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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
DISASTROUS FIRE
AT CONEY ISLAND
Loss Will Reach a MiIIion-25O
Buildings De-
strOyed.

New York, Nov. 2.-Coney Island
has been swept by the most disastrous
fire in its history, about 25O buildings
being destroyed, entailing a loss esti-
mated at not less than $1,00O0OO. No
lives were lost. although several per-
sons were seriously Injured.
New York, Nov. Frank Connolly,
27, and Peter Skelly, IS, formerly
walters at the Albitious hotel, Coney
Island, have been arrested charged
with arson. 1t is charged they start
ed yesterdays fire on Coney Island
which destroyed II blocks of build
ings, resulting in the death of one
man, injury to 20 persons. rendered
500 people homeless and causing n
financial loss of S1,5OO,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
JEWS AND RUSSIAN
SOLDIERS IN FIGHT
Forty Hurt, Some Fatally, Near
Warsaw, .Satur-
day.

Berlin, Nov. "A Ppsen dispatch
says a bloody- conflict between 500
Jews and force of Russian gend-
armes took place at Warsaw Satur-
day during the enlisting of recruits.
The wounded entboth sides numbered
oyer forty, several sustaining fatal
injuries.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
Hosting Engineers want Raise.

Springfield, Ill, Nov. 2.-The Illinois
Brotherhood of Mine Hosting Engin-
GERS will meet to settle the scale for
the ensuing year. The engineers have
asked for an increase of from 10 to %
per cent. The operators have offered
slight increase, but it has been refused
If there is no agreement it will mean
a tie-up of the mines of the state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
FAMOUS GERMAN
HISTORIAN DEAD
Prof. Theodore Mommsen Passes
Quietly Away at Home
Near Berlin.

Berlin, Sept. 2.-Professor Theodore
Mommsen, the historian, is dead at
ChaIottenburg Hepassed awaywithou
regaining consciousness, the change
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
Goes for Life for Murder.

Whitehall. Wis, Nov. Max Win
kel was found guilty of murder of
JAMES Campbell, farmer, last spring
and sentenced to life Imprisonment at
Waupun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
tennessee Cashier and
a Constable Vic
tins.
ROBBERY A MOTIVE
Witness in Corruption
Case Hit on the
Head.

Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 2.-MeIville
Wheeler, assistant cashier of the
Cumberland Telephone company, was
assaulted and seriously injured in his
office today and the company's safe
robbed of $1,000. Two persons have
been arrested on suspicion.
Try to XIII witness.
Des Moines, Nov. 2.-CCnstable John
DAILY, indicted for receiving bribes,
was assaulted early today in the sub
urbs and is critically i'll as the result
of wound on the temple made by a
blunt instrument. He had been be-
fore the grand jury giving testimony
concerning alleged corruption in the
police department.
Murder and Suicide.
Washington, Nov. 2.-Lewis Nor
field shot and instantly killed his wife
and then committed suicide at their
lodgings early today. Norfeld is sup
posed to have been insane.
Kills Brother, Defies Arrest.
Pottsville, Pa, Nov. 2.-Benjamin
Weissinger shot and killed his broth
ers, Frederick and Louis. today at
his fathers farm. He then locked
himself in the barn and defied arrest,
threatening to kill anyone who at
tempted to reach him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
STRIKE WAS RIOT
But L Won for the Strikers Some
Concessions That Were
Needed.
STORY OF THE BILBAO TROUBLE
Mob Was After Bread but Got Bullets
Instead - Settled by -
Conference.

Bilbao. Nov. 2-Never in the his
tory of Bilbao has there been strike
of such momentous consequences to
the iron wOrkersof Spain as that which
has just terminated. The miners viii
no longer be compelled to live coOped
up in the barracks provided by the
mining companies, and they will no
longer be forced to purchase food from
the company stores, which was often
declared unfit to eat; instead of being
paid by the month they will hereafter
be paid every week. They have been
refused, however, the right to organize
Il union, and it is believed that this
viii lead to trouble in the future.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
ANOTHER ON ROLL OF DEATH
Sixteen Have Perished as Result of Indian
apOlis Wreck of Football Special.


