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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
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Section men on the Bucyrus division
cf the Ohio Central have been notified
Of an increase in wages, beginning
April /. The former will get an ad-
vance of So month, and the men a
cent an hour, making the wages of the
first $50 a month and the latter 13 IL
cents an hour.
Toledo now has railway war and
the police have been called in to keep
the pease The Wheeling & Lake Erie
and the terminal roads are at logger
heads over a crossing. Serious trouble
IL apprehended.
The Wabash has purchased block OF
the downtown business section of. st.
Louis on which 1t will build freight
depot. The cost OF the land was $780,
COO.
The consolidation of the Duluth, Mis-
sabe & Northern and the Duluth g.
Iron Range railroads is contrary to the
anti-merger laws OF Minnesota, In the
opinion Of Attorney General w. d.
douglas, but there is no court In the
nation which has jurisdiction for the
enforcement of the law.
The Hooking Valley and the Penn
fylvania began Wednesday, the division
Of the freight equipment of the old Co.
lumbus. Sandusky 4 Hooking ard as
fast as possible, the cars will be re-
marked and remembered by their new
owners. The roundhouse near Grogan,
o Columbus suburb, will be abandoned
by the GAINESVILLE and Western, the
property OF the Hooking Valley, which
Will occupy the new shops and round
house at Fultonham.
Over 100000 will be expended for
improvements on the lines of the New
York Central this year. Plans made
public call for completion of this work
during the next nine months. 1t in
cludes double tracking, new sidings
extensions OF single track, branches
and 297 miles Of new track. Nearly BUO
miles Of line are to be reballasted and
Slafaced anew. 1t Is estimated that
tSo,S05 cubic yards of concrete founda-
don and wall will be required, Fifty
two new passenger stations and thirty
five new freight houses are contemplate
cd. The automatic block signal systen
will be extended over 434 miles, whde
shirty-eight pneumatic and fifty-four
mechanical interlocking plants In addi-
tion to those now In use will be In
stalled Nearly 500 new steel bridges
VIII Be ccns;Ysctcd.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

NEW RUST IN GALVANIZED IRON.
A white rust is an unexplained dis
ease OF English and German galyan-
ized iron that has developed within a
year or two.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
AND THERE'S GRANDMA.

AMI IlEItE . OnANIJMA.
About all the good luck that comes
to married woman with young ba-
bies is having young sister VINO likes
TO take care of them. Atchison
Globe.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

Toledo now has railway war and
the police have been called in to keep
the pease. The Wheeling & Lake Erie
and the terminal roads are at logger
heads over a crossing. Serious trouble
IL apprehended.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
F0RESEES GOOD TIMES
FORMER CONTROLLER OF THE
CURRENCY ECkLES is OPTIMIS-
TIC Regarding BUSINESS IN
WEST.
Special to The Journal.


New York, Dec. 25.-James Fl.
Eckles, ex-controller of the currency
and now president of the Commercial
National bank, Chicago, says:
Commercial bushes is generally good
and it is destined to continue fair. Money
will remain a about the present rates
til early spring when it will be more plenti-
full and rates will be lower. There will be
some falling off in lines of business re-
lated to the iron and steel industry and
there will be a readjustment in both price
of materials and wages. This will cause
some Stacking in business. but in less
measure than some have been disposed
to expect when prices of material and Ia
Dor have been established on little lower
level
There will be an Improvement in build
ing operations for the reason that many
projects that had been put aside on ac
count of extremely high prices will be re-
vived. There is no likelihood of anything
occurring in the near future to shorten
credits. The conditions Of the two past
months, due principally to unwarranted
apprehension, has discounted the possi-
bility of any real dangers. Extreme strain
is now thing of the past.
The farmers of the west are not market
ing their surplus as they have done in
former years. They have no debts and
no creditors to compel them to sell until
tley get ISdUy. lHey are WdlllllS uHlli
they get a more favorable figure for their
crops
l do not anticipate a larger measure of
shrinkage in business next year than usu-
ally comes in the year Of presidential
campaign for the reason that both parties
will appeal to the business interests by
promulgating conservative platforms. I
predict that the candidate who has the
business interests of the country behind
him next November will be elected.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25

