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Y.M. I. Excursion
TO LAFAYETTE AND RETURN,
SUNDAY, SEPT. 12,1897
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Train leaves Indianapolis 7:30 a. m. Re
turning leaves Lafayette 8 p. m.
EXCURSION TO MUNCIE, IND.,
AND RETURN,
Account of Labor-day Celebration,
MONDAY, SEPT. 6, 1897
£jsl=Round Trip=jj£l
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ing leaves Muncie 7:30 p. m.
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Cincinnati Trains
C., H. & D. R’y.
taave Indianapolis. Arrive Cincinnati:
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“ 8:oo a. m. " 11:20 a.m.
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“ 2:45 p. nu *• 6:00 p. m.
" 4:45 p.m. “ 7:40 p.m.
“ 7:05 p. m. M 10:50 p. m.
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“ *10:45 a. m. “ *2.25 p. m.
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" 4:45 p. m. “ T:55 p. m.
“ 7:05 p.m. “ 11:00 p.m.
TOLEDO AND DETROIT TRAINS,
C., H. & D. RV.
Leave Arrive Arrive
Indianapolis: Toledo: Detroit:
•10:45 a. m. *6 40 p. m. *f:4o p. m.
7:05 p. m. 4:OV a. m. 6:15 a. m.
•Except Sunday.
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Washington Street, corner Meridtnn.
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S. m.. 12:55 night.
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cn., 2:35 p. in., 4:37 p. m.
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m. Lew is Chl:ago, returnlr g, at 2:45 a. m. Can
be takrn any time alter 9:30 p. m.
Ticket offices. 2 West Washington street. Union
Etation and Mas*a?husaUß-nvenuc Depot.
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SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS
DEFORMITY APPARATUS. Trusses, Elastlo
Hosiery- Largest stock ot ARTIFICIAL EYES
ba the State.
WM. 11. ARMSTRONG A CO.
Of* w No. 12T) 77 8. Illinois St.. Indianapolis, Ind.
TWO GIRLS KILLED~
Two lloy* Seriously Injured nmi Oth
er* Hurt by a Roller Explosion,
MORTON, 111., Sept., 5.—A terrible explo
sion occurred here this evening at 5 o'clock.
The electric light plant owned by Byer
Brothers & Cos., valued at 114,000, was de
molished by the bursting of the boiler from
some unknown cause. Two girls, aged five
and nine years, were killed outright, and
two boys, aged four and twelve, w- re se
riously hurt. They are the children of
Mose Byers Three of Mr. Moschell t, fam
ily and many others were slightly hurt by
flying missiles.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.
WAGON WHEAT, 030
ACME MILLING CO.,
Old 352 West Washington St.
NOTED CRIMINAL ARRESTED.
Eugene O'Hara, Burglar, Highway
man and Murderous Desperado.
NEW YORK, Sept. s.—Eugene O’Hara,
alias Bates, alias James Brown, forty-two
years old, burglar, highwayman and des
pera o and probably murderer, who cut
his way out of Jefferson-market Prison
here six years ago and had been hunted
ever since, was recaptured to-day by de
tectives. After his escape, O’Hara, with an
other fugitive from justice named Joe
Stranahan, made his way to Colon, from
which place they later on proceeded to
Europe, where they committed a series of
bold crimes. Three years ago O’Hara re
turned to the United States and at Colum
bus, 0., was caught in the act of bur
glary. He served a term of two and one
half years for this crime, and during the
period of his imprisonment was not recog
nized as the escaped prisoner from this
city. O’Hara was released recently and
took up a residence in Jersey City. He
made trips across the North river and at
last the police were informed that O’Hara
was visiting his old haunts here and took
steps to arrest him.
Lender the name of Joe Bates, O’Hara,
in 1878, was sentenced to a term of seven
years at Sing Sing Prison for a highway
robbery committed here. Again in 1885 he
was caught robbing a saloon in this city
by Policeman William Ketchdale. O’Hara
made an attempt to shoot the policeman,
but was finally landed in the station house,
before being sent to state prison a
second time O'Hara threatened to kill
Ketchdale as soon as he had served his
term. On Aug. 7, 1891, Policeman Ketch
dale's dead body was found fioating in the
North river and the mystery of his tragic
death has not yet been cleared up. As
O’Hara was known to be out of prison,
orders were issued to arrest him on sus
picion of having killed Ketchdale, Four
days after the finding of the policeman's
body Patrolman Thomas F. McGuire was
stabbed three times in the back by O’Hara.
After a fight with another policeman named
Sherwood the murderous crook was over
powered and arrested. He was then com
mitted in default of $5,000 bail to the Jef
ferson-market Prison to await trial for his
attack on McGuire. O’Hara cut the prison
bars with a saw and escaped.
CROWDED CAR OVERTURNED
Excursion Train Wrecked, One Man
Killed and RU People Hnrt.
