Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 5, 1907, Page 3

oT ADD \ : 7ALITL DN “DISTRICT ATTORNSY SAYS HE TRAVEL—FIFTY-THREE PER: ~ : HAS JUST BEGUN INSURANCE SONS DEAD.» FIGHT. Fire originating from a defective gas lighting system destroyed three busi- n blocks in P: ‘ . Loss, $100,- ess blocks in Perry, Iowa. Loss, $100; | APPALLING DISASTER ON BALTI-| washington, Jan. 3—Entirely inde-|HERMAN, CLEARLY OUTCLASSED,| New York, Jan, 1—Following the GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. 000. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME The city prison at Jacksonville, in] MORE & OHIO ROAD NEAR — |Pendent of any whitewashing pNenig| NEVER HAD A CHANCE WITH Chee Cee ‘ Calhoun county, Alabama, was burned i; WASHINGTON ingle tia ine caatiiiey which : trict nies Goa a eae te DIGEST T s RTH 7 THE NEGRO. y Jerome announced Sat- — OF THE NEWS WO and Richard Walker, the only inmate, caused the loss of half a hundred hu- urday that he had just begun the in- cremated. The immense sawmill plant of the German-American Lumber company at Midvale, Fla., was destroyed by fire. man lives a few miles out of Washing- vestigation of the affairs of the New. ton Sunday night, the interstate com- York Life ahd that he will, after Jan. OVER SIXTY ARE INJURED merce commission decided to have an IS CLEANLY KNOCKED OUT 1, have an extraordinary session of investigation of its own. the grand jury called to consider mat- TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, People Talked About. Loss, $100,000. Authority for this action on the part ters exclusively. Marie Jose Fameto died at Madrid A passenger train ran into the rear . of the commission was found ,under The field is a wide one and the evi- at the great age of 125 years. end of a freight train at Springfield, PASSENGER TRAIN’ COLLIDES | the joint resolution of congress in-|DROPS LIKE LOG AND IT TAKES | dence that has been given to the dis- 1 Ohio. Eighteen passengers were in- WITH EQUIPMENT TRAIN structing it to make a special inquiry trict attorney as to crimes which are y Charles C. Lord, one of the pioneers TH of Chippewa Falls, Wis. is dead of REE MINUTES TO REVIVE hidden by false entries in the books of tuberculosis. George W. Hewes, widely known as a telegrapher, was found dead in bed jured, none of hem seriously. of the block signal system as operated Elias Lehtenen and Joseph Bardeso- DURING FOG. by the railroads. : HIM. the New York company, cover, it is no were instantly killed in the Colby Block System a Farce. estimated, transactions involving be- | iron mine at Bessemer, Mich., by fall- tween $30,000,000 and $40,000,000. The frequency of rear-end collisions or the telescoping of one train by an- Indictment Had to Be Rushed. 2 Ag fi ing 500 feet to the bottom of the} Washingt et Bas at San Antonie ‘5 on aie ’ Dipak kc Actin seas ot Seana other has aroused the members of the HR Nig lta char Lars eee ord The transactions on which the in | Edward H. Thompson, Sr., presiden 5 . commission, as well as congress and >| dictment of Perkins and Fairchil< < | of the Maryland. National bank, died] An interurban train from Seattle | o'clock on the Baltimor> & Ohio rail-|11, cntire country, to the belief that |CRampion Joe Gans landed a full! were founded iad to. “be? Rasheed i road at Terra ta about . , Sie er powered ater agli from this aie pithy tl yy 9 something is radically wrong in the als, Bear load pani ee val through and decided by the December Four persons were: kilfea pes twelve | eight persons were killed and over six- pretended operation of the block sys- ra, atti an ian grand jury because the statute of lint injured. ty injured, some of them so seriously tem, and the commission proposes now i wan a Bent toon the ateit that itations, unless indictments were " that they will die. ‘Tha accident was | ‘© find out the facts. iz Heer en anoe Gane bigcked | Und, would have outlawed the Charles Thomas was found dead be- caused by the collision of Train No. Astounding statements made by ex- | Herman ad no chance. Gans blocked | crimes on Dec. 31, side the tracks at Rocker, Mont. His 68, due Hereist 6535 de Bei i ii perts of the commission indicate that his blows with the greatest of ease. body was decapitated and the indica- :39 D : the people of the United States have and at no time was Gans worried in % erick, Md., known as uw i 4 tions are that he was run over by @| oo) with a eee Fetes k been misled into the impression that |Re least. In the first round Joe start train of ore cars. - D 'S€- | the block systems of this country are ed to feel things out. Herman was equipment special ot eight cars. Over willing to fight, but the champion stal!