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VOL. XXV.—NO. 287. REVOLVER A DEADLY ONE Ed Strieker Kills His Wife, Son and Himself at Tracy, Minn. FOURTH PERSON IS SHOT Woman, Child and Murderer All Die Instantly, After Being Shot. 6TRICKER AND WIFE WERE LIVING APART He Took Their Boy Away From Its Mother, All the Result of Matrimonial Difficulties—Shoots at His Father in-Law and Hits Proprietor of Store Where Tragedy Occurs. Special to The Globe. TRACY, Minn., Oct. 13.—A horrible tragedy, as a result of which three persons are dead and another injured, occurred here this afternoon. Ed Strieker, a former resident of this place, is the murderer. Strieker was married some years ago to Miss May Harvey, of this place. Matrimo nial troubles ensued, and some two years ago Strieker and his wife sepa rated. One child was left with the mother. A few months ago Strieker took the child from the mother. Last week he returned here with the boy and has since been in town. This afternoon he followed his wife Into the furniture store of Frank Mc- Callister, and pulling a revolver from his pocket, shot and killed his wife and little boy. He then fired another shot, presumably at his father-in-law, L. Parvey, who is an employe of McCal lister, but missed his aim and the bul let struck McCallister, entering his face and tearing- out one jaw. Strieker then turned the revolver on himself and ended his own life. Strieker's wife and child were killed instantly, as was the murderer himself. McCallister is in a critical condition, but hoiies are entertained for his re covery. The whole affair occurred be fore any officer or other person could Interfere. Harvey and McCallister were in the upper story of the storo When the first shot was fired and rush ed down to locate the trouble. McCal lister was removed to his home here and is in charge of three physicians. BECAUSE THE GIRL JILTED HIM. South Dakota Man Kills Young Wom an and Himself. TYNDALL,, S. D., Oct. 13. —John Mo marek shot Anna Vaehten today and then committed suicide. It is said he shot the girl because she had jilted him. ' WORSTING OF CASTRO GOES BRAVELY ON Big Battle Begins Near La Victoria, Over Ten Thousand Men Being Engaged. WILLEMSTAD, Curacoa, Oct. 13.— The troops of the Venezuelan govern ment have been repulsed while at tempting to again occupy Coro, cap ital of the state of Falcon, and sus tained heavy losses. A schooner with sixty men on board was sunk. An engagement was fought at Goy abo, three hours from Caracas', Satur day. The government force was de feated, losing 112 men. The revolu tionists have almost completely encir cled Caracas. An important engagement began this morning near La Victoria be tween the forces commanded by Presi dent Castro, numbering 4,100 men, with fifteen guns, and the revolutionary forces commanded by Gens. Matos, endoza, Peraliza and Riera, about 6,000 men, with twenty-two guns. At Val encia, two hours' march from La Vic toria, the sound of fierce cannonading * can be heard. Vice President Vicente •> Gomez left Caracas today by a special train with 800 men and a large amount of ammunition to reinforce President Castro. Shockingly Unpatriotic. BERLIN, Oct. 13. —The automobile which Prince Henry of Prussia is using is an American machine which he pick ed out at the motor exhibition at Ham burg in competition with French and German models. The German makers are therefore much annoyed, and their trado journal intimates that the prince ought to think more of his own coun try. I I The H-0 {%££] Company's _fd^jffBßfc»»^ >-""">\ I JT^j~ieWK. y f a .^fek. a .^^ # I f DAY'S NEWS SUMMARIZED Weather for St. Paul and vicinity: Fair and warmer; fair Wednesday. DOMESTIC— J. Pierpont Morgan holds a 'cenference with President Roosevelt, as a result of which the coal operators propose that a commission be appointed by the president to settle the strike. Ed Strieker kills his wife, son and him self at Tracy. Tyndall (S. D.) man kills a woman who had jilted him. Then he commits suicide. Crew of a Philippine steamer attempts to kill the officers and male passengers and rob the steamer, but is defeated by constabulary. Ottumwa (Iowa), man commits suicide after trying to kill his family. Prison ship Jersey, in which Americans were held prisoners at the time of the Revolution, is found at the Brooklyn navy yard, having been buried over a century. Fatal political riots occur in Porto Rico. Federal troops prevent a serious con flict over the governorship in the Choc taw