The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 26, 1906, Image 3
HONOR HIS HOBBY
Millionaire Gourdain Seeks
r to Break Into Joliet Pen.
APPEALS TO HIGH COURT
I Declares That if He Fails in Endeavor,
He Will Build a Private Penitentiary
of His Own?Case
is a Most Unique Orw.
Usually men fight hard to keep out
of the penitentiary, but Charles A.
Qourdain, member of a well known
Louisiana family, is fighting with all
the means at his command to get in
the peniteniary at Joliet, Ills. He is
busy seeking a United jStates judge
who will sign a mandamus that will
opem the gates of the pen.
f uuucu uaiu u^Liai c; ^ iuai, uv n ?
pledged his whole energy and large
private fortune to the cause of his
honor, which he staked in court when
he was on trial for fraudulent use
of the mails that he would not appeal
should he be found guilty.
lie hopes to be able to reach one
of the supreme court justice with his
plea, or else find some other plan
- to get back into the Joliet penitentiary.
If he fails, he says, he will
buiid a private penitentiary at Joliet,
and serve out his sentence in his
own penitentiary under exactly the
same conditions as if he were a prisoner
in the government penal institution.
Gourdain estimates his own
fortune at $50,000,000.
"Some men worship money. Some
men worship God. Others worship
.other things. I worship honor."
This is the motto of Gourdain that
has brought about the most remarkable
appeal that ever was called to
the attention of the supreme court
of the United States.
Eearly last year the United States
authorities got after Gourdain on account
of a land scheme he was conducting
from Chicago, involving lands
near the oil fields of Jefferson, La.
The case came to trial in May last
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in umeago, ana uouruam pui. ill uvs
defense. He said he would make no
appeal, but would serve his sentence
and at the conclusion of that sen^
tence would turn over his entire fortune
to the postoffice authorities to
pay back every person in full all that
they had subscribed toward the land
scheme and the entire Gourdain family
would then quit the United States
forever.
The jury was out fifteen minutes
and returned with a verdict of guilty.
Gourdain said that he was satisfied,
and asked for immediate sentence, and
demanded that the sentence be all
that the law provided ror in his offense.
Judge Landis said he would
comply with the demand, and sentenced
Gourdain to four and a half
years in Joliet, and the ?ext day,
June 8, he entered the penitentiary.
Although Gourdain is of slight
build and weighs only 130 pounds,
he picked out the job of shoveling
coal for himself, and told the keeper
he would shovel more coal than
any other prisoner, and lived up to
the agreement.
While he was cheerfully serving
time, his ktwjwr, as he claims, wife-,
out hia knowledge or consent, was
. working for his release, and through
a writ of supersedeas before Judge
Grosscup had Geurdain transferred
from Joliet to Ohieago, 01 July 8, and
lodged in the county jail. Gourdain
was very angry and declared that this
proceeding was against his agreement
with himself, and demanded that he
be taken back to Joliet The only
way he could obtain selease from the
county jail was to sign a bail bond,
and he took this course and was
let out on bail.
Gourdain immediately returned to
Joliet and demanded to be received
again as a prisoner, but the warden
would not admit him. Defeated at all
points in his effort to get back into
the penitentiary, Gourdan conceived
the idea of appealing to the supreme
court of the United States for a writ
of mandamus committting him to the
Joliet peniteniary.
A FATAL MINE HORROR.
Five Men Lose Life From Gas Expio.
sion in West Virginia Pit.
As a result of a gas explosion in
the Dixon Mine at Huger, W. Va.,
Wallace Mitchell and four miners,
Ernest Jones, Palmer Harris and Robert
Harris, brothers, and John Gilmere
are dead, and Bill Grouse and
-Langdon Whiteside will die from
burns and shock.
The explosion was caused by the
men having a gasoline lamp in the
bucket, while descending, the light
igniting an accumulation of gas.
WAR ON TRADING STAMPS.
Merchants of Missouri Want $5,000
License Imposed.
The Missouri Retail Merchants' Association,
at its annual convention in
Jefferson, adopted resolutions instruct,
ing its legislative committee to bring
before the legislature a bill to tax
trading stamp concerns $5,000 a year,
ctiid asking the enactment of a pure
food law.
