TELEGRAPHERS THREATEN
A GREAT TEE UP
Railway Men Promise Their Full
Support.
MR. ROOSEVELT MAY INTERVENE
National Secretary Russell, of the Com-
mercial Telegraphers’ Union Says No
Man Will Be Allowed to Work With
a Nonunion Man, anda General Walk-
out Will Thus Be Forced.
THE SITUATION.
Over 4,000 Western Union and
Postal operators have quit.
The Railway Telegraphers have
placed a fund of $1,000,000 in
their treasury at the disposal of
the strikers.
The national officers have not
sanctioned a strike, but will back
up the strikers.
Labor Commissioner Neill, at
the request of the President, is
hastening to Chicago to attempt
a settlement of the trouble.
The officials of the telegraph
companies say they have as many
men as they need, and that their
wires are all clear.
{ Special) .—The strike of
telegraph
throughout
tates and Canada within
National Sec-
Commerical
of America.
made by Mr.
after he had
taken
Chicago
union
tors will be
the United S
24 hours,
retary
Telegraphers’
This statement
Russell
been informed
by New York
who at a meeting Sunday
hold a walkout in
commercial apera-
universal
according to
Russell, of the
Union
was
night
of
Sunday
the action
telegraphers,
decided to
until the
union
abeyance
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.
Frank Rockefeller, of Cleveland,
0., in an interview in the New York
World, utters bitter words against
his brother, John D. Rockefeller,
head of the Standard Oil Company.
He sald their father is alive and is
kept in hiding.
In an address at the New York
Chautaugua Prof. Smaller Mathews,
dean of the University of Chicago
Divinity School, claimed that capital
is in control of the church and is
being used against labor,
William Ashton, a young business
man, and Miss Lena Buss, planist at
a moving picture show in Easton,
Pa., are simultaneously missing.
In New York the claim ig made
that Mr. August Belmont is building
the terminal under East River un-
der an expired franchise.
Ambassador Bryce will deliver the
principal address at the meeting of
the American Bar Association.
Mrs. Isabella J. Martin, of New
York, says the wife of the violinist
Rigo, now at Atlantic City, whom
Mrs. Martin has sued for $250,000
for slander, {8 the Princess de
Chimay.
Maurice C. Mengis has
$15,000 in a suit over lands, the ac-
tion being an outgrowth of the
famous Western Maryland litigation,
in which Mengis won $300,000,
Prof. Charles Zueblin, of the Uni-
recovered
John D. Rockefeller
socialism.
dress charging
with breeding
Masked men bound
the agent and robbed the
and Ohio Railroad station
castle, Pa.
John Sharp
Governor Varda
the United
and gagged
Baltimore
at
Williams defeated
man, of Mississippi,
for States Senate by 64!
votes.
Ludwig
unattached
killed a
burg.
Thomas Morrison,
wood with U.
Mo.
Stevenson, of Phiiadel-
to be
ghot
sald
priest,
yroprietor of
Sezegell,
Polish
hotel 1
who said
Ss
St. Louls,
Policeman
in
latter part of the week.
said Rus-
int
y
Wi.
“This strike movement,”
sell, “has come to the |
there can be no backing
telegraphers have been
long enough by the
now that we have
we are going to use all our strength
to enforce our demands For
al weeks President Small and :
have been holding the telegraphers
back and have advising
ciliation; but they have taken affairs
in their o
to stand
“No union
work with
our organis
that Monday
iness of the
will bed
half way in
strike been
men themselves
sanction of the
we working
and anything that the offic
various unions throughout
try have dor
meets with our
This announcement
Mr. Russell's
ing of.
held in
noon.
The
rs WAS reonr
by National S
formed the
zation
morally
$1,000,000 in
‘and It is at
fight is on
you until the end.”
Before the mass meeting
telegraphers employed
using leased wires held a meeting.
this gathering operators
news agencies and
ganizations, including
yards packing houses,
sented.
A resolution was adopted
ing that this class of labor was un-
derpaid, and various firms
wotnld be asked asked to sign a wage
gcale and also to employ but
union telegraphers. It decided |
to let the private wire men prepare
and present thelr schedules
their employes
tors will schedules at
10 o'clock Monday morning, asking |
for a minimum wage of $830 a week
The men
associations
at
ployers 24 hours
request
The schedule call
for six nights a
an hour
tors, eight 1}
night's work,
lunch.
