Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 28, 1908, Page 11

— Rerald--Review. | BY C. E, KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED Digest of the News Worth Telling Con- densed for the Busy Reader. Washington. Proposals for furnishing a street di- rectory of the principal cities of the country for the use of the postal serv- ice have beeen called for by Postmas- ter General Meyer, to be opened Nov. 6 next. Orders were issued from the White House to heads of all government de- partments directing that clerks and other employes who wish to go to their home states to vote shall be paid on Oct. 29 their salaries up to and including the previous day. The academic board at the naval academy has reconsidered its recom- mendations, and as a result only nine of the twenty-three midshipman re- cently recommended for dismissal on account of deficiency in studies will be dropped from the academy. The other fourteen youths will be dropped back one class and allowed to con- tinue. Personal. The department of justice has re- ceived the resignation of William Stry, United States marshal for Utah. Mr. Stry is a candidate for state sen- ator. Irving W. Doolittle, chief clerk of the Baltimore hotel at Kansas City and one of the most widely known ho- tel clerks in the West, is dead of dis- ease of the stomach. J. S. Jarvis, the last surviving mem- ber of his family in the famous Ken- dall-Jarvis feud of Scott county, Ken- tucky, was found dead in a stable on his farm near Georgetown. His death is thought to have resulted from apoplexy. viving as a controlling reason that his work in Boston is still unfinished, exander Mann, rector of Trin- 3 copal church of that city, has declined the position of bishop of ngton, to succeed the late Bish- op Satterlee. Another convention will be called to fill the vacancy. H. Harper Peck, fifty-nine years of age, a leading capitalist of Cincinnati, is de of paralysis. His illness was indirectly caused by the Jamaica earthquake of some months ago. Mr. Peck was in Jamaica at the time, and the physicians say he never recovered from the shock. Oliver Hazard Perry, a grandson of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the battle of Lake Erie, and the possessor of the medal given by con- gress to his distinguished grandfather in appreciation of the commodore’s service in the memorable engagement, died at his home in Jersey City of apoplexy. He was born in 1840. Accidental Happenings. Fire in the business section of Buf- falo, N. Y., caused a loss of $300,000. A brewery at Chihuahua, Mex., own- ed by Ambassador Creel, was destroy- ed by fire. Loss, $150,000. Fire at Amarillo, Tex., destroyed the Santa Fe roundhouse and shops, entailing a loss of $200,000. Cecil Scott Napier, commissioner of customs at Wenchow, China, and son of Lord Napier of Magdale, while tem- porarily insane from fever, leaped from a window of the hospital and was killed. During the Bryan demonstration at Steubenville, Ohio, the floor of the American hotel barroom caved in and fifty men and women were precipitat- ed to the cellar. Several were slight- ly injured, Three persons were burned to death and the lives of a hundred tenants of a six-story tenement on East Third streets, New York, were imperiled in a fire that broke out in the building shortly before 1 o’clock one morning last week. John Karle, a porter in the plant of the American Rope Manufacturing company in Brooklyn, was mangled to death by a carding machine in the presence of 300 screaming girl opera- tives. Karle was sweeping the floor near the machine when the pickers of the carding machine caught the leg of his overalls and drew him into the machine, killing him almost instant- ly. H. H. Smith was mistaken for a bur- glar at Norfolk, Va. and fatally wounded by his son, Earl H. Smith, aged twenty-five years. Hearing a noise down stairs young Smith grab- bed his shotgun and seeing a men en- tering a side window opened fire. The load of birdshot entered his father’s abdomen. He is in a dying condition. The elder Mr. Smith was out late, and finding the door locked he forced the window. Belle Plaine, Iowa, sustained a $25,- 000 fire loss by the burning of the Western Grain company’s elevator, the Fanton elevator and property of the Chicago & North-Western railway, included three loaded merchandise cars. The insurance was $12,000. The gasoline schooner Enterprise is a total loss and the gasoline schooner Osprey narrowly escaped destruction as the result of a storm which the two vessels encountered while at- tempting to cross into Gold Beach and Wedderborn, Or. were saved. D All on board] Casualties. = _The Harper nitroglycerin factory at Kaneville, Pa., was blown up by