Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 148, 22 June 1922 — Page 1
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LABOR BOARD WILL TAKE UP STRIKEJSSUE Removal of One Issue in Prospect Following Announcement Hearings Will Open on Farming Out Work. EXECUTIVKlRUFFLED
PROGRAM TO REPEAL LAWS UNFAVORABLE TO LABOR ADOPTED (By Associated Press) CINCINNATI. Ohio. June 22. By an overwhelming vote, the American Federation of Labor convention today adopted a program centered about four constitutional amendments, repeal of the Sherman anti-trust laws and others as a means of repealing laws of congress unfavorable to labor. The program was drafted by a special policy committee and accepted without change by the convention. The legislation asked of congress was described during the discussion as necessary because several years at
I least would be required to conduct the
x campaign for the four constitutional Bv Associated p-ess) amendments. These amendments are
CHICAGO. June 22. Removal of a congressional veto of supreme court
one of three Issues on which railway thft rJght tQ to bargain col. employes are taking their strike vote lectively and to strike, the prohibition was in prospect today following an- of child labor, and adoption of an nouncement by the railroad labor easier. method than the present for . . . . . ... . 'Changing the federal constitution. board that hearings will open Monday The election of offlcers of the fed. on the contract controversy in whicn ' eration was set for tomorrow morn30 roads are charged with farming out Ing, and at that time the seat for next work contrary to the board's orders. year's convention also will be se-
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CHINA IS RECEIVING BAPTISM OF BLOOD; MUTINIES REPORTED
Seventeen contract cases filed I
City, N. J., are the only cities that
BIGAMY SAYS PUBLIC WON'T LET PAST DIE
against various roads by the unions I have submitted invitations for the have been heard by the board ana j convention that will be held in Octodecisions in these cases are expected j ber' 1923, eoon- ininrnn nuinnpn iimtii
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me Indiana Harbor Belt railroad the board ruled last month against the farming out system and indicated that the same general principles would be followed in future decisions on the question. May Remove Cause Posting of the pending cases for an early hearing brought the possibility that one of the chief grievances of the rail unions in the strike referendum would be wiped out before it can be made a real issue in a nation wide railway war. B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employes department of the American Federation of Labor, prepared today to assume active command of union headquarters where the strike ballots are being tabulated as rapidly as they are received so. the returns can be turned over to the general committee of 90 which is expected to start the canvass of the vote Sunday. Strike Not Feared. Railroad executives continued to express belief that there would be no walkout next month despite the dec
laration by union leaders that a suspension will be authorized if the rank and file of the rail unions favor a strike and place the responsibility of it upon their leaders. John Scott, secretary of the railway pmplores department of the American Federation of Labor declared that the balloting thus far appears to disclose strong sentiment in favor of a strike in protest against the $136,000,000 wage reduction and other decisions by the board. Union leaders today urged employes to rush their ballots to Chicago headquarters as only four days remain before the canvass of the vote is scheduled to start. Union leaders intend to announce the result of the referendum if possibly by July 1, the date the wage reductions become effective.
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FIVE MEN, ONE WOMAN SEEK POSTMASTERSHIP
OF RICHMOND OFFICE Six local citizens are seeking the portmastership of the Richmond ofMce, it became known Thursday. They are: Clarence TV. Foreman, present superintendent of mails; Lewis C. Niewoeliner. Miss Esther Griffin White, Ray H. AVeisbrod. William G. McVay and Martin W. Pyle. A report from Washington says that H. Shuman Jones was eliminated
on account of his age. The position here will be vacant Sept. 5, when C. B. Beck, the present l ost master, completes eight years of service. A salary of $3,800 13 paid. Ten men and women have applied from Newcastle, for the Newcastle office, according to a civil service announcement. They are: Sam J. Buffkin, Clyde G. Hardesty, Mrs. Bertha Ansstad, Harley A. Gouldsbery, John H. Rodgers, Horace Williams, Ambrose O. Harding, Fred L. Howres, Mrs. Rose Morris and , Edward Smith. Candidates at Shelbyville Include Edwin M. Porter, Charles E. Moberly, 'ieorge E. Young, Morton O. Bland, Sherman Marshall, Earl L. Hayes, Charles R. Amos and Otto A. Lee.
