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The herald., 1895-07-29
HEBREW TAILORS ON STRIKE
The Hand Me- Down Artists Leave Their
Sweatshops
Sixteen Thousand Operatives In New York
and Brooklyn Demand Better Wages
From Contractors

NEW YORK, july 2s.-Ths Hebrew
clothing makers Of this city today for the
first time observed the American Sunday.
They were on strike. The trouble has
been brewing between the tailors and the
contractors for some time and today
culm mated in the general strike of work.
ers which was forecasted yesterday.
1t is claimed by the strikers that 16. 600
workers have responded to the call OF the
only tins city but Brooklyn, New York
ana Brownsville suffered. The mum Dor
of strikers out in this city is 5000. The
United Brotherhood of Tailors had
hoped the strike might be averted until
September. when the agreement between
pire. and when 1t would naturally cease
until a new agreement had been ariang-
ed. The workers assert that the contract
ors were unwilling to wait and now, when
there is plenty of business, they Will
force a strike. They claim that the con.
tractors broke their terms for the existing
agreement by refusing to pay their
to insure the success of their scheme to
force strike. they locked out several
hundred of their employees.
The contractors allege that work 10 slack
and that there were so few orders that
they were compelled to knock off some Of
their men. They denied any unwilling
ness to live up to the terms of the agree
ment or that they were anxious to force
the men to the action taken day. But
however things may be. ole thing is cer-
tain, the tsilors were dissatisfied and they
demonstrated this by respo nding instant.
Iy to the call issue. by the United Broth
erhod. the spirit of which Is Mr.. Chopped.
who styles himself ''officIal organizer of
the United Garment Workers of America.
Their wage demand is. for operators,
SIS; basters $13; pressers, $40; trimmers,
$40: twisters. 50. They also insist that
all mem bers of the brotherhood must be
reinstated; that representatives OF the
brotherhood have access to the shops to
investigate grievances and to see that
their employees have their 'due books"
as proof OF their mem bership in the
The herald., 1895-07-29
BOX CAR COLONlSTS
They Went to Hexico to Take Their For
tunes, but Did Not

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. July pa special
to the Republic from Ciudad Porfirio
Diaz, Me xlco, says: One hundred and
seventy culonists arrived this morning
from Mexico in a box car. Quarantine
Officer Evans has Is oafed them in cars
where thev will be held until all danger
is past. Consul Sparks has wired for
more rations. as several hundred who
passed through Torreon last February to
make their fortunes through the aid OF
hundred Of them. starved, half naked and
diseased have been camped for the past
few days near Torreon. Such a misera ble.
hungry. bare footed lot would be hard to
find. They tell pititul story of decep-
tion. They were assured that the place
was on a railroad, good house TO live
in, five acres o. land to cultivate their
own yegetab bles, etc. plenty of game and
all were given blank contract which
was to guarantee them halt the crop OF
sixty acres which each was to take care
Of fifty in cotton and ten in corn. After
they arrived they vainly tried to get the
contracts signed, but it seems the con-
tracts We're never signed nor fulfilled.
The houses were miserable adobes.
The water was vile and filled many with
a species of malaria and swelling OF the
limbs. The death rate averaged five
week, and they claim nearly hundred
died there owing to the water and lack of
medicine and medical attention. Finally
the negroes were told that the company
said they, the negroes, had no interest
in the crop. but that the company would
pay them so cents a day.. This was dore
for about two weeks. when it was cut
to 81 cents day. If they were sick they
received nothing. and if what they say
is true many are crying for something to
eat. the manager. about thi S time. it is
alleged, told them the company had
boken its contract and he could do moth.
ing, and advised them to git" This.
after planting and raising one of the
finest crops of cotton ever grown in the
state of Durango. Then they left. Many
of them had to sell their personal effe cts.
They were received with sympathy by
the population of TorIeon, and the sick
were attended to and the hungry fed
while there. Many could have secured
work but for the unfortunate appearance
OF the scourge. The patients are ex-
pected to recover and the Mexican inter
national railway is hauling them free to
this place.
The herald., 1895-07-29
OMAHAS STAND BY BECK
A Protest Against the Congressional
Investigation
AIleeations That the Pend.r People Have
Distorted Facts, While Legal Losses
Are Sighted

