Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 2, 1907, Page 2

Rerald-Review. One trainman was - - killed ‘and ten other persons were injured in a head- on collision between suburban trains near Grand avenue, Chicago. An automobile owned and driven by M.-E, Riggs of Charleroi, Pa., over- turned and injured its six occupants, one being perhaps fatally injured. Struck on the head by a descending skip, Thomas Pascoe, a miner and bandsman, was instantly killed at Cleveland Lake mine, Ishpeming, Mich. é A passenger train crashed into a street car at Cincinnati, killing one woman and seriously injuring three other persons, one of whom will prob- ably die. The sawmill of the Kern Manufac- turing Company at Bay City, Mich., was destroyed by fire and William B. Lapham, a lumber inspector, was burned to death. Ezra Williams, a well known resi- dent of Waverly, Iowa, aged sevently- seven years, was almost - killed in a runaway near his home. It is feared that he may not recover. Three persons’ killed and ~ thirty- seven more or Jess injured, one of them probably fatally, is the result of a collision at Rudd, N. C., between a Southern railway passenger train and a freight train. By C. E. KILEY. POLICE “OFFICIAL—BAFFLES ‘POLICE. — St. Petersburg, Oct. 30—-Gen Max- GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, FINANCIAL CONDITIONS RAPIDLY SETTLING DOWN TO THE NORMAL. FLOOD OF GOLD HAS SET IN MILLIONS COMING FROM EUROPE TO SUPPLY AMERICAN NEEDS. of prisons of the ministry of the inte- riorrior, was shot and killed yester- day by a girl. i The assassination of Maximoffsky apparently was designed to be only a prelude to a greater act of terrorism, the destruction of the headquarters of the secret police, which has been the object of at least three terrorist plots in recent months. Carries Bomb in Breast. When the slayer of Gen. Maximoff- sky, who was identified as Mlle. Ra- gozinnikova, was taken to the police station her agitated attempts to free her bound hands and reach toward her breast led to an investigation, and it was found that’ she carried in- side her corsage a case containing thirteen pounds of high’ explosive, a charge powerful enough to blow the entire puilding and its occupants to piéces. Washington Notes. President Roosevelt has issued or- ders to suspend action in the matter of cutting down the historic trees in the botanic grounds in Washington to make a site for the Grant statue until he has time to investigate. Porto Rico is endeavoring to secure representation in the ‘national guard of the Uniteq States, and to that end the commissioner of the interior of that island has asked*the war depart- ment what aid will be given in organ- izing a regiment in Porto Rico. The report of the inland waterways commission will follow closely the outlines of President Roosevelt’s speech at Memphis, it is said. The members of the commission will as- semble again about Nov. 25 in Wash- ington to go over the draft of the re- port to the president. President Roosevelt has returned to the White House from his South- ern trip. The president took no pains to conceal his delight at getting home and was markedly cordial in his greeting to those who had gather- ed in the train shed to meet him. The president expressed himself as thor- oughly pleased with his trip. Telegraphic advices received at the public health and marine hospital service from Dr. White, the medical officer of that service at Seattle, Wash., indicate that a fully developed of the bubonic plague, and which proved fatal, has made its appearance in the Chinese quarters of that city. New York, Oct. 30.—The principal avents in the financial district yester- day indicate that the worst of the crisis is over and that conditions are settling down to normal. There were no further bank suspensions and re- ports were favorable for the resump- tion of most of the banks which closed temporarily last week. The engage- ment of $18,750,000 in gold from Bu- rope for importation to New York was followed by the sensational announce- ment of sales of American copper abroad which will further increase the tide of foreign money. to this country to an aggregate of over $25,000,000. Stocks Rise Rapidly. This, with the rapid rise of good se- curities on the stock exchange, in some cases as much as 4 and 5 per cent, which, was naturally followed by a slight reaction at the close, and the policy of the trust companies not to pay out curreny for hoarding purposes all contributed to strengthen the feel- ing in banking quarters and among the public at large. Runs upon banks practically ceased, partly because of recognition that they were unneces- sary and unjustified and partly