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The state of I)ade News.
VOL. X.
IN TOTAL ECLIPSE.
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Gorgeous Spectacle Witnessed By the
Scientists.
PERFECT DAY FOR OBSERVATION.
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Many Interesting Features Discover
ed by Astronomers—Sudden Tem
perature Changes.
Wadsboro, N. C., Special.-The eclipse
of the sun, as observed in Wadesboro,
Monday, was of a very satisfactory
character, _pll conditions being as fine
as could have been desired by the most
enthusiastic scientist. The conditions
were absolutely perfect and the astron
omers and scientific men had only one
thing to complain of, and that was by
tome slip of moon calculations they
(were cheated out of about seven sec
onds of the eclipse. In other woras,
the period of totality was about seven
seconds less than had been calculated
Jipon. Prof. J. B. Colt, one of the pro
fessional observers, explains that this
fact is neither important or surprising,
because astronomers are not sure of all
the elements of the moon. It demon
strates that the motions of the planets
can be computed with a higher accura
cy than the moon.
The town was full of professional
and amateur observers and telescopes
of all sorts and sizes. Cameras and ko
daks were to be seen on all sides. Con
gress appropriated $5,000 for the ex
pense alone of the Smithsonian obser
vation station. This station occupied
a depression to the southeast of the
town, and as perhaps the most finely
equipped station in the belt of the
eclipse. It was made up of the regular
apparatus of the Smithsonian Institu
tion, the only new addition being the
great telescope 135 feet in length, car
rying a plate one yard square, making
a picture 16 Inches square. The plates
cost SBS per dozen. During the few mo-
ments of totality the operator of the
telescope secured six pictures.
The Smithsonian station was in
charge of Professor Langley, and he
had 40 assistants, among them Prof. C.
G. Smith, who had charge of the instru
ments; Prof. Smilie, chief photograph
er of the National Museum; Mr. R. C.
Child, Mr. DeL. Gill, Prof. C. G. Men
denhall and Mr. A. Graemer. On the
Smithsonian grounds was the observa
tion station of the Yerkes observatory,
in charge of Profs. Barneno, Hale,
Ritchey, Ellerman, Flint, Frost, and
Dr. Isham. Their equipment was al
most as fine as that of the Smithsonian.
Princeton had a well equipped station,
in charge of Profs. Young, Libbey,
Bracket and Magee; Mrs. Magee,
Messrs. Reed, MeClenahan, Russell and
Fisher. Nearby was an observation
•station profusely decoated with Ame
ican flags. It was in chage of Rev.
John M. Bacon and daughter, of New
berry, Eng., and Nevil Markelyne, of
London. Each of the party wore small
American flags in their hats. They had
a very expensive set of instruments.
In addition to these big telescopic bat
teries, there were many private plants
of more or less importance.
Mr. Thomas Lindsay, of Canada, se
cured many valuable photographs.
Prof. J. A. Holmes, North Carolina
State geologist, had a well equipped
station on one of the buildings in town
and the results of his observations are
considered among the most valuable
ot' the day, especially in the photo
graphing of the shadow belt. Dr. G.
M. PL'lllps, Principal of the State Nor
mal ®ch'b°i s > Westchester, Pa., had a
well equipped observatory on Corr's
Mountain, -\ v ihere the Charleston cadets
under Captains Bond and Coleman,
were also stationed. The individual
professors and .amateurs with tele
scopes and cameras of their own were
met ou every hand.
Words cannot describe the solemn
grandeur of the scene at the moment
of total eclipse. The chattering crowds
had been awed into silence as the
wiered, mysterious darkness leading up
to totality had progressed. The color
effects of sky and horizon were sur
passingly beautiful. Above, the blue
deepened to almost blackness and all
around the horizon rose rings of orange
and purple. Just before totality it
it looked as a rainbow ringing the
horizon, but the moment the last ray
of the sun was obscured an tms cnang
ed and the coloring of the horizon was
that which shortly follows a summer
sunset. Around, the sun the corona
shone forth with great brilliancy and
la a beautiful form. There were two
brilliant splotches of light. One flamed
out from the first point of contact. It
was shaped like a fish tail and was
atv>ut three times the diameter of the
mootf in length. The other flashed
out beiow in an opposite direction,
wfiliP Utic slitiiovv ws# fl jictr
row belt of light of extreme briliancy.
