The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 1, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL DAY ED SEPTEMBER 1, 1897 or to cross tie glacier and continue on their way in canoes. A dozen or more Seattleites expect to leave on the Umatilla for San Francisco on Thursday. They will there :ake the schooner Berwick, which leave about September 8 with fiity passengers for Daw- son City, via Copper River. A siop will be made at the river, allowing passenaers] 10 prospect there, remaining all winter if | necessary, or, if so decided by the pas- sengers, going on to St. Michael, through the Unimak F arriving in that port in March, and then up the river to Dawson. — MAY BRING DOWN GOLD. Steamsh!p Cleveiand Likely to Land | the Portus B. Weare’s Pas- —“The next ,” said C. H. ana office manager Transportation THE CALL cor- “will be on the er Cleveland from St. or within two big excitement in 1 Hamilton, secretary of the North American and Trading Company, to respondent this eve arrival of the stea Michael about Sepiember or three days ihatd This stezmer | tle on A | anditis expected will make the round trip in thirty-two days. The first trip of | the Portland consumed thirty-five days y-seven days, but the is more speedy, and it is not ved in unloading. »wn the miners who startea v on” July 14 with their sacks of goid on the river amer P. B are it is believe at several hundred | the precious | v of the and thel of to the 1 on July 3 for | rs and pro- The lest heard of her was on | when tbe Alaska Commercial | steamer Bella passed her at n 20, s Circie City. Michael on quota of pas but had 1 left on August nite information as to the cause of the delay, but states tuat before the Weare left St. Michael her engines were reporied in need of important repairs. He believes that shortly after leaving Circle City on She should have reactied St A gzust 1 and contributed her | ers 10 the Portland’s list, i when that vessel n has no defi- ot the return trip her filues began to leak and she was stopped to put new ones in. | Hamilton further said: “I tbink she reached St. Michael in ample time rect with the Cleveland. 1 am arranging to send north u complete new set of boilers to be put into the Weare. Sne wiil be able to make one | more trip up the river this winter.” The compan: operating the Portland | hopes to send her north again by Septem- ber 10, but it is first neces-ary that she go on the ways for repairs. A telegram has | been sent to the Navy Department asking that the steamer be zllowed to dock at the Puget Sound Government drydock, a few miles from Seattle, so as to avoid delay. Ham:lton is hourly expecting a iavorable reply. He will nat go into particuiars as 10 the neces ity for overhauliug the ves- sel, but several of the passengers on her recent trip cown give the explanation. When still at St. Michael island, they say, the Portland ran into a mudbank. The timbers quivered and the machinery thumped, causing consternation among a tew who realized the cause of the trout The vessel w got off safely, how ever, but not without being severely ained. pesking of the food question Mr. Ham- ilion said: “Qur peoyle b e fully realizea the seri- ness of this sudden influx into the Yukon country, and for more than a month past have advised that men do fiot | go north until spring. We believe that | every facility will be taxed to its ulmosti { 1a the effort to supply the miners with sutlicient provisions throughout the win- | ter. Many will undoubtedly run short | and suffering will ensue. Those who are | more fortunate in the guantity of their | supplies will feel aimost compelled to | either sell or divide among the needy. *In ordet to still further aid in supply- | ing the demand we have just decided to | make another trip this fall to St. Michael with the Cleveland. She will go north | four or five days aiter she reaches Seattle, and will bs Joaded almost enurely with provisions. Tne Portland will also sail | about the same time. We will have a| number of passengers as well as a consid- erable quantity of freizht on board her, but do not expect to be able to get through until spring. At St. Michael— or rather Fort Get There—connections will be made with the river steamers. We | expect that the Portland will return | about the middle o: October, with a larye | namber of miners and a pretty big pile of | gold dust. She will also bring down con- siderable of the company’s money. “In order to protect the passengers and | the money that will be on board the Port- | land, the North American Transportation | and Trading Company has procured an | impiement of annibilation that will no | doubt ward off Chinese or Malay pirates, | It is a rapid-tire, rifle-caliber Maxim gun, capable of discharging 60 cartridees por | minute. luarrived from the East to-day | over the Northern Pacific Railroad, and | will be mounted