Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 2, 1905, Page 2

By C. E. KILEY. " ~ GRAND RAPIDS, - The emperor of Austria sympathizes with the czar, but he has troubles of his own. If every wish were father to the thought what a thoughtful people we should be! Some bad things that we like are not so bad as some bad things that we don’t like. , Count de Witte should first have taken the precaution to bore holes in the vodka tanks. . However proud we may all be of Count Witte, no one would care to re- lieve him of his job. The ambitious collegian who can not be fullback should content himself with being halfback. Big hats for women are going out of style. The hats are to be equally ex- pensive, but less expansive. “Proboda” is Russian for liberty. It must be truly terrif,ing when a mob goes down the street howling for:that. Marvin Hart has agreed to fight Al. Kauffman for a purse of $15,000. That is enough money to make a Chinaman fight. As nearly as we can recall we never heard anybody but an old bachebor brag about how children always take to him. z Hall Caine says it is harder for a rich man than a poor man to be good. It is no trouble to be good when you are broke. A strike has broken out at the Paris mint. And yet certainly the workmen there cannot say that they aren’t mak- ing money. Sir Alfred Harmsworth has bought another London newspaper. This is Sir Alfred’s thirty-first acquisition in his line of goods. 4 It is said that there were 200,000 people in a parade at Moscow on Sun- day, and it wasn’t a circus press agent that said it, either. Poe Considering that the Rhode Island is our fastest battleship, it is notable that she should be named after one of our two smallest states. Russian students are daring, but up to date it does not appear that any of them has faced a ceremony of initia- tion into a college fraternity. A Cleveland football team has played four games without having a single player injured. Incidentally it may be mentioned that it lost every game. The Detroit infidel who has erected a monument to the devil reminds one of the remark of the Irishman: “That’s right; every man should stand up for his friends.” “Not all of us,” says the New York Mail, “can get into the Hall of Fame.” And we have reason to congratulate ourselves, for you have to be dead a long tiuie first. A theater company has failed with assets amounting to thirty-eight cents That is just eight cents more than the price of the best seat at a “ten-twent- thirt” performance. The Cossacks are doubtless very well, in their feeble way, but if the ezar wants results he ought to en- gage an American football team to clean out the country. Baltimore has had seven little earthquakes since June 1, but as no- body would have known it if it hadn’t been for the Johns Hopkins seismo- graph, nobody is worrying. A New York man who has just been robbed says that it is his fortieth experience of this kind in thirty-three years. He ought to hire a safety de- posit box big enough to live in. The czar may extract a grain of comfort from the reflection that this trouble was bound to come anyhow, and it is,better to have it come now than at the end of another year of war. Mark Twain thinks the world will has universal peace when everybody is dead. Mark is so pessimistic that we begin to suspect that one of his near neighbors must have a parrot or a bad boy. 4 How would you like to cut cord- wood, haul it to town and sell it for $5 a cord? How much would you make a day?—Atchison Globe. lf the Atchison Globe man means us, about a quarter. Chairman Shonts has bought a large: rumber of Bibles and playing cards for the use of the men who will con- struct the Panama canal, and will dis- tribute them with great liberality among the employes: Is this a strad- dle? * —_—————_—————— The recipients of the Carnegie hero fund medals and money are declaring with startling unanimity that “any- body would have done” what they did. ‘The people whom they rescued are just as glad, however, that it wasn’t left to “anybody.” MINNESOTA.| Washington. — An estimate of $16,000,000 for con- tinuing work on the Panama canal-has been sent to the treasury department from the war department to be sent to congress. The new battleship Virginia, a prod- uct of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, in her screw standardizing tests made one dash over the measurer mile off Okl’s Head at the speed of 19.47 knots an hour, a new American mile record for ships of her class, and .31 of a knot faster than that made by the Rhode Island three weeks ago. : Foreign.