CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
E X P R E S S M E N ’S
O ver
S T R IK E
5 , 0 0 0 D riv e r s in N ew Y o r k
C ity Figh t Strik e b re a k e rs.
BRITISH WIN
SPEED PRIZE
New York, Oct. 31.— The Metropoli­
tan d istric t is still in the grip of the
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N ine companies are
express strike,
now , affected; nore than 5,000 men
are o ut and rio tin g continues. A spe
cial order was issued at police head­
q u arters tonight, holding practically
G e n e ral R e su m e o f Im p ortan t Events the en tire New York police force .of F re n ch m an In M o n op la n e W a s M a k ­
more than 9,000 men in reserve for
ing B etter Tim e. But M e t W ith
P re se n te d in C o n d e n se d F o r m
an em ergency.
, B ad Sm a sh u p .
f o r O u r B u s y R e a d e rs.
In Jersey City alone the police are
still try in g to cope w ith the situation,
unaided except by private detectives,
New Y ork—Claude G raham e-W hite,
Dr. Cook has sent a m essage of con­ but to n ig h t Governor F o rt instructed
flying fo r the Royal Aero cluh of the
gratu latio n to W alter Wellman.
the Third regim ent N. G. N. J ., to
Roosevelt has made nine speeches in prepare for active duty at a m om ent’s U nited Kingdom, lifted the Gordon
B en n ettt international speed trophy
notice.
M anhattan in the poMtical cam paign.
Tomorrow determ ined efforts will be
Bank robbers blew the safe of a made by the companies to distribute from the custody of A m erica in the
bank a t Palestine, Texas, and escaped the v ast amount of express m atter th a t fa ste st tim e ever covered in the full
w ith $8,000.
has accumulated and upon the result of distance of 100 kilom eters, (62.14
Officials of the Rock Island road the day will depend w hether the m ili­ miles) around a five-kilom eter course.
com plain th a t the roads are injured by tia is called out.
H is average speed was a fraction
The nine companies, whose drivers b etter th an 61 miles an hour, and his
too many commissions.
and helpers are dem anding increased
In order to bring about one-cent let­ pay and shorter hours a r e : The A m er­ fa ste st lap was 2 m inutes 55.77 sec­
te r postage sooner, it is proposed to in­ ican, United S tates, W ells-Fargo, Ad­ onds, b ut the captain of the French
crease magazine postage.
ams, N ational, W estcott and Long Is­ team , A lfred LeBlanc, flying in a
The New York express drivers strik e land Express companies; th e Boston sim ilar machine, a 100-horse power
threatens to tie up all transportation D ispatch express and the M anhattan
B lériot monoplane, was m aking each
except railroads and streetcars.
Delivery company.
There were no fa ta litie s during the
Rebellious tribes in the Philippines
day ’s rioting, but more than 50 s trik e ­
have killed eight Americans, and are
breakers, strik e rs and policemen w ere
on the w arpath again st all foreigners.
hurt, several seriously, in stree t clash­
W itnesses differ widely as to w heth­ es in New York and Jersey C ity.
e r the explosion in the Los Angeles Wagons manned
by strikebreakers
Times office was caused by escaping were stormed, notw ithstanding th a t a
gas.
detective w ith a rifle sa t beside each
Miss Hortense H arder, retu rn in g to driver.
Shots were repeatedly fired over the
A m erica from school .a t P aris, failed
to declare seven of her French gowns heads of the besieging strik ers, but no
to the customs officres, and her fath e r sooner was one crowd dispersed than an­
was obliged to pay not only the regular other collected. Packages w ere scat­
duty but the full value of the gowns in tered over the stree ts and in some
cases destroyed.
addition.
An appalling lot of perishable goods
The Carnegie Hero commission has is collecting, and unless companies are
awarded 30 silv er medals, 28 bronze soon b etter able to m eet the situation
medals and $40,205 in cash to life- they will lose thousands of dollars.
savers, or th eir fam ilies where death
In fro n t of J . P ierpont M organ’s
occurred. In 23 other cases where home in Madison avenue the strik e rs
death ensued pensions
have been made a dem onstration late today and
aw arded to dependents.
t..e police w ere forced to charge the
Minneapolis census returns show con­ mob and fire volleys in the air w ith
th e ir revolvers.
