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VOL. XVIII. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 5. 1001. NUMBER 34.
FIFTY HMD DDT
Strike of the Steel Workers Involves the
Hoop Trust.
UNION MTN ART TO WALK Oil.
Even the Open Shops Are No Longer to
Contain Them—Some Mills Looked for
Ac-tiou — To Others It Comes as a
Surprise.
PITTSBURG, July 1.—President T.
J. Shaffer ot' the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron and Tin Workers will
this morning istuw an order calling
out ail union employes of the various
mills of the American Steel Hoop
* company, known as the hoop trust. It
is estimated that 15,000 men will bo
subject to the call, which, in connec
tion with the big strike of the Ameri
can Sheeet Steel company ordered by
President Shaffer on Saturday, wiH uf
oct 50,000 men.
President Shaffer said tonight: “The
impression that only the mills of the
American Sheet Steel company are af
fected by the decision of Saturday is
a mistake. The workmen of all mill
in the American Steel Hoop company
ait interested and will be officially no
tified this morning that the scale has
not been signed and tHat they will
quit work. The to the well organized
mills this notice will he no surprisi
for the men who have watched the
situation carefully, hut what is known
as open mills where union men have
been allowed to work side by side with
the non-union is where we have to
move. Union men must walk out of
these open mills in the hoop trust.
“The open mills to be notified ar"
one at Hollldayshurg, Pa., three a*
Pittsburg and one at Monessen. Th •
organized mills which will close on our
call are the Upper and Lower mills at
Youngstown, O.; Pomeroy, O.; Sharon,
I\a.; Girard, Pa.; Warren, Pa.; Green
ville, Pa. This, I believe, will bring
the number of men affected up to 50,
000. It is a matter of regret that the
issue has been forced, but it now looks
as thought it will be a fight to the
death."
Continuing, Mr. Shaffer said: “The
Amalgamated association is not un
prepared for it. We have not had a
general strike for many years, and in
that time we have not been idle. We
have funds and will use them. Rignt
here I want to correct an impression
which has been given out that no ben
efits will be paid strikers until two
months have elapsed. The Amalga
mated association will begin at once
to take care of its people.”
Mr. Shaffer concluded his talk by
saying: “I will say now what I said
to Mr. Smith, general manager of th<’
steel company in the conference. 1
said if it is to be a strike we will
make it one to be remembered. The
officials now dealing with us have but
little idea of the extent to which this
strike will go, once it is on.”
CUBAN ELECTORAL LAW.
Constitutional Convention to Discus* It
This Week.
HAVANA, July 1.—During the com
ing week the constitutional convention
will discuss the electoral law. The
project submitted by the commission
provides only for the election of con
gressmen, governors, state representa
tives, mayors and councilmen. No
agreement has been reached as to
whether the president and senators
shall be chosen by popular vote.
The discussion of the electoral law
will probably open up an argument
by the conservatives against a federal
republic with many provincial officers
as entailing heavy expenditures. The
conservatives will oppose granting ab
solute autonomy to the provinces and
municipalities. An effort will be made
to change the constitution and to in
vest the central government with ap
pointive and veto power.
Universal suffrage seems to be a
popular movement, but the general
opinion la that it will be impossible
to get the congress to change the form
of voting.
Governor General Wood is improv
ing, but his physicians advise him to
desist from public duties for some
time. Ho received the cabinet secre
taries yesterday and today.
Itryin In Wniihlngtoii.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. July 1.—
Hon. W. J. Bryan arrived in this city
this morning from Philadelphia and
spent a quiet day with friends. To
night he went by boat to Newport
' News. Va., where tomorrow he Is to
deliver an address before an educa
tional institution.
UNITED STATES IS ElfTH.
Trade With Switzerland and Exports of
Manufactured Good* Increasing.
