Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 15, 1908, Page 2

‘eral. 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, The president has sent to the senate the nomination of George B. Grigsby to be United States attorney for the district of Alaska, Senator Gallinger favorably reported from the committee on commerce & pill increasing the mail subsidies on steamship lines between the United States and ports in South American and the Philippines and Australasia. The senate has passed a bill to ap- ply the provisions of the act pension- ing survivors of the Indian wars of 1832 to 1842 to survivors of the Indian wars that occurred in Utah, Colorado, Minnesota and Idaho down to and in- cluding 1867. The senate has passed a Dill placing Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard on the retired list of the army as a lieutenant gen- eral. Gen. Howard is the only officer now living who commanded an army during the Civil war. He also has re ceived the thanks of congress for meri- torious services, People Talked About. Mrs. Honorah Kinney is dead at Be- loit, Wis., at the age of one hundred: years and three months. Samuel Mills Warren, a lawyer, min- ister, teacher and author, died of heart disease while riding on a train near Boston. G. W. Linn, one of the most widely known commission merchants in Chi- cago, is dead after a somewhat extend- ed illness. G. W. Goddard, well known as one of the pioneer millers and flour deal- ers of St. Louis, died’ suddenly from heart disease. James W. Pinchot, father of Gifford Pinchot, chief forester of the govern- ment, died in Washington, following a protracted illness, Samuel Floyd Angus, former owner of the Detroit American league base- ball club and prominent as a capitalist, is dead at Detroit. Miro Delamatto, for several years a well known grand opera tenor and re- cently manager of a theater in Chi- cago, is dead of pneumonia. After a lingering illness from kia. ney trouble, Shepard Knapp, sixty-two years old, former newspaper man and member of an old St. Louis family, is dead. Mrs. Mary Sherry died at Brocton, N. Y., at the age of 102 years. She, read without glasses and had vivid recollections of Andrew Jackson and the war of 1812. H. Laidley, one of St. Louis’ most} prominent physicians and who was medical director of the Louisiana pur- chase exposition, died suddenly at his home in St. Louis of cerebral hemor- rhage. . Crimes and Criminals. Freq Van Meter is in jail at Gallipo- lis, Ohio, charged with having pan ed his wife. Two hundred masked night riders visited Dycusburg, Ky., and burned Bennett’s tobacco warehouse and dis- tillery. The loss is about $40,000. George W. Smith of Boone, Iowa, Democratic candidate for county su- perintendent of schools, suicide by hanging. No cause is known for the act. A dynamite bomb was exploded un- der the general store of Samuel Let- sovic at Export, Pa., demolishing the building. Letsovie received threat- ening Black Hand letters. After reading several chapters of the Bible and kneeling with members of the family in prayer, David P. Otts of Birmingham, Ala., retired to a room and blew off the top of his head. S. Thompson, aged sixty-five, of Col- ville, Wash., a veteran of the Civil war, has sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for horse stealing. He confessed. Old soldiers of the state, however, will make an effort to have Gov. Mead pardon Thompson. Oscar Hogan (colored) was sen- tenced in the district court at Ottum- wa, Iowa, to the state penitentiary at Fort Madison for life. Hogan assault- ed a well known Ottumwa woman last September. The assault was the most brutal in the history of the county. Accidental Happenings. The Green block, the largest apart ment house in Berlin, N. H., was de stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $75, 000. The Licking rolling mill at Cincin- nati was almost completely destroyed by fire. Loss, $200,000. The mill em- ployed 400 men. Ollie Rockabrand was struck by a freight locomotive at the Sterling (IIL) passenger depot as he was in the act of crossing the tracks, and was hurled sixty feet from the right of way, re ceiving a broken thigh and arm and internal injuries Which resulted in his death in less than an hour. Dr. Carl Bullhorst, a former minis- ter of the Presbyterian faith, who was expelled from the church on the ground that he preached heresies, died at the Nebraska state hospital for the insane as a result of exposure and in- juries sustained when he attempted to drown bimeelf near the hospitad committed ; Mich. entire train of seven cars was tipped over into the ditch. Several passen- gers and some of the crew were in jured., i Three foreigners