Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 30, 1905, Page 2

_erald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPID MINNESOTA. The dancing masters are try'ng tc take one step forward by abolishing the “two-step.” Prince Louis of Battenburg has been visiting Niagara, but sold nc lace while there. What a relief it must be to China tc know that there will be no more prize fighting in her backyard! It is said that the Gulf stream is getting near the United States Everything is coming this way. China will have to wait only twelve years for a parliament, and what is a matter of twelve years to China? Apparently the women are agreed that a man should have nothing to do with a woman's hat except to pay for it. About the time a man comes to be known as a Guiding Star for youth, he is exposed and then he is a Warning Signal. Now that he has dined with Mrs. Potter Palmer King Edward’s social standing cannot be questioned in the best society. That new fashion of having a set of jewels for each costume is not, after all, so complex as it might seem— for some of us. An editor announces that he is go- ing to put a lion in his sanctum to keep out the poets. He’ll find that he needs more than one. In the matter of thoroughness and expedition, however, there is nothing like a good lusty earthquake for making a wide open town. The chances against a person he- ing killed in a railway accident in Freat Britain are 200,000,000 to 1 Still, that doesn’t help the 1. Work is slack at the San Francisco mint and several of the employes have been laid off, although the demand for the output is greater than ever. Newport’s smart set members are protesting against associating with their lowly neighbors. They consider this a sort of high kick, as it were. Camille Flammarion has announced that the recent eclipse of the sun pleased him, and the eclipse, much comforted, has voted itself a success. It is noted with deep concern that there is a partial failure of the persim- mon crop this year. The crop of poles, on the contrary, is simply im- mense. A New Jersey girl had to marry about sixteen mén before she found one who suited her. Something of a slam on the men of New Jersey, we should think. . An Oklahoma girl who advertised for a husband, got one, after an expen- diture of $11. He died within a year, leaving her $10,000. It continues to pay to advertise. Hint to the young man about to propose:, You will impress her more if you tell her that your salary is $1,500 a year than you will if you tell her it is $30 a week. The New York man -who sent a bomb to his landlord because the lat- ter had raised the rent must be one of those people who do not look with favor upon indemnities. Somebody has written to the papers defending Napoleon Bonaparte, though nobody has been roasting Napoleon lately, so far as we know, with the possible exception of Satan. Mr. Joseph Leiter, brother-in-law, says that Viscount Curzon would make a good citizen in any country. Viscount Curzon has not cabled his estimate of Mr. Leiter’s universal value. After trying to remember every good thing we have ever eaten, we have come to the conclusion that about the best there was going were the green apples and salt of the good old days. An English doctor says beer-drink- ing has made the Britons a sturdy race. Nobody can tell how much sturdier the race might have been, however, if it had never become ad- dicted to beer. An Ohio man who was supposed to be a pauper died a few days ago, leav- ing $80,000. There is no likelihood that the one who gets the money will permit himself to be mistaken for a pauper while it lasts. Admiral Togo’s name is pronounced as if spelled Tongo, the letter “g” in any Japanese word always having the sound of “n” to accompany it. This is important to people who have named their dogs for the great ad- wiral. Speaking of perpetual motion, it is pleaded in behalf of a murderer that he was crazy because he stopped try- ing to guess the wheat market in order to devote his entire attention to solving the perpetual motion problem. What is the difference? - E KING-EMPEROR’S COLDNESS TO HUNGARY'S DELEGATES CAUSES SURPRISE. SITUATION IS VERY GRAVE FEARED IN DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES THAT REBELLION MAY BREAK OUT. CENSURE THE KING-EMPEROR HUNGARIANS ADOPT STRONG RESOLUTIONS AIMED AT FRANCIS JOSEPH. Washington, Sept. 27.—Interest in diplomatic circles has shifted sudden- ly from other foreign complications to the crisis in Austro-Hungarian af- fairs. There is sharp surprise mani- fested here that Francis Joseph should have been so curtly cold in his reception of the Hungarian coalition representatives, and the belief is, though diplomacy voices it cautiously, that the situation in the double king- dom is grave and that revolution may break out. i The claim of the Hungarians that the industrial and political center of gravity has shifted from Austria to Hungary has in it much of truth, and the Hungarian representatives in ask- ing concessions of the emperor are asking only that which it is more than probable they have the power to force if a resort to arms were made the court of last appeal. Points at Issue. Into the controversy have entered the questions