Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 21, 1906, Page 2

“Berald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. —— MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, - Boni has taken to absinthe, but will hardly deteriorate. Faint heart ne’er won fair lady nor did much of anything else. _ Morocco would greatly oblige a fa- tigued world by backing off the map. King Alfonso has gone to the Canaries—possibly to build himself a nest. Spring is here. This year’s hat boxes are availablo as steamer trunks when their original! mission has been fulfilled. In proof that it is becoming a truly western nation Russia reports a few sensational cases of bank looting. Unfortunately several of the re ports of the killing of the Georgia peach crop seem to have been true. No, Elvira, the statement that a nan in London paid $6,000 for an orchid is not a case of simplified spelling. Money is “easy” in London, as is natural in view of the near advent of the flood of gold-bearing’ American tourists. An eloping couple from Buffalo were married in an undertaker’s shop. They realized, doubtless, that marriage is a grave maiter. Two Chicago policemen went out r burglars and came back with a bird. Most Chicago burglars The wife of a missing man says she does not want to see him again. Need- less to add, there is good reason for dent of one of the Chicago The pres banks that failed loaned his cook $25,- 000. It was probably the only way he could get her to stay. If the magazine poet who writes: 1 was so content with my one ewe lamb My 1 went up in a joyful psalm, ever compiles a dictionary of rhymes it will be a bouncer. The indications at Craig-y-Nos are that Patti is going to make another farewell tour of the United States. Why not? She’s only 63. Do not pick up sample packages of headache powder that may happen to be thrown on your porch. hey may stop all your aches permanently. Down New Orleans way a man kill- ed himself in a nightmare. Those dripped absinthes in that town will make a man do almest anything. The editor who notes that Dr. Mary Walker “refuses to tell how old she is,” meant, of course, to say that she declines to say how young she is. Governor Pennypacker, they say, can speak six languages, so that he can give considerable variety to the ex- pression of his opinion of the newspa- pers. When a sartorial master like Ed- ward of England turns his imagination loose, we get results. Beside the royal blue what becomes of the Quaker gray? Olga Nethersole announces that she will quit the stage in eight years, when she will be—that is to say, when she will be eight years older than she is now. If the people who keep diaries are wise, they never put into them the things that would make them most in- teresting to other people in the years to come. When the airship, the automobile and the wireless telegraph come at it all at once, the North Pole may as well surrender to the age and the in- ventions. That declaration of principles by the Fonetic Spelling association of Kolum- bia university looks like a page filched from Josh Billings. But it was a joak with him. Jacob H. Schiff, the New York bank- er, has been decorated by the emperor of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun. Japan evidently isn’t through borrowing money. It develops that the Russian people have been given neither a constitution or a bill of rights, after all. The im- perial manifesto is apparently a full brother to the gold brick. If we ever should have absolutely fonetic spelling, a good many people would be surprised to discover that they have never learned how to pro- nounce the English language. Now it will be just like some mem- ber of the Association of American Humorists to remark that the excite- ment during Bernhardt’s circus ap- pearance in Texas was in tents. A correspondent of the Boston Transcript wants the spelling re formers to spell pants p-a-n-c. We are beginning to fear that this spelling reform business may, unless it is soon stopped, cause Boston to be engulfed in a wave of immorality. At any rate, this is the first time Boston has ever admitted that there are pants. IN STRIKE RIOT DEPUTIES AND STRIKING MINERS CLASH NEAR JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA. LYNCHERS ARE 10 BE PUNISHED FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH BEING LEADERS OF THE MOB ARE ARRESTED. Johnstown, Pa., April 18. — Three men have been shot dead; a boy fatal- ly wounded dnd a mining engineer, Eugene Delaney, taken to the hospital in a serious condition as a result of a riot at Windber