Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 15, 1908, Page 9

eee le _Ferald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED Digest of the News Worth Telling Con densed for the Busy Reader. MINNESOTA, Washington. A bill has been introduced in the house to prohibit dealing in futures in agricultural products by forbidding dealers the use of the mails, inter- state transportation and banking fa- cilities. Postmaster General Meyer has is- sued an order permitting the perfora- tion of United States postage stamps for the purpose of identification only. It is intended to protect large users of stamps against theft. A resolution has been reported fa- vorably to the senate directing the secretary of war to make a survey and report the probable cost of the inland waterway project from Bos- ton to Wilmington, N. C. The president has tendered to Lew- is N, Hammerling of Wilkesbarre, Pa., a position on the proposed commis- sion to visit the Panama canal zone to investigate labor conditions. Mr. Hemmerling is a prominent business man. Maj. Reynolds, the government agent on the Crow Indian reservation in Montana, testified before the sen- ate committee on Indian affairs, de- nying the charges made by Mrs. Helen Pierce Grey of ill treatment of the Indians. The pediment above east entrance of the house of representatives soon will be ornamented with a group of historical statuary at a cost of $75,- 000, if the president does not dissent. A bill for this purpose has passed both houses. By a vote of 257 to 0 the house sus- tained President Rooseyelt’s veto of the bill transferring Commander Wil- liam Wilmot White from the retired io the active list of the navy. The president gave as reason for his ac- tion that the transfer would not be for the best interests of the service. Senator Clapp has secured the passage of a bill granting to the dio- cese of Duluth lands now occupied by it for church purp on Indian res- ervations in Minnesota. About a doz- en small tracts are embraced in this grant, scattered through all the reser- ons in the northern part of the ite. People Taiked About. the well known Rawhide, Riley Grannan, sporting man, is dead at Neb., after a long illness. Judge James K. Cantrill of George- town, Ky., died at Frankfort after a long illness. He presided at the two first trials of Caleb Powers. Bishop J. Mortimer Levering, presi- dent of the provincial elders’ confer- ence of the northern province of the Moravian church of America, is dead at Bethlehem, Pa, George F. Pollock, formerly assist- ant commissioner of the general land office and more recently chief of lands in the forest service, has resigned to enter private‘ business, Rev. C. P. Tinker, field secretary of the New York Church Extension and M onary society, announced at the conference of the Methodist church that he had withdrawn from the con. ference and is about to embrace thé Episcopal faith. From Other Shores. There has been a recrudescence of bubonic plague at Lima and other parts of Peru. A jury at Tacma, Chile, has brought in a verdict against the daily newspa- per, Voz del Sur, and ordered it to pay a fine of $800 for publishing in- statements against the govern- acma province. The first Hindu temple in the West- ern world, according to the San Fran- cisco Vedanta society, has been dedi- cated in that city. The edifice is unique in a Western city, being mod- sled after the great Taj Mahal of In- Solfatara, a semi-extinct volcano near Pozzuoli, Italy, has opened a new crater 250 feet from the ancient one. It is emitting a voluminous colmn_ of sulphurous gases. The activity of Solfatara always is supposed to coin- cide with the inactivity of Vesuvius. Casualty. Robert Hunter, the socialist. .writer and speaker, was thrown-4from his horse while riding in Darien, Conn., and received a dislocated shoulder. One man was killed and two receiv- ed serious injuries as the result of an explosion aboard the British steamer Belle of Scotland at Callao, Peru. Two linemen, Edwin Nevin and James Lahan, were killed at McKee’s Rocks, a suburb of Pittsburg, one be- ing electrocuted and the other sus- taining a fracture of his skull when he was knocked from the top of a pole. While fighting a prairie fire arising from his own carelessness, laboring with all his might to save a hayfield of a neighbor, Louis Goodsell, Sr. aged sixty-four, dropped dead of heart} failure in the field in the presence of his son*and several neighhors near Homer, Mich. |, Middletown, Conn., he has decided to . John Burr, a young n lynched near Wesson, Miss., by about 500 men. for the murder of a twelye- year-old white boy. Charged with shooting his wife, Charles F. Anderson is in jail at Crys- tal Falls, Mich. The