Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 6, 1907, Page 2

$+ Rerald-Review. | TRAINMEN CUT By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH Washingten Notes. ‘There are now nearly 8,000,000 more people in continental United States than there were six years ago, accord- ing to figures compiled by the census bureau. Col. Albert L. Myer, Eleventh cav- alry, has been selected for promotion to the rank of brigadier general to fill a vacancy created by the death of Gen. ‘Wint. Admiral Dewey and his wife have decided to abandon the home in Rhode Island avenue, Washington, which was presented to them by the contributions of the American people. They will live in the future in the house Mrs. Dewey occupied before her marriage. The chamber of commerce of Spo- kane, Wash., has drafted a petition calling on President Roosevelt to cause an investigation to be made of the methods of the fire insurance com- panies. The petition asserts that only 25 to 30 per cent of the millions col- lected are actually paid for fire losses. From Other Shores. J. B. Amy, the sculptor, is dead in Paris. Prince yon Arenberg, one of the Centrist leaders in the reichstag, died at Grefeld, Germany. The ban upon- Chicago-meat as a food for the British army has been re- moved by the war office. Prof. von Bergmann, the famous sur- geon, died at Wiesbaden, Germany, fol- lowing an operation for appendicitis. Louis Harcourt, the first commis- sioner of public works of Great Brit- ain, has been promoted to cabinet rank Au explosion occurred on board Tor- pedo boat No. 147 at Cherbourg, France. Two men were severely scalded. Heinrich von Korn, aged seventy- eight, proprietor of the Schlesische Zeitung, is dead at Breslau, Prussia. He leaves a fortune of about $22,000,- 000 K. P, Pobiedonosteff, former prose- cutor general of the synod of the Greek church, died at St. Petersburg. Death was due to extreme old age. For. more than two decades he had been a prominent factor in shaping governmental policies, his voice al- ways being lifted in the cause of reac- tion. Personal. Col. Daniel M. Taylor, U. S. A., chiet ordnance officer of the Department of the Lakes, died at Atlanta, Ga. Swan Swanson, aged eighty-one, last of the original seven trustees of the famous communist colony established by Swedish immigrants at Bishop Hill, near Kewanee, Ill, sixty years ago, Is dead. Capt. A. E. Barnes, the oldest man in point of service in the United States railway mail service, died at Elkins, W. Va., aged. fifty-nine years. Capt. Barnes was on the staff of Gen. Gibbons during the Civil war. Edwin Bradley Haskell, one of the proprietors of the Boston Herald, and formerly editor-in-chief of the paper, died at his home in a suburb of Bos- ton. Mr. Haskell was also heavily in- terested in the Minneapolis Journal. Hamlin F, Lee, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars and a nephew of Gen. R. E. Lee, died at Colorado Springs, Colo., of heart failure, aged eighty-seven years. Although closely related to the Southern general and a Virginian by birth, Mr. Lee’ fought with the Union army. Accidental Happenings. Fire at Savannah, Mo., destroyed two stores and damaged a lumber yard. Loss, $60,000. The plant of the Mennonite Publish- ing company at Elkhart, Ind., was par- tially destroyed by fire. Loss $65,000. The Morton salt block, the largest in the world, was destroyed at Hutchin- son, Kan. The loss may reach $1,000,- 000. A train was wrecked near Yazoo City, Miss., and the engineer was kill- ed and three negro passengers were injured. A locomotive exploded at Lockwood, Ohio. The engineer cannot be found and it is supposed that he was blown to pieces. Fire at Memphis destroyed the plant of the Memphis Furniture Manufac- turing company, entailing a loss of $125,000. Fifteen students of the Bliss mili- tary college were injured in a wreck near Pendleton, Mo. Spreading rails caused the wreck. Parvin Runyan, aged seventy, a warmer residing nine miles south of Hammond, Ind., was struck by light ning and killed. The factory ot the Schulz company, manufacturers of pianos, was almost totally destroyed by fire in Chicago. The loss is $100,000. The sporting goods house of A. G. Spaulding & Bros. was partially de- stroyed by fire in Chicago. The loss is estimated at $350,000. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the brewery of the Union Brewing company at Pottsville, Pa., entailing a loss of $100,000. Be ed eee as | DOWN DEMANDS NINE-HOUR WORKDAY ALL THAT STANDS IN WAY OF AGREE- MENT. WILL TAKE WAGE INCREASE FEDERAL OFFICIALS PUT IN BUSY DAY IN THE INTEREST OF PEACE. Chicago, April 3. — The railway em- ployes in the train service of the West- ern railroads have reduced their de- mands to a nine-hour workday, and the government officials who came to Chi- cago last week to bring about a peace- able adjustment of the threatened strike are working hard to overcome that obstacle. Commissioners Knapp and Neill held an almost continuous session yesterday with the general managers and the representatives of the trainmen and conductors. Urge One, Then the Other. ‘The opposing interests met in ad- joining rooms and the peace emissa- ries went back and forth between them, urging one side or the other to concede a point in the interests of peace. , The men yesterday signified their willingness to accept the wage in- crease offered by the railroads if the managers would grant the demand for the nine-hour workday. The labor delegates declared that the wage increase asked for is a minor consideration with them, but that they could not face their constituents with- out securing improvements in the working conditions. Prevented Settlement. It was learned that the nine-hour de- mand of the locomotive firemen was what has prevented a settlement of that end of the labor difficulties the Western roads are experiencing. While acting separately entirely from the conductors and trainmen, the firemen are standing out for the same de- mands. and it is said in the event of a strike being ordered they, too, would walk out. RUEF SETS UP A BIG HOWL. Asks to Be Released From Alleged I!- legal Custody of Elisor. San Francisco, April 3—On the eve of his trial on the charge of extorting $28,000 from French restaurant keep- ers of this city, which is toe begin to- day before Judge Dunne in the supe- rior court, Abraham Ruef yesterday asked the supreme court of California to free him from the custody of Elisor Biggy and order him into the charge of the sheriff, whom Judge Junne disqual- ified on the ground of personal inter- est. Ruef sets up that his imprisonment by Elisor Biggy is illegal; that he is constantly and minutely watched by eight private guards and _ the court elisor, all of them bearing firearms, all of them employed by Rudolph Spreckels, Francis J. Heney, Wliliam J. Burns, and all of them paid out of a private fund of $100,000, raised and guaranteed by Spreckels; that his in- dictment by the grand jury was insti- gated and caused by Spfeckels, Heney and Burns; that Spreckels, Heney and Judge Dunne are his enemies; that so strict is the espionage maintained over him by his guards that it is impossible for him to have privacy, even in con- versation with his attorneys. The su- preme court took no action on the ap- plication to-day, not even issuing an al- ternative writ. Uses Acid to End Life. Iowa Falls, Iowa, April 3—Tom N. Johnson of East Iowa Falls, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Tl health caused despondency which it is supposed led him to take his life. Crazed by Religion. Rhinelander, Wis., April 3. — Chris Warner, married and the father of five children, was adjudged insane. His insanity was of the religious turn, and it took several officers to control him. Six Trainmen Killed. Fort Worth, Tex., April 3. — Six men were killed in a head-on collision between two freight trains on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, six miles south of here. Restore Order in Roumania. Bucharest, April 3—A report based on intelligence received from all parts of the country indicates that tran- quillity is being restored generally throughout Roumania. Building Operations Blocked. Vancouver, B. C., April 3.—All car- penters and painters in Vancouver went on strike yesterday, and building operations are at a standstill. Costly Fire on Isthmus. Colon, April 3.