Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 30, 1908, Page 2

Berald--Review. BY C. E, KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED Digest of the News Worth Telling Con: densed for the Busy Reader. Personal. Dr. J. M. Marroquin, former presi- dent of Colombia, is dead. Bishop Carmichael of the Church of England, diocese of Montreal, is dead. Prof. Charley Wesley Rishell, as- sistant dean of the Boston University hoel of Theology, died of heart dis- e at Salisbury, Mass. Dr. Frank Huntington Snow, former chancellor of the University of Kan- and an entomologist of worli- wide reputation, died at Bellfield, Wis., aged sixty-eight years. James M. Barnett, president of the Old National bank and director ‘n many of the leading enterprises of Grand Rapids, Mich. is dead, aged seventy-six years. Death was the re- sult of paralysis. Robert J. Wallace, a well, known iness man of Milwaukee and for st three years president of the lesale Saddlery Association of the ited States, died in Milwaukee Bright’s disease. facturer and in former days one cf the most prominent men on the Pa- cific coast in the lumber business, at his home in Portland, Or. Mr. i was seventy-one years of age. The cause of his death was paralysis. Accidental Happenings. A $50,000 fire loss occurred at Wa- ver Iowa, when the city water and electric lighting plant was completely burned, leaving the city in darkness. Mrs. Stephen B. Lee was killed and Mr. Lee was fatally injured in a col- lision between their automobile and a Lackawanna freight train at Buffalo, cs He A five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O, Butler of Charlotte, Mich., tied a cord around her younger sis- neck in play and the little one s strangled to death. With the sight of one eye almost stroyed and her face badly scratch- and covered with blood, the little ee-year-old daughter of Mr, and nee Palmer of Charles City, s picked up exhausted after vercome in a contest with a ter. he result of attempting to hurry kitchen fire with kerosene oil William Landon of Meadville, Mrs. Pa., is dead, and her sister, Mrs, Wil- nineteen- Meadville The Britton and her th-old son are in the hospital, terribly burned. child will likely die. liam me ecidentally gave patients < r containing poison, and me of the patients is dead and riously ill as a result, was t made to District Attor- y a nurse at the county an Diego, Cal. The five are unconscious, and it ared they will die. nee Shaffer, a young farmer, tantly killed near Eagle ( " He was running a t ing machine engine over a . When the bridge gave way. the engine rods pierced his e was terribly scalded. twenty-one years of age student of Ames college. men were burned, three se- hen the gasoline tank of an tomobile exploded during a spectac- f a South side garage at Members of the fire insur- ‘ol isted by firemen, were 2 tank out of the path when an ember ignited emen were knocked to the and spattered with the burning Chicago. Sins and Sinners. James, the negro convicted of Clergy <A. Ballard at lll, was sentenced by ghton to hang on Oct. 23. ter Ledbetter, a negro tramp, ted by Sheriff Bowden at the t of Marietta, Fla., and con- fessed to killing Mrs. Norman and her ghter. Joseph Johns, at Conomaugh, Pa., shot and killed his wife and her aunt, Mrs. Cobaugh, who resided with them. Johns was arrested. He had been out of work for some time, and it is sup- posed he had become deranged. While trying to eject tramps from a train, Ray Lewis, an Iowa Central brakeman living at Oskaloosa, was himself thrown from the top of a box car as the train was pulling out of Grinnell. He was found an hour later, almost dead from loss of blood. One arm had been taken off and one ear was gone. Officers are working on the case, but there is no clue. e Smimiteh, an Austrian laborer ail at Clinton, Iowa, is charged with the murder of Joseph Provovic, a fellow laborer, who died from the effects of knife wounds received in a fight in which Steve Povine also was badly hurt and may die. Her mind temporarily unbalanced, Mrs. Emil Kangas, wife of a saloon- keeper at Houghton, Mich., hacked her throat with a penknife in an at- tempt at self-destruction. The quick return of her husband prevented her from carrying out her purpose. She is expected to survive. " Foreign. The lid at Maramarth will make a change in the situation there. Eight policemen at Metipola, Rus- sia, were yesterday sentenced to six years’ penal servitude for beating a prisoner to death. Partisans of President Castro have, in recent speeches, initiated a move- ment to proclaim him president of Venezuela for life. Burglars shot and killed M. Sagar, a merchant, when