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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-01-20
OYSTERS GALORE.
The Central Labor Union Will Entertain
All Its Friends.

All Its Friends.
Next Tuesday evening the Central La
Dor Union is going to keep open house at
its hail. 1884 street and all working
men. whether union or non union. are in
vited to attend with their wives. Oysters
will be served and good music will be
furnished for those who delight in dane
ing. The admission has been placed at
the low sum of 25 cents. which includes
everything, oysters dancing, music. so
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-01-20

ciability and education along union lines.
It is to be hoped that the nom union
men and their wives will turn out in
numbers. They will be Benefited by as
sociation with sunion men and women. and
may Learnt something decidedly to their
The hall should be crowded
next Tuestay night. The proceeds will be
placed in the Central Labor Union treas
ury and VIII be devoted to advancing the
interests sbf labor. ~
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
.SINSTATES NOW INIT
Commissioners to Work With
Armstrong Committee.
EXPERTS on SEW YORK. LIES BOOKS


NEW YORK, Oct .. Startling as
have been some Of the revelations al
ready made indicating the part which
some Of the great insurance companies
have played in politics and In infiuenc-
ing legislation. il is believed the state
legislative inquisition is only on the
threshold OF this portion Of its inyestl-
cation,
Insurance commissioners represents.
ing six states have met here and taken
steps 10 begin today searching inyes-
tigation ON their own account into the
books of the New York Life, their pur-
pose being not so much to lay bare in
dividual peccadillos or instances OF
mismanagement as to discover in the
interests of their commemorative such
radical defects as there may be in the
company's system.
TO that end they viii put to work on
the New York Life's books ten expert
accountants, seven Of whom are from
the actuarial departments of the yarl-
GUS states represented and three of
whom have been employed in this city,
Representatives of the state commits
sioners visited Mr.. Mccall and ar
ranged with him to begin the inquiry
Immediately. The commissioners are
r. Il. Folk OF Tennessee Henry II.
Pruett of Kentucky, Zeno NJ. Host OF
Wisconsin. Thomas d. O'Brien of Min
nesota, John l.. Pierce of Nebraska
ara w Ciav of frava2
One of the commissioners has stated
that their work would conflict in no
way with that of the Armstrong COM
mittee and that their attitude would
be one of cooperation.
When Mr.. Hughes called to the stand
Edwin l. Devlin. superintendent of the
real estate department of the New
York Life, he entered upon a phase of
the inquiry which is expected to de-
velop scandals hardly second to any
which have preceded it. In their real
estate dealings some of the great in
surance companies, it is said, are no
less vulnerable than they have been
shown to be in their joint accounts and
syndicate participations.
In view Of Mr. Names testimony in
regard to moneys paid Attorney An
drew Hamilton by what is called the
triple alliance" of the great insurance
companies 1t is thought officials of the
New York Life will now find it diff
cult to convince the public that all
the work for which Judge Hamilton
has received large sums on the authori-
zation of John A. Mccall was for legit-
innate legal services or in connection
with real estate transactions.
1t is said that the Armstrong COM
mittee now intends to summon Mr..
Mccall again to the witness stand at
an early day.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
SUIT CASE MYSTERY
Arrest of William Fl. Haynes
at Boston.
FRIEND TcLD OF BODY BEING CUT UP
Made Prisoner ON statcmc.st OF SAM
ueI A. Minaaelss, Who II Held as
WItneSs-Acensed Deafes
the Crime

