Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 11, 1907, Page 3

Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, MINNESOTA, Washingten Notes. Beekman Winthrop, the newly ap- pointed assistant secretary of the treasury, has joined the president’s Jawn tennis club. Brig. Gen. J. W. Bubb, recently in command of the Department of Dakota at St. Paul, has been placed on the re- tired list, having reached the age limit. The president has appointed Col. Charles L. Hodges of the Twenty- fourth infantry a brigadier general. Gen. Hodges is now in the Philippines. The Brazilian embassy at Washing- ton has been informed that a treaty of boundaries and navigation has been signed at Bogota by the plenipoten- tiaries of Brazil and Colombia. Director Smith of the United States geological survey has completed ar- rangements to send a party of survey- ors to the Red Lake and Chippewa res- tions of Minnesota on May 15. A letter was sent from the executive offices last week accepting “forthwith” the resignation of Herbert J. Hager- man as governor of New Mexico. This means, it is said, that the resignation will be accepted as soon as the presi- dent's letter reaches Gov. Hagerman. W. W. Newell and E. S. Truesdale of Broome county, N. Y., who have been traveling recently in Europe and Africa and elsewhere, were among the president’s visitors last week. They told the president that he was the best known man in the world, and that in Egypt they found at least 10,000 cam- els named after him. One of the most brilliant social func- tions of the season was given at the White House last week, when Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained at dinner all the principal officers of the United States and foreign navies who participated in the opening of the Jamestown exposition. The dinner was followed by a reception. o People Talked About. James R. Foraker, brother of Sena- . B. Foraker, died in Cincinnati of , from which he has suffered for some time. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Turner of Boston, assistant national president of the Woman's Relief corps, is dead at An- dersonville, Ga. Capt. Charles A. Haserodt, aged sev- enty-five years, a pioneer of the Black Hills, died at Portland, Or., where he had gone for a slight operation. Francis Murphy, the noted temper- ance er, denies absolutely that he is arly stone blind” and is to retire from active work, as reported. Oxford university has conferred the honorary degree of doctor of science on Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, re- gent of the Smithsonian institution in Washington. Rufus B. Bullock, former governor of Georgia, died at the family Home. stead at Albion, N. Y., where he has resided since the death of his wife two years ago. William Platt Pepper, oldest mem- ber of a prominent Philadelphia fami- jy and well known for his philanthrop- ic, educational and church work, ig dead, aged seventy years. wor’ From Other Shores. The American department of agri- culture has ordered different kinds of Icelandic seeds and potatoes from the agricultural society of Reykajvik, pro- posing to experiment with them in Alaska. An agitation for a special Icelandic flag is being strongly pressed in Ice- land. Denmark maintains, however, that so long as Iceland belongs to her the Danish flag must be the emblem of the islanders. Scurvey has increased greatly in the famine districts of Russia. A telegram from the zemstvo president of Ufa province reports 11;000 cases in the province up to April 25. Official re- ports for the last week of March showed 1,055 cases of that province. In consequence of the decision of the municipal authorities to permit Free Masons to participate in the annual Joan of Are festival, May 8, the clergy will abstain from participation in the ceremonies, and will organize a sepa- rate celebration at the cathedral May 12. Casualty. Fire at Marinette, Wis., destroyed the barn of Edward Schmitz, causing a loss of $3,000. A fast train on the Missouri Pacific was derailed near Council Grove, Kan. Three trainmen were injured. One person was killed and thirty persons were seriously injured by an explosion at the harbor works at Anti- vari, on the Adriatic. Eight men working in a tunnel at the National Cash Register plant at Dayton, Ohio, were seriously injured by an explosion of gas. Dr. Roy L. Pruitt, a dentist, was killed by a street car at Jersey City. The motorman says that Pruitt’s body was lying on the track. Fire destroyed the plan of the Na- tional Stove company at Lorain, Ohio. Loss, $200,000. Four hundred men are idle as a result of the fire. Fire at