The planet M'oreury beamed just a lit
tle beyond the end of the first arun of
the corona, and well down towards the
corona, Venus sparkled like a dia
mond. The shadow of the total eclipse
,-roduced an effect something like
moonlight, yet with a softened bril
lianc ' T One could distinguish faces in
the neaF neighborhood, yet it was as
if throueh a yellowish haze. Observers
differ aL B to act time of the dura-!
tion of the butwas about
75 seconds. The iF°st dazzling effect,
of the entire spectacle v '“. at tl je fiist
moment of the sun emers, in £- wae
as if a mrighty arc light more power
fully and brilliantly penetrating
anything ever imagined on earth
Iwmu> *n<M<irlv Ugbtpd iu tb*
was blinding and dazzling in the sud
denness and splendor of its appear
ance. With the first flash of the light
the wired darkness gradually began to
disappear and very soon the shadow,
was lifted and the earth appeared to
be itself again.
The color effects of the eclipse as
has already been intimated were beau
tiful. They were officially recorded by
Mrs. Clayton. Her record show's that
at 8:17 the skies became perceptibly
darker and at 8:22 were getting a
deep blue. At 8:25 there was a twi
light effect in the western horizon,
and a streak of cirrus in the north. At
8:29 cirru6 cumulus were visible in
the northwest and the cows in the
pasture around the observatory were
heard lowing. The blue purple effect
was first noted in the south and w'est
at 8:32 and the pale orange light dn
the skies*at 8:34. At 8:37 there was a
pale white gray in the east, and at
8:39 pale white gray in the west. The
deep purplish gray in the tenith, like
a deep purple bow inverted came on
at 8:44. At totality, 8:45, there u r as
a deep pink on a streak of cirrus
tumulus in the south, also bands of
purple and pink in the west. A few
seconds, before totality, shadow bands
five inches apart, were recorded by
Prof. Clayton.
The drop in temperature during the
eclipse was sufficient to make itself
felt by all observers, notwithstanding
their interest in the eclipse itself. The
duty of recording the temperature
changes was assigned to Prof. H. !H.
Clayton, from Blue Hills Meterological
Observatory, near Boston. Prof. Clay
ton’s report shows that at the begin
ning of the eclipse, the temperature
was 71 degrees. Just after contact it
was 65. For five to ten seconds after
totality it was 63 degrees. As the
eclipse passed off the temperature be
gan to rise rapidly, and at 10:30 it
was 78 degrees. This record shows a
fall of 8 degrees and a rise of 15. Prof.
Clayton’s record shows that the wind
increased as the eclipse came on, and
decreased as it passed off, but at no
time did the direction of the wind
change.
Prof. J. B. Coit, of Boston, had a sta
tion on the Smithsonian grounds for
the especial purpose of observing the
corona. One fact which he says is
settled is that an this eclipse there was
no white prominence, a matter of con
siderable Importance to astronomers.
He says that the conditions for observ
ing the eclipse were perfect, and the
results to be anticipated will be a bet
ter knowledge of the corona and heat
radiations from the different parts of
the corona. Astronomers will learn
more of the form and direction of the
curvature of corona streamers. He
expects very satisfactory results from
the development of his plates.
National Raiiroad Commissioners.
Milwaukee, Special.—The convention
of National Railroad Ccimmisssioners
Tuesday night elected the following
officers: President, Cicero J. Lindley,
of Illinois; first vice president, W. D.
