THE PLAN IS REJECTED
lot Operators Say They Will Never
Yield to Strikers.
THE CONFERENCE IS A FAILURE.
Itlae Owners Declare Thai Aoarchy Prevails
la Pennsylvania -President Mitchell Will,
lag to Submit the Entire Controversy to the
President to Be Adjusted by Arbitration
Throaga a Commission.
Washington, D. D. ( Special). TVcm
lent Roosevelt is satisfied tlui the coal
(trilce is not to be settled through an
ippeal to the humanity and patriotism
f those responsible for the present in
olerablc condition.
The conference between the Fresidcnt
ind the representatives of the contend
ing forces has been concluded without a
icttlemcnt or promise of a settlement by
the action of those to whom the Prcsi
Jrnt made his appeal. The "captains cf
tapital" and the "captain of labor" were
brought face to face in the presence of
Jie chief Executive at tlie temporary
(Vhite House and cnllcd upon to ;.;
tsidc their personal differences in the in
west of the whole country.
Mr. John Mitchell, on behalf of the
jiiners, proposed rending the matter to
i board or commission of arbitration,
ind offered to send the miners to work
this were done, abiding without qucs
Jon by the decision of such an impar
tial tribunal.
The representatives of the mine own
rrs and railroads refused absolutely to
have any dealings with .Vfr. Mitchell, or
to pive any sort of recognition to the
anion as having rights or interests to be
reKDrcted, and proposed simply that any
Individual miner having a grievance
raiirht present his case for settlement by
a judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
Mr. Mitchell assumed the attitude of
asking nothing but justice, and of being
willing to leave it to disinterested par
ties representing the public to determine
what that justice should be. The repre
sentatives of the mine owners and rail
roads assumed the attitude of refusing
So recognise that the organization repre
lented by Mr. Mitchell had anv business
whatever in the case.
They could not be moved from this
oosi'.ion, and with the conference'closed,
kct to be resumed, the parties to the con
trovesy are no closer than before.
The conference, as such, was a failure,
ret it may mark the beginning of the end,
ss it is regarded as almost certain that
the President will now bring the subject
to the attention of Congress. It is not
!elieved that the question will longer be
considered with reference to the wishes
and interests of the two warring ele
ments, but will be dealt with, as best it
mav, as a matter of vital public interest.
It is no longer a question of what the
strikers or mine owners w ill do. but one
li what the representatives of the people
ran do.
The spirit in which the "captains cf
capital" entered upon the conference was
distinctly one of condescension, with an
sir of self-conscious power, giving an
impression of defiance. Remarks made
by a member of the party to the effect
'.hat if anyone knew f.hat the President
would do now it was more than they
did appeared little short of sneering.
It is expected that the question will
loon be uo to Congress.
Two conferences were held, and the
Interest displayed in both was intense.
In his statement of the case the Pres
ident impressed upon the operators and
President Mitchell the great need to
the country of a settlement. The min
ers submitted their proposition, which
tn effect was that whenever there should
be differences between the operators
ind their employes such lifrerences
ihould be referred to a tribunal to be
elected by the President for decision
snd that both sides should abide by the
decision which should be rendered by
hat tribunal, regardless of its effect
upon either side.
The operators then submitted their
proposition. It was:
First That under no circumstances
should thev recognize or transact busi
ness with Mr. Mitchell, the president of
the United Mine Workers, or any other
sgent of the union.
Second That should any differences
arise between employes individually and
tmployers such difference should 1 re
ferred to the iudae of the Court of Con-
mon Pleas located within the district
where the trouble originated.
The miners rejected the proposition
made by the operators. The operators
rejected' the proposition made by the
miner.
May Appeal to the Miners.
Washington, D. C. (Special). A
tnal effort, with hope of success, is to
be made to end the coal strike. It has
been discussed by the President and
some of his advisers, and while the idea
a still in an uncompleted state and the
final result still uncertain, yet it offers
a method which now seems to be the
only solution of the problem.
The suggestion is made that Presi
dent Mitchell, of the United Minework
trs, may be able to have the men now
on strike return to work in order to
avert the impending disaster which a
lucl famine will cause, and that at as
early a date as possible there shall be
a complete investigation by Congress
and by the State Legislature of Penn
sylvania into the anthracite coal situa
tion, with a view of bringing before
the public the facts and conditions of
the miners, with a view to legislation
or recommendations for relieving the
condition of the miners in the near fu
ture; While it is not absolutely possi
ble to guarantee such an investigation
(here is little doubt that recommenda
tions by the President and the Execu
tive of Pennsylvania would be promptly
irted upon by Congress and the Penn
lylvania legislature.
Typhoon Kills Hundreds.
Victoria, B. C. (Special). Japan was
visited by a heavy typhoon early in Sep
tember, and the 'tcamer Tartar brings
advices of dis-sters. From Kagoshima
comes the news of the loss of 600 fishing
marks and 1.500 men. The (governor
of Yinaguchiken reports that 38 per
sons weie d-owned and nine other" were
killed. The Governor of Hiroshima
Ken reports 65 lives lost. Twenty-rive
casualties occurred in Akigori alone,
the steamer Kairu-Maru was wrecked
on Ushifuki September 10.
