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TO CONSIDER ADVANCE
Sessions of First Day Were Devoted Only
to Organization and Speech*
Making—Mitchell Presides.
Eight hundred and fifty-seven min
ers who hold in their power to end or
continue the anthracite coal miners’
strike, which has been in progress for
more than three weeks,{pet in conven
tion at Scranton, Pa., Friday, for the
purpose of considering the 10 per cent
net advance in wages offered by the
operators, and adjourned until Satur
day without taking any action on their
employers’ proposition.
Both of Friday’s sessions were de
voted to organizing the -convention
and to speeches by many of the dele
gates on the mine owners’ concession.
It was not expected that anything
would be done outside of a general
exchange of views. The convention,
after it was permanently organized,
went into secret session, but it was
learned from authoritative sources
that nothing of a definite nature was
suggested, which would lead to a solu
tion of what is to the miners a knotty
problem.
President Mitchell called the con
vention to order at 10:25 o’clock, and
addressed the delegates, saying:
“For the first time in many years
the operators have recognized your
demands for better conditions of em
ployment and have offered an advance
of 10 per cent in your wages. lam
well aware that this advance is not
satisfactory to you. You have felt,
and with justice, that a definite period
of time should be named during which
this advance should remain in force.
“Your experience where wages are
based on a sliding scale has been so
unsatisfactory to you that you believe
that the sliding scale method of deter
mining wages should bo obeyed by the
coal companies, and wages be paid
twice a month, you reserving the right
of spending yonr earnings wherever
you choose. Whether it is better at
this time to insist upon a compliance
with all your demands is a question
which yon, who are most interested,
are called upon to decide.
“Personally I have hoped that we
should be able at some time to estab
lish the same method of adjusting
wage differences as now exist in the
bituminous coal regions, where em
ployers and miners’ delegates meet in
joint interstate debate, and like pru
dent, sensible business men, mutually
agree upon a 'scale of wages which re
mains in force for one year.”
Chairnfn Mitchell’s first act was to
L’ad a t#.i e g ram from Sanr*iel Goin-
Jirlent of the American Fed-
are given b or as f 0 n OW8:
lation of of the m,nere 18 the
simply to Whatever the de
sub.scribers-l regarding the operators’
obtained in re must be brighter, bet
of the plartmt for the miners, their
the Unitei|-ji ( j ren> an( j humanity will
greatest‘‘pc kindly convey to the
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prizes offef -, P eration of every union
sst prize beingffioer of the American
The total amouffluabor. We all pray
lass is SI,OOO. 7 1 success.”
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bre will be $4,000 distrnfcßc the fol-
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a commission on subscriM a o i___
tbv equal one out of every p, ’,
tants of the town from wl °P er ’
sends them. jgdvancing
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onetvhieh the famous oldsbr of the ln-
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BANK HARD HIT
BY SCHREIBER
Amount of Defaulter’s Shortage Grows
With Investigation.
A WOMAN IN THE CASE
Sheriff Seizes Property of Alles
ed Beheficiary of Embezzler.
A New York dispatch Fays: Another
discovery was made Friday at the
Elizabethport bank, which increases
the stealings of defaulter Sclireiber to
$109,716. Several mouths ago an envel
ope containing $3,000 in United States
bonds was placed for safe keeping in
the bank by a resident of Elizabeth.
When he called at the bank Friday for
the deposit it was found the envelope
had been carefully opened and the
bonds abstracted. Judge Gilhooly,
the bank’s attorney, said the institu
tion was responsible and the loss
would be made good.
The furniture and personal effects
of Mrs. Hart, the woman upon whom
young Schreiber is said to have lavish
ed the money of the Elizabethport
hank, have been removed to n storage
warehouse by order of the sheriff.
Three large furniture wagons were
required to remove all the contents of
the luxuriously furnished apartments.
Mrs. Hart was present and angrily
and tearfully protested against the
removal of what she claimed to be her
own personal property.
