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Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27
italian Editor Fell Dead.

: MILFORD, Conn. Dec. 21.-Giovan-
nj L.0mbardi of New Haven, editor of
an italian paper called II Couriers del
Connecticut, fell dead of heart disease
yesterday while calling mt the home of
Frank PARTICIPANT in this town. Some
years ago PARTICIPANT, whose wife had
Just died, allowed Lombard the Gus
tody Of his young daughter. The child
remained with Lombardi until the Mill
ford man married again, and it vas
while Lombardi was pleading for the
custody of the child again that he was
stricken.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Grieved be-
yond endurance by the continued diff
ferences between his parents who
have been separated for IL year, Harold
Fielding, twenty-one years old, Il prom
inent member and marksman of the
Seventy-irst regiment, shot and in
stantly killed himself last night in the
apartment occupied by his mother and
himself here. He left a letter to mis-
mother, Mrs. Bernard A. Fielding, ex-
planning the cause of his suicide and
expressing his love for her.
Do you want to sell anything? Adver-
tise.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27
DR.. W. &. Hayens Dead.

MANCHESTER, Conn, Dec. 2T.-
DR.. William G. Ravens. a prominent
physician of South Coventry and for.
merly a state senator, is dead here,
aged ffty-three years, of grip and heart
failure. He was a member of the Con.
necticut Medical Society.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27
steamer Minnehaha Damaged.

LONDON, Dec. 27.-While anchored
at Gravesend the Atlantic Transport
line steamer Minnehaha, from New
York for London, had her stern dam
aged by collision with the British
steamer John Sanderson.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27
Smuggling scheme BaIked.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Commls-
sioner of immigration Sargent has
planned to head off a scheme to pass
hundreds of Cinnamon into this u
try through Canada.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

Wait a week or two, anyway, before
you begin borrowing your neighbor' s
Christmas presents.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

If you are inclined to be dissatis'
fed, think of the thousands who Jared
even worse than you.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

The race between the republicans
and democrats in this city is now neck
and neck.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27
Iduho FoIlovinr Utah.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-postmas-
ter General Wayne's Investigation
showed that several postmasters in
Idaho are living with plural wives.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

"a Only four more days, girls, and
year comes but once in four
IolsaArs.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

Get your thumb wet 81 you can
turn over that new leaf.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

Take a brace for the long month of
January which is fast approaching.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

Mayor.eleot Brace is beginning to
brace up. 1t will soon be "His
Honor"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

Gold sliced turkey for supper to-
night. Tomorrow it will be turkey
soup.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

-Four more days 10 get those New
Year resolutions drawn MP.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

Don't Keep your hands in your
pockets 10 hide your new gloves.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

After New Years, then Lincoln's
Birthday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

Cheer up, thu days are getting
longer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

The 'day after is always bound to
come.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

Christmas comes but once a year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

IL was a white onristmas, after all.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27
Tuesday, DECEMBER ~, 1904.
How do you feel?
And what did you get?

Christmas is 1854 days off.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

An independent newspaper is one
is free to take whichever
side it chooses and does. take sides.
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-27

A neutral newspaper is one which
takes no sides at all.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

Of the to whom they be delivered.
THE question put hundred times in different
ways and all of inducements make
Not only I myself profit, number
friends who, like tolls were to benefit
But knew better and kept my mouth this I
into stripesthe hlthest. diseasebreedng
rags Imaginable"
When the authorities finally concluded that it would
be impossible to confession Deutsch says.
the Siberia began-four miles on foot
twelve pounds of iron each leg and knoutswinging
cossack riding behind. knout for twelve
prisoners
But very much starved" he complains "and
the wearing of fetters sadly impaired the
eremities Besides the Inadequate the food
bad After while legs refused carry
this the awful lonesomeness uniformity the
that did how long this sort thing
was to last, If it to last forever
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

