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MILE RS OF NEILL
REBUKED BY DAIS1 1
packers' Congressmen 1 Attack
Government Investigator and
Minnesota Protests.
GOPHER AS PROTECTOR
AIDS BEVERIDGS BILL
Discrediting of Beef Trust's Sup
porters Wfcis Votes for
Administration.
TIPTON A A PACKER.
Journal Special Service.
Chicago, June 8.Rumoi's to the ef
fect tlut a new stcck yards with Sir
Thomas J. Lipton of London as its chief
backer, is to be established near Gary,
Ind., adjacent to the property of the
United btales Steel corporation, are in
firculation. Several of the best known
real estate men in Chicago were named
among those said to be acquiring land
for the purpose.
Altho the 'story generally was dis
credited among the packers, it was de
clared that at least six plants are to be
removed from Chicago to Indiana.
Building Commissioner Bartzen and
Banitary Commission Hedrick have
served notice on the packers to make
improvements, which, it is estimated by
Bartzen, will cost close to $1,000,000.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, June 8.Representative
Davis of Minnesota was a star per
former yesterday afternoon in the house
committee on agriculture during the
beef-trust hearings. He came into
prominence thru his effort, which was
successful, by the way, to prevent the
beef-trust members of the committee
from badgering and tantalizing and
otherwise annoying and attempting to
take advantage of and confuse Labor
Commissioner Neill, who helped to make
the president's inspection of the Chi
cago packing houses.
Commissioner Neill was on the stand
early all day, and he made an exceed
ingly interesting and valuable witness.
Representatives Wadsworth, chairman
f the committee Lorimer of Chicago,
Brooks of Colorado and Scott of Kan
las started to discredit him, and
familiar to lawyers, but from which
Witnesses are usually protected by the
lourt in a case at law.
Commissioner Neill's testimony was
i reiteration of his previous sensational
itory of the horrors of packingtown.
He described again the filth evident on
all sides and the depraving conditions
Under which the employees were com
pelled to work
There was no protection for Mr.
Keill, however, until Representative Da
vis arose in his place and insisted that
MessrB. Brooks, Lorimer, Wadsworth
nd Scott, who, in fact, had been act
ng as attorneys for the beef trust,
ad no right to proceed in the way
which had characterized their examina
tion of Mr. Neill that far.
Brooks Emits Boar.
Brooks had lust been asking Neill
Juestions,
ffei
and he took what Mr. Davis
ad said as being meant for him per
sonally.
"You have no right to interrupt me
In this Way," roared Brooks.
"Ye s, 1 have replied Davis. "In
a court the "judge would protect the
witness from the abuse you are heap
ing upon him, but here he is without
such protection, and for one I want
to go on record as protesting against
it in the name of fair play. Let the
witness answer the questions you ask
him, and do not ask others when you
discover that his first answers do not
luit you."
There was a further exchange of
pleasantries between Davis and Brooks
after Davis had made his point, and
it is said that it reached a stage where
the two will not speak unless Brooks
acts the man and apologizes for his
Conduct.
Following the protest of Mr. Davis
there was a protest from Mr. Lamb of
Virginia, also a member of the commit
tee, who said he was glad Mr. Davis
had said what he had.
All Agree with Davis.
I was on the point of taking the
Initiative myself," he remarked.
Mr. Henry of Connecticut agreed
with Mr. Lamb, as did Mr. Bowie of
Alabama, all of them saying that it
was a disgrace the way commissioner
Neill had been treated by some of the
members of the committee.
Commissioner Neill was then invited
to tell the committee how he felt he
had been treated, and he replied in a
dignified, gentlemanly way which car
ried conviction and won support. He
laid that he had not been treated fairly.
He had been asked questions and given
no opportunity to answer them. He
had been taunted, reviled, attacked by
Insinuation and innuendo, and in various
Jravs an attempt had been made to dis
Bredit him.
If a committee of the attending con-
Scs,B
'es could afford to adopt such tac
it was all right, but such oon
iuct ran counter to his ideas of fair
play and common -justice, and he was
Bompelled to admit his surprise that
uch things could be.
Wilson Well Treated.
He was especially surprised whence
{emembereshowne
th consideration which
ad been Mr Wilson, the repre
sentative of the packing houses, on the
day before. As the result of the clash
it is claimed that the committee is al
most sure to make a maio^ity report
in favor of tho Bevendge amendment
with such changes as may be necessary
to make it workable.
So far as can be discovered, Messrs.
Wadsworth, Lorimer, Scott and Brooks
are standing almost alone in a commit
tee of seventeen members, while on the
day before it looked as if they had a
maiority on their side.
