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OFFBGBAL PAPER
—OF THE —-
CiTY GF ST. PAUL.
VOL. XXIV.-NO. 233.
A LONG STRIKE
WILL, BE THE CONTEST FOR MAS
TER\ NOW WAGING IX THE
STEEL INDUSTRY
BOTH SIDES STANDING FIRM
Trust Planning to Start Mills With
Non-1 nlon Crews, While the
, Strikers Claim It
Cant Do It.
KEN BEGIN TO FEEL PINCH
PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 20.—Following
the rapid moves of yesterday on either
side of the great steel strike, there was
_a lull today, and neither side took de
cisive action that showed upon the sur
face. It has been a running ligrit so far
with small victories and minor defeats
lor both sides, but it now seems to be
settling own into a hard, determined
struggle, in which neither side will ac
k now led ye defeat while thare is hope
tlel't. Speculation as to the length of time
to which it will be prolonged and the ex
lent of its spread is idle. Joseph Bishop,
the Ohio arbitrator, appeared here again
today, but both sides promptly repudi
ated the suggestion that another move
i'oi 'peace was being considered. The steel
managers succeeded in starting the la:=t
idle mill at the Clark plant and are evi
dently planning a series of extensions at
every point where there is a chance of
success under existing circumstances
They probably will start the Star tin
mills in this city, and increase the force
i.;. the Lindsay <& McCiitcheon mil.:;.
WOMAN AS AN ESCOR?.
An Interesting feature of the fight at
ter mill Is contributed by the claim
i strikers that Mr* Fred Uaugh,
"C the suj :ii, Is esi
Lriki breakers to and from the mill.
Shi has always been very popular with
and the pickets say that
I ! i ath< r face a rsgiment of
ra than do anything Improper !n
her presence. They say ihat in peace
sh< nursed their families, and that
simply cannot interfere with hei or
>rts.
Th« steel managers are also arranging
foi more men for the Painter and :•:
.^' i. mills, but have given no indication
c! thi time that they will move on Mc-
Keesport, Wheeling, Newcastle ;uid
Bellaire, the strongholds of the strikers.
V< r>'l Preston, representing President
»rab, was here today and conferred
with a number of the leading officials of
th. companies federated In the Steel cor
poration, ami it is understood thit gen
plans foi the campaign were dis
ci. Mr. Preston and the officials
whom ho met would not talk for publica
tion' beyond expressing their satisfaction
i situation.
CLAIMS OF THE STRIKERS.
The strikers meet the movement to re
open mills with non-union men with the
claim that it will be simply impossible to
secure a sufllcierit number of skilled men
to operate them. Their men, they de
clare, are standing firm, and must be con- |
sulted before the mills run. They say
they have the situation well in hand,
and, despite the alleged danger of the '
strike getting topheavy, continue their
work of organization, with a view 1 of
crippling more plants belonging to the |
corporation. They claim that Chicago
■will iii the end come "out, and that there
is no danger of. the Joliet men going ''
back to work,whateverChicago does. They
uro still fighting for a foothold In the j
Carnegie properties, but bo far have not
shown, their hand. Claims as to the ad
vantage at the DiKiuesne mills arc still
highly conflicting, but the managers <'<•
clare with more assurance than ever that
the light there !a over, and that the
Amalgamated association has given up. i
A \v-<!..\\n of hands alone will show
the real strength of either side.
President McMurtry, of the American
St., i company, returned today '
from a tour through tho five mill towns
<•< iho Kisklminetas valley. Hi Inspect
ed the non-union mills running in all of
them, and also looked over the two non- !
ertiea being operated at Scott- !
He said production was above the
maximum average for this season of the
year, and thai he was perfectly satisfied.
••■ !■ P. F. Smith, of the '
company, sr.Wl that the Wellsville
lacked but nix m«n of having every
crow full, that the product was coming
out nearly perfect, and that ii' flu ir men '
were not interfered with and assaulted ;
6y the Btrlkers, the situation would be i
eminently satisfactory. H. said also that !
the best sentiment of the community in- i
dors< d the policy of the company.
MILLS TIED UP.
The tielng up of the Pennsylvania and
Continental tube plants f>! the National
Tube company in this city, commi
last night and was completed today,
ting both plants, about 1,800 men
went out and both properties arc shut
down.
Tho closing of the Pennsylvania and
Continental plants completely tied up the
National Tube company In this district
and Wheeling. The company has made
no effort to start up at any point.
