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j B, PARHAM, Editor.
VOL. XVI.
HAIL KING COTTON!
Conference of World-Interest
is Held in Atlanta.
SPINNERS MEET GROWERS
111 interests Legitimately Connected
Connected With Mighty Industry
With Mighty Industry Get To
gether for Discussion for
The fifth international congress of
the Master Cotton Spinners and Manu
facturers' Association, and the second
International conference of cotton
growers and manufacturers, opened au
spiciously in Atlanta, Ga., Monday
morning.
The first business session was called
to order in the hall of the house of
representatives by Chairman James R.
McColl of Boston. The grim and aus
tere state capitol had a strange appear
ance. The Georgia state flag floated
from the mast over the pediment of
the Washington street entrance. The
hall of the house was hung with the
flags of all the countries represented
in the congress. The speaker’s stand
was decked out in flags and bunting
and shaded electric lights. The visitors’
gallery held a brass band, which in
terspersed the welcoming addresses
with the national airs of the various
countries, which brought the whole
gathering repeatedly to its feet. When
the American and English national
anthems—“ America” and “God Save
the King”—were reached all the Eng
lish-speaking delegates sang the same
tune, but used the words of their own
hymn.
In the corridors of the capitol were
many bales of cotton, representing the
different types of baling and covering
the staple.
After the appointment of a commit
tee, consisting of two members from
each of the organizations calling the
congress, to nominate permanent offi
cers and the chairmen and vice chair
men o? the various sectional commit
tee meetings, the chairman of the con
gress introduced Governor Hoke Smith
to welcome the visitors to Georgia.
Governor Smith assured the visitors
that "we are glad to have you vr.th us
and will like you better the longer
you stay.”
Charles Wright Macara, president of
the international association, n the
course of his response, told the dele
gates that he believed the foreign spin
ners, by joining with the spinners and
manufacturers of cotton in America
and holding out the right hand of fel
lowship to the cotton grower, would be
able to render a vast service to the
cotton industry. He declared there
was need in the cotton business for
legitimate middle men, but showed the
necessity of eliminating the gambling
element on the cotton -exchanges. He
said only by international organiza
tion could the interests of this world
wide industry be safeguarded and the
producer and manufacturer protected
from the manipulations of outside par
ties. He said:
'Since the raising or lowering of the
annual price by only one cent repre
sents a difference of 18,000,000 pounds,
°r $90,000,000, it is impossible to im
agine any more important work in
which grower and spinner could join.
Gambling in cotton futures is inimical
to the interests of both.”
Mr. Macara said that cotton was
largely sold in the poorer countries
and that seven or eight million people
in India and China were not able to
buy goods when the price was unrea
sonably high. He believes that the
saving to be accomplished by getting
Bd of outside monopolies would make
Possible great economy in the manu
facture and handling of cotton and
yield larger returns to both producer
and consumer.
more strikebreakers at work
Governor Blanchard Will Call Militia
at First Sign of Violence.
About two hundred strikebreakers
landed at New Orleans Tuesday and
w< re put to work by the Illinois Cen
tral railroad at the Stuyvesant docks,
loading cotton under guard.
The levee strikers, who now number
about 10,000, remained away from the
loading districts.
Governor Blanchard, after a day
spent in investigating the situation, an
nounced that the state troops would
be called out at first sign of violence.
STATE CANNOT PAY FARE.
An Important Ruling from Immigration
Bureau.
Louisiana cannot legally pay the
fare of Immigrants to thla country,
according to a ruling received In New
Gcieans from ths immigration bureau
at Washington by the state Immigra
tion bureau.
The decision was rendered in the
case of one Geronimo Garcia,
CUT OUT MIDDLE MAN
Was Slogan of Cotton Convention Del
egates in Sceond Day's Convention
Proceedings in Atlanta.
Closer trade relations between the
cotton grower and the spinner, was
the vital subject of discussion in the
international cotton congress in Atlan-
Tuesday by a majority of 848.
