Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 31, 1906, Page 2

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. We now have a large surplus—this is not the editorial we; it means the United States. Castro is fast approaching the point where a threat to whip J. J. Jeffries may be expected. The new president of. Brazil is Dr. Alfonso Moreira Penna. How long will you remember it? * Man learns by experience, they say, and yet hints about gardening begin’ to be of interest again. Pierpont Morgan is going to Europe for a long rest. If it’s in Europe, it is a cinch he will get it. They are raising Persian lambs in Arizona, but find nothing quite so in- nocent as the tenderfoot. What we need is a revival of that moral code that called a liar a Nar, whether he was big or little. “Most people are born too modest,” ys Mark Twain. Mr. Clemens has never mixed yery much with politic- The Philadelphia doctor who says that lobsters cause illness should try one some night without what goes with it. Mark Twain has arrived at the con- Fresh Washington. Representatives Stevens, Volstead and Davis appeared before the com- mittee on claims and made arguments in support of the claim of Minnesota for reimbursement for expenses in- curred in connection with Indian up- risings in the state. President Roosevelt's second daugh- ter, Miss Ethel; Secretary Taft's daughter, Miss Helen, and a daughter of Gen. A. W. Greely of the army, were among a class of twenty-five young people who were confirmed at St. John’s Episcopal church. The mayors of fifty large cities in different parts of the country have written to President Roosevelt invit- ing him to deliver an address during the tenth antual convention of the League of American Municipalities, which will meet in Chicago on Sept. 26, 27 and 28. Casualties. Three trainmen were killed and two injured in a collision of freight trains at West Windham, N. H. Herman Eillert, Reedsburg, Wis., purchased strychnine to kill rats and was found dead at home soon after. Six bakers in a Janesville, Wis., bakeshop were found unconscious from gas fumes. All the men will re- cover. The Dorcas custom ore mill, located half a mile north of Florence, Colo., ion that a gentleman is not a lady. appears to be in harmony witb the facts. PeterSburg society has been en-| joyi a cycle of Wagner operas, thus lrowning out the noise of the revolu- tionary bombs. A New York burglar recently on al announces that he is going to law. Well, why not? There Abe Hummell. ssman Lloyd’s bill to limit ze of every man’s fortune to $10, }0 is a good idea, and if it be comes a law we'll obey it. As to his remarks about the forty- year age limit, Dr. Osler puts up the convincing and all sufficient defense that he never made them. Clyde Fitch wonders what becomes f the American matinee girl. Why, she marries and goes to the theater in the evening with her husband. King Edward will now spend two months on the continent visiting :round, thus escaping the trials of spring house cleaning at Windsor. A Japan visitor says that Amer- ican lovemaking is too great a nerv- ous strain. And yet we are told that we ought to adopt a vegetarian diet! ‘China is suspected of being two d," says a contemporary. We ce believe it. If it had another face it wouldn’t wear the one it uses now. A A new insurrection is reported from Santo Domingo, but the interval of as so short that one is justified ding it as part of the same est Mark Twain says every man should be a good citizen for all he is worth. We should be willing to be a heap Almost any woman can understand feeling of that New York city of- ficial who gave up a $4,500 a year job in order to avoid any restriction on his freedom of speech. The practice of carrying bombs in the hair is not one that can be rec: ommended. The only weapons that ean be carried there with safety are the switch and the hatpin. A New York millionaire says his sister-in-law broke five of his ribs be cause he didn’t want her to live in his house. There really can’t be much satisfaction in supporting such a lady. In Boston there are 6,000 wealthy, charming and eligible widows—ac- cording to the Globe. No wonder the Boston man doesn’t marry. The sta- ti s show it to be somewhat danger- us. A federal customs official has de cided that an egg with the shell re- moved is still legally and actually an “gg. We have some profound and pen- ing thinkers in the government service. Mr. J. G. Phelps Stokes thinks it is wrong to tell schoolboys that “some you may be President of the United States.” It must be admitted that the contingency is somewhat re- mote in many cases. A woman’s club went to the town hall last week to get noise in the treets suppressed. And people sneak- ing about the corridors in rubbers whispered that possibly the club was making more noise than the peddlers. Awful!