Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 22, 1908, Page 4

CHICAGO WINS BALLOON RACE Long Distance and Endurance Medals Are Captured by Col. Coey of Chicago. ALL BAGS LAND IN SAFETY — St. Palu, July 21—The great inter- national balloon race, the third ever held in the United States, is over, with the mammoth Chicago, piloted by its owner, Charles A. Coey of Chicago, the winner, and the Ameri- can, the St. Paul balloon, piloted by Capt. Perey S. Hudson and N. P. Wild, second. The United States of Minneapolis finished third, the cham- pion Pommern fourth and the baby King Edward fifth. The Chicago won both the long- distance and endurance medals. Although fourth in the long-dist nce race, the Pommern was second in the endurance tests, remaining in the air sixteen hours and fifteen minutes. Chicago Stays Up Longest. The Chicago stayed in the air sev- enteen hours and twenty minutes, covering a distance of eighty-five miles and landing in a field three miles east of Blooming Prairie, Minn., at 12 o’clock yesterday noon. The American, which finished sec- ond, sailed seventy miles, to Owaton- na, Minn., remaining in the air four hours and forty-two minutes and land- ing in a field two miles east of the village at 10 o’clock Saturday night. The United States, sailing for four hours and fifteen minutes, covered a distance of sixty-two miles, coming down at 10 o’clock of the same even- ing at West Concord, Minn. The Pommern, remaining in the air sixteen hours and fifteen minutes, traversed a distance of only sixty-one miles, owing to shifting air currents, and landed at 10:30 yesterday morn- ing, eight miles east of Warsaw, Minn. The King Edward, which finished last, remained in the air only one hour and ten minutes, landing three miles south of Hampton, Minn., a dis- tance of twenty-nine miles, at 6 o'clock Saturday night. All the trips were attended by the best fortune and the landings made without serious accident. Constant Fight to Keep Up. From the time the balloons cast off it was a constant fight on the parts of the aeronauts to keep them in the air when night set in and the damp con- tracted the gas. Further flight was imy ible in the case of the first three bags to take flight. The Pom- mern and Chicago succeeded in re- maining in the air over night, but flew so low that their guide ropes dragged along the ground, catching in fences and trees, Some idea of the difference in. the flights of this race and those of the two previous races may be gained from the fact that the Pommern at the St. Louis race saiied 870 miles, re- maining in the air forty hours, while in the last race it covered but sixty- one miles and remained in the air a little over sixteen hours. The American stayed in the air twenty-three hours in the Chicago race, covering over 400 miles, while in the last race it remained afloat not quite five hours and sailed seventy miles, Put Blame of Gas. The aeronauts and A. Leo Stevens, balloon manufacturer and one of the expert air sailors of the world, attrib- utes the poor flights to the gas, which they claim had a lifting capacity of only about fifteen pounds to 1,000 cu- bic feet, while the gas required by the balloons should have a_ lifting power of forty-five to fifty pounds for a thousand feet. The start of the balloon race, which came as the final*event of a week that has been devoted to festivi- ties and pageantry incident to the conclave of Shriners in St. Paul, was witnessed Saturday afternoon by thousands of people. CAPTURE NAKED MANIAC. Man Does Not Know His Name, but Says He Is an Asylum Fugitive. La Crosse, Wis., July 21. — The crazy man who has been scaring resi- dents of the vicinity of Viroqua has been captured near the home of Jo- seph de Vorde, near Genoa. He went naked for several days and says he escaped from some asylum late in *May. He does not know his name or where he came from. Home ts Burned. East Grand Forks, Minn., July 21— The residence of George Coulter, five miles east of here, was destroyed by fire. The blaze started from the stove. The loss on the house and fur- niture is $3,000. Aged Bather Drowned. Crookston, Minn., July 21. — Swen Larson, seventy years old, was drown- ed in the Lost river near his home a few miles south of Plummer. The man was in bathing when the acci- dent occurred. . NORTHWEST NEW: HAIL DAMAGES THE CROPS. Severe Storms Near Bismarck Beat the Grain Into the Ground. Bismarck, N. D., July 21.