Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 9, 1905, Page 3

TWENTY LIVES LOST IN STORM MOST DESTRUCTIVE GALE LAKE SHIPPING HAS KNOWN IN YEARS. LOSS ABOUT HALF A MILLION RECORD OF DEATH AND DE. STRUCTION MAY REACH GREAT- ER PROPORTIONS. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 6. — Eighteen or twenty lives were lost and property valued at half a million dollars was destroyed in the furious storm that Swept over Lake Superior Sunday and Sunday night. The gale was the most destructive to Lake shipping that has been experienced in many years. Be- sides the wreck of the steamer Se- vona, which broke in two on Sand isl- and reef, seven of the crew _ losing their lives, and the. Pretoria, which was sunk off Outer island with a loss of five of her crew, it is believed that the schooner Olive Jeanette has sunk with her crew of seven men. The schooner Pretoria was the largest sail- ing ship on fresh water. She Broke Loose From the Steamer that was towing her during the storm, and yesterday Capt. Wandig of the steamer Mary Boyle reported that the spars of a sunken’ three-masted schooner could be seen a short dis- tance east of the outer island of the Apostle group, about 100 miles from Duluth. The Olive Jeanette, it is be- lieved, went to the bottom about ten miles from Portage Entry. A mass of wreckage was sighted by the steamer Juniata near that point, and, although the identity of the ship has not been completely established, there, seems little doubt that it was thé Olive Jeanette. This schooner was in tow of the steamer L. R. Doty when the latter vessel was lost with her entire crew on Lake Michigan a few years ago. The storm at times reached the proportions of a hurricane and the stanchest new steel vessels were forced To Run for Shelter in a more or Ié¢ss battered condition. The new steel steamer Stack Rona assived at the Soo on her first trip with her hatch covers so badly sprung that water poured continually into the hold. One of the crew was washed overboard. The whaleback steamer Samuel Mather also lost one of her crew overboard. The terrific battering the steel steamers received in the storm gives rise to the gravest fears for the safety of many wooden. ships which have not yet reported, and the record of death and destruction may reach much greater proportions than the present estimates. The monetary loss of the Sevona is placed at $170,- 000, while that of the Pretoria is esti- mated at $150,000. The storm, which was the most se- vere on Lake Superior in years, badly damaged the lighthouse and break- water at Portage Entry and the light- house was blown into the lake. BUYS WHOLE TOWN. Tract of Nearly 23,000 Acres Is Pur- chased by C. S. Loveland. Bem’ Aji, Minn., Sept. 6. — The en- tire to ym of 147-35 has passed from the ownership of W. R. Tate to Chas. S. Loveland. The land is located near the village of Solway, and con- sists of cut-over lands and is prac- tically without improvements or clear- ings of any character. The tract in- cludes nearly 23,000 acres and the purchase price was $43,266.62, or less than $2 per acre. There is a consid- erable quantity of hard wood on the land and it in time will become valu- able for agricultural purposes. FROST IN NORTHWEST. Garden Vegetation Suffers in Nebras- ka an{ South Dakota. Huron, S. D.; Sept. 6. — There was light frost in this section of the Jim river valley Sunday night, but no dam- age to corn will result. Garden stuff was injured only in a few localities. Omaha, Sept. 6.—Several points in Western Nebraska report a light frost Sunday night. It is believed the ex- tent of damage is not great. Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 6.—The ex- pected frost did not materialize in Iowa. The crop bureau reports that the corn crop will be safe by Sept. 20. SS FALLS DYING AT HIS POST, Draw Bridge Tender Stricken While Opening the Draw. La Crosse, Wis., Sept. 6.—Opening the draw of the Mississippi river weg- on bridge here Engineer W. E. Boycott fell dying at his post, and the bridge being only partly opened, the steamer C. W. Coyles and raft crashed into it. The steamer was badly damaged and the raft was smashed to pieces and scattered about the river. The engi- neer will die. ' Northwest News. | EE ENATCH HIS MONEY. Fort Dodge Young Man Gets Too} Friendly With Strangers. Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 5. — The’ county authorities have arrested a man giving his name as Thomas Mur- phy, but whose true name, it is be- lieved, is Pat Glaster. He is charged with being implicated in robbing Ar- thur D. Porter, a young man whose home is at Fort Dodge, Iowa. Porter was induced by a stranger to visit a grove on the Big Sioux river. There another man appeared and Porter carelessly exhibited a roll of money. Instantly one of the men snatched the money from the young man’s hand and disappeared. Murphy, or Glaster, when taken before Judge Wheelock, waived his preliminary examination. FREAKISH BOLT KILLS MAN. Hits Driver, Kills Two Horses and * Two Others Are Injured. Winona, Minn., Sept. 5. — Herman Lattman, a young man_ twenty-two years old, was instantly killed by lightning. Lattman had been thresh- ing at a neighbor’s and was driving home at the time. He was in the wag- on driving one team and leading an- other. One of the horses hitched to the wagon was killed, as was also one of the animals led by the driver. The two other animals were badly injured by the shock. lLattman was struck squarely on the top of the head and the hair was burned off. His clothes were badly torn and his right shoe was also torn. BANNER YEAR FOR GRAINS. Cattle Range Also Are Curing Well. Sturgis, S. D., Sept. 5——The hum of the big steam threshers now is heard all over Meade county. The yield of both wheat and oats is proving as great as any heretofore recorded. The grain growers of Meade county have reason to rejoice over the plenty that has come to them from nature’s store- house. the warm weather and the dry- ing winds of the past week have done wonders in curing the range grasses. The feed is plentiful and of the best, and cattle are rounding out in flesh and fat. Grasses on “MY GOD, IT’S AWFUL!”—DIES. Man Falls Dead After Touching Elec- ; tric Bulb. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 5. — Gunder Arntson, a tinner, went to the base- ment of C. R. Stone’s residence for some tools he had left there and touched an ordinary electric light bulb. He fell to the floor saying “My God, this is awful.” He died in a few seconds. It is not known whether he was electrocuted, or whether he was merely shocked and died of heart failure. DUMPS MAIL IN RIVER. Rural Carrier’s Horse Smashes Buggy Against a Tree. Le Sueur, Minn., Sept. 5. — When Rural Mail Carrier David Imhoff of Le Sueur was at the end of his route, his horse, a big bay, got beyond his con- trol and ran all the way to Le Sueur, fifteen miles, dumping the mail and buggy top into Rush river. The horse was nearly exhausted on reaching town, but had vitality enough to break loose from the buggy after smashing it against a tree. He was caught while going up a steep hill. SHOT BY BURGLAR. Paul Langen-of Milwaukee Is Shot Af- ter a Fight With a Bandit. Milwaukee, Sept. 5—Paul Langen, foreman of the Milwaukee worsted mills, was shot and probably fatally wounded by a burglar yesterday morn- ing. The burglar had forced open a window of the Langen home with a garden spade and was about to take his departure from the house when Mr. Langen’ grappled with him and the shooting followed. The burglar is still at large. PARDONED TO GO HARVESTING Tobacco Raiser Shown Clemency When Neighbors Plead for Him. Prairie du Chien, Wis., Sept. 5. — A petition from his neighbors that he be allowed to harvest his tobacco crop has resulted in the pardon by Acting Governor Davidson of Henry Rutter of Ferryville, sentenced to the county jail for assault and battery. He had served half of his time. From Pulpit to College. Fayette, Iowa, Sept. 5.