Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 29, 1908, Page 9

Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED Digest of the News Worth Telling Cons densed for the Busy Reader. Washington Notes. The president has sent to the sen- ate the nomination of Lawrence O. Murray to be controller of the curren- cy, vice W. B, Ridgely, resigned. Figuring on the basis of the returns for the first two quarters the deficien- cy in the postoffice department for the current fiscal year will exceed $15,- 600,000. The senate has confirmed the nomi- nation of Laurence O. Murray of New York, assistant secretary of the de- partment of commerce and labor, to be controller of the currency. An increase of 25 per cent in the minimum rate of royalty on oil is pro- vided for in an amendment of the oil and gas regulations for the Five Civ- ilized Tribes, issued by Secretary of the Interior Garfield. A child labor law for the District of Columbia, drawn within lines sug- gested by the president and intended as a model for the drawing of similar legislation in the states, has been rec- ommended to the house for passage. Anticipating favorable action by congress on the proposition for 6,000 additional men for the navy, of whom 3,000 may be obtained prior to July 1, instructions have been given by the bureau of navigation to resume re- cruiting, which was suspended some weeks ago, at which time the full quota had been attained. People Talked About. The president has nominated Brig. Gen, T. H. Barry to be major general, and Col. Charles Morris and Col. Phil- ip Reade to be brigadier generals. A. L. Withing, president of the So- ciety of Savings of Cleveland and widely known in banking circles throughout the country, is dead of stomach trouble. Dr. Simon B, Conover, who during the administration of President Hayes was United States senator from Flor- ida, died at a hospital in Port Town: send, Wash., of old age. Rear Admiral George B. Balch, U. S. N., retired, died from pneumonia at Raleigh, N. C. He was in his nine- ty-eighth year and entered the United States navy at the age of seventeen. Flores Ontaeda, a noted Ecuado- rean chemist, died of bubonic plague at Guayaquil. He contracted the dis- e while preparing Haffkines pro- phylactie at the municipal laboratory. John H. Faulhausen, aged eighty- one, and Mrs. Amelia Behrends, aged seventy-five, were married at Peoria, Ill. They were the oldest couple that ever obtained a marriage license in Peoria county. Judge D. R. Hindman, one of the best known jurists and lawyers in Iowa, died suddenly at Boone, Iowa, from a burst blood vessel. He was in the best of health a minute before death came, Joseph C. Cowen, a prominent He- brew of England, has arrived in New York on a visit to the principal Jew- ish communities in this country and to address a number of meetings on topics pertaining to his work in con- nection with the Zionist movement. John McNabb, the oldest man in Canada, dided on the shores of Lake Manitoba, near Winnipeg. McNabb was born in Western Canada in 1800 and would have been 108 years old in August. He has been in the em- ploy of the Hudson Bay company from boyhood. Chancellor Day of Syracuse univer- sity has notified Dean William Kent of the Lyman C. Smith college of applied sciences that the executive committee desires his resignation and that in the event of refusal he will be removed. For some time there has been friction between the chancellor and the dean. Crimes and Criminals. Mitchell Dam was sandbagged by footpads while walking on Stephenson avenue at Menominee, Mich. and robbed of $5 in small change. J. W. Weatherford, a prominent citizen of Brantley, Ala., was shot and killed by his nephew, Avery Hardage. The murder was the culmination of an old feud. Albion Godfrey pleaded guilty to counterfeiting before Federal Judge Taylor at Cleveland, Ohio, on two counts. He was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Mrg. Brooks, wife ‘of Rev. J. G. Brooks, state evangelist for the Con- gregational churches in Illinois, com- mitted suicide at Kewanee, Ill, She was suffering from nervous prostra- tion. The jury in the John T. Murphy case at Helena, Mont., brought in a verdict of not guilty. Murphy, a Hel- ena banker and one of the largest stockmen in the Northwest, was in- dicted on the charge of fencing 59,000 acres of government land. His trial was bitterly contested for two weeks. One spectator was killed and five others were wounded during a street duel at Bernice, La. Both duelists were wounded. The fight was between C. J. Morton and W. F. Barham, both prominent in that section. The cause of their quarrel is not known. Dr. J. Ransom Walden, a prominent physician, committed suicide in his of. | fice at Holdredge, Néb., by taking