Youngstown News, 1902-03-14

              THE YOUNGSTOWN NEWS. VOL. XXII. Y OUNGrSTO WN, N. Y., FRIDAY. MARCH 14. 1902. JNO. 6. ROYAL VISITOR AN LL.D. Harvard Degree Conferred Upon Prince Henry by President Eiiot. CONGRATULATED BY THE KAISER Distinguished Guest Cordially Welcomed t>y Massachusetts and Ronton Officials —Presented Emperor "William's Gift to the Germanic Museum of Harvard— Danqueted by the City—End of Tour. Boston, Mass.—Harvard University added an LL.D. to the name of Prince Henry of Prussia, when the royal traveler visited Cambridge to deliver the gifts of his brothei-, the Kaiser, to the Germanic Museum. Before going to the University the Prince was welcomed as the guest of the city by Governor Crane and Mayor Collins, and had ceremoniously returned their calls. At the Hotel Somerset, whence he was driven immediately upon his arrival, he was called upon by Governor Crane. The Prince then called at the State House. Afterward he called upon the Mayor and other city digaitaries at the public library. After returning to the' Somerset he went to Cambridge and at City Hall was welcomed by Mayor McNamee and given a monograph in remembrance of his visit. From. Cambridge City Hall Prince Henry went to Harvard College, where the honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon hijn. The Prince was next escorted to the faculty room, where he met the faculty and with his staff lunched with them. After lunch the entire party repaired to the Harvard Union, which was filled with students and representatives of college life. Addresses were made by President Denby, of the junior class, and Mayor Henry L. I-ligginson. A third address of welcome was made by R. C. Boiling, for the general student body. Three cheers for the royal visitor were given, and the Prince then responded to the felicitations. In concluding his speech he proposed three cheers for President Roosevelt, which were given with a will. During the proceedings President Eliot handed Prince Henry a cablegram. which he opened at once. After reading it he arose and read in German the cablegram, a correct translation of which follows: "Henry, Prince of Prussia, Harvard University, Cambridge: "I congratulate you upon receiving to-day the honorary degree of Harvard Univei'sity, the highest honor which America can bestow. May the copies of the examples of German art and German civilization which I transmit through you be to the professors, as to the young academicians, an incentive throughout their lives and an Inspiring example in the pursuit of German ideals and the striving for all that exalts and is lasting. "WILLIAM." The royal visitor was taken next to the reception of the Germanic Museum Association at the residence of Professor Hugo Munsterberg, where he found many men and women of his own nationality and decorations in the German style. Prince Henry, in a short address, said he would present a number of photographs of reproductions of monuments which are to be cast and which will be sent to Harvai'd in about four months for the Germanic Museum. The heartiest part of Boston's formal welcome to Prince Henry was concentrated in the banquet at the Somerset in the evening. Over 200 hundred of the representative citizens of the commonwealth attended. To the sentiments expressed there his royal highness made a formal response. The Prince and his suite then retired to their apartments, reappearing a few minutes later for departure for the residence of J. Montgomery Sears, where a reception was tendered the Prince by the Thursday Evening Club. At this reception, which was entirely informal, his royal highness had the oppor: unity of meeting the representative literary people of Boston. After the reception the Prince and his suite left for their train for Albany. PRINCE'S GRAND TOUR ENDED. He "Visited Thirteen States and Traveled a Distance of 4358 Miles. New York City.—Prince Henry completed his grand tour after being absent from this city for nine days, during which time his special train was within the territory of thirteen States and logged a total distance of 4358 miles. He was greatly pleased with 'his trip and expresses himself as delighted with the cordiality with which he was received throughout the country.His last day on the special train which carried him to the South, West and East, rivaled in interest any of the others spent by the Prince on the tour, for it began with a visit to. Albany, included a run in bright sunlight down the west shore of the Hudson River, and closed with a reception at the Uuited States Military Academy at West Point. Upon reaching this city the Prince was driven to the Waldorf-Astoria. In the evening Prince Henry and his suite were entertained at dinner by the University Club. Austria to Have an Embassy. The Austro-Hungarian Mission at Washington will be raised to an Embassy in 1903, as evidence of the cordial relations existing between Austria- Hungary and the United States. BRITISH ARMY REFORMS New Regulations Proposed Taken From Methods of the United States.. More Pny and Better Enlisted Men Expected to Improve the Service-wMajor Ice's Views. London.