W A LTE R B RO O K IN S
siderable padding.
The fight centered on two American One of th e leading d riv e rs in th e re c en t aviation
Explosion of a gasoline tank caused E xpress company wagons, manned by
m eet a t N ew Y o rk.
a $35,000 fire a t Salem, * Or.
strik eb reak ers.
There were many
lap on an average of 20 seconds faste r
The patent office a t W ashington is broken heads.
A nother serious clash started at than G raham e-W hite, and would have
swamped w ith inventions of appliances
Forty-fourth stre e t and F ifth avenue, won th e cup if he had not m et w ith a
fo r aerial navigation.
waged down the avenue to Forty-sec­ disastrous accident in his last lap when
A resident of Southw est China de­ ond street, sw ept across Broadway,
he had the race secm m eingly well in
clares the em pire is ripe for rebellion, thence south to the H otel Albany,
hand.
and only a spark is needed to s ta r t it. w here the strik e rs and sym pathizers
LeB lanc’s first lap was a new w orld’s
The New Elms hotel a t E xcelsior made a final stand.
record in itself fo r five kilom eters, 2
An Am erican Express company wa­ m inutes and 45.63 seconds, but he sub­
Springs, Mo., built a year ago a t a
cost of $150,000, was entirely destroy­ gon, Baid to have collected $50,000 in sequently exceeded i t w ith a lap done
specie, was the object of attack. Po­ in 2 m inutes 44.32 seconds.
ed by fire.
lice finally drove off the besiegers.
LeBlance was running w ith the
The printing pressmen of Denver
P rim arily,
th e
organization of
a r e on strik e and all allied printing “ h elp ers” struck for a wage increase wind under full power a t an estim ated
trades unions have pledged them th eir of $5 a month. B ut a second demand, speed of 80 m iles an hour, when the
feed pipe from his gasoline tank to his
fu ll support.
u n p recedented in labor annals, is th a t m otor loosened and he suddenly found
be
no discrim ination him self w ith nothing but momentum
E x-Secretary of the Interior Garfield th ere shall
is charged w ith having shielded the ag a in st non-union men.
to carry him.
Union Pacific Railw ay company in its
I t is a peculiarity of racin g aero­
coal land frauds in Wyoming.
planes th a t they are trim m ed down so
1 0 ,0 0 0 A C R E S A N D $ 1 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 .
fine they cannot execute a proper vol­
F ive men suspected of the Los An­
plane, or glide, if the gasoline shuts off.
geles Times dynam ite outrage were
M r s . E. H. H a rrim a n D on ate s V a st They m ust come to ea rth under power,
arrested at Acapulco, Mexico, upon
T ra c t to N e w Y o rk .
and even then they bump severely on
th e ir arrival there in a gasoline launch.
landing. LeBlance was helpless and
N
ew
burgh,
N.
Y.—In
accordance
The entire police reserve of New
panic-stricken. He tried to lif t his
w
ith
th
e
plan
outlined
by
her
husband,
Y ork City, num bering about 9,000
planes so th a t the last few drops of
the
late
E.
H.
H
arrim
an,
Mrs.
Mary
men, were ordered held in readiness to
gasoline m ight filter down into the en­
W.
H
arrim
an
has
presented
to
the
answ er riot calls on account of the ex­
gine and lend him stren g th to m ake a
s
ta
te
of
New
York
10,000
acres
of
press d rivers’ strike.
land, a p a rt of the Arden estate, to be landing.
H is steerag e way was gone, and
Sarah B ernhardt arrived in New incorporated in the In te rsta te P ali­
when a puff of wind caught him he
York City for a long theatrical engage­ sades park.
m ent in this country. She was greeted
A t the sam e tim e a g ift of $1,000,- d rifted sideways, still driving at tre ­
by a delegation of suffragettes w ith 000 was made by Mrs. H arrim an for mendous speed, and crashed head fore­
hugs and kisses and her path was the developm ent of the park and the m ost into a telegraph pole. The pole
strew n w ith flowers.
preserve was fu rth e r increased by the was 14 inches thick, but he broke it in
th ree pieces. The first frag m en t was
A special grand jury has begun an tran sfer to th e park commission of 700 sliced clean off 12 feet up and snapped
acres
which
had
been
intended
for
the
investigation of the Los Angeles Times
new sta te prison on Bear mountain, but again a t the bottom of the stum p.
dynam ite outrage.
which by act of the last legislature The th ird and topm ost fragm ent fell
over backwards and smashed down on
A freshm an at Cornell college died was ceded to th e park.