(By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Calif.. June 22. Donald D. Stewart, the unfrocked clergyman who Is held in the city Jail awaiting the arrival of officers from Boston, where he is wanted on charges of bigamy, grand larceny and conspiracy has met interviewers with this comment: "I can't live down my past; the public won't let." With Stewart when he was arrested Tuesday night was Mrs. Ethel Turner
Osbaldeston Stewart, the second of
the four wives he is said to have mar
ried and who also was taken into Custody. She is charged with having
conspired with him to effect his alleg
ed marriage to Norma Ehrenseller of Boston from whom he is said to have stolen $2,500. Reports of operatives of the private detective agency which arrested the couple were Incomplete, it was said as to the charges said to
have been
various sections
they listed his alleged marriages as
follows : First, to Mary Mitchell at Wilmington, Del., In 1918. A child was born to
them and Stewart Is alleged to have deserted his wife and baby. Second to Ethel Turner Osbaldeston at New York. In 1920. Third, to Bertha Ellen Grannls, at Indianapolis, In 1921. Fourth, to Norma Ehrenseller at Boston in 1921, with alleged connivance of Mrs. Ethel Turner Osbaldeston Stewart, with whom he is alleged to have effected a reconciliation a short time before. He disappeared shortly after the marriage to Miss Ehrenseller. Charges Fraud In addition to these marriages, the detectives charge, he obtained $1,260
. through the endorsement of a check j by Bertha Ellen Grannls Stewart, and
that when he deserted her, left in her
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$2,500 from Norma Ehrenmeller Stewart, and that through an alleged courtship of Miss Gertrude Van Lopik, an
art teacher of Detroit, in 1921, he de
frauded her relatives of $850
(By Associated Press) KIUKIANG, Province of Kiangsi, China, June 22. A president on Friday morning; a prisoner and an exile from his capitol on Tuesday night that, in brief, is the history of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, recently head of the Canton
government In China. Dr. Sun's wife also is reported to be a prisoner. For two days reports of various na
ture have been coming in regarding
Dr. Sun s whereabouts and plans.
Variously he was caid to be aboard a:
warship bound for Shanghai, a cap-
h.i.w o-4 o ,.if5 v, ed a Prix de Rome scholarship for his
7tww f fZ ti,;(. painting entitled "Music." When ingathering of his troops from their . . . m0, scattered expeditions in Kiangsi prov- formed f hls g0dK fortune, Floegel in fm- on ottM tv r-ntn wa3 n th9 verge of being evicted from
from Chen Chiung-Ming, his former
Alfred Floegel has just been award-
FIELD MARSHAL WILSON KILLED BY ASSASSINS Former Chief of British General Staff and Lately Mili-
- A J.,. i I Tl.i. CLi I emraent. have mutinied and slain
laivnuvisci iu wict "thousands" of persons in Kiangfii proto Death. j vince, according to reports reaching i here. . '
So far reports of the mutinies are vague, but those telling of the broad extent of tho mutineers' mthlessness apparently are authentic. Today's dispatches indicate that the situation in that province is worse, if anything, than it was last night. Reports of activities of the mutinous troops received from Hankow and Nanchang stated that the mutineers were led by General Tsal Chen-Hsun. military commander of Peking, who was leading his men northward and approaching Chanshu Ki, a city about 100 miles north of Kianfu and 50 miles south of Nanchang.