President Shaffer and his associates
were at strike headquarters all day and
were busy. The executive work in con
nection with the strikers 1 end if the fight
is enormous. There is a heavy mail pour
ing in all the time, the leaders are con
stantly In communication by telegraph
with the strike centers and organizers,
and the number of callers constantly in
creases. A great amount of attention is
being- devoted to strike relief plans. Many
of the men who are out need money al
ready, and the demands In that direction
are growing. The leaders say that dona
tions of a liberal nature are being made
to the cause. Among: the callers today
•was Count Frederick yon Luxberg, of the
Gorman diplomatic service, who is mak
ing an official inquiry into the strike.
He had an extended talk with President
Shaffer. The leaders expressed them.
selves as very muoh pleased with the
situation. They claimed that the Lower
Union Carnegie mil! in this city was bad
ly crippled, that the effort to start
Moneaaen had prove* a failure, and that
th« Lindsay & McCutchoon mill did no
•work today. They also promised to act
at Duquesne In proper time. They
charged that the borough official.? at
Monessen are openly against t"he strik
ers and constantly Infringe on their
rights. They said that if tho men were
rot fairly treated, they would seek pro
tection for then: through the proper legal
channels.
. TUBE WOtRJCQRS TO ORGANIZE.
A national organization of the tube
workers of the-United States will, it is
said, be effected as soon as the different
organizers can io-r.-ruuero a plan. It '■*
cxpeetod the rational body v.ill ha.ro be
{wc«n 22,000 ar.ii 25,000 rac.-r.berjj. This
will be the firm national organisation the
ittfjo workers have bad. Th* j>urpo»fc is
to have the new org«AlMitloa afllHurcv]
wlKi the Ani«rlran Fc<ierat!on of rJabor
eircl in.dlroot sympathy with r?io j\ir?r<;j;a
matod L..-.«xv;!sti3n The cretin': -ition !n
the AJrftct result of the «t-:e! aLriho. j tv;>
r..eet;rifrc wcrj 1;;:S bj iiie tv.b« ATDr.ifcis
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WAR ON BLACKS
EVERY XEGRO DRIVEN FROM THE
LITTLE TOWX OF PIERCE
CITY, .110.
HANGED, SHOT AND BURNED
Mob of a Thousand Armed Wiiite
Mcii Clears tlie Place of Its
Colored Popula
tion.
THE SEQUEL TO A MURDER
PIKRCE CITY, Mo.. Aug. 20.—For near
ly liftcen hours today this town of 3 000
lias been in the hands of a mob of armed
whit< s, determined to drive every negro
from its precincts. In addition to the
lynching last night of Will Godley, ac
cused of the wanton murder of Miss
Gazelle Wild, and the shooting /i death
of his grandfather, French Godley, the
mob today cremated Pete Hampton, an
cgod negro, in his home, set the
torch to the houses of five blacks and
with the aid of state militia' rifles, stolen
from the local company's arsenal, drove
dozens of negroes from town. After noon
the excitement died down, the mob grad
ually dispersing, more from lack of ne
groes upon which to wreak their hatred
than for any other cause. Many of the
negroes who fled the city are hiding in
the surrounding woods, while others have
gvnt' greater distances in Becking safety.
Every negro has loft the town except
a iVw railway porters known u> be re
spi ctable, but who must also 1 aye. The
citizens of Pierce City say that as
negroes have committed several such
crim< s in the last ten years none shall
live there in the future. The same f< cl
ing already existing at Monnett, four
miles easl of Pierce city and the end of
the 'Frisco passenger division, it may
be necessary for the i-oacl to change all
porters in Springfield hereafter.
It is now believed that the man, AVi'.l
Godley, lynched, was not the real culprit.
.\ negro named Starks, under arrest at
Tulsa, I. T., across the border from htre,
tallies exactly with the description of
the murderer. He is held there await'ng
Identification. Unless the man is brought
back here, it is believed there will be no
further trouble. If returned here he will
surely be lynched. Another suspect, Joe
Lark, is under arrest In Springfield. Mo.
Eugene Barret, also known as Carter,
in a confession while a rope was around
his neck today, accused Joe Lark, a
'Fri3co railroad porter, of being Implicat
ed in the crime, and Lark was arrested
today at Springfield. This afternoon
Lark gave a detailed statement as to his
whereabouts Sunday and he is not be
lieved to be guilty. It is not likely that
either suspect will be taken to Pierce
City while the excitement runs high.
Some here think that Barrett told any
story in order to save his life.
The funeral of Miss Wild took place to
day and was witnessed by several
thousand people.
Pierce City is near the junction of four
railroads and trains from all directions
brought in 'arse numbers of armed men
I'd. y, bent on bloodshed if necessary.
"When the mob went to the section of the
city occupied by the negroes, some one
in the cabins opened Bre, but no one was
hit. The mob then destroyed the five
house. . financial loss is small.
Reckless firing broke several plate glass
v, Indows an I a train wag fired Iqto. Xone
of the passengers was hurt. The rifles
taken from the Pierce City militia com
pany, it is expected, will all be returned.