poison. A note to his wife told how to settle his affairs. No reason can be assigned for his act. Policeman James E. Basham, shot by Byron Hall ina pistol fight in the Estes hotel at Warrensburg, Mo., is dead. Policeman Pollock is not ex- pected to recover. The coroner's in- quest showed that Hall’s death was caused by a bullet from his own pistol. A man who registered at a hotel at Painesville, Ohio, as J ohn Collins, Pennsylvania, later shot and killed himself in his room. Previous to committing suicide he tore all the tags from his clothes and destroyed every- thing which would lead to his identi- ty. The Alberta government has issued a warrant for the arrest of Cat Sar- bottle, prominent in social circles and collector of inland revenue for that province. He mysteriously disappear- ed ten days ago and is alleged to be $7,000 short in. his accounts. He is believed to have gone to Montana. Casualty. The International Salt company’s plant at Ludlowville, N. Y., was de- stroyed by fire. The loss is estimat- ed at $150,000. Fire in the lumber yard of the Jo- seph J. Know Lumber company at Columbus, Ohio, caused a loss esti- mated at $90,000. Dr. Wallace Rouse, lecturer and demonstrator at the medical college at Texas university, was instantly killed by lightning while fishing. . The number of lives known to have been lost in the fire at Chelsea on April 12 has been increased to fif- teen by the discovery of two more bodies, é By the upsetting of a scow crossing the Battle river in Manitoba, swollen by freshets, nine Grand Trunk Pa- cific railway workmen were thrown into the water and four were drowned. Fire destroyed the Mercy hospital at Big Rapids, Mich., a $75,000 estab- lishment erected twenty-eight years ago. All of the patients and the forty Sisters of Mercy who were in the building escaped without injury. A large copper cent swallowed sixty years ago has just caused the death of James Huckins, sixty-seven years old, at La Porte, Ind. The coin be- came encased in the lining of the stomach at the time it was swallowed and remained there until when an abscess formed. ensued, causing death. Al Anderson and his two-year-old child were drowned in the Fall river at Neodesha, Kan. Anderson, with his wife and child, were in a boat above the dam when he lost conrol of the boat. All three occupants jumped into the river! The woman was rescued, but the other two were carried over the dam. Poisoning From Other Shores. The prefect of police of St. Peters- burg has placarded the city with strin- gent regulations forewarning the resi- dents of an expected epidemic of chol- era, A group of Octoberisis and other members of the Russian duma pro- pose to inaugurate a campaign in the house against the growth of great cor- porations in Russia. The Dutch consul at La Gnaira cer- tifies that pernicious fever, causing very sudden death, is prevalent there. Several of the steamship lines have omitted La Guaira as a port of call. The lockout affecting a great num- ber of masons, bricklayers and allied workmen which began in Paris April 4 is ended. The men deserted their leaders and signed terms with the contractars. A message received from St. Valier, | Quebec, says that nine ,men_ were killed and three others seriously wounded by a premature explosion of dynamite at Murdoch Bros.’ railway construction camp near New Armagh, Belle Chasse county. General News Items. At Sound Beach, Wash., Abe Attell, featherweight champion of the world, defeated Eddie Kelly of Buffalo in the eighth round. For the first time in the history of Caroline county, Maryland, a man was last week whipped by the sheriff, pursuant to a court sentence fer wife beating. The Oklahoma supreme court holds that the initiative and referendum provisions of the state constitution were not in violation of the constitu- tion of the United States. Acting upon the recommendation of the board of pardons, Gov. Deneen of Illinois grantej a reprieve until June 12 to Herman Billik, convicted of the murder of Mary Vrzal in Chicago by poisoning in 1905. It has been decided definitely that the American fleet of battleships will not call at any European port on its way home with the exception of cer- tain points in the Mediterranean, where it is necessary to stop for coal. The attorney general of the United States has ordered the district attor- ney for the Western district of Wash- ington to withdraw the suit commenc- ed against Maj. H. H. Chittenden for complicity in land frauds. Maj. Chit- tenden is exonorated. The strike of the New York univer- \sity students who were assigned to sing as “chorus girls” in the play to be given by the dramatic club of the university has been declared off. The students’ demand for six tickets each and the printing of their