Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 24, 1907, Page 2

erald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, Washingten Notes. Ambassador Leishman has received assurances from the porte that the American missionaries at Urumish, Persia, are in no danger so far as the Turks, who recently crossed the fron- tier near Urumiah, are concerned. Mr. Dodge, the American charge at Tokio, cabled the state department that he had been officially informed by the Japanese minister of foreign af- fairs there that his highness, Un Prince Yong, has been nominated to be crown prince of Korea, The attorney general of the Philip- pines has been instructed by the de- partment of justice at Washington to file suit against the Standard Oil com- pany to recover $40,000 import duty on an old claim dating back to the time when the military turned over the government to the civil authorities. At the close of business July 31 there were in existence 6,550 national banking associations, with authorized capital stock of $902,405,775; circula- tio: outstanding secured by bonds, $555,023,290; circulation secured by de- posits of lawful money, $48,372,596, making the total amount outstanding $603,395,886. During July forty asso- ciations, with aggregate capital of $1,- 540,000, were chartered. Crimes and Criminals. Frank Ratzlaff, a Johnson county (Iowa) farmer, arose at daybreak, and, going to the barn, fired a bullet into his brain. 4 George W. Hudson and wife were found dead at their home near Nobles- ville, Ind. It is presumed they were murdered by unknown persons, whose object was robbery. Both had been shot. Believing that a slight injury to one of her hands, which she received while working in the button factory, would cause her to be unable to support her- self, Alma Fischer, eighteen years old, committed suicide at Muscatine, Iowa. John H. Zimmerman, who shot and killed Edward Shields while defending himself from the assaults of four high- waymen in the down-town section of Pittsburg, was exonerated by the cor- oner’s jury and released from custody, Rapp Guy, an Italian, narrowly es- caped lynching at the hands of nearly a hundred persons in Allegheny, Pa., following an alleged attempted assault on Mrs. Mary Baruko. The police had difficulty in rescuing the man from the mob. Meager details have been received at Fairbanks, Alaska, of the robbery of fifty-nine pounds of gold dust, valued at $12,000 from a registered mail sack between Eagle and Rampart. The sack originally contained eighty pounds. A school for thieves of the Fagin class is believed to have been discoy- ered at Cedar Falls, Iowa, through the arrest of John Lockerby. It is alleged that Lockerby, who is seventy-two years old, had ten boys whom he had taught to steal systematically working for him, Ed Granger, a miner at the Moun- tain Consolidated mine at Butte, Mont., was stabbed in the back by a fellow miner, an Italian, and now lies at St. Joseph’s hospital in a critical condi- tion. He was stabbed with a candle- stick. Granger does not even know the Italian’s name, and says that he believes that he was stabbed by mis- take. Frank Dungate, former mayor and a prominent merchant of Ottumwa, Iowa, shot and killed his father-in-law, Geo. Godfrey, and then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Just what motive prompted Dungate to com- mit the deed is unknown. He had been sick for the last week and may have committed the act in a fit of temporary insanity. Accidental Happenrngs. While attempting to elose an end door of a stock car, Conductor Smith of Chadron, Neb., fell and sustained in- juries which caused his death. Engaged in making a coupling, Hen- ry Steadman, a brakeman, was caught between two freight cars at Ironwood, Mich, and was crushed to death. Peter Peterson of Stephenson, Mich., was seriously injured by a bucket of stone falling from the top of a well in which he was working. Peterson’s in- juries may prove fatal. Four Newark men were drowned by the sinking of a launch in which they were sailing in Maritan bay, off Port Monmouth, N. Y. Seven other drownings occurred in the vicinity of New York. A passenger train was wrecked near Mountain Grove, Mo. The engineer was killeé and the fireman was fatally injured. A defective rail ditched the engine. Four persons are dead as a result of a fire that started in the Colorado & Southern freight depot at Boulder, Colo., and enveloped a powder house containing 1,000 pounds of dynamite, which exploded with a tremendous shock, injuring perhaps a hundred persons. The force of the blast broke humdreds of windows throughout the city. The property loss is estimated at $350,000. GENERAL STIIKE PRESIDENT OF TELEGRAPHERS’ UNION CALLS OUT ALL OP- ERATORS. CONFER WITH LABOR LEADERS ASSOCIATED PRESS MAKES DE. CIDED IMPROVEMENT IN ITS SERVICE. Chicago, Aug. 17.