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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-06
MORE FROM NELL
Commissioner of Labor Will Re
port Soon on 6-Hour Law
Violations
ALLEGED By THE A. F. OF L.
Ready Before the Adjournment of Con
aress-Fine Points of Law
Involved.

Washington, June G.-The report of
Commissioner of Labor Charles p.
Neill, on charges of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. that the eight-hour
law was constantly being violated with
government contracts will be submit
ted to the president about the end of
the present month. These charges in
response to a request by the president,
were submitted by the executive coun-
Gil of the American Federation of La
Dor. and by the president turned over
10 Neill for investigation.
Looked Into All.
Neill at once set on foot a careful in
quiry in the course of which each spe-
cific instance of alleged violation was
looked into. While no intimation is
given out what the report will state,
Neil said today there We're some fine
points of law in some cases brought
to his attention and that these would
be at once referred TO the attorney gen
eral who, it is understood. will take
prompt action in order thus to report
of Neill may be submitted before the
adjournment of congress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-06
Mrs. Decker Aoain President.

st. Paul, Mimi, June 6.-Mrs. Sarah
Platt-Decker was today reelected pres
ident of the General Federation of Wo
mems clubs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-06
So Regarded by Liberal
Sympathizers in
Russia.
OOUMA SHOWS MIND
Emperor Must Dismiss His
Ministry or Fight
For II.

81, petersburg, June O.-Ine lower
house of parliament and the govern
ment are rapidly coming to close quar-
ters and the conflict which seems in
evitable cannot be much longer de-
layed. Excitement in the interior is
increasing daily. Partial strikes have
been begun at Kieff. Odessa. Moscow
and other cities.
Seizing Land
Peasants in some provinces are no
longer restrainable, and have COM
menced to seize the land of the propri-
etors. The scene at yesterdays ses-
sion when the house refused to listen
to the ministers and practically drove
them from the rostrum, clearly presents
the issue. The emperor must dismiss
the cabinet or fight.
Was Spirit I'm Parliament.
The spirit of conflict which prevailed
at yesterdays session continued at the
sitting today although some of the lead
ers of the constitutional democrats
went into the breach to stay 700 hasty
action. Vinavers' project TO change
the regulations of the house which
form part of the fundamental law or
constitution so as to eliminate all con-
troll of ministers either in drafting or
manipulation bills was introduced in
the house.
Make violent Speeches.
The peasant party leaders used the
occasion to make violent speeches in
which they argued it was useless for
parliament to proceed in the regular
way. The government intended to-
reign with bullets and bayOnets and ii
was parliament's duty 10 raise ban
ner under which people would fight
when the inevitable collision comes.
Appeal for CaImness.
The constitutional democrats appeal
ed to members of the house not TO lose
their heads. but to proceed calmly and
Systematically with the work of bat
tering a breach in the wall Their ar
guments carried the day and by practi-
cally a unanimous vote, the Vinaver
project was referred to a committee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-06
Sir Frederick Peel Dead.

London. June 6.-Former Secretary
of the Treasury Sir Frederick Peel
died today, aged SO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-06
LINCOLN CABIN is ENRoUTE
Started From New York on Special
Train for Old Home at Hodgensville.

New York, June 6.-The Lincoln log
cabin acquired by the Lincoln Farm
association for restoration to its orig
inal site. was started today on it's jour
ney to Hodgensville, Ky. on a special
train over the Pennsylvania railroad.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-06
TELL ONLY TRUTH
Mexican Junta at ST. Louis De-
clared to Seek OiaZ's
Overthrow
EXPOSING CONDITIONS SOUTH
Evils Said to Have Followed Invasion
of Yankees Into Neighboring
Country.

ST. Louis, Mo-. June 6.-Members of
the junta of the Mexican liberal party
sons accused by United States Ambas-
sador Thompson of having melted the
strike at the Greene Consolidated COP
per mines at Cananea. Mexico are 10
be found at 2645 Lafayette avenue
where they are publishing paper call.
ed Regeneration. Antonio |. Villareal,
secretary, said:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-06
Telling Truth.

