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RALEIG-H, 3ST. C, WEDNESDAY, AUG-UST 14, 1901.
No. 13
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Strikers Evidently Successful
Against Carnegie's Plant
THE FAGTSNOT KNOWN
.
Strikers at Wellsville Work
ing on Streets as Common
Laborers Unions Talking
for Arbitration
r.:''nrpr. Aug. 13. The efforts of the
firik.rs to cripple the Carnegie lower
i: . . ' . apparently met with more success
t :;i-ht. At noon today ten men went
cm anl at least five of them were ex
jori ni. ii. Tonight a good many of the
evening shift promised the crowd of
tt risers before the gates not to go to
v but walked down a side street
an I entered the mill through the back
w ay. Later in the evening a meeting
ivh hell in the hall of the American
'Meohauies, who routed out the strikers,
s it was their lodge night. Then the
A lot of men took the Amalgamated
mating adjourned to a barber shop. ,
A "'iation obligation and the reporters
were tkl that they were employes of
the lower union mill. -If this be true,
the mill will hardly operate fn full to
e::t w. But until-then the truth or
f.iNiry of the claim that one hundred
aiul sixty men now belong to the mill
:-. will not be known. At 6 o'clock
ruvmw morning the day shift will go
in. and fre.ni it the Amalgamated Asso
ci.ri n claims its recruits."
Th American Sheet . Steel Company
t ! i.v announced that it had decided to
dismantle and remove another mill the
'Chart iers Sheet Steel plant in Carnegie,
Tfn miles from Pittsburg. The mill
nploys 400 skilled and unskilled men,
ho are idle on account of the strike.
The mill will probably go to the Kiski
miuetas Valley, where the Dewess wood
mill of MeKeesport is to betaken.- The
si i-ikers were very jubilant tonight.
Lwis T. Brown, the general superin
tendent of the Carnegie lower mill, ad
r.viited that twelve of the regular men
had quit, but that he had filled their
places and the mill was running as usual.
The Steel Workers' Union has at the
utK; men to -the number of 2,000 idle
flnr, although its claims exceed these
figures. It asserts that about eighty
thousand unskilled men are out of work.
Down at Wellsville Amalgamated men
are going to. work on street improve
ments, and, through the aid of the pot
tery operatives, union Amalgamated men
are filling the places of laborers in the
potteries. Recently contractors engaged
hi railroads and county work needed
laborers and secured many men who
belonged to the Amalgamated Associa
tion. -
Several hundred boys struck at the
tube works at MeKeesport today, and
wm to have crippled operations there,
throwing the tube workers out of work,
)mz this strike was against the wish of
the-" Amalgamated Association. Having
failed to brinp-the tube workers out on
tf-trike, the Steel Workers' Union has
adopted the policy of saying hat it pre
fers the tube workers to remain at work,
that they may make as much money as
poible before the inevitable shut-down
that must come when the tube workers
are out of material. Hence the strikers
soutrht to induce-the Buttweld boys not
to -o out. ,
The real reason for this solicitude for
the tube workers is the fear that they
will work up the non-union material
which the 4ube company's rolling mill
will turn out . as soon as the mills re
sume operations with non-union men.
rnlon Talking of Arbitration
New York. Aug. 13. When Samuel
Gompers left this city last Sunday he
went to Baltimore to attend a conven
tion of the United Garment Workers,
and he is expected in Washington to
morrow. Ralph M. Easier, secretary of the
National Civic Federation, is still an J
tope that there is a possibility of bnng
inz about a meeting between Gompers
and some of the officials of the United
States Steel Corporation with a view
to arbitrating the strike.
