Fittlire of the Railw
By P. E. CON LEY,
President Railway Kmployes' Twentieth Century Club.
A I c the railwav employe any hope for the future'
■ "NBf" • < gy ■I- merit in a workman noticed and rewarded? ■
I What is going to become of the rapidly ageing arm ;
I ■ lof "railroaders," an army which will be mustered
I out i° n f? before it has been worked out, and which
Rii m |||H |, yimgH |, | * will be left without pension, trade or prospect? |
P I empline and what is dark for him must be dark for
B jhL > >J] tin- whole country as well. The size of the army of
railroaders makes it so. And this applies as well
to the elevated and surface line employes as to the steam road operators, j
h- Illinois alone there are 91.900 railroad workmen. More than 40,000
of these have their headquarters in Chicago. In the nation the number
of railway employes is ten times the number of lawyers, three times the
number of miners, two-thirds the number of domestic servants, equal the
number of bookkeepers and clerks in all other trades and industries; 50
per cent, more than the number of merchants and shopkeepers, and three
times the number of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The number of railway employes is constantly increasing. To keep
this standing army of trusted servants in a high state of efficiency is
the duty devolving upon the immediate superior officers.
We might expect that in this day of automatic appliances and ad
vanced ideas railway accidents, especially collisions, would be reduced to
a minimum. Hut, 011 the contrary, they are steadily increasing. During
a recent period of three months we were advised of more than 1,400 col
lisions, 51 of which were between passenger trains.
The interstate commerce commission reports that the increase of ac- ;
cidents and appalling loss of life is due to the heavy increase in traffic,
which requires the employment of many new men. This report, while in
a measure correct, is hardly far-reaching enough.
There is 110 question that the volume of traffic is greater than in
former years, but when it is considered that one locomotive to-day handles
three times the number of cars that are three times the size of those of
a few years ago, we see that the number of freight trains has not in
creased.
The great question of responsibility for present conditions will come
to the surface ere long and it may become necessary to turn backward and
adopt a few of the customs which have been relegated to the rear by the
new generation of railway officials. 111 my opinion it would require years
to place the service on as high a standard as that attained prior to 1895.
In writing of the cases leading up to present conditions I am prompted by
no personal or malicious motives, and in my references I do not mean
to be understood as referring to every company, because there are excep
tions. Neither shall I mention a particular company. Exceptions may
be taken to my statements, but the same may be specifically substantiated
af required.
The age limit, physical examinations, the Brown system of discipline,
and impractical heads of departments are directly the cause of lowering
the standard of efficiency, which is the natural cause of the increased
number of disasters. Concerning the age limit and the physical, one re
quires the applicant for a position in train service to be more than 28
years of age, and the other that he must be of certain height, weight, and
nearly, if not quite, physically perfect.
Not many years ago a man filling all these requirements could rarely
•secure a position. The railroad veteran with the silver locks and the
missing fingers were always given the preference. Experience was in
demand.
Of the railway employe of the past hut little need be said. Ilis call
•ng was his pride. He enjoyed the confidence of his superiors and sel
dom took advantage of such familiarity. He little thought that at some
future day the knowledge and experience that he was storing up would
•be of no value.
The employe of the present has much to contend with. He is well
•paid, to he sure, but the duties are quite as arduous as in the past, al
though they are quite of a different nature. But, after all, the only incen
tive to a faithful performance of duty is the salary.
The future of the employe should give him much concern. Sur
rounded by ail these conditions he shold improve every opportunity and
make ready to engage in some other pursuit when his present term of
service shall expire, for unless conditions change there will be thousands
of men whose professions will be valueless before long. Not many of
them have accumulated sufficient means to enable them to retire. They
•will be compelled to enter new fields of labor.
The Passing
By MRS. RUSSELL SAGE.
1 w re wc I )CCOni ' n g a nation without homes?
