"WENT INTO EFFECT. < Strike Order Generally Obeyed by Mine Pumpmen. President "'litclielM'lnlnm tliat NO Per Cent, of tlie .lien Quit Work— I Operator* Are Not San- K ill ne— lll Mil r bailees Arc Keported. Wilkesbarre, Pa., .Tune 3.—The or- 1 -der of the United Mine Workers of '< America, calling out on strike all en- : gineers, •firemen and pumpmen em- ' ployed at collieries where the eight- 1 hour work day at present wages was 1 not granted, went into effect Monday, ' and as had been predicted, a majority 1 of the men obeyed the order. Neither 1 side can claim a victory at this time i because the struggle on this phase of the anthracite coal miners' strike has just opened. There was only a partial showing i of strength yesterday. The real test I i of whether or not the mine pumps | shall be manned will begin to-day. | | Although a majority of the men quit j ' work, the companies, generally speak- ! i ing, succeeded in keeping their | pumps in operation. ! 1 National President Mitchell, of the j Miners' union, gave out a statement j '< in which he says that 80 per cent, of ! the men are out. On the other hand an official of one of the largest conl companies, who received accurate information from 1 the entire coal belt, made this state- < luent: i "President 'Mitchell's estimate is i too high. We have received figures i from all our collieries and other col lieries, but they are not to be given out, as it would not be policy tore- , veal our weak spots or to betray our strongholds, as far as they relate to the collieries individually Wilkesbarre, l'a., June 4.—There were no incidents of special mention in the anthracite coal miners' strike yesterday. The mine workers tried hard to bring ont additional en gineers, firemen and pump runners and the operators were equally earn- ! est in their efforts to hold the men that have been loyal to them. The ( union succeeded in getting out quite j a number of men. One or two col- j lieries were compellled to shut down j their pumps because of a lack of men. j but in all other cases the operators were able to fill vacancies by drawing | on their reserve force of office anil ■ other employes. ,i. _.„,iery of the Lehigh | \\itkesbarre Co. an employe came out of the colliery for the purpose of j buying meat for the men inside the ( works. When his errand became known a crowd gathered and he was ; driven back to the mine. There was ! i cutting affray at Edwardsville. A I striker hung an effigy of one of the < workmen on a telegraph pole, and ! when the victim of the prank learned j •112 it he sought out the man and | stabbed him in the arm. The work- j man was followed by a crowd, who . stoned him. lie is slightly injured. Wilkesbarre, l'a., June 5. —More en- j gineers, firemen and pump runners obeyed the call of the Miners' union ! and struck yesterday, but in most in- j stances the coal company officials j were able to fill the places of the i strikers. The Susquehanna Coal Co.'s | colliery No. 5 at Nanticoke was th» j worst sufferer, all the firemen refus ing to go to work, which compelled ■ the company to shut down the en •gines. Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 6. —The spirit of unrest that has been mani festing itself in this city and vicinity during the last few days broke out | in earnest at two places in this city | Jast night and as a result a boy was j dangerously, if not fatally, shot by a j guard at the Stanton colliery and'a j iarge portion of the fence around the Murray colliery was destroyed by iire. At the Murray colliery, also oper ated by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Co., in the eastern part of the city, a crowd of boys succeeded in burning •about 400 feet of a high board fence that surrounds the company's prop erty. Scrant'in June 6.—The first serious outbreak of disorder in connection with the miners' strike in the Lacka wanna region occurred last night at Forest City. David Owns, a pump runner at the Clifford colliery of the Hillsdale Co.. was attacked by a mob ■of 300 strikers while on his way to work and beaten into insensibility, lie was revived and his wounds ■dressed and then taken to his home. Fairmont, W. Va., June 7.—The order for a general strike of the coal miners in the two Virginias takes ef fect to-day. The uneasiness mani fested in business circles during the past week has in a great measure dis appeared, for there is no evidence that the strike order will be general ly obeyed. Shamokin, Pa., June 7.—The Locust Gap and Locust Spring colleries be gan flooding Friday because of the sub-bosses quitting work rather than keep ii]) steam for the pumps. 'Hnrrisburg. Pa., June 7. —The min ers in the Lykens valley threaten to make trouble if the pumpmen and en gineers do not quit work. Washington, June 7.