Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 24, 1904, Page 2

By ©. E. KILEY. eS ae GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. A Philadelphia widow has !nherited $50,000,000. London papers please ion’t copy. @ The Paraguayan rebels seem to have” reached the “nothing to arbitrate” stage of their fight. Dogfish are béing eaten as canned salmon in New York. In time Gotham may become an Igorrote village. ‘The eastern war has demonstrated one thing, and that is the crying need of a good roads movement in Man- churia. Money that was used in the year 800 B. C. has been found. Russell Sage will probably want to know why tt was used. The rumor that Russell Sage paid his respects to a friend the other day has been confirmed, but he parted with nothing else. If the Dime Novel trust will put up the price to 15 cents the act will have the happiest effect in limiting the out- put of boy bandits. “In summer gowns,” says a fashion writer, “there are some exceedingly pretty things.” That’s right. Even the men have noticed it. Carnegie, who says it is an easy matter to get rich, probably was brought to that opinion by his ex- hausting efforts to get poor. he Think of anybody’s losing $140,000 worth of jewelry by the burning of an Adirondack camp! Are we “going back to nature” in evening clothes? The czar, owing to the birth of his son, will remit $68,500,000 taxes. He ought hereafter to be able to get the tax-dodger vote without much trou- ble. Cotton is going up. But since only those persons who stay out all night lave acquired a taste for cotton 1t really cuts little figure as a breakfast food. a And still there are numerous mar- ried couples right here, not one of whom would consider for an instant a proposition to swap their baby for the czar’s. The news that ex-bandit Cole Young- er is suffering from stomach trouble shows that even a man who leads an : outdoor life isn’t certain to dyspepsia. Those Logansport girls who com- plain because the young men of the town do not spend money on them are in a fair way to get an awful rebuke from Uncle Russell Sage. Mark Twain advised people never to go to bed, because statistics prove more people die in bed than anywhere else. But this won't be true much jonger if the railways keep on. ~ One by one our prized ideals fall. Now it is the Britons’ cleanliness, for lo! it appears the poor Briton knows pot the use of the tooth brush! The bath tub delusion will go next. Fifty been discharged for flirting on the Washington. Arthur E. Wiseman has been ap- pointed postmaster at Onamia, Mille Lacs county, Minn., vice Wt J. Me- Claire, resigned. Rural carriers appojnted for Minne- sota routes: Clara City, route No. 2, John H. Emmen; Millerville, route No. 1, Charles Debilzan. » The checks for interest on the Span- ish indemnity certificates, aggregating $28,000, have been mailed by United States Treasurer Roberts. Consul Gudger, at Panama, in a lengthy report to the state department says the death rate in Panama during the six months ending July 1 was 54 in 10,000. He thinks the rate will be greatly lowered when sanitary meas- ures are taken. The controller of the currency gave out an abstract of reports of the condi- tion of national banks in St. Paul on Sept. 6, compared with reports of June 9. It shows that total resources in- creased from $30,427,233 to $32,136,- 797; loans and discounts increased from $15,699,041 to’ $16,677,743, and cash reserve decreased from $2,864,261 to $2,806,643; individual deposits in- creased from $15,539,760 to $16,709,339, and the average reserve held fe. from 26.67 to 25.38 per cent. From Other Shores. Gen. Aparicaro Acivara, the chief of the Uruguayan revolutionists, is dead, and peace negotiations have begun. The pope received in private audi- ence Archbishop Chappelle of New Or- leans, apostolic delegate for Cuba and Porto Rico. The difficulty between French and colonial fishermen on the French shore of Newfoundland is daily growing more acute. The Allan, Dominion and Canadian Pacifid steamship lines reduced their steerage rates from London or Liver- pool to Quebec from $15 to $10. The Cuban senate has confirmed the nominatton of Marquis de Montoro, the present minister to Great Britain, to be also minister to Germany. Four English tourists were killed while attempting an ascent of Gran Paradiso, a difficult mountain in the Alps. Thé bodies have been found. The Ottoman bank has notified the American