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Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1902-10-23
WILLIAMS is REMARKABLE.
He Has a Wonderful Nerve and
is Glad it is Over.

Is OIaO III Is over.
When Williams was taken up to his
cell, he said to Jail Warden Kampf
that he was glad it was over, and
now he could sleep soundly. He i'm
mediately retired, and was soon
asleep.
To his counsel Mr.. Iredell, Williams
remarked he was satisfied, and he
wanted to know if he would be
hanged next week.
Mr.. Iredell said that Williams was
the most remarkable colored man he
had ever known. His intellect was
good and he was most determined
Mr.. Iredell said that he did not want
to put Williams upon the stand. but
the prisoner insisted that he should
be permitted to tell his own story.
There is no likelihood that the case
will go any further. There are rea-
sons to think that Mr. Iredell is en-
tirely satisfied that the verdict could
not have been anything else. There
are also good reasons to feel that Mr..
Iredell knows every detail of the
crime and that sometime it will be
made fully public.
The convicted murderer will appear
before the Court on Monday morning
next for sentence.
This morning Mr.. Samuel Iredell
had an interview with the prisoner at
the Jail. Mr.. Iredell feels keenly the
position of Williams and this morning
asked him if he was satisfied with the
verdict. Williams replied that h
was perfectly, and that he did
want the case to go any further
Williams said that he had absolute
ly nothing against Frank J. Lore.
The Constable, he said, had always
treated him kindly and he respected
him much. He was also satisfied
with the treatment of Sheriff Hendee
and held malice against no one.
The unfortunate colored man now
wants to make all preparations for
the death which awaits him. . He
asked Mr.. Iredell to have Rev. DIR.
Showell, of Othello, and Rev. D. s.
Bayard, of Mt Zion Church, to visit
| him.
He also asked Mr. Iredell to have
his mother and father see him as soon
as possible, and he is extremely anxi-
GUS to have an interview with Miss
/ Chrissie Hubbard.
Williams still declares that the con-
fession he made to the officers was
not true. He has, however, made
full and complete confession which is
in possession of Mr.. Iredell. Mr.
Williams wants the public to know
the exact truth of the whole tragedy,
but he has exacted promise from
Mr.. Iredell not to permit it to be
made public until after he is hanged
The whole thought now of the doomed
man is to prepare for eternity, and he
expresses a determination to fully
equip himself to that end.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1902-10-23
LAST DAYS TESTIMONY.
The Closing Testimony and
Charge of the Court

AAO o1OSiIS anu
Charge of the Court.
The defense in the Job Williams
murder trial yesterday placed upon
the stand Mrs. Harry Bond, mother
of the prisoner at the bar. When the
witness took the stand she looked over
to the prisoner and nod of friendly
recognition passed between herself and
her boy, whose life at that moment
was hanging in the balance.
The revolver in the case was shown
witness and she could not identify it
positively as being the one belonging
to her son. She said Job had re-
volver and she had last seen it on
August 25th before the murder on the
27th. At the time witness last saw
Jobs revolver it had three empty
cartridges in it.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1902-10-23

llContlnued on Fourth Page.l
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
Seven Little Iowa Widows.

Seven little Iowa widows who had been
bcreaved of their manly protectors by
death, divorce and flight, have just re-
turned to their state from the wilds of
civilized Wyoming, where the lone crit
ters' had filed on nice rich HON esteads
such as Uncle Sam is still freely giving
his children. The .Deadwood Pioneer
Times; got his eye on the bunch on its
way through that city and says:
.'""This bunch of little widows was of a
varied kind, some were blond, some dark,
but be it said in Justice to them ALL each
with her type Of beauty, could be termed
without the least exaggeration, pretty and
not one was there that could not kindle
in the breast of any man with the average
make 7up,1 a little blaze, If not "a whole and
ur:uencbable fire Of affection. But this
was not their won't. These seven little
widows had compared notes, had got to-
gether. and each has swore constancy to
the other six, to live alone; to fight the
great future, and to work out their des-
TIMES single handed and alone"
The "girls'' are on their way back to
Iowa to get stock for their farms, but
among the live stock notice Is given out
that Man is not wanted. Some cynic has
said. 1.-THE more I see Of men, the more l
love dogs So with the ladies from Iowa.
The more they have seen of men,, the
more do they prefer cows.
Well, perhaps they are right But we
haze 75c that we are willing to risk on
the proposition that inside of two wears
at Il asst three Of the five will have their
man rcped and will be leading him into
tic settlement to find the preacher. We
may be wrong!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
and higher, helped by. the growing senti-