an explosion and four persons killed. Three trolley cars collided at Thir- teenth street, Kansas City, and were badly wrecked. One man was killed and fifteen other passengers were in- jured. An overheated stove set fire to a dwelling house at Summit, Pa., and four children lost their lives, while two other persons were probably fatal- ly injured. Gottlieb Bruder and _hislittle son Raymond were drowned in the De- troit river at Detroit when their skiff was swamped by swells from a pass- ing steamer. Willard Smith, the elder of the two sons of Senator William C. Smith of Eagle Grove, Iowa, was killed in the football game at Clarion. His nose was broken and he bled to death. While walking on the track two miles north of Liscomb, Iowa, Marie Trimble, aged sixteen, and Minnie Cook, aged fifteen, were instantly kill- ed by an Iowa Central freight train. Two separate tornadoes struck Sharon Springs, Kan., and completely demolished three residences and in- jured a dozen people. It is thought that one will die. News has just reached Scottsboro, Ala., of the burning of the large cotton gin of Butler & Co., at Newhope, by night riders. This is the first report of a gin being burned in Alabama by night riders. As a result of ptomaine poisoning, three children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hackert of Schenectady, N. Y., are dead, the father is critically ill, and and three other daughters are less se- riously affected. Harry and Lewis Manarr were kill- ed at Clare, Mich., and their mother, Mrs. James Quick, was fatally injured by the explosion of sixteen pounds of dynamite which had been placed in their oven to dry and was forgotten. From Other Shores. Trouble arising from the engage- ment between Chinese and Japanese troops at Kantao, Northern Korea, has been settled and no further diffi- culty is expected. S. Miguel de Laterre, collector of in- ternal revenue for the province of Ha- vana, was arrested, charged with the embezzlement of $195,000 of the funds of his department. Negotiations between Austria-Hun- gary and Turkey have been definitely broken off, the porte refusing to ac- cept the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an accomplished fact. That President Diaz has determined not to be a candidate to succeed him- self as president of Mexico at the com- ing presidential election in 1910 was stated in an article published by El Rio del Hegar, A dispatch to the London Times from Belgrade says that the Servian government, upon Austria’s insistent demand, has apologized and paid an indemnity for an attack mace on shops there belonging to Austrians. Among those who will receive the cardinal’s hat at the approching con- sistory is the Most. Rev. Francis Bourne, archbishop of Westminster, who was prominently identified with the eucharistic congress recently held in London. The London Times is informed that President Roosevelt will visit England after his African trip, early in 1910. He will deliver the Romanez lecture at Oxford and on the occasion of the university commemoration will receive the honorary degree of D. C. L., which Oxford has already bestowed upon Emperor William. Otherwise. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chamber of Fort Dodge are the proud parents of a fifth pair of twins, a boy and a girl. Four of their children have died, but the new pair appears healthy and like- ly to thrive. Electrification of all the tracks of the Illinois Central Railroad company within the limits of the city of Chi- cago was authorized at the annual meeting of the stockholders of that road, held in Chicago. Apprehensive of destruction by for- est fires should they establish their logging camps at this time, many tim- ber operators in Upper Michigan will make no attempt to begin their sea-], son’s work nntil snow comes. Ten Chinese students have arrived at San Francisco from the Far East. Eight of them are bound for Harvard, Yale and Cornell, and the other two will matriculate at the University of California. The story being published in the press that James Oliver Curwood, a magazine writer of Detroit, had been murdered by Indians in’ the Hudson bay district is absurd. Curwood is alive and well in a northern town of Saskatchewan. Announcement was made at Mobile, Ala., that a national negro mass meet- ing has been called for at that city on Nov. 24 and 28 next, inclusive, in the interest of the national negro fair, to be held in that city in October, No- vember and December, 1909. It was brought out in the superior court at New Haven, Conn., that a dividend amounting to about $300,000, or nearly 10 per cent, is to be paid shortly to the creditors of the Nation- al Steel and Wire company, which is in the