Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 17, 1906, Page 6

guia Rerald-Review. . By C. E. KILEY. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED AND ON FOREIGN SHORES BRIEFLY TOLD. — MINNESOTA. From the Capital. The president has approved the re- port of the special committee which completely exonerated Gov. Frantz of Oklahoma of charges filed against him. The president announced the ap- pointment of Attorney General Will- iam M. Moody as justice of the su- preme court to succeed Justice Brown, who retired some time ago. Orders have been received at the headquarters of the Department of Missouri to dispatch a pack train of about fifty animals from Fort Riley to Cuba, via Newport News,.at once. A bulletin issued by the department of commerce and labor says that ex- ports of iron and steel manufacturers show an increase of about 25 per cent in the nine months ended with Septem- ber. Attorney General Moody and his as- sistant, Mr. Purdy, conferred about the Standard Oil case. It is admitted that the case is fully prepared and that the prosecution will begin in a week or ten days. William Pennar was appointed post- master at Ashby, Grant county, Min- nesota, vice O, A. Norman, resigned. Also Rena J. Scofield at Hyde, Jerauld county, South Dakota, vice Anna F. Dill, resigned. Harrison C. Magoon, since 1894 su- perintendent of the Nationa! centetery at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., has been ordered to Washington to assume the duties of the superintendent of the National cemetery at Arlington. Personal. Mrs. Amelia M. Harris, sixty years old and a native of Hills county, Iowa, who went to Montana in 1864, died at Helena. Mrs. Esther M. Stannard, wife ot Former Governor E. O. Stannard, died of neuralgia of the heart at her home in St. Louis. . Judge Thomas M. Mehan of Mason Ci Ill, a prominent Democrat and since 1897 district judge, died of ty- phoid fever. The engagement of Miss Pauline Morton, daughter of Former Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton, to J. Hop- kinson Smith, Jr., is annnouced. Dr. Edwin E. Beeman died at Cleve- land yesterday. Twenty-five years ago Dr. Beeman auit the practice of medi- cine to enter upon the manufacture of pepsin chewing gum. Charles Frazier, the oldest engineer of the Erie railroad, died at his home in Paterson, N. J. Mr. Frazier was seventy-two years of age, and had been in the employ of the Erie for fifty-six years. Nathan D. Bradley, first mayor of Bay City ,Mich., member of the Forty- third and Forty-fourth congresses, a lumberman with interests in several sections of the United States, died from pneumonia. From Other Shores. A deputation from the Austrian Butchers’ association asked the minis- ter of agriculture to permit the imnor- tation of meat from the United States. The third anniversary of the founda- tion of the Republic of Panama was celebrated at Colon. There was bull- baiting and other amusements in the afternoon and fireworks in the even- ing. J. E. Starr Hunt, who was charged with fraud in connection with the set- tlement of the affairs of the Interna- tional Bank and Trust company, which failed in 1903, was acquitted at City of Mexico of any complicity in the mat- ter. A report was in circulation at Mos- cow that the League to Combat the Revolution, to which the murder of Deputy Herzenstein in Finland last summer has been ascribed, had sen- tenced the former premier, Count Witte, to death in the event of his re- turn to Russia. The aristocratic suburb of Charlot- tenburg, near Berlin, which contains, besides the royal palaces, residences of more millionaires than any city in Germany, is about to start a hog-rear- ing business on a large scale for the purpose of overcoming the hardships of the meat famine. Casualty ‘List. Harry Maxwell was instantly killed in an automobile accident at New Britain, Conn. A fire in the heart of the business portion of Hamilton, Ohio, caused ‘a loss of $350,000. Sherman Foss, nine-year-old son of L. Foss, a farmer near Spokane, was shot and killed by a playmate. Ole Quambeck, an elderly man and an old settler in Winnebago county, Iowa, was killed by an enraged bull on his farm. Two men were killed and two badly injured by the explosion of the boilers at the American Palace Steam laundry in Buffalo. Six-year-old John Kenny of Chicago died from eating stove polish thrown into the doorway of his parents’ home as a sample. The Kell & Coggeshall planing and box factory at Louisville was destroy- ed by fire. Loss $75,000. The 