Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 5, 1904, Page 2

een eer aw “Fierald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. A skull would make a good figure- head for the modern railroad locomo- tive. The lobster is said to be disappear- ing from American waters. That ac- counts for some things. The mowing machine knocked out the farmer’s scythe and the racing machine is after Death’s. By all means, let the scientists “1s0- late’ the penumonia germ. If possi- ble, give it a life sentence. Santo Domingo cannot expect to at- ract public attention at this time with a little 2x4 revolution. Perhaps the members of that Amish colony who insist that the earth is flat had been to see a minstrel show. Bad whisky in New York. to show how killed. killed fifteen persons There are no statistics many good whisky Richard Mansfield takes ‘nis pen in hand to say that “no one is writing and few are acting.” A saving dis- tinction. a New York and Boston have the champion baseball teams. Profession- 1 baseball is now played mostly by old people. The St. Louis inventor who thought he had mastered the problem of aerial tion is now in the hospital with a broken leg. i With twenty-five men dead in a eek from drinking New York whis- the Gothamites will no longer slur rsey lightning.” Firewater, it has been grievously demonstrated, is the most dangerous kind of speed-making power for au- tomobilists to employ. Mr. Rockefeller is a conspicuous ex- ample of what a man can achieve by close attention to business after he has passed the age of 35. Also, the theory that long engage- ments prevent divorce might be up- held on the well-known fact that they frequently prevent marriage. Yvette Guilbert wants to make an- other tour in the United States. All I acking to make the wish unan- the concurrence of the United foolishly it gives poor men the to accumulate great for- to leave to their sons to spend So the young ladies of Bryn Mawr are not to be permitted to flirt! Per- , though, they will not be forbid- to breathe, and we shall have them still with us. Our great soldiers are the most ear- t advocates of peace. Gen. Miles told the peace congress that war Only those “jest at scars ver felt a wound.” who ne Col. Younghusband’s men are report- ed to be suffering many hardships cn tk way back from Lhassa. This is nly due to the fact that they are inging so much with them. A college student while absorbed in letter from home, walked through a ~glass window. He promptly d $15 for the pane. The letter must have contained a remittance. Stick close to your desk, young man, and some day you may be the _presi- dent of a railway company with a chance to resign and draw a salary of $75,000 for several years after your resignation. For the man who is for peace and prohibition, the only consolation he can get at this time is to know that a bottle of champagne is being smashed every time one of these new warships is christened. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, though one of the most brilliant men in England, was among his personal acquaintances one of the least popu- lar. It is well to shine, but more im- portant to glow. An Arizona bachelor wants to know | if he will violate the law by raffling himself off at $1 a chance for 2,500 chances to get a husband. Certainly not. It has always been held that marriage is a lottery. When the Russian conductor comes around at Tibet to collect fare he will find John Bull with such a serene, convincing “got on four miles back” look about him that he will probably pass on without disturbing him. Those scientists who assert that dental work may be made painless if the patient will only look steadily at a blue light have a lot of things to explain. To a man with the toothache all things look blue, and yet he keeps the toothache. A judge in Connecticut cent a man who had robbed a bank of $70,000 to prison for f years, and gave an eight years’ term to another man who had stolen a horse. It is probable that such a judge would hang a man for stealing a chicken. \ KEE \ | xa NOT FOR YEARS HAVE SO MANY ALARMIST REPORTS FLOODED LONDON. WAS NOTHING TO JUSTIFY IT DEPARTURE OF BALTIC FLEET FROM VIGO STARTS THE EX- CITEMENT. ; IS NO DANGER OF FRICTION NEGOTIATIONS FOR SETTLEMENT OF NORTH SEA AFFAIR RUN SMOOTHLY. London, Nov. 2. — Negotiations be- tween Great Britain and Russia