legation that it holds. $25,- 000 in settlement for the claim for land illegally seized and belonging to an American citizen at Smyrna. Sins and Sinners. Every prisoner, 31 in all, escaped from the county jail in Camden,Ala. Four murderers yet unsentenced were among them. : Wiley Gibson, a youth held in jail at Jonesville, Va., for robbery, escaped by departing from the prison clad in the dress and bonnet of his aged mother. Claude Beall, a fireman, was shot and killed by Harry Ross, an engineer, at Fort Worth, Tex. Beall is alleged to have attacked Riss with an air coupling. John Schave, an aged widower of Montague, Mich., shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Deercup, a widow after she had refused to marry him, then went to his own home and shot hint- incinnati telephoiié girls have , Self. Knocked senseless by a gang of wires. They deserved what they got.| ruffians with whom he remonstrated Girls who can’t confine themselves to| because they were beating two labor- flirting face to face are not entitled to, ers, Rev. James Hunter, pastor of the any sympathy. Russell Sage announces that he Joesn’t believe any man can make 0,000,000 a year honestly. It is safe conclude now that “Uncle Rus- annual income doesn’t reach gure. The Paraguayan minister of war bas been captured by revolutionists, who report that they will take the Paraguayan army dead or alive as soon as they find the bed undet which be is located. A man in Tacoma, Wash., has a pair of Siberian fleas which he ex- pects to sell to Baron Rothschild for $5,000. It is comforting to know that | at such a price as that the baron can not afford to turn them loose. Another fire occasioned by the care- disposal of a lighted cigar stub sust serve as a reminder that to the cost of the amount of tobacco annu- ally burned in this country must be added the value of a good many build- s incidentally burned by and with An enterprising postmaster suggests to the government that he be permit- ted to employ women to carry the mails. There are some crusty cynics, bachelors, of course, who are ready to declare that woman now exercises al- together too much control over the males. Certainly the Japanese have luck as -vell as pluck and intelligence and en- ergy and enterprise and indomitable persistency. Witness the discovery on government property in Japan of gold fields with an estimated yield of $500,- 000,000. Imagine the surprised interest of the citizen who passed to a better life fifteen or twenty years ago if he could come beck to this world of care and trouble to-day and read how Lebaudy’s runaway airship in France was caught by chasing it in automobiles. Anderson Memorial Reformer church of New York, is dying. The bank at Stromberg, Neb., was robbed at an early hour the other morning. Burglars blew the safe and secured $200 in cash and $500 in checks. People were awakened by the explosion. The burglars headed to- ward Lincoln. | Led by a woman, six policemen res- !eued from imprisonment in a disused hospital boat at New York, two little girls who had been kidnapped. They then found Axel Estelle, whom the hysterical children accused and with difficulty saved him from a mob that tried to drown him. At Webb Court House the Waits and Crabtree factions of Kentucky moun- tain feudists on one side and Daniel and Holbrook gang on the other, fought a pitched battle with rifles and revolv- ers. John Daniel was instantly killed and Charles Holbrook was fatally in- jured. Accidental Happenings. s Drowning in buttermilk is the fate , that befell the 14-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs Adam Stecle of Larwill, Ind. Fire caused $25,000 damage in the village of Stanford, Ill., many build- ings, including the postoffice, were burned. ‘ The lives of seven people were snuffed out in a fire at the five-story tenement, Seventy-first street, New !York. Many were injured. | Blaine Hoffman,“ aged nizeteen years, receiyed such internal injuries in a game of football Saturday at Ly- kens, Pa., that death resulted. The greater part of the business section of St. Helen, Columbia county, | Oregon was destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000. | Fourteen negro fishermen who cross- 4@ the bar at Charleston, S.C., Tuesday have not returned. Three are known to be drowned and there is only a bare possibility that the two other boat loads were picked up by a pass- ing vessel. Fire has destroyed the Manasquan, N. J. Block