RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1904.
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STRIKE IN SIGHT
Disagreement in the Miners'
! Conference May Lead to
Serious Consequences,
AGREED TO DISAGREE
Miners and Operators Came to Part
ing of the Ways Over ltenewal
of Wage Schedule.
While Iloth Sides Made Concessions
u t They Could Not Fix on a
Final lias is.
Indianapolis, Feb. 4. After wrest
ling with the scale question for five
days, the joint'committee and the sub
committee reported late Wednesday
afternoon that the mine workers and
mine operators could not reach an
agreement. An adjournment of the
joint conference was then taken for
thirty days.
Both sides had made concessions,
the miners abandoning their demands
for the run-mine basis and the differ
ential of 7 cents, and settling (low 1
to a demand for the present scnle for
the ensuing year. The operators, on
the other hand, receded from iho'.r
demand for a 15 per cent reduction,
and demanded that the scale of 1900
which was re-adopted in ID 01 and 1002
be adopted. This would mean a reduc
tion of about 12 per cent in wages.
Both sides stood firmly on these de
mands, and when the sub-committee
reported to the scale committee that
no progress had been made, and that
there was a disagreement, the scale
committe immediately issued a call
for the accredited 353 operators and
557 miners' delegates of the joint con
ference, to meet in Tomlinson Hall
to receive a report incorporating the
facts set forth. When it was found an
agreement was impossible adjourn
ment was taken.
The grounds upon which the miners
take their stand is that the compe
tition of the operators in the central
competitive field and those outside is
not as keen as the operators would
have them believe. The miners say
that at least in Ohio and Pennsylvania
their men have not steady work, and
that all over the central competitive
field the cost of living is such at this
time that they cannot accept a cut in
wages and maintain a fair standard of
living.
Both sides are well equipped for a
fight. The operators have had several
fat years, and it is said on good au
thority that the Ohio and Pennsylva
nia operators who staked r?ut their
fighting grounds weeks ago, have
stored 4.000.000 tons of coal on the
lakes and at other points. This coal
would be advanced in price sufficiently
to pay dividends.
The miners have $1,000,000 in their
national treasury. The Illinois miners
have $000,000 in their own treasury,
and the other states have enough
more to raise it to $1,000,000, making
$2,000,000 of cash available for any
emergency. The strike assessment on
the paying membership of the organ
ization, which is approximately 300,-
000 at this time, has just been increas
ed from 10 to 25 cents a month, which
"will bring in approximately $75,000
this month and in March. A suspen
sion of operations in the four states
would mean that 117,000 of the mem
bership would go out and after April
1 would not be on the assessment list.
It is pointed out that great political
pressure will undoubtedly be brought
to bear on the operators, and also on
the miners to prevent a general sus
pension on April 1. A great lockout
or strike in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and
western Pennsylvania, coming earlv
In this spring, would bo used as politi
cal capital.
Apprehension in Pennsylvania.
Altoona, Pa., Feb. 4. The" Central
Pennsylvania coal miaers heard with
apprehension the news of a disagree
ment at Indianapolis. At the joint
convention of operators and miners
of this district to be held here March
14 to fix the wage rate for the ensuing
year, the miners propose to resist ev
ery endeavor made to cut wages. They
declare they will strike before sub
mitting to any reduction. The oper
ators, however, believe the scale can
be settled without trouble.
Far Eastern Situation.
London, Feb. 4. Special dispatches
received from the far East and pub
lished this morning, add nothing to
the knowledge of the actual situation.
Baron Hayashi, Japanese minister tc
Great Britain, described the situation
In the far East as "certainly very
threatening," but said that everything
depended upon Russia's reply. "It is
highly improbable," the minister con
tinued, "that Russia will make any
aggressive move before the Japanese
government has received and consid
ered the Russian reply. What Russia
wishes to do is to throw the reponsi
bility of taking the initiative upon
Japan."
Farmer's Slow Suicide.
Carthage, Mo., Feb. 4. Judsre Myer?,
a prominent farmer, i5 rigi, having
starved himself to death. He had not
eaten a particle of food for forty-nine
days. Myers was a spiritualist and
said recently that his wife, who died
some time ago, was urging him to
come to her. Myers was sixty yar3
old and well to do.
A NERVOUS DREAKDOWN
Senator Hanna's Condition Becomes
Suddenly Worse.
Washington, Feb. 4. Senator M. A.