- The government of Ecuador has ac: cepted the invitation of Emperor Nicholas to take part in the second peace conference at The Hague. The marquis of Downshire has agreed to sell his agricultural lands in ‘County Down, Ireland, to the tenants. The estate is the largest in Ireland, and is valued at about $15,000,000. Hon. Allan Johnstone, British min- ister to Denmark, and Arthur James Herbert, British minister to Norway, both of whom married Americans, have been promoted to the rank of knight commander of the Victorian order. President Roosevelt telegraphed to King Haakon VII., the new king of Norway, as follows: “I felicitate your majesty on being chosen by the Nor- wegian people to succeed to the throne of Haakon and Olaf, of Harald and Sigurd.” . King Victor Emmanuel, the minis- try of marine and several public insti- tutions have promised important prizes for autoboats if the next contest for the Mediterranean cup takes place, as. proposed, between Palermo and Toulon, in which case important Ital- ian firms will participate. The Cunard line steamer Carmania, the largest turbine steamer afloat, ar- rived in the Mersey prior to starting on her maiden voyage to New York on Dec. 2. During six hours continuous run the Carmania easily maintained the 19% knots, while her speed over a measured mile was more than 20 knots. The throne of Norway was formerly tendered to Prince Charles of Den- mark last week by a deputation of members of the Norwegian parliament and was accepted by King Christian in behalf of his grandson. The function lasted only twenty minutes, but the scene was brilliant. The old king was much affected as he blessed and em- braced his grandchildren, King Haak- on VII. and Queen Maud. Criminat. Charles ,Boss., Jr., grandson of Christian Boss., the millionaire brewer of Cincinnati, committed suicide. He left a note in which he said ill health was the cause. Mrs. Will Hughes was mysteriously killed at her home at Evans, Iowa. A bullet crashed through a window and struck her in the neck. There is no clue to the perpetrator. Miss Maud Reese was shot and kill- ed in Chicago by a burglar whom she found in her apartments when she re- turned from work. The burglar escap- ed by leaping through a window. A. C. Sarl of Ellston, Iowa, who had just purchased a department store business at St. Joseph, Mo., committed suicide by firing a bullet through his heart. Sudden illness is thought to have been the cause. # Chief of Police Collins of Chicago has issued an order detailing twenty- four detectives to special duty in dif- ferent parts of the city to watch for holdup men from 7 o'clock at night until 4 in the morning. Passionately kissing her mother good-bye, Mrs. Floy Anderson ran from the house and jumped into the well near their home at Polk City, Iowa. Her mother tried in vain to rescue the woman, who was drowned before her eyes. The Albany county (N. Y.) grand jury has found indictments against John Dyer, Jr., the contractor, and Clark L. Daggett, his supervising arch- itect, charging them with manslaugh- ter in their -alleged responsibility for the collapse on Aug. 8 of the depart- ment store building of the John G. Myers company, in which thirteen peo- ple were killed or fatally injured and upwards of thirty others were injured. Former Ald. Robert L. Randolph was found guilty by a jury in Judge Tarrant’s court in Milwaukee of solic- iting a bribe while a member of the common council of 1900. Ex-City At- torney Charles H. Hamilton, who had a claim against the city, testified that Randolph solicited a bribe to get the claim through the council. The trial was on an indictment returned by the grand jury. Sentence was deferred. pending argument for a new trial. Thomas W. Lawson was held to the December session of the superior ‘court in Boston on a charge of crim- inal libel preferred by Clarence W. Barron. Bail was fixed at $3,000, which was furnished at once. Mrs. Isaac Barnes was arrested at Presque Isle, Me., charged with mur- der. It is alleged that she placed / strychnine in epsom salts, thereby causing the death of Pearl Barnes, her 13-year-old step-daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes had been separated for several months and the authorities ! maintain that the poison was intended for Barnes. Fire in the yards of the Scharbach Lumber company at Chicago caused a loss estimated at $50,000. Dwellings in‘ the vicinity were partially destroy- Fire at Boone, Iowa, totally destroy- ed the cigar factory of Hoxie and the building owned by Dyer & Stevens. Loss on building, $1,500; insurance, $800. : The fire