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IX TURN MR. BUTLER BELITTLES
THE NASHVILLE CONFERENCE.
ONSLAUGHT WITH EDITORIAL PENS.
Hive Column of Sizzling Invectives In Mr.
Watson’s Paper—-North Carolinian
Hits Hard hicks Also.
The regular weekly issue of the Peo-
pie’s Party Paper Friday morning con¬
tains a startling fix r e-colnmn editorial
by Hon. Thomas E. Watson, touching
on the situation in the ranks of the
People’s Party and roasting Butler.
Mr. Watson says that no decent
voter will tolerate the present policy
of the party organization.
The editorial is the most scacliing
of any that has come in recent years
from the great populist leader. That
it will create a great sensation among
the old-time folloxvers of the party is
certain.
Marion Butler is handled unmerci-
fullv chapman Watson denounces the national
as a snake in the crass to
both Wend and foe who Haded the
party for office. The editorial says:
‘ ‘In the breaking up of the people’s
iiartv party, which x. nit a Air. Mr Butler i nner has nas done uone so so
time republicans^will “eYounSo^ng
i mt what Dunning did to' Iwecannot
arrest S-It the faUing “d pieees of our
^H those o were once anT democrats
be democrats repubbeans^win' again those
who «Md^in xvero L toaolviSpo, lm republL
a aiu. Fnrfon r usiun is ui. solving pop -
' 'SiSZ’t
dieted Sutto-xvithheld the break-up of the party when
h s le ter of ot accep accep
toco H im
hereto •“That letter mailed to Butler en£, lone S
my best vindication. It pointed out
then the blunders of Butler and proph-
esied tbe disastrous results. The
events happened just as I predicted.”
Watson closes his editorial with
Ihis to say of Butler’s trade of the
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T 3 arty:
“To sell out the party by fusions
-before it secures enough men in office
•to chauge the laws even if they
«o desired, seems to me the wildest of
folly and the basest of treachery. ”
"Butler On National Conference.
Senator Butler’s paper of Wednes¬
day contained an editorial signed by
Rim in xvhich he says:
4 ‘Ihose xvho attended the Nashx’ille
conference, most of whom xvere self-
constituted delegates, representing
nobody but themselves, issued an ad¬
dress and appointed a national com¬
mittee representing their faction.
They charged that certain populists
•desired to kill the people’s party or
-turn it over to the democratic party
and claimed they represented the only
true fiopiilists who could be trusted to
be faithful.
Now, if there is a single populist in
the United States xvho is in favor of
disbanding the organization, or of
turning it over to the democratic par-
ty, xve do not know him. There are
certainly not as many such as there
are so-called populists xvho did all in
their power by trading anil dickering
and otherwise to elect McKinley, aud
it is noticeable that some of this lat-
ter class xvere loudest in clamoring
for this conference.
They declare they desire to see the
divisions and criminations among the
populists cease. These havt been in-
nugurated and carried on largely by
thosc clamoring for the conference.
They foolishly attempted to bolittle
the silver question by saying trusts
and monopolies xvere the great evils
and the free coinage of silver would
act help in remedying those evils.
They foolishly declare that unless
the next populist national convention
does what they think should be done
they will bolt, and they appointed a
national committee and authorized it,
as far as they were able, to call a con-
vention representing their faction.
There is nothing dangerous to the
party in this, for if the ringleaders in
sneh a disorganizing movement should
attempt to bolt or to call a separate
convention they xvould have but little
following and the party without them
would be in better condition to grow
and gain recruits Whenever that
committee shall attempt, if it should,
any work of disorganization or a
movement to split the party snch pop-
iiiists as we have referred to will
promptly wash their hands of the
whole outfit.”
A VICTOR Y FOR T ILLMAN.
Tlie Senate Passes a Measure Legalizing
The Dispensary.
Senator Tillman scored a rather
unique victory in the Senate Thurs¬
day, when he not only secured unani¬
mous consent for the consideration of
bis bill, designed to strengthen the
dispensary system, but that bill
through the senate by a unanimous
vote.
The bill makes distilled spirits trans¬
ported from one state into another
subject to state laws the same as liquor
distilled within the state.
JOINT PROPOSAL PRESENTED
In Behalf of United State* and Frafice for
Adoption of Bimetallism.
