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f iDentpcrai. VOL. X. "NO. 232. WATERBURY,, CONN., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897. t - PRICE TWO CENTS ND Of STRIKE AT HAND Mine Workers' Board Adopts a Plan of Settlement. 3L00EPTS THE OFFEE OP 65 GENTS. She Proposal to Be Submitted to a Con vention of Miners, Who, the Officers 'Assert, Will No Doubt Ratify the Ac tion of the Hoard. Columbus, O., Sept. 4. The end of the great miners' strike is in sight. The national executive board of the United Mine Workers has agreed to recom mend to the miners a preposition from the Pittsburg operators for a straight price of 65 cents a ton, to continue in torce until the end of the year. A del egate convention of all miners who have suspended work has been called to meet in Columbus Sept. 8 at 10 a, m. to act upon the recommendation. President Ratchford and the other members of the board say there is not the slightest doubt but that the miners Will approve the recommendation. The proposition does not involve arbitration and In effect provides for an immediate Settlement of '" the strike. President Ratchford said that there were special reasons for the board recommending the proposition. In the first place, it concedes the miners a material advance, lad a 69 cent rate been secured he was confident it could not have been main tained for more than 70 days. The proposition does away with all the uncertainties of arbitration and will bring the strike to a speedy termina tion. As soon as the miners ratify the proposition work will be resumed in all the mines. In the second place, the proposition provides for a revival of the Joint conferences for the adjustment of prices. The operators are pled'ged to meet with the miners prior to the termina tion of the agreement and determine the rate of mining for the next year. Both the members of the miners' execu tive board and the operators' commit tee are pleased over the outcome of the conference and feel that public senti ment will sustain their action. The Ca 1 For a Convention. The following circular has been is sued by the national, executive board: "To the Miners Who Have Suspended Work In the .Different States: ' "You are hereby notified that a con vention will be held at Columbus, O., at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, Sept. S. "At a conference held at Columbus, O., on Sept. 2 and 3 between the na tional executive board and district pres idents of the United Mine Workers of America and a representative commit tee of the Pittsburg district operators, whom we consented to meet only after It became apparent that a national con ference of operators and miners could not be convened, tl'.'e following proposi tions were submitted by the representa tives of the Pittsburg operators to the executive board and district presidents as the basis of a settlement to termi nate the present strike: ."First. The resumption "of work at a 64 cent' rate of mining, the submitting of the question to a board of arbitra tion to determine what the prices shall be, the maximum to be 69 cents and the minimum to be 60 cents a ton, the price . to be effectivci. from date of resuming work. "Second. A straight price of 65 cents a ton, to continue in force until the end of the year, with the additional mu tual understanding that a joint meeting of '.he operators and miners shall be held In December, 1897, for the purpose of determining what the rate of mining shall be thereafter. "Your executive board and district presidents, after much deliberation and a thorough consideration of the two propositions, do recommend the latter as In their judgment the best that can be secured because of circumstances that are apparent to all who study market conditions since the inaugura tion of the strike. "You, however, are the court of final adjudication" and must decide for your selves what your actions shall be and when work shall be resumed. "Additional reasons will be given and a full report made of the general situ ation at the convention. We would further advise that delegates come Tin trammeled by resolutions and unin Btructed other than to act in your best Interest. . "At this time it is deemed advisable, for the reason that provisions are made In the uniformity agreement now pend ' lng in the Pittsburg district and which It 1b expected will be operative in that district on and after Jan. 1, 1898, to ar bitrate the .question of relative differ ential between pick and machine min ing, which will,, we anticipate, do much toward furnishing us with more reliable data of that question than we possess at present and to