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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
FIVE I MISSING IN
I HOTEL WRECKAGE
INQUIRY TO PLACE BLAME FOR
ACCIDENT In GOTHAM BEGINS.
Number of Dead as Result of Darling
ton Disaster Cannot, Be Stated, So
Slowly Does Work Of Removing De-
bris Proceetl-R Unable to
+ Remove Bodies Pinned Down.

New York, March 3.-lnvestigation
was begun to-day. by the coroner, the
district attorney, the building depart
ment, and the police for the purpose
OF placing the responsibility for the
collapse of yesterday of the Darlington
apartment hotel building
The number Of dead cannot yet be
stated SO slowly has the. work of re-
moving the wreckage proceeded, but
the list Of. known dead has reached
nine, two of the bodies being still
pinned fast under piles of debris, tho
plainly visible to the rescuers.
Five men are known to be missing,
and as the tangled and interlaced
masses of beams and masonry are
cleared away the bodies of these, and
possibly others, will be recovered. Six
teen injured men We're taken to the
hospitals last night, several of whom
are reported to be seriously hurt.
/; Amid the, pile Of twisted iron cir
ders, masses of stone, brick and de-
bris that marks the spot where the
big iron frame stood. the police and
employees of the building department
assisted by firemen, are working tc
extricate the buried bodies. Coroner
Scholer said to-day that Charles R
Allison, head of the Allison Realty
company, the general contractors fol
the building, has disappeared. HI
was seen last night, but efforts of the
police and the coroner's office to fine
him are. fruitless. 49,.
| Foreman Halpin, who was in charge
of the iron, construction work, is the
only man now under arrest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
CAR STOPS PARADEs
Street Demonstrations Checked as
Likely to Incite RevOlutiOnists.

Street Demonstrations Checked as
Likely to Incite RevolutiOnists.
New York Sun Special Service.
st. Petersburg, March S.-The czar
has signed decree instructing Min
lister Plehve to adopt strict measures
against the patriotic street manifes-
tations.
1t is held that these demonstrations
not only are inappropriate, because
held to celebrate imaginary victories,
but they also are likely to produce
counter manifestations. x
1t is we'll known that the police pay
roughs to turn out and shout. and this
has provoked the Indignation of the
more enlightened people. Many not
only are disguised by such artificial
and more or less drunken exhibitions,
but they are opposed to the war, and
some even have ventured TO protest.
Students in the high schools and
universities have objected to the royal
addresses in regard to the war drawn
up by their professors. Similar pro-
tests have been made by the pupils
of the engineering institute and the
st. Petersburg polytechnic school,
The attitude of the pupils in the
high school for women has caused the
minister to close the establishment.
The antiwar feeling Is very strong
among the students.
Russian officials deny that any
fighting took place at Port Arthur
Feb. 20 or March 1. On those dates
they assert. there was such a hurri-
cane blowing that an approach to the
harbor was impossible.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
A FACT PROVEN
Should Convince Even the Most Skep.
teal of Its Truth.

Should Convince Even the Most Skep.
teal of Its Truth.
If there is the slightest doubt in the
minds of any that Dandruff germs do
not exist, their belief is compelled by
the fact that a rabbit inoculated with
the germs became bald in six weeks
time.
1t must be apparent to any person
therefore that the only prevention Of
badness is the destruction of the germ
which act is successfully accom-
plished in one hundred per cent OF
cases by the application of Newbro's
Herpicide.
Dandruff is caused by the same
germ which causes badness and can
be prevented with the same remedy
Newbro's Herpicide.
Accept no substitute. Destroy the
cause you remove the effect
Sold by leading druggists. Send Loo
in stamps for sample to The Herpicide
Co., Detroit, Mich.
Voegeli Bros, special agents: two
stores, corner Hennepin and Washing
ton avenues, and corner 7th street and
Nicollet avenue.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
ARMOUR'S COMBINE
BUYS OUT Upton
BEEF TRUST PRACTICALLY CON-
Trolls PACKING BUSINESS.
Cudahy and S. and S.; Now Only Large
Opposition Concerns-The National
Company Expects to Operate; All
Big Plants-Packers Refuse Any
Opinion Regarding Congressional
Investigation.
New York Sun Special Service.

