Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 9, 1907, Page 2

| Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS. Washington, Secretary Taft authorized the su- perintendent of the West Point mili- tary academy to take the entire corps of cadets to the Jamestown exposi- tion. Representative Williams of Missis- sippi introduced a bill for an investi- gation by the department of commerce and labor of the so-called “paper trust.” The senate agreed to a resolution calling on the interstate commerce commission for its findings as a result of its investigation of the block sys- tem of signals on railroads. An expenditure of nearly a million collars for cattle to supply Indian res- ervations in North and South Dakota. Montana and Arizona will be made by the interior department within a short time. The supervisory committee of the International Bureau of the American Republics adopted a resolution accept- ing Andrew Carnegie’s gift of $750,000 for the erection of a permanent home for the bureau in this city. Senator Burnham has introduced a pill providing that Sept. 23 shall be set aside as “Paul Jonés day,” and bat on that day all United States ves- in port shall “dress ship.” It is that the bill is approved by Ad- Foreign. Leonard W. Bullock, the oldest en- gineer in point of service on the Mil- vaukee road, died at Racine, Wis. Sir Michael Foster, Unionist mem- ber of parliament from London univer- sity since 1900, died suddenly in Lon- don. George Emerson, for years one of the most prominent leather merchants in New England, died at Melrose, ly’s lottery took in $15,000,000 ast year and gave back in prizes $9,000,000. Most of the money came from the poorest classes. he Wool-Hagenbeck ranch of 4,000 e miles in Chihuahua and Sono- ra, Mexico, almost as large as Connec: ticut, has been sold for $1,000,000 to a dicate headed by Col. W. C. Greene. here is a recrudescence at Sydney. N. S. W., of the bubonic plague which se out first in February, 1905, and ared in March, 1906. Eleven , two of which were fatal, have en reported. The first public utterance of Presi- t Castro since the beginning, last August, of his present illness, is print- ed in El Constitutional. In it the president declares he has returned from death’s door solemnly to pro- that he neither is nor ever will 2 dictator. sq be Casualty. J. B. Canan and his wife probably were fatally injured at Pittsburg and their home wrecked by a natural gas explosion. Eight persons were injured, two fa- tally, by a collision of a freight train and a local passenger train at Crow- der City, I. T. x A locomotive exploded at Arcola, Ind. W. C. Bender, engineer, was killed and the fireman and brakeman were badly hurt. Edgar Skinner, an Illinois Central brakeman at Cherokee, Iowa, was crushed to death between cars he was attempting to couple. In a collision between an express train and an extra freight at South River, Mass., four employes of the railroad were killed and several were injured. Mrs. Emma Randall and Miss Della Thde of Geneva, Iowa, saved a passen- ger train from being wrecked. They discovered a broken rail and with a shawl] flagged the train. Rachel Pyles, aged eighty, and her son Jonathan, aged thirty-eight, both deaf, were burned to death in a log cabin at Dixon Mills, Ohio. The dis- covery was made by neighbors. Andrew Meyer, a’ pioneer citizen of Burlington, Iowa, was killed by falling on the icy sidewalk. He lay uncon- scious where he had fallen for several hours before he. was discovered. The powder mill of the Laflin & Rand Powder company near Fontain- Ind., was destroyed by an explo- Two employes who were in mill at the time were blown to lives were lost, the lives of 500 imperiled and property damage of 0,000 caused by fire that destroyed Mill No. 1 of the Cocheco Manufactur- ing company, makers of cotton goods at Dover, N. H. The victims were all boys employed in the works. Caught in the jaws of -a powerful rag shredding machine, Stephen Alt- meyer, was slowly crushed to death at Cincinnati. His fellow employes were unable to aid him and his entire body was dragged into the machine before the engines could be stopped. In an attempt to stop the suicides which have increased in Des Moines to an alarming extent, the Salvation Army is preparing to establish an “anti-suicide bureau,” it purpose being to prevent in every way possible the taking of his life by one who is de- enondent or discouraged. DEFECTIVE PAGE fe at aa Desth Valley, California, which normally the hottest place in North