—Brooklyn Eagle. Rey. Dr. Madison C, Peters is au- thority for the statement that at a re- cent luncheon in New York twenty- four very young women drank thirty- six bottles of champagne, while fifteen of them smoked seven-dozen cigar- Was the doctor there? : ettes was destroyed by fire. The mill was valued at $300,000. Owing to fear of snowslides, all the mines in the neighborhood of Silver- ton, Colo., have been closed and 3,000 miners have fied to Silverton for safe- ty. The four-year-old daughter of John Colwell of Hancock, Mich., died as the result of eating thirty-six strychnine pills, believing them to be candy. She suffered terrible agony. Nearly all of the business district of North Loup, Neb., was destroyed by fire. The town is without fire- fighting facilities and there was no way to check the flames. Thinking the locomotive on which he was stealing a ride was about to jump the track, Peter Smith of Vin- ton, Iowa, jumped from the fast mov- ing engine and received serious injur- ies. While attempting to start a soft coal fire with kerosene oil, Herman Otting of Hopkins, Iowa, was seriously burn- ed by an explosion. Mr. Otting was enveloped in flames and was seriously hurt. : Edward Wentzell, thirty years old, employed in the construction depart- ment of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway company at Ensley, Ala., fell off a furnate stove eighty feet to the ground and was instantly killed. His home was in Denver. ©. E. Davis, a stockman of Sioux City, Iowa, was killed, and Brakeman E. M. Crummey of Milwaukee was in- jured in a collision of two freight trains on the Milwaukee road at Davis Junction, Il]. The collision was due to a mistake in signals. Fire broke out in the Bradley build- ing, a four-story structure in Chicago, and occupied by a number of’ small manufacturing concerns. The flames soon spread throughout the entire building and completely destroyed it. The loss is estimated at $100,000. After placing several sticks of dy- namite on an old scraper, Thomas Brown and T. D. Fowler built a fire under the iron shell, with the result that they were killed by the explo- sion, at Roundup, sixty miles north of Billings, Mont. Both men were badly mangled. Fire in the Haverhill, Mass., man- ual training school and high school annex imperiled more than 150 boys and girls, and, although mainly be- cause of the coolness and generalship of the teachers, no lives were lost, several pupils had their hair burned and one girl injured her leg by jump- ing from a second-story window. Two unidentified women, thought to be mother and daughter, were in- stantly killed by a passenger train on the Wabash railroad at a crossing in Chicago. The body, of the elder wom- an was thrown high in the air and when she struck the ground she was dead. The younger woman was drag- ged under the locomotive and cut to pieces. Crimes. In a wholesale safe crackfest in Mason City, Iowa, five safes were blown open and money aggregating $100 was stolen. The police have no clue, but suspect foreign talent. Mrs. T. J. Tanner of Zion City, a member of Dowie’s church, killed her- self and her infant child by leaping before a Northwestern train. The woman is believed to have been de- mented. For sending a letter to F. T. C. Johnson, a rich. farmer, in which it is alleged they threatened to accuse him of murder unless he paid them $500, G. B. Richards has been fined $300 and Joseph Westrip $200 in the district court at Council Bluffs. The men pleaded guilty. Ed Johnson, colored, was taken from ; Jail at Chattanooga, Tenn., by a mob ; of seventy-five men and hanged to a beam of the county bridge over the Tennessee river. The rope broke and the negro’s body fell, and the mob auickly riddled him with bullets. ME oF Reliable————- Brief Mrs. John Morrison of Cumbeola, Pa., was shot and killed as she lay in bey by one of three masked burglars. Mrs. Ida Danielson, while entertain- ing a party of friends at dinner in Kansas City, became enraged at a re- mark of E. C. Harris, a painter, one of the