Savannah Tribune

Coal Operators Come Down From Pedestals. STRIKE MAY SOON END Magnate Morgan Brings About a Conference at Washington at Which Operators Accept Proposition of Miners for Arbitration. A Washington special says: The operators have agreed to the appointment of a commission to be appointed by the president of the United States to whom shall be referred all questions at issue between the companies and their own employees, whether they belong to a union or not, and the decision of the commission shall be accepted by the operators. The commission is to consist of an army or navy officer, an expert mining engineer not connected with coal miner, properties, one of the judges of the United States courts of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, a man of prominence; eminent as a sociologist, and a man who, by active participation in mining and selling coal, is familiar with the physical and commercial features of the business. The operators also make as part of their proposition that the miners shall return to work as soon as the commission is constituted, and cease all interference with non-union men. The commission is to name a date when its findings shall be effective, and to govern conditions of employment between the companies and their own employees for at least three years. The statement was read to the president as an act of courtesy before being given to the press. SUPREME COURT RECONVENES. New Members Admitted and President Called Upon. A Washington special says: After the usual summer recess, the United States supreme court re-convened at noon Monday for the October term. No business beyond the admission of new members of the bar was transacted. This was in accordance with the custom of devoting the first day's sitting to a call on the president. The court was not in session to exceed five minutes and immediately after the adjournment the justices doffed their official robes and, taking carriages, proceeded to the temporary while house, where they were presented formally to President Roosevelt. The presentation was made in the order of the seniority of the members. The call was purely social and formal, consuming only a few minutes of time. The justices were accompanied, as usual, by Solicitor General Richards, Clark, McKenna, Marshal Wright and Court Crier Faust. CASTRO FORCES REPULSED. Meet Heavy Defeat in Hot Engagement With Rebels. Advices from Willemstadt, Curacao, state that the troops of the Venezuelan government have been repulsed while reattempting to occupy Coro, capital of the state of Falcon, and sustained heavy losses. A schooner, with sixty men on board, was sunk. An engagement was fought at Goyabo, three hours from Caracas, Saturday. The government force was defeated, losing 112 men. The revolutionists have almost completely encircled Caracas. The British cruiser Indefatigable arrived at LaGualra Sunday. Other British vessels are to follow. The United States gunboat Marletta has returned to LaGualra from Curacao. AFTER ALLEGED SWINDLERS. Valdosta Fruit Growers to Prosecute Pittsburg Broker, The fruit and melon growers in the vicinity of Valdosta, Ga., who lost so heavily the past summer by the swindling operations of some northern buyers, are preparing to even up things if possible. Sheriff Passmore went to Pittsburgh, Pa., last week with a warrant for the arrest of James D. O'Brien, a fruit broker of that city. A telegram from the sheriff Monday night stated that he had secured his man and was en route to Georgia with The Savannah Tribune. — Judge Speer refuses to confirm sale of Millen and Tennille, Ga., cotton mills, holding that the price is too small. — A strong effort is being made by Americus, Ga., to secure location of the Presbyterian college, and site and $5,000 in cash has been promised as an inducement. — The street car strike in New Orleans ended Sunday. The men agreed to accept company's terms. — Senator Quay had a conference with the president Sunday on the situation of the coal strike. — The crown prince of Siam arrived at Washington Saturday. —The hunt for the men who held up a Burlington railroad train near Lincoln, Neb., and robbed it, so far proves unsuccessful. —South Dakota reports several inches of snow. —Farmers' National congress declines to indorse ship subsidy bill and after session of four days at Macon, Ga., and adjourn meeting. —Ben Nussbaum, representative elect from Decatur county, Ga., died suddenly at Bainbridge, Ga. —Cotton mill men agree on plan of big merger at meeting in Greensboro, N C —Miners and operators of Sloss-Sheffield Company, in Blue Creek district, Alabama, reach agreement and strike is averted. —Stranded' ship Apache, which collided with the Iroquois near Charleston, will soon be floated. —The strike in the anthracite region is no nearer a settlement. Governor Odell denounced the attitude of the operators at a conference in New York. —The next encampment of the G. A. R. will be held in San Francisco. Before adjournment a resolution urging fraternal attitude toward confederate veterans was adopted. —Crazed by pondering over an appliance for an airbrake, young Charles Cawley, of Pittsburg, brained mother, sisters and brothers with an ax. —The Merrimac Manufacturing Company, of Massachusetts, will invest $1,600,000 in a cotton factory at Huntsville, Ala. —Admiral Casey will act as mediator between the Colombian government and the rebels on the Isthmus of Panama. —Three hundred children from the Georgia Orphans' Home sang