HI )tSmitljficlb MtxxAk frice one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies pive cents. VOL. 21. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1(), 1902. NO. ill. THE GREAT COAf STRIKE. A Review of the Situation tor the Past Week. ROOSEVELT TAKES A HAND. Mitchell Proposes to Abide,'by Decision of Arbitration Tribunal Appointed by President. THE MINE OPERATORS REFUSE. Governor Stone Calls Out Troops to Protect the Mines?The Situa tion Serious with the Re sponsibility on Presi dent Roosevelt. The coal strike which lias been on since early last Summer is one | of the greatest problems before the people of the United States at this present time. Unless a ? settlement is reached soon a great deal of suffering will result; especially in the northern cities. Since this strike is attracting so much attention we give the fol lowing review of the situation: President Roosevelt will make' a personal appeal to the coal op erators and the leader of the striking miners to settle the strike in the anthracite coalfields of Pennsylvania. Yesterday the President sent telegrams to the presidents of the coal railroads and to .John Mitchell, the president of thej United Mine Workers, inviting them to a conference with him in Washington on Friday morning. This action was taken by Mr. Roosevelt afterconsultation with members of the Cabinet. It is believed that President I Roosevelt may convene Congress | in extra session if the parties to the strike do not settle their dif ferences and resume mining at an early day. It is thought that an intimation to this effect has been conveyed to the coal operators and the strike leaders. The conference, it is thought, is the outcome of Secretary Root's visit to New York. Mr. Root, it is said, was told by representa tives of financial interests that the action which the President has decided to take might not be fruitless. President Mitchell and all the coal corporation presidents will accept Mr. Roosevelt's invita tion. Mr. Mitchell will take along the district presidents of the United Mine Workers?Messrs. Nicholls, Fahy and Duffy. Presi dent Baer, of the Reading, said that Mr. Roosevelt's request was a command. J.P.Morgan pro nounced the plan "admirable."? Baltimore Sun. 2d. THE CONFERENCE RESULTS IN A FIASCO. The conference with presidents of coal-carrying railroads, indi vidual operators and President Mitchell, of the Mine Workers' Union, called bv President Itoose velt, with a liew to settling the strike of authraeite mines, ended in a failure to reach an agree ment. There will be no renewal of the conference at the tempora ry White House. At the end of the day's proceedings President Roosevelt said he nad no com ment to make. President Poosevelt told the conferees that the Government could take no legal steps to end the strike, but he appealed to them to reach a solution in the name of humanity and patriot ism. In behalf oi the mine workers, President Mitchell proposed re ferring the controversy to a board of arbitration selected by the President, and offered to send the miners to work pending a decision, which would lie accept ed bv the miners as tinal. The railroad presidents and operators refused absolutely to recognize or transact any busi ness with Mr. Mitchell as presi dent of the miners' organization, and suggested that should any differences arise between employ es, as individuals, and employers, such differences should be referred to the Judge of the (lommon Pleas Court located ip the district wliei* the trouble originated. Each submitted a separate ans wer, in which it was generally suggested: "Give us Federal troops, and we will give you all the coal you need.'J Neither side accepted the prop osition of the other.?Baltimore Sun, 4th. T It OOPS CALLED OCT. Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. (5.?Gov ernor Stone tonight, after a long conference with the general offi cers of the Pennsylvania State Militia, ordered out for duty in the strike region the entire divi sion of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Mobilization began at once. The order will put into the an thracite fields an army of 10,000 men, about 8,000 of whom are already on guard duty there. Governor Stone's action, it is declared, means that he has de cided to accept the challenge laid down by the coal operators in their conference with President Roosevelt. They have said: "Give us sufficient military pro tection to -suppress lawlessness and enough men will voluntarily return to the mineH to avert all clanger of continued famine." To this the Governor responds by ordering under arms every sol dier in the State Guard. So such complete mobilization of the Keystone State soldiers for riot service has occurred since 1H92, when the steel strike atj Homestead called the entire divi sion into the Held. When asked whether his action had been suggested directly or; indirectly by the Federal author ities in Washington Governor Stone said that it had not been and that he had issued his order without any consultation with President Roosevelt. It is known that the Governor is skeptical of an absolute fulhllment of the; pledge made by the operators to ! the President. He is not san guine that a majority, or even a large proportion, of the striking; miners need only the encourag-j ing presence of a large military force to persuade tbem to go j back to work. Hut he felt that i the shape which the controversy I has now taken left him no alter native but to take the coal-road presidents at their word and give them the opportunity they seek to demonstrate the soundness or unsoundness of their prediction. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 6.?Bear ing a message from President Roosevelt, Labor Commissioner Carroll I). Wright secretly met President John Mitchell, of the Mine Workers, in Philadelphia this morning. What the confer ence was about Mr. Mitchell will not say. He returned here at 9 o'clock p. m. President Mitchell and the dis trict president went into confer ence soon after his return and at 11.20 lelt with them for Buffalo. The conference between Mr. Mitchell and his district presi dents continued until 11.15p.m., and before the national president left Buffalo he gave out the fol lowing statement: ?'To District Secretaries and all Mine workers iu the Anthracite Field: "You have, no doubt, read in the daily papers the proceedings of the conference at the White House lust Friday in which your officers proposed an immediate resumption of work if the opera tors would agree with us to refer j the questions a,t issueiu thestrike ; to the decision of the President of the United States and a tribu nal named by him. You have aoted the reply of the presidents of the coal-carrying roads, in which they responded to our overtures bv denouncing your union, its members and officers in the most vehement and mali cious manner possible. They also declared that a large major ity of the strikers would return to work if given military protec tion and they demanded that the President send United States troops to the coal fields. "In order to demonstrate to the people of our country that the statements of the operators are unfounded and that the mine workers are lawabidiug, the offi cers of all local unions should call (mass-meetings of all men on strike, union and non-union,such meetings to be held in each min ing town at 'J o'clock Wednesday afternoon, October 8. We know that the nnneworkers are not re : strained from going to work by fear of bodily barm, and if this is the sentiment prevailing at the meetings resolutions should be adopted emphatically declaring ; the statements of the operators to be untrue. "We also advise that acts of lawlessness by the coal and iron police and by strikers be denounc ed and the services of members of the union tendered the local authorities to preserve law and order. "Great care should be exercised that those on strike do not per mit themselves to be provoked by the Coal and Iron Police into the commission of other acts. The operators failing to break the strike and deprive you of your well-earned victory, are now attempting to array public y^en timent against you by making false claims that a reign ot terror exists in the coal fields. Bestead fast and true while this struggle for living wages and American conditions of employment is go-, ing on, and we have no hesitancy in savin?' that victory will be1 achieved in the not distant fu ture. The heart of the nation beats in sympathy with you and all good citizens favor your cause. "Do not fail to have resolutions drafted in plain, temperate lan guage; telegraph them at our ex pense to President Mitchell's headquarters immediately on the adjournment of meetings." ' ROOSEVELT MAKES ANOTHER ! PROPOSITION. When Labor Commissioner; Carrol 1). Wright conferred with! President Mitchell, of the Miners' Union, in Philadelphia Monday he submitted . nother proposi tion from President Roosevelt with a view to ending the strike. Mr. Roosevelt proposed that if the miners be requested to return to work he will appoint a com mission to investigate all mat- j ters between the operators and miners, and do all in his power to obtain a settlement of those questions in accordance with the report of the commission. Unofficial reports from Buffalo say Mr. Mitchell views the propo sition unfavorably. The conference .between manu facturers and President Mitchell at Buffalo did not result in the development of any definite plan for a partial resumption of work, but the members of the commit tee say they are pleased with the I progress made. The committee will confer with representatives of the operators in Philadelphia i today. There was a rush of Pennsyl vania regiments, many on special trains, to the strike region. Dis patches from the scene state that the strikers are standing firmer ? than before and that no gains for the operators can be predict ed. Some disorder was reported. It was#tated that a n ai-union minor was severely beaten while returning from work, and that a irob threw stones at non-union ists in a coal breaker. The dy namiting of a woman's house was also charged to strikers. United States District Attorney Burnett, of New York, was in structed by Attorney-General Knox to investigate the coal combine. The leading opera tors conferred at a meeting in New York of the Temple Iron Company, their cor poration which controls the coal trade. Afterward George F. Baer visited .1. P. Morgan. A New York Alderman proposes to close the public schools and use their fuel supply for the relief of the poor. The strike assessments of the United Mine Workers are yielding $1188,SOU a month, which sum is swelled to contributionc from i many other sources.?Baltimore Sun, 8th. i