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Force from Ecuador Invading
Colombian Territory
situationserious
The Three Countries Nearest
the Isthmus of Panama in
an Attitude Favorable for
an Outbreak of Hostilities
Washington, Sept B.-Unless the
United States government succeadam
bringing about a better understand
.-.nth American rouDi i-
,hnhl that the countries concerned
L;n o-flirft in war. Today the most s
,;n.ia t.ws received from tlio scene cf
'cHirhnnoe came to tho Colombian
legation herein a telegram fnvja Cab.
a town in the Department of Panama,
but situated cn the Ecuador bordo at a
nsiderable. distanco from me isuiwu..
The disputch was from the goverrr
of the district. He reported that a land
and naval force of Ecuadorans wore
proceeding to invade Tanama, and that
Colombian naval vessels were- neaded
t-h invaders. No details Tvcro
contained in the dispatca. i
The officials of tlio Colombian lejja
tion here take a very hopeful view of
the new complication in the situation.
They believe- that the expo lition from
Ecuador is not sanctioned by that cov
orr.ment. General- Plaza, wr.o wa3 in
augurated President of Ecu a 3 m- a few
days ago. ha3 declared himself on sev
eral occasions to be desirous off.ma:n
tainiag peace with . Colombia. His ini
mediatft predecessor, Alfaro, was hostile
to the Colombians. The supposition is
entertained at the legation that the ele
ments in Ecuador hostile to Colombia
arranged the expedition o?rVios with
some assistance from local oificia's, with
the knowledge that President Flaza
would not sanction a war between the
countries. The. objective point of the
Ecuadoran expedition is probably the
isthmus. If -the naval force is large Col
ombia will have serious, trouble on her
hands, but the Ecuadoran land force
may find great difficulty in advancing,
as the country around Cali is thictdy
populated and plenty of men eouid.be
found to resist a foreign invader. Tu
maco and Buena Ventura are the first,
places likely to be attacked by the na
val expedition. They are both on the
Pacific "coast of Colombia. The first is
near the border of Ecudor and the
other about half way to Panama.
.Venezuela's attitude toward ' Colom
bia is not definitely known here. Co
lombia, through her minister here, has
notified the State department of .her de
sire and willingness to accept President
McKinley's offer of mediation between
herself and Venezuela and expressed her
self as in entire accord with the Presi
dent's sentiments. It is explained today
by officials that this was a personal
communication, but why it was not re
garded as official could not be ascer
tained. Venezuela rests on her ac
knowledgement " to the- State depart
ment of the receipt of President's of
fer. With Ecuador now a factor in tho
political situation it is likely that an ef
fort to prevent any hostilities between
that government and Colombia will be
made by the United States.
UNION LABOR IN
COTTON FACTORIES
South Carolina Mill Men Will
Take Concerted Action
. Charleston, S. C, Sept. 5. It became
known here today that tt meeting of all
th cotton mill presidents of this State
will l held in Greenville next Tuesdav.
to decide war against union labor which
has threatened the great mill iudustry
of South Carolina.
According to the information received i
here a representative from every mill
wiil attend and a. permanent organiza
tion wii! be perfected, so that the man
ufacturers will be able to stand io
gthor and thereby prevent heavy Josses
v-hich flight result from interference
by the strikers. . . .
Should tho. Greenville organization
follow tlio schedule mapped out the
unions will bo whipped from th start.
In the Columbia strike tho mill owners
and operatives clashed for the first
Time. The textile un:ont which ordered
the operatives to quit work, "forced oui
one thousand persons, and they are now
hunting positions "elsewhere. The ease
with which new help, was secured is a
.f-trong evidence' that-the plan of the
' union cannot prevail, and it is known
that ninety per cent of the operatives
who went on a strike preferred to re
main; but they wew intimidated and
""whipped into line by labor agitators and
walking delegates. All other strikes in
this State have failed, mid there ta-noc
much possibility of the union's winning.
