Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 21, 1905, Page 2

_ to a skylark at the age of 24, By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. ‘A “nopeful feeling” 1s reported from Wall street. The lambs must be a te ing back. Of course the true answer to the question, “Why do men wear corsets?” is that men do not. New York is to have an elegant new hotel, eighteen stories high—with prices, no doubt, to match. Before we decide that the corset is not a good thing for men to wear, let us see how —— —— looks in one, “If you are well, don’t talk about it,” says an adviser of the people. Correct! And if you are sick, forget it! A note announcing a suicide has been found in a bottle, The bottle contains the reason for many a sui- cide. A contemporary asks, “What is a sweet girl?” Can’t answer; wife is looking over shoulder—New York Herald. To the Occidental ear an animated conversation between an Austrian and a Hungarian sounds in itself like an overt act of war. Tidings from Manchuria are rather meager. All the same, the two great armies are busy breaking camp and moving toward home. Baron de Forest is said to contem- plate founding an empire im the Sa- hara, though the desert is notoriously a bad place for Forests. Now that the peace envoys have gone New Hampshire learns with pain that even a premature snowstorm does not draw attention its way. “He that‘maketh haste to be rich,” said Solomon, “shall not be innocent.” Things do not seem to have changed much since Solomon’s time. oe Several members of the Cornell football squad have suffered sun- strokes. The hardships of college life are not to be lightly considered. The per capita consumption of tea in England is six pounds a year—with- out prejudice to various other bever- ages that are strong favorites there. Candidates are so called because they were originally clad in white. you wouldn’t think it, to see the bunch that comes forth every year in polt tics. Only two presidents of the United States have been married while in of- fice, chiefly probably because so many of them were married before they got elected. Love is now to be legally recognized in French marriages, under the re- vised code. Heretofore, it has usually developed later, and then with some other person. It ought to be easy to decide the case of bigamy of John Grady, one of whose wiyes loves him and the other does not. Hand him over to the one who does not. In spite of all the costly styles of garments shown at the dressmakers’ convention the good husband will do his best to wear a straight and un- wrinkled front. St. Louis argues that a man who spends $25,000 a year ought to pay taxes. Not necessarily, We shouldn’t have any money left for taxes after spending $25,000 a year. Wren Envoy Witte completed his tour of New York he remarked: “Everywhere is advertising. All is advertising.” Right ‘you are, M. Witte! And just notice how it pays! —— eee All the cats in Farmington, Mass., are to be killed on account of a diph- theria epidemic. Doubtless all the town mice are already inviting their country cousins to visit them. Prof. de Martens of the late peace conference says that American girls are pretty, but American cooking is abominable. And yet they say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Mr. Carnegie offers half the cost of a laboratory at Smith, because .he thinks that- women should be up on biology. That they are up on buyo- logy, observers at any of the bargain sales can testify. The full-rigged ship from Parrsboro, N. S., bound for Buenos Ayres, that collided with a monster whale, must have greatly surprised the whale. The ship has put into Bahia for repairs. The whale has not reported yet. An English judge has ordered a woman to pay for ducks’ eggs that she got when she merely ordered eggs. Any old eggs are eggs, he says; they don’t have to be manufactured’ by a hen. Would he insist that she pay fo: sparrows’ eggs, or mosinligey for eggssample? “She came into the professional field like a skylark at the age of twen- ty-four,” writes the enthusiastic press agent of the prima donna, We don’t think we should care about listening Marlin J. Carter, United States con- sul at Yarmouth, N. S., died suddenly. He was 46 years old. His. home aida at Minersville, Pa. It was decided at a cabinet meeting that the control of the Panama canal would continue ‘to“rémain jn the war department instead of being trans- ferred to the state department. The census bureau has issued a bul- letin showing the production and dis- tribution of the cotton