Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 17, 1904, Page 2

—}___ oe Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, Admiral Kamimura will now find ft possible to go home without being clubbed. Sir Thomas Lipton continues to have faith in good losing as a business proposition. An actress sued for divorce says she had forgotten her marriage. Now, that’s real acting. General Ma and Admiral Sah as yet have shown no sign of serious in- compatability of temperament. Gracious, what a glorious thing it would have been for the Russians if the ezar’s boy had been twins. Naturally the project to make paper money “velvety” has failed, and we shall go on working hard for it as of old. Sherlock Holmes is needed to ex- plain the true inwardness of the story of the missing jewels down in New- port. Col. Younghusband, owing to his in- osition—to move—may be com- lied to go into winter quarters in Tibet. Obolensky, the new governor of Fin- land, probably is carrying all the in- nee the companies care to write for him. A Chicago journalist is in jail. Those Washington people who want to have an injunction served on a pianist should cheer up. If an injunction will not stop a man rom drumming the scales on a piano ; fifteen hours at a stretch, there other weapons. John Burroughs may think that al) the cats ought to be killed, because they hunt for birds, but doesn’t he love the little kittens? Thomas Bailey Aldrich has written a play in verse, and it is to be put on the stage. But this is not bravery. It is mere reckless daring. A Delaware woman is reported to have succeeded in feeding a family of five people on 27 cents a day. Must have been very cheap people. This announcement that stogies may nde of sugar-beet leaves clears matter that had long been a ry to persons who have smoked up a One football victim has already been Must the gridiron tragedies be added so early to the railroad and steamboat and other kinds of acci cen : isted e Grand Duke Boris has been re- ] to St. Petersburg in disgrace. Kuropatkin found it too much to con- tend with the Japs and with the grand too. . In spite of Mrs. Goelet’s social prominence her example of forgetting a tin cup full of diamonds on the kitchen table is not likely to become fashionable. In New Jersey the mosquitoes are so fierce that people are laid up in the duke hospitals from their attacks, thus add- a new luster to the accident in- nee proposition. Naturally the ezar doesn’t mean to reform all the evils that exist in Rus- 2 right away. He wants, of course, ve something to be done when the royal baby gets a tooth. In West Virginia an eccentric cler- gyman is to stand on a mountain top and preach throughta megaphone. He would do better to stand on his dig: ity and sit down on his foghorn. Princeton professors are about to make a trip to Egypt for the purpose of studying the pyramids. Presuma- bly they are familiar with the history of the notable sphinxes of this coun- try. A New York banker recently got nine years and six months in the pen. ange that men will persist in tak ing chances instead of taking enough to win the reputation of being great financiers. The worst case of “marble heart” on record is supplied by the story of a Chicago man, who recently worried the undertakers by living sixteen bours with a bullet in that department of his interior. A noted ornithologist says the so- ceiled English sparrow is wrongly named, and that it should be called the Russian sparrow. But this looks like trying to pile more trouble on an already afflicted country. The Delaware woman who is boast- ing that she has fed a family of five on 27 cents a day doesn’t say so, but it may be that she substituted saw- dust for the customary breakfast food and they didn’t know the difference. The editor of the London simes has declined a peerage because he wants to be free from obligations to the gov- ernment and the crown. A good rea- son. He might have added, however, that he declined also because he didn’t need an American heiress in his business. Washington. Captain Charles R. King, retired, has been detailed for duty with the national guard of Wisconsin for four years under the terms of the militia act of 1903. John S. Randall of Portland, Me., has been appointed superintendent of construction of the public building at Grand Forks, N. D., at $2,000 per an- num. The appointment was made through the civil service commission. Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright has informed the president that he will retire Dec. 31 to become president of Clark college, at Worces- ter, Mass. It was announced some time ago that Mr. Wright would re- sign during the winter. Foreign Gossip. A wealthy Austrian nobleman, Prince Waldenburg, and his bride are spending their honeymoon on a tour through Italy, on foot. While the British gunboat Comet was engaged in firing practice off Spithead, the breechlock of one of her guns was blown out, killing three sea- men and injuring three others. Senor Platanoff, a member of the council of the Russian empire, has been appointed minister of the inte- rior and chief of the Russian police, in succession of the late M. von Plehve. The Russian imperial ukase extend- ing the rights of residence and to en- gage in commercial and industrial pur- suits to the higher class of educated Jews meets with favor both in the pro and anti-Jewish press. Prince George of Greece, commis- sioner of the Powers in Crete, visited the foreign office at Rome and length- ily discussed the situation in Crete, expressing the opinion ‘that it was im- possible to further delay the union of Crete to Greece, from racial, religious, economic and religious reasons. Two thousand men were killed and four thousand wounded in a battle lasting three days between the Uru- guayan government forces and the revolutionists. Gen. Vgsquez, minis- ter of war, who led the government troops, was defeated and has retreat- ed, abandoning arms and munitions. During a dinner which Emperor William and Empress Augusta gave at the Kaiserhof to the leading offi- cials of Schlesweig-Holstein, the em- peror announced the betrothel of Crown Prince Frederick William to the Duchess Cecelia, sister of the reigning grand duke of Mecklenburg- Schwerin. The baby girl who was adopted a year ago by the marquis of Anglesey has been returned to her parents. During the twelve months the baby sojourned at Anglesey castle she en- joyed all the luxuries which wealth could command. Her parents are in poor circumstances. The numerous coiffeurs, valets, secretaries and chauffeurs in the employ of the mar- quis have also been disbanded. Sins and Sinners. Mystery surrounds the finding of the body of a well-dressed girl of 18 ' on the shores of Woodmont, near New Haven, Conn. The negro who attempted to assault two white girls at Crozette, Ark., was taken from jail and lynched three miles from Crozette. John Joiner, colored, has been hanged at the county workhouse at ‘Wilmington, Del., for the murder of John R. Taylor, colored. Hattie Kumro of Buffalo, N. Y., nearly scared a burglar to death with a white nightrobe and an empty re volver. She looked like a ghost. Burglars during the night made a thorough raid on the business portion of Linden, Mich. Eight stores were ransacked, as was also the postoffice. Mrs. J. Samuel McCue, wife of an ex-mayor of Charlottesville, Va., was shot and killed by an unknown man who was attempting to burglarize the house. . One of the bloodiest encounters in the history of Kentucky feuds took place on Saxton’s Creek. As a result two men are dead and four are dan- gerously wounded. Endeavoring to elope on bicycles, Guy Milton, 23, and Ethel Milton, 16, of Cherokee, Iowa, were run down by officers just as they were entering the town of Correctionville. Minnie McKenzie of Bast Boston, who barricaded herself in her home, defying the police and killing Alfred M. Sturdevant, has been committed to the asylum for the insane. Because she found Mrs. Mayme Heddington in the company /of her di- vorced husband, it is alleged, Grace Butch shot and fatally wounded the former at Sioux City, Iowa. John Van Gordon, arrested at Cen- tralia, Ill., charged with contempt of federal court by violating the labor in- junction of Judge Humphrey, has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. Former secretary James F. Linga- felter of the Homestead Building as- sociation of Newark, Ohio, his wife and son Robert, have been arrested in connection with the failure. The de- ficiency reported by Receiver Webb was $86,000. Charles J. Greely, one of the clev- erest confidence men in the country, has escaped from the county jail at In- dianapolis. Greely was arrested last March in Minneapolis, where, under the name of J. C. Williams, he was conducting extensive swindling oper- ations. Accidental Happenings. Mary, the 17-year-old daughter of Prof. W. F. Cramer of Waverly, Iowa, was fatally burned by a gasoline