Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 20, 1907, Page 2

= Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. YEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED MPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ON FOREIGN SHORES BRIEFLY TOLD. Washingtcn Notes. Anthon B. Trama was appointed oostmaster at Vining, Otter Tail coun- ty, Minn., vice Samuel Severson, re- signed, and Herman Falk at Baden, Ward county, N. D., vice R. E. Young, resigned. Senators Cullom and Hopkins rec- ommended to the president the ap- pointment of Daniel A. Campbell of Chicago to be postmaster of that city to succeed Fred A. Busse, who has been elected to the mayoralty. Secretary Straus, of the department of commerce and labor, denied ad- mission to this country of five Japan- est immigrants. These are the first Japanese exclusion cases which have reached the secretary since the pro- mulgation of the exclusive order carrying into effect the new immigra- tion law. People Talked About. Joseph Ullman, the well known bookmaker, is insane. Samuel L. Harmon, president of the lumber company which bears his same, is dead at San Francisco. Charles O. Du Plessis, a widely known authority on athletics, died at his home in Chicago, aged fifty-three vears. : Dr. W. H. Drummond died at Co- balt, Ont., as the result of a stroke of paralysis. He was the author of stories and poems in the French-Cana- dian dialect. Mrs. T. H. Ismay, widow of the founder of the White Star steamship line, and mother of Joseph Bruce Is-' may, president of the International Mercantile Marine company, is dead in London, Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, has been appointed president of the Jamestown exposition aeronautic congress, which is to hold its meetings at the exposition during the period of the celebration. Ralph Voorhees is dead at Clinton, N. J. Mr. Voorhees was well known throughout Wisconsin as being the chief benefactor of Carroll college, to which institution he had contributed large amounts for additions in the way of buildings and to an endow- ment fund. From Other Shores. Private advices received from Ven- ezuela say that President Castro has suffered a relapse. A bomb exploded at Barcelona in a house on Boquera street. Four per- sons were wounded, King Victor Emanuel of Italy has gone to Athens to return the visit November of the king of Greece. ‘Ten workmen were shot and killed by strikers in the factory district at ‘Lodz because they attempted to re- sume work. The widespread floods caused by the melting of the snow are growing more serious in Servia. Many towns are practically under water. Ex-President Jose Lizandro Barril- jas of Guatemala was assassinated in Mexico City by a Guatemalan named Cabrera, eighteen years old. The seven alleged Mexican revolu- tionists who were deported from Ari- zona were sentenced to five to eight years in the penitentiary. at Hermo- sillo, Mex. At a general meeting at Essen, Prussia, of the German iron and steel manufacturers, unanimous objection was voiced against the proposed world’s exposition in Berlin in 1913, the twenty-fifth year of the emperor's reign. Dr. Thomas, the chief health officer of Stephey, England, during a hearing on a charge of selling bad condensed milk, made the remarkable statement that “75 per cent of the canned goods imported into this country from Amer- ica are not labeled, and English firms afterwards put on the labels.” las’ Casualty. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed the Daisy Rolling mills at Norfolk, Pa., entailing a loss of $100,000. A severe storm which swept Colum- pus and vicinity did considerable damage to property and resulted in one fatality. Three men were instantly killed at Hillsville, Pa., by the explosion of a ton of powder at the plant of the Bur- ton Powder company. Rey. J. J. Blackshear was fatally in- jured by an explosion of natural gas at Columbus, Ohio. He went to Alonzo Davis’ room and lit a match. He was blown through a window fifteen feet to the ground. The six-story Brickell-Mithoff build- ing at Columbus, Ohio, oceupied by the Evening Dispatch newspaper plant, and the Hoster three-story puilding adjacent were practically de- stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $300,000. Ten persons, two of whom were rescued from death by Capt. Ethe ridge and his crew of lifesavers at the Nagshead (N. C.) station, when the four-masted schooner Louis Bos- sart was blown ashore by the heavy northeast gale that has prevailed along the Virginia-Carolina coast for the last forty-eight hours. ie . The Gananoque inn, one of the best known