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THE MINE MEN IN I PEASANTS DRIVEN TO I CITIES TUMBLE FROM
SECRET SESSION.
The niners of the Coaf Fields of Pennsylvania Held
Secret Session at Scranton Yesterday and a
Strike May Follow.
tiv«* col
Of tho 1
in« all
Mine w
Cl Its :
in tli
< uni,
;tl Held, re,
iers of the
\ ten itory,
ent
There is much apprehension in hufii
ness circles all over the anthracite re-
Kion regarding the action of tho meet
lng.
Strong Influences are at work among
the mlnerw to prevent a strike, as it
is thought a strike at this time mean?
a long struggle and a conse«pn*nt para-
l>zing of industries.
Many officials of the miners’ union
HIGDON MAY COMMAND AGAIN.
are
iking to pi
of a strike.
There is much sp,
what will lie* tie- art
Should it decide that
are necessary.
Granted that no c<
made to the men, tin
have only two move*
they declan
They may
fresh from t
the matter,
mittees of ♦
Troubles of Third Alabama Regiment
Lim Seem Ended.
"kiy. Birmingham, Ala., May 8.—Tho trou
hies of tho Third Alabama regiment
have been patched up again and it h
firmly believed that tho present slat,
jvlll stand. A meeting of the officers
was held hero and an agreement ha.-
boon reached whereby all difference?
will he settled.
A ticket of officers was made, to b*
submitted to the governor, which, i:
is thought, will meet with his npprova
•ut the declaration I aiw j elation will be ordered at once
j The Slate is said to be agreeable t<
both factions in the regiment.
e reinstallmcnt of Colonel Hig
• thuds don W as a part of the arrangement
and it is said he will at one#* begin re
organization in time for the encamp
ment. It has not been given out win
are the fortunate winners of the of
flees.
PILLAGE BY FAMINE
Details of Late Disorders In
Southern Russia.
GRANARIES AND BARNS SACKED
Violence Is Reported From Twelve tc
Fifteen Villages, While Three Es
tates In Khaikoff and 43 in Pcltava
Have Deen Devastated.
May 8. -A represen
• Associated Press, after n
estimation of tin* situation
Buraia, writes from Mos
dale of Saturday, May 3
SHOCKS
Details of Late Disaster In
V Western Guatemala.
BAPTIST
ARE
60,000 PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS
St. IVtersIni
tative of the A
personal in
in south' ! n
io\v under
as follows:
"Comparative order has been re
stored in the government of Poltava
and Kharkoff, hut the peasants are
only outwardly quiescent, believing
that the grant of a division of lands o!
nohleinon will he effected during the
-outing autumn, leaving the Hardy
landowners only 20 acres and a yoke
>t oxen
eh.
lation
i of th,
raslh i
•sslon will be
in# rs* officials
o moves to make unless
for or against a strike,
call another convention,
ic rank and lib-, tj> deeidi
or they may send com
mploves to the different
ALLIGATOR ATTACKS WOMAN.
oal op. rai
Sum.
to Hi
f th*- #•<
r the 1
for both sides.
President Mitch#*]
power of Influence
that he has hitb**rt
is conceded that th,
>k for
iy official
Plan as n
Hie
sums
wields the same
nv«T th<- minors
exercised, and it
question of strike
or no strile
upon the d<
dep«-nds almost
r-ision of Mr. Mil#
entirely
■hell.
DEATH ENDS CAROUSAL.
Mr*. George Herget Stabbed at Her
Home In Dayton, Ky.
8.- J -Mrp. George W.
■ Uust, night during a
r-mtTior' hotfW^Dajton, Ky.
• Her ’hiiatianff, George Thornton, Frank
Kent, Thomas Shields and William
Murray, alias Ford Maddox, have been
arrested on the charge of murder. Tier
get is the win of a wealthy distiller
who died at Pekin, Ill . two y< ars ago.