guests, and shot and killed him: Thomas Murphy of Vinta, I. T., was shot and killed at Springfield, Mo., by Policeman John Wilberly while resist- ing arrest. It was stated that the man was one of the trio of Wickliffe Indian outlaws from the Indian terri- tory. Christ Haller was arrested at Houghton, Mich., on a charge of the embezzlement of funds of August Schlaack of the Houghton meat mar- ket. Haller was driving a team on the South range and appropriated mioney which he collected on accounts. From Other Shores. Six hundred Macedonian emigrants have left Servia for the United States by way of Fiume. All of them _pos- sessed sufficient funds to permit of their entering the United States. A big scandal has developed in the Russian ministry of marine owing to the discovery that the plans for the construction of Russian submarine boats have been sold to agents of a foreign power. A confidential communication just | received at Berlin from Constantino- ple states that preparations are quiet- ly being pushed for the reception of King Edward, who is expected to visit the sultan, coming direct by sea. The first smoking car ever reserved for women in Great Britain left a big London terminus recently for Liver- pool. The windows bore labels read- ing: “Ladies’ Smoking.” The innova- tion attests the spread of smoking among English women in recent years. A thousand more troops, including a large force of cavalry, are being as- sembled at Lnes, France, owing to the menacing spread cf the miners’ strike. The miners are divided into two camps, the extremists and the moder- ates, who threaten to attack each oth- er. The railway nationalization bill has passed the Japanese house of repre- sentatives withcut amendment by a vote of 243 to 109. It is expected that the bill to purchase the Seoul-Fusan railway also will pass. The cost of the purchase of home railways is esti- mated at $250,000. Jolin Patrick Howard was tried in the assizes at Venice on a charge of bank robbery. He was arrested in July, 1905, and is believed to be Jo- seph Killoran, who, on July 4, 1905, while under arrest in New ‘York, charged with a postoffice robbery, es caped. He was afterward captured and served a sentence at the Chester, Ill., penitentiary. Domestic. Russian revolutionaries are at To- kio asking for permission to publish a daily newspaper at Nagasaki. After a month’s illness Joseph W. Bailey; father of Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas, died in a sanitarium at New Orleans. He was seventy-two years old. A manifestant at the inventorying of church property at Nancy, France, is dead as the result of a bullet wound inflicted by the vicar of the church during the disturbance. Prof. Albert Henderson Pattengill of the University of Michigan died suddenly of heart disease at Ann Ar- bor. He had been ill two days and Dr. Darling of the university medical faculty was in attendance. The project to erect in his home town, Portland, Me., a memorial to Thomas Brackett Reed is meeting with many responses. Already the Thomas Brackett Reed Memorial asso- ciation has raised more than $30,000. A recent storm caused landslides and floods in Brazil. Twenty persons were killed or injured at Rio de Janei- ro, and landslides at Petropolis, the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, killed fifty persons and injured many more. Fear that her home was burning caused Mrs. Frances Maguire of Alton, IL, a deaf mute, to speak for the first time in her life. She ran down the street crying “Fire!” as if she had heard and said the word from child- hood. Neighbors say she said the; word plainly, but bas not been able to speak since. Medill Patterson of Chicago paid his 25 cents dues, signed the party pledge, renounced all other political faiths, and has become a real Socialist. From now until the close of the aldermanic campaign until April 2, Mayor Dunne’s former commissioner of public works will be one of the leading spellbinders in Socialism’s campaign to “capture the powers of the government in the interest of the working classes.” A direct denial that he had begun negotiations with the Chicago clearing house committee for the purchase of the Walsh yailroad properties has been made by President A. B. Stickney of the Chicago Great Western road. Gen. T. J. Henderson of Illinois has been elected president of the Society of the Army of the Ohio, to succeed the late Gen. Scofield. The executive committee