26 ARE KILLED IN WARFARE AT ILLINOIS WE
(By Associated Press) PEKING ..Tune 22. The newly es
tablished republican regime in China apparently is receiving that baptism
of blood without which few new gov-
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ernments hive fixed themselves ininj c j a a it power. Between 10 and 15 thousand i DOdieS opread Uver Area I J
troops of the forces under vu Kei-fTi,
chief military leader of the new gov-
SLAYERS ARE CAPTURED
military official, who held it in behalf of the" Peking government But today definite, authentic word is at hand to show that the second of
his squalid quarters In New York. He was born in Leipsig twenty-seven
years ago and came to America in
1914. Through hard study he has mas
tered the English language and has Konnma o full t1 a A trei -4t i art T rara
these is true. Sun, though a prisoner, , ' . n.nrtlno. ao, in h
is by no means dishonored The pro-jplaced on exhibitkm for the Beaux visional government set up in Canton Arts prjze in its first official act today decided) ' that he should be permitted to resigni hhmh-m instead of being expelled from hisj I UI fjlf Ulll'UC HI AN
Dresldential office and that he should I HililV MUUIIkU I l-Plll
be granted a safe conduct to go abroad or to Peking as he chose. Li Invites Sun. There Is every prospect that he will be ordered to do one or the other and he is expected to choose the first. Never
theless LI Yuan-Hung, the new presi-
Miles Square, Some Riddled
by Bullets, Others Beaten to Death.
him regarding means for promoting
the unification of China. "I see no reason why he should not sit at the
same table with me and discuss China's
future," said LI regarding Dr. Sun yesterday according to Peking dispatch
es. LI even has issued a formal invitation urging Dr. Sun to aid him in reorganizing the Chinese government. Four resolutions have been adopted by the provisional government at Canton. Beside that authorizing Sun's resignation, these, in brief, are as follows : Chen Chiung-Ming, whose coup overthrew Dr. Sun and who had been dis
closed in that activity as an asent of Li Yuan-Hung and associate of Wu Pei-Fu, the "strong man of China" in her present crisis is invited to administer Kwangtung province temporarily. It was commented on today that it was from the administration of thi3 province that Sun removed Chen thereby opening the estrangement which resulted eventually in Sun's overthrow. To Support LI The provisional government pledges Itself to support the administration
WILL BE ACCEPTABLE TO PARLEY DELEGATES
LONDON. June 22 Field Marshal Henry Hughes Wilson, former chief of the British Imperial general staff, and later military advisor to the Ulster government, was assassinated today near the entrance; of his home, Eton place. Two men fired at the field marshal as he was alighting from an automobile, after attending a war memorial v.nvciling, where he delivered a speech.
Struck by two bullets, he staggered and fell. He was carried into his
home. However, he died before the
arrival of a physician. The two assassins fled, closely pursued by the police who had been guarding the field marshall on Information that his life was likely to be
taken. i Both men were captured. One of them was reported to have attempted suicide and to have inflicted dangerous injuries upon himself with his revolver. Tho names were given as Connelly and McBrien. The Central . News states . that the arrested men gave the name of O'Brien, age 24, no occupation and no address, and James Connelly, age 24, no occupation and no address. Policeman Marsh, who was near Field Marshal Wilson when he was fired on, died later at a hospital from his wounds. Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was formerly chief of the imperial general staff of the British army. He retired from this post early
in the present year and stood for the imperial parliament as Unionist candidate for North Down, Ireland. He was elected member for this Ulster district on Feb. 21, and shortly after
ward was appointed by Premier Craig as Ulster prime agent for the restoration of order. The field marshal went to Belfast from England early in March with plans for restoring order which he submitted to the premier. While the choice of Fkld Marshal Wilson as organizer of pacification measuretrwas favorably received in Ulster had a contrary reception in southerri"Ireland. The former British chief of staff was regarded there with more or less the same feeling as Sir Edward Carson, the former Ulster leader. Predictions were freely voiced
in the south that he would be strongly in sympathy with the orange side of
the feud between the two factions.
BRUTALITY IS REPORTED
(By Associated Press) HERRIN, 111., June 22. A check at noon today made by the Associated Press show 26 known dead and indicated that the total would be more than 30 and in the hostilities between striking miners and non-union employers in the Strip mines of the Southern Illinois coal company near here.
