Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 25, 1908, Page 2

=" Aerald--Review. BY C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME (mportant Events at Home and 08 Foreign Shores Briefly Told. From Washington. Legislation favoring national aid in country road building, the re-establish- ment of a grange lecture bureau and to prohibit the adulteration of insec- ticides was indorsed by the national grange. President Roosevelt has approved the resume of the proceedings of the Newport conference on the question ef battleship construction made by the general board. It will be printed and issued to the navy. Acting Secretary of the Navy New- berry has approved plans for the final ocation of the proposed dry dock at I harbor, Hawaiian islands. This cock will be 1,100 feet long, so con- ucted as to receive two vessels at time, or a single vessel of the gest type afloat, Remarkable interest has been d throughout the commercial in the organization and inten- of the national council of com- erce, which was established under the auspices of the department of merce and labor, with a view to mote foreign and domestic com- merce, the fundamental idea being to establish closer relationship between the department of commerce and la- bor and the commercial bodies of the ountry. People Talked About. Scipio Craig, founder and for twen- ty years editor of the Redlands (Cal.) Citograph and a prominent member of the National Editorial association, cied after an illness of six weeks. Bernard Wygant, for many years general agent of the Wells-Fargo Ex- company at Chicago, is dead. He was seventy-two years of age. Goy. Stuart of Pennsylvania has is- ed a call to governors of sixteen tes to meet in Pittsburg Dec. 4, curing the annual convention of the American Mining congress. Capt. J. T. Smith has been selected command the cruiser South Dako- His position as inspector of the Eleventh lighthouse district at De- roit will be taken-by Lieutenant Com- a r C. B. Morgan, George M. Kellogg, a florist, well known all over the United States, cied at his home in Pleasant Hill, of Bright’s disease, aged seventy years. His conservatories at Pleasant Hill are among the largest in the re i country. Gaillard Hunt, chief of the bureau of citizenship of the state depart- ment, has resigned to become chief ¢ the division of manuscripts of the congressional library. Mr. Hunt was the oldest employes in length of service of the state department. Dick Wood, a well known news- paper artist and correspondent in China for a newspaper association t prior to the Russo-Japanese war, d in St. Louis of tuberculosis. He s one of the few Americans to he admitted to membership in the Chi- ese Masonic order. Hugh Armstrong of Portage la Prai- ie, for years connected with the Hooth fishing interests as manager «nd personal representative in West- ern Canada, has been sworn in as treasurer of the Manitoba government nder Premier Roblin, succeeding J. Hi. Agnew, who died recently. Gen. Thomas J. Lucas died at Law- renceburg, Ind., at the age of eighty- three years. Gen. Lucas attained the rank of general in the Mexican war and entered the Civil war as a lieu- tenant colonel. He was mustered out adier general. Gen. Lucas was a son of Maj. Frederick Lucas, who fought under Napoleon. Sins and Sinners. Mrs. Alphia M. Shevalier, accused of perjury in connection with the Horn will case at Lincoln, Neb., was sentenced to five years in prison. Frank Dedina was held to the grand jury at Mason City, Iowa, under $5,000 bonds charged with the murder of Mike Cummings*of Plymouth. Abert Dedina and Vince Navratil, arrested with Frank, were discharged. As a result of the ‘red light” cru- sade at Des Moines, Hyman Levich was convicted of renting houses for immoral purposes, and was fined $500. Walter Dowden pleaded guilty to the same charge and was fined $200. A coroner’s jury, empaneled to in- quire into the death of Frank Nadon at Paynton, Sask., brought in a verdict of wilful murder against Amedee Tre- treault of Bridgeport, Neb. The story told by witnesses at the inquest dif- fers materially from that first told. A. A. Johnson, a prominent farmer residing west of Stratford, Iowa, was found dead in a corn field by his wife. He had committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. He had been despond- ent and had been drinking heavily of late. Two male visitors in a leading Paris theater who objected to having their view of the stage obstructed by a ten- foot hat and got into a fight with the wearer’s escort, were acquitted in court On the ground that the woman with her hat had no standing in court and Bo