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The Wingham Advance, 1902-09-04, Page 7QUESTIONS AT ISSUE 3 IN THE COAL STRIKE. 8 A Review of the Difficulty by Abram 5, Hewitt. . deezeaaisaeacacomeacemateemoceseatacnecetszemegzoecceoccomocc** • Abram i. Hewitt, of New 'York, Who le mewl Alit Bar 1tbor e., leas olwaye been regarded as al friena of the workingman, and a defender of the right of workmen to organize for their own protection. It woe on that account that hie opinion as to the great coal etriko was sought, and in repose he has given oat a lengthy fitatement, the principal parte or which are giVen here: , You aek whether tho time has not arrived for arbitration in •oreee to ond the coal strike in the authra- (site region% I think the time leas arrived when the plain truth should be told as well to the striking miners as to the public from some recog- nized advocate or trade orgaulzue tions as beneficial agencies for the improvement of the condition of workingmen. • Poe a quarter of a century I have uniformly maintained the right and the duty ot associations, both on the, knee: of employers and employees. Stith organIzatione, however, must be for lawful purposes and must look to the accomplOshneent of results Nounded on justice. When claims aro made contrary to the fundamental conditionr upon which (society is founded, they must be resisted at all hazards. A Great Question at Issue. ! I am quite clear that the claims of leer. Mitchell and the organization over which he presides aro in con- eravention of the 'principles of free government and of the rights of men to earn their living • in any lawful way without interference from or- ganized labor or Organized capital. The unhappy controversy now exist- ing is not based upon any reasonable' claim whicle labor can make for shorter hours or better wages. It is true that Mr. Mitchell alleges this to be the object of the strike, but as a matter of fact it is notorious that the real object Is to secure the recognition of his national organi- zation as an authority entithal to decide upon the rates of wages and tho conditions of labor in the coal Beide wherever situated. If this demand be conceded, it will not be possible for any man not holding a union card to secure employment in the coal fields. Thie will amount to a denini of the right of every man to sea las labor in a free market. The con- cession of thee demand will make Mr. Mitchell tho dictator of the coal business and put him in con- trol of votes enough to decide the next Presidential electiOn. The Right to Labor Denied. ' The right to labor is ieherent tn every' human being and cannot be surrendered without the sac- rifice of inditvidual iberty and of private property. It, therefore, cannot be arbitrated any more than the right of a inan to his own home if it ,eleali be claimed by an outsider wile prefers arbitration. An offer of arbitration is always attractive, but there are many thieves which eannoca be submitted to arbitration; among them none is so important to the working- man .as the right to sell his labor - in a free market. Tho operators cannot yiele this pant -without being disloyal to the owoers of the property- and to the workmen 100! carry on the operations. It woula be far better Ito abandon the businthe of mining . anthracite coal than to concede the demand of any man or set of mento deny the rights of employ- ment and of labor upon which tho wbole strueturo qf free govern- ment is founded and to which tills country owee its phenomenal pro- gress. In my juagine.ot, therefore, !the operators are only doing their plain duty In decliningi to arbitrate a question which is in the domain of conscience and invades tho per- imonae liberty of the individual. His Solution. Tho only solution of the trouble is for Mr. Mitehell to order the etrike off without delay. When tithe is done, if there be grievances to be abated, they will be promptly adjusted be- tween the loth' operators and the local unions. Mite right of aseoclation is not io question. This is admitted by. both employers and employeese (What is de- nied, and properly so is the poiver by the issue of union cards to refuse employment to non-union men and time (monde= them to • °streamer, sturvotion and, death. Sucli a ruse Is abhorrent to Jutetlete and 18 eatal to personal liberty. 