Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 28, 1905, Page 2

| | ’ By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. Well, Mrs. Reader, if you must pay somebody's debts, they might as well be ours. rey “When is a man drunk?” asks the New York World. When he has drunk too much, of course. Witte’s title comes too late to do him any good. A married man cannot hope to wed an American heiress. The only thing bigger than the new liners that cross the ocean are the poker stories told when they reach port. —— You could never make Mark Twain believe that his gout is a delusion of mortal mind when he knows it is in his toe. When Sir Gilbert Parker said the other day: “England is on the verge of protection,” did he mean Japanese protection? Golf may cure hay fever, but one would ‘think that talking it would be highly detrimental to those having throat trouble. Idle men are few in New York, says the labor bureau. In New York every- body has to be up and doing, or he is sure to be done, Hall Caine says that he wouldn't quit being a novelist to be a million- aire. But we thought all novelists now were millionaires. “High finance scandals are ruining our credit,’ says Dr. Hamilton W. Mabie. Speak for yourself, Ham. Our credit was never better. Occasionally some smooth person comes‘along and gives Wall street a dose of the medicine it is in the habit of handing out to suckers. In France the popular name for the automobile is “teuf-teuf.” That is fairly expressive, but “honk-zipp- phew!” would be more so. Doubtless the man who was driven to drink by the sight of his wife's new and gaudy hat will have a violent relapse when he sees the bill. A man in Oklahoma has invented a match-scratcher. He should have turned his attention to the promotion of artificial ice plants in Alaska. Some of these rapid-fire novelists would make themselves more popular if they would only take a hint from the man who swallowed his lead- pencil. The man who started the “How old is Ann” puzzle is now editing a New York comic weekly. There _ still seems to be such a thing as poetic justice. We expect to live a long while, but we do not expect to live long enough to learn why people think they have to raise the voice when speaking to a foreigner. Kisses are worth $20 apiece in Vir- ginia, according to the courts. If you have ever kissed a Virginia girl you won't complain that the valuation is excessive. In one day recently a baron and a count were locked in New Jersey jails for debt. The poor fellows were prob- ably trying to make their way on foot to Pittsburg. The number of guards around the Czar’s palace will, says a dispatch from St. Petersburg, be increased. Is it suspected that the Czar thinks of trying to run away? Whether it was 100 or 10,000 slain in the Caucasus the average reader has forgotten before his eyes reach the next headline. So cheap is human life, away from home. There seems to be no doubt*that the higher education, widens a young man's sphere of usefulness. Witness the success of the college graduates in professional baseball. Andrew Carnegie prescribes a Eu- ropean alliance for the United States. Well, haven't our girls married a lot of European noblemen? And isn’t matrimony a united state? The New York Tribune’s music crit- ie says Boston is temporarily resting under a “Gallic spell.” If he means what we think he does, he has chosen the wrong word. Not resting, son— restive. G. Bernard Shaw has offered to pay a clipping bureau 5 cents for each clipping about himself that it doesn’t send to him. Mr. Shaw is an adept at the business of securing low adver- tising rates. King Edward wanted to have Gen- eral Chaffee come to see him, but the General had an engagement and éould not go. If he were English, the royal wish would have been a command. Being an American, the royal wish didn’t “stick.” The Chinese have reached the bomb-throwing stage, and if they pro- gress as rapidly as the Russians have been progressing it may be necessary in the course of a few years for the empress dowager to sleep in a safe with a time lock on it. f Washington. Reports having reached the war de- partment through Manila papers of an outbreak of cholera in;the Philippine islands, Secretary Taft cabled Gov. Wright for a statement of conditions and received the following reply: “Cholera has practically disappeared. From Aug. 23 to date there have been 713 cases and’553 deaths.” Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, in his coming annual report, will recom- mend that bonds be issued to the amount of $60,000,000, running for a pe- riod of thirty years, covering the out- lay already made on the Panama canal, Before thé canal is completed not less than $200,000,000 will have been ex- pended. By issuing bonds for the money already expended, the hole which has been eaten into the treasury will be filled up again and the talk of a threatened deficit will disappear for a number of years. Accidental Happenings. While hunting in the woods north of Stanley, Wis., Lloyd Rickerd was shot by a fellow hunter, a half-breed named Hart. Hart fired ata deer, the bullet hitting Rickerd, who may die. Albert Amberg of Minneapolis, a carpenter, while riding on a freight train to Onaway, Iowa, to see a broth- er, was thrown under the wheels and instantly killed in Sioux City. Five firemen were injured, none fa- tally, and property valued at 130,000 was destroyed by a fire that demol- ished the five-story brick building at 75 and 77 Lake street, Chicago. While on her way to the funeral of Fred Schurch, who committed suicide recently two days after his marriage, Mrs. Charles Wittwer of Louisville was killed by being thrown from a buggy. Thirty-four persons were injured, three perhaps fatally, in an accident to a passenger train near Horse Creek, Wyo. The train was rounding a curve when the smoker and day coach left the rails and rolled down an embank- ment, a distance of about twenty feet. Milton D. Stone, a prominent and wealthy lumberman of Jamestown, N. Y., was instantly killed while hunting near Westfield. The gun of Frank Sears, a companion of Stone, was ac- cidentally discharged, the entire charge of shot taking effect in Stone’s body in the region of the heart. Charles Fisher, nineteen years old, was killed, and Harold Miller, the same age, was fatally injured, at a railroad crossing at West Lafayette, Ohio, Fisher was thrown 150 feet. He was the son of Rev. Dr. Stockley Fish- er, a prominent Methodist minister, re- cently elected president of West Lafay- ette college. The First Presbyterian church at McKees Rocks, a West end suburb of Pittsburg, was blown up by natural gas and the entire building was de- molished. The explosion is said to have been the result of a leak in the basement of the bujlding, which was sought by the janitor with a lighted candle. David Leader, the janitor, was badly burned by the flash of flame, and wags caught under the crumbling walls, but was not fatally hurt.” The loss is, about $5,000. Crimes and Criminals. Policeman John EB, Gilligan of New York was fatally stabbed twice while arresting Emil Schaeffer. Mrs. Cynthia Palmer, living on a farm near Eldora, Iowa, killed herself by hanging in an outbuilding. She was 81 years old. Her husband died many years ago. Judge Wheeler, holding court at Clarinda, Iowa, sentenced D. R. Wil- son, indicted on eight counts for fors- ery, to five years in the penitentiary. Wilson pleaded guilty. S, Lee Clark, cashier of the Enter- prise National bank, Allegheny, Pa., fatally shot himself while despondent, due, it is said, to illness. It is said that Mr. Clark’s accounts are correct. Martin Paulsgrove, charged with the murder of Miss Mary Newman, his sweetheart, a school teacher in Andrew county, Mo., last January, was convict- ed of murder in the first degree. William ‘Tubbs, proprietor of the Farmers’ hotel at Coshocton, Ohio, shot and probably fatally wounded his wife, and then put a bullet in his own head, dying instantly. The couple were re- cently divorced. George and Edward Carter were killed and several others injured at Moultre, near St, Augustine, Fla., after a dance, as a result of a feud between the Osteens and Carters. During the weck just closed there have been twenty-six homicides in Mississippi, which equals the worst weekly recoré of/the-year. Sunflower county gets the credit or discredit of six of these killings, which occurred within a period of two days. Three robbers entered the Jefferson bank of Jefferson, S. D., and engaged in a sharp exchange of ‘shots with Night Watchman Broulett, ‘who was sleeping in the building. They fled, Jeaving dark lanterns and nitroglycer- ine. . Harry McGlasson, who conducted a boarding house at Frakerville, Iowa, shot and killed his. wife, a five-year-old daughter and bis son-in-law. He then attempted to find his two stepsons, but few hours afterward. Ji is said to have been the cause of the deed. _ ae Rca ae \ \ i SENDS OUT STORIES OF INVESTI- GATION FAVORABLE TO THE MUTUAL, Foreign. — The sum of $10,000 has been receiv- ed in Rome from J. P. Morgan for the benefit of