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New J e r s e y G rand J u r y Calls Halt
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On G reat Com bine.
marines for Pacific.
New
York,
Feb. 26.—The “ beef
Washington, Feb. 28.— Secretary
I
trust’’
of
the
United
States, embrac-
Meyer, of the navy department, is j
' ing six great companies and 21 pack-
said to have told the house naval j
I ers, several of them multimillionaires,
committee today of plans of building a
I was indicted by a grand jury in Hud-
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son county, New Jersey, today, charg-
world’s record-breaking battleship of
I ed with conspiracy in limiting the sup-
32,000 tons displacement at a cost of
RIISIMFSS LUmrLCLI
fflM P I FI Y 1ILU
TIFI1 Ur
IIP ply The of indictments
meat and poultry.
$18,000,000 and making the United DUdlllLdD
drawn under the law
States the leading naval power.
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of New Jersey, which provides upon |
Members of the committee said that
conviction, a maximum penalty o f :
three years in the penitentiary, a $1,- T rouble H as Long Been E x p e c te d —
the
secretary’s
radical
plans
were
Philadephia
Citizens,
Alarm
ed
a
t
P
r
o
s
Lass Important but Not Less Inter*
000 fine or both. The offense is extra- i
C hinese G ov ernm ent D e te rm
favorably received by the committee.
pects, U rg e Company to A rbi
esting Happenings from Points
ditable, which means practically that
The secretary did not refer to naval
ined to D isp erse Monks.
tr a te —T w o Killed in Riot.
the meat barons must successfully re
Outside the State.
strength in numbers of ships or arma
sist extradition or come to Jersey City j
ment, but to various features of im
for trial.
Calcutta, British India, Feb. 24.—
Philadelphia, Feb. 28.—A fter a ses- ■ Pierce Garvin, public prosecutor of
Live hogs reached $9.80 per hundred provement of the efficiency of ships
Hudson county, said tonight that he Chinese troops today entered Lhassa,
and guns.
at Chicago.
sion of more than six hours, the Cen- would forthwith notify the defendants the capital of Tibet, and the residence
The building of the proposed giant tral Labor union delegates last night af their indictment and would be ready of the Dalai Lama, the supreme head
Asquith is about to fall from power
and his government faces ruin because battleship is delayed until next year j voted to call a sympathetic strike of j to enforce extradition in each case of the Lamaist hierarchy, who, upon
only because the naval experiments |
of his blunders.
where the individual concerned is not the approach of the soldiers, fled with
with 14-inch guns have not been com- H® trade unions in the organization, willing to face trial. The defendants several of his ministers into India.
Pinchot charges that Ballinger wil- ]ete(i and the department desires to beginning next Saturday.
The dele-
11.. deceived
J«A.i!.nf1 President
U.„aLlnnt
T Slt W I th '
- - - - -
Serious trouble has been expected,
follow :
fully
know the result of full experiments, j gates assert that 125,000 men will re
The National Packing company, owing to the action of the small Chi
false statements.
Tentatively, it is planned to arm the spond to the call.
Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Morris nese army, which, marching from Sze-
A French cardinal was fined for urg J great battleship with a battery of
This action of the Central Labor & Co., Hammond Packing company, Chuen, China, subdued Eastern Tibet,
ing the school authorities not to use I fourteen 14-inch guns of the latest
Union is fraught with momentous con G. H. Hammond & Co., J. Ogden Ar levying contributions on the Lama’s
the state text books.
