The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-22
7 old FRIENDS IN
A SUICIDE WAGER
Tragic Bet In Brook Team.
s sters Threaten Strike III \
Greater New York.

New York, Oct. 21.-There is under
the remarkable story Of suicide wager
between two men
Tragic Wager Is whose bodies were
90 found in the lower
ss Paid but bay within few
. days Of each other.
81 Death Collects. The men are Henry
- 800 Sch Wanedel, 50
\ years old, wealthy retired merchant,
: and Adam Hillman, So, an engineer.
s number of years. The engineer lived
+ with his wife and one child and during
all his married life was model father
5 and husband. He was Of quiet dis:
!. position. Schwanedel, who owned real
I estate in Brooklyn valued at $500, 900,
lived alone with @his sister, Regina
s siends Except an a man Hman left
J his home Oct. IL at the usual hour:
! He kissed his wife and little girl and
started down the road ,whistling. He
! never was seen again alive and his body
: was recovered from the bay yesterday.
AT the time of his disappearance Hill
man had gold watch and chain. a
: locket containing pictures Of his wife
4.iewelry were in his clothing when his
ehbody was found. Schwanedel disap-
/ peared Oct. and it was on that day
that the strange bet is said to have
been made. After leaving his home he
called as usual on Hillman and the pair
had lunch together. Acquaintance of
the two men who sat at nearby table
Uniformed the police that they overheard
1.-THE older man offer to wager 5000 that
y he would be first of the two to commit
suicide. Hillman is said to have con-
scented to the bet.
A strike Of transfers which TREAT
ems to paralyze the downtown whole
ssale business, and which is feared
'amay affect every industry in the city,
has been declared against Thomas Orr,
~, ~ :Oss- a-.. from the score
:, General Strike of men who have
F,a .:. quit work, Orr
Menace in called upon the
is police for protec-
~ .Teannsters' Demand ton. Orr s con
T. tract with his
Omen was to have been renewed
yesterday. He employs about TWEEN
.say drivers, and when the time
came for signing the new agreement
a+hey unanimously supported a demand
4for rs cents an hour extra pay for
overtime and for the insertion Of 4
sclause in the agreement exacting a
promise that union men only be hired.
&The demand was refused and the men
eyer Of a general strike Of teamsters.
pc, Captain Dooley's homemade Hcur-
afewo law for the tenderloin resulted
I'm the arrest of thirty-six women who
a. -, were walking
Curfew Law in Broadway with
out escorts after
New York 10 O'Clock last
t Tenderloin Scored. three of the WON.
seharged with vagrancy were promptly
t5discharged this morning by an indig-
.nant police magistrate. Three women
who were seen talking to men were
fined. "
address to t the young Guild
neh Fe sd mos sh9Esh as
fsigns OF, the times are the lawless raid:
Iof this great Inspector, Schmittberger
and other high police officials. These
raids are lawless and are almost wick
ed as the oppression of the Russian
people. I have kept record Of 10000
arrests made by the police in this way
sdhring the past seven years. In this
10000 there: was not one conviction. II
mo other country in the world do they
fpermit the police to treat women *
sshamefully as in this city,
.
/. John anuad, As years old, address
Unknown, stopped at the house o:
James Stewart, Middleton Road ane
Eastern B u e
Asks for Food and ward. today an(
-. asked for SOM
Falls Dead thing to eat, say
g. ing be was starv
Just as He Gets It ing. Mrs. Stew
art prepared hin
some food and cup of tea which MI
Stewart took out to the barn to tn
man. The latter accepted the food an,
the tea, thanking Mr.. Stewart in feebl
tones and tumbled over dead. Nj
Bose, from the Fordham hospital, sal
sthat there was little doubt that tn
man died Of starvation, his body bein
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