Members of the company themselves*
\\ ire out hunt'ng for the ercaping
negroes with rifles and this suggested the
Idea of taking all the guns. The local
hardware stores gold out their arms
early, but several applications from
negroes were refused.
The mob was composed of 1,000 or more
and no masks were used. Thirty negro
families were driven from their homes.
DETAILS OF THE CRIME.
New clement? in the murder on Satur
day afternoon of Miss Wild developed
today. It appears file started home from
church alone, her brother lingering be
hind. About one mile from town the
brother found her with her throat cut,
lying lifeless near a culvert under whir;)
her assailant had attempted to drag her.
Evidence of a terrible struggle wan
shown. A copper-colored negro was seen
sitting on the bridge a short time before
tho tragedy occurred. It is supposed that
the negro sprang upon her when she was
passing and attempted to force her be
neath the bridge. She fought with such
despi ration that he could not accom«
plish his purpose, and cut her throat in
the struggle. Her body was not violated.
Monday bloodhounds were taken to the
scene ami the girl's bloody handkerchief
was laid before them. They immediately
caught the tra'l and ran at full speed
to the home of Joe Lark, where, on be
ing admitted, they rushed into his bed
room and sprang upon the bed. It is be
lic-ted that me man under arrest at
Tulsa, who boarded with Lark, the
Springfield suspect, slept upon tnio boa.
BRUTE BORNEO BY MOB
TEXAS \EiiRO PATS .PENALTY OF
HIS CRIME.
DALLAS, Tex.. Aug.-20.—A dispatch re
ceived here tonight from \Yhiteslsoro.
Tex., says the negro. Alf Wilder, charge.!
with the murder of Mrs. Caldwell, the
wife of a Grayson county farmer, at her
home on Saturday last, was captured by
a mob and burned at Nelson's' ranch,
two anil one-half miles east of Red
ranch. ■
The burning occurred early tonight.
The mob was composed of 300 men.
The negro was taken to a tree and
swung up In the air. Wood and fodder
were piled beneath his body and a hot
fir« made.
Then It was suggested that the man
ought not to die too quickly, and he was
let down to tbe ground, while a party
went to Doxter, two miles distant to pro
cure coal oil. This was thrown on the
flames and the, work completed.
Wilder was captured near Dexter, about
2 o'clock this afternoon. He had been
seer, the day before by a nogro who knew
him, and v.-ho had Informed the citizens
of tbe fat.'t. A posse was at once organ-
L'ti, and the work of beating the Red
rivir bottoms began. It is sai'J. that it
was the intention of the mob to take
Wilder back to the scene. of his crime,
and there lynch him, but messages by
telegraph ?.nd telephone gave warning
tl-at the authorities were hastily repair
ing to the scene WtlK a considerable
force tuid the v:ovi; of execution was
expedited.
At "VYhit'-sboro a gnat crowd-had gath
ered In anticipation of a chance to par-
UcjpatA in the lynching, and when it was
/earned the work had been ■ dgne, they
expressed groat disappointment.
Mrs. Oaklv'c-Ii was a. bride of -but six
rr.ouths. Dexter is far from railroads,
th»ro am no telegraph facilities, 1 and it
7,-ii; lie Boa\a time before all the details
of the lyuchicg can be learned.
WEDNESDAY ISIORNIP*G f AUGUST 21, 1901.
BULLETIX OF
:mportant news of the day
Weather Forecast for St. Paul:
Showers. Cooler.
I—Longr Strike Seems Inevitable.
lorra Si-.ils for Panama,
War on lilarks.
Wreck of the Islander.
Knox Make* Reply.
SB—New Fuel for St. Paul.
Sandstone Trust Suspected.
1/ife on tlie Ranges.
Conduits to lie Laid.
Ireland Firm in Courts.
.'!— Sells Won't Have Nomination.
Torn Dp at Redwood Fall*.
Japan Is Friendly.
Chilean Minister Dead.
XewK o£ the Xortliweat.
4—KilHoriai Comment.
C—St. Paul I, IO; Kansas City 3, O.
Game* in the Big Leagues.
General Snorting; Gossip.
6—-Lumber Hates lii^li lOiioiifch.
Newi of tlie Kail ro:-.<is.
7 —(<rain and Provision Markets.
September Wlieat, 7Oc.
Bar Silver, 58 5-Sc.
Stock* Steady.
fe"—Last of tlie Fund.
Grocer* .Make Xew Rule.
Will Enforce Penalty.
At Tent Meeting.
WEATHER FOR TODAY.
Minnesota—Showers and cooler Wed
nesday; Thursday fair; variable winds.