'Flee Clulimme. the ownera of property, the op- erators uudoubtedly owe a duty to the Community, width is suffering great loss from the scarcity of fuel - 'Oho rt a private property, guar- anteed by the Constitution, is always subject to the underlying principle that it ie to be so used as not to damage the public* seriously. any claim of elle operator% therefore, that they eon (1.0 with their own as they sed fit, aoes not rest upon a sound foundation. If, heivevor, in the recognition oi their duty to the pub - lie, thee, aro compelled to respect other fundamental oonditions equally, if Dole more important to the public welfare, they would be false to their deity it they ehould yield to clamor and preasure from those who have not citrofully consIdefed the cense- ellieneee 00.7 such aetion. For lareedoin of Lather. There is a, principle MOTO Impor- tant than the obligation of private property to aebordinate itself to the gen,eral. welfare. The demand of any man or set of men, not occupying public office, to decide upon the con- ditions upon which labor steal' seek its livieg, and to make it subject to a license from irresponsible lead- ers, whether representing capital or labor, is in effect a claim to the power of life and death, and can Dever be conceded witheut a base surrender al duty to greed. The coal operators, therefore, are not fight- ing so much, for the control of their own property as for the right of the citizen to labor where he may find employment without interfer- ence from organizations or men who have no right to control his freedom of action Ne Czar Rule. I LOST PAINTING FOUND, CligSED BY Modoemo of Bottleella Brought to bightlaan Old Castle, 1somo ears go iz BLoggiguNgs. vitotrcz,sgt.aii;rva.A.Tp!igIlltrip An Escaped Convict Mails Vow of Vengeance AGAINST ALLEGED PERJURER •••••....••••••••• Who Swore Away His Liberte -The Letter identified by Those Who Know ills Writing -Sole Object, ot Emote Was to Kill ills enemy. Butte, elont., Sept. 1. -With ofra leers of the United States peniten- tiary upon his trail, assisted by blooclhoueds, Tom O'Brien, a conviet wile made a daring escape from the Stato prison last Friday, lias sent a communication to the Miner, plead- ing for a publie statement of his alleged crime and vowing the death of Under Sheriff Dave Alorgare, Whose all(ged p.ajured testimony, the con- vict declares, sant him to prison aud wrecked hie home. The document received by the Miner bears the postmark a Anaconda. The writer dates his communication from a mountain in the hills sur- roam:Eng Anaconda, and says that he wrote ble story behind a rock, divid- ing hie time between hie Winchester and his pen. Tho communication is a literary freak, and there is no gees- -Lion as to its authenticity, because the handwriting has boon fully iden- tided by the warden of Vac peniten- tiary and others acquainted with the criminal. O'Brien declares hire sole object In °keeping from prison is to kill Mor- gan. O'Brien was sent up for rob- bery in 1001. Finally, the claim of the United Mine Workers' organization to con- trol the entire coal industry of the country is based upon an impracti- cable idea, Very little knowledge irs noceesarY tee show that the coal re- gions of the United States diffea so much from each other that the policy which is adapted to oae is ut- terly umsuited lee another. Moreover, the various ratnres differ from each other in conditions, requiring care- ful adjustment in the wages of labor and in some respects in the hours necessary to keep them in working order. All that a national organiza- tion could possibly do would be to support the claim of workmen who for any reason are dissatisfied With the conditions which prevail in any particular locality or mine. But to call a general ineteae of a local strike when) a local grievance is not adjusted in a satisfactory way is anoutrage of ,suth vast proportions that it cannot for ono moment be tolerated by a free people. Bost anforce Order. The hope of the working classes in the future, as In the past, for bet- ter collations, rests upon personal liberty and the security of pro- perty. The , Eng:isle-speaking miners understand thee peopeOlion onto - 1y, but ler the time being they are eowerless no the p:esenee of bad lead- ership and the state of terror wilich prevails in the coal region, sub- jecting them to obloquy, violence and death, by which unwia'ne acqui- escence es enforthd. What es wanted to end this 'de- structive conflict is not arbitration, but the stern represelon of violence and the assured protection of the meners who desire to earii a liveli- hood for -themselves and thole fam- ilies. To this , protection they ore entitled, and the Government which tale to afford it, is a reproach to republican institutions. The demand for arbitration conies oath an ill -grace from a leader wbo began the conflict with an order ealang on the engineers, firemen and pumpinen to abandon their teak, time °seeming the mines to utter run. If this order had been obeyed the resumption of work woull have been rindeanitety postpuned, ani the helpless vittems of this desperate ex- pedient reduced to hopeless poverty. "To rule or rant' is not a poltcy wh:elm oonnue.nds Itsef to the Ameri- can people, who believe in the old- fashioned rule that he who demands equity must first do equity. RAILWAYMEN FIGHT, Row Over the Crossing of itwo Rival Linos. Olean, N. Y., Sept. 1. -In a clash to -day between employees of the Meal Street Rallroact Company and those of the Shawmut Railroad a boom of men were hurt, and J, W. Miller, Superintendent