OMAHA, July pa special to the Bee
from Bancroft. Neb.. says: A large
meeting of citizens was he'd here yester
day to protest against the congressional
stigation of affairs on the Whine ebago
ad opted again st the Pender people for
misrepr esenting the facts. Earnest
speeches were made in defense of Captain
Beck and the Bancroft parties holding
leases. The sense OF the meeting was
that the Investigation was entirely one
sided, the Pender people being allowed
every opportunity to distort the facts
and array evidence in their favor. while
the legal lessees were denied attention.
Following is copy of cominunica-
tion sent by the Omaha Indians to Com
missioner Browning:
OMAHA AGENCY.
Thurston County. Neb.. july 26, 1895.
The Honorable Comm issioner of Indian
Affairs. Washington:
Dear SIr:-Having sent delegation to
Pender to appear before the Nebraska
delegation in congress. and tney not
being bile to get hearing, we, the mem
bers of the Omaha tribe. including the
council of ten. burriedly assem- bled and
made this statement:
crafty act to be enforced, and that the
lands held in trust by the government
shall be under the control of the Off GERS
of the government and leased and con-
trolled as in the law provided. We, as
Indians, are unable to Contend with or
ganized white men. We look to the future
and to protect our children. We
are opposed to IL new allotment. We en-
dorse the administration of Captain
William II. Beck. acting Indian agent.
and thank him for the noble fight he has
made for the interest OF the Indians.
This is signed by one hundred Indians.
The herald., 1895-07-29
COLES DISAPPEARANCE
A Lumberman Who Was Summoned to Chi
cago by Holmes


LITTLE ROCK. Ark, July 2S.-It is
probable that John c. Allen, alias John
H. Caldwell, the associate of insurance
swindler III. II. Holmes, who is serving
fifteen years sentence in the peniten-
tiary here for nor sc stealing, may De the
means of fixing upon Holmes the respon-
sibility for another murder. Sheriff Nc
Rae of Fort Worth, Texas, who was in
this city last week, had long talk with
Allen, and during the con versation the
disappearance last year Of Milford cole,
a wealthy Baltimore man, was mentioned.
Cole came here year ago last spring as
the representative of Baltimore lu Der
syndicate. He at once became prominent
IN lumber circles, buying sawmill near
Beebe, north of here on the Iron Noun
tain road, and contracting for the pur-
chase of 25, 600 acres of timber lands in
Southeastern Arkansas. In July. 1894. he
spent two weeks at Fort Worth. becoming
we'll acquainted with Holmes, who tried
to interest him in some business enter
prises. These facts Coils mentioned to
friends on his return to Little Rock.
About three weeks afterwards he was
summoned to Chicago by a telegram
from Holmes and has not been seen or
heard from since. Both Allen and Sher-
lff McRae. it is said. recalled Coles asso-
citation with Holmes at Fort Worth last
year and Coles subsequent disappearance.
The herald., 1895-07-29
MISS CIGRAND,S FATE
her Father Denies the Stories Told by the
Wholesale 0urderer

Her Father Denies the Stories Told by the
Wholesale nurderer
ANDERSON. Ind, July 2S.-Peter Ci'
grand. the father of Holmes victim, was
seen this morning and shown the morn
ing papes. He denies very positively
the story given out by Holmes that Miss
C,grand was a party to the insurance
swindles and that she held 5000 worth
of stock in the company. He is positive
of this for many reasons. He is becom-
ing worked up over the matter and IS
liable to give some very good pointers on
the case before long. He ~ a man of slow
action and very conservative. He says
that Holmes and Phelps gave his daugh-
ter gold watch and two diamond rings.
She said that they were both very kind to
her. The fact tha. they were to have
gone to Michigan to be ma rried and that
no point was given by them, is in his
mind conclusive proof that Holmes erased
every clue. Even though she was mar
ried, it would be impossible to lind her
marriage record. From the description
she gave in he! letters ana to her sister
when the latter was in Chicago on ten
days visit, he is quite certain that Phelps
was P,tzel. She never spoke OF man
named Pitzel
Although Miss Phoebe Cigrand was in
Chicago visiting her sister ten days less
than a month before Phel rs was to mar
ry her, he never showed ur. She never
saw a picture uf him, and her sister but
seldom spoke of him. While she called
at Holmes office in the castle almost
daily, and stayed some time with her sis
ter at work there. she never saw Holmes,
who always, it seems, was in his private
apartments, or had just this moment
lodged out. She never got beyond the
first door, and knew nothing OF what was
going on in the castle. Miss Emma
Cigrand, the victim, she says, was very
confidential with Holmes. and attended
to all his work in the Office. She was
very close-mouthed and had but little to
say OF what was going ION. Miss Phoebe
thinks that her sister was getting too
familiar with the workings OF the place.
and was best ont of the way for Holmes
good. She is quite confident now, and
has thought for wears, that her sister was
murdered. She, however, never fastened
the crime on Holmes. for he was always
described as ''such nice man." The
parents thought she had really gone to
Europe. and were awaiting her return.
A close inspection of the letters show
that the one signed Emma, and supposed
to be from her three weeks after her mar
riage. is not her writing on the type
writer. 1t was done by some one that
was py no means an expert, and there
are traces everywhere that would indicate
that 1t was not the work OF proficient
typewriter. 1t was, however. written on
= Yate-Campbell notehead. and told that
her husband was a drunkard and gam
bier, and that they would leavS i'm edi-
ately for Europe. where he had business.
1t was the last heard from her. A lock
of her hair was found today. 1t was
taken from her head in 1892. and is
about a foot long. brown and very fine.
It corresponds with some of the hair
found in the cellar. The detectives at
work on the case at indianapolis are ex.
pected TO arrive today or tomorrow morn
ing.
The herald., 1895-07-29
WOLFE'S RECORD

