Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 12, 1905, Page 3

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Mr. Paine who, with the mercury at 80, invented a new brandy cucktail, is well named. Of all hypocrites the cantaloupe is the most consistent. It.always looks better than it is. To weaken an enemy’s navy a good plan would be to make it a present of a few submarine boats. Of course Marshall Wilder’s new baby isn’t old enough yet to appreciate fully how funny papais. , Right away after Dr. Osler an- nounced that freckled girls made the best wives the sun got busy. James M. Beck says many Ameri- cans suffer from moneyphobia. Can furnish him with one immune. A Chicago doctor says that two va- cations a year are needed to keep one in good health. Show this to the boss. Dr. Adler says he has discovered perpetual motion. Perhaps he has been down cellar observing the gas meter. It is well to have a gray cat for the mascot of the Peary expedition, be- cause the cat has such a trick of com- ing back. Inspired, doubtless, by the example of the maple scale and the seventeen- locust, the army worm has mo- ed again. J. Pierpont Morgan has fallen from is high estate. He now talks for bours with such unimportant people as King Leopold. A New York doctor claims to have selved the problem of perpetual mo- ut Edison is still working on his must-go battery. Now that it has had its picture taken again the sun spot may retire and quit trying to attract attention by making trouble on earth. Field Marshal Lord Roberts is of opinion that harping on Waterloo and Trafalgar is a poor substitute for con- sidering the existing situation. Prof. H. W. Wiley, the government expert, has gone abroad to study Irish and Scotch whiskies. It’s a great priv- ilege to be a government expert. “Girls with plump arms appear par- ticularly attractive with short sleeves,” says a fashion note. The same sort of girls don’t look bad with short skirts. Edward Everett Hale says every- cody should sleep ten hours out of each twenty-four. Mr. Hale is an old man now and has no baby in the bouse, A Wisconsin boy saved four heir- from death by drowning the esses other day. The laws of Wisconsin make it impossible for him to marry them all. “Seems like the boll weevil wasn’t ng Cotton’s worst enemy, after all,” ys the Boston Traveler. At last our ountry is united. Boston uses At- lanta English. New York’s smart set is not as smart as one might guess from read- the small bills, judging from the way it allowed a common blackmailer to play horse with it. It is proposed to christen the battle ship Vermont with maple sirup. Ver- mont maple sirup is a sweet and sticky compound made of glucose and molasses in Chicago. The New York incendiary who dived x stories to save himself from cap- ture did the best job of his life. He won't dive again, and incidentally he won't set any more fires, Giovani Morosini, the New York banker, has during the hot spell slept on a bed over which six electric fans were kept going constantly. It some. times pays to have money. Denver will have the largest Ameri- can flag ever made at the coming G. A. R. encampment. It will be 115 feet long dnd 55 feet wide. There cannot be too much of “Old Glory” around. If it is really possible to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific in two days and a half by train—although nobody has ever done it yet—what’s the use of trying to perfect the flying ma- chine? The British Gen. Moody says the nickname “Tommy” applied to Brit- sh soldiers prevents self-respecting men from enlisting. The nickname “Jackie” applied to our sailors does not work that way. Chiha rises to remark that she. will not recognize any disposition of Man- churia upon which she has not been consulted. But her nate is so worded as not to call for a reply, so she will not be told to “go ’way back and sit djown.” “If the sweet girl is thrifty,” says a, ntemporary, “she shculd be able to e the graduating gown for the wed- ng dress.” There are people, it ems, who are mean enough to de- prive some of the girls of one of the cbief incentives for having a wedding. Herald-Review. | Crimes. An attempt was made to dynamite the Indian Ford dam, which furnishes power for Janesville and Edgerton, Wis. The charge failed to explode. William Demow and his sweetheart, Amelia Waller, quarreled on their way home from the theater in Chicago. Demow became furious at the remarks of the young lady and fatally shot her and then blew