Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 27, 1905, Page 2

t t k herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Saturn has a ‘new little satellite, Prof. Pickering says. Both are doing well. Beautiful oranges grow at Valencia, where King Alphonso is now, but he is looking for a peach. A great many other men besides Mr. Gates have got beyond their depth in the Chicago wheat pit. $ ‘ Chauncey M. Depew is now 72 years old and still in active life. Here is an- other painful jar for Dr. Osler. Fiction reading is declining in Cin- cinnati, and it is believed the beer drank in that town is at the bottom of it. % Still, what with the beefsteak, the automobile and other necessaries of life, the cost of living is uncomfortably high. “After divorce, what?” asks the Bos- ton Globe. Usually somebody who wants to change partners at the next table. The Illinois Appellate-Court has de- cided that hat trimming is no art. Family men have always considered it high art. The deaf can now hear musical com- edy airs. Some people don’t know how to take advantage of the blessings of providence. Very likely the monkey that is to attend the New York society dinner will be able to hold up his end of the conversation, South Dakota farmer will retire from business after making $1,500,000 out of the soil. Yet some say farm- ing doesn’t pay. Real estate is declining in value in the vicinity of English public school houses lately. They are teaching the violin over there. A Kentucky girl refused to tell a “little white lie” so that she could get married. That girl is worth waiting for, if it takes all summer. Liege, Belgium, is manufacturing a glassware which is indestructible—or nearly so, Kitchen maids will go into training to wrestle with it. A Minnesota editor is successfully training jack-rabbits to race against |JAPS Cl ‘TOVLADIVOSTOK IN THE FAR EAST IS NOW ISOLATED. HEAVY FIGHTING IMMINENT STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE LAND FORCES WILL BE RENEWED ON LARGE SCALE. JAPS ROUT ADVANCING SLAVS — REPORT OF ROJESTVENSKY’S DEATH IS RIDICULED AT ST. PETERSBURG. London, May 25.—The Tokio corres- pondent of the Daily Telegraph cables that the railway to Vladivostok has been severed, as the result of which the fortress is isolated. Togo’s Fleet Located. London, May 25—The Shanghai -cor- respondent of the Morning Post says he learns from & trustworthy source that Vice Admiral Togo’s fleet is still off Masampho, on the southeastern coast of Korea. Do Not Believe Admiral Dead. St. Petersburg, May 25. — The As- sociatel Press was informed at the admiralty yesterday that no direct advices have been received from Vice Admiral Rojestvensky for ten days, when, it is believed, he set out on his long veyege. The report of Rojest- venskys death ‘was ridiculed at the admiraity. Linevitch Reports. Gen. Linevitch, in a dispatch from the front, dated May 21, announces that the Russian detachment east of the yailroad, which on May 18 ap- proached the village of Shahotse and was attacked by a considerable force of Japanese from the coal mines south of that place, occupied Shahotse on May 19 and continued southward on May 20. Prince Troubetzkoy’s de- tachment met the Japanese artillery fire on May 17 near Changtufu sta- tion, but the Japanese were forced to evacuate the position and retire south- ward, The prince on May 20 advanced further southward and another Rus- sian detachment on May 20 exchanged rifle fire with a strong Japanese force occupying the village of Armangan, about four miles west of Kinchuantso. Heavy Fighting Imminent. railroad trai-7 -Ti+-reye-that the hr- nies cab rut Musical 7 delia” and latest. Tt against sen ga? mail. ig aas® ee 43 ‘ Young w io fer short s er. Short: not look hz women, Mrs. J. { 4300,000 fc wis. Women| “!ve: we uervening hoszitals. who-areld -e waiting to| S#aitary trains have also been“or see how 1 m the asses-| t? the front. * sor’s list. * No News of Rojestvensky. mn [ed Paris, May 25.—Nothing is 1} The Hc still insists here of the report that Vice Ac. with muc aat he is go- Rojesivensky is dead, except a tng to ret g. We know extra call from a London pa ef nobody Bhadehiorery, which no importance is attache to stop h ing to the complete absence of” Sia edge of the whereabouts of th sian ‘ret. The officials of the F a ane pores os embassy here discredit the rm et-shops: 2M sing for a pro- circulated in the interest of U + re unese, sche advocates of Japs Rout Advancing Slay pe Tokio, May 25--Imperial arm quarters reporting to-day, say organ id had leased! “The Russian cavalry wh term'ah nt rad for a}toured toward Fukumen f: Now. vely denied. right bank of the Liao river pe: hat you didn’t] quently defeated by our rear get exc On May 20, after their failur 4 - vicinity of Tafangshen, they King be leading a] with the main strength at & blamele ‘3 2 probabilities] twenty-six miles from Fakur are tha 1 