Ice and Cold Storage plant, entailing a loss of $150,000. Fish to the amount of 1,000,000 pounds was destroyed. ‘ Through the presence of mind and bravery of three nurses at the Chris- tian Mothers’ and Babies’ home at St. Louis, 37 babies were saved from be- ing burned to death. David Monnett of Sioux City was shot in the breast with a charge of buckshot and instantly killed at Deca- tur, Neb. He crawled into a prairie schooner occupied by a man and two women and was shot by the occupants. They say they thought Monnett a rob- ber. The Natoma vineyard winery, fif- teen miles northeast of Sacramento, Cal., on the American river, together with the fermenting plant and distil- lery, were burned to the ground. The Natoma winery was one of the largest in the state and the loss probably will reach $300,000. General. The twelfth conference of the inter- parliamentary union has adjourned at St. Louis to meet next year in Prus- sia. Managers of Western railways will arm engineers, firemen and trainmen of the passenger trains to prevent holdups. Frost visited almost every part of Nebraska recently, although no great damage was done to the crops. Most of the corn is out of danger. Champion Jeffries says that he is perfectly willing to meet Ralph Rose in a battle for the championship or anything else that Rose might want to fight for. F To curb and investigate crime in the Italian district, Police Commis- sioner McAdoo of New York has an- nounced the establishment of an Ital- ian pulice staff. At a meeting of the American Geo- graphical society in New York, Com- mander R. E. Peary was given a medal by the French society for Arc- tic explorations. The permanent organization of the new American party whose avowed purpose is opposition to Mormonism in politics was effected at Salt Lake City during a mass meeting. The first 25,000 gold souvenir dol- lars for the Lewis and Clarke exposi- tion has been received by the First Natianal bank of Portland, Ore., from the government mint at Philadelphia. Judge Lanning in the United States circuit court at Trenton, N. J., has dis- missed the suit of Frederick E. Mae- der for the appointment of a receiver for the Buffalo Bill Wild West com- pany. Jack O’Brien and Hugo Kelly fought six rounds at Philadelphia, and at the end of the sixth Kelly was almost out. Kelly was tough and clever and gave a better account of himself than ex- pected. The Connecticut Republican state convention named a state ticket head- ed by Henry Roberts for governor. The platform adopted was an indorse- ment of the party’s politics in the state and nation. The strike at the Democratic mine, Coal City, Il., ordered by the state officers- of the United Mine Workers because the operators refused to rein- state a driver, has been won by the men. Application for a theater license to conduct a music hall in the old Iro- quois theater in Chicago has been made and has been taken under ad- visement by Acting Commissioner |. Stanhope. The announcement of the engage- ment of Senator Thomas M. Patterson of Colorado and Mrs. Mabel Nagle, the divorced wife of George H. Nagle of Cheyenne, has created much interest in society circles at Cheyenne, Wyo. Two suits which will affect the own- ers and builders of the steel skyscrap- ers throughout the country have been begun in Chicago and New York. The plaintiff is the Buffington Iron Building company, which will undertake to prove an infringement of the Buffing: to npatent. The police of Mexico City, in regard to a story published in the United States under a Houston, Tex., date, telling of an alleged conspiracy on the part of two Spaniards, natives of Bar- celona, to assassinate President Roose- velt, branded the story as a canard pure and simple. The Colorado Republican state con- vention nominated James H. Peabody for governor. The platform indorses the administration of Gov. Peabody, and calls on all citizens, irrespective of party, to support him in his efforts to “rebuke the spirit of lawlessness, which would turn popular government into irresponsible despotism and keep alive class hatred, lawlessness and treason.” Laurence G, Phipps, a Pittsburg millionaire, was granted a divorce from his wife, Genevieve Chandler Phipps, on the ground of desertion, by the district court at Denver. No de fense was made, and no evidence was introduced to support the charge. John Alexander Dowie has paid an additional $100,000 to his creditors. This makes