Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 1, 1908, Page 2

Foreign. On account of frequent fainting spells, the pope has been advised to leave’ Rome for a time and seek a healthier climate. Physicians are in constant attendance. The national congress of Santo Do- mingo proclaimed Gen. Ramon | Ca- ceres re-elected president of the re- public for a term of six years. The ceremony was carried out with great solemnity. A son was born to Queen Victoria of Spain last week. Queen Victoria, formerly Princess Ena of Battenberg, Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME Important Events at Home aad on Foreign Shores Briefly Told. and King A!fonso were married at ere Madrid, on May 31, 1906. The first son Personal. was born on May 10, 1907. The departure of Mme. Anna Gould and Prince Halie de Sagan from Paris for England, where they will be mar- ried, is confirmed. The couple will not again return to France until the wedding has taken place. George Gould and his family are still in Paris. Senor Salazar, Spanish minister of foreign affairs, announces that the powers interested have agreed to send a warship to Tangier to safe- guard the lives. and property of for- eigners, and that ig the Moroccan for-, eign board requests it troops may be landed, The Louisiana legislature adopted resolutions of regret over the death of Grover Cleveland. Sir William Whiteway, former pre- mier of Newfoundland, died at St. Johns, aged eighty-one, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of the pr dent, was given his bachelor’s degree after three years of study, hav- ing taken extra courses. W. B. Leeds. an American financier, died suddenly at the Ritz hotel in Pa- ris. He was at one time prominently identified with the Rock Isiand inter- ests, President Eliot, at the commence- ment exercises at Harvard university, announced that the degree of doctor of laws had been conferred upon President Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Ezra Brainerd, for twenty-five years president of Middlebury college at Middlebury, Vt., has retired from the presidency and his successor, Rey. Dr. John M. Thomas of Orange, has been inducted into the of- Sins and Sinners. As the outcome of a quarrel over a girl, Charles-Ginger was shot and killed by Carl Watson at Camden, III. Watson fied. Mrs. James Comstock of Sunbury, Ohio, threw herself in front of a fast passenger train and was decapitated. She had been in ill health. Acting Governor Cox of Kentucky pardoned ten infirm and blind con- victs, being the greatest number par- doned at one time in thirty years. Disappointed in love, pretty Ger- trude Kendie, eighteen years old, of Erie, Pa., ended her heart pangs by swallowing the contents of a _ two- ounce bottle of carbolic acid. fice. William F. Traffley, once manager of the Baltimore team, and manager of the Des Moines team in 1886, when they made a world’s record of twenty- mes won in succession, died at Moines of tuberculosis, aged for- ht years, After an illness of several weeks Charles B. Jefferson, the former the- atrical manager and eldest son of the late Joseph Jefferson, died in New York from a complication of stomach troubles. During the active career of the late Joseph Jefferson Charles Jef- ferson was his father’s manager and personal representative. He was fif- ty-seven years old. dered by a hotly contested Republican primary for circuit judge, John P. Turner shot and instantly killed a young man named Arrowwood at Ca- noe, Ky. Ill for weeks and believing that his malady was incurable, George Ander- son, a prominent citizen of Pelkie, Mich., brought. his life to a sudden and tragic termination by shooting himself. At Lewiston, Mont., a jury returned a verdict finding Ole Nordahl guilty of first degree murder. Nordahl was charged with burning the house of a widow, causing the deaths of herself and four children. Frederick J. Immel, former city of- ficial of Columbus, Ohio, was sen- tenced to four years in the peniten- tiary and to pay a fine of $1,000, fol- lowing a plea of guilty of accepting a bribe from the .Cleveland Trinidad Paving company. John Kelley, seventy-five years old, a retired contractor and real estate dealer of Cleveland, fatally wounded his wife Margaret, seventy-three years of age, the police assert. Casualties. Three persons were drowned by the overturning of a rowboat on the Ohio river at Louisville, Ky. The town of Park Falls, Ont., was almost completely wiped out by fire, involving a loss of $100,000. Twelve deaths, due to heat prostra- tions or allied causes, were recorded n Chicago in one day last week. 11 and Fred Foster, brothers, were drowned while bathing in the ‘Tittabawassee, near Midland, Mich. Fred H, Mattson, a student of the Ames, Iowa, agricultural college, was rowned in Salt creek, near Lincoln, As the result of bad blood engen-| ee men were killed by the ex- plosion of a boiler of a locomotive on the Pennsylvania railroad near New Brunswick J. d Suhr, aged sixteen years, was ar ned