WATERVILLE, Me., Sept. s.—An excur
sion train on the Maine Central Railroad
was wrecked this morning two miles west
of Etna station. Martin Payne, aged twen
ty-one, of Plymouth, was killed. Thirty
two people were injured. The seriously
hurt are: Charles Getschell. baggage mas
t. r at Newport station; Frank O. Billings
East Newport; Arthur Fish, Dexter; Mrs.
J. W. Townsend, Newport; Joseph Welch,
St. Albans. Oscar Butters, Newport; W
H. Earle, Plymouth; Mrs. Wilbur Miles',
Newport. The train was carrying excur
sionists from Dover and Fox Craft to the
Etna camp-meeting. The breaking of a
flange derailed and overturned a car con
taining sixty-five passengers.
Ilrakeinan Killed.
RAVENNA, 0., Sept. 5. —An iron-ore
train on the Pittsburg & Western Railroad
was wrecked two miles east of this city
early this morning. Brakeman Hawley A.
Thomas, of this place, was killed. Michael
Siebb, a tramp, was fatally injured. Sev
eral other tramps were badly but not fa
tally injured. The wreck was caused by a
broken frog.
Electric Cars Collide. .
OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. s.—Two cars col
lided on the Haywards’ electric line to
day, smashing one and seriously injuring
two passengers. A disused transfer switch
caused the accident. Mrs. Perves, one of
the injured, may die. Mrs. Guild was badly
hurt.
Probably u “Fairy” Fortune Tale.
STOCKTON. Cal., Sept. s.—Jacob Wil
son, aged fifty-two years, recently an em
pioyo in a fruit shed on the ranch of W.
E. Nichols, in Tulare county, has just re
ceived notice of a decision in his favor in
the United States Supreme Court in a suit
brought by him in the courts of New York
In 1886 for his right and title to a portion
of a vast estate said to have been left bv
ids father. Wilson represents that his
father, Jacob Wilson, sr., was a banker
and brokvr of Wall street and that he was
worth in the neighborhodo of $15,000,000.
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1897.
INDIANIANS IGNORED
NOT CONSULTED IN THE PROPOSED
SETTLEMENT OF THE STRIKE.
Hoodier Mine Operator* May Not lie
Round by Any Agreement Reached
at Columbus This Week.
*
SAMUEL GOMPERS SCORED
*
LABOR FEDERATION’S PRESIDENT
DENOUNCED AT PITTSBURG.
Called u “Plug-Hatted, Greasy Tool
ot Capital,” and an Aristocrat Wlio
Should Be Kicked Out.
*
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. s.—The pro
posed basis of settlement cf the miners’
strike seems to have been accepted at Co
lumbus without taking into consideration
the attitude of the Indiana operators, who
were not consulted. It is looked on here
as an Ohio and Pittsburg district affair,
and there is much doubt as to the effect in
this State. Mr. J. Smith Talley, president
of the Indiana Bituminous Operators’ As
sociation, says Indiana will be governed by
Illinois, and if the Indiana miners go to
work at all before Illinois does it will be on
a temporary arrangement. “We cannot
afford to get tied up in any agreement,”
said he, ‘‘that does not also bind our com
petitors across the border. We must be
able to compete with Illinois, or we will
have no work for our miners.” Mr. Talley
is not hopeful that the Illinois operators
will get together, but believes that the set
tlement in that State will be a sort of a
go-as-you-please arrangement, as it has
been in the past. Therefore, Indiana will
have to hold back and fall in behind Illi
nois. The Indiana operators will do noth
ing until after the action of the Columbus
conference next Tuesday. The block-coal
miners and those in the bituminous field in
the southern part of the State may go to
work on the basis of 65 cents for Pittsburg,
if that scale is accepted at Columbus, be
cause in both districts the miners were
working under a contract which fixed a
sliding scale based on tho Pittsburg price
for mining. But three-fourths of the bi
tuminous coal was being mined at 50 cents
or less in other districts in the State, and
the operators who own these mines, not
having a contract or being consulted in
th3 present instance, will use their own
judgment as to whether or not they shall
abide by the Columbus agreement. Mr.
Taller : ays they are likely to make their
fight for a scale which will be in harmony
with what may be accepted in that part
of Illinois which sends coal to the Chicago
market to compete with the Indiana
product.
President Knight, of the Indiana district,
says he cannot now tell how the Indiana
min’ers will stand on the Columbus propo
sition, which he himself thinks is the
basts of "a settlement. “Indiana will send
delegates,” said he, “to consider any prop
osition that may be made. I can say that
none will be agreed to that neglects th’e
interests of any district involved in the
strike.” Mr. Knight says that all the
miners heard from look with particular
favor on the feature of the Pittsburg prop
osition, which provides for a joint confer
ence of operators and miners, to be held
in December, to arrange for a scale for the
ensuing year.
