A A ASTRON EY a
POPULISTS NAME WATSON
Peoples Party Conventicn Chooses
Georgian for Presidential
Candidate.
NEBRASKA DELEGATION BOLTED
at Denver
Will
If Bryan Is Nominated
They Say Populists
i Support Him.
St. Louis.—For President of the
United Statess—Thomas E. Watson
of - Georgia.
For Vice President of the United
States—Samuel Williams of Indiana.
The foregoing ticket was nomi-
nated by the People’s party conven-
tion, after two stormy sessions dur-
ing which the Nebraska and the Min-
nesota delegations bolted because
they could uot procure a postpone-
ment of the convention until after
nominations had been made by the
Democratic national convention so
that the People’s party might nom-
inate W. J. Bryan for president, if
he were defeated at the Democratic
convention.
Platform’s Chief Planks.
Following are the more important
provisions of the platform:
The issuing of money is a function
of government and should not be dele-
gated to corporation or individual.
The Constitution gives to congress
alone the power to issue money and
regulate the value thereof. We
therefore demand that all money
shall be issued by the government
direct to the people without ehe in
tervention of banks. We demand
that postal savings banks be instit-
tuted for the savings of the people.
‘The government should own and
contro] the railroads and those public
utilitics which in their nature are
monopolies, To perfect the postal
service the government should own
‘and operate the general telegraph and
telephone systems and provide a par-
cels post.
As to these trusts and monopolies
which are not public utilities or nat-
ural monopolies, we demand that
those special privileges which they
now enjoy and which alone enable
them to exist, should be immediately
withdrawn.
As a means of placing all public
questions directly under the control
of the people we demand that legal
provision be made under which the
people may exercise the initiative
and referendum and proportional rep-
resentation and direct vote for all
public officers with the right of re-
call.
We favor the enactment of legisla-
tion looking to the improvement of
conditions of the wage-earners. We
demand the abolition of child labor
in factories and mines and the sup-
pressing of sweat shops. We oppose
the use of convict labor in competi
tion with free labor.
We demand the exclusion from
‘American shores of foreign pauper
labor imported to beat the wages of
intelligent American workingmen
down. We favor the eight-hour
workday and legislation protecting
the lives and limbs - of workmen
through the use of safety appliances.
We condemn all unwarranted as-
sumption of authority of the inferior
federal courts in annulling by injunec-
tion the laws of the several states
and therefore: demand of congress
such legislation as shal] inhibit such
usurpation and restricting to the su-
preme court of the United States
alone the exercise of the great power.
We are opposed to all gambling in
futures.
TRAGEDY IN COURT
Convicted Man Kills Detective,
Wounds Four Officers and Is
Himself Shot.
Terre Haute, Ind.—Found guilty of
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a charge of arson, Henry F. McDon- |
ald in the circuit court room shot
and killed Chief of Detectives Will-
iam E. Dwyer, seriously wounded
three other officers and a bystander
and was himself seriously wounded.
McDonald had been tried for dyna-
miting stores and a church in: Sand-
for last year.
As soon as the jury reported its
verdict McDonald jumped up, drew
a revolver and fired at Prosecuting
Attorney James A. Cooper, Jr., but
missed, because Cooper tipped his
chair backward. McDonald continued
firing at the officers seated around
the counsel. Detective Dwyer fell
dead at the third shot.
Policemen and deputy sheriffs in
the court room drew revolvers and
opened fire on McDonald, who re-
turned the fire. Before the con-
victed man fel] with half a dozen bul-
lets in his body he had shot Harvey
V. Jones, superintendent of police,
in the side; Deputy Sheriff Ira Well-
man in the chin, Sylvester Doyle,
court bailiff, in the leg, and a bystand-
er in the side. >
Arbirtation Treaty Ratified.
Washington.—The general arbitra-
tion treaty agreed upon at the Hague
conference was ratified by the sen-
ate, as were arbitration treaties be-
tween the United States and Mexico
and between the United States and
Germany. .
