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The San Francisco call., 1905-01-19
FATE OF DIR. KOCH
!, IN HANDS OF THE JURY
Accused of Numbering DIR. Il. A. Geb-
hardt, His Rival I'm Business,
in Minnesota

NEW ULM, Minn., Jan. 1S.-The
question of the guilt or innocence Of
DR.. g. r. Koch of the murder on Mo-
vember of DIR. L. A. Gebhardt, his
rival in business, was placed in the
hands Of the jury this afternoon. The
jury retired Immediately There are
~ prospectsfof = verdict tonight
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
CORY SUNDAY
In WARSAW
Great Crowd of Jews Fired Upon
BY Russian Troops.
: KILLED 4; WOUNDED 40
Among the Wounded Were Several
Women, Some Of Whom Nay Die.
Celebration Suddenly Stop.

A serious conflict occurred at 1880
o'clock Sunday evening in DEika
street. Warsaw, where a Jewish So
eialist society, known as the Bund.
had organized = denomination. The
troops which came to dispense the
gathering fred into the crowd, killing
four persons and woundlng forty
others.
Other disturbances are reported to
have occurred. The streets had been
patroled throughout the day, the Ru-
thorlties having anticipated trouble.
Conditions in the city are causing
much uneasiness and nervousness.
Hand-printed proclamations have been
found in the streets, warning the pub
lc against walking near government
buildings and other places as bombs
would be thrown in those quarters
Several parents, whose children are
attending school in defiance of the
school strike, have been 'sarned by
letter to withdraw their children as
the school buildings would be blown
Up.
Representatives Of the party Of vio-
lence (it Is not quite clear whether
they are revolutionaries or socialists)
are visiting private persons and levy
ing contributions for ammunition"
When Governor General Maxine
witch arrived in Warsaw ten days ago
10 assume his Official duties he ordered
that the Cossack detachment await
ing him at the station be retired say
ing he did not want an escort. Driv.
SiDg through the city Sunday, however,
the governor generals carriage was
surrounded by twenty Cossacks.
The trouble IN Dzika street began,
when, under the pretext Of holding q
memorial meeting for a late Jewish
socialist leader. crowd Of over 1000,
mostly Jews, carrying red flags,
marched into Dzika street, and was
met by a mixed police and military
patrol of twenty men. The police de-
clare the socialists fired revolvers at
them, the leaders melting the mob Ia
attack the patrol, which thereupon
fired several volleys into the crowd.
Four men were killed and forty we're
wounded. The crowd removed all but
nine of the wounded, two Of whom
were women. These were taken to
the hospitals, and 1t is expected that
two or more Of them will die. The
dead and wounded were all Jews. The
police made many arrests.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
EVADTNG LAW
is HARMLESS
A New MoisS Of Standard OIL
Trust Is Revealed.
DEFENSEUF ROCKEFELLER
Made BY Vice President ard Director
ROgcrs--Satirical Slap at Dr.. Glad
den and His Deacons.

At New York Friday H. H. Rogers.
vice president and director of the
Standard OIL company, made q state
Rent as to the conduct OF the Stand.
ard OIL company, which was evident.
~ prompted by the prudential com.
mittee OF the American board OF for,
eign missions In accepting a gift Of
100000 from John d. Rockefeller
Mr.. Rogers said:
Ministers say queer things. DR..
Washington GLADDEN. says that every
body knows that John d. Rockefeller
has obtained his money dishonesty.
With as much reason could say that
everybody knows that DR.. GLADDEN.
would not trust the ten command.
ments for ten days with the deacons
Of his church because they would sure
ly break some Of them and bend the
rest. -
Slavery in certain sections OF the
United States was legal until Presi-
dent L!ncoln's emancipation procla.
nation. Rsbates on railroads we're
Just as legal until the passage OF the
interstate commerce commission act.
After an exhaustive examination by
the industrial commission, authorized
by congress, July IS, 1898, in a re.
view OF evidence, the commission re-
TnOrfah follnWu.
eft has been charged as a matter
of general belief on the part Of almost
all the opponents of the Standard
Oil company that these Determinations
in various forms have been continual.
ly received, even up to date. On
the other hand, charges have been de.
MED in toto and most emphatically by
every representative OF the Standard
OIL company with reference to Az
cases excepting one, which they claim
was q mistake, the amount OF freight
due being promptly paid on discovery
Of the error.
""The Standard Oil company not
merely challenged the opponents TO
bring forth proof Of any case, but
produces many letters from leading
of1fciRls of railroads to show that the
company had in no case received any
favCrs or asked for them"
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
~ MERGER IS BAcMO sY BANKERS.
Definite Move Made Toward Consolidating
Steel Properties OF the South.