breathe 1t without extreme
Upon my protest the Chinese no-slee4 torture
added The head jailer put into cell fifty or sixty
mice voracious wolves. obliged to stay awake
fighting them, unless desired awake without toes or
Very well. said to the 5ailer the third day 7
will spoil your fine plan by starving myself to death The
States Attorney afterwards practice corpse;
corpses tell tales. you know.
The 5ailer frightened, but kept promise de-
spite violence three nights not bite
of bread. not drop of water passed my lips.
After that given another cell. furnished with
a bench four by eight window Having reyeled in
these uxuries three days again taken before the
court to the following questions:
!" "A letter found your person in which
books of revolutionary tendencies by
Krapotn. Spencer, Carlyle and others
were smashed Holy Russia by certain means
you tighten sentence give US the names
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

layman naturally associates with bandit they
were dark almost blue reacefuvery peaceful
He might have good-natured rolckng boy, ap-
pearances amounted to anything.
He did not appear anxious talk the plot
kdnap young Rockefeller, although he did up after
had asked number of questions
1t was this plot that up the the
barn. Nedermeyer told wheE Dine and him
self went to the barn the getting
words to develop against Rockefeller.
The who accompanied them not in the
scheme planned to follow
suggested to Neidermeyer that it would have been
impossible for him friends kidnap the mil
lionaire
Impossible nothngr' he retorted "It's dead easy.
and show you In minute. know something Of
hard 1t looks, just what talking about
II knew Pat Grove. could have gone through
with his game without any trouble Why, he had Eddie
Cudahy in his clutches and could easily old
Packer Cudahy with that SIS 900 he had only
kept his head
Some people think Grove got money, but he
didn't Where had the best of Grove that
going operate city of several million
pe while Grove did business little
captured.
I'll tell you right now. he said, coming close to the
speaking earnestly pointing his fingers
me: ST would have young Rockefeller would
have killed him, and probably along with him.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
665gem Years 6nD befa77 A Story of Russian QrugG

ut NEVER saw my Judge" he writes nor was
shown the articles of prosecution. given to
understand that was accused Of disseminating
revolutionary literature.
I'm vain did ask for responsible Judge The one
who think sentenced had before the
last session of the Sentence not
nounced. was merely told that found guilty.
Doomed to the galows deportation, die under the
knout? I did know-no one the Judges knew. A
verdict handed Cossack. who drove
before him like despised 1t openel until
reached my place of destination
MY jaiIers of very different character Some
though they frenzied with the possession
of to inict suerings fellow beings;
blind tools. like buzzsaw that doesn't whether
amputates the leg table le: OF man or wo-
sti others seemed to take pity prisoners
and while treating them the harshnesz ocially de-
manded did not withhold their compassion.
The man or woman who In Russia breathes the word
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
Leo DeutScb,s Graphic Tales
of His Life as O Political
Prisoner

freedom constitutional government falls at
under the dragnet Of official persecution.
despicable and mean petty yet horrible that
only great elementary revolution it
THAT revolution VIII long bloody but it
win It must
when autocracy despaired of obtaining the
Of accompces by the usual means. is by hunger
cold and threats of violence. extraordinary
employed. taken into dark cell without single
bit Of furniture No bunk. chair table. nothing but
the bare floor fled with fed air. foul
that only persons Russian prisons able to
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

ups in and about Chcagoprio to the barn
similar shells were left behind
Word at last reached police Gustav Marx
man of unsavory reputation, though only years
age, had been carrying magazine
pattern indicated by the shells
When detectives Blau Quinn approached Marx in
saloon. Marx drew his revolver shot Quinn
BauI only escaped similar the
fridge missed fire. He obliged
and club him with pistol butt before
In the police sweat box Marx confessed very
moment his companions projecting bold plot
dynamite the jail drag him not
know that, however.
He implicated Peter Niedermeyer % years of age;
When Marx confessed three remaining bandits
to Indiana, where they captured, after pitched
battle with detectives in which
and a railroad brakeman shot.
Once convicted the talked freely crimes
plished projected Eight least
ups traced to admitted by n every
their by
OF the police.
1t remained for Niedermeyer. however, cap the
WAS much impressed by Neidermeyer's brief
ment that went him. I to some
prise. He did not appear
NOT Impossible perate would imagine. AS I
He Declared have said he stocky of build.
with knotted muscles and square.
determined jaws but his lacked the wild gleam the
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