A joint proposal of bimetallism was
presented Thursday on behalf of the
United States and France at a confer¬
ence held at the foreign office at
Imndon.
The proposals, after some discus¬
sion, were taken under advisement,
aud the British cabinet will give its
answer at a subsequent conference.
“,\ AT ION A L” I) ::.UOl U ATS
Or Kentucky Ilolil Their Convention In
Loitlavllle*
The National Democrats of Ken-
tuck held their convention at Louis¬
ville Wednesday. Permanent organi¬
zation was speedily effected xvith the
Hon. John G. Carlisle a3 chairman.
In opening his speech Mr. Carlisle
said:
••■ rrre """nr* 1 *rr
crats o. Kentucky upon the mngmfi
cent, response they have made to the
call for this convention, anil 1 con-
gratulate the friends good of soum money,
tanft reform and government in
every part of the country upon tins aus-
pmions opening of a campaign which,
I am sure, will be memoiable in the
annuls of the pai ty.
Lx-Secre ary Carlisle took up the
question of tariff and talked at some
leugth on it. Ho praised the stanch
bravery ot tuose who bolted democ-
racy.
Ihree cheers for Carlisle were given .
with lusty will, when lie concluded,
and this was followed by an insistent
demand for Mr. Wattersou.
Mr. Wattersons speech was most
libcrally punctuated by voices and
hands expressing approval of his ut-
tel ' aI10es > ,nlt louilest and longest
Pf rha P s ' vas wLen he ‘ le ’
cl " ed * h fe t , i® ®° mage ° f * ,lv f at * e
? atl ° of 1(3 0 vaa as ea ' os e
B tll B° . of African ,
lus At conclusion n of 8 Mr. ave IT- \\ atterson ,
s
speech the resolutions were read by
tlie Hol \ W ‘ p : Breckenridge. The
aeutl . “ e “trevealed m these, resolutions
foulld th e fullest approbaUon and the
a, i°PB 0U foHowed with an
olc Btmie Kentuckian heartiness.
Henry Matterson was the nnam-
f 011 / choiceof the resolution commit-
tee for its chairman. I he resolutions
* S ° ? ’ ? P ° 8 f T,® ,eV / mg °
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T the currency ’ , laws so as to + ® maintain
the ^I'dani of the xvoi ld and furnish
^gX ^‘veTCleveland ft ud sUvTr
i,T®in^ is indorsed by J the
fo g _h l ,ala ^ a P U -
“The democrats of Kentucky renew thei.
allegiance to the principles ot true democra,
ey its exemplified I>y tiio administration of
Grover Cleveland and as illustrated by his
eminent secretary of the treasury, J. O. Car-
Hale, and pledge themselves to renewed and
unceasing efforts to embody and Bufcstonti-
ate them in the national policy.”
Following the disposal of the com-
mittee report, the delegates listened
to the Hon. W. C. P. Breckenridge.
At 9:15 o’clock p. m., the election of
a candidate for clerk of the court of
appeals xvas entered upon and the
selection of ex-Lieutenant Governor
Hindman was made unanimous.
SAVED BY MILITIA.
Mob Was Anxious to Lynch Oscar Wil¬
liams, Colored.
Oscar Williams, the negro who as-
sar.lted _ the =--_ 8-year-old 1 daughter of S.
E. Campbell, a prominent farmer, near
Hampton, Ga., some days ago, and
"'ho lias been chased through four
counties by an angry mob of outraged
Clayton county citizens, xvas captured
Wednesday night in Barnesville.
Williams would have been lynched
at once but for the prompt action of
Mayor Huguley, of Barnesville. The
mayor saxv that the mob xvas going to
lynch the prisoner, and he appealed
to the governor to order out the
troops.
The governor authorized the mayor
to call out the military and in a few
minutes the Barnesville Blues xvere
marching down to the guardhouse
xvith their guns, and in full uniform.
When the troops arrived on the scene
the crowd had already formed for the
lynching bee The train from Griffin
had carried down a large number, and
all of them seemed determined to take
William s life.
At first the mob seemed disposed to
pay little attention to the soldiers, but
the firm demeanor of the armed troops
soon convinced the crowd that there
would be trouble if an attempt was
made to lynch Williams.
