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Grand Trunk Freight Tie-up
Official Says Backbone of Strike Will
Soon Be Broken, But Men Are Confi-
dent They Can Keep Traffic Tied Up.
With its more important passenger
schedules fairly well maintained, the
pressing problem confronting the
Grand Trunk railway in Montreal,
Can., lies in the continued and appar
ently complete paralysis of its freight
traffic.
This condition the striking conduc-
tors and trainmen declare to have
been precisely their objective when,
to the number of 16,000 or more, they
left their various posts on the com-
pany’s system from Portland, Me, to
Detroit, and in New England Monday
night. .
Carloads of perishable freight are
standing on sidings far and near, and
unless it is possible to begin to turn
the wheels soon the property loss will
be large. Food supply and crop trans
portation are vitally involved, it ie
stated.
A generally expressed opinion at
many important points on the Grand
Trunk is that the strikers will be able
to continue the freight train hold-up
two or three days longer at least.
“The backbone of the strike will be
broken by Saturday.” This was the
assertion of Mr. Fitzhugh, vice presi-
dent of the Grand Trunk railway.
Conductors and yardmen in the em-
ployment of the Wabash on the tracks
that road leases from the Grand Trunk
between Niagara Falls, Ont, and
Windsor, Ont., opposite Detroit, Mich.,
have gone out, and as a result the
Wabash is having considerable trou-
ble in moving its passenger trains
over that division. No attempt is be
ing made to touch the freight.
Freedom from serious disorder con-
tinues to characterize conditions. Only
at two points has trouble been report-
ed. Strike sympathizers roughly han-
dled two railroad employes at Niagara
Falls, Ont.,, and at Sherbrook, Que.
an acting conductor of a Montreal
bound train was attacked by a crowd.
Two policemen and the station agent
finally got Lim to his train, which then
proceeded.
Both the Grand Trunk and the Wa-
bash are recruiting men. Vice Presi-
dent Fitzhigh, who is in charge for
the company, said he expected partial
resumption of freight operations be-
fore night, but that any widespread
movement of freight cars could not be
expected for a few days.
~The congestion of the west bound
freight on the docks at Montreal har-
bor is increasing, while shipping com-
panies say that six ocean-going steam-
ers which leave this port Friday and
Saturday for Europe will go out with
no more than half loads because of
the delays to incoming consigned
freight from the west.
Leaders on both sides say it will be
a finish fight, and that all thought of
arbitration or of compromise has been
abandoned. Offérs of mediation, wheth-
er from government or other sources,
it is stated, have no place in the pres-
ent status of things. No action has
been taken regarding the offer of the
minister of labor to assist in placing
the dispute before a satisfactory board
of arbitration at the expense of the
government.
The postofiice officials report the
mail service practically uninterrupted.
Kills Self to Escape Gallows.
Determined that he would not be
hung on the gallows as a murderer,
William Turpin, a notorious negro
gambler and speakeasy operator, who
made his escape from the Sussex
county jail at Georgetown, Del, Sun-
day, returned to Seaford, and after
spending the evening with his sweet
heart, ended his life by drinking a so-
lution of carbolic acid.
In April Turpin, who is a southern
negro, instantly killed Joseph Elliott,
another negro, because the latter had
won $200 from him in a poker game.
He escaped, but later was captured
and lodged in the county jail to await
trial. On Sunday morning he and four
other prisoners chiseled a hole in the
jail wall and, leaping twenty feet to
the ground, made a daring escape.
Boy Fatally Gored.
While he was tending a herd of
cows at his father's farm, just out.
side of Altoona, Pa., Emery Wysong.
aged eight years, was attacked by a
large Holstein bull, which some boys
had previously been teasing.
The boy fled, but was quickly caugii
in the bull's horns and tossed in the
air. When he came down the infuriat-
ed animal gored him in the back, and
as the lad rolled over ripped the flesh
o ffhis ribs, exposing his lungs, then
galloped away. Despite his horrible in-
juries, the boy walked 600 feet to his
home. He will die.
Avengers Kill Wrong Man.
Albert Lehr, thirty-eight years old, |
was killed by five Italians, employed
on a section gang, while he was stand-
ing on the platform of the Lake Shore
depot at Kendallville, Ind.
The shoouing is thought to be the
outcome of the accidental killing of
an Italian by a Lake Shore freight
train three weeks ago. The Italians
blamed the engineer and threatened
vengeance against him. Lehr was
probably mistaken for the engineer.
