Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 15, 1905, Page 3

Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. 1 If he happens to win, it Js a shrewd investment. If he happens to lose, it is a reckless speculation. Civilized humanity is coming rapid- !y to the conviction that Gen. Sher- man understated the case. The statement is made that Russell ge is recovering from a bad cold— if there ever was a good one. The whole Venezuelan army is re- ported to be ‘n constant movement. He must have a nervous temperament. When man has finally brought the elements under his sway the Ohio river will have been about the last to succumb. We repug to report that the esteem- ed Philadelphia Public Ledger starts off an able editorial by saying “The, imogination relucts.” The Washington Post says that Dr. Wiley is writing poetry on the food question., The pojson squad seems to be in tor a new test. Fashion notes: Cultivating the “nour-glass figure’ does not mean standing for hours at the glass to con- template one’s figure. Statistician says the “telephone habit” is changing the American voice. Would give illustrations but, alas! they are “unfit for publication.” Mr. Marconi, who has been going to marry all kinds of people for years past, has actually married, and now the rest of us can be at peace. Nearly $50,000,000 a year is said to be spent on golf. This can hardly in- clude the amount spent on those cute little golf stockings, however. Naval recruiting officers are insist- ing that only men with good teeth shall be taken as sailors. This does not promise well for the rations. Our valued Hellenic contemporary, the Parthenon, invites contributions irom volunteers. Write only on one side of the paper in correct Greek. A Wilmington, Del., man was ben- tenced to five months in jail for swear- ing at his mother. Good! But why this slighting of the whipping post? Perhaps the’ New York millinery firm that has just got a judgment of $1,050 against Mrs. Chadwick would be glad to settle now for $10.50 in cash. Castro enjoys one advantage when threatened by naval powers. He can always save his own navy by mount- ing it on a flatear and shipping it in- land. A New York police justice has de- cided that a woman’s tongue is a concealed weapon. It is a pity New York women can’t use votes as a weapon. A Reading, Pa., paper compliments Goy. Pennypacker by saying that he “rede like a Centaur.” But let’s see. Centaurs were not built for riding, were they? Prof. Grigori Nickolaiewitch Potanin bas been arrested by the Russian gov- errment on suspicion. His name is regarded as strong circumstantial evi- dence against him. Society began with the monkey din- ner, science followed with the dinosau- rus tea, and now sport comes forward with the rhinoceros banquet. Finance dines regularly on lamb. So far, the prayers of the Philadel- phia people for Mayor Weaver appar- ently haven’t accomplished much, but it’s a good thing for the people of any city to get the praying. habit. Those waves that rolled over the Cedric may not have been a hundred feet high, but when a wave is coming at you there is no time to take an ac- curate geometric measurement. In France women can wear trousers by paying $10 a year. Consequently, as a rule, they do not care to. Perhaps this is fortunate, considering the American habit of following French fashions. The distinguished mortality is large in Monte Carlo this year. From a strictly scenic standpoint it is the most beautiful spot in the world in which to die. In other respects it is less attractive. A man named Adams, who recently died, is referred to as “the inventor of chewing gum.” Gum from the suc- culent spruce tree was no doubt chew- ed in the days of Adam and Eve—es- pecially the latter. The Watertown Standard solemnly declares: “The blackness of the ket- tle is in no way removed by reference to the somber hue of the pot.” No, put when the’ pot goes into oratory what it says will not wash, unless it does. New York is impressed with the hor- ror of the latest tenement fire, in which a score of lives were lost. How many times it would have to be mul- tiplied to equal the horror of the bat- tle of Mukden, which is actually too great for the world to realize. . ais In the Capital. Bids were opened at the navy de partment for eighty-six three-inch guns. This is the largest contract for guns of this caliber ever made by the department, The executive board of the bureau of American republics has elected