be- cause of the policy adopted to pay large checks only in certified checks on dépositary banks. Sensation in Copper. One of the senational features of the day was the remarkable develop- ment in the copper trade. The Unit- ed Metals Selling company reports a sharp advance in the prices. Copper which they would have gladly sold ten days ago at 121-2 cents a pound com- manded 131-2 to 133-4 cents a pound yesterday. During the month the sales of this company had been be- tween 80,000,000 and 90,000,000 pounds of copper. The bulk of sales have been for export, so that up to last night it is estimated that on the for- eign deliveries during November and December there will be a return ex- ceeding $8,000,000 in gold. Sales by the other copper interests have been proportionally large. That the story of New York’s bank runs may now be written in a con- cluded chapter of financial history was the conviction stoutly expressed in Wall street when the banking day ended. Wall Street Is Normal. Wall street, long accustomed to sen- sations, resumed its normal condition yesterday. The importation of $17,000,000 in gold, which comes largely from Lon- don, is having a moral effect almost as important as its direct financial effectt. It means that credit can be sustained under the 25 per cent re- serve law to the amount of $68,000,00€ and that the banks will be in position to keep their cash reserves intact even against considerable demands The fact that exchange rates turn so quickly in favor of this country and that the gold was so readily obtained is accepted as an indication that the solvency of American financial insti- tutions is not questioned in Europe. It is believed that much.more gold will come this way within a short time. Business Men Approve. St. Paul, Oct. 30.—The steps taken to prevent a drain on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth banks, in view of conditions prevailing at other banking centers, met with the hearti- est approval of business interests in all three cities yesterday. Those deal- ing with the banks realized that un- der the circumstances such steps had to be’ taken, but there was not the slightest fear expressed in any quar- ter that the situation possessed any element of danger. Some small depositors appeared at the banks with the intention of draw- ing out their deposits and place the money in safety deposit vaults, but when the situation was explained to them they were satisfied with condi- tions and made no effort to hoard the money. Fires Seven Shots. The general was the highest respon- sible official connected with the Rus- sian prisons, and it is supposed that this was the reason he was séle¢ted for assassination by the terrorists. The young woman presented herself at the weekly: reception of Gen. Max- imoffsky and remained quietly in the crowded anteroom until it was ‘her turn to,enter the general’s private of- fice. When she was in his presence the woman drew a revolver and fired seven shots point blank at the general, six of them taking effect. The wound- ed-man was hastily taken to a hospi- tal, but his condition was hopeless. Kidnapped Girl as Lure. London, Oct. 30.—Barbara Laponk- hin, daughter of Alexander Laponk- hin, ex-governor of Reval, and whose mother is a Russian princess, has mysteriously disappeared in London and al Ithe resources of the Russian embassy and Scotland Yard are being employed to..trace,.her. Miss Barbara, who is eighteen years old, was visiting London with her younger sister, in charge of an English governess, Miss Russell. M. Laponkhin ‘has been director of the police department in Russia, and Miss Russell suggests that revolution- ists planned the kidnapping of Bar- bara with the object of bringing her father within their reach. He is now ou his way to London. ‘ Foreign. The railroad service throughout Italy has been restored. The Social- ists voted against a general strike. A sailing boat capsized in the road- sted at Uleaborg, Sweden. Twenty- one out of twenty-four persons aboard were drowned. A violent hurricane raged over the province of Finmark, Norway, for sev- eral days last week. Many fishing boats are missing and up to the pres- ent time seven lives have been lost. The giant steamer that English shipbuilders are to construct for the Hamburg-American line will be named Europa. She will be of 48,000 tons, as e Lusitania. The Brussels Soir, says that King |- Leopold has refused to accept the de- cision of. the pariamentary commis- sion requiring the submission to ‘par- liament of all facts concerning the Congo loans. The Spanish minister of the interior has received reports of/ the appalling destruction wrought by a renewal of the floods in the