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THE CORRESPONDENT
VOLUME X.
MEET
FOR DISCUSSION
ver Eight Hundred Delegates
gather lu City of Scranton.
10 PER CENT OFFER
Days’ Session Devoted to
Organization and Speeches
From Prominent Delegates.
Eight hundred and fifty-seven min¬
who hold in their power to end or
the anthracite coal miners’
which has been in progress for ■
than three weeks, met in conven-
at Scranton, Pa., Friday, for the
purpose of considering the 10 per ceut
net advance in wages offered by the
operators, and adjourned until Satur¬
day without taking any action on their
employers’ pioposition. sessions de¬
Both of Friday’s convention were
moted to organizing the
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, anti
addressed the delegates, saying:
“For the first time in many years
the operators have recognized your
demands for better conditions of em-
ploymeut and have offered an advance
of 10 per cent in your wages. Iam
veil aware that this advanco 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
ooal companies, aud wages be paid
twice a month, you reserving the right
of spending your earnings wherever
you choose. Whether it is better at
this timo to insist upon a compliance
with all your demands is a question
which yon, who are most intere-ted,
tre called upon to decide.
should “Personally be I have hoped that estab- we
able at some time to
hsh 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-
fat, sensible business men, mutually
3 gree upon a scale of wages which re-
imtin8 in force for one year.”
Chairman Mitchell’s first act was to
r *ad a telegram from Samuel Gom-
president of the American Fed-
Wation of Labor, ns foliows:
‘“The cause of the miners is the
Clr ; 3e of humanity. Whatever the de-
cision otbr reached regarding the operators’
the future must be brighter, bet-
‘ r and more just for the miners, their
Mves and children, aud humanity will
e gainer. Kindly convey to the
wsembWl delegates the eincerest sym-
putby and co-operation of every union
"■ember aud officer of the American
iederaUon of Labor. We all pray
la, = work for yonr success.”
The convention went into secret
1°?’ and at ff 8 close adjourned to
o clock Saturday morning. The
Hess committee, of which Mr. Mitch-
icw-ing is chairman, made public the fol-
report:
• ^ o’clock the convention wont
*“ o executiue session and the pass
'' i of the organization was taken up.
^^T^eation posted was asked notices if all advancing theoper-
* a ?es 10 ; per cent, and it
? in was ascer-
sd that
di *‘du&l
Th
- Cf . ■ ^dopted bearing on ' the wage
KNOXVILLE, GA.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1900.
seems worried
Situation In China Is in a Very
Muddled Condition,
A WAITING GAME IS BEING PLAYED
Expedition of Allies Start From Tien
Tsin For Pao Ting Fu—Strong Re¬
sistance Is Expected.
A Washington special says: Minis¬
ter Wu was one of Secretary Hay’s
cariy 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 Fao Ting Fu. He looks upon this
as likely to cause serious complica¬
tions and a renewal of agitation among
tho Chinese.
He says that the reports of serions
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 there are no
boxers in the south of China. The
minioter feels certain that Earl Li
Huug Chang has arrived at Pekin.
Nothing has been heard from Mr.
Conger for a day or two. It appears
that it was an erroneous assumption
that tho minister had submitted to the
state department a list of Chinese offi¬
cials who had been punished. He did
supply the department with a copy of
the imperial edict in which a number
of officials Nvere mentioned, but made
no prescriptions himself, although he
did express the opinion that other
Chinese besides those named were fit
subjects for punishment.
MXPELITION STARTS OFF.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Tien Tsin says: General Von Walder-
see, commanding the allied forces, has
issued orders to the Pao Ting Fu 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 undet the commacd of
Geperal Gaselee.
Four battalions of French troops
which left Yang Tsun 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 8th in the British brigade
orders:
Count Von Waldersee assumed chief
command of the troops in Chi Li prov¬
ince September 27 aud 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
j valor and heroism. Well known as I
um, entrusted with the difficult task, I
nevertheless, have a firm conviction
that I shall succeed, and surely with
the htlp of these proved troops, in at¬
taining the object pluced beforo me,
now that they are combined under a
single leader.”
CHARGES AUAIVT LUDDINUTON'.
Employee of War Department Makes
Some Serious Allegation*.
A Washington special says: John O.
Cole, formerly an employee of the
war department, reiterates his charges
of mismanagement, incompetency and
waste of public funds in the quarter¬
master general’s department. reply to
General Luddington’s that they
Cole’s first charges was but the
were personal in character,
allegations have not been answered.
on the same grounds during the Span-
ish war.
THE NEELY CASES
Supreme Court Advances Them
For Hearing November 12th.
OTHER IMPORTANT CASES ARE SET
One Is the Question of the Constitution's
Extension Over Our New
Possessions.
Monday the supreme court of the
United States granted the motion of
the government to advance the Neely j
cases aud assigned them for hearing
on the decision of Judge Wallace de I
nying a writ of habeas corpus. The
government is anxious for de- '
very a
cision which will settle the constitu-
tioual questions involved.
