Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 8, 1904, Page 6

Rerald-Review. By GC. E.: KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. A surgical operation has made a bad boy good, and the operation didn’t kill him either, Some girls always blush conscious- ly when the fatal gift of beauty is casually mentioned. A few more narrow escapes will place J. Pierpont Morgan in the list of dime museum eligibles. The Chicago saloon-keeper named Wolf who lost $6,700 from his shoe will be excused for making a howl. The finest apartment in New York’s newest palatial hotel costs $125 a day. 4.0W many minutes could you stay there? Glassboro, N. J., is going to give the successful presidential candidate a silk quilt. The other man will get the quilting. It is a poverty-stricken Newporter, indeed, who can not lose $100,000 of jewelry before breakfast any morn- ing in the week. The’ small boy is enthusiastically in favor of nature work in the schools, with strong leanings toward the green apple course. Do not let the war in the Bast and the campaign drive from your mind the thought of imminent danger. This is still leap year. New York has a new law against offering as well as taking bribes. If there wére no_ bribe-givers there could be no bribe-takers, \ Doubtless we should be more im- pressed with the hardships of mimic war if the terrors of the football sea- son were not already upon us. Clara Ward is coming to America to enter vaudeville, Her friends should interfere and save her from the evil influences of the stage. And this is the new commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s jewels, nor his yacht, nor his auto- mobile, nor anything that is his. “The night is very still,” dolefully sings a magazine poet. We would re- spectfully suggest the immediate pur- chase of a small lot of Thomas cats. The Germans have already started to save up $1,250,000 to buy the Kaiser a present for his silver wed- ing anniversary. It pays to be pop- ar. An Omaha doctor successfully treats lockjaw by placing his patients in a refrigerator. It is the resultant chattering, doubtless, that loosens up the jaw. The oculists now assert their ability cure drunkenness by relieving eye- ain. We should think glasses d be about the worst thing for s malady. The statement is reiterated that the world’s entire stock of radium is only a small fraction of an ounce. Is somebody trying to bull the radium market again? The Homestead plant has closed a contract with Japan for enough nickel steel armor plate to keep the mills making it busy for three months. Banzai! We have J. J. Van Alen’s word for it that his decision to turn Briton is inspired by dislike for the United States and not by any hostile feeling toward the British. The new treaty between Thibet and Great Britain yields all to the latter. Thibetans convinced by, pure reason- ing of the justice of their adversaries’ contention, of course! The New York man who is paying $300,000 for a separation from the woman who promised to love, honor and obey him is realizing what a dear woman she is at any price. Japan's recent heavy orders for American armor plate for new battle ships show that the mikado has not allowed the excitement of the war with Russia to muddle his judgment. The Carnegie free library at Alle- ghany has opened a room in which men may smoke while they read. It is thought in this way a good many men can be induced to read while they smoke. A Paris aesthete has opened a school to teach how to “sleep grace- fully.’ A large number of insomnia sufferers will give it abundant sup- port if it will instruct them how to sleep any old way. The daughter of Anglicized Amer- ican millions, Miss Pauline Astor, will go with a French trousseau to her wedding with a British captain. Be- fore such a diversity of international interests even felicitation must ignore national lines. Another man has tried to swim the €nglish channel. He did all but the t two miles. Considering how dif- ficult these two miles have been found by all.who attempted the task, a wonder that somebody doesn’t swim these first. | Che News Notes From the Capital. The: military secretary has been in- formed that First Lieut. Thomas Dev- ereux of the medical department died at Manila, P. I., Sept. 24, from acute tuberculosis. ‘He was appointed from Minnesota in June, 1902. Lieut. Roscoe C. Bulmer, of the bureau of ordnance, has applied for sea duty and will be assigned to the Illinois. Orders shortly