Evans, of South Carolina; second vice
president, T. J. Hennessy, of Missouri;
secretary, E. A. Moseley; assistant
secretary, Martiu S. Decker. The 1901
convention will be held in San Fran
cisco and Charleston, S. C.. the follow
ing year.
Husband Sees His Wife Shot.
Birmingham, Ala., Special.—Mrs.
Mamie Caddell was shot and instantly
killed by Mrs. Lilly Garner, at Blocton,
Tuesday afternoon. The murderess
had been living with Caddell. her vic
tim’s husband. The wife left home,
but returned to get some of her be
longings when she was shot down by
the Garner woman, the husband look
ing on, but offering no interference.
Mrs. Garner and Caddell were arrested
and spirited away to Centreville to
avoid mob violence, which was threat
ened.
The McCormick Failure.
New York, Special.—At the cotton
exchange It was said the indebtedness
there of Price, McCormick and Cos., is
hardly likely to exceed $300,000. It
was said also that the greater part of
this s*um had been placed on deposit
for tie cotton exchange creditors with
the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Com
pany, the Colonial Trust Company and
the Trust Company of America.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey went to
Baltimore, Md. .Saturday, to visit the
Horse Show", and later returned to
Washington, D. C.
Engagement Announc’d.
Atlanta, Ga., Special.—The an
nouncement is made from Savannah of
the engagement of Miss Annie Comer,
of that city, and Hon. Clark Howell,
Jr., editor of the Atlanta Constitution,
the marriage to take place at the home
of the bride’s mother, in Savannah,
Thursday, July 12. After the marriage
Mr. Howell and his bride will leave for
New York, whence they will .-ail foi
Europe for a short trip. Miss Comer
is the eldest daughter of the late H. M
Comer, formerly president of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway, and oue of tin
wealthiest men in the State.
In the book publishing industry
country is rapidly crawling up on
Great Britain. In 1898 less than 3,000
books were put on the market here.
In 1899, however, the output amounted
to 0.000 new publications. In Great
Britain, during the same year, 7.249
books were published.
TRENTON, GA., MAY 31.1900.
PRESBYTERIANS ADJOURN.
A Number of Committees have Been
Appointed.
Atlanta, Ga., Special.—The General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
concluded its labors Saturday. There
was much enthusiasm displayed during
the morning hours over the decision to
raise a million dollar Twentieth Cen
tury Fund for the benefit of Church ed
ucation. The central committee in this
great work consists of Chairman Dr.
W. W. Moore, of Union Seminary, and
Vice-President Dr. Charles H. Hemp
hill, of Kentucky, with one minister
and one elder or deacon from each Sy
nod of the Church. Its membership in
part is as follows:
Synod of Virginia: Rev. R. P. Kerr,
D. D., Richmond: George E. Caskie,
Lynchburg.
Synod of North Carolina: Rev. J. W,
Stagg, D. D.. Charlotte: George W.
Watts, Durham.
Synod of South Carolina: Rev. W. G.
Neville, Yorkville: C. E. Graham,
Greenville.
Many important matters were con
sidered by the Assembly up to 11:30 a.
m., when Stated Clerk Alexander an
nounced that his docket was clear and
the business before the body was fin
ished. A vote cf thanks wms extended
to all those who have contributed to
the success of the session and the hear
ty appreciation of the Assembly was
expressed in many ways to the workers
on the committees and elsewhere. Dur
ing the morning Moderator Martin ap
pointed two important committees. One
was to form anew Sunday school les
son series. It is composed of Rev. E.
C. Murray, chairman, Newborn, N. C.:
Rev. O. L. Phillips, Rev. Charles Ghise
lii% Rev. J. K. Hazen and Major Joseph
Hardle.
A committee on Negro Evangeliza
tion was named as follows:
Dr. R. H. Rice, Dr. Robert F. Camp
bell, Asheville, N. C., and Elder W. J.
McKinney, Decatur, Ga.
