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The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
EXPENSIVE OPERATION.
Men Sleep at Twenty Cents an Hour In
Municipal Plant.

Logansport Qnd.) Journal.
An interesting explanation of one Of the
10000 ways in which the electric-light plant
is being mismanaged is found in the way
political friends of the members of the
electric light committee are now sleeping
overtime in exchange for 20 cents an hour
from the city treasury.
There are five boilers in the plant Be
fore midnight it requires four men to feed
them. After midnight only three boilers
are used and the work is at its lightest,
but three men are still retained to care for
them.
If it takes only four men to feed five boil
ers during the busiest time, why should it
take three to feed three boilers during the
lightest part of the labor the plant is re-
Quired to perform?
The only explanation is found in the way
the work is apportioned. Instead of one
remaining awake and tending to this part
Of the work, three remain. They work in
two-hour stretches-two hours each night
for each man. Most people would think six
hours a comparatively light day, but these
men work only two hours. Two of them
sleep at 20 cents an hour while one man
feeds the boilers for two hours. Then the
man who (at 20 cents an hour) has been
feeding turns in for the rest of the night
(at 20 cents an hour), and one of the Sleep
ers takes a two-hour turn. Finally the
aroused and does two hours work Then
they all go home. But the pay is not for
two hours for each man; oh. no. not any
more than it is for one mans six hours.
Three men are paid for six hours each, four
hours of which each has been asleep (at
20 cents an hour.)
What business man would so arrange the
work of his employees? How long would he
be able to conduct any legitimate business
profitably? 1t is leaks like this that cause
the electric light management to seek re-
trenchment in other ways, notably by steal
ing the current, turning OF the street lights
and by refusing to supply it where II is
paid for at commercial rates.
The Journal has no fault to find with the
wages paid these men except that II does
not see why three men should be paid s72
each a month of the city's money for doing
what one man could do-for what one man
could easily do IL ii were a private enter
prise instead of the worst managed munic-
ipal plant in the State.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
Critical Below Cairo.

CAIRO. ILL.,. March 1O.-The river at Cairo
Is gradually rising, the gauge tonight
showing a stage Of 4S.4 feet. The situation
below Cairo is hourly becoming more crit
ical. At Bird Point the water is running
over the Iron Mountain tracks and is with
I'm a few inches of the Cotton Belt tracks.
The entire place Is under water The water
has backed in behind the levee at Norfolk
and the entire country between the river
and Charleston is fast being submerged.
Reports from Belmont, Mo-, say the en-
tire place is under water and that the sit
uation Is gradually becoming worse. The
steamer Rose Lee has arrived from lower
river points and reports a serious state of
affairs at Columbus and Hickman, KY,
thousands OF acres of farming lands being
covered by raging waters. The farmers
have been moving out as best they could.
but much stock has been lost. The Ken
tucky country opposite Cairo is under
water for several miles back and large
part of the Paducah branch of the Illinois
Central tracks has been washed out.
The predictions of the Cairo weather bu-
reau are that the water will not go beyond
fifty feet on the Cairo gauge
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
NOnunion Teamsters Assaulted by
Strikers and No Interference by
the Police Authorities.
ASKED IN VAIN
NASH TO BE ASKED TO
CALL OUT MILITIA TO-DAY.
Manager and NOnuniOn Driver Saved
by Mattresses, Who Screened Them
from the Strikers.

