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HOW IRON WORKERS
QUIT THEIR JOBS
A Big Fight Over Wage
Scale Is Inaugarated.
FIFTY THOUSAND WILL BE OUT
No Agreement Reached at Pitts¬
burg and Strike Orders Are
Issued as a Result.
The Joint conference committee ot
the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers and the Ameri¬
can Sheet Steel Company, in session at
Pittsburg Saturday, was unable to
reach an agreement on the wage scale
for the ensuing year and adjourned fi¬
nally after a session of less taan twen¬
ty minutes.
The Amalgamated Association offi¬
cials asked that the scale be signed for
all the union mills, and the manufac¬
turers presented a counter proposition
not only refusing to sign for all the
union mills, but stipulating that two
plants that were Included mst year be
exempt trom this scale this year. The
conference then broke up and Presi¬
dent Shaffer at once issued a strike
order. The strike will involve all the
union sheet mills in the country and
about twenty thousand skilled work¬
men.
Monday morning President Shaffer
issued a second order calling out all
union employees of the various mills
Oi the American Steel Hoop Company,
known as the hoop trust. It is estima¬
ted that 15,000 men will be subject to
the call, which, in connection with the
big strike of the American Sheet Steel
Company, ordered by President Shaf¬
fer on Saturday, will affect 50,000 men.
President Shaffer said Sunday night:
“The impression that only the mills
of the American Sheet Steel Company
are affected by the decision of Satur¬
day is a mistake. The workmen of all
mills in the American Steel Company
are interested and will ^ officially no-
tified tomorrow morning that the scale
has not betn signed and they will quit
work. To the well organized mills this
notice will not be necessary, as the
men will have watched the situation
carefully, but what is known as open
mills, where union men haye been al¬
lowed to work side by side with the
non-union, is where we have to move.
Union men must walk out of these
open mills in the hoop trust.
“The open mills to be notified are
one at Hollidaysburg, Pa., three at
Pittsburg and one at Honessen. The-
organized mills, which will close on
our call, are the upper and lower mills
at Youngstown, O., Pomeroy, O., Sha-
ron, Pa., Girard, Pa., Warren, Pa.,
Greenville, Pa. This, I believe, will
bring the number of men affected up
to 50,000.
“It is a matter of regret that the is» ;
sue has been forced, but it now looks'!
as though it will be a fight to the
death. The Amalgamated Association
is not unprepared for it. We have not
had a genera! strike for many years,
and in that time we have not been idle.
We have funds and will use them.'
Right here I want to correct an im-
pression which has been given out
that no benefits will be paid strikers
until two months have elapsed. The
Amalgamated Association will begin at
once to take care of Its people.”
Mr. Shaffer concluded by saying:
“I will say now what I said to Mr.
Smith, general manager of the Sheet
Steel Company, In the conference. I
said if it Is to be a strike we will make
It one to be remembered. The officials
now dealing with us have but little
idea ot the extent to which this strike
will go once it Is on.”
Mills Shutting Down.
In order to take Inventory, the mills,
In Youngstown and in the Mahoning
valley of the Republic Iron and Steel
Company will close for two weeks.
The mills here and at other points in
the Mahoning and Shenango valleys,
which are ownea by the American
Steel Hoop Company, will remain idle
pending a settlement of the scale
question.
LIGHTNING KILLS THREE.
Party of Unwise Fishermen Sought
Shelter Under Tall Tree.
Tuesday afternoon lightning instant¬
ly killed three men, fatally injured a
boy and seriously injured a man and
a boy, members of a St. Louis fishing
party, on the bank of Dead creek, at
Cahokla, Ill. The members of the par¬
ty were gathered around a tali syca¬
more tree to get shelter from the rain.
New Depository Kamed.
The postmaster Natioi^Bfcnk gene«khas designa¬
ted the Western of New
York as the deposilJBHkr f postal
funds In New York to the Sev¬
enth National bank. f
A GIGANTIC SURPLUS
Is Shown In Revenue Receipts Fot
[the Fiscal Year Ended
June 29 th.
