Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 14, 1907, Page 2

Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, - NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME ' —— IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ON FOREIGN SHORES BRIEFLY TOLD. Washington Notes. The president and Mrs. Roosevelt have sent out invitations for the cabi- net dinner to be given at the White House on Dee. 19. A Dill to establish postal savings banks for depositing savings at inter- est has been introduced by Senatan Carter of Montana. Senator Proctor has introduced a SWEDEN'S. RULER CALLED BY DEATH KING OSCAR, MOST LOVED OF EU- ROPEAN MONARCHS, PASSES AWAY. WHOLE COUNTRY MOURNS LOSS CROWN PRINCE TAKES OATH OF OFFICE UNDER TITLE OF GUSTAVE V. Stockholm, Dec. 10.—Oscar II., king Soar menatens vee a] MONSTER FL schoolboys’ lamentations were FET to hear. ( . In the death chamber ‘knelt the heart-broken queen and gathered about her were her children, grand- children and great grandchildren,| \ praying for strength to bear their great affliction. The church bells be- ADMIRAL EVANS TAKES COM- gan to toll and the minute guns boomed. All Sweden mourned its} MAND OF WAR .DOGS WHICH great loss. WILL SAIL TO PACIFIC. INAUGURATES NEW NAVAL ERA Eulogizes His Father. There was a memorial service in the palace chapel, which was attended by the whole royal family with the ex- ception of Queen Sophie and the new queen, until now Crown Princess Vic- toria, who will arrive here from the continent this morning. Gustave V. has published a procla- mation addressed to the administra- tive and ecclesiastical authorities, in- forming them of his accession to the throne and a further proclamation ad- dressed to the people of Sweden, in which he refers in eulogistic terms to CROWDS OF SIGHTSEERS FROM ALC OVER COUNTRY VIEW BIG FLEET. Old Point Comfort, Va.. Dec. 11. — HAS ASSEMBLED WAY DECLARE MARTIAL LAWIBRIDGE GOES DOWN; GEN. FUNSTON. MAY TAKE CON- DUCT OF AFFAIRS OUT OF LOCAL HANDS, Goldfield, Nev., Dec. 12.—It was an- nounced here last night that Gen. Funston is to come to Goldfield to. per- sonally look over the situation here. More troops, it was also said, may be sent. John Sparks arrived yesterday afternoon from Carson and had a con- ference with Col, Alfred Reynolds, in command of the federal troops here. Meetings of the executive committee of the Goldfield Miners’ union and of the Goldfield Mine Owners’ association were held last night. * To Declare Martial Law. It was stated here that the federal authorities intend to take the conduct of affairs out of the hands of the state and county officials and that martial law will be declared in Goldfield im- SEVEN LIVES LOST HIGH WATER CAUSES COLLAPSE OF NEW BRIDGE OVER SUS- QUEHANNA. FLOODS CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE RIVERS SWOLLEN BY HEAVY RAINS—MANY BRIDGES ARE WASHED AWAY. Bloomburg, Pa., Dec, 12.—High wa- ter last night caused the collapse of of Sweden, died at 9:10 o’elock yester- day morning. The death of the vener- able monarch occurred in the royal bill to promote military education in. the various civil institutions of learn- in including agricultural colleges. their. late sovereign. Grandson of Bernadotte. © Oscar II. king of Sweden and pre- The double-starred flag of blue, em- blem of the commander-in-chief of the ‘Pacific-bound fleet, was flung to a new bridge in course of erection over the west branch of the Susque- hanna river sat Mifflinville, eight miles north of here, and resulted in mediately upon the arrival of Gen. Funston. Doubtless the request for this drastic action came from the e value of the coins-executed at apartments of the palace, where, sur- vious to 1905 king of Sweden and Nor- mine operators here, who are fearful rounded by the members of his family, including the aged Queen Sophia and the crown prince, Oscar Gustave, and high ministers of state, the inevitable end had been awaited, while outside the palace great crowds stood with bared heads and tearful eyes long aft- the mints of the United States during November, 1907, was $35,963,260,. of which $33,840,060 was gold, $2,002,000 silver and $121,200 minor coins. Representative Garner of Texas in- troduced a bill creating a new form of way, was born Jan. 21, 1829.. He was the third son of King Oscar I. and of Queen Josephine, daughter of Prince Eugene of Luchtenburg, and a grand- son of Marshal Bernadotte. Oscar II. succeeded to the throne at the death of his brother, King Carl XV., Sept. the breeze from the main truck of the battleship Connecticut yesterday, and Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans formal- ly assumed his position as leader of the greatest naval movement in the history of the American people. This was assembly day for the fleet, which the death of seven men and the in- jury of nearly a score of others, two perhaps fatally. Forty men were at work on the traveler‘on the middie span of the structure