Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 6, 1906, Page 3

Herald-Review. By C.E Cc. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - Hustle over and take a look at Ni- egara falls. They'll be gone in 3,00 years, Harvard cleared $51,000 out of foot- ball this year. No wonder it is so bard to drop The national deficit for this year is 23,004,2: Our part of it is about the ast three figures. Kid McCoy has challenged James J. ‘orbett to a fight. Hark! From the ombs, a doleful sound. ’ it is easier to be rich than to be happy; but nobody ever got any satis- faction out of that thought. It is a safe guess that J. Pierpont Morgan will get that $6,000,000 back from somebody before he dies. Prof. Percival Lowell is certain that the canals on Mars are artificial. And nobody can contradict him. Queer, isn’t it, that the girls who go to football games sniff at the idea that football needs to be reformed? Why is it that when a man goes wrong in financial matters these days, he is always the owner of an automo- vile? Don’t you wish you were so fixed you couldn’t recollect within $10,000,- 000 how much you had loaned a friend? Of course Mark Twain made a great speech. How could it have been other- wise? He had seventy years in which to prepare it. A New York chauffeur draws a sal- ary of $6,000 a year. If you can’t be a French chef, young man, be an ex- pert chauffeur. Automobiles are to be higher next year. In consequence of which fact many of us will be compelled to hire our automobiles. William Dean Howells is the inven- or of the ‘double-barreled sonnet,” but it is not likely that his fame will rest upon this fact. If we could see our own faults as ily as we do those of others happi- would be impossible and self-es- teem a hollow mockery. None of the powers in future can urn on Korea with a sharp request ta mind her own business. Japan is go- ing to save her that trouble. A medical man says authors ought o spend one day of the week in bed. We know some authors that ought to spend seven days a week in bed. ea The airship of the future may be different, but the airship of the pres- ent, to be perfectly safe, needs to be constructed on the lines of a water fowl. It is held by Chicago courts that a married man does not have io bathe in order to maintain his dower rights. Tub he or not tub he, that’s not the question. When a young woman stenographer falls heir to a million dollars she takes only notes of large denomina- tion and ceases to sumbit to any- body’s dictation. Sis Henry Campbell-Bannerman is 70, but he is still very vigorous, like most Britons, after they have exceed- ed what Mark Twain calls the scrip- tural statute of limitations. Lord Rosebery was not called on to form the new English cabinet, and he is probably explaining to his friends now that he is glad the other fellow will have to shoulder the trouble. “What shall I sing when all is sung, and every tale is told?” asks Richard Le Gallienne at the beginning of one of his poems. Why sing anything Richard? Why not just keep still and listen? Gen. Weyler is threatening to fight a duel with the Spanish minister of war. We don’t know the minister and have no information concerning the manner of man he is, but he has our best wishes. “There are other jobs,” said the Philadelphia bank clerk who resigned his position because the bank refused to let him marry on $50 a month. “but there’s only one Nellie.” We all feel that way once. . Surgeons opened the stomach of a New York man a few days ago and took out a lead pencil several inches long. Finding no stuffed ballots or other evidences of fraud, they closed the orifice and let the man go. MINNESOTA. © From the Capital. — Lieut. Gen. Chaffee received a letter from Mayor McClellan tendering him an appointment as police commission- er of New York. He returned a cour- teous declination of the proposal. Herbert H. D. Pierce, third assist- ant secretary of state, has been se- lected by the president as the first American minister to Norway. Charles Denby, chief clerk of the department, has been determined upon as succes- sor to Mr. Pierce in the state depart- ment. Joseph H. Choate, who recently was succeeded at the court of St. James as United States ambascsador by White- law Reid, in all probability will be named by President Roosevelt as chairman of the American delegation » second peace conference at The we. The ‘president has not de- cided on the other members of the delegation. A halt in the establishment of rural free delivery routes has been ordered by the postmaster