among the striking coal miners last night. The place is in a state of terror, Sheriff Bagley has been summoned and an appeal has been made to Gov. Pennypacker for troops. There are several others of the rioters who have sustained slight injuries. The dead men and most of the injured are foreigners and their names cannot be obtained. The bodies are lying in the street where they fell, the strikers refusing to allow the undertakers to remove them. Much Liquor Used. The foreign element had beer cele- brating Easter Monday in the mining section and much liquor had been used. The streets were thronged all day with a boisterous crowd, but no sign of trouble appeared until last night. A body of strikers were assembled in front of the Windber jail discussing the mass meeting that had been held during the afternoon and which had been addressed by three Catholic priests. The discussion grew into argument and soon there was a free- for-all-fight. A Officers Open Fire. Deputies that had been sworn in when the strike in the coal mines was ‘first inaugurated, made their appear- ance and a number of arrests were made. All of the arrested men were union men, and their colleagues set up a cry that they were being discrim- inated against and were imposed upon. The arrested men were marched to the lockup door, but there a mob had formed and an attempt was made to take the men from the officers. Forced back from the jail door the mob, grow- ing more violend every minute, threat- ened the deputies until the officers fired. The mob hesitated, apparently not expecting the deputies would re- sort to firearms. Wild Cries of Anger. When the smoke had cleared away and the victims of the shots were viewed by the crowd, there were cries of anger and soon the miners that were armed returned the shots of the deputies. The firing ceased almost as soon as it began, however, and the crowd filed away from the jail. GRAND JURY WILL INDICT. Gevernor Offers Reward for Convic- tion of Members of Mob. Springfield, Mo., April 18. — Four men are now under arrest here charged with being leaders in the mob that broke into the county jail Satur- day night and lynched three negroes. Two of the alleged mob leaders are in jail and two have been released on bond. Charles Cannefax and Oney Calfry were the first men arrested. Cannefax has been a pool room pro- prietor, but is at present employed in the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad yards. Grand Jury Takes Hold. The grand jury will meet to-day espetially to indict those who were in the mob of lynchers. | Up to noon yesterday men who had been in the mob made no secret of it. They stood upon the street corners and joked each other about it, but when word came that Gov. Folk had offered $300 reward for the conviction of any member of the mob, and when Roscoe Patterson, prosecuting attor- ney, declared openly that he intended to. work for the arrest and conviction of every man concerned in the lynch- ing there was uneasiness. At noon it became known that twenty-five war- rants charging murder in the first de- gree were in the hands of the sheriff. After the arrests the lynchers became alarmed and left the streets. Kills Negro Assailant, Ralph Burns, sixteen years old, shot and killed one of two negroes who at- tacked him in this city last night while he was escorting a young lady home from a party. The negroes accosted him at the gate of the young lady’s home and one of the negroes fired two shots from a revolver at him, but nei- ther took effect. Burns immediately fired four shots at the negroes, killing one of them, but the other escaped. UPSETS A WOMAN’S WILL. Hired Man and“Church of Christ” Are Deprived of Property. Kansas City, April 18-—A jury here yesterday returned a verdict annulling a will of Mrs. Sallie J. Davenport, a pi- oneer, bequeathing property valued at $50,000 to her hired man, William Van Wagener, and to the “Church of Christ,” a local offshoot of the Christian church. Undue influence was charged by a nephew of the woman, who was a widow and left no children. PRESIDENT DELIVERS ADDRESS AT CORNER STONE Ex. ERCISES, Washington, April 17.