Richmond Palladium (Daily), 13 July 1904 — Page 1

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WILL AT THE HEAD OF THE C. C..& L. ROAD. MERGER MADE TROUBLE Negotiations Have Been Going On for Two Months Wall Street Journal. New York, July 12. The Wall Street Journal yesterday said: The formation of a new system in the Middle West by merging the Pere Marquette, the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton is not welcomed with enthusiasm in Central Trunk Line circles. If the policy of the Pere Marquette is to be the policy of the new system, there is likely to be antagonism, much likethe antagonism that the Rock Island encountered in Missouri, Texas and Louisiana. This merger is not likely to greatly change the general trend of traffic in the Middle West. In fact, from a traf fic standpoint, it is important locally only. The results, positive and negative, may be outlined as follows: It will give to the Pere Marquette a lucrative tonnage in Hocking Valley .grades of coal destined for the Michigan peninsula and Wisconsin by the rail and cross lake route, practically all rail. It may also make Detroit a distributing point for soft coal in Western Ontario. It may bring to the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton a certain amount of business fro mthe peninsula and "Wisconsin for distribution for points along the Ohio. In both respects it will militate against the Ann Arbor and the Wheel ing & Lake Erie, the Gould combination serving the same traffic both ways. It will create a new route for the ! Cincinnati. Hamilton & Davton traf-1 fic, Cincinnati to Chicago, and will j destroy the usefulness of the Cincin- j nati, Hamilton & Dayton working I traffic arrangements with the Monon. ; It will, therefore, result in loss to the Monon. The things the alliance will not do are, perhaps, most important. In tl;e first place, it will not divert traffic from the direct lines between Cincinnati, Buffalo, and New York. The route via Toledo is not practicable in competition with the Erie or the Vanderbilts. It will no touch the traffic between New Orleans and Chicago. The Queen & Crescent and the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville will not compete with the Illinois Central or the Frisco. Taking all these facts into consideration it is difficult to see that the systems will be much stronger merged than they would be in a friendly alliance. The system is a congeries of

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local lines, mostly fair traffic proposi- ja shock. Instead of the red hair and tions in themselves, but none of them j Celtic features of Carroll, the underactually dominant in their territoi'y. j taker saw an unmistakably Hebrew With the exception of the Cincin- : face, that of Cohen, the suicide, nati, Hamilton & Dayton main line j It took ten minutes of earnest argu-

from Toledo to Cincinnati hardly a mile ot tne system can ciaim io i t dominant in its particular field. As a trunk line, therefore, the new system will not become anjmportant factor in many years. It must rely for its future on local developments and local resources. President Bradford will remain at the head of the C. C. & L. but, of course, will not be as active in its management as previously. Mr. Bradford stated yesterday the details of administration were still to be decided upon. When asked how long negotiations for the transfer of the C. C. & L. had been going on, he replied two months. . 1 . i - - V STRIKE MAY GROW. (By Associated Press.) New York, July 13. A Conference has been held to discuss the advisability of calling out the engineers and firemen at the packing houses. It is said that these men may be called out.

