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INDIANAPOLIS ; JOURNAL
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WEEKLY ESTABLISHED 122.
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VOL. LI XO. :i:.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORXIXG, AUGUST 31, 1901 TEX PAG KS.
PRICK 2 CKXTS KVKRYWIIKRE,
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AT SHAFFER
HIS IMPEACHMENT DEMANDED HY
Tilt: pittsihrg lahor would.
tTpaprr That In Controlled by the
Tin Plate WorWrr' President anil
Other Well-Know n UnloniNts.
CAUSTIC EDITORIAL LEADER
HEADED "SACRIFICE Sil AFFKR" AM
"SAVE THE A 31 ALI A 31 AT EU.
President of Steel Workers Denonneed
for riuntcInK HI Inliin Into nn
Unwarranted Strike,
FOR REPUDIATING AGREEMENTS
FOIl DEMANDS SO AIiniTHAIlY THEV
COILD NOT HE CONCEDED,
For GItIok Crnsy Advlee" to Work.
Inxmrn to Withdraw Their
SnvlnKt from Dank,
TOR MISLEADING HIS MEN
DY PROMISING THEM SUPPORT THEY
COI LD NOT EXPECT,
And for Acts Whleh Have Tended to
Discredit Organise! Labor He
neath Shaffer's Notice.
PITTSRURG. Pa.. Aug. 30. The edi
torial In the current Issue of the Labor
"World, the organ of the International Tin
"Workers' Protective Association and the
mouthpiece of the Pittsburg district of the
Mine Workers' Union and the Pattern
Makers' Association, Is a long and bitter
attack on President Shaffer and demands
his Impeachment for calling the present
strike. The demand for the Impeachment
Is made because, !t Is charged. President
Shaffer compelled the steel workers to vio
late contracts, because he expelled the Chi
cago men and revoked their charter without
constitutional hearing, and because the
whole strike is unconstitutional nnd has
brought ruin and wreck to men who have
made the Amalgamated Association. The
editorial gives twenty-four reasons why
President Shaffer should be impeached.
The fact that George Powell, president of
the Tin Flate Workers Protective Associa
tion of America. I. It. Thomas, president of
the Pattern Makers' National League, and
Patrick Dolan, president of the United
Mine Workers of the Pittsburg district,
constitute the board of control of the pub
lication, and that President Shaffer himself
Hp to within a year ago was a member of
the board would seem to lend considerable
weight to the utterance of the paper.
When shown the editorial to-night Pres
ident Shaffer said: "Mr. Powell, of the Tin
Workers' Association, was at headquarters
to-day, and I have understood that the
paper mentioned does not represent his
association. The article Is beneath my
notice, and I shall not advertise the paper
by commenting on It."
"SACRIFICE SHAFFER."
The editorial is entitled "Sacrifice Shaffer
Save the Amalgamated." The World ed
itorial, which is a long cue, follows in part:
"Is the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Bteel and Tin Workers to bo sent to slaugh
ter In a lost tight and sacrificed on the ultar
of the mat! and selfish ambition of this
creature Shaffer? This is no time for senti
ment. It Is a tlmo for facts ami plain
peaking. The fight against tho steel trust
Is lost, but order comes from Amalgamated
headquarters where Shaffer cowers to spare
the bravo men ut the front. Leaders of
organized labor, forbid it In the name of
the cause you hold dear, but which is
menaced as long as Shafferism is allowed
to live. Forbid It in the name of labor's
honor and honesty which Shaffer's acts
have Impugned."
Then follows nn Intimation of an accusa
tion of stock dealing that Mr. Shaffer has
repeatedly denied. The editorial continues:
"Impeach him for plunging the Amalga
mated into a strike that was unwarranted.
"Impeach him for calling out the men
last month without giving the sublodges a
chance to vote on the question of a strike.
"Impeach him for making demands that
were so arbitrary and imperative that the
trust could not with honor submit.
"Impeach him for calling a strike on de
mands that be afterwards receded from.
"impeach him for calling out the tin plate
men In July and the National Steel and
Federal Steel men this month after their
scales had been signed.
"Impeach him for violating the laws of
the Amalgamated Association in revoking
the charters of the South Chicago men
without a trial.
"Impeach him for the blow he has given
to organized labor, not only in teaching
that union agreements are not contracts
to be respected, but also In showing that
constitutional safeguards are no guarantee
to a unionist when a Shaffer is at head
of things.
"Impeach him for causing the manufac
turers to say that labor unions must be
Incorporated, that their pledged word Is
of no value.
RR EACH ES OF CONTRACT.
"Impeach him for making It Impossible,
by his breaches of contract and repudia
tion of agreements, for organized labor to
lend practical support to the men he called
out. Most of the prominent labor leaders
of the country are on record against breach
of contract. Shaffer had made It neces
sary for them to appear to be on the side
of the trust in this strike.
"Impeach him for issuing his second
ftrlke call without consulting any one hen
he was framing It.
"Impeach Shaffer for making; this his
Strike. He was going to Kct all the glory
and the Amalgamated was going to get all
tho scars. On his own responsibility he
signed that New York agreement and when
In- repudiated It tho odium was Incurred
by the organization. oniy Shatter s name
was signed to the second strike call.
