Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 19, 1907, Page 2

| | L | | | Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ON FOREIGN SHORES BRIEFLY TOLD. Washington, Attorney General Bonaparte has de- cided that foreign ships carrying coal for naval use from one American port to another are not subject to any port charges or lighthouse dues. The secretary of the interior has ex- ecuted a contract with Devore Bros. & Farlow of Vale, S. D., for the con- struction of a portion of the Belle Fourche irrigation project in South Dakota. The amount of the contract is $103,500. People Talked About. Lieutenant Commander Chester Wells, U. S. N., was married in Lon- don to Miss Marion Lehigh Dixon. Jose Gutierez, aged 117, died near El Paso, Tex. He drank whiskey until he was seventy, when he found it was not good for him and quit. He had never been married. Mrs. John C. Breckinridge, widow of Gen. Breckinridge, who was a vice president of the United States and a candidate for the presidency against Abraham Lincoln, died in New York. Among the voters who have regis- tered in the East Side Ghetto in New York is Simon Harris, who gave his age as 104 years. The old man regis- tered and went to and from the office without assistance, Crimes and Criminals. The fourth trial of Caleb Powers on the charge of complicity in the mur- der of Gov. Goebel of Kentucky has been fixed for Nov. 11. Hyman Hungerleider, aged fifty-two years, a manufacturer of Philadelphia, committed suicide last night by cutting his throat. He was in financial diffi- culties. Crazed by drink, John Rondeau, an old resident of Vadeau, Mich., commit- ted suicide by hanging in his barn. He was a wealthy farmer and is survived by his wife and three children. Arthur Johnson, a well known negro pugilist, who recently defeated Bob Fitzsimmons, has been arrested in Chicago on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Inspectors from the Ohio state bu- reau of accounting report a total of $20,338 has been taken from the coun- ty treasury of Highland county in va- rious ways without warrant of law. Defendants in the Pennsylvania capitol prosecutions will be arraigned in the Dauphin county court for trial Jan. 25 next. Counsel for the defense formally entered pleas waiving all moves for delay. Joseph H. Wood, aged sixteen years, who was arrested on suspicion in con- nection with the murder of nine-year- old Ethel Nevins, whose body was found in a thicket not far from her home in East Camden, N. J., on Sat- urday, made a confession in which he admits that he murdered the child. From Other Shores. David Masson, historiographer royal for Scotland, is dead. Prof. Masson was editor of Macmillans’ Magazine from 1858 to 1865. The Paris-Rome express was wreck- ed at St. Pierre d’Arena. One passen- ger was killed and six injured. No Americans were hurt. Herr Bebel, the socialist leader in the German reichstag, intends to visit the United States next year and de- liver a series of speeches on social- ism. The body of Prince Tzereteli was found hacked to pieces in the suburbs of Gori, Russia. The police have evi- dence that the crime was committed by peasants. The custodian of the library at St. Germain, France, has discovered the theft of a number of valuable manu- scripts. These robberies are attrib- uted to Antoine Thomas. M. Decutsh de la Mouthe, the aero- naut, has notified the French govern- ment that he has placed his dirigible balloon, Ville de Paris, at the disposi- tion of the war department in the event of war. The American line Paul arrived at steamship St. Cherbourg seven hours late. She encountered terrific storms, during which heavy seas swept her decks clean. The funnels of the St. Paul were thickly encrusted with salt. Casualty. Engene M. Bourne, thirteen years old, died as the result of injuries re- ceived in a footfall game at Salt Lake City. Four men were killed and several others injured by the falling of a der- rick where a new railway bridge is be- ing built at Cleveland. The home of Harry Mitchell, near Holland, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Mitchell’s aged mother and three children were burned to death. John E. Daly, United States survey- or general, slipped on the stairs in the Selling-Hirsch building at Portland, Or., and broke his neck. A misstep while hanging to the side of the car with his foot on the brake rod nearly cost R. E, Walker, an Illi- nois Central brakeman, his life at Fort Dodge. His foot slipped and went un- der the wheels. It was served between the ankle and knee, He will recover. Nine lives were lost at the Fogges colliery, near Bolton, Eng., when a tope slipped off a pulley and precipi- tated an elevator cage to the bottom of