Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 4, 1906, Page 6

herald: Review. By C. E. KILEY. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, - CALL FOR HARVEST HANDS HELP NEEDED TO HARVEST THE CROPS IN NORTH DAKOTA AND MINNESOTA, St. Paul, Ang. 1—The ananal call for harvest hands is heginning to be raised, and this season there are indi- cations that the need will be more urgent than ever. Within the next sixty days 20,000 to 30,000 men will be in demand along Minnesota and North Dakota points tributary to the Great Northern system. It ts the old cry, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.” Reports received from agents show tbat there is a scarcity of men at all points on the system in the two states mentioned. There is+an imperative and immediate demand for 500 men at Ripon, while there is a call for 250 at Sharon. Agents of the Great North- ern report the following demands for hands: St. Vincent, 200; Lawton, 500; Edmore, 200; Calvin, 200. These are only a few instances of the many calls that have been received, The demands at the other points in Min- nesota and North Dakota, along the Great Northern, are in about the same proportion as those mentioned. The urgent cry for help indicates at the yield of grain along the Great Northern promises to be excep- tionally heay. Weather conditions have been generallly. favorable. Re- ports received from agents in Minne- sota and North Dakota show that the conditions of crops are 10 to 75 per cent better than last year. PROLOW ESCAPES HANGMAN. Pardon Board Commutes Sentence to Life Imprisonment. St. Paul, Aug. 1—Henry Prolow, convicted of the murder of Charles F. Zemke, a Goodhue village! saloonkeep- er, will ape the hangman's noose. Prolow secured a commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment from the pardon board yesterday afternoon, after an exhaustive argu- iment by his attorney. His wife and child, also his mother and other relatives, waited on the board and pleaded for Prolow’s life. The board probably was influenced more than anything else by a letter from Judge Elliot of the supreme court stating that, while the death sentence legally justified, there were ex- ircumstances which would board in exercising clem- the justify ency DEMAND $3.50 A DAY. Harvest Hands Take/ Full Advantage of Scarcity of Labor, S. D., Aug. 1—Binders and are at work in the wheat of this section in earnest under most favorable weather conditions. The yield will be up te expectations d the quality good. The scarcity of labor is a hardship, the traveling har- hands demanding in some in- 50 a day and refusing to hey get it. Miller, he fielc vest HAYFIELD MAN ROBBED. Burglars Enter O. C. Bergan’s Home and Take $115. Hayfield, Minn., Aug. 1—The resi- of O. C. Bergan was entered by and about $115 taken from ockets while he slept. Nothing else was disturbed. There is no evidence of where entrance to the house was made, but it is supposed to have been through the cellar. Other i awakened by strange There is no clue. MUST PAY FOR CUT TIMBER. Montana Man Is Sued by the Federal Government, n, Mont., Aug. 1—The jury in ‘of the United States aga , to recover the value of tim- ber alleged t have been illegally cut on government land, returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $240, or about one-third of that sued for, Lynching Story Unfounded. s Falls, Minn., so-called lynching case against the Irien boys and a boy named Wolf has come to trial in the justice court here, and the boys have been given a sus- pended sentence. The case is likely to be dropped. The evidence indicat-: ed that the affair was merely a boyish prank, and the “victim,” a boy named La Plante, was badly frightened. The boys stated that they had no idea of anything in the lynching line and merely got a halter over his head with the intention of leading him around the pasturi Fr Fire Loss About $270,000, Buffaio, N. Y., Aug. 1—The plant of Montgomery Bros. & Co.'s planing mill and box factory on Court street was partially destroyed by fire early yesterday, causing a loss estimated at’ $170,000. The Pierce Automobile com-! pany occupied the top floor, where they manufactured the wooden frames | for their cars. They estimate their loss at $100,000. Child Burned to Death, Baraboo, Wis., Aug. 1—The barn of E. J. Rooney was set on fire by his lit- tle son, and his sister, aged two, was burned to death. The mother was se- verely burned in ré scuing the phil: which eqused the fir Fresh Washington Notes. The accident bulletin which has just been