Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 14, 1905, Page 3

—_ Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. a a —e GRAND RAPIDS, - If the Chefoo liar ever takes a day off he puts on a thoroughly compe- tent understudy. MINNESOTA. The man who uses perfumery has no moral right to criticize the woman who smokes cigarettes. If two men are seen talking, togeth- er for any length of time in Russia the police send in a riot call. There is considerable difference be- tween the talk of the mosquito expert and the talk of the expert mosquito. Plans to “beautify” Washington are all right, of course, but certain lobby- ists find the place too attractive al- ready. —————__— That Berlin magistrate who decided in court that poker is not a game of chance had apparently been Up Against It. Even if the moon is cracked, as the California star-sharps say, lovers will continue to swear by it. It’s the only moon we have. a’s population is said to be in- creasing at the rate of 1,500,000 a year. This indicates that it is easy to raise people almost anywhere. The duke and duchess of Manches- ter are going into the poultry busi- ness. Perhaps Pa Zimmerman was on the wrong side of copper. The automobile climping contest up Pike’s peak next August will be great sport, but it will be the biggest fun to watch the automobiles coming down. A Nashville hotel clerk has received $10,000 for a kind act performed ten years ago. This should be clipped out and pasted over the register every day. San Francisco has had another earthquake, but she wants the rest of the world to understand that it was just a little rocking, as gentle as a lullaby. Now that the supreme court has re- buked the Missouri river for taking rties with the territory of a sovy- ereign state, perhaps it will stop its meanness, Do you have trouble in remember- Bunau-Varilla’s name? “Bu- is easy, and “vanilla” is easy. swap the “r” and the “n,” and re you are. The Pinero play which shocked Lon- con has been produced in New York with the shocking part left out. New York has decided to stay away from the disgusting thing. . The Organ Grinders’ Union of Phila- delphia is about to establish a, censor- ship over street music. Perhaps, it too much to expect the Whist- Union to act next. lers’ Foxhall Keene is said to want his age tie broken. He has broken nearly everything else, in the hunting field and on the polo grounds—records and bones chiefly, of course. A New York preacher says we should not condemn the rich for their disposition of their money. Nor do we—when a rich man disposes of his money there is always rejoicing. When a man who doesn’t think rab- ies is very common refuses to let a dog said to be afflicted with that dis- ease bite his own dog, the believers all say that proves it. Great is science President Eliot of Harvard, in dis- cussing the essentials of a gentleman, says that “a gentleman must be quiet.” Yes, we've noticed.that when observing the star performers at fu- nerals. Down in Connecticut there ie a man who is using the motor of his automo- bile this winter to operate a churn and run a fodder-cutter. There’s no use trying to keep down Yankee in- genuity. It costs only 18 cents to trespass on William Rockefeller, and the man who was convicted says it’s worth the money. It is more expensive and less sa’ ying, however, to tread on John D.’s corns. A naturalist has discovered that goldfinches really marry instead of mating for a single nesting season, as many birds do. Perhaps the gold they carry on their wings has something to do with it. Perhaps it is true that a Russian soldier who still lives was hit by sev- enteen Japanese bullets, but one might suspect that after ten or fif- teen shots had gtruck him he would begin to lose count. Prof. James Hall of Northwestern university is to wed Miss “Johnny” Carpenter, the famous golfer. It’s to be hoped that the professor has taken a long, serious look at the photograph of his bride) to-be “at the top of a swing.” Somehow the Servian cabinet, with Messrs. Pasies, Nicolics, Valimirevies and Adovanavics in it, reminds us of a man who has come home at 3 in the morning and is trying to explain to his‘ wife that something he has eaten must have given him hiccoughs. In the Capital. W. M. Hays, Minneapolis, and also connected with the Minnesota agricul- tural college, has assumed his duties as assistant secretary of agriculture. The department of agriculture has transmitted to congress a request