HARD LINES FOR SHEA
TIIKUKOF AIXKtfKD FKI.I.OW CON
Sl'I KATOItS I'l.KAO OUII.TY
'Men Who Chance I'lcim An Albert 501111 if,
U". Wlllliim Kolly, Michael Mur
phy .Motion for Contln
iiiinro Is Overruled
CHICAGO. Tlie .dissensions which
tor tho Inst year have prevailed in
thu ranks of tho teamsters' union1
here were carried into the trial of
.Cornelias 1'. Shea, who'" in company
with six other men is un trial for
alleged conspiracy In connection with
the groat toamsers' strike of Juno
Q 90,5.
Albert Young, former president ofl
jthe Teamsters' union; William Kollyv
(business agent of the Coal Teamsters'!
mnion, and William Murphey, said)
to have been a , member of the
r' wrecking crew, " during tho strike,
withdrew their pleas of not, guilty
and entered pleas of guilty. All of
the men declared their intention
of turning state's evidence-
The incident caused excitement In
the court room and took tho other
defendants completely by surprise.
Shea and Voting had for years been
close friends and had worked through
a number of strikes side by side.
Since the last convention of tlx
Teamsters' ,' union, however, the
have been opposed to each other. Ai
toon as court opened Attorney Lorn
. Brown, who has not. previous!
appeared in the case, ""addressed Judgi
'Ball, saying:
i
"Your honor. I desire to giv
notice that J herewith enter my ap
Ipearance as counsel for the following
named defendants in this casei
Albert Young, William Kelly and
Michael Murphey. "
The attorneys for the defense
howed their surprise at tnis nn
juooncemont and a moment later,1
'when it was announced that all threa
men desired to enter pleas .of guilty,
,they were fon a time taken com
j)leteiy0 aback. President Shea turned
Jin his chair aiuf stared fiercely ii
Young who rctilmed his look with;
an indifferent" stare. The statement
was then made by Attorney Brown
that his clients desired to turn sftate'l
evidence. ,
The attorneys for the defense thor
Unformed the court that they de
'minded the right of reopening tho
examination of the jurors in ordei
to question the jurors regarding theji
Acquaintance with Attorney Brown.
3'he court overruled them nnd except
.lon was taken by the defense.
A recess till afternoon was re
'quested by the defense and granted.
Tim frmthln linttt'nuti 1 ll'mri Vnnm.
and Cornelius P. Shea resulted from,
elTort by the former Usecure Mm
presidency of tlie International
Teamsters' union. He repiesented
an.element in the" union that wast
opposed to Shea amdissatissied wittt
jhis method or .conducting thq
Chicago strike. Shea was re-elected)
Mid Young then qrganized a rival
'organization, which is known is thu
United Teamsters of America. Since
the creation of the later body then.
ias been bitter "strife among thfl
teamsters and assaults and lights of
the St roots have occurred frequently
After Young, Kelly and Murphoj
ad entered pleas of guilty it vat
announced that Joseph Sohultz,
,iinder indictment in connection witi
alleged assaults committed durinj
the strike, but who has not yvt beoij
arrainged. would rum state's cvD
denee. s
Woiiiitn Killed by l.rjrotiulllvu 0 i
MJTCIIKLL. S. D.-A Jiorrible ac j
'i (It'll I. mum rrrwl Iw.ivt tvlioti l !uj I
iGoldie Sulford " wa& instantly killed
'.by being run over by a Mllwaukeo J
engine, which wtis pa-sing the depot, !
and while the're'wa a crowd tjf other
(passengers on the platform.
Miss Ha fiord evidently did not hoar1
'the approaching engine, as "Steam
was, escaping from another engine,
-nlnse by. She attempted ao cross the
track to another train o when tin
engine which was backing up struch
her. She was knocked down and
rolled under the lender and half ol
ithe engine, her dead body being
dragged out between the drivq
wheels and forward wheels.