What is believed to be a warrant for
the arrest of Schreiber was issued late
Friday afternoon by Police Justice
Mahan, of Elizabethport, after a hur
ried and secret conference in Chief
Tenney’s office at police headquarters
with President Heidriter, of the bank.
Schreiber is believed to be in hiding
in this country.
Eminent lawyers, it is said, agree
that the bank has a strong criminal
case against Mrs. Hart. The question
of jurisdiction in this case is said to
be settled conclusively by section 549
of the penal code, which states that
any person who has at any place with
out the state stolen or received stolen
goods and hag brought such property
within the state, may be considered
as having committed the crimes there
in. This jurisdiction being settled,
the prosecution will base its charges
against Mrs. Hart on section 29 of the
penal code. This section states that
any person concerned in crime shall
be considered a principal in the act*
Startling developments, it is as
serted, may come out of all this, en
abling the bank to recover $15,000
and Mrs. Hart to keep her property,
and, what is more important, to be
freed of all prosecution. When the
writs were served on Mrs. Hart she
said she could prove that she had
“other friends” who had flven her
the rich treasure which the banks
then claimed its defaulting bookkeeper
had given her.
If Mrs. Hart persists in making a
complete statement in court about her
sources of wealth, it is alleged she
will state necessarily the names of
these men.
HOAR BLAMES BRYAN.
Massachusetts Senator Addresses Re
publican Meeting at Concord.
Senator George F. Hoar delivered
an address at the Republican rally in
Concord, Mass., Friday night. He
analyzed briefly the Democratic plat
form. held Mr. Bryan responsible for
the adoption of the war treaty, and
said the Democratic leader was not
sincere in his attitude toward imperi
alism. He said:
“There are undoubtedly many per
sons in the Republican party who have
been carried away by the dream of
empire. They mean, I have no doubt,
to hold on to the Philippine islands
forever. But they do not constitute
the strength of the party. I believe
Aguinaldo and Mabint entitled to self
government. I believe also that
Booker Washington and Robert Small
are entitled to self-government.
“I have little respect for the declar
ation of love of liberty of the men who
stand with one heel on the forehead of
Booker Washington, of Alabama, and
the other on the forehead of Robert
Small, of South Carolina, and wave
the American flag over Aguinaldo and
Mabini. You are not helping the
cause of anti-imperialism by going
into partnership with Bryan.”
STEAMER STRUCK BY A LOO
She Goes to Bottom In Savannah River
But All Hands Are Saved.
The steamer Joel Cook, of the regu
lar line of steamers between Savannah
and Augusta, Ga., sank in the river
just above the Central railroad wharves
Friday night. The steamer had just
parted on her return trip to Auguta,
Bith a good cargo and some forty or
passengers, mostly negroes.
struck a sunken log or some
obstructions in the river about
above the city and slowly
into the water until only her
left above the surface. The
were all saved with the aid
City
Company Not („ | t .
Telegraph and Commer-
HH9HH company officers deih ‘hat
joined the huge teiegrap.
combine alleged to
formed.
HHbSB Builders Quit Work.
1 r - u.lders. a* the Am< r;
ndry company in ILu.t
'vent out on a strike at
They demand $1
Rates ’tl I
WU HAS TROUBLES
■ , AND IS WORRIED
Once More the Chinese Situation Is
Greatly Beclouded.
DEVELOPMENTS AWAITED.
Allies Begin Their Expedition
Against Pao Ting Fu.
A Washington special says: Minis
ter Wu was one of Secretary Hay’s
early callers Thursday. He had no
late advices from China, but came to
learn the course of this government
on the French proposition. He ex
pressed considerable apprehension
over the press reports that a consid
erable military expedition was moving
on Pao Ting Fu. He looks upon this
as likely to cause serious complica
tious and a renewal of agitation among
the Chinese.