of the United States available between Sept. 1, 1904, and Sept. 1, 1905, to be 13,597,782 bales. The president has appointed Ed- ward B, Kelley of South Dakota to be agent at the Rosebud Indian agency in that state, to succeed Charles E. Mc- Chesney, who has been appointed spe- cial agent of the Indian bureau. Having reached the age limit of 64 years, Maj. Gen. George Morton Ran- dall, commander of the northern di- vision of the United States army, with headquarters in St. Louis, has retired from the command. He will be suc- ceeded by Brig. Gen. John F. Weston. Foreign. Admiral Togo, with a squadron of the best ships in the Japanese navy, will visit European and American wa- ters some time next year. The Bourse Gazette of St. Peters- burg announces that negotiations are in progress with American bankers to float a 500,000,000 rouble loan.’ The Russian foreign office is en- gaged in drawing up the program for the second peace conference at The Hague. It is said that it will be emi- nently practical. Several leases of houses on ground belonging to the crown recently have fallen in and been relet on terms showing the increasing value of prop- erty in London. Prof. Behring will not even consid- er the reported American offer to pay him a large sum of money if he will make public his consumption cure, He will in no way be diverted from his chosen path. There is an unprecedented boom in mushrooms this year in England. So abundant is the crop in some parts of East Norfolk that they are being mowed down with scythes to save the Jabor of hand picking. The kaiser has ordered the prepara- tion of a comprehensive work, richly illustrated, which will describe all those artistic objects for the existence of which he is directly responsible in architecture and painting. The Japanese Times publishes news of a number of cases of embezzlement by Japanese naval officers, among which .that of Paymaster Commander Takenouchi, financing naval construc- tor in England, has fied after emhez- zling $165,000, The St. Petersburg police discover- ed in the outskirts of St. Petersburg a number of secret printing establish- ments which have been engaged in is- suing revolutionary proclamations. As a result of the discovery forty arrests have been made. Lord Inverclyde, chairman of the Cunard Steamship company, died at Castle Wemyss, Scotland. He had been ill for a month with pleuro-pneumonia. Lord Inverclyde’s brother, James Cle- land Burns, succeeds to the title. Lord Inverclyde was 44 years old. Criminal. Albert Lynn shot and fatally wound- ed his cousin, James Lynn, at Kalima- zoo, Mich., after a quarrel over a young woman. Judge A. G. Bradner committed sui- cide at his home in Kansas City by in- haling illuminating gas. He grieved over the death of his wife. Frank Woods, alias “St. Louis Frank,” was executed in the state prison at San Quentin, Cal., for the murder of Policeman Eugene Robin- son in San Francisco three years ago. During a fight over a woman at Evy- ansville, Ind., in which both men used razors, Henderson Carter, a negro, was killed by James Battles, another negro. Battles is thought to be fatal- ly wounded. News has just reached Bainbridge, Ga., of the lynching of a hegro, eight miles west, by a mob of his own race. The negro had assaulted a negro girl, and had attempted to assault another, who cut him in the breast. Daniel J. Donnelly, a member of the Boston city council and formerly a member of the legislature, has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. It is alleged that Patrick J. Grinley, a laborer, met his death as the result of an encounter with Donnelly. A shortage of $250,000 has been found on the books of the Alamoosa, Cal., bank. Abraham Schiffer, part owner of the bank, whose disappear- ance caused an investigation, has not been located. Mr. Schiffer was last seen when he left that city, ostensibly for New York, a week ago. John Carmody of Sioux City was fa- tally shot in the abdomen by Police- man Robert Carraher, who, with other officers, was called to quell a disturb- ance. Themen put up a fierce fight and three policemen were hurt. George M. Murray, colored, a former member of congress, was sentenced at Columbia, S. C., to serve three years in the penitentiary for forgery. Mur- way, who is réported to be quite wealthy, was charged with forging the . Fireman George C. Krahmer fell from a Northwestern engine néar Tama, Iowa, and was killed. As a result of an attempt to light a fire with a can of coal oil, Mrs. Aman- da Carlson, and Miss Esta Lawson, living a few