Kootenai County Republican., July 19, 1901, Image 2

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HEWS OF THE WOEID IH BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the rut Week— I« Thla an« For
eign Lands—Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.
Fire destroyed the O'Brien boiler (
works at St. Joseph, Mo. Loss estl-l
mated at fl00,000.
Kansas grain is burning up In the !
worst heated spell Since the summer of
1860. Corn also Is a failure.
Sunday was the hottest day of the
season in southern Kansas, tho ther
mometer registering as high as 118 In
the sun.
E. H. Conger, United States minister
to China, will sail Wednesday from
on the steamer Nippon Mam. on route j
to Pekin I
Six persons were drowned while surf
bathing at a picnic of the Hebrew Qa
mahl Hazad, at Dauf.kle beach, near
Savanah, Oa. |
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Mme. Melba Is suffering from an at
tack of laryngitis and her physicians
have advised her not to sing at Covent
Coleman and James Younger, who !
wer« granted a conditional parole by i
the board of pardons on Wednesday. 1
last, have been released from the Still
water penitentiary.
At Springfield, o., Paul Hague,
known as Prof. Zeno, an aeronaut, was
fatally Injured Sunday afternoon at j
Island Park, falling 200 feet. Hla para
chute failed to open.
With a capitalization of between |1,
000,000 and $3,000,000, 12 of tbe chief
vaudeville theaters between Chicago
and the Pacific coast are about to be
merged into a single property.
At Dennison, Texas, the worst drouth
ever experienced was broken Sunday
afternoon by a terrific rainfall of over
two houra' duration, the volume of rain
being almost equal to a cloudburst.
At Niagara Falls. N. Y.. Carlisle Gra
ham Sunday afternoon made his fifth
successful voyage through the Whirl
pool rapids In a barrel. The start was
made from the Maid of the Mist land
ing. below the falls.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
hopes that the corn crop of the western
states has not yet been ruined by the
drought. He Is disposed to believe the
reports as to the damage have been ex
aggerated.
The steamer John S. Kimball. July
4 from Nçme, has arrived In Seattle
with 20 passengers and $75,000 In gold
from the district, consigned principally
to a local bank. She reports that St.
Michael, as regards the discharge of
freight from steamers, was still Ice
blocked July 3.
M. Santos Dumolt's cigar shaped bal
loon, driven by a motor, bad a trial re
cently from St. Cloud, across Paris,
around the Eiffel tower and back to St.
Cloud. The papers say tbe trip was
quite successful and that the balloon
ascended and descended apparently at
the will of the aeronaut
In all parts of France Sunday, the
national fete day, the anniversary of
the fall of the Bastlle, was celebrated
with much enthusiasm and without
disorder. There were reviews at all
naval and military stations, followed
by Illuminations, fireworks and balls
In the evening. The Parisians partici
pated with their usual zest
Up to within a week the outlook for
the harvest In the middle west was fa
vorable. Wheat was doing weL In Min
nesota and the Dakotas, but it Is now
believed that drouth in some sections
and floods In others will reduce the fig
ures below the estimates made earlier
In the year. What effect the present
torrid wave will have on the crop can
not now be foretold.
I
Major Putnam B. Stron# quarter
master's department, U. S. A., has an
nounced that he had resigned from the
army for personal and financial reas
ons and that hts resignation had been
accepted by Secretary Root. The res
ignation followed the publication of an
escapade ln San Francisco In which
Strong and Lady Francis Hope, former
ly May Yohe. are the principals.
The departure from Pekin of Prince
Chun, younger brother of Emperor
Kwaug Su. who has been selected form
ally to apoltglze at Berlin for the mur
der of Baron von Ketteler, was a spec
tacular event. A special train took
Prince Chun and his suite from Pekla
to Taku, from which port he will pro
ceed by steamer to Shanghai. He will
■all from Shanghai July 20 for Genoa
and will proceed directly from there to
Berlin by rail
There were In 1880 580 places of more,
than '.000 population each, with an
aggregate population of 12 936,110, or
25.8 per cent of the population. About i
one half of the urban population of
1900 was contained In cities of over
100,000 people. There were 38 of these
cities, with s combined population of
14.208.376. There are now 1,150 places
of over 4,000 people In the country, as
against 800 In 1890. The population of
ths District of Columbia is regarded
« urban. |
The census office has Issued a bulle
tin concerning the urban population of
the country. It shows that 28.411,638
people In the United States live In cltlea
and towns of over 4,000 population.
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This is 37.3 per cent of the entire popu
lation, a gain of almost 5 per cent since
the census of 1830, when the percentage
was 32.9. Compared with the census
of 1880, the report shows a gain in the
urban population of the country of
more than a third in percentage and
of considerably more than double in
actual numbers.