—The cold storage es- tablishment at Mount Hope, one of the most valuable on the isthmus, was al- most completely destroyed by fire yes- terday. The loss is placed at several hundred thousand dollars. Snow in Maryland, Cumberland, Md., April 3. — More than an inch of snow fell at Frostburg yesterday. The temperature in the Alleghenies dropped to below freezing. It is believed that early vegetation is ruined. WILL REPORT 2-CENT ILI JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE REJECTS PROPOSALS OF RAILROADS, St. Paul, April 3—There will be no compromise on the 2-cent passenger fare proposition recommended by the legislative conference committee, but instead the committee will report a 2-cent rate bill to-day. Efforts to ef- fect a compromise on the whole rate question, both passenger and freight, in consideration of the reconsideration in the senate and house of the vote on the passage of the 2-cent’ passenger fare bills and the substitution of a 21-2 cent fare bill were not successful, so far as the conference committee and the railroad and warehouse com- mission are concerned. 2 Proposals Are Disappointing. The proposals of the railroads upon which the compromise was to be made were received by the committee and the commission last evening. The terms of the proposed compromise did not come up to the expectations of the committee, and while the committee will have performed its full duty when it transmits the offer to the legislature to-day the committee will in effect re- port against the compromise by report- ing in a bill providing for a 2-cent pas- senger rate. Report 2-cent Bill. The bill will be short, providing for a maximum 2-cent rate, with stringent penalties for violation. The offer received by the committee yesterday provided for a maximum 21-2 cent passenger rate, with 2,000- mile books as now issued and a 500- family mileage book, to be sold for $10. The expected offer of a 2-cent rate for all return trip tickets did not materialize. On Commodity Rates. The proposed concessions in freight rates also diappointed the committee. The concession in the commodity rates, in which a cut of about 171-2 per cent on the average recently was ordered by the railroad commission, was about 50 per cent of this cut. The rates ordered by the commission are held in abeyance pending the settle- ment of litigation pending in the courts. SIX CUT IN FIGHT. Theft of Hay in Railway Camp Causes Fracas. Jamestown, N. D., April 3. — Six Italians are under the care of physi- cians as a result of severe knife wounds received in a general fight. The gang, which is part of the force employed at one of the railway camps, had been charged with the theft of hay and demand had been made upon them for payment. Some of them wanted to settle the matter, but others refused and an argument followed which final- ly resulted in a general melee, in which knives and stilettos were freely used. MURDERED FOR MONEY. | Unidentified Man Is Victim of Brutal Crime in Montana. Billings, Mont., April 3. — The body of an unknown man, who had been brutally murdered, was found yester- day on the ranch of John McConnell, seven miles west of this city. The body was badly gashed by knife wounds and a_ heavy blood-stained club, which told its mute story of the crime, lay near by. The pockets of the trousers were turned inside out and an empty money sack was found near the body, showing that the stran- ger had been murdered for his money. DIETZ CASE STILL IN AIR. Sawyer County Jury Takes Recess Be- fore Reaching a Conclusion. Chippewa Falls, April 3—The Saw- yer county grand jury has adjourned to Wednesday and no decision has yet been reached in the John F. Dietz ease. It is not likely that anything will be definitely learned until the jury has finished its work. Indicted Man Shoots Self. St. Peter, Minn., April 3. — G. A. Blomberg, Jr., former clerk of the court of Nicollet county, is dying at his home in this city from a self-in- flicted wound. Fearing the outcome of his approaching trial for the alleged misuse of public funds, he fired a re- volver bullet into his head. It enter- ed the right ear, and it is a miracle that death was not instaneous. The ball lodged in the brain and the wound will prove fatal. Died Without Warning. Calumet, Mich., April 3. — Michael Atfield, a brother of the Rev. Father Atfield of Hancock, dropped dead on the west-bound South Shore train at Nestoria. He was weighing the mail. As he stepped to a tank to take a drink of water he expired without warning. To Harness River. Black River Falls, Wis., April 3. — Work was started on the great water power plant on Black river a few miles above here yesterday. Kills in Jealous Fit. Portland, Or., April 3—Rendered in- sanely jealous at the sight of his sweetheart in company with another man, Roscoe James shot and killed Miss