I type-
The secretary said that plans for en sequences, the union officials say. The mour, A. Watson Armour, Louis F. home and showing no respect for the
Secretary Meyer has plan for 32,000- largement of all the drydocks of the
Swift, Edward^F. Swift, Charles H. monasteries.
ton battleship, to cost $18,000,000, country, as outlined to the committee decision was made at a secret session Swift, Edward Morris, Ira N. Morris,
The Tibetans, resenting the dese
of 700 delegates in Labor Lyceum Hall, Arthur Meeker, Edward Tilden, L. A. cration of their holy places, petitioned
and carry fourteen 14-inch rifles.
some weeks ago, were made in contem-
Nicaraguan rebels surprised the gov- plation of the great enlargement of the which lasted more than six hours. I Carter, Thomas E. E. Wilson, Thomas the Chinese foreign board, praying
emment forces, killed their general, battleships and he wanted the docks There apparently was no question that J. Corners, F. A. Fowler, L. H. Hey- that the emperor of China interfere in
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man, James E. Bathgate, Jr., George : the interest of the Buddhists. The pe
and secured many prisoners and much built to accommodate ships of great the delegates would vote ’ a strike,
the T
» rw
tition was disregarded, the Chinese
booty.
size.
split being on whether or not the strike Hartell, Henry B. Darlington. A. A. propose to make the administration of
It
was
tentatively
agreed
that
the
Maurice F. Egan, minister to Den
would be started immediately.
Fuller, L. C. Patterson.
the country purely Chinese.
mark, declares he will believe Dr. naval increase this year, based on the
Ira N. Morris sent a lawyer to Jer
The Dalai Lama appealed to Lord
The more conservative element pre
Cook honest until he is proven other secretary’s recommendations, shall be
sey City this week from Chicago to Minto, the viceroy of India, but ,he re
as
follows:
Two
27,000-ton
battle-
vailed,
however,
and
the
walkout
was
wise.
! ships, equipped either with 12 or 14- put off until next Saturday. Mean inform Prosecutor Garven that he had fused to interfere.
retired from the directorate of Morris
If the government wins against the ¡nch guns; one regular ship, two col-
while, there is hope that the street & Co., but nevertheless he was in -!
tobacco trust, it is j planned to attack tiers and five submarines.
London, Feb. 24.—The flight from
the United States Steel corporation
The submarines are for the Pacific railway strike will be arbitrated, de dieted.
Lhassa of the Dalai Lama will cause
Cooper
is
the
New
Jersey
manager
next.
coast, and are the first of a fast fleet spite the repeated declaration of the
no surprise to close observers of the
Roosevelt parted with his retinue of of these vessels which will be provided Transit Company, controlling all the for Swift & Co.; Bathgate, Edwards, Chinese attitude toward the Tibetan
native servants and attendants at Con- in the next few years. The plan to lines in the city, that “ there is noth Bartwall, Darlington and Fuller are said people when he was in Pekin.
to be officers and Eastern agents of the i It became evident then that the
dokoro, Soudan, and the hunting ex place ten additional submarines on the ing to arbitrate.”
Pacific coast next was considered fav
Nobcdy doubts that last night’s a c -! Natio"al Packin? company, while other Chinese government had no intention
pedition is ended.
;----- of f the Central t Labor union _ __i__
orably.
tion
makes I named are directors or officers or form of permitting him to reume his sway
UnlesB the beef trust magnates who
These submarines will be one of the the situation grave. There is a strong er directors or officers of the National at Lhassa, so far as civil power was
have been indicted in New Jersey sur fastest yet launched, and will be cap- feeling, especially among business Packing company. Capiases for the
concerned, and attempts were even
render peaceably they will be extradit
able of making a speed under water of men that the strike ought to be settled arrest of all the defendants will be is made to bar his passage on his return
ed and the trust dissolved.
sued
immediately
and
the
grand
jury
J 12 knots an hour.
j speedily, as all lines of business suffer
home.
Great arrangements are being made
A member of the committee said j f rom the interference with traffic. will resume its investigation next
Following its policy of “ China for
for Roosevelt’s reception in Rome. ; that the government had unofficial in-j Consequently there is much sympathy Wednesday.
the Chinese,” the government determ
The pope will grant him an audience formation to the effect that Japan is for the move for arbitration, made by
ined to make more effective its control
and the king will give a dinner in his laying the keels of two great battle clergymen of all denominations early
1 over the land of the Lamas. A cam
A S B E S T O S c o m b i n e : ON.
ships approaching the 32,000 ton in the week.
honor.