200 em- ployes escaped. at Iowa City, Iowa. The loss is $68,000. Edward Snell, engineer of a Bailti- more & Ohio passenger train, was kill- ed in a collision between his train and a wrecking train near Youngstown, Ohio. Merritt B. Otis, a farmer near New- man Grove, Neb., was choked to death by a windmill. His coat collar got caught in the gearing and he was dead when extricated. A fire‘that ‘started in the ‘molding plant of Angus & McKay in Chicago, spread to the several adjoining build- ings before it was controlled, and caused a loss of $200,000. While taking apart his revolver, Henry Stedner of New York acciden- tally shot his mother. She is dying and the boy may lose his reason as a result of the tragic accident. Attacked by a vicious boar and thrown into a corner, John Focht, a prosperous farmer residing near Sid- ney, Iowa, was saved from a horrible death by the timely interference of his dog. Criminal, Democratic Congressman-elect H. L. Favrot shot and killed Dr. H. H, Ald- rich at Baton Rouge, La. As the result of a_three-cornered quarrel in St. Louis, William Barton was killed by a blow on the head with a baseball bat. I. H. Carr, a white man, was found guilty of rioting by a jury in the city court at Atlanta, Ga. Judge Pendle- ten reserved sentence. Almost at his own doorstep Martin Fuchs, a farmer of Collinsville, Ill., was shot to death in an effort to pre- vent his hogs from being stolen. Barricading the doors of her home, Mrs. John Ray of Falls City, Neb., set fire to her home. Neighbors broke in her door but the woman was dead. Cashier H. C. Duboise of the Monroe County bank at Monroeville, Ala., has been checked short $22,115, according to a report received by State Bank Ex- aminer Rutledge. With the head pounded to a pulp, the body of Charles Johnson was found wedged tightly into a pile of iron piping in Chicago. The man was un- doubtedly murdered. What are believed to have been in- cendiary fires destroyed $5,000 worth of property at Burlington, Iowa, when the barns of Arthur Churchill and W. H. Moir were destroyed. Rev. Isaac G. Cook, formerly pastor of the Methodist church at Bartonville, Ill., was arrested on the charge of at- tacking the thirteen-year-old daughter of Charles W. Robinson. Norman E. Smith, a hote] man and former famous bicycle racer, has been killed at Tenakee Hot Springs, Alaska, by Robert Reid. Smith is said to have had a bad reputation. John Hogan was stabbed twice in the back in a saloon row at Billings, Mont., and had not the blade of the knife glanced on a rib one kidnev would have been cut in two. Thomas W. Alexander, formerly a wealthy cotton factor, pleaded guilty at Atlanta, Ga., to an indictment chars- ing embezzlement. and was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. Miss Florinda Ilario, who has been on trial in the Somerville county court at Somerville, N. J., charged with the murder of Alexander Dipoalo, was found guilty of manslaughter. While a passenger train was stand- ing on the tracks at Gallup, N. M., three men armed with revolvers enter- ed the coaches and forced the passen- gers to hold up their hands. They se- cured several hundred dollars. The body of John Boland, a wealthy farfner near Dubuque, Iowa, was found by his son in a ditch. The skull was crushed. Ned West, a farm hand, was arrested on suspicion and later con- fessed to the murder of Boland. Otherwise. Geraldine Farrar, an American sing- er, made her last appearance in the Royal opera house at Berlin. She re- ceived an ovation. While being hoisted on board a French battleship during practice drill a torpedo exploded, Killing one man and wounding many others. A report has been received that sev- enteen officers were shot by the revo- lutionists in the streets of Kutno, Po- Jand. The town is in a state of panic, owing to fear of military reprisals. The present year is a record break- er in the raisin business in California. Fifty per cent of the estimated output of Valencia and Malaga raisins that compete with the California product was ruined. The American Banana company, an Alabama corporation, has brought an ection in. the United States circuit court in New York against the United Fruit company, charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. A New York physician who has made a study of the subject says no previous political campaign has demanded such an expenditure of nervous energy by candidates and resulted in so many physical breakdowns and deaths. J. T. Harahan was elected president of the Illinois Central Railroad com- pany, succeeding Stuyvesant Fish. All the other officers of the company, ex: cept Vice President Welling, were present at the meeting of the board ‘when the election took place. The entire student body of about 500 of the Centenary college at Jack ‘son, La., struck and went home. They Yett’a simple statement that they were dissatisfied with the retention of Prof Moncrieff, who two months ag stabbed the Rev. C. C. Miller, presi dent of the college. BURNED ALIVE IN TRAIN WRECKAGE FORTY-SEVEN IMMIGRANTS LOSE THEIR LIVES IN A COLLI- SION. SULTAN IGNORES PROTESTS FOREIGNERS ASSAULTED AND OUTRAGED AND FOREIGN VES- SELS FIRED ON. Chicago, Nov. 14.