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VOL. XXVI.—NO. 263.
PRESIDENT IS TOLD
OF HIS MISTAKES
Chicago Federation of Labor Declares Rcosevelt Hon
est and Humane, but Uninformed—Chief Executive
Announces That He Will Not Be Dictated to or Intimi
dated by Unions in Miller Case.
CHICAGO, Sept. 20. — President
Roosevelt today was voted by the
Chicago Federation of Labor a 9,000
■word letter of advice in which fault
Is found with the president's attitude
on the question of open shops.
The letter was prompted by the de
cision of the president in the Miller
case, in which he said that Miller or
any other man must not be discharged
from the government printing office on
»■ count of non-membership in a union.
"Deliciously unaware of the hypoc
risy of the world of finance," "honest
and humane, but uninformed," were
some of the clauses used to describe
the president in the long letter of the
open shop committee.
Its opening paragraphs contained a
definite disclaimer of any wish to at
tack Mr. Roosevelt, the blame for the
chief executive's attitude in the Miller
affair being placed on "a coterie of cer
tain well known interests which are
constantly on guard around the White
house."
The president was told that he fell
Jnto error in his view of the question,
'"because of that impetuosity for which
we love you."
A copy of the communication will be
forwarded to Oyster Bay at once under
date of Labor Day, Sept. 7.
The reading of the letter before the
federation meeting today occupied over
TRACY MAN HUNT IS
REPEATED IN NEBRASKA
Sheriffs, Detectives and Farmers Vainly Pursue Thomas Madi>
son, the Murderer of Three Smith County Women.
OMAHA, Neb., Sept 20. —Four days'
search by sheriffs, deputies, detectives
and farmers, In posses aggregating 200,
foi Thomas Madison, believed to be the
murderer of three women in Smith
county last week, has developed feat
ures similar to those in the Tracy man
hunt on the Pacific coast.
Madison is as mysterious in his hid
ing places as Pat Crowe. Special tele
giams from Cowles and Hastings tell
of a family compelled at the gun's muz
zle to furnish him with food, and of a
bold assault on a farmer named Hyatt,
whom he compelled to drive him a mile
off the path of the posses. Madison has
BURN EDITOR'S HOME
South Dakota Cattle Thieves
Start on the War Path.
Special to The Globe.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Sept. 20.—Some
of the cattle rustlers, who for years
have infested Lyman county on the
Missouri river in the central portion of
the state, appear to have decided upon
Kentucky methods to drive from that
region men who have the .courage to
demand that cattle stealing in the
county must cease.
E. L. Senn, a pioneer Dakotan and
editor of the Pioneer, a weekly nevvs
psper published at the little town of
lona, in the southern part of Lyman
county, has for some time been de
nouncing the cattle rustlers and de
ir&nding that they be brought to jus
tice. By reason of his strong and per
sistent pleas for law and order he has
made himself so obnoxious to some of
the cattle thieves that they decided
upon revenge.
This assumed the form of a midnight
visit to the farm of the editor, situated
a few miles from lona, where the in
cendiaries, during the absence of the
editor and his family, set fire to and
destroyed every building on the place.
The loss to the newspaper man was
considerable, as he had no insurance
on any of the property which was de-
Btroyed.
Editor Senn, with his family, recently
established their permanent residence
at lona, abandoning the farm, and a
man had been engaged to move the
belongings to their new home. For
tunately, the library, documents and
Borne furniture and clothing had been
moved prior to the raid of the "fire
buss."
An examination the next morning
»>ho\ved that horsemen, how many could
not be told—had ridden up to the farm
and tied their animals to a fence near
the buildings, afterwards departing.
Cattle had partially obliterated the
tracks made by the horses, so the
trails could not be followed.
Tho immediate effect of the de
struction of Senn's property will be
to very materially strengthen the hands
of Sheriff Pickett. State's Attorney
Bartine and other officers of the county
vrho, since assuming the duties of their
offices the first of the present year,
have been waging a relentless warfare
against the rustlers, a number of whom
already have been landed in the Sioux
Falls penitentiary, with another
"bunch" In sight when the next term
of stale circuit court is held.
Was James Van Fleet Scudder.
HAVRE, France. Sept. 20.—The
American tourist who, with his wife,
■was slightly injured In an automobile
accident Jn Bolbec, seventeen and one
half miles from here, yesterday, and
whose name was then given as Sad
dler, has been Identified as James Van
Fleet Scudder, of Boston, Mass.
