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if II M Post .THE Vol VII. RALEIGH, IT. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 190 1. No. 198 illl No trouble ;orr Account of the , Steel Strike SMALL CLOUD VISIBLE Something May Happen at Wellsville Where the Mill People Are. Defiantr-Shaf-ter Displays Prudence Pittsburg, Pa., July 16. The big steel strike has so far created no diorder, but recording to the news received late to night from Wellsville, Ohio, there may be trouble there tomorrow. Dispatches from Wellsville say that Persifer F. Smith, district manager of the Ameri can Sheet Steel Company, came there today and had a talk with a few strik ing mill workers. The Wellsville . plant' is ithe one from which 12 men were dis charged for joining the union,- and. which is now on strike, all tne.inen hav ing been organized, jlr. Smith told, the men: 7. '"The Wellsville rolling mill will be run and it will be run non-union, and will start tomorrow.. If it could not be run non-union it never would be rr.i at all." , The men say that Smith, can not find any non-union men -to run the mill, but there is a good deal uneasiness among the strikers. No new men have been brought into Wellsville, but the strikers will watch the river landings and rail road stations to meet any non-union men that may arrive.' It was said at Amalgamated headquarters here today that "Jack" Whitehead, a former Amal gamated man, but now known as a famous scab and strike breaker, was. on his way from Alabama to help the trusts break "1he strike. It is believed now tnat Whitehead is bound for Wellsville. . . ' Pittsburg, July 10. Theodore Shaffer is not going to call out the union men employed by the National Tube.. Com pany, .tne National Steel Company, the Federal Steel Company and the Ameri can Sreel and Wire Company, four of the combines under the control of the United States Steel Corporation' which have "no strike on hand. Shaffer never said point blank that " he intended to call these men out, but he hinted and intimated that he had a circular letter in view that might cause them to strike. Tonight he said the he would not is sue a circular unless it lecanie neces sary, but he offered no assurances that he might not change his, i.ind again. It is believed that Shaffer is beginning to consider questions of finance and tnat he realizes .aat. if he calls out all nix union men there will le nobody left to pay strike assessments but the few thousand men employed by tne Ke;iuk lic Iron and Steel and the independent plants. John Jarrett, secretary of the labor bureau of the American Sheet Steel Company, was called to New- York to day, it is understood, from Cambridge Springs, Pa., where he was spending his vacation. , President Shaffer denies a reported statement of an official of the "United States Steel Corporation in which the official is quoted as saying that the com bination did not deny the Amalgamated Association the right to organize, but opposed forcing men to join. Shaffer said: 'We made no demand on anr one of the three companies now involved in this strike to force the men of ihe non-union mills into the Amalgamated Association. We simply requested that the companies sign the Amalgamated scale for the non-union mills and abro gate the contracts which now prevent the men' from joining labor organiza tions. The signing -of the scale would not force the men into the association. It would simply permit them to join If thry desired. We have no intention of compelling their organization. "In the mills where our one hundred lodges are located there is a considera ble number of men not members of the Amalgamated Association. We have been placed in a false, position. We Tiave attempted no coercion. The repre sentatives of manufacturers offered to fign the scalp for four mills which th"r have claimed were non-union. '7 The principle is not different for those. four mills that it is for all of the non-union inills of the three companies. We have Pimply desired to have the men g'veu the right to organize and join our "asso Jiation if they saw fit. The manufac turers have refused to permit This., That s' the entire situation." ; i-4 ,- :- - -. UNDER A LANDSLIDE 51 Three Buried Alive and" Five Seriously Injured Bridgeport, Conn, July 10. Three men were buried alive and five others were seriously injured today, in conse quence of a landslide in the upper sec tion of Fairfield, where an embankment torming one side of a reservoir which contactors are constructing for the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company, col