Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 8, 1905, Page 2

} By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Never is an automobile so dangerous as when Join Barleycorn is acting as chauffeur, A New York millionaire has eloped with a waitress. But if she can’t cook, what's the use? Now is the time to buy real estate on Wall street. You can get an entire’ square inch of it for $4, A Pennsylvania church pays its rent with a June rose. It’s lucky the rent day doesn’t fall in February. A Montana man has invented a vineless potato. Now let some genius get busy and invent a dogless sausage. * Naples is inclined to be disconsolate because a scientist has predicted that the voicano will go out of business be- fore long. Desiring to know which nation is his truest friend, the sultan of Moroc co will see which responds quickest to a touch. Berald-Review. 1 Have patience with the new gradu- ate. After bumping against the world for a few weeks he will discover his limitations. In order to be on the safe side May- or Weaver of Philadelphia should hire a trustworthy understudy to keep watch at night. It is announced that the postal defi- cit this year will be about $15,000,000. The authors must be getting fewer manuscripts back. One hundred automobiles were de- stroyed by fire in New York a day or two ago, but you will not be able to notice any difference. Having had so many other casual- ties in actual experience it was no noyelty at all for the battleship Texas to be sunk “theoretically.” According to a Russian in London, Admiral Rojestvensky’s name is pro- nounced with the accent on the sec- ond syllable. Can you manage it? Preparations are being made to ex- terminate the mosquitoes, but the odds are that the news isn’t causing a boom in mosquito life insurance circles. Twelve of America’s famous men wrote to an Iowa schoolboy that “the secret of success is real hard work,” and eleven of the twelve were law- yers! ing Alfonso made friends while he was in London, but there is no au- for the assertion that King now familiarly calls him cher has been asked to re- sign pulpit because he uses an automobile. The dispatches do not say whether he inherited his money or married it. A New York man was fined $20 the other day for catching a trout that was than six inches long. But the judge ought to have seen the one that got away! less There are many forms of misfortune in this world, but none quite so pecu- liar as that of the Chicago man who brought suit for an injunction to keep his wife from talking. Mr. Bonaparte of Baltimore says he has no use for the man who tries to live on his grandfather's reputation. Still, it’s quite a distinction sometimes to have had a granduncle. A chair once owned by President Washington has been sold to the Mount Vernon association for $7,500, but a seat in New York’s stock ex-, change costs a good deal more. “Choose a freckled girl for a wife,” says Dr. Osler. “Freckled girls are invariably more amiable.” And they never get old enough to be chloro- formed, the doctor might have said. A New York man has asked the po- lice to help him find his 16-year-old niece, who is missing from her home, and as she is six feet tall, the police feel that they have some prospect of success. A Yonkers, N, Y., alderman wants $25,000 damages because he was ac cused of soliciting a bribe. An alder- man who is courageous enough to car ry his case into court ought to have the money. Down in Massachusetts a man of 35 is engaged to be married to a woman who is 84 years old. We shall refrain from congratulating him until we hear that he has eluded the lady’s great grandchildren. A fashion writer declares that in her belief the hoopskirt will not succeed in getting a foothold in this country. Well, we should hope the dear girls will be able to keep their little feet from getting tangled up in the mech- anism. t Possibly the time will come when the man who habitually borrows his neighbor’s lawn mower will send over his 12-year-old boy some day to say: “Father wants to know if you will please lend him your automobile for this afternoon.” NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD IN CONDENSED FORM. Washington. Acting Secretary of War Oliver has asked Lieut. Gen. Chaffee for sugses- tions tending to eliminate red tape in records and correspondence. The state department announced the following agpointments: Winfield §. Bynton, Colorado, consul at George- town, Guinea, and Herbert R. Wright, Iowa, consul at Utila, Honduras. Count