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A portion of the drouth stricken south
west Ktuina» lusts been relieved by rain.
Mow La Fontiise of Butte wats given the
decision over Dave Barry of Canada in a
( 20 round go recently,
estl-l Advices from Dawson, under date of
June 28. state the gold shipments to Die
the ! olIl *^ e tk ' 8 year have amounted to $5,
of °°5i' (>0C date '. .
1,18 wither ' 8 the hottest known »n
the
In
Berlin for several years. A number of
people are dying of sunstroke. Violent
thunder storms are reported.
A terrible storm struck the Pleasant
dtaLnH on , Oarlierry plains, near
doing #luo,ouu dam
j to , " ad , ( drm buüd,n '"\ . ,
I ^ rank Scott, 26 years old, is in jail at
idaho. ringed will, the at
Qa- tempted t . of Pttlslt '>- " L >
yv> [ r ° 1(1 8* rl 1,v mg at Morrow.
| A ' s ? ,,d y-. ,n n, f iern
' Montana, tell» of the lynching of three
at- , ,, . J . 6 . . . . ,
horsethieves by a jKisse of infuriated
ranchers on the Missouri river just below
Judith.
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by i ï p 1 . . wholesale killing
1 f'' '''" - M ^ Uans a » d W*. "ho are
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nf ^ p , Uty . ,'.' UJ1 . e v ' urdl ' n l '; A - McHaney
° f „ J " w vuT '"'i* hot and
at j ^ »« d A. VNomaek and fatally wouml
, d /J* h JJ iB < j laimed >
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The Idaho state board' of pardons unan
imously decided to commute the sentence
of "Dittinondfleld Jack" Davis to imprison
ment for life. Davis was under sentence
to hang on next Wednesday for the inur
I der of two sheepmen in Cassia county in
February, 1896.
The final racing trial of the two Sham
rocks was over a 36 mile
course from
C'raigmorc Swclmorlie, thence to Tomon
End off i-sirgs and hack to the starting
point. This course was sailed twice
A fresh, strong westerly wind of from 13
to 14 knots was blowing. The challenger
had the better of the maneuvering for po
sition and led the Shamrock I. over the
line by about three lengths.
"'More than 100
over.
persons, including
troops and police, were wounded Monday
encounter at Lemberg," says the
Vienna correspondent of the London Ex
press, "growing out of an attempt by the
police to stop street parades held in a
demonstration on behalf of the unemploy
ed. The mob threw up barricades and de
fied the police. The troops were called in
and charged again and again, using bay
nets and bullets. Ultimately the demon
strators were
in an
o
dislodged. Lemberg is
strongly guarded, but it is reported the
mob is
preparing for another fight during
the flight.
Ssllura Oel Prise Money.
Mount Ayrie, Ga., July 15.—Judge
Spear of the United States superior court
has handed down his decree distributing
the money arising from the capture of the
British steamer Adula during the Spanish
war.
The Adula was owned by the Atlas
Steamship company and chartereil to a
Spaniard, Don June Solis. The capture
was made by the Marblehead, Commander
McCnlla, while the Adula was attempting
to run a blockade at Guatutiamo bay dur
ing the ^panish-Amcrican war. The amount
realized on the stipulation given by the
owners for the Adula was $50,01». * This
sum, leas the costs and cx'|<eitses of keeping
the ship, expenses of litigation, insurance,
losses from salvage and the like, was dis
tributed, one half to the United States and
one half to the officers and enlisted men of
the navy entitled to the prize money.
Wenatchee Steamer Burned.
•Wenatchee, Wash., July 15.—The steam
er Wenatchee of the Bailey 4, O'Connor
line, which had been taken out of the
ter for repairs at the foot of Orondo
nue, took fire and was totally destroyed.
By the time the firemen could travel three
block«, turn in the alarm and get the
chemical engine on the ground, the upper
works of tlie boat, where the fire seemed
to have originated, were all aflame,
attempt was made to stretch hose down
from the nearest hydrant in town to turn
on water, but the hose was too short. A
watchman sleeping on the lower deck bare
ly escaped with his life. All effect« on the
boat went up in smoke. Loss, $4500; in
surance, $351».
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to
an * nd dr °wm*d. It was just about dark and
or ,h * boat making a crossing, a man
i #t *" cl1 pnd ot the boat, when Mor
of * aplaeh and missed Keifer, who
mu *t have stumbled and fallen into the
river.
wa
uve
An
Frank Keifer Drowned.