BOSTON, Oct. 1.-The first arrest In
connection with the fnding la the har.
Dor near Winthrop OF dress suit case
containing the terso OF 4 woman on
whom the medical examiner stafcs an
illegal operation had been performed
occurred IN this city when tile police
took into custody on suspicion st be-
ing an acconplice In the case William
III. Haynes Of 81 Chambers street.
West End. this city
The arrest IL stated TO have been
made on statements by samuel A..
Wingiield, who told the police that he
had friend who had cut mp a body.
Godfrey Hyams, clerk in an Allan.
tic avenue tobacco store. has Identified
the dress suit ease found floating off
L wharf as belonging to two sailors
who had left the case in his store last
week. Il had been suggested that this
case might be the second light suit
case sought by the police aud thought
to contain some OF the dismembered
parts Of the woman victim.
Wingficld and Haynes were examln-
cd by Sergeant Mouton The exami-
nation lasted about three hours, dur
ing which Wlngtlcid Is said to have
told In d rambling aud very nervous
manner that Haynes had informed him
that he Iiaynesl had cut up body or
Il portion OF one at r wharf. near
where he Is employed. syingfiela could
not say whether the body was that Of
a man or woman
Haynes was examined at length by
the police and while he denied the ac-
cusation and claimed that his friend
had confused 1t with his being on a
coroner's Jury he was locked MP.
Wingiield was also held us a witness
A woman named Kate Conway. who
claims 10 be engaged TO Wingfield, il
said to have corroborated some of his
statements regarding Haynes. Haynes
denied that he had ever made such
statements and asserted that his friend
had confused the fact that he (Haynes)
had been ON coroner's jury and also
had helped once TO drag body from
the water near the wharf.
Wingfield came here a year or two
ago from Baltimore and opened an
oculist's office. Business did not prove
profitable, and he obtained a position
as clerk In q grocery store. Wingtield
is thirty-threc years old and has been
arrested here on several occasions on
charges of intoxlcation.
Haynes Is said to be Il southern man.
He il thirty-eight years OF age and Is
married His wife Is at present in
Cape Breton. Haynes is employed as
a clerk at Lewis wharf by the Ocean
Steamship company. In some respects
his description resembles that OF the
man who purchased dress suit case
at Pawnbroker Berkman's store on
Pleasant street.
Chief Inspector William Il. Watts de-
clined to discuss the developments In
the case.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
SUIT CASE MYSTERY.
vicsEm May he Nease Dixon. a REV
Work Girl

NEW YORK. Sent. 80 The dismem.
bered body Of the girl found In suit
case floating III Boston llasbor Is now
thought to he that Of Monte Dixon. the
pretty nineteen yearold daughter OF
Mrs. Frank Dixon OF Brooklyn
Her disappearance and The events
leading up to Il, which reveal almost
a year OF domestic trouble. were ali
told by Mrs. Dixon, aud she is NOW
awaiting moro news from Boston that
win enable her to say whether the body
is that Of her daughter or not
Monte Dixon, her mother says, either
eloped or WAS carried away by her
stepfather. Frank Dixon, and Mrs
Dixon was left penniless The man
has been attentive to his stepdaugil;ea
in spite OF his wifes protests for al
most year. and his infatuation, ac
cording to the elder woman, reached
the point where he threatened 20 kill
the girl IL she made the acquaintance
Of any other man. The mother has an
intuition which she says she cannot
explain that the murdered girl i her
dHuEntpF.
Monte had no marks on her body
save small birthmark on her left
hip. The headless torso in Boston was
without mark. and the mother Is now
in frenzy Of anxiety to find IL the
body has not been mutilated too much
to disclose that one mark by which she
could be identified.
Miss Nathan, daughter Of Mrs. Louis
Nathan of Baltimore. came here last
night and requested the police to show
her the torso of the murdered woman.
The coming of Miss Nathan has a
possible bearing on the Winthrop mys-
terry, although the police do not at
tach great importance TO II, Miss Ma
than is sister of Mrs. Maurice Scha
piro, who has been missing for nearly
three weeks.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