look- ing to a settlement of the North sea affair are progressing favorably, and there is not the slightest danger of any friction arising between the two governments. The constitution of the international commission under The Hague convention is on the verge of settlement. In spite of these pacific conditions Great Britain yesterday experienced a war panic that can only be compared to the, panie created on Sunday, Oct. 23, when the news of the sinking of the trawlers in the North sea was re- ceived. Not for yedrs have so many alarmist reports and flaming Extras Flooded London. The most extraordinary feature of this scare, which was serious enough while it lasted, is that there was not one single circumstance to justify it. The excitement started early in the day when the newspapers announced the departure of the Russian Baltic squadron from Vigo. The public was not in possession of the information cabled by the Associated Press to the United States that only the officers concerned in the firing on the British trawlers would be detached, and jumped at the conclusion that Russia had broken faith by not detaining the vessels involved in the affair. On top of th came wild reports of tremen- dous activity at Gibraltar. Hour by hour the news from Gibraltar .» Became More Serious, until at last the climax was reached | with the announcement that the Brit- ish fleet had cleared for action. Some even said that the fleet had sailed to meet Rojestvensky’s squadron. In huge type the papers made the paral- lel statements “The Russian fleet has sailes’-—“The British fleet has cleared for action.” No newspaper and no person seemed able to explain these events. The reassuring information available in the United States that the sailing of the Baltic squadron from Vigo was with the knowledge of and agreeable to the British government was not even hinted at by the papers here. x More and More Alarmist. The news from Gibraltar became more and more alarmist, and finally the foreign office was overrun by re- porters, some of whom brought the rumor that Admiral Beresford had al- ready sunk the remnant of Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet. Ambassador Benkendorff at that. moment was quietly discussing with Foreign Min- ister LanSdowne the personnel of the international commission, but it was popularly rumored that he was receiv- ing an ultimatum. When all London was in this state of mind and while anybody who might be supposed to know anything was constantly being asked “Has war been declared?” the foreign office decided to adopt a course mast unusual for it, and in or- der to Allay the Public Excitement, gave out to the press the following statement: “Before the Russian fleet left Vigo instructions were given to the Rus- sian admiral with the view to prevent- ing injury or inconvenience to neutral shipping during the passage of the Russian fleet to the Far East. “In compliance with Russia’s en- gagement four Russian officers have been left behind at Vigo. “The two governments are now dis- cussing the terms with reference to the international commission which will be entrusted with the proposed inquiry.” . Although it contained nothing that had not -been published in the United States some hours earlier in Associ- ated Press dispatches from St. Peters- | purg, it served to inform the people | here of the exact situation. The gen- eral public, however, went to bed last night firm in the conviction that it would wake up to hear that Admiral Rojestvensky was at the bottom of the’ sea. KILLED BY DYNAMITE. Fatal Accident Occurs in the Batson Oil Field. Houston, Tex., Nov. 2. — Two men are dead, three fatally injured and ' one seriously hurt as the result of a dynamite explosion in the Batson oil field. Dynamite had been placed in the Guffey company’s well to loosen the casing. Yesterday it was decided to pull it out and reset the charge. In drawing the explosive up it collided with the casing. \ World’s Fair. { Nov. 2.