Bodies were spread over an area of
15 miles Konare snm riddled with
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a lar"e Inland! uiuers . ueaufn uj oeaiu
auu mree Hanging cj ropes irum
Kiangsi province, to pick up foreign
ers in danger at Nanchang. The
The British unboat Cockchafer, entered Poyane Lake, a large inland
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American gunboat Monocacy probably will follow the Cockchafer. Northern reinforcements of Wu Pei-Fu forces are arriving at Kiuklang and proceeding to Nanchan . The American gunboats Isabel and Quires and the British gunboats Been and Forglove are being held in readiness and will be dispatched via the Kan river to Poyang Lake, should it become necessary to protect nationals in Nanchang.
BOARD TAKES STAND AGAINST ALLOWING LAUNCH AT GLEN
An Associated Press correspondent
after 10 ineffectual attempts today finally persuaded a taxi cab driver to take him through the scene.
The Strip mine had been fired and a freight train on a siding also was burning while miners looted several cars of food supplies. Out on the road near the mine six men, tied together and all wounded by bullets and blows, lay In the scorching sun while hundreds of men and women laughed at their pleas for water. One of the men. his face bloody and a shoulder shot away apparently was within a few minutes of death. "Please boys give me a drink," he moaned. A laugh from the hundreds of spectators was the only reply. Refused Water. The correspondent rushed to the house for water and when he returned
he was faced by a sword and quickly
BANKERS TO APPEAR IN WAR FRAUD PROBE
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. June 22. Officials
of leading banking corporations in New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Jacksonville had been subpoenaed to appear today before the special war frauds grand jury in connection with its investigation of contracts under which the government disposed of its surplus lumber after the war. They were ordered to produce all records of transactions by J. L. Phillips, chairman of the Georgia state Republican committee, who is at liberty on $25,000 bail under charges of conspiracy to defraud the government through the lumber contracts, and. also data which would throw light on dealings of Charles Phillips, Jr., "The J. L. Phillips company," and John Stephens, of the Phillips and Stephens company. The grand jury, which, it was learned authoritatively today, has , been investigating the activities of other directors of both, firms, expects to complete its Inquiry of the Phillips case by next Thursday, it was said, and will hand down its findings at once.
of Scotland, attained considerable
prominence a few years ago through his work as a vice crusader and temperance leader and as the author of a prohibition campaign song, "We'll Make California Dry." After Mrs. Maud Hendricks committed suicide at Hayward, Calif., near Oakland, Dec. 30, 1914, when he refused to marry her and he was arrested for a statutory offense, he was unfrocked, although the charge was dismissed for lack of evidence. Stewart is known also as Donald Allister Stewart and as Robert Allan McLaren Browne. .The latter is said to be his true name. He has filled pastorates in Dundee Lake, N. Y.; Paterson, N. J.; Sanderson, Texas;
Douglas, Ariz., and Chico, Calif. DETROIT, June 22. A. charge ot conspiracy to defraud brought here against Donald D. Stewart held on a fugitive warrant, but authorities of Massachusetts, New York or Indiana probably will have first claim to the prisoner, a private detective agency announced here today. The conspiracy charge is contemplated, it was said by Bruce Grannis, who claims Stewart defrauded him of $1,200 in a stock deal in 1920. Grannis' sister, Bertha Ellen Grannis, was one of the four women to whom Stewart is alleged to have been married within the past four years. His lawful wife, Mary Barbara James Mitchell, also resides here as does
Miss Gertrude Van Lopik, to whom Stewart was engaged to be married, but who broke with him after several of her relatives endorsed alleged worthless checks issued by the former minister.
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 22. Definite and substantial progress toward a compromise to break the Chilean-Peruvian conference deadlock already has been attained through the "good offices" of Secretary Hughes. Although the secretary has not yet developed his suggestions to the point
of a formal compromise proposal it was learned today that conference officials had received from him plain intimations of a defenite plan of settlement which he believes may be found acceptable to both sides. Briefly the plan is understood to provide for arbitration of the appropriate method of fulfilling Article three of the treaty of Ancon, which deals with Tacna-Arica, and to base the arbitration in part on the Chilean and in part on the Peruvian attitude
as to just what the method of treaty fulfillment should be. Willing to Accept At least one of the delegates to the conference is understood to have indicated its willingness to accept such a plan, although both must have more definite instructions from their governments before they can act. The Chilean and Peruvian groups alike are in communication with their capitols
and positive results are looked for
within a day or two.