Woman Drowned In Bathtub.
Peoria, III. (Sp-cial). Frank B.
Townsend, living at 1331 Hamilton Bou
levard, clerk in the general freight office
of the Iowa Central Railway, went into
the bath-roc at his home to shampoo
his head. The room was cold and he
disconnected the pipe used to carry off
the poisonous gas from an instantaneous
Jieatrr. Within a few seconds he fell to
the floor, overcome by gal. His wife
rushed to his ass istance, ind she, too,
w?.s overcome. She fell into the bathtub
filled with water and was drowned. Mr.
Towntend was discovered Ly a servant
aod assistance was called.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
Under the guard of troops a trainlond
of coal was shipped over the Reading
Railroad from Mahanoy City, Pa., for
Philadelphia. The Reading will, it is
said, make another attempt to operate
mines this week. At Scramon and other
towns in the anthracite region the
homes of the mining officials are
cloely guarded by troops.
The Eric express on the Pennsylvania
Railroad ran into the rear end of a
freight train near Milton, Pa., and F.n
ginecr Wheeland, of Harrisburg, and
Conductor Stringer, of Sunbury, were
killed.
Two stockholders of the New Orleans
Railway Company applied to the courts
for a receiver with a view to forcing a
settlement of the strike.
John A. Sheridan, a fugitive member
of the St. Louis House of Delegates,
wanted on the charge of bribery, was
arrested.
Gen. William Booth, the head of the
Salvation Army, arrived in New York
and was given a grand reception by
the army.
Sir Michael Herbert, British ambas
sador to the L'nited States, reached
New York on the Cunard liner Cam
pania. 1 lie body of the suicide at the Stur
tcvant House was identified as that of
Miss Elizabeth Hessey. a trained nurse.
The long litigation between the City
of Nashville. Tenn., and the street rail
way company has been settled, the city
granting franchises in return for the
donation of Centennial Park to the
city, payment of 2 per cent., of the gross !was wounded six times, but bolocd an
receipts annually and the immediate American before he died. His follow
expenditnre of $1,000,000 on improve- Crs were also killed,
ment of the property. I In the darkness Wednesday night
The miners of the Tennessee Coal 'Captain Pershing took his batteries
and Iron Company at the Blue Creek ! within a httnderd yards of the fort, clos
and Blocton Mines, in Alabama, have !cd jn hjs infantry lines and resumed the
been ordered on strike because of the jattack. The Moros broke through
refusal of the company to withhold as-!twice and attempted to escape by the
sessments made by the ituion for the ; beach, but were discovered and many
anthracite strikers from the wages of:0 them were killed. They abandoned
those miners who object to paying it. 'the fort early Thursday, after 15 hours'
The Maryland Society of Chicago , bombardment. Captain Pershing de
held its annual meeting and elected istroved- tlic rest of the forts and re
Harry Page Guyton president, and a turned to Camp Vicars,
resolution was adopted to notify Rear! i, js believed the moral effect of the
Admiral Schley of his election as hon- !dcCat of the Moros will be great.
orary member of the society.
The organization of a lodge of the
Machinists' Union in Waynesboro, Pa.. 1
has resulted in two large manufacturing 1
establishments posting notices that they j
will employ no union men.
A temporary panic was caused in
Wall street by the unfounded story that
the Comptroller of the Currency had
declared Sacretary Shaw's plan to abol
ish the bank reserves illegal.
The Massachusetts Republican Con
vention nominated John L. Bates, of
Boston, for Governor, and Gen. Curtis
Guild, Jr., of Boston, for lieutenant
governor.
Stage Manager Harry C. Rose, of
New York, who shot and killed his
wife, was committed by the coroner to
answer the charge of murder.
Tom, the trick elephant at the Cen
tral Park Zoo, in New York, became
so unmanageable that the authorities
were obliged to kill him.
James P. Forshay, an actor, who in
1001 shot and killed his wife. Edna
May Stokes, an actress, at a Chicago
hotel, died in that city.
An elevator fell four stories at the
shoe factory of A. E. Little & Co., at
Lynn, Mass., killing 2 persons and in
juring 11 others.
Gertrude Farrington, a member of a
theatrical company, committed suicide
in a New York hotel with chloroform.
Noah Hale shot and killed his son
and beat his wife with the butt of the
gun with which he killed his son.
The trial of Robert M. Snyder, ban
ker and promoter, charged with bribery
in St. Louis, was continued.
Rain and wind storms caused another
postponement of the army maneuvers
at Fort Riley. Kansas.
The battleship Oregon has received
orders to sail from San Francisco for
Manila about October 15.
Foreign.
The T.-iris fund for a monument to
Zola amounts to $.1,400. including $60
from Dreyfus. Sixty thousand mem
bers of various societies took part in
the funeral procession.
The Pester Lloyd, of Vienna, in com
menting upon Kruger's willingness to
make peace with Great Britain, sug
gests that he induce the Boer generals
to abandon their tour.
The Grand Duke Nicholas arrived at
Constantinople on a Russian ironclad
which was permitted to pass the naval
forts.
