St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 20, 1898

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What Is [t That Finds Work a A P-U. WANT AD, For the Unemployed ? 31. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. FIFTY-TWO PAGES. — 0, NO. 95. = A A STILL UNSOLVED. —————E *¢ &. —E——- _ Alton Authorities Searching Diligently to Ascer- tain Who Assassinated George S. Harrison. —_—_—¢o——__— ONE OF THE FOULEST CRIMES IN THE HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. ——_+o+—-—— Only Suggestion of a Clew Pertains to The Yidow’s Pathetic Description to Three Men in a Spring Wagon, Who Were Seen on the Road Behind Harrison’s Buggy and Later Some Distance in Front. Diligent work through a night and a Way has only heightened the mystery 6ur- rounding the killing of George S. Harrison | at Upper Alton, Ill., Friday night. There is no expression of doubt that Har- vison was not killed by highwaymen. The officers, the friends and neighbors of the dead man are all agreed that he was foully assassinated, But for what and by whom? have desired his death? He was venerable years, white-haired and well es- teemed in his county. He had had no vio- lent quarrels. He was not interested, far as anyone knows, in anything in which any had a interest. tHe was never the life Who could a man of SO hostile threaten other person heard to of anyone, and no one had been heard tq the men who are steadfastly declare did not do it fo threaten him. And yet hunting his murderer that whoever killed him 6elf-preservation. Robbers, they insist, did not do it. If they had they would have robbed him of the watch and money tht were in his pock- ets when the body was found. They would mot have shot him, anyway, for he was ean old man, 62 years of age, and he had no weapon to raise against them. Rut better than these, the men who have been worki..g on the mystery since the killing think is another proof that rob- bers were not the assassins. When Hacrison’s body was found at his the reins were wrapped around the lived in West murdered man has Some of the ison (‘ounty fifty years. thereabout have known him much time, and for thirty years, they say it has been ‘a known characteristic of the dead man that he could not stop on the road and talk with friend or foe until he hhad given his reins a whirl around the whip. Whoever killed and talked with would not have the whip. It is impossible that a highwayman could have shot him an? then been deprived of his booty by the horse leaping ferward. The topography of the ‘cone of the shoot- ing makes it so All the evidence proves the crime to have been committed at the north end of the long bridge over the rail- road. Fifty feet the bridge the road Pitches over a steep hill. Halfway down is stopped the reins around him, they him first. been found say, Ke lse wound | . prom seer? *t y ein ‘ abrupt turn, and the road is bad. The oree COuld not have run down the hill Without throwing the body out and over- turning the buggy at the turn in the hill. An enemy,” everyone in the ood insists, “aia it But what kind of an enemy? Was active in polities and with almost every man he ,» Man of .mmMutable convict }$e declarations, but he alwavs stirred his own ire more than that others so well was he known it was seldom any- one tok umbrage with his radicalism. He Was a emocrat, but tn the last campaign he supported Kuhn, the Republican nee for Sheriff Hie had gome red-hot ar- guments in defense of his party fealty be- Cause of this, but men cannot believe any- one could have killed him in resentment of anything he said then for he was nown as @ good-natured, big-hearted man. and his virtues much outweighed his faults Harrison tulked politics met He was a ms and emphat fa a>) ‘And, yet, strangely enough, the first theory | it Was a of the Killing accredited wag that Political murder. If the off.cers working have learned anything they are not teil ing it. Certainly the friends of the mur- dered man, and many of them are at work have learned nothing. The Inquest promises earliest developments, If, indeed, there are to be any. It ig known now that Harrison was shot at the bridge, over ihe ©. & A. tracks, a mile north of Upper Alton His hat was found near the bridge Friday nignat. and Saturday morning biood was found on the upon the case | road just beyond the bridge, and clear on } to i home. , It had falien from his face. is a house within a end of the bridge. lives there. the shot. ore the a have hos @ Was out eek ates iat, eet ee ee OM ee ee eee : ee a pa te ‘ , 3 ‘ty wi: a pe a 5 " = : ah en oe . : GEORGE S. HARRISON, THE MURDERED MAN. neignoor-, up | and nomi- | hundred gerds . & 8B Edsall) the