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

‘Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Some men are as hard to get along with as balky horses. In Japan it is extremely bad form for a woman to contradict her hus- band. Banzai! France and Germany should note how Sweden and Norway settle their little difference A monument is to be erected to John Smith. Not you, gentle reader— the Pocahontas ‘Smith. A German chemist has invented a kind of beer that contains no alcohol. But why should he call it beer? War is a serious matter and not a picnic, as you might imagine from the way some European nations behave. Now that the automobile has been invented the next thing is to have it tamed and made the servant of man. The Italian singer who mistook ni- trate of silver for water must have been in the habit of taking his drinks solid. There is in New York a policeman who has made $250,000 in real estate. Evidently he was not always asleep on his beat. Pr. Wiley has gone into executive session to pursue an investigation of limburger cheese. Science also has its martyrs. Now old Pelee is impolitely elbowing in between the dove of peace and Tom lawson for a front seat in the glare of the limelight. It cost an Obio man $20 to swear at a woman over the telephone. Here is a case where long-distance bravery did not triumph. Here’s hoping that a sudden turn of events won't make the dove of peace feel that it has got mixed up in a pigeon-shooting match. : Henry James may be right in saying that the American newspapers use “sloppy English,” but at least it can be generally understood. “Men do not die of hard work,” says the ston Gjlobe. We knew a man once who died of hard drink, though. A cake of ice fell on him. Fashion struck a death blow to the waiting hoopskirt industry when it-de- creed that only women who are over thirty should wear the things. Garden seed four thousand years old have been discovered in Egypt. but Egyptian Congressmen are not. sending them out to their constituents Who knows? If Russia’s dream of an alliance with Japan is ‘realized, some day the ezar may be friendly enough with the mikado to call him “Mik.” “We owe an immense debt to medl- cal science,” says the Detroit Free Press. Same here, brother, and the doctor is beginning to get disagreeable about it. We have noticed that since the re sult of the ocean yacht race was an- nounced, Sir Thomas Lipton isn’t talking so much about taking part in the next one, eed ome: ay of people now would like to see those photographs with the newspaper girl’s picture in them that the president has ordered to be destroyed. A literary critic says in painting women, she must be made “either an- gelically radiant or heroically dia- bolic.” Let us strike the golden mean and say “angelically radiant.” “Smacks of Treason” is the caption of an editorial in the Washington Post. We have not read it, but pre- sume it treats of the kisses bestowed by a married man on the pretty house- maid. A French engineer thinks a raijway could be built around the earth, in- cluding a tunnel under Bering strait, for $250,000,000. Probably a few more thinks might cause him to alter his figures a little. The Boston Globe invites us to “{magine a daily newspaper written in the style of Henry James.” But if they cannot imagine such a thing in Boston, we don’t see how we can be expected to do so. The Birmingham Age-Herald says: “A Richmond pastor has induced the women members of his congregation to leave their hats at home. The plan will work all right until next April Then there will be trouble.” Young Willie Ziegler proposes to use his $30,000,000 for the purpose of discovering the north pole. In this cool manner probably he will be able to escape the accusation, when. it is ver, of having “burned up” his Perhaps the young English scientific man who by putting radium and ster- flized bouillon in a test tube has suc-. seeded in producing some of the phe- nomena of generation is on the verge of a great discovery, and perhaps he 's only enthusiastic. : f Casualty. _ Three persons were burned to death in a fire in a tenement house in Brook- lyn. * Henry Baker, doorman employed in Keith’s theater, New York, was suffo- cated while extinguishing a fire in the theater, The two-year-old son of Allen Cun- ningham of South Des Moines fell head first into a well and was drowned. The well was forty feet deep. In a