Unusual wintry weather prevails in
Germany. There was ice in Berlin and
snow fell on the Swabian Alps.
Crown Prince Constamin of Greece
was badly injured by the overturning
of a motorcar.
May Yohe and Bradley Strong were
married at Buenos Ayres October 2.
A violent earthquake occurred at
Terin, Italy, 50 miles from Rome, caus
ing a panic among the inhabitants.
The Turkish measures to suppress
the Macedonian revolt, it is believed,
may stir up the neutrals.
Dreyfus will r.ot attend the funeral
of M. Zola, at the request of Mme.
Zola, who feared that his presence
might cause disturbance.
President Castro and his army fled
before the revolutionists, and is now
reported to be at Los Teques, in a very
strong strategical position.
The Birr County Court upheld the
decision of the Crimes Act Court in
the cases of Edmund Haviland-Burk
and Michael Reddy.
At a Salvation Army meeting at
West Gunnedah, Nev South Wales,
Edward Purcell confessed having com
mitted three murders.
Mme. .Zola was allowed to see the
body of her husband. She swooned
when his features were uncovered.
It is stated in London that Premier
Balfour will withdraw the government's
education bill.
Financial.
Chicago hears that United States Steel
wrfl take over American 1 m Lan very
short v.
The buying by Gates and his friends
sent up Colorado Fuel from 81 to 85 in
an hour.
Big bankers are unanimous in the as
sertion that speculation should be kept
at a lower point for some weeks.
Stockholders of the St. Louis & San
Francisco Railroad will on November 10
vote upon a proposition to increase the
bonded indebtdness by $18,000,000 of 4
per cent, bonds.
The advisory Committee, consisting of
Llnited States Treasurer Roberts, Comp
troller of the Currency Kidgely and As
sistant Secretary Ailes, appointed by the
Secretary to pass upon the State and
municipal bonds offered, decided to take
as their general standard that of the
New York state Favings banks.
People who should lie accurately in
formed on Pressed Steel Car affairs say
that earnings are at the rate of 20 per
cent, on common stock, but until the
entire issue of $5,000,000 bonds has been
paid off the present dividend rate of 4
per cent, will not be changed. These
bonds are now being paid off at the rate
of $500,000 per annum.
PRIDE OF MOROS CRUSHED
1 ,
The Americans Capture and Destroy
Forty of Their Forts.
OVER A HUNDRED NATIVES FALL.
It Is Believed the Moral Eltect ol the Defeat of
the Moros W ill Be Great General Davis
Has Ordered that Hostilities Be Stayed In
Order to Permit the Sultan of Bacolod and
other Hostile Sultans to Make Peace.
Manila (By Cable). Capt. John J.
Pershing's column has completely rout
ed the Maciu Moros in the Island of
Mindanao, killing or wounding a hun
dred of them and capturing and de
stroying 40 forts.
Two Americans wore wounded, but
none killed.
On Tuesday the Moros retired to
their largest and strongest fort, on the
lake shore, and on Wednesday Cap
tain Pershing attacked them with ar
tillery, bombarding them three hours.
At noon Lieutenant Loring, leading a
squad of men, attempted to set fire to
the fort. He crept under the walls and
started a blaze, but the Moros discov
ered him and forced the Americans to
retreat.
In the afternoon the Sultan of Cabu
gatan led a sortie at the head of a band
of fanatics armed with knives. They
crept through the grass, sprang tip and
attacked the Americans. The sultan
General Davis has ordered that hos-
tilities hp staved in order tn nermit the
Sultan of H'acolod and other hostile
Sultans to make peace. The Sultans
of Miacu were confident of their ability
to defeat the Americans and vowed be
fore the fight to enter slavery volun
tarily if they themselves were defeated.
AMERICAN GUNNERS' FIRE EFFECTIVE.
Colombian Insurgent General Herrera Tries to
Explain Firing on American Flag.
Panama, Columbia (By Cable). The
government has received a shipment of
Maxim guns of different sizes and large
quantities of rifle and cannon ammuni
tion.
A gasoline launch brought into Pana
ma a small boat flying a white flag. In
the boat was a messenger from the in
surgent General Herrera bearing a
letter for General Salazar. governor of
Panama, in which General Herrera ex
plains how his troops came to fire last
Saturday on the launch sent under a
white flag by General Salazar with the
hitter's answer to the insurgent gen
eral s peace proposal.
General Herrera s messenger re
ports that the artillery fire of the
American gunners on board the gov
ernment gunboat Chucuito at the tunc
when the insurgents fired on General
Salazar's messenger resulted in heavy
losses to the insurgents.
CALL TO ARMS IN MACEDONIA.
Insurgent Leader Issues a Manifesto Liberty
By Fire or Blood.
Sofia, Bulgaria (By Cable). The or
gan of the Macedonian Committee has
published a manifesto of Colonel Jan
koff, leader of the Macedonian insur
rection, announcing the revolution and
calling on all Macedonians to take up
ms in behalf of their country. I he
Colonel points out that all the Balkan
States won their liberty by fire and
blood. At the same time he urges that
considerate treatment be meted to
peaceful Mussulmans.
