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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-04-13
HIS LIFE IN JEOPARDY.
Harry Thaw Explains Why He Car.
ried a Weapon.

New York. April 13.-Harry Thaw
has. through his attorneys. given out
the following statement:
Il wish the jury and every one else
to understand that no one more de-
spises q person who carries q con-
cealed weapon more than l.
THAT only after my life was In
jeopardy, as l was informed by per-
sons and as was communicated to me
by professional detectives, did pro-
tect myself. Then I employed the
Pinkertons and they could never prove
these attempts so could invoke the
protection of the law or disprove them
SO could safely continue defenseless.
Then, doubling my Judgment. l
consulted an ex-chiet of police, man
respected In his community. and he
advised that my duty was to protect
myself.
I'm this trial I wish my case solely
and simply based upon the law OF the
state and upon the evidence. which
had convinced not only me. as I re-
viewed all this evidence, but also the
district attorney, that am innocent
under the written law OF the state"
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TO PLACE HIM ON RECORD
Labor Wants Presidents Opinion Of
Meyer and Haywood.

Chicago, April 13.-The Chicago
Federation of Labor Is endeavoring to
place President Roosevelt on record
regarding his reported opinions OF
Meyer and Haywood, officials of the
Western Federation Of Miners. charged
with completely in the assassination
of former Governor Steunenberg of
Idaho. e. N. Nogles, secretary Of the
local labor body. has sent the presi-
dent the following telegram:
THE newspapers report you as say
ing that Meyer and Haywood are un-
desirable citizens. In view OF the
fact that these men will soon be put
ON trial for their lives we believe their
chances for square deal would be
considerably lessened If the reported
statement Is true We therefore ask
you for correct information upon this
subject, believing man is innocent
until he Is proved guilty"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-04-13
UNJUST DISCRIMINATION.
Charges Filed Against Several North.
western Roads.

Washington, April 13.-Alleging un-
just discrimination in the matter of
rates ON shipments of butter and eggs,
In carload lots, as against competing
houses the Morse Produce company
of Granite Falls, Mimi, has filed a
complaint with the interstate COM
merce commission against the Chicago.
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway COM
pany, the Great Northern Railway
company, the Chicago and Northwest
ern Railway company and the Chi
oago, Burlington and Quincy Railway
company. The petitioners state that
the rate accorded them on shipments
Of butter and eggs from Granite Falls
to Chicago exceeds that of their COM
petitors from Pipestone, Mimi, to
Chicago, even though the latter haul
Is longer, the shorter haul being in
cluded In the long haul over the same
line In the same direction. They ask
for such redress In the premises as
the law guarantees to them.
According to another complaint
filed with the interstate commerce
commission against the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railway COM
pany, the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway company and the Wisconsin
Central Railway company by the Mil
waukee-Waukesha Brewing company
of Milwaukee the defendant roads are
charging unjust and unreasonable
rates on shipments of beer, ale, porter,
malt tonics and mineral water from
Waukesha to various points through
out the United States.
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between the Great Nortnern ranway
and the Lake Superior company,
made In 1890, and the agreement be-
tween the Lake Superior company and
It's trustees, Dec. Z, 1906. This is the
agreement which constituted ], j.
Hills famous melon which was cut
last fall when each of the sharehold-
ers OF the Great Northern received as
many shares of the Lake Superior
company as they held in the railroad.
Mr.. Venner's complaint is volu
minous document and makes a fair
sized book of nearly 140 pages and In
addition to asking that the trust
agreement be set aside he incidentally
asks for the appointment Of a receiver
for the railroad company itself. 1t
alleges many illegal acts on the part
OF the railroad company.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-04-13
LIVELY SESSION OF DUMA
Members Bitterly Denounce the
Russian Judicial System.