The comparative statement of the
government receipts and expenditures
for the fiscal year ended last Satur¬
day will show an excess of receipts
over disbursements of approximately
$ K. 000 , 000 .
This is 11 !y about $4,000,000 below
the estimate made by congress at the
beginning of the last session in De¬
cember, 1900, at which time the secre¬
tary estimated the receipts from cus¬
toms would be about $245,000,000. The
receipts from internal revenue sources
were estimated last December at $300,-
000,000, while the final figures will
show over $307,000,000. The receipts
from miscellaneous sources were esti¬
mated at $34,000,000. These will also
show a considerable increase.
The expenditures for the year will
be $7,000,000 in excess of the esti¬
mates. During the fiscal year 1900 the
surplus revenues amounted to nearly
$24,000,000, while the surplus for the
present year will reach $76,000,000, and
possibly a still higher figure.
In view of the fact that the revenue
reduction bill passed at the last ses-
soion of congress went into operation
Monday, treasury officials estimate
that the loss from this source will be
about $40,000,000. It is not expected,
however, that the net reduction from
this source will reach that amount, as
the officials look forward to a year of
even greater prosperity than the one
Just closing. If this expectation is
realized the officials believe that the
revenues from internal sources alone
will be greater than $30,000,000 below
the figures of the present year. It is
also confidently expected that the re¬
ceipts from customs will materially
increase during the coming twelve
months, so that, notwithstanding the
reduction made in the last revenue
bill, the total receipts from all sources
may even reach or exceed those of
the fiscal year 1901.
TWO REPORTS PRESENTED.
Alabama Convention W'H Now Tackle
the Suffrage Question,
Chalrman Colernan , of the commlt .
^ ee 011 suFra S e - made a report of the
committee to the Alabama constitu-
tional convention Saturday morning,
Th e re adlng of tho article met with"
considerable ., ,, applause. , A . minority , ., re¬
P° rt was submitted as to a single sec-
^ on grandfather clause which is
si « ned b >' Frank s - White - of Jeffer ‘
son ’' Captain S. H. Dent, of Barbour;
ex-Governor William C. Oates, of Mont¬
Somery, and General George P. Harri-
son ’ k€e '
The Principal features of the major-
^ re P or t as as follows:
A registration board for each county
t0 consist of three persons, to be ap-
Pointed by the governor.
P erson denied right of registra-
tion majr appeal to city or circuit
court -
qualified voters must be able to
read and write any article of consti-
Motion of United States,
unable to read, must own bv self
or w *^ e 4P acresi of land In state, or
°l-' ler rea l estate to value of $300.
Person offering to sell his vote
or bu ^ v °te of another shall be de¬
f rancb i sed -
Poll tax upon each male between 21
and ^ years of age to be $1.,50.
A “FULL HOUSE.”
Tennessee Couple Blessed With Quad¬
ruplets, Triplets and Twins.
Mrs. W. H. Burnett, of Jasper, Tenn.,
wife of the head miller of the Jasper,
Tenn., flouring mills, has just given
birth to four children, all of whom are
doing well. Previous to the advent of
these babies, Mrs. Burnett gave birth
to triplets, and then twins. The cou¬
ple has been married five years and
ten children now adorn their home.
Charged With Train Wrecking.
Five negroes who have given ficti¬
tious names were arrested at Connells-
ville, Pa., charged with the wrecking
of the Southwestern express near
Greensboro Saturday, in which a num¬
ber of passengers were hurt,
paving Interest on Hon&s.
Georgia State Treasurer Sends Checks
to Holders of Securities.
Monday checks aggregatng $57,000
were sent out from State Treasurer
Park's office to the holders of Georgia
state bonds for the regular semi-an¬
nual payment of interest on these se¬
curities which is now due.
The coupon Interest, which is also
due, makes the total amount to be dis-
bursed by the state as interest $160,-
COO.
The checks will be prompt . y pa ,, d as
ample provision for meeting the state’s
obligations has been made, owing to
ntH- ZST
Georgia.\CuIlings
Brief Bat Interesting Summary
of Happenings in the State.
New Atlanta-Birmingham Road.
