Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 10, 1904, Page 2

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Content is something you think; other people have when they haven’t. A negro recently fell seventy feet in' New York and lost neither his life nor his religion. Some men find it more difficult to! get divorced from their illusions than! from their wives. Georgia has a town called Shake Rag, whose citizens, however, are said to be no great shakes. Viewed through the smoke of his’ hookah, all battleships look much alike to Sultan Abdul Hamid. Krupp’s gun works are now working: overtime, and peace is still looking in vain for the proverbial “balm.” Holland’s new airship may cost but’ , but it is likely to cost somebody! life before we hear the last of it. A man drank nine quarts of whisky and died. Even the temperance folks must admit that rum has some value. A New York society man has been fined for swearing. Still, the tailor may have given him great provoca tion. That Boston society leader who has taken up the blacksmith’s trade is go- ing to get on the black list if he isn’t careful. A western expert on alcoholism claims that the reason so many men fail to walk straight is that they can’t see straight. The ezar’s edict abolishing whip- ping in his domains will interest the heir apparent when he arrives at the spanking age. In Georgia the catfish have taken to swallowing rattlesnakes. The water must be almost as bad up there as it is in Kentucky. Scuabs have advanced to $5 a dozen in York, but the old familiar political squabble may still be had upon most any terms. Russia claims that flour is contra- band of war, and will do all in her power to discourage the hot-biscuit habit within her borders. The reappearance of the kissing bug at the seaside resorts is taken to mean that the sea serpent story is not good form this year. In Philadelphia an actress killed elf sooner than marry. Death lasts reat deal longer, though, than the average theatrical marriage. If King Edward were to meet the ror of the Hottentots would he r the uniform of a Hottentot ad- a mark of courtesy. is the greatest thing in the but it has its drawbacks when I »ved one pawns your jewels without notifying you in advance. Marie Dressler, the actress, has adopted one of those “incubator *ba- i and her press agent will now something substantial to work The new Holland flying machine costs but $10. Glad to see these little modern conveniences gradually get- ing down to within $9.99 of their ual value. A suit against Armour for $1,200,- 000 is said to be a friendly action, The average man would take it as un- friendly, to say the least, to be sued a million. , POEL aes An irreverent contemporary de- scribes society as “moving along to- Saratoga.” Those poker chips “Saratoga chips” will soon be and moving along also. The birth of the czar’s son is expect- ed to weaken the influence of Pobyed- onostseff. That will mean something worth while if the boy never does any- Croesus, the multi-millionaire of an- tiquity, is said by scholars neyer to have laughed. Probably made the peo- ple “laugh out of the other side of their mouths,” though. The young Russian Alexis has al- ready been made an honorary colonel, but this will naturally cause his royal mother less anxiety about him than if he were serving in the navy. News that a citizen of Rochester has died at the age of 101 lacks com- pleteness. The public does not know whether his length of years was due to tobacco and alcohol or to absti- nence. Once a boyhood friend visited Ros- coe Conkling when a law student. Meeting a supercilious reception when he asked, “Studying to be a lawyer, Roscoe?” he retorted, “You ought to study to be a supreme court Justice!” He meant it for a sneer, but that’s the way every law student ought to study. No one can blame Europeans for believing that all Americans are rich. A Boston woman left a quart of dia- monds in a London hotel and wired back to the proprietor to “keep them until 1 come over again next summer.” | Washington, August Moller, Jr., American vice | consul at Valparaiso, Chile, is dead. The model turret to protect gunners which has been under construction at the Washington navy yards for some time has been completed. The secretary of the interior has approved for patent to the State of Minnesota swamp land list No. 164, embracing 35,356 acres of land in the Duluth district. Indian Commissioner Jones has ap- proved an application of former Mayor Kratka of Thief River Falls for renew- al of