lapsed. The 'excavation was 20 feet deep. The west bank of it. had just been braced with new timbes, completing the supports on all sides. An Italian laborer was working at the bottom of the excavation, digging. . His pick struck either a root j of a tree or a rock, which he removed ! with .considerable effort, causing the . entire west bank to col lapse. About a. dozen men were buried under an avalanche of dirt and timbers. Fortunately ths.re was another gang of workmen a shot distance away. They were-hurried to the scene and set to work digging for those under: the land slide. They succeded in rescuing all but three. Those rescued were nearly suffo cated. Some of them were unconscious and sufferiug from wounds about the body, caused by being struck by falling timbers. - . " '. - ' ' Unauthorized and Inaccurate Boston, July 16. Free silver is likely to be knocked put 'of the platform of the Massachusetts Democracy this year, for while the Massachusetts Democrats allow that Mr. Bryan has every right to discuss principles and paramount issues, they do not longer recognize him as either a supreme leader or a mascot. An observer who drifts about Demo cratic State headquarters here in Mas sachusetts now finds more traces of a gradual swinging v together of sound money Democrats and former silver ites, and ' Tom Johnson is more apt to be "mentioned as a candidate for the vacant place of idol to the xemocracy than is Bryan. - . s- . JAPAN'S MODEST CLAIM United States Alone in Admit ting Its "fairness Washington, July I C President' Mc Kinley is expected back in Washington within a short time for a talk with his cabinet officials and, for the trans action of any business that may de mand his personal attention here. There are some features 4n the Chinese problem that may have to be passed upon by the President. It is said that nothing has been heard as -the State Department from Commissioner Rock- hill in regard to the hitch over the Ja panese indemnity, which seems' to be the only stumbling block in the comple tion of arrangements. Japan, it will be recalled, contented-herself -with the ex tremely modest indemnity? $2 1,000,000 which represented the- obligations act ually iucurred by her relief and other expeditions. AVhen she came to arrange for the floating of the Chinese four per cent bonds with which the indemnities were to be paid she found they would not; command in her market more than SG per cent of their, face value. She accordingly went back jto the powers to ask for an increase ; to 'make -good the ,14 percent diseMinfTr To this thfe'pow? ers were not ready to agree, and Rus sia was particularly hostile. The atti tude of the United States, which Mr. Ito.?khi!lhas represented, has been that this extra allowance to Japan will be fair and we have been willing to grant it if the other powers would agree. The j commissioner's silence is thought to In dicate difficulty in reaching nu agree ment. ' BLOODY BATTLE Stand-up-Fight Between Ne groes and Mexicans Hereford, Tex., July 10. Word has reached here of . a pitched battle and wholesale killing between Mexicans and negroes who are working on the new Rock Island extension in .New Mexico, one hundred miles west jbt here. The trouble originated in the killing of a Mexican by a negro some weeks ago. The authorities undertook to ar rest ."the assailant, but his friends in terfered and they were obliged to with draw. ' ' 1 Last week some 35 or 40 Mexicans armed themselves with guns and went after the negro. A battle, took place, in which 15 negroes were killed and several wounded. The casualties among the Mexicans can not bo learned. The trouble occurred at Spencer's railroad camp, near Liberty X. M., in a sparse ly settled section of the territory, where police officers are few and the law is not rigidly enforced. - ,, - v ' ; PHILIPPINE SCOUTS Lieutenants Appointed for 12 .Native Regiments Washington, . July lG.