Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 16, Hammond, Lake County, 6 July 1907 — Page 8

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES. Saturday, July 6, 1907.

Labor. Toll swings tto ax, ana forests bow, Tho needs hroiik out !n radiant tlo;, nich harvests smile bonoath tls plow, An.-l cities cluster fuund loorr. ; Where towtrlrij; dvme3 and taijerjj spires Adorn the ?al anfi crown the hill, Ktout Labor liphts itj bioon Un a And plumes with srnoke the forge ajid milL Jamestown, N. Y. The outsids eheet metal workers have organized a union. Toronto, Canada. Union men assert that plumbers are being brought from England to take the place of the strikers. New York. As a result of the longshoremen's strike the exports from this port dropped $G,944,9S0 in one veek. Harrisburg, 111. In this city there are eight mills using the union label of the Flour and Cereal Mill Workers union. Fargo, N. D. A recent ruling makes unions of this city eligible to membership in the Minnesota State Federation. Ottawa, Canada. Repeated warnings are being sent to England, statfnir that the labor market is over

stocked. Omaha, Neb. All the road roller engineers aro now in the hoisting and portable engineers' union by an international decision. Chicago. Eight hundred union barbers have been granted a new schedule of wages and working conditions by their employers. Chicago. A new organization of vehicle painters has been organized. It Is known as the Chicago Carriage, Wagon and Auto Painters' union. Denver, Col. The Western Federation of Miners, by a vote of 345 to 25, adopted a resolution prohibiting local unions from making contracts with, oporators. Chicago. The Provision Trades' council, of this city and vicinity, represents more than 15,000 individuals employed producing cr handling provisions. Melbourne. The premier of South Australia ha3 received an offer from Influential Jewish sources in Great Britain to settle 50,000 Russian Jews .4j tno northern territory. Milwaukee. Union molders have appealed to the United States circuit court of appeals against the decree issued by Judge Sanborn of the United States district court, preventing picketing. Detroit, Mich. As a climax to the numerous acts of violence which have resulted from tho strike which has been In progress for the last month of a thousand molders, machinists and

metal polishers in 14 manufactories of the city a blanket injunction was issued by Circuit Judges Ilosmer, Mandell and Brooke restraining the Metal Polishers' union and 200 specified individuals from Interfering with workers at any of the plants. Berlin. Among the large labor unions in Germany aro the clothing iindustry. with 242,000 workers, receiving SO cents a day; the Saxon textile Industry with 225,000 workers, averaging 75 cents; North German Textile union, with 124,000 workers, wages 65 cents; South German Textile union, with 124.000 workers, wages 55 cents, and the tobacco industry, with 153,000. wages 40 cents. The lowest rate of all is paid to the 'textile union of Silesia, 42 cents. Pittsburg, Pa. Locals of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America have been notified that the general vote of that body defeats the proposition to elect the national officers at the annual contention Instead of by referendum. Tho members of the organization in this city and vicinity voted almost unanimously in favor of the proposition. New York. The International Aseociation of Printing Pressmen at its convention at Brighton Beach repudiated by a vote of 102 to 93 a ' fiveyears' agreement with the United Typothetae of America. The agreement, which had been entered into January 16 last, affects 19,000 pressmen in book and job offices throughout the United States. The United Typothetae of America will be asked to consent to amendments striking out the open shop clause and providing for an eight-hour day. Should these amendments be rejected, a referendum on the question cf a general eight-hour day will be taken. Should the referendum be in favor of an eighthour day a general strike is likely to result. Minneapolis. The labor unions are to conduct a crusade against all concerns which do a Sunday business In this city. This is against all concerns where labor is employed seven days In the week. Omaha, Neb. Plumbers have returned to work in the closed shop and at art increase cf 50 cents a day in wages. The plumbers won by the undivided support of organized labor. There was no arbitration agreement j to the settlement, the master plumb- I ers agreeing to the demands of the union, and the victory was a complete one.

