'' ^ 7 ^ II PRR I I- I P| HP JPM n j| PP IT' 7l H %\# Jsmitljficlfc lUrdii price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies five cents. VOL. 21. SMITH FIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1902. NO. 32. TO SETTLE COAL STRIKE. Ask the President to Name a Commission of Five. Operators Are to Accept Its Deci sion?Miners to Resume Work at Once-Plan Does Not Fully Recognize Miners' Union. The great coal strike continues to be the absorbing topic this week. Every effort possible is be ing put forth to end the struggle. Last Saturday Secretary Hoot went to New York and had a con ference with J. Pierpont Morgan. It is believed that he appealed to Morgan to getthecoal operators to agree to arbitrate. Monday nighf Morgan went to Washing ton, and after being closeted with President Itoosevelt two hours, Secretary Cnrtel.you gave out the following statement: The managers of the different coal properties, composing the anthiacite coal field, wish their Eosition in the present strike to e understood, and therefore make the following statement of facts: There are in the anthracite re gions about seventy-five oper ating companies and firms, and 147,000 miners and workmen (of which thirty thousand are undei age) comjirising some twenty nationalities and dialects. Of these workmen, possibly one-half belong to the United Mine Workers' Union, of which Mr. John Mitchell is president. That organization was origin ally formed in the bituminous coal region, and three-fourths of its members are miners of bitu minous coal, and bituminous coal is sold in active competition with anthracite coal. The re maining workmen in the anthra cite fields either belong to 110 union whatever, or do not belong to the mine workers' union. The present 6trikewas declared by the mine workers' union on the 10th of May, 1902. Since that time many workmen not belonging to or not willing to follow that organization were working in and about the mines. From seventeen to twenty thous and are now at work. Many more have wished to work, but have been prevented by a course of violence and intimidation to war Is those working, and to wards their families accompanied by the destruction of properties and the fear of death or bodily harm to every man who wishes to exercise his right to work. A schedule is annexed hereto showing some of the things done to create this reign of terror, and every instance stated can he veri fied 'by reference to the officers oi the law?civil and military?in the anthracite region. This vio lence has continued and steadily increased, notwithstanding re peated disavowals by Mr. Mitchell and it is clear that he either can not or will not prevent, and that the rights of the other workmen ! cannot be protected under the supremacy of the mine workers' union. The coal companies be lieve that the wages paid in the coal regions are fair and full, and all that the business in its moral condition has been able to stand if the capital invested is to have any reasonable return. The profits have bepn small, several of the companies have become bankrupt and been re-organized several times. Several have never paid dividends, aud the; dividends of theothers have been a small return for the capital in vested. It is not. however, the purpose of this statement to dis cuss this question. The undef aigned are not and never have; been unwilling to submit all ques tions between them and their workmen to any fair tribunal for decision. They are not willing to enter into arbitration with the mine workers' union, an organization chiefly composed of men in a rival and competitive! interest, and they are not willing to make any arrangement which will not secure to the men row working, and now or hereafter wishing to work, whether they belong to the mine workers' union or not, the right and op- j portunity to work in safety and | without personal insult or bodily harm to them selves or their fami lies. For these reasons, the ar bitrations heretofore proposed; have been declined. It will be remembered that in j the conference, in Washington, < >etober .'1, we made the following offer: That we would take up at each colliery any alleged grievance, and in the event of a failure to make a satisfactory adjustment of the questions at issue to be submitted to the final judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the district in which the colliery is located. This offer was made by us in good faith and w'e desire here to reaffirm it. The coal companies realize that the early public need of coal, and apprehension of an inadequate supply for the approaching win ter, calls for an earnest effort to reach a practical conclusion, which will result in an increased supply, and the presidents of the companies desire to make every effort to that end which does not: involve the abandonment of the interests committed to their care and of the men who are working and seeking to work in their mines. This responsibility they must bear and meet as best they MM. 1 They therefore re-state tJieir position: That they are not dis criminating against the United Mine Workers, but they insist that the miners' union shall not j discriminate against or refuse to1 work with non-union men; that j there shall be no restriction or1 deterioration in quantity or qual ity of work, and that owing to the varying physical conditions of the anthracite mines each col lieiy is a problem by itself. We suggest a commission bes appointed by the President of the United States (if he is willing to perform that public service) to whom shall be referred all ques tions at issue between the respec tive companies and their own employes, whether they belong to a union or not, and the deci sion of that commission shall be i accepted by us. The commission to be consti tuted as follows: 1. An officer in the Engineer Corps of the military or naval service of the United States. 