[ fill Apartment life, which is really the solution of
a knotty problem, brought about by the topo
\ ' , graphical formation of our metropolis and the
nB enormous increase in the population, has come
In*. MimSs l ° ' Je an acce P tct l act - ' s > nevertheless,
IP* detrimental to l ' le family life, and makes real
kf home life almost impossible.
tSaSSM There is certainly a growing desire on
the part of women to free themselves from
a 'l household cares. Hotel life offers to manv
the easiest solution of the domestic question,
jajPjjjßand lazy women are really to blame for their
trouble with servants, as the duties of the mis
tress toward the latter are not properly discharged. Three of my serv
ants, the coachman and two maids, have been with me 30, 20 and 10
years respectively, therefore I cannot say that the quesetion has troubled
me personally. A common interest binds us together. Feeling that
this is their home as well as mine, they do not refuse to do extra service
whenever it is needed.
Club life to some extent is responsible for the desire on the part of so
many women to get away from housekeeping and its attendant drudgery.
The breakdown of many women is to-day due largely to too much
excitement and no rest on Sunday. Entertaining to excess is transplanted
from the city to the country. The children arc left more and more to the
care of servants. They receive no moral training. The child must have
guidance, and 110 training, however scientific, can compete with that given
by a loving and conscientious mother.
As for manners! There are not enough to be mentioned to-day,
and 1 doubt if we will see the pretty courtesies of the young to the old
again. Neither does the school this moral training. The intel
lect is fed, and then; is 110 time left for teaching manners. Colleges are
powerless to accomplish anything in this line. The girls go for brain
work and take with them a certain maturity and habits in manners ac
quired at home.
CAMERON COUNTY PRKSS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER i, 1903.
HKFOIOI PROCMIAM.
Commission Appointed to Carry
it Out in Macedonia.
Fighting Slili tioe* On, However I■»—
xoruenl* are lOiicourasjed Tur
key mobilizing Troop* Note
Crom liuxHla « inise* lii>
eitcnieni In Sulia.
Sofia, Rulgaria. Sept. 25. —Notwilli- ]
standing reports to the contrary, per- |
feet. tra!H|uilily, almost approaching' 11
apathy, prevails throughout Rulgaria.
There is not the slightest outward 1
evidence that the country is on the j
verge of war. Even in military < ir- | ■
eli's there is no excitement, though
unceasing preparation is going' on. l
The reports emanating from 'l urk- •
ish <iuarters that the government is
in clanger of being carried away by
popular excitement and that Rulgaria j
is likely to take the first hostile i
steps may lie regarded as ridiculous
inventions. It is. however, a fact j
that all hope of good results from the j
Turkish promises of reform has lung
disappeared and the feeling is stead- j
ily growing that war is the sole solu- j
tion to the.Macedonian problem, the
only question being whether it will
come this autumn, or he postponed
unlil spring.
According to a telegram received
liere from Kostendil, (411 miles from
Sofia) 600 Turks were killed in a
fight at Kotchani September is. The
Turkish force numbered 7,00(1. After
the tight the troops, enraged at their
losses, pillager] and burned a number ' '
of Mulgarian villages.
Constantinople, Sept. 25.—The bat- <
tie of Kresna Pass, according to the
latest advices received here, is still in
progress. The insurgents are success
fully holding strong positions and
their casualties are slight, only a
score being killed or wounded, while
the Turks, up to the present, have
lost five officers and 320 men or <
wounded.