sar =
Chicago. March 3.--Another step
has been taken in the direction of
controlling the small package plants
by the larger packers-Armour, Swift
and Morris. Two more large plants
were added to the list of houses now
owned by them. This about cleans up
the last of the important opposition,
aside from that of the Cudahy and
SchWarzchild-Sul companies.
j. Ogden Armour has bought the
packing plant owned by Sir Thomas
j. Upton for $250,0O0. The plant adj
joins that of Armour & Co. and is a
valuable addition.
The National Packing company,
which is controlled by the other pack
| pany that will eventually run all the
big packing plants, has bought the
last packing-house owned by the In
ternational Packing company. This
makes nine plants bought in less than
| two years. All are operated by the
National Packing company, which is
a holding company as we'll, t'.s-Es,
! The companies absorbed have cost
about $10,000,000. The list includes
the Omaha Packing company at Chi
cago, South Omaha. and Hutchinson,
KAN; the Anglo-American company,
| the G. H. Hammond Packing compa-
ny, at Chicago and st. Joseph, Mo-;
the Continental Packing company, the
Upton company, the international
Packing company at Chicago; Fowler
Brothers, at Kansas City; the st. Louis
Beef company, and the United Beef
company at New York.
| Packers are not disposed to talk
about the movement made in congress
to investigate their operations. 1t is
charged that they have combined tt
control the price of beef and have de.
pressed prices of live cattle, while the
selling price of dressed beef is held up
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
SHAW ASKS BANKS
]. FOR CANAL FUNDS
CALL FOR EIGHT MILLIONS TO BE
DEPOSITED WITH MORGAN.
Twenty Per Cent of Government Hold
ings Is Requested-Further Sum of
Twenty-Five Millions Will Be De-
manded March 25-Balance Will Be
Taken from Subtreasury.

Washington, March 3.-The secre-
tary of the treasury to-day will call on
the depositary banks of New York
city to deposit 20 per cent of their
government holdings in the subtreas-
ury, the money to be turned over to-
day to J. P. Morgan & Co., as the
financial representative of the republic
of Panama, on, account of the Panama
canal purchase. n,
This 20 per cent will aggregate
about $S,000,000, and the remaining
100000 will be taken from the sub
treasury.
The secretary also will call on all
thes pecial depository banks to for
ward to designated depository banks
in New York 20 per cent Of their hold
ings on or before March rs. "
This will result In a deposit alto
gether of about $30,000,0O0. The re.
naming $20,000,000. will be supplied
by the treasury itself.
Upon further consideration Of thu
exact terms of the treaty with the re-
public of Panama, it has been deter.
mined by the government to make the
payment of .$10,00O,00O to that coun
try and the payment of $40,O0O,OOO tt
the Panama Canal company in Paris
at the same time. - a IL
Therefore, Secretary Shaw has mod
flied his call requiring the outsid,
| banks, as we'll as the banks of New
York city to make return of their q
per cent any time before March 25.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
PRAIRIE FIRES
RACE DER PLAINS
CITY OF McCOOK IN NEBRASKA
THREATENED.
Farm Buildings, Produce and Stock
Consumed-Big Herds Saved by
Back Firing, but Stray Animals
Were Caught-Neither Horses Nor
Cattle Could Outrun the Flames.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Z Omaha, March FLASHED by a gale
whose velocity is ffty-five miles an
hour, destructive prairie fires are re-.
ported to be sweeping over various
parts of Nebraska. ALI efforts to stop
them seem futile until they reach big
streams or wide stretches of cult
waited land. One fire started near
Wood river and swept toward Kear-
ney, destroying farm buildings. The
fire department at Kearney has gone
out to fight it, but there is little hope
Of it's stopping until it reaches the
Platte river.
The news was sent out to farmers
and ranchmen by a rural telephone
and many Of them saved their belong
ings and hay by back firing. The
buildings on four ranch properties
are known to have been burned. Large
quantities of hay have been destroyed.
The city Of McCook was in danger
for a time, but a shift of the wind
saved it. The fire, however, swept on
and is still burning, but will soon
strike the river. All the buildings on
five ranches were destroyed and it
is likely that further losses will be
reported. There was some loss Of
livestock. The big herds were saved
by back firing, but the ANIMALS which
had strayed from the main herds were
lost. Neither horses nor cattle could
outrun the fire.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
USE DYNAMITE AS
POLITICAL FORCE
Rioters Fail in Endeavor to Con
troll Indian Territory Dis
trict Convention. H.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service. -.
South McAlester, I. r., March "a
unique move in politics was made at
a district convention of republicans at
Atoka yesterday. ~ .,st
One faction came over from Colgate
in two bands Of 100 rooters with 200
pounds of dynamite. When they ar
rived in Atoka, the dynamite was
thrown in the streets, and part of a
steel rail was blown thru a residence.
At the convention the rioters at
tempted to elect their chairman before
the official count had been returned.
Mike Conlan, mayor of Atoka, the
chairman of the convention, was on the
stage alone, when the trouble began
He raised a chair aloft and struck al
his assailant. w. S. Farmer, an attor-
ney Of Atoka, was attempting to reach
Conlan'ss side to aid him, when the
chair fell heavily on his head, cutting
a deep cash.
At the sight Of blood, the rooters
withdrew to the opposite side, of the
hall and held their own convention.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
ENDURANCE TEST
FOR i. S. NAVY
Rear. Admiral Taylor Lays Out
Work for North Atlantic
Squadron.

