Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 4, 1905, Page 7

Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, The gifted inventor of the “gold crick” is dead, but his brick goes marching on. Twenty million dollars’ worth of jewels were worn at Mrs. Astor's ball. Harry Lehr was dazzled. Edna Wallace Hopper proposes to endow a home for newsboys. Tremen- jous applause from the gallery. At this late day it doesn’t matter much whether it was an apple that Eve ate, or a quince. We're all out- side. Concerning that decline in mar- riages last year, there may have been an unusually large number of declina- ions. Uncle Russell Scrooge’s Christmas may have been a Dickensesque affair; nut there are no reports to that effect’ as yet. The medical congress at Panama jeclares for the extinction of mos- juitoes. Let's make the movement iniversal. It really seems a shame for the whisky trust to start a price war when so many good men are still on he water wagon. A tornado sneaked into Mexico and lid considerable damage the other i President Diaz must not allow his to happen again. It takes a mighty level-headed man aot to consider himself’a great finan- vier when the stock he is holding on nargin happens to go up. The scissors grinder who died and eft an estate of $30,000 had not at- tracted the attention of the kings of finance. Obscurity is wealth. Incidentally, Andrew Carnegie’s es- tablishment of nearly 1,300 libraries has added 1,300 copies to the guaran- (eed sale of every important book. Mr. Takahira says that Japan is too busy fighting now to talk of peace. It must have bothered the minister a lot to have to stop to have the appendi- citis. 3y order of the De Beers syndicate, he value of the supply of diamonds bas been increased $50,000,000. That $50,000,000 may properly be spoken of as fiat money. The Harvard medical commission pronounces cancer to be hereditary, and a European authority says there is no such thing as hereditary disease; and there you are, A Christmas bard warbles pathetic- ally about Nan Patterson's “empty stocking,” though why Miss Patter- son's stocking was not as full as usual joes not appear. Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake says it was not an apple that Eve ate: It was 1 quince. This makes Eve’s conduct all the. more reprehensible. Ever try to eat a raw quince? The learned scientist who explains the price of beef on the supply and demand theory adds thatitis just pos- sible that combinations of packers also exist. What a shrewdness! The siege of Port Arthur is com- pared with the siege of Troy. There was a Helen connected with the siege of Troy, and there was something very like hell in Port Arthur.—Boston Globe. An Iowa woman who smokes to- baceo has celebrated the one hun- dredth anniversary of her birth. But why should a woman wish to live 100 if she has to smoke a pipe ta get there? A Massachusetts pastor left the stub of his cigar in his study the other day, the result being a fire which destroy- ed the church. Here is another strong argument against the use of tobacce by ministers. Mr. Barney Oldfield has just bought a new mile-a-minute automobile. With this instrument at his disposal, Mr. Oldfield should be able during the coming season to make several more notches in his axle. The sum of six cents has been awarded by a jury to a New York woman who sued for damages done to her heart by a man who said he would and then decided that he wouldn’t. Oh, but she must be homely. A Michigan professor says no woman should marry until she is able to support her husband. He does not go so far, however, as to insist that it must be according to the style in which his mother supported him. New York is looking with amaze ment at a Danish wrestler who har performed the feat of getting under ¢ 1,400-pound automobile and lifting it, with its chauffeur seated in the car Wouldn’t you like to have him help lift the mortgage on your house? In a speech to his son’s Bible class John D. Rockefeller said he believeé in newspapers and in extending the widest freedom to the press. Mr Rockefeller needn’t expect after this ie eto nina RUSSIA F KILL CZAR AND GRAND DUKES DE- CONCLAVE OF NIHILISTS CIDES UPON IMMEDIATE ACTION. : RESORT TO BOMB AND KNIFE CZAR, THE GRAND DUKES AND ALL THE MINISTERS CON- DEMNED TO DEATH. Contrary to expectation, the first move of the newly appointed governor general of St. Petersburg is pacific in character. It takes the form of a proc- lamation, jointly signed by Gen. Tre- poff and Mr. Kokovsoff, minister of finance, telling the strikers that they have been led into trouble by evil dis- posed persons, and that their best in- terests will be served by peaceful rep- resentations: to the