of the society contemplates finishing the compilation of a history of the Army of the Ohio, which was not completed by Gen. Schofield when he died. GUN AND ESCAPES WANTED IN OREGON TO TESTIFY IN THE LAND FRAUD CASES. WONT G0 TO ROCKEFELLER ARCHBOLD SUGGESTS THAT MISSOURI ATTORNEY VISIT JOHN D. Boston, March 28. — Stephen D. Puter of San Francisco, who is wanted by the United States government as a witnessin the land fraud cases in Or- egon, was arrested here last night by United States Marshal W. B. Burns of Washington, D. C., but after being in custody less than half an hour, Puter drew a revolver and succeeded in es- caping. It is alleged that the Oregon State authorities want Puter, who was a broker in®connection with the forg- eries of school scrtificates involving $70,000. Marshal Burns was detailed by the government at Washington to come to Boston and search for Puter. He lo- cated him and waited at the Fenway branch postoffice, where, he learned, Puter was in the habit of calling for mait addressed to “John H. Brownell.” Puter Agreed to Accompany Burns to a private room in the postof- fice. Burns understood that Supt. Swift of the branch office had gone for the police, but it developed later that Swift did not understand that Burns wanted the assistance of the police. Supposing that two officers were outside the building, the marshal placed Puter under arrest and took him to the sidewalk. After asking a question or two about his removal to Washington the prisoner suddenly drew a revolver, and, leveling it at the marshal’s head, exclaimed: “I'll kill you, Burns, if you dare to move.” Crowd Is Overawed. The crowd about the two men was quite dense, but fell away rapidly at the appearance of the revolver, but Burns, although considerably older than his prisoner, jumped at him and pushed up his hand. Puter struggled and succeeded in pointing the muzzle of the revolver at Burns’ breast for a second time. Again the officer closed with his man but he could not wrenclt the weapon away. Puter finally got free from the grasp *of the marshal and gradually backed away, with the revolver still pointed at Burns. He suddenly tugned and darted down the street, followed by the officer and many other persons. The fugitive, however, escaped. NO MASTER IN STANDARD OIL. Vice President Says It Is an Aggrega- tion of Individuals. New York, March . 28. — John D. Archbold, vice president of the Stand- ard Oil company, was the principal witness yesterday in the hearing con- ducted by Attorney General Hadley of Missouri before United States Com- missioner Sanborn. In response to Mr. Hadley’s direct question, “Who is the active head of the Standard Oil com- pany?” Mr, Archbold replied that there was “no master mind” in the Standard Oil, that it consisted of “an aggregation of individuals.” Mr. Archbold also volunteered the statement that John D. Rockefeller had no desire to evade any question, that Mr. Rockefeller Knew Nothing about the matters concerned in the present suit, but that if Mr. Hadley wished to go to Lakewood and ques- tion him he would find Mr. Rockefeller willing to answer any questions. Mr. Hadley interrupted this statement with the remark “There is only one way to examine witnesses here.” M'CURDYS AGAIN SUED. Mutual Now Charges Fraud and Cor- rupt Conspiracy. New York, March 28.—Charges that a fraudulent and corrupt conspiracy existed between Richard A. McCurdy, former president of the Mutual Life Insurance company, his son-in-law, Louis A. Thebaud, and the latter's partner, Charles H. Raymond, are made in the formal complaints in two suits instituted yesterday by the com- pany against the men named for the recovery of $1,750,000. These suits are in addition to the one brought Jast week by the company against Richard A. McCurdy alone for the re- covery of $3,370,000. The total now sued for amounts to $5,120,000. The suits brought yesterday in the opinion of lawyers form the basis for criminal prosecutions. FALLS OFF TRAIN INTO RIVER. Thomas Bourey of Casselton, N. D., Receives Severe Injuries. Minot, N. D., March 28.