OPERATORS WILLING
TO ARBITRATE STRIKE
Mitchell's Plan to Settle Coal
Practically Accepted.
justment of Difficulties Successful.
The Proposition is Believed By the Adminis
tration to be Satisfectory te the Miners, as
it Covers the Proposition Made by President
Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers’ Union
With Additional Conditions Which it is Be-
lieved That the Miners Will Accept.
Washington,
operators mn
have agreed
commission sel
velt, to whom
hons at 1ssue
their own employe
to a umon or
the commis
operators,
The commission to consist
army or navy engincer officer, an
mining engineer not connected with
coal-mining properties, one of the
of the United States Court of the Eas
District of Pennsylvania, a man of prom
mence, eminent as a sociologist {
man who by acti
'
ng
mg and selling
physical and com
business.
The operate
their proposition
return to work
S100 1S constitutes
ence with non-union men
S101
tO name a di
effective
15
shall be
tions ot eng
panies and
least three years,
The statem
dent as an
given to
Mr. Morgan ar
one of his parts
1imore a:
and were
Imgton Hot
one and
was apparent,
Ons Move Was
coal strike a
take place w
tary Root, 1
York on Sat
Mr. Roosey
Report \
Presiden
fies, accompa
Bacon
could not be
Shortly after
Morgan came
hotel for the
where he and
shown upstairs
the Presi
the strike
later Secre
temporary WI
the other confere
By this tn
tablished that
come to Washing
he did not ge
White House
After the discussion had {
time Secretary to the President George
D. Cortelyou wi
bly to take some directions or
some matter to wntng
The conference ended at 11.30 o'cl
Secretary Root and Messrs, Morgar
Bacon. on itz adjournment, at
the White House and went to the Metro
politan Club, a few blocks awa;
of them would say anvthing except to
refer all inquiries to Mr. Cortelyou,
whom they =aid a statement
given out later
Secretary Root was asked direct
question if a settlement of the strike had
been reached, but declined to answer,
saying it would all be given out in the
statement from Mr. Cortelyon
Mr. Morgan was likewise appealed to
with a direct question, but pleasantly re
sponded that anything that was to be
said would have to come from the gen
tlemen in the White House
tiie
went
in
py #
summoned
once left
.
\ One
the
in
MITCHELL 1S SILENT.
the Statement.
Wilkesbarre, Pa
dent Mitchell, when
of the statement issued from the White
Press
(Special)
shown a Synopsis
House, in which the operators agree to
arbitration. he refused to make any
comment and immediately retired
the statement was brought to strike
headquarters. but he refused to get up
to sed it. The correspondents. talked
with him through the transom oi
bedroom, and in an answer to further
the statement contained.
While no official information can be
arbitration plan proposed by the oper
ators will be entirely satisfactory, but
the miners officials may waive any ob
jections they may have and aceept #
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS,
Domestic,
Vice-President Sayres,
high Coal Company, practical
that the companies are considermng a
plan to distribute and sell coal in the
Le
admits
of the
i
iy
Four dead bodies were found tied in
sacks in the rear of the Central College
apol Seventeen are under
arrest for grave-robbing.
Major John F. O'Brien, who design
ed the battery from which the fir
Civil War was fired, died at
home, in Louisville, Ky
he famous English pris
ey was accidentally discovered at
Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she has
lain for several hundred years
Fhe United States
ved at San Francisco
Brigadier General Grant and
persons
3 hy
0] the HS
on-ship Jer
thie
transport Logan
Cavalry aboard
members of Fopeka
stomce robbers
no emavs tu
chell
the
Sickel,
mn
ay
OTe A lose
Van
opimon
against
ini
Berger
oN cel
Cae
corporation
neral Gobin declared
nothing to de
no calls having be
protection
H. Lynch shot,
results, James Mos
oteikeeper, mm New Y
s daughter.
members
South Omah
HOT nave
OT
James
Ol thie
ation of
arrested
bribes
One
on the char
man was killed
ed by the collapse
new hotel building
\
A. R
n, Ky
mer
Was
in his
imed to have
vernor Odell shar
sident Baer, of the
ere oi! the Ls
Quay and Pent
in New York
Miners" Us
and
ice
he ir
po ws
situation
tkes
fesse
An agreement
United Mine
eld Steel
larger donatio:
them
has sent
complaining
nadequately guarding
helping the Macedonian
he Boer general
ception in Paris
Aid of Boer Children
General De Wet $15,000
Corbin, W ood
were guests of King Edwa
given at Buckinghan
honor of lL.erd Kitchener
Dr. Bradsky, the aer
ompanion were killed by
dirigible balloon in one o
of Paris
Fhe Venezuelan govern
were defeated while attempting t
occupy Coro, capial of
Falcon
At a meeting at Utrecht, Hol
of the Boer gencrals,
said, that Presid
not carried off state funds
had contributed liberally
canse
Iroops have been sent to the
coalfields to check
encounter between
strikers one the latter was
and several wounded Ihe
tending
The Swiss Parliament aut!
