Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 5, 1905, Page 4

— a ee EE ferald- By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, The Prince of Wales bas another son; but he didn’t really need him. Secretary Root sticks fondly to the sind of haircut that mother used to nake. If honesty is “old-fashioned,” why hat ancient tale of Diogenes and his antern? The best way to show,a respect for ruth is to be kindly aisposed to him who is in error. A Worcester bachelor of 74 is to wed; there are only a few of them left and they are never safe. No news is good news for King Pet- 2r of Servia, whose name _ hasn’t shown up in the papers lately. “Everybody. should learn to swim,” says the New York Mail. You never can tell when you will get a tide on. History has destroyed another inter- esting story. A snake didn’t bite Cleopatra to death—she blew out the zas. The Shah of Persia spent $1,000,000 uring a week’s vacation. He must ave been staying at one of those New York hotels. Having played its small thinking t in the great international drama mania may. retire behind the again. Castro has been. re-elected Presi- ent of Venezuela for six years. It is trongly suspected that his running ate is on the shelf. A New York philosopher says “it is sible for a man to love two women t the same time.” Perhaps, but very few of us can afford it. A church which has been under con- struction for 1,600 years has just been ompleted at Paris. It must have been put up under a government con- ract. That Berlin scientist who has dis- covered a cure for red noses is the kind of a fellow that makes two blades of rye grow where one grew before. Mrs. Jimmie Brown Potter is a bankrupt in England. Her theatrical rocket went a good way up and was a long time in the air, but it had to come down. A Toledo man has succeeded in sail- in an air ship to the top of a ten- tory building. The dispatches fail to explain why they wouldn’t let him go up on the elevator. Prof. Wilder of Cornell denies that he has ever said the time was coming when man would be all brain. This will restore confidence among the get- rich-quick operators. A Pittsburg school teacher has asked Andrew Carnegie for $10,000,000. When last heard from Andrew was still thinking about ft. There are so many school teachers. When the crew of his yacht mu- tinied Howard Gould retired to his cabin and barred the door, thereby lining up with ‘Achilles and the other illustrious heroes of history. A celebrated philologist says our tongue is richer in words setting forth sins, than in words. setting forth graces. It is probable that politics is mainly accountable for this fact. “America is richer every working day by at least $4,000,000,” according to Parson Jenks. As there are 80,- 009,000 people in America, your share is one-half of one cent. Are you get: ting It? The published table showing that John L. Sullivan “earned” $897,000 during his ring career is interesting and instructive but not nearly so much so as the fact that John hasn’t any of it now. ‘ Nicholas may be a cruel autocrat; but when a man is just going to move into a new house and the cook finds the coal bin full of dynamite, there is something to be said for him if he loses his temper. It is commonly believed that women have stronger attachments than men, but this is an error. A man is often strongly attached to an old hat, but who-ever heard of a woman being strongly attached to one? © New York wireless telegraph op erators have found out ‘that the God- dess of Liberty has been intercepting their dispatches. The senders of pri- vate messages fear that, womanlike, the goddess can "t keep a secret. A radium . clock constructed to run 2,000 years would be unsatisfactory, The man who had to wind it up twen- ty centuries hence would complain as loudly about it as you do about hay- ing to wind up your house Slo once a week. Mr. Kipling’s belief that the auto? mobile has benefited mankind physi- cally, mentally and spiritually; has a partial support from facts. The auto has benefited a good many persons spiritually if they were lians when run down. poor Chris: |. Washington. Reports from the immigration sta- tions for the month of June show that. during the mcnth 311 Chinese applied for admission and that 300 were ad- mitted, Invitations havé been sent to ail the governors of the states to appoint ter delegates each to attend a national congress on immigration Dec. 6 and 7, under the auspices of the national civic federation. First