A public meeting convened by the
Macedonian Committee voted by ac
clamation to address a note to the
powers calling attention to the critical
situation in Macedonia, urging the ne
cessity for putting in operation the
1 reaty of Berlin and recommending
that the Macedonian question be sub
mitted to the arbitration of the Inter
national Court at The Hague.
LONG LITIGATION SETTLED.
Nashville Makes a Good Deal With Its Street
Railway Company.
Nashville, Tenn. (Special). The liti
gation between the city and the street
railway company, which has been pend
ing for four years, was settled by agree
ment between Receiver Percy Warner
and Mayor James Head. By the terms
of the agreement the city concedes the
charter rights and franchises to the
company in return for the donation of
Centennial Park to the city, the pay
ment of 2 per cent, of the gross re
ceipts of the company annually, and an
agreement to expend $1,000,000 imme
diately on improvement of the proper
ty. Centennial "Park, which the city
gets in the deal, is the site of the I en
nessee Centennial Exposition, and com
prises 72 acres of, improved property,
valued at $125,000.
Death ol I Noted Violinist
Chicago (Special). Prof. S. E. Jacob
son, a well-l.nown violinist, died here
after a short illness. Professor Jacob
son was 62 years of age and prominent
in musical circles here and in the Last.
Killed His Own Son.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. (Special)
Noah Hale, a market gardener, living
six miles from this place, shot and kill
ed his son, Frank, and badly injured his
wife, beating her over the head with the
bi'tt of the gun with which he had just
killed his son. The murderer then fled
to the woods, whither officers and
posse pursued mm. Later a snot was
heard from the forest and it is thought
Hale had committed suicide. Domes
tic quarrels led to the tragedy.
Fatal Elevator Accident.
Lynn, Mass. (Special). In an eleva
tor accident at the shoe factory of A
E. Little & Co., here, two persons were
killed and II others more or less seri
ously injured. A cable parted, and not
only did the car, which contained 13
persons, fall four stories, but a 600
pound weight descended with great
force on the top of it, breaking through
and crushing, to death Benjamin C.
Crane, foreman in the factory, and
causing injuries to Miss Frances Her
lihy, an assistant forewoman, from
which she died within a short time.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Condition of the Banks.
The Comptroller of the Currency just
made public an abstract of the rcpor's
of the 4.(01 national banks of the conn
trv at the close of business on Septem
ber 15, 1002. Tic following arc the
principal items:
Loans and discount". $3,280,127,480;
bonds to secure circulation, $324,253.7(10;
L'nited States bonds to secure public
deposits, $124,685,150; United States
bonds on hand, ?8.oo8,iod; stocks ami
securities, $40,1.100.726: due from nation
al banks not reserve agents, $264,616,105;
due from reserve agents, $465,640,578;
lawful money reserve in banks. $507,
TO.I.738; capital stock paid in, $705,535.-417-
Surplus, $.126,1Q,1,05.1 ; undivided prof
its, $160,216,512; national bank circula
tion outstanding. $.117,001,800; due to
other national banks, $648,885.5.10: due
to State banks and bankers, $285,221,520;
due to trust companies and savings
banks, $2,15.220,608; due to reserve.
agents, $.11.01,1.564: dividends unpaid.
$068,550; individual deposits. $3,209,273.-
KO.i; United Mates deponts, $ 1 1 7.oo77'19 !
de-osits of the United States disbursing
officers, $6,846,0,13; average reserve held,
25.74 per cent.
25 - per cent.
War Against Hall.
The State Department has received
from Consul I. C. Covert, at Lyons,
the official report of the international
congress for the protection of that city
agninst hail.
In 1801 efforts were made to produce
rain by the use of cannon, and a pro
fessor of the University of Bologna in
nugurated a similar process for pro
tection against hail. The Consul states
that in 1896 Albert Sticger, Burgcr-
mcistcr of Y indisch r eistnts, is said
to have turned a hailstorm into a fall
of fine rain by the detonations from a
number of mortars.
About 10.000 cloud-firing stations
were represented at the congress at
Padua in 1900. At this congress it was
unanimously voted to continue the war
against hail, on condition that it should
be done systematically.
In the report of the international
congress it is stated that the firing of
cannon stopped the wind or diminish
ed its force, perforated or cleared away
the clouds entirely and stopped the
electrical discharges above the protect
ed zone, the lightning and thunder rag
ing only outside of it.
Friars Must Walt Three Years.
Thnee years is the period of time
now fixed in the minds of the officials
of the War Department as requisite for
a complete settlement of the Philippine
friars' lands .question.
Governor Taft, by direction of Sec
retary Root, made a proposition to the
Vatican to pay down a lump sum of
money for the lands, the Philippine
Government thereby assuming all risks
of defective titles. That proposition,
however, having been declined there
was no way out of it but to fall back
on the established method of title set
tlement, and where, as in this case, the
titles run back several hundred years,
and are held under tenure unknown to
English common law practice, the set
tlement is bound to be very difficult.
It would not surprise the officials
here if the Vatican would suddenly de
cide to expedite settlement by accept
ing a lump sum.
