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"MAY 1 WILL BE USHERED IN
WITHOUT SERIOUS STRIKES,
WORKERS IN PROSPEROUS STATE
Wage Earners Busy at Higher Pay
Than Ever Before Secretary of
Citizens' Industrial Association Says
Outlook Was Never So Promising.
Cnlea'go. April 2-1. Iir tlio first
fcruiu In years May J will ho ushered In
without any serious disturbance In
t.ho IticliiBtrltil world. This peaceful
condition applies not only to Chicago,
but to the Inn-go cities throughout the
oiintry, according to .lames A. Kmory,
wecrotury of tlio Citizens' Industrial
association, who is in Chicago.
"There is hardly a cloud on the In
dustrial horizon unywhero," said
Mr. Emory. "Wages are higher than
nt any time In tho history of tlio coun
try, and in most of tho country ttio
relations between the employer and
employe aro harmonious. Through re- J
ports from our different associations, i
am kept In touch with Industrial af
fairs In every part or the count ry, aii'l
1 have never seen tho outlook as
promising. In nearly ovory Instance
where working contracts have been
renewed, wage Increases have been
granted, so that May 1 this year will
not only bring fewer strikes, but also
higher wages than ever before."
SWILL APPEALjraWASHINGTON
Government Will Be Asked to Mediate
in Rio Grande Dispute.
Dnnver, Colo., April 21.-The United
States government will be asked , to
mediate between the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad and its trainmen In an
1 irort to bring ubout a settlement of tho
differences existing over the scale
question. L. 10. Sheppard, assistant
grand chief of the Order of Hallway
Conductors, and W. T. Nownian, third
Aico president of the llrotherhood of
Uallroad Trainmen, held a final con
fi renew with tho officials of the Rio
Grande road and notified them that
tho trainmen had rejected almost
unanimously tho offer of the com
pany's management of an Increase
averaging Il.til! per cent, and nothing
1 ss than the Chicago scale would bo
acceptable to tho Itio Giaude men.
They wire told that this could not bo
granlo'l and wero notified that tho
road would appeal to Washington.
The representatives of the trainmen
icspondod that as a concession to tho
public they would withhold further ac
tion until Washington could be heard
from, hut that only mediation and not
arbitration would be consented to.
They also declared that a strike would
be declared unless word came that
the national government was willing
to extend Its good offices, and that
very soon. Ninety-one per cent of the
conductors voted to reject tho com
pany's offer and !" per cent of tho
other trainmen did likewise.
WRECKS DUE TO BAD STEEL RAILS
iUHllli
of the olllcer who made the arrest,
Latent Flaw Causes Them to Break lcg , gt Mm.y.H ll0H,,itnl. Hoboluti.
Under Impact of Fast Train. 1 unconscious from, wounds thought to
' Chicago. April 2 1.-Dad steel rails be solt-lnilletod. It Is thought his In
are causing many 01' the disastrous juries will prove fatal,
wrecks 011 American railways, accord-1 Mieeding lroni gashes In his throat
ing 10 a sHHi'im-iii. mum.- nt Dwuii.' hi ,
tin most prominent operating officials
in te United States, who are In Chi
cago attending the spring meeting of
the American Hallway association.
Aided by c'y-iiilcnl experts and metal-lurgl.-.ts,
u committee composed of op
erating officials has been making an
Investigation of this matter and have
come to the conclusion that an ox- t
ceedlngly dangerous percentage of tho
steel rails manufactured today have j
n latent Haw, which causes them to
snap and break under the Impact ot
a fast train. '
Among tho roports which have been
prepared for presentation to the moot
ing of tho association today Is one by
tho committee on "Standard Hall and
Wheel Sections." This report will
recommend that a committee be ap
pointed to take up the question of bet
ter steel rails with the American man-,
ufnuuivrs in an endeavor to Improve,
tho quality of material. 1
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MANGLED BODYJOUND ON TRACK
Gambler Supposed to Have Dcen Mur
deied by His Victims.