of commercial treaties, the foreign missions and a number of economic matters, but first of all is the powder-charged question of the army. ‘Francis Joseph has told the Hungarian coalition representatives flatly that the question of changing the language of command in the army to the tongue of the men who serve in individual regiments cannot be considered for a moment. This matter, in which reform has been sought and has been refused, it is supposed, finally, may result in an upheaval which will mean the dis- memberment of the dual monarchy. Sentiment as Cause. It is a sentimental matter, but sen- timent has caused more than one war. The recent elections in Hungary overturned matters. The Liberal party had been in control for years, but was overwhelmingly defeated by the party known simply as the oppo- sition. The victors, have disclaimed all along that they seek aboslute sepa- ration from Austria, but their every act has pointed to the conclusion that if that which they demanded of the emperor were not granted, separation was the only alternative, even if there must be a resort to revolution. King is Censured. Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 27. — The executive committee of the coalition parties summoned to discuss the sit- uation arising from the ultimatum presented to the Hungarian leaders by the king-emperor, has passed what amounts to a severe vote of censure of his majesty and his advisers. The committee in the resolution expresses the deepest regret that the king-em- peror did not listen to the statesmen summoned by him to Vienna, who rep- resent the majority in the Hungarian parliament and constitute, therefore, the leaders of the nation in its public affairs. « Rap at Advisers. The committee further indignantly censures those who advised his maj- esty to take such a course, and ap- proves the action of the coalition lead- ers in refusing to negotiate with Count Goluchowski and in declining the memorandum presented by the king-emperor as a violation of the constitution and unsuitable for the settlement of the present constitution- al conflict. Summon General Conference. The executive committee of the coalition parties in the Hungarian diet yesterday decided to summon a gen- eral conference of all the parties forming the coalition Oct. 3 for the purpose of arriving at a common agreement on the answer to be made to the conditions imposed by the king- emperor. The committee also decided to invite to the conference all depu- ties outside the coalition who desire to participate in the defense of the constitution. DOZEN HURT IN EXPLOSION. Fireworks Factory Explodes in Brook- lyn. New York, Sept. 27.—More than a dozen were reported injured in an ex- plosion in a fireworks factory in the Green Point section of Brooklyn, late yesterday. Some of them are believed to be fatally huft. Ambulances were summoned from five hospitals and the police reserves of three precincts were called to the scene of the explosion. Text of Protocol Betweerm Sweden and Norway Is Made Public. Stockholm, Sept. 27.—The Associa- ted Press has succeeded in securing the text of the protocol signed at Karl- stad Saturday by the Norwegian- Swedish delegates appointed to ar- range the terms for the dissolution of the union of Norway and Sweden, sub- ject to the ratification of the riksdag and storthing. The historic document, which will become a treaty when ratified by the two parliaments, consists of five main articles and thirty-five subclauses. The first article deals with arbitra- tion; the second with the neutral zone and the demolition of the fortifica- tions; the third with reindeer pas- tures, etc.; the fourth with inter- traffic, and the fifth with common waterways. The agreement provides for the Compulsory Arbitration before The Hague court of all disputes ‘except matters of vital interest, for the period of a decade, with exten- sions for other periods of ten years, unless two years’ previous notice is given of an intention to abrogate it. The treaty provides for a zone on either side of the frontier which shall forever be neutral and for the Demolition of the Fortresses within that zone, with the exception of the old portions of the fortifications of Fredriksten, Glydenloeve and Over- bjerget, which may remain, but which are not to be used as fortifications. A headquarters staff and garrison may be maintained at Fredriksten to the same extent as prior to the erec- tion of the new fortifications. No extension of the Kongvinger group of fortifications will be per- mitted, nor of the new forts erected within ten kilometers of the old fort- ress of Kongsvinger. What Are Vital Interests? The vent of a difference of opinion between the two countries as to whether a given question touches the vital interests of one of them the mat- ter shall be submitted to the arbitra- tion tribunal for decision. Disputes in regard to the interpre- tation of the method of carrying out the agreement to be arrived at, in connection with the dissolution of the union, shall not, however, be submit- ted to The Hague court. In Case of Foreign War, Fortifications, war ports or depots for the army or navy must not be maintained nor new ones established within the neutral