Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 4, 1908, Page 6

Rerald--Review. BY C. E, KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINNESOTA, —_—_—«—"_—X—¥K—K—S—___=—= NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED Digest of the News Worth Telling Con- densed for the Busy Reader. Washington. Count yon Moltke, the new Danish minister to the United States, has ar- rived in Washington. The scout cruiser Chester, which naval officers have declared to be the fastest naval vessel afloat, has com- pleted her final acceptance trial. Henry A. Butters, president of the Northern Electric Railway company, died at Berkeley, Cal. Mr. Butters was widely known as a mining man and capitalist. Carriers will not be permitted to perform clerical work in the future, as the result of an order issued by Postmaster General Meyer, amending the postal regulations and defining the duties of employes in this branch of the service, The secretary of war has appointed a board of officers, consisting of Maj. Gen. W. P. Duvall. Brig. Gens. Fred- rick Funston, W. H. Carter, W. 8. rly and William Witherspoon, to internal revenue bureau is The strongly opposed to the contention of the California grape growers for a re- 1 of the commissioner’s ruling of March 25, 1908, which inhibits the use of fortified American sweet wines in the manufacture of patent or proprie- tary medicines or compounds, Declaring that complaints continue to come to the department alleging violations of the postal regulations concerning the disposition of regts- tered mail indorsed for delivery to the addressee in person, an order has been issued directing that such mail maltter must be delivered to no one but the addressee in person, not even upon his written order. Personal. The British Aero club has awarded its gold medal to the Wright brothers of Dayton, Ohio, for their remarkable achievements. Dr. David Doherty, who, while prac- ticing medicine in Chicago during the last twenty years, won recognition for his ethnological and philological work, died in Chicago as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. The engagement of Mrs. Dorothy Hurlburt, widow of a prominent socie- ty man of Chicago, to Pierce Fish, a Boston clubman, is just announced. The secret became known through a postal card written by Mrs. Hurlburt, which got into the wrong hands. Rey. E. Jay Cooke, rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal church at Schuy- lerville, N. Y., dropped dead of heart disease at Schenectady. Dr. Cooke w a nephew of Jay Cooke, the great financier of Civil war times, after whom he was named. He had held pastorates at Northfield, Minn., St. Paul and Clinton, Iowa, King Frederick has honored C. H. Hansen, who lately resigned the Dan- ish consulship in Chicafo, with the or- der of Danneborgsmand. As Mr. Han- sen already hed been made a Knight of Danneborg, this new honor is re- garded as unusual and as showing that his goed work for his country- men in many quarters of the globe is appreciated. Crimes. While playing moonshiner at their home near Whitesburg, Ohio, Charles Morgan, six years old, shot his brother Sammy, aged eight years, in the fore- head, killing him instantly, Frederick W. Gross, former pay- master of the Colorado national guard during the great Cripple Creek strike, under the Peabody administra- tion, committed suicide at Denver by firing a bullet into his brain. While seated in his home with his family at Springfield, IIL, Ransom P. Stowe, a veteran of the Civil war, aged sixty-five years, drew a revolver from his pocket, turned to his wife and said: “Good-by; I’m going now!” and blew out his brains. An indictment was returned by the federal grand jury at Omaha against Theodore Kharas, charging the use of the mails for fraudulent purposes. The charges grew out of Kharas’ ex- ploitation of a mechanical street car advertising device. Eight years ago Kharas was the candidate for govern- or of Nebraska on the Socialist ticket. A man giving the name of George B. Carter and believed to be a crank, was arrested in Chicago when he call- ed at the home of Chief of Police Shippy to see the chief. Miss Georgi- ana Shippy met the man at the door. He said Chicago men owed him $5,- 000,000 and he wanted the chief to help him collect it. Miss Shippy called a policeman, After a quarrel with his wife, Charles Smit, an aged farmer of Po- seyville, Midland county, Mich., shot and killed William Duchan, a neigh- bor, at whose home Mrs. Smith had taken refuge, and then committed sui- cide E. J. Martin, proprietor of a saloon at Gower, Mo., was shot and killed in the Gower depot by Wood Arnold. Arnold