Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 13, 1906, Page 2

' tape tow ioc e e ao RESUME OF THE NEWS “Rerald Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Corey was at the Carnegie dinner, all right, but he didn’t eat more than half his pie. Intrigue. mystery, love are the signs of a popular novel, but what weary signs they are! The Chee Foo and several other able liars appear to have settled in be Panama Canal belt. A Pittsburg man has just shelled out $10,000 to a St. Louis girl who wanted to be his “Easter egg.” tro Getting Pacific,” says a newspaper headline. Castro had bet- ter confine his energies to the At- tantic. i When we look at all the trouble Joe eiter gets into, we realize that being poor young man has its advantages, er all. 2in is about to close the library ded by Christopher Columbus at e. It has just learned that he Sev was an Italian. A Chicago doctor says that no man should smoke more than three cigars We can almost hear Mark y, “Huh!” Wonders will never cease. A man actually had the nerve to come into ye s sanctum and try to sell us some life insurance. Count Witte says the Russian revo- lutionary party is small but deter- From this distance it looks ° but indeterminate. It has cost Boston $6,500,000 for »eans during the past year. It will be sad day for Boston when the bean rust gets things cornered. With a knowledge of the facts made ublic concerning “Fads and Fancies,” t book ought to sell well as a curi- revelation of assininity. Martha Craig, who says she was on 2,000 years ago, will probably urn out to be press agent gor a new bloom of youth at $1 per bottle. It is a safe guess that the Baltimore or who says the prettiest girls in "a are in his town never was est of the Alleghenies in his life. \ woman's club is advocating “fewer t better babies.” Our own babies uld not be better. The improvement desired on other persons’ children. 7 It is worthy of remark that occasion- here is a man wich an income of re than $1,000 a year who finds it d to persuade anybody to marry hattan’s drink bill figures up 0,000 a year, and yet the news- humorists still prate about the ousness of the Kentucky col- Speaking of the way the govern- ment’s policy has been conducted, Witte says that “to err is human.” r looks a good deal like a knock at ne right.” I st pipe dream yet was that the Michigan student who said the bowl of his pipe was hot enough from smoking to brand the flesh of < ellow student. Uncle Andy sat between Schwab 1 Corey at the Carnegie dinner. If y entertained him with anecdotes their experiences he must have an interesting time. The Russian grand dukes have probably decided by this time that ‘a mere strike” may have all the dis- agreeable consequences of a revolu- tion, with a lot of extras added. When the trousseau makers and other women folk take possession of the white house the president may be surprised to learn how unimportant a figure in the household he really is. 4 Frenchman has invented an appa- ratus that will enable a man to sign 1,000 miles away. Great scheme! Our checks are no good if we sign them less than 1,000 miles aw ling that the latest returns Saskatchewan give the govern a good working majority, our n friends may be excused from sing pityingly, “O, those Amer- names!” National Civie Federation } os that immigrants do not settle in the parts of the country that need them. We may remark that we know several natives who refuse to settle, wherever they are. A girl asked me what I thought would be the nicest thing to put in her stocking. I told her I couldn’t think of anything better than what she al- y had in it, and then she got mad. Some girls are never satisfied.