Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 21, 1908, Page 3

Rerald-Review. STUDENTS N Wid MUST mat By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME A (mportant Events at Home and oo Foreign Shores Briefly Told. Washingten Notes. If the house and the senate concur In an action just taken it will cost $10 instead of $5 after July 1, 1908, for a foreigner to become a citizen of the United States. Secretary Taft has signed an order for the abandonment of the military post known as Fort Keogh, Mont. The post is not needed for the accommo- dation of the troops in that section. A favorable report has been ordered by the house committee on public lands of the bill which passed the sen- ate making available under the Carey act additional arid lands within the state of Idaho. An official denial has been made to the state department of the recent re- port that the German government in- tended to go into the petroleum busi- ness and monopolize that industry within its territory. Senator Nelson of Minnesota has giv- en notice of an amendment he will propose to the Aldrich currency bill requiring national banks to pay 2 per cent interest on weekly balances of government deposits of money. The house committee on Indian af- fairs has ordered a favorable report en a bill authorizing the secretary of the interior to lease allotted or un- allotted Indian lands containing min- in any Indian reservation for g purposes, he house committee on merchant marine and fisheries voted to report favorably the Goulden bill providing that every vessel of American regis- ter entering ports of the United States shall carry such complement of licensed officers and crew as in the judgment of local inspectors may be necessary for her safe navigation. Personal. The mother of Joseph Santos Ze jaya, president of Nicaragua, is dead. William Conroy Evans, manager of the foreign department of Armour & Co., died at his home in Evanston, IIl., of pneumonia. John Teagle, formerly one of the best known independent oil refiners in the country, is dead at his home in Cleveland, aged sixty years. John Burry, a well known electrical engineer and inventor of the Burry, printing telegraph system, died sud: denly at his home on Staten Island: Gen. William Clendin, aged sixty- three, inspector of the Peoria internal revenue district, is dead of heart fail- ure. He served with distinction in the Civil war. Fred Ketchum, who for several years played center field on the Lin- coln, Neb., baseball team, dropped dead from heart disease in his room at Binghamton, N. Y. John L. Smithmeyer, a noted archi- tect, died of carcinoma at Washing- ton. Mr. Smithmeyer designed and superintended the construction of the congressional library. He was sev- enty-six years of age. Mrs. Catherine Backus, widow of Charles Backus and a daughter of the late Col. Thomas A. H. Edwards, U. §. A., of the Black Hawk and other Indian wars, died in her sixty-seventh year at Yankton, S. D. Edmonde de Amicis, the noted Ital- jan writer of travels, died at Bor- dighra from congestion of the brain. He traveled extensively and was a master, in the art of describing the life and natural aspects of foreign countries and cities. " Crimes and Criminals. W. W. McKay of Tenino, Thurston county, Wash., killed his wife and three children and then shot himself. Charles White, a prisoner under sentence for five years at Fort Madi- son, Iowa, for burglarizisg J. H. An- drew’s residence, sawed his way to liberty during the night. Charles J, Vanni, an importer of for- eign newspapers in New York, was fined $150 for violating the penal code in selling blasphemous literature. Vanni was arrested by Anthony Com- stock for offering for sale French and Italian. anti-clerical publications in which were alleged blasphemous. car- toons. & A Japanese was arrested at Riepe- ton, Ney., after a hard struggle, in which he almost chewed off two fin- gers of a man named Clinton. Clin- ton, who is a_ drafstman, was ap- proached by the Japanese, who asked him if he would go with-him to San Francisco to get drawings of the for- tifications there. ClInton indignantly refused, he says, and held onto the Japanese until officers arrived. ' James Rathbon entered the kitchen in the home of Judge R. Hall at Oma- ha, where his wife worked as a serv- ant, shot and killed her and then committed suicide. The couple had been separated. With a bullet wound in his fore head and a cheap revolver and a Bi ble at his side, the dead body of a man supposed to be Andre Mitchell was found in an empty freight car is the Wabash yards at St. Louis. Apparently the man had committed suicide and had been dead a aauple of days. oe Bs: Ted RIOT AT ANN ARBOR Theater Is Literally Wrecked and More Than a Score of Rioters Are Jailed. FIGHT POLICE TO STANDSTILL Fire Department Called to Rescue and Students Steal Hose—Police Felled by Flying Missiles. Ann Arbor, Mich., March 18.