The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26
DOMESTIC NEWS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-Frank II.
Morris Of Ohio, auditor of the war de-
partment, was shot and instantly killed
about 2:10 o'clock Saturday afternoon
by Samuel Macdonald, also Of Ohio,
re Gently disbursipg clerk of the treas
ury, in the formers Office at the Win
der building. Macdonald, before he
was arrested, shot himself in the stom-
ach and slashed his throat with a pen
knife. Employees who knew Mcdonald
said he had grievance against Morris,
who, he claimed, was responsible for
having his pay reduced. Others who
knew him said they could not attribute
his deed to anything but the result OF
overindulgence in liquor. Macdonald
| is in precarious condition at the hospi-
tai. He cannot live.
SCRANTON, Pa.-Every one of 300
car and barn employers of the Scran-
ton Railway Company obeyed the
strike order which went into effect at
five o'clock Sunday morning and as
consequences only two cars were run
in all of the Lackawanna Valley.
These two cars were manned by Super
intendent Patterson and despatchers,
foremen and clerks. No attempt was
made to modest them and although rain
fell greaier part of the day the two
cars seldom had passenger
The tied-up region extends from
Pittston to Forest City, distance of
thirty miles and includes sixty-6ve
miles of tracks on which are run ordi-
narily eighty cars. The men of the
Wyoming Valley Traction Company
operating all the lines south of Pittston,
and as far as Nanticoke, Threaten to go
on strike Thursday.
The men demand twenty cents an
hour for old employees and from fifteen
to seventeen and one-half cents for
new men. AT present the new men re-
ceive an average of ten to fifteen cents
an hour and after four years. service
this is raised to seventeen and three
fourths cents. They also demand a
ten-hour day instead of twelve hours,
as at present. The company in answer
to the grievance committees demands
says it is not in position to afford any
increase in wages at this time.
FORT DODGE, Dec. pa man car
rying nearly $4,000 in gold is under
arrest on suspicion of being one of the
Cudahy kidnappers. He claims to be
D. Allie of Bombay, India. The man
has been identified by an employe of
the Cudahy Company as former en-
ploye Of Cudahy. Having been slightly
injured Allie went to the local hospital.
The nurse learned of his bag of gold
and notified the police.
Beyond finding the house in which
the men were located prior to the kid
tho YNplfpa have ,,,oHa
gress looking to a capture Of any of the
outlaws.
An official of the Omaha National
bank has confirmed Mr.. Cudahy's state.
ment that he had withdrawn from that
institution the $4,000 in gold with
which the latter states he paid the ran
som to secure the return Of his son.
The reward offered by Mr.. Cudahy has
caused those working on the case to re-
double their efforts and Chief Donahue
said last night he felt confident of 10.
eating part, or all, of the men engaged
in the crime.
One thing that is puzzling the police
at this time i how they can punish the
kidnappers should they be captured,
there being no law to cover the case.
There is an offense known as "kidnap-
ping" in the criminal statutes of Ne
braska which carries with it peni-
tertiary sentence ranging from two to
seven years, but it only applies to kid
mapping with the intention Of carrying
the victim outside the State. Mani
festly it would be impossible to prove
that the abductors of young Cudahy
intended to carry him outside of the
State because 80 far as is known they
merely took him to point southwest
of South Omaha, and if they had any
Intention of carrying him out of the
State they did nothing to furnish tan
gible evidence of it.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 22.-Edward
Cudahy, the millionaire pork packer,
has offered reward of $4,000 for the
detection and conviction of the men
who kidnapped his son. The result of
twenty-four hours work on the part Of
the police of the city and half hundred
detectives has established the location
of the house in which Edward Cudahy,
Jr., was held prisoner two days. The
house is located four miles from the city
and in place of easy access but 80
situated as to allow the desperadoes
ample opportunity to lay and carry out
their plans without molestation from
inguiring neighbors. Within easy
communication by rail and wagon roads
to Omaha and South Omaha and on a
high knoll, where sentinels could give
immediate alarm in case of necessity,
the one and half story shack was ad-
mirably chosen by the bandits. No
doubt exists in the minds of the police
as to the identity of the place. Young
Cudahy himself was taken to the house
and identified many features which he
had recognized while blindfolded
prisoner.
IN MANILA.