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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. VOL. XIII- PICKENS, S. C,, ,THURSDAY, MANRCI 2, I90-. A REPORT IS MADE. Findings On Investigation of the Coal Strike SIORTER.,IIOURS AND BETTER PAY A Lengthy Documnent in Which the Union is Not Recognized-The Text of the Report. d Washington, Special.-The report of the commission appointed by the Presi dent last October -to investigate the anthracite coal strike, was made pub lic Sattlda:. The report is dated March 18, and is signed by all the members of the commission. In brief the commission recommends an in cras of wags amounting in most in stances to 10 per c:ent.; some decrease of timo; the settlement of all disputes by arbitration, fixes a minimum wage and a sliding scale. provides against discrimination of persons by eithc; the mine owners. or the miners on account of membership or non-membership in a labor union. and provides that the awards made shall continue in force until 1906. ''o some extent the matter of recognition or non-recognition df the miners union is touched on, but the commission declined to make any award on this matter. Following is the commission's own summary of thb awards made: 1. That an increase of 10 per cent. over and above the rates paid In the month of April, 1902, be paid to all (ontract miners for cutting coal, vard age, and other work for which stand ard rates or allowances existed at that time from and after November 1, 1902, and during the life of thi award. The amount of increase under the award dule for work done between November 1, 1902, and .\pril 1. 1903, to be paid <P or before June t, 1903. 2. That engineers who are employed in hoisting water shall have an in crease of 10 per cent. on their earnings between November 1, 1902, and April 1. 1903, to be paid on or before June 1, 1903; and on ani after April 1, 1903, and during the life of the award, they shall have S-hour shifts, with the salme pay which was effective in April, 1902; and where they are now work ing ei,ght-hour shifts, the eight-hour shifts shall he continued and these en gineers sha)l be tontilnued and these engineers shall have an increase of 10 per cent. on the wages which were ef feetive in the several positions. April 1, 1902. lloisting engineers and other eligiletbrs and p1nipmen, other than those employed in positions which are manned continuously, shall have an increase of 10 per cent. o1 their earn ings Igetween November 1, 1902, and April .1, 1903, to he paid on or before June 1, 1903, and from and after April 1, 1903, and during the life of the award they shall have an increase of . 5 per 'ent. on t he rates of wages which were pffective in the several positions In Alpil, 1902; and in addition they shall be relieved from duty on Sun lays, ywithiout loss of pay by a man provided by the employer to relieve them ! during the hours of the day shift. Firemen shall have an inercas of 10 -per cent. on their earnings be tween, November 1. 1902, and April 1, 1903, h be paid on or before Jtne 1, 1903; tnd from and after April 1. 1903; and d i;ing the life 'f the award, they shall have eight-hour shifts, with the samte wages per day, week or montih as were. paid in each position in April, 1902. All empllinyes or 'tlny m111 e n, (other' than thlose for' w'holm the ('om - mi ss'ion ma~kes sptcialI awar211ds, shall lie y aid an inlcrleas-e of~ 10 per cent, on01 bohir' ean Inu:21s hetI weeni November 1, .1902, and)1 A pil 1, 19113. to be pai on orl 1 before June11 1 , 1108. an1)d f'rom anud after April 1.1 1903, and ( durinlg the life of thIiis awartd. Itey shall lbe paid on thle basis of a 9-hour day, receiving there for the samle walges as were paid in Apil, 1902, foi' a 10-liour iday1. Ovetri timiet inl ('x<ess of 9 hiouris in any13 day N'>, lie pahl at1 a propor'tional ra2te per' h loIl...~ 3. Du'ring the life of this award, the pr'esenit iJethodls of l)aymenit for' coal inledI shal libe adher'ed to, uniless changed by mutual agr'eement. Iln all of the above awvards it ls provided that allowances like those made shall lbe piaid to the legal representatIves of -sulch emlplOyes5 as may have died sin1ce November' 1, 1902. 4. Any dIfficulty 01r dIsagreement rising uinder' this award ns to -its in terprletation or a,nplication. 