Grace N. Disney of Warren Or., and then shot himself in the head. He will die. Is Buried in Well. Yankton, S. D., April 3. — William Handy narrowly escaped death here by being buried in a sewer excavation eleven feet deep. He was dug out aft- er fifteen minutes’ work. HARRIMAN SLAPS AT THE PRESIDENT ACCUSED ROOSEVELT IN LETTER OF ASKING FOR $250,000 FOR CAMPAIGN. PRESIDENT . MAKES — DENIAL CHARACTERIZES CHARGE AS DE- LIBERATE AND WILLFUL UN- TRUTH, New York, April 4—What is osten- sibly a private letter from E. H. Harri- man to Sidney Webster of New York, embodying serious implied charges of | bad faith against President Roosevelt, was made public here yesterday. Re- duced to plain terms, the letter charges that just before the election of 1904 the president asked Harriman to raise a big fund particularly to help the Republican party in New York; that Harriman undertook the task with the distinct understanding that Depew was to be disposed of by nam- ing him ambassador to Paris, and that later the president repudiated | any agreement or understanding to this effect. It is also insinuated that there were contributions from insur- ance companies in the fund raised by Harriman, and that the president must have known this fact. Mr. Harriman protested vehemently against the publication of this letter, threatening to . prosecute any New York paper which used it. President Enters Denial. Washington, April 4. — The presi- dent was prompt to enter a denial of the charges made in the Harriman letter to Webster. He issued a lengthy statement, in which he made public letters written to Representative Sherman of New York during the cam- paign of 1906. Every point made in the Harriman letter is covered in minute detail. Sherman, during the 1906 campaign, had repeated to the president. the Harriman charges, whereupon the president wrote the letter made public yesterday. The charge that he had asked Harriman to raise $250,000 to be used in carry- ing New York for the Republican party in the election of 1904, the pres- ident characterizes in his letter to Sherman as “a deliberate and Willful Untruth, By right it should be characterized by an even shorter and more ugly word. I never requested Mr. Harri- man to raise a dollar for the presiden- tial campaign of 1904.” The president’s reply is believed to be stronger, as a letter to Sherman, bearing date of last October, than if prepared to-day in consequence of the Harriman charges. The president showed how he re- gards the whole matter by saying toa group of newspaper men yesterday, when he gave out the reply denying Harriman’s charges: “J feet particularly fortunate in hav- ing been attacked within the last few days by both Former Senator Burton | of Kansas and Mr. Harriman.” Is MAYOR OF CHICAGO. BUSSE Defeats Dunne by Safe Majority— Settles Street Car Question. Chicago, April 4. — Chicago’s post master, Frederick A. Busse, the Re- publican candidate, was elected mayor of the city yesterday, having a plural- ity of 13,121 votes over Mayor Edward Dunne. The total number of votes cast for Mr. Busse were 164,839, and for Mr. Dunne 151,718. The Prohibition candidate polled 5,875 and the Social- ists 13,459. Two years ago, when Mayor Dunne was elected to office he polled 163,189 votes, and John M. Har- lan, the Republican candidate 138,671. The Socialist vote the same year was over 40,000, and yesterday’s vote was a great disappointment to the leaders of that party. The new mayor will have the city council with him, but it is very close, as the makeup of this body shows 35 Republicans, 34 Democrats and 1 In- dependent Democrat. The ordinances settling the street car question were carried by a good majority. The total vote on this ques- tion was 165,846 for and 132,720 against. CABINET MAN UNDER FIRE. Laurier Accepts Resignation of Emer- son, Minister of Railways. Ottawa, Ont., April 4. — Sir Wilfrid Laurier yesterday announced in par- liament that he has accepted the res- ignation of H. R. Emerson as minister of railways until Mr. Emerson has had an opportunty to clear away charges of immorality made against him by a New Brunswick newspaper. Floods About New UIm, New Ulm, Minn., April 4.