—The second suc- cessful flight of the Baldwin airsnip wag made at the world’s fair grounds yesterday under the guidance of A. R. Knabenshu of Toledo, Ohio, who ma- neuvered the “California Arrow” at will high above the western portion of the exposition grounds and descended in the stadium, adjoining the aerial concourse, amid the cheering thou- sands, after a flight of thirty-six min- utes. Monday Knabenshu took the airship up to an altitude of 2,000 feet, and, circling around, descended in the aerial concourse, within 1,200 feet of the starting point. Yesterday he went up to an altitude of 1,600 feet, and af- ter directing the course of his aerial vessel at will, descended on the ex- act spot on which he had decided to Jand. Satisfied with the demonstra- tions of the airship over short courses ! during these two trials Inventor Baldwin announced at the conclusion of the flight that Knabenshu will to- day undertake a_ fifteen-mile flight over a designated course, the choice of the course to be left to newspaper men, and the flight to be made re- gardless of the wind conditions. Makes Its Second Successful Flight at St. Louis, POPE PIUS FALLS ILL. Pontiff Ordered to Seek Complete Rest. Rome, Nov. 2.—Pope Pius, who for two days has been slightly indisposed, was yesterday visited by Dr. Lapponi, who found that his holiness was suf- fering from an attack of gout and rheumatic pains in the legs, the latter caused by sudden changes in the weather. Dr. Lapponi advised com- plete rest and the pope reluctantly consented to the cancelling of all au- diences that he had fixed for the next two days. He insisted, however, upon celebrating mass, as, this being All Saints’ day, he said it would afford him the greatest satisfaction. VESUVIUS IS SHAKEN. Cone Falls Into Crater Causing Ter- rific Explosions. Naples, Nov. 2. —- The cone on the erater of Mount Vesuvius which formed during the late eruption, fell into the crater yesterday with a tre- mendous roar. There immediately is- sued explosions that shook the whole mountain, followed by the emission of an immense black column, which gradually spread, falling in the form of ashes over the surrounding country within a radius of twenty-five miles. The disturbance lasted but a short time. GETS BACK PAY FROM KAISER. Infirm Veteran Receives $900 and Pension Order. Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 2. --- John Pfeifer, a veteran of the German army from 1865 to 1871, but now liv- ing in Columbus, received a letter yes- terday from the German kaiser en- closing $900 back army pay and an order for $12 monthly pension. it came in reply to a fetter he recently wrote to the kaiser reciting his in- firmities. Pfeifer was terribly wound- ed during the French war and after- ward became an employe at the im- perial palace. PREMATURE EXPLOSION. Results in Death of Two Men and Se- rious Injury of Others. Milltown, Ind., Nov. 2.—The prema- ture explosion of a blast which was being prepared at the LEichel lime: stone quarry yesterday resulted in the death of Foreman William Engle- man and James Miller, and serious injury to Harvey Heath and Neal} ‘Miller. Several others were severely injured by falling stone. The acci- dent occurred on a’ narrow ledge, one hundred feet up the side of a perpeh- dicular wall. FIVE THOUSAND ARRIVE. German Liners Carry Large Number of Passerigers. New York, Nov. 2.—More than five thousand passengers arrived here yes- terday on three German liners, the Moltke from Hamburg, the Kaiser Wilhelm’ Il. and the Frederick der | Groose from Bremen. Of this number | 1,684 came in the first cabins, while 8,488 were in the steerage. Made His Will and Broke His Neck. Norfolk, Neb., Nov. 2.—At Fairfax, S. D., the county seat of Gregory county, Ed Roggo, a farmer sixty-two years old, rode to town to have his | will made out. After signing the pa- | pers he mounted to return home. On the main street his horse stumbied, he went over the horse’s head, lit wrong side up and broke ‘his neck. He was killed instantly. : Shot by Halloween Revelers. Waterville, Minn., Nov. 2..— Bert Peterson, a married man, was shot in the thigh by some person in a Hal- loween crowd, The bullet has not been located and his condition is crit- ical. Editors in Fatal Fight. Chicago, Nov. 2.—Henry Hotze at- tempted to shoot William Kuhlman and seriously wounded him. He then killed himself. They owned a Catho- lic weekly and quarreled over a di- vision of the paper’s earnings. 2 Bring Guilmette to Trial. Providence, R. I, Nov. 2.