general. Notice to this effect has been received by Northwestern members. It is the in- tention of the authorities to make ev- ery effort during the coming six months to improve the efficiency of the service already in existence, and for that reason the further extension of the service will be suspended for a while. From Other Shores. The sultan of Morocco refuses to agree to the holding of the interna- tional conference on Moroccan re- forms at Madrid instead of Algeciras. Shipbuilding returns for the past year from the northeast coast of Eng- land show a record output of 965,000 tons, an increase of 230,000 tons over 1904. The anarchist who attempted to stab Cardinal Salvator Cassonos y Pages, bishop of Urgel, as he was leav- ing the cathedral, committed suicide by taking poison soon after his arrest. J. Luciano de Castro, the Portuguese premier, and the members of his cab- inet, tendered their resignations. The resignations were accepted by King Charles, who requested his ministers to retain their portfolios until the new year. According to a cable dispatch, Pius X. has just declared his intention to send a wedding present to Miss Alice Roosevelt on the occasion of her wed- ding in February. The gift probably will be a beautiful piece of mosaic work from the Vatican factory, possi- bly a copy of one of the most valua- ble paintings from the Vatican col- lection. Casualty List. Robert McFall ard Clarence Misner, six and eight years old, were drowned near Terre Haute, Ind., while skating. The bodies were recovered. One man was killed and three in- jured in an accident im the railroad yards at East St. Louis, caused by a freight train backing into a street car. John Southwind, a giant Winnebago Indian, came over to Sioux City and indulged in fire water. The next morn- ing he was found on a sand _ bank, frozen to death. While driving in a runabout across the tracks of the Long Island railroad at Brooklyn Hills, N. J., James Kelly and Barry Galway were struck by a train and instantly killed. Chris Anderson, his son Morton and his mother-in-law, Mrs. L. J. Wood- ward, were killed at Alma, Kan., while crossing railroad tracks, their carriage being struck and demolished by an engine. While skating on a small pond in a park in the southern part of St. Louis Bert Fuller, eleven years old; Mellow Fuller, fourteen, and Charles Holfield, fifieen, broke through the ice and drowned. A railroad locomotive was partly blown to pieces at Paterson, N. J., and two members of the train’s crew were badly injured by the explosion of the engine’s boiler. The fireman is ex- pected to die. William Clark and H. McKirkham, members of the construction crew on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway, were killed by a passenger train while walking on the railway tracks at East Moline, Ill. A Lehigh railroad locomotive draw- ing a south-bound freight train, while pulling into “Swamp Siding,” near El- mira, N. Y., exploded, killing Fireman Frank Morris and fatally injuring En- gineer Fred Swarthout, Brakeman Mc- MS , Conductor Martin Gallagher a..oWreight Handler Springer, all of Sayre, Pa. The east-bound Denver & Rio Grande passenger train from Silver- ton, well loaded with passengers, was wrecked three miles from Durango, Colo., and while no one was killed a large number of the passengers were injured, twelve of them seriously. The accident was caused by a defective rail. Several cars were dragged on their sides. Returning home after gladdening the hearts of relatives and friends'with Editor Harmsworth of London has; Christmas gifts, Charles H. Hansen, ‘a been raised to the peerage. Editor Astor will, in view of the fact that Editor Harmsworth’s fortune amounts to only $20,000,000, find it hard to un- derstand why King Edward didn’t look further. The admission of a phonograph as evidence in a Boston court is an in- teresting event. It is the first time that a talking machine has ever heen admitted to testify in court in well-to-do farmer, and his eight-year- old daughter, Edna, were instantly killed by being struck by a Reading railway express train at Camp Hill, fifteen miles north of Philadelphia. The business part of Herdon, Kan., was destroyed by fire. Two drug stores, a meat market, bank and three general stores, including stocks and. buildings, were burned, together with “smaller concerns. eter The News of the Week i | Earl McTeague, an ore freighter, | was driving around a narrow ledge around Miller Mountain, near Salt Lake City, when one of his horses slipped and fell over the