will be issued detaghing him from the White House, where he has served for a year as one of the president’s naval aides. The isthmian cana’ commission has awarded the contract for furnishing the cast iron pipe and specials for the water supply of Panama to the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company of New York. The contract calls for 43,000 tons of pipe at $21.70 per 2,000 pounds, and the special cast- ings at 21% cents per pound, delivery to be at Colon. From Other Shores. Bubonic plague, tt is officially an- nounced, has broken out on board the steamship Bishopgate, which arrived in the River Tyne from Hamburg. King George of Saxony is much weaker. All the members of the royal family living in Dresden have assem- pled at Pillnitz, the summer residence of the Saxon court. The Association of the Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, at a meeting in Manchester, England, passed a resolution urging the govern- ment to conclude an arbitration treaty with the United States. Count Sergius Tolstoi, the brother of Count Leo, is dead. He was the anti- thesis of Count Leo, residing on his estate in lordly style and living the life of a veritable self-indulgent epi- cure, while his brother, clad in home- spun, leads the life of an ascetic. Gen. Williams, acting for the Cramps Shipbuilding company, Phila delphia, has submitted plans to the Turkish minister of marine for sever- al torpedo boat destroyers with a speed of thirty-two knots. The naval commission has recommended an ac- ceptance of the.plans. ! The steamer Virginia, from Labra- dor, reports that the coast was swept ‘py a heavy gale last week, and that , eleven vessels, mostly fish laden, were ‘driven ashore, the greater portion of }them being totally wrecked. Seven sailors belonging to two craft were drowned. The crews of the other ves- ‘sels wrecked reached: shore. - Criminal. Samuel Egley is dead and William Kling, his self-confessed slayer, is in jail at Mount Ayr, Iowa, as the result of a quarrel over the school laws. Isador Finkle and Louis H. Lobar, students at Columbia university in New York, were arrested charged with taking regent’s examination as prox- ies for others. J. J. Marty, cashier of the Longford, Kan., bank, committed suicide by cut- ting his throat. Despondency over long continued ill health was prob- ably the cause. In a raid on an alleged poolroom and bucket shop in New York, one man was seriously injured by falling fifteen feet to the sidewalk from a window, and eleven others were arrested. Mrs. Bessie Peck of Kansas City picked up her three-year-old daughter Ethel, carried her to a rain cistern in the rear yard and cast her in; then she jumped in. Both were drowned. Jefferson Etter killed Max Wolf in a fit of jealous rage at Middlesboro, Ky., and also shot and fatally wounded his own wife. In his dying agonies Wolf managed to shoot Etter through the body. Alex Marting ,aged 21, a soldier at Stanley barracks, and his wife, a wait- ress in a Queen street restaurant, are locked up at Toronto, Ont, on a charge of murdering their ten-months- old child. Sebastian Knuijt, who confessed to having started a number of fires in the Fourth ward at Appleton, Wis., one of which destroyed a stable and fifteen horses, was declared insane and sent to the hospital. In the municipal court at Milwau- Wissenborn guilty of soliciting a bribe of $100 from Attorney F. B. Bro- chardt in connection with the granting of a saloon license. A plot to attack Sheriff W. G. Lytle of Sharon, Iowa, and break jail was frustrated by an insane prisoner who overheard the scheme laid by three of the most desperate prisoners in the jail and gave the alarm. Lewis F. Carmichael of Kernersville, . C., a carpenter by trade, aged sixty- four years, killed his wife, aged fifty years, seriously wounded his twelve- year-old stepdaughter and then cut his own throat with a razor and shot himself with a pistol. The federal grand jury at Helena, Mont., has returned indictments against Former Mayor Frank E. Ed- wards, Former Chief of Police Thomas Travis and Sam Goodman, alleging as- sault upon George Freeman. Two masked robbers entered Lou Conway’s saloon at Seattle, Wash., { shot Conway, James Murphy and Gil- pert McBeath, and escaped. Murphy | wil die, Conway’s right arm will be amputated and McBeath is badly hurt ;in the side. The rebbers took $100 from the cash drawer and a watch ‘ from Conway’s pocket. ax Of the Week AEST aS LNs 8a aR eRe AR