—Requisi- tion papers were granted yesterday for the extradition to Minnesota of Jo- seph Guilmette, accused of the mur- der of Joseph Mongeaon at Mentor, Minn., two weeks ago. ene ATTACK ‘UPON PORT ARTHUR HAS BEEN IN PROGRESS SEVERAL DAYS. BIG BATTLE MAY BE DEFERRED BOTH SIDES SEEM TO HESITATE TO ASSUME OFFENSIVE ON SHAKHE. JAPANESE THE MORE ACTIVE MAKE ATTACKS ON_ RUSSIA'N POSITIONS — CZAR’S MEN REPULSED. Japanese official reports regarding the siege of Port Arthur indicate that the attack begun on Oct. 24 was still in provvess on Oct. 29, the statement being made that the fire of the besieg- ers was increasing in effectiveness. Nothing of importance has developed on the Shakhe river, where both sides seem ‘to hesitate to assume the of- fensive, although the Japanese are the more active in the matter of attacks upon Russian positions. Big Battle May Be Deferred. St. Petersburg, Nov. 2.—The expec- tation of serious developments at the theater of war has again failed of realization. To-day’s official dispatches record nothing more serious than the usual skirmishes. The strategists at the war office are generally inclined to believe that the expected great bat- tle may be deferred and possibly may not occur thts year, though the Jap- anese may make a desperate effort to flank Kuropatkin and compel him to surrender Mukden. If Gen. Kuropat- kin is convinced that the Japanese are now numerically superior, he May Decide to Draw Off, as it would obviously be unprofitable to risk a general engagement until the vast armies to be placed under his command can reach Manchuria. Whatever happens, however, it is not likely that the Japanese can take Ku- ropatkin unawares. Repeated recon- naissances beyond the Japanese lines betray the strength and purposes of Field Marshal Oyama’s movements. If*the Japanese really intend to ad- vance it is likely they will do so im- mediately and not await the arrival of the eight Russion corps, the first sec- tion of which is already at Mukden. Many Small Collisions. Hanchepu, Nov. 2.—Everything was quiet. yesterday ail along the line. The \ enches of the opposing parties are go close that there are many small collisions, especially during the night. The Japanese on the night of Oct. 30- 31 heavily cannonaded the Russian right and center, but the attack did not deyelop into the expected ad- vance. The Russians shelled a ‘vil- lage opposite their right flank in the morning. An immense volume of smoke was seen following the sound of a heavy explosion, and it is sup- posed that one of the shells exploded a magazine or ammunition train in- side of the Japanese lines. Russ Attack Is Repulsed. Gen. Kuroki’s Headquarters, Nov. 2. —The Russians took advantage of the bright moonlight last night to can- nonade the Japanese from positions on the left wing of the central army, but were repulsed after an action which lasted several hours, during which both infantry and artillery fire was brisk and continuous until day- light. The Japanese to-day, for the first time, replied to the Russian bom- pardment, which has been frequent for several days past. COAL MINES SHUT DOWN. Nearly 50,000 Men Idle in Northern Ilinois. Chicago, Nov. 2.—All the coal mines in Northern Ilinois were shut down yesterday, and from reports received at the headquarters of the coal ope- rators’ association only twenty-one in the southern part of the state were being operated. How effective the strike has been will not be known for several hours. The operators expect that many of the engineers will re- port for duty and still hold the opin- jon that the strike will be of short duration. Information from the dif- ferent mining pofnts throughout the state show that the tie-up is almost genera] and that nearly 50,000 men are idle. Effortg will be made to-day to resume operations, but the opera- tors do not believe they will be able to secure non-union engineers. One thing is certain, that no wage scale agreement will ever be made again with the Brotherhood of Hoisting En- gineers, as the operators declare that they are utterly unreasonable in re- fusing arbitraticn. PREMIER BALFOUR IS ILL. / Confined to His Bed Suffering From Varicose Vein. London, Nov. 2.