—S. J. Small, presi- dent of the Commercial Telegraphers’ union, this morning issued a general order to all commercial operators to cease work immediately where con- tracts with the union have not been signed. Mr. Small arrived in Chi- cago early in the evening and an hour later was in conference with Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. George W. Perkins, president of the cigar- makers’ union, and Wesley Russell, national secretary of the telegraphers’ union were also present at the confer- ence. Labor Commissioner Neill will leave for Washington to-day. He took no part in last night’s conference and said that he would make no effort to do so until a request for such action had been made. During the day both telegraph companies made a material increase in their board of trade. force and the occasion was greeted with lutsy cheers by the traders. A. P. Service Improves, Decided improvement was made yes- terday on the condition of the Associ- ated Press wires. The entire leased wire circuit between San Francisco and New York was placed in operation shortly after 6 o’clock last night. Up to that time the Western wires had terminated at Denver. A number of operators who went out on Monday re- turned to their work during the day. No Change in New York. New York, Aug. 16.—There were no developments of moment in the teleg- raphers’ strike in this city and at near- by points yesterday. The Wall street brokers and their operators were elimi- nated from the contest last night when the local telegraphers’ union met and for the second time tabled a resolution calling upon the operators of the finan- cial district to go out. Say More Wires Are Working. Chicago, Aug. 18.—No progress was made yesterday by certain labor lead- ers who intervened to bring about a settlement of the telegraphers’ strike by arbitration. President Small of the telegraphers’ organization met Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and Labor Commissioner Neill during the day, but last night sair it was only in a social way and that it was too early in the fight to talk of arbitration. Increase Working Force. Despite the general strike order sent out early yesterday, both tele- graph companies, by actual test, were able to handle business with greater promptness than at any time hereto- fore since the inauguration of the strike. The officials of both companies de- clared that instead of desertions in re- sponse to the strike order, the reverse was the true state of affairs, as many recruits had been added to the work- ing forces of both companies during the past twenty-four hours. Few Respond to Call. New York, Aug. 17.—Interest in the telegraphic strike centered yesterday in the probable effect of the general strike order issued by President Small. Throughout the East there were few if any responses to the call. This was explained on the ground that all operators who would strike had al- ready quit work, and here the strike order was given importance only as affording official sanction of the action already taken by the strikers without the previous approval of the national officers. Wires Work Better. Both the Western Union and the Postal companies claimed not to have been affected by President Small’s call and to be working their wires better yesterday than since the strike was declared. The Associated Press was not affected adversely. Both Sides Play a Waiting Gome. New York, Aug. 20. — As though by mutual agreement the parties to the strike of telegraphers took things easier yesterday, and the usual claims and counter-claims of the day’s devel- opments were not made public. There was little doing at strike headquarters and nearly all of the higher officials of the Western Union and Postal com- panies spent the day out of town. Those left in charge of the companies’ offices said that business was moving smoothly. Reports of the strikers stated that reports received were fa- vorable from the standpoint of the men who are out. Demands on Brokers. The local union met last night, and later it was announced that it had been decided to make certain demands upon the Wall street brokers, so that the brokerage houses that had not al- ready done so would be given until noon to sign the union scale. It was also stated that the strikers had de- cided to begin at once the publication of a daily paper, which would set forth their side of the controversy. The special leased wire news serv- ice was materially improved through- out the country yesterday. MAKES WHAT HE TERMS HIS “POLITICAL CONFESSIONS OF * FAITH.” Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 21.—William H. Taft, secretary of the\ war depart ment, made what he was pleased to term his “political confessions of faith” at Memorial hall last night. The Auditorium, which has a seating ca- pacity of over 5,000, was packed to the doors and several thousand people were unable to gain admittance. The secretary spoke under the auspices of the Buckeye Republican club, and the address was notable from the fact that it is regarded as the platform upon which he will make his campaign for the Republican nomination for presi- dent. Mr. Taft made no formal announce- ment of his candidacy, but he was in- troduced by Gov. Harris as: the next president, which was the signal for a prolonged outburst of applause. Favors Tariff Revision. Special interest was manifested in Secretary Taft’s utterances on the tariff. He reiterated his previous dec- larations in favor of revision, and de- clared that it would be both unwise and unsafe for the Republican party to fail to pledge itself to revise the Dingley bill as soon after the next presidential election as possible. Mr. Taft also declared in favor of imprisonment of individuals responsi- ble for violations of the anti-trust law and for the giving or accepting of re- bates as more effective than fines. His defense of President Roosevelt’s poli- cies evoked enthusiastic applause. Principles Laid Down by Taft. Some of the principles laid doown by Secretary Taft were: Amend the rate law; to provide for classification of merchandise for trans- portation; to prevent overcapitaliza. tion of railroads; to make it unlawful for an interstate railway to acquire stock in a competing line; to prohibit competing lines from having common directors; to permit rate agreements petween competing lines, subject to approval by the interstate commerce commission. Government regulation of railroads but not government ownership. Punish Illegal Trusts. Restraint of injunctive process of il- legal trusts and punishment with all the severity of criminal prosecution of every attempt on the part of aggregat- ed capital te suppress competition through illegal means. Action by the separate states to re duce “swollen fortunes,” and passage of a federal graduated inheritance tax law in case the national revenues need an increase or adjustment. Denunciation of the initiative and referendum as a national measure. CONFER ON ALTON IMMUNITY. Bonaparte Will Communicate With Judge Landis Before Deciding. Washington, Aug. 21 — Attorney General Bonaparte yesterday made a searching investigation to determine if the Chicago & Alton railroad is enti- tled to immunity from prosecution for granting rebates to the Standard Oil company, which was _ recently fined $29,240,000 by United States Judge Landis for accepting rebates from this road. From 11 o’clock yesterday morning until late in the afternoon Mr. Bona- parte was in conference with District Attorney Sims of Chicago, Charles B. Morrison, special attorney for the gov- ernment in the Standard Oil cases; Special Assistant District Attorney Wilkerson and counsel for the Rock Island railroad, which owns a majori- ty of the stock of the Chicago & Alton. After the conference the attorney general announced that he would make no statement until he had fur- ther communicated with Judge Landis. The decision in the case, it is said, will depend largely upon Judge Lan- dis’ reply to the attorney general. If it is established that Special Counsel Morrison promised immunity and the road carried out its agreement in good faith, it is said that the department of justice will order proceedings against the road abandoned. A transcript of the testimony taken before Judge Lardis was brought here by District Attorney Sims for Mr. Bonaparte’s consideration. BIG PLANT IN PROSPECT. Kaukauna, Wis., Hears Report That Pullman Co. Will Locate There. Kaukauna, Wis., Aug. 21—A report is in circulation here to the effect that the Pullman people intend to lo- eate branch shops here that will em- ploy not less than 500 men, and that they will get their power from the new electrical plant that is now being built. The report is general, but no one is prepared to say that it is authentic. Every one is satisfied that the Green Bay & Mississippi canal people would not invest nearly a million dolllars in an electric plant here unless they know what they were going to do with it. REVISE BUILDING LAWS. Recent Collapse of Concrete Buildings Cause Government to Urge Change. Washington, Aug. 21. — The recent collapse of several reinforced con- crete buildings, entailing a sacrifice of lives and a property loss of thou- sands of dollars, has caused the tech- nologic branch of the United States geological survey to sound a warning and to urge the immediate revision of the building regulations of the great cities of the country. WALL STREET PLOT NO CHANGE IN POLICY AND NO VINDICTIVE ACTION WILL BE TAKEN. NATIONAL INCORPORATION LAW WILL NOT LET UP IN EFFORT TO “PUNISH MALEFACTORS OF GREAT WEALTH.” Provincetown, Aug. 22.