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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
MERGER SUIT BEGINS AGAIN
President Hill Tells Something OF How
AMI Why the Combine Was
Rrourht About.

st. Paul. Mimi, Oct. 21.-The ad-
journed hearing of the government
suit against the so-called railway
merger was called to orde" by Special
Examiner Ingersollat the circuit court
in this city yesterday. and the entire
day was given to the direct testimony
of President ]. J. Hill, for the defend
ants. the croSs-eXamination having
just begun when the hearing adjourn
ed for the day.
Hill brought out that the exchange
of Great Northern stock for that of
the Northern Securities company was
the individual act of the individual
shareholders, and dwelt at length on
his statement that the whole purpose
of the organization of the Northern Sc
curities company was for the protec-
tion of a great commerce with the
Orient which the Northern lines had
sought to develop in competition with
the transportation companies of the
whole world
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
MYSTERIOUS AssAILANT
BIoodhounds Cannot Trace Him After He
Has Fired Twice at Promi-
nent Citizen.

Keokuk, Ia, Oct. 21.-The police
department. has been working unsuc-
cessfully to solve a mysterious assault
made on Thomas II. Pond, a leading
business man of this city. Pond went
into his back yard at night and saw
man standing inside the fence, who
shot twice at him, both shots miss
ing their mark. The man escaped
down a high Mississippi river bluff
near by. The police put bloodhounds
on the trail within an hour. but the
dogs failed.
Pond has no idea who his assailant
was Recently wealthy farmer liv-
ing in a suburb of Keokuk was shot at
his home at the same hour of the
night. and the police and a detective
agency have found no clue as yet. The
similar attempt to shoot Pond causes
the suspicion that some one is trying
to exterminate the wealthy citizens OF
KeOkuk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
EVERY DAY HIS BUSY DAY
Editor Who Seems to Attend Pretty Much
All the Business There Is
Going.

Stillman Valley, Ills. Oct 21.-J. A.
Atwood, editor of the Stillman Valley
Graphic, VINO is also an undertaken,
tombstone agent police magistrate, in
surance agent and village preacher,
took charge of the remains of the
wife of one of his subscribers. preached
her funeral sermon, noted her death in
his paper and erected monument at
her grave. Later he acted Mt the mar
riage of the widOwer, gave him an
other notice in his paper, insured the
lives of both bride and groom against
death or accident and the new home
against fire or tornado.
BESIDES giving his attention to such
matters Atwood is secretary of the
Battle Ground Memorial association. is
Il member Of six lodges. being secre-
tary of some and chaplain of others
He has been assessor of his township
and a member of the board of school
trustees. AS justice of the peace he
marries more people than any person
in the county. In the management or
his paper he officiates in every capacity
from e,.,tnr to copy boy and still has
time to spare
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
as TO THE DRAM SHOP LAW
Supreme Court Decision That Sustains 3
Saloonkeeper's Idea of the
Revenue.

Washington. Oct. 21.-The only
written opinion delivered in the Unit
ed States supreme court yesterday
was handed down by Chief Justice
Fuller in the case of Peter AmbroSini,
of Chicago, versus the United States.
Ambrosini is the owner of saloon
and he was charged with violating the
war revenue law by failing to place
50-cent stamp on the dram shop
bond required by the laws of the state
of Illinois.
The case was decided in favor Of
the United States by the district court
for the northern district of Illinois. but
the decision was reversed by yester-
days opinion on the ground that the
bonds required of the keepers of sa-
looms by the law were in the interest
of the state rather than the individual
and therefore exempt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
SAVED BY HER YOUNG SON
With n Gas Pipe "a Boy of 10 Years Re-
pulses an Attempt on His Moth
er's Life.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Oct 21.-The
life of Mrs. Anna Croul, a widow who
conducts Il boarding house on Eighth
avenue, was saved by her 1O-year-old
son, who came to her rescue, armed
with a gas pipe. Thomas Haley. an
OLD man aud former boarder whom
she had recently elected from the
house, returned Wednesday night, and
in answer to his rap at the door she
was confronted by Haley, who with
revolver in hand. said:
Il have come here to kill you" The
woman grabbed the revolver and be-
gan to scream, and while Haley had
the woman almost chOked into insensi-
bility her son arrived and beat him
over the head with a gas pipe until
he was compelled to make his escape.
Later he was captured by the police
and locked up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
MILLINER
VALUES LOVE AT $50, 900