—The new army regulations proposed by the War Secretary, Mr. Brodriek, providing for increased pay and other reforms, which have created so much comment, appear to have be?n directly copied from the United States. Major Arthur Lee, member of Parliament for the Fareham Division of Hampshire and formerly British Military Attache at Washington, said of the proposed change: "At last we have taken a leaf from the excellent book of tli» United States, though I do not believe we have gone quite so far in that direction as Ave might have done, and as I hope we may do ultimately. Linder Mr. Brodriek's proposed changes a private in the British infantry now receives almost as much as a private in the United States Army. "With this change, which I frequently advocated while military attache at Washington, we hope to get a class of recruits similar to those secured in America. Under the old pay we gradually were towering the physical standard, yet still finding it hard to get men, while our desertion percentage was increasing at a rate which showed there was sometning radically wrong with the system. The American Army was the only other voluntarily enlisted body in the world with which we could make serviceable comparisons, the Continental, armies, owing to conscription and other causes, being perfectly worthless examples. "A year ago Mr. Brodriek poohpoohed the idea of copying the plan in use in the United States. Now he has changed his mind, and done what the majority of the members of the House, regardless of party, believe to be the very best thing that could well have happened to the army since Mr. Cardwell (in 1872) affected his sweeping reforms. For the first time 'Tommy Atkins,' with eveything found and higher pay, will be in a better position than his agricultural brother, and from that class we ougnt now to get the best instead of the worst. "It may hurt the agricultural interest, or what is left of it in England. But I do not believe that this damage will be as serious as the evils which the change will correct. Not only is it interesting to note the influence for the better of the American system in these sweeping changes, but in addition they will have a tremendous importance in another direction. Last year the Government clearly indicated its fears that it might have to resort to conscription. The present move banishes all possibility of this, for I understand Mr. Brodriek is willing to go even further in adapting the United States' excellent method of treatment for enlisted men, and by liberal finance build up the standard of the army. "The increase in pay means an additional annual cost of about $10,000,- 000, but I maintain that it will be a direct saving of money, for the better class of men secured will mean fewer men in the hospitals and prisons, as well as obviating other forms of wastage, and quickly will make up for the additional initial outlay. Some day perhaps we may be able to adopt the sensible plan of the United States of paying the enlisted men of all arms at the same rate. But traditions here die hard.' MURDERS IN BEAUMONT, TEXAS. A Gang: of Robber* Have Claimed Five Victims Since January 1. Beaumont, Texas.—The body of the fifth murdered victim of a gang of robbers and murderers operating along the river front was found floating in the river, and two hours later eighteen suspects, whose domicile is the country across the river known as "The Flats," were arrested and placed in jail. The body was viewed by Justice Brown, acting as Coroner, who held no formal inquest. He declared his conviction that the man had been murdered. There was nothing about the body to reveal the man's identity. Five bodies have been found since the first of the year. Two of them tvere so badly mutilated that their identification was impossible. A third one was identified by means of an emerald ring as that of Patrick Fitzpatrick, who had been missing for three weeks. The fourth body was that of Benjamin Pearson, who had nearly $100 in his pockets, besides a fine gold Avatch, when last seen by his friends. When found his body was clothed only in underclothing. In each case the victim was killed by blows on the head evidently made by sandbags or bludgeons. MISS ROOSEVELT NOT TO GO. President Withdraws His Consent to the Trip tothe Coronation. Jj Washington, D. C.—Miss Alice Roosevelt -will not attend the coronation ceremonies of King Edward. Her trip to Havana, where she will be the guest of Governor-General and Mrs. Wood, will be her consolation for missing the pageant next June. The withdrawal of the President's consent to the journey surprised everybody. The President's reason is that Miss Roosevelt has had a great amount of publicity lately. It is likely that at some future date uoth Miss Roosevelt and young Theollore will visit not only England, but nil Eurone. BIG STRIKE IN BOSTON Ten Thousand Freight Handlers Quit Work in a Sympathetic Move. Involving Great Interests Grew Out of Union Teamsters' Fight—A Gloomy Outlook. Boston, Mass.