Determined to Crush the Boxers.
Minister Conger's dispatches to the
S'ate Department show that Yuan Shi
Kai, the viceroy of Chi Li, is really in
tarnet in his expressed determination
to crush the Boxers in his section of
China. A proclamation issued by him
to the people declares that the heresy of
boxerdom has done great harm to the
land ; that from ancient times to the pre
sent this heresy always meant ruin. The
boxing and incantations they practice
amount, after all, to not much more than
a kind of jugglery the swallowing of
knives and fire without any skill. The
charms they pretend to possess are or no
avail when they come in collision with
troops.
Russian Consuls Must Pay Duty.
The Treasury Department has decid
ed that hereafter official supplies sent
from the Oovcrnment of Russia to its
consular offices in the United States
are subject to duty the same as goods
imported by private parties. This ac
tion is taken upon official advices from
the Russian Government that such
goods sent from the United States and
other foreign nations to its consular of
ficers in that country are subject to
duty.
Gunner Connelly's Promotion.
Gunner Louis T. Connelly, attached to
the receiving ship Constellation, at New
port, having passed a satisfactory ex
amination, will be commissioned an en
sign in the Navy under the provision of
a special act of Congress authorizing
such advancement of a limited number
of qualified warrant officers.
An Inland Water Route.
Secretary Root has approved a pro
ject for a survey between Norfolk, Va.,
and Beaufort, N. G, to determine the
most advantageous route for the estab
lishment by the government of an inland
water route between the places named.
Newsy Hens ol Interest
Attorney General Knox said that in
an article written some time ago Vice
President Wilcox refuted the argument
he made before the President.
The War Department has arranged
for the transfer of the telegraph sys
tem of the Philippines from the mili
tary to the civil authorities.
Secretary Moody issued an order cre
ating the new Caribbean Division and
placing Rear Admiral Coghlan in com
mand. Minister Conger's dispatches to the
State Department iihow that the Vice
roy of Chili province, China, is really
in earnest in his determination to crush
the Boxers in his section.
The Secretary of the Nvy awarded
the contract for the building of the bat
tleship Louisiana to the Newport News
Shipbuilding Company at its bid of
$3,090,000.
The Mexican government is lending
its authority and assistance to a strong
effort making by Mexican commercial
interests to capture a share of South
American trade.
The remains of the late Admiral
James E. Jouett were buried in Arling
ton Cemetery.
In recognition of their long and hon
orable service in the Army President
Roosevelt has directed the advancement
to the grade of brigadier general Col.
Amos S. Kimball, Col. Chambers Mc
Kibbin and Col. Charles C. Hood.
According to the monthly statement
of the Comptroller of the Currency, 38
national banks were chartered during
September.
Arthur Raikes, first secretary and
charge d'affaires of British Embassy,
Washington, will soon be recalled to
London.
BODIES BURIED IN CELLAR
Medical College Connected With Robbery
of Graves.
EVIDENCE THAT QUICKLIME WAS USED
Detectives Armed With A Warraut Search the
Medical College ol Indiana, Much Against
the Will of the Medical Authorities, and
Find Ten Bodies Concealed Under the Cellar
Floor.
Indianapolis, Ind. (Special). Sensa
tional developments came to light in
this city in the investigation of the
wholesale graveyard robberies that have
occurred in this vicinity during the last
f;w months when detectives unearthed
o bodies in the cellar of the Medical
College of Indiana. A gang of 10 ne
groes was arrested several days ago,
charged with the ghoulish work, and
their leader, Kulus Cantrcll, since his
arrest has confessed to many of the
robberies and informed the authorities
that other gangs have been operating
in cemeteries in this and adjoining
counties, and that many of the robber
ies accredited to his following really
have been committed by others.
People who recently have buried rel
atives in various cemeteries are greatly
excited, and since the developments of
the last few days many graves have
been reopened to sec if the caskets have
been tampered with. Investigation in
several of these cases have revealed
empty caskets. Every medical college
in this city has been thoroughly search
ed for stolen bodies, but to no avail.
Six bodies were found in a pickling vat
at the Medical College of Indiana, the
officials of this institution proving they
have been lawfully obtained and assert
ing that there were no other bodies
about the building.
Detectives went to the college Satur
day with a search warrant for the body
of Wallace Johnson, which had been
stolen from the grove in the Ebcnezcr
Cemetery, northeast of the city. The
college officials were reluctant to allow
them to make the search. The detec
tives, however, instituted a rigid search
of the building, and, as a last resort,
raised the floor in the cellar. They
soon uncovered the remains of 10
bodies. An attempt had been made to
destroy the remains with lime.
The college officials are very indig
nant at the latest phase in the situation,
and claim the bodies unearthed are
those of subjects dissected by the stu
dents of last year; that some of them
are cadavers which were in the dissect
ing room when the building was burned
several years ago. The detectives claim
the bodies have been but recently buried
and that the evidence of quicklime is
very apparent.
The bodies are of both men and
women, but are in such a state that
identification is impossible. Search for
the stolen bodies will be continued.
NO BREAK IN MINERS RANKS.