—Bos- ton Globe. The world pauses, spellbound and enthralled, as it hears the marvelous tones of the Bernhardt admonishing» From the Capital. Maj. Estes G. Rathbone, who was director general of posts in Cuba when scandals were developed in that serv- ice, will make another effort to have a congressional investigation of the whole matter in the hope of obtain- ing vindication. President Roosevelt will personally present to Capt. Church, now in the medical corps of the army, the medal which is to be awarded to him for con- duct at La Guasimas, when, as assist- ant surgeon of the Rough Rider regi- ment, he distinguished himself in face of the fire of the enemy. Charges have been filed against W. T. Vernon, principal of the Quindaro institute at Quindaro, Kan., who is a candidate for appointment as registrar of the treasury to succeed J. W. Ly- ons. The nature of the charges has not been disclosed, but they have been forwarded to Mr. Vernon for answer. Both Vernon and Lyons are negroes. From Other Shores. Alfonso fell with his horse as he was leaving the palace to attend a re- view. He was not injured and was able to remount his horse and pro- ceed. In his annual address to the Salva- tion Army, Gen. Booth attributes his robust health to the fact that for the past seven years he had been a strict vegetarian. Lieut. Gen. Count von Moltke has been appointed chief of the general staff, succeeding Field Marshal Count von Schleiffen. The latter, who is nearly seventy-three years old, was kicked severely by a horse and was forced to retire. President Castro of Venezuela has again insulted the French govern- ment, and representations will be made to secure an apology. Castro ignored M. Taigny, the French charge @affaires at Caracas, and did not in- vite him to the New Year's reception. At a meeting at Dundalk, Ireland, Timothy M. Healy was chosen to con- test North Louth, his present seat, against the prospective candidate of the Irish National league. Mr. Healy said he had been willing to come to terms with his opponents, but he add- ed that the latter had declared war on him, and war they should have. Samuel Smith, the American consul at Moscow who frequently has had oc- casion to inspect the Japanese pris- oners who were confined at Medvid and who arranged for their transporta- tion to Germany whence they were embarked for Japan, in an open letter emphatically denies the Berlin, reports of their ill treatment. On the con- trary Mr. Smith pays a high tribute to the care and attention bestowed on them. At a meeting of the board of the Un- derground Electric Railways company at London, Edgar Speyer was elected chairman of the company in succes- sion to the late Charles T. Yerkes. Sir G. Gibb, general manager of the Northeastern railroad, was elected deputy chairman and managing direc- tor of the Underground company, and also chairman and managing director of the Metropolitan District Railway company, vacated by the death of Mr. Yerkes. B. W. Perks continues as deputy chairman of the company. The German government has semi- officially disavowed any relation with the persons arrested as spies at Mar- seilles and Toulon. Several uncom- missioned officers of the French navy, were arrested owing to the discovery in their domiciles of detailed plans of the new French battleships and sub- marine boats. This, it is said, will solve the mystery of the disappear- ance of the plans of the submarine boat Airgette, which vessel, it was asserted ,was duplicated in Germany, supposedly from the French plans. Accidental Happenings. Fire in the four-story brick factory building at Fourth and Fort streets, Detroit, did approximately $100,000 damage. Samuel Husted, a prominent citizen, was killed by an Illinois Central train at Waterloo, Iowa. He was deaf and did not hear the train. The entire plant of the American Shipbuilding company in Bay City, Mich., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of over $250,000. Fire at Cleveland practically de- stroyed the Bradley building. The loss is $50,000. A fireman fell through an open elevator shaft and was seri- ously hurt. He may recover. John Sievers, who has served five terms in the Anamosa (Iowa) peniten- tiary, for each of which h® was sent up from Clinton, was arrested on a charge of robbing three Clintan_ busi- ness houses. He returned from prison less than two weeks ago. The total loss caused by the fire which destroyed the main portion of the city block at Main and Ward streets in Brocton, Mass., is estimated at nearly $300,000. Two trainmen were killed and sev- eral injured in a head-on collision be- tween two freight trains on the Big Four railroad four miles west of Co- lumbus, Ohio. | Fire at Hagerstown, Md., destroyed the large four-story brick plant of the her escort: “Be careful; don’t step on | Hagerstown Storage and Transfer my dress.” How womanly! What company, entailing a loss of between dramatic power and naturalness lie In .