Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 9, 1908, Page 2

W. ‘Rerald--Revi BY C. E, KILEY. MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME (mportant Events at Home and on Foreign Shores Briefly Told. Personal. Gen. John W. Clous, retired, died in St. Luke’s hospital in New York at the age of seventy-one. Both Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus and Secretary of Agri- culture Wilson will participate in the campaign. Rey. Francis Tiffany, preacher, au- thor and traveler, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was born in Maryland in 1827. Rear Admiral Henry Class, U. S. N., retired, died at a health resort at Paso Robles, Cal., of heart failure, follow- ing an operation performed a few days previously. Announcement is made that the rriage of Miss Gertrude Dietrich, nter of Former United States Senator Dietrich, and Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, whose engagement was recently made public, will occur Sept. 26 at Farm- on, Conn, \ bert A. Stevens, formerly of Cam- >, Mass., has been appointed pri- vate secretary to Secretary of Com- merce and Labor Straus. Mr. Ste- vens has been confidential clerk to the secretary, and succeeds Theodore E. Weed, who resigned as private sec- ry to become secretary to Chair- n Hitchcock of the Republican na- ticnal committee. chester Bedell, eighty-one years old, author of “Twenty-one Battles 7 nt With Relatives and Intoler- nee,” and a self-branded infidel, died at his estate in North Benton, Ohio. He erected on his 1,800-acre farm sev- eral years ago a monument to rebuke those “who use religion as a cloak to get their living without honest work.” H br Casualties. Mrs. Richard Rudermacher and her two children were drowned in Jamaica bay at New York. The Patterson Bros.’ yellow ware pottery at Wellsville, Ohio, valued at $50,000, was destroyed by fire. he plant of the Canadian Packing ipany at Pottersburg, Ont., was royed by fire. The loss is about ,000. Twenty buildings, twelve of them dwellings, were destroyed by fire in Shiremanstown, Pa. The loss is esti- ed at $40,000. % Caught under a fall of coal in the Sunshine mine at Centerville, Iowa, Anton and Adolf Debull, father and , were instantly killed. Fire at Cleveland destroyed lumber valued at $100,000 in the yards of the ginaw Bay Lumber company. The lames swept over two acres of lum- ber piles, Prof. F. A. Fitzgerald, for twelve years connected with the state normal school at Cedar Falls, Iowa, was in- stantly killed in an automobile acci- dent at Los Angeles. G. S. Demarest, a passenger on the New Hampshire of the New Bedford line, was hurt when the vessel col- lided with the Corsair, J. P. Morgan’s yacht, at New York. The great oil well fire which has at Dos Bocas, Mexico, for two s, has been extinguished. It is estimated that 3,000,000 barrels, val- ued at $3,000,000, was consumed by fir 50 Mrs, Emil Anderson and her two small children were drowned in Dela- van | , Wisconsin. The woman and her children were with three friends in a rowboat which was struck amid- ships by a steamer. Sins and Sinners. Mrs. Matthew Berna of Hampshire, Iil., poisoned her three children and then attempted to end her own life. he woman is thought to have been nsane, he Rey. Clyde W. Gowe of Hanni- Mo., was found guilty by the ec- tical court which tried him on s of immoral conduct growing of the death of Miss Elizabeth out Gleason of Elsberry. Becoming financially involved, two brothers, Ben. S. Wollaver, aged thir- ty-six, and Elmer, aged thirty-nine, committted suicide in the Sangamon river not far from their homes near Edinburg, Ill. Both men were horse traders. The partially decayed bodies of two men found near each other in a dense undergrowth, about two, miles from Scenery Hill, a small hamlet near Washington, Pa. three hats and a torn up section of ground giving eyi- dence of a fierce struggle, has set all o s of this district to work in ef- forts to secure the details of a tragedy that so far is enshrouded in mystery. Because she confessed that she had set fire to the Central hotel at Des Moines, N. M., in which thirty guests were sleeping, who barely escaped with their lives, Julia Moon, eighteen years old, was barely saved from lynching. To save her life the sheriff spirited her away to Clayton, Minor E. Jackson, a member of one of the most prominent families in Georgia, was arraigned at Albany, Ga., before United States Commissioner D. Cc. Benjamin, charged with conspiracy and peonage. Sensational develop-' ments are expected. Srey DE i OWN WIPED OUT. Chisholm, Minn., in Ruins and Thousands of Acres of Land Burned Over. MANY THOUSANDS HOMELESS Wind Subsides and Fires in Northerg Minnesota and Wisconsin Are Checked. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 8.—After de- stroying the town of Chisholm, on the Mesaba range, and burning over thou- sands of acres in St. Louis, Carlton and Itasca counties in Minnesota and the northern portion of Douglas coun- ty, Wisconsin, the many forest fires which have been raging in these dis- tricts were checked yesterday, and if the wind does not spring up again it is not likely that further damage will be great. The strong wind which had driven the flames before it in many timbered and agricultural districts subsided yesterday morning and the thousands of homeless people were given a chance to take a look at their belong- ings and prepare to replace the many burned farms and settlements and the once flourishing town of Chisholm. Buhl and Nashwauk Saved. The subsiding of the wind enabled the inhabitants of Buhl and Nashwauk to save those towns. Scveral build- ings at the edge of Nashwauk were burned, but by valiant all-night work the 1,000 miners and citizens prevent- ed the flames from sweeping over the village. The town was entirely sur- rounded by a wall of fire and its es- cape from obliteration was remarka- ble. There is little timber adjacent to Buhl, and although forest fires com- pletely surrounded the village, the 600 inhabitants had only to extinguish the incipient blazes started by falling brands to protect the village. Nash- wauk is twenty-five miles southwest of Chisholm and Buhl is seven miles distant to the east. Scene of Desolation. Chisholm presents a scene of ruin and desolation. Blackened and smok- ing piles of charred wood, little heaps of gray ashes, stirred by the fitful breeze, scorched, gaunt skeletons of brick and mortar, all canopied with a dense pall of smoke, comprise what was one of the most flourishing towns on the great Mesaba iron range. The only remaining buildings are the new $125,000 high school, the grade school, the Catholic church, the Italian church and a dozen dwellings in the southernmost part of the town, which were saved by a few heroic fire fighters, who stuck to their posts in the face of the cyclonic onslaught of flames and smoke. Loss About $2,000,000. The damage to property is estimated at $1,000,000 and the personal property at $750,000, including the stocks of the merchants. A Hibbing insurance man who had many policies on the property in the destroyed town estimated the insurance carried by Chisholm mer- chants at $500,000. Several insurance) men went to the Mesaba range yes- terday, and the insurance will be ad- qusted as rapidly as possible to pro- vide immediate funds for those who wish to rebuild. Hibbing, five miles west of Chis- holm, afforded accommodations to about 1,000 refugees from Chisholm Saturday night, and it was expected that 3,000 would be given places to sleep last night. Tents for Sufferers. The Duluth, Missable & Northern started a car of tents from Duluth for Hibbing yesterday afternoon on _ re- ceipt of a message from Mayor Wei- rick. W. A. McGonagle, vice presi- dent and general manager of the road, said he would rush tents and supplies if necessary to Hibbing as fast as needed. A thousand tents can be used, and by night a white city will have sprung up on the environs of Hibbing. Foodstuffs will not be need- ed, as the merchants have large sup- plies and an order from Duluth has been placed for what is desired. There are many destitute persons, especially among the mining class. Many men who were rated as well-to- do are without funds to buy a meal to-day. The relief committee appointed by Gov. Johnson is taking active steps for the relief of the suffering range peo- ple. Chisholm is under military rule. Company M of the Third regiment, from Hibbing, is guarding the ruins from looters. Conservative estimates of the loss caused by the forest fires in Northern Minnesota and in the northwestern portion of Wisconsin place the total at $3,750,000. Of this amount $1,750,000 is Chisholm’s loss. The remainder is on standing timber in the range dis- tricts. Steamer Goes to Pieces. Marquette, Mich. ,Sept. 8.