The Only Democratic Newspaper of General Circulation In the Northwest.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE.
an hour and excited applause from the
crowd of delegates.
Dispatches from Oyster Bay say
President Roosevelt has declared he
will not be dictated to or intimidated
by the labor unions in the case of
Bookbinder Miller, now at work in the
government printing office.
The president has received a set of
unfriendly resolutions from the Cen
tral Labor union, of Washington, and
has sent to the secretary of the organ
ization a formal reply, which is merely
to the effect that he has received the
communication. It is not probable that
the president will vouchsafe any fur
ther answer to the union, but undoubt
edly take some measures soon to coun
teract the effect of . the antagonistic
action.
"It may be stated emphatically and
almost officially," says the dispatch
from Oyster Bay, "that President
Roosevelt will not accede to the de
mand of the union by ordering the dis
missal of Miller. The president is a
member of one of the affiliated bodies
and is in thorough sympathy with all
the legitimate aims of the men who
toil. He will not, and cannot, however,
allow the unions, as he regards the
question, to over-ride the laws and the
rules of the government departments,
simply because they are unions and
have power at the polls.
"President Roosevelt announced to a
friend several weeks ago when the Mil
ler case came up that rather than to
accede to such demands he would go
down to defeat."
subsisted four days off corn on the
ear. This explains why he keeps in
the cornfields. Ears partly eaten were
found by pursuers.
A message from Guide Rock, by way
of Hastings, says that Madison was
seen there driving a team so tired the
horses could hardly move. He was al
most to the state line. The team cor
responds to the description of one a
farmer named McConkey maintains
Madison stole from his stable while he
was too frightened to offer resistance.
Lynching is certain if Madison is
caught, but his escape 1 is probable, ac
cording to the latest reports.
TROUBLE FOR PARKS
Famous Labor Delegate May
Be Ignored at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 20.—Sam
Parks, of New York, arrived in this
city tonight to attend the convention
of the International Bridge and Struc
tural Iron Workers, which will meet
here tomorrow. His arrival aroused
much activity among the delegates al
ready here, an activity which presages
a lively fight when the committee on
credentials shall report to the con
vention in the morning. Parks is a
member of Local No. 2, which was
suspended by President Buchanan aft
er Parks' recent imprisonment, and an*
other local union, No. 2, was estab
lished. The executive committee of
the organization did not ratify the
action of President Buchanan, and
Parks and his partisans assert that the
action of the president is therefore
null and void.
The local union of which Parks was
or is a member, in New York, has sent
a delegation, of which Parks is a mem
ber, to the convention, and the local
union which was organized after Parks
and his local union was suspended also
sent a delegation. The strength of the
Parks and anti-Parks factions in the
convention will be decided when one
of these contesting delegations shall be
seated.
Charles D. Wilson Marries.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 20.—
Charles D. Wilson, manager of the
Ward & Yokes company, was married
today to Miss Dorothy Bidd, a member
of the company, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. Dr. Mitchell, of the
First Methodist Episcopal church, in
the church chapel.
THE NEWS INDEXED.
PAGE !.
Millionaire Son Killed.
Bail Player Seriously Injured.
Rev. S. G. Smith Discusses Negro.
PAGE N.
Have Duel on the Street.
Minneapolis Maiters.
PAGE II!.
Polk County Developments.
PAGE IV.
Editorial Comment.
News of the Northwest.
PAGE V.
Baseball.
PAGE VI.
Globe Popular Wants.
PAGE VII.
Markets.
PAGE VIII.
Book Reviews.
MONDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 21, 1903.
MILLIONAIRE'S SON
KILLED BY POLO BALL
Nathan Swift Dies From Effects
of Blow on Temple Re
ceived in Game.
CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Nathan, son of
Louis F. Swift, the packer, died to
day from the effects of a play on the
temple with a polo ball at Onwentsia
field, during a game. The accident
was at first thought to be trifling.
Swift was playing in a contest in which
his companions were Frederic Mc-
Laughlin, W. W. Rathbone, Walter
Farrell, Sidney Love, Walter Keith,
R. R. McCormick and Charles Garfield
King.
The ball which struck Swift, was one
that went high in the air and from
the mallet of Mr. Love. Swift did not
appreciate his danger until too late,
the glare of the sun preventing him
from following the ball in its flight.
When the ball hit him he did not fall
from his saddle and when his compan
ions went to his side, he was at first
inclined to make light of the injury.
