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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
BLOODY BATTLE AT
VICTOR, COLO.
Twelve Nonunion Miners Blown to
Instant Death.

Denver, Colo: Adjutant Bell, at Z
o'clock Monday night, received a re-
port by telephone from Victor that
seven miners had been shot in the
battle at miners union headquarters
on Fourth street and as many in
jured.
The total number Of deaths in and
near Victor since the explosion Mon
day morning is fifteen. Thirteen were
killed in the explosion and two at the
riot, which preceded the descent of
the guard on miners union hall.
The report does not give the names
of the wounded, but all we're miners
and the guards who had engaged in
the attack all escaped without even a
wound. The bullpen is full to over
flowing now and is under strong guard.
It is reported that an attack may be
made on it at any time and every pre-
caution is being taken to meet It.
General Bell has made all arrange
ments to hurry troops from this city
and other points in the State to the
scene of the disorder at a moments
notice. The new Sheriff of Cripple
Creek and the guards there say that
they believe that they will be able to
command the situation. Arrests are
being made hourly and an effort is
being made to clear the streets, which
are thronged with excited men.
The troops have been called out for
service in suppressing riot in Victor
and the Cripple Creek district.
The Sheriff is empowered to call out
such troops as are in his own county
as are available for service within that
county. Under this law the Sheriff
has called Company II of Cripple
Creek and 17S of these men are mobil-
ized in the armory to obey orders of
Lieutenant James l.. Wallace, who will
be under the direction of the Sheriff
for the present.
Seventy men of Company L at Vic
tor are acting as special officers under
the Mayor of the town. The Mayor
has sworn in and armed 500 citizens
to assist in suppression of violence and
Quelling the rioters.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
Court upholds Gov. Peabody.

Denver, Colo: The state supreme
court Monday refused the application
for a writ of habeas corpus for Charles
H. Meyer, president of the Western
federation of miners, who is held as
a military prisoner at Telluride by
order of Gov. James H. Peabody. Tho
governors action in declaring martial
law in San Miguel county, imprisoning
Meyer and other union men on the
ground that ahey melted insurreo-
ton and rebellion. suspending the
writ Of habeas corpus ami ignoring
the authority Of the local courts as
seems necessary to him in maintaining
law and order is sustained. Chief
Justice Gabbert and Justice Campbell
concurred in the decision. Justice
Steele dissented.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
"DEATH TO UNIONS" NOW THE
SLOGAN In CRIPPLE CREEK

any person who is affiliated with a
labor union.
No person who works for a living
will be exempt, and absolute annihi-
lation of unionism in this county is
predicted by members of the Citizens
Alliance and the Mine Workers AS
sociation. This is considered the most
drastic step yet taken by the alliance
since it secured the upper hold in the
district, and its enforcement will af-
feet 1900 men and women now af-
filiated with the various unions.
Among the unions that will be af-
fected by the new movement are the
clerks, cooks and walters, bartenders,
carpenters, electricians, trainmen and
stone and brick masons.
The unionists assert that they will
fight the movement to a finish.
Gen. Bell issued a signed statement
Thursday regarding the raid on the
Victor Record office and destruction
of the newspaper plant, in which he
condemns the action of the mob in
the most emphatic manner.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
JAPANESE DAMAGED OUTER
FORTS AND HOUSES
Gunboat Attempting Close Recon.
Nuisance Exposed to Hot Fire.

Chefoo: According to the reports
brought here by Chinese arrivals from
Port Arthur, the outer forts of that
city have been badly damaged by the
japanese bombardment.
Many buildings in the town have
also been destroyed, but the inner
forts have suffered but little.
The Chinese appear TO be unable
to give any intelligent report on the
condition of the Russian fleet, prob
ably owing to the fact that they
were not allowed in the vicinity of the
naval basin.
The statement made by them that
when they left thede were only three
large ships there probably means that
a number were in the outer harboT
and that the others were behind the
Tigers Tail and in the naval basin.
Every junk at Port Arthur has, Il
is stated, been chartered to carry away
Chinese. few of whom now remain in
the besieged city.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
G. A. R. VETERANS
HURT IN WRECK
Twenty-one Persons Injured in an
Electric Railway Accident.