Bridgeport, Conn., destroyed the Tait & Sons Paper company plant, causing a loss of about $63,000. Fourteen buildings, including nearly all the business houses of Markle, Ind., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000. Marion Gray, a wealthy farmer liv- ing nine miles north of West Liberty, ‘was run down and instantly killed by a passenger train. Mrs. Mate Chester of Chicago, grand secretary of the Illinois Order of tht Eastern Star, fell down an elevator shaft at the Mayer hotel at Peoria, !ll., and was killed. Fourteen horses were burned to death at Charles City, Iowa, when the Woodbury livery barn burned to the ground before the fire companies ar- rived on the scene. Four men were ‘instantly killea, three others were badly injured and fifteen persons more or less seriously hurt by the falling of a brick wall at the De la Mar Copper works at Chrome, N. J. Russell, Turrill, the two-year-old son of Postmaster Turrill of Jefferson, Iowa, narrowly escaped being burned to death. While the parents were ab- sent from home the child set fire to the house. He was rescued with great difficulty. Martin Banio, a laborer, slipped off the top of a 200-foot bluff at Alton, Ill., and escaped death by striking and sticking to a projecting ledge after tumbling forty feet. The fire depart- ment rescued him by means of three fifty-foot ladders. When piloted down the ladders Banio was puffing at a corncob pipe. Crimes and Criminals. Joseph Boccia, an Italian, was hang- ed at Easton, Pa., for the murder of his wife. E. G. Bussell, executive agent of the Grand Trunk Pacific in British Colum- bia, committed suicide at Prince Ru- pert. John Hamlin was found guilty of the murder of Rachel Engle at Grand Isl- and, Neb., and sentenced to be hanged. Miss Engle was thirteen years old, and Hamlin wanted to accompany her to a carnival. She resisted his attentions and he shot her. In an engagement in Magoffin coun- ty, Ky., between a sheriff's posse and Henry Montgomery, a lifetime prisoner who escaped from the Painesville jail a few weeks ago, two of the posse were killed and Montgomery shot dead. Homer Morrison, a wealthy man of Bryan, Ohio, has confessed to having been implicated in thirty-six incen- diary fires. His crimes include also conspiracy, perjury and robbery. He implicates two well-known attorneys of Toledo and their arrest is expected soon. Burglars broke into two business houses at Malta, Mont., blowing the safe in each place and securing small amounts of money from each. Negotia- ble papers valued at $6,600 were se- cured from the safe of R. M. Trafton. The burglars made good their escape. Jacob Frank, an agent for the New York Life Insurance company in New York, was arrested, charged with forgery in the third degree in connec- tion with the recent election of direc- tors of the company. It is alleged that the signatures of policyholders on some of the ballots cast were forged. Because she said she would rather die than marry him, Martha Corias, a German servant girl, was shot and killed almost instantly in Philadelphia by the man who wanted to make her his wife. The murderer, Franz An- drewsky, turned the revolver upon himself and inflicted a wound that probably will prove fatal. Samuel Rittenour committed suicide at Huntington, W. Va., by taking car- bolic acid. A few days before Rose Spears ended her life in the same manner because she thought Rittenour had deserted her. Rittenour returned from Kentucky, where he had been on business, and learning of her death, drank the deadly poison in the room in which the girl had ended her life. General. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad company will take an appeal from the decision of the Virginia State corpora- tion commission establishing a 2-cent passenger fare rate. The estate of the late James H. Eckles, president of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago and former controller of the currency, is said to amount to only $150,000. A movement has been started at Brownsville, Tex., to raise $10,000 to be paid as a reward to any soldier or officer of the Twenty-fifth infantry who will confess to having partici- pated in the raid on Brownsville, or who will give the names or produce the necessary evidence to vonvict those guilty. Having completely won the heart of Arnold Rothstein, a bookmaker, while playing a sketch at the Hudson thea- ter in New York, Dorothy Russell, daughter of the only Lillian, an- nounces that they will be married within a few days. Miss Russell was recently divorced from Abbott Ein- stein. The widow of Thomas Lewis, a Ne braska farmer, through a dream, dis: covered several hundreds dollars which her husband had buried. A long search had failed to reveal the money, but it was found at once after the dream. American interests have captured important foreign contracts for elec trical equipment, including a plant for lighting the czar’s palace. The carry: ing out of this work, together with contracts in England, France, Italy Australia and South America, repre sents an outlay of $5,000,000. DEATH AND RUIN BY STORM IN TEXAS AT. LEAST THREE DEAD AND MANY INJURED, SOME OF THEM FATALLY. SEVERAL VILLAGES WIPED OUT CROPS IN PATH OF STORM COM- PLETELY DESTROYED—BIG PROPERTY LOSS. ee Fort Worth, Tex., May 8—A storm of wind and rain which was general throughout a considerable area in Northern Texas yesterday, and which at some places assumed the propor- tions of a tornado, according to mea- ger reports received here last night, has resulted in the loss of at least three lives, the injury of many other persons and great damage to property and crops. Several villages were wiped out, but because of the prostra- tion of both telegraph and telephone wires details are almost impossible to obtain. Extent of Disaster Not Known. The full extent of the damage to life and property will probably not be known for a day or two. At Deport, one of the largest vil- lages in Lamar county, the storm passed northeast, cutting a path about 100 yards wide. The business part of the town was not touched, the damage being in the residence portion of the East side. West of Sulphur Springs the wind assumed the proportions of a tornado, carrying death and_ great property damage in its wake. The village of Antioch was practi- cally destroyed. The home and farm buildings of Lemmons were destroyed. Many head of live stock were killed. Killed by Flying Debris. A tenant on the place was caught by the wind and crushed by flying de- bris. Two children were fatally in- jured. Five others persons were in- jured at Antioch, one of them fatally. Many others were injured in the vi- cinity of Antioch, but it is impossible to get details. Crops in the path of the storm were completely destroyed. The village of Bird Wright was de- stroyed and it was known that at least one death occurred there, and it is said at least one was fatally hurt. Crawford Martin and J. F. Conner were hurt and may die. MEXICO NOT ANXIOUS FOR WAR. Will Try Hard to Settle Trouble With Guatemala Amicably. ‘ Mexico City, May 8.—Diplomatic re- lations between Mexico and Guatema- la have not been severad. Last night Subsecretary of Foreign Affairs Alga- ra denied the report emanating from Washington to the effect that Minis- ter Gamboa had been recalled. No developments in the Mexican- Guatemalan affair are expected for some time.’ Yesterday Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariscal. received a representative of the Associated Press and in the talk which followed said: Hopes for Peace. “There is a proposition now before the Cabrera government and until we know the outcome of this fothing will be done unless something out of the ordinary should occur. “Mexico will continue to insist on the extradition of the man charged with complicity in the asssassination of Gen. Barrillas. This country will exhaust every possible meants to set- tle the question amicably. Mexico’s desire for peace with all the world is most sincere. Will Resent Insult. “The recent cabinet meetings set- tled this much—that there will be no war at this time. Of course, no one can peer into the future. Mexico would not for a moment tolerate a di- rect insult from the\little republic to the south. In the event of an overt act on the part of the Cabrera govern- ment matters might speedily assume a different atttitude, but I don’t be lieve that such a thing is in the realm of probabilities.” Expects a Break. Washington, May 7. —- Ambassador Creel of Mexico has been in hourly anticipation of a message from his government informing him that a break had occurred between his coun- try and Guatemala. WILL CAN NO CORN. Canneries Refuse to Pay $6 a Ton, the Price Farmers Demand. Chippewa Falls, Wis., May 8. — Ge- cause farmers in Chippewa and Eau Claire counties persist in demanding $6 per ton for sweet corn, the canner- ies have decided to quit canning corn this season. The companies claim that at the price of $5 to $5.50 paid last year they were not making money. DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. House Wrecked by Explosion, but In- mates Escape. Richmond, Va., May 8.