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CHASED By A HABEAs CORPUS WRIT.
A Remarkable Contest in Progress Over o
Banker Prisoner.

Banker Prisoner.
CHICAGO, June 6-Banker Charles E.
Cook, of Juneau, Wis, is being driven
across the country through the rain. Fol
lowing him is United States Deputy
Marshal with Federal writ of habeas cor
pus, which, if served, will again delay
Cooks removal from Chicago. Cook was
arrested two months ago on a requisition
charging him with illegal banking
at Hartford and Juneau. Before the
messenger from Wisconsin could take his
man out of the State writ of habeas cor
pus, issued by Judge Baker, prevented
further proceeding. Hearing on the writ
was postponed from time to time, and the
last argument was not finished until this
morning. Judge Baker then remanded
Cook to the Sheriff's custody. In obedience
to the requisition, that officer gave the man
to Deputy Sheriff Pratt, of Wisconsin, and
the party at once drove away from the
county building.
Cooks friends hurried to the Federal
Court, and there obtained another writ.
Only 20 minutes after the banker had been
hurried away from the Sherif's Office
Deputy Marshal Foster came in with the
papers. He took carriage and the chase
began. Further particulars of the local
prosecution of the Cook case is something of
a surprise. for a week ago dispatches from
Wisconsin announced that criminal pro-
ceedings would be discontinued because
Cook had turned over his property to the
bank creditors.
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and reductions granted as a reward for good
The Indefinite Term Idea.

cOHuuCbs
The Indefinite Term Idea.
All third-term or habitual criminals
should be sentenced indeterminately, that
is without time, and not be subject to re-
lease or parole until the maximum term for a
second crime has been served, and only then
If he has given evidence of true reformation.
Even then he should be held as in legal GUS
tody and be subject to return to prison for
relapse into crime, so that he Is in fact a
prisoner for life. But hope of release from
confinement within walls should be possible
for all prisoners In my Judgment even
life prisoners should have the boon of con-
ditional release after imprisonment of say
16 years; in some countries this is already
recognized for life prisoners
Every person should be permitted-most
people would say, should be compelled-to
earn the cost Of his food, clothes and medi-
cines. After paying this would think it
wise and humane to permit any surplus to be
paid to the family or dependent relations,
without deduction of costs of prosecution,
as that practically takes all Ifhe has no
one needing bis Help it should be saved as a
fund for his personal benefit when dis
charged, and even then only disbursed in
small sums until expended. Released pris-
oners need help until able to start for them
selves. but many need to be kept aware of
the fact that they are only entitled to the
privileges of common manhood, and after
a very brief period must look to their own
labor for future support.
EDWARD S. WRIGHT.
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WALLER WILL STAY AT HOME.
The Governments Declines to Pay His Ex-
penses on the Foreign Junket.

The Government Declines to Pay His Ex-
penses on the Foreign Junket.
CHICAGO, June 6.-Hon. Thomas M.
Waller, it is announced, will not go to
Europe with the great Worlds Fair junket-
ing party. Waller wants to go, but he is
not willing to undertake the trip at his own
expense. Mr.. Waller learned last night
from Secretary Foster that the Government
would not pay his expenses.
Mr.. Waller is First Vice President of the
National Commission, and under the laws
of that body he is national officer As
such he cannot draw salary for two offices.
The Treasury Department rules that the
payment of Governor Walters expenses
while abroad is equivalent to paying him so
much salary. The diplomatist is unwilling
to resign as First Vice President, hence he
cannot go to Europe.
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WARDEN WRIGHTS VIEWS.

The Head of the State Penitentiary in Ale
gheny Argues That a Penal Colony is
Unwise and Impracticable-He Offers
an Interesting Plan.
Criminals of a far more dangerous type
than those found at Claremont fill the
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Workhouse, and a
few days before be
left Claremont, he
was telling me some
incidents ofhis long
residence in the
prison. The con-
versation broadened
in scope when, from
his valuable e1-
periencei in the man.
agement of a large
community of law
braaL-erS Mr War
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THE FUNDS GO TO MCCARTHY.

