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MINERS QUIET. Hie Expected Clash at Hazleton, Fa, Did Not Occur. STRIKE SPREADING IX THE SECTIOJ. Mines Are Ronmln;; Around Pittsburgh and Dltern in the District Pay lit tle Attention to the Ten-Day Clause. Hazletos, Pa., Sept. 15. Despite a. variety of alarming rumors aud a morning' movement by a "body of min ers which looked formidable, yester day passed off without serious disturb ance in the strike region- Matters still wear such an uncertain aspect, however, that Gen. Go bin declares that the removal of the troops or any portion of them has not been contem plated. The strike itself is spreading with great rapidity. Exact estimates of the number of the men who have quit work are hard to obtain, but con servative figures place it close to 10,000, with indications that in a short time every colliery of importance in the reg-ion will be idle. Although some disposition has been shown by small bodies of strikers in the outlying- districts to moke demonstra tions, they have been of a rather feeble character and the great majority of the men are docile. The first city troop of Philadelphia whieh was dis patched at an early hour yesterday morn i riff to the scene of the reported outbreak at Eckley found nothing- for it to do when it reached that place about one o'clock in the afternoon. Several hundred miners from Buck Mountain marched on the Eckley mines the previous night and brought out the men there. A few of the men who showed a disposition to continue work were roughly handled and the mine superintendent, fearing trouble, wired to Gen. Gobin for troops. JOKERS EESUMIXO ABOUND PITTSBURGH. Pittsburg ii. Pa., Sept. 15. A larg-e number of mines in the district started yesterday and a still larger number will be in working order to-day. At least 5,000 of the rail miners will be at work by this evening and quite a num ber of river diggers will also resume. President Patrick Dolan yesterday met 'the men of the Wheeling division at 3Finleyville. lie made a speech to I, t)00 of them at the Ilacket mine. He did not commit himself to the men as he had done to the operators as to "the ten-day clause, but as a re :sult they unanimously agreed to tart work to-day. With the excep tion of the Anderson mine all of them Will be busy while the convention is Tbeing held in Pittsburgh. Everything 5s in an uproar there. The operators .-are telegraphing for cars and they -want men all they can get at 65 cents. -J. E. Boyle, of the Ilacket mine, says that his mine will be working full to clay. The Keeling Coal Co.'s mine at title's run was working yesterday and ix cars of coal were gotten out. This is the first break over the ten-day clause in any considerable numbers sind Dolan did not object. PORT ARTHUR STORM. Five Drowned at Sabine City and Six Other Are Missing:. i"Prtvr Arthur, Tex., Sept. 15. The " bodies of the six victims of the Port Arthur hurricane were taken to Beau mont. Every business house in that city was closed and nearly the entire population turned out and joined the cavalcade to the cemetery. The damage vto shipping at Sabine Pass is greater than was at first thought. Two schoon ers laden with lumber are practi cally wrecks, and it will he nearly im possible to save the ship Ceres. Noth ing has yet been heard of the pile driver with six men aboard, which evi - dently careened out at sea. The num ber drowned, not including the above rsix men, was five. Two bodies were "recovered yesterday and three have .not yet been found. CUBAN POLICY. "resident MrKinley Has One Mapped Oat and Will Soon Make It Pnblie. Washington, Sept. 15. "You can tell the people that the action of the administration upon the Cuban ques tion will be satisfactory to every American." This was the message ent by President McKinley to several -of the strong men of the administra tion who have recently gone from "Washington to deliver-their political addresses. These words from the hief executive have convinced the followers fot the administration that President -McKinley has a definite -Cuban policy mapped out, and as the time draws nearer when it must of necessity develop itself the interest felt in the question becomes more keen. GREEN POSTAGE STAMPS. The Two-Cent 1 ft-nomination Will Be Chanced. Washington, Sept. 15. The secre tary of the treasury and the postmaster-general, after consultation with -the president, have decided to change the color of the current two-cent post cage stamps from carmine to green of ;the shade now used on government notes. The ten-cent postage stamp, which is now printed in green, will be changed to some other color, possibly carmine. It is thought that green is .a more desirable color than carmine, besides saving the government about -10,0 JO in the difference in cost of the two ink.. PROBABLY THE LAST. Very Likely to B 'o More National Coal Strikes Split in the Union. Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 14. The na tional bituminous coal miners' strike of 1897 will probably be the last of the kind for the present generation, and hereafter the difficulties arising through wage disputes will likely be settled by states and districts, and a revolution may be expected in differ entials favoring other states. M. D. Ratchford, national president, and Pat rick Dolan, district president, both ex pressed themselves privately that they were thoroughly disgusted at the ac tion of the delegates from Illinois and West Virj-inia and the cupidity of some Ohio delegates who wished to continue the strike. Mr. Dolan said he had told the operators that the ten-days clause in the Columbus settle ment was a farce, and that he would not interfere in any way , with any miners who wishedj 4to jetnrn to work before the ten days bad expired. It is the operators" intenticttito make a concerted effort to havfttha .Jatfcs burgh miners in a body tjecaie;'Jrdm the national organization al f an association for this district V. ie. - It is believed the whole distriL. 11 be running in full by Thursday jJuJ"ning- REFUSED TO OBEY A JUDGE. Novel Point as to the rower of Courts Raised in Nebraska. Pesber, Neb., Sept. 34 At a late hour Saturday night a jury caused a scene in the district court by refusing to return a verdict which the court had directed. It was in the case of the county against ex-County Treasurer Holt's bondsmen to secure an alleged shortage of 15,000. The case had been previously reversed by the supreme court and Judge Thomas ordered the jury to find for the county. The jury as a whole refused, declaring that it was a matter of conscience in which they could not permit the court to in terfere. The court was inclined to think the jury in contempt, but as they positively refused to sign the verdict the court ordered the clerk to make the record show that the verdict was really returned by the jury. The de fense will appeal and a novel point will be tested in the supreme court. The practice of a judge ordering juries to bring in a verdict was never before questioned in Nebraska and has be come very common. A LONG SWIM. A Hundred and Sixty-Five Miles Covered Under Twelve IJ.iyt. Kew York, Sept. 14. James Hooper, the swimmer, yesterday completed the task he had set himself of swimming from Troy to the Battery in this city, a distance of 1C5 miles. lie covered the distance in 11 days 4 hours and 45 min utes. He swam at intervals and only when the tide was favorable. He bad been in the water about ten hour each day. He is 23 years of age and was much exhausted when he finished bis long swim. He weighed 165 possds when he entered the water at Troy at 11 a. m. on September 1, and 126 pounds when he left the water at 3:45 yestr dav afternoon. WHEAT NOT TOO- HIGH. Prises Will stay Up Until Another Crop Ia in Siirht. Washington, Sept. 14. The follow ing, relating to the wheat situation, is an extract from the monthly" report of John Hyde, the statistician of the ag ricultural department: Hyzh prices for wheat have for several weeks past been brinjrini? out supplies quite freely. and increased supplies have. In turn, reacted upon prices, causing some decline from the highest figures of Ausrost. The general tenor of the information gieaDed from all available sources is now. however, of a charactes to war rant the expectation or the fear, according a the matter is regarded from the consumers' or the producers' point of view, of any material cheapening of wheat until unother crop is in sight, with a prospect of ampler stocks. THE FEVER-SPREADING. A Case of Yellow Jack Discovered in Mobile Serious Ontbreiitc Ferl.. Washington, Sept. 14. Dr. Guiteras,. government expert, has reported a case of yellow fever at the city hospital at Mobile, Ala., also a suspect case, and added that he apprehended a serious outbreak. At the same time. Surgeon, Carter telegraphed from Ocean Springs that four cases of yellow fever exist at Berkley, that there had been eight cases known to be yellow fever, and that two exposed physicians were at Vancleave and Scranton, practically under guard. A CLEVER CAPTURE. Am Enaporla Man, Armed with m Cor Knife. Catches a IfurKlar. Emporia, Kan., Sept. 14. A burglar attempted to rob the home of A. A. Gray last evening. Mr. Gray, with his family, was returning home and. when near the house, saw the burglar through a window. He caught up a corn knife, ran into the house and chased the bold burglar into a corner. At the point of the corn knife he com pelled the man to give up two revolv ers, and at the muzzle of these, marched him to the courthouse, where he was turned over to the officers. SENSATION AT MONMOUTH, ILL. ; After Heine Repeatedly Shot at Dr. Reg- j nler Kill 11 In lanchters Lover. ! Monmouth, 111., Sept. 14. Simon ' Frandsen, a young butcher, who had been paying attention to the daughter of Dr. F. Kegnier and had been ordered to desist, shot five times at Kegnier in the street. Kegnier rvent home, got