The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 4, 1901, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1901. SCHMITZ 1S FOUND GUILTY ON CHARGES OF D EALING WITH NON-UNION o ~ AND 13 DENDUNGED BY THE BUILDING TRADES COMMITTEE A TRAITOR TO LABOR REARDON SAYS | SCHMITZ HAS | PLAYED FALSE Union Man Faces I.aborl Candidate’s Partisans| and Repeats Charges| Controversy Comes Near to Ending in Tragedy on the Public Streets HE meeting of the executive board of the Building Trades Council at 7 City Hall Square, held for| the purpose of investigating the charges against Eugene E. Schmitz, candidate for Mayor on the Union Labor ticket, came very near resulting in & tragedy yesterday aft- ernoon. The lie Was passed, personalities were indulged in by a group of Schmitz sympa- thizers who had evidently gathered to in- timidate the witnesses who were to appear before the board, and a pistol was drawn. But for the prompt interference of by- anders, the sequel to the filing of the Schmitz might have been der. e trouble was precipitated by Joseph more, chairman of the late labor con- jon, Thomas McConnell, a shipwright and a teamster named Eckles. These men, surrounded by number of followers, all s of Schmitz and other labor can- were grouped in front of the Car- pet Mechanics’ headquarters on City Hall Square when T. A. Reardon and BEd Two- mey, the machinists who filed the charges agal approached. They were give t before the board and this fact was made the pretext by the Schmitz men named to cail them to the course they did. of ‘scaps,’ aid Mill- and ‘I'womey, as he citedly. “1 can prove that,” adaed McConnell an- at he was not there arges. If the per- sarisfied with mm fact to the Council. became general. The appearea 1o be greatly exer- they termed the rascality who fited the charges | 1d they upbraided them | guage for making charges rted, was impossibie Tor antiate. Reardon indig- he had made false men shouted Rear- hip pocket. *I cab’ work during the ment that he was work by the McCabe and { s as far as the d their statement ges that permission o scab work is un- would prov be liars. My g00d 2 Se abe and Wissler to | reputation for truth is as | and 1 stand on my charge cab’ and uniit to be pulied the wool can’t do it in my ha: but e may r your eyes, Millmore made some angry retort, whereupon Reardon sprang back with the k t if any one ot behind him he d shoot. Quick as a fiash he drew a | lver and held it before him on a line | Millmore’s heart limore remained | t but said nothing to angry Reardon, of " the Building d between the par- and Reardon was weapon. He an- to shoot the first d to molest him during the which were pending. 11 Swear Out Warrants. Twomey announced also that he would not permit any one to molest him, where- upon Eckles made e insulting remark which Twomey resented with a blow on Eckles' neck. Bystanders separated the belliger: and McCarthy and some friends hustled Reardon and Twomey into a side room of the headquarters, while the Schmitz men on the outside consulted as to the course to pursue. After a few mo- Imore and Eckles announced tion of swearing out a warrant rest of Reardon and Twomey, st for displaving a revolver in a threatening fashion, and the other for his assault upon Eckles. The party adjourned e City Hall police station and formal their complaints. but the wa & not issued. Th chmitz adher- arted down town in search of night issue the de- for the arrest of Reardon n immense crowd gathered in the square in anticipation of further trouble. On the adjournment of the ex- seutive board the crowd slowly dispersed. @ il @ GRADUATES ORGANIZE AN ALUMNUS ASSOCIATION The voung lady graduates of St. Vin- cent's School held a meeting yesterds afternoon in the lors of the school et and formed an alumnt The meeting was well a tended the new society was launched under the most favorable circumstance The call for the meet Sister Eugenia, one of the gr followirg officers were ele Mre. M. J. Kennedy Fannie Muiligan President, Genevieve Sul- | graduates w : o were present and signed the mem? roll are as fol- M_J. Kennedy, Mre. J. Co Code, Mrs Mrs. F. Mulligan, Mrs Mrs, Walsh, igan, Miss M. Coyl ss Kate V. Rattigan, M: Miss M. Rattigan, Miss M. Miss W. Gaffeney, Miss M. McDermott, Agple Hall, Miss S. Doherty, Ran’ Mrs. O'Gara, Mies M. Loney, Miss Miss Margaret Lyons, Miss Vir- Miss Genevieve Sullivan, Miss a Sullivan. Mrs, Barry, Miss M. G. Fa Miss N. M. Holleran. Miss Laura Den. necker. Miss Grace Dixon, Miss M. Pattenaude, Rosie Hussey. {. Cullahan, Miss ret Philbon Flood, Miss AL | Miss M. Fitzgerald | v Speaks on Equality. A. H. Sanborn @elivered a lecture last | night in the Academy of Sciences audito- | | | rium under the auspices. of Harmony branch of the Soclalist Democratic par- | ty. He spoke on equal be thought ratiroad: