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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
PLEAD GUILTY,
Men Indicted for Peonage in George
Are Sentenced to Pay
Heavy Fines.

Savannah, Ca, Nov 25.-In the
United States court Edward J. McRee,
Frank McRee and William McRee, of
Valdosta, entered a plea of guilty to
IL indictments charging them with
peonage and Judge Speer sentenced
them to pay fine of $1,000 in two of
the cases and suspended sentence in
the others. The fines will be paid. In
sentencing the McRees, Judge Speer
said that in discussing the race ques-
ton in the south "some talk wildly and
extravagantly of the shotgun policy,
but they do not represent the higher
classes of the SOUTH
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
PRESIDENT IN NEW YORK,
Goes to Attend Funeral of a Relative
-Harmless Crank Hands
Him Letter.

New York, Nov. 29-President Roose-
welt came to New York Friday to at
tend the funeral of James King Oracle,
whose late wife was sister of the presi-
dents mother. During the five hours
he was in the city he was surrounded by
several hundred policemen and a num-
Der of special officers. but an apparently
harmless crank managed to elude their
vigilance and handed to the president
letter regarding panacea which he
claims he has discovered. The let
ter was given to one of the special Off
GERS, and the man, who gave his name
as A. B. Deming, of $50 Broadway, was
taken by the police to court, where he
talked wildly. The interview came as
the president was leaving the church
Mrs. Roosevelt was much agitated
over the occurrence, but the president
was not at all alarmed.
At $50 Broadway it was said that
Deming had desk room, and that he had
always appeared to be perfectly rational
on all subjects except his panacea.
The presidential party went to Jersey
City without further incident, and left
for Washington.
Deming was later committed to Belle
7ue hospital for examination as to his
sanity. He told the magistrate ram
bling story, in the course of which he
said that he was in the clothing bust
cess in Oakland, CAL. for IL years. but
that for the last 81 years he had been
in New York and vicinity. He said he
had met every president from Grant to
Mckinley,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
STREET CAR STRIKE ENDED,
chicago City Railway Employees Vote
to Return to WOrk-Terms
of the Agreement

Chicago, Nov. 26.-The great Chicago
street car strike was settled at noon on
Wednesday, when the strikers at a mass
meeting voted to accept the agreement
made Tuesday night and return to work
at once.
Stripped of verbiage the terms of the
agreement are:
Wages and men agree to
arbitrate, present scale to be set aside
and the actual worth of labor to be, es-
timated without regard to wages paid
at present. (This may raise some wages
and lower others.)
Routing of Cars-Two propositions
made; men may take choice. One is a
minimum of eight hoursand maximum
of eleven, all within limit of fifteen
hours. Other alternative is an oppor-
tunity to earn ten hours pay in fifteen
hours.
Closed Shop-Company retains the
right to discharge, discipline and hire
its men without interference of the
union in any way. Shop to be open to
union and non-union men alike.
Employment - Company will take
back all OF its striking employees except
those who have been found guilty of
violence since November l. This in
cludes those who went on sympathetic
strikes.
Following are the facts and figures re-
garding the strike: Strike of trainmen
began at 4 a. m. November 49, Loss in
fares to company, s25O, 900; loss to COM
pany in advertising, ETC., SIS, 900; loss to
men in wages, 100000; number of men
out of employment, 1927; cost to the
city in wages of 1000 policemen, SAC, 600:
cost of meals for policemen, So, 900; cost
to company of cots, foodstuffs, cooks.
walters, ETC., $4,000; damage to cars
and other property. $4,000; estimated
cost to company in fighting to break
strike, $4,000. The strike ended Novem-
Der 25
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
CLEVELAND SAYS NO,
Be a Candidate for the
Presidency.