O Neidermeyer, Leader of
u the Car Barn Bandits,
Three Of Whom Have Just
Been Hanged, I Tells in His Last
Hours Before Going 10 the
Gallows Of a Plan to Spirit
Away the Son Of the Worlds
Richest Man and Hold Him
for an Enormous Ransom
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

him. and the police have got next nice quiet
sort Of place. and the that pretty
good reputation among the neighbors. They amt got
idea who he Is what does a living.
wA FTER we had Rockefeller safely slowed away
would have gone straight to Mr.. Oil King sr. for
interview. In fact would have
felt Oure OF been the first to inform him that
Thor Scroec his disappeared. I% Z
Il believe we would have got
the million. 1t all framed that if Van and I
nabbed. the Jersey City would see that Mr..
King. Jr. the light of day again. He would
have croaked him But there wouldn't have been
any use of that for we would have made the old man
up with the coin.
"And then-wen it would have Of yachts
and things men building the gaIows
there u.s.
Nedermeyer half laugh, half sigh Of regret
he thought of the possibilities the gaows rudely shat
tered. There apparent the laugh.
The conversation presented here be little
more connected than when it fell Neidermeyers lips,
but the words his words and indeed doubt
he intended to carry them
What Of strange beings were blood
thirsty youths?
All were criminals youth They their first
lessons crime the Since they
climbed the ladder by leaps and bounds
Neidermeyer robber at 15 AS he said himself,
he knew few associates other thieves.
without tenderness heart. permitted
himself captured preference committing
eide merely because he wished father before
he died
In jail he puzzle expert examiners
visited him. He weakened. even in
box" He took things they smiling ndiffer-
ence.
Such the whose brain could project
daring scheme to kidnap of modern
John d. Rockefeller. Jr. may well breathe easier
the brain and hand of Nedermeyer stfled. may
all the world.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

TFHE lack of humanity in the political
system of Russia is graphically set oat
Il in book, Sixteen Years in Siberia"
gUritten by Leo Deutsch, and Just pub
EsAed in Berlin. This book is disappearing
from the stalls as rapidly as the publishers are
able to supply copie; Of it,
TT IS SAID that the Russian government has
agents in Germany buying up all copies OBJ
n tainable, preparatory to having the work sup
pressed by the authorities The correspon-
dent of this newspaper informed in half
dozen book stores they Gust out" of Sixteen
Years in Siberia" and when at last he secured
copy q gentleman seeing it in his hands, offered to
pay him twice the price he gave for it.
Deutsch, himself political pTisoue-, forced
to drag his fettered feet four thousand miles
of unmade road to Siberia, where he worked In the
mines, escaping only after sixteen years.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

nearly one hundred others. One of the killings
netted only $240
"Yet here was one man from whom We might cas-
ily have gotten 81 100000, and we wouldn't have
needed to even kill him." The cool confidence of
the assassin made me marvel.
Peter Neidermeyer was the leader and perhaps
the most desperate of the four bandits wto atempt
ed to rob the barns in Chicago Several days be-
fore went to see him he had admitted that the cap
ture of Marx, Van Dine, Roeski anG himself nipped
in the bud one of their most cherished plans.
In another set of men would have suspected
bravado-a mere wish to die with the red fire glaring
about them at its highest power. Yet plot to kid
nap-John D. Rockefeller, Jr., could not add to the
infamy of this precious quartete attract to them
one whit more of attention The deeds actually ac-
complished by them were hardly less desperate.
The robbery of the car barns will give an idea of
how reckless the four men really we're.
Tso'CLoCK on the morning Of August 80. 1903 four
~ men, armed and masked. walked into the car barn
a at sixty-hrst and State streets, in Chicago. Two
of the commanded the clerks who count
ing receipts of the previous da to throw their
hands attempted to reach for revolver In
stantly the masked opened fusilade.
When they they took $3.50 cash with them. Two
Of the clerks others seriously wounded
The only clue the empty cartridges the
barn They indicated that :he by the
bandits were newstye magazine pistols capable being
fred with the rapidty of a machine gun.
recalled that in the series of murders and hold
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