of the trol- ley company's torces, was severely injured. Yoe some time past the 0:ean Street Tearaway Company bas been building an extensioa to its Port - vine line to Ceres and Bolivar, N. Y., and intended to have the line in op- eration this summer. About a mile above Portvelle the tracks are com- pelled to cross the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, but the latter com- pany has prevented this crossing by keying stub switches and digging ditches between the switches and the molar line, making it impossible for the trolley Pen to cross. ' • At Ceres they are compelled to cross the Shawmut Railroad, and at thee point trouble occurred to -(lay. Judge Kehefeek granted the troley company an order yesterday to eross, and 3. W. Miner, the Superin- tendent of the Company, with a gang of about twenty men, went to Ceres to -day to sterile* the feed wire of the Shawn:mut road. The letter company had a gang of about 200 men on the scene, and every move ina,dem by the trolley romee was feught by the ralleoad. As feet as trolley poles were er- ected they were chopped (town. A feee-for-all flalit ensued, in Which pricka,xes, plekluoulles and stones were ttsed freely, Mr. el toe Was hit on the bead with a stone and badly injured. It be re - Ported that 25 mon were lejured dur- ing the Het. COUNTESS DIES PAUPER. Followed the Fertile e of a Circus Elder. Violin:I, Sept. 1.-A. great aensit- tion was 'caused wine time ego hi Mimboli eoelety by the dienopenea once ot tho young and beautiful Baronegs Baidevie, a few hours af- ter She had boon nuerriet1 to the (leant Stettimiliatiern. It Was the Circus -rider Moore; who hal abduct- ed her tor Anetrie. 1 Sliettly afterward:I the brutal and profligate circus -rider deserted her, leaving her entirely destitute, and to support herself and her child she had to work au a common da,y la- borer. . Not being used to hard work, how- ever, she soon fell sick, and was un- able to pay for the board of her child, which was brought to her in tho hoepital, where she lay sick. Not knowing what to do, she left the hospital in her desperate condi- tion, and aeon after the child was found dead in the brushwood near Budapest. A. few days ago a hopelessly ill woman named Antal-Ida Weber, wee admitted into the St. Rochue Hos- pital, of Budapest, where she died, A few hours before her death she revealed her true natne-Countess Maria Stettinhausen. RIOT ON A YACHT.. HORSES OIE OF EXIIIIIBTION Brutal. International Military Ride in Belgium. • A FRENCHMAN WON THE RACE Brussels, Sept, 1. -The intevuation- al military ride from Bruesels to Os- tend, a distance a 82a miles, result- . ed in an easy victory for the French - eenerele en an old Castle near Beteeenee, and elepogitee in tile gal- lery of paintings at that place. Yesterday thie picture was recog- nized as one Of the fineet of Botta work. It is 0941704.pol and is painted 011 a wooden board. It re- presents the Mamma, Deleting on her knows the !infant Sesus, who is lying on the grass. Time pecture, the correspondent says, le absolutely a preolous work, which heretofore has been referred to as having been lost. man. An enormous crowd witness- ed the start, which was made in a violent hailstorm. Tie horses were hoof -deep in mud during the contest. There were sixty-one corn- petitoree and they started at inter- vals of five minutes. They were di- vided into six. squads. From tlio fifteenth to :the thirty-seventh mile a French Dragoon of the name of Valder held the lead. Before the fortieth mile was reached, four Bel- gians and one Dutchman gave up the struggle because of the exhause tion of their horses. k The race con- tinued to be a sensational and bril- liant affair. At the '624 mile peat the leader was Captain ICiellmand, Norwegian, who made the distance in 4 hours and 21 minutes. Lieut. &laza, a Frencionan, was second, in four hours and 28 minutes. Lieut. Madamet, another Frenchman, who finally won, was third at this point, in four hours and 44 minutes. Alter rassina the 62 1-2 mile point the hardest part of the ride began, and the affair developed into the se- vereet kind of an ordeal, Many horses fell exhausted. Three of the animals dropped dead before Ostend was reached. When near Ostend the French lieutenant, Balza). who no- ticed that his horse was dying, drew his revolver and blew its brains out. The only English officer in the con- test, Lieut. Gibbon, saw his mount was exhauoted, and dismounted while the animal panted its life away. The scene at •Ostend, when the Frenchman, Lieut. Madamet, riding a Hungarian thoroughbred, came in first, was one of great enthusiasm. Mho Imre° died soon after the victory. The second, third, and fourth n.t the finish were all Frenchmen. Then came a Norwegian, a Dutchman, and a Bel- gian. The time of the winner, Lieut. leadamet, fat the entire distance, was Pax hours and twenty minutes. Sailors Turned Over to the 11 al 1 I ax Authorities. Hol.fax, N. S., ept. 1.