—Severe hail storms through this section have done much damage to crops that were not already damaged by the intense heat. One storm in the vicinity of Drescoll traveled six miles, doing much damage to fields, beating wheat into the ground and cutting potatoes and heavier crops to shreds. Another storm near Garrison, in McLean county, devastated fields for an area of two miles wide by ten miles long, wiping out the crops and beating even the grass on the prairie into the ground. Scattered showers in various parts of this county have helped grain to some extent, and the general impres- sion is that the county as a whole may harvest a half crop. BOLT FELL UPON CHILD. lowa Father Unwittingly Causes the Death of His Babe. Webster City, Iowa, July 21. — John McDonald, a farmer, residing near Duncombe, dropped a bolt upon the head of his two-year-old baby Sat- urday, inflicting an injury from which the child died. McDonald was work- ing upon the top of his windmill while the baby was playing upon the ground. In making repairs the father dropped a bolt he was using, which struck the child. Crazed with grief the parents hastened to the hospital here, but the boy died in a few hours. BURGLAR DROPS LOOT. Madison Policeman Sees Him Coming From Store. Madison, Wis., July 21.—While mak- ing his rounds in an alley in the rear of the John Grinde clothing store ear- ly yesterday morning, Officer George Schwartz saw a burglar coming through the door with two suit cases. He ordered the fellow to halt, but the man ran and dropped the suit cases. Several shots were fired after him, but he escaped in the darkness. An examination of the suit cases disclosed that they contained silk goods valued at $400. » MADMAN TURNS “BAD MAN.” Negro Who Escapes From Soldiers Home Holds Up Three. Marshalltown, Iowa, July 21. — While insane, Samuel Coleman of Davenport, a colored member of the soldiers’ home, ran away from the hospital, went to the packing plant of Brittain & Co. and began holding up laborers as they passed him in the narrow alleyway in the stock yards. After he had held up three men the home was notified. Coleman was ar- raigned, adjudged insane and taken to the Independence hospital WATER STARTS $10,000 FIRE. Flood at Elkader Causes Destructive Blaze Originating in Lime. Etkader, Iowa, July 21.—High wa- ter in the Volga river caused a fire that destroyed about $10,000 worth of property here. The blaze originated in the basement of a hardware store where lime was stored and which was inundated. The Catholic church and the hardware stock were destroyed. GOOD ROADS FOR CROOKSTON. 25,000 Club Names Committee to Find What Is Needed. Crookston, Minn., July 21. — The Twenty-five Thousand club of this city has appointed a committee to in- vestigate the conditions of the post roads radiating from Crookston. They will indicate in their report just what improvement can be prop- erly ‘and efficiently made in other roads throughout this vicinity. Indians Get Land. Sioux Falls, S. D., July 21. — Col Deets, who has been allotting lands to Indians on the Crow Creek reserva- tion, has completed the work. The allotting crew has been moved to the Lower Brule Indian reservation for anout two weeks, when it will proceed to the Cheyenne River Indian reser. vation. Melon Crop Late. Pierre, S. D., July 21.—The*melon growers in the gardens along Chapelle creek, in the southern part of this county, report their crop coming along in good shape now, but that it will be later than usual on account of the cold wet weather of the spring. The ‘crop is an important one along ‘he Chapelle. Hit by Big Stone. Yankton, S. D., July 21. — Henry Goetz, while placing heavy granite curbing at the postoffice grounds, was badly injured by the slipping of the tongs which held a stone weighing 2,400 pounds. He will recover. Think Car Was Robbed. Red Wing, Minn., July 21. — Two tramps, who gave their names as A. T. McNamara and Thomas Alsop, were arrested here. They had five pairs of new trousers in their posses- sion. It is believed they were stolen at Hastings or Lake City or taken out | of @ merchandise car. Drowned in Lily Lake. Stillwater, Minn., July 21. — Fred Fischer, about twenty-six years of age, was drowned while bathing in Lily lake PUTS TORCH TO THREE ELEVATORS Structures at Cooperstown, N.’D., Are Reduced to Ashes in Early Morning Blaze. ACT LAID TO UNKNOWN FIEND Cooperstown, N. D., July 19.