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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
MONEY OR DYNAMITE.
Attempts to Wreck Mp. Tracks
Part of BIackmaiI Scheme.

HELENA, Mont. Sept. Pit has
dynamite bridges and tracks ',on the
line of the Northern Pacific between
Livingston and Missoula was in fur
therance of plot to force the railway
company to pay $4,000 for immunity
from the outrages.
In August last the company received
letter demanding $4,000, in which it
was threatened that If the terms pro-
posed were not agreed to dynamite
would be used on the line.
No attention was paid to the demand
and shortly afterward the railroad
bridge at Livingston was partially
wrecked by dynamite. A few nights
later another stick of dynamite was
exploded near Bozeman under a pas
senger train. Other letters followed,
and the dynamiters proposed that the
company pay $4,000, and If acceded to
to the demand 1t was to carry white
flag on engines hauling trains and
Sept. % was to run light engine from
Butte to Missoula, and at a point on
the road 1t was to stop on signal and
an agent of the company was to pay
over the money. The company, hoping
to catch the men, put out the white
flags, and on the night agreed upon
ran the light engine. Behind it follow
ed another engine pulling two cars.
One was filed with armed sheriffs and
deputies and the other contained horses
and bloodhounds. The run was made
from Butte to Missoula. but there was
no signal. and it was thought the men
had been scared off. Shortly after
wards the letters began to arrive again
from the dynamiters, making the same
demand and telling the railroad If it
agreed to the terms to put the flag on
the engines. This the railroad COM
pany has not done and in the past two
weeks there have been four attempts
to damage the line by the use of dy-
Mantle.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28

wooden structure, also gave way fop
a space of fifty feet
AT the foot of the treStle is a shall
low stream with a rocky bottom Strik-
ing this, the locomotive and the cars
were reduced to a mass of twisted iron
and steel and pieces of splintered wood.
AS the cars went down they touched
the sides of the Riverside cotton mill
All the dead men were mutiIated-
The skin and hair on the engineer and
nreman We're torn off by the boiler.
Several thousand people were soon at
the scene of the wreck. No one on anv
OF the cars had made an effort to jump.
ana the bodies of all those killed were
found in the wreckage of the different
cars to which they belonged
Women who drove to the wreck from
Danville tainted at the sight of the mu-
tilated bodies.
All the express matter i'm the express
car was destroyed except six crates full
of canary birds. None of the birds was
hurt. though the crates were in the
thickest of the debris. All unofficial
opinions say the cause of the wreck
was the high rate of speed on the sharp
curve.
The mail bags in all the mail cars
were torn open and the letters and
packages were scattered, but il is be-
lieved none is lost Fire which broke
out in the wreckage shortly after the
accident was quickly extinguished by
the Danville fire department
On account of the wreck all traffic on
the central and northern divisions of
the Southern will be delayed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
MEN NCOOPEDINCARS
TAKE FATAL PLUNGE
dst Mall Train on Southern Railway Jumps From
'restie While Running at High Rate of Speed and
Out Tan the Crew of Sixteen Escape-New Enaineer
IN charge Did Not Know Route Matter Is Saved.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. 27.-
While running at high rate of speed
a fast mail train on the Southern rail-
way jumped from trestle seventy-fiye
feet high north of DanvilIe, Va, this
afternoon. and was almost demolished.
Of the crew Of sixteen men, including
man carriers, nine were killed and
seven injured. The dead:
ENGINEER J. A. BRoDIE, of Placer
FIREMAN CLARENCE WHITE.
CONDUCTOR TOM BLAIR.
MAIL CLERK j. l.. THOMPSON.
MAIL CLERK w. T. CHAMBERS.
MAIL CLERK d. T. FLORY.
MAIL CLERK p. N. ARDANWRIGHT.
ELAGMAN (name not known.
BRAKEMAN (name not known).
The injured:
Mail Clerkf Louis w. Spiers. Frank E.
brooks. Percival Indenmauer. Charles e.
heames. Jennings ]. Dunlap, NJ. c. Maui
pm and }. Harrison Thompson.
All of the injured were seriously hurt
and have been taken to the hospital in
DanVille. The recovery of Mail Clerk
Spiers is not expected, and other clerks
are thought to be mortally injured.
The treStle where the accident oc-
CURED is 500 feet long and is on a sharp
curve. Engineer Brodie was a new
man on that division of the Southern.
and thus came to the curve at a high
rate of speed.
The locomotive had gone only fifty
feet on the trestle when it sprang from
the track, carrying with it four mail
cars and an express car. The trestle,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
VACATION is OVER
President Roosevelt and Fam
lily Return to Washington.

