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TRUST SWALLOWf
A WESTERN RIVAL
Cfould to Hand Over 0., F. & I.
in Return for Freight
Contracts.
Journal Special Service.
New York, March 1.According to a
storj' freely circulated in Wall street,
Geogre J. Gould has practically decided
to hand over the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company to the United States Steel
corporation.
In consideration, it is said, the steel
trust and the Great Northern railway
will transfer to the Pittsbu rg eftension
lines of Mr. Gould's Wabash system
rthe freight traffic between the Great
Northern's ore properties and the Pitts
burg territory. This will mean that
the ore shipments will be made into
Pittsburg over the Great Northern, the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the
Wabash roads.
This will be a big lift for Gould, as
his Wabash extension has been in more
or less hard luck ever since he over
came the Pennsylvania opposition after
a bitter struggle and made his triumph
ant entrance into the smoky city.
It is the Gould way of getting back
at the Pennsylvania for the act of the
latter in casting out the Western Union
and cutting down the wires.
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J. HILL'S GREAT
ORE DEAL NEAR END
Great Northern's Ore Properties
in Minnesota Go to Steel
Trust.
Removes a Rival.
Pending the culmination of the deal,
control of the Colorado Fuel & Iron is
said to ha ve been vested in J. Mor
gan & Co., as trustees. Barring some
unforseen development, the steel trust
fwill take control of Colorado Fu el &
Iron within the next week or so.
This will remove from the field the
steel trust
strongest strategic rival
and will leave in the entire field but
three rival interests of consequence
Tennessee Coal & Iron, the Bethlehem
Steel company and the Republic Steel
company.
"When the original'"'Osgobd intei^sts
were forced out of Colorado Fuel &
Iron, several years ago, the Gates-Haw
ley-Rockefeller syndicate went in. Then
they fell out among themselves and the
Rockefeller-Gould interests assumed
control. This was in 1903.
Since then the Rockefeller interests
are said to have disposed of a large
part of their holdings leaving the Gould
forces in control. It is said that Rocke
feller was always ready to turn over
control of the Colorado Fuel to the
steel trust, but that Gould objected.
N Hitch in Hill Deal.
A anonymous statement, said, how
ever, to be official, has been issued in
Wall street in regard to the status of
way for a lease of the latter's ore lands
and concerning the interest of the
Rockefellers and their associates in the
I hitch in the Hill ore negotiations had
been brought about by the Standard
Oil element in the United States Steel
corporation, a high official of the cor
poration says there is no foundation
for the statement.
"The books of the Unit ed States
Steel corporation show that the hold
ings of the Rockefeller interests are
Deal Nearly Closed.
Guaranty of Freight.
"Another important provision is that
the Great Northern railroad shall be
guaranteed freight amounting to 10,-
000,000 tons annually during the life of
the lease. If mines other than those"
in the deal furnish the amount, the
Steel corporation will not be required
to furnish any, but it must
whatever is lacking of the stipulated
tonnage.
"The great advantage of this im
portant transaction to the corporation
is evident. It insures the coyporation a
tremendous tonnage and prevents the
possibility of competing companies get
ting control of these great deposits.
The policy of the officials of the cor
poration will be highly commended and
Continued on 2d Page, 5th Column.
HILL, GOULD AND STEEL-TRUST
I N HUGEIORE TRAFFIC DEAL
D0LLIER OPEN
FOR HEPBURN BILL
Iowa Senator Addresses the Sen
ate on Railroad Rate
Reform.
Declares Measure Fortifies
Law, and Rebukes Fight on
jyV the Bill.
the
Washington, March 1.That interest
in the railroad rate question continues
unabated as made manifest again to
day by the large audience which
greeted Mr. Dolliver from the senate
galleries*"when he rose to speak on the
Dolliyer-Heoburn bill. From the first
the Iowa senator lias" been the champion
of the policy of giving the interstate
commerce commission full authority,
and the friends of the house bill have
expected him to take a leading part in
pressing the consideration of the meas
ure, notwithstanding it lias been placed
in charge of another senator. His was
the first speech made in support of the
bill.
began with a compliment to Mr.
Cullom, of whom he spoke as the father
of interstate commerce legislation, and
to Mr. Nelson, the author of the bill
presented to the last congress.
also referred to the fact that Messrs.
Foraker and Elkins had formerly intro
duced bills giving to the interstate com
mission th same powers conferred in
the pending bill.