"They say we have Tried to incite a
revolution. That is not true. We have
simply been printing the truth about
the conditions at the Greene mines at
Cananea. We have been calling atten-
ton TO the fact that the mining com
pany pays American workmen s. d
day and pays Mexicans only $3.50 a
day We have called attention TO the
evils which are following the invasion
of the Yankees into Mexico We have
been making a fight for a square deal
for the Mexican laborers. Our great
purpose is to overthrow Diaz."
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23
AMBITION.

There's nothing that's more ad
mired than ambition. It is the
power that lifts mankind from
the ranks of the mediocre and
places him among those who
have achieved things. It is that
restlessness that makes him dis
contented with his achievements
by pointing out that he can do no
more and must do more. But
the ambition that is fed by pure
selfshness is not the kind that
accomplishes the most. It is
perhaps the best to be ambitious
solely for the qualification of our
own desires than not to be poss-
essed of this necessary factor to
human progress, but when this
is the motive that prompts, the
endeavors are not marked with
a degree of charity that consid-
ers others who are striving on
ward and upward, but rather has
a tendency to crush and cast
aside those who obstruct the
the path.
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23

It may be a source of great
satisfaction to some people to
read that Mr.. John Rockefeller
has made one of his princely
donations to some charitable or
religious institution, but the
fellow who is running a gasoline
engine or the one who uses a
large quantity of coal oil shud-
ders and grows faint at heart
when he learns that Mr.. Rookie
teller has decided to let out a
million to some of his benef ciar-
les, for he knows full we'll that
there is to be a rise in the price
of gasoline and coal oil in conse-
quence. The price of gasoline
has now reached the point where
it is almost impossible to run
gasoline engines proftably and
the price is going higher. There
is no excuse for it, and the only
reason such things can exist is
that Rockefeller has the power
to rob the people and is doing it
through violation Of law and
through dishonesty. -Larue Her
aid.
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23

President Roosevelt has again
demonstrated his respect for the
South in a way to.especially COM
mend him to the old Confederate
soldiers. The son of Gen. Sher-
man started with a troop of cav
airy to follow the march that his
father took with his army to the
sea. The South will iissnever for
get that march of burning des-
olation and outrageous vandalism.
1t was smirch and not a credit
to Gen. Sherman and when his
son proposed to 60 over it with a
body of United States troops, the
President, understanding how
the South felt about it, without a
word from the South, prohibited
the troops accompanying Sher-
man. The action of Roosevelt
was that of a gentleman and a
Southern gentleman at that
ElizabethtOWn News.
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23
SUNfLOWER PHILOSOPHY.

When a pretty girl has sun
grin on her face you doubt that ii
is the same girl.
Some people are unsuccessful
at everything but kicking.
What has become of the old
fashioned boy who never left
home without bible in his trunk
If hens could talk how they
would abuse incubators. Incuba-
tors are better mothers than
hens.
When a child asks an old-fash-
Toned woman a question the wom-
an is liable toTsay: Curiosity
killed a cat. :"
By the time a girl has worked
downtown six-months her great
est ambition is to wear a white
shirtwaist three days before
sending to the laundry.
When a woman comes down.
town shopping she spends half
her time in taking off and put
ting on her gloves, and the other
half in looking for samples in her
pocket-b book.
When man returns to his old
home town on a visit the people
are never as glad to see him as
he thinks they should be. And
how many there are who have
never heard of him.
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23
WOMEN MORE CRUEL THAN men

John P. Haines, in resigning
from the Presidency of the New
York Society for the Prevention
of cruelty to animals, has attrib-
uted his downfall in that institu-
ton to the opposition of ''cruel
women who come to the meet
ings of the society wearing
aigrettes of the plumage of birds
that are obtained by the death
of the mother bird and the star
walton of the brood"
On this solid foundation of
fact Mr.. Haines feels secure in
expressing the opinion that wom-
en- are. ''as a sex, more cruel
than men,
All eyes have seen the woman
with the bird on her hat. She
wears this particular badge of
her cruelty where it connot es-
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23
THE COLOR QUESTION RISES.