—Caught in a gale on Lake Superior Saturday night, the steamer Hulburt was driven ashore near Whitefish Point early yes- terday, and has since gone to pieces. Her crew was rescued by lifesavers. Eight Hundred Die From Plague. Shanghai, Sept. 8. — More than 800 deaths from plague are reported dur- ing the last fortnight at Amoy. Chefoo has been ravaged this season by the scourge on most virulent smallpox record. : BY FOREST FIRES HACKS Flesh Discloses Awful Boston, Mass., Sept. 5. — The most brutal crime committed in Greater Boston since the death ‘of Susan Geory, a chorus girl, four years ago, and one much resembling it in its de- tails, was disclosed last night by the discovery of the torso of Mrs. Hano- rah Jordan, an actress, aged twenty- three years, of Somerville, in a trunk tn a boarding house at 7 Hancock street, on Beacon Hill, this city. Later the head and bones of the limbs were found in the furnace of the Jordan home at Somerville, and the scalp, hair and other grewsome remains were taken from the kitchen range of the house. é Husband Confesses. Chester Jordan, aged twenty-nine years, an actor, of Somerville, is held by the police, charged with the mur- der, and last night, according to the officers, he made a complete confes- sion of the crime. t According to Jordan’s confession his wife had taken to drinking lately and was associating with other men, and he became jealous. He acciden- tally killed her Tuesday night in a quarrel at their home and. becoming desperate over what he had done, he went out and bought a, butcher knife and hacksaw, cut up the body and placed the torso in a trunk. Hackman Is Suspicious. He then planned to take the setam- er Harvard Wednesday night for New York and throw the parts of the body overboard. The fact that the Har- vard was laid off, owing to an accident disarranged his plans, and he was obliged to hire a hackman to take the trunk to a Boston boarding house to await a more favorable opportunity. The discovery of the crime was due to the suspicions of the hackman, George W. Collins, who had in mind the numerous robberies which have taken place about Boston recently, and surmising from its weight that the trunk contained silverware noti- fied the police. ° Murderer Breaks Down. Sergeant Michael Crowley was de- tailed to go to the house and investi- gate. Jordan did not appear nervous or alarmed, but hesitated to open the trunk when ordered to do so, and it was, not until after considerable argu- ment that he produced the key to the trunk and inserted it in the lock. Turning his head, Jordan threw up the cover of the trunk and then sank back on his knees, burying his face in his hands and sobbing. - Sickening Mass of Flesh. Sergeant Crowley staggered back aghast at the disclosure, for in» the trunk before him lay a sickening mass of hacked flesh, a woman’s torso fill- ing the greater part of the trunk, while pieces of flesh from other parts of the body were stuffed into the cor- ners. Jordan submitted to arrest without protest and was led to the station and locked up. For more than four hours Jordan was closeted with the police officials and time after time went over the horrible details of the tragedy. DEATH CLAIMS F. P. SARGENT. Commissioner of Immigration and For- mer Chief of Firemen Is Dead. Washington, Sept. 6. — Frank Pierce Sargent, commissioner general of immigration, for over sixteen years grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and one of the most forceful characters in the field of labor, immigration and allied ques- tions in the country, died at his apart- ments at the Manor house in this city yesterday. He was fifty-four years of age. For many weeks a paralytic, the result of a fall while visiting in Shep- herdstown, W. Va., in July, he had shown much improvement until Wed- nesday evening last, when a sinking spell set in from which he never ral- lied. In accordance with his express- ed wish his body will be cremated, fol- lowing a brief funeral service at 3 o’clock next Sunday afternoon. The death of the former leader and friend of organized labor, of whom it was said that no raiiroad magnate ever refused to see him while he was at the head of the Brotherhood, was a surprise to the department of com- merce and labor officials, although they knew that he had been seriousiy ill, Secretary Straus was much af- fected and took immediate steps for appropriate observance of his former bureau chief's death. Assistant Com- missioner General F. H. Larned will continue as acting commissioner gen- eral temporarily. While Mr. Sargent had sustained three attacks of paralysis, he had suf- fered from Bright’s disease and stom- ach trouble and the former is given as the immediate cause of the death. BLOW UP FISH WITH DYNAMITE. Whole Town Turns Out to Guard Ac- cused Prisoners. Wallace, Idaho, Sept. 6. — Three men, armed heavily, yesterday brought into Wallace forty-six prison- ers, arrested by them several miles from town, on charges of dynamiting fish in the Coeur d’Aline river. The three men were headed by Game War- den Lou Wilson. Past whole town turned out to guard e prisoners, as they were en to ‘| the county jail, ae Trunk Containing Sickening Mass of 1G | BAMINER RAWHIDE, NEV., 1S, SWEPT BY FLAMES Three Thousand Homeless, a Score Hurt and Property Worth $750,000 in Ruins. CHECK FIRE WITH DYNAMITE Business Section Now Smoldering Mass of Debris—Two Lives Re- ported Lost. Rawhide, Nev., Sept. 6.