The Minneapolis journal. [volume], April 29, 1905, Image 1

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PRICE TWO CENTS.
Jffiss Jane Addams Induces Mayor
to Form Peace Committee
of Citizens.
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
LOOKING TO ROOSEVELT
Violence Marks Strike's Progress,
with Strike-Breakers as
Offenders,
Chicago, April 29.Fresh efforts to
settle the teamsters' strike were made
today. Mayor Dunne met representa
tives of the employers and the labor
leaders. A committee of citizens will
consider steps to be taken and the
mayor will individually resume negotia
tions with the union officials.
The suggestion of a committee of
Citizens to intervene came "from Miss
Jane Addams of Hull house.
Appeal to Boosevelt.
President Roosevelt may be formally
asked to end the strike here as he did
the coal strike. A resolution requesting
the president to try to induce the em
ployers to arbitrate and so avert the
bringing of troops and check talk of a
general labor war, is expected to be in
troduced in the Federation of Labor to
morrow.
Basis of Labor Trouble.
The labor warfare in Chicago is the
Indirect result of the strike of the
Montgomery-Ward garment workers.
Tho the teamsters' union was under con
tract, its members struck in sympathy
i with the garment workers, and the
Strike Spread "to the Ijiff State street
Btores and to the transfer and express
companies. Primarily there was no
wage or time demand basis for tho
teamsters' strike.
Out by Strikebreaker.
Inor Mulcahy, a plumber, was at
tacked a non-union colored team
ster and cut with a Tazor about the face
and neck. Mulcahy was taken to the
People's hospital. His assailant es
caped.
Mulcahy was walking by the barns on
the way to bis place of business whan
persons in a crowd about the barns, it
is declared, began to jeer the non
union colored teamsters. The non-union
ists resentfully rushed into the crowd.
Before police could interfere Mul
cahy, Who Chanced to be nearest the
negro, had been fearfully slashed.
His assailant was followed by a
crowd throwing sticks, stones and other
missiles, none of which struck the fugi
tive. The negro ran thru a livery sta
ble and escaped.
Following the outbreak 100 negroes
employed as non-union teamsters left
the Stables to begin service for the
J. "V. Farwell company. Two police
patrol wagons and 100 policemen
guarded the negroes.
MINNEAPOLIS MAN AT HEAD
Edwin L. Beed Chosen Manager Of the
Employers' Teaming Company.
Chicago, April 29.Edwin L. Reed,
who has just been chosengeneral mana
ger of the Employers' Teaming com
pany, organized to prevent tie-ups of
business by the striking teamsters, is a
former resident of Minneapolis and at
one time a student of the University of
Minnesota. He has been superintend
ent of wagon service in Chicago for the
Wells-3TarKo Esrpress company for seven
years. Mr. Reed looks equal to Ms new
task, standing 6 feet 2 inches tall and
weighing 225 pounds. He is 34 years
old. Before coming to Chicago he lived
in Minneapolis and was an express mes
senger for the United States company,
with a run on the Great Western, and
later a special messenger thruout the
northwest. He was born in Maije.
RAILROADS BAND
TO MOLD OPINION
Heads of the Lines Organize to
Defend "Vested Rights"
Against Regulation.
JTow York Sun Special Servio.
Chicago, April 29.Alarmed at the
wave of public opinion sweeping over
the country in favor of government
rate control, railroad presidents are or
ganizing. xv
The defense planned is in the line of
a campaign of education thru bureaus
which are expected to feed the press
with literature on the railroad side.
Gospel of Non-niterference.
In addition railroad officials every
where are expected to seize every means
to sow the gospel of non-interference
by the government with the rate-mak
ing power. Steps are to be taken to
convince the shippers that their inter
ests lie with the railroad managements,
rather than with a commission clothed
With the power to say what is a fair
rate and compel its adoption.