collision at Vileh, Ky., between a Chesapeak & Ohio passenger train and a Louisville & Nashville passenger train, twenty-two persons were in- jured. The Goderich Elevator and Transit Co.'s elevator at Goderich, Ont., has been destroyed by fire. The loss on the building and the grain in store will reach $200,000. Three unknown men, and possibly a woman, were drowned from the up- setting of a row boat off Brighton Beach. Detectives are investigating the supposed drowning. Through misunderstanding of orders two interurban trolley cars collided head-on on a curve near Swisher, Ia. One man was fatally hurt and several others were badly injured. Four men were killed and seven in- jured by an explosion of a threshing machine engine near Axton, Henry county, Ill. It is reported that several of the injured will probably die. Roy Abbott, an electrician of Ham- mond, Ind., accidentally received a charge of 6,600 volts of electricity and lives. His left arm was paralyzed. The current was strong enough to kill an elephant. In a rush to escape a pending storm fifty persons were thrown into a Jake at Celeroi, N. Y., by the collapse of a bridge over which the crowd was hur- rying. Ten of them were taken to the hospital. No one was drowned. Frank C. Foote, chauffeur for James J. Hill, ran over and fatally injured an unknown woman when on bis way to court to be tried on a charge of speed- ing the automobile. The police say Foote was running the machine care- fully and that the woman’s death was purely accidental. Foreign. Great damage has been caused in Samoa by a hurricane. A commission has been appointed to examine the project for the reconstruc- tion of the French chamber of depu- ties at a cost of $1,975,000. A report says an earthquake in Buschirein caused part of Kesnu mountain to fall in to the river, which overflowed and many were killed. Cossacks dispersed with their whips a crowd which attempted to make a demonstration with red flags in front of the church of Bernardines, at Kal- isz, Poland. King Charles has ordered: the impor. tation of 75,000 tons of American wheat and 50 per cent reduction of the customs duties in view of the pre- dicted famine. The health authorities at Guayquil, Ecuador, have declared Panama to be infected with bubonic plague and have declared a quarantine against vessels from Panama ports. The Japanese have opened to ‘the Japanese merchants the following Manchuria towns: Pashikao, Old New- chwang, Haicheng, Anshantien, Lyaon- cang, Kaiping, Seng Wang Cheny and Saimatcehi. The German battleship Woerth ram- med torpedo boat S. 124 in the harbor of Eckernfoerde, cutting it completely in two, and three firemen in the poiler room were scalded to death by escaping steam. The correspondent of the London Daily Mail at Vienna asserts that Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand has initiated military preparations with a view ta the eventuality of Hungary seceding from the dual monarchy. The Swedish government has issued a proclamation to become effective im- mediately declaring Stockholm, Karl- skrona. Gothenburg and Farosund to be war ports and excluding all foreign warships from these ports. A serious conflagration occurred in | Rome through the explosion of naptha and benzine stored in an automobile garage in the center of the city. The rapid spread of the fire caused great alarm, especially as the flames reached the fifth floor of a modern hotel ad- joining the garage. Several persons are reported to have lost their lives. The bridge on the Mexican Central railway at. Kilometer 317, between Irapua and ‘Siloa, Mexico, fell as a south-bound passenger train was pass- ing early Sunday morning. The bag- gage and third-class coach fell into the river. Seven passengers were killed and thirty-four injured. No first-class passengers were injured, _The final indemnity agreement has been signed at Pekin, the Russo-Chi- nese bank difficulty being removed. China will therefore liquidate on the basis originally proposed. The affair is regarded as satisfactorily settled, at least for the present, and is consid- ered excellent for China. Charles M. Thompson, prominent lumber merchant of the United States, and until a few months ago a resi- dent of Chicago, has been found dead in his room at Toronto. Death was due to heart failure. He was a native of Concord, N. H. A new Mad Mullah, named Gud Mullah, has proclaimed a