500 TRAIN WRECKED.
Five Coaches Jump Embanimenf mt
st. Paul, MINI.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. 2. = A 500
line passenger train from the east,
leaving the Union passenger station at
900 In the morning, collided with a
Chicago and Great Western fast stock
train at the Fourth street viaduct.
The force of the collision sent five of
the passenger cars down a twenty
seven foot embankment.
Mrs. Clara NJ. Croft of Minneapolis
was killed and five passengers were
seriously injured, while score or
more We're slightly cut and bruised.
That no more were killed on injured
Is due to the fact that the train was
nearly empty, having discharged the
greater number of its passengers at
the Union depot here.
The seriously injured are. Mrs Dutch,
Minneapolis; Mrs. Thompson, III. s.
Moore, Montreal; Mrs. Wilkinson, Min
neapolis, and Mr.. Martin, Mime
apolis.
OF the injured there are six men
and two women at st. Joseph's hospi-
tai. OF these 1t is feared two or three
may die. Mr. Martin, who has frac-
tured skull, is in a critical condition
About twenty We're treated at the
Union depot by surgeons, and nearly
all of them were able to go to hotels
or continue their journey to Mime
apolis, the destination of the train.
Miss Crughlin of New York, who was
slightly injured was able to go to a
hotel after her injuries We're attended
to by surgeon.
w. Il. Haskell, who is among those
slightly injured, was formerly owner
of the Minneapolis Times, but is now
connected with Boston newspaper.
The direct cause of the accident was
the failure Of the air brakes on the
stock train to work The 500 line
train had just left the depot for Min
neapolis and was crossing the Chicago
and Great Western tracks, about four
blocks east of the station. The track
runs along high embankment at this
point. The fast Great Western stock
train, coming along at good speed,
struck the passenger train about the
middle, hurting the Pullman coaches
over the embankment They landed
upside down in a heap below. The
wreckage caught fire, but it was
promptly extinguished by the st. Paul
fire department.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07


to Washington, including the last occa
CARDS the action taken by me on this
report Of AIR. Taft concerning the
charges made by Mr.. Bowen against
you Not only did lie express himseli
about Mr.. Bowen to me In the Ian.
guage you quote him as having used al
about the same time to you in speaking
Of Mr.. Bowen. but lie also condemned
Mr. Bowen in much stronger terms
than those which You quote him as
having used and dwelt particularly
upon the fact of what he called thu
sreaehery aud disloyalty Of Mr.. Bowen
to the government and 10 him (AIr
Hay, repeating again and again that
most Of the charges Mr. Bowen made
were really not charges against you
at all, but against himself MIR Hay
and that Mr.. Bowen OF course knew
this.
Moreover. Mr. Hay used about Mr..
Bowen stronger language OF condens
nation than | have ever heard him use
about any other man who had served
under him. But this was not all Mr.
Hay then did what he very rarely I'M,
deed did. lie expressed his strong dis
sent from the action ! had taken in
indorsing Mr.. Taft's report as regards
even the mild censure Of you which ii
contained, stating that he disagreed
with both Mr. Taft and myself on
this point and felt that you were in no
way whatever censurable and that the
only action that had been called for
was the dismissal of Mr. Bowen and
the announcement of your entire vim
dication''
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
RAILWAY MEMS Y. M. G. "A.


DETROIT. Mich, Sept. 2o.--Nearly
1,400 delegates were seated III the air.
ditorium Of the Central Methodist
Episcopal church here at the opening
session OF the twelfth international
conference of the railroad department.
OF the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton. An address of welcome was dg
llvered by John H. Howarth. prcsk
dent of the local branch Of The YounM
Mems Christian association, and Colo
mel John j. McCook Of New York re~
sponded
Then followed sermon 10y Rev.
John Potts. u. D., Of Toronto, who
took for his subject, 'erhe Source or
Power For Christian Life and Service
Dr. Potts won the sympathy DC his
railroad audience at the outset by Iik-
ening Christian ministers and other
church workers to locomotives and de-
claring that no minister or worker
should be allowed In commission mn
less his steam was up to $50 pounds.
lie then went on to develop the idea
that The source OF power for Christian
endcavor was to be found only III the
spirit OF God
The delegates attended d reception
III the Young Womeu's Christian assoc
citation building where Miss Helen Nj.
Gould of New York was the guest Of
honor. With Miss Gould III the re-
ceiving line were a number Of prom
inent women of Detroit.
A mass meeting was held at the
Light Guard armory. Addresses were
made by Robert Il. Speer Of New
York and Secretary OF the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

BOSTON, Oct. 2.-~Frederick S. Hail
of Taunton, one of the three candidates
for the Republican nomination for lieu
tenant governor, has issued state
ment in which he charges that money
is being used to defeat him in the Re-
publican state convention next week.
Mr.. Hall says: Il learn that money is
being offered to delegates chosen to
support me If they will surrender their
credentials. | am reliably informed
that this has been done in Barnstable
county,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
somebody stole $3.50. 900.

