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YOU. II LABOR LEADERS OF THE COUNTRY GIVE THEIR APPROVAL, AND MINERS III L GET SUPPORT. A Meeting Held In Piltsbnrgand the Situ¬ ation Fully Discussed by Gom pers, Kalclifort] and Others. The -greatest gathering of labor leaders tbat ever assembled in this country during a national strike was held iu Pittsburg, Pa., Friday niglit to devise means to assist the miners iu their, contest for increased wages. The conference was called suddenly, but the officials responded represent¬ ing nearly every branch of organized labor in the United States. Those present were: Hamnel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. M. L. Ratchford, national president of the United Mine Workers of Amer¬ ica. M. M. Garland, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Stephen Madden, secretary of the Amalgamated association. J. M. Hughes, first vice-president of the Federation of Metal Trades. M. J. Conuahan, national 'secretary of the Journeymen Plumbers’ Associ¬ ation. M. P. Garrick, president of tbe Rrotberbood of Painters and Decora¬ tors. I). R. Pattern Thomas, president of the Na¬ tional Makers’ League. W. P. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees. Frederick Dolan, district president {United Mine Workers. The session was secret, and it was -almost midnight when it was over. The press committee, Messrs. Gom¬ pers, Ratchford aud Counahun, then gave out the following statement in which was corpoiatod, they said, all that was "done at the conference. The manifesto follows: “After an informal discussion, reports were made by Messrs. Itatchford, Dolan and Warner in regard td the situation of the movement, aud it demonstrated that the situation in West Virginia required atten¬ tion in order that the susjiension should be absolutely general and success assured. Witl. that object in view, notion was rnended by President (lumpers, of the American Federation of I.abor, and it was determined upon to overcome tills feature of the contest, it was also determined that every effort tie made on the part of those present to secure the co-operation and practical aid of organized labor for the struggling miners. “AU the circumstances warrant the llrm conviction that the miners will ultimately achieve victory and to this end the aid of the labor and the sympathetic public is in¬ voked. Conscious of the great interest which the public has iu a contest so wide¬ spread as that of the miners, it gives u? great satisfaction to know that the miners have not been and are not now opposed to arbitration. We, therefore,urge and advise that a conference lie held by the representa¬ tives of the miners and the operators with a view of arriving at a settieuient oi the pres¬ ent suspension.” To Sfop in West Virginia. Notwithstanding the positive an¬ nouncement by tbe committee tbat tbe statement furnished the press covered all the proceedings of the conference, it is known that an organized effort to secure a general suspension of mining in West Virginia was decided upon. After a thorough canvass of the sit¬ uation it was unanimously agreed that the West Virginia miners held the key to the situation and without their united support the success of the gen¬ eral movement would be greatly jeop¬ ardized. In furtherance of this de¬ termination, the officials present pledged themselves to send into this field a full quota of the best organizers in tbeir several associations. After adjournment in response to the question whether a 2 per cent assess¬ ment on all organized labor, as con¬ templated, would be made, President Dolan, of tbe Pittsburg district, said lie thought such action would eventu¬ ally be taken. He would not admit, however, that the matter of assessment had been consider* d at the conference, or that the question of a general sympathetic strike had been discussed. TO LAKE CHAMPLAIN The President Will Go To Spend His Sommer Vacation. President McKinley will spend most of his summer vacation on the shores of Lake Champlain. Plattsburg, N Y., will be his nearest town. His party will consist of the members of the presidential family, of Vice Presi¬ dent and Mrs. Hobart, Secretary Alger And family, Secretary and Mrs. Porter and probably of some other members of official society. The president will make quite a prolonged stay, lasting several weeks at least. The president’s summer plans were informally talked over with the ■cabinet members Friday. Wayne County News A GHASTLY