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BIKERS Gf HER IN CONT2NTION -V ,a' v Delegateim. From Strikers Meet InerfuVanton, Pa. jr has > 'Void 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 ud as the e g<R es the sincerest sym 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.” nd villages fall :e number of atljourne d to use, of course, thereof- . an largo ones, the anfi£ orn 'J I ®>- ray to a class increases*!" Mr. Mitch bre will be $4,000 distrnfcßc the fol- Vmers. % i'urthermore, to everyone w.tiou went ei of the 1001 prizes there* the pass 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 ’bis is altogether a very li* as ascer onetvhieh the famous oldsbr of the ln- Wato make good. Fro J>t yet done so. eee D w , l ! 7 Buch /proposition of madeby tho Publishers <m\ v. biievo it already has b , e . UDanl ‘ to be m ■l organizatii n • jgj. Prisoner’s ii / j Bk* yX’.vf 1 lib 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 !'• ■■■■;• in a k ■' ... a.' -Jr 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 < io ?■> : 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.