Mis? Safford was' a ?tude.n't" of0
Dakota Wesleyan university and ho
home was at Milbank It was 2
Khocking affair which the peoplt
were forced to witness. The wondei
ifi that such an accident has not
happened beore. with the lar
crowds which are at the depot eacl
day. The policeman, who Juts beei
idoing duly for the company aroun
Ithe depot to prevent just such acel
dentil was laid ofl two days before
tho accident nccurrj;d
MANY MEN NEEDED
WEAK COAST DKl-'KNSKS MUST
STUI.MJTMKM-.n
STAND OF PRESIDENT
W1I.I. l!K(5IJ ON COMMUS KKMUDIAI.
1AHI Ijd.ATION
Will I'olnt Out Wcnknt'ssoH nml Uecoun
nifiul In UN M uHHitgo Itooriritlit-
ivtlon of theC'oiisL Ar
tillery fSiTlco
WASIIINGTON.-Ono of. tho sub
jects of which President Hoosevelt
will treat In his message to congress
will be the deplorable condition of
our const defenses. Poplorablo. not
fo much through tho lack of formica
tions, guns or machinery, although
much rema'ns to be done on all
three, but especially because of the
lack of men necessary to keep tho
guns and machinery in order in time
of peace, to say nothing of manipula
ting then should war break out.
What the president will have to say
on this subject will be short but to
the, point and he will take a iirnt
stand in favor of legislation calcu
lated to remedy existing conditions.
He has already,- placed himself
f-quarely on record, and only six
months ago addressed a special letter
lo the senate in which he. pointed
out, t hat I he increasing importance
and wealth of exports offered more
inducement to an enemy,
fact, that we now have a navy
"The
does
not in any wise diminish importance
of coast defenses; on the contrary it
emphasises their value, and tho
necessity for their construction," he
said recently. "It is an accepled
naval maxim that a navy can he
used to strategic advantage only
when acting on the offensive, and
it- can be free to operate only after
our coast defense is reasonably secure
and so recognize! by the country."
The president, takes the ground
that the security and protection of
our interests require the completion
of our coast defenses, and that the
plans of (lie national coast defense
board should reoeive the. gencroiu
support of congress.
, I " I tr 1 1 1 ou Train
R KDWATfiR, Tex. The express
car attached to train No 4 of the
Cotton Belt route, wl'ch left this
.city, was robbed and Express Mes
senger W. A. Grissip hurled from1
the trjiin after having been beaten
ant badly" wounded by tho robbers.
Tlv robbery it is believed oe
nurred about a mile from this place,
but. was not discovered" until tho
train reached Eylau, the next stop."
The express messenger, was found
beside the track badly hurt and
idiowed indications of a desperate
light. The robbers escaped.
That the robbery was a success" i?
evident, so far as a hasty inspection
of the car and its contents would
indicate, but tho amount stolen is
not known. ' 0 0
Supt. K M. Kdliell. or Dallas, has
started for the scene and a special
train loaded with officers has been
started out, of Texarkana. A special
ias also been sent from Bed water.
0
At Redwater the messenger had at
tended to his 'duties as usual and the
train proceeded. There Is no stop 011
the schedule between that point and
Eylau. At Kylau Conductor Blair,
who was in charge- of the train, saw
that tho door of the express car has
'been forced nnd on ..entering found it
thv messengei
missing and the car hearing every
appearance of having been looted.
Trainmen were senl back on handcars
and Grissip was found. While Ije is
badly wounded it is not
hurls wilF prove fatal.
believed his
u MrtHjr llri'i'j of Vlolonrv
EL PASO, Tex. -Following a cam
paiKii of extreme bitterness in which
the alleged revolutionists of thai
place played a prominent part, three
murders have, occurred, in Del Ria
within tho lust threo days, the latest
being that or C. B. Cawthrono, a
leading sheep man" in that section,
who was fuuifd dead in his buggy
with a biJJleU through hit? heart.
'Intense fueling has existed along tho
border since the arrest of alleged
revolutionists began and many
murders and other deeds of violence
are attributed to this. There is no
abatement of the feeling aroused by
the arrest of alleged revolutionists.