cliff, drag- ging the wagon, McTeague, ete., with it. The outfit landed in a_ ten-foot snowdrift 150 feet below. They were dug out of the drift without either man or horses being injured. Fire at Louisville destroyed th Jefferson court house and for a time threatened the complete destruction of the edifice. The loss is estimated at $25,000, with no insurance. Hard work by firemen and employes pre- vented any serious damage to the ac cumulated records of a century of liti- gation. The court house is an old, pic- turesque structure, and contains the famous Henry Clay statue. ° * Crimes. Four thousand dollars worth of an- tique gems were stolen from the show window of a New York firm of dealers in antiques. Fred Gillette, W. B. Warner and Fred Engelbrecht, three men who broke jail at Kearney, Neb., last week, have been captured near Holdredge, where they were prone to bay in a hay stack. Howard Chenoweth, under sentence of fifty years for killing City Marshal Kilburn in Silver City, N. Mex., was rescued at El Paso, Tex., by masked men who overpowered the jailer and locked him in Chenoweth’s cell. After firing three shots at his head, a man who registered at a Bowery house in New York as Hegger Lesser, was taken to a hospital suffering from three superficial scalp wounds. The man’s skull is so thick that though the bullets struck him there they deflect ed and did little harm. ‘ E. E. Snyder, former banker of Olin, Iowa, whose failure cost depos- itors $100,000, and who fled and was | later arrested in St. Louis, was sen- tenced at Anamosa to pay a fine of $100 and costs. He pleaded guilty to fraudulent banking, but creditors signed a plea for clemency. George H. Turner was hanged at San Antonio, Tex., for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch, March 9, 1905. As Turner was led to the gallows a quartet of negro prisoners sang “God Be With You Till We Meet Again.” He left a note wishing everybody a Merry Christmas. A negro man while on a Christmas drunk at St. Petersburg, Ga., fatally cut Capt. J. J. Mitchell, a special po- lice officer, who died in a few minutes from the injuries. The negro was placed in jail, but in thirty minuteg a mob congregated and one of the erfea shot through the window of the fail, killing the negro. Caught in the act of robbing the house, Cassie Pope is in the custody of the police at Kansas City. A man who was with her, and who she says was Will Phillips escaped. The girl de- clared to the police that she had been forced through fear of her life to take part in burglaries planned and exe- cuted by Phillips, with whom she has been living since May 2. Homer White, Ernest Johnson and W. A .Stanton, believed to be members of the gang of robbers who blew open the safe of a bank in Udell, Iowa, re- cently, are under arrest at Chillicothe, Mo. A fourth suspect escaped and is still at large. The three men arrested were heavily armed and had $75 on their persons. Rewards aggregating $3,000 have been offered for the arrest of the Udell robbers. The men exact- ly fit the description furnished by the Udell authorities. General. The government report places the total freight tonnage of the Soo canal for the year at 44,270,680 tons, an in- crease over last year of 40 per cent. Mrs. Frank A. Norris, one of the best known women of Eldora, Iowa, dropped dead while waiting upon the Christmas trade in her husband's store. For the first time in the history of penal institutions, the inmates of the Jeffersonville (Ind.) reformatory were paid interest on money due them for extra work. Harvard college will receive a leg- acy of $50,000 for its medical school under the will of Dr. George S. Hyde, which has been filed in the Suffolk probate court. The tax rate in Illinois for 1906 will be 50 cents on the $100, according to a statement made by the state auditor. This is 5 cents less than for! 1905. A new high record of a price for a seat on the New York stock exchange was reported recently when $95,000 was paid. This price, with the $2,000 initiation fee, amounts to $97,000. H. K. Bloodgood of New York, who: received 200 steers from Chicago last summer and placed them on his large estate in New Marlborough, Berkshire county, Conn., to experiment in beef raising, is having great difficulty to get enough fodder for the animals. Judge Tuley of Chicago died at the} Pennoyer sanitarium in eat Wis. He went to the sanitarium on Oct. 31, suffering from nervous ex: haustion caused by overwork, and fail- ed gradually until the end came. Birney Butler, twenty years old, of Sioux City, driven insane, according to his father, by worry over a plan , whereby John D. Rockefeller would be’ compelled to give up his riches ané go to work, was sent to the insane asy- _ se Butler is a college graduate and DEFECTIVE PAGE PEASANTS RISE TO PROTECT CZAR WORK OF “REDS” DRIVES LIB- ERALS AND RADICALS TO SIDE OF EMPEROR. se ‘FIERCE ATTACK «ON WITTE SLOVO SAYS HE IS _ INSINCERE AND SHOWS UP MEMBERS OF CABINET. Moscow, Jan. 3.