81 wouldn't cared If would have had to pick off
people before I accomplished purpose
I failed job yet with million dollars in
sight, you can bet that would have made mistakes
If hadn't that fool Marx wouldn't be here
now and odds that of his stripe would
have got into the Rockefeller kidnapping.
Harvey Van Dine other fellow whose name
I won't mentions as he the outside OF jail now.
were tsswork that game with me-
ct HIS is the to have done it: Van Dine.
with that nice ruddy schooboy countenance Of
his, was the banked most.
Were 60ng to "It to be his part of the
Sunday School Job to make young ROckefellers
acquaintance. This be
complshed by sending where he Join
He was attend a number Of Sundays and make
on like he was a penitent. Harv smart. you bet
he could have done it all right.
"aarv is slick actor bet he would have got
Rockefeller interested ali right You main object
get of the bunch in with Rockefeller that
he would know him
'The next move would have been easy. We. would
closed carriage Rockefellers home
in West FIftyfourth It might have taken
nights but at some other would have caught
him the street.
.I would have sent Harry up speak him. and. Of
course Rockefeller knowing stopped
a moment. Here where would have come In
'I 1 got my revolver closc Rockefeller
wouldn't called for help. have had that
against about hundred and of them seemed
very anxious to cry and whether would shoot
not
After we had got Rockefeller into the carriage
would bound gagged him. 1t would taken
just about three seconds the way do business
THE third the game has a place in Jersey
City and would have taken him there.
This place absolutely safe this pal of mine has
thief years had had thieves living with
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
By Charles Stuart
ES, q0e planned to kidnap Mr..
Rockefeller. Why not?"

me from behind the bars 10as square of build
and zUith bulldog ja10s. He did not speak in a
tone Of braVado-he o0as almost Hstless in his
lack of excitement. Yet, beheVe myself to be
the last man, not counting his attendants, OF
course, to zOhom he ever spoke. The NEXT
morning he ate match heads and opened TIE
veins in his arms. Later, on Friday, ApriI 22,
he gOas hanged.
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(IXXT IIY should we fear to kidnap Mr..
w Rockefellerg f~ repeated. evan
Dine, Marx, Roeski and I have
killed six men. We have held up
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
Not Impossible
He Declared

determined jaws, but
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-20
KEANE WARMLY GREETED
BY UNION LABOR PARTY

The Union Labor party campaign is
actively progressing. A large crowd
assembled at Teutonia Hall, Howard
street, near Tenth, last evening to hear
the candidates the workmen have
nominated and Endorsed for office.
George b. Keane, Republican and
Union Labor nominee for Senator in
the Twenty-third District, and Con-
gresham E. ]. Livernash, Democratic
and Union Labor nominee for re-elec-
ton from the Fourth District to the
House of Representatives. were the
principal speakers of the evening.
Both were enthusiastically received.
Mr.. Keane first addressed the meet
ing. He said that not only would he
earnestly endeavor to win his election
in November, but that after the cleo
ton, should he prove successful, he
would always have before him the in
terests of the wage-earners and plain
people of the city and the State. He
would always stand up" for labor, he
said, and would never stand in"
against the toilers. Prolonged cheers
greeted his remarks.
By way Of introduction, Congress
man Livernash cautioned his audience
not to believe any calumnies they may
hear of him, for" he said, red geld
has been sent here by the national
body Of the Citizens Alliance to defeat
me if possible, 1t was not my purpose
a year ago to again run for Congress,
but now / will fight it out to the end
and will win" Continuing, he said:
1t is far from my purpose. in meetings like
the one we are holding here, or In any respect
whatever TO iniame workingmen against EN-
ployers, or to set the poor against the rich
who are justly rich. Many are accusing Of
promoting ill-will between the prosperous and
the unfortunate, the smiling and the careworn,
the strong and the weak. but they do in
justice.
Let me remind you Of the of my Offend
ing / have been standing for concerted action
BY the working classes along some lines and for
concerted action by capitalists along some
lines / have wished and still wish to see the
working people OF America united in advancing
just industrial conditions. pure government and
the brotherhood OF man--uniteo in seeking to
place the work hours within the limits con-
sistent with health and happiness; united In
preventing wages from falling so low under
pressure OF competition as to depress our stand
ard of living; united in supporting fair EN-
ployers in every reasonable move and In OBJ
posing unfair employers In every unreasonable
move; united In pursuing legislation faverahle
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-20