Mankato. Mimi, Oct. 21.-A sensa-
tion was caused here yesterday when
Mrs. Lizzie II. Phelps. owner of a mil
linery establishment, began an action
in the district court against Lester
Patterson to recover $4,000 damages
for alleged breach of promise of mar
riage. Mr.. Patterson was recently
married to a wealthy widow at Los
Angeles, Cal.
Mrs. Phelps alleges that she and
Patterson were engaged for two
years and that she was greatly as
tonished when the California we'd
ding took place.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
ENTHUSIASM OVER DE WET
Germans Force the General to Appear at
a. NJ. Sunday and Speak in His
Paiamas.

Berlin, Oct. 21. = General De Wet
spoke in his night shirt at . O'Clock
Sunday morning at the Hanover sta
ton TO 1000 persons, who almost
stormed the train. The general leaned
out of a window as he addressed the
assemblage, recounting the warmth of
the reception in Berlin and the liberali-
ty of the Germans.
The generals collected total of $751;
500 here. They undertook to give au-
tographic receipts to every contributor
of $1.25, and had to spend several
hours daily signing receipts. De Wet
said that If the thing kept up his
right arm would be in sling as the re-
suit of writer's paralysis. Envelops
containing money were thrown into
the Beers carriages when they were
out driving.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
NEED OF SHAW'S HELP
Newspaper Humor Which Was
Taken for Fact by Some
People of CreduIity.
TWO CRUELTY MISGUIDED WOMEN
Who Thought the Head of the Ma
tionaI Treasury Was n Soulful
Corporation.

Washington. Oct. 21.-Several news
papers recently have published para
graphs similar TO the following: Per
sons who don't know that prosperi-
~ IS here are looking askance at the
action of Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw in coming to the relief of Wall
street. This is ridiculous That's just
what good old Uncle Sam is here for
to help the deserving. Anybody who
is short and wants 81 to tide him over
until next pay day can get it by ad-
dressing Mr.. Shaw, treasury building,
Washington. 1t is strange that this is
not more generally known" That
paragraph has been taken seriously is
illustrated by the number of letters
that have been received by the treas,
ury department. Two. which came in
yesterday read as follows, the signers'
names being withheld for obvious real
sons:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
INSURANCE FIRMS LOSE
HEAVILY THROUGH FRAUD
Graveyard Schemes in New Orleans District
Said to Have Cost Companies
About 100000.

the details of the case and speaking or
Cornish said: You gentlemen may
think it was foolish of Cornish to give
the contents of a bottle received in that
way to Mrs. Adams"
THAT is drawing on the Imagination
Of the jury" interrupted the court
The assistant district Attorney after
explaining the nature of different poi
sons was advancing theory to the et-
fects at secrecy made by the poisoner,
when the court interruted him again:
You can tell the jury" Justice Lam
bert said, what you will prove, and
not the deductions you want them to
draw"
Il expect to prove those facts, your
honor" Osborne replied. Very well"
ruled the court; prove them and let
the Jury draw their own deductions"
At the conclusion of his address,
which had occupied an hour and a
half. Osborne asked for an adjourn
ment until this morning. which was
denied. and the taking of testimony
began.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
O'BRIEN's STORY CoNfRovERrED
Attorney General and wyndham Say 1t Is
Not Correct.