Washington, March 3.-Rear Ad-
miral Taylor Of the bureau of navl-
cation proposes that the North Allan
tic squadron shall engage in an EN-
durance test" under conditions that
will represent as nearly as possible
what might be demanded in time of
war. -. ...'.-. - H..
The squadron consists of the battle
ships Maine, Missouri, Kearsarge, Ala
bama, Illinois and Massachusetts, the
cruisers Newark, Detroit and Mont
gomery. There are also attached to it
the gunboat Scorpion, the GOLFERS Leb-
anon and Amerandi, the refrigerator
ship Glacier and the tug Potomac.
After engaging in the target prac-
tice off Pensacola, Fla, Admiral Tay-
lor proposes to hustle this squadron,
with the exception, perhaps, of the
smaller boats, across the Atlantic
They must have their force of mechan-
les and engineers prepared to make
repairs and restore the ships to rae
ing condition as speedily as possible
Just as they would had they been en-
gagged in a naval battle and were re-
quired to make a long distance run tc
port.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
BRlGANDS DEMAND
$4,000 RANSOM
Mexicans Hold Railroad Station
Agent Kidnapped in Tex
as and Hidden.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Houston, Texas, March S.-Dan
Gushing, brother of E. B. Cushing, en-
gineer of maintenance of way for the
Southern Pacific railroad, has been
kidnapped by Mexican brigands.
A note tackled to the door of his
house at Devils River in Dan Cush-
ings handwriting stated that a ransom
of $4,000 was demanded for his life.
His watch and Masonic pin were
found where he had evidently thrown
them aside under the supposition that
his assailants were robbers.
Gushing had been in Del Rio sick
and left for the water station. on
DEVILS River at o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. He was in the employ of
the Southern Pacific railroad and was
in charge of the flag station. His
cabin was two miles from the Mexican
border and three miles from any other
habitation. The country is scanned
with ravines, is wild and scarcely set
tied. No more ideal place exists in
the country for the work of brigands
The adjutant general has set all the
state forces in motion in order to cap.
| ture the brigands, but Cushing has
disappeared as completely as tho he
had been swallowed by the earth
The Mexican government has beer
notified and force Of rurales will BE-
detailed to work on the Mexican side
of the river.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
The First sleepine Car

The first sleeping car was devised
by Theodore T. Woodruff in1864. His
first patents were: for Improvement
in railroad car seats and couches," is
sued Dec. 2. 1856. At that time rail-
road development in America was in
it's infancy, but the tremendous adj
vance which has since taken place in
this, the greatest Of any one interest
in this country, has no parallel in his
tory. The evolution Of the sleeping
car from Woodruff's primitive design
to the sleepers, for instance. compos-
ing the Pioneer Limited trains of the
Milwaukee road, is wonderful in the
extreme. 1t would certainly seem that
the very PERFECTION of car construc-
ton, in point Of beauty, combined with
substantial comfort, had been reached
when this splendid train was produced
by that progressive company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
DELEGATION SEES
CUMMINS' DEFEAT
Iowa congressman Declare Hull
Successes Forerunner of
"Standpat' Victory.
From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
e

