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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."
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