Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 22, 1905, Page 2

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. With Nick and Mik both in favor of peace, it ought to come eventually. Sarah Bernhardt says men’s attire is Siculous. It is, Sarah. Don’t wear it If you would have your last words widely circulated, spend your life in robbing banks. It will be recalled that the heathen Chinee was peculiar, even in the time of Truthful James. Bandit Raisuli may now point with pride to the time when he constituted the Morocco question. Henry James says Americans say “Cubar,” “vaniller” and “cigah.” Does Henry think Boston is America? An article in Harper’s refers to Fran cis Drake as a pirate. The Spanish in the West Indies call him the devil. A Philadelphia man made $1,000,000 through forgery, but died and had a fine funeral before anybody found it out. Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons are going to fight for the championship of the world—the next world, we pre- sume. Women love to talk about the hus- band of the future, but they are pretty well satisfied with the husband with a present. Still, when Henry James referred to some Americans’ “untidy language” he may have been thinking of Ad- miral R. Evans. Foreigners may be able to get along without American wheat, but how they can get along without American corn and rye we don’t see. But if Luther Burbank does evolve a cobless corn won’t it seriously inter- fere with Missouri’s justly celebrated meerschaum industry? The king of Spain, it is stated, is a very early riser. Perhaps he realizes the great licks Admiral Dewey once put in before breakfast. If these scientific bureau of agricul- ture chaps would only develop a meth- od of training potato bugs to live solely on a weed diet, now! Did you ever act as a dummy di- rector? Of course, we don’t mean to insinuate anything against your status in the domestic establishment. The Pneumonia Commission wants to send a scientist to the polar regions | to look for germs. What’s the use of searing those benighted Eskimos to death? on aes What you want to bear in mind all the time at this season of the year is that it really isn’t so much as it seems—meaning, of course, the weather. The wheat crop is going to be either 340,000,000 bushels or 425,000,- 000 bushels, ateording to which ex- pert you patronize. Anyway there'll be enough. The boy who stretched himself two inches to make himself eligible as a midshipman has the kind of stuff in him that may enable him to o’ertop his classmate. It is reported that the man who first said that a woman could dress on $65 a year has gone into bankruptcy owing $15,000 for his wife’s milliner’s and dressmaker’s bills. Stop worrying about how fast the ice in the refrigerator melts, and cheer yourself up with the thought that there is nothing doing in the ash producer in the cellar, How it must make the old-time schoolmaster roll in his grave to hear ihe- modern professor planning to make the schoolroom as easy aS POS- sible for the boys and girls. If Pharaoh’s daughter could have foreseen that Alma Tadema was going to get £14,000 for his picture of “The g of Moses,” she would have en differently dressed for the occa- “Sir Henry Irving read a poem by Alfred Austin,” cables the foreign cor- respondent. Sir Henry is a wonder- fully robust man, considering his age, but he really oughtn’t to take chances like that. A scientist says that the vital proc _|n the Capital. ‘The formal announcement has been made at the state department that Elihu Root of New York has been ap- pointed secretary of state. Formal announcement has been made at the state department of the appointment of William W. Russell of Maryland as minister to Venezuela, where he succeeds Mr. Bowen. President Roosevelt received the St. Gauden’s medal, designed and execit- ed to commemorate his inauguration to the presidency. It is of gold and is about three inches in diameter. In its face the medal bears a relief bust of the president, the view being a sharp profile. Postmaster General Cortelyou has announced the appointment of Steven- son A, Williams of Bellair as member of the Republican national committee for Maryland, to succeed former Unit- ed States Senator Louis E. McComas, recently appointed associate justice of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. Assistant Secretary Pierce recently announced that the