The attorney general for Ireland, re-
plying to O'Brien, charged that the
facts of the case had been misrepre-
sented, and he taunted O'Brien with
being too cowardly to bring this case
openly in the law courts. At this
statement there were shouts of With
drawn from the Irish benches. O'Brien
demanded TO know whether the re-
mark of Atkinson was disorderly The
speaker of the house replied that he
did not take the remark as calling
O'Brien Il coward, but as applying to
the course he had taken. The attorney
general then withdrew his expression
and roasted" O'Brien for bringing
infamous charges against the crown
without proof
Wyndham declared that O'Brien's
charge had been completely disposed
of and ridiculed the idea that the mat
ter was one of urgent public impor-
tance.
T. Z. O'Connor said the present de-
bate filled him with more despair than
any he had ever before heard in the
house, and reiterated the charge that
Ivan jury with prOtestants and union
lists. O'Brien's motion for an adjourn
ment of the house was rejected by 215
votes to III.
Wyndham then explained that it was
impossible to pass the Irish land pur-
chase bill this session, and said he
hoped in the course of the next ses-
sion to introduce new bill for volun-
tary arrangements between the parties
concerned. He moved the withdrawal
of the land purchase bill. wEieh was
agreed to and the house then adj
journed.
When the matter first came up at
the opening of the session yesteray
Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman, the
Liberal leader, cordially joined the
Irish in supporting their demand that
the government fix a day to discuss
the status of Ireland, but he declined
to make the Liberal opposition respon-
sible for the demand. which he said
was made in regard to a purely Irish
question. Premier Balfour retorted
that Sir Henry's doctrine seemed who'll
Iy separatist. He CBalfourl would not
admit that the government of Ireland
was a purely Irish question, and until
the ambiguous attitude of the Liberal
leader was cleared he declined to say
if the government would grant a day
for the discussion of the state of Ire
land.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
INCIDENTS OF THE GATHERING
Press Permitted to Stay at the Executive
Session.

Press Permitted to Stay ut the Executive
Session.
The surprise of the convention was
the decision to admit newspaper men
to all the sessions. open or executive.
Twice the newspaper men got the per-
mission by big majOrities. First. on a
petition from them asking to be al
lowed to remain motion to grant the
request was carried, and later. when Il
motion to reconsider the first vote to
admit was rejected. The pleas which
won were that the reporters represent
ed the people. that public opinion had
helped the strikers and that the best
way to get an accurate report of this
convention was to let the press repre-
sentatives stay there on the spot. Mitch
ell, however, asked the press men to
omit names when stating any motions
made or action taken, as the pubIica-
ton thereof might interfere with a
man getting work.
A delegate from the Wyoming val
ley caused storm of enthusiasm by
singing Il song entitled. Give Three
Cheers for Mitchell. for the Strike That
We Have Won" Songs and short
speeches by other, delegates followed.
and the striking mine workers for the
time being seemed to have forgotten
their troubles.
While the debate on admitting the
press was proceeding rush was
heard in the upper gallery Some one
had burst open the door from the out
side and the theater was soon filed
with almost as many men who were
not delegates as there were delegates.
They were allowed to stay until ex-
ecutive business came up, and then all
who did not have credentials, except
the reporters, were elected.
While the gathering was debating
the apprehensions of the engineers that
they would lose their jobs it was ar
gued by one delegate that the call
ing out of the engineers, firemen ana
pumpmen was a mistake, but as good
union men they obeyed. He wanted
the union to stand by those men now
and not turn its back on them. An
other delegate from the southern dis
trict declared that the organization
should not send the men back to work
until all of them were assured work.
IF we are going to die he declared,
''let all die together Another said
that the positions for miners and mine
laborers are numerous enough to give
nearly all of the men employment,
but. those for engineers, firemen and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
IRELAND is THE TOPIC.
Discussed in the British House of
Commons by O'Brien, Wynd.
ham and Others.
CASE OF A PBRFIDIoUs CONSTABLE
Occupies One Whole Day and Nothing
Is Done-Wyndham Gives
It Ridicule.

London, Oct. 21.-Irish Nationalists
were much in evidence at question
time in the house of commons yes
terday. They bOmbarded the Irish sec
retary, Wyndham, with queries, inter
ruptiOnS and contradictions of his state
ments anent the Imprisonment OF Irish
members. Wyndham'S replies. though
given in a conciliatory tone, evoked
storms of derisiye cries, mingled with
misses, and the speaker was kept busy
suppressing demonstrations which
threatened to develop into disorderli-
ness. William O'Brien moved the ad-
journment of the house to discuss ques-
tions arising from the case of former
Police Sergeant Sullivan, now in the
United States, who is alleged to have
obtained the conviction of innocent
persons through perjury The debate
on this motion came up last evening.
Case as O'Brien States 1t.
In outlining the Sullivan matter
O'Brien declared that the Patrick No
Ian. one of the governments witnesses
in certain prosecution in Dublin and
Sligo, although he Swore at one trial
that letter purporting to have been
written by MacHale. president of the
United Revolutionary League. arrang-
ing for a murderous outrage. was in
Sullivan's handwriting, yet he after
ward avowed that he had been en-
ployed to shield Sullivan from Justice
by discrediting the evidence of 9th
er witnesses, and that Sullivan was
guilty of fOrgeries. Describing the
Sligo trial as an eyewitness O'Brien
declared that Il more dishonest or re
voting trial had never been held.
Charges Against the Government.
He said the Irish members feared
that Dublin Castle was trying to hush
up the Sullivan matter, but that it
was n case of greater gravity than
that of Sergeant Sheridan, because the
plot Sullivan had organized against the
Irish League was of the same charac-
ter as the PigOtt fOrGeries against Par
nell. O'Brien charged that the gov
ernment had packed the jury to acquit
Sullivan, and had then spent an enor-
nous sum to shelter him from Justice
''The greater the Scoundrel in the Irish
constabulary," said the speaker. the
surer he is of being shielded and pro-
noted"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21