on a tripod at the ves- | sel’s bow as soon as she comes from the | drydock. This zun is said to be the very latest device for kiliing people 1 rapid succession. The cartridges used are 30- caliber, of the ordinary rifle kind. The gun is equipped with a maeazine in which are placed the required number of rounds. | It 1s loaded and fired automatically. The gun can be set at any angle required, and can be made to oscillate continually and rapidly over an area, sweeping over a large country in front of it, much in the way & mowing machine mows through a field of clover.” In referring to the last trip to St. Michael this year Hamilton said: *‘We have made arrangements to board and shelter the passengers who now go north on the Portiand during the winter and takethem up to the Klondike as soon 2s navigation opens in the spring. This will get them there about June 15, 1808, | The fare, inciuding board during the win- | ter, is $700. Eaployment will be given at | remunerative wages during the winter | along the river chopping and banking | steamboat wood. Tnese men will be in charge of an eflicient commissary depart- ment and will be sent out in parties of ten to different points along the river to get out wood. We will feed and shelter then: and pay them $4 a cord for chopping and banking wood. We will endeavor to | get the steamers throagh to Hamilton | L nding, a point 00 miles up the Yukon | River. Shouid we be unible to do so we will pay them $2 a day for the time neces- sary to walk across the eountry from Fort Get There to Hamilton, a distance of 250 miles.”’ WILL TAK:= - IN CATTLE. Seattle Parties Hope to Realize a Dollar a Pound for Fresh Meat. SEATTLE, Wasn, Aug. 3L.—The three Klondikers who came through from Daw- ! son City with about $18,000 ten days ago | Bd Thorp of Seattle, George Stewart of | Tacoma, and Joe Winterholn of Juneau. | arriving at that port the passengersand | the members of the | was not very willing to talk as to the; | eret. | the Klondike is reached. | Miss King insists thut every member of “taken up 300 feet from the shore, and a are ready to start north again. They are Witn the men will go seven other Seattle- ites and a party of six from Montesano, in charge of Messrs, Morgan and Ninemire, They are booked to leave on tbe F'arailon, which is expected to sail from this city on Thursday. They will take twenty-eight hors »and nearly 100 head of cattle. From Skaguay they will cross the Chilcoot Pass and take the Dalton trail, expecting to reach Dawson 1n a couple of months. About a year ago the Thorp party took thirty-seven head of cattle north and sold the meat at 50 cents a pound. They real- iz'd a handsome profit from their specula- tion and hope for much greater returns this winter. They believe that fresh meat will be o scarce and the demand so great that $1 a pound ean easily be got for it. Er e S OFF TO ST. MICHAEL. Steamships Bristol and Eugene De- part From Victor'a in Company. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 31.—The Bris- tol got away on her northward journey to St. Michael this morning und met the | Eugene in the roads, that vessel having, on being notified, steamed over from Port Angeles, where she had been waiting de- parture of the big steamer. The Bristol and Eugene will proceed on their journey side by side, stopping only at Comox for coal prior to arriving at St. Michael. On goods on the Bristol will be transferred to the Eugene, and six bLours artar their arrival (1t will take that lorx to transter freight) the sternwheeler will be on her | way up the Yukon. The Bristol wiil not take the smaller steamer in tow unless it is absolutely necessaiy, Tne steamer Princess Louise will sail on Monday next for Fort Wrangel and con- nect with the Hudson Bay Company’s river steamer Caledonia at that point, for Selby Smelting Com- ] pany’s expelition, under the direction -°fi A. Barion of San Francisco, will take pas- sage on the Princess Lo The river steamer will carry the party up to Tele- graph Creek, from wuence to Teslin Lake the Provincial Government 1s construct- ing a first-class trail. Over this trail the outfits wilt be packed 125 miles to the | commencement of navigation of the Yu- kon system of waterways. — LUCK OF COLORADANS. Have Found Payinz Claims on the Yukon, but One Says the Gold Is Hard to Gat. DENVER, Coro., Aug. 31.