The Central Labor Union recently sent a
letter of request to each of the pastors of
that city asking them to ask of their con
gregations to-day contributions for the
miners. The contributions were to be either
cash or clothing. The request was addressed
to thirty-five pastors, but only five respond
ed. Naturally, the labor union men are
making biting comments on the church as
a friend of labor.
GOMPERS EXCORIATED.
Not Radical Ehuiikli lit His* Vieira to
Please Mr. CarricW.
PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. s.—The United
Labor League of Western Pennsylvania, at
a largely attended and exciting meeting, to
night gave expression to an open revolt
against Sampel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and many
reflections and ugly charges are made. It
was all on account of expressions made by
Gompers in reference to the recent conven
tion of labor leaders at St. Louis. He is
credited with making unkind remarks about
the gathering and casting reflections on
those who were foremost in the meeting.
Gompers had a few defenders in the meet
ing and at one time there were remarks
concerning somebody being thrown out or
the window.
During the discussion on a proposition to
take some action on the St. Louis platform
M. P. Garrick, president of the Brotherhood
of Painters and Decorators, referred to
Gompers as a “plug-hatted, greasy tool or
capital.” He said, among other things, that
“President Gompers, through interviews
and otherwise, had proved himself no true
friend to labor. Gompers has said that Debs
and Sovereign are trying to disrupt trades
unions. It is he that is doing his utmost
to accomplish this. I want to say tha t it
was not the trades unions that came to the
assistance of the miners in their great fight,
but the great mass of organized labor ana
citizens who have no interest in organiza
tions. Business men, politicians, s( wing
girls, several shop workers and people from
all crafts came to the x'elief of the miners
and their cause would have been utterly lost
had it depended on trades unions and such
men as Gompers. It is time to call a halt
on labor fakirs, who sit in their offices and
thank God that they are not like the poor
workingmen of the country. Gompers is a
disgrace to labor and 1 believe it is high
time to call down the would-be aristocrats
of labor and kick them bodily out of the
movement.”
When President Carrick finished he was
greeted with round after round of applause.
The following resolution, offered by John
Dykus, representative of the Typographical
Union, was adopted:
“Resolved, That the United Labor League
of Western Pennsylvania disapproves or
the utterances of Mr. Gompers, for the rea
son that they are inimical to the best in
terests of organized labor and we are lib
< ral enough to believe that the great battle
for the emancipation of labor cannot be
won by trades unions alone.”
It was decided to send a delegate to the
Chicago convention to be held Sept. 27, ana
every delegate present was instructed to
urge his local union to do the same.
V —- - -
SEPARATE WAGE SCALES.
Scheme of a I’itUbnrK Operator for
Avoiding: a General Strike,
PITTSBURG, Sept. s.—Expectations are
high in coal mining circles over the prob
able resumption of work in the mines
throughout the country. In anticipation
of a settlement at Columbus next Wednes
day. another plan has been suggested by a
representative of one of the largest opera
tors which will be agitated immediately
after the men return to work. It will be
formulated and submitted to the joint con
vention of operators and miners which it
is proposed to hold next December. In
order to come to an understanding on all
questions at issue, separate wage scales
are to be formulated for each mine. The
scale is to provide for the rate to be paid
for the entire year, and any special con
cessions that are to be made are to be
agreed on by the miners and the operators,
and so specified In the scale. Tho scale is
to be an adjunct to the uniformity agree
ment, which is expected to be in force. The
proposition, will be made by the operators
in the hope of putting all the safeguards
possible against a probable strike. It is
well known that there are no two mines in
the entire district where the conditions are
exactly alike. The uniformity agreement
covers the general points, but even with it
in existence some operators would be sub
jected to difficulties, while others would
have special advantages. The scale is to
cover all these points, the primary object
being to avert differences, create a more
friendly feeling between the employers and
employes, and restore perfect harmony
throughout the district.
Philip Stambaugh, a cousin of President
McKinley, and a partner in the firm of
Osborn, Saeger & Cos., was in Pittsburg
this afternoon. He said the men formerly
employed in the Eclipse mine, on the
Wheeling division of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, would be asked to go to worK
to-morrow morning at the 66-cent rate. He
was not prepared to say how many men
would go to work. David Van Eman, man
ager of the Pittsburg and Chicago Gas
Coal Company's mines at Snowden and
Gastonville, announced more than a week
ago that he would resume work in his
mines to-morrow morning. Notices were
served on all the men living in. company
houses to vacate, and the ten-day limit ex
pires in the morning. At the mines it was
stated yesterday that no man would go to
work. Manager Van Email could not be
seen, but it is generally supposed that no
effort will be made to resume until after
the Columbus convention.
There was a report at Turtle Creek to
day that agents of the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal Company were work
ing among the foreign strikers endeavoring
to get them to return to work at the 54-
cent rate, on the promise that half of their
wages, which are being held back by the
company, would be paid on Sept. 25 and
the other half on Oct. 25. Steps were at
once taken to offset this move, and the
campers’ missionaries report that none of
the men will go back to work until the
strike is settled.