One eastern railroad president says:
"The railroads are in a life-and-death
struggle, and, of course, we are going
to do everything in our power indi
vidually and collectively to defend our
selves and our rights/*
A second said: "We have delayed
too long. We should have had an or
ganization long ago to disseminate our
views."
Press Agent on Tour.
The eastern presidents took the initi
ative some time ago by establishing
a bureau under the management of J.
H. Maddy, who is also press agent for
the Erie. Mr. Maddy has just com
pleted a transcontinental trip from New
York, to Chicago, the twin cities, all
the Pacific coast cities and back to Chi
cago by the way of New Orleans. The
purpose was to visit the newspapers and
ask them to use-matter setting forth
the railroad side.
Following this lead the western presi
dents have authorized Slason Thomp
son to employ experts and begin a sepa
rate educational campaign in the en
tire western territory* Expense will
not be. sjMured-
TODAY'S SPORTING NEWS WILL BS POtmX ON PAGE 32.
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Competitor.%
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WOMAN HAS'PIM,.,
TO SETTLE STRIKE
8
HIM APPEAL TO
PRESIDENT LIKELY
EDWIN L. SEED, S
S Former Minne&poltton Who Will Tackle
the Chicago Teamsters' Strike.
'0 S
FRANTIC SELLING
IN STOCK MARKET
Bull Pools Forced to SellRu
mors of Big Financial Troubles
Alarm the Street,
New York, April 29.Frantic sell
ing made the stock. market take on a
panicky appearance today, and toward
the close of the two-hour session, the
confusion on the stock exchange be
came so great that the machinery for
reporting transactions practically
broke down.
Thruout the trading it appeared that
bull pools were being forced to sell
their holdings. At the same time ru
mors of financila troubles, vague and
wtihout detail, but of great erfect on
sentiment nevertheless, were circu
lated freely.
N attempt at support -was made aUd
the result was a rapid melting away of
prices. Enormous blocks of. securities
were thrown on the market for what
they would bring and stop loss orders
were reached in great volume, showing
that many margined holdings were be
ing sold out.
Among the current rumors was one
to the effect that a trust company was
being investigated. This report could
iitot be confirmed.
There were violen* rebounds in some
cases, as was to be WXpected, but the
demoralized tone was still in force at
the closing and some of the last prioes
reported were the lowest of the day,
and were made on a suddenly descend
ing scale.
Declines in the active list ran. up to
four points and in the inactive stocks
to 11%, the latter drop occurring in
Buffalo, Bochester and Pittsburg.
OIL PAIRED
BY'TAINTED' CRY
Rockefeller Retires to His Oity
Home, Hurt by Avalanche of
Criticism.
Ifew York Sun Special Berrlco.
New York, April 29.John Bock
efeller has stopped playing golf, has
left the country in what is possibly the
most delightful season of the year and
has returned to the oity and all, ac
cording to his intimates, because his
feelings have been hurt by the talk of
"tainted money."
He was apparently in good spirits at
Lakewood until the recent controversy
arose over his contribution to missions.
There was a marked change when he
learned the scornful words applied to
him, and new lines of worry showed in
his face. Persons who had come in con
tact with him every day declared that
within a fortnight he. aged fully five
years. He became petulant and was
able no longer to find recreation in
golf. He gave up playing about ten
days ago and this week closed his
Lakewood-house.'
Mr. Rockefeller has not attempted to
conceal that he felt hurt. has
changed his attitude about communi
cating with the press and allows the
episode to depress him.
DEATH AND RUIN
IN TEXAS STORM
Terrific Storm Passes Over South
western Part of State
Laredo Hit.
Austin, Texas, April 29.Meager de
tails have been received here of a. ter
rific storm that passed over southwest
ern Texas last night. The city of
Laredo, on the Bio Grande river, is re
ported to have suffered much damage,
with probable loss of life. Fifty houses
are reported to have been blown down.
Loss of life and damage is also re
ported to have occurred in New Lare
do, on the Mexican side of the bound
ary. Many houses are reported over
turned. TWO CHILDREN BURN
TO DEATH IN STACK
Special to The Journal. "i
Red Lake Falls, Minn., April 29.