Wisconsin—Fair in eastern portion;
showers and cooler in western portion
Wednesday; Thursday fair in western
portion, showers and cooler in eastern
portion: light easterly winds, becoming
variable.
North Dakota—Fair Wednesday; warm
er in northwest portion; Thursday fair;
northerly wind.l;.
South Dakota—Fair; warmer in west
ern portion, showers and cooler in east
ern portion Wednesday; Thursday fair,
with warmer in eastern portion; variable
winds.
Montana —Generally fair Wednesday
and Thursday; variable winds.
St. Paul — Yesterday's observations,
taken by the United States weather bu
reau, St. Paul, P. F. Lyons, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock
last night—Barometer corrected for tem
perature and elevation: Highest temper
ature, 94; minimum temperature, C 6; aver
age temperature, SO; daily range, 28; bar
ometer. 29.94; humidity, GO; precipitation,
.0; 7 p. m. temperature, SS; 7 p. m. wind,
southeast; weather, clear.
Yesterday's Temperatures
*BpmHigh| •SpmHigh
Havre 78 8f Huron 88 94
Medicine Hat.76 80 Jacksonville .78 88
Pr. Albert ...GS 72 Kansas City..Bß 94
S. Current ...66 70 Marquette ...72 72
Williston 66 70jMinnedosa ...64 76
Alpena 66 76 Montgomery .76 S8
Battle.fo.rd ...76 78 Montreal ....68 72
Bismarck 78 80 Nashville 70 ¥4
Buffalo .......74 S3 New Orleans.7B 88
Boston ... 66 72 New York ..80 £2
Calgary 60 «0 Norfolk 78 £6
Cheyenne —68 78 North Platte.72 £0
Chicago 70 70 OmaJha .......88 94
Cincinnati ...78 78 Pittsburg ....82 88
Cleveland ....7S 78 Qu'Appe-Ile ..64 66
Davenport ...80 S4 St. Louis ....SO 86
Detroit 76 SO Salt Lake ...76 SO
Duluth 6S 68;ste. Marie ..76 84
Edmonton ...72' 72 Washington .80 £6
Green Bay ..74 . so, Winnipeg ....62 70
Helena 72 74"
♦Washington time; 7 p. m. St. Paul.
River Bulletin —
Danger Gauge Change in
Stations. Line. Reading. 24 hours.
St. Paul 14 2.6 —0.1
Davenport 15 2.5 —0.1
La Crosse 10 2.!) 0.0
St. Louis 30 5.2 —0.1
—Fall.
River forecast till 8 p. m. Wednesday:
The Mississippi river will remain station
ary or fall slightly in the vicinity of
Paul.
OCEAN LINEBS.
New York —Arrived: Grosser Kurfurst,
Bremen and Southampton; Friesland,
Antwerp; Minnehaha, 1.-ondon; Kaiser
Wilhc-lm der Grosse, Bremen; Manitou,
London. Sailed: Aller, Naples; Lahn,
Bremen via Southampton; Cevic, Liver
pool.
Sydney, N. S. W.—Arrived: Aorangi,
Vancouver, etc.
Auckland—Arrived: Sierra, San Fran
cis;'O, etc.
Glasgow—Arrived: Astoria, New York.
London—Arrived: Minneapolis, New
York.
Liverpool—Arrived: Ivcrnia, Boston;
Oopack, Portland, Or., via Manila; Do
minion, Portland.
Marseilles—Arrived: Scotia, New York.
Southaimoton—Arrived: Kaiserin Ma
ria Theresa, Xew York.
Cherbourg—Arrived: Pennsylvania, New
York for Hamburg.
Plymouth—Sailed: Graf Waldersee,
I lam-burg and Boulogne for New York.
HOT TIME IN THE COURT
CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED HKIR
EKY MET BY COUNTER-CHARGE.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 20.-There were
some sensational developments today in
the case in which State Pure Food Com
missioner Blackburn recently secured a
verdict of guilty against A. D. White, a
lecal grocer, charged with selling a
glazed coffee manufactured by the Ar
buckles. The attorneys for the Arbucklea
went before Judge Meek, in the city
court, before whom the case was tried,
and reciuested him to make the docket
entry so as to get the case into the high
er courts. Judge Meek declined to do so
until Walter Brown, the attorney for the
.state, was present.
A heated argument ensued, in which the
attorney for the Arbuckles cnargea that
Walter Brown, the attorney for the state,
ruled the judge. Then the latter sprung
a sensation by charging that the at>
torneys for the Arbuckles had sent three
men to him offering $1,000 to let them
have the jury, and when he refused to
do so that they sent emissaries with the
ofler of $1,000 to take the case from th
jury.