- suddenly at his home in Baltimore. Andrew Gleason, a notable figure in church and political circles in the na- tional capital, died in Washington of | paralysis. Dr. Frank E. Beckwith, formerly professor of obstetrics at Yale medical school, died in New Hayen, Conn.. from apoplexy. Evidence has been given to the dis- trict attorney of other dealings by the New York Life, in which there was | precisely similar proof as to the dis- | position of stocks and false entries on , | the books of the company, as appeared ry { | a ‘ Before the eyes of his young wife,|9099 passengers we ‘board: 4 _|adding greatly to the safety of travel. 5 Father M. J. O'Dwyer, founder and George Davis lost his life in an unsuc- dat et abs et fe al On the other hand, the experts say 6d. hint rae ° u gc the cleat in the railroad deals on which the pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Kansas City, was found dead these systems have had no such effect. The commissions statistics prove that In the second round Gans started to open up. Herman’s attempts to land cessful attempt to rescue John Arke, Cause Not Determined. an eight-year-oll boy, from drowning! ‘The railway offiziais late last night grand jury acted. in bed in that city. * a6 Charles Beckwith Fink, editor of the a ee ieote wunap lento. aasiensany. canse, tor frases RC cae sian Proportion of Jail ended in failure. — Latrobe (Pa.) Advance and a pioneer James Harris, his wife, Sulseet the collision. As soon as the news of Fifty-three Are Dead The third and fourth rounds were | DEATH ENDS STORY OF CRIME. 2 pets ear-old son and three-year-old daugh:|the wreck hed this ci Q - " 4 iti o fift sitar y reached this city all ambu- Pha. wheat commerrative. estimate of repetitions of ihe second. In the fifth Woman Dies While Telling How She newspaper man, dropped dead at his Was Shot. home from apoplexy. Charles H. Keep, assistant secretary of the treasury, will succeed F. D. Kil- burn as state superintendent of banks for the State of New York. rounds, Gans having measured his man, slowed down. This was the only round where Herman made any show- ter, were asphyxiated by natural gas |lances available, with as many physi- which escaped from a stove in their/cians as could be assembled, were F home at Niagara Falls, Ont. _ sent to the scene. The dead bodies | ° injured in the*hospitals or at their New York, Jan. 1—A young wom- The bodies of Edward Lidridge and | were found lying beside the track for feet i fom anes ee ae ing. The sixth and seventh rounds | 2%, who with her companion, Sidney | Albert Caromfly were found along the |@ considerable distance. A dense fos | pee Severe ce the most seriously | ore all Gans’. In the eighth Gans | Kaufman, was shot while both were i railroad tracks at Clark’s Summit, Pa. | Was prevailing and made objects per- antes are expected to die and the |startea out by feinting and. drawing | Suests at the Hotel Knickerbocker The bodies were tadly mangled. It is |ceptible but a few fect ahead. It was death list may yet reach sixty or more. lyerman’'s fire. They fiddled around Noni peepee died at Bellevue hos- supposed they were struck by a train, | impossible at first to determine the ex- the ring until Gans worked his oppo- | Pital. Kaufman is thought to be fa- oe 2 act extent of the catastrophe. RECER TION AT WHITE HDUSE: nent ‘nt a corner, ?P*' | tally injured. Not until told by the persons in attendance that her recov- Drops Like a Log. e F . Gans feinted with his left and Her-| €TY Was impossible did she admut h man swung wildly with his left. He identity, and a statement subse uent- the dead is fifty-three, with threescore Crimes and Criminals. City Marshal Frisby of Lamar, Colo., was shot and killed by two strangers, who escaped. Trainmen Arrested. From Other Shores. When the news of the accident Emperor William of Germany is im- |spread about Brockland many citizens, New Year’s Function Is an Unusually Brilliant Affair. > § t Ozark, 3 ; a La Porter et ier ik hehe porting Amertean mares for his stock |with their wives, hastened to the Washington, Jan. fae titles and lieft an opening. Like a flash Gans |!