IS WELL DESERVED Three Chinese Officials Will Lose Their Heads. Oilier Leader* ol Ibr An tl-Forelgn l{e< billion Senleueeit to I.lie Imprint* oiiuient ( lilneae Army W ill ItealHt Allien Who Try to Capture (lie Imperial II oiiHeliold. London, Oct-. 8. —'The Standard lias "(lie following 1 from Tien Tsin. dated October 3: "A German force came into colli- FIOII with *,OOO Chinese, described as Boxers, a few miles south of Tien Tsin Friday morning - . The Germans were cheeked and compelled to retire on Tien Tsin. "There is reason to believe that the Chinese in this case were not Boxers, hut were Li Hung Chang's veterans who had been ordered to wait near here in view of the possibility that the foreigner would bar his progress to the capital." I'ekin, Oct. 6, via Shanghai. Oct. 8. - Ti.v an imperial decree issued at Tai- Ytien-Fu, capital of the province of dated September 2.">, Fmperor Kwang Su denounces the Boxer move ment and designates for punishment nine ringleaders. lie acknowledges his own fault and rebukes himself; but he places the chief blame upon the princes and nobles who partici pated in the movement and protract ed it. St. Petersburg, (let. 9. The Russian general staff has received official dis patches confirming the reported occu pation of Mukden. I.ieut. Gen. Subbo vitch entered the < itv October 1. lie advanced from Old Xiu-Chwarig on September 24 with 11 battalions ol in fantry, two troops of Cossack cavalry and -10 gtins and, after fighting two engagements, routed the Chinese army on September 27. Before withdrawing the Chinese looted and fired the city. The Rus sians captured numerous modern guns and immense stores of war ma terials. Pekin, via Shanghai, Oct. 10. Trust worthy Chinese representatives say that the dowager empress is seriously ill at Tai-Yuan-Fu (provinor of Shen- Si) and the free hand of the emperor in affairs of state of late is regarded as confirmatory of these reports. A response to the German demand has been transmitted to Li Hung Chang. This says that Ying Nien, president of the eensorate; Vang Yi, assistant grand secretary and presi dent of the civil board, and Chao Shu Chiao, president of the board <>f pun ishment, will be decapitated; that Prince Chwang. I>n!<«■ Tsai Lan and Prince Yili will lie sentenced to life imprisonment, and that Prince Tuan will be banished to the imperial mili tary post roads on the Siberian fron tier, as a further punishment for aid ing the Boxers. London, Oct. 10. The Times has the following from Tien Tsin. dated Oc tober 7: "Three French battalions started yesterday for Pao-Tung-Ku. The British arc waiting for the Ger mans, but may start without them." The Shanghai correspondent of the Times, wiring Monday, says it is re ported there that the allies have ar rived at Pao-Ting-Fu without opposi tion. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard understands that the Chi nese imperial edicts are regarded there with skepticism and that Count Von Waldersee has been instructed to resume operations. The Standard's Tien Tsin corres pondent. wiring Sunday, says:"l hear that the Chinese are concent rat ing at 1 twang-Lu |-iss. leading into the province of Shen-Si, with the in tention of opposing any attempt of the allies to pursue the imperial court." It is said that Li Hung Chang has advised the emperor to return to Pe kin, on the ground that the powers can stop supplies from reaching the province of Shen-Si. London. Oct. 1t. —A special dispatch from Shanghai, dated October says: ■'The Triads have met and repeatedly •defeated the imperial troops near Kowloon. They are daily gaining fresh adherents. Heavy Russian re inforcements are moving northward from Port Arthur, with the object of relieving pressure from Mukden. F.v ••ry place of importance in Manchuria is now in Russian hands." Washington. Oct. 11. — The reply of ihe United Slates government to the latest note from France offering sug gestions as to the settlement of the troubles in China was completed VCH terijiv and delivered to M. Thiebaut, -charge d'affaires of the French em bassy. By him it was forwarded to his government. No official statement of the con tonis of the answer was obtainable. Following its inflexible rule, the slate department declined to make public the text of the communication or to make any statement of the nature 'if its contents, until opportunity had been offered for its reception bv the French foreign office. It is believed, however, to take a favorable view of the suggestions submitted bv the French government, in a general way, although it does not commit this government to all of them. Berlin, Oct. ll.