HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1902-10-09, Page 7COAL STRIKE GOES ON;
• CONFERENCE A FAILURE.
Operators Refuse to Recognize
Federation of Miners,
•
Mitchell Stiggeetee Arbitration, but Ills Offer Wa$ Spurned --Protection of
fliners Who Wish to Work IS Demaneed-Operators Would Agree to
Mike District Judges Arbitratorsimf Differences In Case of Troubte at
Any Colliery, but it WizA Not Accepted -What W111 be the Next
eicivee
Waishington, Oct. 4.-Pros1dent
Roosevelt's: dramatic effort to end
tho coal etrike and relieve the fam-
ine by bringing moral suasion to bear
upon the coal operators and the
etrilting miners in behalf of an tient-
cable agreement came to a dispel -
trouts end.
The coal operators do not hesitate
to eay that they regard as a grand-
otanti play the Presideut's intrusion
apen a eituatioa that in no Wise
ocemereed him as Chief Executive of
the nation, and they significantly
a1d. thee it is now "up to" hire to
make the liext move ie the game.
This is probably veliat Wolin Mit-oh-
ell thinks also, and as for tee public
at large, so far as its views are
inclicatcxi by those who are ia Wash-
ington, they are also of the opinion
that President Roosevelt must now
take some radical step to put an
edit to the situation that he de-
seribes as intolerable, and to carry
out the promise implied in las public
utterances on the subject of the coal
strike.
A.terliteNOON SESSION.
Negotietions Reach ati Apparent im.
passe.
Upon reassembling, Mr. Brier spoke
as follows: "Mr. Presidebt, do we
teriderstane you correctly that we
Will bo expected to answer the pro-
positiou submitted by Mr. Mitchell
this moruing?"
Tho President -It will be a plea-
sure to me to hear any answer that
you, aro wIlling to make.
Mr, Thier -"1 have prepared an an-
swer." The following statement by
Mr. G. P. Baer, President of the
Reading Railroad, was then read;
"To the President of the United
Statee: We understand your anxi-
ety is forcibly expressed in the
statement you read to us this
morning to bring' about 'an imme-
diate resteuptien of operations tu
the coal mines in some Sueb) way as
will without a day's unneeeseary
delay meet the crying needs of the
people.' Weinfer that you deeired
us to consider the offer of Mr. Mit-
chell, verbally made this morning,
expressing and speaking for she
United Mine Workers, to go back
to work if you would appoint a
commission- to determine the ques-
tions at Issue.' You distinetly eay
that you 'do not invite a discussion
of your respective Maims and po-
sitions.' But we assume that a
statement of what is going on In
the coal regions will not be irrele-
vant. We represent the owners of
coal mines in Penneylvania. There
are from 15,000 to 20,000 men at
work mining and preparing :ma'.
They are abused, assaulted, injured
and maltreated by the United Mine
Workers. Teey can only work an -
der the protection of armed guards.
Thousands of other workmen are
deterred from 'working by
Intimidaoon, Vtmece end et iniss,
luaugurated by the United Mine
Workera over eveom Sohn Mitchel),
whom you invited to meet you, ie
chief. 1 need not 'picture the daily
crimes committed by the members of
this organization. The "domestic
tranquility,' which every constitu-
tion declares is the chief object of
government, does hot exist in the
meal regions:. There le a terrible
reign of lawlessness and crinie there.
Only the lives and property of the
member); of the secret oath -bound
order, which declared that the locals
should 'have full power to suspend
operatione at collieries' until the
non -Wilton men joined their order, are
safe. Every effort is made to pre-
vent the mining ot coal, and when
mined, Mitchell's men dynamite
bridgee and tracks, mob trainmen,
and by ali mannen of violence try to
prevent Ws element to. relieve the
public, ,
trederai Troops Demanded.
"The constitution ot Pennsylvania
guaranteee protection to life and pro -
party. In express terms it declares
tho tight of aequiring, possessing and
defending property 'to be 'nation -
able,' When rioting and anarchy, too
great to be appeaeed by the civil
power, occur, the Governor ot
Penuoylvania is bound to co,11
out the State troops to supprees
RS Ho must fearlessly. use the whole
power of the State to protect life
and property and to establish pea.ce
-not an armed truce, but the peneme
of the law which proteete every man
at Work and going to and from work.
He bag sent troops to the coal re-
gions. Gradually the power of the
law" tra asserting 'twee Unless
Encouraged by latise Ropes
Order Will goon bo restored, and then
we tan mine oriel to meet tho public
Wants. V' the poWer of Pennsylvania
ig insufficient to re-establish the
reign of law, the constitution ot the
United States requires the President,
when requested by the Legislature
and tho Governor, 'to suppreeis domes-
tic violence.' Yoe oee, there is a
lawful Way to secure coal for the
public. The duty of the hour is not
to Nvitste time negotiating with the
fOinentere of this anarchy and luso.
lent defiance) of taw, but to do as
was done in the War of tho rebel -
Hon, reetore the insijesty of law, the
only guarillan of a free peones, nnd
to resestablish order and peace at
any Wet, The Govern:tient is a con-
temptible -failure If It can only pro -
toot the, lives; rind property end Seoure
the eomfort of the people by com-
promising With the violatorg of MeV
alai tile 11'0'0ga-here ot violence atel•
crime.
Arbitrates:I Repot ed.
