WAR AT THE
POLLS.
A BLOODY
ELECTION BATTLE AT KANSAS CITY.
Over a
Hundred Shots Fired—One Man Instantly Killed and Several Mortally Wounded—A
Number More or Less Injured—The Fight Started Between Catholics and Members of
the American Protective Association.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 4.—A riot occurred here
between members of the A. P. A. and Catholics in which one man was killed
outright, two were mortally wounded and several others were seriously injured
by stray bullets.
The trouble occurred over the swearing in of
some deputy marshals who attacked the A. P. A. workers.
It was the culmination of bad feeling that
had been manifested all day between those elements.
MIKE CALLAHAN, a well-known politician, Catholic,
and supporter of Frank J. Johnson for mayor, was killed.
JERRY PATE, a deputy constable, was shot in
the head and will die.
J. BROSNAHAN was shot through the kidneys and
will die.
PAT FLEMING was shot through the shoulder.
JERRY FOWLER was also shot.
JOHN MCGOWAN was shot, but not seriously.
Eight arrests have been made so far of those
who participated in the riot. The scene of the riot is on the Southwest
boulevard.
Constable Pate interfered among the crowd of
angry disputants and Callahan, it is said, flourished a pistol.
Pate called on him to surrender. Callahan fired,
but missed. Pate returned the fire and shot Callahan dead. The shooting then
became general.
More than a hundred shots were exchanged between
the combatants in less than that many seconds. The riot was the culmination of
bitter feeling, which had been manifested by action and words ever since the
polls opened. The two antagonistic elements were solidly divided in their
choice of candidates for mayor. The aggressive support that each side gave to
its candidates, during one of the hottest campaigns ever known in this city,
engendered a strong sentiment of bigotry.
This riot took place very close to Police Station
No. 3, and those who took part in it had been heated to the fighting temper by
reports that had been hourly arriving at the station of brawls at other polling
places.
Only one hour before it was known that John
Gooley, a stonemason, was shot in the back and forehead by William Henry Walker
at a voting place at the corner of Fifth and Campbell streets, and that the row
was due to a fiery debate between the two men regarding the principle of the A.
P. A., to which Gooley was violently opposed. That Gooley was not instantly
killed was due to the fact that the pistol used was a mere toy of 22-calibre.
The A. P. A., which supported Webster
Davis, the Republican candidate for mayor, had their own workers at the
different polling places, and they distributed in some precincts their own
tickets, bearing their own candidate's names, and decorated with the American
flag. Jim Pryor, a Fifth ward politician, antagonistic to the A. P. A., who
supported Frank Johnston, the labor and factional Democratic candidate, was active
at the head of 50 constables, which he got Justice Latshaw to appoint.
It was said by some that these constables were
many of them irresponsible characters and were solely the cause of the trouble.
It is claimed that one of Pryor's
followers fired the first shot. That one was Mike Callahan and he was a dead man
the next moment.
Then the battle began. The deputy constables
at this polling booth and the workers of all the political factions crowded
together in solid masses, fully 100 strong, and every one of them seemed to be
armed.
For a minute or two the discharge of weapons
sounded like a discharge of musketry by a regiment.
Hundreds of citizens gathered at every point
of vantage to witness the battle which, however, was of short duration. These
onlookers trembled with excitement. Many of the residents along the boulevard
added to the general feeling of terror by leaning from their windows and shouting.
In less than five minutes from the time the
first shot was fired, however, the bluecoats from Station No. 3 had appeared upon
the scene and quieted the disturbance. With their first approach the fighting political
workers ceased hostilities and made a quick effort to hide their weapons.
Pryor's men are claiming that Callahan was
an innocent victim. They assert that it was Jerry N. Pate, an A. P. A. man, who
fired the first shot, and that was the shot that killed Callahan.
Harry Arthur, one of Pryor's followers, says
he is the man who shot Pate in the face. Arthur says:
"I was standing on the bridge that
crosses OK creek close to the scene of the riot, when Jerry Pate and another
man came from the other end of the bridge in a buggy with four men running
behind them. When Pate reached the spot where I was standing he jumped out of
his buggy with a gun in hand, and grabbing hold of Harry McGovern, he said:
'Here is one of the men we are after. I have got a warrant for your arrest.'
"I went up to Pate and said: 'You can't
take him.'
"Jim Todd stepped out, too, and said: 'No,
you can't take me either.'
" 'I'm a deputy constable, and you've
got to go,' said Pate, and then, turning to the men in the buggy, said: 'Read
that warrant.' Just then Mike Callahan came running toward us from the northern
end of the bridge.