holy. war against the English and detailed 40 subordinates to go through the Mo- hammedan country and exhort the peo- ple to rise against the Britons and drive them from the country. The heat which has now continued for days throughout Central Europé has caused, it is estimated from the reports now coming in, more than 100 deaths in Germany. At midday in the shade the temperature has reached as high as 107. On Sunday it had fall- en in Berlin to 92. In the forest the ground is littered with fallen dried leaves. Crimes. The Bank of Balt, Mont., was broken into. The safe was blown and about $1,000 stolen. Mrs. Gertrude Hodgson of Portland, Ore., shot and killed her husband, Thomas Hodgson, and then killed her- self. The body of J. M. Langley was found hanging from the rafters in the fur- nace room’of the Methodist church in Whitefish bay, a suburb of Milwaukee. Gustave Kihm, a native of Hamburg, Germany, committed suicide at Hollis- ter, California, by taking morphine. He left a will in which he directed that his heart should be cut out and placed on his coffin outside of the body. Miss Emma Neider, a_ beautiful young professional nurse of Cedar Rapids, Ia., supposed to have been de- spondent over a disappointing love af- fair, committed suicide by taking mor- phine and atropine. Grieving over the death of her hus- band, who died last March, Mrs, Sa- rah E. Sage, forty-eight years old, took carbolic acid at Keokuk, Ia., and died an hour afterward. Eli Sage, the husband, was a well known citizen of Keokuk. ‘ Seeing Catherine Cowan, thirty-five years old, leap into the North river at New York, two New York Central sig- nal men set the signals in their tower stopping gll trains while they went to her assistance in a rowboat. The woman was rescued but died later in a hospital. “Doc” Peterson, the negro who shot and fatally wounded A. M. Watson, city marshal of Chihley, Fla, was found in a house near Cottondale. A posse surrounded the house and the negro come out and opened fire on it. His body was riddled with bullets, be- ing shot no less than 100 times. Eight convicts escaped from the fed- eral penitentiary on MéNeil’s Island, near Tacoma,: Wash., leaving the isl- and in two government boats. Before starting away the convicts disabled the government launch by destroying the dynamo, and the officials were un- able to take up the pursuit for several hours. t Fon ee Domestic. William J. Fielding, an actor, is dead at his home in Richmond Hill, L I. After deliberating eighteen hours at Coldwater, Mich., the jury disagreed in the suit brought by Mrs. Miller against Supt. Staley for $10,000 for the loss of her young son Philip, who is alleged to have died from a severe whipping administered: by Staley for a trivial offense. T. P. Shonts of Chicago, chairman of the Panama commissioners, was ar- rested at Stamford, Conn., for viola- tion of the automobile speed law. He had a party of ladies with him and did an eighth of,a mile in 22 seconds. He put up a bond for his appearance in court. He was en route to his sum- mer home at Greenwich at the time. Peter Revington, a prominent young man of Cedar Falls, Ia., fell dead after losing a foot race to get an early “turn” in a barber shop. He and sev- eral friends were going to the shop and started to run to see which would get his work done first. Revington Jost the race and fell dead as he en- tered the shop. The exertion caused heart failure. ‘ A combination of twenty-six coal companies of Indiana, controlling 29.- 000 acres of coal lands, has been formed under the name of the Van- dalia Coa’ 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 out- put will be 3/000,000 tons. M. Ogle of Indianapolis is president. The sewers of Zenia, Ohio, were re- cently flushed with hundreds of ber rels of beer, notwithstanding this js a “dry” town and hydrant water plentiful. It was caused by the visit of a government inspector to the Brinkle & Reading brewery, where was formerly manufactured et beer,” a dry town beverag¢, but, which for several months hasbeen in the hands of a receiver, and they pre- ferred to forfeit the beer rather than pay the required government tax thereon. John Moffet, known throughout the country as “Steeplejack,” who had climbed many steeples and stacks without accident, is dead from a fall on a staircase in New York. In order to save her father’s crop of wheat from ruin by the rains which were threatening, pretty Mabel Hus- ton, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a Saline county (Kan.) farmer, dis- tributed kisses and hugs as_ prizes among the harvest hands who did the most work in the day. When night came the wheat was out of danger from the rains which shortly followed. i mot recover. POPULAR MOSCOW OFFICIAL 18 “THE VICTIM OF AN ASSASSIN. IS PURELY POLITICAL CRIME CUSTOM OF FREELY GRANTING AUDIENCES GIVES ASSASSIN THE CHANCE, ANOTHER MUTINY IS FEARED RUSSIAN SQUADRON REMAINS AT ROUMANIAN PORT—AFRAID TO PUT TO SEA. Moscow, July 12.