st. Petersburg, April ia demand
for the exclusion from parliament of
three Socialist deputies pending their
trial for political offenses, submitted
to the lower house of parliament by
the minister of justice, M. Chtcheglo-
vitoff, caused great excitement at the
days session. The prosecutions OF
the deputies have been instituted In
the provincial courts for acts COM
mitted before the convocation of the
duma. Two men, l.. F. Gerus,
teacher and Social Revolutionist of
Kuban, and A. A. Kuznetsoff, Social
Democrat, of Simbirsk, are accused
OF being Socialists and therefore mem
bers of q party contemplating the
overthrow of the state. The third, A.
r. Kupstas, a peasant landowner OF
kovna, who was returned as mem
ber Of the Left party, is charged with
making revolutionary speeches.
The Constitutional Democrats, who
are anxious to avoid heated discus
sion on the floor, proposed to refer
the minister's demand to committee,
but the Socialists and Social Revolu-
tionists insisted on an immediate, fiat
refusal In order to place the house on
record against the classification as
crimes of such acts as the three depu.
ties are charged with committing.
The Constitutional Democratic mo-
tion to refer the demand Of the min
lister of justice to a committee, which
was opposed by both the Socialists
and the government, was carried by
the slender majority Of 1877 to 175
votes.
NJ Chtcheglovitoff's remarks were
blunt and uncompromising and pro-
voked a series of fiery answers, which
reused the house into the first great
excitement of the present session.
Even the Constitutional Democrats
were swept Off their feet. The rule
closing the sitting at 6 O'Clock was
suspended and the house shook with
applause as speaker after speaker de-
nounced the Russian judicial system
as being a travesty on Justice.
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JURY FAILS TO AGREE
First Trial Of Harry K. Thaw
Ends Without Result.
OUT FOR NEARLY TWO DAYS
Members Made Determined Effort
to Get Together, but Found 1t I'm
possibie-Prlsone Remanded to the
Tombs Without Ball.

lCmpS "tnOut Ball.
Thaw has been remanded back to the
Tombs without bail to await second
trial on the charge of having muir
dered Stanford White The jury, after
being out forty-seven hours and eight
minutes, reported to Justice Fftzger-
aid at 4:25 p. m.
Foreman Smith announced that the
Jurors had found 1t impossible to
reach an agreement.
Justice Fitzgerald said he felt he
had kept the jury as long as he should
and with the consent Of the public
prosecutor and counsel for the de-
Tense he would discharge them from
any further consideration of the case.
AS the disagreement was announced
Thaw turned even paler than he has
been for the past several days and
when he was remanded back to the
city prison at the suggestion Of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome he hung his
head dejectedly.
Had Hoped for Acqulttal.
Up to the very last Thaw had hoped
that the jury would finally agree upon
verdict Of not guilty.
Thaw's wife sat by his side when
the disagreement Of the jury was re-
ported to the court. When she first
came into the courtroom she took a
seat but little distance away from
the prisoner, but he beckoned her to
an empty chair he had had placed be-
side his own.
All Of the other members OF the
family were In court when the final
disposition of the case came.
They included Mrs. William Thaw
and her two daughters, the Countess
of Yarmouth and Mrs. George L. Car
negie. and the two brothers OF the
defendant, Edward and Josiah Thaw.
The members of the family had an
ticipated the result and showed but
little emotion. Mrs. William Thaw's
face was hidden behind heavy black
veil. AS Thaw passed them on his
way cut of the courthouse and back
to his cell In the Tombs his mother
and sisters smiled at him as cheer
fully as they could.
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RECEIVER ASKED FOR.
venner's Suit Against Great Northern
Road Filled.

st. Paul. April l3.--Attorneys e. B.
Graves Of St. Paul and Wilbur F.
Booth of Minneapolis have filed In the
district court the summons and CON-
plant in the suit Of Clarence H. Ven-
ner OF New York, shareholder In the
Great Northern Railroad company.
This Is the suit by which Mr.. Ven-
ner. whom Great Northern officials
nave christened as professional
tt.=.2t seeks to anpul the agreement
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French Attitude Undecided.

Paris, April 13.-Ministerial circles
here, have not taken on definite at
titude relative to the question of dis
cussing the limitation of ornaments at
The Hague conference. Semi-official
advices received here from Berlin and
Vienna declare that Germany and
Austria are utterly opposed to the
Italian proposition. whose object is to
concillate the German and British
view points.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-04-13
FACTORIES wilt Be Moved.