issued by the interstate com- merce commission for the three months ending March 31, 1906, shows the total number of casualties to pas- sengers and employes to be 18,296 —1,126 killed and 17,170 injured. The headwaters of the Mississippi river is to be remembered by having its name attached to one of the cut: ters of the United States revenue cut- ter service. The famous old vessel Bancroft, recently turned over to the cutter service by the navy, was ac- cepted and renamed the Itasca. American dairy and stock farms are needed in the Panama canal zone, ac- cording to a report from Consul J. C. Kellogg to the bureau of manufactur- ers. Milk is sold from 20 to 30 cents gold per quart and is usually watered before it reaches the consumer, and, poor as it is, it does not supply the de- mand. Casualty List. A fire at Suisun, Cal., caused a loss of $100,000. Five entire blocks, in- cluding twenty residences and eight business plants, were destroyed. The citizens estimate the earth- quake loss in Socorro, N. M., at $2,- 000 at the outside. Since July 2 there have been over 100 slight tremors. By the capsizing of a sailing skiff at Portsmouth, R. I., Mr. and Mrs. Jo- seph Anthony of Portsmouth and their daughter, aged four years, were drowned. John Cretzmeyer, the son of a farm- er living near Waverly, Iowa, was butted into a barbed wire fence by a heifer which he had been petting and was seriously injured. R. C. Wilson of Mattoon, Ill, was killed, Nellie Orland fatally injured, and Miss Belle Matthews dangerously hurt when a buggy in which they were riding was struck by an Illinois Cen- tral freight engine near Decatur, Ill. The mills of the Montana Zinc com- pany, a New York corporation at Butte, were destroyed by a fire that started from a defective electric wire. The plant was in the old silver mill of the Alice Mining company, the oldest mill of the kind standing in the state. Mrs. Mary Way, a widow about fifty years old, residing near What Cheer, Iowa, arose at 5 o’clock one morning recently while she was still asleep, poured gasoline in the kitchen cook stove and lighted it. The result was an explosion which enveloped the wo- man in flames and burned her so bad- ly that her recovery is doubtful. Crimes and Criminals. Sixteen indictments on charges of restraint of trade in the matter of advancing the price of ice were ‘re- turned at Cincinnati by the grand jury. Ten individuals and five firms were indicted. Charles D. Schmidt, an dgsliant in- spector for the Helena Water Works company, shot and killed his wife and tried to kill himself with a shotgun. Jealousy was the cause. Fred S. Broberg, a prominent com- mission broker of Monmouth, III., who disappeared from there on account, it is said, of a $10,000 shortage in his accounts, committed suicide by shoot- ing himself through the head on Lake Calumet, near Chicago. Mrs. Agnes Bridant died suddenly in her apartments in the Bristol build- ing in Toronto, Can., it is alleged from the effects of drugs. Her hus- band, Edmund Bridant, a barber, and Mrs. Lillian Miller have been arrest- ed and charged with the murder. Patrick Woods, a wagonmaker at Alpha, Mo., was killed by his son Christopher. The old man was intox- icated, and, going to the home of the son, threatened the inmates with a handax. The son seized a club and beat his father to death. Racine and Milwaukee police are hot on the trail of a curious party of elopers from Racine. ‘Mrs. Ignatz Lowendoski of that city fled with her four children in company, it is alleged, with Stephen Yorame, who had been boarding at her home. Her husband came home from work to find that the whole party had disappeared. As a result of the police investiga- tion into the alleged wire tapping at Aug. 1—The | the Merchants’ exchange in St. Louis, another arrest has been made. Thom- as P. Lahey, employed by a_ local brokerage firm, was arrested on a warrant charging meddling with a tel- egraph line and was released on bond. Neither Lahey nor the police would discuss the arrest. Seven suits were filed ‘in the feder- al court at Omaha by District Attor- ney Gans against ranchmen in the western part of the state to compel them to remove unlawful fences from the public domain. They are alleged to have a total of 293,000 acres illegal- ly inclosed. Several of the defend ants are already under indictment in connection with alleged land frauds. George Miller, an employe of the Keelch & Sparks Carnival company, exhibiting in Leon, Iowa, was placed ; under arrest, charged with abducting pretty Ollie Fletcher, the