—A special to the News from Aspen, Colo., says: The News correspondent, with a vie of | verifying the report in Monday's News which comes from the Klondike concern- ing the weaith of Alexander McDonald, Robert Henderson and Colorado Ames and their future prospects, madeinquiries among various Aspenites, among them Mrs. Eliza Henderson, wife of Robert Henderson. Mrs. Henderson informed him that she received a letter from her husband, who is located in the vicinity of Dawson City, atout four weeks ago, in which he stated that of the three claims which he owned he sold one for §3000. | Henderson, in the letter 1o his wile, | states that there is an unlimited amount of gold in the Kiondike section, but that it is very bhard to get. Mrs. Henderson amount of gold her husband had gathered, | admitted that he had washed out a few thousand dollars. She says her husband will arrive home before a great while and return to the Kiondike about March i& Mrs. Henderson sta ed that'her husbakd and Alexander McDonald were close | friends znd were tocether a great deal. | She said that McDonald owned property valued at absut a quarter of a miliion dol- lars. Colorado Ames referred to in the dis- | patches in Monday's news is supposed to be Harry E. Ames, forme:ly of Asp+n, and a son of the Ames of the firm of Claflin & Co. of New York. Henderson has never referred to Ames in his letters to his wife, and it i« impossible to learn anything definite concerning him. Hen- derson went to Alaska about three years ago, but it was only last August that he located the claims which he has been working; and from which he gets pay mineral. Henderson compares a man’s chances in Klondike to those in Leadville in the early d o gaeris WOMEN FOR THE MINES. Party of Twenty Formed at Chicago to Make the Journey to Dawson. CHICAGO, IrL, Aug. 3L.—A club of twenty women iias been organized in Chi- cago to make a start for the Klondike gold fields on the first boat which goes throuch in the spring. Miss Florence King, attor- ney, is the organizer of the ciub, which will shortly be incorporated. Miss King declares that woman of nearly every oc- cupation” will be among the twenty. | Treir names, however, are still kept se- The life of the ciub will end when | After thai each | member can go her own way. Besides going into busiuess, if openings | exist, the women intend to take up| claims, and if pos-ible mine them. They deciare, through their leader, that they go primarily as miners. If their callings | offer more Iucrative reward, thev will| adopt them in preference to the pick, but | not until after giving mining a triai. the club shall start with at least $1000. A few married women will go with the club, leaving their husbands behind. If the wives prosper, the husbands will give up their positions and foilow them, thus re- versing early pioneer methods. S TO SERVE AS A HOTEL. Old Bark Shirley Will Be Taken Up to Alaska and Anchored at Skaguay. SEATTLE, WasH., Augz. 31.—The old | bark Shirley, built at Medford, Mass,, in 1850, and known in everv port in the United States, will be towed to Skaguay and converted into a hotel and store- house, with accommodations for 400 | lodeers. The masts have been made into | derricks and the steamers of the Wash- | ington-Aiaskan Company will di-charge into the bark. An anchorage will be steam launch will be provided for the transportation of lodgers to and from the shore. The Shirley will ieave here Satur- day with 400 tons of coal, 200,000 ieet of lumber ana 100 head of cattle. el The City of Seattle Salls. TACOMA, W ask., Aug. 3L.—The steamer City of Scattle sailea from here late to-night for Skaguay and other Alaskan points. She will carry north all told, 115 horses, 450 tons of freight and 160 passen- gers. Bhe has accommodations for 500 passengers, but was compelled to refuse many horses offered for Skaguay. Her freight space is weil filled. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All g_rg“uu reiund the mouey if it fails to cure. 5 PENNSYLVANIA ROENOCRATS NEET Convention Opens With a Free Fight on the Stage. The Motto on the Wall Was, “Bryan—Special Privi- leges to None.” W. E. Retter Named for Audltor- General and Mayor Weidel for Treasurer. READING, Pa., Aug. 31.—The Demo- cratic State convention to nominate can- didates for Auditor-General and State Treasurer met in the Academv of Music to-day. A conspicuous feature of the decorations was a handsome banner adorned with a portrait of William J. Bryan, bearing theinscription: *Liberty, Justice, Humanity. Equul rights to all. Special privileges to none.”” There were 435 delegates. State Chair- man Garmen calied the convention to or- der at 12:30 r. . and announced the tem- porary organization as agreed upon by the executive committes. The opening proceedings were enlivened by a free fight on the stage over the ques- tion of seating certain delegat the tem- porary chairman refasing to recognze them, and adjourned the convention for an hour. John T. Murphy of PhiladelpXia, a sec- retary, grabbed the gavel from the chair- man and attempted to preside. The de- posed officer tried to recover the gavel, and a fine row was on. The police were called in to quell the riot. Murphy was finally ejected from the stage and the bel- ligerents ordered to take their secats. Nobody was injured in t e scrimmaee, but much baa biood was engendered. The convention took a recess. The