In answer to this charge, Mr. Clarence
Brown, one of the attorneys for the Ar
buckles, gave the Asosciated Press the
following statement:
"I Will say that an offer was made to
us to secure a verdict for defendant in
the coffee case for a consideration and
the price was named. We don't say it
was done by Meek's authority, for' we
.don't know. But the offer was made ana
the price was named at which we could
obtain a verdict, but we did not care to
get one that way."
The case will probably be investigated.
It is charged that the Woolsons are back
of the state's prosecution of this case.
The court made the entry after man
damus proceedings had been threatened.
FreigUt Goes ip in SmoUe.
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 20.—The freight
sheds and twenty-five loaded and twenty
five empty cars belonging to the Union
Pacific railroad, were burned at th^
transfer depot of that company in Council
Bluffs this afternoon, causing a loss es
timated at $100,000. The sheds were full
of freight recently unloaded, which was
also destroyed. The fire is supposed to
have caught from sparks of a passing
locomotive. '
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Treatment at tUe Hands of Their Paler Countrymen.
WRECK OF ISLANDER
NEW STORY RELATKII AS TO WHY
THE DOOMED STEAMER SANK
SO QUICKLY
SAILORS WERE TO BLAME
Opened Door to Forward Compart
ment to Rescue a Btowaway,
and Water Poured Into
the Hold.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 20.— J. T. Sny.
der, a resident of JuniuU, arrived on the
steamer Farrallon today from Juaeau.
Mr. Snyder was on the lost Islander and
was in the water three hours clinging to
a raft. He was finally picked up uncon
scious. He left the boat just half a
minute after the captain jumped over
board, and they both held on to the
same raft for fully half an hour, and in
conversation the captain said he could
not understand why the boat went down
so quickly.
The captain finally said: "Boys, I can
not stand it any longei," and casting his
life preserver away at once sank.
At the inquest held at Juneau, which
Mr. Snyder attended, evidence developed
which may tend to excuse the captain
for not beaching the steamer at once.
Mr. Snyder said:
"The pilot testified that he was on the
bridge, and that as soon as she struck
he told the captain he was going to
beach her, but the captain said: 'No,
there is a better place about three miles
from here and she will easily float that
long.' "
"The testimony showed that there was
a stowaway in the forward watertight
compartment. When the vessel struck
the iceberg the waters rushed in on him
and his cries, immediately under the sai
lors' quarters, caused them thoughtlessly
to rush down and open the compart
ment, which allowed the sea to come roll
ing into the hold, carrying the body of
the stowaway and a sailor with it. This
was done without the captain's knowl
edge, and I think excused him for think
ing the vessel would float several hours.
It would have done this had the water
tight compartment not been opened and
the captain could have beached her in a
small bay about three miles away. It
was established that if the pilot had car
ried out his intention hd could have got
ten her on the beach without the loss of
any lives except that of the stowaway."
THE NUMBER DROWNED.
VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. 20.—Latest re
ports received of the disaster to the
steamer Islander place the loss of life
at forty-two. Purser Bishop has gone
to Skagway to get a full list of those
who took passage on the steamer, and
until he arrives on the steamer Hating,
in a few days, nothing more can be
given. Pilot Le Blanc and all the officers
deny the report that the pilot and cap
tain were intoxicated and asserted the
Islander was well supplied with life
boats.
MAKING STUDY OF LEPROSY.
St. LouiH Physician Will Isolute
Himself From t*ie World,
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20.—Dr. Louis Knapp,
aged forty, a practicing physician of this
city, has separated himself from his wife
and four children, and will become iso
lated from the world, to nurse Dong
Gong:, a Chinese leper, who was found
here two weeks ago. The doctor took
final leave of his family today.
Dr. Knapp and his patient will live in a
three-room frame house now being built
by the city authorities at quarantine, un
til the necessity for his service shall have
ended. Dr. Kisapp will take his library
to quarantine, and devote the greater
part of his time to the study of leprosy.
There were five other applicants for the
position.
AMERICAN MACHINE BETTER.
Yankee Locomotive "Wins in Con
test With BritiHh.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, AUg. 20.—Another
heavy test of the respective merits of
English and American locomotives on the
railroad here has resulted in a great vic
tory for the latter which drew 128 tons
over the heaviest part of the line in
seven minutes under the schedule time.
The English locomotive completely fa;led
to make even regular timf. English ex
perts and the local railroad officials were
present at the test which was a great
disappointment to the f<J«-mer.
Having in mind the relative cost of the
locomotives the government here is ex
pected to make strong representation to
the crown agents in London who are ar
ranging the purchases.
THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN.