Definite Move Made Toward Consolidating
Steel Properties OF the South.
Definite form has been given to the
negotiations for the merger of south.
ern iron companies through the inter
vention of the project OF the leading
houses OF Blair & Co. and Ladenburg,
Tha1man & Co of New York.
The banking houses would not dis.
cuss the progress which the transac.
ton has made, but said that some ar
ranFements through them for the con-
soiidation might be reached. One OF
the bankers said that all reports OF
a completion OF the transfer we're pre-.
mature.
Besides the Tennessee Coal ana
Iruu company, the Sloss.s h efield and
the Alabama Consolidated, II is ex.
pected that the Pioneer plant of the
Republic Iron and Steel company AMI
possibly one or two smaller concerns
win be included in the merger.
The capitalization and liabilities OF
these three properties is in the neigh.
borhood Of S125, .000 and II will
be on this basis with additions for
working capital that the capitalization
Of the new company will be formed.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
PRESIDENT BEGINS TRP.
Leaves Washington iOr West and
Southwest to Meet Rough RIDERS
and 30 EnIoY EXlenslVe Hant.

and to Enjoy Extensive Hunt.
President Roosevelt left washington
Monday morning on long trip to the
west and southwest and viii be absent
from tho capital for nearly two
months. The chief object OF the trip
which the president long has had In
mind, is the reunion OF the Rough
Riders regiment Of the Spanish war,
which Is to take place at San Antonio,
Texas. and for which an elaborate
program OF exercises has been ar
ranged. There will be several brief
stops where the president will make
addresses on the way to San Antonio.
After leaving San Antonio there will
be a brief stop and address at Fort
Worth, which will end the public part
OF the trip, after which the president
is to go hunting in the Pan Handle
OF Texas and later In Colorado.
No plans have yet been arranged
for the return trip.
All arrangements have been mace
whereby the president will keep in
touch with public affairs both during
his railroad ride and while hunting,
go that he will be enabled to pass on
all matters requiring his attention.
He is looking forward with keen pleas
ure to his long vacation.
The president left over the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, He was accompanied
by Secretary Loeb, DIR. Alexander
Lambert, General S. B. M. Young
Lieutenant Fortescue, NJ. G. Datta
and ]. L. McGrew, stenographers and
representatives OF newspaper and
press associations.
The Arst stop was made at Louis
vile, KY, at 9 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. The president and party passed
in procession through the city and
the president made an address.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
eUATEMALAN ANT PROVES FAILURE.
CO,Snies Of Bel WeeWI Eoters KnoCked Oul
by Winters Cold Blasts.

A Washington special says: The
tests so far made with a view to es-
tablishing the kelep, or Guatemalan
boil weevil-eating ant, In Texas, have
been complete failures. Not one Of
the colonies which were planted" last
year in the cotton fields Of the state
named has survived the winter. Some
of the scientists Of the department OF
agriculture believe that this fact is
due to certain unfavOrable conditions,
which may be remedied, rather thnn
10 any natural inability OF the in.
sect to hibernate In this country.
They assert, further, that the ant is
not really an ant at all, and must
not be treated as such. The fact that
It has been so treated, they claim, Is
partly responsible for the failure Of
the experiments made up to date They
still have a great deal OF faith IN the
kelep as an effective enemy Of the
boil weevil, and, during the coming
season, they will proceed TO work out
their new theories in the hope that
success may finally crown their efforts
20 introduce and maintain an active
enemy Of the pest which threatens
the cotton industry Of the whole
south.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
THRTY-FVE MEET DEATH.
Mine Horror In IIHaOls Snuff Out Lives
OfMany Workers Caused BY
CO E,nfosg..
Gas Explosion


