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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
EMPLOYEES ARE
READY TO STRIKE

CHICAGO, ILL. Special. Thirty
I'VE thousand shopmen employed on
the Illinois Central and other Harri-
man lines will be ordered TO strike
tomorrow unless the railroad officials
agree to the demands of the new fed
Grafton of shop unions
This was the word passed out from
headquarters in Chicago today
Julius Kruttschnitt, vice president
Of the Union Pacific. to whom the
ultimatum of the unions was present
ed, has until midnight to make a re-
ply.
The deadlock between the railroad
and Union officials is explained in the
following kilograms:
Davenport, Ia-s Sept. &c, 1911.
Julius Kruttschnitt, Vice President
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
120 Broadway, New York:
I'VE are officially instructed by our
organization to request you 10 agree
20 meet the representatives Of the shop
Federation or to notify you that We
have no other alternative but to give
our approval and permission to the
mon OF the lines you represent to quit
work. we will expect an answer so
that we can arrange 10 meet you by
noon Thursday next at Chicago for
tho purpose OF making the necessary
Arrangements as above indicated. Send
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
SIXTY FOUNDLINGS
START FOR THE WEST

NEW YORK, Special. 1t was a
fussy band of sixty young ladies and
gentlemen of from two to four years
noon, in a big sunny room at the New
York Founding Asylum. to leave in
the evening for as many adopted
homes in the West.
Appearances were everything, sew
eral of the baby girls told them
selves, while they pried plump fingers
through curly blonde and brown COLI
fures of fluffy curls that would insist
upon succumbing to the heat and
lying iH damp, uncomfortable Masses
Several of the baby ladies grew quite
fractions about il. and yowled a bit
or deliberately slammed TO the floor
perfectly good bottle of perfectly
good milk.
Rapidly along went the prepara-
lions, so that the little troop could
catch the 6 o'clock train out of the.
Grand Central Station for Nebraska
and Colorado. 4. Each youngster wore
underneath her little pink or blue
gown a tiny waist through which
could be seen the faint orange hue,
of an envelope. Sister Therese un-
buttoned Harry Larkin and showed
the slip inside the envelope, which
read:
Dear Friend.-Within a week after
the reception of the little one will you
please fill out the inclosed slip and
forward it to us? Please also to write
us yearly. about September 1st, how
the little child is progressing, with
any items of interest.
wishing you many blessings for
your kindness to the orphan. 1 am,
in our dear Lord, yours respectfully
SISTER THERESE VINCENT"
The babies are to go TO homes, all
OF which have been investigated by
several of the eleven investigators
who are kept busy the year round in
curing into the character and homes
OF the people who make application,
Tor baby for adoption. Many of the
applications filled out by prospective
parents detail property valued from
$4,000 to $4,000, and the papas are
mostly merchants and farmers, occa-
slonally lawyer or a doctor
The institution had its inception in
october forty-two years ago, and since
that time has accommodated some
$4,000 children.
chartered. car running on Lex
ington Avenue received the children.
together with Sister Anna and Sister
immaculate, and four nurses. and
when they reached the depot porters
ana guards helped them to their Pull
man. Hampers of provisions were
hoisted on. At the wheels began 10,
move and sixty small waits were en-
route to-who knows what fortune7
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
HID MATCHES IN
WOODEN LIMB
Vagrant Tries to Set Himelf Afire.
But is Prevented BY
Police.
RIG HMON Nd. VA-snecia,

~ - II NJ " N ~, NA--Special.-
with a supply OF matches conceal
ed in crack in his wooden leg.
Charles Harrison, a character we'll
known to the police, was locked up at
the Second Police Station yesterday
ana as soon as he was left to himself
ne promptly tried 10 commit suicide
by setting his clothes on fire.
The smell of burning rags warned
the police. They investigated with "A
bucket OF water and put out the blaze
Inc man was searched for matches
out not one was found. Half an hour
later the smell of burning rags again
assailed the nostrils of the police. A
second bucket of water was taken TO
Harrlson's cell. The man was living
on his back. and his clothes were in
a bright blaze.
After the fire had been extinguish-
ca second search of the mans
ciothes was made. No matches were
discovered. The clothes We're then
taken on-those that remained from
the two hres-and in a crack in the
mans wooden leg the police found n
handful of matches. "
me man was very much depressad
When they were fished out of tha
crack. He said he wanted to kin him
selt, as he was tired of being in trou-
Die: The police gave him some
comes and released him. He prom-
lsed not 10 try to Kill himself
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05

