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The Washington times., 1907-08-09

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Fifteen hun
dred employees of the Western
Union Telegraph Company in Chi
cago-operators and messenger
iovs-are on strike. The night
force of 200 men deserted their
KEYS at midnight, and the day force
refuses to return to work.
The unexpected walk-out in Chi
cago is a direct result of the strike
in Los Angeles. At a special meet
ing the operators union adopted
resolution refusing to receive mes
sages from men who had taken
PAGES of striking operators in Los
Angeles. The resolution was adopt
ed at II o'clock.
In the main office of the Western
Union, Roger Malery was at work
on the Los Angeles wire at that
time. He Immediately deserted his
KEY. Chief Operator H. J. Price or
dered him back, but he refused.
Price then turned to each of fifty
others in the Office and directed
them to work on the Los Angeles
wire. They refused, and were or
dered 10 leave the building.
Company Given an Hour.
Within a few minutes after the sum-
mary dismissal Of the men, meeting
NJ the union executive board was called.
~
pany was given an hour within which
10 relnstate the discharged operators.
Wire chiefs confessed inability 10 get In
touch with Superintendent T. II. Cook
and promptly at midnight member Of
The executive committee blew police
mans whistle and all but four keys in
the big office stopped working
Four at Post.
Thomas Babb. G.; Jerry Mereness. 90;
George Reynolds. &C, and Sam Ingram,
50. four operators who refused TO strike
In 1888. remained at their posts with
Chief Operator Price.
Strikers congregated outside the West
ern Union building.
call was sent into the central box
station and a detail Of bluecoats was
eOou kudIQlllS NllAA dAANNo " Allt bhlAA-
ing, but there was no display Of vio-
.ence.
Postal Not Yet Involved.
Operators in the Postal service are
not yet involved. but officers of the
anion promise nothing for today. Local
business after midnight was transferred
from the Western Union to the Postal
office. Western Union officials who
reached the company's main office after
he wallSout during the night, promised
hat a sufficient force would be on hand
:oday to keep the wires open.
Union officials declare this will have
he same result I'm cities having con-
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Neglect of Duty Charged.

Continuing. the Indictment states:
That Henry H. Hildebrand then and
there wholly neglected his duty as such
locomotive engineer, unlawfully and fe-
lOniously did neglect and omit 20 care
fully watch for and to see the said red
light so displayed at Takoma, and to
stop the said train In obedience to the
same, but unlawfully and feloniously
did negigently pass the said red light
and enter with and run the said train
of cars in and through the said block
between said stations of Takoma and
University, and IN so doing did cause
the locomotive engine attached to the
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Red Light Was Displayed.

On December 80. last. it is stated. train
No. &c, in charge Of Engineer Vermillion
and Conductor George w. Maggie,
reached the signal station Of Takoma,
and before the hour Of $50 o'clock, when
the station shuts down, received a
proper signal from the operator 10 pass
into the block ending at University Sta
tion. At the same time train 2l20 in
charge Of the men indicted by the grand
jury today, entered the block at Ia
koma, Notwithstanding the fact that 4
red light had been displayed.
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Soldiers Gave Cheer.
Gives Child Food.

After he had been patted and caressed
by nearly everyone present, Secretary
Weller and Mrs Edna Bushee. Of the
Associated Charities. and Mrs. Ferry, IN
whose care the child came 20 the camp.
took him into a nearby room and began
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TEMPERATURE
SIN TABLE

SUN TABLE.
Sun sets today. "a
Sun rises tomorrow. ow.-............... 5.FI
TIDE TABLE.
High water today. $50 o. m.
Low water tOday..............2 2.49 % m
High water tomorrow. $40 an, 9.oS D. m.
Low water tomorrow 3 a m, 3:25 ~ IN.
HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, Aug. g.
Both EiYsrs clear todaY.
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Postal Not Yet Involved.