that extent will be beneficial to us in settling questions as between machine and pick mining." This document is signed by Fred Dilcher, R. Davis, J. H. Kennedy, Henry Stephenson and Patrick Dolan, members of the national executive board; W. E. Farms, W. G. Knight and Patrick Dolan, district presidents; M. D. Ratchford, president nationr.l execu tive board, and W. C. Pearce, secretary national executive board. their 5u'st Struggle, r would go to any length in order to help them to suc cess, but my name was placed there and the official Indorsement given to it without my knowledge or consent. "As you will see, the call was issued to 'organized labor, its various divisions and subdivisions, and to all reform, so cial, educational and scientific bodies who condemn government by injunc tion.' Under this call any body of men wno are opposea to government Dy in junction would be entitled to a seat in the convention. In other words, per sons entirely remote from and having no connection with labor movements could have been in attendance, and by overwhelming numbers direct the course, mapped out the policy and dominated the trades union movement. As president of the American Federa tion of Labor, a responsible officer in the trades union movement, I would not dare hazard the interests of our fellow workers at the hands of persons who might be entirely irresponsible. "There are numbers of people who are opposed to government by injunc tion and who are yet hostile to the clear cut and well defined purposes of the trades union movement. No Criticism on the Convention. "I shall say nothing in criticism of the action of the St. Louis convention, and I did not say anything earlier be cause I did not wish to interfere with the programme it mapped out, not even its appeal for a contribution of this day's wages, and I am glad that what I now say will not appear until after the result of this appeal has been acted .upon. "I do know that the trades unionists of the country have responded most lib erally in aid of the miners. They are doing so now and will continue to do so on this line in order to help the miners win. So far as I am concerned, I have not lost one jot of interest. On the contrary, if possible, I am more Intense ly interested in having the miners win, and anything that I can do without hazarding the interest of labor and our movement will be cordially performed to attain that end. As in the beginning, I stand ready today to follow Mr. Ratchford's lead in this strike in every thing except to place the destinies of our movement in the hands of persons representing 'reform, social, educational and scientific' or other bodies who are simply agreed in their opposition to government by injunction. We ask the assistance of all to attain that end, but cannot permit other domination of our movement nor the direction of its policy, with -the possibility of diverting it into irrational and improper channels." VIEWS OF BISMARCK. Tbe ex-Chancellor Interviewed on the IT ranco-Russian Alliance. London, Sept. 4. The Berlin corre spondent of The Times says The Zu kunft publishes what is undoubtedly an authentic interview with Prince Bis marck, probably obtained by Count Limburg Stirum, who recently visited the former chancellor on behalf of the Conservative party. Prince Bisjmarck expressed himself as very scepti6al re garding the alleged Franco-Russian al liance and declared that the czar's toast really committed Russia to very little. In the course of the Interview Prince Bismarck said: "I remember In my own GOMPERS' 'STATEMENT. trails Why He Did Hot Attend the St. Ijonis Conference. f , WdchinirsTi ROTit 4. Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, when asked why . fi and other traflen unionists did not at- tend the convention held in St. Louis on last Monday and Tuesday, said: In . regard to the convention held last Mon day at St. Louis, I have been placed In a most peculiar position. The call for tbe convention contained my name as officially indorsing it. This was cer ' talnly a mistake in the first instance. It was placed there by Mr. Ratchford under the impression that, knowing: my Intense sympathy with, the minersin PRINCE BISMARCK. diplomatic experience similar obscure expressions which were not unpleasing to the ears of those they concerned. I do not think the contents of the treaty, if it exists at all, would please France. The policy of the Russian govern ment has always been very cautious, and I cannot conceive that it would needlessly commit itself to adventures from which it would gain nothing. Count Muravieff has always behaved as German's friend, and