paign to this end has been pushed in
There was surprise at the unanimity New T r u s t Will Be Capitalized at the border provinces for the last two
A boyhood friend of Carnegie called limit. He said the tonnage of the
years, and now China has sent an army
on the steel king and had a long visit great battleship under consideration of the vote in favor of a general sym
$5,000,000.
of 25,000 anti-Buddhist troops into the
with him, but when he intimated that would depend to a great extent upon pathetic strike. The meeting yester
the
weight
of
the
batteries
of
the
huge
Denver, Feb. 26.—The Times today | capital of Tibet.
day had been discussed previously
he was having a hard struggle to make
14-inch guns, which would be placed and there was mixed sentiment as to B ays: Deals are now being organized
This army, which was dispatched
a living he received only some good pn
this ship.
the wisdom of calling out all classes of in Denver which will probably result from Sze-Chuen, has been drilled by
pamphlets on economy,
___ in the formation of a trust that will Japanese officers and iB completely
workmen. Leaders of various trades
Charles E. Morgan, ex-governor of
unions said they were opposed to a i control 90 per cent of the asbestos out- equipped with mountain and machine
AVALANCHE BURIES 76 .
Cuba, says that if the Monroe doc
general strike because it involved bro- Pu* *be world,
guns of German and Japanese patterns
trine means anything the United
ken trade agreements. Others doubted ! Officers and representatives of the and with wireless apparatus,
to
Be
Town
o
f
Mace,
Idaho,
Said
States must see that the smaller gov
their ability to order all workmen to Intern8tional Asbestos company, the
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S c e n e o f D esaster.
ernments on the Weatern hemisphere
lay down their tools and have the order National Asbestos company, the Wy- |
S T R IK E R IO T S C O N T IN U E .
are properly conducted.
oming Consolidated Asbestos company
Spokane, Wash., Feb. 28.—With a obeyed.
As
the
gathering
was
secret,
little
8nd
United
States
Asbestos
Mining
roar
that
could
be
heard
in
Wallace,
A member of the I. W. W. arrested
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___ of an authoritative nature can be ^ Fiberizing company are here to con- Local Police Admit Defeat— S tate P o
five
miles
distant, , _
an ________
avalanche over-
in the recent disturbances in Spokane, _
whelmed the town of Mace, Idaho, last learned of what transpired behind the ( ^er w'th the representatives of English \
lice Called Out.
has been found guilty of conspiring.
night, and 75 people are believed to be barred doors. That there was much and California capitalists regarding
Philadelphia,
Feb. 24.—Police offi
With the strict injunction that he buried under tons of snow and debris, oratory is evident, as the meeting *be S8*e
their properties to new in-
cials of the city today virtually ac
was not to be represented as favor Telephone messages from Wallace say lasted from a little after 2 o’clock un- terests.
ing votes for women. President Taft that the slide occurred at 11:30 o’clock, j til 8 :30.
Representatives of the Amalgamat- ! knowledged their inability to cope
accepted an invitation to address the Rescue parties started at once from
The great crowd gathered outside ed Asbestos ccorporation, a Canadian 1 with the st ike situation when a re
opening session of the annual conven Wallace to the scene of the disaster, the hall would occasionally hear loud comPany, recently launched, which has quest as made of John C. Groome, su
tion of the Woman Suffrage associa A special relief train was also started cheering, and a responsive cheer would °btained control of about 90 per cent perintendent of the state police, th at
tion, to be held in Washington, April out from Spokane.
go up from the outside. Finally when
asbestos output of Canada, are J the 200 members of his command be
14.
Because of the deep snow and block-1 the meeting broke up and the ar*
investigating the properties of brought to this city for police duty.
This request was made, notwith
companies represented at the Den-
A Canadian Pacific train was derail aded condition of the road from Wal- j nouncement was made that unless the
standing
that serious rioting was less
ed on the brink of a 200-foot precipice, lace to Mace, no details of the catas - 1 Philadelphia Rapid Transit company ver conference and the consummation
made an agreement with its striking
deal will likely be followed frequent today than on any other day
and only prevented from plunging over trophe have yet been received.