—Col- lege feeling among students of the University of Michigan burst forth into rict last night. More than a score of students were locked up in jail, and the Star theater, a 5-cent place of amusement, was literally wrecked. Late in the evening the mob of stu- dents, which numbered fully 2,000, di- rected a college “rush” against the front of the building ,tearing away windows and doors and plaster and rolling the theater piano out into the streets, where the leaders of the stu- dents mounted the instrument and performed a dance to the accompani- ment of mad cheers and yells from the unmanageable crowd Student Too Vociferous. The trouble dates back to Saturday night, when a student in the audience who persisted in repeating the Ann Arbor college yell too often to suit the management, was ejected and thoroughly clubbed by a special po- liceman in the employ of the theater. Last night’s trouble started with a small crowd of students throwing eggs at the building. This diversion soon gave way to a fusillade of rocks, and when the police were called to quell the disorder the yells of derision sent up by the young men brought re- inforcements from every direction. As the attacking party grew wilder its aim broadened proportionately, and windows of the upper stories of the building and those of neighboring business places began to crash. Find- ing the police unable to subdue the rioters, Mayor Henlerson summoned the fire department. Several police officers had been felled with flying missiles, and others fought on hat- less after their helmets had been stolen to decorate some student’s ptt Capture Fire Hose. The firemen had no_ sooner laid their lines of hose to the scene to give the boys a drenching than, with a wild yell, a detachment of the boys captured a hundred feet of the hose and ran yelling down the street with it. Mayor Henderson tried to secure aid from the national guard, but found that the local company’s rules forbade it to respond. President Angell of the university, Dean Hutchins ofghe law department, and Mayor Henderson vainly pleaded alt evening for the stu- dents to disperse, but equally without results, as the disorders increased steadily until the work of destruction was complete. FLOOD CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE. Incessant Rain in Northe-n Idaho Sends Streams Out of Banks. Spokane, Wash., March 18.—An in- cessant fall of rain in Northern Ida- ho from Saturday morning until Mon: day morning has caused the waters of the St. Joe river to overflow their banks, resulting in considerable de- struction of property. The waters of Coeur d’Alene lake have risen three feet and dwellings along the entire length of the St. Joe river have had to be abandoned, the people taking refuge on the uplands. Lewiston will be isolated for a week or more. The Pine Creek Lumber company, near Kendrick, has lost a $100,000 dam and more than 1,000,000 feet of logs. One drowning is reported. TRAILING BANK ROBBERS. Posses Making Effort to Surround Men Who Robbed Tyro Bank. Pawhuska, Okla., March 18. — The three Tyro bank robbers are known to be in the Osage hills, three miles from Bighart. The bandits were seen yesterday morning and posses from Ochelata, Pawhuska, Avant and Hom- iny are hurrying to the neighborhood in an effort to surround them. A farmer living near Bighart gave |, the clue to the whereabouts of the robbers. He saw them ride past his house on the way to the hills. As soon as they were out of sight he mounted a horse and rode into Big- hart to give the alarm. Police Choke Off Emma Goldman. Chicago, March 18. — Emma Gold man was stopped by the police last night when she attempted to speak at a meeting in Workingmen’s hall. Her subject was “Anarchy and What It Stands For.” 4 Papke Wins From Kelly. * Milwaukee, March 18.