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BIG RAILROAD STRIKE SBISAL1STCER11 THERE ARE GtABTS IS THESE BATS SOLONS GATHER EARLY Farmers! Attention!! Galleries of House and Senat. Crowded .Before Sessions Are Called to Order. Every Line, East and West, Oppox log Brotherhood Wage De manda, Court War. JtOADS TO FIGHT UNITED TTNJ0N3 s A BIG GRIST OF BILLS PUT IN Mora than a Million Men to Ba Di rectly Engaged In Great In dustrial Contest. The United States la threatened with the greatest railroad strike In the history of the nation. Practically every railroad line in the country, east and west, la In lmmlnptit danger of being completely tied op by a walkout on the part of large numbers of Its oper ating; employes this month. Officers of the organizations of engineers, Are men. trainmen and switchmen have agreed upon a uniform demand of a 10 per cent wage IncreaHe, without deviation or compromise. That the crisis Is approaching rap Idly was Indiratetl by the announce ment at New York by officers of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen that they would "present their de mands on the llth of this month, and the wage conference will begin on the 1.1th. Although every effort will be made to avert a general strike, it is Impossible to predict what the outcome of the conference will be." Both the railroads and the leaders of organized labor among the railroad employes are preparing for the strug gle, which when It once begins will without doubt develop Into one of the greatest industrial battles that has ever been fought in this or any other land. The attitude of the leaders on both sides of the dispute which men aces the Industrial peace of the coun try is at the present time that of Iron stubbornness. While it is known that it is not the plan of the leaders in the railroad la bor organizations to call out all the men at one time their intention Is said to bo by those who are acquaint ed with their plans, to call out sufn cient men on each big system to make operation a practical Impossibility. This means that over a million men will engage directly in a battle with the railroads unless Borne fortunate circumstance arises to avert the trou ble. More than l.'iO.OOO miles of rail road track will cease to bear their bur dens of freight and passengers, with the consequent paralyzing effect on the commerce of the country, unless a settlement Is reached quickly. 1 -Minneapolis Journal. CHARGE WOMAN WITH MURDER. J. TWO WOMEN HIGHWAY R0EBER3 Hold Member of Their Own Sex tm Cincinnati Slreet and Take furs. Highway robbery was taken up by the gentler sex early on a recent morning when two women held up and robbed Nora McDonald, a stenog rapher in Cincinnati. Miss McDonald was on her way home from work when she was accosted" by the strang ers of her own sex, who asked for di rections. She was giving them infor mation when one of the women slip ped behind her and pinioned h arms. Her accomplice searched the victim and cot $-'3. The brigands escaped. WOMAN THROWS VITRIOL. Wire ot Itrlloutnluc, ft., Hexlili-u IMnna'urt-U hr Act of Ntrantrer. When Mrs. George Mann answered a ring at her door the other night she met a masked woman who threw vit riol into her face, exclaiming: "I'll burn your eyes out!" The woman then fled. Mrs. Mann's eyes were saved by physicians, but she will be disfigured by deep burns. Her husband told the police that he had received letters say ing that one day he would go home nd find his wlfo dead. Wife jtlleitrtl to Have fanned W llrder'a Dealli lir rolaiinliiB. y White arsenic placed in William" ,1. Erdcr'a food by his bigamous bride caused his death in St. louis. accord ing to a warrant charging Mrs. Dora E. Doxey with murder In the first de gree. The charge is based, on a report by William H. WaiTen, dean of the medical department ot Washington University, who analyzed the organs of Krders body after it had been dis interred at the request of Miss Kato Erder, a sister. Mrs. Doxey, who col lected $2,700 life Insurance on Erder and on his sister Elizabeth, Is un der guard at Columbus, Neb. She will resist extiuidltlon to St. Louis, accord ing to a telegram. The only requisi tion now In effect is based on a charge of bigamy, due to the charge that Mrs, Doxey illcgnlly married Erder while the wlfo of Dr. lyren IJubco Doxey. KTJEF FREE; BOND IS $300,000. Kan l'raneUru lloa ltrleaaed on Account of 111 Health. Judge Cabaniss in San Francisco or dered the release from custody of Abra ham Ruef on $300,0(10 ball. This ac tion followed a report of three phyei cans appointed by the court to exum ine the physical condition of the for mer political leader. Ruef bud been confined in the county jail