Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 21, 1909, Page 2

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Watch the News- papers next week for full Informa- IMPORTANT NEWs NOTES OF A WEEK LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for the Perusal of the Busy Man— Latest Personal Infor- mation, re | WASHINGTON NEWS. In a statement given out by his secretary President Taft practically tells congress the Republican party's pledges on the tariff must be kept or he will veto the bill. Twenty-three members of the house visited President Taft and appealed to him to protect raw materials, say- ing their return to congress depended upon such action. Democrats, for the first time in sev- eray years found a way in which they could defeat the Republicans. It was in a baseball game, the score being 26 to 16. Democratic members of the house made an unsuccessful attempt to kill he provision in the urgency deficien- cy bill for $25,000 traveling expenses for the president. President Taft summoned Senator Aldrich and Representative Payne to the White House and declared the tariff battle must be fought to a finish. Ambassador Takahira is expected to be succeeded at Washington by K. Uchida, now stationed at Vienna. Speaker Cannon refused to appoint as a conferee on the tariff, Represen- tative Hill, who was chosen by Presi- dent Taft. By a vote of 317 to 14, all of those opposing being Republicans, the house adopted a resolution submitting the income question to state legisla- tures for a constitutional amendment. PERSONAL. Charles R. Crane of Chicago, one of the largest manufacturers of the United States, has been selected by President Taft as minister to China. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg was ap- pointed chancellor of Germany to suc- ceed Prince von Buelow. Rey. Edward M. Dunne of Chicago, newly-appointed bishop of Peoria, took the oath of allegiance to the holy see at Washington. J. U. Sammis of Lemars, Ia. was elected gramd exalted ruler of the Elks and Detroit was selected as the meeting place of the grand lodge in 1910. Goy. Johnson of Minnesota became seriously ill in St. Paul and it was feared another operation for appendi- citis would be necessary. Edward Payson Weston, the vet- eran pedestrian, reached San Fran- ¢eisce, five days behind his scheduled time of 100 days on his walk from New York. William Jennings Bryan wrote a letter to President Taft urging an amendment providing for election of United States senators by the people. | Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is now in Geona, Italy. She took a drive through that city accompanied by her sister, Miss Carow. GENERAL NEWS. Anarchists and socialists got into the strike at McKees Rocks, Pa., and urged the use of the torch and dyna- mite. The car company president re- fused to arbitrate. The crown prince, Sultan Ahmed Mirza, was proclaimed shah of Per- sia in place of his father who abdi- cated when he fied to the Russian le- gation in Teheran to seek safety from the Nationalists. W. E. Baker, engineer and Nelson Paulson, fireman, were killed and three other trainmen injured in a head-on collision of passenger trains en the Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail- way at RoyeL.Ui Paris has Heard a story that Count Boni de Castellane is to wed Miss Marjorie Gould, daughter of George Gould and niece of his former wife who is now the Princess de Sagan. An American in London told the po- lice he had seen Leon Ling, slayer of Elsie Sigel in that city. G. A. Neundorf of Clark, S. D, sent a boiled egg to the attorney gen- eral’s office in Washington requesting an opinion as to its freshness. It was rotten. Glen Curtiss, a New York aeronaut, made a flight of 31 minutes in his aeroplane at Hempstead, L. I. Reports received in London said 300 were killed by earthquakes in south- ern Greece and the springs spouted hot water. A report from Tokyo said Baron Takahira, ambassador to the United States from Japan, is to be succeeded by K. Uchida, now at Vienna. Mrs. William Olyphant of West Branch, Ia., poisoned four of her chil- dren and herself, killing one of the children. Fithian, Ill., was wrecked, Alton and Venice were badly damaged, St. Louis was swept and 20 mourners in a fun- eral procession near Hamilton, O., were hurt, by cyclones. John W. Brown, believed to be from Indianapolis, was killed by an automo- bile in Los Angeles. Fourteen members of the crew on the steamer John B, Cowle lost their lives when she was sunk in collision with the Isaac M. Scott off White- fish Point, Lake Superior. The Mississippi river reached a stage of 33.4 at St. Louis, being three feet above the flood mark. ee Thinking she had killed her hus- band Mrs. Fred Fricke, of Hammond, Ind., shot herself. The president of the police in Han- over, Germany, has issued a decree warning women against the danger of wearing long hatpins. He says a woman whose hatpin causes an ac- cident to another is liable to prosecu- tion for assault. The Mississippi flood reached its crest at St. Louis, the gauge regis: tering 35.5 feet. It will be a week be- fore the river is normal even if no more rain