money vlank of the platform in- dorsei the Nationai conveation at Chi- cago of 1896, opposed the single gold standard and congratulated William J. Bryan for a glorious cu:amplonship of a rizhteous cause. When the convention reassembled in the afternoon the force of poiicemen in the hall had been increased, and there were evidences of preparations to prevent a repetition of the disgraceful scene that brought the morning session to a close. Temporary Chairman Ermantrout an- nounced that the offending secretary, J. T. Murphy of Philadelphia, would be ex- ciuded trom the stage. The commitiee on permanent organiza- tion reported the name of R. W. Irwin of Washington for permanent chairman, and recommended the continuation of the other temporary officers. Mr. Irwin addressed the convention briefly. He declared that the party stood ready to-day to continue that battle on the same platformr and under the same leaders.ip, and that in 1900 ‘hey would carry their banner to victory, ‘‘restore the people to gold and siiver of the con- stitution, gverthrow the money power and the organized trusts and enthrone the pecple in governmental affairs.” serted that ihere could be ground to oceupy. Charles P. Donnelly of Philadelphia presented a minority report sir'king out the money plank of the plattorm, and commending the recommendation of James M. Guffee as National committee- man in place of William F. Harrity. L. McQuestion of Builer County defended the plank. The roll was then called on the motion of Donnelly to strike the Guffes plani from the platform. The resuit of the vote sustained the ma- jori y report by 290 to 135. Ex-Mayor William K. Verbeke of Dau- phin County and ex-Assemblyman Walter E. Ritter were named for Auditor-Gen- eral. The vote resuited: Ritter 285, Ver- beke 43, and the former was declured the nominee. For the office of Siate Treas- urer Mayor Jacob Weidei of Reading and M. E. Brown of Blairsville were named. Brown was the for.unate canaidate by a vote of 228 to 127. The convention, at 5:55 P. M, adjourned sine die. He as- NICARAGUA W NTS GOLO. Ker Merchants Petition the Govern- ment to Export All the Sil- ver Coinage. MANAGUA, NicaraGuA (via Galveston), Aug. 31.—A meeting ol merchants, whicn was largely attended, was held here to- day. Resolutions were adopted deploring the present financial condition of Nicar- agua and petitioning the Government to place the country upon a gold basis. They estimate the present pap r dollar or silver dollar at 30 cents gold, and ask for the is- suance of gold certificates in their piace and at this vaination. They also request the Government to export and sell the present silver coinage of Nicaragua. e HE SHUT 10 KILL. Deputy Sheriff Makee Away With the Despoiler of His Daughter. MINNEAPOLIS, Mi~y, Avg 3L— There was a sensational shooting affray at the county jail shortly after midnight. James L. Murphy, a Deputy Sheriff, brought to the jail a woman of the town, whom he said was under arrest, and sent for Mairon Woodburn. Having thus cleared the way he entered the latter's apartments and opened fire on her hus- band, Cilavis H. Woodburn, who was asleep in bed. He firea eleven shots, tive of which entered Woodburn’s Lody, ex- claiming: 11 teach him to ruin my daughter.” The wa:chman rushed in and prevented Woocburn, who had by this time secured his own weapon, irom firing at his now retreating enemy. Murphy gave h mself up, and refused to discuss the case, except to say that be was a Kentuckian and had shot to kill. Woodburn is dangerousiy but not fatally shot. He will not talk, Shoatil MOURNS HER BUSBAND, Widow of President Borda May B:come Insane. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 31—The Herald’s correspondent in Montevideo says that it is feared the widow of Presi- dent Borda will become insane as the result of grief caused by her husbard’s assassination. In a skirmish with revolutionists the Government troops lost a few men. A new chief of troops will be appointed and an Xflon will be made to negotiate peace. n order hag been issued for the disbanding of a part of the mobilized forces. Mr. Strover, former United States Minister to Ckile, arr.ved here en route for New York., He will ress some days in Rio Janerio. no middle | WORK OF LABOR LEADERS ENDED Conference Adjourns to Meet Shortly at Chicago. Exciting Scenes and Incidents Mark the Close of the Session. Debs Electrifies the Vast Assem- blage With His Fiery Elcquence cf Speech. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 3L.