Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 4, 1905, Page 2

Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. The Book of Job has been drama- tized and is to be put on the stage. Cheer up. A Chicago poet has written a eulogy on the bath, thus conveying the im- pression that he has taken one. It is a surprise to the public that a man of August Belmont’s financial standing has not had appendicitis long ago. It has been discovered that the Hay- tians are fond of babies; in fact, con- sider them delicious when properly cooked. Newport society belles went to a dance dressed as farmers’ daughters. They must have suffered terribly from the heat. While the British lion and the Rus- sian bear may lie down together, it is a safe guess that each will keep one eye open. Thicker come the throbs as Art gets under way for its brief, hectic, steam- heated season. Let us warm our hands at Art. Bishop Huntington says he never saw an angel with whiskers. And yet the bearded lady is~ undoubtedly somebody’s angel. Queen Wilhelmina says that the ex- penses of Holland are increasing much faster than the income. Holland is just like the rest of us. Two million dollars’ worth of tele- graph lines in Newfoundland will make the island seem a good deal smaller than it seems to-day. We do hope that the President's gift of a gold-plated sewing machine to the empress of Japan won’t make the em- press dowager of China eee: Her relatives claim ‘that a woman who did not leave her $8,000,000 to them was insane. Of course she was; she left it to the man she loved. Coats are to be long, and are to fit close, say the tailors, whose decrees are indisputable. That’s all right for everybody but the long slim Jims. The attempt to naturalize Hawaiian poi in this country is one of doubtful result. Who would care for poi when he can have hot mince pie for break- fast? Breast pockets on our evening clothes? Pipe our frocks? Velvet collars on the gallus dinner coat? Nay, nay, not until black socks give place to red. “The Igorrote,” remarks the Port- land Oregonian, “is visible to the naked eye.” He is, dear boy. Also, if memory serves us, he is naked to the visible eye. What riles us is, when we are trying to make up for lost time to have to waste ten or fifteen minutes listening to some good advice about the foolish- ness of wasting time. A dispatch from Wall street says it is feared that money may before long be too plentiful. This undoubtedly is the worst case of trouble-borrowing that has ever been reported. “Eternal Feminine” writes to say that she thinks it but just that “an- gels here below should be represen- tative of the masculine gender, as there will be few, if any, of that sex above.” There was a time when China tore up the railways built by foreigners and threw the rails into the sea. Now it is buying their railways. ‘The heathen Chinee is losing some of his peculiarities. Once there was a man who suspect- ed his wife of flirtation, but before he blazoned his woes to the world he dis- covered that she was merely trying to buy him a birthday present without his finding it out. Robert Goelet, the well-known New- port society man, has filed his appli- cation for admittance to the bar of Rhode Islanda If he gets all the so- ciety cases he will have a large and remunerative practice. “Who is the formost man in the world?” asks an esteemed contem- porary. The foremost man in: the newspaper world, as any fair minded person will concede, is the man with the longest nose for news. The {country’s ‘postoffice business for the year ending June 30, last, shows an increase of $10,000,000, over the preceding year. And yet the av- erage man probably did not notice any increase in his correspondence. Gay old King Leopold sends word to our President that the Roosevelt por- trait adorns a bureau in the « royal dréssing room. There’s a large and fascinating variety of portraits on that royal bureau, according to persistent gossip. : All hands, howled in chorus at the critics of Borglum, sculptor of angels. ‘The Providence Journal demands to know whether the critics ever saw an g an intention angel, thus smanifesting 0 an ar Washington, Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassa- dor, denies the report that he is to succeed Count Lamsdorff as minister of foreign affairs at St. Petersburg. A. F. Dueber, chief clerk of the St. Cloud land office for several years, has been summarily*removed by order of Secretary Hitchcock. It was found that Dueber had been selling and spec- ulating in scrip, and that his trans- actions were quite extensive. ~ Lieut. Commander Albert A. Key, U. S. N., who has been assigned to duty at the White House, is