01' ini any way growIng out of the r'elations of the emfploy'ers and (employedl, which cannIot be settled 01' adjusted by con sultation between the superilntendlent or, manag-er' of the mline or mInes and the mIner or' mIners dlir'ectly inlter'ested 01' Is of a keope too large to be so set tIed or' adjusted shall he referredl to a permanlent joint ('ommittee to lie call ed a hoard of c'onillaftionl, to 'onisist of six persons, apipointedt as hereinaf teir provitded., That is to say, If there shall he a division of tile whole regIon into three districts, in each of which there' shall exist an or'ganization i'el fesenting a mnajority of the mine wvork trs of such distr'let, 0one of b)oarld of concilIatIon shall be appolintedi by each blf said organizations and three other l*ersons shall be appointed by the ope rators, the operators in eachi of sauid districts appointing one per'son. The bot rd of conciliation thus 'onstituitedl, sh<ll take up and conlsider' aniy ques tIon referred to it as afor'esaIdl, hlear Ing both~ parties to the e"ntr'o'.'lsy, nnd suIch evidence as may' 5 laid be !ore it by either pai'ty; and any award made by a majority of such board'l of 'onlciliationl, shall be flne,1 and binding on all parties, if, however, thle said board is unable to dee!tde any quiestlon submitted, or lioint related thereto, that question or point shall be refer'retd to an uimpire. to be appolintedI at the request of saId board, b)y one of the circuit judges of the third judicial cir cuit of. the United States, whose decis ion shall be final and bInding in the pr'emlses. The membership of said board shall at all times be kept Coin -plete, either the operators or miners organizations having the right at any time when the conitroversy is not pend ing to change their representatIon thereon, At all hearings before said board the parties may be represented by such person or persons tis they may reispectively select. No iuspenlsion of work shall take place, by lockout or strike, pending the adjtdication of any matter so taken up for adjustment. 5. Whenever requested by a majority of those contract miners of any com pany ,check weighman or check dock ing bosses, or both, shall be employed. The wages of said check weighman and check docking bo,ses shall be fix ed, collected, and paid by the miners in such manner as the caid miners shall by majority vote, elect and when requested by a majority of said miners the check weigher and deductions made proprotionately from the earn ings of the said miners on such bnN as the majority of said miners shall determine. 6. Miners shall be distributed amlonc miners, who are at work, as uniformly and as equitably its possibie, and thero shall be no concerted effort on the part of the miners or mine workers of any colliery or colleries, to limit the output of the mines, or to detract from the quality of the work performed, unless such limitation of output be in con fortuity to an agreement between an operator or operators and an organiza tion representing a majority of said miners in his or their employ. 7. In all cases where miners are paid by the car, the increase awarded to the contr,,t miners is based upon the cars in use, the topping required anl the rates paid per car which were in force on April 1, 1902. Any increase in the size of car, or in the topping requtred, shall be accompanied by a proportion ate increase in the rate paid per car. 8. The following sliding scale of wages shall become effective April 1. 1903, and shall affect all miners and mine workers included in the award of the commission: The wages fixed in the awards shall be the basis of, and the minimum under, the sliding scale. Ior increase of 5 cents in the average price of white ash coal or sizes above pea coal, sold at or near New York be tween Perth Amboy and Edgewater and reported to the bureanl of ant hra cite coal statistics, above $4.50 per ton f. o. b. the employes shall have an in crease of 1 per cent. in their cotmpensa tion which shall continue until chango in the average price of said coal worhla a reduction or on increase in said ad litional compensation ileren(let': but the rate of compensation shall in no case be less than that fixed in the award. That is. when the price of said coal reaches $-1.55 per ton, the compen sation will be increased 1 per cent., to continue until the price falls below $1.55 per ton, when the I per cent. in crease will ('ease, or until the prices reaches $4.60 per ton, when an addi tional 1 per cent. will be added, and so on. These average prices shall be computed monthly, by an accountant or commissioner, named by one of the circuit judges of the third judicial cir cult of the United States, and paid by the coal operators, such compensation as the appointing judge may fix, which compensation shall be distributed among the operators in proportion to the tonnage of each mine. In order to secure the successful working of the sliding scale provided herein, it is ajso adjudged and awarded: That all coal operating companies file at once with the United States Commissioner of La bar, a certified statement of the ratea of compensation paid in each occupa tion known in their employment, as they existed April 1, 1902. 