Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 22, 1904, Page 6

ioe L ra erald-Review. \ ' | By C. E. KILEY. | GRAND RAPIDS, - Asbestos curtains are not in use in the theater of war. The prospects for the corn crop are improving. Pointed-toed shoes are coming into style. The chicken crop is 20 per cent larger this year than last. This ought to solidify the colored vote. A Boston authority aims a body blow at vegetarianism by asserting that small links make the best golf ex- perts. A Kansas man has evolved a feath- erless chicken, thus depriving the Kansas tornado of its most cherished pastime. It depends quite largely on the vic- tim’s bank account whether he dies of drunkenness or alcoholism or nerv- ous collapse. Meredith wants limited martrimony. His noble fellow citizens who come to America wife-hunting are very stout against limited fortunes. 12 Se The moose is not the only royal game. Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwer- in was filled with bird shot on the; king of Saxony’s preserves. j How pleasant it must be for King Peter to read in the paper every morn- ing surprised headlines announcing that he isn’t assassinated yet! Hy That new book by Andrew Carnegie on James Watt, the great engineer, is bound to be successful, if all the Car- negie libraries order copies of it. A Kansas City thief stole $7,000 the other day and hid it in an ash heap. The police are now engaged in sifting the facts to the bottom. King Edward’s royal commission appointed to study life among the idiotic should not fail to visit America about the time freak election bets are ripe. It appears that America has only 177 aristocratic families. It will hard- ly be worth while for any of the can- @idates to go after the aristocratic family vote. ylvania man who offered for the return of his wife had less figured out that it would aper than sending his shirts to the laundry. People who stop at the hotel which ries intends to run will be i) about the manner in 1ey go down to the office to er complaints. which 1 comes from Naples that the » of Vesuvius is becoming more This is the only kind of blow- for whieh the joyful Neapolitans ire no relish. The inventor who has produced a mechanical device to take the place of is on the ‘wrong track acc to be an autoboat race It is expected to is s the Atlantic. about as much importance to nity as the navigation of the Ni- There of s in a barrel. orers who arrive in its vi- less anxious to solve the » read with some surprise by people who had supposed all along that all baseball “fans” were insane. association will Beekeepers’ The “a pay $1.000 to anyone who can prove that honeycomb is artificially manu- factured. The members believe it is to beat the busy bee at its busi- A Cleveland judge holds that a fath- er can spank his 20-year-old son, even if the latter is twice as big and strong es the former. The judge seems to have erred in his choice of an auxil- tary verb. — . This new language, Esperanto, g from samples that have ap- in print, is full of hyphenated wo That settles its fate in this ountry. It will never get the hyphens past the proofreaders. 3 pea ne new dresses are to have a “sin- ’ look, being modeled after the} fashion of a snake. They will remind mere man of the money that might have been saved had Grandmother Eve shown herself proof against flat- tery. Some people find it hard to under- etand why ladies who lose $30,0v0 at Newport lawn fetes take the trouble to report such trifling matters, since they can spend $100,000 in getting up @ ball and never notice that the mon- ey is gone. We confess to a _ strong hope, amounting almost to a belief, that Commander Peary and the Eskimos, between them, will yet find the north pole and squat around it to indulge} in a feast of pemmican and tcaeat walrus meat. i At the Capital. The annual‘report of Brig. Gen. J. F. Weston, commissary general of the army, says the total cost of feeding the army during the past fiscal year) was $8,281,750. Dodwell & Co. og Tacoma, Wash., de- cline to carry the United States mails during the remainder of the Russo- Japanese war on account of the seiz- ure of the mails on the steamer Cal- chas. Admiral Dewey has again offered to assume command of the combined fleet in the Carribean sea and direct the winter maneuvers. If his services can be spared from the presidency of the general board for that