FIND. jOismembereil Body of a Woman Found Iu a Barrel. A special from Quitman, Ga., says: fi^g^^y^nMnie^ek^torilo discovered upper part of the county, and a barrel buried upright in the mud containing a human body. blocks The body bad been cut into and placed in tlie barrel, and mud had been thrown in, filling the barrel, which was then headed and buried. News of the discovery soon spread through the neighborhood and hun dreds of people have visited the scene and Viewed the ghastly remains. The identity of the body'and it shrouded everything iu connected with are mystery. the body The swamp in which was found is a dense jungle, and the spot where the barrel was unearthed is a mile or more from anv house. The neighborhood is thinly settled and about fifteen miles from Quitman. No one has been missing and none of those who have come from the sceno can account for the mystery. Following so closely upon the fa mous New York mystery of the mur der of Guldensuppe and the cutting up of his body, the excitement is in tense. Wooten and his friends first remov* ed the head of the barrel; then the dirt which had formed into a hard cake, and to their horror beheld a neat plait of human hair about two feet in length, soft and black, and evidently belonging to the head of a young white woman. Next, pieces of flesh and clothing were taken out, all in a fairly good state of preservation. The flesh had dried and the skin had a mummified appearance. The dress was of checked homespun, while there was an under skirt of bleached homespun, machine made. FUNERAL SERVICES IN SENATE Conducted Over Remain# of Hon. i#iia»n G. Harris. Impressive funeral services over the late Senator Isham G. Harris occurred in the senate chamber at noon Saturday in the presence of President McKinley and the members of his cabinet, sens tors and members of the house of rep resentatives, members of the diplo matic corps, justices of the supreme court and officials from all branches of public life. bad been elaborately The chamber draped for tbe occasion. The desk of the late senator was heavily bound in crepe. tn semi-circular intme the area, diatel - n front of the presiding offl eer, stood tbe oasket, resting on heavy black draped ■* pedestals and literally ii.l , | ' plate P was inscribed ..Died jniy seventy-nine 7 1807 Isham G ’ Harris Aired veers ’’ The services were brief ami simple, cousistinir onlv of m avers bv Rev Mr. Johnston, Rev. Dr.'Duffy, of the Methodist Episcopal church south, and Chaplain Couden, of the house of rcoresentatives the latter pronouncing ’ 8 the benediction At 12 .an p m the ceremony was over and on motion of Senator Bate ’ of of Tennessee lennessee^the the senate senate, adjourned adjourned. AS DAD AS AN EPIDEMIC. Death lteeord from- Heat Was Three Hundred and Fifty for Month. The fierce heat under which the greater portion of the , country , has sweltered since the 1st of July, mod erated in many lo. ahties Saturday, and predictions from the weather bureau at Washington indicate lower tempeaatnres will bring general relief. The record of prostrations and deaths resulting from the long heated term approaches in magnitude that of a general epidemic. Reports from all sections of the country received by the Associated Press up to Saturday night showed prostrations numbering in the neighborhood of 2,000, with fa talities close to 350. In addition to this, there were scores of deaths resulting indirectly from the intolerable heat, the death rate iu many of the large cities showing a fearful insrease over previous years. The central states suffered more se verely than other sections, the heat being most deadly in Chicago, Cincin nati and St. Louis. • In number of fa talities Chicago headed the list, with 87 deaths- Cincinnati and suburban mints leuortinff 65 and St. Louis 42. Through the lower south the heat was loJer intense than but the death rate is much in the north NATIONAL HAY ASSOCIATION Will Meet August 10th With 3Iany Dele gates Present. of‘the A call for the fourth annual meeting National Hay association at the Monongahela house Pittsburg, on issues Ausrust 10th is announced in the ‘ of the Hav Trade Journal The crop in the state being much larger with probable lighter imports than during the past few years, gives new impetus to the trade Delegates will be in attendance from all parts of the United States and bus iness pertaining to the hav trade will be fullv discussed during tbe three , • ge8S ; on JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1897. 