9. No person shall bb refused em ployment, or in any way discriminated against, on account of memi'tbership or non-memlership in any labor or ganization, and there shall be no dis criminating against, or interference with, any employe who is not a mcm11 her of any labor organization by nem hers of such organizatIon. 11). All contraet miners shall be re qrui ed to furnish witIhin a reasonable lilac hefor ech pay (lay, a statement if t he amiounit. of tmoniey due fromt themi before eacht nav' day. a statement on the amount of money' due1 ftrotm them to thir ii laborers, atd (Iuctth siums shll1 lb'ell dedu't ed ft'omi the amontti du tI heii contt'at tminer', and pa id tirem'ctly to ea chiIabot'er liy the t'otmpatty. AllIct m llyuxs when~ paid shtall b e futrn ishied 11 Thlie a wartd.s herein ittade shall cont 1i :n iti force uttltil Marcht 31, 1 90t; an d any emloye13', or' grotup of empiloyes violtinllg atny of tile prit sionis t hereot', ehlt Ilibe su.i r(t to t'easonlable d ist'ip 1line' by thle emlployer'; and,(l further. that the violation oif any pr'ovision of these aiwar'ds, ('ither' by empiloyer' or emlotyes shall not. invalidtue any13 of the prlov'isionls thereof. The commissiotn also made a tnumber of r'ecommiendlationis wh'lich may lie summliarizedl as follows: The discontin utnnce of the systemi of enmploying "tile coal and Iron police," because tils force is believedl to have had all Irrita titng effect, andt a t'esot't to tihe r'egtular' ly conlstituted peace authtorities inl case of necessity; a str'icter' enfor'cemient of the laws ill reltionl to tihe elmploymlent of cild(ren; that the State andl F'eder'al governments shiouldl provIde mnachiln ery for' t.hl miakilng of a comipulsory investigation of diffilculties, similar' to the investigation wvhich this commis sionl has made. Tile commission expresses the opin ion that with a fewv modifleationls thei Feder'al act of October, 1888, authlor'iz inIg a commission to settle conti'ovet' sles betwveen railroad corporatiotns anld other commlonl cai'riet's could lie matde the basis of a law 'for arbitr'ation In the anthracite coal mining business. The commission, however, takes a de.. cided position againtst compulsor'y ar bitrtati On. On the sutbject of tIle recognition of the Mine Workers' Union, the comnmis. sion says it does not consider thlat thln aubject is wvithin the scoiie of jur'isdic tion conlfei'red on it. it does say, how ever, that "tile suggestion of a work ing agreement between empiloyers and employes embodying tile dloctrine of collective bargaining, is one which the coimmisslon b)elieves contains many hopeful elenments for the adjutstmient of relations ini tile mining r'egion." Fur'ther On It says: "Tile pr'esent' constitution of the United Mine Woi'k ers' of America (lees not present the muost inviting inducements to the' oper ators to enter into contractual i'ela tions with it," A VICTORY FOR THE MINERS, SAYS MITCHELL. D)etr'oit, Special.-"The decision of the AnthraIcte Coal Strike Commission Is on the whole a victory for thle mill ers, and I am pleased with it," said President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers of America, In an inter view with an Associated Press repre sentative. "The anthlracite miners of Pennsylvania have reason to be much pleased withl the commissions' awards arid I -m guen that the are." he said. WILL BE RELEASED. The End of the Famous Mlaybrick Case in Sight SilE WI ILL BE RELEASED NEXT YEAR The iifforts to Release Her Due 1,n-. tirely to tier lrlends on the Other Side of the Atlantic. London, 1Iy ('able.--Miss 1'lorence Mayb ric'k, the .\mericani woman who was convicted at I,iverpool in 1889 on the cha rge of poisonling her iusbalad .1laies M1aybrick, at Aigburst, by ar senic, and whose sentence of death Was toniln 1ted to penal servitude for life, will be released in 191)4. The an 1oIneeneint comes from the Home Offiee, wItich now authorizes her Wash ington lawyers to use the fact of her release next. year as a reason for st (tring the postponement of the trial of the law suits hearing on the prison er's interest in land in Kentucky, Vir ginia and West Virginia, until she is able to personally testify. Those who are in a position to know, say that, Home Secretary Akcers-)ougglas has r.ho;wn great courtesy in coinnection with the suits now pending in America, that tile decision to release Mrs. May brick Was entirely (ue to efforts on this side of the Atlantic and lint Am bassador Ilerbert has never been call ed utponl to act on this matter. Mt's. laybrick Who was Miss Plor ('nce Elizabeth Chandicle atld a mtem her of a well-known and prosperous Southern familly. was married .1uly 27, 1881, in St. James' chiiurch, Pl'iadilly, to .James \laybrick. of Liverpool. She was then 18 years of age. Vivaciots and beautiful. and a social favorite. ]leri husband was over 140 years old. In the spring of 