Gi ve Credit Where Due. I 3
I do this," he said, "for the ./dou-
ble purpose of giving credit where it
is due and to protect us against the
sneers that one hears in the senate cor
ridors over the acceptance of a bill
hastily forced upon us by the other
house.''
congratulated the country that,
the measure was not partizan and said
it was. fortunate that mock armies
were not to be marched forth to be
set against each other by the party
leaders.
The senator then outlined the bill,
pointing out wherein it amends the ex
isting interstate laws, saying that,
after all, the changes were compara
tive ly few.
"Instead of undermining the law,
the bill fortifies it," he said, and he
declared that, if the present law had
been treated with the reverence and
sanctity ifc deserved r'the American
people would have approached the sub
ject in a frame of mind different from
that which now prevails.
Private Oar Abuses.
said that the railroad companies
were unable to protect themselves
against the "flagrant abuses" of the
private car companies under Section 1
of the present law. had not fa
vored the abolition of these cars, but he
did believe that the car companies
should be regulated by making respon
sible the railroad companies employing
them.
Speaking of the interstate commerce
commission, he discussed Judge Gross
CUP
the negotiations between the steel cor-: court, but he did not accep
poration and the Great Northern rail-
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recommendation for a specific
advance]dpurposes.
in
small comparatively, and have not believing that when the law was enact
been increased in several years. H. H.
Rogers has at no time attempted to
dictate the policy of the Steel corpora
tion.
"The negotiations for control of the
Hill ore land?! have been left practical
ly in the hands of H. C. Friek and
Judge E H. Gary, chairman of the
board of directors of the corporation.
There is nothing to indicate a hitch,
and negotiations are progressing as
heretofore.''
The deal by which the immensely
valuable ore properties of James J. Hill
on the Mesaba range are to pass into
the control of the Unit ed States Steel
corporation for a period of thirty years
Is about to be consummated, according
to a special from Duluth, which says:
"Altho no official announcement has
been made, your correspondent is in
formed on authority reliable beyond
question that all of the principal terms
ha ve been agreed upon and the con
tract drawn. It is estimated that the
Hill interests ha ve ore deposits amount
ing to 300,000,000 tons which, deliv
ered at Lake Erie ports, would be
worth $1,125,000,000. The terms of the
contract provide that the Steel corpora
tion shall take a lease on these proper
ties for thirty years, and shall pay for
the first two years 70 cents a ton for
ore mined and 80 cents for the carrying
of the ore from the mines to Duluth on
Mr. Hill's railroads.
"It is further ...provided that after
two years, the price for ore in the
ground shall be increased 5 cents every
two years until at the end of twelve
years the price shall be $1, and stay
at that figure for the remaining eight
een years of the period.
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United States Steel corporation. The i speak slightingly of the interstate
statement follows: I commission, and defendeed that bodv
In reference to the report that a I
He recognizeconsid- the
athe
become fashionable to
such attacks. expressed the
opinion that if the lawyers had dealt
as fairly with the commission as with
the courts the result would have been
better.
N Long Conflict.
Mr. Dolliver declared he did not ex
pect a protracted vendet ta between the
railroads and the business community,
1
ed itL woul'd' be observed by carrier and
shipper alike. predicted that with
in five years there would be boards of
arbitration in every traffic center of the
country, so that appeals to the commis
sion would be the rule rather than the
exception.
He recognized the fact that the ques
tion of appeal to the courts from the
orders of the commission was the bat
tleground, and he declared that, as the
bill stands, it leaves the door to the
courts open for the protection of all
constitutional rights.
He temporarily left that point and
took up the rebate question, saying that $
he did not agree with either Mr. Fora- Xj
ker or Mr. Bacon, that the secret prac-1
tices have been abandoned. did i
not believe the Elkins bill adequate for jij
protection against these practices. jjj
The difficulty about rebates is not {jji
in punishing violations of the law," he
said, "but jn discovering them, and
we have undertaken to amend the law
so as to cover that defect."
QUEEN IS AFRAID TO
YISIT UNITED STATES
Journal Special Service.
Rome, March 1.It is officially an
nounced that Queen Margherita isfis
abandoned her projected trip to the
United States, because, it is reported,
of the disclosures of a plot to kill her,
conceived by the anarcnist group hav
ing headquarters at Paterson, N J.
