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PREPARING FOR
A GREAT STRIKE
Miners and Operators Preparing For a
Struggle,
DOLAN'S RESIGNATION
All Parties Concerned Are Making Ready for
the Greatest Labor War In History of the
Country. Equipment of the State Constabu!-
ary Is Belug Rushed A Stormy Meeting
Expected.
paring
histon
Mine
tools
the strug
couple
and
mines
co
Fos i
to cost ab
completed
the second
the plastering
fire brigade and
check the flames,
yournd ihe
Protests His lomocence.
Chicago (Special)
confessed bigamist
derer, who is sentenced to hang
ruary 23, made a long statement te
people of lllinois declaring |
innocent man. In his
asserts that his wife, Emile Fischer
Hoch, now admits that several img
portions of the testimony given
during the trial were false, and because
on Feb
the
mself
statement Hoch
:
il
prevent his execution
“No Danger of War,”
Berlin (By Cable).—The attitude of
Moroccan question has induced the Cer
man Government to declare emphatically
that a failure of the Algeciras conference
woitld not lead to war with France
Fifty Men Burned.
( Special) ~A
Express from Geneseo says
burned, of in an
explosion at the oterling Salt Company's
mine, near Cuylerville. The explosion
was caused by an accumulation of gas
in the sandhouse near the surface.
The men were coming up the shaft at the
close of the work, when the gas was
ignited by one of their lamps. A blind.
ing explosion followed. The men were
all brought to the surface by rescue
harties
Buftalo, special to the
50 men were
many them
severely,
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMEST It
tHions Conds
a Datiie
and Cossacks at Irkutsk i,
Sixteen men, 1s of
t
SOO were |
them Jew
$ at Warsaw
learned that the as
of General Griaznoff in Tiflis, Caucasia,
i member of
of social revo-
OL as anarchis
It has been
student
Organization
lutienists
The officers of the American cruiser
quadron were present at a great review
of the garrisons of Nice, Mentone, Ville
Athens and Grasse
The Hamburg-American Line steam
Silvia, which left Vladivostok with
struck a mine and was
run ashore to prevent sinking.
An agreement providing for the es-
tablishment of a parcel post at cheap
rates Sweden and the United
W ps,
between
States has been concluded
Violent scenes attended the taking
of inventories of church property in Paris
by the commissioners in pursuance of a
recent law.
The body of King Christian of Den.
mark was placed in a plain casket, It is
said his estate will not exceed $230,000.
There was a severe earthquake in
Guayaquil, Eucador, which caused a pan-
ic among the people,
King Edward will open Parliament in
person, but the Queen will not be present
and the state pagentry will be curtailed
as the result of the death of King Chris-
tain,
4
FACTORY GIRLS
IN FIRE PANIC
Hundred Driven Out
Weather,
TROLLEY POLES MELTED BY THE HFAT
Knit Goods Factory In Cleveland Is Destroyed
by @ Quick Fire—Panic-stricken Employes,
Mostly Girls, Faint Upon Reaching a Place
of Safety The Flames Spread to Adjoin-
ing Houses,
Two Inte Zero
FIERCE FIGHT IN CHURCH.
Religious Riots Are om the locresse
Paris.
DYNAMITE LADEN VESSEL ON FIRE
S. Lighter Hudson Places New York lo
Peril
To Abolish State Dispensary.
imbia, S. C. (Specia hse
Representatives has passed
Dispen ary Bills by a
I his
signihcant
63
15 COns dered 10 :
legislation in this state
and the Sen
The bill
abolishes dispensary and pro
vides for prohibition with
option to counties to establish their own
dispensaries under county management
years, it 18 believed
the state
stale
1
3 ¥
1OCal
Murderer of Two Children
Pa.
Italian,
West
do Forte, an
Chester, ( Special) Riccar
convicted of
murder in the first degree here for the
killing of Marie and Dominic Delucca,
two children, at Howellville, last March
The children were murdered in an old
smithy and Forte's conviction was
brought about by the confession of a
fellow-prisoner
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was
Fatal Mise Explosion.
