Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 3, 1905, Page 1

- VOLUME' 3. NUMBER 12. : GHANGE OF OFFICERS PRESIDENT ALEXANDER OF THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASKED TO RESIGN HIS PLACE. ACTION TAKEN BY FRICK COMMITTEE SAID VICE PRESIDENT HYDE ALSO WILL RETIRE, TEMPORAR- ILY AT LEAST. New York, May 3.—The Rvening World reports that the k investi- gating committee summoned James W. Alexander before it during the day and asked him to resign his place as president of the Equitable Life Assur- ance society. According to the Even- ing World Mr. Frick said that although he could not promise it for a certainty he would try to get Mr. Hyde to re- tive, temporarily any way, if Mr. Alex- ander wonld resign. The Evening World says: “Mr. PFrick did not criticise Mr. Al- exander's administration of the office he has held so long, but said it must be obvious that his period of useful- ness was over and nothing hut his re- tirement would omplish what the committee is striving for, the end of the entire controver: “Mr. Alexander was also asked to use his influence with Second Vice President Gage E. Tarbell to get him to resign. too. Alexander was very much affected, but declined to resign then. He told the committee he would think the matter over.” The Evening World aiso announces that Mr. Hyde is about to bring suit for the removal of Mr. Alexander from his position as one of the trusi of the Hyde holdings of stock in the Equita- ble. RECEIVED BY LOUBET. New American Ambassador to France Presents Credentials. Paris, May 3~-President Loubet re- ceived Ambassador McCormick at the Flvsee palace during the affernoon. Mr. McCormick was_accompanied by the entire staff of the American em- bassy, including the military and naval attaches in full uniform. (The party was driven from the residence of Mr, McCormick on the Quai de Bally in state carriages, with an escort of cav At the Elysee military honors rendered by a battalion of in with a baud and the regimental standard. M. Loubet, who was a companied by Foreign Minister Del- casse, received the American ambas sador in the hall of the ambassado After a cordial exchanze of greetings Mr. McCormick presented his creden: tials and made a brief speech setting forth the long and existing cordiality between France and the United States. The president responded in a similar vein, expressing the earncst hope that the ambassador's service would fur- ther strengthen the friendly ties be- tween the two countries. The Amer- ican party was then re-escorted back to the Quai de Bally with the same ceremony. FOREIGN RAILROAD OFFICIALS. Flve Hundred Will Attend Convention at Washington. Philadelphia, May 3.—Five hundred foreign railroad officials arrived here during the day and spent four hours in sightseeing, the bulk of their time being devoted to an inspection of the Baldwin locomotive works. The visitors were in charge of a representative committee headed by First Vice Pres: ident Voorhees of the Reading rail- way. The officials are delegates to the international railway ccngress which 1s to be held at Washington. Later in the day they departed for that city. OFFICIAL ASPECT CLOSED. King Edward Remains in Paris as Pri- vate Visitor. Paris, May {ing Edward spent a quiet day driving about the city and visiting intimate friends. Among the calls made by him was on Baron de Staal, the former Russlan ambassa- dor in London. The king also inspect- ed the handsomely refurnished British embassy and lunched with an old friend, the Marquis de Jaucourt. The official aspect of the king’s visit to Paris is now closed, he remaining dere as a private visitor. INSURANCE CASE ENDED. Wisconsin Supreme Court Denies a Rehearing. Madison, Wis.,, May 3.—The state supreme court has denied a rehearing in the case of State Insurance Com- missioner Zeno M. Host against the Fquitable Life Assurance society, Host sought some time ago to compel the Equitable to distribute several mil- lions of its surplus funds among its policvholders in, Wisconsin and the court decided adversely. 'The denial of a rehearing ends the case in Wis- consin. Storm at Camp Roosevelt. Glenwood ‘Springs, Colo.,, May 3.