"Impeach h!ni r.r Kolnu into tnis strike
without funds or the prosnect of funds to
support It. Strike benefits begin next week
and he has not e-nough money to last three
weeks If every striker gets his due.
"Impeach him for not accepting the Ho
tel Lincoln propositions ..f trust, which
gave him four more .dieet plants than the
Amalgamated had last year.
"Impeach him for his crazy advice to the
workingmen of the country to draw money
out of the savings banks.
"Impeach him for getting the Federation
tub workers to strike and then leaving
them up In the air.
"Impeach him for having no other weap
on with which to fight the trust than the
effect hf expected the strike to have on
trust stocks In Wall etreet.
"Impeach h!rn for holding out assurances
that organized labor would support the
strike when he had been Informed by labor J
leaders that they could do little or nothing
STÄB
for the strike without jeopardizing their
own reputation and the good standing of
their unlon.
"Impeach him. finally, for having involved
th Amalgamated in a. tangle of broken
contract and repudiated agreements which
will work it long Injury in tying up the
rga niz at ! n in a hopeless, groundless
strike, and for preferring to humiliate the
Amalgamated rather than himself now that
hf ran find no other way out of the dif
ficulty than surrender.
'Since Shaffer will not sacrifice hlmelf
hf must be sacrificed. The Amalgamated
mu.-t be saved. -and Shafferism must go.
Sacilfiee Shaffer and save the Amalga
mated." Late to-night, when prev.-ed for some ex
pression on the Labor World's impeach
ment editorial. President Shaffer said:
"The paper has no standing In the labor
world, and Is ownM and edited by men
bitterly opposed to me from the start. My
course Is above impeachment, and the only
damage the inspired article can do is to
create a bad impression temporarily, but
will not influence thinking people."
TWO MORE CONVICTED.
Lyncher Sentenced to the Peniten
tiary for Ten Year.
WETUMP! A. Ala.. Aug. 30. At 12 o'clock
last night the Jury In the cases of John
Strength and Martin Fuller, charged with
having participated in the lynching of Rob
ert White, a negro, returned a verdict of
guilty of murder in the second degree and
sentenced the defendants to ten years In
the penitentiary. This makes three con
victions in these cases, George E. Howard
having been sentenced to life Imprisonment
a few days ago.
The case of John Thomas, the white man
with whom Robert White ami his brother
Winston had the difficulty which resulted
In the lynching of Robert, Is now on trial.
A strenuous effort for a continuance was
made by the defendants, the main conten
tion being the absence of witnesses, two
of whom are alleged to have left the coun
try under Indictments charging them with
complicity In the lynching. Judge Denson
decided that the case shall be heard at
once. Every step Is being bitterly con
tested, aiul the trial may consume several
days.
SHAW FOR PRESIDENT.
Senator Dolllrer Lannches n Doom for
Inua'H Governor.
CHICAGO, Aug. 30. Senator Dolllver,
while In Chicago to-day, announced that
Governor Shaw, of Iowa, would be a can
didate for the presidency. The senator also
said that Iowa and a considerable portion
of the middle West would be back of Iowa's
favorite son. "Governor Shaw," Mr. Dolll
ver sail, "has a strong hold on Iowa and
upon the Nation. He is a safe, conserva
tive man, and his term as Governor of
Iowa has been one of the must successful
in the history of the commonwealth."
REBELS IN CAPE COLONY
WHOLE COUNTRY A SEETH INK MASS
OF DISORDER AND ALARM."
Situation a Depicted hy Correspond
ents of London Papers K lich
en er" Proclamation.
LONDON, Aug. 31. Some Interesting side
lights are thrown on the South African
war by advices published to-day. A dis
patch from Cape Town to the Dally Mall
indicates that Scheper's commando has
now moved to the southwest and invaded
a part of Cape Colony previously undis
turbed by the Roers, while more severe
restrlctlors have been Imposed, with the
object of preventing communication be
tween Cape Town and the newly-disturbed
areas. The Cologne Gazette's correspondent
at Cape Town declares that the entire
Cape Colony Is a "seething mass of dis
order and alarm." He asserts also that
the Roers are receiving support from all
sides.
Edgar "Wallace, writing to the Daily Mall,
expresses a decided opinion that Lord
Kitchener's banishment proclamation will
not result In the surrender of a single Im
portant combatant, and that much severer
penalties aro needed, the only useful policy
being vigorous military measures.
In tho early part of August a corre
spondent of tho Morning Post had a long
talk with Iord Kitchener, from which he
gathered that "it is not Lord Kitchener,
but the government, which Is to blame for
many of the present evils."
Lord Kitchener, It seems, complained that
tho home government continually worried
him about trivial details "merely to reply
to parliamentary heckling," and that this
compelled him to enforce a strict censor
ship over telegrams, although possibly he
objected to the present system. He said
he thought correspondents ought to be
given greater liberty and to be made re
sponsible for their statements. He avoided
expressing any opinion about the "ap
proaching end of the war" and dissuaded
the correspondent from speaking concern
ing It.
Roth the Morning Post and the Standard
give Information as to the concentration
camps and confirm tho reports of very
heavy mortality there, especially among
the children In July, it Is said to be
"largely due to the ignorance and Insani
tary habits of the Roers." but conditions
are rapidly improving. At the beginning
of August there were lOO.ooO persons in the
concentration camps.
