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ARGU VOL. I,V. NO. 28. THE AltGUS, SxYTURDAA', NOVEMBER 18, 1905. PRICE TWO CENTS. BETTER ELEMENT AT LAST mulct packers TELLS WEE known as silvis CONSULTING ENGINEERS SEES DANGER OF ANARCHY OF THE ARMY FAVOR SEA LEVEL CANAL Scheme of Two Men Who Claim Railway Order to Drop Name to Have Armour & Go's. Letters. "New Shops" From Offi cial Business. ROCK Hasten to Support Gov ernment's Efforts in Russia. STRIKE LEADERS WAR Latest Effort to Tie Up Indus trial Affairs Seems Doomed to Failure. St. Petersburg Nov. IS. A sudden awakening of the conservative and lib eral elements to the imperative neces sity for resisting to the utmost the at tempts of the radicals and socialists who are conducting the present strike to obtain the upper hand, has galvan ized the leaders into action and haj started a healthy movement in favor of tntire:y cutting loose from the rad ical wings. l.raderN Artlir. leaders of the various groups, in cluding the constitutional democrats, have gone to Moscow to urge the zemstvo congress to assemble all the forces which desire to prevent anarchy, to condemn political strikes and to Join in supporting the government in its efforts to restore tranquility and Introduce a new regime. Notice In (iotrrainrnt Kinpluyra. A government note was simultane ously issued prohibiting government employes from participating in organ izations actively opposing the govern ment. A break in the ranks of the strikers in the Poland and Roumania organizations in the interior, especi ally those of railroad nirn at Moscow, to strike on account of Poland, anil fierce dissensions which have broken out among the workmen's leaders at Sr. Petersburg seems to doom the strike movement to failure and tem porarily, at least, must inflict defeat on the social democrats. A FORRESTON WOMAN IS FATALLY SHOT Killed While Standing at Her Front Window Three Suspects Held. I'reciMirt, 111.. Nov. IS. Mrs. Harm Anderson, of Forrcston. 111., is dead from a built t wound received last nigh' while at a front window in her home. Karlier in the evening Louis Swank. koii of State Factory Inspector Swank, had a dispute with the woman's hus band. Today. Swank. William Bals h.mgh and K. Bokehelder were ordered held (Kiiding the coroner's inquest. PEOPLE'S LOSS $96,000,000? Witness Says Figure Is the Extra Cost of Drugs Due to Combine. Philadelphia. Nov. 18. Increased prices for drugs, due to the organiza tion of the National Association of Wholesale Druggists, have cost the public $3,(MMi.0tM in the last six years if the charge made by C. G. A. lxxler, a cut-rate druggist, who is suing the national associations of wholesale and retail druggists and the Philadelphia Association of Retail Druggists for JH'O.i'OO damages for alleged conspira cy to ruin his business. CONFERENCE INCORPORATES Desires Ability to Buy and Sell Real Estate. That the Central Illinois Methodist Kpi.-eopal conference may buy and sell teal estate, articles of Incorjioration were sought from the secretary of Mute, and josterday the necessary pa pers were received. Those applying for the incorporation palters are Messrs. Thomas Doney.. J. W. Frizzille. i O. McCulIoch. Reuben H. Williams. D S. McKown. Aimer M. Stockin. Joe Hell and M. V. Crumba baker. These are directors also, the additional director being F. G. Barnes. TORPEDO BOAT IN COLLISION AT KIEL Sinks and Thirty-Three Men Are Miss ing After Striking a Small Cruiser. Kiel. Nov. 1. Torpedo bout "S 120" collided last nigh' near Buelk with the small cruiser, the Undine. The tor- jdo boat ank and one officer and 3 ieanien are missing. PENROSE IN ROLE OF REAL REFORMER Erstwhile Pennsylvania Boss Has Hunch People Are Anxious For a Change. New Orleans. Nov. IS. "The pro posal to clothe the interstate com merce commission with power to fix a railroad rate whenever it finds the ex isting rate to be unjust is dangerous and revolutionary," declared Prof. Hugo R. Meyer of the University of Chicago in a speech last night before the New Orleans board of trade. Prof. Meyer continued: "The proposal is dangerous because the commission would use the power in such a way as to precipitate great conflicts between sectional interests and class interests. It is revolutionary because the commission would