Boston. Tho union painters have accttyted the proposition offered by the master painters for a minimum seal of o&Vi cents an hour and 42 cents an hour for decorators. Davenport, la. Songs of labor and of freedom were sung in the huge coliseum here by the chorus of 1,200 voices assembled for the working man's saengerfest of the northwest. London. Since the workmen's com

pensation act came into force in i Great Britain, the members cf the Dockers' union have received by way ! , i 1 , 1 1 C . , - I.-,", 1 ui legal a.v. u-i ua lor ueciuents $150,371.2G. Trenton, N. J. The agitation against child labor is showing its effect in this state. According to the annual report recently issued by the state commissioner of labor the percentage of children under the legal age employed in New Jersey factories Is less than it has been for many yea A. New York. The Ntitfcnal Women's Trade Union league, the promoters of which claim to have over 100,000 workers enrolled in membership, held a convention in this city recently and elected officers. The delegates also mapped out work for the coming year anu tormuiated plans lor a national convention. Indianapolis, Ind. The Typographical union suppresses all extremism. Forty-seven thousand men working together for the good of their craft, and working under shrewd leadership and keeping always within the law, and never striking save upon duly deliberated just cause, is an Impressive spectacle. It should and doubtless does impress the employing classes. It should more impress labor itself. If all labor had the wisdom, tho restraint, the .provident and prudent organization of the printers all labor would get a fairer proportion of the profit upon the cooperation of labor and capital. SAMUEL J. SMALL, HEAD OF TELEGRAPH ERS' UNION. Samuel J. Small, head of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, is an operator who has worked all over the country. He is especially well known on the Pacific coast, and was employed by the Associated Press at Seattle for eight years. Mr. Small is married and makes his home in Chicago. About three years ago he was elected president of the union which he helped to organize. Washington. Growing by leaps and bounds the American Federation of Labor Is soon to receive another accession of strength unless all signs fail. The Bricklayers' and Masons' International union, one of the largest and most powerful bodies of organized labor organized in the country, will vote on the question of affiliation, and judg ing from tho sentiment of local members the proposition will carry. Pittsburg, Pa. Wages will not be advanced in the sheet and tin mills of the country this year and no strike will follow the refusal of the manufacturers to concede an increase of six to 16 per cent, demanded at the annual convention of the Amalgamated association at Toledo last month. After discussing the ' demands thoroughly, President C. W. Bray, of the company, informed the workers' committee that the condition of the tin market would not justify an advance and that if they insisted upon it the plants would close or be operated by nonunion men. The decision affects all the sheet and tin workers in the ! country about 15,000 men as the other manufacturers accept the settlement made at this conference. San Francisco. When it comes to works of charity the union painters are in the front rank. Sixty-two of

them worked gratis on the building cf 1 Idea of acquiring the site cf the town the Little Sisters of the Poor in this I ff Brandon to fill out his estate, city. The job was completed. j Brandon was a nourishing place with Chicago. Railway clerks, who are I a postoffice and two or three small aSiiiated with the Freight Handlers'! stores and a small number of inbabunlon, have made a move to get aj Rants. wage increase cf 15 per cent. They j Rockefeller purchased all of the have been holding conferences with j property from its owners except one tho various freight agents and expect j small tract that was owned by a civil they will get an advance without much j war veteran named Lamora. Lamora

trouble. There are between 1,500 and S 2,000 clerks organized and their wagea I average about $C3 a month.