He says that the reports of serious ?
boxer uprisings in south China are not
correct and are set afloat with a view
to creating the impression on this side
of the water that grave dangers exist
which call for a military campaign by
the allies. The best evidence of this,
he says, is the fact that thero are no
boxers in the south of China. The
minister feels certain that Earl Li
Hung Chang has arrived at Pekin.
Nothing has been heard from Mr.
Conger for a day or two. It appeals
that it was an erroneous assumption
that the minister had submitted to the
state department a list of Chinese.offb
cials who had been punished. He did
supply the department with a copy of
the imperial edict in which a number
of officials were mentioned, but made
no prescriptions himself, although he
did express the opinion that other
Chinese besides those named were fit
subjects for punishment.
EXPEDITION STAItTS OFF.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Tien Tsin says: General Yon Walder
see, commanding the allied forces, has
Issued.orders to the Pao Ting Fa ex
pedition to depart on the 11th. The
expedition consists of a mixed force of
5,000 British, German, French and
Italians. The force will leave Tien
Tsin and will connect near Pao Ting
Fu with a column of the same strength
from Pekin under the command of
General Gaselee.
Four battalions of French troops
which left Yang Tsuu on October 4th
on an independent expedition have
been halted to await the arrival of the
main force. The Americans, Russians
and the Japanese are not participating
in the movement. Despite Chinese
assurances to the contrary the com
manders of the forces ordered to ad
vance expect resistance.
The following was published on
October Bth in the British brigade
orders:
Count Von Waldersee assumed chief
command of the troops in Chi Li prov
ince September 27 and expresses the
following sentiment:
“It fills my heart with pride and
pleasure to be placed at the head of
such distinguished troops who have
already given glorious proofs of their
valor and heroism. Well known as I
am, entrusted with the difficult task, I
nevertheless, have a firm conviction
that I shall succeed, and surely with
the help of these proved troops, in at
taining the object placed before me,
now that they are combined under a
single leader.”
EMPLOYEE makes charges.
Cole Says Quartermaster General’s
Department Is Mismanaged.
A Washington special says: John O.
Cole, formerly an employee of the
war department, reiterates his charges
of mismanagement, ineompetency and
waste of public funds in the quarter
master general’s department.
General Luddington’s reply to
Cole’s first charges was that they
were personal in character, but the
allegations have not been answered.
Cole now makes affidavit to the fact
and furnishes details to the secretary
of war.
This will bring under the search
light of publicity and possibly of in
vestigation by congress the depart
ment which was constantly criticised
on the same grounds during the Span
ish war.
WILL OPEN IN MADRID.
The hispano-American Congress Is
Scheduled For November nth.
The Hispano-American congress,
which was authorized by a decree
signed by the queen regent in April
last, will open November II in the
grand hall of the National library at
Madrid. The number of delegates ap
pointed alrendy is over 3,000. A pro
gram of fetes has been arranged.
J New York’s Contribution.
TAe New York chamber of commerce
relief committee reports
dHitional contributions umountiug to
**lo4;previonsly acknovledged,slo9,-
OT3;grand total, $115,99b^
FIRST FLORIDA ORANGES.
A Carload of Present Season’s Fruit
Is Shipped From Kissimmee.
The first solid car of oranges fojAKg
■season was shipped
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Jack’s barking effects tn^noon^™
STRIKERS ACCEPT
ADVANCE IN WAGES
Conditions are Imposed t> Which
Operators Must Yield.
MAY DELAY SETTLEMENT
Result of Convention Problem.
atic—Opinions of Pit Owners.
The anthracite coal miners now on
strike, after a two days’ convention at
Scranton, Pa., late Saturday afternoon
decided to accept the 10 per cent net
increase in wages offered “by the mine
owners providing they will continue
payment of the advance until next April
and will abolish the sliding scale. If
the operators consider the proposition
unacceptable, the miners are willing
to arbitrate the question at issue.
