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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-08

THE CONFERENCE MONEY
Rev. Sims Of Bethel NJ. e. Church
Thinks Il Was One Of His
Pensioners Who Robbed
Him.

Robbed by His Own Parishioner,
or the Mysterious Woman in White"
would be an appropriate dime novel
title for little story told today by
Rev. ]. P. Sims. pastor of the Bethel
A. NJ. e. church. corner of Seventh
and Morgan streets.
As the title suggests, the story has
to do with crime. The principal char
acters are unknown. The scene is
laid in the Bethel church, the parish
house and North Seventh street.
Time: Sunday evening between 500
and 900 o'clock
Rev. Sims began preaching his Sun.
day night sermon shortly after 500
o'clock. From his pulpit he could
look out OF the window into Seventh
street, and there at intervals see a
mysterious woman in white pass by.
One Of Preachers Flock?
While the sermon was going on
and the silent and lonely sentinel was
passing back and forth like a soldier
on his night shift, a confederate was
ransacking the parish house for yalu-
ables. The person on the inside was
a man, the minister believes. Not
only this, but he was member of che
preachers congregation, for through
out his work there was left evidence
of an intimate knowledge of things
important for the robber to know
about.
Rev. Sims thinks the man was after
conference money collected Sunday
morning Had the collection been
good, there might have been as much
as 500 to pay the robber for his ef-
forts, but the day was a poor one.
and only SIS in cash was in the house.
In addition to the money hair watch
chain. a highly priced watch fob and
another chain with crucifix were
taken.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-08
KEOKUK CLOSES
SEASON WITH WIN
(Con tinIed from page 81

first session. The real chance came
in the fifth, when Jude and Harvey
were passed, with no one out, but the
next three batters lifted high flies to
the outfield. The score:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-08

Score by Innings.
Keokuk ......5 l . 0 0 0 0-s 8 0
. 0 o o % % 3 4
Summary.
Sacrifice hits-Addington.
Sacrifice flies -Giffin, Delaney.
Stolen bases-Gifffn, Rains. Sugrue
Struck out-By O'Bryne, 1: by Os-
tendorf, s.
Bases on balls-of Riley, 8; off
O'Byrne, 8; off Ostendorf. ).
Left on bases-Keokuk. 8; Mar
Z.
Wild pitch-Ostendorf
Passed ball-Sugrue.
Hit by pitcher-Dail, Arlington
Time of game-1:10.
Umpire-Glenalvin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-08
Generally sn.akinn

Atchison Globe: The general rule
is that if man has complete set of
books. it indicates that an agent got
to him. rather than that he is a great
reader.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-08
sIeuthina Near Home.

Entrance was made through one OF
the rear doors of the house, by means
OF a key which turned the bolt. Co
ing upstairs. the robber pulled down
the curtains, turned on the gas and
ransaeked the room where the church
collections and valuables were kept.
Finishing his quest he walked out
through the front door. met the mys-
terious woman in white, and disap-
pearsd
The police have been given the
story and are working on it. They
are doing mos of the sleuthing near
home.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Wheeling Conference Ends
With No Agreement

The conference of the Miners and
Operators in Wheeling has ended with
no settlement of the strike which has
been on in Eastern Ohio since April.
A week and a half of comforting,
starting with the joint conference,
then with the scale committee of
eight from each side, and three from
the Joint Harmony Committee and
Business men, later with reduced
sub scale committee of three from
each side, has ended in a failure to
reach an agreement.
The men are standing firm for AZ
cents. The operator have contended
that they cannot pay this price, but
the men contend that they have the
best vein in the competitive district,
and that they are fully able to meet
the miners demands, which are little
enough, they say, in view Of the ire
mendous cost of living.
The operators offered 44.51 run OF
mine, or So and %, on the clean and
fine coal basis. The men feel that
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Union Officer
INDICATED

