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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-02-06

'''f11$ sr1lSIS, 1JeItNudnt,
In Chancery.
;, The object of this suit is to obtain a
divorce from the bonds of matrimony.
This day came the plaintiff nv h-r A.
torney; and on his motion, and it appear
ing by affidavit filed, that the Defendant
IS a nonresident of this Stnte, it is order
cd that he do appear within one month
after the date of the first publication
here1t' and do what is necessary to pro-
tect his interest in this suit
~ leste:- D. NJ. >HIRKEY, Clerk,
I. G. NUTTER. Sol
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-02-06

Inc Labor Argus only 81 90 per
year year.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-02-06
Ind ustrial Depressions.

Those who believe that there ara. ~
dlcahOnS that severe industrial dc
preston is due will find by an irsDec-
uOn OF the monthly issuance of build
ing permits that in the month of An
gust the building operations in Chira-
go We're Sl.oHH.ppO less than in the cor
responding month in 1906 and that for
the past e. :ht months of the present
year ther" was an aggregate decrease
or $I.'pp.opO III the building permits
issued by the city
This is but one Of the many indus-
tries In which there Is a like indication
that one Of those industrial panics.
which the Socialists alone are able to
explain. IS approaching
These periodic commissions which so
cietT IS forced to suffer through the
operations Of capitalism can only be
abolished when the Industry Of the
country is freed from the acarchistic
organization that now prevails and is
systematically run by the workers
Chicago Daily Socialist
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-02-06

Inc Labor Argus, local voice of
organized labor. Subscribe.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-02-06

The Union Label is the death
knell OF the ''open shop''
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-02-06

for the charm. 1t was nanued MIN
and singular expression came upon
bis features. Then he looked I'D as #
trying to eXtricate himself from a
dream.
Let the prosecutor" he said, land
the attorneys and the jury listen. For
ty years ago was young attorney of
Boston. l came to this town to try Il
case, and my client had no money with
which to pay me. was without n
farthinS to take me back to Boston
went to an inn and asked for meat and
drink and lodging. BY the chimney
sat girl. shaking with a chill. 1t
occurred to me to pay my rcckoulu.
by pretending to cure her. | asked her
mother why she was not healed and
when she begged me to heal her |
scratched these characters on this pa
per and hung 1t about her neck telling
her that she would be well. | did not
dream that she would, but | hoped
that she might at least mend. To my
surprise, her chill did not return In
few days | asked my hostess for The,
reckoning. 1T is l who owe YOU she
said, for curing my daughter, not you
who owe me-
IL was l, not the devil. who gave
this child this charm. Why it cured
her and why it has cured Others | am
ignorant. But it shows that these
things we are attributing to the devil
nave some hidden cause that has not
yet been revealed to us. The prisoner
Is discharged"
More than two centuries have claDsed
since this reference to 4 hidden cause
1t has come to light. 1t is the marvel
Gus effect Of mind over me tier How
many years more shall elapsc before
the medical profession have harucsSri
it as electricity has been harnessed and
apply it in place of drugs?
SILVIA LEWIS BALDWIN.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-02-06

Frank Francis, Defendant,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

have the men, the money, ETC., but
we will not have the time to convert
these men into soldiers able to cope
with the trained soldiers of other ma
tions. 1t can be safely relied upon
that the remoteness of war largely de-
ponds upon preparation to meet it. I'm
less other great nations are wrong
and wasting time and money, they are
giving us an object lesson which
Americans will some time have to
learn by costly and humiliating expert
ence, and which it is the urgent duty
of professional soldiers to point out |;
namely, that time and training are
both necessary to convert an unframed
volunteer into a soldier, whether for
Infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers
or signal corps. The last great war
clearly demonstrated that the side
which is ready and acts promptly gains
a decisive advantage.
1.-The engineer force as now organ
lied is insufficient for the needs even
of proper peace training of the army.
During the past two years, on not less
than ten or twelve occasions, actual
necessities for engineer troops have
arisen which could not be met, because
of the relative smallness of this branch
of the service"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
TEXAS TORNADO DEALS DEATH.
Many Buildings I'm Tyler Are De-
sfrOyed by Storm.