New York, Nov 28.-Grover Cleveland
Friday declared that under no circum-
stances would he accept the nomination
to be president of the United States for
third term. This declaration is made
in letter to St. Clair McKelway, editor
of the Brooklyn Eagle.
Accompanying the publication of the
letter is an editorial in which Mr.. Nc
Kelway says the declination of Cleve-
land makes Judge Alton B. Parker the
logical candidate for the presidency on
the democratic ticket The letter is in
Cleveland''s own handw riting and was
written at Princeton on last Wednesday
Mr.. Cleveland says that his determine,
ton is unalterable and conclusive.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
FIVE FlREMEN KILLED.
Four Perish at Duty's Post in Omaha,
and One Loses His Life
i'm Cincinnati,

Omaha, Neb., Nov. 27.-Four men
were burned to death and property loss
amounting to 100000 is the result of a
fire which broke out about three
o'clock Thursday morning in the
wholesale grocery house of Allen
Bros, corner of Ninth and Jones
street. In addition to the big five-story
building occupied by the Allen Bros,
that occupied by the Pacific Storage
company, adjoining, was also con-
sumed, together with most of it's con-
tents. The names of the four firemen
killed were: Leroy w. Lester, William
Burmeister, Lu Goldborough, William
A. Barrett
The fire is presumed to have origin
ated in the furnace room of the Allen
building.
Cincinnati, Nov. 27-One fireman was
killed and seven injured while fighting
a fire which destroyed the fve-story
brick building of Smith Myers and
Schnier & Co., manufacturers of cigar
box machines, at 621 and 627 Front
street, Thursday. The dead man is
William Greve, engine company No. 10.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
OUTLAWS CAPTURED
Chicago Car Barn Murderers TRAPPED
in an Indiana Cave md
Finally Secured.

Chicago, Nov. 28.-Desperadoes Har-
vey Van Dine, Peter Niedermeier and
Emil Roeski, who, with Gustav Marx,
look six lives in their brief criminal
career in Chicago, and who Friday add
ed the most marvellous chapter OF their
lives to the greatest combat ever had be-
tween police and desperate men, have
been captured after hard struggle.
| The two former were taken near Toll
lesion, Ind, while Roeski was captured
near Whiting.
| Friday, before they were captured, a
brakeman was killed, two policemen
were wounded, one probably fatally,
and freight train was captured by
bandits In the wild man-hunt by
so Chicago policemen, armed with rifles,
and the whole strength of the Indiana
constabulary.
The dead: T. J. Favio, brakeman on
the Pennsylvania railroad.
The wounded: Joseph B. Driscoll, po-
liceman, shot through abdomen; Mat
thew thinner, detective, shot in arm
and head; will recover.
Thursday night the bandits were To-
Gated in dugout near Miller's Station,
Ind, and were surrounded by seven
Chicago policemen, under Detective
John F. Sheehan.
All night the policemen lay in the
snow guarding every avenue of escape.
With daylight they advanced upon the
cave, and in desperate battle, in which
hundred shots were fired, Officer Jo-
seph Driscoll fell unconscious in the
snow, shot through the abdomen, and
Officer Matthew thinner, brother of the
alderman of the Twelfth ward, was
shot through the arm, and received a
slight wound in his head.
| Finding the bandits were armed with
rifles and most strongly intrenched,
| Sheehan and his men withdrew and
waited for reenforcements from Chi
cago.
Fifty policemen, under Assistant
Chief Schuettler, armed with rifles. left
| the city at ten o'clock, and by special
train were rushed to Miller's Station.
Before they arrived, however, Chief
of Police O'Neill, anxiously waiting in
his Office for news, received information
| that the bandits had broken the guard
about the cave, and had made a wild
dash across the country to East Tolles-
ton five miles away. Here they killed
brakeman on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, boarded the engine and forced the
fireman to run them to Liverpool, Ind,
where they jumped to the ground and
fled for the Michigan Central tracks.
Indianapolis, Ind, Nov 28.-Gov.
Durbin said Friday evening he thought
the Chicago police were justified in
crossing the state line for the crimi-
nails. He said the men had committed
great crime and he thought it the
duty of every citizen to aid in their
capture.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

Town Marshal James J. Payne, Of
Paramount, Ind, was shot and killed on
the street by Harry "Red" Hooper,
whom he had under arrest as a suspect
for burglary.
Football games on Thanksgiving:
Michigan %, Chicago, 0. Carlisle, %,
Northwestern, 0; Minnesota, II, Wiscon-
sin, 0; Pennsylvania, AZ, Cornell, 0; Ne
braska, 16, Illinois,, o.
Claim to title to land worth 81 900 ,000,-
900 in the upper part of Manhattan is
made by 1900 heirs Of the members Of
the old corporation OF New Harlem. A
suit will be begun to secure possession.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
CLEAR UP SIX MURDERS.
Gustave Marx Makes Remarkable
Confession in ChicaEo-He ImP1i-
Gates Three Others.

