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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
PRESIDENT ASKED
TO SEE LAUNCHING
Miss Gay Montague Mill Break
Bottle Of Champagne OH
Vessels Bow,
CBy Associated Press.)

F WASHINGTON, Feb. &c, p. circuit.
president of the Newport News shipbuid-
Ing and Dry Dock Company, called upon
the President to-day, rendering him a
cordial invitation to BIO present at the
launching of tho battleshp Virginia, on
AlHil 6tl. \.
At the request Of the Secretary or the
Navy, President Orcutt has Invited Miss
Matilda Gay Montague. daughter Of tho
Governor of Virginia, tn act as sponsor
and she has consented to4nnme the ves-
sci. Sl4 IS
Mr., circuit stated that the damage to-
tho Newport News plant by fire OF last
evening was nominal, me nnglesmllh
t,lrel damaged, this viii DO speedily re-
placed by a brick building and the ope-
ration OF the works Will proceed without
delay to vessels now In construction
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
PLAN TO SUPPRESS
YELLOW FEVER SC0URGE
fBy Associated Press, J

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 97,--A cQmprn-
hcnsve plan for suppresslng and prevent.
Ing yellow foyer In cities and towns Of
northeastern Mexico has been devised by
MI. Lyega, chairman of the Superior
Board OF Health The plan Is to follow
tho course the board took last summer
and take rapid action should the fever
again show itself, Mosquitoes VIII pc
thoroughly destroyed.
The board proposes to work IN entire
harmony with the health authorities IL
the United States and the remarkaple
exemptjon Of this city from typhoid fever
This year is nm indication OF what can be
done by santa ton
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
SITUATION
IN BALKANS
Certain That Sultan Of Turkey
Will Not Declare
War,
!. HAS NOTHING 10 10 GAIN N
.lRY Associated 4Press.l

p PARIS. Feb. 27.--.An American official
who for two years past has been studying
arrived In Paris and today made an Ia
tercsting statement of the situation. lie
said: s3:S
E II am satisfied Turkey Will not declare
war She has been Informed by the Pow
ers that even Il she does engage In hos
Titles. she will gain absolutely no re-
suit thcrcfron and may even suffer from
II military occupation by tho Powers, and
that, perhaps, they may result in the sep
nration OF Macedonia from the Turkish
Empire. 1t is6true that Turkey is send-
ing relnforcemcnts to Macedonia, hut this
is due to the prospect of an outbreak of
another insurcction and possible inter-
ference on the part OF bulgaria, now that
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28

next battlcship to be constructed bearl the
name Of Virginia. and the President itl ' ct
once fell In With Tho Idea and promised
that the very next battleship which the.
government built should DO ca LODI * for
tile Old Dominion. 5s{ D y,
The Scortract for the construction OF
the Virginia by tho Newport News . Ship
signed sIrebrua ~ is. 1901 H Tie vessel was
! Is have beer, compile in three years
but 2nn extension Of timp was granted
whereby It could be COM leted not later
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
.IMPROMPTU DUEL
FOUGHT in STREET
Prominent Merchants Fight il
cambridge, Georgia, With
Fatal Result,
By Assoclatcd ProssD

Z HAINBRIDGE, tAo Feb. 21.-Mercer
Raggs and John Hunter, both promirSnt
merchants, fought an impromptu duel on
tho street to-day With pistols. Hunter
died a few minutes after the shooting.
Raggs is in Il hospital with a wound IN
the neck and another In the arm He Is
seriously hurt,
between the two men, When they APP
preached each other near the courthouse
each pulled a pistol and the shooting be-
gan without proliminaries. When both
had exhausted The chambers of their piss
tolls they clinched in q death struggle and
fell to the ground Hunter died five min
utS. after they had been pulled S1aSt
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
STEAMER BURNED
AT SEWELL'S POINT
Ferry Boat Running Between
4 Scwcll's Point and Newport
News Consumed.
IBy Associated PressD

NORFOLK, VA. Feb. 2i.--rho steel
ferry steamer Observation-Disclosures Roads
owred by tho Norfolk and Atlantic Ter
edge al hcr mornings at SeWell's Point
early this morning. Fire vas discovered
shortly after midnight, and could not
he checked by the steamer Piney seagf,
Of tho same road, which played one
stream on tho burning craft,
Tho Notwithstanding Roads rnl, between
sewell's Point and Newport News, She
recently returned from Baltimore, where
She had been rebuilt, having previously
burned Mt tlle same moorlngs. Loss can,
Iuot BIO estimated at present, .]
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28