license as Indian trader on the Red Lake reservation. Kratka got his first license two years ago, but never used it. . Foreign Gossip. The Very Rev. Ronald Hole, 85 years of age, head of Rochester since 1887, is dead. Former Sultan Murad of Turkey is dead of diabetes. He was a brother of the present sultan. Mme, Gadski, for the first time in nine years, has taken part in the Wag- nerian festival at Munich and: scored an immense success as Senta in “The Flying Dutchman.” x M. Sabatier ,the French sctentist, has discovered a method of producing artificial petroleum by the action of hydrogen on acetylene and the addi- tion of pulverized nickel. The Paraguayan insurrectionists are actively preparing for a land attack by foot and mounted forces. Serious resistance is not expected. Govern- ment troops at Asuncion are freely de- serting. The Vossische Zeitung has received a report from private sources to the effect that renewed bloody anti-Semit- ic excesses have occurred in Bessara- bia, Russia, the province in whith Kishnef is situated. The photographer, Rocchiggiani, who was arrested Aug. 17 in connec- tion with the theft from the Cathedral of Ascoli, Italy, of a priceless eope, which was afterwards bought by J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, com- mitted suicide by hanging himself to a bar in his cell. Me had refused nour- ishment for several days. An imperial decree has been issued summoning the estates of Finland to meet in ordinary session at Helsing- fore, Dec. 6 next. Under the same de- cree the next meeting of the Finnish diet will be held in 1907. The Finnish charter provides for a national par- liament consisting of four estates, the nobles, the clergy, the burghers and the peasants. The estates are con- voked by the emperor of Russia, who is grand duke of Finland. Sins and Sinners. Dominico Mostello and Giuseppe Scirona are in the hospital at Sayre, Pa., seriously wounded by members of the “Black Hand.” John Burley, a negro, forty years old, was hanged at the district jail at Washington for criminal assault on a four-year-old negro girl, committed in July, 1903. Albert Sachs, a giant German black- smith of New York, whose cruelty had driven two of his wives to death by earbolic acid, took his own life in a similar manner. Private Costello, Company I, Ninth infantry, at Madison barracks at Wa- tertown, N. Y., shot by Sentry Plop- fert after having thrown pepper in the sentry’s eyes, is dead. An unknown man entered the home of Mrs. Minnie Greek, in the Canadian Soo, asked for a drink, and stabbed her in the neck as she stooped to fill a glass with water. The man escaped. Thomas Osborne, colored, and a white man whose name is unknown, were arguing about the meat strike in Chicago. Thomas Dillon attempted to act as ,-2eacemaker and was killed by Osborne, Jealous because of the attentions paid his stepdaughter by her sweet- heart, Lorenz Lentsch of Chicago at- tempted to kill both with a revolver and then ended his own life. The girl will die. Edward A. Soule, who embezzled $54,000 from the Home Savings bank of Iowa Falls, pleaded guilty at El- dora, Iowa, and was _ sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment and to pay all costs, Police Officer J. J. Hall was shot and fatally wounded at Danville, Va., by Jack Dillard, a desperate negro out- law in Virginia and North Carolina. Officers have been on the track of the negro for a week. A mob estimated at 1,000 is now looking for the negro, and if captured a lynching may result. Maj. F. E. Eltonhead, late of the Twenty-first and Fourteenth regiments of the United States infantry, a veter- an of the Indian and Philippine wars, committed suicide in his rooms in De- troit by shooting himself through the mouth. Despondency was the cause of the act. Two men robbed Commodore Taylor of $600 in his grecery at Kansas City. They knocked a lighted lamp from his hand and ran. Ignited from the lamp, Taylor’s grocery and an‘ adjoining store burned. Loss, $2,000. Paul Pavicie of Chicago was shot in a fight at Nathan, Mich. A row started between 150 men working on road construction. Supt. Gillvay at- tempted to interfere and was obliged to use\a gun for his protection. Four shots were fired and Pavicie received a bullet in the thigh. His chances of recovery are good. Accidental By the fall of an elevator in the Park building at Pittsburg five persons were hurt. The most seriously injured was Edward Rosenberger, whose skull was fractured. Peter Farari, aged 28, a miner, was shot by walking into a