Until the present process of informal Inquiry has shown the readiness of
both sides to accept the suggested
compromise. Mr. Hughes Is expected to withhold any submission of the plan in definite form. By that method
whereabouts of Dr. Wu Ting Fang,!or P"ceaure u is explained he will i o clock and until the body of West was former minister to Washington and i avoid any appearance of having forced j found in the barn, the bodies of his foreign minister in Sun's government. the lssue and at tlie same time will , two victims lay where they fell inside
mane u positive ior eitner side with- the West vard. members of the Dosse
out embarrassment to make sugges-1 f earine to enter the Dremises and re-
Stewart, 37 years old and a native j headed by Li Yuan-Hung at Peking,
bcotland,
which observers assert probably re
moves the greatest single danger of armed opposition faced 'by the government. The provisional government declares that anyone resuming hostilities will be considered an enemy. This apparently is Intended as a check to any leader who may become ovar-zeal-ous In the removal of the remnants of Sun's armed forces. The question which is exciting most attention In several quarters is the
BODIES OF SHERIFF, MINISTER, RANCHER TAKEN TO ALBANY
(By Associated Press) ALBANY, Oregon, June 22. Three bodies torn by gunshot wounds were brought here today. They were those of Rev. Roy Healy, pastor of the First Christian church of Albany; Sheriff
(rur tt fnrmw action In re-
. , . .. m ,.! drawn pistols and told to keep away ferrlng to the city council the ques U7he t- W '
tion of placing a launch on Glen Miller lake, the board of works came out Thursday with a new policy In which it flatly refused to allow a launch to be placed on the lake. The action, was taken because of possible danger to other boats on the lake. Action of the board followed appeals on the part of "Captain Rogers" owner of a boat which had been plyin the waters of Morton Lake, to
allow the board to place a new boat which he had had built, on the waters of the park lake. When the matter first came up to the board, he was told that if he could show sufficient public sentiment in favor of the pro
posal, at a meeting or tne council, oa would be given permission to place it there. Referred To Attorney. The matter was referred to the city attorney by the council, and had been left there for two weeks. The city attorney advised the board that placing such a boat on the lake would be dangerous, and the city might be liable for damages. Two places where scales once stood on the street were ordered paved. The action was taken in the case of J. H. Menke on Fort Wayne avenue and the John Starr property on North Tenth street. Resolution for the Improving of North Thirteenth street by cement
curb and gutter and sidewalks from North H to J streets was confirmed by the board.
Petition for a cement curb and gut
When the man begged again for wa
ter a. young woman with a baby in
her arms placed her foot on the mangled form and said, "I'll see you In hell before you get any water." . The men apparently had been dragged on a rock road behind an automobile. Their clothes were torn and pieces of gravel were imbedded in their mangled flesh. Deny Slayings The union miners deny they killed" any strike-breakers. The correspondent accosted one of the striking miners and this conversation followed. "How many were killed?" the correspondent asked.. . . "Nobody," the striker replied. -
"No one killed at all?" the correspondent countered. "We didn't kill them. They must have dropped dead from fright," the striker said. The striker then asked whether the militia was coming here, adding. "If the militia comes down here that will mean only that many more guns for us." The fighting had ceased and the only signs of the strip mine violence are occasional spent bullets. In attacking the strip mines this morning the strikers went over top of high embankments surrounding surface collieries and. took mine employes prisoners. The prisoners were then divided among groups of strikers and taken in different directions.