Constantinople, Sept. 20. —The com
position of the mixed commission to
carry out the program of reforms in
Macedonia was officially announced
yesterday. Ililmi Pasha is president
of the commission. The commission
will sit temporarily at Mon'istir. An ,
irade has been issued ordering the
civil and military authorities to obey
the commissions' regulations. i
Sofia, Rulgaria, Sept. 2.l.—Si mill- •
taneously with the issue of the irade
appointing the mixed Macedonian
commission, tlu; report conies from
Constantinople that the porte has or- i
dered the mobilization of two addi
tional divisions of Asiatic troops. The
irade has created little impression
here. '
A dispatch from Rila says that the
insurgentsencouraged by their recent
successes, are abandoning a strictly
defensive attitude and are preparing
to take the offensive. The insurgents
are reported to have ample stocks of
provisions in their camp in the Perin
mountains. A large Turkish force I
surrounded an insurgent camp near
Prespa and the insurgents had 40 men
anil SO women and children killed. 1
The Turkish loss was heavy. Another
fight in the same district resulted in
the defeat of an insurgent band, ten
of whom were killed and the remaind
er ft.d in the mountains. In an en
cage near Kesela, Monastir. tin:
Turk- I 100 killed and wounded,
while ».ie insurgents had 15 killed
and 2!) wounded.
It is reported that n Russian note
which was handed to the Bulgarian
government last night has caused ex
citement in Sofia. The note recog
nizes Turkey as the premier power
in the lialkans and admits her right
to suppress a rebellion in her own
territory as she thinks best.
Creditor*' Kiuiit Settled.
Ogilensburg, Y. Y.. Sept. 20. —The
long fight of the creditors of the
liroekville. West port and Saulte Ste.
Marie railroad has been ended and
the title of the New York syndicate
who purchased the road confirmed by
an act incorporating the liroekville,
Wot port & Northwestern Railway
Co. to operate a road from the Thou
sand Islands to the upper lake, with
•i bridge over the St. Lawrence river
to ISrookville. Construction and la
bor creditors of the old company
whose claims amount 1o about $200,-
1 000, will receive 25 per cent, of their
original claims, when the unearned
subsidy is revoted and earned by the
new company.
It.of 1.. tin do rap Koosevolt,
Washington, Sept. 25.—At a special
meeting of the executive board of the
Knights of Labor held in this city
on Thursday resolutions were adopt
ed in which it was declared that Pres
ident Roosevelt is the best friend
that organized labor ever bad in the
White House. All the members of
the organization were urged to sup
port President Roosevelt.
An In welcome .Surprise,
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 24.—Notices
have been posted at all the colleries
of the Delaware and Hudson Canal &
Coal Co. that the miners will here- j
after work five hours each day until
further notice, instead of nine hours
■ as heretofore. The order came as a
surprise to the thousands of em
: ployes.
Overcome by <ia* In a <e*«pool.
! Trenton, X. J., Sept. 25. —Three
| men employed by the John A. Roeb
: ling's Sons Co., while digging in a
j cesspool about 35 feet below the sur-
I face, were overcome by g-as yesterday
! and two of them died before they
I reached the hospital. The third man
| is also expected to die.
A Itl!! Meal BxpoHd,
St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 25. —There- j
I port of the expert accountants who
have been working on the books of
the city under the direction of Mayor
John Y. Starr, has astonished the cit
| izens of ihis city. The period under
investigation is from January l, 1901,
to March 31 last. The report alleges
that hundreds of receipts for vouch- j
j ers for warrants issued by the city
| are missing, the total amounting to
| $22,850. Paid vouchers for nearly sl.-
i 500 show no approval by t he, cv.ineili
ftr.tl there Is no reeor-.V'Tbr contract*
, for street work thou- j
| sands of 1
/" -
MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDS
112 ive J2en indicted by (■rand Jury
llctroit Cor Try in:: to Oclraud < i O
oS Siuin* ol tloiicy.
Detroit. Midi., Sept. 20. Six indict -|
ment were returned yesterday after j
noon by the grand ,jui \ which has j
been investigating municipal affairs |
and particularly the department oi
public works, for the last twi. I
months. Five of them were made j
public in court late yesterday after
noon and they name the following!
persons; 1). \V. H. More laud, formei j
commissioner of public works, recent j
I \ removed from office by the conn- !
eil; Herman Wartell and T. J. White, j
former employes of the public works I
department under Morelami; John'
llock, a former department of works i
employes* contractor; Henry Merdian, j
a contractor, and his associate, Robert J
Conway. Moreland is named in each !
of the five indictments read in court
yesterday afternoon. Two of the in- j
dictments charge him with conspiracy j
to defraud and the other three withj
misappropriating and converting I
property of the city to the use of
others.