—A storm raged all night at Camp Roose- velt and the weather is still threaten- ing. The muddy roads made a hunt Impossible and delayed tlie moving of the camp back to East Divide creek; as well as Secretary Loeb’s departure for this city. S RAND S€ORES DEFENSE. Arguments Continued in the Nan Pat. terson Case. New York, May 3.—Afguments to the jury were continued during the day in the trial of Nan Patterson for the murder of Caesar Young, Assistant District Attorney Rand speaking for the prosecution. In beginning his closing argument for the state Asistant District Attor- ney Rand said: “This trial has been a hard experi- ence for you, but I venture to say it is one that you will not look back to re- gret. I would be ungrateful, too, if 1 did not also make my acknowledg- ments to the learned court and it would be ungenerous of me, roundly as I was abused Monday to your faces, if I took offense at what the counsel on the other side, in exigencies of a lost and rotten cause, was compelled to say. He accused me of every crime on the cal- endar and put me on trial at this bar for high crimes committed as a public officer. 1 would not make myself an issue here if I had not been injected as an issue in the case by the de- fendant's counsel. It is not an issue at all. 1 might be all that Levy said, in the chagrin of a lost cause, and it would not affect this question. I want and must have your confidence. If 1 could sway the judgment of men and paint the fair face of Truth with a sweet cosmetic yon would not list to a word from me. If I could do these things there would be but one place for me and that would be at this wo- man’s side, a fit object of contempl.” DIES IN IOWA ASYLUM. Mrs. Nettie Craven, Alleged Common Law Wife of Senator Fair. Washington, Ta., May 3.—Mrs, Nettie Craven, who claimed to be the com- mon law wife of Senator Fair of Cali fornia, is dead at Mount Pleasant hos- MRS CRAVEN. pital.. She was brought to the hos- pital recently from DBurlington, de- ranged mentally. Mrs. Craven leaves several sisters and brothe SAW KOCH MAIL EOTTI:E. New Testimony Offered in New Ulm Murder Trial. Mankato, Minn., May 3.—E. G. Hage, a banker at Hanska, called by the state in the trial of Dr. Koch, testificd that he knew Dr. Koch and saw him at the Hanska station on Oct. 28 be- tween the hours of 1 and 1:24 p. m. Mr. Hage had mailed some leiters of his own at the don ar 12 He placed lis letters on a small cabinet where there were other letters and there was a small box also. It was about two inches square and about two and a half or three inches long. It was lying on the top of the lette Shown the bottle sent te Dr. Gebhardt and alleged to have contained poison the witness declared it was thing like that.” “some- Copyright 1905 by David Adler & Sons Clothing Company @ The Typical Col- lege Clothes bear this label. We are it prepared to show { yousome Springand Summer clothes of UNION PICKETS - VIGILANT. Few Packages Being Delivered From. Boycotted. Stores. Chicago, May 3.—The cordon of un- jon pickefs stationed on the curbing In State street and Wabash avenue has been supplemented greatly in num- bers with the result that, in spite of the vigilance of the police, carriages and hacks are stopped and drivers and their fares warned against attempting to carry purchases home from the boy- cotted stores. i Store employes, burdened with bun- dles, are stopped and their parceis taken from them, torn open and searched by the pickets and union sympathizers to see if they are at- tempting to deliver goods to customers or carrying their own property .to their homes. After assuring the pickets that the contents of the bundies belong to them they are.not disturbed further. Only a few hacks or cabs venture to drive up to the entrances to any of the Stale street stores. In most cases the drivgv:s request their passengers to alight on {he opposite side of the street and walk over to their destinations. ‘With one exception none of the State street stores attempted to make deliveries in the residential districts. COAL SUPPLY SHORT. Chicago Trolley Lines May Be Com- pelled to Suspend. s Chicago, May 3.—The need for coal rapidly is developing into one of the most important factors of the team- sters’ strike. With the exception, of Marshall Field & Co. and one or two other big houses the supply of fuel on hand in Siate street averages from| two to feur days. Marshall Field & Co. have fuel for two weeks or more. The perilousness of the situation was emphasized by John C. Fetzer of the Chicago Traction company, who said: “In several of our stations, unless we get coal in twenty-four hours, we will have to close down. Of course we will* try every possible scheme first.” NEW FEDERAL INJUNCTION. One Issued at Request of Various Ex- press Companies. Chicago, May 3.