Now that all the building trades and
many other labor organizations here have
rledzwl themselves to support the
inkers financially and otherwise, the
New York unions 'are now anxious to
have the strike settled as the strikers
themseh-es. Most of the New York
niiiuus were talking arbitration today. -
Roy Strikers Want Excitement
MeKeesport, August 13. The strike
of the boys this morning in the Butt
1 i department of the tube works, has
friven the serious problem to wrestle
'i!i. John Bannon, one of the leaders
? the strikers, said this evening the
of!
ers at the head of the movement
freatly regret thfe walk out of the tube
w-rk boys as they are difficult to keep
under control. An effort is being made
to er-anize them and keep them off the
Greets by holding plenty of meetings
f"r their benefit, but the boys don't take
tindlv to the idea. They want some
fxrirement and it Ants with, diffiTJcltyl
that they were kept back today trom
F'-ing into the mills to drive out the men
5 ' at work. . -
All day long several hundred of the
r-nnssters stood along Gould Alley,
f-on ting on the lap-weld department of
&e works and yelled at those who were
Writing inside. The tube company np-r-'aled
to the mayo to have tle dis-inrhr-rs
dispersed but the mayor refused
c;i the ?mnnH thnt cheering and yelling
!is'nat rmisitnte a breach of the
r"noe-, and that the boys congregated
0r city .streets -only. - ,
The feeling between the mayor and
corporation is growing more bitter and
end it was pointed out that although the
mayor refuses police to guard the mills
the oh; i;v Patrick Mornssey,
? constantlywith, the mayor since he
began to receive the threatening letters.
At noon a crowd of a cuple of thousand
strikers gathered at, the gates of the
tube works and hooted the workers as
they came out to lnchean. The crowd
remained around until the day turn
went off and the night turn went on and
endeavored to dissuade the men from
going to the mill. Twelve of the fur
naces in the lap-weld department are in
operation tonight, but the butt-weld de
partment is idle. ,
Engineers Would Not Refuse
Wheeling, W. Va.. August 13. Amal
gamated leaders consulted Baltimore
and Ohio engineers as to the prospect of
getting them to refuse to haul the pro
duct of non-union mills to steel plants.
The engineers told them that while they
sympathized with the strikers they
could not refuse to haul anything. The
strikers consulted quietly with the engi
neers ai Benwood Junction.
A PUZZLING CASE
Wife Leaves Family to Teach
Philippinos
Washington, Aug. 13. When Secre
tary Boot returns to Washington he will
be confronted with a case which is just
now puzzling the War Department offi
cials. It is the complaint of a man
living m .Nebraska that the War De
partment was a party to taking his
?iuM- fl'om him and sending her to the
lhihppines to teach the little Filipinos,
while she had children of her own in
this country.
It was early in July that Miss Fannie
Wadsworth. of Mellwood, Neb,, was se
ll4 i?,r aPPointment as a teacher in
the Philippines. Her name was sent to
the u ar Department by a teachers'
agency in Boston, and 'her appointment
was credited to Professor Atkinson, who
is at the head of the Philippine school
system. .
Upon the receipt of her name at the
War Department a telegram was sent
to her asking if she would accept, and
when she could leave for Manila. Just
at that time a transport was at San
Jb rancisco preparing to take, several hun
dred teachers to the Philippines, and she
was accordingly notified that transporta
tion would be furnished her without de
lay. Meanwhile the department was aston
ished to receive a telegram from Mell
wood saying that Miss Fannie Wads
worth could not accept the appointment
because she had a husband and children.
-This was signed "by her husband,
George Wadsworth." i
Notwithstanding, the husband's protest
the transportation was forwarded to the
young woman, but in the name of "Mrs.
Fannie Wadsworth" instead , of Miss
Fannie Wadsworth. Upon receiving the
department's letter she hurried to San
Francisco anil there embarked on the
ttransport with the other teachers.
Meanwhile George Wadsworth again
addressed the War Department, this
time by letter, protesting against her
appointment. His letter came too late,
however, as Mrs. Fannie Wadsworth
hnd sailed. Whether her appointment
will be cancelled will be determined
later after a fuFlrt enquiry.
