Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1903)
THE PIATISMOUIII JOURNAL SCENES ON CHICAGO STREETS DURING STREET-CAR STRIKE NEBRASKA STATE NEWS R. A. BATES. Publisher. X'LATTSMOUTH. NEHRAKKA. i NEBRASKA MEN ARE MODEST. NEWSY STATE UMIEF 'X Brief Telegrams The f r r: 1 1 - I State Iium thirteen war Hl.ifiH mobilized at tin- 1: tfimiiH of Pan ini:i. Th n w r:rllt."h ambassador to thrt United Srales In 11 novel published tort yearn ago highly praled this country". Speaker Cannon has appointed tho following committee on rubs: The npe.-ker, );t! II ( Pa.), Grosevrior CO.), Williams t.!l.;s), and De Ar:i:otil (Mo.). Speaker Cannon has reappointed A"her C. Hinds of Maine an clerk to the apcakcr'M table. He has sc ! ted Ifc W. Pusb'-y, correspondent of tho Chicago Inf vr Ocean, as secretary to the speaker. Tin? board of education of New York Ciy lias !iad a st regnous eonsldera tion of the ri'lioii of "spank or nr.; to spank" pupils. Since the election It ha.s been h id d not 1 1 spank. All pupils an" invited f ! "onery" a;id become ui'tV'! wide (;ieii in abuse of every body. Reports frora all t?ir foal mining camps of Utah are to tin? effect that no strike of coal miners has taken I''a'-o. One of the principal causes of the strike, iri Colorado, tho demand for an eight hour working day, is ab sent here, as the eight hour law Is in effect In Utah. At a mooting of the directors of thr New England Shoe and leather as Koelatlon in Boston, it wan voted to Authorize tho committee on transport tatiori and commerce to appeal to tho Interstate commerce commission to Fti the alleged violation of the inter state commerce law. On tho steamer Coren. which arriv rd at San Francisco from the Orient, were; nlnef y-six, young Filipinos who have been sent to the I'nitel states to perfect their education. They have already been assigned to various col leges, :i largo proportion going to tho University of California. Charles II. Hayes, formerly postmas ter of Whiting, Kan., has been indict ed by the federal court on the charge of making false entries in his report showing tho amount of business trans acted at his office. It is claimed he BweMod the pfa nip report account In order to get an increase in salary. The Colorado rtafo court of appeal. ha3 rendered an opinion in a case in stituted by the treasurer of Boulder rour.ty against the Colorado & South ern railroad, in which Judge (iunther lays down tho rule that when a rail road refuses payment of taxes a re reiver may be appointed and the mat tor adjusted In a court of inquiry. The Oklahoma grand jury returned Indictments against fifteen lumber dealers doing business in Oklahoma City, charging them with being in a "omhinat lo restrict trade in vio lation of tho Oklahoma anti trust law. Eleven of the Indicted are residents, while four are officials of lumber cor porations having headquarters else wherw. In the house Mr. Hitt of Illinois of fered the following resolution: " Re solved, l'y the houc of representa tives, that the president be requested lo communicate to the house, if rot incompatible with the Interest of the public service, all correspondence and other official docuir.cnts relating to the recent revolt in the isthmus of Panama." It is announced In a dispatch re ceived from Belgrade. Servia. that the British charge d'affaires there refused to receive the congratulations of the Servian government on the birthday of King Edward. This refusal was in accordance with his instructions not to maintain diplomatic relations with King Peter's government. The affair has caused some sensation. Evelyn Baldwin, the Arctic explorer, arrived in St. Louis on his way to Jefferson City, where he will appear before the grand jury which is inves tigating the alum boodle scandle in the legislature. Mr. Baldwin will tes tify at the request of Attorney Gen eral Crowe, who is anxious to have him tell what he knows of the con nection of Kelley and Ziegler with the defeat of legislation inimical to the Interests St the baking powder trust As Ruby Stanley, school girl, a few miles from Rirley. O. T., was on her way to carry some flowers to th grave of her brother, killed In an acci dent, the girl met with an accident on the same spot where her brother was killed and her life is despaired of. The general lard office has with drawn from settlement 2.020 acres in the Salt Lake City, Utah, district, for use In the' proposed extension of the Fish Iake forest reserve. Dr. M. I Jackson, a pioneer Iow3 dentist. Is dead at Oskalcosa. A waiter spilb'd a glass of water on a white crepe de thine princess gown at Sherry's in New York. At the south end of a law suit she was e warded damage?. $100. Russia and Japan are said to have nearly concluded a convention. ' The Solomons of the Massachusetts supreme court decide that it is un lawful for a man to get drunk in his own home. ' A learned Chicago professor says the earth is good for 10'V'OO.OCO more years. Table of Employe' Demands. 