japanese have | planned to capture Mukden and attack the main Russian army from the rear., Battle Continues. London, June 15—The Central News has received a dispatch from its Liao- yang correspondent under yesterday’s date saying that heavy firing between the Russian and Japanese vanguards commenced at 7:40 o’clock in the af- ternoon. The fighting extended along the entire front, assuming the dimen. sions of a general engagement. The same correspondent in a later dispatch says: . “To-day the battle continues. The Japanese have opened a heavy fire on our center. On the night of June 12, southwest of Vafandian, the Cossacks came in contact with the Japanese and drove them from their position. We lost two men. The Japanese losses were fifteen men and twenty horses.” Russian Loss Is Heavy. St. Petersburg, June 15. — Emperor Nicholas has received the following telegram from Lieut. Gen. Baron Stak- elberg, bearing yesterday’s date: “A battle began at noon around the Russian position, four and a half miles south of the station of Vafangow, the énemy making repeated attempts to dislodge our left flank. The attack was repelled and we retained our po- The First regiment, occupying ‘tion. | ae left flank of our position, sustained Severe losses.” Possibly a Big Fight. The general staff remained in ses- sion until almost 2 o'clock this morn- ing to translate and give out Lieut. Gen. Baron Stakelberg’s message an- nouncing the fight at Vafangow. This unusually late hour indicates that the authorities attach considerable impor- tance to the dispatch, It is thought here that the Vafan- gow affair may prove to have been quite a heavy fight. The fact that the Russians held their position in the face of heavy losses also supports this theory, and it is believed that it may turn out to be a severe check to the Japanese northern advance. The movement of 3,000 Japanese north of Kuan Dian Sian only adds to the blindness of the situation in the northeastern field of operations. It is unquestionable that the Cossacks have ‘been worrying the Japanese north of Feng Wang Cheng, and the movement may be merely an effort to clear the country. May Be Aimed at Mukden. At the same time this movement holds the possibility of a demonstra- tion against Mukden by one of the main roads leading directly east from Mukden toward the region to which the Japanese now are advancing. The consensus, however, is that the advance is more-in the nature of a demonstration that a preliminary to an actual attack. Evacuating Niuchwang. Chefu, June 15.—The evacuation of Niuchwang is again proceeding. The Russian forces there fear a Japanese attack in force on Kaiping, where only 5,000 RusSian troops are stationed. The forces about Niuchwang are di- recting their raid on Gen. Oku’s rear and his communications, but have in- structions to avoid: a general action. They retire before each advance of the enemy, and reappear on the flanks. mounted infantry are largely used. The Japanese columns have been too small to cause the Russians’ much trouble. An advance in force may find that the Russians have withdrawn to the north. The Russians will strike in a fresh place each time. Final Assault Nearly Due, Shanghai, June 15.—The departure the scene of hostilities of the captured steamer Manchuria, having on board. newspaper correspondents, foreign of- ficers and members of the Japanese parliament, is taken to mean that the final assault on Port Arthur is about to take place. The assault will be made next Friday it is understood. i Rations Reduced. London, June 15.—The Chefu corres- pondent of the Times says that the Russian troops at Port Arthur are on two-thirds rations and that rice is $15 per picul (139.45 pounds avoirdupois). He says that there has been consider- able number of desertions among the Making Ready for Big Fight. ‘The Daily News correspondent at St. Petersburg wires “Half a dozen officers of the Port Arthur garrison have got through the Japanese investing lines and have ar- rived safely at Gen. Kuropatkin’s head- quarters. From the reports of these officers it is clear that up to Thursday last there had been no heavy fighting at Port Arthur. The Japanese are still landing troops and siege guns at Dalny. The Russians are putting the last touches to their Fermidable Defenses. The landing of Japanese siege guns has proved a very difficult task. The battleships Retvizan and Pallada have been repaired. A greater portion of the Pert Arthur squadron has man- aged to get out of the harbor and has put to sea. Whether it ha snow re- turned to Port Arthur, I cannot say, but I am assured most positively that in any case the entrance to the harbor is not blocked. It is’ considered that the naval position is better now for Russia than it has ever been.” Vladivostok Fleet in Fight, Tokio, June 15. — The Vladivostok squadron is reported in the Korean straits. Firing has been heard on Tsuno Shima, a small island lying off the southwest of Honshiu island. It is possible that an engagement is pro- gressing. CONFEDERATE VETERANS. Annual Reunion Opens Auspiciously at Nashville. Nashville, Tenn., June 15.—Under every indication tending to a success- ful reunion Nashville yesterday of- ficially welconied the United Confed- erate Veterans and their friends con- stituting a throng, conservatively esti- mated at 30,000 people. The exercises of the day tock place in a tabernacle, and every bit of space was taken long before the veterans were called to order by Gen. G. W. Gordon of Mem- phis, commander of the Tennessee di- vision. It was the first convention in the history of the organization that the Sons of Veterans sat with the fathers. California was represented on the floor. From far off Montana a delega- tion was sent and Ohio was on hand with four delegates. OFFERS TO MURDER MILNER. Anarchist Arrested in Johannesburg Threatens Briton. Johannesburg, Transvaal, June 15.— Three foreigners, supposed to be an- archists, were arrested here during the night. One man had been heard te boast that he would attempt to as- sassinate the British high commission- er, Lord Milner, if it were made worth his while. DIVIDEND FOR ENGLISHMEN. Thirty-Five Shillings a Share for Hold- ers of Hudson Bay Company. London, June 15.—The Hudson Bay company has declared a dividend of 35 shillings a share and has also returned £1 a share of capital. Last year the dividend was 25 shillings, with £2 re- turned. The last two years were the most successful for many years past. Peace in Light War. Winona, Minn., June 15.