government. The workmen are also assured that the em- peror has ordered the faming of cer- tain laws for their benefit and the cre- ation of a system of state insurance that will protect them from want in case of sickness or disability. No Serious Trouble in Moscow. The fears of serious trouble in Mos- cow yesterday were not realized. The only authenticates instance of any thing approaching violence there was in the dispersal of a crowd of about 3,000 workmen by Cossacks. So faras is known there were no casualties. From Finland Russophobic demon- strations are reported, a collision be- tween a crowd of 10,000 persons and troops and police resulting in the wounding of about thirty Finns. In Finland the agitation has nothing to do with the labor question, but is pure- ly political in character. Various political, educational and mercantile bodies in Russia are adopt- ing declarations in favor of an elective representative legislative body and de- nouncing misrule under the autocracy. Are Held in Awe by the Troops. With troops patrolling the streets in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Libau, Odessa, Kieff and other industrial centers of Russia, there were yester- day no serious collisions with strikers. In Moscow some of the employers are evincing a willingness to make some concessions to their workmen, but there has been no general agreement on that point. In St. Petersburg the return of workmen has enabled sev- eral factories to resume operations and the authorities hope to witness a general resumption on Monday. The minister of the interior has promised to consider the cases of the, prominent writers who were sent to the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress for their activity in the political and eco- nomic agitation and he has given a qualified promise that they shall be re- leased. \ St. Petersburg, Jan. 31—From a rey- olutionary source, which is absolutely reliable, it is learned that at a con- clave of nihilists held during the small hours Sunday morning, there was a fierce altercation as to the expediency of immediate action. brotherhood, equally with the strikers, have been cowed by the government's energetic action, and especially by the recent relentless massacre. It was as- serted, that such being the case, a fail- ure t ct at the present time would mean*the annihilation of nihilism. Whereupon immediate action was resolved, and the czar, the grand dukes and all.the ministers were con- demned to death. Victims Are Apportioned. Early this morning a flaming mani- festo was drafted, copies of which were conveyed to the district leaders for distribution among the sworn chiefs of the nihilist movement. These are to meet and assign to each trusted desperado among their subordinates the place at which the respective murders are to be com- mitted, a victim of assassination, and a bomb or.a knife with which to com- mit the deed. : . Father Gopon in a Monastery. The same informant declared that he knew that Father Gopon was under arrest and confined in a monastery, where he has been turhed over to the church synod to deal with him as they shall see fit. The czar is reported to be a com- plete nervous wreck. It is said that he fasts continually and spends much of his time weeping. He has refused consolation, it is said, from his advis- ers, and remains most of the time in a state of gloomy silence, repelling all who come near him. » Summary of Situation. Rioting and pillage are in progress SALOON HELD UP. plete the Job. Deadwood, S. D., Jan. 31.—A bold attempt at holding up a saloon in this eity was made by three colored men. At the point of revolvers the wd in a galoon Was ordered to hold up their hands. There was a large amount of money on the tables but before the raid could be completed the three men took fright and escaped. Alfred and to stand very high in the estimatiorz of Gov. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania A stout minority contended that the | But Three Colored Men Fail to Com-| Whiteman Locked Up on Charge of Granville Graves have been arrested. | brought here from St. Louis. in Warsaw in spite of the presence of large numbers of troops. British con- sular Officers there are reported to have been assaulted by hussars, and the matter, it is said, has been called to the attention of the St. Petersburg government by the British ambassa- dor. A severe storm at Moscow aided the authorities there in averting dis- order which was thought to be im- pending. There were no disturbances in St. Petersburg. In Batoum, Prince ‘Gurielly, an officer of the police, was assassinated. Under Sergius’ Thumb. The influence of Grand Duke Ser- gius, the foremost of the reactionists, is alleged to