OYSTER BAY, L. l., Sept. 81
President Roosevelt spent the last day
OF his summer vacation quietly at Sag
amore Hill. He and Mrs. Roosevelt,
accompanied by two of their children,
attended the morning services at Christ
Episcopal church. The president and
Mrs. Roosevelt and their children now
at home, Ethel, Archie and Quentin,
Secretary and Mrs. Loeb and members
of the executive staff, will leave to-
morrow morning at $40 o'clock for
Washington. expecting to arrive there
at 4:10 o. m. A meeting Of the cabinet
will be held on Tuesday at IL o'clock,
but nothing of special Importance is
likely to be developed at the meeting;
indeed, some members of ths cabinet
will not be in attendance. On Tuesday
afternoon the president will have as
guest at luncheon John Mitchell, preSi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America.
Several months ago the president in
vited Mr.. Mitchell to take luncheon or
dine with him when he next came to
Washington. The mine workers presi-
dent is in Washington now, and will be
there until Tuesday evening. 1t is
announced that arrangement for the
luncheon was made prior to the latest
developments in the case of w. p. Mil
Ter, the foreman bookbinder in the gov
ernment printing office, and that special
significance is to be attached to the
fact that the president and Mr.. Mitch
ell meet at this time. 1t is quite prob
able that the Miller case, among other
matters, will be discussed, but the
meeting at luncheon will not take the
form of a conference on that subject.
In view of the statements, recently
published, that the president, on his
return to Washington, would hold a
conference on the Miller case with
prominent officers representing organ
lied labor, it is announced that the
president has no intention of confer
ring with anybody regarding that case.
His position, 1t is pointed out, was
defined clearly in his published letter
to Secretary Cortelyou. The principle
enunciated in those letters was framed
In accordance with the statutes of the
United States, and on it the president
expects to stand. If hearing on the
merits of the Miller case is desired by
those who are endeavoring to have the
man dismissed from the government
service, the president may grant 1t
precisely as might a hearing to any
other body of citizens on a question
of public interest or Importance. but
1t is not the presidents disposition to
enter upon a discussion of the prin-
ciple already laid down.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
STOP FREE COINAGE
Mexican Monetary Commits
sloner Against Free Silver.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 27.-The re-
port of Mexico's monetary commission
ers sent abroad is now published in
Spanish. 1t is quite long. but is of
much general interest. Among the
more Immediately interesting points
and suggestions are the following:
In Russia and in England especially
the immediate establishment of a gold
standard In China is regarded almost
as impracticable.
In the monetary system that is rec
commended for the purpose of bringing
fixity of international exchange the
price in gold, of bar silver and the
value in gold of silver money are abb
solutely disassociated. The former
may fluctuate in the market, whereas
the silver money will always have a
fixed value in gold-hence the sta
bility of international exchange. This
fixed value will be maintained by the
government In the following manner:
1. BY the closing OF the mints to the
free coinage of silver.
2. By the fixing of the ratio between
gold and silver by the governments.
8. By the legal tender character of the
currency for the payment and settlement
OF contracts of all kinds.
4. BY reason of its being the only
money in which duties and taxes will be
paid, as 1t is supposed that there will be
no gold in circulation.
5. BY limitation of the quantity of sill
yer money coined exclusively for the in
terror currency of each country.
6. BY the creation of reserve funds in
gold in those countries In which the fore
going conditions are not sufficient to
maintain the stability of international ex-
change.
The whole of this mechanism is
based on a hxity of value in gold of
silver money.
The commissioners go on to say that
all the economists whom they con-
suited in Europe pronounced the clos
ing of the mints to the free coinage of
silevr to be absolutely essential to the
success of any plan for establishing
the value of the peso.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
DEFENDS THE OATH
President Lynch, of the Print.
ers' Union, Answers Clergy.

