Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 29, 1905, Page 2

ee By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Tf there are any other kinds of trow ole. floating around, Russia is likely co find them. This year it is the grape crop that is to be a failure. It is well to know the worst at once, i Gaynor and Greene probably take a cious satisfaction in spending all their stealings in Canada. A Denver man who smashed his automobile rather than run over a boy is in a class all by himself. An Englishman has succeeded in srowing jet black roses. But why have roses if they’re not red? The great American pie is now made by machinery, and the next step will be to have it eaten by machinery. It was just as hot last summer and will be again next summer. Don’t be- lieve the fellow who talks otherwise. It must be easy to invent war cries ‘n Russia; for instance, there’s the governor of Lodz: “Abolish Obolosh- eff!” Woman is a lucky creature. She is ver without one great comfort. No r what happens she can revel in Philadelphia is really waking up. people of that city have discov- ] that the grade crossing ought to be abolished. York World gravely asks: ty teachers best?” Homely will consider such a ques- ulous. ° oid tion r it is only a slight consolation to be assured that the man who invented the torpedo cane will get his just dues in the next world. The price of cotton went up a dol- minute in Wall street the other Some of the lambs must bave had nothing but wool. Harvard almost won in the great rowing race with Yale, but the almost counts for no more in this world’s af- fairs than the never-did. Mosquitees routed a gang of Italian at Corona, L. I. ‘Most of us, re forced to “strike” when the mosquito gets to work. labo: Tom Lawson probably was dealing in futures when he wickedly suggest- ed that a certain man had not yet se cured control of the sulphur combina- tion A large boulder, 12 feet high and 15 feet in diameter, is the monument over Joe Jefferson’s grave. It is sug: ive of the great actor’s love of ture. Pext the members of the University of nsylvania’s rowing crew have been marked deficient in their studies. The niversity of Pennsylvania must sadly lack local pride. One of the magazine poets has fur. nished a lay entitled, “I Would Not e Her Face Again.” Probably she 1 to find out why the cannon ker wouldn’t go off. Wizard Burbank may be able to pro duce a tomato that tastes like a fruit, but what the world more particularly desires just now is that he evolve @ cantaloupe that will taste like a can taloupe. “It is,’ says the Florence (Ga.) Times, “much more comfortable, both to yourself and the rest of the world, to be a pleasant ass than an unpleas: ant bear.” But why be either an ass or a bear? Down in New Hampshire recently a 1an swam a mile for the purpose of on time at his wedding. Even at that he probably had to wait for the bride to put the finishing touches on ber primping. The English language must be ap proaching bankruptcy when the news papers find it necessary to use the wo “mischievous” to describe the boy who puts a lighted cannon cracker in a comrade’s pocket. One of the wittiest of the epigrame of the commencement season wat that quoting men whose actions are much open to criticism as saying: “] like to do right. I do as I like. There fore, I always do right.” The sultan of Turkey has ordered a pack of British-bred man-tracking dogs to safeguard his person in his palace at Constantinople and to hunt Turkish criminals. This seems @& slander on Constantinople’s “finest.” ei ae teed Virginia courts still take the lead. Judge Harrison, of Winchester, has decided that rich wives who em- ploy their poverty stricken husbands on a farm must allow them enough to enable them to pay their bonest deb sa The daughter of a Pittsburg million aire has just been married to an Eng lishman whose title at present is merely that of captain. ’ But he 4s the son of a lord who in the natural course of events, and provide@ ™* is decent about it, will die thing was physician wh KILLS MANY TERRIBLE DISASTER OCCURS ON UNITED STATES GUNBOAT BENNINGTON. THIRTY-NINE BODIES FOUND A DOZEN MISSING AND THREE- SCORE INJURED, MANY OF WHOM WILL DIE. TRIM LITTLE CRAFT A WRECK BOILER BLOWS’ UP, TURNING WARSHIP INTO VERITABLE CHARNEL HOUSE, San Diego, Cal., July 23. — Broken ‘and blackened, with her flag flying at half-mast, her hold filled