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'peace treaty is signed, i
j Representatives of Warring Central
American Republics Reach Agreement
on Board Cruiser.
j
i A special from San Jose, Guatemala, i
says: A treaty of peace between Guatemala,
Salvador and Honduras was
signed Friday on board the United
States cruiser Marblehead on the
high seas,
j Guatemala was represented by Juan
j Barries, minister for foreign affairs,
Jose Pinto, chief justice of the supreme
court, and Manuel Cabrall, assistant
justice of the supreme court.
Tho rnnfprenPA agreed ur>on terms
j cn which the grievances of the two I
countries are to be" settled at another ;
conference to be held in the near
future.
The peace commissioners of Gua*temala
were landed at San Jose Frij
day night The commissioners of Salvador
and Honduras were landed at
Acajutla early Saturday morning. The j
members of the American legations j
landed at the respective points where j
they were accredited.
There was a strenuous discussion,;
and some difficulty in reaching ac- j
ceptable conditions. The Mexican min- i
j ister, Senor Gamboa, was active in j
J assisting in bringing about an argee!
ment.
The peace commissioners adopted j
J resolutions thanking the presidents of i
! the Tlnited States and Mexico, respec-!
j tively for their intervention.
Guatemala's territory is now free !
: r,f invnriers The family of General
j Regalado, commander of the Salva-;
: doran forces, who was killed during '
I an engagement at Jicaro, July 11, have
j asked for his body.
J The state department at Washing-1
j ton was advised of the signing of i
j the treaty of peace by the represeh- j
! tatives of the belligerent republics
i aboard the Marblehead. A cablegram j
j was received Friday night from Mr.
j Merry, the American minister to SalI
vador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, anj
nouncing that a treaty of peace had !
- been signed on board the American j
I warship. Jn his message Mr. Merry 1
j referred to a joint message sent by j
himself and Mr. Combs, the American j
minister to Guatemala and "Honduras, j
which message had not reached the j
state department.
A CONFERENCE IS REFUSED.
' United Typothetae Won't" Listen to J
International Typographical Union.
i The United Typothetae of America,
I in session at Buffalo, N. Y., has flatly
! declined to confer with oflicials of
the International Typographical Union
in regard to the strike inaugurated
nearly a year ago for an eight-nour
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aay ana mt: ciuscu cuvy.
President Ellis* of the Typothetae j
rtceiveu a letter signed by James J
M. Lynch, president, and J. Wt Hays,
vice president, representing the executive
council of the International
Typographical Union, stating that j
they were ready for a conference with j
a view to adjusting the differences
that now exist
"Failing in obtaining this conference,"
the letter read, "the temper
of the members of the Typographical
Union will demand a continuance of
the present struggle."
After this letter had been read to
the convention of the Typothetae, the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
"Resolved, by the Typothetae of
America, in convention assembled,
That they have no wish to confer
with representaatives of the International
Typographical Union, and that
Mr. Lynch and Mr. Hays be so informed."
The convention adopted a resolution
approving the techincal school
work of the last year and commendtn
establish an
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eastern, central and a western school
in addition to those already in existence.
The following officers were elected
j by acclamation: President, George PI.
I Ellis, Boston; vice president, William
| D. Greene, New York; treasurer,
Thomas E. Donnelly, Chicago. F. I.
Ellis of Dallas, W. O. Foote of Atlanta
and Frank C. Nunemacher of
Louisville were chosen members of
the executive committee.
CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMES.
! Cut Off from Escape While Asleep
in Burning Home.
Two children of Mr. and Mrs. R.
J "W. Wimbish of Savannah lost their
j lives in a fire which destroyed the
| home of their grandfather, Mir. W. G.
j Jordan, at Fort Valley, Wednesday
| night.
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All tne inmates 01 me uuumc wcio
i asleep and before the fire was discovered
it had made such headway
that it was impossible to get into
! the bed room where the two children
i were sleeping.
GERMANS RENOUNCE DOWIE.
| Zionists in Kaiser Bill's Realm Gt?
Against Fake Prophet.
j A cable dispatch from Berlin to
the New York American says: 'At
a meeting of the members of the
Christian communion founded by john
Alexander Bowie on his visit to Berlin,
it was decided unanimously to
throw off allegiance to the prophet
and form a distinct mission.