From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building
Washington.
Washington, March 3.-Members Of
the Iowa delegation in congress look
on the recent success of Representa-
tive Hull as a clear victory for the
anti-Cummins faction in the Iowa re-
publican party, and dangerous to
Cummins' future.
They point out that Hall is an out
and-out "standpatter,'' which fact is
we'll known in. Des Moines, and that
Prouty, who contested the nomination
with him, is an ardent Cummins man.
Prouty's defeat, it is claimed here,
shows that Cummins cannot enforce
his tariff views sufficiently to compel
the nomination Of candidates for con-
gress who represent them, and indi-
Gates that the Iowa state convention
will adopt a "standpat" tariff plat
form.
If this is true, it is important news
in Minnesota, because the same con-
test is being waged there as in Iowa.
except the Minnesota reciprocity and
tariff revision elements have no man
Of Cummins'y genius and standing as
( their leader. -f>>''
IF Iowa Stands pat,"Sit is believed
here Minnesota is likely to do the same
thing, at least, the time is now be-
lieved to be ripe for those who oppose
the "standpat' program, to get to-
gether and organize for March II.
! w. W. Jermane
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
BLIZZARD IN CHICAGO -
Reports from Northwest Tell of DAM
age Done by Storm.


Chicago, March "a bowling biz
zard is swooping down on Chicago.
Failing temperature will announce
the arrival Of the storm that has been
rushing thru the northwest, spreading
discomfort and destruction in it's
path. - :.'--.r ''..".'.-
From all parts of the northwest
come reports of the blizzard. In Min
nesota. Wisconsin. Wyoming and other
northwestern points traffic, railway
and telegraph service has been Grip
pied by the storm. In Superior. Wis,
the schools and courts were compelled
to close, while in South Dakota the
railway cuts were filled to such an ex-
tent that traffic was suspended.
Nebraska experienced a drop of
from Is above to Is above in six
hours. The high temperature is the
record for March weather in Nebras-
ka, and the sudden drop is unprece-
denied.
Near vincennes. Ind. a farmer was
killed by lightning during a thunder
storm yesterday afternoon.
At points in Michigan and Ohio, ice
gorges and floods are alarming the
people. Two huge ice gorges in the
River Raisin at Monroe. Mich, have
damned the river and caused an
alarming rise. Similar conditions
were experienced at Toledo, Ohio, and
d. pollllS dlOllS tHe MduIllee river
| Dynamite was Intellectually used at To.
| ledO. So
Immense fields of ice, the heaviest
that have ever been observed at any
period since ice reports have been is.
sued, practically cover the Grea
Lakes from shore to shore.
! The harbors are locked fast: the
| field being in some places thirty-eigh
| inches thick. "
| The straits are frozen to an extra or
binary depth. indicating a. late open
ing of navigation. At Sault Ste: Marie
the ice in the harbor is twenty-seve1
inches thick, and the rapids have beer
covered to|a greater extent than ha
been known in the last forty years. A
Macl<inaw, the smooth ice is twenty
five inches thick.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03

In Minneapolis the Temperature
Dropped 81 Degrees in Less
than "a Hours.