miles out of Astin, Thy were burned to death: A west-bound: freight train on the Rock Island was wrecked in the west- ern part of Davenport, Iowa. Ray Mc- Cullough of Davenport, who was riding on the engine, was killed. In a runaway accident near Ackley, Towa, Agnes Ranz, daughter of a prom- inent farmer, jumped fro mthe buggy and broke her neck. Two brothers escaped with slight injuries. A dog scared the team. A street car accident occurred near the village of Winooski, Vt., in which thirteen persons were injured, some of them seriously. A car carrying about fifty passengers crashed into, a wait- ing car on a siding. Ten men met instant death at the quarry of the Vermont Slate Co. at Granville, N. Y., when about 100 feet of the west bank crashed down with- out warning, burying the victims un- der hundreds of tons of slate and loose earth. One workman was killed and five were perhaps fatally injured in an ac- cident that occurred at the old county building at Chicago. A girder which was being raised to the roof was at the third floor when it gave way and fell to the ground, crushing the men be- neath it. b Walter Palmer of Athens, Mich., was instantly “ killed, Chauffeur Blake of Kalamazoo was fatally injured and Mrs. Walter Palmer and her daughtér Frances were badly bruised in an auto- mobile accident. The automobile, while traveling at good speed, swerv- ed out of the road into a marsh and capsized. After falling into a Big Four gravel pit near Lawrenceburg, Ind. and breaking his neck, an Italian laborer, assisted by a friend, walked nearly a mile to his tent, holding his head in his hands the whole distance. Phy- sicians found that the man’s neck had been fractured at the fifth vertebrae and declared that the injuries will un- doubtedly prove fatal. Falling out of a second-story win- dow at the home of Adam Luscavage at Minersville, Pa., a six-months-old baby escaped death as if by a miracle. A washerwoman was passing with a basket on her head. The baby tum- bled into the basket and was unhurt, though the washerwoman was knock- ed down and driven almost into spasms by her fright. Fire of unknown origin at Eldora, Iowa, destroyed the building and stock of the Koenman Drug company, and the building of Mrs. S. Lang, and bad- ly damaged the new brick building of the Bank of Whitten at Whitten. There was no insurance on the bank or the Lang building. The insurance of the Koenman drug stock is $2,500. The total loss is about $5,000. General. With only one voice raised in oppo- sition, the Republicans of Massachu- setts in convention declared for a re- vision of the tariff. Intense excitement exists in Lorain, Wis. ,over the discovery of gold. While digging a well on his farm in section 21, Charles Eggers discovered gold. Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke, retired, was chosen commander-in-chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion by the members of the commanderyéin- chief, at its annual meeting. Suspended from all college _ privi- leges, even to visiting the grounds, for one year is the punishment dealt out to three sophomores at Columbia who have been convicted of hazing. Dr. Abisha S. Hudson, aged 86 years, died at Mount Vernon, Ohio. He choked to death on a fig. He founded Keokuk Medical college and has con- tributed much to medical science. Isadore Wormser, the millionaire banker of New York, offered $100,000 reward for the conviction of a gang of men who recently assaulted Annie Thornton, a domestic employed in his household. United States District Attorney Sul- livan rendered an opinion holding that Annie Ballen, alias Nejdley, arrested at Cleveland by federal officials on the charge that she was a notorious an- archist, will be deported. Dr. J. W. Ordway, a wealthy farm- er and banker of Onawa, Iowa, died at Los Angeles as the result of worry over frequent attempts fo rob him. During the last eight years he had been held up twelve times. United States Marshal Flinn sold, on the $45,000 judgment of Charles S. Hinchman of Camden, N. J., the one- half interest of J. Edward Addicks in the personal property on his Riverside farm, two miles below Newcastle, Del. The sale netted only $510, Mrs. Annie E. McKinley, widow of the late Abner McKinley, was married at Baltimore very privately to Capt. J. B. Allen of Tampa, Fla. So quietly was the ceremony performed that it was impossible to learn either where it took place or who was the officiat- ing minister. Skins of twenty-two frogs have been successfully grafted on the body of Mass., who was severely burned two weeks ago while playing with match: es. The child’s right thigh, right arm Ethel Teague, ten years old, of Salem, ! par ‘side were badly burned. gee is VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS OF DISAPPROBATION OF MUTU- AL PRESIDENT. HE EVADES. SOME QUESTIONS —b * SAVES HIMSELF FROM _INDICT- MENT BY PROFFERING AN- OTHER WITNESS. 