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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
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Among the many causes to which was
attributed the business depression which
first manifested itself in March, 1907,
and which reached its climax in the panic
of October, was the high level of prices
to which practically all commodities had
been forced.
~Flnanciers, manufacturers and mer-
chants were almost a unit in declaring
that prices must come down. But we are
recovering from the depression and, with
few exceptions, prices remain at their
greatest altitude.
The most recent report of the Depart
ment of Labor and Commerce, covering
the movements of wholesale prices for the
past eighteen years, including 1907,
shows that in spite of the financial and
market depressions coincident with the
last six months of 1907 prices of commodi-
ties save in a few departments, such as
lumber, fuel and metal materials, were
higher at the close of the year than at its
opening and that the average price of all
commodities showed a decrease of only a
little over 1 point for the period, the ac-
tuaI decline being from 1919 to 1864.
The report shows that wholesale prices.
considering the 2lS commodities as a
whole, reached a higher level in 1907 than
at any other time during the 1S-year
period covered. The average for the year
1907 was ST per cent higher than for
1906; 44.4 per cent higher than for 1897.
the year of lowest prices during the 1S-
year period, and 20.5 per cent higher than
the average for the 10 years from 1870
to 1890. Prices reached their highest
point during the 1S-year period in DC
tober. 1907, the average for that month
being 10 per cent higher than the aver
age for the year 1907 and rs per cent
higher than the average for December,
1906, the month of highest prices in
1906.
OF the 25S articles for which whole,
sale prices were obtained, 172 showed an
increase in the average price for 1907
rs compared with 1906, 81 showed no
change in the average price for the year,
and 81 showed a decrease in price.
When the commodities are considered
an increase in price in 1907 as compared
with 1906. For farm products taken as a
whole this increase was greatest, name
ly 100 per cent for food, 4.6 per cent
for cloths and clothing. SO per cent for
fuel and lighting, "a per cent; for metals
and implements, 81 per cent for lumber
and building materials, 40 per cent for
drugs and chemicals. S.3 per cent; for
house furnishing goods, IS per cent, and
for the miscellaneous group, S per cent
Utica Globe.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

was stopped to let the sherlff's men anA
their prisoners get on board.
AS soon as this waS known the mob
began to gather, bowling for vengeance
against the man who had assisted in
the escape of their prey. The cry,
Come on to Loper's," was raised, and
a few minutes later bricks were crash
ing through the windows. Lopez met
the mob with n rife. They paid no
back part of the building, where he was
compelled to witness the complete de-
struction of his property.
The restaurant was the largest in the
city, and had Il large trade. Within
an hOur it was a complete wreck All
Of the furniture was taken out and
piled on top Of the automobile, which
had been turned over or the street, and
then a match was applied to the gaso-
line tank. The bonfire ragged until mid
night. The police were utterly power
less to cope with the mob and the fire
department, which had been called out,
was not allowed to extinguish the
flames.
During the attack an attempt was
made to do bodily harm to Mayor
Reece.
At 10 o'clock Louis Johnson, a 10
year-old boy. was found dead in a rear
stairway leading to the basement of a
downtown building. He had been shot
through the groin.
At the time the riot began Eugene
w. Chatin, the Prohibition candidate
for President. was addressing n meet
ing in the courthouse yard. A negro
pursued by a mob came dashing up the
platform, and in ~endeavoring to protec,
the man from his pursuers the orator
was struck in the face with a brick and
badly injured.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
ILLINOIS CAPITAL IS
RULED BY RIOTERS
Five Persons Killed, Many Injured,
and Stores Wrecked-Mob
Lynclies Two Blacks.
NEGRO QUARTER rs BURNED.
After Destroying White Restaurant
Houses of Blacks Are Fired
by the Crowd.