NEW YORK. Sept. Do Securities tho
present market value OF which amounts
to $359,0S0 were stolen from an Office
In Wall street, according to nm an
nouncement sent out over the news
ticker In the street BY the Pinkerton
Detective agency. The name OF the
firm or person from whom the secur-
tiles were stolen was not announced by
the detective agency, nor would .th0
name OF their holder at the time tho
theft occurred he made known when
inquiry was made at the office
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

LEICESTER, Mass, Oct D. Mrs.
Mary A. O'IIare, forty-fiye years old,
of Cherry Valley walked into Olney's
pond, In the rear Of her home, near
here. with her baby boy in her arms
and committed suicide and infantIcide.
DIR. +. III. Baker viewed the bodies and
pronounced death in both cases due to
drowning during fit OF temporary In
sanity of the mother. No cause Is as
cribed for the tragedy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD.


Edna, Tex.
EDNA, Tex, Sept. 90 Mrs. a. =.
Conditt and four children, d daughter
Of thirteen and three boys from six TO-
ten years old, have been found MUIR
dered In cold blood at their home near
here.
The mother and daughter were as
saulted and their bodies brutaIly dis
figured.
A baby about two years old was the
only one left alive
All OF them seemed to have been
murdered with some blunt instrument,
their heads were crushed and their
tbroats cut with n knife or razor, Tho
girl and mother were killed In the
house. The boys we're killed about 100
yards away.
Mr.. Conditt was working In the rice
fields. A negro boy about twelve years
old was blowing IN field near the
house and heard the children scream
ing He saw a man run after w0-
man, who was running around the
house. Being afraid to 20 to the house,
he ran to neighbours and told what
he had seen.
The person informed ran to the place
and found the five members OF thu
family killed. Officers were Informed
at once. and the entire county Is out II
posses in search Of the murderer. It ii
supposed that there were two persons
who committed the crime. Dogs have
been sent for to track the murdercrs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

NEWPORT, X. L., Oct. 2.-The body
Of William II. Travers of New York,
who committed suicide in that city, has
been Inferred in the family lot in Is
land cemetery, where his father, moth
err, two brothers and two sisters are
also buried. The services at the grave
We're exceedingly brief, consisting only
of the reading of the committal service
by the Rev. Emery III. Porter, rector OF
Emmanuel Episcopal church. The body
was accompanied from New York by
a sister of the deceased Mrs. James
w. Wadsworth, and her husband, Con
gresham Wadsworth, and j. Borden
Hartman.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

ALBANY, N. r., Oct. 2.-The final
effort to save Albert I. Patrick before
the New York state court OF appeals,
condemned to die In the electric chair
for the murder Of aged William Marsh
X. Rice, will be made before that
tribunal this afternoon. Senator Hill
will address the court In Patrick's be-
half In an effort TO obtain reargu-
ment Of the appeal recently decided
against him by the court.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

NEW YORK, Sept 30 William r.
Travers, a relative of District Attor-
ney Jerome and half brother of Lady
Randolph Churchill, who was related
to many of New York's foremost fam
lilies, committed suicide by shooting
himself In the mouth with small re-
volyer in his room on the second floor
of the boarding house at 156 Madison
avenue, this city Mr. Travers, who
was banker and broker, with Offices
at 81 Wall street, and who owned a
cottage at Newport and had a villa
at Aiken, S. G., was but recently d.
yorced from his wife.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
Miss RooseveIt.. Romance

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-William III.
Taft, secretary of war, and the party
which accompanied him through the
far east have arrived at the capital.
Members of the returning party say
that the romance of Miss Alice Roose-
welt and Representative Nicholas Long
worth of Ohio seems likely to find its
natural conclusion at the altar at no
distant day, when, they predict, Miss
Roosevelt will become Mrs. Long
worth
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

