Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 17, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BE ATURDAY JANUARY 17, 190 METHOD OF PAYING MINERS Beranton Coal Comrany Objec:s to Plan of Weighing Product. CLAIM THAT IT IS NOT PRACTICAL Attorney In Making Statement Before Arbitration Comminsion Says Com- pany Has Always Endeav- ored 40 Please Men, PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 16.—More mine ofMcials were called today to tell the strike commission that under the influence of the unfon the workers the produe tion of coal and otherwise interfered with the discipline of employ The Erle company 1 its case early in the day, after calling a physielan, who spoke of the good health cf ths mine work- ere. Scranton Opens Cawe. The Serenton Coal company, which oper- ates besides its own the collle Elk Hill Conl and Iron company up the attack This comp over to the New York, On o & We which virtually controls the mines Witnesses denfed the existence of a biacklist, sald contract miners worked on an average of six to seven hours a day, claimed that the local unions compelled men to load an equal number of cars, thus restricting the output, and alleged that the men were careless In obeying orders and that frequent petty strikes occurred because a union man dismiesed for insubordination One inside foreman sald the employment of a check welghman, insisted upsn by the union, bad proved to be a good thing for the company, because the miners sent to the surface cleaner coal The accountant of the Seranton nal company presented figures to show that since a check-docking hoss was employed, at the request of the miners, dockage had been reduced one-half and no friction had arisen Superintendent Allen of the Erie com- pany said a few days ago that the em- ployment of check-docking bosses was not practicable, because the two men would not agree regarding the amount of dirt in a car then took coal tern ny turns it was Endeavors to Please Men, James B. Burr of Scranton in opening the case for the Scranton company said The company employs about 5,000 men and boys. It pays the laborers direct, pursuing & system always In vogue at its several collferfes. This has always been done at the request of the miners, as we shall show. The statements flled show that the company I8 paying fair wages, as fair as those paild by other operators engaged in mining in the reglon where it rates We shall show that we ha deavored to pacify and concilate all persons making complaints and to adjust any serious diffi- cultie: +We sh further show that we had to ‘guard Our own props Auring the recent strike at . our own expense, chiefly by our own employes, from among whom all of our coal and iron police were appointed; that we suffered severs losses by damage done to our collleries by mobs of strikers and strike sympathizers, and that we are constantly inferfered with in Our efforts to preserve our Propetry We shall show also that it 1d not be Just to us or reasonably practicable to change the methods of payraeits now em- ployed by us. To compel us to change from payment by the car to payment by welght would entail not only great expense but serious delays in operating our mines, and we shall show that it would make no speclal difference in the wages received by the miners. In short, that it would be useless, ineffectual, unfair gnd unusual. Frank' L. Northup, bookkeeper and ac- countant, explained several statements he handed to the commission. The wage statement for 1901 showed that 758 worked more than four months and received less than $400 each, 246 worked less than four months and recefved between $260 and $300, 200 worked morés than four months and recelved between $500 and $600, 191 worked nearly full time and received between $600 and $500, seventy-eight worked full time and recelved between $700 and $500, twenty- three earned from $S00 to $900, three from $900 to $1,000 and three over $1,000. Defines Insubordination, James Smith of Peckville, inside fore- man of three colleries, told tales of alleged insubordination. He saic that when a miner refused to work for a sum fixed by the company it was impossible to fill his plagce, because of the union