—A new federal in- junction was issued during the day by Judge C. C. Kohlsaat of the United States circuit court in favor of the various express companies doing busi- ness in Chicago. The writ restrains all persons from interfering with the operation of express wagons on the streets. Previous injunctions applied to the Employers’ association and-the Employers’ Teaming company, - CAUSE OF BIGELOW’S DOWNFALL. Confidence in Business Ability He Did |. Not Possess. Milwaukee, May 3.—The first au- thentic statement in regard to the cause of the downfall of Frank G. Bige- low, the defaulting bank president, has been made by an intimate friend of the former banker. In brief Bigelow's friend attributes the disaster to an overabundance of confidence in his business ability which he did not pos- sess. DBigelow, his friend states, de- nies emphatically that he lost the money in a wheat deal. “If you were to ask him how the meney was spent he would be unable to tell you,” said Bigelow's friend. “His alfairs are in a remarkable tan- gle. To my mind there is no reason to believe that the defalcation dates back more than comparatively a few years. Ask him point blank he might say five or six years. Again he might give some other answer, for he really does not know. “As to his alleged defalcation from other Dbanks: Isn’t it a Dbanker’s business to see that it is secured? Looking at it irom a purely business standpoint it is impossible’ to steal from a bank it the business of the bank is safeguarded. For instance, one company in St. Louis loaned Mr. Bige- low $50,000. Bigelow gave as security stock in the First National bank worth much more. There is no reason to suppose tbat he meant to defraud the St. Louis institution. There was noth- ing about him to indicate that he did. He paid the interest regularly and as a matter of fact did not intend to be dishones! He thought he was a GIFT TO ST. PETERSBURG. New Yorker Will Erect Y. Building. 1 May 3.—James Stokes of New Yo:.: has informed the St. Petersburg delegation to the world’s conference of M. C. A. the Young Men’'s Christian assoclai tions that he would purchase and equip a large Young Men’s Christian asso- ciation building in one of the principal streets of St. Petersburg. The invest- ment will cost him about $75,000. Mr. Stokes organized the St. Petersburg branch, which has attained a member- ship of over 1,000, including Prince Oldenburg, Prince Hilkoff, the minis-; ter of railroads; Senator Tagantzoff and other prominent Russians. Shipwrecked Crew Landed. Plymouth, Eng., May 3.—Twenty- eight shipwrecked Frenchmen, the crew of the fishing schooner Prosper Jeanne, from St. ‘Malo, France, tor Newfoundland, were landed here dur ing the day. The men were rescues by the Dritish steamer Lisbon during the night after the Prosper Jeanne had been dismasted during a gale. - Proposed Loan Sanctioned. - Christiania, May 3—The storthing sanctioned the state loan of $10,000, finance committee, thus ensuring a military reserve fund in the event of it becoming necessary for Norway to provide for her own defense." were only four dissenting votes. 000, unanimously recommended by thel val commander here, sailed from Sai- WOULD STOP ALL WORK ERAL STRIKE IN POLAND AND LITHUNIA. N0 CONTINUATION' OF DISORDERS SITUATION APPARENTLY CALM, BUT FURTHER BLOODSHED 1S PROBABLE. ‘Warsaw, May 3.—The committee of the Sccial Democratic party of Poland and Lithunia has issued a manifesto proclaiming ‘a general strike and call- ing out all the workmen immediately in consequence of Monday’s bloodshed. SITUATION STILL OMINOUS WORKMEN AT WARSAW COMPEL _FACTORY EMPLOYES TO JOIN STRIKE. ‘Warsaw, Russian Poland, May 3.