Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 9, 1905, Page 2

Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. J. Pierpont Morgan is trying to cor ner the old masters. Why this fuss about the man who sold his wife for $5? Wasn't she worth it? Eggs are now said to be full of mi- crobes. That is calculated to jar that egg-nog habit. Baron Nathaniel Rothschild has just given $4,000,000 to charity. Wonder where he got it? “Starving Men Desperate,” says a headline in the Washington Post. They generally are.” When girls play baseball they have to conscript one of their number to wear a mask and stomach protector. Mr. Rockefeller is trying the Kneipp cure. If the morning dew helps his feet he will try it on the top of his head. It appears that the Italian with whom Miss Croker eloped has a title. This being the case, how could she help it? In view of the recent developments in the army, the navy can hardly be blamed for putting on a slightly su- perior air. How much the world thinks of a baseball player, who does not drink, smoke or swear, and who plays pretty good ball! Philadelphia’s city council proposes o investigate itself. The market price tor whitewash in Philadelphia ought to rise rapidly. Having evolved a live volcano and a defunct sea serpent, Nevada will now rest from its labors for another fifty years or so. It has just been discovered that Ju- piter has a seventh moon. Jupiter must be a poor place for private street lighting companies. The lesson of the disastrous Zeigler expedition is that now is the time to begin organizing an expedition for the relief of Explorer Peary. “Fads and Fancies” is expected to explain monkey dinners, and all need- ful points in connection with them, and furnish a list of those who attend them. This report that whisky drinking is in New York will cause no . Most of the members of the rt set are out of town at ‘this season. Granting that 10,000 persons are killed annually on the railways, do the scorching automobilists think it a jaudable ambition to wish to beat that record? The census bureau finds that there has been a steady decline in the birth rate in this country since 1860. The percentage of poor families must be decreasing. The poet Whittier rhymed “trust” with “nursed.” But we must remem- ber that he was a New England poet, and in his neck of the woods they pro- nounce it “nussed.” More than 5,000 people are said to mysteriously disappear in this country every year. That’s nothing to the number whose money mysteriously disappears every day. A New York man cut his throat be- cause he could not get his book pub- lished. By the way, we should think some of these authors would cut their throats when they saw their books in print. Mary Mannering has canceled her theatrical engagements in order to take care of her little baby. Mary will deserye all the advertising she can get on account of this extraordinary proceeding. An observation tower to the memory of Ethan Allen was dedicated in Ver- mont recently. This is creditable to the Vermonters, but a man whose country is full of his namesakes needs no other monument, : “Honesty,” says a thoughtful edi- tor, “is the one thing to be desired in office.” The main thing undoubtedly; but remember how Palmerston once described a most objectionable official s “a very honest fool.” An English doctor says all the dis- eases that human flesh is heir to can be cured by marriage if there is a proper selection. It must, of course, be understood in this connection that such things as bow legs and cross-eyes are not diseases. A climate that causes whiskers of mildew to grow on 4 corncob pipe surely has its disadvantages. A Pan- ama employe, who says he is helping to dig the canal with a typewriter, registers a public kick and thinks Uncle Sam’s employes deserve more pay. However, only the highly paid resign. A contemporary thinks it has dis- covered that a man who works all the year round, without a vacation, short- ens his life. And yet the men who never work at all are always short. Fresh Washington. The comptroller of currency has is- sued a call for reports of the condition of national banks at the close of busi- ness on Aug. 25. Bids have been opened at the bureau of insular affairs for the sale of $1,500,- 000 Philippines bonds. The highest bidders were Fisk & Robinson of New York, who bid 101.64. Consul General Simmons, at New- chwang, has reported to the state de- partment in regard to the attempt to arouse a feeling of hostility to Ameri- can