Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 7, 1908, Page 2

~ Rerald-Review By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED Digest of the News Worth Telling Con densed for the Busy Reader. Washington Notes. Secretary Metcalf has accepted the resignation of twenty-six midshipmen at the naval avademy who failed in their midwinter examination for pro- motion. Forecasting the needs of the army in times of war, Maj. Gen. F. D. Grant, United States army, declared that “in case of a war with a great nation, Ja- pan for instance, 500,000 troops would not be sufficient properly to garrison the Pacific coast, north and south.” The house committee on military af- fairs has decided to report favorably the bill for the retirement, with the yank of captain, of all contract sur- geons who have served thirty years in the army. The bill affects at present only one person. . A bill has been introdticed in the house providing that no employe of the United States government shall become an accredited delegate of any | poltical organization to any national convention held for the nomination of president of vice president. ‘ Senator Cullom has invited the pres- ident to attend the 100th anniversary celebration of the birth of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, Ill., Feb. 12, 1909. The president explained that he already agreed to attend the exercises at the Lincoln farm in Kentucky on that date. The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce has authorized a favorable report on the Esch Dill which requires raliroads to make monthly reports of all accidents on their lines ‘othe interstate, comm 2. commission and autho 4 publi cation of these reports by the commis- sion. ' Personal. Robert Clifford, a private in the Fif- teenth cavalry, died of yellow fever at Santa Clara, Cuba. John W. Rogers, trainer for the rac- ing and breeding stable of Harry Payne Whitney, died in Aiken, S. C., of pneumonia. George Helm, lawyer, former con- gressman and minister to Denmark under President Johnson, died in Jer- sey City in his eightieth year. Victor A. Bradley, one of the attor- neys prosecuting Caleb Powers throughout his four trials, died at jeorgetown, Ky., after a short siege of pneumonia. Dead from lack of proper food, Rus- sell Page, a Civil war veteran, deco- rated by congress for valiant service at Fort Donelson, was found dead in his bed at Cleveland. William H. Prescott, vice president of the United States Envelope compa- ny and one of the most prominent en- ope manufacturers in the country, died at his home in Rockville, Conn. Casualty. The arm of a man was found wedg- ed between the trucks of a mail car on the Santa Fe road when it arrived at Chicago. Samuel O. Shephard and his broth- er, Delbert Shephard, were struck by a passenger train near Corinth, N. Y., and instantly killed. Twelve persons were seriously burned, two of whom will die, it is said, in a fire in New York in a five- story tenement house. Dr. Isaac R. Trimblye, a well known surgeon, died in Baltimore of blood poisoning. He was infected while per- forming an operation on Feb. 10. The death of at least three persons and much property damage was caus- ed in Bastern Pennsylvania by floods precipitated by heavy rains and melt- ing snow. Four Hundred men lost all their digging clothes when the dry house at the Austin mine at Princeton, Mich., was burned. At the same time a small sawmill half a mile distant was destroyed. Both fires were of in- cendiary origin. % Thirty women and several men were thrown into the water and came near being drowned at the ship yard at Lo- rain, Ohio. They were watching the launching of a big steel freighter from a platform at the stern of the boat. When the steamer slid into the water the waves washed the platform loose and precipitated the men and women into the deep water of the slip. Crimes. Capt. Gliezan, commander of the Russian cruiser Askold, who was about to face a trial by court-martial on charges growing out of last fall's naval mutiny, committed suicide at Vladivostok. Dr. Stuart R. MacDiermid of Omaha, president of the Green mountain Sav- ings bank, was arrested on a charge of fraudulently conducting a savings bank. J. L. Munzer, a member of a wealthy New York family, committed suicide at San Francisco by shooting himself. Despondency is supposed to have been the case of the act. Louis Raher of Rochester, N. Y., killed his sister, Mrs. Jerome Lewis, and then inflicted probably fatal wounds to himself. He quarreled with Bis sister over a trivial matter. ‘The grand jury at Baltimore return- ‘ed indictments against the, eight al- leged members of the Black Hand who are charged with conspiracy to murder Joseph Digiorgio by dynamit- ing his home there on the night’ of Dee. 10. John