Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 29, 1902, Page 7

THE OMAH DAILY BEE: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29, 1902 KELLY WILL FACE CHARGES | Lands in New York and Arrested in Philadelphia. GRAND JURY FINISHES ARDUOUS LABORS | | Now Too Late for Allexed Boodler to Testify Amninst St. L Brik Beenune Statnte of Limi tlons Has Intervened. NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—Charles F. Kelly, ker of the house of delegates Louls, arrived here today on Celtie. On the same ship were Willlam Ratigan, & 8t. Louls contractor, and Willlam J. Sul- livan of 8t. Louls. Kelly's name was not on the pasgenger ligt, but Sullivan and Hatigan's were. Kelly's face was white and wrinkled. He was recognized as he walked down the gang plank by a St. Leuls reporter, and when called by mame started, as though struck, beld out his hand and said: For God's sake let me alone for 1 have nothing to say. I havi cefved word (hat my #on | %oing right back to Bt. L ‘Where ve 1 been? Everywhere. trip has been no rest for me. 1 will be glad to get back to St. Louls to my wife, who 18 broken-hearted over our boy's death, 1 can't tell what s ahead of me there. I don’t care, now that the boy is dead. Tn an interview he said: 1 was on my way back to St. Louls and meant to announce my arrival there Mon- day and glve myeelf up to answer what- over charges have been laid against me. 1 had been absent in Europe for several r:onthe and spent most of my time in I On my arrival In New York this morning 1 recelved word that my 1l-year- old boy had died in St. Louis. As soon as I atepped from the steamer it was suggested 10 me by an old acquaintance that I come to Philadelphia_for a few daye. 1 came here and pow 1 find myself under arrest. That's all the s to It. Grand Jury Adjourns. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 28.—The October grand #ary submitted its final report this even- ing and adjourned. The report advocates a change in the election laws and severely | criticises the city officials connected with the boodling cases. Informations charging traudulent voting were fssued against four men and & number of other indictments were returned against parties whose names were kept secret because they are mot yet 'in custody. The report in part says: Citizens of St. Louls have learned with shame how they have been mercilessly robbed for years. We have, for the last nine weeks, been regaled with the greatest today. 8 ust r s dead and I am ouls. The exposure of corruption the world has ever | known. We belleve the people have been awakened and the public conscience has been quickened, and we feel gratified that the law is being vigorously enforced and due and proper punishment I being meted out to these public plunderers. We have spent some time in Investigating crimes against the ballot. While it is clear that many frauds have been perpetrated, the difficulty of procuring direct testimony is very great. Corrupt and incompetent men_were appointed as judges and clerks of election. In a number of the precincts which are controlled by the baser elementa of our community, and the bargains made by the ward and precinct bosses were car- ried out by these pliant tools. The Nesbit election law should be amended. Ofreuit Attorney Joseph W, Folk is con- gratulated Upon the eminent services he han rendered in bis bribery investigations. It is now too late for Kelly to give any | testimony before the grand jury oy the city lighting deal, Because of the statute of will enable me to forget or ignore election days in the future.” On the other hand, Senator Stewart says prosperity was the cause of the democratie yietory in Nevada, one result of which will be that after March 4 Ne will bave a demo- eratic colleague in the senate—the present Representative Newlands ‘Why,”” he said, “on election day I saw one man in Carson City, who I know has been fighting poverty for years, with three $10 bills. When I asked him where he got the money he told me it was given him by an old friend for voting three times that day. Thirty dollars will keep a frugal man a month or two in Nevada, and, it | this man was a sample of what went on there in the campalgn, 1 know there will be no suffering in my state this winter.” Colonel Ike Hill, the veteran ‘Buckeye politiclan and democratic “whip” in the house of representatives, whose fame rests somewhat upon his complaint in a former campalgn that certaln “d—d scoundrels wouldn’t stay bought,” has returned to Washington, dazed over the result in Ohlo. 1 cannot account for it,” he said frankly. 