a shotgun and, returning, met Frand sen, who shot again, missing him once more. Kegnier then emptied a load of buckshot into the young man's breast, killing him. 3TLNEKS SHOT DOWN. Deputy Sheriffs Fire into a Crowd of 200 Hungarians. tV Terrible Crisis Reached In the Strike Situation at Buelton. Pa. Estimat ed. I-hat SO -Were Killed and About Forty Injured. IIaz.i.kton, Pa., Sept. 11. The strike situation reached a terrible crisis on the outskirts of Latimer yesterday afternoon, when a band of deputy sheriffs fired into a mob of Hungarian miners. The men fell like sheep and the excitement has since been so in tense that no accurate figures of dead and wounded can be obtained. Re ports run from 15 to 20 odd . killed and j 40 or more wounded. One man who ; reached the scene last night counted ' 13 corpses. Four other bodies lie in j the mountains between Latimer and Harleigh. Those who were not injured carried their dead and wounded friends into tne woods, ana estimate is baffled. The strikers left Hazleton about 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, and it was their intention to go to Latimer. As soon as this became known, a band of deputies was loaded on a trolley car and went whirling across the mountain to the scene where the bloody conflict fol lowed. After reaching Latimer, they left the car and formed into three com panies. Sheriff Martin was in entire command, and stood in the front of the line until the strikers - approached. They were seen coming across the ridge, and Martin went out to meet them. The men drew up suddenly, and listened in silence until he had once more read the riot act. This fin ished, a low muttering arose among the foreigners, and there was a slight movement forward. Perceiving this, the sheriff stepped, toward them and, in a determined tone, forbade ad vance. Some one struck the sheriff, and the next moment there was a com mand to the deputies to fire. The guns of the deputies instantly belched forth a terrible volley. The report seemed to shake the very mo m tains, and a cry of dismay went up from the people. The strikers were taken entirely by surprise, and as the men toppled and fell over each other, those who remained unhurt stampeded. The men went down before the storm of bullets like tenpins and the groans of the dying and wounded filled the air. The excitement that followed was simply indescribable. The depu ties seemed to be terror-stricken at the deadly execution of their guns and, seeing the living strikers fleeing like wild, and others dropping to the earth, they went to the aid of the unfor tunates whom they had brought down. BETTER IN ALL WAYS. Dan's Weekly TnHh Review Says Thecvla No HaltiitsMn- Ifcnsiness rrocwK. New York, Sept. 11. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Ke-rlew of Trade says: There is no halting' in the advance. Busi ness grows better in all ways, for while itw speculative end occaaaally breaks conspicu ously, a steady increase in production, in work ing force and in the power of the people to pur enase is the feature- wnicn overshadow all ethers. Reports of Jw York trade unions show an increase sinccooo year ago of 31 per cent, in the number of men at work, and a simi lar increase amonj men hi like position throughout the country would exceed 340,000, while every week adds many establishments to She active list. The farmers are helped by nig-her prices for whpat, and while western receipts do not show Saat they have marketed a testa of their crops, assurance of a handsome-profit to come pre pares them to buy libely hereafter. Be oancse of this, and the increase of hands at werk, dealers throushouC the country have started to replenish stocks, which is the (Treat fovee at present operating in manufacture and trade, though distribution by retail trade has greatly increased. Failures for the week hovve been 215 in the United States, asainst 31ft last year; and 35 in Canada, against 47 last yeax. RUNNING OUT OF DRUGS. Hew Vane for Anxiety at Siloxi, Miss., Where Yellow Fer fcxiKt. New Orleans, Sep. 11. At Biloxi the drug stores are- running out of anedicines and no freights have been received, although ordered in ample time. President Lemon, of the Biloxi board, has wired President Oliphant urging him in behalf of humanity to see that requests for drugs shall be promptly attended ta. Tne Biloxi board of health . issued a notice to" all phy sicians that they must report within 24 hours to that body all infec tions, contagious and suspicious cases under a penalty of $100 fine. All pre vailing cases of fever were reported to be convalescent. Ocean Springs re ported one new case and one suspicious case this morning, but no deaths have occurred since that of the man, Sey mour, reported yesterday. An urgent request.however.has been forwarded to New Orleans for yellow fever nurses. TWO ARE DROWNED. Christian and Son Drop frona the Rock Island Bridge at Topeka. Topkka, Karu, Sept. 11. Mary Chris