—More than one- half the passengers on an immigrant | train on the Baltimore & Ohio road were killed in a collision yesterday between the passenger train and a freight near Woodville, Ind. One hundred and sixty-five passen- gers were on the train, and of these forty-seven were either killed outright or were burned to death in a fire, which broke out in the wreckage im- mediately after the collision. Forty- five of the bodies were consumed in the flames or were so badly burned that identification will be impossible. Thirty-eight persons were injured and several of these will die. Eighty others escaped unhurt, but lost nearly all their baggage and clothing. Some One Blundered. The disaster was caused by a blun- der of some employe of the railroad company, but just where the blame lies has not as yet been ascertained. The passenger train was loaded with Russian Jews, Servians and Poles bound for Chicago or places in the Nerthwest. A light snow was falling, which increased the darkness of the early morning, and as the freight was rounding a sharp curve the second sec- tion of the immigrant train came into sight. The two trains came together with unslackened speed, and in the trash six passenger coaches and sey- eral freight cars were knocked into kindling wood. Burned in Sight of Throng. Fire broke out almost immediately in the wreckage, and although a num- ber of the injured were saved by the jesperate efforts of the train crew and surviving passengers, the greater part of those who were pinned down in the debris were burned to death. The flames spread throu;h the wreckage so rapidly that it was impossible to save a number of people who were but slightly hurt but were held fast by timbers that weighted them down. These were burned in plain sight of the throng which stood around’ the scene of the disaster, utterly unable to lend assistance in any way. SHAKE MAILED FIST AT MOORS. Foreigners Assaulted and Outraged and Foreign Vessels Fired On. Chicago, Nov. 14.—The British At- lantic fleet is to leave for Tangier. In conjunction with a French fleet of warships it will engage in a demon- stration in Moorish waters. The British warships were provis- ijoned last night on very short notice. During the last few months condi- tions in the interior of Morocco have constantly grown worse. Foreigners have been assaulted and outraged, for- eign vessels on the coast have been fired on, and, while the diplomatic representatives of the powers concern- ed have protested to the sultan, their demands have been received with slight attention. Insolent to Diplomats. The agitation against foreigners is reported to be on the increase, and Spain has found it necessary to send a warship to the Moroccan coast fo remove Spanish subjects. The diplomats at Tangier have pro- tested more than once to the Moroc- can authorities against the lack of protection for foreigners, but no im- provement has been forthcoming. In fact’ the local authorities have been increasingly aggressive and even in- solent in their treatment of the local representatives of France and Spain. France has already one or two cruis- ers in Moroccan waters. LEGAL GIANT TO DEFEND THAW. Pacific Coast Genius Will Fight for Enforcement of “Unwritten Law.” New York, Nov. 14.—Delphine Mi- chael Delmas, leader of the bar on the Pacific coast, was retained yester- Gay to defend Harry Kendall Thaw, indicted for the murder of Stanford White, the architect. Mr. Delmas en- tered into final arrangements as to his retainer yesterday with Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the defendant. Later In the day be was in consultation with his client in the Tombs and had agreed with him on the line of de- tense, which will be justification of his deed and the demanded enforcement of the “unwritten law.” Charged With Padding Payrolls. Manila, Nov. 14,—The court-martial appointed to try Capt. F. W. Cole of the United States quartermaster’s de- partment, on the charge of padding the payrolls of -the quartermaster's shop to the extent of about $10,000, will begin proceedings on Nov. 25. Three Crimes. Owasso, Mich., Noy. 14.