8o far as I have been able to learn, more democrats went to the polla that repub- licans and yet, in the smallest vote cast for years, the frepublicans got the biggest majority since the war. The democrats must have voted the republican ticket.” THIS CROW PICKS POCKETS. Also Acts as an Alarm Clock for Peo- ple of a Jersey Town, The farmers and residents of Brown's Mills, N. J, to a man declare that their town shelters the most knowing crow that ever dug up newly planted corn, and lest some unknowing person might go gunning for him they are guarding him zealously. They keep a sharp lookout on the bird for another reason, relates the New York Sun. He has a way of indulging in pranks which are not always appreciated. In appearance he looks exactly like any other black crow, but he isn’'t. He has a name, Jim, and an owner, Job Stephen- son, who says he has not yet had an offer of money enough to buy him. Jim was a member of a blg flock that made a lot of trouble for the farmers, but being & euperior crow he forsook his bad company and went to live on Stephenson’s place last spring. Job soon learned that the bird meant well and fed him. Jim ac- cepted the compliment and has never changed his headquarters. Every morning the crow accompanies the men to White’s cranberry bog, flying along with them a distance of two miles. While they work Jim amuses himself in the man- ner which has given him his local reputa- tion. His pet diversion is picking the pockets of the coats thrown off by the men at work, and there is no use in trying to | hide & coat from him. One man recently | thought he would fool the bird and hid his coat in a cornstack. Jim found It and cleaned out the pockets of tobacco, matches and a pipe. What he does with his plunder is a& | mystery. He hides it somewhere, but no one has yet been able to locate his treas. ure house. Jim is also an inebriate at heart, though he seldom has a chance to Indulge his fancy. That fact came out a few weeks g0, when one of the hands stuffed his coat pocket full of corn soaked with whisky and left the coat in sight of the bird. Jim ate it with relish and In a little while became eo overcome that he flew to a tree and went to sleep. limitations this is the last day on which anyone connected with the lighting deal can be indicted. Kelly is Arrested. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28.—Charles F. Kelly, was arrested in this city this after- noon. He wae taken from the western train, whigh, Jeft New, York at 11 o'clock, by a detective. The arrest was made on a fugitive warrant, charging him with per- jury and britery, Kelly told the detective that he had been in Ireland and left Londonderry with the Intention of proceeding direct to St. Louls and facing the charges against him there. There is a reward of $800 for his arre He will be arraigned tomorrow morning and held for requisition papers. Late tonight it was reported that Circuit Attorney Folk had filed an information against persons connected with a boodling scheme and that one of them had hastily departed for Canada to avold service. Mr. Folk, when called up by telephone, refused to be interviewed. PUTTING IT ON THE WEATHER, ‘What Oaused the Slamp in the Fusion Vdte in Nebraska. The Washington correspondent of the Néw York Sun Interviewed a number of politicians at the national capital and obtained & variety of individual expressions on elegtion results. The excuses of the victims are as instructive as the explana tions of victors. Representative William L. Stark of the Fourth Nebraska district, one of the five members of the house still outside the breastworks of the two great parties, is convinced that falr weather on election day makes for republican success. “The tarmers In my district,”” he sald, “were so busy getting in the maguificent crops which have blessed their labors this year, that about 4,000 of them falled to go to the polls, and thelr absence caused my defeat for ra-election. If it had been a rainy day, éo that they could not have worked in the fields, I should have beaten my republican opponent. Since then 1 bave received hundreds of letters from these stay-at-homes, apologizing for their neglect of the polls, but offering the ex- cuse that they supposed It was a sure thing tor anyhow. Well, I bave a fne farm myself, to which I can retire after March The néxt day he returned to the coat in which he had made the find and hung around near it for a week before he finally gave up hope of another debauch. Jim acts also as a rising signal for the village. Every morning at 6:30 he fiies through the streets squeaking notes, which the villagers declare are the nearest he can come to saying, “Get up; ge v ‘Wher he first became s member of the community the crow was the cause of a good deal of trouble. People awoke to find that the milk cans, left on their back Stoops, had been overturned and for a while no one knew who the miscreant was. At length a housewife saw Jim grab the handle of a can with his beak and use his entire strength in turning it over. She charged on him with a brdom. So did another woman the next morning, and after that Jim behaved himself. As a watcher the crow is most useful. Several times he has given the alarm when & polecat or mink threatened Stephenson’s chicken yard, and it is for this falthful- ness that the crow's owner refuses to part with Bim. Many Noted Bducators Meet. CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 28.