time Sec- retary Morton certainly will accept the admiral’s offer . It is probable the admiral will leave early next year to assume command of the fleet at Guan- tanamo. Accidental Happenings. Michael Lamuthe, a trammer, was killed by falling in No. 2 shaft of the Tamarack mine at Calumet, Mich. Rey. J. K. Perkins, 72, was killed at Trinway, Ohio. While asleep in a car he walked out of the door and off the platform. The Montreal express, south-bound, on the Rutland railroajd, with 380 pas- sengers on board, was wrecked at Ar- lington, Vt. No one was injured. Thomas Goode, aged 40, of Paterson, N. J., was almost instantly killed and four others were injured at the Ha- gerstown (Mo.) fair while testing the loop-the-loop. Chris Larson, a _ steamfitter, was killed and Frederick Diamond, an en- gineer and James Woods, a fireman, were fatally injured by the bursting of a steam pipe in an apartment building in Chicago. No less than forty-five men lost their lives in the copper mines of Houghton county, Mich., in the year ended Sept. 30, according to the annual report of Capt. Josiah Hall, mine inspector. This was twelve more fatalities than oc- curred in the previous year. The re- port says that the increase was due to the fire in the Isle Royale mine. Seventy dwellings in San “Marceil, eighty miles south of Albuquerque, have been wrecked in the floods of the last few days. There is great suffering and destitution. The plight of the Mexicans living in the valley is terri- ble and hundreds must starve unless immediate help is furnished from the outside. Not only the crops and stores, but their lands have been ruined. From Other Shores. The annointing of King Peter has been performed at Zicha, Servia, with great ceremony. » Archbishop Agius, papal delegate to the Philippine islands, has left Rome for the United States and the Philip- pines. 4 Miss Annie S. Peck, the American mountain climber, has ascended Huascan mountain in Peru, to a height of 21,000 feet. Representatives of the Mormon church of Utah are negotiating for the purchase of a tract of 300,000 acres of land in the state of Tabasca, Mexico. Fanny Moran-Olden, formerly one of the really great sopranos, is in a hospital for mental disease in a suburb of Berlin. There is no hope of her re- covery. : The pope has decided to hold both secret and a public consistory Nov. 14, merely for the preconization of new bishops. No cardinals will be named. Another consistory will be held Dec. 5. The crisis over the regency of Lippe has passed. Chancellor von Buelow explained that the kaiser had no inten- tion to place the least obstacle in thé way of Count Leopold’s exercise of the regency. Louis Mazzantine, the noted Span- ish bull fighter, and his brother Thom- as, will soon give their last perform- ance at Mexico City. Louis intends to abandon the profession after return- ing to Spain shortly to kill his last bull in honor of the queen regent. The police of Barcelona, Spain, have arrested three anarchists, Magin, Al- fonso Gari and Pablo Gari, at Villa Nuevay, Geltru. It is alleged that they have confessed to plotting in April last the assassination of King Alfonso, who was in Barcelona in the early part of that month. The provincials of the Order of St. Francis of the Minor Conventuals elected the Very Rev. Dominick Reu- ter of Trenton, N. J., to be general of the order. The appointment is consid- ered most important, Father Reuter | being the first American to become general of any religious order. Crimes and Criminals. Jealousy on the part of a boy two and one-half years old against his sis- ter, one month old, has led to the death of the latter at the hands of the boy. The tragedy occurred in the fam- ily of Nicholas Robinson at Nyack, N. Because he was using a pair of dull clippers, Charles Alexander, a Chicago barber, was killed by James Thomas, whose hair Alexander was cutting. Gems valued at $5,000 were stolen from the wholesale jewelry house: of Joseph Maltz & Co., in State street, Chicago, by a sneak thief while the” clerks were all busy. Earl O. Devere, a bookieeper in the First National bank at Woodsfield, Ohio, has been arrested by postoffice inspectors on the charge of robbing ‘Woodsfield postoffice on Sept. 20 of $5,000. : In @ pistol duel at Junction City Ky., between Benjamin Durham, a well-known druggist, and John Wright,’ a prominent farmer, both parties were