Heavy snow has been falling in j employes by next Friday, the greatest
the absorption of these companies since the strike of the streetcar men
by a retaining wall.
began last Saturday. The state police
by * the
Northern
Idaho
during
the
past
week,
strike
in
the
history
of
Philadelphia
“
~ ‘ big Canadian corporation.
“ L ittle Billy” McClintock, 6 years
The new interests are said to have are expected to reach here tom now
_
I
and
with
the
thaw
which
began
yester
will
be
inaugurated,
there
old, of Chicago, and heir to $6,000,
offered $1,100.000 for the control of morning, and will doubtless be sent in
day conditions were favorable for just cheer and the crowd dispersed.
000, will be asked to choose his own such a disaster which has overwhelmed
to the Kensington district, where the
Not only members of unions affilia- j the Wyoming asbestos deposits.
State Fencibles had such an unpleasant
guardian.
the little town.
ted with the Central Labor union and '
experience.
the Allied Building Trades council, but
The German government refuses
Catch is 300,000 Pounds.
For the first time the Rapid Transit
moral or financial support to American
Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 28.—A those of every labor organization in
I comPany succeeded in running its cars
exhibitors of machinery at the coming special dispatch at 3 a. m. says that the city in any way connected with the | Vancouver, B. C., Feb, 26 • —The
l n * ' until 6 o’clock on the Frankford line,
halibut fishing steamer Kingfisher,
exhibition a t Berlin next summer.
five hundred rescuers have taken out American Federation of Labor, p a rtic -' belonging to the fleeet of the New which Penetrates thia unruly territory.
ipated
in
the
meeting.
Great Britain will give refuge to the seven dead bodies while 26 men, wo
Two separate meetings ■were held. England Fish company, an American I At that hour a11 car8 were «turned to
deposed Dalai Lama, of Tibet, at Cal men and children were taken from the The delegates to the Central Labor concern, is due to arrive here Friday the barns.
cutta, and has asked the Chinese gov slide alive, that occurred at Mace last
Four policemen guarded each car,
met on one floor of the with 300,000 pounds of fish, 200,000 of
ernment for full explanation of the night. It is known that 100 additional union
and detectives patrolled the route all
bus-
which
*he
cauRht
in
two
and
a
half
building,
while
the
president
and
are dead.
day in automobiles.
Whenever a
affair.
The slide is half a mile long and 30 j iness agents of the other organizations f*a?.*'. Her whole time for the trip group of men fo> med detectives rushed
“* ^ut n,ne and 8 half days. The
Six persona were killed in a snow- feet deep. The first train bearing the met on the next floor.
Declaring the car strike here had R,nKfisher s total cargo will be 400,000 them and even followed the ringleaders
slide in the Bitter Root mountain^ in 25 injured left Mace for Wallace at
become a battle between capital and po’Jrr S’
>n5*udes we'f?ht for ice into houses until they had captured
Montana.
2:25 a. m.
!
labor,
the
members
of
the
Central
La-
and
hoxes
ln
which
some of the fish them. In spite of the vigilance of the
Additional rescuers are being sent to
A hotel at Haselton, B. C., burned
police, many car windows were bro
are
packed.
while the thermometer was a t 16 de the scene on a train now being made bor union unanimously adopted a reso-
ken, and the company was finally
|
lution
that
every
union
man
and
woman
greea below xero. Many of the occu- up here.
obliged to use sheet iron windows in
Warning
from
Gompers.
J
stop
work
on
next
Saturday
if,
in
the
pants were forced to leap from upper
place of glass panes.
| meantime, the striking carmen have
Washington, Feb. 26.—Samuel Gom
windows clad only in their night cloth-
"C orpse" Comes to Life.
| not reached an agreement with the pers, president of the American Feder
Rush Line is Dispersed
Brookville, Ind., Feb, 28.—Popular company.
ation of Labor, told Attorney General
Los Angeles, Feb. 24. — Senator
New Jersev grand jury will return misconception of the coroner’s law
Wickersham today that if the preeent
at least 15 indictments against pack- nearly permitted the body of Miss
American workers’ movement, which Frank P. Flint today sent a telegram
Weston Ahead of Time.
the weary ones who are still main
ing houses for storing tood products Olive Sanders to be frozen in a snow-
Albuquerque, N. M., Mar. 1.—Leav he said is constructive and conserva to
contrary to law.
bank today.