hands of a receiver. In the effort to suppress all forms of amusement on Sunday, Judge Moss of Memphis instructed the grand jury to indict all managers of playhouses and aiso to secure the names of all persons attending on the Sabbath. It is maintained that the spectators are equally guilty under the law. CAGO BANDITS IN DEADLY DUEL Masked Highwaymen Hold Up Saloon and Kill Man Who Resists. —— CUNNING FIGHT WITH POLICE One Robber Is Fatally Wounded and One of the Policemen Is Wounded "in the Leg. Chicago, Oct. 27. — Two masked highwaymen Saturday night held up a saloon at Huron and Wood streets and shot to death Henry Kern, who joined in resisting the robbery. A few min- utes later, in a running revolver bat- tle between the bandits and two po- licemen, one of the robbers was fatal- ly shot and one of the policemen re- ceived a bullet in the leg. Seven Men at Bar. Seven men were standing at the bar drinking when the two masked men appeared. The thieves apparently were between twenty and twenty-five years old. “Hands up!” commanded the des- peradoes, as they drew their revol- vers, A number of the men in the saloon obeyed the command instantly. Oth- ers demurred. The command was repeated. Ohlund, who was behind the bar, had reached for his revolver. The bandits saw the move. Without a mo- ment’s hesitation they began shooting. Three shots were fired. One of the bullets struck Kern. He fell to the floor. As soon as the other men saw that Kern was wounded their hands went up. The bandits worked hurriedly. From Ohlund they took $500 which he carried in his pocket and the revolver from his hand. Other men in the place were robbed of their watches and small sums of money. With a command to remain quiet and refrain from giving an alarm, the bandits backed out of the door and then ran down Wood street. Join in the Chase. Two of the men in the saloon, after waiting a moment, followed the thugs out. The robbers were still in sight and they gave chase. The robbers had reached the elevated structure when a shot was fired. This attracted the attention of Fitzgerald, a mounted policeman, and James King, a plain clothes man, who joined the chase. Fitzgerald was the first to fire. His first shot struck one of the men in the back, and with a groan he fell to the pavement. The other bandit, turn- ing as he ran, fired one shot, which struck Fitzgerald in the left leg, just above the ankle. Then the man dis- appeared under the elevated tracks. The wounded man was searched while waiting for the ambulance. In the man’s pockets was found the $500 taken from Ohlund and also Ohlund’s watch and revolver. KILLS FAMILY ON AUTO RIDE. Man Shoots Wife, Two Children and Self in Presence of Crowd. Seattle, Oct. 27—After taking his wife and two children for an automo- bile ride, a man whose name is said to be John A. Potharst led them to an embankment at the foot of A street, where he killed the woman and their daughter Kathleen, two years of age; wounded their infant son John, and then. fatally wounded himself, in the presence of a horrified crowd. Papers found on the ground later in- dicate that the man was enraged be- cause his wife was about to seek a divorce. Witnesses had just been attracted by the quarreling couple when Pot- harst suddenly fired, the bullet strik- ing his wife in the neck. As she rolled down the embankment he fired again, the bullet penetrating her brain. He then seized the daughter, held her at arm’s length and snuffed out her life with a third bullet. The fourth ball fired entered the right cheek of the infant, John. Potharst then fired a bullet into his own head and is dying. Little hope for the recovery of the infant is en- tertained. SERVIA PREPARES FOR WAR. All First Reserves Called Out and War Material Ordered. London, Oct. 27.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Belgrade says that the Servian government has called out all the first reserves and has ordered kaiki for the troops, 300 Maxim guns and 400 military automobiles. According to this dispatch King Pe- ter has informed the Turkish minister that an alliance probably has been concluded between Servia and Monte- negro, but that this in no way inter- feres with the friendship of these countries for Turkey. Accused of Theft; Ends Life. Trinidad, Colo., Oct. 27. — Despond- ent after being charged with stealing money from the postoffice at Hoehn, twelve miles east of here, Roen Smith shot and killed himself at his parents’ home, five miles north of that place. Gin Explosion Kills Three, Mount Pleasant, Tex., Oct. 27. — James Seale, owner of a gin near this place, and two negroes were instant- ly killed and four other negroes were badly injured as the result of the ex- plosion of a boiler at the gin, ’ is Woman’s Attempt to Get Divorce Re- veals Amazing Matrimonial Mix- New York, Oct. 27.