Many Buildings I'm Tyler Are De-
strOyed by Storm.
Tyler, Texas, was swept by the most
disastrous tornado in its history about
o'clock Friday morning Coming up from
the southwest the storm swept over the
main residence section of the city, leav-
ing a trail of death and devastation. The
dead are: G. A. Francis, Mrs. Willie
Francis, his wife; Francis. infant; Nose
Lee, an aged negro. Irwin Franklin, Mrs.
Franklin and their four children were
seriously injured. One of the children is
expected to die. They were caught in the
wreckage of their home. Wires are down
in all directions from Tyler, and while
reports from farmers who are Fastening
in to ascertain the extent of the damage
are to the effect that farm houses all
around Tyler were blown down, it is inn
possible to ascertain the loss of life or to
approximate the extent of the disaster. 1t
is known, however, that the tornado
swept everything clean for distance of
five miles. AT least three towns in Mis-
sissippi have been destroyed. Only one
building is standing in the town of Moss
vile, Miss, and that is the depot of the
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City rail-
road. The town had population of 500,
many of whom, it is feared, are dead or
injured
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
WANTS BIG ARMY.
Major General Bell Says Uncle Sam
Should Have 100000 Men.


A United States army of $4,000 men.
That is what Maj. Gen. ]. Franklin
Bell, chief of staff, says Uncle Sam
would need if involved in war with
any first-class power. 1--WE should not
allow ourselves to nurse false sense
Of security" says this man, who is in
charge of the United States army, in
his annual report, ''or continue to en-
terrain the illusion that brave, but
unframed unorganized people can Crap
pie successfully with another nation
better trained and organized
This is from Gen. Bells report, in
which he asks the government to con-
slider important facts. recommending an
increase in the army and the restora-
ton of the canteen.
1T is a modest assumption" says
Gen. Bell. ito say that the United
States will. if involved in war with
any first-class power, require the inn
mediate mobilization of 250,OO0 men,
to be speedily followed by as many
more, with a possible ultimate addi-
tional increase of four times that num-
Der.
"One division, 1900 troops. is, Of
course, not sufficient TO meet any need
at time when isolation has become
a thing of the past. and we have points
of a possible friction in so many di-
rections. That we can first in any
popular outburst raise volunteers in
great numbers may be admitted. We
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
U. S. AFTER EXPRESS COMPANY.
American Sued on Charge of Carry
ing MatI-RosSs af Action