Allison, member of the aotori- ous “Lake Shore gang” and 6ne of the Richland bank robbers who es- caped from the state prison at Lan- sing, Mich., in 1904 and was captured after two years of freedom, has been conditionally pardoned. Mrs. Robert Ingersoll, a member of a prominent family of Sergeant Bluffs, Iowa, was arrested at Omaha, together with her husband, charged with steal- ing a dress skirt from Miss Louise Gould of Sioux City, in whose house they visited for a short time. Foreign. The universal municipal suffrage bill has passed its third reading in the Danish landsthing. Emperor William will leave Berlin for his#,eautiful new villa on the isl- and of Corfu March 21, to rest. The British army estimates for 1908- 1909 have been issued. The gross to- tal is $154,185,120, as against $155,- 211,830 for 1907-1908. Mrs, Alice New Wetherbee, daugh- ter of Gardiner Wetherbee of New York, and Count Rudolph Festetics de Tolna of Paris were married in Paris. The employes of all the railroads in Uruguay have gone on a strike. There are about 1,200 miles of railways in Uruguay, which are controlled by British capitalists. A thirteenth century copper and gilt ciborium, supposed to have come from Malmesbury abbey, has been sold in London for $30,000. It was purchased by a Bond street dealer. A new educational bill has been in- troduced in the British house of com-} mons, The bill regulates the condi- tions under which public money may be applied in aid of elementary educa- tion. W. D. Howels, the American author, was present on the invitation of Sig- nor Bani, director of the excavation work at the Forum in Rome at the Chicago Chief of Police Shoots Would-be Assassin—Is At- tacked in Home. CHIEPS SON BADLY WOUNDED Shippy and Coachman Also Injured; Anarchist Plot Threatens Other Officials. Chicago, March 4.—Chief of Police George M. Shippy, his son Harry and his driver, James Foley, were wound- ed by an anarchist, who attempted to assassinate the police official in the hall of the latter’s residence yester- day morning. The desperate struggle, in which Mrs. Shippy and her daugh- ter joined, was terminated when the ehief_drew his own revolver and kill- ed his assailant. The anarchist was identified as Lazerus Averbuch, twenty-three years old, a Russian student who came to America three months ago from Aus- tria, whither he fled two years ago from Kishinev to escape the persecu- tion of the Jews in that city. The attack is believed to have been the result of a widespread conspiracy to harm officials who have been ac- tive in suppressing manifestations of anarchy in this community. Other Officials Threatened. Other city officials are said to have been threatened and a police spy has recognized the corpse of the man who invaded Shippy’s home as that of a person who regularly attended an- anarchist meeting. He asserted that the man was chosen by lot to do away with not only the chief of police, but Mayor Busse as well. The ramifica- tions of the plot are said to extend to other cities and. tobe closely con- opsning-of,aanew section of the ruins }initeg with the ‘Billing OF the Rev, which brought to light many relics of the greatest interest. * The union between Boers and Britons has been further cemented by the marriage in London of Marie, youngest sister of Gen. Botha, former commander-in-chief of the Boer army and now premier of the new colony, to R. C. Hawkins, a barrister-at-law and a prominent Liberal. An anarchistic journalist at Leipsic, Oestricch by name, has been sen- tenced to three years in jail and five years’ loss of civil rights on the charge of high treason in consequence of an article which he published in Free Workers advocating the over- throw of the present form of army and imperial government. General News Items. The next convention of the National Association of Attorneys General has heen called to meet in Denver in Au- gust. Record prices were received for sev- eral rare coins at the sales in New York of the collection belonging to the late Dudley R. Child of Boston. Secretary Taft has accepted an in. vitation to deliver an address before the Tennessee Bar association which meets in Nashville May 21, 22 and 23. N. B. Thistlewood has been sworn in as a member of the house of repre- sentatives from the Twenty-fifth dis- trict of Illinois in succession to the late G. W. Smith. Gov. Willson has sent a long message to the Kentucky legislature, urging prompt legislation against the night riders and renewing many former rec- ommendations. Frank A. Munsey has bought the Baltimore News. The News is an in- dependent paper politically, and Mr. Munsey announces that it will con- tinue to be so conducted. The general manager of the Santa Fe railroad announces that 486 new operators will be required on the sys- tem