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LEAGUE MAGNATES
WANT PEACE
Presidents Johnson and Heart
Have a Conference
Chicago, August 13. "For sound bus
iness reasons I vould like to see peace
in the base ball world," said President
Ben Johnson today. "The! National
League magnates seem to want to fix
up some agreement and Mr. Hart and I
have conferred on the subject, but of
course could not do more 'than talk over
the situation. There are a great many
things to consider and no one can tell
now what the result will be. The
American League is not Vsking favors
and ca neasily take care of itself, but it
recognizes the injuries which might be
done . the game by some methods em
ployed in a fight between leagues. Thus
far w have respected contracts and
ried to keep from the minds of the pub
lic that there was any base ball war.
I ,nm sorry to say the National League
has not been so exacting in its meth
ods." ;
President Hart would not say any
thing about his talk with Johnson, but
both admit that an agreement might be
fixed tin this fall or winter. The two
representatives of the rival leagues fa
vor some sort of a compromise which
will place base bail on a peace footing
again.
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Boss Tweed Mines Sold
Helena, Mont., August 13. Eli Cun-
ville and Martin Johnson, miners, lost
their lives by suffocation in Minah
mine, near Wyckes, 23 miles south of
Helena last night. Four other miners
had a close call.
Fumes from an engine evaporated in
the lower level of the mine and over
came' the men. The clipper Boss Tweed
trronn of gold mines at Poney, Madison
county, belonging- to the estate of the
late Henry Elling, or Virginia Cit.
have been sold to the Amalgamated
Copper Co., for $600,000.
Pride In Their "Own Beauty
Chicago, Aug. ll-The- pride of the
viinftnr! and porters of the Pullman
Palace Car Company in their own beauty
has been wounaeu d.v iup un uuj i:u
cape ordered by President Wyckes The
headgear which is the cause of offense
is patterned after the soldiers caps in
the Austrian army and is thought to be
Specially unbecoming. It has a flaring
top that fits close to the forehead and
down over tho eyes so that only the
lower part of the face is visible The
order directing the universal use of these
cans becomes effective on November 1.
The Pennsylvania Company, it is al-
legea. win nut i"'""lv .
Jits lines,
mill i
After Manager and Four Non
Union Steel Workers ,
EXCITEMENT AT NILE
Men Locked Up to Protect
Them from Violence-
Strikers and Trust Holding
Their Ground ,
Pittsburg, Aug. 13. There is little ma
terial change here in the strike situa
tion. Both sides express a- determina
tion to hold their ground, and thus far
they are doing so. Everything here has
been quiet throughout the day. The
few works that are running are operated
by a very small force. Strikers pickets
are constantly on the watch, and but for
their presence no one would suspect a
strike was pending.
The following advices have been re
ceived from out-of-town plants:
Cleveland. lhe strikers are keeping
a close watch on the Crescent Tin Plate
Mills, expecting an effort to resume.
Monessen, l a. .No effort to start the
steel mill was made this morning. The
tin plate mill has been given up by the
strikers.
Niles, O. The first outbreak of the
steel strike in the Mahoning Valley oc
curred here yesterday and last night.
General Manager Evans of the Lisbon
plant of the American Sheet Steel Com
pany, with four non-union men on the
wayvto Cleveland to operate the Cres
centh'eet mill, had to be taken off the
train by the police and locked up in
the city jail to protect them from a
howling mob who threatened their lives.
Bellaire, O. The company is not ex
pected to make another attempt to run
the steel mill at present, owing to the
desertions to the strikers' ranks.
Youngstown, O. Following the meet
ing of the organized furnace workers
today, it is expected that an effort will
be made to extend the strike to the
tube works and Ohio plant.
heeling, . a. The Riverside plate
and tube mills ar.' effectively tied ud.
The report that the steel mill will quit
Newcastle, Fa. The National Steel
plants are tied up tightly in this town,
but the strikers continue to show dis
satisfaction because, they were called out
so early, lhey had no time for con
sideration, and they do not see why
tney should nave been expected to break
their contracts when the Federal Steel
men refused to break theirs.