Pittsburg, Kan., April 21. A man
gled body found on tho, Kansas City
Southern trucks near .Nelson, a coal
camp elKht miles north of Pittsburg,
has boon partially identified as that
of John Mitchell, a gambler of St. Jo
seph. Two local gamblers, who wero
not certain in their Identification, be
causo of tho mutilation of tho body,
ay that Mltcholl's mode of operation
was to drop Into railroad construction
camps disguised as a tramp, Inveigle
tho workmen Into gambling and win
their money. It Is supposed thnt
Mitchell was murdered by his victims
at tho mining camp and his body
thrown on tho track to bo cut up by
trains.
MRS. LAWSON SHELDON DEAD
Mother of Governor of Nebraska Pass
es Away at Her Home at Nchawka.
Lincoln, April 21. Mrs. Uiwson
Sholdon, mother of Governor George
L. Sholdon, died at her homo at No
hawka last evening. Sho was seventy
three years old. Sho has been 111
with pneumonia for throe weeks.
Much of tho time Governor Sheldon
baa buen at her bedside.
NO VACATON FOR THAW
Four Centers of Distress Report Worso
Conditions Than Formely.
Shanghai. April 20. Tho following
are extracts from the reports Just re
ceived from four famine centers:
Yawoml Famine Is growing worse.
Children In great numbers are dying.
S.ichlon Almost out of supplies.
Need largo amounts Immediately to
continue tho relief commenced.
Slng-Klang-Pu Many dying. Must
decrease relief work unless larger
rhlpments of supplies are received.
Luklawlctse The whole country Is
In the deepest distress. Ket'ugoes who
went south hoping to find relief are
returning empty ha uled. fhere are
processions of people with wheelbnr
rows, transporting their doors, tables,
beds and cupboards to market, to bo
sold for almost nothing. Hundreds of
women and children uro seen In the
Holds, scratching out roots and
scanty blades of grass. Hundreds of
trees have been stripped of their bark
from tho roots to the tips or the high
est brnnches, for use as food. The
majority of the population is living on
wild roots, which Is causing disease.
CHINESE FAMINE REPORTS
Generally Believed that Slayer of
White Will Spend Summer In Jail.
Now York, April 20. No movement
to attempt to secure tho release of 1
Harry K. Thaw on ball has been made
and none Is likely for sonic time.
Dan O'Reilly and Clifford W. Hart
ridge, tho two lawyers still In his em
ploy, say that no immediate steps will
be taken regarding bull.
That Thaw and the members of hlft
family are resigned to the fact that
Thaw must spend another summer In
the Tombs Is apparently Indicated by
the departure from the city of nearly
every member of the family. Mrs.
William Thaw, tho mother, and the
Countess of Yarmouth are now in
Pittsburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Kdward
Thaw have sailed for Europe.
Of all the family that gathered
about tho slayer of Stanford White
dm tug his fight fiir freedom recently,
only his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Thaw, re
mains at tho Hotel Loraino. She vis
its tho prisoner dally and declares
she will continue so to do is long as
ho is in jail.
DISGRACED, HE TRIES TO DIE
Wealthy Philadclphlan Prefers Death
to Trial on Double Charge.
New York. April 20. Menedlct Gim
bel, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant.
who was arrested in this city on the
double charge of exerting luipioper
intliKiice over Ivor Clark, a sixteen-year-old
boy, and attempted bribery
and severed arteries In both wrists,
Gimbel was found In a room which lie
had engaged tho night before at the
Palace hotel, In lloboUcn. Gluibol had
been released from tho Tombs under
$i;,oOi) bonds, lie then went to Ho-
bokeu and registered at tho Palace
hotel
N. J.
as Wilson Heldgo of Trenton,
Mrs. Donald McLean Re-elected.
Washington. April 2i. The princi
pal feature of the session of the con
tinental congress of the national so
ciety of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution was tho announce
ment of the result of the vote for offi
cers for the ensuing two years. Mrs.
Donald Mcl.can of New York, presi
dent ueneral. was re-elected by a huge
niajotlty and the administration ticket
vvsn elected with her.
Famine in Russia.