—Maj. Gen. Count Shouvaloff, prefect of police here and formerly attached to the ministry of the interior, wag assassinated yester- day morning while receiving petitions, One of the petitioners drew a revolver and fired five times at the prefect, who fell dead. The assassin was ar- rested. The assassin, who was dressed as a peasant, has not been identified. He recently was arrested as a political suspect, but escaped from the police station before his examination. The assassin awaited in the ante- room of the prefecture until the other petitioners had beén received, and then entering the audience room, he advanced toward Count Shuvaloff, fir- ing five shots at close range. People Are Indignant. A great crowd gathered in front of the house of Count Shouvaloff and made a demonstration to show its in- dignation and sorrow at the assassina- tion of the prefect, who was highly popular. Count Shouvaloff owes his death to his custom of freely granting audi- ences and receiving petitions from all classes. One bullet wounded the count in the pericardium; another pierced his abdomen; a third struck him in the arm, and the fourth in the shoulder, while the fifth bullet of the assassin struck the leg of an official who was standing near. According to the physicians the bul- Jets were poisoned. The victim speed- ily lost consciousness and never spoke afterward. Purely Political Crime. St. Petersburg, July 12.—The assas- sination of Prefect of Police Count Shouvaloff of Moscow yesterday is considered to be purely a political crime, as the count was not yet forty years old and was regarded as being of the best type of the Russian official. He came from one of the most famous families in Russia. The impression exists here that the count was killed for preserving order. Fear Another Mutiny. Kustenji, Roumania, July 12.—The Russian squadron seems to be delayed here owing to the fear that another mutiny will break out should the ves- sels put to sea. The fact that fifty-five sailors from the Kniaz Potemkine have been im- prisoned on board different vessels of the squadron, and are awaiting trial for rebellion, has caused intense indig- nation among the crews, and as a con- sequence there are fears of another mutiny. . Japs Take Sakhalin Town. Nikolaievsk, Asiatic Russia, July 12. —The Japanese have already landed over 12,000 troops at Korsakousk, Isl- and of Sakhalin. Tokio, July 12—The navy depart- ment has received the following re- port from Admiral Kataoka: “Two cruisers and four torpedo poats left Karakorsk on July 10, with soldiers on board, for the purpose of landing and occupying Cape Notoro. “after some bombardment the place was taken. The lighthouse and build- ings, were left undestroyed. Four prisoners were taken.” Cape Notoro is the most southerly point of Sakhalin island, on La Pe- rouse straits, directly facing Cape Soya, on the Japanese coast. It com- mands the straits. NO PASSES FOR BONAPARTE. New Naval Secretary Declines Road’s Courtesies, Washington, July 12—It is stated at the navy department that Secretary Bonaparte has revealed his position in reference to accepting free transpor- tation on the railroads by returning passes that have been sent to him, stating that by reason of the public position which he: occupies he feels unable to avail himself of such consid- eration. Lifted $10,000 in Jewelry. Newport, R. 1, July 12—When Mrs. Charles M. Oelrichs returned to her cottage last night after an absence of two hours, she discovered that jewelry valued at $10,000 had been taken from her dressing case. Killed by Bad Candy. Janesville, Minn., July 12—The two- year-old child of N. T- Oftendahl, liv- ing ten miles south of Janesville, is dead from eating cheap mixed candy. An older child ig violently ill and may PURDY TO PROSECUTE. — Violations of Elkins Law and Con- tempt