with fifteen feet of water, the United States ship Bennington lies beached on the shores of San Diego harbor. Thirty-nine of her crew lie dead at city morgues, the fate of a dozen more is as yet undeter- mined, and three-score are stretched upon beds of pain In various hospitals. This is the result of the explosion which wrecked the trim little naval craft and wrought such terrible havoc among her crew at 10:30 yesterday morning. The placid waters of San Diego bay have never before been the scene of such a disaster, and San Diego city has | never before been stirred by such scenes ,of DEATH AND SUFFERING as those witnessed last night. The face of every victim of the disaster is scarred and scalded, in many cases al- most beyond recognition. At Agnew hospital are many in- jured, suffering in almost every in- stance from scalded bodies. Several are expected to die inside of a few hours. On board the Bennington the un- harmed members of the crew are working under terrible difficulties to reach the boiler room and coal bunk- ers, where it is believed a dozen bodies are lying wedged in the wreck- age or submerged in the water which fills that part of the vessel. Was Ready to Sail. The Bennington at the time of the accident was lying in the stream just off the commercial wharf at the foot of H street. The warship had’ received orders from the navy department at Washington to sail yesterday morning for Port Harford, where she was to meet the monitor Wyoming and con- voy the vessel to the Mare Island navy yard. Steam was up and every- in readiness for sailing when suddenly and without any warn- ing whatever, the starboard forward boiler exploded with a deafening roar. The explosion was terrific. People standing on the shore saw a huge cloud of white steam above the Ben- nington. Columns of water were hurled a distance of nearly twice the height of the spars of the vessel.’ Terrible Disaster. It was immediately apparent that a terrible disaster had happened on the Bennington. The ferry boat Romona was coming across the bay at the time and hurried to the assistance of the stricken warship. The tug Santa Fe, which was tied up at the commercial wharf, the launch McKinley, the gov- ernment launch Derussey, and a large number of launches and water craft which were near the scene at the time also rushed to the assistance of the Bennington. By the time the Ramona had arrived, many of the sailors of the Bennington, who had jumped into the bay to Escape the Scalding Steam, had been rescued, and the removal of the wounded, which had already been commenced, was being conducted in perfect order. Crews of the Santa Fe, Derussey, McKinley and the other boats lent yeoman aid in picking up the wounded sailors and transferring them to the shore. At the time of the accident Commander Lucien Young and Surgeon F. E. Peck were on shore. The two officers, as soon as_ they learned of the disaster, hurried to the water front, where Commander Young immediately took charge. On Board the Bennington were presented terri- ble things. The force of the explosion had blown a great hole in the star- board side of the ship and the vessel was already Commencing to List. A section of the upper deck was car- ried away from stem to stern. Debris and wreckagé were distributed over the entire ship, the forward cabin and deck in the vicinity of the boiler re- sembled a charnel house. The news carried to the water front, and within. a comparatively short time nearly a dozen doctors were on the scene at- tending to the wounded. A dozen or fifteen persons were blown overboard by the force of the explosion. Capt. Wentworth said he saw human bodies hurled more than 150 feet upward. The air was black with smoke that Enveloped the Ship. When it cleared away only a few men could be seen on the ship while many were floundering in the water. A boat was lowered from the vessel's side and most of them were picked’ up. The force of the explosion was ter- rific beyond conception. Human bodies were hurled into the air to a height probably not less than 200 feet. “ Most of the men on board were as- sembled between decks above the boil- ers when the explosion occurred. Here is where the most frightful slaughter took place. No one living has been able to describe what happened there, but vivid witnesses exist in the blood- smeared walls. It is from between decks that most of the dead bodies have been