Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 22, 1906, Page 2

—}— Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. WEEK'S HISTORY. IN. EPITOME ALL THE NEWS THAT IS WORTH TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, At the Capital. President Roosevelt has completed the first draft of his next annual mes- sage to congress. It is his intention to put the finishing touches on this docu- ment before he takes his trip to Pana- ma in November. Secretary Bonaparte announced that the president has selected Pay Direc- tor Eustace B. Rogers to be paymaster general of the navy. There has becn a spirited contest for this position, nearly every officer of the pay corps who was eligible having been a can- didate. The president has commuted the life sentence of Lizzie Carrich, an Indian girl fifteen years of age, to confine- ment in some reformatory institution until she is twenty-one years of age! On June 6 last the girl was convicted of arson in setting fire to and destroy- ing the Infian school building on the Menominee reservation at Keshena, Wis. The immigration authorities of Phil- adelphia reported to the department of commerce and labor a bold attempt on the part of several Armenians in that city to bribe Inspector Garbarino, who conducted an investigation of a case of an Armenian woman recently arrived at that port, suffering from trachoma. As a result, three men have been arrested and placed under heavy bail for their appearance in court. People Talked About. Lewis Johnson Davis, a leading banker, society and clubman of Wash- ington, D. C., is dead at the age of seventy-two. Abel Anderson, president of the Northwestern National bank, died at his home at Sioux City of Bright’s dis- ease, aged fifty-one years. He came to Sioux City from Sweden. Joseph Phillips, aged eighty-one years, well known in fire insurance circles throughout the country and at one time mayor of Milwaukee, died in that city of general debility after a lingering illness. William Marks, aged fifty, an artist for Leslie’s Weekly for many years, and one time a fellow worker of Thom- as Nast, the cartoonist, was found dead in bed in his room at Calumet, Mich. He evidently died of heart failure. Casualties. Fire at Sumter destroyed the plan- ing mills of the Sumter (S. C.) Lum- ber company. Loss, $100,000. Hotel Gomez Farias, in Chihuahua. Mex., collapsed while forty-two guests were housed in it and four’ persons killed and several others injured. A Rock Island passenger train struck a buggy containing Lafayette Sylvester and Joseph Keck at Fair Point, Iowa, killing both men instant- ly. Fire at Havelock, Iowa, did $18,000 damage, totally destroying the general store of W. S. Cox and causing heavy loss to Moffatt & Lentz, hardware merchants. Earle Joyce, a youth of Ford county, Ill, died from befng struck on the neck by 2 foul tip while playing ball. One of the vertebrae of the spinal column was dislocated. A train on the Southern Pacific coast line was wrecked at Sea Cliff, twenty miles south of Santa Barbara, Cal. Twenty-seven passengers were in- jured, two of whom may die. The Oriental limited, east-bound, on the Great Northern, went into the ditch near Dodson, Mont. No one is reported killed, but several passengers were severely bruised and cut. Three men were killed at Rush- ville, Ind., by coming in contact with a barbed wire fence that had been charged with electricty from the plant of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Trac- ticn company. A special from Sydney, N. S., says: “It is rumored that A. J. Mox- ham’s yacht Adele of Lorain, Ohio, foundered off the Labrador coast, and that all on board, including Moxham’s family, were drowned. While attending to the stock, Carrie Yeager of Baxter, Iowa, was attacked by a milch cow and seriously injured. The cow gored her in the face, tearing a large hole in her cheek, and one horn also pierced her leg. During the progress of a severe storm at Aspinwall, a suburb of Pitts- burg, lightning struck a heavy steel pipe at the filtration plant, hurling thirty-five men to the ground, seriously injuring four, one of whom may die. Leonard La Placa, employed with a North-Western gang raising the tracks near De Witt, Iowa, was drown- ed in Silver creek. La Placa went to the creek alone to bathe and stepped into a hole. He could not swim and was drowned. A one-story building being moved on rollers got away and ran for three ‘blocks down a hill at Butte, Mont., killing four horses and tearing dowrt poles and wires and wrecking vehicles. Several men had narrow escapes. The building made the record time without injury to itself. ~ BODES ILL FOR HOPES OF PEACE LIBERAL LEADERS ARE ASSUM- ING VERY INDEPENDENT AT- TITUDE. MORE SHIPS RUSH TO SCENE ARMED INTERVENTION IF MEDIA. TION FAILS—BIG FORCE IS READY TO LAND. Oyster Bay, Sept. 16.