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UtIIE big STRIKE TERMINATES
IN four states.
b SECTIONS NOT AFFECTED.
L ker « Have the Advantage—The Shoot¬
ing of Miners at Hazelton, Pa.,
Denounced.
fae great miners’ strike which was
Lared [ on July 4th was brought to
ea d Saturday evening so far at
L as western Pennsylvania, Ohio,
[]! ana and West Virginia are con
bed, by the action of the interstate
[jvention of miners, w'hich was in
jtsion at Columbus, O., for four
ITS.
liter a day of voting and wrangling,
convention adopted a resolution
epting the proposition of the Pitts
; g operators. The vote was 495
L and 317 against- accepting the
Knisof Ct. settlement; 11 votes were not
Eobad The delegates from Illinois,
tjnst 250 settlement. votes, were unanimously
a Indiana and
p fte es operators’ t Virginia voted proposition, solidly but to accept there
|ere Id Pittsburg scattering delegates votes among against the it. Ohio
fllie |rG5 cents proposition in the Pittsburg accepted provides district,
■1 other places where a relative price
la be obtained to resume work and
latribute |o liberally to the miners -who
not receive the advance, at which
laces the fight is to continue to a bit
lr finish. While ten days is provided
lr the miners to resume work, it is
pobable many of the Ohio and Pitts
larg mines will be reopened at once.
Some of the Illinois delegates are
litter in their denunciation of the ac¬
ton of the convention; they claim
heir interests have not been given due
pnsideration. A resolution adopted denouncing
was
ke aetion of the deputies in firing into
ie crowd of striking miners at Hazel
en. Pa.
A SENSATIONAL CASE.
E -inner Re-establishes Slavery On
a Small Seale.
The grand jury of Morgan county,
in\-estigated a ease the past Aveek
promises to become of the most
ever known in the state.
full extent of the shocking
charged against one Henry
p. Dickerson, a farmer at Rutledge,
pilot |sseems yet be told; but if half are true,
certain, the eyes of a civilized
pie Aviil be opened wide in Avonder
pi Eickerson horror. is accused of ensla\dng
pips, making them, by force and
pishment, pataining to small Avork convict upon his farm; ir
a camp
flick existed horrors far greater than
b yet reported from those that exist
Rider the guise of the law.
Eiekerson has for some time, it is
made a practice of decoying
white and black, and balf
persons to his house, arresting
and putting them to- work on liis
They were locked up at night
forced to Avork on Sundays as Aveli
sou other days. He claimed to have
»tae authority from the gOA-ernment
>r so doing and in every instance he
> said to ka\ r e succeeded with his vie
tans.
THIRTEEN unlucky tramps.
Gen Killed and Six Badly Hurt In a
Freight Wreck.
A special from Yan Baren, Ark.,
ps;
A most disastrous freight wreck oc
Ctrred on the Iron Mountain road at
I. T., a small toAvn twenty
Avest of Yan Buren, at 2 o’clock
resulting in the death of
men and the serious injury of
pothers, S°ne two of whom will die.
of the trainmen Avere hurt.
The wrecked train was a local freight.
"bile the train Avas running twenty
a -les an hour the forward trucks of
^ the cars near the engine broke,
fifteen cars. In the middle
f the train was a car loaded with
machinery, and it was in this
thirteen men were stealing a ride,
* a 4 from which seA-en dead and six
Piously wounded Avere taken by the
«ammen shortly afterwards.
EXCITEMENT subsiding.
° llore Trouble Is Feared In the Hazelton
Region.
^special e aeral Gobin from notified Harrisburg, tlie Pa., says:
^dlitary governor
•" authorities Monday that
ation ) s nothing in alarming in the strike
■ the Hazelton region, and
; vl U e ^as been assured that the in
.-Actions . against the marching of
bodies will be obeyed.
triera ^ Gobin reported that a nnm
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sensational stories had come to
: ’ kut investigation showed that
-9re _Fas no cause for alarm.
* Fall U.I 1 power has been given Gobin,
*2-1 f e bas abundant authority under
t ... -nMiinstanees.
SOUTHERN' PROGRESS.
> Industries Established in the
South
During the Pas* Week.