—It was announced yesterday that Premier Balfour is slightly indisposed and will as a pre- cautionary measure be confined to the house for a few days. The following bulletin was issued last night: “The premier is suffering from an irritation of a small vein. By his doc- tor’s orders he will remain in, his room the next few days. MORE EFFECTIVE and collided Superior Line’s Engineer to Begin Permanent Survey. Superior, Wis., Nov. 2. — Engineer Gillis of the new railroad seeking to enter Superior apnounced yesterday that he ¢xpected his crew would be in here on ‘Saturday to complete a line from a point near Marshfield, Wis., to the Northern Pacific bridge crossing the St. Louis bay here and to Duluth. The survey is preliminary, but the af- fairs of the road are now in such shape that just as soon as the crew arrives here it will be sent out to make a start on the permanent sur- vey. It is announced that it will be but a ‘short time before the work of building the road will be commenced, and it is stated that it will be one of the finest roadbeds in the Northwest. SLAIN BY POLICEMAN. While Choking Cop the Latter Fires Revolver. Crookston, Minn., Noy. 2. Donaldson of Minneapolis w yesterday morning a2 o'¢ Thief River Falls by Policeman Frank Cernoucek, and died at noon. Donaldson, who is a single man, had been working on the Great Northern extension and, coming to town, im- bibed too freely. He annoyed the pro- prietor of the Oyster Bay restaurant during the night and would not leave. Cernoucek was summoned and found Donaldson in the alley near the place. The officer tried to arrest him, but Donaldson swore that no officer in Thief River Falls could land him. He attacked the officer, and, knocking him down, grabbed him by the throat, threatening to kill him. Cernoucek pulled his kun and fired, the bullet eniering Donaldson's face at one side of the nose and penetrating upward into the brain. — John WAY TO ESCAPE KNOWN. Bartender Who Slew Man Testifies and Is Held on Murder Charge. Crookston, Minn., Nov. 2. -— Joho Moe, when called to the stand yester- day in his own behalf, admitted that he might have escaped by the rear door from the saloon at Beltrami on Oct. 26 when he shot and killed Nels Orvik, and thus could have avoided shooting. After thus testifying he was held to the grand jury by Judge Me- Lean on a charge.of murder. The oth- er witnesses for the state all swore that the shooting was done in self- defense, as Orvik, with a chair for a club, had chased Moe from the saloon, through a hotel, down the street and back to the saloon, threatening to kill him. The two men were alone in the saloon when the shooting occurred, and it was Moe’s own testimony that resulted in his being bound over. NIGHT JOB CAUSES SUICIDE. Wife of Man Who Persists in Keeping Place, Kills Self. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Because her husband w work nights on the docks Mrs. James Teneyek committed suicide by taking enough strychnine to kill twenty per: sons. “IT won’t bother you much longer,” she said when he came home. “I’ve taken poison.” In a few minutes she was dead. She was twenty-six and is suryived by two boys, four and five years old. ) Husband and wife had been married six years and had never had trouble. The husband is almost crazy with grief. ROOSEVELT TO GO HUNTING. President Expected to Join Cody’s Party After Nov. 8 Cody, W. Nov. 2.—Capt. Corfield of the English fusile and his broth: er, Harry Corfield, a London capital- ist, have arrived here and are staying at Col. Cody’s ranch. They will be members of the big hunting party which will start out shortly after the arrival here of Col. Cody. Cody is ex- pected in about a week. The English- men understand that President Roose velt is to jain the party immediately after election. CANNOT ESCAPE DEATH. To Avoid Scalding Fireman Jumps and Fall Kills Him. Ortonville, Minn., Nov. 2—To avoid death by escaping steam that came through a hole in the boiler which a proken eccentric rod had _ pierced, Louis Ellison, aged twenty-three years, a fireman on the stock extra, jumped from the engin and was killed by his fall. A widow and one child survive him. TWO KILLED; SEVERAL HURT. Freight Train Crashes ‘Into a Work Train While Crossing a Bridge. Ottumwa, Iowa, Nov. 2. — An east- pound freight train on the Rock Isl- with a work train at Laddsdale, killing two bridge men. Seven others were injured, one fatai- ly and four — seriously. The work train ran wild to Eldon, a distance of five miles, without doing any dam- age. Editor Drowns Himself. Duluth, Minn., Nov. 2.—Col. A. M. Flagg, who until a few weeks ago was editor of the Duluth News-Tribune, committed suicide late yesterday af- ternoon by drowning. Col. Flagg has been ‘in ill health for some months. Fuel Gas Kills Two. Milwaukee, Nov. 2.