Operators employed by
ciations nd newspapers for day
work ask for $30 a week and 30
cents an hour overtime, eight hours
to constitute a day's work, and the
regular lunch hour
If at the end of 24 hours the re-
quests have not met with a favor.
able response, the men will report
to the union officials, and they say
a strike will be ordered to enforce
the demands.
yO
de
trodden
companies
the
on
and
mys
been con-
i
wn
i
Y them
ion,
morniz
Ome
OEE
has
7 sever oll
are now ail
the coun-
strikes |
wtion.”
alive
caning
hearty co-oper
Order
was
ail
ali
320 union |
companies |
At |
for brokers, |
commercial
the
were
Oor- |
gtock
repre-
declar-
that the
none
was
own to
The
+h
broker opera-|
present
eir
emnploved
pre ited
o'clock
by the
their requests
|
giving em- |
1
!
|
press
7.30
y comply with the
g for $35
Week, 4
for
to
half
a week.
d 70 cents |
n
overtime night opera- |
onstitute a |
hour for
y
ours 31
with an
news asso-
Slipped On Leaf, Broke Neck.
Jersey City, N. J. (Special).
James Black, 35 years old, of this
city, stepped on a leaf on a sidewalk
here, slipped and broke his neck.
He was taken to a hospital, where
he died an hour later.
For Two New Battleships,
Washington (Special). ~~The final
papers in the contracts for the cone
struction of two battleships of 20.
000 tons each of the Delaware class,
which were awarded by the Navy
Department about a month ago,
have been signed by Acting Secre-
tary Newberry, representing the
government, and President Orcutt, of
the Newport News Shipbuilding Co,
and a representative of the Fore
River Shipbuilding Company, each
of which concerps obtained a con-
tract for building one vessel.
and killed a burglar who
halt
population
to tl
The
ac-
he city's direc-
tory. is 2.367
Fifty-six manufacturers
formed a trade organization.
Clarence Darrow, leading coun-
for William D. Haywood in
at B has been dismissed
the srvices of the Western
of Miners He will
Hun
S
Oi8e,
nor will
in the event the
to trial E F
Darrow
coroner,
tried
the
trial is for October 1,
he act
latter
set
for Mover,
ig brought
will
Cursing
Maker n
question him an jenying
of H. War-
who shot and killed Miss Esther
John C. Wilson New
arraigned before Coroner
He was remanded the
without bail, awaiting action
the grand
Mike McDon
of Chicago gan
former Democratie
McDon
broken
existence
ner,
in
was
to
by
le {13 gr
and
ald's conditi
heart
ful wife
hooting
the
nder
» government
leader of
burglars, who
and
Long
was
for
drugged
Island for
sentenced to
40
Joseph
three
ed
the
Corners,
prison
Alderman
A
and
ana
Sing years
Former
bert
Sing
killed
fatally injur
containing
at Brookfield
nes
AS
was
when
four
probably
waykeeo,
passed the Hall bill
state, county and city
riding on railroad passes
ing
Robert Murdock, formerly a
lieceman of Charlotte, N. C., shot and
killed Mrs. Laura Ray and then com-
mitted suicide Murdock had
George W
a bank
governor of
committed suicide
in his effort to become
Pennsylvania in
in Pittsburg.
the world, was by fire
loss, $750,000
Mrs. Robert
Arctic explorer,
island four miles
destroyed
E
at
most successful surgeons of the
West, dled from blood poisoning due
to the prick of a needle during an
operation he was performing.
William P. Taggart, promoter of
a coal block manufacturing company,
was arrested in Philadelphia and
charged with obtaining $1,600
through misrepresentation.
The cannon ball train on
Texas and Pacific Railroad was
ditched near Dallas, Tex., all the
coaches but the dining car leaving
the rails.
Willlam 8. Alley, a member of
the New York Stock Exchange, com-
mitted sufeide at the Larchmont
Yaeht Club by shooting.
Joseph F. Johnston has been se-
lected by the Alabama legislature to
succeed E. W. Pettus in the United
States Senate.
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Foreign.
King Chulalongkorn 1. of Siam is
to be the guest of the German Em-
peror and Empress.
The police found a big bomb fac-
tory in the imperial technical schools
in Moscow.