Mason City, Ia: Twenty-one per-
sons, several of them members of the
Iowa Grand Army of the Republic.
were injured in an accident Thursday
night on the Mason City and Clear
Lake Electric Railway.
The rear car of the train which was
bringing more than 500 persona to
the city from Clear Lake, went over
the embankment.
Among those who were injured is
Mrs. B. T. st John, wife of the re-
Gently elected commander.
The injuries of the victims consist
principally of broken bones. There is
no explanation of the accident.
The train was pulled by motorman
Sissinger. Motorman Wass, with a
lighter motor car at the rear, was
pushing. 1t was the trailer at the
rear which left the track.
The injured were at once brought to
the city and are being cared for by
all the surgeons of the city. Several
dignataries in attendance on the en-.
campment were on the train, but none
were injured
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
Begins Thirty-Five-Year Sentence

Leavenworth, Kas.: ]. E. Marcell
whose forgeries of 100000 wrecked
the Highland bank has been sentenced
to thirty-ave years in prison. five years
on each of seven counts, and began
serving his time in the Penitentiary
Monday. He was placed as an ap.
prentice under Emmett Dalton, the for.
mer outlaw and bank robber, in the
tailor shop. MARCEL was cashier of
the wrecked bank. What he did with
the thousands he stole is still a mys.
terry. He recently pleaded guilty.
MARCEL connot be paroled until he
has served at least eighteen years of
his sentence.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
FOURTEEN LOSE LIVES
IN PEORIA EXPLOSION
City Confronted with Problem Of Dis
position of Dead Cattle.

Peoria, ILL.,: 1t is known that four
teen men lost their lives in the ex-
plosion and fire at the Corning distil-
lery plant in this city Saturday. OF
these one died in a hospital at 8
o'clock Saturday night, and the other
thirteen were burned to death by the
liquid flames. Eight bodies were, re-
covered up to o'clock Sunday night,
and of these four have been positively
identified. All but three of the bodies
were so badly charred as to be unrec-
ognizable, although one was identified
as Peter Lettemeyer by his watch and
chain, which were found hanging to
his clothing. Mrs. Thomas e. Mont
gomery positively identified the body
Of her husband The body of Samuel
Parsons was identified by his two sons,
and friends and relatives identified
the body of George Gebhardt.
All day Sunday the streams of water
were played on the smoldering ruins.
and thousands of people visited the
scene. The stencil from the carcasses
of 5000 roasted cattle is nauseating,
and the authorities are in a quandry
how to dispose of them. Representa-
tiVes of the state board of health are
on the scene, and have issued orders
that the carcasses shall not be dump.
ed in the Illinois river, and threaten
to have the governor order out the
local military to enforce the order.
Sunday evening the morgue of Cor
oner Harper was besieged by an anx-
ious crowd, among them relatives Of
the dead, who in vain attempted to
identify their loved ones.
Jacob Wachenheimer, with whom
the Cornings placed insurance, states
it is in the neighborhood Of 100000 on
all the destroyed property, cattle ami
all. Peter Casey, superintendent of
the plant, is Frustrated and is unable
to give statement as to the loss, but
it is estimated by the insurance peo-
pie at $75O,OOO.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16

Cripple Creek, Colo: Death to
unionism in the Cripple Creek Dis
trict' is the new slogan Of the Citi-
zen's Alliance, which has sent the
decree broadcast that any person con-
nected with union here must sever
his connection with the union or
leave this district
This latest stand of the anti.union-
lists was vaguely limited at two days
ago, but the movement on the part
of the alliance seemed so absurd to
three or four thousand unionists in
the camp and its enforcement fraught
with so many difficulties that 1t was
not taken seriously.
Tyson s. Dimes, a Denver attorney
and one of the executors of the STRAIT
ton estate, is here in conference with
Citizens Alliance leaders, and it is
announced that Ell is preparing a
form which will be presented to every
merchant and business man and to
every employer of labor in the entire
district, pledging them not to employ
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
SIXTEEN INJURED
BY RUNAWAY CAR
Passengers strewn Along Track in
Wild Descent of Incline.