—The Min- nesota river is on a rampage and has been steadily rising for the last week at the rate of a foot every twenty- four hours. The lowlands and roads leading into the city are flooded. Travel from Nicollet county has been completely cut off, and farmers are compelled to board the Minneapo- lis & St. Louis trains in order to reach the city. In some places the river is over a mile wide. It is about twelve feet above low water mark and is ex ceeding the flood of last year. EWS OF THE ———— DULUTH WILL GET BlG STEEL PLANT STEEL CORPORATION MAKES OF- FICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF ITS DECISION. BIG THING FOR MINNESOTA St. Paul, April 3.— The United States Steel corporation yesterday de- cided to establish an iron and steel plant in Duluth, according to official advices received from New York. The plans are not fully developed, but they will probably include a blast furnace, six open-hearth furnaces, blooming mill, rail and shape mill, two bar miills, by-product coke ovens, coal shops, ce- ment plant, etc., and will invest some- thing like $5,000,000 or $6,000,000. The Members of the finance committee were unanimous in their action. What It Means. This means a great step forward in the prosperity and development of Du- luth, Minnesota and the Northwest. For Duluth it means the immediate employment of several] thousand men, the increased population represented | by their families and the large busi- | ness incidental to furnishing them the comforts and luxuries of life. For Minnesota there is the beginning of a | Breat manufacturing center in a city | already one of its jewels. For the Northwest it promises cheaper mate- rials for its railroads, shops, homes and farms. The iron from Minnesota mines will be made into manufactured articles on Minnesota soil. Northwest Will Benefit. The investment of five or six mil- lion dollars in a plant to change ore to iron will be the beginning of a manu- facturing center, where many more millions will be invested in plants which in turn will change the iron into the various forms for human use. And iron enters into almost everything except food and clothing. Iron for use in the shops, homes, fields and forests of the state and the Northwest will not be taxed with the double carrying charge of being sent east as ore and |} then returned west as the finished product. While Duluth and Minnesota reap the first benefits from the new enterprise, its influence must extend | over the Northwest and bring profit to every portion. MURDER AND SUICIDE. | Farmer Kiiied by His Hired Man — | Latter Kills Himself. | Fergus Falls, Minn., April 3—Jacob | Grinstad, a prominent farmer of Maine township, was shot and killed by Hans Gilbertson, his hired man, yesterday | morning. The shooting is said to have |been the result of a quarrel over wages. Mrs. Grinstad and two little | children witnessed the shooting. Mrs. Grinstad and children then fled | to a neighbor's, while Gilbertson turn- ed and went in the opposite direction. The sheriff here was notified and start- | ed out to search for him, but a mes- sage received a few minutes later said that he had been found. He had taken a shotgun and, going to the barn, placed the muzzle in his mouth and blew the top of his head off. WAS OLDEST OF PIONEERS. | Mrs. Charlotte Van Cleve, the First White Baby in Minnesota, Is Dead. Minneapolis, April 4. — The oldest | pioneer of Minnesota died yester- |day. She was Charlotte Ouisconsin | van Cleve, aged eighty-eight years. Mrs. Van Cleve, daughter of Nathan Clark, was the first white child of pure blood to be born in what is now the State of Wisconsin and which at that time included the present | State of Minnesota. She was born at Prairie du Chien on July 1, 1819, while a regiment of soldiers, of which her father was an officer, was on its way to found the first fort at the “mouth of the St. Peter river.” That fort is now known as Fort Snelling, PRESIDENT IN SYNDICATE. Connected With Eastern Men Who Buy Mine in the Black Hills. Keystone, S. D., April 3. — A. R. Roosevelt of New York, a cousin of the president, has secured an option on the Bullion gold mine of this city, and will send out an expert to report on the property at once. Mr. Roose- velt is said to represent a syndicate of Eastern men. one of whom is the president. The Bullion mine is situ- ated near the famous Holy Terror, and is well though of by mining men throughout the hills. The deal was made by Samuel Boylson of this city. Farm Hand Kills Self. Hope, N. D., April 3. — Going to a room in the hotel here, Edward Schultz, a farm hand, disrobed and then