Wenatchee, Wash., July 15.—Frank
Keifer, who was working with Mr. Morris
the W enatchee ferryboat, fell overboard
on
of
as
Copeland Killed Ropers.
Gmaha, Neb., July 15.—Ned Hartley
of Copeland, who shot and killed A. P. Rog
er * on a Union Pacific train near Rawlins.
| W'yo., was a trusted teller in the Nebraska
National bang in this city for 10 years
of P r «°r to August, 1899. He left the city at
that time, ostensibly for a summer vaca
tion and viait to the eastern states, and
b*d not since been heard from.
PRES. SHAFFER SENDS WORD.
Three Day Conference
Nanaht—00,000 Skilled Workmen
Alfeuled—Moth Sidra Make State
ments—Prolonged War Expected.
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Pittsburg, July 14.—After a three
days' session the conference between
the representatives of the American
Sheet Steel, American Steel Hoop com
pany and American Tin Plate com
pany, subsidiary companies of the
United States Steel corporation, and
the general executive board of tbe
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers, adjourned finally
without reaching an agreement. In
less than an hour later President Shaf
,
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,
fer of the Amalgamated Association
had wired the following order to all
the Amalgamated lodges in the tin
plate, steel hoop and sheet steel mills
of the country:
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"Notify your men that the mill is on.
strike and will not continue work on i
Monday, July 15."
President Shaffer says that for the
present the three companies will be af-,
footed, but that later all the union men !
In the employ of the Federal Steel com
pany, National Steel company and Na- i
tlonal Tube company may be called out
if it is found necessary to resort to ex
At
treme measures to win the fight,
the start, It is claimed 45,000 skilled
workmen, 30,000 unskilled men and in- 1
directly many thousands more will be
affected.
After the adjournment of the confer
ence the following statement was given
out by the officials of the three com
panies Interested:
"The conference between the Amalga
mated association and the sheet, hoop
and tin plate companies failed to come
to an agreement because the Amalga-1
mated association did not recede from
its original position, which was that !
the three companies Interested should
sign for all their mills without regard |
as to whether these mills had in the i
past belonged to the Amalgamated as-1
sedation or not The manufacturers
did not refuse their rights to organize,
but having many men in the mills not
In the Amalgamated association who
do not wish to become association men,
claimed they might respect these men
in their wishes as well as those who
are members of the association. In or
der to effect a compromise the manu
facturers offered to sign for several
mills which have always In the past
been ouU of the association. No com
promise was offered by the Amalgamat
ed association. The American Tin
Plate company have only one non-union
mill. They requested the privilege of |
making a special scale for this mill and |
to sign the same. This was refused !
and the oompany was given to under
stand that the men in all the tin mills
would be called out, even though the
scale has been signed for all other tin
mills. The privilege requested above
would settle all differences between the
tin plate company and the Amalgamat
ed association."
As soon as the workers reached the
headquarters of the Amalgamated as
sociation a statement was prepared for
the association side of the case. Presi
j
"On Friday afternoon the manufac- !
turers made their first proposition for
dent Shaffer has made this public as
follows:
a settlement of this strike, In which
they said: 'We agree to unionize the
Old Meadow mill In Scottdale and In
Saltsburg, by leaving It to the opinion
of the men employed there. If such
opinion Is properly obtained.'
"This proposition was generally dis
cussed, and this morning before the
conference adjourned for lunch the
general executive board of the Amalga
mated association submitted the fol
lowing: 'W'e hereby repeat our request I
that our scale be signed for all mills !
owned and controlled by the American I
Sheet Steel, the American Steel Hoop
and the American Tin Plate companies, i
and believe that this should be con
ceded, because It is In our opinion rea-|
sonahle and Just. We agree if our
scales are signed as stated above to
classify the Monssen plant and arrange
a scale In accordance therewith. Also
that there shall be a reconstruction of
the scale for the mills working hoop
and cotton ties exclusively, and we j
also agree that If our work of organlz- !
Ing mills outside of the possessions of
the above companies should cause the,
shutting down of plants or the calling!
out of men there shall be no Interfer
ence with the operation of th# mills
belonging to or operated by the Ameri
can Sheet Steel company, the American
Steel Hoop company or the American
Tin Plate company during the scale
year.
" 'This agreement Is to abrogate all
contracts signed by the men of these
companies on which they agree not to
join or be connected with the Amalga
mated association or any other labor
organization.*
"After luncheon we were met with
the following counter proposition from
the manufacturers:
" 'We agre eto sign the scale for the
following sheet mills: The Old Meadow
rolling mill, Scottdale; the 9alt Spring
mills, the Wood mills in McKeesport,
and the Wellesrille mills.'