VOTE TO CONTINUE STRIKE. Philadelphia, Oct. 8.?The en G tire National G"uard of I'ennsyl vaniais camped tonight in the authraeite coal regions, the I tint regiment from the western part : of the State having' arrived late this afternoon. Contrary to expectations the troops were well received and .there was no disposition 011 the ! part of the strikers to annoy t he soldiers. There was only one in stance during the day of any show of feeling and this was manifested at Itethlehem, when some boys stoned the second sec tion of the train bearing the sol diers from Philadelphia. Briga dier General Schall, who arrived in Tamaqua this afternoon, tele graphed .Major General Miller that there was 110 disturbance of any kind in thedistrict. Thesol diers who arrived today were all scattered throughout Schuylkill, Luzerne, Carbon and Northum berland counties. The fact that all of the locals throughout the anthracite region have voted unanimously to con tinue the strike would indicate that the presence of t he troops will have but little effect in forc ing the men to return, and from ' the present indications it woidd seem the strike is no nearer a so lutin than it has been for many weeks. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF TI1E STRUGGLE. President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, accom panied by District Presidents Nichols, Fahey and Duffy, went from Wilkesbarre to New York late yesterday afternoon to con fer about the ituation. Mr. Mitchell, before leaving Wilkesbarre, mailed to President Roosevelt his answer to the Presi dent's proposition that thp miners return to work pending the report of a commission toi consider thequestions in dispute. It is believed the proposition was de 'lined. President Roosevelt is etui hopeful that Mr. Mitchell will ac cept his proposal. .He disap-j proves Governor Stone's action in calling out the entire Pennsyl vania militia, his opinion being that it has complicated the situa tion. Under instructions from Mr. Mitchell every local union of mineworkers in the anthracite field voted on the question of re turning to work in view of the ordering out of the additional troops. The vote was unani mous to continue the strike. Many of the resolutions adopted declare that even if the entire United States Army were sent to the coal region the workers would remain out. All tne militiamenunuer oruer* are now on the scene. Thestrikers revived them respectfully and there was not a sign of disorder' during the day. The committee of the National Association of Manufacturers which met Mr. Mitchell in Buffalo arrived in Philadelphia and-ur gently invited the operators to a conference, but not one of them came. Frank H. Thompson, of Phila delphia, begau proceedings in the United States Circuit Court there to have the coal combine declared illegal. There was a further increase in the price of bread in New York.? Baltimore Sun, 9th. Buildings belonging to the Moore A Hand ley Hardware Co., Birmingham, Ala., were destroy ed by tire Wednesday entailing a loss of. $200,000, seventy-five per cent, of which is covered by insurance. Goes Like Hot Cakes. "The fastest selling article I have in my store," writes drug gist C. T. Smith, of Davis, Ky., "is Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, because it alwavs cures. In my six years of sales it has never failed. 1 have known it to save sufferers from Throat and Lung diseases, who could get no help from the doctors or any otlnr remedy." Mothers rely on it, 1 best physicians prescribe, and Hood Bros, guarantee satisfac tion or refund price. Trial bot tles free. Regular sizes, 50c and .1*1. STATE NEWS. Newsy Items Clipped, Cu'.led and Condensed from North Carolina Newspapers. There are 415 student* at the Agricultural ami Much mica I Col lege iu ltaleigb. The Supremo Court has grant ed a new trial to Jim Wilcox, the Elizabeth City young man con demned for the murder of Nell Cropsy. Giles W. Crowder, a Person county farmer, last week lost by tire a pack house containing four teen barns of tobacco, valued at $3,000. Mr. E. K. Proctor, Jr., a promi nent citizen of Lumberton, died Friday after a severe illness. A wife and eight children survive. One child died the day before her father. The Christian Scientists have established a church at New llern with 21 members. This is the fourth of the kind in the State, the others being at Asbeville, Wilmington and Kiuston. Henry Huggins, coloTed,charg ed with house robbery, who was shot by Constable (ioddard at Fayetteville a few days ago while attempting to escape arrest, died from his wound last week. Mr. Wesley Quick, of Union county, got his hand caught in a cotton gin Saturday. The hand j was torn off and the arm so bad-1 ly lacerated that it was amputat ed three inches from the shoulder. Rev. J. William Jones, pastor! of the baptist church at Chapel Hill, and well known as a histo rian and lecturer 011 Lee and j Jackson, has resigned his charge and will become secretary of the Confederate Museum at Rich mond, Va. The board of aldermen of Ral- j eigh voted down, with only three1 dissenting votes, an ordinance to i prohibit the sale of tobacco and | soft drinks on Sunday. The or- j dinance was presented by thej Raleigh ministers who had re cently made a campaign for a better observanceof theSabbath. President Kilgo, of Trinity Col lege, stated in an