Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 137, Hammond, Lake County, 26 November 1907 — Page 8

8 ' THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Tuesday. Xov. 2C. 1007.

CRISIS FORGES OUT

30O,000JMPLOYES Statistics Compiled in New York Show Vast Army is Unemployed.

COST IS TO BE 1,500,000 Many Concerns Fail to Report Policy Adopted Secretly, While Others Deny Such Has Been Done.

New York, Nov. 23. Figures compiled by statisticians here show that no fewer than 300,000 have been discharged in the various parts of the country through the i etrenehment policy by business interests since the beginning of the financial stringency five weeks ago. All figures dealing with retrenchment must be approximate, however, as many concerns discharge men without making any announcements, while others deny that men are being laid off when It is known that such is the case. 307,000 Men l)lrhnrKed. The following table shows the approximate number of men discharged

and the industry making tions: Iron and steel Klectric industry '. Kqulpmrnt companies .... Textile mills

chopper mines and I tall roads

Terminal work in New York!!! Lumber camps Stores and mercantile concerns Miscellaneous Industries

that the Snow steam pump works of

that city, which reduced working hours recently, has ordered the entire force back on full time. About 1,000 men are affected by this order. A similar order was issued today by the E. & T. Fairbanks Scale company of St. Johnsburg, Vt., where working time was reduced to five hours per day recently. The hours are now increased to eight. Thirteen hundred men are benefited by the change. After being closed two weeks the Syracuse (X. Y.) branch of the National Tube company resumed operations today. Three hundred men are thus given employment. All the finishing mills and a portion of the puddling furnaces of the Valley plant and two finishing mills and one puddle mill of the Brown I5onnel plant. Republic Iron and Steel company, all at Younjrstown, O., will resume operations next Wednesday, after having bi-en shut down since last Saturday. It was announced at Houghton. Mich., this evening at the Isle Koyale, Harnarack, Osceola, and Ahme-k mines and stamp mills, and the Lake Superior Smelting works, and Tamarack and Osceola coal docks that In ginning Dec. 1 wages will be reduced 5 per cent. The cut was expected and affects about 5,000 men.

CHICAGO WILL M

FOR NEWPOSTOFHGE Council Adopts Resolution Urging Delegation in Congress.

SOME PLANTS RESUME WORK

LIVES LOSIjf BATTLE Arabian Tibesmen Repulsed by the French With 12,000 Killed.

the reduc-

i no. ooo 20,000 10,000 i r.ooo

smelters 27,000

4 5.000 5,000 15,000 5,000 15,000

Total 307,000 In explanation of these figures it is fair to state that some of the retrenchment, especially that of the railroads, Is dua to suppression of work because of the approach of winter, but the major portion Is due to cutting down of expenses because of the financial stringency. This Is true In the case of the Iron and steel Industry, equipment companies, copper mines and smelters, lumber camps, etc, Some Plant Illume Work. Opposed to this wholesale reduction of working forces is the announcement that some plants that have either suspended, reduced forces, or cut down their working hours are resuming operations on accustomed basis. Dispatches received today over financial wires say that in Indianapolis 23,000 have been laid off in that city alone. Similar reports are being received daily from other centers, but it is impossible to classify the retrenchment because of the lack of details. Pump "Works on KnH Time. A dispatch from Buffalo today says

Maghnia, Algeria, Xov. 25. The French troops and 10.000 Benis Xassen tribesmen are engaged in a fierce battle, which opened yesterday with an attack by the natives on the French camp. Many hours' fighting yesterday resulted in the repulsing of the tribesmen with a loss of 1,200 slain. The French loss was eight killed. The tribesmen, apparently with total disregard for their lives, attacked the French camp repeatedly. At one time the French Infantry was in danger of being surrounded, but was finally saved from the perilous position by a most brilliant charge by the Spahis. The rout of the Arabs was completed by vigorous shelling by the artillery. 1'ndismayed by this severe loss the tribesmen today renewed their attempts to overcome the Europeans, armed with superior weapons. During the night they had reformed their forces, gained some recruits from other tribes, and again advanced on the French position. The booming of cannon could be heard from the city all afternoon, but there has been no accurate report received as to the result.

Strong Backing Behind the Proposition, Which Is Supposed to Have Favor in Washington.

Its dispatch and deliverv. would large

ly solve the problem of transporting mails through the congested streets of the downtown district, and would be conducive to the health and comfort of the employes of the postoffice. "Resolved, by the city council, that the United States senators and representatives from Illinois be requested to advocate the securing of a site and the erection of a postoffice building near the principal railway depots."