An Injunction to Restrain Dillon and
o'Brien Money Being Sent Denied.
NEW YORK, June 6-Judge Bartlett, of
the Kings County Supreme Court, rendered
a decision to-day upon the application Of
Mr. o'Neil to enjoin Eugene Kelly, the
Treasurer of the fund raised at the Dillon
and o'Brien meeting in this city, from
sending the money to Justin Mccarthy and
others.
The application for preliminary injunc-
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L MAN COOKED ALIVE.
He Fell Into q Tank Filled With Boiling
Water at an Iron Mill
ESPECIAL TrLEaRAM TO THE DISPATCH.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAh TO THE DIsPArCH.1
SrEUBENvILLE, June GA horrible ac-
cident happened at the Mingo Iron Works
Friday afternoon, while William Criss and
his helper, Albert Gusky, were putting q
steel rail through the rolls Back of the
roller was tank filed with boiling water,
containing sulphuric acid. Into this tank
Gusky accidentally fell, and was completely
submerged, except one leg.
'Criss Immediately pulled his helper out
of his boiling bath, and, with assistance,
carried him to cool water tank. Gusky's
sufferings were frightful. The greater part
of his body was either burned or literally
cooked. His chances for recovery are
small
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cells ana workshops
of Riverside Peni-
tentiary in AIle-
gheny City. Yet
there are repeat
ers" at the peniten-
tiary also. The
Warden of this
prison, Captain Ed
ward s Wright,
has spent a score of
years and more in
the management of
the institution, and
he has made every
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penal system, will
be read with a de-
gree of curiosity. 1t
is well known that
he is opposed to
capital punishment.
Just to what extent,
therefore, Mr.. War
ner's theory of penal
isolation would offer
a substitute for
hanging, for in
stance, was one of
the questions which
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
KENsINeToNl KensingtOnI KensingtOni
Wheeling, w. Va

The B. & o. R. r. will sell excursion
tickets to Wheeling gevery Sunday at rate Of
81 80 the round trip. Train leaves depot at
$50 A. NJ
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Elegant patterns, too. This is lower than
you buy 'em elsewhere, but not lower, pro-
portionately, than we offer you carpets in
Ingram, brussels and velets this week.
j. II. KUNKEL g Bro,
1347-1349 Penn avenue.
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MIR. MARSHALL'S APPROVAL.

He Would Isolate a Hardened Criminal,
Give Him Ground, Tools and q Pail Of
Seed, and Tell Him to Scratch for q Liv-
Ing or Else Starve.
The views of Hon. Thomas NJ Marshall, the
criminal LAWYER. on the question of a better
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
AN EMBEzzLER TAPS TWO TILLs. p

City and an Insurance Company.
TOLEDO, June 6.-The grand jury this
morning reported four charges of embezzle-
ment against Police Clerk William II.
Cook, of this city.
Three counts charge him with appropriate
ing city funds to the sum of $4,000, and
the fourth of embezzling $4,000 belonging to
the Equitable Life Insurance Company of
New York, while acting in the capacity of
agent. Cook is in jail, unable to procure
bail
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Excursion to CIexelan9.

On Monday, June Is, and morning trains
of Tuesday, June 16, the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Railroad will sell tickets to Cleveland
and return at 80 each, good for return up to
and including Sunday, June q. ThPsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

sIcILLIAN awnings, absolutely sun-fast,
at Mamaux q Sons, 539 Penn avenue. Tele-
phone 1872.
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KENsNGToN-Large adv't. third page