at the Overholt distillery at Broadford, Pa., resulted in a loss esti- mated at $1,600,000. Whisky valued at $648,000 was destroyed. The insurance was well distributed. G. C. Ficken died at ew Orleans. He was, it is believed, struck on the head during a scrimmage in a game _ be- tween the Southern Athletic club and the Queen and Crescent team. Two children, aged respectively five and three years, belonging to Mrs. Dell Wright, in Lake township, near Baldwin, Mich., were burned to death while locked in their home alone. Little Roland Pickering, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Pickering of Dorsey, Neb., was killed in a tragic manner by being crushed beneath the wheels of a wagon while playing near his mother and father. Twenty-one persons were more or less dangerously injured in four street ear accidents in St. Louis. Many of the injuries received are serious and several are of such a character that they may prove fatal. i One hundred and twenty-eight per- sons lost their lives by the wreck of the steamer Hilda off the northern coast of France, according to an offi- cial estimate given out by the officers of the company. This death roll in- cludes 21 saloon passengers, 80 French onion sellers and 27 of the crew. Many lives were endangered and property to the value of $50,000 was destroyed by a fire which almost con- sumed the Commercial building in Chicago. Mrs. Mary Broadhurst was severely hurt by falling through a skylight. Eight other people were also carried from the building by fire- men, none of them, however, being hurt. A bad dream led to the death of Mrs. Caroline Wadleigh, 73 years old. Mrs. Wadleigh fell out of bed in Mil- waukee during the period of restless- ness engendered by the dream. Her hip was fractured and she sustained internal injuries from which she after- wards died. Mrs. Wadleigh was a widow and had been sick for several weeks. A six days’ search for Daniel Web- ster, a hunter from Perrinton, Lower Michigan, missing from his camp in Luce county, Mich., has culminated in the discovery of his dead body’ in the woods twelve miles from Newberry, He was not shot. The supposition is that he lost his bearings and, becom- ing excited, was stricken with -heart failure. General. Engineer Harry Strickland, 70 years old, of Greencastle, Ind., and who has been in the employ of the Big Four for over forty years, died at his post while on his regular passenger run. One hundred dollars is what Miss Ida Koehn of New London, Wis., asks for a kiss. George Dodge of that city is defendant in a damage suit, being accused of having kissed the defend- ant against her wishes. Luke Adolph Lockwood, one of the most eminent members of the Masonic fraternity in the United States and author of “Lockwood’s Masonic Juris- prudence, died of pneumonia at Green- wich, Conn., aged 71 years. Prof. Carlos A. Kenaston, a gradu- ate of Oberlin of the class of 1861, and for several years professor of Greek in Ripon college, Wis., and later at Howard university, Washington, D. C., died at Oberlin, Ohio, after an illness of several months’ duration. = Japan’s practical seizure of Korea is denounced as a “cowardly, dishon- orable act of pagan greed” by Edward Walton White of Denver, who passed through Chicago. Mr. White was a war correspondent during the war in Manchuria. W. S. Young, inspector of fisheries for the Dominion. government, and party of four men have reached Win- nipeg in safety after being reported lost in Lake Manitoba. The party was on the steamer Rocket, in charge of Capt. Marshall, with a crew of eight men. One thousand seven hundred and sixty candidates were initiated into the order of the Woodmen one night recently, at the First regiment armory in Chicago. Albert.J. Hopkins, United States senator for Illinois, was among the number. The numberf probably ex- ceeds any previous record for initia- tions, although the -organization at one time took in 600 candidates. A plan to federate ‘the forces work- ing for national pure food legislation has been perfected as a result of the joint conference of representatives from the National Consumers’ league, Federation of Women’s Clubs, Ameri- can Medical association and state food control officials. Hon. A. B. F. Hildreth, founder of the Charles City Intelligencer, of Charles City, Iowa, is the oldest editor in the United States, he being nearly 90 years of age, hale and hearty and still in newspaper work, and edits the! Toole, Jr., paper over which he has been the head for many years +h LONG-EXPECTED MUTINY OF SAILORS OCCURS AT SE- BASTOPOL. \ REBELS MAY SEIZE THE CITY 4,000 SAILORS AND REGIMENT OF INFANTRY IN OPEN RE- BELLION. TALK OF A_ DICTATORSHIP SITUATION HAS CREATED GREAT- EST ALARM IN GOVERN- MENT CIRCLES. Sebastopol, Nov. 28.