—The laying of the corner-stone of the Cape Cod Pilgrim memorial monument here yes- terday gave President Roosevelt his first opportunity of the summer to break silence upon public questions. The feature of his address was the advocacy of a national incorporation law and his stand in relation to violat- ors of the law, especially corporations. He declared that the administration would not waver in its determination “to punish certain malefactors of great wealth.” No Change in Policy. Continuing, he said: “There will be no change in the policy we have steadily pursued; no let-up in the ef- fort to secure the honest observance of the law, for I regard this contest as one to determine who shall rule this government—the people, through their governmental agents, or a few ruth- less and determined men whose wealth makes them particularly for- midable because they hide behind the breastworks of corporate organiza- tion.” The president said the government would take no action of a vindictive nature and no action that would inflict great or unmerited suffering upon in- nocent stockholders and upon the pub- lie. He spoke of the charges that the re- cent depression in markets was due to the administration’s attitude toward corporations, and declared that the only way in which that attitude could be influencing the markets is in the conduct of a plot on the part of the interests which are being attacked to cause such depression in the country at large as to bring discredit on the conduct of the government in the inds of the pople at large. Prosperity for the Honest. He said that the government’s policy in its ultimate analysis meant “healthy and prosperous expansion of the business activities of honest busi- ness men and honest corporations.” At one point President Roosevelt departed for a moment from his ad- dress as originally prepared to remark: “All that I have said as to desirable and undesirable citizens remains true.” The day was noteworthy in the his- tory of Cape Cod. The monument, which will rise to a height of 250 feet, will commemorate the first landing of the Pilgrims on American soil, their six weeks’ exploration of Cape Cod bay in search of an abiding place and the signing of the famous compact on board the Mayfiower. MINER CRUSHED BY ROCK. Accidents Cause Two deaths in a Few Hours. Butte, Mont., Aug. 22.—Three acci- dents, two resulting fatally and the other in serious injury, to miners oc- curred in the mines here within a few hours of each other. Two happened in the Parrot mine and the other in the Pennsylvania. Tim Crowley was killed in the Penn- sylvania mine by falling rock, his partner, John Powers, narrowly es- caping a similar fate. A premature blast at the Parrott killed William Sappina, a Finn, in- stantly, and so badly injured Joe Simpson that he probably will lose his sight. FIGHT FROST WITH FLAMES. Mercury Reported to Have Dropped Below Freezing Point at Fergus. Fergus Falls, Minn., Aug. 22.—Mer- cury dropped several degrees below the freezing point in the lowlands last night and reports are that many corn- fields were badly damaged. The bulk of the wheat crop in this vicinity is ripe and beyond danger from early frosts. A few of the late fields may have been affected. M’CLEARY POSTAL CHIEF. Acting Head of Department and He Signed $750,000 Check. Washington, Aug. 22. — J. T. Mc- Cleary has returned from Europe in time to be made acting postmaster general. Yesterday he was very busy with his new and larger duties. He signed one check for $750,000. The postmaster general is taking his vacation at Newport, and the first as- sistant is out of town. FIND HERDER SHOT. Who Killed Man Whose Body Is Found Near Wagon Is Mystery. Bixby, S..D., Aug. 22. — Messrs. Streeter and Pratt, who came in from the Slim Butte country, reported hav- ing found the remains of a sheep herd- er who had been mysteriously shot, ly- ing outside his wagon. Deputy Sheriff Harper of Belle Fourche held an in- quest, after which the body was buried near the wagon. The young man was a stranger and his name could not be learned. ES HE ATOM OY HH/6750,000 1 STOLE ) EVERY WINDOW. IS BROKEN AND LIVES OF OPERATORS EN- DANGERED. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 22.—An arm- ed mob attacked the office of the Post- al Telegraph company at Ashfork, Ariz., early yesterday and broke every window in the building with bullets. The lives of four employes were en- dangered, but so far as known no one was injured. The office is now guard- ed by Sheriff Lowery and two depu- ties who arrived yesterday by special train from Prescott. One Man Arrested. The sheriff has arrested a mah known as “Spec” Smooth for alleged complicity in the shooting. It is said, however, that Smooth is not a telegra- pher. Several men were implicated in the shooting, which: broke every window in the telegraph office, and it is under- stood that the Postal will offer a lib- eral reward for the arrest and convic- tion of the guilty. 3 The shooting began at 1 o’clock yes- terday morning. The Postal employes made no resistance. Appeals to Washington. Vice President Nally of the Postal company wired from New York that he had taken the matter up with the authorities at Washington, and Supt. Lewis of this district wired the follow- ing to Gov. Kibbey: “Last night an armed mob attacked our office at Ashfork, shooting into the office with revolvers and endangering the lives of our employes. They threat- ened to renew the attack to-night. I call upon you to protect the lives of our employes and the property of the company at Ashfork. Please act promptly.” i Gov. Kibbey replied that he would ‘act immediately. GOMPERS WILL FIGHT. To Contest Van Cleave’s Suit to the Court of Last Resort. Washington. Aug. 22.—Commenting |on the suit of James W. Van Cleave, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, against President Gompers and other general officers of the American Federation of Labor, Mr. |Gompers said yesterday that he would give the action the utmost publicity in the publications of the federation. | He said, if necessary, the case would be carried to the supreme court of the United States, and that the federation would make its fight to sustain the “unfair list” on the general constitu- | tional ground of freedom of speech and press. The suit seeks to enjoin boy- cotting and publication of the unfair lists. OPEN THIRTY-THREE YEARS. Famous Restaurant in New York Is Closed for First and Last Time. New York, Aug. 22. — Another city landmark, Lyons’ restaurant, on the Bowery, just around the corner from police headquarters, is passing away. The place has been closed by the sheriff and it is thought will hardly be reopened. Mike Lyons started the restaurant thirty-five years ago, and its prosperi- ty has been measured by the rise and fall of the Bowery. For thirty-three years it was Lyons’ boast that his place had never been closed. In fact he claimed to have thrown away the key. Then came the uptown move- ment of night life and with it the decadence of the Bowery’s famous res- taurant. GENERAL UPRISING EXPECTED, Arabs Again Repulsed in Attack on French Force. Casablanca, Aug. 22. — The Arabs have delivered another attack upon the French force under Gen. Drude, encamped outside this town, but they were routed with very heavy losses. A general uprising of the natives is ex- pected. The European residents of the coast towns, as well as those who live at Fez, Morocco city and other places in the interior, are leaving their homes and seeking safety in flight. JAP “SPIES” UNMOLESTED. Two Orientals Take Notes at Georgia Fort at Will. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22. — Two Japa- nese were discovered in the rear ‘of Fort McPherson late yesterday taking views and sketches of the buildings and grounds. A former enlisted man who first ob- served the men, after talking with them, reported the matter to the de- partment of the gulf. The officers of the department say no action will be taken unless other discoveries are made. First Hanging of Kind. Asheville, N. C., Aug. 22. — James Ruckner, a negro, was hanged for an assault on his stepdaughter. It is said that this is the first time in the history of this state that a negro has been hanged for such crime against one of his own race. Elevator Is Burned. Mitchell, S. D., Aug. 22,.— A. A. Truax received a telephone message yesterday afternoon of the burning of his elevator at Burbank. More than 15,000 bushels of grain were burned, with a loss of $5,000, which is covered by insurance. The elevator will be re- built at once. Boat Capsizes; Three Lost. Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 22. — Three persons were drowned here yesterday when a duck boat capsized in the Sac- ramento river. FROM POSTAL CAR THREE MAIL SACKS, CONTAINING TREMENDOUS SUM, DISAP- PEARS FROM TRAIN. OFFICIALS REFUSE 10 TALK WILL NOT SAY HOW MUCH WAS STOLEN—ROBBERY IS NOT DENIED, — Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 22.—Three mail sacks, containing about a quarter of a million dollars, disappeared from a Burlington train Sunday night between Denver and Oxford, Neb. The post- office officials have just made the theft public. Detectives and postoffice offi- cials are at work on the case. Refuse to Say How Much. According to reports made last night to railway postal officials in Lincoln, the amount of money stolen from the postal car on the Burlington last Thursday night was not $250,000, as at first rumored, or anything like that sum, but the authorities refuse to say just what the amount is. Money Is Missed. That some money is missing and that it disappeared near Oxford, Neb., Is not denied. The packages were sent from Denver for Chicago, and their disappearance was first noticed when the checking up of registered matter began just after the train left Oxford. It is denied that there was any trans- fer of mails from one car to another at Oxford. GOV. MAGOON SCORES CUBANS. Woeful Neglect of Sanitary Precau- tions Cause of Fever Outbreak. Washington, Aug. 22.—The war de- partment yesterday made public a long cabled report from Goy. Magoon of Cuba, which startled the medical offi- cers, showing as it does that in the short period since the withdrawal of the American government of interven- tion and the reassumption of American government by the Cuban army of pa- cification there has been a woeful neg- lect of sanitary precautions and an al- most complete disregard of the treaty obligations under which the Palma government was to keep the island healthy, so that it should not be a source of infection to the United States and other countries. The governor's report also discloses that the fever in this last outbreak has not been confined to the hospital corps, but has extended to other sol- diers. He also indicates that the evil sanitary conditions. cannot be cured this year, in spite of the most vigor- ous efforts by American authorities, in which it appears they received little support from native Cuban physicians. Before he left Washington Secre- tary Taft became seriously concerned for the safety of the American troops and residents in Cuba as the result of yellow fever at Cienfuegos. He cabled Gov. Magoon for a full statement of conditions and urged the governor to take every step that prudence could suggest to eradicate the disease. Gov. Magoon complied by sending yester- day’s report. The report says there are three cases in town, exclusive of soldiers. Twelve soldiers contracted the disease and three of them died. The soldiers contracted the disease in the hospital. No cases have appeared in soldiers’ quarters. TO SETTLE FISHERIES DISPUTE. The Unite States and Great Britain Will Let Hague Tribunal Decide. London, Aug. 22. Sas The American government, which has taken the lead at the Hague peace conference in en- deavoring to promote arbitration, will be responsible for giving the Hague tribunal the most important case yet submitted to it in the Newfoundland fisheries dispute, which undoubtedly will be taken there as a result of nego- tiations conducted in London between the foreign office and the American ambassador, Whitelaw Reid. Both the foreign office and the em. bassy maintain diplomatic reserve, but it has been learned from unquestiona- ble sources thatthe long correspoond- ence between the two governments made it clear that their contentions could not be harmonized and had reached an impasse. Finally Mr. Reid presented a proposal to submit the dis- pute to the Hague tribunal. After a week or two of consideration the British government accepted the pro- posal. While the matter is in process of arbitration the fisheries will be con- ducted under the same modus vivendi as last year. FOUR GO OVER DAM. Boating Party Passes Unscathed Through Ordeal on Escanaba. Escanaba, Mich., Aug. 22. — Four members of a boating party narrowly escaped drowning when their boat was caught by a swift current and car- ried over the Flat Rock dam on the Escanaba river. One leaped into the water and after a long struggle reach- ed shore, while the remaining men clung to the boat, which luckily pass- ed over the falls without being over- turned.