1 EEC0R1) 0F GREATEST OF WAGE I • STREGGLES FOR A WEEK. I - _______ i j THOUSANDS OF WORKERS ARE IDLE. I " | Miners Are jubilant Over the situation j go Far—Success Depemis on West j Virginia Diggers. . j j _____ _ Sunda , mavked , , the be , . . °| . ! J 6 lnnl “S ‘the second week of the coal miners’ > strike and already it gives promise of | being one o{ tbe grea {. es t wage strng . .. . . ,, • t gies in the history of tins country. Tbe eoal °P « ratoT8 ia tbe l^sbuvg j district and the miners themselves little | dreamed that within one short ! week RUcb an 6ra of geuera i 8 U spen ! ‘ . conkl ... be , ht , exl9ta • , • 61011 WI ' 0U « “ “ ow , „ ln j ^ bituminous mining industry. l ie Ihen the month of the many coal P ^ 8 throughout the Mononganela, j Youghioheny- Allegheny and Peters Greek valleys, and the valleys of 1 ^ om 8 ftIl< ^ Miller’s Run were open au ^ turning out thousands and thous an ^ 8 ?f tons of the best coal that en ^ ers ° ^ ie competitive markets of the world. Now, all is changed. Ihe vast car-' erns so many graveyards. On there *] 1G is .llsides an army basking of 18,000 in the men, shade who I are anxiously waiting for more to join the troops of idlers. On nearly every raUioad track leading to the mi ^ s there stand empty oars, apparently auxious to be loaded that their burdens , J na y * )e carried to the ports along the * fl ^ 1 he 8, success, that lias attended , . the . movement has greatly elated the miners and during the next few days every effort w ill be made to bring out fbe men in the few names tlmt are aull working. J his will be a difficult task, but they express confidence in their ability to make the suspension coih plete. From the best information, obtains, ble the Pittsburg operators are in no hurry to have the difficulty adjusted, so many of them having stocks on railroad sidings which they hold for an advance. Much of this was disposed of Saturday at a good profit. One prominent operator said that it would take another week to determine the exact state of the markets, and by tbat time a general cleaning up will have taken place. All interested will lie ready tobegiu business on a new basis and probably at a liiehCv price. ! “This whole thing will result iu ft i compromise,’’ said another prominent operator. “The operators are in position to stand it for some time and I believe the miners are in about the same condition. It looks as if bum ' ness will brighten up and in that event the operators will be able to get : 1 better prices and the condition of bus- 1 iness and tbe condition of the miners will be simultaneously improved.” The effect of the strike is being manifested in the price P of coal. An increflfie o£ ( . () cent a ton was sbown ! when an application was made for con tracts and a number of Pittsburg op erators, not being able to work their own mines, are seeking to buy coal in , the West Virginia field iu order to the advantage ” of the advance. bag be n no int i ma tion of Iawles8nes8 as yet in tbo ,-. eg j on> but sberi ff Lowrey, of Allegheny county, bas anticipated any trouble by swearing in 500 deputies. The miners say there will be no overt acts. No ly ag „ resftive wo} k was done gatnr day by either side, but the mi nerg , officialB beld ft sepre t meeting, at wbicb it i(i be li e ved a vigorous cam . ainst tbe N ew York and 01evelalul gas coaI minerS) wbicb wUI j j bg inangnrate d at onee, was decided The operators apparently are doimr ^their little and are savintt less How j ever confidence of defeating the : tc <1 in the least ‘ _______ n DEMAND p«ivn mOH I ROM AMBASSAOUBS. URUtUllARS ^ _ _ . . ,. _ .... * Act . .. ^. " ! I Liml 2 £ , fro “ tbeir res P ectlve ambassadors of the powers at Constan tinople presented a collective note de- to tbe Turkish government Friday manding a cessation of the obstruction ot the Pea ce negotiations. . A SUNDAY SESSION I Held By Conferees of House and Senate on j Tarlff Bill. A Washington dispatch savs: The i conferees on the tariff bill held a four I ; hour session Sunday. The anxiety to reach a complete agreement as early as possible induced them to meet on ! the Sabbath and at present both the house and senate conferees appeared satisfied with the progress that baa been made. Several hundred of the minor amend ments have been agreed upon. Many of them were changes of phraseology and on a large majority of these the house conferees naturally have yielded. " CONFEREES