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PI i 24 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK. *w FATE OF MITCHELL IS IN THE BALANCE $ MINERS' CHIEF IN CRITICAL POSITION Question Before Scranton Dele gates Involves Future of Or ganization and Leader. Strike Inevitable, Think Many MinersMitchell, Too, Has Lost Hope. HOME WRECKED BY DYNAMITE Smithton, Pa., May 4.-The resi dence of W J. Eichcrs, superin tendent of the Smithton and Eureka miaes of the Pittsburg Coal company, was partly wrecked last nignt by an explosion of dynamite. Striking miners are sus pected. Scranton, Pa., May 4.There seems but slight hope of a peaceful settle ment 01 the controversy in the anthra cite coal field. A large number of dele gates to the United Mine Workers' con vention express the opinion that strike is their only alternative. A de cision is looked for today or tomorrow at the latest. President Mitchell is endeavoring to find a way ot obviating extreme meas ures and he is leticent concerning the report that the final decision may be by referendum vote tho it is said the dele gates are seriously considering that method. John Fahy is the only district presi dent who has said that he regards the referendum vote as a likely way to per mit the workmen themselves to vote for or against a strike. William Dettrey does not approve of the method. He says the delegates are empowered to vote for their locals and they have had every opportunity during the past months to feel the pulse of the workers. Crisis for Mitchell. President Mitchell and the leaders realize that the question before the con vention now not only involves the fu ture of the United Mine Workers as an organization, but that it will either strengthen or weaken John Mitchell as a labor leader. 1 With the bituminous fight on his hands as well as the anthracite problem Mr. Mitchell is keenly alive to the gravity of the crisis. Fahy and Dettrey, the presidents of the Schuylkill and Lehigh districts, are outspoken in favor of a strike, and they voice the feelings--of the delegates from their locals, who are'wrought up over the shooting of the state police at Mount Carmel and the riding by mounted patrols about the roads of their districts. Mitchell Not Hopeful. President Mitchell said today he did not seem to have any immediate hope of anything that would make for a peaceful outcome of their deliberations. Immediately after assembling today punted copies of the correspondence between the miners' scale committee and the operators, were distributed in K vxvxze xxvr&xxxxxTrvxx'txvxxxxx'xr.xx** SENATOR WILLIAM B. ALLISON, Who Has Framed a Compromise Amend ment for the Sate Bill. r-f the convention, after which it went courts, is said by Senator Nelson to be into executive session to hear the views harmless and entirely acceptable, of the delegates. Every delegate desiring to speak significant, because he has made a care will be heard before the vote will be taken upon the question of strike or no strike. The delegates resumed their session at 1:30 p.m. and are still behind locked doors. It is possible, in view of the fact that no limit has been placed on speeches, that the session will continue into tomorrow. WOMEN Revolvers Carried by Many Washington Housewives After Series of Assaults. Journal Special Service. Washington, May 4.Four respecta ble white women have been brutally beaten and robbed by negroes within the last week in this city arrest has been made, and the resi dents of the subirrbs are greatly ex cited, many of the women going about their work armed with revolvers. The assault record is: April 26Allen Harrison and Mabel Hunt in Rock Creek park, beaten and stoned: assailant still at large. April 27Miss Adele Arctander, beaten, robbed and criminally assaulted in Eock Creek park. Edward Shorter captured several days later in the woods near Anacostia, confessed his guilt. May 2Mrs. L. M. Jett, wife of a tenth precinct policeman, choked and beaten on Mill Ford road. Assailant still ?vt large. May 3--Mrs. Amelie Fields of 152 Morris road, Anacostia. brutally beaten with a curtain pole and robbed at her home. Assailant still at large. DANGERS LURK IN THE PATH OF LlNERS London, May 4.The British steamer Anglo Peruvian, Captain Curtis, from Shields, April 13, for Philadelphia, foundered recently in the Atlantic, as a result of a collision with an iceberg. All members of her crew were picked up by the British strainer Mohawk, from New York, April 20, for Antwerp, which passed Prawlcs Point today, and signal ed the newsr Hecent arrivals at British ports have reported icebergs, dangerous to naviga tion in the track of Atlantic liners. Philadelphia, May 4.Mayor Weaver labt light came out in a speech declaring for muni cipal ownership. 