names on the program was granted, recently, : ‘| sistance needed ROLL REACHES 368 Awiul Record of Death, Misery and Ruin by Storm in Four Southern States. FORTY-SIX TOWNS WRECKED 1,200 Persons Painfully or Seriously In- jured, While Thousands Are Homeless. totals of death, misery and ruin ,caused in four Southern states by Fri- day’s tornadoes came to hand yester- day in approximately correct form. Briefly stated they are: Killed, about 368; injured, painfully or seriously, 1,200; homeless, several theusand. Towns reporting serious wreckage, 46; habitations and business houses practically complete ruins in these towns, about 2,500. The property loss will run into millions. These figures {do not include the wreckage of planta- ; tions and farms, scores of which were struck and damaged. Total May Never Be Known. The number of dead may never be known accurately for the reason that about 300 of them were negroes and they were buried in many communi- ties without careful records being made of their numbers. While some of the first reports giving apparently reliable death lists have since proved unreliable, nevertheless remote places which were late in reaching their dead have served to hold the total death list uniformly around 350. The manner in which this death list has grown for two days, in spite of con- | tinual subtraction from early re- ports, has been a melancholy index of the interstate scope of the disas- ter. i Sweeps Vast Area. By following the wreckage of towns , the general direction of the tornadoes jean be traced closely. Apparently the storm struck in three separate currents, each describing the arc of a circle and traveling toward the north- east. The first of these struck through ‘Northern Louisiana, Mississippi «nd Tennesse before daylight I'ridiy morning. The second appeared further south, about 7 o’clock, in Louisiana and Mississippi. This ap- parently was the portion of the storm which swept through Alabama and Georgia on Friday night and Saturday | morning. storm appeared during Friday after- ;noon, further south than either of its predecessors. This was the storm which demolished Amite, La., and | Purvis, Miss., the towns in which the wreckage was worst. Whole Blocks Leveled. Why the fatalities were so unusual- ly large is apparent from a glance at the photographs which have arrived here from many portions of the torna- do belt. They all tell the same story. Whole blocks of what were formerly little residences and cabins lie spread over the ground in separate boards. Under this mass of wreckage many ; hundreds of persons were buried, not one in a hundred escaping without some injury. The houses which were thus scattered about were mostly ne- gro habitations. The homes of the whites held together better, and the photographs show many of them with half the top or the upper half of the structure ripped off, leaving below protections which must have saved scores from death. Quick With Relief. Yesterday was one of relief meas: ures throughout the wrecked dis- trict. The ruined towns have been visited by thousands of spectators, many of whom went with a few dol- lars in their pockets -to distribute among the needy. Sheds made from the wreckage have becom the homes of hundreds. Small parties of men on horseback have gone through country districts, taking inventories of the as- and rendering aid where it ‘was most necessary. At least a dozen funds have been started in as many cities and towns. Another Blow in Mississippi. Meridian, Miss., April 28.—A disas- trous tornado passed through a sparsely settled section of East Mis- sissippi south of this city late yester- day. Meridian also was visited by a remarkable, wind, rain and hailstorm, much damage being done to crops and shrubbery. Reports from Causeyville say the main tornado passed seven miles below that place in a sparsely settled district. Timber properties are reported devastated. A report received here last night says that the timber section of South- ern Mississippi and the adjacent Ala- bama territory has against been vis- ited by a heavy storm and much dam- age done. MEAN IT THIS TIME. Several Killed in Latest South Ameri- can Outbreak. Buenos Ayres, April 28. — Reports have been received here of a revolu- tionary outbreak in the province of Santiago. M. Delestearo, the govern- or of the province, accompanied by his ministers, has arrived here. He says he was deposed by the revolu- tionaries. Several men were killed and others were wounded in the fight- ing that preceded his removal from office. “5 ss | twenty-eight. New Orleans, La., April 28. — The; The third portion of the. H. M. S. Gladiator, at Anchor Off Isle of Wight, Is Cut in Two by Steamer. Southampton, April 28—In one of the most amazing nautical accidents