The color question is always
bobbing up, but prehaps few an
ticipated that it would come be-
fore the General Assembly which
meets this weeks at Des Moines,
la. It is what is properly known
as the Northern General Assem-
bly,, though that is not it's official
name. Heretofore it has got
along all right with the colored
brother, but there is a prospect
now that he may be the subject
of some controversy.
The proposed absorption of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church
brings with it certain impossi-
bilities. That church has it's
membership chiefly in the South
and West. It has, therefore,
been deemed expedient to per-
NIT the formation of separate
negro presbyteries and synods,
but the General Assembly is
common to all. But the hotel
proprietors in Des Moines have
decided that they will not enter
tain a colored man, even if he is
a commissioner to the General
Assembly. The General Assem-
bly, is not responsible for that,
but it raises a troublesome ques-
ton which it will be hard tokeep
out. Many of the commissioners
hold their meetings in the hotels,
and these often include informal
dinners. From these, according
to the order, the negroes will be
excluded, and there is much ap-
prehension as to what will be
done about it.
This is one of the last places
where one might have expected
that the color line would be
drawn in the North. The Gener-
al Assembly is not to blame for
it, but the question what it will
do about it, if anything, has a
degree of interest which can not
be separated from the
consolidation of two
churches. Courier Journal.
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23
on as a sample of country journ-

on as sample of country journ-
alism."
We ventue the assertion that
the daily papers print more of
what they are pleased to call rot
than the country papers do. If
the country papers devote six or
eight items to one family, the
city journalists copy itwith great
glee and chuckle over the humor
of it all. And yet the metropoli-
tan papers recently printed more
insufferable rot about one or
two particular families than a
hundred country newspapers
could possibly print in a year.
The metropolitan papers take
themselves to seriously. They
seem inclined to the belief that
they are st" when the fact is
they WELD comparatively little
influence as compared with the
country weeklies. And they are
by no means free from the faults
they so joyfully point out in their
country contemporaries.
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23
cape being seen, and for the SOLE

cape being seen, and for the sole:
reason that it may be seen.
But is it not unfair to condemn
women as utterly cruel because
of this one fault?
After all, it is not so much a
fault as a frailty. Women's van
ity is an overpowering passion,
and if they must feed it with the
plumage of murdered birds, are
they any worse than men who
glut their greed upon the fruits
of other mems life-crushing
toll?
Cruelty is a very infrequent
vice among women. Even bird
wearing is far from being uni
versal.
1t is impossible not to remem-
Der that the whole structure of
the movement on behalf of hui
mainly to all creatures, which
has reached greater proportions
in this country than in any other
land, is founded in the first in
stance on the tender-heartedness
of the American women.
1t would be interesting to know
how far the S. P. C.. A. move
ment would ever have progressed
in this country but for the inspi-
ration and enthusiasm that have
come trim women.
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23
BRYAN ON COUNTRY EDITORS

The Washington Post has fall
len into the bad habit set by 9TH
er metropolitan newspapers and
is just now engaged in reprint
ing extracts from country papers,
says The Commoner, Mr.. Baran's
paper. This is done for the pur-
pose Of having fun with the
country editors by copying what
metropolitans too often look up
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23
CARL sCHURz

CAkL 9I0UK
The American people have long
admired Carl Schurz, but they
have never loved him.
In war he was a faithful SOL
der no doubt but he was neither
a great General nor a great lead
er.
There were times when the in
huence of Carl Schurz was potent
and it was always an influence
for the good even when it was
merely the voice of one crying in
the wilderness.
Mr.. Schurz was a liberal Re-
publican in Missouri, preparing
the way for the movement which
eliminated in the nomination of
Horace Greedy.
Four year later he stood with
Hays against Tilden and became
a member of the cabinet.
In civil life he began as a rev.
olutionist and ended as a carping
critic of the closet; the philoso-
pher who left the personal ele-
ment out of all his equations.
In the contest for sound money
Mr.. Schurz spoke with rare clear
ness and convincing power. He
stood usually for the greatest
freedom for the Southern States.
He was a believer in free trade,
as John Sherman was at one time
and as Beecher and David A.
Wells were always.
1t is not possible to follow the
checkered career of Mr.. Schurz
without a handbook of politics,
for he wore his party uniform so
loosely that he often dropped it
altogether.
Mr.. Schurz' s intellectual powers
always commanded respect, and
they may for a time keep his
name from oblivion. The Senate
was his best forum. Could he
have remained there. as Allison
has done, he would have left a
deeper mark than Allison will do
on our political history. In Eng
land it would not have been diff
ficult for Schurz to have kept his
footing in public life; in America
the independent thinker can hope
only to influence others and to
act to their actions, but without
party organization and party in
fluence no politician can long be a
direct influence on the conduct of
public life.
But there are better things
than place or power or fame, and
and those things Mr.. Schurz had;
clearness of intellect; power of
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23