had been drinking in Martin’s saloon and wore Martin’s hat away. When the saloon man asked for the hat Arnold shot him through the heart. Arnold escaped on a train. ~~" Foreign. The National Aerial League of France has decided to open its com- petitions, with a few exceptions, to all nationalities. Ecuador has ratified a sanitary treaty with Panama looking to pre- vention of communication of diseases between the two countries. King Alfonso officiated at the un- veiling of a monument to the defend- ers of Saragossa in 1808. He was given a hearty reception by the populace at Saragossa. The Rome Vita states that the min- ister of marine has granted the duke of the Abruzzi three months‘ special leave of absence, with permission to travel abroad. The honorary title of monsignor has been conferred by the pope on Rev. Joseph Soentgenath, head of the Josephinum, a college for the educa- tion of secular priests at Columbus, Ohio. Edward Cook & Co., soapmakers cf London, obtained a libel judgment of $115,000 against certain newspapers owned by Lord Northcliffe, which charged that the company was at- tempting to form a trust. All the private Polish schools have been closed by the governors in re- taliation for the almost dairy attacks made upon Russian university stu- dents in the streets for several weeks past. The Poles have appealed to the duma, The death is announced of Giuseppe Biancheri, former president of the Italian chamber of deputies. He was born in Ventimiglia in 18238, -was a deputy for fifty-three years and pre- sided over the chamber for nearly thirty years. Accidental Happenings. A $150,000 fire destroyed the plant of the Tropical Ice company at Tam- pa, Fla, Fire destroyed the plant of the Ellis- ville Lumber company at Ellisville, Miss. Loss, $100,000. Fire at Toldeo, Ohio, wiped out the wholesale grocery store of R. A. Bart- ley. Loss estimated at $300,000. Fire at Mullins, S. C., destroyed the factory of the Imperial Tcbacco com- pany. About 300,000 pounds of leaf tobacco was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $400,000. Robert Lincoln, a nineteen-year-old De Witt boy, was drowned in the Swimming pool at the Y. M. C. A. building at Clinton, Iowa, during the night, the janitor finding his lifeless remains in the pool in the morning. James Thorn, a farmer of Russell- ville, Ala., while attempting to run a mule out of the yard, picked up a small stone and threw it at the ani- mal. He missed the mule and hit his two-year-old son, killing him instantly. Dispatches received at Manila from the sections visited by the typhoon and resultant floods that devastated Caygan province recently place the death roll at 800 and the damage to property at $1,000,000 in gold. There were no reports of damage in Isabelle province. Two men were killed and five in- jured, one fatally, in a wreck of a gasoline speeder on the Newton & Northwestern, near Gowrie, Iowa. The speeder, loaded with nine men of Ri- nard, dashed into a box car which had been moved from a siding onto the main line. 5 Hollis Miller, eight years old, swal- lowed a piece of slate pencil while at school at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and aft- er returning home swallowed a button. When he went to bed he was seized with a fit of coughing. The button came up, but he strangled on the pen- cil and died. Generai. “Cyclone” Johnny Thompson won from Rudolph Unholz in the eleventh round at San Francisco. Ossian Guthrie, one of the oldest and most interesting of Chicago pio- neers, died in his eighty-second year. The sixty-first annual session of the grand lodge of Iowa Odd Fellows ad- journed at Marshalltown, Iowa, after L. W. White of Woodbine had been installed as noble grand. One hundred and fifty dollars an acre, spot cash, is the new record set for Iowa farm land in the sale made last week of the W. L. Brown farm, south of Hampton, Iowa, for that price. Temperance forces won county op- tion elections in Greene, Williams and Trumbull counties, in Ohio. A to- tal of 1,045 saloons have been voted out under the new county option law to date, At a meeting of the Southern Field and Adjusters’ association, comprising every Southern state, held at Mobile, Ala., the association went on record against night riding. Announcement was made that one prominent compa- iny had withdrawn their insurance on all posted gins. Judge Smith McPherson, in the fed- eral court at Kansas City, granted a restraining .order preventing Edwin Cockrell, prosecuting attorney for Johnson county, Missouri, from prose- cuting cases against the Missouri Pa- cific railroad to enforce the maximum freight rate law. The supreme court of the United States has fixed Jan. 4.as the date for hearing the argument in the commodi- ties clause cases, and gave directions for the consolidation into one of all the twelve cases for the purpose of argument. Drs. Tomarkin and Carriero of Berne, Switzerland, after experiments extending over thany years, have dis- covered a serum which cures cholera jn animals. A quantity of the serum has been sent to St, Petersburg for trial on human sufferers there. The result is anxiously awaited. | Evasive Answers and Sar- castic Remarks. Refuses to Give Categorical Answer. New York, Nov. 1.