OCCIDENTAL HOTEL

Reopened -Yesterday - After Being Closed Since the Fire. Indianapolis, Ind., July 13. After being closed since the disastrrous fire in April the Occidental hotel was reopened for business at noon yester-' day. For the present only the rooms in the south addition to the hotel will be used. Later the management and owners of the property may, it was announced, complete the rebuilding of the third and fourth stories of the structure that faces on Washington street, and give the hotel its former capacity. During the day a number of former patrons registered. The name of E. H. Drew, of Chicago, who" has been a patron of the hotel for a number of years, headed the list. IMPROVEMENTS. It will be observed that considerable city improvements are being made at the present time in the way of sewers, cement gutters and curbing and sidewalks. AN "AWFUL" AGED IRISH CATHOLIC BURIED IN JEWISH CEMETERY BEN COHEN, A HEBREW, Came Near Finding Rest in a Catholic Graveyard How it All Occurred. New York, July 13. Thomas Cai--roll, an aged Orishman with no relatives, fell down a flight of stairs in Mike 0 'Council's hotel, 3S84 Park avenue, Sunday morning, and was taken to Fordham hospital with a fractured skull. He died there this morning. Amout the time Carroll was fatallv hurt Den Cohen, a Jew, of 413 East fourteenth street, drank a bottle of carbolic acid at Morris avenue and One Hundred and Seventieth street. His body was also taken to the Fordham hospital and placed in the morgue. Cohen's stepbrother, who lives at 1S13 Third avenue, sent an undertaker to get the suicide's body and bury it in Mount Sinai cemetery, Long Island. The undertaker took the pine box pointed out to him and drove with j it to Mount Sinai cemetery, where it was buried. A little later Mike O'Connell, the hotel keeper, sent Undertaker John J. Ryan to get the corpse of the old Irishman whom he had known for years. The morgue attendants pointed the other pine box out to Ryan when he asked for Carroll's body, but Ryan is a careful man and asked to have the box opened. Then he got j ment on Ryan's part to convince the hospital people that they had made a mistake, that a good Catholic had been buried in a Jewish cemetery, and that a Jew had come pretty near being sent to his long rest in a Catholic burying ground. Then the morgue keeper investigated and found that the tag on Carroll's body had been switched to Cohen's and that Cohen's tag had been tied on Carroll's. The body of the Irishman will be disinterred tomorrow and placed in St. Raymond's Catholic cemetery. Cohen's corpse will take Carroll's place at Mount Sinai. CUT IN OIL. Pittsburg, July 13. There was another cut in crude petroleum. Pennsylvania, $1.50; Coining. 1.30; North Lima, jfl.00; South Lima, 95 cents; Indiana, 95 cents. Miss Christa Goehner is very ill 'at her home, at 45 South Twenty-first street.'-

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30,000 JAPANESE REPORTED KILLED

ATTACKED NEAR PORT ARTHUR AND WERE REPULSED ST- PETERSBURG WILD Japanese Reported as Recapturing Two Forts From Which They Were Recently Driven. (By Associated Press.) St. Petersburg, July 13. A dispatch from a Russian correspondent at Mukden, dated July 12, says: "According to intelligence received here the Japanese last night attacked positions near Port Arthur and were repulsed with enormous losses, not less than 30,000, it is said, being killed or wounded by our mines." Che Foo, July 13. Chinese arrived from Port Arthur today say the Japanese recaptured forts Fourteen and Seventeen from which they were recently driven. St. Petersbury, July 13. This city is excited this afternoon by the news that the Japanese were foiled in the assault on the fortress at Port Arthur on Sunday, witha loss of thirty thousand men. St. Petersburg, July 13. An official communication from the general staff says that the information from Japanese sources received by Admiral Alexieff's military staff that the Japanese at Port Arthur were repulsed with enormous loss on July 10. CHILD LAROR 1,750,178 of Them Toil for Their Daily Bread. Washington, July 13. A special report of the census bureau shows that 1,750,178 children in the United States are compelled to work for their living. Thev form more than 6 rer cenf. of the total number of workers and the boys outnumber the girls almost three to one, the figures being 1,364,411 boys and 485,767 girls. Domestic woes of various sorts have a great deal to do with woman's invasion of the business world, for the census man states that 55 per cent, of the divorced women are working and 32 per cent, of the widowed. American married women are a class of housewives, for the records demonstrate that only 6 per cent, can be classed as bread winners. This is shown still more conclusively when it is stated that 31 per cent, of the single women are pursuing gainful occupations, which would indicate that few remain at work after marrying. The figures in the report do not bear out the general complaint that household servants are scarce. About 40 per cent, of the women employed are in domestic or personal service, against 25 per cent, in manufacturing and mechanics and only 9 per cent, in trade and commerce. The professional women comprise only 8 per cent, of the worekrs. SKULL CRUSHER Edward Brabant, House Boat Occupant, Found Dead. (By Associated Press.) Lawrenceburg, Ind., July 13. Edward Brabant, a house boat occupant, was found on the river bank this morning with his skull crushed. He wi'l die. Henry Alford says he saw a woman with whom Edward was living leave the boat hurridly today with another man. CONVENTION AT WORK. (Bv Associated Press.) Wheeling, W. Va., July 13. On the first ballot after the reopening of the 1 State convention, it nominated Arnold C. Scheer for. auditor of State.