goods. He reports that the move- ment has been a failure. The state department received a cable dispatch from Yokohama saying that the ship Australia, owned by Claus Spreckles, had been seized. The dispatch gives no details of why the ship was seized or anything concern- ing the business in which it was en- gaged. President Roosevelt is being deluged with letters by individuals in all parts of the country praying him to do what- ever lies in his power to prevent the further destruction of the natural beauties of Niagara Falls by the de- velopment power plants on both sides of the river, Acting Secretary Murray of the de- partment of commerce and labor per- mitted Thomas Quinn, interpreter of the Chinese language for the bureau of immigration in Arizona courts, to resign. Charges were made that had coached Chinese witnesses for a remuneration. The census bureau has just publish- ed as a bulletin an analysis by Prof. Walter -F. Willcox of Cornell univer- sity of the census statistics relating to teachers. Calculating the school age as from five to twenty, the report finds that, taking the country as a whole, there is an average of one teacher to every 71 pupils, or 140 for every 10,000. Crimes and Criminals. Charged with stealing diamonds and jewelry valued at $12,000, Sol Caro, a traveling salesman for a jewelry firm, was arrested in Chicago. T. E. Ralston, a prominent attorney of St. Louis, for years chief counsel of the Wiggins Ferry company, com- mitted suicide by shooting himself in the stomach. R William Van Vorhees was killed by his wife in a restaurant in Chicago. The two were quarreling, and Mrs. Van Vorhees fired three shots at her husband. When the police arrived he was dead. Thomas Walshaw, Chicago, is in a hospital at Elkhart, Ind., with a frac- tured skull from the blow of a high- wayman while he reached for his watch. He was robbed of a small amount of money. William Barbour shot and killed Etta Denney after a quarrel over a love affair at Huntington, W. V. He then shot and killed himself. Miss Denney had just returned from the funeral of her father. The mystery surrounding the dis- appearance of a servant girl named Clara Dehl.from her employer’s resi- dence at Winnipeg was cleared up when the body of a young woman was found in the river. The girl left a note stating she intended doing away with herself. Declaring that he was kidnaped from his home in Buffalo, N. Y., by a man who séized him and hurried him away on a train, John Besch, fifteen, told the Chicago police a story of how he had been held captive and tortured by the stranger during the journey from Buffalo to Chicago. Renne Sanne, a Norwegian girl, was killed in New York by her fiance, Ru- dolph Williamson, who had paid her passage from Norway in order to make her his wife and to whom she had broken her promise to marry him. Immediately after the murder William- son shot himself. He will die. The tragedy occurred in a Brooklyn apart- ment. Accidental Happenings. Eight employes of the Mallinckrodt Chemical works at St. Louis were in- jured by an explosion of chemicals in one of the buildings, one of whom, John Kennebec, was so badly burned that it is believed he will die. In attempting to save the life of her pet dog, Nana Hulberg, the nine-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hulberg of Mears, Mich., was instant- ly killed by a passenger train. The dog was saved, but the little girl was ground to death under the wheels. While Rev. Anna Shaw of Philadel- phia was delivering a lecture in Chau- tauqua tent at Glen Park at Richmond, Ind., a section of the elevated seats collapsed, precipitating 100 persons to the ground in a mass. Four persons were seriously injured. There was no panic. An explosion of a'soda tank at Hope- dal, Il, tore off R. Sellerman’s right arm at the shoulder ,injured two other persons and caused Mrs. John Ichel- berger to die shortly after the acci- dent of heart failure superinduced by the shock. When Miss Marion Fish, daughter of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, was taking a ride at Newport, R. I, her pony. fell with her just outside the stables of Crossways. Miss Fish made a good jump from the saddle, buther boot caught between the floor of the stable and the pony’s body, bruising the left ‘ goot painfully, but not seriously. RESUME OF THE NEWS Reliable Brief Two men were fatally and three se- riously burned at Danville, Ill., by the bursting of a steam pipe at the Dan- ville electric light plant. A horse