Nation. Chicago man is shot for criticising a young woman's singing and will never again be able to open his mouth. Rich deposits of peat arc found around La Crosse. FOREIGN— An Hungarian aeronaut and his assist ant are killed by the fall of a balloon in France. Venezuelan government troops are get ting whipped right along. Boer generals visit Paris and are noisily welcomed. Macedonian insurgents are generally victorious. WASHINGTON— Gen. James F. Smith, of California, is appointed a member of the Philippine commission. Sir Michael Herbert, the new British ambassador, is presented to President Roosevelt. BUSINESS— Grains open strong and close firm, in spite of a decline meantime. Stocks break heavily early in the ses sion, but recover almost completely before the close. RAILROADS— Management of the St. Paul road se cures permanent independence of the fuel monopoly by buying Illinois coal lands. LOCAL— Grand jury submits its first report and returns indictments against seven men now in the county jail. Ordinance granting Imperial Manufac turing company a lighting and heating franchise is referred to assembly without recommendation. Bankrupt North American Savings, Loan and Building association may yield creditors a dividend of 40 cents on the dollar. W. F. McCarthy, defeated for the Dem ocratic nomination for superintendent of schools in Scott county, appeals to su preme court for an order requiring coun ty auditor to place his name on ballot as an Independent candidate. ' City's poor cannot depend upon the lo cal Associated Charities to supply them with coal this winter. Board of pardons receives an applica tion for pardon from Frank H. Hamilton, the Minneapolis newspaper man convicted of manslaughter In the first degree for the killing of Leonard Day. Assembly committee on streets recom mends the repeal of smoke nuisance ordi nance on account of the scarcity of hard coal. John B. Campion, an iron molder resid ing at 3G4 Rosabel street, is run down by a Great Northern train and instantly killed. St. Paul bootblacks will meet in a championship contest for valuable prizes, with a cake walk to follow, about Nov. 1. John E. Stryker will be the Democratic nominee for the legislature from the Sev enth ward in opposition to Ambrose Tighe. POLITICAL— Mr. Rosing addresses large Democi'atic meetings at Renville and Sacred Heart. Both Wisconsin senators make cam paign speeches—Spooner at Milwaukee and Quarles at Superior. SPORTING— Joe Gans knocks out JVlcPartland in the fifth round. Commercial Bowling league teams start second week of play. MINNEAPOLIS— "Billy" Edwards, the notorious "big mit" man in Minneapolis, testifies to the efficiency of St. Paul's police force. Body of unidentified man, supposed to have been murdered, discovered in Pros pect Park. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS. Port. Arrived. Sailed. Bremen Bremen Cassell. Brisbane Aoringl Mio wera. New York.... Minnetonka. Havre Pentaur. New York.... Kroonland. Plymouth Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Havre La Gascogne. Hamburg Patricia. Southampton. Finland. Was In "The Wild Charge They Made." SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Oct. 13.— James L. MacLaren, a veteran of the Crimea, died in this city today, aged sixty two years. MacLaren entered the Brit ish army service at the age of twelve as a bugler and lost a leg in the "famon; charge of the Light brigade at Balaklava. He had lived in Utah since 1869 and in troduced the first linotype machine in this state. Miners' Strike Coming in Belgium. MONS, Belgium, S»t. 13.—1t is said that the Mine Owners' Federation has refused the demands to increase wages and that a general strike is expected to be de clared Thursday. Cabinet Resigns. BELGRADE. Oct. 13.—The Servian cab inet has resigned. TUESDAY MORNING*, OCTOBER 14, 1902.—TEN PAGES. ROSING AT HIS BEST DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR SPEAKS AT REN VILLE AND SACRED HEART REFERS TO BROKEN REPUBLICAN PROMISES Republicans of the West Are Fastened to the Tail of An Eastern Kite Built On Tariff-Protection Ribs—One of the Most Enthusiastic Receptions Ever Given a State Candidate in Renville County. Pram a Staff Correspondent. SACRED HEART, Minn., Oct. 13.— Renville county farmers left their work and drove fifteen miles in the cold to day to hear Leonard A. Rosing discusa the issues of the campaign at Renville and Sacred Heart. The mass meeting ''II |||/ Nil j/| jf^n"i"^v/v^ «F^= It -^aht^l^^*^ -';■;- :.-,'•; ::.