THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
IN Ml) LBSt;
Strike Commission's Re
port Satisfactory.
GREAT VICTORY, SAYS MITCHELL
Ten Per Cent More Pay Granted.
Some Demands Rejected.
: LID1NG SCALE AND SHORTER HOURS
A Permanent Committee of Concilia
tion Recommended 'n Itrrlmlnit
tlon AsnlnKt I nlon or nnnnlnu''
Men Prenrnt Method of I'armrnl
to Be netalned The I'rnctloe of
Boycotting Severely ( emnroil.
I
WASHINGTON, March 23 The re
port of the commission iipiHiluted by
tlie president hist October to investl- 1
gnte the luitlinicite co;! strike, Just
tnnde public, Is generally well received.
From the mltilutf regions come reports
f satisfaction with the llmliiiK".
President Mitchell la reported to have
Bald, "The decision of the strike com
mission Is, on the whole, n decided vie
tory for the miners, nnd I nm pleased
with It." The operators ns a general
thing are more reticent, yet but few nd
rerse comments have been heard.
Hrlofly stated, the report may lie
Hummed up as follows:
The miners get an Increase of 10 per
rent In wages to contract miners from
Nov. 1, l'.HH', and during the life of
the award.
An Increase of ID per cent In wages
to water hoisting engineers for the
snuie period.
An Increase of 10 per cent In wages
to other engineers, pumpmen and fire
men from Nor. 1. 1IMI2, to April 1. 1!03.
and 5 per cent thereafter during the
life of the award.
An Increase of 10 per cent lu the
wages of all company men nnd other
employees.
Ooilipuny men and other employees
not specltloally provided for to be paid
on the basis of a nine hour working
day.
Engineers, firemen and pumpmen to
work In eight hour shifts instead of
twelve hour shifts.
Engineers nnd pumpmen to be re
lieved on Sundays without loss of pay.
Local boards of arbitration for the
settlement of disputes in individual
collieries.
A sliding scnlo, by which the miners'
wages are increased 1 per cent for ev
' ery 10 per cent increase in price of
coal.
Check weigh men to be employed nt
the collieries by the miners at their
own expense.
1'nlform distribution of mine cars
among the miners.
Any incrense In the size of mine car
or topping to be necompanled by pro
portionate increase in rate paid per car.
The operators get no specific recogni
tion of the United Mine Workers.
The present methods of payment for
coal mined shall continue unless
changed by mutual agreement.
Concerted effort on the part of the
mine workers to limit output except by
agreement with operators forbidden.
Work not to be suspended pending
settlement of matters referred to arbi
tration boards.
No discrimination against nonunion
men.
Boycott and violence condemned.
Demand that coal mined bo paid for
. by weight refused.
Interposition of the state militia in
the coal regions to preserve peace jus
titled. The commission also makes a num
ber of recommendations which may bo
summarized ns follows:
The discontinuance of the system of
employing the coal and Iron police,
because this force is believed to have
an Irritating effect, and n resort to the
regularly constituted pence authorities
In case of necessity.
A stricter enforcement of the laws In
relation to the employment of chil
dren. Hegnrdlng the boycott, the commis
sion says:
"What is popularly known as the
boycott (a word of evil omen and un- ;
happy origin) is b cruel weapon of j
aggression and its use immoral and
antisocial, and the concerted attempt
to accomplish it Is a conspiracy at
common law und merits and should re
ceive the punishment due to such a
crime."
The report Is to be illustrated, nnd it
will be accompanied by the testimony
taken by the commission, but thus far
only the report proper has been print
ed. Thin, nlone covers eighty -seven
pugea of printed matter.
Mine Onielnla Bntlnlled.
WILKKSHAHKK, Pa., March 23.
Local mine officials iu and alout this
city who have been seen in reference
to the mine commission award nearly
all declined to make any comment. The
manner iu which they express them
selves, however, would indicate that
they are satisfied. An official of the
largest corporations who would talk
aid the award was a practical vindi
cation of the coal companies.
Two Children named to Death.
KANSAS MTV, Mo., March 25.-At
Kansas City, Kan., two children, Asa
and Charles Blgelow, aged four and
three years respectively, were burned
to death In a tire that destroyed their
home, ths mother having locked thsm
la while sh went to a store.