plenipotentiaries of Russia and Japan had agreed on Portsmouth, N. H., as the ,meeting place for the sessions of the peace conference to be held outside of Wash- ington. The sessions will be held in the government naval yard ‘at Ports- mouth, in the new building just com- pleted there. It is stated at the navy department that Secretary Bonaparte has revealed his position in reference to accepting free transportation 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 consideration. Crimes. P. H. Rudolph, an Omaha tailor, was found dead in his place of business and an empty carbolic acid bottle was found in the shop. In a pistol duel between Green Mur- rell and Harvey Rice on Indian Creek in Owsley county, Ky., Murrel was killed and Rice seriously wounded. Rolia Blankenship, rural mail car- rier, of Wyckliff, Ky., was held up by highwaymen and robbed of $30, a ring and stamps and was then tied to his wagon. Calvin Center, moonshiner, was killed and Henry Adams wounded in a fight with federal officers, who were raiding Center’s illicit still in the Elk- horn district of Kentucky. Cc. C. May, former president of the Big Bend National Bank of Davenport, Washington, charged with misapply- ing $115,000 and making false returns, has furnished bail of $5,000, Cashier Bowman of the Hagerstown (Ind.) Commercial Bank, who com- mitted suicide on July 3, was a defaul- ter to the extent of at least $109,000. The amount may be increaged- Silas McDonald, who was for years cashier of the State Nationa] bank at St. Joseph, Mo., and who came to Philadelphia after that institution went into liquidation, committed sui- cide by cutting his throat in the pres: ence of his wife. Right sticks of dynamite, with fuses attached and wrapped in carpet, were found under the Newcastle, Pa., street crossing of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Recently the railroad com- pany closed a bridge over the cross- ing, which was the only entrance to the Greer tin mills. William Mueller, the missing cash~ fer of of the Graettinger Savings bank of Marshalltown, Iowa, has been locat- ed in Indian Territory. It is not prob- able he will be brought back, as there is no criminal charge against him. A number of personal creditors will Jose, but the depositors will be paid in full. Lewis W. Stone, a wealthy real es- A numyebr of personal creditors will tate dealer, was found dead in the library of his residence in Chicago with a bullet wound through his tem- ple. Mr. Stone, who was eighty-two years old, had been suffering from kidney trouble for some time, and it js believed committed suicide while prooding over his illness. List of Casualties. Fire broke out in Panama, N.Y., and destroyed the business section of the place; loss $100,000. The Owensboro, Ky., Wagon works were destroyed by fire. The loss is $50,000, covered by insurance. Two persons were killed and several seriously injured in a natural gas ex- plosion in a house in Pittsburg. The house was wrecked, : Miss Maggie Thoorin and Miss esses of the body are carried on PY! meanor Swanson, who were visiting chemical substances called Sagi’ at Embryville, Tenn., were drowned mones.” Presently we shall have hor- th i .e Nockchee river, near Embry: mones controlled by a trust and sold ath ‘while boating. in bottles at all drug stores. T care treasury department, Washington, asking for a decision as to which was the head and which the tail on a nickel, has voiced a great public de mand and should publish the answer, if he gets one. The courts have decided that a ‘her arm. Her body was Little Ella Wolfe, of Walker's Isl- man who wrote to Uncle Sam, and, Neb., is dead as a result of burns \peceived whilé playing around a bon- fire. The child, who was seven years ' old, jumped upon the burning embers and attempted to stamp them out. Her dress took fire in an instant, and while running to a water trough to put out the fire the chifa fell and broke terribly young lady who is hit on the nose by, burned and her injuries proved fatal. a foul tip while watehing a baseball game from the grandstand cannot re- cover damages, particularly if she is C. R. Keller, superintendent of the ‘Whitewater division of the Big Four, ‘was run down near Brooksville, Ind., wearing one of those confcaméed pic-} by a freight train while riding a rail- ture hats when she is hit road velocipede and killed. Reports from various sections of the