—The long ex- pected mutiny of sailors, who have been on the verge of revolt for months, has come, and Russia’s stronghold on the Black sea is in danger of falling completely into their hands. The situation is very critical. All thte shore equipages, numbering 4,000 men, are in open rebellion, having driven away or taken their officers prisoners. The Brest regiment of infantry has gone over in a body to the mutineers. Gen. Neplueff, the commander of the fortress, is a captive. Cheered the Mutineers. The Bielostok regiment, the only other regiment in the city, received the mutineers with cheers, but thus far it remains loyal: Some of the artillerists have also joined the men in revolt. Besides the Bielostok regiment there are two battalions of artillery and a battalion of the fortress artil- lery here. b The Euxine fleet is standing in the offing and is still obeying the orders of Vice Admiral Chouknin, but the crews are disaffected and there is grave doubt whether they can be re- strained from joining the mutineers and greater doubt that they will fire upon them. Troops Summoned. The Seventh army corps and the commander of the corps have_ been hastily summoned from Simferopol, eight hours distant. There is every evidence that. the mutiny was deliberately and perfectly planned by the social revolutionists, who have been pushing their propa- ganda with great energy since the St. Petersburg strike was organized to save the Cronstadt mutineers. Last night the mutineers were de- serted by the Brest regiment, which marched off under arms to a camp formed by loyal sailors! and sent a message to Vice Admiral Chouknin asking his pardon and saying they were ready to return to duty. The crews of all the ships except the Panteleimon (formerly the Potem- kine) and the Otchakofft Refused to Join the Mutiny or to answer the signals of the sail- ors on shore. The men on the ships named have not yet risen. The au- thorities have the mutineers com- pletely hemmed in, but are awaiting the arrival of the troops from Simf:r- opol before attempting to retake the barracks. The mutineers apparently are in an excellent state of discipline. They have constructed barricades, have placed a guard at the aqueduct which supplies the barracks and have thrown out pickets which take regu- lar turns at guard duty. They de- clared that they had risen because their commanders had withheld con- cessions promised by the emperor, and that they are ready to hold out until these are put into effect. Government Is Alarmed. St. Petersburg, Nov. 28.—The suc- cessful mutiny of the:sailors at Se- bastopol, accompanied by the first open revolt of an entire regiment of troops, has created the greatest alarm in government circles and no attempt is made to disguise the seriousness of this latest crisis. The army is the last prop of the government. Mutiny is contagious and the epidemic of revolt which has attacked in turn practically all the units of the navy from Vladivostok to Cronstadt, it is now feared, is des- tined similarly to spread through the army. Ugly reports have been repeatedly circulated of sedition among the sol- diers in Manchuria, and it was specifi- cally reported a week ago that Gen. Linevitch had to put down a mutiny with considerable bloodshed, and that Three Boys Drowned. Thomastown, Conn., Nov. 26—Three ‘boys were drowned while skating here yesterday afternoon. They are Ed- ward Lundrigan, aged 12; Edward Carney, 12, and Bolio Schweider, 9 years old. pees an ena Buried Under Tons of Slate. Saginaw, Mich., Nov. 26.—Alexander Mercy, aged . forty-five, and Charles aged twenty-one, miners, were killed yesterday by being buried beneath a mass of several tons of fall- ing slate. | Diese, eles Talk of a Dictator. .. Count Witte called an extraordinary “Session of the cabinet yesterday after- noon and another session was held last night to consider the situation. Grand Duke Nicholas Nichelaievitch, president of the council of national defense and commander of the im- perial guard, was present, and this fact caused a revival of the rumor that the grand duke might immediate- ly be appointed dictator, but it can be taken for granted that this step has not been decided upon, as it is plain that a dictatorship at the present puncture would be sure to precipitate an immediate armed revolution. Nev- ertheless Count Witte’s government, if it continues its present policy, in the opinion