Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 6, 1905, Page 3

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOT. eee The honr-glass figure will be con- venient for a young man’s arm. A cargo of yeast, cakes might help some of those flying machines to rise. Mr. Carnegie now, announces that “wealth is slavery.” Watch us kiss our chains. An Ohio man dropped dead while eating a piece of pie. Lucky fellow! He died happy. Too often it is the cooks, rather than the children, that are the “de stroyers of home life.” The telephone “hello!” in Japanese is “moshi, moshi!” The busy signal must be something jarring. And now will Mr. Edward Atkinson kindly tell us how much a man ought to spend a year for clothes? Any married man who thinks that the dressing-on-$65-a-year theory is all right has only to consult his wife. An Ohio murderer spent his last hours on earth playing a guitar. He was probably anticipating his golden harp. Vermont declares her maple sugar crop is short, but that is impossible while the supply of granulated sugar holds out. “The School for Husbands” is the |. name of a new comedy by Stanislaus Stange. It probably means the break- fast table. The Savannah Press says that ‘Lily Langtry as a grandmother sounds bet- ter.” But does the Jersey Lily look any better? Ever since the first woman shook the first rolling pin at her husband woman’s clubs have been a menace to married men. Richmond, Va., has adopted an or- dinance prohibiting the exhibition of artificial legs. How about the real ar- ticles, thoug A statistician has found that “only five of every business men succeed.” But he hasn't figured in the get-rich- guick contingent. A continuous bath is said to produce excellent results in insanity. Continuous submersion, if deep gh, will cure any case of insan- sure. ssie Chadwick may have the con- solation of knowing that Sophia Beck, her successor in the center of the is not nearly so bright a finan- stage, cier. The Rey. John Balcom Shaw advo admitting women to the priest- ood. The suggestion comes late. ymen always has been a ministering angel. Thank heaven, the Thaw-Nesbit 56 nce” will now stay out of the papers .for a while. Here’s hoping that it won't show up next in the di- vorce court. Andrew Carnegie says that the wealthy man is a slave. So is the arried man, and yet men continue sigh, and always will, for wealth and marriage. “fyery young married woman should krow how to make bread,” said a writer on economics. Yes; and every young man should know how to fur- nish the dough. That New York physician who is ing to start a crusade against long ses may as well give it up. He ‘will have no better success than the Jate Mrs. Bloomer had. It is interesting to learn that no present. danger confronts the Canadi- an falls at Niagara. The worst that is likely to happen soon is the stoppage of the cataract on the American side. That's all. A Sioux City, lowa, man has applied for an injunction to restrain a lady who lives next door to him from cook- ing onions. Now, here is a case. for the champions of personal liberty to become aroused over. “A rich, nice, young nobleman” ad- vertises in a New York “Personal” that he would marry “a very beautiful, honest lady.” And the doesn’t say a word about requiring a fortune! He nt to get some mail. A prominent New York business man is going to build a $12,000 per- gola. If any ignorant person asks you what a pergola is, tell him you don’t know, but you rather think it is a place to “keep fine plants in. A Mississippi postmaster is much vexed because the government will not permit him to resign. What will puz- zle other postmasters throughout the country is that the man appears to be entirely sane in other respects. A “child philosopher” has disap- peared from his home in Boston. President Eliot of Harvard has taken a great interest in him and Boston is all wrought up. We can’t see why the loss of one child philosopher should cause much of a commotion in that town. To be} In the Capital. Congressman John A. T. Hull of Iowa has purchased a half interest in a large Virginia farm, just below Mount Vernon. It lies on the Potomac river, and may be a future summer re- sort for Washington. A floating traget, the first of its kind to be constructed, was launched at the Brooklyn navy yard. It is design- ed for use not only in testing the ac- curacy of gunners of the forts along the lower bay, but in determining the probable