—-Great. Britain's an swer to Germany's second note was received yesterday. It is an unre served and unconditional acceptance •of the German position. A "Bally I'")" l*>r Democrat*. Chicago, Oct. 11. —A call has been issued by the democratic national committee for a "grand rally" on Oc tober 27. of all the democratic clubs throughout the country. ( hairman •Tones s-iid yesterday:"l intend to address a letter to democratic clubs all over the country requesting them to give me the proof, in all.instances that come within their knowledge, of employers undertaking to coerce or intimidate employes. I have some men in Ohio for the purpose of ascer taining the conditions there. On? people are determined to have an <Jbonest election.." HE FAVORS M'KINLEY. Ken. llarrlaon Define* III* Position Begardlng Political A Wall*. New York. Oct. 11. Gen. Benjamin .Harrison gave out an interview and statement last night. He was asked: "Js it true that you have consented to make some speeches in the cam paign?" "No, that statement has not been authorized by me," was his answer. "I have said to every one who has spoken or written to me on the sub ject that I could not do any more campaign work. I began to make re publican speeches the year I began 1o vote and have had a part in every campaign, state and national, since, until 180 H. In IS'.lfi I submitted my self to very hard usage and then made up MIV mind that I would do no more campaigning. Following tins conclusion. I declined to take a speak ing part in the campaign ol !Vis. My retirement dates fi'oir that year, not from this. Few men have made more speeches for their party than I have, and no ex-president, I am sure, has made more." "But, general, it is said that you are not altogether in accord wfrt.li your party." "Well. I have lier.rd that my silence was imputed by some to that cause. Now the only public utterance I have made in criticism of the policies ol the party was contained in the inter view that I gave to the newspapers while the Porto Rico bill was peiid ing. It was.in substance, that I re garded the bill as a grave departure from right principles. I «till think so. 1 do not believe that the legislative power of congress in the territories is absolute and I do believe that the revenue clause relating to duties and imports applies to Porto Rico. "The general reasons I gave in my Carnegie hull speech in lS;ni why Mr. Bryan should not be eleclt d still lioid good with me. His election would. I think, throw governmental and business all'airs into confusion. We should not aid the election of a president who would admittedly, if lie could, destroy the gold standard ind other things that we value even more." FOILED BY THE WARDEN. \ttempl l>> a Dl*siil*eil Woman to Be* lca*c a Forger from I'rlxon I* I'ru*- trated. Pittsburg. Oct. 11. \ plot for Ihe release of the notorious forger, .1. C. Boyd, from Ihc western penitentiary was apparently nipped in the bud Wednesday. The story as related by Warden Wright is on the sensational order. During the dav he says what was supposed to be a male \ i<ito.- made an urgent plea for a confer ence with Boyd. This was granted in the customary presence of one of the keepers, Th" talk lasted ten minutes and just as the visitor was about to depart Boyd tried to pass him a note. Keeper Sullivan detected the net. grabbed the paper and re ported the occurrence. The warden investigated the mat ter and was surprised to find that the visitor, instead of being a man, was a woman in a most deceptive dis guise. The contents of the captured note the warden refuses to disclose, but admits that the information It contained revealed one of the most daring and ingenious plans for escape he has ever heard of. lie would not admit that ihe present incident con nects Boyd in anv way v\ith the re cent tunnel attempt at prison deliv ery, but all the known evidence would seem to point to the conclusion that both plots arc closely allied. ENGRAVERS STRIKE. Sixty Highly I'aicl Workmen < eaue Operations. New York, Oct. 11. Sixty of th* highest paid workmen in the world have been or strike for ten 'lavs in Tiffany &■ Co.'s factory at Forest. Hill, N. J., and the entire wedding invita tion business of the big jewelry firm is tied up. The strikers are copper plate engravers. The managers of the factory declare that half of them regularly earned from s'»o to SIOO, others $7." a week, and none of them less than SSO a week. These workmen recently became members of the United Brotherhood of Copper Plate Engravers and an on strike for the recognition of their union, demanding that Tiffany & Co. adopt i lie union's regulations as to apprenticeship. A representative of Tiffany & Co. raid that several of the strikers had been employed by the firm for.