-xr;■;,./. s •-. .■ ■ ZX ■•;.' .• ■■■-••■ \ . . ' at Sacred Heart tonight was one of the most enthusiastic receptions ever given a state candidate in the conserv ative west end of Renville county. The town hall was crowded to the doors a half hour before Mr. Rosing was introduced and standing room was at a premium long before the stage lfirty arrived. The meeting, like that at Ren ville, was markedly an assemblage of farmers and the reception they gave the leader of Democracy augurs well for a big decline in the time-honored Republican majorities. Mr. Rosing reached Sacred Heart at 6:30. A special coach for his party was sent to Renville, which included an escort of twenty-five Democrats and the Olivia Juvenile band. The parade formed at the station and was dismiss ed at the public square. It was so cold that only a small crowd was expected, but when the local leaders in charge of the meeting arrived at the hall they found it more than half filled with farmers from over a wide area, some of them driving fifteen miles to hear the arguments advanced by the Democrat ic standard bearer and hisx remedies for the evils of the government per petrated by the present administration. E. Li. Winje, Sacred Heart candidate for the state senate, presided, and the platform party included J. M. Freeman, candidate for county attorney; W. E. Webster, for clerk of courts; D. J. Dacy, for judge ef probate; H. A. But ler and Albert Bratsch, for representa tives; W. B. Braundt, for sheriff; C. F. Neitzel, for register of deeds, and M. E. Sheiran, for county commissioner. One of Rosing's Best. Mr. Ros ing's speech was one of the best he has made in his campaign. He was at his best and was confronted by an audience not only interested, but enthusiastic. He pointed out how the great political parties have changed their policies, and called his audience to scan the policies through which the Republican party has deserted its original ground and fastened the Re publicans of the West to the tail of a"h Eastern kite built on tariff-protected ribs. He insisted that the proposed commission for the adjustment of the tariff evils is impracticable and would only result in involving the country Continued on Seventh Page. COAL LANDS BOUGHT BY THE ST, PAUL ROAD Will Mine All Its Own Coal and Be Forever Independent of the Fuel Monopoly. Special to The Globe. CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—The manage ment of the St. Paul railroad has just completed the purchase of 25,000 acres of rich coal lands in Illinois at the ex pense of nearly $2,000,000, and is still holding options on several thousand acres more. _The purpose of the management is to provide the St. Paul system with fuel for all time to come and make It in dependent of the coal monopoly. The coal lands, which have been acquired quietly, are located in Putnam, La Salle, Bureau and Hennepin counties, west and southwest of the city of La Salle. They are in what is known as the La Salle coal district, which contains the finest grade of Illinois coal. Negotiations for the property were carried on for the St. Paul com i pany by Banker Hopkins, of Bureau, PROMISE AND FULFILLMENT. and his operations were so successful that no inkling was obtained by In terested parties regarding the magni tude of the deals no^ the identity of the purchaser. In many instances the St. Paul com pany has purchased the land outright, while in others it has purchased the mining rights, and it is understood that within one year the company will be mining every ton of coal used on the entire system. In this connection it was learned today that "the Rochelle & Southern road, which was incorporated last week at Springfield with a capital stock of $100,000, is a St. Paul concern organized with a view to connecting the lines of the St. Paul with the new coal land purchase. The construction of this road will extend from a connection with the St. Paul at Davis Junction, in Ogle county to McNabb, sixty-five miles almost straight south in Putnam county. The coal problem is regarded as very important by Western railroad men, as is indicated by the recent purchase of ten thousand acres of Illinois coal land by the Burlington for the benefit of that system, the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific. NO DANGER OF CHOLERA BEING BROUGHT HERE Period of Incubation of the Disease Has Long Since Passed. WASHINGTON. D, C, Oct. 13.