business in a public playhouse. Accidental Happenings. © Fire at Little Rock, Ark., caused a property loss of $100,000. The big warehouse in New York used by the United States army was seriously damaged by fire. Miss Clara W. Herrick, a Christian Science practitioner, fell nine stories to instant. death in an elevator shaft at Indianapolis. Fire at Omaha destroyed the west half of the Nebraska Moline Plow company’s works, together with con- tents. Loss, $100,000, The plant of the Indianola Cotton Compress and Warehouse company and several adjoining buildings at In- dianola, Miss., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $300,000. \ Fire broke out at the Cameron col- liery at Shamokin, Pa., owned by the Pennsylvania Coal company, and em- ploying 1,450 men and boys, and is fiercely raging. In working among a number of high power electric wires in a power sta- tion at Brayton, R. L, William Quan of Fall River and Fred Cross of War- ren, R. I. were electrocuted. A passenger train and freight met in a head-on collision on the edge of Thurston, Neb. Fireman Stauffer of the passenger was instantly killed. Engineer McClaire had a leg broken. An east-bound freight train on the Wabash railroad ran into a switch en- gine at Springfield Junction, Ill, kill- ing W. D. Willams, fireman of the freight train, and Homer E. Wolfe of Brazil, Ind., brakeman. Two men were killed in a domestic coal mine at Kerr’s Run, near Pome- roy, Ohio, being crushed to death by a large block of slate. The killed are James R. Stobart, aged seventy, and Albert Young, aged twenty-seven. Slipping from the gang plank of the freight boat, captained by her father, as she was boarding the craft at New York, Mrs. Helen Bloch, a young widow, was drowned in the North riv- er. Her father, Henry Rice, although seventy-eight years old, plunged over- board in the darkness and tried to res- cue her, but he ,too, went down and was lost. From Other Shores. The duchess de Chaulnes, who for- merly was Miss Theodora Shonts of New York, gave birth to a son at her home in Paris. Gonzale Garcia Vista, a Conserva- tive, former mayor of Cienfuegos, Cu- ba, shot and killed Edwardo’Prfeto, a Liberal. Vista alleges that Prieto in- sulted and attacked him. News brought to Vicioria, B. C., tells of the loss with all on board of the British bark Loch Lomond off the Chatham islands, where wreckage and life buoys belonging to the vessel were found. No trace was found of the crew. In view of the fact that an interest: ing event is expected next spring, Queen Wilhelmina has been forbidden by her physicians to hold her custom- ary private audiences. This precaii- tionary measure is for the purpose of avoiding fatigue. Capt. Clayton Morrissey, master of the Gloucester, Mass., fishing sefiooner Arethusa, was arrested at Bay of Islands, N. F., on a warrant charging him with vioalting the fishery laws last April in setting trawls within three miles of the shore. Leopold Woelfing, formerly Arch- duke Leopold of Austria, is prosecut- ing a journalist for defamation jot character. The journalist in retailia- tion threatens sensational revelations by promsing red letters from the em- peror of Austria to the grand duke of ‘Tuscany. Domestic. The discovery that a recent visitor to the state capitol at Montpelier, Vt., is afflicted with smallpox led many state officials to seek physicians for the purpose of undergoing vaccina- tion. There was an echo of Cassie Chad- wick at Cleveland when a dividend of 21-2 per cent was declared before Bankruptcy Referee Remington for the benefit of the creditors of Cassie L. Chadwick. ¢ Swift & Co. have been readmitted to do business in Texas, after Charles Swift made affidavit that this com- pany is not now ,and for at least one year has not been a member of the “beef trust,” or any other trust. The admission fee is $2,300. Because they were asked to accept a cut of 5 cents a barrel on oysters they supplied large canning factories at Dunbar, La., more than 1,000 fish- ermeén declared that they would quit work. Their action resulted in the closing of the factories and the idle- ness of about 500 men, women and children employes. Dr, H .Milliner, an electrician in the Union Pacific shops, has equipped a locomotive with a wireless device which railroad officials declare will greatly lessen the danger of collisions. It enables dispatchers and station agents to signal engineers between stations, thus putting them practically in constant touch with running trains. Forty cases of smallpox were re- ported in Brattleboro, Vt., and thirty- five houses are under quarantine. The number of cases shows an increase of ten since last year, and the board of health has prohibited the holding of public meetings. Because of an epidemic of diphthe- ria which is raging in Montour, Tama county, Iowa, the annual meeting of the Marshalltown district of the Up- per Iowa conference of the Methodist church, which was to have been held there Dec. 1 and 2 will be held at To- ledo. ge JOHN D-S MEMORY SUDDENLY FAS Memory Form When Kel- logg Gets After Him. DAMAGING FACTS DRAWN OUT Questions Twisted and Turned by Trust Buster Until Witness Could No Longer Dodge. New York Nov. 22.