stove explosion. Five men were drowned in Lake Erie at Cleveland as the result of the capsizing of a naphtha launch on a trip from Lake Vermillion. Five are dead and an equal number seriously injured as the result of a premature explosion of nitro-glycerine. near Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Mrs. Charles Thresher, wife of Charles Thresher, proprietor of the Union hotel, and her oldest son, Wes- ley, were drowned by the capsizing of a sail yacht at Amherstburg, Ont. When robbers attempted to hold up Dr. Fitzpatrick on the Lake Shore drive at Chicago, while riding in his auto, he charged them, running over two and causing them to take to the lake front. Just after stepping off an east-bound Milwaukee train standing at the sta- tion at Okauchee, Wis., Gustav Stabbs, thought to be from Illinois, was struck by a rapidly-moving west-bound train and literally cut to pieces in sight of the passengers. The mail boat Virginia ..<e, from Northern Labrador, reports that the seaboard was swept by a fierce gale two weeks ago. Much damage was done to fishery property along the coast ,and five schooners were driven ashore, resulting in the loss of eleven lives. Eight passengers were killed and nearly fifty injured in a wreck of a south-bound Wabash passenger train near Pendleton, Mo. It is estimated that the train carried 500 persons and was running at full speed when the day coach left the track and dragged the diner down the embankment. The second section of No. 1 Cana- dian Pacific imperial limited collided with train No. 118 on a siding at Sin- talauta, Man., due to a switch having been left open, it is supposed by the crew of the latter train, resulting in the killing of five women passengers in tourist car No. 1047, and the in- jury of four other passengers and th porter. ¢ While working on the standpipe of the new waterworks, eighty feet high, the scaffold gave way and precipitat- ed three men to the ground at Leth- bridge, N. W. T. W. Lombard of Los Angeles was instantly killed, George Moore of London, England, probably fatally injured, and W. Roach of Chicago slightly hurt. General. A uniform cut of $5 a ton on all steel tubing was declared at a meeting of the steel tube pool in New York. World’s fair admissions since the opening have numbered 9,118,556. Last week’s attendance was 759,307. ~The great textile strike at Fall Riv- er, Mass., entered on its seventh week with very little change in the situa- tion. Miss Mittle Atkinson, a society girl of Marlin, Tex., is dead from a centi- pede bite, which she received while dancing. - Dr. Henry Tuck, vice president of ‘the New York Life Insurance com- pany, is dead at Seabright, N. J., after a long, illness. Archbishop Farley of New York has been appointed national chaplain of the Ancient Order of Hibernians by President Dolan. All attendance records at the St. Louis exposition were broken last Tuesday, when 207,483 persons passed through the gates. A swarm of bees attacked and kill- ed a team of horses owned by Charles Bart of Sterling, Ill. Bart is badly stung and his condition is serious. Charles Finney Clark, 68, president of the Bradstreet company, died in London of keart failure, presumably caused by an attack of indigestion. Four members of a family from Ar- kansas spent three days in Delmar Park, St. Louis, under the impression that they were seeing the world’s fair. John Picard, commissioner general from France to the St. Louis exposi- tion, and as such the special repre- sentative of Presifent Loubet, is in New York. East side boys and girls in New York are in great glee over the an- nouncement that the Educational alli- ance has organized a children’s thea- ter for their benefit. Frank Osborn, son of E. C, Osborn of Sedalia, Mo., eloped to Oklahoma with Dicey Ellen West and at the same time Frank’s 16-year-old sister eloped with Edward Love. Street car telephones over which crews or passengers may converse at any point reached by telephone have been installed on the Charleroi divi- sion of the Pittsburg Railway com- pany. ; As a result of the great number of cases of suicide in New York in which carbolic acid has figured as the agent of destruction, an amendment has en made to the sanitary code for- bidding the sale of carbolic acid ex- cept on a physician’s prescription. This amendment applies to a solution of which carbolic acid forms 5 per cent or more. Men who have been paying alimony to former wives, married after getting