4 EMPLOYS LITERARY BUREAU TO SEND OUT TO THE PRESS NEWS MATTER OF BENEFIT TO COMPANY. < New York, Oct. 18—Testimony in the insurance investigation, which was resumed yesterday, was most exciting throughout the entire day, and only the repeated threats of Senator Arm- strong, chairman of the committee, to clear the room prevented violent demonstrations of disapprobation of the witness, who was Richard A. Mc- Curdy, president of the Mutual Life Insurance company. As it was, however, there were jeers at several periods of the day’s testi- mony that temporarily interrupted the testimony. These came when Mr. Hughes, the counsel for the commit- tee, asked questions that Mr. Mc- Curdy was’ reluctant to answer, or evaded. Where Will It End? Where this important investigation is going to lead, or where it will end, has caused no small amount of con- jecture, and, doubtless in some quar- ters, an anxiety. With the many threads that have been taken up and dropped before they have been fol- lowed to their ends, in order that some new lead may be taken up, and with the additional features that are disclosed with almost every day’s hearing, the interest grows more in- tense, In Mr. McCurdy’s testimony yester- day a feature entirely new was dis- closed, and this was that the Mutual Life Insurance company employed a literary bureau to send out to the press of the country news matter that was of benefit to the company. This information was elicited during the probing of the “legal expenses” account., McCurdy Could Not Explain, During the earlier session of the day an attempt was made to obtain from Mr. McCurdy the reason for re- ducing the dividends on policies as the business increased and the assets piled up. The question was prompted by the large number of letters re- ceived from policyholders by the com- mittee, and cited facts and examples. To all the questions on this matter the witness said he was not fortified with the information required; that these were actuarial matters, and, when pressed for his opinion, replied that he refused to discuss the question or to enter any discussion. He would proffer a witness, his actuar}} whose business it. was to know these things, but as fdr himself, he “would not dis- cuss the question.” Mr. McCurdy’s demeanor was so insistent, and _ At Times Defiant, that the spectators bent forward to catch every word and stood on tiptoe, expecting every moment to hear him directed by counsel ‘to answer the question. His proffer of another wit- ness was all that prevented steps be- ing taken toward his indictment. Mr. McCurdy, also during the effort to induce him to answer the questions as to the reduction of dividends, launched forth into a protest as to the manner in which the investigation was being conducted. He said the com- mittee was going beyond the scope in- tended when it was appointed by the legislature, and that the investigation had assumed the proportions of an in- quisition. Legal Expenses Recurred To. The legal expenses were again re- curred to and a number of vouchers for the payment of various sums were read. It was brought out that William Barnes; Sr., of Albany, had appeared before the committee in Albany last winter and had received $1,000 from the New York Life Insurance com- pany, as well as the same amount from the Mutual Life Insurance com- pany. Later it was brought out in a letter to Mr. McCurdy from William Barnes, Jr., that Mr. Barnes, Sr., was. under an annual retainer to the mu- tual Life Insurance company. The entire testimony of the day was a continual thrust and parry between counsel and the witness, and when ad- journment was taken for the day Mr. Hughes had not finished with Mr. Mc- Curdy. The latter will be recalled to- day and questioned along the lines of the trust companies and subsidiary or- ganizations of the Mutual Life and also as to what moneys were made out of ‘the trust companies. _ Cunliffe Baffles Pursuit. . Pittsburg, Oct. 18.