FiVE DEAD IN FLAMES
PHILADELPHIA FIRE MUST UIHV
ITSELF OIT
Plant of Atlantic Oil Refinery la
Still liurnins Fiercely, and
tne Fire Department
Is Powerless.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20.—The fire
which began yesterday afternoon at the
works of the Atlantic Refining company,
at Point Breece, in the southwestern sec
tion of the city, is still burning fiercely
tonight, and Chief Baxter, of the city fire
department, has given up hope of saving
any of the company's property. The one
hope of the company's officials and Uik
firemen was in their ability to pump the
oil from the tanks not yet reached h\
the flames into reserve tanks in an iso
lated section of the yard. An explosion
late this afternoon carried atfjby the
pumping machinery, and nothingWemains
now apparently but to permit the confla
gration to burn until all the oil is .con
sumed.
It is believed tonight that the five lives
lost in the explosion of the big gasoline
tank last night completes the list of fa
talities. The dead:
JOHN M'CULLON. Engine Company 49
JAMES EALLS, Engine Company 40
JOHN DAUGHERTY, Engine Company
No. 9. '
FRANK DAVIS, Truck Company No n.
ALEXANDER TIMMERS, an employe
of the Atlantic Refining company.
In the explosion this afternoon fifteen
persons were injured seriously enough to
be taken to the hospitals, and about
lorty others were treated on the scene
by the ambulance surgeons. •
Briefly the story of the fire may be
thus summarized:
All of those reported as missing after
the explosion last night are accounted
for. The roll of injured mounts up to
more than 100. Many of these are trt«
vial cases, not taken to hospitals. A
few are serious and may prove fatal.
The fire is still raging. Firemen and
officials are powerless. The fire musi
literally burn itself out. The cooperag<
shop has been swept away and in its de
struction forty men narrowly escaped
death.
The tanks of benzine are going. Earth
works have been thrown up to keep the
Schuylkill from being flooded with blaz
ing oil. The firemen say that they are
working in the dark. There is danger all
around them, they say, and they do not
know where the danger spots are. The
loss can only be estimated. Officials of
the company refuse to make any state
ment as to the quantity of oil, benzine
and naphtha contained in the various
tanks already destroyed and those that
cannot escape destruction. Insurance
men and firemen early today said the
loss could not be less than $500,000, but
since then great quantities of refined pe
troleum and benzine have been consumed,
and several tanks have been rendered
useless by the flames.
FINISH OF FLOUR TRUST
FIXAL DECREE PROVIDES FOR
SALE OF PROPERTIES.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Judge Thomas,
in the United States circuit court today
handed down a final decree in the suit
I brought by the Central Trust company,
of this city, as trustee of the United
States Flour Milling company, aga nst
the United States Flour Milling company
and Samuel Thomas, Albert C. Lorlng
and Charles Kimball, trustees. The de
cree provided for a method of procedure
for the sa!e of the property formerly held
by the Hecker-Jones-Jewell Mining com
pany, a member of the larger company.
It is directed that the property formerly
owned by defendant company in this city
shall be divided into two portions, and
that bids for these two portions shall be
called for by the Central Trust company.
After the reception of these bids, other
bids shall be called for the property as a
Wihole. If the Did in bulk in not greater
than the two sums bid. for the two. por
tions, the property will ba disposed of to
the highest bidder respectively for each
part. It is further provided that the
trustees are entitled to $26,830 ejcpi rues
and compensation. The principal on
mortgages, coupons and interest of tne
milling company is placed at $5.2T0,155.
The dtcree also provides for the sale of
all the property of the United Sta-tes
Flour Milling company, wherever situ
ated in this country.
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KNOX MAKES REPLY
ATTORNEY UENERAL ANSWERS
THE PETITION OF THE ANTI
TRUST LEAGUE ,
IN REGARD TO STEEL TRUST
Hcr.il of Uncle Sam's I.nw Depart
ment Says He Does \ot Know
Anything About Any
Steel Trust.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Atl
•■ ; il Knox today sent thej ?olli
:t camrmi: . \m< i
ican .
sernbly <&, Knights of I.; ply to
I'rom the committ< c requesting- In
formatlon from Mr. Knox regarding the
United States Bteel corporation:
Washington, Aug. 20. ii. B. Martin,
Chairman Joint Committee of American
Anti-Trust League—Sir: I have the honor
to acknowli receipts of your let
ter of Auk. 1!'. 1901, in which j
me td obtain for ><>.i Information r>
i" "ci rtain ni or agreement
tween constituent companies and In
uals who organized the United Btatea
Steel corporation."'You ask me to afford
you all the Information that "I may pos
or can obtain," and you specifically
to an alleged "trust or syndicate
agreement," which yon state "the presi.
dent of 11: States Steel corpora
tion, Mr. C wab, refused to fur
nish the t'nil■ .1 States industrial commis
sion when on the witness stand, when
before that body," and you further state
that your request for information is to
be understood as "covering any other con
tracts 61 a similar kind with which you
are acquainted or which you can obtain
for us."