New Orleans, Oct. 21.-Life insur-
ance frauds of Il most sensational
character are said TO have been dis
covered in the New Orleans district.
Officials and detectives of some of the
large eastern companies believe they
have clews to at least half dozen of
the boldest graveyard schemes.
Attorney MacBride, general sOlici-
tor for the American Adjustment
company of New York. reached the
city last night, the advance guard of
corps of secret workers, and was
followed today by half dozen detec-
tives from the same city.
Six Cases Unearthed.
So far six of the graveyard cases
are said to have been unearthed and
22 fraudulent policies have been trac-
ed down. The companies paying the
risks have lost between $4,000 and
100000. The full extent of the busi-
ness is not vet known. The frauds
appear to have turned up in almost
gigantic form. The officers on the
trail do not even dare conjecture to
what extent they have gone.
How 1t is Worked
The scheme that has been worked
in New Orleans and within a radius
of $50 miles of this city is this: n
man would apply for the agency OF
one of the best known of the life in
surance companies, and producing
recommendations of an apparently
satisfactory nature, would be ap-
pointed. At his suggestion physi-
clan would be named as examiner for
the company to pass urpn all appli-
cants for policies.
The physician and the agent under
stand each other and the deal that is
to be worked. \ graveyard case is
run in-that is. policy holder who
will soon die. The physician passes
him and he takes out a policy. As a
matter of fact the agent and the doe
tor pay the premiums and the prin-
cipal is made payable TO them or to
some interested friends. In few
months the policy holder dies, the
proper death certificate is sent to the
company and the policy paid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
MINERS ARE To RETURN
TO WORK THURSDAY
Convention at WiIkesbarre by Unanimous Vote
Accepts Proposal to Arbitrate
Differences.

Wilkesbarre, Oct. 21.-The Mine
Workers convention has accepted the
arbitration proposal, declared the
strike Off, and agreed to return to
work Thursday morning next.
Wilkesbarre, Oct. 21.-The miners
convention reassembled at 1905 this
morning.
Committee Reports.
As the committee on resolutions
was not ready to report when the
convention was called to order, the
debate on the motion to accept the
recommendations of officers to call
off the strike and submit all ques-
tions at issue to the arbitration com
mission was resumed.
The discussion continued until
1O:4O, when the resolutions commit
tee reported, recommending that a
communication be sent to President
Roosevelt informing him the conven-
tion accepts the arbitration proposal
President Mitchell is authorized to
act as the Mine workers representa-
tive before the commission. After
the reading o. the. report discussion
on the reinstatement of all men to
Inelr FORMER. POSITIONS WIS DSS uh'
BY unanimous vote it was decided
that all men needed to place the
mines in condition can return to
work Immediately.
Great Cheering.
The resolutions were adopted at
1855. The strike is thus declared off
by a viva-voce. There was great
cheering.
President Mitchell announced that
he had received a telegram from
President Roosevelt stating that the
latter would call meeting of the
commission Immediately. Mr.. Mitch
ell believes the findings of the com
mission will be announced within
month.
The convention adjourned sine die
at noon.
Commission Meets Friday
Washington, Oct. 21.-President
Roosevelt has summoned the strike
arbitration commissioned meet-here-
Friday morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
Nerro,s Attempt at suicide.