efficiency of the heavy ord- nance of the land batteries against battleships. A. M Freeman of Sioux Falls,’ S. D,, has been sworn in as a member of the capitol police force. He is the largest man that ever held a place on the force. Mr. Freeman is only 22 years old, and this is his first position as a policeman. He stands six feet seven inches in his stockings and weighs nearly 300 pounds. He owes his appointment to Senator Kittridge. Accidental Happenings. Mrs. Regina Walgering of New York, wife of a deputy sheriff, and her two daughters, died of asphyxia- tion. . ss A child of Herman Bohling choked to death on a shell at Menomonie, Wis, while eating peanuts at her home. Fire at Milwaukee destroyed the six- story building of the Nansen Fur com- pany. Loss, $200,000. The origin is unknown. . In a collision of two Big Four en- gines in the yards at Matoon, Ill., En- gineer Honoddle was killed and Fire- man Brown was probably fatally in- jured. Alfred Palmer, aged 76, of Totten- ville, S. IL, was severely burned while trying to save his aged wife from be- ing burned to death. He may not re cover. The Canadian Pacific freight sheds at Moose Jaw, Man., were burned. The sheds were full of freight and effects, a large quantity of which came over the Soo line from St. Paul. The loss will reach over $20,000. The east-bound passenger train on the Southern Pacific railway in pass- ing through Bewoe, Nev., ran into a gang of Japanese numbering about fifty. The train literally plowed its way through the men, killing two and fatally injuring several. Mrs. John Hagerstrom is dead at her home in Sioux City as a result of burns received while burning rubbish in her back yard. Her clothing caught fire and she was fatally burned. She was 41 years of age and is survived by a husband and several children. In a five alarm fire on the East side In New York, Acting Battalion Chief Wieland was killed and one end of the block on Grand, Orchard and Allen streets was gutted, causing a loss es- timated at $200,000. Wieland was as- cending a ladder when it fell and he was plunged through a plate glass win- dow. Ten miners were instantly crushed to death at the Conyngham mine of the Delaware & Hudson company, lo- cated in the northern part of Wilkes- barre. The men fere being lowered into the mine and when 350 feet from the surface the rope broke and the cage fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 400 feet. Crimes and Criminals. Safe blowers wrecked the safe of A. T. Brooks, merchant and postmas- ter at Macedonia, Ohio, and got about $400 in money and stamps. In a quarrel over union matters, J. T. Cavanaugh, a St. Louis bricklayer, fired into a group of bricklayers at Hot Springs, killing John Madican of Clinton, Mass. With a hammer William Koobs, a tailor at Grundy Center, Iowa, beat his wife’s skull in, and then attempted suicide. The woman will die. The man was crazed with morphine. After working three hours with sledge hammers and pickaxes, a-mob of twenty-five men broke into the par- ish jail at Homer, La., and shot Dick Craighead, inflicting fatal wounds. The third engineer of the steam- ship Ethelwold, which sailed from Philadelphia for Port Antonio, shot himself through the head while the vessel was proceeding down the Dela- ware river. Five years in the Ohio penitentiary for stealing a 50-cent cap was the sen- tence given Herman Selka at Toledo. The stealing of the cap carried with it a charge of burglary. Much criticism is heard. A fraud order has been issued against the Home Co-operative com- pany, which has branch offices in St. Paul and Minneapolis. This concern has had trouble with the department for three years, and took the case into the courts. Its scheme consists in awarding prizes of unequal value to its members. \ Hermann William Troehner, “king of the Schnorrers,” as a band of pro- fessional beggars is known, is loeked up in New York, awaiting arraign- ment on several complaints by the Charity Organization society. Lizzie Arlington, Newark’s notorious ‘woman drunkard, who two months ago amazed police circles by announcing that she was cured of.her drink habit through Christian Science, has fallen from grace. She has added one more count to her record. She has been ar- rested 103 times, and every arrest was made for drunkenness. Japan intends spending $2,000,000 for rolling stock for a railroad in Ko- : rea. It will he spent in the United States and