BERLIN, Sept % The labor dlffi-
cultics in the Berlin electrical industry
threaten to spread to tpe entire metal
industries Of the city and suburbs. The
Association OF Metal Working Esfab-
lishments of Berlin, which embraces
all the important firms, voted last
night to lock out the entire working
force ut suitable moment provided
the threatened general lockout In the
electrical branches takes place.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

BINGHAMToN, N. u, Oct. 2.-Rey.
DR.. G. Parsons Nichols, one of the best
known clergymen in this state, has re-
signed the pastorate of the First Pres
byterian church Of this city, which POI
sition he has held since he came to
Binghamton from Milwaukee twenty
four years ago. Poor health resulting
from slight stroke of paralysis year
ago led him to resign.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

BALTIMORE, Sept. 29.~~At the DEM
ocratic state convention Of Maryland.
which was held in Ford's Opera House.
Comptroller Of the State Gordon r..
Atkinson was renominated and plat
form adopted which, excepting para
graph indorsing the excellent business
administration Of the present Demo-
cratic governor, Edwin Warfield, il
wholly devoted to the advocacy Of the
proposed constitutional amendment to
restrict negro suffrage.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

OMAHA. Neb., Oct. 2. Three new
suits charging cattlemen in the west.
ern part Of Nebraska with Illegally
fencing 100000 acres of government
land were fled in the federal court. In
each case mandatory injunction is
prayed for to compel the cattlemen to
remove the barbed wire from the al
legged unlawful Enclosures
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

PHILADELPHIA, Oct .. = Henry
Lear, former president of the Doyles,
town (Pa) National bank. was con-
victed in the United States district
court here Of willful misappIication Of
funds of the institution. Pending an
appeal bail was increased from $500
to $4,000.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
Hunter Fen Fifty Feet 10 peath,

WINSTED, Conn. Oct. 2. - While
climbing a fifty foot hill here James
@. Maddrah, Jr., who was on hunting
trip, stepped on big bowlder, which
toppled over, and both man and rock
We're hurled down fifty foot en-
bankment. At the bottom the rock
fell on Maddrah and killed him in
stantiy, and his crushed body was
found by his SON
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

KINGSTON, n. r.. Sept. 30-Theo-
dore Van Rensselaer, Brown, treasurer
OF the Martin cantine company Of
Saugerties, Is dead here aged fifty five
years. He was born in Columbia coun-
ty and for many years was general
agent of the Canadian branch of the
Goodyear Rubber company, with head
quarters at Montreal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

CHICAGO. Sept 30 Traced from
New York to Chicago after it had been
discovered, ii is alleged, that he was
$4,000 short in his accounts, Charles
j. Thompson, New York manager Of
the Hendricks Manufacturing company
of Carbondale. Pa, has been arrested
here. Thompson admitted his identity
and declared that he would return to
New York
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

BALTIMORE, Sept. 30. Three hun
dred and twelve structural ironwork-
ers employed on four large buildings In
this city were ordered out by repre-
sentative Of the local union of the
Structural Ironworkers' onion. The
men have been receiving "a day for
eight hours, but demand an increase to
$3.50.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

\. WASHINGTON, Sept %. Secretary
Wilson Of the department or agricul-
tlre predicts lower retail prices during
the coming winter season FOR meat,
dairy products. poultry and other ne
cessities Of life. He says the relief for
the householder will come from the
enormous yields Of small grain and
corn In the great grain territory Of IIlI-
nois, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa,
Nebraska and Kansas.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

TRENTON, N. j.. Sept co. Govern
or Stokes. United States Senators Kean
and Dryden and hundreds OF politi-
clans from all over the state were at
the Interstate fair. All previous at
tendance records were smashed, and IT
is estimated by the management that
there were 10000 persons on the
grounds.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

Ell PASO, Tex, Get. 2. John
Alexander Dowie and party of Chicago
have arrived here en- route to the pro-
posed Zionist colony at Tamaulipas.
Mexico. Members OF the party deny
Dowie has been stricken with paraly-
sis. as reported, but admit that be is
Ill. He was locked in his private car
all day. and all inquirers were denied
admission