—One week has elapsed since the discovery of the $101,000 Adams Express company rob- bery and the disappearance of Edward G. Cunliffe, the money clerk charged ‘with the theft. Notwithstanding the large force of detectives working on the case it is Pvp not a tang- > | ment ag e npr i service rulés, sweep- | ing and comprehensive in its charac- ' day. {ly wounded his' wife and then put a ter, was authorized yesterday by the president. Hereafter, a cabinet officer will have the power to remove sum- marily ana without hearing any civil service employe in his departmext who, to the persona) knowledge of the head of the department, has been | SUPPLY HAREMS | AMERICAN AGENTS OF CHINESE NABOBS CONDUCT WHOLE- SALE TRAFFIC. guilty of misconduct or who is inef- sink sae CENTER OF TRADE ficient in the performance of his duties. By the terms of the amend- ment the cabinet officer must have personal knowledge of the misconduct or inefficiency of the employe whom he proposes to discharge. With this personal knowledge the power of the head of the department is absolute. TEN BANKERS INDICTED. Charged With Conspiracy to Steal Bank’s Funds. Denver, Oct. 18—Leonard Imboden, James A. Hill, C. B, Wilfley, E. E. Hull, H. L. Hull, C. C. Robert, W. T. Camp, D. M. Carey, A. B. Davis and J. H. Edmondson were indicted by the grand jury yesterday on the charge of conspiring to steal $1,712,587 from the Denver Savings bank. Wilfley and Ed- mondson were former presidents of the Denver Savings bank, and Hill was president when the receiver was ap- pointed on Aug. 19. H. L. Hull is pres- ident of the Mount Vernon National Bank of Boston; Roberts and Carey are officers of the Cherokee. State Bank of Enid, Okla.; Camp and Davis officers of the Texas State Trust Com- pany of Fort Worth, Tex., and Insbo- «@n and E. E. Hull promoters. METAL IN SHOWER OF DEATH. Five Tons of Liquid Iron Explode, Kill- ing One and Fatally Injuring Seven. Chicago, Oct. 18.—Five tons of mol- ten metal exploded yesterday at the Joliet plant of the Illinois Steel com- pany, falling in a shower of death on a band of workmen about the con- verter. One man is dead, three are fatally burned and a half dozen in- jured so badly they may die. Many others suffered severe burns on feet and hands. The explosion shook the whole plant, sending panic into every corner of the great works. Half a hundred men were within range of the liquid metal. The shrieks of the in- jured men were heard all over the grounds of the company. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Oct. 18. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 83@83 3-4c; No. 2 Northern, 79@81c; No. 3, 76@79c. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 49@50c. Oats—No. 3 white, 26 1-2@27c. Duluth, Oct. 18, — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 831-4c; No. 2 Northern, 80c; flax, 981-4c; rye, 64c. Minneapolis, Oct. 18. — Wheat—No. 1 hard, 837-8c; No. 1. Northern, 83 3-8c; No. 2 Northern, 807-8c. Oats —No. 8 white, 26 1-2c. Milwaukee, Oct. 18. — Wheat — No. 1, Northern, 86@88c; No. 2 Northern, $2 1-2@86e. Rye—No. 1, 69 @ 70c. Barley—No. 2, 54c. Oats—Standard, 29@30c. Chicago, Oct. 18. — Wheat — No. 2 red, 87@88c; No. 2 hard, 85@87 1-2c; No, 3 hard, 883@86c; No. 1 Northern, 88@90c; No. 2 Northern, 85 @ 87c. Corn—No. 2, 58@531-2c, Oats—No. 2, 78@78 1-4c. Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 18.—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 @3.25. Hogs—Bulk, $5@5.05. Chicago, Oct, 18. — Cattle—Good to prime steers, $3.70 @ 6.30; stockers and feeders, $2.40@4.45; cows, $2.50@ 4:50; heifers, $2.20@4.80; calves, $3@ 7. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $5.05@ 5.521-2; bulk, $5.10 @ 5.50. Sheep— Guod to choice wethers, $4.60@5; na- tive lambs, $5.25 @ 7.25; Western lambs, $5.75@7. South St. Paul, Oct. 18. — Cattle — Good to choice steers, $4.50 @ 5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.50 @4; butcher bulls, $2.75@3.50; veals, $2@4.50; good to choice stock steers, $2.50@3.50; good to choice milch cows, $20@35. Hogs — Range price, $4.80 @5.25; bulk, $5@5.10. Sheep—Good to choice lambs, $5@5.85; fair to good, $4@5; good to choice yearling weth- ers, $4.50@5.50; good to choice ewes, $3.75@4.40. Irving’s Body Cremated. London, Oct, 18.—At an early hour this morning the body of Sir Henry Irving was removed in great secrecy to a cemetery, the name of which is not giyen, where it was cremated. The secrecy surrounding the event was due to the desire of the family to avoid publicity. Mother and Babies Burned. St. Louis, Oct. 18.—Mrs. Alice Hart- man and her five children were burned to death and their homes were de- stroyed by fire at Port Royal, a vil- lage in Franklin county. The fire oc- curred yesterday and the news of it was first received at Se ge yester- Shot Wife and Kills Self. Coshocton, Ohio, Oct. 18.