'vl ALLISON FRAMES RATE COMPROMISE Iowa Senator Drafts Court view Amendment to. End Long Debate. Re- 2y W W. Jermane. Washington, Mav 4.The proposition to settle the rate debate by the adop tion of a compromise amendment pre pared by Senator Allison came to public notice last night, but it had been known for several days that Senator Allison had consented to draft an amendment in accordance with certain views which he had outlined verbally to members of the senate, and that such amend ment would probably be acceptable to all parties concerned. Senator Nelson of Minnesota is one of those called into conference with Senator Allison on this question. The White House, it is claimed, is in ac cord with the proposition, and if this should prove to be the case, then the rate bill is to be finally disposed of in short order and without serious op position. Does Not Alter Case. Senator Nelson, in response to a ques tion of the Journal correspondent this morning, said that the Allison amendment &\<1 not provide *for a broad conrt review: I Mr. ^eljonia opinion, that arriendinent does not go any fufther than the present house bill, or than the constitution warrants. I simply ex tends the .-jurisdiction of the federal cir cuit courts to the acts of the inter state commission, leaving to the courts to determine for themselves just how fat they ought to review these acts. Nelson in Line. This discretion the courts already have under the constitution, which "fact has been the strong argument against any amendment whatever of the house bill. This particular amendment, how ever, not providing for any enlargement of the constitutional powers of the This opinion of Senator Nelson's is ful study of the rate question and has made several speeches on it during this session, the last one yesterday. He has been in the confidence of the presi dent and the senate leaders, and from the first, has been a staunch supporter of the house bills. AGITATORS JAILED IN FEAR OF BOMBS Paris Police Imprison Foreigners Following Anarchist's Death Another "Red" Killed. Paris, May 4:The body of an un known man of Eussian type of features and having a revolver wound in his head was found in the forest of Vin cennes today. I is believed he was an accomplice of the two anarchists who But one' went to the forest with bombs yester day. Following the bomb explosion yes terday, Prpfect of Police Lepine .or- dered the arrest of a numbei of for eign agitators. Twentv-six of these were taken into custody during the nitjht and three more were arrested this for.enoon. The prisoners include a Belgian who threatened the guard at the entrance of the ministry of finance. CLEVELAND'S NOMINOR IS DYING OF GANGRENE Journal Special Service. Buffalo, N. 'Y., May 4.Daniel Lockrood, a jnember'of the state lun acy commission, former congressman and the mau who placed Grover Cleve land in nomination for mayor of Buffa- i lo, governor of New York and presi dent, is dying. He has been ill for six months. Gangrene set in two weeks i ago and his left leg was amputated at tne knee. His physicians said last night that he was slowly sinking and there was no hope for him'. MERCHANT DIES OK TBAIN. Wilkesbarre, Pa.. May 4.W. J. Wright, a merchant from Hamilton, Ont., died suddenly on the "Black Diamond" express on the I-iChlsn I Vsilley railroad. Just before the train reached here last evening. H was on his way to New York, accompanied by his wife. Heart failure was the cause of his death. TEEAOTSSB'S SHOETAGE HIGH. Journal Special Service. Terre Haue, lrd.. May 4.The citizen's com mittee has been Informed by exjterte who have completed an investigation that the shortage of County Treasurer Clark is g7S,()00. The com mittee will recommend grand jury action. KNELT IN CHURCH AND DRANK POISON Pretty Woman Took Acid Thru Straw to Preserve Her Beauty. Jou Vpocial Servioe. 1 Cincinnati, Mav 4.Seeking the qui^t and sanctity of St. Philomena's church 111 the early twilight last evening, Mrs. Emma Beybert, wife of a printer, knelt in prayer a few moments and then, while still kneeling, drank the contents of a bottle of carbolic acid. She died an hour later at the Good Samaritan hospital and death came without her having regained coi seiousness. The woman was quietly, but ex pensively clad, and bore every token of refinement. The features were those of a pretty woman of evident refine ment and she showed in their pallid composure of death, no trace of the great sorrow or pain which must have prompted the act, for she spared her beautv by sucking the deadly acid thru a straw. AMBUSHED ZULUS KILL MAGISTRATE Rebels Fire on Party of Britons Another Tribe Joins Outlaws. Pietermaritzburg, Natal, May An outrage which may have serious consequences has occurred in Zululand. Mr. Stainbank, the British magistrate at Mahlabitini, Zululand, has been killed by-Zulus. Mr. Stainbank, his wife, a woman companion and some mounted police were caught in an ambush by hostile natives, who fired a volley at them. The magistrate and one of the police men were fatally wounded. Mr. Stain bank and* the two ladies managed to reach Mahlabitini. where the magistrate died of his wounds-. Mahlabitini lies to the westward of the forest where Bambaata, the insur gent chief, formerly the regent of the Greytown district, Natal, who has been in arms against the local authorities for a month past, had been hiding, and it is asserted here that there seems to be no doubt that the rebel chief has succeeded in inducing another tribe of Zulus to join in the revolt. 