2. An expert mining engineer; an expert experienced in the mining of coal and other mine rals, and not in any way con nected with coal mining proper ties, either anthracite or Ditumin ous. ?'{. One of the judges of theUni ted States courts of the Eastern district of Pennsylvania. 4. A man of prominence, emi nent as a sociologist. 5. A man, who, by active par ticipation in mining and selling coal is familiar with the physical and commercial features of the business. It being the understanding that immediately upon the constitu tion of such commission, iu order that idleness and non-production may cease instantly, the miners will return to work and cease all interference with and persecution of any non-union men who are working or shall hereafter work. The findings of this commission shall fix the date when the same shall be effective, and shall gov ern theconditionsof employment between the respective companies j anil their own employes for a term of at least three years. (Signed.) GEORGE F. BAER, President Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company; l-ehigh and Wilkesba'rre Coal Company, and Temple Iron Company. E. B. THOMAS, Chairman Pennsylvania Coal Company; Hillside Coal and Iron Companv. W. H. TIUJESDALE, President Delaware Lackawanna and West ern Railroad Company. T. P. FOWLER, President Scranton Coal Company; Elk Hill Coal and Iron Companv. R. M. OLYPHANT, President Delaware and Hudson Companv. ALFRED WALTERS, Presi dent Lehigh Vnlley Coal Com pany. J GOAL STRIKE SETTLED. The Arbitrators Selected? Mitchell Named [Some^of Them.] President Mitchell Has Called a Meeting of the Executive Board Before Which the Agree ment Reached at the White House Con ference wil be Laid. Washington, Oct. 16.?The strike is settled. Secretary Hoot announced at 1 o'clock this morn ing that a common ground of agreement had been reached. The President has named a com mission of six persons to settle the strike. The President will urge the im mediate resumption of work at the mines and the administra tion believes the request will be | followed at once. President Mitchell has called a meeting of the executive board, and the strike will be called off at once and mining resumed in two j or three days. Some of the mem bers of the commit tee were named by .Messrs. Sargent and Mitchell at the conference with the Presi dent to-day and later meetings to-night Sargent officially repre sented the mine union leader. After a conference with Mr. Mitchell and some further con ferences with representatives of the coal operators, the President has appointed the members of the commission to inquire into, | and pass upon all questions at issue between the operators a.nd miners in the anthracite coal j fields. Brigadier General John M. Wil son, U.S.A., retired (late chief of engineers U. S. A.) Washing ton, L). C., as an officer of the engineer corps of either the mili tary or naval serv ce. E. W. Parker, Washington, 1).; C., as an expert mining engineer Mr. Parker is chief statistician of the coal division of the United States Geological Survey and the editor of The Engineering and Mining Journal, of New York. Hon. George (fray, Wilming ton, Del., as a judge of a United ; States Court. Mr. E. E. Clark, Cedar Rapids, la., grand chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, as a sociolo gist, the President assuming that for the purpose of such a term of ; sociologist means a man who has thought and studied deeply on social questionsand has prac tically applied his knowledge. Mr. Thos. H. Watkins, Scran ton, I'a., as a man practically j acquainted with the mining and selling of coal. Bishop John L. Spalding, of Peoria. 