Ilanna had a setback late yesterday
afternoon which for a time considera
bly alarmed his family, who had been
encouraged to hope he was getting to
be himself again, but the congestive
attack was averted to some extent by
prompt action, and today the senator,
while not so wed as early yesterday,
shows excellent rallying power. The
setback came in the form of an attack
that resembled sick spells that have
seized the senator on two or three oc
casions in the past few years, lie was
seized about 5:30 o'clock last evening
with a congestive chill which hereto
fore had been marked by a rush of
blood to the head and cold of the ex
tremities. Members of the family
were on hand at its first outbreak, and
by the prompt application of mustard
plasters and hot water, the attack was
prevented from becoming so serious
as it was feared it might become, and
later in the evening it was stated that
the senator's condition was again al
most at his normal state of the past
few weeks. Dr. Rixey, the attending
physician, called in Dr. Magruder and
a thorough examination was made of
Mr. Hanna's heart, lungs and kidneys
and they were found to be all right.
Dr. Rixey said: "Senator Hanna's
condition is not alarming, and I hope
he will be out in a week or ten days."
The illness of the senator is due to
physical and nervous exhaustion caus
ed by an attack of grip and overwork.
AFTER LONG WRANGLE
Maryland Democrats Settle Senatorial
Contest.
Annapolis, Md., Feb. 4. Eighty-nine
of the ninety Democratic members of
the Maryland general assembly met
in caucus last night and after parley
ing for more than three nours, selected
Isidor Rayr.or for the United States
senatorship to succeed Senator Louis
E. McComas, the present incumbent.
At noon today Mr. Raynor, a well
known Baltimore lawyer, who achieved
an international reputation as the lead
ing counsel for Admiral Schley during
the naval court inquiry, was elected
by the members of the general assem
bly in joint session to the United
States senate.
A Pathetic Tragedy.
Philadelphia, Feb. 4. William An
derson, a young married man of this
city, committed suicide under pathetic
circumstances. He was informed by a
physician that his wife, who had giren
birth to a daughter, was dying. II '
immediately picked up a revolver and
saying: "If she goes, I'm going too."
shot himself through the head. His
wife died a few minutes after the
shooting and he passed away later.
Besides the baby they leave a four-year-old
daughter.
Train's Fearful Plunge.
Halifax. N. V., Feb. 4. One dead,
three fatally and twenty-five seriously
injured Is the casualty list in the
wreck of the Intercolonial express
train, the five cars of which left the
rails at Hunters Crossing, forty miles
west of this city, and plunged down
a thirty-foot embankment into the
Shubenacadie river. Every one of the
thirty passengers suffered more or less
serious injuries as did the ten mem
bers of the train crew.
Punishment for Cruelty.
Auburn, Maine, Feb. 4. Rev. F. W.
Sandford, head of the Holy Ghost and
Us society, the headquarters of which
are at Shiloh, was found guilty of
cruelty to his six-year-old son in the
supreme court. The state charged
that Sandford in fulfillment of his re
ligious teachings compelled his son
to fast for seventy-two hours. Sand
ford is also under. indictment for man
slaughter, the charge growing out of
the alleged ill-treatment of children in
his congregation.
Naval Changes.
Washington, Feb. 4.Capfain Geo.
F. Wilde, now captain of the Boston
navy yard, has been selected to suc
ceed Armiral Sigsbee as commandant
of the League Island navy yard, Sigs
bee being transferred to the command
of the South Atlantic station.
Deadly Gas Explosion.
Erie, Pa., Feb. 4. George L. Sterrett
was fatally burned, his wife, Nancy,
burned, cut and bruised by falling tim
bers, and his three children badly in
jured by falling timbers, in a gas ex
plosion which wrecked their home.
TERSE TELEGRAMS
In a f reitrht wreck near Houston, Tex., three
men -were killed.
A train load of Missouri mules will be shipped
to Russia to be used in the Russian army.
A 'Frisco weat bound passeng-er train was de
railed near Quincy, Miss., injuring peveral per
sons, one fat all jr.
Miss Rosa McHugh. aed 10", is dead, at New
London, Wis. She wan born in Ireland and
lived in three centuries.
The inability of French manufacturers to ob
tain raw cotton ha.- made it impossible for them
to operate tbeir factories steadily.
Rear Admiral 8isrbee has been transferred
from the league I- and nary yard to the com
mand of the South Atlantic station.
The 19th annual conrention of the Merchant
Tailors National exchange of the United States
and Canada U in sesiioa at Atlantic City.
The residence of X D. MayOeld. Justin, Tex.,
was burntsi and two of hi little prirls vrere
burned to death. The mother is not expected
to lire.
The reipn of the military in Teller county,
Co!o., where members of the We-tern Federa
tion of Miners have been on strike for some
months, is at an end.
The German war department hns bejoin a
wrjes of winter maneuvers in the Ilartz moun
tains to tst automobiles and motor bicycles
over the icy mountain road?.
George A. K e, late cashier of the Produce
Exchange bank, at Cleveland, who confessed to
embezzling JI3T.Q0Q of the bank's funds, was
entenced t aervs tea years iu the pe niton
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