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Rain today and cooler.
Cloudy Saturday; warmer.
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THE WEATHER REPORT.

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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30

An enterprising dressmaker of
New York has designed a garment
fitting device that should prove valu-
able to others in the same profess
sion. Dressmakers claim that when
fitting lady's skirt 1t is very difficult
to correctly mark the correct length,
as slight shifting of the body will
cause the dressmaker to mark incor-
rectly. Another disadvantage is the
want of a foundation which will
spread out the bottom of the skirt
evenly at the proper distance. This
is provided for in the device shown
here. 1t consists of circular disc,
the outer edges of which coincide
with the flare of the skirt. Two
openings are made in the base, one
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30

Sufficient attention has been d.
rected toward the warmth generated
in the body by paper vests to demon
strate the fact that there is reason
for serious consideration OF paper
garment manufacture. There have
been for some time past vests made
of paper, also cuffs, collars, shirt boz
SONS, ETC., but 1t has remained for
firm In Saxony to spin narrow strips
of paper and cotton into finished fab
RIGS OF common use. Paper and cot
ton and paper and wool are so COM
bined that serviceable outing suits.
jackets, skirts and many other ar
ticles Of dress are now being pro
duced. The new textile, If so it may
be called, is cream colored, and may
be washed without injuring the
surface, and is marketed for a
ridiculously small price Sufficient
xylolin, as it Is called, to produce a
complete plain suit costs but two
or three dollars. Doubtless a means
will soon be found by which the
finer fabrics may, be reproduced
through the use of paper. to which
end numerous inventors are now at
WORK. Kansas City Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30

on each side of the centre, to re-
ceive the feet of the wearer In the
centre of the disc is a support con-
tanning numerous openings. BY in
sorting peg in an opening the disc
can be supported any distance desired
above the floor. After adjusting the
disc the dressmaker is in position to
mark on the unfinished garment the
exact length it is to be. Without sucn
base the skirt would naturally fall
in toward the body
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
FIGHTING A TRUST WITH TERRORISM.
Kentucky Cooperative Campaign
End in Great Feud
AGENTS DRIVEN OUT AND FARMERS SOCIETY POSITION
with alarm

Lexington, Ky.-Wil. the Ken
lucky tobacco planters be able to
command their own price for the pro-
1uct of their lands or will their fight
With the Tobacco Trust result in a
great feud in which many lives are
10 be sacrificed? This question is
agitating Kentucky farmers at pres
ant.
The producers of Blue Grass seed
nave formed a pool and sold their en-
tire crop this season at greatly ad-
vanced price, but this will be sold
back to the other farmers, and they
must pay the farmers who harvested
the seed the additional profits. The
growers of wheat have attempted a
oool with some success, and the
breeders of thoroughbred horses
have tacit understanding so that
prices are enhanced.
In Western Kentucky the planter
who will not join the Tobacco Asso-
citation fears to close his eyes lest
some of his property be destroyed by
might riders. . In Central Ken
lucky there are some planters who
say the men who are building up the
tobacco pools have objects of graft
before them. and they will not go in.
The trust buyers are having hard
time They dare not reveal them
selves in the black tobacco district,
for the tobacco planters in that end
of the State fear no law The Fire
Marshal and the Governor have each
taken hand in trying to suppress
lawlessness, but it is increasing with
alarming rapidity. The Grand Juries
will not act, nor will the Sheriffs OF
the counties investigate the lawless
deeds of the night raiders, either
through fear or sympathy.
Work of the might Riders"
The disorder specially centres in
Trigg, Caldwell, Todd, and Hopkins
Counties, which are infested with the
so-called Might Riders" The work
was first confined to threats and in
timidation, but when it was seen
that these methods did not have the
desired effect violent methods were
pursued. 1t is now daily occur
renee for farmers to be taken from
their homes at night and severely
dashed by masked men or to awake
and find their barns destroyed by
fire or dynamite. A new scheme was
IlDCONClCQ NY ldOOIOAo VA ~AS ANA a.
| Of DR.. Work in Trigg County who
we're seriously injured by discharge
Of dynamite placed in wheat shocks
during the night The dynamite
| exploded when the wheat was passed
through the machinery.
That the influence of the associa.
ton is spreading and has reached the
white Burley district was shown il
the last week, when the farmers Of
Mason County were unable to ge
hands to thrash their wheat because
they were not members of the associ
alton, and thousands of bushels will
spoil as result.
| Strong Antitrust Organization,
| Meanwhile the efforts to organiz'
the tobacco people have advanced
rapidly, and it is now estimated tina
the American Society of Equity
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30