St Paul, Mimi, Oct. 21.-JOhn II.
Sparks, colored, put an end to his life
yesterday by shooting himself in the
head. Sparks was recently indicted
by the grand jury for assault in the
second degree for having struck John
ME Niemann, 8 years old, on the head
with a club. fracturing the boys skull.
The boy recovered. but Sparks has
since been tortured by the hallucina-
ton that people were bent on lynch
ing him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21

and cheers. He touched upon the
right of employees to organize and said
the time was past for employers to
deny them that right, quoting Lincoln
as saying that capital is the fruit of
labor and could not exist if labor had
not first existed; labor therefore de-
serves the first consideration" He
then urged the delegates to promptly
agree to the resumption of work I'M
der the proposition before them, bas-
ing his urgency chiefly on the situa-
tion as to the coal supply and the suf
fering public if it is not replenished.
His second speech was Il notice to
all the strikers that every man of
them stood on the same plane; that
there was no sympathetic strike this
time, every striker, including the en-
gineers and pumpmen, having gone out
for wages The speech was a reply TO
the objections of the engineers. These
men quit when their quitting endan-
gered the safety of the mines; as, the
pumps once stopped and not quickly
started. the mines would fill with wa
ter and incalculable damage be done
absolute ruin in some cases. When
they quit the operators put in new
men as far as they could get them,
and they have announced that none of
these new men will be displaced to
make room for n returning striker.
Mitchell urged the acceptance of the
presidents proposition and endeavOred
to reassure the engineers, etc, in the
matter. He told them that no doubt
some of them would fail under the
proposition under discussion to obtain
their old jobs, but that he was as
sured that the operators were inclined
to be fair and reasonable" and that
he believed the coal companies will
gradually dispIace the men who have
your jobs and give you your old places
again. / dare say that hundreds of the
men who were brought here from the
cities and from the farms to take your
places will return to the cities ana
farms when you go back" But he
did not want them to vote on that uI4-
derstanding. but on the understanding
that-some would belIeft out--and- these
he promised the L. NJ. w. would take
care of.
In his third speech he told the dele
gates that the leaders had not adopt
ed the peace proposition as the OF
orators made it, and never would have
adopted it that way; he and the other
executive officials had secured a modI-
fication of the first proposition, in
which organized labor WAS given q
place un the commission.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
NEW UNIVERSITY
HEAD INSTALLED
Edmund j. James Assumes Direc-
tion of Affairs OF North
western.

Chicago, Oct. 21.-Edmund j. James
was today installed as president of
Northwestern university at Evans
ton. The installation ceremony was
witnessed by a large number of
prominent educators of this and for
eign countries. At the conclusion of
the formal exercises, which were
brief, President James delivered his
inaugural address, in which he re-
viewed at length the history of
Northwestern university. its present
needs, and outlined the policy of his
administration.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
One of the Needy Poor.

st. Louis, Mo.-NIr. Shaw: saw
in the papers last night that You
would help the needy poor l am n wild
ow and have one little girl and 1 have
got to pay 81 dollars in n home here
to have her kept and / have got be-
hind last month the matron said she
would not let it run any longer 1
would have TO take her out and have
no place to keep her am working in a
private family and get only small
wages If YOU would send me just Il
little money it would help me ever
so much L will appreciate your kind
ness very much L want it to pay my
little girls board.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
One of the Deserving.

"St. Louis. Mo-. Oct Is. 1902.-Mr.
Shaw: Dear Sir-I saw in last nights
paper that you would help the deserv-
ing. 1 am not in the habit of asking
any one for help. but l have been sick
for n week and not able TO work. my
rent is due next week. and if l have
not got it they will put me out on the
street, and / don't know what TO do
my rent is SO n month and L have
not got a cent towards getting it, but
if you will help me just 81 dollars I
will try to borrow the rest, although
my friends are all poor too you will
he doing a kind act indeed if you will
help me woman in trouble address
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-21
Was Prominent in the COS.

Baltimore. Oct. 21.-Richard B. Nc
Coy is dead at his home in Dublin,
Hartford county, aged 81 years. Nc
Coy was a member of the Maryland
legislature which met in extra session
in 1861 to pass upon the question of
state rights. He was a strenuous abolf-
ZIONIST, but opposed to negro suffra ge.
He was one of party who conferred
with President Lincoln on negro suf-
frage the night preceding the latter's
aSSaSSina ton