A correspondent of the Morning Tost as
serts that the Roer refugees get eighteen
pounds In rations per head as against
twelve pounds per head given to Rrltlsh
loyalists, and he recommends as politically
and economically advisable that the Roers
be removed to the coast.
H. VICTOR NEWCOMB BETTER.
Former President of the L. L N. Hall
way Out of the Sanltnrlnni.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-H. Victor New
comb, at one time a well-known figure In
Wall street, was discharged from a sani
tarium to-day, where he had been for two
years. Mr. Newcomb was born In Louis
ville. Ky.. In 1S-U. Ills father was president
of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. He
was elected to the same position after his
father's death. In ISM. after resigning tho
presidency on account of ill health, he
came to New York and established the
United States National Hank ami became
its president. Associated with him in the
management of the bank wer General
Grant. Morris K. Jessup. William R. Trav
ers and Henry K. Hyde.
BITTEN BY A BABOON.
An Omaha Newspaper Man's flad Luck
In n Show Tent.
OMAHA. Neb., Aug. 30. William A. Pix
ley. a reporter for a local newspaper, was,
perhaps, fatally Injured to-day by a mad
dened baboon. Mr. Plxley was visiting the
dressing tent of a dog and pony show, ac
companied by his sister. The baboon, known
as "Jim Robinson," attacked Plxley, biting
him several times and opening the flesh in
gaping wounds. The Pasteur treatment
wus at once administered to prevent the
spre-ul of the poison caused by the animal's
teeth. The managers of the show say the
baboon objected to the presence of a wom
an in the tent.
IAHG A CRISIS
IMPORTANT CHAXr.ES IN STRIKE SI
UATION ARE EXPECTED.
There Is No Indication, However, that
the Trouble Will lie Settled by
Means of Arbitration.
NO CONFERENCE WITH BURNS
POSITIVE DENIAL BY THE STEEL
CORPORATION OFFICIALS.
Simon's Money-BnrnlnR Talk with
Schwab Over the LonR-DIstniice
Telephone of No Avail.
TALK WITH BAY VIEW MEN
TWO STRIKERS FROM .MILWAUKEE
CONFERRED WITH SHAFFER.
Outcome of the Meeting Unknown
Injunctions Against Steel Workers
at Canal Dover and Elsewhere.
PITTSRURG, Pa., Aug. 30. While there
is no actual chance In the steel strike
situation, much transpired to-day calcu
lated soon to produce results. The con
ference between the Bayvlew committee
and the Amalgamated officials, the con
tinued efforts of President Burns, of the
Window Glass Workers' Association, to
bring about arbitration or conciliation, the
scathing editorial In the Labor World,
calling for Impeachment of President
ShanTer; the march of the strikers of Mc
Keesport to Duquesne, and the decided ef
fect of the Injunction proceedings at Canal
Dover, O., all indicate that tho crisis is
approaching and that an important change
in affairs is not far distant. What the out
come will be no man can tell.
The details of the conference of the Ray
view committee and the Amalgamated of
ficials has not yet been divulged by either
party, but the fact that the committee
is here at all would indicate that the
Bayvlew strikers are uneasy. J. D Hickey
and J. V. Cooper, of the committee, have
been here since Monday, but their presence
has not been generally known. The gen
eral belief is that the main object of the
committee's vis-It was for the purpose of
arranging some compromise by which the
Bayvlew plant may resume. President
Shaffer, on the contrary, says the two men
did not come here as representatives of the
Bayvlew lodge. They were simply here as
Individual members of the Amalgamated
Association to explain in person the rea
son for their action in regard to the Ken
eral strike order and the reversal of that
decision after Tithe's visit to Milwaukee.
"The lodge did not send them nor did it
send to me any request to be allowed to go
to work," said President Shaffer.
The two men left for home to-night and
It is sa'.d a meeting of their lodge will be
held niton their return to take action on
their report. What that report will be
cannot be learned here.
BURNS NOT DISHEARTENED.
Notwithstanding the report from New
York, that no conference has been held or
arranged for between C. M. Schwab and
Simon Rums looking to arbitration, the lat
ter has not relaxed his efforts In this direc
tion and seems determined to bring about
some sort of a compromise. "I am Inter
ested In this matter." said President Burns
to-night, "as the big strike Is affecting all
lines of business. Including the window
glass trade. My purpose Is to get the two
sides together and start the mills. If Pres
ident Schwab Is still opposed to my plan
of arbitration I will request him to suggest
whatever modifications he desires. Any
thing wdll be acceptable If the United States
Steel Corporation can be induced to arbi
trate and get the mills started. It Is fool
ishness to say thero is nothing to arbi
trate. I feel confident that something can
bo done to bring about a settlement that
will not be dishonorable to either side, and
result in the starting of the mills."
The march of the McKeesport strikers to
Duquesne this afternoon was a disappoint
ment to the strikers, partly because of
heavy rain during the parade nnd the
meeting In an open lot and partly because
of the lack of enthusiasm. It was expected
that at least 5,000 of the 12,0(0 strikers
would participate In the march, but, by
actual count, there were only 533 In line.