DISAGREE. ; Most. Important Features of Tariff Bill Prove to Be Snags, A Washington special of Monday some snag^Tn^bei^work. ’Themtoor j matters w ere easily adjusted, but on j ^ important features and the there outlook has Mon- been no agreement, would I da have y " te a8 be that made 9everal before reports adjustment ! an | could be reached. ] solidly The ffiouse by their conferees bill, and are the standing senate j ■ conferees less tenacious, i are no The senate conferees have laid be fore the house members the condition in the senate where there is not an I actual majority of the republicans and ! where other than republican votes are necessary to pass the bill or adopt a I conference report. They asserted tbat in 1896 the democrats were in better majority , yet the house the was | | finally compelled to accept senate bill iu order to pass it. The members i of the house are standing by their bill I nevertheless and have told the. seua , tors that they cannot accept the sen ! ate amendments on many important j jfcems. Burlaps, cotton ties and other items which are placed on the free list by the senate met with great hostility f rom the house conferees and so far nothing in the way of a compromise \jy the senate Inembers has j p een accepted. The house conferees are also insisting upon higher com ( j )ellsa tory duties on the manufactures 0 f cotton on account of the duty of 20 per cent on raw cotton, • The house members have maintain et | h ouse bill has been com mended more than the senate bill and that the conference should get as close ^ ^ as possible. The senate f eree8> j n addition to presenting the i p r ^ Ben t pofitical complexion of the 1 senate, have pointed out the difficulty u^at will occur if several reports of , partial agreements and disagreement* , mai j e> i They have told the house members ^ iat it j ea( j enc ii e88 discussion; I they have no power to force a | vote an d that there is not a in the MMte to keep the senate j session in case of a filibuster ; fo* eosforwice report. j GULDENSUPPE ------ SLAYERS ON ; ~ Mr». Hack ami , Martin Thorne v Answer to . | NIrs. indictment Augusta Ajpiin.t Nack Them. and Martin ! Thorne, the alleged murderers of Gul densuppe, were arraigned in general plead sessions at New York Monday to to the indictment found against them. ! The prisoners seemed to h® I alive to the gravity of then situation, and for the first time since their airest j the features. lines of care were visible on their i Their entered demurrers attorneys to the indictment, contesting the ju i nsdiction of the court on the ground j that the crime, if any was committed was clone beyond the limits of New | York county. During the statement of counsel the two prisoners exchanged no look of recognition, nor did they speak to each other. The demurrer will be ar gued on Wednesday, July 21. | „. HAULING 'r>r r lVlJ^FOR Fvit ^TRANSKV'RH n tABBUKa. j city of Atlanta fi*i.u Consolidated Street j Hallway.. The notable Atlanta, Ga., transfer 1 hearing on the argument of the murrer was begun in the United States court at Asheville, N. 0., Monday, with Judge Newman presiding and 1 Judge Womack, of Texas, aud Judge Purtnell, of North Carolina, associate 1 judges, sitting through courtesy. A bitter fight was precipitated in the beginning over a motion made by attorneys for the citv of Atlanta, to j strike Samuel Spencei- and Henry O. Seixas from the litigation. It was ar gued that tbe Old Colony Trust com panyi the ir trustees, represented their interests and that they had no right to figure independently in the hearing. --- TURKS CRITIUISED By Italian Depnti** --. for Blocking leace N -s otiat,on * T In „ the Italian , r chamber of deputies at Rome . Monday, the Marquis V is °° Utl Venosta > minister for- foreign affalrs ’ Bftid that tbe Tuvkish B ° v ,^ n ' ment was plaein « numerous difficulhes in tbe of tbe P rosec,ltlo n of ‘ he peace negotiations and causing delay, “This condition of things cannot be a n owe) j t 0 continue. The great pow remain perfectly united and are determined to attam their ends.” RAILWAY HORROR IN DENMaRK. — - Forty People Killed In a Collision. Eighty-Four injured. Advices from Copenhagen state that a terrible railway disaster took place about midnight Monday at Gjentofter. The express from Belsmgoerr ran into a passenger train standing at the sta tion, wrecked eight carnages, killed forty persons and injured eighty-four others. Most of the victims are of the artisan elass, The dead and injured were conveyed in ambulance trains to Copenhagen, It appears that the collision was due to an error made by the jyigineer in reading the signal and by the failure of * brake to act. HE WAS WITH THE HELMS WHEN SHERIFF GUINN WAS KILLED. SAID TO HAVE FIRED THE SHOT Which Fmlc.l the Sheriff’s I.lfe—Captured In Ozan, ArU.