belonging to Wallace Jamie- son of Bellefontaine, Ohio, dropped dead in the road from fright at the sight of the first automobile it had ever seen. A tornado swept Carbondale, Pa., re- cently. Before people who live in frame houses could escape from them the houses were lifted up and carried away. The swirling hurricane hurled some of them 200 feet. So great was the wind’s force that it overturned railway trains. Many persons were wounded, but no one was killed. Foreign. An imperia] edict declares that tele- phones and wireless telegraphs throughout China are government monopolies, There is a great increase in the agrarian agitation in various part of Russia, notably in the Caucasus, where there have been serious disturbances. The court-martial of 137 mutineers of the battleship Kniaz Potemkine has just been completed at Libau, Russia. Eight of the prisoners were sentenced to be shot. Rear Admiral Rojestyensky has so far recovered from the effects of the wounds received at the battle of the Sea of Japan that he will be brought to Kioto early in September. The Japanese correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph at Moji, Ja- pan, sends a report that Gen. Kuro- patkin has resigned his command and that his health has given way. The session of the conference with the agitators for the independence of the Philippine islands developed the fact that the Filipinos are altogether ‘unfit for immediate independence. The former Russian battleship Pol- tava, now known as the Tango in the Japanese navy, was brought to the naval station at Maizuru on Aug. 29 from Port Arthur under her own steam. A special courier from Fez an- nounces that the French-Algerian mer- chant has been set at liberty. Accord- ing to later advices he is ill as the re- sult of bad treatment received while in prison, In the provinces of Saratoff and Samara, in Russia, there are tens of thousands of men supplied with arms and an enormous peasant movement is being organized for the autumn. A force of Cossacks and infantry has been sent to Terijoki, . The French military and naval av- thorities at Toulon received instruc- tions respectively for the mobilization of the colonial regiments and to hold the warships in readiness, in connec- tion with the threatened invasion of Moroccan territory. During a rehearsal at the Metropole theater in Berlin a_ terrace sixteen feet above the stage collapsed and twenty people were injured. Panic- stricken actors and actresses rushed into the streets in stage attire. It is feared that four of the injured will die, Max Steiden, the most popular comic singer in Berlin, being among the number. Nearly all the others in- jured were young girls. Otherwise, Mayor Charles F. Herrick, aged six- ty-nine, died at Independence, Iowa, from cancer of the stomach. He was a@ veteran of the Civil war and was a@ prominent Mason. United States Assayer Fred Wing, in charge of the assay office at Seattle, | has made the statement that his esti- mate of the gold output of Nome for the season of 1905 was $10,000,000. Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace, a 110- acre farm near Hodgenville, Ky., was sold at auction to R. J. Collier of New York. The price was $3,600, no more than it would bring for farming pur- poses. John Lessor, a farmer near Buffing. ton, Ind., has reported finding near Chicago a piece of the wreckage of the steamer Chicora, which was lost in January, 1895, with twenty-six peo- ple aboard. Samuel A. McClean, Jr., president of the National Packing company of Chi- cago, died suddenly in Chicago. He was stricken during the night vith acute indigestion, coupled with heart disorder. While delirious from neuralgia, Iris Alvord, aged eight, of Pittsburg wrenched at her teeth with her bare hands and tore out seven of them. The loss of blood and the shock caused her death. Medical scientists have had their attention directed to a remarkable case of catalepsy in Yonkers, N. Y., where Charles Canopi, eight, has been in an unbroken trancelike sleep for more than four months. James Dewar of Minneapolis and his brother Thomas of St. Louis are left only $5 in the will of their mother, Mrs. Johanna Dewar, which was filed for probate in St. Louis. Among the recruits at Jefferson bar- racks, St. Louis, is Glenn J. Arnett, who enlisted at Parkersburg, W. V. He is the son of Mrs. W. C. Arnett of Fairmont, W. Va., who owns property to the value of $500,000. ‘This recruit, by his father’s will, has an income oi $1,000 a year, and will inherit the en tire estate at his mother’s death. For the present he will add to his incomé the monthly pay of $12. PEACE TREAT 1S COMPLETED DOCUMENT NOW AWAITS THE SIGNATURES OF THE PLENI- POTENTIARIES. DIFFER AS TO PHRASEOLOGY WORDING OF PROTOCOL OF LAST SITTING NOT YET SET- TLED UPON. WITTE ANXIOUS TO FINISH UP TO PRECLUDE POSSIBILITY OF PRESSURE FROM HOME ON MINOR POINTS. Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 5. — From an official source the Associated Press is informed that the treaty is com- pleted. It consists of a preamble and seventeen articles, the substance of all of which have been given in the Associated Press dispatches. But there were still differences about the wording of the protocol of the last sitting, which must be signed before the treaty itself can be signed. The Japanese presented a _ protocol to which the Russians took ‘exception. The differences, however, were expect- ed to be straightened before noon to- day, and it seems quite possible the treaty will be signed this afternoon. Mr. De Maartens, who is extremely anxious to get back to Russia, has engaged passage on La Loraine, sailed for New York on Thursday, and leaves here on Wednesday. Stick on Phraseology. The work of engrossing the peace treaty has already begun, Mr. Rojest- vensky doing the caligraphic work of the French, and Mr. Adashi of the English text. Controversies over the phraseology still continue and there were several conferences yesterday between Mr. De Maartens and Mr. Dennison, differences before referred for adjustment to the principals. The Japanese are proving great sticklers for words. They cling tenaciously to their ideas. Careful preparation and methods have been the secret of their successes on land and sea, and in their diplomatic struggles at Ports- mouth the same qualities have been displayed. Witte Anxious to Get Through. Mr. Witte is extremely anxious to have the treaty finished and signed at the earliest moment to preclude the possibility of pressure from the home government upon minor points. Especially at St. Petersburg there is constant danger that instructions at the last moment may come to try and get this concession or that concession, and thus bring only diplomatic discus- sion which might indefinitely prolong the negotiations. One of the articles in the treaty provides for the protection of private rights and property acquired under Russian control in South Sakhalin, and in Dalny, Port Arthur and other places in the Liaotung peninsula. The Russian government has had Innumerable Petitions on this subject. Several of them are from Americans who hold concessions in Southern Sakhalin. While a full synopsis of the treaty will be cabled to the governments of the two coun- tries, the actual text will not be known at Tokio or St. Petersburg un- til the plenipotentiaries arrive. It is expected that to cable such a long document textually would make it possible for an expert later, when the text became public, to work out the government cipher. Mr. Witte wil) personally convey the text to St. Pe tersburg and Baron Komura to Tokio This is the real reason why both are anxious to get home as soon as possi ple, as the treaty does not go inte force until the two emperors have signed. Will Be Exclusive Affair. The signing of the treaty is to be a very exclusive affair. The Japanese objected to the presence of any news: paper correspondents or photogra- phers, and it has, therefore, been de cided that besides the plenipotenti- aries and secretaries there shall be present only Assistant Secretary Peirce, representing the president; Gov. McLane of New Hampshire; the mayor of Portsmouth; Admiral Mead, commander of the navy yard, and the commanders of any United States warships in the harbor, in this case only Capt. Winslow of the Mayflower. Mr. Peirce has procured four ordinary quill pens, with one of which each of the plenipotentiaries will sign. FLAMES ON ALL SIDES. Fifteen New York Families Escape on Ladders. New York, Sept. 5.—Fifteen families in the tenement at No. 310 West One Hundred and Eighteenth street were aroused at 4 o'clock yesterday morn- ing, wildely excited to find that fire had cut off their escape by the stairs. Whey were finally rescued by means of fire escapes and ladders, except three ‘women, one of whom, in her terror, jumped from the fourth floor and had a remarkable escape from death. TROOPS FIRE ON FUNERAL. Military Charge Workmen Following . Body of Riot Victim. Kisheneff, Sept. 6.