car lines and oth owned by the people —_—— Dr. C. C. O'Donnell is still in the fight | &nd surely win this time, as the ! unions are now in his favor. Be sure to| yote for bim for Mayor by writing his nhame with a lead pencil at the head of the blank column, ¥ . . and told why works, strec* | should be | -~ following preamble and findings: PREAMBLE." : The Building Trades Council has at all times endeavored to promote the best interests of the city, State and nation. In judging the fitness for office the Council considers the trustworthiness, competency and attitude FINDINGS. necessaries of life as a result of the double dealing of William MeCabe, R. I. Wisler and Eugene E. Schmitz. x PO | [} didacy at the cost of every 'aboring man in the iron trades. which have resulted in the prolongation of the strike and serious damage to the iron trades cause. 0. A. TVEITMPE. Secretary. Y | b JOSEPH . TOBIN TELLS - VOTERS Continued From Page One. fore us lie two roads. One leads back to the old condition of business stagna- tion, realty depression, corrupt City Hall rings, wasteful public expenditures and oppressive public burdens. The other is the broad highway to the high and commanding destiny, which opens its glorious vistas before this city, so favored as it is by its surpassing nat- ural advantages. I love my native city and it would be a sufficient reward for all my labors in her behalf, however humble or however weak, if I could feel that they contributed in any degree to the welfare of her citizens or her permanent | improvements. 1 would enter upon the office, not as a partisan, but as a servant of the whole people, determined to do my duty to the whole people, a8 God glves me light to see it. JOSEPH S. TOBIN. O s ke TOBIN’S INCOME NOT PAID BY DEPOSITORS | Savings Bank Attorney Gets Fees As- | sessed Upon Borrowers. The question® of Joseph §. Tobin's sal- | ary as attorney for the Hibernia Bank has been injected into the campalgn by assertions of a physician and others that the deroxiters of the Hibernia Bank were being robbed that Tobin might be paid $150,000 a year for his services. | At & Tobin meeting at McGrath's Hall, | 530 Third street, Saturday night, Colonel T. F. Barry, who was the first speaker, said that he was there to answer any | questions that might be put to him. A | man in the audlence arose and sald: | “I want to ask you how much salary | Mr. Tobin receives as attorney for the| Hibernia Bank?” Colonel Barry started to reply when | Tobin jumped to his feet, pushed Barry to_one side and facing the audience said. “I will answer that man. My salary is per month than my opponent on the fon Labor ticket got for the job he did for the Risdon Iron Works last June.” The candidate’s apt answer elicited a | ¢torm of applause from the workingmen | who composed his audience. | sult of a bitter fight between different | one man_was wounded, To say that depositors of the Hibernia Bank lose to the degree that Mr. Tobin ; profits through his position as attorneyy for the bank, or to any degree for that | ROCKETS WILL TELL RESULTS OF ELECTION ATCH for signals from the dome of The Call building telling the result of the municipal election. As soon as the returns show to a cer- tainty the choice of the people for Mayor rockets will be sent | up, telling by their color who 4 Wells be choszn green rockets will tell the story. Remember the signals: TOBIN ......00. 000 WEUTE WELLS .. .GREEN Bulletins giving election news from all over the country as well as locally will be thrown upon a screen in front of The Call building by a stereopticon. [} { has been chosen. If Tobin is l elected white rockets will be set off. If Schmitz be the win- ner the signals will be red. If S —— matter, is to confess-ignorance of savings ‘bank methods. The bank attorney’s re- muneration is by fixed fees assessed upon borrowers for examination of securities, and not by salary deducted from the bank’s earnings. The sum total of these fees, the amount of the attorney’s yearly income, does not affect the interest paid depositors. It is the borrowers who, through fees, pay the attorney his income. —_— Mahony Solid in Richmond. The final meeting of the Albert B. Ma- hony Club of the Richmond district was held Saturday evening. John T. Williams presided. Reports were received from the different precincts in the district, showing that his election seems a certainty from the assurances received. A committee consisting of ten members from each pre- cinct was appointed to work on election day and also to watch the count. Speeches were made by several members present, and the meeting adjourned amid great en- thusiasm and three cheers for Albert B, Mahony for County Clerk. ~The total membership of the club is 267 voters. CHINESE IN BATTLE ON VANCOUVER ISLAND Tongs Begin a War and the