MeKeesport. The second dav of "tli
big steel strike in this City was begun
uy a striKe or an tne boys, z.U in num
ber, in the Butt Weld department. Their
leaving tne woiks was an act of hos
tility because the Federation of Labor
knifes in the tube works had advised
that no one stop until the union made
material was exhausted.
They made such a din that the neonle
left their houses to see what the mat
ter was, and pickets from all along the
river front came rushing in, thinking
tnat there was a not on.
It is surprising -at what an earlv
hour the strikers congregate on the
streets. At o clock this morninz there
were a thousand of them at Locust
street and Fifth avenue. As thi d.iv
grew lighter the number increased until
at 8 o clock the streets were thronged.
Let ween these times the town is quiet
Last night was very quiet. There were
a great many strikers abroad, but there
was no disorder, and by 11 o clock the
streets were deserted.
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HART HEARD FROM
Writes of Progress at Colom
bian Insurrection
Washington, August 13. A mail re
port from Charles B. Hart, minister at
Bogota, Colombia, on -the progress of
the insurrection in that country was re
ceived at the State Department today.
Mr. Hart discusses the view of the
insurrection held by the Colombian au
thorities and transmits a copy of Gen
eral Uribe's proclamation. This paper
shows, according to Minister Hart, that
General Uribe hopes to establish a
greater Colombia similar to the former
combine of Venezuela, Colombia and Ec
uador. A statement will probably be
made by the State Department of the
contents of Minister Hart's communi
cation. The gunboat Machjas ha3 not yet left
for Colon, but will probably get away
tonight or tomorrow. A telegram ta the
Bureau of Navigation reports that the
Machias has gone to Norfolk for ammu
nition and supplies. The Iowa has not
yet reported its departure for San Fran
cisco, nor have any orders been sent
to the Banger to leave San Diego.
SCHLEY'S COUNSEL
Probably Fear Admiral How
eson Not Impartial Judge
Boston, August 13. Captain James
Parker, one of the counsel who will as
sist in conducting the case of Almiral
Schley before the court of enquiry, ar
rived at Young's Hotel yesterday after
noon. He is here for the purpose of se
curing evidence and was in an uncom
municative food as to the-particular evi.
deuce he was seeking.
Captain Parker came on to Boston
immediately after his conference with.
Chief Counsel Judge Jere M. Wilson,
.who arrived in New York on the St.
Louis, and it is thought that his visit '
may have something to do as to the
make-up of the court of inquiry, as
statements have been ' printed in Bos
ton papers that Admiral Howison would
not be, perhaps, an impartial judge.
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Count Von Waldersee .
Berlin, August 13.--The Vossische
Zeitung, in a leading' article today, se
verely criticises Field Marshal Count
Von .Waldersee' s speches since his re
turn from 'China. "It says that the
Count's bombastic assertion that while
the German reputation in the. east is
advancing that of other powers are de
clining is likely to cause perturbation in
diplomatic circles. The paper intimates
that Count Von . Waldersee would like
to be chancellor. v
A Brewery Burned '
New Orleans, August 13. The La
Fayette brewery, Levee and Harney
streets, was burned this morning and
almost completely destroyed. Loss was
$250,000. .