use that power for the purpose of curtailing that freedom to trade over and throughout the entire territory of the United States that it was the purpose of our forefathers to establish and guarantee when they established the United States. It is revolutionary moreover, because it would make the interstate commerce commission a lit tle deputy congress, clothed with pow er to make and unmake the policy of our nation in matters of the utmost im portance as well as in matters of the utmost conflict of sectional interests and class interests." Prof. Meyer referred to decisions of the commission to prove its inability to fix rates equitably. TELLS WHY RATE CONTROL WON'T DO University of Chicago Professor in Speech Asserts It Would Be Revolutionary. Philadelphia. Nov. IS. Senator Pen rose is now an advocate of reform. "In my opinion." said he in an interview, "every reform measure recommended by the governor in his call for the spe cial session will be enacted by the leg islature. The republican Mate organ ization will lend its aid to this end, anil will most likely introduce bills cover ing all the subjects enumerated by Gov. Pennypacker in his call. The peo ple demand these reforms and they should get them." TEXAS PAPERS PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO THE PAR1Y Rock Islanders On Land Buying Trip Well Written Up Mudge In terviewed. The Texas press is devoting consid erable attention to the Rock Island gentlemen who went to that state last week for the purpose of iu vesting in land. A Houston dispatch to the Gal veston News says: "Messrs. W. S. Parks. I. H. Ruffuin. L. D. Mudge. A. Barker. J. S. Mudge, I). Montgomery and Capt. Dack, com posing a party of intelligent tourists from Rock Island, III., are here. Be fore returning to Illinois they will visit and investigate the resources of the- Texas coast country and will prob ably visit the counties of Wharton Matagorda. Jackson. Victoria and Cal houn, which cover a belt of territory which, in soil, climate and natural tin developed resources, can scarcely bo equaled in Texas or any other state." L. D. Mudge. in an interview, is made to say that Galveston is the coming city of the southwest, but as far as is known he has not yet been sounded on the baseball situation down that way. From the prominence which his state ments are given it is easy to see that he is looked niton as tl main squeeze of the party. GOOD BERTH FOR A GOVERNOR Montague of Virginia to Go With Rockefeller at Expiration of Term. Richmond. Va .. Nov. IS It has beep announced by those close to Gov. Mon tasue that h will upon the expiration of his term of office, become counsel In New Yoik for some of the great cor porations in which John D. Rockefeller has large interests. Several weeks ago the governor made a trip to New York, at which time he spent a week with Mr. Rockefeller at his home. DEFERRED WEDDING 24 YEARS Woman Sues Wealthy Iowa Farmer for Breach or Promise. Ottumwa. Iowa. Nov. IS. Miss Ly dia Albricht of Sun Francisco 46 vears old. has brought suit against George t titeever a loaiihv jerreron roun v . (aimer, for I75.no for breach of prom ise. She claims that the defendant I. 1.. . . r. . . , ( prunu&ta id marry Dtr -1 jinin s and that he several times has renewed his pronie. Steever is 60 years old, . MADE DEMAND FOR $40,000 Threatened to Turn Correspondence Over to Be Used in Beef Trust Prosecution. Chicago. Nov. IS. Forty thousand do'.lars was the price fixed upon a num ber of letters stolen from the corre sjtonden of Armour & Co. by a for mer employe of the big packing firm, with the threat that unless the money was paid the letters would be turned over to the government as evidence to be used in the prosecution of the so called beef trust. J. Ogden Armour, upon whom was made the first attempt to levy blackmail, refused to consider the proposition. The affair came out when it became known that two men were prisoners iu the county jail, charged with conspiracy and extortion by threats. l'irnt On l'uittt. The fiasco in the scheme to collect $40,(mm came Thursday night, when At torney Moritz Rosenthal, representing Mr. Armour, received William S. Mc Swain, 428 Oakley boulevard, in his apartments at the Auditorium Annex, and turned him over to Inspector Lav in. of the Harrison