Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 26, 1910, Page 5

—— TEMPESTS ADDED TOFRENGH FLO00S RIVER SEINE IS A. RUSHING TORRENT—VALLEYS AND PLAINS INUNDATED. PARIS IS A SECOND VENICE Cities Are in Darkness and Hundreds of Persons Homeless.—Situation Now Becoming Grave. Paris, Jan. 25.—The flood situation in Paris has reached a more critical stage. The Seine registered 7.53 me- ters at Pont Royal. This is the highest the river has been since 1802, when it reached 8.080 meters, the highest point recorded in the history of France except in the year 1615. A terrible tempest of rain and wind which broke over the city at daylight added to the horror of the situation and to the suffering of the hundreds of poor and homeless. The river presents an awe-inspiring spectacle. A quarter of a million people in a firenching rain throng the stone para- pets and quays watching the yellow tide which is crowded with driftwood, | wine casks and other wreckage, rush- {ng seaward. | The water now is almost flush with | the arches of the bridges. | Bridges Are Endangered. | Fireman, police and troops are work- {ng like mad at all the bridges, disen- tangling the blockades resulting from the floating debris, and it is hoped that all the bridges will be saved. | Traffic on several of the frailer ones, | nowever, has been stopped. | Streets around the chamber of depu- ties are unsafe and all traffic in these | thoroughfares has been forbidden. The tunnel between the Quai d’Or- say and the Quai d’Austerlitz stations is a rushing stream. The basement | of the Palais de Jusi is full of | water and the first floor of the central police station is untenable. The partial crippling of the water supply threatens the capital with a water famine. The police are making a house to house canvass notifying the inhabitants to boil all water used for drinking purposes and thereby avoid the danger of typhoid epidemic. Traffic Partly Suspended. The surface and underground rail- ways, which barely are sufficient un- der normal conditions to cope with the traffic, remain partly suspended. Rail- road traffic, however, now is utterly flemoralized and completely suspended to the southward of Paris. The situation at suburban places up | aud down the river is deplorable. The | ower quarters of all the towns on the river below Paris are under water, the Auteuil resembling those streets of at Venice. A dyke near St. Germain broke. flooding the valley as far as Malmai- son. The lower portion of Bois de Bo- logne is a blanket of water reaching to Bagatelle. Judging from reports re- ed from the provinces, a quarter of France is under water. The cities of Montargis, Macon, Cha- tone-Sur-Saone and Epernay and the entire champagne country is exper- iencing the most diastrous floods since 1856. | The water in many of the villages | zlong the Saone and the Marne reach- | as to the roofs of the dwellings. At Verdun-Sur-Le-Doubs, a small | town 11 miles from Chalons-Sur-Saone, | the protecting dyke is breaking and | the town is threatened with destruc: | tion. The factories and mills have stopped work at Mezieres, Sedan and other places in the Moure valley. Great damage has been done to the beautiful French places. The Garonne and Dor- fogne rivers are rising rapidly. The village of Carnao is surrounded by a jake. It is impossible to estimate the property loss as a result of the floods, dut it will run into millions of francs. Fortunately the loss of life has been small. Snow and rain are adding to the foods, which are unprecedented in the aistory of the present generation. Preemier Briand introduced a bill appropriating $40,000 for the relief of sufferers from the floods. Owing to the difficulty of getting food into the city, market prices have oeen raised, adding another element of distress to the poorer classes. The dyke at Saone au Doubs broke, tmundating ten villages. The streets of Chalons are under water and two persons have’ been drowned. Hun- fireds of persons are on the roofs of their nearly submerged homes, crying for help. Boats are being used by rescuing parties. RUSSIA HAS RELIGIOUS WAR. More Than 100 Persons Killed in Row Between the Shiahs and Sunnites. St. Petersburg, Jan. 25.