—Ten thousand menteamsters, freight clerks, freight handlers and longshoremen—went out on strike in sympathy vrith 100 freight handlers of the New Haven Railroad, who went out rather than handle "scab" freight. The movement is the direct outcome of the strike of the teamsters of the R. S. Brine Transportation Company. It has been only by advice of their officers that the freight handlers have been kept a£ work. They have been threatening to strike for some time. They did not want to handle the goods of the R. S. Brine Company, and said so. They took off the loads of the other master teamsters without trouble, but when it came to helping the non-union teamsters there was trouble. The New York Central Road has had in force for some time an order that the teamsters should see to the unloading of goods themselves, and not have that part of -the work done by the freight handlers. In this manner the men have not been compelled to handle the goods delivered at the freight houses by the R. S. Brine Company. But, in spite of this, they voted to strike in sympathy with the New Haven's men. The outlook was most gloomy. Ever since the courts helped the Brine Company to win its strike a month ago the feeling on both sides has been that a move on the part of organized labor was inevitable. The managers of the Brine Company, when the trouble came to a head, brought pressure to bear on the railroad company, demanding that its teams be unloaded by the railroad men, and threatening to charge storage in case this was not done. General Manager Chamberlain thereupon hired Italians, and all day the work of loading and unloading cars was in progress. The switchmen also voted to go out, and the effort on the part of the labor leaders was to unite not only the locomotive engineers and trainmen in the movement, but all divisions the union's army. The organizations which voted to strike are the principal members of the Allied Freight Transportation Council, the other members of which, such as the Longshoremen's Union, Expressmen's Union, Meat Handlers' and Wool and Leather Handlers, having a much smaller membership. The Allied Freight Transportation Council indorsed the action of various allied bodies, and instructed those unions which had not already taken such action to hold meetings at once and adopt a vote to that effect. The council also adopted a resolution denouncing the police for guarding the men at work in the South Boston freight houses in violation of the law prohibiting Sunday labor, and appointed a committee to wait upon the Governor and ask for the removal of the Police Commissioners for incompetence and neglect of duty in not enforcing the Sunday laws. It was stated in labor circles that the strike might probably extend to Providence, Fall River, Stonington, Hartford, New London, Worcester, Springfield and other points reached by the New York, New Haven and Hartford and Boston and Albany rai1 roads. COMMISSION DENIED GUNNER. Navy Warrant Officer Hill Found !L»cking i« "Professional Qualifications." ScVa Francisco, Cal. — Joseph Hill, gunner on tlie United States training ship Pensacola and survivor of the Maine, has received official notification from Washington that he is ineligible for a commission in the United States Navy. The notice says that he passed with credit the moral, mental and physical examination, but that he was lacking in "professional qualifications," which is supposed to mean he does not have requisite social standing to give him rank in the wardroom. Hill thus meets the same fate as Gunner Morgan, whose application for a commission was passed upon adversely last year. Hill at present occupies the highest rank in the list of petty officers, and his pay as gunner exceeds the pay of an Ensign. In speaking of the mattar he said that, while he was disappointed, he was not discouraged. He still means to get a commission if further effort will do it. Under the act of March, 1901, enlisted men of the navy under thirtyfive years of age who can pass the examination, are eligible for commissions when vacancies occur, and Hill says that he comes under that provision.GENERAL CRIBSKI CASHIERED. Kasslan Soldier Who Drove *000 Cliinese Into tlie Amur Kiver. London. — A dispatch from Berlin says that the Russian General Gribski, who was responsible for the massacre at Blagovestcliensk, has been dismissed from the army. According to reports of the Blagovestchensk massacre about 5000 Chinese were driven by the Russians into the Amur River. Russian troops on the banks clubbed or shot any who attempted to land, and the river bank was strewn with corpses for miles. BURNED IN BLAZING CARS Frightful Railway Wreck in Texas Caused by a Broken Rail, PASSENGERS WERE FAST ASLEEP The Shock Attending the Disaster Wag the First Intimation They Had of Danger—Desperate Attempts to Escape a Horrible Death—Train "Was Going Fast to Make Up Time. San Antonio, Texas.