England. I A dispatch from Lloyd’s says the steamer Yuen was burned to the wa- ter’s edge near Shanghai. The ship had 150 Chinamen aboard. The Cuban house of representatives hes passed the senate bill appropriat- ing $1,500,000 to assist the municipali- ties in the work of sanitation. An earthquake lasting several sec- onds and occasioning much alarm was felt throughout Derbyshire and York- shire and adjacent districts in Eng- land. The courts at Zucca, Sicily, have condemned two sons of the Belgian consul for the violation of the domicile of the writer Ouida (Mile. De La Ra- mee). Special correspondents at Shanghai report to the effect that Fen Chuen, the imperial commissioner to Thibet, with his whole retinue, has been mas- sacred by Thibetans at Batang. The Italian ministry of public in- struction has a gold medal made for J. P. Morgan in recognition for his returning the Ascoli cope, which was stolen and sold to the American mil- lionaire. American Consul General Parsons at Mexico City has commenced an in- vestigation of the operations of the Pan-American Land company in Chia- pas. ‘.a2e consul general has sum- moned the officers of the company to appear and show cause why they should not be barred from further use of the United States mails, as well as to stop all further operations. A recent storm badly damaged many houses at Recvelstoke, B. C., and one in particular in the Japanese quarter. A carpenter repairing the roof of one of these was precipitated through the roof into a room below by the break- ing of a rotten rafter. He fell almost upon the dead body of a young and lTandsome Japanese woman who had been shockingly mutilated after Jack the Ripper methods by her murderers. A mail steamer which has arrived at Marseilles from the far East brought a copy of the Echo de Chine, which says, upon Chinese authority, that the American minister at Pekin recently informed the Chinese foreign office of his opposition to any further foreign occupation of territory within the three northern provinces of China, and that he would invite all the min- isters at Pekin strongly to support China to this ends : bP whine CTR ee Otherwise. The American Cigar company, en ploying 1,000 hands, closed its plant at Sparta, Wis., for the season. The American Medico-Psychological association, in session at San Antonio, Tex., has selected St. Paul, Minn., as the next meeting place. Rumor has again been received at San Diego, Cal., that Irving B. Dud- ley, minister to Peru, whose home is in that city,. is to succeed Bowen in Venezuela. The Alaskan shipment this summer will make a record. The districts now are cleaning up enough now to make the total $20,000,000—quite a load of gold for a season’s shipment. Five thousand men engaged at the National Tube works at McKeesport, Pa., were given an increase in their pay envelopes recently. The increase averages from 5 to 10 per cent, and dates from April 1. It is offciaily announced that the new railroad from Salt Lake to San Francisco, the Western Pacific, will be a part of the Gould system. Fifty millions in bonds will be issued and construction will begin immediately. Immediate steps are to be taken by Mayor Dunne of Chicago to urge upon the state legislature the passage of a bill which will enable the city of Chi- cago to engage in the manufacture of gas and compete with the lighting companies. Led by leading physicians of the Western country, with headquarters at Lincoln, Neb., a movement to secure the names of four doctors for the hail of fame has begun. Interest, it is de- clared, has been taken by the medical profession the country cver. It is reported in Chicago that the “ore fleet” of ten whaleback steamers has been sold to Eastern capitalists, believed to be John W. Gates and his associates in the May wheat deal, the plan being to ship wheat direct from Chicago to Europe. Mr. Gates declined to be interviewed. United States Senator Orville Hitch- cock Platt of Connecticut died at his summer home at Washington, Conn., from pneumonia. The end came al- most unexpectedly, the immediate cause being the breaking of the ab- scesses which had formed in the right ae and which produced strangula- on. The many acts of heroism developed during the fire that followed the recent explosion in a shoe factory at Brock- ton, Mass., will be the subject of an investigation by the managers of the Carnegie hero fund. The Massachusetts house passed a bill aimed