Havana, april 13.-Owing to the
continued strike of the cigarmakers
of Havana the tobacco combine has
closed contract for the erection of
large buildings at Matanzas, to where
1t Is intended to move the big Havana
factories
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-04-13
Cabinet Meeting Very Brief.

Washington, April 13.-The days
cabinet meeting was the shortest that
has been held for some time. All the
members were present except Secre-
tary TAFT. The session lasted only
half an hour.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-04-13
BON|LLA A PRISONER.
President Of Honduras Reported
to Have Surrendered.
NEWS COMES FROM ENEMY

Message Gives No Details of the A.
fair. but 1t Is Supposed That the
Nicaraguans Have Captured ANA
paIa, Where BoniIIa Was Bottled Up.
New Orleans, April 13.-According
to cablegram received by the Off
cials of the Fruit Dispatch company
here President Manuel Bonilla of Hon.
duras has surrendered to the Mic
araguan forces. The cablegram came
from Managua, Nicaragua, and was
signed by President Jose S. Zelaya.
No details were given other than
that Bonilla had surrendered. Ad-
vices received here Thursday, how
ever, were to the effect that Bonilla
had been bottled up" In the port Of
Amapala ever since he made his SEN
sational flight from Choluteca.
Panama, April ia personal
friend here of President Zelaya of
Nicaragua has received dispatch
from Santos Ramirez, director gen.
eral of telegraphs and telephones, in
forming him that Amapala, Honduras,
to which place President Bonilla of
Honduras retreated after his defeat at
Choluteca, would probably surrender
to the Nicaraguan forces shortly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-04-13

Unwritten Law Releases Congress
man Favrot.

Baton Rouge, La, April 13.-The
grand jury has unanimously refused
to find an indictment against Con-
gresham George X. Favrot, who, on
Nov. z, the day after he had been
elected to congress, shot and killed
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-04-13

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DR.. R. H. Aldrich, a prominent physi
clan of this city, because of remark
DIR. Aldrich Is alleged to have made
about Mrs. Favrot. The unwritten
law was successfully pleaded before
the grand jury.
Favrot was released from jail, where
he has been since November.
The National tribune., 1907-10-03

leave, or without permission, and H.
225 present on special duty or sick in
the hospital. This left an aggregate
of lis, 102 men present for duty. and
| included McCall's Division, which, in
response to McClellan's opportunities
for reinforcements, had been detached
from McDowelPs forces and sent him
by water.
Gen. r. e. Lee in Command.
Gen. JOS E. Johnston's wound was
SO disabling as to remove him for
I, long time from active service, and it
| is eloquent of the energy with which he
| had pushed his attack at Fair Oaks
! that this was SO. Matters are always
very serious in q battle when the Com
mander-in-Chief finds it necessary to
go to the extreme front and play the
Colonel in leading into action troops
that have been fought out under his
subordinates. Gen. Robert Z. Lee was
| therefore assigned by virtue of his rank
to the command of the army in front
of Richmond, and there were sore
misgivings among the wise heads in
the Confederacy as to this selection.
In spite of the hopes which had been
entertained of Lee, when he resigned
from the United States Army to enter
that of the Confederacy, he was under
decided cloud, owing to the abject
| failure of his campaign in West Vir-
Rnlla against zen. ROSecrdnS- Ten.
Rosecrans easily foiled him. brought
his campaign to naught, killed his
Chief Of Staff, Col. John A. Washington.
and sent him back into Virginia in a
way far from creditable to his mill
tary credit. The best informed around
Richmond said that Lee was doubtless
an excellent staff officer and closet SOL
der, but not man for the swift
strokes and prompt decision required
for the field. Gen. Johnston's theory
had been the correct one of falling
back to the immediate defenses of
Richmond, drawing the enemy forward
into the entanglements of the swamps.
gathering around Richmond a force
Of overwhelming strength from the dis
tant parts of the Confederacy, and then
crushing his enemy beyond hope of
succor. Jefferson Davis and Gen. Lee
had been opposed to this policy when
Johnston had urged it, but now they
saw it's value and began the policy OF
concentration, withdrawing garrisons
from along the sea-coast as far as
Charleston and Savannah to assemble
a powerful force in front of Richmond.
1t was decided also to withdraw Gen.
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why Gen. Thomas 1. Not Mentioned.