for deficiency appropriation of $150,000 to continue the work of the eradication of scabbies in sheep and mange in cat- tle. The commission appointed by the postmaster general to investigate tse question of pneumatic tube mail serv- ice will take up requests for pnet- matic service in St. Paul and Minne- apolis. Senator Stone of Missouri intro- duced a resolution reciting some of the assertions of Thomas W. Lawson and Judge Alton B. Parker concern- {ng campaign contrfbutions, asking the judiciary committee to inquire into the allegations. A joint resolution was introduced by Representative Stevens directing the secretary of war to present to the State of Minnesota, for use in the armory at St. Paul, a bronze field piece as a memorial for the boys of the national guard who fell in the war with Spain. President Roosevelt is said to have definitely refused to have the proposi- tion to legalize pooling involved in any way with his suggestion to have the interstate commérce commission empowered to establish rates. He will have nothing to do with the rail- way campaign to have congress au- thorize the pooling of traffic. Accidental Happenings. Fire has gutted the plant of the Un- ion Meat Co., at Portland, Ore. The loss will run upwards of $1,000,000. Miss Muriel Bryam, twenty-four years old, well known in Chicago so- ciety, was killed when a cartridge in a rifle she was cleaning acoder exploded. The body of Mrs. W. S. Phelps, the missing financier, who was connected with several large pure food concerns of Battle Creek, Mich., was found in the river at that place. While Thomas E. Watson, late Pop- ulist candidate for President, was be- ing entertained at dinner at the home of Alfred Branche at Greensboro, Ga., the house took fire and Mr. Watson and the other guests narrowly escap- ed with their lives. Mrs. Loren Atwater of Galesburg, Mich., suffered a seriously lacerated mouth and tongue yesterday by the explosion of her false teeth. She heated her face to relieve neuralgia and then suddenly placed a piece of ice in her mouth. A physician says the sudden change .of temperature caused the accident. The dwelling of Sarah Wright, at Marior, Ind., burned to the ground and the daughter of Mrs. Wright and six other girls who were sleeping ‘on the second floor, were compelled, to escape by the way of a windo wto the roof and then jump to the ground. Edith Spaulding broke both legs, and all the girls were slightly injured. The property loss is estimated at $20,- 000. Chocolate coated strychnine and nux vomica tablets, prescribed by a physician for their mother, caused the death of Laura and Joseph Barsuglia, thirteen and six years old respective- l yat their home in Philadelphia. Be- lieving the medicine was candy the boy ate freely, and is believed to have given some to his sister. The chil- dren were soon in convulsions and died half an hour later. Crimes and Criminals. Attorney General Hays of, Kentucky has filed a petition for rehearing in the case of Caleb Powers. The Pow- ers case now stands with the last ver- dict of guilty reversed. : As the result of an assault made near Hope, Ark., by two negroes on a farmer named Nobbs, one of the ne groes, White Jetton, 17, was taken from Constable Garner and lynched. With scarcely.a trace of nervousness in his manner, Charles Louis Tucker appeared in court at Cambridge Mass., to stand trial, charged with the mur- der of Miss Mabel Page, aged 40, at Weston, Mass., on March 31, 1904. During an evidently designed stam- pede of the officers’ horses at Fort Hamilton, New York, four prisoners escaped from the guardhouse. One of them was recaptured and three were drowned. “When I said I gave Senator Mitch- ell $2,000 to use his influence with Binger Hermann to expédite those claims in 11-7, I told the truth, and Senator Mitchell knows it.” This was the statement made at Portland, Ore., by S. A. D. Putter, recently convicted witn Horace G. McKinley, Daniel T. Tarpley and Mrs. Emma Watson of conspiracy to defraud the government of lands. Harry C. Hopkins, president of the Harry C. Hopkins Printing company of Chicago, was shot and killed by’ his wife during a quarrel. Two shots were fired by the woman, both of which lodged in the man’s body. Jeal- ousy was the cause. The federal grand jury at Portland, Ore., returned indictments against United States Senator John H. Mitch- ell, Representative Binger Hermann and George Sorrensen, formerly a dep- uty sheriff of Multnomah