The rain fell in torrents from the time the
parade started until the column returned
to McKeesport. The men marched without
any cheering or noisy demonstration, and
no trouble of any kind developed. It was
expected a halt would be made at tne
Duquesne mill gate, but no stop was made.
Several mill men came out of the plant
with their dinner buckets on their arms,
but were not Interviewed. There was no
strike talk heard at the Duquesne mill, and
the mill men did not manifest the interest
expected.
The injunction granted the American
Sheet Steel Company at Canal Dover, O.,
against the strikers has had the effect of
doing away with all picketing about the
mill. The withdrawal of the pickets was
on the advice of the local counsel, who ad
vised this course until after the coun
sel of the association at Ilttsburg should
make known what course to pursue In the
future. United States marshals have served
almost all of the nine hundred strikers with
the order.
President Shaffer to-day sent circulars to
all lodges of the association, reviewing
the strike situation, which, he says, is in
good shape. He cautions all members
against the South Chicago men who re
fused to obey the strike order, denominates
them nonunion and declares their cards
void.
Great preparations have been made here
for Labor day Monday next. A grand rally
of all allied trades and labor unions of
western Pennsylvania is to be held at
Ross's grove, at which Shaffer. Dolan.
Rums and Churchill are advertised to teR
the story of the strike. The rallv will be
under the auspices of the Amalgamated
Association, and Is expected to be produc
tive of much encouragement to the strikers.
A parade of immense proportions is sched
uled for this city on that day. the big ma
jority of the trades unions having arranged
to participate.
Concerning the report that James Ntitt.
secretary of the Labor Bureau of the Re
public iron Company, had come to Pitts
burg to-day to secure the signature of the
Amalgamated Association officials to the
year's scale President Shaffer said to-night
that the report was misleading and errone
ous. He said the Republic scale was
signed, sealed and delivered at the time
the other scales were arranged, and that
Mr. Nutt's visit to-da.v was merely for the
purpose of having corrected some minor
misunderstandings on technicalities. Such
trifles are likely to come up for decision
at any time and there was nothing unusaul
in the Incident.
The first break In the strike at McKees
port was made this evening, when about
forty men went to work in the seamless
tube department of the National tube
works. The men returned to work on the
same basis they worked before the sym
pathetic strike was inaugurated. The men
did not organize, although they met with
the Federation of Labor men a number of
times. It is thought many more will re
port to-morrow. The men were not mo
lested, as their return was a surprise to
the strike leaders. The tube works offi
cials are jubilant over the break at the
seamless and the outcome of to-day's pa
rade at Duquesne.
Burns Denounced by Gnmpers.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. -Officials of the
Federation of Labor say that Simon Burns,
who claims to represent the Knights of La
bor, has no authority to mix up in the steel
strike with any proposals for compromise
or settlement. Commenting on the dis
patches from Indianapolis, which were sent
out yesterday. President Gompers said:
"Who is Rurns and who gave him any
right to meddle ? He represents no one but
himself. As for the Knights of Labor,
there Is no such organization. They belong
to ancient history. Their headquarters are
under the hat of Mr. Burns. That gentle
man is assuming unnecessary responsibility
in thinking up compromise propositions to
be presented alternately to Mr. Schwab and
Mr. Shaffer. Then is no material change
in the strike situation. The Federation will
support the Amalgamated to the end."
No Conference with Burns.
NEW YORK. Aug. 30. It was stated at
the office of the U: Med States Steel Cor
poration to-day that no conference with
Simon Bums, of the Window Glass Work
ers' Association, or any one else represent
ing the Amalgamated Association had been
arranged or that any conference was con
templated. STRIKE TO HE EXTENDED.
Twenty-Five Hundred Men nt the l)n-
quesne Works Expected to Quit.
PITTSBURG. Aug. 31.-A decided change
has come over affairs at Duquesne. At 7
o'clock this morning the day men In the
open hearth department of th-s Duquesne
mill are expected to stay out and the night
men to go out on strike, adding 2,500 men
to the strikers. When the night men went
on at 7 o'clock last evening a committee
of open-hearth men at once waited on the
foreman and told him that they, the men,
would not charge any heats after 8 o'clock,
and If the officials or foremen did so they
would act on their own responsibility.
They proceeded with their work as usual.
Shortly after S o'clock the master mechanic
and labor foreman charged four heats. The
officials of the company who had. hastened
to the mill upon learning the men's demand
went from one to another of the workmen
and demanded that they take up the work.
They were met with a positive refusal.
(CONTINUED ON FAGKLCOU3J
EMINENT LAW VIOLATORS
MEM HER OF CLEVELAND'S FISHING
PARTY FIND TWO "HONES.'
Convicted of Catching; n Short fins
W. K. Vnnderhllt .Mulcted for
Oterfnst AiitomohlllnK'.
PlTTSFIELD. Mass., 'Au?. O.-Tne ar
raignment of Casslus Scranton, of New
Marlboro. In the District Court to-day on a
charge of catching bass less than eight
Inches in length brought out the announce
ment that deputy lish and gamekeepers had
Interrupted a fishing party composed of cx
Presldcnt Grover Cleveland, Dr. Bryant, of
New York, and Mr. Scranton on Iako Gar
field Wednesday. The deputies found a
short bass In the boat, and on being In
formed by Mr. Scranton that he had taken
It he was summoned Into court to-day and
lined $2. No complaint was made against
Mr. Cleveland.