LEGACY PROBLEM IN
THE BIRTH OF TWINS
Journal Special Service.
Denver, March 1.Joseph W. Mas
well, attornev for the Hobart Sheerer
estate, is about to file a curious petition
in County Judge McCall's court,
supply Sheerer, upon being told he was
fatally ill, made provision for a
child he expected to be born.
Sheerer died, and instead of one child,
there were twins. The will provided
that the child, if a boy, -should have
two-thirds of the estate and the widow
one-third if a girl, she should have ones
third and the widow two-thirds. What
share will the twins, one a boy and the
other a girl, have, is the question At
torney"M
axwe
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INDICT MAYOR, IS
CfllGAGO THREAT
Dunne Held Responsible
Dance-Hall Evil Plot,
Say Friends.*.
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Journal Special Service.
Chicago, March 1.Mayor Dunne
may be indicted by the present grand
jury on the charge of responsibility for
the lawbreaking officially sanctioned in
all-night dance halls. This informa
tion has transpired in connection with
the investigation of the dance hall evil,
by the February jury.
The alleged responsibility of_ the
mayor lies in his issuance of* permits to
the organizers of dances and the pro
prietors of dance halls to sell liquor
after 1 a.m., the legal closing hour for
all saloons and dramshops. Altho no
authority for such practice is discovera
ble in the city code, the mayor continues
to issue these permits.
While it is maintained that the jury
will take no action in the mayor's case
until convinced that he is to blame,
the seriousness of the charges against
,him was made apparent by the state
ment of State's Attorney Healy that
the dance
hall permit is not a legal in-
strument and that the mayor acts on his
own responsibility when he issues one.
Politics, I Charge.-' |V
Mayor Dunne has made public letters
he has received from outsiders criticiz
ing the attitude of Chicago preaehers
and others who ha ve called attention to
his policy of silence on the high license
subject.
The writers of the letters generally
think the crime and saloon agitation is
a blind intended to retard the traction
and other reforms.
Dragnet for Thugs.
The Chicago police department has
put out a dragnet: for the thugs who
have attacked '"seven women within the
last twenty-four hours in this city and
Evanston.-
"Two of the latest victims of street
outlawry were assailed by the same ne-
g6 that attacked and robbed Delia
Troy, 4145 Evans avenue, and a little
girl on thei West Side was the victim of
the same "Jack the Clipper," who has
caused a reign of terror for many weeks
past.
Here is a complete list of the victi ms
of twenty-four hours:
Delia Troy, 4145 Evans avenue,
robbed of purse by negro highwaman
at Fort^seventh street an:d Evans ave
nue. /H-
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Ella Arnbrose, servant,-' 484T" Elite
avenue held up and robbed by-negro
answering description of Miss Troy 's
assailant.
Alice Stray, high school girl, 1809
Asbury avenue, Evanston, attacked and
robbed by negro in Evanston.
Mrs. Sadie Harris, 2704 Dearborn
street attacked by negro highwayman
in the hallway of her home and robbed.
Tillie Friedman, aged 9, 25 Johnson
street victim of hair clipper.
Nellie McSweeney, servant at 8740
Michigan avenue, followed by negro on
Drexel boulevard just before Troy hold
up she confronted him boldly, and he
walked around her without attacking
her.
A woman attacked at Western ave
nue and Madison street by Frank Shea
assailant arrested by Policeman Foley
after desperate fight.
Appointments as rural carriers: Michael S.
Strassener. Danube, Minn. John J. Lee, Lake
Park, Minn.
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ARMOUR GIVES THE
LIE TO STICKNEY
After dealing without gloves, with
the editors who, Mr. Armour declares,
have become party to the organized ef
forts to inflame the public for the sake
of increased circulation, the writer
gives the lie to President Stickney:
Another popular method of incit
i ng prejudice against the packers is" to
represent them as throttling the rail
roads of the country and forcing un
fairly low freight rate on dressed meats
and packing-house products," writes
Mr. Armour. Some railroad officials
have encouraged this misrepresentation.
A banquets and elsewhere they ha ve
tossed off jauntily worded expressions
of rate-making that sound well in the
ears of the inexpert and strengthen
the belief that 'the packers make their
own rates.'
"Mr. A. B. Stickney, president of
Continued en 2d Page, 4th Column.