his own brains out. Through a return filed by an under- taker at the office of the town clerk at Middleton, Conn., the fact became pub- lic that on July 14 George W. Tweed, a son of the late William M. Tweed of New York, known as “Boss” Tweed, committed suicide by jumping from an upper veranda of the Connecticut hos- pital for the insane. A riot in which several hundred people took part occurred in South Chicago, where three detectives em- ployed by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway attempted to arrest Charles B. Frane for riding on a sand train. The detectives in trying to make the arrests were compelled to use their revolvers and the crowd re- taliated with bricks and stones. A number of people were injured in the fight. While engaged in a political contro- versy in a Spring Bay, IIl., saloon, Alfred Hosher, township supervisor, hit Henry Ahrens, alderman, ,over the head, felling him to the floor and kill- jag him. A dozen townsmen wit- nessed the tragedy and Hosher gave himself up. The dispute arose over the mowing of weeds on a bowdary line, and the men soon came to blows. Ahrens, in falling, struck his head against an iron railing, and from this injury died. almost instantly. The men haye been fast friends all their lives. Foreign. The draft of the new Franco-Rus- sian commercial treaty has been com- pleted. W. K. Vanderbilt’s Escalade won the Herblay stakes and Prestige the Om- nium stakes at Maisons Lafitte. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and his son, Lieut. Sherman L. Miles, are seeing Berlin, but are not making official calls. Owing to the failure of a big specu- lator to meet engagements, said to amount to $3,000,000, two of the lead- ing sugar houses have suspended pay- ments at Paris. Newspapers maintain at Lemberg that they have been aathoritatively informed by physicians that attend the infant son of the czar, that the future ruler is deaf. The Madrid correspondent of the London Daily Mail says that it has been decided to hold the Morocco in- ternational conference at Madrid the beginning of November. The projected. new line of steamers between Quebec and Liverpool has been abandoned. The Quebec harbor commissioners refused to remove cer- tain tonnage charges on freight and to make other concessions by promot- ers of the line. The Allan and the Donaldson steam- ship lines, after a month of rate cut- ting, came to terms with regard to second and fhird-class transatlantic passenger tickets, and the second- class rate was restored to $35 and the third class to $25. The czar has decided ‘to establish a vice royalty for the government of Finland similar to that which pre- vailed in Manchuria before the war. The viceroy is to have powers similar to those exercised by Alexieff. It is expected Gen. Kleigels will be ap- pointed first viceroy. Bidding for the construction of an electric tramway system in St. Peters- burg, it has been learned. has been limited to Belgian, German and French firms, American and English com- panies are excluded on account of the pro-Japanese sentiment these coun- tries are said to possess. A sensation has been caused by’an order just issued by the pope that the bishops all over the world shall in future compel all candidates for holy orders to pass an examination. From time immemorial members of religious orders have been exempt from the ;|provisions of the council of Trent, and the papal order is considered at Rome the first blow to the many privi- leges claimed by “regular” clergy. Premier Rouvier, in the course of a reception to the ‘diplomatic corps at Paris,, handed to Prince Von Radolin, the German ambassador, a_ further note explaining the French point of view regarding the program for the Moroccan conference. The note is designed to clear up misunderstand- ings concerning the scope of the con- ference and to allay the renewed ag- itation resulting from the delay in the negotiations. The national bank of Hayti, which has refused to surrender certain cus- toms receipts claimed by the govern- ment, persists in its attitude in spite of the passage of a resolution ordering it to comply with the law. Natives in New Hebrides have mur- dered Henry Trumble. a brother of the well known Australian cricketer, now in England with the Australian eleven. Trumble was involved in a quarrel with natives on Epi island while trad- ing, and was obliged to shoot one in self-defense. Others rushed him with clubs and killed him. Casualty. * Disastrous floods