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No. 15,127. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1901-TEN PAGES. TWO CENTS.
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OFFER TO ARBITRATE
Strikers Make Another Overture tc
the Steel Trust.
BEARER OF IT IN NEW YORK
Proposal to Leave the Matter to
Three Arbitrators.
LULL IN STRIKE EVENTS
Special From a Staff Correspondent.
PITTSBURG. Pa., August 21.?Another
and an important effort for settlement of
the strike is now on. A member of the
Ohio state board of arbitration has gone j
to the steel trust officials in New York
with a proposition to leave the dispute to j
a board of three arbitrators.
The arbitrator for the strikers would be
M. M. Garland, former president of tjie
Amalgamated Association. Shaffer has
agreed to name him if arbitration is ac
cepted.
It is said that the first move of the arbi
trators would be to call off the general
strike ordered by Shaffer two weeks ago
and le-t the men who are under contract re
turn to work. The arbitrators would then
proceed to consider the questions which
were at issue when the last conference
came to naught.
Confidence in Garland.
Garland has the complete confidence of
the men In the Amalgamated Association.
He also stands high with the manufac
turers as a conservative and a man who
always kept and enforced the contracts
made between the Amalgamated and the
manufacturers. If the steel trust agrees to
the plan of arbitration it is believed that
Garland can make terms for settlement of
the strike.
Senator Hanna has declined to Interfere
in the strike until the men who went out
in violation of their contract return to
work. He has always been a friend of the
Amalgamated Association, but did not In
dorse the striking of the men who had
signed the scale and were under contract.
It is said that the proposition to call off
the second strike as a condition precedent
to further negotiations will be made as an |
inducement to the steel trust officials to
agree to .arbitration. It was considered '
certain that the steel trust would not agree
to any compromise as long as the contracts
with the Amalgamated stood violated. If
arbitration is entered into it will take up
the dispute where it was dropped at the
last conference. It will be remembered
that there were divisions in the executive
board of the strikers at that time. The
conservatives, if permitted to rule, could
have settled the strike. If arbitration is
agreed to, the conservatives will be in the
ascendency. ^
It Is impossible to forecast from this end
the outcome of this latest effort, as It
will all depend upon Schwab's attitude.
Ilaslnenn Men Take a Hand.
The movement for arbitration organized
In business circles in Pittsburg and is in
dorsed by Shaffer. The bankers, manu
facturers and merchants of the town, be
coming alarmed by the growing magnitude
of the strike, determined to take the af
fair in hand. The efforts at mediation are
being supplemented by pressure brought to
bear on President Schwab in New York
from his former associates here. The most
important business interests of'the commu
nity are joining in advising him to accept
arbitration.
The movement now under way is regard
ed as the most important of the strike
thus far on account of the Interests back
of it. and the concurrence of the strike
leaders. There is ground for the state
ment that if arbitration can be brought
about according to the plans of the pro
moters peace is nearer than at any time
since the men struck.
Up to a late hour this afternoon the pro
moters of the arbitration plan were still
awaiting word from New York as to the
acceptability of the suggestion to the steel
trust.
Lull In the Strike.
Today shows a lull in strike events, the
two giants in the great wrestling match
pausing a moment in the struggle to get
wind and to wonder what hold the other
will try next. No perceptible progress has
been made within twenty-four hours by
either side.
The steel trust has steam up in several
mills, ready for returning workmen, and
offers alluring terms, but there is "nothing
doing." There is a notable scarcity of
skilled men. The strikers, for their part,
are reaching out for more mills to make
idle, but the morning turn failed to show
any shut-down.
In the meantime, while this big fight is
going on. somebody is holding the bag
namely, the laborers thrown out of work
by the strike of the skilled men. They are
the first and greatest sufftrers in a strike
of this kind. There are already murmur
lngs among the unorganized laborers, but
they cannot get into the mills until the
skilled workers start the machines. In
several of the mills started recently with
non-union men costly damage has been
wrought the machinery by the unskilled
workers, and the mills have been compelled
to stop. The Amalgamated Association
Claims to have all the skilled workmen in
its ranks.
Spirit of Inioiiisiu Spreading;.
The spirit of unionism is spreading rap
Idly in this district, seemingly stimulated
by the efforts of the steel trust to crush it.*
1-ast night about 2.3U0 former employes of
the tube works who went out on a sym
pathy strike organized themselves into a
union and Joined the Federation of Labor.
There Is a movement on foot to establish
a separate branch of the union for the
tube mill workers, similar to the Amalga
mated Association. If this idea is carried
out the steel trust will have a lot of trou
ble on its hands.
The strike leaders here are worried over
the situation at Wellsville, where the
mayor appointed the non-union workmen
spt-elal officers on the police force, thus
giving them the right to carry arms. Re
ports to headquarters indicate that this
action has aroused strong feeling among
the strikers and that there is danger of a
conflict at any moment.
In Duquesne. the seat of a number of
the Carnegie big non-union mills, upon
which the strikers are working in hope of
effecting organization, several labor meet
ings were held last night. They were os
tensibly called by the railway switchmen,
but it is learned that other workmen were
Invited to be present, and the strike was
discussed.