the sufferers from the recent earthquakes in the- province of Cala- bria. ‘i i vigeds A Bahia, Brazil, dispatch says that SERVICE COSTS $1 A LINE @ man fired two revolver shots at the governor of the state, Senor Jose Mar- celino de Souzaz, wounding him slight-| STORY THAT M’CURDY MADE formed head. ehh FAVORABLE IMPRESSION ie correspondent of 1e ndon Daily Mail at Madrid says that, fear- COST $2 A LINE. ing an attack by a British torpedo boat, the bandits of the Anjera tribe released the two British officers, who have arrived at Ceuta. Over a thousand farm labdrers, made desperate by :the existing famine, in- vaded the market place at Ecija, forty- eight miles from Seville, Spain, seized the entire stock of food and money, de- stroyed the market and threw the town into a panic. The correspondent of the London Times at Wellington, New Zealand,| New York, Oct. 25.—At the session says he thinks the opposition of the| Yesterday of the legislative commit- farmers and the country members will] tee investigating the insurance compa- prevent any legislation during the] nies, the affairs of the Mutual Life In- present session of the New Zealand} surance company were under consid- parliament against the American har-| eration and it was brought out that vester “trust.” this company was paying for the dis- A dispateh to the Paris Gil Blas from semination throughout the country of Madrid announces that the police of| Teports of this investigation that were Barcelona have found a number of| favorable to the company. Charles J. packages of dynamite concealed in Smith, a newspaper man, was the wit- flowers. The investigations made in-| 2€8s. He is employed by the Mutual dicate that there was a plot to use dy-| Life Insurance company to do a great namite during President Loubet’s ap-| Many things, but a month ago was TELLS ABOUT M’CALL LOAN PRESIDENT HEGEMAN SPEAKS STRONGLY OF FRIENDSHIP FOR M'CALL. proaching visit to King Alfonso. A terrific northwest storm, accompa- nied by rain and hail, raged in the North sea for four days. Many vessels have foundered or been damaged, and twenty-five sailors are known to have been lost. The harbor is filled to over- flowing with vessels seeking shelter. The coasting trade has been compleie- placed in charge of sending out these reports. Mr. Smith had issued a num- ber of vouchers for the payment of this work, and these aggregated $11, 000, with more bills to come in. He thought the amount to date would reach $14,000. Pays for the Service. ; Mr, Smith wrote these reports and ly suspended. submitted them to Allan Forman, who Datto Ali, with his followers in the] owns the telegraphic news bureau, and province of Mindanao, has taken the] $1 a line was paid by the Mutual Life aggressive and is killing many Moros| for for service. Clippings from vari- friendly to the government. Ali has] ous papers about the country were informed dattos who are assisting fed-] shown to the witness and identified as eral troops to effect his capture that] the dispatches he wrote and sent to he is now preparing to meet and kill] Mr. Forman. These were sent to them. Provisional companies of troops| about 100 papers, but Mr. Smith did are now taking the field for a vigorous} not know whether the papers were campaign, aided by friendly dattos who are being armed by the govern- ment. Otherwise. The New York Municipal Ownership league has nominated Clarence J. Shearn for district attorney. Senator George-T. Fulford of Brock- ville, Ont., died at the hospital at New- ton, Mass., as the result of injuries re- ceived in an automobile accident. The Western National bank at Louis- ville, which was closed several weeks ago on orders issued from the controll- er’s Office, reopened for business under favorable auspices. 5 paid for inserting them. In one dis- patch Mr. Smith wrote that Mr. Mc- Curdy’s attitude on the stand made a distinctly favorable impression, and for this he had paid $2 a line. This he said was worth it. Following Mr. Smith, Walter Sulli- van, who has charge of ihe magazine advertising department, was called. He said the Mutual advertised in twelve magazines last year at a cost of $42,- 000. Advertising in insurance papers cost about $30,000 more, but He Could Not Tell where the remainder of the account of $329,797, the amount charged up to ad- vertising last year, was spent. Earliér in the day Emory McClin- failing in this, he shot himself, dying a| Hirini Whaang, formerly chief of the] tock, the actuary of the Mutual Life, most powerful Maori tribe on the east- gave his