Fire which broke out n the mill at
Corning & Co.’s distillery at Peoria,
Ili, inflicted a loss estimated at be-
tween $750,000 and $1,000,000.
Long Litigated Case Settled.
Portland, Me.—A verdict against
the government was announced by
Judge Hale of the United States dis-
trict court in the suit for $70,000 for
the loss of the brigantine Olive Fran-
cis, in a collision with the United
States gunboat Winooski, 42 years
ago, 40 miles off the coast of Nova
Scotia. Judge Hale ruled that >
gunboat’s immoderat 1S
cause of
will be
amount of the
4
damages.
INDIANA REPUBLICANS
Convention Indorses Fairbanks and
Declares for immediate
Revision.
Indianapolis, Ind.—The _ Indiana
Republican state convention adopted
a platform, indorsed Vice President
Charles Warren Fairbanks and in-
structed the state delegates to the
national convention at Chicago to
vote and work for his nomination
for the presidency and closed after
nominating .the following ticket:
James E. Watson, Rushville, gov-
ernor. :
Fremont C. Goodwine,
port, lientenant governor.
Fred WW. Sims, Frankfort, secretary
of state.
John C. Billheimer,
auditor of state.
Oscar Hadley, Plainfield, treasurer
of state.
James Bingham,
general.
George W. Self, Corydon, reporter
of supreme court.
Lawrence McTurnan, Anderson,
superintendent of public instruction.
The contest for nomination for
governor was keen, and it took five
ballots to decide it. Mention of Presi-
ident Roosevelt, Vice President Fair-
banks, Senators Beveridge and
Hemenway and of Governor J. Frank
Hanly brought from the delegates
bursts of enthusiasm.
The platform adopted, in addition
to instructing for Vice President
Fairbanks, indorses President Roose-
velt's administration opposes
corporaticn contributions to
campaign funds, favors econ-
my in public expenditures, es-
pecially mentioning the army and
navy, favors a modification of the
financial system without mentioning
any particular measure, urges a .pro-
gressive program of labor legislation,
pledges a complete regulation of cap-
italistic combination in the interest
of trade, commerce and the general
welfare of the people, and urges a re-
vision of the tariff by a special session
of congress to be called early in No-
vember with the recommendation
that congress take immediate steps to
secure the proper data by experts.
The tariff plank of the platform
was written by Vice President Fair-
banks.
Williams-
Washington,
Muncie, attorney
WARNING TO POSTMASTERS
None but Those of Fourth Class Al-
lowed to Hold Offices.
Washington.—Necessitated by num-
erous violations, some of them of
such character as to indicate that
the regular duties of the employes
involved must be neglected, Postmast-
er General Meyer has issued an or-
der to all postmasters to call the at-
tention of their employes to the sec-
tion of the postal laws and regula-
tions prohibiting all but postmasters
of the fourth class from holding any
state, territorial or municipal gov-
ernment office. .
The same system also provides
that “the offices of justice of the
peace, notary public, commissioner to
take acknowledgment of deeds or to
administer oaths, commissions in the
militia of states or territories, posi-
tions (which are not regarded as cf-
fices) on boards of education, school
committees, committees on boards of
public libraries, religious or eleem-
osynary institutions, incorporated or
established or sustained by state mu-
nicipal authority in local or mu-
nicipal fire departments, where no
compensation is received, may be ac-
cepted and held by persons employed
in the postal service, if it does not
interfere with the proper discharge
of the duties of the government of-
fice.”
TWENTY-THREE DROWN
British Cruiser Cuts Destroyer in
Half in Channel.
Portsmouth, England.—A wireless
report received here says that during
night maneuvers in the Channel the
cruiser Berwick ran down the torpedo
boat destroyer Tiger, and it is feared
several men were drowned.
The .Tiger was cut in half and
speedily sank. Boats from the Ber-
wick and cruiser Gladiator picked up
22 men, one of whom died later of
his injuries. It ig believed that the
Tiger had a crew of 45 men and that
the others were drowned.