gun set for bear. Five buckshot entered his legs, one passing into his thigh, just escap- ing the abdomen. The year-old daughter of John Pil- ger of the Atlantic mine at Houghton, Mich., had her dress fired from a bon- fire which children had built near her home, and received burns causing her death. Forest fires at the head of the Bitter Root valley in Montana are spreading. Prospectors and campers have’ been forced to leave and in several in- stances camps and cabins have been destroyed. Edward W. Hager, a wealthy manu- facturer, was killed in an automobile accident. The Hager mill is in Cedar- ville, eight miles from Xenia, Ohio, and Mr. Hager made the distance daily in twenty minutes. A One hundred kegs of powder explod- ed in the pressroom of the Laflin & Rand Powder works at Punxsautwa- ney, Pa., killing Leonard Blair, seri- ously injuring three men and causing costly destruction of property. The big plant of the Armstrong Packing company at Dallas, Tex., was destroyed by fire. When the flames were discovered they had got too good a start and firemen were powerless to check them. The loss may reach $500,000. Albert Walker, who only recently re- ceived word that he was the legal heir to Earl Fitzwillem of England and to £50,000 a year from a large estate, is believed to have been drowned while in swimming in the Assiniboine river at Brandon, Man. Heavy rains extinguished all forest fires which have been raging in the vicinity of Wallace, Idaho, with unpre- cedented fury in several places for nearly a month. About $30,000 worth of timber was destroyed in the vicin- ity of Coeur d’Alene lake. While workmen employed at the Lorraine steel plant at Lorraine, Ohio, were tamping a charge of dynamite it exploded, killing William Ferguson and crushing Edward Miller about the chest and head so that he can hardly recover. John Greenwood’s eyes were burned and Mike Prebes’ left arm was broken. Forest fires have destroyed the ham- let of Little Bay, N. F., and 300 fami- lies are homeless. Two men have been drowned. The steamer Prospero has embarked the women and children. The men are fighting the flames in an effort to prevent the destructive fires from covering a wider area. The gov- ernment is providing food, shelter and other assistance to the destitute. Domestic. Over 2,000 of the new coinage of Philippine gold is on board the United States army transport Thomas, which sailed recently from San Francisco for Manila. Adolph C. Zinn, aged fifty-five years, died in Milwaukee of appendicitis, after a week’s illness. Mr. Zinn was well known in banking circles and was prominent in the malting industry. The report of the committee for the relief of the survivors of the Gen. Slo- cum disaster in New York shows that 958 bodies have been ¥ecovered and that $109,543 was collected and ex- pended. Secretary Urey Woodson of the Democratic national committee has re- ceived a letter from William J. Bryan saying he will be at the disposal of the committee for campaign purposes during October. One of the largest steamships on the Pacific coast, the Victoria, will sail from Seattle, Nov. 15, for oriental ports carrying a diminutive exposition. Over $100,000 is being expended in fitting up the vessel for exhibition purposes. For president of the United States, Charles H. H. Howard of Illinois; for vice president of the United States, George H. Shibley of Washington, D. C., is the ticket nominated by the con- vention of the Continental National party in Chicago. Alvin J. Cook, now of Iona, Mich., who was believed by his relatives to have. been killed in the Civil war, or to have perished in a Confederate prison, recently surprised his sister, Mrs. William D. Sherman of Rutland, Vt., by walking into her house. An endurance swimming match from the Brooklyn bridge to Coney island has resulted in a victory for a man with one leg—Charles Seigfried of Bay Ridge—who negotiated the dis- tance in five hours and forty-five min- utes. Two young women were close ‘behind him at the finish. One of them fainted after they had led nearly the entire distance. Several contest- ants were delirious when taken from the water and one or two had to be removed to the hospital. After Jefferies got through with Munroe last Friday night, the miner decided that he would retire from the ring, but with the disappearance of his bruises he believes there are pug- ilists he can whip. Pollock is now seeking to match the miner against Ruhlin. Gen. Samuel Pearson, who com- manded a division of the Boer army and who is now