Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 14, 1905, Page 2

GRAND RAPIDS, - By C. E. KILEY. . MINNESOTA. | Few young men are really as bad as the girls try to make them thin. they are. Theory aside, few things are more efficiently expiatory of sin than mak: ing money at it. Tiflis is reported quiet. 1t7 Tifiis has settled down there,is no excuse fo) turmoil anywhere else. Stone-soled shoes have been pro- duced by an Illinois ‘inventor. Don’t let papa see this, Mildred. With the retirement of the peace makers from the scene the mapmak- ers will proceed to get busy. Competent authorities declare that the fall styles will be marked by full leeves and empty pocketbooks. “We sleep too much,” says Edison. Is this another case of race suicide? Have a baby in the house, Thomas. Apple jack is said to be “on the de- ine.” As a matter of fact, it has been soing down ever since we can remem- ber. One of the funniest things in life is to see an author of detective storics trying to decide where he left his um- brella. Hoops are to be the style, according to the dressmakers. The dressmakers must have heard about the three hoops in Hades, Ten Delaware editors have come to he rescue of the state by promisin= to run things hereafter. When editors igree all is well. The dressmakers, in convention. e decided that waists must be aller this season. Many young men will be pleased to help. A cynic declares that young people simply hop nowadays, instead of danc- ing. Nothing drags these times, broth- er—not even people’s feet. hi Much of the trouble in the Taggart family would have been avoided if they had arranged matters so as to be both sober at the same time. Possibly William Waldorf Astor needs that million he is trying to get from the city of New York. He may have bought another automobile. This is expected to be the greatest football season ever known in the history of the game. Harvard already has three players on the hospital list. A cable station has been established on the island of Yap. If a grave em- ergency arises in consequence of this the cable tolls can be made prohibit- ive. Some Philadelphia politicians who have been making money out of the public are in a fair way to have their ire living expenses borne by the ate. A man is going to put a live lion into a vaudeville sketch. If he would put the other vaudeville actors in the lion, he would be doing a magnificent service. With the salary of Norway’s new ruler fixed at $175,000 a year, it seems trange to some that there should be any difficulty in finding a man to take the throne. In Newport society the idea seems to be that some young woman is to marry Jimmie Hyde’s marble palace, acquiring Jimmie as one of the inci- dental properties. It must have hurt Sir Thomas Lip- ton’s pride a lot. to be tossed from the saddle and kicked in the face by his horse just as he was passing in re- view before the king. It is the urgent advice of the royal physician that the ezar and the czar- ina and the children will spend two months at Darmstadt. Here’s hoping that the baby’s bombproof. New Jersey has a society of 14,000 men who never use swear words. To appreciate what great self-restraint this implies you have only to consider what life in New Jersey 1s like. Certainly there was a sense of hu- mor in that English workman who had the rich man’s disease, appendi- citis, and accounted for it on the ground that the attack came on pay day. The fact that there were 35 cents in the pocket of a New York editor found murdered the other day is accepted by the police as conclusive evidence that robbery was not the motive of the crime. The New York American calls at- tention to an unloyely phase of hu- man nature when it remarks that hor- rible accidents to balloopists are be- coming so common of late that an ascent never fails to draw a huge crowd. President ‘Hadley of Yale, in his speech at the banquet to the Russian envoys, illustrated his remarks by quoting a poker player and Kipling, showing that our college presidents are not altogether of the cloistered recluse type. “Adjt. Gen. Fiuchvbeeye says that work will be begun early next spring on the mess hall to be constructed at Fort Snelling. The sum of $35,000 is available for the purpose, The army strength in Hawaii is to be increased from two compatiies to a battalion of infantry. This decision was reached at a conference between President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft. It was announced at the war depart- ment that Gov. Wright will come to the United States