Secretary of State Phil Cook has
granted a charter to tne Atlanta and
Birmingham Air Line railway, for the
stated period of 101 years.
According to the charter the com¬
pany expects to build a railroad from
Atlanta to Birmingham, Ala. Its prin¬
cipal office will be in Atlanta, and the
capital stock is to be $500,000, with tho
privilege of increasing it as the stock¬
holders see fit.
The petition for charter states that
the new line will probably run through
the counties of Fulton, Campbell, Doug¬
las, Carroll and Heard to the Alabama
line, and then go to Birmingham.
* * *
New Link for Central.
Application for charter for the Co¬
lumbus and Arlington Railway Com¬
pany is now being published, the pro¬
posed road to be built from Columbus
to Arlington, Ga., in the southwest cor¬
ner of the state, ninety miles away.
The incorporators of the new road
are J. F. Hanson, John M. Egan, T. D.
Kline and other gentlemen who are
well known through their connection
with .the Central of Georgia railway.
The personnel of the incorporators
shows that the new road will be a
part of the Central's growing and vig¬
orous system.
The new road will run through the
counties of Calhhoun, Randolph, Stew¬
art, Chattahoochee and Muscogee. The
petition for charter explains that the
road is to be built from Arlington to
Cuthbert, from Cuthbert to Lumpkin,
and from Lumpkin to Columbus. The
capital stock of the company will be
$500,000. ’the principal office of the
company will be in Columbus.
The completion of this project will
give Columbus a straight line to Tal¬
lahassee, the capital of Florida, as the
Georgia Pine, which runs from Bain-
bridge to Arlington, is now extending
from Bainbridge on the south to Talla¬
hassee. This will be but one beneficial
result of building this road, however,
as it is confidently believed that the
gauge on the Columbus and Rome will
be broadened and the road extended
to Newnan, thus giving the Central
railway a direct route from Chatta¬
nooga to Florida.
* * *
To Fight For Southern Trade.
A fight between fertilizer manufac¬
tures in the south is said to be pending
at present and on account of the fact
that Georgia is the greatest consumer
of the product of any of the other
southern states, the struggle Is of un¬
usual interest.
* * *
Girl’s Murder Still a Mystery.
The coroner’s jury of DeKalb county
held a long session last Saturday, In¬
vestigating the recent murder of little
Bertha Jackson, the adopted daughter
of R. F. Flowers. The jury was called
together on account of several new
pieces of evidence, but finally adjourn¬
ed much baffled, as they have always
been.
* * *
Georgia Officials to Meet.
The seventh annual convention of
the Georgia sheriffs, clerks of supe¬
rior courts, city courts, chiefs of po¬
lice, town marshals and soliciting gen¬
erals of the superior and county courts
will be held in Columbus, beginning
Wednesday, July 10th, and continuing
for two or three days.
During the convention many subjects
of importance to these officers will be
considered and methods of conducting
the affairs of the counties and facili¬
tating business between the officers
of different counties which are con¬
stantly having an interchange of com¬
munications, will be discussed.
The citizens of Columbus and the
county officers of Muscogee wiL enter¬
tain the visitors in a lavish manner
and extend many courtesies to them.
* * *
Franchise Given Car Line.
The Gainesville city council has
granted a franchise to the Gainesville,
and Dahlonega Railroad Company to
build an electric street railway system
in Gainesville. Whether or not the
company will build, remains to be
seen. If they do, work must com¬
mence in three months and must be
completed in eighteen months.
* * *
Georgians to Teach Filipinos
Georgia will have two representa-
tivees among the public school teach¬
ers of the Philippine islands. State
School Commissioner Glenn has named
Mr. R. L. M-oon, of Monroe, and Ralph
W. Adamson, of Carroll county, to go
to Manila, and under the direction of
the government to assume places In
the department of education.
-The new men will receive $1,200 a
year and traveling expenses to Manila.