a total of 60 per cent he has paid on an indebtedness of $400,- 000. The remaining $160,000 of the debt still unpaid falls due Dec. 12. The sale of the right of way of the electric railroad proved a windfall to Zion. FORTRESS AGAIN CENTER OF IN- TEREST IN* THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST. GENERAL ATTACK BY LAND AND SEA REMNANT OF RUSSIAN SQUAD- RON IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A HAND. BATTLE 1S IMMINENT AT MUKDEN EIGHT OR NINE JAPANESE ODI- VISIONS ADVANCING AGAINST THE RUSSIANS. Port Arthur is again the center of interest as regards the war in the Far East. A general attack by land and sea is regarded as likely to follow the Japanese assault upon the redoubt protecting the water supply of the fortress and town. Participation of the fleet under Gen. Togo is looked for. In this latter event it is expected that the remnant of the Russian squadron in the port will sally forth to engage the Japanese shi Kight, and possibly nine, divisions are re- ported to be advancing on Mukden and another battle between the armies un- der Gen. Kuroki and Gen. Kuropatkin is imminent. “St. Petersburg has heard that the Baltic squadron has been reinforced by four warships purchased from Ar- gentina. General Attack Begins. Shanghai, Sept. 21. — The general attack on Port Arthur which began yesterday and in which the Japanese fleet is co-operating, was resumed this morning. The Japanese captured two important forts on the east side of Sueuzeying, north of Port Arthur. Say Japs Were Repulsed. St. Petersburg, Sept. 21.—-Interest is again centered upon Port Arthur, owing to the reception from foreign sources of news that a general storm- ing of the fortifications there has be- gun. A few belated telegrams. from Gen. Stoessel, the commander at Port Arthur, published Tuesday afternoon, recording the repulse of the Japanese and continued attacks, strengthens confidence in theability of the defend: ers to hold out despite the Furious Onslaughts being made on them. The last attack mentioned by Gen. Stoessel took place {he night of Sept. 14 and was directed against redoubt No. 8, which protects the water supply of the city. The re- doubt is about two miles beyond the line of permanent forts, and the at- tack upon this shows that the Japan- ese were not then within striking dis- tance of the main fortress. Reports from Shanghai that some of the defenses had fallen into the hands of the Japanese as the result of a gen- eral assault gn Sept. 20 are not con- firmed from Russian sources. Awaiting Reinforcements. Berlin, Sept. 21.—The correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger has telegraphed from Revel to his paper an interview with Vice Admiral Rejestvensky (in command of the Russian Baltic fleet) in which the admiral declares that he expects three additional vessels be- fore long, and that with the augmen- ted squadron, after necessary maneu- vers, he will leave for the Far East. The correspondent dimly intimates the arrival of the squadron at Vladi- yostok need not be expecied before spring. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: It is reported here that four w hips purchased from Argeniina have ar- rived at Libau. Pick of Western Russia. London, Sept. 2!.—The Express cor- respondent at St. Petersburg wires: According to trusworthy informa- tion received from Harbin Gen. Kuro- patkin, since Sept. 9, received 75,000 reinforcements at Mukden and 170 guns. The majority of reinforcements are picked troops from Western Rus- sia. There are at present 22,000 wounded in the hospitals at Harbin, of which 15,000 will be practically fit for field duty and returned to Mukden within ten days. URGES NETHERLANDS ON. . Queen Wilhelmina Says HoMme Indus- tries Should Brace Up. The Hague, Sept. 21. — Queen Wil- helmina reopened the states general assembly yesterday. In the speech from the throne the queen said the home industries of the Netherlands needed strengthening. The queen an- nounced also the.forthcoming intro- ductign of bills providing for old age pensions and higher education. CARD GAME WITH LIFE AS STAKE Loser Commits Suicide According to Agreement. Sedalia, Mo., Sept. 21. — Charles Bliss, aged twenty-two, a painter from Peru, Ind., where his father is a Sev- enth Day Adventist preacher, commit- ted suicide Monday night by swallow- ing carbolic acid. At the coroner's in- quest yesterday a woman testified that an hour before the suicide