explanation of technical in- ern coast of New Zealand, died iu aj surance. Mr. McClintock practically hospital at Salt Lake City of appendi-| advocated no laws for the insurance citis, aged 77 years. He became a Mor-| companies except a certain supervis- mon convert in 1882. ion to give the reports publicity. He Mrs. Duncan McGregor of Menomi-| thought the public could take care of nee, Mich., has offered a reward of| themselves, and that publicity was the $1,000 for the return of her husband,| best law. dead or alive. McGregor’s hat was John H. Hegeman, president of the found recently in the river, but no} Metropolitan Life Insurance company, trace of him can be found. was examined, and when the adjourn- The biennial report of the board of} Ment was taken his testimony was un- regents at the lowa state university | finished. has been made public, It asks for $260,- Hegeman Is Interesting. more than the annual endowment and} While lacking the startling features the need of a new wing for the univer-| of the testimony of some other life in- sity hospital is emphasized. surance presidents who haye testified, Fredericka Vanderbilt Webb, daugh-| MT Hegeman’s remarks and explana- ter of Dr. and Mrs. Seward Webb of tions were none the less interesting, Shelburn and New York, and Ralph especially his statement that $876,000 Pulitzer, son of Joseph Pulitzer, the was given to the industrial policybold- owner of the New York World, were] @TS of his company last year without married in Trinity Episcopal chureh,| 20Y Obligation whatever. Mr. Hegeman New York. 4 further said that in eight years his The American Royal Live stock company had voluntarily given to the show closed at Kansas City, having voli pole 1 al IS a 4 a at a paid out $26,000 in prizes. The: extended insurance; mortuary divi- re were We S % z dends and liberalized policies during 665 head of pure bred cattle on exhibi- epidemics, floods and fires, tion, 130 more than last year. After Telis About McCall Loan. the prize winners were paraded in the ‘The large loan at such a rate of in- arena, there was a sale of fancy stock terest as 11-2 per cent, especially the and several high prices were record-| 414 (9 président John A. McCall of the ea: New York Life Insurance company, John Yount, aged 12 years, son’ of| were taken up and Mr. Hegeman spoke Mr. and Mys. Joseph Yount of Ana- strongly of his friendship for Mr. Mc- mosa, Iowa, is dead from the effects of | Gail, who, he said had rendered him a small cold sore on his lip. The sore| yajuable service that was of benefit to broke out last week and on Friday it] the company, and, personally, he was evident that blood poisoning was} thought the company could afford, and setting in and a physician was called.| would haye been justified in paying The poison spread rapidly through the] yr McCall the few hundreds of dol- body and the boy’s sufferings were Jars the loans amounted to. The same great. was true, he said, of Silas B. Dutcher, Gen. William T. Clark of Washing-| a director of the company, who also ton, D. C., died in St. Luke's hospital,| carried large loans with the company New York, of cancer of the throat. He! at jow interest. was 74 years old and was born in Nor- - walk, Conn. Gen Clark was a member Fire at Valley Creek. of congress from Galveston, Tex.,from} $tillwater. Minn., Oct. 25. — John 1869 to 1873. He was the last surviv-| piebler's general store at Valley Creek ing adjutant and chiet of staff of Gen.| was burned last night. The loss on the Grant’s army of Tennessee. puilding and contents is $2,200. The control of the State Savings bank of Butte, one of the most prom- Bath Kills Drunk Negro. inent banking institutions of the North-| Helena, Mont., Oct. 25/— Harry L. west, passed, into the hands of F. Au-| ‘raylor, colored, employed as a ‘rubber gustus Heinze and M. Sellers Largey.| at the Alhambra Hot Springs, fifteen No definite statement is to be had as} miles south of here, fell into the bg ere ae of money involved in plunge while intoxicated, and drowned e transaction. ‘ore assist arrived. Gov. Beckham of Kentucky address- pe va He - —~ ed a letter to Thomas W. Lawson of Three. Trainmen Injured. Boston, Mass., in which he expresses] Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 25. — Three the belief that his declared purpose to were seriously injured last protect policy holders against the offi- | might by the explosion of a freight en- clals of the life pene companies is gine on the Chicago & Eastern Illi- praiseworthy, declines to act on] pois railroad at Jackson yards, north city. « Chicago, Oct. 25.