—The grilling of John D. Rockefeller in the govern- ments’s suit for the dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, which began on schedule time yesterday morning, was hardly half over when the November early dusk brought the richest man in the world relief in the form of an ad- journment until Monday morning. Frank B. Kellogg, the administra- tion’s most successful “trust buster,” handleq the probe that brought bullet after bullet of Standard Oil fact out of the reluctant founder of the trust. Memory Suddenly Fails. * Since the first witness testified in New York when courts were originally established there has been no more striking reversal of memory form than that exhibited yesterday by Mr. Rocke- feller. For two days previous he had been unfalteringly answering ques- tions put by John Milburn, his per- sonal counsel, and he displayed a memory that was remarkable. Ap- parently his remarkable memory left him over night. “T could not recall, Mr. Kellogg,” and simliar replies yesterday passed Mr. Rockefeller over many a carefully laid trap. In spite of the fact that Mr. Rocke- feller’s memory had gone, Mr. Kel- logg was able to get some admissions that were quite damaging to the case, in the minds of the federal prosecu- tion. Admissions by Witness. Here are some of those admissions, none of which came out until Mr. Kel- logg had turned and twited his ques- tions until the witness could dodge no longer. Mr. Rockefeller, through the earn- ings of the Standard Oil in 1907, has been enriched to the extent of $8,000,- 000. In spite of the fact that $597,250,000 in dividends had been paid from 1862 to 1907, and there was a surplus of over $300,000,000—all this on an in- vestment of $67,000,000—Mr. Rockefel- ler still considers oil business one of great hazard. He decided that the question of profit did not determine whether or not a business was haz- ardous. Mr. Rockefeller admitted, with the qualification “presumably,” that the Pennsylvania railroad had contracted to refund to the Standard Oil a rebate of 10 per cent of the freight charges pai’. Rebate on Competitors’ Freight. He admitted the authenticity of a letter written by Daniel O’Day, the Standard’s chief of pipes lings, to the late A. J. Cassett, president’ of the Pennsylvania railroad, in which a “drawback” of 20 per cent on the freight paid by other oil shippers was established. The founder of Standard Oil finally admitted that the trust had collected a charge from independent oil ship- per; at the terminals which they leased from the New York Central, the Erie and the Pennsylvania at New York. He excused it on the ground that it was but his “legitimate charge for service rendered.” Memory at Fault. He was unable to locate any inde- pendent yards for the reception of oil which were in operation at the time the Standard had its lease monopoly. Again he was unable to name any independent refiners left in operation in Cleveland after the Standard had forced the purchase of those outside the combination. In connection with the South Im- provement company he admitted that an elaborate scale of rebates had been arranged, but excused it on the ground that “the thing” went out of business. PORTER GRABS OFF $40.000. Police Catch Him Before He Gets Far. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 22. — Charles Leonard, a porter at the Henshaw hotel» yesterday picked up a grip con- taining $40,000 worth of jewelry, which had been given over to his care by Charles F. Hartshorn, a traveling salesman, and made his escape. He went to an express office and shipped the grip to Hamburg, Iowa, and he himself left on a Burlington train for the South. The police of St. Joseph, Mo., were notified and Leonard was arrested there. The jewelry was se. cured by officers at Hamburg. Acquits Montana Banker. Butte, Mont., Nov. 21.