Indianapolis. Nov. 2-Wm. Galley,
of New Richmond, Ind, substitute
player On the Purdue university foot
ball team, is dead from internal in
jurics received in the Big -Four wreck.
This is the sixteenth death. His ia
ther arrived before he died. Fifteen
dead bodies have been shipped to their
homes. the body of Joseph r. Powell,
of Corpus Christi. Tex, having been
sent home this morning in charge of
Paul Sturm. an old classmate living
here. Baileys body was taken home
also today.
Fifteen Cases Are Serious.
There are still lying in the hospitals
thirty-four victims of the wreck thirty
three of whom are students of Purdue
university. OF these fifteen are in Il
serious condition. II. .. Wright, of
Pendleton, Ind, substitute player, has
a broken back and his recovery is not
thought probable. He is too weak to
permit of an operation. His parents
have arrived. A. L. Hotter, of Ober-
lin, O., half-back on the team, has
his legs crushed and is suffering from
shock. He is also in precarious con-
dition. Sim Miller, of Nineveh, Ind,
who played end on the team, has one
leg broken twice and the other crushed
1t is believed, however, that he will
recover
G. o. Tangeman, of Fern Bank, o.,
student, has a slight fracture of the
skull, but it is believed will recover.
He is improving. G.. c. Adams, of Os-
good. Ind, member of the band. has an
injured spine and is in a precarious
condition. Coach o. f. Cults, of North
AnsOn, Me, who worked over the in
jured all day and night has been or
dered to the hospital, and will have
both legs in plaster casts for several
weeks There are crushed bones in
each ankle.
HURTS OF AN IOWA MAN
Both His Legs Crushed-ConditiOn of 9th
er Badly Injured Victims.
w. O. McMannus. of Davenport, Ia,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
Miners Make Their Demands.

According to statements made by
the miners to the representative of the
Associated Press, and confirmed by
their counsel, they have had hereto
fore to live under deplorable condi-
tiOns. In the mines outside of Bilbao
the men were herded into crowded and
squalid barraks. The food sold them
at the company stores was sometimes
bad, but as they were paid by the
month it was almost impossible for
them to purchase elsewhere. The min
ers were attracted by the propaganda
of socialists and anarchists, and they
determined to strike unless their de-
mands for better living conditions were
granted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
HURTS OF AN IOWA MAN

Both His Legs sCrushed-ConditiOn of 9th
er Badly Injured Victims.
w. O. McMannus. of Davenport, Ia,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
strlke of B.. .oOo vYorkmen.

These operators refused, and the
strike was inaugurated with $4,000
men, but all the trades in Bilbao joined
the movement in sympathy. There
was not a sufficiency of bread in Fill
baO, and the miners who poured into
the town entered Stores and demand
ed food. On Wednesday of last week
Marshal Hernandez saw that strong
measures were necessary, and he or
dered the soldiers to dispeIise the strik-
ers. Some of the strikers poured petro-
leum on the church of the JeSuits in
Bilbao, and then applied the torch. The
troops eXtinguished the fire and little
damage was done.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
HOPE OF GETTING 1T AGAIN.
Alice Roosevelt as Child, Had
Strong Religious Convictions.

Alice Roosevelt, as a Child, Had
Strong Religious Convictions.
Miss Martha Havemeyer, the
daughter of William F. Havemeyer,
at one of her recent literary lat
homes" talked of children.
81 heard the other day." she said,
"a story about Miss Alice Roosevelt's
childhood. The little girl was walk
ing with her nurse on a spring morn
ing through one of the city parks.
Trotting up and down near her was
an urchin with a balloOn-one Of
those big and buoyant red balloons
that children hold and look up at
fondly. The child was so unfortun-
ate as to let his balloon escape in a
strong gust of wind. 1t scared up
and into the blue sky. 1t disappeared
from view. Its owner howled and
screamed in his despair.
alice ran up to him. She patted
him on the back. She said in COM
forting tone:
Never mind about your balloon
little boy. 1t has gone up to heaven
and wtAn you die you will get it
again."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
Protect Only the Machines.

1t has often been pointed out that
many, of, our protective duties, which
are supposed to protect the working
man, in reality protect nothing but
machines. We are likely to have a
demonstration of this truth in the near
future. Much has been said of the
introduction of. glassDlowing ma
chimes which will do the work that is
now done by, skilled workmen. There
is no way of preventing this change
and it ought not to be prevented. La
borsaving machinery will Always be
used, Opposition may be made to it,
as has often been the case in. the
past. But it will avail nothing. But
if the machines are introduced what
will become Of the argument for the
high tariff on glass based on the nee
essity of protecting the workingman?
indianapolis News.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
RiIkins and His Joke.

