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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
EARLY STORY OF DISASTER.

EARLI1 .SIOh1 sOF DLSAS AGENs Quebec, Aug. 29-A section of the new bridge across the St. Lawrence river, five miles below this city, coll lapsed this evening, carrying scores of bridgeworkers and mechanics Into the water. It is estimated that the loss of life is eighty-four and may exceed that number by twenty.
 The bridge was about a mile and a half in length and half of it from the south shore to midstream crumpled up and dropped into the water. Ninety men were at work on this section of the structure and the whistle had just l blown at 5:30 for the men to quit work for the day when there came q grind- Ing sound from the bridge at mid stream. The men turned to see what had happened and an instant later he cry went up "the bridge is falling
 The men made rush shoreward, but the distance was too great for them to. escape.
 The fallen section of the bridge dragged others after 1t, the snapping girders and cables booming like a crash of artillery. Terror lent fleet ness to the feet of the frightened work men as they sped shoreward, but only few of them reached safety before the last piece of ironwork on the south shore was dragged into the river.
 Near the shore the wreckage of the bridge did not go below the surface of the water and eight workmen whC remained above water were rescued and taken to the hospital at Lewis.
 The steamer Glenmont had just cleared the bridge when the first sec. tion fell. The water thrown up by the debris came clear over the bridge oi the steamer. The captain at once low cred boats. The small boats pulled backward and forward over the sunker wreckage for half an hour but there was no sign of life, The twisted iror and steel had it's victims In a terrible death grip. A few floating timbers ant the broken strands of the bridge to- ward the north shore were the only signs that anything unsual had hap pened. There was not ripple on the smooth surface of the St. Lawrence as 1t swept along toward the gulf.
 All the men drowned were employe' of the Phoenixville Bridge Co.,, ant sub-contractors of Quebec and Mon treal
 At 10 o'clock tonight sixteen bodie had been picked up and of the eigh men in the Lewis hospital two are no expected to live throughout the night
 The Quebec bridge was begun abou seven years ago and 1t was to be fin. ished in 1908 Subsidies had been grant ed by the federal and provincial gov ernments and the city of Quebec ant the estimated cost of the work wa S10 000,000
 The Phoenixville Bridge Co. of Penn sylyania had the contract for the con struction of the bridge, and were work ing from both sides of the river.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
BROKE INTO MAIL GAR
Former Waiter at Middletown Asylum
 Arrested in Boston.

Boston, Aug, Exchanged with breaking into mail ear and stealing @ United States mail pounch, Herbert Lakeman, twenty-six, also known as James Kelley, was arrested by Post office inspectors. Lakeman was for merly employed as waiter in an asylum at Middletown, Conn, and in Providence, R. L It is alleged that while stealing a ride on train out of Providence on August 19 Lakeman pried open the rear door of the mail car and stole mail bag.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
MERIDEN HAS 37.SO2

According to New Directory, City
 Contains This Number of Souls.
 According to the new Meriden di- rectory for 1907, which will be out next week, and estimating by the methods used by directory makers, the population of Meriden is S7,302 This is an increase of 2,81O over last year. and proves more conclusively than anything else that the city is growing rapidly.
 The Price & Lee company of this city, which publishes the city directory, has just finished the synopsis of the names in the book, the additions, the ensures and the changes made in pre- paring it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
FIRE IN CROMWELL,

Cromwell, Aug. 29-The two family house of W. P. Arnold, occupied by MT. Arnold and his family and c. A. Bush and family took fire this mornlng and was destroyed
 .Workmen from nearby grenn house fought the flames and assisted in say ing the home of Mrs. Sage, a nelghbor. which was endangered. The loss is $2,000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
DISLOCATED SHOULDER
Miss Sarah HotchI1iss, of East Haven,
 Suffers Injuries in Fall.

While she was descending the stairs of her home on High street, East Ha- ven, yesterday afternoon, Miss Sarah Hotchkiss caught her heel in the car pet and was thrown face foremost to the floor at the foot of the stairs She struck on her head and side, and suffered a bad dislocation of the shoulder
 Dr. Holbrook, of East Haven, was called and set the shoulder, and last night Miss Hotchkiss was getting along nicely. While she is an elderly lady, it is not thought that her injury will result seriouslys
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
sTRUoK LEDGE OF MARBLE.