—The house of Robert Woodson, a negro of Henry county, was completely wrecked by ap explosion of dynamite Saturday night. At the time of the explosion Woodson, his mother, father and three c* were sleeping in the house, and while the furniture was destroyed all the inmates escaped without serious in- jury. There is no clue to the perpe trator. ASKS JUSTICE FOR ACCUSED PROSECUTION’S SECRECY IS DE- NOUNCED BY ATTORNEY DARROW. Boise, Idaho, May 8. — Judge Fre- mont Wood will on Wednesday next decide if on the eve of his trial for the murder of Former Governor Frank Steunenberg William Haywood is en- titled to receive at the hands of the state a bill of particulars specifying the overt acts charged against him. The motion of the defense for this dis- closure of the case of ‘the state was argued at length yesterday, and at the conclusion of the discussion the court announced that it would make a deci- sion at the time stated. Shows Deep Feeling. The prisoner was brought into court for the argument, and of his counsel both Frank Richardson of Denver and Clarence Darrow of Chi- cago pleaded in his behalf. Senator Borah alone spoke in behalf of the state. The discussion, always earnest, was characterized at times by deep feeling and dramatic intensity. Mr. Richardson, who opened the ar- gument, contended that the indict- ment was lacking in particularity; that it left the defendants in the dark as to the nature of the case to be pre- sented against them, and the defend- ants were entitled to a more specific showing of the case. Mr. Borah is reply declared that the defense was seeking a disclosure of the proof in the hands of the state rather than more perfect pleadings. Attack Prosecution. Mr. Darrow, who closed the argu- ment, began by saying that it was the purpose of the defense to secure a disclosure of the evidence in the hands of the prosecution and asked why the defense was not entitled to such a showing. He made a spirited attack upon the attitude of the prose- cution toward its witnesses and evi- dence, describing it as mysterious, un- fair and unjust. He asserted that the only question involved was one of fairness and justice to the accused. CROP DAMAGE NOT SO GREAT. Secretary Wilson Says the Reports Are Greatly Exaggerated. Chicago, May 8. — The reports of damage to the crops, which have been so numerous of late, owing to the un- seasonable weather and the ravages of bugs, have geen greatly exagger- ated, according to James Wilson, sec- retary of agriculture, who was in Chi- cago last night. When asked for his opinion on the coming crop of grain Mr. Wilson said: “Spring seeding is a little back- ward on account of the cold, but there is plenty of time between now and the last of September to grow a crop of all kinds of grain. In the States of Minnesota and the Dakotas, where we get much of our spring wheat, seeding has been delayed about two weeks, but with a few days of warm sunshine planting will be in full progress. While the weather has been unseason- ably cold in some districts, still it has not been severe enough to retard plowing, and my advices are that the ground in those states has been nearly- all made ready to receive the seed. We will have warm weather in a few days now, and I don’t see what is to prevent a normal crop of spring wheat in these states. “Taken as a whole, I see no cause for complaint, and I think it will be found when threshing time comes around that all this cry of crop dam- age has been made for a purpose.” CONVICTION FOR BLACK HANDS. Eleven of the Thirteen on Trial Get Prison Sentences. Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 8.—Eleven of the thirteen Italians who, have been on trial here charged with Black land crimes were declared guilty in the Luzerne county court. e other two defendants were acquitted. The prin- cipal charge against the men at the trial was the blowing up of the home of an Italian named Rizzo because he refused to pay money to a band of men calling themselves the Black Hand society. The penalty for the crime for which the Italians were con- victed is two years’ imprisonment. JUDGE LOVELY IMPROVES. Attends to Private Business, but Does No Work for Clients. Albert Lea, Minn., May 8. — Judge Lovely continues to improve some- what and is able to be about the city and in his office. He looks after his private business to some extent, but has not taken up any of the work of the law firm of Lovely & Dunn. TRAGEDY IN SOLDIERS’ HOME. Drunken Inmate Kills Another Inmate and Commits Suicide. Washington May 8. — William Parks, an inmate of the national sol- diers’ home here, yesterday shot and fatally wounded James Leslie, also an inmate, and afterwards committed sui- cide. Parks had been drinking. Les- lie died a few hours later. Dismissed for Cruelty. Berlin, May 8. — The imperial dis- ciplinary court yesterday sentenced Former Governor Horn of the Togo- jand colony to dismissal from the service, because, in 1903, he punished a native so severely that . the man died. Cold Reduces Acreage. Warren, Minn., May 8. — Seeding is again under way. Less wheat will be sown this year than usual. due to the lateness of the season. Flax and bar- ley will take its place. BLOODY FIGHT IN FRISCO STREETS STRIKE OF STREET CAR MEN DE- VELOPS INTO A FIERCE RIOT. MANY ARE FATALLY INJURED ATTEMPT TO MOVE CARS STARTS TROUBLE—MISSILES OF MOB MET WITH BULLETS. San Francisco, May 9.