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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17

The journeymen plumbers walked
out of several places where they were
employed yesterday and it was admit
ted that a strike is on. The men on
strike number between thirty-f1ve and
forty and are all members of Plumb
ers, Gas and Steam Filters Union No
1888. The. contention is for an advance
of wages and the demand was made
upon the members Of the Master
Plumbers Association, an organiza-
ton which includes ten firms doing
business in Savannah.
Some weeks ago at a meeting of the
Plumbers Union new wage plan was
drawn un and is said to have proposed
an increase in pay from $3.50 to SO per
day, to $3.50 per day. The day was
to consist of nine hours work, and
there were some other provisions about
apprentices and other details. The
new proposition was sent to the mas
ter plumbers and they were asked to
consider it and report to the union.
The master plumbers, many of whom
had contracts already made on the
basis of old wages. did not see how
they could make such advance. An
other thing, they did not like to have
the wages placed exactly the same for
all classes of workmen. They asked
for a scale" and thus have the more
experienced and better workmen placed
at a higher wage than those who had
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
PLUMBERS STRIKING
FOR HIGHER WAGES
Journeymen Demand $3.50 Per Day, and Masters
Do Not Respond

just entered the union. This was re-
fused, they say, and so the applica-
ton or demand was returned without
signatures.
Yesterday was the last day upon
which the journeymen said they would
work at the old prices, and at noon
all employed by the master plumb
ers said they were going to attend
meeting, and left their work, and did
not return.
Members of the union said after
wards that they were confident that
their demands would ultimately be
met. They insist that the demands
are reasonable and just and that the
plumbers are working here for less
than is paid in many other cities. They
say that this is the busy season and
that their services will certainly be
required very soon and consequently
this is good time to strike.
The master plumbers say that con-
siderable work has been sub-let to
plumbers and that these contracts will
have to be filled. In new house work
the contracts are not usually made
with time limit, and so there will be
no especial worry about this part of
the work at present.
Both sides in the strike seem conf
dent, and developments are awaited
with probably more interest by those
who have building operations in view
than the men directly concerned 1t is
a fact that the master plumbers are
ALL or nearly all, expert workmen
themselves, and if the necessity arises
they can take a strong hand and do
a great deal of special work and avoid
any serious troubles that otherwise
might follow delays.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
PROFESSIONAL
PLATE-BREAKER.
From the New York Sun

From the New York Sun.
OF all the queer trades pursued by
queer persons in this queer and pic
turesque town, that of a Pole over on
the East Side is the queerest. He
actually makes a living by smashing
plates into smithereens. Every week
he breaks a pretty good number OF
them for applicants, and he receives
regular fee for the service. The place
to be broken is usually furnished by
himself, but occasionally the customer
provides it.
Almost anybody might be expected
to be able to smash a plate with an
iron hammer, which is the tool the Ola
man uses but the curious thing ABOUT
his method is that the blow falls so
as to break the plate into three pieces
two of a certain size, and one larger
and differently shaped from the 9TH
ers. There are few chips and spllnt-
erings from his plate smashing, ana
never more nor less than the three
pieces.
These plates are mortuary plates, as
described by the Sun recently, and
they form an important part OF the
burial ceremony among certain ortho-
dox Jews The two smaller pieces Of
the potters ware are applied to cover
and longer ,,Isce is meant to extend
from eyebrow to mouth. The belleV-
ers hold that such pieces of pottery
ware placed within the coffin assure
protection to the soul when 1t makes
its exit from the body a stipulated
time after burial.
'"Thy pillow shall be the earth" is
construed as partial warrant for the
custom.
The secret of this particular method
of plate breaking has come down from
rabbi to rabbi through many genera
tions. Originally the plate was split
with a sword. Later the breakage was
effected with trowel Now a hammer
answers. Formerly the plates for NOR
tuary use were supposed to issue one
and all from a certain potter's kiln
near Jerusalem, and some of the plates
were supposed to be heirlooms since
King SOlomon's day. But with the re-
moval of the tribes from place to place
and the stress of poverty and strange
conditions, it has come to be that al
most any plate will do if it be potter's
ware and not tin or metal, and if it
is broken by a person authorized to
bless the ceremony.
So this weakened old rabbi of a pc
culiar, st-disappearing sect among
all the other orthodox Jews is called
upon by many to perform the cere-
mony. And he has steady employment,
even though his constituents be among
the poorest of the ghetto's people, and
able to give only a 1.-THE of the fee that
used to be considered proper for such
service
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Frank Werm, jewelry store, ia Bull
street, is showing a beautiful line of
ladies' watches and chains at popular
prices. Save money by buying at
Werms.
When you want first-class trunk
that's made by a first-class trunk
maker, call on Chatham Trunk Fac
tory, Broughton, corner Abercorn.
The Georgia Steam Laundry are
worthy of the large patronage which
they are daily receiving. You are for
tunate to have your clothes laundried
by them.
J. H. Helmken's cafe is a delightful
place to take your meals or regular
board. Tables furnished with choicest
table delicacies. Southeast Liberty
and Whitaker
George Wagner's Son. florist; never
before in the history of Savannah have
the people had the opportunity of get
ting such beautiful cut flowers Bull
street.
The Jeaness Miller shoes for ladies',
and Turner shoes for men, handled only
by A. 5. Nichols, the reliable shoe
dealer. Broughton street. west.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
-FOUR TRAGEDIES
Reported from MOultrie, In and
Near That Town.