BEOMB IN TENEMENT
Explosion Injuring Three Men Penalty
of Ignoring Black Hand Letter.
New York.—By the explosion of a
{ bomb today in a hallway of a five-
| story Eastside tenement house three
men were injured. Fifteen Italian
families were thrown into a panic and
the walls, ceiling and flcoring of the
house were wrecked.
One of the injured men, Emman-
uelo Sportado, is the owner of the
house. He says two other attempts
have been made to blow up the build-
ing. He declared also he received
a letter last week demanding $5,000
and saying if he did not pay it he
would be killed.
Steel Car Piant Shuts Down.
The Standard Steel Car Company,
the largest industry in Hammond,
Ind., closed down. A short time ago
200 men were let out and today 1,200
more were discharged, leaving the
plant idle. The payroll of the com-
pany until a short time ago amount-
ed to $150,000 monthly. Skilled work-
men employed by the plant are plan-
ning to go east, as rumors are cur-
rent that all of the Pittsburg mills
will reopen in a short time.
Receivers Discharged.
Receivers for the Westinghouse
Machine Company were discharged
by Judge James S. Young, sitting in
the United States circuit court at
Pittsburg. The court was petitioned
earlier in the day for the discharge
of the receivership on the ground the
concern was in excellent condition
and no longer needed the services
of the receivers. The receivership
has been in effect since begin-
ning of the financial depression last
fail.
PANIG IN TENEMENT FIRE
Dwellers Become Wedged in on
Fire Escapes.
THREE
KILLED, MANY HURT
Firemen Rescue Many Perscns by
Force from Their Perilous
Positions.
New York.—Three persons were
killed, 15 were injured, some of them
seriously, and the lives of nearly a
hundred, persons were endatigered by
fire in a five-story tenement house,
at No. 44 Hester street.
The Dead—Berel Weinstein, Anna
Weinstein, his wife; their one-year-
old son.
The Injured—David Miller, proba-
bly fatal; Rosie Gallmann, Fannie
Berzon, Byman Mettlemann.
All were suffocated and burned in
their apartments. That more lives
were not lost was largely due to
the prompt action of three police-
men, who, seeing flames in the hall,
rushed through the building and
aroused the members of 16 sleeping
families. By that time the stair
ways were a mass of flames and the
only means of exit was by the fire
escapes.
In their mad attempt to escape
from the smoke and flames scores of
scantily clad men, women and chil-
dren crowded the narrow iron plat-
forms and ladders until they became
wedged in solid masses on the fire
escapes, unable to extricate them-
selves and blocking the way of those
who had not yet succeeded in getting
out of the building.
This wag the situation when the
firemen arrived and began to run up
ladders to take the panie-stricken fu-
gitives from their perilous position.
The work moved forward very slow-
ly, however, as in some instances the
combined efforts of half a dozen fire
men were required to drag a woman
or child from the tightly packed
platforms.
In the meantime the flames had
been constantly spreading, and the
terror among the tenants had carried
them past the point of self restraint
While firemen on ladders and others
on the ground were calling out tc
them, they began, one by one, te
jump from the windows.
David Miller sprang from a fourth-
story window and sustained injuries
which probably will cause his death.
Rosie Gallmann, Fannie Berzen and
Byman Mettlemann, who jumped from
windows on the second and third
floors, have broken limbs and were
taken to hospitals. Several others
were internally injured. Many others
who sustained more or less serious
bruises refused to go to hospitals.
Weinstein and his wife and baby
were found lying dead in their rooms
cn the top floor of the burning build-
ing after the flames had been extin
guished. Apparently they had been
overcome by smoke while trying to
reach the blazing stairway.
The building was damaged to the
extent of about $2,000. .
WON'T PROSECUTE
President. It Is Said, Has No Desire
to Embarrass Carriers.
‘Washington.—The government wil’
not prosecute railroads for failure tc
comply with the “commodity clause”
of the railroad rate law pending a
decision of the supreme court. This
decision has been arrived at, it is
understood, after careful considera:
tion by the President, who, it is stated
has no desire to increase the embar
rassments which surround the rail
roads in their efforts to comply witk
the law.