During the noon recess, there was an
executive meeting of the committee,
called that Mr. Wadsworth might bring
tip the proposition that the committee
visit Chicago, to inspect the packing
houses.
Mr. Davis of Minnesota was the first
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C. R. DAVIS,
Minnesota Congressman Who Rebuked
Beef Trust Friends.
*,'t" FILTH IS HASTILY
HID BY PACKERS
President Comments on Humorous
Activity of Packers in Re
port to Probers.
Washington, June 8.In response to
a request from the house committee on
agriculture, President Roosevelt today
forwarded to Eepresentative Wads
worth, chairman of the committee, the
report made to him by a committee of
the department of agriculture regard
ing conditions in the Chicago meat
packing houses.
Accompanying the report was a let
ter from the president, which he
points out that there is no conflict in
substance between the Neill-Reynolds
report and that of the agricultural de
partment experts.
It is said in the lafest report that
the packing-house proprietors are mani
festing almost a humorous haste to
clean up, repave and even to plan for
future changes." New toilet rooms Are
being provided, with additional dress
port sayTfihar^hehaste towaTdsre*
form would have been amusing if it
were not So nearly tragic."
The president says his investigations
have not been completed, but that
"enough has been developed in my
judgment to call for immediate, thoro-
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WATTERSON IS OUT
WITH BRYAN BOOM
Kentucky Editor Predicts Ne
braskan's Triumph in Presi
dential Race.
Journal Special Service.
LOUISA llle, Ky., June 8.Henry Wat
terson has come out as the champion of
William Jennings Bryan, and in an edi
torial under the heading: "Hurrah for
Bryan," predicts the nomination of the
Nebraskan by the democrats two years
hence, and his subsequent election.
Watterson reviews the republican party
at some length and concludes as fol
lows:
The republican party is a mammoth
trust. It is the greatest of all the
syndicates. It could not, if it would,
mend any of the abuses which have
grown up under its*administration, and
appear in every department of the pol
itical, commercial and economical are
na. There is a moral awakening. There
is a popular revulsion and uprising.
There must be a thoro overhauling of
the system, a complete change of par
ties in the government, and no matter
how attractive the president may ap
pear in the character of a reformer, or
how successfully he may shape the ele
ments so as to force his party to accept
him, or defeat, in 1908, there is a preva
lent belief, which may prove irresisti
ble, that Mr. Bryan has served his pro
bation and earned his reward that in
his person stands an actual and visible
victim of all that is wanton and crim
inal in our politics that with increas
ing years and study and travel have
come increasing wisdom that, in short
he can be trusted to take the helm and
steer us away fromthe breaekers of
gang and graft politics, having its
headquarters in the republican steer
ing committee of the senate, and inthe
republican speaker and his rules Com
mittee of the house."
ALCaH^lITMiDE
LAW BY PRESIDENT
Washington, June 8.The president
today signed the denatured alcohol bill.
QUMEIMDIDT TE IS
UMISSED BLUSHER
Philadelphia, June 8.Former Mayor
Edwin Stuart of this city, who was
nominated by the republicans for gov
ernor, earned the title of the '*great
unkissed" long before Gladstone Dowie
was ever heard of America. Stuart
is a bachelor of precise and rigid habits.
His friends declare that neyer in his
life has he been kissed save by his
mother. In his younger days ho was
sometimes called Blushing Ned.'' Ex
cept that he once .served a term as
mayor, and that he is a trustee of
Gir'ard college, in which he takes a deep
interest, Mr. Stuart has not done any
thing his life except buy and sell
second-hand books.
24 ^\GESFIVE O'CLOCK FRIDAY EVENING/JUNE 8/1906.'
Russian Workers Killed in Fierce
Fight with Persian Strike
Breakers.
Tsaritsin, Russia, June 8.In a fight
here yesterday between Persians, whom
local contractors had imported to take
the places of striking longshoremen,
and a mob of strikers, a score of the
latter were killed.
VOLLEY AT MINERS
MOWS DOWN EIGHT
Quaker State Constabulary De
tachment Fires on Strikers'
Parade.
Indiana, Pa., June 8.The new min
ing town of Ernest, five miles from
between a^detauoi state-^ee-BstabulaTir
and striking coal miners, in which eight
strikers were wounded, three of. them
fatally.
Shortly after daylight a body of
strikers, headed by a brass band,
marched from-Anita mines, in Jeffer
son county, to receive one. of the mine
officials expected from Punxsutawney.