Late at night Gox'ernor Atkinson
was asked for instructions, and he tel-
ephoned the officers in Barnesville to
carry the prisoner to Macon or Atlan-
ta. The officers in Barnesville ex-
pressed the fear that the negro would
be pulled from the train if carried to
Atlanta through Griffin, Jonesboro or
Lovejoy Governor Atkinson then
advised that the prisoner be carried to
Macon.
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LEAGUERS AT TORONTO,
Convention Opened with Darge Attend¬
ance of Delegates.
The Epworth League national con¬
vention began at Toronto, Canada,
Thursday, with a large attendance.
Decorations on the principal buildings
gave the city a holiday appearance.
The opening meetings were held in
the afternoon in the pavilion of the
Metropolitan church. In the pavilion,
A. S. Hardy, premier of Ontario,
xvarmly welcomed the visitors, as did
also Rev. A. Carmen, of Toronto.
Replies were made for the Method¬
ist Episcopal church by Bishop W. Z.
Ninde, of Detroit, and for the Method¬
ist Episcopal church, south, by Bishop
O. P. Fitzgerald, of Nashville.
FREE MEALS IN HAVANA.
Spanish Navy Employe* on Strike and Are
Fed By Government.
It is announced that 441 men at-
tached to the government navy yards
at Havana went on a strike Saturday,
The claim is made that the govern-
ment is six months in arrears of pay-
ment of the strikers.
General Marin, in viexv of the pacific
stand taken by the strikers, has order-
ed meals served to them on the gov- ’
eminent account.
BRAND THEIR HUSBANDS “COW¬
ARDS” IF THEY FAIL TO FIGHT.
HUNGER IS fl FACTOR IN STRLGG' E
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Thei BnempIoyed Miners win Make an
Kffort to stop Those Who
are Vet at ■ Work •
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The. events of Sunday iu the Pitts-
h al m -; niuK distri e t indicate that
s ' ' a eai ‘
The strike has been on for two
weeks, with no cause for alarm in any
quarter, but now the pangs of hunger
and mutterings of discontent have
taken tangible form, and 1,000 miners
will march on Cannousburg, the ob-
jective point being the Boone nud
Allison mines.
A few days ago the operators of the
mines made a requisition on the slienfl
of Washington county for additional
deputies. It is supposed that there
are at least thirty deputies at each
mine, well armed for any friction that
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1 he miners of the , Millersnml T -„ i m Pom
Run district held massmeetings The
m cn employed in the slope and Bridge-
ville mines, Essen Nos. 1 and 2, and
Steens mines met at Bridgeville Cecil
was the scene of a meeting of Laurel
Hill Nos. 2 and 4, Greedmore and
Bishop mines and t ie diggers em-
ployed m the Standard and Ellsworth
mines in Millers Run, also held a
meeting.
Women Urging the Fight.
Tie gatherings „t,.M i,
meu - wonleu and Aild ren. The wo-
men <1id not la « iu the intcrest takeu -
Many of them openly branded their
husbands as cowards. They argued
that they might as well fight as starve,
^ ”??• Sald tb ® VU f ry °° uld be
w on P rc ! vldlu » coal mi . “f ei f
ployed , m the sections where the lake .
trade is supplied would join the gen-
eral movement of the idleness.
Plans for bringing out the miners at
work m the h>ooue and Allison mines
were discussed. Special committees
were sent from oae meeting to the
other.
It was decided to march on to Van-
non* uirg mine v mu ay n*o • u
eissnij, l,ass muu, am n.. eu
xlrum _ corps xvere engaged lor the oc-
cas! °n.
* I *'. 1111 ' 1 ." 10 ^' as ' tr .f en ux slas ic
? vel ® P an sa \ l Jeie " ou >e a
, . men in .me.
eaSo ’
'' as earnec a e sc eme ai
been m process of toimation several
ays. was a _ e oi scxeia (ays
ago and got to the ears of the opera-
tors of the Cannousburg mines, hence
their decision to increase their force
of deputies.
feomfi of the most COHSex , V3.tl\e Of
the leaders claim that there will be no
trouble. They say that xvheu the
colliers see such a, big °term demonstration
j u f av0 r of what they a peaceful
ba ttle for bread, they canuot enter the
mines aud retain their manhood.