were killed and six others seriously injured. when the boilers in the Welch brick plant at Monaco, Pa., exploded. It is supposed frozen water pipes caused the acci- dent. The damage is estimated at $7,000. David Barrie, Sir Thomas Lipton’s representative in this country when the Irish baronet raced Shamrock I. and Shamrock II. for the America’s cup, was killed in New York by falling in front of a locomotive which crushed him, A passenger train was wrecked one mile east of Sweetwater, Tenn. The train, while going at a rate of thirty- five miles an hour, ran into an open switch and chashed into a loaded coal car. A number of persons were seri- ously injured. In the teeth of the wildest blizzard that has swept Oneida county, N. Y, this ‘ winter, firemen of three cities fought for five hours a fire that before controlled had caused a total loss of a quarter of a million dollars in the bus- iness section of Rome. i Foreign. No less than 2,000 cases of influenza were reported in Berlin last week. Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, premier and secretary for native affairs of Cape Colony, has resigned. Advices from Honduras report that the election just held there resulted in a sweeping victory for Gen. Miguel R. Davila as president of the republic. The inhabitants of Elba intend to commemorate the centenary of Napo- leon’s sojourn on the island by inau- gurating an imposing monument to his memory. Capt. Verlynde of the French line steamer La Bretagne was found drowned in the harbor at Havre. It is believed he fell into the water while leaving the vessel in the dock. Despite the fact that the American financial flurry cast a dark cloud over the German business world in the last three months of 1907, the Fathetand’s general trade’ volume for the year showed heavy gains over 1906. A revision of the College of Herald- ry of Georgia, Trans-Caucasia, has re- sulted in the uncovering of monster forgeries of princely titles. Among 2,000 registered hereditary coats of arms 600 have been found to be bogus. James Hartwick, an aged resident of London, Ont., murdered his wife with a butcher knife while insane, and then went half-clad to a neighbor’s to whom he told his crime. Later the body was discovered and Hartwick was arrested. General News Items. W. E. Wall of Fredonia, Montgomery county, Tenn., has sold his 500-acre farm and will leave the state because of the night riders’ raids. With the discharge of the last pa- tient under treatment at the isolation hospital, San Francisco was officially declared to be free of bubonic plague. A new insurance organization, to be known as the Iowa Life Insurance company, was formed in Waterloo, Iowa, with a capital stock of $100,000. Hon. G. D. Wise, for many years a member of congress from the Third Virginia district, died at Richmond, Va. He was unmarried and seventy- two years old. Elaborate plans are being made at Des Moines for the entertainment of the national convention of the Mystic Toilers on Feb. 18. It is expected that 400 people will attend. Thomas L. Lewis of Bridgeport, Ohio, was declared elected president of the United Mine Workers of Ameri- ca at the closing session‘ of the annual convention at Indianapolis. Joseph C. Burton, the last survivor of the meeting in Alton, Ill, in 1834, at which the first abolitionist organiza- tion in Illinois was formed, died at Alton, aged ninety-three years. The ordinance recently passed by the New York board of aldermen for- bidding women from smoking in pub- lic places was vetoed by Mayor McClellan. The mayor states that the aldermen have no power to make such a law. A home and workshop for New York’s worthy unemployed was planned at a meeting of well known philanthropists, clergymen and others. The building, which will contain the home and workshop, will cost $200,- 000. Final agreement on plans for the projected new theater in New York were announced at a meeting of the founders, and it was said that the the- ater would probably be completed in time to open in the autumn of next year. Capt. Rawson J. Post, whose sixty- seven years had been filled with ad- venture and marked by several heroic deeds, died aboard his ship, the South- ern Pacific liner Comus, while the steamer was tied to her pier at New York. Death was due to heart failure. W. S. Fielding, Canadian minister of finance, has presented to parlia- ment an estimate for $2,850,000 for the purchase of seed grain for the set- tlers of Alberta and Saskatchewan whose crops were a failure last year. The money will be a lien on the land +t 5 per cent until paid. Prof. G. M. Stratton, head of the de- partment of experimental psychology in Johns Hopkins university at Balti- more, has resigned. He has accepted he directorship of the department of ssychology at the University of Cali- ornia and will assume his new duties aext fall. Elaborate Conspiracy at Oporto Is Nipped in Bud—Leaders Are Arrested. PAY TRIBUTE T DEAD KING Thousands of Portuguese View the Re- mains—Child Is Killed in Crush at Church. Marseilles, Feb. 11.