OF business to absent himself from the
quadrennial meeting Of the republican ma
tional committee Held in Washington last
week Not only did he fail to appear but
ms proxy was given to Perry s.. Heat tn,
who at present is persona non grata with
the administration. Mr. Shevlin made an
important business engagement in Toronto
the excuse for not being able to go to
washington. The facts are that tele-
graphic reports In the daily papers show
that the business matters or negotiations
at Toronto with which he was engaged
We're completed two days before the meet
ing of the national committee It surely
would not have taken him forty eight
hours to- have gone from Toronto to
Washington to represent Minnesota. How
ever, If he We're not able to represent
Minnesota in person the handsome and
proper thing for him to have done would
nave been for him to send his proxy to
Senator Nelson or Congressman Stevens
or some other gentleman of ability who is
close enough to the people of the state to
properly represent them at such a meet
ing
OF course, Mr.. Shevlin was not altogetl-
er to blame for the proxy falling into
Heath's hands. That was Senator Han
mas fault. But the point that the proxy
should have been given to some member of
the delegation is well taken. In the mean
time this is the query: If Bob Dunn should
be elected governor which would be near
est the throne, Heatwole Or Shevlin?
Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
The University of Vermont.

Next year the University Of Vermont
will celebrate the ne-hundredth ami
versary of the graduation Of it's first
class, and it is hoped to commemorate
the occasion with the raising of an
endowment fund Of S1,000,000.
This little old university does not
amount to much in the eyes of the
megalomaniacs, who measure the
worth of all things by their size. In a
hundred years it has turned out less
than 1000 graduates.
But what those graduates lacked in
quantity they made up in quality. One
Of them was vice president, one a
member of the cabinet, twenty-five
senator's or representatives, four gov
ernors, thirty-two army officers,
twelve navy officers, four lieuten-
ant governors, sixty state senator's,
121 state representatives, forty-five
state judges, twenty-one mayors OF
cities, fourteen college presidents,
ninety-six college professors, seventy
five college teachers and 554 teachers
in schools. The university has turned
out, besides, some great churchmen,
lawyers, diplomats, doctors, editors
and engineers.
We hope that the "little old univer-
sity" will get it's well-earned endow-
ment of a million, but even more ear
nestly do we hope that in enlarging its
capacity to grant degrees it will be
ah1a tO keen them standing for as
much as in the past.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
MONEY FOR DEFENSE
Two and one-haIf Millions Needed for In
suIar Possessions.

Washington, Dec. pa supplemental
estimate of s2,526,1OO for the defenses of
the insnlar possessions of the United
States has been submitted to the house
thru the treasury department, by Secre-
tary Root. He says:
"Defenses for Porto Rico and the Ha :
waiian islands, Guam and the Philippines
are urgently needed to protect the newly
acquired territory Of the United States
and government property to be stored
cable communication between San Fran
cisco, the Territory of Hawaii and Ma
Mia.
This estimate is submitted with the
object of beginning the construction of
these defenses at once at such insular To-
calities as are now the property of the
United States, or may become so before
the appropriation is exhausted, and of ac-
quiring additional land needed as sites for
defenses of the Territory of Hawaii
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
POSTOFFICE LEASE VOID
CHEYENNE CASE ONLY ONE OF
MANY SIMILAR VIOLATIONS OF
THE LAW.