the sec- ond southern man to be Appointed on the president’s staff. The other is Capt. Fitzhugh Lee, Jr., the oldest son of the late Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. The lieutenant commander is a native of ‘Tennessee. The board of visitors to the mili- tary academy, in*their report to the secretary of war, recommend that greater limitations be placed upon admission to the academy and suggest that the minimum height of the cadet necessary for admission to the academy be increased. The report says that the management of the academy, both in dicipline and effi- ciency, is all that could be desired. The interior department has grant- ed substantially all that Senator Clapp contends for in relation to the White Earth timber sale. In other words, the Indian office admits that the advertisement of sale says one thing and that the department means another. The rules and regulations will be changed, but it is a mighty safe wager that there will be no sale as originally contemplated, and that there will be no logging operations on reservations this coming winter. Casualty. John C. Dondero, aged 27, died at Willimantic, Conn., as the result of an injury received in a football game in Jewett City. Two children of Fred Piel of Bladen, Neb., sixteen and four years old, were burned to death and their mother was so badly burned that she cannot re- cover, in a fire which destroyed their home. Carrying a lighted lamp down stairs, Miss Flora Richards, principal of Iron-’ wood school at Marquette, Mich., slip- ped and fell. Her night dress was set on fire and she was so badly burned that death is expected. While returning to Beverly to Mari- etta, Ohio, in a motorboat, M. L. Will- iamson, dentist; Probate Judge Nixon and Will Selby, son of a wealthy oil producer, went over a dam at Lowell, on the Muskingum river, and William- son was drowned. Fire originated simultaneously in three places in the central part o Ridgeway, Pa., destroying the buil ings in which it started. The opera house, the finest in this section, was burned, the loss on the building amounting to $60,000. A tornado near Jennings, Payne county, Okla., killed two small chil- dren of Irvin Anderson, living on House creek, badly injured Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, and demolished the house of Edward Root, breaking his daughter’s ankle. The storm followed the Cimmarron river, and in Yale de- stroyed many homes. The residents escaped injury by fleeing to caves. Two Polish trackmen were killed and six fatally injured on the Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena railroad, five miles northwest of Elmira, Mich, when a locomotive rolled down an embank- maent where the men were at work. Work was in progress for a crossing over a creek and a temporary bridge gave way under the weight of the locomotive. The engine crew escaped by jumping. George Stadler was shot and killed by Frank L. Busche, his brother-in- law, at the Busche home at Platts- mouth, Neb. Stadler was trying to force an entrance to the house where his wife and children had taken refuge after he had threatened to kill them. He threatened to kill Busche unless admitted, and had broken down a door when the shot was fired. A coroner’s jury acquitted Busche. Foreign. The Chinese imperial granaries burned just previous to the distribu- tion of rice. The immense loss is ap- parently due to incendiarism. The question of the friar lands pur- chase was practically settled at Manila when the commission paid the Domin- ican order $3,225,000, which is the last payment. An incendiary fire which occurred at the arsenal at Cherbourg, where three submarine boats are being built, did extensive damage to the boats and other property. The Belgian genre painter, Florent Willems, died at Neuilly, France. He was born at Liege in 1823. Some of his best known pictures are owned in the United States. The correspondent at Tokio of the London Daily Express says it is un- derstood that King Edward will send to Japan early in the new year a mis- sion headed by Prince Arthur of Con- naught to confer the Order of the Gar- ter on the emperor of Japan. King Victor Emmanuel recently re- ceived $10,000 anonymously for the benefit of the sufferers by the recent earthquake in the province of Cala- bria. Baron Kotchen, the Russian Consul at Messina, uow states that the contribution ! Crimes and Criminals. Justice of the Peace Daniel Q. Kelle- her of Beechwood borough, a Pitts- burg suburb, was found lying uncon- scious beneath a bridge near his home and died later. His watch, money and papers were missing. Three thieves, two men and @ wom- an, believed to be members of the gang that has been