Near That Town.
Moultrie, Ga, July les. B. Smith,
an engineer in the Moultrie Cotton
Mills, was killed yesterday by heavy
pulley falling on him. Smith was work
ing on the elevator, when the big iron
pulley at the top fell, striking him on
the head and crushing his life out in
stantly. He had only been here a
week. His family lives at Harmony
Grove. Ca, and his remains were ship
ped there.
News is received here from Doerun
that human bones were found in the
edge of a branch near town yesterday,
the surroundings indicating that the
death had occurred about a month ago.
An inquest was held and investigation
proved the skeleton to be that of a ne
gro man. A deck of playing cards was
scattered around. There We're chicken
feathers, a frying pan and a dinner
bucket near. The inference was that
negroes were gambling there and that
one was killed and left. The coroner's
jury found that an unknown negro
came to his death by unknown cause"
The death of John Butler, a white
farmer near Funston. in this county, is
reported. Butler died Sunday night
He was apparently in good health when
he retired. About II o'clock he called
his wife and asked her TO get him some
water She went for the water and
when she returned he was neither able
TO drink or to speak. In a few minutes
he was dead.
Mr. ]. L. McGlaun, a prominent bust
ness man of Doerun dropped dead in
the streets on Sunday. McGlaun had
started to the train to come to Moul-
trie, where he has relatives. Being lit
tie late, he had to run and just before
he reached the station, he fell and
when friends reached him he was dy-
ing. The physicians pronounced the
cause of his death to be appopleXy.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Attend the great clearance sale of
accumulated odds and ends at Daniel
Hogan's this week. There will be
agreeable surprises for you.
H. H. Peoples & Sons wholesale ana
retail hardware store, is one of the best
equipped hardware stores n Savannah.
The cordial treatment makes new GUS
toners.
H. H. Peoples & Sons 125 Congress
street is a splendid place to buy your
hardware, stoves, implements, fire.
arms, cutlery and builders supplies
guns and ammunition.
Have you seen those white Jap SILK
waists at So so at Garfunkel & Sons?
They are worth 81.
E. ]. Kennedy, high art tailor, Is
now offering at very reduced prices
fine line of tweeds. homespuns, light
weight cheviots and serges.
A. S. Nichols, the reliable shoe deal
err. sells the kind of shoes that fit well,
wear well. and give you solid comfort.
Recommended by the people.
Photography in all its beauty OF style
and finish at Launey's gallery.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
BRONCO BUSTER IN CONGRESS.
Oklahoma Sends Bird Mcclure, a
Mighty Man, to Represent Her.

"
From the Kansas City Journal.
The Hon. Bird S. Mcclure is a man
after Roosevelt's own heart. Mr. Nc
CURE when ne takes his oath in
Washington next winter will Ike known
as the very best all-round athlete and
wrestler in Congress. He is feet IL
inches tall, weighs 1876 pounds, has a
chest on him as big as a barrel and
is superbly and gracefully built He is
as strong and sound physically as he
is mentally and has never smoked nor
chewed, nor tasted a drop of intoxi-
eating liquors, and he never uttered an
oath till he became a politician, which
was when he became about 10 years
old.
The new delegate from Oklahoma
has been in politics practically since
the day he first began to think He was
born in Illinois Oct 10, 1865. His par
ents, while he was an infant, went to
Randolph county Missouri, where they
lived on a farm until he reached his
sixteenth year Then they all emigrat-
ed to Cautauqua county, Kansas But
young Bird gave up farming, went on
the range and roamed the country
over as a cowboy from the Rockies to
the river and from Kansas to the
Gulf. This was in the days when
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17