Il
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 81
President Lynch of the International
Typographical union, In the next issue
OF the organ of the union will reply to
charges that the 1oaths subscribed to
by members of the union is antagonis-
tic and made paramount to religious
obligations. It is claimed the agitation
was begun by Roman Catholic clergy
President Lynch will say:
Trade unions are certainly under the
white light of public observation. Their
laws and practices, their policies and
aims, anything and everything that
concerns them and their members are
eagerly seized upon and made much of
year ago would have attracted slight
notice, If noticed at all. today furnish
the theme for extensive editorials on
Which the writer's sevideEtly try to ex-
pend their best thoughts.
So with. our obligation. The writer
subscribed to this obligation seven
teens years ago. fI
Now we are informed that because
of this obligation, we are opposed to
the church and. state. Nothing could
be wider of the mark nor more distant
from the truth. We do maintain that
We shall be allowed to conduct our
trade union business without influence
from politics or religion, fraternity Or
combination. On the other hand we
do not interfere with the political or
religious beliefs of any of our members
These beliefs are sacred to the indi-
vidual and he is and always has been
at liberty, SO far as the union is con-
cerned to follow his bent In the selec-
tion of religion. politics aud fraternal
organizations or he may abstain from
participation in@them altogether.
From the persistence with which GER
tain newspapers have exploited the at
tack made on our obligation by several
clergymen, the belief is forced that
these papers would not suffer great
grief should the6 International Typo
graphical union go ashore on the re-
ligious and political rocks. But 1t is
not doubted that the good common
sense of our membership will keep the
union in safe waters and permit the at
tack that has been made by those who
may have been well meaning and after
ward used a newspaper sensation die
of inanition. In my opinion this is
Just what is happening"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
NIXON WOULD LEAD
GOTHAM DEMOCRACY
Former Tammany Leader An
nounces Himself a Candidate
for MayoraIty Nomination.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Lewis Nixon
tonight announced that he is a candI-
date for the Democratic nomination for
mayor. He made public a statement,
in which he said:
Il am candidate for the Democratic
nomination for mayor of the city of
New York. This statement is made
with full knowledge of the uncer-
tainties of the Democratic situation. 1
desire to make 1t clear that I am will
ing to stand with those Democrats,
however small their number who be-
lieye that the Democratic party of this
forward march of municipal reform
3 Speaking of the municipal campaign,
Mr.. Nixon says:
The battle will be won or lost on
local issues that are old enough to
have gained permanent hold on the
public mind. These issues are police
'blaclSnlair and that mercenary spirit
which breeds dishonesty in the public
service. To them may be charged all
the partys recent loss of local pres
tige. The Democracy has not been
beaten on these issues by Republican
votes alone by any means 1t has been
beaten chiefly by Democratic votes.
''The Democratic party of the city
has all the issues in its favor except
these two. 1t is easily within it's pow
it shall make up its mind to do so. It's
right to dominancy will be restored as
soon as it does. There can be no doubt
of the result of any campaign in which
the party explicitly and without equiv
ocation commits itself to the reforms
for which the city has four times vot-
ed in ten years"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28

representatives of the packing indus
tries on the demands made by the union
some weeks ago. Saturday the formal
demand for 10 per cent increase was
reiterated. 1t was accompanied by the
butchers statement that they had
shown conclusively the national union
was capable of controlling its members,
and is in position to assure the pack
ers that there would be no strikes dur
ing the life of the proposed agreement.
The packers representatives ar
swered that butchers would be paid 50
a day under certain conditions. and the
settlement of the controversy depends
on the reception these conditions meet
at the hands of the union rank and file.
After the conference Saturday Mich
ael Donnelly, president of the butchers,
and members of the executive commit
tee, sent kilograms to every local lodge
of butchers in the United States de-
failing the condition of affairs and or
dering vote on the packers demands
for extra work.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
BLAKE, OF BOER FAME,
ACCUSES CLAN Ma GAEL
Claims That Organization Failed to For
Ward $4,000 to the Irish Brigade

OMAHA, Neb.. Sept 27.-Col. ]. F. Y.
Blake who commanded the Irish Brig
ade, which fought with the Beers during
the South African war tonight addressed
the Emmett memorial meeting in this
city, during. which he made serious
charges against the national officers of
the Clan Ma Gael. He did not. however
produce the documentary evidence which
he has said was in his possession but
again asserted that he was able to do so.
6de 6ne sald s that the organization raised $1O,-
600 for the Irish brigade and informed it
1t had been forwarded to that organiza
ton. On his return, he says, he learned
that the money was never sent to South
Gael informed him it had been retained by
that order for the benefit of the returning
Irish. He says the amount has never
been distributed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
PRESIDENT WANTED
Colombia Factions Unable to
Decide Upon a Leader.

BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 27.-No
agreement has yet been arrived at re-
gardfng the candidates for the presi-
dency and vice presidency of the re-
public. The men who were spoken of
as candidates, such as Senores Valez
and Gonzales and Gems. Ospina and
Perdomo, are now out of the running
President Marroquin and his son have
declined to be nominated. The coun-
try wishes the election of men who will
pursue a policy of conciliation and fra
ternity towards all parties. The two
men who now are most In public view
are Gen. Reyes and Senor Rico, the
actual foreign minister. They are both
practical men of moderate Views who
do not represent any extreme party
and will be accepted not only by the
conservative Nationalist party, but by
the Liberals. 1t is thought that their
election would be a guarantee of Col
omblan peace and progress. The
names of the chosen candidates will
not be announced until the adjourn
ment of congress, which may occur on
Oct. 20.
Cable Service to Be Closed.
PANAMA, Sept 27.-It is announced
that the cable service TO Buena Ven
tura will be closed at the end of Sep
tember. The inspector of telegraphs
has received orders from Bogota to
close the Central and South American
-company's office In this town on the
suspension of the service to Buena
Ventura. If the government carries
out its threat the company will lose
heavily. The government in the
meantime is making efforts to establish
the Marconi system of wireless teleg-
raphy between Panama, Chiriqui. Bue-
ma Ventura, Colon, Bocas del Toro and
Cartagena. 1t Is also reported that the
West India and Panama Telegraph
company will offer to construct cable
to Buena Ventura.
Will Install Wireless System.
BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 27.-The
minister of state today made public
the demands of the cable company
which asks for new concession last
ing twenty years and the privilege of
raising the tariff. Among the reasons
given for the governments refusal of
these propositions Is that an italian
company has applied to establish
system of wireless telegraphy-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
.HEARSCROW, ,CROAKS
Tom Flanagan Has Last Wish
Gratified by a Rooster.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 27.-The
last hours of Tom Flanagan. who died
here early this morning, were made
peaceful by compliance with a request
given by him, and which is consid-
cred very strange one, in view of the
fact that the man was believed to be
sane. Shortly before his death he call
ed his sister to his bedside, and asked
her to buy rooster for him.
Il want to hear him crow like they
used to crow when l was in the coun-
try" he said.
The rooster was purchased for him
and taken to his bedroom.
Il want the rooster to have his lib
erty in this room and not be shut up
like prisoner" said Flanagan. The
rooster crowed Justify the first night,
much to the dying mans delight and
continued doing so at intervals until
death came. Flanagan died happy.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
$4,000 BUTCHERS
NAY DROP CLEANERS
If Demands of AmaIgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of America Are Not Granted by the Owners
of the Packing Plants Every Concern in the Country
Will Be Tied Up by General Strike.

CHICAGO, Sept. 27.-Every packing
plant in the United States is threat
ened with a tie-up by general strike
of butchers and affiliated workmen
throughout the country for the first
time in history unless the owners yield
to demands of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
America.
While the packers are willing to pay
the wages asked, hitch in negotia-
tionS has arisen over the demand of
the packers that the butchers increase
their amount of work. Every lodge of
butchers in the country has been ask
ed to vote on the demand of the pack
ers, and meetings will be held for the
purpose throughout the country tomor-
row. If the vote shall be unfavorable,
it is likely a general strike will be or
dered, affecting more than $4,000 men.
This situation developed today after
the executive committee of the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Worlmen had conferred Saturday with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
FALLS IN DAUGHTERS
ARMS IN PULPIT
Rev. T. F. Allen, of Mlnneapo-
lis, Stricken In His Church
Dies Soon After.