to comply with the provisions of the federal nine-hour law. Announcement has been made by the Harvard varsity crew manage- ment that the annual Harvard-Yale poat races will be raced on June 25 on the Thames at New London, Conn. The Yankton has been assigned by Admiral Evans to search among the islands off the west coast of South America for an American named Jeffs, who is reported to be living on an island. The request of the governor of Maryland for the return of a flag cap- tured by the One Hundred and Twen- ty-third Ohio infantry from the First Maryland battery has been granted by the Ohio legislature. > The engagement has been announc- ed of Miss Sylvia Green, daughter of Hetty Green, the richest widow in the world and heiress to the greater part of her millions, to Matthew Astor Wilks, great-grandson of the original Jokn Jacob Astor. The art collection of the late Rich- ard Mansfield will be sold at public auction in New York. The collection includes a number of portraits of fa- | Father mous old-time actors by English mas- ters and many other pictures, includ- ing a number of Hogarth prints. Leo Heinrichs, a Roman Catholic priest, who was shot down at the al- tar of his church in Denver. Chief Stabbed in Arm. Harry Shippy is the most severely hurt of those injured in yesterday’s ffray. At a late hour he was said to have a very good chance of re- covery. His father was stabbed in the arm, while Foley received a bullet in the wrist. Mrs. Shippy was kicked by the desperado, but her hurts are slight. Following the attack squads of po- lice were sent into the Italian and Ghetto districts of the city. Places known as headquarters of secret so- cieties suspected of anarchistic. ten- dencies were raided and before mid- night a score or more of arrests had been made. State’s Attorney Healy announced that the grand jury will be given an opportunity to investigate anarchistic organizations in an at- tempt to fasten responsibility for the attack upon its instigators. It was also reported that. Mayor Busse in- tends to issue an order forbidding all street meetings. Hands Chief a Letter. That the attempt to kill Chief Ship- py resulted in failure was due large- ly to the policeman’s quickness in an- ticipating the purpose of his visitor’s presence is apparent. When the man yang the doorbell the chief himself answered the call. “As I opened the door,” said Mr. Shippy later, describing the attack, “the man raised his hat, and I allow- ed him to step into the hallway. He handed me an enevlope, I glanced at it and the thought struck me that the Man was up to some wrong. He look- ed like an anarchist. I grabbed his arms and called to my wife, who was in another room. When she ran into the hallway I said: ‘Mother, see if this man has a revolver.’ She felt one of his pockets and said that he had. “I tried to hold him with one hand and drew my revolver with the other, but he jerked away and fell against the door. I caught him again, and while we were struggling my _ son, who was upstairs, started to my aid. Put Six Bullets in Red. “He was only a few steps from the bottom of the stairs when the man freed one hand, drew his revolver and fired two shots at Harry. Then Foley, who had been summoned by my daughter, stepped into the hallway and the man shot him. The anarchist kicked my wife to one side, and by this time I had secured my own re- volver and both Foley and I opened fire. At my. first shot, which struck him in the head, he fell. I fired three more, one in his head and two in his body. Two of Foley’s shots also struck the assassin.” Policemen from all sections of the city were at once put to work on the case. The police are firm in the be- Nef that the attack on their chief was due to an anarchistic plot. Both the chief and Mrs. Shippy as- sert that the former’s life was saved by the bravery of their son. SAYS HE IS NO ANARCHIST. Heinrichs’ Slayer Disdains Connection With Any Society. Denver, March 4.—District Attorney George A. Stidger said yesterday that A lost statue of Hiawatha, by Au- he~-used every means to secure from gust St. Gaudens, the first figure ever executed by the sculptor, which dis- Huseppe Alio a confession of the con- nection of others in the assassination appeared after being exhibited at the |f Father Leo Heinrichs. The pris- Metropolitan Museien of Art re New | ner, however, stands firm in his dec- York about fifteen years ago, has been found ornamenting the grounds of the late Judge Henry Hilton’s estate at Saratoga, N. Y. DEFECTIVE PAGE lJaration that he is not an anarchist and is not a member of any society, and that no one was conected with him in the killing of Father Leo. GRONNA ALONE IN DEFENSE OF BILL North Dakota Representative Talks in Favor of Federal Inspection. ‘President’s Aide Admits Responsibility for. Row Over Criticisms of Navy. Washington, March 4.