street police dis trict, after McSwain had demanded $10,uii0 as a first installment of the blackmail. A few minutes later Wilbur Cole, a brother-in-law of McSwain, walked in to the same trap, and both men were hurried away to the Cottage Grove ave nue police station. Secrecy covered the arrest of the two men to such an extent that the police at the Cottage Grove avenue station were left in ig norance of the charges against the prisoners. a Thry Are I nimportaut. Attorney Rosenthal declared last night that the letters had been recov ered from McSwain. and that they were "absolutely of no importance" in con nection with the forthcoming trial of the packers. He declined to reveal the character of the correspondence, however, explaining that this would b3 done at the trial. Mr. Armour, he said, attached no value to the letters, bu: was determined to make an example of the men who had tried to blackmail him. GAS IN TRENCH EXPLODES Six Men Burned in Peculiar Fire at Chicago. Chicago. Nov. IS. Six employes ot the People's Gaslight and Coke com pany were burned stverely yesterday afternoon in an explosion in a trench at Michigan street and Dearborn av enue. The scene of the accident is near the main entrance to the criminal court building and county jail and th. explosion caused some excitement in both buildings. Many persons in the courtrooms leaped from their seats and rushed into the hallways. Bailiffs quickly restored ordtr and court pro ceedings were resumed. An alarm of tire was turned in and several compa nies responded. Thousands of gallons of water were poured into the trench without result. Telephone messages were then sent to the gas company. requesting that the gas be shut off. PRESIDENT SLAMS 0DELL Reappoints Marshal New York Boss Wanted Ousted. Washington. Nov. 18. The first step in the process of eliminating former Gov. Odell as republican leader of New York was taken yesterday when Presi dent Roosevelt reappointed William Henkel as United States marshal for the southern district. Odell had a can didate for Henkel's place and assumed with reason that he would be ap pointed. SENT UP FOR LIFE; INNOCENT Murderer on Gallows Confesses Com mitting Burglary. Carson, Nev.. Nov. 17. J. P. Sevcn- er. Fred Roberts. AI Undernian. and T. S. Gorman were hanged here yester day for the murder of Jack Welch in Humboldt county, in August, V.W,. Be fore the drop was made Gorman stated that he had committed a burglary in San Francisco in for which a man named Barker has been unjustly con victed. Barker is now in prison serv ing a life sentence. Successor to Pugh. H. W. Russell, of Washington. Iowa, has been selected as the new agent for Muscatine to succeed J. C. Pugh, who will leave shortly to accept a po sition as agent with the Chicago & Great Western railroad at Rochester, Minn. Six Are Victims of Hunting. Uuiisville. Ky.. Nov. 1. The open ing day of the hunting season in Ken tucky has resulted so far in two deaths and four persons wounded, two fatally. Lieut. Gen. Chaffee Savs Forces Are Under officered. CRIPPLED IN WAR TIME Healthy Public Sentiment Aid in Decreasing De sertions. Washington, Nov. IS. '"The army is under-officered." says Lieut. Gen. Chaf fee, in his annual report. He says this condition exists for the army in peace and "in war times it would be in a de cidedly crippled condition." There are 517 officers absent upon different kinds of duty tequired by or ders and regulations. Chaffee thinks provision should be made to fill these vacancies. UiM'Uwini IN-rtionM. Chaffee discussed desertions from the army and makes the following sug gestions: "Some suitable legislation affecting the political rights of deserters and aroused public opinion that desertion from the military service of the nation is repugnant in the minds of all good citizens, constitute a practical method and the only effectual means in my opinion, for a material abatement of the crime referred to." He says the wisdom of the creation of a general staff has been abundantly demonstrated. POLICE IN A PLOT Divorce Bill of Woman Throws Light on Ring at San Francisco. SAYS HUSBAND WAS GUILTY Officers Robbed Stores and Murdered Special Patrolmen When Dis covered. San Francisco. Calif.. Nov. Ks. Ono of the most remarkable police .scandals in the history