—The strike of the 1.700 union motormen and con- ductors of the United Railroads de- veloped yesterday afternoon into a riot, in which more than a score of persons were severely hurt, some fatally wounded and others hurt toa lesser extent. One of the injured subsequently died in a hospital. At 2:30 o’ clock the company made its first attempt to resume the opera- tion of its system by sending out sev- en passenger cars manned by between thirty and forty strikebreakers wear- ing the uniform of car inspectors and each carrying a .38-caliber revolver strapped around his waist outside of his coat. Bricks and Stones Are Hurled. Twenty-seven policemen, five mount- ed officers and several sergeants, un- der the command of Capt. Mooney, were on patrol guard. The appear ance of the cars was the signal for an immense outburst of jeers and howls from the crowd of about 5,000 men and boys. Before the cars had gone a block they were made the targets of stones and bricks. A guard on the rear platform answered the flying stones with a pistol shot. The bullet struck one of the union sympathizers In the arm. Fierce Fighting. This transformed the crowd into a wild mob and thence forward for twelve blocks there was fierce fight- ing. The strikers and their friends, aided by hundreds of youthful hood- lums, kept up a running shower of missiles. The guards on board the tars responded with fusillade after fu. sillade of pistol shots. Eight men received bullet wounds, some of which will prove fatal. Many Were Shot. Finally a dozen or more of the guards were arrested by the reserves from the central police station and a union crowd boarded the rearmost car and‘ started it back to the barns. Ar- tiving there the strikers charged that revolver fire was opened upon them from the barns. In this encounter several more men were shot. The mere appearance of relief squads to reinforce Police Captain Mooney’s men resulted about 4:40 o’clock in the partial dispersing of the crowds. SIX MURDERED BY MADMAN. Crazy Carpenter Thought Victims IRISH BILL AT LAST PRESENTED CONFERS LITTLE SELF-GOVERN- MENT UPON !IRELAND—IRISH DISAPPOINTED. London, May 9. — The government yesterday presented its long-awaited Trish bill to the house of commons and the country. This bill is designed to meet the demands for Irish home rule. It was presented by the chief secre- tary for Ireland, Mr. Birrell, to a crowed house. Compared with the home rule bills of 1886 and 1906 this measure confers little self-government upon Ireland, merely giving to the council control of the eight departments now man- aged by government boards. The council is to be appointed by the crown, and while the lord lieute- nant of Ireland is given power to nul- lify its measures, the crown retains control of five of the eight depart- ments, including the constabulary. The control of #Ais branch always has been a thorn in the flesh of the ae people. 4 It is natural and quite to be expect: ed that this half way measure is whol- ly pleasing to no political party. The Unionists regard it as a step toward home rule. The Radicals are disap- pointed that the measure falls so short of actual home rule and the Irish members are even more disappoitited with it. Irish Are Diplomatic. The Irish’ leaders, however, are maintaining a diplomatic attitude un- til they have time to study the provi- sions of the bill and learn the senti ment of the people. A Nationalist convention will be held in Dublin soon to decide upon the policy of the Irish party.. The labor- ites will support the measure because they are all home rulers. To prevent the first reading of the bill being deferred until to-day, and while Walter Hume Long was still speaking, Mr. Birrell moved the clo- sure. Then amid great uproar and protests and shouts of “gag” the clo- sure was carried by 417 votes to 121 and the bill passed its first reading by 416 votes to 121. The house then adjourned. NINE DEAD IN TEXAS TORNADO. Crops Are Badly Damaged and Proper- ty Loss