> 0 years and nearly all had learned their trade with the firm. He sail that rather than yield to the de mands of the strikers. Tiffany <V Co. would entirely abandon that branch of their business. tllrbtsan .fleet*. Lansing, Mich., Oct. 11.—The Michi gan legislature met Wednesday in special session. Gov. Pingree's mes sage dealt with the consideration of a joint resolution permitting submis sion to the people at the election in November of a constitutional amend ment authorizing the taxation of cor porations on the cash value of their property, and the repealing of the special charters of the Michigan Cen tral. Lake Shore and drank Trunk railroads. The joint resolution pro viding for the submission of the amendment was introduced in the house and was referred 'o a commit tee. Hoodlum* Attack ltoo*evelt. Fort Wayne, Tnd., Oct. 11.- Hood lums last night endeavored to rival those who made an attack upon Gov. Roosevelt in Victor, Col., and in a measure succeeded. On Calhoun street, shortly before the head of procession reached the rink wherfl the governor was to speak, a party of roughs on the sidewalk threw a shower of stones at Roosevelt's car riage. One struck Roosevelt on tho shoulder and another, aimed at the governor, missed him and struck Col Curtis Guild, of Boston, in the lace. The governor was not hurt. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1900. CORRUPT JUDGES. rhff l-'loiirlali lu Manila, but Tiifll llrl-11 In About to be tut Short.. Manila, via 11«»utr Kong, Oct. 12.-- The administration of Manila's civil sou lis by Filipino magistrates, which I as long been scandalous, is now at tracting more public attention than ever and lias been brought to the Tnft commission's attention with a l e<|nest for rectification. The courts nre composed of four justices of the peace and four primary courts. The magistrates are nil Filipinos and Ihe incumbents are utter failures as ad ministrators of justice. Charges have been filed and c\i 3ence is in the hands of the authori ties which, it is claimed, will show that the magistrates have been guilty of the greatest corruption and mal ieasance in office. One magistrate was recently suspended on suspicion of criminal abuse of power and at tcmpt lo defraud. The monthly col lection of fines by the four native jus tices is estimated at $5,000. The amount collected by the primary . otirts {<>r tlie same period is much greater. The eight magistrates per -islently ignore the regulations estab lished bv the authorities for the su pervision of commitments and the ac countability of moneys. They depos it less than SIOO monthly and are al leged to appropriate the balance of I heir collect ions. It is further claimed that tin mag istrates arc 'n collusion with the na tive police in compromising offense s nn the basis of "cash for freodom" and that in many instances magis trates who committed men to jail over a year ago are now liberating tlieifi without trial, the explanation being the effectiveness of a habeas corpus and the designation of a spe cial officer to investigate the cases, resulting in the freedom of many persons illegally committed as pris oners. It is said there are over .*>o instances where prisoners have bought their freedom from their guards conveying them between the court room and the jail. Serious charges of favoritism haw lately been made against the civil branch of Manila's supreme court. The members of the Tnft commis sion are distrusted with the condition 112 the courts and intend to substitute honest Americans from the I'nited States for the native magistrates. \mcricans having a knowledge of Spanish arc preferred, but they are the hardest to secure. The commis sion will then institute the drastic reforms needed in the case of the en tire judiciary. SCHREIBtR'S STbAL. An i:tr<irt I* Made to Itccovcr Prop erly Itollllllt Willi till' I'llMCI'li". of Hi* Ilrf'nloition. New York. Oct. 15. ITenrv I*. We-- selman, attorney for the officers of ihe Kli/ab.'t bport, N. .1., Hanking Co., yesferdav proceeded to endeavor to recover sotne of 1 lie properly alleged to have been purchased by William Sellreiher. the defaulting cashier, ly suing out. writs of replevin against Annie ilart. .J. Dreiecr «v. Hons, jew elers of Fifth aver,ue, and .ieronie and darcus .1. Ma nhcimer, the owners of die Colorado livery stables, for I 000. The bank gave a bond iu !? 