—Gov. Gen. Doub- assoff said to the Associated Press yesterday: “I consider a repetition of the re- volt in Moscow to be impossible. The ‘reds’ have alienated the sympathy of a large portion of the Liberals who have been inclined to look with some- thing more than complacency on the idea of an armed uprising. The events | of the last few days, hovever, have filled them with horror and have driv- en the liberals and even the Radicals to the side of the government, which alone is able to preserve order. Most of the ringleaders of the revolt have either been Killed or Arrested, and practically all of the arms which they had been accumulating for months have been captured. No mat- ter what the inclina of those still at liberty may be, I ‘onvineed that they will not again be «ble to precipi- tate a reign of terror.” While declining to give details of the losses, as his investigations have not yet been compleied, the governor general pointed out that these losses were greatly exaggerated. Railroad traffic in ail directions was resumed yesterday. The people, anxious to relieve the apprehension of their relatives and friends, crowded in front of the telegrapi offices, wailing for hours to file dispatches. Rise to Protect Czar. Reports are coming in that a coun- ter revolution in the outlying districts is growing rapidly and that the peas- ants are being summoned to protect the throne and the fatherland. A pro- cession of 2,000 persons, bearing por- traits of the emperor and the national flags was formed on the Tverskaia yesterday afternoon and marched to the shrine of the Iberian virgin at the entrance to the Kremlin, where the people knelt and sang “God Save the Emperor.” Later they surrounded the carriage of Baron Neden, the prefect of police, and wanted to go to the pal- ace with him, but he persuaded them to disperse. Total Losses Will Reach 2,500. It is impossible to ascertain the to- tal losses resulting from the ten days’ revolt, as many of the dead and woun- ded have not been reported at the hos- pitals, public or private, and some of the bodies were incinerated. But a personal tour of the hospitals shows there were 548 killed and 1,065 wound- ed. One hundred and seventy-four of the injured taken to hospitals have since died. The final figures of the casualties will closely approach the original estimate made in these dispatches. Roasts Count Witte. St. Petersburg, Jan. 3.—The Slovo, the Conservative organ which recent- ly turned upon Count Witte, delivers a broadside not only impugning the motives of the premier in the present war against the “reds,” but openly at- tacking the records of members of the cabinet. It sa “Russian society supports the war against anarchy, but refuses to be- lieve that Witte is making a fight in the interest’ of freedom, as all his life he has been the Prince of Bureaucrats. Witte is a good deal of a broker and something of a journalist, but at heart he is a political gambler and lacks the ring of sincerity. No government without honesty can inspire confi- dence. “The fact that one minister was caught in a shady grain operation, that another was found to be supply- ing railway ties, that another was en- gaged in questionable transactions in commercial paper and that another was selling national secrets, justifies the nation in distrusting the’Russian Bismarck.’ ” Situation Still Critical. The situation in the Baltic prov- inees is still critical. The military at Revl, Mitau and Riga are adopting the most energetic measures. A sta- tionmaster who refused to send out a train at Orloff has been hanged. The insurgents made several attempts to derail a military train between Libau and Hazenforth. Arresis of extrem- ists in St. Petersburg continues. HOLDS WIFE FOR HEARING. Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury in the Carr Tragedy at Oelwein. Oelwein, Iowa, Jan. 3.—In the Carr murder mystery here the coroner’s jury brought in a verdict holding Mrs. Dew Carr, the wife, to appear before the justice of the peace for prelim- inary hearing on the charge of firing the fatal shots. Carr’s body was taken to Pawpaw, Mich., his old home, for burial yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Carr is. 7 x fi well and stan Is | BIG WADS OF BOODLE AFLOAT SYNDICATE OF PITTSBURG MiL | LIONAIRES GET INTO MAY- | ORALTY GAME. Pittsburg, Jan. 3.