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FAIRVIEW, OHIO, FLORIST GETS THREE HIGHWAYMEN AND FOLLOWED THEM Arrested Here and Taken to DaytonRiding in Stolen Rig When Caught. This morning an arrest wTas made in this city that means much to the citizens and officials of Dayton, Ohio. His name is Will Jones and he was arrested at Tenth and South C streets, by Mr. II. M. Alteck and De tective McGuire and taken back to Dayton. Last Wednesday evening Mr.Alteck who is a florist north of Fairview, Ohio, was at West Milton, assisting in tae conferring of degrees at a K. ojf P. meeting. It was late when he returned home and was much surprised on entering his house to find that three highwaymen had taken possession of it. When Mr. Alteck entered the burglars fled and it seems that in making their escape they stole several rigs along the way. Mr. Alteck notified the police and Word was sent in all directions. Mr. Alteck followed the fellows along the different roads and was rewarded in finding his man here this morning. ? Jones is very much wanted in Ohio, where seven charges are placed against his name that of burglary, larceny, horse stealing, shooting with ntent, etc. I He was riding in a stolen rig when hrrested U. S. SOLDIERS Going to Fort Du Chene They Pass Through Here. Company C, twenty-ninth United States regulars, mustering sixty-six all told, passed through here this morning enroute from Columbus, (Ohio) Barracks to Fort Du Chene, Wyoming, on No. 21. The soldiers traveled in two speciat cars. In the smoker were ten soldiers from New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, going to St. Louis. One From Greenville, the Other From Cincinnati. Chief of Police Gormon received notice of the stealing of two horses one a black horse, five years old, 1400 pounds, 16 hands high disappeared on Sunday from Greenville, O. The other is a bay mare, 1100 pounds, taken from Cincinnati. Late This Afternoon for Trying to Sell a Gold Watch. For endeavoring with a great flow of language, coupled with unsteady, but vehement gestures, to persuade another man that he was missing a life-time chance if he failed to purchase a gold watch , a man was arrested in the alley near the Federal Building site, about 3 o'clock this afternoon. The cop had his eye on the transaction that was progressing and thinking that it was suspicious for one to sell such a good watch so cheap, "collared" him and marched him to the police station. The man arrested was on the verge of intoxication. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Mendenhall The funeral of Mrs. C. J. Mendenhall, who died Saturday evening, took place yesterday after-, noon at 2 o'clock.