Burlington, Ia: A heavily loaded
electric car rushed down Valley street
hill Sunday afternoon and was wreck
ed against a shade tree. The passen-
gers jumped as the car flew along,
sixteen being badly injured.
Mrs. Joseph Keehn was killed.
Several had arms and legs broken
and many were badly cut about the
head and shoulders.
In some unknown manner the brake
beam on the open electric car broke
just as the car was beginning to de-
scend. The car dashed down the long
incline with frightful speed and at the
foot of the hill jumped the track and
crashed into a shade tree.
The car was crowded with people
who began to jump as soon as the
danger became apparent. The injured
were strewn on both sides of the track
down the entire length of the hill.
1t is not believed that any of the
injured will die.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
land AND SEA ATTACK
ON PORT ARTHUR
General oku Said to Have Marched
Against Fortress.

Chefoo: A fleet of junks which ar
rived from Dalny for the purpose of
buying stores for the Japanese re-
port having heard continuous firing
between Dalny and Port Arthur for
several days.
Japanese warships are making Dial.
ny their headquarters and are coming
and going continuously. They take
turns guarding the entrance of Port
Arthur
Preceding a sea attack on Port
Arthur Monday night, the Japanese
apparently made a determined effort
to advance on that stronghold by land.
A Chinese junk, which was left at
point three miles south of Port Dalny,
early Monday morning arrived here
Tuesday.
She reports having heard firing
north of Port Arthur from Z o'clock
Monday morning until 2 o'clock that
afternoon, by which time she passed
out of hearing distance.
It would appear that the Japanese
planned a land and sea attack on
Port Arthur Monday. The Russians
on seeing this, sent their feet out to
give battle. The result is not known.
An impression prevails here that a
naval battle took place Monday night
in the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li. Passengers
on steamers passing the Liao-Tie-
Shan premontory at the time did not
hear firing, while reports come from
Teng-Chow of heavy firing being
heard there from II o'clock Monday
night until o'clock Tuesday morning.
Vessels from the Mao Tao Islands
confirm this report and so do the resi-
dents of hills in the vicinity of this
city, who heard the firing and saw
flashes out at sea during the night.
The fact that the Russians were en-.
deavoring on June to clear the road
steads off Port Arthur of mines in
dictates intention upon their part to
give naval battle outside the harbor
upon the first favorable opportunity
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
THE PORTLAND MINE
CLOSED BY BELL
Military Commander in Colorado AL
leges It Harbors Lawbreakers.

Victor. Colo: Adjt. Gen. Bell Thurs
day ordered the Portland mine, which
employs union men, closed down. In
the order it is declared that the Port
land mine lis, and for a long time
has been, engaged in employing and
harboring large numbers OF dangerous,
lawless men, who have aided encour-
aged and given comfort and assist"
ance to those who have been guilty Of
said crimes and outrages, so that said
mine has become, and now is, men
ace to the welfare and safety Of the
good people of said county and him
derance to the restoration OF peace
and good order" The Portland is
the only large mine in the district
that has continued in operation since
the explosion at independence on
Monday, which killed or manned more
than twenty nonunion miners. The
Portland gold mining company through
its president and manager, James F.
Burns, who is not a member Of the
Cripple Creek district mine owners
association, conceded the demands of
the union when the strike was inaugu-
rated last August, and has steadily
given employment to about 500 men.
The commission appointed by Gen
Bell to inquire into the records of the
miners under arrest reported to him
Thursday a list of ninety-seven union
miners with the recommendation that
they be deported. Gen. Bell accepted
their report and announced that the
men would be sent out of Teller
county as soon as special train crew
could be arranged for.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
levi 2. letter dies suddenlv.

Bar Harbor, Me-; Levi 2. Letter Of
Chicago, died of heart failure Thurs
day at the Vanderbilt cottage here,
which the Letters had taken for the
season. Mr.. Letter has not been well
for a long time, but up to Wednesday
he was able to take his usual drive.
A weakness of the heart developed
shortly after midnight and death &C.
Cured at 3:40 a. m. Mrs. Letter and
two daughters were by the bedside at
the last. Mr.. Letter was 70 years old.
He was the father of Lady Curzon of
Kedleston, wife of the ViceToy and
Governor General of India; of Miss
Daisy Letter, whose beauty has been
the subject of note in English court
circles, and of Joseph w. Letter, spec,
ulator and investor. Mr.. Letter be
gan life as a poor boy and had made
and immense fortune, estimated al
S6O,OOO,000.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
INSTRUCTS Jury
TO RELEASE LAWN
Judge Moore Rules That the Prose
cution Had Failed to Make Case.