a deep shaft. : ‘Thomas J. Dupress, a member of the firm of Broadnax & Co., jewelers of Memphis, while riding a motorcycle col- lided with a street car, sustaining in- juries which resulted in his death. Thomas Bertram, twenty years old, of Altoona, Pa., received injuries dur- ing a football game that caused his death. His death, it is said, will re- sult in prosecutions against those who played Sunday football. James Jackson, a coal miner, and his sixteen-year-old daughter, were killed at Bridgeport, Ohio, when a spark from the pipe smoked by Joseph Barbusi set off a keg of powder in his home and demolished the house. Stanley Gerrity and J. F. Fortney, employes of a construction company at Gary, Ind., were killed and three work- men seriously injured when a passen- ger train ran into a group of men who were about to board a local train at Gary. A passenger train on the Atlantic Coast line ran into an open switch and collided with an engine at South Rocky Mount, N. C. The engineer of the passenger train was instantly kill- ed and a postal clerk was slightly in- jured. General News Items. Samuel Barb has been arrested at Fort William, Ont., by Sergt. Watkin on a charge of forgery. The alleged crime was committed in Duluth. Three prisoners escaped from the county jail at Cincinnati. They dug their way through an inner wall with pieces of iron broken from their beds. The carpenters employed in the con- struction of the Bell Telephone build- ing at Great Falls, Mont., have gone on strike once more, and the work on the building is stopped. Frederick Boehmann, a wealthy Ger- man, was sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary for the murder last Decoration day of Henry Mathias, a saloonkeeper at Chicago. Oct. 20 has been set by the manage- ment of the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern as the date on which reg- ular service will be started on the re- cently completed electric lines. Levi Jones and William Carpenter are dying in a hospital at Pittsburg from injuries received in a duel with a knife and an ice pick as weapons. The fight was prompted, it is said, by jealousy. The jury in the Rowland murder trial at Raleigh, N. C., returned a ver- dict of acquittal. Dr. and Mrs. David Rowland were charged with poisoning the woman’s former husband, Charles R, Strange. William Burns, a negro desperado who shot Policemen August Barter at Cumberland, M4d., inflicting wounds from which the officer died, was taken from jail by a mob at an early hour and shot to death. With the assistance of seven power- ful tugs the battleship Kentucky, which stranded off Lambert’s Point, Va., while endeavoring to avoid a pos- sible collision with vessels lying at anchor in the stream, waiting to take coal, has been floated. Freight tonnage passing through the Soo canals, according to the Sep- tember report, was over 8,500,000, mak- ing the season’s tonnage to date over 40,000,000. Less than 10,000,000 more is needed to exceed the record of last season. The year will break last year’s record by several millions. The output of automobiles for 1908 is expected to be 55,000 cars, as against 45,000 made this year. TOWN WIPED OUT BY EXPLOSION OF POWDER PLANT FROM 25 TO 50 KILLED AND OVER 600 MORE OR LESS SERIOUS- LY INJURED. SHOCK 1S FELT 200 MILES EVERY BUILDING IN TOWN IN RUINS—DEAD HORRIBLY MAN- ‘GLED AND BURNED, Fontanet, Ind., Oct. 17. — Fontanet was practically destroyed yesterday by the explosion of the plant of the Dupont Powder company. The dead number from twenty-five to fifty. Over 600 persons were injured and every building in the town was wholly or partly leveled to the ground. Where stood a thriving and busy town of 1,000 people yesterday morn- ing, now there is ruin and scattered wreckage. The dead and more seri- ously injured have been taken away Five hundred inhabitants, all more or less wounded, remain to gather their household goods and sleep under tents and on cots, guarded by soldiers o the state. 3 Shock Felt 200 Miles. Without warning the powder mills, seven in number, blew up at 9:15 yes- terday morning. They employed 200 men and of these seventy-five were at work when the first explosion occur- red in the press mill. In quick succes- sion the glazing mill, the two coining mills and the powder magazine blew up, followed by the cap mill. In the magazine, situated several hundred yards from the mill, were stored 40, 000 kegs of powder. The concussion when it blew up was felt nearly 200 miles. Every house in this town was destroyed. Farm houses two miles away and school houses equally dis- tant were torn to pieces and their oc cupants injured. Wreckage Takes Fire. Immediately following the explo- sion the wreckage took fire and