Two children of Gilbert Pourier of the
town of Terrebonne were smothered to
death in a strawstack. Three children
were playing around the stack and set
fire to it. Becoming alarmed at' what
they had done, the two youngest
crawled into a hole in the straw and
burned to death.
TOWNE MUST PAY
DEBT TO HEARST
Money Borrowed by Former Min
nesotan from the Man Who
Sought Presidency.
Special to The Journal.
New York, April 29.Justice Vernon
M. Davis, sitting in part I., special term
of th supreme court, has .ordered a
Jlearse
udgment in favor of William E.
in an action brought by Hearst
to recover from former Senator Charles
A. Towne $6,000 and interest loaned
by Hearst on a promissory note Feb. 16,
1904. The complaint sets forth that
payment on the note has. been refused.
The defense put in by Towne is that
Hearst lent the money with the under
standing that the borrower should
write various articles for a publication
owned by Hearst in Washington. Towne
Bays he -was not asked, to -write these
tion
Towne apparently was cordial to**
ward the Hearst boom, but at St.
Louis Towne was a candidate himself
for nomination. Late* he accepted
nomination on the Tammany ticket for
the house of representatives, and was
elected simultaneously with Hearst.
Speaking of the suit, today's -New
York Tribune says the estrangement
haB caused a lot of cbmme'rirt
la
A330TJ
Sorter**"^*
1
articles, altho he was ready to perform
the service as agreed. Justice. Davis,'
in awarding judgment again Towne/
says:
Allegations of the complaint are
substantially admitted by that answer,
and there aro no allegations of new
matter, that amount to a defense.\ Un
der thd circumstances .the -plaintiff is
entitled to a judgment
The note transaction was made when
Hearst was making an active canvass
for the democratic presidential nomia&
'in'.
3Sfew
York, political .circles.
TENNESSEE EX-GOVERNOR DEAD.
Nashville, Tenn., April 29.Former
Governor Alvan Hawkins died at his home
in Huntlngtpn, Tenn., today, aged 88.
"Put her thrVold man, I think -tfe're related Vl^t
"How's that I never saw you before.,
SATURDAY EVENING AfcRII, ^9, igos.'S^"-^"* T's^rl
FACES.QF THE LAWYERS-Q*f S^yi^l^I'?
THE KOCH SroE OE THE TABLE
vr
TRYING Af ALIBI
FOR KALDERWIT
McGrhee, for the Defense, Out
lines His Case to the
Jury.
The State Closes With Evidence
Wbieto, Malxe%tlieL Prisoner
wigftA:
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From a Staff CorrespontoaK
Anoka, Minn., April. 29.John Kolb,
"pal" of Orlin Kalderwit, took the
Stand today as the first witness for
Kalderwit. The defense is to be an
alibi and general deniaL Eolb denied
any connection with the Columbia:
Heights holdup, and swore positively
that all three were in the Grand -Cen
tral hotel the night of the murder.
The state, closed strongly with the
testimony of @eorge L .Slater, a^samd-
-wieh'wagon"rii w"
at Second strcp
tH^:. testified he--ha.
(fa- some time as' Curl
$olb thru hinu Af
the-murder, the two "b
at the Svagoiij Hind
Kalderwit said: "Letf's go upTfco:.Co
lumbia Heights and get that joint.'\
Kolb replied: "You know me.i I'm
.not going np. there for nothing
plater did not see Kalderwit after tne
murder until the preliminary examina
tion. He did not connect him with the
Columbia Heights job until he saw pic
tures in the papers later.
Kalderwit Is 'Sweating*".
Kalderwit is beginning to show the
strain of the trial, for the finish of "the
state was most. damaging.
"They're going after me, they're
giving me hell," he said, to the deputy
sheriff, as they walked to the jail last
night.