The loss was largely due to an insuffi
cient supply of water. The LaFayette
brewery belonged to the local brewery
trust but it and several others of the
trust breweries had been closed for some
lime. ' ;
IMPIOUS AND IRRE
LIGIOUS GOVERNMENT
Friarsrso Characterize Uncle
Sam's Regime in Philippines
Manila, August 13. The friars have
issued a 'circular to the public through
the Centre Catholica in which they an
athomatize the government in the dis
guise of an eloquent and passionate ap
peal to Catholics. The circular declares
that Governor Taft has declared war
against God, and denounces the mem
bers of the Philippine Commission as
four ricketty brawlers. The occasion
for this is said o be-.that in a recent
local dispute in Tarlac City Governor
Taft issued a proclamation to the effect
that he neither desired to nor could in
terfere in religious questions, and re
minding the persons involved of the
separatio nof church and " state. The
pamphlet calls the government buffoons,
talkative pigmies, vile persecutors and
pusillanimous politicians who are seek
ing to overthrow the church under the
guise of a. pernicious liberty and are at
tempting to eclipse the suf the moral
world. It calls on -Catholics morally to
unite against this "impious and irreli
gious government."
TRUNK CO. ORGANIZED
Will Start Factory' at Once in
High Point
High Point, N. C.August 13. A com
pany for the manufacture. of trunks was
organized here tonight, with the follow
ing officers: President, W. II. Itagau;
vice-president, M. J. Wrenn; secretary
and treasurer, E. L. Bagan.
The paid capital stock is $15,000. No
location has been definitely decided upon
but it is probab?3 that tEe plant will be
located near the deot. It is the inten
tion of the company to bein work' on
the buildings right away.
The personel of the company repre
sents good business qualifications.
Today "Grandma" Welch happened to
a serious accident. She was crossing a
field when her foot became entangled In
a brier which precipitated her with full
force to the ground breaking her arm
near the shoulder. Mrs. Welch is 70
years of age. She is the mother of
Messrs. W. P., Ed. and Bob Welch. o$
this place, arfd Eas numerous other rel
atives residing here.
CARRIE NATION REJOICES
Glad to Hear of Fatal Dyna
mite Explosion in Saloon
Buffalo, Aug. 13. Wearing a white
duck suit and a small Quaker hat, Mrs.
Carrie Nation passed through Buffalo
hist night on her way to summer re
sorts in the Genessee Valley, where she
will deliver temperance lectures. She
was as talkative as ever, and, as an
evidence that she was suffused with a
gentle Christian spirit, she rejoiced at an
article in a Chicago newspaper telling of
the destruction of a saloon by dyna
mite and the incidental killing of one
person and the wounding of five others.
"It seems that providence has taken
up the work where I and my little band
of followers left off." she said, referring
to this incident. "I am sorry for the
loss of life, but this seems like an answer
to women's prayers. Nothing would give
me greater pleasure than to read that
every one of these dens of sin had been
blown up just as this one was."
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Unions Are Wrong
Chicago, Aug. 13. Michael Davitt. the
Irish agitator, who is in this city, speak
ing of the steel strike, said:
"I don't want to be considered to in
trude on American affairs, but I will
say that I agree with Archbishop Ire
land in deprecating association among
the workingmen. I am opposed equally
to association among the workingmen
and their employers. If unions should
not exist, then trusts should not either."
New N. C. Postofflces
Washington. Aug. 13. Special. New
post offices have been established at
Dellar, Stokes county, with John IL
Fagg postmaster; Thomall. Cumberland
county, with Mary C. Lawraison post
master. . .
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Body of Empress Frederick
Laid Beside Her Husband
SERVICE WAS AT NOON
King Edward and Queen Alex
andra of England and Other
Royalty There--Paris Me
morial Service
Berlin, August 13. At exactly noon
today the body of Empress Frederick
was laid beside that of her husband :n
the Mausoleum at Sans Souci Fark.
Potsdam, in the presence of King Ed
ward and Queen Alexandra of England.
Emperor William and Empress Augus
tus Victoria, of Germany, and a host
of royal relatives. The interment was
as private as possible and consisted
chiefly of a funeral cortege from Wild
Park to the Mausoleum in the park
Sans Souci. Only two foreign ambassa
dors were present, Sir Francis Laselles.
British Ambassador, and Mr. Andrew
White, the American representative to
Germany, the latter having come from
Bugen to be present.