surprised cracking a safe in Lambert & Harle’s hardware store at Elkhorn, Manitoba. The native leader, Simon Copper, again is on the war path in German Southeast Africa and the white inhab- itants of the Eastern division of the protectorate are in danger. Provincial authorities have offered $500 reward for the arrest of the bur- glars who shot and killed M. Sagar while they were robbing the store of Lambert & Earle at Elkhorn. Zbysco, the Galician wrestler, has received through his London manager an offer from Harry Pollock, repre- senting a New York syndicate, to wrestle two matches in New York next month. F. P. Brady, general superintendent of the Canadian Pacific, Lake Super- ior division at Winnipeg, has resigned owing to ill health. On his division have occurred heavy tie-ups during the last few weeks. Twenty-two bulls escaped from the arena at Moita, Spain, yesterday and ran amuck through a crowd that was assembling to witness a bull fight. Five persons were killed and some twenty were injured. Troops shot the animals to death. Crimes. August Eberhart, on trial for the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Ottillie Eber- hart, at Hackensack, N. J., changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to thirty years in the state prison. At Toulon, France, the police raid- ed an opium den kept by a handsome young woman named Mile. “Pigeon.” The house was fitted up elaborately in Oriental style, with rich carpets, divans and silken cushions. The safe in the office of Barish Bros., coal dealers at Sioux City, was cracked by safeblowers, who got away with the contents, amounting to $100. The firm only the day before removed $1,500 to a depository. The door was blown off by the usé of nitroglycerin. Crazed through nervous diseases, Mrs. Anna Roth, thirty-eight years old, leaped to death from the upper window of the office of Dr. George Parker, at Peoria, IL, while awaiting treatment from the physician. The woman tore herself from her mother, who tried to restrain her. She met instant death. In the midst of a gay party of young people at Princeton, Mo, Edward Ash, son of a well-to-do farmer, shot and mortally wounded Tom Gardner, one of his associates. He then made his escape, and next day his badly mangled body was found on the rail- road tracks. It is presumed that he committed suicide. By going down an outside stairway and opening a window to a basement of Foster’s drug store from a rear way, burglars entered the building, at Miles City, Mont., and from the jew- elry department, owned by F. A. Stein, stole about $400 worth of goods in chains, lockets, bracelets, meer- schaums, etc. No clue to the thieves has been found, Otherwise. The Georgia state senate has pass- ed the bill abolishing the convict lease system. Percy Williams, manager of the Al- hambra and Colonial theaters in New York, has offered Count Boni de Cas- telline $5,000 a week for ten weeks in vaudeville. The Royal Canadian Yacht club of Toronto decided to challenge for the Canada cup, now hed by the Rochester N. Y., Yacht club, the race to take place In 1909. While Mrs. J. H. Williams was sit- ting in a Santa Fe train near Gaines- ville, Tex., $500 in bills was whisked from her lap by wind and blown out across the prairie. Leo Rogers, a boy ten years old, at- tempted to pet one of the leopards of the Ottos’ animal show at Elkader, Iowa, when the animal seized his arm with its claws, lacerating it terribly. Gov. Magoon has sent a cablegram to the administration at Washington, requesting that the quarantine against Cuba on account of the presence of yellow fever there, be removed. There avc no cases of yellow fever in Cuba at the present time and no suspected cases. The Prohibition camel has been en- tered in the national race against the Republican elephant and the Demo- cratic donkey. In a number of states the law requires that each party have an Official emblem printed on the bal- lot, so that no voter may mistake his ticket. The Prohibitionists have adopted ‘the camel as their mascot. Corporation Court Judge Tom Lea of El Paso, Tex., was reprimanded by a policeman for fast driving and he went at once to his office, docketed himself for the charge, fined himself $3 and gave the city clerk a check for it. Boris Loutskoy, a Russian motor expert who lives in Berlin, has made arrangements with Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplanist, to construct a seventy-five horse-power motor for use on the Wright aeroplane. This motor, it is said, will double the speed of the Wright machine, FIRES QUENCHED BY HEAVY RAINS Downpour in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan Sufficient