from the Philippines and will be present in Washington by Dee, 15, at the opening of bids for the construction of railways in the Phil- ippines, The date for the opening of the bids has been postponed from Dec. 1 to Dec. 15, so that Gov. Wright can be present. Postmaster General Cortelyou will soon make public the report of the commission ef postal experts appoint- ed to make an investigation to deter- mine the practicability of establishing pneumatic postal service in. several cities of the country, among them St. Paul, The commission’s report will doubtless have the approval of the postmaster general. Foreign. The Swedish steamers Njord and Robert collided near Hveen island, in the sound. The Robert sank. Twenty persons were drowned. A duel with swords was fought at Paris by Guy Casagnac and M. Noels, a member of the chamber of deputies. The latter was severely wounded in the abdomen. John W. Riddle of Minnesota, min- ister to Roumania and Servia, present- ed his credentials to King Charles at the palace at Bucharest. The new min. ister was received with the customary ceremonial. A rumor circulated in the United States that the Panama government had made overtures to Costa Rica with a view to a union of the two republics is said in official and other circles at Panama to be without foundation. The Echo de Paris prints an article signed by Andrew Carnegie in which the writer argues in favor of an alli- ance of the United States, France and Great Britain for the safeguarding of the peace of the world. The author denominates the countries named as “the three republics, two uncrowned and one crowned.” The interisland steamer Canlabenia, ay 097 tons, was struck in the recent typhoon off Ticao island, one of the Visayan group. Apparently all on board was lost. She carried five Amer- icans, one Spaniard and eleven native and Chinese passengers, and a crew of ninety-seven men and officers. The island steamer Carmen is also report- ed lost. Details are lacking. The steamer Colona, which sailed from Canso, N. S., Sept. 23, paying out the Commercial Cable company’s new cable, reports that she arrived at a point 187 miles from the Irish coast, where the final splice will be made. The Colona reports that a southwest gale was blowing, making the work of connecting the two pieces of cable difficult. A collision took place at Brunn, Aus- tria, between rival meetings of Ger- mans and Czechs, resulting from the agitation by the former against the proposed establishment of a Czech university there. Troops were com- pelled to intervene, but before order was restored 160 persons were injured, some seriously. Several police sta- tions were wrecked and hundreds of windows were broken. Accidental Happenings. Two boys, Percy Dudley, aged 10 years, and George Dudley, aged 16, brothers, were drowned in the Poto- mac river at Washington. Fire at Pittsburg damaged the Mack- intosh-Hemphill company, or Fort Pitt foundry, as it is better known, to the extent of about $200,000, fully covered by insurance. Three members of the Banda Roma of Boston were seriously hurt, while nearly every other member of the band was cut and bruised by the collapse of a band stand at Lawrence, Mass. The coasting steamer Hsiesho, ply- ing between Shanghai and Tien-tsin, struck and was totally destroyed by a mine ninety miles south of Shangtung promontory. Fifteen were drowned. The home of Paul Baux at Danville, Nll., was destroyed by fire as the re- sult of using coal oil to kindle the fire. Charles Baux, two years old, burned to death. Mrs, Baux was fatally burn- ed. A switch engine in the yards of the Louisville & Nashville road at Birm- ingham, Ala., jumped the track and two men were instantly killed anda third died a few hours later in a hos- pital. Y In a friendly scuffle at Memphis, James Rand struck Frank Johnson a light blow over the heart. Johnson reeled back unconscious and died in a few minutes. A coroner’s jury exon- erated Rand. A small skiff having on board C. W. Carter of St. Louis, Joe Dreifuss, news- paper solicitors, and T. A. Danaher of Dorchester, Iowa, and L. O. Winslow of Charles City, Iowa, was run down by the ferry boat Eleanor at Dubuque. Carter was drowned. William Eggert was killed at Green- wood, Wis., by a stick of dynamite ex- ploded prematurely, and Eggert’s stom- ach was torn out and his left hand blown away. He retained conscious- ness for several minutes, during which he offered a touching prayer for him- He then quickly self and family. ed away. pass- “mobile accident. A train on the