The finest battleshp in the q United lite Y
States navy Will boar the name am Viz 'i'15
ginia, and the Old Dominion may feel eel
Justly proud when this ma gnificent q eng Inc.
Of destruction takes her place among the he I
grea test fighting machines OF the no \
stione. This splendid ship iis to be launched
at Newport News on April 9Th. and VIII
the world when she is completed She is.
10 be a seagoing coast line battleship.s
and OF a type that is regarded by naval
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28

authorities as the strongcs t conceived 5forj
hard knocks at lie hand = 5ofi an enemy.
and OF q type, also. which Is believed TO
be the most 5ef fectlpa lin dealing blows
to an adversary. NJ K, 5S
Tho Virginia was given tho name at
the solicitation OF the ~ lonial DANES o.
who tiloug 4lt YES greatly to
be desired that NJ the IN q her OF III States
Of the American navy "a elega ton Or
the Danes wait led ON IF resident McKin-
ley and presented their quest that the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
DOES NOT. WANT REGU LARS
ON THE lSTHMUS YET
! (By Associated l7ress.)

WASlIINGTON,aD n. G., Feb. 27..-Adml-
raj Walker. who will he president OF Tho
new Panama Canal Commission. docs not
approve oft tho Immediate use OF United
States regular troops on Tho Istbmus.
lie has told tho President that three or
four hundred marines will serve MI pres
cnt needs In that quarter, AS the Navy
Department can furnish this number OF
marines, the Third Infantry may not he
sent to tho Isthmus.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28

than April a7th 5of5 this The vessel tsS
viii be launched twenty-threetlays ahead cad
~ time. The keel of the virginia !, was ~
laid May 81. 1902: stem In posi- tion, Feb-
r,1ary Isl 1908 sternpost in pos ton. March :'
Is, 1908 6be Launched, April =, 1901
n The Virginia Is to be Of 14.94s tons she
,iss to have two military rllasts 81 :is
clause engines. Her mean draft will be.
3twenty-three feet nine inches. Leng th3on
the loadwater line, 435 feet. Extreme me
breadth, 76 feet 2 IL inches. n
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
North Carolina.

The Stancll brothers sent on for murder
OF w. Il. Harrison a t Wison--Luther
veasey instantly killed by "A revolving
bolt at Durham: his brothers .misunder-
standing caused his dcath----Judge Simon
ton agrees to come to Ra leigh to hear mo-
ltion 10 vacate, railroad rcceiyership-----
lAdjutant- General and Governor recon-.
mend to- War Department number OF
North Carolina officers to attend military
schools--- Mysterious shooting being con-
Bidcrcd at Melton. s5
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
PRESIDENT DECIDES
TO APPOINT MR.. HARR0D
tBy Associa ted rres..,.

WASHINGTON. y. G., Feb. a7.The
President has decided to appoint BenJa-
min nj. IIurrod,Y of New Orleans, n mem
her Of the Istllmlan Canal Commission
This completes the commission and tho
names of the members will be sent TO
Tho Senate Monday, The President went
Thoroughly into the charges against MI
IIarrod and satisfied himself there was
nothing In them, 5t;
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
THE BoTTLING FEAT
Naval Officers and Jaekl'ess u
Manned the VesT $5I..
nv A,,oclated Press.l

Ey AsSuc1a!tH FFFSs:,g .... IT NJ nv
TOXIC, Feb Naval officers COM
handed and tackles" manned the fty1
steamers that were sunk at the entrances
Ia Port Arthur. Merchant sailors yn XIV WI
,earad for the dangerous undertake ne Z
mi their services were not accepted, ~
,Admiral TOGO decided = &atAst Y - 4
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
Richmonders in New York,

Especial to The Times pispatchJ
NEW YORK. Feb. Hoffman, a. ~.
C. Butler; st. Denis, H. b. Gilmore and
wife; Herald Square, J, Leclky. Jr.; l1ol-
land, q. D. Minor, g, Y. carrlngtas
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
MRS, GEORGE w. CABLE
DIES IN NEW YORK
nv Associated press.)

n Z BY --ASSUCIHItNIE ITtSS'J
NEW YORK, Feb 21,--Mrs. George w.
Cable, wife Of the novelist, died last
night in tho German Hospital here In
consequences OF an operation TO winch she
submitted there some time ago.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
M1NIAT1rRE ALMANAC.
Richmond.