—After a con ference with the members of his cabi net yesterday, President Uoosevelt decided that there is no legal ground for interefernce by liiin in the settle ment of the dispute between the coal operators ami striking miners. I<°«uild an Illicit IliNtlllery. New York, June 7.—As the result •of n fire in a large country home at Yonkers last night the fire depart ment discovered one of the largest il licit distilleries ever known in the vi cinity of New York. The house was rented some tine ago to a man giving his name as Harris, who passed as having considerable means. A neigh bor discovered the fire and the fire department extinguished the flames. It was then found that the interior of the house was equipped as a distil lery, having a very large capacity. Harris and his family have disap peared. HIS LIFE IN DANGER. fonnty Attorney Sayn HP wa» Threat- Plied ivilli Dentil Bpf«u«p of Hl» Pronecu(lon of Alleged Hoodlerß. ■Minneapolis, June 7. —There was n sensational interruption of the trial of Irwin A. (larrlner in Judge Harri son's eourt. Friday afternoon, when County Attorney Sinitli submitted an affidavit setting forth that his life had been threatened because of his participation in the prosecution. The affidavit includes the mention of the name of Mayor Ames as one of those anxious to stop pressure of the case against Gardner, who is accused of having accepted a bribe as special of ficer to protect shark gambling establishments from police interfer ence. Chief of Police Ames is also under indictment. Mr. Smith says this is the second time he has been approached. Mayor Ames was on the stand for the defense in the Gardner case. He j remembered perfectly that he had j never received the SSOO which Kdwards j and Crossmnn, the confidence men, j had sworn they had paid Gardner to j give him for protection, but his mind j was a blank on many points of vital | importance. He could not explain J ■why he had appointed Gardner a spe- | ciai officer without pay, but he re voked the appointment two months after it was made. He could not ex plain why there was no allusion to this step in the records kept by his secretary. It Gardner's commission was revoked before the commission of the alleged crime, he cannot be j convicted of having received a bribe \ as an official of the police depart ment. This would make a technical defense. THREE SQUADRONS. They Will « nlle i" Went Indian Wa ter* for Two .HoiitiiM* Ilrlll. Washington, June 7. —The navy de partment has made public the orders for the assembling next winter of the 'essels of the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and European stations to participate in the most extensive fleet maneuvres ever attempted by the navy in the West Indies. The orders recite that about November 1">. next, j the department will assemble all i available vessels of the stations i named, and about January 1, 1003, j these vessels will be gathered at ; Culebra, Porto ltico, or Guantanamo, j Cuba, and drilled for two months as a fleet. The list of vessels which will take j part is as follows: Kearsarge, 1 own, J Massachusetts. Hrooklyn. Illinois, Alabama, Indiana, the new Maine (probably), Olympia. Haltimorc, Cin cinnati. Raleigh, Albany, Chicago, San Francisco. Newark, Atlanta, Detroit. Montgomery. Nashville. Mari etta. Machias, as many of the 30 or more torpedo boats and destroyers as are available at the time, and a fleet of naval colliers. A ltri<!i> of Terror In Kentucky. Lexington. Ky.. June 7. —John TI. | Johns, an attorney of this city, has | [returned from Jackson, Ky., whither lie went to defend Thomas Coekrell, charged with murdering Hen Hargis. Johns-says the court and bar of Jock son are in terror over threats by both the Coekrell and llargis factions, and j that Judge Ucdwinc refused to act on i the application for a change of venue ! because of fear of his own life and | the lives of others. Two other attor neys were elected to preside as spe cial judge, but each refused to act for fear of his life. Gov. Ueekham has been appealed to. Johns says the county is bordering on revolution, j Knd of tlie Teanmtcrs' Strike. Chicago, June 6.—The packing j | teamsters' strike, which has dis- j turbcil tiie city for nearly two weeks, 1 | and which caused the most, serious j rioting that has occurred since the American Railway union strike in 1894, came to an end Thursday as the i result of a conference between repre sentatives of the packers and the teamsters. The agreement reached is a partial victory for the teamsters in that the packers declare that they will not discriminate against mem bers of the union. The scale agreed upon is two cents lower than that de manded by the men. Tlip Price of Victory. London, June 6.