The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1909, Page 1

NO. AWORK OF MURDERER? SlENT!-E THOUSIND MEN Railway Trainmen De- mand Big Increase— Telegraphers for Walk- Out—More Shirt-Waist| Makers Quit. of Body in Lake Points to Brutal Committed Late y Night. | (By Valted Press) } | PITTSHURG, Pa., Dee. 20.~The| Brotherhood of Raflway Trainmen today served notice on 75 railroads | east of the Missiasippl of a demand for & Wage increase of from 5 to 40 per A ett Would call out 75,000 men-on tif roads mentioned. The taflroads are ready to grant an & crease, but will balk at as large | 4 one as demanded in some cases a ms | . DOROTHY WOODHEAD » Bulcide or accident? | ‘Was the fate of Mrs Woodhead, who came to at 12:20 Sunday morn the wheels of a street ® the Lake Union trestle? 1,000 Telegraphers, Too. CINCINNATI, ©0.. Dee Ninety-eight per cent of the telex raphers of the Big Four railroad | voted to strike lant night. One thou-| }sand men are involved. The walk Billed and her body | out is now up to the committee of the trestle? Did she lie/ seven and the national hody rails with sulcidal tn abe fall in @ drunken | lie unconscious until ear ground off her and hurled her body More Women &trike. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 20 A general revolt against the condi: | tions prevailing in local shirt waist factories was inaugurated today beories are held, the | when several thousand workers left | y pinning their faith their machines, Leaders of the} nt theory. Poctor#/ Philadelphia unions predict the the body say the/ strike may rival the one now tn dead when she was! progress in New York, in which! the car | nearly 50,000 wage earners are in Known Facts. | votvea ihown tacts in this mystery | Mra. Belmont in Control. NEW YORK. Dec. 26.—Mre.| Oliver H. P. Belmont and Miss Anna Morgan, daughter of J. Pler pont Morgan, today assumed active| control of the strike of the shirt It wax announced that they are preparing to hire lawyers to defend any of the strikers’ pickets who dent that some one had} may be arrested, and to make a the police and coroner | test case upon the first opportunity d If this is done, {t will be the first ely an investigation of instance on record that the right of all the cars passing of the police to arrest strike pickets trestie was begun and it has been tested TANCE GRAFT MONEY PAID at the Lake Union minutes later, the time k the woman was get [3: 20. Police matters are slated to occu: | | py the grand fury for the next sev-| ral days, When the inquisitorial body met this noon, the jurors w °| \ o'clock Sunday morning the ot a Green Lake car called A. L. Kempster and told him @ found a woman's hat and on the trestle. Shortly after: other car reported finding 8 watch. The conductor orman saw blood stains. no body in sight, but as Nothing of Tragedy. was in charge of Motor. B. Decker and Conductor ; The motorman knew | any accident, but after of the opinion that the Seattle polic department should more thor vaghly investigated p to the present time the bribe giving, according to the testimony oned sald that as he trestle on the trip he| lonly benefited the patrolmen and sergeants. Aside from inferences stool, which took his le the Jury has not yet been able to w sagen track for a pertod of jer than ten seconds. feeling a slight bump nothing of it at SMe Wes positive that no been standing on by bim fight examination of Piigwed the woman had the east rail with her leg over the rail. The in vieinity time t body of Woodhead as [Ret any definite evidence connecting | the surface | any of the higher ups. | The fact that the vicious practices uree a Mystery | were allowed to exist openly and| for the woman's pres-| notoriously as 16ng as hush money trestle at this time of | was paid to the patrolmen and ser. fF Became problem for| geants has satisfied the jury that bl ng back her)the higher officials in the depart-|, Prior to her death, the ment knew of the bribe giving ed that she left her| During this week it is believed evi 4 Terry N Saturday | de nce will be secured that will show ewith Jobs McGuire, the patrolmen and sergeants Their destination was suder orders When and Virgin t., wherelthey allowed things t wide ead expected to negotl-| open and took mone so doing Mimale of the hoarding house. i he spent tod in. going She and McGuire were | over the evidence already in its por joined by Jobn | session connecting the police wit had several | the underworld. No witnesses were the evening,|heard, as the jury wishes to sift the testimony already in its posse sion before going farther were acting a ran ih jury The beer during | id on Page Ten.) |CHRISTMAS MESSAGE | FROM LLOYD-GEORGE (iy Colted rows.) } LONDON, Dec, 20.