Thyme. uncle OF the Marquis OF Bath
and Sir Abe Bailey. the South Afri.
can millionaire.
One by one Mrs. Leeds. with every
assurance OF her high regard dis.
missed them. saying she preferred
son. until only Prince Murat remain.
ed. He Is thirty-nin years old. A
grandson OF that Lucien Murat. third
Prince OF Naples and Ponte Corvo,
who married Miss Fraser, OF Balti-
more. the Prince has American blood
IN his veins. He proved for Mrs.
Leeds far from easy TO discourage. A
general of cavalry in the Russo-Japa-
neSe war, who led the Cossacks times
without number against intrenched
japanese, is not easily put off.
Prince Murat first met Mrs. Leeds
on Anthony j. DreXers yacht, the
Margherita, during Cowes week at a
reception given TO King Edward.
From that time he was never far
from her side. The following year
he followed her from London to Paris
anu through Switzerland, and though
Mrs. Leeds kept saying NO" he would
not take No for an answer.
In the London season just past, say
TRENDS OF Mrs. Leeds, the Prince made
his final proposal. He is compare
lively wealthy and he assured her he
| loved her for herself alone: he want
ed no money settlement; he was will
ing to live in America six months OUT
OF the year for the sake of Mrs,
Leeds son.
Dismissed Finally.
Mrs. Leeds consulted Lady Paget and
Lady Sarah Wilson. Then she turned
to her brother-in-law, Warner NJ. Leeds
a former vice president of the Ameri-
| can Sheet Steel and Tin Plate Com
pany, who at that time was paving her
visit. To him was delegated the task
or assuring Prince -Murat, as tactfully
as possible, that there was no hope for
him. Mrs. Leeds knew Just enough
French and Prince Murat a barely SUN
cient amount OF English for the issue
to be made clear between them
1t was something of a temptation"
Mrs. Leeds is said to have admitted to
her friends, ON account OF the social
prestige his name and title would have
brought me. L like him personally, for
he is fine, manly chap, but a mar
riage without love is not my idea Of
marriage
The smart Newport set hope that in
the end her choice will fall on James
De Wolf Cutting, one OF the most
popular bachelors and cotillon leaders
in the Four Hundred. Mr.. Cutting
regard for Mrs. Leeds has never been
in question, but she has frequently
denied anything but friendship existed
between them. He was much at her
house in London during the season.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
MAY OPEN ANOTHER
TOBACCO FACTORY

SOUTH BOSTON, VA, Special.-It is
rumored in business circles in South
Boston that Hancock Brothers, one OF
the largest tobacco manufacturing
firms OF Lynchburg, is looking for a
site in South Boston upon which to
erect a branch factory for the manu-
facture of chewing tobacco.
The British American Tobacco Com
pany has leased a building in the rea r
OF the Star Warehouse which they will
use for storage purposes during the
season and until they have complet ted
a building for their exclusive use The
British American Company have indie
pendent buyers upon the market in the
persons of George L. Corbin, of Dan
vile, and w. Willingham, Of South
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
If YOU DRINK SOUP
4 CELL AWAITS YOU

NEW YORK, Special. MA, that
mans soup from his PLATED" cried Miss
Amanda Richter in horror as she
viewed a diner last night in her
fathers restaurant at S12 Eighth Ave
nue..
Mrs. Richter came from behind the
ca shier's desk and said to the drinking
Decent people don't eat soup that
way"
If you've got a sponge that amt
working. you might lend it to me-" he
retOrted.
He's laughing at you, ma" Miss
Richter said. The man took another
didn't come here for no table etiquette.
I come in here for soup and I'm get
tin what ] come for" He said some
other things that so shocked Mrs. and
Miss Richter that they called in Patrol
man Dondero.
In the Night Court the soup swal-
lower said he was Bernard Quinn, OF
643 First Avenue, an honest man and
a good electrician. He was charged
with disorderly conduct, Mother and
daughter told their story.
Did you eat soup out of a bowlY
demanded Magistrate House of Quinn.
Il did, indeed, and it was good soup,
answered Quinn.
Don't you know better than to eat
soup out of bowl?'
THAT wasn't eatin' soup, Your
Honor. That was contamination soup
the kind you drink"
do you mean cOnsomme?
Il suppose / do" replied Quinn.
We'll, 1 find you guilty and fine you
$40 or ten days" the court announced
Quinn no doubt would have been lei
of had it not been for the hard things
he had said to Mrs. Richter in the
will spend the next ten days in the
WorkhOuSe.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
FUMES
KILL SLEEPERS