Such the Sentiment of (lie Strikers-
-Legal
Action Against Operators. ,
Wilkcsbarre, Pa. ( Special). The
striking miners here have recovered
from the first bitterness of disappoint
ment. Their chagrin at the failure of
the conference called by President
Roosevelt between the representatives
of the opposing forces in the greatest
industrial battle the world, has ever wit
nessed has been succeeded by a spirit
of grim determination to fight it out
until they obtain recognition of their
grievances, either through compromise
I or arbitration, or go down together in
; defeat, conquered, but not subdued.
I The operators have explained their in
ability to get certificated miners be
hind the stockades proceeded from two
causes intimidation on the part of the
strikers that made a man hesitate be
fore submitting himself to loss o! life
or limb or his family to insult, and the
settlement rumors circulated from time
to time which prevented many from de
serting the union who would otherwise
have long since returned to work.
CLASSED WITH CHINESE
Under tbe Law a Japanese Cannot Be
Naturalized.
Chicago (Special). After vainly
searching for some legal precedent that
would justify a different decision,
Judge Carter has refused to grant nat
uralization papers to Lee Guy Dean, a
Japanese, who made application with a
view to becoming a citizen of the
United States. "The statute "on nat
uralization," said Judge Carter, "reads
that any free white man, or any native
of Africa, or any alien of African de
scent may be naturalized, but that docs
not apply to Mongolians, and a Japa
nese is surely a Mongolian."
The only decision bearing directly
on the case which Judge Carter could
find was one made by a Massachusetts
court, and that was to the effect that
an application from such a source could
not be granted.
Leaving the Coal Fields.
Ashland, Pa. (Special). The result
of the conference at Washington was
received with bitter regret and the feel
ing against the operators is growing
steadily. Many who were heretofore
in sympathy with the operators are an
gry. The public sentiment against the
operators is so openly pronounced that
the men on strike were distinctly en
couraged. Hundreds of good miners,
who since the conference have given up
hopes of getting work, are preparing to
leave the coal fields forever. It is said
that dissatisfaction exists among the
deputies at the various collieries and a
break in their ranks is looked for.
ODDS AND ENDS OP THE LATEST NEWS.
William Dickinson, a Brooklyn al
derman, was arrested, charged with
bribery. He is said to have offered to
vote for a measure in which the com
missioner of the street department was
interested on condition that the lat
ter reinstate one of the former's con
stituents. Evelyn B. Baldwin, the arctic ex
plorer, arrived in New York. In an
interview he denied the charges that
had been made against him.
President Mitchell sent out warning
notices to the district secretaries say
ing He had evidence that the operators
had fathered a conspiracy to circulate
a pamphlet to arouse race feeling
among the non-union English-speaking
miners.
Superintendent of police of Minne
apolis was sentenced to six years and
a half in the penitentiary for accepting
a bribe.
Proceedings were instituted against
the coal operators before Attorney
General Davis under the Anti-trust
Laws.
Snow fell in the Hartz mountains
and tome parts of Germany.
WEST VIRGINIA COMPROMISES.
Seventeen Kanawha and Hocking Valley
Mines to Start Again.
Montgomery, W. Va. (Special). Sev
enteen mines which have been idle since
June 7, because of the strike, will start
up this week and 4,000 miners who have
been idle that length of time will begin
work.
Such an agreement was arrived at in a
convention of miners held here. It was
a delegate convention of the United Mine
Workers of subdistrict No. 1, Division
17, and was held to consider a proposi
tion made by the Kanawha and Hocking
Valley Coal r mnany, the largest coal
interest in this immediate region. The
terms provi-'e for nine hours work, pay
every two weeks and give the miners the
right to organize. They will be paid by
the weight of 2.0CO pounds to the ton,
will have the right to employ their own
check-wcighman, end will not be com
pelled to deal in company stores. This
is a compromise.
Severe Strain Upon the President.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Secre
tary Cortelyou, upon being asked as
to the condition of the President, said:
"The conference was a severe strain
upon the President. While, in the
judgment of his physicians, his pro
gress toward toward recovery has been
satisfactory and continues so, they feel
that to avoid the risk of a setback he
should be relieved of any undue tax
upon his strength. Therefore the next
week or 10 days only such matters will
be brought to his attention as it may
be imperatively necessary for him to
consider."
Invasion of Japanese.
Faris (By Cable). The news that a
Japanese judicial official from Osaka
has just been given a high post at the
Bangkok Court is a piece of informa
tion which is arousing in Paris a large
amount of anxiety which is not alto
gether a matter of pretense. That por
tion of the press which seeks always to
pour oil on the flames expresses its
conviction that this appointment is the
forerunner of a general invasion of
Japanese into Siam tinder the friendly
eye of England.
Mob Lynches a Negro.
Columbus, Miss. (Special). UJtt
Duncan, a negro, was taken from the
county jail here by a mob of several
hundred men and hanged to a nearby
telephone pole. Late at night Duncan
entered the telephone office at Eagle
Lake, where Miss Lena Harris, night
operator, was on duty, and conducted
himself improperly. Duncan w.is ar
rested and brought here from Eagle
Lake for safekeeping, but a mob of men
succeeded in forcing their way into the
jail and removing Duncan.