falls. Myrtle Cress was acquitted of the charge of murdering her sweetheart, John Phillips, at Cripple Creek, Col., after it had been shown with a re- volver that the killing was accidental. American imports in June aggre- gated $124,693,497 and exceeded ex- ports by $7,000,000. John D. Rockefeller has transferred his 16-story office building and other Cleveland property to his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The great historical pageant in Bath, England, illustrating the long history of that city, opened with a very large attendance from the United Kingdom and other lands and representatives of nearly every town named Bath in the world. The Photographers’ Association of America met in annual convention in Rochester, N. Y., F. R. Barrows of Boston presiding. A. two-days’ meeting of the Retail Shoe Dealers’ association of Michigan was held in Detroit. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw testified at the sanity hearing that her husband, Harry K. Thaw, threatened to kill her when released from the insane asy- | lum. Former President Roosevelt, writ- ing in the Outlook, said the American multi-millionaire isn’t a healthy devel- opment for the country. Louis Rosenberg, a cigarmaker of Cleveland, O., was slain for his money by Frank Elebra who committed sui- cide in the St. Clair Flats near Port Huron, Mich. Samuel Frisbie, a third Cleveland man, attempted suicide after being arrested. The packet of papers kept in a safe- ty deposit box by J. B. Sayler, the Crescent City (Ill.) banker slain by Dr. W. R. Miller, was opened by his brothers and _ startling evidence against the slayer was found. A report in Paris, which is denied by the fathers of both, said Duchess de Chaulnes, formerly Theodora Shonts, is to be married to Prince Joachim Murat. - The Catholic Educational. _associa- tion decided to hold-its 1910 conver tion in Detroit, July 5, 6 and 7. A son was born in Paris to Princess de Sagan, formerly Anna Gould, who was divorced from Count de Castel- lane. Plans are being made in Washing: | ton and Mexico City for a meeting of Presidents Taft and Diaz at El Paso. | Eleven of the crew of a British sub- | marine were drowned when the war vessel was sunk in collision with a cargo steamer near Cromer, Engiand. Several villages were destroyed and, | were | it is reported, many persons killed by an earthquake in southern Greece. Reproductions of etchings of Wash- ington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Taft are being sent to adorn the walls of American embassies and _ legations throughout the world. Experiments are to be made with the heliograph to ascertain its prac- ticability as a means of communica- tion for reporting fires in the nation- al forests. Because his mother was partly Jap-} anese and partly Chinese William Knight, for 27 years in the navy and awarded a medal for bravery in the battle of Manila bay, was denied citi- zenship papers at New York. In a riot of steel workers at Mc- Kees Rock, near Pittsburg, 100 men were injured, six ef the strikers being seriously wounded by shots from rifles fired by deputy sheriffs guards. Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr., trust officer of the Hiberian Bank & Trust Com- | pany of New Orleans was arrested on a charge of embezzling $100,000. According to Chinese of Denver the Chinese government will render the United States no aid in finding Leon Ling, slayer of Elsie Sigel, who is be- ing protected by the Masons. Former President Roosevelt and his party, after an all-day walk across an African desert, were forced to go without water and suffered much from thirst. The body of Claude Hunt, who was drowned in Klinger lake near Sturgis, Mich., with Miss Mary Loretta Davey of Chicago, was found by searchers. “I'm going to pull off a little stunt to-day,” said Tim Thomas of Oshkosh, Wis., as he took his suit of clothes from a tailor and then went to a boarding house in Aberdeen and com- mitted suicide. Secretary of the Interior Ballinger said at Seattle that he had not clashed with Secretary Wilson, but that he and Gifford Pinchot differ as to the law on forest reserves Naval officers at Annapolis say it will be shown at the coming investi- gation of Lieut. Sutton’s death that he shot at another when he killed himself. The Northwestern Railroad Com- pany has made plans to build several branches in the wheat regions of South Dakota. War between the American Society of Equity in Kentucky and the Burley Tobacco society, over the 1909 pool, is threatened. Orville Wright made two unsuccess- ful attempts to fly in his aeroplane at Fort Myer and the machine was broken again in falling to earth. Mrs. George Lynas, said to be from Chicago, paid $525, a record price, for Rob Roy IL, a Chinchilla Persian cat, in London. MILWAUKEE TO BUILD CUT-OFF. | Proposed Line Will Extend Straight From Camp Douglas to Sparta. La Crosse.