THE COMMISSION MEETS nant Questions. Objects to President Mitchell Appearing as the Head of the Min:workers' Union, the Latter Replies That He Is Acting as the Representative of the Miners siopers to Make Inspection of the Mines. [he 1 held Washington, { Special) Anthracite Coa its first meeting Monday afternoon, h been in session an hour ane time purely transaction D » Commission ' almost was for rocecdings of routine business ment was taken, to mee at 9 a. spent that sonal conditions in th probability the now oan Only one cv of particular importance. That was Presid nt Georse F. Baer, of the 1 delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Com pany, announced that not purpose recognizing President Mitch ell, of the United Mine Workers, in the capacity of head of that organiz before the co who was present, sta sion that he did not 1 ization, but acted as the thracite coal diggers, in the strike. The incid operators are sition to the u Both ments of their are to contain facts and wit be submitted to the that it may situation. the strike region mitted by botl The 1 held on and last: room began by repese utmost cot points over m., in vist the investi will he the operators ths the ation 10M Mr ted to the epresent that organ agent of the an Ty wie ent serve sides w 1 s VIEWS secre Aft i ng MORE MINERS AT WORK. Big Companies Rushing Anthracite to Market Some Trouble. Wilke coal was mined ployed in minin week than any anthracite only di put are Leh vidual operators a those districts ar In the Wyom gions all the col with th still under wanna a Hudson. Coal and Company, Wilkesbarre, the ¥ and West rm all ? heavy trains of to seal i borers strike are Of th five big ¢ at Scranton frit SITICis exception of water. Th nd Western the Lehigl Iron ard 3 Who 1 returni pe 108 5 1die: Western, 10 working and Western Temple, 7 work: Butler collier which worked water, About Ro Der of the collieries 3 § gion are back at work During the 1": ery operated with 40 imported men have been ouitting dai e the ended, and Manager Sharkey stated that there is not now one of them r aint The old employes have back. Four thousand men and boys for duty at the mines in Shame vicinity, but. only a third of were given employment. for no more becar strike tl ' Ririke atl a reported kin and the workmen ——— Mr. Wg Ordered Home. Pp. C. has Washington, (Special) Ting-fang. who Min of the Chinese Empire to the United States since Mav 1. 1897. has been called to China by an edict of the Em peror cabled to Minister Wu by the Chinese Foreign Office The edict is peremptory. Mr. Wu being directed to return to China at carly a date possible, even the route by which 1s to make his voyage irom this coun- try being indicated. Mr. Wu is in formed that he has been appointed Minister of Commerce. in association with Chang Chitung. He takes the po-| sition just vacated by Sheng. father died recently. Coupie Whipped by Masked Men. Columbus, Ind. (Specialy —It re- ported from Nashville that in Polk Township, in the southeast corner of Monroe county, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lawson were taken from their log cabin home by thirty masked men and | whipped in a horrible: maaner Thurs day night. Both victims arc still con- fmed to their homes. There is no clew| 10 the perpetrators. Fire io Oregon's Bunkers. i San Francisco (Special).—The Bul. | Jetin says that a fire has been burning | in the coal bunkers of the battleship | Oregor for three days and that the officers of the vessel would not say! that the flames had been extinguished. | board of survey has been summon. ed to examine the vessel and it will he some time before she will be able to] depart for Manila. Repairs will have | to be made and a new supply of coal put on board before the battleship can | sail, \ been the ster re 45 as he whose SUMMARY OF THE Domestic. alias Dundorft, Vor ! MCUs Vincent ih New wind tHe APPINE Fame Fhomas Jordan, roam by wire nplaimnant who Vincent p him ceting ol an the ociety ark poi fil O00, 000 FIIALS Willi De Ral ial West capital of ncorporated to es ice between the id Central hip ers indies ar before the Internation fossa Congress Professor Koch 1 ned his position regard wontransferability of mal to man King Edward, Emperor William and Portugal are to bargam for Portuguese Africa ghiing has oc Furks and Bulgarians on Bulgarians In an addres al Tubercul Ait former } ol am tuberculosis tlos $11 incet and strike a territory in Severe hh the frontier and 20 captured The French Premier President the South la; uri between the Uskub were killed ed Sixty emulating the Roosevelt, national committee Miners’ Federation, and the latter to submit the demands of the miners arbitration, It is feared that the wife and children Mr. Cooper, the English mission example of ferred con with of 10 of Morocco. Four shared his fate. missionaries have women may other Financial, crop weather in the West of an inability to get the locomotives Wheat exports for the week were over the same week last year. A United States Steel mill in Jersey is talked of, but rumor thought- fully fails to say the exact place, Standard Oil people deny that the $2. 