—An official state ment issued by the war office shows that the total reduction of the Brit ish forces in South Africa, up to May 30, 1902, was 97,477. This includes killed, wounded, prisoners, deaths from disease and men invalided home. Of these many have recovered ami rejoined their regiments, leaving 25,- 434 dead, or permanently incapaci tated. The total number of troops killed in action, or who died from wounds, is 7.792, while the number of deaths from disease is 13,250. A Plzllt tviili HaiMlltn. 'Manila, June 7.—American soldiers and raemoers of the native constabu lary have recently been hunting for Para Iso. the bandit leader of the island of Negros, in the mountains near Lanas. Negros. In a recent, en gagement between the Americans and bandits five of the latter were killed, four were captured and many were wounded. Killed Two Women and Suicided. Philadelphia, June 6.—Oscar Webb, colored, during a family qua* .-1 yes terday shot and killed Ids wife and her mother in Germantown, a suburb of this city. He then turned the re ' revolver on himself ami inflicted a fatal wound. Prof. Weleiiinan It Dead. Anderson. Ind., June C. —'Prof. f.ew j is J. Wcichinnn died here last night. | lie was CO years old and for manji j years had conducted a business col ; j lege. With the exception of John •j Suriatt, now in Haltimorc, Prot , ! Wcichman was the last, witness in the trial of John Wilkes Hooth, the as • sassin of President Lincoln. Although | his evidence was true in detail, Prof t Wcichman always brooded over the - matter and said that his testimony . | was the cause of the Conviction and - sentence to the gallows of Mrs. Sur 1 rut. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1902. INCOMPETENCE OF KINGS. In*tanee* of litnoranee of Monarch* Concerning Condition* in Their Unu liealni*. "Seems hard to believe this," said the reader of"China in Convulsion," look ing up from his perusal of that re markable book, relates the New York Herald. "Mr. Smith says that every body in China knew about the danger threatened by the Boxers; that trav elers, merchants, missionaries, edit ors, and evea government consuls knew about it. The exception, he says, was the legations—they, of all others, to be in ignorance! They knew noth ing and would hear nothing about it. What do you think of that?" "It- does seem strange," said thf Browser, who had been deep in I'renr history. "But here's a coincident?*..' I've just been looking over some books dealing with the French revolution and later periods of France —Victor Hugo's 'Choses Vues' and Watson's 'Story of France* among them. And what do you think? The king's of that country were just as ignorant of im pending calamities which threatened their thrones and lives as were the legations in China, according to Mr. Smith's account. That, it seems to me, is even more astonishing. "Take Louis XVI. at Versailles. What do you suppose he was about when the mob went to fetch him to the Tuileries? Why, shooting rabbits in the woods, to be sure, with all France in a fever and the shadow of the guillotine on his door. Much he knew about what was going on! Then, 41 years later, we have Charles X. with his edict annulling the very con stitution which gave him his throne. Indlnn Itelie Trust. A meeting was lately held by the Omaha and Winnebago Indians on HON. ALBERT J. HOPKINS. The republicans of Illinois', recently assembled In state convention at Spring field, by a two-thirds vote passed a resolution requesting the r.ext general assembly to elect Mr. Hopkins, who at present represents the Aurora district In congress, to the United States senate, to succeed Senator William E. Mason, who Is a resident of Chicago. There wore several candidates in the field, eager and ready to snatch convention honors from Mr. Hopkins, but their efforts proved futile. The picture here given Is from Mr. Hopkins' latest portrait, taken only a few weeks ago. their reservations, and a relic trust was formed. Great Thunder, a leading financier of the Winnebagos, was elected president. Great Thunder's specialty is making bows and arrows. Green Rainbow and Prairie Chicken, makers of belts, and John A. Logan, manufacturer of eagle feather war bonnets, were made directors. All the members of the tribes will obey these leaders in matters pertaining to the prices of Indian goods. Turkey's Smartest Town. Smyrna is the smartest town in Turkey so far as trade is concerned. It does a bigger business than Con stantinople. It is the headquarters of the wool and of the rug and carpet trade. An Afterthought. It is always well to remember, says the Chicago Record-Herald, that the extinct volcano, like the reposing wasp, will bear watching. WHERE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE WAS BORN. _ . - l-'ort de France, which r.ow Is the center of interest on (he island of Mar tinique, has historic Interest as the scene of the girlhood of Empri >- J sepi.ir.e. The cut is suppo-i d to represent the house near Fort ue France wt m Josti liir.r- de Tnscher de 1 i P •«. tK vas borr. ar.d lived until sin w married, at the age of 14. to Vlcbmte de BeauharnaU. Th« home was the sugar house of the plantation, a» the great house of Josephine's father was destroyed by a hurricane. Abov* tin low building of plaster, il <tnnu ris.