1889, Mr. 3layhrick be cam(' ill and in a few days died. H is brothers investigated his death and cliarged M rs. laybrick with the mur der of her husband. A long trial fol lowed and a number of doctors swore Mr. Mayhrick died of arsentical pois oning. The defense proved that for 20 years Mr. Maybrick had been a con firmed arsenic eater and that. he daily took doses that would have killed a cozell ordinary men. Mt's. May brick eventually was sentenced to deati by3 the judge. Sir 1"ltzjanes Stephen, who spoke for two days in charging the jury ] and who said it was impossible for the de mical evidence. Her mother, the Baroness 10. Von iuives, has been unreinitting in her att.?mpts to obtain the prisoner's re lease in which she has been aided by Influential friends on othi sides of the Atlantic. In 1900, after the death of Lord Hussell. of Killowen, Chief .Jns ti'e of England, a letter which he had written to Mrs. Maybrick Itn 1895 was discovered!. It showed that the emi tient lawyer w'as conivinceid that she ought never to have been convictel and it. has been generally understood thailt all the recent American ambas sadors to the icurt of St. .James 1ave done everything possible to (lbt iin Mirs. ?laybrick's pardon. ''he I'ailurc of Mrs. M aybrick to testify in the suits pnding in the l'a it : ti:'les would cause the loss to heor and her mulhclr of all title and interenst i large tracts of land situatecd in Kentucky and \'ir :iia1 atiul West \'irginiia. Secretary~ Shaw ini Atlanta. A\tlanita, Spe'iai. ---Se('retar'y of the1 lai'y w"ill vi::it the ptoposcid sits5 iior lhe new Atlatita l"edet'afildiniitg and i will leave 'foi' \-Vain Itgt on at ion i over~i tihe Southtern. Secr tai'v Shaw~ is beii;r etei'tainied wie her'e bty (Col. Robert .1. L owry i' Ani elaborate bamnuet at the Citpitol Cit y Club -was tendered.~C by - the A t Se('retarly Shiaw r'espiondinag to thle - tC,ast, "Otir Coutntry." - TIr other' M\ayor 10'en P. 1 lowell, (Clark H-owell, Jamlies R1. Gi'ay, H-oke Smlith, .John i TetanpIe Giraves and Col. 1 ,wi'y. Treasurer Rlobbed. Mlilwvaukee, Speclal.-Tireasutrer H-I ' iry Enerlinlgei', of tihe Mat'gtierita Sylva Operan Company,ti3' wasl i'oibbed of laSh and( notes amiouniting ini all to aiboiut. $3,00) hiet'e eai'ly Mondany, the money hauvinig biiein taiken froma beneath his pillow while ho' sleplt. It is assei'ted i thatt lie was drutggedl. A tnetmbei' of the is inissitng. Tried to klliHerself. LonIdon, 11y Cablo.-TheO 'orrespon-) ti odent -of The D)aily Chrtoniele, at, Keneva, leartis otn i'eliable authloity that the foi'metr Crownl Pincioess of Saxony Is lyitng ser'iusly ill In hier' mothiet"s ('tchta, at L4yndau, Oil inti Iiandl in Lak-e Constance. from thIie effects of anl. attempt to comm'liit stui CIdeC by takinig poISiso.. Chicago's liiggest lian Dead. Chicago, Special.-Jamnes H. Mali ler', the lai'gest man In Chicago, if iiot in tile United States, is. dlead. HeI weighed 480 ipotlands, althotughl his height \vas onlly 6 feet 10 iches. Mali Ier wgg~ 4propfietor of a meioCial Coin cern and ft deCSCendan.t of a nole ler' man family. All Quiet at (Guatemala. Wasitington~ Specal-The follow Ing c'ablegfatn.,was rceceivedl Monday at. th'o ?1ay'D9partment frop Rear Admii'i'r- COodblai, commnanidin~g the Carribbean *$da -uiadr1op,' at ' uate inala, yestelr4ay: ''1 'quiet her'. The ireport with refeteno -to Ceiba states it is In the hands --of''reveluttoi'istts; I all prioceed ' with' the OlyiPla and P'anthter' to Ceiba, ot '.the 22nd. Only cale coilmunicatins are- *va B3ocas throughl .tile miniter - at Gloatemala City. Will commnicate at Puerto Bar rios a ten as practicable." LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Matters of General interest in Short Paragraphs. The Sunny Touth. Flood conditions still c'alse geat al)prehension and i much danger in t-he West. James I. Keene, though ill, '"ontin ut'd his battle with the 11ar111imanl in terests for Southern Pacitie control. Plaquemine, La.. Special. -'he river at this point rose four-tenths during tl'e past 24 hours. The gauge this wvening reads 33 1-2. The back water on Bayou Plaquemine and L.ower Grand river is higher at this time than in 1897. A number of arists have been made by the levee inspertors of parties riding on the1 levees. The levees are in splendid (Oil ition. At The National Capital. The office of Director of tho Census has been offered to Mr. S. N. I). North, of Boston. The State )epartnu't is hopeless of any fruits coming from the proposed Alaska boundary arbitration. A verdict of ac<iuittal was found in the case of Ensign Ward K. Wortman in connection with the explosion on he battleship Massachusetts. J. Pierpont Morgan conferred with President Roosevelt at the White Flouse. Mr. George Uhler, )resi(lenr of the Marine E'ngineers' Association of