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Dave M. West, 70 years old, rancher l n VXI.
and trapper. Their deaths were the
result of a raid on West's moonshine still yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Kendall accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Healy. The Sheriff and the minister were shot and killed instantly by the aged rancher, who after barricading himself in his house and holding off
a possee ror hours, crept rrom the
from Main to the Pennsylvania rail
road was received. This is the second time this petition has been brought in. The first time, the petition called only for the improving of the street from North A to C etreets. Refer Petition Petition for a five foot sidewalk on the north side of North D street from
Fourteenth to Fifteenth streets was
Dr. Wu was reported to have accompanied Sun In his flight from Canton. One report said Dr. Wu and Sun were aboard one of the gunboats which Sunday raked the Bund at Canton with machine gun fire killing and wounding many hundreds of persons and damaging several American buildings. Crowds of refugees from Canton still were coming into Hong Kong last night.
Report Lenine Granted Leave of Absence COPENHAGEN, June 22. A message from Moscow to the Central News says the Russian council of commissars has granted Premier Lenine a leave of absence until autumn on account of his illness. It Is expected, adds the message, that Commissar Tsurupa, the second vice president of the council, will act in his stead.
PROFESSOR HONORED FRANKLIN. Ind.. June 22. Charles Alexander Deppe, head of the Department of biology, at Franklin college, vas awarded an honorary doctor of science degree, at the annual commencement at Kalamazoo college, at Kslamazco, Mich., this month.
CUBAN PAPER URGES HATRED OF AMERICA IN ATTACK ON U. S.
(By Associated Press)
HAVANA, June 22. La Nacion, an
afternoon paper today launched another bitter attack against the United States. The attack which is printed on the first page of the newspaper under a seven column head declares that "hatred of the American must be our new religion."
The newspaper asserts that grati
tions for perfection of the formula.
Weather Forecast
FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore Increasing cloudiness tonight; Saturday partly cloudy and fair at inter, vals; warmer.
building vvhen nigh : came and in i his refTred t0 tne enginwr for plana.
Z ,rn7rSZrmr Completion of the sewer in the althe..tcP, .his hfaoWi ?f hJ9 rJn,T ley west of South Sixth street was re. The killings of Sheriff Kendall and' A tv
Rev. Mr. Healy occurred at 3:30 1 ' ty, ,,,
The cost of the improvement totals $751.80. Purchase of 62 cars of coal for the city light plant wa9 ordered by the board. The superintendent reported a chance to make a purchase of a lot of coal at an advantageous price and the board took it up. Twenty-five cars will be purchased at $3.30; 25 at $3.40 and 12 cars at $3.50. The latter is egg coal and the first two lots are run of mine, all from West Virginia.
move them
West threatened anyone with death who should attempt to approach, except the coroner, who he said could remove the bodies of the men he had killed. For fear, however, that West might mistake the coroner for a wouldbe captor no effort was made. Expert Rifle Shot. West, an expert shot with the rifle from his long experience in hunting
wild - animals shot and killed both
The gradual approach of a storm
center over the northwest indicates ; Kendall and Healy without warning
somewnar unteiuea weatner during, while they were perhaps 50 yards the next 38 hours, but mostly fair, i from him. Hp firpd nnlv twit-p.
with increasing temperatures, which will begin Friday. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum 83 Minimum 54 Today Noon 75 Weather Conditions The center of the cool wave is now over Ontario, Canada, moving toward the St. Lawrence valley. It is intensely warm over the west, with 90 to 98 degrees in the shade from Texas northward to Medicine Hat, Canada, while on the northern Pacific coast it is turning cooler. Fair weather continues
tude for American co-operation during
the last years of the revolution against over the states of Indiana and Ohio,
Spain which would have been won any- and partly cloudy west of Indiana. It
way, has blinded Cuba to the sinister moves of the United States which only intervened in the revolution to secure control of the island. The newspaper attacks which followed the recent cabinet reconstruction have accused the Washington government of imposing the reform cabinet on President Zayas. They also have contained the charge that Carlos M. De Ceepedes, minister at Washington, was chosen as secretary of state in the new cabinet so that when President Zayas and Vice President Carrillo are deposed. Cespedes, a friend of the United State?, would become pres-
ident of Cuba. I
is showery over the gulf states anl Atlantic coast.