expression; high ideals and loyal
ty to truth as he saw the truth.
1t matters not now whether he
be remembered or be forgotten
Louisville Post.
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23
A DOZEN DONT'S.

Don't sit around waiting for
the world to pay you the living
it owes you.
Don't waste on the family dog
the carresses that your children
are pining for.
Don't forget that you were
once young.
Don't anger a man by always
talking about your smart chill
dren when he wants to talk a
little bit about his own.
Don't bother a busy man un-
less you have business worth
while.
Don't say a word if you can
not speak good OF your nelghbOr.
Don't bore your friends by fall
ing into the foolish habit of al
ways giving advice.
Don't try to drown sorrow. It
is the greatest fOater known.
Don't forget that your cyni-
cism may appear to your friends
to be a cloak for ignorance.
Don't Judge a man by results
but by efforts.
Don't give advice that you do
not follow.
The Adair County news., 1906-05-23

Plenty of people do not loo
where they are going, but there
are mighty few who will not
some day 60 where they are
looking.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-27
CONGRESSMAN WILL
HAVE TO BE ON JOB
There is a Law Which Forbids Them
from Drawing Pay Unless
There.
(By Associated Press

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 26.-Re-
preventative John Wesley Chimes of
Tennessee who is in favor of enacting
a new statute. providing that members
of Congress shall forfeit 1880 for
every day they are absent. announces
that as a result of search through
the old documents at the capitol he
has found that statute passed in
1856 which prohibits absent members
from collecting their salaries unless
they are kept from their official duties
by illness. has never been repealed. An
attempt was made to enforce the law.
he says, in the 52nd Congress, which
resulted in strenuous effort to re.
Peal the statute Representative
Gaines will call the attention OF Con.
gress to the statute. he says, and in.
sist that 1t be enforced.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-27
ACTION AGAINST THE
GREAT NORTHERN
Slate Of Minnesota Begins su|l
against NH 10 Prevent
ISSUANCE Of Stock.
WOULD HURT ALL WHO USE ROAD
People Would Have to Eventually
Haya to Pay More for Frelah. and
Passenger Fare In Order That
Company Could Declare Seven per
Cent Dividend.
i tRy Associated Press

ST. PAUL, MIMI, Dec. 26,-At.
torney General Young and n. "A.
stone, assistant attorney general
this afternoon began an action In
the Ramesy county district court on
behalf OF he State OF Minnesota
against the Great Northern Railway
company, asking for permanent In
Junction against the company, It's
oIllcers agents and servants from
proceeding In any manner With the
proposed Issue OF capital stock re-
cently authorized by the board OF
directors In New York. The at,
torney general also asks that, the
court restrain the defendants from
receiving or collecting the amounts
que on any subscriptions which may
nave been sold, 80,
the Dill also says: IF the defen.
dant increases It's stock as now pro.
DOS ed t ne aggregate thereof will be
Seo'oVo.Voo. me defendant has been
and is Sow paying ann2al dividends
at me rate OF per cent on all OF its
capital stock and Will pay dividends
at the same rate on all OF Its pres
eht capitt stock II this increse
IL cOnslmmated as now intended.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-27
GOT GARB0LIc ACID
TO WOMAN PRISONER
Man Then Took a Dose Himself and
Both Ole from Deadly
Poison.
{By Associatea Prees.)