have governed Emperor Nicholas ever since the strike troubles began, and that member of the im- perial family is represented to be de- termined on drastic measures for the suppression of all agitation for eco- nomic or political reforms. Reports continue rife that the terrorists are prepared to resume their activities. Father Gopon, the leader of the St. Petersburg workmen, is reported to have escaped to Stockholm. The holy synod has denounced him as a “crim- inal priest,” a betrayer of his sacred office. Wholesale Pillage at Warsaw. Warsaw, Jan. 31—The strike disor- ders are becoming more serious. The ‘oordinary life of the city is quite sus- pended. On Saturday the strikers stopped the street railway service, but remained otherwise order! Yester- day, however, they began wholesale pillage. The majority of the shops in Marshal Kovski street and the state vodka shops were looted. All the fac- tories, shops, schools and theaters were closed and the street lamps were extinguished. There have been sec- eral collisions between the police and strikers and many arrests have been made. Peace-abiding inhabitants are terror stricken. British Consul Attacked. London, Jan. 31—The correspondent at Warsaw of the Daily Mail tele- graphs as follows: “A group of hussars ran down Brit- ish Vice Consul Muoukain Sunday night in Marshal Kovski street. Two hussars rushed at him with their swords, inflicting severe cuts across his face and lower lip. Dripping with blood Muoukain was conveyed to the hospital, where he is how doing well. “British Consul General Murray had a narrow escape from being similarly run down in Wierzbova sereet. “It appears that the incidents were due to a company of hussars betting drunk and running amuck.” The Daily Mail’s St. Petersburg cor- respondent reports that Sir Charles Hardinge, the British ambassador, has asked the Russian government to make inquiry into the outrages on the British consul general and vice cou- sul at Warsaw. Warsaw Is in Grasp of Mob. While there seems to haye been a complete restoration of order in St. Petersburg and Moscow, conditions at Warsaw continue to go from bad to worse. Estimates of the killed and wounded in consequence of collisions between mobs and the soldiers place the number at 160. The bakers being on strike, bread is at famine prices in Warsaw and attempts to break into stores there have caused numerous collisions with the military. The find- ing of revolvers of uniform make on many of the rioters arrested afford confirmation of recent reports that revolutionist agitators have been Smuggling Arms in anticipation of an outbreak. It is asserted that the official tale of the dead through the recent conflict be- tween the strikers and troops at Riga is far short of the actuality, many having perished in an attempt to cross the river on the ice when the soldiers opened fire, the ice breaking aud the water engulfing the fugitives. Work is being generally resumed. In Moscow the men’s demands have been practically conceded and all the railway workshops have resumed ope- rations. The strike has ended at Sar- atoff. At Libau some of the strikers have returned to work and there have keen no serious disturbances during the day. No further extensive strikes in Minnesota are fixed, and the issu- ance of passes to any persons not rail- road employes, prohibited in a bill in- | troduced in the house by Representa- tive A. K. Ware. The local passenger fare is fixed at 21-2 cents a mile, but the bill requires railroads to issue in- terchangeable mileage books good for not less than 500 miles of travel, to be sold for at the rate of 2 cents a mile. A reciprocal demurrage Dill gov- erning the shipment of carload lots of freight in Minnesota was introduced in the house by Representative W. A. Nolan. The agitation fot a reciprocal demurrage measure which imposes a charge on railroads for failure to de- liver or furnish cars promptly has been carried on by shippers’ associa- tions throughout the country with con- siderable vigor during. the past year. The Nolan bill contains the chief reg- ulations desired by shippers. Fees allowed for the valuation of life insurance policigs are to be turned into the state treastry under a bill in- troduced by Representative W. B. An- derson, and actuaries making the ex- : aminations are to be paid directly by the state. The bill will divert to the state treasury fees which during the past four years are reported to have aggregated more than $80,000. Engineers of trains carrying passen- gers shall not be permitted to serve more than twelve consecutive hours, according to a bill by Representative P. A. Gandrud. An amendment to the primary law following closely that offered in the senate