sixteen-year- , Old adughter of Aaron Fletcher, and was taken to Gallatin, Mo., where he was lodged in jail. Esther Mitchell and Mrs. Maud Cref- field, charged jointly with murder in the first degree for the killing of Geo. Mitchell, were arraigned before RESUME OF THE NEWS Reliable————Brrief Foreign Notes. © The Stromboli volcano, after quiet-. ing down, has again become violently active. The population of the island: of Stromboli is most excited. Unofficial advices from Senegambia, West Africa, announce that a severe fight has taken place between native ‘and French troops. The latter lost fifteen men killed and two officers wounded. Ferdinand Saar, the author and member of the upper house of the Aus- trian reichsrath, shot and killed him- self at his residence in Dobling, a sub- | urb of Vienna. He had been suffering J with nervous prostration. Queen Wilhelmina was taken ill one night last week. A premature deliv- ery followed, causing gloom through- out Holland. It was announced that the expectation of‘ an heir to the throne at this time will not be real- ized. The London newspapers report that a@ number of Chicago meat packers contemplate opening packing houses and warehouses in that country. They add that sites in Lancashire and Lon- don are being inspected, but no names are mentioned. The Tokio correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph sends the fol- lowing: The report that Gen. Stoes- sel has been sentenced to death has shocked the public sentiment of Japan. Military opinion ffom the highest to the lowest, conscientiously believes the verdict wrong. August Rosenberg, formerly of Seat- tle, Wash., who was arrested at Al- tona, Prussia, on July 3 on the charge of being engaged in an anarchist con- spiracy, has been released. The judge who investigated the case decided that the testimony against the prisoner ‘was inadequate and said that no sus- picion remained in the minds of the ‘authorities against him. Domestic. William Rockefeller returned from Europe a few days ago by way of Que- bec. His health is rather better than when he went away. He is at present at his place at Tarrytown, N. Y. In order that she should not marry the man of her choice the mother of Anna Kline of Des Moines assisted by her son-in-law, R. A. Hodges, kid- napped the girl and spirited her away. The national convention of the Lu- theran synod of Ohio, Indiana and IIl- Mnois voted in favor of establishing a Lutheran college in Washington state. There is at present no polees. west of St. Paul. Twenty-five girls employed in the shirtwaist factory of Putelman Bros., & Fagan in Philadelphia went on strike because of the presence among the workers of employes distasteful to a majority of the girls. The lower house of the Georgia leg- islature has passed, by a vote of 132 to 15, the Boykin anti-bucket shop bill, which prohibits all dealers in futures on margins and will close all bucket shops, exchanges, etc., in the state. The senate is expected to pass the bill. The Mount Helena miners’ union at Helena, Mont., has expelled Alex Fair- grove, president of the State Federa- tion , of Labor, from membership. Charges were made against Fairgrove that he used his position to fight, the Western Federation of Min- ers, of which the Helena union is a part. Practically unwitnessed, the great- est sporting event of the year oc- curred at the Bronx zoological park in New York, when two great bison bulls locked horns in the dark and fog and fought roaring. At the end one went down, dying, and the other, bellowing a weak triumph, dropped gasping beside him. Several people who assisted Cor- poral James Wanner, commander-in- chief of the G. A. R., when his wife was killed at Helena in an automobile accident, have received letters from him expressing his gratitude. Several women who hurried to Mrs. Tanner’s relief and remained with her till she died have received substantial checks along with grateful letters. The Montana state board of equal- ization raised the valuation of th! Montana railroads for assessment pur- poses 121-2 per cent. This increases main lines of Northern Pacific, Ore- gon Short Line, Montana Central and Butte, Anaconda & Pacific from $14,- 432 per mile to $16,236. The Great Northern was increased from $14,396 to $16,195.50. At a meeting of the Philadelphia board of health announcement was made that twenty slaughtering houses recently condemned as unsanitary had closed up permanently. Sixteen other establishments were improved by or- der of the board and the owner of one slaughtering