—G. E. Wie- ser, the Anaconda banker on trial for the second time for forgery in connec. tion with his private bank in Anacon- da, was found not guilty here last night. REESE testa a Egy Killing Freeze in Florida. Cottonwood, Ala., Nov. 21. — There has been ice here one-eighth of an inch thick for three mornings and all tender vegetation, both here and across the line in Florida, has beep killed. WILL GO BACK T Lost Everything and Must Start Anew. Cleveland, Nov. 21—Mayor Tom L. Johnson, who for years has been cred- ited with possession of a very large fortune, yesterday announced that he had lost everything and would be compelled to give up his beautiful home on Euclid avenue and move into smaller and less expensive quarters. The mayor also stated that he would give up his automobiles and other lux- uries because he could no longer af- ford to keep them. His fortune was wrecked, the mayor declared, by his devotion to the affairs of the estate of his dead brother Albert, who was heavily interested in traction proper- ties in the East. Wanted Happiness Alone. After Albert’s death a question was put unto him whether he should re- sign his office as mayor and take up the management of Albert’s estate. “I decided that I would not. I had entered the fight in this city with cer- tain ideals before me. I wanted to fight privilege and _ special interest, and I had already decided to give up working for dollars. So I concluded to stay right here and do what I could to help my brother’s children a long distance. “I acted from a purely selfish mo- tive. I wanted happiness and nothing else when I closed up my business af- fairs and took up civic activity, and I’ve been happy, too. “I’m going to be happy yet, too. We may have to go back to a cottage, but that’s the way we started, and we can look upon life just as joyfully there as we did in the big house on Euclid avenue. Will Be Candidate Again. “The pursuit of mere dollars does not interest me. I suppose I could go down in Wall street now and make some money. But I'm not going to do anything of the sort. “T have never spent money in poli- tics. In no campaign have I ever paid more than my assessment, $600 on the $6,000 salary of mayor. I don’t feel discouraged. I’m a free man and that means a great deal tome. And I have my friends, too. ‘Tm going to keep on just as I've started. I’m going to be a candidate for mayor again when this term is over.” Financial Troubles Pile Up. The Municipal Traction company, of which Mayor Johnson was treasur- er, passed into the hands of receivers in the federal court several days ago. Following this came the transfer to two local banks of the Deposits Sav- ings and Trust company, of which the mayor was president. It is said this action was precipitated by the threats of Mr. Johnson’s individual creditors to file suits to obtain payment on notes indorsed by the mayor. It is said Mr. Johnson has recently lost ap- proximately $400,000 in connection with his interests at Lorain, Ohio. FORGER KING IS NOW CONVICT. Peter Van Vlissingen Is Hurried Off to Prison to Prevent Suicide. Joliet, Il, Nov. 21.—Peter Van Vlis- singen, self-confessed forger to the ex- tent of $700,000, yesterday became Convict No. 603. It was just four days ago that the Chicago real estate man and philan- thropist startled a public which knew him only as a_ successful business man and exjonent of civic and public righteousness by his confession. The indictment and conviction followed within a few hours. Van Viissingen was accompanied to the penitentiary by Sheriff Strass- heim and Deputy Sheriff Morrisson of Chicago and Charles Andrews, chair- man of the Republican central com- mittee of Cook county, who is a per sonal friend. Van Vlissingen bade farewell to his companions in the war- den’s office, after which he went through the routine requirements of a bath and the Bertillon system of iden- tifigation. His photograph also was taken. The new prisoner was shaved and his hair cut by an Italian serving a life sentence for wife murder. Van Vlissingen will be put to work in the broom factory. Fear that the disgraced financier might attempt suicide was given as the reason for his removal from the Chicago jail at an earlier date than had been expected. Mail Robber Convicted. Waco, Tex., Nov. 22. — Charles A. Gee was convicted in the federal court here yesterday on three counts, charged with robbing mail pouches and throwing $50,000 worth of money orders and checks into a gulch last De- cember. Madman Kills Nephew. Danville, Ky., Nov. 21. — Hugh Thompson, a wealthy young farmer, became suddenly insane yesterday and shot and killed his nephew, Fred- erick Garrison, aged eighteen years. Glanders Kills Physician. Chicago, Nov. 21.