Editor National Tribune: VIII you
tell me why Gen. Thomas is not men
toned more than he is? He does not
receive nearly 50 much attention as
Sheridan, Grant and Sherman, and he
saved the army twice-at Nashville and
Chickamauga.-T. II. Ingersoll, Fair
grove Mich.
1t is simply the fortunes of war that
Gen. Thomas is not given more promi-
nence in the literature of the country.
1t happened that Gems. Sherman. Grant,
Sheridan and Meade We're connected
with the spectacular termination of the
war, which fastened them upon popular
attention and in this way eclipsed in
notorietyithe great work which Thomas
did in the West Probably the Army OF
the Cumberland. is somewhat to blame
inasn1uch as they are not as insistent in
mentioning Gen. Thomas as those VIII }
belonged to the Armies of the Potomac
and Tennessee are in bringing their
commanders to the front-Edityr Ma
tional Tribune.
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Ey JCHN McELnCY.

| terminated by the enemy taking tho
| initiative and compelling him to adopt
one of the courses.
Mcclellan was unalterably of the
opinion that the enemy had in front OF
him fully 200, 900 men, to which. ac-
cording to his own statement, he could
oppose much less than 100000. AT the
same time, it is strange beyond belief
that il he really thought the enemy to
be overwhelmingly strong, he did not
at once take swift steps to extricate his
army from its ENHANCEMENT on both
sides of the Chickahominy, where it
was likely to be destroyed in detail.
We know now that at the time the
battle of Fair Oakes was fought john
ston did not have much over $4,000
men. Gen. Jackson was far away in
the Shenandoah Valley with 25,000
men or more.
June &c the official records show
that there were in the Army of the Po-
tomac, under Mcclellan, al aggregate
present and absent of 156.S3S men. or
these, 29,511 were absent, sick, on
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very strong position, I may wait for
what troops l can bring up from Fort
Monroe"
June Z, 'I shall be in perfect read
iness to move forward and take Rich
mond the moment that Mccall reaches
here, and the ground will admit of the
passage of artillery" (McCall arrived
June 12-1S.)
June 1G: "I hope two days more
will make the ground practicable.
shall advance as soon as the bridges
are completed and the ground fit for
artillery to move"
June IS: "A general engagement
may take place at any hour"
June 25: The action will probably
occur tomorrow or within q short
time"
So his dispatches read from Gay to
day as he took up one course of action
to another, decided upon it. and then
concluded that the reasons in favor of
one of the others were stronger, and
adopted it. His tndecisi0n was pplI
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ing the spirits of the SOutherna.s ami
increasing their confidence in their
knightly riders" In the end it was
hurtful to them, because it stimulated
many other cavalry leaders to attemp;
like exploits in which 40 substantial
gain came to the Southern Confeder-
acy. and attention and energy were
diverted from more serious work IL
has been alleged that il led directly tG
the defeat of Lee at Gettysburg by
Stuart going off on another spectacu=
lar ride around the Union army ana
leaving Lee without any information
as to the whereabouts of his enemy.
The damage done by Stuart was abso-
lutely inconsequentiaI in comparison
with the furry created.
A Month of Exhausting Labor m
Deadly Fever.
Among the many dreary chapters III
the history of the Army of the Poto-
mac there is none more sad than the
month spent in the swamps of the
ChickahOminy. The men were worr
out by incessant labor in digging out
trains which had been sunk in tn
mud; in building corduroy roads ana
bridge, and throwing up a long lin
of heavy works from the railroad
around in front of Fair Oaks ana
Seven Pines to the Chickahomny
below. For the first half of the month
the rains had continued, then the dry.
hot weather ensued. The low
swampy ground, numbered with the
bodies of men and the carcasses of an
imals, with no proper drainage any
where, became a noisome hot-bed OF
deadly fever germs. The drinking wate:
from the shallow streams and ponds
was a broth of vicious bacteria, with
a case of typhoid or malarial fever IL
every sip drunk. The story has neve.
been told of the ravages of disease
during that month and possibly never