MANY SOLDIERS SICK
Some Say It Was Their Food;
Others the Water
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5. Nearly one
hundred and forty men of the Twenty
evMith infantry, regular Army, at Fort
Mcl'lieusoa are suffering from the effects
poison, said by the hospital physi
ans to be the result of poor food served
to the men of the regiment for supper
Monday evening or for breakfast tho
following morning. The enlisted men
o. iho raiment eat at the big barracks
ii.ess hall, which is iu charge of Stew
ard King. A force of regular cooks, two
from ,-ach company, prepares the meals.
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till: iJjQQOi
from the same meat wa served,
stew was not cooked over night.
After" s'upper Monday several
complained of feeling sick, but
The
men
they
were not too ill to appear at parade af
ter breakfast at 7 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. One battalion composed of com
panies A, B, C and D is at the fort.
When the battalion assembled for dress
parade several of the men were taken
suddenly ill. All were affected the same
way severe cramps, high fever, throb
bing headaches and extreme nervous
ness. The doctors decided at once that
something in the food had poisoned the
men. Up to ten o'clock this morning
140 men were under the care of the doc
eors. Colonel John "W. French, the com
manding officer, in speaking of the sick
ness says: "It was just one of those
unavoidable accidents like an ice cream
poisoning at a church festival. I blame
nobody and there will be no court mar
tial." In the kitchen the cooks resent any
snuggestion that they were to blame.
Chief Cook Herman says: 'I believe it
was the ice water, as- no one except
those who drank the ice water in the
company quarters is sick."
WAR TO THE END
Shaffer Again Rejects Terms
of Settlement
New York, Sept. 5. From this time on
it is 'to be war to the end between the
United States Steel Corporation and the
Amalgamated Association of Steel, Iron
nud . Tin Workers. Once agwin today
President Shaffer, of the association.
had a chance to get his organization out
of the fight with as little humiliation
as it cau expect. He Jet tho chance
go by; and tonight the trust gave up
hope of ! a peaceful settlement and sent
out orders to start up all of its on ills
tomorrow morning.
All of today the conciliation com
mittee of the National Oivic Federation
winch has ocenhere trying vainly m face
of Shaffer's obstinacy to compromise the
strike, kept the telephone ana telegraph
wires to FittsbUTg hot with entreaties
to- Shaffer to accept the terms upon
which Mr. Schwab was willing to settle
the strike. Tonight the committee, aftjr
a long couieTeucc ax tne Asniana House,
issued the following statement, putting
tho responsibility for tho failure of their
negotiations squarely upon Shaffer and
tne association: -
"Wheal all negotiations' between the
Amalgamated Association and the United
States Steel Corporation were 'broken off
tho committe on .conciliation of tho
rvaxional Civic b ederation endeavored
to bring the representatives of both
interests together or to act as mediators
between them. We held conference
with the advisory board of the Amal
gamated Association at Pittsburg and
obtained propositions from it with au
thority to submit the same to the United
States Steel corporation. These we snH
mitted to the company at Wednesday's
toiiieiTjiict;.
"The company reiected the rvrnnrwei.
tions. "We then discussed tha
upon which they would agree to settle the
striKe.tnese terms to hold good until this
(Thursday) evening. We submitted these
terms to Mr. Shaffer and his colleagues.
We were advised by the representatives
of the Amalgamated Association thio
afternoon that there was not Kiiffieient
time to. consider the proposition : that
iuo vuiis ul iae JL-ixtsDura" neadquarters
had no authority to accept or decline it;
that the. advisory hoard is summoned
to meet tomorrow.
"The officers of the Amalirnmnted A a
sociation expressed the conviction to us
that the proposal will not be approved.
We still entertain the hon .that n ami.
I cable settlement of this conflict will yet
Pretoria, Sept. 5. An armored train
was derailed at Taungsin, Bechnanaland.
iwuaj. j.uree were Kiuect ana bix wound
ed, including an officer.