Coroner’s Jury of How the Body of Her Husband Was Found in His Buggy, and the Grief of Herself and the Children. ———— ee in his barn lot feeding the stock when the crime must have occurred, but, unfor- tunately, he is deaf, and did not hear. end the rest of the family were in the house. The pbloodhounds were hurried to bridge Friday night, and half the men sought to get them on the trail. the dogs caught a trail beyond the south end of the bridge and went and bayed up a tree, but rushed up With drawn unhappy little "possum dogs from Edwardsville but they did nothing. Coroner Bailey began night. He empaneled a jury from Upper Alton, with Postmaster H. B. Marsh as foreman, and George Johnson, Frank 4 ae | when the revolvers only was there. Two were also tried, his work Friday | into the timber | posse ) - SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS, NOVE Attia - a eee MBER 20, 1898. a ee PRICE FIVE CENTS. board, and reached him with her hands when the othérs came up. Her right hand went under his head to lift it, and found warm blood from the wound and in a voice full of a fearful horror, the wife turned to her children and Sa id . ‘““Merey, children! has happened!” ’ “he son ran around on the other side, and together they lifted the head up and sought if he were still alive, hey burst into tears at sight of the blood and called to him, *‘Papa,”’ ‘“‘Papa,’*® but he was dead Two of the children were examined and corroborated the mother’s story. 7 Yesterday afternoon the inquest was re- sumed in the Upper Alton village hall. Louis Megce wen and William Hardy testj- led that they saw Harrison pass Bardy’s at the north limits of Upper Alton, 5:30 o'clock Friday evening. He was toward home and was alone. A ed] yards behind him they say, were They thought a spring wagon. from the Brighton neighbor- miles north, but knew noth- more than that they have to the village every three the last six months. T} > 32 three-quarters of a mili . & A. bridge. Herman Moere, a clerk. in Barnard’s store at Upper Alton, stated that while driving in from a hunting trip Friday eve- nin, he met Harrison’s horse and bugey. which he knew, about a quarter of a mile beyond the railroad bridge. It was quite dark, but he Knew the rig so well he called: “Hello, Mr. Harrison.” There was no response, and Moore thought it strange, for Harrison was a man of hearty greeting. And then Moore re- membered that he had not seen anyone upon the seat of Harrison’s buggy and that there was something in the front. He pulled his then, remembering he Something terrible to +} Pe Dad | , llidren papa,” r)} ii e fall = ae i = ‘Bs i a La only clew the OR a The men are said ti though no one around their names, and the be found, will piace , Thies, so far, is the are known to have. live near Brighton, Upper Alton knows Coroner, if them upon (;eorge Walters, Harrisons, al near neighbor of the! old gentleman on Walters met ‘rison home. Ootting, and some one nothing wrong, to The horse, W: turned out for were driving. He “ and called his “good evening ri- son. tLe remembers row that there wus no response, but did not note it aft the | time because of the nolse of the b 1ggles. | The horse the murdered man drove is A spirited youns mare. No one but Mt oo rison drove her, and while with o hers s os was ungovernable, with him she why Py . ways gentile. He never held the reins whi 5 he stopped to talk to ee on the road, 7 wh mn he was dead in the buggy the faithful animal, with an : . 'and accept a sum approximating possibly | : : ,, | views of the present condition of imperial- Should | Spain refuse to accede, then the American | take steps to dissolve | patch for the firm stand it has taken and $20,000,000 or $25,000,000 as indemnity. commiS8sioners will the peace commission. —o—_—_ WILL MEET MONDAY. Philippines Will Be Named. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch, Copyright, 1898, by the Press Publishing Company. PARIS, Nov. 19.—At the request of Com- missioner Day the meeting of the Peace Commission fixed for to-day was postponed until Monday. The American Commissi: have received voluminous instructions from President McKinley, on which the Commission staff working day and night, but still Day was not Spaniards to-day. ners been These instructions exhaustively with the points raised by the Spaniards in their late memoran- dum. They are believed to indicate what financial compensation .America is pre- pared to give for the Philippines, as well as being a definite proposal respecting the purchase of a coaling station in the Caro- lines. The Pre sident clined, as tribunal sion pable of deciding. FACTS MUST BE CONCEALED. Spain’s Reasons for Not Discussing Philippine Finances. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—An American Government official who has just returned from the Philippine Islands said to-night that in his epinion the refusal of the Span- iards to give a detailed account of Spain's expenditures in the Philippines, to be used as a ground for the settlement ippine question at Paris results from their guilty knowledge of gross defalcations in the handling government funds. arbitration, to have de- ferring to another the commis- decide and ca- r is declared be Té Spanish proposal f McKinley if wou! l is LO of of the Philippines.” he said, ‘‘there something like $1,500,000 converted by to his personal Since his governor- ship there have been many more gross frauds perpetrated in the accounts, but the exact sum cannot yet be ascertained. The American ofticials in the Philippines have full charge of all the government books and accounts there and are making a rigid examination in the hope of ascer- taining the exact amount of money Which has been taken by the Spanish officers.” uses. ROYAL ROUTE SECRET. Traveling Plane of Gaemensts Emperor Will Be Carefully Guarded. at 6:45 o'clock last before that time last. uld at Paragould Five minutes Ziegenhein had breathed h A special telegram from Parag Post-Dispatch last -night gave 1s particulars: Adam Ziegenhein after about 22 acute the special die }rice 1 “Young hours of miniiie hernia. live ! from St. Louis, train pulled breath —-—2 hein and party ) mori |; some quarters Nov, that Pola to capital of tated tion of 19.—It is suggested in Emperor William’s de- Potsdam by way the Austrian Tyrol, plan which since the Empress of the discovery of a plot eror'’s life at Alexandria, ned His Majesty's ly, complete ‘recy as to the time depafture from any place and the exact route to be kept secret until his last movement, The ae ty of Potsdam, where the Imperial family will reside until the new vear,. i8 preparing a warm re eption for their Majesties. ° BRurgomaster will read an addres the guilds and cor- tions will the route from the sta. Lion to the palace and afterwards file past the Lmperor. — —-@-—_—- BERLIN, tour from of Innsbruck, by Austria against the Egypt, he movements iS Se t ‘New York Society of Medical Jurispru- \ ADAM ZIEGENHEIN. ov se Sha | left young Zlegenhein the whistie of Mayor Ziegenhein's apecial was heard “A number of leading citizens met Mayor flewenhein at the depot to break the sac news to him and offer condolence. The depot being but a short distance from the | on | escorted there the room hotel, the ushered Corpse a) Mayor was foot and into ifeleas his aon} aay \Jsome features as smootn ai as if beaming with the smiles aeep grief of Mayor Fie gerne in fest and visibly effected aii present “Undertaker H. 8S, Trice took charge the remains, embaimed them and placed them in a casket for ehipment to St. Louls on the Mayor's special, which left here on the return trip of its sad mission at 9:5 p. m., in charge of Cond H. Cc. of life TY Was Mar who were ; of Hastings dence Would Abolish Imme- diate Embalming. Special to the Post-Dispatch NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—The Soctety of Medical Jurisprudence proposes the laws of New York which co! burial so amended thgt until a f a phy ian t rime manner i person were alive, the placing of warm and also will abolish immediate have icern to person odies on ice embalming ‘la ree ne &7) to the pres¢e nt hurtal jawe which d esa not the pres: tf the physician at require nad be tne death the sick certificate CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION. New Jersey Man Wanted in Cleveland for Stealing a Child. HARRIS}! , N 01 i ernor of Ohio has mada: for Frank McGowan, ex-Mayor of Trenton. N. J., who is wanted In Cleve- land for child abduction. His counsel has protested and a hearing ed. McGowan fore he signs RG, I re | ee. {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | | 4 EEE”. SARIS I Bit, hk Bees, on the requisition will be ax is in custody at Erie Her Reply to America’s De- further very | ; + | to which he would stand half the danger ion on tev. i | | ' What Is It That Fills Your House With Boarders ? A P.-D. WANT AD. The Nearest Draggist will Send Your Wants to the P.