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Packer Denies the Be%f Trust Dic
tates Freight Rates to the
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Journal ^BpecSlal Service.! sfp&jLj,
Chicago, March 1.J. Ogden Armour
has left the beaten path of Conserva
tism and has entered the field of ag
gressive defense of the packing houses
of Chicago.
declares that' the public mind has
been poisoned against the paekers by
means of organized vilfifications,
the propaganda of slander/" thru
magazines and periodicaiB,- and by
loose-tongued talk and undigested
generalizing by meta supposed to .speak:
authoritatively."
Among these *floose-tongued talk
ers" he names A B,w Stickney, presi
dent of the Chicago1
Great "Western rail-
way, and he publfehes statements- cal-
culated to^show thl^ :Mr. Stickney mis
represented the position ftf?the paefc-j
ers in regard to freight-rate making.
Mr. Armour says the popular mind
has been poisoned to such an extent
that, as a result, he has received a let
ter announcing that his death has been
decreed by "the vigilance committee
for public' safety,'3 and asserting that
he cannot escape tBe "inevitable.
The bold counterblast sounded by-the
packer is embodiedHn the latest install
ment of his history of "The Packers
and the People," published in the cur
rent number of the Saturday Evening
Post (copyrighfc^s\&06, by the Curtis^
Publishing.companmi^ ^r
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THURSDAY %VENiNG^M&RCH i, 1906. i6vPAGE&-FIVE O'CLOCK,
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Stealing Away in the Night, the
fi* Broken Insurance Man
Quits Home. $r
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Journal Special Service.
New York, March 1.A broken, tot
tering old man, whose eyes stared out
vacantly front behind glasses, stole
away under the pall of darkness fast
night from his mansion at Morristown,
N. J. It was Bjchaxd A. McCurdy, the
former president of ther Mutual Life In
surance company, who sailed today' on
the Hamburg-American liner Amerika
for Europe.
The old an seemed afraid of some
thing in leaving the community where
for a quarter of a century and until
onlv a few months ago he as counted*
a great man. But his fear as ground
less, for he would have passed unnoticed
except by'the curious gaze of a small
boy and a policeman.
drove across country from Mor
ristown to Convent, a station two miles
east of Morristown, where everything
was dark and where the Lackawanna
trains stop at night out of force of
habit. There he heaved himself aboard
the local.
I the train were.Eobert H. McCurdy:
and his wife' and a man friend. The
others
boarded the train at Morristown.
With the old man was Mrs. McCurdy,
his daughter, Mrs. Louis A. Thebaud,
and her husband, who went abroad with
him.
The few who were in the car which
the MeCurdys chose didn't seem to
know who the travelers were.
"This heat is good. I am TSO cold,"
said the old man, pathetically, on en
tering the car.
After pulling the cap down tightly
on his closely-cropped head, the old man
turned painfully toward his wiN and
smiled as a child at its, mother.
The McCurdy fami ly will travel in
splendor. on~ the Amerika,.-having the
$25,000 rooms designed especially for
the German emperor,, -$
Coachman Arrested.
Thomas Beddo, Mr. Thebaud's coach
man, who was arrested last night
charged with striking William B. Ma
loney, a reporter who attempted to in
terview Mr. McCurdy as he was about
to board the^teameri was arraigned to
day. The coachman was released at
Maloney's request- The latter stated
to the court that he had learned, that
the coachman had been instructed to
prevent anyone from^approaching his
employe* and that he did*ao wish tt
punish the^aur ff\'r.
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Harmswbrtii I Anxiou s.
London, March 1.Viscount North
cliffe (better known as Sir*Alfr,ed
Harmsworth), chairman of the protec
tion committee of the British policy
holders of the Mutual Life Insurance
company, has cabled to Stuyyesant
Fish the committee's alarm at his res
ignation from the company and urging
him to continue to support genuine re
forms.
CHINESE ENVOYS IN SEATTLE.
Seattle, Wash., March 1.The imperial
Chinese commission en route to Eur op*
to study economic and trade conditions,
has reached Seattle. Official approval
was griven by Prince Tsai Tseh and the
two other commissioners to an entertain
ment program covering two days and in
cluding a special trip to the University
of Washington and a banquet.
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NO MERC FOR THE RIOTERS IN
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, RACE WAR
McCDRDY TOtTEBS
ABOARD A LIKES
KAISER PERSISTS
IN HOSTILE POSE
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Germany's Attitude Threatens to
Break Up the Algeciras..