The prisoner has friends about him,
a night stand
venue.
wJai ""ICaJsasrwifc'
and cad met
Bi&hla^efojfc
ht sandwiches,
eating- them
Continued on 2d Page, 4th Column.
THE NEW BROTHERHOOD.
S-^S
"That's all rio ht, you're a Carnegie professor and I'm a C5arnegie hero seel"
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BIG AUTO LEAPS
FROM 12-FT, BANK
Partridge Cat Breaks Thru Road
Two Jump for Life, One
Palls With Car.
Peeling the road giving away be
neath his forty-horse power Columbia
as he -was skirting the north shore-of
Lake MinnefltaiKa Thursday afternoon,
George H. Partridge, leaped for life
toward the road and the chauffeur
jumped in the other direction to the
marsh-below. George-Porter, the other
member of the party, stood by the ship.
With a crash the huge car toppled
over the twelve-foot bank, burying Mr.
Porter beneath the tonneau. A soon
as Mir. Partridge and the chauffeur
..could pull themselves together, they
rushed to the rescue of "Mr. Porter,
and, -standing knee-deep in the mud,
managed,- by sheer strength, to lift the
car sufficiently to pull him ont. They
expected to find him horribly man
gled* 'but the soft mud had saye4 his
fife. Mr. Partridge was semelfhat
bruised, but none of the partyTiwas se
-v-erejy -xnjareaT.'.'..J
The Car was brought to the tty to
day:, ooyered Twith mud but in pe.rfeot
running order^
The accident came about thro "the
hostility of a farmer. He was driving
a.two-horse wagon when the auto toot
ed aiffd.gave no room for them to pass.
Slowing up, they ran behind, the Wag
on for some distance, tout the farmer
refused to give an inch, Finally he
turned'aside, giving them just enough
space for the auto to pass. As the
machine was just opposite the wagon
the xoafl began, to give -way. The auto
party shouted for more, room, but it
was not given, and before power could
be thrownDion, the car toppling.
NAKE By DRAWINGwas. XSIAJOHEBS. i
Chicago, April 29.The Western Drawing and
Manual 'Wainlnsr association Has elected the
following officers for next year:" "President,
Miss Florence. BUls of Grand Rapids, Mich.
vice president, Oharle* A, Bennett or Peoria,
111. secretary, Mary B. Chamberlain of Sagi
naw, Mich. auditor, J. E. Painter of Minne
apolis.
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v. The Fearless Bather of Leech Lake.
SHARED A BATH
WITH FRIENDS
L. A. Rosing's Companions Not
Pleased at His Show of
Liberality.
li. A. Rosing, member, of the state
board of control, has won a great repu
tation at Walker, Minn., as an early
season bather. Not only was Bosing
the first man to take J. dip in Leech
lake this season, but he compelled two
Walker men to dive with him.
While at Walker to inspect the site
for the state hospital for consumptives,
Eosing was taken in hand by two
friends, Representative A. L. Cole and
A. A. Oliver, editor of the local paper.
The evening of his arrival they took
him out to spear fish. Bosing, the
heavyweight or the trio, sat in the
stern of tne boat.. His companions were
old hands at spearing fish.' Bosing was
new at the business and did not at first
care to risk the consequences of over
exerting himself in harpooning some
fish that might come up to see what
kind of a thing a blazing torch was,
anyhow.' I proved too exciting, ..how-
ever,' to "sit "still and wateK the other
two spear big, gamy. members^of the
finny -tribe, sojftosing finally took a har
poon, deciding to enjoy sport and daire
fate. _.
I^ateKtoc4c the daire.
The flickering light of tho torch
gleamed along the scales of a big fish.
RQsing_poise,3 his spear for a lunge.