the inhabitants of the town, who rushed to the rescue of the mill employes. found themselves powerless to aid those burning in the ruins. They worked frantically in constant danger from possible succeeding ex- plosions, unmindful of their ruined homes. Dead and dying were picked up and collected. Eighteen bodies horribly burned and mangled were carted to a protected spot to await identification, while the badly injured, numbering upwards of fifty, were put on a special train and taken to Terre Haute for hospital accommodations. Rescuers Are Killed. The mills were located one mile south of the town. With the first ex- plosion the employes ran‘ for safety, but most of them were killed or wounded by the quick following explo. sions in the other mills. When the heat from the burning mills exploded the giant powder magazine, ninety minutes later, destroying the town by These | the concussion, many of those engaged figures, which are said to be a con-|in rescue work were badly injured and servative estinfate, have been an-| several killed. nounced by the management of the American Motor Car Manufacturers’ association, Judges Grosscup, Baker and Seaman, Among the buildings totally destroy- ed in the town were the Methodist and Christian churdkes, two school build- ings, the depot, all business blocks, in- in the United States circuit court of| cluding a large block just completed, appeals, in an opinion overruled the] a large warehouse and 500 homes. petition of the Chicago & Alton Rail- way company for a rehearing on its appeal from the $60,000 fine imposed by Judge K. M. Landis a little more than a year ago for rebating. It is authoritatively stated at the state department that there is no foun- dation for the report that Robert Ba- con, first assistant secretary of state, is to succeed Ambassador Tower at Berlin, and it is added that no word has yet been received from Mr. Tower indicating his intention to retire from the office. But for the investigation ‘of the child’s father and the timely arrival of officers, Henry Johnson, a negro, who it is alleged assaulted the three-year-| old daughter of Leonard Broadway, would probably have been lynched at Memphis by a posse of neighbors, who Jones, captured him after a two-mile chase. Grand Master John J. Hanrahan of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- men and Engineers has issued a call for a meeting of the general chairmen of the joint protective boards of all the railroads east of Chicago to meet in Buffalo. The purpose of the meet- ing is to establish a standard rate of pay and uniform operating and work- ing rules for the various railroads in the territory embracing all the lines east of Chicago. Sir Thomas Lipton has decided to build the new Fife-designed cutter to Militia on Guard. Gov. Hanly at Indianapolis ordered the Terre Haut ecompany of the Indi- ana national guard to patrol the ruin- ed district and protect life and prop- erty. The governor arrived about the time the soldiers. reached here. He brought with him 700 tents and cots for the use of the homeless, MRS, ROMADKA IN JAIL. Confessed Thief Surrendered by Hier Bondsman, Chicago, Oct. 17.—Mrs. Evelyne Ro- madka of Milwaukee was yesterday arraigned in the municipal court on charges of burglary, larceny and re- ceiving stolen property. The negro who is implicated in the charges, was ‘also in court. The cases were continued for one week. At the conclusion of the hearing A. J. Ward, the bondsman for Mrs. Ro- madka, declared that he would not longer offer security for her appear: ance and desired to surrender her to the court. When this was done Mrs, Romadka fainted. After being revived she was placed in a cell in the police station and was taken to the county jail late yesterday. QUAKERS IN CONFERENCE. compete in the British regattas in| National Meeting of Society of Friends in 1908. It is intended that the cutter shall eclipse the White Heather II. . Is Being Held at Richmond. Richmond, Ind., Oct. 17.—Orthodox the present champion of the Britsh Quakers from all parts of the United yachts. States and also from Canada, Cuba, A gang of convicts who were being] Mexico and England are gathered escorted to Tobolsk, Siberia, from] here for the five years’ meeting of the Tyumen, Eastern Siberia, their guards and wounded six of them. The guards fired on the convicts, twenty-two of- whom were killed, Eleven of the prisoners escaped with rifles which they had wrested from the members of the escort. attacked] Society of Friends in America, Many matters relating to the discipline of the church and its educational, mis. sionary and other activities will be considered during the two weeks the meeting will be in session. ENGLISH PASSENGER