summer hotels in Canada, has been completely destroyed by fire. Loss, $90,000. f Charles Turk ditd as the result of injuries received while working in a saw mill at Menominee, Mich. He was struck by a heavy stick of timber. William Fatheringham is dead at Burnt Fork, Mont., as a result of in- juries received in an explosion of dynamite which he was attempting to thaw. The office of the North Brick and Tile company at Mason City, Iowa, was damaged by fire to the extent of $1,000. A match thrown into a waste paper basket fas the cause of the fire. Crimes and Criminals. Charles E. Newberry, a contractor, was shot to death and D. M. Curry and W. McKinley, employes of the Citico Furnace company, were fatally shot as the result of a quarrel at Citi- co, Tenn. Anthony Comstock made three raids in New York in which he seized 15,000 picture postal cards which he claims are obscene. Four men were arrested charged with having the cards in their | possession. Joseph McKulecky and Josef Salava were poisoned by a stranger at Fort Scott, evidently for the purpose of robbery. Both men died a few min- utes after they had been found in a dark side street. Emil Benoist, a well known banker of Paris, was shot in the office of a financial newspaper of which he was the editor. The assassin, a customer named Carriot, fired ten shots point blank at M. Benoist. Confessing to the embezzlement of more than $2,400 from the Wells-Far- go Express company, of which he for- merly was an employe, Rudolph Crow- ell of Little Rock, Ark., gave himself up to the Indianapolis police. During the noon hour a sneak thief stole $1,700 from the paying tellers cage of the State National bank in St. Louis, and escaped. The loss of the] money was not discovered until the cash was checked up for the day. Burglars entered the house of James Carroll at Billings, Mont., and secured about $10 from the pockets of Mr. Car- roll’s trousers. They also took a purse belonging to Mrs. Carroll, which contained a small amount of money.|' There is no clue to the thieves’ iden- tity. The business section of Sandborn, Ind., was damaged by a dynamite ex- plosion. The supposition is that per- sons enraged at David Bruner, a drug- gist, who is alleged to have operated his store as a “blind pig,” did the work. The estimated property loss is $100,000. Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo- pold were convicted of the murder of Mrs. Margaret Leslie, the actress, at Chicago. Nicholas was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Leopold was given a fourteen-year term in prison. Robbery is said to have been the mo- tive for the crime. Domestic. Detroit ice companies have reduced the prices for ice for the coming sea- son about 42 per cent. Kansas City has inaugurated a cam- paign to secure the national Republic- an convention in 1908. Two young men of Iowa Falls, Iowa, are preparing to go to the Jamestown exposition on horseback. The Mlinois legislature has passed a bill raising the salary of the mem- bers of the legislature to $2,000. Mrs. Grace Redpath, widow of Pe- ter Redpath of Montreal, who died re- cently, left $150,000 to McGill univer- sity, Montreal. The interstate commerce commis- sion has held that express companies cannot give franks to railroad offi- cials. Another advance of 1 cent a gallon on common grades of gasoline has been announced by the Standard Oil company. The Akron Printing and Paper com- pany of Akron, Ohio, has gone into bankruptcy, with liabilities amounting to $30,000 and assets the same. Gov. Campbell of Texas has signed a bill making it a felony for corpora- tions to contribute to campaign funds or in any way aid candidates in elec- tion. The Standard Oil company has put up the price of all grades of refined oils half a cent a gallon. Quotations on naphtha and gasoline are un- changed. The Bank of Conception at Clyde, Mo., has closed its doors by order of the secretary of state. Its liabilities are given at $120,000, with assets al- most equal to that amount. Engineer R. E. Peary, U. S. N., has applied for an extension of leave of absence in order to resume his effort to reach the north pole. The dash to the pole will be attempted in 1908. The recently chosen executive com- mittee of the simplified spelling board organized in New York. Prof. Calvin Thomas of Columbia university was elected chairman, succeeding Brander Matthews. When George Ade was last in Pasa- dena, Cal., he wrote to a Dayton (Ohio) nursery ordering a car load of fruit trees, but failed to specify that they were to be shipped to his Indiana farm. The nursery people sent them to Pasadena, and