rule that one man vhall not take another's place unless discharged for good cause. Runners, he claimed, refused to deliver cars to miners who had not pald their dues to the umion and men, refused properly to top cars be- cause the “local” told them to do it in another way and declined to handle ¢ars lowered into the mines by a nonunion engineer. Witness also. claimed that while the men stayed in the mines about an hour longer since the company started to keep their time, the amount of coal has not increased much. [ ————— The Aristocracy of Old Kentucky have known for three genera- tions that Sunny Brook was distilled in the good old honest way, and that the distillers' reputation was at stake on every drop that left their warehouses. It is not aged, colored or flavored by artificial chemical process. - SUNNY BROOK DISTILLERY CO. Jottersea Cousty, Ky WHISK Y - B i et les of the | ;RMN SPOILS FAST TRACK Orleans Crowd Misled Weather Which Changes | New by NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 16.—Rain through- out the day changed track conditions from | fast to heavy wnd upset all calculations | Ahumada, who made a ghow of his fieid ind Amigari, who wun With almost equai case, were (he only successful iavor imp. ¢ ay was claimed vut of th first race for $Li15 by K. D. Orr. After | winning the race Houndlee was run up 1o 31,006 and bought in by Cash Sloan | Ben Rigby, the jockey fresh from un | Europgan campaign, today. Re- | sults First race, six furlongs, selling: I Jack Hotner, 84 (Fuller), 5 to 1, won; Light Hunt, 107 (Battiste), 16 to 1, second; Doc- tor Scharff, 106 (Head), 9 to 1, third. Time 1118 14, | “Bec arrived 1d race, one mile and an eighthysell- moon, 102 (Robbing), 4 to 1, "won; 94 (Haack), 20 to 1, second; Eliza (C. Bonner), 6 1o b, third. Time | ““Third race, five furlongs: Ahumada, 1 | (Gannon), 2 to 5, won; Uranlum, ' 106 | (Scully), b to 1, second; Stir and Garter, 115 | (McCafferty), 7 to 1, third, Time: 1. | “Fourth race, handicap, hign welght, six | furlongs: Kaloma, 100 (Donne , 3 to 1, | won; Mrs. Frank Foster, 111 (Lindsey), 1§ | to b, secand; Allyar, 105 (Winkfield), 13 10 3, third. Time: 1:18, Fifth race, seven furlongs: Amigarl, 105 (Hall), 4 to 5, won; Tioga, 92 (Redtern), 13 10 o, second; Buccleuth, 107 (Donnegan), 10 | 0 1. third. "Time: 1:314-5. | "sixth race, selling, one 1103 (Donnegany, & to 1. [103 (Battiste), & to 1, se trern), 3 to 1, thirc mile: Boundie won; Joe Lesse ond; Chickadee, 10§ | (R Time: 1:47 | Wi | Horses Fall at Hurdles. | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16—In the eix { turlongs handicap at Oakland today clever j sprinters went to the post, with Hyron Rose favo lte. Money Muss faced out witn 8ad S8am and killed him off. Minder avolded | the early pace and taking the rail landed | Byron Rose a winner. Two horses fell in the hurdle handic: Red Steel went down at the first jump and [ later lcaped the fence. Corillo also fell ;' arly in the race. Both riders escaped in- | Jury | "Weather clear and track zast. Resutts: | First race, eleven-sixteenths of a mile, selling: J. H. Bennett, 109 (Trogler). 12 to 1, won: Instar, % (Connell), 10 to 1, second; Tsabe 4 to 1, third. Time! 1:48% Second _race, den Cottage, | Krema, 9 (L. Wilson) | Mildred Schuitz, 106 (Hullman), 5 to 1 | Time: 1:11 | " ¥hira race, one mile and a quarter, hurdle | | | | . 108 (Burns), urse. selling: 6 o 1, won; second; Imp. third. Futurity ¢ 106 (J. Daiy), 4101 handicap: Poorlands, 134 (McMahon), 8 to 1, won; Mike Rice, 142 (Pe | ond; Duke of York 11, 16 | third. " ‘Time: 2 | “Fourth race, mile: Byron Ros 8 (Minder), 6 to ney Muss, 107 (Donnelly), 3 to 1, Cellowtail, 106 (Waterbury}, 7 to 1 me: 1:1, Fifth race, eleven-sixteenths of a mile, selling: Lizzie Rice, 104 (Ranach), 3 to 1, won; Mirina, 104 (Donnelly), 12 to 1, second; rtenicht, 112 (Wateroury), 8 to'1, third. ime: 1:07%. ixth_racc, one mile and Katle Walcott, 100 (Kelly), Ulloa, 105 (Donnelly) to 1 Mission, 111 (Birkenruth), 4 to 1 Time: 1:44 NEW YORK ENJOINS BALL PACT Re. rs), 3 to 1, sec- (Wallace), 3 to 1, three-fourths of a fifty yards § to 1, won; second third. Serves Pulliam with Injunction ing Him from Ratify- ing Treaty. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.—That peac base bill 1s till far off was proved tonignt when Harry Pulliam of the National league was served with an injunction restrainng nim from ratifying the agreement reached ‘wy_the joint peace conference last week. The {njunction was issued by court of common pleas No. § at the instance of the New York Base Ball club of the National league, Mr. Pulliam issued a statement tonight, in which he said: “As a concession from league we secured: "1 The recdgnition of the reserve rule, the bulwark oi base ball. “2. The Inviolability of players rom now on. 3 'A" rion-corifllcting séhedule in_cities. in which there are two 4. The restriction of terfitory the -American contracts of ‘games clubs, from now on. It was mutually agreed that a uniform system of playing rules be adopted, aiso that a new national agreement should be entered upon which should place base ball on a firm basis. The American 'eague is here and nothing the Cincinnati confe=- ence did put any more life into its cor- porate body than it had. -rhe committee at the outset agreed to wipe off the slate contracts for previous years and only dis- russ players known to have signed two ptracts for 193, Under this we awarded nine players to the National league and six to the American. The governing idea of the National league committee was the restoration of the reserve rule and the ending of conutract breaking for the fu- ture, . Shots Fall Down in Canadian Handi Trap Grand HAMILTON, Ont, Jan. 16—Maurice Reardon, a_Hamilton 'wiug shot, won first money ih the Grand Canadian handicap, 550, the big event at the Hamilton Gun club’s tournament. Of the forty-one com- petitors he alone made a striight score of twenty kilis, Those who won money included: H. J. Miller, Brantford; K. Westbrook, Toronto; A. Tolle, Detrol . C. Grifith, Pascoag, R1OR 9 Mitehell, Brantford; 4. 1. Head, Pern, Ind.; A. D. Bates, Hamilton; M. E. Fletcher, Hamilton, all of whom killed 1§ out of . Columbus Takes Three Siraight. COLUMBUS, Neb., Jan. 16.—(Special Tela- gram.)—Tne bowling team from the Fre- mont High school went down to lefeat here tonight on the local alleys before the Co lumbus High school team. The visitors lay their poor showing to lack of asquaintance with the alleys, and Fremont next week. Score COLUMBUS. 1st. Friedhoft RO 71} RO o sssesssnveterrandll iesler '3...00 s ‘Mahood 154 Osborn 146 Totuls ...onr 831 FREMONT. 1st M7 136 187 18 182 .95 84. Total 2] 629 1 1M 562 168 161 ks w9 250 3d. 164 168 189 183 162 06 Total 7 53 517 P. Fritz Totals Tells Sheriff to Stop Fight, BPRINGFIELD, Jan. 16 —Governor Yates hae sent a letter to Sheriff Ba.tett of Cook county calling his attention to the prize- nght scheduled to be fought before the American Athletie club_of Chicago next Monday night by Benny Yanger um‘ Youag Mowatt he governor declures that the proposed fight or exhibition will be arly i violatlon of the law and that action should be taken by the sheriff to prevent it. However, the governor udds, if the | sheriff knows of any statute under which euch fight can be permitted he Is to Inform him lnmediately. Harvard Ball Player Barr CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 16.—Orville G Frantz, the Harvard base ball player, has been permanently disqualified from taking part in Harvard athletics. Last spring he | announced to tne athletic committee that | seven or elght years ago he play>d ball in the west and received 512 @ week for ex- penses. He was immediately barred. With the Bowlers, five-game contes. last night on Clark's alleys A. Potter beat H. D. Reed and M. R, Huntington in a good game of tenpins. Bcore ist. 2d. 3d. 4th. Gth. Tot. 190 178 26 27 200 L0iQ 184 164 189 136 182 92 201 181 194 156 183 384 Clothing Workers Locked Oul CHICA Jan. 18 -~War hetween rival labor organizations resulted In a lockout today of 4,000 clothing workers, including about 2.00 women. For several months the United Garment Workers f America and the special order clothing mukers have been In & controversy Over & question of jurisdiction. and the employers have di- rected the I.t.hr to give :l:.luu ’mh‘h rment workers. warkers, wever, refused to desert adt wnlon e luckoul cesulted. In a | Potter Reed Huntington ttle | ONLY ONE KILLS TWENTY promise a different | showing when the return game 18 played at | o | Dnn's Review Offers Small Hope of Relief Before Spring. o CAR SHOPS FULL FOR SIX MONTHS YET Woolens Advance Slightly, but Great aples Only Find Moderate Though at Upward Tend- ency In Most Lines. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade will say The fuel shortage is atill ihe only seri- ously disturbing element in the industrial situation. Transportation facilities have been diverted from other merchandise to the advantage of shippers, yet furnuces are unable to secure sufficlent supplies of coke and many other supplies are decreased be- cause of Iack of coal supplies. No Hope ftor Co Mines are more fuily operated, but there is no prosvect of normal conditions until spring. Retall trade was accelerated by the cus- tomary clearance sales, especlaily in dry goods and kindred branches. Traveling men are sending in large orders for spring goods, the volume of advance businees sur- paseing the customary amount for this time of year Conditions in the fron and steel market do not mean duliness or diminishing con- sumption, but merely the oversold condi- tion of furnaces or mills, together with the uncertainty about keeping plants on a day to day supply of fuel, Inquiries are nu- merous, especiaily in industrial lipes, but makers are not ready to accept tids until the future becomes more clear. The demands from car bullders are phe- yomenal. The entire capacity of the lead ing plants ls already booked for stx months and at many concerns the last half of the will bring no relief unless orders are | cancelled Shoe Orders Are Light. Most factorlcs are employed on_ spring shoes, but new orders are light; western Jjobbers purchase freely of fall’ samples Quiet conditions In leather have been suc- ceeded by an Increased demand for hem lock sole and standard upper, shoe manu facturers ~placing liberal orders. Lasf week's slight recovery in the hide market was not sustained. There is little wants in the immediate necds more pressing. In the woolen goods division the opening of plece dles was made at an advance, put not as much as some sellers anticipated. Only moderate selling was experienced In the great staples, with the tendency up- ward. However, prices have been charged for refined sugar, and good grades are firm, and weaknesa is the feature in coTee, oWing to excessive supplies at all points. Failures for the week numbered 267 in the United States, against 334 last year, and in Canada, compared with 40 a year ago. isposition 1o anticipate cotton goods division, but have evidently grown WHEEKLY BANK CLEARINGS. Summary of Business Transacted by the Associxted Rank: NEW YORK, Jan. 16—The following table, compiled’ by Hradstreet, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended January 15, with the per- centage of increase and decrease as com- pared with the corresponding week last year: CITIES. ’Amount. Ine.| Dec. 568,026 178,584,611 150,281,229| 119,398,374 48,741,431 . 184,432/ 24,901,845/ hiladelphia . . Louls Pittsburg Baltimore Yooe San Francisco ... 30783 Cinefnnati Ul 2476550 Kansas City 20,776,831 . Cleveland . D) 16,562,867 Minneapolls ... R Boston b KL = BeEzE Loutsville ... indianapolls .. Providence ... | OMAHA | Milwaukee | Buffa 8t. P . 8t. Joseph Denver Richmond*..! Savannah .0l Salt Lake City (... Albany .. Los Anrele- Memphis ... Fort Worth " Seattle Washing | Hartford Peorta . Toledo ..... Portland, Ore. Rochester Atlanta ... Des Moines . New Haven . Wore er Nashville ... Springtield, M orfolk ... Grand Rapids . Seranton ... Portland, Me Sioux Clty . Augusta . Syracuse .. Dayton, O. Tacoma ... Spokane | “Topeka ..... Davenport Wilmington, Evansville Birmingham Fall River . Macon ....... Little Rock Decatur . Helena .. Knoxville Lowell Akron ... Wichita ... Springfeld, Lexington ' . New Bedford . Thattanooga oungstown . Kalamazoo KArgO ........ Bingham(on sockford Canton ....iies Jacksonville, Fia Springfield, O Chester Quiney ... Bloomington Sloux Falls . Jacksonville, Fremont ston ..l Iveston lumbus, O ‘Wheeling Wilkesbarre §Beaumont .