tian and little son Eddie, of North Topeka, were drowned last night by falling off the Rock Island railroad bridge The accident was most pe culiar and distressing. Mrs. Christian accompanied by her son had started to walk across the bridge, this being a common occurrence. They had reached the middle of the first span and stepped out on one of the stringers to let railroad velocipede pass by. Just at the moment of passing them the man on the velocipede was horrified to see the woman throw up her hands fran tically and with a loud cry fall into the river, the boy being dragged in with her. SENATOR CHANDLER'S PLEA. Ha Entreats Blaaetalllsta Everywhere to Make Themselves Heard. Boston, Sept. 13. Senator William F. Chandler, of New Hampshire, has given the following letter to the Asso ciated press: I appeal to all republicans to meet with Joy ous welcome the first &tep England may take toward bimetallism. The movement earnestly and zealously begun by President McKinley in SEXATOB WILLIAN IE. CHANDLER, obedience to the St. Louis platform, was quick ly followed by the French ministry, and the joint proposals are being carefully and seriously considered by the British cabinet, with a rea sonable prospect that England will reopen her Indian mints, will use silver as a part of her bank reserve, and otherwise cordially aid in remonetization. I entreat bimetallists every where to m:ike themselves heard against the selfish outcries of the engorged money-lenders of New York and Chicago and their subservi ent newspapers. TWO MEN BLAMED. Conductor Bnrbank and Engineer Outran, der Charged with the Colorado Train Wreck. Newcastle, CoL, Sept. 13. Frank Burbank, conductor, and Engineer Ostrander, deceased, of the Colorado Midland railway, are charged by the coroner's jury with being responsible for the frightful wreck which occurred here Thursday night. The jury de cided from the evidence that the con ductor and engineer attempted to ar rive at Newcastle siding upon the time allotted by order of train dis patcher to the Kio Grande passenger westbound. Conductor Burbank was released upon his own recognizance. The death of Rev. Alexander Hartman, of Herscher, 111., and the finding of the body of Engineer Ostrander in creases the number of known dead to II. The coroner's researches among the ruins have convinced him thatt from six to ten more met death in the awfftl accident. This materially re duces the original estimates. DEFENDED HER GOOD NAME. A Piacky Wftmaa School Teacher Chastises One of the School Directors. Roi.LJkv Mo.. Sept. 12. F. E. Dowd, a prominent real estate man of this city, and a member of the school board, was publicly horsewhipped on the street by Miss Myra Blanehard, a teacher in the publia- schools. Dowd had made disparaging? remarks about the lady's character in. at meeting of the board on Friday nigh. Thiis produced consid erable feeliag in that body, and Mr. Dowd's resignation was asked for. Miss Blanehard, accompanied by her lather and several friends, met Dowd an the street and proceeded to belabor iaim with blows, from a rawhide. Dowd made am effort to escape, but was prevented by Miss Blanchard's friends. On her- appearance in the school room she was warmly congratu lated by the other teachers for the courage she had: exhibited in defense other character; THEIR ATTITUDE CHANGED. Chinese Officials KoLmiepr Persecute 3Iis- sionaries of Protestant Churches. IkoNDONv Sept. 13. Protestant mis sionaries returned from China say that the war has broogbt about a revolu tion, in the attitude of the governing class toward evangelistic work which is- calculated to have an enecmous effect on China's future. The-old hostilities to missionary work, have ceased,. Officials now frequently consult the- missionaries respecting the best methods of advancing Chinese interests. . TWENTY-FOUR KILLED. Fawfol Explosion at a Stone Quarry on fens, Tent Crol Railway. City of Mkxico, Sept. 13. Twenty four persons, mainly spectators of the great blast at Panuelas quarry on the Vera Crai railway, were instantly killed. The blast went off, and the people rushed forward to see the ef fects, when gases in the air ignited, causing a terrific explosion with aw ful results. MeKlnley Back in Washington. Washington, Sept. 13. The presi dent bas sent notice that he will re turn to Washington from Somerset to day, and a meeting of the cabinet has been called for Tuesday. It is under stood that the president will not re main in Washington more than a day or two, but will leave the city again in continuation of his vacation, and will not return to the white house before October 1. Kays But Eleven Perished. Topeka, Kan.. Sept. 13. C. W. Ryus, claim agent of the Santa Fe, says there is no" truth whatever in the report from Emporia to the effect that addi tional charred bodies of victims of the wreck had been found. He says he saw the wreck cleared from the track. and no such remains were found. He asserts that the