"Jetet now it is more important to
teach ignorant men, dwelling among
us, %lined and used an tools by (al -
:tens of other States, that at what-
ovet told and inconvenience to the
ptiblle, Penneylvanin, Will use the
whole power of tiovernittent to pro -
toot not ooly the man wet) wants
to work, but bis wife and children
while be le at work, and to punish
every man who by inotigation or by
overt acts atterapis to deprive any
nein of his liberty to work. Vector
these conditions we cleeline to accept
Mr, Mitchell's considerate offer to
let our men work on terms be names.
lie hats no right to come from Illinois
to dictate terms, on the acceptanee
of welch anarchy and crime elute'
oestee In Pennsylvania. Ile must stop
hie people from killing, maiming and
abusing Pennsylvania citizens and
from destreedne property. Be must
stop it because it Is unlawful and not
because of any bargain with us. We
will amid to our offer, 'to continue the
wages existing at the time of the
strike and to take up at each colliery
and adjust any grievance, this fur-
ther contlitlon;
If the employers and employeee at
any particular colliery cannot reach
a satisfactory adjustment of an al-
leged greevence it shall be referred
to tee Judges of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas in the dietriet In which
the colliery is situated for final de-
termination, (Signed), Geo. F. Baer,
Preserlent Pleladelphia, & Reading
Coal 'Ind Iron Company, and Lehliat
Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron Com-
pany, and Temple Iron Company."
Erie's Dead Speaks.
Mr. Thomas, of the Eree Railroad,
fo.lowed Mr. Baer. He seise;
"No one can moro fully realize the
gravity of the situation or the grave
responsibilities resting upon them
than men who for months have been
seeking to protect the property un-
der their charge, as well as the
eves of loyal employees' from the at-
tacks of misguided men incited by
people foreign to the State and to
the Industry we are seeking to de-
fend. We are doing all in our power
and vvith inerea,sing success to mine
eoal. Mr. leatchell and his lieutenants
are doing all in their power to pre-
vent It.
"Wo ask teat each efforts cease,
or failing, that the State of Penn-
sylvania, and if she is unable, the
eowers of the United States shall be
exerted to afford full protection to
employees not only while at work
but to and from their homes, as well
as to their famine:a, and that the
reign of terror, riots:, intimidation
and murder, which for months has
prevailed in the anthracite region
sheik cease.
Record of the Dead.
"A record of twenty killed, over
forty injured, and with constant and
increasing destruction of -dwellings,
works, machinery and railroads by
mob violence, with no proper en-
forcement of the law or order by
the proper °Moines is not the time
to not on Mr. Mitchell's suggestion
to arbitrate with men not in our
employ.'
"We ask the enforcement of the
leer and order in the State that we
be permitted to deal with our em-
ployees free from foreign interfer-
ence, convinced that under such eon -
alone we can fully perform our full
duty to the public, our owners, and
to our 'employeeo. I fully concur in
the suggestion of Mr. Baer, whicii
can be pursued in muse of failure to
agree with our employees, but In
inany years of such dealing it has
never yet been requisite to call in
n.seistance to fairly arid satisfac-
torily deal with our men."
John Merkle, the independent op-
erator, was the next speaker. He
said :
Demands Show of Force.
"1 now ask you to perform the du-
ties vested in you as the President
of the United States; to at once
squelch the anarchistic condition of
affairs existing in the anthracite
coal regions by the strong arm ot the
military at your command. A re-
cord of twenty-one murdere a long
het of brutal assaults, houses and
bridges: dynamited, daily actsm of vio-
lence now taking piatse and several
waeheries burned down, are actual
evidences ot this condition of law-
lessness existing there. Are you ask-
ing no to deal with a set of outlaws?
1 can hardly conceive of such a
thought, The respectable eitizone of
these United States will insist upon
the offi•cers in pomvergiving to the
citizens ot Pennsylvania law and or-
der and the right to work if they so
desire. i •
" President, I represent the in-
dividual coal operators, and in addi-
tion thereto We represent far better
than Mr. Mitchell cloce n niajOrlty of
tite anthracite coal. workers, includ-
ing Fenno 17,000 men, who are now
working, endeavoring againet great
odds to relieve the public of the pos.
sit:tittles of a sloe' famine, in making
this nppeal to you. Mr. Mitchell's
organization is a small minority of
the total number or 'workers in this
anthracite coal field and he is hold-
ing a large majority. by intimidation,
coercion, and attempts, at bodily
harm.
Calls foe Troops.
' If you desire anthracite coal to
be placed in the market quickly take
the necessary steps at once and put
the Federal troops in tho field and
give to those ,dosdring to work proper
protection, and 1 will 0,sattro you that
antlitacito coal 'will be rapidly plateed,
in the market to relieve tho serious-
ness of tho. situation."
The Last Word. -.
W. Ir. Trues -stale, president of the
D., L. & W. Railroad, was the not
speaker. Ire said in part
It to our ditty and 'we take this
orcasion 10 mese it upon your non -
sideration, and through you mien
that of the authorities of the State
of Pennsylvania, to insist upon it
that the existing emolitions of an.
archy and lawlessness, of riot and
rapine, bo immediately and permatt-
ently suppressed. To, this end we ask
that tho entire authority and power
of the State of Pennsylvattia, tiviI
and military, if heeds be that of the
United States, Government as Well,
be exorcised forthwith.
"11r, President, 1ttut no enemy of
organized labor, when on organisee
ne to piemote tho real intereete of
the limbering man and When, In We
eenneishing thin, 'lawful' awl legitt-
mato tni-thods are /einem'.
howeVer, oppose the Melted Mine
, Workero' Associesteen because many
of its arowo4 purposes are elseis-
/lately at varieties) with the spirit or
our laWe and institetions."
lime Miners' Side.
The following is the text _of the
etatement nutde by official repree
sentutives of the *liners' Union;
eler, Preoldent,-Ati the conference
this morning the neeredtted repro.
elentatives of the anthracite coal
iull,10 workers were meets *impressed
11110 views eXpreoaea and
the dangers to the welfare of oar
uoulatry from a prelongatloa of
the coal strike that yen so clearly
Pointisi out. Cones:times of the re-
frponoibility resting upon 08, °WWI -
qua of our duty to sootety, consei.