Cassini, Russian ambassador, has engaged passage for July 11 from New York. The ambassador will prob- ably remain in Washington to await the arrival of his successor, Baron Rosen. The president has pardoned Philip Scott, a fullblood Creek Indian, convict- ed in the Indian Territory of attacking a woman and sentenced to imprison- ment for life. There is serious doubt of the Indian’s guilt, and in addition it is said he is ill with tuberculosis. List of Casualties. The Muskegon county (Mich.) poor- house burned as the result of the ex- plosion of a gasoline tank. Loss, $75, 000. Most-of the 100 inmates were res cued without injury. Three girls were drowned in Pine Jake, near Petroskey, Mich. They were members of a picnic party, and had gone out with two men in a boat, which sprung a leak. The men were rescued. Fire in the retail shopping district of Nashville, Tenn., caused damage esti- mated at between $500,000 and $650,- 000. The flames were discovered in the Palace, a big department store oc- cupied by Harris Bros. and Jacobus Bros., on the southwest corner of Fifth avenue and Union street, and spread’ rapidly. - While climbing the steep grade into Castle Rock, Colo., a heavily laden freight train going south broke into two sections and thirty-three cars rushed down the hill and qashed into the head of a Colorado & Southern passenger train, demolishing the loco- motive. Nearly all of the coaches of the passenger train were derailed and many passengers were badly injured. Frank McAdams of Denver, fireman of the passenger train, was killed. — Foreign. The Sunday school convention at To- ronto has decided to meet at Louis-, ville next year. W. K. Vanderbilt's Bimerroise won the Prix Portmarly at the Maisons Taffitte races in Paris, Jan Kubelik, the violinist, has sign- ed a contract for a season of 100 con- eerts in the United States, beginning Dee. 1. , There have been no new develop- ments in the case of bubonic plague at La Boca, against which a strict quar- antine is enforced, . A fire in the seaport town of Pors- grund, Norway, destroyed fifty houses and 500 persons are homeless. The damage is estimated at $125,000. The prefect of Naples has ordered the population in the vicinity of Mount Vesuvius to prepare to leave their houses, owing to an alarming increase in the discharges from the crater. Georg de Rodriguez, the banker, has committed suicide in Paris. It is stat- ed that the financier lost heavily in the recent sharp ‘decline in rentes. The liabilities of his banks are given out at $2,000,000. Advices received at Vigo, Spain, from the Minhe river, which empties into the Atlantic near Caminha, say that thirty persons were drowned re- cently through the capsizing of a boat which had arrived in the river from Portugal. ' Crimes and Criminats. William Brodet, aged 59, a earpen- ter, committed suicide at Cincinnati, after a quarrel with his wife, during which, it is said, she dared him to take his own life. Frank Campbell, member of the Kan- sas City, Kan., school board, was found guilty of the charge of accepting a bribe. The penalty for the offense is from one to five years. Henry Eichenrodt, bandmaster of the Alabama, which has been ordered to foreign waters, and his young wife killed themselves at Paterson, N. J., because they could not endure the sep- aration. “Kid” Royal, a notorious northern Montana character, being taken to Glasgow, Mont., to be tried on a charge of horse stealing, jumped from the Great Northern train at Silver, plung- ed into the darkness, successfully elud- ing the officer, who gave chase. At Belen, Valencia county, N. M., a robber cut the bottom of a mail pouch hanging on a crane for the pass- ing east-bound train and abstracted packages containing $12,000 mailed to the First National bank at Albuquerke from the bank at Belen. The robber escaped. Mrs. Watt C. Gregg shot and killed her four children and attempted to take her own life. The woman is in a critical condition from a wound in the side and may not live.. The tragedy is believed to have been committed by the woman during a fit of temporary insanity. Graeme Stewart, a leader in Chica- go’s commercial, political and ‘social life, two. years ago a candidate for mayor on the Republican ticket and a member of the executive committee from 1900 to 1904, died after a month’s '|Damage From Revolutionary Incen- diarism Placed at Forty Millions.” Odessa, July 4.