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DEADLY STRIKE RIOT
State Troops and Strikers in
Fierce Fight at Pittsburg.
JEN K )
5 MEN KILLED; 10 INJURED
Women With Guns. Were Conspicuous
in the Rioting and Incited the Men
to Extreme Measures.
Pittsburg, Pa—One state trooper
and one deputy sheriff and three for
eigners were shot and killed In a
wild riot at the Pressed Steel Car
Plant in Schoenville, whose employ-‘
ees are now on strike. At least a
gcore of persons were seriously
wounded, ten fatally. The rioting
followed a day of quiet and broke
without warning.
The riot scene was practically inde
sceribable. Mounted state troopers gal
loped indiscriminately through the
strets with riot maces drawn, crack
in the heads of all persons loitering
in the vicinity of the mill. Deputy
sheriffs and troopers broke in the
doors of houses suspected of being
the retreat of strikers, and wholesale
arrests were made,
During the early stages of the riot
ing women were censpicuous. Some of
them were armed, others effectively
used clubs and stones. These women,
all foreigners, insane with rage, were
mainly responsible for inciting the
men to extreme measures.
A mob gathered about the Schoen
ville entrance to the Pressed Steel
Car Works, and made a concerted at
tack upon the big swinging gates
of the stockade. The attack was re
sisted by state troopers and deputy
sheriffs, who used friot maces. In the
melee, Harry Exler, a deputy sherift,
aged 50 years, was shot and instantly
Killed by a bullet fired, it is said, by
a strike sympathizer.
In an effort to arrest the man pick
ed out of the crowd as the one Wwho
did the shooting, State Trooper Smith
was instantly killed by a revovlver
bullet.
For the first time since the incep
tion of the strike, the state troopers
then opened vulley fire on the mob.
Bix strikers fell at the first round.
The members of the mob then open
ed fire wij ae T __aFinted troop
ers dro heir horses
fatally shot. 2 taken to the
Ohio Valley h! .ug in a dying con
dition. As an ambulance made its
way from the car plant to the hospital
carrying wounded troops, the vehicle
was attacked and the driver forced
to flee for his life,
Shortly afterward, a deputy sheriff,
not yet identified, was surrounded hy
a crowd of strikers. In a last des
perate attempt to save himself, the
officer drew his revolver and emptied
its contents into the crowd. Then,
throwing the gun away, he yelled: 1
give up; I am all in.”
The next moment five bullets were
fired into his body. Not satisfied even
then the crowd beat and kicked the
body until the features were unrecog:
nizable,
WEEKLY COTTON CROP REPORT.
Plant is Shedding and the Bolls Are
Opening Rapidly.
Memphis, Tenn.—The Commercial-
Appeal’s weekly cotton summary
FAYS: ‘
The crop is suffering from the want
of rain in Tennessee, Arkansas, Okla
homa and Texas and the hill lands
in Mississippi.
Excessive heat intensified the need
of moisture and in the three western
states named above the plant is shed
ding seriously and bolls are opening
rapidly. In Texas the improvement
pegun the previous week was checked.
A general soaking rain is neaded to
relieve the situation.
Crops in the two Carolinas, Georgia
and Alabama improved and reports
from the Mississippi delta are better.
In these districts picking will not be
gin until well after September 1, as!
the plant is still growing and setting|
fruit. The date of frost will have an|
important bearing on the yield as thel
crop is still late,
In Louisiana the hot weather was'
beneficial because many weevils were
destroyed, but so much damage has
already been done that estimates for
the yields are light. The plant is well
fruited .and except where the drought
has been prolonged no serious shed
ding has occurred.
Montgomery, Ala.—Reports received
by The Advertiser from the important
interior cotton markets of Alabama
indicate that at least 100,000 bales of
cotton have been sold by farmers for
future delivery at prices ranging from
10 to 12 1-2 cents,
*While definite figures are not avail
able, sufficient information is at hand
to indicate that the growers are sell
ing considerable cotton against lower
prices when the movement of the
present crop begins.
NORTH CAROLINA FEUD FIGHT.
One Man Killed and Five Wounded
in Fight at Hutnsville, N. C.
Charlotte, N, C.—As the result of
one of the fiercest feud fights in the
bistory of Mecklenberg county at
Huntsville, Reece Hucks, a prominent
young farmer of Croft, is dead; Les
ter Hucks, a brother; Chgrles "Cox
and Gilreath and Batte Davis, neigh
bors cut and shot, and several others
slightly wounded. ;
For a Yyear there has been bad
pbloocd between the Hucks brothers
and ~the Coxs, growing out of the‘
shooting of a dog belonging to Batte
Davis, a friend of the Hucks brothers,
by %hafleo ~Cox. The fixht.l occurred
on Main street in Huntsville. .