WASHINGTON, July 1.- One of the
most interesting extracts from the vol
ume entitled “Commercial Relations
of the United States for 1900" was
made public Saturday by Frederics
Emory, chief of the bureau of foreign
commerce, dealing with United States
trade in Switzerland. Consul Gifford,
stationed at Basel, says Switzerland’s
trade figures are especially noteworthy
as showing that this diminutve repub
lic, about half as large as the state of
Maine and which would be swallowed
up in big Texas, is commercially the
most highly developed part of the
world. Not even industrious Holland
or Belgium, says the consul, can dis
play the astonishing figures of $130 of
foreign commerce for every unit of its
population of barely 3,000.000 reached
by Switzerland. These remarkable re
sults have been attained by a country
without seaports, without coal or iron
—in fact, without any considerable
quantity of raw material for the man
ufactures it has to sell.
According to Consul Morgan a*
Aarau, Switzerland is almost wholly
dependent on the outside world for Its
well-being, 30 per cent of its entire im
[x rtations consisting of foodstuffs un i
over 40 per cent being raw material
which is re-exported in the shape of
manufactured goods.
BIG HARVfSTS Of GRAIN.
Wheat tlrealer Than Ever. Corn flood
and Weather Satisfactory.
LINCOLN, Neb., July ,1.—"I *in
say positvely that the prospects for
big harvests of grain in this state
were never better than they are at
present. Th? wheat crop will prob
ably b» the largest in tlie history of
the state. Corn in practically all
parts of the state is in good condi
tion, but a trifle late in growth. Ter
ritory in th» immediate vicinity of
Lincoln has been dry recently, but
all other sections of the state have
had good rains and I was unable to
find any corn that had been killed by
drouth.”
This reawuring information was
given by Charles T. Neal, a grain
dealer of Lircoln, who had just re
turned from an extensive trip over
the state. He visited nearly all of
the grain growing counties and gath
ered opinions relative to grain from
the best posted men in each commu
nity, besides making personal inves
tigations.
"In some sections corn has been
delayed by lack of moisture, but the
damage has not been extensive.” con
tinued Mr. Neal. "Just at this time
corn does not need much rain and
unless the dry season is protracted
and accompanied by hot winds the
cereal will get along well without a
great deal of moisture.”
DEffNDS RUSSIA’S POLICY.
•lournal of Comniarro Attack* Duly on
BrttUh 1‘Mraltinp.
ST. PETERSBURG. July 1.—Con
firming statements already telegraphed
to the Associated Press, the Journal
of Commerce and Industry, represent
ing the Russian ministry of finance,
explains Russia's attitude toward the
American duty against British paraf
fine manufactured from Russian naph
tha. The article declares that Secre
tary Gage’s measure was "manifestly
designed as a reprisal," adding that
this position is strengthened by the
fact that article 626 had never pre
viously been so construed. It asserts
also that Mr. Gage did not mention
Roumanian naphtha, which is likewise
imported into Great Britain.
Tho contention, therefore, is that
Russia’s answer in raising the duties
on bicycles and rosin is justified.
SnfT*»rlnir from Hot Wind*
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. July 1—Kan
sas and Missouri are suffering from
hot winds that threaten great dam
age to corn. Atchison. Kan., reports
the greatest drouth in northeastern
unceasingly for tlie pas- seven days.
Kansas since 1800, a warm wind h-.v
Abilene, Kan., reports 10 a d<»rr-'e
weather, with many fields in south
Dickenson county ruined. A Mexieo
eo, Mo., dispatch says the thermom
eter in that part of the s ate register
ed 101 yesterday and today and if
rain does not come soon liv farmers
will have to put their stock on tlxo
market immediately to sa\ it.
f’/nrrvltrli lletrotlic-d
LONDON, July L—"It is reported
in St. Petersburg,” says a dispatch
to the ChreuMhj, "that the czare
vitch is bethrothed to Princess Ce
cil, granddaughter of the late Grand
Duke Meckleuburg-Schweriu.