provinces of Spain. In some places the water has risen thirty-five feet. A dispatch from Moji reports the Japanese freight steamer Kokwo Maru went ashore in a storm off Rishma and is a complete wreck. The crew was rescued in lifeboats. The loss on the ship and cargo is $700,000. The Hungarian government is nego- ;tiating for the purchase of extensive estates owned by Count Pejacsevich and other aristocrats in order to di- vide them into small farms for the peasantry. The object is to restrict immigration to the United States. There was a great demonstration at Manila one day last week in honor of Secretary Taft, the occasion being a banquet arranged by a committee composed of members of the Manila assembly. A silver loving cup of na- tive make was presented to the secre- tary. Thomas J. O’Brien, American am- bassador to Japan, has been invited by the emperor to take luncheon with him on Noy. 13. This is a special mark of favor, as its purpose is to emphasize the desire for friendly rela- tions between Japan, and the United States. King Alfonso had a narrow escape from serious accident near Fauresa, Spain. In his automobile the king was going over a temporary bridge when the light structure collapsed under the weight of his car, which was precipitated into the water. His majesty escaped with a wetting. Ae MONERT Personal.” James W. Westcott, brother of Mrs. Katherine Tingley and a_ widely known and wealthy gambler, died of diabetes at his home in New York. Albert A. Wilson, formerly United States marshal for the District of Co- lumbia and a close fiend of Former President Cleveland, is dead of dia- betes. : John Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta Georgian and News, has ac- cepted the chief editorship of the New York American. Col. Graves will as- sume his new position about Nov. 15. A courtship dating from an amateur theatrical performance last winter culminated in Washington in the wed- » of Miss Catherine Ridgley, daughter of the controller of the cur- rency, to Phelps Brown, son of the late Sevellon A. Brown, who was chief clerk of the department of state. CANNIBALISM IN THE NORTH. Eskimos of Unsgava Bay District Forced to Eat Human Flesh. St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 30.—Canni- balism has been resorted to by the Eskimos in the Unsgava bay district and on the shores of Hudson strait, according to Rev. Mr. Stewart, an Anglican missionary to the Unsgava bay Eskimos. Rev. Stewart states that owing to thte severely cold weather and the unusual scarcity of game many of the natives in remote regions have perished from starvation and exhaustion, and the survivors have been forced to cannibalism to sustain life. Crimes. m C, Cummings, a_ laborer seventy years, was held up and robbed of 17 cents at Waterloo, Iowa, it is alleged, by two Italian tramps. Angered by the frequency of his wife’s visits to a dentist prompted C. . Burch of Chicago to kill his wife and then. turn his revolver upon him- self. Both are dead. Mrs. Bertha Niederpruden commit- ted suicide by throwing herself in front of a trolley car at Detroit. Her body was wound up in the gear of the car and dismembered. Following a quarrel over a transfer slip on a Polk street car at San Fran- cisco, Charles Moss was shot and in- stantly killed and two other passen- gers wounded by the conductor. Crazed with drink and jealousy, William Rainey, a young grocer of Brunswick, Ga., shot and mortally wounded his wife. He then placed the revolver to his head and fired, dy- ing instantly. Engaged in a fistic encounter at Marquette, Mich., with a playmate aged fourteen, Edmund Leroux, sev- enteen years old, suddenly fell to the ground and expired. The quarrel orig- inated in a dispute at a football game. An inquest will be held. Amassa Campbell, the millionaire lumberman from Antigo, Wis., slayer of Dr. Harris, is in the hospital at the county jail in Chicago with a broken leg. Campbell received his in- juries in a fight with his cellmate in murderers’ row. According to a story told by his attorney, Campbell, who is a most exemplary prisoner, was at- tacked by his cellmate because of some slight affront. land vessel which was in Unsgava bay discovered thirty skeletons lying unburied on the beaches. It is sup- posed that these were the remains of some of the victims of the famine. The entrance to Unsgava bay. and Hudson strait from the Atlantic ocean is through Mcl.ean strait and Gray strait, at the northerly extremity of Labrador, and about 1,000 miles north- west of St. Johns, N. F. The conti- nental shores of the bay and strait lie between latitude 58 and 63 north. ‘The only settlements are Georges ‘River, at- the mouth of the