1
ID -'WRECK MILtS
Strikers Fail to Carry Out a
Conspiracy
'
MILLS DID NOT START
Elaborately Prepared Plan
Did Not Work Out Because
the Intending Wreckers
Had No Chance
Mckcesport, Sept. 6. Tho United
States Works of the American Tin Plate
Company in this -city did not starj this
morniug as had been expected, although
a large number of the old employes re
ported for work. Had the plant been
placed in operation as intended, it would
have been ruined within a few hours by
workmen who, at is claimed, had applied
for work with the express intention of
crippling the mill. Had the scheme suc
ceeded the works would have been dam
aged to an extent that Tyould have re
quired . weeks to repair.
The scheme is said to have been
evolved by two of the local strike lead
ers. The plan as outnneti ny one oi tut
strikers was somewhat elaborate, and
included nn attack upon the deputies at
the mill, and the driving of them out of
the city.
Just how much the officials of the com
pany know concerning the plan is not
known, nor is it known if they know
who engaged in the conspiracy. The
plan was to have a 'number of men
apply lor work when the mill started this
morning. The- men were to await a
favorable opportunity, when the mills
were placed in operation, to slip a piece
of steel in the machinery in such a way
that it would be wrecked, and the scheme
had been so elaborately worked out that
it would have been a .difficult matter to
determine whether it was by accident
or design. After the wrecking of the
mill and during the excitement which
would necessarily follow, it , had been
proposed to make an attack upon the
deputies, but this part of the program
was afterwards cut out as being too
dangerous.
The proposed start of the tin mill?
this morning attracted great -crowd's to
that end of the city. About 8, o'clock
the first of the skilled workmen ap
peared. Not a word was said to them
by any of the pickets. T3v. 'company
officials report that seventv-tive 'imn re-
tiorrpil tor i ihv. l)in those
wiirf. eutemi
at the lower 'gate- where" maRfrpf the I
men enter were only thirty-live or forty,
This was the gate the pickets watched
the most, and it is possible a large num
ber of others enteral at othev' gates.
It required about ten men to man each
mill with aDy- degree of succesWj and it
is certain the voiupany, had , at leas
enough applicants there to Mart threw
or four ' mills with ease. "
They were all old eninlovps. but hov.
many of them could by thoiouglilv trust
ed no person on the outside .knows. Who
the iarties in the. c msniracy were is
another secret, but it is not likelv that
they were more than, two or three. J
The men who applied for work this
morning were all ent honie,- with a
notice .that they would be -sent' for as
soon as the company is Teady ;to start.
11ns may be . tom,orrow. , r
At the National Tube Works, more
than a thousand men reported for work
this morning. Some of them had to be
sent home as the idleness of the welding
ma otner "departments left the conipanv
without work for the men. The strike
leaders are trying t get up a move
ment tonight to. picket .the "mills tomor
row morning and attempt to prevent the
tube workmen from going to work. The
ettort is not likely to meet with anv
success as the tube workers! are all
disgusted with the strike. "
Tonight a conference is on in Pitts
burg betwen officers of the tin plate
company and the, local managers of the
ti-u muis. it is not known what if
means, but is believed to mean some
thing regarding the starting of the plant,
and an announcement is expected in re
lation to this matter before morning.
LOST TO CANADA
Rifle Shooting Championship
Goes Across Border
Seagirt, N. J., Sept. 5. Aftev hoidiug
for many years the Palma trophy, em
blematic of the world's championshii) at
ride shooting, . the United .States today
was obliged to relinquish control of it
to the Canadian riflemen.. They outshot
th American T.fim v?s points, the total
scores being 1,522 tc I,414..0n the eight
hundred and nine hundred yard targets
the Americans held their own very well,
but when the two teams' moved -back
to the thousand yard range the Canucks
walked away from their opponents. This
was not surprising to mauy in view of
Iho fact that the Canadians have all
along been recognized at fine long shot:;.
The Canadians came to Seagirt this
years at the urgent request of the Na
tional Rifle Association; Other foreign
riflemen were also invited to shoot for
the world's championship, but the Cana
dians were the only ones to respond.