Forty years ago Bilkins, then a lad.
saw 1t for the first time. 1t was in
an old almanac which had been
printed before he was born. The aim
anac credited it to a still older pub
litation. Bilkins laughed when he
saw it. TIE his immature mind it ap-
peared funny. Then he took it unto
himself for his own, and every year
at the recurring season he has in.
ficted it upon his friends.
The other day while rain was fall
ing, Bilkins, in waterproof coat and
under an umbrella, met Sillins dash.
Ing along unprotected from the ele-
ments. Bilkins seized the oppor
tunity.
Hello, SilkiEs!" he cried. where's
your umbrella? Lent, I'll bet. Ha!
hal"
MOI howled Silkins. "It's stolen,
you dodgasted IDIOT" And he smote
Bilkins full sore.
A policeman assisted Bilkins out of
the gutter. While waiting for the
ambulance the officer said:
Let this be warning to you. Re.
member, the man who jokes about an
umbrella and Lent borrows trouble
from people who are glad to let him
have ii"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
An American Ruler,

The Chicago Chronicle, speaking of
the Monroe doctrine, refers the in
cumbent of the presidency to the
''manlier maxim of Washington, No
entangling alliances. This is COR
rect and well meant, but will hardly
be needed by the exuberant occupant
of the presidential chair. He will be
much more pleased with his new friend
che German baron" who Classics
Theodore Roosevelt as lone of the
worlds greatest rulers" Some strange
changes must have come over the
American people of late (since they
have become worlds power'), but
assuredly the strangest is that they
should have a ruler at their head"
verbatim from the ''barons address").
1t was presupposed that they had an
administration, not ruler; that they
governed themselves and that even
their president was merely their
servant for a time. We must have
Europeanized enormously If in two
administrations we have abdicated our
century old power. How is this?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
Policy Based In Wrong Idea.

"If we only prepare sufficiently no
war will ever come" says President
Roosevelt. 1--WE wish a powerful and
efficient navy not for purposes of war,
but as the surest guaranty of peace.
If we have such navy-if we keep
on building 1t up-we may rest as
sured that there is but the smallest
chance that trouble will ever come
to this nation" Yes, but what Is
sufficiently? How long and at what
cost must we keep on? When other
countries are watching us and keeping
on to match where is the end short
Of exhaustion? This whole theory OF
getting more ready to fight as the
surest guaranty of peace is based on
the assumption that all men are saw
ages and DULLES and robbers, and that
every nation is continually watching
for a chance to pounce upon and
benevolently assimilate some weaker
one. Is that true estimate Of the
character of our modern civilized, en-.
lightened and Christianized man?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
A LAWYERS GOOD ADVICE.
Intending Litisants Would Do Well
70 Heed II,

10 f1ceO u.
One of the old practitioners at the
Osceola (Mo) bar tells this story OF
the good counsel which a lawyer in
that town once gave client:
Shortly after the firm of Nesbit &
Ferguson hung out their single an
old farmer called upon them in regard
to a land suit. Some of the parties
at issue were not residents of the
state and II was necessary to notify
them by publication. Ferguson took
down blank and began to fire ques-
tions at the farmer at great rate,
which the honest old fellow proceeded
to answer after weighing carefully
each word. The blank having been
finished and put in a pigeon-hole, the
client asked what it was.
THAT is the advertisement COM
manding the non-residents to appear
and defend the suit"
And how much will that cost?"
my friend said Ferguson, calmly,
looking the old man in the eye, IF
you are going to figure on the cost
you had better stay out OF lawsuits. =
Kansas City (Mo) Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
Five Generations of One Family.

Mrs. Susan d. Crossman, mother of
Elisha Crossman of Chicago, and pi-
oneer of Rock county, Wis. celebrated
her Tooth birthday at her home, five
miles from Beloit. Wis, on Sunday,
March 30. Five generations were rep
resented by fifty persons in the family
gathering assembled to celebrate the
event. Mrs. Crossman was born in
Cheshire. Mass. Her grandfather
was Earl Clapp, MINUTE man and
major in the revolutionary war. In
1S48 Mrs. Crossman and her husband
penetrated the wilderness to near the
present site of Alton, Wis, and set
tied on government land. OF their
seven children four are living. One,
Mrs. Helen M. Chandler, was mis-
sionary in Siam for thirty-nine years.
Tribune.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
Trying to Suppress Facts.