According to reports received the
past week activity in Southern indus¬
trial circles continues. A marked in¬
crease in the volume of trade is noted,
and with the heavy demand for manu¬
factured products and advancing prices,
it is the general opinion that a season
cf unusual prosperity has begun.
Among the new industries for the
week just ended The Tradesman re¬
ports the following: A $10,000 electric
light plant at Aberdeen, Miss.; loco¬
motive works at Dallas, Tex.; the
Hayden Cigarette Machine Co., capital
$200,000, Richmond, Va.; the Mont¬
gomery Electric Light and Water Co.,
Montgomery, Gold W. Ya.; the Virginia
Gold Mining Co. and the Gypsy Queen
the Mining Co., Charleston, W. Ya.;
Timpson Brown Coal Co., Timp
son, Tex.; an extensive pottery plant
at Jacksonville, Fla.; a $50,000 lumber
and grain manufacturing company at
Lynchburg, Ya., and the Algoma Oil
and Gas Co., capital $100,000, at
Algoma, W, Ya. A large spinning
mill will be erected at Durham, N. C.,
and the Red Bluff Mills, capital $50,000,
have been organized to build a cotton
mill near Bennettsville, S. C. Wood¬
working plants will be established at
Cordele, Ga.; Meridian, Miss.; Swan
nanoa, S. C.; Lynchburg, Tenn.;
Roanoke, Ya., and Lock Seven,W. Ya.
—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn).
HOWARD ESCAPES.
Was the Most Famous Prisoner Ever In
Columbus, O., Pen.
Rev. G. F. B. HoAvard has escaped
from the Ohio penitentiary. He was
a most famous United States prisoner
from Tennessee. He was trusted in
the front office and walked away.
Howard was convicted at Jackson,
Tenn., and sentenced for 9 years and
fined $1,200 on 22 counts of using
United States mail for fraudulent pur¬
poses. His specialty was swindling
alleged heirs to fabulous fortunes in
England.
One of the chief witnesses against
him was Robert Lincoln, ex-minister
to England. Howard has many aliases
and has imposed upon some of the
best known families of the south, get¬
ting into the ministry, law and medi¬
cine. He is an Englishman.
CANDLER DENOUNCES REPORTS
Telegraphed to the New York Papers
Regarding the Perry Hanging.
Judge John S. Candler is indignant
at the false statement about the Perry
execution telegraphed from Atlanta
and printed in the New York World,
New York Journal and other papers.
He has received three letters from
New York and other eastern cities,
asking whether the dispatches were
true.
These statements were to the effect
that the execution of Perry stirred up
deep feeling among the people and a
regiment of soldiers Avas called out to
protect him on the %vay from the At¬
lanta jail to the one at Decatur. Also
that Judge Candler who sentenced
Perry commanded the regiment and
that people along the way jeered the
soldiers and cursed the governor.
WAS DENGUE FEVER.
Town of Edwards, Missi sippi, Issues a
Bulletin to Associated Press.
Excitement is at fever heat in Jack
son, Miss., OA'er the yellotv fever
scare, caused almost entirely by the
presence of thirty cases of dengue
fever at Edwards, twenty-five miles
AA-est.
At noon Monday the mayor of Ed
Avards telegraphed the Associated Press
as follows:
“There are only three new eases of den¬
gue fever this morning. All doing well. No
yellow fever.”
The mayor and aldermen of Jackson
held a special meeting and issued a
proclamation to the people, in which
they say their fears are in no wise re
lieA r ed as to the situation in EdAvards,
but that the dengue fever existing at
that point would be kept out of J ack¬
son.
SOLDIERS REFUGEE.
"Yellow Jack” Scares Them Away From
New Orleans.
The United States troops Avko haA - e
been stationed at New Orleans haA-e
refugeed to Atlanta, Ga.
Yellow fever scared the soldiers out
of the Crescent City, and the authori
ties knoAving that the dread disease
could not live in Atlanta, ordered the
troops to Fort McPherson.
CONSUL LEE IN WASHINGTON.
He Will Confer With the President On
Cuban Affairs.
