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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
SUTHERLAND HAD
THE LAST LAUGH.
He Proved That Wheat Would
Make a Good Crop On
Pine Lands.

Kawkawlin, Mich. April 16.-AIr.
and Mrs. John Sutherland. of this
township. celebrated the 60th anniver-
sary of their marriage yesterday. They
have lived here for forty-SiX years.
Sutherland raised the first wheat ever
grown in the piny wilds of northern
Michigan on his farm fOrty-three years
ago. Every one laughed at him
when he sowed the wheat, declaring
that it wouldn't grow in this soil. The
stumpS and roots We're so thick in the
field that it was impossible to plow the
ground, and the seed wheat was sim
ply worked in by means of an old
fashioned drag hauled by yoke of
oxen.
When harvest time came that wheat
field was visited by people from miles
around. The stalks had grown 50
high that they hid every stump i'll the
field, and the heads of grain were
the largest ever dreamed of On
that same piece OF ground Sutherland
raised Il crop of oats last season that
harvested nearly 100 bushels to the
acre, and this year it is sowed with
wheat that gives promise of more than
an average yield but it will never
turn out any such crop as was that
first one. planted way back towards
the middle of the last century
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
Of Intereat to GIns. Workerr.

Pittsburg. Pa. April 16.-The win
dow glass manufacturers are arrang-
ing a meeting to consider the extern
sion of the fire which it has been an
nounced will end May II. according to
the understanding between the manu-
facturers and the National JobberS'
association. Many of the independent
concerns are anxious to keep the fac
tories open until June II. and the gen
cral belief is that this will be done.
as many requests have come in recent
iy fer the extension. and the feeling of
the workmen is general that the fire
should not he suspended until month
later
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
THE STUDEBAKERS
HAVE A NEW DEAL.
All Their Branch Offices Are
Now Locally Man.
aged.

South Bend, Ind, April IL. = The
Studebaker Bros Manufacturing
company, of this city. has just com
pIeted an extensive business deal by
which it has changed branches in the
west to home offices. making each
corporation. The object of the change
is to make what has heretofore been
simply Il branch more closely identi-
fed as a home concern having a local
management and with local capital in
vested.
Another reason is that such an ar
rangement makes it more convenient
for the company's business and also
permits some of the office managers to
become proprietors, giving them an in
terest in the corporation on n profit
sharing basis and thus making them
more deeply interested in promoting
the general interests of the company.
Corporations have been formed in Salt
Lake City. Utah: Portland. Ore, and
San Francisco. Each new company
takes over all of the business and as
sets of the branch
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
DECISION IN a LABOR CASE.
PennsyIvnnia's Supreme Court Delivers an
Important Opinion.

Important opinion.
Philadelphia, Pa. April 16.-The SUI
preme court of Pennsylvania in an
opinion yesterday holds that members
of the American Federation of Labor
have no right to entice apprentices
working in a factory to become mem
berS of the glass workers union. The
case upon which the opinion is based
is an appeal of L. !. Skelly and others.
members of the glass workers union,
from the Judgment of the Allegheny
county court restraining them from
interfering with the apprentices of
Charles l. FlaccuS, glass manufac-
turer of Tarentum, Pa.
The supreme court diSmfSSes the ap-
peal at the cost of the members of the
union. The opinion says. among other
things, that the manufacturer had the
right to employ wOrkmen who. were
independent of any labor union, and
he had the further right to adopt Il
system of apprenticeship which ex-
cluded his apprentices from member
ship i'm such unions, and no one had a
right TO interfere with it to his in
jury. The court found that the inter
ference was injurious to him, and if
allowed to continue would ruin his
business
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
SOME MORE FIGHTING
IN SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.
Kitchener Reports a Number OF
ReVerses For the
Beers.

London, April 16.-The war office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria.
April 10: Colonel Sir Henry Rawlin-
sons column rushed the south laager,
northwest of KlerkSdOrp, at daylight.
Six Beers were killed. ten wounded
and twenty three taken prisoners. He
captured a twelve-pounder, one POM
pom complete, and two ammunition
wagons with ammunition. Our CASUAL
ties were three wounded.
Colonel Plumer captured field
cornet and seven men. with ten wae-
ons and eighteen rifles. During Col
onel Pitchers operations in Orange
river colony seven Beers We're killed"
There is no confirmation of the story
current yesterday that General French
and 800 men had been captured by
Beers during Il fight and il is not be-
lieVed here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS.