— The city i§ apparently outwardly quict, but the situation is none the less grave. Workmen are going from factory to factory compelling their comrades to strike and the probability of further conflicts arouses the keenest apprehen- sion. The bodies of the thirty odd persons killed by the troops on Zelazna street Monday are still lying in the morgues awaiting identification. Ten of the wounded who were taken to hospitals died of their wounds. During the encounter on Jerusalem street the troops not only fired a vol- ley but used the butts of their rifles and their bayonets and swords. Many women and children had their heads and limbs Droken. - Some of the in- juries were of a terrible nature and, there were cases where the soldiers entered the courtyards of houses and attacked those hiding there. When the troop¥ fired after ‘the’ bowb was thrown mnear the Vienna railroad station four persons were killed and seven wounded. All the windows in the neighborhood were shattered. At Kalisz, during a service in a church, the congregation began sing- ing patriotic songs, whereupon soldiers and police entered the huilding and attacked the people, wounding many of them. The strikers at Lodz now number 75,000. NOT AS BAD AS EXPECTED. St. Petersburg Opinion of Rioting at Warsaw. St. Petersburg, May 3.—Bad as was the rioting at Warsaw, Lodz, Kalisz and other places in Poland Monday and venomous as was the hostility everywhere displayed against the po- lice and -the Russian authorities, the uprising was far less formidable and the results less bloody than antici- pated. The authorities had given due warning of their intention to permit no demonstrations and the troops quelled the disturbances ruthlessly. All reports, however, indicate that the demonstrators were comparatively few in number, the vast bulk of the popula- tion, fearing trouble, remaining in doors. Where trouble occurred the crowds were armed with bombs and revolvers. In Warsaw a red flag pro- cession was dispersed by two volleys, Cossacks and Uhlans then charging and cutting down the people in the streels, driving them into courtyards and beating them with sabres and whips in the cruel fashion peculiar to these wild horsemen of the Steppes. About a hundred persons were killed or seriously wounded, according to the reports, women and even children sharing the fate of the men. Bomb Throwers Shot Down. At Lodz workmen attacked the po- lce with bombs and were charged by dragoons and Uhlans, who cut off the bomb throwers, drove them into a house, surrounded it and then fired upon those inside, Killing three per- i sous and wounding many. According to the reports which have reached . St. Petersburg from Kalisz the workmen there for a time had the upper hand of the police and gen- darmerie, disarming and stoning them until rescued by & squadron of cav- alry. 3 Supplementary reports of the riot- Ing just received confirm the earlier ‘Warsaw advices of the revolting cruelty of the Cossacks and other troops. People were driven into court- yards and beaten with the butts of rifles, some of them into insensibility. The limbs of some of the victims were broken. The bomb thrown into a Cos- sack patrol near the Vienna station, Warsaw, struck the head of a Cas- shck’s horse, literally blowing the horse and rider to atoms and killing two other' Cossacks and two women. French Admiral on a Tour. Saigon, Cochin-China, May 3.—Rear Admiral de Jonquieres, the French na- gon during the day on the second class croiser Gluichen. His destination was ONCE A LEADING FINANCIER. Alden B. Stockwell Dead at New York City. New York, May 3.—Alden B. Stock- well, -at one time one of the leading financiers of the country, is dead at his home here. He was seventy-two years old “Commodore” Stockwell, as he was known, first came into prominence in 1871, when he became president of the Pacific Mail Steamship company. In 1872 he obtained a subsidy for the company, which was followed by a congressional .investigation.” In 1872, while he was president of three sew- ing machine companies, two railroads 2ad the Pacific Mail company, Stock- well attempted to “‘bull” the stock of the latter and became financially in- volved. He finally went into bank- ruptey and disappeared from the finan- cial arena. Stockwell was the son of a livery- man in Cleveland. He began his career as a purser on a Lake firie steamboat and while thus*mployéd met and mar- ried a daughter of Elias Howe, the inventor. His wife inherited a' for- tune of $2,000,000 on the death of her father and the purser then became a financier. Work of Wisconsin Legislature. Madison, Wis.,, May 3.