The elimination of middle men,
whose interest in the cotton business
is purely speculative, was advocated.
More thorough organization by the
farmers of the south to the end of con
trolling the marketing of the cotton
crop and supplanting the exchange
brokers, was viewed as a settlement
of the difficulty.
A notable fact was that grower and
spinner alike resented the interference
of the exchange in fixing prices. Legit
imate brokers and cotton merchants
are admitted to be necessary. An ex
change wherein traders and manufac
turers may “hedge” for their own pro
tection was advocated. But the gamb
ling element, those who represent nei
ther the grower nor the actual pur
chaser, was condemned.
Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, congress
man of Alabama, in supporting his res
olution calling upon the congress of
the United States and the parliament
of Great, Britain to abolish gambling
in cotton exchanges, made a strong
and forceful plea. He said, in part:
“The state has a right to regulate
exchanges within its borders, and be
it said to the credit of Georgia, Ala
bama and two or three other southern
states, they have decreed that bucket
shops shall close. Now, it is up to
congress to assist the states in put
ting the cotton gamblers out of busi
ness. The producer must be relieved
of the outrageous and destructive com
petition to which he is now subjected
by the speculator, who offers upon the
exchange a fictitious product which he
cannot and does not intend to deliver.
These gambling exchanges buy and
sel la fictitious product and the prico
that they fix and determines the price
of the entire cotton crop.
“The cotton gambler is not a help,
but a hindrance to the producer. He
is not a friend, but a dangerous en
emy to the farmer. He is not a bless
ing, but a curse to the sou'h. What
the producer needs is an open market
—open to the world In order to ob
tain this he must fight anything and
everything that hinders competitive
buying. He must ignore the cotton
gamblers’ manufactured prices, and
put him out of business bring the
spinners to the market place, and let
them bid and buy in the open.
Samuel T. Hubbard, ex-president of
the New York cotton exchange, made
an argument in behalf of the ex
changes.
From his statement would one gath
er that the cotton exchange was a very
commendable sort of place; that it was
of great benefit to the cotton producer,
since it furnished another customer
for his goods; that it actually dealt
in the commodity in which it is sup
posed to deal. According to Mr. Hub
bard, 75 per cent of the transactions
on the floor of the exchange are
‘hedging” transactions, and are, there
fore, legitimate. Only 25 per cent may
be called gambling.
He would have the convention be
lieve that the New York exchange ac
tually pays for and handles 70 per cent
of the annual cotton crop of the south.
Presumably the Liverpool, New Or
leans, Memphis and other cotton ex
changes handle .the remaining 30 per
cent of the crop, or probably they
double up and have a finger in the
70 per cent of the New York exchange.
Mr. Hubbard said:
“The New York cotton exchange is
the oldest and most cosmopolitan cot
ton exchange in the United States. Its
members are to be found in all the
large cotton markets of the United
States, and 90 per cent of its 450 mem
bers live in the south. In the various
offices, the members of the exchange
pay for and handle 70 per cent of the
annual cotton crop of the country.”
CUBA FACES BIG STRIKE.
Railroads of Island Warned Not to
Employ Strikebreakers.
The Cuban labor organizations at
a meeting in Havana Tuesday adopted
a resolution to order a general strike,
calling out all of the unions in the
island if the railways employ the
strikebreakers who have just landed
from New York.
A dispatch has been received from
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor of America, ten
dering the labor organizations of Cuba
the support of the Federation.
STRIKE BREAKERS BALK.
Mayor of New Orleans Notifies Rail
road to Send Them Away.
About one hundred strike breakers
lpi ported., by the Illinois Central rail
road in the levee strike refused to
work Tuesday because they were not
granted am eight-hour day.
Mayor Behrmao notified the rail
road to take these men away from
New (Means.
MULTI-MURDERER
Edwards Confesses to Have
Killed Fourteen Men.