the Jnited States, will succeed Gen. Jas. X. )umont. chief of the steamboat in peCtloll Service. At The North. A $3.000,0100 oyster combine was or lanizedl alt Providence, 11. I. I)r. It. C. " lower was arrested in ew York on a warrant charging him ivith grand larceny. Clovernook, the home of Alice and P'hoebe Cary, near College lill, Ohio, ias been sold. The Fire Department of Lafayette, nid., turned a stream of water on "iotous students of Purdue University. Miss Maude Mullock, of Washington, 3. C., was hurt in a railroad wreck lear Mahoningtown, Pa. In a suit against the cxeOutor of .he estate of C. B. Itouss. in New York, he mother of the plaintiff, Miss Edna Weller McClellan, told of an alleged settlement. of $35 a week on her daugh ter. From Across The Sea. The Czar of Russia issued a decree ,ranting religiols freedomn throughout is domaii and ordering other re orls. Lord Granville C Gordon received a elter from his wife, who is inl France. ''he detl) le on religious orlers was pel'l in the l'rench C(hab nlher of i)ep ties. Lord .\linto opeied the Canadianl 'arliament. An effort will b)e made(l to get the 'ope's coils(ent to all ow hiis j ubjile ifts to he ('xhib)ited at the SI. L,ouis Cxp)osition), JTohn RedmilondI was the principa\ ipeaker'i "t a St. l'atri'k's D)ay banquet, n' Loudon. Thel~ Reichstag hudget ('0omm1itte v' ,ot dI ini favor of all)pp'piat in g $750,000 or Germany's exlhibit at. the St. LouOis Sir' Robert Reid u rgedl in tihe H ouse f Comns1 that inlternaitionlai a('tion (C takeni to limit, naval armamliOents5. King Georgo of Saxony wrote an lpen letter' to his pleole blam inig Priun ess Loulso entirely for the recnt Ouirt scandal. Russia and France favor granting shina's request to have thle Chinese ariff (dues collected in gold. A reivolumtion 11as br'oke ouit in Uru :uay. Miscellaneous flatters. Another (lay's testinmony in tihe IBur lIck inquest at Buffalo threw much ight oIl the faicts suraroulnding the nlurdler, but failed to disclose the ;uilty person. Levees and railway embankments ire b)reaking along thle Missicaippli aind 10o(1 c!onditionls are v'ery grave. Tihe Wabash iinjunctioin suit wasIl aken uip by Judge Adams at St. Louis ind the day consumed in reading affi lnvits. C. WV. Schwab, presidlent, of the Steel ['rust, and( Mr. D. Hi. Francis, presidlent >f tile St. Louis Exposition, arrived in 'Jew York on tile Kronprinz Wilhelm. The police of Philadelphia are in Pestigatinlg four new charges against leorge Hlossey, tIhe negro herb doctor, inSpetedl of poisoning. Ex-President Grover- Cicveland an iounced tihat lhe wiould( take a trip N,est and be at the opening of the St. 4ouis Exposition. Death of .Cotton 11ill Man. Griffin, Ga., Special.-Major A. Ran lali, one of the best known cotton mill. nen throughout-the ouith, and promi Tently connected with cotton milling svents In soveral States, died hero ['huirsday, from the effects of a paral itic stroke. Hie served as superintend anlt of cotton mills iii Canadq, New Y'ork, Illinois, Alabama .and Georgia. lie was born, in Providence, RL. I,, in 1837. TREATY IS RATIFIED The Cuban Reciprocity Measure Gets Through at Last. THE SENATE ADJOURNS SINE DIE Nearly the Entire Closing Day Was Spent In lIxecutive Session --- The Flinal Ballot. Vashington, Special.-After ratify ing the Cuban reciprocity treaty the Senate adjourned sine die Thursday at 15 minutes past 5 o'clock. Practically the entire day was behind closed doors in executive session. Most, of the time was devoted to consideration of the Cuban treaty. Several speeches were made in opposition to the treaty and one in favor of it, and then promptly at the agreed hour, 3 o'clock, voting began. Roll calls were had on a nui ber of amendments and the treaty itself was made the subject of a yeit and nay vote. The motion to ratify was adopt ed by a ballot, of 50 to 16, somewhat more than a three-fourths vote, where as, only a two-thirds vote was neces sary to secure a ratification. The de tailed vote of the Senate was: Yeas--Aldrich, Alger, Allison, Anke ney, Bacon, Ball, Veveridge, Black burn, I1urnhan, Burrows, ilurton, Clark, of Wyoming; Cockrell, Cul lom, Depow, Dietrick, D)olliver, Dry den, Elk ins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Fos ter, of Washington; Frye, Fulton. Gal linger, (amble, Gorman. Ilanna, Hans btough, lleyburn, Hopkins, Ketani, I,at Imer, I.odge, Long, Mi(Camans, Me Creary, McCumber, Nelson. Overman, 1'enrose, Perkins, Simmons, !moot, Spooner, Stewart, Stone, Varren, Vet more; total 50. Nays-ailey, l1ard, Bate, Berry, Carmack, Clark, of Montana; I)aniol, Foster, of Louisiana; Meln ery, Mal lory, Martin, Money, Morgan, New lands, Pettus, Taliaferto; total t;. In making the pairs, two Senators were paired for the treaty with one against it. The pair list was as fol lows: Kern:t and Hale with (ibson; Wil lard and Proctor with Clark, of Arkan sas; Scott and Quay with Mel.aurin; I)Illinghan and Clapp with 'Tillman; Kittredge and Platt, of New York, with Patterson; Platt, of Connecticut, and Hawley with Teller; Mitchell and Clay with Dubois; Quarles with Culher.son. Mi', Hoar was absent and unlpaired. riss Roosevelt Abroad. San Juan, P. R., By Cable.