—The frustration on Friday last at Oporto of an elabo- rate plot to proclaim a republic is an- nounced in. a telegram which was re- ceived yesterday from one of the high- est officials in Oporto by his brother, who has just arrived here from Lis- bon. According to the telegram a large number of conspirators have been arrested, including the leaders. It was also stated that numerous bod- fes of militant republicans had been | seen about the suburbs of Oporto. The police captured a large store of re- volvers and carbines together with, the written plans of the conspirators. These plans indicated that it was the intention to take the city by surprise on Saturday night, invade the govern- ment house, and other officials, destroy all lines of communication and establish a repub- lic. Funeral Passes Quietly. Lisbon, Feb, 11. — With the church bells toMing continually, the bodies of the murdered king and crown prince, in two golden chariots shrouded in black velvet and drawn by eight hood- ed horses, were escorted by a glitter- ing funeral pageant Saturday across Lésbon to the Portuguese pantheon. Not a single untoward incident mar- red the last act of Portugal’s recent tragedy. Vague forebodings proved baseless and there is a general feeling of relief in that all passed well. Pay Last Tribute. Sunday thousands of Portuguese, poor and rich, humble and pretentious, filed slowly through the noble cathe- dral of San Vicente and gazed for the last time on the faces of their king | and crown prince. When night fell and the doors of the church wete closed there was still a large crowd patiently awaiting admission. All the people yesterday wore some emblem of mourning and in passing the coffins placed beneath them floral offerings— some budding wild flowers from the fields; others simple clusters of vio- lets, and others elaborate creations and rare exotic blooms. Child Is Killed in Crush. The bodies were guarded constantly by officers of the army and navy, royal archers and the palace guards. Dur- ing the afternoon the square in front of the church, though guarded by sol- diers, became dangerously crowded with people who had poured in from various sections of the city and its environs. Many were knocked down, especially women and children, and women fainted both within the church and while waiting in the streets. A child who was crushed to the ground under the surging mass striving for admission was dead when finally lifted from under the feet of the crowd. May Be No Coronation. In official circles it is believed that the ceremonies in connection with | the coronation of King Manuel may not occur for two or three months, and perhaps may never occur, as the young king wishes to inaugurate his | reign with as little ostentation as pos- | stbie, Indications point to relative tran- | quilitty for a few weeks, when repub- | lican activity and determination to proclaim a republic, which appear strongly in evidence, may force im- portant developments. STILL AFTER KELSEY. Hughes Expected to Ask for Removal of Superintendent of Insurance Albany, N. Y., Feb. 11—That Gov. Hughes will renew to the senate this week bis recommendation of last year that @tto Kelsey, be removed from the office of state superintendent of in- surance on the ground of inefficiency is the general expectation here, though the governor will say nothing on the subject. There have been various ru- mors that Mr. Kelsey would resign and | thus avoid an open contest, but these appear to be without substantial foun- dation. FAMINE IN COPPERDOM. Twenty-five Carloads of Foodstuffs Tied Up by Storm. Houghton, Mich., Feb. 11—A fam- ine in fresh meat, fruits and vegeta- bles whieh existed throughout Copper- dom ended Saturday, when twenty-five carloads of perishable goods reached Boughton after being storm-bound in Malwaukee and Chicago since Tuesday night. FATAL BLAST AT DULUTH. Wisconsin Central Foreman Is Dying and Four Others Injured. Duluth, Feb. 11—Five men were in- jured, one of them fatally, by a prema- ture explosion of dynamite, yesterday in the tunnel work that the Wisconsin Central road is doing here in building terminals. Napoleon Perren, the fore- man, was fatally hurt. He is thirty years old and single. James Pressly, Albert Mucray and Fred Jerome were seriously injured but will recover. HOT 10 FORM REPUBLIC imprison