which is doing the work. has about
PSI, 100000 pounds of tobacco in it's
control. This represents sixty per
cent. of the 1906 crop and eighty-fve
per cent. of the 1907 crop, The far
mers who subscribed to the stock
of the society to enable it to cary
the tobacco have been paid for only
one-half of the tobacco they have put
in, and unless the society succeeds
, there is bound to be terrible slump.
Prof. J. D. Clark, one of the lead
ing men in the society, who has just
returned from the meeting of the
/ leading tobacco men of the country at
Louisville, says
First, it is proposed to declare
the tobacco now controlled by the
society off the market, then to organ
ize cooperative stock company for
the manufacture of the tobacco on
hand and it's distribution direct to the
retail merchants. 1t is proposed to
capitalize this company at 100000
600 and erect big manufactures in
the various districts.
Half of the capital stock, of So
900, 900, is to be taken by the grow
ers who are members of the society
and paid for in tobacco to their credit
in the pool. The remaining $4,000
600 is to be preferred stock and will
be sold to banks, business men, and
investors who in many sections are
already interested in the movement
and vino have demonstrated their
willingness to give the~society finan-
cial backing. With the stock thus
placed it would be an easy matter
for the company to issue bonds for
the erection of factory buildings
g trust agent stated to us only
few days ago that the trust had
enough tobacco to keep it running
for two years, and that the independ-
ent companies had about years sup
ply With this supply exhausted and
the Equity Society in control of the
market, the trust would have to close
up shop, and the producers, being
their own, manufacturers, would
make the twenty cents on every
pound of tobacco sold which now goes
to enrich the trust magnates. This
is in brief the plan which is being
considered by the Equity Society, and
which appears practical"
Trust Made to Pay More.
The black hurley people have been
| Iar more successful IN organizing
than have the planters of the white
variety. In the dark belt for the
last four or five years the trust has
been compelled to give advanced
prices for the weed Many attempts
were made before successful plan
was found to finance the tobacco as
sociatioA. When the company went
to the Eastern flnanciers for money
they met the opposition of the To-
bacco Trust, and their plans always
miscarried. In the last two years.
however, the county banks have Ia
ken up the paper, and the society has
been able to pay for the tobacco sub
scribed, giving the farmer the mar
ket price, one-half in cash and the
other half in stock in the society,
with the further agreement that he
is to share in the profits realized.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
Stnh ENDS al News

New York hatters said there was
no sign of the American head get
ting smaller.
DR.. E. L. Dunlop, of Washington,
thinks our soldiers smarter looking
than the French
Japan's War Minister denies that
his department has any spy in Amer
lea, official or amateur.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, acting
on the report of commission of en-
gineers, has abandoned steel ties.
The Connecticut Legislature has
voted for the appointment Of Tu-
bereulosis Investigation Commissions
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30

edge of figures to the child before it
goes to school. Their most trouble
some task is to instill fractions into
the youthful mind. In the illustra-
ton device for facilitating the
teaching of fractions is shown 1t
consists of sphere divided into
halves, and the halves again divided
into a number of segments. The
sphere is supported on wires on a
frame, the individual section being
prevented from rotating, but can,
nevertheless, be moved and separated
from each other. The sphere can be
quickly divided into halves, quarters
and eighths, and the pupil given a
practical demonstration of what
seems to him an intricate problem.
Washington Star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
! The National Came.

