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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
Doesn't Want to Testify Be
fore Court.
VIEW OF SCHLEYITES
Their Newspapers Thus Construe
SIMPSONS Attitude.
COURT OF INQUIRY UNEXPECTED
Now That SchIey Has Secured II
Sampson Is Unprepnred
to Meet 1t.

Fre1s TIE Journal Bure0a, Roops As, PoSa
Building, Wdshin0toN-
Washington, Aug 13.-As was to have
been expected, the Schley newspapers,
without exception, are saying that Admiral
Sampson is trying to get out of appearing
as witness before the court of inquiry
next month, and that the navy department
is helping as best it can. The Was ashington
Post, the most conservative Of these news
papers. heads leading editorial to-day
with the words, will Sampson be absent
again?" referring to the court of inquiry,
and report that SIMPSONS condition will
be such as to render his attendance upon
1t out Of the question. In a long article
On the first page, the Post, while admitting
that Sampson is sick man, says the pres
ent plethora OF talk about his sickness, as
well as the remarkable concern which
naval authorities are just now manifest
ing for his health, is all part of plan to
keep him from appearing in public, and the
Post adds:
1t is quite evident that he does not want
to come to Washington and undergo the or
deal Of the severe cross-examination to which
lie Will De SuDJecleus anu tue dulHOTlllSS are
supposed to save him if possible.
1t is known definitely to-day that if
Sampson should ask to be relieved from
attending the court, urging his physical
condition as an excuse, the request will
be granted by the navy department, and
should he decide to appear and offer testi-
mony it is not improbable that he will be
compelled before leaving the stand to COM
pletely exonerate Schley or at least to
show the utter lameness Of his own posi-
tion. BY failing to appear, he will fatally
cripple the investigation, for he is far and
away of more Importance as a witness than
all the other men who will be summoned
to testify put together.
AS nearly as can be ascertained to-day,
Sampson has not yet been summoned. 1t
is said that the navy department has been
thinking Of getting an affidavit from him
as to his principal acts, but Schley's coun-
sci will not consent to having such an afi-
davit accepted by the court. The privi-
Iege of cross examination will be insisted
upon. Altogether, the Sampsonites seem
to have got themselves into nice tangle.
apparently, they did not look for Schley
to ask for q court of inquiry. and now that
he has asked for one, they are unprepared
for it, their chief witness being In such
condition that he probably cannot do JUS
tice either to himself or to the side which
he represents. Pl obably nobody now more
sincerely regrets the publication of the
third volume of McClays history than
Sampson himself. But for that book Schley
would not have demanded an investigation.
W. w. Jermane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
HANGING TO A CELL DOOR
MICHAEL GRIFFIN KILLS HIMSELF
A Stranger at Pennington Who
Claimed to BE a Brother of
Congressman Griffin.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Pennington, Mimi, Aug. 13.-Michael
Griffin prisoner in the town Jail, COM
mitted suicide some time last night by
hanging himself by his suspenders to
the door of his cell. He was found dead
this morning when an officer went to at
tend him. He had been arrested for al
legged indecent exposure.
Little is known here of the antecedents
of Griffin, and his story will not be COM
plete until alleged relatives can be COM
municated with. He arrived in Farming
ton only about ten days ago and secured
employment on the farm of Patrick
Casey who lives near town. He told Mrs.
Casey that he was a brother of Former
Congressman Griffin, now deceased Of
Eau Claire, Wis, and also asserted he
was a veteran of the Spanish American
war. He was between 40 and 45 years
of age.
The coroner of Dakota county has been
summoned and will search the personal
effects of the dead man and endeavor to
reach his relatives, if any can be located.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
AGENT LOSES HIS REASON
COLLISION CAUSED BY A BLuNDER
Fast Freight and a Gravel Train ON
the ST. Louis Road Meet
in Iowa.
Special to The Journal.

Special TO Inc journal.
Fort Dodge, Iowa, Aug. 13.-James
Green, station agent at Otho, town on
the Minneapolis & ST. Louis railway, a
few miles north Of Fort Dodge, this morn
ing through confusing orders sent out a
gravel train to meet a fast freight coming
from the north. When he discovered that
a collision was inevitable, Green lost his
reason and became violently insane, be-
ing prevented from self-destruction only
by those around him., He is now under
the influence of chloroform and it is
feared his reason is permanently impaired.
Green received orders to let the gravel
train go on to- pass the freight at Fort
Dodge, but later orders notified him that
they would pass at Ohio. BY mistake he
gave the first orders to the gravel train
which had gone too far to be recalled be-
fore he noticed his blunder He wired
Fort Dodge, but the freight had already
left. Then his mind snapped under the
strain.
The trains came together on heavy
grade, but the crews jumped and escape
injury The engines were badly smashed.
but aside from this the damage was slight
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
SIMPSONS CONDITION
Earlier Statement Regarding the
Health of the Admiral.