to Allay Fears. DANGER IS OVER THIS FALL Rhinelonder, Wis., Sept 29. — A heavy rain began to fall here at 4 o'clock Saturday, and it has served to put an effective damper on the fires in the immediate vicinity of Rhine- lander. With dust two inches deep in the roadways and a gale blowing forty miles an hour, the first rumble of thunder was heard. Lightning accom- panied the reverberations and hope and ‘joy followed distress due to ap- prehension of a dire calamity, for the heavy wind had fanned the forest fires to a raging mass of flames, and more fear was expressed Saturday than at any time since the first blaze was noticed. An urgent call had just been re- ceived from Eagle River for help when the first rain of consequence in two months fell. The fall lasted for nearly two hours, and while a down- pour of two days would be appreci- ated, the deluge has been sufficient to allay fears, and the small army of fire fighters in the woods ‘have been called in. The Milwaukee engine and hose was being prepared for shipment to Eagle River in response to the call from that city when news was tele- phoned that rain was falling there. Couderay Breathes Easier. Couderay, Wis., Sept. 29——The dry weather of the past two months has at last been broken. It has rained hard all day. through this section, and all forest fires are out, with no more danger from that source this fall. Forest fires Saturday afternoon de- stroyed the Dells Lumber company’s office and warehouses at Gillett’s spur, and fire threatened the town of Winter last night. The whole popula- tion was ready to flee. Conservative men place the damage to timber near here at $1,000,000. General Rain in Copperdom. Calumet, Mich., Sept., 29.—General rains over Northern Michigan have stopped forest fires entirely over the whole peninsula. Fires along the Ca- nadian shore of Lake Superior, where several villages have been destroyed, with reported loss of life, were quenched by rains last night. The rains falling in the copper country Saturday afternoon were the first for the past three months. Village Wiped Out. Thompsonville, Mich., Sept. 29. — Forest fires yesterday destroyed the village of Homestead, eight miles north of this place, containing the charcoal kilns and the lumber yards of Alexander Zimmerman & Co., of this place. The loss will exceed $60,- 000 and twenty families were render- ed homeless. Bach Is Destroyed. Vassar, Mich., Sept. 29. —Bach, a small station on the Michigan Central north of here, was wiped out by fire last night. The railway station, saw- mills and lumber yards burned first and then the fire spread to the resi- dences in the village. At last reports the fire was still raging. MORTSAGE FRAUD ALLEGED. Farmer Is Charged With Offering Mother’s Property as Security. Barnesville, Minn., Sept. 29. — Joe Kasperek, who formerly resided on a farm in Wilkin county, near this city, has been arrested by Sheriff Whaley at Breckenridge. Two years ago Kasperek secured a loan of $1,500 from the First National bank of this city. He gave as security a chattel mortgage, in addition to a crop pay- ment. After getting the money he could not be found. When the crop mortgage was looked into, it is alleg- ed, it was found none of the property belonged to him, but to his mother. WRECK VICTIMS TWENTY-ONE. Three More Fatalities From Friday’s Collision. Helena, Mont., Sept. 29. — Three more deaths were Saturday added to the list of victims of the collision be- tween the Burlington passenger and Northern Pacific freight train at Young’s Point Friday. This swells the total number of dead to twenty- one, and it may be increased by one or more, although this is improbable unless some new complications set in. Sorrowing Man Stricken. Billings, Mont., Sept. 29.—Grieving over the untimely death of his brother Samuel, who met his death in the re- cent wreck at Young’s Point, Abra- ham Siomowitz suffered an attack of apoplexy late last night and died. Forest Fires Beyond Control. Utica, N. Y., Sept. 29.