—The confer- ence of labor leaders which has been 1n session here two days finished its work this evening. The meeting was product- ive of several sensational speeches and mauny resolutions, yet no decisive action w taken in the principal matter for which the gathering was ‘summoned—the abolishment of government by injunc- tion. The convention, which has been an- nounced as the last of its kind to be held, while adjourning sine die, bas merely post- poued action on the matters before it for three weeks, as a call for a similac convention, to be held in Chicago, Monday, September 27, wae issued. True it is, the convention orders its chairman, Mr. Pomeroy of the Interi:ational Typographical Union, to request President McKinley in the name of the convention to call a special meeting of Congress for the purpose of ‘‘defining the authority of Judges in the matter of injunctions,” but as the President will bardiy receive the communication in time to convene Congress in three weeks, even shoala he consider the matter favorably, the Chicago gatherinz may take action which would render tc-day’s move void or decide 10 zct in another manner. Mr. Debs and social democracy domi- nated the convention, and the famous labor leader carried the gathering off its feet this afternoon in one o1 his charac- teristic speeches. A resolution introduced by Mr. Mabon of Detroit calling upon all m:ners now at work to desert their vosts and terming them enemies of human liberty so long as they remained on duty was adopted. Mr. Mahon had another resolution prepared asking tle conveuntion to call for 100 vol- { unteers to go into the town of Pocahontas, Va., on the 15tk of September, and there hold a meeting “in defiance of the Mayor of that city, who hzd set himself up in opposition to the God-ziven and ancient right® of free speech,” but av the last moment conciuded not to present it. Tne resolution will probably come to the front av the Chicago convention. Mr. Ratchford, who was especially pleased with the convention’s instructions regarding the request for the convening of Congress, hurried away to-night to Co- | lambus, where he wilt attend a conference | of mine-workers and operators. Mr. Debs, | and in fact all the leaders, are gratified at } the result of the conference, | At100'clock this fnorning the commit- | tee on resolutions fi.ed into the hall and | the delegates were cailed to order to hear its reporz. Mr. Bergen. presenting the resolutions, spoke of the great task the commiltee | bal before it. He eaid the report about | to be submitted was the best the commit- | tee could do under the circumstances. { Whether it would suit was the question. The piatform aims principally at the obo- lition of government by injunction, ana after a long prelude reciting the griev- ances of the laboring masses and the de- plorable condition of the striking miners, presents the following resolutions: Resolved (1), That we hereby set apart Fri day, the 3d day of Seplember, 1897, as a “good Friday™ for the cause of suffering labor in America and contribute the earnings of that the miners, und appeil to every union man end every friend of labor throughout the United States to ao likewise. | Resolved (2), That if the strike of the miners is not settied by the 20th of September, 1897, and an annouucement made to that effect by the president of the United Mine-workers, a general convention will be held at Chicago on Monday, September 27, 1897, by the rep- resentatives of all unions, sections, braches, lodges and kindred organizations of laboring men and friends of tneir cause, for the pur- pose of considering further measures in the | interest of the striking miners and labor in | general. . Resolved (3), That we consider the use of the ballot as the best and safest means for the smelioration of the hardsnips uvder which the luboring classes suffer. Resolved (4), Thai the public ownership of all railroads is one of the most necessary reforms of our body politic. Resolved (5), That we most emr hatically pro- test against government by injunciion, which plays havoe with even such political liberty as workingmen heve saved from the steady encroachment of capitalism, and be it finally Resolved (6), That no nation in which the people are totally disarmed can long remain a free naiion, and therefore we urge upon all liberty-loving citizens to remember and obey articie II of the constitution of the United States, which reads as follows: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Alter much discu-sion and without action the convention took a recess until 2 o’clock. The delezates were eager for work and the afternoon session was setin motion promptly at 2 o’clock. After considerable talk Mr. Willianis, a St. Louis delegate, endeayored to have the convention held in St. Louis. It was decided that the matter should remain as introd:ced in the plat- l!orm and the labor congress will be held in Chicago on Monday, September 27. The third piank in the platform was amended by the use of the word ‘“‘proper’’ before ‘‘use of the ballot,” and the resolu- tion now reads as follows: Resolved, That we consider the proper use of the bailoc as the bist and safest means for the amelioration of the Lardships under