Oliver Bricker Slaughters 0. D. Guild and
His Son Clarence.
RESIL1 OF A Ftl!D OF FAMILIfS
Many Shot* Are Exchanged on Farm
Near Dayton, Iowa—Victor Twice lilt
Claim* He Did Not Fire CutII He AVa*
Uou tilled.
DAYTON, la., Juno 20.- As c result
of a bitter neighborhood feud C. D.
Guild and his 19-year-old son Clar
ence lie dead, riddled with charges tired
from a shotgun. The man v ho did
the fatal shooting is believed, to be
Oliver Brieker, one of a family of
neighbors to the Guilds. The shooting
was committed at 1 o’clock this after
noon.
Stories or how the shooting occur
red vary. Bricker's story is that he
met Guild and son. Guild pul'ed a re
volver and began firing, brieker was
hit three times, on tlie lip, on the
forehead and in the arrn. All his
wounds arc slight. The last shot.
Brieker claims, was fired by the boy,
Brieker having knocked a revolver
from Guild s hand. When Iiricker got
through the fence he say:- that his
brother George met him end handed
him a shotgun. He fired one barrel
at the boy, who held the revolver.
The boy fell dead and as the father
sprang to pick up the revolver
Brieker snot and killed him.
A different story is told by Charlie
Guild, 16 years old, son of the dead
man, who claims he was an eyewit
ness of the shooting. The hey says
Oliver Brieker opened fire first with
a revolver and that George Brieker
did the fatal shooting with a shotgun.
Both Briekers were arrested. Oliver
Brieker was placed under $10,000
bonds and George Brieker under $5,000.
A jury impaneled by Coroner Youker
went to the ground and took ev( idence,
but ha '■not returned a verdict. Briek
er openly admits the shooting and
talks about it freely. "It was bad,”
be says, "but when a man's got to
he has to."
Both bodies lay in a lane only a few
hundred yards from Guild's home.
Mrs. Guild heard the shooting and
rushed to the spot, only to come upon
the bodies of her son and husband.
She carefully took off the apron which
site wore and wrapped it about her
dead husband's head. She was later
taken home in a dazen eimiition and
now lies in a serious state from nerv
ous shock.
Guild was a well-to-do farmer, 60
years of age, and leaves a wife and
eight children, the oldest 17 years and
the youngest a baby in its mother's
arms.
Both bodies showed wounds in the
chest. The fatal charges were heavy
loads of No. 6 shot an 1 were fired
ftom a twflve-gauge. double-barreled
shotgun. The revolver used by Guild
was a thirty-eight calibei Smith &
Wesson. Four or five chambers are
empty.
It is believed that the sh«H)ting was
caused by a quarrel this morning,
when George Brieker and Guild had
words over a broken fence which let
Bricker's cattle in Guild's corn and
Brieker claims Guild struck him with
a hammer.
EXTRA DAYS FOR VOLUNTEERS.
Krgiments at Han Kranclaoo Cannot lie
>luit*re<l Out Soon.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 29.—Al
though four volunteer regiments in
camp at the Presidio are working night
and day to be within the law by leav
ing the service on Sunday. June 30.
there ar<* three others vhich will not
get out before next wec-U.
According to the present schedule,
the Forty-seventh infantry will be
mustered out on the 2d of July, the
Forty-first on the 3d, and the Forty
third on the 5th. These troops will
thus be in the service two, three and
five days respectively longe: than they
ere supposed to have a military ex
istence. A deficiency bill by congress
will have to provide for their extra
pay.
County Faira In Nebraska.
LINCOLN, Neb.. June 29.—The fol
lowing dates for county fairs In Ne
braska have been announced by Sec
retary Furnas: Jefferson county, Sep
tember 17 to 20. at Fairbury, Fron
tier county, September 24 *o 27, at
Stockville; Kearney county September
18 to 21. at Minden; Madison county,
September 10 to 12, at Madlsrn: Ce
dar county. September 17 tc 20, at
Hartlngton.