SEABOARD HORROR
Fast Passenger and Freight
in Frightful Crash.
OVER SCORE ARE DEAD
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Report Gives List of Killed As Tweiv
ty-Nine and Injured Twenty-Five.
Majority of Victims Were
Colored Passengers.
Twenty-nine persons were killed and
twenty-five injured in a Head-on collision
between a Seaboard Air Line
passenger train and an extra freight
train one mile from Hamlet, N. C., Saturday
night. Nearly all those killed
were colored passengers.
The known dead are: Engineer F.
B. Lewis, of the passenger train;
Fireman Tom Hill, colored, of the passenger
train; negro fireman, name
unknown, of the freight; H. <S. iByrd,
baggage master. Probably twentyfive
others unidentified.
Kailroad men, citizens and the passengers
who escaped injury began
wonting heroically to recover the dead
and injured imprisoned in the wreckage.
Both the second and first-class
coaches were overturned, and it is
feared that the death list will be sadly
augmented before the work of the
rescuers is completed.
The blame for the wreck has not
been placed. The passenger train, it
is said, had no orders to meet the
freight, and it is the presumption that
the freight overlooked its orders. One
report ascribes the cause of the wreck
to have been a lap order, stating that
the passenger train had orders to meet
the freight at Hamlet, while the
freight's orders were to meet the passenger
train at Rockingham.
The persons injured in the wreck
were sent to Charlotte on a special
train. There are five white and eighteen
colored, and these were distributed
among the Charlotte hospitals.
A dispatch received at the Seaboard
Air Line general offices stated
that 19 bodies and 23 injured persons
had been taken from the wreck.
The first news of the disaster that
reached the headquarters of the road
was a brief message about midnight
reporting that a wreck had occurred
on the Seaboard at Hamlet and that
up to the time of the filing of the
report the dead extricated from the
wreck numbered 19, and the injured
as then known reached 23. Train No.
44 is a through train, north bound
from Florida to New York, passing
through Hamlet, which is a Junction
joint.
LABOR HOSTS ENTER ARENA.
"Campaign Program" Issued By Officers
of American Federation.
The executive council of the American
Federation cf Labor, Sunday,
made good its declaration of several
months ago to enter the field of polltics
in the interest of the trade union
movement and to exhort all members
and friends of organized labor to work
for the election to political offices of
men known to be favorable to labor's
cause. From the headquarters
of the federation at Wjashlngton the
council has issued its "campaign program"
addressed *to all organized labor
and friends in the United
States."
BIG STRIKE CALLED OFF.
Southern Bell Telephone and Em.
ployes Settle Differences.
Officials of the Southern Bell Telephone
Company announce that the
strike of the linemen and wire workera
that has been in existence for
some weeks, has been calied oft as
a result of a conference held in Atlanta.
The strikers were contending
for recognition of the union, which
Manager Peter Nix states has not
been granted by the company. All of
the strikers who have not been signally
active against the interests of
the company during the strike will be
reinstated.
GO-CART SAVED THE BABY.
While Father, Mother and Little Sister
Found Watery Grave.
By the capsizing of a sailing skiff at
Portsmouth, R. I., Sunday, Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Anthony and their daugh- j
ter, aged four years, were drowned,
while their baby, aged one year, who
was the only other occupant of the
boat, was saved. The baby was strapped
in a small go-cart, and when the
boat capsized the baby floated securely
in its go-cart, drifting to the Pru- J
dence lighthouse, where the keeper
and his wife rescued it.
PUBLISHERS' PRESS CHANGE.
Milton McCrae is Elected President
of the Association.
At a meeting of the directors of
the Publishers' Press Association in
New York City Friday it was announced
that E. W. Scripps and M.
A MoRae had purchased a controlling
interest in the institution, Mr.
Shale, the president, retiring. The
Publishers' Press will continue as an
independent organization.
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SLAVS THROTTLED
Czar Dissolves Russ Congress
With Stroke of Pen.
