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Died. Cornelius P. ("Con") Shea, 55, famed & robust Chicago labor racketeer, onetime dump cartman, onetime President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; after an operation for gall stones; in Chicago. In 1905 Racketeer Shea led a four months' strike of Chicago teamsters. Twenty-one were killed, 416 injured, 4,620 idle. Cost to the union: $1,050,000. Estimated cost to employers...
Kissing Ghost. There was Madeleine, for instance, an amorous apparition, whose medium was a rough country cartman with a thick blond mustache. Delegate Thibault, who related Madeleine's doings, said he thought she was a materialization of a 19-year-old girl who died in 1908. She was summoned, he explained, by an arrangement of red lights and phosphorescent screens, which went sailing around the room when she had begun to osculate. She was quit partial to a member of the Portuguese delegation (on the cheek), but often stayed with Delegate Thibault, for hours at a time...