—Billy Papke of Spring Valley, Ill, was awarded the decision over Hugo Kelly of Chi- cago in a ten-round bout at the Hip- podrome, under the auspices of the Milwaukee Boxing club. The bout went the limit. Men Burned in Tunnel. Helena, Mont., March 18. — Four ‘men were badly burned;.two probably fatally, as the result of an explosion of gas in the Iron Mountain tunnel mine in Missoula county yesterday. Burlington Railroad Also Loses lis Fight—Fined for Granting the Rebates. Washington, March 18. — The pro- ceeding by the government against the Armour Packing company, Swift & Co., Morris & Co. and the Cudahy Packing company, all of them operat- ing- in Kansas City, Kan., under which the companies were each fined $15,000 by the United States circuit court for the Western district of Mis- souri, on the charge of receiving re- bates contrary to the provisions of the Elkins act, was decided by the supreme court of the United States yesterday adversely to those compa- nies. Announced by Justice Day. The court’s opinion was announced by Justice Day, who held that the EI- kins act is applicable to transporta- tion anywhere and an offense is not confined to the initial point. He also held it appicable alike to shipper and carrier. The decision of the lower courts in the complementary case against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- way company, holding that company responsible for granting the rebates to the packers and fining that com- pany for the offense, was also affirm- ed. The opinion was concurred in by Justices Harlan, White, McKenna and Holmes, Without Jurisdiction. Justice Brewer dissented from the view of the court on the ground that the decision would work a violation of contract, “which,” he said, “shocks his sense of justice.” The chief justice and Justice Peck- ham concurred in Justice Brewer's decision. They also held the Missouri court to be without jurisdiction. . Justice Moody took no part in the disposition of the case PUBLIC PRINTER RESIGNS. Stillings Quits Job as Result of Inves- tigation of His Administration. Washington, March 18. —Public Printer Charles J. Stillings yesterday tenderei his resignation to the presi- dent and it has been accepted. Mr. Stillings’ successor has not yet been named. Mr. Stillings’ resignation is the result of an investigation into the conduct of the government printing office under his administration. The inyestigation was conducted by w, 8. _Rossiter, chief clerk of the cen- sus office, and this report of the opera- tions of the office is now in the hands, of the president. Mr. Rossiter reports that he found no evidence of fraud or serious irregu- larity. He says, however, that there have been minor irregularities, chargeable in’ most cases to bad ad- ministration, and that the methods of keeping the books are open to crifi- tism. DENY LILLEY’S CHARGES. Investigating Committee Hears Sev- eral Witnesses. Washington, March 18.—Admission was made yesterday before the special house committee investigating the charges of Representative Lilley of Connecticut regarding the legislative methods of the Electric Boat compa- ny, that money kad been paid by the Electric Boat company to certain newspaper men to prepare and dis- tribute news concerning submarine boats. A number of other witnesses were examined during the day, and they entered general denials to Mr. Lilley’s charges. QUITS STAGE FOR CHURCH. Robert Downing, Veteran Actor, Con- verted at Revival. Washington, March 18.—Robert L. Downing has forsaken the stage for the church after thirty years behind the footlights. He was “converted” in the Rhode Island Avenue Methodist church, where a revival has been in progress for five weeks. He has al- ready been urged to conduct evangel- istic services in Washington and is preparing for the work. Gatling Gun for Night Riders. Maysville, Ky., March 18. — The American Tobacco company yester- day placed a gatling gun on the roof of its warehouse here to prevent night riders from burning the building. Men will be constantly on guard and work the gun if the night riders ap- pear. Will Investigate Jerome. Albany, N. Y., March 18. — Gov. Hughes yesterday appointed Charles Andrews, former chief judge of the court of appeals as commissioner to take testimony and report his find- ings in connection with the charges recently preferred against District At- torney Jerome Five Stores Are Burned. Gary, S. D., March 18.—Five busi- ness buildings burned here.. The total loss is estimated at $14,000. with in- surance of $6,000. The fire originated in the beck room of the harness shop. Killed While Boarding Train. Council Bluffs, lowa March 18.—Lee Conklin, son of G. B. Conklin of Sioux City, was almost instantly killed while attempting to board a Burlington train near the city ticket office, sarees un- der the wheels. Three Blown to Pieces. Greenbury, March 18.—Three per- sons, compésing all the male members ‘of a family, were literally’ biown to pieces by dynamite at. Acme, Pa., near here, last night while dynamiting stumps. BOB EVANS” PLACE Is Named by President to Take Battleship Fleet Around the World. SHORT COMMAND FOR THOMAS Admiral Evans Will Be Relieved After the Big Naval Review at San Francisco. Washington, Machr 19.