He Rides From Chicago to New York In q
Little Over Six Days
NEW YORK, July 2S.-Pedestrians on
Broadway near Fourteenth street tonight
saw a bicycle rider faint and fall off his
wheel. Just behind him came dust and
travel-stained rider on an old wheel. 1t
was George W. Wolfe, who had ridden
from Chicago since $40 p. IN. Monday
The young man who had tainted had.
been plotting him from the city limits
into town. put he ciould not stand the
pace. Wolfe arrived at the city hall at
7:15 n. M, having covered the distance
from Chicago in six days, three hours ana
fifty-fiye minutes. He had broken the
record by Just forty-five minutes. The
rider looked remarkably fresh after 40
long a ride. Wolfe said he struck heavy
rain storm at Waterloo, ln.' which
lasted six hours. At Sowing ureen, "a.
ne was sent in the wrong direction. and
had to ride thirty miles in the sand.
losing fully six hours. Continuing, Wolf
said:
II had started ~ 10 heat the record
ten hours, and sho, Id have done it but
for the delays encou4.ered. l arrived at
Cleveland twelve hours late, but | rode
from there to Buffalo, 200 miles, Bin 22h
hours, and left the latter city only five
hours behind. reached Albany. $50
miles further on, three hours ahead Of
time, and reached Pougn keepsie ten
hours ahead of the record. Then l ran
into an awful rain storm. l had to walk
to Tarrytown, reaching there at 2 O. clock
Sunday morning. After one hours rest
l started for New York. l was almost
asleep on the wheel, having had no rest
for two nights to speak of, when l met a
young man out for a :morning spin. He
volunteered to pace me, but IN afraid 1t
was too hot for him. for he tainted, as
you know. l did not ask his name"
Wolfe rode from Chicago to New York
last fall, breaking the record at that time.
The herald., 1895-07-29
NAVAL EXPOSITION
Description OF the Grounds Selected at Kiel
for the international Exhibition

description OF tne 0rOuuuS DETECTED at ktcl
for the international Exhibition
WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Consul Rob-
ertson, located at Hamburg, in informing
the state department of the intention to
hold an International naval exposition at
Klel, fiom the 25th OF May to the 30th of
Septem Der, 1896, says:
'Tha grounds chosen for the exhibition
are beautifully situated along the shore
of the bay of KIel. close to the eastern
entrance of the newly opened canal and
with splendid view of tho harbor of
Kiel. They measure about 25, 900 square
meters. Large exhibition buildings
and small pavilions will be erected. as
well as covered galleries. The exhibition
will comprise all articles in any way
connected with the navy or shipping in
general as well as on the sea and the
rivers or canals. 1t is also to give a COM
plete history and review of the develop
ment and progress maize in ship building
and its kindred industries.
1.-The waters of the harbor of Kiel offer
excellent opportunities for showing steam
and electric launches. sailing craft. row.
ing boats. etc. The official programme
will be ready in September next. The
naval exhibition will be- gwen in conpec-
tion with an Industrial exposition of the
province of Schleswig- RI dolstein."
The herald., 1895-07-29
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MONDAY, JULY 40, 1898.
NEW YORK THE MONEY CENTER