William C: Fox, the present chief clerk, to be director, to succeed W. W. Rockhill, appointed minister to China. Secretary Shaw has announced that he will make a call on the national bank depositories for about $27,000,000 in two installments, the first falling due on May 15 and the second on July 1, 1905. A conditional request has been made upon John G. Brady, governor of Alas- ka, for his resignation. The sugges tion was forwarded by Secretary Hitchcock, under the direction of the president, and notwithstanding it was dispatched about a month since, no response has yet been received. The request grows out of the fact that Gov. Brady is identified with a mining com- pany which is extensively engaged in advertising its affairs. Accidental Happenings. The .Abbott .sanitarium .at .Fort Wayne, Ind., was burned to the ground. Loss, $35,000. i John B. Hays, aged 48, was burned to death in his rooms on the top floor of a tenement house in New York. Four persons, an aged woman and three children, were found dead in the bed they occupied in New York, having inhaled illuminating gas. A fire at Cripple Creek, Colo., re- sulted in the death of William Davis and another man called “Dig” Walsh, and several others had narrow escapes. Three men were killed by the explo- sion of a small tank used for the stor- age of nitroglycerine at a dynamite manufacturing plant near Bay City, Mich, An accommodation train on the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad was wrecked near Toronto, Ohio. Two em- fployes were killed. No passengers were hurt. A passenger train on the West Shore was derailed near Fort Plain, N. Y., and the engineer, George Wilkinson, and the fireman, F. J. Wright of Little Falls, were killed. Efforts to check the forest fire rag- ing on South mountain, east of Hagers- town, Md., have been futile and the mountain, people are praying for rain to stop the ravages of the flames. The four-year-old son of Frank Mau- pin was burned to death in a fire which destroyed a carpenter shop at Atlanta, Ill. The father was fatally burned trying to rescue his son from the flames. In a terrifice explosion that blew to pieces one of the brick buildings of the Union Metallic Cartridge company at Bridgeport, Conn., three men were in- stantly killed. They were John Meary and two helpers, Michael Hurley and William Bayliss. The report of the medical examiner places the number of lives lost in the boiler explosion at Brockton, Mass., two weeks ago, at fifty-seven. Fifty- six bodies were recovered from the ru- ins of the shoe factory and one in- jured person has died. To avert a collision between an Illi- nois Central and a Vandalia train at a crossing near Arcola, Ill., the operator of an interlocking switch tower ditch- ed the Vandalia train. Engineer W. L, Cassell stayed with his engine and wag badly scalded. The passengers escaped. Crimes and Criminats. Andrew Pibbett and James Schud- fier, negroes, were hanged together in the jail yard at Nashville. Both men sang “Old Time Religion” just before the drop fell. Wallace A. Lewell of Chicago, the “wildeat” insurance promoter, con- victed on charges of conspiracy to ob- tain money by false pretenses, was re- fused a new trial. Afterdamp, due to an explosion of blasting powder, set off by persons as yet unknown, caused the death of for- ty-three miners at Joseph Leiter’s coal mine on Monday, April 3, according to the verdict of a coroner’s jury. The motion for a new trial for Charles L. Tucker, convicted of the murder of Mabel Page of Cambridge, Mass., is denied in a decision reached by Judges Sherman and Sheldon, who presided at the trial. Thieves have ransacked the Kala- mazoo (Mich.) home of Senator J. C. Burrows, who is still in Washington. The house was turned topsy-turvy from cellar to garret, with indications that the thieves held high carnival during their visit. It is thought the loss is not very large, as it is supposed that most of the valuable silver was taken to Washington when Mr. and Mrs. Bur- rows went there last fall. E. F. Kaneen, cashier; E. B. Walker, assistant cashier, and D. Walker, book- keeper, of the defunct Citizens’ Sav- ings bank of Loraine, Ohio, have been arrested. Kaneen is charged with em- bezzling and the others with conspir- acy. All are young men. J. Frank Cordova, the former pastor of.the South River Methodist church at New Brunswick, N. J., who eloped twice with Miss Julia Browne, a choir singer in his church, was taken to ison to serve a four yeore’ teem for abandoning his wife. DEFECTIVE PAGE The News \. 