Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 11, 1905, Page 2

GRAND RAPIDS, - By C. E. KILEY. MINNESOTA. Of course tho imitation butter that was served 4o Uncle Sam’s tars was colored red. Po How we wish it had been one of those petrified apples Satan gave to Mother Eve! The mikado continues to give credit to his ancestors. He hopes posterity will do likewise. A trolley line from the Atlantic to the Pacific is being talked of. Kindly accent the “talked.” Even if the French sayants* think itssing “an unpleasant custom” it is most ungallant to say so. We note that a clergyman down in Bristol, R. L, says that he has sinless children. What do his neighbors say? “Yale,” says an incorrigible joker who is acting as football coach in that university, “has never stood for rough play.” There are those who detcet a cer- tain amount of open work also in the arguments against the perforated stocking. Carlisle has a man on her eleven named Kicked-on-the-Jaw. He'll have lots of brothers-in-fact before the sea- son’s over. ¥ Grand Duke Cyril is a lucky man. He has succeeded in marrying the woman he loves and getting banished from Russia. The Sultan of Turkey has bought an automobile. Perhaps he intends to personally circulate among his Ar- menian subjects. A lot of Virginia women have. form- ed an anti-kissing society. Meanwhile, Virginia’s pretty women are too busy to break into print. A California man has adopted a girl because he was charmed by her piano playing. We may add that she didn’t live next door, “Many a"Wnan,” says one of the lady journalists, “has fallen in love with a dimple.” Yes, and discovered later that it was only a wrinkle. “An Italian,” according to an es- teemed contemporary, “walked a mile with a broken neck.” Did you ever see a mile with a broken neck? A machine for milking cows by elec- tricity has been invented. It is re- ported to work fairly well—when the cow can be induced to stand still. That clubwoman who exhorts moth- ers to let their boys get dirty once a day need not worry. The boys will see to it that her advice is followed. A Japanese girl is trying to get a job in a telephone office in San Fran- cisco, and the natives are taking swearing lessons from a Japanese man. The funny men have been given an- other opening; John D. Rockefeller says he feels like a sponge, and 235 jokes in repartee suggest themselvea at once. Wall Street will probably give a medal or a loving cup or some other testimonial of esteem and gratitude to the man who got into Russell Sage for $21,095. Tom Edison says Americans eat too much and work too little. He ought to take a walk around the out- side of his shop and get agquainted with the facts. Isn’t it funny that it is always men “who lead exemplary lives” that turn out to be embezzlers? Men who lead the other kind of a life are generally too busy to embezzle. Apparently lots of people believe that it is unlucky to get married on Friday, the 13th. Lots of other peo- ple believe that it is unlucky to get married on any other day. It is to be considered, howbeit, that if a husband’s pocket were as hard to find as his wife’s pocket, there would be no need of his carrying a rat trap in it for purposes of protection. Carnegie wants the five leading na- tions to get together and make the world accept peace. The great trouble is that if the five leading nations ever get together they will be likely to fight. , A European scientist. says man’s first ancestor was a. tree. . There’s nothing new in that. Darwin asserted that men descended from monkeys, and any fool knows that monkeys 4e- | scend from trees. Soa A Boston tailor killed himself be- cause his customers ,wouldn’t pay their bills. If he did it’ to spite the customers he* probably succeeded. | They may now have to get their clothes made where deposits will be required. “Sunt” Ann Betts of’ Bast Orange, N. J., celebrated her one second birthday last week. She isn’t in the poorhouse and hasn’t used whisky and tobacco all her life, This is a remarkable record for a New Jer- sey centenarian. Washington. , Col. Henry C. Ward, Fifteenth in- fantry, at his own request, has been retired after forty-two years’ active service, > r In accordance with a suggestion of Secretary Hitchcock, President Roose- velt has directed’ the Kéep commis- sion to make a thorough investigation of the interior department. The state department has been in- formed that steps have been taken to secure the withdrawal of the troops of the allied powers associated in