st. Louis: The case against Timothy
H. LAWN was dismissed Tuesday in
the Court of Criminal Correction and
the defendant was allowed to go free.
When the case came before Judge
Moore and the State had presented its
testimony, the Judge declared that no
case had been made, and instructed
the jury to find verdict of not guilty.
LAWN is a brother of the Democra-
tic Committeeman from the Twenty
eighth Ward, in which the outrages
of the last primary occurred. The
principal witnesses against him were
barred from testifying on the ground
that their evidence would be incrlm-
mating to themselves.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
TO PUT CHECK UPON
THE NINE OWNERS
Colorado officials Think It Time to
Take Charge at Cripple Creek.

Denver, Colo: At o'clock Tuesday
evening Adjt. Gen. Bell left for Cripple
Creek, to make investigation of the
conditions there, with a view to fur
nishing information to Gov. Peabody
on his return. Gen. Bell is not in favor
of allowing the vigilantes any more
latitude than what is allowed the min
'ers, and il is certain that he will re-
port favoring the placing of the dis
trict under military law. This latter
policy is not acceptable to the mine
owners, who want to be left to their
own devices for exterminating the
labor union according to the dictates
of expedienscy.
The Citizens alliance Is conducting
business in the district with a high
hand Every suspect has been noti-
fed to get out, also every officer of
the law who has incurred the suspi-
cion of the vigilantes. or who is sus-
. pected of union sympathies, has been
asked to step down and out of office.
There is no explanation vouchsafed to
any one. The suspected officials are
invited to the headquarters of the
Citizens alliance at Military hall, and
nshered into a room where the chief
piece of furniture is long table bear
ing two long stretches of rope, with
nooses knotted in a suggestive fash
ion. This is supposed to give a stuff
cient hint of the urgency of the de-
mand. and so far no one has had the
.emerity to question the right of the
proceedings. Thse sheriff, coroner and
four town marshals have succumbed
to the demand and three other offic-
ials are scheduled for resignation as
soon as they can be deported.
The alliance does not want the state
to butt in under any circumstances,
and so notified Acting Governor Hag-
gott Tuesday afternoon. when he had
q long telephone conversation with
the leaders. They retorted that they
would finish the job in a way that
would save the state from all ex-
penses, and that any interference by
governor or peace officers would be
resented. The fat has gone forth
that either death or deportation Will
be the rule.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16

Florence; A funeral service Of the
simplest character took place Tues
day over the body of Mrs. Samuel
l.. Clemens, in the villa Quarto, after
"a Vexatlous visit from sanitary officers
and compliance with annoying formal
regulations. Only members Of the ia.
mily were present. The coffin was
then taken to a temporary vault, from
which 1t win be sent TO Genoa and
placed aboard a steamer sailing for
New York June 20. Mr.. Clemens mark
Twain will go to the United States
With the body.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
seibert Is Indicted.

st. Louis: James Monroe Seibert, ex-
else commissioner of st. Louis, by APP
pointment of Gov. Dockery. and for
nearly thirty years prominent offic-
holder in the state. during which time
he has served as state treasurer, audi
tor of state and chairman of the Dem
ocratic state committee, is named in
an indictment returned Saturday by
the April grand jury. The charge
against Mr.. Seibert is conspiracy TO
hinder and prevent the due administra-
ton of the laws relating to the control
of dramshops. The news of the indict-
ment of Mr. Seibert created profound
sensation. on account of his political
prominence, and was eagerly discus
sed by the politicians. The charge
against the excise commissioner grows
out of the printed list of rules govern
ing saloons, which he recently drafted
and handed to Chief Kiely, with the
request that he instruct his officers
to see that they be strictly enforced.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
brothers Confess Murder.

Charlottesville, Mo-: The murder
case at Hayti has developed new evil
dence. The Luther brothers, who are
held for the murder have made con-
fession. They tell of the murder in
all it's horrible details. Bert Luther
declares the part he took was forced
upon him at the point of a revolver
held by the man with the wooden
leg, who has thus far made his es.
cape completely. The story they tell
is not belived by the officers or by the
citizens of Hayti, and they would have
met with violence had not the sheriff
spirited them away
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
Sultan Grants Demands.