Fairmount division of | the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was wrecked at Round Bottom, Pa. The engine and two cars were ditched and the balance of the train was derailed. No one was killed, although a number of passengers were badly injured. Fred A. Harlinian, lawyer, banker, and one of the wealthiest men in Northern Iowa, was killed in an auto- While descending a steep hill he lost control of his ma- chine and was thrown into a deep gulch, the car crushing him to death. ! A. Roy Knabenshue, the aeronaut, met with an accident to his airship on the Brockton, Mass., fair grounds while trying to make an ascension, but was not injured. The ship had risen about thirty yards when the mo- tor missed a number of revolutions and the airship dropped, Senator John H. Mitchell, recently convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States government in connec- tion with the transactions in public land, is in a Portland, Or., hospital suffering from a broken rib. He slip- ped on some smooth earth while watch- ing the dry dock of the steamship Ocean. Serious complications are not apprehended, but on account of the senator’s advanced age he will have unusual care. Crimes and Criminals. Frank Murray of Glencoe, Iowa, aged 75 years, was struck by the spe- cial train carrying Sousa’s band and instantly killed. The postoffice at Cashton, Iowa, was robbed. The safe was blown open and the burglars secured about $700 in stamps and money. There is no clue. The body of Albert W. Bagnall, who had been missing for five days, was found in the Red river at Winnipeg. He evidently committed suicide while despondent. Alice Flynn of Riverside, Iowa, just home from the state insane asylum, left home at night and threw herself into a well. She was the daughter of a prominent farmer. Three children, two boys and a girl, in the soldiers’ orphans’ home at Da- venport, Iowa, were poisoned by candy sent them by their father. A stomach pump saved them. The candy is being analyzed. Six negro desperadoes entered a Greek boarding house at Rayland, Ohio, and, after robbing about thirty laborers, killed one man who resisted. The police are searching the vicinity for the negroes. W. J. Clark, financial secretary of the Duke of Wellington lodge, Sons of St. George ,of Tri-Mountain, Mich., is missing, and with him, it is alleged, $400 of the lodge funds. It is reported that Clark is in England. ; Herbert O. Barber, former vice pres- ident of the defunct Commercial bank of Cambridge, Ohio, was acquitted by a jury of the charge of grand larceny in connection with the alleged misap- propriation of securities intrusted to the bank, Otherwise. Richard P, Clarkson, for nearly half a century editor of the Iowa State Reg- ister of Des Moines, is dead. The National City bank of New York has announced that it has engaged for import about $3,300,000 of gold in Lon- don. Senator Heyburn of, Idaho, who has been ill with a mild form of appendi- citis, continues to improve. He is still confined to his apartments. Charles E. Shivley, supreme chancel- lor of the Knights of Pythias, holds that an Indian is not eligible to mem- bership in the Pythian order, According to a Cleveland banker, nearly $5,000,000 have been sent from Cleveland during the week and loaned at high rates in New York city. Prof. De Witt D. Brace, head of the physics department of the University of Nebraska, is dead, the result of blood poisoning following an operation on a carbuncle. At a meeting of the directors of the ‘Wabash railroad a resolution was passed granting President Joseph Ramsey, Jr., an indefinite extension of his leave of absence. A contract has been let to a Decatur, Ill, firm for the mill work of a $40,000 summer home which Vice President C. W. Fairbanks will erect at Mans- field, where he owns a large tract of land. In the United States district court at Wilmington, Del., Judge Gray dis- missed the petition of J. Edward Ad- dicks, in which he asked a stay of pro- ceedings in the $45,000 judgment re- cently obtained against him by Charles S. Hinchman of Cambden, N. J. A coroner’s jury at Detroit found a verdict that William R. Harrington committed justifiable homicide when he killed Charles M. Martin with a baseball bat. Martin was assaulting Harrington’s sixteen-year-old daughter when Harrington attacked him with the bat. Coroner Parker ordered Har. rington released from custody. An eagle in its flight over Sioux City recently halted to investigate a tall smokestack, fell in and choked the chimney’s air passage