Pressure Of all kinds is brought to
bear on the President to put a stop
to the investigation Of the postoffice
department. Perry s. Heath Of Gu
ban unsavory fame. secretary of the
national Republican committee, has
appeared. and so has James S. Clark
son, once the ''axman" in the depart
ment, urging cessation Of the in.
quiry. The rottenness of the one de-
partment of government held UP as a
sample of municipal management is
something amazing, even in these
times of big hauls from the treasury.
Where the political boss is there is
plumber
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
Are Above the Law.

Uncle Jim Hill declares the North.
ern Securities decision to be prepos'
ferrous and intimates that the finan.
ciers in interest will find way to
evade it even If it be affirmed by the
Supreme court. We may thus see that
compliance with the letter and spirit
of the law is not obligatory upon our
captains of industry and finance,
though it is, of course, most impera.
tive upon horny-handed citizens who
form labor unions and ask for more
wages.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
A rIP.TAKER's VIEW.
Sees a Decline In the Great Amerl.
can Habit.

Sees a Decline In the Great AmerI.
can Habit.
The bitter cry Of the victims of the
'tip nuisance" is loud in the land, but
the recipients of tips have usually
maintained naughty silence. Now
Mr.. James s. StemOns, colored
waiter explains their point OF view
in the Independent.
Walters wages have everywhere
been reduced with the growth &. tips,
so that the Upper is merely making
good the deficiencies of the employer.
But of late there has also been
great decline in the volume OF tips,
so that the waiter, underpaid and
confronted with the loss of his per-
quislte at the same time. Is fiattened
between the two rolls Of wringer.
In number of representative
hotels and restaurants in different
cities the tips received by colored
walters vary from nothing at one
place in Cleveland to dollar and
half day in New York. At the best
hotel in New Orleans they average
seventy-fve cents day, in Louisville
fifteen cents, and in Philadelphia
from forty cents to a dollar. The
usual range in the South is low.
In the North the tendency is for
the best hotels and restaurants to
employ white walters. Where color
edcnen are employed they get much
lower wages.
AS a rule colored walters draw
from $lS to $22 month in wages,
and they are lucky when they can
get SIS more in tips. In most res
taurants the bulk of the business is
compressed within two or three
hours, and ten cents is the prevailing
fee. I'm fact, it is only the most
aggressive waiter who manages to
average SO much as fifty cents a day
in tips"
The recipient of this tip takes it as
a matter Of hard necessity-not be-
cause he likes to. The author of the
article quoted worked for three
years before he consented to accept
one and then 1t was forced upon him.
But the tip will stay until the patrons
of hotels and restaurants induce pro-
prietors to pay living wages. Such
movement, IL Mr.. Stemons may be
credited, will have the enthusiastic
support of the walters, whose sup
posed exactions inspired the virtuous
resolves of the Anti-Tipping league.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
Mr.. Griuus, Inclination.

In tones tremulous with indignation
and apprehension the Honorable John
w. Griggs pronounces the decision in
the Northern Securities case to be
Revolutionary" The Honorable John
w. Griggs may be remembered as
the statesman who, as attorney gen.
eral Of the United States, excused his
failure to enforce the Sherman law by
the declaration that there were no
such things as trusts and that the
Sherman law wouldn't reach them
anyway. Naturally he is somewhat
shaken up by the st. Paul decision.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
Put His Neck In the Yoke.