Plague Among Teamsters.
Manila, By Cable. —The government
corral at Manila has been quarantined.
There are four suspected cases of bu
bonic plague among the teamsters who
are living in filthy dwellings ehich will
be burned. Since the murders on
board the steamer El Cano by the na
tive crew, coastwise captains have bean
fearful of repetitions of the tragedy
and have soldier guards for their
steamers, which has been declined.
Three commercial steamers are now in
the bay, their Spanisli captains refus
ing to sail unprotected, and other in
tend imitating them. The authorities
have returned to the captains their re
volvers, of which they were recently
deprived. 001. Padilla, the rebel gover
nor of Nueva Eciia, was captured dur
ing the recent fighting at Neuva Ecija j
and is now in jail nare.
Vaal River Crossed.
Jxmdon, By Cable.—The War Office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts:
“WolvecEoek, Orange Free State.
May 26. —An advanced portion of this
force crossed the Vaal river on the
Queen’s birthday, near Paris. Haraii
tons’ column is at Boscnbank. Our
icouts are now at Vlljocns Drift, on the
front north of Wolvehoek. The local
mines are uninjured and work is get
ting on as usual. There is no enemy
this side of the river. Hunter reached
Vryburg May 24."
Cars Carry Three Down To Death.
Akron, Ohio, Special.—Three men,
lames MacMahon, Michael Penders and
K. Welker, were killed and a number
txf other seriously injured as a resuit
of an accident to a work train early
Saturday on the Akron and Cuyhoga
Palls Rapid Transit (electric; suburban
line. The brakes on two cars loaded
with gravel, and carrying about a doz
en workmen became disabled at the
top o*’ a steep grade. The cars rushed
down the incline at a terrific speed.
Nine of the workmen jumped from the
tars as they sped along, and were ser
iously injured.
Unknown Vessel Rescued.
Cape Henry, Va, Special.—W. L.
8011, Weather Bureau official at Curri
tuck Inlet, N. C.. reports that the un
known schooner which has been an
chored during the storm off Whales
Head, N. C., was taken Iron: her dan
gerous position by the wrecking steam
er Ooley, at 4:15 p. n. Saturday. The
Coley, with the vessel in tow, is now
steaming northward and will pass in
the Capes about midnight.
Brevities.
In the recent storms off the Oregon
coast eleven fishermen were drowned.
Edward E. Poor has resigned as pres
ident of the National Park Bank, of
New York.
C. M. Davis has purchased the woolen
mill of the late Joseph Gould, of North
deld, Vt.
Ohio Phobitionists have nominated a
State ticket headed by J. Knox Mont
gomery tor Secretary of State.
The introduction of a vested choir
into the Methodist Episcopal Church
on One Hundred and Seventy-eighth
street. New York, has aroused vigor
ous opposition among the older mem
bers.
I'MMOCJtA TIC.
NINE WERE KILLED,
Systematic Murder of Missionaries
in China.
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CONSULS ASK FOR PROTECTION.
The Situation in China is Alarming
and Will Tax to the Utmost the Re
sources of That Government.
Washington, D. C., Special.—Such
advices as have reached here indicate
that the situation in China has as
sumed a very critical phase, and one
calculated to tax the entire resources
of the Chinese government. The State
Department has been in close com
munication wiih Mr. Conger, our
minister at Pekin, and the Navy De
partment is doing its share, having
placed the flagship Newark as far up
the river as the Takn forts, which is
the nearest point to Pekin that the
ship can reach. The operations of the
“Boxers” are increasing in magnitude.
Their demonstrations are no longer
local, and they appear to be governed
in their movements by some well set
tled designs. They have murdered
nine Methodist missionaries in one
province, at the town of Pachow, and
have closed in on Pekin. Meanwhile,
the Chinese army is suspected of dis
loyalty, this belief being strengthened
by wholesale desertions of the soldiers
to the “Boxers.”