On the contrary, it is growing in
intensify am', bhte mesa;
GiudsiTJsis on stamb.bjq MtN siyuhCHED
max AccrsKn ok Mttitnru testi
i ii;s rou uimhi:m
H'ltni'Hi Strontr .mil Hnoyaiit ut tlm Stnrt
IJut on Vt'rco of Collutno AC tor"
Itunld Ftrn of Allornuy
flKUKIMRIl N Y-With Heavy head
and unstoady gait, and with eyes
that were bleared and weary. Chester
E. Gillette presented a spectacle of
physical and mental exhaustion when
he stepped from tho witness box.
Me was" the star witness in his awn
behalf on tho charge of having mur
dered his sweetheart, Grace lliown.
Gillette went through one of tho
most trying ordeals that a witness
ever experienced. Surrounded by an
almost inexhaustible mass of circum
stantial evidence that seeniud to
point to his guilt, he took the stand
in his own behalf and for nearly
seven hotirB strove to bear up under
the strain of cross examination and
to describe to the jury Ijow Graco
Brown died"
o wo
'.til Ices a (mod Wltiuv
Most of the time he was under
cross examination aid the district
attorney was merciless in his
questioning.
Having assured his lawyers that)
ho. was equal to the stniii, Gillette
was called as the first witness in his
own defense.
His step was steady, his nerves
were linn and his answers quick,
a in response- to questions fnnn his
own senior counsel, A.M. Mills,
he declared that Grace Brown stood
up in the boat and threw herself into
the; lake. But his brief direct, ex
amination was followed by a soareh-
i iug cross examination which was nob
1 completed when at (J o'clock Judge
uevmtorr adjourned court. During
Ills cross examination GillettGoinado
no admissions that the story he told
to his own lawyer about how Graco
Brown died was untrue, but it
seemed to be a struggle for him to
k'ep up. his nerve durin; .this Jong
a id incessant siege.
Late in the afternoon his eyes
began to take on a tired look, his
voice weakened until his own lawyers
had to beg him to speak up, and his
head dropped t'j one side and swayed
perceptibly as the prosecutor faced
him with questions of his love, 'for tho
girl he is accused of having slain.
District Attorney Wood spent tho
afternoon in trying to establish tiy
Gillette's own words that there was
a motiws for the crime charged. Me
did not reash tho point of trying ic
shake, the defendant's story of othe
scene on Big Moose lake when Grace
Brown died. Thai is expected to
como on Friday, when" tho trial will
reach its climax.
HodlcK Mildly .Mutilated
DORTMUND, Germany. So far as
can le ascertained twenty-four ptjr
koiih were killed, ninety-six were
dangerously wounded and, several
hundred were slightly injured ntU:
result of tho explosion of the Robruit
factory near Aunei;.
At tho time of the explosion Md
Jioxes each containing eighty pounds
of fobtirit,were stored du the factory.
The groat force of the o explosion was
felt as far as Dortmund, ten miles
from the scene of the disaster, where
a large number of windows were
broken. On the main road to Annoii
all the houses were raised to the
grounds, 'the bodies of the killed
being terribly mutilated.
Surviving parents dragged their
sleeping children from their beefs,
collected their portable possessions
and fled froma the collapsing houses.
A second explosion occurred at 8
q'clock in thc0mfirning. Among the
killed were the burgomaster and
police inspector of the town of Wilj
6011, in the vicinity of the oroburil
factory. The manager of the factory
was wounded but was able to direc
tlio work of rescue which was only
poFsiblo at long range as two hun
dred weight of dynamite was stored
in the powder rooms. An0 eye-witness
of ..the disaBter' saya that flrn
broke out In the roburit factory ab'
7:30 in tho evening aud that when
Krupp'cS fire brigade from the neigh
bpring town of Annen arrived at the
scene at. 8 p. m,. the firemen had to
retire as other explosions threatened
to follow the one wjiich occurred
shortly after the llames broke out.