there was plenty of bad Indians, des-
peradoes and big game, and MCGUIRE
developed into as nervy bronco BUS
ter and as skilful a marksman as ever
rode the trail.
But this was life for business ana
not pleasure with Mcclure. he put
the money he made in bank instead of
in poker and whisky and came out ST.
100 to the good after two and one-halt
years of this stormy career Iaen IN
1884 he went to the Normal at Emporla.
Two years afterward he attended for
a year the law school at Lawrence,
but off and on taught school and con-
tinued at that professoh until 1889
teaching al Jonesburg and at Sedan,
the county seat of Chautauqua county,
Kansas.
In the spring of 1889 he was elected
county attorney on the Republican
ticket, holding the position for four
years, part of which time he also
served as Mayor of Sedan. At one
election he was the only man of his
party elected, and on all other times
he ran ahead of his ticket, and was
famous in Kansas as being the young
est person who ever held the office
of Mayor or county attorney in the
state.
Mr.. Mcclure went to Oklahoma in
the fall of 1898, and his friends say
that this move was made with the
avowed intention of running for Con-
gress. His home is at PaWnee. From
1896 to 1902 he was assistant United
States district attorney, and perhaps
has sent more criminals to the penl-
tertiary and the galloWs than any
other lawyer in the territories. he has
over 200 convicts to his credit now
serving time at Fort Leavenworth.
He was largely instrumental, along
with the famous Marshals Tillman,
Fossett and Heck Thomas, in breaking
up the Doolin, Green and Ben Craven
gangs of outlaws.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
FINISHED CONTESTS.
Continued from Third Page.

gunners, as we'll as professionals rep
resenting manufacturing houses of
arms and ammunition.
The chief event was the contest for
the gun, valued at 800. and open to
amateurs only. The winner was J. NJ.
Napier of Americas. who broke SO tar
gets of the 100 thrown. In this con-
test, r. f. Lee of Americas broke 40
out of so targets on straight shooting
and lost the prize by only 8 birds.
The other prize winners were w. A.
Baker, w. II. Heer, T. c. Etheridge of
Macon and Rolla Heikes. two of them,
Heer and Heikes. being professionals.
The contest has been a great success,
nearly 100 gunners participating in the
several events. y large amount was
paid out in purses and added money
and not included in prizes mentioned
herein
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
SIPS
From an Exchange.

Human nature may be the same the
world over, but tastes in matters of
cuisine vary good deal.
For instance, in Arabia horse flesh is
a faVorite article of food.
The flesh of the elephant is partaken
of with zest in certain parts of India.
Visit Hindostan and you will find the
miserable pariahs contending with dogs
and Vultures for carrion.
Chinese taste. as we all know. runs to
cats. dogs, bears paws and bird s nests.
In the West Indies there is a certain
large caterpillar found on the palm
tree which is reckoned a luxury of diet,
while in Java the nests of swallows are
considered edible.
Inhabitants of portions of Sweden,
Finland and other countries eat clay
with gustO; indeed, ii is partaken of in
all the countries of the Torrid Zone.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
FOUND BALLARD INSANE.

Man who shot Green Goes to the
Asylum.
brownsville. Ga, July 16.-J. Dillon
Ballard was adjudged insane by lu-
macy commission this afternoon, and
goes to Milledgeville this week. Bal
lard shot Ernest Green last May.
Green recovered. Ballard escaped, but
returned after a months wandering,
and surrendered to officers. He has
been out on bond and has attempted
suicide several times during the last
few DAYS.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
Daniel Hogan.