He was induced to dismount, but
walked without aid from the field. Ar
riving at home he complained of dizzi
ness, and later he went into a delirium,
which was followed by his death.
The accident which resulted in Mr.
Swift's demise, occurred yesterday af
ternoon. During the night an opera
tion was performed to relieve a rup
tured blood vessel near the brain. The
operation, which was performed at
the country home of the Swift family,
"West Leigh," in Lake county, seemed
to give relief, but the effect was only
temporary. Three physicians worked
over him constantly until the end.
Nathan Swift was born in Chicago,
in 1881. He was an enthusiastic ath
lete, being especially devoted to foot
ball and polo.
Music Hall Singer Murdered.
PARIS, Sept. 20. —Eugenic Fourgere,
a well known music hall singer, was
murdered during Friday night in her
villa at Aix-les-Baines. A female ser
vant was also murdered and another
was so maltreated that she has lost her
reason. Robbery was the motive for
the crime.
LINARES A DEAD CITY
Mexican Town Practically
Wiped Out by Yellow Fever.
MONTEREY, Mex., Sept. 20.—Dr.
Roy Martin, quarantine inspector for
the government, who recently returned
from Linares, declares that the city is
dead commercially and practically dead
financially through the prevalence of
yellow fever. There are less than 10,
--000 people in Linares and there are
fully 2,000 persons sick from various
ailments.
Recent advices from Vasquez state
that few cases exist in that district.
The authorities of Victoria feel that
they have now stamped out the ail
ment.
Mr. J. D. Leonard and R. F. Murphy,
road and bridge contractors on the
Mexico & Monterey railway, report a
destitute condition existing among the
different construction camps along the
road. He says there is scarcely a camp
along Lhe line without yellow fever and
there are many deaths. As these
camps must be centers of infection it
would be well to close them up until
the epidemic has passed.
Tampico is steadily diminishing the
number of cases of yellow fever, the
average number of cases weekly now
being seven.
Quarantine at Laredo.
LAREDO, Tex., Sept. 20.—This city
is still maintaining a vigorous quaran
tine against Nuevo Laredo, Mex. Little
news of a reliable kind can be secured
from across the river.
SULTAN FEARS A WAR
Crafty Turk Drafts Decrees
When Trouble Is Threatened.
LONDON, Sept. 20.—The Balkan sit
uation presents few new features to
day. The German emperor's influ
ence at Vienna is said to have been
thrown in favor of allowing the sultan
the utmost freedom in suppressing the
insurrection. Both Turks and Macedo
nians claim the victories in the daily
encounters.
A dispatch from Sofia states that
Bulgaria's military preparations are
reaching the stage of perfection that
will enable the concentration of 200,
--000 men on the frontier within a week
and that the stocks of provisions,
weapons and ammunition are rapidly
becoming efficient.
According to a dispatch from Con
stantinople to the Daily Telegraph the
sultan is so firmly resolved to avoid
a war that on the report that France
was sending a fleet to Turkish waters
and again when it was stated that Bul
garia was mobilizing he drafted a de
cree forbidding massacres in Macedo
nia and conferring more extensive local
administrative privileges than had
been demanded by the insurgents
themselves, but on each occasion find
ing the rumors unfounded the decree
was rescinded.
It is believed, however, that, should
any power threaten a demonstration
in Turkish waters, the decree will be
signed.
The Sofia correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph gives a similar report that
the sultan is ready to concede local
autonomy, but will not grant interna
tional control of a Christian governor
to Macedonia.
A dispatch from the monastery of
Rila says the Greeks are joining the
revolt in the districts of Menlik and
Demi Hassir.
The Constantinople correspondent of
the Times declares that he has good
authority for asserting that several
Servian bands have already crossed the
frontier and are now meeting in Mace
donia.
If Bulgaria fights Turkey, it will be
difficult for Servia to lag behind, and
it is quite clear that a Turco-Bulgarian
war would not be bo one-sided as at
first sight it appears.
EITHER KILL i
EDUCATE THE NEGRO
Rev. S. G. Smith Arrives at
This Solution of the
Race Problem.
The problem is ours and we must
face It. The white men brought the
n€gro here, and we must determine
whether we will educate or kill them.
It is of no matter to this country at
large that a few black men are killed
and dismembered, but the brutaliza
tion of the mob which Is engaged in
such an outrage is what we cannot
stand.