Every effort xvas made to keep the
movement a secret for fear the force
0 f deputies at the mines would be fur-
tber i ncrease d.
rji be men ilre ku0 wn to be in a con-
d iti on 0 f se mi-insa:uty on the strike
q Ues tion.
They have been goaded on by suffer-
i ng wives, daughters and sweethearts,
a[1 j it appears as jf it j s the beginning °
t be e!ld 0 f the strike.
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GLASS WORKERS RESUME.
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Manufacturers Accept tl.e Same Scale as
Operated the Fast Year
News is received from Dnector Geo.
Branin. of the Green Glass Workers’
association, that the manufacturers
have accepted the same wage scale as
last year.
This means an early resumption in
the green glase industry throughout
the country.
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RIDER AGAI N ON TRIAL.
M , lrd erer of Min Owens Tak fiI , Back to
Talbotton.
l> r . W. L. Ryder was taken from
the Muscogee jail at Columbus, Ga.,
Sunday afternoon xvhere he has been
for the past fexv months and carried to
Talbotton, where be was placed on
trial for his life Monday. Judge John
C. Hart and the attorneys went over
to Talbotton on tbo same train.
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RESERVOIRS BURST,
Rushing Waters Cause Death anl De«
structioh In Dutchess Valley,
A special from Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
says: The txvo large reservoirs in the
Fishkill mountains xvhich supplied
water to the towns of Matterxvau and
Fishkill burst their walls at 2 o’clock
Wednesday morning aud the water
that was released swept through the
Duchess valley, causing ruin aud death.
Five bodies bave been taken from
tbe wreckage left in the xvake of the
flood and there are known to be txvo
and probably three more lying beneath
the piled up debris, which is all that
remains ot the three houses that xvere
swept axvay by the mighty torrents.
FIREMEN TO HELP STRIKERS.
Grand Master Sari; cut Writes a Letter to
President Ratchford.
4n a letter received by President
Ratchford, at Columbus, O., Thurs-
day from P. F. Sargent, grandmaster
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, Mr. ~ Sargent offers “ his
sonal assistance in per-
any manner deem-
e( l best by Mr. Ratchford and also
suggests a plan for the membership of
the organization, numbering 30,000,
to to assist assist the the strikers strikers financially. financially.
CONFEREES HAVE AGREED.
Many Change* Made In Tariff Bill—A New
Sugar Schedule.
When tlie republican conferees on
the tariff bill, representing the two 6
houses of congress, adjourned at
o’clock Saturday afternoon the an-
lionneement was made on behalf of
each house that they had agreed on all
the item »' of the bill.und that »«-
bers of the conference at a full meet-
iug.
The hill as agreed upon will present
nM entirely new sugar schedule, at
] east in the main item of duty on raw
ami refined sugar, the fourth present-
ed since the bill emerged from the
recesses of the ways and means com-
mittee. It is estimated that the changes
in the sugar schedule will raise about
go,000,000 additional revenue.
Following are among the more im-
p orta „t changes made in the other
“
^edules:
Hales 15 per cent, advalorem,in place
0 f the 20 per cent fixed by the senate.
The house representatives made a
strong fight to have hides restored to
the free list, but they were compelled
to submit to the unyielding demand of
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t ; le sellll te.
Wool, as heretofore sent out, first-
class n cents per pound; third class -1
cents on that below 12 cents per pound
i n vable an ,l 8 cents on that above 12
cen ts in value. These rates on third-
class xvool were the result of an agree-
nient between the wool growers and '
the carpet manufacturers.
Iron ore as fixed by the senate, coal
i )itull ,inous, fi7 cents per ton. To-
baceo §1.75 per pound on imported
This is the senate rate.
Borftci( . acid 5 cents per pound, the
senate rate. The senate rate on borax
was also sustained as xvas that on
The senate rate on all fruits are re-
tabled, including I cent per pound on
oranges, lemons, limes, etc. White
pine lumber was restored to the house
rate of $2 per 1,01)0 feet, instead of
th « sena £ of
One of the biggest xuctones . won by
the house was m the restoration to
the dutiable list of burlaps, jute and
jute bagging, cotton bagging, gunny
sacks, floor matting and cotton ties,
which the senate placed on the free
list.
While restoring to the dutiable list,
hoxvever, the i ates are loxver than they
have ever been on this class of articles.