of San Francisco has been exposed by the testimony of h wife against her husband in a divorce court. It involve s u conspiracy among certain downtown police officials to break into and loot stores and it also involves the murder of special patrol men by these police thieves. Mrs. Mary Helms, in her suit for mainte nance against Policeman J. II. Helms, revealed details of the conspiracy. IIiihIiiiikI Atliijfttrd. Mrs. Mary Helms, who is the wife of a patrolman, swears-that her hus band admitted to her that lie was a bur glar and that he was assisted in his stealing by Patrolman Joan Edner. of Harbor station. It was disclosed that khe late Chief Wittman wu in posses sion of this information.it never saw tit to put it to spi'clal use. At that time Mrs. Helms told former Captain of Police Dunlevy all about Edner. Chief Dinan declares be will investi gate, but there is general incredulity that any real action will be taken, a it might involve officials high in the service. BRITISH SAILORS TURN UP MISSING Over One Thousand from Prince Louis' Fleet Fail to Return from Shore Leave. New York. Nov. 1. -One thousand and 5; British sailors were missing to day from the squadron of Prince Ixjuis of Battenberg. These tailors are re corded as deserters on the books of the ships composing the; fleet, but the offi cers hope most of them merely over staid their shore leave. THOMAS LAWS0N PUT UNDER BOND Will Be Tried Next Month for Crimin ally Libeling Clarence W. Barron. lioston. Nov. Is. Thomas W. Uw son was today held for the December session of the superior court on a charge of criminal libel preferred by Clarence W. Barron, Bail was fixed at $3,000. which was furnished. APPROPRIATE DESIGNATION Engines of 800 Class Housed in Rock Island Yards Here Given to Passenger Trains.- The station near the Rock Island shops known as New Shops, is hereaf ter to be officially known as Silvis. and to this effect a general order was is sued today by General Manager F. O. Melchoir of the Rock Islam!. The or der states that "the station on the Illi nois division between Carbon Cliff and East Moline. known as New Shops is changed to Silvis. and will be opened for passenger business only after Nov. 26." This is not only a better sounding name for the station, but it is appropri ate. The man for whom it is named, R. S. Silvis, was one of the chief pro moters of that locality as a railway center and the company does well to recognize him. not only in this respect, but as bearing a name among the best known and most honored of the citizen ship of the county. KnKlurM llounctl litre. The Rock Island engines of the SoO class, used in the fast passenger serv ice of the Rock Island, are to be hous ed at the Rock Island round house. The engines have been in the past stor ed at the Natick house, as the one in Rock Island was much too small to accomodate the moguls. The company now has a large crew of men at work rebuilding the local round house in or der to accomodate the big engines, and 11 stalls are being lengthened. The doors of the house were not large enough to admit this class. AIuiiloiiiii-nt of NjiIIcW Complete. Every change being made by the Rock Island indicates the complete abandonment of Natick as a railway center in the near future. The freight business is to be han'dled entirely from the Silvis yards, as the new order de signates them, and the passenger busi ness will be handled from Rock Island, leaving Natick entirely out. The west bound freight business was handled for the first time yesterday from the new yards at Silvis instead of at Na tick. Natick will be the terminal for east bound business for perhaps an other month, until the east bound yards are completed. After that Natick and Rock Island yards will be used only for handling the bad order cars, and repair business. The Rock Island yards are to be abandoned entirely ex cept for making up passenger trains, when the new yards at Silvis are equip ped with repair tracks and entirely completed. In the past the west bound business was handled from Rock Is land. ;iiHiliue 0ierte i'urn Tultle. Gasoline was used in the operation of the turn table at the Rock Island round house yesterday for the first time. The big new turn table, install ed for the accomodation of the passen ger engines which are to be housed here in the future in the new round house, has been completed. Instead of re quiring eight or 10 men for a consider able time to turn the table, the new method requires one man less than 3 minutes to turn the largest engine on the road. The table is 75 feet in length, and is similar to that which will be installed at the Silvis yards. The re pairs on the roundhouse, and the in stallation of the new turn table will represent an expenditure of between $25.