MRS. BURDICK TESTIFIES.
ensHtluiinl Itevelntlona nt Ilnffnl.t
Murder Iminent.
MTFAI.O, March 2.".-"llavp you
received any Information as to who
killed yottr husband V"
"No. sir."
"You swear you have no knowledge
or Information as to who killed him V '
"I do."
The above questions were addressed
to Mrs. Alice Hull Iturdlck yesterday
afternoon Ht the Inquest Into the death
of her husband by District Attorney
Coatsworth. The answers were re
turned by Mrs. Ttnrdlck In n calm,
clear voice. The questions rame ab
ruptly while the district attorney was
drawing from Mrs. Iturdlck Informa
tion about her relations with Arthur
U. l'ennell. She had denied that Ten
nell took her key to 11h front door of
the Iturdlck home while they were In
Xew York together and had several
duplicates made of it. The district at
torney put the question regarding the
key to Mrs. Iturdlck In a number of
different forms, but the answers were
always emphatic denials that she or
rennell had ever ordered duplicate
keys made or that the key had left her
possession during her last exile from
home.
Mrs. Iturdlck was on the stand all
day yesterday.
With a package of letters In his
hands, some of which were written to
Mrs. Iturdlck by Arthur It. rennell, co
respondent In the divorce proceedings
instituted by Mr. Iturdlck. and other
communications between Mr. Iturdlck
and his wife, Mr. Coatsworth forced
Mrs. I'.urdick to tell the story of her
relations with l'ennell from the time
he first made love to her In Xew Ha
ven In ISPS until UHH, when these rela
tions were renewed after Iturdlck had
forgiven his wife and had taken her
back to his home for the sake of their
children. Mrs. Iturdlck was deathly
pale while on the witness stand. She
answered questions in a low, faltering
tone, evading n direct nnswer when
ever possible and reluctantly admit
ting facts when the district attorney
pitilessly rend extracts from the love
letters written to her by Arthur 11.
l'ennell.
Xevr since the Inquest into the
murder began has there been such in
tense Interest In the proceedings. i
Smallpox MlKlukrn l or Itrh.
UlNGHAMTON, X. Y., March 2.1.
Itefore the nature of the disease was
discovered twenty-one of the tlfiy-four
persons In the little hamlet of Stevens
l'olnt, about five miles cast of Susque
hanna, Pa., were down with the small
pox. The disease was brought to the
placo by a man who had been working
in Xew .Jersey. A few days after he
returned home he developed what was
called the "Itch." No physician was
called, but many people of Susquehan
na nnd surrounding country were ex
posed. The latter part of last week
other people in the village began to de
velop the "Itch." When a physician
was called, the disease was declared to
be smallpox. Twenty-one people are
sick, and several hundred In the sur
rounding country have been exposed.
Philippine Colnaice.
! WASHINGTON. March 25. It is
learned that the insular division of the
war department has requested the sec
retary of the treasury to purchase the
j necessary silver and execute the coln
' age of the Philippine pesos authorized
by the Philippine currency act. Al-
though this act authorizes the coinage
' of not to exceed 75,000,000 pesos, in
cluding recoinage of Mexican and I'hll-
ippine coins, It is not contemplated at
present to coin more than 20,000,000
pesos at about the rate of 2,ooo.tKio a
I month. The silver for these coins will
' be purchased in the United States, but
, under what conditions has not yet been
determined. The treasury, It Is under
stood, will purchase only nt the market
value in such quantities as may be
needed as the coinage progresses.
Army Ilerlew Frlirlitened Chinamen.
Y1CTOUIA, It. ('., March 25.-According
to advices received from the
orient, the grand review of Chang
Chili Tung's modern drilled soldiers in
the Yangtse provinces, together with
the Xaugaug and part of the I'eiyang
naval squadrons, was a great naval
and military display, but it whs disas
trous to the populace, and a large num
ber of lives were lost. When the sham
battle started, a panic seized the whole
populace, a report having been spread
hat an invasion was to take place. So
jreat was the panic that suicide was
resorted to, and it is reported many
children were drowned In order to get
rid of them to allow their parents to
run the faster.
HonKh Rldera to Meet Uoosevelt.