In the first of the indictments alleg- J
ing' conspiracy, it is charged that
Morelami, Merdian, Conway. Wartell
and White conspired in March. 1902, |
to defraud the city of SI,OOO through
the payrolls of the department of
works of street sweeping and team- j
ing, arid in the second, that Mr. More
land with Wartell, White and Hock j
conspired in the same month to rle- j
fraud the city of SI,OOO through street j
sweeping and teaming bills. The ;
other three indictments charge More- ;
land, under a special statute, with
converting 1,735 feet of Merdian curb
stone, valued at SSOO to Thomas ,1.
Kennedy, with converting 1,052 cubic i
yards of sand worth SSOO to Henry
Merdian &• Co. and witn converting
400 yards of crushed stone worth $49 i
to John Archer and John Hock. The
sixth indictment . was not read in j
court and prosecutor Hunt declined
to state last night whether or not it
named any persons mentioned in the
other five.
Mr. Moreland came into court early j
last evening and when asked to plead,
stood mute on advice of his attorney. I
The judge accordingly entered a plea |
of not guilty and fixed Mr. More
land's bail on all five indictments at J
$6,000. it was given. John Hock was
also in court and gave bail in the
sum of SI,BOO. Warrants for the ar
rest of the other indicted men were
issued and placed in the hands of the
sheriff. At 9 o'clock last night, how
ever, none of them had been arrested.
THE MILLER TROUBLE.
II LLA« KEEN LETT 111 (LIE HANDS OL U
Siili-CoinuiMlee.
Washington, Sept. 26.—The execu- j
live council of the Federation of La
bor adjourned yesterday afternoon '
subject to call without taking any j
further action on the case of William
Miller, the assistant foreman in the
government printing office. The mat- |
ter has been left in the hands of a
sub-committee of the executive coun
cil, whose names are not disclosed, !
with directions to make a full re- !
port.
President Gompers said last niglit i
that the subject did not come up for
discussion in any of the meetings
yesterday. He expects, however, that
he sub-committee will make a report j
at an early day, and action then will
be taken by the council. Mr. Gompers !
remarked laughingly that nothing
revolutionary about the Miller case
might be anticipated.
Mr. Gompers said that owing to tlie
necessity of some of the members of
the council returning to their busi- !
ness tlie council had adjourned with
out transacting all the business be
fore it. These unfinished matters
were referred to tfle same sub-com
mittee as the Miller case. The sub
committee was directed to make a re
port at an early day, and while the
council would not. convene again be
fore the assembling of the national
convention in November these mat
ters would be finished up by mail.
Mr. Gompers refused to say
whether the sub-committee had au
thority to take up the Miller case
with President Roosevelt, while the
council has the Miller ease under
consideration, the statement is made
that no other body wilt have author
ity to take it up with the president.
Jott Sentenced.
Cynthiana, Ky„ Sept. 2 . —Curtis
left was brought into court Friday,
when Judge Osborne decreed that he
be hanged "between sunrise and sun
set, December IS, for killing James
C'oekrill at Jackson, Ky., July 21,
1902." Judge Illanton, attorney for
.lett, replied: "Well, judge, there will
be many sunrises and sunsets before
he has been hanged." When Judge
Osborne said he would send the pris
oner to another jail .left pleaded not
to be returned to Lexington, Ky.
Judge Illanton filed papers giving his
grounds for a new trial preparatory
to carrying the case to the court of
appeals.
FARMER*' CUIIKROM ADJOURN*.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., Sept. 26.—The
Farmers' National congress adjourn
ed yesterday after electing llarvie
Jordan, Moiiticello, tia., president;
Col. lienelian Cameron, Stugville, N.