The court also assigned for the same
day the two cases which involve the
great question as to whether the con- ;
stitution extends over the new posses-
8ious of the United States. One is
the case of Boetz, a New York tobacco
importer, appealing from a decision of j
the United States district court for the
southern district of New York, affirm-
iug the decision of the board of gen-
eral appraisers making tobacco dutia-
ble uuder the Porto Rico tariff act.
The other comes to the supreme
court under the title, “Fourteen dia-
mond rings vs. the Uuiteil States.” It
comes up in April from the federal
court of Illinois. One Poke, a soldier
of a Soirth Dakota regiment, who
served in the Philippines is the claim¬
ant. When he returned home from
the Philippines he brought with him
the diamonds. They afterwards were
seized by the federal authorities in
Chicago and confiscated as smuggled
goods. suit
Through Poke’s agency was
brought to recover them on the
ground that as the Philippines were
part of the United States within the
meaning of the constitution no import
duty could be levied, and that the dia¬
monds were not dutiable, and there¬
fore were unlawfully seized, The
lower court in both instances sustain¬
ed the action of the federal authori-
ties.
During the day the court handed
down several decisions. In the case
of Daniel G. Wiley, plaintiff in error,
vs. Sinkler and other election officers,
of South Carolina, for refusing to al¬
low the plaintiff to vote for a member
of congress, the court held that Wiley’s
right to vote for members of congress
was undoubted, but that the plaintiff 1 ,
having failed to register, that defect
was fatal. The judgment of the lower
court was affirmed.
The case of Alice Weil vs. the Unit¬
ed States was dismissed on motion of
the plaintiff, thus ending the legal
side of the famous litigation over tha.
La Abra mining claim, which was set-
tied finally by the decision of the
court last winter. This case was the
last one on the docket relative to that
claiuo.
The court advanced the case of
Homer Bird, who was convicted of
murder by the district court of Alaska,
to the second Monday in December.
Bird is from New Orleans and while
on his way to Alaska with some com-
panions quarreled with them over tho
division of food and killed two of
thern. He was convicted of murder
and is now beforo the supreme court
as a plaintiff in error.
GEORGIA ASYLUM CHOWDER. |
State Institution at Milledgevllle Has
Two Hundred and Fifty Inmates.
Governor Candler „ ,, . has received from
Superintendent lowell, of the sta.e
lunatic asylum at Milledgeville Ga.,
Lis annual report, which, it is shown,
contains some statements and sugges-
tions that will prove of very consider-
able interest to the next general assem-
b!y and to the state at large.
As 18 well known, the s ate asylum
has been greatly overrun with patients
for the past year or two, ’ bel “ g
EOW two hundred and fifty
nates in the institution. Besides,
there are now lying in the jails of
Georgia more than 150 “lunatics, it is
said, awairiug admission into the asy-
lum but who cannot be accommodated
for lack of room. Tbi-, notwithstand-
ing the fact that scores of harmless
incurables have been returned to their
families under an order passed about
a year ago.
IS SILENT
Kaiser’s Answer to French Note
Has Not Materialized,
A WAITING GAME AS REGARDS CHINA
Uprising Throughout the Empire Seemi
1 minim,nt—Many Outbreaks Have
Already Occurred. *
A special dispatch from Paris says:
Germany is the only power which has
no ^ re P^ e< ^ formally to France s note
zstt £? zxxsz r ' i
ceived Monday, accepts the proposals,
retaining only one condition. This
refers to the permanent prohibition of
the importation of arms. While agree-
ing with the principal, Japan offers
suggestions ns to how the prohibition
can best be accomplished. A dispatch
received at the French foreign office
from Hankow dated October 13th says
the Chinese court arrived at Sian Fu
October 12th.
It is officially understood that if an
international conference at The Hague,
regarding the Chinese indemnity ques-
tiou, is finally decided upon, it will
not discuss with China the amount of
compensation she must pay, but will
confine its labors to fixing and distrib-
uting the proportion of the indemnity
which shall go to the several countries
interested,
BRITISH TROOPS DISPATCHED.
A column of troops was dispatched
from Hong Kong Monday morning to
the Kowloon frontier, with the object
of barring armed refugees, either rebels
or imperial troops, from entering
British territory wheu defeated.
, The rebels are reported to be 3,000
strong thirty miles north of the British
frontier. A thousand of Admiral Ho’a
troops are in pursuit of them, while
two thousand Chinese troops have left
Canton, overland, to intercept the
rebels.
Admiral Ho has informed the gov¬
ernor that the rebellion was carefully
planned. The rebels are anxious to
conciliate the villagers, hence the ab¬
sence of outrage and pillage, All in¬
dications point to the rising being
widespread. Outbreaks occurred si-
multaneoiiBly in several centers of
Kwang Tmig aud Kwang Si. Appa¬
rently Kang Yu Wei, Sun Yat Sen and
the The Triads have amalgamated their
forces in the common cause—the over¬
throw of Manchu rule in south China.