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He Has Cone to Chicago To Bo Submitted to the Court Inquisition. HAS HOT EEEN SUBPOENAED Couldn't Ee Found, but Showed TJp on the Train. i II. H. Holers Arrives Home from Uurope Story of the Rockefeller Trouble with I minora Post office Investigation. New York. July 0. Wm. Rockefeller, John E. Archbold, William P. Howe, V. Q. Barstow, II. E. Folton, C. M. Pratt. Charles T. White, J. N. Moffatt and Win. IIuMiinson have left here for Chicago, where they will ap pear today before Judge Landis hi the federal court In answer to subpoenas requiring- them t give testimony in the Standard Oil eases now on trial there. This information was given out oliicially by M. L. El iott, general counsel for the Standard Oil company. United States Marshal Henkel had in his possession a subpoena for Wm. Rockefeller, but has been unable to secure service on him. II. II. Holers Is in Reach. According to Elliott's statement Rockefeller decided as soon as he heard that there Avas a subpoena out for him to g) to Chicago without waiting for service. II. II. Rogers, for whom a subpoena has also been issued, has returned from Europe on the Baltic, but Marshal Ilenkel had already returned the subpoena to Chicago with information that Rogers was not in his jurisdiction. As soon as he heard that Rogers had returned Marshal Henkel telephonfd Starr J. Murphy, John D. Rockefeller personal counsel, asking him to notify Rogers that he was wanted in Chicago. Rogers Won hi lie Late. Murphy said that he had no Information that Rogers had returned, but that he would communicate Marshal Ilenkel's message to him as soon as he appeared at the Standard Oil offices. But even if Rogers had decided to go to Chicago without the formality of a subpoena he would not have been able to reach there in time, as the subpoena calls for the presence of the witnesses at 10 a. m. today. rockefeller: at Chicago Two Brothers Arrive on the Same Train Curious Are Fooled, Chicago, July G. John D. Rockelefler, president of the Standard Oil company, and his brother William, one of the directors of that corporation, are in Chicago and appeared this morning in the United States district court be fore Judge K. M. Landis to be ques tioned regarding the management of the corporation. The two Rockefellers reached Chi cago at 4 p. m. yesterday and their ar rival in the city was not nown to any one but their attorneys and a few relatives for several hours afterwards. Those curious to see the two men, and those with their kodaks and those with sharpened pencils all got "onto" the wrong train, and the two brothers left the right train without being recog nized by any one outside of their at torneys and relatives An automobile was in waiting for the two oil magnates, who lost no time in getting away from the station. They were driven direct to the omce of -Al fred I). Eddy, one of the Standard c. attorneys. Waiting with Eddy were the other two attorneys who represent the company in court John S. Miller anu -uoritz Rosenthal. The two men remained in conference with their attorneys for over two hours, when they jumped into an automobile and were taken t the home of Harold F. McCormick, S3 Bellevue avenue. McCormick is a son-in-law of John I). Rockefeller, and he, together with his brother, will make McCorkick's residence their home while in Chicago. Fully a dozen detectives surround the house and no one was -allowed near the place without giving a detailed account of his business. LAMORA AND ROCKEFELLER Postoffice Department Investigating a Curious Case. Washington, July C. An investigation has been ordered by Postmaster General Meyer with a view to tletermining whether a postoffice discontinued at the town cf Brandon, N. Y.. shall be re-established there. The lnI qniry involves a unique state of facts. According to the papers on file in the postoflice dr.artment it appears that several years ago Wm. Rockefeller, who owns a large estate comprising more than fifty thousand acres in the vicinity of Tarry town, conceived the refused to sell, and persisted In fish ing in a stream which ran through Xlocko.VJor's estate, and In using th.

roads which had been open to the public, it Is said, for a generation. The postofflce at Brandon was abolished and another was opened at Bay Pond, three miles within the confines of Rockefeller's estate. The people who formerly received their mail at Brandon were expected to get it. Lamora was arrested for trespass on Rockefeller's estate, end he and his friends fought the case in the courts, but eventually were defeated. A court order was made preventing Lamora in person or by agent from going onto the estate of Rockefeller, and it is stated that therefore he was unable to obtain mail for him directed to the Bay Pond office. The matter was brought to the attention of Postmaster General Meyer through letters received from various parts of the country, and he has determined not only to ascertain the facts regarding it, but if ossitde t re-establk-h the pnstofhee at Branlon. or at some nearby point out?i le of the estate of Rockefeller which will be convenient for the people of that vicinity.