—Forest fires In the Adirondacks are reported be- yond control of the hundreds of men fighting them. Long Lake, 100 inhab- itants, is reported burned and com- munication cut off. One Bone Snaps in “Scrap.” Iowa City, Iowa, Sept. 29—In eight minutes the freshmen scored an easy victory over the sophomores here in the second annual “debrutalized” push ball contest. The scrap was tame, the only injury being a broken collarbone, suffered by a sophomore. LOSS WILL REACH MILLIONS REDS PLOT DEATH | TROUEY cans coLLipE IN Gt. Drouth Responsible for Forest Fires and Big Loss to Farmers and Workmen. Pittsburg, Sept. 29. — With losses aggregating several million dollars from forest fires and heavy damage to crops and live stock, the reported loss of a number of lives due to fight- ing timber conflagrations, the en- forced idleness of thousands of work- men, owing to the suspension of man- ufacturing establishments because of lack of water, the health authorities anticipating a serious epidemic of con- tagious disease, and many small streams dried up and obliterated, the drouth of 1908, which has held West- eri Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Virginia in its grasp for more than two months, remains unbroken, each day gradually increasing the se- riousness of the unprecedented situ- ation. Disease Epidemic Threatens. Three times during the excessive dry spell there have been slight rains, accompanied by much thunder and lightning, but the rainfall was so slight that many persons were una- ware of the fact end were only con- vinced that it had rained when shown evidence of the same on tin roofs. Aside from the millions of feet of timber destroyed and the daily loss to manufacturers and farmers, proba- bly the most serious phase of the sit- uation is the threitened disease epi- demic. A majority of the population of Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Virginia are even now suffering from throat affections caus- ed by the great accumulation of dust and the heavy clouds of smoke. Warnings Are Sounded. In this city, used to smoke, the sun is almost obscured by the smoke from the forest fires miles away, and per- sons in the vicinity of these fires are experiencing great difficulty in breath- ing. It is feared that when rain does come it will wash great amounts of filth into the already stagnant streams, with the result that disease, especially typhoid fever, will become epidemic. The health authorities have sounded warning to the public to boil all water used for internal purposes, and say by doing this only can many deaths and much sickness be prevent- ed. SEVEN DROWNED IN CHICAGO. Pleasure Launch strikes Bridge, Sinks With All on Board. Chicago, Sept. 29.—Seven men out of a party of eight were drowned in the Calumet river at One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, South Chica- go, last night, when the pleasure launch Lemon struck one of the sup- ports of a railroad bridge and sank with all on board. The owner of the launch swam ashore and he was the only one saved, Owing to a storm and a swift cur- rent in the river, which is wide at that point, it was more than an hour before the lifesavers could begin dredging for the bodies. The work had at last to be given up. It appear- ed that the launch sank immediately it struck. Albert Westgren, the only man saved, was taken into custody by the police. He said the only one of the drowned men he knew was John Frick, his brother-in-law. The launch had been plying up and down the river in the storm. FIVE MEN BLOWN TO PIECES. Dynamite Lets Go While Workmen Are Tamping a Hole. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 29. — Three Americans and two Italians were blown to pieces in an explosion of dy- namite yesterday while working at Cross Keys Cut, along the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, near Tobyhanna. The five men were tamping a hole containing eighteen inches of dyna- mite when it prematurely exploded. WOODS FULL OF WOLVES. Animals Are Traveling in Packs and Terrorizing School Children. Iron Mountain, Mich., Sept. 29. — Not for years have wolves been +9 numerous in Iron county as this fall. Particularly is this the case in the Fisher settlement. The beasts are traveling in packs and are causing no little anxiety on the part of parents whose children attend rural schools. Big Fleet Nearing Manila. Manila, Sept. 29.—The wireless sta- tion at Malabange, in the southern part of the island of Mindanao, re- ports this morning that it was in com- munication with the Atlantic battle- ship fleet, but did not ascertain the exact location of the fleet. Four Policemen Injured. Philadelphia, Sept. 29.—Four po- lice officers were injured yesterday, three of them seriously, by the ex- plosion of a dynamite detonating cap left by burglars in their hurried de- parture from the diamond store of Jo- seph H, Deschamps. Kills Officer and Self. Manila, Sept. 29.