LIKE HARRY ORCHARD
Sensation Was Sprung at Murder Trial
in Chattanooga —• Unexpected
Admission Startled
v the Jury.
“I have shot and probably killed four*
teen men in my time and the list may
run up to twenty-five.”
That remarkable statement was
made by D. D. Edwards, on trial at
Chattanooga, Tenn., for killing Tom
Brooks last December.
Edwards made his confession while
under cross-examination.
He was asked by the attorney gen
eral if he killed any one previous ta
the killing of Brooks. Edwards afP
mitted that he had killed a man in
Kentucky. “Is that all?” asked trhe
attorney general.
“Well,” said Edwards, “I have shot
and probably killed fourteen men in
my time.”
He stated that most of this occurred
in Breathitt county, Kentucky, in
feuds and in a strike in Chicago sev
eral years ago. He is a native oi
Breathitt county and recently aided
in running down and capturing in the
mountains of Breathitt the Lookout
mountain wife murderer, Ed Turner.
Edwards did not change expression
or give any indication of feeling when
he confessed, under cross-examination
to his bloody record, but after getting
off the witness stand, added that the
list might run up to twenty-five, ‘if
everything was included.”
This is his second trial, he having
been released without bail after his
first trial. Since then he has been in
another state, but, when notified of the
date of his case, came back to Chat
tanooga immediately. He is considered
the most remarkable prisoner ever
tried in Hamilton county.
ROOSEVELT AT CAIRO.
Citizens of Illinois Town Listen to
S|seech by Chief Executive.
President Roosevelt and party ar
rived at Cairo, 111., Thursday morning
at 9 o’clock and were saluted by the
Danville battery and hundreds of
steamboats and other whistles. The
party was met by the reception -♦com
mittee headed by Mayor Parson and
fifty carriages, all drawn by white
horses, conveyed them along the line
of march to St. Mary’s park, where
the president spoke.
When the “fleet” again started for
Memphis, it was amid the booming
of cannon and other popular demon
strations.
CAN’T HOLD TWO JOBS.
Inspector General of Georgia Troops
Out of Brigadier General Race.
Colonel W. G. Obear, inspector gen
eral of Georgia troops, who is to be
quartermaster of the national guard
of the state, has announced his re
tirement from the race for brigadier
general under the new military law.
The retirement was caused by th<
announcement Smith that
he would not permit him to hold two
positions, one a salaried office and the
other a position purely of honor.
NEW VESSEL !S ADDED.
Savannah Line Now Has Ship cr Great
er Carrying Capacity.
The new steamship City of Savan
nah, the latest addition to the New
York and Savannah line, reached port
at New York Thursday to await the
start of her maiden voyage to Savan
nah. The City of Savannah exceeds
all other ships of the line in carryivg
capacity.
TO ENJOIN EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
Federal Court Asked to Restrain the
International Pressmen’s Union.
Several printing and publishing firms
in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and
in Massachusetts, with national offi
cers of the United Typothetae, brought
action in the United States court at
Cincinnati Tuesday, asking that the
International Printing Pressmen and
Assistants’ Union of America be en
joined. from violating an agreement of
January, 1907, by demanding an eight
hour day.
COTTON GINNING REPORT.
Bales Turned Out Up to September 25
Placed at 1,569,977.
The census bureau at Washington
issued a complete report Friday show
ing the amount of cotton ginned from
the 1907 crop up to September 25 to
have been 1,559,997 bales. This report
compares with 2,057,285 bales last year
and 2,355,716 bales year before last,
counting round bales as half bales.
TRENTON, GA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 11, 190?.
I PUT UP TO CONGRESS.
i
Waterways Commission, in Strong
Resolutions, Asks Congress to
Deepen Mississippi River.
After selecting Chicago for the meet*
ing place next year and calling upon
| congress to authorize work for a 14-
| channel from the gulf of Mexico to the
great lakes, the second annual con
vention of the Lakes to the Gulf Wa
terways Association adjourned sine
die in Memphis late Saturday. The
delegates were tendered a banquet and
smoker Saturday night.
