MININGRATE
Operators and Miners
Reach Agreement.
IS A COMPROMISE
Miners Get an Advance and Opera*
tors the Open Shop—Forty
Thousand Men Affected.
Harrisburg, Pa. The mm in
the collieries of the central Penn
sylvania bituminous coal district, num
bering nearly -10,000, who have been
idle since April 1, when the mines
closed down because the operators
Would not restore the scale ol' 1903,
will resume work on practically the
■same scale as 1905.
The agreement to do this was made
Friday in a conference that was at
tended by prominent operators, Presi
dent John Mitchell and Secretary Wil
son, of the United Mine Workers of
America, and representatives of the
•districts in the affected territory.
The session lasted s:ix hours, and !
the following scale was agreed upon: j
"First —Pick mining per gross ton, ]
'CO cents; per net ton, 58.85 cents; ma- !
•chine loading shall be five-ninths of
the pick price, plus one-half cent, and j
■cutting and scraping, whether by the ;
ton, day or task, will be advanced G. 45 j
per cent, above the price paid in 1905. J
Coke men to receive an advance of
•5.85 per cent.
"All other day wages and monthly
men, both inside and outside the
mines, and all yardage shall be ad
vanced 5.85 per cent, above the rates I
paid during the scale year ending j
March 31, 1900.
"Second—Eight hours cf actual[
work shall constitute a day's work for
■all labor inside the mines, except
pump men and monthly men, who
shall work the number of hours re
quired. All outside labor to work the
number of hcurs required anil to be
paid as per rates specified.
"Third —There is to bo no change ol'
working conditions and customs under j
this scale from such conditions and |
customs as have applied at this mine |
and have been in practice thereat dur
ing the scale year ending March 31,
19 "C."
In addition to the adoption of the I
•scale the following agreement was en
tered into for machine loading;
"The rieht to hire and discharge, *
the management of the mine and the
direction of the working force are
vested exclusiv' ly in (ho operator and
the Pnited Mine Workers of America j
shall not ab.idpe that right.
The agreement is regarded as a com-1
promise, the miners rotting the wage '
advance and the operators the open j
shop, arbitration and check Welshman j
points.
TRADE BULLETIN.
R. C. Djn A Co. Report Business to bs
in Good Condition.
New York.—R. CI. Dun & Co.'s 1
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Mid-summer quiet conditions are I
more in evidence than at any previous
time this season, although trade con
tinues far in excess of other years,
and preparations for fall and winter
are unabated. Confidence in the com- |
mercial sentiment, induced by excep- i
tionally favorable crop reports and |
the absence cf any distinctly adverse 1
factor.
Not only the leading industries, but |
nearly all manufacturing undertak- 1
ings, have orders assuring activity :
well into the future, and scarcity of
labor is still the chief complaint.
Evidences of the unexcelled busi-1
ness during the fiscal year just ended i
are found in every statement that ap-'
pears.
Many iron furnaces and steel mills |
have resumed after a brief season of I
idleness for repairs, inventories ami |
settlement of wage scales, s'> that the '
production is once more very heavy.)
Failures this week numbered 202 ir j
-the United States, against 223 last j
year, and 21 in Canada, compared with
2U a year ago.
DYNAMITED.
Shanty in Which Men Were Sleeping
Blown Up—Three Are Blown to
Pieces and Others Badly Injured.
Chicago, 111. Three men were
"blown to pieces, three others fatally
injured and several badly hurt, by an
explosion which Frio ay morning
wrecked a shanty in the McLaughlin
stone quarries at Bellwood, a short
distance northwest of Chicago.
The larger part of the body of one
of the me i killed was taken from a
tree a hundred feet from the place
where the shanty had stood. Parts of
the corpse were foun i lying all around
the tree. All of the men killed and
injured were Greek and Italian labor
ers.
The officials of the McLaughlin Co.
denounced the blowing up of the
shanty as deliberate murder.
Will Rerrain Neutral.
Detroit, Mich.—The International
Association of Photo-Engravers at
their annual convention here Friday,
rescinded the open shop resolution
passed at their last convention in
Buffalo and adopted a substitute de
claring that they will be absolutely
neutral in relations with labor.
Attempted Assassination.
Warsaw. —An attempt was made
on Friday to assassinate Gen
EchweikowsUy, a member of the mili
tary tribunal. He escaped, but hit
wife was wolnded.
CAN THEY GET HIM?
RUSSIAN REBELS ATTEMPT TO
ASSASSINATE CZAR'S ADMIRAL
COMMANDER OF THE BLACK SEA
FLEET, CHUKNIN. IS SHOT
FROM AMBUSH AND SERI
OUSLY WOUNDED.
Sevastopol.—An attempt was made !
by mutineers Wednesday to assassin- j
ate Vice Admiral Chuknin, command- j
er of the Black sea fleet. The admiral
was wounded and taken to a hospital, j
The would-be assassin is a sailor, |
who hid in the bushes and shot at the
admiral as he was walking in the |
garden of his villa. The culprit has !
not been apprehended.