Lieut. Lanier Cravens, artil- lery corps, who was tried by a court- martial at Fort Washington, Md., on a charge of drunkenness on duty, was found guilty and sentenced to dismis- sal, but on the recommendation of the chief of staff, concurred in by the act- ing secretary of war, the president commuted the sentence to a reduction of thirty-two files in lineal rank. Casualty. Fire at Waverly, Mo., destroyed the Missouri Grain company’s elevator, containing a large amount of grain. Loss, $200,000, Daniel Long was burned to death at MeMillan, Mich., his wife dangerously injured by jumping from a_ second- story window and a four-year-old child burned to death. Gasoline was the cause. Fire at Woolstock, lowa, wiped out three large buildings, entailing a loss of $25,000, with insurance amounting to about $12,000. The blaze started in a general store. The steamer George Presley, owned by the United States Transportation company of Cleveland, burned to the water’s edge off Washington island. The crew escaped. Mattie and Grace Wignei, sisters, aged' fourteen and sixieen, were drown- ed while attempting to ford a creek west of Lacygge, Kan. The stream had been swollen by a heavy rain. Gertrude Stockley, aged ten years, was burned to death in a box of lime at the home of her uncle at Lone Tree, Iowa. She was watching the workmen when she fell into the box. Although conscious when taken out, she lived but a few minutes. Miss Neva Manning, aged sixteen, lies in a critical condition as the result of an accident at the: “Devil’s Back- bone,” a pleasure resort twenty-five miles northeast of Independence, Iowa. While driving along the top of a ciiff her horse plunged over a_ precipice 160 feet high. The horse was crushed into a shapeless mass. Miss Manning received serious injuries, but is still alive.’ Criminal. Five prisoners escaped jail at Cosh- octon, Ohio. A posse was immediately formed and started in pursuit. Charles Fundy, charged with horse thefts in Peru, Ind., and in other towns | in Indiana, Iinois, Ohio and Michigan, has been arrested at Milwaukee. A daring burglary was brought to light when circulars describing $15,000 worth of stolen jewelry was sent out to all the pawnbrokers in New York city. A wealthy man is the victim. The coroner exonereted Carrie Dooley, fourteen years old, stepdaugh- ter of B. D. Gibson of Hinton, W. Va., whom she killed after he had locked her in a room and threatened assault. At Union Hall, Franklin county, Vir- ginia, United States Deputy Marshal Z. T. Wade was shot and killed by @ negro named Zephas Poindexter, an alleged whisky distiller. Wade went to arrest Poindexter and the negro fired on him with a shotgun. The ne- gro then made his escape. John Mueller, of Chicago; charged with killing his wife and child, makes the novel plea of epileptic somnnam- bulism. Mueller declares there was no motive; that he slew his wife in his sleep, and that his actions were due to a blow on the head received during a labor riot two years ago. He is conducting his own defense. Muel- ler killed his wife and child by shoot- ing them and then hacking them with an ax. Police officers of Erie, Pa., rescued John Puskus from a mob that had al- ready placed a rope around his neck and appeared ready to lynch him. The crowd was led by John Semple, father of a nine-year-old girl whom Puskus is said to have attempted to assault, but was driven away by the ‘girl's mother and elder sister. The mob re- fused to give him up until convinced that he would be severeiy punished by due process of law. Ernest Starr, nephew of Congress- man Williamson and an important gov- ernment witness in the Willianison- Gessner-Biggs trial at Portland, Ore., is missing. It is stated that when Starr found the Williamson jury was likely to disagree he left Portland, going to Eugene, Ore., where he struck out into the mountains. The secret service agent, assisted by local officers, are in pursuit. A young girl, about twenty-two, who were diamonds and was well dressed, was found in the river at Muscatine, Iowa, with her throat cut. The coro- ner’s jury brought in a verdict of mur- der. Judge Henry C. Fox ‘of the Wayne county, Ind., eireuit court has instruct- ed the grand jury to make a complete investigation of the wrecking of the Commercial bank at Hagerstown, whose cashier, John Bowman, recently killed himself. The court stated that if Bowman had aiders Reo abettors ‘ors, were accepted. Paul Morton was The sultan of Morocca has sened a contract for the construction