Automobile "Sports' Fined.
NEWPORT. R. I.. Aug. 30.-W. K. Van-
derbilt, Jr., was summoned to Police Court
to-day and fined J10 and costs for allowing
his automobile to exceed the speed fixed
by the city ordinances. Tho offense was
committed on Ridge road Wednesday.
Chief of Police Richards, who yesterday
had Fnxhall Keene and Reginald Vander
bllt fined for fast riding, was the com
plainant In to-day's case. The latest of
fender promised that he would observe the
law hereafter. Robert C. Maxwell and
Charles Young also were fined $10 each for
overspeedlng their automobiles. Maxwell
Is chaff cur for Frederick H. Renedict, of
Stoneilla, and Young has charge of the
automobile owned by Lewis Rrugalve, of
fcan Francisco.
IN TROUBLE AGAIN.
Alonco J. Whitman Arrested for
Swindling: Brokers.
BOSTON, Aug.4 Sn.-On the charge of
swindling two firms of brokers in this
city Alonzo J. Whitman, a former Min
nesota State Senator, was arrested this
afternoon. Whitman had been sentenced
In New York for swindling and while wait
ing for a certificate of reasonable doubt
which he hoped to secure he was out on
ball and came to this city. It is alleged
that he secured a loan of J1S7..10 early this
week from William Hunt Co., brokers,
plying his name as Carl G. Burdlck, of
Brookline. On Tuesday, It is claimed, he
passed a bogus check for fcl.OOO on Arm
strong, Schrlmer &- Co.. another brokerage
firm. After being arrested the police say
he admitted his identity.
RANCHERS IN ARMS.
Tronhle nt the Town of Fairbanks,
Where Eviction Is to Be Fotiffht.
TUCSON. A. T.. Aug. 30.-Forty-thrce
ranchers and all the residents of the town
of Fairbanks, in the San Pedro valley,
have been notified to leave their homes,
which are on the Bouqulllas Spanish land
grant. The land recently came Into the
possession of a large cattle company and
will be fenced In suon as the settlers can
be ejected. One rancher has built a fort
and proposes to stand off the company's
cowboys, who will be engaged In clearing
the land of ranchers and their improve
ments. The grant embraces 17.3.7) acres.
GALE ON LAKE MICHIGAN.
Steamer City of Milwaukee nattled
with the Storm fur Hour
ST. JOSEPH. Mich.. Aug. 3). The fiercest
windstorm in years is sweeping this section
to-night. After a terrible experience the
steamer City of Milwaukee reached here
from Chicago this evening after several
hours' battling with the waves and landed
over 4oQ passengers with difficulty.
CHICAGO. Aug. 30 The water-logged
wreck of the steamer Pewaukee, her crew
exhausted from the effects of a long strug
gle with a gale on the lake, was towed into
the harbor here to-night. The Pewaukee
left Cheboygan, Mich., for Chicago Wednes
day. Don Petty Saved from a Mob.
ARDMORE, I. T.. Aug. .'!). A deputy
United States marshal brought Don Petty,
aged sixteen years, from Tishomingo to-day
and thwurted the mob which was threaten
ing to lynch him. Petty is charged with
having criminally assaulted May Bells, a
flve-vear-old girl.
R
SERIOUS WRECK ON THE GREAT
NORTHERN RAILWAY.
Seventeen Persons Reported to Have
Been Killed Forty Mile
Ettst of Knllipcll.
NORTHERN CENTRAL VICTIMS
DOZEN PERSONS ARE DEAD AND
OTHERS PROBABLY DYING.
Seven of the Dead Were Women and
Five of Those Who 3Iay Not He
roter Are of the Same Sex.
DELAWARE RIVER HORROR
ALSO MORE APPALLING THAN FIRST
REPORTS INDICATED. '
At Lenst Twenty-Eight Persons Per
ished When the Boiler of the
City of Trenton Exploded.
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 30. It Is report
ed here that a disastrous wreck occurred
to-nlht on the Great Northern, forty miles
east of Kalispell, Mont. Seventeen persons
are reported killed.
Detnlls Very Meager.
SPOKANE, Wash.. Aug. SO. Great
Northern officials here have received only
meager reports of the wreck near Kali
spell. It is known, however, that among
the injured are P. T. Downes and son.
Mr. Downes was until recently assistant
general superintendent of the Great North
ern, and was recently promoted to the po
sition of vice president of the Spokane
Falls & Northern branch of the road. His
homo Is in Spokane. Mrs. Downes is In the
East. The brief reports received here say
that the wreck took lire and that the tele
graph line was burned.
Liter. According to reports received by
the Great Northern here at midnight an
east-bound train ran away on a steep grade
on the mountain east of Kalispell and
crashed into a west-bound passenger train.
The greatest mortality Is said to have
been among a carload of Italians, a num
ber of whom are reported to have been
kHNV om rix while ntmrs were injured.
It has been impossible as yet to learn the
names of any of the killed.
MORE DEATHS REPORTED.
Dozen Victims of the Northern Hall
way Accident at Fnlrvllle.