TOLEDO, o.. March 10.-This city prac-
tically was in control of a mob to-day. No
blood was shed. but the mob demonstrated
its ability to do almost as it pleased. The
police are alleged to have declined to MAIN
tain order, and Governor Nash may be
asked to call out the militia.
The trouble grew out of the strike of
teamsters in the employ Of the Toledo
Carriage Association, which attempted to
fill the places of the strikers with nom
union men. The first overt act was when a
nonunionist was pulled from his dray.
Later revolvers were drawn and threats
made. The association asked the police to
protect its employees, but, it is said. no pro-
lection was given. After four successive
attacks had been made on the nonunion
teamsters by strikers, member of the
Carriage Association declared that he would
make application to Governor Nash to-
morrow to call out the state militia to pro-
tect the associations men and interests.
The day has been one of the most excit-
ing in the city's history. nor is the excite
ment abated by the strikers declaration
that a general strike will be called, and
that no Toledo freight would be handled
by teamsters in any part of the country
The trouble began at noon, when an en-
ragged mob of 400 strikers and sympathizers
followed a truck through the principal
business streets, endeavoring to knock and
pull from his place nonunion driver. The
mob also attempted to do violence to Man.
ager Turner, of the Moreton Truck Com
pany. In whirling around a corner the
truck was overturned, and the next instant
the nonunion driver and manager were on
the pavement, with the mob on top of them.
In the melee the two objects of the attack
escaped into restaurant, where mattresses
screened them and defied the bowling mob
that was at their heels until the police
came. The police escorted the fugitives to
safety, but then gave notice that any fur
ther provocation given the strikers would
be the fault Of the employers, and they
would not interfere hereafter.
Later the report was received that an at
tempt to throw a 'scab' driver into the
river had been frustrated by the police
Not half an hour later another nonunion
driver was torn from truck in front of
the Moreton Truck Company's Office, and
at the muzzle of a revolver was compelled
to run for his life. A similar fate befell a
nonunion teamster within block of the
police station.
Police Sergeant Conway, the only officer
detailed to watch the case, says the en-
ployers had precipitated the trouble by
Threatening to brain any union teamster
who attempted 10 climb one of their
trucks
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
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The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
WEATHER BUREAU BULLETIN.



WASHINGTON, March 10.-The Weather
Bureau has issued the following bulletin on
the river situation:
1.-The upper Ohio river is rising rapidly.
The middle portion is falling, but will again
begin to rise to-day and tonight. At
Evansville the river will probably begin to
fall tonight or Wednesday, but will con-
tinue to rise at a decreased rate for the
next two or three days from Paducah 10
Cairo. The Lower Tennessee will continue
TO rise for the next three or four days and
the Mississippi from st. Louis TO CAIRO
for the next thirty-six hours. No changes
are at present indicated from the forecast
stage OF 40 or so feet at Cairo. The MIS-
sissippi below the mouth OF the ONO con-
tinues to rise slowly, but the rise In the
neighborhood of Memphis will probably be
more rapid after Tuesday. stage OF
As feet or possibly higher at Helena, where
the stage this morning was AS feet; Mem
phis reported 34.7 and Cairo AT feet. The
danger.
Below Helena nothing has occurred to
warrant change in forecast previously
so feet Is indicated for Vicksburg within
eight or ten days and stage OF possibly
21 feet at New Orleans within three or four
weeks. The rise will be very slow and the
forecasts are based upon the assumption
that the levees will remain intact and that
there will be no more heavy rains until a
pOrtlOn OF the present accumulation VI
water is disposed of. 1t must be remem-
bered that the greater portion or the hign
water at New Orleans, where the stage this
morning was 1873 feet, has thus far been
caused by flood waters from the lower trtb-
utaries and that the main rise from the
upper river has not yet reached THAT sec
tion. Later advices from New Orleans
state that the levee along Bayou La
Fourche broke in two places Monday after
noon, causing much damage. AT New Or
leans the river front is now being raised
with sacks of sand. the water being flush
with the wharf"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11

Railways Suffer Through the Wreck
ing Of Bridges by Ice GOrges.