Owing to the habits of Georg#* his In
heritance was b it in trust. When bis
monthly rcmiitaiu-e earn#* Thornton,
Kent, Shields and. Murray w#-re amis
tomed to visit the lh rg«t home. One
of these occasions, yesterday, eontin
ued during the night At 1 a in. the
officers were attrn, t,-,l by s< n aming
and found Mrs. H#-r;:« t lying piostrate
in h.-r yard, badly stabh.-d. She died
soon after reaching the hospital with
out being able to make any state
ment. Tin- five men were taken out
ot the house afterwards in such con
dition that none of them up until al
most noon today were able to talk.
The dead woman’s maiden name
was Mary Bellinger. of Clyde, (). They
had no children. The off!corn think
liejg* t stabbed bis wife for protesting
during the carousal.
Farmers’ Wife Near Castleberry, Ala..
Has Narrow Escape.
Evergreen. Ala., May 8.—W. F
Price, an industrious and prosperou:
famier, who lives 2 miles from Castle
b#*rry, was In his field at work nea:
his house. His wife had occasion b
go to the field, and when she got abou
2on yards from her home she was at
tacked by a ferocious alligator ncarl>
six feet in length.
The animal grabbed the woman b>
the ankle. Her screams brought he’
husltand to her assistance at once
with u Mr. Monk, who was pnssinj
along the {>uidle road and heard th*
screams. Fortunately the 'gator onl)
made a slight flesh wound, but tor<
the ktdy’s dress. In a number of places
Bid ##.’ not*Beef
for the timely assistance of the tw<
men, who killed the animal with clubs
Mrs. Itrie#* would have probably boei
!>adly injur.-d.
Gang of Timber Thicvo6 Caught.
Mobile, May h. The wholesale thefl
of sawn timber from mills on the rlvei
has been repeatedly complained of
and an effort to catch the thieves prov
ed unsuccessful until today, when dep
uty sheriffs arnsted a number of ne
grnt-s in charge of two rafts of timber
valued at $'.•»##. The negroes claimed
they \v#i«' innocent, but implicated
others in stealing timber with the re
suit that Sheriff Powers has seven In
Jail and will arrest half a dozen more.
It dev#*|o|»a that the negro«*« had an or
ganlzod gang for stealing timber. Th#
mill men say their losses will run
into hundreds of dollars each, and sev
eral mills have 1mh*d victimized.
Quesaltenango, the Second City of the
Republic, Suffered by Far the Most
Full>t'j200 Bodies Were Taken From
Ruins at That Place.
Guatemala City, Republic of Guate
mala, April 2 4.—Correspondence ol
the Asiociatefc Press.—For nearly
week eartbquukes have been tumbling
down cities and villages on the west
era slope of the Sierras in this re
pnfciie^|£~
On .the night of April 18 at the cap
H£l M. binding flash of lightning fol
a thunderstorm and torrenth
In the space of a few min
ted the people in the street?'
Cor shelter. In an Instant
the earthquake was upon
ashing frantically Into tie
and through Hooded street?
away from tho straining
d crackling walls, ran th
crying, praying and a fc\
sing the Salve Regina,
wing shocks were less se
Bp-re and by 10 o'clock many of th
rmitting a division,(if inhabitants were wandering about ex
walls ot the cathedral of
ZfijMUTaceaa, LaRecolleclon and oth
er.jctouchea which were more or less
da [gaged.
News soon began to eomo In from
Mdu country, where Quesaltenangc
!» situated. This, the second city ot
:fUp£pul)Uc, Buffered by far tho most
^flSteda ot residences and publk
buildings }trere destroyed or severely
rfSmi&ed. .The very narrow streets
mftsp not over three or [our yards
VNra$. and the Irregular manner 1
Wthfch the^tdwn Is built served to mak
Heath tripe of tho house, so that al
half of the debris has y
been cleared, fully 200 bodies hav
The Fifty-Seventh Annual Session of the Southern
Baptists Called to Order by Gov. Northen
at Asheville Yesterday.