It is said in Duquesne that the severe
repressive efforts of the steel trust man
agement to prevent organization Is result
ing in arousing a spirit of resentment and
obstinacy among the men and that a se
cret organization is making rapid head
way. N. O. M.
ATTEMPT AT INCEXDIARISX.
AII('k<m1 Effort to Wreck the Monon
Knhelu Work*.
By Asuocintcd I'rew.
PITTSBURG, August 21.?The strike
situation was not materially changed to
day. The strikers have not called any
mor>? men out and none of the plans of the
manufacturers for additional resumptions
with non-union men have matured.
The feeling of irritation at Wellsvllle has
been increased by the appointment of
thirty strike breakers as special officers to
guard the plant of the American Sheet
Steel Company, and the police here have
had to disperse noisy crowds at.the re
cently tied-up tube plants, but there has
been no serious trouble at any point. It
is claimed that an attempt was made last
evening to fire the Monongahela works of
the American Tin Plate Company, and the
police have been called into the case to run
the supposed incendiary down. According
to the story told by John Schuster, general
labor boss of the plant, a pressure gauge
was knocked off an eight-inch gas main
and burning paper thrown into the place
with the idea of destroying it with explo
sion and fire. He says he plugged the
break before the brand was thrown and
saved the works. The strikers indignant
ly deny that they had anything to do with
any plot to wreck the plant and are inclin
ed to discredit Schuster's story entirely.
No Ilrealc in CnrneKie Mills.
The promised break in the Carnegie prop
erties has not yet come. As far as out
ward appearances go, the lower Union mill
In this city has not been affected, but the
strikers insist that they have seriously im
paired it. The strike leaders are trying
hard to gain a foothold in the Clark mill,
which is running with non-union men. but
that property, too, seems to be going at
practically full capacity. It Is quieter at
Duquesne, but the fight for supremacy
there is by no means over.
Very I Preston of the United States steel
corporation was in the city today and con
ferred with the officials of the Carnegie
company. He and the other officials are
still silent as to their plans. The some
what shop-worn rumor of peace has again
been revived, but the mildest suggestion
of it at authoritative places produces long
and positive denials.
STRIKER SHOT IX THE HEAD.
Outcome of ClaNh With Non-l'nion
Men at Troy, X. Y.
TROY, N. Y., August 21.?John Dugrin
ler was shot In the head and dangerously
wounded last night in a disturbance grow
ing out of the strike of shirt, collar and
waist cutters. As the non-union hands
were leaving the Lion factory they were
attacked by strike sympathizers. The non
union men ran, followed by a crowd of
men and boys, hooting and throwing stones
at them.
One of the fugitives turned on his pur
suers and fired into the crowd, and John
Dugrinler fell unconscious, struck In the
head. A piece of nis skull was torn away.
He was carried to his home and may die.
Two brothers named Collins, who recently
came from Montreal to take the places of
strikers, were arrested on suspicion of
having shot Dugrinier. One of them ad
mitted that he did the shooting, but said
It was in self-defense.
Later several strikers encountered a non
union man whom they had previously driv
en out of town, and in the row that follow
ed he drew a billy and struck one of the
strikers on the head, knocking him sense
less.
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S. P. ANGLE FOR SHERIFF.
Nominee of the Republican County
Convention at liaKerittonn.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md., August 21.?The
republican county convention, which met
here yesterday to nominate a coun
ty ticket, passed ringing resolutions con
demning the action of the democratic
bosses in Washington county.
Among other things, the resolutions cited
the appointment to the office of constable
"a man of notorious criminal record who
was Indicted by the grand jury while in
office for aiding a prisoner to escape from
the Jail."
George A. Davis, chairman of the county
central committee, called the convention
to order, and former Prosecuting Attorney
Charles D. Wagaman was made chairman.
The biggest fight centered In the nomi
nation for sheriff. The names of seven
candidates were before the convention, but
after the first ^allot the contest settled
down between Samuel P. Angle and Joseph
E. Newcomer, the latter the candidate of
the organization. Following several with
drawals Angle was nominated on the third
ballot.
Nominations are yet to be made for house
of delegates, county commissioners and
county surveyor. The convention was har
monious.
CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.
Republicans Will Open at. Delaware
September SI.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 21.?The re
publican state executive committee met
here yesterday afternoon and decided upon
September 21 as the date and Delaware as
the place for the opening of the political
campaign.
Governor Nash Is not favorable to the
plan for a series of Joint debates between
himself and Colonel Kilbourne, as suggest
ed by the latter. He said today that no
challenge had yet been sent by Colonel Kil
bourne. Of course, he will accept if one is
sent. He expressed himself today as be
lieving that no converts were made at such
debates, because the audiences are made
up of claquers who cheer their favorite and
howl down his adversary, so tha* thinking
people generally remained away.
Evidently a Private Matter.
It appears that the efforts of Dr. Tenney
to secure repossession of certain university
property at Tien Tsin now held by some of
the foreign forces has been under consider
ation by the authorities here for the last
year. Dr. Tenney claims title to the prop
erty. The matter has never been regarded
as serious, and of late no additional repre
sentations on the subject have been re
ceived.