county, joint- ly indicted on a charge of conspiring to defraud the government out of a portion of its public ema The British government has offered Adolf Beck $25,000 in compensation for wrongful imprisonment. Naples and the surrounding country is covered with four inches of snow. Traffic is unusually difficult. Many persons were killed or injurea in Belgium by a tertific hurricane, which also caused much damage to property. Cardinal Benedict Mary Langenieux, archbishop of Rheims, France, is dead, aged 80 years. He was created a car- dinal in 1886. Sir E. J. Monson, the retiring Brit- ish &mbassador at Paris, has been given a baronetcy and a residence in Richmond Park. . The engagement of Miss Elsie Por- ter, daughter of the American ambas- sador at Paris, and Dr. Mende of Zurich, is announced. The plague district of the Ural re- gio nof Russia has been cordoned by Cossacks and the disease has been lo- ealized. The mortality has rapidly de- creased. The Gazette Rouskala of Prava, Russia, has received a second warning from the minister of the interior, de- claring that dangerous tendency arti- cles must cease. The Hungarian parliament died hard. Its expiring struggle was con- tinued for nearly three hours with two intermissions and came to an end amid scenes of disorder and jeers from the opposition. The porte has at length replied to the notes of the American legation and British embassy regarding the sales of Bibles, and notwithstanding prevous assurances, the porte refuses to authorize street sales. Advices from Columbia report that the projected revolution has been un- successful and that Generals Joaquin Keles and Gonzales Vainicia, who were at the head of the movement, and others, have been imprisoned. A dispatch from Warsaw reports that the station master there died sud- denly from heart disease while Grand Duke Vladimar was angrily reproach- ing him because of the late arrival of a train the grand duke was waiting to take. The czar’s journey to Kharkoff has been postponed owing to the fact that revolutionists wrecked the train con- veying his suite, which preceded the royal train. The wreckers mistook’ the train for the czar’s, which was due a few hours later. Several of his maj- esty’s servants were killed. The Danish steamer Gallia, from Hamburg Dec. 8 for Savannah, has arrived at Bermuda with the survivors of the crew of the Norwegian bark Marpesia, Capt. Jensen, which left New York on Dec. 9 for Cette. The Marpesia was blown up at sea by the explosion of its cargo of naphtha, and eleven of the crew killed. Domestic. The Phoenix line steamer British Princess, which arrived at New York from Antwerp, brought among a large general cargo, 11,000 tons of wheat. John Alexander Dowie has gone to Mexico for the purpose of inspecting an extensive tract of land on which he expects to found a second Zion City. * George W. Perkins has been restor- ed to complete favor by J. P. Morgan, and although Arthur E. Newhold of Philadelphia enters the firm, Perkins is managing partner. The value of the world’s supply ot diamonds was increased $50,000,000 when the De Beers company put forth its increased price. The diamond sup- ply of the world is worth $1,500,000,- 000. The Standard Oil company has made a reduction of 5 cehts in all grades of crude oil except Raglan, ‘which was cut 2 cents. This is the second reduc- tion of 5 cents a barrel within two weeks. Mre. John Seeger wife ofthe pri- vate secretary to Chief Engineer Wal- lace of the Panama canal is dead at Panama of yellow fever. Mr. and Mrs. Seager were married in Washington a few months ago. Representative A. V. Cunningham of Hamilton county, Neb., announces his intention to introduce a measure prohibiting college football as his first act when the Nebraska legislature is ready for the reception of bills. Bishop Talbot has issued his first statement in the Talbot-Irvine-Elliott controversy, saying he expects to see the whole affair cleared up by the issuing of a statement in the nam> of the diocese through his attorney at Sunbury, Pa., vindicating him. One of the largest real estate deals in the downtown district of Chicago for many years, involving a cash con- sideration of $2,500,000, was com- pleted by the filing of a deed for 404 feet of river front from the Chicago Dock company to the Illinois Tunnel company. A. H. Barrett’s final report as treas- urer of Montana has just been submit- ted to. Gov. Toole and shows receipts for December aggregating $654,921 