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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-05-29

Little Joe Mclaughlin, son of Mr..
d. l.. Mclaughlin, Of Jonesville, was
accidentally struck By base ball
bat an d had his upper lip severely
cut Tuesday.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
WEATHER HAS GOOD EFFECT
Retail Trade Greatly Stimulated by
Lower Temperature.
Demand for Holiday Goods In Some
Sections liz Better Than
Last Year.

New York, Nov. 23.-Bradstreets says:
Colder weather over the greater part
of the country has greatly stimulated
retail trade, and incidentally quickened
jobbing demand in seasonable linen.
In some sections inquiries for holiday
goods exceed last years, the feature be-
ing the high grade of materials taken.
Interior retailers, helped by propitious
agricultural conditions, are reported
meeting obligations more promptly.
Farming interests are apparently in good
financial condition, an inference that
seems to be evidenced by the fact that
they display unwillingness to part with
their surplus products at anything less
than what they deem satisfactory prices,
though the movement of currency to
the interior continues, but on smaller
scale than for some weeks. Southern
conditions are especially good. While
the foregoing are the favorable develop
ments of the week. the fact must not be
overlooked that labor troubles. the
gloomy outlook for building, the clos
ing down Of iron and steel mills, blast
furnaces and leather tanneries and the
continued hesitancy in the buying of
practically all commodities, are factors
that mar the industrial as we'll as the
commercial fabric"
r. G. Dun & Co., in their Weekly Re-
view of Trade, say: Labor organize
lions are accepting reductions in wages
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27

without controversy, which removes
one threatening industrial factor, and in
several branches of business orders are
more numerous, but in the steel industry
there is little expectation of liberal buy
ing until 1904. Construction work is de-
creasing, despite optimistic reports Of
more building permits issued last month
than year ago. Mild weather still
checks distribution of merchandise usu-
ally in brisk demand at this season,
which is reflected in restricted activity
at wooden and worsted mills and cloth
ingfactories. There snot the complaint
of traffic congestion that was 30 frequent
last year at this time, railway earnings
81 per cent. higher than in November
to date in 1902 testifying to the increase
in facilities A week has passed with.
out any. further reduction in prices OF
iron and steel, and sentiment in the trade
favors stability at the present position
Failures this week were 249 in the
United States. against 266 last year, and
II in Canada. compared with "a yea,
ago."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
A FIRE HORROR
IN pennsylvania
Twenty-Seven Italian Laborers Meet
Death in Burning Shanty
Near Lilly.
BODIES OF The VICTIMS ARE
PRACTICALLY BURNED TO PIECES
Score or More Others Seriously In
jured-Flames Break Out While
Men Are Asleep-Awful Struggle
for Life Takes Place-Over-Heated
Stove Supposed to BE Cause.

Johnstown, Pa. Nov. 23.-While over
100 Italian railroad laborers, were
asleep in shanty near Lilly, Pa, on
the Pennsylvania railroad, early Satur-
day. the building caught fire, and before
the foreigners could escape at least ~
were burned to death, and a score or
more were seriously injured. The men
were employed by McMenamin & Sims
on the Pennsylvania railroad improve
ments between Lilly and Portage. There
were 500 on the job, all Italians, and
in the shanty which burned were 1875
Of these. The shanty was about 100
feet long, one story in height, and
built in the usual style Of such quar-
tiers. The eastern end was devoted to
the cooking and eating, while the men
slept in hunks, like sardines in a can,
in the western end. There was only
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
MAY END STRIKE.
fer Regarding Situation
More Cars Run.

Chicago, Nov. 23.-The settlement Of
the street car strike still hangs in the
balance.
Directors Of the Chicago City Railway
company met Saturday morning at the
Office Of the president, d. G. Hamilton
Whether it was agreed to open up ne
gotiations direct with the executive
board OF the strikers will not be known
until after Col. Bliss has had con-
ference with Clarence s. barrow, attor-
ney for the union men. who was busy
on another case.
Additional cars, manned by nonunion
employees and policemen. were sent out
by the City Railway company, although
the strikers claim that pending peace
negotiations there was to be truce.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
AGAIN ELECTED PRESIDENT
The Labor Delegates at Boston Give
Gompers a Large Majority.
Socialist Candidate His Only Oppo.
nent-Vice President Elected
by Acclamation.

