Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 16, 1908, Page 2

Review. ‘Rerald-- BY C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME important Events at Home and 00 Foreign Shores Briefly Told. At the Capital. President Roosevelt’s vacation, ac- cording to present plans, will come to an end Sept. 22, when the chief exec- utive and his family will return to the White House in Washington. The navy department has been obliged to decline with regret an in- yitation extended by the Netherlands government to have the battleship fleet make a visit to Landjong Prick, Jaya, on the way to Manila. It is understood that the Vatican ‘has practically decided upon the appoint- ment of Mgr. ‘Aversa, the present apostolic delegate to Cuba, to the office of apostolic delegate to Washington, to replace Mgr. Falconio, who is to have some other post. Personal. David D. Stubbs, general manage: of the Occidental & Oriental Steam- ship company, is dead at his home in San Francisco. Dr. Cabell Whitehead, general man- ager of the Seward Peninsula railroad in Alaska, is dead in Nome, as the re- sult of an accident on the road. Wellesely Moore, who had been at the British consulate at San Francis- co in various capacities since 1877, has been made consul at that port. Mrs. Sallie Rutherford died at To- , Kan., at the age of 113 years. was born in Middleton,’ Ky., in and had never experienced a week's sickness in her life. Capt. John K. Moore, Fifteenth in- fantry, died at Fort Leavenworth after a brief illness of typhoid fever. Capt. Moore was one of the best known offi- cers in the service, having distin- guished himself in the Cuban, Philip- pine and China wars. pel s Casualties. Fire d oyed property in the vil- lage of St. Paul, twenty miles from Montreal, valued at $130,000. While bathing in the Mississippi river at Dubuque, John Sehwendinger, ged forty years, and Lewis Traunt, ed nineteen, were drowned. Five men lost their lives and a score of persons were injured, several of them seriously, in a fire that gutted the Belmont hotel at Denver. 4 large portion of the business sec- tion of Altoona, a town in Southern Manitoba near the boundary, was de- stroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. Three men were killed, one was fatally injured and five others were seriously hurt by the explosion at | Agawam, Mass., of twenty pounds of | dynamite. Caught in a gale on Lake Superior, the steamer Hulburt was’ driven ashore near Whitefish Point, and has since gone to pieces. Her crew was rescued by lifesavers. Fire partially destroyed the Arling- ton hotel at Iowa City, Iowa, forcing the guests and the landlord to escape in their night clothes. The loss was $2,000; the insurance $1,000. Four persons, believed to have been members of a group of employes work- ing overtime, were burned to death at New York in a fire, supposedly in- cendiary, which destroyed a seven- story factory building. Benard Fishbeck, foreman of- the erecting department of the Olds Auto- mobile works at Lansing, Mich., is dead, and George Hunt is seriously in- jured as the result of a six-cylinder machine running off the testing track and turning over on top of the two men who were driving it. An interurban car on _ the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern rail- way near Boone, Iowa, struck an auto- mobile containing S. A. Boone, general chairman of the joint protective com- mittee of the Brotherhood of Locomo- live Firemen, and his father-in-law, James McIntosh. Both men were severely injured. McIntosh probably cannot recover, Crimes. Two women, one grieving over the death of her favorite son, the other despondent because of illness, leaped to death from windows in their homes in New York. William, the fourteen-year-old son of Leander Sheetz, a hotelkeeper of Lancaster, Pa., committed suicide at his home because his parents compel- led him to go to school. Cc. W. Trickett, assistant attorney general of Kansas and leader of a re- cent reform campaign to prevent the illegal selling of liquor in Kansas, wa& fined $500 in Kansas City for accept- ing an illegal fee in a joint case. he commissioners of insanity have adjudged Henry J. Brock of Iowa City, Iowa, insane, and Sheriff Howland has taken him to the asylum in Independ- ence. Brock is the trusted custodian of the lowa State bank and postoffice who recently confessed to robbing several business houses, ; The North-Western road’s ticket office at Ames, Iowa, was robbed by two masked men, who secured $50 in change, but failed to get $300 in the safe. North-Western detectives are working on the case. Local men are suspected, 3 Beye ere AKL PRESENT Damp Wind Turns Forest Fires Away From Imperilled Set- tlements on Lake. RANGE FIRES BURN SELF OUT Countryside Several Hundred Miles in Extent Desolated—Big Loss is Wisconsin. Duluth, Sept. 14. — A damp wind from Lake Superior has turned the forest fires on the north shore away from the towns of Grand Marais, Chi; cago Bay, Lutzen and .Tofte