Another victory of the house tv as the
elimination of the senate stamp tax on
bonds and stocks. It was decided
,hat the machineiy of collections xvas
too cumbersome.
Baw cotton is restored to the free
list, as originally fixed by the house,
The senate, xvith the aid of some of
the democratic senators, made cotton
dutiable at .10 per cent.
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LANGFORD IN ZEBULOX .TAIL.
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si » -«• h i r
Tom Langford, the Pike county out-
law,is now safely guarded in the conn-
ty jail at ^ebulon, Ga.
He was carried to Zebulon Sunday
by Sheriff Milner and placed in the
same little cell where Tom Delk spent
his last days before his death, which
came as punishment for the same
crime xvith which Langford is charged.
In a statement made to a reporter
Langford clears Taylor Delk of the
murder of Sheriff Gwyn.
Langford claims that he is not
guilty of the killing of Sheriff Gwyn.
He says that Gwva xvas killed by Tom
Belli, aud that Delk also shot Mr.
Madden.
rv fc.V-JIAU vnitHtl NHAt, Al akbubtuu tKr.M hi).
Another chapter l„ the Sprint* Murder
CaJo at Mirtv iii e o a
Saturday afternoon Frank Morris,
tl .„ pv-Marslial ‘ of Midville ’of Ga ami a
n _ bree der famous
b [ oodbouuds ’ was arr ' ested at Atlanta
Qn a police^barnieks tele „ ral u and laced in a ceI1 at
th ‘
M orris ‘ states ‘ tbat he tbinks tbe
\ . ‘ thn mlirdftr of
Q . , • , , . , r -,
.bont A^eth 1 ‘ Ct '' ' Th^story ^
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a ho^BiWnd most sens^Ho-iMaf-
f ■ , , • t • ‘ n , 1 ‘ , .
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A Dollar’s Worth of Fun,
A disuateli from Toronto savs- Peter lml
Martin Gripes’from xvho tore down the stars
the city hall xvas fined $1
aad costs or thirty days in jail as a
disorderly ‘ “ _‘__' in tlie police court.
TYLER’S GRANDDAUGHTER
Appointed Postmaster Of the Town ot
Courtland, Virginia.
Miss Mattie B, Tyler, granddaugh¬
ter of the former president of the
United States, xvas appointed post-
mistress at Courtland, Va., Wednes-
test”, day. The selection ends a long con-
in which Miss Tyler visited
Washington and presented her claims
in person to Postmaster General Gary
aud Fourth Assistant Rristoxv.
During his administration, Presi-
dent Tyler, in the course of a trip,
picked up a child in his arms and re¬
marked, “That’s a bright little bov.”
That boy is the present postmaster
general
TIN PLATE MILL SHUT DOWN.
A Part of the Kmployes Walk Out and
a Suspension Follows.
The Cresent Tin Plate mill at
Cleveland, O., closed in every depart-
ment Thursday morning. The heaters
refused to go to work and without
them .... it impossible . ” ’ to. operate ‘ the
xvas
mill. The company decided to shut
down indefinitely. All the heaters
"'ere taken into the Amalgamated Iron
and Steel Association. The mill may
be closed until settlement of strike,
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WILLIAMS ASSAULTED AND THEN
MURDERED HIS ‘ VICTIM ’
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TIir rHE SCENE onr . ir ws wno QNE mir 0FH0RR0R nr rmnnnn '
Enraged Men First Stamped the Negro
to Death, Filled Body with rflul-
i e t* and Then Burned it.
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„ West Point, Tenn. Tuesday ~
afternoon, Miss Rene Williams, an
eighteeu-year-old young lady, was
found brutally 7 murdered in the woods
near , her home ,
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Thursday afternoon at L „ 2 o , clock , u An- .
thony Williams, her murderer and as-
sailant, was captured near Pruitton,
Ala., and at 7 o clock he expiated his
crime in the streets of West 1 oint in
the ptesence ol tally oOO people, lhe
wildest excitement prevailed and the
people poured into West Point fiorn
every neighboring town and village.
VV illiams was first riddled xvith bul-
lets and his body then burned to ashes.
Before a shot was fired the negro
xv as knocked down by one of the crow
aiul stumped to death. Then the crowd
£11 back and those who had pistols
bred volley after volley at him.