Fifty miners were entombed Mon
day in Joseph Letters mine at Zeig-
Ter. Ill. by terrific explosion OF
gas, and 1t is probable that thirty or
more of the buried men are dead. The
explosion. it is supposed, was due to
the fact that the Letter mines are not
worked on Sunday. thus allowing gas
to accumulate in the lever workings.
After thlrty-nve or forty-flve miners
had descended into the mine Monday
morning to resume work loud ex-
plosion blew the ground about the
mouth OF the mine high in the air.
One of the steel cages was blown to
the surface from the bottom Of a 500.
foot shaft.
The shock Of the explosion was felt
at Benton, twelve miles northeast OF
ZeIgler. A teamster driving along
a road half mile from the mine
was covered with falling cinders and
debris covered the floor of his wagon
half an inch deep.
One miner was killed and four wera
severely injured at the mouth of tho
shaft in which the explosion oc.
CURED. The work of rescue was be.
gun at once by miners who were on
their way to work at the time, Tho
main shaft was demolished so that
rescue work had to be carried on
through the air shaft.
The bodies we're found 40 feet from
the bottom Of the air shaft and this
vas as far as the rescuers were able
to penetrate into the shaft
This has hindered the work Of
aiding the entombed men to such an
extent that when darkness fell Mon
day night only three bodies and one
injured man has been removed.
Miners from DuQuoln and other
neighboring mining towns, headed by
District President Morris. fastened
to Zeigler soon after the explosion 90
Cured, and offered their aid.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
TRAINS CRASH; FOUR MELT DEATH.
fatal COlIisiOa on South CsrOIaI Division
Of Southern Railway

tatal ColliSbOa on South CerOI al DFNfstOR
Of Southern RailVVay.
The worst wreck that has occurred
on the South Carolina division of the
Southern railway In many years hap
pened Sunday morning about 8 O'Clock
a few miles below Branchville. near a
small lumber station called Badham.
The through freight from Columbia
to Charleston and the fast passenger
train from Charleston to Columbia
ran into each other at the above
named point. There was a very dense
fog at the time.
1t is reported that Freight Engineer
Reeds watch was 80 minutes slow, and
that this was the direct cause Of the
wreck So far four are known to be
killed outright, m follows;
Tom Conlon. engineer on passenger
train, and one OF the Oldest employees
OF the Southern. Conlon's body was
mashed into an almost unacceptable
mass. with one arm cut on, the hand
CT which still grasped the emergency
brake.
Another white man named Stokes,
brakeman and two negro brakemen.
Adams and Stephens. were killed.
Freight Engineer Arthur Reed has
both legs broken besides severe inter.
nal injuries. and cannot possibly live.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
FEW TRAITORS At WORK.
Some Merchants and RSSkers Advising
Their Customers to Go WrO0g.

Some Merchants and RSBkeFs Advising
Their CustOmers TO Go WrO0g.
Additional schemes are being re-
sorted to by some few merchants and
some few bankers, 30 II Is understood,
by which they are urging their Gus
toners 10 plant more cotton than ever
before, because of the fact that the
acreage Is going to be reduced all over
the south. They tell the farmer that
now is his chance to make big thing,
for, as everybody else Is going to
cut down his crop why, he can go
ahead, plant big one and reap the
profits Of the high prices.
Now. OF course. II the farmers took
this advice. there would be no reduc
tion Of acreage this year. But, for
tUnately. there are only few farmers
who have such little patriotism or
such little regard for his nelghbor
who will take advantage Of them in
such a mean way.
People who are giving such advice
are being branded as traitors all over
the south.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
WORLDS LONGEST TUNNEL OPfNtO.
Simplon Cot ThrOush AIPs Connects SwitE
eFIsnd and tSly BY Roll.

