Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 16, 1905, Page 2

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Science has discovered several new kinds of mosquitoes but no need for them. Japan's “Protectorate” over Korea will be exercised firmly, but with the atmost politeness. London would appreciate it if some one would furnish a job to its army of unemployed workmen. The announcement that the Chinese emperor intends to travel should be coupled with “tf ma is agreeable.” Mrs. Taggart has been interviewed again. Oh, drop the Taggart business. There has been too much of it already. “Lovely millinery confections” are advertised for only $28. We don't choose any. Plain hats are good en- ough. The divinity that doth hedge a king didn’t keep King Edward from the pain and inconvenience of a sprain- ed ankle. Small diamonds are in fashion this season. Hubby hasn’t much money left after laying in his supply of black diamonds. New York's 400 has been reduced to leaving 321 persons whose sole laim to social fame is that they are in the has been class. It isn’t the opportunities you miss t work you harm half so!/much as t is the opportunities the other fel- ow grasps ahead of you. Son, ambition never yet took the place of industry. Ambition is merely the spyglass that lets you see the point to which you must climb. Japanese counterfeiters in Hawaii are turning out American money, and there is veason to suspect the copy is more artistic than the original. A judge has decided that a man who has got drunk every Sunday for years is not an habitual drunkard. Just sot in his ways, that’s all. The announcement of a copper lined train shed reminds one of the man with a copper lined stomach. Both are supposed to resist corrosives, Another American countess has ob- tained a divorce from a count who failed to support her. So runs the world away. What good does it do to preach? Hetty Green says if people talked less there would be fewer fools on record. But what is a man to do when he is called before an investi- gating committee? “Life is like a game of football,” says an enthusiastic Y. M. C. A. worker. Yea, verily. Most of us are at the bottom of the scrimmage and few make a touchdown. The frank admission comes from Springfield, Ohio, that a child has written a comic opera. We have sus- pected for some time that something of this sort was going on. “It was wonderful!” sald Prince Louis of the New York horse show. “Such beautiful women and such magnificent gowns!” The prince evi- dently knew where to look The powers are going to give the sultan another naval demonstration. When the sultan gets bored he has a sure relief for ennui. The powers are always willing to oblige. As viewed by Mrs. Astor’s social set the last census returns giving New York a population of 4,000,000 are mis- leading. The town has a population of 79 persons and 3,999,921 nobodies. eee With Prince Louis, the horse show and the insurance investigation all go- ing on at once New York had a stren- uous time of it. It will take society quite a while to recover from the strain. ¥ The revival of the story that the king of Spain is going to marry Prin- cess Ena of Battenberg, naturally re- vives the suggestion that perhaps he picked her out by saying: “Ena, me- na, mona, mi.” Brother Rockefeller’s income this year will total about $40,000,000. He must be able to afford to buy a new hat and a pair of new shoes the same week. How absurd it is to say he is not a happy man! The way in which a Boston preach- er characterized the trouble of the times: “That centralized fury of money madness that drives every trace of public spirit from the soul.” He very nearly got onto the idea. A New Jersey man who advertised for a wife got thousands of answers from applicants all over the country, and then married somebody elge. What a charming honeymoon he and his wife will have reading all those Jetters! In a New York theater the other night, a woman in the balcony, in the excitement of the scene in “Oliver Twist,’ where Bill strikes Nancy, called out in distinct tones: “Now stop that!”—a notable compliment te the realism of the play. i Washington. Capt. Seth Bullock of Deadwood was nominated by President Roosevelt for the United States marshalship in South Dakota. Air Representative Bourke Cockran of New York introduced a joint resolution providing for an amendment of the constitution which will make it possible for members of the house to be elect- ed for four years, An appropriation of $100,000 for a national tuberculosis sanitarium is provided for in a bill introduced by Representative Wiley of Alabama. Florala, Ala., is designated as the site for the sanitarium. