The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, July 26, 1907, Image 7

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    Only two cents a mile to Lincoln. It will pay you to come a long way to attend this sale
HALF PRICE!
This sale of the O'Donahoe, Redmond, Normile Co's.
stock of Spring and Summer Suits means a saving of One-half to you and
every man who takes advantage of the unprecedented values offered. If
you have all the clothing you need for present wear, then you will indeed
act wisely in purchasing one or two suits for next season. Think it over,
then come and see these 1907 Spring and Summer Suit Models now offered
at one-half the regular price single and double breasted Sack Suits and
Coat and Trouser Suits for men and young men in all sizes from 34 to 44
inches. Made of fine Worsteds, Cheviots and Tweeds of exclusive stripes,
checks arid mixtures, also fine black and
blue suits, and now you can choose any of
these and pay only
ALL SUITS ARE UNION MADE
It is of the utmost importance to parents to buy the
Right Kind of Clothes for their boys Mayer Bros, kind if you please
Nearly all the Boys' Clothing Business of Lincoln comes to this
store. There's a reason for it, of course.
Big Sale in Boys' Depf m'nt This Week
Blouse and Russian
Blouse Wash Suits
$1.25 Suits on sale at 98c
$1.50 Suits on sale at : $1.18
$2.00 Suits on sale at $1.58
$2.50 Suits on sale at... $1.98
$3.00 Suits on sale at $2-38
$4.00 Suits on sale at $2.98
Boys' and Children's Straw
Hats at Half Price
$2.00 Hats on Sale at -51.00
$1.30 Hats on Sale at. . . 75c
$1.00 Hats on Sale at 50c
60c Hats on Sale at 25c
25c Hats on Sale at 13c
00c WASH TAMS, CAPS and HATS, of Duck
and Linen, now priced only 89c
MAY
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-, Lincoln's Greatest Clothing
ITO RULES KOREA
CRAFTY JAP HOLDS KOREAN DES
TINY IN HANDS
POWER BEHIND THE CABINET
Japanese Statesman Are Shaping
Future of Korean Government
by Using the Native Cabi
net at Will.
The Korean cabinet's report to
Marquis Ito of the former emperor's
new pledge of abdication, in form posi
tive and final, was published July 23.
This reversed the widespread impres
sion that the first instance was not
one of abdication but of "Imperial
contortion." Ito's subservient cabinet,
In an all-night engagement with the
former emperor, wrung from him the
verbal admission of the validity of his
casual abdication and secured his sig
nature to a classification proclamation
to. the people; also an acknowledge
ment of the mikado's congratulations
to him as emperor de facto, which
acknowledgement had been resisted by
the deposed ruler during the day.
The working members of the cab
inet who enjoy Ito's protection and
patronage are passing in and out of
the palace with a guard exclusively
Japanese. The work of the cabinet
will not be finished until the ex-emperor
Is exiled from Seoul. This, or the
consummation of some similar tragedy
will be a landmark in Korean his
tory.
Viscount Hayashi, the foreign min
ister of Japan, whose presence in
Korea at this time supports Ito In an
interview in the administration's
paper, is understood to suggest
council of state with power to act for
the elimination of Interference by the
throne.
ine censorship proclaimed over
Japanese press correspondence is de
scribed as precautionary on account
of the bitterness displayed toward
Ito's conservative course In reshaping
the destinies of Korea. The situation
in the capital Is promising, especially
In consideration of the fact that the
stores of ammunition possessed by dls-
affected Korean troops are exeremely
small. Marquis Ito expects valuable
reinforcements of bluejackets from
Japanese warships for emergency use.
Emperor Offers Courtesy.