house who refused to obey the mandate to improve his plant was ordered prosecuted. The existence of yellow fever in Ceiba, Spanish Honduras, was an- nounced to the Louisiana ssate board of health by Surgeon General Wyman of the United States’ marine hospital service. All passenger traffic be ‘tween New Orleans and Ceiba was ‘stopped thirty days ago by quarantine ‘order of the state board. Chief of Police Purdy of East St. Louis, ‘who was officially ousted from (peng; RUSSIAN FORT IS SCENE OF BLOODY MUTINY REBELS SEIZE GREAT SVEABORG FORTRESS AND TURN GUNS ON LOYAL TROOPS. STORMED BY ARMY AND NAVY MUTINOUS SOLDIERS HOLD VERY STRONG POSITIONS AFTER DESPERATE BATTLE. BIG = MILITARY CONSPIRACY —— PLOT FOR SIMULTANEOUS CAP- TURE OF RUSSIA’S THREE GREATEST FORTS. St. Petersburg, Aug. 1—No report of the suspension of the great revolt of the garrison at Sveaborg fortress, “the Gibraltar of the North,” has been received in St. Petersburg up to this hour. The secondary uprising among the marines and troops at Skatudden bar- racks, on the peninsula communicat- ing with the main land, was crushed yesterday with loyal troops after heavy fighting, in which nine cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats partici- pated. Mutineers in Full Control. A later dispatch says that Sveaborg is entirely in the hands of the muti- neers. who now have in their posses- sion every kind of armament. Horrible scenes occurred during Jast night. when the fierce fighting was continued. The heaviest artillery was used during the conflict Rebels Hold Strong Positions. The firing on the islands and from the fortress has ceased, and in spite of the fact that the occupation of the entire water front by Cossacks pre- vents the obtaining of positive news. it is understood at Helsingfors that the mutinous artillerymen and sap- pers still are holding their positions. The outlying islands and the fortress appear to be in their possession, and they practically have all the machine guns, guick firers and movable artil- lery of the fortress. Gen. Laiming, the commandant of the fortress, is holding the main fort on Commander island with loyal in- fantry. A general strike was declared in Helsingfors by the socialist workmen yesterday. All factories have been closed. Communication Cut Off. The last direct dispatch from the correspondent of the Associated Press, which has just arrived here, was eleven hours en route from Helsing- fors. The correspondent said that the “Red guard,” the armed socialist Ie- gion, was contemplating an armed uprising to release the prisoners captured in the Skatudden barracks. Owing to the cutting of the tele- graph wires by the flying expédition of the “Red guard,” which destroyed the railroad at Riihioaki, the Assoctated Press is receiving the freshest news of the mutiny by the roundabout means of telephoning to Viborg and telegraphing from there to St. Peters- burg. This entails a delay of several hours. Fortresses Open Fire. The military authorities received a telegram from Helsingfors this morn- ing from Maj. Gen. Laiming, an- nouncing that the fortresses and artil- lery had opened fire on Commander island. The insurgents seized artil- lery, all the machine guns and took possession of one of the islands. Some of the telegraph wires have been cut. Maj. Gen. Laiming added that he himself was on Commander island with four companies of the garrison and two gompanies of sharpshooters sent from Helsingfors. He does not give the number of casualties. is Extremely: Critical. Premier Stolypin also-has received frequent messages eoncerning the mu- tiny. He told a caller that the situation is critical to an extreme degree. Almost the entire fortress is in the hands of the insurgents, and there are compar- atively few loyal troops in Helsing: fors. Gigantic Conspiracy. Helsingfors Aug. 1—A gigantic mil- itary conspiracy, aiming at the simul- taneous capture of Russia’s threo great sea fortresses, Cronstadt, Se- bastopol and Sveaborg, and arranged by the Revolutionary Military league, was prematurely sprung here last night by an attempt to arrest mem. bers of a company of sappers who had mutinied on account of the death of one of their comrades, alleged to have been due te ill treatment. The garrison of the fortress at Syeaborg flamed instantly into revolt. All the artillerymen and sappers were involv- ed. Only four companies of infantry remained loyal. ‘i Fight All Night, The mutineers seized forty machine guns and practically all the quick firers and light artillery in the is ress, but even