as well as his own, Congressman William R. Hearst in a letter to Justice Samuel Seabury de- clines to accept a nomination for may- or of New York by the Municipal Own- ership league. Nearly 100 ape doctors, purses, attendants and cl at the city bds- pital at St. Louis, were taken violently ill recently from ptomaine poison re- sulting from having eaten oysters. None was seriou affected, MUTUAL LIFE GAVE THE REPUB- LICAN COMMITTEE $40,000 LAST FALL. © MR. M’CURDY IS UNDER FIRE COMPANIES NOT FOUNDED TO MAKE MONEY FOR POLICY- HOLDERS. MUTUAL CLERKS LIVE HIGH COMPANY PAYS OUT ABOUT $250 A DAY TO FEED ITS EM- PLOYES. New York, Oct. 11—The sessions of the insurance investigating committee were terminated for the week at the adjournment yesterday because of the death of S. Fred Nixon, speaker of the assembly of the legislature of New York, at his home in’ Westfield. The testimony yesterday did not elicit any information of a sensational nature beyond what had beer discount- ed in the testimony of previous wit- nesses. The feature was the presence as witnesses of the executive officers of the Mutual Life Insurance company. These were President Richard A. Mc- Curdy and Vice Presidents Granniss and Gillette. Money for Campaign Purposes. While it had been hinted last week that some expenditures charged to legal expenses might have been con- tributions to campaign committees, it was announced definitely by Dr. Gil- lette that the Mutual Life Insurance company contributed $40,000 to the Re- publican national committee last fall, that in 1900 $35,000 was contributed, and in 1896 $15,000 was given for cam- paign purposes, Dr. Gillette testified that he paid these amounts personally in cash, and jJater in the day Mr. McCurdy said that while he knew campaign contributions had been made he did not know the amounts. . i An interesting statement was made by Robert Olyphant when he was on the stand early in the day. Mr. Oly- phant is chairman of expenditures and he could not tell what the $25,000 items drawn to his order were for be- yond that they Were for Legal Expenses. He said the company maintained a confidential fund for expenditures for which no voucher was taken and no re- ceipt was received. These payments were made upon the assurance of an executive officér that “they were all right.” When Mr. Grimmins was called he assumed the entire responsibility for the terms of the contracts with C. H. Raymond & Co., by which that firm made such large profits. When the method of the expenditure of the $25,- 000 items was inquired into Mr. Granniss admitted that the general so- jicitor could get $25,000 any time he wanted it without disclosing for what purpose he wanted it and without ren- dering any account of it. He further said he never knew where a cent of the money spent by the general solicy itor went. In taking up a detailed list of the company’s expenses Dr. Gillette said that the company last year paid $72,- 000 for luncheons for the employes. It is a custom for the company to furnish their clerks with luncheon. This is at the rate of about $250 a day. Not Founded to Make Money. President McCurdy was on stand all of the afternoon session. Mr. McCurdy testified that he nev ew what Mr. Thebaud, his son-in-law, was getting out of the business of C, H. Raymond & Co., and said he did not think it was any of his business to ask about Mr. Thebaud’s personal affairs. He said the company did the business to get the commissions and that was all he knew. All contracts were made without his knowledge. Witness said on the matter of salaries that he never requested that his salary be raised, and all such increases he took as com- plimentary to his management of the business. They were always made by the committee on salaries of their own volition. Toward the close of the session Mr. McCurdy made the startling statement that an insurance company was not an institution founded to make money for the policyholders, but was, or should be, a great philanthropic enter- prise founded to increase and spread its benefits over the entire earth. the Earl Grey Is Guest. Winnipeg, Oct. 11.—Ear] Grey was the guest of honor at a Canadian club Juncheon yesterday. Many prominent citizens attended. Gov. Hedenoll de- livered an address. Murder or Suicide. Marshalltown, Iowa, Oct. 11, — The dead body sf Lorin Phenis, aged twen- ty-four, was found near the banks of a creek at Toledo. The coroner is in- yestigating to determine whether the young man committed suicide or was murdered. Summer Resort Burned. Baraboo, Wis., Oct. 11.