—Just as a Soo freight train was pulling out of the yards here, Thomas Bourey of Casselton, while attempting to get from one car to another, missed his footing and fell into the Mouse river. The fall stunned him, and when mem- bers of the freight crew pulled him out of the river he was unconscious. He was taken to the hospital and is reported in a critical condftion. "TS SavD bY ANEROWS SENSATIONALISM LAST SERIOUS DIFFICULTY IN PATH OF MOROCCAN CON- FERENCE REMOVED. Algeciras, Spain, March 28—Ambas- sador White and the others of the American delegation to the confer- ence on Moroccan reforms were showered with compliments yester- day for what is regarded as their sa- gacious intervention which has as- sured a solution of the last remaining serious difficulty of the conference and a final settlement of one of the most delicate and complicated gues- tions ever brought before the confer- ence for decision. Austria’s police proposal Monday left the German and French delegates still occupying totally opposite stand- points relative to the police inspec- tion. Mr. White, seeing the danger of dis- agreement, took the initiative in an attempt to save the situation. He and his colleagues drew up a_ fresh scheme, which the committee incor- porated in their proposition for pre- sentation to the full conference, which later adopted it provisionally while awailing the French government’s ratification, whick the delegates do not doubt will be accorded. The successful action of the Ameri- can delegates has made certain the speedy end of the labors of the con- ference. No one now foresees the slightest obstacle to final accord. TO MARRY YOUNG ITALIAN. Denver Girl Is Betrothed to a Rising Sculptor, Berlin, March 28.—The betrothal is announced of Miss Frederica, daugh- ter of Judge Lefevre of Denver, Colo., who is studying music here, and Sig. S. Guanci, a talented young sculptor, whom the crown prince of Germany accidentally met in a cafe, when he was visiting Florence and whom the prince brought to Berlin to execute a commission. Sig. Guanci has been taken up by Rheinhold Begas, the well known German sculptor, in whose studio he is working. HOPPE DEFEATS SLOSSON. Wins World’s Championship at Eigh- teen-Inch Balk Line Billiards. New York, March 28.—Willie Hoppe defeated George Slosson here last night for the world’s championship at eighteen-inch balk line billiards, one shot in, by 500 points to 392. In addition to retaining the cham- pionship trophy Hoppe won a side bet of $500 and the net gate receipts; which will amount to over $5,000. WILL TAKE OVER RAILROADS. Both Houses of Japanese Diet Adopt the Measure. Tokio, March 28.—The Dill for the nationalization of Japanese railways, as amended by the house of peers, was again presented to the house of tepresentatives yesterday, and after strong opposition was adopted. The amendments do not change its com- pulsory nature. The present session of the diet closed yesterday. THE MARKETS. ie) Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. Si. Paul, March 28. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 77 1-8@77 1-2 ern, 751-4 @ 76c; No. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 381-2@39e. Oats —No. 3 white, 29@291-2c. . Minneapolis, March 28.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 793-8c; No. 1 Northern, 78 7-8 No. 2 Northern, 773-8@ 775-8c; durum, 69@71c. Oats—No. 3 white, 29 1-4¢e. Duluth,. March 28. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 781-8c: No. 2 Northern, 761-8c; flax, $1.15 7-8; rye, 56c. Chicago, March 28.—Wheat—No. 2 red, 841-4@85 3-4c; No. 2 hard, 74@ 79¢c; No. 1 Northern, 78 3-4@82 3-4c; No. 2 Northern, 77@8ic. Corn—No. 2, 433-4@44ce. Oats—No. 2, 301-4 @ 30 1-2c. Milwaukee, March 28.—Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 801-2@8le; No. 2 North- ern, 77@79c. Rye — No. 1, 641-2¢. Barley—No. 2, 55¢. Oats—Standard, 32 1-2c. Sioux City, lowa, March 28.—Cattle— Beeves, $4 @ 5.75; cows, bulls and mixed, $3@4.50: stockers and feeders, $3@4.25; calves and yearlings, $3@4. Hogs—Bulk, $6.12@6.15. Chicago, March 28.—Beeves, $4 @ 6.30; stockers and feeders, $2.65@4.70; 6.35; stockers and feeders, $2.65@4.70; cows and heifers, $1.50@4.90. Hogs— Mixed and butchers, $6.25 @ 6.50; pulk, $6.40@6. Sheep, $3.80@6.10; lambs, $4.75@6.90. South St. Paul, March 28.—Cattle— Good to choice steers, $4.50 @ 5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $3@ 4.50; good to choice milch cows, $30@ 40. Hogs — Price range, $6.05@6.20; bulk, $6.10. | Sheep—Good to choice lambs, $6@6.50; fair to good, $4.50@ 5.75; yearling wethers, $5.25@6; good to choice ewes, $4.25@5. Two Miners Killed. Galena, Kan., March 28. — William Lamb and Jack Bees, miners in the Happy Rock Mining company’s mine near this city, were killed, and M. E. Trussell, superintendent of the mine, was fatally injured last night when a slab of rock weighing 100 tons fell | from the roof of the mine. Mother and Child Burned. Prestonburg, Ky., March 28.