¥ Made to the police was unfinished | | breaking her neck with = club: farm. scene to give their aid and comfort to ee crore dt New bs vaeetny whipped left and then a swinging right | When she lapsed into final uncon- | 3 uinearotie-tatany |, TRE Ontario goverhment Has sold pesneunded: prilitaht fafletion “ana ‘vas attended by [2S on the point of Herman's jaw. Phere | ne negro was killed, one i the mining rights in the bed of-Lake| It has been proved that the daager| io .09 * ‘as attended by |terman dropped like a log and three | The dead woman was Mrs. Eva I. . | wounded and others seriously art in Cobalt to a syndicate for $1,035,000. |Signal at Takoma Park a short. dis- | 2bout 8, persons. The members of | minutes elapsed before he revived. Totten, wife of John Totten of Totten- | a drunken brawl at Topeka, Kan. The French, German and Russian |t#2¢e from the scene of the accident. the diplomatic corps, officers of the} Herman was outclassed throughout. | Ville, Staten Islane. She was twenty- | A. duel with pitehforks between two Sap 3 was set when the train of empty pas- | "my and navy and representatives of He never had a chance, und he will | three years of age, and her husbend ts | : a }expeditions have arrived at Tashkent,| | ~ the national and district governments ‘ : in his eigh eT a Sat | grooms employed in a fashionable:rid-| > cia to observe the eclipse Jan. 14, | S°2Ser cars passed. The train was c never have a chance when he meets’|in his eighty-third year. They were | % - 14 and of the citizen public attended. a man of Gans’ caliber. married two years ago. | 4 F *|going at the rate of sixty miles un After nine years’ work Senora Eleon /hour, and Engineer Hildebrand stated of Augus Calientes, Mex., has’.com:|that on account of the heavy fog he ing academy in New. York resulted in probably fatal injuries to Thomas Con- After the diplomats had been re Mrs. Totten told the police that ceived, Secretary and Mrs. Root left} yew LAws ARE NOW IN FORCE, | Kaufman and she were in love and nelly. 1 “ A jury at Salina, Kafii, returnéd a pee a dress which is valued at $40-| could not see the signal. oe aint a. he: bia 500 ane one bs that he desired her to marry him at verdict of not guflty inthe case of f - Both Engineer Hildebrand and the thei 2 Dialers a Anti-Pass Provision and Other Legis- | 0DCe- She wished to wait until she eir wives deserted the president in lation Now in Effect. had secured a divorce. Over this they The summit of Mount Vesuvius is covered with snow, producing a pic- 'turesque effect... Snow also. has. filled cracks in the volcano resulting from fireman on the special*train were ar- Mrs. John Caldwell, charged with the rested and brought to Washington. murder of her husband. This was the woman’s third trial. As the result of a dispute over a di- me to hold receptions in their own Washington, omes. i It was generally remarked that the proportion of negroes in the line was 3. — Yesterday quarreled and Kaufman shot her and Jan. 3. marked the beginning of the life of | then turned the gun on himself. several legislative acts of congress important alike to~ the nation as RUSSIA LIKE A VAST BEDLAM. RAISULI PLOTS WAR. ae ‘ the recent eruption. viding fence, Elijah Covert shot and 2 rev’! yea)’ mn | Pataatiy killed Ghavies Thorpe-near} The cotton harvest in Central Asia Cear’s Mother Declared to Be Insane neseaed 7 prone eas whole and to the citizens of the Dis- TBIREE: | North Vermont, Ind. Both .men_ are|is extremely good, 17,000 car loads, in- —Whole Dynasty Crazy. There ‘was an unusually large Yuan: trict of Columbia. These are the free | Report Says German Flag Is to Be | prominent farmers. stead of the usual 12,000, being availa- St Petersburg, Jan. 1.— A close ber “Of childten inline and all were school law, the pure food law, the anti- Hoisted Over Zinat Stronghold. Proprietors of thirty-seven factories ple for export. ‘Railroads will require. friend of the czar’s household phygi- greeted heartily by the president. One pass section of the interstate com-, Tangier, Morocco, Jan. 1. — It is | i i iliti _|cian, Dr. Hirsch, says that the dowa- f ‘i merce law, the modification of the nav-'| currently reported here that the Ger | and business houses in Springfield, M1, | 8Pecial facilities to'transport the cot of the most amusing figures in the al ae itl jolating the child lab I ton. ger ezarina, the czar’s mother, has ling was a ten-year-old boy, with soiled igation laws to simplify enrollments'| man flag is abou: to be hoisted over | £ sh ne ie the fll aa been undeniably insane for three RENE aha clott ease Be a