- CARNEGIE AGAI SQUARELY NST EXPANSION. all "= = To Take and Hold the Philippines Will Injure, Not Benefit, the Merchants and Manufac- turers of This Country. i woe —__ FEARS THAT M’KINLEY HAS NO What CONVICTIONS ON ANY SUBJECT, ——--_ $9 ‘If Secretary Gage Is Not Satisfied With the Commer-~ cial Prosperity of the United States To-Day Will This Man.” WIRES HIS VIEWS TO THE POST-DISPATCH, i » Satisfy } | | ’ ' | is | vocated by the administration. to Fditor of the Post-Dispatch. PITTSBURG, *Pa., Nov. 19. It gives me great pleasure to comply with the Post-Dispatch for my By Telegraph the request of ism. but I must first thank the Post-Dis- ithe position it has acquired as a teacher Then the Sum We Will Pay for the | | fundamental republic is true to the whiche our of the people, principles upon founded. We draw closer and closer to the prob- lem, and fortunately two members of the Cabinet have at last told us where they stand. It is most desirable that the other Joint members speak out, even if they take the 0] | | side of imperialism. If the people to-day knew that President McKinley had convictions on the subject | would be over. ready, to submit them to | i In Secretary Gage’s recent interview In the Post-Dispatch proclaiming his conver- | sion to imperialism he accepts the dangers ‘ana cost of imperialism against his own wishes for the sake of commercial expan- ! | sion. | is “When Gen. Weyler was Captain-General | commerce, ! was | m Now, Secretary Gage has never menu- factured anything or exported anything; he neither in manufacturing nor in com- merce. I am in both. Our concern Is to- day the largest exporter of manufactures in the United States. The reason that Secretary Gage gives for acquiring the Philippines is the reason why I would not. He believes it would be fa- vorable to commercial expansion; I know that it would be detr:mental. Foreign trade rests upon peace and se- curity; the waters must be calm, disturb- ing influences absent, to foster trade in foreign parts. Should we undert#ke to hold the Philip- pines, we immediately place the whole Re- ‘of the Phil- | public within the zone of wars and rumors 'of wars, and the rumor of war, it must be remembered, is in itself destructive to It was only,rumors of war that threw us from London back to New York two weeks ago when the money center of the world was placed in New York by a rumor that France and England would fight. If Secretary Gage is not satisfied with the commercial expansion which this coun- try is enjoying, what will satisfy this man”? I have seen nothing like it In my lifetime, nor have I read of anything com- parable to it. Our exports now exceed the exports of Great Britain. What does Sec- retary Gage mean by talking of commer- cial expansion to come, when the question to-day is how shall we meet the commercial expansion crowding upon us? I should like to ask the Administration one question which the President and Cabi- /net must soon think of. the | Se ee im thor residents ’ | ER OE | thing to Are the Philippines to be considered part of the American Republic, as Porto Rico Is, and are we keep them for as we have Porto Rico, excluding the world from equal tfade rights with them? McKinley says: ’ .U Suppose President “Yes, | | carry Union , ‘eachery ourselves | “eachery ,; him open | tagzonizes T have always stood for American labor; I | am its great champion; I am a protectionist to the core.’ I begin to grow doubtful about the Pres!- dent having convictions upon any subject; | if he has conviction, it is this that duty of an American of American labor. Well, have done so when he announces is going to obey the United States, although constitution seems to be, as Tim sald to Preside Cleveland: stand between friends. ‘ident le true to the to support it, but is take care the that he constitution Campbell once nit “A amal/l fut Conatitut! Supp. Se nm oath HOW SHALL WE CO it | President to} he willl of the In these days the | | reaident h ibe ¢ J —_ 2 eo —— NTKOL OUR COLONIES. i ad Following the interviews with Secretary of the Treasury Gage and Postmaster ' General Wilson, recently printed. the Post-Dispatch asked Andrew Carnegie, the ‘leading manufacturer of the United States, to wire hig opinion on imperialism as ad- As will be seen, |against the President’s policy, and predicts that the people will repudiate it. Mr. Carnegie comes out boldly then there ts free trade between all parts of the United States and the Philippines as there is to Porto Rico—he has stood true there—but there is a high tariff between the trade of all other nations and the Philippines. [ believe the President wil; be driven te hold this position: What ensues? War. Britain is our best friend to-day, but only upon condition that we keep the “open door’ for her in the Philippines and in all other our distant possessions. Should England promise to rema!n neu- tral, as she did in Japan’s troubles, France, Germany gnd Ruesia would combine to drive the United States out of the Philip- pines as they forced Japan out of Corea, Japan, too, wants the Philippine opened freely to her. ports I was consulted last week