TUCSON, Ariz., March 25. Fifty
rough riders of nisbee and southern
Arizona, finding that President Roose
velt will confine his Itinerary to the
northern part of the territory, has ar
ranged an excursion to Grand Canyon,
where they will greet their former
leader. Desiring to give the president
some appropriate token of esteem, they
have secured a largo black bear, cap
tured In Sonora, nnd will present it to
him when they meet him at the can
yon. They realize it will be somewhat
awkward for the president to carry a
live bear around with him, but they
have decided he shall get at least one
bear on his western trip.
National Pat-kimr Company,
CHICAGO, March 23. Announce-
nient of the incorporation of the Na
tlonal Packing company, capitalized at
$15,000,000 and including several of
the smaller plants lu Chicago, Omaha
and elsewhere, is made by J. P. Ly
man, president of the company. The
Incorporation papers were taken out In
New Jersey, and It is announced that
the purchase is made for investment
with the Idea of doing a business ot
about $150,000,000 a year.
CONDtiNStD DISPATCHES.
Kotnltle Rventa of the Week Hrlefly
Chronicled.
Two earthquakes were felt In Derby
shire, England.
, A severe blizzard raged in the west
ern part of Michigan.
Senator Hanua's daughter Until Is ill
at Thomasvllle, Gn., with typhoid fe
ver. Thirty-two coal barges were sunk at
Pittsburg by a rise In the Monongahela
rlvc.
The strike situation was reported
critical in Colorado. The mines arc to
close.
Fourteen were killed nnd forty
wounded In the riot at Port of Spain,
Trinidad.
"Whltey" Sullivan wns put to death
In Dannemora prison for murder of a
Coblesklll bank watchman.
Four commercial travelers nnd two
negroes were drowned from an over
turned skiff In the Arkansas flooded
district.
Tuesday, March '24.
Earthquake shocks were felt in north
ern Italy and south llavaria.
Six men were killed by an explosloi.
of gas In a coal mine near Athens, 111.
Destructive floods were reported
along the Mohawk river in central New
York.
Secretary Uoot has bought a 150 acre
farm near the Uoot homestead nt Clin
ton, X. Y.
Christian college, nt Canton, Mo., be
longing to the Disciples' church, was
destroyed by fire.
At Oslikosh, Wis., a woman died from
the effects of yawning for three days
without Interruption.
The Morris canal bill whs killed In
committee at Trenton, X. .1. The
amended pollution bill may pass.
A hungry mountain bear and two
half grown cubs ate up the dinners of
a score of workmen at Cutsklll, N. Y.
The town of Snrlgao, island of Min
danao, was captured by ladroues, who
killed a constabulary Inspector and
several others.
Assistant Treasurer Hamilton Fish
assumed olllce In the Xew Y'ork sub
treasury, and the work of counting
$2.S5,(HMJ,000 of government money be
gan. .lames H. Mahler, the largest man in
Chicago If not iu the United States, is
dead. He weighed 4 so pounds, al
though his height was only 5 feet 10
Inches.
The Uritish home office announced
the release next year of Mrs. Florence
Muybrick, the American woman sen
tenced to life imprisonment for the
murder of her husband.
The executive council of the United
Textile Workers of America decided to
give its unqualified indorsement to the
request of the operatives in the cotton
mills In Lowell and other Xew Eng
land towns to enforce their demand for
an increase of 10 per cent In wages.
Mondny, March lilt.
A heavy snowstorm prevailed in Mis
souri.
Fires in Philadelphia caused a loss of
$175.K).
Two of the students Injured In the
rioting at ltudapest have died.
Peace has been signed between the
Uruguayan government and the rebels.
Three members of the Colombian
cabinet, including the premier, have
resigned.
Five men were drowned In the Dela
ware river by a collision between a
tug and a steamship.
President Castro of Venezuela has
resigned, handing over his olllce to the
president of congress.
The Very Uev. Frederick William
Farrar, dean of Canterbury since 1S05,
died In his seventy-second year.
The eruption of La Soufriere, which
began Saturday, continued with In
creased activity during the night and
became very violent.
rthur Scramling, a freshman at Cor
nell university, died at his home near
Oneonta, X. Y.,' of typhoid fever con
tracted at Ithaca.
President I'alma summoned nn extra
session of the Cuban congress to ratify
the amended reciprocity treaty with
the United States.