woman’s condi- tion is critical. The shooting followed a quarrel, and it is alleged Anderson was intoxicated. While singing as he walked along Charles avenue, St. Louis, in company with Mrs, Hattie Bailey and her two young children, Reese Bell was shot and killed by an unknown man, who had expressed displeasure at the solo. Temporarily insane because of homesickness, Ida Waskunkoski, a Finnish girl on her way from West- field, Mass,, attempted suicide at Mar- quette, Mich., with scissors, She tried to open her throat and is in a serious condition. h J. A. Hossack, a banker of Odell, IL, jumped from the eighth floor of the Auditorium Annex in Chicago into an open court and was instantly killed. Hossack had been in ill health of late. It is thought he was temporerily insane. Without warning and apparent mo- tive, Albert Heiser, a baker, suddenly drew a revolver at the dinner table in New York, fired two shots at his young bride and then killed himself. Mrs. Heiser is fatally injured. Jeal- ousy was the cause of the tragedy. Accidental Happenrngs. The fashionable Shinnecock Inn, in the Shinnecock hills, near Southamp- ton, L. I, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $65,000. Mrs. Joseph Keller, twenty-eight, living four miles north of Traer, lowa, while raking leaves into a_ bonfire was so badly burned that death re- sulted four hours later. Edward J. Downing, proprietor of the Hotel Abbotsford of Irving, N. Y., was instantly killed in a collision be- tween an automobile in which he was riding and a trolley car. The Barrett block at Joliet, Ill., was destroyed by fire, the loss being more than $100,000. There were about eighty persons in the building, all of whom escaped uninjured. Fire in the Colonial office building at Richmond, Ind., damaged the build- ing $50,000 and caused $70,000 loss to the tenants. Nine firemen were overcome while fighting the flames. Albert Johnson and George Calvery. were suffocated in*the construction shaft of Civie Well No. 4 at Winni- peg, The accident is id to be due to the failure of the air compressor to work. While a moving picture exhibition was being held at Solomonville, Ariz., in the court house in lieu of a thea- ter building, the gas tank exploded, practically wrecking the room and in-4 juring a number of spectators. The Ainsworth farm, one of the best equipped in the vicinity of Fort Dodge, Iowa, suffered a $20,000. fire Sunday. A bucket brigade of farm-| ers, summoned by telephone, saved only two dwellings and the horse barns. There is little insurance. General News Items. The Canadian house of commons passed a resolution unanimously de- claring that the time had arrived for the early construction of a railway to Fort Churchill, on Hudson bay. The remains of Emanuel Swedborg, mystic and author, which were ex- humed jn London recently, where they had lain since 1772, have been taken to Sweden for final burial. The British ship Ceiticburn will car- ry wheat in bulk to Europe. This is the first time that a grain shipment has ever been sent in that manner from Portland, Or., and is in the na- ture of an experiment. The Iowa supreme court has de- cided that savings banks have the right to trade in commercial paper, assuming the risks attendant upon or- dinary transactions. The decision af- fects about 300 Iowa banks. William J. Troop formeriy a profes- sional roller skater, committed sui- cide in a hotel at Philadelphia by swallowing laudanum. He left sever- al letters, in one of which it was in- timated that a love affair was re- sponsible for his suicide. Two hundred and fifty-seven stu- dents of Clemson college at Clemson, S. C., were dismissed from the insti- tution. This number, with the forty- nine members of the junior class dis- missed on Saturday, aggregate 306 dismissals on account of the All Fools’ day escape. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, pastor of the Central Congregational church of Brooklyn, announced that after con- sideration of the overtures recently made to him concerning the presi- dency of the Wesleyan uni¥ersity at remain in his present position. At a meeting of La Questione So- ciale group of anarchists at Paterson, N. J., Ludovico Caminita, editor of the paper, terminated his connection with the sheet. It was Caminita’s whole- sale virulence .apd advocacy of vio- lence which led to the suppression of the paper by President Roosevelt. Two hundred members of the Illi: nois Manufacturers’ association, the strongest commercial delegation that ever has been sent out of the country, will go to Japan, China and other Eastern countries to work for the ex- tension of American trade. The New York East conference of the Methodist church, at its session in Brooklyn, adopted a memorial request- ing the general conference to strike out that section of the church disci- pline forbidding card playing, attend- ance at the theater and dancing, by a vote of 162 to 22. footing and was drowned. | ‘i CAU BY FIRE One-third of City of Chelsea, Mass., Is Obliterated by Frerce Conflagration. 