in regard to taking an offer of 60,000 tons of steel plates for delivery in Western Australia. My feeling was that we should wait results. Let us see whether we do not get inte trouble in regard to the “Open Door or the “Closed Door’ tn the Philippines If we do, of course there is no delivery in Western Australia possible to the extent of 6,000 tons of stee) to be made by Amer- ican labor. Mr. Gage’s commercial tm- pression is hindered. This steel may not be made tr the United States. So much for imperialism and its foreign compli- cations. Suppose, however, President McKin] y. in order to hold the Philippines at all, Ras io grant the “open door.” where will Secre- tary Gage and his commercial expansion stand then? What will labor in the Unit- States say to the recreant President? What compensation is it to have? What justification can be pleaded for paying twenty or forty millions for the Philippines and for sacrificing the blood of our soldiers and the lives of our civil servants involved in this acquisition. if no advantage accrues? What answer will he make to the people upon whom he tm- poses additional taxation? I think I know what the laboring maaes- es of the United States will say to him, and to any government that throws upon the country such sacrifices of life and such burdens, only to open its costly acquisitions to the nations of the world. If it be fair competition with other nations that we re- quire for commercial expansion, we are certain of that already, Britain will never permit the open door in the far Kast to be closed. President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, is on the right track. He denounces the policy of bringing the Republic into @ zone of European strife in the far Mast. He will win, and it only needs a few large eni- ployers of labor to speak to their people to the entire laboring people of the against the President's proposed to the cause of American labor. Let the President take elther horn of the dilemma and hie policy of what he himeelf has called ‘‘criminal aggression” fails. Tee the door of the world and he an- American labor. Let him conatd- he Philippines part of the United Btatea, Urnier the (onatitu. of the United except through to all other nations, and he the whole of Europe and hae his hands’ to a certainty—thie to deal with, but the because closed upon time no weak Spain overwhelming naval power of Furope, another reasog., eq ially potent defeat the President's polley and gave the repubile Re of good cheer The American people have always decided rightiy in great crises. The impertalistie policy has not been property discuased, be- cause the porition of the Presa dent and the Giovernment ia not yet known, but the as to come forward and decide queation I have indicated This will death blow of impertallem either way he decides. ANDREW CARNEGIE. he a cee ——__—_o@<e —-——-- " The Post-Dispatch submitted to high au- es on constitutional law these ques- of general Interest and of the keenest wt pressing importance to wage earnera: I'nder our Constitution, ean the United States hold colonies? What will be the status of natives of and in any come part of the possessions of the U@:ted States” W hat the : grit form of government has Congress fix ff h possessions? vith are presented the replies thus eived to rau the Editor of the Post Dilepatch CAMBRIDGE Mas \ ON jucdgirme the United States power to acouire and any nation Has. Natives and residents will not become citizens of the United The United States, tf ma he a adjusted, can ite P. ef government it chooses, 19 has in my the same ah we to held colonies that | ae | that territories that may be- | I am «peaking simply of constitutional power Let me «say one word as to policy It will be mariness for this country te settle down after this war without dal what t dd after the last war, vis... amend. ing the Conetttution. The crisis te bardly less grave. We shou'd at once provide by amendment no region papers sea should ever be- come a Btate of the Union Lniess this be done, party exigencies will prove too much for us and we ehall to the dogs. JAMES RB. THATER —_— —— | To the Editer ef the Post Diepatch. HAVEN. Cenn. Nov the United States 18—In my can acquire NEW judgement | territory by conquest or treaty in any part of the worldand, having acgutred ii. can govern it by such laws asCongresaginy sco t to enact, subject only to atch resirie. tions as the Constitution has provided, They (the inhabitants) will not neces. early, in my opinion Ghoug considered a deubtful ) the tatty $s mee in) ate ee fs Bo el EF) Ap ng a) hi: ee tae te Te RR re ae Me A y ina 2 “as 2 CT tut, Be sy ets 7 a - s “g° ’ _ ae eine 2 "gs s eae’ Pee Pt