THE MINERS’ CONVENTION Question of Reinstatement of Strikers Causes Some Delay. COMMISSION WILL BE ACCEPTED. Convention President —But for Thom the Miners’ Would Have at Oace Adopted Mitchell's Recommendation. Wilkesharre, Pa pecial ihe anx- 145,000 ut did not in of SOA icusly awai striking @ reach a vote on tlement. It day. {here wer the Nesbitt The tion was held, and they by for or against Iue Ave. ' their of arbitration delegates were being engineer who fear classes may now held in HHS ques pump ig biock in st immediate adoption of with i tion of the eng men proved th the way of alm the President's plan, which carries it declaring the strike off and a genera resumption of work through the 175-mile strip of the hard-coal region At one time convention mendation by the strike, but too carne until Tuesday, the vote to show a big majo anxious engu full exp here wer afternoon, the progress its great ob zation v the apc hutions, said to formal st: fully and decided ¢ 20 decide ed off, deliberat stumb was about to adopt a recom- President Mitchell the ana the when it opposition piea Was final vote went over ressiol Lal the sess sven uni hundred mmto men First, allower reouest motion dereated that the that publ ers, i curate let the the spot a vs od THE OIL BRICK EXPLODED. Mrs Had Saturated it With Gas Callaway oline. pe ol coal asticall cided to on oil brick a In the : mstead brick for a the stOV There was o to be of use to The neighbor 1 the scattered before the house Young Widow Under Terrible Charge. Preble, N. Y Mrs. M Kichl, a widow 18 years old, w here, charged wi brother-in-law, A fatuation of the young woman brother-in-law he his aApPProa hing marriage to another 1% given as the motive Her husband, Wil ham Kichl, died last February under pe caliar circumstances, and his body will be exhumed Adam Kiehl a nrosner: farmer. died on Septembor He had not been ill ay’s work . ad eaten sunper He was found dead in bec morning { Special) ¥ announcement and Father and Son Burned. Urbana, O was burned to Maggert fatally injured and Night Watchman Charles Maggert, the father, and another son were badly burned during fire which destroyed the Tucker Wood Rim Works. The boys were in the building visiting their father, and were compelled to jump from a second-story window Carl was overcome and burned to a crisp, The fire started fron unknown origin. and was beyond control when discos ered Theentire plant was destroyed. { Special) Carl death, Arthur Lives Lost iu a Fire, & witch destroyed Tower Store. The which Boston the fire Brooks’ when the fire broke out, has not been seen since, and it is believed tha: his body is under the debris, is thought, will reach $300,000. The is only partly covered by insurance. The remainder of the loss, about $150,- o00, 1s divided among about 20 small firme SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. The jury in Pittsburg brought in a verdict of mmvoluntary manslaughter in Mrs, da Wilkins, who shot her husband while trying to commit the trial of Roland wr the murder Mrs. Ac York was completed and t evidence was begun Hill, of the Northern testified in S before 1% Mol 0! fan he ng of resident |. Securities Company, in ti | Ierger case l Ingersoll St was indicted fos i.ouis pol municipal brib the other AM have { loth M ' ] of 1 iden: Mitchell, of mine: NOW Avs gt Mor i De » : and reasonable as been as fair i would trike I equit road { away the Rail taking Jefferson Memorial As wouse and in Philippines, wider Marx, anned by 600 men The Provisional was admitted the Ln the the ociation guard under [he coast CONsis Of 21 Saciety ot membershiy to ol nnati Hall Caine, | New York from Liverpool on There will be a ‘rs convention t on of Foreign. Anglo been arrested on mg 3 200 irom terse Earl tion of ths Chancellor in the Reichstag the Tariff Bill, teferring to the « conditions of Europe and the United States, said “We must strengthen our politico commercial armor, as te enable us to meet our opponents,” Roberts ha the American COUntry von Buelow, in a speech Oh Oem “0 Volcanic dust from Souiriere vol cano is falling on the town of Bridge town, Barbados There were two carthquakes at lee Saintes Islands Financial, LIFE INSURANCE FRAUDS The Graveyard Plan Being Worked in New Orleans, EXTENT OF Officials and Making an Fraudulent Companics Have Lost Nearly $100,090, Dztectives of Investigation Policies Traced the Companies (Special) insur Life tional character di covered ment Company ity, the : “ft work idl Eran VAT Case « been unearthed lent police have "ny HMIIpani« pay between $75,000 03 1c fraud tensive do not it has CHARTER the Long Expected Mery: apital $1,000,000, Rooscveits Mining Claims, { “ $7.008 ia Jewels Stolen, (Spe National Merrill, a the Is down ned, but anter in the First ig Ms. T. D an. had us left Icy reds ry Bank SOCIetLY he won SAICLY s Yui od deposit vaults and laid the Discovering her loss, she teeiat 3 the valnables had disappeared Inoculation Prohibited. NE Havana { Special) retary ol sauce d 2 feu Famavo has der prolubiting experimental purposes Government an ofr the i & son with the yellow fever and which terly dividend of 2 per cent. The Government has accepted $i3. 