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In K. of P. Uniform Rank Are Steadily Increasing. The supreme meeting of the Uniform Rank, K. of P. will be held at Louisville and at this meeting- Hon. C. C. Shiveley, of this city, will be honored with the highest office in the order. , The biennial report of the Uniform Rank, K. of P., which has just been completed by James R. Carnahan, major general of the supreme jurisdiction, and which will be read at the supreme meeting in Louisville, shows an increase in rank membership of the United States during the last two years of 169,000 members, 169 companies and two brigades. Indiana heads the list with a biennial increase of 1,500, raising the "Hoosier" membership to 4,300. STRUCK A HORSE. The interurban that left here at 8 o'clock last night going west, tsruck a horse that had gotten on the track this side of Centerville. The horse was only slightly injured. JUAN DEL MONTE VISITED BY A CLOUDBURST AND DESTROYED 200 LIVES ARE LOST The Rain Fell for Twenty-Seven Hours The Damage is Eetimated at Two Million Dollars. (By Associated Press.) Manila, July 13. San Juan Del Monte was destroyed by a flood caused bv a cloudburst. Two hun dred lives were lost. Rain fell for 27 hours, making a total of seventeen inches of water. The damage is estimated at two millions dollars. Haley Gipe Known by a Local Man Much Interest Here. Omer Wolf, of the Fox Clothing house, is well acquainted with Haley Gipe, who is charged with murdering Mrs. Starbuck and her little baby at Greensboro. Mr. Wolf says Gipe never amounted to anything when he knew him, and would be surprised to hear he had improved any. He says Gipe was always ready and willing to do something out of the ordinary and when he heard of his arrest he was not in the least surprised. Newcastle, Ind., July 13. Haley Gipe, suspected of the murder of Mrs. Starbuck, came out of three hours' session in the sweat box last night without throwing much light on the mystery. His statements were not materially different from those made in the morning. Details of his story differed somewhat and he contradicted himself several times. The boy stubbornly attested several statements that are said to be false. When given a matter of fact statement of the crime he held his head and was visibly affected. E. C. Curry, the Cincinnati detective on the case, is more of the opinion that he at least knows who Committed the crime than ever before! Suggestions of lines of inquiry were drawn from the examination. One arrest will be made today and still another is contemplated. ADVANCE IN PRICES OF MEAT. (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 13. Beef advanced from S to 10 cents and pork jumped from 12 to 14 cents today. Prof. Marcus D. Buell remains as professor of new testament exegesis in Boston University School of Theology, reports tothe contrary notwithstanding'.

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RIG STRIKE ORDER CARRIED OUT WITHOUT DIFFICULTY MEAT WILL GO UP In Price it is Feared if the Strike is Continued Any Length Effect Locally. Chicago, 111., July 13. The big strike involves the following companies, which have branches in St. Joseph, Mo.; St. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul, Ft. Worth and New York City; Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Nelson Morris & Co., Schwarzchild & Sulzberger, Cudahy Packing Company and the National Packing Company. In Chicago alone these companies employ more than 14,000 men. The butcher workmen, at a recent convention, decided that a minimum wage of 20 cents an hour for common labor should prevail in all packing centers, and the wages of the skilled workmen should be equalized in each brach of the trade. Wage scales were arranged by the different unions on the basis adopted by the convention, but a number of conferences with the packers failed of reaching an agreement. Later a proposal came from the packers offering 174 cents an hour for laborers and helpers to the killing, cutting, casing and' beef-loading departments only, and no consideration was to be taken of the common laborers and helpers in the many other departments. This proposal was rejected by the unions, and although several other conferences were held no agreement could be reached. Chicago. 111.. July 13. The packers have put office employes as substi tutes for strikers and say thev can fill ! up in a day or two with capable men. 1 It is said that colored men have been j smuggled into the yards in covered i wagons. j (By Associated Press.) Kansas City, July 13. Armour's I plant resumed work on a small scale today. Other plants expect to be runj ning soon with new men. Big retail j dealers will do their own killing temnorarily and say the price of meat will not be advanced for the present. ! Chicago. Julv 13. The onlv rav of hope in the butcher's strike is arbitration. Eighty thousand employes are profits and consumers suffer higher prices and possibly a meat famine. Other industries using the products of the packing houses lose their supply. What effect the strike will have locally remains to be seen, but it is feared will result in a rise in the price of meats. This has always been the result when there was a strike on at the packing houses. Meats have kept up well in prices for quite a while, and people can ill afford to pay more for the staple article of food. FIRST RESULT Of the Big Butchers Strike in the Large Cities. Cleveland, O., July 13. Wholesale prices of fresh meat advanced half ai cent today on account of the strike of the butchers, meat cutters, and packing house men. Retail prices also advanced 2 cents on the pound. ACCIDENT To Cleo Milton in Which He was Badly Hurt. Little Cleo Milton, who lives at 229 North Sixteenth street, was climbing on an iron fence last evening and fell, one of the sharp points penetrating the fleshy part of his leg. It took five stitches to close the gaping wound.