MAILED HAND IS SHOWN
Autocrat Has Elected to Fight Rather
Than Grant Reforms.?Declares
Martial Law and Depends
On Bayonets.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says:Russia's
first experiment in parliamentary
government came to an ignominious
end Saturday night with the promulgation
of two imperial ukases, the
first dissolving the present parliament
and providing for the convocation
of its successor on Mlarch 5, 1907, and
the second proclaiming the capital of
Russia and the surrounding provinces
to be in a state of extraordinary security,
which is infinitesimally different
fpom all martial law. This measure
of safety is to provide for the outbursts
which undoubtedly will be provoked
by this daring measure. It is
now but a step to dictatorship.
The text of the two ukases, both
of which are addressed in the stereotyped
form to the ruling senate, are
as follows:
"According to paragraph 105 of the
fundamental law we order the imperial
parliament dissolved and fix
the time for the convocation or tne
newly elected parliament for March 5,
1907.
"Regarding the time for the new
election to the imperial parliament
we will later issue special indications.
"The ruling senate will not fail
to take proper measures to place this
into effect. (Signed).
"NICHOLAS."
The text of the second ukase follows:
"In consideration of. a report of
the council of ministers presented to
us regarding the necessity in the future
for the preservation of order
and public safety in the city and province
of St. Petersburg, we consider
it necessary to declare in the above
city and province, instead of the state
of reinforced security which now prevails
there, a state of extraordinary
security. The prefect of the city and
governor of the province are entrusted
with the rights thereto appertaining.
"The ruling senate will not fail to
take proper measures to place this
into effect (Signed).
"NICHOLAS.
With these pithy but momentous orders,
Emperor Nicholas by a stroke
of the pen set Russia back to where
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grip of autocracy and irresponsible
government, -wiping out for Ux
months at least the whole structure
of parliament, erected at such cost,
'No one doubts the severity of the
storm which will rise in the country
in response to the emperor's dispersal
of the men whom he welcomed
two months ago in the winter palace
as the "best men in Russia;" but the
die is cast. The government has
elected to ' fight, and ?L Petersburg
bears eloquent testimony of the preparation
made to repress the masses
by force. The city is packed with soldiers
and resembles an armed camp.
The parliament was constituted
May 10, 1906, amid scenes of general
rejoicings. The speech from the
throne, read at the opening session,
was conciliatory in tpne. The re-organized
council of the empire was
formally convened in the hall of nobles
at the winter palace the following
day.
A striking feature of the lower
house was the multiplicity of races
represented, there being great Russians,
little Russians, white Russians,
Poles. Lithuanians, Letts, Germans,
Tartars, Bashkirs, Kirghis, Circas
sians, Mordvanians, vouaKs, jews,
Bulgarians, Chuvas, Roumanians, Calmuks,
Geo-gians, Armenians, Ossetines
and x iats in attendance.
During the ntire session the lower
house had been at bitter odds with
the ministry, and has demanded its
resignation, and the formation of a
cabinet from members of the majority.
FOR BUTCHERING FAMILY.
Four Negroes in North Carolina Will
Be Tried at Special Term of Court.
It is stated in Charlotte, N. C., that
sufficient evidence has been gathered
to convict Nease Gillespie, his sons,
Henry and John, and Jack Dillingham,
all colored, of killing Isaac Lyerly,
his wife and two children at Barber
Junction. A special term of Rowan
superior court will meet August 6,
when the four negroes named will
be taken from Charlottb to Salisbury
for trial. None of the negroes have
uttered a word of confession.
FROZE IN COLD STORAGE ROOM.
Florence, Ala., Man Meets Death In
Peculiar Manner.
J. F. Inraan is dead at Florence,
Ala., us the result of being locked in
a cold storage room.
Mr. Inman had entered the room
to make some repairs when the
door accidentally closed and locked
him in. An examination of the body
showed that the man's lungs and
brain were frozen
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SLAIN BY FILIPINOS.
Rebellious Pulajanes Make Attack on
American Troops, Killing Nineteen
and Capturing Their Arms.
A Manila special says: A detachment
of constabulary, Lieutenant Williams
commanding, encountered a
band of 600 Pulajanes, near Burauen,
on the island of Leyte, Sunday morning.
Lieutenant Worwick, twelve privates
and Civilian -Scout MoBride
were killed. Five of the constabulary
were killed June 19.