On the way to the station the marchers
encountered a detail of twelve mem
bers of the state constabulary. As they
passed a member of the band fired his
revolver at the troops. No one was
struck, but the constabulary immediate
ly retaliated with a volley.
When the smoke cleared eight
strikers were lying on the ground and
the others had fled down the hill.
All is now quiet and no more trouble
at this time is expected.
MAN AND WIFE KILLED.
Cincinnati, June 8 Ina Martinde and his wife
while walking along the railroad track last night
were struck by a Cincinnati Southern train and
Instantly kiUed.
SEDITION SPREADS THRU, NATION.
-$
20 STRIKERS SLAIN
I TOILERS' BATTLE
Journal Special Service,
S:. Petersbuig, June 8.Dispatches from several provinces, especially in tha northwest, represent the peasant
revolt as rapidly spreading. Peasants are burning the property of land owners and resisting the police and soldiery.
There is .also a systematic refusal to pay rent or taxes or furnish recruits for the army.
Altho the social revolutionists have proclaimed a temporary cessation of the terrorist campaign, there is little
abatement in the murders of police officials in the interior.
Moanted gendarmes yesterday evening charged a crowd of workmen at the government cartridge factory at
Vassili-Ostrov, who emerged from a meeting singing the "Marseillaise." The gendarmes used thejr whips and
sabers, injuring many and wounding two men seriously.
Sedition Spreads to Army and
Peasants Are Exhorted
to Rise.
Czar, Buffeted Between Rival
Parties, May Oust New
Premier.
Moscow, June 8.There is a notice
able increase in revolutionary activity
here, and it is evident that tne leaders
are preparing to take advantage of. the
first opportunity to start an armed up
rising.
The workmen of the factories and
mills are being systematically armed
with Mauser rrflgs and drilled under the
supervision,^ aflfmy reserve soidiors. In
spite of '4 repressive measures
adopted by 3fce authorities revolution
ary meetings fere held nightly in the in
dustrial sections.
The leadef* appear confident that the
loyalty of the troops of the garrison is
undermined, as)' they have received from
some regiments promises of support in
the event of a^ conflict.
Peassuj|s Urged, to Kise.
[Revolutionary emissaries have been
sent out in all'dire^iions into the coun
try to incite, the land-hungry peasants
to appropriate land and strike on the
big -estates.
The jpiajaiea'iaexitly is to secure unity
"of action iftb country andjjjties and.
rnanguTKte Vanict with a greneW
strike. Theueaders evidently hope for
a complete' rupture between, the gov
ernment an4 parliament which would
furnish the .necessary opportunity for
an uprising. The situation has greatly
alarmed the business men of Moscow
and the^big landlords of the country.
Gloomy News from Interior.
Dispatches from the interior continue
gloomy and show that tho gradual 'ex-
tension of the agrarian disorders and
partial strikes now affect twelve prov
inces. The latest disturbances reported
are at Kieff and Tver. Numerous colli
sions between peasants and rural
guards have taken place but nothing in
tne nature of masjj movements as yet
occurred.
A sensation has been caused by the
disclosures of M. "Vladmiroff, a corre
spondent of the Twelfth Cfentury, for-
Continued on 2d Page, 3d Column.
VOLUTIONIST
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THE SAME, ONLY DIFFERENT.
^Bill Bryan (radical) to Wm. -J. Bryan (conservative)Allow me to congratulate you, Mr^
Bryan, on your very general indorsement. Hope you'll have better* luck than I had. Sb
&awrc-s)wwKi
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HUNGER MAY END
STRIKE OF MINERS
Ohio Workers, Without Funds,
May B Forced to Give
Up Fight.
Dillonvale, Ohio, June 8.The min
ers in this district are a disappointed
lot since the adjournment of the Col
umbus joint convention without an
agreement. With the majority of them
in straightened circumstances and no
funds in their treasury, it is doubtful
if they will remain out much longer.
OLD MAN WHIPPED
BY ANGRY WOMAN
Little Minnesota Town at White
Heat Over Series of Sensa
tional Affairs.
jftgecial to The Journal*
Madison fuA% Mto&V J4W &^2c
horse-whipping, a threatened duel and
the arrest and conviction of a justice of
the peace have stirred this little place
into a white heat of excitement.
A. B. Cole, more than 75 years of age,
is alleged to have made derogatory re
marks about Mrs. Julius Reinsberg, at
whose house he once boarded. These
stories coming a
SHOWERS TONIGHT AND POSSIBLY SATURDAY.
a on
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to Mrs. Reinsberg's
ears, she is said "to have armed herself
with a horsewhip and to have attacked
him.