Will Be Great. Mount Pleasant, Tex., May 9. — Heavy damage and loss of life was wrought by the tornado which swept Northern Texas late Monday. The towns of Ridgeway and Birthright are reported practically destroyed. All telegraphic and telephonic com- munication is suspended and details. are lacking. Nine persons are reported killed in the two villages and vicinity. Several persons were injured by flying debris. Birthright, a town of 500 inhabi- tants, is reported to have been com- pletely destroyed. Great damage is reported at Caney, a negro settlement, and loss of life may have occurred there. Crops in the path of the tornado are badly damaged and fences have been destroyed. LEAVES WEALTH TO KIN. Will of “Silent Smith” Disposes of $25,000,000 Estate. Were Plotting for His Money. San Francisco, May 9. — Walter Charles Davis, a carpenter, in a fit of Insanity yesterday shot and killed a family of six persons, with whom he resided. One lodger im the house escaped. She was a girl of seventeen. Davis pointed his gun at her and was prepar- Ing to shoot when he said she resem- bled his daughter, so he spared her. Davis and victims all resided with the Bush family, who conducted a boarding house. The shooting was done with a dou- ble-barreled shotgun. Davis, who slept in the same room with young Bush and Beard, arose shortly afier 5 o’clock, and aiter arming himself with the gun shot his roommates. Then he visited each room in turn, killing the occupants. The shots attracted a large crowd. Davis was overpowered by the po- lice and taken to the detention ward of the hospital. Davis fancied that the people in the house had formed a plot to kill him and take his money. LYNDHURST IN HOCK. Prententious Pittsburg Home of Mrs. Thaw Is Mortgaged. Pittsburg, Pa., May 9.—“Lyndhurst,” the pretentious home of Mrs. Wil- liam Thaw in the East end section of this city, has been mortgaged for $100,000. The mortgage was secured some time ago, the book containing the record has been hidden and infor- mation concerning the document did not become public until yesterday. The interest charged is 51-2 per cent, and the mortgage is held by the Fidel- ity Title and Trust company. It will mature in three years. The paper was drawn in New York eity on March 7, 1907. SHIP IN STATE OF MUTINY. Chinese and Russian Steerage Passen- gers in Battle. San Diego, Cal. May 9.—With 921 Chinese steerage passengers, all on their way from Vladivostok and Shanghai to Mazatlan and Guaymas, the British steamer Maori King put in here yesterday in distress. A state of mutiny exists on board the vessel and the ship is now at quarantine, under guard of immigration and custom offi- cials while awaiting.settlement of the matter. New York, May 9.—The will of the late James Henry Smith—‘Silent Smith”—was made public in this city yesterday. The value of the estate is brane at not more than $25,000,- 000. All his near kin receive legacies and there are bequests to two local hospi- tals. The will provides for a direct heir, but of this it is said there is not a remote possibility. His nephews, George Grant Mason and William Smith Mason, are the principal beneficiaries of the estate, receiving two-thirds and one-third, re- spectively, of the residue. BIG LOSS TO UNDERWRITERS. Steamship Dakota Will Cost London Companies About $3,750,000. Liverpool, May 9.—An agent of the Liverpool Salvage association sent to Japan to make a report on the pros- pects of refloating the Great Northern Steamship company’s transpacific line steamer Dakota,-which ran ashore in the bay of Tokio March 38, cables that it is hopeless to attempt to salvage the vessel, though part of her cargo may be saved. The Dakota is said to represent a loss to the London underwriters of $3,750,000. DUEL IS FATAL TO BOTH. Aspirants for Hand of Mexican Young Lady Fight Duel. Pueblo, Mex., May 9. — Lauro Jan- ders, millionaire owner of several ha- ciendas, and Jose Maria Beltran, mu- nicipal director of Tlatanqui, both as- pirants for the hand of the daughter of a prominent planter of this district, fought a duel with pistols in the streets, in which both were mortally Mabe aaa Both men fell at the first re. Girl’s Hand Is Crushed. Prairie due Chien, Wis., May 9. — Mary Ludwig, twenty-two years old, a helper in the Disman house laundry, accidentally had her right hand crush- ed to the wrist in a power wringer and but for timely assistance would have lost her arm. 118 Foot Fall Is Fatal. Minot, N. D., May 9—Jess Skidner of Bird Island, Minn., Iost his life by stepping out of a freight car and fall- ing from a bridge 118 feet high, five miles west of the city.