—It is estimated that the total damage done by revolution- ary incendiarism will figure up be- tween $30,000,000 and $40,000,000. The greater part of the elevated railroad, factories, packing houses, magazines, private buildings, rolling plants, and road level railway, seven Russian steamers and more than fifty sailing craft were all destroyed. 2 The public is distracted. All kinds of contradictory reports are rife con- cerning the squadron. Rebel Warship Sails. The Kniaz Potemkine sailed Sat- urday, apparently in the direction of the Roumanian coast and nothing since has been heard of her. With her departure the situation for the mo- ment has taken a more favorable turn. Vice Admiral Kruger’s squadron having left for Sebastopol, the Georgi Pobiedgnosetz is the only. warship remaining here. ; The only element of immediate ¢anger from mutinous sailors now appears to lie with the Kniaz Potem- kine. The British consul has arranged with four British steamers and one Norwegian steamer to remain off port so as to be in readiness in case of danger to remove foreign subjects. Ask Forgiveness. The crew of the Georgi Pobiedon- osetz sent forty men ashore yesterday morning as hostages and have asked the emperor's forgiveness for having mutinied, pleading that they have not damaged the ship. According to some reports the sur- render of the Georgi Pobiedonosetz was conditional upon the crew being informed as to what their punishment would be. The vessel lies in the inner harbor, in a position very unfavorable for bombarding the city. She is complete- ly under the heavy guns now mounted in the boulevard overlooking the har- bor. Admiral Kruger Gives Up. St. Petersburg, July 4. — The un- precedented spectacle of a powerful modern battleship cruising around in the Black sea in the hands of a crew who, under the rules of international law, cannot be regarded as other than pirates, and of the admiral in com- mand of the Euxine fleet frankly con- fessing his inability to cope ,with the situation and ordering the fires of his warships to be drawn, has stupefied the Russian admiraity. On the Georgi Pobiedonosetz, which east its fortunes with the Kniaz Po- temkine after its arrival at Odessa and landed its officers, the more loyal or more timorous portion of the crew again gained the upper hand aud agreed to surrender and Disarm the Ship. The rest of the squadron returned to Sebastopol without venturing to take up the gauntjet thrown down by the mutineers on the Kniaz Potemkine, and Admiral Kruger, after a council of war, finding that he could not de- pend upon his crews, ordered the fires drawn beneath’the boilers of the ships and gave permission to all the disaffected officers and sailors to quit the vessels and go ashore. The sail- ors of Ekatrina II. were known to be so mutinous that the battleship was left behind when the squadron started for Odessa, the whole crew dismissed and the ship disarmed. 1,000 LIVES ARE LOST IN FLOOD. Great Disaster Overwhelms Mining City of Guanajato, Mexico. City of Mexico, July 4.—Reports are current here that from 100 persons up, with one report claiming even 1,000, have been drowned in a great flood at Guanajato, a mining city, now the important seat of activity of sev- eral large American and British com- panies. The wires were down all day yesterday and the roads impassable. No news has been received directly, and two reports are current, one say- ing 1,000 persons were drowned and the other 100 were killed. It is said Guanajato is completely flooded and water already invading the higher parts of the town, while there are fears that the Laola dam may give way, which would mean Complete and General Ruin. The city is built in a great gorge in the ‘mountains and the streets ramble up the mountainside in picturesque fashion. The storm began furiously on the night,of June 30, and after midnight not one of the inhabitants dared to go to bed, so tremendous was the fury of the elements. The water rose in the lower or business streets, flooding the shops and damaging thousands of dol- lars’ worth of merchandise. The low- er streets became raging torrents as the water poured in rivers down the upper streets. Doors were smashed in by the f Force of the Water and windows were no_ protection against the furious flood. Later ad- vices state that it is known that over one hundred lives were lost at Guana- jato. A dispatch to President Rob- inson of the Mexican Central ‘railroad says there are 1,000 dead at Guanaja- to. The town of Marafilo, just below Guanajato, was completely wiped out. The raging water is carrying the dead