with this aid they unable to hold the main fort ati | civitian revolutionaries seized the marine barracks on Skatudden island, hoisted the red flag and were joined by all the marines. Nine cruisers, tor- pedo boats and destroyers lying in the harbor opened. fire on the barracks. This fire was answered from the | third- story windows of the barracks with machine guns and rifles. Too Hot for War Ships. The torpedo hoats and destroyers which were lying closer to the shore were subjected to such a hot fire from the barracks that their crews were driven below decks. They finally steamed out and joined in the bom- bardment with the cruisers. The sea attack was in co-operation with at- tacks by Cossacks and infantry from the land side. Finally, towards even- ing, the firing ceased and the authori- ties announced that the barracks had been captured. The exact situatian at Sveaborg is not known. Rumors are in circulation that the entire fortress has now fallen into the hands of ihe insurgents, but they lack confirmation. It is believed that the cessation of fighting is but a prelude to the renewal of the battle. Is Up to the Emperor. St. Petersburg, Aug. 1.—‘“All now depends upon the emperor,” was the answer given by Count Heyden last night to a question by the Associated Press as to whether he, Prince Nicho- las Lvoff and Alexander Guchkoff are members of the Stolypin cabinet. “Our negotiations with Premier Stolypin have been satisfactorily con- cluded,” said the count. “He agreed to our program, presented out names to the emperor with the recommenda- tion that the program be accepted. If his majesty is willing to accept this program we will enter the ministry.” BATTLESHIPS IN COLLISION. Illiinois and Alabama Are Both Slight- ly Damaged in a Fog. Newport, Aug. 1—Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, commanding the At- lantie fleet, received reports in detail yesterday of a collision during a fog Monday night between the battleships Alabama and Illinois, about eight miles southeast of Brenton’s reef light- ship. The side of the Illinois was scraped by the bow of the Alabama, and several plates of the forward part of the Alabama were dented. It is thought also that one or more of the six-inch guns on the battleship were damaged. Rear Admiral Evans said last night that he was satisfied that neither ship was injured below the wa- ‘ter line. ITALIAN REVENGE IS SWIFT. Stabs Brother-in-Law’s Slayer Few Seconds After Crime. New York, Aug. 1—Vengeance for a murder he had committed was visited swiftly upon an Italian. named Salva- tore Siammonco after he had shot and mortally) wounded his countryman, Salvatore Carodone, on South street, near the Fulton market, yesterday. Hardly a minute after the shooting Siammonco was stabbed in the heart and instantly killed by Guiseppe Toc- co. All three were peddlers, who were buying fish at the market. Tocco and Caradone are brothers-in- law. SHOT BEFORE VICTIM’S EYES. Posse Makes Short Work of Negro Who Assaulted Woman. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 1—Floyd Carmi- chael, a negro about twenty-two yearg old, who was identified by Miss Annie Poole of Lakewood, a suburb of At- lanta, as the man who had assaulted her early yesterday, was shot in front of the Poole residence, in sight of his victim yesterday afternoon by a posse which had captured him. After he had been shot there were cries of “Burn him!” but the police prevented such action. Posses Hurt Necro, De Soto, Mo., Aug. 1.—Posses of en- raged and excited men are in pursuit of Arch Ransome, a negro accused of having made an attack last evening at the Valley mines, Jefferson county, on aged twenty, and Effie Moore, aged aged twenty, and Effie Moore ,aged fourteen. It is believed Ransome is hiding in this vicinity. Kills Young Wife. Mobile, Ala. Aug. 1.—William Woods of St. Louis yesterday shot and killed his young wife, who had been here for some time residing with her sister, a Mrs. Thomas. Woods came here Saturday to effect a recon- ciliation with his wife. He made sev- era] overtures, which were unsuccess- ful. Face Smashed While Playing Ball. Marine Mills, Minn., Aug. 1.—John Videen, residing with William Erick- son, three miles west of bere, was brought to this place yesterday after- noon with a badly smashed left cheek pone. While playing ball at the Hay Lake school house, near his home, he and another player collided in attempt- ing to catch a fly. The patient was taken to a hospital in St. Paul last night by way of Stillwater. Horse Killed by Lightning. Marine Mills, Minn., Aug. 1.