—The Wiscon- sin assembly during the day killed a bill removing fhe common law disabil- ity of married women on account of overture. ination in charges by telephone com- panies in cities of the same size was passed. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. All' carpenters at Janesville, 1 went out Tuesday. An increase ci cents an hour is demanded. Expert calculations show that the peasant debts remitted by the recent Russian imperial decree amount to about $45,000,000. Articles of incorporation of the United Shoe Machinery corporation, with a capital stock of $50,000,000, have been filed at Paterson, N. J. Nearly 1,000 women from all parts of the country Tuesday inaugurated at Philadelphia the eighth annual con- gress of the Women’s Whist league. Work on nearly all the large build- Ings now under construction in Brook- lyn has been stopped by a strike of hod carriers, bricklayers and plasterers’ laborers. The Duke and Duchess of Manches- ter sailed for Europe Tuesday on the Kron Prinz Wilhelm. They 10 spend the” sURMEr o1l ifie duke’s estate in Ireland. Hugh L. Bond of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad continued his statement before- the senate committee on inter- state commerce Tuesday. He argued that the present law was adequate for all purposes. The directors of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway company have adopted a resolution for the issuance of additional common stock to an amount equal to 15 per cent of the total preferred and common stock now outstanding. 5 BASEBALL SCORES. National League. At Boston, 2; New York, 8. At Cincinnati, 0; Chicago, 6. At St. Louis, 1; Pittsburg, 2. At Brooklyn, 2; Philadelphia, 4. American League. 3 At New York, 3; Boston, 4—eleven Innings. At Detroit, 0; St. Louis, 6. American Association, At Louisville, 6; Kansas City 9—ten innings. At Indianapolis, 5; Minneapolis, 4— ten innings. At Columbus, 3; Milwaukee, 6. At Toledo, 3; St. Paul, 6. MAHkET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, May 2.—Wheat—May, 987%c; July, 9514 @953%c; Sept., 81%c. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.03%; No. 1 Northern, $1.013%; No. 2 Northern, 9T%e. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, May 2.—Wheat—To arrive— No. 1 Northern, 94c. On track-~No. 1 Northern, $4c; No. 2 Northern, 87@ 90%c; May, 94c; July, 93%c; Sept., 81%ec. Flax—To arrive, on track and May, $1.40; Sept., $1.28%4; Oct., $1.- 27%; July. $1.30. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, May 2.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.00; common to fair, $4.50@5.25; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.75@4.75; veals, $2.00@ 4.25. Hogs—$5.00@5.15. »Sheep—Good to choice wethers, $4.25@4.75; good to choice native lambs, $5.25@6.00. : Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, May 2—Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.75@6.65; poor to me- dium, $4.25@5.40; stockers and feed- ers, $2.75@5.25; cows and heifers, $3.- 00@5.25; calves, $3.00@5.75. Hogs— Mixed and butchers, $5.10@5.30; good to choice heavy, $5.00@5.37%; light, $5.00@5.27%. Sheep—Good to choice wethers, shorn, $4.50@5. Western sheep, shorn, . $3.50@5.00; native lambs, shorn, $4.00@6.25; Western, $6.00@7.00. éhlcago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, May 2. — Wheat—May, 917%c; July, 83%ec; Sept., T9%c. —May, 48%c; July, 46%c; Sept., 46% @46%c. Oats—May, 29%c; July, 29% @23%e; Sept, 28, @28%c. May, $11.80; July, $1! $12.3715. Flax—Cash. nntam:vnm_npaflfhnl it is presumed his| I | departure is " DEFECTIVE PAGFE A Dill prohibiting discrim- Corn ! TEN CENTS PER WEEK GIRL SHOOTS EMPLOYER. 8he Claims That the Affalr Was an Accident. Albsuy, N. Y., May 3.—Frank Ha- vens, secretary of the Albany board of fire insurance underwriters, was shot in his ofiice by Miss Julia Craver, a clerk in his employ. Miss Craver, who is under arrest, asserts that the Bhooting was accidental and the police say they have found no evidence to cast doubt upon her story. Mr. Havens was thirty-five years old, comes of a well known family, ‘was married and the father of twa children. Miss Craver, who is twenty- two years old, is well connected. She has been employed in Haven’s office for more than a year. MEXICANS AND "YAQUIS CLASH. & ik Indians Escape After Killihg a Major and Wounding Many Soldiers. El Paso, Tex., May 3.