country of Egypt show that the crop will be excellent. ‘ * Fourteen miners were killed and a number injured by an explosion in a colliery at Anderleus, Belgium. An application for bail for Messrs. Gaynor and Green was refused by Judge Ouimet of the court of king’s bench at Montreal. An explosion in a secret cartridge factory at Marseilles, operated by a man named Savelle, wrecked the build- ing and killed several. The imperial forces have won a yvic- tory over the Moorish pretender near Ujda, in the northeast of Morocco, the pretender escaping, leaving 180 men dead. At the American legation at Pana- ma Charles G. Magoon, governor of the canal zone, last week formally as- sumed his duties as American minis- ter to Panama. Dr. Barton, bacteriologist of the Guadaloupe hospital at Callao, Peru, reports he has discovered mosquitoes of the kind which produce malarial and yellow fever infection. Representatives of American meat firms have arrived at Buenos Ayres to negotiate for a monopolization of the trade. The press and public opin- ion are decidedly hostile. The sultan of Turkey has expressed to Minister Leishmann his sincere re- gret at the indignity to which A. A. Gargiulo, dragoman of the legation, was subjected by the police, The proposal to make Prince Charles of Denmark king of Norway is sup- ported by those in power and would be enthusiastically received by the majority of the Norwegian people. The Princess of Wales became a mother of a son last week at Sand- ringham palace. Both mother and child are doing well. Some disap- pointment was felt because the child was not a girl. Four or five former children are boys. Mail advices from Hongkong tell of the novel plan of the campaign adopt- ed by the Chinese in Southern China to further the boycott on American goods. Wealthy Chinese in Tekhot have imported thousands of Japanese fans, on one side of which is a rough sketch of Americans harshly treating Chinese. A story of wholesale execution at the little village of Taikiu, a hundred miles inland from Fusan, Korea, has been brought to San Francisco by the Rev. E. F. MacFarland, a missionary who came home on the steamer Korea. In less than a week sixty men, charged with being bandits and cut- throats, were hangéd by order of the Japanese government. Domestic. Dr. D. Frank Powell has received a@ cablegram from Col. W. F. Cody di- recting him to dismiss the appeal in the Cody divorce case. : The trousermakers’ union of New York has struck for an advance in wages, a 10-hour day and recognition of the union. There are 8,000 trouser- makers out in 250 shops. The great wheat smash last April is said to have been caused by E. 8S. Holmes, ex-chief statistician, who was discharged for giving advance govern- ment crop reports for speculative pur- poses. Mrs. Jane Martin, the richest woman in Iowa, is dead at her home near Marshalltown. Despite her hoard, from $300,000 to $500,000, she lived in a hovel, depriving herself of many necessities. J. Hamilton Lewis, formerly a con- gressman from the state of Washing- ton, now a resident of Chicago, has “been appointed by Mayor Dunne to be corporation counsel for the city of Chicago. A number of Cleveland landlords have decided to regulate the rate 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, The state supreme court of Kansas rendered a decision declaring that the Kansas Natural Gas company, a Del- aware corporation, cannot do business in Kansas. The decision, which is sweeping in its terms, makes an out- law of the company, which it declares cannot hold property in Kansas and cannot operate in any manner within the state. George J. Gould has decided to en- gage in poultry raising on an extensive scale at his country home, Furlough Lodge, near Arkville, N. Y. An ex- perienced poultryman has ‘been en- gaged and arrangements have been made for the erection of a poultry house 165x30 feet, with cellar for in- cubators. The facilities for chicken raising will be the most complete in the state. Two of the largest attractions on “The Trail,” at the Clarke centennial exposition at Portland, Ore, have ceased operations. It is alleged that the shows havé been operating under heavy loss owing ‘to the refusal of the management to permit “The Trail” to open Sundays. It is said that other attractions on the amusement street will shut their doors. John T. Foster, famous inventor, and who was associated with