through every street. Messen- gers say the water stands three feet deep in houses and shops in the lower part of the city, and the panic-stricken people have gone into the mountains, carrying their valuables. e storm began to abate at 3 o'clock in the a? ternoon. ’ Montana Bank Is Looted. Great Falls, Mont. July 4. — The Bank of Balt, Mont., was broken inte yesterday. The safe was blown and about $1,000 stolen. tia ae. < ~~ TTALIAN SHIP VESSEL CARRYING COAL !S PREY OF MUTINOUS RUSSIAN BAT- TLESHIP. GERMAN COLONY IS RAIDED MUTINEERS REQUISITIONED AND TOOK ON BOARD SOME CATTLE. DECLARE WARON CZAR’S NAVY REBELS DECLARE WAR ON ALL RUSS VESSELS THAT REFUSE TO JOIN THEM. py ae Bucharest, Roumania, July 5.—The Russian torpedo boat destroyer Smo- tilvy appeared off Kustenii yesterday and signalled that she was seeking the Kniaz Potemkine. It is stated that the Kniaz Potem- kine has attacked an Italian vessel carrying coal, There is much uneasiness among Russian vessels at Roumanian ports. Th reatened German Village. Berlin, July 5—A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger from Odessa says the Kniaz Potemkine threatened to attack a village of German colonists on the coast near Odessa and requisitioned and took on board some cattle. Declares War.on Czar’s Navy. Bucharest, Roumania, July 5.—Be- fore the Kniaz Potemkine sailed from Kustenji a delegation from the crew handed the prefect a proclamation ad- dressed to the representatives of the powers in Roumania, formally declar- ing war on all Russian vessels which refuse io join the mutineers. The proclamation says the Kniaz Potem- kine will respect neutral territory and foreign shipping. The delegation requested’ that the proclamation be forwarded to the powers, Mutineers Surrender, St. Petersburg, July 5.—The minis- ter of marine has received the follow- ing telegram from Admiral Kruger: “The crew of the transport Prout, when leaving Budrovo bay, mutinied, arresting the captain and other offi- cers. Second Lieut. Nestertzeff, and Boatswain Kozlitine were killed. “The Prout. has arrived at Sebasto- pol and the crew now is repentant. The officers have been released, the ‘crew begging them to resume their posts. The Prout has been ordered to anchor at Kamesheval bay, and an inquiry into the affair has been opened.”. It is stated that the transport Vecha, the crew of which joined the mutineers in the harbor of Odessa, surrendered yesterday in Russian waters. Try to Revive Mutiny. Odessa, July 5.—An attempt to re- vive the mutiny on the battleship Po- biedonosetz was discovered yesterday. It was frustrated by loyal sailors who delivered six of the leaders to the au- thorities. The torpedo boats which remained here have gone to sea. Mutiny on Merchantman. Paris, July 5. — A dispatch to the Temps from Constantinople says that the Russian steamer Emperor Nichol- as II., which has been ordered to pro- ceed to Alexandria in place of Odessa, owing to the troubles at the latter place, was unable to leave Constanti- nople on account of mutiny of the crew. The men insisted on going to Odessa to protect their families. Quieter at Odessa. Odessa, July 5——The general situa- tion shows signs of gradual improve- ment. The removal of the debris from the ‘buried area has begun and the dock work and coasting service has been resumed. The strikers are returning to work. A large number of troops have been sent to the sum- mer quarters, within easy reach of the city. Works for Armistice. St. Petersburg, July 5. — With the completion of the arrangements for the Washington peace meeting, Pres- ident Roosevelt has resumed his ef- forts to bring about an armistice. No light is thrown on the exact status of the negotiations and the character of the communications passing between ihe Russian and Japanese govern- ments and Washington. The matter is an exceedingly delicate one, but the outlook for success, nevertheless, from alJ] information obtainable, is not unpromising if Japan is ready ‘to sheath the sword until the Washing- ton meeting develops whether a basis for peace is possible. 4 Jap Battalion Wiped Out. Gen. Linevitch, telegraphing to Em- peror Nicholas under date*of July 3, reports the annihilation of a Japan battalion. He says: “On July 1 our force assumed the offensive against the enemy occupy- ing a position near the village of Sauv- aitz, sixteen miles south of Liachou- pen. At 7 in the evening, after the ar- tillery had prepared the way, the ene- my’s fortified positions were stormed and we pursued him for three miles. One Japanese infantry battalion was destroyed.” Japs Inflict Heavy Loss. Pokio, July 5.