-Miss Alice Roosevelt landed here Thursday from the steamer Camo, from New York. She was met by Governor Iunt and his family and was driven to the palace, where She a fterward:a held ani infornial public reception. liss Ioose velt will receive the iliizen:;' etom it tee in public tomorrow, ;1ntd will at. tnd the citizens' recepion at the the aitre thIe samne ev'enin[, when the-e N will ie a display of firm-w!.; and a lde tai )1lifihve bteen issued by~ the Gov-. ornor' for atn enlt rtamnt oni 8:nl ir -wvill lollnce Sani .1tm u:o an in id trip, cipalI plan aiatoins ant ritiis. Ve.'teihule WVrecked. Charlimest on. 8. ('.. S-pecial.- The Snou tern ltailway w,:iibuzl train No. wreck!((l at ai sw,itch S moils north oif thPat point Sundal~y. T(he fronut triucks unde(Ir thle biaggage eat jiuiicd thie onain track and thbrew the train into thle si do trtack, all cars belin g comn tiletel y derailed except. the IPull Iman which had one set ofi wheels off. One man, an unkntownk trampi I, suIplOposely (asleep on the shlding, was instantly kill ed, andI1 Jm Reed,. colored(, a passenCI ger, hadl one leg b)rokeon. LewIs Cly burn and Mt's. M. 10. Taylor escaped with slight in.htries. florgan at the fleeting. New York, Special.---The dlirectors'. of the New York, New I laven & I [art fordc Itallr oad0 lO mt hei'e to take up the etmpjloyes' gtriovanices pre'senitedl to P'resid'tit, 111a11. Amnong the dir'ectors preset was J. Pilerpont Morgan. It was kntown aftetr the ms r!ing that the dire'ctoirs had niot hing to say to the puiblIc today, but it was learned from W. ID. Bishop, one of thi o:lrectors, that a decIsIon had been reached, and t.hat II would lbe forwarded to the mn at otte. iIe would not give any inti ma lion as to whet her anly concessIons nad becet mtade, ort anty other facts con criIng t. decision. Ini Conference. Newv Yotrk, Special. - President Schtwab and several of the legal rep reseiitat ives of the United States imecl Corporation wer3 In confer'ence here T[he object of the meetig could mnot be learneid. It is understood that the forthcomling annual rerport of the~ (or poratlon will embody a comprehensive statement of operatIons for the past year, and1( will deal especially with the matter of production. PresIdent WIlliams Summoned. Riebhnond, SDecial.-United Suites Marshal N2organ Treat, served on John Skelton \Villiams, presidletnt of the Seaboard Air Line, a summons to ap pear beftore the United State Inter State Commerce Commission, at New York, FrIday week to testify in the proceedilngs of the Kentucky railroad commissIon against the Atlantie Coast Linn and other., SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL TO MAKE CANE SRYUP. An Opportunity In the South for Ma chinery Dealers. in a letter to the Manu1facturers' Record Mr. 1). G. Purse, chairman of the comlillittee of lrringeiments for the Interstate Sugar-Cane (Irowers' Con veition, which is to meet at Macon, Ga., o1I May t and to continte in ses sion for tire(' datys, anilounces that ample pIrvision Will be made to bring inanufactutrers of syril adl sigar Ima chin'ery into (-lose touch ilithee with delegates to the ollvi'lnthom from South Carolina. Gleorgiia. I l rida, Ala bamla, Mississipp, I. ouIisiait, Texas and Arkansas. lie adds: "In Soutlh Carolina. I;vorgia and F'lorida the growing of sigar-cant, ati its innufactuire hts already reaeletl a point where crude iiiethodis mulst give way to mole collplte lilachiilery, but the evolution is not. realy yet, andt may not be for several years, for the very heavy illachliltry now ill itS' ill strfit ly stigtlr-nl ttfnetti ling sections. As the areas Ilailt'd increatse frol ael'u plots to tell. twenty-iVe antd lifty acres and tpward, its is going on now through these three States, (si ee,ally the preselt seasol, will compel tho IIurebase of much n(e' machinery, and the occasion will afford an unexctlled opportunity for adapting the new ma (hinery exactly to the needs of tho situation. I hope this opportinlity will be freely availed of by tht' ianufae tirern of syrup and sugar machinery througholut th country convenilent. of n(:e:(si to tle suigarl-calle helt. "The division iof chemistry of the I)epartmenit of Aglriculture will soon be in Lh' miarket for the full equip lenlt of a anne 111111 and syrup factory at. Waycross, Ga." leferrinl, to the same subject. in a letter to the Manulfaturers' Record President. I':. I.. .