An antipool room bill, amended so as
to prohibit betting on horse races even
at the tracks where the races are run.
hns passed the Texas senate and been
signed by the governor.
The Venezuelan congress by a unani
mous vote declined to accept President
Castro's resignation handed in nt the
opening session nnd passed a resolution
requesting him to reconsider his deci
sion. The Amerlcnn side of Niagara nenrly
ran dry, and for the first time in fifty
five years people were able to walk
about in the river bed. This extraordi
nary condition was due to an ice jam
which formed in the shallow places up
the river.
Saturday, March 21.
The temperature was 'below zero In
Wyoming.
Three noted crooks were caught after
a hord fight in a Chicago street car.
The Xova Scotia coal mine in West
Virginia was reported to be on fire.
An insane man shot four men and
was killed himself near Lebanon, Ky.
Students rioted in ltudapest, it be
ing the anniversary of Kossuth's death
The Clarendon hotel, Grand Itaplds,
Mich., was burned. One life wns lost.
Water was reported eight feet deep
In the streets of Marlon, Ark., and ris
ing rapidly,
The New Hampshire house passed a
license bill providing for local option
In cities and towns.
Hentsch's Itonded warehouse at Sid
ney, N. S. W was gutted by fire. Thn
loss is estirunted at $2,500,000.
The mercury reached l0 degrees In
the sun and averaged 70 iu the shade
In many places in Now York state.
Moansch & Sons, owning tanneries
In western New York end Michigan,
hare failed, with liabilities of $1,000,
000. The city of IiOiidon presented tc
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain nn ad
dress of congratulation on his South
African mission.
Six persona were killed nnd several
Injured by the collision In Long Island
sound of the steamers Plymouth and
City of Taunton.
Olllelal returns at Melbourne show
that the Victorian wheat harvest this
season will average only one nnd a
quarter bushels per acre owing to the
drought.
The president has reappointed Dr
W. D. Crum, colored, collector of cus
tom at Charleston, S. ('., and William
M. Uyrne United States district attor
ney for Delaware. Hoth of these nom
inations failed of confirmation at the
recent session of the senate.
The Missouri supreme court hn
found five large beef packing compa
nies guilty of maintaining an unlawful
combination to control price s of meat
in the state of Missouri and Issued an
order of ouster prohibiting them from
doing business In that state and to pay
a tine of $5,ono each nnd to bear the
costs of the proceedings. The compa
nies are given thirty days In which to
pay the fine Imposed, and If during
that time they shall accept the Judg
ment Hnd pay the fine the ouster will
be held In abeyance.
Friday, March 20,
FIJI Island Catholics have burned 300
Itlbles.
The 1 tela ware legislature adjourned
sine die.
Miss Alice Uoosevelt was the guest
of Governor Hunt at Sail Juan, Porto
Ulco.
More than 250 miners were Indicted
nt Charleston, W. Va for resisting n
deputy marshal.
At Pepporell, Mass., fire, thought to
have been of Incendiary origin, did
$31 KMX M) damage.
Jewels valued at about $10,000 have
been stolen from the altar of the St.
Stephen cathedral, Vienna.
A bar of gold valued at more than
$ln,ooo sent by express from the west
to P.uffalo has disappeared at Detroit. ,
Ira D. Sankey. the famous singing
evangelist, who recently lost the sight
of his left eye, has become wholly j
blind. I
Fire that destroyed a large barn near '
Ogdeiislmrg. X. Y., also destroyed 100
cows, 17 horses, (o pigs and a largo
quantity of hay. j
The runaway of a string of loaded,
coal cars In the Sunshine mine at I
South Fork, Pa., caused the death of j
three men and the Injury of nine
others. j
It was reported that Jose Estrada j
Palma, a student of Columbia univer
sity and a son of the president of the ,
Cuban republic, and Miss Mabel Ja- j
cobs, a student of the Xew York Nor- '
mal college, were privately married on
Feb. 11.
President Uoosevelt has received nil
invitation engraved on a plate of solid
gold six inches long anil three-quarters
of an inch wide to be the guest of the
Union League club of San Francisco
on the occasion of his visit to that city
ou his approaching western trip.