This meeting iif the interest of the
waterways was probably the most im
portant ever held in the south. Speech
es were delivered by men who have
made a life study of the nation’s riv
ers and harbors, and in every instance,
a deep water channel from the gulf to
the northern lakes was adopted.
The report of the resolutions com
mittee was received and adopted with
out a dissenting vote. The resolu
tions are as follows:
“1. Resolved, That it is the sense of
this convention that the deepening of
the waterways from the lakes to the
gulf is a public necessity, and that it
is a national duty to take definite and
immediate action to deepen said watei
ways to a depth of 14 feet from the
lakes to the £ulf of Mexico, through
the route already selected by the army
engineers, with all practical speed.
“2. Be it further resolved, That we
respectfully ask that said work be con
structed according to the continuing
contract system.
“3. Be it further resolved, That the
Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways As
sociation hereby extends thanks to our
co-laborers in the great work of in
land waterways improvement, the Mis
souri Valley Improvement Association,
the Interstate Mississippi River Im
provement and Levee Association, the
Ohio Valley Improvement Association,
and all other kindred associations In
this great valley, for their valuable
assistance in the past, and assure
them pf our sympathetic interests in
the object of their efforts in the
important work in which they are re
spectively engaged, and of our most
cordial and energetic cooperation
therein.
“Be it further resolved, That we
hereby tender the unanimous aud pro
found thanks of this association to the
president for his masterly and forceful
address and for the great honor he has
conferred upon us by his presence here
as our most distinguished guest.
“5. Be it urther resolved, That we
hereby tender our cordial thanks to the
governors of seventeen sovereign
states, and to the other distinguished
statesmen and gentlemen who have
honored us by their presence, and
we also thank the patriotic and public
spirited people of the great and grow
ing city of Memphis for their unvary
ing courtesy and royal hospitality.
“6. Be it further resolved, That the
Hon. William K. Kavanaugh, president
of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Water
ways Association, be and he is hereby
requested and empowered to appoint a
committee composed of fifty members
to present these resolutions to the
next congress of the United States and
also to use all honorable and proper
means as the representatives of and in
connection with this association to
induce congress to act favorably there
on at its next session, and that the
said president of this association be
chairman of said committee.”
TO HOUSE STRIKEBREAKERS
Vessel is Being Fitted Up to Be An
chored in Midstream.
A sailing vessel is being fitted up
at New Orleans to house strikebreak
ers, about 1,000 of whom are expect
ed from northern cities within a few
days. It is planned to anchor this
vessel near midstream for the safety
of those on board. The Southern Pa
cific company already has nearly 100
strikebreakers at work.
SHERIFF KILLED BY TRAMPS.
Officer Wounded Two of Three Hoboed
and All Were Captured.
Sheriff Charles Oglesby was shot and
killed Saturday at the Pennsylvania
railroad depot in Winamac, Ind., by
three tramps whom he was endeavor
ing to arrest. Two bullets entered the
officer’s body. After dropping to the
ground he raised himself on his el
bow and emptied his revolver at tha
men, fatally wounding one of them and
putting a bullet into the body of a
second one. All three men were
caught.
SECOND TRIAL OF HARRY THAW.
Sensational Case Will Be Aired Again
Beginning December 2.
Harry K. Thaw’s second trial for
the killing of Stanford White will be
gin in New York December 2. This
agreement was reached between Dis
trict Attorney Jerome, Martin W. Lit
tleton, counsel for Thaw, and Justice
Dowling of the supreme court Mon
day.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY.
Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
U. D. C. to Meet in Augusta.
On October 30th a state convention
of the United Daughters of the Con
federacy will be held in Augusta, and
the local chapter is already actively
preparing to entertain the delegates
and guests. The convention will be
the occasion of general social enter
tainment and is being looked forward
to with interest by the ladies all over
the state. The convention will remain
in session several days.