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JESSIE MORRISON Gl'ILTY.
Jury Return* Vlrdlct of Mau.luughter a
tlie Second Degree.
El,DORADO, Kar,„ June 23.—Jessie
Morrison was found guilty of man
slaughter in the second degree late
this afternoon for tlie minder of Mrs.
Olin Castle. The penalty is nut more
than five years nor less than three
years in the penitentiary.
One of Miss Morrison's lawyers im
mediately filed a notice of appeal. Jes
sie Morrison was taken to her old cell
and locked up. There he" father, who
had been with her, left her.
The jury wrangled for nearly thirty
hours over the verdict. !t is «aid that
one juror held out obstinately for ac
quittal. Hast night while the buy was
deliberating the Eldorado band gave
a concert in the city park near the
court house and Olin Castle and Hay
ward Morrison, Jessie's brother, played
instruments side by side.
[\0RM01IS GRAIN CROP.
I.ardent In Ill*i»ry In Predicted for Till*
Region.
CHICAGO. 111.. June 28.- After mak
ing a careful canvass o? the north
west territory ami preparing conserv
ative estimates upon the conditions
found throughout the grain licit, traffic
officials of the St. Paul, tin Northwest
ern, the Great Northern and the Bur
lington systems are agreed that the
wheat crop of this region for 1901 will
break all previous records
According to the estimates of
these officials, it is claimed that the
two Dakotas and Minnesota alone will
harvest between 185,000,000 and 200,
000,000 bushels of wheat, as against
100,000,000 last year. Th» greatest
previous yield of wheat in the three
states named was in 1898, when 175,
000,000 bushels were ha-vested
Prize C’linf'H Arr Decided.
WASHINGTON, June 28.—Justice
Bradley in the equity court today de
elded the Manila hay and Santiage
bay prize cases. The decision is ir
favor of the claimants as to vessels cap
tuft'd and as to property taken Iron
vessels so captured, but against then
as to property captured ashore. Tli
decision holds that vessels sunk am
afterward raised were captured ant
not destroyed; that property capturec
ashore is not subject to prize.
County TreuHurer Slugged.
MINDKN, Neb., June 28.—At alioni
10 o’clock tonight Alfred Norlin
county treasurer, ran out of his office
in the court room crying fire. Kin
companies soon put out the fire, whict
had been set in the treasurer’s books
It develops that Norlin was workinj
on his books and some one slugged
him, knocking him senseless, and
after rifling his pockets and the money
drawer, set fire to the building.
Mr*. McKinley Take* a I)rlye.
WASHINGTON, June 28.—Mrs. Mc
Kinley’s condition is so much improv
ed that, she was able to take a drive
with the president this forenoon.
Mrs. McKinley was taken down
stairs in her rolling chair. The pres
ident accompanied her to the side
entrance, w-here they entered the car
riage. The drive lasted about forty
minutes.
HtmKlR Not to Try Aealn.
ST. PETERSBURG. June 28.—The
dispatch of the I>ondon Times from
Pekin, saying the Russian minister
there, M. DcGiers, had notified the
Chinese authorities that the negotia
tions regarding Manchuria are to be
teopened, is classed in official circles
here as being entirely inaccurate.
Pope Reported Quite III.
PARIS, June 28.—A dispatch to the
Petit Bleu from Rome announces the
pope to be seriously ill an I says that
Dr. Lapponni, his attending physi
cian, does not leave the pontiff’s bed
side. The Vatican officials are anxious
concerning the pope's health.
State Work for Fire Year*.
NEW YORK. June 28.—Thomas G.
Barger, convicted in the Hudson coun
ty court of Jersey City last week ol
felonious assault upon Re.-. John Kel
ler of Arlington, was today sentenced
to five years’ imprisonment in the
state penitentiary.