the sup- pression of the Boxer uprising, which were assigned to the protection of the road from Pekin to Tien-tsin. Alexander C. Botkin, chairman of the commission to revise the criminal laws under the department of justice, died in Washington. Mr. Botkin had been for twenty-five years a sufferer from paralysis brought on by exposure in a storm during President Arthur’s ad- ministration. Henry White, American ambassador, has forwarded to Washington for ap- proval by the senate an extradition treaty between the United States and the Republic of San Marino. San Marino is the smallest and oldest re- public in the world. It has an area of twenty-three square miles. Fleming G. Cheshire, who was some time ago appointed consul general to Mukden, but was prevented from tak- ing up his duty, has received his -ex- equatuer from the Chinese govern- ment. His official recognition by the Chinese government is regarded as quite important, as it opens up Man- churia for the first time to American trade. : Accidental Happenings. | Mistaken for a bear, John McAllis- ter; aged 32 years, was shot and killed at Maple Ridge, Delta county, Mich., by William Bridges, his brother-in-law. Fire at Baltimore destroyed the Mount Clare sawmill of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, with contents. The loss {fs estimated at $100,000. BHighty- five men were employed. Stewart L. Pierson, a freshman at Kenyon college, was killed by a Cleve- land, Akron & Columbus train at Gam- bier, Ohio, while awaiting initiation into Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Harry Wilson of Minneapolis fell from a south-bound passenger train at Redding, Cal. His body was mangled and he died. He was stealing a ride and it is said the brakeman threw him off. The Lightner Hoisting works and forty-stamp mills were destroyed by fire at Angels, Cal.; loss, $150,000. Six- teen men who were in the mill es- eaped through the shaft in an adjoin- ing mine. _ / J. H. Brooke of the firm of Neely, Brooke & Price, was seriously injured in an automobile accident near Absc- eon, N. J. He was going at a rapid rate when a tire burst, upsetting the automobile. Mrs. Mary K. Motz, aged 55, wife of one of the most prominent citizens of Knox county, Ohio, was instantly kill- ed and her son was fatally injured by a tree which was being cut down fall- ing on them. William White and Abraham White- ley, the latter a negro, were killed by an explosion in the power house of the Potomac Electric company in Wash- ington, and George Tramble, William Hall and Luther Butler, all white, were injured. : A spectacular fire which destroyed British government property valued at $100,000 on George’s island in the cen- ter of Halifax harbor, threatened to obliterate numerous: masked batteries and magazines which ‘constitute one of the most important groups of forti- fications at that port. An explosion occurred in the primer dry house of the Union Cap and Cham- ical company at Alton, Ill., causing the déath of Foreman Anthone Bechy, who was terribly mangled. The explosion set off 10,000,000 gun and cartridge primers and blew the stone dry house to pieces. The cause is unknown. A year ago a similar explosion killed Harry Mills. Foreign. Cholera has broken out at Lodz, Russia. A number of cases are report- ed in the populous section of the town. Violent quake shocks are re- ported from Chilpancingo and other places in the state of Guerrero, Mex- ico. 1 Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian drama- tist, is pronounced to be suffering from arterial sclerosis. He is very feeble and unable to move, but is mentally bright, The Chinese army maneuvers which have just been completed have great- ly impressed foreigners, especially those acquainted with the condition of Chinese troops five years ago. At the request of the congregation of the propaganda the pope has signed a decree permitting priests of the United States, with the consent of their bish- ops, to leave their dioceses and take up work in the Panama canal zone, where English-speaking priests are scarce. The Spanish steamer Zuria, from Ro- wario for Hamburg, went ‘ashhore off the South Rocks, Heligoland, during a gale and shortly afterwards went to pieces. Nine of the crew were drown- ed and seventeen were saved. The survivors were rescued by the govern- , ment steamer Triton, Criminat. Cracksmen blew the safe of the Bank of Sandborn, north of Washing- ton, Mo. They secured $4,000. A. W.. Keer, who, while disbursing officer at the