BEFORE COAL COURT
Twenty-tvro Witnesses Testi
fy In Philadelphia.
MITCHELL CROSS' EXAMINER.
Men Who Itnnnlnril nt Work nnrina
thm Mi-Ike Tell of Haffirliina and
l'rraecutlon Kurnuton Sher
, Iff on the Stand.
PHILADELPHIA. Jun. 7.-Twenty-two
men, all but onp of whom were
employed lit and about the coal mines,
appi'iired before the anthracite cool
strike caminlMlon at Its first session
n this city and recited the oft told
'ales of persecution they oud others
:nderwent during the late conl strike
)ccauBe they chose to work rather than
,'oiu the strikers. The single exception
mis Charles II. Schndt of Scranton,
the sheriff of Lackawanna county, and
Lis presence on the stand under the
cross examination of President John
Mitchell of the miners' union proved
to be the principal feature of the dny's
proceedings.
The sheriff In direct examination
said among other thlnxs that he Issued
proclamation shortly after the strike
wus Inaugurated calling upon all per
sons In the county to keep the peace;
that It was ditllcult to get men to act
a deputy sheriffs; that lu most esses
where there was trouble It wus usually
over when he or 1U men arrived; that
he attempted to keep the peace lu ull
localities and that the disturbances be
en me so numerous and serious that h
hnd to call on the governor for
troops. He had appealed to Mr. Mitch
ell, whom he knew quite well, to assist
In keeping the pence, and the miners'
piesideut promised to do so.
Sheriff Selmdt was then turned over
to the uiinei-H for cross examination. To
the surprise of most persons Mr. Mitch
ell took up the examination. It Is not
known whether he decided to do so be
cause his principal attorney, C. S. Pur
row of Chicago, had not arrived from
the west or whether It was because Mr.
Mitchell was personally well acquaint
ed with the sheriff. It was the Urst
time that Mr. Mitchell had attempted
cross examination to any extent.
In answer to the questions of the
mine workers' leader the Lackawanna
county sheriff said he had employed
about forty or fifty deputy sheriffs and
admitted that they were paid by the
coal companies. Led by Mr. Mitchell,
ho said he could not say that a general
state of lawlessness existed In the coun
ty, but In answer to another query said
there was a reign of terror In existence
in some localities.
Among other things he said that as a
rule crowds dispersed when he ordered
them so to do and that striking mine
workers whom he knew obeyed his or
ders the same as other persons. He
also admitted that the second contin
gent of troops sent Into his county was
ordered there without his request.
This appeared to satisfy President
Mitchell, and General Wilson took the
witness In hand and asked him why
the county did not pay the deputy sher
iffs. The sheriff replied that the com
panies had made the request for pro
tection and counsel for the witness ex
plained that It was the law of Pennsyl
vania that the company asking for
protection should pay for It. This ex
planation rather surprised Chairman
Urny, who, as he straightened himself
up in his chair, said: "I am not famil
iar with such nu un-American law.
When the county or the state relin
quishes the duty of maintaining and
protecting life and property and keep
ing the peace, then they are open to
criticism."
THE PLAGUE IN MEXICO.
.Dlaeaae Amictlnr Maiatlan Grow
Mora Virulent.
MAZATLAN, Mexico, Jan. 2. There
is no longer the slightest doubt that the
disease now afflicting this city Is gen
uine Asiatic plague, for microscopic in
vestigation proves that bubonic pest
bacilli are in the blood of those afflicted
with the disease.
The plngue has grown virulent with
in the last forty-eight hours, and the
alarm, which had begun in some meas
ure to abate, has returned with in
creased strength. The people are flee
ing from the city at the rate of 300 per
day, and some 5,000 persons have gone
jUready.
It is a remarkable fact that more
than 50 per cent of the persons at
tacked are women.
Steel Trust' Earnlnifa.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Tho quarterly
meeting of the directors of the United
States Steel corporation was held at
the offices, 71 Broadway, and the.regu
Iar dividends on common and preferred
stocks were declared. The earnings for
the last quarter of 1902 were said to
be $31,339,813 as against $29,759,912 for
the corresponding quarter in 1901.