9%. Of the Week | Foreign. It is reported in Berlin that the real nature of the prihce of Wales’ disease is cancer. Hoffman Philip, United States con- sul general at Tangier, has left for Fez. His journey at the present junc- ture of affairs is much commented upon. The London Catholic Herald states that the pope has appointed a commis- sion to visit America and report on the status of Polish Catholics in that country. Owing to an extreme drouth all field work in Andalusia has been sus- pended for a considerable time and crops are threatened with total de- struction. When King Edward goes to Mar- seilles to meet his queen, President Loubet of France will board his spe- cial train at Pierrefitte and accompany him to Lyons. Speaking at a Zionist banquet in London, Israel Zangwill declared that in the whole history of the world the Jews never had a better friend than President Roosevelt. The German government telegraph administration anncunces the accept- ance at any office in Germany of tele- grams for transmission by wireless telegrap to ships so equipped. There is no foundation in fact for the report printed in the Paris Figaro that King Alfonso of Spain is bethroth- ed to the Archduchess Eleanor, daught- er of the Archduke Stephen of Austria. The Italian third class cruiser Dogall is being kept in South American wa- ters in readiness to support the Italian minister at Caracas, should Venezuela refuse to comply with the demands of the powers. Dr. Pierre Roux, a director of the Pasteur institute in Paris, is working in an endeavor to discover a serum for cancer. His friends say the results of the first experiments promise brilliant results ultimately. As the station master at Kutais was driving to the local treasury, accom- panied by an armed escort, he was at- tacked by four armed men, who over- powered the escort and robbed the station master of $3,000. Chili’s reply to the Peruvian pro- test regarding Tacna and Arica says that Chili is resoived, without wound- ing the susceptibilities of Peru, to ac- quire definite dominion and sovereign- ty over Tacna and Arica. The unusually iong, dry summer has eaused a scarcity of water at Panama, which is now being sold at 4 cents a gallon. The government is trying to arrange with the authorities to bring water to the city in tank cars. The syndicate proposing to handle the Servian loan has demanded as a consideration that guns for the Servian army be ordered of French firms with- out trisls. King Peter has accepted the conditions. German and Austrian firms have already sent guns for trial, but these will be returned, France get- ting the contract. TThe seventh session of the Cuban congress has begun. The diminution of attendance in the public schools in the last four months has been 29,400 below the corresponding period of 1903. President Palma characterizes this as an alarming deficiency and he suggests the adoption of strong meas- ures looking. toward securing more general attendance. Otherwise. Jose Huau, during the war with Spain representative of the Cuban junta, is dead at Jacksonville, Fla. Daniel Knowles, aged 75 years, one of the few survivors of those who fought on the Merrimac, is dead at Norfolk, Va. Frank C, Montgomery of Topeka, for many years an editorial writer on the Kansas City Journal, is dead of hemor- rhage of the stomach. The United States army transport Thomas has sailed for Honolulu, Guam and Manila with 625 troops and a num- ber of cabin passengers. Ralph Peters of the Pennsylvania railroad system was elected president of the Long Island Railroad company, to succeed William F. Potter, de- ceased. Four hundred strikers in the sheet mill of the Inland Steel company at In- diana Harbor, Ind., have returned to work under open shop rules, accepting a cut of 2 per cent. Under 2 constitutional amendment adopted at the election in November, the consolidation of the Colorado court of appeals with the state supreme court has taken place. Miss Lavina Steele, a former Coon Rapids girl, recently appointed assist- ant Iowa state librarian, is in receipt of a Carnegie medal for her brave rescue of George Hill, a Burlington young man, with whom she was skat- ing last winter. The New York assembly passed the stock transfer tex and mortgage tax pills with the penal code amendment prescribing penalties for forging or. counterfeiting the stock revenue tax stamps. Definite form has been given to the negotiations for the merger of South- ern iron companies through the inter- vention in the project of the banking house of Blair & Co. and Ladenburg, Thalman & Co., who say that some ar- rangement through them for the con- solidation may be reached. The capi- talization of the properties is $125,000,- 000. ; CASTRO'S REPLY | TS: INSULTING REQUEST FOR ARBITRATION IS TURNED DOWN WITH THREAT. ENING WORDs. WILL “NOT PASS UNNOTICED HEAVY HAND OF THE UNITED STATES MAY FALL UPON VENEZUELA DUTCH MAY TAKE A HAND REPEATED DEMANDS FOR RE- LEASE OF SAILORS ARE IGNORED, Washington, April 12.