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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07
COMMITTED SUICIDE BY
MUTUAL AGREEMENT

NEW YORK, April 3.-The bodies of
two elderly women, one of whom it is
believed to be Miss Clara FRANKFORT,
formerly of Islip, l.. l., and the other
that Of her sister, were found in their
rooms in furnished apartment house
in East 18th street today. Both were
asphyxiated by gas. Other occupants
Of the house expressed the belief that
the two women both of whom were
suicide by mutual agreement. No other
cause is known.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07
COURT MODIFIES
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION

ST. LOUIS, April 3.-The temporary
Injunction granted by Judge Hugh, Of
the circuit court, prohibiting the trans
fer of stock or the disposal of property
Of the national bond company, was to-
day modified to enable officers of the
concern to resign and stockholders to
dispose individually. Of their holdings.
1t is stated the concern Is being inves-
tigated by postal inspectors. Ten days
ago Mrs. Mathilda Ross, a bond pur-
chaser, applied in the circuit court TO,
a receiver.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07
UTHDR PHONE ~,

employ of the Central railroad of New
Jersey was murdered today on lonely
road at Sugar Notch, mining town
near here. He was shot through the
head and the upper portion Of his body
was mangled by clubs and stones. An
attempt was made to incinerate the
body. 1t is said that the murdered man
had incurred the enmity of the for
eigners residing in the vicinity of the
murder.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07
FALLS FROM A STREET
CAR AND BREAKS NECK

y. IRONWOOD, Mich, April 3.-samuel
Hakkala was killed in peculiar man.
ner last evening. While standing OH
the rear end of street car talking to
"a friend he suddenly fell to his knees
and dropped off the car, which was
moving swiftly. When picked up it
was found that he had broken his neck
causing instantaneous death.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07
HOWARD BEGINS TERM
OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT

LOUISVILLE. April .s.-James B.
Howard, who has been in Jail here
pending the disposition of his case by
the United States supreme court today
was taken to Frankfort to begin his
Term e1 llfe imprisonment for the muir
der of William Goebel. II : III. -. :, I
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07
FEDERAL TROOPS TO
SUPPRESS PULAJANES

MANILA, April 3.-Two companies
of federal troops have arrived at Mag
taon, on the island Of samar, to assist
Governor Curry, in suppressing the
'uncUly Fudujanes. General Leonard
Wood and Gen. Bliss have sailed for
the island Of Mindanao where Gen.
Wood will turn over the governorship
OF the Moro provinces to Gen. Bliss on
April IL. l.s t.> s. ~, ~ '>*s'.+i y S>.>. s.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07

''TIello, old chap, how are they COM
ing '#<} 5.sss sL
''Im up against it, &I..s>,> .ss.5t Is;
..'Oh,s I guess you'll pull through.
b II don't know. I'm down to my last
million dollars. = IS s1 II \.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07
FOREIGNERS ENEMIES
OF MURDERED MAN

S# sWILKESBARRE, Pas. April 3.-Cbas.
GALLAGHER, stationary engineer In the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07
Retailers Not Satisfied.

This arrangement is said to be I'M
satisfactory to the retailers and today
at meeting of the Philadelphia Coal
Exchange, committee was appointed
to confer with the big companies.
The coal exchange issued a state
ment in which it is declared that If the
mining companies supply the dealers
with sufficient coal for their needs,
they will deliver to the consumer at
the regular March retail prices.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07

The Reading company has stored at
Reading about $4,000 tons of bitumin-
GUS coal. and at Landingville, Alarms
and other places about 1,750,000 tons Of
anthracite.
Several minor disturbances occurred
near WNkesbarre. The companies of
the state police again patrolled the
vicinity of the collicries and reported
that good order prevailed.
Information Bureau Established.
Systematic steps were taken by the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron
company today to learn definitely
where hard coal Is needed for imme-
date consumption and in what quanti-
ties. The company has created an n
formation bureau. The agents will
furnish the executive officers with
daily coal need" schedules. An off,
clal OF the company outlined the con-
dlt1on as follows:
The seven big anthracite COM
panies have in stock nearly ten mill
lion tons of coal. This means that
there is available for distribution ample
coal to supply all actual needs now
and for several months to come. The
companies have agreed upon a sales
policy at prices which have obtained
during the winter. and are determined
to prevent speculation, as there is no
justification for an advance in retail
prices"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-07

DIES MONIES, April ga rupture in
the Joint conference Of the United Mine
Workers and the operators Of the Iowa
division was narrowly averted here to-
day in a clash over the pay of the men
on service at the mines during the
shut" down. The miners insisted that
the emergency men should be taken
out tonight ii the operators would not
consent to pay the 1903 scale. The
operators refused. In the heat of dis
cussion, President White, of the mine
workers, announced that the emergency
mon should remain in the mines during
the negotiations with the understand
ing that they should receive the scale
to be fixed by the joint committee
which meets tomorrow. This was fin
ally agreed to. 49, -.. T..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
NEGROES coMPLIMENTEp.
Florence High in Praise of Col0red
 Odd Fellows.