I do not see any reason why he should change his mind." Prince Bismarck complimented, some what ironically, President Faure's apti tude, taste and success in the new fash ion of political traveling and repeated the opinion that nothing would come of it, adding: "But for all that, the French pot is moved nearer to the fire and might more easily than ever suddenly boil over. This ought to deliver our rulers from any illusion they may still cherish and should serve to warn them against altering the basis of our national de fense." The former chancellor deprecated the clamor for a big fleet and for colonial expansion, saying: "Our flag should follow our trade and not, precede it. The most important thing is for Ger many to have a strong army. That was the opinion of Von Moltke, who shared my conviction that we shall have to fight upon the continent of Eu rope battles which will be decisive for our colonial dominions. C&rpenters Going to St. Michaels. ' Chicago, Sept. 4. Seven men, most of them carpenters, have left here for the Alaska goldfields tinder the leadership of Captain Barber. The men will build a hotel at St. Michaels for the shelter of miners during the coming winter. The North American Trading and Transportation company is sending the inen. . ELOPER WARD ASUICIDE Leaped From the Window of an Overland Express Train. HE WAS APPARENTLY DEMENTED. The Tragic End of tho Englishman Whe Elopement With Mrs. Bradley Recently Made a Sensation Remorse Is Thought to Have Driven Him Insane. Chicago, Sept. 4. W. Russell Ward, who created a sensation about two months-' ago by eloping with the wife of John Bradbury, a millionaire of Los Angeles, committed suicide by jumping from a window of the Overland express on the Chicago and Northwestern rail road near Wheatland, la. tr He was not missed until the train reached Chicago, when Frank Rouady; the conuctor, in checking up his pick ets found that a passenger was miss ing. Ward boarded the train at San Fran cisco and was immediately assigned to drawing room B, car 2. After boarding the train he remained away from the other passengers and spent all his time in his own apartment. During the latter part of the night he began to show signs of Insanity. He flourished two revolvers in the train several times and almost created a panic among the other passengers. He told the conductc of the train who he was and acted in a very peculiar man ner. At nearly every stop the train made he would get off and send tele grams. In one of these messages, sent to a resident of Los Angeles, he said that if Mrs. Bradbury wanted him she could come to him, but for the present he would have to go to England and visit his wife. I The Ward-Bradley Elopement. San Francisco, Sept. 4. W. Russell Ward, who committed suicide by throw ing himself from the window of the car in which he was traveling from this city to Chicago, first gained notoriety by his very marked attentions to the wife of the young Los Angeles million aire, Colonel John Bradbury, at Santa Monica, a seaside resort some 18 miles from Los Angeles. As "tVard was a married man and the father of a fam ily his flirtation with Mrs. Bradbury caused a rupture between himself and Colonel Bradbury, and it was rumored that the latter challenged his rival to fight a duel. At the same time vague stories of a rupture between Colonel Bradbury and his wife were bruited about, but were strenuously denied by Bradbury. Matters came to a climax on June 30 last, when Mrs. Bradbury eloped with Ward to this city. Upon their arrival they startled the community by openly admitting their folly. This career, however, was cut short by their arrest upon the charge of adultery at the in stance of the Society For the Prevention of Vice. Mrs". Bradbury was released upon her own recognizance by Police Justice Low, but in default of bail Ward spent one night in jail. When the case came up for hearing, that against Mrs. Bradbury was dismissed, and with her mother she left for Chi cago, where she was met by her hus band, who was en route from Europe with his mother. A reconciliation was effected, and the couple went to New York, whence they departed for Mexico, where they now are. Ward meanwhile returned' to Santa Monica, but returned here for trial last week. When the matter came up for hearing on Aug. 26, Ward's attorney raised the point that the Information against him was Insufficient to warrant his being held to answer, and on Aug. 27 Superior Judge Cook sustained this contention and ordered that Ward be dismissed. As he was financially em barrassed and, in fact, had been depend ent upon the money raised