by Senator Schain was intro- duced in the house by Representative Gunder Krostue. The selling of lumber not of the size and dimension represented is made a misdemeanor by a bill introduced in the house by Representative Elmer E. Adams. The wives and widows of veterans are to be admitted to the Minnesota soldiers’ home, according to the pro- visions of a bill introduced in the house by ‘Representative N. F. Hugo. It will be easier to secure convic- tions on circumstantial evidence in the prosecution of murder cases if a bill introduced in the senate by Sena- tor J. T. Alley becomes a law. The measure places in the hands of the jury the question: whether the penalty for murder in the first degree shall be death or life imprisonment. It pro- vides that the penalty shall be life im- prisonment except in cases where the jury imposes a death sentence Provision for. the reclamation of thousands of acres of state swamp land in the northern part of the state is made in a bill introduced in the swn- ate by Senator A. D. Stephens. The bill enacts the old drainage law and appropriates $150,000, of which $75,000 } is available in 1905. and $75,000 in 1906. Senator R. B. Brower’s bill provid- ing for a state census was introduced in the senate. It appropriates $65,000 for the purpose. St. Paul, Jan. 26.—Still another plan for settling the board of control ques- tion is provided for in a bill introduced yesterday by Senator C. B. Buck of Faribault. The measure takes the financial management of the universi- ty, the normal schools and the institu- tions for the deaf and blind at Fari- bault from the board of control, ex- cept in so far as the management re- lates to the construction and repair of buildings and additions and the pur- chase of fuel. Several permanent improvements in the state school of agriculture are pro- vided for in a measure introduced by Senator E F. Comstock. The bill ap- propriates $283,000 for the university. A third state fish hatchery to be lo- cated within two miles of Deerwood, in Crow Wing county, is provided for | in a bill introduced by Senator John F. Frate. Only three bills were introduced in the senate yesterday, and the session lasted less than half an hour. ‘capitol and that St. Paul, Jan. 25.—Passenger rates! St. Paul, Jan. 27.—A state industriab school for girls to replace the girls’ department of the state training school at Red Wing is provided by a bill introduced by A. Andregg. The bill constitutes F. M. Eddy, John Furlong, Dr. Cyrus K. Bartlett, J. L. Washburn and Gideon S. Ives a commission to purchase a site and superintend the erection of a new state training school for girls. A state board of immigration is es- tablished by a bill introduced by Rep resentative A. L. Cole which appropri- ates $25,000 annually to be spent un- der its supervision in exploiting the state’s resources. The state bounty for planting and cultivating trees on prairie land is abolished by a bill introduced by Rep- resentative M. D. Flower. The bill re- peals the law levying a tenth of a mill tax to pay bounties prescribed for tree planting. The Hannaford resolution providing for a committee of seven to* investi gate the system of weighing and in specting grain in Minnesota was passed by the house. Representative N. F. Hugo of Du- luth was yesterday unanimously chosen speaker pro tempore of the Minnesota house of representatives for the present session. Mr. Clague is ill with the grip, and, although his condition is not serious, it is not ex- pected that he will be able to preside over sessions of the house until next week, After Senator E. B. Hawkins, at the request of Lieut. Gov. Ray W. Jones, had withdrawn opposition to the con- firmation of John E. King of Red Lake Falls for state librarian, the senate ratified the appointment with a few dissenting votes. The salary of the insurance com- missioner is increased from $2,500 to $5,000, fees for the valuation of poli- cies of life insurance companies are required to be turned into the state treasury, and several changes are made in the laws regarding the exam- ination of insurance companies in a bill introduced by Senator A. B. Cole. Owners of cows condemned and killed on account of tuberculosis, when it proves afterward that the an- imals were not diseased, will be reim- bursed to the full value of the animals, if a bill introduced by Senator Jenson becomes a law. St. Paul, Jan. 28.