—Rev. ‘Will- iam A. Shanklin of Reading, Pa., has been called to the presidency of Upper Iowa university. President Shanklin is a graduate of Hamilton college and of the Garrett Biblical institute. He has occupied pulpits at = hare Seat- tle and Dubuque. Transfer Bemidji Pastor. Bemidji, Minn., Sept. 5. — Father Murphy, who has been pastor of St. Philip’s Catholic church of this city since it was founded, has been trans- ferred to Carlton, Rev. Father Dwyer of Carlton taking his place. Killed by Fall From: Building. St. Paul, Sept. 3. — Augustus M. Brown, a clerk for the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance company, fell sthree stories through a shaft in a new building yesterday and died a few hours later. ELEVEN LOST ON LAKE SUPERIOR STEAMER SEVONA RUNS ASHORE DURING A HEAVY. NORTH- EASTER. BREAKS IN TWO AND SINKS TWO BOATS PUT OFF AND ONE REACHES SHORE AFTER HARD BATTLE. Ashland, Wis., Sept. 5—Word was received here yesterday afternoon that the steamer Sevona, ore laden from Allouez, to Erie, Pa., ran ashore on York island at 6 o'clock Friday night in a heavy northeaster, soon af- terward breaking in two at the fourth hatch, and sinking. Five lives were lost. Two boats were put off. The one in charge of the first engi- neer contained Miss Jones and Mrs. S. F. Spence of Erie, Pa.; Mrs. C. Luckey of West Bay City, Mich.; Mrs. William Phillips, Adam Fiden, Nick Fiden and C. H. Clucky; two firemen and one deck hand, all of Buffalo. Battle With Waves. Battling with waves all night, the occupants of the boat suffered terribly from cold and exposure, and several times the crew was almost forced to give up the struggle, but were urged on bye the women passengers in the boat. When day broke with land in sight the party was in an exhausted condition, but reached shore after several attempts to land at Little Land bay. Here they met homesteaders who accompanied them to the nearest farmhouse, a distance of two miles. The party was cared for by the Rabideau and Smith families with the exception of the engineer, who, with Al Thibadeau, a homesteader, set out with a team for Bayfield. This trip took until 4 o’clock yesterday, they being compelled to practically cut a way through the forest. Life Savers to the Rescue. Upon reaching Bayfield, the tug Harrow, of the Booth Packing com- pany, in command of Capt: Anderson, with a party of volunteer life savers on board, immediately set out for the scene of the wreck to rescue Capt. E. S. McDonald of Eastport, Pa., two mates, two wheelsmen and one deck- hand, who are on the forward end of the ill fated vessel. The second boat, containing five men, has not been heard from, and it is believed it foundered in the heavy seas. The Sevona was. seeking shelter when it struck the reef. Heavy weath- er prevented the lookout from seeing Raspberry island lighthouse. Eleven Lives Lost. There is now every indication that eleven lives were lost as a result of the wreck of the Sevona. The tug Harrow, which went out from Bayfield with a rescuing party, returned at 10 o'clock last night in charge of Capt. Anderson and accom- panied by the engineer of the doomed steamer, who guided the craft to the scene of the disaster. They reported that nothing was seen of the men left on the boat when the two yawls were lowered. Steamer Sinks at Dock. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 5.—The steel steamer North Wind, Capt. Thomas Stevenson, of the Mutual Transit com- pany, met with serious disaster after having ridden out the gale on Lake Superior, just as she was entering the Duluth ship canal at 3:25 Saturday morning, and only a few hundred feet from safety. The steamer was lifted by a huge wave and thrown violently against the south pier of the canal and a hole was stove in her port bow, which caused’ her to sink as she was entering the Northern Pacific’s Lake avenue slip, in from 22 to 25 feet of water. Storm Does Great Damage. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 5. — The high seas of early Saturday morning, con- tinuing throughout the day, played havoc and did damage to the extent of several thousands of dollars to the crib work under construction at the Superior entry near Wisconsin point. As a result of the storm the work of forty men constantly employed for the last two months goes for naught and will have to be done over again. The damage is estimated at $20,000. po ener REA a SEG A, Hunter Near Fargo Shot. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 5—Edward Van Wagel, fifteen years old, was acciden- tally shot in the wrist while hunting near Fargo. His hand was amputated. His was the first hunting accident of the season in this locality. Elevator Falls; Five Hurt. Eldora, Iowa, Sept. 5.