Spanish Village Swept by Hurricane.
SARAGOSSA, Spain, August 21.?A hur
ricane has swept over the village of Vil
larlego-Jilota. Forty buildings were razed
to the ground; six persons were killed and
numbers were Injured. The damage done
is estimated at several million pesetas.
Suspected of Train Robbery.
AUBURN, Ind., August 21.?John W.
Brown, a machinist employed in the gas
engine works here, was arrested yesterday
on a charge of complicity in the attempted
hold-up of the Baltimore and Ohio train
near Whiting, several weeks ago.
Steamship Arrival.
At New York, Grosser Kurfurst, from
Bremen.
QUITS WITH TURKEY
French Minister at Constantinople
Breaks Off Diplomatic Relations.
CHARGES BREACHES OF FAITH
Trouble is Over the Settlement
of Disputed French Claims.
ACTION TAKEN TODAY
CONSTANTINOPLE. August 21.?The
French ambassador, M. Constans, has no
tified the sultan's first secretary that all
diplomatic relations between France and
Turkey are broken off, and that the am
bassador has informed his government to
this effect.
M. Constans communicated direct with
the sultan because the latest negotiations
were transacted with the sultan person
ally.
The ambassador justifies his action on the
ground that the sultan broke his direct,
personal promise, given to M. Constans, at
an audience in the Yildiz Palace, Thurs
day, regarding the purchase of the quays
and the settlement of the disputed French
claims. The foreign minister also gave for
mal assurances that the agreement would
be carried out; so, in view of this double
breach of faith, M. Constans holds that it
is impossible for France to continue diplo
matic relations with Turkey.
The American minister at Constantinople,
Mr. Leishman, has not been heard from
relative to the reported crisis in Franco
Turkish affairs, nor is the matter of a
character to make it likely that he would
advise the authorities here.
AGITATORS ORDERED TO LEAVE.
New Move of the Tampn DnHlne?*
Men'* Committee.
TAMPA, Fla., August 21.?The business
men's committee which deported fifteen of
the leaders of the striking cigar makers
two weeks ago yesterday notified seventeen
of the new leaders of the union, who con
stitute the central committee, that they
must leave the city within twelve hours.
The committeemen at once resigned and
all but three of them left already, it is said,
for Key West and Havana. Between four
and five hundred members of the Resis
tencia Union seceded from the ranks of the
strikers and issued a manifesto to the busi
ness men of the city and the cigar manu
facturers stating that they wished to go
back to work at once.
The secessionists will go back to work to
morrow, and by Monday all of the strikers,
it is believed, will be at work again.
Evictions by renting agents are causing
great excitement. It Is believed that more
than 100 women and children slept in the
streets last night. The central committee
of Resistencia Union has cut down the soup
house allowance to one meal a day.
Another proclamation was issued yester
day In the name of "the people of Tampa
and surrounding country." It urges that
Immediate steps be taken by all parties
concerned to have the factories opened, and
states a determination to protect the in
dustry of cigar manufacturers in Tampa
and the employes and laborers in such fac
tories. It closes with tne statement: "We
proclaim to the cigar makers that the citi
zen# will not allow any oppression or
abuses or ill-treatment imposed upon them."
?
RECEPTION TO MR. ROOSEVELT.
Vice President to Be Guest at Camp
Lincoln Friday.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., August 21.?Invita
tions have been issued to the reception to
be tendered Vice President Roosevelt at
Camp Lincoln on Friday of next week. The
invited guests will include United States
senators, representatives, officers of the
United States courts, state officials and
members of the legislature. In addition the
commander of each brigade and regiment
in the Illinois National Guard will be in
vited.
Dinner will be served In the governor's
tent at Camp Lincoln at 7 o'clock. Toasts
will be responded to, and It is expected
that the Vice President will make a speech
from the band stand in front of the head
quarters.
The Vice President and party will leave
at midnight, after the reception, for Chica
go to inspect the naval militia there on the
following day. Accompanying the Vice
President will be Mrs. Roosevelt, Gov. and
Mrs. Yates, Gen. and Mrs. J. N. Reece and
Col. Strong, whose guest in Chicago the
Vice President will be on Saturday.
KIPPER GETS LIFE SENTENCE.
Former Negro Soldier Who Attacked a
Texan Jail.
DALLAS, Texas, August 21.?John Kip
per was late last night found guilty of
murder and sentenced to imprisonment for
life. Kipper was one of the negro soldiers
who made an attack on the El Paso county
Jail about a year ago, when one soldier and
one peace officer were killed. The case
had been tried three times, once in El Paso,
where a life sentence was imposed, and
twice in Dallas. The El Paso verdict was
reversed by the court of criminal appeals
on the ground that there had been dis
crimination against negroes In the selec
tion of the grand jury which returned the
Indictment.
A change of venue to Dallas was then
granted* The jury was unable to agree on
the second trial.
SOLD DILLS AS CURIOS.