-j-Iri accordance with . the provisions of the" army reor ganization bill, authorizing the formation of twelve regiments of "native ' Filipino soldiers, the President has appointed 41 provisional first lieutenants and a simi lar number of second lieuteuants, to be assigned to these: -regiments which are to , be known as Philippine Scouts. These appointments are provisional, for the reason that ;the; twelve full regi ments of Filipinos may not all be organ ized; ' '. The commissions of these officers are not unlimited, as those "of other officers' of the army, but are to continue for but four years. , V. . , v . - -$ Two Strikes at Memphis Memphis, July 16. Memphis -is being a strike" center. Today 300 coal miners of the GaUoway Coal Company of this city walked out of the mines because the company refused vto - force all em ployes into the union. About' forty car penters employed on - the new Gayosso Hotel building struck this morning, after the employers 'had declined a demand for the removal of a non-union foreman. - iiriiiKi Limited Areas Moistened am Cooled Will HELP THE CROPS Corn Will Be Revived Texas Cotton Belt Still Suffering. Excessive Heat in North Dakota Kansas City, Mo., July 10. Rain fell over an area of 80 miles around Kan sas City today. At Lawrence, Kansas, its was the first moisture in 26 davs. Ottawa, - Wellsville and Toronto, Kan sas, and Camden Point, Mo., also report good rains. . . . Although some of the fields, are re ported too far gone to be saved, it is believed late corn will be greatly re vived. In the three Missouri counties east of Kansas City the crop is reported in prime condition. The temperature here at ' 11 o'clock was 93 degrees. 4 WILL Charles A. Towne Jeads the Signs of the Times HILL THE COMING Free Silver a Dead Issue in the West Made So by Provi dence Western Democrats Want to Win and They, Are Ready to Repudiate the; Plarms of the Last Two National .Campaigns New Yorl?, July 16. Ex-Senator Cha A. Towne is. in New "i'oi-k organizing a company to handle the by-product of his oil wells in Texas. While asserting that he is out of politics for good, Mr. Towne ays that he has kept track of the political situation and feeling in the" West. . In my opinion ex-Senator Hill of New York will be the next candidate for President of the United States of th regular Democratic party," said he, "and the platform adopted will, I be lieve, be a very reactionary one. In fact I believe- the party-will split in 3004 and Mr. Bryan will lean v. third party faction in support o't ae issues to which he is still loyal. "The feeling among - Democrats throughout the West is that they want to win and they don't care a rap what sort of platform they win on. There i n strong feeling in that section in favor of the nomination of Mr. Hill or some other Eastern man, and vhe adop tion of a platform that will be a total repudiation of the chief issues of 1SDG and 1000. "The free silver question is absolutely desid in the West. It will not only not be an issue in 1004, but Ido not believe it will be mentioned, in the Democratic platform or campaign. Our position on Omaha, Neb., July 16. Eastern Ne braska, and western - Iowa received to day au inch or more of rain. The rain began falling at 2. o'clock" this morn ing and relieved the drought and heat ed term. Rains also are reported in the Black Hills of South Dakota. ' Dallas, Tex., July 16. Reports ' from the Texas cotton belt show 'tha"t last night's rains did not" reach that section and -that the plant is suffering. Hot winds continued to-day. In - the Pan Handle small streams are reported dry and cattlemen are beconting alarmed over 'the continued drought. St. Panl. Julv 16. Light scattering showers fell in South Dakota and Min nesota last night and brought some .re lief to the withering grain crops. . ' Hot winds prevailed in .orth Dakota yesterday and. last night, extending 'to' the international boandary, where the temperature was 100 and scalded out the wehjt suffering from excessive rains and overflows of three weeks ago. Oth erwise North Dakota crops are in good condition. . In South" Dakota and Minnesota THiPnt is damaced 10 to 25 per . cent. Yesterday's heat wrought more damage than all previous droughts. This morn ing the temperature snows little change, but the showers have undoubtedly check ed heat loss. Chinch bugs continue to destroy crops .the fields having turned white from the ravages -of "the pest. ' .'.- ." Washington, July 10. Three cases of prostration froni the heat were reported today. None are expected to proye fa tal. - . D irstai tionary Firemen Go Out on Vr 1 a Strike ,--::'ls----.v, f. GREAT NUMBERS IDLE t '.; All (the- Leading Mines in thjf Anthracite Coal Region aq ClosedNo Attempt to Carry on Operations Wilkesbarrc; Pa., July 16. The strike of the stationary firemen was declared this morning and at all places where the demands have not been granted the men left their work at 7 o'clock sharp. Nearly every colliery - in the entire anthracite region is tied up and those who are working are small concerns, where the operatives have placed men on an eight hour schedule for a month or several weeks, -(with the