in the Menominee river, near Menominee, Mich., while swimming with a number of companions. Two persons were killed and severai njured in an explosion in the Penn- ylv ‘road cut at Thirty-first d Ninth avenue, New York. Wester was drowned while in the Ontonagon river at on, Mich. David P. Russ, hile trying to recover Wester’s body lost his own life. One man is dead, another is. miss- nd nearly a score of others were injured by an explosion on board the German steamer Arcadia, which ar- rived at Philadelphia from Hamburg last week. Fanned by a high wind, a‘ fire which broke out at Three Rivers, Que., in a stable, was not checked until the greater portion of the lower town, containing the business section of the. city, had been “consumed. The loss | will be considerably over $2,000,000. | r Crimes and Criminals. Mrs. Olloway was shot and killed by Harry Crawford, a wealthy retired farmer near Decorah, Iowa. He then killed himself. It is said that Craw- ford was in love with Mrs. Olloway, but that she did not return the affec- tion. Harry Hugget, cashier of the Peo- ple’s Bank of the East Side, was found dead at Columbus with a bullet hole in his head. Indications point to sui- cide. Investigation has developed an alleged shortage of about $5,000 in his accounts at the bank. Quick disposition was made of the case of George Parkinson, who was arrested at Fair City, Mont., on the charge of horse stealing. Parkinson was brought into court, entered a plea of guilty to grand larceny and was sentenceg to the penitentiary for one year. Jessie E, Baldauff, eighteen years old, a pupil at the Frances Shimer academy, Mount Carroll, Ill, killed herself with a shotgun at her parents’ home, near Pearl City. She was despondent because in one study she failed to obtain the passing ,mark. Mrs. Milo Wilcox, who lives north- east of Red Oak, Iowa, went violently insane last week. Securing a butcher knife she stabbed her six-year-old son, attacked her eleven-year-old daughter, wounded her severely and then turn-| ed the knife upon herself, infiicting dangerous cuts. The boy died later. tried to commit they quarreled over money matters. Kelley then suicide. It is said Otherwise. The American Society of Civil En- gineers he!d its fortieth annual con- vention in Denver. The Republican congressional com- mittee will open a branch office in New York city Aug. 1. The New York board of health has passed a resolution that all stray dogs found in the streets unmuzzled will be killed, A bill to prevent the drinking of in- toxicating liquors on passenger trains in Louisiana has been passed by both houses of the legislature. Gov. Swanson of Virginia has ac- cepted an invitation of W. J. Bryan to second the latter’s nomination at the Denver convention. a delegate at large. Mr. Swanson is David R. Forgan and John M. Roach have been appointed receivers for the Chicago Consolidated Traction com- pany by Judge Grosscup. Their bonds were’ fixed at. $25,000 each. An old mining preperty, one of the few- in ‘Connecticut, where for nearly 100 yearsiron ore was‘: dug- and smelted, will be officially wound up by the sale. of the Kent: Iron. com- pany. Eight hundred acres of land will be sold at public auction. + The new scout cruiser Salem,; built by the Fore River Shipbuilding: com- pany of Quincy, Mass., established a new record in her standardization trial when she covered the measured R mile course at the rate of 26.885 knots an hour. The average of her five highest runs was 25.95, An inflammatory anti-American cir- cular has been issued at Manila anonymously and distributed. It bears the cabalistic signs of the old Katipu- nan society and denounces the Ameri- cans, saying they have brought tyran- ny instead of liberty and that their purpose is to rob and enslave the Fili- pinos. : It has beeen definitely decided that the former McKinley home in Canton, Ohio, shall be a Catholic hospital. It is officially stated that Felix M. Bopp, administrator of the Cleveland dio- cese, has ordered the remodeling of the building. & geological reports says that pre- cious metals to the value of more than $7,000,000 annually are now being taken out of the placer mines of Sew- ard peninsula, in Alaska. It is indi- DEATH CLAIMS EX-PRESIDENT Grover Cleveland Passes Away Suddenly at His Princeton Home—End_ of Notable Career— Sorrow Is Universal. Funeral Services Are Marked by Simplicity, Without Eulogy or Sermon—President and Other Dis- tinguished Men Attend. Princeton, N. J., June 25. — Grover Cleveland, twice president of the United States, died at 8:40 o'clock yesterday morning at his home, “West Land,” in this quiet college town, where he had lived since his retire- ment as the nation’s chief executive, almost twelve years ago. ‘When death came, which was sud- den, there were in the.death cham- ber Mrs. Cleveland, Dr. Joseph D. Bryant of New York, Mr. Cleveland’s family physician and personal friend; Dr. George R, Lockwood of New York and Dr. John M. Carnochan of Prince- ton. An