ARREST NEARENDS ALL Mining Broker Commits Suicide to Avoid Disgrace Dies as Police Enter.

If yon own an automobile and are not using It, a classified advertisement will IlEN'T It to a reliable perOD.

Chicago, Xov. 26. The city council, at its meeting last evening, started a movement lor a new postoffice on the west side, near the Union depot. It Is to be devoted entirely to postoffice business, the receiving and handling of mall, and the forwarding of it on outgoing trains. The idea is to relieve the present government building of postoffice business entirely, except perhaps the keeping up of a general delivery office. It is computed the new building would cost $1,500,000, and the report in the council meeting was that there is strong backing for it. The resolution was introduced by Alderman Taylor of the mayor's own ward, and It Is understood to have the latter's sanction. Postmaster Campbell is quoted as being its instigator, and the word brought from Washington is that the congressional committees on postal affairs are prepared to recommend the needed appropriation if Chicago only asks for It. That the council did by unanimously passing the resolution. CouilemiiN Present Fiic-UltieM. After telling of the magnitude of the postoffice business in this city and condemning the present facilities for handling it in the federal building which is "inconveniently arranged and poorly adapted for postoffice work," and after declaring it the experience of the department that It is a serious mistake to center the main receiving and sending business of a metropolitan postoffice In a building used for general purposes, especially one like the Chicago building, "at too great a distance from the Union and Northwestern depots, where two-thirds of the mall is received and dispatched," the resolution reads: "The business needs of Chicago require the securing of a permanent central site and the erection of a government building thereon to be used exclusively for receiving and dispatching the great incoming and outgoing mails of Chicago, such building preferably to be erected in the vicinity of the Union depot. "Facilities such as this building would give would lead to grreater economy in the handling of mail, advance

WALSH TACTICS BARED

Former Bookkeeper Testifies of Sales of Bonds for Private Ends.

New York, Nov. 23. While bluecoats were searching the lower floor of his house with warrants for his arrest Louis Straus, mining broker, committed suicide in his bedroom tonight. He ended his life rather than face the disgrace that would have attended arrest. He had lost more than $200,000 in the recent slump. About 8 o'clock the police entered his house and demanded to know where Straus was, saying he was about to be arrested on the charge of giving a false bill of lading on some ore. The maid

replied that lie was out. Without parley the detectives brushed by her and into the hallway. Search for Strau. They had searched through the rooms on the lower floor and started upstairs, when suddenly one of the officers saw Straus staggering from the upper hallway to the stair landing. "Gentlemen, I have just taken poison. I am afraid you cannot arrest me," he said with a light laugh. Then he toppled over dead. When warned of his probable arrest several days ago William A. Avis & Co., custom house brokers, on whose complaint the warrant for the arrest was issued, Straus threatened to kill himself. Avis charged the mining broker with negotiating a loan of $50,000 on a bill of lading for ore said to be worth $7,500 and supposedly shipped from the west. Avis states that not long after the loan was negotiated he discovered that the bill of lading was worthless. His wife, to whom he had been happily married for twenty-three years, had been living with the shadow of her husband's death by suicide hanging over her, but she was helpless to interfere. She knew that he had poison constantly on his person, but to her pleadings he turned a deaf ear.

senger ana rreight agent for the Wisconsin and Michigan railroad. H. L. Rozier. a private banker at St. Genevieve. Mo., and G. P. Taradis the government attempted to show that the Wisconsin and Michigan and the Illinois Southern, Walsh roads, ran through an unprofitable territory and were unproductive.

KILLED BY THE TOWN MARSHAL. Mitchell. Ind., Nov. 26. Thomas Welsh, who headed a crowd of young men here In a disorderly street parade, was shot and killed by Marshal Frank Dale for making1 an attack on the officers who tried to disperse the crowd.

Chicago. Nov. 26. P.. P.. McKay, for many years the private bookkeeper of John R. Walsh and now auditor of the Southern Indiana Goal company, was called to the stand in the Walsh trial late yesterday afternoon. The government attempted to show through McKay that Walsh sold bonds of his own corporations to the Chicago National bank and took the proceeds of these sales fifty or sixty in number for his personal use. Me Kay proved to be an evasive and unwilling witness. Judge Anderson at one point in the numerous objections raised by the defense, characterized the

testimony given by this Walsh aliy as follows: "As to the witness' answers being fair, there might be some question, but they certainly are not too almighty full. I should say they were the opposite." In response to a question by Assistant District Attorney Dobyns, McKay said he had been in the employ of the Chicago National bank for eighteen years and was auditor at the time the bank closed. He had kept Walsh's personal books, he said, since 1100. McLean on Stand. Frederick W. McLean, former assistant cashier of the Chicago National