and disbursements of $527,932. The amount remainin gto the credit of the several funds at the close of the year was $689,331. The protected cruiser Chattanooga completed the two days’ speed trial at Newport on Sunday, averaging be- tween 16.1 and 16.375 knots an hour over the measured mile course in NaY- agansett bay on Saturday, and 16.605 knots at hour for a hour speed run off shore. THE GIFT GF EMPEROR WILLIAM IN| WASHINGTON IS_ EN- DANGERED. ‘ BOMB DOES LITTLE DAMAGE POLICE BELIEVE IT WAS SIMPLY AN ATTEMPT TO WORK UP SENSATION. MATERIALS USED WERE WEAK ATTEMPT TO INJURE STATUE WAS PUNY AND AMATEURISH TO A DEGREE. Washington, Jan. 11—Somewhat of a sensation was caused in this city yesterday by the discovery of what appeared to be a definite and serious attempt to blow up or deface the statue of Frederick the Great given to the United States by Emperor Will- iam of Germany, and erected in the arsenal grounds near the army war college on the Potomas river water front in the southern part of the city. It was believed at first that a crank had made a serious effort at destruc- tion of the statue, but after a careful investigation the police officials say the material used was incapable of producing damaging results. All the evidence secured so far, the police an- nounce, tend to show that the at- tempted effort to injure the statue was « Puny and Amateurish to a degree. It is regarded as an at- tempt to work up a sensation. A hole in the soft mud about six inches deep by six inches wide and twelve inches long, shattered window panes in near-by buildings and five or six splotches of yellow clay on as many granite steps summed up the damage done by the bomb, which had been placed on a high picket fence sur- rounding the statue. An analysis and examination of the bomb shows the substance used had not sufficient strength to wreck the fence. The facts developed by Detectives Miller and Cornwall, who were as- signed to the case, show that a negro hackman named Arthur Carter took a man thought to have perpetrated the affair from the, Pennsylvania railway to the statue. Stranger in the City. Apparently he had just arrived in the city. His baggage consisted of a small and worn dress suit case. The man told the hackman to drive slowly to the barrack grounds. On learning the exact location of the statue he or- dered the driver to walk his horse, and it was soon after noon that the statue was reached. The stranger alighted quickly as soon as the horse stopped, ran up ‘the short flight of granite steps leading to the westerly terrace of the war college esplanade and disappeared behind the pedestal of the statue. A minute later he ran back to the cab and the hackman no- ticed that the stranger’s grip which he carried was missing. The stranger jumped into the cab and ordered the hackman to drive out of the grounds as quickly as possible. Soon after getting out of the grounds the stran- ger jumped out, paid the hackman and disappeared toward the river front. SHOT DOWN BY THE MOROS. One American Officer and Qne Private Killed in Battle on Jolo Island. Manila, Jan. 11.—In an engagement which took place Jan. 8 with refrac- tory Moros.on the Island of Jolo, Lieut. James J. Jewell and one pri- vate of the Fourteenth United States cavalry, were killed and Segond Lieut. Roy W. Ashbrook of the Seventeenth United States infantry; Capt. Hal- stead Dorey of the Fourth United States infantry; Second Lieut. R. C. Richardson of the Fourteenth United States ‘cavalry, and three privates were wounded. The action was an in- cident in connection with the capture of a fort held by the Moro outlaws, which Maj. Scott, governor of the isl- and, had attempted to secure by peaceful means several months ago. ONE MAN OWNS BIG SHOW. Bailey Buys Out Entire Equipment of Sells-Forepaugh. Columbus, Jan. 11—James A. Bailey, fourth owner of the Sells-Forepaugh shows, yesterday bought the entire show, with all horses, wagons, wild animals and good will at public sale for $150,000. Nearly every showman in the country was present at the sale, which was held at the winter quarters of the show at Sellsville, a suburb of Columbus. THREE MEN DROWNED. They Were Washed Overboard Dur- ing Storm on Atlantic Coast. Vineyard Haven, Mass., Jan. 11. — Capt. McLeod, of the four-masted coalladen schooner Alice M. Colburn of Bath, Me. which is anchored off Nobska in Vineyard sound, reported yesterday that three of his crew were washed erboard and drowned on Jan, 3, when