Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 24, 1906, Page 2

_Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. So the Chinese want a_ republic. Took the cue from us this time, it seems. 2dward declares that he often relve hours a day. However, $s good wages. We fear that by heavy feeding the Japanese will only make themselves grow taller around the waist. Kin Ww . seems to maintain in is native land the frankness that ad been noticed while he was here. t As the increased output show share of eggs s, the American hen is doing her to expedite the pure food move- ment. 2 Three plumbers robbed a’man on a City street car. It is not good 2 for plumbers to rob people on a that New York's new ‘aper will have a cap- elevator service to the 40-story balloon Count wife Boni will be content if his s the claims against him.” will equip him with a new of credit. s out that Johann Hoch died re of the transverse proc- second vertebra. However, was done, he ime is coming when it will be ishion to speak of any decayed « as “that grand old war aut- of the party.” declares that he will bread. Is it possible hat the count would choose the dread- 1 alternative of work? t Boni beg for has been rudely borne in upon oung Mr. Vanderbilt that all auto- »bilists look alike to the average en of an Italian town, London Punch is to have a younger or, Let us hope the retiring editor 1 copyright on the old jokes and retire them with himself. According to a female novelist, rhe joy of living, after all, is not in| 2 thing, but in wanting it.” 1 the world agree with her? In London a_ will of three words of the courts. If it had 000 words the lawyers found all sorts of ‘flaws Moroccan war cloud may im- tily in England, but too much like our old used to hang over the irgeon who sewed > of a patient did not patient arrested later for ealing the towel. Some doctors are ay the e told London reporters “a single drunken man » three months she was in How does she know they e all married? ew speed war between three rail- is announced, but the long- oped-for emulation in reducing the mount of man-killing on the tracks is not yet in sight. ill be a great comfort to Com- It w mander Hosley when he gets the dry- dock Dewey fely to the Canary isl- ands, so he can go ashore and hear the ¢ aries sing. Newfoundland has found the catch- g of whales unprofitable, in spite ot the discovery that they could be tamed and taught to stay aground over one tide to be milked. one thing about remorse— s a healthy come-down for a con. ceited person, for somewhere in the answer to “Why did I do it?” is sure to be the reflectio. am a fool.” Edwin Markham’s position is that good government is simply good housekeeping, and that women are needed in it just as much as men. Now why doesn’t he, put that in a poem? A Boston pedagogue five in the past months has administered 524 gs to an average attendance of joys. The regular course at hool must be almost as excit- Japs want to be as big as they so they are going to abandon e and fish and stop squatting on » floor. When they get to be as big as they feel a lot of them will be pushed off into the sea. The son of William Waldorf Astor has entered the British army on pro- bation. The army does not intend to make the mistake of admitting him unreservedly until it knows whether he has the habit of loosen- ing up. Walter Beverley Crane urges pa- triotic Washington.” But if every one should do this wouldn’t it in time get to be monotonous? American parents to name! their boy babies “George Washing- | ton,’ and their girl babies “Martha Qajtor of Collier’s Weekly, on a charge | vf criminal libel. From Washington. The senate committee on pensions voted to raise the pensions of Mexi- can war veterans from $12 to $20 per month. Oscar J. Ricketts, foreman of print- ing at the government printing office, has resigned to engage in private busi- ness in Washington. It is feared that Robert E. Mansfield, the American consul at Valparaiso, Chila, has lost his life in the tidal wave that swept the coast of South America in February. Mansfield has been missing two months. The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce decided to make a favorable report on the Town- send joint resolution providing for an appropriation of $50,000 to enable the interstate commerce commission to investigate railways and monopolies under the Tillman-Gillispie joint reso- lution. The Townsend resolution