Minister Conger has appealed to the
State Department for the protection of
a marine guard for his legation. The
Department has promptly cabled him
an authorization to call upon the'near
est United States naval vessels for as
sistance. It is not known yet whether
he has availed himself of the permis
sion. The embarrassing feature of the
situation is the cutting of ihe com
munication by rail between Taku and
Tien Tsin, and the capital, for the Box
ers have burned the raliroad bridges,
and there are probably only tw’o
courses open to the marines who wish
to reach Pekin —a long overland
march through a hostile country away
from supports, or a tedious voyage up
the swift and shallow Pel Ho in shore
boats in tow r of steam launches.
According to report, the Chinese
government has done everything in its
power to meet the demands of the dip
lomatic body at Pekin for the disper
sion of the Boxers, but it appears that
the uprising is far more serious than
was at first apprehended l , and even
the resident ministers at Pekin are in
clined to admit that the ,**sk is not
an easy one for Che Chinese govern
ment. So far all of the measures
taken by the State Department look to
the simple’protection of the American
legaion at Pekin, the American con
sulates in the vicinity and the lives of
such Americans as may be obliged to
take refuge therein, in thl event of
general rioting. The Stab/ Depart
ment is closely adhering to the prac
tice it has always observed of non-in
terference in these Chinese disturb
ances, and it is not contemplated that
our naval forces shall take any part
in the contest between the Chinese
government and the Boxers, though
it is assumed that Rear Admiral
Remey. the of the
Asiatic station, will take steps to
supply Rear Admiral Rempff, the
senior squadron commander, with such
naval force as he may need for safe-!
guarding American interests at the
treaty ports.
For Associate Justices.
Washington. D. C., Special.—The
President sent the following nomina
tions to the Senate: Brigadier Gen
eral Otis to be major general, June 16,
1900, vice Merritt, to be retired on that
day. Court of Private Land Claims—
Jos. B. Fed, of lowa, to be chief jus
tice. To be associate justice, Thomas!
C. Fuller, of North Carolina; Wm. W.
Murray, of Tennessee; Henry C. Sluss,
of Kansas; Wilbur F. Stone, of Colo
rado; Thomas H. Norton, of Ohio, to
be consul at Harput, Turkey.
The War in the Philippines.
Manila. By Cable. —Major Henry T.
Allen, of the Forty-third Infantry,
while scouting from Catbalogam,
Island of Samar, May 9, drove a party
of insurgents from the valleys. Four
Americans killed, including
Lieutenant W. H. Evans (John H.
Evans), who was slain while gallently
leading a charge against the entrench
ments. Eleven of the enemy were
killed and four were wounded.
British Army’s Advance.
London, by Cable. —The effective
ness of the British invasion of the
Transvaal is further emphasized by the
news from Pretoria of the occupation
of Zeerust and the advance on Lichten
burg. Apparently the British drag net
will be drawn through the Transvaal,
as it was In a similar manner hauled
through the Free State. The fighting
at the Klip river Sunday, reported from
from Pretoria, was presumably done
by Generals French and Hamilton in
forcing their way round to the north
ward of Johannesburg,
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
The South.
Ihe Tenth annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans began in
Louisville, Ky., on Wednesday, with
the largest attendance of any meeting
yet held.
A few days ago, John Boyd, a farmer
in Darlington county. S. C., had a quar
rel wfith a on his place and tied
him up and whipped him. Boyd was
at supper when he was dhot dead. A
crowd of men with blood hounds are
on the track of the murderer. The ne
gro who veas whipped is supposed to
have done the killing.
A number of Friends fi mi Baltimore
held services in the old Quaker Meet
ing House at York, Pa., the site for
w r hich was donated by a son of Wil
liam Penn.
A duel to the death was fought by
Emmet Coy and Bonifacio Perez
cowboys, in Hidalgo County, Texas’
with rifles, both men falling in their
tracks.