UNExCELLED for favor-Iron City
Brewery's Plsner Beer. On tap in first
class bars
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HOUSEHOLD goods packed and stored
HAUGH & KEENAN,, SO and "a Water st
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Kensington! Ksnsingtonl Kensingtonl-
Come to Kensington Wednesday, june 10.
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Buy = Lot at Kensington.
See large advt. Page 10 today
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Well-KnOwn Pittsburgers Dis
cusS the Advisability of
a Penal Colony.
A DIVERSITY OF OPINION.
superintendent Warner Fayors It
and Cites Local History.
WARDEN WRIGHTIS OPPOSED TOIT,
Thomas N. Marshall Would Make the Re-
peaters Work or Starve.
JUDGE EWING SEESDANGERNTHE PLAN

rwRIrTEy FOB THE DIsPArcH.l
Just after Henry Warner resigned as Su-
perlntendent of the Allegheny County
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KENs1NeToNl Kensingtonl Kensingtonl
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Free Train Wednesday, June 10.
To KensingtOn. See advt., page 3
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a5o Floor Oil Cloths at 15c.

See Display Advertisement
Telling about Kensington. Page 10.
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extremes. There are very few as poor houses
as those at Painter, but where better houses
are furnished the men they pay higher rents,
SS being the highest OF course a great
many of the better class of men save their
money and own their own homes, and the
majority of those livlngin company houses
are foreigners who have little care for how
they live. In the better houses, of course.
many of the better class live, and they save
their money, preferring to keep it in bank to
owning property.
The Foreign Workers Are Savers.
The large majority of the foreign people
have money in bank. and are prepared to
hold out in this strike just as long as the
English-speaking people can. That they are
not so badly underpaid as is sometimes
imagined is evidenced by the fact that SO
much money is standing in bank to their
credit, the sums running from $500 to 81, 500.
Some of those who own homes have pianos,
and ali through their houses are nicely fur
nished.
A trip through some of these company
towns" gives one an idea that be has stepped
backward few centuries to the time when
our grandmothers' frilled caps reigned su-
preme and shoes were unknown. Big bare
footed women run around or stop to gaze st
a stranger, and bare-footed, hatIess, and al
most shirtless children are to be seen on
every side, and it looks like scheme to
populate Pennsylvania with Hungarian and
Italian youngsters. Through the week no
attempt is made to keep them clean, but on
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-21
A YOUNG wIFEs SUICIDE.
Deserted by Her Husband She Throws Her.
self From q Window.