obilizatron of 2,000
a battalion of sharpshooters
their services be needed. to quell
SC
Porte
IWers
(senerals
honor
Yat
Botha
the rioting
gendarme
ol
Or:
troops,
disturbances in Geneva
Reginald Ward, of New York
sided at the annual banquet of the Dra
matic and Musical Benevolent Fund.
an old English charity, in London
in the English Church Congress
London there was an outspoken eriti
of the Bible's infallibility whi
considerable discus
Adam Russell, 2 German subject ha
murdered in Venezuela The
15 attributed to revolutioniste
General Nord, war minister
Haytian provisional government, ha
been defeated and is in retreat
Generals Corbin and Young
recipients of much social
s10n
crime
of the
the
in
arc
attention
their homes and cannot be
sion of opinion on the new turn of af
faire,
Five Persons Injured.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).-Fire
Homestead, Pa., caused by an explo:
sion of natural gas, badly damaged the
Seventh Avenue Hotel, postoffice ind
office buildings of the Homestead Im-
provement Company, and seriously in-
jured five persons. The explosion oc:
curred at 2.15 p. m., in the cellar of
a confectionery store on the first floor
of the Homestead Land Improvement
Compaay building, at 614 Ann street
The loss was about $20,000,
#
In connection with the increased mil
itary measures taken by the Turkish
government in view of the revolution
ary movement in Macedonia, three bat
talions of Rediis have been dispatched
to the, Djumabala district,
Financial,
American Railways’ gross earnings
per cent.
. Western Union's profits were greater
in 1902 than for any previous fiscal
year since 18g3.
A New York bond house offered
$300,000 long 4s to the Government at
138 1-4, but they were not bought.
It is definitely announced that Phil.
adelphia city bonds are accepted by the
Government at 75 per cent.
Gruesome Work of the Indians Crave
Robbers. :
THE FOUR HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED.
The Wholesale Work of Ghouls in Indian.
apolis— Seventeen Persons, Including Three
Doctors, Now Under Arrest Grand Jury
Instracted to Go to the Bottom of the Hor-
rible Outrage.
I 1 ' . % . %
nGunNaApols { Speed 1a) Four bodies
ere found tied in Al in
reet and in the rear of the (
Phy
entral
of
11¢8
1
i
lege and Surgeons
i
JOM those of
toien
i 1
Laid ndore
GIRLS IN A PITCHED BATTLE.
Are Trampled on Daring a Great Strike
Riot.
DEATH FOLLOWS OPERATION,
Laryngitis and Not False Teeth Caused Buett-
ner's Death,
he teetl
Bible Barred from Schools,
.t 4
veh Soy
fir
decisio
cearaance
sectarian
Hereby aun
Anthracite from Russia.
{ Special) Brauer
he
Philadelphia fhe
Line Steamship Company, operating
Philadelplia, New York and
Hamburg, 1s reported to have purchased
for importation to this country 20,000
tons of anthracite coal from Germany and
L15,000 tons of anthracite from Southern
Russia. The latter is to shipped from
Marinpol, Russia, in October and No-
vember. The bulk of the coal that will
come from Germany will be reimporta
tween
grade exported to Germany and purchas-
ed from the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway Company
Coffin in a Bigamy Case.
Emporia, Kan (Special) James
Pendleton, Mayor of Geatry, Mo., con-
| years in the penitentiary. Pendleton,
i under the assumed name of Coda S.
| Morris, married Miss Grace Obley, of
Emporia, a few months ago. Later,
under the name of Jolin Cox, he buried
i
|
i ‘a :
[a coffin containing ice at Orlando,
Okla. and circulated the report that
| Morris had been killed in a runaway.
| Pendleton has a family at Gentry,
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS,
Twenty Years for idleness,
I'l prblie
ic
a report
Managua,
uan Gover
ing labor
The law
last.
A laborer elined
female, 16
having a capital of $100
State Department made
from Consul Donaldson, at |
upon a law of the Nicarag
nment regulating and .defin
in its with capital.
went into on lune 30
relation
effect
is d AS any .
years old, not
All
person
Of overs
laborers
will be imprison
laborer de:
employer can
i without
101 if res
20
in
Years
money
{oO leyan
to
‘ot :
Hail ol the
paid
iactory
imprisoned
return and
| hie (
Ww ork
Deficit Eight Millions.
timate 07 arded
the sca! Vea
ARRTCRALe L151
naster (yenerai «
Business of $321.000000
Carroll D, Wright
~~
$20.20¢
he Ouesad
g
tor delivery
. K 1% renee
by
ted
the Cuban
~iates on
GUrIng
upation and paid or
rel «
erected
ied States in
Printed Reports too Verbose,
President lias
YY to
present
aevise
icftiden
and size of
all
eXPresses
print
corte
the
h useles G
the reports
Newsy lems of lnteres!