and the smaller settlements, and they are safe for the present, although still in great danger should the wind shift to the land. Although no deaths have been re- ported, it is probable that when the fires subside heart-rending tragedies will be revealed. The conflagration is sweeping with tremendous fury over a country dotted with small border ham- Jets, and many ciearings whereon rea- side individual families. Washburn, Wis., Sept. 15. | hardly possible at this time to esti- mate accurately the damage done dur- ing the last week and a half by the forest fires which have been ragiag Harouee the northern section of :he state\,but the amount will probably run up into the millions of dollars. a that the village of Norrie, in t ; trai part ofthe county, is in dan- from forest fires. A crew of me» has been working there like Trojans all day to save the village. A large ditch has been'thrown up around the village. A rain yesterday has, how- lessened the danger, though the ! fires are not extinguished. Railroad The area covered is large and there is hardly a district in the extreme northern part of the state that has | not been visited by the fires. In some parts there has been great danger at times of the fires wiping out entire settlements, and the only thing that was needed to accomplish this wis MAIN ‘STREET, CHISHOLM. LOOKING WEST | men say that the woods are all afire | between this city and Eland Junction. ; The country is sparsely settled, so there will be little damage except to standing timber. The loss in the county will be the heaviest in years, | not excepting the fires of ‘92 and ‘93, | and the total in this county alone is May Rank as Catastrophe. It is hardly possible that all of them have escaped, and in point of fatality the holocaust may yet rank as a tastrophe. The fire covers a d of a hundred miles long and several miles wide. ~ A crew of 150 men left home yester- day morning by steamer for Grand Marais to fight the flames. They will hope to be able to render the settle- ments in that vicinity secure. are in charge of Adjt. Gen, Wood. On the Mesaba range, north of Du- luth, the conflagration has practically burned itself out after having done damage estimated at $4,000,000, in- cluding the destruction of Chisholm. the ruin of hundreds of farmers’ houses and the desolation of a coun- tryside several hundred miles in ex- tent! There is no fear of any great future damage in that section. Big Towns Out of Danger. Saturday the center of the fire was on thé western range, in the neigh- borhood of Grand Rapids and Cohzs- sat, but yesterday it had subsided te small proportions. Virginia, Eveleth, Hibbing and Coleraine, towns ranging in population from 4,000 to 12,000 per- ;sons, which were threatened up to yesterday are out of danger. At Hib- bing a new danger has arisen, how- ever, Montenegrin miners tempted on two occasions to ire the city, and the military have been or- dered to guard the streets and shoot any person caught atiempting to start a fire. The new threat has terrorized the town. Rain Is Promised. The fires in Wisconsin, south of Duluth, are out, but the woods are smoldering, and a high wind might cause flames to break out afresh. The training ship Gopher is expected from the north shore this evening with re?- ugees. ‘ United, States weather bureau re- ports from Washington promise rain for the northern and central portion of the United States before the close of the present week. This brings a ray of hope to the inhabitants of the north country who have been fighting the terrible fire demon so continu- ously for the past two weeks. | 7 THREE LOST IN FOREST FIRE. Father and Two Sons Perish While Fighting for Their Home. Calumet, Mich., Sept. 12, — After sending his wife and two smali chil- dren to safety at a neighbor’s half a mile away, Jacob Herneeniemi, with his two older sons, respectively twelve ‘gna fourteen years old, met death ‘Tuesday while trying to fight off the forest fires that swept their home- stead near Otter River clear of every pbuilding and all the harvested crops. i | - | their trict ; be at work to-day and by back-firing | They | have al- | high winds: Many of the logging con- cerns have suffered fireatly in the loss of timber, while others have lost entire summer's cut of poles, ties and pilings. Village in Danger. . 15. — Reports i | RUINS OF MINNESOTA TOWN AFTER BEING SWEPT BY FOREST FIRES. } put at $500,000. The total, in Northern Wisconsin is estimated at from $2,000, 000 to. $5,000,000. ' ee wer | H. B. Johnson company’s tannery at | Toronto, Ont., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $200,000. SENTRIES AT RUINS OF MATTUSON’S STORE NEWSY NIMROD NABBED. Charles Granger, a Barnesville man, paid a fine of $10 in the justice court at Rothsay yesterday for running his dogs in the fields before the opening of the thicken season. He reported ‘chickens plentiful, and the report’ reached Deputy Game Warden Jones him with the offense. RAINY RIVER FAIR CLOSES. Fergus Fails, Minn., Sept. 13. — | First Meeting at Baudette is a Big Success. Baudette, Minn., Sept. 12.