Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 3, 1908, Page 8

2 Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED Digest of the News Worth Telling Com densed for the Busy Reader. Personal. William Hamilton, a well known In- dian fighter, plainsman and pioneer, died at Billings, Mont., aged eighty- six years, W. N. Chancellor, twice mayor of the city of Parkersburg, W. Va., and one of the leading Democrats in West Virgiina, is dead. He was seventy- eight years old. Cyrus Dupee, who was engaged in the provision business in Chicago for more than thirty years, died at his home in that city after a short illness. He was eighty-one years old. Daniel F. Cohalan, legal adviser of Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam- many Hall, the chairman of the law committee of the Tammany organiza- tion, was elected grand sachem at a meeting of the sachems of Tammany Hall, to succeed Bourke Cockran. Among the graduates of the law de- partment of the National university of Washington are the following from the Northwest: Gustav W. Wiegand, Minneapolis, and Cyrus M. Kelly, Lakeville, Minn.; C. D. Hamel, Grand Forks, N. D.; Isaac Pearson, Aber. deen, S. D. Casualties. Three were drowned at Walkerton, Ont., by the upsetting of a canoe which shot over a dam in the Sau- geen river, W. H. Howard, a wealthy commis- sion merchant of St. Louis, was struck and instantly killed by lightning while playing golf. Louis Levin was killed and his brother Jacob probably fatally injured by the explosion of a soda water tank in their store at Philadelphia. John Weberking, a resident of Wa- verly, Iowa, eighty-three years old, was accidentally shot in the leg by his grandson, to whom he had pre- sented a 22-caliber rifle. Miss Ollie May, the eighteen-year- old daughter of Thomas May, a Long Grove, Iowa, farmer, met with a ter- rible death. The girl was kicked to death by the family horse. O. C. Bartholomew of Denver was killed in a collision between an elec- tric car and an automobile in Chicago. Two other occupants of the automo- bile were seriously injured. Aleck Tow, aged sixty-eight years, was struck and instantly killed by a Milwaukee passenger train near Dun- bar, Iowa. He was deaf and dumb and could not hear the train coming. At a ball game at Buffalo between minor teams a grand stand holding about 800 persons folded up and spilled the crowd into the mud. Sprains and bruises were the worst injuries. Two crowded trolley cars collided at the foot of a steep hill in San Fran- cisco, killing Henry Baer, a traveling salesman, and injuring twenty other passengers, one fatally and several seriously One man was killed, three injured la score of passengers shaken up 1 head-on collision that occurred at Reynolds, Neb., on the Burlington road, between a passenger and a freight train. Peter Guglielmo and Peter Cicotte, Italian trimmers in No. 7 shaft of the Calumet & Hecla mine at Calumet, Mich., were killed by a stick of tim- ber which fell 3,000 feet and terribly mangled them. Five of a party of nine men were drowned by the capsizing of a naph- tha launch on Plum Island bar, off Newburyport, Mass. Those who lost their lives were all young Italians em- ployed in a loca] shoe shop. Three days after William Wheeler, aged fifty-two years, at the risk of his own life, rescued a boy from before a Chicago & Alton train at Alton, IL, he was run down and killed by the same train, in sight of his son. } Crimes and Criminals. Because her lover jilted her, Bessie Cotter of Waterloo, Iowa, swallowed carbolic acid and lived less than an hour. Two masked men boarded a trolley car near McKeesport, Pa., and held up the conductor and motorman and eleven passengers. They were reliev- ed of all their money and valuables. The robbers escaped. It is the belief of the authorities that Charles Cornelius of Menominee, Mich., who committed suicide, was robbed of several hundred dollars two days before. Cornelius left Menomi- nee for Europe with $600 and a steam- ship ticket in his wallet. When the remains were searched he had but $27 and the ticket was missing. Charles W. Morse and Alfred H. Curtis will be placed on trial in the United States circuit court in New York on Oct. 14 next on a charge of conspiracy and misapplication of funds of the National Bank of North America. After having been chased two miles by a score of angry farmers bent on lynching him for having robbed a sa- loon at Belleville, Ill., George Lewis, a negro, was rescued from the mob by deputy sheriffs just as a noose was be ing adjusted about his neck and was eafely landed in jail. €enor Don Augusto B. Laguia has