—Commander William H. Sims, naval aid to Presi- dent Roosevelt, by his own statement, is responsible for the row over criti- cisms of battleship construction. At the outset of his testimony before the senate committee on naval affairs yes- terday he gave the committee to un- derstand it could expect some sensa- This was done in a prelimi- nary statement outlining what he tions, “had to do wtih naval criticism.” Continuing, he said he would have to go into unpleasant facts, such as charging officers or inventors with having made misleading statements, the secretion of official documents and the refusal of superior officers to accept suggestions of value. Choked Off by Tillman. The plan of Commander Sims to give the committee a sensation was upset immediately by Senator Till- man, who suggested that the witness be instructed to confine his testimony to alleged faulty construction and to say nothing at this time of criticisms made of personnel or incomplete or- ganization, or other matters which are to be taken up later. Chairman Hale said the witness was not to say anything now about “resistance to criticism by naval offi- cers,” as that was a matter of ethics. partment has resisted criticism?” asked the commander. “Not from you,” was the reply. Called Back Sharply. This incident furnished an_ illus- tration of subsequent proceedings dur- ing Commander Sims’ testimony. He got away from the line of inquiry again, and members of the committee called him back sharply. The armor belt.on all our battle- atitae HCG Caiman der Sims stated broadly. He charged that the Converse and Capps were misleading. At the conclusion of the criticisms of the water lines, which were made in the most general terms, Admiral Capps was given permission to cross- examine the witness. The admiral did this chiefly by raising direct issue with the witness, Pictures the Dangers. The question of turret construction and the relative merit of the direct and interrupted ammunition hoists was then taken up. The commander gave a graphic description of the open turret with the direct hoists, which pictured the dangers in such manner that caused Mr. Hale to remark: “The wonder to me is that any men come out of there alive” Gunnery was referred -to incidental- ly, and Commander Sims character- ized the shooting by the American squadron at the battle of Santiago as gunnery that ever took place on the face of the globe.” “Our gunners could not shoot at all,” he said. Com- mander Sims concluded his statement at 12 o’clock at the suggestion of the committee. He remarked that he had not said “hardiy anything of what he wanted to say.” SCANDAL BEFORE CONGRESS. Two Departments Are Charged’ With Wrongs in Indian Land Affairs. New York, March 4.—A Washington special dispatch says: Two of the big government depart- ments are to be required to step forth into the glare of the senate search- light and be examined in regard to alleged sins of omission and commis- sion in connection with the adminis- tration of the affairs of certain In- dians who belong to the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. The department of the interior will be asked to inform the Senate what foundation there may be in~ charges that the secretary of the interior has had in its possession for three months positive proof of the bribery of cer- tain members of a court which passed upon Choctaw-Chickasaw citizenship claims without starting an investiga- tion for the purpose of bringing tbe guilty persons to the bar of justice. Wrongdoers Favored. The department of justice will be asked to make answer to charges that extraordinary courtesy has been’ ex- tended to certain indicted persons who were charged with having wrong- fully taken money from the Choctaw- Chickasaw fund and that under in- formation of the attorney general the defendants never were brought to trial. All these charges have been made by Congressman Stephens of Texas and Senator Tillman has taken the charges up and embodied them in res- olutions, one of which he has already introduced in the senate. The resolu- tion relates to. the department of in- terior. 16,000,000 Acres Involved. The other resolution, which calls for an explanation from the depart- ment of justice, will probably be in- troduced by Senator Tillman. There were some 16,000,000 acres of land in Indian Territory to be di- vided in severalty among these In- dians. There were about 25,000 per. sons in the two tribes, and by act of congress it was stipulated ‘hat each ‘individual should receive and to a value of $1,000, the lands being ap praised all the way from 25 cents to $6.50 an acre. “Don’t you care to know if the de- statements made By Rear Admirals the “most .disgraceful exhibition of NOT A FUNCTION OF CONGRESS Opponents of Bill Claim Congress Has Not Constitutional Power to Pass It. Washington, March 5.