—A broken rail caused a frightful wreck on the Southern Pacific Railroad near Maxon Station, twenty-five miles west of Sandei1- fson. From the latest accounts fifteen people were killed outright and twentyeight injured. The dead are: Estavon Contrabas, of Del Rio, Texas; Andrew C. Shelly, wife and child, of Loiror, Texas; child of D. E. Housen. of Racine, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. White, of Manitowoc, Wis.; Engineer A. L. Mast, of El Paso, Texas; L. A. Boone, newrs agent, of Doyline, La.; Chris Neel, contractor, of San Antonio; W. W. Price, engineer, of San Antonio, Fireman H. Bertscholst, of El Paso, Texas, and three children of Mart Biddie, of Cbetopav, Kan. The ill-fated train left San Antonio two and a half hours late, aud at the time of the accident was running at a high rate of speed in order to make up time. The road at the point where the wreck occurred is in a rough country, the curves being sharp and the grades heavy. It was when rounding a curve that the train left the track on account of a broken rail. The hour was 3 a. m., fifteen hours after the train had left San Antonio, showing that it was still behind time. All the passengers were asleep, and the shock that followed was the first intimation they had of the danger. The train wras going at such a rate of sp?ed that the tender and engine landed seventy-five feet from where they left the rails. The cars behind piled up against the engine, causing a fire, and all were consumed except the sleepers. A private car owned by Tliom,as Ryan, of New York City, whose family was aboard, was attached to the rear of the train, but it was pulled away before the fire reached it and no one in it was Injured. All the dead in the coaches just behind the express and baggage cars were cremated. The. people in the sleepers were saved with the assistance of the uninjured passengers. The wrecked train was a west-bound passenger, and consisted of an engine, mail car, baggage car, one coach, one chair car, three tourist sleepers, one Pullman sleeper and one private car. The mail car, the baggage car and coaches were piled together against the engine and were ablaze in a few seconds. It was impossible to move any of the coaches or the tourist cars, as they were all off the rails, and were soon consumed by the flames. So soon as it was possible to get in communication with the division headquartex-s, relief trains with surgeons and physicians were started for El Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson, picking up along the line all the surgeons that could be found. All the injured who were in a condition to be moved were sent to El Paso, where they are receiving careful attention.The wreck occurred at a remote point 200 miles east of this place, in a rugged mountain. The train jumped the track on a reverse curve, which skirts a ravine. It had just descended a grade two miles in length, and was running at a high rate of speed when it struck the curve. MAILED MEDICINE KILLS. Woman Tafces Xt For Headache, and Dieik From Strychnine Poisoning. Grand Rapids, Mich.—Sheriff Chapman returned from Lowell, where he has been investigating the death of Mrs. William Klump, twenty years old. He found evidence that she was murdered. The woman received a supposed sample headache powder by mail. She used it, and died twelve hours later. An autopsy showed that strychnine poisoning was the cause of death. The powder was sent in an envelope postmarked at Lowell. According to the police Mrs. Klump was the victim of a cold-blooded murder. Her husband was arrested after the investigation of Sheriff Chapman and the village officers. He was brought here and lodged in the county jail. The developments indicate, say the officers, that there is another woman in the case. Klump, it is alleged, desired to get rid of his wife so that, lie could marry this woman. MAJOR WALLER TO BE TRIED. Court-Martial Ordered For Alleged Atrocitlea in Philippines. Manila.—A court-martial has been ordered to pry Major Littleton W. T. Waller and Lieutenant John H. A. Day, of the Marine Corps, on the charge of executing natives of the island of Samar without trial. One native, it is alleged, was tied to a tree and publicly shot in the thigh. The next day, the charges state, the man was shot in the arms; that on the third day he was shot in the body and on the fourth day killed. Friends of the two officers attribute their alleged actions to loss of mind, due to the privations which they suffered in the island of Samar. WIRELESS TELEPHONY Successful Experiments by the United States Signal Corps. tVorda Distinctlj' Audible at a Distance of 480 Feet—Feat Kegarded as Important—tJeins Wireless Telegraphy. Washington, D. C.