patriotic airs to Farmers' congress in Macon, Ga., Thursday, and northern hurrahs mingled with rebel yells. —Negro prisoner attacks Constable Paulk, near Irwville, Ga., and after beating him robso officer and makes good his escape. Steamships Iroquois and Apache, of the Clyde line, collided near Charleston Thursday and both were badly damaged. Coal supply is exhausted at Raleigh, N. C., and mines in state are urged to increase output. Issue of bonds will be necessary to meet half million dollar debt in Mississippi. President Roosevelt shakes politics in appointment of Alabama officials. President Mitchell, of the mine workers, in his reply to suggestion of President Roosevelt, that the strike be declared off, refuses to do so and says responsibility of strike rests on the operators. Three men were killed and another one mortally wounded in a street fight at Eldorado, Ark., Thursday afternoon. Delay on the part of Cubans in not approving the treaty submitted to them causes great concern at Washington, as this indifference shows that the Cubans are not desirous of cultivating friendly commercial relations with America. A general strike of workmen has been ordered in Switzerland. The Grand Army of the Republic elected General Stewart, of Massachusetts, as commander in chief. Ambassador White has a degree conferred on him by the Germans. President Diaz, of Mexico, has sent troops to the scene of the strike on the National railroad. Southern lumbermen unite in call for meeting at St. Louis in December, the object of which is to form a national association of lumber manufacturers. Interstate fair at Atlanta opened to the public under most favorable auspices, and with large crowds present. SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1902. CAR MEN LOSE OUT Strike in New Orleans is Finally Brought to an End. Mobilization of Military Proved Salutary in Bringing About Cessation of Hostilities—Citizens The mobilization of troops in New Orleans proved to be quickly effective, as the street car strike was settled at 6 o'clock Sunday night by, the union almost unanimously accepting the governor's ultimatum on a secret ballot. Negotiations went on until 7 o'clock Sunday morning, when the executive board finally decided to submit the matter to a general meeting of the union, which began at 4 o'clock and ended at 6 o'clock. The basis of settlement is that the men will go back to work at 20 cents and ten hours, with a minimum of seven and one-half hours a day, no discrimination to be made against any of the men under charges and so many to be taken back as are needed for the operation of the company's lines. The only temporary hitch was on the taking back of the men under charges, but the company finally conceded this, allowing the courts to decide the guilt of the men. Two other companies of militia arrived Sunday morning, one from Monroe, and another from Mansfield. A company of cavalry came down from Mansfield and was mustered into the state service soon after its arrival. It had just been organized, and volunteered its services. There is widespread rejoicing in the city over the settlement of the strike. It was on just two weeks and has been the most effective tie-up ever attempted in the city. Not a single passenger has been carried on a car since it began, and not a passenger car has gotten more than five blocks from the barn. Sunday morning the people awoke to find in different parts of the city stuffed figures hanging to telephone and telegraph poles with all sorts of inscriptions on them. Some represented the governor, some the mayor, and there were many representing officials of the railways company. The credit for settlement is largely due to W. S. Parkerson, who took up the cause of the strikers, and labored indefatigably, finally convincing them that they could hope for nothing better and that they could not prevail against the militia. Parkerson is the individual who headed a mob which lynched eleven Italians in New Orleans some years ago. United States Senator Foster, Governor Heard and Mayor Capdeville were all instrumental in some degree in bringing about the final result. OUR ROYAL VISITOR. King of Siam and His Retinue Arrive in Washington. His royal highness, Chowfa Maha Vajiruvudh, crown prince of Siam, accompanied by his suite and attended by Assistant Secretary of State Pierce, reached Washington on a special train at 8 o'clock Saturday morning. They were escorted to the Arlington hotel as guests of the nation. After breakfasting in their private apartments, the crown prince and his party donned their gorgeous court dress and, escorted by a squadron of the Second United States cavalry, were driven to the temporary white house on Jackson place, to pay their respects to President Roosevelt. The president asked the prince about his itinerary and expressed the hope that he would visit the military and naval academies, and also spend some time examining the industries of which the country was so proud. The audience lasted not more than five minutes. Governor Nash, of Ohio, Friday, pardoned Mrs. F. L. Taylor and daughter, the alleged Cincinnati kidnapers. SHIP SUBSIDY DOWNED. Farmers' Congress Again, Refuses to Indorse the Measure. At the Farmers' conference in Macon a persistent attempt was made to induce the congress to reconsider its action of 1901 and indorse the ship subsidy bill. The delegates from the west, reinforced by those from the south, sustained the adverse report of the committee on resolutions