Springfield correspondence:
Riot, arson and slaughter held pos
session IF the black belt and levee of
Springfield. H., all through Friday
night. Two men were killed, nearly
100 wounded, the streets were full OF
militia, and rioters set fire to negro
houses in all parts of the black belt.
The fire department was intimidated
und overawed by the rioters, and until
the arrival of 1000 additional State
soldiers the authorities were practically
helpless to control the situation.
Mol Baked by Ruse.
All this turmoil grows out of an at
tempt to lynch a negro who had at
tackled a white woman. The negro was
spirited out of town, and the mob,
baked in it's vengeance, Immediately
turned on the man who loaned his auto
mobile 20 the authorities to enable them
TO convey the negro to a place of safe
ty. This was the spark that started
the riot.
Special trains We're hurried from De-
catur, Jacksonville, Bloomington, Pc
oria, and half a dozen other towns,
bearing infantry. cavalry and artillery.
Early in the state of riot all the sa-
looms and disorderly houses in the city
were closed by the Mayor, and the mill
tiamen did their best to prevent the COL
lecting of any crowds in the streets.
Their efforts were futile, however. They
would dispense a crowd in one neigh
borhood, and it Immediately reassem-
bled in another.
When at 2 a. III. the burning Of negro
houses commenced the negroes retail
ated by shooting from the upper stories
Of the houses in the neighborhood where
the torch was applied. A number Of
persons were hit during these fusillades
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
TWO NEGROES ARE LYNcHED.
Deadly Work Of Frenzied Mob
Creates Reign Of Terror.

he1&n OI 10ITOI.
Scott Burton, 65 years old, a barber,
was lynched Saturday morning. Bur
ton conducted n little barber shop at
18th and Madison streets in Spring
Held. He is said to have quarreled with
a white man. A house near his shop
was fired on by the mob. He a. IN
terror. The frenzied men saw him and
he was captured. He drew a revolver
and was knocked down. A fell
from his pocket. A 1O-year-old boy
saw the razor. Grabbing it, he slashed
the negro on the neck. The sight OF
blood SO maddened the crowd that Il
secured a rope and hanged the old man
instantly. Thirty shots were fired into
his body after he was dead.
william Donnegan, an S~O-year-old ne
gro, was brutally beaten and hanged BY
a mob at his home Saturday night ana
died at st. Johns hospital at II o'clock
Sunday morning
The police have gained q confession
from one Of the men arrested on sus-
picion he was q memDe OF the moi
which attacked Donnegan. The man y
Abraham Raymer, who has been In
Springfield only a few months. He u
a Russian Jew and talks broken M
lish. After an hours grueling BY CHIEF
Morris, Raymer broke down and admit
ted he was one Of the mob that 20
cruelty strung the old negro to q tres
after slashing his throat with a razor.
He also gavo the police the names OF
four or five Of the mob which he knew.
Ernest Humphrey was n OF b men
accused by Raymer. He was arrested
Sunday. officers are searching for the
others implicated by Raymer's comics
sion.
From Raymer's story, the only prov
ocation for the lynching was that Don
negan was married to a white pms
According to his statement, the mob a.
sembled at Seventh and Washington
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
VALUABLE FUEL IN WASTE.
Results of Experiments with Coal of
AL Kinds Are Published.

The results Of the work done at the
United States fuel testing plant at For
est Park, st. Louis, from Jan. l, 1906,
to June 30, 1907, are presented in a
report issued by the United States Geo
logical Survey.
The scope Of the work during the
period covered has been largely restrict
ed to a series of comparative tests made
under conditions as nearly uniform as
possible on bituminous Goals and lig-
mites from different fields of the United
States as representative Of known eX-
tensive deposits. Chemical analyses
were made Of samples Of these fuels
collected at the mines by United States
inspectors sent out for that purpose,
and also Of samples taken from the
cars, from the fuel as fed to the boil
ers, as fed to the producers, before
briquetting, before and after washing,
and before coking. Samples of briquet-
ted coal were also analysed and the re-
suits OF the entire series of analyses
and tests are presented in the report.
The briQuetting plant has developed
new possibilities in the utilization Of
slack coal and anthracite culm as an
efficient fuel for combustion on loco
motives. Experiments are now being
extended to determine the value of
briquetted coal for use in the naval
vessels of the United States.
The plant at Forest Park was dis
mantled in March, 1907. The sections
of steam, producer gas and briquetting
were transferred to a new gas plant,
erected at Norfolk, Va, and those of
coking and washery to a new plant at
Denver. The principal chemical la
boratory of the fuel testing plant has
been removed to Pittsburg, but a
branch laboratory will also be main
tanned at Norfolk for the purpose Of
experimenting on the gases in different
portions Of he combustion chambers
Of steam boilers and OF gas producers.
The smoke abatement investigations at
public buildings will be supplemented
by more detailed experiments at the
Norfolk plant.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