Walter Hunt, said to have devised the first model of the sewing machine, is dead at Arlington, N. J., seventy-five years old. : TWO STRONG ELEMENTS FAVOR ESTABLISHING REGENCY FOR CZAR’S SON. FOUR GRAND DUKES TO RULE NICHOLAS TRIES TO STOP MOVE THAT MAY COST HIM HIS THRONE. VLADIVOSTOCK IS DOOMED JAPS LAND NORTH OF CITY AND ENVELOPMENT OF FORTRESS 1S IMMINENT. St. Petersburg, July 19. — A sensa- tional rumor is current here that a large party of the zemstvoists and doumaists at Moscow are in favor of the proclamation of the deposition of Emperor Nicholas and the establish- ment of a regency for the Grand Duke Alexis-Nikolaievitch, the infant son of the emperor, under four grand dukes. It is alleged that for this reason the meeting of the all-Russian zemstvoist and doumaist congress has been pro- hibited. Zemstvo Will Meet. Moscow, July 19.—It is understood that.the subjects to be considered at the congress of zemstvo representa- tives here include a perfected draft of the proposed constitution. It is said that it follows closely the main prin- ciples of the drafts already published, namely, two chambers, the upper to be elected on local government elec- torates which appoint the zemstvos and municipalities, and the lower to be elected by universal franchise. The authorities refuse to sanction the assembly, but the representfftives persist in meeting, taking their stand on the czar's speech of June 19. Excitement Prevails. Considerable excitement prevails among the peasants in several dis- triets of Riazan province, who have risen against the land owners. The peasants, who demand bread, usually proceed in a body to the neighboring land owners and carry off all the rye, leaving the other grain. The nervous tension throughout the agricultural regions is intense. The authorities are powerless . except at those points that are within reach of the military stations. Witte Leaves Russia. St. Petersburg, July 19—M. Witte had a final interview with Emperor Nicholas at Peterhoff yesterday. For- eign Minister Count Lamsdorff was present, showing. the complete har- mony of views between M. Witte and the foreign minister. M. Witte leaves St. Petersburg for Paris to-day, accom- panied by Mme. Witte. At Paris they will meet their daughter, who is the wife of the secretary of the Russian legation at Brussels. Mme. Witte has no intention of joining ber husband later in America. Sincere Effort for Peace. Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 19.—No ad- vices, either from this country or from abroad, have reached President Roosevelt which would warrant, even by indirection, a pessimistic view of the result of the forthcoming peace conference between the plenipoten- tiaries of Japan and Russia. On the contrary, it can be said that such ad- vices as the president has received indicate that a sincere effort on the part of the representatives of both belligerent nations will be made to reconcile their differences and negoti- ate a treaty of peace that will be per- manent. The terms that Japan will propose have not been made known, even to Mr. Roosevelt, and they probably will not be officially until the conferees as- semble as a peace commission. That the terms will not be drastic is be- lieved generally in administration circles, Viadivostock Is Doomed. London, July 19—The Tokio corres- pondent of the Daily Telegraph says that a Japanese army has been landed north of Vladivostock and that a com- plete envelopment of the fortress is imminent. WOOD LEAVES HOSPITAL. Fully Recovers From Recent Surgical Operation. Boston, Mass., July 19.—Gen. Leon- ard Wood, who recently underwent an operation at a private hospital in this city, left the institution yesterday. Ac- companied by Mrs. Wood, a trained nurse and a physician, he has gone to the country for afew days. He ex- pects: to sail early next month for Ma- nila. ; SEIDEL LET OFF EASY, State’s Witness Fined $60 on Larceny Charges. Milwaukee, July 19.