E. W. Smith's Defense to Charge of
Violating Carrcncy Laws.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 21.?Edward
WT. Smith, confidential clerk to Major
Blakeney of the life-saving service and
partner In a curio shop, was arraigned be
fore United States Commissioner Heacock
on the charge of having passed bills in the
similitude of government obligations. His
bondsmen were formally accepted, bail
having been fixed at $2,000. He claims that
the State Bank of New Brunswick, N. J.,
notes are regularly catalogued by dealers
in the east like rare stamps or old coins,
and that he bought and sold them as
curios.
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Two Chinese Professors.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 21?Hfang
and Tsal, Chinese professors In the Wil
liam Nast College at Kinkang, Klangsle
province, China, have been landed and will
proceed east to prosecute their studies.
They speak English perfectly. They are
the first Chinese to arrive from Kiangsie
province, the dialect of which Is not un
derstood by the Chinese now in the United
States.
The Iowa Sailed Yesterday.
The battle ship Iowa sailed from San
Francisco for Panama at 3:30 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. She will stop at Aca
pulco for coal. The distance to Panama
is 3,274 miles, and the trip will take ten or
twelve days.
FUNERAL OF SENOR VICUNA
RENAI.\S WILL BE BROUGHT HERE
tomorrow.
They Will Lie in State Cntil the Ar
rival of a Chilean War
ship.
BUFFALO. N. Y., August 21.?The body
of Senor Don Carlos Morla Vicuna, the late
Chilean minister, will rest in St. Joseph's
Cathedral, guarded by a detachment of
United States soldiers, until tomorrow even
ing, when, escorted by government troops,
it will be conveyed to the Pennsylvania
railroad station and sent to Washington in
a special car attached to the 8:30 p.m. train.
At Washington the body will lie in state
at the Chilean legation until the arrival at
Baltimore of the Chilean naval training
ship Baquedano. The Baquedano is ex
pected at Halifax daily. When the vessel
reaches port she will at once be ordered to
Baltimore to receive the body. An escort
of midshipmen will be dispatched from the
Baquedan to Washington to accompany the
body to the vessel.
The Chilean building at the exposition is
closed and the exposition flags are at half
mast out of respect to the memory of the
dead diplomat.
Senora Vicuna will accompany her hus
band's body to Washington, and after the
funeral ceremonies there she will go to
Deer Park, Md., where three of her chil
dren now are.
A dispatch was sent from the State De
partment yesterday afternoon to Director
General Buchanan of the exposition at Buf
falo. authorizing him to represent the de
partment in such ceremonies as will b3
held for the late Minister Vicuna, and ask
ing him to send a floral wreath in the name
of th ? department.
Secretary Hay, in speaking of the de
ceased diplomat, said:
"The death of Mr. Morta Vicuna will be
profoundly regretted here and in Chile. He
was a man not only of great learning and
experience, of remarkable ability in the
field of diplomacy and politics, but also a
most charming and attractive personality.
He neglected no occasion to act in the in
terest of his own country, but he was a
man of such delightful address and such
true amiability that he was a favorite
everywhere among his colleagues and
among those American officials who were
brought into contact with him. He will be
deeply mourned and greatly missed in this
country, while his death will be to his own
government a lamentable loAs."
A dispatch has been seat from the State
Department to Director General' Buchanan
of the exposition at Buffalo authorizing
him to represent the department In such
ceremonies as will be hel j for the late min
ister and asking him to send a floral
wreath in the nam# of the department.
Minister Vicuna began ffls diplomatic ca
reer in Washington in 18t0 as first secre
tary of the Chilean legation, serving in
that capacity for two yeafs, and was then
transferred to London. Subsequently, while
filling the same office to* the legation in
Paris, he was appointed financial secretary
of Chile in connection Xlfrith the various
European legations. In he was ap
pointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to the republics of Uruguay
and Paraguay, and in lb'JOt was transferred
to act in that capacity in the Argentine Re
public. During the latter part of 181)6 he
was made secretary of state In the Chilean
cabinet, and after holding that oflice for a
period of ten months was sent as minister
to the United States.
A High Tribute
Mr. William C. Fox, acting director of
the Bureau of American Republics, pays
the following high tribute to the deceased
minister:
"Mr. Vicuna came to this country as a
representative of Chile in 189S. Chile was
the only country that had never had a
representative in the international union,
although she had been represented in 1889
and 1890. Mr. Vicuna was such a wide
awake man that he wag here only a few
months when he saw the necessity of hav
ing his country join the union. Within a
few months after his arrival he prevailed
upon the Chilean government to join it.
Mr. Vicuna was a diplomatist of the Bis
marck style. He stated frankly what ho
wanted. He was aggressive in regard to
the interests of his country. They were
paramount with liim, and In his every ac
tion, diplomatically, he put his country to
the front. He was a linguist, and he had
the power of vigorous expression in several
languages. He was an inordinate worker,
of the most scholarly attainments, and
even those of his colleagues whom he felt
it his duty to comnat in the service of his
country had the highest respect for him,
and it is a significant fact that they were
his best friends."
DR. CTRTIS' RESIGNATION.
The Result of Hoard "of Visitors' In
vent igntion.
It is said at the Interior Department that
the charges on which Secretary Hitchcock
based his action in calling for the resigna
tion of Dr. Austin M. Curtis, surgeon-in
chief of Freedmen's Hospital, include a
number of specifications in addition to the
charge that he had wholly provided his
family's table from funds of the hospital.