Adrian Joss says Clark is the best
catcher in the business. There is
none better than the Cleveland back
stop.
The Philadelphia National League
team management has sold William
Duggleby to the Ptttsburg Club.
Duggleby is the oldest member Of the
Phillies pitching star.
Chief thinner announces his per-
manent retirement from baseball.
The Chief is forty-seven years old.
He was in the game for over twenty
years and in that time was catcher,
manager and umpire.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
Prominent People.

Columbia has made Gov. Hughes
an LII. d.
Theobald Chartran, the artist, died
after long illness at Paris.
Federal Judge Pritchard was once
United States Senator from North
Carolina.
King Victor Emmanuel intends to
visit England, accompanied by an
Italian fleet.
Yale University conferred the hon.
orary degree Of Doctor of Laws on
United States Senator Philander O.
Knox.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30

Author of the Uncle Remus Stories.
Joel Chandler Harris, teller of the
famous Uncle Remus stories, is
known almost, everywhere. He lives
at Atlanta, Ga, and is now fffty-eight
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30

A Treasury surplus of nearly $751;
000,0 in this fiscal year is the
greatest Treasury surplus ever, and
an increase of $50, 100000 in only
one year.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
Killed Six, Then Herself.

Grief-stricken by the receipt of a
notification that her services would
not be required, Mrs. Nielsen, a
housekeeper for a landowner named
Ullkjaer, of Jutland, Denmark,
hanged three of her employers chill
aren, as well as three of her own,
and then killed herself by hanging,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
Plumbing. Timing. Steam
and Gas Fitting

at their OFFICE. Al Mill street, tele-
phone 2S4-l, or at the store Of William
Fl. Hibler, South street, city.
The Senior member of this partner
ship, JOHN ]. CARROLL, has been
plumbing in this city for twenty-nine
years, and his reputation as plumber
is too well known for any further COM
ment. 2538. \,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
West Point Course Extended.

The Board of Visitors to the Mill
tary Academy at West Point recon-
mended the broadening and extern
sion of the course, with postgraduate
work, to make all-around educated
men of army officers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
Jewish Repatriation Fails.

The Rev. DR.. Voorsanger, after an
investigation of results of the at
tempt to re-establish Jewish nation
in Palestine, pronounced the move
ment failure
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30

Mrs. Russell Sage sent her check
for 100000 to Chancellor Day as a
gift to the Teachers College of SYRIA
cuse University.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
Device For Teaching Fractions.

School teachers assert that they
experience little difficulty in teaching
small children numbers up to 100, as
parents generally impart this knowl.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
notice.,

JOHN J. CARROLL. who for years,
has been in the firm of LooNEY s. CAR
boil, has formed partnership with
his son, WILLIAM j. CARROLL, and
they are now ready to receive orders for
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
Is Mere Man Getting Gay?

cfN9o7 with the corre-
spending types would indicate that ne
Marked male
dency to view the situation
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
Kills His Bride, Then Shoots Himself.

Burt Bruce, twenty years old, OF
2710 Howell street, Camden, N. j.,
shot and killed his bride of two
weeks and then shot himself. Jeal-
ousy is believed to have been the
cause.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30
Where '.Robinson Crusoe" Was
Written.

Referring to our article on Rob
inson Crusoe's Island" in the October
number, it Is interesting to learn that
the house in which Defoe penned his
immortal classic is still standing,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Peter B. Smith, president Of the
Minneapolis chamber of commerce.
died suddenly in New York of COM
bination Of Brights disease and heart
failure.
Rev. George A. Peltz, D. d., prom
inent clergyman and one of the or
ganizers of the Jamestown IN. W
Chautauqua, is dead at Philadelphia,
aged seventy-four years. ~
Richard Croker, the former Tam
many leader, who is scheduled to visit
this country this fall, will not. accord
Ing to latest reports, arrive until the
latter part OF November.
tuberculosis has been discovered in
the fine dairy herd owned by J. Pier
pont Morgan and six of his high bred
mich cows have been killed by or
ders cabled by Mr.. Morgan.
A rate war in eastbound steerage
traffic Is possible. Six steamship lines
have announced a cut in steerage rates
to Continental ports. The fight Is be-
tween four of the large lines and two
small ones that have recently come
Into the field.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
dad" Allen Skldooed.