also corrects other defects in the Tillman- Gillespie resolution pointed out by the president. The national guard and naval mili- tia will receive substanstial aid from congress during the present session. It is practically certain that the for- mer will be granted an increase in its appropriation from $1,000,000 to $2,- 000,000 and provided with means for the promotion of target practice. The probability is strong that the naval militia will be placed in the same re- lation to the United States govern- ment as is the national guard. Casualty List. The Carson building, the largest in Amarillo, Tex., was totally destroyed by fire. Total loss, $100,000, partly covered by insurance. S. H. Carter, aged eighty-nine years, died at Hampton, Iowa, from the ef- fects of a fall on the icy walk. Mr. Carter was one of the first settlers of Franklin county. Train No. 7, west-bound, on the Canadian Pacific railway, was derailed near Nairn station, Ont. It is reported that two persons were killed and sev- eral injured. By the falling of a derrick at the new addition being erected to the Ho- tel Raleigh in Washington, one man’ was killed, one was fatally injured and two others were hurt. The Canada Malting company’s plant was partially destroyed by fire at Win- nipeg. An elevator which was well filled with barley was saved. The loss will be $30,000, well covered by insur- ance. A Great Western passenger train was derailed at Dubuque by a broken rail. The engine, baggage and club cars and four sleepers were hurled over an embankment. Nine persons were slightly injured. While engaged in felling trees on a farm near Exira, Iowa, Fred Shelby, eighteen years old, living with his parents near Adair, was instantly kill- ed by being struck by a limb of the tree in its descent. In the destruction by fire of the home of Charles Grimmett at Ameri- cus, Kan., one of the children was purned to death, another was fatally burned, and, Mrs. Grimmett was seri- ously burned in rescuing the children. While nine men were sitting about the stove in a little grocery store at Jamestown, Ind., remarking on the probability of the collapse of the adja- cent building, which was undergoing repairs, three of them were killed and five injured by the collapse of the Odd Fellows’ hall, which crushed the gro- cery store like an eggshell. Sins and Sinners. The coroner's jury at Boone, Iowa, found the death of Frank D. Leland due to laundanum administered by Jesse L. Hull, osteopathic physician. Leland was sick with appendicitis. John H. Tennant, Sr., president of the defunct Tennant Shoe company, was arrested in St. Louis on a bench warrant charging him with obtaining yaoney under false pretenses. Giovanni Romano was murdered at Oak and Oliver streets, New York, and Giuseppi Santoros was arrested on suspicion. Romano was found stand- ing up with a knife sticking in his back. A festive gathering in the foreign section of Winnipeg culminated in a bloody tragedy. Thomas Korcizyuski, a Galician, was stabbed to death, sup- posedly by Fred Huyk, a fellow coun- tryman. At Dayton, Ohio, the jury in the case of Dr. Oliver 8. Haugh, accused of the murder of his father, mother and brother and the destruction of their home by fire to conceal the crime, found him guilty of murder in the first degree. An unidentified elderly man clipped the hair of Ida Moore, eleven years old, while the child was walking on the street at St. Louis. Her screams attracted many persons, who pursued the “clipper,” but he escaped by leap- ing on a street car. The body of Michael McFadden, a woodsman employed by Crawford & Sons at Cedar River, Mich, was found on the railroad track, horribly man- gled. He had considerable money on his person the day previous and all was missing when his body was found. Foul play is suspected, Col. William D. Mann, editor of Town Topics, was indicted for perjury by the grand jury at New York. The indictment was based on his testimony in the recent trial of Norman Hapgood, The News of the Week Petro Albani, a deputy sheriff on John D. Rockefeller’s estate at Pocan- tico hills, N. Y., was held up by two members of the Black Hand society, on | Mr. Rockefeller’s place, and nearly killed. Louis Brown,. twenty-nine years old, awaiting trial at Norfolk, Va., for the murder of Flossie Reese, at whom he | threw a lighted lamp which exploded, fatally burning the woman, committed suicide in his cell in the Norfolk jail by