—William Tubbs, proprietor of the Farmers’ ho- tel, yesterday shot and probably fatal- pullet in his own head, dying instantly. ‘The couple were recently divorced. Brigands Give Up Britishers. London, Oct. 18.—The correspondent of the Daily Mail at Madrid says that, fearing an attack by a British torpedo boat, the bandits of the Anjera tribe released the biel aletogi officers, HUNDREDS LURED INTO A SLAVERY FROM WHICH DEATH 1S ONLY ESCAPE. THE FACTS ARE ASTOUNDING OFFICIALS SEEKING WAY TO PUNISH WOMEN WHO TRADE IN HUMANITY. Chicago, Oct. 18.—Wholesale traffic in American girls and women, lured from home and friends under various pretexts to supply the harems of the orient, has been found to center in Chicago. Forty-nine Chicago girls are known to have been delivered into the hands of Chinese masters. The names of two women engaged in this slave traffic are in the hands of federal of- ficials, who are seeking some method of punishing the offenders and bring- ing to an end this iost terrible slave trade. Aside from the two women about whom a web of evidence has been woven, trace has been secured of sey- eral others who make annual pilgrim- ages from the Far East as recruiting agents for wealthy Chinese merchants, traders and officfals. Not only those who have ventured on the thorny paths of dissolute life are gathered up under various pretexts, but immature and inexperienced girls are employed as “secretaries” and “traveling com- panions” with promises of big wages and the payment of all traveling ex- penses, \ Taken Into Interior. Once within China they are deliv- ered to those who have paid in ad- vance for them, only to be hurried to the ‘interior, beyond the reach of civ- ilization, to pass their lives in hopeless despair, the absolute slaves of merci- less masters free from restraint of all law and accountable to no one for their victims’ lives. One woman against whom positive evidence has been gathered, a central figure in this system of kidnapping, ab- duction and sale into slavery, is the wife of a North side bookmaker. Sev- eral others are women who: formerly lived in Chicago and now make their homes in Chinese treaty ports. While forty cases are | charged against the former, the latter are said to have recruited hundreds who have entered upon a living death, from which there is no possibility of escape save by suicide. Seek a Remedy. Chief of Police Collins has been asked by Washington officials to inves- tigate the situation and attempt to find a remedy, as such an offense is not contemplated in the federal laws and there is no provision for legal ad- vice as to his powers in the premises and direction as,to the course to pur- sue. These astounding facts were dis- closed yesterday by the local immigra- tion bureau, which received complaint of the sale of Louise Miller, a girl from Montreal, Canada, to the agent of a Chinese official in Shanghai. HOCK SAYS HE IS CONFIDENT. Arguments for a New Trial Are in Judges’ Hands. Chicago, Oct. 18—The fate of Johann Hock, the condemned wife murderer, is now in the hands of the supreme court judges at Springfield. Attorney Frank D. Comerford finished argument before the state tribunal yesterday for Hock, and set forth a number of rea- sons why his client should be granted a new trial and the death penalty set aside. Hock, when seen in the county jail, said he placed implicit confidence in his attormey and believed ,that the supreme court will grant him a new hearing. It is not known when the supreme court judges will render their decision in the case. MAORI DIES A MORMON, Former Chief Succumbs to Appendi-. citis in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, Oct. 18. — Hirini Whaang, formerly, chief of the most powerful Maori tribe on the eastern coast of New Zealand, died in a hos- pital here yesterday of appendicitis, at the age of seventy-seven years. He became a Mormon convert in 1882, and eight years later he came to Utah. In 1898 he returned to his tribe, and for several years preached the Mor- mon faith to his people. NON-UNION MEN ON STRIKE. Object to Working Overtime of Twen- ty Minutes a Week. Detroit, Oct. 18—Seven hundred em- ployes of the Wyandotte yard of the Detroit Shipbuilding company went on strike yesterday, complaining that they have to work twenty minutes longer per week than they should, and also that the time clock system in force at the yard is umsatisfactory. Riveters, helpers, punchers and labor- ers are involved. oe] a Dery of We