—Bert Seely. who was under suspicion in connection with the murder of Edwin Edgar, was found dead in bed, and lying beside him was his young wife, also dead. | "BUCKET BRIGADE SAVES TOWN LA CRESCENT, MIND MINN., NARROWLY ESCAPES DESTRUCTION—PAN- iC IN SCHOOL. La Crosse, Wis. Nov. 14. — Almost the entire male population of La Cres- cent, just across the river, yesterday saved the village from destruction by a fire which totally destroyed the school building and the residence of John Borke. Fire started in the school building from a defective chimney during the session, and a panic among the chil- dren followed a cry of fire. Miss Cora Whitehouse, teacher, with rare pres- ence of mind, brought the pupils out of the building under perfect disci- pline and none were injured. Following the alarm of fire the vil- lagers and men working in the fields flocked to the scene and a bucket line was run to pumps in the vicinity. The fire fighters could do nothing to save} the burned property, and fought hard against a strong wind to save the re- mainder of the village, which was threatened with destruction. APPROPRIATION IS SHORT. Selection of Minneapolis Public Build- ing Site Is Postponed. Washington, Nov. 14. — After a con- ference between Assistant Secretary Edwards and Supervising Architect Taylor yesterday it was decided that no action would be taken for the pres- ent looking to the purchase of a public building site at Minneapolis. At the last session of congress the sum of $350,000 was made available for a site in Minneapolis. It has been found, after investigation, that a desirable location cannot be secured for that, amount. TWO DODGE BOMBS. Gen. Rheinbot of Moscow and Gen. Rennenkampff of Irkutsk Escape. Moscow, Noy. 14. — A bomb was) thrown at Gen. Rheinbot, prefect of po- lice of Moscow, on Tver street yester- day. The general drew a revolver and killed the man who threw the bomb. It is reported from Irkutsk, Siberia, | that an unsuccessful attempt was made to kill the governor, the famous Gen. Rennenkampff, by a bomb. The general was not hurt. The bomb thrower was captured. MUST FACE TREASON CHARGE Leader of Mexican Revolutionists to Be Deported. Washington, Nov. 14.—Antoni Villa- rael, under arrest at El Paso, Tex., is to be deported to Mexico, where he will face charges of treason brought against him by the Mexican govern- ment, Villarael was the leader of the Mex- ican revolutionary movement in St. Louis which gave utterance to its doc- trines through the newspaper Regen- eration. EXPLOSION KILLS SIX. Boiler in a Lake Shore Power House Blows Up. Cleveland, Nov. 14.—Six men were killed and five seriously injured yes- terday when a boiler in the power house of the Lake Shore railroad in Collingwood, a suburb of Cleveland, | blew up. Engineers at the power house say the explosion was due to the forma- tion of a “mud ring” in the filtering | apparatus. COURTSHIP BY LETTER. Three Years of Long-Distance Corre- spondence Followed by Marriage. New York, Nov. 14. — After three) years of courtship by letter, neither having ever seen the other, Bartholo- | mew Morse, who lives on Long Island, | and Cinderella Parmlee of Kansas | City, Mo., met by appointment in the | Grand Central station and in fifteen| minutes were married. | Firemen Vote to Strike. | New York, Nov. 14-~—The poll of the! locomotive firemen of the Erie rail- road which has been taken for the pur- pose of determining whether or not to} resort to a strike in an endeavor to) enforce their demands, according to! Grand Master Hannahan of the fire-| men’s organization, has resulted in an | almost unanimous vote in favor of a. strike. | Hearst Is Dined. New York, Nov. 14.—A complimen- tary dinner was given to William R. Hearst last night by Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, W. S. Jackson, John 8S. Whalen, Julius Hauser and F. W. Skene, his associates_on the Demo-| cratic and Independence league state tickets. x Arm Broken by Thresher Belt. Wood Lake, Minn., Nov. 14.—Julius Liskey, a pioneer farmer, broke his arm in three places, having caught it in the belting of his threshing outfit. 1,500 Men Quit Work. Mobile, Ala., Nov. 14.—All the build- ing contractors of Mobile yesterday put their establishments on the open shop basis. As a result about 1,500 men in the building trades failed to appear for work. Woman Assaulted and Murdered. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 14. — The body of Annie Shirley, a negro woman, was found at Pratt City, with her head crushed and indications that she had| the right of way of the Duluth, Mis- taxes this year. DESPERADO RUNS ANIUCK WITH RIFLE BLOODTHIRSTY NEGRO STARTS ON TOUR OF MURDER AT ASHEVILLE, N. C. FOUR MEN ARE SHOT TO DEATH TWO POLICEMEN KILLED DE- FENDING CAPTAIN — POSSE PURSUES NEGRO. Asheville, N. C., Nov. 14—Fighting bravely in defense of their police cap- tain, Patrolmen Charles Blackstock and William Bailey of this city were shot to death last night by a-negro, who also killed one negro and fatally wounded another. The murderer gave his name as Will Harris of Charlotte, N. C., a desperado, for whom a large reward has been standing for some time. Prior to the death of the two of- ficers a negro restaurant keeper named Ben Allison was shot and killed by Harris without provocation. An- other negro named Tom Neil lies mor- tally wounded, he, too, being shot be- fore the officers took a hand in the melee, Starts on Tour of Murder. Harris started on his tour from a negro house. He fired into two houses as he made his way to South Main street, and wounded Allison. Later the desperado encountered Tom Neil and fired at him. Police Captain Page and Officers Bailey and Blackstock | rushed from police headquarters in putsuit. Capt. Page received a bullet in the arm from the negro’s rifle. Page called upon Blackstock to fire, but be- fore that officer could do so Blackstock | fell dead with a bullet in his chest. Bailey fired twice without hitting and the negro then shot and killed Bailey, afterwards escaping. A general alarm was turned in to call out the militia companies, and several armed posses, quickly formed to pursue the murderer. OBTAINS LANDS BY FRAUD. New Kind of Indictment Is Said to Be Hanging Over Standard Oil. San Francisco, Nov. 14.—It has be- come known in federal circles that re- cent locations of land in Kern county, by agents of the Standard Oil compa- ny, have been made the subject of in- vestigation by government officials. As a result it is asserted that indict- ments will follow. The land was taken up by the petroleum combine, ostensi- bly for the gypsum deposits, but in reality for oil purposes. SCATTERED HER GEMS. Rich Texas Woman, Insane, Throws Away $50,000 Worth of Jewels. Galveston, Tex., Nov. 14. — Fifty thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds have been scattered about Galveston and Houston, and May Alvido, wife of Myron Alvido, who had lived at both places, is in jail, hopelessly insane. She adopted a method of getting rid of her wealth more rapidly than An- drew Carnegie. BRONSON GETS HIGH POST. Rear Admiral to Become Chief of Bu- reau of Navigation. Washington, Nov. 14.—Rear Admi- ral Willard Bronson will, it is under- | stood, soon be recalled to take what has become the most important post in the navy, namely, chief ot the bu- reau of navigation, to succeed Rear Admiral Converse. Will Be No Railroad Strike. New York, Nov. 14.—There no long- er appears to ibe any danger of a strike of railroad employes in the East, as the situation with reference to the demand of the members of certain or- ganizations was considerably cleared | yesterday at conferences with railway managers. Swindler Gets Ten Years. Sacramento, Cal., Nov. 14.—William Phalen, an aged mining prospector, who was arrested for swindling a‘num- ber of citizens out of several thousand dollars by false representations, was yesterday sentenced to ten years in | nels Funeral Train Wrecked. | Macon, Ga., Noy. 14. — A funeral train filled with Women and children | dashed into an open switch on which were three cars, at Meeks, Ga., yes- terday. Many passengers: were in- jured by the shock. The cars were | wrecked. | Boy Hunter Shoots Self. Rochester, Minn., Nov. 15. — Rollo | | | | | necessary No LABOR PARTY [S PLANNED FEDERATION DECLARES LABOR 1S IN POLITICS FOR ITS OWN ENDS ONLY. Minneapolis, Nov. 14.