The body was taken from Cronberg
last night. When it arrived, there were
exclamations of "lebe wohl mistress of
Friederichsof," from thousands of peo
ple. The train travelled throughout the
night and arrived this morning at W-lu
Park where Emperor William, King Ed
ward and their consorts were awaiting
its arrival. About 300 persons were al
lowed to enter the park and they were
made aware of the start of the cortege
at 10.30 o'clock by the toiling of the
Friedenskirche bells. The route of the
funeral procession was entirely through
the park and the public road was
crossed only once. At early afternoon
as Ilista soldiers employes, . FrederistS
famous guards, were stationed and mem
bers of the secret police were scattered
all around. Beports of the alleged
presence of anarchists were rife, so all
precautious were take nto' prevent anr
attack on the members of the royal fam
ilies. The morning was cool and clouds cov
ered the sky. By a coincidence it was
only at the moment when Prediger Per
sius uttered the German equivalent of
"ashes to ashes." "dust to dust," etc.,
that the sun shone out.
At 11 o'clock the Empress Augusta
Victoria and Queen Alexandra passed
in a carriage drawn by four horses and
escorted by postillions. Other women,
members of the royal families, followed,
all wearing long crepe veils. The sound
of Chonins "Funeral March" through
the trees told that the cortege had
taken twenty minutes to pass. The or
der was as follows:
The court marshal.
First regiment of Guards, four deep
with band.
The Empress Posen regiment.
The Black Hussars, with band.
The foot guard, with rolling, muffled
drifms.
The clergy with Bev. Dr. Dryander,
the court chaplain and the army Cath
olic bishop in Mauve Canonicals.
Prof. Benvers, Dr. Spilgen ,who at
tended the late Empress during her ill
ness.
Pages in red, but wearing deep crepe.
The coffin, raised on a double bier,
drawn by eight splendid' black horses
with tossing plumes and housed trap
pings bearing the Prussian eagle.
The Kaiser apd King Edward follow
ed on foot, both in the blue uniform of
Empress Frederick's regiment of dra
goons, the former wearing the decora
tions of the orders of Black Eagle and
the French Garter. A miscellaneous
crowd of officers followed and an enor
mous wreath of lilacs closed the cor
tege. The ceremony at the mausoleum be
gan half an hour after the cortege start
ed. After the Fody had been ideposited
in the Sarcophagus prayer was said and
the imperial party returned to the new
nalace.
memorial Service at Paris
Parist August 13. Memorial services
for Empress Frederick were held today
in the rrotestant church on the Bye
Blanche. Herr DeScloze, the secretary
of the German embassy received the in
vited guests. The British ambassador.
Sir J. E. Monson, and Count Tornielli,
the Italian representative to France,
were the only ambassadors present.
First Secretary Henry Vignaud, repre
sented General Horace Porter, th?
American ambassador. Mr. Person., tho
Transvaal consul, signed the register on
behalf of Dr. Leyds. European diplo
matic representative of the Transvaal.
Lieutenant Colonel Saint Marc repre
sented President Loubet. M. Delcasse,
minister of foreign affairs, and M. Ley
gnes, minister of public instruction,
were the only members of the cabinet
present. The others were represented
by proxy.
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A Fiend ,PossomingM
Shamokin, Pa., August 13. Jacob
Gerhardt, contractor and builder, mur
dered his wife this morning in fhe rear
yard of their home, by shooting her
through the heart after which he Dlaced
the revolver against his head and shot
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himself in the left temple, causing, what
the doctors think a slight flesh wound.
He is believed to be feigning uncon
sciousness. The police are guarding
him. The crime was caused by Mrs.
Gerhardt determining to leave him be
cause of his alleged parsimony in main
taining the household. Mrs. Gerhardt.
although her husband had several thou
san - dollars in the bank, took in wash
ing occasionally to aid in properly cloth
ing her four sons.
British Casual ities .