These various charges were placed before
the Secretary, and it is understood they
were not made by any one connected with
the hospital service. The Secretary refer
red the charges to the board of visitors of
ths hospital, which consists of Mr. George
W. Evans, disbursing officer of the In
terior Department; Mr. W. T. Pierson of
the board of review of the pension bureau,
and Dr. John J. Darby of the patent offloe.
The members of this board are the personal
representatives of the Secretary of the In
terior in the management of the hospital.
They made an investigation, and it was
on their report rather than the original
charges that Secretary Hitchcock acted.
REPRESENTS US AT CARACAS.
Mr. Russell, the Chargre d'Affairs,
Well-Known Hereabouth.
Mr. William W. Russell, United States
charge d'affaires at Caracas, Venezuela,
who has been selected by the. Colombian
government to take charge of its embassy
at Caracas, is a Rockviilian. and well-known
and highly esteemed in Maryland and
Washington. He is a son o&the late Major
Russell, who was a major In the United
States Marine Corps. Mr.JEtunpll attended
the United States Naval ^cadezny at An
napolis, but resigned a short wjiile before
he would have graduated and did not enterv
the naval service. He entered the diplo
matic service by appointment o* President
Cleveland.
HEAVY INCREASE IS- 8SAIXPOX.
Comparative Figures la the Recent
Public Health Report.
The public health report just issued by
the marine hospital service shows the ex
istence of 8,258 cases of smallpox in the
United States, against 3,432 At the same
time last year. Minnesota had the largest
number of cases, 1,102. f
Assistant Surgeon Kerr at Hong Kong,
under date of July 2. reports a great im
provement in the pla?ue situation, the num
ber of cases declining abrusfcly from fifteen
to twenty dally to from one to eijfht. The
reports concerning yellow fever in the West
Indies, Central and 8outh America are very
favorable. A few sporadic cases of plague
are reported in various parts of EJurope, all
brought firon the far east, and one case at
Honolulu, the sum of which unknown.
POTTER AT THE HEAD
Nominee of Pennsylvania Republican
Convention for Judge.
FRANK G. HARRIS FOR TREASURER
Ticket Nominated by Acclamation
Little Interest Manifested.
TEXT OF THE PLATFORM
HARRISBURG, Pa., August 21.?The re
publican state convention, which met in
the Harrisburg Opera House today to
nominate Judge William P. Porter of
Pittsburg for supreme court judge and j
State Representative Frank G. Harris of j
Clearfield for state treasurer, was a most
unusual gathering. The ticket was nomi
nated by acclamation. United States Sen
ators Quay and Penrose and other party
leaders were absent. There was an un
usually small attendance of active party
workers and a large majority of the dele
gates never attended a state convention be
fore.
Judge Potter was formerly Governor
Stone's law partner and was appointed to
the supreme bench last year to succeed the
late Judge Green. Mr. Harris Is serving
his third term in the house of representa
tives and has always been a follower of
Senators Quay and Penrose. The platform
on which they were nominated indorses the
national and state administrations and the
official acts of Pennsylvania's United States
senators, commends the last legislature,
concedes the right of labor and capital to
organize, and denounces "yellow journal
I ism."
j Text of the Platform
Following is the platform:
The republican party of Pennsylvania, !
in convention assembled, makes the fol- i
lowing declaration of purposes and prin
ciples, upon which it invites the support
of the people of our commonwealth:
We congratulate the American people on
the good sense shown in the re-election of
President McKinley. His administration
has met every question with which it has
been confronted in a wise, patriotic and
statesmanlike manner. In all the vexed
questions growing out of the war with
Spain our national administration has
shown itself entirely capable and worthy
of the greatest public confidence.
We congratulate the people of Pennsyl
vania on the splendid prosperity which
they now enjoy. The farmer, the mechan
ic, the laborer and the professional man
all either have, or may have, remunerative
employment. We regret that under such
prosperous conditions contests should arise
between capital and labor, but we hope
and believe that these disputes will be
finally settled on an equitable basis, that |
will dc full justice to the contending par
ties. The right of capital to make proper
and legal combinations has been recog
nized by legislative enactments In many of
the states, a.nd this carries with it the
right of labor to organize In proper and le
gal ways for Its protection and advantage;
but neither capital nor labor has the right
to resort to violence or illegal methods to
redress wrongs or obtain rights. The spirit
of mediation and concession should prevail
in all disputes between capital and labor.
Harmony in the Ranks.
We congratulate the republicans of Penn
sylvania that there is no longer any divis
ion in the republican party; that harmony
has been restored; that respect for the will
of the majority prevails, and that we pre
sent a united front, arrayed only against
the common enemy?the democratic party.
We are amused, rather than concerned,
by the declarations of the late democratic
state convention, for we readily recognize,
as all the people must, the co-operation of
certain newspapers in their preparation,
which papers, failing in their attempt to
disrupt the republican party, have crawled
under the tents of the democracy with their
stale and false charges and succeeded In
having them adopted as a democratic plat
form.
