STRIK1N& MINERS SHOT TO DEKTH. TWENTY-ONE KILLED. Deputies Ordered to Eire Upon a Band of Blotlng Miner. A Hot In which hnlf a hundred strik ing miner were shot down marks the end of the two months of peace which tins thus far charactrlxed the greet strike. Considering that a convention wan In progress at Columbus. O, for the speedy settlement of the strike, the killing nf at least fifteen men Is must deplorable. The strike situation reached n trrl ble crisis on the outskirts of Lattltner, Carbon county. Pa., Friday afternoon, when a band of deputy sheriffs II ml Into an Infuriated nmli or miners. Reports lun from fifteen to twenty odd killed, and forty or more wounded. Many of these will die. Four other dead He In the mnuntnins between Lat tlmer and Harlclgh. Those who were not Injured carried their dead and wounded friends Into the woods mil estimate Is ba tiled. Troops were called for and arrived on the scene Baturdny. The list of killed as revised and Iden tified follows: Michael Cheslok, of liar wood; Frank Cheka, of Harwood, John Stanlska. of Crystal Ridge; George Ku lick, of Harwood; Htephen llorllck, of Harwood! Jacob Ktllscot, of Harwood; John Slevonlck, of Harwood, leaves a wife and four children; John llarska, leaves a wife and two children; An drew Nlshknshkl; Andrew Hlovnnskl; John Script, leaves a wife and two chil dren; George Gnsnbush. tin Friday afternoon about 200 strllt- Ing miners left Haxelton, Pa., with the Intention of going to the Lattltner mines. On hearing this the sheriff Immedi ately loaded a hand nf deputies on a ttolloy car and dispatched them to the I.attlmer mines, where they arrived In advance of the approaching strikers. Sheriff Mnrtin was In entire command and stood In the front of the line until the strikers . approached. They were seen coming across the ridge, and Mar tin went out to meet them. The men drew up sullenly and listen ed in silence until he had once more lead the riot act. This finished, a low muttering arose among the foreigners and thre was a slight movement for ward. Perceiving this the sheriff step ped toward them and, In a determined tone, forbade the advance. Home one struck the sheriff and the next moment there was a command to the deputies to Are. The guns of the deputies Instantly belched forth a terrible volley. The re port seemed to shake the very moun tains and a roar of dismay went up from the people. The strikers were taken entirely by surprise, and as the men toppled and fell over each other, those who remained unhurt stampeded. The men went down before the storm of bullets like tenpins, and the groans of the dying and of the wounded tilled the air. The excitement that followed was simply indcscrlbnble. The deputies seemed to he terror-stricken at the deadly execution of their guns and see ing the living strikers fleeing like wild men and the others dropping to the earth, they went to the aid of the un fortunates whom they had brought down. Sheriff Martin was at first reluctant to say whether he had given the com mand to Pre, but afterwards admitted that he had. Twenty-three of the men shot at Latimer were reported dead, Monday, six more dying and nearly forty In the hospital. AFFAIRS IN CUBA. oniul General let Talks Concerning the Condition of the Island. ' Consul-General Fltzhugh Lee, Jr., ar rived from Havuna on board the Bo guranca at New York lat Wednesday. When asked as to whether he would return to Cuba or not, the general shook his head and said: "I cannot answer that, and I would miner not talk on Cuban affairs until I make my report In Washington." "There la a good deal of suffering In Cuba," said the General, "but the Americans, numbering about l.tiio, are being cared for from the fund of $."0, 000 which was appropriated for that purpose. They receive relief dnlly, and up to the present time about Slj.000 has been expended." "Is there any sign of business Im proving or a change for the better in Cuba?" ' "No;" t am sorry to say that there Is not," replied the General. "And there will not be any Improvement until the war Is ended." "When will that be. General?" To this question Gen. Lee replied In Spanish, a free translation of which Is, "'That is too much for me, I cannot ay." RESCUED BY LIB. American Citista Has a Harrow Bieapo From Being Deported To Africa. Among the .passengers who arrived the other day at New York on the Ward line steamer Yumurl, from Tarn pIco and Havana, was Jamea T. Carey, who claims to have seen service In the Insurgent army of eastern Cuba. Ho says he represents a New York paper. Another passenger was Lorenzo Vlves, w ho was arrested last December at the Hotel Angleterre, in Havana, and im prisoned at Cabanas for Ave months. Vlves is an American citizen. He de nounces in bitter terms the hotel pro prietor of the Vlllamill. who is a cap tain in the Spanish volunteers. Villa mill reported to the Spanish authori ties that Vives was a Cuban