— Rear Ad- miral Charles S. Sperry will be com- mander-in-chief of the Atlantic battle- ship fleet when it leaves San Fran- cisco in July to encircle the globe. This important detail was decided on by President Roosevelt and his cabi- net yesterday. Rear Admiral Evans, on his person- al request, will be relieved of the com- mand at the conclusion of the big na- val review at San Francisco, May 8. The admiral considers this the com- pletion of the work he was assigned to do—to take the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific ‘coast. Admiral Evans re- tires in August. To Rear Admiral Thomas comes the honor of commanding the fleet on its visit to Puget sound, and until the homeward journey begins. He has been second in command during the voyage and retires in October. Schroeder and Wainwright Go Up. These retirements make possible two promotions to the grade of rear admiral, and these are to be filled by the advancement of Capt. Seaton Schroeder and Capt. Richard Wain- wright, who will command, respective- ly, the third and fourth squadrons of the fleet, and Rear Admiral Emory the second. Admiral Sperry, who is to bring the “Big Sixteen” back to the Atlantic coast by circling the globe, has had long and distinguished service in the navy. He became a rear admiral in | May, 1906. During the war with Spain Admiral Sperry was equipment officer in the New York navy yard. Afterward he was given command joe the Yorktown in Philippine waters and directéd the movements of the "landing party on n shore of Luzon, which is how régardéd aS die ; | ot the most thrilling adventures of the campaign against Aguinaldo. Was Delegaté to The Hague. As one of the officers under Admiral Walker, Sperry helped to make suc- cessful the picturesque voyage of the “White Squadron” which visited Eu- rope and South America in 1892-93. From the command of the New Or- Jeans, on the China station, Admiral Sperry became president of the war college. His next detail was to the last Hague peace conference, where he went as one of the American dele- gates. Returning from The Hague, he was given sea duty and assigned to command the fourth division of the Atlantic fleet, in which capacity he has made the trip around the Horn with Admiral Evans. PREMIER’S CONDITION GRAVE. Campbell-Bannerman’s Strength Is Eb- bing Daily. London, Mrach 19.—The strength of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the British premier, is ebbing daily and his friends take the gravest view of the dropsical symptoms which have appeared in his extremities. The medical bulletins continue disquieting. The one issued yesterday says the pre- mier’s strength was not well maintain- ed, but that he had a good night and takes his nourishment well. The general anxiety aroused by the news filtering out from the sick room of the premier is evidenced by the constant stream of inquirers at his house in Downing street. The fact that the queen and the dowager em- press of Russia called personally yes- terday afternoon at the premier’s resi- dence to inquire as to his condition shows that the illness of the patient is more critical than the bulletins given to the public indicate. Up to the present time the queen had sent an equerry to inquire concerning Sir Henry’s condition. Late last night the condition of the premier. was unchanged, but on ac- count of disquieting symptoms the physicians decided to remain in at- tendance throughout the night. USES GUN WITH FATAL EFFECT. Drunken Man Kills Officer, Wounds Bystander and Then Shoots Self. Chicago, March 19.—Edward C. Hef- ferman, a special police officer, was shot and killed last night, and J. L. Morlin, a bystander, was ‘seriously wounded by Donald Starr, whom the officer had ejected from the elevated station at Jackson Park avenue. Starr, who was intoxicated, then shot him- self, inflicting a wound which will probably prove fatal. EXPLOSION SHAKES TOWN. Three Men Killed and Four Injured By Powder Blast in Indiana. Linton, Ind., March 19.