The platform of the late democratic state
convention will be found In the files of the
so-called yellow journals during the past
few months. We believe in surrounding the
press with every constitutional guarantee
vouchsafed to it since, the foundation of
our government, but it is a public menace
that these constitutional guarantees should
bo so misused as'to have permitted many
of our newspapers to have degenerated into
a yellow journalism such as is detrimental
to any state or country. We charge the
so-called yellow journals with being sub
sidized by the full page advertisements
which they carry. The advertiser is per
mitted to dictate their policy and at his
behest these newspapers have perverted
the news columns and the editorial page
from being an honest record of dally events
to a labored attempt to misrepresent facts.
Democratic Party Arraigned.
We arraign the democratic party as In
competent, incapable, Insincere and un
trustworthy. The citizens of our state,
within a very few days, have witnessed a
spectacle seldom seen in the history of a
political party asking the suffrage of the
people. The democratic party, ashamed of
its record in the past, and afraid to name a
single issue of a national character on
which it is willing to appeal for support,
asks the people to forget that in the past,
when intrusted with the administration
of public affairs, it has ruined our busi
ness enterprises, shut down our mills,
closed our factories, put in idleness our
great laboring classes, ruined credit of
the state and nation, and now appeals to
the public on what it chooses to call local
Issues. We condemn it in the adminis
tration of our state affairs as much as in
the incompetency shown in its administra
tion of our national affairs. When the de
mocracy went out of power in our state It
left to the republican party a legacy of
almost $40,000,000 of debt. ,This debt, by
wise administration under republican rule,
has been almost entirely paid. We have
increased the appropriations to the com
mon schools until we stand at the head of
the American states in support of popular
education. Under republican administra
tion there has been paid each year for
educational purposes more than was ap
propriated by the democratic party in their
quarter of a century of misrule. We have
increased our appropriations for charitable
and eleemosynary Institutions until we
can make the boast that no state between
the two oceans supports these institutions
as well as does our own.
The platform concludes with an indose
ment of Gov. Stone's administration and
eulogies of Sena/tors Penrose and Quay,
j. O. Brown Temporary Chairman.
j O. Brown, Pittsburg's director of pub
lic safety, was temporary chairman of the
convention and David H. Lane of Philadel
phia permanent chairman. Mr. Brown is
the personal representative of Senator
William Flynn of Allegheny, former leader
of the anti-Quay republican organisation
in Pennsylvania. Mr. Flynn was urged by
Governor Stone and other leaders at a con
ference last night at the executive man
sion to serve as temporary chairman, but
he declined. He was a delegate, and for
the first time In many years took no active
part in the proceedings of the convention.
Mr. Lane is a personal and political friend
of Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia
General Frank Reeder of Boston was re
elected chairman of the state committee at
a meeting of the candidates after the con
vention.
The speeches of the chairmen and the
nominating speeches were noteworthy for
their brevity.
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MONEY RETURNED.
Ex-Chief Clerk Shepard Turns Over
JUW.OR on Demand.
Acting Secretary Ryan of the Interior De
partment has caused a demand to be m.\de
on Edward V. Shepard, late chief clerk of
the patent office, for a return of the $S!Mi5
alleged to have been stolen from funds in
the custody of the chief clerk, and Mr.
Shepard has turned over to the commis
sioner of patents that amount of money.
The mail of the patent office is being han
dled under a new system now. Formerly
a large portion of the mail was opened
directly by the chief clerk. Now it is
opened by a committee of five ladies, clerks
in the office, and an account is kept by
them of all money inclosures. The clerk who
finds money in a letter makes a note of It
and passing it to a second clerk the amount
is recounted and again recorded. These
accounts, with the letters, are at once pass
ed to the financial clerk of the patent office,
who takes charge of the cash. The work
of the committee of five ladies is done at
a round table about which they sit, the
mail being deposited in its center by the
mailing clerk. This plan is a temporary
one, as the whole transaction of opening
these letters will, it is expected, shortly be
placed in the charge of the financial clerk.
A successor to Mr. Shepard has not yet
been appointed, and will not be until after
the return of Secretary Hitchcock. Mr.
Charles M. Irelan is acting chief clerk.
Officials at the patent office within the
last few days have received a letter asking
for a copy of a recent article by Mr. Shep
ard entitled "Safeguards," which is a nar
ration of safeguards that were thro.vn
about the handling of valuable material in
the patent office, and which was published
only a short time ago.
WARDEN HAWK HERE.
Making Plan* for Openins (he New
Atlanta Penitentiary.
S. A. Hawk of West Virginia, who has
been appointed warden of the new gov
ernment penitentiary at Atlanta, is now in
the city making plans for the opening of
that Institution in October. Heretofore
the government has "boarded out" its pris
oners at various state penitentiaries. Most
of the District of Columbia convicts have
of late years been sent to Moundsville, In
West Virginia, and the authorities there
are eagerly inquiring how soon they are
to be relieved of this contingent. Ohio
Jails also have a good many government
prisoners.
