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Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
BlGGERsTAFFs PROPOSITION
Several Things He Is Anxious That
 the Trolley Co Should Do.

It was pity the trolley hearing scheduled to come off tonight had to be postponed The meeting would have been largely attended and no doubt some interesting and instructive remarks would be made by interested parties. D. W. Biggerstaff of the hoard of relief has forwarded to the board of public works a, communlca- +ion on the question which shows to large extent the trend of public opin- ion on this and kindred matters. MT Biggerstaff wants charter amend ment giving the people q chance to vote upon the application and ID any case that the following conditions be lacked onto the company's applica- ton:
 That the company pay to the city the sum of $250 per mile a year Tor single tracks. and $500 per mile year for double tracks; five per cent on gross receipts of $1,000000 or less, seven per cent of S1,000,oO0 to $2,0Oo,- 600, and nine per cent on $2,OO0,00o to $3,000, 900; run cars on all lines rom 5:3O a. m to 12 midnight: night cars to be run on Naugatuck, Oakydlle anu Waterville lines: fare to Naugatuck to be reduced from ten cents to five cents during the day; twenty-five tickets to be sold for $1. and six for twenty -hve cents; workmen's tickets to be solu eight for twenty-five cents, ana school children's tickets ten for twen- ty-five cents. both to be used during specified hours; spur tracks to be laid to the different factories; waiting sta- tions to be placed in Exchange place and in outlying districts; tracks to be kept clear of snow; and, finally, that an agreement being reached along these lines, the city take steps to re peal the anticipated two per cent clause in the company's charter, and the one per cent state tax.
 Tn view of the conditions imposed upon street railroads in other places, MT Biggerssaff thinks. the conditions he suggests quite reasonable. He contends that the treatment accorded the trolley company in this town IS unfair to the manufacturers and own CTS of private property. He wants the company put on the same basis as others and adds: The small prop erty owner whose holding is listed for all it is worth, possibly more than It would bring if put on the market, IS taxed for the maintenance of the streets which have been turned over to this corporation which pays next to nothing for their use or for the pro lection afforded it. My purpose in asking for public vote upon this question, is to give all inter ested persons an. opportunity to be heard. I regard it of sufficient inn portance to the residents and taxpay- CTS of Waterbury to say by their bal lots whether or not they desire con tinuance of the present law with ref arence to trolley franchises"
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
COAT, MEN TIMED S1oo.

Chicago, Feb 1O.--Nine officers and directors of the Retail Coal Dealers as sociation of Illinois. and Wisconsin, lately inalcted by the special grand jury which was called to- investigate the fuel shortage and high prices, have been fined $100 each on a formal yer diet of a jury in Judge Horton's court, which found them guilty of conspiring to commit an illegal act in restraint of trade The formal verdict was returned only to pave the way for new trial. The case will probably be heard Mon- day. This is the first verdict in the coal cases.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
TOO POOR ITO LIVE.

New York, Feb 10.-solomon Mos keleison, an educated Russian, who had served five years in Siberia after getting into trouble through his so- cialstic ideas, committed suicide to- day in his room on the east side. He was q teacher in Russia, but his lack of familiarity with English handicap ped him here and after q struggle to earn his living in sweatshop he de- cided to die. His friends said he was not nihilist, but had championed in Europe the cause of the class he was thrown among in this coalntry..
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
SENATOR pRAcY's LABOR BILL
Said to Be Backed by the c. R. x l.. 8' Corporation.