* * *
Carroll Citizens Elated.
The citizens of Carroll county are
highly elated over the fact that an ex
perimental station is to be established
at the A. and G. college. This means
very much for the college, and it is
due to the untiring efforts of Presi
dent J. H. Melson that one was ob
tained. Professor Melson is daily re
ceiving applications for entrance from
all over the fourth congressional dis
trict and from present indications all
available room will be taken up by the
opening of the college. The buildings
are nearing completion and school will
open on the first of January.
Two Dioceses for Georgia.
The house of bishops of the general
convention of the Episcopal Church of
the United States, in session at Rich
mond, Va., has agreed to a division
of the diocese of Georgia, and the
resolution to that effect will go to the
house of deputies for their concur
rence. It was not just clear to some
members of the house as to what por
tion of the state was to be set off
into the new diocese, but the bishops
expressed their willingness to divide
the state into two dioceses, the line of
tlemarkation to be established later.
* * *
Uniforms Cost SIOB Each.
As the result of a meeting of mem
bers of the governor's staff in the
office of Adjutant General A. J. Scott
at the capitol a few days ago, the con
tract for furnishing uniforms to the
uembers of Governor Smith’s staff
was let to the M. C. Lilly company,
the price to be $lO6 each.
Only the service and the dress uni
forms are to be purchased at this time.
Later on the full dress uniform may
be secured, but that has not yet been
determined on. Should the staff de
cide to buy it, its members will have
to come up with $75 or SIOO more.
* * *
Donator of Cemetery First Occupant.
Mr. B. F. Camp, one of the most
prominent citizens of Douglas county,
died at his home near Douglasville a
few days ago.
He was taken suddenly with menin
gitis and grew worse gradually until
his death. He was in his fifty-fifth
year and leaves a wife and five chil
dren, four brothers and a host of
relatives.
Mr. Camp had just completed anew
church building and had deeded the
building and lands to the church, and
he was the first to be placed in tl.e
cemetery adjoining.
Corporations Ignore New Law.
Over one thousand corporations do
ing business in Georgia will be liable
to a fine of SSO each if they do not
file their corporation returns with Sec
retary of State Phil Cook by November
Ist. With the time limit less than
30 days off, Secretary Cofck has noti
fied the corporations that they will be
fined under the state law unless they
make the proper returns.
The secretary of state is having con
siderable difficulty in securing the cor
poration returns and will probably in
stitute proceedings to secure the fine
if the returns are not made in the
proper time.
The corporations have responded
slowly to his demands, and in addi
tion to those this year there are
one thousand corporations from last
year who have not complied with the
law.
* * *
Masons to Meet in Macon.
The grand lodge of Georgia Masons
will convene in Macon on October 29
in its two hundred and twenty-first
annual communication. The session
will be the most largely attended in
the history of Georgia Masonry. There
will probably be 1,500 masters anc
pastmasters present.
The wonderful record of the past
year is set forth in a letter of Grand
Master Meyerhardt, which has been
sent to all the lodges. Among other
things in this latter, the grand mas
ter says:
“It is with profound pleasure that I
announce to you that the past year
has been one of unprecedented pros
perity. When the grand lodge meets,
there will be in the treasury about
$35,000, the greatest surplus known
in the history of Georgia masonry.
We will have 30,000 members on our
rolls —an increase of 12,000 within the
past nine years. Our lodges—includ
ing those under dispensation—number
510. Our home has been improved,
every need of its occupants has been
supplied, we do not owe one cent, and
every department of the grand lodge
has been properly and creditably
maintained. Anew or enlarged grand
lodge temple is in contemplation, and
Georgia masonry stands on a highei
and nobler plane than ever before.”
* * *
Farmers' Union Directors Meet.
A significant meeting of the national
board of directors of the Farmers’
Union of America was held in Atlanta
the past week. Two questions of im
portance claimed the attention of the
board —the short cotton crop and its
relation to prices and the organization
of the northeastern states for the in
terests of the union.