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of busi- ness Noy. 30, 1905, the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to $999,725,- 831, which is a decrease as compared with last month of $12,893,294. It was stated at the department of the interior that F. J. Heney, whose ‘| successor has been appointed as dis- trict attorney in Oregon, will have en- tire charge of the government in the prosecution of the land fraud cases. Congressman Steenerson secured. an order from the Indian office providing for the payment of $100,000 to the Red Lake Indians under the act of 1904, known as the Steenerson act, opening to settlement a portion of the Red Lake Indian reservation. Yellow fever is constantly increasing in Cuba and there is grave danger of an epidemic there. Minister Squires has advised the state department that on Novy. 29 four suspicious cases devel- oped, one of which was confirmed. On Dec. 1 there were two suspected cases, one of which was confirmed. The reported decision of the court- martial tribunal clearing Midshipman Minor Merriweather of the charge of manslaughter has won general approv- al. The midshipman was found guilty of conduct unbecoming a gentleman and an officer, and it is said will be dis- missed from the naval service. Casualty. Mrs. Sarah M. Perkins, a_ well- known Ohio suffragist, was run over and almost instantly killed by a coal wagon at Cleveland. A fire of incendiary origin nearly wiped out the town of Wayne, W. Va., entailing a loss roughly estimated at $100,000 partly covered by insurance. Alexander Crepka, aged nine, and Ella Crepka, aged six, were drowned by breaking through while playing to- gether on the thin ice on the millpond at Jackson, Mich. Willis. Lawrence, a prominent citi- zen; was shot and accidentally killed at Pittsburg, Kan., by John Graham, his stepson. Graham was playing with a target rifle when it was discharged. Two freight trains collided near Solon, Johnson county,Ia. A fireman was slightly injured. No others were ‘hurt. A passenger train later dashed into the wreckage, but nobody was hurt. Harry Williams and Jack Shur were instantly killed near Carbon, Ind., by a west-bound Big Four passenger train. The men had taken a handear and were on their way to Perth when they were run down, Thirteen lives were lost in the wreck of the steamer Lunninburg, which went ashore off Amherst harbor, Mag- dalene islands. The steamer had a crew of seventeen and probably car- ried several passengers. Shipping and dock property at Wau- kegan, Ill., was seriously damaged by a tidal wave seven feet in height which swept in from Lake Michigan. The steamer Tioga was driven against the pier and a small hole knocked in its side. Two tugs in the harbor were also sligthly damaged. The total number of the dead so far this year in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan is twenty-six, and fifty-one were wounded. More hunters were killed this year by the accidental dis- charge of their own guns than ever be- fore. A great number of the dead were mistaken for deer by over-anxious hunters. Eighteen miners lost their lives in an explosion in the Diamond, Coa! and Coke company’s mine No. 1 at Dia- mondville, Wyo. It is believed that all the men who perished were instantly killed. . The theory advanced by the miners is that a “blown out” shot caused the disastrous explosion which wrecked the mine. The shock of the explosion was felt all over the town, rocking buildings so violently that their occupants ran out into the open. Criminal. Edward Tomlinson, a distiller at Keokuk Falls, Okla., was shot and killed by F. M. Grundy, the result of a feud of long standing.. Grundy is sur- rounded in a barn. Ros ti Frank Krouzek, a cigarmaker of Chi- cago, shot and killed Mrs. Antoinette Liska, at whose house he was board- ing, and then shot himself in the head, dying instantly. . After shooting Mrs. Mary Chard, aged 42 years, in the neck with a re- yolver, at Harrisburg, Pa., Roy C, Mc- Curdy, aged 19, fatally shot himself. McCurdy died without making a state- ment. Rudolph Leeds, son of William B. Leeds, a New York millionaire, was fined $25 and costs in the police court at Richmond, Ind., for violating the new Indiana anti-cigarette law. Youpg Leeds is spending the winter in Rich- mond with his mother. The alleged of- fense against the cigarette law was committed at a social function. The ease probably will be appealed. Us “Sweet Grass county (Mont.) au- thorities