are ravaging the Aosta valley in Italy and twelve per- sons have been drowned. The American schooner : Honolulu, now 125 days out from Shanghai for Puget Sound, has been given up for lost and further reinsurance refused. A bad wreck seven miles south of Barron on the Soo short line, caused by a loose brake bar, severely in- jured Conductor George Weymier and | two others. The winter quarters of the Wallace shows were threatened with destruc- tion at Peru, Ind. Several barns and 150 tons of hay were burned. Farmers saved the rest. Miss Edna Fisher, Miss Lillian Zieg- ler and Miss May Zeigler, aged from sixteen to twenty-eight, were drowned in the Columbia off Government isl- and, near Vancouver, while in bathing. The plant of the Pittsburg Pulley company at Crafton, Pa. owned by Goff, Horner & Co. of Pittsburg, was totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $85,000, covered by insurance. A six-year-old girl was run down and probably fatally hurt in Brookiyn by an automobile. A mob attacked the chauffeur, Nils Brolin, who was saved from serious injury by a police- man. Fireman Charles Heichémer of Cleveland was instantly killed and Engineer A. Whitman severely hurt when the Wheeling & Lake Erie en- gine on which they were was wrecked near Cleveland, Mrs. John B. Gagon, a wealthy widow, and her sister, Mrs. William Turner, were fatally injured at La- fayette, Ind., in a runaway accident caused by the breaking of the front axle of their surrey. In an explosion, of a gasoline launch at Montgomery, W. Va., Robert and Otto Huddleston were killed and two others narrowly escaped death. The latter were Elmer Smith and John Morrison, who swam ashore after the explosion. The D. A. Moore Storage company’s four-story brick building at Kansas City was destroyed by fire, causing a loss estimated at $100,000. About 700 families had furnjture stored with the company and it is difficult to estimate the extent of the, loss. Two inmates of the house of correc- tion at Milwaukee are dead and four others are dangerously ill in that in- stitution from drinking wood alcohol, said to have been obtained at South Side resorts some days ago before the victims were sentenced to the work- house. William C. Senton, forty-three years old, drank twelve goblets of whiskey while calling in the afternoon on a friend in the hills at Coshocton, Ohio, and while on his way home laid down under an old apple tree by the road- side to sleep. He was found there dead the next morning. He leaves a widow and five children. General. Bishop Robert K. Hargrove of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at Nashville. Capt. James V. Million, a prominent vesselman of the Great Lakes and former member of the board of public works, died at Detroit of paralysis. The National Negro Business league, of which Booker T. Washington is president, will hold its sixth annual convention in New York city on Aug. 16, 17 and 18. The United Master Butchers of America is the name decided upon for the amalgamated association of butch- ers, which was organized at Grand Rapids Tuesday. Caleb C. Willard, owner of the Eb- bitt house, Washington, D. C., died at a hotel at Atlantic City. He went there to recuperate his health. Mr. Willard was 71 years of age. A number of beer gardens and sa- loons over the county line from St. Louis were raided Sunday and a num- ber of arrests made on charges of vio- lating the Sunday saloon closing law. Attorney Edward Furthmann of Chi- cago, who was one of the prosecutors in the trial of the Haymarket an- archists, is dead at Evanston hospital, following an operation for appendi- citis. Duane Herbert Church, whose inven- tion of about 150 machines has revo- lutionized the manufacture of watches in America during the last twenty years, is dead from heart failure at his home in West Newton, Mass. Rev. H. T. Besse, a retired minister of San Jose, Cal., donated $50,000 to the Wesleyan Methodist church for educating ministers and missionaries at the Wesleyan seminary at Hough- ton, N. Y. Ten years ago he gave $40,000 for similar purposes. A uni- versity in Kansas and Iowa may be founded with part of the money. Lieut. Lally of the Detroit detective department received a package con- taining $25,000 worth of checks and a note belonging to the\ Crystal Salt company of St. Claire, which was rob- bed some time ago. On account of the troubled ‘condi- tions in other Southern cities, owing to the fever scare, the government au- thorities have