General Lee, United States consul
g ene ral at Havana, arrived in Wash
ington Saturday night.
|j e proceeded immediately to the
Shoreham, and declining to register,
re tired at once. General Lee was
thoroughly exhausted by the days
travel and refused to receive any call
er s. in W ash
jt is his intention to stop
ington for several days, and he will
probably have an opportunity in the
meantime to confer with the president
as well as with Assistant Secretary
j)av before he goes to his home in A ir
ginia.
SHOT DOW N BY A PENNSYLVANIA j
SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTIES.
THE LIST OF DEAD IS APPALLING.
:
Miners Were Marching and the Officers
Attempted to Stop Them—Troops
Called Out.
The strike situation in Pennsylvania
reached a terrible crisis on the out
iikirts of the .owe of L.ti.er W*,
afternoon, Avhen a band of deputy
sheriff’s fired into an infuriated mob of
miners.
The men fell like so many sheep and
tke excitement Avas so intense that no
accurate figures of the dead and
wounded could be obtained.
Reports Avere that from fifteen to
tAventy-odd Avere killed and forty or
more wounded, many of Avlioin Aviil
die.
One man, who reached the scene im¬
mediately after the shooting, counted
thirteen corpses. Four other dead lay
in the mountains between Latimer and
Harleigh.
Those Avho were not injured carried
their dead and wounded friends into
the Avoods.
Three bodies were found Friday
night on the road near Latimer.
HOAV THE SLAUGHTER BEGAN.
The strikers left Hazelton at 3:30
o’clock Friday afternoon, announcing
th ir intention to go to Latimer. As
soon as this became knoAvn a band of
deputies was loaded on a trolly car
and sent whirling across the mountain
to the scene where the bloody conflict
followed.
After reaching Latimer they left the
ear and formed into three companies,
under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hessel aud
Samuel B. Price. They dreAV up in «
line at the edge of the village with *
fence and a line of houses in the rear.
Sheriff’ Martin Avas in command am?
stood in front of the line, until th|
strikers approached. They were seen
coming across the ridge aud Martin
went out to meet them.
The men dreAv up sullenly and list¬
ened in silence until he had once more
read the riot act. This finished, a Ioav
muttering arose among the foreigners
and there was a slight move forward.
Perceiving this the sheriff stepped
toAvard them and in a determined tone
forbade advance.
Some one struck the sheriff and the
next moment there was a command to
the deputies to fire. The guns of the
deputies instantly belched forth a ter¬
rible \-olley.
The strikers were taken entirely by
surprise and as the men toppled and
fell over each other those Avho remain¬
ed unhurt stampeded.
The deputies seemed to be terror
stricken at the deadly execution of
their guns aud seeing the living
strikers fleeing and the others drop¬
ping to the earth, they Avent to the aid
of the unfortunates AA'honi they had
brought down.
The people of Latimer rushed pell
mell to the scene, but the shrieks of
the wounded drowned the cries of the
sympathizing J 1 ° and half-crazed inhabi
Sheriff Martin ,. seat , a telegram , , , to
Governor Hastings, stating that mob
law prevailed in the lower end of the
county, and asking for assistance
Do“ y ( a! ’P’I
to start for Hazelton at once.
The regiment left Wilkesbarre for
Hazel ton at 5 o’clock Saturday morn
ing. CALLED out
TROOPS j
A . Harrisburg . . special • says: Gover
brigade tl S of°which General mJht Gobin is
FHdav to* and in
Stride ..i ” ppTip S r al readtaL Shall hold the
The mu troops^ i mnViilivpd nt TTft 7 ffiton
and were on the scene before daybreak
ptxton^Unitad 1 States wmy,“attached
to the National Guard, started for Ha
zelton by direction of the governor.
Superintencent Creighton, of the mid
die division of the Pennsylvania rail
road, was called into the conference at
the executive mansion, and arranged
for the speedy transportation of the
soldiers.
LIABILITIES VERY HEAVY.
J.R. Willard Suspended From the New
York Exchange.
Regarding I the failure of J. R. Wil
lard Co., brokers, reports were cur
rent in Wall street Friday that the lia
bflities are much larger than supposed,
One client lost about $500,000. He
may institute criminal proceedings.
A telegram from Chicago from J.