their decree ,are celebrating over the new New York state law which cuts off the incomes‘ of divorcees who have remarried. KUROPATKI Held Up a Rock island Train in lowa —Car Safe is Dynamited. Des Moines, lowa, Sept. 14. — Five bandits perpetrated a successful hold- up of a passenger train on the Rock Island near. Letts shortly after mid- RUSSIANS ‘HARRASSED BY RU- night yesterday morning. The state- MORS THAT SUCH AN EVENT ALSO WORRIED ABOUT CHINESE | company FEAR THAT JAP ADVANCE IN MANCHURIA MAY INVOLVE CHINA IN WAR. BALTIC SQUADRON IS STOPPED AT LAST MOMENT DEPARTURE iS DEFERRED FOR SEV- ERAL DAYS. There bas been no renewal of fight- ing on a large scale between the Rus- sian and Japanese armies in the Far east. At St. Petersburg the people are barrassed by rumors of impending dis- aster to Gen. Kuropatkin, which find ready credence because of the lack of official information from the geveraPs headquarters at Mukden, and for the moment the popularity of the head of the Russian armies in the field is in eclipse. In that capital, too, there is much uneasiness felt lest the Japanese advance in Manchuria should afford occasion for the growth of an anti- Russian spirit in China and the ulti- mate projection of that power into the conflict. Baltic Fleet Stopped. Berlin, Sept. 14. -- The Tageblatt’s St. Petersburg correspondent tele- graphs that the departure of the Baltic squadron has at the last mo- ment been deferred for several days, apparently to await news from the Far Sast. The fieet will remain for the present at Reval. German Support for Russia. T.ondon, Sept. 14.-—The Times, in a special article, gives the history of an alleged understanding arrived at be- tween Germany and Russia which, it believes, took definite shape at the time of the commercial negotiations at Norderney, in July, and which will se- cure to Russia Germany's support in the ultimate settlement of terms of peace with Japan, and to Germany, so far as Russia is concerned, a_ free hand in future for the carrying out of her scheme of world polities on lines of least resistance—in China, namely, where it will come in contact only with British interests. Believed Russia Would Be Victor. Emperor William, in seeking this agreement, the article says, believed Russia would eventuaily be victorious, and his good will has already enabled Russia to send her finest troops from the Western provinces to the Far East, and, to a certain extent, dis- mantle the Western fortresses of Ru: sia of siege guns for the seat of war. Whilst beside facilitating Russian pur- chases of ships and war material. in Germany it was also incended that the warships at Port Arthur and Vladivos- tok should be given refuge at Kaichow in order to be available at the con- clusion of the war, in the hands of German diplomacy, for exercising pressure upon Japan in concluding peace. Call Out More Jap Troops. The Daily Mail’s correspondent: at Chefu reports that 300,0 Chinese coolies are engaged upon Japanese in- trenchmenis between Dalny and Port Arthur. The Morning Post’s correspondent at Shanghai hears that the calling.out of a portion of the Japanese territorial army is imminent. From ‘Tokio the correspondent of the Standard telegraphs that the Chi- nese government is becoming uneasy over the fate of Manchuria. An uncon- firmed report, he says, is current that Wh Ting-fang. the Chinese assistant foreign mini r, will leave Pekin shortly on a special mission to Europe and America on the Manchurian ques- tion. Bennet Burleigh, cabling from Tien- tsin to the Daily Telegraph, still in- sists that the Japanese casualties in the battle of Liao-yang are nearer 30,- 000 than 17,000. BRAVERY SAVES BABES. Prompt Action of Nurses Prevents Dis- aster at a Fire. St. Louis, Sept. 14. — Through the presence of mind and bravery of three nurses and a house girl at the Chris- tian Mothers and Babies’ home last night thirty-seven babies, ranging in age from one month to two years, were saved from being burned to death in a fire that charred the whole inside of the buiiding. A policeman rescued the aged inmates of the home who were bed-ridden. The fire loss is nominal. BIG FOREST FIRE RAGES. Destroys Mining Property Near Ana-~ conda. ‘ Anaconda, Mont., Sept. 14.