—By the break- ing of a steel chain in an elevator at the Eldora pipe plant five laborers}. were severely infared. The men fell fifteen feet. It is not believed any are fatally hurt. ‘MOST CITIES SHOW GROWTH POPULATION OF CITIES OF MIN- NESOTA AS SHOWN BY THE CENSUS, ST. PAUL SHOWS UP BEST PERCENTAGE OF INCREASE IS 40.6 AGAINST MINNEAPO- Lis’ 35.6. St. Paul, Sept. 2.—Minnesota has six- ty-four incorporated cities as com- pared with forty-one in 1895, and but eight of the cities show a loss in popu- Jation since the last state census ten years ago, according to figures just an- nounced by the census bureau. The cities showing a loss are Blue Earth, Chaska, Hastings, Jordan, Le Sueur, Northfield, Waterville and Wi- nona. St. Paul has increased its population during the last ten years the most rapidly of all the large cities. The percentage of St. Paul’s increase is 40.6, Minneapolis 35.6 and Duluth a lit- tle over 9 per cent. The seventy-one incorporated vil lages show a total population of 100,- 609, aS against 62,513 in 1895, a gain of 38,096, or about 60 per cent. Chatfield, Glencoe, Kasson, Lanesboro, Spring Valley and Winnebago City are the only villages showing a decrease in population. There are 135 municipalities in the state having a population of more than 1,000, as compared with 103 ten years ago. A list showing the population of the ineorporated cities in 1905 and 1895 follows: —Population— In- Cities— 1905. 1895. crease. Albert Lea 5,657 4,158 1,499 Anoka . 4,053, 3,812 241 Austin . 6,489 5,087 1,402 Barnesville -. 1,566 1,238 328, Blue Earth City.. 2,364 2,432 Brainerd 8,134 7,051 Chaska Cloquet. Crookston Detroit (a) . Duluth East Grand Forks s 2480 Eyeleth Faribault Fairmont Fergus Falls Granite Falls Hastings Hutchinson Jordan Lake City Litchfield .. Little Falls Luverne ... Le Sueur Borough Madison . Mankato Marshall . Melrose Minneapolis Montgomery Montevideo . Moorhead Morris ... New Prague . New Ulm . Northfield Owatonna Pipestone Rea Lake Falls.. Redwood Falls Red Wing Rochester St. Cloud St. James St. Paul . St. Peter Shakopee Sleepy Eye South St. Pa Stillwater Thief River F: Tracy . Virginia Wabasha Waseca Waterville . West St. Paul Willmar . Windom Winona Worthington .... *Decrease. MAN BLOWN TO BITS IN THE AIR. Aeronaut Baldwin and His Balloon Fall in Shreds, Greenville, Ohio, Sept. 2—Aeronaut Baldwin of Losantiville, Ind., and his balloon were literally blown to shreds yesterday at a height of 2,000 feet. Baldwin was giving an exhibition of the use of dynamite for war purposes and had three sticks of the explosive with him. When he was 2,000 feet in the air, in full sight of thousands of people attending the county fair, by some accident the dynamite exploded, and the balloon and man were torn to fragments. Baldwin’s wife was a wit- ness of the horrible scene. HANGED TO MAKE HIM TALK. Negro Breaks Promise to Confess Theft of Money. Golconda, Ill., Sept. 2. — A negro porter charged with stealing $140 from a guest at a hotel was captured near town and hanged for a short time to make him divulge the hiding place of the money. He promised to do so, but when he reached the hotel he refused. The porter is in jail and his three captors are under bond charged with assault to commit murder. STATE LANDS TO BE IN DEMAND. lowa and Illinois Farmers Have Eyes for North. According to real estate dealers who have returned from Iowa and Illinois in the last few days the bumper crop which is being harvested in those two states will mean much to Northern Minnesota in the line of immigration. The wealthy and prosperous farmers of the Iowa and Illinois soil will have an unusual surplus of ready cash, and the result will be a steady flow of cur- rency into the northern portion of Minnesota for the purchase of lands as an investment. Lands in Iowa and Mllinois are dirt cheap at $150 an acre, and when farmers from that section can find land equally as good as far as production is concerned, for $40 and $50 an acre, they immediately scent a good investment and are eager pur- chasers of Northern Minnesota soil. The state land sales this-fall will attract a large amount of Illinois and Iowa capital. Farmers who have well filled corn cribs, granaries and fat bank books