"Of course this proposition was re
jected, as it was considered no proposi
tion at all, inasmuch as Wellesrille
plant is organized to a man and so is
the Wood mill in McKeesport
"The conference adjourned soon af
ter this with regret expressed on both
sides for the failure to reach an agree
ment."
Big Strike Is On.
Pittsburg, Pa., July 16.—The strike of
the members of the Amalgamated asso
ciation employed in the tinplate, sheet and
hoop mill», which was ordered Saturday
night as a result of the disagreement be
tween the conferences of the.United States
Steel corporation and the Amalgamated
association, was generally observed today.
In the Pittsburg district the skilled work
men who are under control of the union
failed to put in an appearance, or, if they
did go to the mills, it was merely as spec
tators and with no intention of working.
Journalists Home.
Philadelphia, July 15.—After 10 years
of unremitting efforts by the International
League of Press clubs there is soon to be
established in New Change, N. J., the
home of journalists. The last legal step
preparatory to the active advance of the
, , L ,
i cnter P r,se wa8 taken yesterday when arti
cles of incorporation under the laws oi
New Jersey were granted to the Journal
ists' Home association. The sum of $250,
. , , .
! ^ necessary for the erection of
buildings, etc. lhe larger part of this
i ^ * a w *ll ^ raised from the sale of a
c °l ossa l magazine entitled Bohemia,
which is to be issued next year.
tributors will be the greatest novelists art
Its con
ista and liteuratours of the world. Plans
1 for the building are now in the hands of
the architects.
of
Soft Coal Trait.
give time for the working out of larger
plans,
Cleveland, Ohio, July 15.—The Leader
says:
Owing to certain expansions of the origi
nal plan having been agreed on, formation
of the soft coal trust may be delayed to
The plan as now outlined by those who
! are on the inside provides a close har
mony between transportation and trading
| companies. In the former are to be in
i eluded both lake, rail and ocean facilities
of the largest proportions. It
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now comes
out that the purchase of the Ohio river
mines reached by the Baltimore & Ohio
was a part of this big scheme and per
fected in a way the control of the soft
coal carrying facilities for certain parts of
Ohio, West Virginia and the Pittsburg dis
tricts.
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the
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Strike lx Settled at Reading.
Reading, Pa., July 15.—The strike of
the 2700 employes of the Reading Iron
company, including the tube works, the
Ninth street and the Olney street mill, is
ended after having lasted 10 weeks, since
May 6.
The new scale of wages will be the same
as that paid by the company in August,
1899, which was the boom period of iron
prices. Puddlers will receive $4 a ton and
j the other trades in proportion.
The union is not recognized, the com
pany reserving the right to employ any
men whether union or nonunion, but all
of the strikers will be taken back and none
will be discriminated against.
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up
Iconrue 1a Tennessee.
Memphis, Tenn., July 15.—The scourge
of charbon is creating a reign of terror
throughout the counties of Bolivar, Madi
son and Coahoma, in Mississippi, and it is
! rumored that not enough animals have es
c<l ^ ie d * seaae w °rk the crops for the
remainder of the year. The disease is
very virulent that it is affecting all forms
of animal life. Seven negroes have died in
the vicinity of Beulah, Bolivar county,
from the disease, and it has created such
dread among other negroes that they
refusing to take work.
ing
I
! kol * 8IH - His body was buried in the city
I «anetary. It is now claimed that he wa"
a nian of means, coming from Lake Pend
i d Oreille, Idaho. Parties say that the man
wns doped with liquor for some purpose
and 'HeJ while under the influence,
a"*» 1 that he drank over one quart of liquor
"hile lying in a drunken stupor,
St. Petersburg, July 16.—Large parts
of the empire are again threatened with
j famine. The last official report, which
! has just been published, was dated June
|21. Since then not a drop of rain has
fallen in the eastern provinces and it is
believed the crops are now largely beyond
hope in many districts,
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Cause« His Death.
North Yakima, Wash., July 16.—Frank
Gillette, a native of Massachusetts, died
at the city hospital from the effects of aleo
an
set
It is
Famine Is Threatened.
the
Excursion Boat Blew Cp,
Sunbury, Pa., July 15.—An excursion
boat, anchoret! in the Susquehanna at the
foot of Market street this city, blew up
with terrific force, killing two boys and
injuring a dozen other persons, two fatallv.
One man is missing and may have been
killed.
The dead are Allen and Artie Fetzer,
•ged 14 and 12 respectively. George fYy
mire, the pilot of the boat, is missing.
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HEWS ITEMS.
The governor of Ohio before the
adoption of the present constitution,
received a salary of $4,000 a year It
la now $8,000.