—Representa- tives of various chambers of com- merce and grain-handling associations appeared yesterday before the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce to oppose the passage of bills providing for a uniform classifi- cation of grain and for export inspec- tion by the federal government. Among the organizations represented were the Boston Chamber of Com. merce, the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia and the Corn Exchange and Chamber of Commerce of Buffalo, as well as individual Baltimore grain exporters, Gronna in Defense. ‘ Representative Gronna of North Dakota spoke in favor of the bills. He said the grain growers of the West have little complaint to make against the local elevator men, but they suf- fered heavy losses from lack of a uni- form system of classification, backed by federal inspection, which would guarantee fair grading of grains at ter- minal or export points within the United States. Mr. Gronna received letters and resolutions from the Lon- don Corn Trade association and conti- nental and international grain boards and committees to the effect that American grain is being widely dis- criminated against. by.European buy- ers on account of lack of a uniform and dependable system of grading. Opponents’ Argument. Opponents of the bill set up the claim that grain inspection in inter- state commerce is not a function with- in the constitutional powers of con- gress. In this regard Chief Justice Marshall was quoted as having laid down the principle that the right of commercial inspections never was sur- rendered to the federal government by the states. .They asserted that cer- tain provisions of the proposed bills, if, enacted into law, would impose as many as five distinct inspections of one shipment of grain before it could leave the United States in export. It also was pointed out that under the operation of the proposed law export- ers would have no monetary redress for loss through misgrading by federal inspectors, and therefore this. loss ul- timately would be charged against the zrower. HARRIMAN ON TOP. Railroad Magnate Is Re-Elected on Board of Directors With Astor. Chicago, March 5.—The long strug- gle for control of the Illinois Central railroad was ended, at least tempo- rarily, yesterday when the oft adjourn- ed annual meeting of stockholders held its final session and elected four directors. With only formal protests recorded by the interests headed by Stuyvesant Fish, which have been op- posing the administration of the road, ®. H, Harriman and John Jacob Astor were re-elected to the board; A. G. Hackstaff, who has been serving as a director since the death of John C. Welling, was chosen to fill out the un- expired term, and Joseph F. Titus was elected to succeed Stuyvesant Fish upon the directorate. Mr. Fish was not present at the meeting and only a few of his allies were there to watch his interests. Neither were the bulk of the proxies held by Mr. Fish presented to the proxy committee. The report of that body showed that 584,688 shares out of a total of 950,400 outstanding were entitled to be voted. Of these 581,456 were held by President Harahan. Cannot Ratify Purchases. The comparatively small representa- tion of stock at the meeting had one effect which was a bit disappointing to the administrative forces. With less than two-thirds of the outstanding stock voting, it was impossible to rat- ify legally the action of the board of directors in agreeing to purchase two small brancn lines—the Kensington & Eastern and the Memphis & State Line railroads. The charter of the railroad requires that 632,600 shares shall be voted in favor of any propo- sition looking to the purchase of oth- er railways. Yesterday only 583,046 were recorded in favor of the plan to purchase the two lines in question. Church Robber Sentenced. Limoges, France, March 5.—Antoine Thomas, who committed the series of sensational church robberies. in France, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment at hard labor. LOOTED OF 295,000 PESOS. Mexican Bank is Believed to Have Been Robbed Sunday. Chihuahua, Mexico, March 5. — De- tails of the robbery of the Banco Mi- nero were learned yesterday. When the bank opened Monday it was dis- covered that 295,000 pesos were miss- ing. ‘The document vault had been entered by breaking the lock and the money vault by taking out stone ma- sonry. The work is supposed to have been done Sunday afternoon and night. Immigration: Officials Ordered to Unite With Police in Effort to Drive “Reds” Out. Chicago, March 5.