Bristol, Aug 29,--A ledge of dark |hrble has been located on the prop fly of w. B. Sessions in the Hill Top 'strict, near the stand pipe of the lristol Water company, One of the acal stone yards has finished up q nall piece and it polishes handsome
 Several large blocks will be sent 1t of town to get further samples. he ledge will be uncovered to ascer- in if it is an extensive one, and if 1t
 steps will be taken to develop a harry
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
TO VISIT YALE

New York, Aug. 29.-The delegates to the recent International Geological convention at Boston tonight wound up a day of sightseeing in New York with a visit to the aquarium in Bat tery park. The delegates will go to West Point tomorrow and on Satur- day will visit Yale and Princeton uni versailles. They will be in New York Sunday and will go to Philadelphia Mondaye
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
ALI PERCENTAGES PosTpoNrp.

Rome, Aug. 29.-The vatican has announced that all pilgrimages to Rome scheduled for the months of September and October are to be post poned on account of the present anti clerical agitation in Italy.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-30
MANY LIVES LOST.
(Continued from First Page.)

(ContlnueQ rom FlrsL FdB6,l treal had driven out to see the progress of the work. They had scarcely driven off the bridge and reached the road before the crash came and before they could return to the edge of the river the whole structure was in the river. Among the employees who met death were a number of skilled mechanics brought here by the Phoenix company, fio4A ennsylvania, as well as a num- Der from this district Most of the la bor was furnished by French Canadi- ans from the neighborhood and about forty Indians from Caughnawaga.
 Several government tugs will leave for the scene of the disaster in the morning and preparations will be made for recovering the bodies.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
EX-CONvICT IN
Trouble AGAIN

Pat King, an English hobo. who
was arrested at 1880 o'clock this af-
ternoon by Patrolman Warner.
stated under questioning by Ser
geant Sullivan that he was but re-
Gently released from Deer Lodge
prison. An examination OF his
pockets revealed brand new
razors and new pair of scissors.
He told the officer that he had
knocked a man down in the Inland
saloon and the fellow dropped the
goods. Detectives Burns and Briley
went to the saloon and took Viii.
liam Dignot, drunk, to the station,
and King said the goods belonged
to Dignot.
King will be further Investigated
and 1t Is thought he may be the
author OF some OF the crimes COM
mitted here OF late.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
AWFUL! !!

The morning paper has achieved
a mammoth stroke OF enterprise by
revealing a gigantic crematory
graft. Men supposed to be engaged
in the intellectual pursuit of stow
ing city garbage In the furnace are
solemnly charged with deliberately
skinning the cOrpses of helpless and
defunct horses and cattle consigned
to the pyre and selling the hides
thereof for sordid gain. Instead Of
becoming ashes the hides are turn
ed into coin that goes deep into the
SINNERS pocket. And the mayor is
investigating.
It's time to investigate. Any in
dividual who will cunningly and
cruelty take such advantage sof a
cold and clammy (more Particular
ly clammy) corpse OF horse or cow
ought to be worse than inv0stigat-
ed. There in the dead OF night,
mayhap with the pale. moon gazing
shudderingly Oh his crime, he sinks
the glittering steel into helpless
form and ruthlessly strips away
QdlT anu niue VI the ldtc IdIucutSu.
Furtively he scans the shadowy gar
bage piled about in fear that some
piercing and also accusing eye has
detected his villiany. His victim
makes no moan, not even stage
symptom of agony, physical or spir-
itual, escapes from the despoiled
form. Alas, it cannot moan. 1t is
dead, although not too dead to skin.
Monstrous!
Think of it! From the pleasant
occupation of removing the cover
ing of horse or COW, entirely de-
ceased, diseased and more or less
decayed, the skinner reaps the price
a junk dealer is willing to pay for
the product The city, in false Sc
curity, fondly dreams that carcass
had returned to dust or ashes, from
whence it came-if dust or ashes
compose the material from whence
horses and cows are constructed.
Scandalous!
\ Where the city Is riotiously rob-
bed herein is apparent to a blind
man-but to no one else.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
The Defense Reveals Part Plnkertons Played In
Helping Miners to Cause Trouble.