Captain Uriah Billingham, in charge of
the camp at Plum Creek, said to-night: “1
think it would be foolish if the miners do
not accept 65 cents, but in any event you
can be sure that we will keep up the fight
against De Armitt until we win or starve.”
WILL COMBAT DEBSISM
♦
NATIONAL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
OF RAILWAY EMPLOYES.
To Re Nonpartisan, niul Everybody
Connected with Railroad* Eli
gible to Member*hlp.
CHICAGO, Sept. s.—'The teachings and
principles of Eugene V. Debs are to be
opposed by a national political organiza
tion of the same class of men whom he
claims to represent. The preliminary ar
rangements for the Illionis branch of the
American Railway League, the new organ
ization, were made to-day at a meeting
held in one of the lodge rooms of th’e Ma
sonic Temple. The league has an open
membership list. Every employe of a
railroad from a president down to a track
man is eligible, and those foiVmost in the
movement say that the organization is to
be a nonpartisan affair, which will not
only heap benefit on the working railroad
man, but will also work for the benefit of
the railroad corporations, and, more than
all, as it was put at the meeting, “correct
th’e rapidly growing impression that the
ordinary railroad man is against the gov
ernment and his erpjilyyers on every ques
tion.”
Grand President R. S. Kaylor, of Ohio,
presided at the meeting, and there were at
least 200 ‘employes af railroads entering
Chicago in attendance. J. W. Callahan,
who was active in the railroad men’s
"sound-money” organizations last fall, was
elected president pro term of the Illinois
branch. The business of tne meeting had
progressed thus far when the news of the
death of Senior Conductor Hiatt, of divi
sion No. 1 of the Brotherhood of Railway
Conductors, -yus received and caused an
adjoumnment for two weeks.
“There is nothing secret or mysterious
about the organization,” said Mr. Kaylor.
“It is simply the outgrowth of the increas
ing intelligence of employes of railroads.
We have learned that it is more to our ad
vantage to co-operate with the men who
are paying us wages than to oppose them
at every turn. We believe that we can
help them and help ourselves by an en
lightened use of the ballot box more than
by strikes and boycotts. We intend to take
part in primary elections, and every* can
didate who secures our support must first
pledge himself that he will oppose legisla
tion which will tend to reduce the wages
of railway employes. We will not attempt
to work into national politics at once, al
though in time we may be forced to do so.
I admit that, while our organization is
made up on nonpartisan lines, at present
there is a preponderance of anti-silver men
enrolled. We have fifty-one leagues in
Ohio, and there are organizations in Illi
nois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, Missouri, Michigan, Colorado and
lowa. In six months we hope to have or
ganizations in at least twenty-six States.
There are 900,000 railroad men in the
United States, and we believe that we can
be a tremendous power iit politics if we
organize thoroughly.”
HAWKINS CAPTURED.
A Thieving Xegro l’orter Arrested in
Toronto and Recovered.
TORONTO, Sept. s.—Thomas
Hawkins, colored, who was arrested here
last night by Detective Steeman, was form
erly porter in the tax collector’s oilice at
Washington, D. C. On Aug. 31 he disap
peared with some $9,000. The police of this
city were notified to look out for him.
Yesterday he was located in a small board
ing house on Bond street. When searched
at police headquarters $8,334 was found on
him. Hawkins appears to be quite staxtled
w'her. told of the amount of money taken
from him, saying that he had never counted
it and had no idea the amount was so large.
When Hawkins was tak a to p dee head
quarters he was at first very reticent, but
aft< r a while he volunteered a statement.
He said that he was acting under the di
rections of the assistant tax collector, wh •
gave him the combination of the safe and
who was to have come on to Canada anti
divide the money with him. Hawkins said
that after taking the morn v h.- left tic
city at once and arrived at Niagara Fails
the same night and came on olivet to To
ronto. F. G. Davis, the tax collector, and
Detective Heal am are coming on ’from
Washington and Hawkins says he vviil go
back with them without extradition papers.
CARL SCHURZ SPOKE.
Rig Olebiutlon by Gernumn nt the
Cincinnati “Zoo” Gardens.
CINCINNATI, 0., Sept. s.—The anniver
sary of the first settlement of the Germans
in America at Germantown, Pa., was cele
brated here to-day with the largest demon
stration of the kind ever known in this
city. Over one hundred German societies
participated. There were parades in the
morning and ov*er 40,000 people assembled
in the Zoological Gardens in the afternoon.
Carl Schurz was the orator of the day, with
speeches by Mayor Tafei, ex-Mayor Cald
well, Collector Bernard Bateman and oth
ers, togt titer with vx rcises by the Turners
and music by a union chorus of the music
al societies. After his address Carl Schurz
was made an honorary member of the Pi
oneer Society. Mr. Schurz spoke on sover
eign citizenship, holding that citizenship
was highvr then partisanship. He argued
that any party that could depend on the
obedience of citizens would become cor
rupt. He said bosses wc-re as dangerous
as monarchs; that bosses were really tilt
chiefs of brigands, whoste only object was
booty.