"He ran up to Pate and asked him what
right he had to carry a pistol and demanded to see his permit. The two men exchanged
angry words and then Pate aimed at Callahan and fired. Callahan returned the
fire and then I and the rest of us began shooting. I shot Pate."
While the riot was in progress, it is said
that members of the A. P. A. telephoned to Armourdale…strongholds of that
order, for reinforcements for 1,000 men, and that the assurance was given that
the men would shortly be on the way. Members of the A. P. A. in this city and
Armourdale deny the truth of this story.
COXEY AT
PITTSBURG.
The Army
Gets a Royal Reception at the Smoky City.
PITTSBURG, April 4.—The commonweal army has
arrived. It reached Lower Allegheny and was met with bands by the ironmoulders'
union, patternmakers, boilermakers, bakers and other labor organizations and a
large crowd of people.
When the city line was reached a halt was
taken for lunch and then the army marched to Exposition park where it went into
camp for two days. Long before the arrival of the commonweal, the streets in the
vicinity of Woods' Run were packed with people.
Director Murphy of the department of public
safety became alarmed, as the crowd was wrought up to a high tension of
excitement, and refused to allow the army to come into the city by that route.
A change was then made and Coxey and his followers marched in over the Brighton
road.
Many houses were decorated, and along the
route to the park the army was greeted with cheers by the crowds who thronged
the sidewalks.
A feature of the parade was 100 bicyclists carrying
banners inscribed, "Coxey's Brigade."
THE WRIT
GRANTED.
The Case
of Student Taylor Can Be Reviewed.
ELMIRA, N. Y., April 4.—Judge Smith
handed down a decision to-day upon the application of Cornell student Taylor, under
commitment for a criminal contempt for a writ of certiorari and a stay of
judgment of conviction pending the review. In his opinion upon granting the
application, Judge Smith says that in practice the writ of review is granted almost
as of course; that it would not be humane to deny to a prisoner claiming to be
illegally imprisoned the right to review in an appellate court the judgment of
conviction.
ITHACA, N. Y., April 4.—F. L. Taylor, the
Cornell sophomore who is confined in the Tompkins county jail for contempt of
court, has been notified by the faculty of that institution that he has been
dropped from the university rolls because of delinquency in his work. Taylor
says that he was unable to prepare for examination because he was required to
be present at the sessions of coroners and grand jury.
Big Fire
In China.
SHANG HAI, April 4.—A great conflagration is
raging here. Already a thousand buildings, large and small, have been destroyed
and the fire is still burning.
The
Chinese Treaty.
Perhaps in the discussion of how the new
Chinese treaty will affect this country it will be as well to take the words of
the treaty for just what they mean in plain English, for once, and look at the result
from that standpoint. In plain English, then, it seems evident that China is not
desirous of pouring her children upon our shows. The preamble of the treaty
recites that, in view of the antagonisms and serious disorders to which the
presence of Chinese laborers has given rise in the United States, China desires
to prohibit their emigration hither. That is distinct enough, and it is only
common sense and fairness to infer that China means it.
No new laborers are to be permitted, in the
meaning of the treaty, to come to our shores. But those already here may go
back to China, and if they have a lawful wife, child or a parent or $1,000
worth of property in America they shall have the right to return. They may be
absent a year, or if illness or other uncontrollable conditions arise the leave
of absence may he extended to two years.
It is this provision which is contested go
hotly by the Pacific slope senators. They say
that under it the Chinese companies can smuggle in as many Chinese laborers as
they desire, nothing being easier than to show that a Chinaman has $1,000 worth
of property. Chinese merchants, students, officials, teachers and travelers are
to be permitted under the treaty to come and go at will.
This provision, too, the western senators declare,
opens the door wide for as many laborers as wish to come, for nothing again will
be easier than for the Six
Companies to prove that any green Chinese washerman arriving on our shores is a
"merchant," duly accredited. But to meet this, provision is made that
the merchant or other privileged Chinese person coming here must get a certificate
from our consul at the port whence he departs that he is precisely what he represents
himself to be. So that if laborers are smuggled in it will be at least partly owing
to remissness on the part of our own consuls.
The photograph proviso is abrogated. Chinese
laborers here must register, however, and in return for that China claims the
right to make all American laborers in China do the same. All citizens of the
United States resident in China, including missionaries, must be reported by
the United States government to the Chinese authorities and fully described.