The meeting was an executive one
and closed to outsiders. Just before it
began, however, D. I. Neill, president
of the Texas state union, said:
“If the people hold their cotton, there
is no telling where the price will go.
Two weeks ago we had reports in our
state from 185 counties. From these
reports and later ones I estimate Tex
as’ crop at less than two and a half
million bales.”
From this statement it is generally
inferred that the directors will devote
much of their time toward plans for
holding the cotton market in the in
terest of the farmers.
* * *
More Postmasters Organize.
Between twenty-five and thirty of tha
second and third class postmasters oi
Georgia met in Atlanta last Saturday,
and perfected an organization, the pur
poses of which were stated to be the
mutual welfare and protection of its
members and increased efficiency in
that part of the postal service entrust
ed to the second and third class post
masters.
There were a number of distinguish
ed persons present at the meeting, but
those who attracted ehief attention
were Mrs. Helen Longstreet, widow
of the late General Longstreet and
postmaster at Gainesville, and Mrs. W.
Y. Atkinson, widow' of the late Gov
ernor Atkinson, who presides over
the destinies of the Newnan post
office.
Mrs. Longstreet was elected tempo
rary president, and Mrs. Atkinson tem
porary secretary. A committee to
draft a constitution and by-laws to be
submitted to a future meeting was
then named by Mrs. Longstreet, the
temporary president. This committee
was as follows: Walter Akerman of
Cartersville, chairman; J. L. Sibley
of Milledgevilie, Mrs. W. Y. Atkinson
of Newnan, E. F. Blodgett of Atlanta
and Charles W. Parker of Elberton
PRESIDENT 13 iN CAMP.
Reaches Region of Bruin and Goes
Into Retirement.
After a safe trip from Memphis to
Lake Providence, La., wfiiere he Sab
urday morning addressed several thou*
sand residents of East Carroll parish.
President Roosevelt continued oa hi
journey to Stamboul station, 15 miles
below Lake Providence, where his spe
cial train was sidetracked.
Advices from Stamboul late Satur
day stated that the president and liis
party had reached their camp on the
Tensas river, about 12 miles from
Stamboul.
The president spent Sunday quietly
in his camp with the intention oi
beginning his bunt early Monday morn
ing.
A SUNDAY MORNING LYNCHING.
Mob in Cumberland, Md., Avenges Mur
der of a Policeman.
William Burns, a negro desperado,
who had killed Policeman August Ban
ter, Saturday, felt the judgment of
lynchers at Cumberland, Md., Sunday
morning.
Only Deputy Sheriff Adam Peudley
was at the jail when, after midnight,
a hundred men appeared and demand
ed the keys. These being refused, a
telegraph pole was used as a batter
ing ram and-an entrance to the build
ing was forced, the negro taken out
and kicked and shot to death.
BAD NEGRO KILLS BAILIFF.
Contents of Double-Barreled Shotgun
Pierced Officer’s Heart.
While attemptii g to aryest Matthew
Howell, a negro, Friday afternoon,
J. B. Raney, a bailiff of Duluth, Ga.,
was shot in the heart, and died in
stantly. The negro escaped.
Raney had a warrant and was about
to take Howell into custody, when
the negro drew his double-barreled
shotgun on the bailiff, emptying the
contents of both barrels into his heart
CUBANS APPEAL TO ROOT.
Colony in Mexico Want to Know
Where They are At.
A committee of forty Gubans, rep
resenting the Cuban colony in Mexico
City, presented a petition to Secretary
Root, asking him to make a statement
•u the status of Cuba and appealing to
him to dispel the distrust that will
be felt by Latin-America should the
United States adopt one policy for
Cuba and another for the stronger na
I lions.
• SWARMS OF ASIATICS
Alarming Uncle Sam and Measures
Mu6t Be Taken to Keep Them
Out —Secretary Strauss Reports.