—Practically de- fying the United States government and its court, Charles W. Morse, for- merly ice king and multimillionaire, owner of a chain of banks in this city, yesterday at his trial for alleged_vio- lation of the banking laws, brought the proceedings against him to a sud- den and sensational close after he had been on the stand six hours. Badger- ed by United States Attorney Stimson into many damaging admissions, Morse at last became so angry that he absolutely refused to give a categori- cal reply to the questions of the pros- ecuting officer. Instead he indulged in witty and sarcastic remarks, slurring his fellow directors in the National Bank of North America, until at length he became so insolent that the dis- trict attorney appealed to the court. Brought to Climax. It was a question of whether the di- rectors of the bank had approved the loan of $211,000 Morse had obtained from the bank to cover a large over- draft that brought matters to a cli- max, “Did the directors approve that loan?” asked the district attorney. “J don’t think they did,” answered Morse. “Did they disapprove of it?” “I don’t think they did.” “But you were present all through the meeting weren’t you?” “Yes,” “Well, did they adjourn?” “They jumped up and ran, but they did not come back to pay their loans,” chuckled Morse, sardonically. Launches Into Tirade. “Mine was the best margined loan of any in the bank, better than those of any of the other directors, and I didn’t make a loan like Havemeyer did of $25,000 when the total reserve of the bank was down to 8 per cent.” “If your honor pleases,” said Dis- trict Attorney Stimson as sooon as Morse, apparently for lack of breath, had paused, “I should like the witness to be directed to answer my ques- tion.” “answer the question categorically if you can,” said Judge Hough stern- ly, turning toward Morse. Faces Judge Coolly. The little ice man wheeled around fn his revolving chair, looked the judge squarely in the face and began another evasive reply. Stopped quickly, he calmly leaned back and politely requested to know what was the question. The stenographer was directed to read it, and Morse said he “could not recollect.” This was too much for Mr. Stimson. He asked for permission to suspend the cross-examintaion until to-day, saying he desired more time to study the testimony the witness had given on Thursday. EX-PREMIER IS DEAD. Hon, Thomas Greenway, Foe to Rail- road Monopolies, Expires. Winnipeg, Nov. 1. — Hon. Thomas Greenway, former premier of Manito- ba, member of the railway commis- sion of Canada, died unexpectedly in Ottawa yesterday morning, aged sev- enty years. He was the head of the government which broke the Canadian Pacific railway monopoly in Western Canada and brought the Northern Pa- cific railway into Manitoba twenty years ago, the first rival railway to the Canadian Pacific railway to enter this country. BIG ELEVATOR TO BE BUILT. Contract Let for First Unit in 40,000,- 000 Bushel Elevator. Winnipeg, Nov. 1. — The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company yes- terday let a contract for a 4,000,000- bushel elevator at Fort William. This is the first unit of what will be a 40,- 000,000 bushels capacity storage plant in that city. The first unit is to be ready one year from next month. WHITMORE NOT GUILTY. Man Accused of Killing Wife Proves an Alibi. Jersey City, N. J., Nov. 1.