Miss Sanders’ sister ing McCarty’s station at 6 o’clock this tive in character, is outlawed and taining the line in this city, hoping to
be the first to file on the Yuma lands,
missed Olive from the house and found
The czar of Russia would build a her, seemingly dead, lying in the snow morning. Edward Payson Westdh ar- flushed outof existence by untavora- informing them that the order of Sec
rived
late
tonight
at
Sandia,
a
way
sta-
b
e
legislation
tnd
court
decisions,
it
new trans-Mongolian railway In pre in the barnyard. I t took two hours to
retary Ballinger
will stand. * The see-
—
v u by
i / j another
aj i uui f r
iiiu vem en v
__ j
..
movement
ference to neutral lx ing the present get the coroner, ami the body lay tion 22 miles from Albuquerque, hav- will be followed
.n
d,gr“Pted the line and
ing walked 60 miles today.
Here he that will scarcely be constructive. For
line.
where it was found.
He “ viewed” will spend the night, and leaving there two hours Mr. Gompers and Mr. Wick-
homeseekers to take their
A Cambridge. Maaa., bank book- the body and it was carried into the at midnight, will reach Albuquerque ersham discussed legislation affecting „ nrn *®. " , a *™nd ru*h” on the
keepor who received $12 per week sal- house. The undertaker was called to j next morning at 8 o’clock. He will be labor.
* morning of March 1. Those in line
ary ia accused of embetxling $144,000. prepare it for burial. At this stage four days ahead of his schedule on ar-
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“ «"*»«» they will “ hang on” until
the lasL From 210 the line haa dwind-
Riotera In Philadelphia Street car Miss Sanders revived.
; rival here. To date Weston has aver-
Declares for General Strike.
led to 156.
strike Inateh guna from soldiers.
[ aged 40 miles daily and the long climb
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 26.—Follow-1
Butte
Strike
May
Soon
End.
5
of
the
continental
divide
is
now
behind
'An earthqualTe'shock, causing dishes
ing the publication of a statement al
Girl Parades Long as Boy
Butte. MonL. Feb. 28.—A settle I him.
and Windows to rattle violently, was
leged to have been made today by John
*
*
^ ^ i d* Jty-, Feb. 24.—Miss Golds
ment
of
the
strike
of
mine
engineers
felt in Wstertown, N. Y.
J. Murphy, president of the Central ie Cantrill,
17 years old,
oia, today war
20 Families Burned Out.
is expected soon. Mat Commerford,
Labor
union,
a
warrant
was
issued
for
The Ministerial aeeociation of V it president of the International Steam
New York, Mar. 1.—Twenty famil bis a rre st It ia said that Murphy de •ent home by the school trustees afte-
toria, B. C., haa joined the Central Engineers’ union, tonight stated that ies in Jersey City were burned out to
clared " a general strike should be the! learned that .be had been attend
Tradee and Lebor council.
he had submitted a proposition to end night in a fire which destroyed 10 called immediately. I think it ia in ing school aa Sam Murray, dressed in
A special eommlttee is investigatlng the trouble to the officials of the Butte double dwelling houses and raxed the evitable. There are men in the Nortk- boys clothing. She stood second in
class. Several
Miners union, which proposition he ex plant of the New York Veneer Seating seat who ean shoot as straight a . any oer
■go
chartea th a t the university of
earned her li>i£™i*
pected they would accept. |
company. The damage is $200,000.
s i i is tspehh% swcUlism.
trooper that ever drew a breath. ’
la “ newsAoy” oc traina.
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Parts of the World.
ì
PLANS
Sympathetic Strike Will In
volve 125,000 Workers.
Grand Head of Tibetan Monks
Fiees to India.
SACRED CITY OF LHASSA TAKEN
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