A Washington special says: Immi
gration of Japanese into America is
increasing at so alarming a rate that
it has been determined by the govern
ment to adopt extraordinary measures
to prevent the introduction into the
United States not only of Japanese
but of other Asiatic coolie laborers.
One result of the trip of
Straus of the department of
mere* and labor, along the
border and the Pacific coast has beem
an increasing of the force of the im
migration .inspectors along the Ca
nadian border with a view to control,
if possible, the flood of Asiatio immi
gration into America.
The official figures of the immigra
tion of Japanese into America are not
available because Secretary Straus de
clines at this time to make them pub
lic-; but it knows that moore than
double the number of Japanese have
eome into the United States thus far
in the year 1907 than came here dur
ing the same period last year.
Naturally, the figures of the govern
ment do not include the hundreds of
Japanese who have come into the
country surreptitiously. They have
come across the Canadian and Mexi
can borders practically without hin-
despite the regulations adopt
er by the government to prevent the
introduction of Japanese laborers.
The government of Japan does not is
sue passports to laborers for Amer
ica. It does, however, issue passports
to them for the Hawaiian islands and
Canada. Once in the Hawaiian islands
they take passage either to Mexico or
to Canada and then make their way
across the border line into this coun
try either from Mexico or the Do
minion of Canada. They take train,
for instance, from Mexico to Canada,
through the United States. The rail
roads are not bonded as they are in
the case of Chinese passengers, to de
liver them at a specified destination.
The result is that the Japanese leave
the train at any point in the United
States they may choose.
For many months the government
has had immigration inspectors in
Mexico and Canada making investiga
tions respectmg the coming to Amer
ica of Asiatic laborers, especially Jap
anese. In practically every instance
the inspectors have reported that the
Japanese who reach Mexico or Canada
are bound for the United States. In
quiries in the Hawaiian islands have
revealed organizations whose business
it is to procure Japanese laborers to
work in the United States. They not
only provide the means, but have the
way by which the Japanese may easi
ly obtain entrance into this country
through Canada and Mexico.
It is this sort of proposition the gov
ernment proposes to combat.
FOUR KILLED; SCORE HURT.
Molten Metal Causes Explosion Which
Dealt Death and Destruction.
An explosion caused lay the upsetting
of the metal pot in the number oue cu
pola of the Standard Steel company at
Butler, Pa., late Sunday night caused
the death of four men, fatally injured
t'f/enty am! seriously injured ten oth
ers. Nearly all of the men were for
eigners.
The large steel plant, 180 by 100
feet, was demolished, causing a loss
estimated at SIOO,OOO.
The condition of the thirty men in
jured is pitiable. Although still alive,
the features of a majority are muti
lated beyond recognition. The hot
metal was showered over them, caus
ing horible injuries. Arms, fingers
and ears were torn off, while a number
of the men had their eyes burned out.
Several men in the hospital with
their legs l|Akd to a crisp. At mid
night the pwProians attending the in
jured said that at least twenty of them
would die.
A span in the pot containing 5,000
pounds of molten metal broke, allow
ing the liquid iron to spill over the
wet sand. An explosion followed so
quickly that none of the workmen in
the building had a chance to -escape.
Streams of the burning metal poured
out on the workmen, some of whom
were engulfed and literally cooked.
Twenty men near the cupola had
every shred of clothing blown off by
the force of the explosion.
Many w r ere buried under the wreck
age and were not rescued for an hour
after the catastrophe. When the flames
shot from the burning car works fully
10,000 people rushed to the scene,
blocking streets and interfering with
fire companies and ambulances.
FAILED ON compromise.
Strike of Cotton Handlers at New Or
leans is Still On.
A New Orleans special says: Mayor
Behreman failed Thursday to compro
mise the levee strike at a conference
between steamship agents and repre
sentatives of the 8,000 striking cotton
handlers who are holding out in synn
patby with striking screwmen.
The county,
Four pager.,
every Friday,
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States and Territories.
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