—Death from glan- ders, rare in a human being, overtook Dr. Thomas M. Wilson, of Atwood, Ont., at the Presbyterian hospital yes- terday. Dr. Atwood absorbed the germ of the disease while experimenting. Baby Smothers to Death. Burlington, Iowa, Nov. 21—The two months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Larkin was found dead yesterday morning, having been smothered to death by a three-year-old brother roll _ ing over it during the night. Tom+L. Johnson Announces He Has GO BACK TO A COTTAGE) EIGHT KILLED ON {REBELS SPREAD MANY RUMORS RIVER STEAMER Packet on Lower Mi pi River Wrecked by Explosion of Boilers. —— FIRE ADDS TO THE HORROR Steamer Burns to Water’s Edge With Valuable Cargo—Investigation to Be Held. New Orleans, Nov. 24. — Eight per- sons are dead and twice as many in- jured, some of them fatally, as a re- sult of an explosion on the Mississippi river steamer H. M. Carter, near Bayou Goula, north of New Orleans. The boiler of the Carter exploded while the steamer was on its way from New Orleans to Baton Rouge with a cargo of general merchandise and fifty or more passengers. To add to the horror of the disaster fire suc- ceeded the explosion and the boat was burned to the water's edge. Captain Has Close Call. Among the seriously injured is Capt. H. M. Carter, owner of the boat, who with his wife and child had a remark- able escape from death. He was blown fifty feet into the water by the explosion, but managed to swim to the shore, though he has a serious injury to his side. Capt. Carter’s wife and child were picked up in the water un- harmed. The tugboat McDougal of the Texas Oil company heard the explosion and hastened to the rescue. She stood by and picked up a dozen people who were struggling in the water. Physi- cians from nearby towns rushed to the scene and as soon as bedding and bandages had been secured, the Mc- Douglas removed the injured to New Orleans. Many Caught by Flames. As soon as the explosion occurred the boat was wrapped in flames and thus prevented some of the injured deckhands from making their escape. Half an hour later the boat had been burned to the water’s edge. She is a total loss, with her valuable cargo of sugar. An investigation of the causes lead- ing up to the explosion of the Carter's boilers will be made by the United States inspectors. FOOTBALL’S FEARFUL TOLL. Eleven Deaths and 304 Injuries Is Rec- ord for the Season of 1908. Chicago, Nov. 24.—Gridiron warfare, after exacting a fearful toll during a season of approximately sixty-seven days, reached its finale yesterday, the record of deaths and injuries showing a surprising increase. Up to last week the statistics showed ten deaths and 290 injuries to be directly due to foot- ball. During the last week another player succumbed to injuries, while fourteen athletes were borne to the side lines and later to hospitals, suffering with broken legs, fractured collar bones splintered ribs and other wounds com monly resulting from the game. The record of eleven deaths and 304 in- juries scarcely tells the story of the season of 1908, for other »ontes e- main on the schedules for this season, The record for the past eight years is as follows: Years. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 Deaths. Injured. ‘= 74 Steps have been taken in a number of the colleges and high schools of the United States to suppress football owing to the great number of fatali- ties which have resulted from the game in recent years. William Elwell, Jr., halfback on the second team of Shurtleff college, is the lastest victim of the debrutalized pastime. Gangrene developing in the arm a week after a game between Shurtleff and the Jerseyville (Ill.) high schoo) caused the death last Fri- day of Eiwell. In the Illinois-Northwestern game at Urbana, Railsback of Illinois sustain- ed a broken ankle. Walter Lawrence, a fifteen-year-old player of Cedar Falls, Iowa, had his life collarbone broken in a scrimmage. Numerous injuries were reported from the yari- ous battlefields. Memorials in Japan. Tokyo, Nov. 24——In memory of the late emperor of China and the em- press dowager, services of mourning were held Saturday at the Chinese legation. Similar services were held yesterday at the Chinese consulate at Seoul. Convenes to Name Cummins. Des Moines, Nov. 24. — Gov. A. B. Cummins will be elected United States seator by the Iowa legislature in special session Tuesday. To this same legislature he will tender his resignation as governor. Schooner Sinks; Five Drown. . Boston, Nov. 24—Five men, inclad- ing Capt. Obed Knowlton of the Brit- ish schooner Hugh G., lost their lives in a collision in Broad sound and the schooner sank. Three men were saved. Reforms Instituted in Palace—New Dowager Empress Is Rushed Into Background. Peking, Nov. 24.