—With all Ma- sonic ceremonies the corner stone of the $4,000,000 office building of the house of representatives was laid Sat- urday. The president, his cabinet, so- cial, official and diplomatic Washing- ton witnessed the ceremonies and then listened to the president’s speech on “The Man With the Muck Rake.” Following are some of the most sig- nificant statements in the speech: There should be a relentless expos- ure of and an attack upon every evil man, whether in politics, in business or in social life. ‘ The liar is no whit better than the thief. Some people are sincerely incapable of understanding that to denounce mud-slinging does not mean an in- dorsement of whitewashing, My plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing expose of, the politician who betrays his trust, the big business man who made his for- tune in an illegitimate or corrupt way. The men with the muck rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only when they know when to stop raking the muck. Reform, the reform that counts, is that which comes through steady, con- tinuous growth; violent emotionalism leads to exhaustion. No amount of charity in spending fortunes in any way compensates for misconduct in making them. The danger is not really from cor- rupt corporations; it springs from the corruption itself. The foundation stone of national life is and ever must be the high individu- al character of the average citizen. The ceremony of laying the corner stone was conducted by W. A. Brown, grand master of masons of the District of Columbia. FOUR KILLED IN FIRE PANIC, Boy’s Prank Transforms Easter Fes- tival Into a Tragedy. Chicago, April 17.—During a panic which followed a false cry of fire Sat- urday night while 400 persons were participating in the Easter eve services in St. Ludamilla’s Roman Catholic church, three children and one woman were killed and a score of others in- jured, several seriously and one per- haps fatally. The majority of the worshippers were women and children and in a few minutes all were in a tangled mass fighting to escape from the supposed danger. Many jumped through the windows, but the greater portion crowded to the central aisle. « The extra weight proved too much for the floor and some of the beams supporting it broke. The cracking of the timbers increased the fright and every one in the place became panic- stricken, men, women and children fighting desperately in an effort to reach the outside. The women and children suffered the most in the struggle, and when the church was cleared three children were found dead in the aisles and one woman was s0 badly hurt that she died while being removed to the hospital. DESTROY DOWIE’S PORTRAITS. Hardest Blow He Has Received—Ami- cable Adjustment Expected. Chicago, April 17—General Overseer Voliva yesterday produced the first of his batch of documentary evidence with which he hopes to confound John Alexander Dowie and his followers who are endeavoring to regain control of Zion City. The instrument is a let- ter dated April 13, 1904, and addressed to Dowie at Zurich, Switzerland. It is signed by Overseers Speicher, Bernard and Barnes. In it they stated that from their examination of the affairs of the colony it was evident that Dowie had overdrawn his accounts at the bank in Zion City, that he had re- ceived deposits when it was known that the bank was insolvent, and that he had used funds otherwise than in accordance with the representations made by the stock contracts and cer- tificates and that proof of the appro- priation of such large sums for his own personal use and for ends out- side of the industries named would be tantamount to a conviction of embez- ziement in any court of law. SF ES A THUMB PULLED OFF. Workman's Glove Is Caught by Circu- lar Saw. Waterloo, Iowa, April 17. — Frank Sproul, seventeen years old, had his thumb torn off while working at an oi] lathe in the Iowa Dairy Separator company’s shop. Sproul was using a circular saw on the lathe and wore a heavy glove. The glove caught in the teeth of the saw and before Sproul could release it bis right thumb had been jerked off. MANAGE BRITISH; PRISONS. Bocth Believes He Can Do It Better Than the Government. London, April 17.—With a view to finally taking over all the prisons, asylums,and workhouses in the United Kingdom, Bramwell Booth, son of the head of the Salvation Army, has of- fered to take control of the institu- tions of any city for three years as an experiment, believing that the Salva- PATROL STREET FEAR THAT ANOTHER OUTBREAK WILL OCCUR AT WINDBER, PENNSYLVANIA, WITTE HAS THE UPPER HAND |REVOLUTIONISTS CRESTFALLEN OVER SUCCESS OF NEGO- TIATIONS. Johnstown, Pa., April 19—Windber’s streets, bristling with bayonets of the state constabulary, is in marked con- trast to Monday night’s chaotic con- ditions. There is still a feeling that there will be another outbreak to-day when the funerals of the riot victims are to be Held. It needs but a petty quarrel between the strikers and non- union