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MILLIONAIRE WANTS NEGRESS TO DISGORGE NEW YORK, Jan. 11—The finar stage in the struggle for possesion of nearly three quarters of a million dol lars between John R. Plait, an aged millionaire, and Hannah Ella^, a neg ress, who, he charges, wrongfully ob tained the money from him, was sched uled to begin before Justice Bischoff In the supreme court today. In this suit it is expected that the whole amazing story of the affair which at tracted the attention of the entire country when the secret of Piatt's re lations with the woman were revealed by the filing of his suit last summer, would be brought out. Interest in the case was intensified from the first by the strange and trag ic death of Andrew II. Green, one of the city's most prominent men, who was shot to death almost at the door of the Elias woman's home on Central Park west a few months before the Piatt suit was filed. Green's murderer, a negro who was captured and later sent to an insane asylum, said he had shot Mr. Green because he was jealous of the latter's attentions to Mrs. Elias. With the filing of the Piatt suit the contention of Mr. Green's friends that he was the Victim of mistaken identity when the The Underwood It makes no difference what Type writer you may use or have U9ed the machine you will eventually buy ia the UNDERWOOD Award *d Gr ind Prise over all competitors World's Fair 1904. UNDERWOOD TYPIWBITEB COMPANY 330 W. Superior St. Dnluth, Minn. B. J. COOK. Manager. New building. Modern in every par ticular. 210-212 West Sunerior St. TURKISH BATHS. A Turkish Bath will positively] euro rheumatism, kidney trouble] and cold. Gentlemen's parlor, 3101 West Superior street, or 316 West Michigan street ladies' parlor, 415] West Michigan street. Open day] and night. Both 'phones. M. Z. KASHMIR Proprietor. EVery Day fn ere linen the Deanand for "Commander flour" EVERT PACKAGE GUARANTEED. Manufactured by GREGORY COOK & CO. Goroma,n4«r.. Mills, Duluth. Minn. HANNA ELIAS. Dusky Defendant In Sensational Suit In Gotham. Suit of John R. Piatt, Who Says Hannah Elias Wheedled Him Out of Nearly Three Quarters of a Million, Comes to Trial in New York. f&h.VkifM** fatal attack was made, was practical ly proven. There was a remarkable similiarity in personal appearance be tween Andrew H. Green and John B. Piatt and Mr. Piatt himself has said that he believes the insane negro in tended to kill him and mistook Mr. Green for him. Mrs. Elias maintains that the vast sum named in Piatt's suit was given to her voluntarily by Piatt—that he literally threw money at her She has told of One instance when, she says, after pressing her to take a large sum which she refused, he threw a great hand full of banknotes on the floor and she had a servant gather them up on a dust pan. On the other hand Piatt claims that the defendant resorted to every trick and device her ingenuity could com mand to extort money from him dur ing the twenty years of their acquain tance. Mr. Piatt is now 87 years old and When thp case was called today it was found that several witnesses re garded as material by the defense were not present and. on request of M!rs. Elias' counsel the case went over until tomorrow. I/O ana front to 91.000 Unredeemed Pled teen for Sale* COOK'S LOAN BANK. M. COOK. Manaser. MONEY LOANED ON WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY AND ALL GOODS OF VALUE. PURS STORED AND MONEY LOANED ON SAME. OnrMottot We loam the Most, Charge the Leant, and Keep your Pledges Lonr,eat. 400 WEST SUPERIOR STREET. Dnluth. Minn. The Billboard AMERICAS LEADING THEATRICAL WEEKLY. •BEST FORi CIRCUS and THEATRICAL ROUTES. FAIR and CONVENTION DATES. PARK3-CARNIVALSCELEBRATIONS Advance now* eoncominf things theat rical In all field*, vis: Dramatic, Vaudo* vIRe, Musical. Minstrel, Oporatie and Burl—quo. THE RECOGNIZED ORGAN OF THE THEATRICAL PROFESSION OF AMERICA, It has tho largest circulation •fed it tho beat advortisimmediufn of any a I id a Published at Cincinnati, Ohio, by THE BltLBOAWD PUB. CO. 10 CTS.newsstands EXCURSIONS! To Western Canada Dttrlnjc navf-atlon I will .have excursion* to Weatern Canada, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thurs days. and Fridays, very cheap rates will be given to actual set tlers, and 100 acres of the choic est land In the world given free to all male adults. For further information and settlers' rates, anply to J. H. M. PARKER, Canadian Immigration 'Agent, 213 Providence Bldg., Duluth. Zenith 'Phone 1392. S. Levinjs XXX Columbian 1492 rye Is known by many of Duluth's best eitlfcens to be high In quality, and the vehy beat for family use. Try It Sold at SOI West Suserlor street. CHURCHMEN LISTEN TO REMUIEIDRESS Some Painfully Practical Questions Asked as to the Here and Now. Does the Church Look on Un moved While Great Social Chasm Widens. Many Duluth union men will remem ber Mr. L. Q. Rogers of A. R. U. days. Since the great strike he has devoted most of his time to newspaper work, but occasionally he gets an oppor tunity to express his views on the ros trum. Recently he was Invited to ad dress a convention of churchman on the subject: "What has the Church done for Labor?" He said: "I have no quarrel with the church about its theology. We shall not carry this dis cussion beyond the clouds. Let us keep close to the earth to-night. I do not want to find out whether