With his arm around his daughters
neck, the words of his last life's mes
sage scarcely out of his mouth, Rev.
Truman f. Allen, pastor of the Thir-
teenth Avenue M. E. church in Mime
apolis, was stricken with apoplexy in
his pulpit yesterday morning, and died
four hours later, never regaining con-
sciousness.
Rev. Mr.. Allen was preaching what
he thought might be perhaps his last
sermon to the congregation he had
served for eight years, as he was to at
tend the Methodist conference this
week. He had referred to this possi-
bility, when suddenly several members
of the congregation noticed that he
seemed to be in pain,
The discourse was hurriedly finished
and stretching forth his hands above
the heads of his people, he cried Sing"
Then, with start, he grasped the lee
tern and stood motionless until his
daughter, who was in the congregation,
ran to his side.
Bids His Daughter Farewell.
The minister bade her gather some
papers which he was to present to the
conference, and then bidding her fare
well, sank back unconscious. He was
carried to his home, where he lay in a
comatose condition until 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, when death called him.
Rev Truman d. Allen was born in
the state of Vermont sixty three years
ago. He chose the ministry as his life's
work, and before coming to Minneapo-
lis served a church at Anoka, MINI.
1t was this church that recently ex-
tended to him a unanimous call to re-
turn to them, and although his present
congregation wished him to remain the
matter was to be settled at the meeting
of the conference.
Rev. Mr.. Allen, who lived at 926 Thir-
teenth avenue south, was chaplain of
the Appomatox post, G. A. R., mem
Der of the Knight Templars and Blue
Lodge Mason. He leaves a wife and
one daughter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
CHILD GOES MAD
FROM A CATS BITE
Distressed Parents Hurry to
Chicago to Have Pasteur
Treatment Applied.

Screeching like a cat and suffering
from acute symptoms of rabies, as a
result of a bite from a cat two weeks
ago, Charles, the eleven-year-o son of
Amos Upton, of Morris, Mimi, is being
hurried to Chicago by his distressed
parents, who hope to save the boys
life by having him treated in that city.
The parents, with their afflicted child,
passed through st. Paul last evening
in a race with death,
The little sufferer, screaming pitt
fully and frothing at the mouth, was
taken from a Northern Pacific train
yesterday afternoon and brought into
the depot to await connections for Chi
child made frantie efforts to jump
away, and was held only by the
strength of his father and porter.
The child's cries. which were imita-
tfons of the screeching of a cat, re-
sounded through the depot and reused
the sympathy Of the people waiting
there.
At times the ehild's wall was low,
like the meow of a cat, but whenever
he was touched or moved the cries be-
came louder and sounded like the
screech of cat as heard in the soli-
tude of the night.
Parents Make Horrifyina Discovery.
Rabies developed early Saturday
morning while the child lay in bed. Mr..
Upton, almost distracted with his mis-
fortune, told of the terrifying discovery
he made when awakened from sleep
Saturday morning. when he imagined
that a cat had gained entrance to the
bedroom.
Il heard the strange noise as awoke
just at dawn" said Mr.. Upton, "and
thought that a cat was in the ROOM
Listening more closely, discovered
that the noise came from my sons bed
Still thinking that the cries were those
of cat, l asked Charlie what he was
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
THE NEWS INDExED.
PAGE /.

PAGE 1.
Butchers Threaten Strike,
Plot to Blackmail Northern Pacific.
Printers Union Oath Defended.
Nine Killed in Aailroad Wreck.
Child Goes Mad From Bite of a Cat.
PAGE n.
Three Ministers Ordained.
Veterans to Petition President.
Dies of Heart Disease.
Minneapolis Matters.
Strikers Call for Boycott of "Unfair'
Flour.
PAGE III.
Prosperity of Stevens County.
PAGE ~.
Editorial Comment.
PAGE ".
Baseball.
PAGE vi.
News of the. Northwest.
Globe Popular Wants.
PAGE WI.
Markets.
PAGE VIII.
Book Reviews.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-28
SHOOTS DOWN HIS WIFE
AS SHE ENTERS CHURCH
Broodno Over His Family Troubles Rossow of La
Crosse, WIS.,, Attempts Murder and Suicide.

LA CROSSE, Wis, Sept. 27.-An at
tempted murder and suicide occurred
at the German Lutheran church, corner
of Fifth and Cass streets, at the begin
ming of religious services today, when
Herman Rossow shot his wife and him.
self in the presence of hundreds of wit
nesses.
This evening it appears certain that
Mrs. Rossow will die, while Rossow,
though dangerously wounded, may re-
cover.
Rossow, who has been separated from
his wife for some time, lay in wait for
where the tragedy occurred. Finally
he saw his wife with her mother, Mrs.