—Three elevators of the Monarch, Cargill and Hammer-Halverson-Beier companies were burned in a fire which was dis- covered at 3:45. yesterday morning. There is no doubt that a firebug is responsible. The loss will total over $50,000. One fire started at one end of the elevator yards and another at the other end, 700 feet distant. Several times the Great Western elevator caught fire, but the.blaze was put out. The electric light plant was in dan- ger, but was saved, Fire Engine Goes Wrong. While the fire was raging the worst something happened to the fire en- gine, and it was feared the light plant would go, but the flax mill owners came to the rescue and saved the plant with a fine stream of water. There were 5,000 bushels of grain in the Hammer elevator and a less amount in the two others. The pur- pose of the firebug in destroying the elevators cannot be determined. The Hammer Elevator company will re- build at once, and the other two com- panies will have new elevators in time to handle the grain this fall. Accused of Burning His Store. Fond du Lac, Wis., July 18. — On complaint of State Fire Marshal T. M. Purtell, Isaac Rosenblatt, manager and part owner of the Fair store, one of the largest dry goods stores in Fond du Lac, was arrested on the charge of.arson yesterday. It is al- leged that he set fire to his store on the morning of July 13. When Rosenblatt was arraigned in court he waived examination, and the case was adjourned till July 24. Bail was fixed at $5,000. The loss on the stock in the Fair store is said to have been abeut $22,000, covered by insur- ance, It was said shortly after the fire that Rosenblatt said that he was in the store about fifteen minutes be- fore the fire was discovered. KILLS TWO AND SELF. Triple Tragedy in Milwaukee Is Laid to Jealousy, Milwaukee, Wis., July 19.—William Hill, a barber at the soldiers’ home, last night killed himself after he had killed Mrs. Kimball, said to have been his wife, though known under the name of a former husband, and Joe Bittner, who was instantly: killed as he tried to escape from a fusillade of bullets fired at another man. Hill, it is said, was jealous of aman who Mis. Kimball told him was her son, and Bittner was killed when Hill tried to kill this man, known‘as Albert Diller. In firing at Diller Hill probably fatal- ly wounded an unknown Austrian known as John, who had only been in America four days. The shooting took place in the lowest part of the city and follewed a long separation be- tween Mrs. Kimball and Hill. All of the three who were killed died in- stantly. ACID IS THROWN IN GIRL’S FACE. Mrs. Florence Hutchins, 19-year-old Minneapolis Widow, Victim. Minneapolis, July 19.—An unknown assailant beat Mrs. Florence Hutchins, a nineteen-year-old widow, into uncon- sciousness and threw carbolic acid into her eyes and over her face in her room at an early hour yesterday morning. The woman’s eyesight prob- ably will be saved, but her injuries are serious, Every effort was made to find some trace of the assailant, but no clue has been discovered tending to disclose the identity of the man or the motive for the crime. ST. PAUL HAS 225,000 PEOPLE. 1808 Directory Shows Big Increase in Population. St. Paul, July 19—St. Paul on June 1, 1908, had a population of 225,300, according to the introduction to the city directory for this year, which R. L. Polk & Co. soon will have ready for distribution. This estimate is based on an increase of 12,566 names in the 1908 directory over that of 1905, when the state census showed St. Paul to have a population of 197,025. The new directory contains 4,111 more names than the 1907 edition. eh Se ae Wisconsin Man Drowned. Red Wing, Minn., July 19. — BE. L. Delaney of La Crosse, a workman on the government dredge boat Henry Bosse, was drowned in the Mississippi here this morning while bathing, He leaves a widow at Cambridge, Wis. Red Wing Boy Killed. Red Wing, Minn., July 19—Edward Larson, the ten-year-old son of An- drew Larson of this city, was kicked to death by a horse while visiting at bis uncle’s home in Vesa. HAWAWANS GOOD TO SAILORS Hundreds of Tons of Fruit and Delica- cies Presented to the Various - Battleships. Honolulu, July 20. — Sunday has been a quiet day with the officers and men of the Atlantic battleship fleet. Outside of the various games which took place at the léague grounds and which hundreds of sailors attended, there was little in the way of formal entertainment except excursions to Pearl harbor. The officers yesterday were private- ly entertained at many residences. The men, too, sought amusement in many parts of the city. On every hand they were welcomed by the citi- zens