the governor } Two ‘ins Enraged Citizens Over: power Armed Guard and Hang Negro. Brookhaven, Miss., Feb. 12. — El Pigot,-a negro, who assaulted Mise Williams, a young white woman, near here several weeks ago, was early yes- terday taken from the custody of the Jackson military company and a posse of deputies and hanged from a tele graph pole within less than a hundred yards of the court house, He was to have been tried yesterday and the posse were overpowered by 2 mob of more than 2,000 citizens. Sev- eral shots were fired during the melee and two members of the mob were wounded. Mob Attacks Militia, Pigot ‘reached Brookhaven from Jackson shortly after 7 0’clock, in cus tody of Sherifi Frank Greer and under the armed escort of the Capital Light guards, ordered into’service by Gov. Noel to protect the negro .during the trial. When the soldiers and negro alight- ed from the train the mob surged jaround them, and a fierce hand-to-hand ‘fight ensued. The soldiers clubbed the |members of the mob with their guns. The fight lasted five minutes and ‘the military started with the prisoner to the court house, when the mob, re- inforeed and reorganized, made an- other attack, secured the prisoner, dragged him to a telephone pole and hanged him. All Show Marks of Fight. | Jackson, Miss., Feb. 12.—The Jack- son military company, from whose cus- tody a mob secured Eli Pigot, the ne- gro lynched at Brookhaven yesterday, returned to this city late last evening, j almost every member of the company | bearing some mark of their encounter with the mob. One of the militiamen, | Corporal Leslie Arms, was seriously injured. Capt. Albert Failey, who was in ;command of the local militia, stated that the soldiers exerted every means to save the negro from the mob, both ;as to courage and to effort, but that it was a case of fighting against over- whelming odds. The local company was joined at Brookhaven by the com- |pany stationed at that place and in all numbered fifty-eight men. NOW RESTS WITH ANCESTORS. | Bodies of King Carlos and Luis Phil- ippi Laid Away. Lisbon, Feb. 12. — The bodies of King Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz Philippe were yesterday Jaid away be- side those of their royal ancestors in the sacred sepulchres of the pantheon. The official closing of one of the most | tragical incidents in Portuguese his- tory was done in a scene which almost | ended in disaster. A great crowd, num- | bering into the thousands struggled outside the cathedral San Vicente seeking to enter and view the bodies before the doors were finally closed | for the ceremony. Brushing back the police and guard of Royal Archers, they poured into the church, sweeping everything before them. A panic was threatened and the cavalry was called out to disperse the pushing thousands. Women and chil- ,dren were caught in the crush, and many of them were bruised and tram- pled upon, but no fatalities have been \Teported. When the doors eventually (Rare closed to the public the cere- Fass of entombment was carried out. | 50,000 PERSONS DESTITUTE. | Labor Union Calls for Help for People of Philadelphia Mill District. | Philadelphia, Feb. 12. — An appeal |for aid for destitute people in the ‘Kensington mill district of Philadel- | phia, one of the greatest industriat | centers in the world, was made at the | meeting at the Central Labor union. The union appointed a committee to act on the plea of a delegation of tex- tile workers who claimed that from 35,000 to 50,000 men, women and chil- dren in the Kensington district are in need of relief, LYNCHING THREATENED. | Mob Seeks Life of Engineer Whose Train Killed Aged Man. Lexington, Ky., Feb. 12—A special from Prestonsburg, Floyd county, says | that Engineer William Artrip of the lo- cal railroad line there, in charge of a train which struck and killed an aged |man named Burks, was dragged from his engine. cab and _ hustled to jail, where he is in danger of being lynched by the angry citizens. NELSON WITH DYING SON. Senator From Minnesota Will Remain in Colorado to the End. Denver, Feb. 12.—Senator Nelson’ of Minnesota has arrived at Colorado Springs, to be with his son Henry, who is dying of tuberculosis. The senator has given up all hopes of his sén’s re- covery and will remain until the end. The young man has been failing since he was brought here last March from Everett, Wash. ~ SEVEN PERISH IN BLAZE. Home of Carpenter at New Liskard, Ont., Burns With Inmates. New Liskard, Ont., Feb. 12.