correspondents} on May 21 they retreated to have s d hings to look| bank of the Malien river. after t] itch him. “In the meantime a few ¢ A recent cartoon credited Father Neptune with saying to the Russian and Japanese fleets that there _ is plenty of room at the bottom. Plenty of room, tv be sure, but the location is damp. Why should the Columbia students be disappointed by an edict barring the hiring of a pretty manicure for the university barber shop? Don’t they have plenty of other opportunities for holding hands? One of the bankers who transacted business with Mrs. Chadwick has been sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years. He pleaded guilty, and must have been able to show that his profits were small. Somebody has discovered that the meningitis germ is shaped like a bean and is blue. This fact, with the addi- tional one that the disease attacks the brain, indicates that the only way to fight the epidemic is to quarantine Boston. New York is concerning itself as to the probable insufficiency of its water supply when it shall have become a city of 7,000,000 people. By that time the proportion of New York’s popula- tion that drinks water may be even less than it is now. of the enemy's force remaini left bank of the Malien river feated ard retreated northwz order. Otherwise the situat changed.” NOT GUILTY OF AR Kiel Is Acquitted but Is on Another Firebug C/ St. James, Minn., May 25. in the trial of John Kiel, cr arson, yesterday noon retu dict of not guilty. Kiel w with burning the Butterfiela’ cream ery. On bis release, and just before taking the train for home, Kiel was rearrested and charged with burning a saloon bui:ding in Butterfield some years ago. FATAL FALL FROM SCAFFOLD. Farmer Breaks His Neck in Two Places and Will Die. Farmington, Minn., May 25.—Fall- ing headlong from a scaffold suspend- en eighteen feet in the air, Peter Becka, a prominent farmer living four miles south of Farmington, was fatal- jy injured yesterday. Becka was working on a building located on the farm, when he suddenly fell, A phy- sician was called, who found the neck was broker in two places. He cannot live. All Prospects of Peace in Teamsters’ Strike Disappear. Chicago, May 25.—All prospects of peace in the teamsters’ strike have disappeared and it will be open war from this on. The last conference looking toward peaceable adjustment was held at 6 o’clock last night be- tween James B. Barry, business agent of the express drivers’ union and the local managers of the seven express companies. Business Agent Barry opened the negotiations by saying: “Our proposition is this: I want all the men reinstated except those who have been guilty of violence. I cannot do anything different. That is what the local union wants and that is what the local officers have told me to, de- mand. That is all I can do. The men told me that they all want to go back in a body or they won't go back at all. That is the position of the union and the union officials.” Refuse to Take Men Back. The revly of the representatives of the express companies was brief. It was: “Our proposition as to the rein- statement of the men will be the same four years from now as it is to-day. We will not take them back under any circumstances.” This brought the conference to a close. Four hundred and sixty-two drivers employed by twenty-eight firms be- longing to the lumbermen’s associa- tion went out yesterday. In each case the men were ordered to make deliv- eries to boycotted houses and the usual strikes followed. Other firms to the number of fifty-five belonging to the lumbermen’s exchange will Make Similar Requests of their men to-day, and by night it is expected that the full number of 2,000 drivers employed by these Jumber con- cerns will be on strike. A meeting of the United Employers’ Association of Wood Industries, which is composed of five associations em- pracing 135 firms owning Jumber yards, planing mills, sash and door factories, etc., was held yesterday, and it was decided to call upon their drivers to make deliveries to strike bound houses. This will force out 1,800 men. With the union drivers employed by the lumbermen’s association on strike, it will be only a matter of a short time until] outside unions will become in- volved in the trouble. Increased Rioting Expected. The vossibilities for increased riot- ing are vastly enlarged ty the spread of the strike to the lumber district. It is a district noted for the fierce mobs which have marehed through it dur- ing former strikes, and is the place which has invariably caused more trouble than any other-part of the city. y £ Barrett eing able mber dis- protect treets ‘as ar in the »ree of at ly patrol and this have not termined of rioting ten days wiv ues Gov, De- k dlitary assistance. Jarrett said last night: “At / atbreak of trouble which in | approaches the rioting we | shall call for troops. I will iing in my