and found hospitable entertain- ment wherever they sought it. Out on the big ships hundreds of visitors were made welcome. A fea- ture of the entertainment of the fleet yesterday was the presentation of hundreds of tons of fruit and delica- cies of all kinds to the various battle- ships. The great store of good things was loaded on a lighter which was towed to each of the ships in turn. A generous supply of iced fruits and plenty of reading matter was sent to the island, where 850 men of the Nebraska are in quarantine, the en- tertainment committee being deter- mined net to forget any one. NEGROES MURDER TWO MEN. Six Armed Convicts Escape From Texas Farm. Houston, Tex., July 20. — Six ne- gro criminals, armed with guns and knives, escaped from the state con- vict farm. R. Waré aud Will How- ard killed Convict Guard Joseph El- liott with a hoe and made their es- cape. Meeting George Johnson, a negro, and fearing he would inform other regroes, they shot and mortally wounded him and he died. Ware and Howard escaped from the Dewalt farm, Fvrt Benton county, aboutsthe same time that five negroes escared from the Clements plantation, pursued by bloodhounds. One of the negroes was captured. TWO HANGED, MANY WHIPPED. Mississippi Men Lay Burning of Gin to Negroes. Natchez, Miss., July 20.—A tragic sequel to an incendiary fire which destroyed the new gin of Capt. J. W. Swayze, near Jonesville, Catahoula parish, La., last Thursday night, was enacted Saturday morning when in- dignant citizens of the community wreaked summary vengeance upon two negroes who were suspected of a guilty knowledge of the fire. The ne- groes were taken from their homes and hanged. Several other negroes charged with harboring the negroes after the fire were severely whipped und ordered to leave the community. HAITIAN REVOLT FEARED. Disturbance Predicted as Outgrowth of Revolution Last Winter. Washington, July 20. — Affairs in Haiti are regarded by state depart- ment officials as being in a critical state. Advices received from Minis- ter Furniss indicate that among for- eign residents there is a feeling that disorders may occur at any moment. The United States warship Paducah is mow on her way to Haiti to look: after the United States’ interests. The situation is an outgrowth of the unsuccessful revolution of last winter, The revolutionary movement has continued unabated. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, July 20. — Wheat—No. 1 hard, $1.173-4; No. 1 Northern, $1.141-4; No. 2 Northern, $1.131-4@ 1.13 3-4. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 76 1-4c. Oats—No. 3 white, 52 1-2@53c. Minneapolis, July 20—Wheat—No. 1 hard, $1.173-4; No. 1 Northern, $1.141-4; No. 2 Northern, $1.131-4@ 1.13 3-4. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 76 1-4c. Oats—No, 3 white, 52 1-2@53c. Duluth, July 20. — Wheat—No. 1 hard, $1.15; No. 1 Northern, $1.14; No. 2 Northern, $1.101-2. Flax—§1.24. Oats—50c. Chicago, July 20. — Wheat—No. 2 red, 913-4; No. 2 hard winter, 911-2@ 94c; No, 1 standard, $1.17@1.18. Oats —No. 3 white, 55 1-2@58c. Milwaukee, July 20. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, $1.17@1.18; No. 2 North- ern, $1.16@1.17. Barley—No, 2, 72c. Chicago, July 20. — Cattle—Beeves, $4.85@8.40; stockers and _ feeders, $2.60@8.40; cows and heifers, $4@ 6.25. Hogs—Bulk, $6@6.10. Sheep— Lambs, $4@6.50, ~ Sioux City, Iowa, July 20. — Cattle —Beeves, $5.40@7.65; stockers and feeders, $3.50@4; calves and year- lings, $2.50@3.25. Hogs — Range, $5.85 @6.40. South St. Paul, July 20. — Cattle— Grain-fed steers, $6@6.50; cows and heifers, $4.50@5.50; veal calves, $3.75. @5; good to choice stock steers, $3.25@3.75. Hogs—Bulk, $6.15@6.20. Sheep — Yearlings, $4@4.50; spring lambs, $5.25@6.25. Strikers Are Quiet. Montgomery, Ala., July 20.—There were no developments in the strike situation yesterday, Sunday quiet over the coal fields being unbroken. Nearly all troops in the state are un- der arms and ready for active service. Grief Causes Suicide. New York, July 20.