550,000 option on Wheeling Natural Gas Co., of Pittsburg, ie for them. | ! i { i i ery and Suffering. pest and Cholera, Locusts —An Order from President Roose. Among the Poorer Classes. iat’ dent uftering BOY HANGED BY PLAYMATES Found Dead in Cemetery His “Time Was Up Wednesday.” ISLANDERS DISAPPOINTED. But They Took the Very Quietly, Rejection of the wy ws ENDED IN A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Policeman Sued for Divorce Shoots His Wile sud Himself. August 1. (:a dys ft y he appli Walk returned to her husband's mother's hom Walker's beat home, a : hile on by the “ie met fim al tie stantiy ation, Mrs led by duty he for his door, and 44 nis, the passed alled wife. talked for 3 when suddenly Walkes fired four shots at his effect. Walker then placed the hea the entering his flesses ed When wi dead mome drew hig revolver and i wife, taking gun to brain em both were « a 1" it a 1 18 a, A Drunken Man's Crime. Fayetteville, Ne CO | { Special). At 1 Howard A. Hotel Lafayette shot and mstantly in the =n EN of the Utley, a guest while intoxicated, killed 1 at the hotel, Utley Was Crowd Mowed Dowe Like Grass, Marion, Ind. (Special). While crowd of 7000 people was waiting for A brake rod on a flat car ex- tended over the side and mowed the down like grass. Alexander dievs’ Home, was struct on the head, He will die. There Army Streogth at Minimum, A rder w \ general ¢ sued ant | ing that the organization of the enlisted | strength of the army under the Keor ganization Act of February 2, 1001, shall be reduced to 56,08q, the | authorized by law Under thie Va 8 oun order the VArious arms the irmy will be reor ganized as {ol Infantry ege batterie enginect at the rtd wed COMmMpanics, al 3 ry 1 1 COOLS the cava fz enlisted men ¥ McKinley Memeris ¢ Substitutes for Canteen Roosevelt American Patents in Cuba. tor S SALI ent Sept mb ¥ ¥ oy Departm } ’ the Cubar United he period i } cupation will protected witho sey He nece r formalitie Public Franchise in Manila. re ihe War Depart Bureau of Insular Affairs of the ment has received a dispatch from Covernor ctating that the Phillipine Ct ssion has passed an act inviting bids for street railroad, electric light and other franchises in Manila, the opened March 5 1903 advertised in this coun Faft iEial nroposals to he The bids i be try. wii Philippine Customs Revenus. Affairs of | ithe Burecan Insular the War Department has prepared 2 statement chowmg that the cnstoms in the Philippine archipelago | for the seven months ended July 31, 1002, were $2,004,032. as compared with $4.040.258 for the same period of 1601, | $4.117.682 for 1000 and $2556.50 for of Items of Interest. Admiral O'Neill, chiei of the Naval | Bureau of Ordnance, submitted hie re- | arms’ and ‘armament for the new war- ships. Wu Ting-lang, the Chinese minister, | has been recalled to his country by a | special edict, which was received by | him. He was ordered to return by the! most direct route to Shanghai. General Corbin said that Major Gen- eral S. M. Young will be the next lieutenant general of the Army. [PANAMA CANALTITLE 600 | United States Attorney Gemeral Knox Submits His Opinion. | LIABLE FOR LIENS AND MORTGAGES. | He Discusses the Question in All Its Phases and Considers All the Objections Thal Be Raised Against 11 Says the Liquidator Had Full Power to Sell and His Was Subsequently Ratified. Sale The Questions Considered. GIFTS TO MITCHELL Dismond Studded Badge and a Gold Weich Presented By the Miners. Drummond + midnight. The engincer d. and the mail car was brol all registered mail bit no other car was tou into and robbed ned Burglars Shoot 8 Broker. Aly Neb i Known Special E woun Har broker bus lars Fao of three blondbounds own ed by Mr. Lillie were poisoned Wed nesday night, evidently preparation by the burglars for entering the house I he secured $1350 wie nd fatally in intruders Japs Barred from Citizenship, Ihe Supreme Court decided that a Japanese cannot become a citizen of the United The decision the ad: Olympia. Wash, (Special) State Was on the bar of this State, tar saw making a requirement for admis son. Major Evans Acquitied. Columbia, 5. C. (Special). ~The jury in the trial of Major Bernard B. Evans, fin, after being out only five minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty Ma. Evans and Judge Gary Evans. He was charged with having murdered Capt k J. Griffin, commercial agent for the Vorfolk and Western railroad. The al- fair occurred in Major Evand' apart meme, He claims that mn a friendly scuffle the pistol was discharged, no Desperate Holp-Up on the Northern Pacific Crew Terrorized. Georgia Engineers May Strike. Gets the Boston Jowrnsl Sisty Bolgarians Killed. r i ODDS AND ENDS OF THE LATEST represent Sal Waslungton, has al, King Ed FOO recipients at vested Of COrona- Pal al Procession feature of will take and prepara a grand dis 3 Lissevlnm rs Buck ngnam roval been a ceremonies, $s fave today Thy m a ndon been de ior said to {ole Chili rans & have been mba, between RerT treaty 1 cigned at Bogota, ihe ministers and Colombia granting fred for Chilian war material across the Isthmus of Panama France has notified China that she is prepared to withdraw her troops from Shanghai, reserving the right to send a contingent back in the event of an ther power disembarking troops, James PP. Farrell, an Insh member of was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment for intimidation. : 0 Fifteen lives were lost, many people injured, 100 houses destroyed and sev- ships sunk in a hurricane that The Hamburg-Amerncan liner Furst limped into port at Ply In a speech at Dundee, Scotland, Mr Carnegie strongly urged a better uns derstanding between the Britons and Americans, Michael Stavref was convicted in Sofia, Bulgaria, of the murder of ex. Premier Stephen N. Stambuloff,
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