of many students of the situation, will be Powerless to Cope with the increasing problems by which it is constantly confronted. The revolutionary tide subsides only to mount higher, and the extreme ele- ments, convinced that the govern ment must fall, are raising their de- mands proportionately. At midnight the Associated Press was informed by an official of the ad- miralty that the reports receivéd up to that hour showed there had been no conflict at Sebastopol yesterday. So far as the official knew the crews of the Black sea fleet were still loyal, but beyond that no information was vouchsafed. It is not known whether the troops which were ordered to proceed from Simferopol have arrived at Sebastopol. In both .cabinet and naval‘ circles it is regarded as abso- lutely vital that the mutiny be crushed in the severest fashion at any cost if discipline in the navy is to be restored and the army held loyal. Revolt at Vladivostok. London, Nov. 28.—A dispatch to a news agency from Vladivostok, dated Nov. 25, says: “A number of Russian troops who were taken prisoners at Port Arthur and who were recently returned here for enrollment in the local garrison, revolted tot-day, killing two of their officers and wounding five others. The reasons for the revolt are not | known.” EIGHTEEN DIE IN TRAIN WRECK. Most Disastrous Railroad Wreck in Massachusette in Years. Lincoln, Mass., Nov. 28.—The most disastrous railroad wreck in this state for many years occurred at 8:15 o’clock last night at Baker’s Bridge station, a mile and a_ half west of Lincoln, on the main line of the Fitch- burg division of the Boston & Maine railroad. The regular Sunday night express, which left Boston at 7:45 for Montreal via the Rutland system, crashed into the rear of a local train which started from Boston at 7:15 for points along the main line and the Marlboro branch. At least 18 persons were killed outright, burned to death or suffoca- ted, and thirty or more were serious- ly injured. Many passengers sustained minor cuts, bruises and burns. Due to Thick Weather. The wreck was primarily due to thick weather, which apparently ob- secured signals set by the forward train, which at the time of the disas- ter was standing in front of Baker’s Bridge station. The Montreal train, drawn by two locomotives and con- sisting of nine cars, crashed into the rear of the Marlboro branch local, de- molishing the two rear cars. All the passengers killed and seri- oously injured were in these. The passengers lived in Concord, West Acton, Maynard, Hudson, Marlboro and several smaller towns in the As- sabet valley. None of the passengers on the Montreal train was seriously hurt, but the engineer and fireman of the leading locomotive were killed. Victims Incinerated. The wreckage caught fire and some of the passengers were incinerated. Few persons live in the vicinity of Baker’s Bridge station, and no fire de- partment was available, so that the flames practically burned themselves out. The uninjured passengers and a number of train hands, assisted by villagers, went to the aid of the in- jured and many persons were rescued. M’CURDY WILL QUIT MUTUAL. Resignation to Take Effect As Soon As Successor Is Named. New York, Nov. 28. — Richard A. McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life Insurance company, has resigned. The date of his resignation depends only onthe time required by the trustees to find his successor. Quickly following the retirement of President McCurdy, his son, Robert H. McCurdy, general manager of the Mutual, and his son-in-law, Louis A. Thebaud, the general agent for New York, resigned. is A tentative offer to head the com- pany was made to James B. Forgan, president of the First National Bank of Chicago, who once was an equita- ble director. His bank is one of the leading financial institutions in the Middle West. Mr. Forgan declined to consider the offer. Fined for Opening Letter. Winona, Minn., Nov. 26. — Fogland pleaded guilty and was fined $50 in the federal court. He said his name was wrongly given in the indictment. He opened a letter to see what his rival had written to his sweetheart. Sawmill Burned. Park Falls, Wis., Nov. 26. — The large sawmill of the Williamson & Libby Lumber company of Oshkosh was totally destroyed by fire here, which was first noticed at 4:30 yester- day morning. ‘Loss, $20,000. a ULI * é = Norwegian Parliament Hall Is Brilliant Scene and Event Is Historic. Christiania, Nov. 28.