-NGnT
8fP@R%

Jack Leyburn helped the Michiganders
christen their new Detroit track by trot-
ting a mile in 2 :04H in the Blue Rib
bon event.
Nancy Hanks, the famous ~trotting
mare, has foaled a bay colt by Todd at
Hamburg place, John e. Madden's farm,
near Lexington, Ky.
- Manager Egan of the Burlington base
ball club has been in Davenport inquiring
into the prospects for purchasing the
Davenport baseball park.
At Pekin, H., Justo, in the 3-year-old
trot, went the first mile in 2:13A, the
fastest this year for a 3-year-old %trotter.
The quarters were made in O:34h,
1:O7h, 1:41, 2:13A.
At Brighton Beach ETHEREAL ran 5h
furlongs in l :O6, ~equaling the time made
by B%rookdale Nymph and Royal Vane for
the distance. Half Sovereign won the
handicap at six %furlongs from a good field
in the fast time of 1 ~ %.
ff1e records of the Fargo track, air the
track records of North Dakota and the
half-nile track record for the entire Unit
ed States so far this season were broken
by Lady Maud c., owned by Walter
Palmer of Ottawa, ILL.,, when she made a
mile in :OSk.
The six-round bout between BILLY
Papke. the western middleweight, and
Sailor Burke of New York, which was
set for the Coliseum Athletic Club in
New York, did not take place owing to
police interference. A number of per-
sons had gathered to see the fight.
In the Winnipeg rowing regatta. the
Minnesota Boat Gu crews of st. Paul,
won six out of nine events. They were:
First in senior tours. in junior Fights, in
junior singles, in senior singles, in Junior
tours, in junior doubles, second in senior
Fights, in bantam tours and in senior
doubles.
Although Hayes, the American, won
the great Marathon race in the Olympic
games, Dorando. the plucky Italian who
might possibly have won had the British
officials not tried to assist him, is the
here, Queen Alexandra presented him
with a silver cup and the American ath-
letes will present him with a gold medal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

and were carried away by their friends
before their identity was discovered.
ORIGIN of the Trouble.

and were carried away by their friends
before their identity was discovered.
Origin of the Trouble.
The melting cause of the trouble was
an assault made on Friday on Mrs.
Earl Hallam, wife of a street car on
ductor. Mrs. Hallam, whose husband
works at night, was pulled from her
bed at midnight by a negro, who then
dragged her into Il garden in the real
of the house, where he assaulted her.
This was the last straw on the minds
of the whites of the city, the hatred
against the blacks having been smolder-
ing since a month ago, when Clergy A.
Ballard was slain in his home by a
negro, who, it is said. had entered the
Ballard home in an attempt to assault
MI. Billiards. young daughter.
George Richardson, a negro. was ar
rested for the assault upon Mrs. Hal
lam and placed in the city Jail with
Joseph James, who was accused of the
Ballard murder.
Mutterings of mob violence began
soon after the Richardson Identification
by the woman, and a great crowd col
lected about the Jail. After Richard
son had been identified by Mrs. Hallam
the crowds grew even more violent, and
it was decided to- take the prisoner out
Of town.
Sheriff Charles Werner made ar
rangements to take the men to Bloom
ington and the attention of the crowd
around the iail was distracted by an
alarm of fire while the men were placed
in Harry T. Loper's automobile and
whisked away to the railroad station
neal the fair grounds. where a train
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

Chicago sent LOO additional soldiers,
including $50 cavalrymen, to Springfield,
making a total of more than 5000 guards
men in the capital to maintain order.
A boy who attempted to board the First
Regiment train at Kankakee was stabbed
- death with a bayonet by Il soldier from
Chicago, and the authorities insisted on
arrestiug the man.
Many lynchings and race riots have
married the peace in the last few years,
but the North has had few of the risings.
4 total of 1880 had been lynched in
twelve years prior 10 1903.
Self-defense in the fatal ~bayoneting of
a boy by Private Klein Of Chicago was
the decision of Il military court of in
curry, but Kankakee viii demand the sol
dier's surrender and trial.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