Several interesting incidents have arisen
In connection with the opening of the new
penitentiary. The bill as presented to the
congressional committee for manning it.
called for a "photographer and record
keeper" among other employes, meaning
some one to apply the Bertiliion system
of records. A clerk at the Capitol could
not understand why a photographer was
needed in a jail, and so changed it to a
"stenographer and record keeper," which
Is quite another matter. All the positions
except three are under the classified serv
ice; those are the warden, chaplain and
physician.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
A Number of Army Officers Receive
Commissions.
President McKlnley* has made the follow
ing appointments:
War: To be captains In the Artillery
Corps?Joseph Wheeler, jr., Adrian S. Flem
ing, Brooke Payne, Harry F. Jackson, Rob
ert E. Callan, William S. Guignard, Edwin
Landon, Clarence H. McNeil, Joseph P.
Tracy, Lloyd England, James W, Hlnkley,
Jr., Percy M. Kessler, Johnson Hagood,
George T. Patterson, Frank K. Fergusson,
Robert S. Abernethy, Edwin O. Sarratt, Al
bert J. Bowley, Bertram C. Gilbert, Law
rence S. Miller, George H. McManus: To be
first lieutenants of infantry?Hilden Olin.
To be second lieutenants of infantry?Mor
ris C. Foote, Roy C. Kirtland, Shepard L.
Pike, Wylie Conway.
Navy?Charles E. Vreeland, to be a com
mander.
A number of pardon cases received from
the President last evening have been for
warded to the Department of Justice.
REPAIRS TO MAYFLOWER.
Board of Survey Also to Examine the
Bennington.
The Navy Department has received the
report of the board of survey which in
spected the gunboat Mayflower at the
Brooklyn navy yard. The Mayflower has
been In commission for about two years,
serving the greater part of the time as the
station ship of Gov. Allen of Porto Rico at
San Juan. The board's estimate of cost
for a thorough overhauling, docking and
painting is $10,000.
The department has ordered a survey of
the Bennington, which has Just arrived home
from the Asiatic station, and is now lying
&t the Mare Island navy yard.
Naval Orders.
W. L. Burdick and H. Gage, commission
ed lieutenant commanders.
Lieut. E. T. Fitzgerald, from the torpedo
station to home on two weeks' leave; upon
expiration of leave, to duty as assistant to
inspector of equipment, Newport, "News,
Va.
Lieut. A. MacArthur, from the torpedo
station to the Holland.
Lieut. R. Earle, to the naval proving
ground, Indian Head, Md.
Lieut. T. F. Carter, to the Norfolk navy
yard. In connection with the machinery of
the San Francisco, and on board when com
missioned.
P. Herbert, warranted boatswain.
Capt. W. H. Emory has been detached
from the command of the Monongahela
and ordered home. On August 29 he will
take command of the naval cadet training
ship Indiana. Commander C. B. Reeves
has been detached from the torpedo station
and ordered to command the Monongahela.
Lieut. Commander C. B. T. Moore will be
detached from command of the Brutus
when she is placed out of commission and
proceed home on waiting orders.
The cablegram from Admiral Remey to
the Navy Department of August 16 should
have read, Commander A. B. Speyers de
tached from Cavite station to command Mo
nadnock, Instead of to command the Brook
lyn.
Funeral of Col. Hynea.
Funeral services over the ashes of the
late Col. Thomas Hynes, who died last
Tuesday evening of gastric catarrh, were
held at the Arlington national cemetcry
yesterday afternoon under the supervision
of the G. A. R. The deceased was sixty
two years of age and is survived by a
widow and one daughter. The services of
the Episcopal Church were held over the
remains at his home on Tuesday morning,
and after, a service conducted by the Ma
sonic fraternity, his remains were taken
to Lee's undertaking establishment and
cremated Saturday morning. Col. Hynes
was a Mason of the thirty-second degree,
and representatives of the Blue Lodge, the
Knights Templar, the Mystic 8hrine and
the Scottish rite orders of that lodge con
ducted the Masonic service.
The Chlcojro at Plymouth.
The Navy Department has been informed
of the arrival of Rear Admiral Cromwell,
aboard his flagship, the Chicago, at Ports
mouth. England, where the cruiser will go
Into dry dock.
THE STAR BT MAII* '
Personi leaving the city for anf|
period can have The Star mailed to
them by ordering It at this offioe, la
person or by letter. Terms: IS cents
per week; 25 cents for two weeks, or
60 cents per month. Invariably la
advance. The address may b?
changed os frequently as desired.
Always give the last address, as well
as the new one.
A MAZE OF MYSTERY
Conjecture Over Morning Conference
at Navy Department.
WAS ABOUT ADMIRAL HOWISON
He is Said to Have Expressed No
Opinions on Schley Case.
PREPARING COURT ROOM
It is expected that an important an
nouncement will be made at the Navy De
partment late this afternoon regarding offi
cial correspondence in the matter of the
selection of Admiral Howison for servico
on the Schley court of Inquiry.
This announcement is said to be the re
sult of a conference held this morning at
the department between Mr. Hackett. act
ing secretary of the navy; Admiral
Crowninshield and Lieut. Ward of the
navigation bureau and Solicitor Hanna of
the office of the Judge advocate general of
the navy. The conference was held behind
closed doors in Mr. Hackett's office, and
at its conclusion the gentlemen participat
ing therein were closely questioned as to
Its character, but none of them would
divulge any facts In its connection. Mr.