which the laboring class suffers. Mr. Webster of St. Louis wanted to kaow if these “milk-and-water resolutions disposed bf the pertineat matter of gov- ernment by injunction.” He wanted Congaress to investigate this matter. “Why,” said Mr. Sovereign, “‘this con- vention has rejected a proposicdion looking to this very eud. Even if Congress did give us the rights we want, the courts of mf country would still have the power of injunction, and they could then throttle us. The convention shouid inform the world that if this matter is to be tested the miners should break all injunciions.” Mr. Sovereign said be was willing to go to jail in support of his idea. “It is time,” said Mr. Sovereign fer- vently, “to bring the miners and courts face to0 face in this matter and force an issue. Fill up the jail with violators of injunctions, and when the men who | | day to the support of our struggling brothers, | started this movement are incarcerated thousands of others will be found to take their places. [Cheers.] Thelaboring peo- ple can vote for years, but nothing can tgfl accomplished. Let us reorganize this Government,”” shouted Mr. Sovereign. “Let us stand up and assert ourseives. Behind these injunctions stand Gatling guns and Winciwesters, but wa fear them not. Let us hold up the ftiag and tear down the courts. We stand on our dig- nity and will have our lierty from this time on,’” shouted Mr. Sovereizn. The convention broke into wild cheer- ing, which developed into a spontaneous call for Mr. D2b:. He rose from his seat and came slowiy to the platform. When the cheering cea-ed M: Debs began 3 speech which was -interrupted at the end of nearly every sentence by cheering and handclapping. He said: I believe that the gravity of the industrial situation in this country is well nnder_:wod. Itis quite evident the delegates to this con- vention recognize the fact that civil liberty is dead in America. I have said and say again, for the last time I have appealed to the courts for justice and shall appeal to them no more. The A. R. U. expended $45.000 to have the question ot civil rights tested in the Supreme Court of the United States, only to be told that we have no rights that capital 18 bouna to re:pect. Shall we appeal l'o the Supreme Court agein? No. We appeal to this convention and the country for an uprising of all the common veople in every walk of li‘e to beatback the courts and re-enthrone the rights of the Ameris can people. Ln‘l;orxdn_v 1s near. What shall we do? I predict, my friends, that we will sce the ex- traordinary spectacle of enslaved labor rattling its chains and dauvcing to the music. Laboris the cheapest commodity on God’s earth,and yet there are those who would have it ata lower price. The united voice of labor has been raised against the appointment of Mr. Powderiy to & Federal position,and 1 notice that he was promptly put into the place. [Mingled cheers and hisses.] From Justice of the Peace to Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, all the judicial powers of the United States are directed against the la- borer. All the orzanized sources of society are agaivst the laborer, aud if labor expects eman- cipation labor itself must do it Mr. D-bs then told the convention that much destitution existed among the min- ers of the once-proua State of Indiana, and stated that 1000 underground workers and their families were starving. He read the report of the committee appointed by Governor Mount to examine into the con- dition of the miners of Indiana, and then took up the thread of his argument: The time has not quite come to incite the population, but I serve notice on the pluto cratic element of this country that we are on the eve of another great meeting in Chicago which will be attended by all branches of la- bor. That convention will take up these same quostions, and will institute agitation aund keep it going until the public conscience and the public heartis aroused. Then wiil come such an uprising as the world has never seen. I do not come to this convention to exploit | Social Democracy or sny other movement. | There is something zreater in this movement than any one élement can manage—the eman- cipation of labor. There is nodivision here. Each man is entitled to his own opinion and his right to express it—each man 10 speak as becomes that man. I am side by side with you. I am a irades unionist and a social unionist. [Tremendous applause.] Whenever | the trades unions d e to do battle with their common enemy they can count upon us to come 1o the front and take our places side by side with them and fight with them. Never in my life have I been more hopeful | than now. Iam not gifted with great vision- ary power, but 1 can see the beginning of the end. [Cheers.] This meeting is an inspiration; it will lead | to great results. This movement has attained tremendous impetus and will go ahead with arush. When the people are ready, and that | day is not far off, my friends, there wiii be a spontaneous uprising, the Supreme Court will be abolished, Congress dispersed and the sacred rights of American citiz 'ns and Amer- ican freedom will be enthroned. [Greatap- plause.] 