official statement, given out awa signed by the three physicians, gave heart trouble, superinduced by stom- ach and kidney ailments of long stand- ing, as the cause of death. Death Is Unexpected. While Mr. Cleveland had been in poor health for the last two years and had lost a hundred pounds in weight, his death came unexpectedly. The news of Mr. Cleveland’s death came as a sudden shock to the, peo- ple of Princeton, as it did to the peo- ple of the rest of the world. It was not until late in the day that messages of condolence began to ‘come in from all parts of the world to Mrs. Cleveland. One of the first /was from Mr. Roosevelt. So suddenly did Mr. Cleveland’s death occur that not one of his four children were at home. The children are at the Cleveland summer heme at Tamworth, New Hampshire, under the care of Mrs. Perrine, Mrs. Cleveland’s mother. Word was sent to them of their father’s death, and they will start at once for Princeton. The chil- dren are: Esther, aged fouricen; Ma- rion, aged twelve; Richard, aged ten, and Francis Grover, aged five. The telegrams of condolence came in by the hundreds from ali parts of the United States and other countries during the day, and they continued to pour into the telegraph office here far into the night. Besides President Roosevelt’s telegram, messages of condolence came from gover! officials, governors, legislators, nuent educators and citizens of vari- ous walks of life. ; President Roosevelt issued a proc- lamation to the people of the country eulogizing the dead statesman, order- ing all government flags half-masted for thirty days and directing that mili- tary and naval honors be accorded the late president on the day of the funer- al. WAS SELF-MADE MAN. Worked His Way From Clerk in Store to Presidency. Grover Cleveland, twenty-second president of the United States and the | only Democratic occupant of the White House since the Civil war, was born in Ca’dwell, Essex county, N. J., March 18, 1837. His father was a Presbyterian clergyman. In his seven- teenth year Grover became a clerk and assistant teacher in the New York institution for the blind in New York city, in which his elder brother, Wil- liam, was then a teacher. In August, 1855, he secured a place as clerk and eopyist for the law firm of Rogers, Brown & Rogers, n Buffalo, began to read Blackstone and in the autumn of that year was receiving $4 a week for his work. He was admitted to the bar in 1859. Became Successful Lawyer. He was appointed assistant district attorney of Erie county in 1863, and held the office for three years. In 1865, at the age of twenty-eight, he was the Democratic candidate for dis- trict attorney, but was defeated by the Republican candidate, his intimate friend, Lyman K. Bass. He then be- came a law partner of Isaac V. Van- derpool, and in 1869 became a mem- Ber of the firm of Lanning, Cleveland & Folsom. He continued a successful practice until 1870, when he was elect- ed sheriff of Erie county. In the autumn of 1881 he was nomi- nated Democratic candidate for mayor of Buffalo and was elected by a ma- rity of 3,530, the largest ever given to a candidate in that city. He soon came known as the “veto mayor,” using that prerogative fearlessly in checking public expenditures that he deemed unwise, illegal or extravagant. The reformed methods of administ-at- ing the city’s affairs, instituted by him while mayor, led to his election in the following years as governor of tie state of New York by a majority of 192,000 votes over his opponent, His Phenomenal success in the guberna- torial election, as indicative of the probability of his carrying New York and of attracting the independent vote, secured him the Democraiic nomination for the presidency in 1884. In the November election the popular vote cast for Mr. Cleveland was 4,911,- 017, as against 4,848,334 cast for Mr. Blaine. Cleveland’s first administration was marked by general prosperity; by the admission of four new states (Wash- ington, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota) to the Union, and by a freer use of the veto power than had generally been exercised by other presidents. On the meeting of con- gress, in December, 1887, he devoted his annual message mainly to the ad- vocacy of a reduction in tariff duties in order to prevent the further ir- crease of the surplus in the United States treasury. This message occa- sioned a prolonged discussion of the principles of protection and furnished the issue in the national political cam- paign in 1888, when Mr. Cleveland was renominated by the Democrats and Benjamin Harrison was chosen as the Republican candidate. Al- though the former received a popular majority larger than he had in 1884, the latter had the greater number of electoral votes, and accordingly on March 4, 1889, Mr. Cleveland left Washington and removed to New York to engage in the practice of law. Continued Same Policy. Cleveland’s second administration was simply a continuation of the pol- icy that ruled him