of Court to Be Taken Up. ~ Chicago, July 12. — Plans for the prosecution of railroads for the grant-. ing of rebates to large industrial com- panies in violation of the Elkins law and of injunctions issued by the fed- eral courts here and in Kansas City have been completed dnd the first steps in the new attack of the govern- ment will be made in Kansas City be- fore the end of this week. Assistant Attorney Generad M. D. -Purdy, who has charge of the prosecution of the. railroads in the rebate matter, left here last night for Kansas City. Be- fore leaving here he announced that the first proceedings would be charges of contempt of court for the violation of the injunction of Judge Phillips of Kansas City. CUBAN RIOT FATAL TO TWO. Artillerymen Threaten Vengeance on Police, Their Rivals. Havana, July 12—Two deaths have resulted from conflicts in the “red light” district here Monday night be- tween Cuban artiilerymen and civil- ians. Capt. Portuondo of the artillery, who received a bullet wound in the in- testines, died last evening. Amparo Hernandez, a policeman, who died of the wounds inflicted by the artillery- men’s bullets, was given an imposing funeral yesterday: Of the score of persons reported injured, most of them sustained slight contusions, in- flicted by the policemen’s clubs. The artillerymen threaten vengeance on the police. FIGHT BLOODY BATTLE. Desperate Encounter Between Federal Officers and Moonshiners. Mayking, Ky., July 12.—A desperate battle between moonshiners and fed- eral officers was fought in the Elkhorn district yesterday. Al Britton Potter, deputy United States marshal, led the officers on the raid. On a lonely moun- tain path the moonshiners, under the leadership of Calvin Centers, opened fire on the officers. For half an hour the battle waged. Centers was killed and Henry Adams was fatally wound- ed. A man named Tucker received a dangerous wound. It is said that one of the officers was also shot. 144 LOST IN MINE DISASTER. Eight Bodies Recovered From Colliery in Wales. Cardiff, Wales, July 12—An explo- sion occurred yesterday at the Water- town colliery, Rhondda Hills, while 180 men were in the pit. Communica- tion with them is cut off. A loud ex- plosion was heard at noon, followed by the belching of clouds of smoke and dust from the colliery. All hope of rescuing the entombed miners has been abandoned. One hundred and forty-four lives are lost, the victims in- cluding the manager of the colliery. Eight bodies have been recovered. HAS MUCH, DYNAMITE. ‘Temperance Fanatic May Raze More “Rum Shops.” Tola, Kan., July 12.—C. L. Melvin, the temperance fanatic whom the po- lice charge with destroying three local saloons with dynamite and causing damage estimated at $100,000, is still at large in spite of the fact that Sher- iff Richardson has formed a posse to capture him. Melvin is believed to have a great quantity of dynamite that has disappeared from a local cement works, and it is feared that he will cause further destruction. TROUSERMAKERS STRIKE. Two New York, Unions, Totaling 13,- 000 Mer, Walk Out. New York, July 12. — The trouser- makers’ union has struck for an ad- vance of wages, a ten-hour day and recognition of the union. There are 8.000 trousermakers out in 250 shops. The children’s jacketmakers union, which has amembership of 5,000, has ordered a general strike to go into ef- fect at once for higher wages and rec- ognition of the unfon. COL. CODY WILL NOT APPEAL. Buffalo Bill Drops Case at Recuest of Daughter. Chicago, July 12.—Dr. Frank Powell has received a cablegram from Col. W. F. Cody directing him to dismiss the appeal in the Cody divorce case. “Col. Cody dismissed the appeal,” said Dr. Powell, “at the earnest re- quest of his only living child, Irma, the wife of Lieut. Col. Clarence Arm- strong Stott of Fort Thomas, Ga.” RENT BASED ON CENSUS. Cleveland Landlords Will Charge Ac- cording to Family's Size. Cleveland, July 12. — A number of Jandlords of this city have decided to regulate ihe rent of tenants according to the number in the family. They have combined in the employment of inquisitors, whose duty is to report every new visit of the stork. Death in Launch Collision. New York, July #.—One man was fatally hurt and six others had a nar- row escape from drowning yesterday when the tug Oneida ran down the forty-foot naphtha launch Edna in the upper bay off Twenty-sixth street. Death for Thirty-Nine Miners, Portmund, Prussia, July 12.