on record and one that seemingly by a miracle is not chronicled as a catas- trophe appalling in its extent, the British second-class cruiser Gladiator, especially built for, ramming, was rammed and sunk off the Isle of Wight Saturday afternoon in a dense snow storm by the American line steamer St. Paul. Twenty-eight Dead and Missing. The total number of dead and missing of the Gladiator’s crew is The admiralty late last night issued a revised list of the names of the Gladiator victims, which includes an additonal death in the hospital, bringing the total of deaths known to the above. Twenty-three men are missing, according to the list, and six are suffering severe inju- ries. ° Divers yesterday searched part of the sunken cruiser for bodies, but found none. The St. Paul left Southampton at 12:30 o'clock. The weather was com- paratively clear in Southampton wa- ters, but immediately the St. Paul turned into the Solent she encounter- ed a_ terrific snow blizzard. Capt. Passow and his chief officer, with the American line’s regular pilot, were on the bridge, and a lookout man was posted in the bows. Passengers in Terror. Suddenly a ship appeared immedi- ately in front of them. It was the Gladiator at anchor. Orders were giv- en on the instant for full speed astern in an endeavor to clear the cruiser, but it was too late. The St. Paul’s sharp stem rammed the anchored vessel amidships; she quivered and reeled as the passengers rushed on deck in great aiarm, the women in a panic. The officers and crew acted with the greatest coolness and allayed the growing terror with a show of discipline worthy of the best trained man-of-war. Begins to Sink at Once. Five boats were lowered within a few minutes to rescue the crew of the Gladiater, which had sustained a death blow. The cruiser began to sink almost at once. Her men gave a magnificent demonstration of disci- pline. The opinion among shipping men and naval officials appears to be unanimous that the accident was un- avoidable. There will be the usual na- val court and an inquiry by the board of trade. All witnesses of the disas- ter agree practically that both crews behaved as well as possible. St. Paul Badly Damaged. The St. Paul was more seriously damaged than at first supposed. She shipped a_ great quantity of water through her broken plates, and from the moment she backed away from ‘the wrecked steamer until she reach- ed her wharf all her pumps were kept going to their full capacity. TOWN BURIED UNDER MOUNTAIN Sliding Mountain Destroys Part of French Hamlet in Quebec. Buckingham, Quebec, April 28. — Half the little French hamlet of Notre Dame de Salette, 16 miles from here on the Lievre river, lies buried under a sliding mountain and at least thirty of its small population are known to have perished. The hamlet has no tel- ephone nor telegraph, and neither is it on a railroad. Meager bits of news of the disaster came in by messen- ger from the physicians and other res- cuers who were hurried there when the first calls for aid came at early morning. Mountain Slides. The River Lievre winds at the foot of the hamlet and a mountain towers behind it. Spring rains for days past have been melting the snow and ice on the mountainside and streams have been coursing down to the river. At 5 o'clock yesterday morning, just as the little hamlet began to stir for early mass, part of the mountain started to slide toward the river. It left a path of death and destruction in its wake, and those who were not killed when their homes were engulf- ed were left buried under the mass of rock and earth. Many Were Drowned. De Salette, like many hamlets ef its kind, rambles into gardens and little fields on the mountainside, so about half of it was not in the path of the avaianche. The sliding mass rushed with a roar and spread fanlike over part of the place and dumped itself in the swollen stream at its foot, and those who were not killed in the ava- Janche were drowned. Cut off from the outside world, messengers were dispatched to Poupere, the nearest hamlet. Those first on the scene found de Salette in a panic, with the uninjured ones packing their belong- ings for flight. Mail Bags Worth $500,000 Stolen London, April 28. — The London postal authorities have learned that two bags of mail from this city, con- taining securities and other valuables worth $500,000 were stolen in New York’ the latter part of last month. John Dunnett Is Dead. Minneapolis, April 28. — John Dun- nett, a prominent grain man of the Twin Cities, died at his apartments at the Plaza hotel yesterday, after bat- tling three hours with a stroke of epoplexy. Monday. Washington, April 21.