from such jewelry. as Mrs. Bradbury had taken with htr at the time of the elopement his wife, who was visiting his relatives In England, sent him the necessary funds with which to conduct his de fense and defray his expenses to Eng land in the event of his acquittal. After leaving the court a free man Ward went to the Grand hotel, where he remainedin seclusion until Monday. He purchased a ticket for Buffalo and left on the evening east bound train, an nouncing that he was going to England and did not expect" to return to this country. At jthe time there -was noth ing in his action or demeanor that would tend to show that he was men tally unsound. TORTURED BY RQBBERS. ; Masked Men Threaten to Burn Two Wealthy Farmer! to Death, Erie, Pa., Sept. 4. A robbery, attend ed by some sensational features, which occurred in Greenfield county four days I ago, has just been reported to the" po i lice department of this city. Monday night last Volney Bull and his son, I Thurman Bull, wealthy farmers, were in the former's barn when two men en tered and asked permission to sleep in the barn. While the two men were talking to the elder Bull three more men who wore masks, came in TFnd drawing re volvers ordered Bull and his son to surrender and give up their money. The old man made some resistance and was knocked down and badly beaten. - The farmer and his son were then bound, and three of the robbers watch ed them while the other two entered Bull's house and searched it thorough ly, but finding little money they return ed to the barn. Bull and his son were then separated, one being placed in each of the two barns on the farm. ,.The robbers in formed their victims that nothing but the revelation of where all of their money could be found would prevent both from being cremated. Bull protested that he had 'no more money. The robbers then set Are to the barn in which Volney Bull lay, but on the old man promising to obtain and pay them $500 the fire was extinguish ed. The robbers then took one of Bull's teams and drove away, threatening to return and shoot both father and son and burn their buildings If a word was said about the robbery. The old man and his son were so greatly terror stricken that they kept the matter a secret. The old man had the money ready to pay the robbers, but the neighbors and authorities are aroused and are scouring the county for the men, and if they are captured a lynching Is altogether probable. The Deadly Grade Crossing. Sandy Hill, N. T., Sept. 4. Montreal express No. 101 struck a horse and buggy in which were Joseph Guilder, his wife and two children, '6 and 4 years old. The man and woman were killed. The boy was badly hurt and will die. The girl was seriously, but not fatally injured. Guilder lived in the town of Granville, Washington county. He was a basketmaker. Coroner Pattie will hold an inquest. .No Double Dealing Allowed. Washington, Sept. 4. The treasury department has decided that the bolt ing cloths for milling purposes which under the new tariff law are not dutia ble must be stamped "bolting cloth, ex pressly for milling purposes." The pur pose of the department is' to prevent such cloth,? from being used for dress goods. r A Murder Mystery. Corning, N. Y., Sept. 4. The village of Cameron is all excitement over the finding of the badly decomposed body of a woman in Reynolds creek. It was Identified as that- of Mrs. Mary Mur phy, aged 62 years, who formerly lived in Addison. It is not known how the woman came to her death. A Beaver Falls Firm Bid Lowest. Washington, Sept. 4. The Penn Bridge company of Beaver Falls, Pa., was the lowest bidder, at $6,350, at tha navy department for extending the construction shops at the Port Royal navy yard. S. c. - JACKSON'SPOLARCRUISE THE BURNED SCHOONER. Revolutionizes the Old Ideas of Franz Josef Land. Candidates Are Numerous. Washington, Sept. 4. Over 75 appll cants have presented themselves bo far for examination for the office of super vising architect In the treasury depart ment, and the contest is attracting widespread attention. The practical examination Is now In progress) and will end Sept. 10. An immense number of papers have already reached the civil service commission in accordance with the requirement for the filing of sketches and plans of buildings made by tie applicants as exhibits of their work and to show their practical and professional training. One candidate alone, a New Yorker, has filed papers that already fill a box measuring 6 by 4 feet, and more of them are coming. He paid the express charges. A Lynching Thj e&tened. Montgomery, Ala,, Sept. 4. T-heogevr ernor is In receipt