when it col- lapsed. They were all thrown into the swollen river? of the consequences when the attempt to reopen the mines are made, but ap- parently are determined to carry out their intention to resume operations on Thursday. Causes Many Rumors. legal tender, to be called “United ates currency notes” and providing » their printing to the amount of $500,000,000. - The senate has received from the White House the treaty negotiated be- ween the representatives of the Unit- ] States and certain European coun- t the result of the conference on wireless telegraphy held in Ber) rhe monthly circulation statement ssued by the controller of the cur- ney shows that at the close of busi- Noy. 30, 1907, the total outstand- circulation was $656,218,195, an increase for the year of 647 and an increase for the month of $46,237,730. Personal. Maj. W. T. Seward, a doorkeeper of United States senate, dropped lead while entering a revolving door of the capitol. Prof. Jeffrey O. Hebeck, professor of German and Slavonic languages at the University of Nebraska, died at Lincoln of peritonitis. Gen. Allen Thomas, United States minister to Venezuela during the sec- administration of President Cleve- , died at his home at Waveland, Morris F. Tyler, president of the > New England Telephone former treasurer of Yale V ty and a millionaire, died sud- y in New Haven. J. O’Neill of the London of the Associated Press died at his home in London after an illness of everal weeks. Mr. O’Neill was wide- nown in newspaper circles in the ed States, having been connected nently with papers in Washing-, nd elsewhere. Foreign. Saenz Pena, ex-president he Argentine republic, is dead. s born in 1830. Reginald Post, governor of Porto Rico, has been renominated to: that of- fice by President Roosevelt. No less than 50,000 rifles and revol- s well as several pieces of ar- , have been shipped from Ant- erp “to Portugal recently. . Ralph Smith, M. P., British Colum- will move in the Canadian parlia- -gislation similar to the Chinese ion act to prevent an influx of | Oriental immigration into Canada. newspaper Derniere Heure of els has opened a subscription The of the late Queen Henrietta of Bel- ium, which were left by her will to her daughter, Princess Louise, and ater seized for debt. Florence Nightingale, the English philanthropist, has been decorated with the Order of Merit by King Ed- ward. She is the first woman to re- ceive this distinction, which to the present time has been bestowed upon nineteen men, each of marked emi- nence, That Japan is not only planning to outdistance the United States in the struggle for the commerce of the Pa ific, but already has driven the steamship lines of every other nation out of the Chinese trade, is the state. ment of Henry I. Paddock, United States consul at Amboy, China, The government of Austria-Hun- gary has issued a caution against emi- gration to the states of Missouri and Mississippi, unless reliable informa tion is at hand from Austrian sources, This action has been taken on account of complaints made regarding the treatment of Austrian workmen in those states, Crim Mrs. B. E. Hunt, aged thirty, re spondent because her husband desert ed her, committed suicide by inhaling gas in Chicago, Crazed with jealousy, Ray Howard, a Fort Des Moines soldier, fired a bul- jet at his’ former sweetheart, Miss Mabel Adair, who had jilted him, but missed his aim and killed her sister, Mrs. Martha Pickering. Howard {a inder arrest. While insane, Miss Adelia M. Johns. ton, daughter of a farmer of Marshall- ‘own, Iowa, attempted to set fire to her father’s house. She then drakn a quantity of concentrated lye. He- roic efforts saved her. She was ad- judged insane and taken to the state bospital. ha the purpose of buying in the jewels}. ~-m— ee ee MPs FraAa ir rf er the announcement came of the death of. their well loved sovereign. Sweden Bowed With Grief. © The whole country is bowed with grief, for King Oscar was something more than a ruler of his people and had endeared himself to them as an intimate personal friend. When the flag on the palace was dipped to half mast there was a moan of anguish from the assembled multitude and many of them cried, “Our dear old king is dead!” No national mourning will be pro- claimed. To-day all the theaters will open again with the exception of the royal opera. Gustave V. Takes Oath. The succession to the throne of Sweden now passes to Oscar Gustave Adolphe, duke of Vermland, the oldest son of the late king. At a meeting of the council of state yesterday after- noon the new king took the oath of office under the title of Gustave V. is to set sai] next Monday, and of the sixteen great fighting machines order- ed to skirt the southermost end of all America and inaugurate a new na- val era in the Pacific ocean, there were but two laggards. Kentucky a Back Number. These were the 16,000-ton Minneso- ta, flagship of Rear Admiral C, M. Thomas, commander of the second