C., first vice president; Joshua
Strange, Marion Ind., second vice
president; Dr. J. H. Reynolds, Ad
rian, Mich., treasurer; John M. Stahi,
Chicago, secretary; C. M. Whittaker,
Roston, first assistant secretary; A.
C. Fuller, Doura, la., second assistant
secretary; Luther Tucker, Albany,
third assistant secretary.
MURDERER ILANSI>D V
Lander, Wyo., Sept.,*' ;>6.—James
Keffer, the murderer William War
ren, was hanged in tjhe jail yard here
yesterday. The /- condemned mjin
spent a large pjrfVt of his last night
on earth in sieging, dancing l and tell
ing stories <„ the death watch.
KEPORT ADOPTED.
B®Jit iinore, Sept. 26. —At the session
Ot the sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows yesterday the report of the
finance committee on the proposed
$1,000,000 memorial building of Wash
j ington lodge, of this city, was adopt
ed.
MILITARY I'OWKII.
>hni<re Seeds, of Colorado, De
clares It Is Not Supreme.
Cull Li» 'lust Itelijii—Alter lleelwion
1VII» talven <«ov. I'eabody Ordered
<>en. I have to Surrender All
ol III* Prisoner* lo tlic
Civil Authorities,
Cripple Creek, Col., Sept. 25.—Judge
William Seeds, of the district court,
on Thursday decided against the mil
itary authorities in the habeas corpus
case of Sherman Parker and three
others, who have been hi Id prisoners
by the military for about; two weeks
without warrants and with no formal
charges against them.
Judge Seeds ordered the prisoners
turned over to the civil authorities.
Judge Seeds said that he could not
subscribe to the doctrine that the
military was supreme and not amen
able to the court, because to do so
would mean to overthrow free gov
ernment and substitute a monarchy.
The court said that the question In
volved was: Does the executive order
calling troops constitute a justifica
tion of the arrest? He held that civil
law had not been overthrown in Tel
ler county and no evidence had been
presented that law breakers would
not be prosecuted and punished by
the civil authorities. Judge Seeds al
so strongly rebuked the pres&Ace of
Ihe troops in the court room.
Gen. John Chase, in command of
the troops, declined to recognize the
authority of the court until ordered
by the governor to do so. Gov. Pea
body has instructed Adjutant General
Hell, who is in Cripple Creek, to issue
lan order to (ien. Chase to turn over
all prisoners to the civil authorities
hereafter.
A strike of the union miners was
ordered at Cripple Creek about the
middle of August by the Western
Federation of Miners, in support of
j mill men at Colorado City and other
points who had for a long time been
'contending for an eight-hour day.
The mine owners, alleging lliat a
larg-e percentage of the men desired
to work if protection was assured,
railed upon Gov. Peabody for troops,
although the civil authorities denied
the necessity for such a course. The
governor, however, decided that
troops were needed and on Septem
ber 4 ordered almost the entire na
tional guard of the state, about 1,000
men, to the district, under command
of Hrig. (ien. Chase.
Since that time several prominent
members of the Miners* union, includ
ing all the members of the executive
| committee which had the strike in
charge, have been arrested without
warrant and held in the guard house.
Habeas corpus proceedings were be
g'nn in their behalf last week. (ien.
Chase and his legal advisers held that
though martial law had not been for
mally declared, it was really putin
force by the order issued by the gov
ernor directing the troops to main
tain order, and that therefore the
;ivil court had no jurisdiction.
GRAND CIRCUIT RACES.
I'unny Itlllurd ICarna llie Title of
(tiieon oC l'ncers liy Going a Jllie In
2:03 3-1.
Columbus, 0., Sept. 23. —Fanny Dil
lard, of the \Y. L. Snow stable, on
Tuesday became champion of pacing
mares, when in the 2:06 pace she
went the mile in 2:03%, half a second
better than the best efforts of Lady
of the Manor, Mazette and Dariel.