fatally shot. Attorney General Wilson of Alabama has filed impeachment proceedings against Sheriff A. D. Rodgers of Mad- ison county, charged with not protect- ing the negro, Horace Mapes, who was lynched. Behumil Schneph, a Bohemian of Cleveland, took his two children, Emma and John, 4 and 3 years old, into the cellar and killed them by shooting them in the temples. He had been sick. Mrs. Hillet Snow lay in wait for Mrs. Mary Bunel at Springfield, Mo., and dashed carbolic acid in the latter’s face, burning her face, neck and chest, as the result of jealousy. Mrs. Bunel may lose her sight. Crazed with grief, Grace Hollez of Chicago tried to die at the bier of her fiance by taking carbolic acid. Thomas Smith committed suicide because he thought Miss Hollez had ceased to love him. She lies between life and death. Mary Burton, a 16-year-old school girl, daughter of a prominent broker of Salt Lake City, is the victim of a serious assault by an unknown man, who threw her arm around her neck from behind and cut a gash four inch- es long in her throat. The assault oc- curred on Main*street in the busiest part of the business district. Charles K. Kelley, former speaker of the iower house of the municipal as- sembly of St. Louis, and Charlies A Gutke, a former member of that body, were sentenced to terms in the peni+ tentiary for connection with the sub urban bribery deal. Kelly was given two years for perjury and Gutke five years for bribery. General. Gov. Bates has appointed. ex-Gov. Crane as United States Senator from Massachusetts, succeeding Senator Hoar. “Western Kansas,” said Prof. Wilcox of the University of Iowa, “is more than half of the time crazy, I declare io you, because of its geographical po- sition.” A Pendleton (Ore.) flour mill has re- ceived an order from Hongkong for 80,000 sacks, 2,000 tons, of flour, which is said to be for the Japanese govern- ment. ‘ While the photograph of Mrs. An- tonio ,Randio and her infant daughter was being taken in a studio at Macon, Mo., the child died in its mother’s arms. Commemorative of the 412th anni- versary of the landing of Columbus on the Island of San Salvador, exercises were held at the world’s fair in honor of “Italian day.” The monument erected by the late Cyrus W. Field at Tappan to the mem- ory of Maj. Andre, was'sold for the non-payment of taxes at New City, Rockland county, N. Y. On Andrew Carnegie is soon to be conferred one of the honors of the industrial world, the Bessemer medal, given only to those who are pre-emi- nent in the iron and steel industry. President Harper of the University of Chicago is going into the all-night cafe business, believing it will keep many of the young men away from questionable resorts on Lake avenue. George Murnane, quarterback of the team, has been partially paralyzed by an injury to the spine received in a football game. His condition is sevi- ous. * : “Our cities to-day are governed by the mob, made of all lower’ classes. Abraham Lincoln certainly was the mob, but he outgrew his class,” de- clared Prof. Barret Wendell of Har- vard. z An inquest held at Norfolk, Va., over the body of Miss Bettie Wilson, daugh- ter of the late Postmaster General Wil- son, resulted in a verdict that she died from fright while bathing at Virginia beach. District Attorney Jerome of New York will, it is announced, soon give up his residence in the Ghetto, bring- ing to an end the novel experiment he inaugurated upon assuming office Jan. 1, 1902. Seventeen Japanese geisha girls locked themselves in their rooms in St. Louis when the United States dep- uty marshals attempted to deport them at the request of Commissioner General Tejima. Capt. William Widston of the West- ern Commercial company is at San Francisco en route to Washington to make complaint of the manner in which the laws are administered in the Island of Guam. The annual convention of the Massa- chusetts state branch of the American Federation of Labor adopted the rec- that $200,000 be appropriated for the Fall River cotton mill strikers. The Illinois state Federation of La- bor has adopted resolutions calling up- on the interstate commerce commis- sion to take action to prevent the car- rying of prison-made goods from one state to another in competition witb “free” labor. An evangelistic movement to em- brace all the slum districts of Greater New York, to be inaugurated within a month