during his first term. New questions arose of the greatest importance, but he met them all from precisely the same stand- point, and with the same purposes GROVER CLEVELAND. that always distinguished him in his public career. His attitude in the Venezuelan af- fair won him general praise as did also his promptness and firmness in suppressing ,the disorders growing out of the great railroad strike that centered in Chicago. When Mr. McKinley succeeded him in the presidency Mr. Cleveland re- tired to Princeton to spend the re- mainder of his days in the qui-t of the university town. Mr. Cleveland was the oniy presi- dent married in the White House, where, on June 2, 1886, Frances Fol- som, the daughter of his old friend | and partner at the Buffalo bar, be- came his wife. land’s body lies buried in the Cleve- land plot in Princeton cemetery. At 6 o'clock, just as the sun was sinking in the west, a distinguished company silently watched as the body was lowered into the grave. Then the simple burial service of the Pres- byterian church was read and before the last of the carriages in the cor- tege had driven up to the path lead- ing to the burial place the benedic- tion had been pronounced and the members of the family, President Roosevelt and others who had gather- ed about the grave, were leaving the cemetery. Services Were Simple. Many of the personal friends of the deaq statesman lingered about the spot which was to mark his last rest- ing place, and each in turn was per- mitted to cast a shovelful of earth into the grave, Agreeably to the wishes of Mrs. Cleveland, the services, both at the house and. at the cemetery, were of the simplest character. An invoca- tion, Scriptural reading, a brief prayer and the reading of William Words- worth’s poem, “Character of the Hap- py Warrior,” constituted the services at the house, while the reading of the burial service at the grave was brief and impressive. Distinguished Men Present. Although the funeral was of a strict- ly private nature, those in attendance numbered many distinguished citi- zens, including President Roosevelt, Gov. Fort of New Jersey, Gov. Hughes of New York, Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, former members of President Cleveland’s cabinet, officials of the Equitable Life Assurance society, members of the Princeton university faculty and friends and neighbors. Mr. Cleveland was buried with all the simplicity and privacy that he himself might have wished, as a pri- vate citizen rather than as the former chief executive of the nation. There was nothing that savored of the offi- cial, and the military element was in- jected solely as a measure of precau- tion in protecting President Roose- velt. President Offers Sympathy. The president arrived at 4:38 p. m. and was met at the station by Gov. Fort. The president, Gov. Fort and Secretary Loeb were driven at once to Westland. Upon his arrival at the house the president went to Mrs. Cleveland, offering his sympathy and expressing keen regret at Mr. Cleve- land’s death. The president then returned to the reception room, where the body had been remoyed in the afternoon from the room on the second floor in which Mr. Cleveland died. Services at the House. A few minutes later the four clergy: men who officiated came down the stairs to the hall leading to the recep- tion room, followed by Mrs. Cleveland and the children, Esther and Richard. As they appeared upon the landing, accompanied by Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, the whole company rose and remain- ed standing throughout the services. The house services were concluded at 5:30, and five minutes later the casket had been tenderly carried to the hearse and the procession started on its way to the cemetery. Along the streets from the house to the cemetery guardsmen, mounted and on foot, policed the way. Stand With Bared Heads. The silent crowd stood with bared heads and the procession passed along into Vandeventer avenue. and the bell in the tower of Old Nassau hall tolled mournfully. The cemetery was reached a few minutes before 6 o’clock. The serv- ices at the grave lasted less than five minutes. Soon after the grave was filled the cemetery was opened to the public, and the crowds which up to that time had been denied admittance surged REBELS ATTACK MEXICAN TOWN Between Forty and Fifty Killed in Fierce Fight at Los Vacas, Mexico. BANDITS MAKE BOLD RAID Town of Viesca Is Assaulted and Looted, and Inhabitants Terrorized by Band. El Paso, Tex., June 28.—A special dispatch received here says a band of Mexican revolutionists attacked the town of Los Vacas, Mexico, early yes- terday, and some of the revolutionists are believed to have crossed into Tex- as, About 5,000 shots were exchanged. The officers’ quarters were burned and between forty and fifty killed on both sides. The troops’ commandant ‘was badly wounded. Another out- break is expected, as the revolution- ist shave well armed cavalry. All telegraphic and telephonic wires have been cut. The worst attack oc- curred at the custom hou: Bold Bandit Raid. City of Mexico, June 27.