They arrived on Sunday and spent the
three days from that time until-the
match today exclusively on the long
range targets. The American team had
not been idle by any means, and put in
much of their time at ' practice doing
good work. The Canadian team that
shot "today was selected from twelve
of the best shots in that country. Ma
jor Mason knew ihat all the men were
crack riflmen and to select eight from
among the number was difficult To
night his good judgment is the source of
many compliments..
The American team was chosen by
General Bird W. Spencer after a se
vere competitive shoot extending several
days. Five of the men were taken from
the District of Columbia and the other
three were New Jersey men. New
lork had no representative on the team,
to the disappointment of many persons
but none of its marksmen had shot in
the competitive shoot and consequently
iione could be selected from the Empire
The two teams kept pretty well : to-1
gether all through the first stage, and
when 'it was; over it was seen that the
visitors had a lead of only seven points.
Lieutenant . Cookson, . of "Washington,
who is considered one of the best all
round shots in the country, had hard
luck. His first string of 15 shots had
two goose eggs, in it. This was consid
ered strange, and was attributed mare to
fmiHv - ammunition than poor shooting.
! The scores at the end of the first stage
Avere: Canada, 532; Americans O-'o.
TIED FASTTO SILVER
- ,
Bryan Does Not See How the
Party Can Cut Loose
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 5.-In explanation
of why he sticks to silver, Mr. Bryan, in
tomoiTOw's Commoner, says:
"The Democratic party is cither in
favor of bimetallism or it is in favor' of
the single gold standard. It is true
that thpre Is no 'private entrance,' prop
erly speaking, to . either of these ques
tions, and yet the very men who insist
upon an abandonment of the Kansas City
platform are unwilling to admit plainly
and explicitly that their purpose is to
make he Democratic party a single
gold standard party. If it is important
that wf discard bimetallism - with all
possible eniDhasis. it is important be
cause it is necessary that the people
know exactly where we standi And ra
order that they may know where we
stand when we have discarded our lor-
mer position, it is important .that we
espouse the single gold standard. The
Democratic nartv cannot get an tnat en
trance without being seen, although it.
is the purpose of the gold Democrats
to do that very thing. They want to
discard the principle of bimetallism; they
want to cut the Democratic party com
pletely asunder from the ties that have
hound it to the monev of the constitu
tion. At the same time they have duui
private entranceT to the gold ques
tion and they are bending every energy
to coax the Democratic narty through
that entrance. If it is true that the
'silver idea must be clung to or it must
be discarded,' if it is true that it is not
possible to 'let loose and hold on at the
same time,' then it is just as important
that when we discard one position and
let loose of one principle, we take a
definite and distinct stand on the money
question, the importance of which re
mains undisturbed by the discarding of
our former position."
KINSTON SHUTS OUT NEW BEK7I
Smith PKefced for Klnston-Sorber Oc
copied the Bench
Kinston, N. C, Sept. 5. Special. The
most exciting game of ball ever seen
here was played this afternoon between
Kinston and New Bern. There were
only five innings played, the game being
delayed nearly an hour in wrangling
over the question of
playing Sorber,
claimed. Sorber
w-hom both teams
played the bench an dthe game proceed
ed. It was interrupted frequently by
angry mobs assailing the umpire ahd
each other, but ho serious trouble arose.
The score: R.II.E.
Kinston 0 0001 x 1 0 1
New Bern .'. 0000 0 00 2 5
Ratteries: Smith and Lehman; Gettig
and Thackara. Attendance 1,500. Um
pire: Mr. W. D. Suggs.
New Bern's Side of It
New Bern. Sept. 5. Special. Seven
carloads of New Bernians went to Kin
stontBday to see the ball contest. The
game was called at 5.15 p. m. there be
ing an hour's delay on account of a dis
pute over Sorber, who had signed with
New Bern, but aterwards went over to
Kinston. He was finally benched. Five
innings, were played with Kinston scor
ing one run in the fifth inning on a de
cision hy Umpire Suggs, who declared
Bush safe at the home plate. The game
was broken up in the next inning over
several decisions of the umpire. Much
money was up on the game, but so far
as is heard all were declared off. The
New Bern people declare the umpire
the-worst they have ever seen.
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