—After a pro- tracted conference with Secretary of War Taft, Acting Secretary of State Bacon and Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, President Roosevelt last night addressed an important commu- nication to Cuba and arranged to send Secretary Taft and Acting Secretary Bacon to the island on Sunday to make a thorough investigation of con- ditions there and lend their influence to restore peace. The communication is addressed to the Cuban minister to the United States, Senor Quesada. Plea for Peace. It is an impassioned plea to Cuba to realize her responsibility as a selt- governing republic and to restore peace in the island. Her attention is called in no uncertain language to the responsibility which the United States bears to the island. and the certainty that such responsibility will neces- sarily be exercised should peace not be preserved. The president says he has certain information that the peace of the isl- and is now menaced and that Ameri can property has been destroyed. Surround Cuba With Ships. Washington, Sept. 16.—Having pre- pared for all eventualities in Cuba which prudence and experience could suggest, the cfficials in Washington who are temporarily acting as heads of the military branches of the gov- ernment yesterday awaited develop- ments and watched the execution of the plans they had already former. No additional orders came from the president. There was no cessation of the ac- tivities of the subordinate officers who were charged with the execution of the details. Within a short time eight naval vessels will surround the island and they will be manned by marine contingents, making good a deficiency in the present equipment of the Den- ver. Palma Issues Decree. Havana, Sept. 18.—The government is making final strenuous efforts to re- store peace in Cuba and thus avoid any kind of American intervention. The object of these endeavors, it is stated, is that it may be able to say by the time Secretary of War Taft and Acting Secretary of ‘State Bacon arrive that peace already has been se- cured, and therefore there is no need for the American government’s inter- vention, either to restore peace or to insure permanent tranquillity. This is the latest phase of a rapidly changing situation that developed late yesterday afternoon, when an extraor- dinary gazette was issued containing a decree signed by President Palma on the recommendation of the secre- tary of public works, Montalvo. The decree follows: “All campaign operations are sus- pended, and in consequence the gov- ernment forces will act only on the defensive throughout the republic. The secretary of the interior will is- sue everything necessary for the exe- cution of this decree.” MAY MEAN ANNEXATION. If Mediation Fails It Is Believed U. S. Will Annex Island. Washington, Sept. 18—Mediation between the Cuban government and the insurgents is the mission on which Secretary Taft and Acting Sec- retary Bacon have left for Cuba as special emissaries of President Roose- velt. If these two peace enovys faul in their mission, there will be imme- diate armed intervention in the affairs of Cuba, and the army of the United States and its naval force will be util- ized in pacifying the island and mak- ing it ‘a safe place for American life ‘and property. President Roosevelt will act under the treaty with Cuba, which is the su- preme law of the land. Never Came Back. President Roosevelt will use the army as a police force to protect life and property in Cuba in the event of the failure of the Cuban government Banner Tobacco Crop. _ Hartford, Conn., Sept. 15.—From the entire tobacco raising region of Connecticut come reports of a banner crop. Old growers say they cannot re- member a year when there has been a season so favorable as the present one. i NT pes LIS Se ‘To Meet at Exposition Town. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 15—The Asso- leiation of Military Surgeons of the United States voted to hold next convention et Jamestown, Va. ‘danger to the capital of Cuba. and the insurgents to settle their diffi- culties. If American troops are landed in Cuba, it is the well grounded belief here that they will never leave it, and that the island will pass under the sovereignty of the United States. Funston on the Way. Gen. Frederick Funston, who has been ordered to Cuba because of his knowledge of the country and of the insurgents themselves, will reach Washington from the Pacific coast next Thursday, and will proceed to Havana, arriving there next Sunday. Can Land Big Force. It was announced at the navy de partment last night that the battle- ships Louisiana, Virginia and New Jersey have been ordered down the Atlantic coast on a shaking cruise, and that they have been directed to keep in communication with the gov- ernment at Washington by wireless telegraphy, and in the event of an emergency arising they will be sent to Havana. It was also stated that the cruisers Tacoma and the Cleve- land have sailed from Norfolk, Va., and that the cruisers Minneapolis and Newark will follow them. Should all these vessels go to Ha- vana the navy would be able to land a force of 4,000 men in Cuba by Wed- nesday or Thursday, if any develop- ments should occur rendering such action necessary. PROTECT BRITISH INTERESTS. Uncle Sam Will Keep Eye Out for John Bull—All Depends on Taft Havana, Sept. 19.—At a meeting of rebel leaders, held in the town hall of Bejucal yesterday it was decided, after a number of violent speeches had beea delivered, not to accept the peace propositions of the government. Are Very Independent. The only results thus far of Presi- dent Palma’s order for the suspension of hostilities have been that Liberal leaders who hitherto have had every reason for anticipating arrest, are cir- culating openly in Havana again and even conversing with members of the government with regard to peace, and that such insurgents in the field as lave been. consulted, while they ex- press themselves as agreeable to set- tling matters amicably, at the same lime assume an independent attitude, which cannot be said te bode particu- larly well for the prompt settlement of existing difficulties. Protect British Interests. The announcement from Washington that American vessels of war will pro- tect British as well as American in- terests is taken to apply especially to Cienfuegos, where the Hnglish-owned Cuban Central railroad had been obliged to suspend operations and has. ‘suffered considerable damage to its property. Alfredo Zayas, president of the Lib- eral party, told the Associated Press that he was hopeful of the final out- come, although nothing like a definite basis for agreement had yet been con- sidered. For the present, he said, he was largely devoting himself to secur- ing the releases of all suspected con- spirators. Terms Discussed. The committee of the Moderate par- ty, at a meeting yesterday afternoon, voted to continue its efforts for peace. Terms were formally discussed. Renewal of War Not Probable. Washington, Sept. 19.—Commander Colwell of the cruiser Denver, at Ha- vana, telegraphed the navy department yesterday that all was quiet in Ha- vana. Hostilities formally * ceased Sunday, and a definite, settlement of the troubles seemed very possible. Formal renewal of hostilities are not probable, This reassuring dispatch, to- gether with the visit of Secretary Taft and Acting Secretary Bacon, indi- cates that the movement toward peace in Cuba is well under way. At the same time no changes have been made in the naval program. Havana in Grave Danger. With the force already at Havana, and that which will be there in a few days, the navy department feels as- sured that it will be amply able to pre- vent any trouble in Havana, and it ap- pears that the movement of such a force toward the Cuban capital was due to the fact that there was grave The Des Moines passed Tortugas at 9 o’clock yesterday morning and will ar- rive in Tampa bay at midnight.’ The train bearing Secretary Taft and party was reported four hours late yesterday afternoon, so that the Des Moines will be ahead of time and ready to take them aboard when they arrive. Strong Force Ready. While there is a pacific feeling, prep- arations are going forward by the war department to meet anything that may arise, if it might be necessary for a strong force to intervene. It may be stated that troops and transports will soon be available and only await orders in case the mission of Secretary Taft fails and hostili- ties are renewed and are beyond the control of the Cuban government. RAR Ree eeeOeeeOeOeeeeeeeeeeeuer wre O8000000 0 OO Or—erermeem=>4 Postoffice and Mail Burned. Vermillion, S. D., Sept. 16—W. H. Schrader’s hardware store at Meck- ling, together with all the postoffice fixtures and mail, burned. Origin of the fire is unknown. Schrader had a small insurance on his stock. Prussian Prince Is Dead. Berlin, Sept. 15.—Albrecht, prince ot Prussia, regent of the duchy of Bruns- wick and the richest prince in Ger- many, died. Death followed a stroke + of apoplexy. VIS UP TO TAFT | TO MAKE PEACE WARRING CUBAN FACTIONS MAKE NO PROGRESS TOWARD SET- TLEMENT. REBELS ARE VERY EXACTING ——. WILL NOT NEGOTIATE UNTIL CONSPIRACY PRISONERS ARE RELEASED. Havana, Sept. 19.