From the net earnings deductions are
made of $24,528,183 for sinking funds,
depreciation and reserve funds and for
a special fund set aside for deprecia
tion and improvements, of $15,200,000
for interest on bonds, of $3,040,000 on
sinking funds for bonds and of $50,
0."2,8U9 for Interest on the stocks. These
deductions leave undivided profits
umouutiug to $:;i,841,5i;5 fur the year.
Corbett to Meet Jeffrloa.
1 BUFFALO, N. Y Jan. 7.-Jaraes J.
Jeffries, chutnplon heavyweight of the
world, aud James J. Corbett, ex-champion,
are practically matched to meet
in another buttle for the title. The
( Hayes Valley Athletic club of Ran
Francisco bus offered a purse of $20,
000 to bring the two men together, and
Corbett bus sluled that he would ac
cept tho offer. It now only remains for
JeirlcH to signify 'bin willingness
homething which under the conditions
he can hardly refuse to do.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Ratable Rranta of the Woek tlrled?
nnd Teraelr Told.
Four were killed aud several hurt in
a Chicago hotel fire.
Estate of Charles L. Fair has been
valued by California appraisers at $3,
340,187. Great Northern railroad succeeded In
raising blockade in Washington caused
by floods.
Troops of tho sultan of Morocco wore
reported to have been again defeated
by those of the pretender.
Christmas decorations in Chapel
Itoyal, St James' palace, London, took
fire nnd caused ularm. Slight damage
was done.
In his annual message Gov. Stone of
PennsyTvanla, in view of anthracite
strike, recommended a compulsory ar
bitration law.
ToNila-( Jan. .
Mrs. Mary Morgan, 105 years old,
died In Dubuque, la.
One was killed aud ten Injured in a
burning lodging house in Denver.
Prince Pao Lun, the emperor's neph
ew, has been appointed Chinese dele
gate to the St. Louis fair.
Deputy sheriffs surrounnded 'Indlnn
ola, Miss., the town where the postof-
flee was closed because of the boycott
or the colored postmistress.
J. II. Williams, a stable boy, nnd
twenty-three horses have been burned
to death at Dallas, Tex., in the plant
of Hughes Bros.' Extract company.
One hundred thousund fishermen nnd
women in Flniwtero, France, engaged
In the sardine Industry ore out of work,
lacking food und suffering dire hard
ships. Monday, Jan. 5.
Tho disturbances In tho interior of
China were repot ted to be spreading.
Senatorial elections In thirty-five de
part incuts in France resulted In gains
for the ministerial party.
Four miners were fatally hurt and
many others badly burned nnd cut by
an explosion In n coul mine nt Auburn,
111.
Five masked men robbed the First
National bank of Abingdon, 111., of
$l.sno after having bound nnd gagged
the wutchman.
Thirteen children in and around Nor
folk, Va., have died aud seven others
have been Injured by the premature
explosion of toy pistols.
Great Britain and Germany decided
to enforce the blockade of Venezuelan
ports precisely as though there were no
negotiations for arbitration.
Satarduy, Jan. 8.
English bankers cleared $50,143,710,
000 In 1902, breaking the record.
The Pressed Steel Car company an
nounced u profit sharing plan to its em
ployees. Brown, Shipley & Co., American
bankers In Loudon, have been robbed
of $75,000 by an employee.
Three were killed aud a dozen In
jured by explosiou of dynamite in Oak
Hill colliery, near Minersville, Ta.
Shurp lighting was reported between
Bulgarians aud Turkish troops at VII
lage Drenovo. Both sides suffered se
verely. Edgern R. Hogle, general superin
tendent of the United States Express
com puny, died ou surgeons' operating
table at Cleveland.
Friday, Jan. 2.
Lord Ciwzon proclaimed Edward VII.
emperor of India ut the greut durbar In
Delhi.