Florence, Aug. l2.-(Special )-Arnch favorable comment Is heard on the streets regarding the conduct of the delegates to the negro Odd Fellows Convention held here this week,
 With thousand visitors in the city, not one arrest was made. The dele- gates, without exception, conducted themselves with the utmost decorum or drunkenness was reported to the police The convention was pronounced one of the most successful in the his tory or the order and the members re- turned to their homes woll pleased with their visit to FlorencA
 A difficulty over a dog has involved three Tuscumbia citizens in serious trouble and unable to settle the mat ter among themselves the parties have appealed to the courts, where peace proceedings and an action for trespass were brought in the magistrates court yesterday morning
 Mrs. w T. Mackie was on the way to her husbands school. followed by her bull dog, when she stopped in to visit the family of Tom Dobbs. who also owns bull dog. The two canines immediately engaged in a death strug- gle and while Mrs. Mackie was rnak- eXtricate her dog, Dobbs despatched the animal with an axe. This so in- censed Mackie that he armed himself and started out with the intention of taking reprisals on the Dobbs dog, but the dog and Dobbs had disappeared and the latter's landlord, Malone. swore out warrants against Mackie as above stated.
 The Lauderdale County Board of Registrars finished their labors for the time being. the books closing Satur- day afternoon. A total of 21S newly qualified voters were added under the new constitution, by far the best show Ing being made at Rogersville. where .aNr M NIs.. could only show twenty five.
 Many of the best citizens of the city and County are just beginning to warm up and take interest in the com ing election find to their chagrin that they have disfranchised themselves by failing to pay their poll taxes and this is subject of concern to the County candidates also
 The Board of Registrars will re. convene on August 22 for the purpose of revising the registration book and settling all matters that may come be fore them just prior to the primary oi August 27.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13

sport" and left to rot Every mans hand is against the alligator
 These creatures are extremely pros life, It is not certainly known how many eggs female will lay in one batch. but we have seen the number estimated at from fifty to two hundred A fair average might put the number at lesst az high as seventxsfve. and when the mother lays her supply and covers them up. there is no more to be done The female watches around the neighborhood. if she Is not disturbed. and when the young are matched, they go at once into the water where many of them become the prey of vultures and fishes, and even the old males make occasional meals of them, so that com paratively few grow to maturity, yet in spite of that, if it were not for hu- man enemies they would multiply al most like mosquitoes.
 Now, we see no reason why. in South Alabama. some of the marshy ponds and lakes might not be securely fenced In and alligator farms started. It would require several years for the first crop to become marketable, but after that the increase would be continuous, and if it would not be profitable. we are unable to see the reason. They would require no cultivation, and but little care or attention. as only the young would need some protection There's millions in It."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13

senses we pity him. for his self-eoneest has swallowed all other senses. Tech nicaliy. no sound in nature is music as 1t is written and played by man. but. to quote again from The Mail:
 All our music is, in its essence but an initiation of natures sounds, just as all feiting of her visible arrangements. The suggestion and inspiration had to como from nature in the first place. The Eroica symphony Is but an extension or mechanical elaboration of the thrush's song. and 'Siegfried" Is tho music of the wind in the mountain forest. If these have been de- from the primitive mans attempt to express his individual feelings by an initiation of the birds song, music must indeed be natural. and true musicians can scarcely be made without n re- turn, for their instruction. to natures teachers.
 Every sound made by bird or beast is not music to the human ear, but cer- tainly the same can be said of some of the noises made by human beings. whether by their own voices or on in struments. We have heard singing that had no more music in it than Is in the croak of the frog or the harsh cry of the raven. but we sincerely pity the rerson who finds nothing musical in nature.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
WHY NOT.