—Notwithstanding some appearance of activity, no deci- sive progress was made yesterday in peace negotiations. A few peace seek- ers went westward in automobiles with the idea of reaching and confer- ring with Pino Guerra, the insurgent leader in Pinar del Rio province, and others visited Loynaz del Castillo, the commander of the insurgent forces in Havana province, but the only definite thing reported is that the insurgents in the field are not willing to enter ne- gotiations until all the conspiracy pris- oners have been released. Rebels Hard to Please. While it is possible that those most highly responsible may reach a basis of agreement in time to present it to Secretary of War Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Bacon, when they land here to-day, there is nothing to show that such a basis has been reach- ed as yet, and there is every evidence that if it is reached at all it will not be accepted by the insurgenis’ follow- ing. Considerable earnestness has heen shown by some of the leaders looking towards a settlement upon acceptable terms. but others, and notably so among tke Moderates, appear to be satisfied to let the case rest as it is until it can be adjudicated by Presi- dent Roosevelt’s representatives. Liberals Most Active., The Liberals are most anxious to place themselves in a position which may be considered at least equally as strong as that of the government, and consequently they are more persistent- ly active. Gen. Menecal, the chief of the veter- ans’ peace commission, stated to the Associated Press last night that the important part of his mission was ended when he brought the leaders to- gether. While no acceptable basis of peace appears tc have been suggested by either side, the impression is general that Secretary Taft will take up the work of peacemaking with small con- sideration for past grievances, the main idea being rather constructive measures for the future. Americans Angry. The newest feature of the revolution is the appearance of Americans from the Isle of Pinés, complaining that offi- cials of the courts there are search- ing the homes of Americans for fire- arms and seizing all arms which may be found. The Americans there ane extremely wrathful over the action of the offi- cials, especially so, as the conduct of some of the natives lately had caused them to consider the necessity of hav- irg firearms within reach. . Controlled by Rebels. The Associated Press correspondent yesterday afternocn visite1 three in- surgent camps west of Havana. He found all the towns from Artemisa to Arroyo Arenas controlled by insur- gents. Col. Galvez, who was penned up Saturday, Sept. 15, with 100 volun- teers in the town hall at Guanajay, is still there, surrounded by insurgents, who are deterred from dynamiting the building because of the fact that Gen. Loynez del Castillo’s wife and family are held there by Col. Galvez. Pino Guerra’s force is believed to be camped at Artemisa, and it is expected that to-day it will unite with Gen. Cas- tillo’s force outside of Havana. Will Not Resist Rebels. There is only a small detachment of government forces guarding the Lisa bridge, the eatrance to Martlanao, which is the nearest suburb to Ha- vana. Between Marianao and Havana there are a few hundred rural guards and militia guarding the roads. The guards stated to the Associated Press that if the insurgents should advance towards the city in large numbers they could not be expected to resist them. The people of the whole region west of this city sympathize with the insur- gents. Late last night news was received that all was quiet at Cienfuegos. Must Release Prisoners. Alfredo Zayas, president of the Lib- era] party, who has just returned from an automobile trip to the west, in the course of which he consulted with sev- eral of the insurgent leaders, stated that he had prevailed on them not to come within twenty miles of Havana. Senor Zayas positively declared that the insurgents will not negotiate for peace until the government releases all those who are held in prison on charges of conspiracy. Senor Zayas is very anxious to talk with Secretary of War Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon personally. He declared that the Liberals have no confidence in the goverrunent’s promises. Waiting for Taft. Washington, Sept. 19.