at the so-called “bucket shops.” The measure provides that any persons or corporations who con- tract trades in stocks or bonds with a bet or wager depending on the out- come, ‘shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or imprisonment for not more than a year. 4 hee ¢ FURIOUS RIOTS OCCUR IN THE HEART OF THE BUSINESS My DISTRICT. ONE KILLED; MANY INJURED FIGHTING IN STREETS MORE FIERCE AND SAVAGE THAN ANY TIME YET. WOMEN FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES MEN WHO HAD NO CONNECTION WITH STRIKE WANTONLY ASSAULTED. Chicago, May 3—The death of one man and the injuring of scores of oth- ers was the immediate result of the conflicts between the striking team- sters and ‘their sympathizers on the one side and the police and non-union men on the otner. There was rioting in all parts of the city. One man was clubbed almost to death within a square of police headquarters, and four miles away men were shot down in the streets. At a hundred places between these two extremes of dis- tance there were Assaults and Fights in the streets. Blood was shed on streets in the heart of the fashionable shopping district and furious riots took place almost in the doorways of the leading hotels of Chicago. Non- union men.were pelted with stones, pricks and almost every other con- ceivable sort of missiles. They were dragged from their wagons, beaten, clubbed and stamped upon by the mobs that followed the wagons op which they rode, and but for the splendid service rendered by the po- lice force, the list of dead would be twenty instead of one. Employers and Allies at Outs- Chicago, May 3.—The strike situa- tion in Chicago assumed a peculiar aspect yesterday, and the interests which have been opposing the strik- ing teamsters are not as united as heretofore. The cause of this slight dissension is the Team Owners’ asso- ciation, which has contracts with the railroads and many of the large firms throughout the city to transfer their merchendise. Until yeSterday it was supposed that the employers’ associa- tion and their allies were firmly bound together in the fight for su- premacy against the teamsters. The Team Owners’ association, which em- ploys none but union teamsters, Flatly Refused yesterday afternoon to make deliver- ies to any firms now involved in the strike, when ordered to do so by the employers association. When the em- ployers received this ultimatum they notified the team owners that unless the request that no discrimination be made in deliveries was complied with an effort would be made to have all existing contracts between the team owners and the business houses and the railroads cancelled. The Commission Team Owners and the Lake Transportation Team. Own- ers’ associations have also taken a similar stand as the Chicago Team Owners’ association. During the day the employers had informed Mayor Dunne and Chief of Police O’Neill that they Intended to Move to-day 1,885 wagons, owned by them and the different express companies, and manned by non-union men. This necessitated a call for the swearing in of 1,000 additional policemen, but af- ter a conference the employers mod- ified their plans and informed the city hall officials that they would only increase very slightly the number of wagons over that in service yester- day. Although the plans have been changed as to the moving of the wag- ons the new men will be added to the police force to-day and will be put on strike duty as rapidly as they are needed. The large retail establish- ments have announced that they will make deliveries. There have been numerous complaints of the Interference by Strikers with women shoppers, and the au- thorities have determined to put an effectual stop to all such practices. Judge C. C. Kohlsaat of the United States circuit court, at the request of the attorneys representing the seven express companies, yesterday issued a temporary injunction restraining all persons from interfering with the wagons of the petitioners or the men employed upon them. The fighting yesterday in the streets was even more fierce and savage than that of Wednesday. The strikers ard their sympathizers at- tacked non-union men at every oppor- tunity, assailing them with bricks, stones, clubs, knives and any and every other kind of an offensive weap- on upon which they could lay their hands. The Fighting Occurred in the heart of the business section of the city, men being shot down within 200 