—A bill making the free text book system practically com- pulsory in the public schools of Min- nesota was introduced by Representa- tive George E. Perley. The bill makes the furnishing of free text books to pupils one of the qualifications of schools receiving state aid, and pro- vides that schools that do not have free text books shall not receive the aid to which they would otherwise he entitled. School districts installing free text books are to certify that fact to the state superintendent of schools. The distribution of samples of med- icine, drugs or medicinal compounds of any sort is regulated by a bill intro- duced by Representative W. C. Frazer. The bill prohibits the careless distri- bution of free samples. State land which can be rendered more valuable by drainage is not to be offered for sale until drained under the provisions of a biil introduced by Rep- resentative Asher Murray. A plan tou prevent péddlers from overrunning the country districts in the northern part of the state is pro- posed in a bill introduced by Senator B. J. Sundberg. The measure author- izes county, commissioners to. require peddlers to secure licenses for the sale of goods or wares outside the limits of an incorporated city or village. Believing that an even temperature is maintained in the senate chamber by the employes in charge of the new these employes do not need any assistance, Senator E. B. Wood introduced a bill in the senate abolishing the time-honored office of fireman. fl The house of representatives yves- terday adjourned until Monday after- are reported at any fresh centers, nor A sth £ $25,000 t noon. are there disorders except at Warsaw. Dy SPOR eon ee Oey rane danate addour i re ; fi sena journed until Tuesday ‘Such Disidder 40 Wiraaw. deficiencies in the state aid to rural pao! and semi-graded schools for 1903 and 1904 is made by a bill introduced by Representative William Wohlhuter. The employment of tax ferrets by county commissioners to disclose prop- erty concealed from taxation is author- jized by a bill introduced by Represen- tative Burdette Thayer. A bill aimed at box car merchants, which requires peddiers and hawkers operating outside an incorporated city or town to secure a court license, was introduced by Representative O. T. Ramsland. Owing to a breakdown in the heat- ing apparatus, the hall of representa- tives was too cold for comfort when the house was called to order at 10 o’clock yesterday, and the session last- ed less than ten minutes. London, Feb. 1—The correspondent at Warsaw of the Daily Mail tele- graphs as follows: Street fighting continues and the nrob is growing in dangerous fashion. There have been frequent collisions between the people and soldiers. Rev- olutionists attacked the troops with revolvers and knives. The principal disturbances occurred in Noviswiat street, a leading business thorough- fare. : At 11 o’clock Sunday night a regi- ment of infantry marched to this thor- oughfare from Smolna street, when somebody fired upon them, whereupon the troops were ordered to form a square and RECAPTURED AT MOTHER'S HOME NEARLY SEVERS HEAD. Peter Honnef Commits Suicide in a Butcher Shop. St. Paul, Feb. 1. — Peter Honnef, aged forty years, a butcher employed at the Kasmirsky meat market, slashed his throat with a butcher knife at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon in the basement of the meat market, but a few feet from where a fellow em- ploye was working. Honnef had evi- derfttly been despondent for several | Aays. Ree Forgery and Grand Larceny. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 31. — Alonzo J. Whiteman, at one time a state senator of Minnesota, was recaptured Satur- day at his mother’s home in Dansville, He is now locked up in Buffalo on a charge of forgery and grand larceny. ‘Whiteman escaped from detectives by jumping through the window of a train at Dunkirk on Sept. 17 while being St. Paul, Jan. 31.—The whipping of wife beaters is to be no formal affair, whose chief punishment is disgrace, under the bill introduced by Repre- sentative W. I. Nolan. Mr. Nolan’s bill provides that the whip used must be of rawhide, with a lash half an inch in diameter, and three feet long. It must be applied to the back with such force that each stroke shall leave a well de- fined stripe. The bill provides that the whipping in every instance shall be public. ‘ The constitutional amendment. al- lowing the state school fund to lend to counties, towns and school districts 15 per cent-of their assessed valuation for erection of school houses is made ef- DYNAMITE EXPLODES. One Man Is Killed and Five Others Injured at Toledo. » . Toledo, Feb. 1. — While preparing to blast frozen ixon ore in the Cincin- nati, Hamilton & Dayton yards *yes- terday aworkman was warming a stick of dynamite, when it caught fire, setting ablaze the workshop, in which a quantity of dynamite caps were stored. A terrific explosion followed, instantly killing one man and serious- 1y, though not fatally. wounding five | ered to buy a site