by a Ger-|~ man firm of a stone pier at Tangier. A band of mountaineers, disguised as militia, attacked Kizeliar, North Caucasia, and murdered “wpenestiase sons. ‘ A formal intimation was received by the Danish court of Emperor William’s intention to visit King Christian at an early date. ( » The steamer Mexico with president R. Shonts of the Panama canal com- mission and Chief Engineer Stevens arrived. at Colon from New York. Anoeher bloody encounter between bands of Bulgarians and Servians oc- curred near Prisat, Macedonia. Sey- enteen Bulgarians, including Donche, the leader, and seven Servians were killed. It is rumored that the naval court of Chile has resolved to recommend to congress the reconstruction of the navy, to begin with the building in Great Britain of four ironclads of 12, 000 tons each. George Meredith, Sir George New- ness, Sir Gilbert Parker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other well known persons in the literary world have formed a committeé to raise a fund in behalf of the late Bret Harte’s daugh ter Ethel, whose health has become seriously undermined. The steamer Roosevelt, with Com- mander R. E. Peary on board, starteé from North Sydney, C. B., on the voy- age toward the North Pole. The nec. essary repairs to the pumps of the ves- sel were completed during the night and in the forenoon the last supplies were taken on board. Mrs. Peary and her daughter have left for New York. The hearing of the divorce suit of Maud Gonne, known as the Jrish Joan d’Are, against Maj. McBride, formerly of the Boer artillery, was opened be. fore the civil tribunal of the Seine at Paris. Maitre Cruppe_ severely de nounced Maj. McBride’s unfaithfulness and denied that the husband’s chargé that his wife was not of genuine Irish birth. A mutiny took place among the po- lice force of Panama but it is was quel. almost at the beginning by Santiago de la Guardia, secretary of war, whe faced the mutineers with a drawn re volver. * The principal leaders were se verely chastised by the seertary, and th other mutineers were placed in irons. Politics had nothing to do witb the mutiny. General. Jerry Simpson, former congressman and nationally familiar as ‘‘Sockless Jerry” of Kansas, is seriously ill at his home at Roswell, N. Mex., having ruptured one of the bloodvessels of his heart. The appraisal of the estate of Frank Croker, who was killed in an automo- bile accident, was filed in the office of the surrogate in New York. He died intestate, his father thereby getting the whole estate, valued at $635,178. Several independent foundrymen have signed the wage contract pre- sented by the Ironmolders’ union of Pittsburg. It is probable that strikes will be called in all the manufactur. ers’ association plants on Friday morn- ing. Through the recent death of Mrs. Jane Martin of Nevada, Ia., Miss Pearl Martin, an adopted daughter, has fall- en heir to a fortune of $165,000. Miss Martin is sixteen years of age. She owas adopted early'in life, her parents being pdor. Acting on a suggestion recently made several citizens of Philadelphia have started a “one dollar” fund to help Mayor Weaver defray the heavy expense he is under in fighting for the city’s right$ against the contract combination and the gang. After a year’s illness, William An- derson, a veteran newspaper man of Pittsburg and until his retirement three years ago, for sixty years a mem- ber of the editorial force of the Pitts- burg Gazette, died at his home in Wil- kinsburg, seyenty-eight years old. In the presence of his family and many men high in public and private life, including former President Grov- er Cleveland, simple funeral services were conducted over the body of for- mer Secretary of War Daniel S La- mont at Milbrook, N. Y. Immediately after the ceremonies the body was transferred to a special funeral train to New York. Interment was made in Woodlawn cemetety. William W. Cotton, with a commis. sion already in his pocket, has con- cluded to decline the appointment as United States judge for the district of Oregon, to succeed the late Judge Bellinger. It is believed inducements have been offered him by the Harri- man system that make {ft worth while for him to decline the bench and re min where he is as general counsel] of the Harriman North-Western lines. The cruiser Chicago, the flagship of the Pacific squadron, with Admiral Goodrich and staff aboard, arrived at San Diego, Cal. The admiral immedi- ately appointed a board to investigate the Bennington