declared war on mos- quitoes at the naval training station at Portsmouth, Va., and at the Norfolk navy yard. Crude oil is being used freely in the hope of preventing the breeding of the pests. “a GREAT FUNCTION AT PORTS- MOUTH IS REPLETE WITH CEREMONY. CROWDS CHEER THE ENVOYS RUSSIANS AND JAPS ARE MUCH AFFECTED BY THE DEMON- STRATION. NOW READY FOR BIG TASK | PREVALENCE OF GOOD FEELING NOTICEABLE IN MISSIONS. PEACE Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 9. — The Russian and Japanese peace missions have submitted themselves to intro- duction, and likewise to all of the cer- emonies of welcome and reception on the part of the United States govern- ment end the State of New Hamp- shire, and are now on the eve of fac- ing each other for the purpose of end- ing the war in the Far East, and if possible consummating a permanent peace between the two great nations. To-day they will meet in the naval stores building of the Portsmouth navy yard and exchange credentials. The second day’s session, to take place Thursday or Friday, will be de- voted either to a consideration of the Japanese peace terms, or to a proposi- tion for an armistice by the Russian plenipotentiaries. Replete With Ceremony. The landing and reception of the en- voys yesterday was a function replete with ceremony. The dignity of the nation’s salutes was contrasted with the hearty exclamations of good will on the part of thousands of persons who thronged the streets of Ports- mouth and surrounded the court house, where Gov. McLane _ pro- nounced his cordial words of welcome. The envoys of both Japan and Rus- sia were much affected by the demon- stration of the American public. Mr. Witte rode through the business sec- tion of the town with his tall silk hat raised above his head in constant acknowledgment of salutes. Ambas- sador Rosen, in the same carriage, was also uncovered in honor of the cheering crowds. In the carriage fol- lowing were the two Japanese envoys, and they, too, were not remiss in re- sponding to the Hurrahs of the Crowds. Three carriages were occupied by each mission, and in the procession through the streets of Portsmouth the Russians and Japanese were given al- ternate positions, the first third and fifth carriages were Russian and the second, fourth and sixth Japanese. The public was rigorously excluded from the navy yard, where the en- voys came ashore. The landing was effected most expeditiously, and ev- erything moved without the slightest interruption. The envoys were met at the court house by Third Assistant Secretary of State Peirce, who pre- sented the envoys to Gov. McLane. The governor’s formal speech of wel- come was listened to with great in- terest by both parties. At the con- clusion of the ceremonies the entire party was photogranhed. Good Feeling Noticeable. No one except the governor’s staff and council, United States Senators Burnham and Gallinger, Representa- tives Sulloway and Currier, and As- sistant Secretary Peirce were present at the court house function, although crowds surrounded the building. When the hotel Wentforth was reached shortly after 3 o'clock there was an outburst of applause carried on in good natured rivalry. Although private dining rooms had been provided for the plenipoten- tiaries both suites took dinner at the same time in the main dining room of the hotel. While there are no official state- ments or predictions regarding the outcome of the forthcoming negotia- tions, the prevalence of a general good feeling is noticeable throughout the environs of the peace missions. LIGHTNING STRIKES OIL TANKS. Starts Fire That Results $400,000 Damage. Houston, Tex., Aug. 9.—Fire start- ed yesterday afternoon at’ Humble, and did damege estimated at between $300,000 and $400,000. Lightning struck the tanks belonging to the Guffey company, and both of them were set on fire. The oil in these tanks was estimated to be about 100,- 000 barrels, and all of this was lost. About a dozen derricks with ma- chinery were burned. in About Texas Fever Appears. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 9.—Texas fever has appeared in a herd of 400 cattle at Grand Summit, Kan., near the Okla- homa line, and the state live stock in- spector has quarantined the animals. A few have died with the disease. Two Drowned While Swimming. Cascade, B. C., Aug. 9.—Two school teachers, Miss Agnes Ruckle of Van- couver, B. C., and Miss Anderson of Cascade, while attending a picnic, | went swimming in Christina lake and | thei ».CALL FOR MILITIA, eee Health Board Would Enforce Sensible System of Quarantine. New Orleans, Aug. 9.