Washington, Dec. 25.-A new and
interesting feature in the postoffice
investigations was brought to light
yesterday by the discovery yesterday
afternoon by officials of the salary
and allowance division that Senator
Warren of Wyoming is the lessor of
the postoffice premises at Cheyenne
applies to the case, as none of the de-
partment officials will admit that the
! fact of Senator Warrens apparent il
legal connection with the lease was
| known until yesterday. The lease was
| made in April, 1899, and is for four
years at $1,000 a year. Under the
United States laws the contract is null
and void. Steps will be taken in the
| near future to cancel the lease.
Department officials refuse to dis
cuss the possibility or probability Of
legal action being taken against the
| senator, stating that this phase of the
case is for the proper legal officers
| Of the government to determine.
The facts in this case are plain.
| The records show that the contract
was not made thru an agent or rep
himself. The date of lease shows that
| it was made while Mr.. Warren was
| member Of the senate.
While department officials are ex-
tremely reticent on the subject of
this latest investigation, it is not de-
MED that many such violations of the
| law will be found, and that they will
! be dealt with in strict accordance
with the statute in question. 1t is
probable that the report of Super
intendent Waters and his assistants
will be made public, but that the il
legal leases will be Cancelled and
others made.
Senator Warren Talks.
Senator Warren said last night: 81
cannot say at this moment whether
| or not my name is affixed to a lease
| with the government for the Chey-
enne postoffice. The postoffice occu-
pies portion of the Warren block,
built by me for general purposes over
| twenty-five years ago: During that
| time the block in question has
changed ownership two or three
times. If it was standing in my name
or In the name of a corporation with
which [ was connected at the time
the leases were executed, then very
likely signed them either as agent,
officer or owner.
"I do recall, however, that the
| premises were first rented for a post
office when Frank Hatton was post
| master general
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
The Supreme Court on the Cray In
junction.

Both sides claim a victory in the
supreme courts review of the IN
junction of Judge Cray of the dis
trict court Of Hennepin county re-
specting the methods employed by
the strikers in a labor dispute be-
tween certain Minneapolis employ
ers and their employees.
1t seems to us that there is no jus
tification for the claim of either SIDE.
The supreme courts decision in no
way alters the existing status of re-
latons between employers and strik-
ing employees. Judge Cray forbade
representatives of the strikers to go
upon the premises of the specified en-
ployers to persuade workmen to
leave their work. The supreme court
simply says that such persons have
the right to go upon such premises
with the permission of the owners
thereof They never did have the
right TO go on the premises Of others
without their permission, The only
modification can see of Judge
Crays order is that the supreme
court thinks it was superfluous since
the laws and ordinary means of pre-
serving the peace were quite suffi-
cient to protect the interests of the
. employers. All they had to do was to
. forbid persons Objectionable to them
ITO enter their premises and eject
them or have them arrested for tres
pass if they disregarded this personal
Injunction.
AS the owners Of premises involved
in a strike will always refuse permis-
sion to agents of the strikers to en-
ter them for the purpose Of prom OF
ing the cause of the strikers and to
the injury of the cause of the owners,
we cannot see that organized labor
has gained anything by the supreme
courts decision.
The supreme courts decision is
valuable in that it defines what con-
stitutes a boycott in the sense of Vio-
lation Of law. A mere listing of an
establishment as fair or unfair or
simple persuasion to refrain from pa
tronizing a certain establishment is
not an illegal boycott. An illegal boy
colt. according to the supreme court,
Is one in which violence Or business
injury is threatened by cOmbina-
ton against third party in case he
shall continue business relations
with the party at whom the boycott
is primarily aimed. A voluntary
agreement among certain persons to
refrain from patronizing a certain es-
tablishment would not be an illegal
boycott. But if these persons threaten
business injury or violence to some
other person unless he joins with
them in their campaign the move
ment becomes illegal.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
FRIDAY EVENING,

ing given due credit. Portland's magnif-
cent harbor has been photographed to furs
nish n frontispiece for the section in which
the news of the day is given, in a manner
that shows the editorial force Of the paper
to be of the right sort. while another six
teen page section sets forth Oregon as an
Empire of Wealth and Opportunity and
rectes its advantages and opportunities
for the home builder. Taken all in all, it
reflects great credit on the paper and
upon the city it represents.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
TOLD IN A LINE