of not Representative J. | j fective by a bill introduced ‘by Repre- sentative T. T. Ofsthun. The state board of control is empow- s than 160 acres near the present state prison at Stillwater by a bill introduced by Rep- resentative John Zelch, and to erect the buildings required for the new state penitentiary. Private banks are required to make the same reports and submit to the same examinations as state banks*by a bill introduced by Representative N F. Hugo. A bill making the Torrens registry system of land titles optional in all counties in Minnesota was introduced yesterday. WANT DRAINAGE LAWS CHANGED Minnesota Engineers and Surveyors Make Recommendations. The Minnesota Engineers and Sur- veyors’ society at its annual meeting at the new capitol in St. Paul recom- mended several changes in the state drainage laws. ; The committee on state drainage laws, consisting of George A. Ralph | of Crookston, Prof. W. R. Hoag of the state university, and J. D. Morgan of St. Cloud, has been corresponding with | several hundred people in the state who are interested in drainage and has formulated several new laws and amendments which were approved. The following are the more important | changes recommended: County commissioners to be allowed to drain lakes, irrespective of size or location, except such as are valuable for fishing, boating and public water supply. Township | supervisors, members of city councils, the state board of con- trol or the agents of any public insti- tution, corporation or railroad to be allowed to sign petitions for drainage instead of liminating the signers to ac- tual land owners. f The bondsmen should at any time previously to establishing the ditch be allowed to pay the costs of the proceedings and dismiss the same, un- less the petitioners secure other bondsmen. : Under the present law the proceedings cannot be stopped even if the engineer finds the pro- posed ditch impracticable. The commissioners should appoint the viewers and engineer at one meet- ing, the engineer and viewers to be present at the formal hearing, and three of the commissioners to visit the proposed ditch before the final hear- ing. The engineer, instead of making es- timtes only on excavation, should make estimates of grubbing, cleaning obstructions, building flumes or other wood or masonary work, and the con- struction of fences, briges and other things necessary for the protection of the ditch. The engineer to draw up with the help of the county attorney a form of contract which shall contain the speci- fications and define the relations which shall exist between the county and the contractor. The engineer after due notice and with the permission of the bondsmen may extend the ditch beyond the lim- its named in the petition or put in branches where practicable. The engineer instead of giving a $1,- 000 bond for each ditch to be allowed to give a $4,000 bond to cover all ditches in process of construction. y The engineer should not be com- pelled to continue his bond after the completion or abandonment of the work. The bondsmen on the contract should be bound even if changes are made in the contract. The contractor's bond should be for the amount of the contract and not for twice the amount. The advertisement for bids should state the approximate amount of work and estimated cost, and where the es- timated cost exceeds $2,000 the county auditor should advertise in a trade pa- per. Where contracts have been adver- tised three times and no bids received the auditor may sell the same at the rate of 60 per cent more than the es- timated cost of the work, Any contractor shall be allowed an extension of time equal to the delay caused by the non-completion of sec- tions of work below him. Work which cannot properly be in- spected after completion should be in- spected during time of construction, the county to pay all expenses of in- spection. Penalties should be provided for of ficers who refuse to perform the duties imposed by the drainage law. Where ditches are in more than one county, all moneys to be paid to one of the counties and all expenses to be paid by that county. wee eeeeeeeeOeOeOeOeOe_O_Oe—Oe_Oa_OO_OOOO_O_O_O03030a0a—mQne—0m*™rowm”w “ov” ow OO OOEO~™mOOOOO™r™——™*"— Explosion Kills Three. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Feb. 1. — The boiler of a Rock Island freight locomo- tive exploded last night while running at high speed near Solon, killing three men, wrecking several cars of stock and freight and delaying traffic. Kanawaha, Iowa, Feb. 1—The thir- teen-year-old son of A. J. Larson died yesterday afternoon on the operating table. He was" accidentally shot by his father through the leg. The shock of amputation killed the boy.