4.are ST. PJUL WOMAN SAW YESOfiUS IN ERUPTION By W W Jermane. Washington, May 4.Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kellogg of St. Paul are in Washing ton, after a trip of two months thru southern Europe. They were in Naples during the height of the erruption of Vesuvius and got away from the city with some difficulty. I Rome they met Archbishop Ireland. DIVORCE FOE THE DUKES. Journal Special Service. Newark. N. J., May 4.Vice Chancellor Pit ney nab decided to recommend a divorce for James B. Duke of the American Tobacco com pany fiom his wife, Lillian Nanette Duke, on the ground of improper relations with Frank T. Huntoon. TUG SINKS? THREE HROWNED. Owen Sound, Ont., May 4.Thre men hare been drov ned by the sinking of the tug Clip per. CSCCt*MM v-'*&.vvv-tv evvvv*tvrtv% ^s ft py^^p^^^^^^^^S^M^ A A ft I lt STA2TOABD OIL BESPORT. Vi-.-f^*'"" To some people it sounds like an earthqnake. S00 TO BECOME A- THREAT TO SULTAN TRANSCONTINENTAL Junction with Harriman Line at Spokane Will Give It Out let to Pacific. New York Says Dividends on Soo Common Will Be Made 6 Per Cent. Intervention of Harriman interests maf resura in making the Soo line prac tically another and fourth transconti nental line from'Minneapolis to Seattle. It is prophesied that when the Soo line reaches Spokane this summer it will immediately be offered the Harri man rails for its trains from Spokane to Seattfe. Thus the system will have a direct route to Seattle from Minne apolis. It has already been shown that the Soo line mileage 'from Minneapolis over the Canadian P&eific line to a point north of Spokane and to Spokane over the Spokane & International, will be shorter than either the present routes. With the ^ill interests beaten in time and distance front Minneapolis to Spo kane, W is prophesied that Harriman will not be slow to offer hi3 assistance to the Canadian Pacific's protege and a very, short route to Seattle from Spo kane. Harriman interests, it is believed, wilj not be slow to sef. Ihe advantage which the Soo will have in the way of traffic facilities" over the competing Hill lines* and* .will do all in their power to reap a part of the benefit by forwarding traffic from Spokane west ward under the best operating condi tions possible Holders of Soo line common stock gleeful today over the Waif street report that the dividend on common stock is to be advanced to 6 per cent. The Soo has now paid six dividends, on common at 4 per cent, and on preferred at 7. The charter regulations of the company make these payable for the Continued on 2d Page, 1st Column. MANTNTERFOF RIREST DISEASE Director-of Bronx Zoo Threatened with ActinoiHycosis, Commu nicated from Animals. Journal Special BeO'lce. New York, ^-William T. Hor naday, director *f the Bronx feoological gardens' whj has expert knowledge of the habits of animals' and their dis eases, lies dangerously ill. Today four surgeons operated on Mr. Hornaday for mastoiditis, which is an abcess within the bony prominence back of and beYETERANS low the orifice of the ear. The two doctors who-are attending him said it would be forty-eight hours before they will know whether he will survive. His case is a remarkable one. I be gan ten days ago with tonsilitis, which it is strongly suspected Director Hor naday caught from a monkey with a bad sore throat which he was treating. It may end, it is feared, with actino mycosis, one of the rarest diseases in* man, and nearly always communicated from animals, in which it is far from common. The farmer whose cattle or swine suffer from actinomycosis calls it "lumpy jaw." MADE BY BRITAIN Complete Withdrawal of Turkish Troops from Egypt Is Demanded. London, May 4.The British am bassador at Constantinople has present ed a note to Turkey demanding the complete withdrawal of Turkish troops from Egyptian territory within ten days. The note is practically an ulti matum and constitutes Great Britain's last word on the encroachment of Tur key on the Sinaitic peninsula. The French and Russian ambassadors at Constantinople are supporting the Brit ish contentions. Should the- ultimatum fail to have the desired effect, the" British Mediter ranean fleet will take the measure so often employed by the powers in recent I years as the result of disputes with! the sultan, and a naval demonstration, it is anticipated, will quickly bring about the evacuation of the Tabah ter ritory, which Great Britain contends is unquestionably Egyptian territory. WALKS THO SHOT AS McKINLEY WAS Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Lives with Part of Her Spine Out Out. Jcurnal Special Service. New York, May 4.Little Vincenza Cefolor, curly haired and rosy-eheeked, stood last night on the platform in the hall of the Academy of Medicine be fore a hundred physicians and surgeons as a living example of a miracle of sur gery. Vincenza was 13 years old last month. Last November, while playing with a revolver in her home, the weapon was discharged. The bullet entered the abdomen, three inches above the navel and two inches to the left of the middle of the abdomen, passing clean thru the left lobe of the