-Thure was 0. rowi this afternoon on Mr, George, W. 0, Drexel's yacht the Almelo, from Philadelphia, which amounted almost to mutiny. Several minibus ot the crew beim= intoxicated and began smashing thiegs on board. The captain called in a Halifax po- !iceman, but he wag powerless. Time officers of the yacht seemed tenable to assist him effectively, while oth- ers of the crew declined to help. Ifeinfercements were called for and a pose wont on beard from the police station.. When the auxiliaries arrived the sailer who wag the prin- cipal cause of the trouble retreated down a hatchway, still defying the pollee,. The policemen quickly fellow. ed. The ether sailors cried that the mainlead a, knife, but the policemen elOsed with the sailor, and, after putting trOPOO on hini brought hien to the deck. The /*lice theit started to hated - Cuff another' sailor. 1Viille they wore thus Occupied the prisoner, who wag a big Man, snapped the bandeeffs ap- parently as easily as 11 they Were Made of twine. The two pile:Mere Were finally taken to the station, but during the acrinmeage the po- lieernen had their helmets broken and •got Many ems, The prieoners were afterward paid off by the Captain, and they will be arraigned fOr trial teellemerrofwe, • ' • , 1 . m TURKS AND 11111EZIONIIINS, Desperate Fighting b sting Fifteen Hours. THE WOUNDED SLAUGHTERED London, Sept. 1. -An .Express de- spatcli from Vienna reports a re- markable encounter near Gradsko, a, Turkish village near the Bulgar- ian frontier, between Turkish troops and Macedonian insurgente. The insurgents were preparing to blow up the bridge on the railway from Sofia to Uscub, when a de- tachment of Turkish, troops, under Lieut. Mahmud Nedim Bey, sur- prised them. The insurgents hur- riedly withdrew, and entrenched themselves in a strong position, wherein they could only be attack- ed on ono side and under condi- tithe extremely unfavorable to the aggressors. They numbered 65', armed with good rifles, two Ma- chine guns wen supplied with am- munition, besides dynamite and nitro-glycerine explosives, all smuggled from Bulgaria. Meanwhile the Turks brought re- inforcements. Two thousand troops advanced to attack the handful of rebels, who, knowing that their adversaries would give no quarter, defended their position with desperate determination. Again and again the Turks pressed forward to storm the position, and time after time the insurgents rowed them to retire. The unequal °Detest began at a in the after- noon, and continued all night and all next day. Finally, after fifteen lueurs every one of the 65 was either killed or wounded. The vic- torious Turks promptly (slaughter- ed the latter, and afterwards hack- ed their dead bodies to pieces. According to despatches from leiostendil to the Hirlap and other journals, the Turks sustained:heavy losses. Two accounte received from different sources assess the Turk- ish casualties at about 850-150 killed and 200 wounded. MARRIED AT LAST. Moping Couple Had a Long Journey Before They could Wed Safely. (iumberland, Ittd., Sept. t. -Luther Samuel Fletcher, of Cross Junction, Va., and Ella May 'Whitaker, of Par- iah -villa Va., were married here a day or two ago attar a very sensational experienoe, having driven 101) miles to get the nuptial knot tied. On Sunday Mies Whitaker was es- corted to church by her brother, while Fletcher took another young lady. Taey all sang in the choir, and while the opening hymn was being sung Feetther gavo Miss Whitaker the signal, when they loth left the church and jumped into a, buggy. The girl's brother followel in hot pursuit, soon overtakingthe eloping couple, only to haven. pistol hell, to hie face by tho deterniiued groom, who forced, the brother to return to the elmurole The couple then drove to this city, arriving hero early this morning, haviug driven tho gxertter portion of two days and two nighta. The geoom ia n farmer's son, aged, 126 Yeetaeovhile the bride is only 17 yoars1 of aigo. comae Jost no time in securing the license ana a ministee to marry them, as they feered the errs father had, lantreled a train and would head 'them off, 1 POTATO ROT PREVALENT. Growers in Western Ontario Report a Complete Failure, St. Thomas, Sept. 1.-Iteporte that potatoes aro rotting badly in heavy lona aro Molting in from different parts of tho country. The tubers are see plentiful a crop that tho general elteot may met be serious, but mine rowere repeat all almost coMplae toes of their crop. Others erter one- third and ,ono-lialf of their crop has rotted. The oppeitrance of the dis- ease in the patato bas been very tied. den. 111 patches ten daye ngo not at all affeetea tb.0 potatome are now not -worth digging. The dieetege fleet nf- fectet the inslao of the "Murphy," and nriny enemingly Peoria potatoes :ere diecoireeed to be Werthleite wimait cut Opele , , • : , • THE HEN SMASHES TRUST. agg Corner Clique Heavy Losers by Their Deal. Chicago, Sept. il, - Armour & Swift, heading the powerful clique of Chicago packers who tried to corner the eggs last spring, are ITALY'S MOURN ENTERS BERLIN, Kaiser and King Ride in One Carriage. ADDRESS AND A REPLY, ,...