The neighboring Krupp works were
slightly damaged by the first explos
ion. Empe.ror William has directed
General von Sholl to visit- Annen
and Witten and has nubscrlbed 0.'Jf)3
fhr t.he relief of the ufforers.
t:XATOIt-i (MINtT.t!M:i) IN COAL
l.AXI) IMtAtJO INUUIUY
Testimony Io Sensational
L'Kttscuii imormtT to iiavh this
' UASli DltOl'I'KIl
Two Wyoming Scnnlorn nnd (.'ommln.
hIuiut Itlrhiirdt Nunn'il ly Wit-
MusnVotlnu or Indict-
limnti IH'lilod
3A1jT LAKE CITY. -Reports thai
the. federal grand jury which has
been sitting in this city and which
has h.'cn investigating coal lands has
voted several Indictments cannot be
conlirmed. According to the report
the indictments will not be returned
aTter tho close of tho investigation
being conducted here by ICdward E.
IMark, Interstate commerce com
missioner hi. M. Allision attorney for
flic Kio Grande system, ' in argument
before Commissioner Clark linn
charged (hat most of the testimony
brought out was for the purpose of
influnoing public opinion against per
sons who might be indicted by tho
grand jury.
When Commissioner Clark resumed
hia investigation Attorney Allison
made a request that II. G. Williams,
general manager of the. Utah Fuel
company, a Gould corporation, be
summoned as a witness. Mr. Allison
stated that the chairman of the inter
state enmmtesion in Washington had
communicated with Mr. Williams'
superior olllcer in o Washington, and
asked that Mr. U'illiaiiH testify.
.1. T. Marchand, who is conducting
die government's case before. .Mr.
Clark, flatly refused to examine Mr.
Williams, statinu thaU ho did not.
propose to render Mr. Williams
immune to future action. At tho
request of Mr. Marchand, Com
missoner Clark also excused from
giving testimony at the present tune
Frank B. Cook, a" mining operator
aud William D. Foster, secretary to
Robert Forrester, a geologist in tho
employ of one of the coal companies
under investigation. It was stated
that these men would be asked to
appear before the grand jury.
lilir S'tHit tlonnl Testimony
o
Sensational testimony was given
by Michael A. Myendo?-!!, a spe:ial
agent of the government, who began
an investigation of tint coal land
frauds in Utah and wio, be for they
had completed the investigation was
transferred to Los Angeles, and then
to Portland, Ore. Mr. MyondorfT
presented atlldavits in which he toll'
Df efforts made by influential men t
induce him to cease his investigation
of the coal land frauds. lie ciiaineC
Senators Warren and Clark of Wyom
ing, ConitfiiSBioner Blchards of tic.
general land ollice and George F.
Pollock, chief of department B,
interior department, Washington.
Ho alleged that in Denver Senator
Warren told him he ought not to go
After the Union Pacific and incur the
!innjty of that company lie charged
, that t"e land department at Washing
ton had suppressed evidence secured
by him. Tn two charges which ho
filed against Robert Forrester, geolo
gist of tlie Utah Fuel company, a
Gould corporation, he alleged no
action was taken.
The witness further0 alleged than
George Pollock, chief of department
,B, interior department instructed
him to destroy four affidavits which
he had R'cured against the Union
Pacific Coal company.
Sto Work oil Dry Dork 0
1 Oin'SMOUTII. N. ll.-Froni tele
graphic orders received hero from
the navy department,, at Washington,
stopping nil work on tho old wooden
dry 'dock, it is believed that this his
toric structure wjiich has held some
ot the most famous fighting ships of
three American wars, is to be con
demned. The dook has been in active
aervico since., 1850 and among tho ves
sels it has held are the Constitution,
the Kearsarge and the Ralejgh. The
original cost of the dock was moro
than onc-halfoihillion dollars. In tlm
past two years moro than $KX),C00 Ijas
beep expended in unsuccessful efforts
to make it serviceable. Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Newberry
Inspected the plant wth Civil En
gineer Parks, U. H. X., and upeb
Mr Nowbcrry'B return to Washington
orders were jssued stopping the work
on the dock. There Is understood to
have been otllcial opposition of spend
ing more monev on the basin.
NEBRASKA NOTES
Good skating Is reported arouni
Plattsmouth
A now public drinking fountain li
"elng put in place at Schuyler.