Authori- ties Are Fearful of Wholesale Assassination. VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 3—Half a dozen Chinese residents of Cumberland, Vancouver Island, are in jail as the re- tongs of Chinese. The Celestials first be- gan to fight over the arrest of the chief of one of the factions and now the trou- ble has become so fierce that the .eadin, Chinese on both sides have been arrested. The first fight on Friday night was a riot in which a hundred Chinese took part. Several shots were exchanged and though not se- riously. There is talk of the assassina- tion of the leaders and the authorities are keeping a careful watch to prevent more trouble. — their lives flashed upon the rails. . vicinity. ) B S A SR o NS RAILROAD MANAGERS DISCOURAGED Continued From Page One. 2 yesterday afternoon. The park meeting was advertised as a great rally under the auspices of the Young Men’s Republican Clup, but no audience assembled to hear the orators. An adjournment could not be taken, as there was no one to make a motion tb adjourn. The orators simply corked up their oratory and stole away. The Wells campaign simply fizzled out yesterday. He cannot be withdrawn from the ticket at this late day, but the word can be given out that a vote for Wells 1s a_half-vote for Schmitz. Wells' headquarters in the Grand Hotel were deserted yesterday. There was no Sunday closing proposition, as the doors was deserted yesterday. There was no about. The atmosphere of the rooms was | somewhat purified by fresh air. The place certainly needed ventilation. Burns’ Methods in Vogue. The old dodge of sending money to lodging-house keepers, tenderloin joints and water front saloons has again been resorted to. This is Colonel Burns’ favor- ite method of electioneering. He tried it on in the Estee campaign, but learnei nothing from the disaster which overtook him in San Francisco. The Republicans carried the State outside the city for Es- tee by 12,000 majority, but owing to Burns’ blundering proposition to buy blocks of votes and to Boss Kelly’s knife Estee was defeated. Dibble is the best politician in the whole hunch behind Wells. Sam Rainey is a back number. He stands out in front of the St. George stable lecturing on the duty of voters to be guided by lofty sentiments of civic patriotism and to vote for Wells. Business men can take their choice in this cnmgalgn They can follow the advice of E. B. Pond, Thomas Magee and George K. Fitch and vote for Tobin, or they can accept the advice of Sam Rainey, Dan Burns and Dibble and vote for Wells. A few days ago a report was circulatel that the Veteran Firemen's Association was opposed to Tobin. The president of Special Dispatch to The Call. ARSON, Nev., Nov. 3A—Frar}k Krause, a locomotive engineer, and John Shea, a section boss, had thirty minutes of terrible suspense in anticipation of a horrible fate at Beowawe, Nev., on the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, last Friday evening. Both were tied across a railroad track by a mob of infuriated Greeks and were doomed to be crushed by a train which was soon to pass. The earnest pleadings of their {riends accomplished their release a few minutés before the headlight of the engine that would have ended This atrocious attempt at murder grew out of a saloon brawl in which Krause and Shea were concerned. Both men engaged in an argument, during which Krause drew his revolver and fired at Shea. The bullet missed its mark and struck a Greek laborer in the shoulder, passing through his body. Greeks and about sixty of them, employed as section men, seized the participants and hurried them down the railroad track to a point about half a mile from the town. not take the situation seriously, as they little guessed the intentions of the captors. When the men were tied to the rails those who followed attempted to release them, but were beaten back by the Greeks, wh_o declared that both captives should be cut to pieces by the first train that passed. Several times the friends of the men made an effort to rescue them, but their endeavors were futile. hoped the Greeks only intended to frighten the men and no messenger was sent back to the town for assistance, When the pure cold-bloodedness of the preparations was better realized by the friends of the men, the train that was to complete the fiendish work was due in a few minutes. tried to escape from the crowd for the purpose of flagging the train, but were prevented from doing so. while the intended victims were piteously pieading for their lives. At a most fortunate moment the station agent came to th‘c “scene, and at his earnest. request, which was subsequently supplemented by threats, the men were given their liberty. They Bad scarcely risen from the track when the train thundered by. After Krause and Shea reached Beowawe they