NEWARK, N. Y., Aug. :.-The wreck of
the southbound passenger train at Falr-
vllle on the Sodus Bay division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad (Northern Central)
last night, has resulted ux to to-night in
tho death of eleven persons. Following Is
a corected list of the dead:
REV. DR. A. PARK BURGESS, Syra
cuse. MRS. A. PARK RUROESS. Syracuse.
FRANCIS BURLEIGH, Newark, N. Y.
MRS. JAMES W. FORD, Newark, N. Y.
MRS. ANNA KANE. Elmira.
WILLIAM MEAGHER, engineer, Sodus
Point.
HOWARD TERRS, ticket agent. Elmira.
MRS. L. H. WOOD, Seneca Falls.
MRS. C. H. RRADLEY. Seneca Falls.
MRS. ELIZABETH TODD, Newark,
N. Y.
MRS. J. C. EDWARDS, St. Paul.
The Injured in this city are doing as
well as can bo expected. Mrs. A. D. Burn
ham and Mrs. William Lemunyon, of Fort
Gibson, and Mrs. Rose Edwards, of New
ark, are very' low.
The death of Rev. A. Tark Burgess, of
Syracuse, occurred at the home of his
son, W. C. Burgess, this afternoon. He
was widely known throughout central New
York as a great opponent of saloons.
Mrs. C. G. Edwards, of St. Paul, who
was badly scalded about the face and
chest, died at the Homeopathic Hospital
in Rochester to-night. It Is understood
Mr. Edwards is on his way from St. Paul.
Mrs. Edwards had been to Sodus Point and
was returning to Newark, where she had
been visiting relatives this summer.
Of the remaining injured in the hospitals
In Rochester it Is feared three cannot sur
vivo the night. They are: E. II. Bradley of
Seneca Falls, Mrs. E. H. Hare of Green
field, Mass., and Mrs. Elizabeth. White of
Newark.
' Two More Deaths Reported.
ELMIRA, N. Y., Aug. 30. Anna Kane, of
Elmira, the nurse girl who was burned In
the Northern Central wreck near Newark,
N. Y., last night, and Miss Pleasant Todd,
of Newark, died this afternoon. Oscar
Hasson, of Baltimore, who was badly cut
and scalded, was reported as having
chances of recovery. Miss Julia Stancllffe,
while painfully Injured, will recover. Sev
eral of the injured inhaled the steam,
which makes their cases more dangerous,
as pneumonia Is likely to result.
Harley McCoy Dead of Injuries.
DURANGO, Col., Aug. CO.-Harley Mc
Coy, who was Injured in the Rio Grande
wreck, near Chatta. N. M., yesterday, died
early to-day at Mercy Hospital. In this city.
McCoy, who was at one time an active Den
ver politician, served several years In the
Canon City Penitentiary for the murder of
Captain Hawley, of the Denver police. In
1S-S1. In a quarrel which had its inception in
a political fight in the State Assembly.
DEATH LIST GROWING.
At Least Twenty-Eight Persons Were
Killed or Drowned In the Delaware.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. SO. It is now rea
sonably certain that at least twenty-eight
persons perished as a result of the ex
plosion of one cf the boilers of the steamer
City of Trenton on the Delaware river
above this city on Wednesday afternoon.
This conclusion Is reached by the police
authorities through the fact that seventeen
persons who are reported by their relatives
or friends to have been on the steamer have
not been found. These missing person,
with eleven bodies already recovered, make
ÄN0THE
DISASTER
a total of twenty-eight. Ten persons are
still in a serious condition as a result of
the accident, of whom four are in a crit
ical condition and may die.
The work of searching for the victims
has been kept up incessantly since the
explosion occurred. Two bodies were recov
ered from the river to-day and were taken
to the morgue. Up to a late hour to-night
they had not been identified. Presuming
that these two bodies, along with the two
others in the morgue that are charred be
yond recognition, are four of the missing
persons, and this would reduce the miss
ing lost to seventeen.
The city and federal boiler inspectors are
rigidly pursuing their investigation, but
they cannot accomplish much until the ex
ploded boiler, which was blown clear out
of tie vessel. into the middle of the river,
has been recovered. The owners of the
steamer have consented to raise and place
it at the disposal of the authorities. The
theory that water was let Into the boiler
after it had become dry, and as a result
the crown sheet blew out, is gaining ground
among experts. This, engineers claim,
could happen only through the negligence
of the engineer.
The wrecked vessel was floated to-day
and towed down the river to the Neafie &
I.vy shipyard, where a more minute In
spection of the steamer will be made.
Neither Chief Engineer Murphy, of the Cily
of Trenton, nor the company will make
a statement until the proposed court of
Inquiry is held by the United States in
spector of steam vessels.
Three persons who were reported by rela
tives as missing turned up during the day.
They are William Losson. of Hulmeville,
Pa., who was Injured in the accident and
immediately went to his home, and Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Albert, of Camden. N. J. The
Alberts went to Trenton on an earlier boat.
FORSYTH ALSO A VICTIM.