since Nov. 3 of last year, his previous ball hav ing been declared forfeited on the day Prosecutor Francid J. Heney was shot n tho courtroom. Uuef is under sen tence of fourteen years in the State prison for having bribed a supervisor, to vote for a trolley franchise for the United Railroads. CALHOUN AS MINISTER TO CHINA Formal Announcement Is Made from State Department at Washington. Announcement was made at the State Department at Washington. D. C., Monday of the appointment of William .1. Calhoun of Chicago as min ister to China. Mr. Calhoun has ac cepted the appointment, and the Chi nese government has Indicated Its pleasure in receiving him. Dorn In l'ittsburg in 1848, Mr. Cal- BODY OF AUTO VICTIM FOUND. Locked I'd with Dead Parenta. For twelve hours throughout tht coldest night ot the season. Earl Camp bell, 2 years old, was locked in a room in Kansas City, Kan., alone with the dead bodies of his father and mother. The child's plight was discovered by neighbors, who found that Joseph Campbell, 32 years old. had shot and killed bis wife, and then ended his own life. Wealth? Man Dead oa Halle. The body of Gustave Johnson wealthy stone and gravel contractor, was found near the tracks of the B1k Four and Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroads at Dayton, Ohio There was no sign of violence on his body except a small hole in the fore head resembling a bullet wound. 7 " VI ? vv; ') Ma Cohen Mclieved In Have Met Heath Tryliitt t Nave I'lnnccc. Finding of the body of Max Cohen floating in the Chicago River near the Ijoomls street bridge dispelled any doubt which .might have remained as to the identity of the persons who went to their death Nov. 7 with Chauf feur Ernest Camp when he drove an automobile into the river at the Jack son boulevard bridge. Cohen's coat and overcoat were thrown about his hend In such a way as to lead the po lice to believe be had attempted to take them off. while he tried to res cue Miss Beatrice Shapiro, his fiancee, who. It Is believed, met death with him. .Miss Shapiro's body has not ye. been found. Proceedings Perfunctory, as Ad journment Out of Respect to Dead Member Is Taken. Crowded galleries, representing offi cial and Rocial life In Washington, wit nessed the commencement of the regu lar session of the Sixty-first Congress Monday. At noon, when both houses convened, there was a full attendance of members. On the floor of both houses a renewal of friendships among among Senators and Representatives took the place of Interchanges on par tisan or political matters. Early In the day It was evident that when Vice President Sherman in tho Senate and Speaker Cannon In the house should bring down their gavels they would face full houses. The procedure followed on the first day was similar to that which has characterized every opening of Con gress. A great mass of bills was in troduced by representatives by tho simple act of being deposited In the receptacle provided for their recep tion. Senators waited until Tuesday before laying before their body the new measures they propose to push during the coming months. The announcement of the recent deaths of Senator Johnson of North Dakota and of Representatives Lassl ter of Virginia and De Armond of Missouri caused adjournments on both Bides of the capltol In respect to their memories. The swearing In of Senator Foun tain L. Thompson and of Representa tives W. W. McCredle of Washington nd W. J. Moxley of Illinois, who have been named for those positions since the adjournment of the special ses sion, took place Tuesday just before the President's message was received nd read. Before Monday was over there were preliminary conferences on both sides of the capltol for the purpose of lay ing out plans for the session's work. Representative Sulzer of New York Introduced a resolution in the House Monday directing the President to use the army and navy of the country to restore order, maintain peace and pro tect life and property in Nicaragua. The resolution recites that the United States demands the arrest, trial and punishment of President Zelaya of Nicaragua for the willful murder 'of citizens, an ample apology from Nicar agua and reparation. FIRE SWEEPS BALTIMORE. Home llui-nm Dnuwhtcr Cremated. Myrtle J. Johnson, 5 years wld, was cremated and her mother arfd two young brothers were fatally burned In a flro which destroyed their home at Connellsvllle, Pa. Fortune In (irlp Owner Hrinanted H. A. Plednolr, a St. Louis lawyer carrying a valise in which there was $400,000 of Apparently negotiable pa pers, left a train from New York 1 Bellefontalne, Ohio, and unnouueed at the railroad station that he would kill himself. The police took him i charge. I'eiiperuilnt Induce I.onicetit-. Plenty of peppermint candy Is th recipe for longevity givcu by joun KIll. who celebrated his one nun dred and third birthday in Wadhiu ton, N. J. Arrriln In '.iiitlu Murder. Karl Woiklecuowskl and Adam Pletzszak were brought to Milwaukee fc-oui lilancy, Mich., as suspects In the Hattie Zlnda. casu. Both disawieared from Milwaukee about the time of tt.e murder. ., Form Indiana Tobucco i'ool. ' The tobacco growers of Indiana have formed a pool, under the nama of th Indiana' Tobacco Growers' Association, and have opened a warehouse at Dale. The pcid errors $:! o $14 for Hurley and ?4 to JS.f.O for dark tobacco. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Local capitalists of Chicago are re ported to bo behind a company to build a $250,000 motor speedway for Chicago. Kentucky's hurley and other grades of tobacco In the 1909 crop will be in the largest quantity ever known, near ly 400,000,000 pounds. This was an nounced by the banks of Louisville, which have been gathering llKures from their various correspondents in the counties where "the weed" Is grown. Thousands of acres of corn In the country round about Huron, S. D. were burled beneath tho Immense ten foot snowdrifts that Xormed during the recent snowfall. The farmers have been prevented from harvesting- tho corn by the scarcity of farm belp. A considerable uniount of the corn may be lost. James Wilson, Secretary of Agrli-ul ture, says that wo have raised -,7ti7,- 316,000 luibhels of emu in tlio Vnitcil Stiites this year, the nveruKo being 25.4 bushels und the quality 81.2. lb plurrs tho corn In runners' IminU u T9,"it,000 bushels, or 3 per cent (if t ! i cnn T 1SIUN. i,:ihi years crop was 2.C0K,C.'il,()O(l bushels, or nn uveruge of 2(5.2; the iiiullty wus Hti.'j ami the uniount in runners' hands Nov. 1 wus 71,124,0(10 bushels, or 2.7 per cent of the crop. The lumber production In Mlnuei-pn-11b for 11HI9 far exceeds that of either 1908 or l'J07. Five miles were in oper ation durliiK the year and the estimat ed output Is 1250,000,000 feet. Tile out put for 1908 was 189,401,472 feet, while In 1907 the output was 214.192,9:12 feet. President Tuft at the White House, Washington, D. C, pressed a Umtton which opened the greut national upplo show at Spokane, Wush. The presi dent ot the United States sent to How ard F.lllott, president of tho show, tho following messugc: "Hearty congrutu Utlons to the promoters or the second national apple chow und beet wbhes for a success." c CALHOZSX. lioun has long been a commanding figure In Illinois and the nation. In 890 he took up the cause of the late 'resident McKlnley and did much to swing Illinois' delegation to the Mc Klnley column In the National Con ventlon. In 1900 Mr. Calhouh could have received the Republican nomina tion for Governor if he would have permitted his friends to enter him In the mre. He has a wide acquaintance down State, having lived at Danville, 111., where he was admitted to the bar in 1875, before coming to Chicago. In 1898 Mr. Calhoun was named a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, serving until 1900, in which year he moved to Chicago. In 1905 he was selected as a special com mlssloner to Venezuela, when an Inter national crisis was Impending. His report, made then, has formed the basis for Americas action ever since In maintaining the principles of the Monroe doctrine. I, OOO.ooo l.oaa at Scene ot lDOt Dlftaater. Baltimore's" great wholesale district, Just across' the border line from the section of the city where the fire of 1904 started, was swept by flames Thursday evening. The loss will to tal at least $1,000,000. Five firemen were badly Injured. The fire was got ten under control at 9 o'clock. The extraordinary features which led tc the catastrophe of 1901 were missing however, and after a consultation It was decided unnecessary to call on sis ter cities for belp, as was done five years ago. Lombard and Sharp streets were the scene of Thursday night's fire. VP" .!W- K V -Jt L PAY FINES FOR LAND FRAUD.. I lfteeii 1'llUena tf 1'iuatllla t'onnty Orcirou, l'ar Total ot 4,00. Fines aggregating $15,000 were paid In tho Federal Court lu Portland, Ore., Wednesday by fifteen citizens of Umatilla County who had pleaded guilty to having defrauded the gov ernment of part of the public domain. Col. J. II. Haley, one of the most prominent attorneys of eastern Ore gon, paid tho heaviest fine, $10,000. The oth"is who pleaded guilty weie stockmen, ranchers and business ifnd professional men. $1,000,000 STOLEN FROM PHEKIX George P. Sheldon Reported Dying as Result of Disclosures. State Superintendent of Insurance Ilotehkiss, in an official