We of our obligations to the one
Intisdred and fifty tholes:We mine
workers whom we have the honor to
represent, we have, after tniost earl -
fel consideration, and with the bope
of relieving Ilia situation and avert-
ing the :sufferings arid hardsblp
which would inevitably follow In
the wnke cie a coal famine, deckled
to propose a xesuanption of °Oat Min-
ing upon the lines hereinafter sug-
gested.
"Before tieing so, AO. President, We
desire to may that we are Aot prompt-
ed to suggest this course because of
any emeste of the justice of our
In deferring to your wishes
We are prontpted lay no fear on, our
part of our ability to continuo the
contest to a suecessful issue. Thanks
to tho generous assistance render-
ed as by our fellow -work -
ors in this •and other lands, thanks
to a jestioe-loving American public,
allow sympathies are always on the
side ot right, we are able to continue
the struggle indefinitely, But eou-
Merit of our ability to demonstrate
to any impartial tribunal 'the equity
of our demands for higher wages and
linproVed environment, we propose
that the issues culminating in this
strike shall be referred to you and a
tribunal of your own selection, and
agree to accept your award upon
all or any of' the questions involved.
If you will accept this responsibility,
and the tepresentatives of the 000
operators will signify their willing -
nese to have your decision incorpor-
ated in an agreement for eot lese
than ono year or bore than five
yearo, as may be mutually deter-
mined between themselves and the an-
threeito coal mine workers, and will
pay the sale or Wages which you
and the tribunal appointed by you
shall award, we will immediately call
a convention and recommend a re-
sumption of work, upon the under-
standing that the wages which shall
be paid are to go into °fleet from
the day epee which work is re-
sumed. Very respectfully yours,
Jelin Mitchell, President of the Unit-
ed Miners' of America; John leahe,y,
Thomas Duffy, D. D. Nichols, Dis-
trict Presidentes" .
The President asked Mr. Mitchell if
he had anything further to say.
Ilr. Mitchell Replies
Mr. said: 'The charge mad*
by the gentlemen, that twenty mur-
ders have been committed in the an-
thracite coal regions during the pres-
ent strike, is untrue. If they will
name the men and will show that
they have committed the murders, I
will resign my position. That is a fair
proposition. Mr, President, that is a
fair example of how our organization
and our people are maligned. The
truth of the matter is, as far as I
know, there liave been seven deaths,
unfortunately. No one regrets them
more than I do. T,hree of them were
committed by the coal and iron
police, and no one else has been
charged with them God 'knows the
miners do not escape being charged
with everything done there. They
speak about burnings. There was
reward offered for burnings. I can
bring affidavits of a hundred people,
if necessary, that the lightning caus-
ed one burning they charged to the
United Mine Workers. Mr. President,
I have `admitted on more than one
occeslion that there has been some'
lawlessness, but I Will say that a
large portion of such lawlessness
has been provoked by criminal& who
have been brought into the anthra-
Otte regions to recruit tbe coal and
iron ipotieses I want to say, Mr. Presi-
dent, that I feel keenly the attacks
nsatie upon mo and my people, but
I came here Wirth the intention of
doing nothing and saying nothing
that would adversely affect a recon-
ciliation."
No Dealings With Strikers' President
The PresIklent then asked the re-
presentatives. ot the anthracite
companies whether they would ac-
cept • Mr. etlecheles proposition. They
answered "No." In respense to a fur-
ther (meet:Ion from the President
they stated that they would have
no dealings wbatever with Mr. Mit-
chell, looking toward a settlement
of the (meet:ion at 'me, and that
they had no other proposition to
make, save what was contained in
the statement of Mr, Baer.
At about 5 otelock the conference
was brought to a close wethout
agreement
Ne nAt N it XV/
Win the President Give lie and
Await Events ?
President Roosevelt believes that
the people of the country will back
him up in his attempt to force the
owners of the mines to operate
, them, and he professes not to be
afraid .of the chances of political
defeat arising front the course he
has taken: It is thought that Mr.
Roosevelt will not be long in Mak-
ing up hie need to take some de-
terinined action. titter haying Ioarus
ed the sentiment of the people with
relation to the proceedings at the
White House to -day, he is eepected
to Anise some move in the direction
of earrying out his implied promise
to the poops° to :see to it that the
Mining of coal shall be resumed and
'the famine ended before the ap-
proaelt of cent weather. MI Wash-
ington Is wAitleig with a,ba,ted
breath te see What the President
Will do neact, and undoubtedly the
whole eountry is In the :mute state
et palate sitepense. In the opinion
ot these who lolow. the President
beet, the people) will not have long
to wait. Xi is impossible that he
May, atter refleetitne decide to do
nothing. This is the opinion of 80100
of the Wiser heads in his Cabinet.
Baer Ifirs Nothing to Say.
Philadelphitir tot. 4.- Prosideht
Baer, of tito ZbUade1p1ita & Reading
Railroad Company, returned %frOm
Washington to his office this morn-
ing. Ire said that he had nothing to
say 'for publication, beyond the state-
ment published this: morning.
1
New l'orle, Ont. 4.-Deposete of an-
thracite aorta In Ma,statchusettg, which
were once operated on a large Beale,
may be again utilized it present con-
ditions continue, elayo it Boston de -
*atoll to the Times. In 1835 a bed
of anthracite was iligeovered in
Itlansfield, which litta since( been ex-
plored, and with Othere ist that
piece, proved to be of cenaiderithie
importanee. rt wag tin:eight at the
time that they would develop into
re-ten:Ave and valuable teal fickle.
Three eompanien opened pita in dif-
ferent plat:sea, but times were hard
anti operations were suspended In
3.488 in the hope of Obtaining aid
from the state to reeuree them Ms
ft larger male. Coal dealero L this
eity were dismayed by the news that
Presiident Roosevelt's efforts to ef-
fect a eettlement of the differencea
between the anthracite operators
anti the miners had come to naught,
&Wei 30ets, a VIM,
Coal letelled in the tenement dia.,
tricts Is now selling at 30 cents
a pail, which inakes a ton Wet
$3740. ror a urterilier of years the
Salvation Army has bought large
quantities of coal to seli to the
poor at the rate ot 3 'cents a pail.