For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight and Friday; rising temperatures Friday.
Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,620
Sheriff Kendall armed with a search warrant, left Albany yesterday for the West ranch accompanied by Rev. Mr. Healy who desired to see a raid on a still to obtain material for a S'tory which he was intending to write. The
minister went merely as a spectator.
After the shooting West returned to the house and sat dow, in a chair with the rifle between his knees. As long as it remained daylight he barricaded himself in his house, and defined the possemen to capture him, but when night fell hi bade his wife who had remained with him farewell, telling her to go away where harm would not befall her. "This is the last goodbye" he said
as he kissed her and showed her through the door of the house. Shortly afterward he reached the barn where he killed himself.
COHN HAS CHECKERED CAREER, SAYS REPORT
The record of Harry Cohn, alleged confidence man who "jumped" a $1,000 bond here & few weeks ago, has been sent to thi3 city by the Chicago police. Chief Eversman sent Conn's fingerprints to Toledo shortly after that party disappeared, and rereiving no reply from Toledo, he sent them to Chicago. Tho following record has been sent to Chief Eversman: "Cohn was arrested as Harry Miller
HERRIN. Til., June 22. Nineteen men are known to have been killed in the open warfare of union men and non-union employes of the Stit mine rear here, of tie Southern Illinois Coal company. An incomplete check-up showed 15 non-union men and three union men dead One of the non-union men was found hanging to a tree with his body riddled with bullets. The bodies of the 16 non-union men were found in a wood near the Stit mine, six miles east of here. A man named McDowell, foreman at the mine, was beaten to death and tho1 other 14, exclusive of the man hanged, were shot to death. It was stated the men were massacred when they attempted to escape, after being taken prisoners by the union forces. Joe Pitchovie. a union miner of Her-
rin, died in a local hospital early today, after being seriously wounded in the fight. Jordan Henderson, another union miner, also of Herrin, was killed In the action. .. His body has beer, brought to an undertaking establishment here. . Thousands of striking miners, many of whom were armed, last night and this morning made their way along roads congested with every sort of conveyance leading to the mining camp where the union miners and sympathizers, estimated to number approximately 2,000 surrounded the mine, under a truce with the non-union forces who claim they are members of the steam shovel men's union. No Aid Requested. Williamson county officials including Sheriff Melvin Thaxton and States Attorney Duty have not requested any outside aid in restoring order in the district and Col. Sam N. Hunter, attache of the Illinois adjutant generals' office this morning expressed the belief that the worst i3 over. Col.
Hunter i3 at Marion, closely watching
April 15, 1901. and given six months! the situation at the mining camp
in the house of correction for larceny. which is five miles distant.
PRESIDENT REFUSES PLEA OF FILIPINOS
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. June 22. Presi
dent-Harding told the Philippine com
mission today that he could not yet urge upon congress the advisability of
Philippine independence.
He was arrested under the same name July 22 ,1903, and fined $25 and costs for disorderly conduct. "In 1910 lie wa3 sentenced to the San Quentin. Calif., penitentiary for
He declared that the fighting stop
ped after both sides agreed to a truce, following which arrangements were made for holding a "peace conference, 'today at which, it said he bc-
arceny, from Oakland, Calif. This j lieved officials . of the union miners
time he went under the name of Louis
Shroeder. He was paroled and discharged later. "As George Graham he was arrested Feb. 14, 1916, on suspicion, but wa3 discharged."
EDITOR SUCCUMBS. (By Associated Press) NASHVILLE, Tenn.. June 22 Richard H. Yancey, 69, editor of the Nash
ville Banner, died at his home here early today of heart disease, following an attack of influenza four months ago.
would ask the coal company to close
the mine and send away the men said to have been imported from Chicago. The Southern Illinois coal mine was the first in Illinois to resume operations since the strike became effective April 1, and tbi fact causes a, tense situation among the striking union miners. The district is solidly unionized. The fighting started after receipt of
a telegram from John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers cf America, terming the men working at Continued on Page Twelve)