General Daniel Butterfield is recov-
ering from the stroke of paralysis he
sustained Friday.
Owners of the Manila -Dagupan rail-
way ask So, 100000 for damages to the
line since 1899.
Bishop Turner. of the A. NJ. f.
church, repeats his declaration in ia
vor of banishing colored criminals to
Africa.
John O'Brien, pioneer saloonkeep-
er at Chicago, declared at n dinner
table that the LIQUOR mans life was
hard, and dropped dead.
Five boy employees of Hibbard,
Spencer, Bartlett & Co.. Chicago, con-
fessed to plot to rob the firm.
The Hungarian census gives Buda-
pest a population of 7O3, ,44S. the Jews
having increased 81 per cent. in ten
years.
Bohemian Roman Catholics at Chi
cago protest against law for free
textbooks in public schools.
John A. Kasson, special reciprocity
commissioner refuses to receive his
salary because the senate failed to act
on his work and most of IL is now
voided by limitation.
The United Mine Workers have de-
cided to continue the strike in the
bituminOus coal fields of Kansas, Ar
kansas, and Indian Territory
A six-day walking match Is on at
the Columbus (O) Auditorium.
Mrs Carrie Nation was ordered out
of Kansas City, Mo-. yesterday by a
Judge who fined her $500 and suspend
ed the fine She went.
About 900 boilermakers. helpers and
heaters, are on strike at Buffalo, y.
Y, for higher wages.
Major John III. Belcher. u. S. A.
Cretired), dropped dead in the subway
at Boston Yesterday. he was II. +,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
GETS HIS ORDERS
DIRECT FROM ON HIGH.
Mormon Hears From the Lord As
To Two Church Cues.
tions.

Kansas city. Mo-. April 16.-Presi-
dent Joseph Smith of the Reorganlzed
Church of Latter Day Saints, yester-
day announced to the conference III
Independence, Mo-, that the Lord had
revealed His will TO him relative to
two subjects which have been mooted
questions in the church.
The two questions are whether
women delegates should be allowed to
act in legislative capacity in the
church and whether priests and teach
ers who are not delegates, should be
allowed an ex-ofticio vote in the con-
ference.
The body OF the church will not be
told the substance of the revelation
until the quorum of twelve and other
Official bodies have anrOYed il
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
SHOOK THE DICE FOR
CONTROL OF AN OFFICE.
Upon Which Depended a Board OF
Supervisors Political
Complexion.

Carlyle. Ills. April 16.-The political
complexion of the Bond county board
of supervisors was changed by game
of dice and the Republicans now have
a majority of one. The board was for
merly Democratic. John Driskill,
Democrat. and Robert Pullen. Repub-
lican. were rival candidates for super
visor in Shoal Greek township.
They received the same number of
votes, and the contest was decided by
shaking three dice. Pullen made Il
total score of forty-One and Driskill
thirty-four in three throws. The Re
publican candidate was therefore de-
clared elected. He is an engineer at
the coal mine in SarpntO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
SOME GREAT
POSSIBILITIES
involved in Strike That Is Only
a Small Affair as 1t Stands
Now.
MIGHT DEVELOP INTO A BIG ONE
In Which the Case Would Be Steel
TRUST VS.. Amalgamated Asso-
ciation-LabOr News.