—The following off- cial announcement was made from the headquarters of the Japanese army in Korea: : “at dawn on July Re 400 ive {he ene- my’s cavalry with artillery ap- proached Noromok, on the Puryong Toad, six miles north of Yusyong. Our force engaged and repulsed them northward, inflicting heavy Joss. In the meantime our detachment made a ‘detour far northward for the purpose of cutting off the enemy’s retreat and engaged the enemy’s infantry at noon, fourteen miles north of Yisyong. Our detachment also struck and scattered the enemy’s cavalry retreating from Noromok.” TOWN WIPED OUT BY FIRE. Explosion of .Gasoline-.Tank .Starts Fire at Carbondale, Colo. Glenwood, Colo., July 5. — A tele- phone message from Carbondale, fif- teen miles south of here, reports the explosion of a gasoline tank late yes- terday afternoon, which set fire to the building in which the tank was lo cated. The fire quickly spread and four buildings were consumed. The message stated that two persons had been injured in fighting the flames. No further word has been received and it is feared that the Whole town has been destroyed, as the buildings were mostly frame. Carbondale is a coal mining town of about 1,000 in- habitants. TWO HUNDRED ECDIES FOUND. Property Loss by Flood at Juanajuato Over $2,000,000. Guanajuato, Mex., July 5. — Gov. Obregon estimates the loss of life at something over 200 end more, bodies of the victims of the cloudburst which flooded this city are being recovered. The hospital was flooded so quickly that the patients were drowned. The magnificent Juarez thedter was ficod- ed to the fioor of the first balcony and soldiers who had taken refuge there had to climb to the upper balcony to save themselves. The power plant is damaged and the city is in darkness. The property loss is now estimated at $2,000,006, BURGLARS HOLD UP CASHIER. Excelsior Baker’s Home Is Looted During Fourth Exercises. Excelsior, Minn., July 5—While the Fourth of July program was being earried out at the pavilion yesterday afternoon two men robbed the rooms occupied by George Darsow above his bakery and secured .$30 in .cash and jewelry. The cashier of the restaurant discovered the men in the act of rifling a dresser and was held up while the burglars finished their ran- sacking. The robbers were well dressed and a good description of them has been furnished the Minne- apolis police. CONFESSED HIS CRIMES. Missouri Broker Then Tock a Dose of Poison and Died. Fulton, Mo., July 5—James R. Penn, areal estate and insurance broker, committed suicide by drinking poison after confessing to his partner and two other citizens that for the last fifteen years he had been securing money fraudulently by manipulating mortgages, notes and deeds. He said he believed himself $18,000 short. OPEN LAND FOR 3,152 HOMES. Indian Reserve Near E! Reno, Okia., Is to Be Entered. El Reno, Okla., July 5. — The half million acres of Indian pasture re- serve lying southwest of El Reno has been ordered by Secretary of the In- terior Hitchcock opened to settlement. The opening means the furnishing of 3,152 more homes to settlers and_an- other tide of emigration to Southwest- ern’Oklahoma. & STOP TRAINS TO AID WOMAN. Railway Signal Men Go to Assistance of Suicide. New York, July 5.—Seeing Cather- ine Cowan, thirty-five years old, leap into the North river, two New, York Centra] railroad sigzal men set the signals in their towey stopping all trains while they went to her assis- tance in a rowboat. The woman was rescued but died later in a hospital. FLEE STORM; BRIDGE FALLS. Fifty Persons Fall Into Lake in At- tempt to Escape. Jamestown, N. Y., July 5.—In a ruch to escape an impending storm fifty persons were thrown into a lake at Celeroi last night by the collapse of a bridge over which the crowd was hurrying. Ten of them were taken to the hospital. No one was drowned. FOUND DEAD IN BED. Charles M. Thompson, American Lum- ber Merchang, Dies in Toronto. Toronto, July 5—Charles M. Thomp- son, prominent lumber merchant of the United States, and until a few months ago a resident of Chicago, thas been found dead in his room here. Death was due to heart failure. He was a itive of Concord, N. H. Twenty-Two Injured, Lexington, Ky., July 5.