The idea of raising alligators as money crop may not strike the average reader as very inviting proposition, but there might be something worth while in it. The alligator is not a pretty bird. from any point of view In fact, he is decidedly the reverse Of handsome in shape, odor, features or manners. One of our contemporaries says that alligators are really harm less" but that is an opinion we are not inclined to endorse. At any rate, we have no disposition to experiment with one to see if he Is harmless. We prefer to let others have the job.
 But why not raise them2 The spe- cies Is fast going out, and only a few can now be found. compared with what was formerly the ease. The New York Mall estimates that at least three mill lions of them were killed in Florida alone during the ten years from 1890 to 1900. We do not know upon what 1t bases its figures, but it is known that a war of extermination is con- tinualIy waged against them in all por- tions of the country. There are yet some inaccessible spots on the North American continent where they breed and grow, but this will not last long. But about raising them, there may be a good deal said. It is known that their skins make beautiful and durable leather, and a valuable oil can be ex- tracted from their -carcasses. Some people eat the flesh, but it is not dish that a refined taste would select as a matter of choice. It reminds one too much of some packing-h house products. It is not necessary to use the flesh, however, in order to obtain profit, for the oil and the skins would bring good prices and would make raising them a paying investment. A great deal of the leather is used in this country. but
 most of it comes from Mexico and Gen. tral America. Louisiana and Florida stilI supply considerable numbers of hides, but the supply is in fair way to be exhausted.
 There are few hardier specimens in the animal kingdom than alligators. By preference, they live and breed in the stagnant marshes and bayous abounding in the Gulf region of the United States, and if unmoIested their numbers would soon be beyond com putation but their native haunts are being more and more invaded as time passes Many are killed for their hides, but many more are slain for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
TODAY IN HISTORY

Name day: Hildebert Sun rises at 5.9; sets at 6.5f.
 152l-cortez retook the City of Mex ico. assisted by 10000 Tlascalans. and an innumerable host of other Indian allies from the neighboring nations, whom he had attached to his service. five days of fierce and almost daily fighting. that he accomplished his vic tory.
 1bs7--M -Manteo, friendly Indian. who had been to England, was baptized, ace cording to previous arder. of Sir Wal-s ter Raleigh, and in reward of his fatTh- full servce to the English, was called, Lord of Roanoke and Desamonguepeak
 Ie36--De Nries. who had been two years on the coast of America, with < view to settling a colony. entered on his diary this day. that he requested Woutsf Van TwiIier to put Staten Is- land down to his name, intending to form a colony there. which was done. and two days after he sailed on his re- turn to Holland.
 17T5-Washington informed Congress that the whole stock of powder in New England amounted to no more than D. 92T pounds .about nine pounds to a man. Although his information was communicated to the British by a de- sible that the Americans possessed such consummate assurance as to continue to invest them in Boston, while So des- titute of ammunition.
 1s04--Vice President Aaron Burr ar rived on the east coast of Florida
 1Sl2-The sa3ritish sloop-of war, Alert. attacked the United States fri- gate. Essex. Captain Porter. and after an action of eight minutes struck her eulors, with seven feet of water In her hold. much cut to pieces and three men wounded. The Alert had been sent out u capture the Hornet. and mounted twenty eighteen pound carronaaes. and
 iS2s-The militia, which the Cover .uf IA Aaa fresa f4axs of that State. returned to camp. hav- ing met with no trouble with the Ir- dians.
 1S5i-The United states Minister to Spain declined to attend a dinner which was given in Madrid to the editors of the liberal press.
 1864--Mosby attacked and captured a Union supply train of seventy five wagons. 500 horses, zoo cattle and zoo
 1S64-Governor Yates of Illinois is- sued a proclamation asking for the raising of a full regiment of State troops before September for eTer- gency service in the State
 1s6s-General Canby assumed com mand of the Department of Washing ton.
 ISss-The United States steamers Watertree and Fredonia lost by the terrible earthquake in Peru. By this earthquake 10000 lives are supposed to have been lost.
 1884-Lieutenant Greedy, returned Arctic explorer, told story of court martial and execution of Private Chas. B Henry for stealing food.
 1S94-The Brice-Gorman tariff bill passed by Congress and sent to Pres- ident Cleveland for his signature
 1S9s-The troops under General Mer- ritt and the fleet under Admiral Dewey made a simultaneous attack uron Ma niIa. The brigades under Generals Mc- Arthur and Greene carried the Spanish works with a loss in killed and miss ing of about fifty men. After six hours fighting the Spaniards surrend- cred the city with about 1000 prison- CTS.
 Service by American Press-News.
 Washington, D. C.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
NOT A coon JUDGE.