One of the officere has announced,
however, that the Army is unable
to obtain a supply for the coming
winter. A flrni of miners and deal'.
ors, whielt shipped a year ago, 2,-
900 tons of anthracite to Rouen,,
'ranee, tee au experiment, has
found that tIte coal was not used
and has
Hengist it Rack
and sold it Imre for delivery on its
martial. Althotigh the cost Of Iran -
shipment to this country, calcu-
lated at $4 a ton, the deal will be
profitable. A eteamer wilt gall early
next month for this port, with 6,-
000 tons of Scotch anthracite. This
will be the first importation of
Scotch coal. Thus far, more titan
50,000 tons of foreign anthracite
has been brought to this port
since the strike reached an acute
stage. The great bulk of this was
purchased by the gas and elevated
railroad companiese
' Appeols for Mediation.
New York, Oct. 4. -An appeal for
mediation in the coal rainere' strike
has been issued by a committee which
met at the University Semblernent
and adopted reeolutionst "Calling up-
on all loyal citizens, all chum:Thee and
all religious societies, all philan-
thropic, industrial, social or educa-
tional hertitutions to exert their in-
fluent -se in every possible way in
favor of Such a plan of mediation
ao will meet tho approval of 831
fatr-
mindcd persons and end the present
suffering and strife."
The resolutions arc, signed by many
ministers and their brethren are es-
pecially urged to make them the
basis of an appeal to their congre-
gation:
Peat for Fuel.
Weleneui, Oct. 3. -Many earl:Aries are
being made at the Welland peat beds
for peat to be used as fuel In pines
of coal. Peat sells at $3 a ton, coal -
!mid, and burns almost as economa
catty as coal, and tire people in that
locality may soon be using the fuel
that has been lying, idle so long at
their doors.
Can Deliver Coat.
Palen & Burne, coal dealer% ol
Buffalo, say teat they can secure
some screened, nut soft ewe at $3
per net ton on cars at neinee. with
rate of freight of $1.80 or possibly
$1.90 per net ton to Toronto. They
do not guarantee its delivery, how-
ever, but think that they can secure
the coal If orders aro wired imme-
diately.
SOLOIEDS-SHOOT
AT IISSAILANTS.
Kanawha Valley Strike Has
Been Settled,
4,000 MEN CO TO WORK.
Conditions in Pennsylvania Coal
Reg! on- Strikers Attack Deputies
Otte Arrested-Mogistrate Fines
the Officers More ileuvily 'I ban
the Attackiag Rioters.
Mount Carmel, Pa., Oct. 6. -While
company of the Fourth Regiment of
Infantry was patrolling the Lehigh
Coal Company's Righter colliery,
early this morning, three men armed
with shot guns were discovered hid-
ing behind a log close to the engine
house- They were made prisoners.
One told Coleinel O'Neill, of the Fourth
Regiment, they were hunting for
birds. The men were released later.
A.boat midnight a crowd of ueiceown
men stoned the soldiers' camp. Sen-
tries fired in the direction the stones
came frOm. Part of the regiment
searched the woods, bat found no one.
Colonel O'Neill says that the troops
shot to kid, be,eatioe he will not allow
his men- to be luade targets of.
No new mine wile started•up hero
this merningsand, so fax as is known,
00 non-unioolet was attacked by
strikers.
One Strike Steed.
Wheeling, W, Va., Oct. 0.-A settle-
ment of the minis strike In the liana -
Avila valiey lias been effected. Timis
wia mean the return to ivork imme-
diately of over 4,000 men.
Tee diggers get a. nine -hour day,
with a payday every two weeke.
E*aell mine is to be allowed a elteck
Weigliman, which Wail tale of the
pointe contested for, but the most
important concession Is the right
to organize, e, condltion Wilehout
precedent In time part of the
The Mineworkers' officials state
that other fevorable considerations
were granted, but these will not be
known until tile agreements- are
drawn. Tbe adjustment practleally
ends the strike In -this State, Weeks
ago the strike was an acenowledg-
ed failure in the Clarksburg and
irairment field, the only sections/
remaining On strike with aoy dis-
play of strength being the liana -
wee, Valley and the .Bluerield dis-
triet.
liow the laiiv teEtiroteed,
Willeesbarre, Pa., 001'. 6.--».
Rigor, a Philadelphia detective, who -
recruited and is lit command of the
ferde of deputies and speelal pollee
teho guard the collieries of the Le-
high & Wilkesbarre Coal Company,
was assaulted yesterday within half
a [WO& of gtrike headunarters, and
Ono et the most frequented etreete
of Wilkesbarre. Rigor swig necona
panted bY Robert }I. Hatiebety, who
Was an Offieer of the regular army
In the PhilipplineS enenpalgn and Is
noes acting as thief deputy under
BITITr.
Ietwo wit, both of whom were
armed, notieed to they turned Into
Canal street, after txtaging the strike
headquarters-, that they Were tollosi'-
ti tarowd of abont twenty who
had been loitering at tho atreet
Corner. • ; •
As the men, clootal in toward them,'
C
cwoael ,i,i,i itniiiiiillowu ion? lilt Iiraevuolaveg siii)14e1 OAL sTRIKE uNcllANGED,
,
Rigor autl, Hamesbery bunked, up to tool
01 eseellants sprane toward idle
and forced ids arm upward,. eiscluirg-.
lag tlie 'Weapon aver the heede Of tee
attacking party. The twe detective:a
were then se closely beset that they
could not get their pistoba into piny
and hud au the)* eoutd do to ward oft
the rain of blows that landefl On their
heads.