—Three men were killed and four injured, two fa- tally, yesterday by the explosion of one of the ten wheelhouses of the United States Powder company, near Coalmont, fourteen miles from here. Nothing is .known as to the cause. The force of thé explosion was heard and felt for miles. All windows in Coalmont were destroyed and several buildings were damaged. -| British cruiser FINES OF $15,000! SPERRY WALL GET |WARSHIPS GIVE HATENS SCARE British Cruiser Announces Arrival by Cannon Shots ‘and Causes Panic. Port au Prince, March 19. — The Indefatigable and the German cruiser Bremen have arrived here under orders from their goven- ments to give full potection to any foreign residents in Port au Prince in case their lives are threatened. An American warship is expected to ar- rive here at any moment. At present the city is quiet, but there is an un- dercurrent of anxiety, as evidenced by the fact that a veritable panic was caused by the booming of a heavy gun on the British cruiser when she came to anckor in the port last evening. The Indefatigable announced her ar- rival by three cannot shots, and the detonation almost terrorized the peo- ple. Causes a Panic. Surprised by the sudden alarm, of- ficers and soldiers alike rushed precip- itately to their posts; women and chil- dren ran about hither and thither, in seeming despair, crying hysterically, and it was some time before they could be reassured and calmed. Positive denial is made by the Hai- tien officials of the reports that other executions have taken place than those on Sunday morning, when ten or twelve conspirators found, accord- ing to tke government's statement, with arms and ammunition for revolu- tionary purposes in their possession, were shot to death. Foreigners Are Safe. Gen. Celestin, the minister of war, has returned to Port au Prince at the ‘head of his troops, after having put down the revolution at Gonaives. He made a statement yesterday in which he denied absolutely that the govern- ment entertained hostile sentiments foreigners. President Nord Alexis and his ministers also gave assurances of the utmost good feel- ing towards all foreigners who were pursuing their duties peacefully in Haiti. While conditions have been disturb- ed here for a considerable length of time, reaching their climax during the last week, there appears to be no pres- ent danger to foreigners residing here. The president and the govern- ment hase proclaimed that order will be maintained at whatever cost. ~ | UNION MINERS START RIOT. Are Clubbed and Some Ar- rests Made in Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska, March 19. — Members of the Western Federation of Miners engaged in a riot yester- day. They molested and threatened men going out on the train to the creek to work and prevented railroad men’s loading the baggage on the train. The deputy marshal was hur- riedly called and found it necessary to club the rioters. Louis Daazat took five shots at Dep- uty Phil North, who returned the fire, but no one was injured except a num- ber of Federationists, who were club- bed. Daazat was arrested. Tom Steffensen, organizer and leader of the Western Federation; W. E. Priesley, editor of the miners’ pa- per, and Frank Cullen, secretary of the locai union, were arrested for har- boring prisoners in union headquar- ters after the shooting. Their bails were set at $5,000 and they were sent to jail in default. = several EASY FOR BURNS. Knocks Out Irish Champion in First Round of Fight. Dublin, March 19.—Tommy Burns, the American heavyweight champion, made short work of Jem Roche, the Irish champion, in their contest last evening at the Theater Royal for the world’s heavyweight championship. Practically only one blow was struck, Burns knocking Roche out when hard- ly more than a minute of the first round had been completed by a short hook to the jaw. So quickly did the end come that the great crowd which filled the theater in the expectation of seeing the Irishman put up a good fight for the title, hardly realized what had happened. NABBED AFTER TEN YEARS. Outlaw Wanted by Italian Govern- ment Caught in New York. New York, March 19.—Following a ten years’ search by the Italian gov- ernment for the leader of an outlaw band charged with a sensational kid- napping in the island of Sicily a dec- ade ago, Pellerrino Mule, a baker, was arrested here last night on a federal warrant. Mule is charged with mur- der and robber, No Pardon for Stoessel. St. Petersburg, March 19.—The em- perorayesterday confirmed the death sentence passed upon Lieut. Gen. Stoessel and the court’s recommenda- tion for commutation of the sentence to ten years’ imprisonment in a fort- ress. The former commander of Port Arthur ineffectually petitioned for a full pardon. INVENTS WIRELESS PHONE. Farmer-Inventor, Injured by Accident, Has Instruments Guarded. - Crookston, Minn., March 19.