Smithsonian institute in Washington, embezzled nearly $50,000, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Seventeen jointkeepers were fined and sentenced to the county jail at In- dependence, Kan., for violating the state prohibitory law. Ten of the men operated in Coffeyville and seven in Caney. First Lieut. George W. Brandle of the First United States infantry, sta- tioned at Fort Porton, N. Y., commit- ted suicide in his room by shooting. Lieut. Brandle had been a, sufferer from acute melancholia. Gus Grant summoned his mother- less children to his boarding house at Marshalltown, Iowa, during the night. When they arrived he took a drink of whisky, drew a revolver and blew out his brains. E. D. Brown, a former Iowa railroad conimissioner, has been acquitted at Primghar, Iowa, on a charge of fraudu- lent banking, by a jury. He was pres- ident of the Sheldon State bank, which failed two years ago with $100,000 shortage. Cashier James Langley of the First National bank of Mansfield, Ill, has been arrested and will be given a hear- ing on a charge of embezzlement. This action, it is feared, may mean that the shortage is larger than $15,- 000, as first supposed. Mrs. Henry J. Evans, wife of a di- rector of the National Biscuit com- pany, and also a director in several Chicago banks, committed suicide at Chicago by hanging herself to a bed post. Poor health is supposed to have been the cause, ‘ Rudolph Blankenberg, candidate for city commissioner of Philadelphia, has been arrested on the charge of crim- inal libel preferred by Felix Isman, a prominent real estate operator. The arrest grew out of a campaign speech made by Mr. Blankenberg recently. .- Viola Allen, the actress, was robbed of a $1,000 diamond ring in Greenwich, Conn., a few days ago, and the thief afterward became repentant and left a note with the address where the ring could be recovered, and three $100 bills, the amount for which the ring had been pawned. Bold robbers who are working down Michigan’s west shore terrorized the village of Mears, breaking into the Pere Marquette depot and dynamiting the safe, then scurrying across the street to the village postoffice. Both the postoffice and the depot were sack- ed before any one could sound th alarm. - ¥ Adolph Aistrap has been arrested at San Francisco on the charge of em- bezzling $100,000 from the Hast Asiatic. company while he was in the employ of the maritime customs service at Hankow. Since coming to America, Aistraph has been employed on the steamer Umatilla, plying between San Francisco and Puget sound. General. The college of Methodist bishops has agreed to meet at Evanston, Ill., May 2-4 next. The session is not yet at an end. 33 Col. J. Jackson of Newton, Kan., chief of staff of the Kansas G, A. R., is dead at Agnew hospital Kansas City, having fallen under a train at the union station. Thomas Miller, one of the best known commercial men in the West, was found dead in his bed at Dauphin, Man. He was a traveler for J. W. Peck & Co. i » The White Star steamer Cretic, which arrived at New York from Ge- noa, Naples and Algeria, brought 120 cabin passengers, 86 of whom were women. They had the run of the ship and even invaded the smoking roof. The result was that there was no card game, except possibly “old maid,” and the bar took in but $10 during the voy- age. A combination of the ten largest dairy companies in St, Louis, control ling about 85 per cent of the supply of milk, cream and ice cream, and involv- ing an increase in prices, has practical- ly been completed and will become ef- fective on Jan. 1. The object of the amalgamation, according to a prospec- tus issued, is to raise the’ prices of dairy products. Surrogate Fitzgerald of New York has made an order fixing the amount of the inheritance tax upon the per- sonal estate left by the late Secretary of State Hay in New York at $2,566.66, the amount. of personality“ here being $258,868.37, which consists of stocks and bonds. Secretary of State Hay left all his property to his widow, Clara 8. Hay. _ Mrs. Albert Fisher of Michigan City, Ind., wrecked a saloon with stones be cause her husband spent much of his time in the resort. She is an ardent admirer of Carrie Nation and threat ens to continue the crusade if her hus: band is permitted to idle away his hours in the place. At a special meeting of the New York board of estimate and apportion ment the entire expenses of the city’s administration for 1906 were announc ed. The figures total $116,805,490, ané