—Many noted educators were present today when the third annual conference of collegiate and secondary school instructors was called to order in° Adelbert college chapel here. At the conclusion of devotional exercises Presi- dent Thwing of Western Reserve university welcomed the delegates. ~Addresses were then delivered !E' . 0. Hartwell of Kal mazoo, Mich.; T. Bones of Clevelan: Prof. H. A. Alkens of Cleveland and Prof. Oramp Declares No Dividend, PHILADELPHIA, Nov, 28.—The board of directors of the Cramp Ship Building com- pany at o meeting today decided not to eclare the usual December dividend. A circular will be issued stating that it is inexpedient to declare the dividend In view of the floating debt and also showing that the earnings in the last six months ha made a substantial incre BOSTON, Nov. 28.—Hon. Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of the treasury, was to have been the principal speaker at the dinner of the Massachusetts Reform club at Young's hotel tonight, but his absence was explained by a telegram to the effect that he was detal home by iliness. Pt bl y Well. CHICAGO, Noy. 38.—Jobn Dillon has prac- tically recovered from his iliness. The au- thorities at Mercy hospital sald tonight he 4, and maybe 1 will raise such crops as|would probably leave there on Sunday. Drive it away! Drive it away!! That wolfish cough of yours structive. Coughs sre deceitful, de- They tear delicate membranes, prevent healing, and prepare the way for seri- ous lung troubles. Quiet your cough. Bring rest to your throat and lungs. For 60 years the doctors have prescribed Ayer’s B) |Cherry Pectoral for coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia. | gis appointed Purroy acting chief. CHIEF CROKER 1S LET OUT Nophow of Tammany Boss Dismissed from New York Fire Department. FOUND GUILTY OF MANY GRAVE OFFENCES oner Gives Judgment on Re. 1, but Discharged Man Says He Win Fight to Bitter En cent Tr! Continne NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—~Edward F. Croker, ehiet of the fire department, was today dis- missed from the service by Commissioncr Sturgls. Mr. Croker was found guilty on the charge of “failure to enforce the require- ments of law for properly safeguarding the Park Avenue hotel; of the conversion of public property to his private use; of con- duct prejudicial to good order and discipline in persecuting and unjustly discriminating against certain members of the uniformed torce, and of conduct unbecoming an of- ficer and a gentleman and prejudicial to good order and discipline.” On the charges of “incompetency as chief of the department in the management of great fires” and of “sending false reports’ he was acquitted. Mr. Croker declined to make any com- ment on the sentence, but it is known he will fight the matter to the end. On being informed of Commissioner Sturgls' action Mayor Low iseued a statement sustaining the commissioner and expressing the beliet that he had acted in accordance with the law and with the dictates of his consclence. Mayor Low Upholds Sturgis. In his statemnt Mayor Low says: ‘The charter places upon the fire com- missioner, and not upon the mayor, the duty of conducting: all trials in the fire department, and it is the sworn duty of the commissioner to make his findings upon evidence according his ~onsclence. It fe due to the provisions of the charter itself that the commissioner has been ob- liged both to formulate the charges and to try them. The circumstances in this case have been such that I have thought it incumbent upon the mayor to assure himself that the chief has had a falr trial, and that every op- ?or(unlty was given him to make his de- 'ense in the fullest possible way. Being satisfied, as I am upon these points, there seemed to be no reason why this trial should not take its course like any other trial held by the commissioners. The dis- cipline of the department, In fact, re- quired that this matter should be disposed of in the usual way. Edward F. Croker is 39 years of age and has been connected with the department for elghteen years. He is the