TRAIN DE- RAILED WHILE GOING AT\ HIGH SEED. Shrewsburg, England, Oct. 17. — A passenger train bound from Scotland and the north of England to Bristol left the rails as it was entering the station here early yesterday morning. Nineteen persons were killed and thir- ty-nine others were injurd. The track curves sharply as it nears Shrews- bury, and there is a standing order that the engineers must not exceed a speed of ten miles an hour at that point. Disregard of the order is be- lieved to have been the cause of the accident. Somebody Blundered. It is suggested, as this is the third accident of a similar kind within a year to a train entering a station on a curve, the cause may be failure of the vacuum brakes to respond. It seems certain that somebody blunder- ed, for the train was going at a tre- mendous rate of speed when the acci- dent happened. The engine and all the cars, with the exception of the last one, left the rails, and when the officials from the railroad station reached the spot the cars were a tangled mass of wreckage, beneath which were the bodies of the dead and injured. HARRIMAN IS CHOKED OFF. Can’t Vote I. C. Stock Held by U. P. —Both Sides Claim Victory. Chicago, Oct. 17.—E. H. Harriman was yesterday, by an order of court, deprived of the voting power of 286,- 781 shares of Illinois Central stock in the annual meeting of that railroad company, which opens at noon to-day. The order of the court was practical- ly identical with a modification asked by the attorneys of Mr. Harriman. Both sides claim a victory, Mr. Fisk because the enjoined shares will not be effective in the election, and Mr. Harriman because his modification was secured. These shares of stock ruled out are those held by the Union Pacific Rail- way company, the Railroad Securities Company of New Jersey and the Mu- tual Life Insurance Company of New York, against which a temporary in- junction was Monday issued by Judge Ball in the superior court. Mr. Fish Monday asked that the voting of these shares be enjoined. The court yesterday, after extensive argument by the attorneys of both sides, modified the injunction by per- mitting the shares to be voted under the condition that if any one of these shares should have a decisive effect on any vote taken, the .entire vote is then to be null and void. In other words, Mr. Fish is given by the court a handicap of 286,731 votes, and in or- der to defeat him on any motion or resolution which comes before the an- nual meeting Mr. Harriman and his friends must cast 286,732 votes more than are cast by Mr. Fish and his fol- lowers. As the matter now stands both Sides believe that victory is in their grasp. 1S NO MOLLYCODDLE. President’s Capacity for Roughjng It Astounds Camp. 4 Stamboul, La., Oct. 17.—At 6 o’clock last night no news of the president’s day hunt had been received here. Arrivals from the Bear lake encamp- ment tell marvelous stories of ue president’s hardihood and capacity for roughing it. When he _ carried his blankets with him from the upper camp last Friday and that night and next morning ate only cold bread and meat he had taken in his saddle pock- ets, they marveled that the president could be so easily satisfied, but when he jumped into Bear lake for a swim upon arising at daybreak yesterday morning, their astonishment was al- most without bounds. The thermom- eter registered at the time less than forty degrees and most of the others present were sdulously hugging the camp fire. SENTENCED FIVE FOR MURDER, Trial of Slayers of Ann Hall Ends at Lynchburg, Va. Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 17. — The trial of five men for the murder of Ann Hall, in Patrick county last March, which has been in progress in the fed- eral court for five weeks, came to an end yesterday, when Peachey Rakes pleaded guilty and was given six years in prison. George Booth and George Martin pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to murder and were given a year each. Grover Beam- er was given six years and Will Rakes fifteen years. Shoots Brother and Self. « Philadelphia, Oct. 17—Following a quarrel in their home in the northern part of this city yesterday, George White shot and mortally wounded his brother Louis and then attempted to end his own life by sending a bullet into his head. Louis is dead and the brother is in a critical condition. Youth Shoots Mother, Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 17.—George Smiley, aged seventeen years, shot and killed his mother in their home yesterday morning. In a statement to the officers Smiley says he shot his mother in defending her against a bur- glar. He is being held for investiga- tion. Hangs Himself in Woods. Duluth, Oct. 17.