% In the last issue Of the Cass Lake
Times, Editor Ives says of the late
sheriffs' convention, which was held
in this city:
The annual meeting of the
sheriffs of the state was held IN Be-
midi this week and some forty or
fifty heads of that important Office
we're there and partook of the good
things, wet and dry, which Bemidji
is famous for setting up. Neither
Doc Rutledge nor Dad Allen we're
run in during the period of their
maintenance of law and order, which
shows that either the newspaper men
of our sister town are improving in
morals or that the officers, being in
multitude, neglected their duty"
Dad" Allen "skidooed" the Mon
day previous to the assembling of
the peace officers, and HE'D him to
St. Paul, in safety.
AS for the writer hereof, we
stuck" and the visiting sheriffs
we're given such a good time that
they failed to bear down heavily on
our shortcomings, judge.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
''Scrubs" NIGHTLY "Mauled."

The Bemidji" scrub"baseball team
went to Northome Saturday evening,
and yesterday afternoon they
crossed bats" with the Northome
baseball nine in game in which the
boys up the north line simply walked
all over the scrubs" and tramped
them into the swamp-the final
score being 20 Chow suggestive)
for Northome to 4 for the Scrubs. !"
Mitchell pitched for The Bemidji
crowd. He was not hit very hard,
but what was lacking in the hitting
line was more than made good in
the errors which the scrubs" piled
up.
Scribner and Oman were the
battery for the Northome team and
they did nice work.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
FAR AHEAD OF LAST YEAR
Coal Shipments to and From the Head
49, of the Lakes.

g-..s OF the Lakes.
Superior, Wis, Aug. 1'.-There Is
no danger of a coal shortage in the
territory tributary to the Head Of the
Lakes if the roads entering here are
able to handle the business the coming
winter, Coal receipts up to the pres
ent time have broken all records and
there is actually on the docks at the
present time about 100000 tons.
Meanwhile shipments are good for
summer and the prospects are that
before the close Of navigation the
docks will have sold more coal from
Superior and Duluth docks than ever
before during the same season.
For three months previous to Aug. /
this year the Superior and Duluth
docks shipped into the Northwest
more coal than ever before. in that
same period and nearly double the
amount sent out In the same three
months of 1896. This year, from May
/ to Aug. l, total Of 1894 cars have
been shipped, as against 28,549 In
that period year ago. The roads
are rushing new trackage and yard
facilities and the Great Northern next
week will have in operation its big
new freight transfer shed here, which,
it is calculated, will relieve that road
Of the congestion of general freight
experienced last fall. II. ~ Is
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
Quiet on the Range.

{. Yesterdays Duluth News-Tribune
contained the following concerning
the latestphase of the strike on the
iron range:
Sheriff William Bates and Deputy
Owen Gately were in the city yes
terday for a short time. They ex-
pect to leave Monday for the seat
of war and will remain on the
ground as long as there is any need.
The situation looks the same,
according to the sheriff. He does
not look for any more trouble and
thinks the strike is we'll in hand.
He has not in any way relaxed his
vigilance but does not have any
difficulty in keeping abreast of the
situation. He says the mines are
getting more men every day and it
will not be long until they are run
ming with full forces.
Asked concerning the deputy
sheriffs on the range, about whom
the governor inquired, the sheriff
smiled and said: There were no
men sworn in as deputy sheriffs who
were not residents of the state and
are all good men. A false impression