DRE AD YELLOW FEVER
*
HUNDREDS OF CASES REPORTED AT
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
*
People at the Famous Health Resort
Not Willing to Admit that the Dis
ease Ist the Imjiorted Article.
QUARANTINES ESTABLISHED
*
EXAMINATIONS MADE BY DOCTORS
AND BACTERIOLOGISTS,
And the Slcknes* Pronounced Yellow
Fever by a. State Chemist—Oys
ters Said to Be Infected.
OCEAN SPRINGS. Miss., Sept. s.—Dr.
Hunter, secretary of the Mississippi Board
of Health and secretary of the executive
committee, reached here to-night from
Jackson, via New Orleans. The members
of the Louisiana State Board of Health have
been hard at work all day long, working in
conjunction with, the representatives of the
Alabama board and the Mississippi organ
ization in a determined effort to settle the
vexed question as to the identity of the
pernicious fever which has operated so
greatly to the disadvantage of Ocean
Springs. These investigations were exten
sive, as the visiting medicos visited a large
number of the persons now down with the
disease. Examinations of these patients
were made and bacteriological tests also
made of the blood and matter vomited.
Drs. Archinard, of New Orleans, and Was
dine, of tho Mobile United States medical
service, who is also an expert microscopist,
were all day making the tests, reporting
from time to time to President Oliphant of
the Louisiana board, Dr. Saunders of the
Alabama board, and Dr. Haralson of the
Mississippi board.
In the meantime Professor Metz, assisted
by Chief Sanitary Inspector Woods and Su
perintendent Will, collected a series of
specimens of water, well and cistern, of the
bay oysters and also made a number of
photographs showing the existing condi
tion of the town’s sanitary arrangements
and drainage. Professor Metz appears to
be of the opinion that the prevailing com
plaint is due in a measure to a pollution
of the water in the bay fronting the town.
The drainage of Ocean Springs empties di
rectly into the bay and the rains wash a
large quantity of fecal matter into the
water and upon the area on which the
oysters consumed by the town people are
temporarily bedded. It is feared that the
oysters absorb poisonous germs and com
municate them to the persons eating them.
The result of the investigations of Pro
fessor Metz will not be made known until
his return to New Orleans, as his analysis
will not be made until then. There has
been an extensive inquiry into the history
of the persons who have died and also as
to the inception of the fever.
Accounts vary among the citizens of
Ocean Springs. It is claimed and contra,-
dieted that the first cases of the fever were
noticed among a number of Cubans here
who were said to be engaged in attempts to
filibuster. These Cubans recovered, but
the fever spread. There are several cases
at New Chicago, near here. An investiga
tion will be n?ade to-morrow.
'The air of mystery which has shrouded
the several physicians has not conduced to
the comfort of the people, although pending
tho report of the Board of Health it would
have been, unwise to have discussed the
matter. The news of Pass Christian de
claring quarantine against Ocean Springs
and Biloxi occasioned considerable surprise
here, because in the absence of a verdict
from the investigation committee such ac
tion was not warranted by the facts as
then known. The condition of the sick to
day has not developed anything at ail ex
citing or suggestive.
I'rnnounced Yellow Fever.
NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. s.—The Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana boards ot
health have been at Ocean Springs since
yesterday afternoon. An examination or
the prevailing disease was made a week
ago. There had been several hundred cases
then, but a very few deaths, and a board
of experts declared the disease dengue fever.
Since then mortalities became more fre
quent, and the symptoms looked more like
yellow fever, and the alarm became so
great that the health authorities again
gathered. This time they were accompa
nied by Prof. A. L. Metz, chemist of the
Louisiana board, who analyzed the evidence
in several cases. The verdict to-night was
yellow fever and various points on both
sides of the town are rapidly declaring
quarantine.
A Rigid Run rantlne.
MOBILE, Ala., Sept. s.—State Health Ot
ilcer Saunders having reported the result ot
the examination of the fever which has been
prevailing for some weeks at Ocean Springs,
Miss., on the bay of Biloxi, or Gull' of Mex
ico, fifty-six miles from Mobile and eighty
four miles from New Orleans, the disease
being pronounced yellow fever, the Mobile
Lioard of Health to-night declared a rigid
quarantine against Ocean Springs. All per
sons coming from that place or neighbor
hood are to be detained at a station estab
lished outside of the city limits.
LETTER CARRIERS.