sympa thiser and caused his arrest. Without friends at hand, or means of communi cating with them, Vlves was held at the Cabanas for five months, when he was taken out with a large number of other prisoners to be transhipped to ' Africa, but Consul-General Lee ap peared and picked out Vlves from the crowd and demanded his release as an American citizen. Vlves was ent to Jail and later, through the efforts of General Lee, obtained his release. Spaniard Tight lick Men. Report allege that the Spaniards rontlnue their warfare against Cuban hospitals with a vengeance. Half a dozen of these places have recently been raided In different parts of the Island, their Inmates ruthlessly slaugh tered, and the buildings burned. Wo men, children and sick men were gen erally the victims. tele the Magle gton The Blarney stone has been atolen and the Irish people at Atlantlo City, N. J., are up In arms. More than that. vandals have desecrated and attempted to burn up Blarney castle. The castle was a Boardwalk amusement at the ocean resort, where a section of the genuine Blarney stone of Ireland, re cently shown at the big Irish fair In New York, was on exhibition. Late n night thieves entered the place. hi tbo decorations with knife, TSRJB TBL10RAMS. General Lee, consul to Havana, has returned to thin country on a SO days' leave of absence. Fire, caused by an explosion, did $50,000 damage to the Ice manufactur ing plant of H. Hermntio & Hons at Bt. Louis the other day, Jamea Stevenson, a sawmill employe at Murphyshoro, III., fell upon a cir cular saw a few days ago, and his head was severed from his body. Comer Couslneau, real estate owners and builders at St. Laurent, Canada, have assigned with $250,000 liabilities and very small assets. Customs Inspectors at Lardeo near San Antonio, Tex., have found an un claimed gripsack on a train containing $200,000 worth of diamonds. Jewelry and other valuables. Miss Martha t'lvburn has sued In Chicago for a share of the ll.oon.iMi') estate of Allen Gregory, founder of the stock yards. She alleges that she was mutt led to him In IWf. The court at Hatavla, N, Y., refused a new trial In the case of Howard C. lien ham, convicted of poisoning his wife, and he was sentenced to be electrocuted during the llrst week of November. Iowa. Sac and Fox Indians are hold ing a dance and dog feast on the Chief Abraham Lincoln allotment, at Okla homa. Over 200 dogs were roasted and eaten In the feast a few days ago. The average dally shipment of money from Kansas City banks last week to farmers throughout Missouri Kansas, Colorado, and most of which has been used In moving grain, was 745,000. Fearful storms have occurred In Western Silesia and the rivers are rnpldly rising and threatening fresh Inundations. Several persons have been killed by lightning and a number of farm houses have been burned. The trouble over land titles In Juneau has at last been settled by a decision of Judge Dclaney of the United States court at Juneau. The possessory rights who have Improved their holdings are held to be good against Invasion. The mother of Mrs. John D. Rocke feller, Mrs. It. L. Spelman, died at Fort Hill, O., Mr. Rockefeller's country home. Death was the culmination of a month's sickness. The family were at the bedside. The deceased waa 88 yiars old. F. Powers, of Maysvlllo, O., with a partner, mntle $120,000 each out of one claim they discovered last winter, and then sold It for $120,000. Powers Is on his wny home, and says the Klon dyke Is the richest country In the world. Tho Queen of Denmark celebrated her eightieth birthday a few days ago. She Is celebrated among sovereigns for having "married off" her daughters and sons with a better eye to main chance than any ruler in recent his tory. Two maiden sisters, Miss Harriet C. Sheldon. 82 years of age, and Miss Matil da Sheldon, HA, were fatally burned at their home In Lynn, Mass., Sunday. The old ladles, who lived In a house by themselves, were cooking with a kero sene stove, when the latter tipped over and the oil ran out and Ignited. William Jones and William Louden, negroes, were recently held In ball on a charge of gambling. They ran an establishment known as the Colored Investment society. It conducted a pool room, a dancing school, a mission and a poker lay-out, all in the same building. Six young men were drowned In a yacht near Windmill point In Lake St. Clair a few days ago. The dead are Thomas Frltx. H. tier tela. Grant Mur ray, Thomas New some, Charles Rleo and Jay Tansey. They had hired a yacht, which was capsized by two of the boys rocking tho boat. John Miller, living In Hampshire county, W. Va., tho other day sold his apple crop to a purchaser from Haiti more for between $20,000 and $21,000. Wil liam Miller, his father, also sold his applo crop for about $10,000 at the same time. These are two of the largest fruit deals ever made In this section. A project Is under way which con templates the amalgamation of three great railroad systems the Big Four, the Baltimore and Ohio and the Balti more and Ohio Southwestern. The mile age of such a consolidated system would he nearly MOO, and it would be the most extensive railroad property In tho Fast, extending from St. Louis and Chicago to New York. Mgr. P. P. Toner, Missionary apos tolic and honorary chaplain to His Holiness Pope Leo XIII., and chaplain general to the American bishops, was stricken by the heat in his room In a hotel at Philadelphia Saturday. He died shortly afterward. Mgr. Toner waa 05 years of age. He had resided about two years at the hotel where he waa stricken. According to a dispatch from Mos cow Lleut.