FOUR LIVES LOST ON SPEEOWAY.,
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Appalling Accidents Marks Opening of
Track at Indianapolis, ‘
Indianapolis, Ind.—Four lives were
lost and two records broken during
the inguguration of the Indianapolis
motor speedway, Willlam A, Bourque,
driver of the Knox car in the 250-mlle
race, and Harry Holcomb, hi smechan
ician, were killed in the frenzied car
pival of speed. ‘
Robert:! Burman : won the ‘l{h-mllo?
race, the feature, and the contest that
cost Bourque and Holcomb their lives,
The winner's time was 4:28:67 4-10,
slow because of the many accidents
that marred the @:e. The Knox car
was 4:38:37 4-10—slow because of the
many accidents that marred the race,
The Knox car was in place, and had
covered nearly one hundred and fifty
miles, when the crash came, While
coming down the home stretch, the
car suddenly swerved and tore into
the fenco at the left of the tracly
(urning completely over, and pinning
its two occupants beneath it. Both,
men were alive when taken from un
der the illfated machine, but Bour
que died in the ambulance on the
way to the 'Mercy hospital, Holcomb
lived a few minutes lcnger, but was
dead soon after he arrived at the hos
pital. Stories as to the cause of the
accident vary, and no one will ever
know what really caused the car of
death to skesve from the track.
Cliff Litterall of Dayton, Ohio, who
jumped from a big racing machine
on the way to the track and was run
over by the car behind him, died ‘in
the Methodist hospital from his in
juries, - .
Elmer Compton, aged six, was run
over and instantly killed by an autd:
mobile returning from the races. >
Barney Oldfleld, driving a high
powered Benz, cover a mile in 0:43
1-10, breaking De Palma's record ,of
0:51, and Louis Cherolet, in a Buick,
negotiated 10 miles in the marvelous
time of 8:56 4-10, cutting <ldfield’s
time of 9,12. Both of these are new
)American track marks. g
~ DRASTIC PROHIBITION BILL.
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‘The Alabamz Senate Passed the
' Fuller Measure. 5
Montgomery, Ala.—The Fuller bill,
the most drastic and far-reaching pro
hibition bill ever drawn in this state,
was passed in the senate by a vote
of 23 to 6. :
The measure forbids the posse?fi
sion, even, of liquor except In pri
vate residences, makes the accused
party prove his own innocence before
any evidence against him,jis introduc
ed, makes the use of the word sa
loon a crime, bars the advertisement
of liquors from billboards and signs,
and helds that even the possessionrof
a federal liquor license is absolute
proof of guilt in selling intoxicants.
The bill has a dozen other nearly
as strong clauses, and the only amend
ment was the one striking out the
clause forbidding the sale in the stdte
‘of all newspapers Oor magazines which
contained liquor advertisements., ¢
The bill was passed by the houyse
last week, and now only awaits the
governor’s signature to become a law.
COAL PRODUCTION OFF.
Decrease Attributed to Effects of the
- Panic of 1908. -
Washington, D. C.—The coal fields
production of the United States for
the year 1908 shows a falling off @2
$82,848,781 as compared with the pro-:
duction of 1907, according to a re
port made public by“the United States
geqlogical survey. This was.due in a
large measure to the effects of ‘the
panic of .1907, added to which there
wags a general suspension of opera
tions in the bituminous regulation&:-on
April 1, perding an adjustment of-the.
wage scale, i
The total production. of coal in 1808
was $415,842,698 short tons, having- a
spot value of $532,314,117. Of this
‘amount 83,268,754 tons were Pennsyl
vania anthracite and 332,573,262 was
‘bituminoys and lignite. The total
}productiorx in 1908 showed a decrease
of 64,527,726 short tons of 13.43 'per
cent with a value of $82,484,781.
Four Killed in Automobile Wreck.
Seattle, Wash.—Three young wom
en and one man, the driver.of the
car, met death and two young wemen
narrowly escaped a similar fate here
when a large touring car, going at a
high speéd, crashed through the rail
‘ng of the long trestle over the -tide
flats at the point known to automo
hile drjvers as “Dead Man’s Curve.”
All the members of the party were
from Vancouver, British Columbiaw ex
cept the driver of the car, who ?fi a
Seattle man.
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Curils Averts Gollision. -
- Rheims, France.—The American
aviator, Glenn H. Curtiss, added a
dramatic feature to the trial flights
of the aeroplanes entered for the ' con
tests of aviation week by skillfully
guiding his machine above another
acroplane and averting a collision,
. Wellman Flies For North Pole.
Paris, France.—According to & tel:
egram received from the captain of
the Italian steamer, Thalia, now at
Hammerfest, Norway, Walter Well
man left Spitzhergen August 16 in:his
dirigible balloon, bound for the north
pole, He had favorable wind when
the start was made. ;
Steamer Burned so Water’s Edge.-
Pooria, + Hl.—The ~steamer ,g‘red
Swain of the Peoria and La Salle
Packet pomxa;y, with t;‘@ntyfiflve p_a;-
sengers.. and nrieen e 8 ; ,y.‘ oard,
burned to the ‘Wmt,'gfteé?t% ;gfiflngm
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¢ in Bogus Mexican Money.
Dreams of Wealth Which Dazzled John
and Marion Roberts Rudely
Shattered.