taken. Awful Sight Meets Gaze. A most awful sight awaited those who hastened to the ill-fated ship. Everywhere was blood, and in all di- rections were bodies. The after cabin was smeared with blood and the walis, ceiling and floors spotted with red. In the depths below, from which heat and steam rolled in volumes too great to face, came the groans and wails of the dying and the shrieks of the wounded. The explosion is believed to have been in a boiler which for many months has been regarded as weak, al- though an inspection a month ago re- sulted in a favorable report. BENNINGTON’S DEAD AT REST- Simple Impressiveness Marks Burial of Victims of the Explosion. San Diego, Cal., July 25. — They buried the Bennington’s dead yester- day—forty-seven of them—in a com+ mon grave. On the crest of the prom- ontory of Lomax, high above the shim- mering water of San Diego bay on the one side, and within sound of the booming surf of the Pacific on the other, they were laid to rest in the peaceful little military burying ground. Without the crash of drum or the sound of brass, without pomp or parade, yet with simple impressive- ness, all honor was paid the nation’s dead. They have honored dead to keep them company, these brave boys of the Bennington. All about them lie those who Died in the Nation’s Service in more trying times. Gravestones yellow with age bear the names of men who died at Monterey, in the Mexican war, others who gave their lives in the conquest of California, and who followed Commodore Stock- ton at old San Pasqual. These are their neighbors in death. Army’and navy paid their last trib- utes, #0 more sincere than the simple grief of the representatives of peace, who made the long journey around or across the great, bay. From Fort Rosecrans came the 115th company, coast heavy artillery; from the city of San Diego, the naval reserves; from the univergal brotherhood’s home on Point Lomax, a company of khaki- clad representatives, and from the government ship Fortune, a dozen of ‘their sailors. But the most impressive body of men were the sixty yeomen from the battered Bennington. Beside these there were hundreds of civilians who, unthoughtful of the fatiguing journey from the city, brought their offerings of flowers To Lay Upon the Graves. San Diego was a city of mourning yesterday. Although the people of this little city have taken in the Ben- nington catastrophe an interest that was personal to all from the moment that it happened, they set apart the beautiful Sabbath day to pay the last and loving tribute to the dead. Thousands filed through the morgues yesterday morning with arms filled with flowers, dropping the blossoms here ‘and ther upon some unfortunate’s flag-draped coffin. Oth- er thousands gathered in the plaza from which the procession was to start. From noon the cortege tiled to the burying ground, and not until 6:30 o’clock was the last casket placed in the rock-ribbe@ trenches. The death trench in which the bodies were placed in two rows, feet to feet, is sixty feet long and fourteen feet wide. It was finished but a few minutes be- fore the arrival of the first load of bodies. Total Dead Sixty. A careful compilation of casualties was made by the associated Press as follows: Buried in military cemetery at Fort Rosecrans yesterday, 47; dead now in morgue, 11, awaiting shipment to rel- atives; dead in fire room of Benning- ton, still unrecovered, 2; total dead, 60. Injured at hospital, 49. Missing, 16. Grand total, 125. Of the injured at hospitals seven or eight are expected to die. ae ees ARREST BADGER CASHIER. Examiger Alleges Shortage of Gash in Gratiot Bank. : Darlington, Wis., July 25. — J. C. Johnson, cashier of the State Bank of Gratiot, has been placed under arrest on a charge of having embezzléd $900 of the funds ef the bank. The arrest was made on order of the bank exam- iner. Johnson is alleged to have in- vested the money in“ lands without making any entry in the books of the bank. He igs out on $2,000 bonds, VIOLATES GAME LAW IN OPEN. Terrific Slaughter of Deer Going on in Doug!as County. t Superior, Wis., July 25—The slough- ter of game in the woods of Douglas county at this time of the year is something terrific. Deer are killed without any respect of the law, and the killing is done almost in the open. There seems to be no way to stop the slaughter. It,goes on uninterrupted and the violations of the law