operating exten- sively in the West, entered the Gem Manufacturing company’s store - at Louisville and escaped with $1,300 worth of goods. Mary Mabel Rogers, under sentence of death in Vermont for killing her husband, was granted leave to proceed on appeal before the supreme court of the United States, ag a pauper, with- out payment of costs. The record in the case will be printed at public ex- pense. Crazed with ‘grief over the death of his son, who committed suicide with illuminating gas, Herman Schulz of New York shot himself through the head while the funeral service was being read over the body of his son, and fell prostrate across the coffin, dead. Mrs. Zeta Eckles shot Constable Peter Martin through the head at her home at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The woman shot once into’ the ceiling as a warning, and then turned her weapon against the officer. The officer was at- tempting to serve a writ of execution and remove some furniture from the house. Judge G. W. Burnham of Dubuque has imposed the shortest term in the Towa state penitentiary ever given. Edward Frondel and John Lang, found guilty of obstructing the right of way of the Rock Island raliway at Vinton, have been sentenced to one day each in Anamoosa prison. The sentence is the minimum fixed by law. Burglars got away with $1,500 worth of goods after blowing the safe of J. C. Vicker’s jewelry store at Hull, Iowa. An attempt had previously been made to rob the Iowa State bank, but the vault could not be penetrated. Sever- al guests at the Lincoln hotel saw the burglars, but did not give the alarm for two hours. There is no further clue. y Seven. robbers: dynamited the safe in the Ridgeville State bank at Ridge- ville, Ind., and escaped with about $6,- 000. The explosion aroused Cashier Branson, who hurried to the bank, and received a bullet in the ankle. Before going to the bank the robbers met the town watchman, overpowered, bound and gagged him. There is no clue. Theodore Yauren arrived at «Winni- peg 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. General. Justice Stover of the New York su- preme court has appointed Arthur D. Truax receiver for the Haight & Freeze Co. Mrs. Elizabeth Widener ,aged 24, died at Easton, Pa., as the result of excessive smoking of cigarettes. Eight years ago it was stated that her for- mer husband, Frank Fisher, sold her for 50 cents to Samuel Widener. Feeling the time is long overdue for the proper recogflition of the grave of Betsy Ross, members of the Sons of Veterans have taken action which will probably result in the erection of a monument over the “Mother of the Star-Spangled Banner.” University of Chicago students were advised to be “mixers” by Dean Frank J. Miller, who addressed the students of the lower senior college. He said that if a young man failed in the qual- ity of making acquaintances and im- pressing himself on men, his success in life would be impaired. One of New York city’s most con- spicuous ventures in municipal owner- ship took form last week when the new ferry line between the Battery and Staten Island was put in opera- tion. It is owned and operated by the city and its five splendid ferry boats are the largest in New York harbor, aggregating in value nearly $2,000,000. Strenuous opponents of race suicide are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heise of Owos- so, Mich., whose twentieth child has just arrived. All the score of young- sters, from Fred Jr., who is 21 and the oldest, down to the last little girl, who has’ just opened her eyes on the world, are healthy and happy. Heise has the contract for coaling the Grand Trunk engines here, and is a respected German citizen. ¢ Announcement is made by the police canvass of 22 of the 42 wards showed 15,861 names were illegally on the lat- est voting lists of these wards. The director of public safety said that his department would make every effort to prevent the voting of the- fraudulent names, and that the whole power of’ the police would be directed toward securing an honest election. President Stuy¥esant Fish of ae Mlinois Central road announces Fal the Illinois Central and the department of Philadelphia that a re- WILD WITH JOY EMPEROR'S GIFT OF FREEDOM 1S ENTHUSIASTICALLY CELE. BRATED. SUCH DAY NEVER SEEN BEFORE FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY RUSSIANS ARE ALLOWED FREE REIN. WANT GEN. TREPOFF KILLED SOCIALISTS, ORGANIZE ANTI-GOV- ERNMENT DEMONSTRA- TIONS. St. Petersburg, Nov. 1.