1 plead guilty to the charge of being radical. Tonly wish you wou!d allow me to bs more radical still. Support us, geotlemen of the con- vention, and I will promise you we will sup- port the attempt to abolish government by injunction and the Judges who issue them. On bearing arms 1 hope, in this march of common intelligence, we will reach a point where we wiil be able to settle these questions withoutappealing to the sword or bullet. I cannot tell. Certain it is there are thousands of our fellow-citizens suffering, and certain it is this cannot last. The time will come 10 in- cite this populace. When this time comes you can depend on me. [Cheers] I will not stand in the rearand ask yon to go ahead. I will be in front and sav to youto ‘‘Come on.” [Re- newed cheering,] I shrink from that bloodshed [and Debs paused impressively], but if this is necessary to preserve liberty and our rights, in that event I will shed the last drop of blood that courses through my veins. [Outbreak of cheering.] Plutoeracy cannot buy me. They may send me 10 jail; may osiracize me or hang me, but in the language of the revolutionary heroes, I do not propose to part with my self-respect, | independence and manhool. We no longer have a republic; there is noi a vestige ot it left. The judiciary of this country has placed a padlock on my lips, forbidden me to walk on the public highways and destroyed all of my rights. 1 submit, but you compelied mo to it. I am heipless. I appeal 10 you and to the country to come to the front, take this cause to heart and these questions will be then solved. Iwill be free and so will you. The people are ripe for a great change. All they lIack is direction and leadership. Let his couforence supply it. Let this confer- ence set the pace. Announce to tbe world that it will temporarily adjourn for three weeks to renew preparations, Ask every man to pledge himself to be there; come if you have to walk. No one has a right to plead pOverty. Mr. Debs went over the conditions ex- isting in Pennsylvania. When he had finished with that State he took up West Virginia. West Virginia, he said, had more government to the square inch than any Stats in the Union, and that meant less liberty. The lss government the more liberty—the only perfect govern- ment was no government at all. In con- clusion Mr. Debs said: “My friends, assist yourselves to en- force your cause. Let every man who can be as zood as his word stand erect.” Nearly every delegate in the convention rose to his feet and cheered the speaker. One or two substitutes for the last two planks in the platform were introduced, but not adopted. The chair appointed Messrs. Mahon, Debs, Sovereign, Donnelly and O'Con- nell = committee to arrange for the Chicago corvention, and informed tne convention that any money intended as contributions to the siriking wminers should be sent to Secretary Pearce of the United Mine-workers at Cclumbus, Ohio. Mr. Mahon offered a resolution calling on the miners now at work in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and other fields to quit work, and dencuncing them as THE GAUSTIC SODA VAT CRIME Solving the Mystery of Mrs. Luetgert’s Death. Watchman Bialk Tells of the Sausage-Maker’s Great Nervousness. Luetgert Once Told Another Wit- ness That He Would *“Crush” His Wife. CHICAGO, Inn., Aug. 3L.—When the Luetgert murder trial was resumed this morning the defense asked the court to compel the State to set forth by what means, according to the theory of the prosecution, the life of Mrs. Luetgert was taken before ber body was placed in the vat. Judge Vincent obtained the ear of the court at the beginning of the proceed- ings, and said: “The indictment, which contains twelve counts, does not state the manner of Mrs. Luetgert’s death.” The first counts, the attorney said, al- lege that she was drowned in a vat con- taining water and caustic soda or potash. The seventh count char:es that she was struck and knocked down by some blunt instrument; the eighth alleges striking and instantly killing her; the ninth count alleges striking her with some deadly instrument or bit; the tenth charges that she was stabbed with a knife. The eleventh says she was choked and her life thus taken, and the twelith and last alleges that life was taken oy some means unknown. “The State,’” he continued, “has ouf- lined the manner in which it is belleved the remains of Mrs. Luetsert were de- stroyed. Ve are entitled to the knowl- edge the State has as to the means of her death.” Judge Tuthill promptly decided that the State was not bound to specify the means of