10,000 PEOPLE MADE HOMELESS USED Four Lives Are Lost and Over 500 Dwelling Houses and Public Buildings Destroyed. Boston, Mass., April 14.—In appar- ently insignificant fire, which started among rags on a dump in the city of Chelsea yesterday, was fanned by a northwest gale into a confiagration which obliterated nearly one-third of the city. Five hundred dwelling houses and public buildings were de- stroyed, 1,500 families were driven from their habitations and 10,000 are’ made homeless. Four lives are known to have been lost, one a woman, hav- ing shot herself in frenzy over her in- ability to save her property. From fifty to a hundred were injured. Loss Nearly $10,000. Accurate estimate of the loss is im- possible. The city solicitor estimates it at nearly $10,000,000. The fire, which was the worst Greater Boston has known in many years, raged be- fore a forty-five-mile gale for more than twelve hours, defying the utmost efforts of the combined fire depart- ments of Chelsea and several nearby cities and a large detachment of Bos- ton firemen and apparatus. The fire area, which was in the form of an ellipse, a mile and a half long and half a mile wide at its broadest part, extended diagonally: across the city from a point near the boundary between Everett and Chel- sea to the waters of Chelsea creek. Hard Fight for Firemen. It was useless for the firemen to at- tempt to check the onrushing flames before the gale, and their main ef} forts were to prevent a spread of the fire on the other side. Their last stand was taken at Chelsea Square late in the afternoon, and for hours a doubt- ful battle was waged. At 9 o'clock word was passed that the firemen were winning, and with renewed en- ergy the contest was pressed. At 10:50 official announcement was made by Chief H. A. Spencer that the fire was under conrtol. The great majority of the buildings were of wood and were completely de- stroyed, but structures of other. mate- rial were almost as quickly and thor- oughly incinerated by the fierceness of the blaze. i Licked Up by Flames. ,All the banks, more than three quarters of the churches, half of the business blocks and nearly all the school houses, were wiped out. One hospital and a day nursery were de- stroyed. In the turmoil many of the sick and infirm found difficulty in ob- taining assistance and several of them had narrow escapes. Late in the afternoon the wind had carried burning embers across Chel- sea creek, and buildings in East Bos- ton caught, but extensive damage there was prevented by prompt and energetic work by the fifemen. Militia on Guard. The force of national guardsmen called out early in the day to patrol the streets of the burned section was increased last night by the arrival of Company L of the Fifth infantry, Com- pany B of the Eighth infantry and the Fifth corps of coast artillery. A ma- rine guard of a hundred men, under Capt. Charles Shill, was also on duty. Four squads of marines were placed to protect valuable safes in the ruins of different buildings. A detail of seven- ty-five policemen from Boston was sta- tioned at various entrances to the city, with orders to prevent anybody from coming in with the exception of firemen, policemen, soldiers and news- paper men. KILLS SWEETHEART AND SELF. Woman Refused to Marry Man After He Had Paid Her Way Here. Chicago, April 14.—Antonia Breber, eighteen years old, was shot and kill- ed last night by Joseph Krhournek, twenty five, who committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple. Krhournek, who was a laborer, came from Bohemia a year ago and sent his savings to pay the passage of. the young woman to America. Arriving here she refused to marry him and was working to repay the money. Boy Takes Dare; Jumps to Death. Minneapolis, April 14.—Otto Stann nine years old, yesterday afternoon died a martyr to a playmate’s dare. To show seven-year-old Willie Zeeb, his companion, that he was not afraid, he jumped onto the boom stick in the river near Thirty-fifth avenue, lost his Alleged Raid on Granary. Sioux Falls, S. D., April 14—A well known Lake county farmer named L. Graham and his son, J. A. Graham are accused of raiding the granary of E. L. Heuck, a Minnehaha county farmer, and carrying away timothy seed. Child Is Fatally Burned. Fonda, Iowa, April 14. — Mercedes Murray, the eight-year-old daughter of Jay Murray of Pocahontas, died from severe kurns received in playing around a bonfire. Italian Merchant's Store Is Wrecked— Bomb Was Probably Intended for a Neighbor. Chicago, April 12.