\latrtinl of (he C'1,aml ber of ('onunere f .Mil(tl writt's that the gov"(rnors 4f all it1 cnint-.trowiug States hatVe appointed liVe delegate from each coulnty, and that it Is ex pccled that bet.wveen I.((i and14 1.500 delegates will be pl'esent, ia half-fare rate having been gritlited from all 'oits east of the .\Mississippi and south of the Potomac IIVr. 'lresidellt Mart iII also notes the opporutities at tle on('oVen1tio011 for m11aniIU1f'acturers of machinery. A $50,000 Addition. it is ailnotinceti that the Pee Dee Mlanufacturing Co., ltockingham, N. C., will expend about $50,000 to ex tend its plant. A two-story additiotn will be er'ected to mill No. 2 and edulp plt with 2,500 spindles and 200 looms. J. A. Williams of lamlet, No. C., has contract to erect the addition. The company now has 12,784 spindles and (102 looms, manufacturing plaid do mets and(1 hickory shirting. Lumber Notes. Among the shipments last wtee' from Pensacola were :t.088,000 super ficial feet. of lumber, 1,597,640 super Ilial feet of sawn tlimber and 1,731 c'tuie feet of hclwl timber. The Ashevil I lIumber Co. of Ashe ville, N. C., with a capital stock of $25,000, has betn chartered. The in lorp orators are '1'. .1. I'erkilnson, .1. W. ItutherfordI and .1. . ' )ickerson. The. Mingo Lanl & I,nmbnllr Co. of (retlnville, .t\. has heen incorporat. ('(I, wit Ii a capilal stock of $30,00t). 'T'a' ineUorporatilc s atre ,1(1hn 1). 1'illoy, 12. J. .lont's, Illeniry I'. Aliirray atI oithers. T14l)i'res i lo)gginlg Ililt' inih IT4 n.it iltsst'g river- is said to) be the betst. that. ti il'e. It. is esim oi t141 hat )v4er :3,000t. 0040) fet of logs werei flotedI in last wetek for C'hattaooga moills. T1hea ,1. 0. WesseiiI.i lanber Co. of MImhii Ils. Tenn i., haIs been icorp)or-a dti, withI a (npitIalI si tck of $20,000. Tlheo I icorporatorIis a re Walter S5. I')01nning. MI*iharhI log, Getorge.N Atle, t' .J. .'. 1'tera and~ of hers. The1 whoitl(esale groIcery butsjines.-; of J. s. Giing &%~ Co. tif Tam~ipit l. hals been 1)urch ased by the Consol I daited Naval Stores Co. of Jac~ksoni ville1, Fla. It will operiato It th rough thle Consol idatetd Grlocery Co. Tihie Julius0 Seie I,iaiber Co. of St. I '''is, Mo., hius 1be4n incorp)orat.ed, with a caplital stock tof $25,000. The In I orlporiators1 are Juius o Seldel, FrankI Seidel, Johnil A. MIchel1(, Otto Moser~ Textile Notes. It is1 proosed to bild a knitting mrill at Kingston, 'Tenn., and J. M. Allen is Endeavors are being made to estab lish a knhitting 1m111 at Aberdeen, Miss. t(i be enJiltal izedt lat $40,000. Tfhe InItenl ttion is to manul ifatuttre meln's hallf-hiose and ladles' and isses' stockIngs. Charles II. Welch Is said to bc inte ested. I. I-'. Mauild in of Anderson, S. C., proposes4' organizing McCormick MIlls, with 'apiltal oIf $200,000, to build a cof Io mIli)ill. Tfhe plant Is to bo located at MtCor'mlck, S. C. anti have 10,000 sIiil(s. Gver $100,000 have been sub Trenoni Cotton MIlls, Gastonla, N. P'., will i nsftill additIonal mah(inerfly. CtracI ht has been1 awared for' 2000 49pindles and other ('(iuip)ment to In itease and) II imroIve the plant. Prob ibly aboullt $.10,000 wilhl be expended ao the liprovemenOlts. It Is rumilored that ValentIne & IB'ntl(y Silk Co., Newton, N. .J., wvill -stabi~lsh at brn-ch silk mil11 at Clarks m)trg, WV. Va. Rumllor5 saIy thait the Iint will cost about $150,000. Tuckasoege ManufacturIng Co., Mt. -lolly, N. C., wvill buIld a No. 2 mIll, to aanltainl probaly 7000 spindles. D)etails tavo not been1 decided, btut hare no0w jelig given consideration. Ozark Cotton MIlls, Gastonia, N. C., tns pulrchased 1000 addtitonal spIndles, ind thIs machinery will soon1 arrIve'. I'his increases equipmenit to 10,000 spI)ndles. J. E. MuAche, Kingston, Tenn., con templates establishIng plant to knit And (dye hosier-y. He0 wants to corres pond with makers of hoslory a.nd Eleinsr mnchineryv J PALM . yy ET O G E N N S rlinor Events of the Week in a Brief Form. WWWWWgg-#RWWRRWWWWWW W - Mrs. Nancy Milligan accidentally shot herself at her home at Mount P'leasant near Charleston Friday atter noon and died a few hours later while ( n1 her way to the Charleston hospi tal. Magistrate Clyde, of Greenville, has rendered his decision in the cases againt C. V. Clifton, indicted for pe tit larceny, and the defendant was given 90 days or $150 fine to cover the sieveial cases upon which he was tried. A le0ting of the stockholders of the big G;luck miIll was held in Ander son March 10. for the purpose of elec ting four additional directors and de terlining upon the site for the mill. A majority of the stock was represen ted, tmost of It in Irson. Charley Sumpter, the negro who in stilted a lady near the old Sidney park in Columnbitt on l'riday afternoon, was taket before the recorder Saturday; inor11inig and fined $40 or 30 days