Like Howlson, He Was Misquoted in
nn Interview.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 30. The Inquirer
to-morrow will say that Capt." James For
syth. United States navy, who has arrived
home from the West, has practically
denied the authenticity of the alleged In
terview in a Western newspaper regarding
the Sampson-Schley controversy. When
he was asked whether he had heard from
the Navy Department he is quoted as say
ing: "I would rather not say anything
for publication. It would not look at all
well for me to express an opinion. I have
not heard from the department nor have
I had any communication upon this mat
ter." "Will you say." he was asked, "whether
the interview printed and alleged to have
been had with you was correctly re
ported?" "I really would rather not be made to
talk."
"You have, seen tho interview referred
to?" he was asked.
"Yes, 1 have seen the Interview In the
papers, and I assure you it was as much
a surprise to me as to any one."
"Then it was not yours?"
"I tell you it was as much a surprise to
me as to any one. Now I hope you won't
ask me to say any more, for I feel that It
would bo indiscreet to do so."
FRIARS IN COLOMBIA
FIVE THOUSAND SAID TO II AYE IN
VADED THE ISTHMIAN REPUBLIC.
All Reported to Be from the Philip
pine, and Will He Expelled it
the Insurgent Succeed.
NEW YORK. Aug. 30. "Since the Spanish-American
war the United States of
Colombia has been Invaded by fully fi.oflO
priests and friars, who have gone to that
country after being chased out of the
Philippines. When the revolutionary party
In the United States of Colombia Is suc
cessful us they surely will be within the
next month, these clericals will be ex
pelled," said Raul Perez, who Is the diplo
matic secretary of the Colombian revolu
tionary party In the United States at his
headquarters In this city to-night. "Th?
revolutionary party has Sö.ouo men In the
field," he continued. "They are fully
equlped with modern rifles, nnd have
plenty of ammunition and all kinds of
provisions. The opposition has about 20.)
men that Is the governmental party. They
are poorly organized. The revolutionary
party controls the town of Honda on the
Mugdalena river. That Is the principal
river running into the Interior, and Honda
Is the principal town on the river, being
the key to the whole of the central part
of the country. We are perfectly capable
of maintaining control of this city and
our generals, with large forces .of good
soldiers under tnem, arc rapidly spreading
out and will soon get control of all the
principal cities of tho country, compelling
the government forces to surrender. The
soldiers under the government are mostly
in favor of the revolutionary party, almost
every regiment is on the verge of re
volt. "The trouble commenced fifteen years
ago when President Nunez made himself
dictator. He was thrown into prison and
afterward died from poison.
President Sanclen, who succeeded him,
also assumed dictatorship and was crowded
into the background by Vice President
Miroquin. The latter is still In control. He
was amendable to reason and the trouble
would have ended had It not been for the
Influx of the Snanish priests from the
Philippine islands. When we train con
trol we will expel this disturbing clerical
element. We will then Inaugurate a demo
cratic government, based on the same sys
tem as that of the United States of Amer
ica. We will establish public schools; will
Insist on freedom of religious thought;
will start the construction of railroads In
order to develop the gr-at resources of the
country, and will aid in the construction
of all modern electrical and other Im
provements." ALL QUIET AT COLON.
Alarming Storle Found hy Command
er Sargent to lie Untrue.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. A cablegram
was received at the Navy Department to
day from Commander Sargent. of the
Machias, at Colon, reporting that matters
there are very ejuiet. His cablegram also
Indicates a belief, on his part, that the
revolutionary disturbances In that section
of Colombia, at least, have practically been
suppressed. Following is the text of Capt.
Sargent's cablegram, which is dated Colon,
Aug. -"j:
"I have visited Panama and Colon. The
most authoritative results of investigation
give me the following information: There
is no apiarance of an organized Insurgent
force in the vicinity of the railway. Free
and uninterrupted transit obtains, with
every prospect of continuance. Rumor is
unfounded that United States property Is in
need of assistance. All quiet here. More
reassuring than when we Marted."
The "5tate Department has been fore
warned of the calculation etf reports of rev
olutionary troubles in Ecuador in a rejort
from Minister Sampson at Quito. This
came by mall, so it Is six weeks old. and
the predictions of the minister already have
been verified. These, to the effect that,
owing to the impending national election
in Ecuador, slight disturbances might be
expected in various sections, which wouid.
by report, be magnified into revolutlouai y
movements, but they wtro not to be
seriously regarded.
CORN CROP YIELD
TOTAL WILL flC NEAR FOURTEEN
HUNDRED MILLION BUSHELS.
Unnincr by Heat and Drought Was Not
So Great as Alleged Experts
Wildly Estimated.
SHORTAGE ONLY 675,000,000
SUCH IS THE AMOUNT FIXED DT
llHADSTREET'S CORRESPONDENTS,
Who Are of Opinion the Decrease May
Be Even Less If Favorable
Weather Is Continued.
FARMERS NOT TO BE LOSERS
INCREASED PRICE WILL NEARLY
MAKE UP FOR THE SHORTAGE.
General Trade Enlarged hy netter
Crop Pronpeeta nnd Confidence In
Early Ending of Strike.