understanding that if the- big 'companies do not grant the de mand ;-tbey will change back to the ten and twelve hour schedule. The mines of the large corporations are all idle. Many of the companies shut down the mines and did not wait for MAfi FOR PRESIDENT free silver in 1896 and 1900 was misun derstood. We were not demanding more market and profit for the silver mined, but more money for the country to keep op prices. God, in His wise providence, lias provided a' vast increase in the sup- ply . of gold, and today there ' is more .money in thetcountry. than there would have been if the gold supply had remain ed stationary and the mints had been -opened to the free coinage of silver. " "So long as the present condition con tinues or the supply of gold continues to increase there can be no successful or serious demand for the free coinage of silver. Certainly that demand cannot again be made an issue in a national campaign until there is a big change in industrial or financial conditions." Mr. Towne said that he was glad to see that Mr. Hryan had condemned the Ohio - Democrats for their refusal to stand by the national platform. "It is just like the man," said he. "Mr. Bryan is certainly loyal to his principles and he is a hard man to down; but I do not believe he can again be the candidate of a united party for the office of President. All the indications in the West now point to a reactionary plat form three years hence and an Eastern -man as the nominee. Such a result, as I said, may cause Mr. Bryan to lead a bolt." the day of the strike to dawn, notices being posted yesterday that there would be no work at the collieries until fur ther notice. -This was the result of a consultation between leading officials htHd here yestei-day, and postponed in some measure the actual conflict be tween the strikers and the companies. At the mines the fire bosses and some men belonging to neither the Firemen's Union nor the United Mine Workers' Association have been placed at, the pumps, and are keeping steam up, but at .none of the mines have non-union men been placed at the fires and the miners continued at work. There has as. yet been no test of it. At those mines which started to work the shut-down whistle was blown a few minutes after thesfire meu went on strike, so that the mine workers did not have time to show their attitude regarding -the employment of non-union firemen. Several of the smaller companies wait ed' until the last moment and then, see ing that the Strike could not be avoided, except by granting the demands of the men, , they granted the eight-hour con cession. These are isolated cases, how ever, and the great maority of the mines are idle. The response to the call for the strike was general, the men going out at the minute specified. They are now holding meetings at each of their locals, and representatives from all over the region are coming in. The coal companies were non-committal, most of them stating that work had either been shut dowv as soon as the strike was declared or that work was suspenden indefinitely at their col lieries. . It is roughly estimated that 150,000 mine workers are idle. At some of the mills where the demands were not grant ed, non-union men have been placed 'in the strikers daces. As -et there have jbeen- no strikes or other employes in con- sequence., . " v The 3,000 mine workers employed by BRYAN BOLT ? the Kingston Coal Company announced themselves on a strike this morning, and Mr. Nichols, president of this district of the Mine Workers Union, said that the strike was authorized by the execu tive , boards of the district. He says the company has of late been cutting its prices for mining, contrary to the agree ment with the union, and the strike was ordered in consequence. It went into effect this morning, though the mines are idle owing to the firemen's strike. . $ . . . .. , The Hancock at Manila Washington, July 16. The War De partment has received a cablegram from General Corbin stating that" the trans? port Hancock has arrived safely at Ma nila and that all on. board are well. The Hancock sailed June 25 from San , Francisco, having on, board a number of the staff officers of the army, who are on a tour of inspection through the Philippines. - ' - . r- ' - New Shamrock a Fast One Glasgow, July 16. In an interview today Sir Thomas Lipton said that the trials had proved that thcShamrock II was the fastest racer, ever built on this side of the Atlantic. July 25 has been fixed as the date for the departure of the Shamrock II. for New York. v f AN END TO