—Three thou- sand people homeless, a score or more injured and a property loss of over $750,000 is the result of a disastrous fire which started yesterday morning in Gardner's offices, located in the Rawhide Drug company’s building. Fanned by a gale, the fire swept rap- idly south and east. Over a ton and a half of dynamite was used in demolishing buildings, which in a measure stayed the flames’ progress. The volunteer fire department and 500 miner volunteers worked heroically, but on account of the inflammable construction of the buildings they were swept away like tinder. Mass of Ruins. The business portion of Rawhide is now a smoldering mass of ruins. Among the first buildings to go was Collins’ hardware store, which con- tained two tons of dynamite that ex- ploded with a terrific report, hurling burning planks and boards a great distance, setting fire to mumerous buildings simultaneously. Many people were slightly injured by flying debris, but none are report- ed seriously hurt. A famine was feared, as all the sup- ply houses and grocery stores were wiped out. A subscription list was started and in a few minutes over $5,000 was rais- ed, and a relief train started from Reno at 4 o'clock carrying thousands of pounds of food and bedding. Plans for Rebuilding Started, All the mining towns of the state came quickly to the assistance of the Rawhide sufferers with cash contri- butions. Plans were well under way for a reconstruction of the town be- fore the ashes were thoroughly cool. The fire was brought under control after destroying the entire business section with the exception of one gro- cery store. Two commercial travelers are re- ported to have lost their lives in the burning of the Ross hotel, but this has not been confirmed. The town has been placed under martial law. AERONAUT FALLS 500 FEET. Twenty-five Thuosand Spectators at Fair See Awful Plunge. Waterville, Me., Sept. 4. — In full view of 25,000 horrified spectators as- sembled on the Central Maine fair grounds here late yesterday Charles Oliver Jones, the well known aero- naut of Hammondsport, N. Y., fell a distance of 500 feet to his death. Among the witnesses of the frightful plunge were Mrs. Jones and child, and they were almost the first to reach the side of the dying man. The aero- naut died an hour and a half after the accident. Jones had been at the fair grounds with his dirigible balloon “Boomer- ang,’ known as a_ Strobel airship, since Monday. Gas Bag Takes Fire. Yesterday he arranged to make a flight between 2 and 4 o'clock, but such a high wind prevailed that a de- lay was necessary. At 4:30 conditions had modified and he gave the word to have the machine released. When the aeronaut reached a height of more than 500 feet the spectators were amazed to see small tongues of flame issuing from under the gas bag in front of the motor. At this time the balloon had passed out of the fair grounds. Many persons in the great crowd endeavored to apprise Jones of his danger, but several minutes elapsed before he noticed the fire. , Falls to His Death. Then he grasped the rip cord and by letting out gas endeavored to reach the earth. The machine had descend- ed but a short distance when a sud- den burst of flame enveloped the gas bag, the frame work immediately sep- arating from the bag. Jones fell with the frame of his motor and when the spectators reached him he was lying under it. / The gas bag was completely destroyed. The physicians who were in the crowd found that Jones had no chance to survive, as he was injured internal- ly and his spine was broken. Boiler Bursts; One Dead. New Rockford, N. D., Sept. 6. Charles Ohnstall, an engineer employ- ed on a threshing rig belonging to W. B. Whitam of New Rockford, was in- stantly killed and five others were more or less seriously injured yester- day by the explosion of an engine boiler. ‘ Duluth Duck Hunter Killed. - Duluth, Sept. 6. — Yesterday while removing a gun from a wagon, Alfred King was accidentally shot and almost ' instantly killed. 