NEW YORK, Special. When tn
forty-five-foot auxiliary sloop Sibyl
puttered up to Morson's pier at EN-
mons Street, Sheepshead Bay, Sunday
evening she carried a weather beaten
flag reversed; and long before she
made the pier somebody aboard meg
aphoned, Get an ambulance sur
geon!
A score of excited men were on the
boat and as she was made fast seve-
raj of them lifted two men to the
pier. They were shouting that the
two had been overcome by gas. While
several of the crowd chafed the I'M
conscious pairs hands and dripped
cold water on their faces a man
phoned to Coney Island Hospital.
Soon an ambulance with Drs.
Greenwald and Wolson arrived and
the surgeons made hasty examina-
ton.
This man is already dead" said
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
SCHOONER RUN
DOWN BY STEAMER
Oil" EK MITCHELL GOES DOWN OFF
PLUM ISLAND-CREW rs
SAVED.

~, NEW LONDON. CON-. Special. -
S SnS steamship Millinocket, Captain
SSaIlInon, pound from Boston to New
YORK was in collision with the threee
IhasIed schooner oliver Mitcheu Of
~ '12 last night in the race to the east
vi - 9m Island. The sailing vessel we a
abandoned and the six men comprisino
n nt crew were taken aboard the
steamer ana taken to New York
me schooner, loaded with coal vos
nVluing IN southwesterly direcfion
a. tne time of the collision. The
S'tsSSner ofncers failed to see her
IlshtS and crashed into her at mi
speed. The wireless operator on tha
MlIllnocket sent out calls for ass,st
n'SS anu responses from several
sources were received
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
reply to James oconnen. Davenport
-. w. KLEINE.
ED. #. RYAN.
u. A. FRANKLIN.
M. O'SULLIVAN,
JAMES O'CONNELIA"

New York City. September 81, 1911.
James O'Connen and others. Daven-
port Hotel, Davenport. Ia;
Replying TO your telegram Of Sep
TENDER 26th, my presence here, OF
course. makes II impossible for me tC
| meet YOU in Chicago Thursday noon
If the essentials of admittedly fail
ana considerate treatment, the pay.
ment of the highest wages Of any rail
road in the territory served by oul
railroad and the guarantee of hospital
and general pension benefits have not
been sufficient TO deter our shopmer
from terminating agreements securing
these conditions made from time to
time in conference with their labor
unions, and from spending four or
FIVE months devising new issues and
means to destroy existing harmonious
relations, and moreover, are not sutfi-
| cient to induce them to remain in our
! employ and to make them realize their
duty TO the public. 1 do not see that
we can do anything more to convince
them that they have no good reason
to stop work, or to prevent your CIV
ing approval and permission to them
to leave our service.
(Signed)
81. KRUTTSCHNITT,
'Vice President Union Pacific Rail-
road"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
WANTS SON TO Be
AN AMERICAN

NEW YORK, Special. Mrs. viii
liam y: Leeds, the youthful widow of
the Tin Plate King" former presi-
Gent or the Rock Island system-a
woman whom Helleu, the French ar
ust' enthusiastically testified had
nlnety-eight of the 100 points that
make for physical perfection-has de-
clded TO return here to live after a
successful social career in London and
AFTER refusing offers of marriage from
Prince Murat and others of high So
cial rank abroad.
Mrs. Leeds wants her eight-year-
old son, William Bateman Leeds, to
be brought up under those conditions
that best tend to promote good Amer
lean citizenship. More particularly
she wants him taught how to con-
serve and manage the $25,000,O0O es-
tate left him by his father, who died
at the Ritz Hotel in Paris on June
%, 1908.
During the past season Mrs Leeds
leased the house of the Hon. George
Keppel, 16 Grosvenor Street, London
and there, guided by Lady Paget
daughter of the late Paran Stevens
of New York, and Lady Sarah Wilson
an aunt OF the Duke of Marlborough
she entertained all the notables in
English social life and was entertain
ed in return. She was one of only
twelve American women in the roya
enclosure Ascot week. Within a short
time of her arrival in the English
capital she was the guest of the
Duchess of Marlborough. the Earl OF
Winterton, the Earl of Kintore, Lady
Lister-Kaye and of Ambassador and
Mrs. Reid. In the end all of the ex-
elusive London set welcomed her.
Her Knights Attendant.
Among those who danced attend
ance on the charming widow were
Prince Murat, the Prince de Eau
cigny-Lucinge. Lord Falconer, heir to
the Earl Of Kintore; Lord Alexander
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
MURDERED OLD
WOMAN FOR S12O
Body Was Found Floating in a
Well On the Sons
Farm.