been elected to succeed Dr. Pardo as president of Peru. Henry Farman, the British aero- naut, made two flights of 1,600 meters in his aeroplane at Ghent. This is the greatest distance yet accomplish- ed in a straight line. The Morocco foreign board has is- sued orders to the governors of all ports in Morocco to refuse permission to land to Mulai Hafid’s envoys re- turning from Berlin. Count Bottaro Costa, who is at pres- ent serving as Italian minister at Stockholm, has been promoted to the rank of ambassador and will be sent to Tokio to succeed Count Callina. A dispatch from Tangier says that Gen. Bagdani, commander of the forces of Abd-el-Aziz, is in full retreat toward Rabat and that his army had been reduced by one-half by deser- tions. The report that the port of La Guaira would be reopened in the im- mediate future is considered at Wil- lemstad, Curacao, to be premature, as it is unofficially stated that another case of bubonic plague has occurred there since the issuance of President Castro’s decree. Sins and Sinners. Jacob Liffren, a Muscatine, lowa, policeman, was shot twice by Bert Boke, an insane man. Liffren will re- cover. Boke was shot through the left leg. Within an hour after being released from jail at Marshalltown, Iowa, where had served a short sentence, Arthur T. Wegle of St. Louis was re- arrested on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses, Boyd Stone, a white man, was shot to death by Henry Fowler, a negro, in the negro’s, home, one mile west of Greer, S. C. Fowler is said to have killed Stone because of Stone’s at- tempt to assault Fowler’s wife. F. C. Peters, formerly pay clerk on the steamer Rainbow, who was arrest- ed at Manila on May 12 on the charge of embezzling $3,000, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years and four months in Bilibib prison. Mrs. Ernst Terwilliger was found dead in her room at Newark, Ohio, having been choked to death. During the day her husband, Ernst Terwilli- ger, was arrested on suspicion of hav- ing committed the crime and later he made a confession. J. O. Davidson, cashier of the Wood- ville (Miss.) bank, committed suicide at Natchez., Miss. While it is alleged Davidson had been speculating in cot- ton futures and had lost heavily, it is understood that the bank will not be m any way affected. An inquest over the remains of a man found in the creek near Salbury, Me., resulted in the positive identifi- cation of the body ‘as that of B, M. Bloom, a bank clerk, who absconded three weeks ago, after a shortage in his accounts of $10,000 had been dis- covered. It is said Bloom committed suicide. Suicides by boys and girls between the ages of ten and nineteen years in- creased nearly 5 per cent between 1900 and 1906 in thirty-seven Ameri- can cities of 100,000 population or over. This was the appalling fact es- tablished by statistics gathered by the Chicago bureau of statistics and just published. Mae C. Wood, the woman from Omaha who sued Senator Thomas C. Platt for divorce, alleging that she was secretly married to him in 1901, was released on $5,000 bail in New York. Miss Wood is charged with perjury in the testimony heard in court last week. When the bail bond had been made out Miss Wood signed it Mae C. Wood Platt. Generat. President Howard Elliott of the Northern Pacific railroad, while pass- ing through Detroit, said that crop in- dications were better than ever be- fore in the Northwest. Peter F. Dailey, for thirty years one of the best known and best loved com- edians on the American stage, died of pneumonia in his apartments at the Auditorium, Chicago. North Carolina was carried for state prohibition last week by a ma- jority that is estimated at from 40,000 to 42,000. The prohibition ticket was carried in seventy-eight out of the ninety-eight counties. Men’s clubs connected with Sioux City churches have organized an as- sociation to be known as the Federa- tion of Christian Brotherhood. The new club, which starts off with a membership of more than 1,000, will at once inaugurate a campaign for the Sunday closing of pool rooms and skating rinks. As a result of the old persecutions of the Waverly, Iowa, doctors by Charles W. Miller, chairman of the Democratic state central committee and editor of the Waverly Democrat, Dr. J. F. Auner called Mr. Miller to account in a fight in which both com- battants were injured. The fight took place in the principal street of the city. District Judge Corcoran ruled that the Hastings brewery at Hastings, Neb., can continue to manufacture and sell beer under a wholesale li- cense. Hastings at a recent election voted for