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.
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