cutting his throat with a sharp pen- knife which he had in some unknown manner smuggled into his cell. From Other Shores. A. G. Jones, lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, is dead. The London Standard reports that the Russian famine exceeds that of 1891 in intensity and area. The bakers and slaughterers of; Trondhjem, Norway, threaten to estab- lish a strike during the coronation festivities in June. Thirty-one persons were drowned owing to equinoctial tides overflowing or bursting dykes on the Scheldt river at Antwerp. Strikers attempted to blow up two railroad bridges at Nancy, France, by dynamite, and succeeded in causing great damage. Traffic is suspended. Carolus Duran, the famous portrait painter, is about to paint a portrait of Pope Pius X., taking his inspiration from Titian’s portrait of Pope Paul III. (Alessandro Farnese). The illness from which the emperor of China is suffering apparently is not serious. He attended a theatrical per- formance in the palace in company with the dowager empress. The original draft, in Lord Nelson's handwriting, of the historical “General Memorandum” to his captains at the battle of Trafalgar was sold at auction at Christie’s in London for $18,000. The leader of the rebels of Kuang Si province, China, and three others who were implicated in the attack on the house of Rev. Dr. Andrew Beattie, the American missionary at Fita, in Feb- ruary, were beheaded March 12. The special commissioner has ap- proved preliminarily the proposal of the Rockefeller groups to construct a lock canal system for barges between Riga and Kherson. The proposal for a ship canal is rejected as impracti- cable. An earthquake has occurred at Bashahr, on the Simla tributary hill states of the Punjab, India. Consid- erable damage has been caused at Rampur, the capital of Bashahr, and at Kakoola. Eight are known to have been killed and twenty-six injured. Col. Primo-Rivera, nephew of the general of that name who formerly commanded the Spanish troops in the Philippines, has arranged to fight a duel with Deputy Segiano, who was savagely assaulted by the colonel for criticising acts of the Spanish generals in Cuba and the Philippines. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen has been ap- pointed Norwegian minister to Lan- don; Baron A. von Swedel-Jarsberg, minister to Paris; J. C. W. Prebensen, minister to St. Petersburg; T. von Dit- ten, minister to Copenhagen; Benja- min Vogt, minister to Stockholm, and O. Gude, minister to Berlin. The anarchists and communists con- tinue to make raids daily at Odessa. Four persons have been killed and twenty-nine injured in those of the last five days. They have obtained 3,000 rubles and, when receiving mon- ey, always give printed receipts with a seal bearing the image of a raven. Their mysterious head center is known among them as the Black Raven. Domestic. John Jacob Anderson, aged eighty- six, the author of Anderson’s school histories, died of old age at his home in Brooklyn. Thomas McKenna, managing editor of the Rocky Mountain News and Den-| ver Times, died of heart disease, aged | forty-five years. Robert L. Gregory, a wholesale gro- cer, was nominated for mayor at the! city Democratic convention at Kansas| City. The platform adopted advocates | the municipal ownership of all public utilities. The Standard Oil company has ad- vanced the price of gasoline % cent) per gallon. Deodorized stove gasoline | is now quoted at 1214 cents per gallon; | 74 t8 76 degree gasoline, 14% cents, and varnishmakers and painters’ naph- | tha, 11%4 cents. { The Hughes anti-pass measure pro- | hibiting railroads, street railways, tel-| egraph and telephone companies from isuing passes and franks to state and national officials, with the exception of railroad commissioners and newspa- pers, passed the Iowa senate by a unanimous vote. The measure carries’ with it a provision making a violation lof the law a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment. It now goes to the house. The Terra Haute city council passed an ordinance making it unlawful for the mayor or the police board presi- dent to issue orders to the police with a “wink” or other sign. President Kanzleiter told the council he had giv- en orders to close saloons “mit a wink.” Gen. Juan Isidro Jiminez, former president of Santo Domingo, who ar- rived in New York last week, from Havana, says that he is done with Do- minican politics for all