You also state- that your request for
information is "founded upon information
and belief that at the time this contract
or these contracts was or were made,"
that I was '"in some way officially con
nected with the Carnegie company," and
you. therefore, assume that the informa
tion which you request must be in my
"nossession or conveniently at hand." T
am, therefore, n quested to give you the
substance, or if possible, a copy thereof.
KNOX PLEADS IGNORANCE.
Primarily, permit me to say tnn.t your
request is founded upon an erroneous as
sumption, ido not know who the Indi
viduals are who organized the United
States Steel corporatijn. If they are the
persons usually referred to in the news
papers as the promoters of that organiza
tion, with the single exception of Mr. C.
M. Schwab, I do not know, never s;r.
never was in any way connected with
any of them. I never heard of any
agreement between them and the constit
uent member;-- of the steel corporation.
Neither at the time of the form
of the United States Steel corporation,
or ;;t any time, was I officially c Hinected
with the Carnegie Steel company. I
formerly on* of its legal advisers in the
conduct of its manufacturing business,
but was never consulted with refei
to the formation of the United S
Steel company, nor in relation to the
sale to that company of the shares of
stock held by the stockholders of the
Carnegie company. I have never seen the
papers or agreements to which you re
fer, nor have I been informed of their
contents. I have no knowledge what
of their existence, the terms or scope. I
am thus specific, as I desire to cover
beth the spirit and the letter of your
inquiry.
I may say, moreover, that I have no
access to the agreement >r papei
which you refer. I know nothing of the
one to which you especially refer, and
do not even know that such an i
merit is in existence. The information
which you request is not In my possession
or "conveniently at hand," as you as
sume, and it is, therefore, impossible for
me to comply with any of the requests
set forth in your letter.' All this informa
tion you could at any time; have acquired
through the usual method of direct per
sonal Inquiry, thereby avoiding th
doubtful propriety of addressing me
through the medium of an open letter,
which you concurrently delivered to this
office. Whether, if such papers wen.- ac
cessible to me, it would be my duty to
obtain them and furnish them for use
in legal proceedings to which you are a
party, and the nature of which you do
not explain, is a question which I "do net
care at this time to discuss.
If I may regard the letter as addressed
to me officially l will say: If thLs de
partment is under obligations to furnish
information to prospective litigants In
undisclosed proceedings. Its responsibili
ties and labors are necessarily greater
than they have ever been imagined from
the time of its establishment Indeed, as
there are generally two parties u< every
controversy, it would be difficult to dis
charge such alleged duty 10 both parties
in view of conflicting Interests. This de
partment was not called Into being to
furnish information %c p Ivatc litigants.
Its duty and !ts object is to c-r-t'orr
federal statutes as (ill
courts wherever there Is '•-'!'')'
fur believing that t . vio
lated. Very respectf i
—P. C. Knox, Attorney "■ a|-il.
V. S. S. Alabama ut llan:i»tr. v ltd
NEWPORT NEWS. Va., A g. ?
battleship Alabama, of the North Atlan
tic squadron, arrived In Qamptou :.
at 3 o'clock Ulis afternoon.
paper
OF THE
CITY OF ST. PAUL.
CASTRO'S SIDE
PRESIDEXT OF VENEZI XI. \ |)|^_
CUSSES IWASIOX OK RBPCB-
L.IC IIV COLOMBIA
SAYS ENEMY WAS REPULSED
Martini Law 1-xlsts in the States
BortlerliiK the Frontier, Which
Ik Guarded by
Troops.
IOWA STARTS FOR PANAMA
BAN FRANCISCO, Aug !
tloshlp lowa sailed this afti i
Panama. She will .stop at A ;
coal. The distance from San Fran
to Panama is 3,274 miles, and t!
will occupy about twelve days.
'WSTRO-S SIDK OF IT,
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Henry Willnr
Beam, counsel for one of the asphalt cum.
panics, arrived today on the steamer
Maraoaibo from Venezuela. Mr. Beam
said:
Caracas is quiet. Everything is pro
ceeding as usual. The guarantees of the
constitution have, however been sus
pended on account of the Invasion of
Venezuelan soil, according to informa
tion received by President Ca.«-tro to that
effect. War bulletins are issued at fre
quent Intervale. Gen. Castro, in an in
terview on Aug. 10, told me that he had
a force of 10.0 men at Sam Cristobal
eommainded by his brother, Celestino
Castro, and that he had 10.000 other
troops in the three border states. He
said that no option was left to him in
the matter; that he must protect Venezu
ela. Martial law exists in these threo
states. Merida, Tr.ijillo and Tachira
"I am not aware that Dr. Rice, iho
Colombian minister, in leaving the lega
tion in the hands of the American chared
a affaires, had demanded his passports
1 know, however, that he felt it was im
possible for him to remain longer, and
he went with the purpose o-f communi
cating with his government. (Jen. Pull.lo
the ex-minister of war, who was replaced
by Gen. Guerra, left the cabinet because
he could not approve of the war with
Colombia.