Pittsburg, April 16.-As a result OF
volved the employees of the w. Devices
Wood plant of the American Sheet
Steel company at McKeesport and the
company, about half of the men are
on strike and the operation of the
plant is badly crippled. The cause of
the trouble was the recent discharge
of seven men, who, the men claim.
We're dismissed because they We're
members of the newly organized lodge
of the AmalgamatedAssoci The
strike was ordered at a meeting of the
local lodge Sunday afternoon and went
into effect at l a. IN. yesterday.
Might Result I'm a Big Fight.
The event is looked upon as momen-
tous throughout the iron and steel
trade of the country. from the fact
that it is the first conflict between or
saniZed labor and the new United
States Steel corporation and because
of the announced intention yesterday
of President I. ]. Shaffer, the head of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron.
Steel and Tin Workers, to tie up every
plant of the new combine, steel. tin.
tube. structural iron, wire and all, if
chance that the men in all the mills
of the United States Steel corporation
will be called on to come out, no one
connected with the management of any
o. the organized plants in the new
corporation viii consent TO he quoted.
Most OF the Mills Are Union.
The only underlying companies in
the new corporation whose mills are
entirely Independent of the Amalga-
mated Association are the Carnegie
interests and the National Tube COM
pany. The mills of the American
steel Hoop company, the American
Tin Plate company and the Republic
Iron and Steel company are all or
ganized. while most of those of the
American Sheet Steel company and
the National Steel company and a few
of the National Steel. American Steel
and Wire and American Bridge plants
work under the Amalgamated ASsOcia-
tion. Most of the American Steel and
Wire plants are controlled by the rod
mill men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
DESTITUTION is RIFE IN
ISLAND OF PORTO RICO,

Washington, April 16. : Santiago
Iglesias, representative of the Fed
Grafton of Labor in Porto Rico, who
came to this country recently with Il
petition signed by 5000 Porto Ricans
praying for relief from the distressing
conditions alleged to exist on the ISL
and, presented the petition TO the
president yesterday. He told the
president that the destitution and dis
tress existing in the island could be
relieved if the government would ex-
pend liberal sums in the building of
roads. The president promised to look
into the matter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
IMPORTANT SUIT WON
BY CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.
Court Decides That They Can
Continue Their Mental
Healing.

Milwaukee, April 16.-Police Justice
Neelen was Overruled in the circuit
court by Eugene S. Elliott in the
Christian Science case. In the case OF
the state of Wisconsin against Mrs.
Ciescentia Aries and Miss Emma
Nichols, Justice Neelen found the de-
PENDANTS guilty of practicing medicine
without license and fined them $50
each.
Yesterday Judge Elliott found the
defendants not guilty of the charge
and ordered their immediate discharge.
The decision of Judge Elliott is final
in this case, as the state cannot ap-
peal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
win DoubIe-Track 100 Miles.

South Bend, Ind, April 16.-Super-
intendent W. G. Cotter, of the Grand
Trunk Western railway. has given out
a statement in which he says that it
is the company's intention to double-
track 100 miles of its road this year.
The work will be between Port Huron
and Durand, Mich, and will take in
the loop around Flint. Mich. He states
that it will probably be two years be-
fore the system is entirely double
tracked between Port Huron and Chi
cago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
Want American Protection.

Pekin. April 16.-Li Hung Chang
has applied 10 General Chaffee to leave
behind when he departs Captain Till
son and sufficient number of men to
police the Chinese city. as the Chinese
earnestly desire their retention fear
ing that the district viii not he well
looked after when controlled by other
foreigners. An expedition consisting
of 5000 German and 5000 French
troops will leave Pao Ting Flu to drive
from the province several thousand
Chinese who refuse to obey the order
of Ii Hung Chang to keep to the
boundaries already arranged.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
COLLEGE is NEARLY COMPLETE
Only Lacks One of Being FuIl-PuttinS
His House in Order.

hNs Or0er.
Washington, April 16.-According to
news which has just reached the
apostolic delegation, the consistory to
be held i'll Rome yesterday was the
most noteworthy during the pontiticate
of Leo XIII. Mgr. Martinellfs NOM
nation to the cardinalate was an
nounced, together with those of other
prelates. This is the largest number
of prelates promoted to the sacred
college at one time within many years.
Pope Leo's health is excellent for a
man in his 92d year, but there is much
significance in the fact that the aged
pontiff is setting his house in order.
The creation cardinals at this con-
sistory will bring the sacred college to
within one of its full complement, IL
condition which has not before existed
since the beginning of the Nineteenth
century.
Since 1890 the college has been linn
tied to seventy cardinals. This in
fusion of new blood into the college
is all favorable to Cardinal Rampolla.
the papal secretary of state. The ap-
Dointment of sixteen sure votes in the
conclave is regarded as assuring either
the election of RampOlla as pope or
the selection of some prelate commit
ted TO the ecclesiastical policy of the
present pontiff and his secretary of
state.
Cardinal RampQlla is now 5S years
of age. He was raised to the purple
March H. 1887, and three months later,
on June 10, was appointed secretary
of state. During the last fourteen
years he has borne the burden of the
pope's politics. During the first eight
years of his reign Leo invalided two
secretaries of state, and Rampolla's
long official term is attributed to his
wonderful vitality.
The secretary OF state belongs to
one of the oldest and most honorable
families in Sicily and is the only rep
resentative of the conscript families
now in the sacred college. Only two
of the sixteen new cardinals are not
of Italian birth. This addition will
give the Italians majority of thirteen
votes. the college standing forty-one
Italians and twenty-eight of other ma
tionalities. 1t requires two-thirds
majority to elect pope.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
Four Men Have a Close Call.