London, April 20. Willing from tho
Russian famine district. Dr. Konnarri,
sent by the Society of Friends to In
vestigate conditions, draws an ap
palling picture or the suffering, Ho
says: "This is tlio worst famine Rus-
cln lin Iniriwii. "n less than .0.IH10.-
000 people cannot live without aid to
sco another harvest."
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WILL MAL bvi ONE CLNATOi.
Republicans Fall lo Agree on a Can
dictate anj jj.iH ...iG.-n Adjoin. u
at End of iij..ty-i-liat Ballot icn
out Any Cnoicc.
Providence, April 24. Until Janu
ary next Jthodo island will have but
0110 United States senator as tho re
Mill of the failure of tne Republicans
In the legislature to ugreo on a candi
date. The Joint session adjourned at
the end of the eighty-first ballot,
which showed that tho deadlock was
still complete. Final ballot: Colonel
It. It. I. Goddard (Dem.), Providence,
40; Colonel Saniuol Pomeroy Colt
(Hep.), Bristol, 39; George Peabody
Wetmoro (Hep.), Newport, 30.
Tho contest wn tho most pro
tracted and stubbornly fought In tho
political history of the Btatc. Twenty
five ballots wero taken at yesterday's
session, none showing any particular
change In tho line-up.
TAFT HASJUSY TIME
Secretary Resumes His Duties at the
War Department.
Washington, April 24. Secretary
Taft resumed his routine duties at tho
war department. Tho fact that It was
cabinet day made It nocesEary for him
to cut short tho time allowed to call
ers and to liostpono until a more con
venient moment tho consultations ho
desired to have with General Boll,
chief of staff, and tlio other officials.
It is doubtful If, In his Washington
experience, the secretary has had to
deal with more newspaper men than
ho saw during tho day. Thoy wero
mainly desirous to learn just what the
secretary Intended to do In answer to
tho challenge which Senator Forakor
had Issued In regard lo tho contest In
Ohio. Mr. Taft frankly told his news
paper callers that ho was under the
disadvantage of a considerable ab
sence from the country, with only
scanty news of tho Important political
events that had occurred. Ho did not
fed, under tho circumstances, that
it was proper Tor him to make any
kind of a statement ns to his political
opinions. and plans.
harrimanIoIijiithks stand
Denies Giving Permission to Any
Newspaper to Publish Letter.
New York, April 24. Edward H.
Hariiman was the principal witness
at the final hearing in the case ot
Frank W. Hill, Mr. Harrlnian's former
secretary, who Is charged with having
sold for publication the now famous
Utter by Mr. Harrlnian to Sidney
Webster. The publication of tho let
tor drew a heated reply from the
piesldcnt, In which the statements ot
Mr. Harrlnian were characterized as
untrue, it Is charged that Hill sold
a copy of the letter which he tran
scribed from his original shorthand
notes.
Magistrate Wahlo announced after
the hearing that he would glvo his
decision on May 1. Mr. Harrlnian de
nied that ho ever gave permission to
any newspaper to publish tho letter.
On tho other hand, he said that when
ho learned the letter was In tho pos
session or the New York World he
tiled, without success, to prevent its
publication.
FOR EDUCATION OF NEGROES
Philadelphia Woman Gives $1,000,COO
I for Rudimentary Schools in South.
Philadelphia. April 24. A gift ol
1 l.uiiii.uno for th' establishment of a
f'ind tor rudimentary schools for
I southern negroes was announced here.
j Tho donor is Miss Anna T. Jeans, 'a
Quakeress of this city. Hooker T.
Washington, head of the Tuskegcc
1 Institute, and Hollis llurke I'rlssoll,
president of the Hampton normal and
Industrial Institute, aro named ns trus
tees of the fund, but neither of the
IiihtUutlons they represent will share
in the gilt. The income or the $l,t)iiO
000 Is to ho used for the sole purpose
of assisting In the "southern I'nlted
States community, country and rural
schools for tho great class of negroes
to whom the small rural and commu
nity schools aro alone available."
DISASTERS IN PHILIPPINES
Town of lloilo, Capital of Panay, To
tally Destroyed by Fire.