—The body of an un- known man, a suicide, was discovered hanging to the limb of a tree in the woods near Embarrass. ~ TRUST TRICKERY SELLS OVERPRODUCT THROUGH COMPANIES PUBLIC BELIEVE TO BE INDEPENDENT. CLOSE TAB ON COMPETITORS KELLOGG GETS LONG-SOUGHT- FOR FACTS—W. G. ROCKE- FELLER NEXT. New York, Oct. 16—Hampton G. Wescott, vice president of the Stand- ard Oil Company of Kentucky, testi- fied yesterday in the hearing of the federal suit against» the oil combine that in several of the Southern states the Standard had foufd it expedient to sell much of its products through companies which the public believed to be independent. The practice of selling through so-called independent companies which were owned by the combine was discontinued two years ago, according to Mr. Wescott. Sell Through Independents. Mr. Kellogg, counsel for the govern- ment, drew from the witness that the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky, which acts as selling agent of oil in Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Louis- jana, Tennessee and Alabama, had purchased numerous small independ- ent selling companies, and through many of them sold oil to the consum- er., Some of the plants of these inde- pendents were dismantled and the business taken over by the Standard, Mr. Wescott threw a sidelight on a business department of the Standard concerning which the federal counsel has been seeking information since the beginning of the inquiry. Mr. Wescott testified that each month the main office of the Standard Oil Com- pany of Kentucky at Covington sent to him not only the reports of the business operations of the Standard, but statements concerning freight shipments and sale of oil by all com- petitors. Keep Tab on Competitors, These statements according to Mr. Wescott, gave the name of the con- signor, the consignee, the amount of oil shipped and any information that might be available. Mr, Wescott said that after examining these statements he filed them with the statistical de- partment in the Standard’s office in the city. The statistical department, Mr. Wescott said, was in charge of W. E. Bemis, who kept compilations and records of the business of both the Standard and its competitors. MOVES TO BLOCK HARRIMAN, Gets Writ to Prevent Voting of Big Block of Illinois Central. Chicago, Oct. 16.—Stuyvesant Fish, through his attorneys, yesterday se- cured a temporary injunction which will, if made permanent, restrain the voting at the Illinois Central meeting on Wednesday of 286,731 shares of stock of the Illinois Central railroad company, which would otherwise be voted in the interests of E. H. Harri- man. The writ is directed against the Union Pacific Railroad company, the Railroad Securities Company of New Jersey and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, which com- bined held the above shares of stock. Asks Final Decree. In addition to the temporary in- junction sought, a final decree was asked declaring that the Union Pa- cific Railroad company and the Rail- road Securities company have no pow- er under the laws of Illinois to own stock in the Illinois Central. It was also asked that these companies be directed to sell their stock in the IIli- nois Central within a reasonable time. The petition charges an unlawful scheme of the Union Pacific Railroad company to control the commerce of the United States by buying large blocks of stock in the principal trans- portation companies. It also sets forth the facts stated in a recent report of the interstate commerce commission in regard to the transactions of the Union Pacific Railroad company and E. H, Harriman. Harriman’s Next Move. It is believed that the attorneys for Mr. Harriman will to-day seek the dis- solution of the injunction, and it is not possible to state at the present time whether the arguments will be completed in time to allow Judge Ball to make a decision before thes day of the annual meeting. Mr. Fish said yesterday, after the granting of the temporary injunction: “I am making this fight solely to maintain the integrity of the Illinois Central Railroad company as an inde- pendent corporation and to prevent its domination by the Union Pacific.” Circumstances Indicate ‘Svicicle. Grand Rapids, Wis., Oct. 16—Wil- liam Murphy, an unknown stranger identified by an employment agency check from Chicago, was killed on the Wisconsin Central under circum. stances indicating suicide. Killed by Train. Marshalltoown, Iowa, Oct. 16. — Ernst Neidert, nineteen, son of Chris Neidert, a wealthy retired farmer of State center, was instantly killed by being struck by a North-Western fast passenger train. 19 AILED IW RALROAD WRECK] SHOWS MORE OL | STUATON GRows DESPERATE SOLDIERS AND DESPERADOES CLASH IN THE STREETS OF MILAN. Rome, Oct. 14.