American Sued on Charge of Carry
ing Mail-Basis of Action.
The opening gun in the campaign
against common carriers for alleged VIC
lation of the mail laws in carrying first
class mail matter without postage was
fred in Cincinnati when District Attor-
ney Sherman Mcpherson filed suit in
the federal court against the American
Express Company. The complaint is bas-
ed on a transaction between Mrs. VIII
Brown of Bolton, Texas, and the Hop
kins Glove Company of Cincinnati. Ac-
cording to information furnished by post
Office inspectors, Mrs Brown sent an or
der to the glove dealers for gloves and
inclosed an express money order in pay
ment. This letter, it is charged, was car
ried by the express company without post
age affixed, and as it did not relate to any
of the express company's business the
district attorney maintains the action of
the express company constitutes VIOLA
ton of the postal regulations. The pen
atty for such violation is $500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Railroad officials and telegraphers are
slow to agree upon a schedule OF wages
for the latter under the eight-hour law.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Minneapolis.
Chamber of Commerce will go to Wash
ington to protest against the passage OF
the Culberson and other bills aimed at
exchanges.
Grand Forks was chosen as the place
for the next annual meeting of the Mu-
tual Blacksmiths and Mechanics Union
of North Dakota. The members took
steps to avoid the dead beats" and will
keep each other posted on characters OF
this kind.
All passenger cars used in this country
ten years hence will have to be made Of
steel if bill which will soon be intro
duced in Congress ia passed. The Trav-
elers' Protective Association, consisting OF
81 900 commercial men, is to father the
measure. it is said. and has gathered to-
gether mass of statistics relative to cas-
ualties in railroad wrecks.
A number of prominent men OF the
Red river valley have formed a company
which has as its object the erection OF a
big dam on the Red river near Halstady
MINI, at the junction of the Red river
and the Wild Rice river, and If they are
allowed to carry out the project 1t VIII
mean the construction of tae biggest pow
er plant III that section Of the country. IL
win supply power for manufactures and
lighting to Crookston, Grand Forks and
Rargo.
The South Dakota railroad commission
has ordered the Great Northern Railroad
Company TO reopen its stations at Grover
and Ranville, Codington county. which
had been closed as a measure of economy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to $6.10; hogs, prime heavy, $ir@
to $4.35; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1925; wheat, No. ., 92c to ODE;
corn, No. ., 56c to SIC; oats, standard,
Acc to J0c; rye, No. 9, soc to Sic; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to $500 prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, PC
to 33c; eggs, fresh, 19c to DE; potatoes
per bushel, G2c to 73c.
indianapolis Cattle, shipping, 5000
to 1910 hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to S465 sheep. common to prime,
$500 TO $3.50; wheat. No. 2, 97c to 0Sc-
corn. No. . white, 53c to SAC; oats, No. 2
white, sic to 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs
$500 to $4.40; sheep. $500 to $780,
wheat, No. 2, SOC to 97c; corn, No. "
SAC to soc; oats. No. 2, SOC to Gle; rye
No. 2, 79c to soc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $4.O0 to $780,
hogs, S4.OO to $50; sheep, $500 to-
$500: wheat, No. 2, 97c to CSC; corn
No. 2 mixed. soc to SIC; oats, No. 2
mixed, soc to ole; rye, No. 2, Soc to Soc
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $50; hogs
$500 to $40; sheep. $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, 93c to Ole; corn, No. ;
yellow, SIC to JSc oats, No. 2 white
52c to 54c: rye, No. =, SIC to SAC.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northerny
ST O2 to $1O4; corn, No. 3, 54c to 5Gc5
oats, standard. ole to 52c; rye, No. L.
Sic to S3c; barley, No. 2, Doc to &c.,
pork, mess, $11.90.
Bhffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$40 to $500; hogs. fair to choice, $3.50
to $455; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $5.25; lambs, fair to CHOICE
$500 to $50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $685.
hogs, $3.50 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to-
$500; wheat, No. 2 red. 96c to Csc;
corn, No. Q, 62c to 63e; oats. natural
white, sc to 60c; butter, creamery, 2Sc'
to 34c; eggs, western, 19c to zoe.
Toledo-W Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 96c to-
97c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 56c to SIC;
oats No. 2 mixed. Sic to 53c; rye, No
2, 7Sc to Soc; clover seed, prime, $11.4T-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
LAKE CRAFT AROUND HORN.

Steamer from Detroit Is Getting
Record with Cargo of Lumber.
On the way from Detroit to San Fran
cisco, by water, the 7O0-ton freight steam
ship Lucy Neff has arrived at New York.
After coaling and provisioning for the
next leg of its ocean journey it will pro-
coed. To reach the Pacific coast city
from Detroit, a land distance of not
much over 1000 miles, the Nef is travel
ing 1900 miles by the all-water route
through the great lakes, the Welland
canal, the st. Lawrence river, down the
Atlantic coast and up the Pacific. From
now on it will follow the route taken by
the battleship fleet. Although there may
have been other trips of the sort, mari
time men say they cannot remember a
steamship ever having taken similar
voyage. The steamer left Detroit June
20. The trip was heightened by stop
at Bath, Me-, for extensive repairs. The
vessel carries a crew of twenty men and
is loaded with lumber.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

The Pennsylvania Railway Company's
summer freight house at Cleveland and
about twenty freight cars were burned.
Loss $4,000.
Fire destroyed a part of the Nelson
warehouse, occupied by the Canadian Pa
ci6c railway at Montreal. Loss 100000,
covered by insurance.
The Ohio Supreme Court set aside the
indictments which had been fouCd against
the so-called bridge trust, holding that
the charges were not sufficiently definite.
An Office building at Portsmouth, Va,
containing valuable records belonging to
the Seaboard Air Line railway, was
wrecked by fire and water
Six Italians supposed to be members
of Black Hand society are under arrest
at Canton, Ohio, upon charges of having
keeper, if he did not give them $50 and
join their society.
Chancellor Heiskell at Memphis, Tenn,
made permanent an injunction prohibiting
an organization of negroes styling them
selves the Improved Benevolent Order of
Elks, with grand lodge headquarters in
Chicago, from using the name "Elks."
All the passengers and crew of the
steamer Anselm, wrecked on the Cuban
coast, were saved. The ship and cargo
probably viii be total loss.
At Grand Cascapedia, Quebec, Andrew
Campbell returned from work to discover
the ruins of his home, in which were the
dead bodies of his father, wife and two
children.
w. K. Vanderbilt has planned unique
apartment house for New York The
building of two apartments win cost
$4,000. Each apartment viii nav. three
floors An elevator viii take motor cars
to the garage in the basement. The
building will be in Madison avenue near
Fifty-second street.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
CHICAGO