Manila, April 20. Tho town of llotlo
was totally destroyed by (Ire and 20,
Otio people rendered homeless.
Roports have buen received from
South Luzon of a sovero earthquake in
the town of Nuuvii Cacoras, capital of
the province of Atihos Cnnuuinen,
: and also at N'ayabas, In tho province
of Tnynlms, in northern Luzon. Tho
1 destruction of buildings Is reported,
t so tar there Is no mention or any
loss of lire.
S OF NKMIASKA.
coin Motorman Badly Injured.
, v pril 1:0. G. W. Hobinson,
.univn on the Lincoln Parle
car line, received serious In-
.n a co.lis.on between his car
.. L'ntcn Pa 1. ic lrcight train.
wiio mi&se .ie r was on tho car
..0 miraculously escaped injury.
Nr .rnska Wheat in Good Condition.
L ..n, April 20. Tho L'ndiuo Grain
f....1..ny hns compile, a report 01 tlio
(.o. .....on of the growing wheat In No-
in.. ...a from inquiries It recently sent
.. to J87 bankers In tho stnto. The
. ,.ort Is regarded as very favorable.
hi ..nswer to tho question, "Are there
; ny green bugs in your vicinity?" five
tinkers answered yes and 182 no.
To Test Veto of Kearney Appropriation
w.iicoln, April 23. The legality of
Gov ci nor Sheldon's veto of tho $80,
,ue appropriation by tne legislature for
:ne bitito normal school of Kearney
vv.ll uo tested In tho supremo cour'
J i..t in behalf of the school will be
;.. a .odny, the ground being that tho
t. .ie limit hail expired before tho gov
ernor announced his disapproval of tho
bill.
Lincoln Saloons Reopen.
Lincoln, April 19. Saloonkeepers ot
Lincoln scored a victory last evening,
Wiien tho supremo court rendered an
op.nlon In oftcct that licenses granted
last April under tho old city charter
do not expire until May 1 next, when
tho now municipal year begins under
the present chnrtcr. Tho "drought"
which has existed in Lincoln for a
week, was broken last night, when
tho forty-one saloons reopened.
EISHOP B.ONACUM TURNED DOWN
Rome Refuses to Furnish Testimony
to Nebraska Courts In His Case.
Lincoln, April 22. Dispatches from
Home indicate that Bishop Ronacum
had received a slight reverse, tho con
gregation of the propoganda refusing
to Intervene In tho case. Father Mur
phy hns boon In a ton-year legal tilt
with Donncuin and Is In possession of
tho church property at Seward, from
which Honacum sought to eject him.
Recent pleadings of Ronacum for im
mediate possession liavo been dis
missed, Murphy having won a slight
advantage.
RATES FIXED MAY SEVENTH.
Railway Commission Serves Notice to
that Effect on Railroads.
Lincoln, April 22. Tho state rail
way commission will make a schedule
of rates for all rallioads In Ncbi-nika
on May 7. A circular vjas sent out b.v
tho commission to all tho railroads
notifying them of this fact and calling
their attention to tho law, which re
quires roads to llle their schedules of
rates with the commission. This has
riot been done, but the circular calls
attention to the penalty provided for
.a failure to do this.
IN HANDS OF RECEIVER.
J. C. O. Morse Takes Charge of Uncle
Sam Oil Company.
Kansas City, April 24. J. C. O.
Morse, the receiver of tho Uncle Sam
Oil company, took charge of the affairs
at the company's general olllces In
Kansas City, Kan. After milking an
investigation of tho details of tho
business here, which probably will re
quire several days, Mr. Morse will in
spect tlio company's property in south
ern Kansas and Indian territory.
Tillman Asks Show of Hands.
Northampton, Mass., April 21. Just !
before the conclusion ot his lecture
in tho Academy of Music, Senator ,
Uonjumln R. Tillman -of South Caro
line asked for a show of hands from
thoM who believed the negro was not
the equal of the white man. There
was no response. He thou asked for
a similar vote who believed in the su
premacy of the whites, and a few
hands wero raised. Mr. TUlmnn con
cluded by attacking those piesent for
their failure to respond to his re
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