time. Gen. Jim- inez denied that he had any ambition | to again be president of Santo Domin-' 8 ‘ROCKEFELLER KNOWS NOTHING STANDARD OIL REPRESENTA- TIVE SAYS JOHN D. COULD GIVE NO FACTS. RETIRED EIGHT YEARS AGO H, CLAY PIERCE SENDS WORD TO MISSOURI COURT THAT HE IS SICK. New York, March 21. — The Wall Street Journal says: “A representative of the Standard Oil company, when asked whether the testimony of John D. Rockefeller would bring forth any facts that could not be elicited from other di- rectors and heads of departments, said: ‘‘John D. Rockefeller practically retired from participation in the af- fairs of the Standard Oil company eight years ago. He has not been at his office in the Standard Oil building in the last four years. For thirty years Mr. Rockefeller worked hard in working up the business of the Stand- ard Oil company, and believes he is entitled to a good rest. Could Tell Nothing. “J do not see how Mr. Rockefeller’s testimony could help an investigation committee in any way. He knows lit- tle of what has been going on in the affairs of the corporation for the last eight years. You might say he has only a superficial knowledge gained from his subordinates now and then.’” Confirmation was obtained yester- day of statements that William Rock- efeller is suffering from cancer, but not of the virulent type reported. It was learned that Mr. Rockefeller was advised by his physician last fall to go abroad because of a cancerous growth at the base of the tongue, which for the past two or three years has been causing more or less trouble. The recent reports of his illness are attributed to probable Renewal of the Symptoms previously displayed. Persons usually well informed as to the interesis of Mr. Rockefeller say no alarm was ex- pressed yesterday over the reports of his illness. It was intimated that, in view of the pending Standard Oil in- vestigations, it was thought best for Mr. Rockefeller in his present con- dition to spend the winter in Italy. No confirmation could be had of the report that Mr. Rockefeller’s trouble had developed into cancer of the stomach. Knows of No Chance. Indianapolis, March 21—F. R. Bur- nett, Indianapolis manager of the Re- public Oil company, when shown a story published in the Indianapolis News that the Standard Oil had taken over the business of the company he represents, said: “There has been no change here. I know nothing of any change what- ever.” yA Pierce Pleads Illness. St. Louis, March 21—The second day’s session of the oil hearing in the ouster case of Missouri against the Standard, Republic and Waters-Pierce Oil companies was marked by the failure of H. Clay Pierce to appear, owing to the fact that he is threat- ened with pneumonia, and the severe cross-examination of Charles M. Ad- ams, secretary-treasurer of the Wat- ers-Pierce company. Stock certificates were produced and read to show that the Standard held stock in the Wat- ers-Pierce company in 1900, when the company was reorganized. FIRE-EATER BURNED ALIVE. Incidentally, a Theater in Juneau, Alaska, Is Destroyed. Seattle, Wash., March 21. — A pri- vate dispatch from Juneau, Alaska, reports a destructive fire which de- stroyed the Louvre theater in that city, as follows: “Theater burned Saturday night: John King dead.” The Louvre is a two-story building of wood and was erected fifteen years ago. It cost $25,000. John King, mentioned in the telegram as being dead, did the fire-eating act. Dies as Officer Waits. Hot Springs, Ark., March 21.—Just before an officer entered his room in a hotel to arrest him yesterday J. H. Claibaugh, a sheet writer for a pool- room, drank an ounce and a half of carbolic acid and died a few minutes late .r He is said to have‘been want- ed for passing bogus checks. To Test Scope of Law. Madison, Wis., March 21. — The Wisconsin supreme court yesterday granted leave to bring suit testing whether the state bank examiner’s department comes under jurisdiction of the Wisconsin civil service law. Clubbed Seven to Death. Bristol, Tenn., March 21.—Informa- tion from. Marion, N. C.. is to the ef- fect that in a fight between a foreman and Italian laborers on the South & Western railroad, the foreman, in de- fending hi...self, clubbed seven of the men to death with a crowbar. Is Killed by Vicar’s Shot. Nancy, France, March 21.