It is understood that the railroads
have given assurance to the govern
ment that if the courts decide
against them they will immediately
and in good faith comply with the
law.
RAILROADS
Bank Robbers Get $5,400.
Muskogee, Okla.—Robbers blew
open the safe of the bank at Mounds
Okla., 50 miles west of here, obtain-
ed $5,400 in currency and silver and
escaped.
Hearings on the Currency Bill.
Washington, D. C.-——The house com-
mittee on Banking and currency
agreed to give hearings on the Ald:
rich currency bill, beginning April 8
and continuing daily for one week.
The sentiment of the committee, as
developed in a brief discussion in
executive session, practically was
unanimous against a favorable report
of the biil in the form in which it
was passed by the Senate.
Another 35-Story Building.
New York.-—Plans for another sky-
scraping building to be erected on
the lower end of Manbattan Island,
facing on West and Washington
streets, were announced. The new
structure is to be 36 stories, and 447
feet in height, and will consist of a
central tower 95 feet square flanked
to part of that height by wings on
each side of the tower.
Offers Wife $1,500,000.
New York.—Alfred G. Vanderbilt
has offered his wife $1,500,000 in set-
tlement of all claims arising out of
her suit for divorce, in which the le-
gal papers have been filed. As an
alternative to the acceptance of this
offer he has threatened to make an
active, instead of a passive, defense.
Warship Ordered to Erie.
‘Washington.-——Secretary of the
Navy Metcalf has ordered the U. S. S.
Wolverine to Erie in time to partiei-
pate in the memorial day exercises to
be held in that city. The ship will
| remain at (Erie during the state en-
| campment of the Grand Army of the
{| Republic, which meets there in June.
| The order for the assignment of the
i vessel to Erie was obtained by Ar-
r L.. Bates of Meadville, at the re-
quest of Strong Vincent, Post G. A.
| R. of Erie.
MARCH DEVELOPMENTS
Rally in Stocks, Despite Reductions
in Dividends and Slow Re-
covery in Trade.
In a financial way the chief devel-
opments of the month of March were
the accumulation of money in the
chief centers, a fall in rates and a
recovery in stock market values. The
surplus reserves of the associated
banks of New York reached nearly
$40,000,000. Call loans ranged be-
tween 115 to 2 per cent all month,
and the rate on time loans secured
by active stock exchange eollateral
declined to 4@41% per cent.
don there were two reductions in the
Bank of England rate until 3 per cent
was reached, and the reserves of the
bank rose to the highest percentage
reported at this season for years. In
the face of the prevailing ease the
demand - for bona fide investments
wag sluggish, and in London several |
Important loans were only partially
subscribed for. Movements in the
stock market might be likened to a
horse race. There was much jockey-
ing for advantageous position by the
bears, cn one hand, who had the
benefit of a disappointing recovery in
general trade and by the bulls on the
-other hand who had the benefit of in-
creasing ease in money.
end of the first half of the month an
upward movement was well under
way and at least three score of
stocks reached the highest prices of
the year. United States Steel stocks
were conspicuous for an advance to
the highest price since last August.
_ The rise was in the face of several
Important dividend suspensions and
reductions. New York Central re-
duced its rate from 6 per cent per
annum to 5 per cent. The dividend
on Southern Railway preferred was
suffered to lapse and there were large
reductiong in the rates declared by
several copper companies. Here in
Pittsburg the dividends on Crucible
Steel preferred, United States Glass
and American Sewer Pipe were de-
ferred, and the amount declared on
Westinghouse Air Brake was.reduced
by 21% per cent.
A resumption of operations by the
largest copper producers and an ad-
vance in the price of the metal were
prominent features of the month. On
the ~ther hand plate glass prices
were reduced 35 per cent, and there
were numerous reductions in prices
and wages in the textile trade. In
the iron trade there was improvement
during ‘the first half of the month,
but this was lost during the last
half, and the closing day was threat-
ened with a general strike of bitum-
inous coal miners. Shrinkage in
bank clearings measured the contrac-
tion still in progress.