Boston, Nov. 23-Samuel Gompers
was Saturday reelected president OF the
American Federation of Labor by
large plurality.
The first business of the day was the
reading of invitations from cities de-
string the next annual convention of the
organization. Invitations were read
from the trades and labor organizations
of Milwaukee. and from the governor
of Utah and Salt Lake City unions. No
action was taken.
After several matters were dis
cussed the delegates took up the cleo
ton Of officers.
Delegate Kramer, of Richmond, Va,
placed in nomination for president
Samuel Gompers Mr. Kramer made
brief speech eulogistic of his nominee,
whom he characterized as widely
known for the honesty and sincerity of
his purpose, and for his earnestness in
the cause of labor, and one who had
given his entire life to the cause of or
ganized labor"
Then Delegate Debarrey, of st. Louis,
in few words nominated Ernst kreft,
of Philadelphia the man who had been
selected as the candidate of the social
ist delegates.
The convention voted by roll-call, and
President Gompers was reelected by an
overwhelming majority. The vote
stood:
Gompers, 1884; Krefts, 1874
The following were elected by ac-
clamation:
First vice president, James Duncan.
Washington, d. c., president of the
Granite Cutters National union; sec
ond vice president, John Mitchell, pres
ident of the United Mine Workers of
America; third vice president, James
OConnell, Washington, D. c., presi-
dent of the International Association
of Machinists; fourth vice president,
Max Morris. of Denver, member of the
, Retail Clerks International Protective
association. For the Office of fifth vice
president, John w. Slayton, of New
castle, Pa, representing the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Of America, was nominated by the So
cialists, against Thomas /. Kidd, OF
Chicago, of the Amalgamated Wood
workers International union. Kidd
was elected, the vote standing 10,62s
| for Kidd, and 2,677 for Slayton.
| D. A. Hayes, of Philadelphia, of the
! Glass Bottle Blowers association Of
the United States and Canada, was
elected sixth vice president, and Dan
iel Keefe, of Chicago, member of the
International Longshoremen's associa.
ton, seventh vice president.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
FAVORABLE TO TREATY.
Foreign relation. Committee OF SEN.
ate Passes on Cuban Recipro.
city Measure.

Washington, Nov. 23.-The senate
committee on foreign relations Satur-
day authorized a favorable report on
the bill giving effect to the Cuban
reciprocity treaty.
The motion to favorably report the
bill was not opposed by any member Of
the committee, and the decision to IA
vorably report was arrived at in less
than Is minutes after the question was
taken up. No effort was made to
amend the bill, and it will accordingly
be reported to the senate next Monday
Just as it came from the house of rep
resentatives. The report will be made
by Senator Cullom, as chairman of the
committee.
The only discussion which occurred
In the committee apropos of the bill
was on the point as to whether an
agreement could be secured with the
house looking to the adjournment Of
the extra session next week on the
condition that time be agreed
upon early in the regular session fol-
taking a vote on the bill. The mem
bers generally expressed themselves as
willing to enter into such an arrange
ment, and the 18th of December was
named as an acceptable time for TAX
ing the vote.
All the members of the committee,
except Senators Morgan and Clarke,
of Montana, were present at the meet
ing.
The treaty for the cession of the
Isle of Pines to Cuba was also ia
vorably acted upon by the committee,
and it will be favorably reported to
the senate at the next executive ses-
sion.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
FIremen Injured.

Elizabeth, N. j., Nov. %. Five Are=
men were injured in a 100000 FIRE In the
Bonner Fur company building In THIS
city Saturday. The men were buried
under falling wall. Their fellow fire.
men turned streams of water on the
wreckage and cooled It sufficiently 80
that ths msI ssuld u eH3 tut !.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
Turn. over Department.

Omaha. Neb., Nov. 23.-Maj. Gen.
John G. Bates, commanding the depart
ments of the lakes and Missouri Sat
urday turned over the department of
Missouri to its new commander, Mai.
Cen. s. S. Sumner. Nearly all the Of
hcers in the department of Missouri in
Guiding Maj. Smith Vanleer, chief en-
gineer of the department, of Fort Leav-
enworth, were present. No immediate
change in the personnel Of the staff will
occur, and Maj. E. ]. McClernand will
remain as chief of staff
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
A Dexpernte Fixht.