New Haven, Conn.-General Alfred Perkins
Rockwell q well known engineer and who had
been connected both with the Sheffield scientific
school and the Massachusetts institute of techn-
clogy. is dead.
Toledo Ohio-tGolden Rule Jones to-day pre-
sented his employees with $4,000 in cash and $40
600 stock IN his npany the stock being worth
par.
st Joseph Mo.-BlackmaiIers have threatened
to kidnap the young of Wilton TOOle, mil
lionaire banker.
Beaumont, Texas-Crude oil sold yesterday at
% cents. Ten days ago it was so cents.
Denver CoI.-Miss Mary E. Lathrop has ac-
of the Clayton estate. in suit for $4,000 at
torneys fees.
Kansas City, Mo.-Phllip F. Burroughe is
dead from blood poison, the result Of a spider
bite.
Indianapolis midtown Marshal Harmon of
Diamond, mining town. has had trouble with
the miners who have twice threatened his life.
Chicago-A receiver has been appointed for
the Cook comfy democracy" pending the set
tlement of a dispute involving two sets of Off
cials.
(, Gas City. Ind.-The big plant of the American
Tin Plate company here. the trust, was closed
last night, and it is not likely that 1t will be
reopened. Eight hundred men made idle.
Chicago--The good cheer of the season
marred in South Chicago yesterday by the clos
ing dOwl for indefinite period of the plant of
the illinois Steel company, throwing $500 men
out of employ nient
New York--In report to the mayor yesterday
Bridge Commissioner Lindehthal recommends the
rebuilding of the Brooklyn bridge, which was
opened to traffic in 1888 The commissioner says
the suspended structure. from anchorage to an
chorage, is worn out and weakened, requiring
constant and expensive repairs to keep it safe. =
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
DEATH LIST
NUMBERS 65
One More Victim Of the Baltimore &
Ohio Wreck succumbed
To-day.
Special Services for the Dead Are
Held in the Connellsville
Churches.

Connellsville, Pa, Dec. 25.-An-
other name has been added to the
long death list resulting from the Du-
quesne limited wreck on the Balti-
more & Ohio at Dawson on Wednes-
day. Harry Devlin, one of the three
remaining patients at the Cottage
State hospital, died at 10 O'Clock to-
day. The dead now number sixty
five, and this probably completes the
list, as the two men still at the hos
pital are doing we'll and will prob
ably recover.
There was one Christmas funeral
that of Edison Goldsmith. Goldsmith
was popular young man and hun
dreds attended the services. The
tins will be held until Saturday or
Sunday for burial. In fact, this is a
necessity, as the undertakers are too
overworked to attempt to conduct
several funerals in day.
Special Services for Dead.
Special services for the dead were
held in all the Protestant churches
to-day, and after the burial of Father
Fienello, which will take place to-
morrow the Catholic churches will
hold masses for the dead.
The body of Father Fienello was
conveyed to the main body of the
Church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton this morning, where it will re-
main In state until the funeral SerV-
ices on Saturday
The bodies of about thirty of the
victims were gathered up and taker
away on early trains to-day. The re-
naming identified will be shipped
within the next twenty-four hours
and the unknown will be cared for
by the borough council
The Unknown Dead.
President George G. Horton has
called a, special meeting to take
measures toward the formation of a
relief committee to look after bodies
unidentified or unclaimed. In case no
friends appear, citizens will see that
the victims do not find a last rest
ing place in the potters' field. The
railroad company will contribute lib
orally to this fund.
All who happen to be left to char
ity will be decently inferred, and the
Christian burial service will be per-
form Of the towns tribute to the
memory of those whose lives were
sacrificed in the wreck.
An Official Investigation.
The official investigation into the
cause Of the disaster is being prose-
cuted vigorously by the officers of the
railroad company, but it is doubtful
if any individual will be blamed for
the accident.
1t was apparent that number OF
switch ties which had fallen off a
Westbound freight train and were
strewn upon the passenger track
caused the flying express to be de-
rallied.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Various Interests that Are Likely to Pre-.
vent Harmonious Action In Hennepln
County-Joel HeatwoIe Pays His re.
spects to National Committeeman
ShevIin.