-Gen. Baron von Bchak has committed suicide by shooting himself witn a revolver at Odessa In a At of re pentance. He was a member of the German Lutheran body. His religious connections excited the suspicions of his superiors and they ordered him to resign or to Join the Russian orthodox church. He chose the latter course and then killed himself In remorse. Twenty-four persons, mainly spec tators of the great blast at Panuelas quarry, on the Vera Crua railway, were Instantly killed Sunday. The blast went off and the people rushed forward to see the effects, when gases In the air Ignited, causing an explosion, with ter- nolo results. Two cavalrymen were on guard and were killed, with their hor ses. Many people were wounded. The quarry supplies rock for Vera Crua har bor improvements. The property and plants of the Edi son Illuminating Company of Bt. Louis were disposed of last Saturday for $194,000 at a foreclosure sale. The properly was bought by A. D. Brown, a representative of the stock and bond holders organization committee. Tho defunct company defaulted on Its oonaca acnt to the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York last Feb ruary. It has carried a capitalization or zi.vuu.ouo ana a bonded debt of $4, 000.000. Hawaiian advices contain the reply of Minister Cooper to the arbitration proposition as submitted by Japan, Mr. Cooper says that Japan, having re fused to submit to arbitration the ques tions whether the Japanese Immigrants refused entrance Into Hawaii were pos sessed of $50 each, and as to whether the treaty of 1871 is applicable, the Hawaiian government cannot definitely accept arbitration until It knows Just what polnta Japan Is willing to arbi trate upon; nor can It accept the King nf the Belgians as arbitrator until this is made known; CAPITAL 0IZANIH0S. Secretary Alger returned to his desk last Wednesday after six weeks' ab sence. . He said, adopting a military simile, that general prosperity had as sumed full command of all forces of the United States throughout the country. He was Impressed with this evidence wherever he went. H. N. D. North, of Boston, has been selected as the superintendent of the next census and his appointment will be made as soon as the necessary leg islation can be enacted. The president la aald to favor the establishment of a periuaiiimi Bureau us census, in rib ii m mat. CAUSES DEATH. A Million Dollars will be Sipeaded te Sup press the Dread Disease. The Louisiana State Board of Health kept faith with It sister bodies or the South and tho rest of the country when It made official announcement Monday, an a result of a careful au topsy that Raoul Oelpl, 13-yenra-old, had died of yellow fever at New Or leans. Gclpl was the son of promin ent people, and had been spending some time at Ocean Springs, Miss., where he was taken down with fever and brought home. Boon after avvlv Ing, despite the beat medical attention, he died. "We have no fear," said Dr. Welms ley, acting president of the Board of Health, "that the fever will spread In New Orleans. The Board of Health la prepared to spend a million dollars to stamp It out, and we see no reason to feel alarmed. People ought not to get frightened. This one ease whs taken charge of In time, and such scientific; fumigation has been applied as to war rant tne nope that we shall promptly and effectively stamp nut the disease. We have made arrangements to Issue a circular to every practicing Physi cian In New Orleans, commanding them to report to the Board of Health every suspicious case of fever. We nave made arrangements to act promptly In every case and If, un fortunately other casese of yellow fe ver shall be brought to our attention, we shall without delay nnliry the world through the press of the facts." Dr. Walmslev was illsnoseil to hold the representatives of the Marine Hos pital service and the Mississippi Board of Health to some responsibility for the Invasion. He said that the fever had unquestionably been communicat ed by the constant Intercourse of Ocean Springs with Ship Island, where mere is a I'ntted states government quarantine station. Ships from all por- tuns or tne world touch there. A large number from tropical countries, where