Earlier Statement Regarding the
Health of the Admiral.
From The Journal BureGu. ROoAt &5. Pose
Building, Warrington.
Washington, Aug. 13.-There is just q
possibility that Admiral Sampson will not
be able to take part in the court of in
Quiry proceedings next month. He is Sc
riously and perhaps permanently broken
in health, and his condition is causing his
friends great anxiety. 1t Is said at the
navy department, where 1 made inquiries,
that Simpsons trouble is entirely physi
cal and that there has been no breaking
down of his mental faculties. He never
has been robust. He is of slight build
and has a highly nervous temperament.
For years before the Spanish war he was
the navy departments most noted expert
on gunnery and ordnance matters in gen
eral, and his opinions regarding these
questions are still appearing in the tech
nical publications, for which he is vol
luminous writer He was always a hard
worker and has not taken a vacation for
years. Leaving his trying post as ord
nance expert, he went into the Spanish
war, whose responsibilities and worries
made heavy inroads upon a constitution
already somewhat broken and sadly in
need Of rest, and at the end of the war
he was almost wreck physically. For
Two years MS 1r1enQS ana physicians have
been trying to induce him to take rest and
try to regain his health, but he has
unhesitatingly declined to follow their ad-
vice.
1t is now said that unless he can in
some way manage to add to his present
strength he Will hardly be in condition to
Appear as prosecuting witness at the
Schley inquiry in September The navy
department will not admit this last state
ment is true, but it is believed to express
the exact fact. The court of inquiry with
out Sampson would be like the play Of
Hamlet with Hamlet himself omitted
1t would be disappointing and it's findings
might not be accepted as finally dispos-
ing Of the questions in dispute 1t is be-
lieved that SIMPSONS friends here
anxious that he shall be able to testify
before the court and in some degree direct
the work Of Schley's prosecution. have
very pointedly said to him that he must
take rest between now and September
II, and that his physicians have indorsed
them.
The foregoing is a very conservative
presentation of the gossip which has been
going the rounds of Washington for
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13

and laughed. The whole affair was car
ried out without a hitch, and it is be-
lieved the men have had experience
After holding the train two hours the
robbers left, going east into the dense
bottoms. The trainmen cut out the
wrecked express car and ran down to
Caney station, where they notified tho
officers.
Within two hours posses Of United
States marshals with bloodhounds were
on the trail. 1t is rumored two of the
men have been captured. but the reports
lack verihcation. The express company
claims it lost nothing and Conductor
Dolan estimates the passengers loss at
about $780,
The country adjacent is gridironed with
telephone wires and if the robbers leave
the bottoms they will doubtless be ar
rested or killed.
Fort Worth, Tex, Aug. 13.-Seven men
have been arrested in Caney bottoms
charged with robbery Of the "Katy" train.
Ono is section hand. The others are
young men residing near By. Part Of tho
plunder has been recovered
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13

Further improvement in the condition Of
cotton is generally reported from the cen
trail and eastern portions of the cotton belt,
although rust and shedding are more or less
indicated.
All reports from districts east Of the Rocky
mountains indicate an extremely light and
inferior apple crop, although the outlook is
slightly improved in Kansas and Missouri.
Flowing for fall seeding has made very.
favorable progress except in the Ohio valley,
where the soil is too dry
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13

costly fiscal conflict, are without doubt
the catastrophe with which the proposed
tariff law threatens the German empire.
The fervant prayer of every well-wisher
of the Fatherland is that the Reichstag
will smash the measure beyond recogni-
tion. 1t would meet with that fate if sub
mitted to popular vote.
The interest that the United States
takes in Germany's economic policy is not
only natural, but is also highly appreciated
by the Germans themselves. There are no
two countries in the world whose interests
are more reciprocal or between whom
stanch bonds of political and commercial
brotherhood are more desirable. The tariff
bill has not been conceived in spirit of
hostility to the United States. 1t is d.
rected against all countries that export
products to Germany, without being spec
tally inimical to any one of them. It's
inspiration Is much more deeply rooted It
is the last gasp of the nations doomed
landed aristocracy. 1t is the final attempt
Of a long intrenched paramountcy to fasten
obsolete agricultural ideals on a people
whose interests are essentially Industrial.
OminOus Murmurs.
One cannot believe that the government
will commit suicide by grating such a
measure on the imperial statute books.
Already the air is full of ominous mur-
murs Of what will happen If 1t does. The
social democracy, whose adherents polled
a quarter Of the popular vote at the last
election, have issued a striking pamphlet
portraying the intolerable burdens with
which the law saddles the working class.
Great mass meetings, the outgroWth of the
widespread protest against the arrange
ment, are being held in every corner of
the empire, and believe that far-reaching
social discomfort, bordering on revolution,
will follow the augmented cost Of living
the proposed duties will precipitate
This is the inner danger oyershadowing
us no less than the important information
al relations of the empire. The passage
of this bill is certain to Illustrate the con-
summation of the renewal of the COM
mercial treaties. That would mean an in
dustrial war, which may be the mother of
martial conflict.
There is reason to hope that the infiu-
ence Of the kaiser will be exerted to elm
mate the radical features of the measure.
He favors amicable commercial treaties.
When the great pact with Austria was
consummated in 1892 Emperor william
toasting the cha a1cellor,. referred to the
treaty as Germany's salvation. There was
never greater need for invoking that idea
.han in the present crisis Of our national
history.
When. the reichstag considers the bill
the world may be prepared to witness one
of the most bitter fights in parliamentary
history. Many voices will be raised
against the adoption of policy calculated
lot cnly to arrest the nations deyelon-
ment and vitaly to disturb the nations
peace, but also to rupture our friendship
l with the American people.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
Johnson to succeed sampson.