111. The President has added Bishop Spalding's name to the commission. Hon. Carroll D. Wright has been appointed recorder of the commission. , As named the commission is practically satisfactory to both miners and operators. Assent of the miners was given through President Mitchell and Mr Sar gent, Commissioner of Immigra tion,and of the operators through Messrs. Robert Bacon and (ieo. W. Perkins, of the banking firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Com pany. The final outcome follow ed a series of conferences begin ning with two during the day i with Mr. Mitchell and two during the night with Messrs. Bacon and Perkins. Events moved quickly at the last, the President being determined on a speedy settle ment. The commission will assemble in a few days and choose a chair man. It then will arrange for sessions and testimony. Out Of Death's Jaws, '?When death seemed very near from a severe stomach and liver trouble, that I had suffered with for years," writes P. Muse, Dur ham, N. C., "Br. King's New Life Pills saved my life and gave per fect health." Best pills'on earth and only 23c at Hood Bros, drug tsore. I General News Items. A severe storm at Quincy, III., [ Sunday evening did much dam age to property in city and coun try. One man was killed. At the i same time a heavy hail storm did much damage at St. Louis, .Mo., and a wind and rain storm dam aged property at La Fayette, Ind., and vicinity. The Pacific Coast. Express on the( hicago, Burlington A Quincy road was held up by three masked men early Saturday, four miles west of Lincoln, Neb. The rob bers used explosives on the ex press car, shattering it badly and after wrecking the safe, ritied the contents, securing an amount 1 bought to be about f 1,500. Friday night's rainfall loosened a huge boulder on the mountain near Brompton, 20 miles east of Birmingham, Ala., and it rolled down on the Southern Railway track in a deep cut. An east bound freight collided with the boulder just before daylight and the locomotive and six cars were wrecked. Fireman J. L. Richard son, of Avoudale, Ala., was in stantly killed. In Washington Thursday Miss Alice Fisher, a young woman em ployed in the Government Print ing office, was shot and instantly killed b,y Wm. Dougherty, an em ploye of the same office. Dough erty then shot and killed himself. Jealousy was the motive. The affair occurred a t the home of a friend of the young woman. Miss Fisher had gone to the friend's house at the request of Dougher ty, who wanted her to resume friendly relations and cease ac cepting the attentions of another young man. A boy named Charlie Cawley, aged 17 years, of Homestead,Pa., killed his mother and on sister with an axe Friday morning at il o'clock. He also hacked four other sisters so badly that they will die. He attacked his elder brother, but the axe glanced off j his head and his brother awoke. He jumped out of bed, saw the would-be assassin and knocked him down with a chair. He then took him to the police station. Cawley was laboring under men tal aberration, the result of a strain of mind in perfecting an appliance for an air brake which is pending in Washington, D. C. Dead at the Age of 132. Chicago, Oct. 11.?A woman who, according to her own re port, was living at the time of the Boston Tea Party and the meeting of the first Continental Congress, is dead at the home for aged and infirm colored people, 1 The woman was Ellen Stewart, a slave before the Civil war. Ac cording to her story, she was born in 1770, and consequently was 132 years of age. She was born in Virginia. Groom. 75; Bride, 74. Salem, Mass., Oct. 13 ?A ro mantic wedding has just taken place here when two former sweet hearts, 75 and 74 years of age, were wedded after years of sepa ration and after each had been married and had grandchildren. William H. B. Poland, of BeV erly, and .Mrs. Rebecca Williams were married at the home of Mrs. Williams' grandchild. Ed ward Williams. Mrs. Williams was the sweetheart of Mr. Poland long before the Civil War. Two years after his first sweet- j heart, the present bride, married Mr. Poland took as his wife Miss Abigail Hughes, of Gloucester, with whom he lived 47 years. "After Mrs. Williams lost her husband and 1 lost my wife I met my old sweetheart again," said Mr. Poland. "I told her 1 felt lonesome and she invited mr to call. The result is we are now marritd." When you come to Smithfleld do not fail to go see the extra nice stock of Gardner A Gal braith. Standard Sewing Machines, all grades, all styles, at J. R. Led better's. STATE NEWS. Newsy Items Clipped, Culled and.Condensed from North Carolina Newspapers. A company lias been chartered at Asbeville to manufacture vel vet talcum puffs and other toilet articles. At Alliance, Pamlico county, last week, Reuben Hunting, 18 years old, hanged himself because a young woman refused to marry him. R. F. Horubuckle, an overseer in the Athertonmill in Charlotte, was caught in the shafting of the mill early Monday morning and killed. Six companies have been or ganized in North Carolina during the past three months to build cotton seed oil mills with a capi tal of $202,000. There was a runaway marriage in Orange county, some six or seven miles from Durham, last week, in which thecombined ages of the couple was 143 years. The groom was 70 years of age and | his bride 07. The State Superintendent is having prepared plans for school houses of one, two and four rooms, costing from $200 to $500. These plans will be iurn ished to school committees wish ! ing to put up new houses. The bulletin of the State Hoard of Health, issued Wednesday, re ports typhoid fever in 78 coun ties. No part of the State is exempt from this dreadful dis ebse. Smallpox is reported in 10 counties, with three deaths in Craven and Carteret. At Davie Superior Court last week Judge Neal instructed the grand jury to find two bills