Sheldon Declines to Run.
Topeka, Kan. (Special). Rev. Chas.
M. Sheldon filed with the Secretary of
State a formal declination of the nomi
nation for Congressman-at-large on the
AlHed Populist ticket. Mr. Sheldon
previously refused the nomination, but in
some way his name had been filed with
the remainder of the ticket, making his
latest action necessary. Most of the
nominees of the Allied Populist have de
clined, and it is probable that another
convention will be held.
Engineer and Conductor Killed.
Williamspor Pa. (Special). North
bound passenger tr-in No. 9, known as
the Erie express, while nmni:ig at a high
rate of speed crashed into the rear end
of a freight train near Milton, Pa. Pas
senger' Engineer Wheeland, of Harris
burg, and Freight Conductor Stringer,
of Sunbur". were killed. Passenger
Fireman Shaffer, of Harrisburg, was
seriously hurt. None of the passengers,
it is reported, was injured.
Killed by His Brother-ln-Lnw.
Shrevcport. La. (Special). While
threatening to murder his own wife,
Samuel Long, a carpenter, was killed
here by his wife's brother, F. M. Fuller.
Long had sent word to his wife that he
intended to kill her. When he arrived
at her home Long was met by Fuller,
who shot him. Fuller surrendered and
was released on bail.
Railroad Track Blown Up.
Tamaqua, Pa. (Special). A section of
track on the Silver Creek branch of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was
biown up with dynamite. The explosion
shook the houses in New Philadelphia
and Silver Creek. When the workmen's
train reached the scene of the explosion,
a force of 50 deputies were on hand to
escort them to the colliery.
"Well Done I" Says the Emperor.
Berlin (By Cable). The papers here
print a letter from one of the crew of the
Gcrmon gunboat Panther saying that
Emperor William sent the following
cable dispatch after the sinking of the
Haytian revolutionary gunboat Crete a
Pierrot :
"Brave Panther; well done."
Big Contract to American Company.
London (By Cable). A contract tc
the value of $2,500,000 has been awarded
to an American company for the equip
ment of two generating stations in the
Clyde Valley, intended to supply electri
cal power for industrial purposes over
an area of 755 square miles.
Earthquake in Italy. '
London (By Cable). A dispatch
from Rome announces that a violent
earthquake was felt at Terni, about 50
miles from there. The inhabitants were
panic stricken and fled to open spaces.
A number of houses were damaged, but
there was no loss of life.
A Voung Woman'! Suicide.
New . York (Special). A young
woman, who registered as Gertrude
Farrington. New York, was found deat1
in bed in the Sturtevant House. tShe
had committed suicide by drinking sev
eral ounces of chloroform.
Furious Snowstorm Id Colorado. .
Denver, Col. (Special). A furious
snowstorm, with a high wind, is raging
in the mountains, being particularly se
vere in the vicinity of Comp and the Al
pine Tunnel. It is feared that prospec
tors living in tents will suffer severely.
May Lose Steel Mill.
Lebanon, Pa. (Special). Following
the departure of the"3oo negro iron
workers from the American Iron and
Stcet Company's plant here during the
night, a rumor spread that the. com
pany will wt its mills to Pittsburg,
and that no further effort is to be made
to settle the strike in the puddling de
partment. The company, however, will
continue to operate its factory depart
ment here, manufacturing nuts and
bolts chiefly. An official stated that
unless the strikers return at once, the
puddle mill will be closed for the winter
THE KEYSTONE STATE
News Happenings of Interest Gathered
From All Source.
Pensions granted: William W. You
Altoona, $10; Benjamin F. Murphy
Marietta, $8; John Riehcl, Soldiers'
Home, Erie, $8; William K. Myers, Ty.
rone, $8; George A. Allison, Allegheny,
$8; Edmund Sliaw. Altoona, $10; Mar)
E. Parks, Cohcmaugh. $8; Elizabeth
Robb, Bcllcfonte, $8; Maggie E. Long
Altoona, $8; Mary A. Fleming, Boston,
$8; Sydney A. Foster, Jeannette, $8
George M. Metz, Altoona, $10; Williart
Simmers, Glasgow, $10; Marshal D
Hartshorn, Utica, $10; John C. Green,
Brownsville, $S; Robert Adlcr. Pitts
burg, $8; John Cornell, Trowbridge,
$10; James Archer, Titusvillc, $12; Car
oline Peters, Pittsburg, $8; Lydia Sib
Icy, DuBois, $8; Jane Belie, St. Augus
tine, $8; Nancy Parkehill, Pittsburg,
$8; Kate L. Patterson, Ricktown. $8;
Jane Mershimer, Princeton, $12; Petel
Shafer, Etna, $8; John Shay, Watson
Farm, $8; Henry Franze, Soldiers'
Home, Erie, $8; William E. Dennis,
Lincsvillc, $6; Lyman Richards, Rome,
$6.