show an increase over last year’s ex pense of $6,987.34. * JEROME IS ELECTED DESPITE STRENUOUS OPPOSITION OF THE BOSSES. CLELLAN ELECTED MAYOR HEARST CHARGES ILLEGAL VOT- ING AND WILL CONTEST THE ELECTION. REFORM IN PHILADELPHIA LANDSLIDE IN CITY AND STATE — OHIO RESULT IS, STILL IN DOUBT. New York, Nov. 8. — After a cam- paign, unusual in its public interest and excitement, Tammany Hall met defeat yesterday in its hard fought ef- forts to elect James W. Osborne to the district attorneyship of the city by probably only a few thousand votes. Returns to midnight indicate that George B. McClellan, Dem., is re-elect- ed mayor of New . York by between 3,000 and 4,000 plurality over W. R. Hearst, Municipal Ownership, and that William T. Jerome, Ind., is re- elected district attorney by about 8,000 over James W. Osborne, Dem. Hearst Will Contest. At midnight Mr. Hearst declined to admit his defeat, and declared his in- tention to contest the eiection. At that time returns from 184 election districts had not been received. Mc- Clellan had 205,598, Hearst 203,370 and Ivins 130,326 votes. The following statement was issued by W. R. Hearst: “We have won this election. . All Tammany’s frauds, all Tammany’s cor- ruption, all Tammany’s intimidation and violence, all Tammany’s false reg- istration, illegal voting and dishonest count, have not been able to overcme a great popular majority. The recount will show that we have won the elec- tion by many thousands of votes. Will Fight to the End. “{ shall fight this battle to the end in behalf of the people who have cast their votes for me and who shall not be disfranchised by any effort of crim- inal bosses.” The chairman of the Municipal Own- ership party declares that he has ev- idence that 60,000 illegal votes were cast, Tammany Badly Shaken. The extent to which the Tammany organization was shaken may be judged from the fact that there was no“fusion of: the . opposition ‘parties, the means by which the organization has been combatted heretofore, but that Jerome, running as a candidate of no party and with his reeer2 in of- fice as his platform, succveded in overcoming the former prectige of the Democratic organization, and William R. Hearst, standing as the nominee of the Municipal Ownership League, a new element in New York polities, came within a fe wthousand votes of being elected mayor. Triumph for Jerome. Jerome’s triumph was almost en- tirely a personal one, and showed that an appeal may be made successfully to voters on the strength of personal honesty and persistent, systematic de nuneiation of graft. Violence at the Polls. From many parts of Manhattan re- ports poured in of the greatest vio- lence and crimes at the polls that New York has ever known, The ac tions of John McKane in his stropg- hold in Gravesend were declared to be mild compared to the deeds commit- ted in the Tammany districts led by Thomas Foley, “Big Tim” Sullivan, “Little Tim” Sullivan, Joseph F. Oak- ley and Charles F. Murphy. “ Murphy refrained from appearing in person during these attacks, but Oak- ley, commissioner of water, gas and electricity, led his own band through the Fourteenth assembly district, and with clubs and fists beat the Hearst and Jerome men without mercy. REFORM SWEEPS PHILADELPHIA. Republican Ticket Is Defeated by From 60,000 to 75,000 Plurality. Philadelphia, Nov. 8.—Philadelphia has been swept. by the reform move- ment, the City party ticket winning by a surprisingly large plurality. While returns from only six of the 42 wards in this ciiv had been counted up to midnight, enough is known of the results in the remaining wards to indicate the defeat of the Republican local ticket by from 60,000 to 75,000 plurality. The victory of the City party carries with it the election cf William H. Berry, Democratic and reform candi- date for state treasurer. J. Lee Plum- mer, the Republican candidate for that office, was badly cut throughout the city and state and he has lost his own county, which is ucually Republican. The result has every appearance of a Jandslide for reform, not only in Phil- adelpbia, but throughout the state. IN MARYLAND. Constitutional Aniendmert Disfran- chising Negroes Is Defeated. Baltimore, Noy. 8.