and accounts have heard much of the wonderfu fertility of Northern Minnesota and the state dur- ing recent months and’ it has done much to promote the publicity of the coming sale of state lands. Already real estate dealers in the vicinity of Crookston are receiving queries as to the method of procedure adopted by the state in selling lands and of the qaulity of the soil to be offered. The land men are not particularly inter- ested in the state sales because it means fewer sales for them if money from Illinois and Iowa is invested in the state’s property. They, however, are willing to inform the’ southern farmers of the conditions governing the sale, and it is quite likely that the number of transfers made by the state to Iowa and Illinois parties will be large. The promotion of the drainage idea by the State Drainage league has placed Northern Minnesota in the lime light of public gaze as it probably has never been before. The results will be more far reaching than any immi- gration campaign conducted in the eastern thickly settled districts. Pub- licity will do more for this section and for the state at large than any other known medium, and the interest aroused by the drainage convention, throughout the Middle West is signifi- cant of what results a little printer’s ink will bring. . STATE BORROWS FROM BANKS. Warrants No Longer Turned Over to State Treasurer. Facing a steadily increasing deficit ip the state revenue fund, a deficit which is now about $500,000, Gov. Johnson, the state auditor and state Treasurer Julius H. Block have pass- ed a resolution authorizing the state treasurer to make arrangements with banks to pay overdrafts on the state rvenue fund. This action was taken by the state officials a few days ago, and the plan is in actual operation. All warrants issued by the state auditor are turned over to th estate treasurer, who, in- sted of paying them, stamps across their faces: “Pay at bank,.” The warrant is paid at the bank men- tioned, and the state is charged with the amount with interest. The three state officials are consti- tuted a commisison by the appropria- tion bill of the last legislature to make such arrangements with the banks. Under the law the state cannot borrow from other funds for the use of the revenue fund more than $600,000. Al- most this amount has been borrowed already, and it has been decided to take advantage of the provision in the appropriation bill whereby the state is authorized to borrow money from banks. BUILD ROADS TO BELTRAMI. Work Is in Progress on Four New Lines. Three railways are now in Progress of construction in Beltrami county, while the survey for a fourth has be- gun. Two of these, the Wilton & Northern and the Minneapolis, Red Lake & Manitoba, run from Bemidji to Red Lake. The former is being built by the Shevlin-Carpenter com- pany and the latter by C. A. Smith interests. Each road is about tirty- five miles in length. In addition to these the Minnesota & International is extending its line from Northome to Big Falls, thirty- three miles, while two crews of sur- veyors are laying out a line between Bemidji and Detroit. Owing to the extreme wet weather this season, work on all these roads has been greatly delayed. Both roads to Red Lake will be finished and ready for traffic by Oct. 1, however, while the Minnesota and International ex- tension will be completed this fall. Ten Die in a Wreck. Witham, Eng., Sept. 3.—As the ex- press from London to Cromer on the Great Eastern railway was entering Witham station several cars left the track and crashed into the statin, killing 10 persons and injuring 20. Gold Harvest Is Rich. Helena, Mont., Sept. 3—During the month of August the United States as- sayer’s office in Helena bought gold bullion to the value of $209,979.18, of which $190,299 came Feo the gold mines of Montana. HeCOCCNATPTASL BAARL SAYS WISCONSIN IS BLUFFING. F. W. Eva Denies That Minnesota Is Holding Up Grain. “The complaints filed with the Uni- ted States attorney general that Min- nesota is holding up cars of grain con- signed to Superior, Wis., for inspec- tion purposes, and that in this way the interstate commerce act is violated are only a bluff,” says F. W. Eva, chiet grain inspector of Minnesota. Mr. Eva