—While all % quiet at Peking, detachments of troops guard the city gates and genda-mes are on duty at the approaches to the foreign legation. The government has not ceased to take precautionary measures lest something in th> nz of an outbreak happens here, for revo- lutionists are spreading all kinds of reports which might act like fire- brands to the spirit of uneasiness un- derlying present conditions in China. Rumors of Rebellion. There have heen rumors of an in- surrectionary movement in the South, but this has proved to be only a minor outbreak amongst the artillery and cavalry stationed at Nanking. Nevertheless it has been thought ad- visable to post a guard at each of the gates of Peking, and Chinese regu- lars are now under arms at these points. It was owing to one of these dis- turbances that the edict of Nov. 20 was issued, in which it was pointed out that lawless conspirators had tried to invade the interior and all of- ficials were ordered to arrest and sum- marily behead them wherever found. Stringent measures have been taken here to suppress any sign of conspira- cy and the government has order investigation of the governor of Elwei province on account of a sl uprising that took place there. Reforms Instituted. Reforms have already been _ insti- tuted in the palace. The new dowager empress Yehonala has withdrawn her- self to the background and the late dowager’s eunichs and others who were identified with her powerful and dominating rule, becoming alarm- ed at the evidences of the reform movement and anticipating discharge, have fied. Prince Chun’s recent edict, in which he declined to permit any interference from the dowager empress Lehonala, has cleared the throne from any pos sible domination of the clan of woman, at least until the new emperor, Priea Pu Yi assumes power. 500 PASSENGERS IN PERIL. Steamers Collide and Catastrophe Is Averted by Action of Captain. New York, Noy. 24. — The lives of more than 500 persons were imperiled yesterday when the fruit steamer Ad- miral Dewey, inward-bound from Ja- maica, cr ed into the steamer Mount Desert, outward-bound, from Bay Ridge, for the fishing banks. The Admiral Dewey, coming suddenly out of a fog bank, struck the Mount Des- ert almost amidships, opening a gash in the fishing vessel that extended from the upper deck to the water's edge. There were 450 passengers, in- cluding twenty women and six chil- dren, on the Mount Desert, and the Admiral Dewey carried forty-five pas- sengers. Panic immediately followed the col- lision, and it was due to the prompt action of Capt. Davidson of the Dewey that a catastrophe was averted, for the passengers on the fishing steamer began climbing over the guard rails of that vessel and leaped for the deck of the Admiral Dewey. Had he back- ed his steamer away many would have fallen into the water. Capt. Da- vidson kept the steamer moving slow- ly ahead, and this held the prow of the fruit steamer into the rent that had been made and afforded a board- ing place for the frightened passen- gers of the Mount Desert. All were saved. CASTRO GOING ABROAD. Plans to Sail for Europe to Undergo Operation There. Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. 24.—Presi- dent Castro is about to leave Vene- zuela for Europe to undergo an opera- tion at the hands of skilled physicians. Preparations for his trip are now be- ing made. There is reason to believe that the president contemplates leay- ing La Guaira Noy. 24 on the French mail steamer Guadeloupe. This ves- sel runs between Havre and West In- dian ports. Forest Fires Still Raging. Evansville, Ind., Nov. 24.—The for- est fires in Dubois county, Indiana, that have been raging for the past three days have spread over hundreds of acres of timber lands and are still burning. The drouth in Southern Indiana has prevailed for 174 days and is the worst in the recollection of the oldest inhabitants. Three Trappers Are Fined. Fergus Falls, Minn., Nov. 24.—Depu- ty Game Warden J. H. Jones swore out a warrant against E. J. Rath. John Pope and J. H. Ware, charging them with trapping before the season opened, and all three pleaded guilty and paid fines of $10 each. Powder Blast Kills Two. Cincinnati, Nov. 24.—Tw omen are dead and two others probably fatally injured as the result of the explosion of a blast of three kegs of powder in excavating work along the tracks of the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad here. Sweden’s Rulers Return. London, Nov. 24. — The king and queen of Sweden, who have been in England as the guests of King Ed- ward, left this city for Stockholm, via Portemonth and Cherhonre. nts | —_}——_