are oc curring in ‘all the ways possible. | AP | SPOKESMAN OF PEACE ENVOY SAYS RUSSIA WILL HAVE TO DIG UP. IS CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS JAPS LOOK FOR SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF PEACE NE- GOTIATIONS. ae NICHOLAS WAS ASTONISHED MYSTERY OF MEETING OF CZAR AND KAISER IS NOT YET CLEARED uP. New York, July 26—That Japan will demand an indemnity of Russia in the negotiations for peace, and that the war will be declared at an end at the conclusion of negotiations at Portsmouth, N. H., next month, is the belief of Baron Komura, head of the Japanese peace delegation, who ar- rived here yesterday, as voiced by Aimar Sato, who is the official spokes- man for the baron on this mission. Mr. Sato, in an interview last night, said: “T am confident that peace will be successfully negotiated by the ap- pointed delegations. The Japanese will be guided by moderation and no excessive demands will be made, but the sentiment in Japan and Russia is for peace, and in the interests of hu- manity and propriety there must be peace. “The cost to Japan, however, has been very great. On both sides the loss has been 570,000 men, Russia los- ing 370,000 of these. The war is cost- ing Japan $1,000,000 a day, and there is a feeling that there ought to be an indemnity.” See Peace Move in Meeting. St. Petersburg, July 26.—Gossip and conjecture are busy with the reasons for and results of the meeting be- tween Emperor William and Emperor Nicholas off the Island of Bjoerkoe, but the-return of the Russian imperial party to Peterhoff has added nothing definite to the information regarding the subjects discussed or the con- clusions reached at the private inter- views between the two sovereigns. under the circumstances, no authori- tative statement can be made, and the only information vouchsafed is that the conversations were extremely cor- dial and friendly. The belief that the meeting will make for peace was reflected on the boerse yesterday, Imperial 4s rising a full point.to 851-2 in a firm market. The importance of the meeting is recognized in the press comments of all shades of opinion. Various con- jectures are advanced as to its real meaning, but they are all admittedly guesswork. The Czar Returns. The czar returned to the palace of Peterhoff yesterday from his inter- view with the kaiser at sea. Count Lamsdorff, the foreign minister, after- ward had his usual weekly audience. Nicholas Astonished, Paris, July 26.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Matin says it is semi-officially admitted that the czar was considerably astonished on re- ceiving a telegram from the kaiser in- viting the czar to meet him: The Echo de Paris, in an article on the cause and probable consequences of the meeting between the czar and the kaiser, says: Seeks to Annoy France. “William was thoroughly persuaded that the meeting would give him a great opportunity for causing annoy- ance to France. It must therefore be logically concluded that the feelings of William toward France still bear the impress of his notorious ill-will toward us.” The article concludes as follows: “We ought to be more watehful, for Germany pursues her anti-French pol- icy with remarkable tenacity, and it is always the Anglo-French understand- ing that is aimed at.” EXPLOSION KILLS THREE. Miners Are Blown to Pieces by Dyna- mite. Winnipeg, Man., July 26—A Banff, N. W. T., special says that while the miners were at work in the Bankhead mine yesterday afternoon, a fearful ex- plosion of dynamite occurred, which wrought awful havoc to the mine and resulted in the death of three men and the injury of many others. Of the three men killed there is hardly a piece of their bodies left by which they can be recognized, they having been literally blown to pieces. NORWEGIAN STEAMER LOST. Vessel Is Stranded and Crew of Twen- ty-Seven Is Taken Off. Eureka, Cal., July 26—The Norwe- gian steamer Tricolor is stranded near Cape Mendocino. A tug has just ar- rived here with the entire crew of twenty-seven persons. Capt. Wold states that he lost his reckoning and believed the ship safe up to.the time it struck the rocks. The steamer lies broadside on the beach among the rocks. The vessel is a total loss. Her Yalue is estimated at $200,000. ‘Science Pitted ‘Against Yellow Jack in FIGHT AGAINST FEVER. f the South. — New Orleans, July 26—TThere was No material change