Bluchield, W. Va A report
has just reached here of an explosion in
what is called the Ball Knob Mine No.
2, one the operations of the Red
Jacket Coal and Coke Company, near
Delorms, Mingo County. The body of
one miner, who was killed, and three
other miners, who were seriously in-
jured, had been taken out of the shaft,
A force of men was at work in the mines
at the time of the explosion, and it is
feared that many other victims will be
found when the work of rescue is begun
{ Special)
of
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Treasury in Better Shape.
ith tatement of the ¢
U. S, Demands Moderated,
Favors the Whipping Post.
. Beli Chief of Staff,
be Valeacls Wreck.
Combine Report Soon.
IBomery wi
telegraph ery en
many Years,
disability
Ambassador to
Root Lieutenant
Count Gleichen, the new military attache
of the British Embassy.
The House passed the resolution in
structing the Director of the Census to
make public the hgures on unginned
cotton
The special committee of Southern
representatives and senators has agreed
on a national quarantine bill,
The House committee decided on » fav-
orable report of the resolution directing
the Census Bureau to make public all its
information on cotton ginning.
The Senate passed the Consular Reor-
ganization Bill which, in an amended
form, was reported from the Committee
on Foreign Relations,
| 4 1" 3
british presented
ecrelary
His One Great Mistake.
Nashua, N. H. (Special)~"Better late
than never "exclaimed Deacon Stephen 1.
(5. French, when he announced his mar-
riage engagement to Mrs Julia Kimball,
“The one great mistake is that | was
never spliced,” added the Deacon. He
is 88 years old and his prospective bride
is 75. He is an inmate of the Hunt
Home for Aged Couples, but which also
accepts single men. Deacon French was
never married. Mrs. Kimball is an in-
mate of the Home for Aged Women.
DEATH IN FIRE
That Blaze
Ammunition.
Fears
Captain Wilson, of the Transport,
Strangled to Death by Fumes A San
and Officers Injured.
France in No Hurry
e times and killed by an
Filonoff was held re
terrorists for the
the
id been
was hred a
unknown assassin
sponsible by the
less severity with
disorders in the provinces
pressed
TE
rutlh
which
sup
- wg ——
Reign of Terror Prevails
Elizabethpol, {By Ca
again broken
Elizabethpol
’
Transcaucasia
ble). A racial war has
in the region between
and Shusha, where the Armenians
Tartars are massacreing cach other
These horrors are added by the fact
that the population of the region is stars
ing, and that typhoid is raging. It
impossible to send food or medical
sistance,
and
—
Steamer Silvia Sivack a Migs,
Berlin (By Cable). Herr Ballin, di.
rector of the Hamburg-American Line,
announced that the German steamer Sil
via, of that line, which left Viadivostok
Monday with a large number of Rus
sian troops, who were returning home,
struck a mine and had to return in a
sinking condition to Vladivostok, where
she was ron ashore in order to prevent
her becoming a total loss. With the
exception of of the cook, no lives are
mentioned as having been lost,
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
Organ
crusade for
ernment
The Broomm
Francisco
Os campaign agamsg
factories in the city
are much
of
abolish vari
spitals
According to officials of the Lake Pi
lots’ Protective Association, the prospect
of trouble In securing recognition from
owners this year 1s very remote
the
It is declared that SCAaTily
of engineers all over the country and 150
relief is In sight The Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers has requests from
railroads for 250 engineers that cannot
be granted, as the men are not to be
found.
According to the officials of the Broth.
erhood of Boot and Shoe Workers,
Brockton, Mass, is the largest shoe city
in the world, producing about $25,000.000
worth of shoes a year. It also pays the
highest wages in the world, the average
at present being $500 a year, or 20 per
cent, higher than its nearest competitor)
The seamen of the of
disturbed over
the treasury department to
mry
the mmendat
ie recommendations
there 1s a