—-All Russia yesterday celebrated enthusiastically the emperor’s gift of freedom, which the greater part of the people received with deepest joy, though in St. Pe- tersburg, Moscow and other cities so- cialists and revolutionaries organized anti-government demonstrations and red flag parades, which, with the patri- otic manifestations, led to numerous conflicts between the “reds” and “whites,” as the anti-government and royalist factions are respectively termed. On the whole the day passed more quietly in Russia than had been expected, though collisions between the people and the troops are reported from Polgava, Kazan and Kianineff. Such a Day Never Seen Before. In each of the two capitals, St. Pe- tersburg and Moscow, the day was one such as the Russians never before have seen. The Slavic people, which, during the long war just closed and the anxious period preceding the an- nouncement of the new era of consti- tutionalism, seemed _ self-restrained and apathetic, gave itself up fully to the exuberance of the moment and spent the entire day in parades and assemblies, which for the first time in the history of Russia were freely per- mitted. Under the orders of Count Witte and Gen. Trepoff the troops generally were withdrawn from the streets of the cities and the fullest rein given the people to let out their en- thusiasm in demonstrations, which, so jong as they were not destructive, were not interfered with. Socialists Want More. From early morning the streets of the capital were filled with a mass of demonstrators who paraded up and down the Havsky Prospect, and, con- stantly augmenting, reached a grand total of fully 200,000 persons, while down the Nevsky Prospect late in the afternoon socialist agitators jumped into the forefront and converted the celebration into a great revolutionary demonstration. Socialist orators de- livered fiery orations declaring that the concessions of the emperor’s mani- festo were insufficient, and that they must have the freedom of all political prisoners, the formation of a national militia and the banishment of Gen. Trepoff and all the troops under his command twenty miles from the cap- ital. The most serious encounter during the day took place near the barracks of the Seminoff regiment, where a crowd of demonstrators was stopped by the troops. Shots were fired on both sides with the result that one man was killed and ten wounded. Want Trepoff Killed. A feature of the day was the intense enmity displayed by the orators against Gen. Trepoff, tbe agitators uni- versally demanding his removal, and at a great meeting in the university last night one orator openly called for a volunteer to ‘kill him. Count Witte, however, does not seem inclined to throw him overboard, at least for the present, and has also refused the pro- posals for the removal of the troops as sheer folly. During the afternoon Count Witte announced to a friend that he was not without hope that universal suffrage would be_introduced before the elec- tions for the state douma took place. This announcement, when it spreads among the Liberals will enroll many of the latter among the friends of the new government against the socialists, who arnounce that they will be satis- fied with nothing less than a demo- cratic republic on the basis of state socialism. Head of the Churth Resigns. The dawn of a constitutional era marks also the passing of Constantine Petroyitch Pobiedonostseff, the aged chief procurator of the hoiy synod and the servant and advisor of three em- perors, who*all during his life has been the strongest defender of the au- tocracy. He was unwilling to remain in office under a parliamentary govern- ment, and last night presented his res- ignation, which was accepted by the emperor, who at the same time nom- inated him to the senate, th reesting place of retired statesmen. Concéssions to Finland. Helsingfors, Nov. 1.—The proclama- tion of civil liberty in Russia was fol- lowed yesterday by the announcement of a return to a constitutional regime alleged | in Finland andthe abolition of the‘ar- | bitrary conditions under which Fin- land has been governed since the ac- cession as governor general of Count Bobrikoff, who in June of last year was that| killed by Schaumann. After a meeting of constitutionalists drawn up for presentation to the gow ernment demanding the administra- tion of Finland in accordance with the terms of the constitution of the grand duchy, Prince Obolensky, the governor general, announcer to a deputation sent by the meeting that he had been informed from St. Petersburg that the diet be immediately called in extraor- dinary session to legislate for Finland. FIRE AT PENSACOLA, FLA. Many Large Stores Destroyed — Loss Over $100,000. on Mobile, Ala., Nov. 1.