America, is now covered with ten inches of snow. This is the first time on record that snow has fallen in Death Valley. Personal. ) Gen. Henry F. Adams (retired) died at Plattsburgh, N. Y. He was retired in 1905 with the rank of brigadier gen- eral. Harriet Beecher Stowe, daughter of the famous writer of that name, died at Simsbury, Conn., aged seevnty years. Miss Ellen D. Morris of Kansas City died at Hastings, Neb. She was one of the best known W. C. T. U. workers in the country. ‘ Rev. Dr, Henry N. Field, last of the famous Field brothers, Cyrus W., Ste- phen J. and David Dudley, is dead in Stockbridge, Mass. Charles L. Stevens, grand master of the Michigan grand lodge of Masons, dropped dead on the street at Detroit. Heart disease was the cause, Thaddeus L. Vanderslice, one of the most prominent attorneys of Philadel- phia, died suddenly from heart disease. Mrs. John Ade, mother of George Ade, the writer and playwright, died at Kentland. Ind. Edmund E. Price, a well known criminal lawyer of New York, died suddenly while being hurried to a hos- pita”. Price was also a playwright. He wrote the plays in which John L. Sullivan toured the country. Crimes and Criminals. George Burnham, Jr., former gen- eral counsel for the Mutual Life In- surance company, was put to work in the printing sho, in Sing Sing prison. Four masked and armed men held up A. F. Avery at Butte, Mont., and robbed him of all the valuables he had, not even overlooking his gold-rimmed spectacles, $11 in money and a gold watch. Joseph Coury, proprietor of a lace factory, was mysteriously murdered in his factory in New York. Elias Ora- hya, a Syrian, is charged -with the shooting. The killing resulted appar- ently from a quarrel over possession of the factory. Tired of life, owing probably to men- tal trouble, Tony Sain, a foreigner, went to a coke oven at Oliver No. 1 at Uniontown, Pa., and deliberately un- dressed in the cold and threw himself naked head first into the bed of fire and was burned to death. Charles W. Schulte, aged sixty- three, a capitalist and banker of Mem- phis, Tenn., committed suicide at Bat- tle Creek, Mich., at the Battle Creek sanitarium, where he was being treat- ed for a nervous trduble. His wife discovered his body in a bath room, a shawl-strap around his neck, showing that he had choked himself to death. General. Mrs. “Stonewail” Jackson has de- clined the pension of $100 a month granted her by the North Carolina legislature. Mrs. Nancy White, a negress 106 years of age, the oldest woman in Western Pennsylvania, is dead at her home in New Haven, Pa. Telephone operators of Toronto, Ont.. have decided to strike unless the company grants a_ five-hour in- stead of an eight-hour day. Maj. McLaughlin, Indian inspector, has made an arrangement with the Sioux Indians in Tripp county, South Dakota, for opening their lands. Dorothy Russell Einstein, daughter of Lillian Russell, the actress, has been granted a divorce from her hus- band, Abbott L. Einstein of New York. Diamonds and other jewels valued at $35,000 were found hidden in an old trunk in the home of the late Charles Tripler of Manhasset, L. I., discoverer of liquid air. Jessie Millward, leading woman of “The Hypocrites,” now playing at the Hudson theater in New York, was married to John Glendenning, who has a part in the same company. Mrs. Thomas C. Platt has begun li- bel suits against the Washington Post and the Washington Times for half a million dollars in connection with stories linking her name with Coach- man Hedges. Rear Admiral Harrington, retired, in charze of the naval features of the Jamestown exposition, has been noti- fied that the Brazilian government will participate in the naval review in Hampton Roads, sending two or more warships. Zion City is to be deserted by Wil- bur Glenn Voliva and all those over whom he holds sway. A new Zion City is to be founded, probably on the Pacific coast, and Dr. Dowie and his creditors will be left to fight out the question of supremacy there. Stung. Confidential Friend—Old man, if you had your life to live over again, would you make it different? Defeated Politician—Yes, in two particulars. First, I'd be a bigger scoundred. Secondly, I wouldn’t take any other man into my confidence. Bad Luck, Chief Porter—Any luck to-night, M. fe Baron? The Baron—Don’t talk to me of luck. I've lost 100 francs which I’ve borrowed, then 1,000 francs as a debt) of honor, and 31-2 frances which I had owing me. How He Worked It. _ “The doctor said he would put me on my feet