—Throughout the diplomatic corps keen interest ex- ists regarding the sensational answer which President Castro is said to have made to Minister Bowen’s latest re- ‘quest for arbitration of the pending questions between the United States and Venezuela. Although Venezuelan legation offi- eials say the text of the dispatch was not included in the mail reaching the legation yesterday, and which left Caracas after the answer was deliy- ered to Mr. Bowen, it has become noised among diplomats that the an- swer was undiplomatic and almost threatening in wording. ‘ Insult Widelp Published. The knowledge possessed by certain diplomats on the subject here indi- cates clearly that the character, if not the exact text of the answer, has been known for some time to the diplomat- ic corps in Caracas, and there is rea- son to believe that several foreign governments already have been ad- vised of its text. While diplomats who have inquired at the state department have been in- formed that practically no action will be taken regarding Venezuela until President Roosevelt returns from his Western trip, they also have received the intimation that if the exact text ofo Castro’s answer comprises an in- sult to the American minister, it will not pass unnoticed. Dutch, Interference Probable. Willemstad, Curacao, April 12. — The presence in-Curacao of J. H. De Reus, the Netherlands charge at Caracas, has revived rumors of prob- able Dutch interference in Venezuela to force President Castro to release Dutch saitors who are said to be im- prisoned unjustly at Puerto Cabello and Maracaibo. Mr. De Reus has been in conference with the officers of the Dutch warship Kortenaer, which is stationed here, and it is reported that within a month additional Dutch war- ships will reach here. Repeated demands have been made by Holland for the release of the sail- ors, and coercive action was recom- mended by the charge some weeks ago. At that time it was said that the Dutch government was prevented from taking any action because of the possible interference of the United States in Venezuela. France Causes Delay. The announcement that France had placed two warships at the disposal of its minister at Caracas to reinforce his deniands for the discontinuance of the suits against the French Cable company is also said to have delayed action on the part of the Dutch. Advices from Caracas indicate that the Venezuelan capital is in an ex- cited state since the final demand of the United States upon President Castro fer arbitration of pending claims. There is much uneasiness among foreigners, who anticipate that the United States will before long take forcible means of reaching a set- tlement of the controversy with Ven- ezuela. No Army Big Enough. Caracas, April 12.—‘“President Cas- tro will not withdraw the New York & Bermudez Asphalt company case from the Venezuelan courts and will not resubmit the Olcott case to arbi- tration if the whole American army and navy come to Venezuela.” This emphatic statement by Gen. Alejandro Ybarra, the Venezuelan sec- retary of foreign affairs, reflects the spirit of the reply which President Castro made to the recent proposal of the American state department /for the arbitration of the Bermudez and Olcott cases. Burned a Village. Salonica, April 12—A Greek band attacked and burned an Albanian vil- lage near Kilissura on Friday, killing thirty and wounding and capturing many more, Jos Sa et Be, THOUSANDS WERE KILLED. Victims of Indian Earthquake Now Estimated at Néarly 14,000. - Lahore, India, April 12. — Commis- sioner Jullundur reports that as a re- sult of his investigations he estimates the fatalities resulting from the re- cent earthquake in the Kangara dis- trict at 10,000, and in the Palampur district at 3,000. The total number of persons killed at Dharmsala was 424, besides the Gurkhas who were crushed to death by the falling of the stone barracks. ~ .