now there is a freight bill of $1,000 to be met. Hereafter all employes of the Pitts- burg Railway company who drink in- toxicating drinks, smoke cigarettes or gamble will do so at the risk of being discharged. The management an- nounces that it will employ only such men are refrain from the use of the things mentioned. MANY TOWNS. ARE [eit WIPED OFF MA DEVASTATION BY EARTHQUAKE GREATER THAN FIRST RE- PORTED. DEATH ROLL WILL BE LARGE LARGE PORTION OF MEXICO IS SWEPT BY DEVASTATION AND DEATH. City of Mexico, April 18. — Heavy earthquake shocks continued on the west coast until 4 o’clock yesterday morning. Late news from the area of greatest destruction in the recent earthquake shows that the devasta- tion wrought was greater than at first supposed. Besides the destruction of the cities of Chilpancingo and Chilapa it is now reported that the city yof Trixtla, between the two cities above named and containing about the same population as Chilpancingo, was also leveled to the ground, and messengers from the coast who have reached Chil- pancingo say that the towns of Ayutla and Ometepec have been Wiped off the Map. Ayutla is about fifty miles south of Chilpancingo. It is a small place, and it is thought the loss of life there will be insignificant. Ometepec is further south. It is a town of about 4,000 inhabitants. Tlapa, a town eighty miles west of Chilpancingo, is also reported to have been wiped out. The report from Chil pancingo says that the whole of the west coast from Acapulco south to Salina Cruz has been badly damaged. Owing to the remoteness of these points and to the fact that wire and rail communication is very poor, news news from the stricken district to the capital comes very slowly. Fatalities Not Known, But one wire is working to Chilpan- cingo, and that rather spasmodically. Through the courtesy of the officers of the Federal Telegraph company the: Associated Press was given the wire yesterday at noon. The question as to the number of casualties was put to the operator, but he declared that he had seen about a dozen dead bodies and knew of some thirty wounded. Horror Is Confirmed. A dispatch from Chilapa confirming the report of the total destruction wrought in that immediate neighbor- hood. Fourteen are reported to have been killed.in one house, and the number of wounded is given @s thirty- nine. In the city of Tixtla it is reported that twelve dead bodies have been taken from the ruins and that twice that number of wounded are being cared for. Up to 4 o'clock yesterday morning the shocks, with more or less severity, continued in the vicinity of Chilpan- cingo, completing the work of destruc- tion and destroying many of the most imposing public buildings of the city. Thirty-eight Dead. At this time the total number of deaths reported is thirty-eight, and the wounded ninety-three, but in view of Jater reports which tend to greatly magnify the extent of the catastrophe it is thought these figures will fall far short of the real number of fatalities. It is reported that Acapulco is part. ly submerged from the great waves which dashed over the breakwaters. News is yet anxiously awaited from the isthmus of Tehuantepec, where it, is feared the shock may have wrought much damage. DUEL OVER A GIRL. One Contestant Was Killed and Slayer Commits Suicide. New York, April 18.—After a quar- rel over a girl to whom both were pay- ing attention, two Italians fought a duel yesterday, as a result of which one of them, Buda Piandiano, was in- stantly killed. Vincenne Cica, the other duelist, was found hiding in a closet in the home of his victim. As the police burst in the closet door Cica shot and killed himself. The two men had been close friends until they disagreed about: the young woman. BAD FIRE IN MILWAUKEE. | WISCONSIN CENTRAL AND TWO OF ITS OFFICIALS ARE CON- VICTED. Minneapolias, April 18. — “Guilty as charged in the indictment” was the verdict of the jury in the rebate case against the Wisconsin Central road and two of its employes, Burton John- son, general freight agent, and George T. Huey, assistant general freight agent. The jury reported to Judge Page Morris at 1 o'clock after a delib- eration of four hours and a half. The minimum fine for conviction is $1,000 a count, or $51,000 for the three and the maximum fine that can be half a million dollars. There were hal fa million dollars. There were seventeen counts against each defend- ant, charging the giving of rebates on grain shipments. Judge Is Careful. At 4:30 yesterday afternoon the case was given to the jury in ihe court room of Judge Page Morris in the fed- eral building. The