The constabulary was driven back
| in the Sunday engagement. The Pulajanes
secured fourteen rifles and two
revolvers. The bodies of Worwick,
McBride and ten privates were recovered.
Reinforcements of constabulary
have been sent from tne nearest sta
tion.
Major Neville reports that there are
from 400 to 1,000 Pulajanes in the
field.
Burauen, in the island of Leyte, was
also the scene of a hard fight, between
insurrectionists and the police
and constabulary on June 19. Under
the leadership of Caesario Pastor, a
band of insurrectionists attacked the
police in the town, and killed five
Oi them. Five other policemen were
also seriously injured in the fight, and
the rebels managed to obtain the records
of the town, which they burned
in the street. Caesario Pastor was
killed in the fight, and a number of
other revolutionists met death, but
their comrades carried the bodies !
away to prevent the policemen and \
constabulary from learning how many j
natives were killed. At that time j
Pastor was known to have 300 natives j
in his party. Lieutenant Johnson and [
a detachment of the constabulary pursued
the marauders, but did not catch
tliem.
NEGRO PLANS DISAPPROVED.
Projects for Jamestown Exposition
Turned Down by Government.
Unfavorable consideration has beengiven
by Secretary J. H. Edwards of
the government board for the Jamestown
exposition to several projects
submitted by a committee from the
negro development company organized
in connection with the exposition.
The committee, which was headed
by Giles B. Jackson, a negro lawyer
of Richmond, Va., outlined plans for
the expenditure of the appropriation
of $100,000 made in the closing days
of the session of congress for an exhibit
of negro development on the
American continent. The committee
asked that none but members of their
race should participate in the design
and construction of the building,
which is to be erected for the exhibit
at a cost of $25,000. In this
way a special chance would be given
to show what pegro architects, masons
and bricklayers could do, they
thought. The ruling on their proposal
was that the government intends to
make no discrimination of any of
the work done out of its appropriation.
The committee also proposed
that $11,000 should be expended for
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cringing a native viiiagc nvm
heart of Africa to serve as a contrast
to the state reached by the race
in this country. Another portion of the
appropriation amounting to $14,000, it
was suggested, should be used for
charts and text books for negro
schools. For the position of disbursI
ing agent of the fund, the committee
urged the candidacy of R. T. Hill,
negro cashier of the True Reform
bank of Richmond. The government
board found these projects unacceptable.
DEFENDANTS "WAS" PARTIAL
So Declares Colored Candidate for Admission
to the Georgia Bar.
; Alec King, Joseph R. Lamar and
J. A. Cronk, three prominent Georgia
lawyers, composing the state board of
examiners, were Monday made defendants
in an action brought in the superior
court at Atlanta by J. E. Sistrunk,
a negro, who failed in a recent
examination for admission to the bar.
Sistrunk prays that the board be
rnmnelled to turn over the examina
tion papers and his answers to them
to Judge Pendleton of the superior
court for a review.
Sistrunk alleges that the defendants,
to use his own grammatical expression,
"was partial," refusing to
admit him to the bar because he was
a black man. He avers that the examination
papers "was" properly sealed
and delivered to the judge. He says
that the defendants "does" him great
injury in not recommending him for
a license to practice.
Host of Girls Go On Strike.
Twenty-five hundred girls employed
in the shirt waist factory of Putei.
man Bros. & Fagan, at Philadelphia,
went on strike Monday because of a
number of employees, distasteful to
a majority of the girls.
IMPURE MEATS CONDEMNED.
Health Inspectors at Philadelphia
"Clean Out" Cold Storage Plants.
Inspectors of the bureau of* health
at Philadelphia Wednesday concluded
the condemnation and destruction
of 33,000 pounds of impure meat3
found in the cold storage plants of
the Delaware Freezing company. The
stuff was carted away as fast as It
was condemned, and turned over to
J * fertilizing plaBt
DOUMA IS DEFIANT J
Outlawed Russ Parliament
Re-Assembles in Finland.
APPEAL FOR REVOLUTION if
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Gathering Was Broken Up by Author*
jfiS
ities, But Not Before Adopting
Proclamation Defying Czar and
Calling for an Uprising.