- Engineer Wallace Says Work Is Going Forward Rapidly. Washington, April 12-—John F. Wal- lace, chief engineer of the isthmian canal, said yesterday that there are now practically 5,000 men engaged un- der his direction on the engineering and construction work of the canal. The work of installing an American plant .at Culebra is going forward as fast as the machinery and supplies ean be secured on the isthmus, and when Mr. Wallace left there were six American steam shovels at work in the Culebra excavation, and arrange- ments have been made to install ad- ditional machines at the rate of two amonth. During the last ninety days laborers have been coming in freely from Costa Rica, Jamaica and the Barbados. The health of the young Americans on the isthmus is particularly good. There has been very little sickness and coniparatively few fatalities. ‘The work of installation of the plant and the organization of the force at Cule- bra is advancing rapidly, and cach month the output of material is in- creasing. ORIENTALS DRIVEN AWAY. Workingmen in Pacific Coast Towns Will Not Tolerate Japs and Chinese. Vancouver, B. C., April 12—Oriental labor has been driven out of a mill at Salmon. Thirty-two men, Chinese and Japanese, were taken from this city to the Kootney mill at Salmon. It was learned at Salmon that the Japanese end Chinese workmen were coming, and a crowd of 200 white men were at the station when the train ar- rived. The whites refused to allow the Orientals to leave the depot and the newcomers took the nexttrain to Nelson, the nearest station, The com- pany says it requires the Orientals and cannot work without them. An- other attempt will be made, with the aid of the provincial police, to land the Asiatics in Salmon. SENATE AIDS INGA HANSON. Ulinois Solons Ask Gov. Deneen to Probe Girl’s Case. Springfield, Ill., April 12.—The up- per house of the Illinois legislature yesterday adopted a resolution offered recently by Senator Juul of Chicago, asking Gov. Deneen to make an in- vestigation of the case of Inga Han- sen, the former Salvation Army girl, convicted of perjury. Miss Hansen was plaintiff in a damage suit against a traction company, and the allegation was made that she had committed per- jury. After a sensational trial she was convicted. The resolution was adopted only after, considerable dis- cussion. BIXBY IS COUNTING BABIES. At Least 10,000 of Them Will Get, Al- lotments. Muskogee, Ind. T., April 12.—The Dawes commission has just come to a realization of the enormity of the task of enrolling Indian babies. Four tribes were affected by the recent legisla- tion providing that all babies born to Indian citizens before March 1 should be enrolled and given allotments. Tams Bixby said that at least 10,000 allotments will be made to babies. This means that these infants will take up a great part of the surplus land on each of the nations, and that there will not be enough in some to equalize the allotments already made. GREAT TARGET PRACTICE. Eight Shots Fired at Night From Oregon All Hit the Target. Washington, April 12.—Another in- stance of the gunnery efficiency of American men of war was furnished by a record just made by the battle- ship Oregon. With its eight-inch guns, the Oregon struck a target illuminated on a dark night by its search lights. The vessel was cruising at ten knots an hour. Eight shots were fired and every projectile pierced the target. Rear Admiral Train, commander-in- chief of the Asiatic squadron, is proud of the work. FELL UNDER TRAIN. Prominent G. A. R. Man Leaps From Automobile to His Death. Marietta, Ohio, April 12.—Maj. Will- iam G. Jewell, one of the most widely known G. A. R. men of Ohio, was in- stantly killed by a Pennsylvania train yesterday. With Cecil Gardner he was in an automobile, which had erdss21 just ahead of an incoming train, when Maj. Jewell became much excited, jumped and fell under the train. LIGHTNING STARTS FIRE. Property Valued at $200,000 Is De stroyed at Huntington. Huntington, W. Va., April 12.—A fire started by lightning striking the Lade Brothers’ large warehouse early yester- day morning caused damage estimated at $200,000. Before the firemen were on the ground the adjoining warehouse of the United States Stogie company was in flames. Three other buildings were also consumed. TIP OF FINGER SHOT AWAY. Aplin of Clinton Victim of Desperate Night Assault. Clinton, Iowa, April 12.