—H. Unger, sev- enty years of age, a member of the firm of Unger Bros., silver manufac- turers of Newark, committed suicide | yesterday. Grief over the recent, death of his wife was the cause. __ In Minnesota Ng Ng State News ot the Week Briefly Told Arthur Jurgens, twelve years of age, was smothered to death by the cave- in of a sand bank in Minneapolis. Fire in the Fair store on Main street, Fond du Lac, caused great dam- age to the $26,000 stock of dry goods. The building was only slightly dam- aged, While a party of bathers were in bathing in Whisky creek near Barnes- ville they found fifteen clams, which contained nine pearls. The pearls vary in size. News reached Duluth from Deer River that Miss Etta Kennedy and Jacob Woodruff of Deer River were drowned on Ball Club lake by the cap- sizing of a canoe. While bathing in the Chippewa river at Montevideo Carl Keisel, a young man of twenty years, was seized with cramps and was drowned before any one could get to him. Robbers entered the store of the Selkie Mercantile company at Wilton and stole $160 worth of postage stamps and about $30 in cash, and es- eaped after exchanging shots with 2 clerk. ‘Erick Strandlund, a prominent farim- er near Cokato, while working as car- penter on the new Swedish church at Lamson, missed his footing and fe!l about fifteen feet and was seriously if not fatally hurt. Harry Stull, seventeen years old, was the third victim the Red river has claimed at Breckenridge in two weeks. He was bathing with others and was taken with cramp and sank before help could reach him. Fire wrecked the two upper floors of the Forman, ord & Co.’s factory and warehouses in Minneapolis, doing an estimated damage of $35,000 to stock and $5,000 to the building. Henry L. Wilson of Duluth was con- victed of murder in the first degree for the killing of his wife at West Du- luth March 22 last. The jury found this verdict on the first ballot. The defense was insanity. Charles Ricketts was struck by a Burlington train at Highwood, 4 suburb of St. Paul. He was hurled nearly a hundred feet and fell against a barbed wire fence and killed. Near- ly every bone in his body was broken. An enthusiastic meeting of farmers was held at the Pepin school house inaugurating a movement by Minne- sota farmers to petition the pure food commission to differentiate beer made irom barley malt and hops exclusively from beer made from barley malt, hops and other cereals or glucose. The people of St. Hilaire, Red Lake county, at once will commence the cir- culation of a petition to the board of county commissioners asking that the question of bonding the county for the establishment and maintenance of a county agricultural school be sub- mitted to the voters at the regular election this fall. Reports inclined to minimize the mount of damage done to crops in the Northwest by the recent hot weather have been received by the Market Record of Minneapolis. Reports sent im by correspondents show that the uffering has been considerably less shan was given in sensational state- nents made immediately following the intense heat. Crookston is threatened with a se- tious epidemic of typhoid fever, which seems suddenly to have developed luring the last week. Twenty-two zases already are reported in the city, and the physicians have formed a tombination to determine the origin of the disease in order that it may be more readily and permanently shecked, A. M. Greegerson, who recently came to Red Wing, and who has been em- ployed at the sewer pipe works, was arrested there and held for Newton Faushee, sheriff of Nicollet county, who arrived here Saturday and took ais prisoner back to Worthington. He was employg@ by a Minneapolis grain cempany, and is charged with em- bezzlement. . A verdict of accidental shooting was found by the coroner’s jury at St. Paul in the case of Margaret White, whose arrest followed the shooting of George Vellemonte last Friday in a resort conducted by the woman on East Seventh street. The verdict ac- septs the story told by the woman and which was strongly corroborated by circumstances. The crops in the vicinity of Fari- bault are looking fine, and the outlook for a bumper crop, with the exception of corn, never was better. All small grains are in the best of condition, and if favorable weather continues narvest will begin in a few weeks. ess S Charles Coss, who with his wife and daughter reside on the Barnhouse farm, seven miles from Wabash, sommitted suicide by strangling him- self with a fish line. He was sixty- five years old, and had been ill for some time. * CITY DEMANDS VIADUCT. Council Will Appeat to State Board Regarding Street to Schools. The Faribault city council passed a resolution requesting the state rail- road and warehouse commission to order the Rock Island and Great West- ern railroads to put a viaduct over their tracks on Third street in that city. This would be an expensive un- dertaking, but is sorely needed, as this street leads to the state schools