Chief Justice Hazelrigg, of Ken
tucky. Ims given out a statement posi
tively declining to enter the race for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor, leaving Governor Beckham as
the only candidate.
The North.
Strong expansion sentiment was
shown at a mass-meeting in Detroit,
Mich.,, in connection with the Ameri
can Baptist missionary anniversaries.
James Fitzharris and Joseph Mallei.
Irish Invincible®, were excluded from
this country by New' York immigra
tion officials and will be deported.
It is reported that former Senator
David B. Hill will exert every influence
to turn New' York against Bryan in
convention.
Kansas needs 20,000 men to gather
its record-breaking wheat crop.
Irving Johnson, colored, and Levy
Parsons, white, are supposed to have
been drowned in Whist Pond, at Tor
rington, Conn.
An indictment charging Faltlia Gil
liam, a domestic in the family of Dr.
M. J. Ambrose, with having put poison
in their food, has been reported by the
Grand Jury, at Cincinnati, O.
A contract for the construction of a
breakwater at San Peuro, California,
has been awarded to the California
Construction Company at $2,375,000.
The original contract was annulled.
Foreign.
The Boers in Northern Natal show
signs of active opposition to General
Buller.
A British force is reported to have
lost heavily in an effort to break the
siege lines at Comassie, Ashanti.
Socialists observed the anniver
sary of the Commune by a parade in
Paris.
A state almost of anarchy, due to
the agitation by the “Boxers,” prevails
in parts of China.
Army officials in Havana deny the
charge of having lived extravagantly.
The Socialist candidate, Herr
Suedekum, was re-elected to the
Reichstag at Nuremberg.
The German East Africa Steamship
Company will increase its capital by
$1,000,000 for new ships.
The German torpedo flotilla is now
proceeding slowly down the Rhine,
and will arrive at Rotterdam June 9.
Wholesale exportation of coolies
from China to German colonies is ad
veated by Herr Eugene Wolf, the great
explorer.
Miscellaneous.
The Postoffice Department denies
the truth of the reports that postal em
ployes sent from Washington to Porto
Rico drew salaries from both offices.
Twelve contract surgeons now with
the army in the field are to be trans
ferred to the regular army with the
rank of first lieutenant.
The French Panama Canal Com -
pany has received orders from Paris to
resume work on a large scale.
The new Philippine Commission has
arrived in Hongkong on its way to
Manila.
Representative Lents proposes to
print 30,000 copies of the testimony in
the Coeur d’Alene investigation.
F. R. Stackable has been appointed
by the President Collector of Customs
for the district of Hawaii.
Li Hung Chang has been confirmed
in the Vice Royalty in Canton.
Charles Moore, clerk of the Senate
District of Columbia Committee, has
been made a Ph. D., Columbia Uni
versity, for a book entitled “The
Northwest Under Three Flags.”
Robbers got SIO,OOO worth of jewelry
from M. Perrot’s shop, in the Palais
Royal, Paris, on Friday night.
Lemons and oranges from Los An
geles, Cal., were kept perfectly fresh
in a cold storage voyage of 8,000 miles
to Paris.
The Dukes of Fife and Argyll and
Earls of Hopetoun and Jersey are men
tioned tor F/derated Australia’s Vice
poyalty.
After three years of married life
Mrs. Lina Rogers, 74 years old, sues
divorce at St. Louis, Mo-
COTTON MILL LABOR.
Children Under 14 Should Not be
Employed in Factories.
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION REPORT.