EO | three years old and a resident of Mis: kee, Judge Brazee found ex-Ald. A. C. | Accidents. A Fire destroyed the Buswell & Hub bard tannery, Olean, N. Y., entailing a loss of $125,000. The home of Charles N. Bird, living near Robertson, Iowa, was destroye¢ by fire and three children of the Biré family burned to death. Fire destroyed the four-story hosi ery mine of W. H. Shaeffer at Wicon isco, Pa., together with twelve othe: buildings. Loss estimated at $100, 000. Miss Mamie Kohler accidentally shot and killed Elmer Bier, a railroa¢ conductor of Bethel, Ohio, in a shoot ing gallery in Cincinnati, where Miss Kohler is employed. ' Fire at Dawson City, Yukon, de stroyed property valued at $200,000. Guests in the Hotel Cecil jumped for their lives. Alex Macdonald was one of the principal losers. South-bound passenger train No. 17, on the St. Louis & Iron Mountain rail. | road, was partially derailed near Vul- can, Mo. Twenty persons were in- jured, none of whom is thought to be. seriously hurt. At the East Vulcan mine at Norway, Mich., eleven miners, while fighting a fire which started in the shaft of the mine, were seriously burned. It is thought the fire was caused by a stroke of lightning. A Maine Central passenger train collided with a freight train about two miles outside of Lewiston, Me., and W. M. Chapman, a fireman, was killed outright, and Engineer John L. Kim- ball died shortly afterward. During a terrific electrical storm at Keokuk, Iowa, a bolt of lightning struck the Collins-Heatslip wholesale carpet building. As a result the struc: ture was completely destroyed by the fire. The loss is estimated at $250,000. Three foreigners were instantly kill- ed and one fatally injured by a fast passenger train on the Pennsylvania railway at Greensburg, Pa. The men were employed by the railway and were walking along the track on their way to work. Two hundred persons were thrown from a platform and fell thirty feet at the launching of the schooner Charles J. James at Milford, Del. Fif- teen of them were serionsly injured. A spike which held the platform gave way and the entire structure fell. August Johnson and Roy Miller were suffocated to death by a fire which de- stroyed the head house at Thelmaden tunnel in Tarryall district, near Como, Colo. L. C. King, superintendent of the mine, was badly burned in trying to rescue two men who were cut off from escape in the tunnel. While crossing the track at Bloss- burg, Mont., W. W. Riggs, a Northern Pacific brakeman, slipped and was run down by an engine. Both legs were cut off. He was taken to Helena, where he died later. He was twenty- soula. General. A big gray wolf attacked a calf tied to a stake within the city limits of Kansas City. The police killed the animal. 5) William E. Chandler, formerly United States senator from New Hampshire was seriously injured by being thrown from an automobile. Judge C. H. Lewis of Siuux City died after a lingering illness. For twenty- one years he served as district attor- ney and district judge, and was well known throughout Iowa. The cotton planters of Georgia are preparing to start picking cotton by moonlight. Pickers are scarce and a bonus will be given those working from sundown to midnight. The New York, New Haven & Hart- ford railway is dismantling its third- rail, electric line between Natahack and. Braintree until the invention of new appliances for perfection of those now existing. Fitzhugh Taylor, underwriters’ ex- pert, has reported to the state that he finds the Iowa capitol building neither fire proof nor fire resisting, and that it cannot be made so without practi- cally rebuilding. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition company has adopted a resolution pro- viding for free admission to the JAPANESE WILi ” MOVE FORWARD INDICATED BY FREQUENT FIGHT- ING BETWEEN ADVANCE GUARDS. OYAMA WILL SOON BEGIN ADVANCE CLASHES TAKE PLACE ON SOUTH FRONT OF KUROPATKIN’S ARMY. RUMORS OF PORT ARTHUN’S FALL NO RELIABLE NEWS OF CONDI- TIONS IN THE BESIEGED CITY. Frequent fighting between Japan- ese advance guards and Cossacks on the south front of Gen. Kuropatkin’s army, reported in dispatches to the Russian war office, is regarded as in- dicative of the near approach of a gen- eral forward movement by the forces of Field Marshal Oyama. It is estimated that since the battle {of Liao-yang forty thousand of the ‘ouards stationed in Western Russia have been ordered to the Far E - No word has been received as to the ‘conditions of affairs at Port Arthur. Rumors of the fall of the foriress were current at St. Petersburg, but no serious credence is given them. Munitions Not Lost. The Japanese legation at London has issued a denial of the statement that seventeen junks carrying ammu- nition for the Japanese on the Hun river have been burned by the Rus- sians. Chefu reporis that a chief gale is raging on the Yellow sea and that the Japanese torpedo flotilla has been compelled to seek shelter after hav- ing sustained some damage. Bandits Aid the Japs. London, 5.