—Chancellor | David Lioyd-George, author of the | | British budget, toda the | following message to United | : | Staten The ore Shopping | | Days Befores @ Christmas|) on —————— AVE the budget at is gaining | larity enormous | outlook victory in the January lelections is more sanguine dally a | There now ja no possibility that the \budget will be defeated Lioyd-George and bie fellow sup | porters of the budget are more than loptimistie concerning the apporach ing election OHIO CAR WORKS BURNS, 4 Upjteda DI | NEWARK, Ghip, Bec i popu The an for 20.—Fire be give. | Christmas ery, open and shut their will day HOME: ITION— ED ?) CU AKE ‘ t = : WSS OSS ~ Se, SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1909 SOMETHING ROTTEN IN DENMARK! COPENHAGEN, Dee. 20. return neither of a member of the That favorable faculty of the the nor & report dyer of the committee. emb: approaching acceptable proof in hia reports, and are the lyn that ‘ To itth Here is an Instance where it will more ike her dolly to do. But Mamma, Just at Christmas time ittle beds ev Santa jand their sister go to bed to cry today caysed $150,000 damager at |}, the Jewett car works hero, Two hundred men were throt/y out of work a6 the ro#uit of the partial destruction of the plant The savant of the Danish tniversity who are serving on the committer coupled with ensting about for a way arransed by their former champlonsbip of Dr. Cook, controversy. Rumors have leaked from the committee explorer Is so incomplete that Cook's presence before he will not be asked to appear he HERE'S A CHRISTMAS PRESENT - WORTH THE GIVING AND HAVING JOHN, ELLEN AND FRED, BY MARION LOWE, for thelr “gran'ma three and left them alone John and Ellen and Fred had to told the other day that thelr than |#andmother, the only friend they fine | had, and with whom tifey had made and k dead just wants who has died be given away children bright to they They blessed Wouldn't dolls? receive make laugh eyes hom mother ir Thetr #o litt an'ma when they 1 hardly remember and their father has been gone «0. long that he t mean any thing to them. Jobn is 11, Ellen 9 They each other with starved love of little orphan Healthy, the wee girl always her and any glad thelr they can't for they say “Papa haven't when folks are tucked into ery night with stories these little Fred & all the Their well Claus two boys | affection js unusual Wants an mann, 4091 Bastern | ® Mother Is Sick Wants Pair of Shoes My dear Mir; 1 Star That there batchelors In Beattie kind and send out a & spend her am afraid | a happy medicine not be wii much estigating the polar Mata of Dr of the explorer, was the University of Copenhagen, who is eagnizant of the deliberations room that the date aubmitted by commit were, ~~ Frederick Cook ediction to are waid to be deeply their inabiiity to find anything to retire gracefully from the Brook would ald work, and not ite just as | knows. Homeleas, mc ago abandoned by are now im charge ton Children's nice children herte their fathe of the Washing Home society with offices at New York block, tele phone M1709 and Ind. L A home muat be found for th Httle folke-—a love-home where they may grow up together, nurtured by ten der ca | Just at this time, sary of the birth the Christ child, whose coming brought child love to the world as it had never beeh known before, at this time of giving, Wouldn't it be a beautiful thing for a childiess husband and wife to give these children a home? AL GL SECURES ~~ SAMBLER'S RELEASE The criminal Against Tobe Me jbler accnsed of operating |gambling resort on King st dropped in the criminal court morning when Hi Gill, attorne, sinounced that jan @greement he Prosecutibg Attor Vanderveer, the ch be proseeuted Moore's partners, Oscar and Will Collins, Were acquitted in the Herlor @ourt of the same charge {wbout & month ago. It was feared |by tha prosecuting attorney that the county would be put to a great expense, With no chance a con vietton 1398 the anniver information a negro filed m ne was this for joore because of had with George - F. not to RRR RRR Kk * BANK CLEARINGS * * Seattle * Clewrings today Halances Tacoma gs today $2 2446 00 * Sid ® . 