- Greensburg; Pa Mansfield . Utlea, N. ¥ Totals, U. § Outside New York 2k 25208 PRI TR SIEEER isasEs Eezsess B BzE2 fi'fi’:;fls i Rl 1 109 1 5 £ 80 66 A 2958 18 e 50 e B Y210 zuns 258 ZEE2HS 745,700/ 184 . 62,825 440,108 444,000 432,99 .. ni.’ 4,880,600 759,296 Montreal . Toronto | Winnipeg Halifax ... Vancouver, B Hamilton . St. John, N/ B Vietoria, B. C Quebec Ottawa London . Totals .. 3§ 5Le9In ;.9 Not included In totals hecause contalning other items than clearings {Not included In totuls because of no | eompartscn’for lant | EXPORTS BLOSSOM OUT OICE MORE. vt National NEW YORK. Jan morrow will sa With the much needed expansion in ex- {)nrl trade one of the few Important miss- ng evidences of national proaperity has | been supplied. Export trade in December Was bettr than anticipated and in Janu- | ary encouraging elements heve occurred Regular spring trade can hardly be suid 1o have opened, though activity is steadily increasing. Retall irade In winter goods has been maintained at & good volume by & generally diffude temperature. There is littie com- piuint of retuil stocks being at all heavy Confidence in & heavy spring business in- 508 as that season approaches. the industities remain exceptianally active, the bla exception being where shortage in fuel or rallway cengestion lmit production, as in the case of soft coal and coke in the west, The of leading agriculiural A Prosperity, 16 —Bradstreet's to- sirengih FUEL FANINE BLOCKS TRADE| | 840,900 bu. | work are filled promptly staples, mainly wheat, corn, oats and cot- ton, has been the feature of the price situ- ation. Cotton has shown iittle or no diminution of strength. Export business continues heavy and the price of manufactured ma- terial shows an upward tendency Wool is strong and prices are closely held, Machinery s well employed on spring and summer goods for men’s wear Despite much semi-bearish talk and hold- Ing Off by buyers the iron and steel situa- tlon loses littie of its strength. It is noted, however, that forelgn markets are on the whole stronger. Structural bars appear {n active demand, though fancy premiums have disappearéd The coke situation does not better much In the central west. Buyers of pig iron are backward in coming forward for large future business, but are ~ enger enough takers of current supplies. Apparentlr the expectation that the spring will see fower prices is still firm, but current demand involves considerable demand from time to time. Agriculturaj fmplement manufac- turers have bought freely of steel Lumber notes considerable interest and activity for an ordinarily dull period. The great mass of stable prices generally maintain undiminished sirength, notable in this respect being hides, which’are quoted a trifle higher, and leather, which is firm at_prevalling quotations. Copper holds nearly the advance it had gained, despite bearish statistical features Eastérn shoe manufacturers show little chauge from last year, though some com- plaints of the small margin of profits are heard Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending January 15 aggregate 4,068,624 bu., against 509691 last week, 4,600,202 in this week a year ago and 3,326,054 in 1901 Wheat exports since July aggregate 140.- against 158,004,130 last season and 107,210,966 in 1960, Corn exports aggregate 234612 bu., as against 2,566,956 last week, 2,905,068 a year ago and 5,184,850 in 1901 For the' fiscal year exports are 165.968.018 bu., against 21,255,447 last season and 108,- 636,190 in 1901 Business fallures in the United States for the week ending January 15 number 22, as against 219 last week, 215 {n the same week in 1902, 200 {n 1901, 255 In 1900 and 262 in 1889, Canadian faflures numbered twent three, as against thirty last week and thirty-five this week & yeur ago. JUDGE KNAPP DEFINES TRUSTS Interstate Commerce Chairman Says Problem ix to Turn Industry from Selfishness to Charity. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.