squadron of the fleet, and the Ken- tucky, whose paltry 11,525 tons rele- gate her to a position at the end of the armored column. The Kentucky selected as the place, and June 16 the see is ey oldest ha aoa ve time for the meeting of the Republic- pe xtees,. Payne neem ald Pe th an convention next year. This deci- | her sister ship, the Kearsarge, in 1898 sion by the Republican national com- a te eee of Nae wee if mittee followed a long and hard fought |SPain. Nine years ago %s an ancien contest between the advocates of Chi- |Period in modern hatileabip constr nc: cago and those of Kansas City, Den- tion, so great have been the strides in ver, coming in at the end with a for- snerien ety areliiectnig ee midable but not important effort to se- eo ees aad he SeaTueny cure the convention, are both expected to drop anchor in z Hampton Roads to-day, and then the be pbetouhewed shiny one oe historic fleet will be complete. 18, 1872. He was married June 6, 1857, to Queen Sophia, born July 9, 1836, daughter of the late Duke. Wil- liam of Nassau. Four children sur- vive King Oscar—Crown Prince Gus- tave, born June 16, 1858; Prince Os- car Bernadotte, born Nov. 15, 1859; Prince Carl, born Feb. 27, 1861, and Princess Victoria of Baden Baden. CHICAGO GETS THE MEETING. Republican National Convention Will Be Held There June 16. Washington, Dec. 10.—Chicago was THE DEAD KING Crowds of Sightseers. The two long lines of battleships, flanked on either side by vessels of - |the auxiliary fleet, present a notable pe and adopted the motto, “With the people of the fatherland.” The princes then took the oath of allegiance and the new monarch accepted the homage of the state offictals. The last hours of the expiring mon- arch were passed in unconsciousness and up to the end he gave no sign of recognizing those about him. The queen was egrief-stricken because he could not bid her farewell. Wail of Sorrow Arose. In the palace court yard in the dim eold gray mist of the morning stood a erowd of schoolboys, King Oscar's most devoted friends. Here they stood for hours, blue and shivering, watch- ing the palace flagstaff. There also gathered many old men and women in rags, such as the king had always stopped to comfort with mild words and generous alms when he met them in the parks or streets, their faces KING OSCAR Il. for Chicago, eighteen for Kansas City picture and add one more impressive naval event to the history of Vir- ginia’s far-famed roadstead, where the battle of the Monitor and the Merri- mac thrilled the world and set a new standard for future navies to build by. Crowds of sightseers from all parts of the country are assembled here to wit- ness the final preparations and the de- parture of the fleet. OUTRAGE LAID TO BLACK HAND. One Killed, One Fatally Hurt and An- other Wounded at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Dec. 11. — One man is flead, another probably fatally wound- ed and a third is suffering from seri- ous injuries as the result of a sup- posed Black Hand outrage yesterday in the Pennsylvania railroad produce yards. The dead: M. Reis,-a produce dealer, of Taren- tum, Pa.; died after being removed to & hospital. The injured: produce dealer, shot in mouth; Gimite, cut and briused. Witnesses say that Reis, accompa- nied by three men, one of whom was Gimite, entered the car from which Sunseri was selling bananas. Quarrel Over Price of Fruit. A quarrel] over the price-asked for the fruit ensued, and Sunseri testified In the police station that he shot Reis In self-defense. Gimite, it is said, then thot Sunseri, and, pursued by Sunseri, fled. It is believed that Black Hand members were responsible for the quar- rel and fight., A letter received by Bunseri a week ago demanded $60 and gave him the alternative of being shot In the bead and heart. Sunseri is an uncle of Joe Batagli of this city, who found a bomb on his porch a week ago. Sunseri’s activity in trying to run down his nephew’s enemies, it is said, incurred the enmity of the so- ciety. The police have arrested two sus- pects. G. Sunseri, Pittsburg, Joe OF SWEDEN. and four for Denver. The vote for Chicago was made unanimous, Every one accepted the decision of’ the committee good-naturedly, and the sixty or seventy Kansas City and Den- ver boomers declared that they would “came back after it again in 1912 and would be sure to get it at that time.” The selection of the time for the convention was a compromise between the first of June and the last of June, and all were satisfied on that point also, NEW FORM OF SWINDLE. Tickets of Admission to United States Sold to immigrants. New York, Dec. 11. — The sale of tickets of admission to the United States is the latest form of swindle fliscovered by the immigration author- ities. A man who was a passenger on the Hamburg-American liner Amer- Ika sold more than forty of them to voyage passengers on the ship which arrived yesterday, receiving not less than $1 apiece for them. With these LAND FRAUD CHARGES. Federal Grand Jury Returns Indict- ment In Arizona, Globe, Ariz., Dec. 10.