Hackett, however, stated shortly after
ward that in all probability the depart
ment would give something out later in
regard to the Howison controversy. He
declined when questioned to state the ex
act nature of the announcement expected
to be m-ade.
A great deal of conjecture was Indulged
In at the department following this confer
ence, and it was learned from an apparent
ly reliable source that the statement to be
given out will contain a part of the cor
respondence between the department and
Admiral Howison prior to the latter's se
lection as a member of the court of in
quiry, and also letters between the depart
ment and counsel for Admiral Schley re
lating to the same matter.
Stringent Precaution* Taken.
This correspondence. It was stated, will
show that in the matter of the selection
of Admiral Howison the department exer
cised the most stringent precautions in de
termining whether that officer harbored
any bias or prejudice likely to affect the
outcome of the case. It is the custom of
the department in the selection of officers
for service on the usual courts of inquiry
to use ordinary means of ascertaining if
any prejudice exists, but in the present
case extraordinary proceedings were
adopted. Admiral Howison was communi
cated with and questioned most minutely
on this subject, and his reply Indicated that
he had absolutely no feeling either one way
or the other in the matter.
He Is on perfectly friendly terms with
both Admirals Schley and Sampson; had
never expressed up to that time any
opinion as to what he thought the merits
of the case were, and had never seen the
official record of the subject or Its appur
tenances. That he Is a friend to both of
ficers is evidenced by the simple fact of
his acceptance of service on the court.
Naval etiquette In all instances of this
nature demands that In case a prospective
member of a court is not friendly with
either of the parties involved he shall ask
to be excused from service upon the court.
In regard to the matter of giving pub
licity to certain correspondence between
the department and Admiral Schley and
his counsel as to the acceptability of Ad
miral Howison as a member of the court it
will be shown, according to a statement
afloat today, that at the time the selec
tion was made Admiral Schley stated that
the choice was entirely agreeable to him
and that he was perfectly satisfied to have
Admiral Howison appointed a member of
the court. This statement, however, was
made prior to the publication of the al
leged interview with Admiral Howison in
a Boston newspaper, which was the cause
of the inquiry made yesterday by Ad
miral Schley's counsel regarding" the publi
cation.
Speculation Over the Letter.
It cannot be learned from the depart
ment whether the communication submit
ted by Admiral Schley and his counsel In
closing the alleged interview and asking
whether It was authentic or not has been
sent to Admiral Howison. In view of the
statement which is expected to be an
nouncced this afternoon every indication
points to the fact that it has not been for
warded. There is no official proof that the
letter lias not been forwur<le<l, however
so that all talk in this connection is pure
ly conjectural.
It would seem that the department in
making its anticipated statement late this
afternoon has but one object in view and
that is to point out that there is realiy no
necessity for sending the communication to
Admiral Howison, as requested. The admi
r^?' llt,,wl!l recalled, recently denied un
officially that the interview was correcct
Acting Secretary Hackett stated this
niorning that Capt. Lemly, judge advocate
cT"',ffoul(i be in Washington on
A telegram from Capt. Lemly to
that effect was received today. Capt. Lem
ly upon his arrival here Is expected to be
gin work at once upon the task of com
piling a complete list of witnesses to be
summoned before the court. This list a
?f was reQuested by Admiral
arV* ^1S counsel, will be communi
catea to those gentlemen as soon as It Is
prepared.
Mak,n* Heady the Court Room.
Rear Admiral Endlcott, chief of the bu
reau of yards and docks, has given orders
for the preparation of the court room at
the navy yard. One corner of the room se
lected will be partitioned off as a retiring
room for the court. The court will sit at
this end. and tables will be prepared for
?hert!n1tatII?u?r the Press either inside
railing with the court or directly out
side the railing, which will be run kcross
the room so as to divide it into one-third
rt*'?~fthirds' respectively. The tables
fusing 8Versely' and to Prevent con
newspaP?rs represented will be
asstgned permanent seats. In the rear of
the room chairs will be provided for tha
spectators who will be admitted by card
No attempt will be made at decorating the
room and the furnishings wlir be of the
plainest description.
WILL BE MADE USELESS.
Decision of Powers Regardisg the
Chinese Forts.
The press dispatches from Pekln saying
that the Chinese forta will be destroyed,
even though the subject Is omitted from
the protocol, appears to be the result of
a discussion which has been going on for
seme time. Some question has existed as
to whether the forts should be "destroyed"
or "dismantled." In any event the origi
nal program contemplated that they should
be rendered innocuous, and the reported
plan Is probably a middle ground which
has been chosen for leaving to the military
authorities such attention to the forts as
they may regat-d necessary.
Fourth-Class Postmasters.
The following fourth-class postmasters
were appointed today:
Maine?J. A. Merrill, Curtis Corner; 8. B.
Luce, New Vineyard.
Maryland?A. M. Klrkpatrlck, Granite.
New York?M. A. Wheeler, ChurchvUle.
| Rhode Island?GL JB. Money, Liberty,