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from injuries supposed to have been
The g ift was made to George W. the frag ile planes.
The chassis and steel shield which
received in a football game.
j Perkins, president of the Palisades
Bryan will e n te r the political cam- Park commissioon, by A verill W. Har- encloses th e motor w ere completely
As crumpled, but the solid steel of the
paign at his own expense, his first rim an, son of th e late financier.
m otor itself withstood the shock. Had
i
he
handed
the
deeds
and
$1,000,000
speech being made at Lincoln, Neb.
j
check to Mr. Perkins, young H arrim an LeBlanc h it the pole in another man­
_ Seven convicts , escaped
, , from „ the 1 said it was his m other’s hope and his ner, it is difficult to see how he could
G eorgia sta te prison during a fire th a t “ through all the years to come, have escaped death.
which destroyed the m ain building.
Charles K. H am ilton, of the A m eri­
the health and happiness of future
Three students w ere expelled from generations will be advanced by these can team , was enthusiastic.
“ LeBlanc is the best track driv er in
the Salem, O re., high school for haz­ g if ts .”
the w orld,” he said.
“ The way he
ing.
They cu t the hair of several
took those turns was a m arvel. G ra­
M e x ica n K id n a p s 'G irl.
freshm en.
ham e-W hite would never have been in
Linoln, Neb. — Grace Rolph, 17
By order of President T a ft, H a rt H.
it except for L eB lanc’s accident, and
years
old,
dau
g
h
ter
of
a
well
known
N orth has been removed from his posi­
no Am erican m achine had a chance
Pender,
N
eb.,
fam
ily,
who
have
been
tion as com missioner of im m igration
spending the sum m er on a ranch near w ith him. I am going to throw my
a t San Francisco.
machine into the scrap heap and buy a
Checoy, Mex., was kidnapped Thurs­
B lériot before I leave this track. The
More than three inches of snow fell day by a Mexican peon named Segunda,
in N orthern Michigan, and a lig h t fall according to advices received here. A biplane is out of date and we m ight as
is reported from M innesota, Iowa, son of Mr. H arris, who is m anager of well adm it i t , ”
doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
- ' 'HESSE
GROW S
Kansas and N ebraska.
A strike of express wagon drivers
and their helpers is on in New York
C ity, and rio tin g has begun, following
th e use of strikebreakers.
President T a ft has accepted the po­
sition of honorary president of the Boy
Scouts of A m erica, who now number
160,000, and are scattered over 46
states.
Leonard Olson.’a prominent Socialist
and I. W. W. speaker o f Tacoma, will
probably loee his citizenship for de­
nouncing the constitution and the gov-
What Mil
Racing Aeroplane Averages Over
61 Miles Per Hour.
the ranch, has offered a reward of
E x p lo sio n In ju re s Seventeen.
$1,000 for the capture of Segunda. The
San Francisco—Seventeen persons
U nited S tates am bassador a t Mexico
City has been advised and an effort were severely h u rt in an explosion
will be made to in te rest the S tate d e­ from a fire in an ap artm en t house in
E llis' stre e t.
Four of the num ber
partm ent officials at W ashing«tn.
were new spaper men and th e others
were members of the fire departm ent.
B arrel Hides A ssassin.
Most of the lodgers had left the build­
V ictoria, B. C. — Mile. Kuknetso, ing before the explosion occurred, and
who assassinated the commander of the those who rem ained on the upper floors
Captain
Russian garrison at H arbin, Manchu­ escaped on Are ladders.
ria, made a sensational escape from Joseph Cappelli and Hoseman Thomas
prison at Harbin on October 11. She Bell of the fire department were over­
was smuggled out of the jail, concealed come by gas and were rescued by their
in a barrel, by confederate*.
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