The city council of Spandau, in Brand,
enburg, Prussia, has inaugurated a move
ment to raise S1,625,OOO as a national
gift for Count Zeppelin.
Advices nave been received at the
American embassy in st. Petersburg that
Ambassador Riddle is making good i'm
provement under the treatment at kis.
lovodsk. whittier he went to recuperate
from the effects of his recent illness.
Capt. Lumsden, who commanded the
British cruiser Gladiator at the time she
was lost in a. collision with a liner, has
been found guilty of default in not com.
| plying with the rules of navigation, and
has been dismissed from the service.
The insular c~onstabulary band, of Ma.
Mia, is going to Australia as the guest Of
that government, to participate in the re.
ceptions of the American fleet. The Phil
ippine authorities donate the service OF
the band and Australia pays the ex-
penses.
The presidential election in Panama
went off smoothly, the result being the
choice of Senior Abaldia, candidate of
the opposition to the government, unan-
imously. The supporters of the govern
ment remained away from the rolls. The
electors are to meet Aug. /, and their
decision will be certified Aug. IS in adj
vance of the meeting of the National
Assembly on Sept. l..
In a desperate battle between Mexican
troops and Papago Indians at the Imacu-
lada ranch. near Cetrocolo, a mining
camp in the Altar district of Sonora,
nineteen ndians and two soldiers were
killed and five ''oldiers We're wounded.
AT the Quebec celebration the Prince Of
Wales proved himself a worthy represent
ative of King Edward, appearing at the
various functions as a field marshal. an
admiral and as a plain English gentle
man. The military pageant on the plains
of Abraham was the greatest ever seen
in Canada.
AT Frankfort-on-the-Main seven Ameri-
can turner's gained a sufficient number of
points in the all around athletics of the
international tournament to entitle them
to figure in the. prize list. The events
consisted of both apparatus and field
work, $50 points being the maximum
number possible to obtain.
Thomas P. Mofat, the American con-
sui at La Guayra, Venezuela, has re-
turned to this country on account of the
t;,,i..I,iiis plague, which has isolated that
port from the rest of the world. The gum
boat Paducah came within FIVE miles of
the harbor and the consul rowed himself
out to this means. of escape.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

kept in the building. The colored peopl
are fed from the kitchens Of the militia
men, which are across the alley from the
west entrance to the building.
1t is estimated that 1900 negroes have
left the city, some Of them never to re-
turn. The exodus has taken them to Chi
cago, st. Louis, Peoria, Decatur, Bloom
ington, Lincoln, Carlinville, East st.
Louis and Jacksonville. Many nave left
the State, and the Kingdom of Galloway
in Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky and
even Louisiana will be expected to pro-
vide new homes for the refugees.
Two hundred of the Springfield rioters
are to face charges of murder before a
special grand jury which Governor De-
neen and the States Attorney nave called.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
GRAND JURY BEGINS TASK.


investigation of OutrnGes ut Spring.
field Sequel to Disturbances.
Springfield Monday entered upon the
invcstiga ton of outrages and the arrest
of accused men. A special grand jury
was summoned by Judge James A. Creigh-
ton of the Sangamon County Circuit
Court as the result of a conference be-
tween Governor Deneen and States At
torney Frank Hatch. A large amount OF
evidence, duplicating many citizens, was
obtained during the r~ioting, and this will
be submitted. Suspects were arrested
each day during the reign of terror, and
will be held awaiting the deliberations OF
the official body.
The assurance of General Young that
his force is sufficient to render ,abortivs
any attempt at mob violence is shared by
the negroes. Many more Of them from
the residence districts Of the city came
to the arsenal, swelling the number shell
tered by the State to 400 They are
guarded as closely as is the ammunition
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

the Church of the TRANSPORTATION in New
York, popularity known as 1.-THE little
church around the corner" two pieces of
antique Spanish lace, family ~heirlooms,
in memory Of his mother.
Sister Katherine Of Peekskill. n. z,
has been chosen mother general of the
Sisters of st. Mary, a Protestant Epis-
copal organization.
The steamer Greyhound crashed into
the launch West Wind off Presque Isle.
The owner Of the launch, Richard Much
Ter, was drowned and five passengers with
him narrowly escaped Wit; t:eir lives.
The small craft was W. ri Lights.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
SHORT NEWS Totes.