power to main- ; but the minute it gets be- will appeal to the governor roops will be on the ground s than two hours.” GETS HIS GROG BACK. bilant Temperance Workers Are Shocked. ngton, May 25—Admiral Dew- so far recovered from his long chat he has been restored the iis “grog,” from which he was for many months by order of 7sician. n receiving many letiers from al friends consoling and sym- ng with me in the loss of my ’ said the admiral, “but I sup- here are some people who may t was a most humaine physician ‘as able to pull me off from the Some of my correspondence tes great delight in the thought have possibly been saved. Mem- of temperance organizations an- 10 be especially pleased.” COSTLY BARN FIRE. Four Hundred Mules Perish in surning Stables at St. Louis. st St. Louis, Ill, May 25.—Over aules perished in a fire yesterday destroyed the sales stables of Maxwell & Crouch and Sparks Bros., at the National stock yards. The to- tal loss is estimated at $100,000; said to be covered by insurance. It is not known how the fire started. MEXICO WAR VETERANS MEET. Average Age of Attendants at Re- union Is Eighty Years. Dallas, Tex., May 25. — About 150 veterans of the war with Mexico are here to atiend the annual reunion of members of the National Mexican War Veierans’ association. The ay- erage age of those present is in ex- cess of eighty years. The oldest man attending is barney E. Wade of Chil- ton, Tex., who is ninety-three years of age and hale and hearty. REIG POSSE STORMS HIS HOUSE AND HE OPENS FIRE WITH A SHOTGUN, ONE KILLED; SEVEN WOUNDED CRAZY MAN CONTINUES TO DEFY THE OFFICERS FOR SEVERAL HOURS. FINALLY FORCED OUT BY FIRE RIDDLED WITH A HUNDRED BUL- LETS AS HE JUMPS FROM WINDOW. Owensboro, Ky., May 24. — Bob Shaw, a negro, supposedly insane, has killed one man and wounded seven in the past twenty-four hours near Wait- man. The body of the dead man lay in front of Shaw’s house, and the ne- gro continued for hours. to defy the of- ficers who were seeking to arrest him. Sunday afternoon Shaw was terror- izing the community around Waitman, and an appeal was sent to this city for help. A posse was at once formed,. but as soon as they approached Shaw’s house he opened fire. Marshal Watson was shot in the back, Deputy Jackson in the leg, Dr. Plitt in the arm, Frank Howard and James Ford, two boys, were slightly wounded, as also were Pelly and Robinson. Posse Storms House. Shaw quickly barricaded himself in his house. The posse tried to storm the house but the negro opened fire, wounding James Ford and John Rob- inson. He apparently had only small shot, which saved the lives of those he shot at. Shaw was shot at twice. He had two revolvers, but announced that he would save them for work at close range. A great crowd gathered around the house, keeping ata safe distance. Late yesterday Deputy Sheriff Brown of Hanerek cointy volunteered to go to the house and take shaw. The crazy man allowed Brown to approach within fifteen feet before he fired. Brown's, shoulder was completely blown off. Body Riddled With Bullets. About 8 o'clock last night a mob of men and boys surrounded the house and set it on fire. Shaw remained in the building until the heat forced him to jump out or perish in the flames. He made a leap from a second-story window, but had hardly ianded on the ground before his body was riddled with a hundred bullets. FORTUNE IS GONE. San Francisco Woman Seeks Shelter in Charitable Home She Founded. San Francisco, May 24.—Mrs. Marie de Woif, for fifty years a prominent worker in charitable organizations of this city, is about to enter the home of the San Francisco Ladies’ Relief and Protection society, which she founded in 1868. At onc time Mrs. de Wolf was worth $1,000,000, and one half of this sum she spent in doing good. The other half was stolen from her by a man she trusted as a son. Mrs. de Wolf is the widow of Capt. S. IL de Wolf, commander of the ill-fated ship Brother Jonathan, which sank off Crese2nt City in 1865 with 500 per- sons. KILLED BY TRAIN. Two Women Run Down at Forest Glen, Near Chicago. Chicago, May 24.—Dagmar E. Tur- berg and her sis Dora, two young women stenographers, were struck and instantly kilied by a passenger train near Forest Glenn. They were in a group of five young men who sought to evade a freight train that vgs approaching on the other track. The other three escaped injury. SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Man Acquitted of. Murder and His Chief Witness Seriously Wounded. Solisbury, N. C., May 24——H. Clay Brubb, acquitted Saturday of the charge of murdering his brother-in- law, was ambushed with a companion in a buggy, and one of his chief wit- nesses yesterday, nine miles from Salisbury. Grubb recognized one of the party of ambushers. Posses are in pursuit. Observe Czar’s Birthday. St. Petersburg, May 24. — Emperor Nicholas’s birthday was celebrated as a general holiday and with the usual oobservances. There was a big pil- grimage yesterday to Kolpino, about twenty miles from” St. Petersburg, for the worship of the special miracle- working Ikon of St. Nicholas. Explosion Kills Two. Staples, Ont., May 24—A boiler in one of the mills of the nieber Falls Stave and Lumber company exploded yesterday. Ralph Walsh and Robert Fisher, engineers, were killed and seven others were seriously injured. Took Carbolic Acid. St. Louis, May 24.