discussing trade in the Chicago dis
tflct Tor the last week, X. G.. Dun &
Company's report says:
lhe general course of trade is headed
toward recovery, although the returns
disclose some irregularity. Operations
this week were restricted to some extent
by unfavorable weather and the holiday.
and there are smaller marketings of farm
products, less freight movement and de-
cline in payments through the banks.
Against these temporary setbacks there
are gratifying offsets in important re-
sumptions at the mills and furnaces, fur
Their unemployment of workers and an
improved demand for manufactures and
spring merchandise.
Retail trade here and at most interior
points benefited from wider buying of
heavy win,~r apparel and depletion Of
stocks previously in slow absorption.
The attendance of country buyers i'm
the wholesale markets for staple goods
shows seasonable increase and dealings
are encouragingly stimulated in dry goods,
woolens. clothing, footwear and food pro-
ducts.
The bookings in some respects make
favorable comparison with year ago.
and the aggregate would have been bet
ter We're all buyers making their usual
full selections of needs, but there is yet
a rather conservative feeling. which 1871
likely to last until the trend of prices and
the business outlook become more settled.
Road statesmen have fair success in the,
textile branches and new accounts are
opened in the south and southwest sec
tions. Indications generally encourage
confidence in the prospects for wholesale
and jobbing activity.
Manufacturing is not yet marked by ans
appreciate increase of outputs and i'm
provement in deliveries is not expected to-
become general before spring. The situa-
ton, however, is better by the machinery
set in motion and reduction of the unem-
ployed
Inquiries appear more plentiful in IRON
and steel branches, especially for rails
structural shapes and wire products.
Bank clearings, $20l, 4l6,S56. are 1913
per cent under those of the corresponding
week of 1907.
Failures in the Chicago district nun
Der SO, against 81 last week and % s,
year ago. Those with liabilities over So
600 number rs, against last week and g;
year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25

| Reports are to the effect that the Wis
consin Central is securing through route
between Chicago and Winnipeg by the
way of Duluth.
The management of the Pennsylvania
| road has issued instructions that wher-
| ever possible business shall be transacted
| by train letters instead of telegraph. The
order is in the interest of economy and
has resulted in reducing the daily num-
Der of messages sent from the Broad
| street station, Philadelphia, by nearly
1900.
| On New Years eve eliminated a
| unique movement for industrial temper
ance when a pledge of total abstinence
signed by $4,000 employees of the North
western railroad went into effect. 1t
started among the employees after it had
been made known that the management
was selecting the drinking men for dis
missal in reducing the force.
The railroad companies doing business
in Missouri have about decided not to con-
test the State 2-cent fare law, because
they are now confident that the reduction
of traffic shown by their figures since the
law went into effect will satisfy the courts
that it is inequitable and confiscatory. A
Missouri Pacific official said the receipts
had declined 80 per cent in the last ninety
days, and Wabash man said that the
combined loss to all the roads in passenger
traffic alone was $6,0O0,00O.
1t is estimated by members of the car
service committee that between $760, 000,-
600 and $1,0OO,0OO,OOO worth of equip
ment is idle in the country and that it
is therefore costing the railroads nearly
100000 a month in interest charges to
maintain it in idleness. There are $780,
600 freight cars standing idle ON side
tracks throughout the country. 1t is stat
ed that for every thirty freight cars which
have become idle an engine has been put
in the shops, which would mean that fully
1900 locomotives are without loads to
haul.
Attorney General Bonaparte has COM
menced action under the Sherman anti
trust law to dissolve the merger of the
Hartman interests in the Southern Pa
cific and the Union Pacific railroads. This
is in pursuance of an investigation and
report made by Special Attorney Frank
B. kellogg, on behalf of the interstate
commerce commission. Mr.. Kellogg, with
Mr. Severance of st. Paul, Mimi. will
have charge of the prosecution of the suit,
which will probably be begun in Utah.
The proceedings will be similar to those
brought against the Northern Securities
Company by the government some years
ago.
In the United States District Cours at
Kansas City, No., George L. Thomas, a
freight broker of New York City, and
L. 3. Taggart, his clerk, pleaded guilty
to the charge Of conspiring to pay re-
bates to railroads, and were fined $1,000
and $4,000, respectively, the jail sem
tence being omitted They were found
guilty on June p, 1905, and were fined
$1,000 and $4,000, with several months in
jail Upon appeal the verdict was re-
versed on technicality, but the case was
prosecuted to its present conclusion. II
derived considerable prominence from pc
ing one of the most important rebate
cases ever decided in this country, and
the first where sentence was imposed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
RR1EF NEWS ITEMS.