"Authentic particulars of the (list
lers prevailing during the last thi
-seeks show they were largely due
•xtreme suffering from famine, whi
was utilized by agitators to foment
rising. The peasants were not
•nly believers in the issue of an.inpi
perial iik;i
he propei ty of the nobility, and^jiS
harilable distribution of potatoes
:be stewaid of the Duke of M
burg’s estate at Kharloffka tended tej
onfirm this belief.
"The |K*o]>le of the whole cowitry
dde, often led by the vlllag^l-mag
iates, streamed to the Kharlof^j^MI
>ther estates, afoot, horseback* ami in
wagons, demanded til e kw PfOi e pan
nes, granaries and barn* and .carried’
iff their contents. Ri. 1. Cessaeks suf-
'♦•red equally wiUj&tatt nobiemen.
.Yh* n landowner • r*-iused to deliver,
ip the keys the pjb^is
h*■ doors, quietly s* .. 1 foodstuffs and
elurned home, even well-to-do pea*
unopposed ‘B® . Peosa nts cont
ented
PEOPLE
IN SESSION.
KING’S HOPELESS QUEST.
Disheartened After Long Search for
Parents Man Attempts Suicide.
New York, May 8.—Disheartened at
his failure after years of endeavor to
learn who his parents wore, Henry
King, 30 years old, attempted suicide
in the vestibule of the New York
foundling asylum. The doctors say
ho probably will recover.
King was a mere child when taken
to the foundling asylum, where he was
kept until 1878, when, at the age of six
he was sent to a Maryland farm. There
he remained until he was of age. As
he grew to manhood he felt that his
parentage should not be veiled in un
certainty. Two years ago he brought
an action to compel the asylum nu
t boil ties to disclose the identity of his
parents. The action brought forth the
response that it would he Impossible
to tell. For days and weeks after this
defeat. King, then 28, frequented the
asylum.
A growing belief that he was heir to
a fortune stimulated his desire, and on
one occasion made him so persistent
that he was arrested. Every day he
called and repeated his questions, un
til finally, discouraged at his lark of
success, he swallowed morphine in the
hallway of the home.
SESSION OF THE HOUSE.
ints sharing In the plunder.^ Whep£ ir h*«*n recovered and many persons
were body Injured. Fire as well as
ATLANTA TO HAVE NEW DAILY.
Publication Will Begin as Soon as Ma
chinery Can Be Installed.
Atlanta. May 8.—A company was
organized yesterday to publish "The
Atlanta News,” which is to Ive an 8*
page, 1-oont paper. It will make its
appearance as soon as necessary ma
chinery can be obtained.
John Temple Graves, the well known
orator and lecturer, will bo editor-in
chief of the new paper; Charles Dan
lei, managing editor, and J. Frank
Beck business manager. The staff ot
the paper beyond these heads of de
partments has not yet been announced.
The stockholders of the new com
pany held a meeting yesterday after
noon and accepted the charter recent Is
granted -by the Fulton superior court.
Officers and directors of tho company
were elected as follows:
President. Walter P. Andrews; vice
president. L. J. Daniel; editor-in-chief,
John Temple Graves; business man
ager and treasurer, J. Frank Beck;
managing editor and secretary’. Chaa.
Daniel; directors, Walter P. Andrews,
I*. J. Daniel, John Temple Graves, J
Frank Beck. Charles Daniel, John S
Owens and John W. Zubor.
Alabama Druggists Meet.
Birmingham, Ala., May 8.—Th»
twenty-first annual session of the Ala
bama druggists was called to order
here at noon by the president, Thomas
W. IVagler, of Greenville. The address
of welcome was made by Alderman
George Ward. A large attendance
from all over the state was present
at roll call. The m<xst Important mat
ter to Ike discussed at tho meeting is
the raising of the standards of quail
float Ion s for licensed pharmacists and
require both practice and fheory com
bined.
hemselves with supplying their lifhSm-1 flood addocf to tho horror of the nlKlit.
'.late needs, but whe»rwsult that many people hav,
lnsanh And others have commit-
-
itlan, San JuaiL Sira Marcos.
igutlan - and
wiveraf oQ>0* BthaTler~t?wn^iave been
:>artly "ruined. Still very few lives,
considering tho extent of the disaster,
have been lost.