again in two weeks.” “Well, didn’t he do it?” “He did, indeed. I had to sell my bicycle to pay him.” BLIZZARD'S GRASP ALREADY BAD CONDITIONS ARE MADE MUCH WORSE—TRAINS BLOCKED. LONG, HARD FIGHT FOR ROADS WINTER HAS BEEN LONG BLIZ- ZARD— DEATH AND SUFFER- ING IN DAKOTA. St. Paul, Feb. 5. — The Northwest, from Wisconsin to Montana, is in the grasp of a cold wave and an accompa- nying blizzard that is doing much to make already bad conditions much worse. No extreme cold is recorded, although in the Dakotas, Montana and Western Canada the range is far be- low zero. The high winds from the northwest and the snow flurries add to the discomfort. :The range in temper- ature in the Bakotas, Montana and NORTHWEST 1S IN| service and occasioning much suffer- ing among the many people who are short of fuel. Beginning Friday afternoon the blizzard raged with unabated fury un- til last evening. Sweeping across vast open plains, driving huge quantities of snow before it arid piling the beautiful in’ deep drifts, it put an end to all traffic not only in North Dakota, but in Western Minnesota as well, and re- sulted in a complete tie-up of all the railroads in this part of the country. Not a Train Moved. From 2 o'clock yesterday morning until 7 o’clock last evening not a train arrived in Fargo over any of the roads either from the east or west. Relief for the people residing in towns along the Jamestown, Northern and Fargo Southwestern branches of the Northern Pacific, who.were badly in need of fuel and provisions, was furnished by trains. Those lines are again blocked. It will probably he some time before they are opened to traffic. Death and Suffering. That the present storm has carriea great suffering and death in its trail there can be little doubt. Many towns throughout the state were already short of fuel and the bliz- zara aggravated this condition, but it is among the homesteaders that the greatest suffering exists, and scores of those have undoubtedly perished in the storm. WHERE THE SNOW PILES UP. One of the big drifts, 760 feet long and from one to sixteen feet deep. Western Canada is from 8 to 22 de grees below zero. Long and Hard iFght. \4 The railroads of the Northwest have been engaged ever since Thanksgiving in the biggest struggle in their his- tory. Realizing that the vast com- merce of the country has to be moved as promptly as possible in order to meet the wants and needs of the peo- ple, the railroad officials have spared neither effort nor expense in keeping the lines open. The roads have been confronted with the worst blizzards that have swept the prairies of North Dakota in thirty years. North Dakota Trains Blocked, Fargo, Feb. 5.—What is by far the worst storm of the winter and one of the worst which ever swept over North Dakota is Just subsiding after | his assistant was slightly injured, baving wrought havoe with the T. M. Krueger, a homesteader resid ing twenty-one miles northwest of Wil- liston, who reached here yesterday, stated that within a radius of eight miles of his home seven men had frozen to death on their claims. South Dakota Hard Hit. Pierre, S. D. Feb. 5—Reports re- ceived by phone from points within a radius of fifty miles indicate that the storm of yesterday afternoon and last night was a severe blizzard out in the open, but luckily did not last long. So far as known no lives were lost, but several who were caught on the prai- rie had a hard time to find shelter. Killed in Wreck. Woodland; Cal., Feb. 5.—A Southern Pacific train was wrecked north of Dunnigan, probably by a broken rail. The express messenger was killed and mt BUCKING THE SNOWDRIFTS. Engines and rotary working through the snow with hax @« freight train, which has been stalled in a cut. New Counterfeit. Washington, Feb. 5.—Chief Wilkie of the secret service has announced the appearance of a new counterfeit $20 national bauk note on the Mariet- ta bank of Ma ietta, I. T. Janitor Found Frozen Stiff. St. Paul, Feb..5. — George Harris, colored, was found frozen stiff yester- | day morning in a rocm in a lodging house where he had been employed as a janigor. The cofoner expressed the belief that he had died of heart’ trou- ble. Three Frozen tc Death. Grand. Rapids, Mich., Feb. 5. -- A woman and two children were found frozen to death yesterday afternoon in an upstairs tenement here, with a third child in an adjoining room badly frozen but alive. Burned to Death by Explosion. Cleveland, Feb. 5. — John Burke aged twenty-two years, was burned to death. and Mary Gardner Masterson