(0ii and $:io,ooo. rn HurliuKlou ( aril In KITect. Tomorrow a new time card goes in to effect on the Burlington, resulting in a number of changes affecting Rock Island. The Beardstown train after Sunday arrives in Rock Island at 11:150 instead of 12:10, and returning leaves at 2:15 instead of :i:2. The St. Ujuis train, now arriving at :25 will not ar rive until 7;15 under the new card. The changes are made to enable the trains to make collections with other trains at junction points. The chang es will greatly improve the time table of the road. TERMS ARE HELD SEVERE M. G. &. S. Turned Down by Morrison Success Elsewhere. Some of the towns east of here that have been asked to lend assistance to the proposed Milwaukee, Galesburg & Southern road, have backed up when the terms were made known. One of these was Morrison, capital of White side county, where all enthusiasm sub sided when it was learned that all the company wantel was a free right of way through to the Carroll county line and the subscription for $200,000 worth of the 4 per cent gold bonds at &5 cents. At Andover the promoters appear to have met with a different sort of a re ception, the business men having held out an offer of a right of way through the street desired and subscription for ,$50,000 worth of bonds. In general the .company is meeting with much encour- agement. BIG SUIT BEGUN AGAINST PACKERS Penalties Amounting to $7,000,000 In volved in Case Begun in Arkansas. Little Rock. Ark.. Nov. IS. Four suits demanding penalties aggregating $7,000,000 were filed against beef pack ers last evtning by Special Counsel James H. Stevens and Assistant Attor ney General Rogers.. The defendants are Armour & Co.. the Cudahy Packing company, and Swift & Co.. and against each three cases of action are alleged. Two allegations charge the corpora tions with being members of a pool. trust, or conspiracy to control prices and output. Charges of being a mono poly form the basis of the other cause. A REVIVALIST FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS Mother of Bishop Fitzgerald Dies at New Jersey Home Aged 93. Newark. N. J.. Nov. IS. Mrs. Osee M. Fitzgerald, mother of Bishop Fitz gerald of the Methodist Episcopal church, is dead, aged She had for more than 50 years conducted revival and other religious services on the fa mous Methodist camp grounds in Mount Tabor. STOOD ON HEAD FLEEING PRISONER CRIES OUT Accident Prevents Jail Delivery Convict Hidden in a Shoe Crate. Jefferson City, Mo.. Nov. IS. Only an accident prevented Benjamin Brum ky. a convict from St. Iouis. from es caping from the penitentiary yester day. Bruniley was assigned to the shipping room filling boxes with kind ling wood. He hid himself in a shoe crate, the half of which was tilled with kindling. An expressman loaded him in a. wagon and started away. After getting outside the prison yard the driver found the boxes did not ride well and by chance placed the one iu which Bruniley was secreted in such a manner that Bruniley was stood on his head. The prisoner endured the position as long as he could, bill was forced to cry out finally. The exprt si-man drove back into the prison yard and surrendered his find. TWO DEAD, THREE HURT IN A DUEL IN ARKANSAS Revolver Battle Between Officers and Alleged Cotton Thieves Ends in Killing of Latter. Pocahontas. Ark.. Nov. is. Two men are dead . and three seriously wounded as the result of a revolver fight, at Biggers. a little town 10 miles north of this place. The men who were killed resisted arrest on the charge of being members of a gang of cotton thieves. They opened fire on Jim Wisner. a deputy sheriff, and Jesse Johnston, city marshal. The officers returned the fire, killing two of the men in the gang: a third escaped, wounded. Both Wisner and Johnston were wounded. Indict Son of