Ttiey also decided to continue the
strike until the operators agree to the
1 convention’s proposition. The reso
lution is as follows:
We, your committee, respectfully
submit the following preamble and
resolutions for your consideration:
Whereas, the anthracite coal opera
tors have posted notices offering au
advance of 10 per cent- over wages
formerly paid, and have signified their
willingness to adjust other grievances
with their own employees; and,
Whereas, They have failed to specify
the length of time this advance will
remain in foroe, and have also failed
to abolish the sliding method of de
termining wages, we would recom
mend:
That this convention aceejpt an ad
vance of 10 per cent, providing the
operators will continue its. payment
until April 1, 1901. and will abolish
the sliding scale in the Lehigh and
Schuylkill regions; Abe sqple of wages
in the two last nampd districts to re
main stationary at 10 per cent abgye
the present basis price; and that the
companies will agree to adjgst other
grievances complained of with com
mittees of their own employees.
Should this proposition be unac
ceptable to the operators we recom
mend that the convention propose that
all questions at issue be submitted to
a fair and. impartial board of arbitra
tion.
We would further recommend that
under no circumstances whatever
should there be a resumption of work
at any of the collieries until the opera
tors signify their acceptance of this
prosition, and you are notified offi
cially that the strike is ended, and all
return to work in a body on the same
day.
STUBBORN CONTEST EXPECTED.
Judging by the unanimity of the
miners in ndoptiug the resolution and
by the determined stand taken by the
operators, it is generally beliewd that
a long contest between the strikers
and mine owners is not unlikely.
There was great enthusiasm in the
convention when the couuter proposi
tion to the operators was curried, and
three cheers Mere given for President
Mitchell. The resolutions were draft
ed by a committee of thirteen, of
which the national president wits chair
man.
OPERATORS OPPOSED to DEMANDS.
A canvass of the operators of the
Wyoming valley Sunday showed that
there is considerable opposition to
granting the miners any more conces
sions than those outlined in the origi
nal offer, namoly 10 per sent increase
without any conditions. The indi
vidual operators, especially, are op
posed to tieing themselves up to any
agreement.
The terms of the Scranton conven
tion are not acceptable to operators
and representatives of coal carrying
companies in Sbamokin and Mount
Carmel. The Beading officials do not
think the sliding scale will bo abolish
ed by the company, while operators
are averse to signing a contract bind
ing them to pay the 10 per cent in
crease until April.
The individual coal operators who
could be seen at Hazleton declined to
discuss the action taken by the miners.
Neither would say what steps the em
ployers would probably take.
It is evident from their reticence
that the individual mine owners are
waiting to see what the largecoal-oarry
ing railroads that mine coal will do.
GOVERNOR CANDLER’S MAJORITY
Consolidation of Returns Places Fig
ures In Neigborhood of 70,000.
The Democratic majority in the re
cent state election in Georgia, as
shown by the vote for secretary of
state, is 69,695.
Secretary of State Cook finished
consolidating the returns for the vari
ous counties last Thursday, but had
not footed up the totals for each office.
The vote for secretary of state,
however, was: For Cook, 93,603,
and for Clement, 23,908. So far
as can be judged, the other statehouse
officers received practically the same
vote.
VETERANS ADJOURN.
Next Meeting of Society of Army of
thejbunberland In Louisville.
the Society of
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FEYER IN CUBA
RAGES FIERCELY
Greatest Precautions Being Tnk.-n to
Prevent Its Induction Here.
CLOSE WATCH IS KEPT.
j All Exposed Points Are to
Apply a Strict Quarantine.
Caltlomen arriving iu Tampa, Fla.,
from Cuba say that the yellow fever
is spreading rapidly iu Havana and
the disease there it of the most viru
lent type. Thore is a large number of
cakes and many deaths are reported.
Though Tampa is the point at which
travel from Cuba usually enters the
southern states, no apprehension is
felt. The quarantine precautions are
so strict that there is uot the least
possibility of the appearance of the
disease.