The race which Fanny Dillard won
and in which she became the pacing
queen was bitterly fought. Major C.
was the 10 to 4 favorite and was laid
up in the first heat, Joe Pointer win
ning in a drive from Fanny Dillard.
Major C. shot to the front in the sec
cond heat and was carried to the half
by Captain Sphinx in 1:01%. Here
both horses gave it up and Fanny Dil
lard set sail for what proved to be
the record. The time by quarters:
:30, 1:01%, 1:32%, 2:03%. The mare
had no trouble in beating Joe Pointer
home in the last heat.
John Taylor won the 2:23 trot
easily. He was a 12 to 3 favorite.
Victory came to Hilly Ruck in tlie
2:17 trot and the horse acted as if
the three heats were nothing more
than workouts.
John M.was sold at even money
with the field in the 2:15 pace. He
was never in danger of losing.
Columbus, ()., Sept. 24. —Ten thou
sand people witnessed the grand cir
cuit races at the Columbus Driving
park yesterday. The special attrac
tion was Dan Patch's race against
time to beat his record of 1:59. The
track was fast anil weather condi
tions were almost perfect, but the
best the pacer could do was 1:59%.
The 2:OS pace was won by Nervolo.
McKinley, a 5 to 4 favorite, won the
2:11 trot. Ilessie lirown won the
2:31 trot. The record field of the
season was furnished when 20 horses
started in the 2:17 pace. lilaek l'et,
the favorite, won easily.
Columbus, ()., Sept. 25.—-The con
test between The Quest or and Norrie
in the 2:15 trot, was flic feature at
the grand circuit meeting yesterday.
The time was not startling, but the
contenders showed that they were
able to keep going at about the same
speed /all day. The Questor won.
Star Hal was a prohibitive favorite
for the 2:15 pace and distanced three
tif the field in the first heat. (Iray
Gem won the 2:19 trot. Five to one
were the odds on Harold 11. for the
2:04 pace and he won easily.
■found n Sunken Treasure Sliip,
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 25. — Rumors
of the finding of a treasure ship off
Miami were confirmed yesterday
when ( apt. Jennings and three of the
crew of the wrecking schooner Osceo
filed a libel against the cargo of a
sunken ship in the l'nited States
court here. With the assistance of
a chart in his possession ('apt. Jen
nings has been searching for this
vessel from time to time for many
years. It is supposed to have gone
ashore in 1835, loaded with ore from
the Mexican mines. Its cargo, which
lias only been partly examined, has
been found to consist of silver.
DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW.
Tli« IMfttrlKintltii 4ii .11 ore la*-* ridlfto
Taxes dipping
New i-1%. Sn t. 26. It.(i. Dun A
( o.'s Weekly llcvumv of Trade says:
Notwithstanding several unsatis
factory features the volume of trade
continues large and the distribution
of merchandise taxes shipping facili
ties. Announcement of a concerted
effort to restrict production of pig
iron indicates that supplies have lie
gun to accumulate, liaihviiy earnings
continue to show gains. Traffic
blockades occur to some extent, al
though the movement of farm pro
duels is still unseasonably small. New
labor controversies have begun, but
a number of serious troubles have
been averted, and on the whole the
number of men idle voluntarily has
diminished.
Enforced idleness in the iron and
•steel industry is more than offset by
resumption of spindles at cotton
mills, and there is great activity at
footwear factories, although tile mar
gin of profit is narrow. Lower prices
for the leading agricultural staples
indicate a general belief in improved
crop prospects. Jobbing trade is still
making good comparisons with pre
vious years, and, while the zenith has
been passed in fall dry goods, it is
still a satisfactory season. At many
important points the weather has
been more propietious for retail
trade, and collections are fairly
prompt considering the tightness of
the money market.
Failures this week numbered 232 in
tlie United States, against 207 last
year, and 1!) in Canada, compared
with 32 a year ago.