SLAVERY A Native Dignitary Proclaims Emancipation in Zamboanga Manila, July 16. The' members of the Philippine . . Commission are greatly pleased with the action taken by Datto Mandi, who has just issued a proclama tion prohibiting slavery or slave trading in the Zamboanga district. The Datto, in his proclamation, reminds the native chiefs that the slavery system is un favorable to the progress of the islands. The Philippine Commission has passed a resolution of thanks to Datto Mandi for has action. They attach the highest importance to the action taken by him and are convinced that he Is anxious to encourage progress in his district. In view of the serious destruction of crops by large swarms of locusts in the southern islands and their recent appear ance in Manila, which was repeated yes terday, the Philippine r Commission has adopted prompt measures for checking the plague. The African fungus, which has been used successfully in the United States, will be introduced and an additional employe of the health department-will be appointed whose sole duty it will be to prepare, and distribute the infected insects, through, the provincial" officials, in the localities affected. - The transport. Hancock, with Adjutant General Corbin "and party. Senator. Har ris and Representative Kahn, arrived here todayGetreraK'Corhra -will prob ably. be the guest of General Chaffee durinsr .-hls stay, here. . Mr. Ferguson, secretary of the Philippine Commission, met General Corbin and welcomed him on behalf of Governor Taft, who is con fined to his rooms by' a slight injury to one of his feet. ,A delegation of Cali fornians, headed by Justice Smith, greet ed Representative Kahn. TOM JOHNSONS VICTORY Street RailwayliValuation In creased Ten Fold Cleveland, O., July 16. By raising the tax valuation of the Cleveland ; City Railroad, popularly knowb. as the Liittle Consolidated, from $600,000 to $6,233,- 800 today, Tom Johnson scored his first victory in tfce campaign which he has been waging-, against the corporations since he was', elected mayor of Cleve land last spring. - What makes John son's victory more pleasing to himself is the fact that the president of the Lit tle Consolidated is Senator M. A. Hanna. Recently the railroad company made its tax retnrn, placing the value of its tax able property at $600,000. Today the city board of equalization got in its work by making its most sensational valuation to over six millions, or ten times the amount of the company's re turn. Senator Hanna was in Canton visiting PresiderrfMcKinley and Super intendent5 Mulhead -appeared before the board. Mayor; Johnson was also present and was sworn as an expert witness on street railways. Deputy County Aud itor Sarstedt fought the large increase in value but in vain, the board, almost entirely composed of Johnson men, hav ing their report formulated before- the meeting.' Superintendent Mulhead de nounced the action of the board as ille gal and. said-he wotdthcarry ; it to the courts, ' . GAINED HER POINT Madame Olgewska Draws Attention to a Grievance Paris, July 16. M. Baudin, minister of public works, was, fired upon while diving to. a cabinet meeting today. The author of the attempt npon the life of M. Baudin was a woman, who was ac companied by a ten-eyar-old child. She approached "M. Baudin's". carriage and, seemingly drawing a. revolver, fired at the minister.'; M. Baudin was not, in jured. The woman was arrested and gave her name as Olgewska, and said she lived at Nanterre. Madame Olgewska asserts that she had no intention of hitting M. Baudin, but that she tired her revolver in the air to draw attention t an alleged griev ance of her husband. - Her husband is described at Count Olgewska, a natu ralized Fenchman, holding a government receivership in the neighborhood of Pa ris. ; He believes be is being deprived of money due him by the ministry .' of foreign affair? v.