The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1911, Page 6

WEGRO DELEGATES (Zsa. axm as cameron Presa Wire) Dik BAS Khe PEAT}, 000 | additional negro delegat pect: fo attend the National Negro Bd. tional congress, which convenes ere tomorrow, the local committee | fis “up tn the air" today, | The hotels refuse to receive the | negroes. There are three small gro hotels in Denver and only a } 4 homes owned by colored per euus. In all there are about 400 | available rooms, The committee is today discussing the advisability of renting tents and vacant houses to take care of the expected guests. ~~ QUESTION, | TONS OF ‘ANTIQUE’ | (My United Press Leased Wire. NEW YORK, Aug. 12—Thirty/ of Bgyptian antiquities, the Pats of several years’ labor on t! of five American sclentis tak today to the Metropol of Art, where they | od in @ separate build: | The anti which were) aoe several an- it elties, arrived here qn a German freight steamer. Now To SAFE HER. FROM DOT: MAN'S INRUENCE 108 DER’ THE STAR—SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1911 RD WORK ON THE NEW HOGE BUILDING GREATEST LU LABOR TRIUMPH OF CENTURY" LONDON, Aug. 12.--"The reau @t labor triumph of the century.” In @ statement to the United leader of the dockers, teameters, world’ the victory was largely due, told the totlers, “More than 100,000 workers,” the increased w: and reduced for the first time in their lives, a tofore they have tolled all their w “But the demonstration we havi It of the London strike is the great. Press here today, Ben Tillett; the carmen and other laborers of the greatest city, to whowe handling of the great strike all concede what their winning will mean for Tillett continued, “will benefit by hours they have won, giving them, space of time for recreation. Here aking hours, ¢ given the world of absolute power of the wage earner is more important far than even the betterment im the lot of the London workmen. The coronation strike was a mighty | protest against the coronation spectacle, with ite waste of mililons, which, ness of London's poor. “The loyalty and discipline of the organized workingmen was su-| perb. Many of them reported that the police as an excuse for the ft properly expended, would have fights were deliberately planned by importation of troops. The orderly conduct of the strike was remarkable, considering the number en- gaged and the aggravations to w posed.” a 6 “AROUND-THE-W hich the workiugmen were hourly ——— ORLD” MAN DUE TOMORROW (My United Pree Lensed Wire.) VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 1%. The mayor of Vancouver will have to get up early tomorrow morning to extend a greeting to Andre Jagerschmidt, the Paris newspaper reporter, who is trying to make a tour around the world, 27,000 miles in all, jtme Leadon newspaper man who made a 24-hour visit to the United | States last epring and managed to see Broad the New York @#ub- Taft. 17 and went from there to Moscow; thence across Siberia on the Man- tly mitigated the wretched Ways and run over to Washington | | City to say “howdy” to President | Jagerechmidt left Paris on July | ~ . G07 as ~~] BIG STEAMER RAMS ICEBERG IN A BROKEN NOSE i a The transatlantic steamship Co- tumbia struck an lceberg, head-on, FOG AND GETS Words by Sc Music by Con POPE HAS ANOTHI SERIOUS RELAF (By United Pree Leased Wire.) ROME, Aug. 12.-—Pope Pius suf fered a slight pee during the night. Physicians, who were hast fly summoned to the vatican, ad. | ministered caffeine, which strength. ened the action of bis heart and re. moved immediate danger. After the treatment, his holiness rested more fly, but took little nourish. ee “ELOP (By United Pree 1 ) ? STOCKTON, Cal, Aug. 12—Helen Galvin, who disappearéd from San Francisco, was captured last night In company with M. D. Barrey, an automobile salesman of San Fran cisco, Dr. Thomas P. Galvin, the Girl's father, accompanied by a detective, came to Stockton and lay in walt for the couple at the post- | ment The hey refuse to say 0, disappointed and ans the failure of their the improvement They ordered that he audiences and shall from attending to the chureh. pontiffs NG” GIRL MARRIED TEN MONTE office. When Barrey and the to the office to ask for night they were ensued, during which the rs tempted to draw a gum, at wa te vented by the detective, “6 then informed the ff had been married in ten months ago and had {fair a secret, minediately afier the Columbia had gotten free from the berg an- GOVERNOR AND SENATOR, SMITH SIGNS HIS OWN they - A P. ~~ or that TOO, in 48 Gaye, east of Cape Race, during « dense |other and unknown steamer was OLD AND NEW A few months ago the smaller of two buildings shown in this fh. was one of the landmarks this city. On the same site now stands the 18-story new Hoge build- The wrecking of the old Hoge Diock began in March. June 1, ex-| eavation had been finished and the foundation put in for the new Structure. It required just 22 days to erect the 18 stories of steel n work, with seven more days to! HOGE BUILDINGS rivet it. It took