-s a huge chimney. In tl:-. city ul Fjii ie i'rai.jc tk u ttAiut ux Uiu tuipt tss. ENVY OF PROFESSIONALS. AreonlliiK to This Authority Arch itect* Have the Lenit and Ac tors Have the Moat. An Italian philosopher, Signer Fer riani, lias amused himself by con structing a scale of degrees for the measurement of professional envy, reports the Buffalo Commercial. The highest point in this envy measurer is ten. Architects are happily placed lowest on the scale. They register only one; advocates, priests and mil itary men are ranged at two; and in the ascending scale he gives us pro fessors of science and literature four; -'ournalisf s, five; authors, eight; pliy iieians, nine; actors and actresses, ten. The small amount of envy among architects is held to be due to their precise, severe and rigid studies. The same thing applies to advocates. Among the clergy envy is found most ly in preachers. In the military career envy is quiescent in time of peace, but can become acute in time of war. Envy makes me.i of science and literature lead solitary lives, diffident of each other. Among physicians envy is still more prevalent, and they do not spare their colleagues, often terming them charlatans. In the theatrical world envy, according to Signor Ferriani, reaches its acute form, vanity playing a great part in its production. PRINTERS ARE TOO SLOW. The Vnliie of Government Itei>ort« In Impaired by Delay* ill l'uhlieation. The public as well as the government suffers greatly by the dilatory meth ods in vogue in the printing of official reports. The value of work done by the scientific bureaus maintained by the government especially is lamentably lessened by the tardiness with which the results are given to the public. Official information does not make its appearance until the question has be come obsolete or enough light has been shed on it through the medium of a more energetic press. The delay, says the Chicago Chron icle is caused by the difficulty in get ting the reports printed. In many cases the manuscripts prepared under the direction of the bureaus do not see the light of publication for three years. Pressure, it is claimed, is frequently required to rescue the fruits of labori ous research, and the author of a time ly and well-designed paper is met by most persistent and disheartening dila toriness. Junn Fi'Piinndez Lobtitori, Robinson Crusoe island, Juan Fer nandez, lying COO .miles west of Val pariso, is to be given a civil govern ment by Chili on account of its lob ster canning industry. FRIARS MUST GET OUT. Order (ilvrn Kov. Xitll In Dealing Willi 111*' Vatican on <»olng to Home. Washington, June 7.—Secretary Root has sent to Ihe Philippines com mittees of the senate ami house the textual copies of the instructions given by him to <iov. Taft for his guidance in dealing' with the Vatican respecting the acquisition by the United States of the friars' lands in the Philippines. These instructions were exhibited by Gov. Taft to the Vatican officials and served the pur pose of credentials. The text is as fol lows: "Von are authorized, in the course of your return trip to Manila, to visit Koine and there ascertain what church authorities have the power to negotiate for and determine upon n sale of the lands of the religious or ders in the Philippine islands, and if you find, as we are informed, that the church at Rome has such power, you will endeavor to attain the re sults above indicated. Any negotia t'.iins which you may enter upon are always subject to granting of power by congress to follow the negotia tions by binding action. In any nego tiations you will bear in mind the fol lowing propositions, whieli should bo fully stated to the other side in the negotiations: "One of the controlling principles of our government is the complete separation of church and state, with the entire freedom of each from any control by the other. This principles is imperative wherever American jurisdiction extends, and no modifica tion or shading thereof can be a sub ject of discussion. "The religious orders cannot longer perform in behalf of the state