The following are a few
of our many special induce
ments which we place on
our counters this week:
Beautiful designs in Lace Stripe
Waist Lawn, zoe value, 12hc.
20 yards good yardwide Soft Finish
Shifting, &c value for $1.00.
IS yards best Amoskeag Domestic
Bingham, the regular &c quality, for
SO cents.
72-inch Hemstitched Linen Table
Damask the regular $1.OO value, SOC.
6O-inch Cream Linen Table Damask,
the kind you pay SOC for. Our price
321ac.
Hemstitched Linen Pillow Cases, full
36-inch, former price $1.S5 per pair,
now $110.
Large Unbleached Turkish Towel,
the regular zoe value, for 121ac.
5O-inch Linen Suiting, the grade you
pay 75c for elsewhere. Our price soc.
The best stock of Mattings in the city
can be secured at HALF PRICE.
Ladies' White Shirt Waists, with
tucks and embroidery, for 47c.
169 Duck Skirts, (white) with colored
Polka Dots, for this sale only at SIPS.
$2.25 Duck Skirts with colored Polka
Dots, for this sale only $1.69.
Ladies' White Pique Skirts, trimmed
with embroidery. $3.50 value, $1.9S.
Ladies' White Pique Skirts with
several rows of embroidery, SO value,
for $2.49.
We offer our special SOC Black Nuns
Yelling for this sale only at 45c.
44-inch Wool Crepe de Chine, S1.25
value, special for this sale S3c
56-inch Black and Colored Kersey
Suiting, Soc value, for SOC.
stock is replete with all the latest de-
signs. One of the special features of
this cut price sale is the immense re-
duction in this particular department.
DANIEL HOGAN,
Corner Broughton and Barnard SITS.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
ELOPERS WE'RE CAUGHT.
Engineer Thrash i'm Jail and Mrs.
Evans Under Bond.

cambridge, Ga, July 16.-Engineer
Thrash and Mrs. J. H. Evans. who
eloped Tuesday evening. were to-day
apprehended at Cairo and returned here
for commitment trial tomorrow.
Thrash is in Jail and Mrs. Evans is
out under bond.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17

Trenton, N. j., July 16-Judge Kirk
patrick of the United States Circuit
Court to-day signed an order allowing
an appeal to the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals from his own action
i'm appointing a receiver for the United
states Shipbullding Company.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17
lard Seminary for R,. .1'n: ! i.ns

ssth year begins Sept q. Literary Courses MusIe Ar,
Eloeution certlfIeat to Wellesley, Baltimore Wom
an s College. Faculty 30. Mild and equabIo climate.
FOR cataIog address J. o. 5LANToN, LID. Box As
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-17

all his time in the Vatican garden,
transacting business and granting au-
diences in the pavilion
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-13
Amorits.

I seem to hear you t.lging in the murmur o.
/ listen to your tear drop in the rain amid the
There's an echo of your laughter in the brook
let as It flows.
And i feel your balmy breathing in the odor
of tho rose
Everywhere, sweet and fair,
In the earth and sky.
Hints OF you thrill me through
Love me or / diel
The blossoms by the wayside grows more frn'
grant rs you pass:
And brighter flash the dewdrops as they glim-
mer In the grass.
The hue that tints the ruby to your curving
lip replies,
And from the distant stars I catch the glory
of your eyes.
Let my song. 1.-THE and strong,
Through thy lattice hy;.
Ere the night wing its flight
Love me or / diei
What were life without you? Oh, I can not,
dare not dream:
'Twere worthless as a shatted leaf upon an
autumn stream,
Tossed upon the restless wave by every blast
unkind,
And driven down the turbid tide, heart-broken.
hopeless, blind.
Oh, my sweet, at your feet
Heed my lonely cry.
Grant relief to my grief
Love me or ! diel
Atlanta Constitution.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-13
Albino Bats.

IF you wish to know the most curl
Gus thing | saw during my vacation, it
was a colony of white bats, . said an
Arch street artist, just returned with
others from a sketching tour along the
capes of the Delaware. "One day we
found in the woods a deserted old hut
with a huge chimney. which we were
told had been an illicit whisky still, and
we made it our headquarters and slept
there n night.
Judge of our surprise when, at twi-
light, we saw numbers of white objects
tluttering in the air over our heads and
identified them, from their name Of
flight, as bats. We traced them to their
home in the dilapidated chimney.
Whether they were natural albinos or
artifcially bleeched by the fumes of the
still was a question that puzzled us con-
siderably but they were bats-of that
we were all certain. One of u party
thought they were covered with CHM
ney lime or ashes but they were too in.
tensely. white for that.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-13
NJ. u. VETERANS.
Hold a Meeting at Which Thirty-Fou,
States Are Represented.