Th^re was a Stfenuons fling of his right
arm, and the spear plunged into the
-water as if sent from a catapult. But
Bosing had forgotten the dare with
fate..His arms sawed the air desper
ately in an effort, to right himself, then
slowly the ponderous member of the
state board of control went over the
starboard side. "Drowning.men grasp
at straws,'' but Bosingg rasped the gun
wale of the boat as something more
substantial. The boat careened so that
water poured over its side. There was
nothing for Cole and Oliver to do, but
to.jump, for it. Then, all three, up to
their necks-in -water, waded to the not
distant shore and Were obliged to walk
nearly a mile to town, their trail having
much, the appearance of a state drain
age ditch.
Bosing's friends sajr he won't try
spearing fish again until the middle of
August.
NOTABLES HOST
IN FATAL GRASH
Ogden Educational Party's Train
in CollisionFarnum and
McKelway Injured.
Greenville, S. C, April 29.The spe
cial train .bearing the Ogden educa
tional party on its southern itinerary
ran into a switch engine today. Aflasf-'
man and three negro employees of the
dining cars.were killed and several of
the Ogden party were injured.
Professor Henry W. Farnam of Yale
university was perhaps more seriously
injured. His head was bruised and
arm broken. Mrs. Farnam was hurt
on-the shoulder and arm. Dr. St. Clair
McKelway of the Brooklyn Eagle, who
was in the forward dining car, was
pinioned under timbers, but escaped
without injury except a wrenched back.
B. M. Ogden, secretary to C. Og
den, wrist broken Dr. Dreher of Boan
oke college was bruised Mrs. Thorpe,
daughter of. Longfellow, was bruised
Bishop McVicker of Rhode Island is
suffering from shock. The party de
cided to abandon, its itinerary and re
turn to New York.
BUBONIC PLAGUE
RAGES IN CHILE
Port of Pisagua Being Depopu-
latedDead Lie Unburied
in the Streets.
San Antonio, Texas, April'29.Pas-
sengers from Chilean ports, according
to an Express special from Mazatlan,
Mexico, bring the first full informa
tion concerning the terrible ravages of
bubonic plague in Pisagua, Chile.
For some time before their depar
ture, deaths ranged from ten to thirty
a day, and the authorities were unable
to enforce burials. Corpses were
thtown. into the streets to, decompose
and spread contagion1.
Little headway nad been made in the
fight'on the disease and it looked as if
the entire population of Pisagua might
be wiped out.
Many persons had
by the soldiers on
tempting to escape
SILVER BLAZE
A Great.
SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY
Today's Journal.
AGESFIVE O'CLOCK
roo J9
gpt
th
been shot down
guard. while at-
did hseedo?m
1
1 i-
WOMAN SAW HIM
VISIT HIS OFFICE
Bright Light Suddenly Appeared
and He Stooped and Reached
for Something.
WORE A
BROAD-BRIMMED^$'
SOFT! HAT AT THE TIME
Postmaster Testifies that the Pep.
per-and-Salt Coat Was Re
placed by a Brown. *j
By W. P. MeGulre.
Mankato. Minn., April 29.Mis*
Lena Weidermann and Mrs. Wilhel
mina Dahms, on the witness stand to
day in the trial of Dr. George B. Koch
for the Gebhardt murder, told stories,
damaging to the defendant, which they
confessed they had kept entirely to ^1
themselves thruout the first trial. 'A
Two other witnesses also gave ter
timory. which, the state says, brings
the crime nearer to Dr. Koch. They:
were H/jalmar Hoidale, who testified as
to an insulting name which he said D
Koch had used toward Dr. Gebhardt,
proving, aa the state 'claims, his en-.
mity, and L. B. Krook, postmaster at
New TJlm, who swore that on*'the mor^
ing following the murder, Dr. Kochs^
wore, not the pepper-and-salt coafrvr*
which he had on the night before, but*-*
a brown coat. \^f
Miss. Weidermann, responding twlL*
questions by General CMlds, said that%
she was housekeeper in the home ot
Ferdinand Crone, who lived over hii
store a few doors from the Strickleifc
block, where Koch had his office. Th*,
Strickler building extends several feett.
farther back than the place where shei
worked, and standing on her porch she*
could see the window in Koch's work*
shop. She had known 3r Koch "bjj
sight only for about two years.