GRANVILLE, MASS, Special. -
Robbed and beaten to death, the body
or Mrs. Mary Umansky, sixty-five
years old, has been floating on the
top OF more than ten feet of water
in deep well on her sons farm at
West Granville. Coroner jerks. OF
Westheld, has been summoned and
Will hold an inquest today.
The slain woman carried Sl2O on
her person. This had disappeared
when the body was discovered. The
woman's clothes were torn and cut and
her face and head were badly CASH
ed, indicating that she had fought
merely in struggle to save her life
and money.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
WICHITA KAN

WICHITA, KAN, Special.-On fire
man is dead and five persons are
Smith broom-corn stOrehouse, which
was destroyed by fire early today
The loss so far is 100000 and the
flames are spreading to nearby struc-
lures, threatening to wipe a large area
Of the warehouse district.
The G. w. Rail- Commission Com
panvs storehouse and the o. A. Boyle
Commission Company's place have been
wiped out and the HOuser- Garrison
Wholesale Dry Goods Company's build
ing is burning. The flames are headed
toward the business section OF the city.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
MORE CLERKS TO LEAVE.
STRIKEBREAKERS COME

NASHVILLE, TENN, Special. -
Leaders OF the Illinois Central strik-
ing clerks and machinists declared to-
day that all Memphis clerks on the
Frisco system would walk out in SYM
pathy with Illinois Central clerks
within forty-eight hours unless the
mands.
More than $50 strikebreakers were
brought here last night by the Hi
nois Central. They began working in
the freight house and yards
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
MISS BURDEN WILL
WED DAVID DOWS

NEWPORT, R. l., Special. Mrs.
I. Townsend Burden, of New York
and Newport. today announced the
engagement of her daughter, Miss
Gwendolyn, to David Bows, of New
York. The wedding will take place
in New York in the winter.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
100 Miles n Day for Rodgers.

SALAMANCA, n. Y, Special.-With
his biplane in perfect condition again,
Calbraith L. Rodgers, who is flying
from coast to coast for the $50. 600
prize, declared he was ready to resume
ms trip today. Rodgers and his as
Slstants selected a field near Ridge
House and the biplane was taken over
am going right along as far as I
can from now on" said Rodgers
shall not pick any definite point
Tor landing, but will fly just as long as
my gasoline and lubricating oil lasts.
l ought to be able to cover 400 miles
today"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
Bristol to Have Confederate Shaft.

BhISIOL VA, Special. AT a
mass meeting here Tuesday night an
association was formed TO raise funds
Tor the erection of a monument to
the Confederate dead in the local
cemetery. The proposed shaft will
cost about $4,000
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
MILFORD, MASS,
Snecia1.

MILFORD, MASS, Special -
James Garry twelve years old, while
chasing a football on the railroad
track, was run over and instantly kill
ed by New Haven freight train to-
day.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05

MISS MIILER'S ASSAILaANT.
Complexion dark.
Resembles Italian.
About 5 feet 3 inches tall.
Short, stubby moustache.
Sharp chin.
About tbirty-five years old.
Light shirt.
Very profane.
SUSPECT HELD HERE.
Swarthy complexion.
Long. coarse black hair.
Deep-Set eyes.
Weighs about 100.
About thirty-five years old.
Rough growth of mOuStache
and beard. about week old.
Face covered with CRIME.
Clothes muddy and ragged.
shoes worn out
Wearing light blue shirt.
Dark coat and pants.
Wore pink scarf around neck.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05

Eye SaIve I'm Aseptfc Tubes
prevents observation-disclosures Eye Salve
In Tubes for all Eye Ills. No Morphine.
Ask Druggists for New Size Csc Vel-
liable Eye Book an zach Package
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
FLEW TWENTY MILES
IN TWENTY MINUTES