The government's monthly debt state
ment showed a decrease for the month
of $10,1132,002.
General Francis V. Greene assumed
command of the New York police force.
Several Important changes were made.
H. M. Pope, the crack rifle shot of
Springfield, Mass., broke the 50 and 100
shot wbrld's records on the standard
American target 200 yards offhand.
Thursday, Jan. 1.
The courthouse at Marshall, Clarke
county, 111., was burned. The loss is
$50,000.
Columbia won the eleventh college
chess tournament with Yale, Harvard
and Princeton.
Andrew Curnegie gave New Orleans
New Year's gift of $258,000 for li
brary purposes.
The carriage and wagon workers at
Amesbury, Mass., struck for a nine
hour day and 12 per cent advance In
wages.
Fortune For a Schoolteacher.
UTICA, N. Y., Jan. C Miss Lovlna
Cushman, a public schoolteacher at
New Roehelle, has fallen heir to a largo
share of the fortune of her granduncle,
Joseph B. Cushman, who died here a
few days ago, leaving an estate estl
matod at between $750,000 and $1,000,
000. Cushman was clerk of the state
assembly in the sixties, when that
body was tied politically. He was the
largest individual bank stockholder in
Utica, and the ahure which will fall to
Miss Cushman Is $.150,000. A brother
will receive a like share.
Mra. ( lurU Dead.
BUTTE, Mont, Jan. 2. Mrs. William
Andrews Clark, Jr., daughter of an
humble Innkeeper, who married the
youngest son of Senator Wlllium A.
Clark of Montana and gave birth on
Dec. 2 to the first male grandchild of
the copper millionaire, is dead. Sho
had been critically ill since the birth
of her baby boy, who realized his
grandfuther's fondest wish and gained
the million dollar prize he had offered
for the first male child that would be
born to any one of his four children.
Mra. K I clil Attain Arrcated.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 2.-Mrs.
Maud Kielil and her mother, Mrs. Ad
dle Fenner, have been arrested at their
homo lu South Onondaga by the sheriff
of Cortland county on coroner's war
rants charging them with the murder
of William Klehl, buKband of Mrs.
Klehl. They were tukeu to Cortland, '
THE COLUMBIAN.
Senators Listen to Two Nota
ble Speechea
TRUSTS AXD PROTECTION ATTACKED
Senior Member From Jlnmtnchnaetta
Aritnea For Ilia Anlltruat Hill.
Mlaannrlan Favor Free Coal,
llouae l'uaaea Staff Hill.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Th day In
the senate was evenlfiil luvnuso nf n
j notable speech by Senator Hoar on his
, bill regulating trusts and an attack by
Senator Vest on protected industries
' through the operation of the Dlngley
luw. Senator Hoar's utterances were
listened to with marked attention. He
paid that nearly all thoughtful men In
this country lire agreed that some legis
lation, state or national, ought to be
had for the regulation and control of
what are called trusts nnd of lnrgo
masses of capital accumulated by cor
porations or urtltlclal persons holding
property and conducting business wlth-
out Individual liability. There was, ho
said, a general feeling of insecurity and
alarm about the matter, and we were
dealing with a real peril and not with
a fancied or imaginary danger, lie
argued that if his bill should become
a law and prove effective no corpora
tion engaging in the commerce which
Is within the Jurisdiction of congress
can keep, its condition u secret. The
bill, be said, depends for its validity on
the constitutional power of congress to
i regulate International and interstate
j commerce. Should the bill not prove
effectual lie contended that it would be
CHgy to extend its operation by iinpos-
lng n like personal liability on every
stockholder.
Senator Vest used as a text for bis
; remarks bis resolution Introduced Mon
day instructing the committee on
finance to prepare nnd report a bill re
moving the duty on coal. Feeble in the
' extreme und supporting himself on his
desk, he culled attention to the condi
tion of distress which bud arisen as a
result of the shortage in the coul sup
ply. There was breathless silence In
the cbuiuher as ho spoke, aud every
senator on the floor turned in bis di
rection lu order to catch his words. He
said that the question was no longer a
purtisun'ouc, but one of humanity, aud
that we ure not on the verge of a crisis,
but actuully In it. He charged the Re
publican senators with being silent and
dumb to the stute of affairs, having on-
' ly In mind the party cry, "Stand pat."