WRECK DISCOVERED.
'i Is Tlioujrlit to be that ot tlie Missing
Strainer Real rice.
Norfolk, Ya., Sept. 26.—The United
States weather bureau last night re
ceived information from ('apt. Drink
water, of the Currituck life saving
station, that the stern of a steamer
bearing the name "Beatrice-New
York" was pounding bottom up in
the breakers,two and one-half miles
sout(i of ( affey's Inlet life saving sta
tion. Catfey's Inlet is half way be
tween Currituck and Kitty Hawk.
The wreckage is thought to be from
the fishing steamer Heat rice which
was caught in the recent hurricane
when south of Delaware breakwater
Wednesday, September 10.
She carried a crew of 35 men and
was loaded with 400,00fr fish. Her
captain was \Y. Leyland, of Balti
more. 11. S. Roy was the engineer
aud Thomas Latham his assistant.
Both of these men were from Nor
folk. There were two other white
men in the crew and the remaining
30 were negroes. The Beatrice put
out from Cape Charles September, 15,
for Delaware Breakwater with a car
go of fish. She was overtaken by the
hurricane and since then nothing had
been heard of the Beatrice until last
night, when the coast wires brought
the news of her stern washing
ishore. The message says the life
savers will board the wreck today at
low tide.
FIENDISH MURDER.
Dynamite Exploded Under a Hussy
Kill* One Man and Injurs Another.
Washington, Pa., Sept. 26. —One of
the most fiendish and bloodthirsty
murders and robbery in the history
of Washington county occurred yes
terday afternoon on the Middletown
road, about 15 miles from here. Sam
uel T. Ferguson, of the Ferguson Con
struction Co., of Pittsburg, was in
stantly killed and his secretary.
Charles L. Martin, of Cincinnati, was
fatally injured. The two men were
driving along the road in a buggy.
3arr ing $3,600 in cash with which to
pay off some of their men employed
an construction work along the line
if the Wabash railroad, when sudden
ly an explosion of dynamite in the
roadway literally tore the rig to
pieces, killed Ferguson outright and
threw .Martin 200 feet and tearing his
left arm almost from the socket.
It. has been learned that two men
supposed to be Poles placed the dyna
mite in the road for the purpose of
killing Paymaster Ferguson and had
arranged to explode it by means of
an electric battery. The satchel con
taining the money is missing.
Two suspects are under arrest in
the construction camp near the vil
lage, but detectives believe they have
me of them at bay in an abandoned
.•oal mine near Middletown.
Will lloMime Operations.
Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 26. —After a
shut down of exactly four weeks the
Clairton plant of the Crucible Steel
Co. will resume operations in all de
partments Sunday night. The plant
will run both day and night turns and
all the open hearth furnaces, bloom
ing and billet mills will be running* to
their capacity. About 1,000 men will
be put to work.
Strike lvim Short Lived.
Newark, N. J., Sept. 26. —The em
ployes of the North Jersey Street
Railway Co., who went out on strike
Thursday night, returned to work
Friday morning. The company sign
ed no agreement, but promised to
consider changing the present objec
tionable "split run" system.
Miners Laid Oil*.
Marquette, Mich., Sept. 26*.—Orders
were received at Islipeming yester
day, reducing the working forces of
400 men in the iron mines. Section
16 mine will be closed. Similar in
structions are said to have been sent,
to nearly all the trust mines in the
i Lake Superior region.
More Pay lor 8,000 Men.
Chicago, Sept. 26.—An increase in
wages to 8,000 employes of the 20 car
| and locomotive repair shops of the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad has
jeen granted. The increase means an
additional expense of .$300,000 a year
to the company.
Petrel Seized .">(> Nets.
Ottawa, Out., Sept. 26.—The Domin
ion government has received reports
from Lake Erie saying there is a
great deal of illegal fishing going on.
Between Saturday and last Tuesday
night the revenue boat Petrel seized
ati American nets in Canadian waters*
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