at Wilkesbarre, Pa., is arranging to establish a colony of Boers in Venezuela. He recently com- pleted arrangements with the govern- ment for a tract of 1,000,000 acres of land along the Oronoco river, ? TOO BUSY RETREATING TO SEND WORD TO THE EM- PEROR. WE IS PUSHING ON TO MUKDEN IMPEDED BY FLOODS AND HAR- ASSED AT EVERY STEP BY JAPS. PORT ARTHUR AGAIN TO THE FRONT RUSSIAN GARRISON EXPECTS A GENERAL LAND AND SEA AT. TACK TO-DAY. Lack of official dispatches from the actual seat in the Far Eastern strug- gle continues. It is admitted by the Russian war office that no telegrams whatever were received from Gen. Kuropatkin bearing “Tuesday's date, the last message to the emperor from the general bearing date of Sept. 5 and briefly telling that the army was advancing northward, that it had ex- tricated itself from a dangerous po- sition, that there was constant can- nonading from the rear guard and the loss of that day was about 100. The situation in the light of the latest in- formation may be summed up as fol- lows: Pushing on to Mukden. The Russian forces are pushing on to Mukden, greatly impeded by heavy roads and floods, conducting an order- jy retreat and followed step by step by the Japanese. Details of the fight- ing and of the exact position of the op- posing armies are lacking. The report that Kuropatkin’s rear guard has been annihilated and that the Russian forces are in danger of being surrounded is denied by the Russian general staff. The Russian war office is entirely satisfied that the retreat is being slow- Jy but surely completed. From Tokio comes the official re- port that the bulk of the Russian force is still at Yentai. Jap Losses Will Be Heavy. The Japanese foreign office in an ex- tended report of the fighting up to Sept. 4 says the Russians burned all the railroad bridges over the Taitse river and predicts that while the Jap- anese list of casualties is not yet com- pleted the losses wi!l prove heavy. Viceroy Alexieff is on his way from Harbin to Mukden. The heads of Ku- ropatkin’s long commissary trains have passed through Mukden and are continuing northward. The attack on Port Arthur contin- ues and Chinese arriving at Chefu say the Russian garrison expects a gen- eral land and sea attack to-day. Heavy Firing Near Mukden. London, Sept. 7.—The Express cor- respondent, cabling from St. Peters- burg Tuesday, says heavy and con- tinuous cannonading has been heard fourteen miles to the south of Muk- den, where a battle is believed to be in progress between Kuroki’s army and the Russian left flank. The Mail correspondent at Niuchwang says the Russians are retiring maihly on Tich- ling, avoiding Mukden: The Japanese will winter at Liao-yang and Mukden. Wild Rumors in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, Sept. 7—St. Peters- burg is full of the wildest rumors, some claiming that Kuropatkin’s rear guard has been annihilated, that Ku- ropatkin has been taken prisoner and that Port Arthur has fallen. These alarmist reports were circulated in the, bourse and at one time threatened to cause a panic. Anxiety at St. Petersburg. There has been no news from Gen. Kuropatkin since Monday afternoon. This is attributed to the interruption of direct communication with the com- mander-in-chief, owing to the transfer of the telegraph office to Mukden, whither messages have to be sent by courier. The utmost confidence prevails at the war office that the Russian army is slowly but surely effecting the re- treat without serious risk of being cut off. None the less intense anxiety is felt throughout the whole nation, and this feeling is shared by the emperor. His majesty is unwilling at such a juncture to absent himself from Peter- hof, and has countermanded all pro- posed journeys. He will not go to Warsaw or Libau, and remains clos- eted for hours with his military ad- visors. More Russian Troops for Front. It is stated that by the end of Octo- ber the Fourth, Eighth and Thirteenth army corps, totalling 192,000 men, will reach the front, and that before the end of September 1,100 guns will have been dispatched to Gen. Kuropatkin. Liao-yang in a Wild Panic. Paris, Sept. 7. — A dispatch to the Tempst from Liao-yang, dated Sept. 3, put delayed in transmission, graphical- ly describes the panic which occurred when it became known that the town was to be abandoned. The correspon- dent says: “A crowd of people rushed toward the depot. I was standing in the re freshment room of the station when three Japanese shells burst in succes- sion about 150 feet away. Many