Congress Has No Power to Legislate
Directly in the Matter of Regulation
of Hours of Labor,
. Washington, D. a, Special—The in
dustrial commission on its report to
Caogress on labor legislation recom
mends Improved legislation to the
State legislature*, rather than to Con
gress directly. The subject of greatest
public interest today, says the report,
“is perhaps that of the regulation cf
the houra of labor permitted in indus
trial occupations and especially in fac
tories.’ As Congress has not power to
legislate directly in thi3 matter the
commission recommends that a simple
statute be enacted by all the States reg
lating the length of the working dayfor
all persons between the ages of 14 and
21 years, who work in factories. hTc
report say.s in bilef: “The employment
of children below the ages of 14 should
be prohibited in factories. The length
of the working day in all public em
ployment should be fixed at eight hours
The same time should be fixed for ■
workmen in underground mines, ex
cept in cases of emergency. Employ?
ment in the mines of children less than
14 years otf age and of all women and
girls should be forbidden. Congress
might well enact that no person under
18 should be employed as a telegraph
mv vujj/ivjcu as a ,
operator upon railroads, and
engineers and switchmen should sub-’
mlt to an examination for color blind
ness; also that It be made a misdemea
nor for an engineer or switchman to be
intoxicated while on duty. A simple
and liberal law regulating the payment
of labor should be adopted by all the
States, providing that all laborers shall
be paid in cash orders without dis
oount, not in goods or due bills, and
that no compulsion, direct or indirect,
should ibe used to make them purchase
goods at particular stores. Provision
for the fair weighing of coal at mines
should be made, and the miners should
have the privilege of employing a check
weighman at their ow r n expense.”
It is suggested that it might be well
to limit punishment for contempt of
court imprisonment for a brief period"
for disobedience of Injunctions, but
equity courts must not be deprived of
the power to protect themselves and
to make their decrees respected. The
process of awarding blanket injunc
tions against all the world, or against
unnamed defendants, as well as the
practice of indirectly enforcing the con
tract for personal service by enjoining
employes from quitting work, should
be discouraged not only by popular
sentiment, but by Intelligent judicial
opinion. Congress should adopt a con-
oioiein. iw in mws reguiaung an mat
ters concerning railroad employment.
Such as hours of labor, limitation of
continuous runs by engineer or con
tinuous service by telegraplJKperators
or switchmen; the enactmenxof a con
sistent employers liability code; the
liability of the employer or corporation
for defective appliances, etc. The sta
tutes already adopted in the several
States, discriminating as he ween union
and non-union labor by making it a
penal offense lor an employer to ex
clude union labor only seem to the
commission to be unconstitutional, be
ing class legislation. The etatute
Should apply to non-union as well as
union labor alike if it Is to be enacted
at all. The right to be employed and
protected without belonging to a union
should be preserved, but every facility
should be given labor to organize. If it
desires, and the last vestige of the no
tion that trade unions are criminal
use f pri.agoo shrdlu cmfwy vbgkqi
conspiracy should be swept away. Ihe
use of private police detectives or oth
er hired bodies of men to he used in
connection with labor troubles has
aroused considerable attention, and
Congress probably has the power to
enact reasonable legislation to prevent
abuses In this direction. In a general
way the commission reports that con
ciliatory laws have been effective, but
that strict arbitration machinery rare
ly works well. It is suggested that la
bor bureaus or commissions be estab
lished in all the States.
Compulsory Insurance Rejected.
Berne, Special.—A bill which the As
sembly had adopted, making compul
sory insurance against accident and Ill
ness of all persons not earning their
living, the confederation contributing
toward the expense was, upon being
submitted to the people, according to
Swiss law, defeated May 20 by a ma
jority of 170,000, the vote standing 320.-
000 against the measure and 150,000 in
Its favor.
To Pay for the Hor-e.
Charleston, S. C., Special.—A North'
Carolinian stole a horse five weeks/
ago from Edward Dean, of Spartan
burg, S. C. Dean went to Marshall, the
county seat of Madison county, found
his horse and identified the thief. He
secured a requisition from Governor
McSweeney which Governor Russell
would not honor. But the daughter of
the man who stole the horse wrote
Dean that she had raised SSO and
would turn the horse and the money
over to the sheriff at Asheville if he
would drop the matter, and these terms
were accepted.
NO. 11.