report, charg ed George P. Sheldon, president of the Phenlx Fire Insurance Company of Brooklyn since 18S7, with misapplica tion of funds, with forgery of reiiorts to the Insurance Department, with 'wash sales" of questionable assets and recommended hi.m to the criminal authorities of New York County for such action' as may seem proper. Tho loss to the. company, according to Su perintendent Hotchklss, will total $1,- 000,000. Sheldon is reported to be dy Ing at his home from dropsy and gen eral breakdown. drcook IN A SANITARIUM? Arctic F.zvlorrr la Iietiorted to lie In Seclualon A ear New York, It Is reported that Dr. Frederick A Cook, the explorer, is at a sanitarium near White Plains, N. Y., where cer tain statesmen and exhausted actors are sent to recuperate. A man who looks like Cook has been seen several times during the last few days riding on horseback away from the sanita rium in the early morning hours and returniug on foot in the evening. The authorities of the sanitarium said If Dr. Cook was there they were enteV lalnlng him unawares. Meel MilU Win MrlLe. After a strike ot live months four mills of tho American Sheet and Tin Plate Comiwny In Bridgeport, Ohio, resumed operations with old employ es, who returned voluntarily. The flht was against the "open-shop" pol icy ot the company. 975,000 Fir at Jui'kiastlllr, Flit. Flie which started In tho wholesale grocery warehouse of the Flynn-llar-ris-Hullard Company and the C. W. Bartleson Company In Jacksonville caused a loss of about $75,000 William J. Bryan went to Arlzon during the week to visit his son. From there he will go to Texas to look afte his nronertv on the Gulf Coast, an thence sail for Funama to make personal inspection of tho big ditch, This done he will make a tour aroun South America, stopping at varlou places, but getting back In time to (111 an engagement In Scotland next June, His only statement about the Sena torship before leaving home wns: "I there Is a demand for me to make the rare I will not refuse the nomination. Justice Brewer, of tho Suprem Court, writing In the Ijidles' World predicts the coming of votes for worn en. Buying: Not fully nt once, hut iy varying steps. Woman's broader edu cation, her Increasing familiarity with business nnd public affairs, will lead to It. And why not? The chief reply Is the home. God forbid that It should he Jeopardized. But female Htit'fraK'" will not debase the homo or lessen its power and lullueiiee. On the other hand, it will Introduce 11 retinitis and uplifting power Into our political life. It will not stop niarrla:-e; nei ther will hiher ertucatio-rr. The r-.rcat natural laws of our belna will always ussert thi-niselves." Speaker Cannon Is angered by the charges cf Congressman Pearson th.it lie wus aided by Tammany Hall In re turn for an up-State Republican as sistance in strangling honest election bills aimed at Tammany. Cannon is preparing to have the sugar trust in vestigated by Congress. That tO" success of the Vnlied States either In peace or war depends upon the passage of tho ship subsidy bill, which will give ample protection to tho foreign commerce of tho nation, wus the opinion of former Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, as expressed In recent address In Philadelphia. rULLS DOWN BLACK FLAG; SHOT Pennsylvania Iteonty Sheriff Wound ed When lie Dellea Strikers. For pulling down a black flag In de fiance of the edict of an infuriated mob of foreigners near the plant of the Colonial Steel Company of Mona ca, near Pittsburg, Deputy Sheriff Conway Crowley was shot and proba bly fatally wounded. Striking work men at the steel plant, after taking down the American Hag, had placed the black flag on a pole and gathered about it, daring the police oil'.cers to '.ake It down. x t licrry Miner llrnertcil. The testimony taken the other day at the coroner's in ;uest Into the Cher ry mine disaster was directed mainly toward show inj; that the oliavrs of th.j mine bad not n ado an early effort to rescue the miner; an 1 that t y proper protection of the lives of I lir miners, while at work, had u;i: bci i? supplied und maintained l;y the mining com-uany. Ml 111 til .Mfdcnlf, Mecl lillll. I)ic. William Meucalf". 71 y.-ara old, pri J Ident of tile Brae -.urn Steel Co;-i;a.iy nd Of the liomecpatliic bosidMl of Pittsburg, a noted ensineer nn.l au thor of books on f'Nc! manufacturing, died at his home there after a hi ief lllneis. Mother anil Three t uliilren Hum. Myrtle J. Johnson, u years old, was burned to death and her mother anj two younger brothers were fatally burned In a re which destroyed their home, at Caniiedsvllle, Pa. 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