about a month |more to finish the 18 stories of | brick and terracotta masonry. About | August 1, two months after the | completion of the foundation work, | the structure was complete as far as exterior work was concerned. The construction breaks all rec jords for this city and it ts doubt- | ful if better speed was ever made | in the erection of any building. The work was done by union labor throughout. MILLIONAIRE’S SON KIDNAPED (By United Preve tamed Wire.) QUEBEC, Aug. eoncealed for months, news of thi alleged kidnaping of John King Stack II!, eight-year-old son of chard L, Stack, multi-millionai lumberman of Sscanaba, Mich., was furnished here today, together with | the report that the boy is believed | 3 be concealed in a convent near re. A letter, signed “W.,” was re- eeived this morning by Chief of Po- Nee Young, in which the writer says & boy named Stack had been placed in @ convent. He said that & gang of men, desiring to hold the child for $50,000 ransom, took the boy from his home, and the wife of one of them placed him in the con vent, telling the mother superior that he was her child. A dispatch from St. Louis, how. ever, states that relatives of . th boy kidnaped him, following a fam. fly quarrel. Stack has been married twice His former wife married a real estate man in Los Angeles, and was on her honeymoon in Mexico when she learned of the child's disap. pearance. For weeks sh: ployed detectives in a ering the country. has em: reh coy e* SKK Khhhhh * ICE CREAM WITH HAIL. % Vaileyford Young People Make * Use of Storm, * VALLEYFORD, Wash., Aug % 12-—After the hail storm yes: # terday the young people in % several families made ico % cream by using the hatlstones & for ice. * Tk tk tOk kk tk tk tt 12-—Carefully | SESE EH EH | (By United Vress Leased Wire.) | NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Following |the death of Frank Walsh today in a Jersey City héspital, the police declare that Samuel Brown, cashier of the Long Lock Milling company, | had confessed that he had employ- jed Walsh to blow open the safe in |his office and destroy two ledgers, which, he said, would show that he was about $2,500 short in his ac counta. Walsh's eyes were blown out and his body was charred from the ef- fects of overloading the safe with fnitroglycerine, | The police have arrested Brown and P, J. Timmins, who, they say, Brown mentioned as having sug: gested the employment of Walsh ynamite the safe when Brown nd the combination had been nged after bis shortage wag sus pected. seep COSTS $43,000 TO BE A MONOPOLY | ily Calted Press Reased Wires | WASHINGTON, Aug. 12,—It cost the Standard Otl company $43,000 to be declared “a monopoly in re. straint of trade.” Today the com. pany pald the costs in the recent | dissolution suit The sum is the |largest ever asnessed as costs, EXPEGT TAFT'S VETO (iy United Pree Lew ‘ WASHINGTON, ‘Kae 12" vice Preident Sherman today sigted the statehood resolution and it is now ready for the action of the prest. dent. It is expected that one of Taft's first official acts after re. turning from his week-end golfing at Beverly will be to veto the measure. wgerschmidt is due to arrive in this port tomorrow on the C. P. R. steamship “Empress of Japan” di- rect from Yokahama. - The young man represents the Daily Excelsior of Paris, and his trip was inspired by the stunt of fog. Several persons aboard were injured. The Columb! bow was crushed In as far as her house Pipes, one anchor wae torn away and the other was flattened Into ite pipe. Several punctures below water line made navigation diffi churian railway, down tnto Leng and on to Vancouver Montreal, thence to} Maine, where hi will catch a fast steamer for Liverpool. The rest ts easy. The prior world record in 57 days. MAN, 76, SUICIDES Suffering from rheumatiem with out any hope of e Ie thought to have been the motive of William Biaze, 1532 13th av., com | mitting suicide yesterday afternoon. He shot himeeif through the head with a revolv Blaze, who was 76 years of age, lived at the home of his son, to gethor with his wife and two daugh- ters, He was a cigar maker and had lived in the city since 1889, His daughter Augusta had left the home yesterday noon about 6 o'clock and when she returned she found her father dead. ELEANOR SEARS TO WED VANDERBILT NEWPORT, R. 1, Aug, 12.—The engagement of Eleanor Sears and Harold 8. Vanderbilt will be an- nounced at a dinner to be given Miss Sears by Vanderbilt's mother, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, next Thurs- day, according to reports here to- day. =| Vanderbilt, who is a younger brother of Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and the Duchess of Marlborough, has paid the eccentric young sports woman marked attention for sev- eral years, and rumor says that an engagement has existed for some time, WITH $5,000, H SEEKETH A BRIDE What do you think of the plan of buying a marriage certificate blank and filling in the name of your bride when you cop one out? That's the scheme a Seattle man had who called at the marriage li- cense clerk's office yesterday “T've just got back from Alaska,” he said. “I've got $6,000 here in my jeans, and I want a wife. Give me a license and I'll go out and se who I can 6 Clerk Gage told him he was so ry but it couldn't be done. “Weil, I'll come back tomorro if I can get somebody to marr me,” said the $5,000 man, hurrying out COUPLE LIVE ON 15 CENTS A DAY NEW YORK, Aug, 12.