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THE IRON WORKERS THREATEN STRIKE Hay Battle With Horgan’s Great Steel Trust. CONFERENCES ARE UNDER WU Amalgamated Association Makes Important Demands Which nay Cause a Gigantic Conflict. A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: The chances of all tko men of the Amalga mated association employed in the or ganized mills of the American Btieet Steel company, and subsequently of all the organized men of the associa tion in mills of the United States Steel corporation tremble in the balance. On the other hand, President T. J. Shaffer ia hacked up in his determina tion to call a general strike by a ma jority of the members of his advisory hoard and the district vice president and trustees who were in session all day Wednesday. On the other hand, there is a new move toward concilia tion and arbitration, which may end the entire controversy in Pittsburg or may be carried to New York to be adjusted by higher powers. President Shaffer says that the out look for a settlement is better than at any time aineo the McKcosport trouble started. Jt was explained m the meet ing aa soon as the resolution was pass ed giving Mr. Shaffer all power in the matter, that he would address to the heads of all the constituent concerns of the United States corporation a com munication advising them of the au thority vested in him and fixing a date when all these men would he called on to strike in the event that the Sheet Steel Company has not been forced to settle either through the crippling of their own operations or by tho organ ization of higher power. A canvass of all parties to tlio dis pate indicates that tho declaration of a strike will not take place for several days. The efforts at conciliation to tie made will take time. Mach of the session Wednesday was taken up in a conference with Japa Jarratt, head of the labor bureau of the Sheet Steel Company. Mr. Jar rett contended that the men hail vio lated their agreement of a year ago, in which they agreed to remain at work under the condition then ex isting, the violation being in their joiuing issue with tho association. Tiie amalgamated men were tlrm in asserting that their joining of tho as sociation was not a violation of the agreement. The officials of the Amalgamated Aaaociatiou have been considering tbo matter of a strike carefully. They have decided that in case of u general strike the auti combine ciy will sweep over the country like wihltlre uml that there will bo an army of public senti ment on their side such us was never .htffore arrayed ou the side of a strikiug body of men. The McKeesport trouble is tho first visible eruption of a condition that has beeu developing for over a your, beginning with the formation of the American Steel Trust Company. The individual companies that were üb aoibed had no uniform plan of flout ing the workers. Those in the asso ciation of steel sheet mnutifucturers employed and recognized uniou laoor. Those outside were uou-union. The ouiubiuo took in all. When it came to a settlement of a scale last year the Amalgamated Association demanded that tlieir scale lie signed for all mills. Thin the company refused. In the meantime, or ou May ldth, the noli union men signed uu agree ment not to organize during the year amt providing that the wages that then tpted should continue during the year. The scale controversy ended in au agreement that the acale apply only to the union mills. Since then the or ganization has beeu devoting its ener gies towanl getting the sheet mill workers iu the other non union mills organized, and for that purpose lias considered the matter of throwing the mills "open," and permitting union uieu to work with non-union men to progagate the seeds of unionism. 'The formation of the United States Steel Corporation tended to complicate matters, as it includes a number of ooncarus non union and organized. M’KINLEY lO START WHEELS. W ill Touch button at Vicksburg and Open the Buffalo Exposition. The committee on ceremonies of the Fau-American exposition at Buffalo, accompanied t>y Representative Alex ander, saw the president Wednesday and extended to him a formal iuvi'a tion to attend the exposition. They also arranged with him the details of his part in the opening of the exposition, May Ist On that day the presiden tial party will be at Vicksburg, Miss., and the chief executive will press a but ton which will trausmit the electric impulse necessary to set the machiuery of the exposition iu motion. DISPENSARY FOR HAW AII. Hard Eight On Liquor Question Is Under Wty at Honolulu. A special from Honolulu states that tho territorial legislature is now in the midst of a hard tight over the propos ed liquor dispensary law. v The bill has been before the seuaate iu various stages for several days, aud commit tee reports for aud against