pair 804 licenses and a law with reference'| Raisuli’s stronghold at Zinat. It is | law, pleaded guilty, and were eac Nine thousand of the inhabitants of | months. tebe on Pp to the licensing of druggists in the | said to be the bandit’s intention to en — ; In fact,” Dr. Tschechoff, the superin- er lL ecenmnee talked satay District of Columbia. : deavor to embroil the powers in the endent of St. Petersburg’s noted asy- as he wished the little fellow a happy The pure food law contemplates the | meantime by joining forces with the lum for the demented, St. Nicholas New Yan barring interstate Commerce of foods | pretender. Tsbuderewitz, asserts that the major- | ~ £ pretty, little girl carried a great that are injurious to health. The free On the other hand, however, it is ity of the foremost Russians are mad, white Teddy bear past the Facelving alcohol bill is intended.to assist farm- | stated that Zinat has been sold to a » from the Romanoff dynasty down — patty and provoked a hearty laugh ers and smaller users of power to}German commercial firm, which in sovereign, ministers, generals, aristo- from the crowd gathered in the blue have a fuel that in efficiency and cost | tends to, enter into possession when crats, men of affairs. room. . shall be cheaper than gasoline or kero- | Raisuli retires. 4 The dowager czarina. has been ae erg sene.. The anti-pass provision of the ———_———_—_— “clean daft” ever since Gen, Trepoff . - Interstate commerce law forbids com- WILL KILL SHIP’S OFFICERS. died last September. Gossips whisper bg BLOW UP AN OCEA NLINER. mon carriers, dirzctly or indirectly, that she loved him passionately and * 7 giving interstate-free tickets.or passes} British Sailors Threaten...Death if that losing him sviboked her wits. Gang s rae es vgs edits | Sine for passengers, except. to their em- Forced to Reship. Now she ‘sees bombs and gallows Pe S| A ue ‘Aaispotch tenn ployes.and families, agents~of the cat pe Mazatlan, Mex, Jan. 1.—— The crew everywhere in her imagination and is ‘nae agency. p ‘Odesea saya.that a riers and their surgeons, physicians of the British steamer/S. Drumming, in a constant state of terror. band of unknown men made an at- find attorneys, to”persons engaged in | now ‘Inport here," have mutinied and in Jacksonville, Fla. The indications |) One hundred thousand dollars ha § Czarevitch, asa Changling. tenfpt to blow up the Russian Steam- Dated tay panera aa and to eigen sullen are i Li a this are either suicide or murder. i hs, #5 Ae aS a6 eg Be cape she pone ship company’s Atlantic liner Gregory Ser OME ae am be he md Dolla amie ph banal Arthur C. Metzeler, a drug clerk at fmonvyitient £ the Ista JQveEh JEMfersong| Ty a eed Grand Dake | Mgeh. which has just completed he" |ugHes TAKES OATH OF OFFICE. CeUhetmen nlsintain that'ic they are Indianapolis, shot »and killed ‘ Albert in Central’ Park,"New York. aes, iS not he’ bine Lae to ee first trip in the new Odessa-New York “Se Ls forced to reship in the None they will ? a negro, im the store. Metze-[ 4 ine service. t a Hs ib- | ki : i ate ats ler says that the megro started to go bein es ek area i aie her'| "desperate struggle took place be- bide! fe Bad hol le MED mee siete te arate bahay ee behind the ‘counter, gnoring his pro- | “She has been taken away from Rus-| ‘W@e" the crew andthe members»of } =a ibany, No Y., jan. 3. — Charles E, | treated a& ‘slaves and given improper ell = test, and the shepting followed. sia in the.hope that she may recover the, band, during which several sailors |j1 shes yesterday. took the oath of of- | foad. Antanas A, Joels; was arrested} Arnold-Leen& Co., steek brokers of | her reason. ‘ ‘ us g a iy Eee ity pom fice as governor of the state of New , charged with being a fugitive from |New “York, who recently.fafled; have| Count Witte, .too, sees ghosts and.| Yus antes ed before any damage | yori" ana with his Democratic col- CARUSO MUST. PAV. FINE. justice. The arrest was made in}effected a settlement with creditors on | hears mysterious voices, it is said, as Dies seeare leagues began his two-year term. —-— Brooklyn, where. Joels had taken} the basis of 50 per cent in cash and 50|the result of the mental strain to ‘PAINTER FOUND HANGING The retiring governor, Frank W.