bank, was on the stand most of the day tracing notes to which he had signed the names of twenty-seven Walsh employes. Attorney Miller, in the cross examination of Mclean, developed an Interesting phase of the situation in the bank with respect to the United States bank examiners' inves

tigations. On direct examination McLean had testified that he made out the reports to the controller of the currency and to the Chicago Clearing House association under Walsh's direction and that the memorandum notes were treated as direct loans to the men signing the notes. "Did the United States bank examiners have access to these memorandum notes?" "They certainly did." "That was as early as 1900?" "Yes." Ileny the Signed Note. The signers of .most of the notes traced by McLean were put on the

stand during the day to testify that they had not affixed their signatures to the promises to pay the bank $92,000 in each case and that they had not authorized any one to sign the notes for them. The men who testified to this were G. P. Paradis of Peoria, J. T. Redlings of Marinette, Wis., L. R. Witty of Terre Haute, Ind., Dr. W. RI Hick of Menomonle, Wis., N. I. Tibbitts of Peshtigo, Wis., and W. W. Wilder of St. Genevieve, Mo. Through J. F. Jackson, former pas-

UNIONS ARERESTRAINED Thousand Members of Labor Bodies Included in Injunction by Judge.

SHE IS A 21 GASSIE

Veil of Mystery Shadowing Death of Mrs. Smith is Raised.

New

Kenosha. Wis., Nov. 25. Judge F.. P.

Belden In the circuit court today issued an injunction against all the labor: unions now fighting the F.udger Brass Manufacturing company. In addition to the rank and file of the unions, many labor leaders, and special police officers are named in the injunction. Walter W. liritton, a former social democratic candidate for state senator and one of the most widely known laboring men In the state, is included as a defendant. Order Is Farrcnchlng. The scope of the Injunction is wide, and not only restrains from picketing, but enjoins from interference at the boarding houses in which nonunion

men are housed, and from boyeotttng any grocery or other supply house furnishing goo,is to nonunionists and their familhs. In the complaint on which the injunction was issued the managers of the company and men employed allege that open acts of violence have been committed and that members of the union

have threatened to ruin the company if they are not allowed to dictate the policy of operation. Serve Iaipert on One Thousand. The unions named in the injunction

have a membership of nearly 1.000 Copies of the injunction are being served on all. Special deputy sheriffs are to serve the papers and are ordered to see that the orders of the court in regard to the protection of the plant are carried out. Most of the men obeyed the injunction at once and the pickets were removed. Continuance ot Writ Refused. New York, Nov. 20. Justice McCall In the supreme court today, denied the application of G. Lawrence Fall, president of the United Typothetae of America, for the continuance of an ex parte Injunction restraining the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' union of North America and other allied printers' unions, from refusing to carry out an agreement made last January with the typothetae. Decide for Glass Worker.

Cleveland, O., Nov. 25. A petition for

a temporary injunction restraining

the Amalgamated Window Glass Work

ers of America from disposing of the

funds in their treasury until the Bult of the cutters and flatteners, recently filed, is heard, was refused by Judge Strlmple In the common pleas court today.

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led her husband and Roeheilo on Saturday

today, and enough

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man wiu ce revealed

s;e Chadwick.

The Ohio swindler, who died onlv a month ago in prison, and the woman

: m commutes suicide four

! in her Westchester home.

I ae taken the other's llfo

j and ordered her methods

;ierhaps it may develop that Mrs.

wk-k played for higher stakes than

-"a. fiimn, out or me two Mrs. Smith was by far the more adroit and resourceful. When the full story is told 't is not unlikely that the failure of some big financial coup and the fear of

'"" uiscovery and punishm.

me motive back of the N

suicide.

See Intended Haiti. It was suggested today by persons close to the family of the late General Uulkelcy. whoso daughter Mrs. Smith for nearly twenty years claimed to be, that this coup may have been an Intended rail on the general's estate. The general died five years ago, leaving 11,250.000 In trust for bla widow and children, tho trust to end

.H me expiration of flv ivr aflti.

his death and a dlvisl

rty to be made then anions: tho

widow and surviving children. That

trust will expire within f.w .lav.

In view vt what came to light to

day concerning Mrs. Smiths career, there is every likelihood that on tho strength of her alleged relationship to the former lieutenant governor of

Connecticut and her claim to a nhnrn

in his estate the had obtained monev

from somebody, who was to be reimbursed when the trust came to an end. With the expiration of the trust only a few days away and realising that exposure was at hand. It Is most probable tlvat the smoldering Insanity In the woman burst into a flame and. drove her to her death. Wdinnn Alna) Insane. There can be no doubt that the wo man was always more or less insane. She had a mania for setting fires. The past five years of Mrs. Smith's life were given up to a system of wholesale swindling of merchants. Tho indications are that her experience iii the business of getting something for nothing began early in her life.