‘nited States
the
Supreme Court
After
embers
the
October term
wr of new n
iges made
! President
ael Herbert, the new
presented
sient
usual
British
credentials
tal felicita
ambastador,
to Pre
f1o18 were exchanged
Sir Michael Herbert, the British am
bassador here, called at the State De
pariment and arranged 1% presen
tation at the temporary House
tomorrow,
President determined
to appoint Henry 1. West to succeed
the late John W Rives A% commissioner
of the District Columbia
The cornerstone of the
memorial bridge to connect
ton with Arlington Cemetery
cated in the White House lot.
The
his
the ihe ns
ie
or k
Ww
fie
Ronsevelr hae
of
proposed |
Washing
was deds |
executive committee of the
port recommending the suspension of
Gen, G. Dyreniorth as commander.
in-chief of the order. The charges on
which this action was based were arbi-
trary use of power, and also bearing
upon his personal character. General
Dyrenforth, who presided over the con-
vention, refused to recognize the com-
mittee in order that if might make its
report. The anti-Dyrenforth delegates
left the convention.
The President has vo far recovered
that he wae able to walk ta his car.
riage unassisted, '
MASKED MEN GET $50.00
Express Car On the Burlington Road
Held-Up and Robbed.
SAFE BLOWN OPEN WITH DYNAMITE.
Two O'Clock in the Morning the Time and &
Spot Four Miles from Lincols, Neb., the
Scene Three Men Wave Red Light and Stop
the Traln, Two Cover Englacer and Fireman
With Revolvers While Third Wrecks Safe.
Three
DEABLY WORK OF SCHOOL TFACHER.
Fatally Shoets His Pupils and the Trasices of
the Institution.
ree i
at 1d t 4 & ring wt hese
hones to tall
met
the trouble with th
teacher Hot words
{| ewe Few
the thiree (rustiees
and suddenly
and shot do
He then
where he
age
They wi i
Ren
bullet
ed into the sche 3
Kehler
«d 8 and 10 vears, th
two daught
ough the be
id daugh
but
break
ecar-old
fer of tlienn at
n the arm
acked,
the
ng the bone he cuicide followed
MILLS IN COTTON MERGER.
The Freis Commitice Goes Carclully
Values of Plants.
N.C
engmeering the cotton-mill
merger, is here assisting the committee
in eliminating from the list of 0 mills
1 pot considered eligible to enter
Over
Gireenshoro, { Special) Henry
¥ ries, who 14
fihse
the Southern Textile Company under the
the option agree
“No plant of business shall be pur
chased in the orgamizzation of the new
company except with the written unani-
mous approval as to the desirability of
puchase and as to the proprietary price.”
I lie members of the committee present
W. Pratt, Huntsville, Ala: S.
anner, Henrietta, N, C.; John Fries,
. Lod C12. Laufta,
A.W, Haywood, Haw
B. 1
Raleigh. Ne C.:
Twenty Killed in Riot.
London (By Cable).-~In a dispatch
the Daily Mail says the rioting which
followed the closing of fhe cralist
club within the Spanish lines resulted
in 20 men being killed and a large num-
ber badly wounded, The latter include
a lieutenant of the Spanish Civil Guard,
whose life is despaired of. Documents
sewred at the cialist headquarters
showed the place was the center of an
anarchist group which had been in com-
munication with anarchists in towns
of Europe.
MANIAC TRIES TO SLAY FAMILY,
Charles Cawley Kills His Mother, Sister and
Brother.
Pa { Special ’
nder mental aberration,
sin of
on
: perfecting as
for patents an airbra
pendis 1 Washington
Cawley,
P;
brother, and
He
17-year-old
stead killed his myo
fatally injur
children
older bros}
were :
AMERICAN DENTIST EXPELLED
Poiladelphian Ras Counter to a Curious
Austrian Law,
ODDS AND ENDS OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Convention United Or
(dd Fellows, at New Ha
voted $75.000 to cstablish a
national headquarters
Ihe flint-glass manuia
suceting in Pittsburg, de
8 combination, to be cap
PEO. 000
{he Reading
pany denies any
CORI companies
1 We
the Nationa
ter (
yen
vored
Ct
for
i in
zed at $30
Coal and Iron
agreement with
to regulate the prices
Strikmg girl boxmakers attacked
those who had taken tl r places at
the W. C. Ritchie plant, in Chicago
James Pendleton, mayor of Gentry
was sentenced to five vears in the
or bigamy
13 deaths on the trans
port Sherman, which arrived at San
Francieco from Manila
At the opening of the German Coo
jonial Congress m Berlin Max Shickel,
a banker, adovcated the co-operation of
Germany with the United States and
Great Britain in securing and protect
ing over-sea trade
The Workmen's National Convention
decreed a «trike throughout Sentzerland
Soldiers have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness for an emer
Mo
penitentiary
There were
Jere C. Hwmtching, of Betroit. wae
Association,
The Boer generals attended a church
service with Mr. Kruger at Utrecht,
Holland, the occasion being his seven.
ty-seventh birthday anniversary,
The Pope said to Archbishop Chap
lle that Washington was the most
oyal and generous government the
Rear Admiral Casey is trying to
ing elements in Colombia.
ao Mu. viceroy of the Provinces
of Kwangtong and Kwangsi, is dead.