—The army medical officers say there is little danger of the bringing of cholera to this country by the army transports from Manila. The Sherman, which arrived at San Francisco last Thursday, reported that she had seven cases of cholera since leaving Manila. This fact gave rise to an apprehension that the disease might still have been active aboardship Ti>*n the Sherman arrived at San Francisco, but Surgeon Gen. O'Reilly, after carefully looking over the dates, stated that the last case had occurred twenty-one days before the transport arrived at San Fran cisco. As the period of incubation of cholera is only five days, the disease must have died out long before the ship arrived in quarantine. GOV. ODELL SPEAKS ON LABOR AND CAPITAL Says the Government Should Suppress Violations of Law of What ever Shape. NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Gov. Odell tonight opened the state Republican campaign in Brooklyn by making a number of speeches. In the early even ing he attended a dinner given in his honor by the Union League Club of Brooklyn, at which Senator Depew was one of the speakers. The gov ernor was then driven to the Academy of Music, where he opened the Hebrew fair. After this Gov. Odell was taken to the rooms of the Brooklyn Young Men's Republican club, and thence to the Claremont Rink, where he made the principal address of the night. Among other things, he said: "The combinations of .capital which have marked the commercial progress of our country have been accompanied by combinations of labor; so long as both pursue their business within the limits of constitutional and statutory law they are entitled to the protection of the state and the strong arm of the government. Violations, whether they be through the artificial enhancement of prices; whether they be in the di rection of curtailment of production; whether they be by the interference with the rights of individual working men, or whatever form such lawless ness may take, should he promptly met and suppressed by the power vested In the executive branches of government. "The rights of the people are para mount. Whenever conflicts of capital and labor threaten not only the pros perity, but also the physical comfort and welfare of the people, it then be comes the duty of those who repre sent the commonwealth, which has given to the one a charter right for existence, and to both labor and capi tal its guarantee of protection, to step in and endeavor to adjust such differ ences." SHOT FOR CRITICISING A GIRL'S SINGING As a Result This Chicago Man Will Never Again Be Able to Open His Mouth. Special to The Globe. CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—With a bullet in his neck and unable to open his mouth more than half an inch, "Walter Smith, a baker, appeared in the Maxwell street police court today to prosecute Max Albrecht, sixteen years old. Smith was shot by Albrecht, Sept. 15. A bullet entered his right cheek, knocked out two teeth and lodged in the neck. The doctors at the county hospital have been unable to remove the ball because of Smith's inability to open his mouth. He is only twenty five years old, and his unfortunate con dition will remain through life, it is said. The quarrel which resulted in the shooting was caused by Smith's criti cism of the singing of a young woman. . Disclaims Jurisdiction. WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 13.—1n the case of mandamus to compel the secretary of state to place both the Democratic and Populist tickets upon the ballot, Judge Dale, before whom the case was heard today, decided that he had no jurisdiction. Sense, shortness and salt. PPTf 1? T\XTl\ fHI VT*sl__!**» Trains, PRICK Iff CEXT9—{ £?*£"&&■. GRFAT GOAL STRIKE IS APPARENTLY NEAR END Operators Propose a Commission of Five to Be Appointed by the Pres ident to Arrange Terms THEY AGREE TO ABIDE BY THE DECISION J. Pierpont Morgan Goes to Washington and Holds a Conference With President Roose velt, and This Is the Result —Practical Sur render to the Miners' Union—Operators Issue a Statement in Which They Ac knowledge That the Public Has Some Rights—Belief That the Miners Will Ac cept the Proposition. WASHINGTON, D. C.Oct. 13.