—In the severe storm A. Johnson, residing at Otisville, three miles north of here, had a valuable horse killed by light- ning which struck the barn while the horse was in it. Mr. Johnson was in the barn when the bolt struck, but es- caped unhurt. Charles G. Eckdahl, ¢co residing near Otisville, had a cow killed in his pasture by lightning during the same storm. Drowned in Well. Brainerd, Minn., Aug. 1- ‘Andrew, MUST NOT SPARE THE GOVERNMENT PEASANTS AND SOLDIERS ARE URGED TO TAKE LAW IN OWN HANDS. RIVERS OF BLOOD WILL FLOW MANIFESTO ACCUSES GOVERN- MENT OF BETRAYING FA- THERLAND. St. Petersburg, Aug. 1.—A mani- festo to the peasants of Russia has been issued in the joint names of all the various labor, socialist and revolu- tionary organizations, including the representatives of these organizations in the defunct lower house. This mani- festo declares that the hopes reposed in the lower house of parliament have been‘ blasted by the diabolical designs of the crowd of grand dukes, courtiers and wealthy land proprietors assem- bled around the emperor, whose only purpose can be the maintenance of their power over the people. Rivers of Blood Will Flow. By dispersing the elected represent- atives of the people and arresting and imprisoning them the government has declared war on the nation, and a struggle is beginning in which rivers of blood will flow and for which the criminal government is responsible. The people must not apere the govern- ment. The manifesto fareiee accuses the government of betraying the father- land by invoking the aid of German and Austrian troops. The people are therefore urged to remove the authori- ty everywhere, to replace it with men elected by themselves and to confis- cate all the state funds. “Down With the Government.” The troops also must conform to the orders of those elected by the peo- ple. The workmen in the towns, the peasantry and all toilers must, in con- junction with the troops, seize the lib- erty and take the iand which the gov- ernment has denied them. The land thus possessed must be handed over to the popularly elected local authori- ties pending the elaboration of a new land law. The manifesto calls for elections oa the basis of universal suffrage, and concludes with the words: “Down with the government and the emperor! Long live the dear and free Russian’ people!” The public prosecutor has started proceedings against the members of the lower house of parliament who signed the Viborg manifesto. Truce Was Short Lived. The triangular truce between Arme- nians, Tartars and the Russian troops before Shusha was of the briefest na- ture. The display of white flags and the naming of representatives of the warring factions to arrange 9 lasting peace was but a prelude to the re- sumption of hostilities yesterday upon a larger and bloodier scale. The fight- ing is not only in full progress at Shusha itself, a town of 30,000 people, 180 miles to the southeast of Tiflis, the Tartar quarter of which apparent- ly Is in Flames, but it has spread to the surrounding country. There the Tartar population has risen and is striving to overwhelm the Armenians and the Russian troops. Gen. Zoloschakov, in command of the Russian forces, has appealed urgently for reinforcements. A bat- talion of riflemen at Yelisavetpol, the nearest point where there are soldiers, already has been despatched to the scene. EXPLOSION KILLS TWO. Blast Also Damages a Historic Man- sion at Vincennes, Ind. vincennes, Ind., Aug. 1—Two men were killed and more than twenty were injured by the explosion of a boiler at the plant of the Vincennes Paper Mills company yesterday. The property loss is $15,000. The boiler was hurled through the roof of the boiler house, over the main building, 100 feet distant, tore down a tree and badly damaged the Harrison mansion, which was the home of Wil- liam Henry Harrison when he was governor of the Northwest Territory. Mrs. Edward Shepard, wife of one of the propretors of the paper mills com- pany, who lives in the mansion, was. slightly injured. Charles Connors, one of the sur- vivors, was blown fifty feet through the air. TO DO BATTLE WITH SHARK. Italian Navy Called Out Against Hy- ena of the Deep. Vienna, Aug. 1.—A huge shark has lately been playing havoc with the nets of the fisher folk at the Adriatic port of Pola. The fishermen are una- ble any longer to ply their calling in the bay, and orders have been given the available forces to dest: the by the minister of marine to mobolize ~ enemy. Several torpedo boats and the /