lost no time in packing their belongings and leaving the 1 FORMAL FINDINGS AGAINST CANDIDATE SCHMITZ ARE REPORTED BY THE UNIONIST COMMITTEE HE executive board of the Building Trades Council, having been directed by the council to investigate the charges made against Eugene E. Schmitz, Un- ion Labor party candidate for the office of Mayor, after a thorough and careful consideration of the entire subject matter, presents without fear or favor the L) The Building Trades Council is a central body which represents in its entirety all labor engaged in the builling industry. No ever nature behind any political candidate will induce the Council to support an unworthy person, be he a union man or not. affiliation or partisanship, opposing only those who by reason of their acts are unworthy of labor’s support. No. 1. We find upon oral and documentary evidence that Eugene E. Schmitz has singe June 3 (date of molders’ walk-out) purchased the product of non- union molders at Liberty Iron Works, Enterprise Foundry and Beale-street Foundry.' : No. 2. That he has continued to do so until Wednesday, October 30, 1901, at which time a cylinder for the Economist Gas Engine Company - was dis- covered at the Beale-street Foundry (non-union), and upon the facts becoming known by the president of the Iron Trades Council was immediately removed. No. 3. That Eugene E. Schmitz between June 18 and August 20, 1901, built for the Risdon Iron Works two ammonia compressors with engines at- tached; that said Risdon Iron Works was then and is now non-union. No. 4. That Eugene E. Schmitz upon being challenged to refute these charges has failed to do so, but on the contrary, to excuse his treachery, has brought forth Messrs. McCabe and Wisler, who, according to their statement in the Examiner of to-day, admit Schmitz’s guilt in the premises. No. 5. That McCabe and Wisler by this statement admit their treachery to all union men now on strike, and reveal a plot to boom er. Schmitz’s can- No. 6. That to excuse Mr. Schmitz’s conduct Messrs. McCabe and Wisler admit having consented to and sanctioned dealings with non-union concerns, No. 7. That McCabe and Wisler before this, the executive board of the Building Trades Council, refused to honestly answer questions- seeking thorough information on the charges made, and whatever answers they made were weak and evasive. Both gentlemen resorted to subterfuge in Q,r to shield Schmitz. In view. of the foregoing we are convinced that Eugene E. Schmitz has violated every principle of unionism; that prior to and during his candidacy he has done immeasurable harm to the cause of the iron trades; that Messrs. McCabe and Wisler, to further Schmitz’s candidacy, have dishonestly assumed his guilt, hoping to prevent an upheaval against Schmitz; that it is a regre}table fact that the loyal trades unionists in the iron trades are to-day. suffering for the HARRY COSTEN, Chairman Pro Tem. ¥ A few friends of the prisoners followed, but did Several of the party that had followed the Greeks the association, Mr. Bonner, states that the report is utierly false. He wishes th announcement to be made that the asso- clation is in no way connected with poli- tics. Sam_Rainey, Greaney and Maxwell, of the old fire department push, are inflating themselves with the notion that they can swing the department to Wells in the contest for Mayor. The Rainey talk about a reorganization of the department ; is hot air. In fact Rainey is regarded by the firemen as a played out back number, | who was greatly overrated when he was at his best in politics. A well known mem- ber of the department remarked last night that there was no truth in the re- port that the firemen were supporting Wells. He sald: ‘‘We are satisfled with the present condition of affairs and are not alarmed about the future. The de- partment is well governed and effective. ‘We ought not to interfere in politics and there will be no interference. No one in the department is influenced by Rainey. He 1s regarded as a back number.” 3 ——————— BRIGANDS CARRY OFF MACEDONIAN WOMAYN Wife of the Chief of Police of Seres Joins Miss Ellen M. Stone in Captivity. LONDON, Nov. 4.—“It is rumored from Salonika,” says the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Express, “that brigands have carried off the mother of the Chief of Police of Seres (in Macedonia), about fifty miles northeast of Salonika, to the same spot where Miss Stone is detained.” CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 3.