Speaking of harmony in Hennepin
county, there are a good many interests
to be reconciled before that blssful state
of affairs can be brought about. There
are rather more elements promising dis
cord than usual. Some of them are as
follows:
Those who want to see William Henry
Eustis nominated for governor.
Supporters of Judge Collins for gov
crnor.
The element that is lining up for Bob
Dunn.
see him renominated for lieutenant gov
ernor.
Those who want to see Judge C. b.
Elliott nominated for the supreme bench.
It might be possible for some Of these
interests to- get together, but not all Of
them. In fact. the war cloud looks even
more threatening than the one in the far
east. The Dunn and Jones followers are
likely to work together, and there is a
possibility that the Collins and Elliott
men will do likewise. If Eustis and Col
Inns are both candidates, they may get
together in this county and divide up the
delegation. But the Eustis candidacy can
never be reconciled with the ambitions Of
Lieutenant Governor Jones or Judge
Elliott, and their friends are giving no
comfort to the Eustis boom
There is lack of harmony in another di-
rection. The i'll feeling between Joel P.
Heatwole and Thomas H. Shevlin, both
prominent supporters of Bob Dunn, has
broken out in another Northf1eld News
editorial. While Joel is supposed to have
designs the craftsmanship OF the state
committee. he evidently is not in favor of
another term for Shevlin as national com
mitteeman. He says in the News:
The News has repeatedly insisted that
the people of Minnesota were unanimo Gus
for the nomination and election OF Presi-
dent Roosevelt to succeed himself. In this
! connection the News has stated with con-
siderable emphasis that it made no diff
ference who was selected for delegates or
national committeeman. The latter posi-
ton, so far as Minnesota is concerned, has
of late years. carried no weight or in
fiuence; and for being plain spoken in ref
erence to it the writer evidently incurred
the displeasure of Mr.. Shevlin, the pres
ent committeeman from this state. So
greatly was he displeased with what we
said that he made the proprietor of the
News the object of a vicious personal at
tack to President Roosevelt. We find, how
ever, that our estimate of the position Of
a Minnesota national committeeman n was
correct. In support of this the news and
editorial columns of the daily papers las t
week may be offered. 1t seems that Mr..
Sheviin found il convenient under the plea
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25
The Country Not Being Depopulated.

We have previously adverted to the
fact that the census of 1900 indicated
that in some parts of the country the
tendency of population to flow from
the country to the city had been
checked. 1t is even more interesting
to know that even in those parts OF
the country where the cities have
grown during the last decade with un-
precedented rapidity, the rural regions
are holding their own. This is proved
by a little study of census figures pre-
sented in the Popular Science Month
ly by Mr.. Frank T. Carlton.
While the cities of New York hav-
ing a population exceeding $4,000
gained 265,251 in the last decade, the
4 rest of the state gained 213,096. In
Ohio, the figures are 4S5,229 and 1S7,-
O66, respectively; in Indiana, 1874, ,05S
and 141,420; in Illinois, 995,199 and
102,35S; in Massachusetts, 6,4O3
and 15O.449.
These figures demonstrate that,
while the large cities are growing in
population much faster than the coun-
try, the latter is in no danger Of de-
population. One Of the present-day
tendencies to keep people from NOV
ing from the country into the large
cities is that of manufacturers to es-
tablish plants in small towns or cities
near large cities instead of in those
cities In this way thousands of work
men and their families, who would
1 formerly have lived in the tenement
I. districts Of large cities, are now liv-
j ing practically in the country.
In such states as Minnesota the ru-
raj population actually increased
faster between 1890 and 1900 than
the city population.
So Few persons would prefer city life
to country life if it were possible to
nave in the country those advantages
that have heretofore generally been
inseparable from a concentration OF
population. But the telephone, the
rural free delivery, the increase OF
wealth, the improvement of highways,
increased circulation of newspapers
and magazines, the rural trolley lines,
q raised standard of living, consoli-
dated schools and other causes are
making it more and more possible to
! have the city advantages of other days
! on the farms of to-day.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-25

We are glad to observe that the Ger
man Americans of Minnesota are draw
ing statistics on General Macarthur. 1t
will be remembered that the general said
that Germans were scarce in the American
army during the war with Spain. The
German Central Bund of Minnesota has
been Investigating, and it finds that IL
per cent of the Minnesota volunteers were
of German parentage. AS the Germans
constitute only 10 per cent of the popula
tton of the state, General Macarthur
plainly missed his guess so far as Mimi e.
sofa is concerned, And we have no doubt
that ne was just as far off in regard tc
the composition Of the volunteer army as
a whole.