—Buying political workers at the rate of $50 a day per man, opening up costly headquarters in each ward, trying to buy a news- paper for $1,200,000, is how a syndi- cate of millionaire politicians is bull- ing the mayoralty game in Piitsburg. Their determination to el A. M. Jenkinson, an aristocratic manufac- turer, was made apparent yesterday when the money barrel of the pluto- crats was tapped in the principal headquarters. Workers who have been hustling for W. A. Magee for mayor expressed a change of senti- ment. They also exposed yellow- backed bills of big denominations. The nabob crowd tried to buy up ihe Pittsburg Leader and offered a fabu- lous price. This paper has opposed the millionaire crowd politically There is method in the millionaire political game and there is a motive amounting to about $17,000,000. That is estimated to be the value of fran- chises for elevated and underground railways, for improvements the Penn- sylvania requires which will necessi- tate the use of principal streets, for extension of franchise granting mo- nopolies to corporations which the syndicate control. The millionaire crowd believes it can secure these concessions if it elects a mayor and new council. It was stated yesterday that half a million dollars has been raised for the campaign and that every cent of it will be spent if necessary SLAIN WITH A RAZOR. Italian Merchant Is F Found Under His Store With His Throat Cut. New York, Jan. Giuseppi Rie- cobono was murdered in the cellar be- neath his own store in ast’ Thir- teenth street yesterday. His body was found lying face upward with the blade of a razor. broken in two pieces, crossed on his breast. His left hand had been half cut off at the wrist and his throat was cui. The cellar was used by Riccobono as a sleeping room. The police say that a band of Italians killed Riccobono in revenge bec: e he refused to tell them what he knew about the murder recently of an Ital- ian known as Pasgoale Roccao, The slayers of this man are supposed to be in Philadelphia, where the police are looking for them. Riccobono told the New York police what he knew of the case, adding also that he was in fear for his life. The police arrested on suspicion five Italians whom they found in the cellar an hour afier the murder viewing the body SAILS OVER CHICAGO. Aeronaut Pilots Airship 2.000 Feet High Duri nowstorm. Chicago, Jan. Two thousand feet above the earth, in the midst of snow storm and in the face of a 2: mile gale, Horace B. Wild late yesier- afternoon piloted his hip, the Eagle, over a diagonal course of more than ten miles above the roofs of Chi- cago. Launching his ial craft into space at the foot of Chicago avenue, Wild sailed in a northwest direction to Ashland and Milwaukee avenues, and then, tacking his craft, sailed southwest to Ohio and Roby streets, owing to a break in the rudder, forced to bring his machine to Three times Wild made com- pleie circles in the air, demonstrating complete control over his ship, and during its flight he manipulated the machine at his will, darting it upward and downward as conditions de | manded. where. he land. MAN TO FLY LIKE EAGLE. Prof. Bell Gains Confidence From Ex- periments in Nova Scotia. Washington, Jan. 3—Prof. Alexan- i der Graham Bell, who has just re- turned from successful aerial na tion experiments in Nova Scot where he succeeded in lifting 185- pound man thirty feet above ground with a kitelike apparatus, declared yesterday that mankind was on the threshhold of successful derial navi gation. It nay come in a few months } or a few years, but is assured. “Man will be able in due time,” he said, “to soar much after the manner of the eagle, which utilizes the ener- gy of the wind ¢ st which it flies for its own propulsion without using its muscles other than directly.” PAYNTER WILL BE SENATOR. Nominated by Kentucky Democratic Caucus to Succeed Blackburn. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 3—JudgeT. H. Paynter was nominated for United States senator from Kentucky to suc- ceed J. C. S. Blackburn in the joint caucus of the Dem s last night. The nomination is equivalent to an] election as the Demoer control jature. Vessels Frozen in Ice. San Francisco, Jan. 3.