she - ° areca eeu WINS THIRD’ BUTTER TEST Minnesota Again Has Best Score at St. Louis. . St. Louts, Sept. 21—Minnesota again has the highest average score on but- ter at the world’s fair. J. C. Jocelyn of Winsted takes the sweepstakes on print butter with a score. of 98; Mrs. J. C. McRosta of Owatonna takes sweepstakes on dairy, with a score of 97. Jowa gets a quarter of one point ahead of Minnesota on creamery with a score of 98 1-4, O. P. Jenson of Union creamery, minn,, takes second with a score of 98: James Rasmussen of Ler- dah}, Minn., third, 97 3-4. Minnesota wins the sweepstakes on unsalted butter by a score of 97. M. Sondegaard of Hutchinson, Minn., was al a great disadvantage owing to the fact that she complied with the rule that required all butter to be in St. Louis by Sept. 10. lowa delivered its product two days after the required time. Wisconsin and Illinois deliver- ed their showin at the exposition grounds on Sept. 15, five days after the time required by the exposition rules. This completes the tbird of the four tests. Minnesota has for the third time won the highest average and her ultimate full vietory is practi- cally nred, NO BAR TO CHINK WOMEN If They Wed Regularly Admitted Ce- lestials After Coming. Portland, Or., Sept. 21.—According jo the Telegram a decision rendered by United States Conrmissioner Sta- dem in the case of Doe Gum Yip, a Chinese woman held for deportation, will throw open ibe doors of immigra- tion to Celestial women without de- Jay, so long as the woman marries a reguiariy admitted Chin after ar- rival. The Yip woman was charged with being illegally within the pre- cincts of the United States. After her arrest she married Wong Ti Fook, ac- cording to the Jaws of the United States, and th cording to Commis- sioner Stedem, entitles her to a resi- dence in this country. FEUD BATTLE IN KENTUCKY. Breathit County the Scene of Another Sanguinary Conflict. Owingsville, Ky., Sept. 21. — News reached here yesterday that a feud battle was fought with shotguns and revolvers on South Quicksand creek, Breathitt county, between Alexander Jackson and his two brothers on one side and several unknown parties on the other. It is said that the parties met at a schoo! house «t which Jack- son is employed as a teacher and both sides began firing at once. Alexander Jackson received the contents of a shotgun in‘his left side and is badly injured. Some of the other party were badly injured. It is reported that both parties are preparing for further trouble. OHIOAN CONFESSES MURDER. Postal Card Tells That Son of Victim Is Not Guilty. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 21—County At- torney Hungate yesterday received a postal card from J. Max West of Ohio, in which West claims to have killed J. Collins in this city a few months ago. He says he has only a few months to live and has repented. John H. Col- lins is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of his father. SAYS HE STABBED WOMAN. Finlander Caught at Soo Admits a > Crime. Marie, Mich., Sept. 21. —~ a Finlander captured admits he stabbed a woman in Canada. He gave a man a@ quarter to row bim across the river, and since then has been roaming through the woods in the vicinity of the pumping station. He will be turned over to the Canadian authori- ties. Brief and Harmonious. Concord, N. H., Sept. 21.—John Me- Lane of Milford was nominated for governor by the Republican state con- vention, and candidates for presiden- tial electors were chosen. There wer@ no other nominations, as all the state offices except governor are appointive. The proceedings were concluded at a session of Jess than two hours’ dura- tion. For City Lighting Plant. Milwaukee, Sept. 21.—As the result of a report made by a special commit- tee which visited other cities in favor of the municipal lighting scheme, the controller has signed the bond ordi- nance which is to give the city $150, 000 to start a municipal lighting plant. Swindled Out of $5,000. South Bend, Ind., Sept. 21. — Ina clever confidence game, in which four men, a game of cards and counterfeit money were involved, Henry Crofoot, a farmer seventy years old, living near this city, was yesterday swindled out of $5,000. : Body Cut in Two by Train. Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 21. — The body of an unidentified man was found cut in two on the Canadian Pa- cific railroad tracks west of Rennie yesterday. It is supposed the man was stealing a ride and fell from the train. Steerage Rate Raised. London, Sept. 21.