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THE SHAUGNESSY FIGHT ON THE
FUCHS-McLEAN FACTION
'Pete Shaugriessy; president of the
Bricklayers' Union, is making a des
perate effort rebuild his shattered
fences and def eat-the Fuchs-McLean
faction at the election Nov. 9.
" The brutal attack made on William
H. McLean, candidate for vice-presi-'
pent on the ne wticket, last Sunday
' only served to destroy more "of
Shaugnessy's strength.
McLean was assaulted and left un
! conscious on the floor of O'Shaug
nessy & Mulligan's saloon, under
Bricklayers' Hall. O'Shaugnessy,
.'one of the owners, is a brother of
Pete.
J Many of the anti-Hearst faction of
the bricklayers are beginning tp won
I,der why O'Shaugnessy is given $60 a
.week salary and is allowed about
$6,000 with-which to operate an au
tomobile. O'Shaugnessy. it is said.
Jls scarcely ever seen .near the union
headquarters except on meeting
" nights.
"k Simon' O'Donnell, president of , the
r Building Trades Council, 'is doing
revery thing in' his power to elect
O'Shaugnessy, who was to. have been
his assistant editor in the publication
, . of Hearst's scab special labor edition.
ATTY. KIRKLAND INDICTED
, Weymouth Kirkknd, attorney, who
'formerly represented .Max Annen
'berg, was today indicted for tobtain
f .Ing money under false pretenses from
''"the Chicago Railways. Co.
ix Thomas Lynch, investigator for
l the railways company, stated that he
1 'had got Kirkland to act as counsel
1 in several suits against the qompany
" and although tarkland' performed no
services, he, Lynch, approved theees
and they split , the money, that
" amounted to about $50,000. Kirkland
refused to make any statement.
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"I hear Miss Schreecher doesn't
smg at the prison any more." "No
r The prisoners complairied tha
wasn't included uTtheir sentences.'
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SAYS THATYUSHINSKY BOY WAS
KILLED BY ROBBERS
, Kiev, Russia, Oct-22. Krasovsky,
former chief of the secret police, who
was removed from office because of
unsatisfactory reports on the murder
of Andrew ushinsky, with which
crime eMndel Beilis is charged, in
sisted in his testimony today that all
the proof he could find led him to the
conclusion that the boy was killed
by robbers and not by Beilis.v ,
" . Vera Cheberyak continues to be
the central figure in the sensational
case, and was all but openly accused
by Margolin, the lawyer, jt killing
the Christian boy. Margolin cor
roborated the testimony of Brusfi
kovsky and denied the alleged bribery
offer of $20,000. . N
He claimed that the Cheberyak
woman was skilled in surgery. He
told of finding poison on her. He de
clared, as his parting shot, that
Vera's two children died mysterious
ly about the time they had begun to
be questioned too closely by those
investigating the Yushinsky murder.
Vera, who insists on cross exam
ining witnesses, and replies at will to
statement of -which, she does not-ap-prove,
denied every assertion Mar
golin made despite every effort of
the court to silence her.
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DENOUNCE OWENS-GLASS BILL
Congressman Robert J. Buckley of
Cleveland, O., member of the house
currency committee, declared gov
ernment control of banking absolute
ly necessary in,, an address to the Illi
nois Manufacturers' Ass'n, in voic
ing his approval of the Owens-Glass-bill.
"The banking business is a pub- -lie
necessity and.,a public utility,"
said the Ohioan. "Railroads and oth
er public utilities are not allowed,
without hindrance to do what hey
will, and the time has come when
bankers must expect to come undert
government regulation.
The Illinois manufacturers, How
ever, denounced the bflL
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