-—Word receiv- ed Quring the day from Potan, Sonora, tells of an encounter between Mexican troops and Yaquis, in which a Mexican major was Kkilled and many soldiers wounded. The Yaquis escaped. Safe Cracked by Robbers. Mankato, Minn., May 3.—Chief of Police Donahue has received a tele- phone message from the town marshal at Wells saying that burglars had en- tered the United States express office through a rear door, cracked the safe aud taken $200 in cash, a number of small packages and several bunches of mcney order blanks. British Torpedo Boat Wrecked. Corlk, May 3.—During a torpedo at- x zL Berehaven the torpedo boat destroyer Syren ran on a veef at the castern entrance of the harbor and re- mains on the rocks with her back broken. TWENTY-SEVEN HORSES PERISH. Incendiary Fire Threatens Destruc- tion of Luverne, Minn. Luverne, Minn,, Apri. _.—Twenty- seven horses were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Palace liv- ery bharn, owned by J. E. Roberts. The barn was one of the largest and best equipped in the Northwest and everything except six horses and a few buggies was totally destroyed. The loss is estimated at $16,000, with $5,500 insurance. The fire was discovered shortly after midnight and spread with such frightful rapidity that for,a time it eral gration would result, Luverne’s-handsome new- hotel, the Manitou, whici it situatod. lese than Bixty feet from the barn, was 0 great danger. All fhe windows on the side next the barn were broken by the intense heat aad it was necessary to keep water playing on the woodwork to save it from igniting. Many of the guests carried their personal ef- fects into the street. The fire was of an incendiary origin. Twe suspects are under sur- veillance and their arrests are likely to follow shortly. BREAK IN RATES FEARED. Chicago and Eastern lllinois Makes Cut of '$5 Per Car. Chicago, April .".—One of the most startling moves by Western railroads in freight traffic for a long time was made by the Chicago and Eastern Lli- nois during the day, when it was an- nounced that that line will absorb the terminal charges across the bridges at St. Louis on all freight carried over its road. This charge amounts to $5 per car and has hitherto been added to the freight charges to Tast St. Loujs. By the new plan.the freight charges to East St. Louis will take the freight across the bridge without the toll to the hridge company. The result is a direct reduction in rates of $5 per car. The action of the Chi- cago and Eastern Illinois was without the conseat of competing lines. It is feared that the movement may lead to a general breakup in Western rail- road rates on competing traffic. Wife Murderer Electrocuted. Ossining, N. Y., April . .—Martin Ebelt, who murgered his young wite at Mount Verncn, paid the penalty for his crime in the electric chair in Sing Sing priscn during the day. Ebelt strangled his wife to death July 24, 1903. The young woman was nine- teen years old and FEbelt twenty-one. Jealousy was the m BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The electric street railway at Ma- nila was formally opened for traffic Monday. Danfel McCullough, well known in the theatrical business, is dead at Pittsburg. v The condition of Senatcr Platt of Connectieut, who is suffering from pneumonia, shows a little change for the better. Joseph H. Brown, former president of the metropolitan police board of Washington, D. C., is dead at Indian- apolis, aged eighty-five years. The Tennessee senate has passed a iblll defining and prohibiting trusts, combines and conspiracies for the re- striction of trade and fixing penalties for violations. President Willlam R. Harper of the University of Chicago has arrived at Chicago from New York. He was ac- companied by “specialists and ~sur- geons who have been treating him. The shoe firm of R. B. Grover & Co. of Brockton, Mass., at whose fac- tory the disastrous boiler explosion of March 20 occurred, costing fifty- as feared a gen- | TIRED OF THE STRIKE LARGE TRUCKING COMPANIES OF CHICAGO QUIT EMPLOYERS’ ASSOCIATION. BOYCOTT ON UNION LABOR BROKEN IN SPITE OF INCREASED POLICE PROTECTION USUAL DISOR- DER PREVAILS. Chicago, May 3.