NEW YORK. Aug. 3l.-BradEtreefs to
morrow will say: "Late advices as to the
probable corn crop yield and as to the re
sult on business of the country' have made
lor a rather saner view of the subject than
could have been taken some six months
or two months ago, when the Intense dry
heat wave prevailed, and when crop ex
perts raged up and down the land seeking
what they could destroy. With the great
est respect for the aforesaid crop authori
ties, it might be added that the corn crop
suffered severely at their hands, but the
fortunate combination of plenteous rains
ami not too hot growing weather Mncc that
timo have quite perceptibly repaired some
of the damage which the crop suffered
from various sources in the fevered days
of July. It wa3 with the idea of getting
a clearer view of the actual situation in
the closing week of August that Rradstrcet
sent Inquiries to all Its offices and corre
spondents, not only In the surplus corn
growing States, but in tho leading Middle
and Southern States as well. This inquiry
contained ejucstions as to the probable yield
as compared with a year ago. the prices
being paid on the farms for old corn now
as compared with a year ago, the situa
tion as to the wheat yield, and the prob
able effect of the crop out-turn upon the
course of general trade he coming fall and
winter.
"Touching the question ot ultimate yield,
it must, of course, b kept in mind that
estimates as to tho probable out-tut n maus"
now must bo in a high degree tentative
because of tho fact that the harvest Is
Mill Mime weeks away and the prospect
ot further Improvement In plant conditions
may be balanced by early frost. This lat
ter feature. In fact, icruhrs the weather
conditions during the next two weeks of
more than ordinary interest. The general
tenor of the report as a. whole is eViU
faverable. This whs true of places nlirrs
the plant was not so far grme as to be be
yond help and even where this latter con
dition existed the effect of timely molMuto
upon the other crops has been so good as
to deserve special notice.
THE SHORTAGE.
"A consolidation of the replies from tho
several surplus States of Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri. Indiana and
Ohio, percentages of increase or decrease
by States being based Upon the reported
yields as indicated by tho Department of
Agriculture, point to a reduction in th
yield of those States of not far from t'wh,
m,m) bushels from a year ago. Smaller de
creases are likewise indicated in the small
er corn-producing States, like Texas, Ten-
nese sind Kentucky, sufficient to swell th
shoriage by perhaps i.mo,tio bushns.
Against this is to be liotel larger Induc
tions reported in '.H h States as New YoTK.
Maryland, Virginia and South Dakota,
which, while not sulheient to offset themj
decreases, still limit the tailing on, so that
a shortage vl not In e xceed CTo.OfnXv bh
els In the country s total crop Is to h
looked for. The continuance if the im
provement noted in the late planted corn
crop, with the holding off ot frost, may
still further operate to enlarge, the total
yield. In the lace of the leturns, however,
a yield not less than U'V.mm.oiv bushel li
inolcated fcr Jll u decrease of about U
per cent, from a year ako.
"Questions as to the percentage of the edl
crop left In farmers' hands now as coin
pared with a year ago, contrary to some
expectations, snow that It Is smaller thuu
a year ago, and the consensus of opinion
appears to be that In the surplus-producing
States siudi supplies are considerably
smaller than a year ago. the old crop heid
being quite generally reported as smaller
than usual, owing to the high price paid
for corn this year. Replies to the question
of farm prices bring out the fact that
present prices per bushel are fully 40 per
cent, higher than a year ago. The farm
price for the entire United State a year
ago, as reported by the Department of Ag
riculture. Wt'is in the neighborhood of öl
cents, and a 40 ier cent, increase In price
would point to at least 51 cents per bushel
being realized this year, which, applied to
a total vield of 1,4om...Oo) bushel, would
net a total return of abeiut J715.oi, uoo this
year. agalnt JTSl.ofNV" a year ago, a de
crease of only $36.01 . (i0, or less than 5 per
cent.
"Special Interest, of course, attaches to
the probable effect on general business the
coming season of the shortage In corn, and
It is in a high degree encouraging to leatn
that Rradstreet's agents the country over.
In the majority of Instances. look for little
that Is hurtful to follow from the corn
shortage this year. The fact seems to be
that the sigrucultural interests are in pretty
good shape at present. The wheat yield
generally has been good. In some districts
very large, and the prices received have
been very good. Those sections sending the
poorest corn e rop reports, in fact, send the
best advices as to wheat yield and returns.
"The res ilts of the Inquiry, therefore. In
dicate that, far from being the failure
e-iilier Indicated, a fair corn crop will b
gathered, and that, thanks to the good
wheat and other crop yields, and to the
prosperous condition of the farming Inter
ests, what would in yours of leprenlon b
regarded as a very poor crop outlook, fx-
erdses little adverse effect."
.
WEEKLY REVIEWS OF Til ADR.
Enlarsment Noted hy Hotli Ttrad
street's and H. G. Dnn A Co.
NEW YORK. Aug. 30.-Rrad!treeCs to
morrow will say: "A further Improvement
in corn crop advices, confidence In the early
ending of the steel strike, a further ad
vance in cotton due, however, to crop de
teriorations as much as to the better tone
of dry-goods trade advicesand last, but
not lenst. the advent of cooler weather,
nre unitedly responsible for a still further
enlargement of general trade distribution
at nearly all markets and a perceptibly
better and more cheerful tone to btulness
generally. Especially good reports coma
from such centers as Chicago, which re
ports a very heavy business in dry goods,
clothing and shoes; from St. loul. which
advli.es of unusual activity amonc jobbers,
ad tfcs dry-food tri de in Auiuit b4grcs4