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| Jacob S. Coxey, Sr. |
Fate was unkind indeed to Citizen J. S. Coxey of Massillon, 0., in the sendoff he gave his army when he raised the cry
of "On to Washington!" and started with his host to take the capital.
She gave him two snowstorms to begin and cold weather enough to chill the
marrow and freeze out the courage of all but a leader as brave as Coxey.
Various political schemes have been charged
upon Coxey by the so-called plutocratic press. Wicked gold bugs and others have
not hesitated to say that a demand for silver coinage was the concealed African
in the wood pile of this army of the unemployed. But Citizen Coxey says no. He
vows by all that is good and great that he only means a move in the interest of
the Good Roads association and of the unemployed millions of the United States.
We will go to Washington in a peaceful, dignified manner, says this leader. We
will petition congress to issue $25,000,000, more or less, of national scrip
and set the unemployed to work at making good roads throughout all the Union.
That, in brief, is the plan.
The originator of the scheme thinks he sees
in it a way to get decent highways throughout the length and breadth of our
land and give food to the hungry. As to the need of the great public highways advocated
in this queer manner, there is no question. Property in America would be worth
many millions more if we had as good roads as France has, for instance.
It may be mentioned, by the way, that the
roads of France were built in exactly this way for the purpose of feeding the
hungry and silencing their murmurs of discontent. An American, Mr. Joseph R.
Buchanan, who has given considerable thought to the subject in earnest, declares
that part of Coxey's scheme is not so very wild. Suppose, he says, congress
should issue legal tender notes for the purpose of road-making. The individual
states would be more interested than the national government in the roads. If
they should agree to pay every year, of the amount expended in the bonds of
each state, say, 1 per cent each, the roads could be constructed, and the
national government would not feel the expense. The added value of the property
along the improved highways would give the individual states so much increased
annual revenue that they would not feel the expense either.
THE
VILLAGE FATHERS.
Health
Commissioners Named—Other Business Transacted.
A regular meeting of the board of trustees
was held Monday evening in the office of Clerk Hatch. The full board was
present. Minutes of the last board were read and approved,
N. J. Peck, chief C. F. D., came before the
board and requested the purchase of certain quantity of play pipes [nozzles,] rubber
coats, etc., in addition to and in connection with the purchase of fire hose.
On motion Mr. Scudder was authorized to make such purchase at a cost not to
exceed $50.
Mr. Bates, representing the Gutta Percha and
Rubber Mfg. Co., came before the board and desired to sell a quantity of fire
hose.
Mr. H. L. Gleason presented a petition from
the Cortland and Homer Electric Co. for a franchise to operate a street railway
through certain streets mentioned.
On motion of Mr. Scudder, seconded by Mr.
Swan and carried, it was resolved that the notice of such application and of
the time and place of considering the same—to wit, on April 21, 1894, at 2
o'clock P. M. at Fireman's hall, be published in the Cortland Daily STANDARD, according
to law.
Mr. Fred Hatch was reappointed clerk of Cortland
village.
The following persons were appointed health
commissioners for Cortland:
First ward—Daniel N. Lucy.
Second ward—Samuel E. Welch.
Third ward—C. E. Ingalls.
Fourth ward—Jerome F. Wheeler.
On motion of Mr. Doubleday, seconded by Mr.
Swan, and carried the board proceeded to an informal ballot for choice of a
street commissioner. The result was a follows:
Whole number cast, 4
A. H.
Decker, 2
B. D. Bentley, 2
A second ballot was taken resulting as follows:
Whole number cast, 4
A. H. Decker, 3
B. D. Bentley, 1
On motion of Mr. Doubleday seconded by Mr.
Warfield, Mr. A. H. Decker was appointed street commissioner of the village to
hold office during the pleasure of the board.
On motion, the clerk was instructed to
correspond with the Fabric Fire Hose Co. of New
York requesting a proposal in writing for the purchase of 800 feet of fire
hose, and the president was given authority in his discretion to contract for
the payment of the same, in accordance with such proposition.
Moved and carried that notice be published in
the Cortland STANDARD and Cortland Democrat
requiring property owners in the village generally to build new or repair
broken sidewalks on or before April 20, and in default thereof the street
commissioner was instructed to build or repair such walks at the expense of the
adjoining property and the owners thereof.