—According to the Morning Pos! correspondent at Muk- den Chinese bandits, organized into regular troops, are fighting daily, side by side with the Japanese on their /west flank south of Sinmintin. Chinks “Knock” Jap Rule. St. Petersburg, Oct. 5. — A special dispatch from Mukden, dated Oct. 3, says the population of that plate has been greatly increased by arrivals from all quarters. Chinese who have fled from the south say the Japanese are adminis- tering affairs in Southern Manchuria with a high hand and many complaints of ill treatment of the natives by them are made. There is a great scarci of provis- ions among the Chinese population. Japanese Make a Denial. Paris, Oct. 5. -- The Japanese lega- tion has given out a statement deny- ing the reports in French newspapers charging that the missing French and German naval attaches at Port Ar- thur, respectively, Lieut. De Cuver- ville and Capt. von Gilgenheim, were assassinated by the Japanese while leaving Port Arthur on a Chinese junk. The statement says that no such junk has been captured, and that the most careful inquiries at Tokio and elsewhere have failed to disclose the whereabouts of the attaches. The Japanese officials, it is added, are using the utmost efforts to locate the two officers, but unfortunately without result. Japs on the Defensive. Berlin, Oct. 5. — Col. Gaedke, the Tageblatt’s correspondent in the Far East, telegraphs from Mukden that the Japanese are apparently no longer advancing, but are preparing for de- fensive operations. STREET DUEL !S FATAL. _ Spectator Is Killed, But Neither of Participants Is Injured. San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 5—During a street duel here yesterday between J. M. Chittenden, known as the Texas cattle king, and W. W. Jones, a cattle man and banker of Beville, H. S. El- | well, a traveling man of Milwaukee, Wis., chanced within range and was accidentally killed. The bullet, it is said was fired from Chitten’s gun. He was placed in jail, charged with mur- world’s fair for all clergymen present- ing their credentials -during the month of November. os Indians from all over the Northwest have been summoned to gather at North Lapwai, Ida., to celebrate with a feast and war dance in the memory of their late leader, Chief Joseph, and to choose his successor. According to the San Francisco Ex- aminer agents of a Chicago prain house are there buying wheat for the Eastern market. It is said that 8,000- 000 bushels of wheat have been bought in Oregon and Washington. Rev. Jacob Steinhauser, D. D., pas: tor of St. Michael’s Lutheran church at Allentown Pa., and professor of Hebrew in Muhlenburg college, sus- tained his third stroke of paralysis while preaching a sermon and died a few hours later. Honest with himself even at death’: door, William Glidden of Hampton, Ia.,who spent his entire leisure in sat: isfying his craving for amusement, requested that he be buried from an opera house. granted. His last wish was der. Neither of the participants was injured. ATTEMPT TO DESTROY ACHURCH Holes Bored in Foundation and Filled With Explosives. Monroe, Ind., Oct. 5. — An attempt to destroy the Methodist church here was discovered yesterday. Holes which had been bored into the large timbers of the foundation were filled with explosives. The fuse which was made of straw was only partly burned. FIFTEEN GUESTS POISONED. Deadly Ptomaines in Pressed Meat Is Responsible. Clinton, Iowa, Oct. 5.—Fifteen of the guests who attended a party given here by Henry Bass Wednesday night are suffering from ptomaine poisoning, and several are in a serious condition. Those most seriously affected are Mrs. James Ludolph, Mrs. Jacob Mehrns, Mrs. Henry Dicksen and Mrs. Carson. Ketleron. The poisoning was induced by eating pressed meat. “FRATS” ARE DENOUNCED. School Visiting Committee Would Not Recognize Tigem. Madison, Wis., Oct. 5.