F. H. Cochroft, member of Local
No. 20, Laundry Workers Union, has
been exonorated Of the crime of theft
that was placed against him by Will
liam Lutz of the earl Loundry Co.
For several months past Mr.. Cochraft
mas taken an active part in his union,
and two week ago he was discharged
and Organizer Brock called a strike
and had the management reinstate
aim, as the union was of the opinion
chat Brother Cochroft was discharged
for his activities in the Organization.
On September Bird, Cochroft was ar
rested and lodged in jail, and charged
with theft, and was instructed Dy\ the
city detectives to confess OF DurgkaI
ling the safe of~the Home Laundry
Co. an act that the union otf1cer VA
entirely innocent of. president BroS
of the Laundry Workers international
Union, VINO has been in Wheeling fol
several weeks, claimed it was a plot
on the part of the Home Laundry co
to accuse M Gochraft of this crime
SO they would be able to discharge
this active worker for unionism.
On Friday, September 4th, at regu
lar meeting of Local No. 20, Laundry
Workers Union, the members OF salo
Local decided by unanimous vote t.
go out on strike at the Home Pearl
Laundry, until the trouble was adJus.s
ed pertaining with M. Cochraft-as
theomembers were of the opinion that
one of their active members was being
yictimized. When the management Oh
me Home-Pearl Loundry ascertalned
nat the members were contemplating
strike, they Immediately sent FOR
evelal of the city detectives, who the
nambers have accused of attempting
8 scare them by informing them that
they were not allowed to go out on
strike; but the members of Local No.
70 we're not to sbe hullied by any htred
thugs, as the members decided by
unanimous vote to support and protect
their officer who has been making
their battle.
The matter has been adjusted salts
factory to the union by the manage
ment of the Home1earl Laundry co;
paving all the costs of the court and
Mr.. Cochroft's attorneys fees, ana
Withdrawing the warrant for the
charge that he was falsely accused OF
and making a public apology In the
press, and paying to the members. OF
Local No. 20 full pay for the time
that they we're out on strike. and the
! reinstatement of M. Cochroft.
: Organizer Break stated that ne was
of the opinion that the Home-Pearl
Laundry Co. was DESTROYS to remove
Mr.. Cochroft, as this officer is shop
stewart and has compelled the man
agement to pay all the girls union
wages, as the contract demands, and
for his activities they are making an
effort to manufacture evidence .sufh
cient for his dischA ge.
This is the second attempt that MT
Duncan, manager of the Home-Pear
Laundry, has made to remove this
officer in eleven days, The arst strike
that President Brock called LASTED
eight minutes and the recent one, 1--WE
u"!' las. r. BROCK
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

DENVER, COLO. Sept. 10-(Spe-
cial)-Co Colorado courts and jurles Of
injustice are at It again,
+ The Las Animas County grand jury,
made up of nine corporation employees
and tools, and three citizens, has re-
turned the expected verdict, placing
the blame for all strike disorders on
the striking coal miners and naming
approximately 200 members OF the
union for murder.
The findings of the grand jury are
another sample of the rottenness of
Colorado's jury system. This body OF
disreputable citizens has been setting
in Trinidad for two months. During
that time the jury refused to hear
testimony regarding outrages COM
mitted by the operators gunner.
They did not feel that the murder
and cremation of nineteen men, Wo-
men and children at Ludlow, April 20,
1914, was of sufficient Importance, to
be investigated; they did not believe
that the charge that the gunner mill
tia had piled many other bodies on q
hugh funeral pyre and burned them
was worth Investigating; they did moi
think that the slaughter Of fifteen
other strikers by the imported as
lsassins of the. Colorado coal barons
merited their attention because they
were employees of these same coal
barons, because they had their orders
as to what. was to be investigated ano
who was to be indicted.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Cigar and Stogie
Makers to Confer

The Cigar Makers and Stogie Max
orc will confer in Cleveland, on Sep
tomber 10, under the direction Of
president Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor.
Many conferences have been held IN
the past, but greater hope for peace
FIJI settlement is held out from this
than from any of the others. This
will he the first conference where
President Gompers has personalle par
ticipated, and this is one cause for
the hope of an adjustment,
There is also a general BELIEF, IN
Wheeling Labor circles that the Ohio
valley Trades and Labor Assembly
should be represented at the confer
ence in the capacity of Witnesses. in
asmuch as this Central body, and the
movement it represents, is SO vitality
interested in the whole matter. 1t
cannot escape its responsibility, one
way or the otif9r, and the members
helieye that therefore it should take
mart in the proceedings to the above
extent:
will be II presented by President w.
II. Riley, First Vice President Charles
Huggins and Secretary Fred w. Son
dermaQ,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Corporation Grand Jury Tools
!. Call Colorado Miners Guilty