explosion. s At a two-hours’ session of the di- rectors of the Equitable Life. As- surance society the resignations of former President James W. Alexander and Nevada N. Stranahan, as direct: elected president of the society, taining, it is understood, - a ec emiaie cay f ; GERMAN. EMPEROR PROPCSES THAT BALTIC SEA BE NEUTRALIZED, SEVERE BLOW TO JAPANESE IT WOULD PREVENT THEIR SiEND- ING A SQUADRON TO RUS- SIAN PORTS. MANCHURIA IS CHINA’S OWN JAP REPRESENTATIVE MAKES SIGNIFICANT UTTERANCE ON SUBJECT. Washington, Aug. 2. — Kaiser Wil- helm’s active diplomacy at this mo- ment has created a new international situation which affects the pending peace negotiations. At the conferences he has had with the king of Sweden, the czar of Rus- sia and the king of Denmark they have discussed, among other subjects, the neutralization of the Baltic sea. It has not taken the diplomats in Washington long to discover that Japan would suffer seriously by such an action. Should the peace negotia- tions fail it is considered likely that the plans of the Japanese admiralty to send a fleet to European Russia would be carried out. The prospect of the ‘appearance of a Japanese naval force in the Baltic sea has had the same ef- ‘fect upon Europe as had the decision of the United States in 1898 to dis- patch a squadron to the shores of Spain. The result of the American announcement was the application of the international pressure which caused Spain to make veace. Significant Utterance. New York, Aug. 2—Baron Komura, the Japanese peace envoy, was not to be seen yesterday, but Secretary Sato, who reveives all callers, had another session with guests. Mr. Sato is care- ful to explain that such opinions as he may express are personal to himself, put as he is the mouthpiece of the bar- on weight is added to whatever he says. An expression he uttered in re- gard to China's title to Manchuria was, therefore, regarded as of considerable significance. It may possibly shed an interesting side light on what the Jap- anese attitude will be when negotia- tions for peace are begun. “China still claims Manchuria, does she not?” was the question asked of Mr. Sato. “Oh, yes; it is China’s own posses- sion, and when Russia evacuates Man- churia it will go back to China.” Merely a Visit of Courtesy. Copenhagen, Aug. 2.—It is officially announced that Emperor William’s visit is devoid of political significance, that it is solely one of courtesy to King Christian, and that no confer- ences of a political nature will be held during his majesty’s stay in Copen- hagen. Emperor William will bid farewell to King Christian this afternoon after Junch on the Hohenzollern. He ex- pects to sail for Schwinmunde this evening. Czar Still for War. London, Aug. 2—A dispatch to the Times from St. Petersburg says that another imperial telegram, even more warlike than the emperor's reply to the Orenburg clergy, appears in to- day's Officiai Messenger. The emper- or, replying to an address from Kha- barovsk, heartily approves the recom- mendation to continue the war uniil the enemy is crushed, and above all not to think of cession of territory or the payment of an indemnity. MRS. LONGSTREET HURT. Widow of Confederate General Thrown From Horse and Seriously Injured. Gainesville, Ga., Aug. 2—Mrs. Ida Longstreet, widow of the Confederate general, was thrown from her horse while out riding. Her foot hung in the stirrup and she was dragged some dis- tance. Mrs, Longstreet’s right arm was broken and her body badly bruised. She was mounted on a very spirited horse and lost her seat when the animal shied at ja passing auto. AMANA SOCIETY UPHELD. Court Dismisses Action to Dissolve Communistic Corporation. Iowa City, Iowa, Aug. 2.—Judge By- ington, in the district court. yesterday dismissed an action to dissolve the corporate existence of the Amana s0- ciety, said to be the largest communis- tie organization in existence. The so- ciety owns immense interests, chiefly farm lands and factories. It was al- jeged that the society was exceeding its rights as a ‘benevolent, institution. MUST PASS EXAMINATION. Pope’s Latest Order. Causes a Sensa- tion. Rome, Aug. 2—A sensation has been caused by an order just issued by the pope that bishops all over the world shall in future compel all candidates for -holy orders to pass an examina-| tion. From time immemorial members of religious orders have been exempt from this prc-vision of the council of ‘Trent, and the papal order is consid- the first blow to the many “regia claimed by ea, ‘Trout Creek, ran away from home and Gyatee Bay, N. Y., Aug. 2. — Presi- dent Roosevelt and "attorney General Moody were in conference at Saga- more Hill throughout the day. After the disposal of the president’s execu- tive business they had an opportunity to ‘consider uninterruptedly the ques- tions which brought the attorney gen- eral to Oyster Bay. No statement about the results of their conference was made. The attorney general ex- pects to leave to-day for New York, whence hie will go directly to Washing- ton. His mission here at this time is to consider with the president the eases which have been turned over to the department of justice from the agricultural department. Inquiries are now being made by the attorney general into the scandal developed by the leak in the crop report and the ease of Dr. George L. Moore, who re- signed because of his connection with a nitro-culture company. FALLS 175 FEET; WILL LIVE. Soft Sand Saves Life of Man Who Plunges From Wireless Mast. Springfield, Mass., Aug. 2—John W. Johnson fell 175 feet from a mast of a wireless telegraph plant yesterday and is expected to live. He was fore- man of the gang which has been erect- ing the plant, and went up the mast to make repairs, refusing to allow any of his men to take the risk. A break in the rigging caused the fall, Johnson landing on his hands and knees in the soft sand. His right leg is broken in three places and there are injuries about the back. JOY FOR A SON. After Twenty Years Kidnapped Boy Finds His Father Still Lives. Pittsburg, Aug. 2. — After having been separated frony his parents for over twenty years, having been kid- napped from them when he was a few months old, Jacob Marts of ‘Turtle Creek, Pa., learned to-day that his father, for whom he has been hunting all his life, has been living at Lovi, Beaver county, although his mother died many years ago after having méurned her son as dead and died her- self of a broken heart. BIG RANCH BOUGHT. Co-Operative Christian Association Buys 164,000 Acres of Oregon Land. Portland, Or., Aug. 2. — Contracts have been signed in this city for the sale of the French-Glenn ranch in Harney county, Or., comprising 164,000 acres, to the Co-Operative Christian Federation. The consideration is $1, 800,000, the first installment to be paid within thirty days. The ranch is sixty miles long and twenty-five miles wide. GIRL DROWNS; MAN ARRESTED. Is Accused of Abandoning Bather in Deep Water. Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 2. — Joseph Barrett, a young man, was held for the superior court yesterday in bonds of $500 charged with manslaughter in causing the death of Lillian Brabner, a fourteen-year-old gir], by drowning on July 9. Barrett is accused of hav. ing abandoned the girl in deep water while bathing at Seaside Park. NO “SPOONING” ALLOWED, Loving Couples Must Avoid Clevelanc Electric Cars Hereafter. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 2. — General Manager Stanley, of the Cleveland Electric railway, has announced that “spooning” will not be permitted on the cars of his company hereafter. Travelers in the rear seats have been shocked by seeing girls sitting on men’s laps and the other manifesta tions of youthful affections. CARNAHAN IS DYING. Head of Uniform Rank, K. of P., Is Near Death. Indianapolis, Aug. 2.—Maj. Gen. J. S. Carnahan, commander-in-chief ot the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, is dying at his home in this city. Tho family is being called to his bedside. Mrs. Michael Steele Bright, a daugh- ter, of Superior, Wis., is expected herc to-day. SAILORS ARE BLOWN UP. Seven Men in Swedish Navy Hurled to Death by- Explosion of a Mine, Stockholm, Aug. 2. — Seven sailors were killed and eight severely injured by the explosion of a submarine mine during mining ptactice in the Sand- hamn roads, near Stockholm. A boat containing the victims struck the mine and was blown into the air. Torrid Wave in Texas. Austin, Tex., Aug. 2—Monday night and yesterday witnessed one of the most intense heat waves that has passed over Texas, Mo..day night the pumidity was so great that people were forced to leave their sleeping rooms and take to the streets for air. Canine Criminal Chasers, Chicago, Aug. 2.