—The Signal Corps of the United States Army has succeeded in sending Wireless telephone messages a distance of 480 feet. These messages were not sent in thy Morse code, but in words, uttered in ordinary, clear, speaking tones, such as wrould normally carry a distance of thirty or forty feet at most. The distances at which these messages have been clearly heard by the latest experiments exceeds the length of two ordinary city blocks. This achievement is regarded as highly important by the Signal Corps officials. They have been conducting experiments with wireless telephone messages for several months, but only lately have they succeeded in getting beyond the 400-foot mark. They regard the principle as practically demonstrated now, and look confidently to doubling the distance in the very near future, with a good prospect later o'f placing wireless telephone messages iu the same class with wireless telegraphy.General Greeley has acknowledged that officers of the corps have been experimenting with the wireless telephone for some time, and, though inclined to be extremely reticent, he has admitted that they have met with what he termed "a moderate degree of success." The system by which these wireless telephone messages have been transmitted is very much like that employed in wireless telegraphy. The instruments used, however, are, if anything, even more delicate than those used by MarGoni. The main point of distinction between wireless telephone and wireless telegraph messages is that with th.e telephone messages words must be reproduced instead of dots and dashes. The Signal Corps officers regard the possibilities of wireless telephoning as of even greater value to the Army than wireless telegraphy. The system by which these wireless telephone messages have been sent is said to be the conception of Signal Corps officers. The work will be diligently continued. The Signal Corps has been making practical use of wireless telegraphy at San Francisco for twenty-two months, a fact not generally known. Officials here say that the system there has worked perfectly at varying distances. REVOLT IN SERVIA FAILS. Alleged Eelative of the Pretender to tht Throne Killed. Belgrade, Servia. —An attempt to start a revolution was made at the frontier towm of Shabats, fifty-six miles west of Belgrade, by a raid under the leadership of Alavantics, an alleged relative of Prince Karageoi'gevitch, the pretender to the Servian throne. Alavantics was killed and his adherents arrested. Alavantics, with a handful of followers, arrived at Shabats from Mitrowic, wearing the uniform of a general in the Servian army, and called to the frontier guard to follow him. The latter, not suspecting that anything was wrong, accompanied the supposed general to the town hall, where Alavantics ordered the men of the Fire Department to join him. This motley procession proceeded to the Gendarmery Barracks, where Alavantics paraded the gendarmes. Two of the latter, whose suspicions were aroused, escaped and informed their commander, Captain Nikolics. The latter called on Alavantics to produce some document as authority for his actions, hereupon the latter fired a revolver at Captain Nikolics and slightly wounded him. Nikolics promptly shot and killed Alavantics, whose followers were arrested. Geneva. — Prince Karageorgevitcli, the Servian pretender, specifically disclaims any connection with the revolutionary attempt made at Shabats, or relationship with Alavantics. SANTIAGO FIGHT COST $84,864. Naval Battle at Manila Involve* sn penditure of 850,000. Washington, D. C.,—Rear-Admiral O'Neil, Chief of the Ordinance Bureau of the Navy, has compiled some interesting information relating to the ammunition expended in the. naval battles at Manila and off Santiago. Judged from the standpoint of values, the fight with Cervera's squadron cost this Government in anynunition expended $84,864. The ammunition expended by Dewey's vessels at Manila cost considerably less— a little more than $50,000. The total weight of ammunition expended in the fight off Santiago was 104.7 tons. The total weight of metal thrown was 114.3 tons. There were 9474 rounds fired, of which 1300 were from main and 8174 from the secondary battery guns. At Manila the total weight of ammunition expended, including powder, was 132 tons. There were 66.9 tons of metal thrown and 5558 rounds fired. Of the latter 1413 were from the main and 445 from the secondary battery guns. Serious Rebellion in China. The rebellion in the province ol Kwang-Se, China, «wsumed alarming DroDortions- BOERS SEE PRESIDENT fhey Appeal For Action to End the South African War. Desire the Intervention of Onr Govern* ment—No Indication That Any Action Will Ee Taken at Washington. Washington, D. C.