Deserted by Her Husband She Throws Her.
self From a Window.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE p1sPAToui
NEW YORK, April 2o.-Two years ago
Abraham Schwalb, with his wife Augusta
and three children, came to this city from
Russia. They went to live in tenement at
2l3 Broome street. A young necktie cutter
named Levine began paying attentions to
Hannah, thei- eldest child, girl OF 19
years. They were married eventually, and
lived at 553 Grand street MP to four months
ago, when Mrs. Levine gave birth to q
child. Levine then sent her back to her
parents. He went to live with his brother.
Although Levine visited his wife occasion
ally, he had practically deserted her, and
gave but 50 a week for the support of herself
and child.
Mrs. Levine became very i'll, and. to in
crease her misery, she was told that Levine
was living with another woman, employed
in the shop where he worked. To-day at
o'clock, he called at her mothers house
and paid Mrs. Schwalb 81. A few minutes
after he had gone his wife threw herself
from the window and struck the sidewalk
on her head, fracturing her skull at the
base. She was removed to Gouverneur
Hospital, where she died at 1 O'Clock. Her
body was removed to the morgue and the
Coroner was notified.
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other words, they are anxious to own their
own works instead of having labor agita-
tor who has the power to come around and
say, 'If you don't do as ask I'll shut you
down in ten days"
That is the way it stood previous to the
present shutdown, and operators were COM
PEELED to allow many incompetent and care
less men to go into the mines to work, be-
cause when they were discharged the labor
leaders would compel the company to take
them back. Notwithstanding all this, the
operators are not anxious to break up the
organization entirely, as it is much easier to
treat with committees than individuals.
The men when organized are easier to con-
troll when at work than if they were unor-
ganiEed.
The operators seem to think that ga good
master should be lord of any mans purse"
That may not be the literal quotation, but it
fits this case perfectly. Everything is fur
nished for the men by the companies.
Around every plant are to be found the
company houses" the company store" is
there and the men must buy the company
coal, p" and there is price set on everything
which the men must pay. In many cases
the price is all right but there are prices
sometimes which are too high. The rule is
that man while at work can deal at the
company store on credit. and it is taken out
OF his pay at the end of his half month.
Two weeks pay is always kept back, SO
there is no danger of losing anything by
men skipping out between two days.
The company stores are dubbed "pluck-
me" shops, but goods are probably sold
there as cheap as in any of the village stores
through this section OF the country. The
best o. groceries are kept, but the clothing
is very cheap because the majority of the
people like to buy cheap and those who
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all they asked, but their organiza-
tion was completely ruined. In
1889 the United Mine Workers OF
America were organized in the region
and it proved godsend to the operators ms
well as the men. Then the market price Of
coke was less than 81 per ton, and it is
claimed that no profit can be made at less
than 81 10. The majority of the minor
companies were bankrupted, and here was
where h. C. Prick got his big hold on the
coke region, by picking them up as they
went under. The organization of labor
gave the operators an excuse to shove up
the price, first to 81 S5, then to 81 30, and
then, almost Immediately, it jumped to
81 70.
The Rock on Which They Split.
Of course, under the circumstances, the
increase asked was granted and the Connells-
vile coke region made a big advance.
Then the height of the miners ambition
was to secure 81 per hundred bushels, which
they now refuse as the minimum price. As
the price of coke advances so does the scale
of labor, but it can't 60 below that price.
About the only trouble there is now between
the two branches is as to organization. The
operators are holding out against the lead
ers. who are said to be incapable, and they
want to take away some of their power. In
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A PEEP AT C0KED0M.
Why Operators and Workers Cannot
Smoke the Pipe of Peace.
TIE COMPANY HOUSES A FACTOR
In the Great Struggles That Occur Period
ically in the Region.
A SURE CONSUMPTION CURE FOUND
TIE COMPANY HOUSES A FACTOR
A SURE CONSUMPTION CURE FOUND
rrRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT;

rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT:
Mt. PLEASANT, April 20.-No matter
how the coke strike now on may be settled,
it is evident to a close observer that both
sides-the coke workers and the operators
have grievances. Labor organization has
been tine salvation of both, and, strange as
it may seem, it has come very near running
both parties. With incompetent or unscru-
pulous leaders at their head the working
men WELD a power in this region
that is a terror to the operators; but
should they always have good leaders,
the operators and laborers would have
verye little difficulty in coming
together at all times. The very best man.
ayers in the region admit that there is
sometimes necessity for strikes in order
that the men secure their honest earnings;
but oftentimes the men are misguided and
go out at most inOpportune times on de-
clining market.
In the majority of cases the strikers have
won in the coke region, but in their last big
strike previous to 1889 they not only lost
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don't can go elsewhere. The employees Of O
company can't be compelled to buy at the
stores, but the men allege that If they don't,
life becomes burden to them and trouble is
always had with the company on some other
subject.
Company Houses q Factor.
But it is the company houses on which
the loudest kick is made by the labor lead
ers. There are different classes of houses
and different rents are charged. Some of
the houses are mere shells while others are
quite com Portable. Very few of the COM
pany houses have gardens attached, but it is
claimed by the operators that if they had,
the majority of the people wouldn't work
them. Manager Bremen, of the Mcclure
company, says he is always glad to give the
people gardens if they want them as it helps
them get along and he thinks it best to have
them prosper. The foreign element doesn't
care much for the gardens, but nearly all
the English speaking.people want them.
Some of the best houses in the region are
to be found at Morewood and Bessemer
At the former place, which is owned by the
Southwest Coal and Coke Company, there
are some very comfortable eight-roomed
brick houses which are rented to two
families at the rate of SS for each family or
SIC ior the house. This crowds family
into four rooms and sometimes there are
eight or more people to be accommodated
there.
AT Painter, another of McClure's plants,
the houses are very old and rather rickety
affairs. Each house is occupied by four
families and each paws IS per month rent,
m aking $40 per month for the entire house.
Each house has II rooms, that is three
for each family. With these houses the
company furnishes coal fire, but in the
majority of cases 81 per month is deducted
from mans salary winter and summer for
coal furnished. Secretary Parker, of the
q. M. w. of A, who is assessor of the dis
trict, says these houses are assessed at 5000
each.
The above cases are mentioned as the two
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Sunday they are usually rigged ont in neat
attire, all but shoes. They are turned loose
during the day like the few chickens and
pigs in the colony. and are only gathered in
at meal and bed times However. the people
can't be blamed for the fact that the children
run loose. Three rooms won't hold a verv
large supply of that domestic article. and
there are no dooryards in which they can
play. One of the three rooms is always q
bedroom, and the majority of the women
try to keep one room for a cozy little sitting
room. In one room I saw four beds huddled
together so close that there was very little
danger of rolling off onto the floor. This
was in three-roomed section of house
which was occupied by man, his wife and
seven children.
The Colored Brother Is Sly.
Notwithstanding the fact that there are
scores of colored men in the region, not one
has ever been caught in any of the disturb
ances. nor has one been seen close enough to
a riot to implicate him. They usually work
pretty steady when the plants are running,
and quite a number of them have gone in on
the strikers. 1t is a question among the
operators whether the colored men of the
coke region are especially peaceful or are
afraid of getting hurt
The coke workers are an exceedingly
healthy lot of people. and very few doctor
bills are run up on them. Though the sui.
phur from the ovens kills all vegetation
within its reach it has an entirely different
effect on the men who work in the smoke
almost continually. Construction is never
known. Men have gone to work when they
were so weak they could scarcely handle the
tools, and in few months became strong
and healthy. So far the operators have not
charged the men for the medical properties
Of the gas they breathe.
FRANK A. PARKER.
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wa1ts a4ts s. saGs; Sat $3.50