Results 81 the Who lis WHO y contest.
announced to. day -s- II onse Commit 1,
ports fnvorably the Anderson bill forlth 4,
throug I'll enricn citizens hold enthts-l
tastic meeting IN behal { OF good roads.l
i 1HIx cere en- Ricbmond eit.2
zs born XfaT THOUGH ssaebra y
report nsfavor OF sitting member II The
Keen Turner aenatorial contest Houte
la 'iuua 5s' Il 12 ikehood thai Ira
1hs Gs9srs Asssmsy w se
Eng rolling stock Of rai lroaads reported
adversely recommitled and is considers q.
dead - Real estate men expect renewed z. cd
reports 10 Colonel Anderson show that
no Richmond soldlers were drink tl AZ q
G. A. conventlon---------W Work OF the visiting
,luraes- Fine meeting o. R!el,mond a.. Pos;
and Garfs iasssms
the belief that Virginia Will BIO represent.
d. reg ulariIcs OF JosephsH. s 81 l3h q
epori,fa 70 have Sesn nearly yr; g bsron
more bitter since Friday nights meeting
a.----DeafH OF MI. #Arl1Hf-5luulcyE5 y SHI!
Negro Ferris denies having confessed
to the murder OF Policeman Austin
st-Opinson expressed that the Wa.
s SaS 5 g aap : atsk NcRsE
Temperance crusade starts in Manchester
lat Stockton Street Chnrch ----Bpys arrest,
Cd Tor tnmpins mgyng snging I'll a II
vs.. Southsidc Land Company under con-.
sidern tion----G Council To meet In special
scssioti this week. @ g'SsfSs
}8i Virginia.
The Norfolk ferry steamer Norfolk-on M
i a verdict of sis. thousan dollars award-
tbr,--rilc Goocbland Republicans declal 9
inr party reorganization: Williamsburg
delegates go nninstruc Given super
human strength by. the agony OF flames
Henry billiard breaks through q furnace
13urkeville for the artillery at Fort NJ onroe
New rife range ordered at the Nor
folk naval station F. rmers' institute
has successful session In Winchcst er----.-
Double-header freight wreck on fSorfo. x
and Western at Baasctts. Henry county.
others Injured Farmer In meeting at
Jearmville decide. to reduce the tobacco
crop-The legislative committee enter.
tanned at Staunton---Iaree dry goods and
clothing store burned in Alexnndria----A
house owned by Congressman Swanson at
Cha than destroyed by tire--oJudge Port
lock appoints the officers Tor prineess
I'd at Parksley Va .----,1 rye damage YET
dict In Fluvanna, In which Senator Martin
was cl----[,harlottesvillc defeats
:,taunton in basket ball match.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28

Continued on Second Page,>
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-07-01
Union Label League.

1t is up to the union men of Lincoln
to do something to maintain the very
necessary and timely organization
For some reason or other the league is
not prospecting as it should, and the
chances are that the reason may be
located in the Indifference of husbands
whose unionism is not up to the right
standard. The league could be made
a powerful weapon in the union ar
mory, for the women can accomplish
work along certain lines thatsthe men
could never accomplish. The other
day the wife of a well-known printer
went into retail shoe store and asked
to be shown a pair of shoes for her
self The clerk brought out several
pairs, and after the lady had looked
at them, she said: =;
Il don't want these shoes. They do
not bear the union label.
The clerk made some remark derog-
atory OF the label, and the lady re-
piled:
I've bought shoes here for> years,
but you have sold me the last pair of
shoes you will ever sell me until you
carry union goods and show them
without question I'm the wife OF a
union man, and I'll do my trading
with the men who carry union goods. =
Then she walked out, leaving the
clerk thinking thoughts to himself.
That's the kind of work that counts
for unionism. BY the time score or
two of women have made that kind of
talk to a retailer he begins to think.
He realizes that if he wants to get
the union mans dollars he Will have
to get busy with the manufacturers
who use the label.
I'D rather have a dozen women
working for the label in my town than
a hundred average union men, re-
marked Frank A. Kennedy at the Cen
trail Labor Union meeting last Tues
day night. when the women get
busy something is going to drop.
Lincoln union men should get be-
hind the Women's Label League and
enable the women to make it a great
success. 1t will be worth al! the eff
fort that is expended upon it.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-07-01
Looks Queer.