—The citizens’ visiting committee of the Madison pub- lic schools has denounced high school Greek letter secret socieries as a seri- ous menace to that social democracy which has always been an important factor in the American public school. The committee is of the opinion’ that these societies are demoralizing in their tendencies. A recommendation has been made that Greek letter socie- ties receive no recognition from the school authorities, and that no mem- ber of these organizations be permitted to represent the school in literary or athletic contests. i GRAND PRIZE TO MINNESOTA. Educational Exhibits at the Fair Sweep the Field. St. Louis, Oct. 5.—Eighteen prizes were awarded to Minnesota yesterday for that state’s educational exhibit at the world’s fair. Besides capturing the grand prize in the elementary edu- cational division, a gold medal for the secondary division of the exhibit, eight other gold medals and a like number of silver medals fell to the Gopher State. It is no surprise to educators that studied the educational exhibits that the judges awarded signal honors to the Minnesota exhibit. Though small and modest, it is in ex- quisit taste, and while the total cost of the Minnesota exhibit was not more than $8,500, it stood beside state ex- hibits that cost $75,000 to $100,000, and held its own with them in the opinion of experts. That the judges agreed with the opinion is shown by the awards. SAY DOCTOR IS SLAYER. Charges Allege Physician Was With Man at Time of Death in Saloon. Moorhead, Minn., Oct. 5—Dr. R. T. Germain of Barnesville is a prisoner in the Clay county jail charged with murder, The alleged viciim was James Gallagher, who died suddenly in Peter Engel’s saloon at Barnesville one night in August. Dr. Germain and Engels, it is alleged, were with Gal- lagher when he died, and thé body was dragged out and left at the side of the building. The stomach of the dead man was sent to the state chemist for ; analysis and was found to contain a large quantity of morphine. MYSTERY IN STABBING. Man Now Near Death Found, Cut and Bruised, Lying in Hay. Elk River, Minn., Oct. 5. Amos Woodman of Baldwin is the victim ef a mysterious stabbing affair and is ly- ing at the point of death in the hospi- tal at Princeton. He was found in his uncle’s barn in the town of Baldwin, with a deep knife wound in his fore- head. Besides the knife wound, one eye was black and there were bruises on the shoulder. The man incoherently mentioned the names of people in con- nection with the crime, but the an- thorities thus far have been unable to get evidence to warrant them in mak- ing an arr SPRING VALLEY HAS SCARE. Laborer Attacked by Mad Dog — Sev- eral Cattle Bitten. Spring Valley, Minn., Oct. 5 genuine hydrophobia scare prevails here. One man was attacked on the street by a mad dog and three cattle were bitten and had to be killed. The man, a laborer, fought off the dog, and, though his clothes were torn, his flesh was not touched by the teeth of the brute. Three dogs suffering with rabies have been killed and all others in town are muzzled and will be kept in that condition for sixty days. Citi- zens have had a bad scare and will neglect no precautionary steps. WOODMEN LOSE $100,000. Dead Banker’s Bondsmen Allege Fraud and Case Is Dismissed. Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 5.—The case of the Modern Woodmen of America to collect $100,000 from the estate of the late E. H. McCutcheon, a banker at Holstein, Iowa, was dismissed yes- terday. McCutchen was a prominent banker and poli an. Upon his death it was found that his bank was in- solvent. He was a leading Woodman and had $100,000 of the order’s funds in his bank. The Woodmen sued the bondsmen, who replied their names had been secured by fraud. GOVERNORS OF FIVE STATES. Prominent Officials and Business Men to Attend River Convention. Dubuque, Iowa, Oct. 5—The annual convention of the Mississippi River Improvement association will be held in this city Nov. 15. This was decided upon to-day. The convention was to have been held last June, but for various reasons was postponed. Gov- ernors of five states will attend. The congressional rivers and harbors com- mittee will meet a week later and the officers of the association feel confi- dent that the $15,000,000 appropriation will be made. PRAIRIE FIRE EATS UP HAY. Much Loss Is Caused by Flames Near Crookston. Crookston, Minn., Oct. 5.