—Organized la- bor is in politics for its own ends only and will not permit itself to be turned into a political party or to be made the tool of any of the existing parties. This was the declaration, made em- | phatic in the report of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, read yesterday by Vice Presi- dent James Duncan before the twenty- sixth annual convention. The efforts of the federation at the last congressional election to secure the defeat of certain candidates mark- ed as the enemies of organized labor was touched on lightly in this report, and no comment was made on the out- come of the effort. According to the report the total receipts from the voluntary subscrip- tions of the affiliated unions were $8,056.89. No money was accepted from any candidate for office. Of this sum $7,834.11 was expended for cam- paign purposes. BOY SPANKED KILLS SELF. Mother Finds Love Letter and Chas- tises Twelve-year-old Son. Rome. Wis., Nov. 14.—Mrs. Joseph Peleison is in a critical condition from the shock of finding her twelve-year- old son had committed suicide. The mother recently found a love letter in the pocket of the boy’s coat which had been written to him by an eleven-year- old girl. The mother administered a spanking to the boy 2nd locked him up in a room. When she came to re- lease him she was aorrified to find the little fellow dead. He had taken poi- son which had been left standing in a cup in the room. BODY STOPS ENGINE. | Castings Have to Be Broken in Order to Release Injured Man. Kulm, N. D., Nov. 14. — Charles Lange was terribly injured as a result of an accident which happened while Lange was running a threshing ma- chine. In some manner, the clothing of the man caught in one of the wheels and his body was drawn into the machine so tightly that it was to break several castings before he could be released. It took more than an hour and a half to get him out of his perilous position. SOLDIERS IN STREET FIGHT. Artillerymen and Infantrymen Slash Each Other With Knives. Cheyenne, Wyo., Noy. 14.—A detach- ment or artillerymen from Fort Rus- sell attacked a number of infantrymen on the streets of Cheyenne last night. Both sides fought desperately with knives. Five men were badly slashed, one of whom is expected to die. The cause of the fight is an old feud existing between the two arms of the service. TALK OF ELECTRIC RAILWAY. Preston Citizens Hear Address by Pro- moter. Preston, Minn., Nov. 14.—W. P. Ma- son, promoter of the Minneapolis & Dubuque Ele¢tric railway, which has been surveyed to a point near here, addressed a mass meeting by request. The location of a division point and shops here inclines the citizens to look favorably upon the scheme. ROMPING TOT SHOT DEAD. Child Knocks Over Gun and Her Face Is Blown Off. Hallock, Minn., Noy. 14.—The four- year-old daughter of Arthur Ferguson was killed by -the accidental dis charge of a shotgun. The little one was playing a about the room and knocked down a loaded shotgun, which went off accidentally and blew off the | front part of the girl’s face. NO MILITIA TO TAKE DIETZ. Govenor Denies That He Has Called Out Troops. Madiscn, Wis., Nov. 14.—It is denied at the governor's office that he con- templates sending a company of mili- tia to help the sheriff of Sawyer coun- ty capture John Dietz of Cameron dam. No such action is likely to be taken. lll Luck Followed Him. Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 14.—To get away from a_ treacherous stairway down which his wife fell and fractured her hip, Harvey P. Sherman moved his family to another location. The first day there he fell down the stairs of his new home, receiving injuries from which he died. Friend Is Deer He Shoots. Lewiston, Mont... Nov. 14. — S. FE. Miller was shot and probably fatally wounded by August Meier while the two were hunting on Rock creek. Meier saw his comrade moving among Dugan, eleven-year-old son of Dr. Du- gan of Byota, shot himself while hunt- | ing near that place. He will recover. | Is Killed by Locomotive. Williston, N. D., Nov. 14.—James S. the bushes and mistaking him for a deer fired Millionaire Distiller Dead. Oconomowoc, Wis., Nov. 14.—Henry Costello and another man attempted to H. Shufeldt, seventy-two years old, a cross the tracks at Mondak while a | multimillionaire, died here yesterday freight engine was switching and were /at his country residence. Costello was | feldt was one of the best known and .| ‘killed and the other man’s left leg was | richest distillers in the country. , struck by the engine. cut off. Deer Killed by Locomotive. Hibbing, Minn., Nov. 14—A wound- Mr. Shu- State Will Get $400,000. Madison, Wis., Nov. 14. — It is ex- pected that the state of Wisconsin ed deer, pursued by hunters, got on| will collect $400,000 in inheritance For four ito had been assaulted. Two men are held on| gabe & Northern railroad and was run from July 1 to Nov. 1, the state sucpicion. igual ge hagle asolacme ei | collected $163,986. {