yellow fever Is Indigenous to the soli, report there weekly. There has been steady and uninterrupted communication between the Island and the coast towns, and Dr. Walms ley has little or no doubt that this has been the means of bringing Into Ocean Springs tho deadly germs of yellow fe ver. If a rigid quarantine had been maintained between the Island and shore, he believes that Ocean Springs would now have little else to contend with than the dengue fever. Immu nity from epidemic, however, has had a tendency to breed carelessness, and the result Is to be found In tho calamity which haa befallen tho pop ular sound resort. The board of health at New Orleans Sunday declared six of the susnlclous cases to be yellow fever, and announced another pronounced case at Mlro and Kspiannde streets, also In the lower part of the city. Tho authorities do not believe that the situation is materially worse than It was four or five days ago, and they are still confident of their ability, with modern sanitary applian ces, successfully to quarantine tho In fected districts. THE STRIKE ENDED. As a Remit of a Conference the Miners will Became Work on a 65-Cent Basis. The great miners' strike, which was declared on July 4), was brought to an end Saturday evening, so far, at letst, aa Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi ana and West Virginia are concerned, ny tne action or the tntcr-state con vtntton nf miners, which has been In session at Columbus since Wednesday. It depends upon the operators wheth er or not the mines resume work with in the next 10 days. If a majority of firms a nee ted ny the suspension an nounce their willingness to pay the 65- ecnt rate, or an equivalent, tho miners can go to work Immediately. Other wise the strike will be continued 10 days longer, when, regardless of local conditions, the great conflict will be declared off. The 10-days limit Is Inserted to give all tho miners In the districts llko Il linois and West Virginia, where the ttn-cent rate has opposition, a reasona ble time to force the acceptance of the price. If at the end of 10 days no ad justment has been reached In auch dis tricts, the men In other fields will not be withheld from their work longer. but will be permitted to go Into the pits. lr, on tne otner hand, tne operators who desire peace are able to have the rate Indorsed by a majority of their number In tho five States before the 10-day limit expires, Just so soon will tho strike be officially declared off. THE MERCHANT MARINE. Interesting Figure! Begsrding the Inorease ana beoreaio of Tonnage. The documented merchant marine of the United States on June 30 lust num bered 22,633 vessels of 4,769.020 gross tons, an Increase of 65,400 tons over Juno 30, 1SU6, and a decrease of 275 vessels. The tonnage of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts is 2.647,706, a decrease of 20.000 tons. Tho tonnage of the great lakes Is 1,410.103 tons, an Increase of 86,000 tons. Pacific coast tonnage was virtually stationary. American sailing tonnage has exceeded steam tonnage for the last time in our history, the steam tonnage on June 30 amounting to 6,599 vessels of 2,358,558 gross tons, an Increase of 51,000 tons over the previous year. Nearly all of this Increase Is on the great lakes, where steam vesslB number 1,775, of 977.235 tons. '! New York state has the largest mer chant marine, 4,857 vessels of 1,331,743 gross tons, an increase of 27,000 tons. The state exempts from taxation Its tonnage In foreign trade. Michigan ranks second with 1.132 vessels of 477, W)3 tons. Ohio's vessels are the largest and most modern, 558 of 390,052 tons. Maine's fleet numbers 1,871 vessels of 299,592 tons. Steel and Iron vessel number 1.023. of 1,207,222 tons, an increase of 117, 000 tons. During the year 68 Iron or steel vessels of 124.395 tona were built and documented. Vessels registered for foreign trade number 1,230 of 805,584 tons. Of 72.000 shipments of seamen on American merchant vessels before Unit ed States shipping commissioners for the last fiscal year, 23,500 were of Amer icans, 18,000 Scandinavians, 13,000 Brit ish, 8,000 Germans, and the balance of other nationalities. Shipments at New York numbered 23,000, San Francisco, 13,500. Boston, 7,700; Philadelphia, 7,000, and New Orleans. 