—Yester- day terminated the Northern Beltrami county's first annyal fair at Bau- dette. This was first exhibit of the products of the Rainy river yal- ley, Some of the exhibits, especially of grains, grasses and vegetables, of this city, who investigated the case | would compare favorably with those; of Edward Lindwall at and swore out a warrant charging | at the state fair from other portions of the state. ~ Twelve Thousand Maniacs Set Adrift by Closing of Asylums Tramp Portugal. GUILTY OF MANY MURDERS Organized Parties Scour the Country and Every Suspected Lunatic Is Shot. Lisbon, via Badajos, Seut. 13—With 12,000 lunatics, many -of them of mark- ed homicidal tendencies, wandering through the rural sections of Portugal, and with no protection against their depredations, bands of citizens are now engaged in one of the most brutal and revolting crusades ever known in a civilized country — the shooting down of the lunatics like wolves. Orders have been sent out from Lisbon to stop the slaughter immedi- ately, but the situation is so desperate that local authorities are disregarding their instructions and the butchery continues, Lunatics Turned Loose. The matter also has been aired in the cortes, but without resulting in even the suggestion of remedial steps. There are 14,000 maniacs in Portu- gal, a larger proportion than is found in any other country, yet there are no asylums for their care except those supported by voluntary contributions. Owing to the frightful financial strin- gency, several of these asylums have been closed recently and their in- mates turned loose upon the public. These wandering and starving ma- niacs have been guilty of a number of murders, and the situation finally be- came so desperate that bands of vigi- lantes got to work. Organized parties are scouring the country dis sS and every suspected lunatic found is shot down. Several eases are reported of perfectly sane men and women thus slain by mis- take. The hunt is so general, means of communication so poor and the cen- sorship so strict, that an accurate es- | timate of the number of victims is im- possible, FRAUDS IN THE FISH TRUST. Biggest Fish House in the Worla Fails. Chicago, Sept. 13.—Startlin gdevel- opments following the failure of the biggest fish house in the world, the firm of A. Booth & Co., indicate that the simple receivership proceedings may uncovered some gigantic frauds. Ghicago bankers were charry yester- day in discussing this new and sensa- tional phase of the matter. ‘All that they would say for publication was that the authorized statemmits of the company, used a a_ basis in asking loans, were a tissue of falsehood. But this disclosure is qualified, the unique explanation being made that the heads of the great fish business did not themselves know that the balance sheet of the fish trust was packed with misleading items. W. Vernon Booth, the president of A. Booth & Co.; Alfred E. Booth, his brother, who acted as president when W. Vernon Booth was absent, and Mrs. Gaylor, a married sister, held 60 per cent of the preferred stock of A. Booth & Co. and 50 per cent of the common. They were the first per- sons misled by the fictitious state- ment of the company finances, and ac- tually invested an additional $800,000 in the preferred stock of the concern last October, when the shadow of im- pending failure was over the old fish house. ‘Several days ago auditors who had been put on the books of A. Booth & Co. at the demand of Eastern eredit- ors discovered many alleged instances of fraud between the published state- ments of the company and the exist- ing facts. Each branch has been in the hands of a manager. These men have been paid a percentage on their gross sales. Certain of them are charged by the accountants with padding their sales to increase this percentage. Much has been made of the disap- pearance of a certain million dollars loaned to the A. Booth company by the banks. This is an inaccuracy. The million dollars referred to is the $800,000 paid in by the Booths them- selves, and $212,000 additional taken out of the business. Minor stockholders of A. Booth & Co. are now organizing to get at the truth about this million dollars. The money was subscribed by the Booths, with an understanding that certain pressing indebtedness was to be piad. But the million dollars, it is said, was diverted to other purposes. Just what those purposes were is what the banks are most anxious to find out. Powers Defer Conference. London, Sept. 13——The conference to be held in this city between repre- sentatives of the powers of Europe for the discussion of laws governing maritime warfare has been postponed from Oct. 1 to Dec. 1. Strong Box Unguarded. Iron Mountain, Mich., Sept. 13—The door of the strong box left unlocked, cash to the amount of $400 disappear- ed from the safe in the grocery store Stambaugh. There is no clue. i Eucharist Procession Held Amid Sceney Such as Clergy Had Not Anticipated. London, Sept. 15.