—The Ark- wright club had its annual dinner tonight, among its guests being Governor B. B Odell, Judge Martin I. Knapp, chairman of the Interstate Commerce commission, and former Governor Voorhees of New Jersey. Judge Knapp, speaking of trusts, sald In part Today the great ente are in the hands of corporations und the time is fast approaching when they will absorb all fmportant uncertakings legitimate, the inevitable porations 1s moropoly. Simply cause the operation of these massive forces, grinding on each other in every market of the world, begets danger, which invites and often compels common agreement as to prices and production. That Is a trust. We are entering on a period of great transition, a period of difficulty and many dangers. The whole structure of industry and industrial life is liable to be subjected to @ strain, possibly to a shock, for which experfence furnishes no guldance. Can we raise this wide realm of industry from sel- fishness to charity, from strife to friend- ship, from competition to co-operation, from warring instincts of the savage state to the mobler roads of assoclate life? This is the problem which will test the wisdom of statesmanship and tax the resources of public authorit CUBAN OPPOSITION FORMED Cosivention of Warring Elements De- &ides to Oppose Admini tration Polley. prises of the world HAVANA, Jan. 16.—The definlte organ- ization of An.opposition party was begun here this evepjug with a convention ot .delegates from, #j} parts of Cuba. Representatives of all the elements In the fsland qpposed fo the administration were presept, but differences among the various clements threatened to prevent unity of action.” As an cxample of this, the delegatés irom Santiago de Cuba were ‘nstructed to favor the Palma policy, while those from Puerto Principe demand declara- tions against the Palma policy and against the carrying out of the ideas expressed In the Platt amendment. Senor Tamayo, who was obliged to resign his position as secre- tary of the interior two months ago, is ex- pected to control the convention. Delegates to the administration party convention tomorrow will declare a party platform for carrying out the Platt amend- ment. and close political and economical Felations withi the United States. WABASH RAIL_S__STILL HALT Pittsburg Council Committee Post- Action on Enabling Ordinance. pones PITTSBURG, Jan. 16.—The ordinance granting the Wabash entrance into the city was again delayed today by the committee on corporations. James Ramsey, president of the Wabash; J. W. Patterson, president of the Pitts- burg, Carnegie & Western, and A. W. Neeper, general counsel, presented a new bill containing the changes asked for. With the exception of these changes the new ordinance is the same as the one which has been before the committee for a month. Chairman Upperman ruled that it was a new ordinance and could not be considered until the next meeting. WAGE RAISES STILL DELAYED Alton Men Will See ( mittee, While lnols OMcinls Offer Unsatis- factory Co BLOOMINGTON, 11l., Jan. 16.—The griev. ance committee of the locomotive firemen on the Chicago & Alton went to Chicago today to meet the grand master of the brotherhood. Efforts will be made to se- cure a couference with the officers of the railroad relative to an {ncrease of wages. The grievance committee of the trainmen on the Illicois Central is on its way home from Chicago. The committee reports that the officials propceed to meet any increase in pay granted by any competing line. This compromise is not considered satisfactory. mpro: Shoe Cuttc:n Go on Strike, LY Mass , Jan. 16—8hoe cutters to | the number of 20 employed In nine factories | here went on a strike today 3,000 hands are indirectly involved and un- less the places of those who have stopped a completg shut factories is threatened’ The the Knights presentation of a anfon of that the union the manu- shoe union. Knights of end the real down of the strike, which was ordered by of Labor, followed the new price list by the cutters ization. 1t is said th lates & contract bet tacturers and the boot and This contract, it is said, the Labor cutters also accepted {ssue, it {5 asserted, is one between the Knights of Labor and the Boot and Ehoe Workers' union. Upwara of | of authority | BOY 1S CAUSE OF A WRECK | Ohanges Bignal 8o that it Indicates a | Olear Track. FOUR MEN ,LOSE LIVES IN ACCIDENT Passenger Train on the Baltimore & Ohio Rans Into Caboose and ingine on the Track Near Comberland. CUMBERLAND, Md., Jan. 16.