4,700. WBYLB1 INNOCENT. Bat He Declares that the Cubans are Reipoa sible for Their Misery. Gen. Weyler, on his return to Ha vana the other day, talked freely to a number of leading Spaniards of his policy, the first time he haa done this since he came to Cuba. "What meana all the outcry against my decree ordering the concentration of paolrtoos? Only that It waa a mil itary measure, favorable to Spain.' It Is not my fault If hundreds of thou sands of people have to die from ef fects of It. I did not provoke the war. The revolutionists cast the die, and thev must stand the conseauonces." AWFUL DISASTER. Thirty lives tost la a Bailwsy Wreck at Hew Caitle, Cel. A terrible wreck waa caused by a head-end collision between a Denver ft Ulo Grande passenger train at New Castle, Col., Friday morning, running at the rate of forty miles an hour, and a special Colorado Midland stork train, running at a speed or probably thirty miles. So terrible was the concussion that both engines, baggage and express cars, smoker and day conches and two stock cars were totally demolished and tne tracK corn up for rods In both di rections. To add to the horror of the scene, the wreck caught fire from an explosion of a Plntsch gas tank on tho passenger train and burned so rapidly that many passengers, pinned beneath the debris, were burned to death before heln could reach them, The generally accepted theory as to the cause of the wreck seems to be Hint Conductor Burbank of the Midland spe cial, anticipating the time of the pas senger, undertook to "steal a station," and beat the passenger Into New Cas tle. Burbank escaped uninjured, and, upon orders from Coroner Clark, has been placed under arrest by the sheriff. Many of the unfortunates will never be known and It Is possible that the num ber killed will always be In doubt. From the best Information obtained now, fully thirty persons are believed to have perished, while 185 were taken out or tho wreck suffering from serious injuries. The dead, as recognised, are: F. Kes han, mall agent, of Denver; Robert 8. Holland, fireman, Denver Rln Grande railway, Snllda: Mrs. Alexander Hart- man and two sons of hers, or Ilerscher, ill.; James rcrrlcK, or Chicago; William Hlnes, fireman: William Gordon, en gineer passenger train; Charles Leeper, or t larion. t'a. R. W. Shot, of Leeper. Ta.. Is reported among the Injured. The body or Robert Ostrander. engi neer or the Colorado Midland stock train, was round later In the debris of the wreck. Tho head and arm were burned off. Rev. Alex. Hartman. of Hersher, III., whose wife and two child ren were killed In the accident, died In the hospital at Sallda Saturday morn ing. TRAINS COLLIDE. Three Locomotive Boilers Explode and Many are Dead and Injured. One of the worst wrecks In tho his tory of the Santa Fe occurred three mllea east of Emporia, Kan., last Wed nesday night. Twelve or fifteen per sons were killed and aa many more were badly wounded. The known dead are: Jim Brennan, engineer, Topeka; Nate HolllHter, fireman, Topeka; J. F. Sours, Kansas City, express messen ger, body almost consumed by fire; William Frlsbey. engineer: R. A. Do- ran, Emporia, postal clerk; Gon zales, fireman westbound train; Brag- man, first name unknown. Toneka: Ben Water, St. Joseph, Mo., a fireman on the westbound train, Is missing; unknown man, tramp. A fast mall train going east and the Mexico and California express collided head on. The Mexico and California express was pulled by two locomotives, and when struc k by the engine draw ing the fast mall the boilers of all three engines exploded and tore a hole In the ground so deep that the smoking cars or the west-bound train went In on top or the three engines and two mall cars and balanced there, without turning over. The passengers In the smoking-car escaped through the win dows. The front end of this car wns enveloped In a volume of stilling smoke and steam, belching up from the wreck below, and the rear door was Jammed tight In the wreck or tho car behind. The wreck caught Are from the en gines. The cars in the hole burned to ashes In no time. Climbing out of the smoking-car several men fell through the rifts below, and It Is Impossible to tell whether they escaped or were burned to death. The westbound train carried seven or eight coaches, and Its pasengers In cluded many excurslonlHta. who had been to hear Hon. W. J. Bryan speak nt the county fair at Burllngame. Mr. Bryan himself was on the train, but whs riding In the rear Pullman, some 4iK feet from the cars which wrecked. He atatea that nothing but a heavy Jolt was experienced by the passengers In his coach. Mr. Bryan was one or the noblest men In the crowd or rescuers. He help ed to carry out the dead and wounded and gave the greatest attention to their care. One poor fellow who was badly maimed, called to Mr. Bryan and said: "I went to hear you to-day: I am now dying and want to shake your hand and say God bless you. If you possibly can, Mr. Bryan, get me a drink or water." Mr. Bryan went Into the fast mall car, one end or which was burning, and came out with the drink of water, which he gave to the suffering passen ger. He brought out cushions for others of the injured and was every where present to minister to the wants of the suffering. It Is stated that the wreck waa caused by a miscarriage nf orders from the train-master. At Kmporia the eastbnund fast mail train received or ders to pass the California express at Lang, seven miles east. Another order was sent to Lang for the California ex press to take the siding