—Efforts to rescue the thirty-nine men who were cut off by the fire in the Borus- sia coal mine Monday -have been with- out success, and it is feared they have \ CHARLES WOULD LIKE THE JOB NORWAY IF KING CHRISTIAN ASSENTS. MAY FIGHT OVER CONDITIONS SWEDEN DETERMINED TO GO TO WAR TO IMPOSE HER OWN CONDITIONS. SWEDES DISTRUST NORSEMEN FRENCH PREMIER IS URGED TO INTERVENE IN THE CONFLICT. Copenhagen, July 12. — It is under- stood that Prince Charles of Denmark, son of Crown Prince Frederick, will be willing to accept the crown of Norway if King Christian and the Danish gov- ernment consent. Some of the mem- bers of the royal family are in favor of his acceptance of the crown, but King Christian is believed to be op- posed to it. No decision, however, will be given out before his majesty returns from Gmunden, Austria, next week. It has been confirmed that an offer of the Norwegian throne has been made to Prince Charles. It is understood that King Edward and the British government are favor- able to the project, but much may de- pend on King Oscar’s attitude on the subject. Consultations are now going on. Prince Charles’ mother was a daugh- ter of the late king of Sweden, Carl XV., King Oscar's brother, May Fight Over Conditions. Stockholm, July 12.—Riksdag senti- ment is rapidly erystalizing in favor of postponing a settlement of the union er until the new riksdag meets in January next. They want the restoration of the union on any con- ditions. They say that a people capa- ble of the Christiania coup detat is absolutely not to be trusted to keep agreements in the future. This deep seated suspicion is cer- tain to complicate the final adjust- ment, inasmuch as sweden will view with distrust any settlement that fails to paralyze Norway’s physical ability to break its word hereafter. This anomalous condition of affairs may be summed up in the observation {hat Sweden scems definitely unwill- ing to fight for the union, but thor- oughly determined to go to war for the imposition of the conditions on which she will allow disruption. No Attack by Norway. Christiania, July 12. — “Dr. Sven Hedin himself must know that his con- tention is false,” said a prominent diplomat here. “Why should Norway attack Sweden? A more foolish state- ment was never made. The whole world now knows that in Sweden a passionate war party exists and mani- fests itself in daily inducements to at- tack Norway. “All sorts of stories are spread to create Swedish hostility to Norway. Norway is prepared to defend herself if attacked, but will never be so fool- ish either as to’ begin war or to pro- voke it.” France Asked to Mediate. Paris, July 12. — Baron D’Estour- nalles de Constant, the French mem- ber of The Hague peace tribunal, has written a letter to Premier Rouvier urging*French intermediation in the conflict between Norway and Sweden. SEEKS TRUTH AS TO VENEZUELA. President Roosevelt will Send Special Envoy to Get at the Facts. Washington, July 12. — President Roosevelt has decided to get at the truth regarding Venezuela. He will send a special commissioner to inves- tigate the situation, and on the report of that confidential agent will make his own decision as to how to treat President Castro and his government. That this report may carry additional weight, he has decided upon a man who has had experience in such deli- cate work. This confidential agent of the president is no less a person than William J. Calhoun, the Chicago law- yer who was sent by President Mc- Kinley on a similar mission to Cuba seven years ago. War followed then, but it may not now. Player's Wife Ends Life. Kansas City, July 12. — While her husband was playing ball yesterday, Mrs. Frank Bonner, wife of the second baseman of the Kansas City American association baseball club, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Bad health is supposed to have caused thi act. : Fire Sweeps Business Section. Guntersville, Ala., July 12. — Fire yesterday swept a large area of the business portion of Guntersyille. Loss estimated at $50,000; about one-third insurance. Heavy rains prevented the fire from destroying the whole busi- ness section. Lightning Causes Fires- Janesville, Wis., July 12.—A severe_ electrical storm which centered here yesterday afternoon set fire to several dwellings, farmhouses and farm build- ings, causing considerable loss. a | a i