and higher, helped by the growing senti-
ment in favor Of wheat and the develop
ment Of squeeze" in Chicago Septem-
Der wheat. Depressing news comes from
abroad where the Russian official report
makes the crop Of that country as large
as the, record. There is already little
Of unfavorable news from the eastern
markets regarding Manitoba wheat, and
while it is early yet for competition from
this source, there will probably be much
of it soon after the Canadian crop move
ment gets fairly under way. $3.50.
In the northwest there IS an outlook
fully as favorable as at this time last
week, and the volume Of trade In the job
bling and manufacturing lines holds up
we'll. After several weeks of moderate
showings caused by the delayed grain
movement, Minneapolis is getting back
into normal fall conditions and for the
week had the heaviest bank clearings so
far this fall, gaining 1873 per cent over
last year, with total of ST., 1919. 1880.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
"Conciliation" in Practice.

Whatever the outcome Of the petition
of the flour mill operatives for an eight
hour day with twelve-hour pay, 1t IS
please to observe the spirit in which the
negotiations have so far been conducted
on both sides. The operators and the
operatives have shown a commendable
disposition to get together and talk the
matter over. Even the ultimatum ad-
dressed by the employers to the men,
through the mill foremen, is very friendly
and fair in tone. The employers do not
feel that they can meet all the demands
Of their men. They are willing to put
their mills on an eight-hour basis and
work three shifts Of men, but feel COM
PEELED to insist upon some reduction IN the
amount that constitutes a days pay. 1t
appears from their figures that the mill
ers" would receive 20 cents less day on
this basis than at present, the machine
men 18 cents less in one class and II
cents less in another. and the oilers IL
cents less.
This schedule Is large increase In the
hourly wage, although the amount earned
In eight hours will, as stated. be some
what less than at present earned in
twelve hours.
We strongly hope that this substantial
ly proved disposition Of the employers to
meet their men half way will result In
q friendly settlement Of the difficulty.
The offer Of the employers is to be
passed upon at g. meeting Of the union
H. Ga SroYo Qnt a
matter should not be decided in heat or
passion and there ought to be a full at
tendance. This Is not a matter which any
member Of the operatives union can per-
nit to be discussed or voted upon by
proxy. Labor unions sometimes decide
upon courses involving all Of their mem
bers which might have been different II
all had taken a part in the deliberations
Whether Minneapolis is to have a ruin
Gus strike depends largely upon the in
f1uence the more conservative members
of the union may be able to WELD at to-
morrow's meeting.
The mill operatives have just formed
a national or international union. Through
its agency they can work to bring about
that uniformity of labor conditions which
the mill owners feel should exist through
out the country, affecting their competi-
tors as we'll as themselves. In the mean
time the men may prefer to keep the
twelve hour day with it's absolutely larger
though relatively smaller income. Still
the eight-hour day with it's promise OF
leisure and ample time for domestic life
must be very attractive to many of the
operatives considering that the pay re.
duction is less than Hopper cent as against
time reduction Of SO 1a per cent.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
Good City, Good Government.