If Justice has been expelled from
her other habitations she should make
Colorado her resting place, that Is If
she can bear the stencil of the most
putfid cesspool of injustice in the
world.
When one considers the outrages Of
the strike, the findings of the grand
Jury become all the more ludicrousS
Two hundred members ofsthe United
Mine Workers have been indicted for
murder in Las Animas County where
nine thugs were killed when they at
tackled thee strikers; one hundred and
fifty strikers have been indicted IN
one man; one hundred and fifty men
have been indicted in Fremont county
for the murder of one man.
In other words, 500 members of the
United Mine Worers have been indict-
ed for killing eleven men while pro-
tecting them~xes and their fAhilies
from the murderous onslaughts OF an
army of paid murderers imported by
the operators.
Members of this same army OF pale
assassins deliberately and with pre-
meditation shot down in cold blood Of
cremated "a members of the United
Mine Workers. Among these Were
Ill little children whose drawn an6
distorted roasted bodies were found
| in hole after the massacre at Ludlow
| Not one of the one thousand thugs
who perpetrated these outrages has
CONTINUED ON Page g.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
PEACE MEETING
MARTINS FERRY

Saturday night . meeting win b.
held In Martins Ferry, protesting
against the war in Europe, against
the possible drawing In Of the United
States, and against the high pricse
now prevailing In the United States
as a result.
/. The meeting win be preceded BY .
street parade over the princlDal
streets, with brass bands and red Ire,
and the meeting following will be hel&
at Hanover and Fourth streets. The
parade starts at 1880 O'Clock.
At, the meeting an address viii be
delivered by Waiter B. Hilton. The
ministers Of all denominations Of tn
city have been Invited to take part
While the afEair has been promoted
by the Socialists, 8 general invitation
has been extended to everybody WING
disbelieyes 81 war, to take pan.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
ALL TRUST MILLS
GO ON HALF TIME

Reports received in this, city In
dictate that all trust mills will be on
halt time Indefinitely.
The LaBeite went On half time this
week The Laughlin goes on half time
next week. Similar reports are re-
ceived from all tin mills of the United
States Sheet and Tin Plate Company.
This will be a severe blow to the
workers in the mills, coming, as 1t
{ does, at the approach of winter. The
summer time has been such hot wealth
er that the workers have been COM
PEELED to share their work with help
ers, and this has materially reduced
their earnings, and now that they We're
figuring on recopuing by doing all the
work, their reduced time win cut deep
into their pay.
The Whitaker Glessner Independent
mills in the vicinity, are working fun
time. !,
Eighteen mills are affected at the
Laughlin. At both these local trust
plants the laborers are being laid on,
: and the prospects are said to be De
ctdedly bad.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Women On Picket
Duty In Colorado
BY Helen Sehloes.


LUDLOW, COLO. Sept. 10 tSpe>
ciall r-IWomen In the strikers coloay
nave become pickets. They are a.
ready: doing valuable work. One Sun
day evening recently as the train MaA
pulling in, a group Of women appeared
at the station to meet it. They haG
sashes across their chests bearing the
insignia t'WOMENtS UNION PICKET
SQUAD! ~--.>c.,
The soldiers at TIE station were
dunn bounded, and did not know What
to make OF us. We were not moleste6
that evening, and we called a scab =
scab. We pleaded with the scabs not
to go into the mines, and take their
brothersi jobs Weinformed them OF
the danger in the mines with unskille6
hands
We KEEP tup our arrogant picket1ng
for two trains bat when the third ar
rived, we were informed that we would
not be allowed at the depot
Major Cable Of the federal troops.
who is a southern gentleman, told ~,
that he hated to see women in Sth0
capacity of pickets and that perhapa
the scabs might insult US and that he,
as a soldier. would hate to see US IN.
suited. The gentleman pleaded with
us, but we stood on our grounds Of
leonstit Itional rights
We infol med thS major that We
would return to the 14pOt. He then
informed US that we would be arrested
and taken before the justice OF ths
peace. After much argument and after
we tried to show him what picketin9
meant. he said that we might return
to the depot providing we did not cali
any names, such as scabs, which SEEM
ed to be very offensive to the gentle
man.
One Saturday evening. after the
train pulled out, and the scabs we're
waiting in the hacks for the sol0ierR
to take their names. and while the
pickets were standing near to ltstep~
we were told to move.
We did move, but not enough 10
suit the major. Soldiers" he sAaut.'
ed, remove the women" The SOL
diers surrounded us like a pack Of
hounds, and tried to remove US from
the platform. But ALAS. they were
mistaken; they thought psrhaps We
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
NOTICE.
Whom If NAV Concern:

To Whom 1t May Concern: -.
The arrest of Mr.. F. H. Cochroft OF
the Homel9Asrl Laundry Co, was q
very unfortunate afradr, as ne was no.'
now or ever has been accused OF rob,
bing any emploge of the laundry and
the managers of the said laundry have
aeyer accused Mr. cechroft of steal
ing in any manner, shape or form ex.
eeptiag as to having signed warrant
and have had the warrant LOT nln
withdrawn and agreed to pay all costs
connected with the case, including
court costs and attorneys fees.
We make this statement In the
press to place Mr.. Cochroft in the
right light before the public and Mr.
Cochroft will back at work IN ouI
plant Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1914, at our
request.
HOME-PEARL LAUNDRY CO.
C. H. Duncan, President.
VIM. ]. Lutz, Sec'y and Treas
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Biggest Street Parade
Ever Held h City

Beginning with the largest street
parade ever held in the city by Labor,
with the exception Of the great out
pouring of miners year ago, and
ending with tile most. pleasant outing
ever held at Wheeling Park by the
workers, Wheeling's Labor Day Cele-
bration came and went last Monday.
It was, all things considered, the
greatest celebratio never held by the
Trades Assembly, and all the workers
who have given of their efforts to
make it success were llled with par
donable pride.
The Parade.
The parade started promptly at 10
o'clock, Chief Marshal Higgins max
ing good on. his promise to move
promptly. And at that time all locals
were in line except Hold Carriers No.
II, and they dropped into place i'm
mediately after the column was in
motion. ..
The parade moved, over the route
and comprised the lineup as previous
~ published in this paper, except that
the Mail Carriers did not turn cut,
and the parade turned east at TWEEN
ty-fourth street instead of twenty
seventh, as previously planned. This
was due to an error Of the police
escort, and Chief Marshal Higgins
| allowed the change to take place
rather than disarrange the process,
| sion.
The Tobacco Workers led the par
Eade A Mail Pouch wagon accom-
panied them and distributed thou
sands OF samples Of this union made
product,
The Stationary Engineers, No. 81
followed, with good turn out.
/ The Retail Clerks No. 1856 were
next, and created most favorable com
ment, large delegation being in line
carrying banner with the announce
Ement that the Locke Shoe Co. ant
Geo. w. Fox were unfair.
Tailors' Industrial Union was mex
lin line, with a good representation.
Next came the Laundry Workers
four floats llled with pretty girls, an(
then a large number Of wagons OF thu
Home-Pearl Laundry company, driver
by union drivers.
Maehinists SIS followed, with I
strong membership.
Butchers No made splendid ar
pearance in partial uniform and
large delegation.
The Stogie Makers made thei
usual splendid appearance. fou
abreast, with white umbrellas, wit
two Indians and an Uncle Sam, an
membership SO strong that the ban
had to be placed in the middle
: their column so that their member
could hear the music. Their propol
ton of marching members, howevel
7 was not as large as some of tn
smaller locals.
The street car men were offciall
: represented. A day like that is da
r when every available man has
i work, and SO they can make no a
e tempt. However, the appearance
i their official representation Of H.. i
4 uniform, showed their sentiments.
:. Then came BARRIERS mo. 257, /
S perhaps the most attractive turnS oil
s of the parade. With fully thre
Continued ON Page g.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
CorcOran Boosts
Huntington City

H. P. jCorcoran, president Of the
West virginia State Federation OF La
Dor, has returned from Huntington
where he delivered the Labor Day ad-
dress. He reports splendid celebra-
lion and a splendid Labor movement:
Il never saw a liner celebration"
said President Corcoran to Major
t yman, there was an immense turn
ont. both in the parade and in the
picnic that followed, and the spirit
shown was magnificent.
,"The Labor movement there Is IN
excellent shape. Several new locals
have been organized recently ana
they are planni ngfor a Get TO
getheF" movement similar to the one
We are engaged in in Wheeling.
predict great things for the hunting
ton Labor movement"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Tom Clifford
To Speak Here