—With the ex- ception of Messrs. Cooper and Nelson of Wisconsin, Republicans, the house yesterday, by a strict party vote, de- clared that the action of Speaker Can- non last Saturday, in summarily ad- journing the house was not “a breach of the privilege of the house affecting its safety, dignity and the integrity of its proceedings.” The declaration was made when a resolution by Mr. Wil- liams holding such a breach to have been committed, was tabled, 146 to 119. The vote was preceded by state- ments by both Mr. Williams and the speaker. The Brownville affair was again a subject of interest in the senate yes- terday, when Senator Borah of Idaho took the groun that the negro sol- diers of the Twenty-fifth infantry were guilty of the raid that occurred in the Texas town Aug. 13-14, 1906. Mr. Borah analyzed the testimony taken in this case and declared that to reasonable man could read it and fail to be convinced that negro sol- diers “shot up” the town. Tuesday. Washington, April 22. — Although several hours were consumed in roll calls the day in the house was one of comparative activity and _ several measures of importance were put through. The principal of these per- haps was the resolution by Speaker Cannon providing for an investigation of the paper trust, and in pursuance of its provisions the speaker « an- nounced as the committee of six who will conduct the investigation Messrs. Mann of Illinois, Miller of Kansag, Stafford of Wisconsin, Bannon of Ohio, Sims of Tennessee and Ryan of New York. The Democrats as a unit voted against the resolution. Interest in the proceedings attached to a letter from Secretary Loeb to Mr. Sims of Tennessee, asserting that the 4,700 shares of Washington Street railway stock in his name, with the exception of 100 shares, belonged to others, and denying that he had in any manner exerted the influence of his official position in behalf of the company, of which he was a director. In ‘connection with the considera- tion of the naval bill the senate enter- ed into a long discussion of the policy of sending the naval flotilla around the world. This policy was sharply criticised by Senator Bacon. Wednesday. Washington, April 23.—The sum to- tal of yesterday’s proceedings of the house was the passage under suspen- sion of the rules of three bills and the defeat of one. The bills that got through were as follows: Deciaring the right to enter as oil lands certain mineral lands; authoriz- ing the alienation of certain allot- ments of the Five Civilized Tribes, and removing the restrictions against foreign ships with respect to trade be- tween the United States and the Phil- ippine islands. By a large majority the bill to allow the importation of foreign white laborers into Hawaii was defeated. The Brownsville affair and the na- val appropriation bill occupied practi- cally the entire time of the senate yesterday. Senator Warren of Mis- souri continued his remarks on the discharge of the negro soldiers. The naval bill was read through with the exception of the sections re- lating to battleships, which will proba- bly lead to an interesting debate to day. Thursday. Washington, April 24.—By the over whelming vote of 245 to 8 the house yesterday, after several hours’ discus- sion adopted without amendment the senate joint resolution authorizing the attorney general to file suits against the Oregon & California Rail- road company for the forfeiture of all or part of 2,800,000 acres of land grants in the western part of Oregon. It is claimed by the government that by reason of breaches and violations of the acts making the grants the rail- road company had forfeited all right to the land in question. As the senate was about to con- clude consideration of the naval ap- propriation bill yesterday Senator Piles of Washington proposed an amendment increasing from two to four the number of new battleships to be authorized. As several senators desired to speak on the amendment the further consideration of the bill was postponed until today. An amendment to the jnaval bill was adopted appropriating $7,000,000 to begin construction on the two battle- ships authorized by the bill as it was passed by the house. 2 ESE, Friday- Washington, April 25.— Arguments in favor of the president’s program for four battleships consumed most of the session of the senate yesterday. The senate passed a bill appropriat- ing $100,000 for a survey of an inland water route from Boston to Wilming- ton. The business of the house proceed- ed yesterday at a rapid gait, despite the fact that the Democrats forced six roll calls. Over 1,090 pension bills were put through, the largest batch of the session. A bill also was passed providing for the protection of life on navigable waters during regattas and marine parades. —_—__—____—_- Killed by a Fall. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., April 26.