The German foreign office has In
formed Ambassador Tower that Em
peror William will be happy to have
BBrlgadler General Wlnfield E. Edger-
BflUF-'PI
Great Sale of Summer
Shirt Waists
60c Waists on sale at 39c
$1.00 Waists on sale at 79c
35c Waists on sale at 19c
The celebrated "Mother's Friend" Waists, both
50c and 75c, grades, on sale Saturday, each 33c
Boy's Knickerbocker
and Straight Trousers
50c and 75c. Wool Pants . 37c
75 Knickerbocker Wool Pants 57c
$1.00 Knickerbocker Wool Pants. 77c
$1.50 Knickerbocker Wool Pants $1.17
AH Boy's' and Young Men's Wool Suits,
including blues, on sale at great
ly reduced prices.
ly,. Major Cornelius De Wilcox, Cap
tain Robert E. L. Michie and Captain
George H. Shelton, who are assigned
to attend the German maneuvers
next September, as his personal
guests. The American officers will
be entertained at the imperial head
quarters and supplied with horses
from the imperial stables. The maneu
vers will be on a less magnificent
scale than usual because the army
administration has determined to
economize.
BLUE GRASS SEED CORNER.
Kentuoky Syndicate Gobbles Up the
Available Supply.
A syndicate composed of J. S. Wil
son, E. P. Spears and sons of Paris,
Ky., and D. S. Gay of Winchester,
Ky., closed a deal by which they be
came the possessors of about 700,000
bushels of Kentucky blue grass seed,
practically all there Is in the country
with the exception of one party hold
ing about 10,000 bushels. It .is esti
mated it will take $500,000 to finance
the deal. The seed Is to be delivered
by August 1, the market opening on
that day. The annual demand aver
ages about 500,000 bushels, a large
part of which goes to Europe.
MORE PAY IS REFUSED.
Superior, Wis., Ore Dock Men Given
No Encouragement.
The ore dock men at Superior, Wis.,
are out because of the refusal of em
ployers to grant an increase of wages
asked for. The miners on the Mesaba
range are quitting and the ore indus
try is completely tied up. The ore
dock workers have offered to arbitrate.
Governor Johnson will go to the scene
to investigate. At Ohio docks men are
being laid off because of the strike in
Wisconsin.
Ivins Gets Appointment.
William M. Ivins, republican nomi
nee In the last New York mayoralty
election, has been appointed counsel
for the utilities commission to inves
tigate the Interborough, Metropolitan
and Brooklyn Rapid Transit railroad
systems.
Two Million for the State.
The New York state 'transfer tax
appraiser is to fix the tax on the es
tates of the late James Henry Smith.
The state will get about $2,000,000
from the estate.
Germany Will Oppose.
Germany will oppose the wording
of the British proposition regarding
the limitation of armaments. She
contends it is impossible to acknowl
edge the urgency of disarmament
when no practical scheme yet has
been devised for the reduction of mil
itary burdens.
Store.
EMPEROR QUITS
THE RULER OF KOREA GIVES UP
HIS THRONE.
JAPAN'S GRASP IS SECURE
Natives Show Sympathy for Deposed
Monarch, But Realize Useless
ness of Resistance No Re
volt Anticipated.
The emporer of Korea has abdicated
the throne.
A crowd of 5,000 Koreans had to
be beaten back from the palace gates.
During the audience with the cabinet
when the emperor acquiesced to the
demand for abdication, a number of
students attempted to present a peti
tion to the emperor, but the police
prevented them from doing so, driv
ing them back east of the palace.
Chief 'of Police Maruyama distributed
carbines to the palace police, butthe
crowd continued to increase, remain
ing orderly, however. The ceremony
of transferring the Imperial seal- to
the crown prince was elaborate.
Some shops closed because of the
sympathy of their proprietors with the
emperor and the streets around the
palace were filled with people.
The Japanese papers have published
some sensational rumors, but there is
no indication of a revolt. The Korean
Official Gazette, circulating on the
streets, gave the first official an
nouncement of the abdication which
was signed by the emperor and the
ministers in favor of the crown
prince.
At the Japanese residency Marquis
Ito and Viscount Hayashi in answer
to an inquiry of the correspondent of
the Associated Press regarding the ef
fect of the emperor's action, its im
portance in affecting a settlement of
the whole Japanese-Korean situation
and whether or not it was in accord
ance with the plans of Japan, said
they were not prepared at the present
time to make a statement.