ing Of Bridges by Ice GOrges.
LINCOLN. Neb.. March 1O.-The flood sit
uation in Nebraska tonight is even worse
than twenty-four hours ago. The wreck
ing by an ice gorge of the main line bridge
Of the Rock Island across the Platte river
at South Bend, and that OF the Missouri
Pacific near Louisville, has still further
demoralized railroad traffic. The Rock
Island Is still running trains between here
and Omaha over the Burlington tracks, and
the Union Pacific utilizes the same line for
an outlet from Omaha westward.
The center of the flood along the Platte,
which last night was at Columbus, has
moved eastward, and to-day reached Fre-
mont, the bottom lands for miles east and
west OF that town being under water. The
point of greatest danger now is at Platts-
mouth, where the Platte empties into the
Missouri, which stream, already high, will
be given an increased and dangerous vol
into ii. A gorge which formed at Platts-
mouth this morning caused the Missouri to
go out of it's banks, and the crash OF Ice
against the Burlingtons new steel bridge
shook the structure threateningly. Workmen
on the bridge at the time dropped their din
ner buckets in the river and fled in terror
Both the Burlington bridges at Plattsmouth
are still in danger, and are being carefully
watched. Over the State every stream of
any size is bank full or running over.
The st. Paul & Omaha road has been un-
able TO move train on its Wakefield
branch since last Saturday on account of
washouts.
Albert Kohlc.. young farmer. was
drowned near Osmond. He was driving
across a bridge over which the water was
running. The horses jumped off the bridge,
and the driver and both horses were
drowned.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11

CHARLESTON, w. Va, March 10
Judge B. F. Keller. of the United States
District Court for the Southern District of
West Virginia, opened special term Of
court here to-day for the purpose of in
quiring into the facts concerning the fight
at Stannaford City on Feb. Is. between
striking miners and force of officers un-
der Deputy Marshal Daniel Cunningham
and Sheriff Cook. A special grand jury
was impaneled and charged by Judge Kel-
ler, and went to work at once to examining
witnesses with regard to the charge of re-
sisting officers of the government, made
against eight Of the men now In jail at this
place. There are $50 witnesses already here
to be examined by the grand jury, which is
not expected to make report before the
last of the week.
Many coal operators for the Raleigh field
are here to appear as witnesses and to
look after the prosecution. Chris. Evans
and other United Mine Workers leaders
are also present, and able counsel has been
employed 10 represent each side
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11

Minneapolis Tribune

MlnnedpOnS
Ever since the appearance Of the CON-
plaint that the navy lacked officers enough
to man its new ships the lay public has
been expressing amazement that the navy
did not use the educated officers rejected
from ten to twenty years ago, when ii had
more than Ii knew what to do with BY a
law of 1882 nearly 100 graduates of the
Naval Academy were honorably discharged
on graduation within the next ten years
because their services were not needed
These have entered into civil life and some
of them active and useful members of
the naval reserve and the revenue cutter
service. The Navy Department has resisted
all individual efforts of these men to re-
turn, evidently because interference with
the rapid promotion of men on the present
list was feared. Some of them were grudg-
ingly employed during the Spanish war but
dropped as soon as ii was over. Surely
these men would do useful service on ships
whose discipline and safety is impaired by
too few officers. Evidently this matter has
been crowded upon the attention of the
Navy Department of late, for it is said that
the general board has been brought to IA
biz for their restoration TO the serv-
ice. 1t is said that more than half CT
them are ready to come back, so that pas
sage of the bill would add more than fifty
efficient officers to the service.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11

vICKSBURG. Miss, March 1o-There is
little change in the flood situation here
except that the river continues to slowly
rise, the gauge tonight registering 47.3, a
two-tenths rise since morning. There has
been a steady fail of rain here all day.
Thousands of acres of fine farming land
along Steele bayou are inundated and the
backwater Is rapidly spreading. In that
section OF the country there will doubtless
be heavy loss of farm animals, as facilities
for rescuing them are poor. Locally the
water is rapidly encroaching on the whole
sale district and the cotton congresses. AL
ready the lower floor of several warehouses
are Hooded. Another foot rise will probably
force the Yazoo * Mississippi Valley Rail-
road shops TO suspend operations.
Reports from up-river points state that
the levees are all holding well and are
being carefully guarded. Seven hundred
state convicts have been placed at the dis
posal of the Yazoo, Miss, levee board and
will be utilized for strengthening weak
places along the line.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
MISSIONARY CONFERENCE.
The Rev. w. r. Oldham Discusses
Methods of CoIlecting Funds.

goodly audience attended the Indian
apolis District Missionary Conference last
night in the Central-avenue NJ 4. Church.
when the Rev. w. +. Oldham delivered an
Interesting discourse on missionary work.
His talk was largely on methods 10 be
adopted by missionary societies I'm collect
ing funds and TO their application He In
terspersed his remarks with many stories
of missionary life. The devotional exer-
cises last night were led by DIR. w. NJ Ear
ing.
The missionary conference began yester-
day morning when the preliminary work
of the organization was completed In the
afternoon a number OF addresses on mis-
sionary work were made. Music was fur
nished at the evening session by the choir
of the Central-avenue M. T.. Church. AT
O'Clock last night the ladies OF the church
served supper for the delegates.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
Labor Notes.