—A great proces sion of Catholic clergy, which broughy the eucharistic congress to an end was held yesterday afternoon amid scenes such as the English churchmen who planned it had never anticipate? Cardinal Vannutelli, the pope’s legate, walked at the head of the procession, wearing hig scarlet robes and hat, but not carrying the host. He was 4c: companied by & bodyguard of English peers, of whom the duke of Norfolk was the most prominent, and a con- course of cardinals, archbishops and bishops, who also were attired in un- ceremonial robes “instead of vest: ments, which originally it had been proposed they should wear. Vast Crowd Throngs Route. No such throngs of people have been seen in London since Queen Vic- toria’s funeral, if even then. The The route of the procession was laid through the quiet. streets adjacent tc the cathedral, and but for the unex pected partisan strife which a discus sion of this ceremony brought on it probably would have been ‘solemnized quietly and in reverent atmosphere The great majority of those who at tempted to witness the spectacle, how ever, apparently were attracted by cu riosity, and a small part were openly and demonstratively hostile. The Catholic element cheered heartily while the procession passed by, and throughout the route. but there was heard also considerable “booing,” such as the English people use in theaters to express displeasure at any of the players. ae Clergy Are Jostled. The people began flocking towarc the cathedral hours before the proces- sion started. They came from all di- rections and ex¢ursion trains brought many from the provinces. Long be- fore the hour set for the ceremony it was impossible to get near the line of march. Windows overlooking the procession, which were rented at high prices, were filled, and thousands «f persons gathered on the roofs of the houses, from which there was a con- sideral display of the papal colors. The police had not expected such crowds, and met with much opposi- tion in their attempts to keep the path clear, which they hardly succeeded in doing, so that the papal legate and his followers had to push their way through a narrow lane, being fre- guently jostled about. Crush Was Frightful. The crush here was frightful for half an hour, and the police had to use heroic measures. Many women and not a few men fainted, and those who were found willfully pushing and jostling were carried away in police wagons, only to be released when placed where they could cause no fur- ther trouble. After the procession had re-entered the cathedral Cardinal Vannutelli ap- peared on the high balcony in gor- geous robes and elevated the host, while the thousands of Catholics out- side the building reverently knelt. The last day of the congress opened with pontifical mass in the cathedral. The great edifice was crowded, th audience following with rapt attention the sermon of Cardinal Gibbons, who preached eloquently. ATTEMPT TO KILL GOV. FORT. Machine Addressed to Gov. of New Jersey intercepted. Sea Girt, N. J., Sept. 15. — An at- tempt to assassinate Goy. Fort of New Jersey has been thwarted by the care- fulness of the postoffice employes, who discovered in the;mails an infer- Infernal nal machine addressed to the goy- ernor. The package was a cleverly con- trived combination of powder, bullets and matches, which had been so ar ranged that had the governor opened it in the ordinary way there is littie doubt it would have killed him. The attitude taken by the governor when he directed that the excise and other similar laws at the great sea- side resort be strictly enforced, and even threatened to order out ihe mili- tia if necessary to that end, aroused great resentment in some quarters. It was to guard the governor as much as possible from any annoyance aris- ing from the affair that an unusual watch was put on his mail. Grim Humor. Several days ago an_ inspector wrote Gov. Fort informing him that a package of suspicious appearance ad- dressed to him was being held at the office. The inspector asked for ani received permission to open the pack- age, the result being that the infernal machine was exposed. That the sender of the machine hai a grim sense of humor became appar- ent from an examination of the con- tents of the package. On a bit of pa- per he had written a message to the governor which read: ‘Please notify us promptly of any change in your postoffice address.” Another read: “You will know me better after we are acquainted.” Negro Lynched by Mob. Brookshire, Tex., Sept. 15. — Dave Newton, a negro, charged with being implicated in the murder of John Buchtrin, a white man who was shot and killed at his home near here yes- terday, was taken from jail last night »‘y a mob and hanged. Kills Negro With Shovel. Des Moines, Sept. 15.—In a quarrel over the ownership of a dinner bucket Frank Carson, white, struck Alec Wrant, a négro, over the head with a shovel and killed him.