zone. This agree- ment is suspended in case the two countries assist each other in a war against a common enemy, and also if either goes to war with a third power. The demolition of the forts shall be carried out under the supervision of a commission, composed of three offi- cers of foreign nationalities, neither Swedish nor Norwegian, each coun- try chosing one, and the third to be selected by those two, or in case of a disagreement, by the president of Switzerland. Import and Export Laws. Each country agrees neither through prohibitory import or export laws to in any way interfere with or make difficult the transport or transit of goods. In case of war complications with or between other powers or in other extraordinary cases, arms and ammunition and other war material shall be deemed contraband. Explana- tions may be made as demanded by international laws or the security of their own neutrality. Exceptions may also be made for sanitary reasons. Transit goods must not be taxed with export duty or similar charges, nor must any distinction be made in charges of transit. Norwegians Are Pleased. Christiania, Norway, Sept. 27.—The agreement reached at Karlstad was published here last evening. The pa- pers got out extras and crowds thronged the streets. The first im- pression formed was favorable to the agreement. No Discordant Voice in Sweden. Stockholm, Sept. 27.—Almost with- out a dissentent voice the people of Sweden, so far as can be judged by the opinions of the press here and elsewhere, accept with satisfaction the terms of the agreement between Sweden and Norway reached at Karl- stad. FIRED INTO STREET CAR. Italian Takes Revenge for Being Ejected From Crowded Car. Kansas City, Sept. 27—Frank Mikel, an Italian, shot into a crowded street car a mile from the business district, last night because he had been ejected from the car, was chased by a crowd of men that gathered quickly and was badly beaten before the police rescued him. Mikel sought refuge in a basement, from which he was dragged by the crowd, and it probably was due: only to the arrival of the po- lice that he was not killed. The bullet fired by Mikel shattered the glass windows in the car above the heads of the passengers, barely missing a num- ber of persons. ‘i American Steamer Seized. Tokio, Sept. 24. — The American steamer Barracouta, Capt. Curtis, last reported to have sailed from San Francisco for Nikolaievsk, has been seized by. the Japanese north of the island of Sakhalin. Crushed to Death. Two Harbors, Minn., Sept. 24. — Jack Korber, a Finnish miner em- ployed in the Commodore mine, got caught in the ship road and was crushed to death. He was a single man. “panwe or roe anraravon: (KING-F MPEROR MAY ABDICATE WILDEST RUMORS KEEP HUN- GARIANS IN FEVER OF EX- ‘ CITEMENT. — SITUATION GROWING WORSE RADICALS THREATEN TO HURRY COUNTRY INTO IRREPARA- BLE ACTION. KOSSUTH IS MAN OF THE HOUR FORMATION OF ONE GREAT PARTY UNDER HIS LEADER- SHIP URGED. London, Sept. 27.—The correspond- ent of the Morning Post at Budapest says: “The wildest rumors are afloat in Budapest. One paper publishes a statement that the king-emperor in- tends to resign the crown of Hungary in favor of Prince Francis Ferdinand, and other similarly unauthenticated statements are made. “The situation here grows worse daily. The radical element threaten to swamp the Moderate party and to hurry the country into irreparable ac- tion. Public references to the dynasty are made in a tone which it is Impossible to Reproduce. The principal newspapers urge the formation of one great party under Francis Kossuth. This is supported by Cossuth, Count Apponyi and Baron Banffy.” Other special dispatches represent the situation as serious, but say it is evident that the conservative elements hesitate to countenance the driving of matters to a point where compromise would be impossible. The Daily Telegraph's Budapest cor- respondent says that extreme excite- ment prevails, accompanied by a de- termination to keep up the struggle to the bitter end. The correspondent con- tinues: “The independent party is be- lieved to have secured 100,000 New Adherents, while the old Liberal party has broken up. The partisans of Kossuth have also obtained the upper hand in quar- ters which formerly were dominated by the socialists.” According to all reports, however, the coalition leaders are doing every- thing to keep popular sentiment from reaching a point where it cannot be controlled, realizing that the passions of the people have already been in- flamed by the reports of the emperor’s reception and treatment of the Hun- garian representatives at Vienna Sat- urday last and that it might be easy to bring about an irreparable disaster. The coalition leaders have issued a proclamation stating that they are de- termined to eschew all revolutionary methods. King May Change His Mind. Kossuth is quoted as saying he be- lieved that the king-emperor would yet change his mind and grant conces- sions to Hungary. Both in Budapest and Vienna it is realized that much depends on the outcome of the great meeting of all the coalition parties to be held at Buda- pest Oct. 3, at which it is understood a plan for legalized opposition will be formulated. In well informed circles in Vienna the situation is regarded with a cer- tain amount of pessimism, but there is an entire absence of any definite idea as to what is likely to be the real out- come of the present apparent chaos. The Budapest newspapers are printing violent editorials. DISCRIMINATION CHARGED. Standard Oil Said to Benefit by the Rates. Washington, Sept. 27.