Baron Xarl Lindeman, who sald
he saw Olga Melitor shoot her moth-
er, was arrested at Mannheim, Ger
many, on the charge of blackmail,
Miss Katherine Eddy was married
at the United States Embassy in
Berlin to Senator Beveridge, of In-
diana.
the
3 %
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Again at Cost
yecial) .~~John
be
Biggar,
Cleveland,
| D.
| than
+
i
Rockefeller will to more
ninety-four,
physi
athlete in the
family ian the
[best trained
old class in
“Mr. Rockefeller has
twice phyiscally, and
fourteen years old now
again scientifically,
muscle, his lung
fa
AB
1 ov
the world today.
been born
up
his
heart i
fresh
ing
to to i
every breath
Forest
makes
ower with
he takes on
drive he
air
avery
club.”
cost
and wit}
the golf
And
G00 000
his
wise
Hox
Mr. Rockefeller
for this life These
own It happened in
Biggar:
kefeller ame to Cl
it
second
to
Mr
of $5,000,000.
unt of situation
disap
igh aAppoin
doctor
davs oO
went 0
talk-
1
aoc
» Were
‘Troc-
in the Next
For 1 dipt int the future, far as ht
Saw the v {ston
Pilots of the purple
Great War.
man eye could see
uld be,
magic sails,
ving down with costly bales;
¢
Far along the world
With the standards
Cable) Now
Clemenceau
the Minister
riding around in
airship Patrie, one
dreams of Jules
realized and
of Tennyson
ago of "airy
{By
Minister
General Picquart,
have been
military
that the
have been
poetic prophesy
written many Years
Paris A
ana
Ol
the new
realizes
on the earth below will soon be a
matter of fact and not a mere fig~
ment of a poet's imagination
at home. the recent maneuvers
the mifltary airships demonstrating
the fact that it can carry a number
of people, to be duplicated in the
United States, would mean that See
retary Taft and Secretary Root would
find it both safe and feasible to go
for a sail around the
Monument from the grounds of
Fort Meyer, beyond Georgetown, D.
C., or that things were in such a
shape in the United States that
President Roosevelt would sail from
Oyster Bay to New York on one of
the War Department's new engines
of death
The fact is that the day of the
airship ia so assuredly at hand that
the Peace Conference at The Hague
will pass upon the regulation of
Tennyson~—Locksley’s Hall
airships
to certain
military
them fields action.
The commission dealing with
manitarian usage in warfare
the other day to frame regulations
for balloons and other perial ad-
junets of warfare Russia, Belgium
and Italy had proposals which were
formulated eventually by Count
Tornielli as follows:
“Any balloons used for destrue-
tive purposes in warfare should be
{ dirigible and be named by regular
military crews.”
will
¢
Ol
and restrict
hu-
met
The vote on the proposal stood 8
| to 6 in favor of it. Eleven delegates
abstained from voting. France head.
jed the objectors, maintaining that
| the best course would be to simply
{apply the rules already existing on
| bombardment and the use of mines.
Germany shared in this view.
| A sécond proposal forbidding the
| dropping of projectiles on undefend-
| ed towns and villages or the dis-
charge of deleterious gases thereon,
{but permitting the dropping of pro.
| Jectliles over regularly beleaguered
| garrisons, was carried by a vote of
130 to 2. There were three abeten-
| tions. Nine delegates were absent.
| which means that they had received
no instructions from thelr govern-
ments. !
Earthquake Shocks,
Santiago, Chili (By Cable). —
Earthquake shocks, prophesied in
Uruguay Saturday, were felt Mon-
day at Valparaiso. No damage is
reported.
Trieste, Austro-Hungary ~The in-
struments in the marine observatory
recorded heavy earth shocks about
2.5600 miles distant, The beginning
of the disturbance was registered at
7.52.26 o'clock. The maximum
shock was reported at §.08.51. The
movement ceased at 8.36.59,
— ————
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD.
—
The pig iron market fs dull for
current business,
New low price record for th
for Cambria Steel. 8 yaa:
The shipping of copper bars to
Russia, which had been small of
late, Is being revived.
The directors of the Manhattan
Trust Security Co. have declared a
dividend of 2 per cent. This fis
their seventh quarterly dividend
since organization in 198085.
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Lives Lost and a Village is Bwept
Away.
Mason City, Ia. (Bpecial).— Three
persons were killed and four in-
jured and thousands of dollars dam-
age was done through this section
of lowa by a tornado. Shipping at
Clear Lake and many cottages were
destroyed. A half dozen barns and
four houses, near Rockwell, were de-
molished and the roof was blown
from the Catholic Church at Rock-
well.