nephew of Richard Croker. In 1898 he became deputy chief, and on May 1, 1899, he succeeded Hugh Bonner, as chief of the department. He is also president of the National As- soclation Fire Chiefs. In August last, he obtained leave of ab- sence for rest. When Commiesioner Stur- Meantime, Mr. Croker decided to remaln in this city and attended the trial of Chief Ryan of the bureau of repairs. The com- missioner then suspended him from active duty. Mr. Croker complained that this was an attempt to force him out of the department and took the matter to th® state supreme court, where Judge Hall decided that Com- missioner Sturgis had no power to relieve the chief, and reinstated him. A MODERN PROPOSAL. Up-to-Date Method of Arranging the Preliminaries. Cleveland Plain Dealer: ‘““Yes, I put your father onto a good thing last month.” “Did you? That was nice of you. Papa asked me the other day if I knew you." “What else?” “When I told him I had met you he asked me if I thought you had the money-making instinct. And I told him I didn't think you ‘would be asleep when dividend day came ‘round.” “That was nice of you. I gave your father a good tip yesterday. He took it, too. It must have netted him u couple thousand. : ““Why, you are quite a good fairy, Mr. Slimmer. I'll remember that tip the next time I strike papa for my pin money.” But why not give poor papa a rest?” “I beg your pardon?” “Why not let somebody else put up for the pins? I happen to know that pape isn't on Easy street often enough to estah- lish a permanent address there.” “Pray make yourself a little plainer, Mr. Simmer?" “That's quite impossible, Miss Bimler. I feel that nature has done her worst for) me. Ah, you are fishing for a compliment.” “No, Miss Bimler, you wrong me. bave no time for fishing. But let me par- ticularize. I am neither young nor hand- some. My temper is fairly good, my health excellent. That, I think, disposes of the minor details Here s a schédule of my worldly possessions—subject, cf course, to the daily fluctuations of the market. May 1 trouble you to look it over?” “With what end in view, Mr. Slimmer “I will come to that presently, Miss Bimler. I have shown your esteemed father a duplicate of this schedule. It seemed to please him. He even entrusted me with a note for you. Here it 1s.” (He hands her a sealed envelope which he opens with a “pardon me.” It con- tains but two lines. “My dear, nall this chap—I need him in the business. Your doting papa.”) “It is quite evident, Mr. Slimmer, that you have made a favorable impression upon papa. “And how about papa's daughter?'’ “Will you make that a little clearer, Mr. Slimmer?" “With pleasure. How does the sum total strike you?" “Oh, of the schedule? Why, very satisfactory." “And—and will you share it with me, Miss Bimler—subject, of course, to the market fluctuations? ““Oh, Abner, this is so sudden!” Quick curtain. it seems Marriage Lice: Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to the following: Name and Restdence. Age Jobn F. Stevenson. Cheyenne, Wyo...... 2 Eva M. Roe, Indtanapolis, I John Braun, Lincoin, Nef Mrs, Susanne C. Matth LOCAL BREVITIES. . Frank Irvine, formerly supreme court commissioner of Nebraska and now pro- fessor of law at Cornell university, was in the city Thanksgiving day. Willlam Taylor, tried in Judge Baxter's gourt yesterday on a charge of robbing Joe Matullon, was found guflty last even- ing by a jury out scarcely fifteen minutes. Mary Casey has begun action against the Omaha Street Rallway company because of injuries recelved at S¢venteenth and Charles streets on September 23. She asks judgment for §2,550. Alice I Miller has secured from Judge ead a decree divoreing her from Frank D. Miller, who, she alleged in her petition, was recelving (oo many scented notes from people who wrote feminine hands. The will of the late George R Voss, pro- viding for the disposition of $33,000 in cash and Insurance, was flled yesterday in county Clancy St. Clalr was ap- court pointed administrator with the will at- tached City Enginecr Rosewater will address 3 meeting of the Bouthwest Improvement club tonight at Twenty-fourth and Leaven- worth streets on the subject ofthe fran- chise ordinance which he now has in the ity council. L PRICE BAKING POWDER, CHICAGO, U. 8. A. The gentleman looks with ap- Y~ proval upon the hot biscuit, and willingly puts aside his most in= teresting morning paper for them. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder makes hot biscuit, muffins and hot-breads light, delicious and wholesome, which are a tempta- tion to a good breakfast for the man, woman and child. : Food raised with Price’s Baking Powder is unfermented, never sours in the stomach, and may be eaten in its most delicious state, fresh and hot, by persons of all temperaments and occupations, without fear of unpleasant results. LONGHOURS AND MEAGER PAY Oondition and Prospeots of the Retail Olerk Not What They Should Be, IS HE THE ‘'MERCHANT OF TOMORROW?' Difficulty Met With in the Crowded Marts of Trade~Remedies Sug- wgested for Deep-Rooted Grievances. H. J. Conway, an’officer of the Retail Clerks’ International Protective associa- tion, In & letter to the Chicago Tribune de- tails the grievances of the retail clerks of that city, due to long hours of labor and insuficient pay. The' conditions detailed ere those prevailing in Chicago, but like conditions exist in a lesser degree in every city and town in the west. Mr. Conway writes. ‘The retail clerk today is worse off than the hodcarrier who receives 30 cents an hour and works day after day in a sult of old clothes, which he can discard when his work is done. The clerk, on the other hand, must meet the public clad in good clothing, which takes a large part of his income. While the hod carrier works eight hours a day the clerk tolls twelve, fourteen and sometimes sixteen hours. The condition of the retail clerks of to- day—an army of wage earners composed of men and women, both old and young—are such that it is impossible to consider them in all localities in this article. In the city of Chpicago there are two classes—the clerks who work in the large department stores in State street and the ones in the stores on the outside. In the State street department stores the hours of labor have been constaatly shortened untll now these stores open at $:30 in the morning and close at 5:30 or 6 o'clock in the afternoon and remain closed on Sunday. But the rules in these houses are so strict and enforced 80 severely that they sometimes remind one of & penal in- stitution instead of & place of egployment. One recognizes that any successful place of business must have a syscem and rules and regulations governing its employes, but a great many of the fittle petty rules can ho eliminated, Aboye all, more wages can t% paid the clerks tn State street than are pald at the present time Lomg Hovars inm Steres. In pthe outside stores the hours are en- tirel/ too long. The stores opem at 7 o'clock in the morning and remain open until 9 and 9:30 in the evening except Wednesday and Friday nights, wh they at 6 6'clock. To counterbalance these l few hours of leisure, however, the clerks must remain Saturday night untll 10:30 and 11 o'clock and then be in the store on Sunday from 7:30 in the morning until 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Think of the feelings of the girls and young women who are compelled to labor all these hours in order to help fill the family larder. They have absolutely no time to partic- pate in the innocent pleasures of life, cannot even find time to attend to thelr Christian duties. As an excuse for being compelled to work on Sunday the clerks are told “the merchants must keep open to accommodate the public.” In many cases the stores are patronized by the families of the clerks employed in these stores, thus depriving their own flesh and blood of enjoying Sunday as a day of rest The clerk in the grocery store is com- pelled to open the store at 5:30 in the morning and work almost continuously un- til 9 o'clock at night, and sometimes even later. In addition to this he must be there a half day on Sunday. Why should he work 50 many hours? Does it require all this time to transact the business done on that day? No, it is only again the selfishness of the public in compelling them to work #0 long. As solicitors make the rounds for all the stores orders could be given them and filled without the loss of the additional time by the clerk. But because they are not the grocery stores are keeping open trom early morning until late at night, when their business could be done the same a8 in the large department stores and the clerks given shorter hours. Perhaps there is no greater sufferer from long hours than the drug clerk—the young man who is compelled to graduste from recognized college of pharmacy and stand And examination before he can accept a position as clerk in a drug store. Every day he opens the store at 7 in the morning and closes at 11 o'clock at night. Often he 18 compelled to sleep In the store all night 80 as to be there in case of call for & pre- scription or through fear an accident may happen that would necessitate medical at- tention. The welfare of tne public thus prevents him from going to his own home to sleep. Few Chances to Rise. There is an old saying that one hears sometimes today that “the clerk of today is the merchant of tomorrow.” Is It true? I