London. August 13. The War Office
issues the following casualty list: Sta-
neckers Horse at Opissaes North, on
August 7, Captain Francis killed, three
men wounded, two missing. and 19 pris
oners; Tenth Hussars at Wanhootf. Au
gust 11, one killed and three wounded;
at Klip Biver, August 6, Fourth Boyal
Fusiliers, Lieutenan Moore wounded.
Killed in Bath House
New Orleans, August 13. Miss Zelia
Duffle, aged 23, a daughter of a promi
nent sugar planter of Ascension parish
and a belle in society there, was instant
ly killed by a stroke, of lightning in a
bath house at Pass Christian and heV
companion Miss1 Hardee Leroux, badly
injured. Miss Duffle's face was fright
fully torn by lightning.
LANDED IN QUICK TIME
Britisher Praises American
Feats in Skirmish Drills
Nantucket, Mass., August 13. Ex
travagant praise was elicited from Cap
tain Bailey, an attache of the British
embassy at Washington, by the rapid
ity and ease with which the marines of
the North Atlantic squadron performed
their feats of landing heavy guns from
the war ships and their splendid work
in mounting them upon the sand in more
than record time. The skirmish drills
and pistol target practice today was
also the subject of his commendation,
which he personally expressed to Major
Doyen, in charge of Camp Long. The
Alabama, as the result of the hauling
down of her yellow flag, indicating the
presence of "mumps" on board, moved
to a position nearer to the flagship and
today landed one of her five inch guns
and two six pounders in quick time.
The weather, like that of many days
previous, has been bad.' Thick fog .sur
rounds the vessels while the ; constant
drizzle dampens not only the clothing
but the ardor of excursionistsand very
few take the trouble' to row out to the"
visiting war shir. .
HORRIBLE FRATERCIDE
Boy Stunned His Brother,
Then Drowned Him
New Orleans. August 13. Lewis and
Homer Townsend. brothers, aged 11 and
8 respectively, went out playing in their
grandfather's farm in Lincoln county.
Miss., six miles from Brookhaven. yes
terday. Lewis returned to the house
and said that Homer had gone to a
neighbor's for the night. He told an
other boy that he had killed his brother
and threatened the boy "with death if he
repeated the story. The brothers .had
had some slight disagreement, when
Lewis Hit Homer over the head with a
pine knot, stunning him' and fracturing
his skull. Fearing discovery, he took
the body to a neighlwring creek, threw
it in and made sure that the" wounded
lad was drowned. Lewis confessed. The
body of Homer was fished oat o'f the
creek. It was found that his skull was
not fractured, but that he had died from
drowning.
No Large Engagements
Pretoria, August 13. Within 24 hours
158 prisoners have- been reported cap
tured by the various columns, including
70 taken in the western part of the
Orange Biver colony, by General Elli
cott. , There have been no large engage
ments. The, number of . Boer refugees
now receiving relief is over 100,000.
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Study Labor In America
London, August 13. Four delegates
representing 100,000 unionist laborers,
have sailed from Liverpool to study the
economic conditions of labor in Ameri
ca Their passage was provided by A'.
L. Jones, of Liverpool. More delegates
will visit-the "United States when the
steel strike is over. . .
Marion Butler On
Political Situation
the Ex-Senator and Pettigrew Talk to Correspondents at
. St. Paul
St. Paul, August 13. K. F. Pettigrew
and Marion Butler, ex-United States
Senators are here from a trip to Aalas
ka. Mr. Pettigrew, speaking of the po
litical situation said:
'The political outlook of the Union is
uncertain. It is evident thatvthe money
question has been settled for the pres
ent and the issues of the next campaign
will be the preservation of our Ameri
can institutions against the plutocratic
government of Hanna and the Republi-
can party. If-D. B. Hill of New York
is nominated for President it will mean
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British Consul at New Or
leans Denounces Reporters
THEY MISQUOTE HIM
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Consuls' Conduct May Ren
der Him Persona Non Grata
to People and Government
His Public Statement
New Orleans, Aug.; 13. Arthur .Van
Sittart, British consul at this city, w4io
is charged with having denounced the
press and the American people apropos
the Mechanician explosion, -vas ' notified
today that the Department of State
might give his case some attention to
see if his hostility to the American
government and people did rnot render
him persona non grata. Mr. Van Sittart
denied the language attributed to- him,
and said :
"It. is perfectly-absurd, you know. I
could not have said such a thing. I.
have had these things happen so often '
that they are getting to be a nuisance.