—A telephone message to the Register at 1:30 this morning says a fire is raging in Pen- sacola, Fla., and that the loss so far is $100,000. The fire broke out at 12:45 in the principal block in the city, on Palafox street, between Brent and Watson, ‘and half an hour later there was an explosion, presumably from gas, which blew out nearly the whole front of the block. In the property burning the largest stores in the city are located, along with the Osceola club. The club quarters have been en- tirely destroyed and a number of valu- able Florida relics which they con- tained. RACY POSTERS ARE TABOOED. Mayor Approves Ordinance Forbidding Posters of Suggestive Nature. New York, Nov. 1—Mayor McClel- lan has approved the “public morality” ordinance, passed by the board of ad- dermen, which secks to regulate Dill- posting and other advertising of a sug- gestive character. It says: “No person shall post, etc., any pla- ecard, poster, bill or picture of any show, exhibition, theatrical or other performance in or on any building, or upon any public place in the city of New York, which shall be of lewd, in- decent, vulgar or suggestive charac- ter, calculated to debauch the public or shock the sense of decency or pro- priety.” WELCOME NORWAY INTO FAMILY, Six Countries Agree to Begin Diplo- matic Relations. Christiania, Nov. 1. — The United States, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland and Brazil have already declared their readiness to enter into official relations with Norway in reply to Foreign Minister Loevland’s notifi- cation sent out to all the powers after King Oscar’s abdication that the Nor- wegian government desired to open the usual diplomatic relations with them. The replies are couched in the most. courteous terms, and some of them are accompanied by a cordial welcome of Norway into the ranks of the fully independent nations. NEW PUBLIC PRINTER. C, A. Stallings Is Selected by the President. Washington, Nov. 1.—The president has appointed Charles A. Stallings of Boston as public printer, to take effect to-day. Mr. Stallings is manager of the printers’ board of trade of New York city. The appointment of Mr. Stallings was not forecast by any dis- cussion of his candidacy for the place. The large printing firms of New York and Boston indorsed him as a practical printer and executive. He was also strongly indorsed by Senator Crane. STORM CITY HALL. Tammany Hangs Out Banner Which Arouses Ire of the Proletariat. New York, Noy. 1.—An invasion of the city hall was made yesterday by a great crowd of men and boys who were angered at the raising of a Tam- many campaign banner on which there was a red flag above the name “Hearst,” and an American flag above the name “McClellan.” The crowd, shouting “Let’s tell McClellan what we think of him,” overran the city hall steps for a quarter of an hour until dispersed by the never. PRISONER HANGS HIMSELF, Strangles Himself With Towel on Eve of Trial for Murder. Delphi, Ind., Noy. 1.—With a towel which he tied to the top of the cell door and then fastened into a string necktie which had been wrapped tight- ly around his neck, Marshal Fred Thompson strangled himself to death yesterday morning in the county jail, He stood on a stool, then kicked it out from under him. Thompson was charged with the murder of his father- in-law, William Dellinger, and his trial was set for yesterday. EMMONS GETS FIVE YEARS. California State Senator Is Sentenced for Bribetaking. Sacramento, Nov. ].—Former State Senator J. E. Emmons of Kern county, convicted of receiving a bribe in con- nection with the building and loan as- sociations by the executive committee, of which he was a member, was yes- terday sentenced to five years’*im- prisonment in the penitentiary at San Quentin. DEATH VALLEY SCOTT SAFE. Pyromobite Iniuries* Are Pronounced Not Serious, Los Angeles, Noy. 1.—Walter Scott, the Death Valley mmer who was thrown from an automobile Monday night while running fifty miles an hour and was severely hurt, will recover, according to the statement of physi- cians who examined his injuries close- ly yesterday. Farmer Killed. Towa City, Iowa, Nov. 1.