The Alaska citizen., 1912-10-07
GENERAL NEWS
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WANT MORE MONEY

WANT MORE MONEY.
 MANILA, Oct. |. The cigar making industry of this city is prac. tically at standstill in consequence of the refusal of the cigar makers to work longer for the present rate Of wages. Al a meeting of tn" workers held Monday night it was decided to make a formal demand for an increase. and to strike if the demand was refused Today there are lJ,Oo0 men out of work. and there appears no immediate prospect of settlement. although several of the employers have signified their willingness to meet the cigar mak- CTS half way.
 TRIAL STARTS.
 SALEM, Mass. Oct. 1. The trial of the textile strike leaders. Ettor and Giovannitti. who are accused of having murdered q woman who was killed by a policeman while they were two miles away from the scene of the shooting. opened here this morning.
 BIG STRIKE.
 BOSTON, Oct l. In addition to those now out on strike in sym pathy with the labor leaders Ettor and Giovannitti at Lawrence. 11,Ou0 textile workers in other parts of the day went out on strike today. The sympathetic strike caused by the prosecution of the accused lead CTS bids fair to rival the original strike
 LAWRENCE, Mass. Oct. 1. \ riot occurred here today between the striking textile workers. who are out in sympathy with Ettor and Giovan nitti. and the police of Lawrence. The combatants fought with knives and clubs, and two policemen were stabbed during the fight
 MAJOR m'ARSON DEAD
 PHILADELPHIA. Oct l. Ma jor John McArson, the famous Wash phia American. died at his home in this city today.
 VICTIMS BURIED.
 QUINCY. Ill. Oct. l. -. Charles r. Fanschmidt. wealthy resident Of this city, his wife and daughter. Blanche, and Miss Emma kawpen. d friend of the daughter. who were murdered in the Fanschmidt home on Saturday night last by persons unknown. were buried today. The attendance at the funeral was the largest ever known in this city.
 MECHANICAL ON TRIAL.
 lN,t trial of the Il dynamite conspirators who are charged with having aided and abetted the McNamaras and Mac Manigal in their dynamite outrages. opened in this city this morning. While the fight will be a hot one on both sides. it is not believed here that any of the accused men will he convicted of any very serious crime
 TO TALK WATER.
 SALT LAKE, Oct. 1. - With the largest attendance which has char acterized such an event in years. the International Irrigation congress be gan it's session in this city this morn ing.
 PLEADS GUILTY.
 INDIANAPOLIS. Oct l. Ortie E. MacManigal, who, with 70 others, was indicted last year by the fed eral grand jury in this city on the charge of implication in upwards of 100 dynamite outrages, which were perpetrated in l7 states during the five years prior to October. 1911, pleaded guilty today. All of the others entered pleas of not guilty, a tho inS of were dismissed on motion of the district attorney because of lack of evidence.
 The list of outrages which are charged against MacManigal and the others begins with explosions of structural works in Massachusetts and Connecticut in the summer of 1905 The following year there were eight explosions; in 1907 there were six; twenty-six in 1908; twenty in 1900; twenty-five in 1910 and thirteen in 1911. The blowing up Of the Los Angeles Times building oc- cured on the night of September 30, 1910, and is one of the eXplos ions included in the 1910 list of 25.
 The inquiry which resulted in the indictment of the alleged dynamiters began in this city last December
 FATAL EXPLOSION
 NEWPORT, R. l.. Oct. 2.-Through the bursting of steamchest on the torpedo boat destroyer Wake yester- day, Lieutenant Donald Morrison was killed outright and seven others were severely injured, two of them so seriously that they have since succumbed.
 ALL READY.
 INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. ?. The selection of the jury which will hear the dynamite cases was completed late yesterday afternoon, and both sides announce that they are ready to proceed with the trial.
 THREATEN JURORS.
 SALEM. Mass, Oct. 2. - A deter mined effort is being made by the Industrial Workers of the World to frighten those connected with the Ettor and Giovannitti case into free ing the two leaders who are on trial for the murder of a woman who was killed by the police during the Lawrence strike of last winter
 The selection of jury is proving exceedingly difficult in the face of the threats which have been made, some of them openly, in case the two men are convicted Out of a list of more than fifty names. but three jurymen have been secured.
 WILL QUIT.
 PALO ALTO, Cal. Oct 2. - Pres ident David Starr Jordan. head of Leland Stanford. Jr., University, has made the announcement that he intends to resign from his present