Every vessel from the south is sub
jected to thorough inspection, fumiga
tion and detention by both the United
States marine hospital service and the
state board ef Irealth. Every one of
these vessels must stop at the quaran
tine station at Mullet Key, Mhere com
petent officers, with all the necessary
disinfecting apparatus, are on duty.
* The marine hospital service, ns an
extra precaution, has the steamer Brat
ton on quarantine patrol service along
the coast to intercept any sailing ves
sels that may attempt to get juto the
Tampa harbor without Observing the
regulations.
There are no suspicious cases de
tained at the stations and the officials
report that the quarantine against all
points iu the fever district is the strict
est ever maintained.
The state board of health is taking
every precaution at Peueaeola. Ves
sels from Cuban ports are detained
five days at the quarantine station and
are thoroughly fumigated and disin
fected before they are released. There
has been no suspicions sickness of
any character at the Pensacola quar
antine station this year.
NEW ORLEANS IS CAUTIOUS.
A New Orleans special says: The
precaution takeh by the state board
of health to prevent yellow fever from
entering this port from Cuba or auy
tropical port 1b five days detention of
all vessels bringing passengers coming
from such ports at the quarantine at
the mouth of the river.
All vessels plying between Central
America and West India ports, outside
of Cuba, belong to the United Fruit
company, and these refuso to carry
passengers, as they carry fruit, and
the quarantine of five days would
cause fruit to spoil.
Morgan liners, to and from Havana,
undergo detention, but so far uot u
single case of fever has been found on
any vessel.
The quarantine officer thinks there
is a close inspection by American
medical officers before ships leave
Cuban ports.
At Mobile, Ala., no suspicious cases
of any description are reported at quar
antine. The season has been remark
ably free from sickness of any kind.
Vessels are not allowed to come into
the city until they hnve undergone a
modern fumigation and spent five
days at quarantine. No passengers
are accepted und crews aro not allow
ed to come ashore. There is a police
guard on steamers all the season and
the system ol unloading is subject to
full precautions.
At Charleston the yellow fever sitn-u
tiou is being closely watched by tho
health officers. The government, state
and city quarantine officers are on the
alert to prevent the entrance of yel
low fever into port. Every foreign
vessel is detained at. the quarantine
station before being allowed to enter
the harbor. The health department
is prepared to establish a rigid quar
antine on a moment’s notice.
At Savannah the customary precau
tion is being taken by government
officials at quarantine.
Asked to Return the Loot.
According to a Shanghai dispatch
Li Hung Cliang bus asked the Ameri
cans to return the loot, valued at
$250,000, which they found at Pekin,
and which was the property of the im
perial authorities.
Yellow Fever Case In New York.
A New York special says: E. Bert
wcer, one of Ihe saloon passengers of
the Ward Line steamer Havana, Mho
was transferred to Hoffman Island
Tuesday, was taken sick and removed
to Swinburne Island hospital for treat
ment. Wednesday the case developed
as yellow fever.
Butler Leaves Transvaal.
General Bailer bade farewell to his
troops in the Transvaal October 6th
and departed southward. There was
a striking farewell demonstration.
The troops gathered on both sides of
the road for miles and cheered Bu.ler
vociferously.
TO HONOR GOVERNOR DREW.
Democrats of Florida Will Build Mon
ument to His Hemory.
The Democratic organization of
Florida will erect a monument to Ex-
Goveruor Drew, who died suddenly
on the announcement of his wife’s
some two weeks ago.
■k Governor Drew was the first Domo-
executive of Fb-rida after the
moved to the s'ate from
, when- married. He
■. 1 i .o.. pstiire.
MORE TROUBLE
WITH MINERS
Blood Again Shed In the
Coai Regions.
ONE KILLED ; MANY HURL
Attempt Made To Prevent Norfl’niolr
.Men From Working Resalts In a
Coliision Near Hazleton.