Ifco sessions of the national con
gross at Guatemala City have been
suspended. The meetings of the na
tional committee for the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, and which Com
missioner Chandler attended by spe
rial invitation, were continued without
Interruption for two hours, though tin
shocks made the large crystal chamb
llers swing like pendulums over tin
heads of the commissioners. Approxi
mately 60,000 people have been lef;
homeless, and public as well as pri
vato subscriptions are being raised ti
prevent the poor people from starv
inff-
hi rned and doetfl.y-1, carried off Jive
>tock and* dc^olat.-e. csttu•;**.- Most
tho difiottltSjitifeni^^Hli^Hi
habitants
>n a strained footing with the^rielgh
boring landowners.
"Violence is reported from 12 to If-
tillages, while three estates have boei
lovastated In the Kharkoff govern
ment and 43 In the Poltava govern
ment. To add to the consternation 2(M'
Cossacks arrived at Poltava after the
regular military forces had restored
order. The troops fired on the people
in two or three cases, and In one In
stance the peasants attacked the
troops with ston#*s, whereupon the lat
ter fired, killing several persons and
wounding a score, among whom were
women and children. Corporal punish
ment was administered right and loft
without over scrupulous Inquiry into
the gutlt of the people flogged. Some
estimates place the number of turbu
lent peasants as high as 30,000.
"There was a similar occurrence at
Kharkoff. whose governor general,
Prince 6boloensky, was particularly
severe.
"General Eugene Miehelovlch-Douk'
vovsky was among the. sufferers. His
estate at Mcrhck was ruined and he
himself was seized and beaten. He Is
still 111 from the effects of the treat
ment he received.
"As an example of tho extent to
whic h the ranks of the famine strick
Eii villagers are swollen by the re
turn of unemployed factory workers,
it is pointed out that one iron works
which heretofore employed 12,000 to
20.000 people is now employing only
5,000 for three days a week.”
Consideration of the Crr.nibus State
hood Bill Is Resumed.
Washington, May 8.—At the opening
of the session of the house today the
speaker announced the uppointment
of Mr. Gillette, of Massac husetts, as a
member of the committee on appro
priation to fill the vacancy caused by
the retirement of Secretary of the
Navy Moody. The house then pro-
eeeded with the consideration of the
omnibus StatehocxLWH-undoi-att.aKree-
ment that general debate should close
today at 3 o’clock.
Mr. Moon, of Tennessee, the rank
lug minority member of the commit
tee on territories, the first speaker,
today earnestly urged the passage of
the bill, arguing that the admission of
thi three territories to statehood
would only be an net of simple justice
to the people residing therein. The
constitutional right of the* admission,
he contended, existed in each case.
Asheville, N. C., May 8.—The forty*
seventh session (fifty-seventh year) of
the southern Baptist convention began
here today. The attendance Is large.
The first session was called to order
by Hon. W. J. Northen. of Atlanta,
president of the last convention.
This convention Is the largest or*
ganized body of Baptists in the world.
It embrace's 10,558 churches in the
states east of the Mississippi river
and south of the Ohio; also in Mary
land, the District of Columbia, Mis
souri, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Ok
lahoma, Texas, Mexico and Cuba. The
convention is not a legislative, but an
advisory body. Under the denomina
tional teachings of the church the
convention does not make laws for ita
constituenc y. The delegates meet for
co-operation in missionary and educa
tional work. The meeting of several
societies and bodies auxiliary to the
general convention were held during
tho day.
The main question for consideration
by tho convention will be education
and home and foreign missions. Both
the home and foreign boards have In
creased greatly their work during the
last year and will report free of debt.
It Is said that tho home board, of
which Dr. McConnell, of Atlanta, is
secretary, will report a balance on
hand of something like |6,000. The
report of the foreign hoard, the head
quarters of which is in Nashville, will
be made by Dr. R. J. Willingham.