Annual Katlocal Convention to .Meet
in San Francisco To-Day.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. s.—The annual
convention of the National Letter Carriers’
Association will convene in this city to
morrow. About $7,000 has been raised for ex
penses and the committee on arrangements
has left nothing undone to insure a week
of pleasure to the delegates. A special train
conveying the Philadelphia and New Or
leans delegations, with a number of carriers
from other places, came by way of El Paso
and Los Angeles, arriving here to-night,
it was met by a local committee and the
visitors warmly welcomed. Another special
train of three hundred delegates will ar
rive at t> a. m. to-morrow. On this train
are National President J. V. Parsons, Chair
man S. F. SteVens, of the executive commit
tee, and other national officials. All of tiie
delegates to the convention will arrive to
morrow.
At 11 o’clock to-morrow morning the car
riers will be the guests of the State Board
of Trade. During the afternoon there will
be a parade, followed by an evening recep
tion at Udd Fellows' Hall, and at 11 p. m.
a trip through Chinatown. The New York
Letter Carriers’ Band will be the feature of
the parade. The ladies’ auxiliary committee
has secured elegant headquarters and win
provide for the entertainment of the wives
daughters and friends of the visiting car
riers.
Kansu* Corn Crop.
TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 5.--An official esti
mate of the corn crop of Kansaa was ic-u and
to-day by the State Beard of Agriculture
in the form of a comp.lation of estimates
by farmers throughout the State. The aver
age yield is placed ¥ twenty bushels per
triß O rrVTC i AT RAILWAY NEWS STAND®, ON
lvH h O V LiA la 7 TRAINS AND SUNDAYS i CKN’TS.
acre, and the total crop 1*15,677,280 bushels,
as against 221,00U,*i00 bushels last year and
201,000,000 bushels in I#s. The dry hot
winds of the past week have caused seri
ous damage to the crop, the average con
dition during the week falling from 60 per
cent, to 55 per cent.
SUNDAY AT CANTON.
President McKinley Attends Church
ami Visits His .Mother.
CANTON, 0., Sept. s.—President and
Mrs. McKinley are having a delightful lit
tle visit here at their old home. The Presi
dent went to church this morning, accom
panied by his aged mother and her sister,
Mrs. Abigail Osborne, of Cleveland. The
trio rode to the church in Mother Mc-
Kinley's modest carriage and occupied the
old pew from which Major McKinley was
seldom absent when in the city. The serv
ice was in the First M. E. Church, of
which the President is a director, and the
sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. C. E.
Manchester, his old comrade in arms, and
pastor of the church during McKinley’s last
residence here.
The President and Mrs. McKinley took
dinner with the latter’s sister, Mrs. M. C.
Barber, and spent most of the afternoon
at the Barber home. Eater President Mc-
Kinley went to his mother’s home, chatted
with a few neighbors who dropped in, ami
after a short drive returned, took lunch and
settled down for an evening at the old
homestead. Scores of old triends and neigh
bors dropped in to pay their respects. Con
gressman R. W. Taylor, of this district,
also called.
According to present plans the President
and Mrs. McKinley will remain here until
to-morrow evening, when they will leave
for Somerset, Pa., the summer home of
Abner McKinley, the President's brother.
They will remain there a day and possibly
longer, depending on circumstances after
they arrive. They will reach Washington
the latter part of the week
GOLD AT MICHIPICOTEN
SEW ELDORADO MICH NEARER
HOME THAN ICE-ROLXD ALASKA.
*
Immense Quantities of White Qunrtx
Through Which Run Veins of
the Yellow Metal.
*
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Sept. 5.
The party of gold seekers on the yacht
Mary Bell returned from Michipicoten last
evening, after having been in the new gold
fields but three days. They say the newly
discovered Eldorado is fully as rich as has
been reported. There were fourteen in the
party and all responsible business men of
this city. Each of them secured claims
upon which the gold quartz promises big
returns. In all the party will make ap
plication for 4,000 acres which was pros
pected and staked out while they were
there. Many samples of quartz in which
free gold as large as a pinhead can
be seen were brought back by them.
The specimens were secured from dif
ferent places on their claims which are
scattered. When the party arrived Tuesday
night there were but six prospectors on the
ground at Lake Waw r a, and they secured
good locations. They are jubilant over
their finds, and say that the auriferous de
posit is evidently an immense one. Veins
of beautiful white quartz, carrying free
gold, exist almost everywhere in the Lake
Wawa region- The original find is an ex
tremely riqh one beyond doubt. The re
timing prospectors say that where the
veins are laid bare the gold particles can
be seen everywhere in the quartz.
When the party left Saturday at least
two hundred prospectors had arrived and
they passed several parties going in. The
shores of Lake Wawa were dotted with
tents and within the three days they were
there a lively mining camp had sprung Ir.to
existence. The distance from 'the mouth of
the Michipicoten river to Lake Wawa is
not to exceed seven, miles and the party
experienced no difficulty in getting In and
out. With their camp equipage the trip was
made in about three hours. The roal is
a well defined one. The reports which the
Mary Bell party brought lias set the two
Soos wild with excitement and an exodus
to Klondike Junior will begin to-morrow.