—Acting Sec- retary of State Adee received vester- day a dispatch from Mr. Sleeper, the American charge at Havana, concern- ing the situation on the island, but in view of the prospective arrival in Ha- yana of Secretaries Taft. and Bacon! this morning the contents of the dis- patch were net disclosed. ' It is believed to have dealt with the attitude of the Cuban government and the insurgents toward the American Officials and the consideration to be given their mission. It is not known here what course Secretary Taft and Mr. Bacon will pur- sue on their arrival in Havana. Overawed Insurgents. Commander Fullam of the gunboat Marietta cabled the navy department yesterday that the landing force seems to have overawed the insurgents and that there is at present no anticipation of further destruction of property. Information wsa received at the state department late yesterday from M. R. Spellman of the Colonial Cuban company, at New York, that he had been advised of the destruction yes- terday morning of the Esperanza es- |, tate, near Cienfuegos. The insurgents have been particu- larly active in the vicinity of “Cienfue- gos and are reported to have de- stroyed considerable property. Offr cial advices concerning the burning of big plantations, which have been re- yorted from tire to time, are lacking, however. Ships Headed for Cuba, All the ships of the navy destined for Cuba at present are on the sea, and it is expected they will constitute a sufficient force unless peace plans fail and intervention becomes neces- sary. Gen. Frederick Funston, who is now cr. his way to Washington, under or- ders from the war department, will probably be assigned to command the army in Cuba if intervention shouli be found necessary. While orders bave not been issued for the movement of troops to Cuba, ihe army was never better prepared for quick action, if it is found neces- sary to send them to Cuba. 900 ARRESTED ON SUSPICION. Warsaw Police Look for Secret Revo- lutionary Printery. Warsaw, Sept. 19.—The rumor that there was a secret revolutionary print- ing plant in existence in the work- shops of a new bridge in course of con- struction here led to extraordinary measures yesterday aftrenoon. Six battalions of infantry, six squadrons of cavalry and two batteries of artillery took possession of both banks of the Vistula in the vicinity of the bridge, and four gunboats stopped river traffic and posted loaded guns at the pier, whilst officers and soldiers made a mi- nute search of the locality, arresting engineers, workmen, fishermen and in- habitants of neighboring houses. Al- together 900 persons were searched or arrested. Odessa, Sept. 19.—Revolutionaries yesterday made an attempt to burn down the political prison here. They succeeded, however, in only partially ; burning the roof. CRUSHED BY TRUST. Two Nebraskans, President Stickney Declares, Are ‘Victims of U. P. Chicago, Sept. 19.—That the Omaha Elevator company, the subsidiary con- cern of the Peavey company that holds the contract with the Union Pacific Railroad company providing for the allowance of 11-4 cents per 100 pounds for the elevation of grain at the Mis- souri river, has split that allowance with the seller of grain in order to overbid its competitors was the tes- timony of A. B. Jacquith, a grain mer- chant of Omaha and until three years ago manager of the Peavey interests there, before the interstate commerce commission at the hearing in Chicago yesterday. President Slickney of the Chicago Great Western road, who is back of the fight against the Union Pacific, gave the details of ay alleged elevator trust, ard told how two men were crushed financially. TRAFFIC IS SUSPENDED. Flood Ccnditions Are Worse in Ne- braska. Lincoin, Neb., Sept. i9—A continu- ous rain vesterday made flood condl- tions worse in this vicinity. The Union Pacific railway is the worst sufferer. More track has been washed away by the overflow of Oak and Wahec creeks than ever before since the branch was opened for traffic. No trains have been able to travel in or out of Lin- coln since Saturday. The Burlington has a washout be- tween Lincoln and Nebraska City, and traffic on the branch between Lincoln and Seward is suspended. VOLIVA IS HEAD OF ZIONISTS. Dowie an Outcast From Religious So- ciety He Founded, Chicago, Sept. 19.—Wilbur Glen Vo- liva was chosen yesterday by the peo- | Hacked in Riot in Ohio, HATED TREPOFF TAKEN BY DEATH DESPISED PROTECTOR OF THE EMPEROR IS VICTIM OF DIS. EASE. WAS TARGET OF ASSASSINS RULED WITH HAND OF IRON AND WON THE HATRED OF ALL CLASSES, St. Petersburg, Sept. 17.