—The first break in the steamship rate war occurred and Bliss. played a game of cards, the | yesterday when ‘the North German stake being his life agaist hers, and | Lioyd company raised Bites lost. oe its steerag rate to New York to $1... =. TO BISMARCK SON OF GERMANY’S FAMOUS IRON CHANCELLOR PASSES AWAY: WIS LAST HOURS WERE PAINLESS WAS TRAINED BY HIS FATHER FOR CHANCELLORSHIP OF THE EMPIRE. PRINCE LEAVES A LARGE ESTATE TITLE AND FORTUNE PASSES TO: HIS SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON, OTTO. Frederichsruhe, Sept. 20. — Prince: Herbert Bismarck died yesterday morning at 10:15 o'clock. The end was painless. Since he ceased to be foreign min- ister on the retirement of his father in 1890, Prince Herbert Bismarck had taken part in public affairs only as a member of the reichstag. His at- titude had been that of a man not ap- preciated by his sovereign, and who- was waiting in the background for an opportunity to resume his career. His delivery as a_ parliamentary speaker improved year by year. He always declined to join any political group, steadfastly calling himself an independent. His haughty and imperi ous manner in early life, when he Was Ever Conscious of the fact that he was the son of the most powerful statesman in Europe, softened in later life. Prince Bismarck’s father trained him for the chancellorship of the Ger man empire and advanced him rapidly in the diplomatic service until at the age of forty he was minister of for- eign affairs, in which position he took part in nearly every important trans action. An incident that nearly wrecked Prince Herbert’s career and that caused the old chancellor great annoy- ance, was the prince’s (then count) elopement with Princess Carolithe Beuthen, the wife of Prince Karl, the head of that distinguished Silesian house. The princess was of the Hatz feldt and young Bismarck the time w his father’s private sec- retary. Count Herbert Lived With the Princess in Southern Italy for a few weeks, and then, at the command of his father, returned to Germany. The princess was afterward divorced and has since died. A The title of Prince Bismarck and the large fortune of the deceased wi go to his seven-year-old son Otto. The late emperor Frederick gave te Chancellor Bismarck extensive forest * at Frederichsruhe which have sinc increased in value, and the chancello,’ gave to Prince Herbert $2,400,000 in securities and cash. The estate is now said to be worth $4,000,000, exclusive of the lands. SITUATION IN ITALY SERIOUS. Two Classes_a Reserves Are Callec Out to Reinforce Authorities. Paris, Sept. 20. — The Journal's Genoa correspondent reports that he had traveled to Nice in order to re* port the following uncensored dis- patch: “The situation throughout Italy is most serious. At Rome the council of” ministers has called out two classe.” of reserves in order to reinforce the authovities. Premier Giolotti has postponed a journey to Racconigi which he had intended to make for the purpose of extending his perscnal congratulations on the birth of the crown prince. At Porto Novo crowds of people stopped the railway trains, many children lying down before the engines. The troops were powerless. Once person was killed and several were in- jured in a collision with soldiers at Genoa, where strikers have hindered the departure of trains. The tracks have been torn up at Rivera. All is quiet at Milan.” CARD GAME ENDS IN MURDER. Loser Accuses Man of Cheating and Then Kills Him. Monongahela, Pa., Sept. 20.—A gam of cards resulted in murder iast nigh! at Hazel Kirk, a mining town. When George Nazok won $3 from Geors« Kohke, the latter accused the other o! cheating. Nazok made an angry re ply and left the room. Kohke followed and fired three shots, killing Nazok a! most instantly. The murderer es- caped. Nazok’s wife and child are on the ocean, expecting to meet the mur- dered man here next week. Thief in an towa Bank. Atlantic, Iowa, Sept. 20.—During the momentary absence of Cashier C. E- Miller an unknown thief entered the bank of Spencer & Co., and made away with $1,546 from the cash draw- er. No arrests have been made. Policemen Are Injured. Chefu, Sept. 20.—Local students of full speed in answer to a stock yards riot call a patrol wagon filled with po- licemen was struck and demolished by an electric car yesterday afternoov. Four were severely injured. EE