or not the rich man will embrace the poor in paradise, but whether he will give him justice here. Labor is less an xious to earn how to lay up treasures in heaven than to know how to get bread here. So in this discussion we will be painfully practical. "Whether the miracles are fact or fiction, whether Jonah was a reality or mith, has nothing to do with the feed ing of the hungry. And so in the be ginning I lay down this proposition: whatever may be the knowledge of the church about the future—whatever may be its power to help humanity in the world to come—it can only add to its usefulness by doing something to help it in this. "We are a nation of classes. The lines of social caste are drawn with heartless cruelty. That class known as "the laboring people" is struggling for equality, is asking for simple justice And what, your committee asks, does it want? It wants an honest share of what it creates. It wants such condi tions as shall permit a fair distribution of what is produced. It wants to abol ish conditions as enforce idleness. It wants free access to the sources of nature. It wants a return to the prim itive rights of man. It wants to abol ish the monopolistic privileges that stand between it and prosperity. It wants a reconstruction of our land sys tem, which is a relic of the barbarous past, which is founded upon the bloody conquest of royal robbers, which grew out of the ability to trample upon the weak, and which to-day guarantees a continuation ..of that .infamous princi ple. It wants the useless fortunes of the few replaced by the prosperity of the many.. It wants cottages instead of palaces, homes instead of huts. It wants the abolishment of our wretched inequalities. It wants an equal chance. It wants a shelter besides the skies. It wants something to eat besides crusts it wants something to wear besides rags. The struggle is between the cap italists and the laborer, between wealth and poverty. Where on this question does the church stand? I don't speak of the ideal church, but of the church as it is. Christ denounced the wrong when he found it. He did practical work for this world. He built no ca thedrals, made no artificial display. He made the church imposing only by its moral grandeur. He preached.from, the pulpit of the hills, beneath the blue of heaven's dome. He was never ac cused of sympathizing with wealth and power, but was hated because He told the truth about the hypocrits of His time. Ie he lived to-day there is no reason to suppose that he would not hold-the same position, preach from-the corners, denounce the wealth-worship ing classes or our times, and draw upon himself the cold dislike of the church established in His name. "The church to-day gives no evidence of a genuine sympathy with the labor movement, which is only another phase for the cause of the common people against the oppression of accu mulated-wealth. I know that many of its members are filled with compassion for the poor, that hospitals are built, that alms are given, that charity funds are raised, and that occasionally a special effort is made to relieve die tress. And what does it all amount to? Simply pouring a little balm on the surface, whole the cancer eats at the heart. You might as well try to cure the small pox by the application of court plaster. After centuries and cen turies the rich are richer and the poor are poorer, and misery Is keener than ever before. "What we want is not the relief of paupers, but the condition that pre vents their manufacture. What. ,now, is the church doing to secure such conditions? Where is the pulpits with preachers like Christ denouncing the oppressors of the masses? Wbtm art the preachers declaring to their wealthy pew holder* that it is easier for the camel to pass through the 'needle's eye* than for the rich to en ter the kingdom of heaven? "Where are the ministers who are denouncing the progress by which the Carnegies and Rockefellers absorb from the common product countless millions and leave the aching void of property? The complaint of labor is. that the spirit of a Christ is absent froiri the modern church. It looks quitely upon the wretchedness of the people and makes no sympathetic attempt to reach the real cause. If ever there was a time when a real crusade was needed It is now. No holy sepulcher has fallen it into the hands of infidels, hut the privileged classes have robbed the common people of their liberties and are rioting in luxury while their vic tims. starve. But the church as a church, •will make no war on the preditory rich, because it is a believer in the system from which labor suffers. What do you expect labor to think of the church, when in addition to Its utter failure to do something for the amelioration of the condition of the toilers, it is be coming one of the institutions of wealth, exclusiyeriess and aristocracy? Christ did not raise the harrier of wealth between himself and the people.. The imposing -temples with which you enclose your religion are a*: sternly prohibitory as Iron bars. "I don't forget that the churjck brakes a'pretfenSe of trying? to-jreacfi t&a lowly and ,of Pf^tfc^wofk top thl$ world., #tt cqpd%ta $rtgtii| charities cald^lfU^I t» Jre^ve tg a'sllghtdegre? Ith^ .rjaisfiry which: everywhere abounds, and justice" compells me to say that it comes just about as near being rational remedy for poverty as sym