1 Wages (a). Crews on elec tric cars 2i cents an hour, tb). Cable train runs. ?2.X0 a day; trailer conductors, $2.41). (c). Overtime at rate of time and a half. 2. Operation (a). Work day not more than 11 hours nor less than 10. tb). All day runs to be ten hours straight. 2. Arbitration Grievances to bo adjusted by an arbitration board comprising a company arbitra tor, a represent at i vi f.f the uz.'.on, and a third man selected by the two. 4. The Closed Shop All em ployes to be. union men; new em ployes to be ta'en Into the union Tit the expiration of a forty live day probation period. I. Recognition of Union O.Tl cials -'I he company lo receive officers of the union and com mittees when questions and grievances shall arise, also to allow officers leave of absence. ;. Penalty for Unjust Suspen sion -TIms company to rcim burso any union man upon rein statement if suspension is proved unjust. 7. Days OtT Allowed The company to allow men to reg ister a week in advance for days desired off. 5. Pay for Injuries The com pany to pay for medical at tendance and all time lost owing to injury on duty. Of all labor disturbances with which city police authorities have to cope, a street car strike is the most dreaded. Tin passage of the vehicies through the streets gives opportunity for tho sympathies of the strikers and the hoodlum element actively to display their antipathy toward a corporation which they consider unfair. Iu the strike at Chicago the teamsters union, while not openly supporting tho strik ing griprnon and conductors, were ac tive in their efforts to block the prog ress of the cars and cause wrecks wherever possible. Few policemen as signed to the unpleasant duty of es corting the cars escape without bruises more or less serious, for at points along the line hand-to-hand figftts with the unruly element are inevitable. The following account of the first day's happenings during the strike at Chicago is typical: The first train was taken out of the barns at J:;o a. m. and started south ward. Three . hours later the two cars, with broken windows and bat tered sides, crept slowly back to the barn entrance. As it forced its way through a crowd of meu and women which blocked the street Gripman Mc Mahon was shouting: "Let me get this thing into the barns, boys. Then I'll be with you." The crowd opened the way and the trailer passed through the doorway. It had taken the train nearly three hours to make a trip which is scheduled at thirty-six minutes running time un der ordinary conditions. In these three hours had been crowded scenes of noting of every description. Four other trains followed the first from the barns at short intervals. Only two of those were brought back by the crews in whose charge they started out. One was towed back by a wreck ing wagon, and another returned under an escort of police. This ended the attempts of the street car company to move passenger trains, but the mail trains passed over the line without in terference. The second train out of the barns Believes in Army Maneuvers. Gen. Joe Wheeler is an enthusiastic believer in the value the "incalcula ble benefit" is his own phrase of the army maneuvers. "Many things," he says, "that are necessary in actual warfare are being attempted now in these experiments, and when one side or another fails the failure shows what may be expected next time. In other words, to learn why you have failed or succeeded in a thing is just as important in warfare as in any thing else." Competent to Judge. "Many an honest man," Fays John Wanamaker. "fails because he is a poor advertiser." Mr. Wanamaker, being one of the most successful mer chants in the world and one of the best advertisers, ought to be a com petent witness on this subject. Louis ville Courier-Journal. New York Central Freight. The New York Central railway car ries 43 per cent of the freight which crosses the state of New York, whilo the Erie canal carries but 3 ptr cent. was in charge of Gripman John Weath erwax and Conductor William Johnson. These men brought their train back, but the car windows were broken, and