200,000 State and municipal bonds, Fhe Northern securities Company has declared a dividend of 1 per cont. The final settlement of the strike hardly cavsed a ripple in Reading prices, Amalgamated Copper distribuies a Drank Poisoned Coffee. Youngstown, €O. (Special). Mrs drinking poisoned coffee. Pennsylvania vses more locomotives any other railroad America, Nicholas Joseph, who is no re. lation of the family, has been arrested. charged with the critic, The family had been living in the honse of Nich: olas Joseph when they decided to move, It is sad Joseph was seen prowling about the copboard while the Moving was going on NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Crops In All the World. The Department of Agriculture's of the the | that owing remarka throughout a part of Europe, the harvest SUM | mary Crops of world shows to the experienced cool I wet siitnmer arreaisl y considerabic of 1902 15 one of the latest on The promise of an abundant yield, there fore, has been only partly fulfilled in Eu rope, for grain gathered in damaged condition and for that actually In the of bread gri 1 4 1" allowing spoiled { there | the countries | grain to I'he | make Case o suffering for go wl, dry mix with the home product : Rus rve, barley ax] of only larg cial sign estimate and oat er than heat, { crop of that cou 1001, bu ) he average the ive vears Roh I'he estimate put § the nter wheat crop a 1 82.387 } bushel a1 OO pounds ea | 300,939,333 bushel | B54.45 * Dariey, for Spring wheat, pond rye is cach: Of September figures for September Treaty With Newfoundland Herbert's First Official Act Importation of Liguar Forbidden release tated that between 1a the ae latter Contract for Charleston Dock. has awarded nrst Department building the dry dee k WY NAVY fact io rete Ilse a com and cont at the ton, S. C.. navy vard Continental Jewell Fil £910.000 New York { ompany ter the at about ftems of laterest. . . 1 Kentucky filed omission a Live State of | Interstate Commerce ( petition asking jor an investigation the combine of Southern railroads, which it 1s charged gives | & Co rail*oad in the control of the siteation South ! The Naval Board { decided, Admiral Melville being in the | minority to sacrifice «peed to power {in the construction of the new armored l ernisers, The annual report of the Commis. | sioner of Immigration shows that 648. | 43 immigrants arrived in the United | States during the year, Count Inouya, Japanese minister to { Germany, with the Countest, was pre- | sented to President Roosevelt by Jap anese Minister Takahira, Jud George Gray called on the President and announced that he would serve as one of the arbitrators to de. reide the con! comtroversy, i Reign of Terror Prevails in the Town of Birmiogham. ELEVEN ARE NOW REPORTED KILLED. Negroes Capture a Powder Magazine amd Are in Complete Possession of the Town They Outaumber the Whites Ten to One Speciai Train With Sheriff and Deputies Rushed to the Scene of the Conflict, Earthquake Shock Shakes Tennessee ¢ r Younger K His Bet Cost Hie 1 54, The Kanawha Miners. i A grant umon ; are contending Recognition of the le recognumg 2 the SCA i ed O00 minds as RE Warnings to Missionaries. Pekin (Re Cable) The new vicero of Sze Chuen province, Ten Chun Suan, reports that the Boxers have not been suppressed at Chen Ta and two other | centers and he the ministers and | 1 isstonaries to refrain from traveling in Central Sze Chun at present. The Emper or's reception at the summer palace war attended by the diplomatic corps and the commanders of the legation “wards, ex cept in the case of tue on sh minidter Sir Ernest Satow, he having declined al social interconrse on acoeunt of the mis carriage ot justice i the case of the mar asks Alleged Patricide, Middlesboro, Ky. (Special) John Wilmore, a prominent merchant in Scott county, Va. has been arrested on a charge of having murdered his father, several years ago. The elder Wilmore disappeared and his son said his {mher had gone to Mexico, and later he told of his death in that country. The elder Wilmore, previous to his disappear. ance, willed all his property to his son, who was to come into possession of the father's estate at the old man's death, father’s bones were found under John Wilmore's store last week. sm A BIG SEVEN-DAY BATTLE. Castro Claims 8 Sweeping Victory Over the Insurgents Losses Heavy. 1 (By Cable} om revolu- ctoria, Venezuela nessenger has arrived here between government ps and after seven bringing news of the engagement near this place of terrible fighting 0.000 rebels, u Generals Matos and Mendoza, at ned the field, having retired from their killed and During 2 tery igs e temperati rose 10 11f or to the scene of the on ares GUrage vith a A MILLION AS Butler Colonel REVOLUTION IN MACEDONIA ¥ ste Rejosnd re of Dry aps Ro res LS N Corts toa : has brough fat "rue S at 3 ng In absolite dis a counter iit The National Candy composed of a number of firms in 4d ferent parts of the country, was organ ized in St. Lows Ihe New York Retail Coal Exch fixed the price of anthracite coa $15 per ton The final sessions of the Church Con gress of the United States were held m1 Albany An official of the Peoria Roard of Trade cays that Bishop Spaulding, » member of the coal arbitration commis sion, recentic expressed to him great sympathy with the miners, he burgomaster of Bamberg. Ba. varia, formally affixed the new coat: of-arms of the United States over the entrance of the consular agency in place of the arms defiled last June by unknown persons. General Perdomo, supreme come mander of the Columbian. Army. who has been mmvested with preswdential power, has arrived at Panama Alderman Bill Davis. a saloon keeper of Auntin, Tex, picked up Mrs, Carrie Nation and threw her inte the street because che refused to leave his ace. The Grand Hotel. at Point Chama quea. was destroyed by fire. Radios Kentuck His wile { d, the ¥ ree Lompany
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