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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
Bloody Riots Result of
Labor Troubles I'm
minent.
MANY ARRESTS MADE
Government Adopting Most
Rigid Measures to Sup
press Demonstration.

Paris, May 1.-4:3o p. m.-Six
thousand strikers are holding a meet
ing at Ladore exchange and the same
number is assembled at the headquar-
ters of the Federation of Labor. The
military surround the buildings and
await the exit of the strikers. Prefect
lie Pine is outside and counseIs calm.
Police charges are continuous on the
Boulevard Magenta.
Driven Toward Canal.
Paris, May !. 3 p. ma squadron
of cavalry charged the manifestants
on Place De La Republique. forcing
the rioters towards the St. Martin
canal Fifty additional arrests were
made. At Brest, the strikers, carry
ing a blacl, flag, were charged by the
police. A severe fight followed, the
flag was seized and many arrests made.
Continuous Arrests Made.
Paris, May ]. 3 p. m.-Place De La
Republique is the scene of continuous
arrests. The number of disorderly
persons has increased by several thous-
ands A detachment of 400 infantry
has stacked arms on Place De L'Toile.
City Full of Troops.
Paris. May 1.-May-day opened with
detachments of cavalry and infantry
scattered throughout Paris and out
skirts
The first disturbance occurred at
Place De La Republique, where hun
dreds of worllingmen gathered and the
became so great the troops
and made 100 arrests.
Printers Clash with Police.
The striking printers attempted to
march in procession from labor
headquarters singing a revolutionary
song They attacked the police. The
latter. with drawn revolvers, broke up
the procession. Troops guard the
Bank of France and Champs Elysee
and patrol the streets i'm the vicinity
of the ministry and Quay DOrsay. A
detail of police is stationed at the
American embassy.
ExpeIIIng Anarchists.
Paris. May 1.-The anarchists have
been expelled from Paris, including
and one woman. NJ. Levi,
secretary of the Confederation Of La
bor. and NJ Fromentin. wealthy an
archist. have been arrested. Delegates
from all trades are assembling at la
Dor headquarters.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
LONG LIFE A BURDEN:
KILLS HERSELF AT 1903
Woman BIames God for Not Calling
Her When Friends Were All
Dead-Cuts Throat.

Uniontown, Pa, May Mrs. Mary
McKittrick, aged 10S, SO far as known
the oldest woman in America, commit
ted suicide at the home of her son
Luke, an octogenarian, near this city
yesterday by cutting her throat with
a carving knife. She had been in i'll
health for several weeks. She declar-
ed God had forgotten her, although all
those she knew in her girlhood and
womanhood, before most old men and
women now living were born, had all
gone to their 'long home
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE TO
THE ARGTS.l
BY WooDWoRTH cLUM.

Panama, April 14.-Just 3S7 years
ago an adventuresome navigator, Ped
rarias by name, cast anchor in this inn
mediate vicinity. and established the
city of Panama, so we must not think.
as we stand here gazing at her cathe-
dral spires and low rambling roofs,
that we have discovered something
In 1871 Mr. Morgan, not j. Pierpont,
but an English pirate of considerable
infamy, happened along. observed the
city, cOntented. peaceful, and pros
porous and promptly set upon it with
his firebrand buccaneers. The city
was destroyed, but, phoenix-like, she
rose from her own ashes, and for a
subsequent two centuries and a half
she has managed to dodge the wander
ing pirates and keep her municipal
head above tide water.
We can readily understand then
why Panama presents the appearance
ity. We are not surprised to find chill
dren romping in. the streets or playing
tag in the spacious plazas;. to find
men engaged in various business en-
terprises. and actually satisfied with
their environment And, withal. there
is that delightful Spanish-American at
mosphere of ease-delightful so long
as it retains Its novelty-fOr we are
in the land of "manana, senior, man.
ana" where time is not the stuff of
which life is made, our esteemed Ben
jamin Franklin to the contrary not
withstanding.
Panama, aroused from her four cen
turies of lethargy by the music of An
glo-Saxon progress, has taken on new
life. We find here the same condi-
tions that prevail throughout most all
Spanish-American cities-a condition
that makes us proud of our American
ism, for with the advent of northern
enterprise there comes a host of mod
ern municipal improvements. The
pretty legends of the centuries ago
may still linger in the cobwebbed cor
ners of the old adobes, but at night
fall these same corners reveal their
every crevice beneath an array of
electric lights; the spacious homes
that for 800 years have been unmolest-
ed now echo and re-echo to the ring
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
HOLD NO CAUCUS
Republicans Cannot Get To-
gether on Primary Bill
at Springfield.