On motion the following bills were audited
and ordered paid:
Street commissioners pay roll, $ 77.79
W. F. Eldrldge, labor, 1.00
Maxson & Starin, lime, .75
W. J. Moore, services as health officer, 5.35
Cortland Savings bank, interest on $10,000 Normal
school bond, 180.00
C. S. Bull, 3 months’ salary as police
justice, 250.00
J. E. Sager, meals for prisoners, 2.20
Police force, salary, 98.00
Labor at engine house, 14.70
L. R. Lewis, supplies, 2.79
F. A. Bickford, janitor Fireman's hall, 25.87
Martin & Call, coal, 33.00
I. W. Brown, moving and setting up election booths,
10.00
Rent of telephone, 9.00
B. B. Jones, printing, 1.50
Homer and Cortland Electric Co., lighting of
streets, 494.00
On motion the board adjourned to meet at the
office of the clerk on Monday evening, April 16, at 7:30 o'clock.
A Brave
Act.
At Wilkes-Barre yesterday as a passenger
train on the Jersey Central R. R. was crossing the Lackawanna river the engineer
discovered a little girl on the bridge. He reversed his engine, but could not
stop in time. The child hesitated a moment and then leaped into the river. The
fireman climbed down from his side of the cab, and when just at the place from
which the child had jumped, he too leaped into the water, turning over twice in
his descent, but landing all right. He quickly seized the struggling child who
could not swim and took her to land in safety. The passengers congratulated him
upon his bravery and raised a purse for him.
GOLDEN
WEDDING.
Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Bosworth Celebrate This Rare Event.
Fifty years ago yesterday in the village of
Paris, Oneida county, Mr. Thomas Bosworth and Miss Mercy S. Pierce were
married. Through a half century Mr. and Mrs. Bosworth have lived in the four
counties of Central New York—Oneida, Madison, Chenango and Cortland. For the
last twelve years they have lived in Cortland village.
The anniversary of the wedding was observed
last night at the home of the bride and groom of a half century ago, 41 Maple-ave.,
by the gathering of about fifty of their friends. There have been eight
children in the family and six are now living—Miss Lillian Bosworth and Mrs.
Lewis Jones of Waterville, N. Y., Miss Clara Bosworth, Messrs. A. D. Bosworth
and F. L. Bosworth of Cortland, and Mr. H. E. Bosworth of Springfield, Mass. All
but the last mentioned were present last night and he had expected to be here,
but was unavoidably detained. It was a joyful occasion. Many of the friends brought
with them beautiful reminders of the day. Rev. W. H. Pound addressed to Mr. and
Mrs. Bosworth some very appropriate words. Very nice refreshments were served
and the evening was spent most delightfully in a social way.
BREVITIES.
—Small pox has broken out in Lyons, N. Y.,
and it is suspected that there are cases in Syracuse.
—Dr. H. P. Johnson has moved his office to
50 Church-st., which will be his office
and residence.
—Daniel McAuliff was brought before Justice
Bull to-day charged with drunkenness and was sentenced to $3 or three days.
—The clothiers, merchant tailors and furnishers
have agreed to continue the 6 o'clock hour of closing their stores except on
Monday and Saturday evenings until May 1.
—Dr. Pauline Root, a medical missionary to
India will speak at the Congregational church on Thursday afternoon at 3
o'clock and at the Thursday evening prayer-meeting at 7:30 o'clock.
—The W. C. T. U. hold their prayer-meeting for
Sabbath observance in their rooms this evening at 7:30 , to-morrow afternoon at
3 o'clock and Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. All interested are invited to be
present.
—There was a very pleasant gathering of the
members and friends of the Y. P. S.
C. E., of the Presbyterian church at the church parlors last evening. The monthly
business meeting was held first and was followed by a brief but interesting program
presented by the missionary committee. The social committee submitted an art
gallery which created much amusement. Wafers and lemonade were served, and the
remainder of the evening was spent pleasantly in a social way.
E., C.
& N. R. R. Notes.
The E., C. & N. R. R. has contracted
with the Pullman Palace Car Co. for four new day coaches of the latest style and
design. They are to have high backs and will be seventy-five feet long. The
color is to be red, but of a little brighter shade than used at present. The
lettering upon the cars will be of silver instead of gold. The cars are to be
delivered May 1.
Four of the present day coaches are to be
used as smokers to go with the new day coaches and these are being repainted and
relettered to correspond with them. Three mail cars are also undergoing a similar
process. The present smoking cars are to be renovated and cleaned up and will
be used for the excursion traffic which has so largely increased within the
last few years.
A brand new passenger locomotive is in
process of construction at the railroad shops in Cortland. It is expected to be
ready for use about June 1. It has not yet been decided upon which division it
will run.
The freight business seems to be picking up
quite a good deal upon the line of the E., C. & N.
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