death. Mrs, Agatha Tosch, wife of Michael Tosch, a saloon-keeper at 639 Diversy Avenue, d. She was a friend of Mrs. Luetgert, and visited the latter occasionally at her home. She is regarded one of the State’s sirongest witnesses, being one of the few who saw Spncke issuing from the factory the night Mrs. Luetgert disappeared. Mzs. Tosch said that on Sunday after- noon, May 2, Luetgert came to her house and boucht a glass of beer. He was pale and excited, and she asked him what was the matter with bim, a question which he did not answer. On May 15 she saw him again and asked him about the disapvear- ance of his wife. He said he did notknow where his wife was and was asinnocent as the sun in tbe sky. She told him she be- lieved he was guilty, and Luetgert raplied that he felt like killing himself. He would do so, he said, but for the children. Mrs. Tosch, in _her testimony, siowed a deadly hostile spirit toward Luetgert. S e said Mrs. Luetgeit once had an attack of threat trouble and Luetgert told the wit- ness in a conversation that if he had de- layed a minute loncer in caliing for a doctor the ‘*‘rotten beast’’ (meaning his wife) would have been dead. In her pre- vious testimony Mrs. Tosch did not use these words. She said that in her conversation with him, May 15, she asked him what caused the smoke from the factory furnace on the morning of May 2, and he asked her not to say anything about the smoke. In her former testimony she said Luetgert once told her he sometimes became so anery at his wife that he could take hold of her and, indicating by a gesture, crush her. This morning she swore he said he could crush her, using the word crush in the German and not merely indicating it by a gesture. The witness said Luetgert told her he had a great deal of trouble with his wife and had ceased to live with her. She objected to the presence of Mary Simmer- ing, the servant, in the house, but Luet- gert told the witness that if his wife turned Mary away he would take her into the factory with him. Probabiy the most important witness of the three on the stand to-day was Frank Biaik, night watchman ut the Luetgert sausage factory. Bialk, who is a German, 64 years old, was a trusted empioye of the defendant, for whom he worked seversal years. His testimony, which he gavein German, bore directly on the movements of the defendant during the night of May 1. He also related how two barrels, which it is alleged contained caustic potash, were stored on one of the upper floors of the factory and were, shortly before May 1, taken to the basement, where the barrels were emptied into the vat and dissolved by steam. There was steamx under one of the two boiiers in the furnace room when he arrived at the factory at 6 p. M., Mav 1. Luetgert turned the steam into the vat in the basement and instructed him to keep up steam during the night, as he would need it in the basement. At a quarter past 9 Luetgert sent him to a drugstore to purchase & patent nerve medicine. He was gone over half an hour. Alter 10 o'clock he was again sent to the same drugstore, but the second trip consumed more time. He returnea with a bottle of mineral water, which Luetgert had ai- rected him to purchase. He did not see Luetgert again that night. The sausage maker was in the basement where the vat was and the door between him ana the boiler room, where the witness was, re- mained locked. About 2 o’clock in the morning the steam to the vat was turned off. Bialk left the factory at 7 o’clock Sun- day morning, and before leaving went to the ofiice, where he saw Luetgert sitting with’ his feet on a table. The next evening, when he returned to work, b found the vat running over. A hose was pouring cold water into it. Beside the vzt, on the floor, was a slimy substance. Near the vat was a chair from the office. The wit- ness said three !arge doors which had been removed from the smokehouse were beside the vat, as though they had been used to cover the vat while its contents were boil- ing. He said that on Sunday evening at 9 o'clock he saw Luetgert in his office and asked him if be wanted the steam turned on to the vat that night. Luetgert, he said, turned palie and sank down. NEW TO-DAY. The only ganuing Hunyadi Water. Hunyadi Jinos enemies to human liberty so long as they continued their present course. ° Notwithstanding the convention early in the morning had declined to act on President Ratenford’s resolution request- ing President McKinley to convene Con- gress for the purpose of defining the autnority of Judves in the matter of in- junctions, a resolution to that effect, but authorizing the chairman of the conven- tion to ask Mr. McKinley to act in that direction, introduced by M. D. Ryan, the lllinois organizer, went through with a whoop, and shortly before 7 o’clock tne ‘convemion adjourned sine die. 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