feet of the retail store of Marshall Field & Co., clubbed nearly to death at the corner of the Auditori- um hotel in plain view of hundreds of ladies who were compelled to run from the mob to save their own lives. In several instances men walking along the streets who had no active ‘being strike-breakers. A stance of this kind was that of Rev. ‘W. K. Wheeler, pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian church, who, while pass- ing the corner of Des Plaines and Ad- ams streets on his way to the union depot, was attacked by three men, who knocked him down and beat him unmercifully until the timely arrival of the police saved him from critical injury. Mr. Wheeler managed to hold one of his assailants until the police could arrest him. ~ One Man Killed. As far as known but one man was killed during the day, but about forty “were more or less seriously injured. Although it was announced Monday night that the teams of the express companies and the employers’ associa- tion would be handled by men armed with rifles yesterday, nothing of the kind was attempted, save in the case of the fifteen drivers employed by the Scott Transfer company. Mayor Dunne and Chief of Police O'Neill made every effort to prevent the car- rying of rifles. The strike yesterday did not spread in any degree. No more men were called out, and from present appear- ances there is no immediate prospect that any more teamsters will strike. DUNNE LOOKS FOR BARGAIN. Chicago Mayor Says He Can Buy Traction Lines at Reduced Price. Chicago, May 3.—Mayor Dunne de- clares that instead of having to ex- pend $77,000,000, his campaign esti- mate, he can not only get control of the various traction lines—Union Traction, Chicago City railway, Con- solidated and South Chicago—but can pay for them and rehabilitate them all for less than $50,000,000. Thus came the first declaration from the mayor concerning the report from J. H. Cum- mings, car building and traction ex- pert. Mr. Cummings, in his detailed statement to the mayor, declares that with the “water squeezed out,” the traction systems may be acquired and rehabilitated for twice the sum it cost the Wall street crowd to get con- trol of the City railway properties. DID THOROUGH JOB. Chicago Thugs Even Strip a Man of His Clothing. Chicago, May 3.—Stripped of all his clothing save his trousers, his under- shirt and hose, and shivering from cold, Fred Hacker went into the Des Plaines street police station at mid- night and told the police that he had been robbed by three men at Halsted and Randolph streets of everything he had excepting the clothes he had on. “They took me into an alley,” Hacker said, “made me take off all my clothes, divided my apparel among them, and then left me. They had left me my pants, my undershirt and hose.” CHAMPION JEFFRIES RETIRES, Never Again Will James J. Enter Ring or Appear on Stage. Cincinnati, May James J. Jeff- ries, champion heavy-weight pugilist, will retire from the prize ring and from the stage and go into business with his brother Jack in California, according to a statement made by him yesterday to the Times-Star. He will leave the stage on May 15, ar- rangements haviug been made to can- cel all engagements. Jeffries takes this action at the request of his wife. In addition to this he says that pugil- ism does not pay. HOST’S APPEAL FAILS. Rehearing of Action Against Equita- ble Life Is Denied. Madison, Wis., May 3. — The state supreme court terday denied a re- hearing in the case of State Insurance Commi: mer Zeno M. Host against the Equitable Life Assurance society. Host sought some time ago to compel the Equitable to distribute several millions of its surplus funds among its policyholders in Wisconsin, and the court decided adversely. The denial of a rehearing ends the case in Wis- consin. HONOR SUPERIOR MAN. Knights .of Columbus Elect W. D. Dyer State Deputy. Fond du Lae, Wis Knights of Columbu nual state convention here yesterday. The secreta report shows 21 coun- cils with & membership of 2, ficers were elected as follow vy, D. W. Dyer, Superior; secre- D. McGuire, Baraboo; treas- Seaman, Appleton. FAMILY TO WALK 700 MILES. Gun and Rod to Provide Food onthe 7 Long Journey. Barron, Wis., May 5.