Good DR.. Folwell, Of the university and
the park board: never tires of his city
beautiful theme The doctor gets right
down to the roots Of human tendencies
when he tells us that good government
must be made to rest upon a good city
Make the city beautiful make the city
beloved of its people and they will take
care that no corruption no sloth shall
mar or blemish it. They will not easily
permit its fair fame to be aspersed by
boodlers. They will not consent to its
physical DETACHMENT through uncared-for
streets, dilapidated public buildings,
poorly made pavements.
And the people do love a beautiful city.
If it isn't such, they. wish to make It so.
A man becomes as much attached to his
city, in way, as to his home. He wants
order in the one as we'll as in the other.
When a man follows the poets advice:
LET now your. spul* fn this substantial
= world, -
Some anchor strike; be here the body
moored," wv ,@
He prefers the city beautiful, and when
he has struck his anchor, he is strongly
interested in preserving forever the beau
ty Of his substantial surroundings, and in
what preserves. +hN IT, nvr." .-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27

continuously clean administrative record,
from the executive head down. to the
street cleaning department and showing
police and fire, educational and public
works conducted without "a blemish.
United States Consul Miller, Of Much
wang, is quite enthusiastic about Dalny
and says the town offers splendid oppor-
tunities for the establishment of new bust.
ness enterprises by Americans. For the
sake of the welfare of Dalny, 1t is to be
hoped Dick Croker or Devery any of the
St. Louis boodlers will not take. it into
their heads to emigrate to Dalny to in
troduce their particular styles Of business
enterprise" and municipal methods, From
the present outlook it would appear that
Dalny will not be friendly to boodlers.
Dalny starts as full. fiedged modern city
with a clean record. 1t is to be hoped
she will maintain, such record.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
Evolution May Become Revolution.

Mr.. Reeds contention is precisely
Speaker Henderson's that the Dingley bill
is a work of perfection; that it is not to
be altered; that just it and nothing else
holds UP the prosperity of the country.
The whole idea is a vicious one, and the
particular application of it is foolish.
Government cannot make prosperity. It
can mar it. But the idea that on the
functions Of government depends mans
chance for living is a vicious idea. 1t is
from too much, not too little, interference
from the government that this country is
suffering. We are simply coming on the
time that sound republican doctrine
taught us would come, namely, the time
when our infant" industries sufficiently
.'fostered' by tariff would be able to do
without it. The younger generation Of
the country is seeing it and feeling it.
and demands reform. 1t is an evolution
that Mr.. Reed and Mr. Henderson con-
front, but it may easily become a revolu.
ton. 49, -,.... ssar'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
Large But Necessary.

That is a very large bond issue, that
5000, OOO which the city council decided
last night to ask the people to vote on at
the approaching election. Two hundred
thousand dollars Of this amount, how
ever is all that can actually be validated
by popular approval. If the people vote
in favor Of a 100000 bond issue for new
grade schools, the same can be issued
without further delay; but the 100000
asked for a hltering plant, and 100000
for paving and sewers, must receive legis-
lative Endorsement before they can be is
sued. The plan of submitting them to a
popular vote is merely a method Of ar
irving at popular opinion concerning a
proposition that will be finally passed
upon by the legislature.
The board of education prefers to meet
the expenses of each year, including new
buildings, by direct appropriation Of taxes.
It, therefore, asks the board of tax levy
for 100000 for new buildings. But the
board asks the council for 100000 OF
bonds for use on grade schools during
1903 and 1904, In case the board Of tax
levy prefers to have the money raised
that way If the latter board provides
the $780, 900, the voters will not be called
upon to pass upon the request for 100000
Of new bonds.
| The request Of the board Of education
is not excessive. The school population
Of Minneapolis is growing so rapidly thai
5000, 900 must be spent for new buildings
in the next two years.
| While submission Of the filter plant an6
paving and sewer bonds to popular vote
is not necessary, it is a sort Of referen.
dunn that is entirely praiseworthy. THAI
the city requires q fltering plant, so lone
as the river water is unfit to drink, is al
indisputable proposition. There may b
some doubt as to the best filtration meth.
DDS, but the experience Of European cite!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27