aged twenty years, was seriously burned last night by an explosion of a gasoline lamp. JEROME GRILIS THAW WITNESS ALIENIST IS SUBJECTED TO MOST SEVERE CROSS-EXAMINA- TION. DEFENSE BLOCKED BY JEROME ATTEMPT TO PROVE INSANITY IN BRANCHES OF THAW FAMI- LY FAILS. New York, Feb. 6. — The state laid its case against Harry K. Thaw yes- terday in a plain, unemotional story of the shooting on the Madison Square Garden roof, leaving the malice and the motive to be inferred from the act and the defense replied with a plea of hereditary insanity. It was asserted that Thaw in slaying Stanford White believed he was acting as an agent of Providence; that real or fancied wrongs committed against him by the architect and former friend of his wife had boiled and bubbled in his brain until at last there came the explosive impulse to kill. Made No Move to Escape. When the deed was done Thaw made no move to escape its conse- quence, but holding the fatal revolver aloft, he stood as if mutely proclaim- ing to the world: “The deed is done; it was right; it was not wrong.” Thus Thaw’s counsel outlined his ease to the jury yesterday afternoon after the prosecution had occupied less than two hours of the morning sitting of the court in relating through eye witnesses the narrative of the tragedy. Wife and Mother to Testify. “You will hear the story of this man’s insanity,’ Attorney John B. Gleason, for the defense, promised the jury, “from his mother, from his wife, from his relatives and from his physi- cians. You will judge him by his acts, by the hereditary and stress which en- tered into his madness, and when you come to judge him you will say to yourself that his act may have been one of insanity, but it was not one of crime.” Second Day of Actual Trial. New York, Feb. 7. The task of proving to a jury that Harry Thaw was insane—through heredity and mental stress—when he shot and kill- ed Stanford White, was taken up yes- terday by the defense, but when ad- journment was announced it was the general opinion that but little progress had been made. Thaw’s attorneys en- deavored in vain to present before the jury evidence tending, it was said, to prove a strain of insanity in the col- lateral branches of the defendant's family, but they were blocked at every point by District Attorney Jerome. Says Thaw Was Insane. The defense, however, got before the jury the testimony of an expert, that in his opinion Harry Thaw was suffering from insanity the night of the tragedy. Mr. Jerome undertook to break down the evidence of the alien- ist, Dr. C. C. Wiley of Pittsburg, and for three hours put him through a eross-examination as severe aS was ever heard in any court. The district attorney astonished every one by his intimate knowledge of medicine and its technical phraseology. He hurled volleys of technical questions at the witness, who at times sat mute and at other times gave evasive replies. A Hypothetical Question. Dr, Wiley testified that he predi- cated his opinion as to Thaw’s insani- ty upon his actions the night of the tragedy as described to him in a hypo- thetical question propounded by the defense and upon an incident which he witnessed on a Pittsburg street car during the summer of 1905. Thaw, said the doctor, acted irrationally on the car, coming in suddenly and perk- ing up one of the window blinds, slam- ming it down and then lifting it again, the while engaging in a wordy war with the conductor. Thaw’s Cousin on Stand. Among the witnesses called in an at- tempt to show that a strain of insanity existed in certain branches of the Thaw family was Lee Thaw, who said that his father and Harry Thaw’s father were first cousins. The defense tried to draw from the witness that his father had died in an insane asylum. Mr. Jerome objected on the ground that the relationship was too far re- moved, and the objection was sustain- ed. Man and Woman Burned Alive. Pelham, N. Y., Feb. 7—Mrs. Richard Vaughn, wife of a saloonkeeper here, and H. M. Mitchell, a stable man, dur- ing a fire in Mr. Vaughn’s stable here lost their lives. The Vaughn family occupied rooms over the stable. Wins Suit for Rich Mines. San Francisco, Feb. 7. — Title to mines in the Ferguson district of Neé- vada, said to be worth many millions of dollars, was won yesterday by Jo- seph de Lamar, through a_ decision rendered by Superior Judge Seawetl. Knocked Out by Tommy Ryan. Hot Springs, Ark., Feb. 7—Tommy Ryan knocked out Dave Barry in the fifth round of a scheduled twenty round fight before the Whittington Athletic club. Barry was outclassed at all stages. TO FACE ¢ BROMINENT. CALIFORNIANS VOLVED IN COLOSSAL LAND SWINDLES. San Francisco, Feb. 7.