Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-30

WASHINGTON, June %. j immigration
Commissioner Stitch of Chicago recently
reported that Isaac Wolfe business man
of Chicago, has imported from japan two
vehicles known there as ''jinrikshas," and
two Japanese men to propel them by hand,
the intention being to have them placed in
the public park in Chicago for the purpose
of hauling or drawing children free of
CHARGE, Mr.. Wolfe agreeing to pay the
men $50 each per month for period of six
months. The inspector inquired whether
it is violation of the alien contract labor
law. Assistant Secretary Nettleton to-day
informed him ''that the department holds
that although this is so far as known an
entirely new enterprise in the coun-
try, yet it can hardly be called
a new industry in the sense of the
to import skilled labor to propel the jim
riBshas, and therefore Mr.. Wolfe must be
held to have violated the law by importing
these Japanese laborers under contract
made prior to their importation. As, how
ever, Mr.. Wolfe declares that he had no
intention of violating the law, and as the
imported laborers have not come into COM
petition with home laborers, it is advised
that no suit be commenced against him,
provided he will have those men returned
to their own country"
Six Women Burned.
SAN FRANCISCO, June pa lodging
house in Chinatown was burned to-day,
and it is reported that six Chinese women
lost their lives.
Deserted the Army.
SAN Francisco, June 29.-An evening
paper says that First Lieutenant Benjamin
S. Weaver, First United States infantry,
quartered at Benecis, has deserted and
gone to Chill with young woman from
Fort Bidwell, who passed under the name
of Miss Rose Hooper. 1t is also reported
that the funds of the company are miss
ing. Lieutenant Weaver has a wife living
at Columbus, O., daughter of Captain
Calm, of the First infantry. Weaver was
court martialled and dismissed from the
army in 1886 for disobedience, unbeeom-
ing conduct and absence without leave,
but was reinstated by President Cleveland.
FIVE PRISONERS ESCAPE.
Three Convicts ut CharIestown Prison
Gain Their Liberty and Two Arc
Captured.
BosToN, June 29.-Five prisoners es-
capped from state prison at Charlestown
soon after 5 o'clock this evening and three
of them are still at large. The men in
the prison shops finish work at p. m.
and just after that hour number of the
convicts were gathered in the corridor of
the north wing waiting to be locked in
their cells. While Officer Norris, who is
in charge OF the wing, was on the opposite
side of the corridor attending to some
sick prisoners in their cells, one of the
window bars was either sawed or wrenched
off, making an opening in the window,
twelve by eighteen inches in size, through
which five men quickly passed to the
'tpark" or enclosure surrounding the
prison and just inside the outer wall. A
piece of scantling was placed against the
wall and in twinkling four of the five
were free. Charles Baxter, alias
Charles Orne, sentenced at
Worcester January 81, 1890, to thir.
| teen years. imprisonment for larceny
| from dwelling, was unfortunate enough
| to be captured before he had time to leave
| the prison grounds and was at once return
| ed to his cell. Frederick Sturtevant, alias
| Frederick Brick, who was sentenced from
Lawrence October rs, 1887, to twenty-five
| years imprisonment LILO AdUltuh
criminal act, was pursued by officers and
captured near the corner of Main and
| Union streets after slight struggle. The
other three men succeeded in eluding the
officers and up to late hour had not been
| captured. Their names are James H. COT
fey, alias Frank Kennedy, and Daniel Null
len, alias John Sullivan, each sentenced t.
five years in March, 1890, Tor larceny from
a building in Boston, and &c. Lynch, sen
fenced for short term October 16, 1890
for larceny in Boston.