A special from Rome, Italy, says:
The simplon tunnel. the longest IN the
world. was inaugurated Sunday morn
ing, when from the Swiss and italian
sides tha Arst trains passed through,
meeting at the center, where There
was an iron door which originally pre-
vented the overflow Of a torrent Of
hot water. and which on this oeea>
sion was opened for the first time. The
weather at the entrance Of the tunnel
was springlike, though the surround
ing mountains were covered with
snow; but once inside, the tempera.
ture became very high.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
TAFT IS ltFT ON the LID.

President Has No FeSr last Affairs VIII
Lapse During Me Absence.
Il don't exactly say that I need q
rest, but am going to take one in
the open under Gods blue heaven"
said President Roosevelt Monday.
standing on the platform by his spa
clale In the Pennsylvania station a.,
Harrisburg.
It was suggested to the president
that things would 90 along In a
smooth manner II he were absent.
"oh. things viii be all right" he said.
II have left Taft sitting on the lid
keeping down the San Domingo mat
tar"
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
AL NMTfO 10 OPPOSE GIFT.
Oae Result Of AoceptSsce Of OH M0gasto
ROckeieIIer's dictated" MOsey.

The committee which heads the
protest OF the Congregationalists
against the action OF the American
board Of commissioners against tho
acceptance Of 100000 from John d.
Rockefeller. Issued a statement In.
wiling all persons. whether clergymea
or laymsn. who wished to record them,
selves us in sympathy with the pro-
test. to send their names TO the chair
man Of the. committee Rev. Daniel
EvAha Of CambFidRe. Mas.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07

Fire Saturday at the plant Of the
National Refining company in Cleve.
land. Ohio, caused a loss Of $250,o00
The names spread to the works OF
the Brooks Refining company, where
oil and gasoline valued at $4,000 were
destroyed.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
ANCIENT PAPER CHANGES HANDS.
Augusta Chronicle IL Once More Under
Charge Of Now Management.

The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle chang
ed hands again Monday morning. Who
the new owners are has not yet been
divulged. Mr.. Thomas w. Loyless
who has been editor and joint man.
ager OF the paper since It's re-Organ.
izatlon, has been placed in complete
control by the new owner
The deal came as a surprise to
the people OF Augusta. and there is
much speculation as to who the new
owners are. II Is strongly surmised
that local politics are partly responsl.
Bile for the, change,
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
,CorneO,e Mikes Gilt to NEGRO School.

Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
for the negro normal school in Mont.
gomery, Ala The gift was secured
by President Patterson. who visited
New York for the purpose, It will be
used to build q library.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
uIsrR SUI JARS FRtscs~tN.

HE Visa 10 Morocco cad Oeclarslloaa
Cause Bitter Rsssatseut.
A Paris special says: The MoroccS
Incident is daily making deeper Ina
preston and, while Calmness contia
ues to prevail, there e growing
sense of the rudeness Of the sbOcl
which Emperor williams visit 10 Tad
gler and his declarations give q
French policy.
However for the present. A 10 evt
dent that the purpose a. Fsance Il d
adopt a passive attitude and awe
the developments Of egenln
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
BOUV OF MISS LIE Az RtsT.