RUSSIAN. OFFICIAL GRAFT
Charges Against Parloff Concerning
Port Arthur Provisioning.
St. Petersburg.—The Rech publish-
es a vicioug attack upon M. Pavloff,
the former minister to Korea, accus-
ing him of extensive finaneial irregu-
larities in connection with the pro-
visioning of Port Arthur and the
evacuation of that place by the Rus-
sian soldiers after the war. ’
It is alleged that he charged the
government almost double prices, as
compared with the amount asked by
private companies who later under-
took the work. A commission of
the war ministry has been investigat-
ing the matter, but up till now the
results of that investigation have not
been published.
BILL CARRIES BIG SUM
Agricultural Appropriation Measure
Passed by the House. -
- 'Washington.—Carrying a total of
$11,503,806 the agricultural appropria-
tion bill was passed by the house to-
day. Just before its passage Mr.
Scott (Kansas), chairman of the agri-
cultural committee, made an unsuc-
cessful fight to have stricken out the
amendment increasing the appropria-
tion for soil investigations.
During the debate a flurry was
created by Mr. Harrison (New York),
a Democrat, characterizing as social-
istic the bill of the minority leader,
Mr. Williams, providing for the utili-
zation of the treasury surplus in the
construction and improvement of
roads in the several states.
WILL BE PRINCESS
Anna Gould Oetermined to Wed
Prince Helie de Sagan.
New York.—Madame Anna Gould |
has not only broken with her family |
because of their opposition to her
acceptance of Prince Helie de Sa-
gan’s suit, but she defies them to
penalize her under the terms of her
father’s will by cutting off half of
her inheritance if she marries the
titled cousin of her former husband.
Attorneys both in. Paris and New
York have advised her that the
courts will not sustain the validity
of that section of Jay Gould’s will.
Despite the vpposition of her broth-
ers and sisters in all probability the
Prince and the former Countess De
Castellane will be married in May
or June.
Spots Larger Than the Earth.
Milwaukee.—Rev. Father McGeary,
professor of astronomy at Marquette
University, reported having recently
observed three new sun spots through
a new telescope. Two of the spots
are estimated to be 8,000 miles
across, or. large enough to drop the
earth into.
Arbitration Treaties Signed.
Washington.—Arbitration treaties
between Great Britain and the United
States and Norway and the United
States were signed at the state de-
partment. Ambassador Bryce and
Secretary Root acted on the British
treaty and the secretary and Mr. O.
Skybak, secretary of legation and
charge d’affairs of the Norwegian le-
gation, signed the treaty with Nor-
wa The conventions follow the
li of previous arbitration treaties
negotiated recently.
In Lon--
Before the:
MINERS LAY PICKS DOWN
Bituminous Diggers All Over the
Country Stop Work.
SLIGHT SCALE DIVERGENCE
Indications Are for Agreements Be-
tween Operators and Men in
Most of the Districts.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
‘picks dropped from the hands of as
many bituminous coal miners of the
United States when work closed
March 31, not to be used again until
a scale is adopted by the United Mine
Works of America and the coal oper-
ators of the various fields.
The situation does not indicate a
prolonged strike. An open winter
has left a large stock of coal on hand
and the differences between miners
and operators are very slight. It is
practically agreed the present wage
‘scale will be continued, but some pol-
icies in connection with the change
tonight in the national officers of the
miners’ organization and local differ-
ences between operators and miners
have resulted in temporary suspen-
sion from work until a new wage
scale is agreed to either by districts
or by individual mines.
Until two years ago the bitumin-
ous coal mining wage of the country
was based upon the agreement reach-
ed in the Central competitive field,
consisting of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana
and Western Pennsylvania, and con-
sidered as a unit. This unit system
was broken two years “ago when
President Mitchell signed a scale with
Pittsburg operators who agreed to
pay the scale demanded after opera-
tors of the other three states had
refused, and the miners won their
fight in consequence. Operators
signed the scale individually through-
out the country.