—Following is the fever record up to 6 p. m. yester- day: NOW. CASES «0.0... se sees eee eee eee 60 Total cases to date. +616 Deaths yesterday 4 Total deaths to date New sub-foci .. Total sub-foci These figures vary slightly from those that have been sent out lately, but are the official record which was yesterday checked up and corrected to date. The large number of new cases and sub-foci is surprising, but no attempt is being made to account for it. Of the new sub-foci, three are up-town and the balance down-town. Two dead men were found in a shanty in. the woods and it was found that they had died of yellow fever. They were Italians, who had died from lack of attention. The state board of health yesterday took up the question of enforcing a sensible system of quarantines in the state and in ac- cordance with the state law. The board decided to call on the governor for the militia to protect travel through such parishes which have im- posed drastic quarantines. Archbishop Chappelle passed the crisis of his illness yesterday, and is now i garded on the road to recovery. OLDFIELD HAS QLOSE CALL. Badly Injured in Automobile Race at Detroit. Detroit, Aug. 9. — Barney Oldfield had an almost miraculous escape from death yesterday afternoon at the au- tomobile races at Grosse Pointe track when Dan Wurgis of Lansing, Mich., collided with his car in the three- quarter stretch during the first mile of the five-mile open event. Oldfield and his car went through the fence into the infield, and Oldfield received a badly lacerated scalp and a severely bruised right arm. Wurgis’ car also went off the track, on the outside, but did not capsize and neither car nor driver was injured. Oldfield lay un- conscious in the infield when a dozen horrified spectators reached his side. He was carried to an ambulance which had been provided in fear of accidents, and taken to Harper hospi- tal, where it was said last night that barring entirely unforeseen develop- ments, he would be out in a few days. HEROIC WORK OF TWO GIRLS. Save Three Score Passengers From Possible Death, Cana! Dover, Ohio, Aug. 9.—Two lit- tle girls, Anna and Mary Beers, saved three score of passengers on the Mari- etta branch of the Pennsylvania rail- road from possible death or injury two miles east of here yesterday. A large tree had fallen across the tracks and the little girls knowing the after- noon passenger train was due, hast- ened up the track and flagged the train. The engineer brought the cars to a standstill within a short distance of the obstacle. The passengers made up a purse to reward the girls for their bravery. WANT UNION OF ALL LUTHERANS “Free” Synod Begins Sessions at Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 9. — The “Free” synod of the Lutheran churches of America began its ses- sions here yesterday with about 300 delegates present. They have come from every Lutheran synod in the United States for the purpose of dis- cussing the church creed, and to as- certain if some common ground of ehurch policy permitting a union of all the Lutheran bodies in America cannot be effected. NO APPEAL POSSIBLE. Judgment Against the Asphalt Trust Is Confirmed by Venezuelan Court. Caracas, Aug. 9—No appeal is now possible before the Venezuelan courts against the judgment handed down by the federal court against the New York and Bermudez Asphalt company. All the points in the original judg- ment of May 20 are confirmed by the present decision in addition to the an- nulment of the Hamilton contract, in connection with which damages for the government are awarded. LAMONT LEAVES $3,300,000. Cleveland’s Secretary of War Dies a Millionaire. New York, Aug. 9.—An estate val- ued at $3,300,000 is left by the lati Daniel S. Lamont, secretary of war under President Cleveland, according to Mr. Lamont’s will, filed for probate yesterday. Mrs. Lamont and_ het three daughters are the beneficiaries. The estate is valued at $3,000,000 in personal property and $300,000 in real property. » Raisin Trust ls Forming. San Francisco, Aug. 9—A deal hat been consummated which will merga most of the raisin-growing interests of this state into one corporation, Small Boy Killed. Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 9.—Willard Tyler, five years old, shot and killed his brother while playing Indian at the home of his grandfather at Rising Sun. The pistol was put away in the garret six years ago and forgotten. Suspected of Murder. Webster City, lowa, Aug. 9.