10.000. The horses and carriages in the pos session of Maniifimer Bros. arc said t i be wort I ss.ooo, and Dreiecr & Sons arc claimed to ha»'e jewelry left there by Mrs. Hart, valued at more than the balance mentioned in Ihe writ. The writs of replevin were placed in the hands oi' Deputy Hici iff Hiim, who proc -eiicd to serve them on the defendanis named therein. According lo the statement «■ 112 l.ouis, Olden, ilic son of one of the directors of the Fli/abet hport bank, tlie latter hai'e known for SiboiiJ a month of the shortages ai.d lij.ve been k.»c»>iiu; the matter a m'ci et, fearing to put the defaulter on his guard. Mr. Ileidritti r, the president, low ever, is positive lliat it was not nearly as long ago that the directors were informed of flic i hefts. A PAY DAY FIGHT. 4 iibun Policemen anil American Cav il I r> inl*n « Ihmli in t|»iiui/ii!i. Havana, Oct. 12.- At Matan/as on Wednesday a Cuban policeman inter fered with two members of the Sic ond I'nited States cavalry. The quar rel culminated in a general fight be tween the police and soldiers. After the police had shot Trooper Turrev, one other soldier and one civilian, a number of troopers tried to break into the gun room to get their weap ons; but. the quick action of ("apt. Foltz. of I) troop, in forming troops 14 i.i.d M in skirmish order, made it impossible for the excited cavalry men to pass. The troopers declare that they will have revenge, ami Col. Xoyes has or dered all confined to barracks. The feeling is very strong between the Cubans and cavalrymen. The authorities here look upon the incident as a pay day fight, but an investigation has been ordered. 'B'lic ii.ii i i« on; Akron, Oct. 12. The ileal for the sale of a controlling interest in the \merican Cereal Co. is oil'. An I'n glish syndicate authorized O. C. Har ber to offer $17." per share for li e stock. A number of shareholders were on the point of selling when they received word that the ollicers of the company would pay the same amount for all the stock that was for tale. Possibly 2,000 shares changed hands. A Statement Itr^ariling Hankm. Washington, Oct. 12. The comp troller of the currency has completed an abstract of the reports of the con dition of all the national banks in the I'nited States at the close of busi ness. September .*>. V.iot). The sum mary shows (hat the ngi;:vgaie loans and discounts of the banks were 52,- C86,759,0f0, and the Aggregate depos its $2,r>07,245,.')57. A comparison o' Ilie.se figures with the condition Jnn £!), 1000, the date of the previous cnl shows that between June and Sej tember there was an increase of 247,43? in lo<;ns. BRYAN AND ROOSEVELI. ■'he) ( oiitinue Their < imi|ialijn Tour*. '■'ln* Former In .Hlehiijan ami Ihi Latter in Indiana. Ann Arbor. Mich., Oct. 12. There was a \vil<| time Thursday afternoon when Mr. Bryan came to Ann Arbor. The students of the State university, which is located here, were at the meeting in large numbers and each ont made his presence felt. V plat form l ad been erected on the south side of the courthouse and the entire south side of the square, a" well as the adjoining streets, was covered with a solid mass of humanity, a majority of those nearest the stand being si udents. Mr. lirvan had no sooner shown his fact than the boys began a clamor which .lid not cease for 10 or 1"> min utes. liven after Mr. lirvan advanced lo i he front of the stand the din con tinued. but it ultimately subsided sul fieicntly to allow him to begin. "I ain glad to talk to you." he began, "if you are willing to listen.' \ few voices responded. '"We are willing." "If I were an imperialist." Mr. liry an wen) on."I would call out an army lo suppress you, but lam not. I Ids sally seemed to please the young men and most of them laughed and cheered. Seme of them jeered to sin h an ex tent, however, that an otlicer was compelled lo enter the crowd and ar rest several of the noisiest. After this, while the interruptions were frequent, they generally took the shape of questions One of the ques tions brought out the explicit decla ration from Mr. Hryan, "1 