—Charges have been preferred against several West- ern roads for giving discriminating rates to the Standard Oil company in Iowa. The Marshall Oil company of that state has preferred a complaint with the interstate commerce commis- sion. The,Burlington line, the St. Paul and subsidiary roads are interested in the case WILL MEET IN ST. PAUL. United States Brewmasters Close Ses- sion in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Sept. 27. — The conven- tion of the United States Brewmasters, which has been’ in session here, ad- journed last night. No officers were elected at this session, those now serv- ing having another year to hols office. The convention decided to divide its sessions next year between St. Paul and Minneapolis. PLAGUE UNDER CONTROL. Looks as if Situation at New Orleans Was Improving, New Orleans, Sept. 27.—Official re- port to 6 p. m. yesterday:. New cases, 31; total to date, 2,899; deaths, 5; total to date, 375; new foci, 7; under treatment, 286; cases dis- charged, 2,238, With these successive small lists of new cases it begins again to look as though the situation was improving. The country report was meazer and indicated no new cases of infection. LOOK FOR MORE FRAUD. Secretary Hitchcock Speaks of Still More Casés’of Lan Investigations. Washington, Sept. 27. — Secretary Hitchcock in an interview said: “After the land fraud cases in Ore- gon have been wound up, United States Attorney Heney, who has been conducting them, will come to Wash- ington and will look after the Cali- fornia cases in which Hyde, Dimond and others have been indicted. “Later on there probably will be other indictments in New Mexico and Idaho, and perhaps other states. The losses to the government through these frauds have aggregated millions of acres of land millions of dollars. The interest of the people of this country in the prosecution of these cases is only an evidence of the determination of cities, states and the nation in gen- eral to run down grafters wherever they may be found.” STEVENS NOT SLOW. Work of Chief Engineer of Canal Is Showing Results. Panama, Sept. 27—The work of John F. Stevens, the chief engineer of the Panama canal and general manager of the Panama railroad, is beginning to show results. The correspondent of the Associated Press yesterday visited La Boca, where the work has been pushed forward since the arrival of Mr. Stevens on the increase of dockage facilities. Mr. Stevens informed the correspondent that the new 1,000-foot dock at La Boca will be finished Sept. 80; that the dock at Cristobal wil be completed by the middle of October, and that the work on the railroad to be connected with the canal zone is advancing satisfactorily. Over 2.000 new laborers from Barbadoes and Colombia have been employed since Sept. 1. SIXTY THOUSAND TO STRIKE. Electrical Workers’ Troubles in Berlin Grow More Acute. Berlin, Sept. 27—The controversy between the electrical companies of Berlin and their workmen has become more acute. The striking screw work- ers of the Siems and Schuckert com- panies and the packers of the general electric company met yesterday and rejected the companies’ ultimatum. At meetings in the afternoon the men de- cided to appeal for the solidarity of the workingmen of all the electrical com- panies and to ask for a geveral strike, which will affect about 60,000 men. CATCH AUTOIST ON WIRE, Madison Man Is Seriously Hurt by Striking Obstruction. Madison, Wis., Sept. 27.—While re- turning in his auto from Sun Prairie to Madison, Harry B. Gorman of this city was seriously injured by wires stretched across the road between two telegraph poles. The wires were just high enough to catch occupants of an automobile, and it is believed that they were set by farmers. NO POLITICS FOR THEM. Mobile Cotton Exchange Men Won't Greet the President. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 27. — The cotton exchange committee yesterday refused to name a committee to represent that body with committees from other com- mercial bodies to receive the president next month. The reason given is that the body is a commercial body and has nothing to do with political matters. SPOKANE HAS SEVERE FIRE. Business Blocks Are Damaged to the Amount of $200,000. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 27.—A disas- trous fire broke out in the heart of the wholesale and shipping section of Spokane early yesterday which com- pletely gutted three brick buildings. The total fire loss was approximately estimated at $200,000. Thousands of Acres of Wheat Lost. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 27.