—Following a sim- ilar outrage in the same district Thursday, the explosion of a bomb in front of H. E. Doose’s grocery at 163 Larrabee street yesterday spread re- neweg- terror throughout Italian resi- dence districts of Chicago. Doose is a prosperous Italian of the merchant class that has been sought out by the Black Hand for blackmailing opera- tions. It is believed, however, that he was the victim of a mistake, the bomb hav- ing been intended for Peter Schmec- ka, a peddler’ living next door. Schmecka has received a number of written threats, whereas no previous effort has been made to intimidate Doose. When the bomb exploded in front of the store it blew out several windows and shattered fixtures and stock, but nobody was injured.’ Merchant Sick in Bed. Doose had been ill in bed for the last three days. He lives with his family in the rear of the store and the building, which is a _ two-story frame structure. The explosion was heard about 9 o’cleck, followed by the crash of glass. Doose jumped ont of bed and ran into the store. He found nothing to dis- close the identity of the author of the outrage. Policeman James Carney was three blocks away. noise of the explosion he ran to the store and found 100 Italians excitedly discussing the affair. Many of the Italians were question- ed by policemen, but refused to talk, while others said they did not see anybody run away from the place. Letters Demand Money. Doose denied he had received any threatening letters. Later the police learned that Schmecka had received several letters demanding $800 under penalty of blowing up his house, MAN SHOT DEAD BY WOMAN. Big Social Sensation Promised as Re- sult of Tragedy in Michigan. Cassopolis, Mich., April 12.—Carleton Morgan of South Bend, Ind., was shot dead here yesterday morning by Mrs. George A. Motsker of the same place. The shooting took place at the door of the residence of Mrs. Mary Green, and Morgan at the time was accompanied by Mrs. Motsker’s husband, for whom, it is said, the bullet was intended. The woman had followed the two men here from South Bend. and her husband both were arrested. Morgan, who was thirty-five years old, was of a prominent family in South Bend. He had a wife and a year-old child, and is said to have re- cently inherited a considerable sum of money. Motsker is a proinent liq- ior dealer of South Bend. The two men came here Thursday night and Mrs. Motsker followed them on a later train. She is said to have gone directly to the Green house, at the door of which she met her hus- band and Morgan. lurs. Motsker at once drew a revol- ver and fired, and Morgan dropped, mortally wounded. From developments last night it is claimed that several prominent fami- lies are concerned in the affair and that there was a plot, as a result of which Mrs. Motsker followed her hus- band and Morgan to Cassopolis. Two other women are saiq to be directly concerned and a big social sensation is promised, with a probability of a series of striking suits for divorce. MARSHAL SHOT BY BANDITS. Two Officers Have Battle With Five Highwaymen, Kent, Wash., April 12. — City Mar- shal Harry Miller of Kent was fatally wounded in a_ pistol duel with five highwaymen last night. Night Mar- shal Charles Gulberson, who helped Marshal Miller in the fight, escaped unscathed. , Marshal Miller received word by tel- ephone from Orelia that five armed highwaymen had held up and robbed Patrick O’Brien in the streets of that town and that they would reach Kent within an hour. Instantly Miller and Culberson started to intercept them. They met the men, commanded them to halt and were answered by a fusil- lade of revolver shots. In the first volley Marshal Miller was shot in the right shoulder and the abdomen. Marshal Culberson fired upon the highwaymen and they turned and ran. Posses are in pursuit of the outlaws. OPEN SHOP ON LAKES. Carriers’ Association Votes to Ignore Organized Labor This Season. Cleveland, April 12. — The “open shop” policy will be adhered to by ves- sel owners in the operation of boats upon the Great Lakes this season. A stand of this character in dealing with organized labor was unanimously agreed to at the annual meeting of the Lake Carriers’ association here. BURGLARS AT PAYNESVILLE. Blow Department Store Safe and Get Small Amount of Cash. St. Cloud, Minn., April 12.