Th? crowd then gathered wood and
building a fire oyer lam, watched the
ghastly scene until the murderer was
only ashes. and nights . 500
For two days scoured men,
determined had
the country for miles for Williams.
Several times posses were within
o, Li„ b». ev.rv
time he escaped When he was cap- of
^ed it was within sixteen miles
the scene of th* horrible crime. A
mau uamed Clark, to whom he ap-
heid bu “ f ° r t h * ei0 * d :
story „r » Horrible Crime.
xhe crime for which Williams was
stamped, shot and burned was the
most brutal ever committed in this
sect ion of the country. The young
j a j v i e ft j ier } loni8 early
morning to pick blackberries. When
8be did not return at dinner time, her
friends went in search of her. She
W as found 200 yards from her home,
all( i tj ec | \, 0 a sapling with a
feather strap around her neck.
One of her eyes had been gouged
ou f and in her tightly clutched hand
were leax’es and grass. All around
tbe ground sfioxved that a desperate
struggle had taken place between the
unfortunate girl b and her assailant.
wben the negro was oapture d his
fa.ee a nd arms were terribly scratcbed
and torn, showing that he had met
witU much resistance,
The original intention of the mob
was illiams to the scene oi
pti'trp fiuirl tliDTP wucak vpti o’Ajmo.p
. distance xvas too ereat ® and the
mob too i m ___'_ „ a tient
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^ MOTHER’S ‘ I_ DESPERATE DEED.
she Cuts the Throats of Her Four children
While intoxicated.
Emma Simonds, the xvife of a Lon-
don engine fitter, cut the throats of
ber f our young children and then her
own Wednesday night,
Simonds returned home about 2
o’clock in the morning, and as he en-
tered his bedroom he stumbled over
t be hodios of two of bis children,
Turning in horror toward the bed he
saw his wife and two of the children
sitting upright, their throats cut from
ear to ear, thought life was not then
extinct.
It is not possible that any will sur-
vive. The room was bespattered xvith
blood and it was evident that the chil-
dren xvho xvere lying on the floor
fought desperately for life.
it appears that Mrs. Simonds, after
a period of abstinence, broke the
pledge on Diamond Jubilee day and
had been drinking heavilv ever since.
Q UEBEt! DAMAGED BY FLOODS.
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Ba8ine * sFort,on '‘ °^ To "" 8 ;f. , ” ode<I B, “ 1
Commmi cat on Cut off.
Advlces . M°“ tr eal state that
floods „ caused by the heavy rain of the
past few days have done great damage
111 the southern part, °t Quebec Many
P eo Ple are homeless and much damage
JTnd town ImsineuThere of St has been
flo flooded „ dfi and business there is is almost almost
at a Btanastxll.
CHICAGO TO AID STRIKERS.
DeArmltt’s Uniformity Flan Denounced
by Labor Unions.
All unions affiliated with the Chi-
ca £>° Federation of Labor will con-
tribute to the . relief funds,
miners
At a meeting of the federation Sunday
afternoon, W. P. DeArmitt and his
p' an ol trU0 uniformity were severely
condemned. The following resolution
in l )art was adopted:
“The Chicago Federation of Labor
extends its sympathy and support to
the striking miners of the United
States, and xve call on all affiliated
bodies to aid to the utmost extent the
struggling of these unfortunate men
^ or a living American wages.”
DEMOCRATS COMBINE
To Figlit for Retention of Cotton Bagging
and Ties On Free List.
A Washington sjiecial says: The
southern democrats in the senate are
combining to fight the tariff when it is
reported back to the senate.
The conference committee definitely
decided to take cotton bagging and
cotton ties off the free list and restore
the house schedule. The democrats
intend to do everything to defeat the
conference committee oa this point.
MINERS ISSUE BULLETIN.
Army of Strikers Increase and the Supply
of coal i» Being Exhausted.
President Ratchford anti Secretary
Pearce have issued an official bulletin,
No. to miners, it hoing a review
of the situation: The bulletin says:
“Our light for living wages now
covers iu whol ° or iu part eight states
:L»i:r2ziv.s’.l’sz
authorized recognized,
“The second week and the eighth
day of our suspension brings with it
greater assurance of ultimate victory
than any previous day. Our forces are
increasing every every, our determina-
t ion is unflinching and our actions are
law-abiding iu every particular,
The states and number of miners in-
volved:
“Western Pennsvlvania-Fully 20,-
000 miners have joined us for iiving
wages> wbich makes suspension a i most
unanimousiueverymineinthedis-
triet. Work still continues in the cen-
tral field, but steps will be taken in a
f ew da y S looking to a suspension,
wllicb ig b( ,H eved win be successful.