patby is for the tootiiiphe. With all the organized chariti?s,we are-surrounded by poverty, wretchedness and rags Nobody is hungry because there is famine/ but: because the greedy have more than a plenty. Part of the people are rietgged" because others have a sur plus. Men are not-homeless because they are lazy, but because others have legally stolen the fruits of their labor. The streets are filled with mendicants, the highways swarm with tramps. The wealth created by labor has, by cunning laws, been drawn to the priv ileged class. The labor which should have been expended upon cottages has been used to erect palkces and temples. The rich are feaatlng—the poor fast ing—laughter mingled with groans. "A plutocracy, powerful, arrogant and heartless is deliberately reducing the people to serfdom. This is the con dition of labor, and from its 10,000 palaces the church looks on unmoved Let us be candid. What has the church done for labor? By what act have our interests been advanced? Has it ever increased wages by one penny? Secured one jot of lavorable legislation, or taken one single step towards changing our industrial system? If it has to its credit one single distinct act, as a church that materially improved the conditions of labor, I invite you to name it. If the church would really enlist in the cause of labor, if it would lend a hand in the great reform move ment, it must be by a return to the simple creed of Christ. It must earnest ly seek to solve the greatest problem of our day—the honest distribution of the wealth labor creates—and it must be broad and sincere enough to follow the example of its founder and forget the self-interest involved in the ques tion. FALL RIVER MILL OWNERS WILL NOT COMPROMISE STRIKE The mill owners at Pall River, Mass., having turned down the unionists' proposition to compromise the great textile workers* strike, the latter re solved to stay out indefinitely. We have here a splendid illustration of the absolute planlessness and criminal status of frenzied capitalism. The Mas sachusetts mill owners complain that cotton is so high that they are com pelled to cut the wages of their 25,000 employes below the pauper level, while down in the Southern States the cotton growers declare they will burn 2,000, 000 bales to keep up prices and that prices are so low now that bankrupcy stares them in the face. Thousands of bales have already been burned. And thousands of poor are shivering be cause they have not sufficient clothing! Did you ever hear anything so infer nally idiotic? CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AFTER NEW ENGLANDER8 The Canadian government has ap pointed Thomas Hetherington, former ly a member of the New Brunswick Legislature, immigration agent, and has authorized him to open an office in Boston. It is proposed to carry on a campaign in- New England agricul tural districts to induce* tarmers to" lo cate in the Canadian. Northewest. A special effort will be.made, by the gov ernment to get former Canadians re siding in New England to settle in the new region or else return to the East ern provinces. On the other hand, the Canadian unions and., labor papers are warning working people that they will encounter great hardships if they emi grate to Canada. ONE COLORADO MINE SUES WESTERN MINERS The total amount of damages the Victor Fuel Co., of Colorado, wants as damages from the miners amounts to $576,000. In the bills filed in court the company declares it was put to the ex pense of $75,000 to hire guards (Pink erton and thugs) and $19,000 as rail way fare to import. strike-breakers. These little items the company asks that the miners be made to pay. The case is being watched with great in terest by the lawyers of Colorado, and if i$ goea against -the workers any number of similar actions will be brought against the Western Federa tion of Miners and other bodies. FRENZIED FINANCE BREAKS FORTY IOWA BANKS A dispatch from Sioux city, Iowa, says: According to a report of the state bank commissioners, the* methods, of the beef trust in causing a deprecia tion in the value of beef have been responsible for forty bank failures and eight suicides in this state during the past year. TO this startling statement to aided an official qattnut* of the Hwnty jfwa ocaaalqped by the trust's operation* and the 'Yrenajed finance" tblat has b*en prevalent. This the commissioner places at $12,000,000, an average of $1,000,000 a month. PAY YOUR DUES CHEERFULLY. One of the greatest hindrances in the progress of local unions Is the beggard ly Income that Is: dragged out of the members of local unions affliated with other international unions. If the members could see the oppor tunities that are lost to themselves, for the lack of funds in the hands qt their international unions, they would .not be so niggardly In the amount that they are willing to pay in as dues. The majority of the members of trade unions seem to think that the Inter national unions can gIVe benefits and other returns to' theirs members .. thaf would put the Standard Oil compay's benefits in the shade, from thebeg gardly payments they" inake. It Is not possible to got milk out yf a bucket If some has not first beten put in, This principle applies to the trade unions in its benefits returnable to its mem bers they roust put •omethlng-lnto the BUYYOURfiROCEMES At Wholesale and Save Money. for "apooialr* prieo list-to Writ* Dalrih WMasala SapplyGt BHPMBat'ti Yqfi "Union Label" "Overcoats" treasury before they can draw anything out. Many local unions expect their inter national unions to be on the alert at all times when there is trouble, and meet the expenses immediately, never thinking that it is they themselves who have not made preparations for themselves when they needed it by putting into the international union sufficient amount in dues to enable to get the desired assistance when It is needed. it In all probability they have been advised to make preparations in time of peace for trouble that will surely come, but the. warning was unheeded, and when the storm breaks they find themselves not prepared. Call is then vainly made upon the, international union, but the international union is helpless, and the officers have the un pleasant duty of informing the mem bers that their hans are tied and they cannot help them. This is one of the most unpleasant duties that befalls the lot of the international officers, as they feel for the members in trouble, and would help them if they could, but they cannot. The task is made doubly hard for them shortly after when the members find their cause a losing one. The first thought is to blame their international officers and arraign them before their locals, charging them with all sorts of things and in terms that would not look well on paper. The international union then comes In for its share. "It is no good," and hundreds of other nasty things are said about It. This is all said and done, of course, in the, heat of argument, and under perhaps great pressure, but it is not very pleasant for those who are blamed when they are blameless, and would have it different If their "prayers were listened to. The Independence of the union de pends upon the income it has, and can not bring independence to its members If it is not given the tools with which to gain It.—Labor Leader. ISN'T IT SO— That a trades union is the only or ganisation that represents nothing but the mechanics and laborers? That it is the only organization that pays benefits to its members when out of work? That it is the only organization that persistenly and continually fights for tho employment of tho father and tho non-employment of the child? That It Is the only organization that the working people can apply to with any right to demand protection against unscrupulous competing sweat-shop employers and speculating contractors? That it is the only organization that employes an agent to devote his entire time to finding employment for the un employed and to adjust differences be tween workman and employer? That it is the only organization that does not demand the passing of a physical examination to entitle Its sick or disabled to disability benefits, and its dead from a burial or death benefit? That it is the only organization that furnishes a publication with free col umns to its members, through which the different callings and classes throughout the country may exchange ideas and ventilate abuses or advocate changes necessary for their advance ment, pomfort and prosperity? That It is the only organisation that prohibits its members from supplanting other working men and women at lower wages or any kind of inferior condi tions? If you "have never given this thought, it Is time to do it now, whether you are a union man, a non-union man. a Scab or an employer.—U W.. Tildon. Try 8- I. Levln'a XXX Columbian 149$ rye. It is the very beat that can be had for family and medicinal pur* poOesi At the old stand* S01 Wefet Su perior street. Subsoribe.for.the Lfcbot- World. .|1.00. Have Been Waiting For On account of the backwardness of the Season we find our selves over stocked. Hence this great Reduction Sale $30.00 Overcoats now $24.00 $25.00 Overcoats now $20*00 $20.00 Overcoats now $16.00 $15-00 Overcoats now $12.00 $10.00 Overcoats now $8.00 $8.00 Overcoats now $6.40 We must unload, don't delay This is YOUR opportunity fcS? DO nonom» FAYT From Boston Herald: Small wonder that Attorney-General Moody, with a salary of $8,000, enlarges on the inequalities of the fee system, 'n- -1 l, JOB. IBLLWOob, THE CLOTHIER 219 West Sup. St. LATEST PICTURE OF ROCKEFELLER. John D. Rockefeller is the head of the great Standard Oil company. It is against the crowd offlnanciera, who are' the outgrowth of this great or ganization, that the'attacks of Thomas W, Lawson are aimed. 80 far Rocke feller is about the only man In the crowd who has escaped a flaying.. It is said that the exposure of Rogers' methods has so angered Rockefeller that a break between them is Imminent. when om of his OF DULUTH. CAPITAL sifeift&tri DIRECTORS: §£l P.! ,•••!••. .'v:.. A, H. COMSTOCK... .Vice*President Marshall-Welfo Hardware Co. JOHN PAJVTOIV... .... PreiMeat Pwatom Wklic Co. CAPT. ALEXANDER McDOVOALL .. .Inventor nn« Oa»ttallot JOHN F, KILLORIN ....... .General Muam Swan Rim Loggtaf Co. A. M. CHUSHOLM..... ^......... .w.I*sii DR, CHAS. A. MBWAKTw.... PfcynieUa nl lniwa mi:S. .?vy v£.s.. .or-fWi^ AwMoifai BflCHABL H.- Kismnr President Kellex-Hovr-TlMNMea Co. A. R. MACVARLAJnBp W. PRIHCK. OFFICERS: subordinates. United Statea District Attorney Burnett, of the southern district of' New York, draws an average of $61,000 a year in a Salary and legitimate fees. .«BOO,OM .. XMHW •A** A. R. MACfKRU^ HoPrlalitmi. Mqnil 5 ... tfcuihier.