McCarthy Is Discharged.
In the United States district court
at Cheyenne, Wyo., Judge J. A. Riner
dismissed the case against E. T. Mc
Carthy, a wealthy mining man of
Omaha, and Baxter City, Kansas, who
was indicted for alleged conspiracy
to defraud the government out of val
uable coal lands in Monarch, Wyo
The evidence on which E. M. - Hol
brook, E. A. Lonabaugh and Robert
McPhilamy were convicted had dis
posed of his interest in the land in
question.
London. -The fortieth annual Brit
ish trades congress will assemble at
Bath, Eng., September 2.
London. In the recent Queensland,
Australia, elections the labor losses
were heavy 13 seats out of 67.
Berlin. Berlin's "lockout" in the
building trades already alffects 45,000
men, and may shortly extend to 100,
000. ,
London. The labor movement has
taken hold in Egypt. The printers em
ployed on a Cairo newspaper, "Les
Pyramids," are out for better condi
tions. Cherbourg, France. The dock la
borer here struck for an increase of
wages and paraded the city, carrying
red flags and singing wild revolution
ary songs.
Goldfield, Nev. The recent miners
convention was ended by an agree
ment of the miners to sever their con
nection with the Industrial Workers
of the World.
San Francisco. Members of the
Teachers' Federation have addressed
a letter to the board of supervisors
asking for an increase in pay and sug
gesting a minimum scale of $1,200 a
year.
Davenport, la. All Davenport
plumbers went on strike owing to the
refusal of the master plumbers to
meet the union in conference on the
regulation of the number of appren
tices to be employed.
Adelaide, N. S. W. The New South
Wales railway commissioners have es
tablished 73 "rest houses" on the
various lines for the convenience and
comfort of enginemen and guards
when away from home.
Ottawa, Canada. It is said ' the
Grand"-Trunk railway has made ar
rangements for 30,000 English, Irish,
Scotch, and Russian laborers to emi
grate" to the Canadian northwest to be
employed in building the new road.
Berlin. A strike that has lasted 37
years has just ended- at ' Solingen,
where cutlery is the staple industry
One 6f the best known manufacturers,
Karl Ohlinger, has been forced to em
ploy union scissors grinders after em
ploying nonunion labor since 1870.
New York. The strike of the Amer
ican ..Ice company's drivers was for
mally declared off at a meeting of
delegates from the Drivers' and Help
ers' unions. The action followed a
finaTjTusaI 'Bf President Oler to treat
with tthe strikers. Mr. Oler, however,
said that be would be glad to take
back'the men and to hear and adjust
any grievances presented by active
employes.
Albany, N. Y. Lewis E. Carr, of
Albany, counsel for the Delaware &
Hudson company, and James D. Land
rigan, of Troy, were named as the
arbitrators to settle the dispute over
the question of wages to be paid the
employes on the Albany and Troy di
visions of the United Traction com
pany. Mr. Carr is to represent the
company and Mr. Landrigan the em
ployes. The decision of the arbitrators
is to be final. - ,
Denver, Col. Frank Schmelzer, of
Silverton, Col., who was elected a
member of the executive board of the
Western Federation of Miners, jumped
from a moving train and was killed.
Schmelzer was on his way to Silver-
ton for a short visit prior to going to
Boise to testify in the Haywood trial
In the suburbs of the city he discov
ered he was on the wrong train and
jumped off, calling to the conductor
to throw his grip after him.
Ottawa, Canada. A law aiming at
the prevention of strikes and applic
able to the owners of mines, steam
and electric railroads, steamships,
telegraph and telephone lines, gas,
electric light, water and power plants
and their employes has just taken ef
fect in Canada. By the provisions of
this law an employer is prohibited
from causing a lockout and employes
are not allowed to strike on account
of any dispute prior to or during a
reference of such dispute to a board
of conciliation and investigation pro
vided by tne act.