-. . ' Street, Car Companies in thi State Must Provide Them LAW EFFECTIVE NOV. Corporation Commission De clines to Make Am Exceptions Purpose is tt Protect Motormen Every street car company doing busi ' ness in North Carolina will have to pro vide vestibules for all the cars thej operate after November 1 next. So save the North Carolina Corporation Com mission, upon whom the last Genera Assembly conferred the power . to ex empt any companies they might deeu it advisable in view of the situation oi the city in which the company operate cars being such as to escape the severe cold wind and sleet which sweep ovei other sections. Yesterday was the time set anart foi hearing the petitions of street car com panies praying release from the opera tion of the law, and petitions were pre sented by General Manaeer W. J. An drews of the Raleigh company, and Man ager ana Keceiver A. is. Skeldmg of the Wilmington '- company. The Charlotte, Asheville and Winston-Salem conmanies were heard through their representatives last week. The commission gave them all a cour teous hearing, and then made their ruling that they would not interfere with the operation of the law anvwhpi-p but simply let it be effective., in everv town where street cars are operated. j.ne law requires tnat tnese vestibules shall be used on the cars from Novem ber 1 until April lo, and the companies in the several " towns . where cars are operated must .. now ' proceed to prepare for putting these vestibules in use within little more than ninety days. , iney are aJready right generally used by the Asheville company, and the prin cipal oojecuon tne company or tnat city offered to the application of the law to them was that; it. would interfere with the discipline' of? "their motormen. Ac cording to their?present system-the rules required that the windows of the vesti bules shall be lowered when the . sub urban cars reach the city, and there is danger that the motormen may - attempt -to resist the rule for lowering -the win dows in the city limits.-- , Their reason for having this rule is that in very-cold weather the motorman's breath foims a sheet of ice over the glass, making it ' impossible for him to see clearly whether the track is clear or not. Then, too, fine snow, which often falls adheres to the glass and obstructs the vision. It remains to be seen how this difficulty; will be bridged. A member 'of the Corporation , Com? mission said last night that as a matter of . fact these vestibules, are . hot being used: anywhere an the country except on suburban lines; and wherever they have been adopted in cities they have -ultimately been abandoned as impractica ble. However, he said, there seems to have been sufficient evidence of the need of them in North Carolina towns tf warrant the General Assembly in pass- -ing the law.j the cari company influence only succeeding In securing the insertion of the clause allowing the commission t exempt any city they might think wher the facts were investigated the local con ditions warranted such exemption. With regard o . the fenders provided for by the same act of the Legislatur the commission decided to defer actiox indefinitely. This really means mom probably . that no action will be takei and that feature of the law will go bj default. However, it may be taken ui at some future time. A member of th( commission said that there does no seem to be the demand for the ienden that there is for the vestibules, . . DEAD ISSUES Democrats Deplore Bryant Efforts to Keep Them Alive Richmond, July 16. Prominent Demo crats do not take kindlr to CoL 'W. J. Bryan s position in undertaking to keep alive what they call the "dead-issues" of the past. Many of them- believe that the Western leader is liable to prove a disturbing factor in the party ' for a long time. "I do not think Mr. Bryan's position is all ' wise," said ' CoL Joseph Button, clerk of the Constitutional Con ventionithis morning. 'His attempt to ' keep alive old issues is going; to give the party lots of trouble, and the sooner he stops it the better it. will be for all." "Mr. Bryan ought to go out of the declaration business," said Judge James W. Marshall. "It would be well for him; : to rest a while and write a book on the civil war, or do something which would get these troublesome issues off his mind : for a while." : Judge James B. Richmond of Scott county concurred in this sentiment. H thought Mr. Bryan should drop silver . and accept the situation and get ready, to help win a victory for the Democrats in 1904. He was strongly of the opinion, that the Democrats needed to get to gether and discard past issues, and then they would stand a chance to win. : Con stant agitation of dead issues, he thought, was hurting the party. 1 - - An Expensive Criminal Casper, Wyo., July 16. Manuel Ar-' menta. has been convicted "here of steal ing sheep. - He has been tried fourteen times in three counties for larceny. In these trials he' has cost the State $100,- 000. Ho and his followers are said to have driven the range cattle business out of this section. He is a half-breed Mexi-, can and makes his home just south of the ' Hole in tho .Wall counto - t 1
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