DEATH LIST IS INCREASING Twenty-one Now Known to Have IJeen Killed ty the Storm in the Badger State. St. Paul. Minn.. July ;. Twenty-one are now known to have been killed in the tornado which swept a path 100 miles long and from a mile to a few rods in width through the counties of central Wisconsin on Wednesday night. Details of the damage done Ly the tornado are still coming in slowly, and it is believed that the death list will be somewhat increased when all points visited by the tornado are heard from. In addit'on to those killed a score ".r more people was injured, some of them so serious ly that their recovery is doubtful. The property damage has not been accu rately estimated, but undoubtedly will be more than $100,000. To the names of those heretofore reported as dead, the following have been added: Near Elroy Mrs. Ole. Wet'ey, instantly killed; five chiMiei of Ole Nass, crushed beneath the ruins of their home; Mrs. Gullick Thompson, died from injuries; Ole Brown, died from injuries. Injured: Mrs. Everson and Amelia Thompson, Grand Rapids, where it was reported five deaths had occurred, has since reported by telegraph that the storm was severe there but so far as known no one was killed. FRANCE LUCKY THIS TIME Only Loses Apparatus, No Lives, in an Accident to a Submarine Vessel. Cherbourg, July G. Another French submarine vessel has sustained seilous damages as a result of carelessne.-s. The Rubis, a new 400-ton submarine, was underging a trial to determine the efficacy of her plates against the admission of water. This consists of filling a drydock with water while the vessel is held down to the bottom with heavy weights. The water had partially submerged the vessel when the mechanics stationed inside to keep a lookout for leaks came hurriedly out of the hatch and reported that she was filling with water, apparently from an open valvo. All the costly electric apparatus on board was ruined. No lives, however, were lost. Reporter Brutally Murdered. San Francisco, July G. With his skull fractured and hl3 face terribly beaten, George McGuire, local reporter of Bradstreet's, was found at Jackson and Fillmore streets. According to the story told to the police McGuire alighed from a car and started to walk to his home, a distance of three blocks. As he started up the street he was accosted by two men, who asked Mc Guire if he had ridden on the car. Upon replying in the affirmative he was set upon by the men and beaten into unconsciousness. McGurie died later at the hospital. Given $20,000 for Friendly Act. Findiay, O.. July G. Miss Ethel Bish, of this city, has received SCO,' 0 from Mrs. Mary M. Kendall, of Oswego, N. Y., whom she befriended three years ago in Toledo, O. Mrs. Kendall was injured on the street and Miss Bish saw that she was given proper attention. Mrs. Kendall promised a reward at the time. Training Ship Cadets Strike. New Ijondon, Conn., July 0. Forty six cadets who came ashore from the Massachusetts naval training snip Enterprise refused to go back to the vessel and sent a round robin aboard refusing to return unless given a written guarantee for better food. -- Official Killtd With a Bomb. St. Petersburg, July C. The little town of Kizliar, in the Terek territory, Ciscaucasia, was the scene of a bomb throwing. Several bombs were 1-urled at two high local police officials. One of the men was killed. The assailants got aw-ay. SCORES ON THE DIAMONDS Chicago, July G. Following are the base ball scores: League: At Pittsburg St Louis 1. Tittsburg 2; at New York Brooklyn 1, New York 3. American: At Cleveland New York 1. Cleveland 2; at Detroit Philadelphia H. Detroit 9. Association: At Louisville Toledo 1, Louisville 4; at Columbus Indianapolis 0, Columbus 0; at Kansas City St. Paul 4, Kansas City G; at Minneapolis Milwaukee 1, Minneapolis 2. Western: At Des Moines Omaha 3. Des Moines 5