Chicago. Nov. 25.-Gustave Marx, ar
rested for the murder of Detective
John Quinn, has made a confession of
completely in the car barn murders
and named two of his accomplices.
Marx admits having taken part in the
raid on the barns of the City Railway
company on the night of August 80,
when John Johnson and Frank Stewart
were shot dead by the mysterious man
with the magazine revolver and Henry
Blehl and William Edman, clerks, were
wounded. Mark named as his accom-
plices in the raid and murders Harvey
Van Dine and Peter Niedermeier and
gave Chief of Police O'Neill and AS.
sistant Chief Schuettler information
concerning other murders in which he
says he participated with the men he
accuses, and third companion of the
name of Emil Roeski.
All three of the alleged confederates
are known to have fed the city early
sunday morning as soon as they heard
of the killing of Policeman Quinn and
the arrest OF Marx. The record of this
quartet OF young desperadoes, none Of
whom is over 81 years old, is startling
In the boldness of the deeds. and the
success with which they were carried
out Besides the car barn murders
Marx confesses that he and his gang
were concerned in four other robberies,
while three others of even a holder
scope had been planned. The list OF
their victims killed and wounded is as
follows:
Frank Stewart and John johnson,
shot to death in the Chicago City rail-
way barns at Sixty-first and State
streets.
BENJAMIN. c. LaGross and Adolph
Jensen. shot when hold-up men in
vaded LaGross' saloon in West North
avenue. LaGross was killed instantly
and Jensen died of his wounds the next
day.
Otto Bauder, boy, shot to death
when robbers raided a saloon in Ash
land avenue.
John Quinn. city detective, shot to
death last Saturday night when he at.
tempted to arrest Marx.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

Delinquent youngsters in Denver are
having a fine time of it. The juvenile
court law permits the judge to hold pa
rents responsible for the behavior of
their children, and the result is that fire.
quently the parent is fined or otherwise
punished instead of the child. There is
certain amount of justice in this, but
what if the child has inherited his sin
not from his parent, but from some re-
mote ancestor over whom the parent had
no control? Some children have in
herited their propensities stright from
Adam. Gas the twig is bent the trees
inclined "A ~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
TRADE, OUTLOOK GOOD.
SeasOnab1e Weather and Holiday
Purchases Act as u Stimulant
to Business.

New York, Nov. 28.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
Seasonable temperature and holiday
purchases stimulated retail trade, max
ing results more satisfactory during
the past week than at any recent date.
improvement was most conspicuous
In heavy wearing material and kindred
lines that have remained dull because
OF the mild weather. In view of the
numerous wage reductions there is
noteworthy harmony between employ
ers and workers, indicating that labor
leaders appreciate the necessity OF
sharing in the readjustment- Grain
shipments Increased with the ap-
preaching close of navigation on the
lakes, and freight traffic was subjected
to the greatest pressure of the season
Railway earnings for three weeks OF
November averaged so per cent lower
than last year.
Business is by no means brisk, MOI
is there any expectation of wholesome
activity during the remaining weeks
Of this year, yet there is evidence OF
returning confidence with the lapse oil
time.
Failures this week numbered 258 In
the United States, against 213 last
year, and IA in Canada, compared with
16 year ago.
New York, Nov. 2S-Bradstreet's
says: Continued cold weather has Of
fered a needed stimulus to retail
trade in all seasonable lines, but par.
ticularly in clothing and wearing ap.
parel. This in turn is reflected in
better recorder business with jobbers
at interior centers, who also note
more interest in holiday goods, fancy
groceries, furs and kindred lines. In
wholesale trade features are the rather
stronger tone of cotton goods, which
are held more firmly by agents, and q
little better feeling in wooden goods
Firmness of prices of agricultural
products Is another element which is
to be taken account of. The agricul-
tural interest and those interested in
distributive trade seem at present tc
be having their inning, and appear
we'll situated, whereas the manufactur.
ing and industrial branches send forth
nearly all the pessimistic reports
The prosperity of the grain and food
producing populations north and west
and Of the cotton, lumber and naval
stores interests at the south, is, in fact
the chief basis for the conservative
confidence in the general business out
look expressed by many observers.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
REVOLUTION ENDS.
Capttulation of Its Capital City Winds
Up the Trouble In Santo
Domingo.