| Recorder Goff Affirms Decision of rooms for himself an@ wife, on the}per cent in notes. are which he was subjected while pre- . Higgins, formally surrendered the » Lower Court in His Case. reins of government to his: successor New York, Jan. 1. — Recorder. Goff request of the police of Chicago. Joels, St. ; i ‘| mier. * ase eso q A * 4 is i N the police say, is wanted for a defal-} Fasten oy ie 9 ia 4 yeti. WHOLE CITY IS TERRORIZED. Noted Fresco ee SUSE ane and left for his home a private citizen | reaffirmed the decision of the lower cation of $1,500. f 1 2 2 for the first time since 1893, when he | court in the case of Enrico Caruso, } -Jacques, who is able to talk and talk New York, Jan. 3. —Hunden Gudnest |... rst elected senator. | Robert Widgren and Herman Oberg,| plainly.» Shed’ sid’ to possess the | Relan of Violence and Bloodshed at) 14 to have been a well known fresco |"! : Z AMG Ls i tana nati a who was ac partners in a coal business, were found] mental facultfés ofa child of three Lodz—Many Are Killed. paititer, whose work in the capitol In his inaugural address accepting | cused of annoying a woman in the dead in a room in the rear of the coal] years. i , "| Lodz, Jan. 1. — The situation here| }iiging at Washington and in New the office, Gov. Hughes paid a marked | monkey house at Central Park. There office in Chicago. A broken gaspipe is rapidly becoming acute. Sanguina- York public and private buildings tribute to Gov. Higgins, commending | js no appeal from this decision. The and escaping gas gave rise to the be-| Elaborate preparations have beeu|ry encounters were frequent during| .,ae for him a reputation, has been his public services and conscientious | jower court imposed a fine of $10, lief on the part of the polfce thatj™2de at the City of Mexico for the en-| yesterday. Six persons have been| sung in his room in Brooklyn sus- devotion to the interests of the state. | which was the maximum under the Widgren had intentionally severea the} ‘eTt#inment of the Mystic Shriners | jijleq and twelve wounded. Bin tibik’c Yone Yoede trom shoots, Following the ceremonies, the new | Jaw. Caruso resented the ignominy i a ; who will come from the United States} Th, thoriti t first i Deny & oP governor held a reception in the execu- | carried by the decision pipe to kill himself and his partner. : e authorities, at first supine, are| 11. was still alive when discovered, but a ¥ . to participate in the initiations theré | now more active, and are preparing to before he was cut down by a police- tive chamber. : ———____— , in January. meet all emergencies. vali sii Ball atcangiod to auath The 130th session of the New York| TO SPREAD JAP EXCLUSION. The total value of the mineral pro- The proprietors of sa ofthe i state legislature will convene to-day. ‘é a rami a duction in the United States in 1905 | largest factories here, emp! joying 100,- eague ans Legislation ffecting | amounted to $1,625,877,127, being an | 000 persons, announced their intention NO CHINESE ON ISTHMUS. MILL MAN TAKES HIS LIFE. Whole State. | Increase over 1904 of over $260,000,000, | of closing their establishments in con- a ‘i San Francisco, Jan. 1. — Aided by ? } according to a statement issued by the Plan to Employ Celestials on the Pana-|Frederick, S. Camp, Afflicted With | labor unions and the Schmitz admints- “ an | | | the town of Béjar; Spain, decided some time ago to emigrate in a body. The offer of the presidents of Uruguay and Nicaragua to supply ships and funds was accepted for the transportation of ‘the emigrants, n fined $5 and costs. John Houser, who lived ten miles northeast of Charles City, Iowa, com- mitted suicide by cutting bis throat. The act was due to a clouded mind caused by old age. Between $8,000. and $9,000stolen by William C. Anderson, former assistant paying: teller of the First. National |’ Bank of Kansas City, who was @rrest- ed at Austin, Tex., last week, has been Domestic. ‘ J. Pierpont, Morgan gave a $600,000: mansion to his son, J. Pierpont Mor- f aekancel gan, Jr., as a Christmas prese! 