Conference,
Merchants in France Are Appre
hensive of War^with
,3 Germany.
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Washington, Marh 1.While no im
mediate break in the conference at Al
eeitas-is^ expected by this government,
ho negotiations there ha ve reached the,
stage which,* according to the dis
patches received here, threaten the fail
ure- of the conference unless there is a
-change in the attitude of Germany.
A long conference occurred at the
state dcpartntwitrtoday between Secre
tary Boot and Mr. Jusserand, the
French ambassador, the negotiations at
Algeciras being the main subject dis
cussed. I is not unlikely that somesof^,
the neutral powers more directly inter
ested will renew their efforts to bring
France and Germany into accord.
The_ Washington government, how
ever, it is stated here, is not among the
powers chiefly interested at Algeciras
and cannot be expected to intervene in
European politics. "i^-H ^*lr^
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Frenchmen Apprehensive.
Berlin, March 1.The Confeetion
aire, the principal dry goods journal,
today said:
"The German firms complain bit
terly of bad business with France.
Commercial travelers are unable to
book orders because of the political
feeling. Representatives of a famous
Berlin house who have been traveling
for twenty years in southern "Franc e,
have not got any orders this season, in
spite of the friendly relations which
exist between them and their custom
ers. The French merchants, say that
it is not wise to store goods shortly
before an outbreak of war." 'r-
CONFLICT AGAIN
IN ISLE OF PINES
Cubans a: Americans Likely to
Clash Over Arrest of an
American.
Journal Special Service.
Havan a, March 1.Another conflict
between Cubans and Americans on the
Isle of Pines is threatened by the ar
rest and imprisonment of an Ameri
can, A. W. Moerke, postmaster of
Columbia. Mr. Moerke, besides the
postoffice, keeps a small store and has
not been paying a license.
Cuban authorities at Neuva Gerona
sent an officer, asking Mr. Moerke to
pay. Moerke replied that he did not
object to paying the license, but wished
to know whom to pay, as he was un
aware whether Cubans or Americans
were in control. A official persuaded
Mr. Moerke to go before a judge at
Neuva Gerona to explain, after which,
he said, he might return.
Mr. Moerke consented and went
there. The judge informed him he
must pay the license. refused and
was placed in jail, where, according to
the latest news from the Isle of Pines,
he remains. Mr. Moerke was one of
the officers of the late "territorial
government." His sympathizers threat
en to rescue him from prison. This, if
attempted, will be certain to cause a
conflict between the Cubans and
Americans. MIZNER IS TO GAIN
CONTROL OF MILLIONS
Jcurnal Special Service.
New York, March 1.Mrs. Yerkes
Mizner left to wn yesterday afternoon
for Chicago. She as accompanied by
her private secretary, Miss Fitzpatrick.
Wilson Mizner, her young husband, es
corted her to the Grand Central sta
tion and will follow her probably this
afternoon.
Mrs. Mizner's trip west is being
taken in answer to a rush summons
sent by Louis S. Owsley, co-trustee' with
her under the will of her former hus
band.
It is believed that Mrs. Mizner will
appoint her husband, Wilson Mizner, as
her representative to transact all busi
ness in connection with the estate. That
is the thing the foes of Mizner in the
Yerkes camp have dreaded.
BAER STILL STUDYING
COAL MEN'S DEMANDS
New York, March 1.John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, said today that he had not
yet received a reply from the operators
regarding the demands of the anthra
cite miners which were forwarded to
George F. Baer Tuesday.
W. H. Truesdale, president of the
Lackawanna railroad, said that there
would be no meeting of the operators'
committee today. This committee was
appointed to receive and consider the
miners' propositions, and Mr. Baer is
its chairman.
Indianapolis, March 1.W. Wil
son, international treasurer of the
United Mine Workers of America, to
day issued the official call for a special
national convention in Tomlinson hall,
Thursday, March 15.
Washington, March 1.It was stated
at the White House today that the pres
ident has not extended an invitation
to John Mitchell and Francis L. Bob
bins to come to Washington and. con
fer with him regarding the coal situa-
TROOPS ROUND DP
-ROWDIES IN MO'l
Eight Companies of Militia Patrol7
Streets of Riotous i
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PEACE REIGNS AFTER
A NIGHT OF TERROR
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Citizens Are Uniting in Endeavor
to Stamp Out Violence
i and Vice.