liver, traversing a small opening between the stomach and a coil of intestines back of the liver and punctured a hole as big as a 10-cent piece in the spinal cord, finally lodging in the muscles of the back, two inches to the right of the spine. The injury was somewhat similar to the wound from which President Mc Kinley died, and almost identical with that which caused the death of 'Mar shal Field, Jr That the child did not die is attributed to the prompt treat ment she received. She now looks healthy and can walk, tho her feet ^T '~~::Z~r~Z^vSST^&iTeW^ was removed and,the torn edges of the spi nal cord were sewed together DYING AT RATE OF 5,000 A MONTH Albuquerque, N. M., Mav 4.Cor- poral James Tanner, command er-in chief of the G. A. E., and wife are here en route from the territorial en campment at Las Cruces to Los Antraction geles, where Commander Tanner will address an encampment May 7. Corporal Tanner made 'the statement that according to statistics compiled by himself, the old veterans were dying at the rate of 5,000 a month. JAMES H. GARFIELD, Whose Exposure of Standard Oil 3 Prompted the President's Spe 1 ciai Message. jj L.o:.o:j:%:r:c%: KXXXXXXKXXX'S COLOSSALTRUSTIS STANDARD'S PLAN Control of All Illuminating and Interurban Companies Sought, Say the Financiers. Journal Special Service, Negotiations to merge the illuminat ing gas companies of Cleveland have revealed gigantic plans of the Standard Oil company. Financial men connected with the deal say that the Standard's plan embraces the control, as far as pos sible, of all the illuminating companies between the Atlantic ocean and the Mississippi river, and the purchase of a controlling interest in all interurban traction companies whose independent operation might clash with the huge combine. The United Gas Improvement compa ny of Philadelphia, which has more than thirty companies listed on the New York Stock exchange as being under its control, is the medium thru which this mammoth scheme is being pushed. I is declared to be simply another name for the Widener-Elkrns syndicate, which is generally reputed to be the bidder for the control of he gas companies here^and in Cincinnati. Have Many Lines Now. in ih gas and oil fields of Ohio and Indiana. I connection with these pur chases there have been sales of illu minating companies in various cities, control of which is declared to have been necessary to the successful carry ing out of the combine's plans. The traction lines which parellel the vast New York Central railroad sys tem are called an important factor in the general situation. I is a notice able fact, say brokers who claim to be conversant with the facts, that these lines are now under control of the Widener-Elkins syndicate in the great majority of cases. Given as the motive of these purchases is the* desire to keep these companies from falling into the hands of men hostile to the Standard Oil company. BULGARIANS CLAIM CLUE TO TRAGEDY IN SPECIAL MESSAGE PRESIDENT CITES CRIMES OF Shows Unlawful Rebating- Thru Report of Garfield on Stand ard Oil. ?i Gross Favoritism of Roads En riches Powerful Monopoly/ Favors Free Alcohol. 1 HOUSE CHEERS SENATE TABLES puted Standard" Off" syndicate are said the ultimate result is that it obtains a to have resulted in obtaining control much larger profit at the expense of the of the majority of the traction lines public. Believe They Can Clear Up theample Macedonian. Murder Mystery. Another clue has been unearthed in connection with the murder of the six Macedonian laborers at 243 Tenth ave nue S, March 26. The publishers of the Bulgarian News, Hopkins, Mich., have been working on the case since the day of the murder and they now believe they will be abre to clear up the mystery, if they are given some help by tlie Minneapolis police. I is said that they have traced all the members of the gang and have found some who are willing to talk. The editor of the paper has written a letter to Police Superintendent Doyle, asking for the pictures of the murdered men, which he says will be of much help in getting at the bottom of the case. Much excitement has been caused in Macedonian and Bulgarian circles thru put the country by the murder, and the plot behind the whole affair is consid ered to be more serious than at first supposed. Kire Dimitri. one of the mur dered men, was well educated and was not a man who would be expected to work in a railroad gang. The plot, say some of the Bulgarians of Hopkins who have gone over the papers, seems to center about this man. Detective James Howard of Minne apolis has proved beyond a doubt that the recent murder at Hibbing, Minn., where one brother stabbed another, had nothing to do with the Tenth avenue tragedy. The officer spent several days in the camp at Hibbing and learned that the men there did not even know the gang to which the six murdered men belonged. The men involved in the Hibbing case were Austrians. GUTS HIS THROAT LEAPS FROM TRAIN Washington, Ind., May 4.W. C. Logiej representative of a Chicago hat company, while riding on a train be tween here and Bedford early today, cut his throat with a knife and Jumped from the train near Hyatt. was 'later found lying in a pool of water, unconscious. I is believed he will re cover, Logie had been drinking. Washington,-May 4.On motion of Mr. Fonaker, the message of President Eoosevelt, scoring the oil trust, was ordered to lie on the ta ble. I making the motion Mr. Foraker said: "It covers nearly all the ques tions under consideration in connec tion with the pending hills." The scene in the house was in direct contrast to that in the sen ate. When the clerk completed the reading of the hill at 12:30, ap plause rang thru the chamber, both sides vieing in their demonstration of approval. 