Millionaire. St. Louis. Nov. is. Richard H. Kas tor, son of II. W. Kafor, a millionaire, was arrested yesterday on an indict ment by the federal grand jury, charg ing him with conducting a scheme to defraud in connection with the Mer chants Brokerage and Commission company of Sr. Louis. It is alleged that the company paid KaMor to pre vent the issuance of a postal fraud or der against it and that Kastor worked through a I'nited States senator. Hough Found Guilty. Dayton, Ohio. Nov. IX Coroner Kel lin this morning rendered a verdict of guilty in the case of Dr. Oliver Crook Hough in jail here charged with the murder of his father, mother and brother. Charles Elected King of Norway. Christiania, Nov. IS. The Norwe gian parliament today unanimously elected Prince Charles of Denmark king of Norway. Former Alderman Guilty. Milwaukee. Nov. IS. Former Aid. Robert L. Rudolph was today found guilty by a Jury of soliciting a bribe while a member of the common coun cil. Korea Accepts Protectorate. Seoul, Nov. 18. The Korean cabinet this morning agreed to adopt the pro portion for a Japanese protectorate over Korea, made by Marquis Ito. Large Majority of Board So Express Themselves. MEANS SHORTER TRIP Verdict of Leading Men In En gineering Profession From Several Countries. Washington. Nov. IS. The board of consulting engineers of the Isthmian canal commission today declared itself by a large majority in favor of a Fen level canal. The conclusion was reached after a long and careful study of the project. The members of the board are men of greatest reputation in their tine of work. France. Germany and Holland had sent their most eminent specialists at the request of the Ameiicau govern ment . hrlfitM Trip. From the beginning it was evident that the majority of members were in favor of a sea level canal. Their point of view was that, even if it cost more than a lock canal and would take longer in building. It would ultimately be of greater use, as it will enable ships to make a much shorter trip than if they are obliged to go through three or four locks. GRAND STAND FALLS AT ANN ARBOR Two Thousand People in Crash, But None Seriously Injured. It Is Thought. Ann Arbor, Nov. IS. During thu football game this afternoon the graud stand fell from five to fifteen feet. Two thousand people went down iu the stand. Cries of agony arose from th injured. Iu 15 seconds both teams tore the fence down and the crowd rushed in to help the injured. It now appears that nono was seriously Injur ed, although scores were badly brulH and scratched. Two Rock Inlanders were among those who attended the Ann Arbor gam' .Master in Chancery V. H. Kelly and Justice D. It. McFarlane. RESOLUTIONS BEFORE LABOR FEDERATION Extend Sympathy to Russian Work men and for the Various Ameri can Topics. Pittsburg. Nov. IX. The resolution committee made its final report at the session today of the Federation of La bor convention. Among the resolution adopted were those extending the heartfeit sympathy of American labor to and congratulating the Russian workmen on the success of the recent strike; requesting the federation to use its influence to have laws eiiuctcd which will hold employers and net employes for accidents on ' railroads, ami other places w he-re mercantile m chintry is used, urging the I'nited States government to acquire control of the telegraphic companies; request ing all union workmen to oppose con gressional nominations of men who arc not. friendly to labor and opposing ev ery candidate to public office who was not a friend of the laborer. BIG SUM TO FIGHT LIQUOR National League at Indianapolis Starts to Raise $1,000,000. Indianapolis. Ind.. Nov. IS. -At a inciting of the Held workers of the Na tional AntlSaloon league, here stops were taken to raie $1,000,000 annually with which to prosecute the fight against saloons in all parts of the country. It was Mated It was impera tive that the opponents of the a!oon should have the money. LIEUT. FORTESQUE QUITS THE ARMY No Reason Assigned for the Resigna tion of Officer Mentioned in Tag- , gart Divorce Case. Washington, Nov. 1H. Acting Sec retary Oliver today accepted the re ignation of Lieut. Granville R. For tesque, one of the officers mentioned In the Taggart divorce case. No rea son it given for the resignation.