SEVERAL LIVES WERE L081
Conductor Mistaken In His Orde
ra-j
Smashup Followed—Trains Vt>,
Into the Arkansas River—Expr««
Struck by an Engine.
Paisons, Kan., July 16.—A head
collision between two local freight traiiÄ^
on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroai
near Wymark, I. T., killed five men am
three others were probably fatally i #
jured. The dead are: Joe Morris of P M ,
sons, two unknown tramps, James L*
velle, head brakeman, of Parsons; Frani
Fitzgerald, head brakeman.
The injured: Joe Massey, terriblj
crushed and injured internally, death
pected any moment; Fireman Bean «
Faisons, badly cut about the head, and
leg broken; Fireman Killaruey of
sons, chest crushed und head cut.
The collision occurred on a bridge ova
the Arkansas river. There is
a sh
curve near the bridge, and when theses
ginuer saw the danger the engines wen
too close to each other to be stopped.
The two engin es^caine together in the
middle of the bridgé, the bridge eollaj*
ing and both engines fell into the' river
The two trains caught fire after the
gines went into the river and burned the
bridge, as well as the ears,
engines are reported to be buried in the
quicksand in the river. The local freighi
was to liave sidetracked at Wymark tu
let the other freight pass, but the
ductor made a mistake in reading hii
orders.
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Parkersburg, W. Va., July 16.—-Two
persons were killed outright, one fatally
injured and several others less seriouflj
hurt in a head end collision on the Ohio
Biver railroad at Padens Valley. Th«
Ohio Valley express on the way from Cm
cinnati to Pittsburg was run into at full
speed by a loose engine southbound, and
both engines were almost demolished. The
dead: Engineer Courtrite, Ohio Valley
express, of Wheeling, W. Va.; William
Boothby, fireman, of Parkersburg.
William Day of Parkersburg, engine«
of the loose engine, was fatally injured
and will probably die.
Tried to Kill the Jndve.
Vancouver, B. C., July 15.—A sensation
al climax of the Frazer river salmon fisher
men's strike occurred recently when a nun
alleged to be a union fisherman, named
Michael Sullivan, attempted to shoot J
A. Russell, police magistrate. The latter
is associated in the management of
nery, and has been prominent in urging
the prosecution of the fishermen arrested
for conspiracy, intimidation and the kid
naping of Japanese.
The magistrate was coming down from
the police station, where he had held
court. The man, supposed to be Sullivan,
stopped him and, pointing the revolver,
said: "This is the way to treat the
mies of labor." Before he could pull the
trigger Mr. Russell knocked down the
man's arm and the latter turned, dodged
up an alley and escaped.
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A Butte Smelter Starts Up.
Butte, Mont., July 15.—After being idle
for six weeks on account of differences
w'ith the employes over the eight hour
question the Colorado smelter has started
up with a full force of men. The trouble
arose over the demand of the smelter
that the outside men, including machin
ists, should receive the benefit of the eight
hour law.
men
The company, not being will
ing to concede this, closed down the work«.
The men will go to work on the old
rangement, by which all men actually em
ployed in the work of smelting get eight
hours a day at the same wages as formerly
paid for 10. The machinists get the nine
hours demanded by the national
ar
organize
tions. The outside machinists work 10
hours.
Great Masonic Function.
New
T ork, July 16.—On Wednesday,
says the Tribunes london correspondent,
an impressive Masonic function will take
place in England,
stallation of the duke of Connaught a»
grand master of the united grand lodge of
England in succession to the king, who
presided over the craft for 26 years.
lhe ceremonial will be the same as when
the prince of ales was placed on the
throne of the grand lodge by John Fas
set t of the province of Durham, and it
will be conducted at Albert hall, in the
presence of 10,000 Masons, who are either
masters or wardens of a lodge, or mem
bers of a past
This will be the in
present grand lodge.
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Derby Winners Lost.
Chicago, July 14.—At Washington park
the Young handicap, at a mile and three
sixteenths, with $5000 added
was
monev.
contested for by the best 3 year old# and
upward in the west. Three American
derby winners, Pink Coat, Sidney Luca«
and Robert Waddell, were entered, togeth
er with 11 others. Terminus
Young stakes, Vesuvian second, John
Bright third. Time, 1:59 1-4.
th«
won
■oer Unser Surprised.
Graaf Reinet, Cape Colony, July 16.—' j
Colonel Scebel's column surprised and cap
tured Scheeper's laager at Chmdeboo Juif
14, taking 31 prisoners and capturing am
munition and stores. Scheeper, with tb*j
bulk of his commando, escaped. Th*«« j
were no British '***»ufiltifn