Rigor says that several of the men
bad pietolo, but that they used teem
ohly as claims. llotli itlgor anti tines -
bury are atilletee and they were put -
tint; OP A ita,rd, but losing fight Nviien
eolne policemen arrived anti their ap-
e:4141ns took to tlight. Tbe detectiveo
eueceedee lit iveltithe one of the men,
whom tney arraigned latee in the
-.day before Acting Mayor I, V. Rob -
Ins. The latter fined the prisoner
g2.50 ane ceete. Upon Rigor and
elansbury, lie lenesogee a tine of 47,-
50 each for carrying concealed wea-
pons. To -night, tile „Coal and Iron
police are asking whether 111e3r are
expected to leave all we:epees at
lieme when they Walk the street& of
Wilkeeteirre.
Stone Is 8118111.,
garrisburg, Pa., Oct. 6. -Gov. $tone
'mid neither affirm nor rimy the re-
port from Wafehlegtou teat lie has
been waked by President Roosevelt to
call an extra, seseien of the General
Assembly to settle the coat strike.
He still declines to discus:a the strew
or the prospeets or les early Rot-
tlement.
mitt -het Ps at OVPikt
Wt:kebtarri?, ayt. 6.-eresident
Mitchell, of the Miliero• thdon, tat
here over the Lehigh Valley Railroad
very eaely this morning, preeunmely
for Pelludelpeice His object there
cannot bo hariled.
Shutting Down raetelles•
Reading, Pie, Oct. 0. -For the week
ending at midnight last night offic-
iate of the Philadelphia & Reading
Coi state the company sent out
1,000 eery of washory and mined coal.
Time companyea official here claim
thee they have men at work taking
out coal at Birooeelde, Silver Brook
and other collieries in western
Schylkill County.
With few exceptione, the furnaces
in the Schuylkill Valley continuo to
feel the pinch due to the Blow ars
eival of coke. There is noe a stack
in thio vicinity that has not been
compelled to cease operations for a
week or longer, because of the (all-
ure of Its fuel supply. •
Mayor Low Declines.
New York, Oct. 6. -Mayor Low sent
a telegram to -clay to Mayor May-
bury, of Detroit, detaining to appoint
delegates; to a coal strike conference
at Detroit. The Mayor's reply to
Mayor Maybury was as follows: 'In
view of the failure of the Presideut's
effort at mediation, and because of
the v,agueneee. of your programme, I
have determined not to send dele-
gates to the conference at Detroit."
FUNERAI OF ZOLA.
Dreyfus Walked In the Cori( ge
recognized.
Palii4, Oct. 5.-Tbe earnest convic-
tion anti quiet dignity ot 'fifty thous-
and men, women arta elsedren wear -
fug red ensigns in their buttonholes,
who took part III Emile Zolais fun-
eral on thes soft, grey, sunless, type
cally Parisian day, made it the most
impressive ceremony of the kind wit-
nessed here Since the burial of Vic-
tor Hugo.
The wreath which surmounted all
those borne on the hearse was corn -
posed of buge paten leaves, knotted
With broad purple ribbons, with the
inscription: "Alfred Dreyfus to Emile
Zola, lin token of his grateful ac-
knowledgment and affection.' 1)reys
f us walked In the funeral procession
from the house in the Rue de Bruxel-
les to the cemetery, and was between
Gabes Monoce .of the Institute, and
Alfred Lalance, ex -Deputy from Al-
sace to the Reichstag, but he was
not recognized either by the public
nor even by most of those near hem
In the cortege. Alter passing the
evening of Saturday with Mme. Zola
and the friends or the family at the
Zola redicience, lie called this moul-
ting with a spray of flosvere, which
he placed leverets -11y beeirle the cof-
Pin. He hes greatly aged 'and was
remply attired in ela,ck.
AN EXCELLENT YEAR.
A Redandant Revenue and a Good
Surplus,
Ottawa, Oat. 5. -The finally revieed
statement of • revenue and expend'.
ture for the last fiscal year makes
a bettor showing than the Finance
Minieter anticipated when he deliv-
ered his; budget opeech a few months
ago. Mr. Fielding estimated that the
revenue on consilidated fund account
would be $56,800,000 and the ex-
Pendlaire $51,000,000. The actual
figures were $58,024,228 and 450,-
739,000 respeetively, or $1,224,228
more revenue and $261,000 lees ex-
penditure than WILE4 expected by our
Chaneellor of the Exchequer. The
ordinary receipts gained by 45,509,-
527 as compared with 1901, while the
expenditure exhibited aneinereage of
$3,873,586. There was an excess of
$7,284,275 of ordinary revenue over
ordinary expenditure, but the cape,
JAI expenditure reached a 'total of
over $18,000,000. Deducting from the
latter item ethe Empties on consoli-
dated fund and the &largos for sink-
ing fund, it leaves; $3,398,412 to be
added to the national debt. lir.
Fielditig was of opinion that the
yestret trensractions would involve an
addition of $0,000,000 to the public
debt, whereto; hie estimate exceed-
ed the fietual amoutst by p,600,000.
The Rime capital oatlay was neces-
sitated by the falling dae of Irbil
and steel bounties, tee equipment of
the Intereolonial with rolling otock
and new rails, the develeprnent ot
our transportatiori routers and the
settlement of awards) aggregating
nearly a edition to two of the Pro-
vinces. The firot quarter Of the pre-
sent Meal year has closed very
auspicimisly. There has been a re-
ductien Of $1,778,000 in capital ex-
penditure and a slight diminution in
ordinary eXpenditure, compared
With the Same period of Met year.
JAMES FLEMING DEAD.
Was halpeeter et Legal Offices for
Ontario.
Toronto, Oct. 6. -Many Will regret
to learn of the sudden death of Mr.
;fames Fleming, inepector ot legal of-
fices for the Province of Ontario,
which oecurred yesterday morning
at hie residence, 27 Isabella /street.
Mr. Fleming Wets able te perform Itio
duties up to Thursday, and oe that
day visited Ids friend, Mr. John It.