—More than 100 persons have been killed and many wounded as the result of re- ligious conflicts which for two days have been waging in old Bokhara be- tween the Sunnites and the Shiahs. The Sunnites demand the replacement of the Shiah officials by Sunnites. Russian troops and. machine guns have STEWART TO LIVE 1,000 YEARS. Minneapolis Capitalist Not in a Dying Humor. Minneapolis—Elder Levi M. Stew- art expects to live one thousand years more. Paul C. Hirsch, also of Minneapolis, will endeavor to “go him” for the same little period, if he likes certain prop- erties just leased from Mr. Stewart so well that he shall wish to renew the leases when they expire—for said leases run an even thousand years, and contain a provision that the lessee may secure -extensions by appearing personally in the presence of the les- sor for the latter’s signature. In other words a little business meeting between Mr. Stewart and Mr. Hirsch may be looked forward to by the members of the Minneapolis long- evity club, to take place on June i, 2910. . The veteran real estate man has signed leases which expire Jan. 1, 2910, with Mr. Hirsch, whom he char- acterizes as the senior member of his Grm, although the latter is fully 50 vears younger. Three Leases in All. Three leases were signed, one being tor 40 acres of land extending from St. Alban’s bay, Lake Minnetonka, to Christmas lake, the annual rental dur- ing the first 20 years amounting to $300. Thereafter the rate will be in- years, based on the present valuation wf the property. The property is val- aed at $500 per acre. The other two leases comprise a lot on Tenth avenue south between First and Second streets, valued at $17,000, and the entire State addition, owned by Mr. Stewart and located on Lake street between Portland avenue and Third avenue south. These leases were made on the same basis and for the same period as that of the Minne- tonka property. The valuation of the State addition property on which the lease was based Is $100,000. The rental will be in- creased on a graduated scale every 20 years during the life of the lease. These leases are record-breakers in the United States so far as the num- ber of years is concerned. REDWOOD FALLS !8 DRY. For First Time in Thirty Years, There Is “Nothing Doing. Redwood Falls—For the first time in thirty years Redwood Falls is with- out a single licensed saloon. The pow- er to grant or withhold license here is vested wholly in the city council. For several years anti-license voters have succeeded in electing one alder- man, and last yearan attempt to elect a “dry” alderman in each ward came near being successful, the license can- didates having only four majority in the First ward and six in the Second. This year two of the license candi- dates and the mayor, heretofore sus- taining license, agreed to be governed by a direct vote on the question of licensing saloons, stipulating that the anti-license vote should carry both wards. At the election a clause was added to the ballot for a direct vote on the issue, and the result was a ma- jority of twelve against license in the First ward and one in the Second. “Wets” Try to Shape Ballot. In the Second ward an attempt was made by the license supporters to go behind the returns on account of a ticket which had been passed upon as “dry” by the judges, but which, it was contended, should have been thrown out. When the council met and was re- quired to act on the applications for license, however, only one alderman, who was unpledged, voted yes. Citizens generally have accepted the result without excitement, and many believe that the city will not again license saloons. EXPRESS AGENT GRAFTED. Minneapolis Man Used Unique “Kit- ing” Scheme. Minneapolis.—A criminal charge of embezzlement in the sum of $914.22 has been made by the American Ex- press company against Herman Hans- come, a former agent. The county attorney is charged with the prosecu- tion of the case and the authorities are awaiting the return of Hanscome from a business trip to serve the war- rant. It develops that Hanscome, as one of the hundred city agents of the Am- erican Express company, issued money orders among his other duties as agent and the alleged appropriation of a number of the sums recited on such money orders constitutes the basis for the charge. i Investigation by the company shows that a short time after Hanscome’s ac- counts were checked up, on October 27, a number of money orders for $50 were issued by Hanscome in favor of a number of names. The company al- leges that these names were fictitious and that their agent cashed them him- self at some of the principal dry goods houses of the city and placed the mon- ey to his account in his bank as against the day