do not think so. How can a clerk work- ing op the wages paid today and with the increase in living expenses save a sufficient amount of money to enable him to go into business? How can he meet the competi- tion he would have to face? Then, if the competition be so strong today and require 80 much capital, what will it be in the fu- ture if trusts and combinations continue to increase as they are both in the manutac- turing and retalling of the commodities of Mge? Take as an Illustration & combiuation effected not long ago. Fifty retall store were brought uader one head. The manager buys in carload lots and retails through his own stores at prices the ordinary merchant cannot get when he goes to the wholesale house. How can a man with small capital meet this kind of competition, and theso combinations broadening their sphere of in- fluence? No, the clerk of today Is not the merchant of tomorrow, but the merchant’s sons or the stockholder's sons of today are the merchants of tomorrow, for the business is handed down from father to son, and the opportunity of the clerk becoming the mer- chant tomorrow is becoming less and less a possibility. There is one way; I believe, that it can be done. That is by co-operation and or- ganization—by organizing one great body of men and women and co-operating with or- ganized labor, with wage earners like our- selves, and demanding, as other wage earn- have done, “a just day's wages for a just day’s worl How do the salarles of clerk: with the wages pald im other lines? average wage paid male clerks is $12 & week; the average for women rlerks, $5 a week. For this they are compelled to work seventy-four hours & k in more than 75 per cent of the stores. Skilled labor works forty-elght hours a week and recelves an average of $24. Unskilled labor works but fifty-four hours and recéives not less than 26 cents an hour. Ministers of the gospel a ulluf why the attendance at their services Is mot larger. Need they wonder when so many human beings are compelled to labor so many hours and have so few given them to attend divine worship? I say to the min- isters, look into these conditions and they will find their reply. Let them assist or- ganized labor to eliminate them from the lives of the retail clerk. Then they may have an opportunity to attend the churches, the prayer meetings and receive the benefits compare that are derived from a Christian educa- | tion. The farmers complain today that they cannot get hands to help them im their flelds. Yet their own sons and dsughters are leaving their homes and entering the city because the hours of labor on the farms are too long. There they must toil from sunrise until § o'clock In the evening with- out recelving enough to live on comfortably. They come to the city and become our clerks, not realizing fhat their conditions will not be bettered. The ouly remedy for these conditions, in my estimation, lles in universal organizafion and co-operat Without them the retall clerks never can become successful and the existing condi- tions be eliminated from their Ifves. The “Bare Feet” There is nothing like having both feet on the ground, says Medical Talk. If & man should go barefeot the comtact of The ' his bare feet with the earth and his hesd projecting Into the atmosphere would make a perfect electrical conductor through which the electricity of the alr would pass through his body to the earth. While no apparent harm is done, yet being insulated from the electricity of the earth by wearing shoes the electricity falls of its beneficial result. There can be no doubt that it would be better for everybedy, especially nervous people, It their feet were on the ground instead of in shoes. | 'The new kiud of General Arthur cigars are now on sale. | Publish your legal notices in The Weekly Bee. Telephone 238, Had a Fine Time, | Chicago Post: The country editor had turned the personal column over to his daughter temporarily, while politics claimed | bis attention. The daughter had studied country edi~ torial metheds to some advantage, and the following items appeared: “Tom Jones called last evening with & two-pound box of candy. Call agaln, Tom." “Harry Mason was around with bis trot- ter and sidebar buggy it week. Don't torget the number, Harry. “George Brown's billboard is ssid to be good for two seats for anything that comes. We always like to see George on show Mary Martin, the milliner, has & magnificent display of the latest styles In her show window. How much is this geod tor, Mary?" ———— “Let the GOLD DUST twins do your work.” ‘This would be a cleaner, brighter world if every hfluul:nnrlnd. ot | GOLD DUST THE N. K. FAIRBAN| ANY, l e Tow Yok | B e Leaa Makers of OVAL FAIRY SOAR,