at a midnight mass meeting at some centrally located theater, has b announced by the Rev. Dr. New- efl Dwight Hillis. — a Mont Clare N. Y., high school football j ommendation of the executive council, RUSSIANS TAKE HEART FROM REPORTS FROM SEAT OF WAR. JAP COMMAND IS DFFEATED RUSSIANS CAPTURE KEY TO PO- SITION ON THE SOUTHWEST FRONTS. FAILURE THREATENS PLANS BE CUT OFF AND KUROPATKIN MAY FROM RESERVES SUPPLIES. St. Petersburg has been cheered by the’ report that Gen. Kuropatkin has resumed the offensive and by the news of the defeat of the Japanese command of Gen. Yamada and the capture of Lone Tree hill, which is represented to be the key to the po- sition on the southwest fronts ‘of the contending armies. If the report of the advance is authenlic and the Rus- sians have crossed to the south side of the Shakhe river, a later rise in the stream: may have produced con- ditions Seriously Threatening failure of Gen. Kuropatkin’s plans, for, it is believed, the advance force will be cut off from the reserves and the base of supplies and retreat ren- dered problematical. It is, however, questionable if the advance movement had proceeded to the point indicated. There seems no iminediate prospect of ac tion of the fighting that has been in progress for the last ten days, altbongh there are signs that on both sides the supply of ammunition is fall- ing short, and that the limit of endur- ance in the troops must have been y reached. Advance Pleases Russians. St. Petersburg, Oct. 19. -- There is jubilation throughout the city over the news that Gen. Kuropatkin has resumed the offense, and the holiday, which began with little heart, closed brighter. The crowds in the streets and the illuminations in honor of the tch’s name day gave a tinge ney to an evening otherwise ng, through a constant drizz ‘a Newsboys up to mid raced through the thoroughfares with evening extras, shouting “Great Russian Victory,” and crowds bought the papers. Groups of men in liant uniforms or in evening d the hotels and res- taurants discussed the change in the fortunes of war; but the population as a whole were slow to take fire. They. had received the news of the earlier reverses stolidly and now ac- cepted the reports of Russian suc- cesses and the capture of guns quiet- ly, with satisfaction, but with consid- erable reser Correspondents at the front the past forty-eight hours had been. hint- ing that the Russian army was on the eve of Another Advance; but it was thought here that the troops were too exhausted by more than a week of titanic struggle to cn- gage in an immediate advance move- ment. Therefore the news of the definite resumption of the adv was calculated to arouse the ¢ satisfaction; but the realization of significance of news permeates masses here more slowly than in American cities. Most Awful Spectacle. Fidyatun, Six Miles East of Sha Oct. 19.—Fighting still continues al- most along the whole front. The Jap- atiese have made an unsuccessful at- tempt to recapture Lone Tree hill. The Russian infantry met several at- tacks and repulsed them all. There was a terrific cannonading last night. Every one is terribly exhausted, but full of -fight. The battlefield of Lone Tree hill presents the most awful spectacle that can be conceived. The Russians and Japanese dead are mingled in heaps in inextricable confusion. The ground is strewn with broken rifles that had been smashed in hand-to- hand fighting. Everything seems to have been utilized as weapons. Is 2,000 a Day. Mukden, Oct. 19.—The fighting of Oct. 17 was confined to the Russian center at Shakhe river and was most- ly artery fire, the Japanese using big guns and high explosive shells. During the nine days of continuous fighting the losses were never less than 2,000 per day. The hospitals are hardly able to handle the wounted. Nevertheless they have performed wonders. The Chinese have deserted all the villages and the troops are using the woodwork of their houses for fuel. The country south Is Desolated. The Japanese still seem to be exert- ing themselves to force the Russians out of Mukden. A battle is assured in the positions surrounding the town. It becomes more and more evident that the resources of the country cannot support a large army. This season’s crops are spoiled. Gen. Kuropatkin -remains with the troops, having abandoned his head- quarters at Mukden. Japs Make Furious Attack. nea Sal It is reported that the Japanese. made a4 furious attempt to, take a wooded hil! near Da pass last night. * | would have be .Acme Harvester The firing. began: at 11 o'clock and continued with rifle and cannon throughout the night. This’ action probably was a part of an attempt by the Japanese, who were already in possession of small hills in the plain, to rush the center along the foothills at the Shakhe river. Sing Russian Cruiser. London, Oct. 19.