—A tragedy occur- red at Camp Jessamine Saturday night resulting in the death of Lieut. Edward J. Bloom of the Fourth in- fantry and Private Suttles, Company K, of the same regiment. Suttles, for some reason, shot Bloom and then cut his own throat. Three Killed In Wreck. Hamilton, Sept. 29. — Three men were killed in the wreck of a freight train on the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo railroad at Mineral Springs. OF ROOSEVELT Anarchists in World Plot Aim to Ambush Hunting Party in Wilds of Africa. —_— ALL RULERS WERE MARKED Italians Arrested for Conspiracy Against Alfonso Have President’s Itinerary. Bayonne, France, Sept. 27. — Evi- dence of an anarchistic plot against President Roosevelt on his forthcom- ing hunting trip to Africa was made public yesterday by the police authori- ties of a half dozen countries who are examining the Spanish anarchist Can- atrava in an effort to connect him with the suspected plot against the life of King- Alfonso of Spain. It was digglosed that papers were found on the person of two Italiap anarchists arrested at Sessa, Switzer- land, Wednesday, containing the most definite information possible of Roose- velt’s African trip. To Sweat Anarchist. The sweating of Canatrava is ex- pected to disclose evidence for the plan of one of the greatest terrorist uprisings Europe has ever seen. The two Italians, Occa and Piarcha, are now in jail at Geneva, and a thor- ough effort is being made to obtain further evidence against them. The papers found on these two con- nected plans of the autumnal trips of nearly all the European leaders and police officials of France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Austro- Hungary suspect that a concerted up- rising all over Europe is well under way. Plot Against Alfonso. The plot against Alfonso’s life was timed for to-day, during Alfonso’s trip to Biarritz, the police say. There is evidence that Canatrava invited a woman to join the band that had been | formed for the purpose of assassinat- ing the Spanish king. As a result of the disclosures made yesterday the guards in nearly every royal household in Europe have been increased. COUP TO FREE THAW. Contempt Warrant Is Issued by Fed- eral Judge. Pittsburg, Sept. 27.—Another sensa- tional movein the Harry K. Thaw case was made here yesterday when there was filed an order, issued later by Judge J. R. Archbold of Scranton in the United States district court, declaring Harry K. Thaw in contempt of court in his non-appearance here some time since before his creditors, when ordered to do so. Thaw’s Pennsylvania attorneys will now make a quick move to get Thaw outside of the State of New York if possible, it being significant in the or- der issued by Judge Archbold that there is no provision made for the re- turn of Thaw to New York, once he is At Least Seven Persons Will Die;: Wreck Said to Have Been Caused by Damaged Signal Box. Philadelphia, Sept. 25. — Seventy- two men injured, at least seven fatal- ly, was the terrible result of a trolley accident caused by a damaged signal box on the Southwestern Traction company’s line near Tinicum, at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. Two trolley cars loaded with work- men, running at a high speed, collided head-on in a dense fog. Dying and maimed bodies were scattered about the road or buried under wreckage. One of the cars was bound cityward from Chester. The other was known as the “Baldwin Tripper,” leaving this city at 5:30 o’clock each morning, carrying workmen to the Baldwin Lo- comotive works at Chester. Crash at Full Speed. In the cars were seventy-five men. The “Tripper” had groped its way through the fog in a switch. Another car passed, but the conductor failed to: notify the crew of the “Tripper” that there was another car in the block following, and the “Tripper” started ahead. It had gone half a mile when it crashed into a city-bound train at full speed. CHOLERA INVADES ARISTOCRACY Epidemic Breaks Out in Palaces of . Emperor Nicholas. St. Petersburg, Sept. 25.—Not only has the number of cases of Asiatic cholera increased, but the disease has invaded the aristocratic precincts of St. Petersburg. It has even reached the Winter palace, in which extensive preparations are going on in the ex- pectation that the emperor and em- press will spend part of the coming season in the capital. Other cases have been discovered in the palace of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholieviteh, the Tauride palace and the palace of Prince Alexander Oldenburg, a cousin of the emperor, and the imperial ope- ra house. Diplomats Leave Hurriedly. A number of diplomats and promi- nent society people have hurried their departure abroad, but the exodus has been checked to a considerable extent by the prospect of being held in quar- antine at the frontier, That a panic prevails among certain classes is illustrated by the fact that many well-to-do people have ordered their newspapers discontinued during the epidemic. A grand duchess resid- ing abroad, who is one of these, ex- plained that she feared contagion through the mails. In order to test the efficacy of vac- cination in cholera cases several grad- uate students of St. Petrsburg vol- untarily permitted themselves to be vaccinated, after which they drank a solution containing cholera germs. GIRL LODGES GRAVE CHARGE. Theatrical Man Engaged Her, and Then Assaulted Her. Chicago, Sept. 25.