Mr. Northen having declined re-
election as president, there was much
spec ulation among the delegates when
the convention was called to order as
to who would bo the next presiding
j officer. Many were of tho opinion that
Mr. Northen would yet be Induced to
aerve another term.
BOLLAND’3 SICK QUEEN.
Favorable Report on Nomination.
Washington. May 8. The senate
committee on common-#' today decided
unanimously to report the nomination
of H. Clay Evans to be* consul general
to London, with a favorable recom
mendation.
Shot Sister's Assailant
Decatur, Ala., May 8.—Tuesday
night Sam Johnson was fatally shot
by Will Sherman for an alleged at
tempt to criminally assault the lat
ter’s sister. Sherman rode two miles
to town, bought cartridges and rode
back to where Johnson was and fired
both barrels into his head and chest.
This la the third fatal shooting this
week.
Killed by Falling *Oirt
Columbus, Oa., May 8.—A. P. Wat
ley. aged 5fi years, a well known white
well digger, mot a horrible death on
North Highlands. He was digging a
Profits From Dispensaries.
Florence, Ala., May 8.—The sales
for April at the two dispensaries her# 1
were $1,100 at Florence and $093 at
East Florence, a total of $2,093, as
compared with $1,042, and with a total
of $2 306 61 for March, a falling
of $212.51. The net profits for last
month were about $800.
Wire Companies to Merge.
Akron, O., May 8.—The Cuyahoga
Wire and Fence company, capital
stock $1,000,000, will tomorrow’ absorb
the Cuyahoga Steel and Wire company
of Cuyahoga Falls and the Hartman
Manufac turing company of Newcastle,
Pa.
WRECK ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Several Cars Are Burned, but No
Lives Lost.
Lynchburg, Va . May 8.—Train No
87, tho Washington and Southwestern j
vestibule#] limited, southbound, on tin
Southern railway, ran into the icar o:
a freight standing at Lawyers Station
12 miles below here, at 5:15 o’clock
yesterday morning.
Two postal cars, the combination
baggage and smoking car and one
Pullman w’ere burned, tho letter mail
ind baggage being saved.
Engineer McCormick and his negro
fireman, Abe Gordon, Jumped Just be-
>re the crash and were painfully rut
nd bruised, hut not seriously hurt
No pasengers wore Injured.
It seems that the freight train had
ardors to remain on a siding a few
miles this side of Lawyers until three
passenger trains passed, but that
when only two of them had gone by
the freight pulled out for Lawyers.
Attending Physicians Express Satis
faction at Her Majesty’s Condition.
The Hague, May 8.—In the bulletin
on tho condition of Queen Wilhelmina
issued -this morning at Castle Loo th«
attending physicians say;
"There was no inc rease in the pa
tient's temperature yesterday evening.
Her majesty had a good night and her
condition this morning gives cause for
satisfaction.”
Prince Henry has telegraphed his
mother (the? Grand Duchess Marie of
Meoklenburg-Sehwerin) that the
queen's condition is satisfac tory and
that she has no fever.
The prince consort this morning at
tended Ascension day services at the
church in Apeldoorn. This is taken aa
a reassuring sign in regard to the con
dition of the queen.
Struck by Lightning.
Florence, Ala., May 8.—Willie John
son, a young man of about 20 years.
well and when 35 feet under ground was struck by lightning while going
the sand above him caved in, killing up the steps at his home here,
him instantly. Fifteen feet of the! He was knocked unconscious. The
dirt fell upon him and it took several bolt struck him In the right shoulder has salled f ° r Jfulfill hia en-
houra to recover his body, lie leaves and passed down, burning his leg quite gage . ment with Gus Ruhlin for a fight
Buys Interest In Lumber Company.
Salisbury. Md., May 8.—By a trans
action Just closed here a two-thirds
interest of the Jackson Lumber com
pany, of Lockhart. Ala., has been sold
to Edward 8. Croasett and J. W. Wat-
zek, of Davenport, la., and Charles
W. Gales, of Fordyce, Ark. The price
;aid was on the basis of $1,500,000 for
the entire stock of the company. A
new company will be formed to op
erate the plant, which comprises 144,-
0<H> aci*»s of timber lands in Covington
county, Ala.