—While city, state and federal authorities put plans on foot yesterday to stamp out anarchy in Chicago, the police department pur- sued with new vigor its search through the haunts of radicals in the Ghetto district for anarchists who might have a possible connection with the attempted assassination of Chief of Police Shippy Monday. The net re- sults of police activity during the day and the evening was the rounding up of nine suspects. Three arrests, which the police considered impor- tant, were made in the afternoon. A man who gave his name as_ Harry Goldstein, and who is said to be an agent of the Edelstadt society, an an- archistic organization at 427 Union street, was taken into custody while distributing handbills of a rabid an- archistic nature. Names of Suspects Withheld. Two other suspects, whose names were withheld, were arrested and sub- jected to a rigid examination at the city hall, The others under arrest were held more because of their affili- ation with anarchistic societies than from any expectation of connecting them with the attempted assassina- tion of the police head. The organized movement against anarchy by the department began with a conference at the home of Chief Shippy, which Mayor Busse and As- sistant Chief of Police Schuettler took part. It resuited in a meeting being arranged for to-day, at which the may- or, the police officials and State’s At- torney Healy will try to work out a plan of co-operation. To Suppress Anarchy. District Attorney Sims also met a number of city officials in the mayor's office, and the auestion of federal as- sistance in the rooting out of anarchy was taken up. It was considered on, all sides that the efforts of the vari- ous branches of authority should be di- rected toward the suppressing of the propaganda of anarchy and of meet- ings where incendiary harangues are made. Mr. Sims, after the conference, declined to discuss the measures con- templated, but said’ that any steps that may be undertaken by the fed- eral authorities will depend upon the procedure of the city and state offi- cials. Planned by Anarchists. That Lazarus Averbuch, in attempt- ing to assassinate Chief of Police Ship- py, carried out a commission intrusted to him by a group of Chicago apn- archists, was declared by Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler last night to have been proved beyond a doubt. The diseovery was made just as the police were about to accept the theo- ry that the young anarchist acted upon his own impulse and that the at- tempt was not the result of a con- spiracy.. The group of anarchists also plotted, according to information in ¢he hands of the authorities, to assas- sinate Mayor Busse and Capt. P. D. O’Brien of the detective bureau. The principals in the plot have not yet been discovered. Federal Co-operation. ‘Washington, March 5.—The secre- tary of commerce and labor yesterday issued a sweeping order to all com- missioners of immigration and immi- grant inspectors in charge, directing them to confer with the police in their respective jurisdiction with a view to securing the “co-operation of the po- lice and detective forces in an effort to rid the country of alien anarchists and criminals falling within the law relating to deportation.” ARSON PLOT DISCOVERED. Two Former Convicts Tell Chicago Police of Gigantic Plot. Chicago, March 5. — Confessions made by two former convicts to Fire Attorney Hogan last night in the office of Chief of Detectives O’Brien reveal- ed one of the biggest arson plots that have ever come to the notice of the Chicago police. Joseph H. Mack, manager of a de- tective*agency, is accused in the con- fession of being the person who fur- nished the funds for carrying on the work. Another man, well known to the police for his connection with ho- tels of disrepute, is said to be the chief conspirator. Mack, it is said, acted as his agent. William Dempsey, one of the men who have confessed the alleged conspiracy; Thomas Ken- nedy and Mack were arrested. Fire Attorney Hogan alleges that the three prisoners made two attempts to destroy two buildings occupied by firms that manufacture rubber goods. The hotelkeeper is engaged in the same business and it was this compe- tition, the police say, that is at the bottom of the arson plot. Dempsey and Kennedy confessed having received about $500 from Mack during the last three months for wrecking the rubber factories. SRS Mito S ESE: ALIA DECLARED SANE. Slayer of Denver Priest Is Examinec by Experts. Denver, Colo., March 5.—Giusuppe Alia, the slayer of Father Leo Hein- richs, is declared absolutely sane in a report submitted to District Attorney Stidger yesterday by four experts in mental diseases who examined the prisoner for several hours. The phy- sicians agreed that Alia has no men- tal delusions whatever and is above the average in intelligence and pow- ers of memory. =