Washington, Aug. 1S.-The navy depart
ment has selected Rear Admiral Mortimer
L. Johnson, now in command at the Port
Royal naval station, to succeed Admiral
Sampson, in command of the Boston navy
yard, when the latter officer shall retire
The formal appointment has not been
made, as it is not known how soon Ad-
miral Sampson may wish to be relieved or
whether he will wait for his retirement
from the service next February.
Officials Of the administration were un-
able to say to-day whether Admiral Samp-
son would be summoned as a witness, or
would appear otherwise before the court,
although it was said to be altogether
probable that he would be among the wit
neSSeG.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
Combine Reported Waiting for Excitement to
Subside Before Putting Number of
Plants in Operation.
Situation at MCKeesport Critical and Trouble Is
Looked For-Reported Overture From
Independent Plant

of
number
waver
V enough
have the advantage in Chicago
OF the men who the Amalgamd
chancs and ers with him Many latter
Wheeling while
the tin
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13

In the butt welding department of the
National Tube Works at McKeesport, Pa,
Joined the strikers to-day and 1t was
claimed the rest Of the turn would come
out before the close of the day. This
action, 1t is said, will force the closing
down of the entire department
Many of the strikers assembled about
the tube works at McKeesport to-day
and trouble is feared there They are
doing missionary work among the men
still at work and intercept them at every
opportunity.
Organization Mad.
wave of unionism has swept over Nc
Keesport and it bids fair to include men
Of several callings. The painters met last
night and formed a union. 1t Is an
nounced that over 100 Joined the lodge and
that many more have declared d3themselVes
ready to join at the next meeting It Is
thought that by the end of the week all
Of the bar tenders, teamsters, painters
and carpenters in McKeesport will have
Joined one Of the various labor organiza-
tions.
A call has been issued for the
meeting of the organization of a SEN
ate of labor In McKeesport Thursday
evening. The object will be to combine
all OF the labor organizations in McKees-
port under one general advisory board.
1t is reported that the McKeesport lodge
OF the Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen
will also take hand in the strike They
will decide on the line of action at q
meeting this week
President Shaffer was not prepared to
make statement as to the number or
men affected by the strike and will not
give one out until he is more fully in
formed. He would not talk on the re-
fusal OF the Federal Steel company en-
ployes to obey the general strike order
1t is expected some representatives Of
the western lodges who turned down the
order to quit work would come to head
quarters with an explanation of the action
taken, but none came. Secretary Will
liams says the call for financial aid, sent
out yesterday is melting with responses
already. Many checks were received
by him to-day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
PAY FOR TIMBER
Indian Commission Directs
Acceptance of Farr's
Proposition.

Washington, Aug. 13.-Indian Commits
sioner Jones to-day directed Captain Mer-
Ger to accept the compromise agreed upon
by Special Agent Farr, and representatives
OF the Scanlon-Gipson company and OF
the Cass Lake company, in the settlement
for the green timber cut by those compa-
MES. White pine is to be paid for at 81
thousand feet and Norway pine at $3.50
and $3.50 Q thousand The difference in
favor OF the contractors is about $1.4OO.
w. W. Jermane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
CORN DOING BETTER
Government Reports Improvement
in Missouri Valley.
RAIN CHECKING WHEAT HARVEST
Result of the Late Excessive Heat
ON Wheat In North
Dakota.