See them. They can be had in
French Kid, Curacao KID and
Bright Dongola, Spanish Arch last,
genuine hand turned, very pliable,
and every pair guaranteed by the
P. Cox Shoe Manufacturing Com
pany the same as if you had
PAID THE FULL PRICE FOR
THEM.
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Cooper tract made its first flow last night, and
promises to make 26-barrel we'll The case of
the Brown Oil Company against the Ohio River
Oil Company will be heard tomorrow.
Sale of Oil Property.
William Guckert purchased a three-fourths
interest of John A. Snee in 800 acres of leases
at Murrinsville, Butler county, with Is wells
producing 80 barrels days. Consideration,
$4,000 81. MCC.
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Think Consider! Only 81 o5
for these fine dress shoes; can
be had with or without cloth
tops, with plain or patent
leather tip, flexible soles and
EVERY PAIR GUARAN-
TEED BY THE COX SHOE
MANUFACTURING co. TO
GIVE ENTIRE SATISFACTI
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-14
THE COlER BOND CASE.

The New MEXICAN calls attention to a
letter in another column signed Tax
Payer" anent the recent decision OF the
supreme court of New Mexico in the
Coler bond case. The correspondent IS
responsible and heavy tax payer. The
columns of the New MEXICAN have been
granted him for an expression OF his
opinion. He certainly makes the case
clear the speedier the settlement OF the
question the better for all concerned. A
mandamus has been served on the coun-
ty commissioners directing them to levy
a tax to pay the interest, etc., awarded TO
Coler ct al. IN the case, amounting III all
to some $4,000. Such levy, if made,
would of course mean ruin. 1t would
keep capital and investors out OF
Santa ,Fe county for many years.
1t is the New MExICAN's opinion
that if other and better counsel had
been employed by the county the re-
suit would have perhaps been different;
but that of course is too late now; the
horse is stolen and the case is made up
and must go, if appealed to the supreme
court of the United States, in the present
shape. A bond of 100000 must be fur
nished before stay Of proceedings will
be granted. How is this to be gotten :?
A very knotty problem indeed and very
hard one to solve satisfactorily.