in the fever situa- tion yesterday. Two more deaths were reported. There is no absolute record of the number of cases under treatment at the present time, but it is believed to be about twenty. . Phy- sicians are reporting promptly all eases of fever and immediate steps are taken to prevent mosquito in- fection, so that the prospects of re- stricting the infection are considered bright. The emergency hospital on Dumaine street wag equipped yester- day and placed in charge of Dr. Hamil- ton P. Jones, who had charge of the isolation hospital in 1897. He has as his assistant Dr. L. J. Faget, a note® yellow fever authority. The,advisory board of the city board of health be- gan active work yesterday and it will have immediate charge of the work of ferriting out the new foci of infection and carrying out the sanitation and isolation, should any develop. MASTERS TWELVE LANGUAGES. Chicago Young Woman Establishes a Record and Gets Good Position. Chicago, July 26.—Though but twen- ty-three years old, Miss Lillian Gon- zales Robinson holds the degrees of A. B. and M. A., issued by the Chicago university, and has mastered twelve languages. She speaks _ fiuently French, Spanish, Italian, German, Sanskrit, Japanese and Chinese, and is versed in Latin, Greek, Gothic and high and low Dutch. As probably the youngest woman linguist in the United States, Miss Robinson has betn re cently appointed head of the romance languages department of the Universi- ty of Oklahoma, where she will be the only woman of the faculty. BOY" MEETS HEROIC DEATH. Rescues His Mother and Sister From Burning Tenement Building. New York, Fuly 26. — After-saving his mother and sister, who, with a score of others, were for a iime in great peril from fire, Nathan Newman, twen! years old, lost his life in a burning Brooklyn tenement house. Half a’ dozen families, all of them He- brews, living in the building, were asleep. When the fire started New- man got through in safety, but re- turned for his mother and sister. He assisted them to a safe place but was himself cut off by the flam AN the other occupants of the house escaped. The property loss was small. JAG COSTLY TO LIEUTENANT. Cravens’ Sentence Commuted to Re- duction in Rank. Washington, July 26. — First Lieu- tenant Lanier Cravens, artillery corps, who was tried by a court-mar- tial at Fort Washington, Md,, on a charge of drunkenness on duty, was found guilty and sentenced to dis- missal, but on the recommendation of the chief of staff, concurred in by the acting secretary of war, the president commuted the sentence to a reduction of thirty-two files in Jineal rank, THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, July 26. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, $1.07@1.07 1-2; No. 2 North- ern, $1.01 1-2@1.05; . 3, $1@1.03. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 541-2@55c. Oats —No. 3 white, 29@30c. i Minneapolis, July 26. — Wheat—No. 1 hard, $1.16 1-4; ‘o. 1 Northern, $1.141-4; No. 2 Northern, $1.11 1-4. Oats—No. 3 white, 30 7-8c. Duluth, July 26. —- Wheat — No. 1 Northern, $1.15; No. 2 Northern, $1.07; flax, $1.48; rye, 6lc. Chicago, July 26. — Wheat — No, 2 red, new, 92@931-2c; No. 2 new, 91@921-2c; No. 3 hard, new, @911-2c; No. 1 Northern, $1.12@1.1 No. 2 Northern, $1.03 @ 1.10. Corn— No. 2, 58 3-4@59ce. Oats—No. 2, 31c. Milwaukee, July 26. — Wheat— 1 Nortliern, $1.12 1-2; No. 2 North $1.08@1.11. Rye—No. 1, 76 @ Barley—No. 3c. 341-2c. Corn—No. 3, 571 Sioux City, lowa, July 26—Cattle— Beeves, $3.75 @.5; cows, bulls and mixed, $2.50@4; stockers and feeders, $3@4; calves and yearlings, 3.90. Hogs—Bulk, $5.35@5.40. Chicago, July 26. — Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.35 @ 6.65: stockers and feeders, $2.75@4.85; cows, $2.5 4.60; heifers, $2.50@5; caives, $3@6. Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $5.50 @ 5.95; bulk, $5.65@5.85. Sheep—Good to choice wethers, $4.90@5.15; native jambs, $5@7.50; Western lambs, $5@ 7.15 South St. Paul, July 26. — Cattle — Good to choice steers, $4.50@5; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.50 @ 4; butcher bulls, $2-75@3.50; veals, $2@ 4.50; good to choice siock steers, $2.50 @3.50; good to choice milch cows, $20 @35. Hogs—Range price, $5.40@5.75; bulk, $5.50@5.60. Sheep — Good te choice lambs, $5@5.85; fair to good, $4@5; good to choice yearling weth- ers, $4.50@5.50; good to choice ewes, $3.75@4.40. Three Burned to Death. Denver, Colo., July 26. —- While S. Batini Domicei and his wife were working in their market garden their three youngest children were burned to death and the oldest, aged eight, was terribly injured in a fire which de stroyed their summer kitchen. Paris Too Hot for the Shah. Paris, July 26.