The announcement of Miss Helen
Gould's work In organizing the Institute
for Social Service serves to remind the
public of the, marked difference. between
her and other women Of her wealth. GLASS;,
While they are spending their money
harmnfully to themselves and the cointry
in the barbaric splendor. OF. Newport, Miss
Gould devotes her wealth and her time
to useful work VI Every dollar Miss Gould
spends, in her philanthropic or, public
spirited, works is money which does good
and mu1tiplies good--Money spent in
.travasance does no. good On the''con-
trary, it is positively 4 source of injury
to the community. Every serious minded
rich man, who has fairly and squarely won
his wealth, must wonder fearfully at
times whether his children are to- be like
such inheritors of wealth as Miss Gould
and make their inheritaDces blessings to
themselves and the community, or w1eth-
er they will prefer to make it a. curse to
I themselves and an, offense to society by
/ ''burning it up as the 'howling swells''
do at Newport. ...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
. Refreshing Political Honesty,

A candidate fer register Of deeds recent
~ came out fiat footed for himself in an
open letter that appeared in the Kiowa
Sentinel He said:
I'm announcing myself as candidate for
register of deeds for Kiowa county, sub
ject to the decision Of the republican coun-
ty convention in September, I do not do
it at the earnest request of a large number
Of friends, nor has there been a delega-
ton of the most prominent citizens who
have waited upon me and drank nv
whisky and smoked my cigars and urgent
ly requested me to allow my name to
come before the convention as a candi-
date, believing that I was the only man
who could be elected-none of this has
happened. I have worked it up myself
In fact, it is a self-made. boom. I am
getting little too old to farm and a little
too ambitious to be thrown in the waste
basket, and would like couple Of years
rest just tor see how loafng around the
county seat feels to an old man. ri.
If this man didn't carry the convention
with whoop, there is nothing in sincerity
and political honesty. -
~, "A. J. Russell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
"A Feat in City Building.

. The new Russian seaport, Dalny, which
the car has built from the ground up, and
has opened with the announcement that
it is to be free to people of all nations, is
an interesting study in city building.
The car would have a seaport at the
terminus of the Chinese Eastern railway,
which Russia has built through Manchu-
ria, connecting with the Siberian railway,
so, on the desert coast he gave orders to
build modern city and it has been done,
on Tulienwan bay. a fine deep. ice-free
harbor. Great stone PIERS supplied with
railway tracks, warehouses, elevators, gas,
electric lights. water, have been con-
structed, together with a massive stone
breakwater and docks. On the city site
proper streets have been graded and
paved and substantial brick buildings have
been erected, and hotels, churches, school
buildings, theaters, railway shops, admin
istrative offices are rapidly going up, and
there are many parks under the charge of
an expert. horticulturist. The town has
cost, so far, something over $4,000, 900
and all the work has been done in the most
| SUBSTANTIAL manner. Lilo government VI
the city will be conducted by council
elected by the rate payers. Two Of the
council must be Russian subjects and not
more than two Chinese or two Japanese
can be elected so as to sit in the council
at the same time, but the council is not to
control the water, light and street-car
service, which Is perhaps wise provision.
There is to be no custom house In Dalny
and tonnage dues, dock charges and
wharfage and warehouse charges are to
be maintained at the lowest point and
everything is to be done to promote and
develop commerce. If this economic pol
icy is carried out, Dalny will become a
great seaport
+ Here is spic-and-span modern city de-
veloped suddenly on the Manchurian
coast. All the accessories Of modern ur-
ban civilization are assembled there and
| it. is to be hoped that the czar will see tc
it that none Of the widely prevalent mu-
nicipal corruption will be assembled with
the other features. It would be good
Idea for the car to demonstrate that a
modern city in the far orient can make q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
Roosevelt's Mixed Blood.

--4'--- FIOT1ua I1meS-UnIOn. y =
At heart the president is nonsectional to
an extent that could never be attributed
to any other public man, Perhaps it Is
due to the fact that he has in his veins
in equal proportion the blood of the north
and the south. He is manly mana
great Iadmirer, Of courage and his south
erns ancestors made regulations for brav-
cry In defense of their country, and if we
judge from his speeches we may infer
that the principal fighting record Of the
family in the civil war was made in the
armies Of the confederacy. A truly broad
man ought never to suffer politics to make
him seem narrow at any time Fol-
lowing the promptings Of his heart, both
sections would claim him and admire him
Such a man should never so act for
time as to even temporarily forfeit that
admiration. No man should strive for adj
miration, but all men should endeavor to
deserve it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
EDITORIAL EXCERPTS
Anent the-CoaI Strike.
Kansas City Star.