—To build a new line ot tracks from Camp Douglas, north of the present tracks, to Tunnel City. through a tunnel half a mile long, and; then crossing the Milwaukee tracks overhead and running parallel with them to Sparta is said to be the in- tention of the Milwaukee road whieh has surveyors at work. This route would give a straight route to Sparta, La Crosse and other points and, it is said, will result in making Camp Doug: las the junction of ‘the North-Western Omaha and Milwaukee roads, meaning the abandonment of Elroy as a junc: tion. Trouble with the tunnel near El roy is assigned as one of the reasons for the cut-off. and | ~ MAILED FIST OF THE PRESIDENT AFTER LONG SILENCE MR. TAFT PREPARES TO TAKE A HAND IN LEGISLATION. LOSES PATIENCE WITH CONGRESS Giving Conferees Plenty of Rope With Which to Hang Themselves. —When Measure Comes Forth Then Watch for Big Battle. Washington, July 19.— President Taft is ready to veto the tariff bill if it appears to him to be treachery to the pledges of the Republican party. Further than this, he is preparing now for the one sort of action that will wrest victory out of defeat for the Republican downward revisionists, He is shaping up a fight in ‘which he will call to his aid every man in the house of representatives who believes in the keeping of party promises, and to this call there will respond enough Republicans to completely control the situation for downward revision. The facts are indisputable. They come as a climax to his interview with newspaper men last Monday, his plain speech to the delegation of con- gressmen Friday and his public state- ment issued Friday afternoon. They put into the tariff situation a new ele- ment, the one element which the champions of downward revision have declared is necessary to carry the sit- uation. ° From the beginning of the presi- dent’s activity in the tariff situation, the “progressive” senators have ex- pressed doubt of his ability to do any- thing. They have declared that he had entered the fight too late and that his declarations for downward revi- sion could have but little effect upon the conference committee. “The one chance the president has to force a general reduction is to be- | in active work with members: of the house and unite them against any bill which fails to keep party pledges,” is a statement that has been repeatedly ‘made by Senator Clapp of Minnesota and other western senators. To Give Conferees Chance. This is the exact program whichis now being unfolded. The real work has not yet started. So far as can be learned, the president has made no efforts to bring house members around to oppose the Dill. The ef- forts that have been made to unite the opposition in the house have come freely from the Western revi- sionists of the house and senate. The entire plan is mapped out, how- ever. The conference committee is to have the first opportunity. As he kept hands off the house and senate in preparation of the bill, so the presi- dent will keep hands off the confer- ence committee, so far as the actual work is concerned. Every member of that committee has been told time and again how the president stands and what sort of a bill he wants, but the work will be left entirely to the committee. When the report of that committee comes to the two houses, the real battle will begin. Bveryone in Wash- ington realizes thoroughly that the conference is dominated by the high protection interests, from beginning to end. Even the repeated state- ments from the White House as to the president’s position cannot force out of the conference committee bill anything in keeping with the party promises. President’s Stand Approved. The president’s statement of Friday night has been hailed with approval from end to end of the continent. Minneapolis, St. Paul, cities of North and South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin and the west, south and east were represented by the hundreds of tele- grams which poured in to the presi- dent yesterdgy. > Le eames A steady stream of callers at the executive offices brought words of commendation to the chief executive, but to none of them did he more than indicate his acknowledgment of their promised support. The president is still refraining from fighting the tar- ‘ff conferees through the press, or through senate ‘or house members. His dealings with the conference com- mittee are direct, and until that com- mittee furnishes its report to the two houses his support will apparently be with it. BOUND TO CROSS THE CHANNEL. Latham Wagers He Will Fly Over Before August 1. Calais, July 19.—Herbert Latham, the aeroplanist who has several times announced his intention of making a flight in his monoplane across the channel, has returned here from Paris. It is stated that Latham has made wasers amounting to $3,400 that he will cross the channel in his airship before Aug. 1. TEAR DOWN RAILROAD FENCE. Colcrado People Indignant at Union Pacific’s Action. Brighton, O., July 19.—Indignant at the action of the Union Pacific in fenc- ing its right of way, 200 feet on either side, shutting off roads and tearing out sinail bridges, the citizens of Brighton tore down the fences. It; was reported that the railroad offic- fals had sent a body of armed guards on the big Shop- ‘Congressman Taw- ney took the first steps yesterday to- ward securing legislation which will do away with the branch print shops maintained by the postoffice, com- merce and labor interior and other departments, and which is calculated to result in a considerable financial saving to the government. PHOTOGRAPHERS IN_ SESSION| Convene in Rochester to Hear Ad- dresses and Learn New Methods. Rochester, N. Y., July 19.