—A letter has been received here from one of seven | vessels frozen in the ice near Hersch- both houses of the legi: el island. At the time it was written, Oct. 15, the crews of the vessels had | been reduced to half-rations. Gen. Fessenden Dead. Portland, Me., Jan. 3—Gen. Francis | Fessenden, aged 66, one of Maine's’ most distinguished soldiers of the j Civil war and a former mayor of this died yesterday at his residence Mab FATHER’S GHASTLY WORK KILLS WIFE, SON AND DAUG#H- TER AND THEN ENDS HIS OWN LIFE. HEADS CRUSHED WITH AN AX BLOOD-BESPATTERED WALLS GIVE EVIDENCE OF FIERCE RESISTANCE. Rochester, Mich., by the deserted appearance of the farmhouse of Clarence A. Barnum, who recently located near here, neigh- bors broke into the house yesterday and found Bz his wife, his daughter, Louise, aged twenty-three, and his son, Chester. aged sixteen, all lying dead. The wife and the son and daughter had apparently been mur- dered with an ax. A _ single-barreled shotgun lying near his corpse and the fact that his head was almost entirely blown off showed how Barnum him- self had met his end Evidence of Terrific Struggle. Jan, 3.—Alarmed num, Mrs. Barnum’s body lay in the woodshed. It appeared that e had been able to resist murderer for a brief time, or at an e had suc- ceeded in eluding him long enough to reach the shed. But here she was struck down 21d met the same fate that had befallen her son and daugh- ter. The appearance of the house in- dicated that the family had just fin- ished breakfast when the insane and murderous frenzy of the father broke out. Evidently there had been a ter- rific struggle as the mother and chil- dren battled for their The din- ing room was all Bespattered With Blood, lives. even the ceiling. Under the dining room table lay the father’s body, a gun aeross his kne Apparently he had taken the muzzle into his mouth before pulling the trigger. Three ex. tra cartridges stood on the sideboard as if in readiness to overtake any member of the family who might sue- ceed in escaping the murderous ax. There was blood on the handle of the ax but ihe blade had been washed. In the dining room where the body of the father was found tay also that of the daughter. The son’s corpse was in the kitchen It is thought that the boy was the first attacked, that the mother was killed in the woodshed next and that the father Turned Lest to the Daughter imprisoned in the dining room, where the disturbance hac arently begun. The wife ana son and daughter all had their heads terribly cut and erushed with the Barnum sold a farm near Ilomer, Mich., only a few le ated here late in nid that the harvest and It is months ago the season. in his new home did not meet his ex pectations and that he had become despondent. This was made very evident in a letter he had written to a brother in Waterloo, N. Y. Two other sons and a daughter were away from home when the tr y occurred RED POLICEMAN KILLS. Indian Officer Slays Roysterer Beaten Into Insensibilit go, N. D., Jan Det h between an [ndian and drunken reds on the olc— Berthold reservation Dec. 22. h just reached the officials here. Dr Wolf, an Indian officer, attempted to suppress a rowdy lot of his friends and they attacked him. In the fight which followed the policeman killed one of his nis. He: beaten with a neckyoke ; from 1 o’elock till 9 ble experience it recover. Several oth or less injured into insens. lay in the snc Despite his ter thought he will er Indians wé is The part of the servation in which the trouble occurred is within the bounda of McLane couniy, but the local officers there have put the mat ter up to the United States officials in Fa > , who will investi REPRIMAND FOR YOUNG. Commander of Benniagton Found Guilty of Part of Specifications. Jan Secretary acted upon the proceed court-martial in the ¢ Lucien Young of the ried on charges explosion on Bonaparte ings of the of Commander Bennington, who wa connected with the f that vessel at San Di The court found Com guilty of a part of the alleging negligence of duty tenced him to receive a letter of rimand, which sentence will be ried out. The case of Ensign Wade. who was associated with Command Young in this maiter, has not yet been disposed of. and sen LICENSE WINS BY FOUR VOTES. Close Contest in Redwood Falls City _ Election. Redwood Falls, Minn., Jan. 3. — In one of the hottest city elections ever held here the license people won out on mayor by a majority of only 4 in a total of 445 votes cast. Two of the | three aldermen voted for are for li- cense and the other for prohibition. The aldermen are G. G. Thurn, Jonn Whittet and Frank Hammer, the lat- . ter winning ut by 2 votes. en A ee and