An unpleasant impression is Ger.
tainly made by the correspondence be-
Senator Simon Of Oregon. 1t is not
simply that the president appears to
have impetuously promised an ap-
pointment which he strangely forgot
to make, but that he so ostentatiously
puts his neck in the yoke held out to
him by the senate. "They (the two
senators from Oregon) cannot con-
sent" he writes, ito Mr.. Steele's re-
ceiving the appointment which l had
designed to give him. very
much regret to say that 1t would. OF
course. be useless to send 1t in" This
it is to be constitutional president!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
THEIR MoNEY.MAKING SCHEME
Irishmcn Were Quick to See Good
Thinu,"

Thing"
A few years ago, owing to the seri-
GUS dcpredations of ratcatchers on the
banks of the Thames, the authorities
were compelled to issue notice boards
offering a reward of G5 for informa-
tion, payable on conviction of the Of
fender, relates London Tit-Bits. Not
many days after the notice appeared
an Irishman was caught and, being
brought before the magistrate, was or
dered to pay fine and costs amount
ing, altogether, to G2. Not having the
needful, Pat went into retirement at
the expense of the country. The next
morning, however, another son OF
Erin appeared at the prison and, pay
ing the fine, liberated his friend. The
governor, having been in the court on
tine previous day. recognized the lib
orator" as the principal witness
against the accused. This puzzled
I'm. and he asked for an explanation.
WELL" said Pat. Its loike this.
sorr. Tim and myself were hard up,
and. seeing the notice, Tim agreed to
be caught. gave information against
him and this morning drawed the
money; and now ye're paid. we've 93
left to start the world with, and, be-
CORA, | hope the bOardll stop a bit
longer"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
SAYING PRAYERS IN ADVANCE.
How Thoughtful Child Provided for
Seasons Endowment,

0SdsoH CHJoyHCHt'
Julian Hawthorne sometimes tells
an amusing story of the childhood Of
his daughter Hildegarde.
"Once, when Hildegarde was a lit.
tie girl he will begin, "she was
elated over the fact that we were
all going to spend the summer at the
seashore. Particularly was she elated
on the night before our departure.
Her eyes shone, her cheeks were
flushed, and she could do nothing but
dance and clap her hands for Joy.
After she had gone to her room
heard her chattering away like an
insane person for long time. ]
peeped in and saw her on her knees
praying. Over and over again she
repeated the same prayer.
'Hildegarde,' | said, what on
earth are you doing, child?
81 am saying my prayers now fol-
all summer she answered, so that
won't have to waste any time on
them while we are away New
York Tribune.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
A Senatorial Disturber.

According to Mr.. Burrows of Michi'
gan, whose seat in the senate is de-
clared by the late Gov. Pingree to
have cost the lumber trust $t50,o00
it would be most dangerous and i'm
proper proceeding to admit the
Brighamized Smoot to fellowship in
the upper house of congress. We
must infer, therefore, that Smoot paid
considerably less than the schedule
price for his seat-or perhaps paid
nothing at all-and is consequently q
rate cutter and disturber of senatorial
values. Let him be cast into outer
darkness,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
Senator Germans Compliment.

On one occasion while Senator Cor
man was speechmaking in Maryland
he met lady who told him how dis
appointed she had been the week pre-
vious, when the crowd was so great
that she could not get near enough to
hear what he said.
"The truth u.s." complained the fair
admirer, Il drove fourteen miles to
hear you speak, but was so complete
ly wedged in by negroes could not
move a step"
Madam" answered the senator
with gallant bow, 81 am very sorry
for your disappointment, but you must
remember you are not the first jewel
which has been set in jet.'"-New York
Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
True Love.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love Is not love
Which alters when 1t alteration finds.
Or bends with the remover TO remove
o mol 1t is an ever fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never
shaken
1t is the star to every wandering bark
Whose worth's unknown, although his
hight be taken,
Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips
and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass
come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks.
But bears 1t out evn to the edge of
DOOM
If this be error, and upon me proved.
l never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Shakespeare.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
The People Entitled to Protection.

If the trusts are able to make such
perfect combinations that they can
control prices and thus extort unrea.
sonable profits out of the American
people the main question concerns
the protection of the people from these
extortionate monopolies, not the pro-
lection of the smaller corporations
which are incidentally enabled to
share in the spoils of monopoly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-01
The Steel Trust UnafraId.

The Iowa idea" is all well enough
for those statesmen who represent
the agricultural districts of the west
and who do not have to rely upon
trust contributions to their campaign
funds to obtain a reelection. But a
presidents view of economic policy
must be much broader. 1t must not
overlook the possibilities of stress and
stringency in the party treasury in
1904. So the steel trust is undis
turbed by the dissenting voices from
Iowa and the northwest. 1t has been
watching the senate and listening to