Springfield, Ill, May l. 1.-(Special.)-
There is little probability of there be-
ing a republican caucus tonight Rep
resentatives Magill of Rock Island,
Allen of Vermilion, and Heinl of Nor
gan counties stated today that there
were over twenty of the insurgents of
the house who would not enter the
caucus. This is enough to defeat the
senate primary bill in the house. 1t
is understood that Speaker Shurtleff
will abandon the caucus idea and let
the bill be discussed in the house with
out any attempt to get the republicans
TO agree on the measure. Governor
Deneen had Heinl and Dudgeon at his
Office this morning, but made no prom
iseS with them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
SIX MONTHS FOR R0DMAN
Defendant is Found Guilty of Vaerancy
and Sentenced.

Dave Rodman, who was pinched
with the bunch Saturday night at the
time Annie Moore and the six men
were taken from the rooms above the
Bromley store, was yesterday after
noon found guilty of vagrancy and SEN
fenced to six months in the county Jail
The evidence against Rodman was
given by Nick Hamm, john Bullion
and Bill Perron, who were caught in
the net They testified that Rodman
met them in the Murray saloon and
steered them down there. Rodman
was tried before Justice Haverfield,
having taken change of venue B. f.
Schriver defended him. The above
mentioned three pleaded guilty before
Magistrate Elliott and were assessed
81 and costs each.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
ALL WITH JEROME
New York District Attorney Re.
sponsipIe for No Insurance
Prosecutions.
GRAND JURY MAKES REPORT
Delay Sought That Appellate Court
May Give Opinion on the
Question.

New York, May 1.-District Attor-
ney Jerome's advice to the April grand
jury to steer clear of insurance politi-
cal contributions was Obeyed. Upon
the completion of the its term yester-
day the jury reported to Recorder Golf
that it had not investigated this phase
of the insurance scandals.
Asked for Evidence.
The jury stated that it had asked
Mr.. Jerome for the evidence against
the insurance officials, and that he had
opposed action because he desired first
to secure an opinion from the appel
late division of the supreme court of
this state on the question whether
such political contributions constituted
larceny. Such an opinion, Mr.. Jerome
had told the jury, which be given early
in May and the cases then could be
taken up by a special grand jury which
he had asked for.
Mr.. Jerome advised the jury to let
the matter go over to this special
grand jury in May and the jury as
sented, because" II reported. "for the
grand jury to proceed against the ad-
vice of its legal adviser might involve
a miscarriage of justice"
GoR Criticises the Jury.
Recorder Golf accepted the present
ment and discharged the jury, but in
formed it that it had not done its full
duty, although it had rendered signal
service in accentuating the "unequiv-
ocal responsibility which now rests
upon the district attorney"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01


Let us go out into the streets and
see what the Americans have done.
We find the tAvenida Central Pan
ama's principal tboroughfare, paved
with vitrified brictt. and we see paw
ing gangs working on many of the
side streets. We encounter drove of
municipal white Wings industriously
showing their big Brushes i'm front of
them. They are endeavoring to clean
the streets. but conditions are against
them, and they aresmeeting with poor
success. Pretty folntains have been
built in the plazas; sewers and run
ming water have& been installed; a
great wagon, labeled United States
Mall hurries by on its way to the
railroad station. We are passed by a
handsome victoria, fdrawn by two big
bay horses, and conveying one of the
officials of the canal commission.
And yet we are sanding in the sha
dow of buildings that were erected in
the 18th century. 81
Twice a week the band plays in the
plaza. The dark-eyed senorita and
the dusky cavalier mingle with the
folks from Hoboken. Harlem, and Ne
braska. When the band is silent the
palms and the cdcoanuts rustic their
leaves in unison. The walls of the
old cathedral give back the laughter
of the children. lii the distance there
is the barking of dogs and the braying
OF burros. When the program has
been concluded. the air rings with the
soft music of a thousand "buenoS no.
ches," the folks sfrom Hobollen bid
farewell to the folks from Harlem and
Nebraska. and thefpageant drifts away
into the darkness of the night.
Did we see any of this in Colon? No,
| should say not Colon has no plazaS,
no fountains and no music, save the
shrill shrek of Che wooden wheels
upon their unanointed axles, or the
toot and clang of the whistles and bells
of the engines as they promenade be-
meath your window. There is no OPP
portunity for recreation of any sort.
unless the blazing lights and flowing
liquors in the many saloons may be
termed recreations In Panama there
is an opportunity for respectable COM
panionship. In coion such opportuni-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
SLAP AT DENEEN.
Mercer County Republicans De-
nounce Executives Coer-
cion OF Legislators.
IN ELECTION LAW PROGRAM
In Mass Meeting Uphold Reynolds and
Magill for Joining the "in-
surgent 33."