Do you blame me for being bluff and
sometimes impolite to reporters when
they go away and put such things in
my mouth as these words? It is a
shame, you know, to take"' advantage of
a man when you know thathis official
position forbids him f rom ' writing a -denial.
I know that I have a lot of
enemies here. I don't. Jcnow who, they
are, but I know that I have them, and
I know that they are trying in every
way to secure my removal, but the evi- .
dence of the confidence of my govern
ment in me is the fact aht I am still" '
here. Three years ago, you know, they
tried the same game, and it failed miser-
ably. This scheme will fall to the
ground the same way. I have only to
put my word against that of a -reporter,
and the department at Washington will
believe me. They know where I came
from, and I do not know where the
reporters come from, and that is all
there is to it, you know. But it is
getting to be a nuisance to make these
explanations. And can you blame ma
if I get gruff at times?
'A11 that I hill have to do about this
matter is to say that I did not say it,
and I .know that the Secretary of State
will take my word against aht of: any
reporter."
General Pearson, the Boer agent here, '
through his" attorneys, Messrs. Clegg '
and Qinto, has determined to bring suit
against Consul Van Sittart for the sum
of 10,000. The action is the result
of statements made by Mr. Van Sittart
to the chief of police when the consul
demanded to know why General 1 Mr
son had not been arrested in connection'
with the blowing up of the .Mechanician,"
with the result that detectives were de
tailed to follow the Boer officer.
The Mechanician has been repaired
and will leave . tomorrow, but probably;
with a short crew of muleteers. She
will be docked and repaired, in "England
after this trip to Africa. In. the mean-,
time the other British mule transport,
the Milwaukee, upon which the Ameri
can muleteers mutinied and are now in,
jail at Port Durban, is having all man
ner of trouble. The responsibility for
the mutiny over the vile food furnished
seems to hav4 been shouldered on Cap
tain Challis, the commander, for when
the vessel arrived here and all hands
whether muleteers or or not declared
that the food was unfit for men to eat
and that the men were badly treated, the"
captain was promptly fired. ' -
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As Tiliman Sees It
Washington, August 13. Senator Till" ,
man, who is passing through- Washing-..'
ton to deliver a lecture at Chautauqua,- .
N. Y., in an interview today said that
Senator McLaurin way losing strength.
He was sure that if the primary elec- .
tion for Senator should coma off in
South Carolina now McLaurin .would
not get more than 8,000 or 10,000 out
of 95,000 votes. He was satisfied lie
could not be elected.
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Fire Underwriters
Wilmington, N. C, August 13.--Spe-cial.
The executive; committee of the
Nortbr Carolina Fire Underwriters' As-
sociation met at Seashore Hotel tonight.
Only routine business was transacted.
The formal opening of the annual meet- .
ing will be held tomorrow morning. "
when Col. : Walker Taylor, of Wllming
ton. will make the annual address. - Tin -attendance
is good. ' -
the organization of a third party and I
shall be one of its stanchest .supporters,
because the election of Hill would mean
a continuance of the Hanna idea of gov
ernment." 1 '
Chairman Butler, of the Populist. Na
tional Committee said: v- - ' .
"The next campaign will be' fought on
the trust issue, but it will have to be a
fight between the people and the-trusts.
The Democrats and -Republicans will
condemn the trusts. But if the matter
is left in the hands of either it will re 5
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