MONROE, LA, Special. Using an
aeropiane Which ne hau invented and
built himself, Carl Mourfield, a twenty
year-old country boy living near here
new twenty miles in twenty minutes.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
HOLD SUSPECT
FOR AUTHORITIES

Sheriff Miller, Of Mathews, Upon
Being Advised Of the Arrest,
Sent Word That he Would
Be In Richmond Tomor-
row Morning.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05

Fowler Is Delayed.
EMIGRANT'S GAP, CAL. Special. -
heavy wind started blowing shortly
after sunrise and made IL impossible
Tor Fowler to get his machine out of
the narrow gorge in which it rests
After waiting three hours for more
favorable conditions the start was
postponed for another day.
RED HONSE, N. Y, Special.-Rodg-
ers flew over mere at sO:44 This is
422 miles from New York and eight
miles from Salamanca.
SAEGERTOWN, PA, S pecial -
Rodgers passed here at 1918 p. NJ.
having covered ninety-seven miles so
far today.
MEADEVILLE, PA, Special. -
Rodgers landed here at 1925.
KENNEDY, N Y, Special. -
Rodgers flew over here at IL A. NJ.
Rodgers Is Speeding.
CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS, PA, Spe-
cial-Rodgers passed at 1900, having
covered eighty mine miles since he left
Salamanca
MEADEVILLE, Pat, Special.
Rodgers continued his flight from
here at 1886 Z. NJ.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05

Fowler Is DELAYED

SALAMANCA, n. Y. Special.-Rodg-
ers started MS flight at 1880.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
RodrerH Ga speedInr.

KENNEDY, N. Y, Special.
Rodgers flew over here at ii A. M.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
SAEGERTOWN. PA.

MEADEVILLE, PA, Special.
Rodgers landed here at 1925.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05

MEADEVILLE, Pat, Special. -
Rodgers continued his flight from
here at 1886 Z. NJ
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-30
FROELICH INJURED
BY STEAM SHOVEL

William Froelich, 61O South Sixth
street, was seriously injured Sunday
morning, when he was caught between
steam shovel and the end of the car
in which he was working. Froelich,
who is employed by the c. & o. rail
road. was helping to unload a car.
The steam shovel which was being op-
Grated In the same car, swung around
to transfer it's load to the docks, and
struck Froelich, pinning him between
It and the car end. He was rushed to
his home in an ambulance and a ply
stefan was summoned. On examina-
ton 1t was discovered that he had
bad bruise, just above the waist. He
Is resting easy today and is expected
to recover, although the doctor does
not believe him out of danger yet.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-30
ARTISTIC JAPAN.

Rules Of Harmony Prevail In Even thu
humbisst Homes.
BY far the greatest charm Of Japan
and her people lies not only in the
fact that the artists know the secret
OF the most wonderful carvings, cast
1ngs. wood and metal work, silken
brocades and tapestries exquisite cloi-
sonnes and porcelains. things for the
fortunate few, but also in the further
and more important fact that the
daily life Of the poor is surrounded
permeated, interfused by taste and re-
fnement. Even the workmen in their
gardens and homes are daily using
tasteful domestic implements which
are the outgrowth Of the thought and
needs Of the people.
The designs and proportions Of the
humblest houses, exteriors and inte-
r1ors, are settled for all time BY GER
tain rules Of harmony; the dress Of the
peasant Is not left to possible hideous
individual caprice, but follows estab-
1shed canons Of color, cut and usage;
the garden, however small, the fence
or paliny that walls it in. the roof
WA AAC "Cus cfSI Tue gaze, lue great
lantern that hangs by the door, the
bucket In which water is fetched and
the bamboo dipper from which it is
poured. the bronze brazier for Goals.
the tea servlce-ali these and a thou
sand more details Of daily life are ar
ranged according to a pattern which
may be very old. but which, as a re-
suit. adds UNNECESSARILY to the salts
faction Of life
And yet Japanese craftsmen, while
holding hard by tradition. have not
failed to add to their work the subtle
touch Of personality. In the motifs of
their delicately impressionistic and
symbolical designs is constantly seen
their reverence for the early masters,
and as constantly is perceived the In
dividual variation which prevents each
piece Of work from having a dupli-
cate.-M. L. Wakeman Curtis In Crafts
man.