—Mr. and Mrs. William Bleck, aged 75 and 71 respec- tively, died yesterday from inhaling fuel gas which escaped from a stove. It is believed the gas jet was opened acoidentally. ROB BANK AND KILL CASHIER OUTLAWS FROM THE “HOLE IN THE WALL” COUNTRY RAID copy, wYo. BUFFALO BILL TAKES TRAIL FAMOUS SCOUT STARTS FOR SCENE TO TAKE HAND IN MAN HUNT. MANY POSSES IN PURSUIT DETERMINED TO WIPE THE BAN- DITS OUT OF EXISTENCE— RUNNING FIGHT. Cody, Wyo., Nov. 2.—Four heavily armed outlaws from the “Hole in the Wall” country yesterday afternoon held up and robbed the First National bank of this place, and after shooting and killing Cashief Frank Middaugh of the bank had a running fight with cowboys and hunters and escaped into Rattlesnake mountains, where they are being pursued by half a dozen different posses. A battle is imminent. The “Hole in the Wall” gang are noted as the most desperate outlaws in the West and the Cody posses are determined to wipe the bandits out of existence. ' Buffalo Bill Takes Trail. Buffalo Bill himself is en route from Omaha in a special car, having with him a party of ranchmen and two of his Sioux Indian scouts. He has telegraphed orders for horses to meet his party at the station. He will take the trail in person immediately upon his arrival. Just before the close of the bank yesterday afternoon a party of four roughly dressed men rode up to the First Nationa! bank in the city and immediately across the street from the Irma, Buffalo Bill’s fine hotel. Three men dismounted and entered the building. ‘The fourth stayed out and guarded the horses. Cashier Fights Bravely- As soon as the outlaws entered the bank one of them covered Cashier Maddaugh, who was the only occu pant of the room, and demanded the cash from the vault. Instead of complying Middaugh grabbed a revolver and made a game fight for life and money, firing sev- eral shots, even before the outlaw leader fired at the banker, but Mid- daugh was excited and his bullets went wild, while the single shot sent from the outlaw’s gun plowed through the banker's brain and he died in- stantly. Outlaws Easily Escape. The shooting attracted the atten- tion of a party of hunters who reached the Irma from the opposite side of the building, and as they rushed around the corner of the hotel they took in the situation and opened fire on the outlaws’ horses. But the out- laws from the building rushed out, and under cover of each other's fire, mounted their horses and rode down the street, firing in all directions and escaping into the prairies and from thence into the mountains, s mingly without a scratch. Battle With Bandits. One of the posses, led by Sheriff jeff Champion, overtook the outlaws at dusk, twenty miles southwest of Cody, and a batile ensued in which Champion had a horse shot from un- der him, but was uninjured. ~The ban- dits obtained fresh Horses at a ranch near by and escaped. DEAR THIEF 1S FOUND. Amateur Burglar Is Killed by Electric Wire. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 2.—A special from Montgomery, Ala., says: The body of James Hendrix, aged twenty- two, one of the most prominent young men in Montgomery, was found on a shed over the American National bank to-day. Beside him were burglar tools and a stick of dynamite. In his pocket was a pistol. He was killed apparently while trying to cut an elec- tric light wire that ran into the bank, as the flesh had been burned by the current. Much mystery surrounded the finding of the body and the burglar tools. EVIL TONGUES CAUSE DEATH. Girl Commits Suicide to Escape Scan- dal Mongers. Bloomington, Ill., Nov. 2. — A pa- thetic suicide occurred last night at Beason, Logan county. Miss Marie Keef, a member of a well known fam- ily of Atlanta, swallowed poison. She left two letters in which she; stated that her character had been assailed, put that she was innocent of any wrongdoing. Sneak Hunters at Work. Winona, Minn., Nov. 2. — It is re- ported that a party of Iowa hunters with ten sneak boats are shooting ducks without taking out the licenses required by the laws of Minnesota. The game warden has been ‘put next.” Boy Fatally Hurt by Horse. Pocahontas, Iowa, Nov. 2—The four- ten-year-old son of J. T. Cooper had his skull crushed by being kicked by a broncho horse and is in a dangerous condition. Doctors give but little hope of his recovery.