—After being out two hours, the jury in the case of Theodore Whitmore, on trial for the murder of his wife, whose bat- tered body was found on Dec. 26 of last year in a swamp near Harrison, N. J., last night returned a verdict of not guilty. Wright Motor Blows Up. Lemans, France, Nov. 1. — While Wilbur Wright, the An:erican aero- planist, was making a flightthe motor of the machine exploded. Mr. Wright landed without injury and the aero- plant was not otherwise damaged. ‘ Attempted Suicide. Webster City, Iowa, Nov. 1—Will Kiel, a farmer north of this city, at- tempted suicide last night with a .22- caliber revolver. He shot the ball into his forehead, but it did not enter the ckull and he will recover. ~ DEFIED BY MORSE Ice Man Forces Adjournment by IS INSOLENT 10 ATTORNEY Judge Loses Patience When Financier Series of Crimes in London Completely Baffle Scotland Yard Detectives. LAND SCHEME IS CALLED SWINDLE | TWO ARE VIC OF BULLETS Old-time Enemies Meet on Way to Church and Open Fire—One Dies and Other Is Dying. London, Nov. 1. — All their olues and finger prints having failed to find {the man who strangled Esther Prager in her bedroom in a Russell Square boarding house the night of Oct. 16, Scotland Yard detectives yesterday confessed themselves completely baf- fled. The Prager crime was one of a se- ries extending through several years, committed in the same neighborhood, under substantially the same circum- stances, and, the detectives believe, by the same man, the victims all hav- ing been women of the unfortunate class. The Prager murder was the most brutal of the series. The other vic- time at least died quickly, a razor hay- ing been the butcher’s favorite weap- on. Was Slowly Strangled. The Prager girl, only seventeen years old, was strangled so slowly that she had time in her struggles to tear the bedding, on which she lay, to ribbons, to rip the mattress open and to utter a few stifled cries which other lodgers heard but did not regard. The murder was not discovered for seven- teen hours. The murder is the ninth of the se- ties. They began in May, 1900. The most famous was that of Bayllis Dim- mock, at Camden town, in Septeniber, 1907. Robert Wood, an _ illustrator, was accused of the crime, but he was acquitted after one of the most sen- sational trials in London criminal his- tory. eee SPECTATORS ARE DISARMED. Serious Trouble Probably Averted in Court Room by Order. Norfolk, Nov. 1. — Serious trouble probably was averted at the coroner’s inquest at Holland, Va., yesterday to inquire into the murder of Tyberius G. Jones several days ago, as a result of an order to search all spectators in the court room for concealed weap- ons. Seven or eight persons were caught with pistols in their pockets and a score or more of guns were found on the floor and window sills. The order to search the spectators was issued as a result of an attempt by J. B. Jones of Norfolk, brother of the dead man, to assault Hardy while he was on the stand. Two concealed weapons were found on him. CRUSADE AGAINST DOPE HABIT. Many Arrests Made in Philadelphia in Attempt to Stamp Out Cocaine. Philadelphia, Nov. 1—In a crusade to break up the cocaine habit, which, it has been discovered is prevalent among children in some of the public schools in t he Tenderloin district of this city, the police last night arrested eleven men and women, either users of the drug or persons accused of sup- plying it to others. Since the first of the year 150 persons, including boys, girls and many young men, who were the victims of the habit, have been sent to the house of correction from the same district, and twenty- three have been indicted for engaging in the traffic. TWO KILLED BY TRAIN. One Man Dead and Another Dying as Result of Being Struck by Trains. Minneapolis, Nov. 1. — Two men were struck by freight trains in Min- neapolis yesterday and one of them died of his injuries and the other is dying. George Cerwas died¢at St. Mary’s hospital after being run over by a freight train at Minneapolis Junction. Mark Winkenwerder is dying at the city hospital as the result of being hit by a train at First street and Third avenue north. FUMES TAKE FIFTY LIVES. 7 Scores Perish in Pcisonous Gases Over Burned Oil Fields. Mexico City, Nov. 1—Reports from Tampico show that over fifty lives have been lost in the oii fields as a result of the poisonous gases caused by the recent fire. Following the death of a score of men a few days ago, another party went into the field and it is said thirty men perished, among the dead being several sol- diers. HAND OF GIRL BLOWN OFF. Duluth Children Made a Toy of Fulmi- nating Cap. Duluth, Nov. 1. — A shocking acci- dent occurred last evening at the home of C. E. Di. Meftner, near Lester Park. Thomas the twelve-year-old son of the family, and Mary, the four-year- old daughter, were playtag with a ful- minating cap, used for setting off ni- troglycerin. It exploded and literally blew the hand off the little girk I Niki EEA Find Body of Unknown. Sturgis, S. D, Nov. 1.—County Cor- oner Brackett received a telephone message from Underwood last night stating that a young man was found dead near there. Peaple in the vi- cinity do not know him or where he came from. Mrs, William Astor Dead. New York, Nov. 1.