charge to the jury was most comprehensive and clearly defied the rights of the parties. Those who heard Judge -Morris make the charge stated that it was one of the most thorough and careful charges that has ever been delivered in the federal court room. When the court opened yesterday morning Judge Page Morris denied the motions of the defendant's counsel | to direct a verdict for the defense. PROSECUTE POLICE OFFICERS. Debauchment of Chicago’s Police Force Is to Be Punished. Chicago, April 18—Further discio sures were made yesterday to the civil service commission, which is in vestigating the alleged debauching of the Chicago police department by Former Chief of Police John M. Col- lins in an effort to bring about Former Mayor Dunne’s re-election. Police In- spector John Wheeler went before the investigating body yesterday and told about receiving an order from Col- lins to have the men under his charge subscribe to a campaign fund in the interest of Mr. Dunne. Collins Found Fault. The inspector declared that while opposed to such an assessment being made, still he felt at the time that he should obey orders and that he and his men had paid into the campaign fund over $2,000, and that he had been criticised by his chief because the collection was so small. State’s Attorney Healy has already begun consideration of the evidence. Any prosecutions resulting from the investigation will be by indictment. The next grand jury will be sworn in next Monday and any steps looking to the indictment of the police officials accused will probably be then taken up. WILSON’S IRE IS AROUSED. Secretary of Agriculture Will Go After Food and Drug Men. Washington, April 18.“If this out- rageous misrepresentation does not cease the department will publish a list bearing the names of manufac- turers who are indulging in this cam- paign of deception.” This remark was uttered by Secre- tary Wilson of the department of agri- culture in an authorized statement yesterday, and was brought forth by the fact that there had come to his knowledge information that a number of manufacturers of foods and drugs were freely advertising that the United States government was guar- anteeing their products. The secre- tary said that the serial number and guaranty required by the pure food and drug act to be placed on food and drug products were being used by these manufacturers for this purpose. “The serial nmber,” said Secretary | Wilson, “is assigned to fix the respon- sibility where it belongs—upon the manufacturers—and to protect inno- cent dealers who have a right under the law to rely upon his guaranty. It is the guarantee of the manufacturer, not the guarantee of the government The secretary declared that every effort would be made by the depart- ment to put a stop to these state- ments, TALK OF UNIVERSAL PEACE. College Presidents Air Their Views at Carnegie Meeting. New York, April 18. — That intelli- gence, knowledge and culture are the things which the universities can coa- tribute to the cause of universal .gave the porter some mone) peace was the consensus of opinion of the college presidents who spoke last Early Morning Blaze Causes Loss of| night at Carnegie hall at the univer $150,000, Milwaukee, Wis., April 18. — Fire sity meeting of the peace congress. Vice Chancellor Roberts of Cam- starting early this morning in the top| bridge university and Pro-Vice Chan- floor of the Kroeger Bros. department] cellor Rhys of Oxford were the two store at Grave street and National] foreign educators who spoke. Presi- avenue, the heart of the South side} gent John Finley of the City college of business district, caused a loss proba-| New York was an American repre- bly aggregating $150,000. The fire| sentative in place of President Eliot was confined to the top floor, but the| of Harvard and President James of entire stock of goods in the structure,| the University of Illinois, who were valued at nearly $500,000, was seri-| wnable to be present. ously damaged by water. $10,000 STOLEN FROM MAILS. Taken From Bound for New York. Dr. Felix Adler also spoke. Decide Tney Are Guilty. Fergus Falls, Minn., April 18. — W. Registered Package| M. Trkilla and Ernest Kicker of New York Mills pleaded guilty to the Atlanta, Ga., Apri! 18.