and the resolution of indorsement was laid on the table by an overwhelming majority. Reciprocity where it will enlarge markets for farm products was approved. TARIFF COMMISSION Will be Urge1 by President in Message to Congress. FORECAST OF THE DOCUMENT Reciprocity With Cuba Will Also Be One of the Most Urgent of Recommendations—Payne Postmaster General Henry C. Payne, in an interview at Milwaukee, Wis., Tuesday, said that the forthcoming annual message of Presidèdit Roosevelt to congress probably will recommend that a permanent tariff commission be appointed: "The president's views in regard to the revision of the tariff are substantially the same as those given by Senator Spooner," said Mr. Payne. "He probably will favor a reduction of import duties upon products which no longer need protection. He also is inclined to favor the creation of a permanent tariff commission, which, at all times, can receive testimony, subject to expert consideration, concerning the varying interests of production and trade, submitting their own reports and recommendations to congress, as other departments of the national government." "This will insure the thorough and careful compilation of all information accessible, and will save to congressional committees a vast amount of labor. This was the policy outlined by the president in his speech at Logansport, Ind., in which he had prepared for delivery at Milwaukee, and which, it is safe to predict, will be embodied in his annual message to congress. He is strongly in relation to reciprocity as a feature of our commercial intercourse with foreign nations. "Since the adjournment of congress, overwhelming manifestations that the people favor reciprocity with Cuba indicate that the opposition to that measure has faded away and that congress at an early day will redemc the pledge made by President McKinley for reciprocal trade relations with the young republic." MEXICO LOSES PIUS CASE. Hague Arbitration Court Decides in Favor of United States. Advices from The Hague state that the arbitration court in the Pius case fund has condemned Mexico to pay the United States $1,420,622.57 in Mexican currency. The decision of the court was unanimous. The tribunal finds— First. That the claim of the United States in behalf of the archbishop of San Francisco is governed by the principle of res judicata in virtue of the arbitration decision pronounced by Sir Edward Thornton, November 11, 1875, and amended by Sir Edward Thornton October 24, 1876. Negro Suing Saline County. A dispatch from Carbondale, Ill., says: John Bean, one of the colored men driven from Eldorado and whose property was destroyed by fire during the reign of lawlessness which caused Governor Yeats to send a company of the Illinois national guard to the scene, has brought suit against Saline county for damages. JUDGE J. W. HARRIS DEAD. Well Known Georglan Succumbs to Attack of Menlengetis. Judge J. W. Harris died at his home in Cartersville, Ga., Tuesday morning of meningitis, after an illness of two weeks. He was one of the most prominent lawyers in the state. He had served with distinction in both houses of the legislature, was eight years solicitor general of the Cherokee circuit and afterwards judge of the Cartersville city court. It was generally conceded that he was the best criminal lawyer in north Georgia. Judge Harris was 48 years old and leaves a wife and six children. MINERS SEEM TO BE BALKY. Terms of Arbitration as Proposed by Coal Operators Not Altogether Satisfactory. A special from Wilkesbarra, Pa. eays: From a thorough canvass of the situation there is every indication for believing that the new arbitration plan proposed by the presidents of the coal companies for ending the miners' strike will not be acceptid in its present form. There is a division of opinion among the strikers, but there is no doubt that a majority feel that the offer to have the president of the United States select an arbitration commission along the lines suggested by the operators is not fair, and that it unduly limits the president in making up the board. The miners, it is safe to say, will abide the advice of their national president, in whose judgment they have the utmost confidence. President Mitchell declines to say how he personally looks upon the proposition, but Tuesday night he gave to the press the following statement: "I fully appreciate with what anxiety the people of our country are awaiting the end of the coal strike. The coal operators have not addressed the miners' union or its officers in making their public statement. It is therefore impossible for me to state the attitude of the miners at this time. I am now, as I have always been, very solicitous of the interests of the public and the mine workers who have been on strike for the past five months. A formal statement defining our position and intentions will be issued just as soon as we are in possession of the full meaning of the propositions of the operators." This statement was made by him at 8 o'clock Tuesday night, after a-silence lasting all day. He had no intention of making it until the correspondents, representing newspapers all over the country, called on him in a body and informed him that the general public desired to have an answer to the proposition of the operators. After giving it he was asked many questions regarding the attitude of the men, and the probability of the acceptance or rejection of the new offer, but he had no reply to make to any of these