The strike on the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road is extending. The freight handlers
and clerks at Winnipeg to the number OF
150 are out.
Three hundred employees of the Argo
starch factory at Nebraska City, Neb.
struck Tuesday for an increase of wages.
IL is stated that the concern will close
The factory has been in operation five
weeks.
The strike OF the Pittsburg tile layers,
which has been on since Jan. l. was de-
clared of Tuesday by the Building Trades
Council. All OF the employers signed the
scale. which gives the men $40 for day
of eight hours
The strike of the union coremakers at
Philadelphia came to end Tuesday after
having been in progress for several weeks.
The strikers did not demand an increase
i'm wages but asked for recognition OF the
ing day. All these demands have been
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
MORPHINE CRAZED HIM.
A. l.. Neal Tries 20 End HIS Life by
Hanging.

A. L. Neal. victim Of excessive use OF
morphine, made an unsuccessful attempt
yesterday to Kill himself at the City Hos
pital by strangling himself. Neal tore
sheet In strips. made a rope Of IL. tied one
end to the top of the window, and with
the other made a moose which he placed
over his head. He then mounted a chair.
and when he had adjusted the moose tightly
around his neck he leaped from the chair.
The noise attracted the attention Of other
patients, who ran 10 his rescue. Neal was
liberated, and DIR. Jobes called He made
an examination of Neal and found that
he was suffering but little from his effort
1t was said last night that Neal has
become so crazed with the use Of. the drug
that he has made three efforts to kill him.
self. He was received at the City Hospital
one week ago. suffering from an overdose
of morphine taken nypodermicaliy. After
recovering Neal was released. A few days
later he was again found suffering from the
same effects. After his recovery the second
time he pleaded with DIR. Jobes TO assist
him in overcoming the habit. II was while
Neal was in a ward for cases similar TO
his that he tried 20 kill himself by hanging.
He formerly roomed at the Salvation Army
barracks on South Capitol avenue
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
ON ST. PATRICK's DAY.


ST. LOUIS. March 10.-The announce
ment by United States District Judge
Adams Of the date on which he will hear
arguments on the motion to dissolve the
Wabash injunction defers the crisis at least
another week. Tuesday, March IL, is the
day set for the hearing. 1t was expected
the Wabash attorneys would have counter
affidavits and exceptions to the answer pre-
sented in court yesterday ready to file to-
day, but Col. Wells II. Blodgett, general
solicitor of that road, stated that II would
take several days to prepare the papers.
The court granted counsel until Saturday
morning to file exceptions TO the argument
and counter aftidavits in support of the bill
of complaint. In the meantime attorneys
for the defense are taking a rest and work
on the Wabash system is proceeding as
usual.
Pending the hearing before Judge Adams,
Grand Master Morrissey, of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen, has returned
to his home in Galesburg. Ill. j. III. Hanna
han, grand master of the firemen has re-
turned to indianapolis, Judge Irwin has re-
turned to Peoria and Attorney Pinney will
return to Cleveland tomorrow. Chief Coun-
sci c. III. Murphy. of Denver, and Vice
Grand Master Lee, of the trainmen, will
remain in the city.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11

OF a steamer 10 patrol the levees between
Cat island and Pecan Point. From Pecan
Point north the steamer Graham viii do
sentry duty. In addition to these vessels
the government boat Chsca will be used as
a reserve vessel. The condition of the en-
bankment twenty miles north of Memphis.
where the water is flooding around the end
OF the ievee in the seventeen-mile gap
where embankments have never been built
Is serious IL is believed to be one of the
most dangerous places along the river. IL
is reported that the water is slowly wash
ing away the levee there The engineers in
charge put in temporary revetments, but
the counties OF Lee and Crittenden, in Ar
kansas, were already overfiowed.
White river, in Arkansas, this morning
reached the danger line and is still rising.
Back water from the Mississippi river
reaches as far as Clarendon, Ark. and the
rains Of the last few days threaten disas-
trOus overflow.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
Drinks in a Prohibition State.
Springfield Republican.