Gomes Goe* to New York.
HAVANA, June 28.—General Max
imo Gomez sail for New York today,
by way cf Tampa, Fla., accompanied
by the private secretary of Governor
General Wood.
After forty years of service in the
Chicago fire department, William H.
Munsham has become its chief.
Spain So Tar Forgets Her Chastisement
as to Encourage Trade.
COUNTRY IN GTNTRAL PROGRrSStS
Reawakening and Regeneration Seem* to
lie About to Follow the tieiieral Slink*
lug I’p and ReadJu»tmeat that the
War Itrought About.
j WASHINGTON. June 27—In spite
of the discriminating tariff, the out
look for United States trade in Spain
is hopeful, according to Consul Gen
eral Lay at Barcelona, in a report
which makes up the greater part of
the latest extract from “Commercial
Relations, made public by tlie bureau
of foreign relations, S'ate depart
ment.
Since the old trade treaty was can
celled with Spain no new compact has
been effected to take its place and
hence Spain 1s obliged to impose max
imum tariff duties on American goods,
which amount to discriminatory rates.
However, it is thought that the ef
forts of Mr. Storer, as minister to
Spain, will soon bear fruit and that
mutually satisfactory trade relations
between the two countries will be es
tablished. In spite of the drawbacks,
American goods at elevated prices find
ready sale in Spain and any feeling
against the United States as a nation
engendered by the late war Is fast
disappearing.
Consul Brown, at Carthogena, states
that he had hundreds of applications
during the past year from voting Span
iards who are desirous of settling in
Cuba. He also says it is a positive
fact that Spain, with the burden of
past reverses still partly upon it, is
advancing with slow but steady strides
on the road to prosperity The poor
er classes are getting higher wages,
all classes pay more taxes and have
more money to pay them with and
the entire regeneration of the country
has begun with commendable vim.
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CARS PILE IN HEAP.
Culvert Near 1’eru, Inti., Hive* Way
Under WhImhIi Limited.
PERU, Ind., June 27.—Thirteen per
sons were killed and about fifty were
seriously injured in a wreck of train
No. 3, the westbound Wabash limited,
nine miles west of this city, at 12:30
! a. m. today. The dead are mostly
Italian emigrants, en route to Colo
rado. Many of the injured undoubt
edly will die.
Two sections of train No. 3, one
coming from Detroit and the other
from Toledo, were consolidated in
this city into a train of eleven cars,
making up the flyer for its journey
to St. Louis. It consisted of a com
bination baggage and express, com
bination baggage and smoker, day
coach, emigrant coach, three chair
cars, three sleepers, and the private
oar of General Superintendent William
Cotter, Iron Mountain railway. Hav
ing left this city one hour late, the
train was speeding westward at a high
rate, when at a point, nine miles west
the engine plunged through a tres
tle which had been undermined by
the recent heavy rains.
The embankment on both sides of
the little stream dropped at a sharp
degree a distance of fortv feet. Ow
ing to the momentum of the train
the engine appeared to leap nearly
across the abyss, plunged into the
soft earth on the opposite side and
fell back to the bottom. Engineer
Dutler and Fireman Mlams were
thrown from the cab, but not serious
ly hurt. The express car and the first
chair car were telescoped. The emi
grant car, followed by two chair cars,
went down on the left side of the
track and the first sleeper pitched
forward upon the mass of debris. Its
windows and trucks were broken, but
none of the occupants were injured.
The remaining cars also left their
trucks, but were not badly damaged.
It was in the emigrant and day
coaches that most of the death and
injuries occurred. Heavy foliage lin
ed the banks on both sides of the cul
vert, the approach to which was over
a “reverse curve.”
Inniiiie from
OTTUMWA, la., June 27.—Thomas
Collingwood, 19 years of age, was ad
judged insane today and ordered taken
to Mount Pleasant. Collingwood had
been employed at the Dain Manufac
turing company's plant end is said
to have been forced to give up his
work on account of the excessive use
of cigarettes.