Iumbllng temperatures, bowling
wind and fine snow which was dashed
into the faces of pedestrians formed
the component parts of one of the
most disagreeable storms which ever
conferred in Minneapolis. Little girls
went home from school at noon yes
terday and pleaded with their mothers
to be allowed to doff, their heavy win
ter coats and leggings. Where the
mothers consented the tots almost
froze on their way home after school
in the afternoon.
At L o'clock yesterday afternoon the
| thermometer registered 33 degrees
dropped to 20 degrees and at o'clock
further drop of 7 degrees was re-
corded. Four o'clock showed the
thermometer at 1 degrees above zero,
and there it remained until 10 o'clock.
Zero was reached at midnight and
below was the reading at o'clock
this morning. At 10 o'clock a slight
| rise was Indicated, the thermometer
| reading 2 degrees below.
In the language of Pierre Lescault
of the ST.. Clair flats, "the wind she
| blow yesterday afternoon. At 2:30
o'clock a velocity of forty-eight miles
an hour was recorded. Only twice
since the establishment of the weather
bureau has this figure been exceeded
|
ty-eight and 1902 show records Of 55
and so miles an hour respectively
| Between l and o'clock the wind
maintained a velocity of 40 miles an
hour. -:--...
Better things are promised for to-
morrow. Fair tonight and Friday
warmer Friday is the consolation OF
Section Director Outram. In his opin.
ion zero temperatures will prevail to.
:. morrow morning, but a rise will SEND
the mercury up around the 20 mark
| by tom orrOW night. r.'-
Quick Cold Was General.
The tobogganing Of the mercury
was not a Minneapolis performance
North Platte, Neb., reports a drol
Of A degrees; Denver, 46 degrees
Omaha, "a degrees; Kansas City, 81
degrees; Oklahoma, A degrees
Abeline, Texas, SO degrees, and Du
luth, 20 degrees. The slide in Mime
apolis amounted to 80 degrees. Heavy
snow is reported in the north part o.
the state.
The storm which sent Minneapolis
shivering to bed originated in Sas
katchewan and gained energy as i
advanced. It was central in Mime
apolis yesterday afternoon and il
| passing out Of the st. Lawrence val
ley this morning.
Mails were not badly affected thi
morning. according to postoffice re
ports. Mail trains are reported a
from thirty minutes to two hours late
The cold in Minneapolis was not rec
ord breaking as the reports of tn
weather bureau for fourteen year
show that on ten previous occasions
in March, the thermometer registere,
lower temperatures than those re
Lon Il ,S1 80 dow tx. To-, I,
been seldom, however, that a storm
arrived so quickly, and the sudden de
cline of the thermometer came nea
establishing new record in that line
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03

From The journal Bureau, Colorado Building

From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington. -..s..&a Es7.as. ,.-,
Washington, March 3.-Everybody
is at sea as to the date when the SUI
preme court will hand down the mer-
ger decision. By some it was expect
ed week ago last \ T. nday, when the
court reconvened aftel a three weeks.
recess. Not coming then, nobody can
make a satisfactory guess now. .
The decision is likely to come down
any Monday that being the only deci-
sion day of the week, and by some it
is thought it may come this month.
Others think it will not come until
after the lapse Of several months,
while others still ebelieve it will not
come until after the presidential cam
paign. ,-
The case is of such Importance that
the court would be justified by count
less precedents I'M Kidding It back for
from one to atNe syeaIs,s If it desires to
do so.
The insular cases were argued the
! first week tn January 1901, and de-
cided May Fl, of that year. Argu-
ments in the merger case were fin
ished early last January. and en-
ployees of the supreme court whose
| Judgment is good, are not looking fol
| , a decision for some weeks yet, and
perhaps months. .>:s,+i
l. w w, Jermane,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
MINERS FIRM FOR
STRIKE OR SCALE
Operators Willing to Compromise
on Five Cent Reduction
Asking Ten.

Indianapolis, Ind, March 3.-The
joint subcommittee of miners and OPP
orators met to-day to make what is
believed will be a final effort to arrive
at a wage scale.
The status of the controversy be-
tween the miners and operators of
Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and western
Pennsylvania practically is where it
was on Feb. 4, when the conference
adjourned in a deadlock.
Neither side has made any conces-
sion, the operators still insisting on
a Is per cent reduction in wages,
which they say would amount to little
more than 10 cents ton on screened
COAL
It is reported to-day that they will
finally make concessions to the point
of signing a scale based on a or 6
cent reduction.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-03
Do NOT FEEL
THE ADVANCE
Wheat Growers of WASHINGTON
Complain of Low Prices and
Will Erect Mills.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Seattle, Wash, March 3.--Wheat
growers of eastern WASHINGTON be-
l1eve they are not reaping the benefit
they should in the advance Of the
wheat market, and an immense CO.
operative company to erect mills and
warehouses is in process of forma-
ton.
This company is to have a capital
of half million dollars, and will en-
brace the big wheat raisers thruout
great territory. The plan is to build
small mills at various points in the
wheat districts, and one or two large
plants on the coast, probably at Seat
tie and Tacoma.
Dissatisfac tion among the farmers
has arisen only in the last few months
since the phenomenal rise in the mar.
ket. They say that while wheat has
gone up 25 cents in Minneapolis anG
Chicago, it has gone up only cents
In Washington. Small warehouses are
to be erected at different points, anc
a large terminal warehouse on Puge
sound.