••••••••••••••4 The Drelbund. and Peace to be Main- talned-Arimmeeilans Seek Repeat of Turkish Measures and Sign Guarantee of Good Behavior. Berlin, Sept. L -King Vietor )leu - manual of Italy, accompanied by the Emperor and Empreser of Germany, the Crown Prince, Frederick Wil- liam, and Signor Prinetti, the Ital- ian Minister of Foreign Affairs, anti eariorted by a detachment oe Cuirae- dere, made, his State entry into Ber- lin thie morning. Tao weather was eplendicl, Vie Imperial Chancellor, Count Von Buelow, and the Italian am- bassador to Cierraany, Count Lanza, D. Ithaca, met the Royal party at the railroad station, wnence they drove through the gaily decorated atreets to the Brandenburg gate, wlieee they were formally weleomed by the CMG authoritiee. King \Pieter Em- manuel and Emperor William oc- cupied the same carriage. In front of the Brandenburg gate the chief Burgomaster, Herr Kirschner, presented an address of weleome, reviewing the important bonds of friendship between Italy and Germany, whichl had heisted for many centuries, and saying that the whole of Germany eaw In King teeter lemmanueee vialt new proof of his intent to maintain the Drei- bund ancr International peace. The Italian monarch, without leav- ing the carriage, cordially thanked the burgomaster, speaking in French, and saying he regretted he was un- a.ble to reply in German. larr Kirschner's daughter present- ed King Victor Emmanuel with a bouquet of flowers, and the carriagee proceeded to the arsenal, heartily cheered by a great concourse of people. In the central hall of the arsenal the ceremony ot consecrating forty - ono colors and nailing them to their flagstaffs was carried out in the presence of their elajesties. The vitae: of King Victor Emman- uel to Emperor William has been marked by the conferring of many orders, including the Order of the Annunciate, which was personally handed by the King to Count Von Buelow. King Victor Emmanuel subse- quently lunched at the Italian Em- bassy and received the prominent members of the Italian colony. Ills Majesty also called on Count Von Buelow, on Field Aftershal Count Von :NValclersee and at several em - basses. , Will Abdul Sten? likely to be heavy Losers by their deal. The Chicagoans bought all the egge they eoula get and placed them in coll storage, anticipating a hot summer and a consequent shortage in ,the market through waste. Egg dealers and brokers on the mercantile exchange freely predict that there will be a gredua,1 b,ut considerable drop in the price of eggs for some weeks to come, and produce figures in support ef their contentions. A prominent dealer said to -day: "The receipts of eggs inthis city, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Buffalo, which represent the avail- able supply, have been unusually heavy. The remaikably cool sum- mer 18 responsible for this. During hot (summers a majority of the eggs proauced are 'burned up,' as we call spoiling by aeat. Last year 81 per cent. of the total production of eggs in this country was loet through eggs being spoiled. This year there has linemen no quell loss. On the contrary, the receipts are many thousands of dozens greater each week than last year. Eggs are now 25 cents a dozen, which is 5 cents higher than last year. This Is because fresh eggs are being use exclusively instead of cold storage eggs, which aro generally used by the...thousand at this time of the year. Eggs were quoted on the mercantile exchange to -day at act cents, which brings them to the grocer at prices rouging from 22 to 23 cents a dozen. Armour & Swift and other big packing firmm. have thousands of cases of eggs in cold storage, which would have brought them a largo profit had this summer beenhot, as usual, with the consequent decrease in the production Of eggs through waste." TO URGE REFORM, W1111ain S. Forrest Would Stop Bur - der Trials by Papers. London, Sept. 1. -William 8. For- rest, the well-known eriminal law- yer, will propose, a startling reform on hie retuen to Chicago in Septem- ber. Mr. Forrest says that he will lay before the Illinois bar a proposal to make it contempt of court for a newspaper to publish the details of a crime in advance a the trial. Tito peoposal alms to stop all news- paper Investigation into crime and was euggeseed to Mr. la:wrest by the recent charge of justlee Willis to a Midlands jury advising them to con- vict a newepapet for having pub- lished supposed details of a murder Orevioae to a trial. Mr. Forrest thinks the statute on which this charge was based a most exeellent device and believes that if a similar TOW were In effect in MI - note the worle ot the prosecution and defense would be unhampered by "nelvepaper trials." Ile says that It was judge Holdall who first call- ed his attention to the British en ode oil. The newspapers of New Zealand aro already eteleiteted to government- al oupervision in this particular. When a pereon is arrested or ar- raigned for any crime, the nowepee pore are prohibitedfrom "trying hits ease," making any ceenMent referring tte hie crime, Or stating that he ime committed the -crime. Steele a -pollee ease is sub Judith Until tho jury has rendered the verdiet.