Georges river, in the southeast corner of Uns- gava bay, and a station of the Hudson Bay company at the mouth of the Whale river, about seventy-five miles west of Georges Sebel KILLS MAN WITH RECORD. General News Items. No additional cases of bubonic plague have been reported at San Francisco since Oct 16, arid six more patients have been discharged as cured since the 14th. The sixth annual reunton-of the Confederate veterans in Montana, one at Spokane and three or four others on the Pacific coast, and the total membership is close to 300. When Mrs. Jonathan Culp of Ore- gon, Mo., received a telephone mes- sage saying his daughter, Mrs. Silas Allen, had been killed from a shock from an electric light wire he dropped dead. Death has claimed Ferdinando Calerinello of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 103 years old; the cause, old age. His wife died last spring, aged 102, said to have been the oldest woman in the United States. Former Police Commissioner Regan of San Francisco has begun action for $100,000 damages against the S. S. McClure company and for a like sum against the San Francisco News com- pany for defamation of character. As a result of a series of experi- ments at the United State geological survey fuel testing plant at the James. town exposition to determine the rela- tive value of certain fuel products, it has been found that it takes one and a half gallons of denatured alcohol to produce as much power as a gallon of gasoline, although alcohol costs about twice as much as gasoline. Miss Rose L. Fritz, champion type writer, made a new record in New York when she wrote from dictation an average of ninety-seven words a minute for thirty minutes while blind- folded. City Marshall of Benton, IIl., Shoots His Predecessor. Benton, Ill., Oct. 30.—City Marshal George Adams yesterday shot and killed. John Malone, former city mar- shal, after Malone had threatened the marshal’s life. A number of years ago Malone shot and killed a man at Hop- kinsville, Ky. Later he is said to have killed a negro in Pope county, Il- linois. Just before removing from Galatia, Ill, where he served as .city marshal, Malone shot a man in the month, and a few years @go shot and killed John Hollehan in East St. Louis. He was tried for murder in each instance but acquitted. Accidental Happenrngs. Telephone Manager Killed. W. C. Albrecht, twenty years old, died in Chicago from injuries received during a football game. A five-story building at 226 Lake street, Chicago, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Five men were drowned at Katalla, in Alaska, according to information brought by the British steamship Sar- atoga. Two miners are known to have been killed and at least three injured in an explosion at the Kimberly mines two miles east of Nelsonville, Ohio. The mine employes about 150 miners, but it is not known just how many were in the mines at the time of the explo- sion. Four persons were killed, ten are in the hospital and more than a score were more or less injured in a head- on collision of two Sherman’ Heights street cars, near the city limits of Chattanooga. Confusion of signals is said to have been the cause of the ac- cident. \ Church Row Fatal to Eleven Persons, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 30.—Dur. ing a church festival in the village of Czarnova a conflict arose between fac- tions in the congregation which led to the intervention of the gendarmes. A free fight ensued between the gendarmes and the peasants, in which eleven persons were killed and a score wounded. manager of the Hueston Telephone pole, killing him instantly. Fire at Hansboro, N. D. Hansboro, N. D., Oct. 30.—Hansbora sustained the following losses in. a fire in the early morning hours: Cen: tral hotel, owned by Jim Moylan. of ‘ando, Joss $4,000; pool room, Jake Rabinovich; butcher shop, Chris Or ton. The>total loss is shoe $7,000. Burns With His Boat. Port. Austin, Mich., Oct. 30. — The fishing .tug Marguerita of Grindstone City, three miles from here, burned at her dock yesterday. Nathan Wood, apa ibe igdtents metas’ teeth. Geiger hes not smiled since. STEAL GOLD FROM TEETH. Reporter Is Punished for Smiling at Discomfited Highwayman. NEFECTIVE PAGE KIDNA > DAUGHTER OF RUSSIAN’) imoffsky, director of the ‘department |. Recently the crew of a Newfound-! MUST PAY | “US MANY MILLIONS MONEY FROM PRODUCTS BEING MARKETED ABROAD WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE. WILL REMOVE — STRINGENCY NOW GENERALLY FELT THAT UNREASONING PANIC IS AT AN END. ——— New York,.Oct..31.