066.986.00 % 138,891.00 % ~ 100 oe * Portiand. Chebert Balance eeaeteeteeeee trained and fine looking, they are | ORR A RAK ARKHAM PURER EEE MEE Wants a Waser: ANTA CLAL BOAT. KO ie LA A mK rie pwr AND WHAUX ART WASHINGTON Little ¢ Dear Mister Santa —SEE THE STAR TOMORROW FOR THE FULL PARTICULARS THE SEATT STA ONE CENT THIEF BLINDS WO WITH CAYENNE PEPPER THESE MEN ROBBED OF JOBS se BY HOUNDING LOAN SHARKS Workmen Tell The Star"? ‘2 payments, The manager of the Joan company came around of Being Caught in the and told us that 1 owed him §42.60 Meshes of Shylock Net. |" "we refused We refused to pay and went to our boss, who, wh me” jlearned of the deal, discharged us. ‘We then went to work at the F we are now employed of the joan company re were working That was several | - Inflicts Terrible Injury on Mrs. Fuhrman, Steals Her Purse and Shoots at Postman in Effort to Escape. Mrs well erty ribi and her eye ably permanently result of a crue at b ats Daniel known Fubrman, tatlor and la in Seatt wife of @ prop- suffered ter. were prob- injured as the tempt at robbery 1219 Washington at. 0 o'clock this morning R. D. Hardy, a young tailor and former employe of Daniel Fulrman, threw a handful of cayenne pepper into the woman's eyes, snatched her purse containing $446.50 ‘in |money and $80 in checks, and made a daring rush and a bold fight against arrest Locked im Jail Gell. It was only after Hardy had fired two shots point blank at L. B, Keane, a mail carrier, and fought like a tiger, that he was beaten into submission Hardy ts now locked in a cell at the city jail and will be held pend- ing a charge of robbery. The pepper thrower appeared at the Fubrman residence at 8 o'clock and said he wanted to talk business with Mrs, Fubrman, “ want to buy_one of your stores,” it he he r home, Held up for usurious interest. Hounded out of their jobs. Forced to pay thie unlawful interest the moment they get another job. This is the story of hard tuck told The Star by father and ton who became enmeshed in the net thrown out by the un- scrupulous loan sharks. found out wh and came the j months ago. Since that time the boss has | been holding $2.00 out of my check jand $2.00 out of my son's, In this way I have paid back $36.50 and my son has paid a Tittle T $25.00 We have gone to the manager of jour company and told him not to pay any more. If the loan com pany makes any more trouble we will come The Star for help.” And ff that loan company make we P.T 246 Ac Claydon and 1 Sixth the vietims ding to the story of father, F. T. Claydon, the two w each borrowed 60 from the City Loan cx February. The {father w to pay back $42.50 | Claydon and his son any more trow and the son 60. Thix has not} ble, The Star will help been all paid yet 7 City Loan comp borrowed the while | the principal and the tandard | interest company,” xaid| The father has After we had © than that rate nthe our hard luck |p not keep | 4 WHO IN HELL IS LEOPOLD? A SUNDAY EVENING SERMON Claydon of ¥. are th n to iant ree $3 y will get ‘al rate of ady paid much said he The son won't) “Mrs, Fuhrman sald she would than the law re Jhave to consult her husband. She was already dressed for the street. Picking up a hand bag contain- ing the cash and checks Mrs. Fubr- ee started to leave the house. the eide had it a few broke afr exh and we co Without a word Hardy threw a handful of pepper into her eyes and grabbed the hand bag. The woman screamed with pain and Hardy dashed out of the house and down on ie st nred the late kf Mrs. Pubrman’s screams were ago a of tind |heard by neighbors and pedestrt: infornal |@28. They took up the chase. j Puts Up Bold Fight. Hardy turned toward Jackson st. jand ran to the ravine near Wash- ington st, bétween 12th and 13th avs. He bumped into L. B. Keane, a mail carrier, With a curse Hardy whipped out a revolver point blank at Keene twice | notion: bullet took effect. W. K. Johnson, of 162 21st ayv., City Detective Peterson and Keane disarmed Hardy before he could bring the weapon into play. The Mary {captured thief fought like a tiger in her apron.|and it was only after his captors Result, the mistress was picked up|administesed a good beating that bodily and hurled through the | Hardy submitted. swinging doors, then tossed onto| Hardy formerly was in the em- the porch. Then Mary hurried to!ploy of Daniel Fuhrman. It was the police station to have Mrs. Mar-| Mrs. Fuhrman’s habit to go to the shall arrested for assault, for slan-|bank each Monday morning with der, for conduct unbecoming a| moneys collected from their various lady, for high treason, and a Jot|rental properties, more things. j ne’s experience this morning Mary also refused to resign as|is the second exciting affair he has maid until she got her wages in|bad with thieves in the past few full. Mrs. Marshall insisted that|months. It was Keane who shot she would give her wages minus | Richard Conners, a burglar, recen& the cost of the cup. ily The burglar died. In court this morning Judge Will. | “HOPE. 1S GONE full, told Mary she should resign | | (My United Pres NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mane 20.