Corporation.
 SThe strikers feel that the bill intro duced last Friday in the senate by Sen ator Tracy is directly aimed at them. They consider it the most unjust bill that has ever been directed against or ganized labor. The bill, in their esti- nation, is considerably one-sided and greatly in favor of the employer. Brief ly, the bill provides that any employer who shall discharge any employe for belonging to a labor union shall be lia- ble to a fine not exceeding $500 and three months Imprisonment, and for discharging any employe because he does not belong to a labor union he shah be liable to similar punishment And in case of strike notice of fourteen days shall be given, and if such notice is not given each member of the union concerned shall be liable to fine of not less than S5. Any officer of q union who shall demand the discharge of any employe because he does not belong to the union shall be liable to fine of S1,000, or six months impris- onment, or both. And any acts of vio- lence on the part of organized labor shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $100. Section 8 of the bill makes escape. impossible for organ ized labor from the consequences Of the above named acts. for it provides that any labor union mot incorporated, or any member thereof" who shall be guilty etc. shall not only be liable to the fine of $100, but shall be liable to m action for trespass. And the con cluding section of the bill takes away the offending members vote and pro- x9 n, only by a special act of the legislature. Thus it is easy to see the object of the bill An employer can discharge an eInploye and give hldn any reason for so doing, or none at all if he feels that way Generally no reason is given until demanded. But on the other hand the union or it's officers must give the employer reason for leaving work. or the employer can surmise a reason that would bring the union or it's members within the provisions of the bill and then hale them before the city court. The employer is strengthened in the position that he has maintained; that he has no right to discharge q man for not belonging to q labor union, but the working man is hemmed in closer than ever before. While the bill leaves il optional with the union to become in corporated even q corner of the mantle of protection that is thrown over the employer is not given to the union man or his union, for section s says that any labor union not Incorporated, oI any member thereof who shall be guilty of the above offenses. shall be liable" The Connecticut Railway and Lighting Go, it is believed, Is back oi this bill It is opposed to the bill which would license motormen, be cause under such conditions as the present it could not bring men into the state to take the place of the strikers Gradually, but surely, the working peo pie of this community are finding out that Attorney Kennedy, whom they de feated for the senate would be a fal better representative of the laboring in terests than MT Tracy has thus far shown himself to be.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
Use to Be Made of phipp., Gift.

CALCUTTA, Feb. 10.-The gift of $10,00O which Henry Phipps, director of the Carnegie Steel company, hand ed to Lord Curzon Feb. 1 for some practical object or scientific research of enduring benefit to India, will be devoted to the establishment of aa ag- ricultural laboratory in Cashmere and Pasteur institute is southern India The government will give the sites for and will assist in maintaining the first and wholly maintain the second insti- tuition
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
woodruff Head. Syracuse House

' < SYRACUSE, N. r., Feb. 10.-Timo- thy l.. Woodruff, late lieutenant gov- ernor, was elected this morning to suc- ceed Lyman c. Smith as president of the Smith Premier Typewriter compa- ny of Syracuse. The establishment over which MT. Woodruff will thus have inn mediate personal control is the second largest industrial enterprise in this city or this section of the state, being ranked only by the Solvay Process company. Governor Woodruff will give his entire time to the affairs of the company to the exclusion of other business, and his advent practically as a Syracuse business man is cordially welcomed here.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
A HEAVY SENTENCE.

Middletown, Feb 10.-One of the heaviest sentences recently passed in the local police court was to-day inn posed uopn Patrick Mccormack, la borer, who last night while intoxicat- ed. bombarded with stones the house of Allen Colegrove, by whom he was formerly employed. Mccormack was fined $200 and costs and given six months in jail for the stone throwing and 30 days in jail for drunkenness.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
ANOTHER DROP IN COAL.
The Price is $6.50 Ton in New York
 To-day.

New York, Feb 1o.-A reduction i'll the retail price of anthracite from $7.50 to $6.50 a ton has gone Into effect in the yards of the retail dealers throughout Greater New York. This reduction was agreed on at Il meeting of the retail coal dealers association, held late on Saturday evening. A member of the association said: "When the winter began there was not coal dealer in the city who would have pfe- dicted that coal would have been sell ing at $6.5O ton. before May. The last reduction ill prices was brought about by the market for independent coal going to pieces late last week"
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
RAYrT ,ESHIP ON FIRE

San Francisco, Feb 1O.- Fire broke out last night on the battleship New York, which is lying in the stream un, der orders to sail for Honduras. The fire was i'll the cabin of Paymaster Ball and is believed to have orglnataed from a lighted cigarette, carelessly dropped into q basket of paper. Con- siderable damage was done to the cabin, but the sailing of the fleet to day will not be delayed.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
New serum Cures Bubonic Plague

MAZATLAN, Mexico, Feb. 9.-There were two deaths from the plague yes terday. Very satisfactory results are being attained by the use of yersin se- rum. Most of the patients to whom it is given begin to recover immediately. Nearly all of the hotels and boarding houses are closed the owners fearing in case tlle plague breaks out in them tue buildings will be burned.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
Rlirxnra In NortIern New Yors.