—During the prog- ress here yesterday of a funeral pro, cession of Jewish worgingmen follow- ing the body of a poor woman who had been killed by roughs, shots wére sud- denly heard and the procession was charged by troops and police. Many of the workmen were wound- ed and fifty of them were arrested. Several are missing and are supposed to have been killed. The officers declined to give any ex- planation of the cause of the occur- rence and refused to allow sympathiz- ers with wounded men to accompany them to the hospitals. The Jewish hospital is surrounded by soldiers and patrols are stationed at central points in the town. Great alarm prevails. is Fifty Were Killed. St. Petersburg, Sept. 5.—Dispatches received by the ministry of the interi- or estimates that fifty persons were killed during the fighting at Baku, Caucasia, on Sept. 2, with a relatively large number of wounded, the majori- ty of whom are Tartars. No official account of Sunday’s cas- ualties, nor of the events of yesterday, have been received, but private dis- patches report that corpses are lying about the streets and that incendiary fires have already destroyed 151 build- ings and are still in progress. Both factions, after the former dis- orders, supplied themselves with arms and they are now almost as well equipped for street fighting as the troops. Situation Is Tense. The situation, not only at Baku, but also throughout the Caucasus, has been exceedingly tense for weeks. The disorders at Shusha had just ceased when the street car strike at Baku furnished the occasion for an- other outbreak. The disorders commenced at about 5 p. m. on Sept. 2, the Armenians fir- ing first on the soldiers on board the ears. Eight Mussulmans, three Ar- menians and one Russian were killed. The encounters continued until 1 o’clock the nexe morning. During the evening of Sept. 3 firing recommenced, but no casualties were reported. Advices from Baku say that the firing again commenced Sunday, the Tartars attacking the troops with greater desperation. Thus far the killed and wounded, according to ad- vices, exceed 200. A courier from Nizierdous was wounded. TAFT’S VISIT AIDS. Declared That Boycott at Canton Will Disappear in Two Weeks. Hongkong, Sept. 6—The Taft party arrived at Canton yesterday morning and proceeded to the American consul- ate, where its members were met by a battalion of the viceroy’s guards. After a reception at the consulate the party became guests of the new Can- ton railway, covering its entire dis- trict. At 1 o’clock the visitors were entertained at luncheon by invitation of the viceroy, who, however, was ill and unable to be present. His repre- sentative made a speech referring to the friendly relations between the Chinese nation and America. Secre- tary Taft in his speech said that by direction of the president he was pleased to note the friendly relations of the two countries. The United States did not want one foot or one acre of the soil of China, the secretary said, and he thought the boycott of American goods was an unreasonable violation of treaty rights and condi- tions between the two countries. He declared that he was glad the viceroy had ordered the boycott stopped. The party’s trip to Canton has had an im- mediate effect and it is believed that within two weeks the boycott will end. WILL SUCCEED Loomis. Robert Bacon Appointed Assistant Sec- retary of State. Oyster Bay, Sept. 6. — President Roosevelt yesterday announced of- ficially the appointment of Robert Bacon of New York to be first assis- tant secretary of state to sueceed F. B. Loomis. The announcement was accompanied by a statement that Mr. Bacon would not assume the duties of his office for some time, perhaps not until the middle of October, when Sec- retary Root had become settled in the office of secretary of state. Mr. Loomis’ resignation has been practi- cally in the hands of President Roose- velt for several months. His desire to retire from the office of assistant secretary of state was known to the JAPS PREPARE FOR A BATTLE STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT ON EVE OF SIGNING THE PEACE TREATY. MUCH DISCONTENT IN JAPAN FEARED THAT A REVOLUTION WILL BREAK OUT THROUGH- OUT EMPIRE, RUSSIANS ARE BEHIND TIME CHARACTERISTIC SLOWNESS CAUSES DELAY IN SIGNING THE TREATY. Lidziapudzo, Manchuria, Sept. 6. — The Japanese are continuing prepara tions for battle. This has caused astonishment, com- ing at the moment when the peace treaty is on the eve of being signed at Portsmouth. The Russian advance