Tom Clifford, famous Cleveland, O..
orator, will speak in this city on the
evening of September 10Th. The meet
ing will be held at Fourteenth and
Market streets.
A large crowd is expected, as Toms
oratorical ability is known here. al.
though he has never addressed a
Wheeling audience before. He was
lately the candidate Of the Socialists
for governor of Ohio, and was one Of
the sneakers at the celebrated Rock
Springs Park picnic held two years
ago.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

they cannot consider anything but rum
of mine in view Of the state law COM
polling coal to be paid for by this
method, and SO the real difference be-
tween the two sides Is. about ~
cents ton.N
Benefte to Come.
Benefits will now come to. tin&
strikers in a way that has mot been
possible heretofore. and which W3R
strengthen them materially to cArr8
on the battle for better living condE
lions. -
The settlement tn the other portions
of the state, putting S0,oOe men to
work on the a cent scale, will bring
large alount into the Golfers Of the
state treasury Of the organization.
and this will be paid out in benefits.
On Thursday President Albasin and
Secretary Applegarth signed orders ia
the amount Of over $4,000, ana on
next Tuesday an equal amount In
(COntanueA On RnEO g.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Third. Hands Lose
Jobs At Mills

The hard day for the third hands"
has come.
These men, whose jobs are a. result
of. the modern system of speeding up
production, have had work during me
hummer when Ethe large output made
it impossible for rollers, heaters ana
doublers to do their work, even with
helpers, but now that the cooler
weather has come there is a general
laying off of these men. Possibly a
hundred will be affected in the Wheel
ing district.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

From reliable information received
by the Majority, it appears that there
is a strong possibility that the strike
of the coal miners in Colorado may
be Settled. A meeting is being held
now in Omaha, Nebraska, between rep
tresentatives of the miners and the
operators.
This strike, which has been the
most bite rim which the miners have
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Will Fight For Readjnstment
Of Revenue Tax On Stoges

The fight for readjustment of the
tax on stogies will be made by the
National Stogie Makers League, and
Congressman Nicely has promised to
offer an amendment when the special
war tax measure comes before Con-
gress. ...
The. present tax is equal upon
CIGARS" whether they sell for 8 for
five cents, or rs cents each. The
,,togie interests have always complain
ID that they are being thus discrim-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

mated against, and It Is unfair for aa
article Of such low selling price to pay
the same tx as an article selling q
many times the amount.
Now the special war tai Is expect
ed to include an increase In the tGx.
and this situation Is SO serious that
many believe one more increase a
this product, will wipe out the union
made stogie from the market, tha
margin being 80 low today. President
W. H. Riley has taken the matter ~,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

ever been compelled to engage, and
which has been attended by the great
est loss of life of any industrial con-
flict in tn eUnited States, has become
the most noted struggle Of modern
times.
The LurioW massacre has gone down
IN history as d diabolical thing, the
mine owners hiring thugs and induc-
ing the governor 70 send troops, which
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Greek Mill Closes
Ten Houses For Fair

The Creek mill tin. house shut down
Thursday to enable the men to see
the Fair. The management announced
that so many had .signifed their de-
sire to get off in order to see the fair
that they had decided to close down
the plant for the day. 1t did not re-
sumo Saturday, but will be closed un-
til Monday. si
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Colorado Strike May Be Settled

shot down women and children in a
tent colony which sheltered the work
ers who were on strike. :.
The settlement of the strike will
mean much to the workers every
where, and particularly to the mine
workers, for the funds which have
been going into Colorado can now be
ieflected to other points. where other
struggles are on.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Lenkard To Convention

Sam R .~Lenkard left Thursday for
Chicago, to appear before the interna-
ticnal executive board of the Interna-
tional Union of Steam and Operating
Engineers, with a local matter. and
from there will go to Peoria, where he
will represent Wheeling Local No. 131
in the annual convention of the or
ganization.
He was accompanied by Mrs.
Lenkard.