—Gen. Dimitri Feodorovich Trepoff, com- mandant of the imperial palace, died at 6 o'clock Saturday evening in his | villa at Peterhof of angina pectoris. Gen. Trepoff, whose name was indell- ibly linked with reaction and oppres- | sion in Russia, was in many resyects a remarkable man. He was a natura! despot, a tyrant by inclination, educa- { tion and conviction. He was one of ; those men who have constantly ap- peared, like evil geniuses, in Russian | history just at the time when condi- tions are most promising for putting an end to despotism, to turn the Rus- !sian rulers frcm liberalism back into paths of reaction. Had Emperor's Ear, It was he who became the guiding ; Spirit of the reaction after Nicholas ‘II. had issued his famous manifesto in the faH of 1905, promising the people a share in the government. Holding the position of master of the palace, in league with the court intriguers who were determined to restore the old regime, he constantly had the em- peror’s ear. Like his father before him, Trepoff was a police master with all that the name involved in Russia. Trepoft’s life was many times at- tempted, but he always’ escaped. When the Grand Duke Sergius was | assassinated he was named governor general of Moscow, but at that time revolutionary agitation was rampant in the capital. Later Trepoff was summoned to St. Petersburg and giv- en the command of the imperial guard and made governor general of the city. Practically Dictator. He took up his residence in the win- | ter palace and became in fact if not in | ame dictator of Russia. Anarchy prevailed when he arrived. An uprising on a large scale was mo- mentarily expected. Thousands had fled from the city. But with Trepoff in the saddle the aspect of affairs changed. Troops filled the streets and dead walls were placarded with no- tices that the slightest disorder would be suppressed without mercy. And under his iron hand the city became quiet. ! During these trying weeks plot aft- ; er plot to kill him was discovered and | frustrated. Two of his own nieces | were involved in one conspiracy. In ‘fact they attempted to execute the | sentence of the terrorists. Must Serve in Aarmy. According to an imperial decress is- sued yesterday persons persistently 1 refusing to serve time in the army are rendered liable to loss of personal and | civil rights and to from four to six years’ service in the disciplinary bat- talion or the loss of civil rights alone and from four to six years’ penal serv- itude. Police Seize Bombs. Warsaw, Sept. 17—The police yes- ,; terday discovered the headquarters of the revolutionists in Lesznos street and seized a supply of bombs and weapons and important documents. Two terrorists were executed in the citadel Saturday. DIES LIKE HIS BROTHER. | F. L. Rothermel Is Found Dead at His Home. Philadelphia, Sept. 17—Frederick , L. Rothermel, a partner and elder brother of William G. Rothermel, the , invesetment bond broker who commit- ted suicide six weeks ago, when his financial affairs were at a crisis, was found yesterday dead at his home. The circumstances were similar to those surrounding his brothers’s | death, and the coroner has ordered an investigation. Rothermel was appar- ently in good health when he retired. SEVEN STABBED IN FIGHT. Six Men and One Woman Cut and Steubenville, Ohio, Sept. 17.—Six jana and one woman were stabbed and hacked in numerous places in a ple of Zion City as their leader by| riot between Polish and Austrian the overwhelming vote of 1911 to 6 for) miners in a boarding house at Long his opponent, A. S. Bills. The electio! was held yesterday under the order: ot Judge Landis of the United States district ccurt. The action of the Zion- ites practically makes John Alexander Dowie an outcast from the religious organization which he established several years ago and which has now grown to large proportions. vho is in feeble health, refused to rec- ognize the authority of the court in erdering the election and did not pre- sent himself as a candidate. Engineer and Fireman Killed. Bedford, Ind., Sept. 19.—A Balti- more & Ohio flyer crashed into the side of an accommodation train while the latter was attempting to back into a siding at Huron. The engineer and fireman of the flyer were killed. One passenger and three mai} clerks re/ ceived slight, injuries. 1 Dowie, | Run, where they were drinking. Three the men will die, Saintly Ragadiski. ‘om Suisky and John Rogowaski | The other four are seriously wounded. | The interior of the house was wreck- ed. Root Sails for Panama. Lima, Peru, Sept. 17—The United States cruiser Charleston, with Secre- tary Root on board, left Callao last night for Panama. More than 2,000 persons participated in the municipal ball in honor of Mr. Root Saturday night. Rob Store of $3,000. Portage La Prairie, Man., Sept. 17. —Sherry & Vickers’ jewelry store was entered by burglars, who secured $3,000 worth of watches and dia- monds from the cases,