—A dispatch from reported there that Japanese nells have sunk the Russiap cruiser n inthe harbor of Port Arthur. LAY CRIMES TO PRETTY GIRL. She and Companion Accused of Rob- bery and Assault. New York, Oct. 19.—At the arr; ment of Minnie Marquette, a st ly pretty blonde scarcely out of her teens, and Albert Belden in court. yes: terday morning, the couple were charged with robbery in the first de- gree, grand larceny, assault and re- ceiving stolen goods. hey had been brought to the city from Peoria, tI whith they were traced from New York. The police charge that ihe pair entered the rooms of the proprie- tor of a Thirty-sixth street boarding house, where they were lodgers. and, afte wife unconscious by means of chloro- form, looted the place. They got $2,000, it is charged, and, while their victims still slept, closed the doo end windows and turned on the sas to make it appear that they had cow mitted suicide.. They were held for trial. LONG PLUNGE TO DEATH. Automobile Party Goes Over an Em- bankment. Springfield, Ohio, Oct. —An auto- mobile run at reckless speed in the darkness plunged over an abutment going up for a new bridge over Mad river, several miles north early yes- terday morning. The huge machine turned upside down and was smashed and ilattened on the rocks below. Ve non Middleton, brother of Judge E Middleton, was killed outright. Mr: Bessie Wilkins ‘had her left arm broken and is badly bruised. Mrs. Virginia Hundley has internal injuries and may die. Charles R. Murphy, son of Postmaster Murphy, escaped with slight injuries. The entire party is from Urban and had been out for an all-night ride. BURY HUBBY’S FIRST WIFE. Second Helpmeet From Des Moines Makes Offer. Chicago, Oct. 19. — Mrs. Georgis Muriel Evans, the divorced second wife of James M. Evans, the inventor, yesterday appeared at the undertak- ing establishment and offered to pay the expenses of burying Nellie Evans, the first wife, who, friendless, com- mitted suicide. Then a telegram was received announcing that the dead woman’s brother will ayrive in Chi- cago to look after the fune co Eke brother is John Tucker, proprietor of a hotel in Buffalo, N. Y. He will take the body East. The second Mrs. Ey- ans came from Des Moines to make the offer. The former husband is in Mexico. LAYS INSANITY TO CHURCH. Chief Chaplain of G. A. R. Tells Why Soldiers Have Gone Mad. more, Md., Oct. 19.—-At yester- day's sion of the ~ Presbyterian synod the Rev. Jj. H. Bradford of Washington, chaplain-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, declared that in the Washington hospit: alone there are 1,000 returned soldier from the Philippines who are insane. Their sad plight he attributes to lack of church work in the army‘and navy. Had their welfare been looked after by the church zation many from resort- low. dives wrought By lo ruin was ing to the where their drink. BIG AREA WITHDRAWN. Half-Million Acres of Government Land Withheld in Northwest. Washington, Oct. 19.—The general land office has telegraphed orders to local land officials to withdraw pub- lic lands from all forms of disposal whatever,.as follows: On account of the Chippewa river irrigation project in the Rapid City (S. D.) district, 233,040 acres; on account of the Milk river irrigation project in the Great Falls (Mont.) district, approximately 275,000 acres. TREED BY BULL. Young Boy Is Kept Aloft for Twelve Hours. New Rochelle, N. Y., Oct. 19.