—A most amaz- Ing story of matrimonial complica- tions, including four frankly admitted bigamies in one family, has come to light through the attempt of Mrs. Da- vid Seidel of No. 856 Grand street, Brooklyn, to bring divorce action against her husband a few days ago. Among some of the things which Mrs, Seidel has confessed is that she married George Longeill, Sr., knowing he had two wives living; married George Longeill, Jr, her husband’s son by a previous marriage, without be- ing divorced; allowed George Longe- ill, Jr., while he was still her husband, to marry her daughter Ida, who was his own half-sister and daughter of his own father; married, without di- vorcing George Longeill, Jr., David Seidel, her present husband. Still Another Twist. Added to all these complications is another. David Seidel, according to the woman, tired of her and won the affections of the young wife of her son, William Longeill. He left Mrs. Seidel, she says, and went to live with young Mrs. Longeill. Mrs. Seidel, when she went to Attor- ney Andrew J. Smith to ask him to get her a divorce, told him nothing about her previous marriages. She merely narrated Seidel’s alleged mis- ill as corespondent. The attorney ‘went ahead, served papers upon Sei- del and brought suit in the Brooklyn supreme court, When Seidel received the papers he called upon the lawyer and told him what he knew about his wife’s previ- ous marriages and her family history. Mr. Smith summoned his client and she admitted that she had had a very much checkered career. The attorney thereupon threw up his hands in as- tonishment and abandoned the case. All Are Church Members. At present she has no lawyer and probably will have a hard time in get- ting one to take her case. Everybody concerned in the remark- able mix-up is a regular attendant at one or another of several Brooklyn churches. The children all go to school and are bright and clean. The elders are all fairly prosperous. They discuss the case and the compli- cated relationships with the utmost freedom. MANY KILLED IN BLIZZARD. At Least Six Men Lost and 20,000 Sheep Perish in New Mexico. Kansas City, Oct. 27. — Blizzard weather in the Southwest has caused more than half a dozen deaths, one of them in Kansas City. Hiding behind her umbrella to pro- tect herself from the wet snow which was falling, Mrs. Louise Olmstead, aged fifty-seven, wife of a painter, was run down and killed by an automo- bile. The chauffeur asserts that the snow had so covered his glass front that it was impossible for him to see her. Twenty thousand sheep grazing on the Cumbers mountain range, in Rio Arriba county, New Mexico, are re- ported to have perished in the bliz- zard which has raged in that section during the last three days. The storm is the worst in years, and snow is from five to ten feet deep. Besides the great loss of sheep, six herders are missing and it is believed they were also frozen to death. Medicine Hat, Sask., Oct. 26.—The first trains since last Monday passed through here last evening. Riders just in from the south tell fearful tales of hardships caused by the storm. It is feared that several sheep herders perished. A band of 3,000 sheep were driven before the storm into Many Isl- and lake and only 300 were saved. FORTY-FOUR PRISONERS TAKEN. Arrested in Connection With Reelfoot Lake Murder. Camp Nemo, Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., Oct. 27.—Forty-four more prisoners including two women, were brought in yesterday in connection with the mur- der at Walnut Log last week of Capt. Rankin. No charges against any of the ar- rested ones have been made public. Aside from the arrests, the day pass- ed quietly with the troops in the dis- turbed region. Gov. Patterson last night announced that he had canceled all speaking dates in his campaign for re-election and will devote his attention to the Reelfoot lake region. Slight Increase in Colony. Manila, Oct. 27.—Seven new cases of cholera were reported in this city for the day ending Sunday night. The slight increase in the spread of the disease is ascribed by the authorities to the many gatherings of the people on Saturday night and Sunday and the feasts that accompanied these meetings. The situation is not consid- ered to be grave. Boat Upsets, Drowning Two. Jackson, Mich., Oct. 27. — Frank Brannum, thirty years of age, and Ernest Fitzgerald, twenty, of Water- loo were drowned in Joslyn lake, Washtenaw county, by the capsizing of their duck boat. Blows Brains Out. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 27—Maj. Edward Robinson, prominent at the local bar ‘and in politics, committed suicide late _yesterday by plowing out his brains. He was,considered one of the leading orators of the state. conduct and named young Mrs. Longe- | ROCK; IS BURNED Passengers and Crew of Lake Steamer Are Saved by Sheer Luck. PANIC BREAKS OUT ON BOARD Rafting Tug Comes to Rescue in Nick of Time—Detroit Man Keeps Head and Is Hero. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 28.—Because of the dense smoke that covered the wa- ters of the Georgian bay, the Cana- dian steamer Iroquois lost her way in McBean channel Saturday. She struck on West Rock and twenty minutes later was on fire, as a result of the overturning of a cook stove. The twenty-two passengers and five members of the crew owe their lives to the luck that enabled a rafting tug to find the stranded little steamer in the smoke. The tug heard the distress signals of the Iroquois, answered promptly and stood by until all on board had been saved. J. H. Kotcher of Detroit became a hero in a short time. In the midst of a scene where terror ruled, he kept his head, caught babies as they were tossed over the rail of the steamer to the tug below, assisted frightened women and lent a hand everywhere until the last person aboard the doom- ed passenger boat had been safely transferred to the tug. Life Boats All Leak. When the Iroquois crashed on West Rock, careening far over as_ she struck, the passengers were in terror. Women were on board, two of them with babies. There was a sea run ning which made the lowering of the life boats more difficult. The boats were dry and seams were open, and when the frantic passengers began to pile into them as the only means of escape, the crackling craft filled with water. Then there was more terror and every one piled back on the steamer. Back in the pall of smoke some- where was a rafting tug, the little steamer had passed it only a few min- utes before. That tug seemed to be the only hope. The Iroquois’ whistle was soon sounding distress signals. The tug, hearing the signals, dropped her log boom and came _ steaming blindly through the smoke to that whistle. The smoke began to pour up from below decks on the Iroquois and the terror was irebled. Babies Tossed Over Rail. Mr. Kotcher assisted many down to the deck of the tug, and when the two women with babies appeared at the rail of the steamer the youngsters were tossed over to him. Every one was taken off safely, but they took nothing with them but the clothes on their backs. Amoffg the passengers were two commercial travelers. One has a case of jewelry, valuable samples, and the whole thing was left behind. The contents of the case were valued at $2,000. The other drummer had sey- eral big sample cases full of silks and satings and women’s wraps. The entire lot was worth several thousand dollars and all of it was lost. EMPEROR THANKS PRESIDENT. Takahira Says Heaven Help Us to Join Hands More Firmly. Washington, Oct. 28. — “I suppose heaven helped us to join our hands firmly,” said Japanese Ambassador Komoro Takahira yesterday, with emotion, as he discussed the visit of the American fleet to Japan, which has just come to an end. Ambassador Takahira had a short while before he returned from the White House, where he was the guest of President Roosevelt at luncheon, and to whom he delivered a message of thanks from the Japanese emperor for the message which the president sent as the fleet departed. The baron personally thanked the president for having sent the fleet to Japanese wa- ters and said its visit had furthered to a great degree the feeling of friend- ship held by the Japanese for the peo- ple of the United States. HURLED TO TRACKS. Chicago Man Shoved Over Elevated Station Railing. Chicago, Oct. 28. — Robbers hurled a man believed to be Joseph King of Evanston from the Kinzie street sta- tion platform of the Northwestern elevated road, the police declare. King was found dying beneath the elevated structure yesterday. His skull was fractured, and he had been beaten almost to death, as his head was covered with cuts and bruises. The police concluded from their in- vestigation that the victim went to the station to take a train and that whiJe on the platmorm he was atack- ed by holdup, men. $500,000 Fire at St. John’s, N. F. St. John’s, N. F., Oct. 28. — Blair Gordon & Co.’s block, a wharf and two vessels were destroyed by fire yesterday. The block was occupied by the owners and by a number of other mercantile houses. The total loss is estimated at $500,000. Diaz Will Be Candidate. Mexico City, Oct 28. — President Diaz says in an open letter regarding his rumored retirement at the close of his present term in 1910 that the re- ports are premature and unfounded. ~ (FOUR BIGAMIES IN ONE FAMILY eT AT 7 sine oceytt President Curtis Tells Clearing Hous Official “Bank Is All Right if Morse Is.” New York, Oct. 28.