. He characterized the Dlngley tariff act
as a "sacred elephant," with which
nothing was to be done. He sarcas
tically remarked that if the whole ques
tion was one of raising money for the
next presidential campaign that was
( the end of the discussion.
! At 4:30 the senate adjourned after a
brief executive session.
The house passed the bill for the
creation of a general stuff for the army
by a vote of 153 to 52. By the terms
of the bill it becomes the duty of the
; general staff to prepare plans for the
national defense and for the mobiliza
tion of the army in time of war, to in.
, vestigate and report on ull questions
; unvoting the efficiency of the service
aud to render professional aid to the
secretary of wur and to general offi
cers and other superior commanders.
I The general stuff corps is to consist
' of one chief of stuff and two general
officers, all to be detailed by the presi
: dent from oiiicers of the army at large
not below the grade of brigadier gen
eral; four colonelB, six lieutenant colo
. uels and twelve majors, twenty cap
j tains to be detailed from Ulcers of the
' grade of captain or first lieutenant,
who while so serving shall have the
I rank, pay and allowances of captains
j mounted.
I A number of bills of a minor charac
' ter were passed, the most important
. being one to Increase the pension of
; soldiers totally deaf from $30 to $40
; per month.
Cave Birth to Qaadrapleta.
TOLEDO, O., Jan. 8.-Mra. Stanis
laus Splghalskl, a Polish woman at Air
Line Junction, this city, gave birth to
four children Saturday night aud Sun
day morning, two girls and twe boys.
The girls, weighing three and six
pounds respectively, were named Hel
en and Dorothy. The boys, weighing
five pounds each, were named Sam
Jones and Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs.
Splghalskl has a boy 9 months and 16
days old. She gave birth six years ago
to twins and three years ago to triplets.
The mother Is but twenty-two yeurs of
age.
The December Balance Sheet.
WASHINGTON, Jun. 3.-The month
ly comparative statement of the gov
ernment receipts and expenditures
Shows that for the month of December,
1002, the total receipts were $47,151,290
and the expenditures $30,533,744, leav
ing a surplus for the month of $10,018,
900. The receipts for the month are
about $100,000 lu excess of those for
December, 1901, and the expenditures
$785,000 less than for that month.
Year's Production of Preclona Metals
WASHINGTON, Jan. O.-George E.
Roberts, the director of tho mint, has
just issued bis preliminary estimate of
the production of gold and silver in-tbe
United States during the calendar year
1002. The total production of gold wub
$80,853,070, an Increase for the year of
$2,180,370. Tho production of silver
amounted to $31,040,025, a net Increase
of $3,852,084. ,
Killed by Good I.uck.
ROUBOIX, 8. IX, Jun. T.-Darld
Thompson, one of the best known pros
pectors In the Black Hills, over which
country he had hunted gold for soven
toon years, struck a ledge of greut rich
ness and after ten minutes of demon
strations of dullght fell dead.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
AQASTA DIES IN MADRID.
Former Premier of Spain Yields to at
t'otiipllrntinn of Dlseaara.
MADRID, Jan. (1. Former Premier
JagHstA died at half pust (1 o'clock last
ivenlng.
The news of Senor Sagasta's death
treated a painful Impression through
out Madrid. King Alfonso displayed
profound regret when ho heurd of the
former premier's death.
The cause of Sagasta's death was
bronchitis complicated by gastric com
plaints nnd fever.
Senor Sugasla was born In 1S27.
Of all Spanish statesmen of recent
times Senor Praxeles Mateo Sogustu
SENOR SAG AST A.
will be known as the most diplomatic
ond tho least revengeful. By early
training he was nn engineer, by pro
fession a journalist and olltlelun and
by a Ftranj;p combination of circum
stances a statesman, In which capacity
be led Spain through one of the most
hazardous periods of her career.