Since that time the miners have
tried to get back the unit rule, or
inter-state agreement, but operators
of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois, after negotiations lasting all
the past winter, have refused to
meet in inter-state convention with
the miners.
Ags a last resort President Mitchell
called the miners in national conven-
tion and district settlements were
authorized with the present wage
scale as a maximum. Failing to
agree by districts miners were au-
thorized to sign the present scale
with operators individually.
Vice President Lewis, who suc-
ceeded President Mitchell, is trying
to revive the inter-state unit rule.
Meanwhile district joint meetings
are being held in the various States.
Central Pennsylvania and the block
coal district of Indiana are the only
two districts. that have signed. In-
diana operators and miners, in session
at Terre Haute, are adjusting their
Small differences and have decided
to continue at work pending a set
tlement. There will be no strike in
Indiana. The Illinois district meet-
ing at Springfield has not reached an
agreement, but the relations between
the opposition interests are friendly.
Western Pennsylvania has not reach-
ed an agreement and the mines will
close down, throwing out of work
30,600 men. Ohio mines will close
alse: as no agreement has been reach-
ed. 1
The Southwest district, consisting
=
‘of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas
at Kansas City, and it is said the min-
ers will be idle for a time. Thirty-
five thousand men are affected. The
miners of the Kanawha field in West
Virginia are holding their joint meet-
ing at Huntington, and while no
agreement has been reached: one is
expected. The New River, Poca-
hontas and Fairmont fields are non-
union, and are not affected.
West Virginia and Kentucky miners
and operators will continue opera-
tions, it is believed, pending a set-
tlement.
The joint convention of Michigan
coal operators and miners agreed
that the gelieral scale of wages of
last year shall continue in effect un-
til March 21, 1909.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and E. R.
Thomas were refused service at the
Hotel Knickerbocker, New York.
FOR BUREAU OF MINING
Favorable Action on Project Taken
by House Committee.
Washington, D. C.—The proposed
establishment in the Department of
the Interior of a bureau of mines
and mining was unanimously but un-
officially concurred in by the House
comittee on mine and mining, and
such a bill will be reported favora-
bly.
The full committee was addressed
on the subject by former United
States Senator William M. Stewart of
Nevada, who favored the creation of
such a bureau in the Interior De-
partment rather than in the Depart-
ment of Commerce and Labor, be-
cause of the natural and necessary
connection it would have with the
geological survey.
Homeopathic Drugs hiust Be Pure.
Washington.—The senate passed a
bill including drugs of the homeopath-
ic pharmacopoela on equal terms with
those of the allopathic, under the
pure food law. Senator Hepburn ex-
plained that by an inadvertence
many homeopathic drugs had been
omitted from the pure food act.
SENATOR DAVIS FINED
Arkansas Statesman and Antagonist
Pay for Street Brawl.
Little Rock, Ark.—United States
Senator Jefferson Davis was fined $25
in ‘police court for disturbing the
peace. The fine was administered
for the senator’s action in securing
a revolver and appearing on the
streets where he had been attacked
and beaten a few minutes before by
Thomas Helm, deputy prosecuting
attorney. Helm was fined $10 for
assauit. |
MISTLETOE "HAS FRIENDS
Texan Who Weculd Exterminate It Is
Put to Rout by Legislators.
Washington.—An amendment to
the agricultural appropriation bill of-
fered by Mr. Burleson of Texas, pro-
viding means for exterminating the
mistletoe as a parasite harmful to
trees, provoked miuch heated discus-
sion in the house. No sooner had
the unromantic amendment been read
than a storm of protest arose.
“I should like to ask if the gentle-
man means this cruel measure to
“And I should like to know,” said
Mr. Olmstead, “whether the gentle-
man means this cruea] measure to
go into effect in leap year.”
" “And dces the gentleman value the
forests of the future more than the
poetic associations of the past?’ ask-
ed John Wesley Gaines.
Mr. Burleson tried to explain the
necessities of the’ c#se, but Mr.