—In a collis- jon at Vileh, four miles from here, between a Chesapeake & Ohio passen- ger train and a Louisville & Nashville passenger train yesterday twenty-two persons were injured. . Decl Tragedy at Portland. Portland, Or., July 5. — Mrs. Ger- trude Hodgson yesterday shot and killed her husband, Thomas Hodgson, and then killed herself. Hurricane Havoc in Samoa, _ Sydney, N. S. W., July 5. — News has reached here that great damage has been caused in Somoa by a burri- cane. Gat Tha eee ‘ 10 MOBILIZE PROCLAMATION TO THIS EFFECT WILL BE ISSUED WITHIN A WEEK. GIVE FORCE ‘TO PROPOSALS SUMMON ARMY TO GIVE ADDED FORCE TO PROPOSALS FOR SETTLEMENT. palietir KING “OSCAR IS EMPHATIC WILL NOT ALLOW ANY OF HIS SONS OR GRANDSONS TO TAKE NORWAY’S THRONE. Stockhoim, July 5.—The Associated Press is in a position to state that an’ order for the mobilization of the Swedish army has been issued and that a proclamation to this effect will probably be issued within a week. The mobilization is intended as a means of giving added force to any proposal for settlement which the special committee appointed by the riksdag may make to the Norwegian storthing. t King Oscar Interviewed. Oscar granted a private audience to the correspondent of the Associated Press at the royal palace yesterday. In a lengthy conversation his majesty expressed his views on the political situation and said emphatically that he would never allow any of his sons or his grandsons to accept the Nor- wegian throne. In speaking of the at- titude of Norway the king displayed deep emotion and expressed his heart- felt sorrow at Norway's treatment of him after thirty-two years of unceas- ing labor for its happiness and pros- perity. Grateful to Americans. His majesty said he wished to con- vey through the Associated Press his gratitude for hundreds of expressions of sympathy received from the United States. In the course of the conversation King Oscar reiterated his official ut- terances regarding his position on the consular bill passed by the storthing and the events which followed his veto of it, and said: “When the king of Norway consid- ers the welfare of the country de- mands that he shall veto bills passed by the sterthing his right to do so is unconditionally shown in Norway’s constitution, and he would be false to his oath if he did not Exercise This Right in accordance with his conscience. The constitution gives the storthing the power to pass a measure over my veto, providing, however, that this can only be done by the bill being p by three consecutively el ings. The consular bill was passed by one storthing. “The refusal of the Norwegian cab- inet to countersign my veto was inex- cusable. The constitution prescribes that the king may decide according to his judgment, and all his orders must be countersigned by the cabinet. Therefore the Norwegian constitution, my conscience and my consideration of the welfare of both kingdoms were my guides in vetoing the consular pill.” This is the first interview granted py King Oscar to any correspondent. HAILED AS THE NEW CHAMPION. only Marvin Hart Decisively Wins From Jack Root. Reno, Nev., July 5. — Efght years ago the heavyweight pugilistic cham- pionship of the world changed hands in this state in the fourteenth round of a finish fight. Monday afternoon the title was again decided, but in the twelfth round, when the Justy right hand of Marvin Hart of Louisville, Ky., bored into the pit of the stomach of Jack Root of Chicago, sending the latter to the mat for more than the full court. The most interested spec- tator of the fray was the man who saw his pugilistic honors, lustily won and long worn, James J. Jeffries, whé, having retired from the ring, con- sented to referee the contest which should decide the inheritor of his titular crown. HEAT AND DROUTH Causes More Than 100 Deaths in Ger- many in Four Days. Berlin, July 5.—The heat “which bas now continued four days throughout Central Europe has caused, it is esti- mated from the reports now coming in, more than 100 deaths in Germany. At midday in the shade the tempera- ture has reached as high as 107. On Sunday it had fallen in Berlin to 92. In the forests the ground is littered with fallen dried leaves. BIG HOOSIER COAL COMBINE. ' / Capitalized at $7,000,000, With Annual Output of 3,000,000 Tons. Pittsburg, July 5—A combination of twenty-six coal companies of Indiana, controlling 29,000 acres of coal lands, has been formed here under the name of the Vandalia Coal company. The new concern has a capital of $7,000,- 000 and is said to be the largest coal company ever formed in the West.” The annual output will be 3,000,000 tons. M. Ogle of Indianapolis is presi- dent .