—On Sun- day morning a prairie fire started be- tween Burwell and Benoit, two sta- tions on the Great Northern a short distance east of Crooksion, and raged all day and Sunday night before plowed fields stopped its progress. It was the largest fire that has burned over the prairies near this city for several years, and a heavy loss re- sulted from the burning of haystacks. ‘DEATH WINS HARD FIGHT POSTMASTER GENERAL PAYNE PIES AFTER SIX HOURS’ UN- CONSCIOUSNESS. PASSES AWAY WITHOUT STRUGGLE DISEASE OF MITRAL VALVE AND DILATION OF HEART WAS THE CAUSE. THE HEART LITERALLY GAVE OUT &LL HOPE HAD BEEN ABANDONED SOME HOURS BEFORE THE END CAME. Washington, Oct. 5.— Henry C. Payne, postmaster general, a member pf the national Republican committee, a stalwart of his party, with the his- tory of which he had been identified for many years, died at his apartments at the Arlington hotel at 6:10 o’clock last night, aged sixty. The death and its cause was announced in the fol- lowing bulletin issued by the attend- ing phy er general died at 5:10 p. m. He died peacefully, without a struggle. e of dea was dis- ease of mitral valve and dilation of the heart.’ Mr. Payne had been in poor health for at le: s. but his last ill- it an at- tack of heart trouble last Precipitating the End at a time when after a rest he seemed nve recovered a small measure of vitality impaired by years of ardu- s labor. Death came after nearly honrs of unconscic ss. The last official caller to inquire as to Mr. Payne's condition was President Roosevelt, and he had been gone only about ten minutes when the stricken member of his cabinet expired. Secre- ;tary Hay had called at the apartments a few minutes before the president made his visit. Neither entered the sick room. As Mr. Roosevelt was leav- ing, about 6 o'clock, he spoke feelingly of Mr. Payne to the newspaper men gathered in front of the hotel as “the eefest, most lovable and most trust- ful man I ever knew.” When the postmaster general had breathed his last Dr. Magruder led Mrs. Payne out of the room. It was stated that she had stood up bravely under the heavy strain. Lost Consciousness. The last day had been one during which practically all hope had been abandoned for some hours. The ap- proach of dissolution began during the noon hour, when the sick man lost consciousness d no longer recog- nized those whom he had attempted to cheer during his illness by saying to k them that he was all right. Funeral services will be held at St. John’s Episcopal church, this city, next Friday morning and at 3:15 that afternoon the body will be taken to the Pennsylvania ilway station and put on board the private car of President A. J. Earling of the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St. Paul railway, who tendered the use of the ¢: The . remains should arrive at Milwaukee by Satur- day evening, and services will be held there Sunday at the All Saint’s Epis- copal church. The death of the postmaster general came as the result really of a succe sion of sinking spells due to a weak heart that enfeebled the sick man, un- til finally the heart literally gave out. JUDGE IGNORES THREATS. Grants Change of Venue in Iroquois Case, Despite Warnings. Chicago, Oct. 5. — In the Iroquois theater trial yesterday, Business Man- ager Thomas-J. Noonan and Stage Car- penter James H. Cummings were granted a change of venue to another county. The ground was on account of prejudice that a fair trial could not be had in Chicago. In granting the change, Judge George Kersten de- clares public sentiment had been so in- flamed that numerous letters had been written to him, threatening him with violence and with a visit from a vig- ilance committee if his decision per- mitted the case to be tried outside of LOSS OF LIFE WAS HEAVY. At Least Twenty Persons Perished in Recent Floods. Santa Fe, N. Mex., Oct. 5.—Reports received from different points in the territory show that the loss of life in the floods that have occurred in the past week was greater than at first thought. At least twenty persons per- ished and all sections have not been definitely heard from. SCHOONERS ARE WRECKED. Crews Have N arrow Escapes When Vessels Founder in Gale. St. John’s N. F., Oct. 5.—The fishing schooner Alliance has_ been totally wrecked at Trepassey. Her crew of fifteen men had left the vessel only five minutes when she sank. The French fishing schooner Georges Paul is ashore at Port au Port and will be a total wreck. It is feared that other wrecks will be reported when news of the work of the gale is received from more remote sections.