of in dictment against the county com missioners, first, for failure to have sufficient safes in which to protect the court records; second, their failure to have a jury room. A petition is being circulated in Greensboro asking for contribu tions to purchase a site for a modern hospital, costing $25, 000, which the Sisters of Charity propose to erect there. The peti tion is being freely signed bv citi zens, whose voluntary contribu tions have reached $4,000. Frank Wynne, colored, who re cently killed another negro in Wayne county, was captured in Cumberland county last week. Wynne is a wealthy negro and after the killing he was admitted to"bond in the sum of $2,500. He then ran away and a reward of $150 was offered for him. Winston Sentinel: A gentleman from York, Pa.,is baying up old fashioned chinaware to decorate parlors with. It seems that old chinaware is getting to be the rage now, while not long ago old fashioned clocks were. He is at present making a circuit of Salein and, it is said, is having good success in supplying his wants. W. A. Wilson, of Dover,Craven county, the city clerk and South ern Express Agent, was relieved of several hundred dollars Wed nesday night between midnight and day, by some unknown par ties blowing open his safe with dynamite. Mr. Wilson had about $250, the city $05, the express company $12, Jim Hines $125 and J. E. Waters $10. [lev. J. W, Hatch, a minister of the Christian church, was found dead in bed at his home near Pittsboro Thursday afternoon. He was in apparent good health up to the time Of his death and had been conversing with his family only a short time before he was found to be dead. Mr. Hatch was 87 years old and had lived all his life on his farm,three mil?s southeast of Pittsboro. Mr. S. E. Todd, of Charlotte, has brought suit against the Senbonnl Air-Line Railroad for $50,000 damages. Mr. Todd had been for a number of years car inspector for the Seaboard Air-Line and on the 10th of Jan uary last he was run over by an engine at the Seaboard passenger depot in Charlotte and was in jured so that both of his legs had to be amputated above the knee. I PUBLIC SPEAKING.'/ CongressionarCampaign--The Issues of the Day Fully Discussed. Announcement in hereby made that the Hon. Edward \V. l'ou, the Democratic candidate for Representative in Congress from this District will address the peo ple of the District at the follow ing times and places: October 18?Saturday, at Ben son, at 2 o'clock. October 24?Friday, at Kenly, at 2:.'$0 o'clock. October 25?Saturday, at Princeton. October 27?Monday, at Clay ton, at night. November Brd?Monday, at Smithileld. The great issues will be fully and ably discussed. All the peo ple should bepresent. Come and l?ring your neighbors,your wives and your daughters. .TAMES R. YOUNG. Ch'mu Dem. Cong. Ex. torn. Big Democratic Majorities. Hon. E. W. l'ou was in the city for a short time yesterday. He has just finished a tour of Nash, Franklin and Vance counties. Speaking of the outlook he said: "Put Franklin down for a Demo cratic majority of a thousand, Nash and N ance with the largest in their history. In Franklin the lowest man on the Democratic ticket will win by athousand ma jority. All the Democrats over there who have strayed off are wanting office." Mr. l'ou has finished his can vass in the counties named. On Monday he speaks in Fran tlin ton and nearly all the rest of the week in Wake. He says that there is to be a great Democratic majority in the entire State.? Sunday News and Observer. Miners Accept the Commission. Wilkesbarre, Oct. lfi.?Presi dent Mitchell arrived here at two o'clock this morning. He said: "I am eminently satisfied with the men named by the President." President Mitchell issued a statement today announcing toe miners sat isfaction afc the agree ment on arbitration. Work mar be resumed Monday. The strik ers are cheerful and are already preparing to return to work. The publication of Mitchell's statement officially accepting the terms of the strike settlement has created tremendous enthusi asm over the entire mine region. Hands are parading the streets and cheers for Mitchell are heard at every point. LEACHBURG ITEMS. Picking out cotton is almost something of the past for this season. Mr. and Mrs. Thad Stevens went to Raleigh last Monday on business. "Sol" has been kept in doors for a few -days on account of chills. Mr. Starling.Johnson continues to be in poor heath. We hope for his speedy recovery. Mr. I). T. Barnes, of near Ral eigh, spent the first days pf the week in this community, with his machine, mowing pea vines. Misses Nellie Bee and Cnllie Johnson, of the Perlinn section, passed through Leachburg re cently enroute to their homes from Clayton. The protracted meeting at Shi loh commenced last Sunday. We hope for a glorious revival in church work this week. Miss Bessie Barnes, who is at tending school at Mount Moriah, came home and attended services at Shiloh last Sunday. Master l^eon Stevens, formerly of Tnylorsville, but now of IVtra, N. C., who has been in I-eachburg visiting his father, Mr. Thad Stevens, for the past eight months returned home last Monday. "Sol." \