Cartwright, the Deputy Attorney -
General, at the Parliament Ilulicilege.
Ile then goented to to in his usual
good health and eplrito. 0» Friday,
however, he wag taken ill, and his
phygleirtn, Br. VotherIngliam, Walt
called in. Ire fOund Mr. Fleming suf-
fering from heart trouble, and
thottgli at times hopefel eT18 mani-
fested themselves, lin pegged away
at n quarter to eight yesterday
MOrnirig. ,
SUN DT HEII0 HUNTERS,
SOLUTION NOT IN SI6EITS Late Reports of Massacres in
New Guinea,
Governor Stone Will Now
to Keep Order.
BRITISH START EXPEDITION,
Try Yletorla, B. O., Oct. 0.--fikliortly b(S.
tore the steamer Aloana, lett Syd.
nod officio.' despatelies arrieed from
New Guinea, telling of intertribal
tights an massacres. The Tugeri
head huuteis had attacked the e'en.
000 villages, killed 0 oargo nuneser
If it Takes a Millen Men to Do So -Trouble gXpected Soon -Dynamiting
Railway Tracks -Arsenal in a Striker's House -natty Think Baer's
Arbitration Scheme Should be Considered--Mergan as Oood Angel
-why Soft i;eal Men are liappy-Seeding Out boo Cora Daily -
An Operator's, View,
Washington, Pet. 5. -en en earnest
effort to expedite tile adjustment ot
the coat ;strike problem, another
conference over tlie situation was
held at the Wldto House to -day and
adjourned after three hours' cle)Lb-
eratlion. No statement was given Out
as to the ooncluetons reached, and
overY Perteepant absolutely re-
fused to dismiss what had takes'
idneo tinting the meeting. Beshles
the President there were present at
the conference Secretary of War
Root, Secretary ot thoNavy Moody,
Attorney -General Knox, Postmao-
ter-tienerat Payne and Colonel Car -
Loll D. Weight, Uniteta.tes Com-
nesteoner 01 Labor. It began short -
,y after 10 o'clock this morning, the
ulnae fixed by the President. When
chose who were to partic,pate ar-
Axed at the Width Rouse In a drls-
hung rain they found clurgOon-Gell-
orailtixey of tlio navy, and Dr, Lung,
oho krestelent,s physician, already
making their morning ewe on the
distingulehed patient. Thie minted a
delay of a femv minutes. When the
two physimans lef I. It was reported
that the ProtAdent'S condition was
progressing satisfuolori y, and there
were no untoward deve.opments.
LcoltItig le the Miners.
Tbe known, /acts are thee the
President has reached conchs--
4ton that he into nothing to expect
save refusal from a further appeal
c0 the coal operators, and teem -
Vero tuts deckled to look for Teller
from a eltuation wheals in his view
is fast growing Intolerable to tife
miners' .side. He feels that be hard.
ly can expect them to make the
sacriliee• of all their contentions
alibi:mit holding out at least a
promise of some return, and the ques-
eon before him is as to his ability
to do this. He oan pledge himself
to appeal .to Congress to examineinto tho justice of the miners' 'com-
plaints and remedy them so fax' as
ties in -the power of the legislative
breech, backed by the earnest good-
will of the Exeeutive. Also lee min
suggest to Governor Stone, of Penn-
sylvania, that Ito cause the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature likewise to make
all sitquiry, perhaps hastening the
venial Methods by calling an extra
session. But these pledges would be
given only on condition that ttfe
men go at once into the mines to
got oat with all :speed the coal for
svhich, the people are euSeering. That
the partlee to the conferenee• feel
that they have accomplished some-
thing nee made evident by the ex-
pression of one of them of a belief
that the miners soon will be again
at work. ,
Tito strike leaders are now en-
gaged in tightening up their lines
and preparing themselves to coin -
bet any movement by the operators
to break the ranks of the strikers.
Much Ammunition trotted.
Scranton, Pa., Oct. 5. -Just before
daybreak, this morning a. squad of the
13th Regiment, stationed near the
Grassy Island colliery, came across
011 Italian -striker . named Guiseppo
Pepriello prowling about tho outpost
with a shotgun. Ho fired in the dime -
t1� in which the soldiers were ap-
proaching, afterwards alleging he
was shooting at a bile Col. Watree
received information that Papriello
was receiving arms and ammunition,
and a detachment of two companies
me sent to' lils house. The soldiers
found there 1,200 rounds of cart-
ildge.g for shotguns. No nrins, how-
ever, 'were found.
Dynamiting the Tracks.
Trennqua,, Pa., Oet. 5, -At an early
hour this morning a section of track
on the Silver Creek branch of tlie
Philadelphia es Reading road was
blown up with dynamite. Tho explo-
sion shook the houses in New Phila.-
delphia, rind Saver Creek. When the
workmeceo train reached the scene of
the explosion this morning a force of
ilfty 'deputies era,s on hand to escort
them to tho colllery. Laet night the
officiels of the Lehigh Coal and Nava
getter' Company learned that a plot
was; on foot to tear up the New
Jersey Central Railroad tracks at a
point between the No. 4 and tho No.
12 tollieriee. Two companies or the
12th Regiment were milled out. They
guarded the traeko all night.
Rioting Expected.
Seranton, Oct. 5.-TWi0e during
last night sentries about the latles
ce.mp were stoned and early In
the evening a train bearing troops
from Oliphant to Birdseye encoun-
tered a pile of rocks and a felled
tree across the tracks. It is ex-
pected that to -morrow morning
will witness no end of distuebances.
The strikers feel that Friclay's con-
ference at this White House Will
dishearten many of their members,
and that it will be necessar,v to
do the most energetic kind of pick-
etboig to prevent additions to the
working forces at the collieries.
The soldiers are also anticipating
this, sine some serious Clashes are
not unlikely.