are investigating the death of Frank Morris, who died-of injuries sus- a few days ago at Big Timber. Harry Eldredge, a leader of the Fol- som (Cal.) convicts who broke from the prison on July 27, 1903, and who was convicted of the murder of Guard William Coites, died on the gallows at the prison. Henry Linneman, aged seventeen years, of Alhambra, Ill, shot both his father and mother with a shotgun, wounding each seriously, as the out- ‘come of his efforts to protect his mother from the alleged attack of his father, Henry Yenson Brichong has been sent to prison from Sault Ste. Marie for three years and a half for the theft of $100 worth of silver from the local churches, and jewelry, watches, tools and clothing from other places. Sey- eral drayloads of goods were found at his home. _ William S. McWilliams has con- fessed to the murder of his wife and five children, whose mutilated bodies were found in their home near Inde- pendence, lowa. McWilliams says that he committed the act because he be- lieved his children better dead than alive and could no longer live with his wife, whom he accused of driving him to desperation with her demands for money and her jealousy. Foreign. The Austrian foreign office expects that the porte will ifamediately acqui- esce in the demands of the powers.” The Vienna correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says: “The international fleet has occupied the Island of Lemnos, in European Turkey. ‘The Nobel prizes committee is un- derstood to have decided to award the prize for literature to Henryk Sien- kiewisz and the prize for medicine to Prof. Robert Koch. Henry Burnett, a reprecentative of Chief Engineer Stevens of the Panama canal zone, arrived at Kingston, Ja- maica, to engage several thousand la- borers for work on the canal. Over a thousand Chinese who are merchants in a small way at Singapore attended a-meeting at which a consid- erable sum was collected for the pur- pose of continuing the boycott on American goods. The Belgian steamer Phillipville, from Antwerp for the Congo, reports sinking a steamer, name not given, southeast of Dungeness. The Phillip- ville picked up seven of the crew of the sinking steamer. Gen. Weyler has taken personal of- fense at a speech delivered by Gen. Luque, the new minister of war, in which the latter said he proposed to restere discipline in the army. nen tary men foresee the possibility of encounter between the two generals. Mme. Sarah Bernhart and her com- pany left Quebec recently under police escort after a mob had made a vicious attack upon the French players, throw- ing rotten eggs and other missiles. The attack was the result of uncom- plimentary remarks made by Sarah Bernhardt about French-Canadians and the influence of the clergy. An official memorandum issued by the British admiralty states that as the result of recent reforms the iext estimates for the navy will show a re- duction of $7,500,000, beyond the reduc- tion of $17,500,000 made last spring. The admiralty considers that the pres- ent strategic requirements will neces- sitate the building of four large ar- mored ships annually. General. Woodbury Kane, widely known in social, yachting and club circles, died suddenly at his home in New York. The right of a theater manager to refuse tickets sold by a sidewalk spec- ulator was upheld by the New York court of appeals. Directors of Swift & Co. have voted to increase the capital stock of the company by $25,000,000, which will bring the total up to $60,000,000. Delegates from all parts of the United States were present when the fourth triennial convention of the Na- tional Council of Jewish Women met in Sinai temple, Chicago. ‘ A. R. Meyer, a widely known capital- ist, one of Kansas City’s most prom- inent business men and the foundeg of Leadville, Colo., died at Kansas City of rheumatism of the heart. Minister Griscom, America’s diplo- matic representative at Tokio, who ar- rived at San Francisco last week on the Manchuria, confirmed the report that Admiral Togo proposes to visit foreign waters. Miss Elisa Williams, believed to have been the oldest spinster in Amer- ica, died at the home of her nephew, 0. A. Summers, in Kokomo, Ind., at the age of 101-years. She was born Nov. 1, 1804, at Connellsville, Pa. She mov- ed with her parents to Indiana when a child. Bones of a primitive giant have been unearthed by Alonzo Lewis, a farmer living near Sulphur Springs, Ind. The skeleton is more than seven feet in! Freight Train Crashes length and the skull has horns about | an inch and a half long projecting up- ward from a point just behind the ears. Several similar skeletons have tained in a fight with William Rankin | SEED OF REVOLT FINDS ROOT WHERE CZAR’S HOPES ARE CENTERED. J VOTE AGAINST GREAT STRIKE WORKMEN WILL PREPARE FOR ARMED UPRISING LATER— JEWS BUTCHERED. St. Petersburg, via Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Dec. 13.