ELMIRA, N. y, Dec. 26.-Althougll
guard was standing close beside hin,
tonight, Frank Delaney, railroad
man made bold attempt to end his
life and the life of woman who oc.
cuDied q cell in the woman's dormitory
of the Elinira county Jail.
The woman was Bessie Wells await.
Ing sentence on January FOR abduct-
ing young girl and harboring her
for immoral purpose. Delaney pro-
cured power of attorney for woman
and when he called at the jail and
stated that he wished to consult her,
regarding the signing of important pa.
.pers, there was no objection on the
part of the warden, who sent guard
along with him. The guard stood close
by while the man and woman were
comforting. when suddenly Delaney
drew from his pocket a bottle OF car.
bolic acid, and passed 1t through the
bars
The woman seized ii and swallowed
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-27
SIX ARE MURDERED BY
THE DREADED MAFiA
Italians In New Orleans Are Panic
Stricken by tho Work OF Secret
Organization.

NDW ORLEANS. La, Dec. 2e.-A
plot OF tho Mafln, which has been
working secretly In New Orlepnu for
years, Ia regarded aB being responsible
for the deaths of elk Italians, who
were found murdered early today In q
tenement house In Dumaine Street.
Several of the men had been burned
to death. Sr5
Such panic has been created
among Italians as result or the dis
covery that 1t waB necessary to send
every reserve policeman In the city
TO tho tenement house, Even then
there was SO much excitement that
the Officers could not cope with tho
situation and firemen were ordered
out. !.
The murders are supposed to have
heen committed during the early part
OF the night, and there Ia every indf.
cation that they were carefully plan.
nod, aB no screams from the yictims
were heard. 1t IS believed many men
participated In the slaughter, and all
the victims We're struck down ut tho
same time. Their bodies were literal.
~ hacked to pieces. Those which were
burned we're probably BET on fire after
the murders had been committed
90 FAR the police have been unable
70 secure q clew to the perpetrators.
The Italians OF the quarter are all 30
badly frightened that 1t Is useless to
qnestfon them. The greatest fear pre-.
walls that the outbreak of the dread
secret society Ia not over, and that
additional murders may follow.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-27
BLACK AND WHITE
SOLDIERS HAVE FIGHT
Negro Started the Trouble on a troll.
ley Car Running to Fort Leayen.
worth, Kan.
LEANENWoRTH. KAN

LEAYBNWoRTH, KAN, Dec. 60
+ rigid investigation is being made
today to learn the participants in the
riot caused by negro soldiers last night
on late car to Fort Leayepworth
which ended In a serious fight be-.
tween black and white soldiers. Trou-
bic started when a negro soldier who
was drunk. refused to pay his fare. He
called the conductor vile name, and
was Knocked down. Other negroes
rushed to the help of their comrade.
and the white soldiers on the car
took a hand. The negroes jumped off
the car and began throwing stones
through the windows. This attack
badly frightened other passengers.
many Of whom were women.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-27
Reports Of KILLING Vague.

SCOOBA, MISS. Dec. 26.-Late
Yesterday indefinite reports reached
this town that four negroes had been
pursued hy poose and killed, five
miles east Of here. It was also report.
ed that the negroes IN and around the
town were in state of unrest and
trouble was feared. A telegram was
sent to Governor yardaman at jack
son.4 asking that troops be forwarded
here from Meridian.
The governor ordered out a com.
pany OF militia and the soldiers ar.
rived here early today They found
that no trouble existed in Scooba and
they are now walking about the little
town chatting with the citizens. The
reported killing of four negroes yes.
terday, which cannot be verified, was
a direct outgrowth of the recent trou-
BILE at Wahalak. from which there is
statement that the trouble had
suhsidcd and business was being car
ried on as usual
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-27
TWO WERE KILLED
AND ELEVEN HURT
Bad Collision Between an Interurban
Train and Work Train at
SeattIe Wash.

TACOMA. WASH, Dec. 26.-Iwo
persons were killed and eleven hurt,
ono fatally, in a collision today be-.
tween an interurban train from
Seattle and work train. The col.
lision occurred ner Edgewood. The
dead: George Ross, conductor of
the interurban train; William Harris,
third railman; o. William Gtlyon,
motorman, WAS fatally injured. The
wreck occurred on sharp ciirve
in deep cut. Two fiat cars .Wer,,
piled ION the first passenger car,
crushing 1t to splinters.