—The object of the visit +o Washington of C. H. Wessels and D. W. Wolmarans, the Special Commissioners of the Boer republic, was made plain when they called on President Roosevelt and laid befofe him an appeal to take some action in ! the name of the Government of the ! United States to bring to an en, the | war in South Africa. Prior to their j call at the White House the CommiS' | sioners had a long interview with Sec-j ! retary Hay at the State Department, i in which there was a full and free exchange of viev, s over the South African : situation. | In their interview with Secretary ' Hay the Boer Commissioners made an I appeal for some action on the part of | the United States that would terminate hostilities. While preferring that this , action should take the form of inter| vention, they did not make any spe' cific request, leaving the determination Df the character of whatever steps the I Government might take to the Presi; 3ent and the Secretary of State. In other words, their appeal was addressed to the sympathies of this Govi arnment and indicated that the Boers would be satisfied if an arrangement could be made whereby hostilities would cease. Mr. Hay pointed out to ! the Boer representatives that the Presij dent was the supreme authority in | such matters, and he advised that I Messrs. Wessels and Wolmarans lay | their case before him. At the same | time he promised that consideration I should be given their representations ! and let them understand that the Govi srnment of the United States was only ! too willing to see the end of the war In South Africa. President Roosevelt received Messrs. Wessels and Wolmarans in his office. Secretary Hay was present. The interview was entirely unofficial and informal and did not last very long. The j representations that had been laid be! fore Secretary Hay were repeated to ; President Roosevelt, and it is under; stood that he promised to give them consideration. It is generally taken for granted that the President will not make any radical departure from the rule laid down by his predecessor in | office, that an appeal must come from both sides before the United States may take any steps looking to bringing ibout an ending of the South African svar. Even should the President deter! mine to take some action, the most that may be expected is that he will communicate to the British Government the appeal made by the Boer Commissioners without any suggestion i or recommendation. ■ SPLENDID CHARGE BY BOERS. lliey Xtode Down a British Force in Spite of Cannon Fire. London.—Telegrams received here from Klerksdorp, describing the attack apon and capture by the Boers, at i point southwest of Klerksdorp, of the British soldiers who were acting as jonvoy to an empty wagon train, show that the third Boer attack upon the convoy was delivered from various points and was most determined. By sheer recklessness they sought to ride lown and overwhelm the British defense.The British guns shelled the  ing Boers, but nothing stopped fl onslaught, which was delivered unusual impetus. The convoy  vvere subjected to a heavy fire,  cuany cases were deserted by the tive drivers. They stampeded, PuM aiany of the defenders temporarily out 3f action, and caused the wildest confusion.For two hours the British held out. They then divided and were overwhelmed. A few minutes of confused lighting and all was over. The Boers galloped along the line, firing at every man who showed the slightest tendency to resist, until they reached and captured the guns. By 7 o'clock in tne morning all resistance was at an end. The dead and wounded were scattered all over the field. Broken wagons and panic-stricken horses and mules made a scene of indescribable confusion. Not until General Delarey came in person was r.ir-- thing like order restored. Boer War Very Costly. London—ln introducing the army estimates, which will call for an appropriation of $340,000,000, the War Secretary, Mr. Brodrick, in the House of Commons, entered into a long defense of the War Office, which he contended had done its work well, considering that a war had never Defore been waged on such a scale as the South African war. The War Office to-day was feeding 300,000 men and 243,000 horses in South Africa. BOGUS RELICS OF HOHENZOLLERN Sailors on tlie Kaiser's Yacht Have Done a Thriving Business. New York City.—Visitors to the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern have been buying "fake" souvenirs from some ol the jackies who man the Kaiser's yacht, thinking all the while they were getting pieces of crockery and bits of the vessel's furnishings. Plates and beer steins bearing the name "Hohenzollern" had been bought eagerly at high prices from the sailors, The enterprising tars obtained these from the passenger steamer of that name lying at the pier at Hoboken when the yacht first arrived. JAn independent Re-' j pablican Paper. * | G. OiIYER FRICK, - Editor. < The Brightest and Best J County Paper. $1.00 Per Year in Advance, $ — i Advertising Rates on Application, a