UTICA. N. Y., Feb. 9.--A blizzard prevailed here yesterday, starting early in the morning with q hailstorm. Trains were more or less delayed, espe- cialIy through trains from the west. A dispatch from Malone says that a heavy snowstorm from the northeast continued all day throughout northern New York About eight inches has fall len. The storm was general through out central and northern New York.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
Henariek. and Collin. Reappointed.

Hendricks and Collins Reappofnted.
 ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 10.-Governor Odell has sent to the senate the reap continents of Hon. Francis Hendricks of Syracuse to be state superintendent of insurance for three years at sal ary of S7,OOO and of Cornelius ". Col fins of Troy to be superintendent of prisons for five years at salary of S6,O0O. The nominations were con- firmed without reference.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
BARBER SHOP ROBBED

Portland. Feb 10.-The barber slop of William Callahan was entereV by burglars last night who secured d barber's chair, every razor i'll the shop, a large quantity of cigars and three valuable bird dogs. The loss, not in- cluding the dogs is estimated at over $100
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
COL AILTsON DEAD.

Cromwell, Feb 10.-C Colonel J. Dean Allison, one of the most prominent res idents of the town, died at his home here to-day. Colonel Allison served during the Civil war commanding the 24th Connecticut volunteers. He was in town politics. holding at different times. nearly all of the town offices. He was 70 years of age.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10

The boys arc having snap in U. $. x Co.'S opening sale School caps, silk lined mostly 45 cent kinds for 19c each.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the hear ing advertised for this evening, Febru- ary 10, 1903, on the petition of the Con- nccticut Railway and Lighting Co, OH the proposed alterations and extensions of its tracks in this city, and the ad- journed hearing on rne application of the Cheshire Street Railway Go, has been adjourned until Tuesday evening, February IT, 1903, at s o'clock, in the City hall annex building.
 Dated at Waterbury, this 10th day of February, 1903.
 Attest, MICHAEL T. RYAN,
 1-lO-l City Clerk.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
FOR SALE

The large fine brick residence with lot of about 12O feet on North Main street, being No 161, formerly occu- pied by myself and family, and for the past few years by the Union Club, is now in the market.
 This is to-day one of the best loca- tions in our prosperous city for doc tors home and offices, or can be used and improved for other profitable pur- poses.
 l will give the right party one of the best real estate deals that was ever offered in central propef,y. N make terms to suit purchaser. Cal ou s#s
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-10
WILLIAM SCHLEGEL

For this and other bargains in Water bury real estate. in the Lewis build ing. No 65 Bank street.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-14
GEBO0A 8
nS-tD kOahs4EGES
70 9e est,
40

One-third of the college graduates now
are women.
Chicago now pays her superintendent
of schools $4,000 a year.
Out of 46S permanent lecturers at the
Berlin university 40 belong TO the med
ical faculty.
The trustees of Baldwin University,
at Berea, Ohio. have elected Prof. G.. +.
Collier acting president.
Nineteen men in this years class at
Yale and fully as many at Harvard and
Columbia earned all their expenses.
Samuel Cupples, the st. Louis million
aire, who has just sailed for Europe,
states that upon his return he intends to
enlarge the Washington university and
make it the largest school Of engineer
ing and technology in the world.
Men between the ages of 20 and 40
years are wanted by the United States
government for teaching in the Philip
pines To fill 1870 vacancies in this ser
vice, examinations will be held at Chicago
postofhce Oct. 10 and 20, under the direc-
ton of the federal civil service commits
sion. Twenty-Five of the eligibles select
ed will be appointed at salary of 81
200 per year, seventy At $1,000, and fifty,
five at 5000. The examination was CON
sideTed necessary to fill vacancies about
TO be caused by expiration Of terms Of
teachers now in the service. In rs call
for candidates the civil service commits
sion points out the opportunity 70. travel
and study hat will be given to the lucky
aspirants.
On the last two days Of October North
western University proposes to hold
unique celebration. The university, Of
which the academy has been a part for
nearly fifty years, has decided to cele-
brate the thirtieth anniversary Of Prin-
dpal Fisk's service. This celebration
win not only have the ordinary features
of cOngratulatory oratory. torchlight pro
cessiOns, banquets and receptions, but
will be marked by the calling Of a na-
tiouol conference Of secondary school men
to discuss the pressing problems Of Eec-
ondary education in this country. II
win not be an ordinary pedagogues'
meeting, whore technical questions relat-
ing TO the proper methods Of teaching
algebra o. geometry or Latin form the
CHEF interest. but It will deal rather Wit.
those larger fundamental questions Of
educational policy in which the teacher
Is. Of course. interested, but no more In
tereGed than every other Intelligent citi-
zen ought % be who is concerned about
the welfare Of his country, Some disrin-
guished laymen who have given attention
% the problems Of secondary education
viii also be Invited 70 give their deas
upon these great guesionA
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-14