A record for excavation was made on
the Panama canal on July 3, 16S,64C
cubic yards having been taken out.
Oscar Hammerstein is to construct a
ROOF garden. which will be devoted to
high-class musical entertainments, on tor
of his Manhattan opera house in New
York.
Mrs. Marie Sicaria, 16 years old, com
mitted suicide at her home in New York
when the Children's Society took from
her the infant She could not nurse and
was too poor to feed.
The Marquis de aiontcalm presented tc
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
BAYONET KILLS A BOY.
Lad mt Kankakee Is Stabbed t,
Death by Soldier on Guard.

At Kankakee, Earl Nelson, a delivery
boy for a local grocery, was stabbed to
death by one of the soldiers of the First
Regiment, I. n. G., of Chicago as it
passed through on its way to Springfield.
About 300 residents of the town witness
ed the stabbing and clamored for revenge.
According to the story told by ARISEN
Ares. a French boy, and witness Of the
shooting. at the inquest, the killing of
Nelson was unprovoked. His story is
borne out by the testimony Of Elmer o.
born and Eli Barnett, other Kankakee
youths who were with Nelson and saw
the murder. After a lengthy session of
the board of inquiry at Springfield, Pri-
vate Joseph b. Klein of Company A,
First Infantry, vas sustained in his plea
of self-defense in the fatal stabbing with
a bayonet of the youth at Kankakee.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

streets, only one block distant from th0
HEADQUARTERS OF Gen. Young and staff.
There were 200 men in the crowd
that went to the home of Donnegan,
but not more than half a dozen knew
where the rioters were leading or what
their intentions were. As the mob
neared the home of Donnegan members
Of the negroes family felt that the
marchers were bent on killing them.
The wife and children fled through a
rear door. but Donnegan, who was al
most blind from old age, was unable to
accompany tile1n.
Five or six or. the rioters ran into
the house. firing their revolvers. Dom
negan had taken refuge under a bed.
He was dragged OF and hustled to
the street, where the rufiians were
awaiting his appearance. Raymer de-
MES any part in the actual lynchfng.
but the police believe he was one Of
those who placed the rope around the
old mans neck.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
clare the law should be sufficient to pun

clare the law should be sufficient to pun
ish all offenders.
A woman arrested on charge of melting
riot was released on bail, but a number
of men are held on suspicion of taking
part in the mob work.
Governor Deneen issued a formal state.
nlent reviewing acts leading up to the
outbreak, the results of the rioting and
The efforts to restore peace.
The brutal murder of an aged negress
by a man of her own race, crazed by the
Springfield riots, almost resulted in a
lynching in Chicago's "black belt"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
NOTES OF SPRINGFIELD RIOTS.
A second negro was hanged, but res
cued by soldiers.

cued by soldiers.
Governor Deneen ordered the First
Second and Seventh Regiments to Spring
field from Chicago.
Springfield pastors united Sunday H
preaching against the rioting which has
disgraced the city.
Forty-ive hundred soldiers at last
overnwed the mobs in Springfield and re
stored a semblance of order.
Troops aided the Springfield fire de
partment, keeping a mob in check while
flames in negro refuge were fought
Prominent negroes in Chicago denounct
the mob violence at Springfield and de
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
VIII: sac Gunness Es.atc.

Tonnes Jefferson Lien Of Rushford,
Mimi, was one OF the victims of Mrs.
Bella Guinness. Lien left Rushford on
April 2. 1907, for Laporte to marry a
rich widow. He carried with him $1,000.
HI never returned home. His parents,
who live in Norway, are confident he was
disposed of by Mrs. Guinness. An effort
vG:. be made to recover $1,000 from the
Guinness estate.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

Bomb ~sarowefs tried to wreck Id
banking house of Salvador d. AURA =
Newark, N. J.. Little damage was donA
1t is believed the black hand" societ4
was responsible.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28
American workbench in pemans.

In placing new orders with various en-
ploym agencies for men to work in its
.,oke ovens. the II. C. Frick Company has
inserted the provision that only Ameri-
cans will be considered. or at least men
who have lived here a number of years.
Consequently word has been sent to the
European agencies to have the men who
went back during the panic notified that
they are not wanted here.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-28

Gossip among New York insurance men
oas it that 2 stock exchange house has
:atcn out a ,..s On the life OF VIZ.
yaft for $1eJ,Gs3. A