—The sentiment of the workmen's delegates, which is extremely depressed, has been some- what raised by the receipt of a dis- patch from Moscow claiming that the revolutionary propaganda has finally taken root among the Cossacks, the last hope of the reaction. The third squadron of the First regiment of Don Cossacks is reported to have held a meeting and to have drawn up service demands, claiming that’ the men are fed like dogs and shabbily clothed. The government officials were forced to deprive the soldiers of their rifles and lances. This is the first sign of disaffection.on the part of the Cos- sacks. No General Strike Yet. Caution having prevailed over the fury aroused by the arrest of the strike leaders, the workmen’s council has rejected the proposition to order a general strike at present, as untime- ly, and has decided that the workmen should bide their time patiently until all the preparations are complete. The council recognized the weakness and -unpreparedness of the workmen for a general conflict, and had been in- formed that the railroad men had al- ready decided against a strike. Armed Uprising Later. The remnants of the labor and so- called delegates held a secret meeting in the hall of the economic society, de- clined to accept the challenge of the government, and adopted resolutions against the arrest of M. Krustaleff, the president of the executive commit- tee of the workmen’s council, and the other St. Petersburg leaders, which it was pointed out was only of local im- portance and did not furnish cause for @ general strike. The resolution, how- ever, declared that it was the sacred duty of all workmen to carry on the work begun by the arrested leaders of equipping and preparing the fighting legions of workmen for an armed up- rising, adding: “In the name of the future proletariat we refuse to make any active protest at present.” Mob Killing and Burning. Vienna, Dec. 13.—A dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse from Bucharest, Roumania, says: “Reports received here through ref- ugees declare that since Sunday the town of Elizabethgrad, Russia, has been burning and {hat a mob has been killing and plundering the Jewish quarter. A regiment is proceeding to Elizabethgrad and Kishineff to restore order there.” To Arrest Agitators. Paris, Dec. 13. — A dispatch to the Journal from St. Petersburg, dated Dec. 12, says that Minister of the In- terior Durnovo has ordered the arrest of hundreds of agitators in the agrar- ian districts. The dispatch says that the installation of wireless telegraphy between St. Petersburg, Moseow and Wirballen is nearing completion. The correspondent of the Matin at St. Petersburg confirms the report of the mutiny of the Cossacks at Mos- cow. He adds that the peasants’ alli- ance has issued a proclamation advis- ing those adhering to the alliance not to pay ‘taxes and to withdraw their money from the banks. PACKERS DENY MERGER. Both Swift and Sulzberger Officials Say Report Is False. Chicago, Dec. 13. — Reports to the effect that Swift & Co. are negotiating for the acquisition of the property of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger company, the National Packing company and the John P. Squires Company of Boston | are denied by representatives and of- ficials of the Schwarzschild & Sulz- berger company and of Swift & Co. BALL TWIRLER IS A WRECK. John Clarkson, Once Famous Pitcher, is Rapidly Declining. Flint, Mich., Dee. 13. — Completely broken down mentally and physically, Johh Clarkson, once the leading pitch- er in the Nationa} league, who has been a patient at a sanitarium here for nearly a year, was returned to his home in Bay City. There are no hopes that his condition will improve. For the last few months his health has failed rapidly. COLLISION KILLS Two. Into Cut-Off Freight Cars. Batesville, Ind., Dec. 13. — A local freight train collided with cutoff , freight cars between here and Morris been found here in the last few weeks. ' last evening. Brakeman Charles Bev- All the peculiar bones were found in a” gravel pit on the Lewis farm. A retriever belonging to George Adams, the alleged embezzling cashier of the federal’ assay office at Seattle, has led detectives to $10,000 in gold dust concealed im his home. att ins was instantly killed. Conductor James King was so badly injured that he died within half an hour after be- neer Fred 8. Keen was seriously in- ‘but It is believed that he will WASP WINS AFTER TERRIFIC FIGHT WITH ATLANTIC HURRICANE. Newport. R..J., Dec, 13.