the: schooner was twen- 'ty-five miles southeast of the high- lands of Navesink. was injured. A fourth sailor BLOW UP STATUE’ _. four, oil towers were burned. velar 6 WILL: FIGHT ON. of) Port Arthur Will orange \ Nothing. St. Petersburg, Jan. 11—A French military attache who has just re- turned from the Far East, in-an inter- i'view to-day expressed the firmest con- fidence that despite the reverses suf- fered by the Russians on land and sea they would prosecute the war to a successful finish. The fall of Port Arthur, he added, would change noth- ing. The fortress had in reality some- what embarrassed the plan of cam- paign, but it had also served its pur- pose. Twenty Japs Killed. London, Jan. 11.—The correspond- ent at Port Arthur of the Daily Mail says. that on Jan. 8 twenty Japanese were killed by the explosion of a con- tact mine inside of the forts, and that, two mines in the town also exploded. Fleets Are Close Toaether. Sandrakan, Borneo, Jan. 11—Two Japanese transports were reported off Labun on Jan. 4. Two colliers for the Russian Baltic squadron were at La- bun on Jan. 7. NIEDRINGHAUS UNDER FIRE. Prospective Senater From Missouri Involved in Bribery Charge. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 11.—Repre- sentative Grace of St. Louis yester- day introduced a resolution in the low- er house of the general assembly, call- ing for an investigation of the report that St. Louis.brewers had given $21,- 000 to T. K. Niedringhaus, chairman of the state Republican committee and caucus nominee for United States sen- ator, to influence legislation during the present session of the legislature, The resolution created a’ sensation. In an instant a dozen representatives were on their feet, clamoring for rec- ognition. A motion to lay the resolu- tion on the table was lost after a roll call had been demanded. FAVOR PANAMA ROAD PROBE. House Committee Authorizes Favora- ble Resolution. Washington, Jan. 11. — The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce yesterday authorized a fa- vorable report on the Shackleford resolution providing for an examina- tion by that committee of the affairs of the Panama Railroad company. Mr. Shackleford said it was known that the railroad was maintaining offices in New York city at an expense of $200,000 a year. It was known to at least fourteen members of the com- mittee, he continued, that in 1903 the directors of the road had declared dividends of between $200,000 and $300,000 in excess of the net earnings END SMUGGLING OF CHINKS. Two Arrested and All in Wisconsin to Be Examined. Ashiand, Wis., Jan. 11.—Immigra- tion Inspector R. F. Davis of Minne- apolis arrested Lee Sing and bee Gong Yok, two Chinamen, here yester- day. Neither Chinaman had identifi- cation papers. Inspector Davis is ac- companied by a Chinese interpreter. The government is making a thorough examination of all Chinamen, especial- ly in the Northwestern states, and all who are without credentials will be deported. It is suspected that there has been considerable smuggling of Chinese across the Wisconsin line and a strict examination of every Celestial in the state is to be made. MARK TWAIN MUCH BETTER. Humorist Rallies Quickly From At- tack of Bronchitis. New York, Jan. 11. — Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), who has been confined ‘to his bed with acute bron- chitis for three weeks at his new home in Fifth avenue, reported to be recovering. He is still in bed, however. The humorist moved into the house only a few days before he was taken ill, and for a number of days the physicians feared pneu- monia. This was warded off and for the last three days he has been rap- idly recovering. BISHOP MATHESON IS CHOSEN. Succeeds Archbishop Machray of Ru- pertsland. Winnipeg; Man., Jan. 11. — The deadlock in the Anglican synod, last- ing for ten m hs, over the election of an archbishop to succeed the late Archbishop Machray, was broken yes- terday when Canon Pentreath was made the second choice. This means that Bishop Matheson will be the next archbishop of Rupertsiand. FOUR MINERS KILLED. Accident Is Due to Breaking of a Cable. Houghton, Mich., Jan. 11. — Four men were instantly killed and two oth ers injured yesterday at a shaft which is being sunk at Rockland by the Vic- toria Mining company, for a hydraulic power. The accident was due to the breaking of a cable while six men were coming to the surface in a skip at the noon hour. Postmasters in Gopher State. Washington, Jan. 