Booker T. Washington should not
be taken as an example of the negro
race, for he is anthropologically a
freak. It would be well if the country
had more of the freaks.—Rev. S. G.
Smith. . *
"It is of no matter to this country at
large that a few black men are killed
and dismembered, but the brutalization
of the mob is what we cannot stand,"
said Rev. S. G. Smith last night in the
course of his evening sermon, the sub
ject of which was: "Must the Black
Man Go?"
In introducing his discourse, Dr.
Smith said he would discuss the ques
tion not from a Northern or Southern
or a white or a negro point of view,
but from a standpoint achieved by
years of scientific study of the prob
lem which he believed to be the most
difficult which now confronts the
American people.
He compared the negro as he was
found on the west coast of Africa,
without law other than custom, with
out political order beyond the tribal
association under chiefs, and without
order of family life even of polygamy,
with the American Yiegro as he was at
the close of the Civil war.
Reviewing from this comparison
what slavery had done for the black
man, he said that It had welded the
colored people of America into an or
der which, although an order of sla
very, was superior to anything they
had known on the other continent.
Only the young and strong and the
physically sound were brought to this
country as slaves, Mr. Smith said, and
hence the four and a half millions who
were here at the close of the war were
the best body of block people on earth.
In slavery they had been improved
by being taught and cared for, and
enlightened to at least some extent In
the Christian religion, while in their
own country they had never had any
religion.
Slavery Advanced Negro.
"Slavery," he said, "left the black
man immeasurably advanced, although
it deprived him of any initiative he
may have had as a barbarian."
Mr. Smith briefly revlev-ed^ the Civil
war and its cost in lives and money,
which he said was a tremendous price
to pay for the conquest of any idea,
and a tremendous price for this nation
to pay for the freedom of the black
man.
Mr. Smith said that he had thought,
as a boy, when negro suffrage was first
proposed, and he still thought as a
man, that universal negro suffrage was
one of the greatest mistakes of the
nation. He believed it to be a great
detriment to the white man and a great
detriment to the black man.
In spite of the $300,000,000 of proper
ty in the South owned by negroes he
declared that, ethically, the negro had
not been a success. The negroes of
the South showed only the lowest form
of civilization, and those districts in
Northern cities which were given over
to negro population were the lowest
quarters of those cities. '
He quoted statistics to show that
among the negroes the death rate is
much higher than among the white
population, and the percentage of crime
greater. He contended that the negro
in America is retrograding and that If
the conditions that have been accentu
ating themselves more and more for
the past thirty years are permitted to
continue, there will be, in fifty years
more, only a degenerate race festering
in a dozen or more cities.
As to the solution of the problem Dr.
Smith said that.the coloniuation plan
had been shown to be impracticable
and that the question could not be
settled by either home or foreign colo
nization.
Must Educate or Kill Them.
"The problem,'' he said, "is ours and
we must face It. The" whdte men
brought the negroes here and we must
determine whether we will educate or
kill them. Lynch law, as it is called,
-is an attack on all government and
contrary to all law. Even the barbaric
law of vengeance which preceded all
written law, limited vengeance to the
relatives of the man who had been in
jured. If crime has been committed
kill the man if need be; maim him if
need be, but do it according to law,
and administer the same punishment
to white and black alike. It is of no
matter to this country at large that a
few black men are killed and dismem
bered, but the brutai.zatioja of the
mob, which is engaged in sucfa an out
rage, is what we cannot stand."
Mr. Smith argued tljiat crime, as an
element among the negroes^ was not
su much a result of slavery as of free
dem under conditions- in iHiich the
white man did not uwlerstand his re
sponsibility. He believed that if the
blanck man is to be redeemed from his
present state, it must be by education
of the negro children, and £hat educa
tion must be more than school instruc
tion. The negro children must be placed
under sanitary conditions and In prop
er moral and social surroundings and
taught to work. Money must be sent
from the North in millions of dollars
to accomplish this object.
Mr. Smith declared that the. Amer
ican people must not expect the negro
to accomplish In one Or two genera
tions what had taken the white people
2,000 years to do. A people could not
become great in one lifetime or two
lifetimes, and probably it would be
thousands of years before the present
problem would be satisfactorily worked
out.
Calls Booker T. Washington a Freak.