posts report that the Japanese troops are very much dissatisfied with the peace agreement. The terms of peace are the subject of discussion everywhere. In the Rus- sian army t The Prevailing Spirit is one of satisfaction, and even of live- ly rejoicing, though general confidence is expressed that the Russian troops would be victorious if they had to another battle. The feeling of many officers may be summed up in the words of an eminent commander: “As a soldier I am greatly chagrined, but as a citizen I greatly rejoice at the conclusion of peace.” Three thousand Japanese, who on Aug. 12 descended on Port Deskatris, opposite the Island of Sakhalin and 60 miles northwest of the Sakhalin town of Alexandrovitch, set fire to the grass on the steppe. Talk of Revolution, London, Sept. 6.—It is reported from Tien-tsin that the discontent in Japan over the concessions granted to Rus- sia in the peace treaty is so deep that it is feared a revolution will break out throughout the empire. This movement, it is declared, has mani- fested itself in Tokio. All cables are cut. Kaneko Is Astonished. ‘New York, Sept. 6. — When Baron Kaneko was told in his apartment in the Eleanori, Sixty-third street and Madison avenue, the news contained in the dispatch from London, his amazement was evident. “I ean hardly believe it,” said the baron, “although there have been ru- mors of disturbances in Japan be- cause of the unfavorable terms of peace. But the will of the emperor is supreme, and I never thought the people would question his decisions on any matter, “This news shocks me; I await its confirmation, but until that time I can only hope that it is a report without foundation in fact.” Clash in Korea. St. Petersburg, Sept. 6—Gen. Line- vitch reports further encounters with the Japanese in Korea. In a dispatch to Emperor Nicholas dated Sept. 3 he says that the Russians in Northern Korea on Sept. 1 repulsed a series of lively attacks by six battalions of Jap- anese with twelve guns. The Japanese simultaneously sommenced an offens- ive engagement against the Russian troops in the neighborhood of Kian- keregoui, in Petchongonlian Pass. Russians Are Slow, Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 6.—Char- acteristically, the Russians were late in finishing their engrossing of the peace treaty, and the signing, sched- uled for yesterday, was put over until this afternoon. The Japanese stayed up until 4 o'clock yesterday morning to finish their work and were ready to sign at any time after that. Japs and Slavs Cordial. Baron Komura, Mr. Takahira ana the members of the Japanese mission president at the conclusion of the Bowen-Loomis incident, which result- ed in the forced retirement of Mr. Bowen from the diplomatic service. FOUR PERSONS DROWNED. Explosion on Small Launch Causes a Panic. Detroit, Sept. 6.—Panic-stricken at the flash of flames when a lighted match was carelessly thrown into a pool of gasoline on the bottom of a launch last night, a number of the thirty passengers on the launch jumped overboard. Four of them were drowned. DIED IN HIS PASTURE. S. \D. Horner, a Pioneer of Nicollet Coéunty,.a Victim of Heart Disease. St. Peter, Minn., Sept. 6—Relatives of Sillon D. Horner, a pioneer settler of Nicollet county, found his body in a pasture near his home. Coroner Merrill decided that death was due to heart disease. Mr. Horner had lived in Granby township since 1856, and for years was associated with Maj. Joseph Brown, the noted Indian trader and frontiersman. held a reception in the ball room of the hotel last night. It was an ex- ceedingly pleasant affair, marked by the most friendly exchanges between the Russians and Japanese. Gov. John- son McLane and his staff, Rear Ad- miral Mead and the naval officers in the harbor, the newspaper correspond- ents and all the hotel guests were present, In the midst of the gaiety Mr. Witte and Baron de Rosen, accompanied by the baroness, and followed by the Rus- sian suite, entered the room and paid their respects to the hosts. The greet- ings and exchanges between the erst- while foes were very cordial. BIG FIRE MAY WIPE OUT HAVRE. Flames Threaten to Destroy Montana Town. Havre, Mont., Sept: 6.—Fire started at 12:30 this morning in a restaurant and is still burning. All the hotels on one side of First street are destroyed, including the St. Paul hotel. The Great Northern is working hard to save its buildings. There is no water available and the fire department is handicapped in handling the work. Sams a se [a