Commissioner Glenn recently receiv-
ed a letter fom c . R . Edwards , chief of
the division of ingular affairs at Wash .
j to asking him to name
tom (HOT*, to *, to PUU,.
pines Tne men namea must conrorm
to the requirements. Mr. Glenn will
be held responsible for the appoint¬
ments, and he took considerable time
in making the selections of the men
who were to fill the positions, as he
did not wish any but worthy represen¬
tatives.
• * *
Rural Delivery From Augusta.
Rural free delivery began from the
Augusta post office last Monday. Three
routes have been put on. One goes out
the Savannah road, another out the
Milledgeville road, and a third crosses
the river into South Carolina, taking
in North Augusta, Beach island and
adjacent country.
* * *
Three Negro Excursionists Killed.
Three negroes were kined on an ex¬
cursion train leaving Macon for Savan¬
nah early last Saturday morning. The
excursion was from Atlanta. The
train was run in three sections, each
comprising twelve cars. The cars
were jammed The negroes killed
were riding on the roof. One was
knocked off at Bolingbroke, the sec¬
ond was struck by the College street
bridge in Macon, and the third by
•Oglethorpe bridge. Death was in¬
stantaneous in each case. Only ona
was identified, D. Green, 69 East Chest¬
nut street, Atlanta.
“General Green” Routs Cotton.
Some of the finest cotton lands ii
Sumter county, and which were plant-
3 d in cotton and highly fertilized a
month ago, are now producing crops
of hay only. The cotton on these lands
was hammered to death by hall, and
as seed and labor were auke scarce,
the farmers planted peas broadcast,
ana win raise nay instead. Not in a
small area was this done, but thou¬
sands of acres of fine red lands, the
best cotton lands in the county, are
now growing up in peavines and grass,
and the consequences will be that
Sumter county will make a record-
breaking hay crop.
* *
Gala Days For Athens.
Athens is preparing for a gala time
when the Georgia Weekly Press Asso¬
ciation and Retail Grocers of Georgia
and the Athens wheat and oat fair
will be held in the Classic City July
)th and 10th. There are expected fully
me hundred and fifty editors, as many
jrocers and several hundred farmers,
find preparations will be ma<}e to ac-
eommodate them accordingly.
SHORTAGE IN THE MINT.
Thirty Thousand Missing In Govern¬
ment Money Factory at ’Frisco.
A San Francisco dispatch says:
There is a discrepancy of about $30,-
000 between the books of one depart¬
ment and those of another in the Uni
ted States mint, and the whole cleri
cal force of the establishment is trying
to ascertain whether there is a short
age or whether some bookkeeper has
made an error. George E. Roberts, di¬
rector of the mint, and three assistants
from Washington are going over the
books. The discrepancy was discover¬
ed when the visiting officers attempted
to balance the booKs of the mint at the
end of the fiscal year June 30th.
PHILADELPHIA A FURNACE.
During Twenty.Four Hours Forty-
Seven Succumb to Deadly Heat,
A Philadelphia special says: Al¬
though the temperature did not reach
the record it made Monday and Tues¬
day by 4 degrees, the suffering from
the heat and the fatal results from the
torrid wave Wednesday were nearly as
great as on the two previous days. Up
to midnight the number of deaths at¬
tributed to the excessive heat was 47,
with prostrations over 250.
FIRST IN FORTY YEARS.
Declaration Was Head to Citizens of
Mississippi’s Capital.
The Fourth was celebrated at Jack-
son, Miss., in an impressive manner.
The Declaration of Independence was
read for the first time in forty years.
The meeting was held in representa¬
tives’ hall, patriotic speeches being
made by Secretary of State Power and
Dr. Junius Jordan, president of the
Arkansas university.
ROBBERS MAKE BIG HAUL.
Express Train Held Up and Safe Is
Looted of $S3,000.
Train No. 3 westbound on the Great
Northern was held up about 2 o’clock
Wednehday afternoon at Wagner
Station, 196 miles east of Great
Falls, Mont., by three masked
men, who blew open the express car
with dynamite and secured $83,000, the
entire contents of the through express
safe.
Blistering In Pittsburg.
Pittsburg was a veritable furnace all
day Monday, with a maximum of 98.