—The city council of Evanston, the fashionable residence suburb of Chicago, last night made an appropriation for the purchase of a pack of bloodhounds with which to track thieves and hold-up men. Boy Falls Under Train. Helena, Mont., Aug. 2. — Charles Messer, a 14-year-old boy living at was run over and killed by a Burling- ton treikht on. which, be, was trying.t0 beat his way oat of Billines ge ~ OVER PLAGUE MISSISSIPPI SOLDIERS, ACTING AS GUARDS, INVADE LOUIS- IANA. GOV. BLANCHARD OBJECTS WILL TAKE PROMPT STEPS TO PROTECT LOUISIANA’S RIGHTS. YELLOW FEVER IS SPREADING NEW ORLEANS HAS 42 NEW CASES AND SIX DEATHS—PLAGUE AT MONTGOMERY. sane : vat Oem oe eo Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 2.—A clash between the Mississippi and Louis- jana authorities over quarantine reg- ulations is imminent. A private dis- patch was received in the city yester- day stating that Mississippi soldiers, employed as quarantine guards, had invaded Louisiana with arms, and that boats were patrolling the mouth of Rigolets lake and Pear! river, off the Louisiana coast, to prevent Louisiana boats from leaving. Goy. Blanchard dirested Birg. Gen. Perraliat, of his staf, and Capt. J. W. Bostwick, commanding the state's na- val militia, to investigate and report. Gov. Blanchard Protests, Gov. Blanchard als telegraphed Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi: “Have reliable information that Mis- sissippi quarantine glards, armed, crossed over to the Louisiana side ot Pearl river. I do not believe this was on orders, but was the thoughtless conduct merely of a few. To obviate unfavorable comments and _ friction please. give orders that your guards remain on their own side of the line.” Late yesterday afternoon Gov. Blanchard received the following tele- gram from President Souchon, of the state board of health: “A patrol boat of the State of Mis- sissippi patrolled Lake Borgne, and af- ter prohibiting fichermen from fishing in the lake, is now guarding the exit of Lake Borgne canal, preventing any boat from coming out. This is an un- warranted usurpation and Invasion of Louisiana waters, and our attorney advises me to ask you to wire proper authorities in Washington at once to intervene or take matters in hand yourself.” Gov. Blanchard then telegraphed Goy. Vardaman of Missis: “Have information M ssippi pa- trois have forbidden fishermen from fishing in Lake Borgne and is now guarding exit of Lake Borgne canak preventing boats from coming out. Is this by your orders or those of health authorities of your state? No such state of affairs can be tolerated. Yeu have a right to prohibit boats landing on Mississippi shores, but not from navigating lake, sound and gulf chan- nels, which are navigable waters of the United States.” Goy. Blanchard also telegraphed President Souchon he would take prompt steps to protect Louisiana’s rights. DYNAMITE FISHING FATAL. Against Stick Falls Rowboat and Blows Man to Pieces. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 2. — Richard Johnson, sixty-two years old, was blown to pieces by dynamite while rowing across Niagara river at Tona- wanda yesterday. Charles Duffy and Charles Sturgis were with Johnson in the boat. Duffy's legs were torn by ihe explosion, but Sturgis escaped un- injured. One side of the boat was shatiered, but Sturgis managed to keep it afloat until the party was res- cued. explode a stick of dynamite to kill fish. The dynamite fell out of his hands and, striking the side of the boat, it exploded. Johnson’s head and arms were blown off. Duffy will re- cover. HOCH IS ANNOYED By Offer of Money and the Fact That. His Last Wife Ils a Museum Exhibit. Chicago, Aug. 2.—Johann Hoch, the reprieved “Bluebeard,” has received a letter from the editor of a St. Louis newspaper who had promised to raise $400 to assist in the appeal o? bis case. It contained a check for $100 and ex- plained that after the governor de- clined to aid the bigamist last Thurs- day, the writer returned all except $100 to the subscribers. He will make another effort to raise the other $300. Hoch is annoyed by this, and also on Jearning that his last wife, Emily Fischer-Hoch, is in New York exhib- iting herself in a dime museum. Farris Boodle Trial Begun. Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 2. — The- trial of State Senator Frank L. Farris on the charge of having accepted a bribe to influence his vote in the legis- lature on the “alum bill,” was begun yesterday in the circuit: court before Judge Samuel Davis. Dead at 115 Years of Age. Glidden, Wis., Aug. 2.—A. M. Katson of this city died yesterday at the age of 115 years. He was born in Ireland and was one of the aise men in the Sppntry. Johnson, it is said, was about to , ae oe