—The little gunboat Wasp, formerly the yacht Columbia, came into port yesterday afternoon under one boiler and several sails, after a terrific battle with a North Atlantic huwrricane, during which she sprung a leak and was kept afloat, after the pumps choked, through hand bailing by her entire crew. The little vessel was blown nearly to the gulf stream by Sunday’s storm and was nearly two days get- ting back to port. At one time the water which came in through a leak in the stern flooded her engine room and for ten hours on Sunday the Wasp was at the mercy of the waves. The crew of sixty men, a third of whom were naval apprentices and un- used to such boisterous conditions, baled for many hours with buckets and succeeded in freeing the engine room. WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE. Railroad Tax Bill Is Passed by the As- sembly. Madison, Wis., Dec. 13.—The assem- bly yesterday ordered to engrossment a bill to require railroad corporations to pay their assessed taxes in full be- fore bringing any action in court.to 4.contest the assessment, and allowing them to recover in the event that the assessment be subsequently declared void by the courts. The assembly passed the bill to provide that should a local rate of general property taxation be found higher than the constitutfonal limit and therefore void, that fact should not invalidate the ad valorem railroad assessment. The assembly debated and advanced to third reading and engrossment the Metzler bill to provide that primary election inspectors be appointed in February for the spring and fall elec- tions. The Thomas Dill, limiting the num- ber of signatures of a primary petition to 10 per cent of the party vote, was advanced. The senate concurred in the bill to give the county board of supervisors more latitude in the voting of county and in building and repairing bridges. This is the first bill to pass both houses this session. The senate also passed a bill repeal- ing the law providing for fishways in dams. A bill for the Massachusetts ballot was reported without recom- mendation. With fifteen members absent or noi voting, the assembly last night by a vote of 43 to 42 defeated the “second choice” or “cumulative” primary elec- tion amendmeni bill. INDICTED FOR MURDER. Alleged Slayers of Mill Foreman Must Stand Trial. Marshalliown, Iowa, Dec. t3.—Roy Hull and W. M. Conn were late Mon- day afternoon indicted at Toledo for the murder of Daniel Leary at Tama, on Nov. 17. Leary was foreman of the paper mills and was killed while on his way home from work. It is said he was killed out of revenge for alleged ill treatment of. Hull and Conn, who were employed in the mill under Leary’s foremanship. Admis- sions made by one of.the men two days after the murder led to their ar- rest. The evidence against them is strong. TO REALLOT LANDS. Agent Michelet Goes to Pine Point to Resume Work. White Earth, Minn., Dec. 13.—Agent Simon Michelet, with a corps of assis- tants, has gone to Pine Point to re- sume the realloitment of land as pro- vided under the Steenerson additional allotment measure. Reallotment will begin at the agency next Monday. The agency sawmill commenced ope- rations this week, manufacturing lum- ber for the construction of houses for remoyal Indians. WIFE BEATER UP FOR LIFE. ltowan Who Killed Spouse by Maltreat- ment Sentenced. Orange. City, lowa, Dec. 13.—Mat- thew Daldes, convicted of beating his wife to death, was yesterday sen- tenced to prison for life. | Baldes’ crime. was committed Oct. 15 on his farm near Hawarden, lowa. Scntence was pronounced by Judge Huthinson. Change of Venue Is Tried. Helena, Mont., Dee. 13.—Jerry Slat- terly, who is accused of killing Pat Mahoney in Butte in July of last year, was placed on trial in district court here yesterday for murder in the first degree. He was twice tried in Butte, the jury disagreeing each time,. and the authorities decided to take a chance with a Helena jury. Bank Cashier Dead. Worthington, Minn., Dee. 13.—Gus Lindgreen, formerly resister of deeds in this county, but of late years cash- ier of the Adrian State bank, was buried at Adrian yesterday. He was an old settler and popular. Fined for Illegal Fishing. Fergus Falls, Minn., Dec. 13.