IMPOSSIBLE TO flX LOSSES.
Mauris of Commanimtlon too Meagre to
Collect Farte K«*itardlng Flood.
KEYSTONE, W. Va., June 26.—The
following story is told by an eyewit
ness of the great flood:
"Keystone is the metropolis of the
Elkhorn mining country. It has but
one narrow street, and, because of
limited space, many houses were built
on piles or walls over the Elkhorn or
close up against the mountains. The
town follows the meanderings of the
stream for a mile.
"On Friday night at 11 o’clock the
storm struck the mountain and for six
hours rain fell in torrents. By !) a.
m. the valley was a raging, seething,
angry torrent. Houses, barns, bridges,
fills, live stock and human beings
were swept by the mighty current and
dashed on the rocks or trees below.
"I was an eyewitness of the disas
ter at Keystone, stopping at a hotel.
At the first warning many of the in
habitants took refuge on the mountain
side overlooking the town and river.
More than a hundred people, how
ever, remained in the town to look
after the women and children who
did not escape early. The bridge
leading to the depot was soon swept
away, then the angry waters rushed
through the only street in the town
and we found hundreds cut off from
the mountain retreat and the hotel
was made fast to the teb'phone poles
by means of a line. Hundreds of
lives were saved. But In attempting
to cross the muddy, surging waters
which swept like an avalanche dowa
the street, many lost their hold and
in plain sight of friends were carried
on into the river and drowned.
RECALLS CISTER MASSACRE.
Twenty-Five Tears Ago tlie Brave Gen
eral Met Hie Dentil.
OMAHA, Neb., June 26.—Yesterday
was the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the massacre of General George A.
Custer in the Little Big Horn country
of Montana. The slaughter of General
Custer and 447 of his troopers took
place on Can day, end it was seveiai
days before the news of the tragedy
leached telegraph lines. Many of the
officers who were killed had been in
the Department of the Platte and were
well known in this city. General Cus
ter had many warm personal friends
in Omaha and gloom was east over the
city by the announcement of the ter
rible massacre.
General Custer was campaigning
against the Sioux at the time of hl3
death. With less than 500 troopers
be descended upon an Indian village
which was supposed to contain but a
limited number of warriors. Custer
and his men were surroun led and an
nihilated and their bodies were discov
ered a short time afterward by Gen
eral Reno.
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TOTAL LOSS ABOUT SIXTY.
Thli la the Conaervetlve Estimate by
President Fink.
NEW YORK, June 26.—Word was
received by Henry Kink, president of
the Norfolk & Western railroad, from
General Manager L. E. Johnson of the
system to the effect that the total loss
of life by the West Virginia floods
would amount to about sixty. Con
siderable damage had been done to a
number of mines, but some of the
more important were only slightly
damaged and will begin loading coal
today.
The dispatch added that the flood
of water was enormous in some places.
At the town of Ennis the rise had
amounted to six feet in thirty min
utes. The rapidity of the approach
of the flood, the dispatch says, was
responsible for the fact that so many
lives were lost.
Mr. Johnson reported that the Nor
folk branch of the Norfolk & Western
was nearly washed away and that it
would take a considerable time to re
pair it.
SECRETARY HAY RALLIES.
Arrangement* For Son's Funeral Await*
Mrs. liny's Advice
NEW HAVEN. Conn., June 26.—
After passing a fairly restful night
Secretary Hay, who, arriving late yes
terday afternoon at the residence of
Seth H. Mosely, where the body of his
son lay, was stricken with physical
collapse, was very much improved
this morning.
It was stated at the house this
morning that no definite plans for the
funeral will be fixed upon until the
arrival of Mrs. Hay and her daughter,
who are expected this afternoon from
Newbury, N. H., their summer home.
Meanwhile, however, arrangements are
being made for departure with the body
later In the day.