questions. GEORGIA LOSES TAX CASE. Comptroller Cannot Collect on Stock Held Outside the State. The United States circuit court of appeals, in session at Atlanta, affirmed the decision of the district court in the case of William A. Wright, as comptroller general of Georgia vs. the Louisville and Nashville railroad. The lower court decided in favor of the railroad, and the decision of the circuit court affirms that decision and means that the state loses out. The suit was brought for back taxes. Comptroller Wright discovered that the Georgia railroad, which is leased by the L. and N. held $88,000 worth of Atlanta and West Point stock on which no taxes had been paid, and he brought suit to recover the same, which amounted to about $7,000. The railroad claimed that the stock was in New York and was therefore not taxable in Georgia. The courts sustained this plea. The case may be carried to the United States supreme court. FORTUNE,FOUND IN DESK. New York Police Captain Was Possessed of Sorrowing Wealth. A fortune of over $100,000 was found Tuesday in the desk of Police Captain J. J. Donahue, at his desk in the New York station house, where he dropped dead last week. The sum of $35,000 in cash was found in a small iron box in a drawer and diamond jewelry, valued at $11,000, including a solitaire ring worth $1,500, was found in another drawer. The rest of the property included $15,000 in United States steel stock, $1,000 in gold mining, stock, $15,000 in Metropolitan Railway stock, and five life insurance policies of $2,000 each. The discovery of the treasure was a complete surprise, the captain having been thought to be worth about $75,000 in other property. SHROUDER'S SLAYER CAUGHT. Possse Forces Bundrick to Surrender by Using the Torch. Andrew Bundrick, one of the men who killed John Shrouder and seriously wounded Mrs. Shrouder on the 24th of September, in Dooley county, Ga., was captured Sunday morning at 6:30 in John Warsham's barn, six miles west of Roberta, by D. C. Wallace, W. T. Anderson, of Macon, and Henry L. Bird, of Houston county, Ga. They had to fire the barn to dislodge theugitive, whereupon he surrendered, and the fire was extinguished. He had 545.80 a Winchester rifle and Three Bold Masked Men Hold Up Train in Nebraska. SECURED $50,000 BY DYNAMITE One Robber Kept Pazzengers Gulot While Two Broke Into Express One Covered Mergers Three masked men held up the Pacific coast express train of the Burlington road four miles from Lincoln, Nebraska, shortly before 2 o'clock Saturday morning. They used explosives in the express car, shattering it badly, and after wrecking the safe rifled it of its contents, securing $50,000 in gold coin. The train was a few minutes late and was in charge of Conductor C. A. Lyman and Engineer A L. Clayburg. On the crest of a hill midway between the city and the town of Woodlawn the engineer saw a red light waved across the track and brought the train to a standstill. Two men sprang quickly into the cab, covering Clayburg and his fireman with revolvers. They lost no time in giving their orders and were just as quickly chewed. The express car was cut from the balance of the train and sent a head a short distance. The robbers found, the door locked, and after commanding Messenger William Lupton to open it and getting no response, fired two or three shots into the car. The door was then opened. A heavy charge of dynamite tore the safe to pieces. The two men who were in the car politely bade the trainmen good morning, jumped from the car and disappeared in the darkness. The passengers were not molested, nor were the train men asked for their personal property. While the robbery in the express car was going on, a third robber walked alongside the track by the passenger coaches firing his revolver occasionally to keep inquisitive passengers quiet. Brakeman Moore, who alighted from the rear coach to go ahead, found a rowolver pushed in his face with a warning to go back where he belonged. He ran the four miles back to the Lincoln yards, where he gave the alarm, and pursuit was immediately begun. The booty of the robbers consisted principally of gold coin. A reward of $1,000 has been offered by the Burlington for the capture of the gang. COTTON GROWERS TAKE ACTION. Important Resolutions are Passed at Meeting Held in Macon, Georgia. Six hundred cotton growers, representing all but three of the cotton growing states of the United States, met in Macon, Ga., the past week and adopted a resolution asking the government not to transfer the work of the government's division of statistics to any other department, or to do any other thing that might impair the usefulness of the division. The resolution recited that this is a critical time with the cotton growing industry, as the Mexican boll weevil has spread to every part of Texas, and has decreased the yield of the plant this season. 500,000 bales, and is rapidly making its way into the states east of Texas. The resolution deprecated any attempt to minimize the influence of the department. The resolution was introduced by E. S. Peters, president of the Cotton Growers of Texas. Resolutions were also adopted demanding that only twenty-two pounds of cotton be 'deduced from each bale as tare, instead of the thirty demanded on export cotton. It was agreed, that if the cotton buyers refuse this demand, the Cotton Growers' Association in each township or county shall select some suitable person and sell direct to the spinners. All papers were requested to publish, these resolutions Another resolution by F. D. Wimberly, of Georgia, called upon the cotton growers of the south to raise their own hog and hominy, so they will be in a position to hold their cotton. DEATH CLAIMED DELEGATE. Member of Farmers' Congress from Nebraska Dile-in Valdosta. J. R. Cantland, a delegate to the National Farmers' congress from Blair. Nebr. was stricken with apoplexy and died in a few minutes at Valdosta, Ga. 