— While working on a barn, John Cron of Dafter fell from a ladder a dis- tance of fourteen feet and was ip- stantly kiljed. ICRUSHING BLOW T0\ PREMIER Winston Spencer Churchill\Is Beaten for Perliament in Mancigster District. Manchester, England. Avril 26. — fhe northwest division of Manchester, by the heaviest poll cast in twenty years, yesterday reversed its verdict of 1906 and by a majority of 429 votes unseated as its member of parliament Winston Spencer Churchill, Liberal, who has just been made president of the board of trade in the new Asquith cabinet and who last year so brilliant- ly wrested the seat from W. Joyuson- Hicks, Unionist, his chief opponent of yesterday. The defeat of Mr. Churchill is 2 crushing blow to the prestige of the government and the young and confi- dent minister which is bound to have a marked influence on several pend- ing bye elections. There will be no difficulty in finding for Mr. Churchill a safe seat elsewhere. Asquith Is Blamed. Among the many influences and cross currents at work in this extraor- dinary contest it is not wholly beyond reason to suppose that Mr. Asquith himself was partly responsible for the defeat of his young colleague. It is customary for the leader of a party to send a letter wishing success 10 any member of his party seeking elec- tion to parliament. Mr. Asquith for some as yet unex- plained reason omitted to follow this custom, though he sent a letter to Walter Runciman, president of the voard of education, who on Thursday zontestej and won the seat for Dews- wry. DUC DE CHAULNES !S DEAD. Nobleman Who Married Miss Shonts Passes Away Suddenly. Paris, April 26. — Clasped in the arms Of his sobbing bride of less than three months, the duke of Chaulnes lied suddenly from heart failure at 11 o'clock Thursday night in his apart- ments in the Hotel Langham, in *he Rue Boccador. Physicians summoned to attend the duke in his sudden seizure gave the cause of death as embolism cf the heart. The Duke de Chaulnes and the duchess, who was Miss Theodora Shonts, youngest daughter of Theo- lore Shonts of New York, were imar- tied in New York Feb. 16 of this year. Thursday morning the duke and the juchess, both in the best of spirits, re- turned from a drive in the Bois je Boulogne. They dined in their pri- vate apartments and an hour after linner the duke, complaining of feel- ing ill, retired. About 11 o’clock he was suddenly stricken, gasped for oreath and immediately lost con- jousness. The duchess was ed with a pan- c¢ and screamed for aid. Two doctors were summoned simultaneously and administered the most pow ul of heart stimulants, but their efforts were in vain. The duchess was holding the duke in her arms when he expired. She was overcome by grief and kept vigil beside her dead husband throughout he night. BASED CHARGES ON RUMORS. George Lilley Requested to Produce Letter Book. Washington, April 26—The special house committee investigating the Electric Boat company devoted its ses- sion yesterday to endeavoring to as- certain from Representative George L. Lilley the grounds on which he charges against the compa- ay. . Lilley admitted that some of these charges were made on rumors and others on what he had been told. Asked if he had tried to find out the facts, he replied: “I did not constitute myself an in- vestigating committee to go around and find out what the facts were. I introduced my resolution in order that the facts might be brought out.” Mr. Stevens took up each specific charge and insisteq that Mr. Lilley tell everything he knew concerning it. While he did not withdraw any charge against the company he would not say that any one had been corrupted by the methods used by the company. Chairman Boutell announced that the committee would like to have to- day Mr. Lilley’s letter book, referred to Thursday, as well us his stenog- rapher’s note book; also all letters of Mr. Lilley referring to this investi- gation. Mr. Lilley, through his coun- sel, asked that the purpose for which the letters were wanted be stated, and while not declining to produce them did not promise to do so. Chairman Boutell announced that if Mr. Lilley declined to comply with the request the committee will make a demand for the books substantially in legal ef- fect of a subpoena duces tecum. With the question still undecided adjournment was taken until to-day. Il) Health Causes Suicide. New York, April 26. — Charles D. Pierce, sixty years old, a consulting engineer, togk his life by inhaling il luminating gas yesterday. Ill health is supposed to have influenced the sui- cide. Y Washington, April 26—Orders were issued at the navy department yester- day changing the date of the sailing of the Pacific fleet from San Francis- co for the south from May 9 to May uw. =