it have been made. The campaign has developed lute a very bitter one, and there are many ohnrgea of a corruptiou faiuL BAD FOR PATRICK. New York Attorney Is Held For Murder of Hillionaire Wil liam Rice As a result of the United States supreme court decision declaring in va id divorces granted in North Dako ta statu in which residence was not bona fide, there was a flood of tele grams received in Fargo Tuesday from those likely to be affected. It is be lieved that owing to the practice of rnshing homo immediately after de crees were granted less than 10 per cent of the divorces allowed during the recent divorce period would be fonnd valid if contested. But of those secured a large per centage wore agreed cases, where ap pearance was made by both parties. Comparatively few bad bitter contests, aud only iu these can the question of residence be raised. Many of the lat ter Hass, however, included distin guished easterners and foreigners. A majority of these have remarried aud the decision of the court not only af fects their present status, but the legitimacy of many children born sub aeqneut to second marriages. This makes the court’s finding far-reaching and creates great anxiety. Applicants for divorce have always been warned against abandoning their residences so quickly, but much of the trouble has beeu caused by di vorce bureaus operated by unscrupu lous local attorneys with branch offices in the east. A majority of tho victims have lieeu from New York, although New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New England states are well repre sented. Notwithstanding that twelve mouths’ residence is now required, there aro a number of applicants iu Fargo at the present time. MATRIMONIAL TANGLE Wide-Spread Consternation Caus ed By Supreme Court’s Di vorce Decision. At Now York Tuesday Justice Je rome hold Albert T. Patrick for the grand jury on a charge of murdering tho Into Texas millionaire, William Marsh Rice. Justice Jerome, in his decision, said he was satisfied that the testimony of Jones, Rice’s valet, was adequately corroboiatcd “within the meaning of section 899 of the code of criminal pro cedare, hy evidence tending to con nect tbo defendant with the commis sion of tho crime charged.” William W. Cantwell, of Patrick’s counsel, said that application iu habeus corpus proceedings would be made iu the case of Morris Meyers aud David L. Short, who are in the Tombs in de fault of J‘20,000 bail on a charge of forgery in connection with having act ed as witnesses to the alleged forgery of the Rico 1000 will. FLORIDIANS TO VOTE. Primary to Be Held In First Judicial District (lay 9 The Democratic executive commit - tea of Florida lias issued notice to the effect that a primary election will bo held ill the counties of the first judi cial district ou the 9th day of May next, for tho purpose of nominating u state attorney of said district. The district is embraced iu the six counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton, Holmes, Washington and Jackson, and the call provides that if uj person re ceives a majority of the votes cast at said primary a secoud primary will be held on May 21st, each of which will be participated in by the qualified white Democratic voters w ho reside iu the first district. HELP FOR NEGRO TEACHERS. Colored Pedagogues to Be Given Course at Industrial College. The Georgia State Industrial col lege, the negro school near Savannah, is to make an experiment this sum mer. State School Commissioner Glenn lias advised the president of tho col lege, Professor R. R. Wright, that the school is to be kept open one month from Juuo 18th for the advancement of colored teachers from all section* of the state. The funds ure to eouie from the Peabody fund. This is the first suuimor school for negro teachers ever maintained by the state aud the experiment will he watched with interest i UCATION lwn VBTOSDw “Compulsory" Measure Knocked Out By Governor of .Missouri. Governor Dockery of Missouri ve toed the compulsory education bill entitled "Au act to enforce the consti tutional right of every child in the state to an education; to provide for truant or parental schools, and attend ance of officers in cities of 10,000 population or more, and to prohibit the employment of children during school hours." The governor said that the act inter fered with the personal rights of pa rents, aud savored of patcrualism ou the part of the state. DON’T WORRY, SAYS WOODRUFF. Manager of Hanila Commissary Says Adairs Are Honestly Conducted. Commissary General Weston, at A asbiugtou. has received a cablegram from Colonel W 'odruff, chief commis sary »t Manila, iu which he says: "Do uol penult seauilalous reports to worry you. Affiir* in the subsist ence department of the army are ad ministered honestly aud to the satis faction of officers aud troops.” GEORGIA TEACHERS