wrapping himself in the bed clothing sent a bullet crashing through his brain. No motive for the suicide is known. N Killed While Cleaning Gun. | Mapleton, N. D., April 3. — Henry! Hanson, son of a prominent farmer living near here, was accidentally szot | and perhaps fatally wounded while en-' gaged in cleaning his shotgun. orthwest. J. J. FILL RETIRES AS. PRESIDENT HILL SUCCEEDS His FATHER AS HEAD OF GREAT NORTHERN, Louis w. SHIFTS BURDENS TO HIS SON St. Paul, April 4—James J. Hill re- tired as president of the Great North- ern Railway,company at a_ special meeting of. the directors in St. Paul yesterday, retaining the chairmanship of the board of directors. Louis W. Hill becomes president of the company and Frank H. McGuigan first vice president, the other officers remaining the same. The changes went into effect imme diately. “I don’t retire,” said Mr. Hill yes terday afternoon. “Instead of two men’s work J shall now do one. Th company’s business has doubled in last five or six years, which renders necessary the increase of the operat ing staff.” Mr. Hill, as president of the com pany, has been chairman of the board of directors, and the organization is enlarged by the election of chairman Will Remain a Power. Mr. Hill, as chairman of the boa will remain a power in the Gr Northern. But having reached the age of nearly sixty-nine years (he will be sixty-nine in September), he has dé cided to shift some of the burden he has been carrying to the shoulders oi his son. Louis W. Hill, first vice president, has practically been in charge of the departments of the road for about three years, but with his election tc the presidency he becomes vested with more executive power, taking oft part of the burden which has been resting on his father’s shoulders. Mr. McGuigan, formerly fourth vice president of the Grand Trunk, with headquarters at Montreal, Canada, 1s given direct charge of operating mat- ters. MINERS DRIVEN OUT BY GAS. Many Are Overcome in Homestake Mine—Fire Burns Fiercely. Lead, S. D., April 4. — For the first time in its history there is not one man in the Homestake mine on the Lead side, and only the Amicus mill in this city is running. The Star and Homestake mills both hung up their stamps yesterday. An extra force otf men has been put to work on the open cut, where it is hoped to securé enough ore to keep the Amicus run ning. All the workings ‘on the Lead sid are choked with carbon dioxide fumes so strong that no man can live in them. It was even found nec y yesterday afternoon to abandoa th¢ pump on _ the 1,100-foot level. The company, however, is supplied with skips which they will use for bringing up the water as soon as it reaches the 1,250-foot level. The gas reached this level at 1 o’clock yesterday morning and swept down like a strong wind. Men were overcome almost instantly and fell to the ground insensible. Only the immediate arrival of a rescue party prevented a number of fatali- ties. The fire is burning fiercely in a tim bered slope, and there is no possibil ity of checking it soon. It has now been burning eight days. ELECTION IN WISCONSIN. Re-elected Justice of the Supreme Court. Milwaukee, Wis., April 4.—Judicia? election day in Wisconsin was marked by several municipal and special elec- tions in various cities of the state. Justice R. D. Marshall, candidate for re-election as justice of the suprem¢ court, appears to have been re-elected over Henry Scudder of Marinette. Local questions were the issue as a rule in municipal elections. Racine and Kenosha voted for municipal ownership of water and light plants, respectively. Marshall MISS DAVIDSON WEDS. Daughter of Wisconsin Governor Mar- ries Milwaukeean. Madison, Wis., April 4—The wed ding of Miss Mabel Davidson, the eld- est daughter of Gov. and Mrs. David- son, and Frederick Imbusch of Mil- waukee was celebrated yesterday aft ernoon in the drawing room of the ex- ecutive residence in the presence of about thirty invited guests. NEW PLAN FOR CANAL WORK. Panama, April 4—According to 2 new arrangement the isthmian canal commission will henceforth have power to solve all questions relating to the canal without referring them, as heretofore, to Washingten. The members of the commission will re- side on the isthmus and hold weekly ' meetings. The work is to be distribu- ted so that each commissioner has eharge of a certain department for which he will be responsible.