for the deaf, the blind and feeble mind- ed, Shattuck military school, St. Mary’s hall and the Seabury divinity school. , The crossings as now being used are exceedingly dangerous, especially for the students of the schools for the deaf and blind. Numerous deaths have been caused within the past sev- eral years at these crossings. Action also has been started by the council to. compel the St. Paul road to remove its stockyards from the city, They are at present located within a block of the depot and in close’ vicinity of a large number of fine residences. POINTERS TO ARMERS. Institute Management Making Plans for the Year. The Minnesota farmers’ institute management is now making plans for the institutes for the coming year. It is the desire to reach with a one-day institute every town in the state Wiere a hall and reasonable accommo- dations; can be supplied, and where sufficient interest is shown by the farmers and busiess men to insure a successful meeting. All such towns cannot be reached each year, as funds will not permit, but every town can be reached once in two years. Any town that did not have an institute last winter and wishes one this com- ing winter should make application at once, The requirements for an institute are: To furnish a hall heated and with room and chairs for at least 200 people and to assist in advertising the meeting in every way possible. Full information may be obtained by addressing A, D. Wilson, superintend- ent, St. Anthony Park, Minn. PLUCK SAVES LAND. Miss Elia Johnson’s Hard Trip to Federal Office Has Reward. Judge R, J. Montague of the United States land office at Crookston has handed down a decision dismissing the contest suit grought against Miss Ella Johnson of Vining, in Otter Tail county, and the young woman, now assistant postmistress at Vining, will retain both her position and her claim. On May 13 last Miss Ella Johnson made her way through seven miles of almost impassable muskegs about twenty miles east of Middle River, in eastern Marshall county, carrying with her more than eighty pounds of hand baggage. Allan Clark, the Unit- ed States commissioner at Fram post- office, where the final hearing on the ‘contest was held, swore that she ar- rived in time. She reached Fram in an exhausted condiiton. The papers in the contest were for- warded to the land office at Crookston and passed on by Judge R. J. Monta- gue with the above decision. SLAUGHTERING THE CROWS. Red Lake County Commissioners Try to Protect Eggs of Useful Birds. The board of county commissioners of Red Lake county offered a bounty for the killing of crows amounting to 10 cents per bird. This was to con- tinue for two and a half months and ‘the time being ended a determination ‘can be made as to the effect of the ‘bounty. The purpose of the board in desir- ling to encourage the killing of the crows was for the saving of the prai- rie chickens and other insect-eating birds’ eggs, on which the crows made sad inroads. The legs of the crows that were shot had to be presented to the county auditor to entitle the ‘hunter to his reward. Mr. O’Brien, the county auditor, has paid out $239.60, being bounty for the destruc struction of 2,396 crows MUST PLAY FAIR. Insurance agents who don’t play fair with their clients are liable to have their license to do business can- celed by the state insurance depart- ment. The present commissioner, John A. Hartigan, doesn’t propose to permit ‘any one having the sanction of the \State of Minnesota do any unlawful acts, He will have before him for a hearing the latter part of this month jan agent charged with taking a note from a man without giving return for it. He had the note discounted at the bank, but his rating with the insur- ance department is liable to fall sharp- ly if the facts are proved. HELP CHECK EPIDEMIC. State Board of Health to Aid Man- kato. * Every assistance possible will be rendered the city of Mankato by the state board of health in handling the incipient attack of typhoid fever which has struck the town. Several weeks ago during the extreme high water, a delegation from the state health de- partment wént to Mankato and found that one of the wells from which the city gets its water had hecome pol- luted by the heavy rains. Departed Glory. “I suppose.” said the visito~. who was being shown over the suburban resident's new house, “that is a coal bin?” “No,” was the gloomy reply; only a ‘has-been. Washington S Music has charms in the country where the houses are a mile apart.