—Newspapers have been ranked as-a text book at North- western university, and hereafter stu- dents in the American history class of Prof. J. A.\James must come to the recitation room prepared to answer questions on the news of the day. In the course of his lectures, Prof. James referred to an article which appeared in a morning paper. Upon questioning. one of the members of the class he found that the student was not pre- pared to discuss current news, and an examination of the class showed that but two of the members had read a morning paper. “This will never do,” said the pro fessor. “Hereafter I shall expect you to have an accurate knowledge of cur- rent events as ehronicled each day in the newspapers, and I shall consider it fully as important as the daily lessons assigned from the text books. News- papers are nothing more nor less than the latest edition of history, and stu- dents should read them with as much care as they do the prescribed text- books.” CROSSES CONTINENT AFOOT. Man Walks From Frisco to Gotham and Can’t Find Girl. New York, Oct. 25.—Failing to locate his sweetheart, to see whom he has walked all the way from San Francisco to this city, Alfred De Cardo yesterday made two desperate attempts to throw himself from the Williamsport bridge. He was dragged back but fought des- perately and finally broke away from two policemen and made a dash for the bridge railing. He was again seized and finally overpowered. When arraigned in police court he said that his home was in San Francisco and had a sweetheart living in Brooklyn. He said he received a letter from her saying she was ill and he had tramped across the continent to join her. The Man was committed to the observation ward at Flatbush. TRACES OF RACE 900 B. C. Excavations in Roman Forum Lead to Important Find, Rome, Oct. 25.—Prof. Giacomo Boni, who is directing excavations of the Roman forum, made important discoy- eries yesterday after a most careful stratigraphical exploration. The pro- fessor went twenty-nine archaelogical Strata and reached a muddy plain, where he found evidences that the plain was at one time inhabited. These evidences were a vegitable coal, pieces of pottery and several human skele- tons, the latter in such positions as to indicate violent death. The professor has arrived at the conclusion that the mud deposit is that of a marshy valley between the Palatine and Capitoline hills, the inhabitants of which, fought there eight centuries before Christ. INDICT UNDER REBATE LAW. Investigation in Kentucky Leads to Grand Jury. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 25.—An indict- ment containing nine counts was re- turned by the federal grand jury yes- terday afternoon against Sabastian Zorn & Co., T. G. Williams and James A. Bushfield, charging violation of the interstate commerce law. The in- dictments charge that the defendants illegally secured rebates. on grain shipments favoring certain shippers and districts and discriminating against others. The defendants were admitted to bail in the sum of $2,000 in each case. The indictment is the out- come of the recent investigation of grain rates made here by the United States interstate commerce commis- sion. Federal IROQUOIS VICTIM SUES, First Damage Suit Against Owners of Iroquois Theater Is on Tral. Chicago, Oct. 25.—The first damage suit against the proprietors of the Iro- quois theater, which was burned Dec. 30, 1903, will be commenced to-day in the district court before Judge Landis. Edna S. Hunter, who was badly injured tin the fire, has brought suit for $25,000 against the theater company and the George A. Fuller company, which erected the building. This suit is con- sidered by lawyers to be of great im portance. Hundreds of other ‘suits ag- gregating millions of dollars in dam- ages have been brought, and the evi- dence given and the verdict to be ren- dered in this first trial is of momen- tous importance to all concerned. TRAIN SNOWBOUND. Passenger Train Encounters Snow- drift Between Harlowton and Garniel. Butte, Mont., Oct. 25—A passenger train of several coaches was snow- bound for a day on the Montana rail- road, according to advices teceived from Harlowton. An immense drift of snow was encountered between Har- lowton and Garniel, and an éffort to dash through resulted in the train get- ting stuck so badly that it required twelve hours’ work of a large force of shovelers to free the cars. Drunken Man Pulls Throttle. Hammond, Ind., Oct. 25. — Patrick McGrath of Chestorton, while appar- ently under the influence of liquor, boarded an engihe here yesterday, opened the throttle and ran into a work train, injuring four men. He was arrested. ; : 3 : Canadian Sawmill Is Burned. Winnipeg, Oct. 25.