—The enormous influence which American products are exerting in building up a credit /balance abroad was the most signal development of the financial situation yesterday. Reports from all quarte’ show that the great American staples —wheat, cotton, copper, tobacco, oil, meats—are on thejr way to Europe, this béing the season of the year when American products are market- ed abroad. The immediate effect of these shipments is to give the United States credit abroad which can be speedily converted into cash. 2 Aggregate Is Colossal. Those. natural resources of the country promise to exert even greater influence than the sale of American securities abroad. The latter have to some extent suffered discredit un- der recent pressure, but the intrinsic value of American staples used abroad and their colossal aggregate at this period of the year is beyond the reach of financial distrust. The foreign sales of millions of pounds of American .copper Monday were supplemented yesterday by re- ports of similar heavy export ship- ments, alone giving a foreign credit of $14,000,000. The shipments of to- bacco to Europe this year promise. to break all records. $100,000,000 for Tobacco. Europe will pay over $100.000,000 for this tobaéco, and much of this money will soon be available in this market. Reports from the South show the cotton crop moving toward Eu- rope, while the West is sending grain and meat pReuets in the same diree- tion. While money at the stock exchange was loaned during most of the day at high rates, it fell near the close of the day to 5 per cent, offers of several million dollars at that rate being made by a number of the leading banks. Panic Is at an End. Comparative calm reigned among New York bankers yesterday. They all realized that the pressure for mon. ey was not over, but they felt gener. ally that the unreasoning panic was at an end and they would be able to meet all reasonable demands for cur- rency. These demands are coming in in considerable amounts from the West and South in order to obtain money to move the crops, and it is feared that the sections where the movement is largest may be more or less hampered in their efforts to ob- tain funds. The general refusal to pay cash .for hoarding, in the West ‘and South as well as in New York, it is believed, will prevent the undue absorption of gurfency and permit the employment 6f what is available in the most effective manner. Good Reports From All Sections. Runs upon the banks are practically over. ‘The arrival of nearly $20,000,000 in gold, it is believed, will considerably relieve the situation and perhaps make call money a little lower on the stock exchange. The decline in stocks yesterday was generally attributed to’tie continued scarcity of money for speculative pur- poses, the refusal ef brokers to make transactions except for cash and the absence of buying interests under present disturbed conditions. Aside from the satisfactory local conditions, reports from all sections showed a favorable tendency. No fail- ure was recorded at any_ point throughout the country. DIES DEATH OF HERO. Railroad Man Sacrifices His Life to Save Three From Death. Pittsburg, Oct. 31—Michael Mason, e middle-aged man employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company at the union station, this city, last night sac- rificed his own life in saving three other persons from what seemed in- evitable death. A man, woman and child reached the station on the Greensburg express and, becoming Leon, Iowa, Oct. 30.—D. R. Kunkle,} confused in passing through the train, got off upon the tracks in front of an company, was instantly killed by be-} incoming train. Mason leaped to their ing dragged from the pole he had) sige and with a vigorous mush hurled climbed by a passing train. He had|ihem from the track to the platform climbed a pole near the Chicago, Bur-} at the side, but before he could him- lington & Quincy tracks to make some} se:f :each that platform the train was repairs when a passing train caught} upon him and he the loose wire, tearing him from the} dea. was crushed to DEAD IN THE WALDORF. Coroner Believes Philadelphia Man Was Murdered. New York, Oct. 31. — A man who Thursday registered at the Waldorf. St.Louis, Oct. 30.