1355res Arbitration Scheme,.
Theta is a strong feeling preva.
lent, especially among the business
men, that there should be a eon-
vention of the strikers called to
pass upon the Biter proposition to
refer to the distriet courts any
dispute that cannot he satisfactor-
ily militated between the mina, and
lust employer, The operators ee.
blare that it such a convention
Was held and a Octet ballot taken,
the vote In raver ef going back to
work on these terms would be al -
moot intent/Wu&
sessae
STONE W_Altlell UP.
Slay Now Try to Do 1118 lady to the
IIarrisburg, Po., Oet. 5. -Governor
Stone Wanda to bapixress rioting in
the coal regiente Ile la determined
to maintitle order even 11 110 should
be tompelled to eall to ante net obly
tite entire National Guard of the
State, but its enroliol nithlilo or one
million 1000. Iti trot, It lo said by
it prominebt member of the guard
that a call for the entire organiza-
tion 10 probable.
Ile at one time entertained the
idea, of calling the Pennsylvania Le-
gislature Into extra id esslou in the
hope of arbitration measures being
enacted to determine the great
Strike struggle, but hio abortive
coeforenee with John Mitchell and
representatives speaking for the
miners convinced elm, that the con.
tention 'Vas too formidable to be
vetted by legisladlon or by anything
he could do,
Tee unsatisfactory outcome at
Washington has simply confirmed hint
in this opinion, and nothing further
Will be done by him except complying
'with domande far more troops if the
three thousand in service should be
Inadequate to the preservation of
peace in the regions covered by -the
strike. lie expresses his purpose to
suppiess all riotous demonstra-
tions.
31o, girt as" Angel."
J. Plerpont Morgan has arranged
for t1ie. purchase in England of 50,-
000 tone of coal for the relief of the
poor and public in.stieutions in New
MII*1.1
Vv Soft coal Men Are nappy.
RUntington, W. 'V., Oat. 5. -The
Lincoln Coal Company, of this city,
on Saturday sold 500 cars of soft
coal to New York parties at $3per
to et the mines. This is said to
be the highest prise ever paid for soft
coal at the nonee In the history of
West Virginia ntinings
Canadian Cote Goes Away.
Washington, ()et. O. -The Secretary
of the Treasury leas received a com-
munication, from the collector of
cis/atomsat Portiani, Milne, in welch
ho states that the Dominion, Coal
Company of Canada is going to ex-
port to the United States 100,-
000 tomes of anthracite eruu of the
mine" coal,and aoks that increased
facilities be given the company for
handling tho same. Time department
will extend every facility withiethe
law and Its discretion. The coal
pays a duty of 67 cont e a, ton.
Roanoke, Vile -Oct. 6. -The daily
output of coal in tho Flat Top rind
Pocahontas fields, along the line of
the Norfolk & Western, is at pre-
maont 600 cars, or about -24,000 tons
par m% Gsie90
day. i
. Totmr
efalsd
i oenititym, betth
t or tht'esee
tracks aro so badly congested now
that it is not possibio to move more
then 600 cars. With the Sundae'
movement tire Norfolk & Western
eehxrpeo
ecttsr to be able to market WO
86,000 tons of coat daily.
AN (WEE %TOR'S VlEW.
Cannot Mud Mitchell to Any Agree-
ment.
New York, Oct. 4. -The President
of the anthracite coal roads arrived
here from Washington on a special
train to -day. President Posvler, of
the Ontario es Western road, said:
"It is not unlikely teat the publie
may Jump at tile concluslan that
Mr. Mitchell offered to resume op•
orations immediately in order that
the suffering public might be relieved
at once. I think it worth while to
call attention to the fact that Mr.
efitebell offered at yesterday's con-
ference to make an agreement for
not less than one year or more than
five years, as may be mutually de-
termined. Now, the point I svish to
make clear right here Is this: Mit-
chell cannot order an immediate re-
samption of work, because the by-
laws of the United Mine Workers de-
clare that such a proposition must
final, be submitted to a convention
of its, delegates. That can -not be
done in leno .than two weeks' time.
That much notice, I am told, is call-
ed for in the by-laws. The public
will observe that there le a great
difference between resuming work
immediatelyeeneel resuming Work at
the end of two weeks. In a word,
Mitchell's proposition lias a, string
to it. Moreover, how do the opera-
tors knosv that Mitchell ean con-
trol his men? Bid not they go back
on him t Hazelton two years ago,
when lie ordered them not to strike?
The trouble Is that there are two
sidee to this fight -the responsible
side and the irresponsible One. Time
operators stand for something; the
nalners are in a position to draw
out of any agreement their leaders
may -make. It is practically Impossi-
ble to make a bindleig agreement
wttli Mitchell."
London uitying Wood.
tendon, Oct. 5.-e1ayor Beek has
secured a hundred car;oads of cord-
WOod frOm the Vicinity of Denflekl,
which will be laid down here at -less
than $3 per eord. Ties wood will be
dealt out to the poorer citizens and
also supplied to the civic iristitu-
teens. s,
FRENCH TROOPS AT MINES,
--
cavalry and tirendarmes Sent Whore
Milner*, are oil Strike.
Paris, Oct. 6.-4t. deapatch from
Lille says ten squadrons of cavalry
and three brigadee gelideneeft
beedespatched to tlie dis-
triets where the French coal minete
aro on strike.
Tie committee of the Pae-cle-Cal-
ale Miners' Syndleate has Voted in
fn,vor of Ineugarating ti &trite) en
Alone/tee The National 14Itnera'
Federation has not reached a deids-
ion oh the eabject.
A despatch front Lone, in the Pass
tie -Wats district, says the strike of
the lorerteh melon is spreading. There
tiro 10,704 men now out In that de-
parimeht.
LOST WITH ALL ON BOARD.
*1,..••••
'three Hundred Chinese GO Dews
Willi a St ranter.