—A contro- versy between the Winona Railway and Light company and the city, which has been on for several months, with regard to securing a new fran- chise, has been settled by the city council granting a_ twenty-five-year franchise, one of the conditions being that the city receives its incandescent light at half-rates. The company wanted a fifty-year franchise, and for a time serious trouble was threatened. MASTERS SURRENDER TO THE LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSO- CIATION. SIX WEEKS’ STRUGGLE ENDED MORE THAN A HUNDRED THOU- SAND MEN AFFECTED BY THE STRIKE. TROUBLE IN GETTING CARGOES BOTHERS SHIP OWNERS MORE NOW THAN GETTING THE OFFICERS. Cleveland, Ohio, June 15.—After six weeks of tie-up on the Great Lakes that has directly involved only a couple of thousand men, but indirectly mere than a hundred thousand, who have been idle because of its exis- tence, a cessation was brought to the strike last night by the surrender of the masters, who, with the pilots, have been holding out for a more uani- | form scale of wages this season than was ofrered by the Lake Carriers’ as- sociation, whose boats were most af- fected by the difficulty between the vessel owners and their employe: The strike was declared off last night by Paul Howell, district captain of the Masters and Pilots’ association, who gave out the following state- ment: “The Masters and Pilots’ association has concluded that it would be good policy at this stage of the game, owing to existing conditions over which we have no control, to advise our captains to go to work and make the Most of a Bad Situation. Our mates will meet at the earliest possible opportunity and make ar- rangements along the line of their own ideas and present them to the Lake Carriers’ association for acceptance. In the meantime the mates will re- main where they are until this ar- rangement is made and agreed upon by the two associations.” It is understood that the Lake Car- riers’ association will soon come to an agreement with the mates and that the full fieet of the Lake Carriers’ associa- tion will be gotten under way in a few days. The Lake Carriers’ association was willing to pay last year’s scale of wages, but this was not agreeable to the masters and pilots because of al- leged great difference in the wages of men doin exactly similar work. The strike has been one of the most costly in wages and time lost and stag- nation to business that has occurred in recent years. Trouble in Getting Cargoes. Owners are having more trouble now in getting cargoes than they have in getting masters and mates. No ore charters for the season are reported. The ore which Mitchell & Co. are car- rying is that which is left over from last season. The Pittsburg Steamship company, the lake end of the steel trust, reports that it has over thirty of its vessels in commission, although none of them are carrying second mates. SUN WORSHIP PRIEST FREE. Former Congressman Injured. Helena, Mont., June 15.—Charles S. Hartman, formerly congressman from Montana, was seriously injured yester- day by being thrown from his carriage. Mr. Hartman was driving near Sales- ville when the carriage run off the end of a culvert and Mr. Hartman was thrown out, the horses running for several miles. Mr. Hartman had two ribs fractured and was badly bruised otherwise. Trades Assembly Formed. Fargo, N. D., June 15.—A trades as- sembly has been organized in Fargo. The printers, cigarmakers, plumbers, pressmen, lathers, binders, tailor: machinists and carbuilders were prés- ent at the preliminary meeting, and several other organizations will join. There will be a central body for the adjustment of labor troubles. Dies While at Prayer. Camden, N. J., June 15. — Letitia Hines, ninety years old, of Gloucester City, knelt in prayer yesterday. Some time later her daughter, going to her side, found the old woman dead. Mrs. Hines was a sister of the late ex-Mayor Hines of that city. Dying by the Roadside. Jasper, Ind., June 15.—While on his way home from a dance near Crystal, Dubois county, Henry Roberts was stabbed by Charles and Arthus Evans, prothers. He was found by the road- side dying. Officers are in pursuit of the Evans boys. Head of Cult Miss Reusse Followed Is. Not Convicted. Chicago, June 15.—Ottoman Zar An- dusht Hanish was set free yesterday afternoon by Justice Chott, who found that the state board of health had failed to prove charges of practicing medicine illegally. In the summing up of the case it was shown, according to the magistrate, that the prosecution had not proven that the defendant failed to get a_ license, nor had it proved that Hanish practiced medicine or surgery. OFFERS SCHOLARSHIP. Grafton Hall Privileges for Each Badger County. Fond du Lac, Wis., June 15.— A scholarship in Grafton hall valued at $100 has been placed at the disposal of each county in Wisconsin by Bishop Grafton. The competition is open to girls completing the eighth and ninth grades. The honor is to be conferred through a competitive examination conducted by the county superintend- ent of schools. STRIKE IS BROKEN. Men in the Neenah Paper Mill Return to Work, Appleton, Wis., June 15.—The first break in the paper mills strike oc- curred yesterday when the Badger mill of the Kimberly, Clark & Co. plant and the plant of the Stang Paper company, both of Neenah, resumed operations. Several old machine tend- ers went back to work under the long Incendiaries Are Busy. Chicago, June 15. — The building of the Vulcanite Roofing company, which was damaged $25,000 by fire a few days ago, suffered yesterday in a similar way to the extent of $35,000. The po- lice believe both blazes were incen- diary. Stockman Falls Dead. Wykoff, Minn., June 15. — J. M. Moore, about 68 years old, one of the most prominent stock buyers in Fill- more county for fifteen years, dropped dead on a train here while about to} start with a shipment of live stock. hours schedule. Theré was no trouble. PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED. One Passenger Killed and Several In- jured. Carbondale, Ill., June 15.—The Chi- cago limited passenger on the Illinois Central was wrecked in the terminal yards in this city yesterday, and John Hamilton, a cigarmaker of Memphis, was instantly killed and several pas- sengers bruised and injured. The train was running twenty miles an hour when it ran into an engine which