$125,000 and $150,000. the simple words! fo. Fresh——_——Reliable——_—_ ‘ Brief Crimes. John Ellis, a former banker of Bea- trice, Neb., and former county treas- urer of Gage county, despondent over financial affairs, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. i The grand jury at Baltimore which has been investigatipg the affairs of the Maryland Trust company, under the old regime, returned presentments against three of the former officers. At Duke, Okla., W. Goodnight shot and killed his wife and then himself. He was jealous, it is said. Mrs. Good- | night was but sixteen years of age. They had been married but a few days. Mrs. Herbert Aldrich, residing near McDonough, N. Y., arose and threw her sick baby into a well. Then she threw herself in also, but somehow saved herself from drowning. She is insane. Paul Soudell, aged forty, a familiar character of the red light district of Cleveland for the past several years, shot and killed Jessie Smith, aged twenty-three, in a resort, and then committed suicide. In attempting to quell a New Year's riotous celebration in his saloon, at Belleville, Ill., William Tannehill shot and killed William Borden and dan- gerously wounded Fred Hopwood. Tannehill was arrested. Miss Barbara Toxcr, twenty-five years old, of Oklahoma City, Okla., shot and killed F. C. Clayton, a busi- ness man of that city. The woman as- serts that Clayton attempted to as- sault her and she shot in self-defense. The appeal of the counsel for Charles L. Tucker, who was conyict- ed nearly a year ago of the murder of Miss Mabel Page at Weston, Mass., for a rehearing of two of the exceptions taken at the trial has been denied by the full bench of the supreme judicial court. : William Murphy, thirty-one years of age, son of Jeremiah Murphy, wealthy pork packer of St. Louis, was arrested and is being held on the charge of having stabbed his friend, David Leahy. The stabbing occurred on Jefferson avenue, and Leahy is stated to be probably fatally wounded. Mur- phy claims. highwaymen attacked them and stabbed Leahey when they resisted. Leahey refused to talk of the matter. A dynamite bomb was thrown against the front door of the Giovan- ni Fazzi macaroni factory at Scran- ton, Pa., and the whole front of the building was wrecked. The Arlington hotel adjoining was badly wrecked. Fazzi, who is an aged and well-to-do Italian, has received three letters since Oct. 6, signed “The lron Head,” which made demands on him for $1, 000 under penalty of death of himself and family. He paid no heed to the letters and did not even notify the po- lice. The scene of the explosion is in the very heart of the city. Otherwise. The year closed at Niagara Falls, N. Y., with the proud boast that not one arrest was made during 1905. There was not one call for a police officer. Gen. Francis Fessenden, aged 66, one of Maine’s most distinguished sol- diers of the Civil War and a former mayor of this city, died at his resi- dence in Portland, Me. F. L. Snyder, supreme scribe of the Tribes of Ben Hur, of which fraternal insurance order he was founder, is dead at Crawfordsville, Ind. from cancer of the stomach. Nearly $50,000,000 is to be spent by the city of New-York in public im- provements in 1906. Besides the new improvements, many important under- takings already begun will be carried on. A letter has been received at San Francisco from one of seven vessels frozen in the ice near Herschel island. At the time it was written, Oct. 15, the crews of the vessels had been re- duced to half rations. George Bernard Shaw’s comedy, “Cashel Byron’s Profession,” was giyen its first presentation on any stage at the Hyperion theater at New Haven, Conn. Miss Margaret Wycher- ly, who played the role of Lydia Ca- rew, was supported by a strong com- pany, and considerable incidental in- terest was attached to the appearance of James J. Corbett in the part of Cashel Byron, the gentleman pugilist. Capt. William Mogg, the companion of the celebrated Norwegian explorer Raold Amundsen on the 700 mile jour- ney across the Arctic ice fields, ar- rived in San Francisco yesterday from the