1t is really remarkable how thirsty
prohibition States makes a man, and Maine
seems to be the worst of the lot. In the
lumber camps alcohol and water are quite
the proper drink before breakfast, and are
known as half and half But Lewiston
has recently come TO the front with a nom
alcoholic beer which'is the worst beverage
discovered so far. Yet IL has proved popu-
lar in that enlightened city. Some of this
liquor was recently analyzed by Prof. j.
port follows:
81 should say that II was composed OF
the rinsngs from sour molasses barrel
the suds obtained in washing a barroom
floor and all of the mouldy grain the LIQUID
would absorb. 1t Is 275 per cent alcohol
but a man ought TO be prosecuted for sell
ing such stuff"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
Warsaw Qnd.) Times.

Warsaw 1nd) Times.
Indiana is to get 800 new rural routes this
year and there will be 5000 men after jobs
on them and 500 of them will be sorry that
they were successful.
AT the present time the carriers are paid
the munificent stipend of $500 a year and
from this amount they must keep two
horses" says a carrier.
1.-THE horse feed will cost him .s15 month
or $50 a year, leaving him $3.50 a year on
which to keep himself and family. His rent
will cost him 500 year, that leaves him
$3.50; his groceries take another hundred
and clothing will cut another century
mark out of his salary. BY the time he
pays for his horseshoeing and repairs to
his wagon he has about enough left to keep
himself in cheap grade of chewing to-
bacco. If he serves this liberal government
until he is too old TO read the addresses on
the envelopes he can then retire to the
poor farm, where he will be maintained by
the county and the government pays no
more attention TO him.
1.-The governement has the pleasant fiction
in view that the carrier makes good money
on the side by carrying packages and at
tending to errands for the people on the
route. One carrier says that he has not
made enough from this source to keep him
in chewing tobacco. AS for carrying pass
engers he has had but one. and she had no
money"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
WEATHER FORECAST.


Fafr Throughout Indiana To-day
Warmer To-Morrow.
WASHINGTON. March 10.-Forecast for
Wednesday and Thursday:
Indiana and Illinois-Fair on Wednesday.
Thursday fair. with warmer I'm northern
portion: variable winds, becoming fresh
southwest
Ohio-Clearing and colder on Wednesday.
Thursday fair and warmer; fresh north
west winds. becoming variable.
Lower Michigan-Fair Wednesday.
Thursday fair and warmer; light to fresh
northwest winds, becoming variable.
MISUNDERSTANDING and colder on
Wednesday Thursday fair.
Wisconsin-Fair on Wednesday Warmer
I'm north portion on Thursday; fair i'm
south, rain in north portion; variable
winds. becoming southeast
Minnesota-Fair and warmer on Wednes-
day. Thursday rain and colder; southeast
wifrds. becoming northwest.
Kansas-Fair on Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Iowa-Fair on Wednesday; warmer In
west portion. Thursday fair.
& Nebraska-Fafr on Wednesday: warmer
In east portion. Thursday fair.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-11
Soldiers Withdrawn.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Col. March TO-
By order of Col. James H. Brown the
Gordon of soldiers surrounding the strikers
headquarters in Colorado City was with
drawn early this morning and everything
is quiet throughout the city and at the
three mills. The military continues in
force, however. over the hills and at the
several plants. First reports Of a clash
between the soldiers and the strikers
which occurred at o'clock this morning.
were overdrawn. Only five shots were
fired. without doing any damage, except
breaking windows. Five empty cartridge
shells were found this morning, four lying
outside the Telluride mill and one in the
bushes.