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It was impossible for me to hear with whom he was talking, so I went to the proprietor of the place and made some inquiries, and learned that my man telephoned every day at that time, and seldom bought more than a sandwich. "That day he paid the telephone toll, but bought nothing. As I followed him into the street I made up my mind he was in communication with a stock broker, and that financial trouble was the cause of his strange actions. That was nothing new in my experience. "When he left the bank that afternoon he was in a great hurry, and I followed him toward his home in the car behind the one he was in; but by some means he gave met the slip, for he didn't get off at the corner nearest his home or several blocks afterward, as far as I saw. I went to his apartment to wait for him, and, meeting a little girl just entering the street door, I inquired if she knew him. "He is my papa," "she answered, and will be home in a few minutes. He always stops to see the doctor after he leaves the bank, because mamma is very ill, and we are afraid she will die. The doctor comes every noon and telephones to papa, and then he stops there on his way home. If you will come in you won't have long to wait, or you can call again, for he never leaves mamma after he comes home, and sits up all night with her." "I said that I might call again,"but instead I went to the home of the bank president and made my report. This morning that teller got a letter from the bank granting him two weeks' vacation and telling him that his salary was increased: $20 a month."—St. Louis Republic. Usury. During the active days at the great Muscle Shoals improvement conditions prevailed somewhat similar to those often found in new raining districts; nothing akin to calin. A fellow who had occasion to take a long ride in a great hurry, "borrowed" a native's horse without stopping to speak to the owner about it. But in the course of a few days he returned the animal. The native did not take a kindly view of the situation, but concluded to be content with legal redress. He announced his intention of having the offender arrested. "What'll you have him arrested for?" was asked. "For horse stealin' of course." "How can you make horse stealing out of it, when he returned the horse?" "Ain't it stealin' if he brought 'im back?" "I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see how it could be." "All right, then; I'll have 'im arrested for usury." "I don't see how you can make usury cut of it, either." "Wy, — it all he used 'im, didn't he? Yes, Sir, he used 'im three or four days, and used 'im mighty hard, too, by the looks of 'im." Of course a thoughtful person would have seen at once that e-lope-ment was the crime committed.—New York Times. Mr. Gladstone's Catch. "How many members of this house," asked Mr. Gladstone once in the course of a debate on electoral qualifications, "can divide £1330 17s. by £213s. 5d?" "Six hundred and fifty-eight!" shouted one member. "The thing cannot be done!" exclaimed another. "A roar of laughter greeted the last remark. But it was true, nevertheless, says the Pittsburg Gazette. You cannot multiply or divide money by money. You may repeat a smaller sum of money as many times as it is contained in a larger sum of money, but that is a very different thing. If you repeat five shillings as many times as there are halrs in a horse's tail, you do not multiply five shillings by a horse's tail. Perhaps you did not know this before. Never mind; you need not be ashamed of your ignorance, for it was shared, as has been demonstrated, by the entire House of Commons (bar one member), including the then chancellor of the exchequer. Workman Wins a Fortune According to the Francais, the winner of the chief prize—£10,000—in the Consumptive Children's Lottery, in France, is a workman named Duthell. He was repalting a slate roof when he heard the newsboys calling out the result. 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In how many houses in America is this done? It is considered too expensive to send them to shops, so they remain in the same condition for year, perhaps, and we get so used to lumpy beds that we accept them as one of the necessary evils of life. But if we cannot afford to have them remade, every year, we can at least take every palms to keep them fresh. As soon as a mattress is made, it should be enclosed in a cover of unbleached sheeting. This will protect it from dust, and the sheeting should be removed and washed at least once a year. Whenever a room is not likely to be used for some time, the mattress should be lifted from the bedstead, so that the air can reach it on all sides. It seriously injures a good hair mattress to keep it for long without a proper airing, and every mattress in regular use should be turned at least once a week.—Chicago Record-Herald. LAUDERING LACE CURTAINS. When the lace curtains need laundering, take them down and shake them, to remove the dust. 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