to an uplift of life; united in backing in public
life the men who are their true friends, and in
retiring from public life the men who count
against them; united in cultivating kindness
and in pursuing knowledge. And l have been
standing for concerted action by capitalists and
citizens in general in whatever 1t has seemed
might make for human progress; and 1 shall
go on standing for 1t. 1t is grave mistake
10 assume that meetings like hostile
to the rich who have gained their wealth fairly,
or that we countenance radicalism in industry
or in politics
Other speakers during the evening
were: c. J. Williams, Union Labor
nominee for Congress in the Fifth Dis
trict; Edward j. Kerwin, who is rum
ming for the Assembly in the Forty
second; James Bowlan and Thomas F.
Egan, chairman of the Union Labor
County Committee. T. G. Ryan, Union
Labor nominee for the Assembly in
the Thirtieth District, was chairman
of the meeting.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-20
CROWDS HEAR GILLETr.
Congressman Discusses Protection at
Meeting in YreIxa.

Congressman Discusses Protection at
Meeting in YreIxa.
YREKA., Oct. 19.-J. n. Gillett, Re-
publican nominee for reelection to
Congress from the First District; ]. L.
Coyle. the aspirant for Assembly
honors from this district, and several
local leaders of the party addressed an
enthusiastic audience of several hun
dred people at Julien's Opera-house
tonight. The building was packed.
The Yreka Railroad ran out to Mon
tague and brought in a large crowd
from that town, accompanied by the
brass band. There was a torchlight
procession to the place of meeting.
r. j. Nixon, chairman of the County
Central Committee. presided. r. S.
Taylor, the well-known Republican
leader and politician of this county,
opened the meeting with short speech
and then introduced Gillet, who spoke
for over an hour to an attentive and
enthusiastic audience. He devoted
large part of his speech to the ques-
ton of protection and scored Caminetti
for his position on the tariff
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-20

Speaks at
Big Rally
Great Demonstration
by Republicans
at Cotton.
Special pispatch to The can.

COTTON, Oct. ia crowd of 500
people assembled at the City Hall this
evening to listen to Governor Pardee,
S. c. Smith, the Republican nominee
for Congress in the Eighth District:
w. T. Luke, candidate for State Sena-
tor; General Frank Prescott candi-
date for the Assembly. and M. H. Fitz-
simmons of Redlands, candidate for
Supervisor.
-Four electric cars came in from San
Bernardino and Redlands loaded with
uniformed Roosevelt marching club
members. They were headed by a
brass band and paraded the streets
shooting roman candles.
e. A. Pettijohn, president of the Col
ton Roosevelt Club, presided at the
meeting. The Governor and Senator
Smith in their speeches dwelt particu-
larly upon the Importance of having in
Washington a President and Congress
men who believe in protection. The
meeting was very enthusiastic. The
Governor said he believes this State
will roll up majority of 5000 for
Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-20
HAYES GAINS FRIENDS.
Wins Democratic Votes by His Speech
in MilDitas.

Wins Democratic Votes by His Speech
in Milpitas.
MILPITAS, Oct. ia grand mass
meeting of the people Of Milpitas. who
assembled without regard to party
feelings, was held tonight to hear E..
A. Hayes, the Republican candidate for
Congress in the Fifth Congressional
District. Hayes spoke at length on the
necessity of keeping the present ad-
ministration in power; of the benefit of
protection to all people, and especially
to Californians; of expansion and what
the opening of the Eastern trade had
done for this coast; of the interest of
the laboring classes in having the tar
if upon foreign importations high
enough to enable manufacturers to
compete. He stated that he believed
in the employment of white labor in all
business ventures and that he had
never allowed Monaghan to work for
him. His remarks were enthusiastic-
ally received and many pronounced
Democrats publicly stated that they
were for Hayes for Congress.
Hayes was followed in speech by
Major Kyle of San Francisco, who
spoke about the necessity of sending a
Republican to represent this State in
Congress, and that only such a repre-
sentative would be able to obtain ap-
propriations and have measures passed
beneficial to the people of this section.
s. Michletree, H. M. Ayers. w. H.
Rogers and others also addressed the
meeting.