One signor Bonct referred to as "an eminent Italian tenor" declares that there is no such thing as music in na-
 ture. and that music is entirely the creation of man." This assertion. in the
 word of The New York Mail. will be denied 'by those who love the song of the mocking- bird or the finch, whose senses are ravished and whose souls are uplifted by the dispason of the
 great trees choiring on the mountain side in the wind, and who would rather listen to the ripple of a brook. or the snIashinR of oceans waves on pebbly shore. than to a Philharmonic concert"
 It may be that this Italian singer in the pride of his own attainments, can find no music that is not produced by man. but he will hardly convert to his way of thinking those whose ears are attuned to all the sweet sounds of the woods. It may be that to him the raul eous cry of the crow or the sonorous brav of a donkey is as musical as the song of the canary or the thrush. and that thrunming on a banjo or ham on drum is sweeter than the tril of t6s linnet. but if such are his
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
PERRY ON LAKE ERIE.

Meet school children. as we'll as gwown up folks. know something about the great victory won by Commodore Perry on Lake Erie during the war with Great Britain in 1872. but very few of them, we suspect. know what kind of a vessel his flagship was. Commodore Perry. in the words of contemporary. was sent to Lake Erie early in the war to build and man two brigs of war of 500 tons and twenty guns each. The emergency was so great that wood cut in the forest was placed in the ships on the same day. These two ships. when ready, were named the Lawrence and tNe Niagara. Each was 1o9 feot long. thirty feet wide and drew nIns feet of water There were eight other small vessels in the fleet. but the Lawrence and the Niagara were the only firstcIass ones, and when the battle ooercd on thu, morning of September 10. is1S, tho Lawrence was Perry's flagship. After hard fighting in which the Lawrence was made total wreck. Per ry transferred his flag to the Niagara. continued the battle ana 1orceo the British to surrender"
 In this day of great battle-ships. constructed of the best materials and of immense size. it sounds almost ridi- cuious to read of little tub like that. thrown together in a hurry, and Of green timber just from the forest, be- ing used as the flagship of Com nIodore in the United States navy. Such vessel now would hardly be thought fit to be used as a scow to haul dirt in, vet in that sort of ship he carried his flag and won really great victory. Wonder what a Commodore of the present day would think if he should b.. compelled to go into battle with such 8 fleet?
 It would be difficult to find more graphic illustration of the changes of less than a century than is found in this one event. The little apology for a fleet was all that we had to protect our Northern boundaries against inva- sion from the enemy in Canada. The little tubs composing Perry's fleet would be looked on with contempt in- dividually and collectively. by naval officer of our day, but they were the hast our government could do. and Perry was the man to take the FISK That he would take such chances. and that he achieved such decided sue- cess. shows of what metal he and his men were composed. What they lacked in ships and munitions was made up in courage and endurance. It would be a sight worth going to see if fleet exactly like that could be placed along side one of our best fleets of the pres | ent time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
sronrNe A SENTIMENT.

If the goodly and godly people of Massachusetts do not hang. draw and quarter their feiiow-citizen. Hon. John D. Long. we should like to know what ails them. Tn recent speech that much honored statesman said:
 "The saints in Plymouth colony can be counted on the fingers. Some or the very elect were false to their trust and used their positions to feather their own nests--falser to the trust than any President of modern insurance com ss. yay nsssssa waa the the rn asfae dran enness, pickering, slander. licentious- l,ess and even crimes against nature were common. All this took place in No New England village of today need fear comparison with the early Piy- mouth colony"
 If there is anything that truly loy- al Massachusetts Yankee is ready to stand up and fight for 1t is the mem ory of those Pilgrim fathers. The children are taught in schoolbooks and through local historians and tra- ditions, and in song and story. that these first settlers were q God-fearing ana God-worshipping assemhlage of I the very elect. the salt of the earth, in fact. They were so extremely reli- l gious. as we have always been given | to understand that it was considered sin to laugh on Sunday. In short, VIC have always been instructed by the historians that a Pilgrim Father was just about as nearly ready for wings as | human being ever gets. True, they found various ways to get the Indians land and substance without compensat- ing him for 1t. but what of it? Were not the Indians heathens? Did not the Lord promise to give the saints the heather for an inheritance. and were they are not saints? Yea and verify; therefore all that the Indians had was l theirs for the taking-and they were still the saints
 Now comes this modern Massachus- etts statesman and throwsAh veil of un- belief over the whole business. AS he makes them out they were in the main a set of hypocrites, grafters. looters and
 almost everything else that we are ac- l customed to look on as disreputable, IT Mr. Long is correct these much laud- ed saints" were a hard lot. and not any better than some of our modern on-th the-make citizens.
 It has been explained as an excuse for Mir. Long that his object was to put heart in the modern inhabitants of Massachusetts by showing them that they are about as good as were the saints of the Mayflower. who have so 1 long been held up as models of all goodness. Mir. Long wanted to hearten and cheer his hearers and make them believe that they are not so altogether worse than the Pilgrims. All the same, his speech was jolt to those
 who have lived on the traditions of Plymouth Rock.