—For twelve hours ‘Antonio Geslio, thirteen years old, was forced to cling to the limb of a tree while a big buil kept encircling the tree. The boy started out to get some chestnuts, and a herd of cattle headed by a red bull, came snorting toward him. Young Geslio was so benumbed he kad to be helped from the tree and carried to the farm house. ATTACKED BY PIRATES. British Steamers Encounter Trouble Near Carton, China. Shanghai, Oct. 19. — The British steamers Pak Kang and Hoi Ho were attacked by pirates in the West river, near Canton, last night. A British gunboat has heen dispatched to the scene. Two Harvester Plant Resumes. Peoria, It, Oct. 19. —,It was an- nounced on-the board of trade yester- day that the immense plant of the company at South Bartonville, will resume immediately, giving employment to 900 men. ghai to the Morning Post says; making the proprietor and his | DEADLY FIGHT | WITH BRIGANDS ee ENCOUNTER BETWEEN DESPER- ADOES AND SOLDIERS NEAR MEXICO CITY. THREE KILLED; 15 INJURED MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED SHOTS EXCHANGED IN A PITCHED BATTLE. BRIGANDS CRAZED WITH DRINK , THEY KILL A MAN AND SOLDIERS START AFTER THEM—BAT- TLE ENSUES. Mexico City, Oct. 19. — Three sons killed and fifteen more seriously injured is the ory of an } encounter between soldiers and brig ands in this federal district. The dead: Laurino Frias, Flores, bandit known. The Wounded: Vieento Godinez Santa Julia; Leonard Enriquez, San or | Santa Julia; N nidier, name ra, bandit, and eleven soldi 1 by drink the Saiedo’ and Herrera, went t residence of Vincento Godinez, at Santa Jul a northern suburb of this city, and called tor When he i od from the how accompa nied by Laurino Frias, a vant, the Bandits Opened Fire them Frias was and Godinez badly When news of the tragedy the authorit of the city rurales were at once dispatched to z plantation whither it learned the desperadoes had fled. A pitched battle ensued, over one hundred shots being anged, during which one . soldier was killed. Florez was finally killed and Saledo captured after re- de: Godinez instantly wounded upon killed ceiving several wounds. Herrera, though badly injured, succeeded in making his escape to the hills to the west and a posse is now after him. Leonardo Enriquez, a civilian who accompanied the rurales, was shot eight times and has little chance for recovery. Nearly every soldier in the squadron was wounded. RAIDED BY POLICE. Serious Charges Against Chicago Home for Epileptics. Chicago, Oct. 19. — The office of a home for epileptics was raided yes- terday afternoon by the police. The liver = books of the institution and the | ies of women solicitors J The raid the result of ar gation made by Sec ei me of the state board of health, who noti fied Chief of Police O'Neil, charging that the house was a fraud. The home, which upposed to be in Blue Island, employs twelve solicitors. In ‘ making their rounds they dress in green and white gowns cut after the fashion of Catholic Sisters of Charity. “The home” has been in operation two years and no doubt of its genu- ineness ever was made public until a pseudo nun made charges against the institution. The twelve said to collect from $150 to day. SIX DIE IN FIRE; ‘123 RESCUED. Gotnam Tenement Fired by Thieves It Is Thought. Brooklyn, Oct. 19.—Six lives were lost and eighteen person riously in- jured as the result of a fire in the ten- ement house in Moore street yester- morning. Seven of the injured are little children. That more lives . were not lost was due to the bravery of the firemen and a few policemen, who made many thrilling r Firemen declare that thieves s the blaze so that during the excite- ment they could rob the adjacent ten- ements. The fire marshal is inve gating this. Able-bodied men thrust aside and trampled upon women and children in their frantic desire to save themselves. One hundred and twen- ty-three persons were rescued. ROBS GRAVE OF CHILD. Was , Commanded From Heaven to Raise Child From the Dead. Bangor, Me., Oct. 19.—John Bradley was placed in jail yesterday on a charge of grave robbery. The grave of a twelve-year-old child in Milli- nocket was robbed Friday night. The only clew left was the shovel used io remove the earth. This finally was traced to Bradley. At first he denied all knowledge of the deed, but finally admitted that he had taken the child's body from the grave. “I received a command from heaven to raise this child from the dead.” Burglars Clean Out Safe. = Avery Center, Iowa, Oct. 19.—Bur- glars have blown the safe of the pri- vate bank operated by Thomas Rye of this place and made away wiih contents, estimated at severa! bun- dred dollars. ‘ Tobacco Factory Burns. Richmond, Va., Oct. 19—The R. A. Patterson tobacco factory was prac ‘ tically destroyed by fire last night. Loss, $100,000. The fire is thought to have been due to spontaneous com- ‘ bustion. ~ =