We frequently hear something to the
effect that New York is losing her grip
Is the commerc center of the United
States. Chicago has several times claimed
that she is cutting deep into New York 8
trade. The Chicagoan sometimes goes
10 far as to claim that New York will
soon lose her commercial supremacy
and that Chicago will become the busi-
ness center of the United States. While
Chicago has and is making wonderful
strides to the front. and Is to be congrat-
ulated upt her enterprise and the busi'
ness sagacity Of her merchants, it shows
. woeful ignorance of affairs on the part
OF the person claiming that New York is
in the decadence. While Chicago, st.
Louis, Cincinnati and other cities may
and undou ubtedIy do cut into New York
to.some extent, it is only temporarily. The
breach is soon repaired and new avenues
OF commerce opened that more than off
set the emporary loss.
The clearing house report for last
month, or in fact for any past month.
reveals some figures that are overlooked
by those harboring the idea that
New York is not still the monetary center
OF the united ClhteS. u6 report SHOWS
that the bank clearings for New York for
last week amount to the rem markable sum
of over five hundred and six millions.
This is a sum nearly 500, 900, 900 greater
than the combined clearings of Chicago,
Boston, Philadelphia. St. Louis, San
Francisco Baltimore. Pittsburg and thirty
more of tho largest cities of the United
States.
There are today vast sums of money
lying idle in New York awaiting invest
ment. The owners of this money are
only anxious to invest it at low rates of in
terests bdt they require the investments to
pe gilt-edged. Only last week 81, $50, 900
was loaned in lump sum on long time
at per cent. In another instance 81, 900, :
600 was loaned al rate that yielded q
little less than 4 per cent. Now if the
capi talists controlling these big sums
would spend few weeks in Southern
California they would learn that few
million dollars could be invested here
in way that would yield nearer 10 per
cent than 4.
The herald., 1895-07-29
Death of DIR. Edward Beecher

BROOKLYN, July 2s.-Rev. DR.. Ed
ward Beecher. brother of the famous
divine, Henry Ward Beecher, who died
at his home IN this city this morning.
was 80 years of age, and spent the greater
part of his life in the ministry. DR..
Beecber who was older than his more
famous brother. was born at East Hamp-
ton, L. l.. on August 81, 1903. In 1880
he accepted the first presidency of the
Illinois college at Jacksonville. which
position he held for twelve years. Ills
next call was to Salem street Congrega-
tional church, Boston, where he remain
ed until 1855. when he accepted the offer
of the Congregational church at Gales
burg, retaining that position until the
10th year of his age. He came to Brook
lyn in 1872, and was associated with his
brother in the publication of the Chris.
finn I-ninn
The herald., 1895-07-29
Work of a Cyclone

ST. LOUIS, No. July 2s.-A special to
the Republic from Cairo, H., says that
reports just received state that on Satur-
day afternoon a cycl one passed over the
village of Three States, south of there.
lightning struck shanty boat tied at
the bank of the river. killing the owner
George McClelland, and wife and fatally
injuring their three children, who are
reported to have since died. AT Barnes
bridge, three miles west of Three States,
the lightning struck a farm house, kill.
ing a man named Thomas and his wife.
The wind came from a westerly direction
with terrific force. The cyclone literally
cut a swath through the woods about
one hundred yards wide, uprooting trees
and in some instances carrying them con-
siderable distances.
The herald., 1895-07-29
CENTRAL AMERICA
A Battle Imminent Between Alfaro and the
Insurgents

NEW YORK, July 2s.-A Herald dis
patch from Panama says: General ALL
faro's army has just telegraphed to Quay
aquil from Guranda. saying that Alfaro' s
column, by a.forced march, reached Chin
boya, thence preceding to Guranda. which
was reached the same evening. By Gen.
eral AliaIo's order the heights OF Guranda
were at once occup ed and fortified.
Scouts then located General Saracasti' S
forces on the road between Guranda and
Chimbo. A general battleamay be fought
at any moment and will certainly take
place within a short time.
The Herald's correspondent in Guaya-
force OF 300 men, has left Guayaquil for
the interior.
Ignacio Robles, General Alfaro's conf
dental agent in Lima, Peru, reports that
the Peruvian government has formally
recognized the revolutionists headed by
Alfaro as belligerents.
The herald., 1895-07-29