—A special to} charge of selling liquor without a 1- the Journal from Raleigh reports the} cense in the district court here yes- theft of a containing $10,000 between Wilming: ton, N. C., and New York. When the registered mail pouch reached New registered mail package} terday and paid fines of $60 each. Welcomes Prison Sentence. Chippewa Falls, Wis., April 18. — York the package was missing. The} James Jones, who forged a check with information has just leaked out from| pis employer’s name, George Mead, the office of the United. States marshal} was sentenced to one year in the peni- at Raleigh, although the loss was dis |tentiary by Judge Vinje. -covered several days ago. Jones says the sentence will do him good. WITH $25,000 WAD CLERK IN NORTHERN EXPRESS OFFICE AT ST. PAUL HELD UP AT POINT OF GUN. FORMER EMPLOYE DOES TRICK St. Paul, April 18. — Fred Zimmer- man, clerk in the Northern Express company’s office at the union depot was held up and robbed of $25,000 at 9:40 o’clock last night. Zimmerman says that the man who got the money from the safe at the point of a revol- ver was John Gunderson, who former ly was employed by the company and recently discharged. He had not been captured early this morning. Mr. Zimmerman was at work in the depot office of the company last even- ing when the would-be robber appea?- ed. As the latter was well known to Zimmerman and had worked in the office, nothing was thought of his presence there. Is Real Entertaining. He remained an hour or more, talk- ing to Zimmerman and others emplo} ed about the place. He apparently had been drinking and seemed to be in a very entertaining mood. He awaited his opportunity and when all others had left except Zim merman and a porter, the young man and ask ed him to go for a bottle of whisky The visitor explained that he expected to go out on an evening train and wanted the liquor to take with him. As soon as the porter had left the office the robber pulled a revolver on Zimmerman and ordered him to open the safe. As the young man seemed in earnest and had been drinking Zim- merman feared to temporize and obey- ed the command. The robber took from the safe a package containing $25,000. He left the office, ran down the tracks and disappeared in the darkness before Zimmerthan could give the alarm. Was Discharged Employe. The police were notified at once, and in a few minutes every member of the city detective force was at work on the case. The young man who secured the money recently was employed by the company and was discharged ior drunkenness. The officials of the com pany say that he was aware, from his recent connection with the office, that the $25,000 package was to be sent to the Cloquet Lumber company at Clo- quet last night. CART HITS STREET CAR. Cousin of H. H. Rogers of Standard Oil ts Injured. Great Falls, Mont., April 18.—Hua- bert D. Chevigne is in the hospital suf- fering from severe injuries received in a runaway accident. Chevigne and another man were in a breaking cart to which was attached a team of broa- ches. The horses became unmanage- able and bolted into a_ street car. wrecking the cart and throwing its occupants out. Chevigne is a cousin of Henry H. Rogers, the Standard Oil mi}Honaire. PETRIFIED IN GRAVE. Body Exhumed From Cemetery Found to Have Turned to Stone, St. Cloud, Minn., April 18. — The body of Mrs. J. J. Salfinger, buried -p the Melrose cemetery in 1900, was ex- humed and buried in another lot. The men making the disintermént finding the box and casket decayed expected to find nothing but the skeleton to re- move, when to their surprise they found a well preserved body. Upon touching it they discovered that it had turned to stone. LEFT FORTUNE IN POLAND. Farmer’s Wife Gets Draft for $60,000 From Russia. Granville, N. D., April 18.—Mrs. Os- trowsky, the wife of Anton Ostrowsky, a well known Deep River farmer, has received news from Poland announe ing that she had been left a fortune through the death of a wealthy rela- tive. The amount bequeathed to Mrs. Ostrowsk’ was $60,000, and she has just received a draft for the tull amount. Butter Coloring Kills. Miller, S. D., April 18.—The three year-old child of Jacob Weise got hold of the bottle of butter coloring that the mother had been using to color butter, drank about a tablespoonful, and died from the effects of it, after great agony. Three Hurt in Wreck. Altura, Minn., Apri] 18—While run- ning about fifty miles an hour a Great Western train was wrecked near here yesterday. The two rear coaches of the train plunged down a steep em- bankment. It is reported that three persons were seriously injured. Robbers Loot Bank. Hazleton, Iowa, April 18—Robbers forced an entrance to the State bank of Hazleton, blew open the vault with nitroglycerin, secured $4,400 in cash and escaped. Gives Body to Science. Minneapolis, April 18.