—Sheriff Thompson has arrested James Jones, colored, at Fonda, charged with mur- dering another colored man in “Pat- sy’s” saloon at Buxton last winter. He is held here for identification. OVER SCORE ARE DEAD IN RUINS SECTION OF BIG DEPARTMENT STORE AT ALBANY, N. Y., COLLAPSES. HUNDRED BURIED IN WRECK ARE CAUGHT IN CHAOS OF BRICK, PLASTER AND WOODEN BEAMS. MAJORITY OF THEM ARE GIRLS LARGE FORCE OF RESCUERS DELVE ALL NIGHT IN THE RUINS. Albany, N. Y., Aug. 9.—The middle section of the big department store of the John G. Myers company collapsed early yesterday, carrying down with it over one hundred persons. Caught in a chaos of brick, plaster and wooden beams, between twenty, and thirty men, women and children met death. Twelve hours’ frantic work on the part of an army of res- cuers disentangled fifty people, six of them dead and many of the rest bad- ly injured. ‘ Three bodies were in sight at a late hour last night, but many hours’ work will be required to get them out. Anything like a com- plete list of the killed and injured will be unobtainable until the workers have made their way to the very bot- tom of the mass of wreckage. With few exceptions those caught in the ruins were employes, a large Majority of Them Girls, The collapse occurred shortly after the opening hour, with barely a score of shoppers in the store. The best account of the accident is given by the head of the crockery, glass and drug department, which occupies the basement. “The workmen were sawing at a wooden floor beam,” said he, “which runs under the northern end of the central pillars in the middle of the store. Excavation for the cellar was going on about the base of this pillar, and I believe that jarring of the beam beneath it displaced the foundation of the pillar. The first thing I knew two of the counters near the place where the men were working began to sag, and several pieces of glass were slid off onto the floor with a crash. I yelled for my clerks to run for the front of the store. The words were not out of my mouth when There Came a Creaking and everything around us began to fall. The wreck came slowly, however, and I think every one in my depart- ment escaped, as well as the work- men.” The pillars which gave way support- ed the ends of two giant girders, and when it fell, the main support of the central part of the building was gone. With a noise that could be heard blocks away, and which shook the ad- joining buildings, nearly half of the great structure, from cellar to roof, and extending from one side wall to the other, came grinding down. Into this cavern slid scores of employes who were -working on the four floors above and lacked the warning which enabled those in the basement to es- cape. When the fire department arrived they had plenty -to do in rescuing those who were pinned under the top wreckage. They were joined by scores of volunteer rescuers, and within an hour fifteen or twenty per- sons were carried out, none of them fatally injured. Rescuers Work All Night. The volunteer rescuers and firemen continued the work until exhausted, when their places were taken by a wrecking force numbering 300 men from the New York Central, and Dela- ware & Hudson railroads. These delved in the ruins all night, but the work of rescue proceeded slowly. ‘When darkness came it was estimated that nearly fifty -persons still re- mained in the ruins, and that not more than half of these could survive the weight pressing upon them. For- tunately the wreckage did not take fire. Some one hundred persons are still unaccounted for. BODY IS FOUND IN WRECK. One Person Drowned in Sinking of the Sunshine. Indianapolis, Au#. 9.-— The dead body of Lorah H. Whitson of Russell- ville, Ind., was taken out from the partly submerged wreck of the excur- sion steamer Sunshine late Monday afternoon. The boat went down with 180 persons on board. Whitson was the only person drowned. Mob Hangs Negro. Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 9—A mob took Sam Majors, a negro, from a jail near Waco yesterday morning and lynched him for an assault on a white woman a few days ago. He was hanged -to a bridge over the river. King Oscar Takes a Rest. Stockholm, Aug. 9—Under orders from his physician, King Oscar will seek rest at Marstrand, on a small island in the Katteyat, leaving the capital on Monday. Crown Prince Gustav will be appointed regent. Ay ~ »