About a year ago the Traction COM
pany strung heavy steel rails along
North 9th street Before the work
of placing them begun the agitation
for six-for-aquarter fare was sprung.
Then the company baked and hauled
its helpless passengers over a road
bed that would disgrace Patagonia.
Drop the agitation for the reduced
fare and we'll fix the line was the
insolent ultimatum. The council
committee has reported in favor of the
company, and the company has begun
laying the new rails. Looks queer,
doesn't it? The Traction company
gets what it wants by threatening to
deprive the people of something they
have paid for hundred times over.
Isn't it time the Traction company
was made to understand that Lincoln
people have some rights which Seud-
der's company must respect?
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-07-01
lists and have demonstrated that they
are ready to do their part in defending
unlonism.
The Printers.

| President-elect Coffey is formulating
his plans for visit to that Oklahoma
farm during the latter part OF the
/ summer. -
! Some OF the printers are framing
| up surprise in the way of histronics
When it is sprung Lew Dockstader
and Billy Primrose will be relegated
to the back lots.
| H. G. McVicker is boarding round
and saving gas by not going home
till daylight, pending the return of
| Mrs. McVicker and the children from
the Pacific coast.
| The regular meeting of Topographic
cal Union will be held Sunday, and
important business will be transacted
The newly elected officials will be in
stalled at this meeting.
1t is charged that Delegate Pentzer
has been heard practicing up on say
ing mir. President preparatory to
springing something on the Interna-
t.onal.
Jesse Nickel went up to. Arlington
one day last week to doctor up a
piece of machinery and returned the
next day with six fine catfish. He
says he caught them, and when he
says it the boys "jes' laff.'
Some of these days, when the union
is under the head of Good and We'll
fare the editor of The Wageworker
will arise and insist that Fred Ihr-
niger be compelled to tell all about
how he bought that Missouri railroad
in 1893
The indications are that Lincoln
Typographical Union No. 200 will have
a goodly bunch OF members on the
spot when the International conven-
ton convenes in st. Louis on August
9. Delegate Pentzer is working to get
up party, and the prospects are
bright 1t is. likely that enough will
go to make it possible to secure ex-
ira rates from the railroads.
The Western Newspaper Union and
The Star met on the bloody baseball
diamond last Tuesday and wIestled
with the national game for brief
spell. The game continued until the
men were thoroughly exhausted cllas-
ing flies and running bases. Doc"
RICHTER officiated as scorekeepcr and
used up three pencils and half roll of
print paper The score. as nearly as
we can remember, was 762 to SAG in
favor OF the "P. G. boys, four. inn
ings
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-07-01
"Gin'ril'' Bell.

There are 10000 lies being written
about me-" said General Sherman Bell
OF Colorado the other day. The Wage
worker would not for the world dis
pute the count. nor would it add one
to the number to make it 10,O0l. The
Wageworker is, if anything, truthful.
1t wouldn't lie about General Bell for
tains.r Not for the wealth of the In
dias would it falsify the records con-
corning the "bravest man in Colorado. "
Before it would tell an untruth, espe-
cially about the valorOus and intrepid
General Bell, it would beat its col
lumn rules into pruning hooks and
it's chases in plowshares. No, indeed!
The Wageworker will tell only the
truth about General Bell as it under
stands it. He is, in The Wagework-
er's opinion, bigoted, vainglorlous,
egotistical, red-handed coward and
braggart who wars on women, upon
unarmed men, and prostitutes the Of
flee to which he was appointed to bas-
est ends. This fierce fighter OF I'M
armed men is tool of men a blamed
sight meaner than he Is, if possible,
and he is empty-headed enough to
think that in his hellish work he is
hero, when in fact he is silly and
brainless fop whose head has been
turned by little brief authority and
a send-off from President Roosevelt,
who called this shOulder-strapped mar
-tinet the bravest man in Colorado
With a thousand militiamen behind
him Bell is brave enough to arrest I'M
armed union men and throw them into
the bull-pep at the behest of the mine
owners With aFthousand militiamen
to back him up he is brave enough to
annoy the wives of union men, and to
harrass the helpless children OF men
who have committed the ungodly
crime of carrying union cards. Sinsly
and alone he wouldn't dare open the
trapdoor in his face in the presence OF
union man equal to him in size.
We wouldn't lie about Bell for the
world. 1t is always our aim and OBJ
ject to tell the truth when possible. 1t
is not possible in this case, because
Uncle Sam has a habit of raising
thunder when anybody sends stuff
through the mails that doesn't quite
come up to his standard of moral ex-
cellence.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-07-01