—Mrs. William Astor, who has been seriousty ill with heart trouble for some time past, died at her residence on Fifth avenue last nizht. Minneapolis Women Declare Themselves the Dupes of a Heartless Fraud. INVESTIGATION 1S STARTED Gov. Buchtel of Colorado Is Making an Effort to Run the Perpetrators > to Earth. Minneapolis, Nov. 3.—Several Min- heapolis women are in Denver, wait- ing for funds to arrive with which to make the trip home to Minnesota. They declare themselves the victims of a heartless trio of confidence work- ers. As a result of their predicament Gov. Buchtel of Colorado has begun an investigation in an effort to run to earth the perpetrators of what is al- leged to be a land fraud scheme cf considerable magnitude, in which sev- eral Minnesotans have been victim- ized. Of a party of thirty-eight Minneso- ta people who left for Colorado Oct. 20 in quest of a fortune only one, Mrs. Mary Whetstone, a Minneapolis wom- an, is known to have recovered the money which she invested in the un- dertaking. How Scheme Starts. So far as the Minnesota investors are concerned, the story began last spring, when Charles F. Burnham, a speculator, visited Minneapolis. in Minnesota he is said to have interest- ed several peaple in the purchase of desert claims and water rights in Col- orado. The plan was simple. Investors were asked to pay from $150 to $450. In return for the payment, the com- pany agreed to arrange matters so that the investors could file on desert land in Custer county, Colorado, on payment of 25 cents an acre. Perpetual water rights, shares in a mining company and paper concern, offers to redeem the land if it was un- satisfactory and promises to pay the expenses of investors on a trip to Col- orado are said to have been part of the inducements offered to Minnesota investors. The Minnesota thirty-eight arrived in Colorzdo Springs on Oct. 22. Wom- en composed the bulk of the party. Pay to Make Trip. From Colorado Springs the parity went to West Cliffe, Colo. It is said that they paid the promoters $10.75 for the privilege of making the trip. At West Cliffe they were shown the land on which they were to make their claims, but when they went to the Pueblo land office to make their filings they were told that residence in Colorado of a year was required before filings could be made. They were advised to return to Minnesota to avoid charges of perjury in connec- tion with their attempt to file on Col- orado lands. Gov. Buchtel was appealed to and the investigation is in full sway. Mrs. Whetstone threatened criminal prose- cution of the promoters and secured the money that she had invested, but other members of the party were not so successful. KILLED BY EATING PICKLES. St . Girl Devoured Scores of Big Ones Daily and Finally Succumbed. Pittsburg, Nov. 3.—After remaining in a condition of coma for 142 hours, Miss Mary Thompson, fourteen years old, who came to be known to the at- taches of St. John’s hospital as the “pickle girl,” is dead. The girl was employed at a pick- ling establishment. She developed a passionate fondness for pickles and since the pickling season started had eaten nothing but pickles. Most of them were the big ones and she would eat scores of them every day. FEEBLE MINDED IN PERIL. € State Asylum Building in New York Destroyed. Rome, N. Y., Nov. 3.—Ward building B of the state custodial asylum here for feeble minded women was burned yesterday. There were about 150 pa- tients in the building, including the old and decrepit, about thirty of whom were confined to beds. All the sick and helpless were safely removed. It will cost $100,000 to replace the burn- ed building and $25,000 to furnish it. Is Mysteriously Killed. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 3.—The body of Lee Marshall, a traveling salesman of Mayfield, Ky., was found in an empty coal car attached to an Illinois Central train near here yesterday. Death had resulted from two bullet wounds, and when found by the train crew the body was still warm. No weapon was found which would indi- cate suicide. Killed in Political Quarrel. Foraker, Okla., Nov. 3.—In a politi- cal quarrel here yesterday Frank S. Seward, a prominent merchant and Jocal Democratic committeeman shot and killed John H. Milam, a_ well known farmer of Pawhuska, Oklaho ma. Stairway Fall Kills Man. Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 3.—John Clare, blicklayer, fell down a stairway in East Grand Forks early yesterday. fractured his skull and died two hours later. He was intoxicated. Lexington, Ky., Nov. 3.