Three million dollars in currency wat
taken to Chicago to help stem the Blacl
Friday panic.
Connecticut voted to abolish it's secOnf
capital Mt New Haven.
The famous New York Graphic bal
loon sailed from Brooklyn for a thirty
hour voyage to Sweden, and landed
eighty miles away in Connecticut.
Eighteen residents Of jemphis, Tenn.
died Of yellow fever.
The New York State Democratic con
vention at Utica denounced resident
Grant and the Republican party for their
failure to punish participants in the
Credit Mobilier fraud and declared two
vice presidents were guilty.
Forty-fve persons died Of yellow fe-
yer at Memphis, Tenn, and twenty-five
at Shreveport. La.
Five thousand persons fed from Mem
phis. Tenn as the result Of the yellow
fever panic.
Seven thousand Michigan farmers, in
convention at Kalamazoo, adopted reso-
buttons declaring too many corporations
were being chartered to Cypress the peo-
pie.
Fx-President Andrew Johnson's saw
ings Of a lifetime were announced to
have been lost in the failure Of the First
National Bank Of Washington, u. c.,
during the Black Friday panic.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-14
PRESIDENT ESCAPES ASSASSIN.
Crazy Anarchist Attempts to Force
Wy Past White House Gnnrds

Crazy Anarchist Attempts to Force
Way Past White House Guards.
President Roosevelt Monday narrowly
had a narrow escape from death at the
hands of a crazy anarchist who is now
locked up in the government insane asy-
lum. Only after 4 desperate struggle
was the man. who gave his name as Pc
ter Elliott and his home as Minneapolis,
overpowercd by the police and removed
from tie White House.
He had come from Minneapolis to
take control of the government" and it
is believed he had planned TO assassinate
the President Sunday morning on his
way home from church. Elicit occupied
a seat in the gallery overlooking the pew
In which the President SAT and left The
building just before the conclusion of the
service and took up n position on the
sidewalk few rods away.
When the President came out and
walked briskly down the street Elliott
stepped suddenly forward. held out his
hand and said: Roosevelt, shake hands
with Elliott
Without slackening his pace the Presi-
dent raised his hat and held out his hand,
saying. Il am glad TO see you" and pass
ed on. It is believed the man was dis
concerted by the Presidents manner and
had not the nerve to put his plan of muir
der into execution.
A little before noon Monday Elliott
entered the vesaibule of the White House
and demanded to be admitted to see the
President 1t was evident that he was
crazy and the attendants denied him ad-
mission. He attempted to force his way
in and 1t was only after a hard struggle
that he was overpoweTed and carried to
police van that had been summoned.
He was placed in the van in the custody
of two officers.
Seeming TO realize then for the first
time that he was under arrest, Elliott
began the furious struggle with his cap
tors for liberty He drew a revolver
from the right side pocket Of his trous-
ers and attempted to shoot Officer James
Cissell, The officer grabbed his hand
and wrenched the weapon from him.
In the struggle in the van Elliott had
broken Z glass panel with his head, Sc
yer IS cutting his head and face. Officer
CiSsell sustained serious cut on mis-
RICH. arm. The van was hurried to the
emergency hospital, where the injuries
Of both Cissell and Elliott were dressed.
Elliott Is undoubtedly violently insane.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-14
C:larke,s Rocky Road.