Aledo, ILL.,, May 1.-(SpeciaD At a
meeting of republicans at the court
house last evening a resolution was
adopted indirectly scoring Governor
Deneen for his attempt to whip the
representatives from this district, L.
M. Magill of Moline, and DR.. M. G.
Reynolds of this city. into line on the
administrations primary law program.
direct party primary with the plural
ity clause for the nomination of Unit
ed States senators, congressman, state.
legislative and county officers was Ell
dorsed.
The meeting was not largely attend
ed. 1t had not been announced till
afternoon yesterday, but all the lead
ers were there. Probably the most po-
tent factor in the causes that led TO
the meeting were the governors an
nouncement that he would have Con
gressman Mckinney coerce DR.. Rey-
nolds. Everybody in Aledo knows
that McKinney's influence over DR..
Reynolds is nil but the tactics of the
governor aroused storm in the re-
publican camp.
Struck Out Direct Mention.
The resolution as originally introduc-
ed mentioned the governor directly,
but after a somewhat extended dis
cussion it was modified so as to mere
ly aenounce efforts to legislate by
other officers than members of the
state legislature. Representatives
and Magill were asserted to
be able without advice from outside
the district, to look after the interests
of their constituents and their course
in joining the 'insurgent 33" was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
Longshoremen Quit Work
at Midnight at All
Ports.
OTHERS ARE Affected
Building Trades Partly or En-
tireIy Tied Up in Many
Cities.

Chicago, May Livery member of
the International Longshoremens' Ma
rine and Transport Workers union
employed on boats and docks of the
Lake Carriers association quit work
at midnight today and not a pound of
ore, coal, or grain is being handled in
the port of Cleveland. The same con-
dition exists in practically every Lake
Erie part In Cleveland 1000 men are
directly affected.
5000 at south Chicago.
Chicago, May 1.-Three thousand
lOngshoremen quit work at midnight at
South Chicago.
At Head of Lakes.
Duluth, Mimi, May 1.-The marine
strike was officially inaugurated at the
head of the lakes at midnight. Tug
men were not notified, and are work
ing as usual
other Labor Troubles.
Chicago, May besides the big
strike of longshoremen on the Great
Lakes. which involves thousands of
seamen and laborers and is felt at
nearly every principal port, other
unionists are reported striking as fol-
lows:
ChicagO-3,000 iron workers
Indianapolis-400 carpenters.
Youngstown, Ohio-6OG various
building trades
Cincinnati-500 planning mill en-
ployes, and several hundred pipe fit
ters and electricians.
Pittsburg-7OO structural iron work
ers.
Strikes I'm East.
Boston. May MAY day was mark
ed by numerous mine strikes in New
England. The majority of difficulties
were confined to the building trades.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
PASTOR AND MAYOR SCRAP
Clergyman of Dixon, ILL.,, Beaten Sc
Verely by the Executive.

Dixon, Ill, May Recent investi-
cations of the Law and Order League
and attacks on Mayor l. F. Edwards
administration brought on a fist fight
last night between the mayor and
Rev. J. F. Newton of the Peoples
church. The minister was handled Sc
verely by the mayor and is badly
bruised. A bitter attack on the mayor
was made in local paper by Mr.. New
ton, who charged Edwards with failure
to give proper orders to the police Of
ficers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
San Francisco Homeless
Are Comfortable
Otherwise.
HEARFRO ELSEWHERE
Santa Rosa Requires Cash.
Want Aid at St. Agnew's
Asylum.