• Very severe penalties and fines ranging from 8500 to $1,000 would be inflieted for a breath of this/ Ineve The idea is to give the Man audio% and net have bus cneme prejudIcol in the public mind, or elle man's reputation rulnerl be - tore he Me beeit preen guilty by a jury Of tW,Olete Men, LOST COUNT OF CHILDREN, London Mau liara So Many He Could Not Support Them Loodon, Sept, 1, -The troubles of the old Won= Wbo lived In a ghoe fere not worth mentioning alongside ot tbege of William elorke, wbo was arraigned in the aOuthwark Police Court the other day, charged With leaving his wile amea three children destitute. Clarke pleaded 'that his progeny won too numerous for bine to take care of, IDA first wife beret Mm sbx- tecn thilaren, MO second wife twenty. Tile wife, who was called as a wit - noes, seta She 'thought elle bad only eighteen children, but there were lial* many elle was not sure. The prisoner said that one at least Of his sons was dead, but as to the rest he couldn't sea how many were now; living. Constantinople, Sept. 1. -The Sul- tan recently agreed to repeal the exceptional measuree adopted against the Armenians, if tho Armenian patriarch would guarantee that no outbreak would follow. The patri- archal council, ahcordingly, met to- day and eigned a document setting forth the loyalty of the 'Armenians and promising tranquility. An imper- ial irade a( now awaited, tho patri- arch refusing to resume his duties until the promi :ea of the Sultan are fulfilled. • SUES THE PRIEST. COFFIN FULL OF ICE. • • O....Md.. James Pendleton Makes a Full Confession, 3CHEME TO HIDE TRIPLE LIFE, Emporia, Kan., Sept. 1. -There have been plenty of men whole mysterious course of conduct in leading 'double lives has been brought to light, but it remains for jams Pendleton, Mayor of the city of Gentry, Mo., to disoloee a life of triple existence. The case reveals a plot that Sherlock Holmes would revel in, and time tale of its telling revolves about the mysterious burial at Or - tondo, Logan county, Okla.., on Aug. lath last, of a coffin. con- taining 200 pounds of lee, tiers doe° to a:void proeecution for bigamy. Buried in the dead of night, the cofflu was supposed to contain the body of C. Se Morris, of Eimmoria. The burial was arrangea by a man giving his name as John Cox. It (tow turns out by a confession of Mayor Pendleton that the mythi- cal Morris was Pendleton blmself, and that John Cox was also Pen- lleton. Tao story IS one of ingeni- ous and absorbing perplexity. James Pendleton in Gentry, Mo., wan mayor of the city, a husband and father of five children. His respectability was beyond re- proach. In, Emporia, Ken., he was Cm. S. Morris. Under that name on June 17th last he married MIss Grace Obley, of Emporia. Soon afterward, fearing that les eual 1 fe woubi be found out, he turned up in Orlando, Okla., with a third per- sonality. It is here that the plot talk:keno. As John Cox, of Gentry, he arranged for the burial of C. 8. Mor- rie, of Emporia, in a local cemetery,. Mrs. Morris, of Emporia, wan to be len a widow. Mayor James Pendleton was to rajoin his family at Gentrye John Cox, having- attemded the burial of hie friend Morris, was to vanish, om.:6'es has1111 wed with manother skillfully laid plots and sthemes, this y, tfhlough and was exposed by a meet ordioary circumstance. Pen- elobon's downfall was brought about by a crate of peao,he,se As John Cox he went to Orlando, Okla, bought a lot in a ceenetery, an- nonnoe.d that a traveleng man named C. S. Morris bad died on a, train of congestion of the stom.ach, and hired a, moat to aig a gra.ye, He then 'hied himself -to Perry, Okla., ostensibly to got the body of Morels. There he bought a cheap cof- fin, and 200 pounds of ice. Ho put the ice in tile coffin and shipped the whole to himself -John Cox -at Orlando. Well eatisfied with: his work, theughts of his trusting wife at home must hue come to Pendieton's mind, :or remembering her fondness for fine pc:melees lie bought a crate and lad than shipped to Mrs. James Pendle- ton, of Gentry, Mo., little dreaming that therein lay Ms undoing, for it was tails clew that helped to reveal the double identity of Cox. To the suppositious widow ai Em- ploria was sent the DON'TS of the death and burial of C. St Morrie, and her father, A. 11. Obley, went to Or- lando to investigate. He had a photograph of Morrie, which was re- cognized in Orlando as a likeness of Cox. Inquiries, at Perry unearthed the fact of a, crate of peaches leav- ing been Rent to Gentry. Detectivee there found that Mayor Pendleton had been absent from home for several months, that he had re- turned on Aug. 16, the day follow- ing the burial of Morrie, and he 'was thereepon arrested. Brought to Em- poria yesterday lie was confronted by ears. Grace Obley Morris, who identified him as the man she had married oa Jane 17. She thenewoxre out a, warrant for the arrest of Pendleton on the charge of bigamy; and soon after- ward he made a full confession to the police official, in which he admitted the fact that he had im- personated three different men. Itev, Gentleman Failed to Cull, Par- ishioner attended. Montreal, Sept. 1.