“Ohio— 1 Twenty-eight thousand min-
era have laid down their tools in their
demand for living wages, making the
suspenB ^ i on general, excepting a few
j oc miuea .
“i ndiftna _ A , lvipe s received Thurs-
day report every mine and every miner
j n tbis state suspended. Eight thou-
sand have joined the march for Uving
wa „ es
“ininois-Beports from this state
are to tbe effect that suspension is
praet , ioa i] y gene ral, and that the min-
ers are determined to continue the
m arch until living wages are secured,
“ W est Virginia^-Al.out 3,000 miners
bave joined the movement. Reports
f KSSfiS’S'* various sections of thn
SU9-
d . Eight organizers left this city
Thursday for West Virginia. Supply of
C oal from that field will be cut off in a
ver v fexv days,
‘‘Kentucky and Tennessee-About
4,000 A miners have suspended, others
may be expected to follow,
“Kansas-Miners are all at work,
hut will hold a convention on Satur-
day. It is expected that all will sus-
pemL
<<A Alabama—Reports indicate that
6,000 miners or more have ^spended;
convention today. Nothing further
learned of their action.
“Tbe supply of coal is fast becom-
ing . exhausted at the various distrib-
uting points. Railroads are confiscat-
ing shipments; cities are almost xvith-
out supply—in fact, a coal famine is
near at hand. ’
SPAIN AND JAPAN UNITE
In an Alliance For Mutual Protection
Against United States.
A dispatch from Paris to a news
agency at London says that inquiry at
the American embassy there has elici¬
ted a confirmation of the rumor that
the governments of Spain and Japan
have alTan S e ‘ l an offensive alliance
against the United States.
The terms of the understanding,
which is for the mutual protection of
Cuba and Haivaii, provide that iu the
event of an actix-ely aggressive move-
ment on the part of the United States
tending toxvard interference in Cuban
affairs or persistence in the annexation
of the Hawaiian islauds both Spain
and Japan shall declare war sirnul-
taneously against the United States
and shall make hostile demonstrations
along both the Atlantic and Pacifio
coast lines of the country.
Little credence is placed in official
circles in Washington in the above
statement. Indeed, so far as can be
learnednointimationofsuchanagree-
ment has ever reached the state de-
partment.
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MURDERED MOTHER AND BABE,
Horrible Crime In Alabama—Avenged By
a Mob.
News has been received of a most
brutal crime, committed at Elba, in
Coffee county, Ala. The report is that
well known man in that community,
Major Terrell, attacked a Mrs. Thomas
Wednesday morning xvhile her husband
was awa 7 an<1 after assaulting and
murdering her, threw her body, to-
g e t bel . with her babe, upon a bed,
placed lightwood upon them and set it
on fi re _ X lie bodies were not rescued
until burned to a crisp,
Terrell was captured and taken be-
fore a but befor « tb e trial was
°?“ cl uded he waa "eoured by an mfu-
rlated . mob> . aud taken and
away
hanged.
CALM BEFORE STORM.
Ominous Silence and Quiet Reign® In
the Miner’s Ranks.
A Pittsburg special says: Dullness
at miners’ headquarters and . all the
in
mines in the Pittsburg district and
unusual activity in the coal market
characterized the features of the strike
Friday, the
For a strike so general it causes
least excitement; peace prevails every-
where, but how long this state of af-
fairs xvill continue to exist cannot be
even guessed,
The miners are apparently xvilling
to be idle, and as yet no suffering ot
consequence has been reported at dis¬
trict headquarters.
RUMORS OF ALLIANCE DENIED.
Spain and Japan Are Not Combine^
Against United States.
The London Daily Mail’s Paris cor¬
respondent says:
“United States Ambassador Porter
assures me that the rumor that he said
an alliauce existed between Spain and
Japan is quite unfounded. Th - Spanish
embassy also declares the report to be
a canard.”