Some pos tive iudicatiou of the atti¬
tude of the foreign powers is anxious¬
ly awaited.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Mst of New Indiintrle* Established Dur¬
ing til* Fast Week,
The more important industries re-
ported during the past week include a
$10,000 box factory in Texas; a boat
factory in West Virginia; a 820,000
brick works aud $25,000 chair factory
iu Atlanta; a crate and basket factory
an d a $400,000 cotton mill in South
Carolina; electric light plants at Ur-
laudo, Fla.; Shelby, N. C., Navasota,
Tex., and an electric power plant at
Roanoke Rapids, Va ; a fertilizer fac-
tory in Alabama; flouring mills in
Georgia; furniture factories in Missis-
sippi, North Carolina and Vir inia,
glass works in West Virginia; gold
mines in Georgia; hosiery mills in
Virginia; ice aud cold storage plants 1
Lexington, Ky., Scranton, Miss., and
Laredo, Tex.; lumber mills in Arkan-
sas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Caro-
lina, Texas atul Virgiaia; railroad ma-
chine shops in Texas; a $300,000 na-
^ ccmpaijy , n Mobile; two
£ , fa e » or j fts \orth Carolina-a
£, laning mi || in Georgia; a sash and
intl factory in Tennessee; a sewing
mftchine manufactory in Alabama; a
Btationery f raanutac tory in Georgia;
sngar mi Is i n Louisiana and Texas;
telephone exchanges in Florida aud
Georgia; £ a tobacco factory in*Louisiana!— iu Georgia;
a wo d work j og piant
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) J
Investigating < onvict Camp Case. i
The Georgia prison commission
went down to Valdosta Monday to hear
testimony in the McCree convict , camp
case. After hearing evidence the com-
minion will return io Atlanta to con-
aider the case Governor Candler did
not go to Valdosta as reported he
would.
NUMBER 2.
COMPANY F RESCUED
A Belief Party Finds Captain
Shields and His Men.
GOOD NEWS COMES FROM MANILA.
Details Are Lacking But Report Will
Cause Great .Toy to Frleiul# and
tives of Sliding Men.
According to advices from Manila,
Captain Devereux Shields, who, with
fifty-one men of company F, 29 th regi¬
ment, United States volunteer infan-
- —*—
last montl1 iu tlie i8land of Marmdu-
que, wus rescued Sunday by the
American rescue foice, with all the
members of bis party.
This regiment was organized at Fort
McPherson, Atlanta, Ga.,and the men
composing it enlisted in that and other
Georgia cities. Since the capture of
the company by the Filipinos last
month friends and relatives have been
very solicitous regarding its fate, and
the news of the rescue.of the company
will be received by them with great
rejoicing.
BOY BEATEN TO DEATH.
Alabama Negro Commits Most
Horrible Crime-Victim’s Neck
and Limbs Were Broken.
On the plantation of C. E. Ghobton,
at Suspension, Ala., twelve miles
northeast of Union Springs, Henry
Hough, a negro, killed a ten-year-old
negro boy who lived with him by beat¬
ing him to death and then breaking
his neck in several places, breaking
his limbs and then leaving him to rot
in a cotton patch because ho ran off
from home and did not return at the
regular hour. people. He
The boy had no living
seemed to have simply taken him in
charge. On examination at tho official
investigation held at that place Satur¬
day the injuries above mentioned were
found on the dead body. Proof is said
to be positive aud Sheriff G. A. Riteli
now holds Henry Hough behind the
bars to await judgment for liis crime.
ANSWER TO FRENCH PROPOSAL.
United States Agrees With France as to
Appropriate Reparation.
The reply of the state department to
the French note, relative to the bases
of Chinef e negotiations, reads as fol¬
lows:
The secretary of state to the French
charge d’affaires. (Sent to Mr. Thie-
1 bant, October 10, 1990.) Memoran- United
dum: The government of the
States agrees with that of France in
recognizing as the object to be obtain-
ed from the government of China ap-
propriate reparation for the past, aud
substantial guaranties for the future.
The president is g ad to percoive in
the basis of negotiation put forward in
the memcraoa«m of October 4th the
spirit that has animated ihe declara-
tions heretofore made by all the pow-
era interested, and would be pleased
to see the negotiations begun imme-
diately upon the usual verification of
credentials.
WILL PAY FOR MOB VICTIMS.
President to s U8 :*«-«t indemnity Fop it»i-
,an * Kil,od In Louisiana.
A Washington dispatch says: The
president will recommend to congress
the payment of an indemnity to the
families of the four Italians who were
‘he victims of a mob at Tallulan, La.,
about two years ago.
A report from a special agent of the
department of justice clearly estab-
l^bed the fact that the men were kill-
ed by the mob, and none of the perpe-
tnton of the crime were ever pun-
isLed h 7 the state authorities, not-
withstanding tho representations of
the national government.
The governor of Louisiana caused
an investigation to be made and there
were some proceedings before a grand
jury, but the result was that the na¬
tional government found itself bound
to make some sort of reparation in
answer to the Italian government's
representations.