A town site is being surveyed at Lake
Wawa and preparations are being made to
care for the hundreds of people who are
certain to flock to the region in the next
few weeks. The next steamer leaves the
Soo to-morrow afternoon, and will here
after make threo trips weekly. Another
boat will be put on the route if necessary,
and arrangements are being made to build
a dock at Michipicoten. To-morrow's boat
will take up a big crowd of people, many
of whom will have to sleep on the deck
NOT FOR PAY ALONE.
Girl Vent Makers Striking: for n
Chance to Get Married.
NEW YORK, Sept. s.—The 4.000 girls who
are among the vest mak’ers of the East
Side who on Thursday struck for higher
wages, are striking not alone for an in
crease of pay. They are striking for a
chance to be married, and with that end
in view they are working enthusiastically
to make the strike a success. Vest making
is a branch of the garment making trade
employing at least skill and strength. It
was in the hands of the men exclusively
six years ago, and workmen earned from
s2u to s2.' each week for ten hours work
a day. On that income they were able to
marry. Then the girls began to flock into
the trade, and wages became lower and
lower, until to-day the young man who
makes $8 a week considers himself fortu
nate. On that income he does not dare to
marry, and the girls who now see no fu
ture but to grow old at the sewing ma
chines, have joined him in the effort to
raise w'ages to such a standard that mar
riage may be poss ' again.
KICKED OVERBOARD.
Bunker Parker and Wife Tpaet While
the Former Wan Firing a Gun.
PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Sept. s.~The
bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Forest H. Parker,
jr., who were drowned in Chain lake in
the Adirondacks on Saturday, were recov
ered last night. Dynamite was used and
the bodies came to the surface. Mr.
Parker and his wife went rowing in the
morning, Mr. Parker taking a gun with
him. Not returning, about noon a party
went in search of the missing couple and
the boat was found floating Indtom up at
the end of the lake. When Mr. Parker’s
body was recovered it was found that the
nose was broken and the face badly dis
figured, which seemed to indicate that when
the gun was discharged it had exploded or
kicked badly, and that Mr. Parker had
been knocked overboard and had probably
overturned the boat.
A REAL TRAGEDIAN.
Abraham Rosenthal Drink* Whisky,
Play* Actor and Stub* llim*eir.
NEW YORK, Sept. s.—After drinking a
flask of whisky on a wager, etghteen-year
old Abraham Rosenthal this morning imag
ined himself a great tragedian, and danced
about his apartments with a big knife in
his hands. In his theatrical frenzy Rosen
thal plunged the weapon twice into his left
breast, inflicting wounds from which he
died to-night.
11. Clay Evans Improvlux.
WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—The condition
of lion. H. Clay Evans, commissioner of
pensions, is greatly improved to-night. His
physician expects that he will bo able to
resume his duties in a few days. 1
ANOTHER COLD FILED
♦
THAT IS SAID TO HE RICHER THAS
THE GREAT KLONDIKE,
■ ♦ ■
It In Near the Head water* of the
Yukon, ond Wun Accidentally
Found by u Prospector.
NUGGETS ON TOP OF GROUND
MINING EXPERT’S VIEW OF THE
ALASKAN GOLD DIGGINGS.
.
Where the Yellow Metal In Found-
Work on the SkitK'nny Trail Mow
Progressing Rapidly.
♦-
VICTORIA, B. c., Sept. s.—The steamer
Queen, which has arrived here from Ska
guay, brings the following letter from
''Hal” Hoffman, a well-known corre
spondent, under date of Juneau, Aug. 30:
Another fabulously rich strike of gold has
been made close to the mighty Y’ukon's
headwaters. Anew Klondike has been dis
covered in new Ei Dorado, the streams of
which seem to run over beds yellow with
precious metals. The gold seekers bound
for the head creeks of the Stewart river or
for the Klondike neighborhood will not find
these new discoveries, but those who head
up the swift and beautiful ITootalinqua or
the Felly rivers and prospect among the
many creeks which compose river head
waters may strike it. A small number of
prospectors went into that particular sec
tion of country early in the summer una
ware of the rich strike that has been made.
They went in the belief that tjiere ought
to be diggings in the country, and there are
only four men have been let into the
secret here. Thfcy are keeping it quiet and
making extensive preparations to go into
the territory as early next spring as pos
sible. it is a little too late to try to get
there this season. The original discoverer,
with a friend, three Indians and pack
horses, dogs, sleds, and two years’ supply
of provisions, went in over the Takon puss
south of hero two weeks ago bound for
that place. The new discoveries are about
three hundred miles from Dawson City in
a bee line, and probably twice that dis
tance by the water course. When the
place is located and made known
there will be an exodus from Daw
son City, and another rush of excited
people from the thickly populated Btates*
It seems that discoveries of rich placer
beds in Alaska and the British Northwest
Territory have only just begun. The thou
sands that have already gone into the in
terior, and the thousands now swarming on
the borderland of gold, will doubtless stum
ble upon as good gravel as has ever been
washed in pan or siuice box.
