Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-30
SEATTLE. wash. Aug. 27.-The


valdes. Alaska. Aug. "a. with 1875 pas
sengers, struck rock off Steep Point,
Alaska, at / O'Clock this morning. and
sank with a loss of five lives. The
dead are the Ohio's wireless operator,
three ol the crew and one passenger.
PITrSBuRG. Pa. Aug. 27--Import-
ed men numbering 200 quit work today
a. the Pressed Steel Car company al
McKees Rocks and in body marched
to the bank of the Ohio river where
they say they will camp until the
company has paid them for their work
After getting the money dne them'
their Intention is to return to their
homes in various eastern and western
cities.
These new men claim there are only
800 workmen left in the plant and that
all OF them viii leave by tomorrow.
Poor food and uncongenial working
conditions. they say ,actuated whole
sale desertions. A large number OF
men win come to the federal building
during the afternoon and make am
davits before Special Agent HoaSland
OF Washington, d. c., sent here by
the department of justice for the pur'
pose Of investigating alleged charges
OF peonage.
SALE OF ToMBsToNEs
SHOWS BIG INCREASE
CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-The fourth an
nual banquet of the National Retail
Monument association was held last
night Toastmaster Avery Of Chicago
said the increased sale OF monuments
and tombstones was an indication oi
prosperity.
"a man that's hard up don't want to
spend money for tombstone he
said, but when he gets things ahead
at The bank he can and does invest in
testimonials to loved ones, long neg
locted."
The sale of gravestones, he said, had
increased 10 per cent the last year.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 27.-lnteres'
was today aroused by advance copies
received of the September number OF
the American Federationist. containing
an article entitled "Labors Duty of the
Hour" There was discussed as tc
whether an article of the opinion BY
men prominent in labor circles con
stituted contempt of court.
| The views were upon the decision ot
the district supreme court by Justice
| Wright, adjudging in contempt o
court Of Samuel Gompers, John Mitch
eli and Frank Morrison
When the article was shown to Jus
tice Gould. he said: 81 see nothing il
the articles that could be termed con
tempt of court. A man has a righ
to make comment upon a decision o.
a supreme court judge. providing h'
does not impute improperly or i'm
proper motive. In other words n mar
has right to say what he thinks o
a decision. Contempt of court viii
lie where one deliberately violates al
Injunction
Liberty of action is REASONABLY
safe" declares John Mitchell in tn
symposium, 'in the keeping Of twelv
fellow citizens. II should not be in
trusted to any one man, 1t matter
layman The power to convict an,
imprison citizens of the United State
should neither be forced upon thu
judges of our courts nor arrogate,
by them"
NEW YORK, Aug. 27--It is practi
cally admitted at Arden, Hartman
country place, that the great railroa,
man viii have to undergo a seriou
operation Immediately. Without tn
operation 1t is state that Mr.. Harri
man could not recover from the Hines
which now besets him.
On authority of a male nurse II
attendance of Mr. Hartman, 1t 4
stated he was suffering from nervous
generous growth in the abdomen.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-Gen. Jere
miah II. Gilman, u S. A., retired
credited with having ordered the frs
rifle shot fired in the civil war, Il
dead at the Oriental hotel. Manhattan
beach, after an illness of two months
He was rs years old.
NEW YORK. Aug 27.-After Franl
e. Williamson, 10 years old, shot hi
weetheart, Florence Lillian Wood, an,
II
himself on the doorstep of her Brook
lyn home, learned today that thu
young couple had entered into sui
eide pact because Williamson's lacl
of employment prevented their imme
liato marriage.
Williamson and the girl are uncon
scious in a hospital where it is moi
| believed either can recover.
The fact that there was suicide
pact is shown in II letter left by Miss
Wood TO her mother in which she
wrote she had wanted to kill hersali
hut that Williamson refused to permit
her TO take her own life. The letter
was written on August 81 and explain
ed the details of the tragedy as it oc
Cured last night and in 1t the girl
| requested she be buried in a white
dress, and asked her mother to refrain