He said that Booker T. Washington
should not be taken as an example of
the negro race, for he watr anthropo
logically a freak. He had been in
formed that Booker Washington was
part negro, part white and part Indian,
and intellectually he had proved him
self to be a freak, ft would be well if
the country had mori of those freaks,
but still it remained zt fact that Wash
ington was not a rejjfesentative negro,
but a freak.
SKILL FRACTURED
BY PITCHED BALL
Member of Winnipeg Team
Dangerously] nj ured in the
Game Yesterday.
William W. Kelley, second baseman
of the Winnipeg ball team, was serious
ly injured yesterday afternoon at Lex
ington park by being struck on the
head with a pitched ball while at bat
in the eighth inning of the game with
the Algona Brownies.
Kelley was the third man to bat in
the inning, the two men preceding him
at the plate having been struck out by
William Holland, pitcher of the Algona
team. Four balls had been pitched
to Kelley by Holland, when the pitcher
threw the fifth which caused the in
jury.
The ball which struck Kelley was in
tended for an outcurve, but the pitcher
lost control in the delivery, and the
ball, instead of curving before reach
ing the plate, flew directly at the bat
ter's head. Kelley stood still, and in an
instant was struck behind the left ear
and knocked senseless to the ground.
It was at first thought that he was
but slightly injured, and he was picked
up and carried to the bench where cold
water revived him and he remained
seated upon the bench, for some time,
but finally grew worse and a physician
was summoned from the grandstand.
The physician immediately saw the
serious nature of the injury and advis
ed the removal of Kelley to a hospital.
The police ambulance was then called
and Kelley was taken to St. Joseph's
hospital.
Is in Critical Condition.
Kelley was in critical condition when
he reached the hospital, but improved
under the treatment of Dr. Philemon
Roy and Dr. A. Schwyzer, who worked
upon him for six hours. The physicians
succeeded in bringing him to conscious
ness at 9 o'clock and he was able to
speak for a few minutes, but then re
lapsed Into semi-consciousness, in
which condition he remained most of
the night.
Dr. Roy said that the injury is not
necessarily fatal, though it is extremely
grave. "He is suffering from a concus
sion of the brain and may have a clot
Continued on Second Page.
HONOR BEFORE COIN
Palma Confident Cuban Sol
diers Will Walt for Pay.
SANTIAGO, Cuba, Sept. 20.—Speak
ing today at the village of El Caney,
close ta the scene of the battle between
the Americans and Spaniards, Presi
dent Palma urged the Cuban people to
Jealously guard the ideals they had ob
tained by means of intervention.
The presidential party were enthusi
astically received on their arrival at
El Caney. The alcade having re
marked that the gathering was mostly
composed of veterans, President Palma
assured them he wanted to pay the
army as badly as anybody, because the
payment was not only an act of justice,
but was necessary to the reconstruc
tion of the country. Nobody loved
Cuban independence more than him
self, continued the president. The only
way to sacrifice the republic was to
bring about a civil war. He believed
there was not one veteran in a thou
sand who would not prefer to maintain
the honor of Cuba, even to the extent
of forfeiting his soldier's pay. The
Cubans, having accepted United States
intervention as a means of ending their
troubles, were under an obligation to
follow those ideals and prove them
selves a peaceable people.
Speaking of the appearance of the
band of insurrectionists near Santiago,
President Palma condemned the hidden
instigators of the uprising. The al
cade declared that no one within two
leagues of El Caney had joined the
band.
STRIKERS ARE UGLY
Minnesota Men Sent to Colo
rado Threatened by Miners.
VICTOR, Col., Sept. 20.—As a num
ber of non-union workers who were
brought from Minnesota to take the
place of striking miners were going to
supper tonight, they were surrounded
by about 500 strikers, who jeered at
them as they walked along the street.
A troop of cavalry was ordered to the
scene and dispersed the crowd.
Today delegations from the local G.
A. R. and Woman's Relief Corps vis
ited camp Goldfield, and were enter
tained by the soldiers. In welcoming
them Adjt. Gen. Sherman Bell made
the following significant remark:
"As long as the troops of the state of
Colorado are in the field the American
flag will be unfurled to float over this
camp, all fall, all winter, all spring and
all next summer if necessary."
The Stratton Independence mine was
started this morning.