Springfield, O., Feb. 12.-Thirty-fou.
states were represented at the meet
ing of the National Union Veterans
union yesterday. Resolutions wer'
adopted in favor of the original prin
ciples of the organization, allowing onl,
veterans of six months service and on,
battle to become members. Sons o
veterans are to be admitted as honor
airy members. The delegates are hope
full of building up a large membership
They say that owing to the methods O
General Dyrenforth, who attempted t,
run the organization to further his pc
litical ends. it is dying of inanition
The meeting was harmonious n reso,
buttons were adopted and officers elect,
ed without a dissenting voice. ON
GERS were elected as follows:
General f. b. Hutchinson. Rochester
n. Y, commander-in-chief; w. II
Keepers, Portsmouth, n. H., deput,
commander-in-chief; H. B. Pierce, Mo,
line, ILL.,, second deputy commander-in'
chief; II. A. Weaver, Topeka, Kan.
chaplain-in-chief; J.. a. Berry, Spring.
field, O., sergeant-in-chief.
There was an executive COMMITTEE,
appointed consisting of one member
from each of the states represented.
The convention was presided over by
c. w. Wood of WORCESTER, Mass, {
past commander-in-chief, who installed
the new officers.
The next meeting will be held in Au.
gust, the place to be selected by thf
commander-jn-chief.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-13
W CAN'T ACCEPT
THE PROTOCOLS
German and Italian Documents
Insist on Preferential
Treatment.
NOTHING TO ARBlTRATE
This Was the Question to Be sent to
The Hague Court, and Bowen VIII
Not Agree on 1t in Advance
English More Fair.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Although Mr.
Bowen n the other negotiators are
closely guarding the provisions os the
several protocols, it is understood that
the demands which are known to exist
in h German and Italian agreements
as they are at present drafted, which
Mr.. Bowen cannot agree to, concern an
increased payment by Venezuela prior
to the handing down of The Hague's
decision regarding the allies contention
for preferential consideration in the
settlement OF their claims.
1t is reported that Germany asks that
she receive in addition to h $2I, SOC
cash that Mr.. Bowen has agreed to pay,
a certain percentage Of the customs re-
ceipts until the remainder of the $340, 00t
demanded in the original ultimatum
addressed by Germany to President
Castro last Summe is paid.
Italy, it is believed, is insisting on
a similar demand, though the amount
asked for IN her ultimatum was owe,
$500 600. Both Germany and Italy sug-
gest that this money be paid in month
ly installinents out of the customs du-
ties, but even under this arrangement
1t would require eight months for the
payment OF the entire sums.
1t is the principle, however, to which
Mr.. Bowen so strenuously objects, and
which he has informed the German and
italian ambassadors he cannot sub
scribe to. Until their protocols are re-
lieved of these Objectionable demands
Mr.. Bowen says that they must remain
unsigned. He contends that Germany
and Italy are insisting on preferential
treatment, a question which they agree
in their protocols shall go to Thu
Hague.
1t is the firm opinion of both the
Italia ambassador and the German
minister that the insertion in their
protocols of these demands is the re-
suit of a serious misunderstanding on
the part of their foreign offices of GER
ain phases of the negotiations which
We're supposed to be settled. They are
using every effort to have this misun-
Outstanding cleared up.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-13
TRIED TO KILL HIS WIFE.
Unhappy elimination of a Lincoln,
Neh. EIoncment.

Neb, Elopcment.
Cedar Falls, Ia, Feb. 10.--Mrs. Lola
jackson, shot by her husband, is lying
in a critical condition at the home of
friends in this city. The Jacksons are
from Lincoln, Neb.
The shooting was the elimination of
a romance, which included a love affair.
the stern refusal OF the girls parents
to q marriage, an elopement, happiness
for a few weeks and then a separation.
Shortly after the wedding quarrels
began ard finally Mrs. jackson decided
to leave her husband. She took a train
to this city, and went directly to the
home of relatives on Dane street. Her
husband followed her and arranged to
meet her at Clay and Normal streets.
AS agreed. they met and went to a res
taurant to discuss their differences.
Jackson pleaded with his wife to return
to him, but she refused. When she per-
sisted IN her refusal, he arose from his
chair and exclaimed:
Tn desperate!"
A second later he drew a revolver
and warned her to make NJ outcry.
Shoot me dead, If you shoot!" the
young woman cried.
Jackson fired, but the bullet went into
the wall. The woman rushed forward
and %grappled with him. Again the re-
volver rang out, this time the bullet
passing through the palm of her hand.
A third shot struck the ceiling and q
fourth lodged in her shoulder, just be-
low the collar bone.
/, The shooting caused great excitement
and the, police were at once summoned,
who arrested Jackson. He was unin-
jured, although he tried to shoot him
self, but was prevented from doing so.