men to’ plunge the town again into revelry and lawlessness. The men arrested Monday night were transferred to the county jail at Somerset without incident. Last night all who went in or out of the town had to pass the scrutiny of the state constabulary’s sentinels. No saloons are open. These will re- main closed until danger of further outbreaks is passed. From other fields no reports of violence are made. Operators Answer Miners. New York, April 19—A subcommit- tee of presidents of the anthracite coal carrying railroads and mine operators met here yesterday and drew up a let- ter to President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America, in which the operators again declare that there is nothing to arbitrate except the question whether there shall be any arbitration. This reply is made in re- sponse to President Mitchell’s recent amended proposition of arbitration. The operators do not, however, refuse point blank to accept Mr. Mitchell’s latest plan. Miners in Session. Indianapolis, April 19.—The interna- jtional executive board of the United Mine Workers of America began a spe- cial session here yesterday to consider the strike situation in the bituminous districts. President Mitchell said he had received no reply from the anthra- cite operators to his last proposition. RUSSIA GETS A FOREIGN LOAN. \Pays Ruinous Rates of Interest for a Loan of $450,000,000. St. Petersburg, April 19. — The suc- cessful negotiation of a foreign loan of $450,000,000, ruinous as are the rates which Russia is obliged to pay for the money, extricates the govern- ment from much of its embarrassment and enables it to clear the debts and furnish the cash necessary to keep the treasury above water for at least two years. Premier Witte is greatly en- couraged by the outlook. The Associated Press is in a posi- tion to confirm the report that Pre- mier Witte now has definitely got the upper hand of Minister of the Interior Durnovo. The downfall of the latter is a matter of only days, or weeks at most, as Emperor Nicholas has prom- ised to dismiss him before parliament meets. The opposition, especially the revo- lutionists, are crestfallen over the de- cision of foreign bankers to come to the government's rescue. They be- lieve it may prove a severe blow to the entire Liberal movement. Experi- ence has taught them that the govern- ment is never conciliatoty except when it is driven into a corner. With the necessity of consulting the parlia- ment in order to secure money re- moved the government would be in a position to continue in the path of re- action ‘if it so chooses. NEW STOCK IS ALL SOLD. Red Wing Hat Company Holds Annual Meeting. Red Wing, Minn., April 19.—At the annual meeting of the Red Wing Hat Manufacturing company it was an- nounced that practically the entire new issue of $25,000 preferred stock had been subscribed for by present stockholders. A Minneapolis man of- fered to take the entire issue if he could get it. The output of the factory increased 50 per cent last year. Can’t Escape Insane Asylum. Ashland, Wis., April 19.—William G. French, who killed A: G. Steele here in 1891, and who, after a seven-years’ fight in the courts, finally was sen- tenced to serve seventeen years in Waupun, and afterward was taken to the insane asylum at Oshkosh for treatment, has been placed in the Iowa county insane asylum as incura- ple. French’s term expired in Febru- ary and he asked fer an examination as to his sanity. A hearing was grant- ed him with the result that the jury found him. insane. He probably will end his days in the asylum. lowa Republican Convention. © Des Moines, April 19.—The Repub- lican state central committee yester- day issued a call for the state con- {vention to be held at Des Moines Aug. j1. Both the Cummins and Perkins committees agreed on Des Moines. Painters Out on Strike. Superior, Wis., April 19.—The paint- ers and decorators went out on 4 strike for higher wages yesterday. CRASH SINKS TWO VESSELS ; COLLISION IN SOO PASSAGE SENDS STEEL STEAMERS TO BOTTOM. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., April 18. — The most disastrous marine collision in many years in the Soo passage oc- curred yesterday when the steel steamers Saxona and Eugene Zimmer- man came together at the foot of the dyke. The Saxona was just making the turn at that point when she col- lided with the Zimmerman, striking the latter twenty feet back of the bow on the port side, crushing through the steel sides as far as the pilot house and twisting the stem badly. The Zimmerman sank at once in twenty feet of water on the Canadian side of the river. The crew is safe. The Saxona continued on down the river as far as Little Mud lake, where she filled and sank on the west side of the river. Before going to the bottom the Sax- ona swung around and now lies with her bow pointing up stream. The channel is not blocked by the acci- dent. The Saxona was bound down from Duluth with a valuable cargo of flaxseed. The Zimmerman was taking a load of coal to Lake Superior. Both steamers are among the high- est class of lake craft and the loss to the insurance companies having risks on hulls and cargoes will be heavy. The Zimmerman was on her first trip, having left the shipyard a few weeks agu. SEND ULTIMATUM TO DOWIE, Voliva Proposes That the Whole Dis- pute Be Left to Arbitration. Chicago, April 18—Genera! Overseer Voliva and his followers yesterday presented an ultimatum to John Alex- ander Dowie at a conference of the op- posing forces. Through their attorney, Jacob Newman, the following terms have been proposed: ongress.; Resume of the Week’s Proceedings. Thursday. Washington, April 13. — After a brief speech by Mr. Latimer in sup- port of the house railroad rate bill Mr. Foraker took the floor on the measure and consumed practically all the remainder of the day session of the senate. He spent some time in the discussion of some amendments he had suggested to the bill and then entered upon the consideration of the entire question of railroad rate regulation, urging again the unconstitutionality of the pending bill from various points. of view. The feature of yesterday’s proceed- ings in the house of representatives was the speech made by Mr. Cockran (N. Y.), who, under an agreement made on a previous day, was given an hour to elucidate the subject of “gen- eral debate” on appropriation bills. Friday. Washington, April 14.—Owing to the fact that none of its members were prepared to speak on the railroad rate bill that measure was temporarily laid aside in the senate yesterday, per- mitting the devotion of the entire time to the consideration of other pills on the calendar. Of these more than 300 were passed, most of them being pri- vate pension bills. In the house the postoffice appropria- tion bill was completed after a roll call on the Southern fast mail subsidy provision, which was returned. Monday. Washington, April 17—A speech on the railroad rate bill by Mr. Heyburn of Idaho in advocacy of his court re- view amendment led to more than two hours’ technical debate in the senate yesterday. Mr. Tillman of South Car- olina, at the opening of the session, of- fered a resolutién providing for an in- quiry by the committee on finance of contributions by national banks to campaign committees. Yesterday was “suspension day” in the house and a number of important “You are to appoint a committee of four or eight members by which this entire matter is to be settled. Two members of this committee shall be appointed by the advocates of the cause of Dowie, two shall represent Voliva. In case that the committee shall consist of eight members, each side will have the appointment of four. Should there be a disagreement in either case a fifth or ninth commit- teeman shall be appointed by General Overseer Voliva. It is further pro- vided that all property belonging to the Christian Catholic church shall be transferred to this board of arbitration and that their judgment as to whether Voliva or Dowie shall control the same will be final.” The ultimatum was taken under ad- visement by Dowie and his advisors. Attorney Emil C. Wetten, repregent- ing Dowie’s interests, had the follow- ing to say: “John Alexander Dowie will never consent to a sacrifice of the ecclesi- astical power attendant to Zion City.” CELL FOR J. HAM LEWIS. Chicago Lawyer Found in Contempt of Court. Springfield, ll., April 18. — James Hamilton Lewis, corporation counsel of Chicago, was sentenced yesterday to serve a sentence of sixty days in the Sangamon county jail for contempt of court. The sentence was imposed by Judge Humphrey of the federal court. The contempt for which Mr. Lewis stands in the shadow of impris- onment consists of defiance of the court in bringing a suit in violation of the court’s injunction. He further de- clared Judge Humphrey had exceeded his jurisdiction in granting the injunc- tion, and told him so to his face in open court. The litigation that ended so disastrously for the Chicago cor- poration counsel is known ag the Alton water works case. The sentence is to be remitted on condition that Col. Lewis dismiss within five days the