there. The order waa not delivered and the west bound train passed on, the trainmen expecting to pass the fast mail at Km poria. Disastrous Wreck. A disastrous freight wreck occurred on the Iron Mountain road at Hanson, I. T., a small station west of Vanpu ren. Ark., Sunday, resulting In the death nf seven men and the serious In Jury of six others, two of whom will die. The dead are: William Fame. Charlea Fame, Douglass Anderson, John Johnson, Bore Henderson, Frank Hamilton, H. A. Walton. CBAZB CONTINUES. Xxpedltioa Being Fitted Out to Proceed to the Xlondyke Oold Mines. The Klondike rage aurvlvea In Lon don despite the discouraging reports. The steamship companies say that In quiries atill are active for spring de partures, one vessel being commission ed to take a party by way of Cape Horn, reaching the Klondike by way of St. Michaels early In June. The fare for the double Journey Is $8j0, Including a $2,500 lire policy. Tho Idea Is to keep the steamer In the Yukon district as a floating hotel to avoid camping out. Fifteen Klondike companies already have been formed hero with a capital of $10,000,000, of w hich $5,000,000 are of fered to the public. To Stump Oat Sectarianism. On the heels of the appointment or the csar'a commission to consider the Introduction or universal and compul sory education throughout the empire comes a strong crusade on the part of the Russian bishops to stamp out sec tarianism. The bishops have agreed to demand of the caar that Tolstoi and his followers be prosecuted, that the sectarian school ue cioseu, CREECE RKD TURKEY HRE SATISFIED SALISBURY YIELDS. International Confutation of lit Powers to Control the Finances of Greece. The Marquis of Salisbury's proposal for tho constitution of an International commission, representing the six pow ers, to assume control or the revenues with which Greece will guarantee pay ment or Interest for the holder or old bonds as well a payment or the In demnity loan, this step to be followed by the prompt evacuation of Thessnly by the Turkish troops, haa teen ac cepted by the powers. The only remaining question Is the dates for the payment of the Indemni ty. The powers desire to Insert these dates In the treaty of peace, hut the British ambassador. Sir Philip Currle, suggests that they leave the dates to be determined upon by the Internation al commission. The ambassadors ex pect all the details or the treaty of peace will be settled on Thursday next. The London "Times" correnponderit at Constantinople has telegraphed his paier that It was owing to a note from Count Muravleff, the Russian minister ror foreign affairs, intimating that Great Britain waa responsible ror the "Incalculable evils rrom which Greece and Turkey are suffering through the delay In the conclusion of peace be tween the two countries," tli.it the Marquis of Salisbury submitted tresh proposals for the settlement or the per manent peace between Turkey and Greece. The Marquis of Salisbury's latest proposal tor the settlement ot the terms of peace between Turkey and Oreeoe Is generally regarded In Lon don as a victory tor German diplom acy, and much bitter reeling Is dis played In England over the British premier's backdown. A fresh proposal was what Germany has been holding out ror, namely, the control ot the Greek revenue In the interest or all the creditors or Greece, as well aa ror the security of the loan to Greece for the purpose of paying her Indemnity to Turkey, LONDON'S STRIKE. Workman Say that Poles, Hons and Other Foreigners Destroyed Unionism in America. The engineers on strike at London have won the cordial support of the trades union congress, now meeting at Birmingham, and the struggle will continue exceptionally stubborn and hard fought. The supposed labor situ ation In America Is being cited as an example or a warning, according to the point of view. F.ngllsh manufacturers claim that In Pittsburg and other American cen ters of Industry "the thraldom ot unionism" has been shaken off; that tho employers are entirely Independ ent or the workers and are better off In consequence. In Kngland the so-called "solidarity of labor" and right to organise has been generally admitted, and the urg ing of "American methods" has acted on the unions like a red rag on a bull. They reply that where unionism has been beaten In America It has been done by the employment of Poles, Huns and other foreigners, and that the scheme will never work in Eng land. The ninth week of the engineers' struggle In London leaves 22.000 en gineers, 11,000 trades unionists, 2.000 non-unlonlsts and 5,000 laborers out of work, with strike pay amounting to $165,000 per week. New Arms depend ent on engineering are stopping work dally and some of the locomotive man ufacturers have posted notices aa fol lows: "Eight hours a day, with the present rate nf wages, would be dlastrous to the locomotive trade ot England, In the race or American and