—Mrs. Thomas Marshall and her four-year- old child were burned to death yester day. LAID ON HADLEY =~ OIL TRUST LAWYERS SAY THERE HAS BEEN A LQT OF “GRAND-STANDING.” MISSOUR] HEARINGS ENDED SUBPOENA SERVER TELLS OF SELLING STORIES OF, PURSUIT OF MAGNATES. e New York, March 28.—The taking of testimony in this city in the pro- ceedings brought to oust from Mis- ° souri the Standard Oil Company of } Indiana, the Waters-Pierce Oil com- pany and the Republic Oil company, on the ground that they constitute a combination in restraint of trade, was ended yesterday. Attorney General Hadley of Missouri instructed Com- missjoner Sanborn, before whom the witnesses testified, to send a certified copy of the testimony to the supreme court of Missouri, where it will be- come a part of the record of the state’s case. John D. Was Slippery. Practically the last move Mr. Had- ley made was to introduce testimony showing the difficulties under which most of the witnesses who are in any way connected with the Standard Oil company were served. He put in record the fact that every effort had been made to secure the testimony of John D. Rockefeller, but none had suc- ceeded. He introduced copies of let- ters to attoraeys of the dard Oit requesting that officers of the com- pany accept service. The request ap- plied to John D. Rockefeller along with several others. Sensationalism Charged. During the examination of the sub- poena server, counsel for the defend- ant companies brought out that the man had received money from news- papers for stories of his experiences in trying to serve some of the Stand- ard Oil men. Counsel declared these facts were brought out, “to show there has been a lot of ‘grand-standing’ and advertising about this, and a lot of sensationalism.” “The only sensationalism there has been in this case has been the sensa- tional attempts of these witnes to evade service of subpoenas,” replied Attorney General Hadley. ye TRIBUTE TO GEN. WHEELER. Service Such as Is Accorded to Few in Military or Civil Life. Atlanta, Ga., March 28.—Uniting in a tribute to the memory of Gen. Jo- seph Wheeler, leader in two wars, his comrades and foes in the 60s and his followers in the war for Cuban free- dom, gathered here yesterday and joined in such a service as is accorded to few men in military or civil life. Roused to a pitch of enthusiasm by the words of Gen. Wheeler’s associ- ates in war and in peace, the old sol- diers stood in their places and cheered, waving hats and handker- chiefs, and refused to be quieted. Nearly 500 Confederate veterans gath- ered with a third of that number rep- resenting Northern armies. Both flags that Gen. Wheeler followed were wound together about the theater in which addresses were made. xen. Clement A. Evans spoke for the Uni- ted Confederate veterans and “Cor- poral” James Tanner spoke for the Grand Army of the Republic. 310 ARRESTS IN TEN YEARS. Chicago Woman Holds Record as Vic- tim of Law. Chicago, March 28.— Miss | Stella Frye, thirty-five years old, if you please, has been arrested 310 times in ten s. Her average is thirty-one tim a year, or one arrest every twelve d The charge in each of the 310 cases has been the same— vagrancy. Last night she was again arrested. Recently she was routed from her room in Washington boule- vard because the room rent was not paid. BLOODSHED AT CHURCH SOCIAL. Row Over Church Funds Is Fatal to Two. Bluefield, W. Va., March 28.—Blood- i shed and death concluded a social at : the M. E. chureh at Coaldale, near here, last night. One man was killed instantly, his wife was fatally wound- ed, part of her head being torn away , by a shotgun charge, and several oth- ers received serious bullet wounds. The tragedy grew out of a quarrel over church funds between two fac- tions in the congregation. Found Dead in the Snow. Anaconda, Mont., March 28.—John Gullans, a Finnish woodchopper em- ployed at Sutherland’s wood camp, was found dead in the snow near Warm Springs creek. It is not, known what caused his death and the coro- ner is making an investigation. Assaults Woman of Seventy. Anamosa, Iowa, March 28. — Jack Pizer was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for assault on a woman seventy years old. It was Pizer’s fourth conviction for such a crime. —_+}——