Poor Clarke, the Democratic candi-
date for the senatorship TO succeed
Hanna, is having hard time these
days. His Republican opponents are
pulling the deadly parallel on him by
contrasting his present position with
his utterance in 1896 and later, when
he was denouncing Organism, John
sonism and all their works. The diver
gence between the Clarke of few
years ago and the Clarke of to-day is
about as broad as Is the gulf between
the present Clarke and Hanna and
Foraker Bryan has pretended to &C
cept Clarke's recantation, but when
the RepubU an locomotive runs over
Clarke couple Of months hence
neither Bryan nor Johnson will pu,
Grape on his hat.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-14

sometimes merely because of their unpop,
ularity or the prejudice of their neigh
bors against then, but rarely, if ever,
has this happened in legal executions.
TIE crime which these three brothers
committed was deliberately planned and
coony and cruelty carried out. They had
always been hayward and dissipated,
and had many times been INJECTED with
petty crimes They had a A.udge against
THE uncle, who had done much to help
them when in trouble, because of some
money matters, so they got together and
planned his murder, attacked him in his
home, all Of them emptying their revoly-
ers into him, and afterwards even boast
ing of the murder and their accurate
craftsmanship. The crime was proved
beyond any doubt, and 1t was shown to
have been peculiarly atrocious. Not an
extenuating circumstance was found eth
er IN the trial or on the appeal
The Court Of Appeals affirmed tbs
Judgment of the court below The de
tense appealed to Coy. Odell for elem
ency, but it was denied, although he
gra ted two respites
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-14
MAY REDUCE WAGES
Carnegie s.eeI Company Has Posted
Necessary Notice.


Necessary Notice.
That a reduction in wages is possible
TO the men employed in the Homestead
mills of the Carnegie Steel Company
was made known Friday by the posting
of a notice by the company that on Jan.
l, 1904, there would be n readjustme,r
in the wages of the employees. lis
Of the company claim the notice does
not necessarily mean amy change 10 the
wage rates, but in view Of any, POSSIBLE
ity of a change being necessary II was
deemed bcst to protect the interests OF
the company by posting the notice.
Ever since the strike of 1892 nm agree
ment to this effect has been in force be-
tween the company and each of the mill
workers. In case either side was dicsat-
isfied with the existing scale agreement
1t was stipulated that they must give at
least three months notice Of this fact
preceding the first of the year when the
matter would be taken up and new
agreement entered into. During the last
four years there has been no disposition
on the part Of the Carnegie Company to
change the agreement, but on several oc-
caeions It has advanced the wages of the
men voluntarily beyond the rate agreed
upon, until at present they are being
paid the highest wages in ten years
However. the recent depression in
business has made it necessary for the
COMPANY to give the required notice of a
change a the wage scale. While it is
not stated a reduction viii be made, ii is
thought by some that this is the proba-
BILE intention, and the posting Of the no
tees has been the theme Of considerable
talk among the uen.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-14
forty Years Ago.

One hundred Wisconsin and Michigan
cayalrymen who were SORTING General
Blunt through the Cherokee reservation
were attacked by 600 rebel guelIllas un-
der Quantrell, who killed fifty outright
and murdered the wounded and members
of the regimental band, whom they took
prisoners.
General Joseph Whoc'sr's rebel caval-
~ were attacked by General George
Crooks force near Pennington, Tenn,
which cut them in two, captured 200
prisoners and 1000 small arms, and sent
the remainder retreating southwark.
A second supply train with COO men,
bound for General Rosecrans besieged
army in Chattanooga, was captured at
McMinnville, Tenn, by rebel cavalry un-
der General Joseph Wheeler.
An attempt was made by the rebels TO
blow mp the United States warship Iron
sides in Charleston Is. ca harlror, tor
pedo being exploded against its side with
ont doing any damage.
The $2,000OOO stock subscription need
ed for tie organization Of the Union Pa
cife Railroad Company was completed at
Omaha, Neb.
Charges were flied at Washington
aganss General Schofeld, who was
blamed by citizens for the Lawrence
GKan1 massacre.
4 band of rebel guerillas e2terd
Brownsville. Tenn, broke UP a religious
meeting by seizing as conscripts all the
young white men in attendance, and chen
looted tbe village stores.
One thousand supply wfgons bound foI
Rosecrails' army in Chattanooga, Tenn,
were burned at Anderson's Cross Roads
by rebels under General Joseph Wheeler
who was then driven off by General Mo
Cook.