—This city, the center of photographic materials in America, is the host of the Photog- raphers’ association of America, whieh opened today its twenty-ninth annual convention. F. R. Barrows, of Bos- ton, the president, is presiding over the business sessions in the big hall of the Seneca hotel, and is making them as brief as possible, for the mem- bers have a lot of entertainment in- struction to absorb before the con- vention closes on Saturday. In the Rochester convention hall are installed the manufacturers’ and photographic exhibits, the pictures be- ing hung by states. In the same hall a school of photography is being con- ducted by experts. The lantern ex- hibit is in the charge of Hyland Phil- lips. The evenings have been set apart for more pleasure. On one the members will be banqueted by the Eastman Company, and on the oth- er they will be entertained by other manufacturers. aere to prevent such acetion, but 20" LIBERATED FROM PRISON SHIP. Fesistanee was made. M’CLEARY MAY NOT GET IT MINT DIRECTORSHIP IS CENTER OF SEA OF POLITICS. Eastern Candidates With Consider able Backing Are In the Fight. Washington, July 19.—James T. Mc- Cleary, of Mankato, former congress- man and recently second assistant postmaster general, has landed on the rock of “political influence” in Wash- ington. The position of director of the mint, the $5,000 treasury post, which it was understood had been picked for him, has become the center of turbulent sea of political clamoring and in the contest for the position, it is more than Mkely the Minnesota man will be left out of the calculations. Discussion of the situation is guard- ed in official circles. It is admitted that McCleary was virtually picked for the place, and that the choice was made without solicitation or activity on the part of the former Minnesota congressman. Since the first mention of his name as the probable appointment, there risen up a hosto f strongly backed candidates, some of whom have brought whole delegations down to the White House and the secretary of the treasury’s office. The political situa- tion that has developed is understood to carry with it considerable embar- rassment fer the federal authorities with whom the appointment lies. 4 TO CONCENTRATE PRINTING, Tawney Makes Move to Abolish Branch Offices in Washington. Washington, July 19.—President Taft and Congressman Tawney, of Minnesota, had a heart to heart talk about printing offices yesterday. They agreed that the government printing office is the biggest printery in the country, and they agreed that being | such, it ought to do all the work for the departments in Washington. The result of the conference is to be a movement which will not be rel- ished in many of the departments in Washington. All the branch printing offices that have been maintained for many years in various departments are to be abolished, and the entire Magness Hastens to Home and Bride In Washington. Portsmouth, N. H., July 19.—Charles Magness, son-in-law of the late United States Senator Arthur P. Gorman, and ‘a musician in the United States navy, was released from the prison ship Southery at the Portsmouth navy yard upon the completion of his six months’ sentence for desertion. The man was spirited away imme- diately in an automobile and it was said that he has started for Washing: ton, D. C., where a house has been fitted up for his bride and himself. The arrest of Magness on a charge of desertion after his marriage to Miss Gorman and the attempts to have him freed, caused a sensation in Baltimore and Washington society circles where the couple are well known. Efforts to have President Taft pardon the young man or to have him discharged from the navy honor- ably failed, and Magness was forced to serve out his sentence. BIG LION JOINS SPECTATORS, Had Been Brought Out to Fight Bull, but Balked. El Paso, Tex., July 19.—Escaping from a cage in the center of a bull ring Nero, an African lion that refus- ed to fight, bounded up among the bleachers and created a panic among hundreds of persons assembled to wit ness hte lion-bull fight in honor of fies- ta at Chihuahua Friday. Fortunately the lion harmed no one, but the panic resulted in several sores Contract Let. Park Rapids.—The contract for put- ting in the extensions to the water- works system and laying the mains across the river has been secured by W. I. Gray & Co., of Minneapolis. The extensions must be completed and a new and larger pump put in before freezing weather. ACTION OF SWENSON DELAYED. No More Diplomatic Appointments Be Made Until Winter. Washington, D. C—The White House announcement that no more di- | plomatic appointments are to be made until next winter means that all talk of a place for Lauritz Swenson, of Minneapolis, former minister to Den- mark, will go over until that time. The White House today does not ad- mit that there is any likelihood that Mr. Swenson is to get a position,