—After the ad- mission of testimony by John W. Gates, Former Judge Morgan J. O’Brien, Charles M. Schwab, John H. Flagler and William F. Havemeyer, to the effect that as directors of the Na- tional Bank of North America they had never authorized the honoring of overdrafts by Charles W. Morse, the vice president of the bank, and had never known of the existence of such a practice, the prosecution late yester- day rested its case in the United States court here against the former banker and promoter and his fellow defend- ant, A. H. Curtis, who are being tried for alleged violation of the national banking laws. Sensations Furnished. The day’s session furnished a num- ber of sensations, not the least cf which being the declaration by W. W. Lee, a former vice president of the bank, that on the day of the institu- tion’s collapse, Curtis, the president, had said to him: “I have just told Morse that he has ‘busted’ the bank.” Mr. Lee was questioned at length con- cerning the happenings behind closed doors of the bank during the evening hours of Oct. 15, 1907, the day of the collapse. After the accounts of the day’s transactions had been closed it was discovered, Mr. Lee testified, that Mr. Morse had overdrawn his account $211,000. Securities Repudiated. In order to make good this deficien cy Morse had turned into the bank a quantity of securities, for the most part stocks and bonds not listed on the stock exchange and of doubtful value, as collateral for a loan of $211,- 000. This loan the directors repudi- ated on the following day, the collat- eral put up by Morse being found un- satisfactory. Testimony intended to show the dominating influence exercised over the National Bank of America by Morse was given by W. A. Nash, presi- dent of the Corn Exchange bank and a member of the clearing house com- mittee. Was Up to Morse. Mr. Nash, it appears, informed Cur- tis of the intention of the clearing house committee to examine the Bank of North America. “I took Mr. Curtis aside,” testified Mr. Nash, “and asked him if the bank was all right. e waved his hand to ward Morse and replied: ‘If he is all tight, the bank is all right.” DEFENSE SAME AS THAW’S. inanity, Caused by Wife’s Confession, Will Be Army Officer’s Plea. New York, Oct. 28—Capt. Peter C. Hains, who shot and killed William E. Annis for the alleged betrayal of his wife will plead insanity, as did Harry K. Thaw. This developed yesterday when the army Officer, with his brother, T. Jen- kin Hains, was arraigned before Jus- tice Garretson in the supreme court at Flushing, L. I. That Mrs, Claudia Hains confessed to her husband of these relations is alleged by John McIntyre, counsel for the Hains brothers. Letter Will Be Factor. Omitting certain sentences, which he said no newspaper would print, the letter read: “Dear Billy: Don’t come down Mon- day evening. Everything is over now between Peter and myself. He has found out everythi I am going to Boston and will send you my address. Want to see you and tell you all about it. Am almost crazy. Good-by. —“Claudia.” Both the Hains brothers were clean shaven when they appeared in court. The absence of Capt. Hains’ mus- tache emphasized the effeminacy and weakness of his features, while his brother’s strong, square chin, shorn of the growth of beard he has culti- vated since the day Annis was shot, stuck out the more aggressively by contrast. Both Plead. Capt. Hains was the first to be ar- raigned. He gazed uncertainly at the court as his plea of “not guilty” was accepted. Even then he remained standing until pulled to his seat by a court attendant. Justice Garretson, having disallow- ed the demurrer by Mr. McIntyre as to the indictments against T. Jenkins Hains, he too, was ordered to plead to the first degree charge. - TEMPLE ALL ONE PIECE. First Big Structure Erected on the Edison Plan Is Operied. Chicago, Oct. 28.—The only temple in the world whose walls, floor and roof are of one single piece was open- ed yesterday at Lake street and For- est avenue, Oak Park. It is built of reinforced concrete, on the Edison plan, of continuous material, with ne seams. FALLS TO WELL’S BOTTOM. Farmer Grabs at Rope, Pulling Wind- lass After Him. Bruce, Wis., Oct. 28.—William Jor- dan, a farmer living two miles south of this place, while digging a well yes- terday slipped and fell to the bottom of the excavation, a distance of thirty feet. In falling he grasped the rope attached to the windlass used in rais- ing the dirt. The windlass gave way and fell on top of him at the bottom. Siight hopes are entertained for his recovery. ieee 7 a | = on &