Continental competition. We therefore feel It our duty to counsel the men to refrain from any encouragement or support or the eight-hour movement.." Famine in Ireland. The "Daily Nation" arter getting a letter rrom every pastor of a parish In rural Ireland, says: "Since black '47, the Irish laborer has never faced a winter more full of privation." The harvest Is as had as can be In the west of Ireland, and It la pretty sure there will be not only a rood but a fuel famine. Not only arc the potatoes rotting in the ground, with the grain crops beaten down by rain and not worth reaping: but the turf cut will not dry. Unless there Is exceptional weather within the next few days a famine la a certainty. FROM ACROSS THE SEA, A concession to complete the Panama canal has been given to Kngland. A brother or President Barrios or Guatemala and the wife ot Senor Jefe do Tolltico were killed tho other day. By the explosion of a boiler at a brew ery at Hoenstaedt, near Olmutx, Aus tria, eleven persons were killed and many were Injured. The British steamer Polyphemus, from Yokohama to London, has been damaged in a collision near Jebel-Tar. an Island of the Red sea. Twenty st ven or her crew were drowned. Missionaries returning from China say that the government has entirely ceased its hostility to their work, and rrequently consults them regarding methods ot advancing Chinese Interests. The Ashing fleet returned to Dunkirk recently from Iceland and reported that out ot ninety-eight boats, six foundered during the season, resulting in the drowning ot thirty men and boys. France has been appealed to by the Pope to oppose the Zionist movement to re-establish the Jews In Palestine. Dr. Grunhua, master or the German school at Jerusalem, asserts that out ot 30,000 Hebrews in that city, 28,000 live The Chinese Government Is negotiat ing with a foreign syndicate ror a loun of 100.000.0f0 taels for the purpose of paying off the remainder of the indem nity to Japan, and it Is believed that th matter will aoon ba brought to a suc cessful Issue. The President of the Senate at Lima, Peru, has asked tor the appointment ot a commission to report Immediately upon the proposal to legalise the mar riage ot non-Catholics, adding that the non-existence ot a law leaves hundreds or children of foreigners deprived or the protection ot a law which ought to exist in every civilised country. Tho sultan has ordered a commis sion, composed of two Mussulniuns, three Armenians and one Greek to visit the Armenian villages which have been the chief sufferers rrom the mas sacres and raise funds to rebuild the Armenian schools, churches and mon asteries and build orphanages. The commission will start immediately. The Norwegian bark Alette, Cant. Lorentaen, trom Vancouver, via Port Aniieles. tell a victim to tne fury of gale, at Yokohoma, last woek, and was wrecked oft Nlchlskl. Ten of her crew were drowned and the six survivors were seriously Injured. There Is a pos slbillty of recovering a portion of her cargo. The Alette was a double-decker and palled irom urammen. Norway. STILL ADVANCING. Encouraging Beaorts from all Over tM Country Show Msny Man at Wort. n. O. Dun ft Co.'a weekly review of trade reports as follows; There la no halting In the advance. Business grows better In all ways, for, while Its speculative end breaks con splcuous gambler for a decline, a steady Increase In production, In work Ing toree and In the power or the peo ple to purchase la the feature which overshadows all others. Reports of New York trade unlona show an In crease since one year ago of $4 pr cent. In the number of men at work, nnd a similar Increase among men In like position throughout the country would exceed 340,000, while every week adds many establishments to the active list. A gain nf 12 per cent. In one month In the output of pig Iron, from 165,378 tons August 1 to 18.-.,5i September I, with knowledge that half a dosen other fur naces are preparing to resume, and that unsold stocks have been reduced 14,400 tons weekly In August, Indicating a consumption of about 190,000 tona more than explains the moderate advance In price or finished products, averaging but per cent, since the lowest point, August 12. Pig is a shade stronger at Chicago, but the proot that the advance la heal thy Is round In the growing demands or consumers, especially for bars, with Inquiries for 300.000 tons reported at Chicago, ror structural work, Including 12.000 tons ror Santa Fe bridges, for all sorts of car material, Including 10,000 axles and for plates, especially for ship yards on the lakes, so that the most prices have advanced $1 per ton. Rods, sheet and merchant pipes are In heavy demand. Copper Is steady and lead a shade stronger at 4.15c, and the pro duction of coke has reached 124,000 tons, with 12.717 ovens In operation. Wheat has risen Be the past week not In a flurry, but In answer to the dally increasing foreign