Victoria, 11. C., Oat. 6. -Advices by
Mail from China tell of 0010E40f the
etenmer Rand Leong, off the Chine,
coast. The vesgel, which wits hound
from Itangoon le Amoy, and embark-
ed three hundred Chineon at Ringo -
/tort, is believed to have been loot in
in:100111 with all on boards
of people and carried away many
heads. Tile Banana afterward at -
tricked tee Tugeri,
Sir r. P. Welter, administrator
of New Guinea, telegraphed to the
Governor General of Australia:
Proeeeding dean the Morelia:id
alter their raid on time Beaune vil-
lages, tee Tug,crI were eneountered
by a large hunting party of our
natives, among sellout were :some
Soriano, men. This party at onee
attacked the Tugeri, killed several
of :them and forcer' teem to abatis
doe their canoes and take to flight
In the blush. On my arrival here
from Australia I et once empower-
ed J. I. Carr to communicate di-
reotly with the Dateli authorities
at efaercke respecting the Tugeri,
and our police and soldiers will
form a. punitive expedition."'
With regard to alleged ruthless
raasaseres by the Tugeri, Sir Fran-
cis Winter wettes : "Sines my arri-
val in this poseession more natives
have been ruthlessly massacred by
other uetives within it radius of
twenty miles from the house in
which I am now, writing than have
during such period been killed in
this possession by the Tugeri. A
village on the Leroki River, not
more than six hours' walk from
this house, was neatly extermin-
ated."
The British warship Torch has
returned to Adelaide after pro-
claiming Suwarrow. Island. a Brit-
ish: coaling station.
ENUINEER WAS PLUCKY.
Drove OffTwo Robbers and killed
Third.
Williamsport, Pa., Oct. 6. - Five
masked men to -day hammered in
the door of the Montoursville,
Electric Company's power house,
with the suppoged intention of over-
powering the engineer and looting
a. safe In the office.
Engineer Bly, hearing the noise
mad,e In breaking down the door, got
a revolver, and opened fire, killing
one robber and wounding two °th-
eta Durding the fight Ely was shot
twice in the hip and log. He will
recover.
Bly managed to roach the whistle
and sounded an aiarm. While do -
80 the robbers dragged their
dead companion outside, strippsd Ids
body of all papers and valuables, and
escaped. The dead man was not
identified and he Is believed -to have
been a prOfesal,Onal thief.
NEW NOSE FOR A WOMAN.
Rebuilt With Paraffin at a Cincinnati
Hospital.
Cincinnati, 0., Oct. 6. - Surgery
has made elicit rapid strides within
the laet decade that it is impossible
to predict where its limit lies, as
was again illustrated at the city
hospital yesterday. In a few days,
when the friends of Maud Frazer
vial: her agate they will scarcely
recognize her in the comely girl ar-
tistically rejuvenated by the sur-
geon's skill,
Maud Frazer was a, pretty girl
but for one feature, and that was
her nose. When admitted just a week
ago from, her home, at 1,555 Linn
street that prominent adjunct to a
pretty face was all awry. In early
Walley she became afflicted with ca-
tarrh, which in its intensity caus-
ed the nasal bones .10 decay, and as
the necrosis developed they had to
be removea. Strange to say, time
outer skin was never affected,
but as the mainstay -the bridge
And cartilage -wasted away the
nose finally collapsed Ile a bal-
loon from which the air was exhaust-
ed. So little support did it have that
at length it only beca.me an. ap-
pendage that would flop from side
to side as she turned her head. It
was for the correction of this un-
sightly defect that she entered the
hospital, willing to undergo any form
of torture In its repair.
Where the nose has been eaten
away by a malignant disease, each
as mincer, surgeons long ago have
found a remedy in skin -grafting. In
Miss Frazer's ease, however, it was
necessary to blow it up as it were,
and to restore it to its natural
'contour. .itt practical knowledge
rather than surgical skill vas
necessary to devise the means,
and the staff physician in charge of
the case, has both. Ho decided to
restart lo paraffin, the same articles
from which candles are made. On -
le in this case the useful product was
4terilized and purified that it might
carry 00 disease germfs with it. af-
ter it ,Imad undergone this process it
was redueed to a semeliquid form
and kept so over a regulated lamp.
When nil wee ready for the opera -
Lion tho girl's face was also care-
fully sterilized and then an anti-
toxin syringe was brought into re-
quisition. Filled With paraffin, the
needle of the syringe was then in-
serted under the skin, just wdere the
eyebrows divide, and the paraffin
slowly ejected between the sklee 0.0d
eissur.. Slowly the bulbous nose be-
gan to torm into itsm former con-
tour, rind after the third injection
It looked like a ,Well-dOvelopod
aquilliam, and Without ht e former de-
fecte With his Other hand the stir -
wen kneaded it and thaped
111 ito form Was perfect, and the
Operatioh wee completed. In 'rose
than twenty-four hours the parer -
fie will have hardened to the con-
sistency of tho cartilage that oc-
eupied the space before, and to all
Intents; and purposes Nese erazer Will
have a shapely nose for the rest of
her days.
The strike of Chicago coal teeter
f4tPre, that for it time threatened To
deprive the pablie ecioist of their
feel supply, lute been Settled.
=v.) littest undertaking ot the
Ilirain Walker & Sons Co. to hewing
for oil on the bland of Trinidad, in
tho 'West LOW.
etroitektnaie the fouryettr-
old daughter of Ilenry Brouokman,
WAS Von tibierri and killed by ttn aut-
omobile driven by VernOn flitssartl,
t Cbleetgo Beard of Trade broker.
It is reported itt polities)t circles:
that non. IL T. Dare, Treasurer of
the Province of (bleb% will ithort/,.
be appoint:4d to a judgeship, and that
Mee ,T. C. efeCorklell, now ft Ltsgigla.
UV» COMICUlOri wlll eitceetti Mr.
Daffy,