—Fines amount- ing to $60 were levied upon Former Register of Deeds Otto Seidel, Jr., by Judge Neelen in the district court as a result of four charges of Jarceny brought against him by Arnold Wass- lewski, fireman at the county court house. Seidel had been the grand jury’s star witness, and his confes- sions have resulted in the jury return- Ing 105 indictments. Boy in Printing Office Makes tmpor- , tant Admission. Mankato, Minn., July 19—Hervert | Baltrusch, a young printer employed at Asa P. Brooks’ Review Office, testi- fied yesterday in the Koch murder trial to seeing Dr. Koch pass the office window in the evening and to hearing immediately afterward footsteps going up the stairs to the Gebhardt office, above the newspaper plant. Cross-ex- amined, Baltrusch said that a minute or so elapsed from the time that Dr. Koch passed the office until the foot- steps on the stairs were heard. Gen. Childs said that this statement on the part of the witness was surprising, as he had testified before that the foot- steps on the stairs were heard imme+ diately following the passage of Dr. Koch by the window. The attorneys for the defense maintained that the witness had never been asked as to the length of time before. Other wit- nesses examined were William Cava- nagh, A. J. Vogel, Coroner Fritsche, Chief of Police Klause, Dr. G. B. Weiser, Eugene Pfefferle, Anton Sim- met and Alfred Hinz. They repeated testimony given at former trials. WAR FUND FORGOTTEN. Orphans’ Fund Provided in Civil War Days Recalled by Letter. Madison, Wis., July 19—A curious case recalling an episode of the Civil war has just been revealed here. John B. Sawislowsky and his sister Amelia have written Goy. La Follette asking him that the state pay them an amount of money supposedly due from a war fund for orphans. The fund has almost been forgotten, and it took weeks of delving into musty docu- ments to disclose the facts in the case. The applicants live near Chi- cago. How they ever heard of the fund is a question. Mr. Sawislowsky claims that the state owes him $1,025 and his sister the sum of $1,850. MONOPOLY IN BILL POSTING. La Crosse Men Fight Proposal to In- crease License Fee. La Crosse, Wis., July 19.—An ordi- nance has been introduced in the La Crosse council by the Associated Bill- posters of the United States and Can- ada, providing high license fees and extraordinary bonds for licensed bill- posters. It is charged by independent concerns that the association is a trust and that efforts are being made to secure the passage of similar meas- ures in every city where the associa- tion has members for the purpose of monopolizing the business. A strong fight is being put up by local indepen- dent concerns. HURLED FROM FAST TRAIN. Brakeman Nearly Killed by Tramps Stealing a Ride. Duluth, July 19.—Fred Gormelly had an adventure which has laid him up ever since and caused a narrow es- cape from death. He is employed as a brakeman on the Northern Pacific. While at work on a freight he discov- ered near Deerwood some hoboes on board. Gormelly tried to put them off when they turned on him, and after beating him, threw him off the train while it was going at a high speed. The brakeman was severely injured, but may recover. QIL KING’S FATHER DEAD. Cousin of John D. Says Ida Tarbell Is Mistaken. Sioux City, lowa, July 19.—Richard Rockefeller, a cousin of John D. Rock- efeller, says he has reason to believe that William Rockefeller, father of the Standard Oil magnate, is dead and that Ida Tarbell is mistaken when she says he lives in Iowa. Richard Rocke- feller does not claim to have any first- hand information on the subject, but maintains it is wholly unreasonable to assume that his uncle is living in se- clusion in Iowa. He firmly believes he is dead. WILLIAMS GETS A STAY. St. Paul Murderer Will Get Hearing by Supreme Court. St. Paul, July 19. — William Will- iams, convicted on a charge of mur- dering John Keller and sentenced to be hanged Aug. 9, was granted a stay of execution by Chief Justice Start yesterday after he and Justices Brown and Lewis of the supreme court heard arguments for a stay of execution. The defense appeals for a new trial on the ground of alleged errors in the trial. The case will be heard at the October term of the supreme court. HONORS FOR M’CARDY. St. Paul Man Appointed Chief of Staff of G, A. R. Washington, July 19. — Capt. J. J. McCardy of St. Paul, auditor of the treasury for the postoffice department, was yesterday officially advfSed of his selection as chief of staff of the new commander-in-chief of the Grand Army, Gen. John B. King, who suc- ceeded te that office as a result of the vacancy created by the death of Gen. W. W. Blackmar. CHOKE SENTRY AND RUN AWAY, Soldiers Make Daring Attempt to Escape. St. Paul, July 19.