when he would again have to give the company a check for the funds he had supposedly taken in for money orders issued. FAIL TO GET TIME EXTENSION. ‘Citizens of Minneota, Minn., Give Rea- sons For Not Erecting High School Marshall—The residents of Minne- ota have failed to gain another ex- tension of time in the matter of erect- ing a high school, which they were requested to do two years ago by George A. Aiton, state high school in- spector. The arguments advanced are that there is not enough attendance to warrant it and that the diplomas grant- ed by it would not be as good as those been sent from Samarkand. from other schools. treased 8% per cent each score of | oe HOUSE TURNS DOWN IMMIGRATION BOARD NO. MONEY ALLOWED COMMIS- SION IN URGENT. DEFI- CIENCY BILL. WENT ON A $675,993. JUNKET | Hostile Criticism of Its Work Is a Fea- ture of Debate.—Ballinger-Pin- chot Probe Is Planning to Summon Witnesses. —y Washington, Jan. 25.—Refusing to appropriate any money for the expens- es of the immigration commission, the house of representatives passed the urgent deficiency bill carrying a total appropriation of nearly $5,000,000, which is a reduction of more than $1,000,000 under the estimates submit- ted by the treasury department. Hostile criticism of the work of the immigration commission formed a leading feature of the debate which was concluded by an elimination of the entire paragraph for the continuation of the work of that commission which desired $125,000 to print its report and to conclude its business. Mr. Macon, making a scathing at- tack on the body, charged that the commission had gone on a junketing expedition abroad, had spent $657,993 and had accomplished practically nothing. Following the action taken by the Democratic caucus the house appoint- ed Representative Graham, of [Ilinois, to succeed Representative Lloyd, of Missouri, as a member of the Balling- | er-Pinchot investigating committee. In the senate Mr. Tillman criticised the administration for failing to prose- cute suits against the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for the recovery of public land granted to the railroad un- der the condition that it should be sold in tracts of 160 acres at not more than $2.50 an acre. Nelson Will Outline Probe Plans. At the meeting of the joint congres- sional committee to investigate the Balling - Pinchot affairs, Nelson, chairman of the commit- tee, will outline a program for the in- vestigation and submit a plan for call- ing witnesses in order to facilitate the inquiry. His long experience as chair- man of the committee on public lands of the senate, and his familiarity with the affairs of the interior department and the forestry service of the agricul- tural department, as well as the pub- | lic land system generally, equips Mr. Nelson to be of great aid to the com- mittee in outlining the plan of opera- tions. Judges’ Salaries Cut. The salaries of the judges of the court of customs appeals, which was created by the new tariff law, were practically fixed by the house at $7,000 each. The tariff law named $10,000. This figure, which is $3,000 in excess of the salaries received by circuit court judges, provoked in congress a) controversy which has been kept alive ever since. It is likely the senate will concur in the lower figure. Reclamation Fund Provided. As finally reported by the senate committee on irrigation, the adminis- tration bill providing for a reclamation fund authorizes the issuance of $30, | 000,000 worth of certificates of in-| debtedness to carry on existing irriga-| tion projects. The certificates are to run for five years, when half of the proceeds derived from the sale of re- claimed lands are to be set aside for their redemption. BARGAIN IN EDUCATION. But the Promoter Is in the Hands of the Law. New York, Jan. 25.—The ,whole col- lege course of Robert Harnandez cost him just $60 and occupied less than one day’s work. Hernandez, who is a Cuban student, answered an ad- vertisement stating that diplomas of the “Lincoln Jefferson university,” at Hammond, Ind., could be obtained for a suitable deposit. He took the pre- caution of looking up the university, however, and found that it was not registered in this state. Becoming suspicious he informed the district attorney’s office. The board of education supplied the fee asked—$60. The detectives say the money passed in exchange for the diploma and then arrested Herbert A. Manchester of this city, who was held in $1,500 bail for the grand jury. " Several Hurt in Theatre Panic. Duluth, Jan. 25.