Louisville, Ky.—Dreams of wealth
which refiected their gaudy hues from
a brass-bound trunk contairing a mil
lilon dcllers in counterfeit Mexican
pesos, were shattered for John C, and
Marion Roberts here when Deputy
United States Marshal Willlam Blay
des arrested John Roberts in Shel
by county with the money in his pos
session,
Since the hour of the arrest there
has been unravelled in the custom
house of Louisville and in central po
lice station a tale of attempted finan
cial buccaneering that puts into shad
ow some of the boldest exploits in the
history of counterfeiling.
The scheme, as explained to the
brokers, contemplated no less than a
counterfeit corporation with counter
feit stock certificates, its business to
be done with counterfeit money,
Though all plans and collateral
were to be false, Marion Roberts told
the brokers that the money he “made”
—Mexican or American—as desired—
was flawlessly accurate and could not
be detected. He proposed, according to
them, to counterfeit stock certificates
of corporations as solid as the Penn
sylvania and Louisville & Nashville
Railroads and the Louisville Railway
Company. He proposed that they buy
real stock with fake money and give
counterfeit stock certificates in any
exchange they might make.
It was through Marion Roberts that
the counterfeiters were apprehended.
Marion Roberts, some days ago, ap
proached J. M. Fetter & Co. Louis
ville brokers, and made the proposi
tion that they dispose of counterfeit
Mexican pesos at a high commission.
The brokers notified Chief of Police
J. H. Haagor, who, at once, enlisted
the secret service men and the trap
to catch Marion Roberts was laid.
When Marshal Blaydes confronted
John Roberts in the hamlet in Shelby
county, the chief counterfeiter admit
ted he was behind the plan to dispose
of the imitation pesos through the
Louisville brokers. He showed Blay
des a brass bound trunk of the sort es
pecially constructed to figure in ro
mances, and this was filled with §l,-
000,000 in the crisp Mexican notes.
Robert:_<aid he would have been in
Mexico witu the trunk a week ago had
he not been awaiting the arrival of a
perforating machine and a device for
numbering the bills.
John Roberts, sitting in the office of
the secret service bureau here, very
coolly said he would plead guilty at
the October term of the federal court,
and seemed philosophic about spend
ing a majority of his years in the
United States prison in Atlanta, Ga.
He had played a bold game and failed.
He said he would have been rich be
yond his dreams had it succeeded.
Now he was poor and in the hands of
the sternest law on earth, but he laid
rather flattering unction to his soul
that the scheme had been daring and
romantic,
CADETS ARE DISMISSED.
Seven Cadets Are Expelled From
West Point.
West Point, .N. Y.—For being in
volved in the hazing of Rolando Sut
ton, a brother of Lieutenant James N.
Sutton, Jr.,, United States marine
corps, whose death at Annapolis two
years ago, has just been investigated,
seven West Point cadets were dis
missed from the United States Mili
tary academy by direction of Presi
dent Taft.
«The cadets ordered to be dismissed
are John H. Booker, Jr., of West
Point, Ga., first class; Richard W.
Hocker, of Kansas City, Mo., third
class; Earle W. Dunmore, of Utica,
N. Y., third class: Chauncey C. De
vore, of Wheeling, W. Va., third class;
Gordon Lefebvre, of Richmond, Va,,
third class: Albert E. Crane, of Ha
warden, lowa, third class, and Jacob
S. Fortner, of Dothan, Ala., third
class. : . |
PAUPERS MARRIED.
Inmates of Poorhouse Marry at San.
_ dersville, Georgia.
Sandersville, Ga.—Miss Sarah Hart
ley, aged 74, and E. G. Joiner, aged 25,
both inmates of Washington county
’poor house, were married here. Jus
itice R. ‘M. Brown balked when the
aged spinster and the youngster were
! ranged before him, but finally agreed
to tie the knot. After the ceremony
the newly weds returned to the poor
house. The bride wore a thick veil
to hide her wrinkles. J
NATIONAL MUSEUM COMPLETED.
Roosevelt Trophies Will Be Exhibited
’ in Ornate Building.
~ Washington, D, 'C.—The largest and
most ornate exposition buliding in the
United States have been completed
just in time to receive the wunique
trophies of the hunt gathered by ex-
President Roosevelt in Africa and now
"about: to be unpacked in this city.
This building, with nine. and one-half
acres of floor space, and costing three
and a half millions of dollars, has
been erected by congress for the Na
; tional Museum; and 'is being put in
:xb'der for: the exhil})}ition' of various
-gbjects. offinterest, ¢ g among which
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Wireless Wea‘lther.
One of the principal ‘problems con
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tire ocean would in a few minutes
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France, Germany and other interest
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that a universal system such as this
would be a great factor in saving life
and property both on land and at
sea. The conference, has adopted an
international weather signal code.
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used flags by day and lights by night
to convey storm warnings, while other
nations have used balls and cones.
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“Her husband is a brute.”
l “As to how?”
“Got her to help save up for an
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into a house.”—Louisville Courier
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Each With Two Legs and Ten Fin
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A Boston woman who is a fond
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about her experience feeding her
boys.
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“Three chubby, rosy-cheeked boys,
Bob, Jack and Dick, aged 6, 4 and 2
years respectively, are three of our
reasons for using and recommending
the food, Grape-Nuts, for these
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was a weazened little thing, ill half
the time. The little tot ate the
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