prohibition and the saloons have been closed. The case will be appealed. That the Upper Michigan strawber- ry crop will be a record-breaker this spring is indicated by advices which come from the various farming dis- tricts where raising the fruit is a pur- suit that has attained large propor- tions ~ RUIN IN ITS PATH Chicago Swept by Fiercest Gale in Seven Years—Consider= able Damage Is Done. GROWING CROPS LAID LOW —_— Kansas, Illinois and lowa Farms Suffer; Two Killed and Many Injured, Some Fatally. Chicago, May 30. — A gale of wind which reached a greater velocity than has been recorded in Chicago for sev- en years last night preceded an elec- trical storm which did considerable damage in various parts of the city. Several persons were injured by de- bris blown from buildings by the gale and a church and-half a score of other buildings were struck by lightning. The high wind, which reached a ve- locity of sixty-eight miles an hour, crippled telegraph and _ telephone wires throughout the city. For a short time the city was almost cut off from communication with the outside world, Growing Crops Ruined. An electric storm, accompanied by high wind and a heavy downfall of rain, swept the central part of the state yesterday afternoon, causing great damage to the growing crops, uprooting giant trees, putting tele- phone and telegraph wires out of commission and, possibly costing the life of one man. The principal buildings at Wonder- land Park at Quincy were blown away and many small buildings were demol- ished. George Werner was killed by light- ning during the storm. The country south of Quincy was swept by a tor- nado and fifty dwellings and outbuild- ings were demolished. No one is re- ported killed. One Killed; Twenty-two Hurt. Topeka, Kan., May 30. — A terrific wind storm of almost the proportions of a tornado which passed over the southern part of Jewell county last night killed. one man and injured twenty-two persons, seven of them probably fatally. The storm took everything in its path and scattered a number of houses, barns and small buildings over the prairies. The property dam- age will amount to thousands of dol- lars and the damage to the growing crops is large. Stock Killed; Crops Damaged. Burlington, Iowa, May 30. — A se- vere wind and rain storm struck Southeastern Iowa yesterday. Re- ports of much damage are coming in. Many valuable trees were blown down. Barns were wrecked, out- houses leveled, chimneys demolished and stock killed or injured. No re- ports of fatalities have been received. Heavy Damage in Oklahoma. Guthrie, Okla., May 30.—Tornadoes that swept over the country adjacent to Hennessey and Cashon brought great damage to crops and farm prop- erty. Two persons are known to have been injured, ten dwellings and sev- eral barns and outbuildings were de- molished and several hundred head of! horses, cattle and other stock were killed. The storm did inestimable damage to crops and farm property in the adjacent country. GEN, STEPHEN D. LEE DEAD. Had Record of Having Ordered First Shot to Be Fired at Fort Sumter. Vicksburg, Miss., May 30. — Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Columbus, Miss., commander-in-chief of the Unit- ed Confederate Veterans, answered his last roll call at 6 o’clock yesterday morning. Cerebral hemorrhage was the cause of his death. An incident in connection with Gen. Stephen D. Lee’s military career not generally know is the fact that he di- rected the firing of the first shot of the Civil war. He was one of the two pfficers of the South Carolina troop sent by Gen. Beauregard to demand the surrender of Fort Sumter, and on the refusal of this demand he ordered the first battery to fire on the fort. SOLDIER IN CABINET. Gen. Wright May Be Chosen to Suc- ceed Secretary W. H. Taft. Washington, May 30.—The fact that information is refused by responsible parties in regard to the accuracy of the statement that Gen. Wright has been selected to succeed Secretary Taft upon the retirement of the latter from the war department goes far to- ward confirming the belief that there may be and probably is foundation for the story. The latter was in Wash- ington about two weeks ago and lunched with the president, when it is presumed the possibility of his selec- tion was broached to him. Thousands of Acres Flooded. St. Joseph, Mo., May 30.—Reports from Maryville, Oregon, Tarkie and other Northwest Missouri towns are to the effect that thousands of acres of lowlands have been flooded. Most of this land had been planted to corn and the damage is heavy. Claims He Was Robbed in Hotel. East Grand Forks, Minn., May 30.