—Some of the larger trucking companies of Chicago and their allied interests during the day took a stand in the strike situation un- favorable to the Employers’ Teaming company and the Chicago Employers’ association. .2 These trucking companies in ques- tion, headed by the Arthur Dixon Transfer company, intimated that they - were tired of the strike, that they did not helieve the teaming company was improving the situation and that they were prepareéd to do business with. Chicago’s merchants with the best and most available labor they could se- cure. The Chicago Employers’ association was advised that the big trucking com- panies were taking hauling contracts wherever they could secure them and ‘were using union labor with which to do the work. In other words the truck- ers were not complying with the re- quest of the assoclation that it be al- lowed to dictate who should or should not be employed. The companies pre- pared to act as if no strike were on or, at least, as if they were not concerned in it. It is estimated that through the se- cessions of the day the Employers’ Teaming company has lost the deliv- ery of about 20,000 tons of coal per day, all of which is to be henceforth handled by union labor. P PLAN NOT CARRIED OUT. Proposal to Arm Nonunionist Drivers With Rifles. Chicago, May 3.—Contrary to an- nouncement no order was issued dur- ing the day for the arming of the non- union men with rifies, Superintendent el Of the Employers’ Teaming com- pany said he did not know when the order would be issued, if at all. He devted ngving saic that such 8 3udve would be'uade, Oue of the obstacles ~ to the use of rifles is action taken by the city council directing the entorc ment of state statutes prohibiting un- authorized persons carrying rifles in the streets. There is also a law against shooting within the city limits and against brandishing a weapon in a threatening manner. A hundred colored men imported as strike breakers by the Employers’ Teaming company struck during the day. The negroes complained that they could not protect themselves with wooden sticks or canes which were being furnished by the company. The colored men declared that the canes, however stout, could not give protection against bricks, stones or similar missiles. The men wanted re- volvers. Their request was refused and they quit work. Drivers and helpers for all of the large express companies in South Chi- cago went out during the day on sym- pathetic strike. The companies have asked for police protection. Most of - the police are on strike duty in the down town district. Assistant Chief Schuettler reports that he has 1,150 men on strike duty. This force he claimed to be able to. protect 350 wagons in caravans. ‘Where single wagons are sent out a guard of six patrolmen is provided. Nonunionist Uses Revolver. Shooting was resorted to by colored nonunion men at Harrison street and Wabash avenue. Three wagons for- merly owned by the Edwin F. Daniels Coal company were being driven south on Wabash avenue. At Harrison street a large crowd gatnered about the drivers and guards. Sticks, tiling, broken bottles and other missiles were thrown, many of the missiles striking the negroes. F. E. Carter, one of the colored guards, whipped out a revolver and shot at Henry Schultz, who, it is alleged, was approaching Carter. The bullet struck Schultz in the left side. He ran south on Wabash avenue for half a block before he fell, weak: ened by the loss of blood. The crowd was thoroughly enraged at the action of the colored man and although two more shots were fired the nonunionists were guickly closed in upon and beat- en fearfully. A riot call was sent in to the nearest police station. Seventy policemen under Inspector Lavin hur- rled to the scene and dispersed the crowd with vigorous use of clubs. Schultz was taken to a hospital. Car- ter was arrested. One of the picturesque sights wit- nessed during the day was a proces- sion of 500 nonunion colored team- sters going from their lodgings to the Employers’ Teaming company’s barns at Franklin street and Jackson bonle- vard. They were accompanied by: fifty police. As the procession turned into Jackson boulevard from Michigan ave- uue the increasing crowd of strike sympathizers, with calls of defiance, began throwing stones and bricks. Police Lieutenant Dillon was struck = on the head. Other police and a num- ber of the strike breakers—were also ‘was stormy, but the barns street were reached without severe in - ‘jury to any