—King Haakon before the Norwegian parliament at noon yesterday took the oath to sup- port the constitution. The interior of the parliament hall presented a bril- liant scene. The building was crowd- ed with the highest dignitaries of state and the diplomatic corps in full uni- form and their ladies in court toilettes. The king entered with the queen on his left arm and surrounded by their suites. Bowing to President Berner, the king and queen ascended the tribune and the former seated him- self on the throne, the queen seating herself on a chair beside the king. President Berner approached the king and delivered a brief address. Then in a loud voice the king pronounced the prescribed oath. In a subsequent: speech his majesty said his motto was “All for Norway.” GHASTLY SECRET REVEALED. Aged Woman Kept Daughter’s Body in House for Years. Los Angeles, Nov. 28.—The death of Mrs. Liore Thompson, an aged and eccentric woman, revealed a ghastly secret in her little cottage on Boyle Heights. In a store room of the cot- tage, covered with rubbish, was found a hermietically sealed box containing the corpse of her daughter, who died twenty-seven years ago. The body of the young woman had been dismem- bered. When the box was opened a disinterment certificate signed by F. R. Boutelle, undertaker, Amherst, Mass., Nov. 7, 1881, was found. The body had been shipped here from the East. MERIWETHER WILL TAKE STAND. Midshipman Will Testify in His Own Defense. Annapolis, Md., Nov. 28.—No great progress was made yesterday in the trial by court-martial of Midshipman Miner Meriwether, Jr., on charges that embrace one of manslaughter in con- nection with the death of Midshipman James R. Branch, Jr., after a fist fight between him and Midshipman Meri- wether. Perhaps the most important developments of the day were the de- cision of counsel to put Midshipman Meriwether on the stand in his own defense and the appearance of Dr. W. L. Glazebrook of Washington in the role of adviser to Meriwether’s coun- sel. “BOSTON BANK CLOSES. Institution Was Unable to Obtain Liquidation Through Another Bank. Washington, Nov. 28. — The Ameri- can National Bank of Boston has been closed by the directors after fruitless efforts to have the bank liquidated by another bank. National Bank Exam- iner W. E. Neal has been appointed re- ceiver. Capital, $200,000. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Nov. 28. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 82 1-4@83c; No. 2 Northern, 79 7-8@80 1-2c; No. 3, 76@79c. Corn— No. 3 yellow, 471-2@48ce. Oats—No. 8 white, 28 1-4@28 3-4c. Duluth, Nov. 28: — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 815-8c; No. 2 Northern, 79 3-8c; flax, 99 7-8c; rye, 62c. Minneapolis, Nov. 28.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 813-8c; No. 1 Northern, 825-8c; No. 2 Northern, 801-8c; durum, 71@72c. Oats — No. 3 white, 27 T-8e. Milwaukee, Nov. 28. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 851-2@861-2c; No. 2 Northern, 82 1-2@841-2c. Rye—No. 1, 69c. Barley—No. 2, 541-2@55e. Oats —Standard, 31c. Chicago, Nov. 28. — Whéat — No. 2 red, 851-2@87c; No. 2 hard, 83@85c; No. 1 Northern, 86@88c; No. 2 North- ern, 883@87c. Corn—No. 3, 43c. Oats —No. 2, 301-2c. Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 28.—Cattle— Beeves, $4 @ 5.65; cows, bulls and mixed, $2 @ 3.25; stockers and feed- ers, $2.75@3.65; calves and yearlings, $2.50@3.40. Hogs—Bulk, $4.65. Chicago, Nov. 28. — Beeves, $3.25@ 6.50; stockers and feeders, $2.25 @ 4.15; cows and heifers, $1.25 @ 4.75. Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $4.55 @ 4.921-2; bulk, $4.70@4.85. Sheep, $4@ 5.50; lambs, $4.75@7.50. South St. Paul, Nov. 28. — Cattle — Good to choice stcers, $4.50 @ 5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.25 @ 4.25; good to choice milch cows, $30@40. Hogs — Range price, $4.55 @4.65; bulk, $4.55@4.60. Sheep—Good to choice lambs, $6.25 @ 6.75; fair to good, $4.50@6.25; yearling wethers, $5@5.50; good to choice ewes, $4.50@ 4.75. Killed by Cars. Marquette, Mich., Nov. 28. — Walk- ing to Ishpeming from Marquette, where he had just finished ten days’ sentence in the county jail for drunk- enness, Ingebrecht Berg, a miner, at- tempted to board a freight train, slipped under the wheels and was killed. Run Down by Train. Sleepy Eye, Minn., Nov. 28. — Nich- olas Schmidt, a well known farmer, was killed by a Chicago & North-West- ern train. He was walking home on the track. He was picked up uncon- scious and brought here, where he died. He leaves a large family. Hotel Guest Burns Alive. “East St. Louis, Noy. 28—One man was burned to death and six persons , were injured-in a fire that destroyed the interior of the South End hotel yesterday.