of a telegram from Judge Carmichael, circuit judge at Ozark, that Major Terrel, the negro who committed an assault on a white woman and burned her up in her house near Elba, Coffee county, has been cap tured near that place and that a mob was forming to storm the jail and hang him. Judge Carmichael asks for In structions in the matter, and the gov ernor telegraphed him to have- the pris oner protected at all hazards. Terrel, after committing the assault, was cap tured, and in the race to avoid the mob he escaped, and no trace has been had of him until now. Trouble is expected, as his crime was a most revolting one. National Leagae Teams Going South. Washington, Sept. 4. Ted Sullivan has returned here with contracts under which he expects to take the Baltimore baseball club and an all American team for an extensive trip south and west immediately following the Temple cup series. The route is to be by way of Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans and Texas, where they will play at the car nival during the Texas state fair, and then west as far as San Francisco. If Mexico City will give the guarantee re quired, the combination will go there after playing in Texas. Tho Bings May Convict IUetgert. Chicago, Sept. 4. Three women gave damaging evidence against the defend ant in the Luetgert trial. They positive ly identified the rings found in the vat as being the property of Mrs. Luetgert and said that they had seen them on her hands. One of them had talked with Mrs. Luetgert about the rings and so felt sure that the rings found in the vat and those she saw on the fingers of Mrs. Luetgert were the same. The de fense made a desperate effort to break down the evidence of the three- women, but they stuck to their stories. aged Firmer Kills Himself. Newark, 'N. Y., Sept. 4. Frederick W. Coffin, a farmer, aged 64 years, and living just north of this place, com mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He had been acting strangely for several days. He threat ened his wife's life and then went to the barn and tried to hang himself. He was rescued by the hired man, who went for a neighbor. When they re turned. Coffin was gone. Later his body was found in a lot, with a razor and a rope lying beside it. The right artery of the neck had beer! severed. Mayor Vkinson Dead. Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 4. Ex Mayor Benjamin T. Atkinson is dead as the result of paralysis. He was born in Maine 75 years ago. He came to this city in 1864 and became proprietor of the Ocean House, and later he was en gaged in shipbuilding. Mr. Atkinson was mayor in 1875 and 1876 and in the legislature in 1879. He leaves three sons and a daughter. Tammany Convention Call. New York, Sept. 4. It has been de cided to hold the Democratic conven tion for the nomination of candidates for the various municipal offices on Sept. 30, two days after the regular Re publican convention. This was settled at a subcommittee meeting held at the Hoffman House, at which John C. Shee han nresided, AN OPEN SEA.T0 THE N0ETHWAED. Found Ho Trace of Oscar Land and Glllis land No Terra EIrrna Believed to Ex ist North of Eighty-two Degree Tem perature Forty Degrees Below Zero. London, Sept. 4. The Jackson-Harms-worth arctic expedition has arrived here on the steamer Windward, all well, after having spent three winters near Cape Flora. Mr. F. G. Jackson, the leader, Mr. Harmsworth being the financial back er, reports that his exploration of Franz Josef Land revolutionizes pre vious ideas of that country. The much discussed Gillis Land does not lie where arctic geographers have been in the habit of placing it. Therefore it may be considered nonexistent. Mr. Jack son failed to see Oscar Land and is convinced there Is no great land north west of Franz Josef Land. He re- F. G. JACKSON, gards the existence of Petermann Land doubtful and in any case says It must be small. Instead of a continental mass of land there are a vast number of small is lands. In place of lofty mountains there are long ridged hammocks and ice packs, and north of these was found an open sea. These alterations of the map render the prospect of reaching the north pole from Franz Josef Land more than du bious, as the . returned explorers are satisfied, there Is no land north of 82 degrees. They did not see anything of Profess or Andree, who started July 11 from Danes island in a balloon, hoping to cross the north pole. Before the Wind ward sailed homeward the quarters of the expedition at Elmwood were fas tened up, but Mr. Jackson left there a lot of supplies in case the place is visit ed by Andree or other