San Francisco, May Last night
was the warmest and balmiest since
the thousands of people have been
compelled to camp in the open. In
nearly all parts of the squares the
homeless are now quiet, well provided
with warm bedding and comfortably
housed in tents. This problem has
been pretty well solved by the arrival
of more tents and blankets, but the
food question is one that is causing
the authorities much worry.
Lights Shine Again.
For the first time since the earth
quake occurred lights shone in the
streets last night. although they were
confined to a very small section. Sew
eral hundred arc lights will be in op-
GRAFTON tonight. Street car service is
being extended as fast as large gangs
of men clear the streets of debris and
replace the warped and twisted rails.
Pardee at Santa Rosa.
Oakland. Cal, May 1.-Governor
Pardee has returned from Santa Rosa
where he inspected the ruins caused
by the earthquake. The governor said
the pressing need of Santa Rosa at
present is money Debris from the
wreckage of many buildings must be
cleared away before business can be
resumed. 1t is estimated $147.00 will
be required to do this work. There is
a call for $4,000 or 100000 for imme
diate need. The governor said con-
ditions at Santa Rosa are depressing,
but the townspeople are brave hearted
and had faced the calamity with a
sturdy determination to recover.
san Jose Provided For.
A report has been received from
San Jose which also suffered severely.
that the local relief fund has been am
pie for all citizens as well as to aid
many refugees from San Francisco.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
Mothers POSTPONE Meetino.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 1.-Vice
President Murphy of the national con-
gress of mothers received a telegram
ick Schoff, president of the congress,
stating that the next meeting of the
congress. which was to have been held
here from May z TO II, has been indef-
initely postponed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
EX-GOVERNOR BOYD DEAD
Only Democratic Executive Nebraska
Ever Had

Omaha, Neb. May Former Gov
ernor James E. Boyd is dead, at the
age of G2. He came to Nebraska in
1856 and he has since been a promin-
ent figure in business and political cir
cles. He was the only democratic gov
ernor Nebraska ever had being elected
in 1890. He had previously served two
terms as mayor of Omaha and during
his life held many other public posi-
tions. Boyd established the first pork
packing establishment here in 1872
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
PIowina 20 Per Cent Completed.

In his report to the department of
agriculture, Crop Correspondent Thorn
as Campbell writing April % gives the
condition of the meadows and moving
lands as so per cent of normal and
pastures at rs. He estimates that 40
per cent of the spring plowing is COM
pleted and that 80 per cent of the
spring planting has been done. All
kinds of small grain are looking we'll
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
WON 800 METER AND
THE HURDLE RACES
Americans Further Distinguish Them
selves in Athens Con-
tests.

Athens, May William Sherring of
Hamilton, Canada, today won the Mar
athon foot race. There were As com
petitors; distance, 26 miles. Leahy of
England won the running high jump.
Pilgrim of New York won the 500
meter race; Lightbody of Chicago, sec
ond. Leavitt of Connecticut won the
hurdle race.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
Accidentally Shot While Hunting.

Galesburg, ILL.,, May William
Drake is demented and James Roberts
is paralyzed and probably will die as
result of brakes accidentally shoot
ing Roberts in the back while they
were hunting gophers on Sunday near
New Windsor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
Affirm Indian Claims,

Washington, May 1.-The supreme
court yesterday, with a few slight
changes affirmed the judgment of the
court of claims in favor of the Chero-
kee Indians. The claims have been
pending for years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
PLAN TO SELL TO AMERICA?
English Export Tax on Coal Entirely
Removed Nov. I.

London, May Among the budget
announcements by the chancellor of the
exchequer. is that the export duty on
coal will be completely repealed Nov.
l. The duty on stripped tobacco will
be reduced by 5 cents and tea by 2
cents from July l.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01


official records OF yesterdays proceed
ings in both houses of congress:
SENATE - Next Friday was set by
the senate as the day for the beginning
To vote ON the amendments To the rail-
road rate bill. Each amendment will
be taken mp separately. speeches limited
To IL minutes each. and the vote taken
when debate is exhausted. Mr.. Till
man endeavored To have May 3 set as
the date for voting on the bill as a
whole. but failed. Senator Clark of
Arkansas occupied most OF yesterday
with "A speech opposing the pending
measure. The house emergency bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the Mare Is
land navy yard and the San Francisco
postofiice was passed At y. m. ad-
1ournment until today was taken.
HOUSE - Discussion of the agricul-
turai appropriation hill. and inciden-
tally the distribution of free seeds, Oc-
cupied most OF the day i'm the house.
Resolutions that the thanks of con-
gress be endered General Horace Por-
ter for his work in recovering the body
OF John Paul Jones. and that General
Porter's speech at Annapolis on the
occasion of the .interment OF the body
be printed in the Congressional Record
Were passed. Representative Hearst In
troduced "a resolution that an addition
al $2,5O0.000 be appropriated for the
relief of the San Francisco fire and
earthquake sufferers. AT 1850 y. m. ad-
journment was taken until today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
SWEDISH LUTHERANS MEET
Illinois Conference Begins Its Annual
Session at Joliet,