R. Willard savs the capital of the firm
was supplied bv the Dwiggins
Brothers, and savs'that he was guar
ranteed a salarv for the use of his
name, but had no other interest in the
business. J. E. Willard has been
suspended from the Consolidated,
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The Best Ducks.
Of course iu raising 20,000 to 15,
000 ducks it is important that oue
should have the most suitable stock.
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make a great difference in the receipts.
The quality must be the best. The
quicker they grow, the shorter the
the ? m " at l ' e ke P t ’, Tke f arl ier
they put the market, . the higher ,
are on
the price. There is more profit in
one early bird sold at thirty five cents
per pound than several late ones at
thirteen to sixteen cents. Pure Avhite
feathers bring the most.
James Rankin lias tried all breeds
of ducks and finds all have their outs.
Aylesbury ducks have white feathers,
but they and their crosses are longer
in maturing and harder to pick.
Pekins he found matured earlier by
teu days or a fortnight, Rouen s are
not only longer in maturing but are
tender and delicate. Cayugas are
fine, plump birds and lay as well, eggs
hatch as Aveli. and ducklings mature
as early as the Pekins, but they are
smaller, have black plumage and the
dark pin feathers hurt their appear
auce.
Crosses between the two were fine
and plump, took on fat as readily aud
matured as early as the Pekins, but
they came mottled in plumage, had
dark skin in patches and dark pin
feathers, so brought less,
feathers also sell for much less. A
cross between Cayugas and Roueus
gave all tlie good qualities of the
former and are larger than the latter
and make a better table bird, but do
not equal Pekins. Evidently the right
broed to cross with Pekins does not
exist or has not been found, that is,
Avith the present requirements of the
market.
About three-fourths of those Avho
take up artificial duck raising make a
failure of it because they requires are not
suited to the business. It
intense application and constant
supervision. All bands must bo up
early and Avork early and late, Most
people are unwilling to put iu the
sixteen to seventeen hours required
during the long summer days.
A back lot in a thickly settled place
is not suited to extensive duck raising.
One should be located in the country
away from near neighbors aud where
cats are not so plenty. Ponds are not
necessary to success, although the
plumage of breeding birds that have
access to them looks cleaner and in
better condition. Young ducks grown
for market do best if they have only
Avater to drink, Land grown ducks
in appearrnce do not show what they
are and breeding birds shipped after
April look very ragged. Old birds
stand shipment better than young
ones and are less apt to break down
before they arrive, but Mr. Rankin
does not guarantee their safe arrival.
—Samuel Cushman, in American Agri¬
culturist.
Grow home Rye.
There are but few farmers avIio
ld not fin(1 ifc rof5ta bl e to raise
^ We have always main
aW gtateweut true,
d itfJ tmt bfalnessnvas again pressed
» « »-V i-t reading the folio*.
ing from the pen of George W. Franlc
lin, the successful farmer of Atlantic,
IoAva, in the Wisconsin Farmer.
He says: “Rye is not a general
cro P 011 Western farms. This is not
because it is not cheaply £/ or easily
^ large)y becau pr ices have
156611 hifluenced iu sllcil a manner as
to make un P rofitahle to G row
above the actual Avants of the farm. In
recent year, the price of rye has, been
but a fraction less than that of Avheat,
but there has not been the demand for
^ ^ ^ beeQ for wheat . ft can
^ ^methne* 1 Selected* 1 ‘to
la ^ * ,°
„ 1(>h pt d that to be seeded
*° ? J “ ls ‘ a * very * J J „ ood crop Shades wit h
h J ^ to S e d as it
le B me other grains and it is
aho Qut of the way early the following
fleaSQn w . }ien the grass needs all the
nouris hment it can get. In some parts
of Europe the peasantry use little else
for bread, although it forms but a
small proportion of the bread grain
consumed in this country.
"Many farmers grow it as food for
stock; it is also prized by many stock
men for early aud late pasture. It is
sown in grow ing corn when laid by or
a little later, and permitted to grow
with the corn, then pastured in fall :
plowed and also under in the and spring, the when ground it can put be to J I
some other crop. In the West one j
value of this crop has not become j
known, and that is the bedding straw, which the j
brings a high price for in hard i
stables of the East. It is long, j
and tough, and will withstand several i
times drying aud using for bedding,
For purpose it sells for as much ;
as bay. j
“Many farmers ore lamenting the
loss of slough grass with which to
cover stacks and old sheds, as many
sloughs have been reclaimed and are
uoav tillable and doing duty in the pro¬
duction of corn aud other grains.