Iron Mountain. Mich. April 16.-
Four men, Louis Dierick. John Del
larck. Frank Peters and AlphOnse
Adearet, came near losing their lives
in the West Vulcan mine of the Penn
Iron company at Norway. Six men
had entered the skip to be taken to
the surface, but the signal was either
given wrong or mistaken and the skip
collided with some Overhanging tim
bers, upsetting it. Two of the men
clunG to the skip and were unhurt,
but the other four fell TO the bottom
Of the shaft and were seriously hurt,
though not fatally
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
President Shaffer, of Steel
Workers, Calls Meeting
of Advisory Board.
FAVOR ; CLOSING ALL PLANTS.
McKeesport Mill Being Oper-
ated in Crippled Con-
dition.

Pitlsburg, April 16.-The strike at
w. Devices wood plant of the Amer
lean Sheet Steel company at McKees-
port is still on. The mill is being
operated iu crippled condition with
out the same numbe of men working
as yesterday. No trouble has occurred.
President Shaffer. of tne Amalgamated
association, today issued call for a
special meeting here tomorrow of the
national advisory board, together with
the vice presidents of every district
where the sheet com bination has a
plant.
VIII Urge Closing of Plants.
Shaffer, in speaking of the meeting,
said: 81 shall advise and urge all
members of the board to vote for the
immediate closing of all plants of the
American sheet steel companies in
the country. This will be the begin
ming of the fight, and will say moth
ing further on the subject"
Strike on Lachawanna.
Scranton Pa, April 16.-Two hum
dred switchmen in the Lackawauna
yards here and at Clarks Sumit
struck this afternoon against
the discharge of two men by
Yardmaster Newell. who wanted to
replace them, it is said, by the men
brought from Hoboken. There is a
complete tie-up of freight and coal
traffic here. Three miles of coal cars
are already blocked on the Blooms
burg division.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
FRANK MAJOR HANGED
TODAY AT MEADViLLE.

Meadville. Pa, April 16.-Frank
Major, alias Daniel j. Kehoe, was
hanged in the Jail yard this afternoon
for the murder November. '99, of
Chief of Police McGrath, of Titusville,
while the latter was attempting to ar
rest Kehoe for burglary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
Actors sTnder Arrest.

New York. April 16.-Dan DAILY. De
Wolf Hopper and William \. Brady
were arrested in this city charged with
violation of the penal code in con-
nection with the raising and lowering
of curtains for Il theatrical perform
ance on Sunday. The men are charged
with having produced burlesque on
Uncle Toms Cabin" at a vaudeville
performance at the Academy of Music,
De Wolf Hopper having played the i'm
itation of Uncle Tom. All three We're
released OH bail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
Takes the Cloud from a Title.

Washington. April ia decision
rendered by the supreme court yester-
day will remove a cloud from the title
to tracts of land bordering the Illi-
nOis and Michigan canal for distance
of 100 miles. The court affirms Il de-
cision of the Illinois supreme court
holding that the state has no right
to a strip of land ninety feet wide
along the border of the canal The
states title extends only TO its seven
teen-foOt tow path.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
n1inneapoli, strike Is Growing.