—Burton K. Evill, prominent in society and a member of one of the oldest families in St. Louis, committed ,suicide with carbolic acid. Relatives are unable to assign a rea- qon for the act. KOCH TRIAL FOR JULY 6. WIII Be Tried a Third Time on Charge of Killing Dr. Gebhardt. Mankato, Minn., May 24.—Dr. Geo. R. Koch, the New Ulm dentist, who was arrested on the evening of Dec. 9, 1904, for the murder of Dr. L. A. Geb- hardt, was brought up before Judge Lorin Cray in the district court at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. A large crowd gathered in the court house to witness the proceedings] Attorney W. D. Abbott of Winona, George W. Somerville of Sleepy Eye, A. E. Clark and Pfau & Pfau of Mankato, ap- peared for the defense. Ex-Attorney General H. W. Childs of St. Paul, Al- bert Pfaender of New Ulm and County Attorney S. B. Wilson of Mankato, ap- peared for the state. The arguments were made for bail, and he was ad- mitted to bail in the sum of $20,000, which was furnished, and was dis- charged from the custody of Sheriff Williams, and the date of the third trial was fixed at Mankato for Thurs- day, July 6, before Judge Cray. Dr. Koch’s bond was signed by E. G. Koch, W. E. Koch, L. A. Fritchie, Charles Wagner, Henry Frenzel and John A. Eckstein. LAKE VESSELS EARN MUCH. Cost of Lake Superior Shipments in 1904 Shown to Be $21,000,000. Duluth, Minn., May 24.—According to the mile-ton report of the Sault Ste. Marie ship canals, the sum of. $21,- 552,894.30 was paid to vessels for moy- ing the 31,546,106 net tons of freight that passed up and down, to and from Lake Superior, in 1904. The total val- uation of the commerce was $344,- 502,686. Of the total of freight that arrived on and was shipped from Lake Superior, the Duluth-Superior harbor handled a little more than one-half, or 16,617,017 tons. The valuation of the Duluth-Superior commerce was not quite one-half the total, being $157,233,209. The cost per ton-mile of moving the freight was .81 of a mill, as against .92 of a mill in 1903, against .89 of a mill in 1902 and against .99 of a mill in 1901. LENICH AND LONGER CONVICTED Trial on ‘Murder Charge Results in Verdict of Manslaughter. Duluth, May 24.—Frank Lenich and Frank Lorger, the two men accused of the murder of Peter Kracovitch at Eveleth, Easter Sunday night, were convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. The murder was the outcome of a quarrel in which the victim was endeavoring to act as peacemaker as near as could be learned through the testimony. Longer and Lenich and others were fighting when Kracovitch tried to stop them. The state con- tended that Lenich wielded thé knife with which the fatal blow was dealt, and that Longer was equally guilty as an accomplice. Twenty years’ impris- onment is the maximum penalty for manslaughter in the first degree. TWIN CITY MAIL TUBES. The Commission Will Spend a Week in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Washington, May 24. — Postmaster General Cortelyou will in a few days annoujace the personnel of the com- mission which is to visit St. Paul and Minneapolis early next month for the purpose of looking over the situation with a view to recommending the es- tablishment of pneumatic tube mail service in the Twin Cities. The com- mission will spend a week in the Twin cities, and it will be upon their recom- mendation that the posimaster gen- era] will ask congress at the next ses- sion for a sufficient appropriation to establish this service. It is estimated that it will cost $1,000 a mile for its installation. 1S BODY OF INSANE MAN. Sorpse Found at Mendota Is Identified by Relatives. Mendota, Minn., May 24. — The corpse found in the Minnesota river on Saturday was identified yesterday as the body of Anton G. Person, aged twenty-nine years, son of Peter Per- son, ard a former resident of Barrett, Minn. The young man, relatives say, left home two weeks ago to visit in Minneapolis. While in the Mill City he became mentally unbalanced, and relatives placed him in the Swedish hospital. Not until a few days ago did they learn that he had left that insti- tution, and wandering to Mendota, evidently had drowned himself in the river. He was unmarried. will be taken to Barrett. LAY BURGLARY TO LAWYER. Nabbed on Charge of Stealing Ab stract From Competitor. Stevens Point, Wis., May 24. — Rol- land H. Butterfield, a prominent ab- stract attcrney was arrested yester- day afternoon, charged with breaking into the office of John R. McDonald, a competitor, and stealing an abstract record valued at $2,000. The alleged burglary occurred in the day, on May 11. Two supposed accomplices, Al- fred Roe and Thomas Young, are also ‘under arrest, His body | MAY SELL VIRGINIA BONDS. State Treasurer Block Plans to Raise Money for State. St. Paul, May 25.