Among the poorer classes the suffering
was intense. Between 7 a. m. and mid¬
night eighteen deaths in Pittsburg and
Allegheny were recorded and forty
prostrations.
HEAT’S FAT^|l RECORD
Peaths and Prosffations #10 Reach
Large Figures In Crowded
Cities of the North.
A New York dispatch says: The re¬
lief from the killing heat of the last
week, which was promised Sunday in
the shape of thunderstorms, did not.
materialize.
There was an increase in the fatui¬
ties reported over Saturday, thought
the number of simple prostrations was
not so large. Up to midnigui nineteen
deaths had been recorded and twenty
prostrations. The deaths Saturday
numbered eleven.
According to a special from Pitts¬
burg, Pa., between midnight Saturday
and midnight Sunday eleven deaths
and fifteen prostrations directly trace¬
able to the heat were recorded in that
city. In addition to this many chil¬
dren have succumbed, as is evidenced
by the burial permits issued. In eight¬
een hours fifty-nine permits were is¬
sued, three-fourtns of which were for
children under four years of age. The
normal death rate is sixteen.
Weather Bureau Report.
Reports to the weather bureau at
Washington from points throughout
the hot wave show remarkably high
temperatlires generally with little or
no rainfall relief apd Dut poor pros¬
pects for any Immediate substantial
relief in the eastern part of the coun¬
try. In the south Atlantic and middle
and east gulf states there were local
rains and thunder storms Sunday and
in the extreme northwest cooler weath¬
er came from local showers.
High temperatures continued during
the day in all districts east of the
Rocky mountains. At New York the
maximum, 98 degrees, broke the rec¬
ord there for June, and at Philadel¬
phia the maximum, 98, equaled the
highest temperature previously record¬
ed tuere.
Corn Fields Being Destroyed.
Missouri and Kansas are suffering
from hot winds that threaten great
damage to corn. Atchison, Kans., re¬
ports the greatest drought in north¬
western Kansas since 1860, a warm
wind having blown from the south al¬
most ceasingly for seven days.
Abilene. Kans, reports 105 degree
weather with many fields in South
Dickinson county ruined. A Mexico,
Mo., dispatch says the thermometer in
that part of the state registered 101
Saturday and Sunday and that if rain
does not come soon the farmers will
have to put their stock on the market
immediately to save it. Sedalia, Mo.,
reports 103 degrees in the shade, with
the statement that another week of
similar weather will make certain a
failure of the corn crop in Central Mis¬
souri.
EXCURSIONISTS FACED DEATH.
SeTen Hundred Pleasure Seekers Res¬
cued From Sinking Ship.
A special from South Norwalk,
Conn., says: Seven hundred em-
ployees of the John W. Green hat fac¬
tory returning Saturday afternoon
from an excursion to Glen island on
the steamer Mohawk were startled by
a tremendous crash, the ship having
struck a rock ten minutes after the
return trip began. A panic followed,
during which every one of the 700 pas
sengers on board scrambled for the life
preservers.
In the crash women and children
were knocked down and trampled
upon.
During the excitement the steamer
had been steadily sinking and ten
minutes after the crash the first deck
was submerged.
Three launches which were near by
when the accident occurred had by
this time nearly reached the disabled
steamer. They immediately went to
the rescue of the passengers who
jumped overboard.
The water was just beginning to
wash over the second deck when the
excursion steamer Myndert Stearn ar¬
rived from the island and took on
board the remaining passengers.
The accident was caused by the pilot
of the steamer going on the wrong side
of the buoy which marks the course
to be followed by steamers to and
from the island.
MRS. KENNEDY SENTENCED.
Husband Slayer Given Ten Years For
Sensational Crime.
At Kansas City Saturday Mrs. Lulu
Prinee-Kennedy was formally sentenc¬
ed by Judge Wofford to serve ten
years in the state penitentiary for tho
murder of her husband, Philip Kenne¬
dy, in the corridor of the Ridge build¬
ing January last. She heard the sen-
tence without the slightest display of
emotion.
After the sentence leading counsel
for Mrs. Kennedy statejj that he ex¬
pected to appeal j the case to the su-
preme court.