Ship Captain Dead at Wheel.
The big transfer boat of the South-
ern Pacific railroad, the Barrier, while
crossing the Mississippi river at New
Orleans, ran into the New Orleans
drydock and then the steamship
Moerle. A deck hand rushed to the
pilot house to see what was the
cause of this reckless steering and
found the .pilot, Captain Albert W.
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Averil, dead, but still grasping the
steering wheel.
Kitten Led Baby to Death.
Louis Zwiren, the four-year-old som
of Julius Zwiren, a resident of Pleas
aatville, near Caldwell, N. J, was
drowned in a pond near his home
while following a pet kitten. When
his mother went to call him she look-
edtoward the pond and was surprised
to see the kitten swim ashore. Later
the body of the boy was found only a
few feet from the edge of the pond.
Aviator Falls to Ground With Machine
and Escapes Injury.
While he was making a cross-coun-
try flight at Barcelona, Spain, the aero-
plane of an aviator named Ehrmann
was struck by a bolt of lightning.
Blazing, it fell to the ground. The
aviator escaped uninjured, which is
regarded as wonderful.
Probably there has never been a
more startling aerial exhibition than
that which Ehrmann unwillingly af-
forded. Those who witnessed it could
bardly believe their eyes when the
airman emerged from the singed
framework none the worse for his ex-
perience.
He was sailing along at a moderate
height, when he got in the path of a
sky bolt. Instantly the aeroplane was
enveloped in flames. its canvas wings
shriveled up, and, clinging to the skel-
eton of his craft, Ehrmann came down
with a crash.
Dies While at Prayer.
While he was surrounded by his
wife and six children, delivering a fer-
vent prayer at Rehoboth church, near
Delta, York county, Pa., Edward Jones,
aged forty-five years, fell over and
died instantly.
Raise John D.'s Assessment.
The East Cleveland, O., real estate
appraisers have placed a valuation of
$1,060,000 on John D. Rockefeller’s
Forest Hill estate. This is an increase
of 300 per cent over the last appraisal,
when the valuation was fixed at only
$260,220.
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Florida Lad Dives Onto Sharp Tail of
Stingaree.
Death in an almost unheard of form
waited for Laurence S. Baker, eleven
years old, of Jacksonville, when he
dived from a boat while in Lake
‘Worth.
A stingaree, a huge, flat-bodied and
grewsome species of warm water fish,
was lurking just under the boat. One
of the barbed spines which this fish
carries on its whiplike trail pierced
the boy's neck, cutting into the jugu-
lar vein. He rose to the surface crying
for help, and bled to death within four
minutes.
Heart Sewed Up, Man Living.
After having five stitches placed in
his heart, Joseph Spence, a colored
man of Philadelphia, who had been
stabbed during a general melee among
thirty boarders, is reported by Penn-
sylvania hospital authorities as rest
ing easily. His temperature is only
slightly above normal, and while phy-
gicians cannot say positively that he
will live, they say that he has an even
chance.
No More Free Beer at Breweries.
Orders were issued by the federal
authorities, it is said, at several large
breweries in Westmoreland county,
Pa., that the giving away of beer
| to visitors at breweries must be dis-
continued. Free beer, it is said, is not
wholly within the letter of the law,
and revenue officers have been in-
structed to see that the practice, that
has been in vogme for many years, is
stopped.
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300 Girls Escape as Factory Burns.
Three hundred panic stricken girl
employes fled down the stairway to es-
cape death in a fire that, fifteen min-
utes after it broke out, had prcctically
destroyed the straw hat factory of
Rosenau Brothers, a five-story building
at Eighth and Vine streets, in Philadel-
phia., in the shopping district. The
fire attracted thousands of spectators
to the scene. All the girls escaped un-
hurt, though several fainted, causing
lots of excitement.
Engineer Shocked to Death.
Joshua F. Meyer, who was an as-
sistant engineer in a street railway
power house in Washington °). C., fell
against a big electric feeder, and while
the mighty magnet gripped him tight
6000 volts coursed through his body.
| His fellow laborers say Meyer's form,
enveloped in sparks and flame, was as
tight against the big machine as if he
had been fastened theer for electrocu-
tion. When they pulled down the pow-
erful load, his charred body fell away
lifeless.
Woman Found Strangled.