explorers. He also established a depot at Bell Island. Exceedingly valuable aiagnetic, me teorological and geological observations were made by the expedition, and very valuable botanical and zoological col lections were brought to England. .' Mr. Jackson says that after the Wind ward left Franz Josef Land last year with Dr. Nansen the winter was less severe and less windy than commbn. Mr. Jackson and Albert Armltage, the astronomer of the expedition, started March 16 with pony and dog sledges to explore the western part of Franz Josef Land. They encountered boisterou weather, and by the end of the first month the pony and most of the dogs had succumbed, and the explorers were forced to abandon all except the most essential part of their equipment. Eollowod the Coast Z.lne. They followed the coast line, some times on the frozen Ice and sometimes along the bases of glaciers 1,500 feet high, on Cambridge bay, constant mists being very harassing. They shot a bear, the only one seen, and, having procured meat and blubber, returned to Elmwood the middle of May, after meeting a party sent to look for them as they were a fortnight overdue. A second expedition which went east ward in the fore part of June was less successful, as on the second day out the explorers lost a sledge through the thin sea Ice and had a hazardous re turn journey. The winter life of the explorers was uneventful. There were only two hours' twilight in the middle of the day from October to November. After that total darkness until the end of February. The expedition killed 1,400 loon, a webfooted bird, in the autumn, which provided ample fresh meat. During the winter they caught 19 loon and 22 kit tiwakes, a bird of the gull kind, to which they fastened labels with the ini tial "J," and liberated them. The temperature sometimes reached 40 degrees below zero and then Jumped up to 12 degrees above. Mr. Jackson announces his intention of heading another arctic expedition, thi3 time on his own account. Another Alabama Lynching. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 4. News haB reached here of the lynching at Excel of an unknown colored man who mur dered an aged storekeeper and then robbed the store. Particulars are not obtainable, as the place is remote from a railroad. Fatal Fight Over an Arrest. Louisville. Sept. 4. A dispatch from Pineville, Ky., says: William Moore, a deputy sheriff, killed Seymour Spencer, a miner, in a fight at Bear Creek mines. Moore was wounded, and a bystander got a bullet In the arm. Moore was at tempting to make an arrest for a minor offence. A Saratoga Mystery. Saratoga, Sept. 4.-CharIes F. Cook an assessor of the town of Ballston, has been missing for several days. Cook has a wife and two children. He is known to have had $9,000 in cash with him when he left. - Furthor Details of th Tragedy at Sea on the pllve Pecker. Boston, Sept. 4. The first Intelligence of the schooner Olive Pecker since she was reported as abandoned by her crew after Captain Whitman and Mate Saunders had been murdered was con tained in a private letter received in this city from New Orleans. The report states that Captain George Braithwaite of the British steamer Rosse, one of Yhe Liverpool, Brazil and River Platte line, which arrived a few days ago from Santos and Rio Janeiro, on Aug. 6 sighleda burning vessel and for three hours steamed around her in a vain search for the crew. The vessel was a three masted schooner, lumber laden, and there is no Joubt that it was the Olive Pecker. There were no boats in sight and no signs oE life anywhere around the burning vessel, This places the date of t'he murder of Captain Whitman and Mate Saunders much earlier than was supposed, as the new;e of the tragedy did not reach here until 10 days later. The condition of the schooner when passed by the; Rosse leads to the belief that the murderer and the remainder of the crew had not been very many hours away from the vessel. The position as given by Cap tain Braithwaite is about half way be tween Rio Janeiro and Bahia, where, the men made a landing. When the Rosse left the vessel, the flames were licking her mastheads, and she was fast being consumed. Tbe entire hull was a mass of flames, and the cabin, where probably the remains of Captain Whit man and Mate Saunders were lying, had been entirely consumed. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS WELL PLEASED WITH THEIR VISIT TO THE EMERALD ISLE. TWELVE MINERS KILLED. Frightful Results of an Explosion of Coal Dust In Colorado. Glenwood Springs, Colo., Sept. 4. At 6 o'clock last evening a terrible explo sion of coal dust occurred in the old Sunshine mine, owned by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, 12 miles from Glenwood. The frightfully mutilated bodies of. 12 miners have been taken from the mine. The dead are Antone Martaltcno, George Dannon, Louis Dannon, Louis Rakl, Joe Martini, Joe- Gasagrandi, John Jenneni, Antone Eppice, Theodore Polosi, John Andriani, Emil Andrianl and Francis McCloud. To Hunt the South Pole. New York, Sept. 4. Dr. Frederick A. Cook has sailed away from Brooklyn to Join in a search for the south pole. Dr. Cook wilj so by the Havelius, which sails from the Robert stores, near Ful ton ferry, as far as Rio Janeiro. There he will Join the Belgian antarctic expe dition, which will leave for the Antarc tic sea Oct. 1. The expedition will be conducted by Lieutenant de Gerlache In a large whal ing vessel. It will go to Grahams Land, to Wilkes Land and around, if possible, to Cape Adore. From there the intention is to explore the land by means of sledges. Dr. Cook accompanied Peary on hJs first northern trip in 1891 In the capa city of surffon. Since then he has been north twice. For a long time he has had a desire to go on a southern ex pedition, and several scientific societies proposed sending him, but none of the plans materialized. Although no defi nite position has been assigned Dr.Cook. he will probably be a member of the scientific staff. The doctor's equipment is about the same as that he took north, with the exception that his furry garments were made In Greenland. A Question For the Treasury. Washington, Sept. 4. Special Agent Chamberlain at St. Louis brought rath er a novel question before the treasury department in connection with a Chi nese laborer in St. Louis who was ar rested without registration.' papers in his possession. It turned out that dur ing the peg-iod of registration he was a merchant and therefore not compelled to register. Since then reversals of for tune have lowered him into the labor ing class, but the period for registration has expired. The department ruled that if It could be proved that he was a merchant during the period of registra tion he was not unlawfully in the country. Driver Injured In a Collision. Monticello, N. Y., Sept. 4. A serious accident happened at the Sullivan county races. Mott G. Perry, driving Brlto, from the Nongaup Valley Stock farm, collided with Jacob York of Mid dletown, who was driving Nichory, an Orange county horse. They were speed ing their horses prior to entering the race. York was driving in the wrong direction. Perry was kicked In the head and abdomen and Is in a critical condition. To Checkmate the Powers. London, Sept. 4. A dispatch to The Timesifrom Constaninople says the sul tan is impatient to reopen the Cretan question, hoping thereby to checkmate the European concert. The palace councils are cunningly preparing the campaign, though no official action has yet been taken. To Restrain a Jockey Club. Chicago, Sept. 4. C H. Simmons has filed a bill in the circuit court asking that the Harlem Jockey club be re strained from permitting gambling at its race track. The bill sets forth that the club allows wagering, bookmaking and gambling at the track, contrary to the stata laws- Price of Bread Will Increase In England. London, Sept. 4. The Daily Graphic this morning publishes a table compar ing the available and prospective Eng lish wheat supply" at the present time with that of September, 1896, showing a deficiency of nearly 2,000,000 quarters. It is inevitable, The Graphic says, that the rise in the price of bread will be naintained. Growth of the Rebellion In Uruguay. London, Sept. 4. The Times' Monte video correspondent says that the re bellion in Uruguay is growing and that ihe insurgents are gaining .ground. Pope Leo's Physicians Say He Will Live a Long Time Yet Gloomy Out look For Ireland Owing to the Fail ure of Crops The Strike Among Several Trade Unions Assuming Alarming Proportions. London, Sept 4. The Duke and Duchess of York continue their tri umphant visit to Ireland. They have spent the last two day's at Baron's court, the Duke of Abercorn's place.. Their spontaneous norjulafitv i the Irish is in sharp contrast with the I servile adulation of the English. The j Irish peasantry have shown themselves ; especially anxious to see the duke and duchess. The correspondent of the Daily Graphic who, his paper says, is a prominent Parnellite who has suf fered for the nationalist cause, sent the following private telegram to the editor: "The tour has become a tritrlhphal procession. At Castletown and Dun- ! raven I was simply astonished. You cannot magnify its significance.". The castle clique, at Dublin is so de ! termined to make political capital out of, the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Yofck to Ireland that the lord lieuten ant, Earl Cadogan, has been obliged to set his foot down firmly In order to prevent it from being turned Into a Protestant ascendancy demonstration and he lias ordered expunged several sentences, 4n this sense, from addresses sent to their .