Weathrwax showed many bruises which he had suffered from missiles thrown by the crowd. These first two trains hail run slowly through crowds of foot men, which blocked the street at Intervals, and behind caravans of heavy wagons, whose drivers refused to turn out of the car tracks. When the crews grit back into the barns they refused to start out again, except un der adequate police protection. The third train out received the first telling force of the violence of the mob, which had been augmented by many additions, and had collected at several points along tho route. Tho crowd at Fortieth street had been .swelled until it almost block aded the street, and Gripnian Michael Cochrane and Conductor Joe Annie with cc mmel'od to fight off the men who swarmed aboard the cars. They fought their way on south until they reached Fif tieth street. At that point some one uncoupled the grip from the coach and Cochrane went on, leav ing Apple behind. Cochiane's escape was tempor ary only, and when another mob surrounded the grip he leaped to the street and fled. Meanwhile Apple had fared ill at the hands of the crowd, lie was dragged from the car and beaten, and when finally rescued by police, who were hurried to the scene, 58 t'Hl I V 'I was in a serious condition. His back was injured and he was taken to his home. The car from which Apple was taken was pushed forward by a mail train which followed, coupled to the grip in charge of MeFarland. and taken back to the barns in a wrecked condition. McFarland's trip war far from a peace ful journey. He was beset by a mob Age of the Volcano. Bishop Restariek, missionary bishop of Honolulu, thus toils of his first sight of a volcano in the Hawaiian islands. "A friend took me to the foot of an immense mountain and, lifting his hand impressively, ex claimed: 'That crater is 40.013 years old. I didn't mean to doubt him. but naturally I asked: 'Why tho 1C? 'Oh.' said my frien;!. 'I've been here that long. It was 4i,0u0 when I came.' " Why He Went to Congress. Congressman Landis was introduc ing his brother Fred to some col leagues on the floor of the house at the opening of congress. A western man. by way of making talk, asked the new comer: "How did you happen to come to congress. Mr. Landis?" "To tell you the truth." was the half-laughing answer. "I was out of a job and so I went out for this one." Russians Buy Welch Coal. The Russian government contracts yearly for Vrio tons of W'elrh coal to be delivered at Port Arthur before J July 1. at Fifty-seventh street and Lake ave nue, and was being hemmed in by the mob when Inspector Hunt of the Ildye Park police went to his rescue. Mar shaling his men on either side of the train. Inspector Hint accompanied the train back to the bams at Thirty eighth street. The return trip under the police guard was slow but devoid of any violence. Joe Waterhouse was the gripman of the fourth train that started out, and James Braley was the conductor on the trailer. This train got no far ther than Fortieth street when the mob surrounded it. Frightened by the show of violence, Waterhouse is said to have abandoned the grip and tanen to his heels. Braley was struck on the head with a stone and suffered 3 ! a scalp wound. The train was drawn back to the barns by the wrecking wagon. The crew of the fifth train out suf fered most severely. William Watson was on the grip car and Conductor Harlow Orton was in charge of the trailer. The men had fought their wa3' through the mob at Fortieth street and had run a gantlet of strike sympath isers the entire distance to the south ern terminus of the line, and were on the return trip, when a mob surround ed them at Forty-eighth street. It is understood that a plug in the cable slot brought the train to a standstill and left the men at the mercy of the rioters. "Watson ran nis train around to Fiftieth street and then transferred to the ambulance," is the way a picket put it. While a part of the mob swarmed aboard the grip car and attacked Wat son others climbed into the coach and seized Orton. Before the police could interfere both men were severely in jured. Watson's arm was so severely injured that at. first it was believed to have been broken. Later examina tion show no fracture, but the man I was badly bruised and cut. Men stand- ins on the fender of the car struck at him. and when he was finally rescued by the police he was bleeding from a dozen wounds. He was taken to his home suffering from four painful scalp wounds. New Jersey Legislature. The present New Jersey