—The federal grand jury investigating land frauds in; New Mexico returned indictments against R. B. Hobart, superintendent of the Old Dominion Milling company; tear-stained because their loved king and benefactor was dying. Suddenly the flag dropped to half-mast and a wail of?misery and sorrow arose. Pitiful to Hear. The old folks clasid their hands JAPS FOR IOWA. Sugar Beet Company Would Colonize « Them to Ralse Beets. Hldora, Iowa, Dec. 10. — As an in- @ucement to farmers to raise sugar beets for a sugar beet factory at Wa- verly, in Bremer county, agents of the company are agreeing to send Japa- nese families into this region wherever there are twenty acres agreed upon and have the Japs tend to all of the raising of the beets at a stated figure per acre, ae ee oureeaeeaeaeaaeaaeserereees—*"] tickets the immigrants were told they could enter the country without diffi- N.S. Dorray, former superintendent of the same company; Edward W. T. Stewart, its former chief clerk and'culty. ‘The ship’s officers discovered now county recorder, and Robert Riell, the swindle and compelled the return chief clerk of the United Globe mines,) of the money. The man probably will for alleged perjury. lbe prosecuted. FORGER KEEPS BUSY. DEMOCRACY TO CHOOSE ST. PAUL i Passes Checks on La Crosse Bank in peices =, begga sie ny Twin Cities, Washington, Dec. 11. — Norman E. La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 10.—About a;Mack, member of the Democratic na- dozen checks drawn upon the account tional committee for New York, said of Frank L. Scott at the La Crosse! yesterday while in New York en route First National bank have been rejto Washington to attend the meeting ceived here from St, Paul and Minne} of the committee on Thursday, that apolis and returned as forgeries. The|the national convention will be held checks are drawn in $10 and $18 either in St. Paul or Louisville. He amounts and appear periodically|said that Denver was not central Thus far the police have been unable! enough and that Chicago had made no ss depres acer ake + “pid for it. The arrival of Gov, Sparks in Gold- field has led to many rumors, but be- yond the little excitement caused by the presence of the governor, two days ahead of the time announced, nothing has transpired to materially affect the situation. Officers of the Goldfield Miners’ union assured Gov. Sparks that the union will do all in its power to pre- vent violence and has been and is still earnestly endeavoring to. effect a peaceable settlement. It is definitely known that at least 500 men have been secured in the min- ing camps of California and are being held in readiness to come to Goldfield on two days ‘notice. TAKE 141 BODIES FROM MINE. Rescuers Are Reaching Point of Great- est Mortality at Monongah. Monongah, W. Va., Dec. 12. — The scene of America’s greatest catastro- phe has lost its fascination for the idlers who have surged about the pit entrances from the moment of the awful explosion of last Friday morn- ing. This crowd had been dwindling ever since rain started Tuesday night until last night there only remained the forces employed in rescue work, the newspaper workers and the incon- solable near relatives of victims, who remained faithful in their vigil during the downpour all night and all day and are still shivering and enduring excruciating physical discomforts in the wet snow that has succeeded the rain, When darkness fell 141 bodies had actually been brought to the surface, while many more were located, with the work still in progress. Men are working incessantly. After the bodies are located, the rescuers say, the most difficult part of the work is encounter- ed. The bringing out of the bodies, a distance of a mile or more through the underground workings, is tedious on account of meager facilities, and considerable confusion results in re- porting the number recovered. The rescue parties in Mine No. 8 yesterday began exploring the right side of the mine. In rooms along this side a ma- jority of the dead, it is said, will be found. The work of rescue is now systematized and progress is steady and effective. ORCHARD TO TELL IT AGAIN. Will Recite His Story of Blood on % Stand in Pettibone Trial. Boise, Idaho, Dec. 12. — Charging that George A. Pettibone, the defend- ant at bar, is the most guilty of all those charged with causing the death of Former Governor Frank Steunen- berg, James H. Hawley outlined the state’s case yesterday. Little effort at oratory was made by the chief pros- ecutor, but he plainly told the jury what it proposed to prove. For two hours he spoke of what he termed the most gigantic conspiracy in the an- nals of crime, always keeping in the foreground the part which it is alleged Pettibone took in it. The taking of evifence began at the afternoon session, and before court adjourned for the day the state had established a corpus delicti, clearing the way for Harry Orchard, who will to-day take the witness stand and for the second time tell to a jury his story of blood. Orchard was brought from the penitentiary to this city last evening. Senator Borah, who arrived from, Washington during the night; conduct- ed the examination of state witnesses yesterday afternoon. BLAZE AT TWIN VALLEY. Twin Valley, Minn., Dec. 12.