—Threshing in this section of the Red river valley is practically completed and many rigs are being shipped with full crews to the northwestern part of the state. Thousands of acres of wheat near the Red river were never cut because of the flooded conditions of the fields just about the harvest period. The Cass county average will not be high, espe- cially in the eastern half. Killed While Hunting. Iron River, Mich., Sept. 27. — John Henrickson, a young man living at Mastodon, tripped over a log while hunting. The gun he was carrying was discharged and the whole load of fine shot entered his right side just below the ribs, causing» a horrible wound which resulted in death a few hours later. Militia to Guard Prisoners. Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 27.—Gov. Beck- ham last night ordered that two com- panies of infantry and a detachment of battery of the state guard proceed to Russellville to protect W. R. Fletcher and Guy Lyon during trial there for criminal assault. Epidemics Menace Middies. Annapolis, Md., Sept. 27. — On ac- count of the prevalence of typhoid fever and diphtheria at the naval academy, a rigid quarantine has been established, and no midshipmen are al- lowed to leave the grounds. Six Number of Wreck Deaths, Philadelphia, Sept. 27—Noble Red- mond, a porter, who was injured in the wreck on the Pennsylvania road at Paoli Monday, died yesterday, mak- ing a total of six dead. The other in- jured are out of danger. TALE OF HORROR FROM THE CONGO FRENCH MISSION SENT OUT UN- DER BRAZZA MAKES ITS REPORT. CASES OF BRUTAL CRUELTY MANY NATIVES ARE FLOGGED TO DEATH WITH KNOTTED WHIPS. CONDITIONS ARE INTOLERABLE MINISTER OF FRENCH COLONIES PLANS INVESTIGATION OF CHARGES. Paris, Sept. 27.—M. Clementel, min- ister of the colonies, yesterday re- ceived the report of the mission to the French Congo, sent out last spring un- der Count de Brazza, who, on the re- turn journey, died at Dakar, a seaport of French West Africa. In connection with the sending of this mission a considerable sensation was aroused owing to the publication of charges against M. Gentil, commis- sioner general of the French Congo, al- leging maladministration and great cruelty toward the natives. M. Gentil is now in Paris in a precarious state of health. Flog Men to Death. Among the cases of cruelty cited in the report is that of a number of na- tives who were flogged to death with knotted whips. It is also asserted that in order to force the natives to pay taxes the colonial office at Bangui, in May, 1904, imprisoned fifty-eight women and ten children, and that within five weeks forty-seven of these died of starvation. A letter from Count de Brazza, dated Aug, 24, just before the beginning of his fatal return journey, throws light on the Congo. In it he says: “I found the conditions at Bangui intolerable. The population there was being destroyed by requisitions. Ev- erything was done «to hide the true state of affairs from the mission, which, however, discovered serious abuses. No reform is possible without a change of administration. I return with the belief that the dispatch of my Mission Was Necessary, as otherwise in a short time we should have to face worse scandals than those confronted by the Belgians.” Minister Clemental is determined to thoroughly investigate the charges after the national funeral over the re- mains of Count de Braz WANTS KELLEY CASES TRIED. Mandamus Proceedings Are Begun in Stolen Indictment Case. Pierre, S. D., Sept. 27.—T. H. Null of Huron secured from the supreme court an order to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue to compel the circuit court to take action in the case against C. A. Kelley of Huron. Five indictments were re- turned against Kelley by the Beadle county grand jury, and all were stolen from the files of the clerk of court of that county. The order of the supreme court is returnable on Oct. 14. WILL BECOME A REAL CITY. People of Bemidji Are About to Under. go Incorporation. Bemidji, Minn., Sept. 27. — At the charter election held here the question of taking out a city charter was car- ried in favor of the act by a vote of 321 to 204. The first election will be held on Noy. 7, and the city govern- ment will be organized on Nov. 14. City bonds to the amount of $10,000 were sold at a premium of $160. ROB NEWSPAPER OFFICE, Safe Is Opened But Burglars Get Little Booty. Wahpeton, N. D., Sept. 27. — The Wahpeton Gazette office was robbed last night and about $65 in cash and checks taken. The burglars pried open a window in the rear of the build- ing; opened the safe in the office in the front part of the building, and got away without leaving any clew. BANK PRESIDENT ARRESTED. J. A. Erickson of Defunct Minot Insti- tution Accused. Minot, S. D., Sept. 27.—President J. A. Erickson of the Minot National bank, now in the hands of a receiver, was arrested yesterday, charged with making a false report to the controller of the currency. He waived examina- tion and was held to the federal grand jury in the sum of $11,000. BURGLARS OPEN SAFE. Take Money From Store Near Osceola, Wis. Osceola, Wis., Sept. 27.—The store owned by William F. Koch east of Farmington was entered by burglars and the safe was broken open. About $10 in cash, besides clothing and other articles, was taken. One of the money tills was found e block away with a lot of valuable papers in it. The work was undoubtedly that of amateurs, as it was a bungling job. A stick of dyna- mite was left by the safe. ¥