5 ‘ound in Austin. : Pe The dead. bodies"of George Patter- |, The "18,000 employes: of; the Tiipots, son, a cab ‘driver,.and ‘Alice Clark Steel company: at-South Chicago’ wilt boarding house keeper, were found in receive a raise e 10 per Ee 11g ‘ wages... : different rooms of the-boarding-house | : age Tous J. J. Hill, who has acquired a consi rable interé t inthe Piet National Bank of Ch has beem elected director of that institution. ine rfegg ene Accidental Happenings. Two boys were drowned in a pond near Grayville, Nll., while skating. A fire in the business section of —- Greensburg, Pa., caused a loss of $100,- 000. The Joyce general store in Kamrar, | Iowa, was burned to the ground. Loss $10,000. The Roman Catholic church at Ot- sego, Mich., was burned, following a Christmas selebration. Rose Bros.’ department store at Manistique, Mich. was destroyed by] fire. Loss, $60,000; insured. Falling into a sponge mixer full of dough, which he was feeding, H. D. sequence of the system of terrorism : geological survey. inaugurated by the extreme socialists. ma Canal Is Abandoned. Bright's Disease, Shoots Himself. tration, the Japanese Exclusion Panama, Jan. 3—Jackson Smith, in} Norwich, Conn., Jan. 3. — Frederick | }eague has opened a campaign to ex- charge of the labor department of the|s. Camp, one of the most~prominent | tend the exclusion of Japanese from canal zone, said yesterday that Chi-}mill men m Eastern Connecticut and | public schools throughout the state. nese labor will not be employed on the |agent of the Ponemah mills, the larg: | [t is planned to secure the passage at canal. __ {est cotton mill in the country, took his | the coming session of the legislature ‘Acting Governor Reed confirms this.|}ife by shooting yesterday. He had|of a sweeping bill making separate It will be piped across the isthmus | Te latter admitted this decision is the|peen ill for about six months with | schools for Japanese and Chinese a a through the recently completed :ipe| ‘tect result of protests in the United | Bright's disease and had been despond- | regular part of the school system. line. States against the Chinese. ent. scancemnnncmaire stv aanirmne ern OL LOT CL Frozen to Death. SNOW AFFLICTS RUSSIA. Baby’s Hand Burned Off. Brainerd, Minn., Jan. 1. — James Lexington, Ky., Jan. 3.—Kight people | Reilly, a lumberman in the employ of Fanning, aged eighty years, a wealthy| Great Storm. Has Literally Buried |were seriously injured and twenty-four} the Northland Pine company, property owner who lived alone, was _ Many Towns.” others badly hurt in ‘a wreck near | found frozen to death on Long murdered some time yesterday at nis} + petersburg, Jan. 3——The storm Richmond, Ky. -Among the injured} Cass county. He had left Longville —t home in this city. The head had been ‘ nei Great Siliaih atl cea: baby whose hand was burned | last Sunday night for the camp, four hacked with a hatchet. which passed over Grea’ completely off. miles away. é BSA Christmas time has reached Western : . Russia, where enormous falls of snow School Destroyed by Fire. Honolulu Swept by Storm. BB ps cig aapedaree a| 23 reported, and railroad pear a8 Marshfield, Wis., Jan. 3.—The school} Honolulu, Jan. ace Honainis and spike penetrated its brain, the eight- High is Heraeres ¥ aaah e a 8 ‘i es. of the Seventh Day Adventists, located | vicinity yesterday experienced che "| months-old»child of Mr. and Mrs. being entireiy im abo sit sgh €S!at Bethel, seven miles from this city, | heaviest and severest electrical storin George Lewis, residing in Asbury, is apy Oreha, and Oe are sh those | was discovered to be in flames, and|in many years. ‘The schooner [.avinia still alive, and there is a chance that tognaere Utecaly hprien in drifts and) purned to: the ground, with a loss of'|and hundreds of canoes were wrecked. it may recover. ul business suspended. $12,000. . So far as known no lives were lost. Towa farmers this year raised a crop that is just $121,230,887 better than the average crop of the last seventeen years. The total value of the products of the soil in Iowa this year was $330- 495,421, and the average value of the crop -for the-last seventeen years ia $209,264,534. Pipe Oil Across Isthmus. “San Francisco, Jan. 1—The steam- er Argyll sailed yesterday for Panama with 30,000 barrrels of petroleum, con- signed to points on the Atlantic coast. | oon Oliver Herford’s Wit. i An editor was talking the other day in New York about the wit of Oliver | Van Kirk of Columbus, Ohio, was} Herford. i | whirled round and round. until every “oqt ds its_ unexpected . quality,” he 7 mai bone in his body was crushed before} said, “that makes Herford’'s wit so de- | the machine was stopped and he was|lightful. 0 | extricated a corpse. “He sat in my office one afternoon when a young novelist entered. In a head-on collision at Brookville, Md., between two Big Four freight trains, Fireman Frank Morris and Bert Dey, a farmer who was riding on one of the engines, were killed, and Ej}. Beasley, another farmer, was fatally injured. Head Hacked With Hatchet. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 1—Thomas