—His Identity Seems Conclusive. A man who was arrested Tuesday at Ozau, Ark., according to a special from that place, acknowledges his name to be Langford, and admits being implicated in the assassination of a deputy sheriff in Georgia. He is twenty-seven years old, five feet seven or eight inches high, light complex¬ ion, light hair, pale blue eyes, weighs about one hundred aud thirty or forty pounds; all the fingers except the index are gone from the right hand. He was en route to Mrs. Thomas Langford s when , apprehended. , .i -i He it is uow held in the county jail for fur tker developments. Langford is the man who was with Tom Delk when Sheriff* Guinn, of Pike county, was killed. He is the third person who was wanted for a crime for which Tom Delk has already suf fered death on the gallows, and for which old man Taylor Delk now awaits the same fate, * There seems to be no doubt about the right man having been caught, The telegi’ams state that he was ar rested at Ozan, Ark., and that he ad mite being the man wanted in Georgia ; for the assassination of a sheriff. The ! description given in the telegram tal lies exactly with the description of the man given by Taylor Delk. So certain is Sheriff Milner, of Pike county, that the right man lias been ( . ttng ht,that he has made arrangements to go on to Arkansas at once for i purpose of bringing the pirsonei | to Georgia. He Las received a 8cl . iptio „ of the pe r SO u inkier arrest, and it fits that of Tom Langford, . it . , i jlultr _ W that makes his identity an easy He has onlv one fimrer * the • ■ . . . , . ( | j t ’ ig tl - H aisfiirurement ’ more than any , , , _ j; ie officers '__ , been eaiutht. ' : M i.to.y or the Muvd.r. j It was in April, J890, that j Guinn Delk home, was killed. 1 ike He county, went with to the a j in | posse f«■ the Taylor Delk and they were lesisteu by t^ose ]; l \ b ” lbod "^ n ^ r ^ ^ S t ; J who wweui the house ee a matter of dollbb “ ^Lau 'ford Tom Delk and Tom Langfoul were were there, but it has always been denied by old man Delk and lus son that the former was present when the shooting took place ftdvanced The Bborlff ^ | upo n the house. Filing commenced, the officers of the law stating after : wards that the inmates firetl first, and j the inmates the first swearing to fire. One that of the the officers shots ffere killed Sheriff Guinn, 1 from the house Tom and Iaylor, his father, were tried and convicted for murder after a trial, there being fear of mob violence, Tom was hanged a few weeks ago. | Taylor, having been given a new trial, had his sentence postponed. convicted and A sec j ond time be-was sen- 1 tenced to hang on July 19th. His i was appealed to the supreme court j after is now the pending. murder and Langford could not bo \ found. Tom Delk always stated that Tom Langford fired the shot which killed Sheriff Guinn. To this statement he stuck until his death. He said his father was not present, and when gber j£f Guinn came up to the house Langford raised a rifle, and, taking careful ain)) sen t the bullet that ended tbe sheriff’s life. - THE MYSTERY SOLVED. -- H..a of ciden.upp. B.porteu to h-v. Been Found. A New York telegram states that the head of William Guldensuppe has been found by someboysinBrancb port, N. J. CRITICISED LEE’S REPORT. Spanish Fnper Makes a Bitter Attack Upon Out Consul. The Advisador Commercial, a polit icai and commercial daily, in a lead i ng editorial article makes a bitter at tack upon United States Consul General Lee on account of his report to the government at Washington on the Ruiz case. The paper says: “Crediting Consul Geuerai Lee with gome good judgment, we cannot but have compassion for linn, believing him to be ashamed of his report. The text of the report has been published iu Havana, and.the Spanish residents show their chivalry by not even dis playing their scorn for one who has in eluded many falsehoods iu his report, ” NO. h GOOD ROADS NOTES. Gravel Roads Advocated. A writes in the Dee Moines Farmer's Tribune urges the of gravel roads for that State. reason is principally the trifling of the gravel as, compared with cost of stone necessary for a