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That Panama Business Still Rankles in the Breast of the Colombian. INCIDENT AT THE PEACE HEEf Colombian Representative Our Proposition. Opposes I Also Objects to Our Assumption of the Name "America," and Refers to Our Action in Panama. The riague. July 0. The entire aft- j ernoou setting of the committee on the Geneva convention was given over to j a discussion of the proposition present-j ed by Joseph II. Choate on June Hi regaming the inviolability of private property on the high seas. The committee sat under tu presidency of Pro."V - v f .'t. . M. KEIillOOFP. fessor De Martens. M. Nelidoff, president cf the conference, was present. Joseph II. Choate, General Horace Tortfr, U. M. Rose and William I. Buchanan, of the United States delegation, and David J. Hill, United States minister to the Netherlands, were in i attendance. Colombia Has Not Forgot. There was a mild sensation while M. Fcrez Triana. of the delegation of the United States of Columbhia, was speaking, nving to his references to the "United States of North America," not "America." as other delegates call the United States. Triana made a long -speech and his conclusion regard ing the proposed new principle was that it was not a good thing, and that Colombia refused to subscribe to It. Speaks as an "American." He began his speech with: "I speak as an American, and I claim for that word the whole breadth of its historical and geographical meaning. It covers the entire continent the north, the center and the south, as well as the islands of the American seas. Listening to the words of Mr. Choate It seemed to us Latin Americans as If there had swept over our heads a gust of the old hurricane of liberty and justice which eluring a period of many years of the last century came to us from the north, and which we had begun to believe had entirely sub sided." Ironical as to Roosevelt. In conclusion Triana made ironical reference to President Roosevelt. He said: "President Roosevelt may consider himself a happy mortal if when he descends from the presidential chair of the United States of North America ; or at a later period, at the hour of the seating sun of a life filled with energetic activity; he may with uplifted head, and laying his hand upon his heart declare before the history of the world that on every and all occasions anu at all times he has respecter! the rights of the weak, of justice, and of humanity, even to the detriment of the political interest and ambitions of his own country." How the Nations Stand Holland announced her adhesion to the new policy; Brazil, conditional adhesion; Great Britain's position is that of regretful opposition; Germany's was very similar; Russia thought it too early to consider the proposition; Norway gave her adherence; Portugal agreed with Germany; France did not support the proposition as 5-tateJ; Greece agreed with Holland's view. FIGHT OYEE PHONOGRAPHS Tvo Companies at War About tho Right to Sell the Machines in New York. New York. July 5. Supreme Court Justice Martin J. Keogh, of West Chester county, rendered a decision barring all dealers in this state from selling or handling the Thomas A. Edison records or supplies without the permission of the New York Phonograph company. The dealers throughout the state, of which there are somo 910, are ordered to give an accounting of all records sold for the last ten years. It Is estimated that about $32,tOO.000 is Involved in the suit. The phonograph war has been waged through the courts for many years. It is alleged that although the National Phonograph company, one of the Edison concerns, was ordered b the court not to sell the phonographs or supplies in this state the dealers were encouraged to do so. The New York Phonograph company maintains that it purchased the sole right to sell Edison machines In this state.

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By RANDALL PARRISK, Author of "When Wilderness Was King," "A Swcxd of the Old Frontier," etc. This remarkable story will be run serially in this paper. Read what the critics say of it :

St. Paul Dispatch A compellirtir. interest biases the reader in favor of this tale, which, with a wealth of dramatic power, reaches its climax in a description of the Custer massacre. Injustice makes men restless and Bob Hampton was no mean specimen, but the love he bears his old commander. General Custer, like a magnet draws htm with unlailinp fatality, so that, with his old company, he, reinstated, falls with that gallant leader.

Houston Chronicle The story is decidedly the best Mr. Parrish has written, and the popularity of his former volumes in connection with the excellence of this latest will make it one of the widely read novels of the day. In this story he has, perhaps, reached the summit of his art.

The Little Rock Gazette This is one of the strongest, most virile stories of the year. The author has had several successes. This latest should eclipse them all.

The Portland Oregonian Mr. Parrish can rest assured that in writing- this miliary tale he has created a true American novel on rational lines.

Chicago Daily News The best and strongest story in the line of succession from Mr. Parrish' s pen. The story in complication and characterization is wonderfully clever, the elements of suspense remarkably sustained, while its atmosphere of mystery is as strong and its purpose as deep as any that ever entered the most subtle, calculating mood of Sherlock Holmes.

Philadelphia Press "Bob Hampton of Placer" is another thrilling American novel by Randall Parrish. Like its predecessors, it commands attention from the start and holds the interest absorbed by its continuous action. Furthermore it is a notably well written story, exhibiting the author's rare sense of dramatic values.

Grand Rapids Herald The surpassing power of this new novel, "'Bob Hampton of Placer," marks it not only as the best by Mr. Parrish but as probably the strongest in human interest of the season. Seldom has any novel exceeded it in virile strength and the quality that arouses the emotions.

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