REPUBLICANS REVOLT.
Bracket, Brown and Klubergr Absent
From Mriiutorial t'nnrua,
ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 7.-WIth tho
exceptions of Senator Braekett of Sara
toga, Senator Brown of Jefferson and
Senator Elsberg of New York city all
the Republican senators, numbering
twenty-live, were present nt the caucus
of Reptilcan senators held last night
in the senate chamber. While the air
was rife with rumors there was noth
ing on the surface to Indlcute any con
siderable friction. Senator G. A. David
of Buffalo, who was chairman of the
caucus, smilingly declared after tho
adjournment, "Why, I wasn't uware
thut there were any absentees from our
caucus."
The business of the caucus was
quickly transacted. Senator Davis) of
Erie was chairman and Senator Arm
strong of Rochester secretary.
Senator Malby nominated Senator
i Raines as the choice of tho Republican
' senators for president pro tern, of the
senate, eulogizing his ability and elo
quenco as a legislator aud debater.
Senator Marshall of Brooklyn seconded
the nomination. Thp announcement of
his selection was received with ap
plause. Senator Raines then addressed
the caucus, thanking the senators for
the confidence they had in him in se
lecting him for president pro tern. lie
did not refer to the absentees. In fact
there was no mention made of them at
the caucus. These selections were then
made:
For clerk of the senate, James S.
Whipple of Salamanca; for sergeant-at-arms,
Charles R. Hotaling of Albany;
for assistant sergeant-at-arms, W. W.
Adams of Hornellsvllle; for stenogra
pher, A. B. Sackett of Canandalgua;
for principal doorkeeper, J. E. Gorss of
Touawanda; for first assistant door
keeper, Charles n. Bernard of Broome.
After the caucus Senator Braekett of
Saratoga was asked why he had ab
sented himself from the Republican
senatorial caucus.
"Because," replied Senator Braekett,
"I have not revised my opinion of Sen
ator Raines, who I believe 1s an unfit
person for leader."
"Does the revolt of yourself, Senator
Brown and Senator Elsberg against
the leadership of Senator Raines apply
also to the re-election of Senator Piatt?"
"I believe it does," replied Senator
Braekett.
"Does it mean that you will not vote
for Senator Tlatt?"
"Yes, and I believe my conferrees,
Senator Brown and Senator Elsberg,
will also vote against Senator Piatt."
Senators Brown and Elsberg refused
to discuss the matter. Prior to the cau
cus the three senators conferred with
Governor Odell, who subsequently said
that he had eudeavored to dlssuude the
senators from their purpose.
Many Farmer' Bona at Cornell.
ITHACA, N. Y., Jun. 7.-Work In all
of Cumuli's departments has been re
sumed after the Christmas recess. The
registration lu the winter courses Id
agricultural and dairy husbandry,
which comprises an eleven weeks'
term for the benefit of farmers' sons
of New York state, Is the largest in
the history of Cornell, 117 studeuts be
ing registered.
Baffalo Department Store Darned,
BUFFALO. Jan. 7. Tho entire stock
of Knowles & Gardiner's department
store was destroyed by lire last night,
and th building, a five story brick, ex
tending from 503 to 505 Mulu street
through the block to Washington
street, was badly damaged. Tho wulls
nnd steel framework of tho structure
are still lnluct. The loss is estimated
at $i50,0OOc
KiKht I.lrea I. out In Wreck.
PORT TOWNSHKN1), Wash., Jan.
7. News bus reached here of the
wreck of the Norwegian bark Prince
Albert off the count of Washington on
Jan. 2. EitjUt lives were lust und two
saved.
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To Arrest tha Parents-
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rants against several parents who have
allowed their children to work in fac
tories and mines before they reach
the age permitted by law. Several
Justices of the Peace are also includ
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these children could read or write
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of evidence brought out by the Anth
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