—Footpads held) astoria as H. B. Potter, Jr., of Phila- up Justus Geiger, a local newspaper) gelphia, was found dead in his room reporter and while one forced open his last night. mouth the other pried out-two gold] wounds which the coroner teeth. When the robbers found only] could not have been self-inflicted. An a small amount of cash in Geiger’s autopsy will be held. pockets he smiled at their chagrin, re-| that the man had his injuries before vealed the two prominent gold front] ne went to his room. He was about teeth and then they pried out the! thirty years old. On the body were several thought It is believed CE OF McAT IS EDUC PACKERS” BEGIN iit REBUCTION OF COST OF LIVING IN UNITED STATES. Chicago, Oct. 31—A general reduc- tion in fhe retail prices of meats is prophesied for Chicago and the Middle West. The first cut in packers’ prices has been announced in. Omaha, where it was reported last night that Edward Cudahy of the Cudahy Packing com- pany had reduced the price of all meats 10 per cent, and that a still further reduction was expected. In explanation Mr. Cudahy said he bélieved that the time has come for a general and substantial reduction in the cost of living if the average citi- zen is to share in the country’s pros- perity. Consumers to Get Benefit. “I pelieve,” hé said, “there will be an immediate decline all along the line of produce and staple supplies necessary to human life., For some time we have have béen buying cheaper, and we thing we are justi- fied in selling cheapér. The consumer will get the benefit, as the retailers have promised to pass the reduction along. “It will” mean a saving fo every man, woman and child <in the coun- try.” Following the Omaha* example, Sioux City dropped into line with the same cut, though the order has not been received officially im-the, pack- ing plants there. St. Joseph was not so confident of a decline. The general manager of one of the plants there said if there was a decline it would come without any radical cut. Local packers said that the low trend-of the price of live stock probably would continue for some time, and necessarily would cause a reduction of retail prices. WESTS ASSURES WEALTH. Greatest Era of Prosperity Country Has Ever Known Indicated. Chicago, Oct. 31.—Prosperity such as never before has. been enjoyed in this country is indicated in state- ments by statisticians and railroad presidents. They base their. state ments on the wealth of the farms. The value of the leading cereals and other produce of the American. farmer this year is $324,000,000 more than it‘ was a year ago. ‘ With an unprecedentédly prosper. ous year in his immediate wake and ~ a banner one dfrectly before him, the American farmer to-day is. the richest and most independent person. in* his: tory. While the national government will not estimate fully the value of the crops until Dec. 1, preliminary de- ductions, usually more conservative, indicate clearly the enormous worth of the farm products. Estimates Show Prosperity. The following table shows the gov ernment’s October estimates of this year’s yields of corn, wheat and oats. Estimated iigla r BOEN: i sla Wheat Jats The > O00 farm 931,000,000 value of approximate crops is summarized as follows: Farm Value, Farm Value. 1906 000,000 $1 000,000 000,000 sorn’... Wheat rats. other 85,000,000 19,000,000 Total value... Increased valuation over last year, $324,000,000. Causes Feeling of Optimism. It is this estimated value of crops, based on the amounts of shipments the railroads are handling, the short- age of cars, thé value of the cotton crop in the South, the tremendous value of the corn and wheat crops in the North and West, the value of fruit and vegetables in California and the booming conditions generally through out the West that causes a feeling of optimism. George H. Crosby, freight traffic manager of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincey railroad, said that the excep- tionally high prices farmers were re- ceiving for their grain was the great- est guarantee of a continuance of prosperous conditions. * JEALOUS MAN’S AWFUL WORK. Kills Two and Then Blows His Own Head Off. Tulsa, I. T., Oct. 31.—B. H. Stock- well of this city last night shot and instantly killed W. E. Campbell, a prominent oil man and capitalist, for- merly of Winfield, Kan., and then murdered his own son, aged thirteen, and committed suicide. Insane jeal- ousy is given as the cause. The heads of all three were blown off. MISTAKEN FOR A BEAR. Hunter Is Shot and Killed by a Com- panion, Who Made a Mistake. Marquette, Mich., Oct. 31.—John C. Kruse, mining superintendent at Iron Mountain, was shot and killed yester- jay by George Gibbons while the men were hunting together. He was mis- taken for a bear. Students Go on Strige. Pewaukee, Wis., Oct. 31—Angerea over the summary discharge of Miss Helen E. M. Roberts of Chicago, the popular assistant principal, fifty stu- dents of the Pewaukee high school went on a strike Monday, leaving the school in a body. They refuse to re- turn unless the teacher is reinstated. A special meeting of the school board will be held to reconsider the raatter, and it is stated on good authority that anless the teacher is reinstated the school directors may be asked to re- r ~