address on Benefactor's Pay, last Friday, that the many gifts to his insti-; tut ion the past year aggregated $130,000. Nearly all of tnis came from Messrs. W., J. B. and B. N. Duke, who havegiven Trin ity altogether about $1,000,000. Lester Butler, a brother of ex Senator Butler, has been appoint ed to an 9t*X) clerkship in the in ternal revenue office in Raleigh to succeed J. E. Shepherd, colored, resigned. Geo. E. Butler, another brother of the ex-Senator, has been asked to run for Congress in the third district as the Republi can candidate, but he has not yet stated whether he will run. Jo. Cole, the negro who mur dered ItoadmasterStevers on the Seaboard Air Line passenger train two months ago, was con victed at Henderson Thursday of murder in the first degree and sentenced' to be hanged Novem ber 19. Jo. Cole, Jr., and John Jones, both implicated in the murder, were found guilty in the , second degree and sentenced to thirty years in the State prison. InsurauceCommissioner Young has granted license to the relief department of the AtlanticCoast Line to do business iu North Carolina. Coram ssioner Young says his collections-during Sep tember were something like $10, 000. He says there are now 42 life and 80 fire insurance compa nies licensed' to do business in this State, about the same num ber there were four years ago. He finds that the Newport News Beneficial Association is trying to do business in this State. It is unlicensed. He notittes all sheriffs and constables to call for j the license of all persons who say they are agents of any insurance company. There is a $10 fine, half going to the officer, for fail ure to have in possession a license | to do business as agent. Misses Alice and Callie Kistler, t lie charming and popular daugh ters of Mr. J. J. Kistler, of Cleve ' land Mills, are the champion cot ! ton pa kern of upper Cleveland. .One day last week Miss Alice ' gathered 202 pounds of the fleecy ? tuple, while her younger -sister, Miss Callie, .followed with 2+0 pounds. How many young la dies can beat this??Cleveland Star. There was a lady jn this citv yesterday who was nearly 30 years old ami had lived within IK miles of Raleigh all her life and had never been here before. She found the city quite a curiosity and her brothers, who accompa nied her, showed her many points oi interest. She had ueverbefore visited any town and her*know ledge of the business tforhl was the country cross roads store.? Raleigh Times. The celebrated Amos Oweus Cherry Tree Cotnapny cases were disposed of in the Cnited States court at Greensboro Tuesday. E. J. Justice, counsel for the cou victed defendants, C. I). W'ilkie, Rev. T. Bright, Dr. Frank Bright, C. F. Geer, G. VV. Rollins and M. C. I'adget, plead that their clients could not refund the ten thousand dollars to the victims as ordered at the last term of court to avoid penitentiary, but could pay five thousand now. Judge Bynum consented to the five thou sand, ordering that the defend ants give that amount of bond for payment of the five thousand more at the next term of Federal court to be held in Charlotte. LAST OF THE MERRIMAC CREW. William E. Tetterton, ot Beaufort County, Said To Be The Sole Survivor. In a village of barely .TO people, down in Beaufort countv, lives Win. It. Tetterton, the last living su.vivor of the crew of the fa mous Confederate States war ship the Merrimac, formerly the old Virginia. He is 07 years old, and in many ways the same old unreconstructed rebel that he was in the days from '01 to '05. The first war duty Tetterton ever did was in the army of the Confedracy. He enlisted in a company of Martin countv mili tia, commanded by Capt. Kieves. The company went to Richmond and for six months Tetterton's duties were only those that make up the daily routine of the army private. In llichmond, Lieutenant Woods lia(3 a recruiting station and he was signing men for ser vice on the Merrimac. The idea of a naval life appealed to young Tetterton and he enlisted for ser vice. The war vessel had not been out as yet on any expedi tions and the new recruit found himself one of the first among a rather scanty crew. The boat was then at brook's station,nine miles below Frederickburg, and here he joined her, taking a berth as a landsman. He served on the boat from the first day she went into service until the older came from the Secretary of the Confederate States navy to put her out of commission. Few men who see Tetterton at the present time would think that he went through the dark days of the inter-State strife and j ;ir ticipated in the tight with the Monitor, newly come out of Northern shipyards to contest with the Sonthern victor. All th'ougb the battle he was strip ped to the waist working behind the plating ot railroad iron, .igainst which the shells from the tin box on the shingle were pelt ing and sliding off into the water. The fight with the Cumberland, in which this war vessel was rammed and run on the beach was the scene he witnessed prior to the ironclad battle. The old mail is still hale and hearty and looks as though he were good for many more years of tire. He accounts interesting ly the deeds of daring of the crew of the famous ram and tells of their hardships anil also of the victories and how they were cele brated on board ship?Charlotte Observer. I

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