north. Capt. Mogg brought down 400 letters from the crews of the whal- ing fleet now imprisoned in the Arc- tic on the ships. He says they are in no danger and are well provisioned to carry them through the severe win- ter. A great co-operative store owned and operated by negroes is promised for Chicago. It was announced by G. F. von Chinn, one of the speakers at a meeting in honor of the colored peo- ple’s national holiday on the forty- third anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. The Chicago board of trade com- mission men are agitating the proposi- tion to double their present rates of brokerage for executing deals in grain. A number of them have started a movement to make the rate %4 of a cent a bushel instead of ’% of a cent, as, at present. : DEFECTIVE BATTLESHIPS = IN COLLISION ‘KEARSARGE AND KENTUCKY RUN AGROUND AND LATTER IS HIT BY ALABAMA. IS QUITE BADLY DAMAGED REAR ADMIRAL EVANS WILL OR: DER INQUIRY INTO CAUSE OF ACCIDENT. New York, Jan. 9.—Five great bat- tleships, the flower of the Americar navy, under command of Rear Ad- miral “Fighting Bob” Evans, were near grave disaster in the lower bay yesterday. Millions of dollars and many lives were at the hazard of touch on the rudder. Only a wonder- ful bit of good fortune saved the fleet from wreck. Two battleships, the Kentucky and the Kearsarge, ran aground, and in an effort to avoid a similar fate the mag- nificent Alabama smashed into the grounded Kentucky, and both ships Were Badly Damaged. The crash fell mostly upon the Ken tucky, which had to be ordered back to the Brooklyn navy yards for re- pairs. She will go out of commission meanwhile. The Alabama put’ to sea with the rest of the fleet, but showed marked evidence of the collision. For two hours work centered in getting the Kentucky and the Kearsarge afloat. Battleship Squadron. The five ships made up what is known as the battleship squadron, formed some time ago, with Rear Ad- miral Evans in command and Rear Admiral Davis as second in divisional duty. The fleet for the last two weeks has been lying off Tompkinsville. Yes- terday morning anchor was weighed and the five ships started down the bay bound for Hampton Roads, where they were ordered to begin winter evolutions. Follow the Maine. The ships followed the Maine, Rear Admiral Evans’ flagship. They were in this order: Maine, Kentucky, Kear- sarge, Alabama, Illinois. They ran along quietly, hampered, however, by wind and tide, which had a tendency to force each ship over to the east of the channel. The tide and wind drove the big ships more and more against the east bank, as the long strip of sand is known at that point. Kentucky Goes Aground. The Kentucky tried hard to keep in straight alignment with the Maine ahead of her, and then it was noticed that she wabbled as if she was not minding her rudder well. With a wide turn to port she suddenly, like a deer, mounted the northern end of the east bank and in a moment was aground forward, with a chopping sea and a high wind, and right behind her three other great warships. Directly behind the Kentucky and coming at a good rate of speed was the Kearsarge. It lookes as if she must ram the Kentucky. . Hit by Alabama. In a desperate effort to avoid the impact, the Kearsage pulled far over to the fatal east bank and more quickly than it takes to tell it she, too, was ashore not a hundred feet from the Kentucky. The commander of the Alabama, next in line, tried to get by the Ken- tucky at starboard. There was not much time to execute the evolution. The Alabama crashed into the Ken- tucky at haif-speed and in a glancing direction. Run for Their Lives. The entire starboard quarter-rail of the Kentucky was carried away. Men on the deck ran for their lives. The blow carried away also the davitts that held the captain’s gig and also their stanchions of heavy steel, and the gig was cut in twain as sharply as if a gigantic pair of shears had been used. The upper top-plates of Harveyized steel were bent for at least ten feet. The doors of the port, shielding the after six-inch guns in her battery, were carried away. The sponsons were bént and twisted, and it looked as if all the plates on the starboard side of the ship were sprung and bent both above and below the