18, Bank Which Was Closed by Official. better condition to-day than it been for six months. the meeting. Bankers Are Riled. Intense indignation exists among James M. Cover entered the Mount Washington Savings and Trust com- pany on Saturday and closed that bank, opening it again after he had had a conference with State Banking Commissioner Berkeley at Harrisburg. For months past the bankers of Pittsburg have been in a bad frame of mind and believe that several of the exposures here could have been avoid- ed had it not been for the officiousness of the government officials. The mat- ter reached a climax with the arrest of a former clerk in the First National bank several months ago for a theft that was years old and which had long since been made good. Denies He Was Drunk. Practically the only statement that was issued yesterday by persons rep- resenting the government was that of John B. Cunningham, the bank exam- iner, who is so seriously accused. The burden of his remarks is that he was not drunk. Visited at his home at Rosslyn, where he was taken yester- day afternoon by friends, Mr. Cunning- ham sent word down that he could not be seen. ARCHDUKE TURNED DOWN. Leopold Refused Citizenship Because He Is an Unscrupulous Spendthrift. Paris, Sept. 8—A special dispatch from Berne says that it is learned that the federal authorities advised against the recent granting of a naturalization to Herr Woelfing, who was formerly Archduke Leopold of Austria, by the canton of Zug. State Counselor Com- tesse-has notified the cantonial au- thorities that investigation has shown the former archduke to be “an unscru- pulous spendthrift, who instigated the flight of his sister, the Princess of Saxony.” $500,000 BLAZE IN CHICAGO. Block of Buildings at Union Stock Yards Is Wiped Out. Chicago, Sept. 8.—The wool house and the fertilizer plant of Armour & Co., in the Union stock yards, were de- stroyed by fire last night. The build- ings were seven-story brick structures, covering an entire block. The fire was the fiercest experi- enced in the stock yards district in seven years. The damage was esti- mated at $500,000. PORTO RICO IS SHAKEN. Earthquake Causes Alarm Among Residents. San Juan, Porto Rico, Sept. 8.—An earthquake shock was felt yesterday afternoon. The people of the city were very much alarmed, and many of them rushed from their houses into the street. There was no repetition of the quake and calm was soon restored. No material damage was done here. Makes Record Flight. Paris, Sept. 8. — Leon Delagrange, president of the Aviation club of France, established a new world’s rec- ord with his aeroplane at Issy yester- day, both for length and duration of flight. M. Delagrange remained in the air for 29 minutes 54 4-5 seconds and circled the field fifteen and one-half times, covering a distance of 24,727 meters, or about fifteen miles and a quarter. Sargent’s Body Cremated. Washington, Sept. 8.—Following a brief service here yesterday afternoon, the body of Frank P. Sargent, late commissioner general of the bureau of immigration, who died Friday, was cremated. The ashes were placed in a silver casket and will be sent to Philadelphia to-day, where the funeral services will be held. Duck Hunter Shoots’ Self. Williston, N. D., Sept. 8. — Evelyn Holliss, who has been working on the. Isaacson ranch, fifty miles north of Williston, accidentally shot himself while hunting ducks. Explosion Ruins Autos. Boston, Sept. 8.—A gasoline explo- sion in the basement of the Taylor- Palmer garage, a three-story structure in the back bay, early yesterday, prac- tically ruined nearly eighty autemo- piles and wrecked the interior of the building, causing a loss estimated at $200,000. Are Fighting Forest Fires. Two Harbors, Minn., Sept. 8. — A company of fire fighters from here are assisting in quenching the forest fires near York, north of here. Charge Made by Directors of Pittsburg Pittsburg, Sept. 8.—Directors of the Cosmopolitan bank, which was closed Saturday morning by order of the con- troller of the currency at the instiga- tion of Bank Examiner John B. Cun- ningham, while, it is alleged, the lat- ter was under the influence of liquor, will hold a meeting on Tuesday, at whch time an appeal will be made to the controller of the currency for per- mission to reopen the bank, on the ground that there was. no cause for its being closed and that the bank oe as Yesterday E. A. Kitzmiller, vice |’ president of the bank, who among oth- ers charges Cunningham with being intoxicated, notified the directors of bankers of the city over the closing of the Cosmopolitan, as well as at what is described as the high-handed man- ner in which State Bank Examiner pan CONSENT MRS, RUSTIN TELLS STORY OF TRAGEDY Seated in Room With Body of. Dead Husband, She Gives Her Version of Affair. IS ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE Husband Sifted to the Bottom; Home Life Ideal. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 6. — Seated in the room with the coffin containing the body of her dead husband, shot sc mysteriously while sitting on his front porch early Tuesday morning. Mrs. Frederick T. Rustin yesterday gave her first interview on the matter of her husband’s death. Mrs. Rustin is bordering on collapse and her nervous system is on the point of breaking. Her face shows the signs of the suffer- ing and strain which she has passed through since the murder was com- mitted. “This is what happened on that night, so far as I have any knowl- edge,” she said. “I was awakened by a pistol shot. I went down stairs and opening the door sightly saw my hus- band, Dr. Rustin, sitting in a chair and looking as though he was in trou- ble. “A Man Has Shot Me.” “‘Oh, what is the matter, Fred? What has happened to you?’ I exclaim. ed. “*A man has shot me,’ he mumbled and fainted. “My first thought was to get him to bed. I grabbed him in my arms and started him towards the door. He is a large man and it was all I could do to carry him along. “But I managed to get him just within the doorway and then my strength failed and I was compelled to lay him on the fioor. I screamed to my maid for assistance. “The men reached me, finding Dr. Rustin lying on the floor, just within the door. That accounts for the re- ports that have gone out that the doc- tor was within the house when the fatal shot was fired. “Then we telephone for physicians and for Dr. Rustin’s mother. Dr. Rus- tin was taken to the hospital and died an hour later. That is all.” “Why were the police not notified earlier?” was asked. “I did not know of such matters. My one thought was for my husband; I never thought of reporting the mat- ter to the authorities for some time.” Married Life Happy. “It has been said that Dr. Rustin and yourself did not live happily to- gether; that there was trouble be- tween you. What is the truth of that report?” “There is not one iota of truth in that report. We have been married more than ten years, and during that time I never received a cross word from my husband. “I want this terrible affair sifted to the bottom and I want the guilty party brought to justice. The officers will have every assisance from me in their efforts to solve the mystery of my husband’s death.” eas AEE AES NEW LIGHT ON JORDAN CASE. Woman First Struck’ on Head and Then Strangled to Death. Boston, Sept. 6—Evidence throwing new light on the probable manner in which Hanorah Jordan of Somerville, known on the stage as Irene Shannon, was killed, was revealed yesterday by the medical examiners who have been performing an autopsy on the dismem- bered body of the wife of Chester S$. Jordan. Jordan, in his confession, said that his wife was killed by being knocked down stairs and that he then cut up the body and placed it in the trunk in which it was found by the police. It was learned that the examination indicated that Mrs. Jordan met her death by being struck on the head with a blunt instrument, possibly a flatiron, causing a fracture sufficient to cause death. Then, it is claimed. she was strangled. : FIRE THREATENS DEADWOOD. Scores of Firefighters Pressed Service. Deadwood, S. D., Sept, 6.—Within half a mile of this city a forest fire that has all day threatened property. damage to the city has been raging and has just broken out afresh. Scores of men have been fighting the flames all day to keep them from sweeping down the gulch into town, but the fire is spreading, as the coun- try is dry. Forest fires have been re- ported near here within the past few days. Most of them were started by carelessness, Into Bound Over for Assault. Fort Dodge, Iowa, ept. 4. — wil- liam Saunders, who slashed Andrew Lundeen with a knife Monday night, waived preliminary hearing and was, bound over to the grand jury with a bond of $1,000. Lundeen’s conditions is still precarious. - — Boys Raid Factory. Chippewa Falls, Wis. Sept. 4. — With the assistance of a young boy who crept through a 10x12-inch win- dow, a gang Of boys raided the Kleis ‘soft drinks factory last night, Wants Mystery of Shooting of Her- “ey