A dispatch from Hazleton, Pa., says:
A special policeman was instantly kill
ed, another was wounded in the head,
a striker was probably fatally shot and
ten non-union men were more or less
seriously wounded at the Oneida col
liery of Cox Brothers in a clash be
tween the olficers and 500 strikers
Wednesday morning. The victims
nre:
Killed—llalph Mills, fifty years old,
of Beaver Meadow, one of the officers
conveyed iu a special train early Wed
nesday morning from that place to
Oneida.
Wounded—George Kellnor, thirty
eight years old, bf Beaver Meadow,
also a special offices. He recoived shot
wounds in the head, but will recover.
Joseph Lesko, thirty-eight years old,
of Shepptou, a striker. He was shot
iu the groin and will probably die.
Ten non-union men were stoned,
but only two of them were seriously
injured. They are John Vanblargiu
and James Tosh, of Hheppton.
The Oneida colliery having been iu
operation since the inauguration of
the strike, the imion men at Oneida
and Shepptou, where many of the em
ployes of the Oneida and Derringer
colleries of Cox Brothers & Cos. live,
decided to close down the mine. They
gathered in groups on the streets as ■
early as 3 o’clock.
As the non-union men went to work
they were asked byttbe strikers to re
main at home. Home‘turned hack,
others did not. Those who went to
the colliery were stoned. Vanblargiu,
one of tho non-union employees, at
tempted to draw a revolver, but the
weapon was tuken from him and in
the beating he received he had sev
eral ribs broken.
Ab the small mine locomotive used
in hauling coa! from the No. 2 and
No. 3 collieries to the Oneida breaker
pulled up on the road near the latter
colliery, a crowd of women blocked the
track. The women were told by Gen
eral Superintendent Kudlick to go
home. He assured them that their
husbands would get an increase in
wages and that their other grievances
would be properly adjusted. The
women refused to listen and stoned
the superintendent, who was wounded
in tho head.
Then the. striking men and the wo
men rushed toward the No. 2 colliery,
A force of about fifty special police
men, who had been brought down
from Beaver Meadow to prevent
trouble, attempted to intercept the
mob, but they were powerless to dc
anything and retired to the engine
house.
As the officers got close to the shel
ter a shot was fired. This was follow
ed by another and iu a few moments
many shots rang through the air.
Policeman Mills was the first to fall.
Then Joseph Lesko, a striker, stag
gered to the ground. No one knows
who shot first, but it is believed that
both the strikers and the officers used
their weapons. A gunshot killed Mills!
and small shot struck Policeman Kell
nor. ‘ Lesko, the striker, was struck!
by a ball from a revolver, with which
all the officers were armed.
After the shooting the stiikers dis
persed. Sheriff Toole, of Hchuykiljl
county, in whose territory the class
occurred, was in Philadelphia aujM
could render no assistance. His chi-|J
deputy, James O’DoneU, went to ltj*
scene in the afternoon with a force T
men, but quiet hud already been
stored.
Defaulter Hiding Out.
The police believe that
Schrieber, who embezzled $100,090 ■
from the Elizabethpurt Banking com
pany, of Elizabethport, N. J., its hid
ing in New York city.
WAGERS ONIiLECTION.
Chairmen of Democratic and Republi
can Press Bureau Put Up.
A New York dispatch says: The
first bet between the opposing com
mittees directing the state national
campaigns was made Friday morning
when George W. Rouser, manager of
the press bureau of the nationki Re
publican committee, wagered $503
even with Geoige N. Graham, who
acts in a similar capacity for the
Democratic state committee, ttiat Mc-
Kinley and Roosevelt would come
down the Bronx with 100,000 plurality.
ORDER SUSPENDS POWELL.
Chief of Telegraphers Deposed at Con
vention In St. Louis.
President W. V. Powell, of the Or
der of Railroad Telegraphers, was
suspended from the office Tuesday by
the special convention of the grand
division of that organization, iu ses
sion at St. Louis. When the question
mus put the vote stood 103 lor suspen
sion and six against it. Mr. Powell
mid that he had not nad time to de
cide what action he would take. Ho
that hi-s suspension was an entire
surprise.