Looked Into Koch's Office.
On the night of the murder of Br?*
Gebhardt, she said, she went out oa~
her back porch twice, the time being
described indefinitely as between 8 ant
'j
an*? again between 9 and 9-SO
o'clock. On the second trip, she said,
she reached up to take a chicken from
a nail on a post where she had hung
it-earlier in the evenings In doing
this, she said, she faced Dr. Koch's of
fice.
"What did you see thenl
General Childs.
"Dr. Kocwitnesthe lit light in his work-
i
asked
answered.
"Coul yoti hi?'' "Yes." L2%%
*4Whadt "He just stood there a minute, then
he stooped and reached over with his
hand." V... ,r
"How was he standingt"
"With his
bacdidane sidtee
dow.1
tt5?.
to wia-
hand exnd ithe
Kiel
"His right hand."
"Did.you see what hd did with Ms
hand?"
"He just reached for something."
''How long did the light continue?"
Just a short time. stooped over
and straightened up. Then he turned
and the light went put." i
"When he stooped over and straight
ened up, did you see the motion of his
body1'
His arm moved,'' said the witness^ -^3
and she swung her right arm around ilk Wi
a circle about her body. i
1' Do you know how he wai
dressed?" I
He had a round soft hat and darfe
coat." *i*f
Mr. Abbott Cross-Examines. *f
Cross-examined by- 3\r. Abbott,. Miss
Weiderman said that she had been
keeping house for three men, one of
whom was a member of the citizens*
committee, and all of whom had fre* .I
quently discussed the. Gebhardt mu*
der and the investigation of it, within
her hearing. She also said that Albert
Pfaender, one of the counsel for th*"
prosecution, was her brother-in-law.
"You knew what was claimed Byi
the state at the last trial, did yott
not?" asked Mr. Abbott. "Yes."
"And you did not say anything*
about what you now say you saw tpi
the night of the murder V' i
*No, I did not." *L
"You knew this young man was on^
trial for his life that he claimed th%
he went back to his office about 9
and turned out the light and jTRgVf
knew that if you said what you now.*
saj\ it would corroborate him, aa yV\^r
you never said anythiugt" "No.
"You, knowing Mr. Koch might wf
hanged unless somebody corroborate^'
him as to his return to his office, kept
this knowledge, -which you say
and did not tell anyone!"
'Yes.Jfciav^"uoy
Wore a Big, Soft Hat.
Mr. Abbott stopped short and aftern*
few seconds, during which' the conrV
room was in absolute silence, took an*
other line.
"At all times, when Iron saw D~fc
Koch before the night of the murdef^
what- hat did-he wear?"
He always wore a black soft hat.'*
"And that night, when you say yew
saw him thru the window, what nnft
did you,say he wore?"
"It was a black soft hat and had
big, round' rim, quite wide."
The several men.who saw Dr. Koch
in Hoidale & Thompson's office that
evening, when Mr. Vogel gave him one
of his pencils, and those who saw him
on the street and in the barbershop, &]}
testified that Dr. Koch wore a brown
derby hat then.
Heard Someone Running.
Mrs. Dahms was called and told, thro
an interpreter, that she had known.
Koch for fifteen years' and that her
husband had been a tenant of E. Q,
Koch for nine years. She described
the pasture between her home and the
Koch's and the fence and gate which
enclosed it.
"Where were you on the night ot
Nov. 1, 1904?" asked General Childf,
"At home," she answered. -j.
"What time did you go to bed thai
night?"
I do not know exactly, but it waj
before 8."
"Were you disturbed by any noist,^,
teryou had gone to bed?" "Yes.
"What time was it when you weyf5
disturbed?"
"Ten minutes before ten."
"What were the noises you heardf*-^,.^^%
"It stamped awfully, it ran aw*"
fully." &-
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