AWAIT SALARY State Treasurer Refuses to Honor Warrants. A TEST CASE TO BE MADE Courts Will Pass Upon Matter That Has Long Been a Contention. Georgia's state treasurer, Mr. Park, refuses to use the public property fund for the purpose of paying the school teachers of the state aud tiding over the deficiency in the deficiency in the treasury, and Governor Candler asserts that the teachers shall be paid, and that ho will endeavor to make the state treasurer pay them us soon as it is possible to do so. Treasurer Park made the announce ment Friday afternoon that he would refuse to honor the school warrants by borrowing from the public property ftiud, and immediately preparations were made looking to bringing man damus proceedings against him, and suit will be filed before Judge Lump kin iu the superior court of Fulton county. The matter w ill, of course, go to the supreme court which ever way it is decided. In any event it will be six or seven weeks before the public school teachers of Georgia get their money. The supreme court cannot assign the case for hearing before May 20th, aud it will be at least a week or ten days before a decision can be secured from that body. This means that tho mercliauts aud the hoarding house keepers and others to whom the uearly 0,000 teachers iu Georgia ore indebted, will have to wait that much longer for their money. Treasurer Park says be did not filially decide what, he would do until 1 o’clock Friday afternoon. In the meantime the warrants for the school teachers, amounting to 8247,090, were waiting iu the office of the comptroller general. Comptroller General Wright hail declined to countersign them, ss he is required by law to do, until be had been advised of what the treasurer would do. Knowing that the situation wrs waiting on his decision, Treasurer Park took stops to determine what ha would do. At the dinner hour Friday he went to meet Washington Dessau, of Macon, who had already given an opinion contrary to that of the attor ney general, and w ith him ho had a final consultation. Upon his return to the capitol Treas urer Park called on the comptroller aud asked him what he intended to do about the warrants. “If you are going to refuse to ray them,'’ said the comptroller geueral, “it will only bo necessary for me to countersign one. That is enough for a test case.” “But 1 would not refuse to pay one of them,” the treasurer replied. “I have about 877,000 iu the treasury which I can r.3e for that purpose, and I would not refuse to pay them until tnat is paid out.” The comptroller gonernl said ho could uot decide that point. He did not know whether the governor would care to pay a few of them and leave others uupaid. Treasurer Park said lie would see the governor, and lie diil. "1 have determined to pay them all or none,” was the decision the treas urer got from the governor. "Then I shill pay none of them," was the conclusion tho treasurer reached. Governor Candler stated that he did not intend to select any of them for payment at tlrs time; wheu one was paid all must he paid. This decision was reported to the comptroller gen eral aud he declined to couutersigu a portion of the warrants. Thus the matter will go directly into the courts. Knoxville Has Snow Storm. The heaviest snow of the year be gan falling 111 the vicinity of Knox ville, Teas.. Friday night about k o’clock. It ts the first time in years that suow has fallen this lute in April. The change in tho weather from a spring to a winter day was very sud den. CORPSE GAVE A GASP. Mourners Arouml Mrs. Marlow’s Cof fin Greatly Startled. Mrs. Frank Marlow's funeral ser vice was being conducted at her late home at Merrimack, Ala., Thursday afternoon, when to the great astonish ment of all persons present, the sup posed corpse gave a gasp and showed every sign of returning life. Relatives sent for a doctor, who examined Mrs. Marlew, found her body warm and discovered a feeble pulse. For an hour aud a half the physician worked with her iu an attempt to bring the womau back to consciousness, but she eventually died. ABAD QUITS FIGHT. Another Filipino Leader Surrenders and Swears Allegiance. The war department has received the followiug cablegram from Geueral MacArthur at Manila: “Colonel Aba 1, nisurgeut leader, Marinduqne, niue officers, 70 soldiers, 248 small arms, surrendered Major) Frederick A. Smite 15th, oathed with impressive ceremony aud released. This eads insurrection there. "MaoAßTimv ’’ SAVAGE TACTICS Adopted By Red Coats In South Africa—Revolting Barbari ties Practiced. Captain Otto von Lossberg, captain of the second battery, Transvaal state artillery, who left the Boer army in January, being incapacitated with wounds, arrived at New York Wed nesday morning from Kuropo with Montagu White. He left Wednesday night for New Orleans, his old home. In an interview Captain von Lossberg said: “I talked with General Louis Botha before I came away. ‘You may go,’ lie told me. ‘Yon Lave fought well. I give you your discharge. When you come back we shall be free or lighting. I shall fill a patriot’s grave. Go, my boy. God Vie kind to you.’ ” “That is the kind of men who figlit for the Boer cause,” continued Cap tain von Lossberg. “The English have violated every law' of civilized warfare. They have armed 5,000 Kaffirs, who are In Steiuacher’s horse, which is the scum of South Africa. They fight like tho Hessians fought you —for hire. They get twelve shil liugs a day. They plunder and pillage everybody, young and old alike. “When I was wonnded I was pnt in a Red Cross ambulance and started for Lourenzo Marques. We were held up by 50 Kaffirs who wore nothing but breech clouts and carried British rifles. They took everything we had and turned me back to Pretoria. “I complained of the violation of the Red Cross flag and robbery to the British officers. They investigated and admitted that I had been shame fully treated. They promised restitu tion ‘after the war. k Y’on Americans have little conception of the resources of the Boers. Delarey alone has 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition. We have twenty guns and a Long Tom. The latter is hidden for future need. We need nothing but ambulances and surgical supplies. “The Holland societies sent us three ambulances nnd nurses several months ago via Lourenzo Marquez. The Brit ish there had them held up and they are there yet, while our men are dying for the need of them. “Our forces are distributed like this: Delarey has 0,000 men, Botha 4,000, Dewet 5,000 aud the rest aro in flying corps. They constantly harass the British. Most of our men are fighting south of Pretoria. “The Americans with our army,and particularly the Irish-Americans, arc doing magnificent fighting. “The British recently desecrated the Lutheran church at Kusterly mis sion. The Tommies took the church organ, and while one of them played tho others danced to the music with the Kaffir girls. At Lynehtenherg tho British desecrated a cemetery by mak ing it a cattlo pen. “Our winter season begins in May and ends in September. The Boers will take to the hills until it is over. They have little baggage to impede their movements,while the British are weighted down. We will play havoc with them when the winter sets in.” The captain denied that General Dewet is insane. “He is the most dangerous ‘insane man’ that England ever coped with,” he si\id. ‘‘General Dewet is a mili tary genius. He has made his '■sw troops into one of the best disciplined and most dangerous forces in the world. They love him like a father and would follow him into the very jaws of death.” HALF BILLION IN TREASURY. Yellow Metal In Possession of Gov ernm-nt Reaches $500,378,506. Wednesday’s summary of the United States treasury report shows that the government’s aggregate gold holdings, for the first time iu history, have passed the half-billion dollar mark The exact total was $500,278,506, of which $252,078,859 was held against certificates in the hands of the outside public, and $150,000,000 as a reserve against outstanding United States notes, tho balance being free assets. Georgia Federation of Labor. The Georgia State Federation of Labor met in annual convention at Columbus Wednesday. During a re cess given for the benefit of the cre dentials committee Hon. John I). Lit tle addressed the meeting in an informal talk in which he paid a great tribute to the working man. UNCLE SAfl WAS JUS IIFED. So Says Classification Board In Rus sian Sugar Case. The board of classification of the United States geueral appraisers at New York announced a decisiou in the Russian sugar case Friday. The board, hy a majority vote, holds that the United States government was justified in imposing a countervailing duty on Russian sugar. Britons Ambushed By Boers. Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from Pretoria under date of Thursday,says: “I regret to report that a party of the Ninth Lancers have been ambushed aud Lieutenant A. MeDouald aud three men killed and five wounded.” BOERS SECURE SUPPLIES. Burgers Capture From Britons a Train Load of Cattle and Coal. Advices from Cape Colony state that a train loaded with cattle aud coal was captured by the Bojerg near Molteno Friday evening The locomotive es caped and ran to Stormhurg and re turned with troops, who found tho train on fire. A couple of natives were killed. Tbe train band* had been stripped and then released. SOLICITOR OPPOSES CARTER’S PLEADING Says Prisoner Has No Just Right to Freedom. HOW UNCLE SAM WAS ROBBED “Swag” Was Separated Into Three Piles and Carter Divided With His Partners. A Washington special says: Solic itor General Richards filed with the United States supreme court Tuesday a brief in opposition to the