—Dr. Elton B. Crowell, the Minneapolis physician who died Monday night, left a special request that his bady be given to sci- ence. The body will be given to Dr. Aldrich for use in scientific purposes at the university. FORMER CONTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY DIES SUDDENLY IN CHICAGO. Chicago, April 16—James H. Eck- els, president of the Commercial Na- tional bank of this city and formerly controller of the currency, died at his home here early yesterday of heart disease. The death of Mr. Eckels oc- curred apparently while he was asleep in his bed. The fact that he was dead was dis- covered by a butler, Frank Evans, who entered Mr. Eckels’ room after hear- ing a telephone within ring continu- » ously without receiving an answer. Thinking Mr. Eckels had not been awakened, Evans entered and found him apparently asleep. The butler called to him and getting no response sought to arouse him and found that he was dead. Other members of the household were summoned and Dr. Frank S. Churchill was hurriedly called. Dr. Churchill arrived within a short time, and after an examination gave it as_ his opinion that Mr. Eckels had been’ dead for some hours. Family in Paris. Mrs. Eckels and her daughter Phoe be, eighteen years old, are in Paris where the latter is attending a finish ing school for girls. The death of Mr. Eckels came on the eve of a breakfast party which h« had planned for a number of his friends and relatives. A post-mort: examination was held and a statement issued giving the cause of death as organic heart disease. James A. Eckels cf Princeton, fa ther of James H. KEckels, died two months ago. On the morning of the death of the elder Eckels the son was a host of Former President Cleveland Mr. Eckels was a stockholder and was prominent in the management cf several concerns. ROOT WON’T LEAVE CABINET. He Is Deeply Interested in Carrying Out Certain Policies. Washington, April 16. — The close personal friends of Elihu Root declare there is no likelihood of his quitting the cabinet before the end of the Roosevelt administration. They cite a number of substantial reasons to hack up their opinion. Secretary Root is sixty-two years old. He told his friends when he last entered the cabinet that he thought it extremely improbable that he would again return to the active practice of his profession. He is deeply interested in carryi out certain policies he inaugurated upon entering the state department Secretary Root has undertaken to weld the countries of South America into a harmonious political body. In addition he is laboring to elimi nate all causes of irritation in the re- lations between the United States ani Canada. At least two years will be consumed in perfecting these two undertakings With their completion Secretary Root will be able to retire from public life with the feeling that he has accom plished a great work of statesmanship which will earn for him a place be side that occupied by Monroe. DOG ATTACKS BABY. Mother Finds Mad Brute Gnawing Child’s Face. Schleswig, Iowa, Apri] 16. — While the infant child of Mrs. Louis Witt was taking a sun bath in the yard it was suddenly set upon by a strange dog. The mother heard the child’s cry and rushed out to find the dog gnaw ing at the baby’s face. The animal was frothing at the mouth and gave evidences of being rabid. The child was taken at once to town and its injuries dressed, but it is doubtful if it recovers. ESCAPES FROM TRAMPS. Montana Boy Disappears and Is Found in Nebraska. Billings, Mont., April 16—Ralph W. Sheffe, the twelve-year-old boy who disappeared from this city a few days ago, has been located at Alliance, Neb., and is now en route home. It has been ascertained beyond doubt that the lad did not leave hom voluntarily, but was either enticed or forcibly taken away by four hoboes, as these men were seen to put him i a box car at Huntley. It is not kno yet how the boy eluded these men at Alliance. TRAMPS BEAT CITY PLAN. Refuse to Work on Street and Now Rest at Ease. Eau Claire, April 16—The city au thorities attempted to make eleven tramps work on the street improve- ments, but the tramps refused to work, claiming it was illegal to make them work outside of an inclosure. Persua- sion failed, and the tramps now are resting comfortably in the jail. Rider’s Skul! Crushed. Clarinda, Iowa, April 16. — Bert Hoskens is lying at the point of death as the result of being thrown from a horse. His head struck against a log with such violence that his skull was crushed in. Furnace Explodes. Mason City, Iowa, April 16. — Prof. Jackson of the Memorial university was dangerously burned by an explo- sion of gas inside the furnace of his home. It is feared that he may not recover. JAMES H. ECKELS FOUND DEAD 10 GAN Sena Gear