A special dispatch from Albert
Lea, Minn., half way across the
south border of the state, says that
a tornado {8s reported to have de-
stroyed the village of Jolce, Ia. in
Winnebago County, about 15 miles
southwest of Albert lea, and one
known dead reported, while many
are injured
From Winona
says that 20 or more
for manufacturing purposes
warehouses were unroofed
town was darkness
fing to wires being down,
street cars were operated
in the day owing to the tr
being down and the
blocked by fallen trees
The damage was
straight blow The
i blinding sheets,
the business part
from
curbing
hard 1
a special
buildings
and for
in at night ow-
and
until late
f Wire
} ny
Leing
of the
the
over the
several
never
this, or
low
any that lasted
which
but
44
did
age
All
Mii
south 1
5 af Osrey » = $3 ress A
the storm Rallroad
Is wus ded
i BU :
pends
wire
148
tre
OW
Outs
Green
Wir A
on the
wall of
ed to escape the
ertheless two
Coa
sf vs Ad wid
ing, cars
DEFY THE POLICE.
In
Ordinance,
Flags Kept Flying Spite Of City
was
at
}
partment Washington
an der
Aap Nowlin
flag flying
re mon
the
um pen
keep
for
flag
is three
alty
rit hoisted
jurisdiction
OPERATED ON UNDER WRECK.
Brakeman's leg Amputated While
Under Locomotive.
New York (Special)
neath a locomotive,
ley, brakeman on New York,
New Haven and Hartford Rallroad
suffered the amputation of a leg
before he could be extricated from
the engine, which run
over him in the railroad in
the Bronx The operation pers
formed bLy an ambulance
without the use of anesthetics, and
frequently Shudiey gave suggestions
to the surgeon during the operation
When the operation was: completed
Pinned bde-
Charles Shud-
a the
had
va rds
Was
ous position he was taken to a hos-
pital, where it is said he may
cover,
Dies At Age Of 118.
TiMin, Ohio (Special). Jefferson
Scott, the oldest man in Ohio, is
dead at the Seneca County
ary. Certificates issued under the
seal of the State of North Carolina
show that Scott was born on July
4. 1794, in Halifax County, that
State
Four Trainmen Killed.
Dalton, Ga. (Special) Four train-
men were killed and three seriously
injured in a headon collision between
freight trains on the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, one mile north of
here. Fireman Suddeth, who es.
caped by jumping, sald that the col-
liglon was caused by the failure of
his train's crew to read their order
Bitten By Child With Rabies,
Chicago (Special) —While nursing
her dying son George, who was suf-
fering from rabies, the result of a
dog bite, Mrs. Charles T. Davis, of
Danville, Ill, was bitten in the chin
by the child a week ago, and Vance
Davis, a brother, was bitten and
scratched about the face and hands.
They are now undergoing treatment
in Chicago. The child died in great
agony a few hours after Mrs. Davie
wae bitten. :
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—
BIG PACIFIC FLEET
The Orders Said To Have Beem
Issued.
A LARGE ARRAY OF WARSHIPS.
Plan Bald to Comtemplate Bringing
the Entire Asiatic Squadron Across
the Pacific, Bo That There Will Be a
Squadron of Sixteen Fighting Ships
Off the California Coast.
D.C.
revelations
(Bpecial).
made
hith
Washington,
Burprising were
through the
erto well-guarded
ministration
disclosure of the -
ad-
the
PLT i ¥
plans of 1h«
to begin at once
mobilization Coast waters
the most
in Pacific
| of powerful cruiser fleet
ever assembled. Orders have
BUT
£ ¢
strength
ued entire or
be In ough
¢ Ty
CW HOE
ith Dake
{or LE
aking hes
ri
, and the
and So
y
n
gee will
efore thie
1
accords
ter batt ni
Admiral Dayton In Command
Th § _” ie ¢ #
have a
and a
four
n aggregate
nl
tota
inches
Admiral Evans’
One of the
of
Ambition,
song ascribed by
Navy Departmept officials for the
1obiliation the two big fleets in
ithe Pacific is that it will give oppor-
{tunity for Admiral Evans to realize
!a desire he has cheriched for a long
time-—to go through battie tactics
| with the largest possible force of
modern warships This will give
{him opportunity to see what the big
{armored cruisers, which are larger
than any of the older battleships,
lcan do against the biggest war dogs
{of today. Aside from this, the flo-
tilla of torpedo craft which will
probably accompany the battleships,
and the several submarines which
{ will be shipped across, with the few
| gunboats now on the Pacific, will
| make possible maneuvers of two big
| Reets- cruisers pitted against bat-
i tieships—to display properly the
| qualitios of each type of vessel arma-
ment and turret and gun arrange-
ment.
ron
of
EE a a EE
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Brielly
Told.
BR ni
James Ciscle, who was doorkeep-
er at the White House for 30 years,
is dead.
The first meeting of the new
Philippine Assembly will be held
October 16. '
Mrs. Nancy Miller was released
from Columbus Penitentiary, where
she wag serving a 10-year sentence!
for murder, :