ho demo cratic party is for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to I. without waiting for 1 lie aid or consent of any other nation." l!y the time Mr. Hry an concluded the confusion had ceas ed entirely and he closed amid cheers. At the time of the arrest of some of the students Mr. Bryan's attention was not called to the fact and he did not know of it until after the close of the meeting. When infoi ltied of what had been done, he immediately seni the following letter to lion. A. M. <avena ugh: "If it is true, as I am informed, that some of the college boys were arrested for disturbing the meeting, please sl< for their discharge. I am sure it was the result of boyish thoughtlessness and not malice." Saginaw. Mich., Oct. 12. With the two meetings at Saginaw last night Mr. Hryan made I s speeches during the day. as follows: Hastings, Nash ville, Charlotte, i'elh vue, Battle ('reek, Marshall. Albion, Jackson. Ann \rhor, Howell, Lansing. Laingsburg, Ow>isso, Cliesaniug, St. < liarlcs, Hay C;t v a i:d Saginaw. The meeting- were geperallv well attended and some of "hem were very large. I o-daj Mr. V.rva n will begin with his tour of Ohio. :le will make his dr.st speech d the day at Howling (ireen iu the morning and the toar will conclude at Cleveland next Monday evening. Indianapolis. Oct. 12. Indianapolis, which is now holding its first fall festival, last night gave <iov. House , clt one of the greatest receptions ver extended to a candidate for po litical honors. From the crossing at Southeastern avenue up Fast Wash ington street to the courthouse, three-quarters of a mile distant, where he spoke to an immense audi ence, the sidewalks and thorough fares were -rowdid with a mass of humanity through which the proces sion moved with difficulty. Seated with National Committeeman New, Nov. Mount and W. 10. Knglish. Nov. Hoosevelt was continually bowing to the multitude and shaking hands with men and women who clustered around his carriage. I.ending flic procession was a band, followed r>y several com panies of mounted Hough Hitlers. Then came Roosevelt's carriage, fol lowed bv 20 more in which were many of the most distinguished republi cans of Indiana. The courthouse square and the streets surrounding it were congested by a throng which greeted the gov ernor's arrival with a storm of cheers and as he alighted at the court lions? entrance cannon boomed salutes. At the close of the governor's speech Curtis Nuild made an eloquent speech. The evening was devoted to a parr.de which was more than two hours passing the reviewing stand in front of the court hmisc. The line of n.arch was decorated profusely. TIED UP THE ROAD. A 112 oliltlon of Freight Train* oil the >iew .li'iHCy Central Ifiocliatle* Hie I.inc. New York, Oct. I".'. -A disastrous freight wreck near the Fast Hound Hrook signal tower on the Central railroad of New Jersey last night lied up ail the travel on the road except that which could be sent around the wreck by way of the Lehigh Valley t racks. The New York and Chicago fasl freiglt, running at the rate of fto milis en hour, was one of the trains in the collision. As it went past the power house at Fast Hound I'.rook a slow freight started to leave a switch and ran out upon the main tracks The slow freight was half way ovei when the fast freight rushed into it The engiii" drawing the fas! trail went into the slow train like a knife The engine was in charge of I'ngince Charles Campbell, of lersey ( iiy. il» stuck to his post and was cut iu tw;o His fireman leaped before I lie crash and escaped serious injury. t. riint Now IteaiiK. Ni w Yi rk, Oct. 12. As a result oi Thursday's labor of the committee of the senate of New York nniversi y H! new names have been added to those already selected for a place in ! he Hall of Fame. Those counted were in the foil >w ng classes: Preachers and architects, judges and lawyers "Mis'cians, painters, sculptors, pliysi clans and surgeons, soldiers and sail ■ rs. Far in the lead of the men o letters, esnecially Rnloh Waldo Fmer son. who led on Wednesday with m votes, was Gen. Grant, who heads !lj» list willi 02 votes. CAPTURED A GENERAL. Lieut, .fob II nl on , Who Performed Ihn teat. Tell* How Hie Surrender Wan llroiiiflit About. Not every young officer in the Phil ippine service has the good fortune to capture a Filipino general. Of course, generals are plentifA enough among the insurgents, but Gen. Hizon, whom Lieut. John S. Johnston, of