The warships Pnnteleirnon and i
Three Saints have joined the garrison
of the Batum fortress, which has been j
in mutiny. The Three Saints hoisted
the red flag, and the mutineers are
forcibly detaining two other war ves- j
sels which had refused to join them, j
The Navr.) Revolt.
On June 28, 1905, the crew of the (
Panteleimon, then called the Kniaz
Potemkin, mutinied at Odessa and de
fied the authorities several weeks. \
Meantime the city was kept in con
stant terror by threats from the ves- ;
sel to bombard the town. The warship j
finally did fire on one of the forts, but
it soon after surrendered. On No- j
veml>er 2G the vessel, of its name had |
been changed to Panteleimon, again
mutinied and was joined by the cruis
er Otchakoff. Nothing serious result
ed. however, and later on the warships
returned to control by the government.
Admiral Blamed for Severity.
Vice Admiral Chuknin has been
blamed for his severity, and it was to \
his treatment of the crews of the ships
under bis command that the mutiny j
on board the battleship Kniaz Potem
kin, in June and July last year, was j
attributed. The admiral displayed j
considerable activity in attempting to
capture the mutineers at that time |
RIVER PACKET IS BURNED
Steamer Quincy of Diamond Jo Line
Buns on Bank Near Trempealeau
and Tunis Turtle.
La Crosse, Wis. —Nearly all of 200
passengers on the steamer Quincy of
the Diamond Jo line Wednesday night j
narrowly escaped death when the big
packet struck a bank in the dark near j
Trempealeau, Wis., turned half over \
and then caught fire.
It is believed that (he majority of j
the passengers were saved and only j
one drowning is definitely known, that
of an infant which was washed from j
its mother's arms.
A belated train brought 60 passen- |
gers who were on the boat to this r
city. Accounts given by them of the '
disaster do not include positive state- j
ments as to drownings, but it is be- j
lieved comparatively few met death. |
At about 10:30 o'clock the steamer, |
plying up river, struck a bank. At the
time, it is said, the boat carried no j
searchlight. One passenger says he ;
saw a babe washed overboard from its
mother's arms. The boat was sinking,
though not in deep water.
Amid a crashing of timbers, with
the boat on its side, the lifeboats were
got out and the passengers, 200 in
number, were taken off before the j
flames gained any considerable head- |
way.
Candidate for Mayor a Suicide.
Omaha, Neb.—August H. Hennings, !
city treasurer for six years, and a
candidate for nomination on the Re
publican ticket for mayor of Omaha
at the spring primaries, committed
suicide at his home here Wednes
day.
Smallpox at Colon.
Colon.— Several cases of smallpox
have developed at Colon, but they have
been confined to the laboring class.
The medical staff of the canal zone is
isolating the infected district. J
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1906.
i and in suppressing the sailors' mutiny
\ at Sebastopol in November last.
An attempt was made on the life
of the admiral February 9 last. A
woman appeared at his official resi
dence during the afternoon of that day
and sent in her card, saying she was
the daughter of a rear-admiral at St.
Petersburg, who was an old acquain
tance of Chuknin. On entering the
admiral's office, the woman drew a
rapid-fire pistol and fired four shots
at hjm without effect. As she turned
to escape the woman was killed by
the orderly on duty at Chuknin's door.
The crime, beyond doubt, was po
litical.
Was Sentenced to Death.
When the sentences imposed on the
sailors for the Kniaz Potemkin mutiny
were before the admiral for review
formal notice was served on him that
if he approved the death sentences he
would share the same fate. Chuknin.
however, approved the sentences and
several intimations afterward reached
him to the effect that the terrorists
were merely waiting for a favorable
opportunity to kill him. Some time
elapsed before the police were able
to establish the identity of the wom
an who attempted Admiral Chuknin's
life, but it finally became known that
she was a Jewess name 1 Cecilia
Shabad.
More Paupers in America.
Washington.—According to a report
issued by the census bureau there
were in the United States in 1904
Ki3,l7G persons in almshouses and of
these 111,718 were males.
Although the number of almshouse
paupers is increasing the increase has
not kept pace with the growth of
population, and consequently the ratio
of almshouse paupers to population is
decreasing. In 1880 it was 132 per
100,000 of population; it decreased to
117 in IS9O and to 101 in 1903.
MUST EARN RIGHT TO LABEL
3ffeat Packers Cannot Secure Govern
ment Certificates Until Perfect
Conditions Prevail.
Chicago.—Secretary James Wilson
of the department of agriculture con
cluded his work in Chicago Wednes
day by issuing a statement in which
he denied the Chicago meat packers
the use of the United States govern
ment inspection label as a guarantee
to the world of the Iltnes3 of their
products as food, until they have made
perfect the sanitary conditions in the
buildings where food is prepared. He
then took a train for the west, where
he will continue to look into the pack
ing industry.