Chicago. The wage agreement be
tween the Amalgamated Association
of Railway Employes and the Union
Traction company was signed. The in
crease granted by the company gives
the men 27 cents an hour after one
year's service with the company, 23
cents for the first six months, and 25
cents for the second six "months of
service. The night crews on runs on
the present schedule are to receive 41
cents an hour. New runs are to be at
the rate of 27 cents an hour for a nine
hour ' day. Barnmen and other em
ployes get a raise of about ten per
cent, over the present scale.
St. Louis. When the Electrical
Workers' union was organized in this
:ity in 1891, wages ranged from two
dollars to $2.25 a day from sun-up to
sun-down. To-day the union has 50,-
000 members,. who receive from three
dollars to five dollars a day for eight
hours.
Peoria, 111. A conference between
Grand Master John J. Hannahan and
the vice grand masters and grand
lodge officers of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
was held in this city. Grand Master
Hannahan says that the matters under
discussion were merely routine.
Paris, France. The waiters won
their strike for a reduction of the fees
payable for the privilege cf working
and the right to wear mustaches.
Fltchburg. About 300 machinists
employed at eight different shops in
this city went out on strike for the
nine-hour day and for an increase in
pay. . . .
Berlin. A recent report shows that
cooperative farming is making great
headway in Germany. At the close of
1905 no less than 17,912 cooperative
farming associations were in . full
swing, with a membership of over
1,000,000 farmers..
Boston. Something new in labor in
junctions was issued by Judge Lorjng,
of the supreme court, recently, when
he restrained the Teamsters' union
from paying the car fare out of the
city -of nonunion men brought there
to break the teamsters' strike.
Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City
union men laid the cornerstone of
their new labor temple at Fourteenth
and Woodlawn July 4, Senator Wil
liam Warner, Mayor Beardsley and
Frank P. Walsh assisting. The union
men have agreed to donate one day's
pay toward, the. fund to erect the labor
temple and about $30,000 has already
been raised from voluntary subscrip
tions for stock.
TRIBUTE TO LABOR LEADER.
Monument to be erected at grave
of Edwin F. Gould, labor leader, by
workingmen of Indianapolis and In
diana. , Washington. "The most significant
fact in connection with organized la
bor is the accession to its ranks of
70,000 workers during the last ten
weeks," said Samuel Gompers the
other day. "The direct reason for this
heavy increase is recognition of the
concessions which union labor has ob
tained from the forces' controlling our
industrial - development.- Arbitration
is constantly gaining ground in the
minds of the laboring classes as the
most satisfactory method of settling
differences between employer and em
ploye. The desire for temperate and
sane adjustment of dissensions is due
to the tremendous strides the work
man has made by reading and study."
Boston. International Typographi
cal union recently declared that it
has won the eight-hour workday strike
for the book and job branch in 99 per
cent, of the cities and towns of the
country. It ceased paying strike bene
fits after having paid them continu
ously since February 1 of last year.
About $150,000 was disbursed for
benefits in this city. The local union
will pay relief to any man still out
of- work.
Washington. When the supreme
court of the United States meets next
October it will be confronted with a
question as to the liability of a labor
union to punishment under the anti
trust law. The question arises in con
nection with the case of D. E. Lowe,
of Danbury, Conn., vs. Martin Lawler
and members of the American Federa
tion of Labor. Lowe is a hat manu
facturer. It is charged that the fed-;
eration has sent out circulars to
Lowe's patrons warning them that it
they buy his hats they will be put
upon the "unfair list." Lowe brought
suit for $240,000 damages. The case
hinges on the question whether the
plaintiffs can maintain an action un
der the anti-trust law.
Amsterdam. The latest and most
up-to-date form of government sick in
surance is being considered by Hol
land, and is now before the second
chamber of the states general. The
proposed insurance is obligatory and
extends to all laborers employed reg-.
ularly.
Philadelphia. Enoch W. C. Greene,
general counsel for the Legal Security
company, which represents several of
the labor unions of Pennsylvania, is
authority for the assertion that "one
in every seven mechanics' in the
United States is disabled or killed
each year."