the Forty first infantry, recently made a prison er, was a figure of much importance among the ill-conditioned troops who are waging their warfare against our sovereignty in the Philippines. Lieut. Johnston does not boast of his cap ture as a great exploit. On the con- LIEUT. JOHN O. JOHNSTON. (Young Illinois Soldier Who /aptured a Filipino General.) trary, he says:"lt was one of the greatest pieces of bullheaded luck that ever happened to me. Here is how it occurred: I was out with a detach ment of four soldiers and a native. About noon we entered the plaza of San Jose. 1 observed, a man leaving the convent of the village church nnd crossing a field toward a line of bam boo which fringed the edge of the stream. At the thicket he was met by a servant with a horae, which he mounted and made off in the direction of the Culabasa road. I sent two of my men to head him off. "He led the chase for about a mile, I in direct pursuit. My pony got tan gled up in the branches and I was near ly out of the race. But an accident had also happened to the pursued. His horse had slipped and thrown him, breaking his arm and severely sprain ing his ankle. He tried to conceal him self under the bank of the stream, but was discovered by Private Wheeler. Arriving myself a few moments later, he surrendered to me, telling niu who he was. His splendid gray pony es caped." Young Johnston is a native of Illi nois and a graduate off lie state univer sity. He served with distinction in the Spanish-American war. MISS ESTELLE REEL. Her Siicccm n* l.eneral Superintend ent of Itnlian Schools Ha* Been Unite Gratifying;. Estelle Reel, the general superintend ent of the Indian schools, has made her third annual report containing much information of general interest. She believes the Indian porblem is ap proaching a solution. The Norl h Amer ican savage responds, she finds, to the ethical impulse in education, and when the red man knows the white man's speech much of ihe preliminary diffi culty of the problem will be cleared away. In laying the greatest stress upon the cultivation of manual training she believes she is preparing her charges for useful lives in the civilized world. The boys are taught trades, the girls domestic arts. Since her appoint ment three years ago Miss Heel has traveled 41,138 miles. She has lived with the Indians in camp and adobe, has studied the children of the various \ | " } ' y MISS KSTELiLE REEL. (General Superintend' nt of Government Indian Schools.) tribes, and is convinced that the race can be made self-supporting. Miss Heel first came into prominence in 18h~, when she ran for tlae otliee of county superintendent of schools in Laramie, Wvo. She was elected by a big vote, and since then lias made a national rep utation as an educator, in which ca pacityshe had labored in obscure places from her girlhood. She is a native of Illinois. l»eenll*iritle» of lloiiiliijra*. Honduras is a curious mixture of jungle and gigantic forest, of cocoa and of rubber trees, of bugs, vampires, snakes and crocodiles—-of all manner of things that creep and crawl and sting and bite. Here, in every hamlet and city are to be found men from dif ferent lands, mostly outlaws from their own country. Chicago, iioston. New York and Philadelphia all furnish their quota. England, France, Italy and even far-away Kussia have their share. Slirpud Yankee SportMnien. In Maine the bounty on bears is paid on presenting the animal's nose; in New Hampshire the ears are shown. Some unterprising sportsmen exhibit the ••rs in one state and the nose in aa other, thus collecting double bounty. Miners' Convent ion Has Not \et Solved It. TOOK \0 FINAL ACTION. First Session Devoted to i/ilt ioil .-Ill<l Speeches. IT WILL NOT J»K ACCEPTKD. Tlie o|ii iati>r<' Pro|>o.«iiioii to 10 Per 4 \% 111 I iidon l»l f«ll} he Ki-je< l« il l»j ilir 'line IVork* «••••»' i uiii lavr. Scranton, Pa.. Oct. hi.