per- sons were killed and a Sister of Char- ity was wounded. The people Were Terrified and Fled, jeaving their baggage, wherevpop the Chinese plundered the trunks and valises and the Cossacks grabbed the stock of champagne in the refresh- ment room. “Military trains continued to leave the depot regularly. I left at 2 o'clock for Yentai, where a (nite with Gen. Kuroki had already begun. “A Russian officer who held back the first Japancse assault at Liao- | yang told me that he never saw such fury. The Japanese hurled themselves in masses against the barbed wire de- i fenses and fel] into trap ditches, but | they continued their steady advance. | “At Yentai Gen. Kuropatkin has the | disadvantage of being on a plain, while Kuroki has the advantage of | having positions on the crests of neighboring hills.” | ¢ Terriers Headed Off. Zanzibar, Sept. 7. — The British cruiser Forte early yesterday morning found the Russian volunteer fleet steamers St. Petersburg and Smolensk within the three-mile limit and, com- municated to them the orders of the Russian government to desist from in- terference with neutra! shipping. The commanders of the Russian vessels said they would forthwith proceed to Burope. A report was brought in yesterday by the German steamer Kron Prinz that the St. Petersburg and Smolensk were coaling in territorial waters. The Forte immediately proceeded to search for them and eventually found the Russian vessels. They were not coaling, but after the orders of the Russian government had been delivered to them the St. Petersburg and Smolensk joined a German collier and proceeded to Dar- Es-Salaam, on the African coast, twen- ty-five miles south of Zanzibar. The Forte has returned here. CZAR HELPS THE JEWS. Record of Good Deeds of Russian Ruler Since War Commenced. St. Petersburg, Sept. 7. — Here is what the czar has done for the Rus- sian Jews since the war with the Jap- anese began: First—Freed Jewish prisoners in Si- beria. Second—Extended liberty to Jewish press. Third—Granted better protection to Jews against fanatics. Fourth—Extended the rights of resi- dence. Fifth—Granted right. to engage in wider industrial and commercial ven- tures. Sixth—Granted greater educational rights. Seventh—Extended right to travel by removing restrictions. Bighth—Rescinded order compelling the Jews of some districts to attend mass in orthodox churches twice a year. GAMBLERS ARE HELD UP. Small Man With a Pistol Gathers in $1,000 and Considerable Jewelry. Springfield, Mo., S 7. — A small man who was. watching a gambling game in a down town ablishment yesterday afternoon waited until the game was nearly over, and then, draw- ing a pistol, annovnced that he would receive all the money. About $1,000 was handed over to him. Then he called for watches and got a number. Mack Brooks, the proprietor, turned in a valuable diamond. The man then disappeared and has not been heard of since. . EDITORS TO VISIT PARK. Interstate Tract to Be Seen While on Way to Stillwater. Taylor's Falls, Minn., Sept. 7—The Northwestern Editorial association will arrive here from Pine City Thurs- day afternoon and will be entertained at the Interstate Park, besiaes being driven to St. Croix Falls and other points of interest, as the guests of the county’s citizens. As a concluding grasp of the “glad hand” the editors will be entertained at dinner before starting for Stillwater, where they will arrive early in the evening. WINONA STREET FAIR OPENS. More Than 3,000 Entries Shown and a “Pike” Is Not Wanting. Winona, Minn., Sept. 7.—Winona’s big street fair opened yesterday and in spite of the rain hundreds of peo- ple came in from the surrounding country. There are more than 3,000 entries, a number much in excess of any previous year. Thousands of peo- ple are expected to visit the city dur- ing the fair this week. Third street has been transformed into a “pike,” and some fine attractions are pro- vided. Ball Player Has Leg Broken. Elroy, Wis., Sept. 7—C. S. Dodge, editor and publisher of the Kendall Keystone, broke his left leg about three inches above the ankle while playing in a game of baseball between the Kendall and Wonewoc teams at the Elroy fair. He was immediately taken to the hospital, where the mem- ber was set. Alleged Burglars Nabbed. Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 7. — John Williams and John Higgens, who are wanted on a charge of burglarizing J. W. Berg’s hardware store in this city two weeks ago, have been arrested at New Hampton, Iowa, and will be brought here. Woman Kills Herself. Glenwood, Minn., Sept. 7—Mrs. H. 8. Randall committed suicide by shooting herself through the heart, us- ing a 22-caliber rifle. Her mind had been affected for some time, and her removal to an asylum had been con-’ templated. IMAJORITY ON SIDE OF PEACE STRIKING BUTCHER WORKMEN. WiLL PROBABLY VOTE TO RETURN TO WORK. RESULT OF BALLOT WILL BE LOSE eae CHICAGOANS WANT TC CON- TINUE, BUT OTHER CITIES ARE FOR PEACE. STRIKERS APPLY FOR OLD JOBS | PACKERS SAY THAT 4 THOUSAND OF THEM HAVE BEEN PUT TO WORK. Chicago, Sept. 7—While the actual result of the referendum yote of the butcher workmen on the question of calling the strike off will not be known for several hours the indica- tions point to a settlement. It is Chi- cago against the rest of the country practically and the vote will be close. The unions in the local stock yards that voted yesterday afternoon were largely in favor of continuing the con- test until some further concessions could be secured from the packers, but the outside cities were strongly in favor of calling the strike off. The total vote cast will be less than 20 per cent of the entire membership, which indicates that most of the strikers are taking Little Interest in the Question. In Kansas City only 400 votes were east according to reports, and a ma- jority were against the proposed set- tlement. In East St. Louis a majority of 1,200: votes were cast in favor of peace, and in St. Louis the vote was unanimous to end the struggle. South Omaha and Sioux City also voted in favor of the proposition, and, including the vote cast in New York Saturday night, which will be considered in the final count, the officers were inclined last night to think that the final returns would show a small majority on the side of peace. A few of the Chicago unions have not yet voted, but the sentiment of those that balloted was strongly in fa- vor of Keeping Up the Fight. The officers refused to give out the results, as the canvassing board will meet to-day and count the votes. The executive board of the butcher ‘workmen recommended the accept- ance of the terms offered by the pack- ers, but the recommendation met with little favor around the various halls where meetings were held yesterday afternoon. The beginning of the end of the strike came ear'y yesterday morning when, according to the packers, more than 1,000 of the strikers applied for their old jobs and were taken back. Men began to seek work a few hours before the time set for a meeting of the allied trades conference board to consider the question of submitting to the unions whether the strike should be declared off or not. SLAYS TO AID STRIKE. Says He Murdered Negro and White Strike Breakers. East St. Louis, Ill., Sept. 7.—Accord- ing to statements made last night to Chief of Police Perdy by Louis Kane, formerly a barkeeper in the Yellow Dog saloon, the latter is guilty of kill ing the two men found dead under mysterious circumstances near Black Bridge Monday night. Kane, in his statement, says his reason for killing Reynold, a white man, and Green, a negro, was that they were strike breakers. He told the chief that he was formerly employed as a butcher, and, although he had surrendered his card, he was a strong union man and would use every means in his power to forward the cause of unionism. NEGRO TORTUREL AND KILLED. Ears Cut Off, Then Strung Up and Riddled with Bullets. Brunson, Fla., Sept. 7—Wash Brad- Jey, the confessed negro murderer of Mrs. N. B. Barrow, was yesterday strung up to a tree and his body rid- dled with bullets after his ears had been severed from his head and his: body otherwise mutilated. Bradley’s capture was made by Shed and Walter Howard, two negroes, at the home of another negro, after which he was turned over to the neighbors of the* settlement. After confessing that he was the murderer of Mrs. Barrow Bradley stated that he went to the res- idence for the express purpose of criminally assaulting a daughter of Mrs. Barrow. When Mrs. Barrow was shot she held a sucking babe at her breast. It escaped injury. ROBBERS LOOT OFFICE SAFE. Six Masked Men Raid Car Barns of Traction Company. Lansdale, Pa., Sept. 7.—Six masked’ robbers visitéd the wehigh Valley Traction company’s barn at Souder- ton, and, after beating and gagging four employes, blew open a safe and escaped with between $700 and $800. There were two safes in the office, but only one was robbed. The burglars: had made preparations to crack the other safe, but the alarm in the office sounded and they were frightened off.