—The Ross- Angell feud, which raged for several years in Lee county, but which has. been smoldering for the past two or three years, was reoyened at Heidel- berg, that county, yesterday morning, and last night Ephriam Angell died and Harry Ross is at the point +f death, each being the victim of the other’s bullet. Meet on Way to Church. The men met within sight of a small _ church which both were on the way to attend, and before the friends of either were aware of trouble bullets began to fly and neither one was abl> to reach the house of worship. Strange to say, the friends of the participants who accompanied the two men did not attempt to continue the fight, but busied themselves with car- ing for the dead and dying. Reports from Beattyville, the county seat, last night, however, indicate that the two factions are preparing for war. Fear Bloody Feuds. The officers were notified of the killing, but so far have made no effort. to make any arrests, holding that it will not be necessary. Lee county has been free of feud fights for several years, but it is fear- ed that the killing will again throw the two factions into a turmoil. VON BUELOW WILL NOT QUIT. Imperial Chancellor Relieves German Emperor of Great Ebarrassment. Berlin, Nov. 8. — Chancellor yon Buelow has relieved Emperor William of great embarrassment by reconsid- ering his resignation, brought about by resentment over his majesty’s in- terview in the London Telegraph, in which the kaiser was put in the atti- tude of assuming all the credit for the war plans followed by Great Brit- ain in crushing the Boers. This re- moves all doubt about the chancel- lor’s remaining in office. Prince von Buelow’s reconsideration was at the urgent request of the kai- ser. Whole Country Aroused. Chancellor von Buelow’s position apears to be almost untenable. Far and wide throughout the empire the newspapers of all parties discuss with varying degrees of mockery, amaze- ment and regret the government’s ex- planation of how what purported to be enormously important utterances of the emperor, affecting three great powers, passed through the hands of the chancellor and a long line of for- eign office officials without seemingly having been considered by any of them or read by most of these respon- ble for the delicate foreign relations. Condoned by Kaiser. The emperor fully condones Prince von Buelow’s part in the affair, but the chancellor’s authority and prestige with the country have been so shaken that he may again ask the emperor to relieve him. The Radical, Liberal and Socialist journals utilize the event to urge upon the country a demand for a min- istry responsible to the parliament and people instead of the continuance of ministerial responsibility to the crown alone. The whole subject is likely to come up for debate in the reichstag, which will reassemble on Wednesday. TO UTILIZE 10,000 ACRES. Cattle Syndicate Hopes to Start Im- portant Industry. Winnipeg, Nov. 3. — syndicate of Minnesota, Montana and Oregon cat- tle men has leased 10,000 acres of grazing land near Chilco lake, some distance from the head of Butte inlet, in British Columbia. Thousands of yearlings will be shipped in. Arrange- ments are in the hands of J. A. Stet- son of Duluth. In the Lake Chilco locality there is no snowfall and young cattle stay out the year round. Jackies Are Dined. Amoy, Nov. 3—Two thousand men of the second squadron of the Ameri- can fleet were allowed to land yester- day and were served at the reception grounds with European luncheon and a Chinese dinner. Admiral Sah of the Chinese navy yesterday gave a lunch- eon in honor of Rear Admiral Emory and the fleet commanders. Suspected of Smuggling. Pensacola, Fla., Nov. 3.—Suspected of having engaged in smuggling Chi- nese from Mexico to the United States, the American schooner Fred- die W. Alton of Boston is detained here by customs Officials. The master, Capt. Daly, disappeared when the in- vestigation began. Court Holds Sunday Session. St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 3.—Court was in session yesterday to take up elec- tion frauds discovered by police and court officials. Nearly fifty arrests have been made and a number of con- victions secured. The police say they have found 150 “straw men” in three wards. Cadet Killed in Football Game. Lexington, Nov. 3.—Cadet G. Cook Ferebee, son of G. B. Ferebee of Nor- folk, Va., died yesterday from concus- sion of the brain, due to an injury re- ;ceived in a game of football between Virginia military institute and Roan- oke college. Killed by Street Car. St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 3.—William Groves is dead and Mrs. Carrie M. Bulling is badly injured as the result of a street car striking a buggy ip which thev were riding.