9 Washington. May 4.President Eoosevelt todaytransmitted to congress the report of James R. Garfield, com missioner of corporations, giving the re sults of his investigation of transporta tion and freight rates in connection with the oil industry. The president expresses the view that the report is of capital importance, be cause of the effort now being made to secure such enlargement of the scope of the interstate commerce commission as will confer upon it power to meet the demonstrated needs of the situation. The facts in the report, he declares, are for the most part not disputed. That the Standard Oil company has benefited enormously, up almost to the present moment, by secret rates, many!*gj of which were clearly unlawful, the^^ president says the report clearly shows, J" the benefit thereby secured amounting to at least three quarters of a million a year. On this subject he says: S* Public Pays Major Part. ''This.three-quarters of a million an-'*% nually, represents the profit that the~^ Standard Oil company obtains at the HPJkhavmiliroao bt ^o# UUiBWf A very striking result of the inves tigation has been that shortly after the discovery of these^seeret rates by the commissioner of corporations, the major portion of them were promptly correct ed by the railroads, so that most of them have now been done away with. This immediate correction, partial or complete, of the evil of the secret rates, is, of course, on the one hand an ac knowledgement that they were wrong and yet were persevered in until ex posed and on the other hand a proof of the efficiency of the work that has been done by the bureau of corporations." Prepares to Prosecute. The statement is added that the de partment of justice will take up the question of instituting prosecutions in at least certain of the cases, and the hope is expressed that congress will enact into law the bill of Senator Knox to correct the interpretation of the immunity provision rendered in Judge Humphrey's" decision. Continuing, the president says: "But in, addition to these secret rates the Standard Oil profits immense ly by open rates, which are so ar ranged as to give it an overwhelming advantage over its independent com petitors. This is a characteristic ex of the numerous evils which are inevitable under a system in which the big shipper and the railroad are left free_ to crush out all individual ini tiative and all power of independent action because of the absence of ade quate and. thcrogoing governmental control. Exactly similar conditions ob tain in a large part of the west and southwest.' Gross Favoritism Enriches. It is not possible, he says, to put intoj figures the exact amount bv which the* Standard profits thru the gross favor itism shown it by the .railroads in connection with the open rates. "The profit, of course, comes not merely by the saving in the rate it self as compared with its competitors, but by the higher prices it is able to charge by the complete control of the market it secures, thereby getting the profit on the whole consumption." The president calls attention to that feature of the report regarding th manner in which the law is evaded byv treating as state commerce what in cf.*3j reality is merely a part of interstate commerce. He says it is clearly shown "that this device is employed on the New York Central railroad, as well as on many other railroads, in such fash ion as to amount to thwarting the pur pose of the law, altho the forms of the law may be complied with." r*?g Favors Free Alcohol. It is unfortunately not true, he says, that the Standard Oil company is the only corporation which has benefited and is benefitting in wholly improper fashion by an elaborate series of rate discriminations. The sugar trust, he adds, according to the investigation now in progress, rarely if ever pays the lawful rate for transportation. He declares that in the effort to prevent the railroads from uniting for improper purposes, "we have verjr un wisely prohibited them from uniting for proper purposes that is, for pur poses or protecting themselves and the general public as against the power of the great corporations." He favors as an element of competi tion the passage of some such law as that which has already passed the house, putting alcohol used in the arts on the free list and of keeping the fee to oil and coal lands of the Indian tribes or on the public domain in the government, the lands to be leased only on such terms and for such {periods as Continued on 2d Page, 2d Column. i