—Privates Lewis M. Eder, Company F, Twenty-eighth infantry, and John A. McDonald of the artillery corps, prisoners at Fort Snelling, after choking their sentry, Ed Downing, Company D, Twenty- eighth infantry, into unconsciousness, made a daring attempt to escape at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Both men were captured by soldiers after. a few bours’ hunt. ft ~ATIOTEL FIRE EARLY MORNING FIRE CAUSES MOST TRAGIC EVENT IN HIS- TORY OF WABASHA. TRAMP IS HERO OF THE HOUR SAVES FOUR LIVES BY GOING TO RESCUE THROUGH FIRE AND SMOKE. LAMP EXPLOSION STARTS IT IGNITES GASOLINE AND SPREADS FIRE TO THE FLOORS ABOVE. Wabasha, Minn., July 19.—With the charred bones of six persons recov- ered from the ruins of the Hoffman house, a hotel situated at the St. Paul railroad ,station, and with a seventh victim at the point of death in the hospital, the village of Wabasha has written in its annals the most tragic and awful occurrence in its history. On this page of sorrow stands forth a dramatic incident in which a tramp, put off a train at a late hour Monday night, crawled up a_ stairway, amid suffocating smoke and flame, and preaking into four rooms, and rescued four personse that had been rendered unconscious by the smoke. The dead: Mrs. Fred T. Hoffman and infant son; James Hunt, bus driv- er; Gertrude Stamschoir, dining room girl; Rebecca Hammond, domestic; Robert Johnson, express messenger on the Faribault division of the St. Paul road. Engineer injured. Tramp Is Hero of Hour. The tramp who proved a hero gave his name as McDevitt. On hands and knees he crépt up the stairway of the hotel to the second floor, through smoke that threatened to suffocate him, and past tongues of flame that darted so close that they scorched his flesh. Making his way into a room, he crawled to the window, kicked out the panes with his foot, and as the smoke cleared away was able to dis- cern a body lying on the bed. He picked up the prostrate form, stag- gered with it to the window, and hoild- ing the body by the hands, suspended it until the crowd below was prepared to catch it. To three other rooms the rescuer made his way, repeating his method of life-saving, and then came forth from the burning building al- most at the point of collapsing. Lamp Explosion Starts Flames. The hotel and eating house was 2 three-story building. Shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday morning Fred T. Hoffman, the hotel proprietor, lay down in the little parlor off the. din- ing room on the first floor, leaving a lighted. lamp in the kitchen. The night man was in the lunch room at- tending to his duties there when the lamp exploded. The clerk did what he could to subdue the flames, and Hoffman, hearing the noise, came to the rescue. The fire spread to the gasoline tank on the kitchen range, and, scattered by the explosion that followed, began to shoot up the rear staitway. The hall and corridors were filled with smoke and gas that To Inhale Meant Death.. Nine guests were on the second floor and on the third floor were lo- cated the apartments of the family and employes. The only means of escape for those on the second floor was through the windows to the porch roof, where the persons who fied that way were assisted to the street. No assistance was received from the fire department until too late to be of any service, The depot hotel was about a mile away from the city and the fire cut off the telephone connec- tion before an alarm could ‘be sent in. Coak is probably fatally SEVEN BATHERS DIE. Unable to Swim, They Get Into Deep Water and Are Helpless, Plainfield, Wis., July 19—Fred and Arden Herrick, aged respectively 12 and 15 years, were drowned while bathing in Lake Huron, near this city. Ashland, Wis., July 19—Mrs. Rush and daughter of Kansas City and Ed- ward Ewing of Cable, Wis., were drowned in Namakagon lake while bathing. Cokato, Minn., July 19. — Reuben and Winfred Brown, aged 11 and 13 years, sons of Ben Brown, one of the oldest settlers here, were drowned in Collinwood Jake, near here, while in bathing. They could not swim. ANIWA NOT WIPED OUT. Severe Storm in Shawano County but No Great Damage. Milwaukee, Wis, July 19. — Dis- patches from a.number of towns in Shawano county report a severe wind and rain storm in that vicinity, but no extensive damage was wrought. While the wires to Aniwa are still down, a report has been received through train hands that there is no truth in the report of Aniwa being wiped out, 4} —j——_ com