legislature includes men of greater variety as to pursuit than any of its predecessors, there being two dozen in all, with thirty-four lawyers among the lot. The labor element is represented by one pknnber. one lineman, one mechanical engineer, one miller, one potter, two salesmen, one shoe dealer, one steel worker and one wagoner. Deny Laziness of Lecky. Once more are friends of the late W. E. H. Lecky busy denying the curious and unfounded legend that the eminent historian did most of his work while lying in bed. using a pillow for a desk. The story also has it that an invariable item in his hotel bills was a charge for sheets and counter panes ruined by irk. Keir Hardie Stcod Alone. Keir Hardie. v.-ho has just been suf-. f"ring from appendicitis, was the only member who voted "no" upon the address of congratulation to the nation upon the occasion of the marriage of the rrerent Prince of Wales. The abandoned cars were then made tho object cf the mob's vengeance, and the windows and woodwork were brok en and battered. For over an hour the train lay on the track, and was finally moved by a mail train. The mail train pushed the disabled pas senger train north to the Thirtieth eighth street barns, under a guard of police headed by Inspector lhi.it and Lieut. Walsh. With the return of this car, the at tempt of the railway company to op erate passenger cars In Cottagj Grove avenue ended for the day. Senator Vest's Reminiscences. Sen-it or Vest of Missouri is dictat ing a series of reminiscent articles to bis stenographer. The veteran states man is much enfeebled physically, but his memory has lost none of its won derful rctenti veness. His eyesight is t 7i so bad that he cannot look up refer ences, but it is found that the dates and minutest circumstances he gives from memory are absolutely correct. Ho recently drew on his memory for verbatim reproduction of a letter which he received from Jefferson Davis nine teen years ago. though he had not seen the documents for many months. City Railway's Reply to De mands. 1 . Wages. Increase not possible. Reason: Advances given a year ago; no corresponding increase in busi ness during the year to warrant further advance. 2. Operation. Refused on ground that the com pany could not enter into any agreement that would hamper or restrict it in the performance of its duty to the traveling pub lic. 3. Arbitration. Accepted. 4. Closed shop. Refused on the ground that it would give the union "complete and absolute control of the se lection, employment, retention in service, and discipline of all employes." 5. Recognition of Union Offi cials. Acepted. 6. Penalty for Unjust Suspen sion. Answered with the statement that "the company will not un justly suspend or discharge any man." 7. Days Off Allowed. Accepted insofar as it does not interfere with the company's services. 8. Pay for Injuries. Refused with the statement "the company will not undertake so extens've an insurance scheme." Dairy Maid to the Kina. "Chief dairy maid to the king" is the official title of Miss Mary Childs. a pretty young woman who has just been installed in King Edward's home farm at Windsor. The position is by: no means a sinecure, for the chief dairy maid must supervise the butter anu cheese making industry under royal patronage. Her principal duty is to serve up for the royal table two pounds of butter every morning and supplies of cream cheese and thick cream as needed. Candidates cn New York Tickets. Of the 33S candidates on the New York ballots voted last election day, eighty were college graduates and ninety-eight were lawyers. Only twenty-nine were liquor dealers, four of these being on the ticket with Seth Low. Caribou Would Live in Town. What is said by old hunters to be a fine caribou has recently taken up its abode in Pownal, Vt., and has been seen a number cf times within a month. ' Contribute Little to Flood of Dills for the Congressional Hopper. WASHINGTON Trie Nebraska del egation, outside of introducing a num ber of private pension bills, has not burdened the bill clerks wTHi any bills of a, general character thus far. The members are learning that It is not the number on the bill that secures favorable rceommenTlath n from Hie committee, but that It Is the merit ot the bill which secures recognition. The houvo had been in session but h f - minuoH when the contemplated rush of bills was unoii it. Senator Warren introduced a num ber of private bills for Senator Mil lard. Outside of these Nebraska fig ured slightly in the glut of bills in the senate. Senator Holliver introduced a bill providing fer the repeal of the bankruptcy law. Senator Gamble of South Dakota introduced a number of bills of a general character, one to .set tie the account between certain itfltes ami the general government growing out of the sale of public lands. The bill appropriates $7t'..".'i'" to South Da kota. $17.V":n to Nebraska. viWiom i Wyoming. $S!hhmh to Iowa. ? 