demand. Though reports of the crop, now almost ' wholly out of danger, Indicate a yield never surpassed but once, foreign ac counts still strengthen the belief that the deficiency abroad will be about 100,000,000 bushels more than usual, and meanwhile reports Indicate that less corn than was expected will be availa ble ror export. Its price has risen about 6-8c. Since th small corner In August, cot ton has relapsed to 7"e, no rumors af fecting prices much. Northern mills are consuming very largely, with a con tinuous demand tor goods, vvhlch has advanced the prices or many. With enormous speculative sales of wool, which appear to constitute most of the market at Boston, there Is also more buying there and elsewhere by the woolen mills, which are enjoying extra ordinary demand ror odds at prices averaging not 10 per cent, higher than was paid early in the year. The aver age advance for the week In sureties has been $1 12 per share for railroads and 70 cents ror trusts. Failures tor the week have been 215 In the United States, against 315 last year, and 35 in Canada, against 47 last year. TONS OF POSTALS. Four Hundred Freight Cars Necessary te Transport tne earns to Washington. From present Indications a West Vir ginia paper company will manufacture all the postal cards used In this coun try during the next four years, and the timber reserve or Northern West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsyl vania will be drawn upon for the ma terial to be used in the pulp rrom which the cards will be manufactured. When the bids were opened for this contract It was found that a former contractor, ex-State Senator Daggett of New York, was the lowest bidder by about $25,000 per annum. Aa he did not own a paper mm, tne third assistant postmaster general, Mr. Merrltt, called upon him to designate the mill that would manufacture the cards. This was necessary, as the freight to be paid on the cards would count In awarding the contract. Mr. Daggett named the West Vir ginia Paper Company, whose principal mill-waa at Piedmont, with another at Davis, ir all Is round to be satisfac tory the contract will be awarded to Mr. Daggett, and it will commence on December 1 next and lust for four years. Few people realize the six of this contract. It la estimated that during the tour years the government will re quire 2.500,000.000 postal cards. These cards will weigh about 70.000 tons, and nearly 400 railroad freight cara will be required to transport them from Pied mont to the government supply depots. The government will aend five men to Piedmont to look after its interests In the contract. The value of this con tract la in the neighborhood of $700,000. Of this amount nenrly all will go te. Piedmont, as Mr. Daggett, the con tractor, will be satisfied with a nice profit for his enterprise and pluck in making the bid. For. the common pos tal cards his bid waa less than 24 cents per thousand. DEFEND ON AMERICA. Europe Will Need 130,000.000 More Bushel ot Wheat than Last Year. W. P. Atwell, commerclul agent of the United States at Robalx, France, sends to the State Department a report on the short wheat crop in France. He says the crop in France, and, in tact, in all Europe, has fallen much below the average, and that It Is estimated that the United States and Canada will be called upon to export from 120,000, 000 to 130,000,000 bushels more than they exported to Europe last year. France will require about 60,000.000 bushels to mtet the deficiency in that country. Consul Heenan, at Odessa, Russia, has made quite an extensive report to the State Department concerning the failure or the crops In Russia. In many districts It has beer, the wettest season ever known and grain has been de stroyed by both rain and hall. Much of the grain waa not worth tha ex pense of binding. Wheat received at Odessa la of a very Inferior quality. The report predicts that little wheat will be exported from Russia during the season or 1H97-98, as there Is little available tor that purpose, the old stocks being practically exhausted and the new crop little more than sufficient for the home-demand. The failure ot the wheat crop In Austria-Hungary, Uoumanla and Bulgaria, Consul Hee mnn continues, has brought buyer from those countries Into Russia, Secretary Seeder Resigns. Secretary Frank Reeder of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania haa resign ed at the request of Governor Hastings. The vacant position was1 offered to Col. James H. Lambert, the present Insur ance commissioner, but lie refused the office. David Martin, of Philadelphia, haa been appointed to All the position of secretary ot the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. State Chairmau John P. Elkln retired as deputy attorney-general of Pennsyl vania, Friday, and Colonel Wilbur F. Reeder of Belletunt waa appointed hla successor. r".
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