—"Who in Hell Is Leopold? mon delive onklin th ' Belgians as worthy atan’s successor in the regions. He said Personally I doubt the existence of h but granting exinte, Leopold must have received a royal 4 While on earth he out sataned Satan. For his record even the deepest envy.” MARY, THE COOK, WINS ON KNOCKOUT— CHICAGO SOCIETY MATRON TAKES COUNT Bee jwas the title of a ser i | by Rew the this the Hazen Conklin of Fir Universalist church of city that is causing unnsual leussion and comment here From his pulpit last evening one leome Dr. (My United CHICAGO, Dec light wes thrown on the servant problem Mrs. William H whose husband is a member of a big stock yards firm to chastise her maid on her neck on the las a result | Mrs. Marshall has a fancy china jaet which she prizes, It seems that | Mary Edres, the maid in question, dropped a cup from the set on the floor, and broke it. Well, you know how any housewlfe would have felt under the circumstances. | Mra, Marshall said things to |Mary. To make Mary remember ‘ghe boxed her ears—once | Then things happened Marshall weighs in at rens.) {pounds in her opera cloak “A new 0 will tip close to 2 when Marshall here. and front tried landed poreh Mrs 100 at once, and left mistress and maid about jeach claiming a victory OMAHA CAN'T OUST | HER COWBOY MAYOR (By United Press) LINCOLN, Neb., Dec nor Shallengerber has announced ois findings in the complaint filed against Mayor Dahiman and mem bers of the board of fire and p commissioners of Omaha, charging non-enforcement of the § o'clock sa loon closing law The governor says it is the opin ion of the attorney general and him self that a case has not been made against the officals which would justify him in bringing pr ding mst them from office. At the same time he announces the mat is held in abe and that future laxity will result’ in exy sion under power conferred uy on him by statute SER ee 4229 Mead st., Station G Rear Santa: I haven't any body to buy anything for me and would like te send me a nice Your friend, MAY (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Dee. door of the supreme court of the United ates was closed today against I Kendall Thaw, At the same time the door of the asylum for the criminal insane at Matteawan closed more tightly than ever before upon him Justice McKenna handed down a ruling by which the nation’s high- tribunal refused to review his 20,.—-Gover have you 20.—The sent DURKEY This little appeal was too much for the girl who keeps books in The Star business office. She came across it in the morning mail—just one sentence from a little girl who hasn't anybody to buy anything for her. Nothing else’ in the letter, and yet there was everything in {t the heartache of a little girl who has no one to plan for her Christma So that little bookkeeper of her noon hour to buy some May * Dur est case This was the close of one of the most stubborn of all the efforts of the slayer of Stanford White to gain his freedom The case, which has run gamut of the courts of New York and probably has received more publicity than any other criminal case of a generation, is r ring the limit of legal peregrina the the the took and thing key part went out for little Christmas. OORT Rte * * * Fair tonight and * * light east winds * almate tion Tt preme pitiable Evelyn burg’s not be heard For the present must stay in the suffering from himself claimed White garden Tuesday of the review the history of plea of Pitts paranolac will » august judges court will ud nan ting Nesbit he money-laden Pree eee ee eee eee ee ee ee ee eee not * * * * * * * * * * * * * +. *! * + * * - * * . * * * - * * ee ee BERTHA REPORTED SAFE Late this afternoon the United Wireless received a wireless mes from the Bertha, whieh is five days overdue from Seward, to the effect that she passed Cape Lazo at 1 o'clock this afternoon. No ex | planation of her devay was given at least, Thaw mad house prison, insanity, which, he caused him to kill Madison Square roof Sage on the JEFFRIES’ STORY OF HIS FIGHT WITH FITZSIMMONS IS PUBLISHED TODAY James J. Jeftric with Bob Fit m The is printed the first of Juek J Je the d the by frie bnson, ent r hard thelr own tmpre und \e f of his story exactly as nson thinks the against Hank Griffin will be hardest will leave ritten it ALICE Ballard: BROWN W Wash,