—Louis Wahide was fined $10 and costs in the justice court in this city for illegal fishing. He was dccused of having speared whitefish in Loon lake and ATTORNEY GENERAL MOODY SEEKS PUNISHMENT OF VIO- LATORS OF LAW. PLANS WORK FOR ATTORNEYS INSTRUCTIONS SENT OUT TO GET INDICTMENTS FOR CONSPIRACY. Washingtno, Dec. 13. — Attorney General Moody is endeavoring to open the doors of the penitentiaries for the reception of railroad officials who grant rebates to shippers and to ship- pers who accept the rebates. Instruc- tions have been sent to all the United States district attorneys throughout the United States to secure evidence on which to convict the railroads and the shippers who violate the anti-re- bate law. In addition, the department of justice has taken advanced ground in the matter of prosecutions of vio- lators of the law, by directing the Uni- ted States district attorneys through- out the United States to bring in in- dictments against all persons who con- spire to commit an offense against the Jnited States. Whenever possible they will bring in indictments under section 5440 of the Revised Statutes, which provides for sentence, fine or imprisonment of all persons convicted of conspiring to commit an affense against the United States. fy Moody Sends Orders. Attorney General Moody has sent a circular letter to all the district at- torneys, directing them to endeavor to secure indictments under both laws. Under the Elkins anti-rebate law, the only penalty imposed for its violation is a fine, but under the law relating to conspiring to commit an _ offense against the government punishment may be a fine or imprisonment. By bringing prosecutions under the Elk- ins law the railroad officials could be punished by fine only, and as the roads themselves pay the fines, the of- ficials who granted the rebates receive no punishment for the violations of the law. Prison If Possible. Now it is the intention of Mr. Moody to punish not only the railroads by im- posing fines, but the officials them- selves, by sentencing them to serve terms in the penitentiaries. Hereto- fore no steps were taken to bring presecutions against the railroads for violating the law unless specific in- structions were given by the attorney general himself. This tied the hands oof the United States district attor- neys and they could do nothing to stop the granting or receiving of re- bates. Under the order of the depart- ment of justice, every district attorney in the country will now exert himself to secure evidence on which to base a conviction which will impose as well as a fine a prison sentence for the o”- ficials of railroads and shippers who accept rebates. Subpoenas at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Dec. 13. — Subpoenas were served yesterday by United States marshals on a dozen persons who have been summoned by United States District Attorney J. Whittaker Thompson to appear before the fed- eral grand jury to-day and give testi- mony in the prosecutions to be brought against railways and shippers for rebating. Chicago Officials Act. Chicago, Dec. 13. — Exhaustive in- vestigation of some of the railroad companies centering in Chicago, has been decided upon by the local federa) officials. Subpoenas have been issued for a large number of railroad men and heads of large industrial concerns which have heavy yearly shipments to appear before the federal grand jury which has been summoned for Dec. 19. Evidence secured at various ses- sions of the inierstate commerce com- mission has given rise to the investi- gaticn. CO-OPERATIVE MINING PLAN. Western Federation of Miners Will Raise Fund of a Million Dollars. Denver, Dee. 13. — The executive board of the Western Federation of Miners last night decided to submit a proposition to the unions to raise a fund of $1,000,000 with which to em- bark in the mining business on a co- operative basis. The plan is said to be to have each member of the federa- tion contribute $10. One of the bene- fits of the plan, the committee be- lieves, will be to give employment to members of the union who are de- prived of work by reason of the card system in use in Colorado and other states. SETTLE STATEHOOD QUESTION. House Will Dispose of Matter Before ‘ Holiday Recess. Washington, Dee. 13. — The house will dispose of the statehood question before the holiday recess according to ‘the plan formulated yesterday. The precise manner in which statehood is to be granted to the four territories will be set forth in what is known as the Hamilton bill, giving statehood to Arizona and New Mexico as one state and to Oklahoma and Indian Terri- tory as another. + = sa ee we Si.