Washington, Nov. 27.-The end of
the San DOMINICAN revolution is off
c!ally recorded in a cablegram re-
ceived ct the state department Thurs
day from United States Minister Pow
ell, dated Wednesday. The minister
reports that all was quiet; that the
president (Wos y GID and the cabi-
net were to leave for Cuba The New
port had withdrawn her marines from
the city of San Domingo. The revo-
lutionary party guaranteed order and
safety for all persons. The election
for president to succeed the deposed
Wos y Gil will take place in three
months. The Baltimore, which went
from San Domingo to San Juan for
coal, probably will not return to the
first named port, but. will come north
to Newport News to be inspected be-
fore joining the Asiatic squadron, &C.
cording to the original plan.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

Mr.. Peirce, third assistant secretary
of state, has returned from a tour of
the American consulates in the prin-
cipal European countries, and he gives
high praise to consular officials for their
ability and their valuable service in
American interests. He finds some in
equalities and abuses, most of them to
the disadvantage of the consuls, and
recommends a change. But his report
as whole is most complimentary to our
consular representatives, and it coin
cides with the commentator given
them by foreign observers of their
work.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
Railroad disasters of exceptional d

Railroad disasters of exceptional de.
structiveness to life rarely come singly.
This has been the case during the last
week. When such disasters follow
each other SO closely because of the
scarelessness of employees 1t is time not
merely that the railroad officials should
Investigate but that responsibility
should be fixed and those responsible
should be punished in some adequate
manner Since the middle of October
last there have been five railroad dis
sasters, IN which 80 persons have been
killed, 1876 injured, and all i've OF these
wor, caused by ollisiou Of trains.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

Some purist in Boston is bent on re-
filming our language until it shall have
lost original meanings and become
"etherealized." The latest proposition
is TO give up the phrase Indian sum-
mer, since 1T isn't summer. nor is it
torrid, nor has it aught to do with the
poor Indian" The supersublimated
individual then goes on to say: LET
us get in touch with the poets and call
this time of grace simply the after
glow - Fortunately language has a
will of its own and cannot be made to
order, even by a Bostonian.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

Indianapolis, Nov. 2S.-Rev William
E. Hinshaw has been released on parole
from the Northern prison, where he has
been serving life sentence for the MUIR
der of his wife: This is probably the
closing chapter in one of the most SEN
sational domestic tragedies that ever
occurred in: Indiana. &. ! n
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

The agricultural staustcians tell us
that the chinch bug costs US 800, 600
4 year, the hessian fly $50. 00O, 900, the
grasshopper $so,ooo,ooo, the potato bug
$4,000. 900 and the cotton boil worm $780,
900, 900, or total of sS0S 900, 900 for mere
bugginess Looks as if this would be
pretty good place to shave our expenses
when prosperity shows signs OF letting
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
FROM WASHINGTON.

In football games II persons have
been killed during the present season,
with the hardest contests yet to be
played. A dozen are in the hospitals.
In Washington the two hundred and
twentieth anniversary of the landing
Of the first German colonists in North
| America was celebrated.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones in his annual report says that
257 Indian schools are in operation,
with an attendance of "a 357. A total
of $757,173 has been paid to the In
| dams for their inherited lands under
the act Of May II, 1902
The executive mansion is In mourn
ing on account Of the death Of the pres
ident's uncle, James X. Oracle. There
will be no social entertainments until
the cabinet dinner.
Eugene F. Ware, the commissioner Of
pensions, 1t is said, will retire from that
Office by the middle of November of next
year and will return Immediately to the
practice of law in Kansas.
The secretary of state notified Great
Britain and Holland that America will
not guarantee any part of the Colombian
bonds, but says Panama ought to.
At the white house President Roose-
welt entertained representative Mon
tana workingmen at dinner and prom
ised them square deal'' in all labor
matters.
A daughter Of United States Senator
Clark, Mrs. Everett Mallory Culver, has
been sued by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Vlasto
for 100000 on the charge of alternating
Scion Vlasto's affections
The regularly appointed Thanksgiv-
ing day was generally observed in the
usual manner throughout the country.
The Colombian leader, Gen. Reyes,
who arrived in New Orleans and starts
at once for Washington, admits that
Colombia cannot make war on America,
but says the isthmus will be retaken at
any cost.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