—The election in Maryland yesterday was for a state controller, legislature afd county of- “posed avowed purpose of which was to dis- franchise negro voters., Owing to the extreme length of the ballot the count has been slow, and at a late hour the votes in some of the city precincts and remote county districts have not been counted. The returns so far re- ceived, however, make certain the de- feat of the proposed constitutional amendment by a_ decisive majority, and very probable the élection of Mc- cullough, Rep., state controller. Th political complexion of the next legis. Jature is uncertain, and will not be known until the official count has been completed. OHIO IS DOUBTFUL. Democrats Claim Election of State Ticket. Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 8. — The re- sult of the election in Ohio is still con- sidered doubtful, although the Demo- cratic leaders claim the election of Pattison and the entire Democratic ticket by good majorities, while the Republicans failed to concede such a claim, stating the returns were insuf- ficient to show anything except that the vote had been very heavy and the amount of scratching had made the counting very slow. In the cities the Republican loss exceeded 100 to the precinct, but as the loss per precinct outside the Jarge cities was, so far as reported, only about thirty, there was no certainty that the loss would run high enough to wipe out the 230,000 Republican plurality with which com- parisons were made ‘The State Journal has estimated pluralities from 63 out of the 80 coun- ties in the state showing a net plural- ity of 800 for Herrick for governor. IN MASSACHUSETTS, Republican Candidate for Governor Is Elected. Boston, Nov. 8.—Lieut. Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr.. of Boston, the Republican candidate, was elected governor of Massachusetts in the state election yesterday by a plurality of 29,435. The Republicans also elected seyen of the eight members of the executive council and the usual large majority in botb branches of the legislature. CLEAN SWEEP IN CHICAGO. Only One Democrat Reaches the Prom- ised. Land. Chicago, Nov. 8.—The Republicans made a clean sweep of the election in Chicago and Cook county yesterday, electing all of their candidates with the exception of one man. The sole Democrat to reach the promised land was Webb, a candidate for trustee of the sanitary district. The Republic- ans elected four judges of the superior court, one judge to fill a vacancy on the bench of the superior court, a judge of the circuit court and eight out of nine members of the board of sanitary trustecs. Gov, Utter Re-Elected. Providence, R. I, Nov. 8.—A heavy poll for the Republican candidate for the executive chair, Gov. George H. Utter, which is expected to give him a plurality of at least 3,000 over the Democratic nominee, Lucius F. Garvin, was the feature of the state election yesterday. Republican gains were made in each branch of the legisla- ture. Republicans Gain in New Jersey. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 8.—The elec- tion in New Jersey yesterday in- ereased the Republican hold upon the state legislature and makes it impos- sible that a Democrat should succeed United States Senator John FP. Dry- den in 1907. In the state senate the Republicans made a gain of three. Labor Candidate Re-Elected. San Francisco, Nov. 8. — For the third consecutive time Eugene E. Schmitz, the Union Labor candidate, was re-elected mayor by a majority of at least 15,000 over John,S. Partridge, the joint nominee of the Republican and Democratic parties. Elect Democratic Governor. Richmond, Va., Nov. 8—Claude E. Swanson, Dem., was yesterday elected governor of Virginia by about 20,000 plurality. The Republicans gained a vew ymembers of the legislature. PRESIDENT HEARS RETURNS. Returns to Washington After Voting at 4 Oyster Bay. Washington, Nov. 8 — President Roosevelt spent the greater part of the evening in the executive offices re- ceiving the election returns. With him were Mrs. Rooseyelt, Secretary Reot and Assistant Secretary Bacon of the state depiriment. . President Roosevelt reached Washington from Oyster Bay at 4:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon, having been on the road since 12:30 Monday night with the exception of the twenty minutes he spent at Oyster Bay casting his vote and chatting with his neighbors. DR. POWELL SERIOUSLY ILL. Former Mayor of La Crosse Suffers from Heart Disease. La Crosse, Wis., Nov. 8—Word has been received by Dr. George E. Pow- ell of this city announcing the serious illness at Cody, Wyo.. of his brother, Dr. D. F. Powell, better known as White Beaver, former mayor of La Crosse, and later a resident of St. Paul. Dr. Powell is suffering with heart disease and his condition is said to be serious. ~ Man and Bride Fourd Dead. Newburg, Or., Nov. 8.