Sharkey Sails for London.
New York, May 8.—Pugilist Sharkey
p widow’ and seven children.
severely.
at the coronation. He will begin to
train soon alter be lands.
PALMA AT SANTA CLARA.
He Is Received With the Usual Joyous
Welcome by the People.
New York, May K.-—President-elect
Palma, who has Just arrived heri
says a Santa Clara, Cuba, dispatch to
The World, found the people from tho
whole surrounding country partly
drawn hy tho exhibition of Island prod
nets being held here, gathered to give
him greeting. The narrow streets of
the town were packed.
The horses drawing Benor Palma's
carriage toojt fright at some fireworks
bolted and ran over two spectators be
fore they were stopped. General Pal
ma was not Injured.
He reviewed In the evening a parade
of tbe police, the rural guards and the
secret societies, after which he at
tended a public banquet and reception
in bis honor and a ball at th? theater.
WILL ACCEPT STRIKERS’ TERMS.
Operations In Smelter Works At Hele
na Will Be Resumed.
St. Paul. May R.—A Helena, Ment.,
q t rial to The Dispatch says:
It Is learned upon excellent author
ty that as a result of a conference
last night between C. W. Whitley,
northwestern manager* of the Amerl-
an Smelting ami Refining company;
ormer Governor Hauser, a heavy
took holder thereof; Phil Rowden, of
Denver, representative of the Wash
ington Federation of Labor, and a lo
ad member of the strikers’ commit
tee, tin' former two telegraphed the
uncials of the smelter trust tn New
York recommending that the terms of
-he strikers he accepted.
These terms are simply for the rec
ognition of labor unions formed
among the 000 employes of the Helena
smelter now on strike. It 1h believed
this suggestion will 1m> approved by
the officials of the company and opera
tions resumed at once. Many mines
closed because of the strike will also
resumo.
HETTY GREEN CARRIES GUN.
Noted Woman of Finance Granted Per
mission to Go Armed.
Now York, May 8.—Hetty Green, tho
noted woman of finance, has been
granted a permit to carry a revolve!
hy the police department of this city.
Mrs. Green applied for tho permit a
week ago to Captain Steven O’Brien,
of tho Leonard street station, and It
was on his recommendation that the
permit was given.
Captain O’Brien's report on the ap
plication says Mrs. Green declared sha
was In tho habit of carrying large
sums of money, stocks, bonds and Jew
elry. She also said It was her inten
tion to secure pistol permits In all the
large cities in which she does busi
ness.
Patent Medicine Men In Convention.
New York. May 8.—Manufacturers
of patent medicines from all parts of
the country are In attendance upon
the annual convention In this elty of
the Proprietary Association of Amor
lea. The chief matter to lie settled is
that of rate cutting by retailers.
Bishop Potter Had Fainting Spell.
New York, May 8.—It was said at
Bishop Potter's residence today that
the bishop, who was seized with
tainting spell yesterday due to fatigue
tom overwork, was much bettor to
day and was resting comfortably in
bed.
Indian Girls Are Drowned.
Raleigh, May 8.—News has been re
ceived here of the death of three In
dian schoolgirls hy drowning. The
girls were pupils of the Cherokee
Indian school, located at Whittier,
Swain county. They ran away from
the school on April 26. It was on
their way home that they attempted
to cross the Oconalufty river, and bo-
tng overcome by the swift current
were drow ned. The bodies were swept
down the stream for a considerable
distance and were only recovered yes
terday.
Sad Condition of Former Senator.
New York. May 8.—Former Senator
William N. Roach, of North Dakota,
who has been 111 several days at bis
home in this city, will. It Is expected,
pass away very soon. Aa the result
of an operation complications have
followed, the worst being that he can
take no nourishment. His stomach
has collapsed and be Is now practical
ly starving to death.