Joliet, ILL.,, May 1.-The Illinois con-
ference of the Swedish Lutheran
church opened here today. and will
continue until next Monday The cor
be built by contributions of the mem
bers will be laid during the week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
PART BIC SCHEME
Rock River Power Development
at Milan Seems Connected
With General Plan.
HARNESS STREAM TO SOURCE
Eastern Men Have Bill Before Con-
eress Which Asks Authority for
Undertaking.

Apparently the purpose of S. S. Da-
Wis i'll preparing TO develop the power
of Rock river at Milan is but part of
a big scheme by a large number of
capitalists to harness the stream from
its source to its mouth and make it do
a large part of the manufacturing of
north central Illinois. 1t seems to be
the hope of those interested to secure
the assistance of the government to
locate near the source of the stream
sufficient reservoirs to avoid the eX-
ceedingly low stages that have pre-
vailed a number of times in the past
and that are likely to- occur again and
to grow worse as drainage is provided
for the districts that now furnish the
permanent supply.
Mr.. Davis bill. which was recently
passed by congress, is not the only one
that has been placed before that body
in the same connection. The Dixon
Telegraph says:
Ask for Authority.
A bill was recently introduced in
the house of representatives by Con
gressman Mouser of Ohio, to incorpo-
rate the Rock River Navigation and
Improvement company and authorize
the construction and maintenance of
dams across Rock river for the pur-
pose of the improvement of the navi-
CATION thereof and TO utilize the water
power thereby created incidental TO its
construction. The purposes of the bill
are to deepen and enlarge Rock river
in aid of navigation and to facilitate
commerce and interstate commerce;
also to construct and maintain reser-
voirs and basins in and along and adja-
cent to Rock river for the storage of
surplus waters and to equalize the
flow thereof. The parties named in
said bill who are interested in the en-
terprise are Spencer b. Newberry and
George a. BlackfOrd of Sandusky,
Ohio, and Charles II. Hughes of Dixon.
The government has had for many
years the improvement of the naviga-
tion of Rock river and the construction
of reservoirs TO hold back the water
in flood time and furnish it for water
power in the dry seasons, under con-
Several reports have been
made by government engineers on this
subject One report made by a gov
ernment engineer in 1880 recited that
on account of the complications and
claims that would arise from the con-
struction by the United States govern
ment of these reservoirs and dams it
would seem best that such enterprises
be left TO private parties and corpora
tions.
Government Keeps Rights.
THE first dam must be constructed
in five years and the second dam not
more than 10 years later. The work
is TO be done under the supervision of
the secretary of war. and the govern
ment reserves the right to take posses
sion of the property. excepting water
power. on the payment of a reason
able price or appraisement by a board
of men chosen by the company and the
war department.
The first dam is to be built at
Grand Detour and is to furnish power
for the Sandusky Portland Cement
which will erect its plant
just east of Dixon
Stabbing at Muscatine.
Muscatine Iowa. May 1-Walter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
CARTER FOR SUPREME COURT
Justice Magruder, Not Renominated,
May Run as independent.

Chicago, May Judge Orrin n.
Carter was nominated yesterday by
the republicans of the Chicago dis
trict for justice of the state supreme
court to succeed Justice Magruder
Justice Magruder, who was a candi-
date for the nomination, it is under
stood, will make the race as an indie
pendent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
Stabbing at Muscatine.

Muscatine, Iowa, May 1.-Walter
Kiefner, aged 35. was stabbed by an
Italian laborer Sunday night, and is
expected to die. The laborer escaped.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-01
Clothing, food. shelter and supplies of
all kinds have been abundant
sane Live In Tents,

At Agnew's insane asylum where
great damage was done, many of the
inmates are now living in tents Aid
in obtaining better shelter and food
and clothing would be welcome.