application for bail filed about ten days ago in be half of former Captain Oberlin M. Carter, now confined in the United States penitentiary at Fort Leaven worth, Kas., upon conviction of fraud in connection with harbor improve ments, etc., at Savannah, Ga. After reviewing the history of the case the solicitor general says in part: ‘‘The validity of Carter’s conviction and sentence by tho courtmartial which aloue could try him for crimes committed as an officer of tho United States army, in violation of the articles of war, has been sustained by three civil courts and five judges, not count ing the court before which the matter is now ponding for the third time. Carter now applies for the suspension of the just sentence of this lawful tri bunal and asks to be released from im prisonment pending the hearing of this second appeal, upon the following grounds: “First, becanse he is suffering from neurasthenia and is on the verge of nervous collapse by reason of mental anguish, owing to bis imprisonment. “Second, because he is innocent of tho charges in which he was convicted by the courtmartial aud the only way he can establish his innocence, so ho says, is by pressing to trial the charges embraced in the Georgia indictment, which he asserts cannot be tried be cause of bis absence from Georgia. As to the first ground the solicitor general submits argument tending to show Carter’s sound mental condition and files with the court affidavits of five physicians who examined Carter and affirm in closing that Carter is not now suffering from neurasthenia; that he is not on the verge of nervous col lapse; that his nervous condition is not greater than cne would expect to find in a healthy person of Carter’s standing coufiued in a prison. Affiants further say that Carter is now physically and mentally sound. This affidavit is supplemented by affidavits from the warden and physi cian of the prison. As to the second ground for release on bail the solicitor general says in part: “Since Carter has dragged into this case the fact that he is under indict ment along with Greene aud the Gay nors, and has sworn that the criminal case cannot be tried becanse of bis ab sence from Georgia aud asserts that he wants to be released so he may de maiul a trial by jury in Georgia, and prepare for it, it is proper for me to call the attention of the court to the fact that if the criminal esse cannot be tried without Carter, neither can it be tried without bis conspirators, Greene and the Gaynors. Yet, ever ever since the indictment was found in December, 1899, the government has been strenuously endeavoring to se cure the removal of Greene and the Gaynors from New York to Georgia for trial. Mr. Richards says that the investi gations of the government reveal the loss of an Aggregate of $2,169,159. Describing the method of Carter’s operations, Mr. Richards says: “The division of the ‘swag’ was at tended to by Carter personally. When the time came to make a payment un der the contract, Carter, who, located at Savannah, had charge of the work on behalf of tho government, would give to the representatives of Green aud Gaynor, locally in charge at Sa vannah, a government check sufficient to pay for the labor and materials which actually went into the improve ment, aud then he would draw a gov ernment. check for the excess of the contract, representing the ‘velvet’— the fruit of the fraudulent conspiracy and putting this in his pocket, wuuld go to New Y'ork. There he would meet Greene and the Gaynors. Then the division would take place. Carter would be specially allowed out of the amount $75 for traveling expenses and the balance wonid be divided into thirds, one third going to Carter, one-third to Greene and one-third to Gaynors. In this way Carter drew out of the con spiracy $722,528.02 and of this amount the records of stock brokers in New York show that he invested in stocks aud bonds $690,301.85. Eor bis traveling expenses Carter received $575. He made 21 trips to New Y’ork ou bis mission and at the time was in excellent condition to be appointed to St. James. SOLDIERS FROM PHILIPPINES. The Transport Ocronne Arrives at San Francisco After Long Voyage. The transport Garcnne arrived at San Fraucisco Saturday from Manila via Nagasaki and Honolulu. On board were 1.000 men of the Twenty-sixth volunteer infantry. This regiment has seen seventeen mouths service in the Philippines and was raised at Platts burg, N. Y. Moat of the men are from New York and Massachusetts aud saw aerTice during the Spanish war. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAU It is proposed to illuminate tho Yosemite Falls, 2000 feet in height, by the use of twenty arc lights in con nection with means for producing col or effects. Some of the roads are also to be lighted with electricity. Henry B. Miller, United States Con sul at Shanghai, declares that the con sumption of flour is rapidly increas ing in China, and he argues from this fact that there will soon lie a great demand in tiiat country not only for American flour, but also for mill ma chinery. Although an order for machinery to cut a tunnel a mile and a half long on the Manchurian Railway has only just been placed (in America), it is hoped that tho tunnel may he com pleted in a year’s time. The road will then 1)0 opened and afford a through route front Europe to iue Pacific coast. The Ontario government has re served 1,400.000 acres of wild land near Lake Temagami, a great lake lying west of Lake Temiseamiag, on the Upper Ottawa. This will be used as a national park where the timber will be preserved, and the game will he allowed to increase. The number of beavers and deer is increasing. A United States Treasury report estimates the present yearly consump tion of corn by hogs, at least eight thousand million bushels, or thirty eight per cent, of the present c-rop, and the average consumption by each hog at not far from twenty bushels, and total number slaughtered the past year over rather than under forty mil lions. An attempt is being made to free flie streams of Louisiana and Florida from the water hyacinth. Hundreds of skiffs aud small vessels have been caught by the water hyacinths, and arc unable to get out of tho streams in which they were used. Tho drain age canals in New Orleans are In peril, and the logging industry of Southern Louisiana is in danger of destruction. There is room for a new and successful process. In experimenting with the Gray and Mundy submarine telegraph recently, an 800-pound hell was let down into the ocean twenty feet below the sur face. It. was found that when the bell was tolled by means of mechan ism the sound could be easily heard on a ship a mile away, without any sort of connecting apparatus, the sound waves being transmitted through the water, which is, of course, a much better conductor than air. By the aid of microphone attachments Ihe bell was heard at a distance of twelve miles. Origin of Writing. Arthur J. Evans, discoverer of the remains of a great prehistoric palace at Knossos, in Crete, which is believed to be tho original of the fabled “Laby rinth,” says that the revelations made there carry back the existence of writ ten documents on Greek soil some eight centuries beyond the earliest, known monuments of Greek writing, and five centuries beyond the earliest dated Phoenician record as seen on the Moabite stone. These discoveries, therefore, “place the whole question of the origin of writing on a new basis.” Mr. Evans thinks that the Cretan hieroglyphs exactly correspond with what, in virtue of their names, we must suppose to have been the picto rial originals of the Phoenician letters: on which the alphabet is based. Among these are aleph, the ox’s head: beth, the house; daletb, the door, and so forth. This contravenes the old theory of De Rouge that the Phoeni cian letters were derived from early Egyptian forms signifying quite clif fercut objects.—Youth’s Companion. A Little Tale From the Persian. There was a young man who loved ■a beautiful maiden, but he was poor. One day he asked her to be his wife, and she answered. “I love you. Still, I do not wish to be a poor man’s wife. Go and get money and then return aud we will live happily ever after.” The young man went away and ere long began to sway the markets. He made millions and still more millions, and tho maiden waited. When the man had ten millions he wanted to outshine one who had fifty millions, and when that wish was grat ified he longed for a hundred millions; then he yearned for two hundred mil lions, and at last he set a billion upas the amount he wished to accumulate. When, one day in those parts a eer tain old maid lay dying, she said: “There’s no use expecting a hog to keep his mind on anything else aftqj he gets his feet in the trough.”—Chi cago Times-Herald. Toys For KnglUh Children. The ingenuity displayed in the pro duetion of penny toys is marvelous, novelties coming out nearly every week. The foreign producers are quite alive to the fact that a child soon tires of a plaything and wants another, so they keep up a supply of things bright, novel and ingenious. Moreover, each toy has its season. As the summer approaches, when children delight to be out of doors, the Germans send ua musical rollers and jingling cars, and for the long winter evenings they sup ply novel indoor games and intricate puzzles—amusement for many even ings—at the cost of one penny. Then the United States send lead pencils, wood Mocks and colored toy l>ook»: the French, dolls and tin toys, as well as all the more expensive articles of this class.—Chambers's Journal. Left in London Cabs. Twenty-ono thousand pounds’ worth of articles are left in London cabs in a year.