recently visited Duluth and Superior, where he investigated the complaints that cars of grain en route to Wisconsin are being held up. He says that the reports are false. “The day I was in Duluth four cars of grain passed through the city on their way to Superior. The Minnesota inspectors did not touch the cars. They went to superior, the point of consignment, and later were taken to Duluth to be inspected, because the people wished Minnesota inspection. “Everything is running on smoothly at Duluth and we do not expect any trouble with the Wisconsin authorities. The shippers of the grain and the consignees want Minnesota inspection, and if they want to bring their grain to Minnesota for that purpose, there is no law to prevent it.” ™ Mr. Eva announced that the com- mission would again begin inspecting grain at Sandstone and Cass Lake Sept. 7. All grain from points in Min- nesota, North Dakota and other West- ern states consigned to Duluth and other Minnesota points will be in- spected on their way north. BIG INCREASE IN FATALITIES. Ten Per Cent of Accidents Prove Fatal. The percentage of fatal accidents in factories, mills and workshops in Min- nesota is increasing to a rather re- markable extent, according to a report issued by Labor Commissioner W. H. Williams covering the accidents of the last six months. Mr. Williams reports that 439 acci- dents occurred during the six months, and that of these 41, or nearly 10 per cent, were fatal. The percentage of fatal accidents in 1904 was 6.02 per cent. No reason is known for the increase in fatalities, and an investigation will probably be made. One of the objects of receiving reports on accidents is to enable the bureau to keep in touch with conditions in the factory, mills and workshops and to ascertain wheth- er the laws of the state regarding the safeguarding of machinery are com- plied with. MORE MEN THAN WOMEN. Bachelors in Minnesota Not Entirely to Blame for Their Condition. There is not a county in Minnesota in which the female population ex- ceeds the male population. In some counties there are almost twice as many men as women, and the number of males throughout the state exceeds the number of females by 150,919. The figures are: Males, 1,060,115; females, 909,106. St. Louis county has nearly 30,000 more men’than women. The figures in Ramsey county are: Males, 110,- 023; females, 96,307. In Hennepin they show: Males, 156,535; females, 136,271. There are 5,113 negroes in the state, 720 civilized Indians, 10,000 Indians on reservations, 171 Chinese and 50 Japanese. Civil war soldiers number 9,641; sailors, 157. There are 2,783 Spanish war soldiers and 176 sailors. CENTENNIAL AT FORT SNELLING. Celebration Is Proposed to Take Place on Sept. 23. Dr. William E. Leonard of Minneap- olis, president of the Native Sons of Minnesota, called on Mayor Smith of St. Paul recently and requested that some action be taken to enlist the co- operation of St. Paul people in a pro- posed celebration at Fort Snelling on Sept. 23. The celebration will be in commemoration of the hundredth an- niversary of the cession of the post grounds to Gen. Zebulon Pike by the Indians in 1805, It is proposed to have a number of speakers on the program, all the de- tails of which have not been prepared. Dr. Leonard stated that the officers at Fort Snelling had agreed to co-operate in the celebration with the view of making it as imposing an affair as pos- sible. BOXCAR MERCHANT FINED. War on Illegal Traffic Declared by Food Commission. War on boxcar merchants has been declared by the state dairy and food commission. Several convictions have been reported to the department in the last few days. Commissioner E. K. Slater has received word that a boxcar merchant was fined $50 at Owa- tonna. Falls Dead in Dooryard. Crookston, Minn., Aug. 27.—Mrs. An- drew Swanson of this city, mother of Osear Fredericks, bookkeeper at the Scandia-American bank here, fell dead from apoplexy while in the yard pick- Killed by Lightning. Winona, Minn., Sept. 1—Albert Cas- ton of Milwaukee was struck by light- ning and killed last night on William Chalmers’ farm on Homer Ridge. ‘Women are never convinced that they bave all the finery that they need, gE si ih ARANDA REA tt