Then Reinsberg appeared on the
scene and both he and Cole are reported
to have drawn guns. The village mar
shal for once opportunely came along
and the duel was prevented.
Cole had Reinsberg, who is a justice
of the peace, arrested, and^he was fined
$10 and placed under a bond of $200 to
keep the peace. Then Cole was arrested
and fined for carrying concealed weap
ons.
Cole now threatens to get out a war
rant for Mrs. Reinsberg.
S GOVERNOR BLANCHARD,
Louisiana Governor Who Led Fire
Fighters.
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WEARING NIGHTIES,
SOLONS FIGHT FIRE
Governor Leads Citizens in Battle
Save Louisiana's
Capitol.
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Baton Rouge, La., June 8.The sav
ing of the statea capitol building from
complete destruction by fire last night
was accomplished in a spectacular man
ner in which Governor Blanchard, as
sisted by many Louisiana legislators,
dressed in their mghtclothes, and by
thousands of citizens supnlementing the
fire department.
The fire started from defective wiring
near the roof of the senate chamber, de
stroying the capitol's eastern wing
above the first floor. The damage was
between $50,000 and J$100,000.
Among the valuables in the ruined
senate chamber where the roof fell in
was the famous painting, "The Battle
of New Orleans," said to have been
valued at $40,000.
Governor Blanchard directed the
legisiatSre now being ia session the
senate will meet today in the Elks' the
ater.
The capitol is an imposing piece of
architecture on the bank of the Missis
sippi. It was first built in 1847 and
was destroyed by fire during the civil
war after federal troops evacuated it.
The present structure was erected in
1880.
WEEPS AT BIER OF
CHILD HE GDI OFF
Rich Man Grief-Stricken at Tragic
Death of Neglected
Daughter.
Journal Special Service.
New York, June 8.Beside the cof
fin of his daughter, upon whose face he
gazed for the first time in eight years,
Dr. 8. Andral Kilmer mourns today
and will not be comforted. His grief is
the greater because he cannot forget
the look of determination in her eyes
as she'had left home, a girl of 16, with
his parting injunction: "You must
make your own way."
Edith Kilmer had enjoyed all the lux
uries and advantages of a millionaire's
daughter. Dr. Kilmer is owner of a
proprietary medicine. The family home
is one of the most beautiful in Bing
hamton.
When Miss Kilmer left the parental
roof she went to the home of her aunt,
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Kilmer, in Jamaica,
L. I., where the latter's son, Professor
C. J. Kilmer, conducts a sanatorium for
the treatment of cancer. Miss Kilmer
became a nurse.
It was a case of cancer which she
was called upon to undertake last Sat
urday. In moving a screen she re
ceived a tiny prick on a finger of her
right hand. The punctured finger came
in contact with the virus of cancer.
Two hours later the right hand* and
arm began to swell and Miss Kilmer
told of the wound on her finger. Emi
nent spicialists failed to save her life.
URGES GONYIGTION OF
PACKERS AS REBATERS
Kansas City, June 8.A. S. Van Val
kenburgh district attorney for the west
ern district of,Missouri, in the federal
court here this morning presented the
government's side of the cas* of Ar
mour & Co., Swift & Co., Cudahy &
Co. and the Nelson-Morris Packing
company, on trial on a charge of ac
cepting rebates from the Burlington
railway on export shipments.
Mr. Van Valkenburgh declared that
the packing company's acceptance of a
rate of 23 cents a hundred pounds,
when the regular tariff was 35 cents,
was a* plain violation of the interstate
commerce act.-
SIX HURT LEAPING
FROM BURNING HOTEL
'-Lawton. Okla., June 8.Fire early to
day destroyed the Palace hotel at Wau
rika in Comanche county near here,
causing a loss of $50,000. Half a dozen
persons were injured slightly by jump
ing" from windows.
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LAKE LIFTED DP,
SCATTERED AFAR
Fright-Stricken Citizens of Ham
Lake See Appalling Power
of Tornado.
HOUSES HURLED 200
FEET INTO THE AIR
Clean Swath Mowed Thru
Timbered Isle in the Midst
of the Lake.
Special to The JonroaL
Anoka, Minn., June 8.A tornado
having a funnel-shaped cloud and ex
hibiting all the characteristics of the
real, thing fell upon the Ham Lake
country, nine miles east of Anoka, on'
Wednesday evening and smote it hip
and thigh.