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"3A ,'HRPSPBfc " ' , Tyrus Cobb.- ' '
FASTEST T0SSERS
IN THE COUNTRY
ALMOST EVERY CLUB HAS A CAN
DIDATE FOR THE SPEED
,'" ' HONOR ROLL.
TYRUS COBB AMONG LEADERS
Detroit Lays Great Stock in Player
Who Is Hailed as One of Best Nat
ural Hitters in Game To-Day
' O'Neill Said to Be Best Sprinter in
American Association.
Who is. the fastest ball player in the
country?
In the American league many differ
ent teams claim the fastest man in
the country. In- St. Louis they are
spreading' pages of copy now on the
work of Harry Niles, league leader at
bat. They claim that this youngster
is not only the fastest runner, but the
best batter, etc.
Fielder Jones, of the world's cham
pions, maintains that Pat Dougherty
is the fastest runner in the league.
Down in little old New York they
point to Danny Hoffman as the one
ten-second man of the league.
Harry Bay won the title of "Deer- -foot"
by his , speed some " time ago,(
but Bay is not the man he once was,;
through injuries. Still, he is still there
to a considerable extent.
In the National they say Maloney,
of Brooklyn, is the fastest, and others
point to Magee, of Philadelphia.
But around the circuit there is a
growing belief that there is a newer
and faster man coming to the front,,
one whose style of play is peculiar to
himself, and whose work, given, fair;
recognition last season, will stamp
him as one of the greatest natural ball
players in the business before .the
year is out'1-1. That's Tyriu Cobb.
Cobb, like Harry Niles, is not a fin
ished ball player. But if is interesting
to contemplate just what he will be
when he is thoroughly seasoned, when,
he can do what he can now. Like
Niles, he is not yet an expert on the
bases. - '. "' 'i '
Cobb's really remarkable speed tin
going down to first base and inr going,
from first to third on sacrifice bits
every time he got the opportunity,
gave the fans the idea that it was bis
speed that carried him through. .
"Where other men would get thrown,
out Cobb gets there because of his
3peed," they said. , . '
They had this idea because of Ty'tf
method of batting. He bandies ' bis
stick like a toy. There is no exer
tion seemingly- when be swings. He .
just seems to meet the ball as though .
It were nothing at all. But it goes.
Wben it's to be hit out, he is usually,
there with a long drive. But he also
likes to chop down on them, sending
the ball spinning in several different
directions at once, jarring the whole
infield. '
Tyrus. does not look like a slugger.
There is not great weight in those
shoulders to lay -against a ball. Yet
he is fast being hailed as one of the
best natural hitters in baseball.
There are a great many good ball
players who figure out what to do and
then do it. Cobb seems to play purely,
by Instinct. He does things first and
then thinks afterward. He makes mis
takes sometimes, but they are only
made in an effort to pull of some dar
ing play.
Last year he could not field very
good. This year he has been liikder
the constant care of big Sam Craw
ford, and his work has shown great
improvement. t
.' Bay, Niles, Hoffman, Dougherty and
other fast men have been seen here
beating out bunts and scratch hits.
Have any of them ever shown greater
speed or flashier work on the bases
than Cobb?
Just nvho is the fastest actual' run
ner in baseball it will never be. set
tled probably, but when it comes to '
Just making . claims Detroit is there
strong with the' Georgian as the rep
resentative. ' -
In the American association there
are number of men who get down
to first in close to record time. Prob
ably the swiftest of the bunch is Tip (
O'Neill, the former Milwaukee player,
who is. with Minneapolis this year,
says the Milwaukee Sentinel.. Tip
gets off like a shot, but his greatest
speed is made' In the last 30 feet. An
other fast man to first is Williams, ot
Indianapolis, although he is not as
fast as O'Neill. Josh Clarke and Armr
bruster, of Toledo, get down to first
in fast time, as does George McBride,
ot Kansas City. The fastest man
ion the Milwaukee team is Danny: '
Green. Clark and Dougherty also get
to first in quick time.