union labor in decade was the at
tack made upon Tom Patterson and
his Denver papers by the union bust
ing crowd. 1t has caused Patterson
to pick up the cudgels in defense of a
free press and individual liberty, and
when Patterson swings cudgel some
heads are sure to get hit. He is ex-
posing the rottenness of the whole
union busting gang. He is exposing
their lawless methods, dragging their
secrets to light and arousing public
sentiment in favor of the cause of
unionism. When Tom Patterson be-
gan the war the end of the union
crushing movement dawned to sight.
Patterson is fighting the battles of
unionism now, and he deserves the
support of every union man in the
resolutions, but the kind
of support that pays the printer, set
ties paper bills and keeps the print
ing presses running.
.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-07-01
The Carpenters.

The union carpenters of Lincoln
have demonstrated their interest in
the upbuilding of the union spirit. AT
the regular meeting last Tuesday even-
ing the union unanimously decided to
subscribe as body for The Wage
worker, and before the echoes OF the
viva voce vote had died away the sec
rotary had handed the publisher list
of 1913 union carpenters and cnec.s
for their subscriptions. The carpen-
.crs are alive to the situation that ex-
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-07-01
PARRYiSM IN LINCOLN.

Under the above caption the Lin
coin News undertakes to deliver an
editorial opinion that will not an
tagonize either the unions or the en-
ployers. but, on the contrary, curry
favor with both, especially the adver-
Using portion OF the employers. The
News says that union men cannot
object to the organization of en-
ployes."
Certainly not; and they never did
object The right to organize for mu-
tual protection and mutual help is
one OF the inalienable rights of men.
But union men have the right to OBJ
ject to an organization that is formed
for the purpose of destroying their
unions and dragging wages and the
standard OF living down to a lower
level. Union men do object to un-
lawful combinations that corrupt
courts, steal state administrations and
defy law in order to whip into sub
mission men whose only offense is
membership in labor union and a
sure a decent living for themselves
and their families. Union men would
not object to the Parry movement If
the leaders of that movement were
honest. But the Parry movement is
founded on specious falsehood and car
ried on by methods that are contrary
to law and morals. 1t starts out with
the false assertion that man has a
right to sell his labor to whom he
pleases. and that a man has right to
hire labor whenever he and wherever
he pleases. Let the man who thinks
he has a right to sell his labor to
whomsoever he pleases sell little of
it to bank robber. Let the man who
thinks he has right to hire labor
whenever and wherever he sees fit try
to hire man to commit crime.
A man has not the right to enter
the market places and sell his labor
for what he may see fit. If selling his
labor as he sees fit will destroy the
happiness of his fellows; il selling his
labor as he sees fit will drag down the
standard OF wages, he has no right to
sell it in that way
While claiming to have no fight to
make upon unions, the Parry crowd
insists upon the open shop and no con-
tract system. knowing full well that
such a system would destroy the I'M
ions in short time.
II the Parry crowd would fight hon
estly and openly, labor unions would
not object to it. But union labor does
object to fighting an enemy that skulks
in the dark, lays ambuscades, poisons
wells and mutilates the dead.
4. e u .&&
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-07-01
PATTERSON AROUSED.

The union wrecking crowd Of Colo
RADIO has trod upon the tail of Tom
Patterson's coat. This fact impells
us to remark:
Goodbye union busters; take keer
o. yerselves.''
fined their operations to attacks upon
defenseless women and unarmed and
poor men, they made great Roadway.
The minute they made war upon a
wealthy man who owned a great news
paper and is as full of independence
as an egg is of meat, they made a
mistake. They imagined that all they
had to do was to threaten Tom Pat
terson with financial loss. They mag
ined that when this threat was made
Tom Patterson would fall all over
himself in his haste to line up with
the union busting crowd.
That's Swhere the union busters
dropped their gum.
They made their threats and began
their boycott. Since then they have
been wondering what hit them. Pat
terson not only showed fight. but he
took the initiative. And what he is
doing to the arrogant mercantile
smeItinS-mining combination is a
great plenty.
The ttst thing that has happened to
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-07-01

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