—Burglars entered the Lund department store at Paynesville last night, dynamited the safe and scured $25.in cash. Thy also entered the Young saloon and carried off a consignment of whisky. They tried to break into the postoffice, but were scared away by the barking of a dog. Two suspicious characters seen in town. yesterday are being sought. When he heard the; Mrs. Motsker | IN BY WHOLESAL Bitter Rivalry of Three Cana- dian Organizations Reveals Scheme at Detroit. FORTUNES IN THE BUSINESS Immigration Authorities Have Scant Hope of Reaching the Princi- pals in the Plot. Detroit, Mich., April 12. — Through the bitter rivalry of three Canadian organizations for smuggling Chinese into the United States a wholesale scheme of bringing the Orientals ille- gally across the international border here at Detroit was discovered yester- day. It is said that several comforta- ble fortunes have been made at the business during the past two years by enterprising young men who have made Windsor, Ont., their headquar- ters. The immigration authorities here have scant hope of reaching the principals in the three competing agencies, but a man who gives his name as A. McMann is held at the Wayne county jail in connection with the capture last Tuesday of three Chi- nese at Adrian, Mich. The Chinamen and McMann were found in a Wabash box car bound for Chicago. There was a dead horse in the car and the four men were concealed under the straw. How It Was Worked. The plan was to engage a freight car at Detroit for the shipment of a horse, some worthless animal being placed in the car for a blind. The Chinese, it is said, have been freely brought across the Detroit river on the railread car ferries, being hidden with the connivance of employes on the boats until the immigration in- spectors had made their rounds and then being hurriedly directed to empty freight cars. The following day they would be_ transferred te freight cars especially engaged, and usually started west on a train which makes only one regular stop between Detroit and Chicago. PLEASE STOP IT, SAYS ELKINS. Deprecates Publicity Given Rumored Engagement of His Daughter. Washington, April 11, — Senator Stephen B. Elkins, in view of the re ports from Rome that the rumored en- gagement of Miss Katherine Elkins tc the duke of the Abruzzi had been con- firmed there and that in fact matters had progressed so far that the royal family have placed orders for the wed ding gifts, last night sent to the Asso. ciated Press a statement deprecatory of current reports, as follows: “If you can consistently, will you kindly cease the publication of dis patches and rumors of the reported engagement of my daughter. The mat- ter has occupied the attention of the press so long and to,such an extent that I fell called upon to make this request. “While making it, I wish to state that I appreciate the kindly expres sions that have appeared concerning ; my daughter in connection with hez reported engagement. Whenever there shall be any reason to make an announcement about the matter I will be glad to give it to the press in an authentic form.” FIFTEEN INJURED IN RIOT. Importation of Strikebreakers at Pen: sacola Results in Rioting. Pensacola, Fla., April 12, — The bringing of a carload of strikebreak ers from St. Louis yesterday after- ncon by the Pensacola Electric com- pany was the signal for rioting and disorder, which resulted in the injury of fifteen of the imported men. Ne sooner had the strikebreakers arrived and started for the car sheds than a fight occurred between them and the sympathizers of.the union men, and from the corner of Palafox and Wright streets, where the first battle occur red, there was a continual riot, in which bricks, bottles and shells were hurlea at the strikebreakers, and in turn the latter fired shots, used heavy £ticks and bricks. For over an hour the riot continued, the strikebreakers gradually getting nearer to the car barns, but before they reached there fifteen had been wounded. It took the police over an hour to disperse the mob and remove the men to places of safety. Wager Results in Death. Sulphur Springs, Ark., April 12.—As a result of a wager Ed H. Galloway of New York city, a noted athlete, lost his life here yesterday in Butler ereek in the presence of hundreds of ‘spectators, who had gathered to watch his sensational attempt to ride the dam in a frail rowboat. Boy’s Play Fatal to Two. Chicago, April 12. — Carl Hedfeldt and Earl Gustavson, cousins, each eleven years old, were suffocated by the caving in cf a dugout in which ‘they were “playing Indian” at Sheri- dan road, near Waveland avenue, yes- terday. Two Settlers Drown. Winnipeg, April 12—Charles Ham flton and Andrew Walker, settlers, were drowned when crossing Knee Hill creek on rotten ice, at Barbon, in Calgary county. Executive of Austrian-Polish . Provincr of Galacia Is Victim of an : Assassin. Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, April 14. Count Andreas Potocki, the governor of the Austrian-Polish province of Ga licia, was assassinated yesterday after- noon by a Ruthvenian student, Miero- slap Sjezynaki by name, while giving an audience to a delegation of stu- dents. The assassin fired three shots from a revolver, all of which took ef: fect. The governor died soon after- wards, but first asked his secretary to inform his majesty at once. “Tell him,” said the dying man, “I was his most faithful servant.” The assassin did not resist arrest. When led through the governor’s ante- chamber he said to the Ruthvenian peasants who were waiting for an au- dience: “I have done this for you.” The assassin’s brother, who had been informed of the plan to kill the governor, committed suicide shortly befcre the murder. The affair has caused a great sensation throughout the monarchy. The Potocki family is among the most prominent aristocrats of Polish biood. On learning of the tragedy the emperor sent a message of sympathy. Many Ruthvenians have been ar- rested, but as yet none have been im- plicated in the assassination. The as- sassin declares that he thought it his duty to revenge the Poles for the op- pression by Potocki’s government. PRINCE TO MARRY MME. GOULD Statement Given Out by de Sagan Announces Betrothal. New York, April 14—Another chap- ter was added to the story of the af- fairs of Prince Helie de Sagan and Mme. Anna Gould, who sailed on dif- ferent steamers for Europe Saturday, when last night G. G. Netter of this city made public a statement given to him, as he explained, by the prince and intended for publication after the St. Paul, upon which De Sagan took passage, was well out at sea. Mr. Netter is a personal friend of the prince and was intrusted by the letter with the statement that he and Mme. Gould were betrothed. Statement of the Prince. The statement of De Sagan follows, in part: “When trouble developed between Count Boni and the countess I sought to aid them as a friend sincerely inter- ested in their affairs. “Our love for each other began to dawn only after the divorce decree had been entered. Long after the courts had acted I chanced to call at her home one day, and by one of those in- tuitive divinations—a meetting of the eyes sometimes brings the knowledge —l knew for the first time that I real- ly loved her and she loved me. “It was on the first day of last Au- gust t the first word about love or mar e was uttered between us. Mme. Gould Gives Hint. “In the course of conversation she suddenly said to me: ‘Oh, prince, why didn’t I marry a man like you?’ I re. plied that I was afraid I was too old, but she asserted that she did not think so, I had known her well; I had studied her thoughts, her humors, her inclinations, and understanding all this I realized what a good wife she would make, and I believed it might lay in my power to make her happy. We became betrothed. “Mme. Gould and I contemplate a quiet marriage. When that event has taken place my wife and I will live for some years in complete re- tirement in some quiet suburb of Pa- ris. There we shall remain untilt the debts of her former husband are paid. We are marrying, I repeat, for noth- ing else except that we love each other.” ROOSEVELT TO TRAVEL ABROAD. Will Spend First Year After Retire- ment in Foreign Lands. Washington, April 14. — Should President Roosevelt's present desirs be realized he will spend the first year after his retirement from office in travel outside the United States. Mr. Roosevelt’s itinerary, however, has not been determined. His plan is to see some oy the rugged and little frequented portions of foreign lands, as well as to travel the beaten track of the tourists. It was at the recent dinner of the Boone and Crockett club in this city that the president last told of his in- tentions for next year. He was told of the opportunities for hunting in Alaska and urged to arrange for a trip there. This, he said, would interfere with his plan for foreign travel, and would have to be considered, if at all, at some futtre time. President Roosevelt adding at this time: “If William Taft is nominated and elected president, which would be very sratifying, it would make impos- sible criticism, if I were abroad, to the effect that I was dictating to him or that I had dictated or had been turned down in my suggestions.” is quoted as BOYCOTT THE JAPS. Japanese Steamer Carries Not a Pound of Chinese Freight. Hongkong, April 14.—As*a result o the Chinese boycott on Japanese goods and vessels the Japanese steam- er America Maru left here for San Francisco without a single package of Chinese cargo. Furthermore, she carried cnly twenty-five passengers, as compared to 730 passengers on board the British steamer Empress of India, which cleared from this port for Van: couver.