—A large forest fire is raging in the mountains west of here and a hoisting works and shaft house, together with a bunk and boarding house have been de stroyed. The whole mountain is a mass of flame, and at night the sight is a spectacular one, the long lines of flaming pines being visible for miles around. ments of exp: men are that they se- cured no money, though the safe was blown open and the contents taken, the officers asserting that the safe contained merchandise of some value, papers in transit, etc., but no money. Three specia! one of which are posses of 1 and express employes and a number of officers, were rushed to the scene im- mediately upon receipt of the new going from Muscatine West Liberty and Devenport. Hundreds. of men joined in scouring the country near Columbus Junction. Bloodhounds were used and they followed the trail of the robbers from near the deserted en gine to Columbus Junction, but, there they lost it. It is believed that the robbers made their way successfully to the Iowa river and thence down to the Mississippi. Supt. W. H. Quick of the lowa division of the United States Express company stated Jast night that the company lost nothing as the money was not carried on the train held up. The company has offered $1,006 reward for the arrest and con- viction of the robbers. DAN PATCH IS DOOMED. World's Premier Pacer Fatally Strick- en at Topeka. Minneapolis, Sept. 14. — Dan Patch, king of stallion pacers, pride of Min- nesota and pet of the Savage farm at Savage, Minn., is doomed to death. Dan has suffered strangulated hernia at Topeka, Kan., where he was to ap- pear yesterday, and C. L. Hersey, his trainer and driver, wires the Interna- tional Stock Food company, that “Dan has no chance on earth.” M. W. Sav- age, Dan’s owner, was already on his way for yesterday's exhibition on a fast trac and wires from Council Bluffs his fears as to the recovery of his horse. Veterinarians are hurrying from the East to do ail that skill can accomplish to save his life. The horse is insured for about $50,000. MICHELET AND HIS INDIANS. They Will Occupy a Typical Lodge at World’s Fair. Frazee, Minn., Sept. 14.—Maj. Simon Michelet, Indian agent at White Barth, has gone to the world’s fair, accompa- nied by a band of Chippewa Indians numbering eighteen. They will put up in an Indian village. which will give fair visitors a good idea of the real life of the Indians and of their vil- lages. Some of the best types of In- dians were taken by the major in the persons of Chief Me-vhe-ke-ga-shig and other noted Indian warriors, who are genuine Indians. GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER. Jury Says H. L. Hubbard Killed His Brother-in-Law. Huron, §. D., Sept. 14. — The jury yesterday in the case of the state vs. H. L. Hubbard for the alleged mur- der of his brother-in-law, W. G. Cake- bread, last June, on tr before Judge Whiting in the circuit court for the last week, returned a verdict of man- slaughter in the first degree. The two men owned a farm together, and the altercation occurred over 2 piece of corn which, was to be plowed. Cake- bread only lived ten minutes after the shot was fired. TWIN CITY WON'T STAY OUT. Anoka City Dads Bar Phone Company but It Advances. Anoka, Minn., Sept. 14. The city council took adverse action against an outside telephone company coming in here, claiming the Northwestern was enough. Yesterday the Twin City company suddenly began work on the construction of a line south of town, all on private prope: There seems to be no way to prevent its approach, so its line probably will s' SHERIFF IS INDICTED. Woman Charges Assault to Le Sueur County Official. Le Sueur Center, Minn., Sept. 14. — The sheriff of Le Sueur county, Joseph Smith, was indicted here yesterday on the charge of assault on complaint of Mrs. Lizzie Kreitzer. He was immedi- ately arrested by the coroner, Dr. Aitkins, but afterward was released on bail. He asserts his innocence and demands immediate trial. Wood Alcohol Killed Indians. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 14. — Deputy. United States Marshal Haggart has been at Laureat, Rolette county, to ar- rest Joe Plante, the storekeeper, who sold the Florida water to the Indians which resulted in nine deaths. The stuff was made of wood alcohol. The Indians in that vicinity were very much aroused and threatened vio- lence unless Plante was prosecuted. The complaint was made on the affi- davit of the agent at the Turtle Moun- tain reservation. Threshing Outfits Burned. Viborg, S. D., Sept. 14. — Olsen's steam threshing outfit was consumed by fire last Saturday afternoon, togeth- er with six Stacks of grain. The fire started from the engine, which was a straw burner. Spring Valley, Minn., Sept, 14.