Springfield, Ohio, March 1.When
the sun rose this morning th is city was
at peace, and aside from the preseaaA
of the militiamen there was no visible
evidence of the disorderly scenes of
the night.
After playing a game of tag with
various bands of youthful rowdies who,
for four or five hours last night,
caused most of the disorder, 'the milttia
at an early hour settled.down to rest'
in^ apparently complete control of the
situation. ivj
I was not, however, until Coloa
Charles Ammel, commaiidinfe the -7N
companies of soldiers, issuetd driers
arrest whole parties of men who
found congregated at oneplaee, ftatt
wh o, in some instances, refused at l&ftt
to disperse, that the disorder was
brought into check. The plan adopted i
by the military was to surround & jrron
of men and youths and if they dia
immediately disperse, place fthem nnd
arrest and conduct them td head
ters.
Bowdies Arrested.
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The first result of this plan wsVti
arrest of a gang of fourteen rowdies 1
a squad of police commanded by Sar*
geant Johnson. With in half an bomf
Major Marshall of the Fourth regiment,
commanding a detachment of the
troops, rounded up another party of
nine and took them to headquarters.
From this time forward the crowds
on the streets began to disappear, and
the disorder ceased. I the meantime,
there was intense excitement, whie
was augmented every little while dar
ing thejnight, by the news of A resa
outbreak Somewhere. Widely exag
gerated reports of burning and shooting
*are, cfcg^&ted during the earlie* haga
^f the night.
Few people slept until long after 5
midnight. The net results of the night's
troubles, however, were not so serious
as the riotous scenes might naturallj/
have been expected to produce.
Three- houses ocupied by colored fam
ilies were burned and several others
were stoned. One of the burned houses
is in York street, another in Harrison
and the third in Sycamore, all three in.'
different localities.- but in colored di
tricts. $g
Two persons were injured during the
night. Sarah Thornton, colored, sus
tamed a broken leg by jumping from a
window, and a 15-year-old white boy,
Orl Wallis, received aload of buckuhut -7,
in his leg, while a crowd was stoning a i
house in the rear cf St. Joseph 's church.
Early today Mayor James M. Todd,
Chief of Police Bichard E. O'Brien,
and the commanding militia officer,
Colonel C. S. Ammell, united in the fot
lowing statement:
I rests with Police Judge J. J. Mil
ler to end the riots this morning or en
courage their continuance. The men
and boys who were caught red-handed
by the police and militia last night will
be arraigned before Judge Miller this
morning. If he deals with them with
all the severity the case merits, the
rioters who are sentenced will become
examples to warn those still at large
of the risk they are running. Judge
Miller will th is morning hold the key tc
the situation. The present outcpm
rests with him."
What the Judge iHd. 'J*
Twenty-five rioters were arraign,*
in police court this morning*. Sixtee,
were charged with rioting, four of
whom had the additional charge of car
rying concealed weapons. These four
were each fined $200 and costs and sent
to the Xen ia workhouse until .the fine
and costs are paid. Those charged with
disorderly conduct we re fined $50 and
costs.
Guarded by two companies of the
Third regiment, the prisoners, Edward
Dean and Preston Ladd, were brought
here from Dayton today and taken to
the city hospital to be identified by
Martin Davis, the wounded brakeman.
There was no disturbance on the way
to the hospital, as their coming was
not generally known. Davis, the in
iured brakeman, identified Edward"
Dean, but failed to identify Ladd.
The authorities are hoping against
hope that Davis may not die. They I
believe that every moment this an
lives gives that much more time forg 1
the disturbed conditions to subside. I
If he should die it is feared that mora
trouble will follow.
Citizens Are to Unit e.
One of the striking results of the out
break is the citizens' movement, which
was started last evening, and which i
rapidly taking form today in a call be
ing issued for a meeting of the Commer-'
cial club this evening. I is expected
that this movement will not only have
much to do with restoring order, but
will be made permanently effective ia
future emergencies. The business men
of the ci ty are convinced that there has
been too much leniency in the handling
of rowdies.
There is a demand that the riotera*
who are arrested be dealt with severely.
A number of attorneys asserted today
that th ey would refuse to defend tha
rioters. Others state that if called
upon in such cases they will let the law
take its course without technical inter*}
ference and will provide only such
fense as. will insure justice.
The Greatest Sufferers^*
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