After ratifying the Cuban reciprocity
treaty by a vote of 50 to 1(1 the senate
adjourned sine die. Practically the en
tire day was spent behind closed doors
iu executive session. Most of the time
was devoted to consideration of the
Cuban treaty. Several speeches were
made in opposition to the treaty and
one in favor of it.
Thursday, March 10.
The severest blizzard of the winter
was reported in Colorado.
Four boys were drowned In the La-
chine canal at Montreal.
The Urltish isles were storm swept
and Warwickshire inundated.
Andrew Carnegie offered to pay for a
filtering plant for Cornell university.
The severest snowstorm of the win
ter prevailed in Utah, Colorado and
Wyoming.
King Edward sent Ituffalo P.lll a dia
mond scarfpln and a letter praising the
Wild West show.
Two American tourists were thrown
into Jail in Mexico because their auto
mobile caused a panic.
The failure was announced in London
of Huoty & Uayliffe. solicitors, with lia
bilities of more than $1,000,000.
Extremely hot weather was reported
in several western states. A tempera
ture of 05 degrees was reached.
The report of the anthracite strike
commission was handed to President
Uoosevelt, but not made public.
Two engineers were killed In a colli
sion on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad near Washington,
X.J.
Five hundred employees of the ItufTn
lo Drydock company went on strike,
demanding the reinstatement of a un
ion member.
It was announced from the Adiron
dack lumber region that one-third of
the season's log "cut" had been left iu
the woods by the early "break up."
By a vote of 214 to 107 the New
Hampshire house of representatives
voted in favor of a license law. The
existing prohibitory system lias been in
force since 1S4N.
General Schuyler Hamilton, a class
mate of General Grant at West Tolnt
nnd a distinguished veterau of the
Mexican and civil wars, died in New
York city in his eighty-third year.
The body of Amedee D. Chiibot, for
whom the Fall Ulver (Mass.) police had
been searching since Tuesday morning,
upon tho charge of murdering Ids wife,
Angela, was found in North Watuppa
pond.
President Uoosevelt withdrew the
nomination of William riimley for as
slstant treasurer of the United States
at New lork, ugainst whom grave
charges were preferred, and sent to the
senate the nomination of Hamilton
Fish to the office, and it was confirmed
by the senate.
Tho Kind You Have Always
In use- for over 30 years,
nnd
IJy- Bonn! supervision ulneo Its infancy.
CCCCuAl Allow tin otio to deceive von In this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations nnd Just-as-good" nro but
Experiments Hint trifle with nnd endanger tho health of
Infants and Children Ex per Icneo against Experiment.
What is.CASTORIA
Castorla Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paro
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It Is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphino nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ago Is Its guarantee. It destroys AVornis
nnd allays Feverlshness. It cures Warrlnea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
nnd Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates tho
Stomach and Bowels, givliig'heaHhy nnd natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea Tho mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears tho
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
MC eiNTAUA MMHNTt TT HUM NAT TIICCT, NIW VORH CITV.
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Signature of
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BLOOMSBURG MARKETS.
CORRECTED WRRKLV, RETAIL TRICK.
Hutter, per pound j6
EBB5, per dozen 14
Lard, per pound ij
Ham, per pound 15 to 16
Beef (quarter), per pound 6 to 8
Wheat, per bushel 1 00
Oats, do 40
Rye, do 60
Flour per bbl 4.00 to 4 40
Hay, per ton 1600
Potatoes, per bushel 7S
lurnips, do 40
Tallow, per pound 06
Shoulder, do 12
Bacon, do 16
Vinegar, per qt 05
Dried apples, per pound c5
Cow hides, do 3J
Steer do do 05
Calf skin 80
Sheep pelts 75
Shelled corn, per bushel Ho
Corn meal, cwt 3 00
Bran, cwt 20
Chop, cwt 1 50
Middlings, cwt 40
Chickens, per pound, new H
do do old
Turkeys do 18
Geese, do 14
Ducks, do II
COAL.
Number 6, delivered
do 4 and 5 delivered
do 6, at yard.
du 4 and 5, at yard
Mirrors, brush and comb sets,
collar and cuff" boxes, necktie boxes,
handkerchief boxes, jewelry cases,
manicure sets, smoker's sets and all
kinds of sets at Mercer's Drug and
Book Store.
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be convinced
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