1vr..'t.t to Minnesota and SMO.C.io i Wisconsin. AN EXTRA SESSION ;OGGI3LE. li Will Depend Upon Decision cf the State Supreme Court. LINCOLN A number of the law liuikeis who helped to enact the rev enue law have been here and all are interested in the outcome of the case. Several of them have called upon Gov ernor Mickey and urgeu him. should the supreme court decide iii-.ainsl the law, to call an extra : ession of the leg islature lor the purro:;o of parsing a bill that, would not be uinonst it u -Donal. It is argued that nothing in this line could be done at the next session of the legislature because a United States senator is to be Heeled nnd the matter will take un most of the time of tho assembly. They who want tho extra session belie" It will bo the only way to secure revision of the old revenue law. The governor indicated that in nil pro'iability be would call an extra session in event. thai Revenue Comes Slow. State i roasuror Mortenson an nounces that the revenues of the slate are coming into tho treasury very slowly, in fct are not keeping up with the disbursements. Receipts Monday were $1.1 and tho amount paid out $:!, (;13.;.?. Tuesday salary warrants ag gregating $;,000 were forwarded to the various state institutions. Neglect of taxpayers to pay their assessments is attributed as the cause of tho low re ceipts. Believes Law Will Stand. LINCOLN Governor Mickey is of the opinion that the supremo court, will not knock out tho new revenue law in foto. "It is my opinion," said ho. "that trie law will stand, although I expect that the courts will deelar several of Hie sections invalid. The taxation of credits Is what is causing all the trouble, and it is possible the legislature passed a few sections that may bo defective." State Will Take the Bonds. Tho state will get the $S!,O0M issue of Saunders county court house bonds at 3',2 per cent. They wiTl bo take,? in blocks of $15,000 as tho money 13 required by the county. These are the bonds for which the state negotia ted, for the investment of the jK rina nenf -sehool fund, this summer. A de fect was found in the issue at that time, necessitating the submission "of the proposition to the voters of Saun ders county a second time. The bonds were carried at the last elec tion and can now legally be issued. Hand Crushed in Thresher. PAP1LLION While Eugene Pflug was running a threshing outfit his hand was caught and badly injured. Sarpy's Good Corn Crop. GRETNA Corn picking is in prog ress in this vicinity, and. notwith standing the unfavorable spring and summer, the yield is proving to be good about thifTy-five bushels per acre would be a safe average. Want an Omaha Grain Market. YORK Many York business men are Interested in the establishing of a grain market at Omaha, hoping that another market would be a benefit and Jess charges for a shorter haul. Ninety per cent of the grain shipped out of York county goes to Kansas City. Be lore Kansas City was a grain market fTain was shipped to Chicago, and eince the opening of the Kansas City market Chicago, as a rule, is unable to make as good bids. May Get a Pardon. LINCOLN Governor Mickey will consider the application of Everett Buchanan of Orchard, now serving a j term in the penitentiary, for a par-I don. Bucnanan is a victim of con- j sumption and desires to die outside the prison walls. The governor visit-j ed the convict a few evenings ago and conversed with him. He has sum- moned Buchanan's father to Lincoln and will announce his decision after j a conference wiin h!m. ' There Is not much doubt bwt what a big canning factory will be In .,, r ia ( i n in Fremont te xt h iimhi. Lester Wiley and Donald Mc )on; Id, the two runaway boys who skipped out of York, bavin;; with them $ l' and revolver each, were captured by hherlff Urott at MoCo.,1. John 1'ind ay, living two fallen wot of town, while building a new bat ii , topped on a fienfiold, which broke, letting him fall a distance of twenty live feel. It Is though '. lis will re cover. A letter from Hi venial". Cal., brings news thai .! Im all Clove died there oil election day. lie was ll Jetl'i tsoil county