—Through | the alleged interference of a messenger boy | a wreck was caused on the Baltimore & Ohlo rallroad east of Cumberland early to- day, in which four employes of the rafiroad | were killed and three injured. Killed W. J. SIMMS, engineer. W. J. MORAN, fireman. H. D. SNEERINGER, fireman. JOHN BUTLER, engineer. Injured: T. J. Hendricks, conductor, bruised about the body. W. N. Christopher, engineer, Baltimore; brutsed. ~ Kinney, conductor, Cumberland. The wreck was due to the displaying of & falso signal, giving a clear track for | eastbound passenger train No. 10, when in | the next block ahead there was standing on the track a caboose and two engines. The passenger train was drawn by the two engines, and these crashed through the | caboose and engine which obstructed the | track. Baltimore; Not Running at Full Speed. Luckily the train had not attained its full | speed and was only moving at the rate of about twenty miles an hour when the col- Iision came. The postal car of the pas- | senger train was deralled, but the pas- | senger coaches did not leave the track and the occupants escaped injury It is charged that a messenger boy named | Turner, who was in the block tower when No. 10 came along, hearing the engincer's | whistle for clear tracks, pulled a lever giv- | | ing a clear signal. The operator had, it is explained, previously set the signal at dan- ger While his attention was being devoted to communicating with the succeeding block station the boy, it is alleged, pulled the lever that gave the oncoming train the sigoai that it had a clear track ahead and the tower operator was not aware of what was done until the crash came. {ST. LOUIS HAS FRESH SCANDAL Mayor Suspends Inspector of Weights ending In- vestigation, and Measure ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 16.—McArthur John ston, inpsector of weights and measures, was today suspended by Mayor Wells pend- ing investigation of charges preferred agalnst him by the mayor and filed with the elty council, After filing coples of the charges with the city register and comptroller, the mayor addressed a communication to Johnston in- forming him of his suspension. The charges specifically state that he failed to make proper returns to the city treasurer, Mr. Johnston was formerly president of the Building Trades council, and was elected to his present office in 1901. He sald tonight that he will have no state- ment to make until he has informed him- self thoroughly regarding the charges. ARIZONA JUSTICE ARRESTED Sherifft Chases Fleelng Man to Boston and Asks His Extradi- tion, BOSTON, Jan. 16.—After having been chased across the country by Arizona of- ficials who wanted him on a charge of em- bezzlement, ustice T. Hinds was arrested here toda: High Sheriff Joseph J. Rogers of Pres- cott, Ariz., immediately served requisition | papers upon Governor Bates, charging Hinds with being a fugitive from justice. Transactions in a mining enterprise are | 1d to be the basis of the complaint. DEATH RECORD. Henry 8. Daly. O'NEILL, Neb., Jan. 16.—(Speclal.)—The remains of Henry §. Daly and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Daly, old and respected residents of this county, were interred here today. Mr. Daly after a short ilinegs dled in the Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lako City. He grew to manhood in this county. He had held positions of trust with several raflroads and while working as station agent on a southern road contracted mala- rial fever, from which he never fully re- covered. Lunis Webster. CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Lunis Webster, aged 58, for many years western manager of the Westinghouse Alr Brake company, died at his home at Evanston last night from a complication of diseases. He was well known in rallroad circles throughout the country. Funeral of Mrs. Elmira Baker. NEBRASKA CITY, Jan. 16.—(Special.)- The funeral of Mrs. Elmira Baker was held this afternoon at the residénce of her daughter, five miles west of this city. The ! remains will be taken to Tabo, Ia., for in. terment. Mrs. Baker was born in 1815. James Lillle. 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