-A. peculiar ac- tion has just been entered in the courts here. Celibert Lefebvre, late of the parish of St. Philippe, County of Laprairio, has entered an action for e400 damages against his pastor, the Rev. A. Corbett. The plaintiff bases his action on the alleged ground that although he 18 a parishioner of good behavior, his pastor, when visiting the parish in January last, in company with one of the churchwardens, omitted to call at his house. The declaration, states that the pastor's visit has been announced from the pulpit, the announcement being also made that the priest would call at the residence of all Roman Catholic freeholders, as has been. the custom in the polishes Of this province from time immem- orialebut that the defendant, without any reason, and with a view to hum- iliate plaintiff, declared several times that he would not call at plaintiff's house, and, in fact, did not call. Lefebvre further complains that this act of las pastor became the general topic of eenversation, and whenever he mot any of his co -par- ishioners they asked him whether lie was still a Roman. Catholic and what he could have done to die cure to thus be refused a visit. THIEF USESRED PEPPER. Throws 11 In the Face of an Express Agent. entnehester, N. He Sept. le -An ex - profs peckage containing $2,7.10, con- signed to the, Devonshire Mill at Oolf s Falls, was secured, by a masked rob- ber toaley, who overcame the youth- ful station agent at the Goft'a Falls station, four mile:a south of this city, by thowering him with red. pepper. The Money was sent from Boston, and was intended to meet the payroll of the 360 employees of the Devon- shire M111. The peckage arrived by American Express ret. 3.15 a. m. It woe given to the, station agent, who is also an express agent. The young 1111.11 deposited the package in the of- fice, and tato next moment a, strneger clashed in, and throwing a. handle" of pepper into the agent's face, grabbed the package, and, running across the road, disappeared in the shrubbery. The agent was helpless with pain and completely blinded. When the alarm Wale given no trace of the robber could be found save the (listen's°, Width he had dropped as he fled. MERRY PATH GOES TO OEITIL One Man and Five Olds Were the Victims, •••:•••••••••140.1 ONE A TORONTO GIRL. Were Out Rowing on Laden oeguae, Imo., when Their Boat Was Struck by the Steamer Welcome -Only One of the Occupants, Saved, Battle Creek, Miele, Rept. 1. -Five emploaees or the Battle Creek Sani- tarium, nurses, probationers and stenograextbere, Were dreamed at Lake Goguac last evening as the re- sult a a collision between tho steamer Welcome and a row -boat containing a. party of young people. Five girls had beea out for a raw. about the lake with a youog man and were returning to the Sanitar- ium villa. The Welcome Was start- ing out for her lost trip. The young man, Bennett, who w,arit at the oars, became bewildered and the steamer struck the boat broadside the Those drowned were; Mr. Ben- nett, Della% Texas; Fanny Brady. Battle Creek, Boa, ; Mabel Richard, Traverse City, Mich.; Ella Dorsey, alleglieny, Penn.' FonnIe Willie, North Toronto Ont. Carrie Fyock, of Johnstown, Pa., clung to the lanot, and was the only one saved. Mess Brady and bliss Richard were evidently struck by steamer and Jellied, for they were found floating. 'Ilhe other bodies are In 20 feet of water and are being dragged for. . Around CrysItal City the cutting of grain is about completed. Hen, Thore areenivaa hag about 000 acres of ceetale, &eta of that acreage nearly tweethirde has been barVested. The yield will be heavy. The New YOrk pollee heeere found the beety of a man with One leg IseVered, in the river, The Man was about 35 yearg 02, 5 feet 10 inches tall and Weighed about 225 poundg. en the trousers poeket eettel found it grill ring studded Witli three erne- thyste, m. TABLET AT DEVIL'S HOLE. ro Commemorate the MitsFaere of September, 1763. Buffalo, Sept. 1. -Another tablet on the Niagara frontier is assured, ams a result of .yesterday afternoon's meeting of the executive committee of the Niagara Frontier Landmarks Assnolation. Arrangements were partly made for the engraving of a tablet to be placed at the Devil's 1101e sta- tion of the Gorge leallroad, in commemoration of the massacre which took place at that point on Sept. 14th, 1763, A band of Seneca Indians ambushed a British (supply train, and only three of the white men escaped. The tablet will be unveiled With ceremonies on Sat- urday, Sept. 13th. The details of the cerentony will be arranged later. The tablet Is the gift of the Gorge Railroad. SARDINIAN INCENDIARISM. TRAINMEN IN BIG COMBINE Object to Secure Higher Pay for Millions, MAY MEAN MUCH TROUBLF. Chicago, Sept. 1.