The recent marriage of Walter Huff
man and Mrs. Ida Stewart, a relative ol
Postmaster W. E. Harrison, of Mc
Keesport, is causing the varioiu
branches of her family to rack theii
brains in an endeavor to untangle the
iamily relationships. The difficulty be
gins with the marriage of George Huff
man, Walter's father, to Miss Marj
Stewart. The 'latter's brother Issac
narried Miss Ida Smith, Isaac died,
'caving a widow and two children,
Then the widow married Walter Huff
man, a son of her brother-in-law, Geo.
Huffman, who then became her father-in-law.
Her husband is also her ncph
iw, being the son of her brother-in-aw,
and he. who was cousin to her chil
dren, now becomes their father. She
becomes cousin to her own children by
carriage and aunt to her husband.
In a close range battle with burglars,
Mem Bly, engineer and watchman at
he powerhouse of the Montoursville
Trolley Company, at Montoursville,
tilled one of the resperadoes and
orobably wounded several others. The
:ngineer escliped with his life in a
ihower of bullets, although twice
A-ounded. It was a battle of one
igainst six, but the plucky engineer
stood his ground until his ammunition
was exhausted, and then with bullets
lying all around him made his way out
af the building and sounded an alarm.
The five other members of the gang
got away just in time.
A dress-suit case containing an ev
tning suit belonging to United States
Senator Kean and an evening suit and
5air of trousers of Governor Murphy's,
shich was stolen during their visit to
Gettysburg at the dedication of the
slocum monument, on September 13,
was recovered in Harrisburg. Edward
Miles, of Harrisburg, who is alleged to
have stolen the case from the hotel at
Gettysburg, has been arrested and was
taken to that place for a hearing.
Charles M. Woodward, a fireman on
!he Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died
aged 25. Typhoid fever was the cause.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. M.
Woodward, of Honey Grove, Juniata
county.
Owing to the increased cost of raw
materials, especially coal, the Easton
gas and electric companies announced
an increase of about 15 per cent, in
prices for light, fuel and power.
Rev. J. R. King and wife, who have
had charge of the United Brethren
mission in Beaver Falls for the past
year, will go as missionaries to Africa
and will set sail on Saturday.
The body of Thomas Spragg. a
wealthy and prominent farmer of Oak
Forest, was found hanging from a joist
"in his barn, life being extinct. Mr.
Spragg was the only occupant of the
house, and had arisen and partly pre
pared breakfast for himself, then com
mitted the rash deed.
Eastern capitalists who are supposed
to represent the Gould or Wabash in
terests have negotiated a deal with Da
vis A. Palmer, who holds options on
30,000 acre, of coal land lying between
Kittanning and Indiana. They propose
to test the field and buy up all the
farms which show good veins of coal.
On account oi the death of the
Blairsville College for Women of a stu
dent from diphtheria and the fact that
three other cases developed there, the
buildings are under strict quarantine
and entire suspension 01 recitations nan
been ordered.
Fifty-five Odd Fellows of Norristown
spent a day in Tamaqua as the guests
of Harmony Lodge.
An unusually large crop of apples ha?
resulted in Hamburg county, because
of freedom from the caterpillar pest.
Solomon Shearer, of Vinemont, ex
pects to pick nearly 10,000 bushels.
A stab wound in the arm caused the
death of Peter Mahallo. of Pittsburg.
He was cut during a Polish christen
ing. His assailant used a penknife
which he twisted about in Mahallo't
arm, severing an artery. The victim
bled to death at the hospital.
Ira Iloltzman, engineer, and Edwarc'
E. Weaver, fu-eman, on a local freight
'pusher," botli of Tamaqua, were badlj
peppered with shot at East Mahanoj
(unction. While waiting for orders
ind while Holtzman was oiling his en
gine, the fireman strolled a short dis
:ance away to gather a few chestnuts
Suddenly a farmer appeared and open
ed fire on both men with a shotgun.
Holtzman was wounded in the bad1
ind arm and Weaver caught a big part
of the load in his side and hand.
John Martin's 4-year-old daughtei
was struck by a trolley car at Scran
ton. The fender rolled her some dis
tance on the track and then releasee1
her. She was taken from beneath th
car, having been seriously injureC
about the head, though she escaped the
wheels.
Robert H. Vance, junior member ol
the firm of Bates & Vance, died sud
denly at the City Hospital, Harrisburg,
to which place he was taken for an op
eration for appendicitis. Deceased
was 67 years of age, and one of the
most prominent business men in that
citv.
Frank Innis, who was recently elect
ed State Councilor of the Junior Or
der of United American Mechanics,
was tendered a formal reception a'
Chester. Prominent leaders of the
order were in attendance. There was
an interesting program of speechmak
ing and music and a lunch.
Engineers are at work in Blairsville
surveying for the extension of the Buf
:alo, Rochester and Pittsburg fro"1
BlackMick to that place.
Thenew iron bridge under construc
tion by the Lehigh Valley Traction
Company at North Wales, fell upon the
tracks of the Bethlehem branch of the
Reading Railway. The 55" ou.th"
bound train narrowly escaped being
wrecked. It is said the recent heavy
rains of the last two days weakened t"
new foundations.
The Bank of England's percentage of
reserve to liabilities is now '44.03, against
53.87 a week ego.