—The shah of Persia, while shopping here yesterday, suf OF DISASTER NONE WILL BE WHITEWASHED, AND NONE WILL BE MADE SCAPEGOAT. MANY INJURED NEAR DEATH HALF A DOZEN SAILORS LINGER BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, DIVERS AT WORK ON GUNBOAT REPAIRS WILL BE MADE TO AL- LOW VESSEL TO BE TOWED TO MARE ISLAND. Washington, July 26 partment yesterday received the fol- lowing dispatch from Capt Drake at San Diego, Cal.: “Iris arrived. No more Wounded improving. Several cases. Strange (Peter), ordin sea man, turned up this Was counted as unidentified i Complete list survivors forwarded by mail last night.” Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, when asked f statement on the disaster to the Bennington, promised the public that ther would be n whitewash, and so far as the sery Was concerned, he would not make scapegoat of anybody. He said government is not prepared yet to make a statement as to the r responsibility for the disast When the facts are known, the department will hold back no information in possession to which any fair-minded man could think the public entitled. Many Are Near Death. San Diego, Cal., July 26.—There is litle hope that the burial chapter of the Bennington incident is finally closed, for half a dozen badly injured sailors are lingering between life a death, and for some of them there little chance for recovery. The . men who are ttling bravely for life are-receiving ¢ y comfort that sy pathy and skill can give. A tempore hospital | h been arranged at i army barracks, and to this all the jured who could safely be moved were taken from the hospitals Monday night. Flowers, fruits and delicacies, with cigars for those who are per- mitted to smoke, are offered in abund- ance to cheer them. Divers Begin Work. The removal of the Bennington to a position alongside a pier will facili- tate the examination of her interior. The supply ship Iris from San Fran- cisco arrived y rday morning. » She has on board divers and diving outfi and the work along the bottom of gunboat began yesterday. The con- demning board began on the stores taken out of the flooded aft store room, the useful stuff being put on the supply ship. All the equipment, cluding the ammunition and batte with the exception of the main and mounts, will be trai 3 mornin. ciently to permit the making of pairs that will allow the vessel to be towed to Mare Island. AMERICAN'S SHEEP SEIZED. Canadians Demand Double Duty of $3,100. Helena, Mont., July 26—John Me- Laren, a Chautau county sheepman, has had 2,500 sheep seized by Cana- dian authorities for double duty, and he will resist payment. He was graz- ing along the line and they drifted across to water. Mounted police seized them and refused to allow them to re- turn unless duty of $3,100 was paid. TO NUMBER FARM HOUSES. Rural Mail Service Likely to Be Im- proved. Winona, Minn., July 26.—Word has been received here to the effect that it is likely boxes of rural mail deliv- ery patrons will be numbered, and that letters addressed to them by number the same as to house numbers in the city. There is reason to believe that an order to this effect soon will be forthcoming. JUSTICE IS A HUSTLER. Burglar Arrested, Tried and Sen- tenced inside of Twelve Hours, Superior, Wis., July 26—John Borte, twenty-three years old, was caught at 3 o’clock yesterday morning coming out of a Tower avenue saloon which he had robbed. By 2 o'clock in the afternoon he had been sentenced to a year at the state reformatory at Green Bay. An Insane Tramp. St. Peter, Minn., July 26—Evidently insane and boasting of his crime, George MeMurry, a tramp forty years of age, is lodged in a cell in jail, after having barely escaped lynching at the hands of angry citizens whe pursued and caught him, following his attempt to assault a twelve-year-old girl. Aged Hotel Man Dies. _ Kasson, Minn., July 26.— Leonard fered a brief fainting spell from -the | Hazeldon, the proprietor of the Amgri- effect of. the heat. The attack passed | off without serious inconvenience. _| can house, died here last night. He was seventy-two years old.