the duties in relation to public instruc tion and public charities formerly restng upon them, and the power which they formerly exercised, through their relations to the civil government, being now withdrawn, they find themselves the objects of such hostility on the part of their tenantry against them, as landlords and on the part of the people of the parishes against them as representa tives of the former government, that they are no longer capable of serving any useful purpose for the church. Xo rents can be collected from the populous communities occupying their lands unless it be by the inter vention of the civil government with armed force. "For several years past the friars, formerly installed over the parishes, have been unable to remain at their posts, and are collected in Manila with the vain hope of returning. Thev will not be voluntarily accepted again by the people and cannot be restored to their positions except by forcible intervention on the part of the civil government, which the prin ciples of our government forbid. "Under these conditions it is for the interest of fhe church, as well as of the state, that the landed proprie torship of the religious orders in the Philippine islands should cease and that if the church wishes to continue is ministrations among the people of the islands and to conduct in its own behalf a system of instruction with which we have no desire to interfere, it should seek other agents therefor. "It is the wish of our government, in case congress shall grant authori ty, that the titles of the religious or ders to the large tracts of agricul tural lands which they now hold shall be extinguished, but that full compensation shall be made therefor. It is not, however, deemed to be for the interests of the people of the Philippine islands that in thus trans ! ferring wholly unproductive tracts of land into money capable of produc tive. investment, a fund should there by be created to be used for the at tempted restoration of the friars to the parishes from which they are now separated, with the consequent dis turbance of law and order. "Provision should be made for as certaining what rentals, if any, ought to be paid for convents and other church buildings which have been oc cupied by United States troops dur ing the insurrection, this being of course subject to further specific ac tion by congress. "Your errand will not be in any sense diplomatic in its nature, but will be purely a business matter of negotiation by you as governor of the Philippines for the purchase of property from the owners thereof, j and the settlement of land titles in such a manner as to contribute to the best interests of the people of the islands." Another Kruptloii of .Tloiit Holee. Castries, Island of St. Lucia, June 7. —The steamer Kden arrived here Friday. C'apt. Down reports that while leaving Fort de France, Friday morning, Mont Pelee erupted and threw out an enormous cloud of smoke, which passed to the eastward. The passengers on the Eden were much alarmed. Almost entire dark ness prevailed. While three miles from the island of St. Lucia, clouds of volcanic dust obscured the coast and made it difficult for the vessel to enter the harbor. At :! o'clock Friday afternoon the darkness was intense over at. Lucia. A Tlioimaiut Pooplo Killed. San Francisco, June 7.—Upward of 1,000 lives have been lost and half of the city of Uatalhulen, Guatemala, | has been destroyed by the eruption I of Taeana volcano, according to ad* ! vices received here by the steamer l'alent, from Valparaiso. Another Hiii Strike In t'roiuixod. Chicago. June 7.—l'nless the Union iStock Yards Co. shall agree to rein state the 17 cattle drivers who, it is said, were discharged last Tuesday because they were union men, the s,niio butchers and meat cutters at. the packing houses and 700 stock yards employes will n#t goto work ! Monday. The issue was squarely ! made at a conference last night be tween Michael Donnelly, president of the Butchers' and "Meat Cutters* | Union of North America, and A. O. Leonard, general manager of the | stock yards. FARMS SUBMERGED Kansas and Nebraska Suffer from Storm and Flood. Tlie Town of Bralrlrr, !Ne!>., lint* • Severe Uone-A Number ol \Va»l»- outon Kallroad* Hrpi rlrd —The Italnlall U'a) Very Heavy. Kansas City, June 7.