— Carl Zimmerman had Albert Johnson and James Murphy arrrested yester- pe on a charge of robbing him of 2. L wil IS SE Jury Is Unanimous in Declaring That Amorous Millionaire Was of Un- sound Mind. Clinton, Ill, May 30.—At 1 o’clock this morning the jury in the Snell case, after having been out six hours, brought in a verdict setting aside the will. _The jury was unanimous in declaring its belief that Col. Snell was of unsound mind. The case has been on_ trial here in the circuit court for ten days and is the second attempt te break the will of Col. Tom Snell, million- aire, which cut Snell’s only son off with an annuity of $50. In his closing argument Attorney Richard Lemen, for the plaintiff, bit- terly denounced the letters to Col. Snell signed “Baby,” which were read to the jury, saying “hades could not emit one curse so infamous as to ex- ceed in horrible suggestion the lan- guage of the letters. If so it is be- yond the ken of any man to appreci- ate or human mind to know what it could be.” DEEPER PROBE IS NECESSARY. Special Wood Pulp Committee Recom- mend No Legislation. Washington, May 30.—The special committee of six members of the house appointed upon complaint of the American Newspaper Publishers’ association to investigate the wood pulp and print paper situation in rela- tion to the tariff and with regard to an alleged conspiracy in restraint of trade, yesterday submitted a majority and a minority report. The majority report, which is sign- ed by Representatives Mann of IIli- nois, Miller of Kansas, Stafford of Wisconsin and Bannon of Ohio, is a preliminary report, and recommends that no legislation affecting wood pulp and print paper be enacted until the committee has further investi- gated and reported. Minority Favors Free List. The minority report, which is sign- ed by Representatives Sims of Ten- nessee and Ryan of New York, recom- mends the passage of the Stevens bill to place wood pulp and print paper on the free list. The majority report is summed up in the following words: “As the present price of paper would not to any considerable degree be immediately affected by the repeal of the tariff, and as the» passage of the Stevens bill in its present form might spell ruin to the paper industry and ruinously high prices for paper in the near future, your committee believe it the part of wisdom, before making recommendations for positive legislation, to wait until its investiga- tion has been completed and thor- oughly digested.” As to the charge of the existence of a combination in restraint of trade the report says: “The evidence before the commit- tee so far fails to prove any combina- tion of print paper manufacturers to advance prices, or otherwise, in re- straint of trade, but considerable evi- dence was presented whieh might ex- cite suspicion that such a combination had been made and was in existence.” MAKE RAID AT FRENCH LICK. Officers Directed by Governor Are Forestalled by Warning. French Lick, Ind., May 30. — Gam- bling places here were raided last night by officers acting under orders of Gov. Hanley and Attorney General Bmgham. A number of police in plain clothes, accompanied by several well known citizens, appeared at the Ca- sino and other places where gambling has flourished and were allowed to entered after threatening to break down the doors. A warning had been wired from Indianapolis that the offi- cers were coming, and yesterday aft- ernoon it was announced at the gam- bling places that all business would cease. The paraphernalia was hauled away from the buildings in wagons, and when the raid was made last night nothing was found. ee ee RECEIVER FOR HIPPODROME. Financial Stringency Causes Failure of Cleveland Company. Cleveland, May 30.—A receiver yes- terday was appointed for the Cleve- Jand Hippodrome company on appli- cation of one of the stockholders. The proceeding is said to be friendly. The company has ‘a capital stock of $1,- 400,000. The financial stringency made it difficult to raise new funds needed. The theater company is not affected by the receivership. ROSS FINED $576,094. Portland Banker Also Sentenced to Five Years in Prison. Salem, Or., May 30.—Judge Burnett in the circuit court yesterday sen- tenced J. Thorburn Ross, the Port- jand banker, to five years’ imprison- ment and to pay a fine of $576,094. Ross recently was convicted of wrongful conversion of state school funds in his capacity as president of the Title Guarantee and Trust com- pany. eS 600 CHILDREN IN PANIC. Dynamite Scare Almost Causes Dis- aster in Chicago School. Chicago, May 30.