—The sawmill at Keewatin, one of the largest in Western decline these terms, ALABAMA VIES WITH SISTER STATES OF SOUTH TO DO HIM HONOR. POINTS OUT AN ARMED MAN DRUNKEN MAN DROPS PISTOL IN EXCITEMENT OF RECEPTION. THE OVATION IS CONTINUOUS PRESIDENT SPEAKS IN SHADOW OF CONFEDERACY'’S FIRST CAPITOL. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 25, — Presi- dent Roosevelt concluded a strenuous day in Alabama by a two hours’ visit to Birmingham, where his reception, in keeping with those given him at Montgomery and Tuskogee, were hearty and soul-stirring. His day be- gan at 7 o’clock, when the special! train left Montgomery for Tuskegee. Visits to the Tuskegee normal and industrial institute and to the Methodist female college were crowded into a little less than two hours, and the noon hour had just arrived whcu the chief executive stepped from his car in Montgomery. Here he spoke to a great throng un- der the Shadow of the Confederacy’s first capitol, and was on his way again sharply at 2 o'clock. A few minutes before 5 the president was the guest of Birmingham, and until his train left at 7:45 on the night run to Little Rock, the president was Cheered at Every Turn. The day was unmarked by any spe- cial incident, save at Birmingham. Here, at the corner of Fifth avenue and Twentieth street, and intoxicated man in his excitement dropped a pis- tol from his pocket on the pavement. The president saw the incident and called the attention of officers to the man, who was immediately arrested. The president’s train arrived in Birmingham promptly on time. Mayor Ward, surrounded by a reception com- mittee, delivered the formal address of welcome at the station, and immedi- ately after the party entered carriages and began the march to Capitol Park, eight. squares distant. The parade was along North Twenti- eth street and the entire line of march was packed with humanity. The ova- tion to the president was continuous and he stood in his carriage the whole way acknowledging the Outbursts of Enthusiasm, At Capitol Park, under the glamor of thousands of electric lights, the party entered the speakers’ stand. Gen. Ru- fus N. Rhodes, editor of the Birming- ham News, welcomed the president. in behalf of the citizens of Birmingham. Following the president’s speech Former Gov, Joseph F. Johnston spoke in behalf of Camp Hardee, United Con- federate Veterans, and presented to the president several young ladies, de- scendants of Confederate soldiers, and sponsors and maid of honor, who pre- sented to the president a badge from the camp. From Capitol Park the party went to Third avenue and Twentieth street and boarded a special. electric train and proceeded to the Alabama State fair grounds. The crowd at the fair was also numerous and greeted the president enthusiastically. HEAD BROKEN TO PULP. Miner at St, Anthony Is Found Brutally Murdered. Winnipeg, Oct. 25.—Theodore Yau- ren, in from St. Anthony mine at Stur- geon Lake in New Ontario, reports the brutal murder of a miner, Jack Mac- kay. His body was found at the door of a place kept by a woman named Morrow, about a mile from the mine. It is supposed that Mackay had a row with the woman and her male compan- ion. His head was pounded to a jelly and the club with which the murder had been committed was found by his dead body. Yauren related the details to the officers, and was taken to Fort William, where a case will be pre- pared. © CASHIER SHOT BY ROBBER. Robbers Get Away With $6,000 From Indiana Bank. Ridgeville, ind., Oct. 25.—Seven rob- bers dynamited the safe in the Ridge- ville State bank early yesterday and escaped with about $6,000. The ex- plosion aroused Cashier Branson, who hurried to the bank, and received a bullet in the ankle. Before going to the bank the robbers met e town watchman, Overpowered and bound and gagged him. There is no clue. TERMS FOR FRENCH LOAN. Bankers Are Liberal to Themselves in Offer to Russia. St. Petersburg, Oct. 25.—The rumor is current here that the French finan- cial syndicate is now prepared to nego- tiate for the proposed loan to Russia. _ The syndicate proposes that the loan should bear 4 per cent interest; that it be issued at 91, and that a commis- sion of 4 roubles, or a little more than 2 per cent, be allowed to it. It is be- leved that the financial ministry will