—State Treasurer Julius H. Block has under considera- tion a recommendation to the board of investment of the sale of all or part of the state’s holdings of the Virginia bonds. The state holds $2,145,000 of these bonds, and all except $52,500 of them mature in 1991, with an option on the part of the State of Virginia to redeem them at par after 1906. These bonds bear interest at the rate of three (8) per cent, payable semi-an- nually. There is a great demand for loans from the state from school dis- tricts, municipalities and counties for the, prrpose of building school houses, court houses, constructing dreinage ditches, etc. and it is at present impossible to supply all these calls. These loans pay the state 4 per cent interest, or 331-3 per cent more than the Virginia bonds bring. NOF Terror|| Northwest News. | Mr. Block’s object in this disposition . of the bonds is thus not only to aid the municipalities and school districts in our cwn state, but it would also re- sult in a much greater revenue to the state school, university and. other trust funds, now holding these bonds. TWO DIE IN HOTEL FIRE. Smothered to Death by Smoke Before Rescuers Could Reach Them. Minneapolis, May 25. — Frank Elli- ott, aged 32, and Frank Green, aged 30, were smothered to death in a fire at the Flour City Hotel at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Elliott was sick in bed, too weak to try to escape, and was dead when would-be rescuers reached him. Green was a_ laborer from Ottawa, Canada. He had been in Mirneapolis several weeks. Many other lodgers at the hotel narrowly escaped a like fate, several being rescued in an unconscious condition by firemen. The fire started in 2 Chinese restaurant on the ground floor of the building. Smoke poured into the upper floors, where numbers of the hotel lodgers were still asleep. The men suffocated were on the third floor. The loss on the building was small, possibly $500. OIL DRENCHED WOMAN BURNS. Kerosene Explosion at St. James Causes Fatal Injuries. St. James, Minn., May 25. — Mrs. Floyd Hall was so seriously burned yesterday afternoon that hope for her recovery is very small. She was buildiag the kitchen fire with kero- sene and was pouring the fluid over the hot ashes and coals in the stove. This created a gas which exploded. In her excitement she dropped the can, and the kerosene was poured over her skirt and feet. This also caught fire and she ran screaming from the house a mass of flame. Neighbors ran to lier a tanre, but before they could tear away the burning clothing she was fatally burned. Her screams could be heard for blocks. KILLS SELF WITH MUSKET. Suicide Uses Piece of Lath to Pull the Trigger. Long Prairie, Minn., May man Gross, a young man about twen- -—Her- ty years o1d, committed suicide early yesterday morning by shooting him- self. He has been a resident of this place for a nuniber of years and is well known here. He was found dead with an old musket lying beside him. He discharged the weapon by resting the muzzle against his body and re leasing the trigger with a piece of lath. No reason is known for the deed except that for some time past the young man has been in ill health and was subject to periods of, despond- ency. Fined for Illegal Fishing. Fergus Falls, Minn., May 25.—Geo. Beckwith was arrested liere Saturday on a charge of illegal fishing, pre- ferred over a year ago. The game warden summoned him ‘to appear in court at that time, and he quickly left the state and has since resided in North Dakota. He returned a_ few days ago and Deputy Warden Jones promptly arrested him. He was sen- tenced to pay a fine of $20 and costs or to spend thirty da; in jail, and went to jail. Fined for Abusing Horse. Albert Lea, Minn., May 25. — For brutally driving and abusing a horse, C. C. Bromley .of Mason City, lowa, was fined $100 and costs, or to serve a sentence of ninety days in the coun- ty jail, while his companion, Edward Harvey of this city, was fined $15 and costs, or to serve a sentence of fifteen days. Justice Stacy dispensed the jas- tice, and about everybody agrees t¢ the penalties were each merited. Farmer Commits Suicide. Downing, Wis., May 25.—H. S. Cor- nac, aged seventy-five, a retired farm- er, committed suicide at his home in Glenwood by shooting. He was form- erly a druggist in New York city and came to Dunn county in 1895. Depot Is Burned. Hudson, Wis., May 25.—The Omaha depot at North Wisconsin Junction was burned yesterday. The fire start- ed on the platform. ‘Traffic cn the north-bound track was delayed about five hours.