Laid in Massolssm Beside Those Of Her
TStheS, Mother cad Sister.
At Lexington. Va, Friday, the re-
mains Of Miss Mildred Lee, youngest
daughter Of General Robert r Lee,
were placed In q crypt Of the mAuso-
leum at Washington and Lee univer-
sly.
The other members of the family
buried there are her father and moth
er and one sister, Miss Agnes Lee.
Funeral services were held in r. z.
Lee Episcopal church. Eight students
Of Washington and Lee university act
a C pallbOarers.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
TRIBAL WARFARE ~ LIBERIA.
Serious TroUbIe BFesks Oct Between No
tives 10 Block RepSbGc.

tives 10 BIsck RepSb1c.
A Liverpool dispatch says; Accord.
ing to report brought by the British
and African line Royal Mail steamer
sokoto. from West Africa. tribal war;
ware is now raging in Liberia. Ma.
tiVes Of the Plcananynines tribes on
March 10 attacked CestOs. killing sixty
men and eighty woman. The Cestos
natives are organizing . big counter
expedition When the sokoto sailed
fierce encounter. with much slaugh-
ter, was expected.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-04-07
OPERATION on PRINCE OF Wales.

Kai'e Used on His NObIets Bot Mature Of
Trouble Kept Secret.
A London dispatch says that the
prince OF Wales underwent an opera.
ton Monday morning at Marlborough
house. the nature Of which was not
divulged in the Official statements
subsequently issued. The public was
assured than nothing serious was the
matter by the court physicians.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-27

and to take up their abode in Newfoundland as a
refuge from their enemies. They even followed
them thither and joined in the work OF their eX-
termination by the first European settlers of the
country that to the poor Beothukans even this
island beyond the sea, stretching far toward the
old world, to afford resting place
Horrible the treatment which they re-
ceived at the hands of their Micmac foes, it
nothing compared with that which meted out to
them by the white settlers of Newfoundland At
their first intercourse with Europeans they
disposed to be friendly yet they gOaded into a
spirit of relentless hostility and finally externnated
leaving neither name nor inheritance on the earth
Not only did Cabot, the disCoverer of the island,
carry away captive with him to England three
of the natives of Newfoundland who were presented
to Henry VII clothed in the skins of beasts"
but two years later Gaspard Cortereal captured
fifty of the natives and carried them away with
him, intending them ALL men, women and children,
for slaves. Pasqualigo, the Venetian ambassador
at Lisbon, who saw the Captives described them as
admirably adapted for labor and the best slaves he
had seen, and declared that the King of POrtu
gal contemplated deriving great advantage from
the country IN consequence. Such was the treat
ment that these people received almost at their
first meeting with Christian civilization; this out
rage being doubt. the beginning of those atrOci
ties which ended in the determination of the hapess
From his next voyage to Newfoundland Cor
tereal returned and to this day it is not
known whether he suffered shipwreck and subse-
a
victim to the revenge of the surviving members of
the race that he had so cruelty wronged
In $50 Hore made unsuccessful attempt
to kidnap a number of the natives of the island,
and in I574 another collision occurred between
the white and the Indians. In that year some
of the natives on board of Martin Frobisher's
ship which had been driven by the ice the coast
of Newfoundland. With of them he sent
ashore five of his sailors. whom he never again.
On this account he seized one of the Indians and
carried him off to England, where he died shortly
after his arrival.
In Io,,, Richard WhitbOurne, who sent by
the British Admiralty a mission to Newfound-
land, published interesting account of the
Beothukans who seem to have been only of a
high order of intelligence but to have enjoyed mag
nifcent hunting and fishing in country that is still
paradise of hunters and fishermen. Whitbourne
himself speaks without any apparent of
shame of having appropriated some of the effects of
the natives, though in his time all friendly
relations had not ceased Unrelenting hostility
however, was soon the order of the day. The white
men accused the Indians of stealing their goods
New-York tribune., 1905-08-27

were IN the habit of bOaSting
of the number of Indians
they had slain.
Little wonder then was it
that when at last the British
authorities woke up TO the
awful reality of these brutal
murders and endeavored 10
reopen intercourse with the
natives of the island and TO
promote their welfare, the
poor BeOthukans had acquired
such an utter distrust and alb
hOrrence of the signs of civil
lzatlOn that they We're anima-
ted by a spirit of inexorable
revenge against all white men.
In I76c one Captain Scott
and some others went from St.
Johns to the Bay of Exploits
with the view of opening com