for miles down the Canyon City
road and beat him with revolvers
and a whip. They nearly killed
him.
They told him to get out of the
district and stay out. He has new
err been back since.
Maurice Friedman, formerly at
tached to the Denver Pinkerton
agency, was the next witness. He
was a stenographer for MCFARLAND
during the Cripple Greek strike and
also handled reports Of operatives
in the field. He had an operative
named Crane at Colorado City when
the strike Of smeltermen started.
Crane Joined the union, was chair
man of the strike committee and
made daily reports to the Denver
Office. Crane was finally exposed.
A man named Cabin was then
sent to take his place, but couldn't
get In the union. The PinkertOns
had many operatives in the unions,
and, he swore, had men In both the
Western Federation and United
Mine Workers of America.
An operative named Lundruner,
now assistant Pinkerton superin-
tendent at Denver, he swore, was
sent to Butte to learn the miners
secrets.
James Mooney, a former men,
Der of the national board Of the
Mine Workers union, now a Mis-
souri, coal operator, told Of the
trouble his organization had in
Colorado in 1903 and 1904. Lyle
Gregory did duty there as an agent
for the operators.
Mooney was terribly beaten by
deputies on a train near Trinidad.
He swore he had to go to hospital,
where he remained 6 months.
Lyle Gregory's agency furnished
strikebreakers for the Trinidad
fields. Mooney was beaten up by
Gregory's men.
Chris Evans, Of Indianapolis, or
ganizer for the United Mine Work
ers of America, was the next wit
ness and gave testimony along
similar lines.
BY L. F. Taylor late yesterday
afternoon the defense showed that
the bloodhounds put on the scent
after the independence depot explo-
sion ran first to house occupied by
AL Beemore. Beemore was a dep
uty sheriff recognized as being en-
ployed by the mine owners.
Through Thomas Wood the de-
tense brought out It's strongest wit
ness in support Of the theory that
the indicator explosion was
caused by accident and that this &C.
cident was laid on the miners.
Wood was working in the mine and
had left box of dynamite in the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
BIG GRAFT ON
ASPHALT WORK
Working Combine Between Companies eIeede
City Of Thousands Of Dollars Annually.

A sample Of the way in which
this city is grated on street work
is shown in the bid OF the paving
companies for the repair work on
Riverside av. The Barber Asphalt
Co. has been awarded the job for
$1.44 a foot. This company outbid
the Independent Asphalt Co. by Is
cents. The board Of public works
only yesterday saved the city
something by raising an objection
to the holdup on the Division st.
repairs. Now the company takes
1t all back. The commissioners had
no choice but to accept the bid Of
the Barber company because it is
lower than that of the Indepen-
dent company, and the city is in
the hands OF monopoly.
The companies are different in
a way, but as is the case with many
other things, there is an under
standing between them by which
the city Is yearly robbed of thou
sands of dollars. To show how
fragrant is the graft, the difference
in the bids for the Division st. and
Riverside av. Jobs may be quoted.
The former job was done for $2.75
a square yard or 81 2-3 cents foot.
Now comes the Barber company
and demands $4.32 yard against
the bid OF $2.75 for the other job.
In most coast cities where there
Is competition in street paving bust
ness. any work may be done for
not more than 81 foot.
It is said around the city hall that
when the companies secure repair
contract they make yard out OF a
place that could be flxed by foot
of repairs. On all the repair work
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29

along Riverside av., between How
ard and Division sts., there should
not be more than 1000 feet Of re.
pair work, even allowing the Bar.
Der Co. a reasonable profit. And
there is nothing small about rea.
sonable asphalt profit either. But
they never yet have done Job
where they found so little area.
They probably found 1t at times,
but it didn't show in the bills.
The contracts made with these
companies are not for SO many
yards Of broken pavement, but read
ito repair pavement on certain
streets for certain distance" The
number Of yards of repair work
there are is left to the discretion
of the PAYERS. AS soon as work be-
gins, however, an inspector" en-
ployed and paid by the city, is put
to work. He Is supposed to see
that the proper mixture" is in the
pavement No inspector is sent out
on the street to estimate the num-
Der Of yards to be repaired.
While companies cut up whole
blocks OF pavement In order to re-
pair square foot, the inspector"
Is watching to see that certain
amount of cement goes In with
certain amount of rock, sand and
water. Another duty he has also, Is
to watch how many times this mix
ture Is turned over" The turning
of 1t over Is said to be an import
ant factor in It's durability, and the
city Is anxious about that.
II a man builds house he doesn't
hire an inspector to see that the
contractor follows out the plans, for
IL he does not he brings the matter
before the courts.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
WOULD BRlBE JURY