—Rumors that an Italian secret society had formed a plot to dynamite the Dante school at Ewing and Desplaines streets caused a panic yesterday afternoon among the 1,700 pupils in the school. About ‘600 of the children became panic- ‘stricken and fled from the building. Many of them were knocked down ‘and slightly bruised, but none of them was seriously injured. CONGRESS QUITS Last Days of Session Made Mem= orable by La Follette’s Ef- fort to Talk Bill to Death. CURRENCY MEASURE 1S PASSED Aldrich-Vreeland Bill Goes Through Senate—Collapse of Filibuster Is Sudden. Washington, June 2—Just ten min- utes before the hands of the big round clocks in the chambers of the two houses of congress pointed to the hour of midnight Saturday, the first session of the Sixtieth congress came to a close. In the house the closing hours were chzracterized by singing of songs by Republicans in honor of Speaker Can- non and by Democrats in the interest of William J. Bryan. Made Memorable by Filibuster. The last days of the senate will be Memorable on account of the filibus- ter of Messrs. La Follette, Stone and Gore against the emergency currency bill. At 4:30, o'clock the senate adopted the report of the conferees of the two houses of congress on the Aldrich- Vreeland emergency currency bill by the decisive vote of 43 to 22. Filibuster in Disfavor. The downfall of the filibuster was inevitable. Nine-tenths of the sena- tors on both sides were opposed to it. Senator Gore, the blind orator from Oklahoma, was left on guard through- out the afternoon. Senator Stone was to follow him with a speech of about an hour’s duration, and Senator La Follette hoped to take the floor again at 6 o’clock to talk as long as his physical endurance would permit. When Senator Gore concluded his speech he sat down. Doubtless he expected that Senator Stone would be in waiting, ready to take the floor, but, Senator Stone was reclining on a sofa in the cloak room. Fairbanks Puts Question. When the Oklahoma senator con: cluded his speech the vice president put the queston to the senate whether the conference report on the curren- cy bill should be adopted. The roll call was begun before Senator Stone and Senator La Follette could reach the chamber. Futile efforts were made by the Wisconsin senator to in- terpose objections that would pro- long the debate and to devise means to give him opportunity for continued discussion. He received no encour- agement. When he appealed from a decision by Vice President Fairbanks on a question of order only nine sen- ators supported him. Collapse Is Sudden. The result came unexpectedly soon, ‘but not until the senate had been well worn out by a filibuster which, while not largely supported, made up in in- tensity what it lacked in numbers. The, obstructive tactics were begun by Senator La Follette when the re- port was taken up by the senate Fri- day; it was prosecuted by him all Friday night and was continued Sat- urday by Senators Stone and Gore. Mr. La Follette broke the record as a long distance speaker; Mr. Stone held the floor for six hours and a half, al- most without interruption, and Mr. Gore spoke for something more than two hours. La Follette spoke eighteen hours and forty-three minutes. BRUTAL DOUBLE MURDER. Noted French Painter and His Moth- er-in-law Victims of Fiends. Paris, June 2. — A double murder was committed here during the early hours of the morning that for abso- lute brutality would be hard to paral- lel in the annals of the crimes of Pa- ris. Adolphe Steinheil, a noted paint- er, a son of Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil, one of the most celebrated of French artists, and a_ grand- nephew of Meissonier, and his wife’s mother, Mme. Japin, were strangled to death in the artist’s home in the Rue de Vaughirard, his wife was gag- ged and bound to a bed and heard her mother’s dying struggles as she fought for life with the murderers. The whole house was ransacked, and it was impossible to say how fierce the death struggle had been. The police seem totally at a loss to account for the atrocity of the mur- der, whipcords drawn tight around the neckgs of the man and woman showing the manner of their taking off. Chance Shot Is Fatal. Waierloo, Iowa, June 2.—Clarence Strain, twenty years old, a resident of Fremont, is dying from a bullet wound in the forehead accidentally in- flicted by boys who were hunting. Killed in Pistol Duel. Vermillion, Ill., June 2.—Constable Bruce Northrup was shot to death here yesterday in a pistol duel by Constable Charles Crawford, as the outcome of a quarrel resulting from a friendly wrestling match. Kills Self and Chiid. Providence, R. I., June 2.