—John Aplin, proprietor of a billiard parlor, had an encounter with an unidentified man at 2 o’cyock yesterday morning, when he was waylaid on a dark street on the North side and fired upon three times. Two of the bullets teok slight effect, one taking off the tip of his little finger and the other grazing his side. The would-be murderer got away un- recognized. CANAL WORK PROGRESSING. TOGO’S FLEET FIT FOR CLASH CONCENTRATED AND ORGANIZED IN THREE DIVISIONS FOR ACTION. BIG FIGHT MAY BE DEFERRED JAPS DON’T LOOK FOR DECISIVE BATTLE UNTIL FLEETS NEAR FORMOSA. JAP ARMIES MOVE NORTHWARD WILL ATTEMPT TO CUT RUSS COMMUNICATIONS WITH VLA- DIVOSTOK. Rome, April 12.—The admiralty has received a dispatch from the com- mander of the Italian squadron in the Far East, which indicates that Togo’s naval force is concentrated and or- ganized for action. The dispatch that the Japanese commander h ranged his fleet in three divisions; namely, the flying squadron of his fastest cruisers for scouting purposes and for the opening attack, the more powerful vessels under the immedi- ate command of Togo him¢elf, to fol- low the flyihg squadron, and a reserve squadron. Fight May Be Deferred. Tokio, April 12.—It is believed that if Admiral Rojestvensky steams north in the direction of Vladivostok, Ad- miral Togo will allow him to proceed some ‘distance, with no further mo- lestation than an occasional torp@do attack, and will give battle off the Pescadores islands. The Pescadores would be an ideal fighting ground for the Japar inas- much as they have a naval base there. On the other hand it is thought probable that the Russians may at- tempt to seize a temporary base some- where in the Southern Pacific, Indo China or the gulf islands. A leading Japanese papers likens ‘the Russians to insects flying into a fire. Mystery About Rojestvesky. London, April 12—The mystery of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky’s where- abouts is still unsolved and specula- tion on the possibilities of the situa- tion is of the keenest. The favorite hypothesis of the newspapers this morning is that his six battleships slipped past Singapore some night with the lights out. ” The ,Daily Telegraph's Singapore correspondent, cabling under date of April 11, says: “All reports to the contrary notwi standing, only. one battleship, th Sissoi Veliky, sed here Satur No ships of the Tsarevitch type with the squadron.” Want Chinese Port. The correspondent at Kobe of the Daily Telegraph says: “A telegram from Pekin states that Russian Minister Lessar asked China to lend Russia a port in Pokieen (Pe- kiang), but China absolutely refused.” Headed for Viadivostok. Gunshu Pass, April 12. — Chinese state with great positivencss that Gen. Kawamura’s army, supported by Gen. Nogi’s army, is moving in @ northeasterly direction to cut Russian communications with Vladivostok. According to the same sources, 30, 000 Japanese landed at Dainy March 28, and it is reported that six addi- tional divisions are forming in Japan to operate against Vladivostok and Sakhalin. The Manchurian Chinese have adopted an attitude of positive hostili- ty to the Russians. Cl.inese Side With Japs. A body of 500 native horsemen fired on Russian troops at the village of Chendi, and Manchurian militia is said to be taking the field on the side of the Japanese on the Hun river. The leader, Fulingo, has been appoint- ed a commander of the militia at Kaiyuan, but a force of Chinese regu- lars is stationed along the border of Mongolia with the object of preserv- ing neutrality. The Japanese now occupy the line of Styzyatj:, Changtufu and Katpan- gomu, and the impression prevails here that the direct advance from the South has halted for the present at that line. There were a number of skirmishes last week between Russian and Jap- anese scouting parties, but no action of serious consequence. Bank Robbers’ Haul Is Big. - Boelus, Neb., April 12.—The State pank at this place was blown open The town ‘and robbed yesterday. was awakened by the explosion. The thieves escaped on a hand car. They got between $2,000 and $4,000. Whisky Kills Three. Escanaba, Mich., April 12. — Two woodsmen died from excessive drink- ing and one fell into a creek and was drowned yesterday. All three came down from the woods last week and proceeded to spend their earnings. Homesteader Found Dead. Bruce, Wis., April 12.—P. H. Guerin of this place was found dead in the woods near his homestead in Sawyer county on Monday. It is supposed he died Saturday morning while on his way to Radisson. $