11. — Frank Mc- Quat yesterday was appointed post- master at Oshawa, Nicollet county, Minn., vice Thomas McQuat, de- ceased; M. EB. Lewis at Vesta, Red- wood county, Minn., vice Henry R. Draper, deceased. Twenty Were Killed. Tiflis, Jan. 11. — An official report says that altogether twenty persons were killed during the labor disturb- ances in the oil region, and that Magik WILL TH TRY 102 FOR LAND FRAUD THE NAME OF SENATOR CLARK OF MONTANA INVOLVED IN BIG CASE. HARD FIGHT AGAINST TRIALS WORK OF PROSECUTION I$ DE- LAYED BY EFFORTS TO BLOCK PROCEEDINGS. BRIBED TO SWEAR FALSELY PROMINENT MONTANA MEN AND WOMEN ARE MIXED UP IN FRAUDS. Wushington, Jan. 11. — The whole- sale prosecution of persons implicated in the Montana land frauds will begin soon. It is announced, at the interior department that 102 persons must stand trial for frauds already discov- ered and without reference to the new investigations now under way. The trials will be ,on indictments found two years ago. So determined has been the fight against being brought to trial that no progress was made in prosecutions until the present. The federal courts in Montana now have vacated all pro- ceedings and directed that those un- der indictment be brought to trial. Dark for Senator Clark. It is said that the frauds in Montana may seriously affect Senator W. A. Clark, whose title to many thousand acres of land will be brought in ques- tion. It is said that a number of the most prominent men and women in Mon- tana are implicated in the land frauds. The indictments charge perjury and forgery in connection with the pur- chases of land in the western portion of the state. The conspiracy in Montana was or- ganized and led by R. M. Cohham and J. B. Catlin, according to information at the interior department. The plan was to have accomplices swear falsely as to their purposes in securing land. The process by which lands were ob- tained and the plan of operations is set forth in this statement issued by the interior department: Bribery Is Alleged. “It was necessary for the applicant. when he made application, to take oath that the land was not for specu- lative purposes and that he wanted it for his own use, and that no-one else was interested directly or indirectly in the purchase. Cobham and his as- sociates prepared all these affidavits and paid all expenses and $2.50 an acre for this land, besides paying thtese persons from $100 to $150 for false swearing and entry.” NOTICE OF SUIT FILED. Montana Land Fraud Cases Are Fol- lowed Up. Missoula, Mont., Jan. 11—Notice of lis pendens has been filed in the of- fice of the clerk and recorder here re- garding the cases pending in the United States court, wherein W. A. Clark and R. M. Cobban are the de- fendants, regarding alleged timber frauds in Missoula and neighboring counties. Twenty-one thousand acres of the best timber land in this part of Montana are involved. TWO WRECKS AT SAME PLACE. Trains Crash Near Aitkin body Is Injured. Aitkin, Minn., Jan. 11.—A freight train, west-bound, ran into a broken rail about two and a half miles west of here yesterday morning at 6 o’clock, causing fourteen freight cars to be wrecked. The morning passen- ger train, east-bound, was late, and this fact probably saved it from the fate of the freight. Another wreck occurred at the same place last even- ing at 5 o'clock. The afternoon pas- senger going east ran into the wreck- ing engine, smashing the frame of the locomotive. The engineer on the pas- senger was flagged, but his air brakes refused to work. Nobody was injured in either wreck. But No- CARTER LEADS IN SENATE RACE. Separate Vote Falls Short of Joint Requirement. Helena, Mont., Jan. 11—Both houses of the Montana legislature paboted separately yesterday for a States senator to succeed Paris Gib- son. Thomas H. Carter, who led, re- ceived ten yotes in the senate and twenty in the house, falling twenty votes short of the number required on joint ballot to elect. To-day tne joint assembly will. vote on the subject. FARMERS SUE FOR $26,000. Congressman Haugen’s Nephew Is a Defendant. Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 11.—Charg- ing that its officers, F. E. Ellingson, manager; T. S. Baker, Dookkeeper, and Treasurer Haugen, nephew of Congressman, Haugen, are responsi- ble, the Farmers’ Mutual Co-Opera- tive Live: Stock Association of Ken- sett began suit at Northavood to recoy- er $26,000 alleged to have been mis- appropriated. ———— —_+—____ eal