Minneapolis, Mimi, April 16.-At II
n. M. yesterday all union men of the
building trades employed on contracts
where the carpenters had been locked
out We're ordered out. This order af-
fectS about 100 brick masons and 100
other mechanics already at work Most
of the building trades have scarcely
got started on the seasons work or
the number of men affected would be
much larger
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
WOMAN'S LIFE SAVED
BY APPLICATION OF SALT.
Was Apparently a Corpse Before
the Solution Was In
jected.

Evansville, Ills, April 16.-Had it
not been for the injection of normal
salt solution Mrs. Nellie Allen proba
bly, would have been Il corpse now.
For three minutes last Friday she lay
on an operation table in the sanitari-
um of DR.. J. J. Richstein apparently
a corpse. The most delicate instru-
ments failed to record the slightest
action of the heart and there was no
evidence that the respiratory organs
were performing their functions.
Three physicians examined the woman
and agreed that all signs of life were
extinct.
Nitro-glycerine, strychnia and other
stimulants We're used to revive the
patient. but without success. AS last
resort the doctors opened vein in the
woman's arm and pumped in a pint of
normal salt solution. They were re-
warded few seconds later by seeing
the patient open her eyes. and soon
she asked for something to eat. The
rapid transition from apparent death
to life amazed the doctors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
Bad Storm in wyoming.
BOYS PAY PENALTY
FOR DRINKING ALCOHOL

Cory, Pa, April 16.-Five young
lads, aged to II. found bottle of
wood alcohol in the woods near Shot
field yesterday, and drank freely of it.
One is dead, and the others are not
expected to live.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
rwo small Bows Missing.

EIwood. Ind. April 16.-Willie and
Clayson Seekins. aged respectively l3
and o. sons of Rev. J. W. Seekins, OF
Fairmont, are missing. They left home
week ago last Wednesday ana the
parents have searched diligently for
them lint to no avail
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
DISTRIBUTION
OF RED HATS
Pope Leo XIII Nearly Fills Up the
College of Cardinals at
Rome.
SELECTIONS POINT TO RAMPoLLA
As the Next Pope-Martinelli Is One
of the Favored-Leo Discusses
the Situation.

Rome April 16.-At the papal con-
slstory held Saturday Archbishop Mar
tinelli, the papal delegate in the
United States, was preconised a car
dinal Eleven other cardinals were
created. The names of the other new
cardinals are: Mgr. Fripeti, Mgr. Ca
bagnis, Mgr. San Miniatelli, Mgr. eau
mari, Mgr. Della Vilce. the Archbishop
of Ferrara. the Archbishop of Pragua,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
Been Contracting Too Mueh Matrimony.

Laporte. Ind, April 16-Frederick
Erksmicr, of Calvin, Mich, is being
searched for by officers, who allege
that he has contracted five marriages
without the necessary formality of Sc
curing divorce in any instance. Erks-
mier has been missing for several
months, and when last heard from
WAS in South Bend. where he is al
legged to have abandoned his fifth wife
Before settling in the locality of CAL
vim Erksmier was an itinerant
preacher
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
refused to Obey a Strike order.

Louisville. Ky, April 16-The coal
miners in Hopkins, Christian and
Webster counties. tnis state, were or
dered some time ago by the president
of the United Mine Workers to strike
yesterday. Only about per cent.
of the miners are said to have struck,
however, and the mines are operating
as usual. The miners and the United
Miner Workers officials are at va
FiaOpp
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
Suicided I'm Jail.

Carmi Ills. April 16.-Joseph Cook,
the son of well-knOwn lawyer at Au-
gusta, Ind, committed suicide in the
Jail yesterday morning, where he was
confined. Cook hired horse and bug
gy from Il livery at GRANVILLE last
week and failed to return it in due
time. The sheriff overlook him at
Mount Vernon and brought him here
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16
Saws Was AcciIentnI

Little Falls. Mimi. April 16.-George
Johnson. aged 10, farmland en-
ploycd on Peter Peterson's farm at
Elmda,e, this county. shot and killed
Arthur Olson. aged IA. a son of Nels
Olson. Sunday afternoon. while they
were out fishing. johnson claims it
was an apipdpnf
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-04-16

Washington, April 16.-The presi-
dent decided to appoint William M.
jenkins governor OF Oklahoma terri
tory to succeed the present governor,
Barnes. whose term expires soon.
Jenkins is the present secretary of
The territory.