—Acting un- der instructions from President Roose- velt, Thomas B. Neuhausen, an in- spector of the interior department, co- operating with State Mineralogist Lewis FE, Aubury, has been investigat- ing land locations in California and has unearthed gigantic frauds, which will be made the basis of criminal prosecutions. The investigation, which has been sweeping in its scope, will involve men of wealth, influence and high so- cial standing in California. One of the men. against whom proceedings will be begun is well known in San Francisco and has been rated as a millionaire. Has Positive Evidence. Inspector Neuhausen has been quietly gathering the evidence in order to warrant prosecutions. He has for- warded a report to Washington, in which, it is said, he names from fit teen to: twenty persons against whom he has positive evidence. Frauds have been discovered all the way from Siskiyou county to Death Valley. The most figrant offenses have oc curred in Tuolumne county. In that section homestead entries have been freely made on the Table mountain channel. This channel is of lava for mation and contains rich deposits of gold. Millions of dollars’ worth of the IN- yellow metal has been extracted fron> this land. COMPANY TO DIG CANAL. Panama Construction Company Is Formally Organized. New York, Feb. 7—John B. McDon. ald of this city, the contractor whc constructed the subway, was yesterday elected president of the Panama Con. struction company. This company was formally organized yesterday under the laws of the state of New York for the purpose of building the Panama canal in the event that the contract is awarded by the government to William J. Oliver, one of the contractors, and his associates Mr. Oliver was elected vice presi- dent and general manager. He has as- sociated with him nine prominent con. tractors. SUIT TO STOP BOND ISSUE. Wabash Road Must Defend Its $200,- 000,000 Melon. New York, Feb. 7. — Suit has beer begun in the United States circuit court wherein a bondholder of the Wa bash Railroad company seeks to at- ta the recent issue of $200,000,000 of 4 per cent bold bonds and $16,500,00( of preferred and $16,500,000 of the common stock of that corporation upon the ground that the issuance of such securities was illegal, in contra vention of the road’s own by-laws, re quiring a consent of all of the holders of its debentures before an exchange of bonds or stocks could be granted. TO REPEAL N. P. GRANT. Senator Heyburn Proposes to Rescind Charter of Northern Pacific. Washington, Feb. 7. — Senator Hey burn presented a_ resolution in the senate yesterday providing for a spe cial committee of five senators to “in- vestigate the reorganization of the Northern Pacific railroad property, tc escertain what title and estates are owned by the corporation which was created by act of congress on July 2, 1864, and, if said federal corporation has no title or estates in any property then what reason there is why said charter acts should not be fully repea! ed by congress.” MUSTN’T LAUD GOVERNOR. Kingston Council’s Action Is Denounc- ed by Citizens. Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 7. — At a meeting of the city council held yes- terday, at which the attendance was small, Philip Stern, the representative of Kingston in the legislative council proposed a motion expressing unabat ed confidence in Gov. Swettenham After a short debate the motion was earried by 4 votes to 2. The passing of this motion has created much indig- fiation in Kingston, and notice already has been given that it will be re scinded. FOUR KILLED IN WRECK. Engine of Freight Train Explodes, Wrecking Train. Lexington, Ky., Feb. 7—Four men were killed in a wreck at Colby sta- tion, near this city. The wreck was caused by the explosion of Engine 296. which was the second engine on a double-header freight. The cause of .the explosion is not known. The second engine was blown into a ditch and many cars were piled up on the track. CLUBS ABUSIVE HUBBY. Woman Alleges Spouse .Kicked Her and She Retaliated. Winona, Minn., Feb. 7. — William Fischer of this city, according to his wife’s story, raised a rough house at his home, and after kicking his- wife just to show his authority he went to bed. After he was in bed she hit him over the head with a club, then called the police and had him arrested. He was put under bonds to keep the peace. RIMINAL CHARGES