—Jacob Bos- deck, a pioneer farmer, was killed last night by a fall of twenty feet from a hay mow. His neck was broken. DOWNFALL OF AUTOCRACY. Czar Signs Manifesto Which Ends Rule _ of Absolutism in Russia. St. Petersburg, Nov. 1—“I am sure the American people, who understand what freedom is, and the American press, which voices the wishes of the people, will rejoice with the friendly Russian nation at this moment when the Russian people have received from his imperial majesty the promises and the guarantees of freedom, and will join in the hope that the Russian people will wisely aid in the realiza- tion of those liberties by co-operating with the government. Only thus will it be possible to insure the full bene- fits of the freedom conferred upon the people.” Ends Rule of Absolutism. Count Witte, Russia’s first premier, last night sent the above message to the American people through the As- sociated Press. He had just arrived at his residence from Peterhof, where the emperor two hours before had given his final approval to a manifesto and to a program which will forever end the rule of absolutism exercised by him and his Romanoff ancestors for 300 years. A simple perusal of the manifesto shows how complete is the emperor’s abdication of his autocratic power. The very style of the document Is Clear and Direct. and devoid of the verbose, vague and bombastic phraseology which hereto- fore has characterized his majesty’s manifestos. It not only betrays real authorship, but shows that the emper- or at last has irrevocably bowed to the inevitable. He does not even con- ceal the fact that the discontent and agitation of his subjects has driven him to take the <tep, and practically yields everything—civil liberty, the inviolability of person and liberty of conscience, speech and assembly. He not only converts the farcicai imperial douma, with only consulta. tive power, to an absolute Legislative Assembly, without the assent of which no meas- ure shall become law and before which all governmental authorities must an- swer, but promises eventually univer- sal suffrage. The title “autocrat of all the Rus- sias” with which the manifesto begins, now takes its place with the title of “King of Jerusalem,” borne by the king of Spain and the emperor of Aus- tria, and with other obsolete titles of European sovereigns. J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., and George W. Perkins were with Finance Minister Kokovsoff when the latter received the news. It was a dramatic moment. The minister was called to the tele- phone, and when he returned he was greatly agitated, and said: Old Order Is Changed. “Gentlemen, the old order of things has changed. Russia has a constitu- tion.” The news spread like wildfire throughout the city. The revolution- ists and active agitators generally de- clared loudly that the government's promises would no longer suffice, and that the strike must be continued. In fact, an hour after the news be- came known, the revolutionists took occasion to throw the first bomb in St. Petersburg used since the strike be- gan. The incident occurred near the Polytechnic school, but there was no fatality. Is Read With Delight. Practically all classes, except the socialists and the extreme radicals, however, read the document with de- light and amazement, declaring that it could not fail to rally the moderates to the support of Count Witte. The effect throughout Russia pected to be instantaneous. the extremists threaten an attempt to keep up the present struggle the best of opinion is that the back of the strike is broken, but in the final analy- sis the effect will depend on how far Count Witte will be able to Execute the Heavy Task which he hag assumed. Some persons high in the government believe it still will be necessary to use ball cart- ridges to suppress the present move- ment, but Count Witte appears confi- dent. He has become the _ bridge whereby the people are to cross to constitutionalism. The count already has tentatively selected the members of his cabinet. Late last night after the news got abroad, crowds began marching up and down the Nevsky Prospect, sii ing the national hymn and hurrahing for liberty. Will Call Off Strike. St. Petersburg, Nov. 1—A mecting of the strike committee was held Iast night after the promulgation of the emperor’s manifesto was known. The question of calling the strike off was discussed, but a decision was post- poned until to-day. A damper was thrown upon the strike enthusiasm by the news that work had been resumed in a large part of the factories of St. Petersburg. The committeemen talked boldly of their ability to call out the men again and to intimidate the store clerks into reclosing, but the committee probably to-day or to-morrow will put a good face on their defeat and issue a proc- Jamation calling off the strike until January. No Mutiny in Black Sea. There appears to be no foundation for the rumors of mutiny on the ves- sels. of the Black sea fleet which are in circulation in Odessa and which have been industriously propagated by the strikers here for several days. Shout Themselves Hoarse. Celebration of the issuance of the imperial manifesto still continues at 3 o'clock this morning in many streets of the city, where crowds are singing the national hymn, cheering for the emperor and shouting themselves hoarse. em a