Washington, Aug. 1S.-The weather bu-
reau's weekly summary follows:
The weekSending Aug. IL has had very ia
vorable temperature conditions in the dis
trict east of the Rocky mountains, with ben
efcial rains over large part Of the drought
area. Drought, however, continues in the
Ohio valley and in portions OF Tennessee
and the upper lake region, while excessive
rains have caused destructive freshets in the
Carolinas and proved injurious In portions
OF Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Extremely
hot weather in the interior Of California
caused rapid ripening of fruit and serious
injury to grapes in some places.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
TAWNEY ON TARIFF
FavOrs Certain Changes, but Nc
General Revision.
Special to The Journal

Special to The Journal.
Washington, Aug. 13.-Congressman
Tawney, of Winona, is in Washington at
tending to private business. Tonight he
goes to Philadelphia and early next week
will start for home. He thinks there will
be a good deal of talk in congress next
winter regarding tariff revision, but does
not know hether any bill can be passed.
He does not favor general revision of the
tariff, but would like to see certain sched-
ules changed, especially those covering
goods made in this country and sold
abroad for less than they can be bought
here.
w. w. Jermane
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
D0Wieite Kills His Hogs
hecial to The Journal.


iFoquo D. Aug ia reported here in
WHO'S
th of
Shat to do relieve her. Dowie
The farmer therefore killed apparent change
the
me & before he received
the whereabouts
hn the child the worse
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
TO FURNISH FUNDS
Bay View Workers Said to Have am
Understanding with SfriIxera

BAY View WOrAers Said to Have am
Understanding With Strikers.
Special to- The Journal.
Milwaukee, Aug. 13.-There is one phase
OF the Bay View iron workers determina-
t1on not to walk out in sympathy with the
strikers in the east that has escaped gen.
eral notice. 1t Is reported that there was
an understanding among certain officials Of
the Amalgamated association that the men
at Bay View and South Chicago should
continue at work for the purpose Of sup
plying money that will be necessary to
carry on the fight. 1t is believed that
the closing Of the plants in the northwest
would do but little toward forcing the
steel trust to terms anyway, and that as
the men were receiving the scale at Bay
View it was thought that they would be
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
COMBINES OUTPUT
Steel Officials Produce Figures and
Say Nothing.

New York, Aug. 13.-The average daily
output Of the United States Steel Corpor-
alton as shown by tabulated statement
made to-day, is $4,000 tons. The returns
OF yesterday showed an output in excess
OF $4,000 tons. Aside from this showing
the corporation has nothing to add as to
the strike, except that the situation is
encouraging for the corporation
j. P. Morgan is still absent from the
city. Inquiry to-day as to his movements
was met with the reply that he is still
at Newport and that he has not intimated
the date of his return. The report that
he may go west to meet his daughter,
now in Colorado, is news to those who
profess to be close to Mr. Morgan. One
of his friends said: ''If he does go it
will not be for several weeks, in my opin-
ion."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
BACK WAS BROKEN

Well known Young Man of Kenoshs
Killed by Falling Timbers.
Special to The Journal,
Kenosha, Wis, Aug. 13.-John Gales, one
of the best known young men in the city,
met death this morning while working on a
new building. Men were hosting timber to
the fourth floor when one lot fell upon GALES,
breaking his bach
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13

Late corn has experienced mate
rial improvement in the states of
the Mississippi and Missouri valleys
and in Kentucky and Tennessee, and
with favorable temperature condi-
tions in September, the yield in the
Missouri valley will be larger than
indicated by previous reports.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13

weeks. Some of this gossip is highly SEN
sational in its references TO SIMPSONS S
condition. Many wellinformed persons
believe that he is not in condition to ap-
pear before the court and that this fact
is known at the navy department.
w. w. Jermane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
Proposed Replacement of the
Court of Appeals.
MOTHER INTERMEDIATE
This Function to Be Performed by
the Circuit Courts.
IDEA OF THE CODE COMMISSION
Chairman Botkin Tells of Radical
Changes That 1t Will
Recommend.

Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 13.-Alexander
C. Botkin of Montana, chairman OF the
United States code commission, has ar
rived here to spend several weeks. Mr..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
NEW DANISH LOAN.

Copenhagen, Aug 13+-A new state loan Of
SIC. 600 000 will, it is expected, be negotiated
shortly. The government hopes for the as
sistance OF American and French bankers in
making the loan.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13
Korea Will Grant Japan's Demand

81 petersburg the
of
The
oenan0 Dut 1t is expected
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13

Illinois the condition OF the crop has fur
ther deteriorated especially in southwestern
Ohio. In the Atlantic coast districts corn hai
made excellent progress.
''''.........-. ............'s.
Rains have Interrupted spring
wheat harvest, which, however, is
nearly finished over the southern
portion of the spring wheat region,
and caused lodging in portions of
North Dakota, where the grain is
reported as shrunken and heads not
: we'll filled, as a result of late ex-
: cessive heat. Wheat harvest on the
: north Pacific coast is in active
progress, with yields exceeding ex-
: pectations.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-13

In Ohio, Indiana and Central and southern
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