—Fire set from L. J. Teby’s engine destroyed two stacks of grain and badly dam- aged the separator on the John Bate- man farm, six miles northwest of here ees. 'DISMANTLE OR | ted States ins LEAVE FRISCO BRIEF TIME WILL BE GIVEN. RUSSIAN CRUISER TO MAKE REPAIRS. ‘ MUST THEN STRIP OR GET OUF BELIEVED THAT VESSEL WILL REMAIN AT FRISCO UNTIL WAR ENDS. | JAP CRUISERS WILL LAY FOR HER IF SHE REMAINS FOR REPAIRS DESTRUCTION WILL AWAIT HER OUTSIDE. Oyster Bay, L. L, Sept. 14.—Russia’s auxiliary cruiser Lena, which put inte the port of San Francisco last Sunday, presumably from Vladivostok, either will have to leave that port within @ brief time prescribed by this govern- ment or will have to dismantle. That in brief, it can be said authoritatively, is the decision of the American gov~- ernment. Muddle Cleared Up. Washington, Sept. 14.—The develop- ment of the day so far as it related to the Russian cruiser Lena at San Fran- cisco, was the clearing up of the offi- cial muddle arising out of the doubt as to which of five departments of the government should deal with it. It was finally decided by the president that the state and navy departments should treat the case, acting ,ointly, a decision calculated greatly to simplify its handling. Over night came a telegram from Admiral Goodrich, at San Francisco, showing that on his own initiative he had caused one of His Expert Officers to make a preliminary examination of the Lena, and that temporary repairs. would oceupy six weeks’ time, and that new boilers would involve eight months’ delay. The president ap- proved the admiral’s action and de- cided that he skould continue to handle the case in San Francisco un- der instructions from the state and navy departments. Agreeable to the president's instruc- tions, Acting Secretary Adee, for the state department, and Capt. Pillsbury, for the navy department, had two con- ferences during the day and the result was the Preparation of Instructions to Admiral Goodrich, which it is un- derstood were wired to the president for his approval. There is good ground to believe that these instruc- tions contemplate the allowance of sufficient time for the Lena to make temporary repairs. However there is a growing belief here that the vessel will be obliged to intern in the end, for it is altogether likely that by the time she could be made ready to go- to sea one or more Japanese cruisers would be outside the Godden Gate ready to sink or capture her. Stay Until War Ends. San Francisco, Sept. 14.—Acting un- der instructions from Collector of the Port Stratton, Capt. J. K. Bulger, Uni- sctor of hulls and boil- ers, yesterday inspected the boilers of the Russian transport Lena. It is un- derstood that he found them in need of repairs and recommended that the commander of the vessel be given time enough to put them in seaworthy condition. Collector Stratton immedi- ately reported to Washington the ob- seryations of the inspector, giving them his official approval. The impression prevails among those best informed that the Lena will be dismantled and remain here until the end of the war. She is still guarded by several vessels of the United States na FOUR MEN KILLED BY CAVE-IN. Smotheredto Death Before Assistance Could Reach Them. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 14—rour men were killed in a cave-in of a gravel pit nine miles southeast of here yes- , at Laredo and is still terday. The accident | occurred two miles from Oakville, where the men had excavated gravel beneath an over hanging bank. This gave way and the four victims were smothered be- fore assistance could reach them. Loose Wagon Seat Brings Death. Anoka, Minn., Sept. 14.—While Mrs. Susan Dunn of Adell, Wis., after visit- ing M. T. Taplin’s home in Oak Grove, was driving with her husband, the spring wagon seat, which was not se- curely fastened, in passing over a rut fell backward, throwing them out. Mrs. Dunn’s back was broken and she died several hours later. Lives Lost in Flood. Laredo, Tex., Sept. 14.—The flood of the Rio Grande is sweeping the valley below here. Great damage has been done. The river is up twenty-one feet rising. It is. feared that many lives have been lost. Farmer Commits Suicide. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 14—Frank Curtis, a farmer at Oriska, Barnes county, ‘committed suicide by jumping into a swell, He had been despondent as 2 Fesult ef cxpp conditions.