—Tlie loss of property l>y the overflow of the Neo sho and Cottonwood rivers will amount to several hundred thousand dollars in the Emporia district. There has been, however, no loss of life ami both rivers are fulling'. Where the two streams join, farms for miles around are submerged in from one to six feet of water. In several places swift currents leave the main streams and cut across the country, devastat ing hundred of acres of corn and wheat. In some of the bottoms fami lies have been rescued in boats. The Santa Fe tracks are covered with water for two miles. Trains for Kansas and Oklahoma points are arriving here many hours late on account of the floods. Crops on bottom lands have been overflowed and in southern Oklahoma the wheat harvest has been suspended. The most serious farm loss is reported from near Emporia, where the Neosho has become a lake five mileß wide. "Beatrice, Neb., June 7. —The flood caused by the Cortland cloudburst reached this city yesterday and has practically cut off the city from out side communication by railway. All the bottom lands and residences along the creek are under water. There is eight feet of water in the Union Pacific round house and a quar ter of a mile of track is washed out between this city and Cortland. Nearly all of the Union Pacific track between this city and Pickrell is under water and trains are unable to move cither way. The main line of the Burlington is badly washed out. One train on the Union Pacific, with 20 passengers, is laid up at Pickrell and is unable to move. St. Paul, Neb., June 7.—A rainfall of between three and four inches within four hours yesterday caused a flood in this part of central Nebraska. The town of Dannebrag, nine miles from here, was inundated by a rise in Oak creek, which runs through the town. The water stood three feet deep in the streets last night and was steadily vising and people were mov ing to higher ground. The railroads are suffering, the Union Pacific hav ing its tracks washed out and the Burlington losing a bridge. Much stock has been drowned. Slitchell, S. 1)., .June 7.—The great est storm that has visited this sec tion for years swept over here Fri day. A violent tvind storm was fol lowed by a torrential rain for an hour and the streets were flooded. Practically every basement on Main street is full of water, and great dam age has been done to stocks stored in them. In a great many residences the water stands even with the floors. Seven inches of water fell during one hour. Hundreds of trees were blown down, and many buildings more or less damaged. Telephone and tele graph lines were badly crippled by the heavy wind. Marshalltown, la., June 7. —This section of lowa is literally deluged and great damage to property and to growing crops will result. A terrific c'oudburst occurred at Gladbrook yesterday, washing out several miles of railroad track on both tin* Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago Oreat Western. Both roads have lost bridges. Heavy damage is also re ported on other roads. The lowa river here is higher than it. has been for many years, inundating the bottom lands, submerging crops and threat ening the residents of lowlying locali ties. Cornfields in many places are four feet under water. Stock is be ing rescued by boats. Boniford l.ang don, a 7-year-old boy, was drowned. TRADE REVIEW. Labor I>l»pntei» aro the Only fnfavor able Feature* Note J. New York, June 7. —15. 0. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Peace in South Africa has greatly improved the outlook. Foreign in dustrial markets will quickly benefit by the development of that country, while a return to active gold mining will be a helpful influence in mone tary circles. Owing to the present exceptional home consumption, pro ducers in this country may not be able to take advantage of the op portunity immediately, but even the i indirect effects must be beneficial. Domestic conditions still have but the one drawback of labor disputes, which have reduced the earning pow er of a large force. Failures this week in the United States were :>IS, against is.", the cor responding week last year, anil in Canada 10, against 20 last year. Killed by Llshinlns;. Chicago, June 7.—A heavy thunder storm passed over tins city last even ing and much damage by lightning is ! reported. Several buildings were j struck and at Wheaton, Wilbur Chase, i the 17-year-old son of llev. 11. W. I Chase, pastor of the Centenary Methodist church, was killed by an electric bolt. A Doctor'* Huso Kill. Pittsburg, June 7.-—-The bill of T)r. Walter C. Browning, of Philadelphia, : for $190,070 for professional services 1 hi attending State Senator Chris L. Magee during the long illness which : resulted in his death, came before Judge Over, of the orphans' court, Friday. The executors refused to pay i the bill, averring l that i> was exorbi ! tant. Counsel for Dr. Browning stat ed before the opening of the hearing | that Dr. browning's claims against the Magee eslate aggregated $ 1.M1.000, \ but he would not make public the I items which goto make the claims. 3
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