East Lynn, w. Va, Nov. 23.- George
Grant (colored), known as despera
do, was arrested by Qftcer Bingham, Of
Huntington, after desperate fight Fri.
day night in coal mine Grant was
mining coal beneath the East Lynn
mountain, and was alone when the OH.
Ger reached This room" Both fought
until exhausted, and neither could be
recognized when found by the mine
operatives, owing to their bleeding con.
dition.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
Britt Receives Deci.ion,

San Francisco, Nov. 49, = Jimmy
Britt, the white lightweight champion,
yves awarded the decision over Martin
Candle, of Boston, at the end Of the
twenty-fifth round before the Colma
Athletic club Friday night.
No matter how long you have had
the cough; II it hasn't already devel.
<.ped into consumption, DR.. Wood +
Norway Pine Syrup Will cure il.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
Crusade Against Roru. companie

Crusade Against Bogus Companies.
New York, Nov. pa general cru
SADIE has begun by the federal au-
therittes against bogus fire insurance
companies operating through the
mails. They are said to be numerous
here and in Chicago. Incorporated il
West Virginia. they have refused te
comply with the law and report to the
state insurance department, and when
agencies were driven out of the state
they continued to do business through
the mails.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
E1traditien Granted.

I London. Nov. 2s.-Extradition was
granted Saturday for .raparae and We
bear. the two Croatians who were ar
rested at Southampton, October 81,
charged with the murder of S. T. Fergu-
son, at West Middletown, Pa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27

they had most cause to be thankful for
something. Sometimes 1t was for the
full harvest, and sometimes it was for
rain after long, dry time that they
feared would ruin all the crops.
In these early Thanksgiving days
the children were not thought Of first
and foremost as they are in a good
many homes to-day. They were expect
ed to keep in the background, and the
little girls had to help their mothers
to keep house, and after that was kept
they had to keep right on being prim
and proper to such an extent that they
didn't always have as much fun az
their brothers The boys used to play
wicket on the commons, and football
all over the place. so that in 1857 an
ordinance was passed forbidding the
playing of football in the streets on
account of the annoyance to foot pas
sengers.
At first there were no dolls for the
girls to play with, all the funny little
dolls that we see now in museums dat
ing back to the times when our remote
great-grandparents were little people,
having been brought over from Eu-
rope for the benefit Of the mothers, not
the little girls. The mothers didn't
wish the dolls to play with, but for
models for their best dresses, for the
dolls, you ought to know, were dressed
by dressmakers and milliners In Lon
don and Paris and sent over here for
fashion plates. and for many years all
the dolls our great-great-gran
had to play with were made Of rags. And
pretty nice doll babies they made, too,
you will admit.
"Battledoors and shuttles,' which
the children used to play SO much
came over in 1861, and marbles got
here ten years later. in October, SC
they must have been played in the
house or else with frost-nipped fingers
till spring came again.
There were no blocks Of houses and
big cities then. but only separate and
often widely-scattered homes II a
big storm came the farmers had to get
out their numbering OK wagons just as
they do in the far western country to-
day and break" the roads. Sometimes
the storms were so heavy that the ex-
pected visitors couldn't get through
the snow drifts, and the Thanksgiving
dinner had to be eaten by the family
all alone. But the family was general
ly big one, and II the boys and girls
didn't have their looked-for company
to play with they had each other.
In one family, for instance, of which
we have record, there were eight
little girls. who had been named Elk.
perience, Waitstill, Preserved, Hope.
still, Wait, Thanks. Unite and Supply
Wonder how their brother nicknamed
them?
In those early days there were nc
steam radiators or furnaces or stoves
and all the fun-making on Thanksgiv-
ing day that was done indoors had tt
be done in the big living-room, where
the huge fireplace blazed and cracked
with its great logs and piles of under.
brush. and the turkey roasted sizzling
on spit before the fire that burned
while you looked at it and froze your
back at the same time. e 9
Everything considered. it's gooc
deal easier and jollier to be little DO,
or girl on Thanksgiving Of this yea,
OF grace, 1908, than 1t was in 1880 OF
for a good many years after that
Don't you think SO too?
-. ~ Il
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27