Many persons who watched the spec
tacle vouch for the fact that a large
quantity of water was sucked up from
Ham lake and came out over the top of
the cloud in the shape of an immense
umbrella. Citizens took to their cellars
and one family, that of Peter Johnson,
were saved by lying prone on the
ground in their yard. All their build*
ings were damaged.
The house and other buildings of
F. A. Blanchard were destroyed. A
neighbor saw the house of Blanchard
200 feet in the air. Only a few pieces
of boards which were part of it can be
found. All the furniture and house*
hold goods have completely disap
peared.
A horse was carried a long distance
and landed in a marsh unhurt. The
town hall at Ham Lake was moved fif
teen feet. Sheds which surrounded the
hall cannot be found. Not a scrap re
mains to mark the place where they
stood.
A clean swath was mowed thru
heavily timbered island in Ham lake.
All kinds of farm animals showed the
utmost fear before the storm struck.
The area damaged was from 100 to 300
feet wide and was ten miles in length.
The homes of ten farmers were either
destroyed or heavily damaged.
SUjraiSE IS SAFE
County About it, However, Suffered
from the Storm.
SunriBe, Minn., June 8.This little
town, for whose safety much anxiety
was felt, escaped uninjured. The
storm devastated the country three
miles from town, but did not hit the vil
lage itself.
The fine new frame house of William
Stevens was turned over and literally
blown to pieces. Mr. and Mrs. Steven
were in the house, but escaped without
fatal injuries, tho Mr. Stevens was
bruised and Mrs. Stevens received a bad
cut over the eye.
From the Stevens place it went to the
farm of M. W. Doming, about a quar
ter of a mile distant, where it complete
ly destroyed every building. Mr. Dom
ing was not at home, but the remainder
of the family, nine in number, were
saved by the presence of mind of Ar
thur, the oldest of the boys at home,
who saw the storm coming and got them
into a roothouse near by.
He says that when the greatest foree
of the storm had passed he looked out,
and the first thing he saw was their
team of horses coming down to the
Se
ound, it having been taken up into
air. The horses landed on their
feet and were not injured, but were
still tied to the plank of a manger,,
where they had been secured in Ihe
barn.
LOSSES ABOUT NORTH BEAKOH
Many Farm Buildings DestroyedMi
raculous Escape of Residents.
North Branch, Minn., June 8.Re-
ports from the scene of destruction
wrought by the tornado are constantly
coming in. The losses known so far are: i
Charles Strait's buildings destroyed.
Mr. Gustafson's buildings destroyed no
one seriously injured. Mr. Magnuson's
house and buildings completely swept
away, not leaving as much as a piece of
board to show where they stood. Mr.
EndahFs residence and outbuildings de
stroyed and Mr. Endahl, Sr killed by
the falling debris. Milton Deming'S
house and outbuildings destroyed no
one seriously injured. William Stevens'
residence and outbuildings destroyed
no one seriously injured. ,S
The county poor farm escaped with -*j
the loss of* outbuildings and a porch 4
torn off, windows broken and chimneys
blown down. Loss to poor farm esii- ,1
mated at $5,000. *jf
Charles Jones' residence and Out
buildings swept away no one injured.
Reports from the path of the tornado
passing west of here show that it Was -j^T-f
about ns destructive. Mr. Sproed'e res- J-***^
idence and Outbuildings were destroyed ^"*m
and Mr. Sproed severely injured.
Mr. Keocher's residence and out
buildings were destroved no on# sen
ously injured. MT. Egelkraut's resi-%^
dence and outbuildings were destroyed
no one seriously injured. Fred Onis'
residence and barn destroyed no one
seriously injured. Mr. Nordquist lost
house and barns, and farm machinery.
Mrs. Hokanson's house and* barn
were,
destroyed. Mr. Erickson of Fish
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TOHELL HOT TO QUIT.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 8.Authorilaitve an
nouncement was made at miners' headquarters
that John Mitchell haa no Intention of resigning
from the union.
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house and outbuildings destroyed and
much stock killed.
STORM'S ROAR HEARD FOR MILES
Many Injured in Country District Near
Decorah, Iowa. *&****
Special to The Journal.
Decorah, Iowa, June 8.A tornado
passed over a section of ytvaaeaapix.
county, doing much damage and injur* I
ing several persons. Within a radius
of a few miles of Locust, a postoffice
twelve miles north, not less than $50,-
000 damage had resulted. _,
At Edward Thorson's the barn and
residence were destroyed, and all the
persons in the h6use were injured. The
youngest son was buried in the ruins
of the house and when rescued was"
found to be in a serious condition. At
Kittle Sorenson's the barn and wind
mill were blown away, but four horses
in the barn were uninjured.
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