The announcement that the Russians
are ready to fight the Chinese can
hardly be regarded as news. The race
hatred there is of such nature that a
Russian is always ready to fight a Chi
naman, and has been so for some five
or six centuries. The peculiar ferocity
of the Russians toward the Chinese
was the talk of all the international
armies engaged in putting down the
Boxer uprising. !
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings Of q
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News Of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
IN EXTRA SESSION,

Reciprocity and Other Matters.
Cuba and Panama engaged the at
tention of the United States senate on
the 23d, to the exclusion of all other
questions. 1t was agreed that vote
on the Cuban bill should be taken De-
cember 16. This defers action until
the regular session of congress. The
house was not in session.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

Washington, Nov. 2S.-The treasury
department has issued instructions to
the revenue steamer Rush." at Sitka
to proceed to sea in search of the DOS
sible survivors from the steamer Dis
covery, which is supposed to. have
foundered in Behring sea over two
weeks ago 49,, .
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

Portsmouth, O., Nov. 2S.-John K.
Duke, defaulting cashier of the Royal
Building and Loan association was
found dead in bed when the officers
went to his home to take him to court
to be sentenced. He had shot himself
through the head.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

The other day the Standard Oil COM
pany declared dividend OF II per
cent. or $12.0O0,00O, ON its capitaliza-
ton OF $1OO,000,oO0 OF this amount
John D. Rockefeller will receive $4.-
100000, and his brother, William, ST.
100000. This dividend, which is pay
able in December. makes total Of A.
per cent. for the year.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

A correspondent wiring from Madrid
says the people Of Spain are beginning
to talk about finding wife for young
King Alfonso. One advantage that a
young American has over young king
Ia that the former can select his own
wife.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
WEST AND SOUTH.

Schedules of James S. Watson, for
mer president of Porter Brothers, COM
pany in Chicago, show his liabilities
to be s1,295.o00.
In the Cripple Creek district in Colo
RADIO strikers attempted to wreck a
coal mine and troops were sent to keep
order.
Western Mississippi and Arkansas are
enveloped in dense smoke as a result of
serious forest fires which have been
raging for three days.
An aged couple, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Smith, were burned to death in fire
which entirely consumed their home in
the outskirts of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Edward J. McRee, Frank McRee and
William McRee, of Valdosta, entered a
plea of guilty at Savannah, Ga, to IS
indictments charging them with peon-
age and were sentenced to pay fine of
81, 900 in two Of the cases.
Gas explosion killed 10 miners and
caused great damage in coal mine No.
20 at Bonanza, Ark.
Murder of two persons while robbing
car barns and four other murders and
robberies in Chicago were confessed by
Gustave Marx, murderer of Detective
Quinn, who duplicates three others.
Confirmation is received of the report
that Bishop Sebastian Gerhard Mess
mer, of Green Bay, Wis, will be named
by the congregation of the propaganda
as archbishop of Milwaukee and his ap-
pointment sent to Pope Plus x. for ap-
proval. II" i ..,Ss ~
At Mapleton, a., David Hollister is
dead at the age of 101. He was In good
health for 100 years. y ~ ~ =.
BY falling floor one fireman was
killed and seven injured while fighting
fire In Cincinnati. -. z ,s :,
The Illinois congressional delegation
is booming Speaker Cannon for the vice
presidential nomination. :. sf5 z ts=
Number Of hunters killed in Wiscon.
sin since the deer season opened al
ready Is 20. Five more cannot survive
their wounds and II are injured se.
verely. Fatalities never before were q
numerous. $3.50
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09
The Armenian massacres seem to ha

The Armenian massacres seem to have
been transferred to London, judging
from the number of murders in that
city. What makes the matter worse is
the fact that the assassinations are ap-
parently due to hatred aroused between
rival factions, and cannot be attributed
to the terrible Turk or the bloodthirsty
Kurd. Armenians cannot hope to retain
the sympathy and support of civilized
people if they tolerate such barbarous
and murderous vendettas among them
selves,