—Carl Hurford and his wife, a bride of six weeks. were found dead in their home here by neighbors attracted to the house by. “the firing of shots. . More or less mys ' Geers. and in Baltimore for a judge of tery surrounds their death. MIDSHIPMAN BRANCH DIES IN HOSPITAL AFTER AN OPERATION. GHT 1S DEAD ‘OPPONENT ALSO IN HOSPITAL MEN FOUGHT REGULAR PITCHED BATTLE, WITH. A RING AND SECONDS. BOTH TRAINED FIGHT AROSE FROM A REPORT FOR A BREACH OF DISCIPLINE. Annapolis, Noy. 8. — Midshipman James R. Branch, son of James R. Branch of the Hanover Bank of New York and secretary of the American Bankers’ association, who w: ri- ously injured in a fist fight with an- other midshipman, died yesterday. Midshipman Branch fought with Midshipman Miner Meriweather, Jr., of Lafayette, Ind. The fight took place by arrangement on Sunday night, and was a regular pitched battle with a ring and seconds. It lasted twenty- three rounds, :1id ended when Branch was knocked down and struck the right side of his head against the floor. It was not considered that the in- juries were very dangerous, but on Monday morning Branch’s condition was such that it became necessary to let his condition be known to the au- thorities. Young Branch was taken to the hospital and an operation was de- termined upon. It was performed Monday night by Surgeons Finney of Baltimore and Kerr of Washington, as- sisted by the academy's medical staff. It was thoughi to be successful, but a turn for the worse took place yester- day morning and the patient died at 10 o'clock, not be "»s regained con- sciousness. Both tather and moth- er were with him at his death. Meriweather in Hospital. Meriweather is also in the hospital as a result of injuries received in the fight, and for that reason the authori- ties have not put him under arrest. The question of his accountability to the civil authorities on a charge of manslaughter has also been discussed He is suffering from a sprained wrist and a bruised face, Branch was a second class man and Meriweather a third, but the latter is slightly older, being nineteen years of age last January, while Branch was not nineteen until August. Both have some reputation as athletes, Branch as a wrestler and Meriweather as @ football player. It is understood that the fight took place because Branch had in his line of duty reported Meriweather for a breach of discipline. No one is al- lowed to see the latter, but it is re- ported that he feels the matter most keenly. DEATH OF EX-GOV. AUSTIN. Horace Austin Dies Following a Minor Minneapoli: ond time within taken a former governor of Minnesota Horace Austin, governor from 1870 to 1874, jurist, soldier, writer and, for thirty years continuously holder of high public offic ied’ at St. Barna- bas hospital at 12 esterday morn- ing, following a minor surgical opera- tion.. He was in fis seventy-fourth year, hav celebrated his birthday and children, at his home at Mound, Lake Minnetonka, Oct. 15. Former Gov. McGill, who died a few days ago, was his private secre- tary during one term 3 overnor. with his wife Clarence Darrow Quits Dunne. Chicago, Nov. 8.--Clarence Darrow, special traction counsel for the city of Chicago, resigned _ yesterday, declar- ing in a letter to Mayor Dunne, that he had no desire to continue in the employ of the city inasmuch as munic- ipal ownership cannot, in his opinion, be effected until the spring election. Fire at La Crosse. . La Crosse, Wis., Nov. 8.—An explo- sion of unknown origin, but supposed to have been caused by a can of gaso- line, blew out the plate glass front of the Koblitz awning factoty, shooting flames thirty feet in the air. The fire gutted the building. Loss, $7,000, Lady Florence Dixie Dead. London, Nov. 8. — Lady Florence Dixie, the well known writer, explorer and champion of woman’s rights, who acted as war correspondent for a Lon- don paper during the Boer war, died yesterday at her home, Glen Stuart, Dumfrieshire, Scotland. Killed by Train Mora, Minn., Noy. 8.—An east-bound freight train struck and _ instantly killed Ole Tangwald, a farmer living eight miles northwest of this place, near the Great Northern depot. Tang- wald was drunk at the time. Forgets Money and Fails. Sheboygan,’ Wis., Noy. 8.—Frank M. Corbett, a cheesemaker, failed because he put a $489 check in an old coat and forgot it. After being declared bank- rupt his wife found the check, which would have saved him. e ATHLETES © i | | | id vi 4 F