—A mani- festant at the inventorying of church property here is dead as the result of a bullet wound inflicted by the vicar of the church during the disturbance. ' city. ‘ AUSTRIA HAS A NEW SCHEME'(QPERATORS AND IF IT FAILS TO PLEASE FRANCE AND GERMANY RUSSIA WILL TRY HER HAND, Algeciras, Spain, March 21. — A basis for the adjustment of the rival claims of France and Germany before the conference on Moroccan reforms has not yet been found. The Associ- ated Press learns from one of the most interested delegates that the Austrians are preparing a further po- lice project which it is hoped will con- tain a suggestion less objectionable to France than the casa blanca prop- osition, while at the same time safe- guarding the international principle. Should this scheme not effect a reconciliation of German and French ideas, then Russia will introduce an amended plan which will be discussed simultaneously with the Austrian plan until a final understanding is reached. Meanwhile Henry White, ihe chief of the American delegation, is taking the lead of the neutral delegates in endeavors to effect a speedier settle- ment. Most of the delegates are wearied of awaiting the arrival of eternal to-morrow, when an arrange- ment is promised only to be put off again as the result of apparently un- ending pourparlers at the various European chancelieries. The im- pression is growiag that an immedi- ate settlement is much nearer than is admitted by the delegates. YOUTH IS SHOT DEAD. Julius Blackstad of Watonwan County Gets Charge of Shot in Breast. St. James, Minn., March 21.—Julius Blackstad, seventeen years old, son of Samuel Blackstad, was killed in the town of Nelson, Watonwan county, on Sunday afternoon. With a companion, Fred Bottum, he was behind the barn on the Blackstad farm, and the boys had their shotguns with them. Fred had his gun in his hand, but that be- longing to the Blackstad boy was ly- ing on the ground. Blackstad picked it up by the muzzle and was pulling it toward him when it was discharged and a large charge of shot en- tered his left breast, causing instant death. BIG ICE FIELD HAS GONE. Early Navigation Is Expected at Head of Lakes. Duluth, March 21.—The great ice field, fully twenty miles long and fit- ting in between the Minnesota and Wisconsin shores, that occupied the head of Lake Superior has gone as quickly as it came. The main body floated off down the lake last week, and Monday night’s high wind re- moved what ice remained to the south shore, where it occupies a very small compass. Hundreds of people were skating on the ice Sunday. The leaving of the ice field is regarded as a harbinger of early navigation at the Head: ot the Lakes. DOGS RAID SHEEP. Over 100 Sheep Killed by Brutes or in Seeking to Escape. Estelline, S. D., March 21. — Sheep owners in this vicinity are greatly ex- cited over a raid made on the sheep of G. B. Pope, a farmer near here, by dogs. The raid resulted in a loss of over 100 sheep, the greatest number ever killed by dogs in this part of the state. Only a few of the sheep were killed outright, the rest having been crushed and smothered to death in thefr efforts to escape from their pursuers. The loss will run into hun- dreds of dollars. “SPELLING BEE” REVIVED. Swift County Residents Purpose to Improve in Word Construction. Appleton, Minn., March 21.—Swift county has revived the “spelling bee.” The county superintendent of schools is reported to have said that one half of the people of the county can- not spell correctly the word pa- rate” and that not one-third of the number can correctly spell the days of the week and months of the year. Thirty dollars in gold has been of fered in prizes to entice pupils toward correct word construction. SALOONS AID REVIVALS. Are Closed During Evening Meetings at Sauk Center,. Sauk Center, Minn., March 21.—The evangelistic meetings are still being Bars conducted in the opera house. Great interest is being taken. The saloons voluntarily close their bars every evening from 7 to 9 o’clock and all other business places close early. Lid on at Butte. Butte, Mont., March 21—As a re sult of a crusade instituted some weeks ago by an organization of citi- zens known as the Civic league, Sher- iff John J. Quin has notified all gam- bling houses to close their doors. Two Killed; One Injured. Cedar Falls, Iowa, March 21.