The story of the new bonanza bed is told
and vouched for by J. A. Becker, a mining
engineer, and one of the best-known men
in Alaska. He has made a study of geog
raphy and topography of the territory. He
is superintendent of the F. 1. and Ducky
Chance mines of Sitka. Mr. Becker is said
to be a conservative man. Last night in
the lobby of the Occidental Hotel he called
me aside and said placidly: "There has been
another strike. It beats the Klondike. I’m
in on it.”
“Room for any more?” I inquired.
"Plenty,” he said. "I'll not tell you
where it is located. I want to get there
myself before the rush. But I will say this
much: Early last spring a trapper and
prospector named Polk, or Folk, got iost
beyond Lake Toslin. He had been in thero
all winter and was trying to find his way
out. liis previsions ran out, and he was on
the verge of starvation when he ran across
an Indian. The Indian gave him his bear
ings. In coming along a creek on his way
out ho picked up eleven pounds of gold In
large nuggets. Washed down the creek
with the gravel, the nuggets hud caught in
riffles near the places where the bedrock
was exposed. The high water having gone
down left the gold exposed along the banks.
He noticed peculiar gravel beds, and stoop
ing down took up a handful. It was heavy
with gold. The nuggets he brought out
were picked from several handfuls of
gravel taken up from different places on
the edges of thu bed. This man came to
Juneau, but never said a word to any one
till ho got to Seattle. Thero he told a
friend, who is a merchant. 1 won't give you
his name, for the reason that I know he
will be bothered to death by people. He
has been here several days, and went to
Skaguay to-day to take a look at the town
bofore going home. He is an old friend of
mine. We aro going in together next spring.
I have already sent to Cook’s inlet for eigh
teen CoppeT river dogs, the big black ones,
the finest thero ire in Alaska. They are
worth about five ounces apiece, about
SI,BBO. They will make throe teams. If
there is one of these' Alaska tips has caught
mo it. is this one. 1 am going uext spring
if f live."
The others hero who know of the new
discovery are Arthur C. Bates, manager of
the San Francispo house of the (Jutta
Fercha and Rubber Manufacturing Com
pany of New York, who is’ here, but will
return to San Francisco in a few days, and
Major Morris Orton, one of the proprietors
of the Occidental Hotel. Major Orton is an
old Yukon prospector. After nearly twen
ty years’ prospecting he made a rich strike
in the noted Cassiar district. A few years
ago Major Orton tells that there was a
time in the Cassiar when he patched the
ample portion of his trousers with flour
sacks, but he came out all right. In re
gard to the new El Dorado he said: "I
have not seen these diggings, but 1 think
they are possible. I have never been in
the country beyond Lake Teslin, but I have
been in the country on the other side, the
Cassia. We always believed that there was
gold, and plenty of it, there, and at one
fine I did intend to get in there. I am
too old now. and I must let the young fel
lows go and tlnd it. I have no doubt that
there are rich placer deposits in that sec
tion. As near as Mr. Becker would locate
the place where the eleven pounds of nug
gets were picked up in a few minutes was
that it is between the head of Lake Teslin
and the headwaters of the MacKonzle river,
which flows on the farther side of an in
tervening range of mountains. He would
not say whether the creek is on tho east
or the farther side from the mountain
range. But beyond Lake Teslin is a.n ex
panse of country never prospected, and
never trodden by the foot of a white man.
There are old prospectors by the score who
have always believed in the richness of this
ground. Lake Teslin is perhaps the largest
Os all bodies of water lying in the groat
basin between the Coast Range and the
Pocky mountains. It Is navigable, and the
ITootalinqua river is navigable. Small
steamboats. su* h as ply In the Yukon, yan
go in from St. Michael’s to the Hootalinqua
to the head of Lake Teslin.”
TALK W ITH AN EXPERT.
Interesting Fact* Aliont Mining: for
Gold In the Klondike.
RAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Sept. s.—The fol
lowing Is an expert report on tho Klondike
placer gold mines. It Is by Mr. Byron J.
Janes, engineer and asayer for the Alaska
Commercial Company: “So little prospect
ing has been done in the Alaskan gold
fields, as compared with the extent of the
country, that it would bo extremely diffi
cult to make any prediction as to th®
future of that section. Asa matter of fact,
only a very small section of country has
been gone over, and gold hunting in Alaska
is as yet in its extreme infancy. This is
shown by the fact that half as much gold
has already been taken out of the Klondike
district alone as has been taken out of all
the interior of Alaska, and there may be
as great finds in the future as have bee*
made upon the Klondike.
"The gold finds in the interior of Alaska
up to the time of the discovery of th®
Klondike, have been comparatively lnslgnif.
leant. There has been but one lnstanc®,
of which 1 have heard, of a man making