FILIPINOS BOUND FOR
ST. LOUIS ARE HELD UP
Immigration Authorities Detain Little
Brown Men Headed for Big Fair.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 20.—
Thirty-one Filipinos who arrived here
last Thursday on the transport Sher
man, on their way to St. Louis, where
they were to be employed in the con
struction of the Philippine houses and
other buildings at the exposition, are
detained on board the transport by the
immigration authorities, because they
are apparently liable to become public
charges. Although armed with letters
of identification from Manila, the
thirty-one Filipinos are all in poor
financial straits, and appear poorly
equipped to continue on their journey
to St. Louis.
PRICK TWO CENTS. ?? V Z^ V .
CIVILIZATION ASKS
CANAL CONCESSIONS
Governor of Panama Maintains That Grants Asked for,
While Implying a Sacrifice, Are Mot Against the Na
tional Dignity and Are Demanded by the Inter*
ests of the World.
PANAMA, Colombia, Sept. 20.—Sen
ator Obaldia today took over the func
tions of governor of Panama. The
event was the occasion for great popu
lar demonstration by all parties. It is
thought that the appointment of Gov.
Obaldia may perhaps exert influence
against the secessionist ideas, not only
because he i s% a native of Panama,
which fact engages for him the sym
pathies df all, but because his appoint
ment apparently 5s a part of a general
plan, the result of which will be the
election of Gen. Reyes to the presi
dency and the approval of a canal
treaty favorable to the United States.
Gov. Obaldia, in reply to Dr. Flor
entine Goenaga, president of the high
court of justice, said:
"I maintain, because they were well
mediated, the sincere opinions I ex
pressed ac a senator of the republic. I
consider that the interests of the world
urgently demand the construction of a
canal, and they have a right to ask our
co-operation. The concessions, the ob
ject of which is to serve these inter
ests, though they may imply a sacrifice
of sovereignty, are not against the na
tional dignity. We cannot deny civil-
VISIONS ARE FOLLOWED
BY CHARGE OF MURDER
Spirit off Husband Appears in Dreams off Lebanon Widow and
Emphatically Denies Having Committed Suicide.
LEBANON, Pa., Sept. 20.—Messages
from the dead in the guise of dreams
have inspired Mr. J. Marshall Funck
and her husband's closest friend, Eli
Attwood, to institute an Investigation
into the death of Funck. A secret to
his demise was the arrest of Constable
John L. Fisher on a charge of murder-
Ing the lawyer in his private office In
Cumberland street on July 6.
The burden of both visions was that
Mr. Funck did not kill himself, but that
John Fisher had a hand in his death.
When this thought was suggested to
Mr. Attwood he at once coincided.
"I could see Mr. Funck as plainly as
I see you," continued Mrs. Funck. "Our
conversation was as rational and con
nected as it well could be. Before I had
the last dream I had dreamed of him
several times, but there was always
something between us—something that
prevented us from conversing. He
would look at me pleadingly as though
he wanted to tell me something. At
last one night Mr. Punck appeared.
" 'Why,' he said to me, 'what are you
doing here?' He clasped me in his
arms and kissed me, and I was so
happy that I cried. I knew that he was
dead, but it was so pleasant to be with
him again. He asked me about various
things—business affairs. I told him I
COL MEAD ARRESTED
Mankato Veteran of Spanish
War Charged With Larceny.
Special to The Globe.
MANKATO, Minn., Sept. 20. — Col.
George W. Mead, who served among
the Minnesotans in the military camp
at Chickamauga during the Spanish
■war, and who for some years was pro
bate judge of Blue Earth county, was
committed to the county jail this even
ing charged with the larceny of $400
from an Eastern insurance company of
which he was the local agent. The
colonel failed to furnish the $800 bond
required for his release.
PORTO RICO COFFEE
MEN TO CORNER TRADE
Men Interested in the Industry Form
Protective Association.
SAN JUAN, P. R., Sept. 20.—The
coffee men of Porto Rico met here to
day and organized themselves for trade
purposes. The meeting—the first con
vention in the history of the island—
brought together two hundred men in
terested in the industry, every bank
being represented, who pledged them
selves to aid the movement to bring
about better conditions.
Acting Gov. Hartzell announced the
receipt of a cablegram from Gov. Hunt,
assuring an immediate discussion of
the reciprocal commercial treaty with
Spain, which would open the Spanish
market now closed by the tariff.
The planters are encouraged by the
plans under discussion, which are di
rected to reaching the retail trade In
the trade in the United States.
WIFE ENDS HER LIFE
WHEN HUSBAND DIES
In Fit of Distraction Mrs. James L.
Ferriere Follows Her Life-Mate.