on the ebaingang. The recorder remark ed that, he wished the penalty could have been greater. lThe pwision board of Lancaster rounty has c:otmpleted its labors for this year. ''he number of applications approved, ineluding the old pensioners on the roll, is 259, but one more than the pension roll of 1902. Thirteen of the pensioners of last. year. eight sol fIlers and five widows of soldiers, have Atcld. A special terml of sessions court will bIe held in Newherry; convening April ith, to I ry the case of George Strother, ^olored. charged with a crii inal as ;aiit. On the 20th of last i'ebruary liss t:nlma Bowers, a well known Young womlan of Little Mountain, wai lssaulted by the negro who afterwards ,soaped but was captured and lodged in jail. The south bound Carolina and North 'ostern pteaenger train was caught in i awkwarj fix at Allison creek trestle Veent miles north of Yorkville Thurs day night by reason of the blowing out of the cylinder head. The engine was then unable to elimb the steep grade leading up from the creek and the pas scngers had to remain there until a freight came along and carried thon ont to Yorkville. A iloston lmber nm is building a large saw mill on Cheehaw river in Colleton county, whlch empties into the Beaufort river. They will saw up the i1nitmense forests of timhbcr that are adjacent to ship North by way of St. 1lelena Sound. A huge dock and tramway are to he built, and the en terprise will employ a great deal of labor. The machinery was transport ed to tl- spot by a three-masted schooner. The navigation is good and dleep. Deputy Sheriff J. W. McCaslin, of Greenwood. lodged a gay young Lo thario in the county Jail- at that place Saturday afternoon, together with the object of his affection and attention. The t wo young iwople wanted to Coml promnise by calling in a mInister and having a narrlage ceremony pertorm ed at once, but the girl's father was op oned. and now both languish in jail. h'lle giirl had run away from home witlh the yountg man antd a 'phone message frotm the girl's fat her causeid thte at.. Ii a ry A'l ek in, n. youniig colored boy of Coluitnla. was pa in fitlly hbit not 'rtiosv hurt in the Southern Rtailway yarid s Saturda'IIyil motin 1g. Mi ckin was walkitng along thle track, hIs head bent lin andtti apparently obliv ~ious of aniy hi ng save his feet , when a ItraIn hack lng towards himt struck himi and k necked himi ftromi the track, sI litlIy stimn intg himi. WVhen plc ked up it wvas stOni thaiit hiis hea hii iad been cut in two'( ilaoces, bo0th of hiis knees were wvoutnded am dlihe was badly brult'ised abioitt thle boduiy. A dlapper yoiung white man was ar testedl by t he police in Columbia Saturtday (in a telegram from the police of Spartaniburg. I Ic Is wanted In that cit.y for swihndling anld lie is supposedl to be thle same fellow whlo has been oper'at ing extenisively in the tipper' part of the State. Ilus namte Is Morris and whten heo went to the express office to r>btain a palckatge the police were wait big for him. lie gave them a lively chase before cautght. He has a part tier natmed Hay, who, It is thought, is in Richland coumty, and heo will also b)e cauight. Just in tiime to aLvoidh being riun over by a passetnger train the (lead body of C. C. Satnder,, a ntegro hackmant, was found at Salt Wauter near' Beaufort Saturday morning. It is believed ho walked to the spot In a (deranged' stste anid diedl fromi the effects of a fall be tween the cross ties just after cr'oss lng the tresde(. iIe had been afflicted with heairt discase for some time, Hie was 50 years old. The coronet"s jdry rendlered a verdict of death from na.. lmral causes. Articles of value found on lisa persoit were returned to his wife. iuiseppina Capitano, the Italian womian who Friday attemp)ted suicide an the tr'ain of the Atlanta Coast Line, itntering Charleston, died Saturday - mornutintg at the City hospital, where shte wats taken. Hor two sons, to.whom ihte was going in Tampa, were notified1 rind they went to Charleston and took harge of her remins. Her bod'y was takeun to Tampa for burial. Tha woman 'egretted her attempt at self destrhe :ion int a conversation with the Italian onsiul before her death. The woman v'as temporarily insane. S, J. Thompson, state organizel' for he United Textile Workers of America I(ire'sised an audience, composed ojf bhout seventy-five 'mill operative$, ein he court house in Newborry Saturday; ifternoon. Hie was there in the inter mst of his organization, for the pylrpose if organising a labor union,, His ar unments in favor of a union wore op posed by Superintendent J. M. Davis6 at the Nowberry Cotton Mill, and SUp. arintendent E. BI. Wilbur, of the Mollo hon Mill. No action by the operatives was take3 and those in favor of or. ganizing a union seem to be in a minority.