—Hotel Idle- wild burfed at Mirror Lake, caused by the tipping over of a lamp. Partly in- sured. The hotel was owned by H. D. Page of Mason City, lowa. Biya | Dec. 19 without any untoward incident ‘Space of Ten Weeks | in Hun. garian Rumpus. — Budapest, Oct. 11.—The Hungarian diet was prorogued yesterday until beyond the display of angry resent- ment on the part of the opposition in the lower house. This gives a breath- ing space of ten weeks for further ne- gotiations between the crown and the coalition, but the chances for an agree- ment are regarded as slight. The coalition appears to be willing to play a waiting game in the conviction that the necessities of the government with regard to money, recruits and commer- cial treaties will force the crown to consent to a settlement. WRECKED 14 YEARS AGO. Derelict Found in Lake Michigan Is Believed to Be Schooner Hume. Michigan City, Ind., Oct. 11.—What is believed to be the wreck of the schooner Thomas Hume, which mys- teriously disappeared with a crew of seven men fourteen years ago, was found Sunday at a point two miles off New Buffalo and ten miles northeast of this city. The wreck was discovered by fishermen.. Capt. A. A. Kent of the life saving station, with a crew of divers, investigated the wreck, which is reported to be that of the Hume. MUCH-MARRIED CHILD. Commits Suicide Because She Cannot Wed the Third Time. Kokomo, Ind., Oct. 11.—Julia Bearé, aged sixteen, twice married and twice divorced, committed suicide here late yesterday because she could not marry a third husband. She wanted to marry Walter Gardner, ‘an electrotyper at a newspaper office. He refused to wed her, and she took poison and died in his arms at a boarding house. GIRL MUTES ARE THIEVES. Trio of Unfortunate Childred Accused of Shoplifting. Chicago, Oct. 11.—Three deaf and dumb girls charged with shoplifting were held to the juvenile court yester- day. The two young prisoners, May McGregor, twelve years old, and Hattie Buelow, fourteen, claimed that the thefts were committed at the instance of Alma Lundquist, seventeen years old, the third member of the deaf and dumb trio, b THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Oct. 11. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 84 1-2@86c; No. 2 Northern, 811-4@83c; No. 3,77@811-2c. Corn— No. 3 yellow, 50@5ic. Oats—No. 3 white, 26@26 1- Duluth, Oct. 11. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 823-4c; } 2 Northern, 80 1-4c; flax, 99e; rye. 64e. Minneapolis, Oct, 11. — Wheat—No, 1 hard, 831-4c; No. 1 Northern, 82 3-4c; No. 2 Northern, 80c. Oats — No. 3 white, 26 1-8¢. Milwaukee, Oct. 11. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 85@87c; No. 2 Northern, 81@84 1-2c. Rye—No. 1, 68@69 1-2c. Barley—No. 2, 54c. Oats—Standard, 29@29 1-2c. Chicago, Oct. 11. — Wheat — No. 2 red, 86@87c; No. 2 hard, 84@88c; No. 3 hard, 82@86ce; No. 1 Northern, 87@ 88c; No. 2 Northern, 85@87e. Corn— No. 2, 513-4s. Oats—No. 2, 273-4@ 28¢ Sioux City, 11.—Cattle— Beeves, $3.40 @ 5.75; cows, bulls and mixed, $2.25@3.70; stockers and feed- ers, $3@4; calves and yearlings, $2.50 23.25. Hogs—Bulk, $5@5.05. Chicago, Oct. 11. — aisle Ged to prime steers, $3.65 @ 6.3) and feeders, $2.40@4.45 4.50; heifers, $2.20@4.80; calv 7. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $5. 10@ 5771-2;° bulk, $5.20@5.65. Sheep — Good to choice wethers, $4.60@5; na- tive lambs. $5.25 @ 7.25; Western lambs, $5.75@7. South St. Paul, Oct. 11. — Cattle — Good to choice steers, $4.50 @ 5 é, Aig to choice cows and heifer: @4; vutcher bulls, $2.75@3.50; 50; good to choice stock steers, ; good to choice milch cows, . Hogs — Range price, $5@ . $5.20@5.30. Sheep—Good mbs, $5@65.85; fair to good, good to choice yearling weth- ers, $4.50@5.50; good to choice ewes, $8.75@ 4.40. $4@5 5; Young Hunter Killed. Glenwood, Oct, 11—James Bryce of Reno, aged sixteen years, was acci- dentally shot and killed erday while out hunting. In removing his gun from the boat both barrels were discharged, one charge taking effect in his side and chest, the other in his hand and leg. Burglars Loot Stcre. Grafton, N. D., Oct. 11. — Burglars got into G. M. Baer’s clothing store last night by means of skeleton keys, The safe had been left unlocked and the intruders got some small change, a few small checks, life and fire insur- ance policies and some clothing. Stabbed by Jealous Lover. Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 11. — Mary King, twenty-one years old, was stabbed to death last night at her home and the police are looking for William Towns, her lover. Towns is said to have been jealous of Miss King. Man Blown From Roof. Des Moines, Iowa, Oct, 11. — J. F. Eaton, a foreman employed on the Towa Historical building, was blown from the roof Monday evening by the strong wind and died yesterday from his injuries. 3 PRISON CELL FRIENDS GO BACK ON PEORIA EDUCATOR AND HE GOES TO JAIL. HE IS INDICTED 184 TIMES THIRTY-NINE TRUE BILLS FOR FORGERY, THE REST FOR EM- BEZZLEMENT. MURDER MYSTERY REVIVED DOUGHERTY’S NAME NOW LINKED WITH TWO-YEAR-OLD MUR- DER CASE. Peoria, Ill., Oct. 11. — Deserted by his friends, forsaken by those who for years almost worshiped him, unable to rally to his assistance a single one of the men who would have formerly have advanced him thousands upon the mere strength of his word, Newton C. Dougherty, the defaulting superintend- ent of schools, now occupies “murder- ers” cell in the Peoria county jail With his two sons, both young men who have accumulated small fortunes, and his attorney, W. T. Irwin, a life- long friend, Dougherty was driven to the rear of the jail at 3 o'clock yester- day afternoon and was immediately taken to his cell. Half an hour earlier the grand jury had made a partial report which con- tained no less than eighty-four indict- ments against Dougherty. Thirty-nine of these were for forgery, the remain- der for embezzlement. The court room was crowded, bankers, merchants and the better class of citizens being pres: ent. It was thought that Dougherty would appear in court, although it had been rumored that he would be unable to give bail. “ll Make It Up.” At the jail Dougherty was asked for an additional statement. He shook his head, laughed and said, “I’ve told you all there is to tell, boys. If there's any shortage, I'll make it up. This looks pretty tough, but it may come out all right in the end. I am sorry to have been compelled to leave home and my wife, but—” Here he seemed on the verge of breaking down and his attorney led him from the room. He had made absolutely no com- ment on the fact that his friends re fused to furnish bonds. The immense amount of the shortage, now estimated at $750,000, has caused men who were willing a day or so ago to sign the bonds to reftise. Members of the grand jury declare that they surely will return additional indictments against at least two offi- cers of the Peoria National bank. Another defaleation was discovered by the grand jury yesterd In the school fund accounts the jury, it is said, found an embezzlement of $13, 580. Revive Murder Theory. In addition. to this latest develop- ment in, the manipulation of school funds, Dougherty’s enemies have re- vived a two-year-old murder case and linked his name with the mystery. The case referred to is the mystery surrounding the murder of John Por- ter, janitor of the Peoria high school, at North Monroe avenue and Fayetie street, April 3, 1903. Porter was found in the basement of the school building at 1 a. m. with two bullet holes in his heart. His murderer was never caught. It was rumored at the time that the janitor surprised a prominent business man in one of the school rooms in company with a woman and that the man had killed him to prevent him from involv- ing himself and the woman in question in a scandal. How much basis there is to the gossip cannot be learned. THROWN INTO LAKE. Murdered Body Found and the Alleged Slayer Arrested. Chicago, Oct. 11.—Submerged in the lake at the foot of Barry avenue and with a bullet wound in the right temple, the body of Frank Meschael- lowsky, a real estate dealer, was found yesterday. Apparently death had been caused by the wound. John Rezinski is being held by the police. His arrest followed information given by his s' ter, who said that the - two men fre- quently had quarreled recently. Berlin Checks Cholera. Berlin, Oct. 11.—The official bulletin issued yesterday announced that no new cases of cholera had been reported from Saturday noon to noon yesterday and that one case in the Keder Barnim district had occurred between Sunday noon and noon yesterday. Poor Man Is Father of Triplets. » Evansville, Ind., Oet- 11. — Triplets were born yesterday to Mrs. Frank Wilhelm, wife of a laboring man in poor circumstances. They are two boys and a_ girl and will be named Teddy, Roosevelt and Theodosia. ‘Two Women Burned to Death. Austin, Tex., Oct. 11—As a result of an attempt to light a fire with a can ‘of coal oil, Mrs. Amanda Carlson and Miss Esta Lawson, living a few miles out of this city, were burned to death yesterday. vg