one door at each end, and the windows
were few and small.
The fire is supposed to have started
from an over-heated stove in the
eastern end. The building burned like
finder, and the flames were upon the
men before any of them were aroused.
Awful Struggle for Life.
Then began struggle for the outside
and life. They fought and scrambled
for the doors, and the weaker were
crushed down and trampled. Others
were roasted to death there.
Those who strove for the door were
in the widest sort of panic. They
fought and kicked, ard among those
who escaped there are many who bear
marks of the fierce strife, which took
place in this battle for life. A few
got out of the small windows, minus
clothes, and with their bodies cut from
broken glass.
Many of those who did manage to get
out had their savings of years in their
trunks, which they left behind them
in the building. Remembering this
fact as soon as they got outside, they
fought just as fiercely to get back. A
few succeeded, but for the sake Of
their boarded treasure they gave up
their lives. One eyewitness says he
does not believe that single man Of
those who returned succeeded in get
ting out again. In the ruins Saturday
some of the corpses were close beside
the hoped bands of their trunks. and
melted gold and silver which had been
kept in those receptacles indicated that
they had fallen and died with their
treasure in their arms. The bodies
were all practically burned to pieces.
An italian who looked at them, and
who knew every man in the shanty, was
unable to identify single one.
Three Burned to Death.
Somerset, Pa, Nov. 23.-Three per-
sons were burned to death early Sat-
urday in fire which destroyed the
power house of the sanitarium at
Markletcn. near mere.
N. F. Lydon, breeder of heavy
boned Poland China Hogs, Gregg Ia
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
FOR SALE!

50 Chester White Bears. 50
50 good quality, heavy bon
ed, pure bred, Chester White
boars of April, May and June
farrow and a few good. grow
thy bears of last Octobar far
row, breeding and quality of
the very best.>
Also some good, pure bred
yearling Shropshire rams.
Prices reasonable.
r. A, ECKSTEIN & BRO.
r. r. D. 2. Chester, la.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
Just for Boys and Girls


sssa1SsaSz OW. boys and girls, don't
TAT you think that good
4 EV many of You would think
& it great lark to exchange
Il - places with the Plymouth
\ s4MMh,N children of more than ITO
tE;saNW years ago, because on that
1 tKSYH very first Thanksgiving
HNV holiday that ever. was OBJ
served on American soil,
k$s there came to town 80 In
dian braves and their Chief
Massasoit. They stayed for week
as the guests of the white men, and
they all hunted and fished and smoked
together and had general jolliflcation.
because the crops had turned out SO
we'll.
The first public Thanksgiving came
in 1880, and on the 22d of February,
the day we now celebrate as Washing
tons birthday. In November OF the
next year there was another Thanks
giving, and one year there we're two.
but in the next So years there was but
one Thanksgiving in about every two
years. 1t did not always come in Mo-
yember, as it does now on a regular
day in the month, but skipped around.
sometimes being observed in January,
and sometimes in August, and some
times in other months, according to
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
w. H. Shea
SuERIFF'S SALE.

OLE lGlE 4 - GALL.
STATE OF IOWA,
HOWARD COUNTY.
In the District Court OF Howard County, State
of Iowa.
BY virtue of a special execution issued from
the Office OF the Clerk of the District Court Of
Howard county, State of Iowa. in favor of Nc
ormick harvesting Machine Co., and against
Lu iw1g Osland, dated Nov. 5th, 1903 and to me
directed. commanding me that of the
goods, chattels,s stock or Interest in any company
debts due, property in the hands OF third per-
sons, landSand tcnementS (Which are not ex
empt by Jaw from eXecution) of the said
Ludwig Osland, make or cause to be made
The sum of One hundred and fourteen Dollars
(S1140O. and ninety three Dollars and five cents
cost Of suit and eleven dollars and forty cents
III 400 attorney IS ices with interest and costs,
have levied upon the following de.
Scr1bed chattles lying and being situated in
-. One Mccormick Corn Shedder, one. Advance
Thrfshing Engine and fixtures, aud one Min.
neapOlls Separator.
And hereby give public notice that shall
ofrer for sale at public outcry at Lime
Springs county OF Howard andState of Iowa.
on
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7th 1908,
between the hours OF O'Clock a. m. and4 O'Clock
p. m. OF said day-sale to commence at the hour
Of 8 O'Clock p. m. Of said day; and will sell to
the highest and best bidder therefor In cash the
above described property, or SUFFICIENT thereof
TO satisfy the above debt with interest and costs
Dated this 16 day OF Nov. 1903.
A. @. CAMPBELL.
22W2 Sheriff Of Howard county
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27

now Arc Your klaneysv
sd Stating Rsnsdy Co.. cSinssn ~
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27

N. F. Lydon, breeder of heav.
boned Poland China Hogs, Greg, i,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27
Three Burned to Death.

Somerset, Pa, Nov 23.-Three per-
sons were burned to death early Sat
urday in a fire which destroyed the
power house of the sanitarium at
Markleton. near mere.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-27

Gompers, 1884; Krefts, 1874.
The following were elected by &C.
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