-..elie Record -Her- ald says; Operating employees of every railway system is the United States and Canada are planning the greatest labor movement in the his- tory of their organizations, and as a result the railway managers of the entire country will soon be facing the most serious problem a the kind presented in many years. The movement, which le well under way, is one of concerted action for higher wages for every class of workmen employed in the operation of trains. It includes engineers, con- ductors, traineeen, or brakemen, fire- men, can men and switchmen. 'Back of the movement will be a solid phal- anx of between m1,000,0013 and 1,500,- 000 workingmen bent upon forcing the railroads to give them what they deem' to be a just share oe the proceeds of the phenomenal prosper- ity that has come to the companies. It is understood that the demands will range between 10 and 20 per cent. higher than the present scales - of wages, and that the demands will be made upon certain groups of roads by the middle olf September. The demands will not be accom- panied by threats to strike, but of coarse the strike spectre will from now on be constantly behind the chair of every general manager in the couartry. JUDICIAL MISCARRIAGE. Painful Story of a Wrong Which Lasted FoUrteen Years. Rome, Sept. 1.-A sad story of the terrible suffering which follows when health errs comes from Vicenza, Fourteen years ago a man naeued Evangeliet Geiffoni was found mur- dered. Theft was cleetrly the Object a 'the crime, and father and son named Palma:Alto and four broth.ere namea Urbanl were arreeted. The two Panarottos were acquit- ted, one of 'the four ;brothers received ten years' aerial servitude. The three Others were sent -co prison for life. Two of them died 1 prison after a. :ow yeors, still, as always, protesting their innocence. The third Lae drag- ged on tho miseretble convect exist- ence to eels day, writing ceaseless entreaties to the Mgt Coma to allowl the revision of hie %ooze - Only a few days ago the police of San Giovanni Harione, where Griffont was murdered, stumbled on evidence which proved irrefutably that the four Uebanis had been the victims of a terrible judicial error. The smote survivor of the three sent to a life- long imprieonment is to be Immedi- ately released. But prison life has broken him completely. Rome, Sept. 1.-Informatio*i comes from Sardinia that the 'starlet is sufferiug terribly from the des- tructive work of a band of unknown lucendiaries. All over the island files have been breaking out, causing tremen- dous damage. 'Vineyards and olive yards are the principal objects of the attacks, (ma many' properties evhieli a, few &lye ago prOroised to be rich in crops are now noth- ing Vint messes of blackened and charred stumps. A fire beret out In a big olive yard Only a few hundred vitas frolu the towo or %assort. A bOdy of soldlere was sent to help the firmer, and Many people hurries" forth to lend a hand, but the flames had already spread we far that it was seVeral hones Were they cotild be got under control. Many landlords, their proepeete of 11 barveet being ruined, are demand- ing a reneiselen Of Haft , BIG CIRCUS COMBINE. Forepaugh and Sens, Buffalo Bill, and Barnum and IL111ey Merge. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. le -Ac- cording to Peter Sells, one of the proprietors V the Foreeaugh & %ells Bros'. Circua that circus* has perfected a "community of Inter- est" with the Buffalo' 13111 Wild West aggregation, and the Barnuni er. Bailey shows. Mr. Sells eald the three aggregations signed a con- tract a month ago, and henceforth ythe Barnum & Bailey Company, Lim- titheed, oa fr oLont:obn: Eng. aged by "Itiach company," said Mr. Sella "reties Ite IndiVidualty, and will stand on its own lege. Still there aro important thenge agreed 1.0 The idea Is to have ono of the big shows in the United Stales each year and ono in Great Britain, and one On the Centinent. The Bailment & Bailey Company, Limit- ed, of London, England, Intends to control the circus business oe the Continent and Great Britain, an well as to retain a strong hold upen the field ite the United States. T41:rr. e first result of the merger will be ter stop all fighting for Orel- tTenderg for the TentiecaMingue Itaitreet4 will be advertiteed, for hp tO Sept. 28, the Oottlitierism being that the Bret fifty mils Will be Oompleted by Dee. 01, 1903, and the Whole read finished by Dec. 31, 1901. The tette lute beret deelded 1100.11 It aceOrdatice With the report 01 the etigineer,