SEATTLE. June 29.-Attorneys
Charles p. Spooner and Alpheus
Byers, who are trying the case of
the Oregon & Washington railroad
against Davidson, admit that they
were approached by a former attor-
ney. who offered to bride the jury
for them, and that It was after they
told this fact to Judge Griffin that
he discharged the jury that had
been drawn. and advised them to
give the names OF the jurors to the
prosecuting attorney.
The lawyers state that George p.
Rossman, who was recently dis
barred from practice in this county.
is the man who approached them,
and told them that the jury was
looking for money.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
SHIP SMALLPOX
To SPOKANE

Mayor Moore this morning in
dited letter to the. Potlatch Lum-
Der Co., informing 1t that the
health department Of this city did
not want any more of its smallpox
cases and that If they didn't stop
coming in instanter there would be
something doing. The mayor didn't
say he would go down to Potlatch
with the big stick. or anything, but
the tone of the letter was decidedly
antagonistic.
John Carlson, labOrer, came in
over the Northern Pacific railroad.
He knew he had the smallpox and
at once reported 20 the health of.
ficers. He stated that he had been
sent out of camp No. Of the lum-
Der company.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
UNION OPERATOR FIRED
WALKOUT THREATENED

for Harry Bikes, a quick lunch
promoter at the Interstate fair last
fall, and Bikes forgot to pay them
total Of s124 in wages. They sued
him and lost. Then they had what
they thought was good case of
perjury on what Bikes swore to In
court. Judge Hinkle bound him
over on this charge. When it came
up the defense demurred to the
complaint and the prosecuting at
torney declined to go any further.
Under the circumstances, the court
had to discharge the case.
These women are ignorant of the
workings Of the law, but they do
know that part OF the money they
worked hard for and that they
need badly was withheld from them
by their employer. And all they
have out OF 1t are the gibes OF this
employer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
fscripps News Association,


BOISE, June 29.-This morning
the Haywood defense called Frank
Hough, painter Of Wallace, who
lived at Gem in 1899 and was bull
penned" weeks with Jack Simp-
kins. He did not know and never
could find out what he was arrested
for. Three hundred others were ar
rested at the same time. He was
compelled to sleep with 2 in bunk
and suffered greatly from illness.
Hough said Simpkins was taken
out of the bull pen and stood up
against a wall 6 hours in the broil-
ing sun for violating rules. When
he tried to sit down, negro soldiers
made him stand by bayonetting
him. The witness told Of condi-
lions there at length, the purpose
of the defense being to show that
Simpkins and others arrested at
that time had cause to hate Steun-
enberg.
j. H. Ramey, stage driver OF
Murray, Idaho, knew Orchard and
saw him after the Bunker Hill ex-
plosion. when Orchard tried to sell
his interest In the Hercules mine,
saying he wanted 10 get out OF the
country before the troops arrived.
He offered his sixteenth interest
for $500. Ramey's story absolutely
contradicted that OF Orchard, who
swore he had disposed of his inter
est to Dan Gardiner weeks before.
Thomas Flynn, a Mullan cigar
dealer, declared Orchard lied when
he said he was at Wardner at the
time the Bunker Hill & Sullivan
mill was blown up on April 20, 1899.
He said at that time Orchard was
in his cigar store playing poker. He
swore positively Orchard didn {
leave the store until the afternoon
of the day the mill was blown up.
The reason he remembered was
the game was an unusually stiff
one for that section. He stuck
closely to his story under strict
cross examination.
Patrick McHale, bartender at
Mullan, knew Orchard in the Occur
,SAlenes. He played cards with
9Orehard on the day the mill was
blown up.
James Baker, former member
of the executive board Of the fed
Grafton, and VIM. Amole, of Dem
yer, formerly of Victor. told of be-
ing abused and ordered out of the
district by militia. Amole testified
that Major McClelland, command
ing the troops, threatened to as
sault him, but Amole detied the
major.
After his release he started for
Colorado Springs hut was held up
by 4 masked men, who walked him
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
FALSE REPORT
Z FIRES UP JAPS
(scripps News Association,

SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.-Re-
port that San Francisco authorities
have refused laps license to con-
duet business because they are not
citizens is absolutely untrue.
TOXIC, June 29.-Reports have
been received here that san Fran
cisco authorities have placed an en-
barge on Japanese conducting in
telligence agencies and have also
refused them licenses of every KIND
These reports help to confirm the
belief here OF anti-Japanese senti-
ment on the coast, based on racial
prejudice.
The population Is greatly excited
again.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
W0RKMEN BURIED ALIVE
UNDER TONS OF EARTH
c. E. Long Has Narrow Escape From Death by
Cave-In on Home Telephone Work.
mbs from the heavy rocks.

limbs from the heavy rocks. s.,
s Foreman Sam Grove had great
dsfhculty in keeping the crowd back
from the excavation. The alley is
H-rrow and they endangered Longs
life further by crowding. The fore
man once raised his shovel and
threatened those nearest the work
men.
DR.. H. j. Emery offered his ser.
vices, but Grove was profane and
Insulting and said there were
enough doctors around. He refused
to tell who the buried man was or
give out any other information.
Long was able, after few min.
utes, to board car and went to. his
rhom without any medical attend.
snee, saying he would call physi.
clan later and when his nerves were
settled.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
MORE WITNESSES SWEAR
= THAT ORCHARD HAS LIED

shaft. The box was where he left
it when he went to work at night.
Near where he, left the dynamite
he saw Mccormick and Beck, lie
men killed by the explosion, which
occurred within half an hour.
When he ran out of the shaft he
saw that the dynamite had disap-
peared. The supposition was that
Mccormick and Beck undertook to
carry the dynamite to new work
ready to begin and accidentally ex-
ploded 1t.
Wood looked closely about the
place for evidence of an internal
machine but saw no trace Of the
wire which Orchard claimed he at
tached to a railing to explode the
powder. He did find fragment Of
a broken revolver that l Of the
dead man might have carried, as
all went armed. He had seen a re.
volver In Beck's pocket that night.
Wood is not a union man. His
testimony is heavy blow to the
story told by Orchard.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
SMALL BOY RAISES CAIN

BELMONT, June ga prema-
ture Fourth of July fireworks dis
play occurred in Carl Brandt's store
when small boy tossed lighted
match into his large show window
filled with fireworks.
In an instant Niger chaser and
sky rockets were playing an excit-
ing game Of tag among fancy dress
good and Haviland china, while a
giant cracker chased a pinwheel
through the plate glass window,
smashing 1t to smithereens.
A seasons pink and torpedoes,
gun caps and Chinese fire. red fire
and green fire, pinwheels and devil
chasers, baby fire crackers and
giant crackers. went up in smoke.
But the small boy was uninjured.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29

Carl E. Long was buried alive at
/ o'clock this afternoon under tons
of earth that fell onto him while he
was excavating on the underground
work of the Home Telephone Co.
in the alley of Monroe st. between
Bridge and College avs.
The 20 fellow lahorers worked in
desperation to release the impris-
oned mans head so he could Sc
cure air, but he nearly suffocated
before relief reached him. In dig
cling away the earth and stones, l
of the shovels struck the buried
man in the mouth. He was res
cued after 80 minutes of desperate
work and Is uniniured except for
a broken collarbone. A board which
had been placed in position so as to
make it less dangerous for the
workmen protected Longs lower
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
SOME REAL SUMMER

II you think you have any kick
on this climate, how would you like
to be in Phoenix. Ariz., where the
weather bureau is registering 10
degrees? And there's nothing re-
',snarkable In that to an Arizonian,
either. He Is just beginning to fig
ure that II the weather keeps on
getting warmer he'll maybe shed
his winter garments by and by.
1t was man from Arizona who
dived into foundry furnace and
refused to come out until he got
ready because 1t reminded him so
much Of a bath In the ella river.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
BOA DIES TRYING TO
SWALLOW HIMSELF

NORFOLK, Va, June 29.-Bingo,
the big boa constructor of the Bos-
took arena at Pine Beach park,
committed suicide by choking him.
self to death with his own tail. The
keeper declared that the big boa
was worried half to death by the
hundreds Of people that attended
the numerous performances. "He
would not eat any supper" the man
said, land when We found him late
at night, 2 feet OF his tail was
stuck down his throat"