—An act at the Bijou theatre, in which it was necessary to display considerable smoke occasioned what came near being a panic of some magnitude, Several people were hurt in the excitement and it was the as- surance of the actors themselves that stayed a disastrous panic. TWO PAROLED FROM PRISON. Stensland and Hering, Former Bank President and Cashier, Freed. Chicago, Jan. 25.—Paul O. Stens- Senator |. | tion for life as a result of his loss of GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1910 Now Clearance Sale in Full Swing ANNUAL OF Ladies’ and Childrens Suits, Coats, Dresses, Waists, Furs Inducements are Proving Irresistable You are invited to call and look them over The Pioneer Store @ John Beckfelt Grand Rapids g SENATOR NELSON IS ILL. Takes Heavy Cold Which Settles on Lungs. Washington, Dec. 28.—Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota is not in first-rate physical condition at present. He has taken a heavy cold, which has settled on his lungs, and there is some dan- ger ef pneumonia. He had an attack of that disease some eight winters ago, and was in bed for many weeks, his life at times being in great danger. Generous to Legiess Man. ‘Sterling, Ill., Dec. 28.—Leroy Clifton nas received from the Chicago and Northwestern railroad a check for $8,- 900, a life pass on the road and a posi- Seefeeteage sete both legs in an accident two months ago. He settled without the aid of an attorney. Rejected Suitor’s Aim Fatal, Stricklen, Ga., Dec. 28.—A few min- utes after he had been married to Miss Rose Butler, Gabriel Len,.a young farmer, was shot and killed by Joe Jackson, a rejected suitor of the bride, near Lynn. A sheriff's posse with bloodhounds is pursuing Jackson. Heney’s Libel Suit Started. New York, Dec. 28.—The formal complaint in the damage suit of Fran- cis J: Heney of San Francisco against William H. Crocker, the California millionaire, for $250,000 on an alle; tien ef libel, was filed here. Mr. Hen- ey bases his action om an open let- ter bearing Mr. Crocker’s name which appeared in a New York evening mews- paper Dec. 3, in which Mr. Crocker de. fended his action iu first supporting Heney in the San Francisco graft pros- ecutions and later withdrawing hie support. GOTHAM TRUST CO’S MERGED. Mergan-Ryan Interests Represent Re- sources of $150,000,000. New York, Jan. 4—J. Pierpont Mor- gan, Thomas F. Ryan and Levi P. Morton have linked hands in New York in a trust company merger which unites resources of $150,000,000. It is a triple combination, bringing the Guaranty Trust company, the Morton Trust company and the Fifth Avenue Trust company, all of this city, under one head with the title of Guar- anty Trust company. The merger is perhaps the largest of its kind in the United States. Levi P. Morton, who {is president of the Morton Trust company, and the Fifth Avenue Trust company — both known as Morton-Ryan concerns—has consented to act as chairman of the land, former president, and Henry W. Hering, former cashier of the Milwau- kee Avenue State bank in this city, who are serving prison terms for wrecking that institution, were re- leased from Joliet penitentiary. Stensiand will live on a farm near Chicago while Hering will be paroled te a contractor of this city. merged companies for which no presi- dent has as yet been selected. This new move in finance follows the recemt absorption of the Guar- anmty Trust company by the so-called Morgan interests, but upon just what terms the merger was made was not disclosed. a en Sober tres HOUSE WIRING AND FIXTURE HANGING A SPECIALTY ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY W.N. DELCOUR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR =< Seedeteeteny 4 z Leave orders at ] GRAND RAPIDS Feeeeeeeeerereeredenennernnoeranes “ Ta a a a as Ss es 2 OO 2 SO SY 5 ~ seraeegees CENERAL BLACKSMITHING HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY All kinds of repair work neatly and promptly done (OLD GLADSTONE BARN) GEO. BOOTH Manufacturer of FINE CIGARS Grand Rapids, Minneseta. Have achieved excellent rT} U 4s BOooTH S CIGARS reputation all over Northera Minnesota. They are made of the finest selected stock by experienced workmen in Mr. Booth’s own shops here, and under his personal supervision. This insures the utmost cleanliness and care im manufacture. e@everywhere. Call for them. 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