Another case of the murder of a
woman under strange and mysterious
| circumstances was uncovered when
Mrs. Rosie Lucashick, of Jersey City,
N. J., was found lying dead on the
floor of her home on Washington
street, her arms and ankles bound
and the marks of a strangler on her
throat.
A strange man was seen in her
home shortly before the strangled wo-
man was found. No arrests have been
made.
Death For Two In Flames.
In a $10,000 conflagration of un-
known origin at Enterprise, a small
town near Shamokin, Pa., ten houses
were burned. Catharine Doyle, five
years old, was cremated. Her mother,
Mrs. Joseph Doyle, was likely fatally
burned, while her husband and three
other children sustained burns.
The fire started in their home, and
the houses belonged to the En
Mining company.
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Burglar Kills Ira G. Rawn| ____
Murder Is Climax of Wave of Crime
in Suburb of Chicago—pBelieve Dead
Man Wounded Assailant.
Ira G. Rawn, president of the Chi-
cago, Indianapolis & Louisville rail-
road (the Monon route), was murdered
in his home at Winnetka, a suburb of
Chicago.
The police authorities are searching
for a wounded man as the suspected
murderer.
While none in Mr. Rawn’s home saw
the shooting, it is believed that Mr.
Rawn shot his assailant, as the police
discovered a trail of blood. This was
about 100 feet in length, a short dis
tance east of the house.
Two shots were heard by Mr.
Rawn's family, and his revolver was
found with one discharged cartridge
in it. Only one bullet was found. It
is believed that it is the one that went
through Mr. Rawn’s body just below
the heart.
While it is generally believed by the
police that the intruder entered the
wrong home to commit burglary,
twenty private detectives working on
the case for Mr. Rawn's family, inti
mate that there may have been an-
other motive,
The private detectives declare that
the work of the man who broke into
the house was not that of an expert
burglar. A screen door through which
he entered had been forced open by
breaking off the latch. The detectives
assert that a burglar could easily have
cut away the screen without making
the noise which must have been
caused by the breaking of the latches
and which is thought to have awaken-
ed Mr. Rawn.
Chicago hospitals and physicians
have been asked to notify the police
promptly should they be visited by
any person suffering from a bullet
wound.
Mr. Rawn recently was a prominent
witness in the Chicago & Western In-
diana railroad cases, in which alleged
real estate frauds aggregating $800
000 were charged against former offi-
cials of the road. The case against
one of the men is still pending.
Mr. Wayman, the state's attorney,
said that he was satisfied that Mr.
Rawn’'s testimony in the Chicago &
Western Indiana fraud proceedings
had nothing to do with the murder.
Mr. Wayman said he had looked over
the testimony and that he thought it
contained nothing by which Mr. Rawn
could have incurred the enmity of any
one.
The murder of Mr. Rawn is the cli-
max of a reign of crime that has driv-
en the residents of the North Shore
suburb almost to a frenzy.
The man who shot Mr. Rawn had
forced open the basement door and
was heard prowling about the first
floor by Mr. Rawn, who went down-
stairs with a revolver to investigate.
Members of the family heard him say
“What do you want here?’ and two
shots were fired immediately after
ward.
When they hurried to the first floor
Mr. Rawn was lying at the foot of the
stairs, with a bullet through is heart.
The murderer escaped.
Two Miners Killed by Rock.
Two miners, both foreigners, were
killed and one seriously injured when
tons of siate in the Vesta mine, near
California, Pa.. crushed them as they
were leaving the lower shafts at the
end of their night's work.
How Japanese Babies are Named.
In Japan a curious custom is in
with respect to the naming of babies.
newborn is taken to temple when it has
shoulder, sending them as high
as possible. The slip that reaches the
ground last contains the name that is
conferred on the waiting baby.
The next step in the process is for the
priest to copy the name on a piece of
silk or fine paper, which is handed to the
proud parent with these words:
“So shall the child be named."—Har-
per's Weekly.
Methodist Day.
The full for Methodist Day at
Lakemont Altoona, is now prac-
tically complete. The minor details will
be given to the public later in ample time.
The chief features of the program are
morning preaching by the . Robert
M. Moore, D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.,,
afternoon meeting with Lewis's
message on the “Intellectual Spiritual
Awakening of China." For the poppin
evening platform meeting Bishop B.
Wilson has to come.
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Mt. Dallas.
Reduced Excursion Rates to Altoona.
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