—The operators have agreed to the appointment of a commission to be appointed by the president of the United States to whom shall be referred all questions at issue between the companies and their employes, whether they belong to a union or not, and the decision of the commission shall be accepted by the operators. The commission is to consist of an army or navy engineer officer, an expert mining engineer not con nected with the coal mining properties, one of the judges of the United States courts of the Eastern dis trict of Pennsylvania, a man of prominence, eminent as a sociologist, and a man who by active participation in mining and selling coal is familiar with the physical and commercial features of the business. The operators also make a part of their proposi tion that the miners shall return to work as soon as the commission is constituted and cease all inter ference with non-union men. The commission to name a date when its findings shall be effective and to govern conditions of employment between the com panies and their own employes for at least three years. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 13.—8y authority of J. Pierpont Morgan, who, with his partner, Robert Bacon, and Secretary Root, was In conference with President Roosevelt at the tem porary White house tonight for an hour and a half, a statement was given out by Secretary Cortelyou, In which the presidents of the coal-carrying railroads and mine .operators propose a commission of five persons to adjust the differences and settle the coal strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. The proposition is believed by the administration to be satisfactory to the miners, as it covers the proposi tion made by President Mitchell, of the U. M. W. of A., with additional conditions which, it is believed, the miners will accept. Statement From the White House. The statement is as follows: J. P. Morgan came to Washington with his partner, Mr. Bacon, at the re quest of the coal companies, who de sired that as a matter of courtesy their statement should be shown to the president before it was made public. Having been laid before the president by Mr. Morgan, it is now given to the press: "To the Public: The managers of the different coal properties, comprising the anthracite coal fields, wish their position in the present strike to be understood, and therefore make the following statement of facts: "There are in the anthracite re gions about seventy-five operating companies and firms, and 147,000 miners and workmen (of which 30, --000 are under age), comprising some twenty nationalities and dia lects. Of these workmen possibly one-half belong to the United Mine Workers' union, of which John Mitchell is president. That organ ization was originally formed in the bituminous coal region, and three fourths of its members are miners Light Biscuit light Pastry Light Cakes Light Work Light Co»t -SURE and— Quick-as-a-wink! of bituminous coal, and bituminous coal is sold in active competition with anthracite coal. The remain- Ing workmen in the anthracite fields either belong to no union whatever, or do not belong to the Mine Workers* union. When Strike Was Declared. The present strike was declared by the Mine Workers' union on May 10, 1902. Since that time many workmen not belonging to or not willing to follow that organization were working about the mines. From 7,000 to 10,000 are now at work. Many more have wished to work, but have been prevented by a course of violence and intimida tion toward those working and to ward their families, accompanied by the destruction of properties and the fear of death or bodily harm to every man who wishea to /xercise his right to work. "A schedule is annexed hereto showing some of the things done to create this reign of terror, and every Instance stated can be verified by reference to the officers of the law —civil and military—in the anthra cite region. This violence has con tinued and steadily increased, not withstanding repeated disavowals by Mr. Mitchell, and it is clear that hn either cannot or will not prevent It, and that the rights of the other workmen cannot be protected under the supremacy of the Mine Work ers' union. Says Wages Are Fair. "The coal companies believe that the wages paid in the coal regions are fair and full, and all that the business in its normal condition has been able to stand if the capital in vested Is to have any reasonable re turn. The profits have been small, several of the companies have in come bankrupt and been reorganiz ed several times. Several have nev er paid dividends, and the divi dends of the others have been a small return for the capital invested. It is not, however, the purpose of this statement to discuss this 'iues tion. "The undersigned are not and never have been unwilling to sub mit all questions between them and their workmen to any fair tribunal Continued on Third Page.