Fire at Rochester, Pa, caused loss
of $4,000.
Fire did $250,O00 damage in the bust
ness section of Rome, y. Y.
DIR. J. w. Kirby was found not guilty
at Greenwood, Miss, of killing James d
Money, .Jr.
Congressman Tim Sullivan gave
away shoes to 5000 men in New York
his pet annual charity.
The extension of the Florida East
Coast railway from st. Augustine to Key
West was opened recently without cere-
mony.
Representative James T. Lloyd of Mis-
souri, has been chosen chairman of the
Democratic congressional campaign com
mittee.
The late Minister Edwin III. Conger's
collection of Chinese ware, bought at the
sale of the loot from Pekin, is to be sold
in New York.
In a pistol battle at Farrell, Miss,
Baxter Griffith, white, was killed. and
Gundy Shepard, white, and three negroes
were hurt, one of them fatally.
Stuyvesaut Fishs latest is to warn Hi
nois Central stockholders that ''E. II.
Hartman proposes a $30,000.000 short
term loan, secured by mortgaging cars and
engines
The London Tribune, liberal morn
ing newspaper, founded two years ago,
has suspended publication.
The House committee on Claims has be-
gun an investigation of the $1IS,OO0 sub
treasury robbery in Chicago.
More than S250,000 in the treasury of
New York City, owing to former en-
ployes, has not been called for.
Two thousand Italian citizens held a
mass meeting in New York to devise
means to fight the BLACK hand"
The New York health authorities a1-
nit that there are at least Fifty cases of
hydrophobia being treated in New York.
Gen. Bompiani and Baron vincenzo
Negi fought duel with swords at Reggie
de Calabria. Italy. Bompiani was seri-
ously wounded.
Louisiana had four hangings the other
day, the largest number in one day for
several years Two of the murderers
executed are negroes.
Notices have been posted at the Globe
smelter in Denver announcing a reduction
in wages of from 10 TO % cents day.
About 700 men are affected.
Raisuli, the Morocco bandit, has releas-
ed Kaid MacLean, the Sultan's body
guard, the British government paying
the bandit his price, 100000.
An investigation of rebating by rail-
roads in California will be begun by the
State railroad commission, which is said
to have perfected 1900 cases against the
Southern Pacific company.
A new steel twin screw pleasure yacht
for Morton F. Plant of the New York
Yacht Club is being built at Leith. Scot
land. The yacht, named the Iolanda, is
305 feet long and of 6.400 horse power.
DIR. Albert Harrison Mixer, professor
emeritus of modern languages at the Uni-
versity Of Rochester, died in Rochester.
aged s. years. He was a member of the
original faculty of the university In 1850.
For ten years be was a professor in the
University of Chicago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
MISSOURI BANK ROBBED.
Five Bandits Wreck Building and
Yerrorize Town of Rich Hill.

Taking $4,000 after dynamiting and
wfecking the building of the Farmers
and Manufacturers Bank in Rich Hill,
Mo-, five bandits, heavily armed, ter
rorized citizens early the other morn
ing and after exchanging shots with
the sheriff's posse escaped to the rough
country south. No one was injured.
A terrific explosion caused by the
dynamiting of the vault of the bank
awakened the town half an hour after
midnight and the population hurried to
the two-story brick bank in the center
Of the city. Many arrived in time to
see the robbers riding away. Some of
the citizens opened fire on the fleeing
bandits and the latter returned the fire.
Cashier ]. w. Jamison said that all
the available cash in the bank was
taken by the robbers. The building
was ruined and several other buildings
were damaged by the explosion. The
sheriff organized a posse, but the rob
bers had good start.