"My source of information as t.
reported Colombian I
m< ai made by ';
Impression l n n n
terrvlew with President Castro was
he was determine! t
tcrlng tho affairs of Venezucl i
lines Indicated in h
actions."
IT' sidi :t < Castro's official oi -
lished at Caracas, which was
here on the steamer today, c
pn clamation from thi
li.' tails on tin- "Venezuelan patri<
•Ice, as our flag Btn ami In I
over the Colombian frontier thi
has Bed—victory is ours. On th
of battle f.-!l 600 bodies of thi
their artillery
prisoners and their banners torn."
This proclamation ■
■ of s.m Cristobal, ai I
8. Of tiie san- ither pr iclama
tion. Issued by Gen. Ccl
In part:
* 'Gen. -Gonzalez Valencia has returned
to invade us, by the way of San Fo.stina,
•probably,. although he has conceals d his
movement. Thinking that his advance
might be on Coll 1 gave orders to (Jen.
Ruben Cardenas in order that with hCs
buttalim he might meet he enemy at
La Cumbre. In reality since midnight
there was an assault, and we have re
sisted the enemy. ] take all moans to
drive back the enemy with all tin- pa
triotism and energy of ourlcharacters.
But in every case you must hope that
we will fulfill our duty."
j COLOMBIAN MI.MSTKU TALKS.
Saym l!;> GoTcrnmenf Had K«thlax
t<» Do v\"i lii Invasion of Venesaela.
1 ' >[-• i.V. Colombia, Aug 20. I >r.
< Colombian mlnisti r to V< n< zuela, publish
ed a ii- in < 'lira- ao denj Ing the
assertion of President Castro that Co
lombia had invaded Venezuela. In the
course of the letter, he declared emphatl
that Gen. I irbiras, v. ■
a x-> n. zuelan, was the chief Invadei
that it need surprise no one II
I by a few insurgent Colombians, un
der the direction of Gen. [Tribe-Uribe.
Dr. Luis de Roud, one of the commis
sioners for defining the. boundaries with
Venezuela, has arrived at the isthmus.
The Chinese assert that among the
radders at ESmperador station last Satur
day night were several i i from
Jamaica, who, after flogging Ch
traders, demanded and obtained $20"».
Exchange at Barranquiila Is rising in
leaps and bounds. An An ar is
now equivalent to $ii in Colombian paper
money.
XO SEWS AT WV.HIV.TOV
[iirci«n Pre** < ammenl Oceiurfoaa
Bnrprtae '" CWBelnldoat.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. There was an
■
nblan-Venezuelan situation at the
navy and state depari m< i
surprise and amusero
by the com nts of the German pr<
the eff< et th. ■ the 11
terior nu>tiv< - In I
measures relative to affairs on the
isthmus, fin li expressions, it Is Bt
entire lack of ki
plain purposes of this goven
take no hand in the Southern trou
except for th« prote<
tercets or in execution of tl.
-ments of our treaty with Colombia. !
ever, tunents receive no m
attention from those in authority, an they
are expressive only of Individual opinion.
Tt is noticeable, however, that !
American con.tries most concerned
no such concern as to American pur
as those expressed In some of the
ropean newspapers.
BEAVERS FOR VAN SANT
COLOM Or THE AMMAI.s |>, ,_
HSiA) FOR ITASCA.
CHICAGO, Aug. SOt— Among "the entries
at the custom houso today was one of
four live beavers, which were consigned
to Gov. B. R. Van font, of Minnesota.
Tho little animals came over on the
steamer, V.". L. Brown, from Depot Tlur
bor, Ont., and axe a present from the
rr.!:Jr\.cr of Crownlr.Hvls, of tho province
of Ontario, to the people of Minnesota.
The beavere will bo placed In Itr.aca park,
the mate preserve at the headwater! of
the Mississippi rivor, and are intended
as a nuclauH to form a colony of th*>
interesting anlm?.l3, which are now al
most extinct In the United SirUes. Tho
specimens are from Algonquin park, th«»
great Canadian gamo rrcsarvo, and aro
In charge of. Timothy O'Leary, of th»,
Canadian rangers. As the animals aro -
Imported for a public zoological collec
tion, r»o duty was paid.
Promotion {«■■ Mnrchaail.
rAXttS. Aug. "o.—Lieut. Col. Marchand.
•:>t Kashctia fume, has on promoted to
the chief ccrjmar.ii c* a .Saje of. French
troops in Culna.