—Nothing is publicly known here beyond what has already been cabled regarding the where- abouts and fate of Miss Ellen M. Stone, the abducted American missionary, or the progress of the negotiations for her ran- som. In the absence of news there is much disquletude. The hlghfit pyramid is that at Cheops, 486% feet. 1t is computed that the weight of the masonry in this pyramid would ex- ceed 6,316,000 tons. It covers thirteen acres of ground. ( AEIES o T KR e R R R St S W e s B P ENRAGED GREEKS TIE. MEN TO THE RAILS IN EFFORT TO COMMIT FRIGHTFUL CRIME Engineer and a Section Boss at a Nevada Town Narrowly Escape Being Murdered Under the Wheels of a Train at Night, This accident enraged the At first it was Mean- toward labor of political candidates, regardless of power or influence of whatso- & & November 3, 1931 SCHMITZ OFFICIALLY DECLARED Continued From Page One. ch#mpion, and while they claimed mission was given Schmitz by tae Trades Council to perform work for nor union shops they declined to produc. the official record in proof of their ass:rtions. The flimsy and transparent defense made per- Iron the Iron Trades Council was absolute Proof of Schmitz's guilt, and when a vote on the findings was taken it was prac- tically unanimous. 2 The findings were in substance that the charges as made by Messrs. Reardon, Lane and Twomey were amply proved. Official cognizance was taken of the docu- ments published in_ fac simile by Call showing that Schmitz had applied for and was awarded the contract for building the ammonia tank on the steam- er Alameda. This matter was made the subject of one of the findings of guilt. Wordy War Follows. After the meeting a number of Schmitz's friends who were awaiting the results of the board’s delfberations called Reardon to account for bringing the charges against Schmitz. They declared that he, and not Schmitz, was a traitor to the cause of unionism, and they accused him of working {n the interests of political candidates who_are opposed to the Union Labor ticket. Reardon defended himself vigorously, and a wordy war followed. which threatened to end at one time in blows. Considerable bitterness was mani- fested on all sides at the verdict returned by the board. In anticipation of trouble, an officer had been sent for, and his pres- ence in the vicinity prevented hostilities. The effect of the finding of Schmitz's guilt will be to cause many of the union men_belonging to unions affiliated with the Building Trades Council to switch to some other candidate for Mayor to-mor- row. That Schmitz's practices during the strike will cost him many votes seems to be a certainty. Union men argued last night that if Schmitz betrayed the cause of unionism he might also betray them after election, and in order to avert such a contingency many union men who were stanch for him yesterday will cppose him earnestly to-day. —_— The greatest bell is that long famous as the giant of the Kremlin, in Moscow. Its weight is 443,720 pounds. % e ] ROCKETS WILL TELL RESULTS | OF ELECTION | b SR 7 ATCH for signals from the don.. of “’ The Call building | telling the result of | the municipal clection. As soon as the returns show to a cer- tainty the choics of the people for Mayor rockets will be sent up, telling by their color who has been chosen. If Tobin is elected white rockets will be set off. If Schmitz be the win- 'ner the signals will be red. If Wells be chos>n green rockets will the story. Remerwer the Signals: Bulletins giving election news from all over the country as well as locally will be thrown upon a screen in front of The Call building by a stereopticon. in Schmitz's behalf by these officials of | WELLS’ RALLY OF SPEAKERS AND WAITERS Political Barbecue at Glen Park Proves to Be a Veritable Frost ——— Orators Work Off Their Speeches on Crowd at . a Bullshead Breakfast —— HE Republicans held their last rally of' the campaign yesterday afternoon at Glen Park. It was a free barbecue. It was under the ausplees of the Young Men's Re- publican Club. It was attended by a select gathering of orators and the walters hired to dish out the gratuit- ous refreshments. Glen Park has seen few quieter days during the summer months. The orators, led by Attorney Thomas F. Riordan, made an early start in search of the demonstration. For several hours the residents of Sunnyside were pestered with inquiries as to the whereabouts of the Re- publican rally. The park was thoroughly searched and the inhabitants of that dis- trict closely questioned, but not a trace of the demonstration could be found uniit a policeman informed the searchers that he had seen Jome kind of a free lunch counter waiting for business in a certain part of the park. The Herrinites finally located the Re- publican rally. tThe search had made them nungry. “Well, we can eat, anyhow,” remarked one famished office-seeker. “What's the use,” said Chairman Rior- dan, “of playing Robinson Crusce? It's too lonesome, boys. Let's get up here to Sunnyside. The Old Friends’ Soclety is having a bullsnead breakfast there. We'll get something to eat, and you fellows with speeches will have somebody to work them off on.”