water line. Evans Calls for Help. When the crash came the Alabama listed over to starboard for a second and it looked as if she would turn turtle. The Alabama, however, suf- fered less than the Kentucky. Rear Admiral Evans sent a wireless dispatch to Rear Admiral Coghlan at the Brooklyn navy yard for assis- tance. In a hurry the tugs Powhat- tan, Apache and Uncas were hurried down the bay, and after two hours both the battleships were got off from | their dangerous position. They floated easily when finally backed from the east bank. Sent Home for Repairs. Rear Admiral Davis of the Alabama reported that the Kentucky was too | badly damaged to make the trip and !he was told to see that she went to | the Brooklyn navy yard after stopping PAGE for a preliminary survey at Tompkins- ville, and he was to follow the fleet, which would wait for him off the southwest spit. a Slowly, like a broken-winged bird, the Kentucky then steamed back to Tompkinsville and came to anchor. Admiral. Evans will probably order a court of inquiry to investigate the grounding of the two ships and the subsequent collision. KING DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT NEW BODY IS SUMMONED TO AS- SEMBLE ON FEB. 13—CAM- PAIGN OPENS. London, Jan. 9—King Edward, who had been absent in the country since Sir Henr, Campbell-Bannerman’s cab- inet was toriued, returned to London yesterday afternoon and held a meet- ing of the privy council, at which the proclamation dissolving parliament was signed. Immediately afterward writs were sent to the returning offi- cers for the election of members of the new parliament. His majesty has summoned the new parliament to meet at Westminster Feb. 13. The leaders of the opposing forces mounted the hustings last night and the rallying cries of the main forces and factions engaged in the combat were heurd everywhere. No less than fifteen members of the past and pres- ent cabinet spoke in different parts of the country, including Former Pre- mier Balfour, Herbert Henry Asquith, Joseph Chamberlain, John Morley, Lord Lansdowne, John’ Burns, David Lioya-George and Austen Chamber- lain. $5,000,000 IN GRAFT. Chicago Water Tunnels and Sewers Were Rich Field. Chicago, Jan. 9.—In a search for $5,- 00,000 in ¢ t, said to have been dis- bursed atuong builders of water tun- nels and sewers in Cnicago, a commit- tee appoi..ted by the city council will investigate the books in the offices of the controller and the commissioner of public works. The inquiry, which will extend over the last decade, was prompted yesterday when Assistant Corporation Counsel T. J. Sutherland declared that grafting on an enormous scale had been possible through a combination of corrupt contr broken agreements, bills for work and connivance on the part of municipal officials. He said that at least five million dollars could be re- covered if suits were brought in the courts. PRESENT FOR MISS ALICE. Riders Will Make Colonel's Daughter a Wedding Gift. Ardmore, Ind. T., Jan. 9. — The rough riders will send to Miss Alice Roosevelt on the occasion of her mar- riage to Congressman Longworth next month a handsome present. United States Marshai Colbert, cretary of the Rough Riders’ association, who is behind the movement, has made a re- quest upon each rough rider, including President Roosevelt, for a donation toward the present. Rough THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Jan. 9. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 83 1-4@83 © ern, 801-2@82c; No. 3, 75@79 Corn—No. 3 yellow, ¢ @39e. —No. 3 white, 29@29 1-2c. Duluth, Jan. 9. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 833-8¢; No. Northern, 80 7-8c: flax, $1.153-4: rye, 60e. Minneapolis, Jan. 9. — Wheat—No. 1 hard, 835-8c; No. 1 Northern, $21-8c; No. 2 Northern, 81c; durum, 68@73c. Oats—No. 3 white 7-8c. Milwaukee, Jan 1 Northern, 853-4 @ 861-2 Northern, 82 1-2@841-2c. Rye— 67 1-2c. Barley—No. 54 1-2@355e. Oats—Standard, 32c. Chicago, Jan. 9. — Wheat — No.2 red, 89@30c; No. 2 hard, 84@85c; No. 1 Northern, 86@88c; No. 2 Northern, 84@88c. Corn — No. 2, 42c. Oats— No. 2, 301-2c. Sioux City, low Beeves, $3.50@5 mixed, $2 ; stockers and feed- ers, $2.75@38.65; calves and yearlings, $2.50@3.40. Hogs—Bulk, $5.10@ Chicago, Jan. 9. — Beeves, $3. 