What farmers will have to do, who
haA-e much use for slough hay, as
above uoted, will be to grow some rye,
aud iu doing so they can feed the grain
to stock aud at the sqme time have one
of the very best thatch materials for
covering stacks and making roofs of
sheds and other outbuildings.
“A great deal of hay that is stacked
out doors could be saved if plenty of
good rye straAv properly put, on the
stacks is used at the time of stacking.
Attachments are now made for con¬
necting to the rear end of the separator
Avhen rye is being threshed and the
straw bound in bundles as it comes
from the thresher. Bo far as we are
able to ascertain they are not much
used except in the East. ITogottho
best results from this straw for roof¬
ing it should be bound in bundles,
aud Avhen the straw is put on it should
be laid in layers Avith all the straAv ex¬
tending toAvard the eaves. Not so
much av ill ha required to make a roof,
and it Aviil give better satisfaction
Avhen in use.”
Farm nml Garden Note*.
Do not keep ducks aud chickens to¬
gether; their nature aud habits are
different.
Oats fed Avhole are a superior feed
for lambs in pasture after they have
been weaned.
Do not close a setting lien in a dark
coop and starve her. Pen her up aud
feed audAvater regularly.
The secret of large honey crops iu
strong colonies and plenty of room
for the bees to store honey.
Do not allow the young birds to be¬
gin roosting in trees. It is very hard
to break them after the habit is
formed.
Market all the surplus cockorc-ls dur¬
ing July. You will save the feed, aud
the pullets will do much better Avith
outthem.
Feeding grain to fattening sheep
Avliile in pasture is conducive to rapid
gam. A mixture of corn aud peas is
one of the best.
Hens that have passed their second
year, unless extra fine specimens,
should be sent to market before they
begin to moult.
Each frame of comb in a hive should
occupy one and a half inches of space,
and in spacing the frames it should be
run Avith exactness.
The average digestibility of the pro¬
tein in the old process linseed meal as
determined by F. W. Woll, of Wiscon¬
sin, is 94.3, while that iu new process
is 84.1.
Beeswax is a valuable product, and
every particle of comb should be saved
and rendered into wax. The solar Avax
extractor, which can be made very
cheaply, should stand in every apiary.
The average life of bees during the
Avork ing season is very short, and it
requires a good prolific queen to keep
up the force of workers, so that de¬
fective queens will not prove profit¬
able.
If two or more swarms cluster to
gether, do not hive them thus, but
hunt out the queens and divide them,
especially if they are first swarms and
large ones. Valuable queens are
saved by so doing.
HtifI’ quill feathefs from the wings
of turkeys or geese make the best
brush to use for brushing bees from
the eomh. or the hive., or in any man
ner a brush may be used in connection
with them . Hair brushes are offensive
to beeg .
D amping off of plants in green
hoU8es 13 caused hy u Tmnute fungus
diH6aH6 - The H ^ ected l llants m,1Bt he
tkrown a ’ , '' a y’ aild » n HenoUB ca8e ^
be\teJ bVseeds liSf by tteam Seating before
seeds are are sown sow n,
Sees that lack stores for winter
should be fed in autumn, and the month
September is the proper time to do
5t - I hey should be fed while it is
"arm, soGhat.they can seal over their
stores. The best winter food for them
thoroughly sea e< honey of the best
elass, and for feeding, the be. t of gran
idated sugar s ion < >e usee. rs a
mistake to undertake to feed bees dur
in g me winter.
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ar*mt Combination ’
John B. Crimmins, . of . Charlotte, , .. N.
C., has a combination of a dog, a cat
and a rat which dwell together in bar
mony, to the amazement of ail hu
neighbors. They may be seen any
day asleep m his window, the cat *i head
reposing on the dog s back anil the ral
taking a sun bath nestled in the for ol
Ik* traditional enemy.