pinioer, and. with his wife, de parted for California In October lu hopes of better health. At Seward Anton Dev. jr.. of D town, who was arie:,tei i.ouie time ni' for boot legring was 1 I 1 1 1 ; ' 1 1 1 lilt ooillt Mid ph-nd I'.uilty. .lu le Soi nboi ;vc asseiv cd him a line of f oi and oo:!:;, amounting in all to J 2 1 7 , which ho paid. Some one b it a baby fill upon tho door:-lep of Mr. and Mr:;. D l.; l.e:, oi' West lle.lt! ice. The baby VMI. i.eclire- ly wrapped lu blanket, and was ap parently only a day or two old. Pinned to tin- blanl.ei was a note lay ing: "I'base care lor baby, and tin parents will settle lor rani" at to,i;n t III lil e time.' The p.eatrice 'liaiitaii'i'ia board of directors met and oriauicd tor ll;o y ar by lectin!", the following ollben,: II. II. r.cc.ole, president; M. V. Nichols. ice lilet.ldi lit ", F. I!. Sheldon, I cere- laty, and W. W. Duncan, 1 1 a: mi r. II was decided to op n tli" e.i.einldy of l!ioj oa 'lb ui(d.i , July 7, and con tillile two Week:,. Joseph ;'a;inder.;. an ev banker, nar rowly eicapi d ! eriou ; injuiy v. bile handling a fractious team of horses at the farm of W. II. William; :-veii mill's we; t of l.'e.vnold.;. 'lb" i am be came fl'ighloiii d While being hitched to the bu'.'i'.v and Mr. Sauiid- i:' was dragged for :.oi,io ili tanee icccHing a number of kicks and bruise. , his right .'boulder being badly iaci -rated. SherifT J. D. Mcliride of i';t. y county was notilied that IJi-bey's lumber of fice and the liui lington dept in Cedai Creek were entered by burglars. At the first named place the :ale ami desks weie ransacked, but so far as known nothing of any value was ! lol en. At the depot the money drawer had been pried open, but it contained only small change and ;oine postage stamps. A clash between the school board and a number of the patrons of the schools in district No. )!, Gage coun ty, known as the Dolan district, has been caused by the. refusal of tho board to buy tet books to be u od ii the sludy of Latin. The teacher refuses to teach Latin during the teg ular school hour.--, bill has e.pres:ed u willingness to do so after all other classes have been dismissed. .Mrs. Grant Cage of Columbus die a horrible death a few days ag . While working around the kitchen her apron caught 'ire while she was in the act. of lilting a lid from the soe. Only her small children v.ere in the hou se at the time, she fni.Mieally tried to extinguish the flames but without avail and when neighbors arrived i be was bur.'ied in a terrible manner. Sho di"d soon after the accident. Miss Mildred Glazier of Ldgar was quite seriously burned ahout the J.ic and neck. She threw k'-roi-ene into the furnace, which exploded iri'lantly, throwing the flames into her face and about her nock. C. D. Ixm.'-C, who has bo n engaged In the general merchandise business in Platfsmouth city for five years has sold his brick double hfore and Mock of merchandise on Sixth t-troet to P. Pearson of Silver City, la., for O00. and accepts in payment for same ;mm acres of land In Merrick county, Ne braska, valued at J2. per acre. Governor Mickey denies that, he has stated postivojy that, in the event that the supremo court declares tl.e reve nue Jaw to be invalid, be will assemble? the legislature in special ses.-.ion to en act another measure. Tb'' governor declares that, while )if may have dis cussed the subject in a casual way, ho did not intend that his remarks si ouJd be quoted, and did not mean to antici pate the action of the court or say anything which might bo calculated to arouse the ire of that body. Almost the entire stock of jewelry in the store of W. J. Williamson at Hampton was taken from the store last week by burglars. Lntraiiee was gair.od through the rear door whlcJj was found open in the morning wh-u Mr. Williamson opened the store. In Colfax ccunfy reports have been brought in of yields of eighty-two bushels of corn per acre, but such yields are exceptional, and are very few. The average throughout the county will run close to thirty burh els per acre. At North Platte Howe Ober,t was shot and killed by his older brother. Byron, aged 12. Tho shooting was purely accidental. The boys owned a 22-calibre rifle which they had been playing with during the day and left loaded. In the evening the boys had their rifle In the parlor of a neighbor and had no doubt forgotten the load Kt'll remained in the gun. Byron aimed at his brothcj and told him t.-; look out. as he was golug to shoot him. and pulled the trigger. In half ao hour the lad was dead.