6.25; stockers and feeders, $ 4.25; cows and heifers, $1.50 @ 4.7 Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $5.15) 5.45; bulk, $5.25@5.40. 5.85; lambs, $4.85@7.75. South St. Paul, Jan. 9. — Cattle — Good to choice steers, $4.50 @ 5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $3@ 4.25; good to choice milch cows, $30 40. Hogs — Range price, $5.05@6. bulk, $5.15@5.20. 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. Jan. 9.—Cattle — cows, bulls and @ Sheep, $4 @ Killed by Horse. Grand Forks, Jan. 9.—Albert Don- ald, employed on the dairy farm of Draper Bros., near this city, was Kicked to death by a horse which he was hitching up. He was found by the driver, when he arrived at the barn. His skull was fractured and he was lying near the horses. Donald was single and his parents live at™Elk River, Minn. That to talk and talk and talk about herself and her belongings is very tiresome to people who listen. fice of she KILL AND BURN IS CZAR’S ORDER ORLCGFF ORDERED TO STOP AT NOTHING TO RESTORE ORDER. FEAR REVOLT IN SIBERIA AFFAIRS IN THE CAUCASUS WORSE THAN EVER—SEVERE FIGHTING. Nagasaki, Jan. 10. — The transport Mongolia, which ved here yester- day from Vladivostok with Russian refugees, reports that a general up- rising throughout Siberia is feared. Slaughter Is Ordered. St. Petersburg, Jan. 10.—Gen. Orloff has been appointed governor general of Livonia, which means complete de- yastation and annihilation there. The slaughter is bound to be immediate, but the returns will never be given to ihe world. Gen. Orloff has strict orders to re- conquer the Baltic provinces, to use the most stringent measures and to stop at nothing, to show no law or mer He is to kill, hang, burn; do anything, but above all, restore order. Such was the decision of the mili- tary council. Orloff is one of the younger and more active leaders of Russia’s army, especially chosen by the mi?'ftery council on acer a firmnes) 2 | the one | would s | | The | tended | vio- are — --Auly encour- aged the weicr tnat the worst is over for the winter except in the Baltic provinees, the Caucasus and the Don region, where the prevailing anarchy is likely to continue indefinitely. Some semblance of order is being ¢ ually restored in the empire. The socialists and revolutionists stoutly maintain that thé pre is only a truce sent lull over the holidays, and from mysteri- ous hiding places the leaders continue issuing orders to Refuse All Compromise with imperialism, to boycott the na- tional assembly and to prepare for a great armed insw ction. The gov- ernment, howeve: professes confi- «dence that the revolutionists will not quickly recover the loss of strength and prestige which they have suffered. Disorders on a small scale and acts of terrorism are expected to continue and something in the nature of a gen- eral demonstration anticipated Jan. 22, but a great uprising in the immedi- ate future is regarded in government circles as impossible. The next real crisis is not expected until the national assembly meets, or the spring sets the peasants in motion. Is Worse Than Ever. London, Jan. 10.—The correspond- ent of the Times at Constantinople, under date of Jan. 8, reports that the condition of affairs in the Caucasus is worse than ar. Severe fighting has taken place at Tiflis, he and the troops were obliged to use artillery and many houses were Cestroyed. Ar- menians at E ethpol got posses- sion of field guns and it is rumored that they massacred a number of Mus- sulmans. Devastation Continues. , Livonia, Jan. 10—Though the troops are operating energetically in all directions the revolutionary peas- ants are continuing their work of de- vastation, wandering in groups through the provinces, cutting the rail- way wherever an opportunity is offer- ed and attacking trains and passen- gers. PLAN A $1,000,000 CHURCH. Chicago Methodists Will Build a Sky- scraper Down Town. Chicago, “an. 10 church—. he I* the dow: | the worl Criearr’s ton and — ar were und to comp! | plate a ¢ site now dist chu ing will accomm¢ | | The rest"T ed to offi San Fr | and yards~ and Transfe destroyed Twenty by quantity burned. Durang W. Thom ues oe Policemat exchange vers on t day and t Thompsor | There hac | two men * they were