™ And Sunnyside went. Fred Raabe made arrangements to relieve the orators of their speeches, while J. E. Slinkey sliced some bull's tongue for the Republicar search party. ‘They all bad breakfast. The orators got rid of their speeches. The representatives of the Republican ticket had their rally around the hospita- ble board of the Old Friends instead of amid the solemn silence of their scheduled rallying ground. Riordan disappeared mysteriously. One by one the orators found the friendiy stanchion of a home-going car. They had had their rally and the campaign was over. And one of the Old Friends was heard [ to ask Police Sergeant Blank: “Who was them worried locking fel- lows?” @ ieiriminiinii i @ WOULD OPEN ISLANDS TO ASIATIC COOLIES Acting Governor of Hawaii Appeals for the Admission of Chinese Labor. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Authority for the conversion of all Hawalian silver coins into corresponding coins of the United States, and for the immigration of a limited number of Chinese laborers, con- ditioned upon their engaging in agricultu- ral pursuits only during their residence in the Territory and their return to their own country upon ceasing to be farmers, | are the recommendations of H. E. Cooper, acting Governor of Hawaii, in his annual report. Other recommendations are for the maintenance of an expert forester on the islands to investigate and report on forest conditions and forestry conservation and extension; the detail of a special agent the adoption of restrictive measures to prevent wanton destruction of the food fishes of the Territory; the granting of li- censes to divert water from lands where it is of no avail to arid sections that own: ers are adapting to agricultural pursuits; the erection of a Federal building in Hon~ olulu for the accommodation of the Fed- eral Court, Postoffice, Custom-house and Federal officials; the retention from the customs receipts of a sufficient sum to pay judgments of the Commission of Fire Claims; the gathering of statistics to show the shipments between the mainland and the islands, and the appointment of a Deputy Secretary to act during the dis- ability of the Secretary of the Treasury for Territorial purposes only. The report shows that, though there has been an increase on the part of the Hawaiians, the total of those of Hawatian descent shows a decrease, the most rapid in the commercial centers. The prosperity of the islands, according to the aecti Governor, depends upon the successful a'l:! economical production of sugar. “The employment of Chinese and Japa~ nese by the planters,” he says, “never has interfered and never will interfere with either American skilled or unskilled labor, but if an ample supply of desirable labor can be obtained it means millions of | dollars spent for machinery, bulldings, | tools, steel and iron and other supplies o American make."” STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST A SUSPECTED POISONER | Massachusetts Police Expect to Prove Several Crimes Against Miss Jane Toppan. BOSTON, Nov. 3.—“When we have told | all we know to support the charge we have made against Jane Toppan. the Rob- inson poisoning ecase, the most ‘famous hat has ever been heard in a Massachu- etts court, will sink into insignificance.” | This statement, the Herald will say to- morrow, was made yesterday by John ‘Whitney of ths State police, who reached his home in Medtord Saturday from New Hampshire. The Herald will say further: ““Miss 'Toppan probably would not have been arrested at cnce had not Distriet At torney Hoimes and Officer Whitney feared she migat commit suicide. Officer Whitney remembered that a short time before Miss Toppan had made two at- | temp.s to end her life. A long time be fore she was arrested the police had been trying to confirm a suspicion they hal that a patient she had nursed in Loweil | had died from poison. In January. 1999, Dr. Herbert B. Mcintyre of Cambridgs was satisfled that a patient of his, Mr3 My:a S. Co tnors, who was nurs>d by M ss ‘Toppan, died under suspicious circum- | stances.” I Tragedy Follows a Quarrel. | Tacoma, Wash.. Nov. 3—an Elens- | burg special to the Lecger says: Jack Heffrom, familiarly known as ‘‘Pascoe Jack,” a railway switchman from Pasco, was shot and almost instantly killed here last night by Ed Smith, a locomotive fire- man. Both men were under the influence of liquor and became involved in an al- | tercation. i Negro Fires Into a Crowd. | ROANOKE, Va., Nov. 3.—At Ferrum, | Va., William Hale, a negro, taking excep- ! tions to remarks made by a white man at a political meeting fired twice into the crowd, killing a white man named Robin- ette, a negro named John Thomas and fatally wounding two_other whites. Hale | escaped and is being hotly pursued. of the Fish Commission at Honolulu and"’ HOP r<