—George A. Gold, said to be a theatrical booking agent and owner of a theatrical concessign at Forest Park, was arrested last night on a serious charge preferred by Emma N. Storme. It is said Gold conducted the booking agency to get in Pennsylvania. IN DANGER OF PLAGUE. Dr. Foster Sounds Note of Warning at Conference of Boards of Health.. Washington, Sept. 27. — That the gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States are in danger of an infection of the bubonic rlague, was the seri- ous note of warning sounded yester- day by Dr. M. K. Foster of California before the delegates in attendance upon the twenty-third annual meeting of the conference of state and provin- ical boards of health of North Ameri- ca. He expressed the belief that such an infection already may have taken place. The address of Dr. Foster, who is president of the organization, star- tled some of the delegates. PLAGUE REACHES MAXIMUM. Experts Believe Epidemic in Russia Will Soon Begin to Decline. St. Petersburg, Sept. 27.—The chol- era epidemic in St. Petersburg, in the opinion of experts, now has reach- ed its maximum, and henceforth the number of new cases daily is expected to remain about stationary for a week or ten days, and then to gradually de- cline under the influence of the cold weather. Little progress has been made in cleaning the court yards of tenements, the factory districts, the slums and other breeding centers of the disease, and the necessary conditions exist for a renewal of the epidemic in the spring. Jailed for Robbing Companion. Huron, S. D., Sept. 26—A man an- swering the name of Nelson Gibbs is in jail here, charged with robbing Fred Dike while he was asleep at Wessington Tuesday night. Scalded to Death. Estelline, S. D., Sept. 27.—The little two-year-old s0n of William Coon re- cently backed up and sat down in a pail of scalding water that his moth. er had just prepared for scrubbing the floor. The little fellow lived about six days. Guilty of Fratricide. West Union, Iowa, Sept. 27.—Wal- ter Whitbeck was last night convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of his father last summer. The iurv recommended life imprisonnrent. victims for the “white slave” traffic. Besides the accusation made by Em- ma Storme, he is charged with caus- ing the delinquency of girls who ap- peared in his theater at the amuse- ment park. Lieut. Alcock and detectives of the central station, while standing at Dearborn and Madison streets, over- heard five girls talking about Gold’s failure to pay them their wages. They questioned them, and Emma Storme told of the treatment accorded her by Gold in a State street hotel last Fri- day night. At the station the other girls said Gold had advertised for young women to become actresses and assured them they would be paid $6 a week while learning the profes- sion . Friday night, according to Emma Stornfe, on the pretense that he wish- ed to pay her, Gold enticed-her to a room and assaulted her. He forced her to remain with him all night and the next day took her back to the theater in the amusement park. While fighting Gold she said she bit him on the left shoulder. Marks of teeth were found as she had described when Gold’s shoulder was bared. Gold said he did not force the girl to accompany him to the hotel or re- main there, but that the following night she returned to the hotel with him. This statement the girl denied. COUDERAY IN PERIL. Unless Wind Dies Down Town Will Be Burned. Couderay, Wis., Sept. 27.—A terri- ple forest fire is raging on the out- skirts of the town to the south. The people are packing their house- hold goods and preparing to move out. Minneapolis has been asked to send an engine and appeals will be made to other towns. Unless the wind dies down at once he town will be burned. Fiercest Fire Yet Is Raging. Kenne Center, N. Y., Sept. 27.—An extensive forest fire, by far the most alarming that has yet occurred in the Adirondacks, is now burning on the Big Horn and Hurricane mountains. The fire is four miles long and two miles wide. The wind is freshing and carrying the flames over East hill, Burns to Death in Barn. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Sept. 27. — Eleanor Martenson, aged three years, was burned to death in her father’s barn, three miles from this city.