—Mrs. Al- ma Ruoff took her own life and that of her baby girl, fifteen months old, yesterday, by inhaling gas at her home. No cause. for the deed has been found. | | | “ASDE/FILIBUSTER ENDS; |TAWNEY MAKES RSC REEW Demands Upon Congress Are $156,- 0 0 in Excess of Those of Last Session. Washington, June 2, — Representa- tive Tawney of Minnesota, chairman of the committee on appropriations, Saturday presented to the house his annual review of fiscal appropriations and expenditures. Mr. Tawney said that a review of the demands made upon congress at this session showed that the esti- mates for the established public serv- ice and for previously authorized pub- lie works for the next fiscal year were more than $156,000,000 in excess of appropriations made for the same purpose during the last session of the Fifty-ninth congress, and that the demands did not rest in fact upon the. necessities of the public service, but “were supported mainly by official recommendations to congress, backed by the approval of the press of the country and they consisted largely of increased compensation to the civil and military branches of the public service.” Mr. Tawney stated the total appro- priations for the session to be $861,- 088,670. He said the total revenues of the government estimated to con- gress by the secretary of the treasury are placed at $878,123,011. WILL WED ANYWAY. But Eloping Princess Would Like Con sent of Her Family. Lucerne, June 2.—Princess Amelie Louise of Furstenberg and Gustave Kozian, an employe of an automobile firm with whom the princess recently eloped, accompanied by Kozian’s mother, have arrived here. Negotia- tions are now proceeding with the family of the princess to secure ap- proval of the marriage, but in the event of failure in this, it has been decided that the wedding will shortly take place in this city. CHOLERA TAKES 29 IN A DAY. No Let-up in the Epidemic in Philip» pines—Natives Scoff Germ Theory. Manila, June 2. — The cholera at Dagupan, 120 miles from Manila, is worse. Twenty-nine deaths are re- ported in one day. The people are loth to clean up, their surroundings, despite strenuous efforts on the part of the bureau of health. The natives do not believe the germ theory and think it is a dispensation of God. MEXICAN VILLAGE WIPED OUT Eighteen Lives Lost and Great Dam- age Caused by Flood. City of Mexico, June 2.—According to a special dispatch received by the Herald floods have wrought great damage in the neighborhood of the city of Pachula the last two days. Eighteen people are said to have been drowned and the village of Pachula entirely wiped out. The flood was oecasioned by a cloudburst. DROWNS IN LAKE SUPERIOR. Marquette Fireman Is Swept Off Rock by Waves. Marquette, Mich., June 2. — Lake Superior claimed one more victim when Gustaf Varebrook, a member of Marquette’s fire department, was drowned while fishing. He was swept off the rocks by the high seas. Judgeship Left in Air. Washington, June 2. — Adjourn- ment of congress found the nomina- tion of M. D. Purdy for district judge in Minnesota still unreported from the senate committee on judiciary. The president probably will decide within the next ten days whether he will give Mr. Purdy a recess appoint- ment or select some one else for the position. Cuban Officers Inspect Army. Chicago, June’ 2.—Long strides to- wards the Americanization of the Cu- ban army were completed when a party of islanders departed for Fort Leavenworth, Kan. They came to fa- miliarize themselves with American military institutions so they may imi- tate them in their own country. Has Earthquake Scare. Allentown, Pa., June 2.—Allentown was thrown into a state of excitement yesterday by what is believed to have been an earthquake shock. The shock was severe enough to rock buildings, rattle windows, clatter crockery, tum- ble down two or three shaky chim- neys and upset small children. Negro Is Lynched. Dixon, Ky., June 2—The race riot which occurrmed March 14 at Provi- dence, a village near here, had a se- quel early yesterday morning in the lynching of Jake McDowell, a negro, who had confessed to being one of a party of negroes who killed one tray- 2ling man and wounded another. Killed by Kick of Horse. Liviington, Mont., June 2. — Gust Nelson, an old timer and well known rancher Of this section of the state, is dead from the effects of the kick of a horse. Trouble on Canal. Washington, June 2. — Secretary Root last night admitted the accuracy of the report that Minister Squires had been summoned to Washington from Panama. The secretary said that the political situation on the tsthmns was comnlicated