—Seven persons were burned to death by a fire which destroyed the home of Qaw- rence Haacke, a carpenter, near this mornitig. The victims were his wife and six children, ranging in age from an infant to a girl of eleven years. The family were asleep when ‘the fire started and before assistance arrived the building had been ews to the ground. iE Nas for his crime. The miltary company | ROOT SIGN TREA Issue Arising Between America and France. AGREEMENT MUST BE RATIFIED Convention Is the Result of Recom- mendations Made by the Hague Peace Conference. x Washington, Feb. 12. — Secretary Root and Ambassador Jusserand yes- terday signed a treaty providing for the arbitration’ of'any issue that may arise between France and America. The treaty will have to be submitted to the United States senate and to the French executive before it can become effective. Meanwhile its provisions are withheld from publication. It is understood, however, that the treaty is drawn in accordance with the rec- ommendation of the late Hague’ con- ference, which, finding it impossible to draft a general arbitration treaty that would receive the full assent and support of all of the. great sig- natory powers, undertake to make spe- cial arrangement between themselves for the settlement of disputes by arbi- tration. The present convention is be- lieved to be in terms very similar to one prepared by Secretary Olney and Lord Pauncefote looking to the arbitra- tion of possible disputes between America and Great Britain, which con- vention failed of approval by the Unit ed States senate. Reasons for Secrecy. Owing to the rule that drafts of treaties must not be made public be- fore they have been made the subject of action by the senate, it is impossible to ascertain at present how Secretary Root has been able to overcome the ap- parently insurmountable obstacle to the ratification of such a treaty aris- ing from the insistence of the senate to its right to pass separately upon any question to be arbitrated. The failure of the Hague conference to agree upon a_ general arbitration treaty was caused by the refusal of some of the principal European na- tions to enter into conventional ar- rangements of that kind with some of the lesser countries of South and Cen- tral America and with Oriental na- tions, Surprise to French Papers. Paris, Feb. 12.—The fact that nego- tiations looking to a treaty of arbitra- tion between the United States and France were under way was practical- ly unknown to the French newspapers, which have not discussed this subject at all. News that such a treaty had been signed, however, is printed in the morning papers with but little or no comment, MORSE IS INDICTED TWICE. New York County Grand Jury Finds True Bills Against Banker. New York, Feb. 12.—The grand jury for New York county, which has been investigating certain business trans- actions involving some of the banks with which Charles W. Morse, the or- ganizer of the American Ice company and the Consolidated Steamship com- pany, until recently was identified, yes- terday returned five indictments. Three of these indictments had to do with liquor tax cases, while two in- dictments charged grand larceny. The indictments were not made pub- lic, but in asking that a good-sized bail bond be required, District Attorney Je- rome stated to the court that two charges of grand larceny were laid against “a man now on his way over here” from Europe. Morse Is the Man. Following the court proceedings, it was stated authoritatively that the man referred to by Mr. Jerome was Charles W. Morse, who sailed for Liv- erpool a week ago Saturday on the Campania, but is now returning upon the advice of his counsel. Mr. Morse is a passenger on the Cunarder Etru- ria, due here late next Saturday. The grand jury, it is learned, has ordered other indictments in connection with its investigation into banking affairs. Among the matters which the grand jury looked into was a transaction in which two notes for $200,000 figured. The federal grand jury, which also has been investigating the banking sit- uation, concluded its day’s session yes- terday without handing down any in- dictments. 1S ENGAGEMENT OFF? Miss Ashford Denies Rumor and Gas- saway Won’t Discuss It. ‘Washington, Feb. 12.—It is reported that the engagement of Henry Gassa- way Davis and Miss Ashford has been terminated. She denies it and Mr. Davis refuses to discuss the matter. Suffragettes to March. New York, Feb. 12. — Advocates of suffrage for women are preparing for a monster parade which will take place next Sunday. The*line of march will be along Fifth avenue, from Union square to Central Park. ’ Austrian Killed. Pueblo, Colo., Feb. 12.