—According to telegraphic advices, which were re- ceived by Vice President Corral yes- terday, one of the boldest bandit raids ever attempted in the history of Mex- ico was successfully carried out when the town of Viesca was assaulted and looted Thursday. The bandits, numbering fifty, all well armed and mounted, swooped down upon the town without warning. A feeble resistance was made by the ‘police of the place, but after three of ‘them were killed and three more wounded the marauders practically hhad things their own way. They first proceeded to the jail, releasing all of the inmates, some of whom joined the tobbers. The bandits next headed for the Bank of Nueva Leon, overpowered ‘the employes there and robbed the ‘pank of all the money they could get at. Loot and Demolish. From there they went to the gov- ernment stamp office, looting it and doing great damage to the postoffice. They then turned their attention to the express office, robbing it. By this time the whole of the town’s population was terr 1. The bandits cut the telegraph wire and tore up some railroad tr; However, before communication was interrrupted word lwas sent to the state capital of the jassault. Gov. Miguel Cardenas imme- diately reported the raid to the see- retary of the interior here and dis- patched local troops to the scene. Fight With Troops. After imprisoning the municipal of- ficers and further terrifying the in habitants of the town, the bandits got word that troops were on the way to the scene. They then prepared to flee. Yesterday morning they left, pass- ing by way of the Haeienda Hernes and the town of Matamoros de la Guna. At this place they encountered the first detachment of troops sent to capture them. A lively ght en- sued, in which one trooper was killed and several wounded. The soldiers succeeded in capturing one of the ban- dits, but the remainder made their yeScape and are now in the wilds of the State of Durango, having erc d the border between Coahuila and that state shortly after the battle. CEMENTS FRIENDSHIP. Spanish-American Republics’ Expres- sions on Death of Cleveland. Washington, June 28.—Ex-President ‘Cleveland’s death has brought from tthe Spanish-American republics ex- Yressions which, in view of the administration officials, crystallize und cement the friendship of the American republics. Cordial re- lies, couched in the terms of friend- hip, are being returned by the state department. 15 KILLED AND 270 INJURED. Wreck in India Near Baroda Results in Many Fatalities. Bombay, June 28.—Fifteen persons were killed and 270 injured in a colli- Bion between an express and a freight train on the Bombay & Baroda rail- road yesterday near Baroda. Four of ‘the passenger coaches and four mail cars of the express train and four cars of the freight were burned. Queen Amelie Goes Abroad. Lisbon, June 28. — Queen Amele, widow of the late King Carlos, left shere yesterday for Rio Janeiro, Bra- wil. Her majesty is taking with her the gifts which King Carlos had in- into the grounds to view the grave and floral display. ~—~_———rrrsm aie OO 83] 7 7 5 5 737 3738383737 08 COO ues O08 00 0°00 OOOO Street Duel Fatal to Two. Goldfield, Nev., June 27. — Mayo Taylor, a mine superintendent, and E. W. Priest, an ex-constable, died yes- terday within three hours of each oth- er as a result of a desperate street duel with pistols last Tuesday. Student: Is Drowned. Lincoln, Neb., June 26.— Fred H. Matteson, a student of the Ames (iowa). agricultural. college, was drowned in Salt creek, near Lincoin, last evening. Diamond Field Discoverea. Berlin, June 27.—A dispatch receiv- ed from Windheek, Damara Land, German Southwest Africa, says that a diamond field, the extent of which is nearly ten square miles, has been discovered at Luderitz bay. Two" Killed; Many Hurt. New York, June 26—Two persons were killed tand several injured in an explosion in the Pennsylvania railroad cut at Thirty-first street and Ninth avenue. Is Taken With Cramps. Luyerne, Minn., June 27.—John Wa- ters, nineteen years old, was drowned in Rock river yesterday afternoon while in bathing. He was seized with cramps and sank before help could reach him. Pardons Ten Convicts. Frankfort, Ky., June 26. — Governor Cox yesterday nenbian ae infirm and blind convicts, being the greatest number pardoned at one time in thirty years. jtended for’ President Penna on the (visit which he had planned to make ‘to Brazil this year. Falls From Fourth Floor, Chicago, June 28.—Raymond Wells, ‘twenty years old, a son of R. M. ‘Wells, president of the Bankers’ Na- ‘tional bank, was probably fatally in- ‘jured yesterday by falling from a fourth floor window. Reciprocal Demurrage Act “N. G.” Little Rock, Ark., June 28.—Federal Judge Jacob Trieber yesterday de- clared the reciprocal demurrage act ‘of the last legislature is unconstitu- tional, being a violation of the four- teenth amendment, | ——— | } { { —4 mows