- Kight hun dred iiinl fifty-seven miners wtio hold in their hands the power to end or continue the anthracite coal miners' strike, which lias been ie progress fin more than three weeks, met in convent ion here Friday for the pur pose of considering the 111 per cent, advance in wages offered by the oper ators and adjourned until to-day without taking any action on their employers' proposition. Dotli ses sions were, devoted to organizing tin* convention ami to speeches by many of the delegates on I he mine owners* concession. It was not expected that anything would be done outside of k general exchange of views. I'lie con vention, after it was permanently or ganized. went into secret session, but it \\;i* learned that nothing' of a dc fi nite mil lire was suggested whieii would lead to a solution of what is, to the miners, a knotty problem. From the remarks of the delegates! il wis gathered that I lie 10 per cent, proposition, as it now standi'. hn* very litth chance of being accepted. The delegates seemed to be almost, unanimous that the operators should first in il.e concessions in Ihe other grievances before the increase is ac cepted by the mine workers. (Ireaf. stress was laid on the necessity of abolishing the sliding scale anil sub stituting therefore a tonnage basis on which to fi\ the rate ol wages. The. proposition of having the operator-* guarantee ;• fixed time for paying' the advance was also thoroughly dis < usscd, while not a few delegates said they would be satisfied with nothing but a more liberal increase in ways. The mode of procedure is a matter which is now occupying' the attention of 1 lie labor leaders, lu ease the col - vent ion comes to a definite under s-tanding on some proposition tha <pie> lion has been asked how the op erator* will be advised, in view of tins fact that the latter have repeatedly said th it they would not reeogniz»s the union. President Mitchell will not discuss ;!iis phase ol tin question. That the present convention will not come to a definite conclusion in the general belief. It is the opinion of several lalior leaders that the con vention as at present constituted will be a little unwieldy. There was a movement on foot Friday, having' for its object the submission of 'he vari ous propositions as they are suggest ed by the delegates to a committee appointed by the convention, this committee to report to either this or a second convention, litis movement, liov ever, did not gain much of a start. Some of the delegates think that this whole siibje-i should be left in tin? hands of the national officers, as hinted at by President Mitchell in his brief remarks just before the conven tion went into secret session. Mr. Mitchell '.s very popular among tins miners, as was shown by the enthu siasm displayed as he delivered hi* opening address. President Mitchell is making an ef fort to prevent the transportation of bituminous coal from West \ irginiit into the eastern markets where the anthracite fuel is sold. After mid night Thursday night and during I life sessions of yesterdav's convention. President Mitchell held conference* on the subject with M. W. (iuernsey. ot 11 arrisburg. Pa., who is s-aid by Mr. Mitchell to be a railway union ollicial. The coal that Mr. Mitchell alleges is being sent east is mined by non-union men. whieii prevents him from taking" the same action as lie did in the Pciinsvl• ania coal regions, where he requested the men not to handle tins coal which was destined for the an thracite market. It is said that Mr. Mitchell's plan is to have the railway unions take up the matter for tins purpose of considering the advisabil ity oft icing t'P those railroads which persist in transporting soft coal to the anthracite field. What action tins railroad men will take cannot at thi* time be predicted. Will Scnrcll lor tI»C !V(M-,I Pole. New York. Oct. ! William Zieglcr, a wealthy citizen of New > ork, an nounced Friday that he would pur chase two vessels and send them in quest oil the North Pole during the summer.ot. H'OI. The expedition is tif be in charge of Kvelyn I!. Mahlwin, who was a companion of Lieut. Peary ilu his attempts to reach this pole in is' .; and l.s'.M and also a mem ber of Walter Wclluiiims expedition. It is Mr. Xi 'gler's intention to have one ves.sef remain in the Arctic re gions white the other returns for supplies. Pake Telegram l.ed to Suicide. Chicago. Oct. 1 :i. Mrs. Philip Hardy was vesteniav found dead in her "paitmen's here, shot through tb > • nut. letters on the table show-il. she had eommifte I suicide under the l elief that her husband had commit ted sub-id ■ in \ew \ ork City follow ing a rpeiriel .villi his wife. llard\ r admitted to the police that he had caused a bonus telegram annoilnciig nis death to be sent to lib. wife, who icid sect .red warrants for the arrest, cf himsel.' and a woman living near by. Hardy i'iscd •Ie- telegram lo In sent in the hope 'hat his wile wouiti take nat u l'ier action. 3
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