PARIS, Sept. 20.—James L. Ferriere,
a well known newspaper man of New
York, died here today as the result of
a paralytic stroke. His wife, in a fit
of distraction, soon afterward took her
life. Mr. Ferriere was formerly for
several years an editor of the Paris
edition of the New York Herald. He
entered the service of the Associated
Press in 1897, and at the time of his
death was employed in its Paris office.
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ization what it requires from us to
continue its victorious march."
All the speeches delivered at today's
functions, not only by isthmians, but
by the natives of the rest of the repub
lic, demonstrated that all the inhabit
ants of Panama are in favor of the
treaty.
Hay-Herran Agreement Dead.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 20.—In
terest in the Panama situation now
centers in the communication which
Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge, re
cently submitted to the state depart
ment from his government. Just what
the nature of this is Dr. Herran and
the the state department officials de
cline to say on the ground that it is
or a confidential character, but it is
understood that it is in the nature of
a proposition which will keep alive
the canal negotiations with the Colom
bian government after the expiration
of Sept. 22, at Which time the existing
treaty expires by limitation. Unless
there should be a considerable revul
sion of feeling in the Colombian sen
ate in favor of the Hay-Herran agree
ment, this is believed to be dead !>y
Minister Beaupre at Bogota and by
South American diplomats in Wash
ington.
had done the best I could. 'You know,*
I said, 'you were not here to do them
for me.'
'No,' he replied, 'but I should have
been if it had not been for what was
done to me. You never believed that I
killed myself, did you?'
"I told him, 'No, never.'
"'But Ray did, didn't he?' he said,
meaning L. Raymond Reigert, his
friend and secretary.
"/Yes, I'm afraid he did,' I replied.
" 'Well, I didn't, and you must not
imagine that I did,' said he.
" 'I know who did,' I told him.
'"Be careful; don't be hasty,' he
cautioned me. 'John Fisher did it.'
"When I told Mr. Attwood about the
dream he listened intently, and then
informed me he had had a similar
dream— several of them, in fact. The
visions closely correspond. Fisher was
the man indicated in each."
Not until the substance of the dream
had taken possession of Mrs. Funck
did she permit her husband's body to
be disinterred and examined.
Mr. Atwood acknowledged his dreams
concerning the fate of Funck had co
incided with those of Mrs. Funck in all
important particulars. His attitude in
discussing the matter was no less sin
cere than that of the woman.
CHASING KID CURRY
Posses Scoaring Mountain for
Famous Train Robber.
CHINOOK, Mont., Sept. 20.—Posses
are scouring every section of the coun
try in the vicinity of Bear Paw moun
tain, after "Kid" Curry, the leader of
the gang which held up two Great
Northern express trains July 3, 1001,
and who escaped from Knoxvllle, Term.,
jail, while awaiting transportation to
the Ohio penitentiary to serve out a
twenty years' sentence for forging sig
natures to the stolen bank bills obtain
ed in the robbery. The posses are com
posed of men well acquainted with the
country in which Curry is traveling
and who are equally as quick on the
trigger as he or any of his gang. It
is many miles from where the search
is being prosecuted to the nearest tel
egraph point, and it may be days be
fore anything is learned of what has
happened. Curry has many friends in
the country through which he is trav
eling and will aid him to reach his
rendezvous, and he will be safe in the
fastnesses of Bear Paw mountain from
molestation. When last heard from he
was ten miles from Bear Paw mountain
and mounted. As the possos only
started today at noon the chances are
all in Curry's favor.
GOLD-CURE MAN BREAKS
LOOSE WITH LOADED GUN
E. E. McPeek Falls From Grace antf
Shoots Keeley Institute Patient.
Special to The Globe.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Sept. 20.—The
Keeley institute of this city was last
night the scene of an attempted murder.
E. E. McPeek, a one-armed man, whose
home is at Gary, S. D., and who had
been a patient of the institute, yester
day abandoned his treatment and took
away his effects preparatory to return-
Ing to his home. He became intoxicat
ed and returning to the Institute open
ed fire with a revolver on members of
the staff and patients who were seated
on the veranda. One of the bullets
struck William Skewis, a patient whose
home is at Inwood, lowa, the ball en
tering the back between the shoulder
blades, about an inch and a half to the
right of the spinal column. Physicians
state the wound is not a serious one.
McPeek eluded the officers all night,
but went to police headquarters in the
auditorium about 6 o'clock this morn
ing and surrendered himself to the au
thorities.