civil suit he instituted in Madison county, Tll., in violation of the injunc- tion of Humphrey’s court. FLOOD OF HUMANITY. Immigration Swamps Ellis Island. New York, April 18—The flood tide of spring immigration has set in with full foree and yesterday there were thirteen great liners in port with 17,- 887 future citizens to be put through the winnowing machinery at Ellis isl- and., Other ships are expected soon, and it is believed that by the end of the week all records will be broken when fully 45,000 aliens will have been met by the inspection officials. The total immigration to the United States from all countries during the month of March, according to a state- ment issued by the immigration bu- reau, was 133,245, or an increase of 70 per cent over March, 1905. Spring Milwaukee Man Found Dead. St. Louis, April 18.—P. B. Thomp- son, registering from Milwaukee, was found dead in his room at the Jeffer- son hotel. He was connected with a suspender company of Philadelphia. measures were passed, notably among them being the bill permitting the withdrawal from bond, tax free, of do- mestic alcohol when rendered unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal uses by mixture with suitable denaturing ma- terials, the bill amending the national trade mark law, and the bill forbidding the importation and carriage into in- terstate commerce of falsely stamped articles of gold, ete. Thursday. Washington, April 18.—Preceding the taking up of the railway rate bill in the senate yesterday Mr. Tillman called up his resolution directing the senate committee on finance to inves- tigate campaigu contributions by the national banks. After he had spoken on it at length the resolution was re- ferred to the committee. Mr. Foster spoke for almost three hours on the rate bill, contending tor the validity of the proposed lezisla- tion. To clear the legislative decks for pending money bills for the support of the government the house yesterday worked uninterruptedly from 11:5 to 5 o’clock. In that time eleven biiis were passed under suspension of the rules, all sections of the country being interested in the legislation enacted PROBE SINKS DEEP. Searching Investigation of Northwest- ern Mutual Loans. Milwaukee, April 19.—Inquiry into the investments of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company was the principal feature of the examina- tion by the Wisconsin legislative committee yesterday. From the tenor of the questions it was evident that the committee desires to bring out the point that a more general investment in farm mortgages would yield a larg- er income to the company than a pol-' icy of making loans on large metro- politan property and \the holding of large amounts of railway and munici- pal bonds. President Palmer testified that the bond holdings of the company, both railway and municipal—munici- pal being used as a general term to in clude city, county and school bonds— were, in round numbers, $80,000,000. The annual income of the company, Mr. Palmer declared, was 4.75 per cent on all investments, a decrease of 2.15 per cent in a period of twenty years. HOLD-UP MAN SENT uP Assailant of M. A. Stevens of the Mill! City Gets Five Years Yankton, S. D., April 19.—Harry A. Jones, charged with robbery in the first degree on complaint of M. A. Stevens of Minneapolis, was sentenced to five years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Jones pleaded guilty to being an accomplice, and asked for leniency on account of his previous good record. The light sentence is an indication of the disposition of the judge to give the young man a chance to reform. WILL CALL FOR COMPLAINTS. Washington, April 19.—The subcom- mittee of the senate committee on postoffices and post roads, appointed His death was from a natural cause. Prominent Man a Suicide. ; St. Louis, April 18. — Samuel T., Rathel, one of the best known real es- | ‘tate dealers and auctioneers in St. | ;and threaten to involve other unions j Louis, killed himself by shooting yes-! tion Army can manage them more suc- ke is hi his family! cessfully and cheaper than the govern at the Head of the Lakes. The strike terday at his home while bis family ment. is causing much inconvenience. j was at breakfast. to investigate protests against the confirmation of Benjamin F. Barnes to. be postmaster at Washington, has de- termined not to undertake a formal in- vestigation. The subcommittee wil] hear such persons as desire to appear and will report to the full committee, and if not instructed to go further will permit the controversy to rest.