death of Engineer j Frisby made the 11th death resulting from the wreck, YELLOW JACK. The Fever Ex:tendlng in pities In the South. IRAI5S LEAYI5G MOBILE CROWDED. Much Material for the Fever to Peed Upon Bnsineas at a Complete standstill at Jackson, M Lss-, and the City Sur rounded by a. Guard. New Orleans, Sept. 15. The books of the board of health show the fol lowing recapitulation of the yellow fever situation. There have been re ported to the board for investigation 26 cases which the attending physi cians considered suspicious. Of these, 13 cases had been found suffering with a harmless fever, five cases were re garded as suspicious but necessary to be further investigated before a defi nite report could be made upon them; there were no reports as to four cases and four cases had been pronounced genuine yellow fever, though one of the latter was classed as of mild type. The most serious of the four yellow fever cases is located in the neighborhood of the French mar ket. Officers from the police force were detailed to take charge of the neighborhood, a restaurant, a bakery and a shop next door to the premises in which the sickness was found were closed and a disinfectant was sent to the scene to be used. Out of a population of 25, only three persons in Barclay have not had the sickness, and the percentage of death has been what is usual in yellow fever epidemics. There were several new cases reported yesterday at Ocean Sprinsrs and of the number of ill at Biloxi. 15 were reported as suffering from yellow fever. At Ocean Springs, Dr. Wasdin, of the Marine hospital staff, is receiv ing the best of attention, and it is hoped he will pull through in a few days. Surgeons Carter and D'non left Ocean Springs for Pascagoula yester day. A case of yellow fever exists at that point. OCT-GOIXG TRAHS CISOWDE1M Mobile, Ala., Sept. 15. Three cases of yellow fever were officially an nounced yesterday by the board of health. This caused much more alarm than did the discovery of the first tease, which was regarded as- sporadic. The people who can are leaving for points of safety and the traiu are lea-sring crowded. The same- is true of the trains on the Mobile- : Ohio. Dr. CJuiteras left yesterday for Edwards. Miss., ordered thither- to investigate the dispatch received from; there. He declined to tell what have been M3 observations here, saying he had fLrsfc to- report to the surgeon-general at Washington. It is learned, however, thait he finds four suspicious- cases, 11 in tlte south central districts. When asksd upon what he based, his telegram- to the surgeon-general tftat there would be a spread of the disease here. he said that the city has- liaci a lotvg immunity from the disease atsd thesis is nroeh material for it to feed u port BUSINESS AT A 8TAXD8TII.I,.. Jackson, Miss., Sept. 15. Yesterday was-a day of excitement and atuexety to the-people of Jackson. The- eity is now surrounded on all sides tiy an armed guard and the quarantine- rirlies are enforced with great strictness. The principal cause of alarm- to the npnTil of Jackson came f rom-Edwards. only 25 miles distant, where there- are now S5 cases of dengue, at. least troree of wfeich were reported to- be- consid ered suspicious. Business- ini J!aason. is at a complete standstills. A MILLION DOLLARS WASTED. Capfe. Carter, of the United: States Army, Under Serious -Chartres. Washington, Sept. 15Y Lt had been. rumored for some time thxnt thecrough inspection of the conduct of the- super vision of river and .harbor- i improve ments in the district? adjacent to Sa vannah, Ga., showed, to say the least, gross carelessness and possibiy some thing worse on the part of the officer lately in charge of that, station. Ear nest efforts were made to. snip-press the matter, but it is now- certain that a eourt-martial, within the- next few days, will be ordered for the trial of Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, at present military attache of the United States embassy in London, on the charge of discrepancies in his accounts and mal feasance in office, amounting, it is al leged at the war department, to a sum approximating $1,000.000. Capt. Carter has been ordered by cable to return at once. The secretary of war is now considering the composition of the court of 13 officers before whom he will be placed on trial. Congress "t Colored Women. Nashville, Tenn.. Sept. 15. The second national congress of colored women met yesterday. The address of welcome was delivered by Mrs, Coleman Thompson and the response was made by Mrs. B. K. Bruce, of the District of Columbia. An address was delivered by Mrs. T. H. Lyles, of Min nesota. Telemph Mileaee of the World. Washington, Sept. 15. The total length of the world's telegraph system has now reached 4,900.9'21 miles, ex clusive of 180,440 miles of submarine cables. Of this Europe has 1,764,790 miles, Asia 310,685 miles, Africa 99.419 miles, Australia 217,479 miles and America 2,516,548 miles.