—With only a gun and a fishpole as means to pro- vide them with food, and with two small children accompanying them, J. W. Hard and his wife left Barron, Wis., on foot to travel 700 miles to a point in Canada where they are to take up a homestead. They expect to walk the entire distance. incendiary Fires. La Crosse, Wis., May 3—The houses of J. H. Shules and D. D. Shepard, on French island, have been destroyed by incerdiary fires. Both families nar rowly escaped. Loss, $2,500. Prominent Lawyer Dies. Fairfield, Iowa, May 3—D. P. Stubbs is dead. He was one of the best known members of the Iowa bar and a former member of the Iowa general assembly. notable in- | ORDER IS MAINTAINED ONLY BY STRONG ARM OF MILITARY FORCE, ARMED PEACE NOW PREVAILS PEOPLE DO NOT CONCEAL CRITI- CISM OF UNNECESSARY SLAUGHTER. THE DEATH ROLL TOTALS 62 ATTEMPTS AT REVENGE UPON OFFICERS EXPECTED BY AU- THORITIES. St. Petersburg, May 3. — Armed peace prevailed in Poland yesterday, following Monday’s savage celebration of May day. Warsaw, Sosnowiec, Lodz, Kalisz and other industrial cen- ters had no repetition of Monday's rioting and bloodshed, but order was maintained only by the strong hand of rhilitary force, which Monday’s oc- currences showed could be relentless- ly employed. The first fruits of Monday’s sowing is a formidable strike of angered workmen, which spreading widely, setting fi thousands of employes and incre; g the difficulty of the au- thorities in preserving order. Long continued industrial troubles, howey- er, have impoverished the Polish workingmen and starvation will be an active ally of the government in bringing about a resumption of work. Death Roll Totals Sixty-Two. Warsaw, May — The May day death roll totalled y-two, including ten persons who died in the hospitals during the night. Probably 200 were wounded. Crowds gathered at the Tenth dis- trict police station yesterday morn- ing where thirty victims, men and women and three children, were awaiting identification. Some minor disturbances occurred yesterday in different sections of the city, but no casualties have yet been reported. All day long infantry and cavalry patrolled the streets which were crowded with people who did not spare their criticism of what was gen- erally termed unnecessary slatghter. The Popular Irritation could not be concealed. The soldiers evidently were nervous and open out- breaks in a repetition of Monda terrible scenes were only averted by the evident desire of the authorities to prevent a clash, coupled with the fear inspired by the soldiers’ bullets. The population is most bitter against the military and the govern- ment officials expect many attempts at revenge upon the officers com- manding the troops, all of whom are known. The Nationalists have arranged the usual demonstrations for to-day, the 114th anniversary of the proclamation of the Polish constitution, and dis- turbances are ly probable. The workingmen are in an ugly and un- certaim mood, CLEMENCY FOR FAMILY MAN. Gov. Folk Commutes Sentence of Em- bezzier Who Stole for Bread. St. Louis, Mo. May 3. — Com- mutation of sentence to confinement in the city jail for a term ending next Monday, May 8, was granted by Gov. Folk yesterday to Joseph E. Langton, stant librarian at the public li- brary, who recently was sentenced to two years im the penitentia upon conviction of having em: ed funds of the library. Langton made a con- fession, declaring he took the money to enable him to support his invalid father and his own large family. SUCCESSOR TO CORTELYOU. Dover May Be Postmaster General If Cortelyou Accepts Offer of Equitable. Cleveland, Ohio, May 3. —»Specula- tive politic’ y that Elmer Dover, now secretary of the Republican na- tional committee. may sueceed Mr. Cortelyou as posimaster general if Cortelyou becomes president of the Equitable Life Assurance company. THIEVES HOLD CROWD AT BAY. Bandits Chec! Crowd With Guns While Confederates Rob Bank. Binghamton, N. Y., May 3. — Gil- bertsville, a small town, was visited yesterday morning by thieves who blew the vaults, partially wrecking the building, and escaped. Five armed men held-at bay the crowd of citizens who were attracted by the explosion while their confederates did the work. FINED FOR WHIPPING BABY. Father Pays for Punishing a Crying infant. Wilmington, Del.. May 3. — For whipping his two-months-old baby be- cause it cried and annoyed him, Her | bert Snyder, aged forty, was fined $40 and costs on a charge of assau a battery in city court. He was prose- cuted by the S<ciety for the Preven- } tion of Cruelty to Children. and it was shown he had whipped the in- “fant since it was two weeks old. —