Tangier, Morocco: The 'Sultan's
letter in reply to the diplomatic repre-.
sensations made in relation to the
kidnapping Of Messrs. Perdicaris and
Varley, arrived here Wednesday after.
noon.
1t is said by a person in the Sui.
tan's confidence that the Sultan has
given orders to grant all of the con
ditions demanded by Raisuli, the ban
dit leader, in order to expedite the re-
lease of the captives.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16

London: A dispatch to the Tele-
graph from Shangtaitse says that
heavy artillery firing was heard Mon
day morning in the direction of Tab
wan, east of Lao Yang. Natives re-
port that the Japanese first army is
advancing and fighting daily, Hun
dreds of Russian wounded are arriving
at Tashichao. A dispatch TO the Daily
Mail from st. Petersburg says that
Gen. KuropatBin has now been re.
enforced by 10000 of the 4th Siberian
army corps, bringing the total avail,
able force at Lao Yang up to 100000
men.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
Wreck Newspaper Plant.

Victor, Colo: Eight unknown men,
armed with shotguns, rifles, pistols,
and sledge hammers, entered the office
of the Victor Record at 11:45 o'clock
Wednesday night while the men were
working on the omrning edition,
ordered the men to throw up their
hands, broke the machinery and told
the men TO get out of the district as
fast as they could There is no clew
to the identity of the men. The Rec,
ord was the official organ of the
miners union.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
Triple killings at Maunie, Ill.

Carmi, ILL.,: A tragedy occurred at
the village of Maunie, on the Wabash
river, Monday afternoon. John Rob
inson shot and killed his wife, her
brother-in-law. Shep Atterbury. and
then killed himself Robinson was
under $500 bond for assaulting a
Louisville and Nashville conductor re-
Gently. The cause Of the killing was
alleged intimacy between Atterbury
and Robinson's wife
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
AMERICAN MARINES
LAND AT TANGIER
Sultan Gives Orders to Grant All the
Demands Made by Bandit Chief.

Washington: American marines have
landed in Africa. Admiral Chadwick
Wednesday afternoon cabled the Navy
Department from Tangier as follows:
Il have placed guard at the Bel
gian Legation, having been asked to
do so by our Consul General here"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-16
KILL UNION MINER
IN PITCHED BATTLE
Report Second Fight, the Civilians
Being Entrenched.

Cripple Creek, Colo: A pitched bat
miners was fought at Dunnville, a new
mining camp thirteen miles out of
Victor, shortly after o'clock Wed
nesday afternoon. John Carley, a
union miner, was killed.
A special train left this city at I
o'clock Wednesday for Dunnville, hav.
ing on board about 100 deputy sheriffss
and at Victor as many more we're TAX
en-, including Adjt. Gen. Bell and quite
a number of the local militia com
pany. At Dunnville little park opens
out in the long canyon and the new
mining camp has recently been es-
tablished. The only residents are
members of the Western federation of
miners.
Some of them. # is alleged, sent
word to Victor that they would come
up in a body Wednesday night and
release the crowd of miners confined
in the armory there. The deputies
and Gen. Bell concluded to take the
play off their hands.
When the train approached its des-
tinatiOn it was greeted with fusilade
Of shots, fired by union miners on
both sides of the track. who were con-
cealed behind big powders on the pre-
cipitous mountain sides, but, as the
shots were fired too high, no damage
was done.
Deputies and soldiers got their guns
into action, and for half an hour the
battle ragged fiercly. The miners had
the advantage of position, but their
aim was poor. Suddenly they began
to yell for mercy and sixteen of them
surrendered.
Early in the fight John Fl. Carley,
union miner, fell with a bullet
through the heart The deputies. secured
the hills for some of the enemy known
to have escaped but to no purpose.
The prisoners were brought to the
city and placed in the old mining ex-
change rooms, after three of their
| number had been released.
Later, a second battle occurred be-
tween other forces, Seven soldiers
sent on horseback to Big Hill, two
miles east of Victor, to arrest union
miners found them entrenched. The
men refused to surrender and the
soldiers opened fire. The miners op-
ened fire on the soldiers as soon as
No one was wounded. Seven men
wore captured by the guards and taken
to Cripple Greek.