road. Subdivision of s Road. In Brussels, Belgium, the Terveuren has been divided into parts, each bordered by trees. In each of these sections one may respectively walk, vide, drive, cycle or fly space in a trolley car, as desired. section is reserved for a particular stylo of locomotion, and penalties to be imposed for any violation. Bail Roads Repel People. The Leavenworth (Kan.) Times, in an editorial on the “Good Roads Movement,” says, after speaking oi the importance of a good roads to the farmer and ruralist: “In the cities would not the people be healthier, happier, more hopeful—would not life be sweeter and more refined, if there was a more frequent habit of seeking the fields and woods and country vil¬ lages? Nothing has weaned people from their love of the country so as bad roads—deep mire during and ftfter rail)j tbick dust tbe ,. est of tbe time.” California's Frogrcs.. The California Bureau of Highways has sent in au elaborate report of its work for tbe past six months. The report also recommends for the coming year a definite system of highway con¬ struction aud a State levy of one fourth mill on the dollar for a highway fund, same to be applied to the con¬ struction of State highways, along lines which the physical features of the country fix forever as the lines of communication, to connect centres of population and county seats, and to cost from $500 to $4500 mile. A wide tire law iS also recom¬ mended. ItoaiUlile Orchards. The experiment of planting fruit trees along the sides of public ways has been tried with results m several Germau States Ansteui. and the products of pl»»tatioffli have been the means adfll HK considerably to the revenues of the Governments thereof. In Sax ony the profit derived by the State from that sonre* during fourteen years estimated at about four hundred thousand dollars. Planting of forest trees abandoned by the sides Wurtemberg, pf the roads has and been the in plantation and care of fruit trees are regulated by law. The trees are placed m thd care of the abutting proprietors under the supervision ot the highway inspector. In Bavaria am i the Palatinate each road man is duplicated by a horticulturist, for ^ 0S6 ^ ualliicfttion s P eclal i^truction , s provided,, and who has to pass a competitive examination. Iu some regions the hues of the railroads are ala ° plan e<1 ’ ft,ld “ ° tUerS he mm01 roa ds and even private roads, The ,y st em has made the most rapid pro gressandreachedthehighestdevelop p en t in the grand duchy of Luxem burg, where special classes are held a very year, under a professor in the agricultural school, for teaching the inspectors and road hands the theor eticaland practical elements of the or chardist’s art. — Popular Science Monthly, Three Cheer, and a Tiger, - Ab to the origin of the use of the wor d “tiger” in the phrase “Tbreu cheers and a tiger!” tho following story is old: In 1822 the Boston Light Infantry visited Salem, Mass., aud en campe d in Washington Sfpiare. They indulged in a good many rough-and tumble sports, and one day a visitor exclaimed to one of them, "Oh, you tiger!” The phrase became a sort ot playful reproach, and on the way to Boston some musical member of the don’t company you sang know?” a line, “Oh, Thus yo£ they tigers, at quired the name, and they soon began to imitate the growl of that beast. Then at the end of three cheers a “tiger” was always called for. This oompany visited New York in 1826, and at a public festival they astonished the New Yorkers by giving the growl, w hich tickled the fancy of the hosts so much that the custom became fixed. - 8an rrancisco chronicle. Utilizing Waste Glass. A French scientist, M. Gacchey, has discovered a method of utilizing the waste glass accumulated at fac¬ tories. He grinds the glass to powder, which is put into a metallic mold and introduced into two furnaces in SUC cession. The first furnace anneals and deritrifies the mass. The mold is then pag8e d into the second furnace, wbicll is heat ed to a very high temper ature _ W hen the mold is drawn from tbe 8eC ond furnace it is ready to be pre ssed into different shapes for build ing purposes. This discovery will no t only relieve the difficulty with which glassblowers have had to deal in getting rid of tbeir refuse, but will be a 80 urce of profit. The their potteries hare a similar elephant on hands, but a0 solution has been arrived at in their cases, beyond using the refuse f or the making of railway embank yianta. _. w