—Lionel Snelling, the Angus farmer who was burned about the face and hands by molten brass on Sunday, had been suc- cessfully operating a wireless tele- phone over a distance of 4,000 yards during quiet weather. While the in- jured man is not yet able to see, he has members of the family stand guard over the little shed in which the machinery is quartered. ongress. Resume of the Week's P age Wednesday. Washington, March 12—Determined and persistent assaults on the post- office appropriation bill in the house of representatives yesterday resulted in the amplification of that measure in many important parts, despite the pro- tests of Chairman Overstreet and the committee. The letter carriers finally won their long fight for $1,200 salary when an amendment by Mr. Goebel of Ohio granting the same was adopted Altogether the appropriations carried by the bill were increased to the ex- tent of $1,225,000. A message from the president and reports from the committee on mili- tary affairs on the Brownsville affray consumed the time of the senate dur- ing the early part of the session yes- terday. The pending currency bill was dis- cussed by Senator James P. Clarke of Arkansas, who declared that he would vote for neither the Aldrich bill nor the Bailey substitute. Thursday. Washington, March 13. — Senator Lodge of Massachusetts yesterday stronely indorsed the pending curren- cy bill in the senate and declared that it would be serviceable as an emer- gency measure and would not prevent the enactment of a general currency law which, he declared, he hoped to see realized in the future on the basis of a central bank. Senator Paynter of Kentucky op- posed the currency bill in a _ short speech. The postoffice appropriation bill had rough sailing in the house yesterday. Its progress was halted at every turn by amendments, upon which there was lengthy discussion _——~— 4 Friday. Washington, Mareh 14. — Car the largest appropriation in all its his- y 2,190,392—the postoffice ap- propriation bill sterday passed the house of representatives, having been under discussion fourteen days. This is $1,425,000 more than was reported by the committee. Chairman Over- street, when the reading of the bill had been concluded, waged a vigorous fight on the proposition to increase the pay of the letter carriers, which | tay yoted into the bill last Wednes- day, but that action was confirmed, 136 to 126. 3 in the Senator Bacon of Georgia, senate, spoke of executive encroach- ments on the legislative power of the government and read freely from newspaper reports to show that legis- lation is being mapped out in the White House at conferences at which congressmen are not even present. ag Monday. chee Washington, March 17.—Under the guise of dise legislation the ses- sion of the senate yesterday was de- voted to a political discussion, in which Senator Tillman of South Carc- lina and Senator Beveridge of Indiana were the chief participants. The senate considered “the confer- ence report on the Indian appropria tion bill and the report was disagreed to and another conference asked. The hovse bill appropriating $403,- 030 to pay the archbishop of Manila, as representative of the Roman Catho- Nie church. for damages to church property during the Spanish-American war also passed re Tuesday. Washington, March 18. — After speaking for two and a half hours in the senate yesterday on the pending currency bill Senator La Follette ask- ed permission to suspend his remarks and conclude to-day, as he was unable to continue longer. Senator Aldrich reported to the sen- ate from the committee on finance amendments to the currency bill ex- empting railroad bonds from clas: of bonds to be used to secure emer- gency currency, limiting the retire- ment of the such currency and pro- viding that such issues should be per- mitted up to the par value of bonds used to secure them. Praise of President Roooseyvelt, Sec- retary Taft and William J. Bryan was heard in the house-of representatives yesterday during general debate on the pension appropriation bill. General Store Burned. Wetonka, S. D., March 19.—The gen- eral store of James Calder was de- stroyed by fire. The fire started in the living rooms of the Calder family at the rear of the building. Loss, $6,- 000. Elevator Burns. Ordway, S. D., March 19.—The Van Dusen elevator was destroyed by fire yesterday, with five cars of wheat and one of flax. The fire started from an overheated stove. Three Men Killed. Indianapolis, March 19.—Three men were killed here late yesterday after- noon by the falling of a heavy steel beam that was being placed in posi- tion for railroad track elevation. WHY ANY “UNEMPLOYED?” Farmers Appeal for Help While “Out- of-Works” Bother Cities. Lancaster, Pa., March 18.—So badly do farmers of this country require help on the farms that the Farmers’ league of Lancaster county has issued an appeal, to the unemployed of city and town, to go to the country for work, and an appeal has been sent to the bureau of labor and immigration at Washington, asking that able-bodie® immigrants be-directed to this county. -