—Italy faces one of the most dangerous crises of her re- cent history in the attitude of strik- ing workmen at Milan, the kingdom’s’ second city, who, having tied up busi- ness, refuse peace until the govern- ment pledges itself never again to employ troops against strikers. Fran- tic efforts are being made, with alarming prospects of success, to ex- tend the warfare throughout Italy un- less the government yields. Little is known of real conditions in Milan, even the telephone and tele- graph service being practically cut off. Situation Is Desperate. A relayed message which got through declared the situation desper- ate and the city entirely in the strikers’ hands. Train and_ postal service has been abandoned and pub- lic resorts are proposing to close. Bands of hooligans ranged the streets all day, creating panic every- where they went. The police were powerless against them. Cabs, auto- mobiles and tram cars were compell- ed to stop and drop their passengers, and in some cases were overturned. The gravest fears are entertained of violence during the night, and the possibility that the strikers may close the electric lightning plants, leaving the city in darkness for the hooligans to plunder at will. The military is confining itself to protecting banks and public buildings, but it is doubt- ful if even they can be defended against determined night attacks. CUBS ARE WORLD’S CHAMPIONS. Chicago Nationals Win the Fourth Successive Victory From Detroit. Detroit, Oct. 15—The Chicago Na- tional league baseball team Saturday afternoon at Bennett Park won the world’s championship, defeating the Detroit American league team by the score of 2 to 0. It was the fourth successive victory for the Chicago team in as many days. Taking advantage of every slip made by the local players and run- ning the bases cleverly, they scored two runs in the first two innings, while the Detroit team did not suc- ceed in getting one man over the home plate, The “rooters” who had followed the Chicago team from their home city swarmed down to the diamond when the ninth inning closed and showered the players with congratulations. Then several hundred of them form- ed in line and marched down Michi- gan avenue, headed by a band, cheer- ing and singing in celebration of their victory. It was a disappointing day for the local team in more ways than one. The weather was raw and cold, en- tirely unfit for baseball. The official count of the attendance was 7.370. Mullin and Brown both pitched well but the Chicago man received strong- er support from his teammates, The score by innings— Detroit 0. Chicago --1100 0. Batteries — Mullin and Archer; Brown and Kling. Umpires.— Sheridan and O'Day. EMPEROR’S CONDITION WORSE. Francis Joseph’s Physicians Fear At- tack of Lobular Pneumonia. Vienna, Oct. 15.—Although Emperor Francis Joseph’s condition yesterday morning was regarded as slightly bet- ter, it again became worse during the day. His physicians now fear an at- tack of lobular pneumonia. The em- peror’s fever is higher. There is a feeling of depression among the mem- bers of his entourage. A sleeping potion was administered Saturday night, and his majesty slept until 6 o’clock yesterday morning. After awakening he arose and was propped up by pillows in an arm- chair. His temperature was below normal. He has taken considerable doses of quinine. The emperor repeatedly asked to be taken into the open air, saying that he had been used to it the whole of his life and that otherwise he could not recover quick’y. Owing to his condition, however, the physicians re- fused the request. According to the doctors the danger is from old age. The physicians made a physical ex- amination during the afternoon, and the signs pointed to the possibility of the development of further catarrhal inflammation. WRECKED AT HATTERAS. Captain and Two Men of Lumber a Barge Drowned, Baltimore, Oct. 15. — A dispatch from Cape Henry to the maritime ex- change here says: Barge Saxon, lumber-laden, and which was being towed by steamer Katahdin from Georgetown, S. C., to New York, stranded thirty miles north of Cape Hatteras at midnight Oct. 12. The captain and two men of the barge were drowned. Farmers to Have Elevator. Castle Rock, Minn., Oct. 15.—Farm- ers in this vicinity organized a farm- ers’ elevator company. Directors elected were: M) N. Holt, F. C. Pry- or, I. N. Gill, B. K. Ousbye, G. H. Wood, A. J. Lasby and E. P. Ruh. Ap- plication for incorporation papers has been filed. Slayer of Children in Asylum. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 15—Mrs. Bertha Lund, who strangled her three chil- dren three weeks ago, has been com- mitted to the hospital for the insane. —_