—The MINERS CONFER WILL TRY TO REACH AN AGREE- MENT ON THE QUESTION OF SCALE. BAER ACCEPTS CONFERENCE ANTHRACITE COAL MEN WILL ALSO TRY TO PATCH UP DIFFERENCES. Indianapolis, March 21. — The sec ond joint conference of the coal ope- rators and miners of the central com- petitive district, which is the result of the efforts of President Roosevelt to effect a permanent peace in the coal industry, adjourned yesterday af- ternoon after referring the dispute to the joint scale committee, which will meet to-day. The conference v called to order by President. John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers, and after it had organized President Mitchell moved that the rules of the previous joint conference, requiring that the Vote of the Operators on “all main and principal questions’ be cast as a unit, be adopted. This was done. The action empowers F. L. Robbins, retiring chairman of the operators, and Thomas Lewis, vice president of the United Mine Work- ers, to halt any action which they do not favor. President Mitchell delivered a address in which he outlined his s as to the purpose of the con- ference, and at the close of which he moved the adoption of the scale de- manded by the miners which provides for an increase of 12 1-2 per cent. The motion was lost, the operators voting unanimously in the negative. Referred to Scale Committee. J. H. Winder, chairman of the ope- rators, offered a resolution that the present scale with all conditions now existing be continued for one year This was lost on a strict vote, the op- erators favoring the motion and the miners opposing it. F. L. Robbins moved that the mat- ter be referred to the scale commit- tee. This was seconded by President Mitchell of the miners. The motion carried and the conference ad- journed at 3 o'clock to await the ac- tion of the scale committee, which will meet to-day. Baer Accepts Conference. New York, March 21. — There will be another conference between the anthracite coal operators and the miners of the hard coal district. This was decided upon at a meeting here yesterday of the committee of opera tors. Later President George F. Baer gas plant at this place blew up yes-} terday, killing James Dorris and Bus Seipert and severely injuring William Schroeder. The explosion was caused by a leak. Drowning Is Denied. -Manitowoc, Wis., March 21.—It is reported here by several persons that Michael Hickey, who was said to have fallen overboard during the fire on the steamer Atlanta, is safe in this ‘ of the Philadelphia & Reading rail- road forwarded a letter to President Mitchell, notifying him that the ope- rators are willing to meet the miners at any date Mr. Mitchell may select. President Bae etter is in reply to one from Mr. Mitchell, in which the leader of the miners expressed disap- pointment bec: e ithe operators’ com- mittee had rejected the demands of the miners without calling the latter into conference. WILL DONATE OFFICE FEES. State’s Attorney of Chicago Will Give Large Sum to School Fund. Chicago, March 21. — The right of the state’s attorney of Cook county to the fees of the state’s attorney’ office in addition to his salary of $ 000 a year was yesterday upheld by Judge Windes in the circuit court. State’s Attorney Healy, before being elected, promised that all fees of his office beyond $10,000 a year would be turned over to the superintendent of county schools, and he declared yes- ihat he would make good his if the higher court sustains Windes. The schools promi: the decision of Judge amount to be given to the will aggregate $50,000 a year. NAVY NEEDS DREADNAUGHTS, Admiral Dewey’s Statement Before House Naval Committee. Washington, March 21.—Great bat- tleships like the 18,000-ton English battleship Dreadnaught are the cry- ing need of the American navy, ac- cording to Admiral Dewey, who ap- peared before the house committee on naval affairs to discuss the future of the American navy Murder and Suicide. New York, March 21.—Joseph By- land, a bartender, and his wife, Mary, were yesterday found dead in their apartments. The couple had quarreled frequently and it is thought that By- land, finding his wife about to leave him, killed her and then shot him- self. Norway’s First Minister. Copenhagen, March 21.—The Chris- tiania Aftenposten says that Chris- tian Hauge (at present charge d’af- faires of Norway at Washington) will be appointed Norwegian minister to Washington. Fire Sweeps Nebraska Town. Lincoln, Neb., March 21. — Nearly all of the business district of North Loup, Neb., was destroyed by fire yesterday. The town is without fire fighting facilities and there was no way to check the flames.