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A St. Petersburg special says: The
result of the Russian government's '^4
action in ordering the dissolution of Li
parliament has apparently restored all f'<
the conditions of repression, wholesale . ^
arrests and reliance on a display of J|
military* force that obtained before
the people had their brief taste of
representative government. In St. -:M
Petersburg itself there was little sur-' %
face indication Monday of trouble
in the face of the strong force of
troops, but there were many ?*iresis.
The most important development of
Monday took place at Viborg, Fin- ;
land, where the members of parlia- y||
ment had fled to continue their sea- ;-*??
sione formally dissolved at 'St Peters- '.Jj|
burg. "T'lfl
The members had been frantically * 'M
at work on their manifesto to the peo- Jg
pie. anticipating the possible arrival v||
of troops when the assemblage was .
informed that the governor general of ^
Finland had ordejed the governor of Viborg
to close the meetings of the ^
members of parliament, using military
force if necessary. The governor gen- ;i|jS
eral added that such meeting could Jjaj
not be held in Finland. Previously dur- vj|S
in the session the radicals had sup- 'hiS
ported the group of toil who urged .-M
that the members cf parliament should
place themselves at the head of
revolution. At the last the constitntional
democrats joined the radicals
ana the douma adopted a hastily pre- j-g
pared proclamation protesting against
the dissolution of parliament.
Calls for Virtual Rebellion.
Although Viborg is in a state of JB
siege and the government ordered
guns turned upon the members of the
dissolved parliament, that body, before
finally adjourning, adopted a proc- ..M
laniation to the people, appealing to 30
them not to pay taxes, not to re-| M
cruit the army, or recognize the gov
ernment loan; virtually calling upon
the masses to rise in rebellion against
the "illegal dissolving of parliament."
The people of Russia were' -^9
appealed to to "seize the liberty denied
them by the government."
Copies of the appeal to the people />|9
are in the hands of all ?t. petersburg
newspapers, but it will scarcely llafl
be printed for the reason that a. do- "d|9
tachment of police is posted at the -'ffifl
doors of every newspaper printing offlee
in the city with orders not to ^
permit any papers to leave the build- \
ing until authorized by the censor, ''ijjm
The authorities hope by equally Ttev Jw
orous measures to prevent the pubtt-"v^^|
cation of the appeal in other cities
and in the meantime' to nullify the
fears of the people as to the possible -da
effect of the appeal.
Rioting' and wild disorders have . Jj9
heqn reported from Odessa, Kharkoff,
Kislovdsk and Saratoff. Thoo?
sands of arrests have taken places
and the work of massing troops at important
centers is being carried on
with redoubled vigor.
CASTE IN TBE CHURCHES.
Is Assertion Made During Meeting of ^
Atlanta Ministers.
" 1110r6 IS Si Spil'll opx au^- "-7- *gg|
ing up In our churches," said Rev. v|a
Frank Eakes at the Methodist. mln- ^jjw
istwrs' meeting in Atlanta Monday |||
morning, amidst considerable excitement
caused by this remark, which j|g
was delivered with vehemence. He ^
continued:
"There is apparently developing &
feeiing in our church membership,*
which is saying: "I am a little grain better
than these?I cannot afford to
mix and mingle with them. In fact v&H
I cannot associate with them, for. ^
they are not my kind."
PREPARING FOR THE CAMPAIGN. ||
Quartet of Republican Leaders Hold
Conference With President.
A quartet of republican leaders went ||1
to Sagamore Hill Monday to talk over
the coming congressional campaign -r3g
with the president. The visitors consisted
of Speaker Cannon, Represen- - ^
? DdnM.
tative snerman 01 i^cw iwn, i?.?yiv- ?
sentative McKinley of Ohio and Rep- ..-J?
resentative Loudenslager of New Jersey.
There was a general expres- [%
sion of satisfaction by all the mem- . jS
bers who attended the conference^
and a general disposition exists to , ^
begin an actice campaign at once.
BURIED UNDER FALLING WALL, 'M
Score cf Workmen Probably Killed In ^
Collapse of Building.
At least eight and perhaps three
times that number of masons, plumb- 'Jg
ers and Italian laborers were crushed
to death Monday in the sudden col- 'M
lapse of a building in process of construction
at South Framington, Mass., 2?
while ten others were dragged or'
dug out of the wreck, some seriously *
injured. ""