—That he and his wife live on 16 each was the testimor court proceedings Edw. L. Harper, former president of the Fidelity bank of Cincin wrecked 25 years ago by Hart attempt to corner the wheat market, WOOL? SETTLED (By Untied Urean Leased Wire ) WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Settle ment of the vexed wool schedule came here today when the house conferees, headed by Democratic Leader Underwood, and the senate conferees, headed by Senator La Follette, agreed on a 29 per cent tariff on raw wool, being relieved, | = | cult SEES LARGE NUMBER OF SUICIDES IN NAVY | NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—The num- ber of United States naval officers | who have committed suicide, suffer mental breakdowns or disappear- ed suddenly within the last year or two has become #o large that offi cinis at the Brooklyn navy yard will |recommend the appointment of a board to inquire into ponsible causes. It i# stated that within the last 12 months 20 commissioned officers on active duty have olther lcommitted suicide or disappeared. ee [EIGHT GRANDSONS HIS PHLLBENRERS (By Catted Freee Leased Wire) STON, Me., Aug. 12.—- is nt grandsons acting as jell bearers, the late Senator im. c. Frye, until his death ranking member of the upper house of congress, was buried here yesterday. State and Muni- cipal offices were closed as a tribute to his memo: Gov- ernor Plaisted and hie official staff attended the funeral serv- eo ——— & Here are four of the men who started the fight for their rights on right they are: = 4. D. Crimmine, Hugo Kelley, &. F. Lang and L. B. Fi j}#eon heading through the fog for the ice. Attempts to warn her fall- jed and it ts feared that she was | sank. This tw the first time that a collided with tee on thi | c passage for some years. The photograph was taken in New York harbor, = a For é¢ight or ten » | have been on the Increase and with- in two years the increase, especially mong younger officers, has been alarming. TAFT COMING SURE (By United Preee Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug. 12— President Taft has definitely de- cided to visit the Pacific coast this fall, according to authentic informa- tion from the White House toda: |He will personally attend groundbreaking exercises at Francisco and it 1s understood also visit Oregon and Washington. 's line. From left to fox. a Se lon here, Schmidt was working tn ithe prison quarters some distance Prison Guard Shot from the main penitentiary, A tel- (By United Press Leased Wire.) |ephone message was sent to the ANAMOBA, Ia, Aug, 12.—Guard} warden by a man purporting to be Allan Hamaker was fatally #hot/an attorney who said he wanted to today in @ daring and successful/talk with Schmidt. Guard Ham- attempt to free convict .|aker was sent to get the prisoner. Schmidt, confined in the state pris: )After he the quarry and was TOWS 646 POU NDS OF WOMEN ASHORE leading the convict along a seclud- ed road Hamaker was attacked by two ex-convicts. Thrat ‘Actress—Many and many a time my father implored me not to become an actres Second Actress—And I suppose that's why you never did. NEW YORK, 12 Judge, welterweight boxer who res: Aug. “Jim” 646 pounds, He discovered them floating out toward Ireland, while they thought they were still near women from a watery | shc grave yesterday, told the story of| * ft today. It happened at Rocka ee ane § s un We oe rescuea (Stone for wearing medals, if Mr. way beach, The three resched!Carnegie wants the fncts he can {Women had an aggregate weight of|have them, ‘There isn't a tug in cned three ter towed ‘em tn,” though I'm not so |New York harbor that could have er job of it. By the | I'd made a safe landing I felt jas if I'd towed the Mauretania |aeross the English channel in a 40-mile blow,” The three women Judge, 215 pounds; land Mrs, Jones, 210. were Mrs, Mrs, Hays, 221, HELL NOW SHAKE HANDS WITH HIMSELF, ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 11.—Hoke , The other fellows Smith has two fat jobs on his hands. |caut’ hold both jobs Ho's governor of Georgia and)“. pa same state. [it be hangs around the st Because his political enemies | whacking a standpat want him to hurry up and get out | anon. s of the governor's chair he says he'll; When he decides to stick there until the next session of |ington, Gov. Smith congress. There are some more Mr. Smit jentt progressive ideas he wapts to cram States senator, and down standpat democracy down Smith will pack his there. So nary a step from Georgia) with the pi wil IHoke Smith make, the upper house Stephenson Probe Begins WASHINGTON, D. 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