-royal highnesses by Orange societies. The failures of the potato, hay and corn crops in most of the districts of Ireland has resulted in the gloomiest outlook for the winter. Th chairman of the Michaelstown board of guar dians at a meeting held by that body on Thursday last, declared Ireland is on the verge of a great agricultural crisis and that numbers of rate payers will be compelled to go to tho work house. The price of bread is risWg slowly in London and here also the.utlook for the winter is of the gloomiest kind. This city requires 70,000 qmNrters of foreign wheat weekly, independent of flour, and during August less ttan 35, 000 Quarters arrived tier week.X Not one tenth of London's bread is from English flour and the bakers sert that with flour at the present ure a loaf of bread at eleven cents send them into bankruptcy. - Court circles are enjoying a sixteen page booklet, written entirely in cy pher by a miner royal personage, ia which amusing. stojies.arrWracts-crwr nected with the Inner life of members of the royal circle are set out in the , most unvarnished manner. Most of. the matter in this publication con cerns Emperor "William of Germany and the writer asserts that 6,000 people are languishing in the German state prisons on charges of lese majeate. The booklet is in great demand. It is said to be like pages from "The Pick wick Papers." The pope's attending physician de clares that Leo Xin will see the twen tieth century. The announcement has been decidedly unpleasant to the papal initiators of changes in Rome, who are in a complete state of stagnation. The strike in the engineering trades has grown more serious within the past week. It has now extended to the va rious trades connected with engineer ing. Over , 5,000 moulders, boiler, makers, finishers, etc, at Newcastle, Sheffield and other centers have re ceived notices that their services will not be required after this week. Many of the firms affected declare they are preparing to move their establishments to the continent, and they add that the question of eight hours work per day is by no means the most important thing involved in the dispute. The strikers are opposed to the introduc tion of new machinery and are trying, artificially, to check production. In connection with the engineering strike, the employers' federation has issued a statement regarding the hours' of work in the case of engineers in America, based on the official statistics of the United States government labor -bureau, showing that -wages are not hierher in America relatively to the work done at much higher pressure and with fewer holidays. Naval circles continue to make much of the docking of the United States bat tleship Indiana at Halifax, and it is re marked that the predicament or the United States must be taken into ac count in estimating her fighting power. The Morning Post said: "After all our American talk, she has not yet built a navy of ;any serious sea-going strength, and it will be long before she builds docks. Our guests at Halifax, are heartily welcome to all the assist ance we can give them, but it does not need asking assistance to reduce the process of twisting the lion's tail." The London theatrical season of 1S97-9S may be fairly dated from to- night, when it will be ushered in by -the reopening of two of the foremost theaters, the Haymarket and Her Majesty's, both of them presenting" notable bills. Interest is focussed upon the latter, engaged for a brief season by C. E. Hedmondt, who is to introduce an operatic version of the old story of Rip "Van Winkle. The new work is a pretentious essay in English opera, written by William Akerman and composed by Franco Leoni. The title role will be assumed by Hed mondt. Other leading characters will be: The Nick Vedders, father and son, and by Homer Lind, a Washington man, who has received his musical edu- . cation in Germany. The second milestone of the new sea son will be reached next Saturday, when Forbes Robertson and Mrs Pat- , rick Campbell will give their much talked of and often postponed produc- ' tion of "Hamlet," which has excited more interest than any other announce ment of the season. . : , I taade ' j Vas-, J will V "1 3 rv ,