Many acres of sugar beets are still
unharvcflted around Sutherland.
Mrs." Wilson Reynolds, of Fremont,
died suddenly of heart trouble.
Slush Ice In the Missouri ant)
Platte rivers has put tho ferries out
of business.
Clifford, llitth'ton, a traveling
Balesinan from Omaha, was taken sud
donly sick at IStistls.
The village board of Papilllon hai
Voted $1,000 for the purchase of a
gasoline engine for thu lire depart-'
ment.
The Union Pacific is to put a nidtoB
car in service between Beatrice ami
Marysvillo, Kmi.
Hugcno Stevens has purchased sixty
acres of laud near Beatr ice and will
begin fruit raising in llttj spring.
Tho Standard Oil company is mak
ing Schuyler a distributing point aud
is- to put up a number of tanks there.
C. F. Eble, of Beatrice, will work
for the Fairmont Creamery company
at Omaha. lie has been employed by
the company at Fairbury.
At Aurora some of the citizens
have organized a company for tlm
manufacture of washing machines.
Miss Madgeline Wilson, of Beatrice,
lias secured a position in Omaha.
Before going away her friends uavo
her a silver jewel case.
A badger was caught six mile
north of Beatrice by two young men,
in a trap set for rabbits. The. animal
weighed about twenty pounds
A house-moving firm at Geneva
reports a very brisk season. Sincn
August. P. 105, they have moved mom
than seventy live buildings in oi
near Geneva.
The Sure Hatch Incubator company
at Fremont, has begun work and ha
already a quantity of machines com
pleted. The company has an in
creased number of orders ahead anil
will run a full force through the
f-oason.
S. Bumham, who has thu (ratichisot
to install thu electric light plant a
McOooi Junction has made arrange'
menta to got power from the Stomj
mills near McCool. Machinery hai
been ordered and within a mouth
McCool will have an electric ligh
system. 0
Stephen l$ayles. company E'
Thirty-fifth Missouri volunteer in.
fan try, aged eighty years, died at tin
soldiers' home, at Milford, old ag
.being the cause of death. He lived
in Guide Itock. He had been in tlm
hospital for three months, lie Win
brought to thu asylum in Lincoln ami
from there to the home here, liu
leaves a daughter and sou.
The long talked of sower system
for an Auburn hotel is now bein
1:011st ructed. Tho sewer starts at th
hotel, out to Central avenue, then
takes a cut across the Missouri PacilU
track and north to the Nemaha rlvorl
This is a private line and the only
sewer system in the !lty of any
importance. p 0 e
The second animal chrytauthemui
and flower show of Dawson was held
at the opera house. A carnival wai
conducted in thoTuouv at the samf
time, where booths of fancy work an J
refreshments attracted the Ovisitot?:
A baby sliow was also conducted.
Mrs. Chittenden of Lincoln was on
of the flower judges.
Mrs.M. W. Rolls and Mrs. .lolm
Cohagan, of Arbqrville, meet with
serious accident while returning
home. Whilo crossing a culvert
part of the harness gave way scaring
the team, which ran away, throwin
tho women out. Mrs Cohagan Wai
seriously and perhaps0 dangerously
JnjurGd, remaining unconscious foi
some time. Mrs. Rolls received painJ
ful injuries, but notlmrg serious.
The Burlington has closed up dealt
for twenty -livepieces of real estatf
in t'Jh southron part of North Platta
and received deeds "for the same.
During the past few days no fnrthet
attempt has been wade to purchaf.
any more: property. As yet, no aps
plicatioli - for tlfe appointment fl
appraisers hasoboen made, but it it
reported that such action will sooi
be taken on tho artof thecorhpany.
John M. Ragan, jr., cashier of tin
First National baiiit, of Ehvnod hai
just returned from the Alborti
countiy In Canada0 where ho took 1
homestead and purchased lc
sections of Jandr He thinks that
country has a great future before it
and is selling Off his personal effeCtf
and house and .will leave for thaf
country about February to make hit
home. Several othei parties from,
here will tccofnany him.