—Fire completely destroyed the Ballord- Trimble Lumber company’s shed and stock. Loss, $12,000; Twin Valley Im- plement company’s stock, $3,500; C. L. Dabl warehouse, $1,500. BURGLARS HAVE FEAST. Waseca, Minn., Dec. 12. — Bur- glars, who it is presumed weré young men of this city, last night broke into the storehouse of the Armstrong Wholesale company. Going to an up- per floor, they broke open boxes and cases and laid out a feast large enough to feed a score of people. They scattered the remnants of their revel all over the building and took with them a large quantity of smoking to- bacco. The offices and safe were not disturbed. Caused by Rapid Rise in River. The collapse of the bridge was caused by the rapid rise in the river. The water rose during the day at the rate of almost one foot an hour and debris carried down the stream by the flood struck the false work of the bridge and caused its collapse. The accident occurred just at night- fall, when the men were preparing to abandon their work. As a result the work of rescuing those who were thrown into the water and caught in the mass of twisted iron and steel was greatly retarded. Many of the men were caught in the rapid water and carried a mile or more down the river before they were rescued. The bridge was being built by the state to replace one carried away in a freshet in 1903. Great Damage Caused. Philadelphia, Dec. 12. — The Dela- ware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill riv- ers, as a result of the heavy rains in the past few days, are rising rapidly, and small streams throughout the coal regions have overflowed their banks, flooding mines, causing cave-ins and doing great damage to railroad and other property. At Wilkesbarre silk mills and other manufacturing establishments were compelled to shut down and traffic is interrupted. In the city of Scranton two new bridges were damaged. A bridge was washed away at Blakely, with a loco- motive on it, and a dam at Chinchilla gave way. Fishing Creek, in Columbia county, overflowed its banks and fifteen bridges belonging to the Pennsylvania Lumber company at Jamieson City were washed away, together with sev- eral hundred thousand feet of lumber. The works of the Union Tanning com- pany were flooded and the town of Benton is in danger of being washed away. WILD PANIC ON FERRYBOAT. Steamer Collides With a Crowded Ferryboat and Almost Sinks It. New York, Dec. 12.—The Fall River line steamer Providence was in colli- sion with, and but narrowly escaped sinking, a crowded East river ferry- boat last night. The latter craft lost a portion of her superstructure, and her passengers were thrown into a panic, during which, it is reported, a man and woman jumped overboard and were drowned. This report could not be confirmed, and so far as defi- nitely known no one was killed or se- riously injured. Both boats drifted down the river until aided by tugs, the ferryboat crip- pled by the accident and the steamer temporarily unable to get her head. The latter finally returned to her dock and the ferryboat was helped to a slip. The Providence was not greatly damaged. Following the accident charges of cowardice and brutality were made against the men passen- gers of the ferryboat. When the lat- ter craft reached a slip she still had seventy-five women and children on board, while with few exceptions the men passengers had escaped to other boats. The Providence’s prow struck the ferryboat a glancing blow on the star- board and the boats hung together long enough to permit many of its passengers to pass from the ferry’s upper deck to the steamer. Others were taken off by tugs, ‘while some re- mained on board, The ferryboat had been practically stripped of life preservers. The acci- dent was due to fog through which the boats fortunately had moved slowly, The Baltic was crowded to the rails by persons returning to their homes * in Brooklyn, ang when the crash came there was a panic. Many Wom- en fainted, and in the scramble for life preservers it is charged that the men got most of them. REN See Loot Postoffice. “ Jamestown, Ohio, Dec. 12.—Thieves entered the local postoffice early yes- terday morning by using a skeleton key. They looted the office, securing a large quantity of stamps, registered mail and a small amount of cash. Earthquake at St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 12. — A slight earthquake shock which rattled the windows in the down-town section was felt here last night at 10:32 o’clock. The movement seemed to be from south to north.