BY their arrogance and by their 1gnor.
ing the interests of the public, the operat-
ors have provoked a feeling that may
prove dangerous to them. When a cir
cult court judge is willing to suggest such
radical remedies as those outlined by
Judge Gibbons it is probable that the pub
lie at large is strongly aroused. The fact
is that the people-east of the Mississippi,
at least-have too much at stake to allow
the present situation to persist Indefinitely
or to recur frequently. The operators
may be fairly certain that eventually the
public will defend itself on the ground that
the rights of property are subsidiary to the
rights of the state. The refusal OF the
mine owners to provide any remedy Is
tending directly to that state interference
which they are now so vigorously oppos-
ing BY singular infatuation they seem
blind to the fact that their course is in
viting the very thing which they profess
thoroughly to abhor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27
Not an Illusion.

The chairman Of the democratic con-
gressional committee. Judge Griggs, has
started in the most hysterical manner on
a crusade against prosperity.
Having exhausted the virtue Of such
issues as ''imperialism," free trade"
trusts from the democratic standpoint,
the committee has now entered upon the
task Of trying to prove that prosperity
does not exist in the United States and
that the workinEnnen must be convinced
that they have been grossly deceived by
the wicked republicans. Judge Griggs
declares the talk Of a full dinner pail to
be an elaborate falsehood and the COM
mittee are printing at large expense many
pages Of statistics to prove that the work.
ingman's dinner pail is nearly empty on
account of the prices he has to pay for
food.
notwithstanding these ardent statistical
efforts to prove the dinner pail to be
empty, or nearly so, the pail itself con-
tinues to be actually as well charged with
wholesome food as it has been for several
years past, or since the republicans began
to do the national housekeeping, after the
somewhat demoralizing Cleveland regime.
1.-The cry of prosperity and the full
dinner PAIL" declares Judge Griggs, ''is
a fake and a fraud" The workman is the
subject Of an illusion. He takes up his
pail at dinner time to eat his dinner, and
10! there Is nothing in it. It Is empty. It
is an illusion! Much Of the Testimony
given by Chairman Griggs and found ,sAa
the democratic campaign book is given by
striking coal miners who admit that their
wages have been increased 20 per cent
during the last four years. -
During the campaign Of 1895 which, by
the democrats, was fought in order to
fasten the single silver standard on this
country, their hot contention was that the
gold standard was a very" bad thing be-
cause, according to their theory, it pro-
! duced a fall in the prices of commodities
| and they declared they wanted the silver
| standard because it raised prices and
wages. Now these people bitterly COM
| plain because the prices of a number Of
commodities have risen. What will satisfy
them? The higher prices are chiefly due
to the fact, which cannot be successfully
denied, that the consumptive demand OF
the people is larger and stronger, than ii
has been in the entire history Of the coun-
try. The purchasing power Of the people
is much greater. The actual, verifablc
trade and transportation and clearing
house statistics prove this. The people are
buying and buying largely of articles
which workingman in the alleged "goo6
old times would not dream Of buying be-
cause Of the expense. =.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-27


The rumors that the money and trust
magnates of New York are latter Roose-
velt' finds support in, the course of such
papers as the New York Sun and Harper's
Weekly. One time both Of them could
not say enough for Roosevelt. Now the
Sun is frankly against his trust-curbing
plan, and >Harper's Weekly begins to
evince democratic leanings. All at once
it has discovered great admiration for
states rights and local governmental i'm
dependence, and evinces a great fear that
Mr.. Roosevelt will completely change the
character of our government. In fine,
the Weekly is rapidly. getting to the point
where it feels that more is. to be- feared
from Roosevelt than from the trusts,
which the Weekly, after all, regards as a
pretty good sort" '