FALLS DEAD DURING QUARREL. Evansville, Ind., Nov. 26. Mrs. Mary Panyard, aged 60, dropped dead at her son's feet during a vlWent quarrel with him. Sho had been.Jn apparent good health.

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Whether you make a purchase or not. Bring your Fish's Stamp Book alon;

Double Fish's Stamps til noon every day until Christmas TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS double Stamps all day as usual

GESAT MONTHLY REDUCTION SALE, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 27th, 29th, 30th Our custom of having an end of the month's reduction sale has met with great favor among our patrons. It is a grand opportunity to avail yourself of many necessary items all taken from regular lines and marked at sharp reductions. DONT FORGET hereafter until Christmas DOUBLE STAMPS until noon, Tuesdays and Fridays double stamps all (Say as usual.

WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR, SPECIAL, ONLY 19c. 29c Quality Heavy Fleeced Undearwear, extra special i Qn for this sale luC

10c ICE WOOL, PER BALL, 7y2c.

Fleisher s best quality Cream

White only, extra special, ball

71c

19c QUALITY FLEECED HOSE, ONLY 9c. Women's durable Fast Black Fleeced Hose, slightly imperfect,

a good heavy quality, extra flrt

special, pair.

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Lithographed with newest designs, ttl-At'-J extra special for this sale nA

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12c QUALITY BLEACHED MUSLIN, PER YARD, 734c.

Extra fine soft finish cotton, yard

wide, extra special, per 13,

yard

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72x90 SHEETS ONLY 39c. A good quality Unbleached Muslin, usual price 50c, extra spec- Q Q ft ial UUb

11-4 COTTON BLANKETS, SPECIAL PER PAIR, 95c. These are our well known German finishd cotton fleeced Blankets, reg

ular price $1.25, extra special, pair

95c

75c BLANKETS, PER ONLY 59c. A full 10-4 size Blankets extra special, pair

PAIR

59c

BATH TOWEL BARGAIN, 12c. Choice of either bleached cotton or

unbleached absorbent linen. Both

20x40 inches in size, extra special

12k

CHILDREN'S WARM SLIPPERS, PER PAIR, 39c.

Either with Leather or felt soles,

gcod warm lining, sizes 12 to 2, 49c, 5 to 11

39c

$10.00 THROWS FOR $6.9S. This handsome gray Squirrel

Throw is made of selected skins,

satm lined, an excellent $10 value, extra special...

6.98

Fure Castile Soap, pound bar, special 25c Wool Fascinators, ex

tra special .

13c

12c UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL, PER YARD, 9c.

Extra heavy fleeced, regular 12c

grade. A special offering at, per yard

$6.50 CHILDREN'S COATS, ONLY $4.90.

Four styles to select from, all sell regularly from $6.00 to $6.50, sizes

from 6 to 14 years, extra special

4.90

$25.00 WOMEN'S SUITS, $18.00. Of a handsome silk finished Broadcloth.. The jacket is 31 inches long, semi-fitted, skirt is full paited and trimmed with wide bands of self

same material, extra special

18.00

$2.50 EXTRA SIZE COMFORTERS, ONLY $1.93. Filled with good quality cotton, 2

yards wide and 2l2 yards

long, extra special.

10c BLEACHED SHAKERFLANNEL, PER YARD, 8c. At the present price of cotton, this i? an exceptional value, extra Q rt special, per yard QQ $1.25 WOMEN'S WARM LINED SHOES, PAIR, 98c. Either patent tips or plain styles, medium low heels, warm wool lined, all sizes, extra spec- Q 0 ial, pair UOC $17.00 WOMEN'S BLACK COATS ONLY $12.50. This is one of the handsomest braided garments of a fine black Broadcloth, venitian lined throughout, extra special for 1 ts rfi this sale Z.3U 10c OUTING FLANNEL, PER YARD, 7c. Both dark and light colors, stripes

and checks .extra soecial.

per yard.

75c AND 50c WOMEN'S CASHMERE HOSE, PER PAIR 29c.

About 8 dozen left of this fine lot of Women's Cashmere Hose. Avail

yourself of some before they are gone, pair

29c

7c OUTING FLANNEL, PER YARD, 5c. All good dark patterns, are excellent for comforter lining, Crt extra special, per yard

75c WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR ONLY 49c. The celebrated Set Snug Underwear, made of finest combed Egyptian yarn, extra special q

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