—Joseph Russ and six Austrian companions were held up last night by a lone highway- man. In the melee that followed Russ was killed by a bullet from the ban- dit’s revolver. ~ | Naat RES NGI RAID stv Thousand Pounds of Tobacco Destroyed in Crittenden County, Ky. Hopkinsville, Ky., Feb, 11. — Last night at 12 o’clock a band of about 150 night riders, masked, heavily arm ed and wearing the insignia of a se eret clan, invaded Fredonia, Critten don county, captured James Scarberry, operator of the Cumberland Telephone company, and cut all telephone con nections. They then corraled several citizens in a drug store and held them prison: ers. Leaving a large guard in the town, the others galloped to the village ot View, five miles away, and blew up Alfred H. Cardin’s tobacco factory, containing 35,000 pounds of tobacco, and set fire to and destroyed Mr. Car din’s barn, containing 10,000 pounds of tobacco. After firing volleys of shots into the air, the night riders returned through Fredonia and released their prisoners. Eighty per cent of Crittendon coun ty farmers have tobacco pooled in the Society of Equity. Mr. Cardin is no? a member. The Planters’ association has no organization in this county. CHARGED WITH BIG FRAUD. Publisher and Postmaster Are Indictee by Grand Jury. Portland, Me., Feb. 11. — George Frederick Terry, general manager o# the Sawyer Publishing company, at Waterville, and Henry W. Boshan, whe for a number of years has handled the second and third class mail matter in the Waterville postoffice, were indicted in the United States district court for alleged joint conspiracy to defraud the government of postage. It is alleged that the government has been robbed of many thousands oj dollars ‘a year for several years by Terry and Boshan, the amount being as high as $50,000 a year. There were two counts each against Terry and Boshan. One charged con: spiracy to falsify the transportation of second-class mail matter and the mak- ing of false statements of the actual ciroulation of Sawyer’s monthly maga zine for the purpose of defrauding the government of postage. The second count charges conspira cy to make false returns as to the weight of second-class mail matter for the purpose of defrauding the post office department of postage due op the same magazine. The Sawyer Publishing company. publishes five so-called popular maga zines. It is claimed that sample cop ies have been sent out greatly in ex cess of the number allowed. RECEIVER NAMED FOR VILLAGE Illinois Town Still Ruled by Laws Made by Louis XIV. of France. Belleville, Ill., Feb. 11—Judge B. R. Burroughs, presiding in the circuit court here, granted the petition of the Federal Union Security Company of Indiana for an injunction to restrain George Lepeich from further action as supervisor of the village and common fields of Cahokia and from collecting rentals from the tenants of the 600 acres of valuable lands of that histori¢ settlement. Frederick B. Morrills of Belleville was made receiver. The court order results from an ef: fort to readjust the affairs of the vil lage, which were tangled. The office of supervisor of Cahokia was created in 1722 and has been con: tmued since with the same powers. The village is still governed by the laws given it by Louis XIV. of Franca INDIAN BURNED TO CRISP. Clothes Saturated With Alcohol While Sleeping Near a Campfire. Menominee, Mich., Feb. 11—Michi- gabee, an Indian of the Pottawattamie tribe, near Wabeno, Forest county, Wisconsin, burned to death. Michiga bee was returning with his father-in- law, Gurly Jack, from Wabeno. Michi. gabee had a quart of alcohol in his pouch, Night falling upon them, they built a fire near the roadside and lay down. Rolling around during the night the bottle broke in the pouch and Mich! gabee’s clothes became saturated with alcohol. Coming in close contact with the fire the body was in flames in a second. The body was burned to a crisp. LID PINCHES TILTERS, Saloon Men Who Violate Law Are Quickly Punished. Winona, Minn., Feb. 11. — The lid must not be tilted on Sunday in Wi- nona. Any effort to get around the law causes trouble. Anton Pellowsk} was fined $20 and costs for keeping his saloon open last Sunday. A cow ple of his customers sneaked in the back door, and bought a couple of beers and some alcohol. They then hasten ed to the city prison and told the po lice. Pellowski is the fourth saloon. keeper to be fined since the lid wen? on. BIG ONES GET DOCKED. Presidents of Two Railroads Wil} Have Salaries Cut 10 Per Cent. Cincinnati, Feb. 11—Vice President Murphy yesterday stated that the man. agements of the Cincinnati, New Or leans & Texas Pacific railway and Ala bama Great Southern railroad have de termined to put into effect on March 1, 1908, a reduction of 10 per cent in the pay of the president, vice presidents and other general officials and em employes receiving monthly salaries of $250 and over. Sy