will be. The truth was kept from the
country at the time. and all that was
known was that there were daily needs
of the establishment of more great
hospitals, which Immediately filed TO
overfiowing and called for more on the
morrow. The acquisitions of the Sur.
geons for medicines and hospital ap
pliances startled the Surgeon-Generars =
Office at Washington, and were dis.
cussed with bated breath by men who
recognized the gravity of the needs and
hastensd to fill the requisitions with a.
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and Smith had pushed their assaults
so determinedly as to actually exhaust
for the time being the fighting power
of their commands With FftZ-John
Porter's and Franklin's fresh Corps,
Mcclellan could have marched straight
into Richmond. it is true, if he had
known. But 1t is not reasonable to
expect him to have known as much
then as we know now. There was no
"telepathy," astral projection" or
other of Madam Blavatsky's inventions,
to inform him of the gloomy and de-
spondent councils of Jefferson Davis,
Robert E. Lee, and others, only few
miles from his headquarters, to con-
slider the wreck of their hopes by the
issue at Fair Oaks, and the alarming
likelihood of McClellan's march upon
their capital.
strong criticism for not doing SOME
THING. The position of his army was
a gravely FAULTY one. No one knew
that better than he. He had three al
ternatives presented to him:
1. To march his whole army directly
upon Richmond from Fair Oaks and
Seven Pines, following the lines showed
him by Johnston's attack and retreat.
2. To give the order right face to
the Second. Third and Fourth Corps,
and march them out of the swamps
on to the high land in front of the
Fifth and Sixth Corps, and make a
swift -swoop with his whole force. down
upon Richmonds feebly fortified north
side; or,
8. To carry out his original plan of
making the James River his base,
abandon the faulty and objectionable
line Of the York River, and attack
Richmond on her most vulnerable side,
either on the north or the south banks
of the James.
Mind Too Well Balanced.
The sad truth was that McClellan's
mind was entirely too well balanced.
He felt the urgent necessity of prompt
action. and he saw clearly what could
be done. But the three courses ap-
pealed to him with such parity of force
that it seemed impossible to select one
and reject the other two. He seemed
to be constantly resolving to do some
thing. and then abandoning the reso-
luton. Read his dispatches to Wash
fngtoni
June Q: 81 only wait for the river
to fall to cross with the rest Of the
force and make a general attack.
Should I find them holding firm in a
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StonewalI Jackson's force from the
Shenandoah Valley, where it had lain
inactive since the battle of Port Re-
public, but had done good service in
neutralizing and holding quiescent the
forces of Gems. Fremont, Banks and
Mcdowell.
The movement to withdraw Jackson
was carefully disguised, however, so
that the authorities at Washington
might be kept in alarm about the pos
sibilties of another rush down the VAL
ley against the Capital. An. ong other
| tricks to this end was that of starting
Writings Division with great ostenta-
| ton from Richmond to reinforce Jack.
son. Every pains was taken, to be
sure that Mcclellan should hear of
this, and among other means the train
containing Writings Division stood for
an hour or SO near a train loaded with
paroled Union soldiers on their way
to be exchanged. Writings Division
went up the road to Gordonsville, and
then was brought RSGk tY The ynes in
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Sherman in Savannah.
o. w. Holmes

o. w. Holmes
Like the tribes of Israel,
Fed on quails and mama,
Sherman and his glorious band
Journeyed through the rebel land
Fed from Heavens alI-bounteous hand
Marching on Savannah
As the moving pillar shown
Streamed the starry banner,
All day long in rosy light,
Flaming splendor all the night.
Till it swooped in eagle fight
Down on doomed Savannah.
Glory be to God on high,
Shout the loud hosanna,
Treason's wilderness is past,
Canaan's shore is won at last,
Peal a Nations trumpet blast;
Sherman's in Savannah
Soon shall Richmond's tough old hide
Find a tough old tanner,
Soon from every rebel wall
Shall the rag of treason fall
Till our banner flaps DER all
As it crowns Savannah,