Los Angeles was identically like New
York yesterday in one respect-the re-
preston of the bracing cocktail and the
foaming schooner. 1t was dry Sun day
in both places. drier in the metropolis
than in this city, for there even the priv
ate clubs were under police surveillance,
and here it is not likely that the mem
bers of the California, the Jonathan, the
Dreistein, and the I urnverein suffered
from thirst. But as rule it was only
with considerable difficulty that drinks
couli be had, and probably no one is any
= worse off this morning because the
cIosing ordinance was enforced.
The herald., 1895-07-29
OKLAHOMA DIVORCES
A Cog Put Into the Wheels of a Mill That
Can Grind No MOie

GUTHRIE, 0. T., July 2s.-The suit to
test divorces granted by the probate
judges of Oklahoma has been decided by
the supreme court adversely to the judges
and the divorces, the court affirming its
former decisions on the subject. denying
the right of probate Judges to grant
divorces and declaring all such null and
void and any subse quent MARRIAGES Of the
parties illegal. Hundreds of eastern peo-
pie who have secured divorces from pro-
bate courts will be compelled TO have
their cases retired in the district court I.
The herald., 1895-07-29
TRADE FOR 1905

Considerable has been said by the Re-
publican organs about the falling off in
our exports curing the past year. OF
course such little things as panics and
trade conditions are swept aside, and the
Wilson bill made to shoulder all sorts of
responsibilities, ranging from the Holmes
murders to the price of mutton. The
fact that the panic and its disastrous re-
suits came about as the result of Republi-
can rule is lost sight of. This little affair
is made;light Of, as is also the fact that an
era of prosperity has set in under Dem
ocratic regime.
The New York World presents some
figures which are worthy of attention
In an editorial it says
The fiscal year 1885, which ended on
July 1st, was bad one for export trade
because of the enormous deficiency of the
corn crop and the consequent reduction
Cf meat products.
Nevertheless the completed figures are
encouraging and satisfactory. In 1893,
the panic year, we imported $50, $40, 1877
more goods than we exported. In 1894,
year of forced settlement, we exported
$221, 2S3, 141 more than we imported. In
1S95-the fiscal year IS meant in each case
Our exports exceeded our i'm ports by
SOL 592. 699-a very comfortable balance OF
trade for year Of short crops.
During last June we imported gold to
the net amount of 81. 1868, 100, while dur
ing June, 1894. we exported net $50, $780, =
872.
For the five months ending with June
last our gain of gold was SIG, 634, 666.
ceainst loss during the same period
of the preceding year of sos. 900. GIG. Our
gold gain in year has therefore been not
less than SIS. 900, 900.
With improved and improving business.
wish confidence com pletely restored and
With an assured promise of abundant
crops-corn is estimated at more than
double last years production-the figures
ct the end of the present fiscal year will
pretty certainly record a twelvemonth of
almost unex pied prosperity.
The herald., 1895-07-29

Fredericks a murderer without money,
was hung on Friday. John Craig, who
coolly slew three persons hereabouts, in
cluding his wife, over year ago. but
who can hire good lawyers, is still alive
and comfortable on the calendar OF the
supreme court.
The herald., 1895-07-29

Who is responsible for the floating over
our county court house of that frayed ban
dana flag? The flag in question looks as
though it might have been carried by
California troops through the battle of
Bull Run. If such is the case why is
II not safely ensconced in collection OF
historic relics? However. as this particl-
lar flag has never waved over any but the
bloodless battles waged within the walls
OF the county court house, let it be pulled
down and a bright, clean one take its
place.
The herald., 1895-07-29

articulated we're furnisned year or two
years later. 1t is the belief that the body
was dissected and cIemated or buried
deep in the quicklime In the bottom Of
the basement.
The name was kept from the public.
the attorneys say. to allow the police to
work up further evidence. 1t is believed
that this was the first victim of Holmes.
The herald., 1895-07-29

That Alameda street fence is probably
safe for season, as the ministers are
taking their vacations. The devil, how
ever, never ia kes a layoff.
The herald., 1895-07-29

What has become of the local naval re
serve? Has the cavalry company placed
it hors du com bat?
The herald., 1895-07-29

"Ripaiian" is running a close second
to Judge Ross in making things interest
ipgsabout water questions.