This move by the government is
looked upon as a drastic action to
force the packers to pursue with vig
or the work of renovating their plants.
Announcement is made in the same
declaration that the inspection under
the new law will begin at once in
plants where sanitary conditions jus
tify it, and the government label may
be used by the owners of such plants.
Chicago establishments are mentioned
specifically and are said to be on
the way to improvement. The sec
retary says he considers that they
will be ready for inspection by Au
gust 1, but that if they are not they
will not get the inspection even then.
Gasoline Kills Two.
Arcadia, Neb.—Mrs. William Mio
nrr and her three-year-old daughter, j
were burned to death by an explosion \
of gasoline. Their clothing ignited ;
and a boy was unable to extinguish !
the flames.
Wisconsin War Veteran Dead.
La Crosse, Wis. —Robert A. Scott, a ;
civil war captain, ex-postniaitrr an.l !
retired politician, died Wednesday, j
aged C 7. Mr. Scott was ibo husband of j
Elcie Cile Scott, tho richest woman i;i j
Wisconsin.
THE SIDE GRAFT.
Method Which Is Valuable When
Working with Seedlings Grow
ing in Nursery.
The method of grafting shown In
the illustration Is vaaulble when
grafting young seedling* growing in
the nursery or greenhouse. A slant
ing cut is made just under the bark
on the stock near the ground, and the
scion is prepared much the same as
for cleft-grafting, except that the cut
on what is to be the outside of the
scion is shorter than the other. It is
then pushed into the cut on the stock,
so that the barks will be in contact,
and then wrapped and waxed the same
; as the other grafts.
The scions used for grafts of all
j kinds should be well ripened, healthy
i shoots of the previous. yeai"« growth.
I They should be cut in the fall and
| packed in sand or moss until needed,
j In the case of hardy sorts, good re
| suits can generally be secured- with
| fspring-cut grafts, but it is safer to
i nut them in the fall. April and May
are the months for grafting.
For covering all cut surfaces made
I in grafting, a wax made of resin,
j beeswax, and .either tallow or oil
! should be used. For use during the
j :H)ol days of early spring the follow
ing formula will give good results:
: Rosin 4 parts
Beeswax 2 parts
j Tallow 1 part
All parts by weight. Oil, three
! fourths part, may be used instead of
tallow. Melt together and when well
I SIDE GRAFT; .SIDE GRAFT
£ SCION. COMPLETE
HOW GRAFT IS MADE.
mixed pour into cold water; after
greasing the hands, pull like candy.
When it reaches a light yellow color
it can be used. If to be used in cold
weather it may be softened with
warm water, while for warm weather
the amount of resin should be slight
ly increased.
The best results in grafting are ob
tained when stock and scion come
from plants of equal vigor and be
longing to the same species, says the
Prairie Farmer, but in many cases
fairly good success oan be obtained
between plants of nearly related spe
cies. Thus the apple, jjear, quince,
thorn and mountain ash can be graft- ;
ed upon one or the other, but the '
union in most cases will not be s«; j
perfect or durable as between plants 1
of the same species.
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.
Strong growing plants are least at
tacked by insects.
Sunshine and water can produce re- j
suits in any soil in which plant food
is found.
If hungry trees could "bawl" as the
calves do, what a chorus of howls and |
bleats we should hear!
Make a map of the new orchard. II !
the varieties are not written down 112
now, they will probably be forgotten J
a few years hence.
Mulch is the salvation of young |
trees set in old mowing fields. Fer- !
tilizer underneath it will insure a
rapid grown.
Some cultivated crop may sometimes j
be grown to advantage among young j
trees. But do not attempt to grow
grain cr grass crops there.
Don't let anybody interfere with the
birds' nests if you can help it. If all
goes well, each one will soon be filled
with four or five hungry mouths, down
which the parent bird will store away
lots of the injurious insects from the
farm. —Farm Journal.
Every disease of plants is caused by
minute fungi called bacteria. Some j
people add, "careless treatment and j
bad weather," but the latter causes
cannot be classed as disease. Strqng j
plants, well taken care of and sup- |
plied plant food in abundance have a
good deal of power to throw off dis
ease.
Kerosene Emulsion.
Kerosene, two parts; sour milk, one I
part; churn together. Or, kerosene,
one gallon; soap, a quarter of a •
pound; hot water, half a gallon; j
churn together into a cream. To one
gallon of either of these add ten gal
lons of water for spraying on tough i
foliage or plants, or 15 gallons of
water for more tender varieties. You
can buy the emulsion at the seed
stores already prepared, If you pre
fer. 7 his will kill most soft-bodied
Insects, including the different varie
ties of scale lice, plant lice, etc., but !
unless carefully made It may burn the j
foliaga.
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