Gaines had started on the subject of
sentiment and could not be stopped.
“I call up to your memory,’ he
said, “all the glowing thoughts that
ever came to you under the mistle-
toe. I call upon the gentleman who
has just left the chair, Mr. Nicholas
Longworth, to tell you his exper-
iences, and I call upon the whole
house to remember similar exper-
iences and vote down this amend-
ment.”
The amendment was killed amid
shouts of laughter.
TO PASS LIABILITY BILL
Amendment Favored by President Is
Eliminated from Measure.
Washington.—The judiciary com-
mittee cleared the way for a speedy
report of the employers’ liability
bill. Final amendments were agreed
to and Mr. Sterling of Illinois, the
author of the measure, was given au-
thority to redraft the bill according-
ly. = In its new form the bill will be
reported to the house next Friday,
with the recommendation that it
pass. x
The committee struck out the par-
agraph originally desired by the
President, extending the. liability of
railroad companies to employes on
mail cars without regard to whether
these cars are engaged in interstate
transportation of the mail, the Presi=
dent’s theory being that the federal
authority over postroads is inclusive
of the carrying of all mails, whether,
interstate or intrastate, and that
hence the specific authority given uss
der the interstate commerce act need
not be invoked. ° = st AT
Boston Wool Market.
_ Boston, Mass.—The condition of the
local wool market is more encourag:
ing. Sales have-increased and ship
ments are heavier, although prices
have as yet failed to respond to the
better feeling. Still holders beliey@
that the "bettom prices
reached, and that the increased de-
mand for wocl will soon show its ef-
fect. The leading domestic quota-
tions range as follows: Ohio and
Pennsylvania fleeces: XX 33 to 34c;
X, 30 to 31c; No. 1 washed, 37 to 38c;
No. 3 washed, 36 to 37¢c; fine uawash-
ed, 24 to 25c; fine unmerchantable,
26 to 27c; half blood, combing, 29 to
30c; quarter blood, combing, 27 to
28c. ;
MITCHELL TO BE EDITOR
Will Try to Secure. Industrial Peace
Through Labor Publication.
Indianapolis, Ind.—John Mitchell,
retired president of the United Mine
Workers of America, tonight announe-
ed that in future he will devote his
attention to a labor paper which he
will establish in Indianapolis. .
The object of the paper will be the
promoting of industrial peace between
miners and operators.
RUSH TO ALASKA GOLD FIELDS
Thousands of Miners Attracted by
New Rich Strikes.
Tacoma.—Ten to 15,000 miners and
prospectors will go to Alaska before
July, because more rich gold strikes
have been made this winter than ever
before.
Fabulous riches are reported from
Nolan Creek, Koyuskuk district,
where single pans run to $750 each.
Report Hard-Fought Battle.
Hong Kong.—There has heen a re-
vival of insurgent activity at Yaun
Chow, in the province of Shansi and
several hundred miles from Peking.
Reports received here state that the
provincial troops and the insurgents
have had a sanguinary conflict lasting
48 hours. The engagement was not
decisive. ‘
Soothing Syrup Kills Twins.
St. Paul.—Twin babies, a boy and
a girl, children of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Ackerknecht, died victims of sooth-
ing - syrup poisoning. The parents
told a physician they had given the
babies only five drops of the medi-
cine. The coroner is investigating.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Congressman Mouser of Thirteenth
Ohio district declines to be candidate
for renomination. ;
Speaker Cannon called upon the at-
torney general and secretary of the
department of commerce and labor
for facts concerning progress of in-
Yestigaiion into print paper combin-
ation.
Ten Per Cent Cut for 3,000.
Adams, Mass.—Notices of a wage
reduction averaging 10 per cent, tak-
ing effect on Monday, April 6, were
posted at the cotton mills of the
Berkshire Manufacturing Company.
About 3,000 hands are affected.
Judge Smith McPherson of Kansas
City decided that the. federal court
had jurisdiction in the matter of
railroad rates and decides in favor of
the railroads as against the state
laws.
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