The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 18, 1901, Image 1
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WITH PIERCING RAYS
Old Sol Gets In Some Herculean
Licks Throughout the South.
RECORD-BREAKING TORRIDITY
Table of Temperatures Recorded
Thursday In the Principal
Southern Cities?Country
Swelters.
Old
Sol, the king of heat, got in his
"work in all sections of the south
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The following table gives the
highest point reached by the thermometer
in the principal southern cities:
- Birmingham 103
Nashville 103
Louisville 103
St Louis 104
'Little Rock 101
Memphis IOC
Montgomery 100
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Augusta IUU
> Savannah . 96
Atlanta 96
Mobile 96
, Knoxville 96
Vicksburg 96
^ Charleston 92
Kansas Still Leads.
Government stations in Kansas report
as follows regarding their maximum
temperatures during the day:
Kansas City, 103; Baker, 102; Concordia,
102; Dodge City, 98; Dresden,
106; Fort Scott, 108; Hays City, 106;
" . Macksville, 101; Manhattan, 106; McPherson,
107; Osage City, 106; Wichita,
102; Topeka, 102.
The wind blew at the rate of fourteen
miles an hour from the southwest,
but it was so dry that it had a
blighting effect cn the crops and corn
is in much worse condition than Wednesday.
Rreports indicate tbat in no
county in the state are the crops damaged
less than 50 per cent In many
cpuntiss much more than 50 per cent
%; would be necessary to cover tbe estimated
damage. It is generally conceded
tbat this is the worst drouth
since 1S60 In Kansas, but it will not
? entail nearly so much suffering as in
~ past years.
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Broken at Springfield.
Thursday was the hottest day with
one exception on record in Springfield,
JIL, since the United States weather
'v bureau was established there twenty
.years ago. Government thermometers
registered 102, and street thermometers
as high as 107 in the shade.
Temperature 103 at Tcxarkana.
At Texarkana, Ark., the mercury reg
istered 103 in the shade, the hottest of
the season, and one prostration resultcd.
The crops are in a very bad condiV
# tion and cotton has at last begun to1
s show signs of suffering.
At Little Rock tbe maximum temperature
was 101, being the highest
recorded so far this summer. The Arkansas
river is unusually low. Lack of
moisture continues to endanger crops
In many parts of the state.
v Hottest In Twenty Years.
Princeton, Ind.,. reports the hottest
day in twenty years. The thermometer
reached 102 1-2, which was within
half a degree of the highest' known.
^^^Crops are suffering from drouth and
Many horses have died.
^fl^^^^Afater Famine Is Feared.
B^^^^HBaximum temperature for LinBS^^^^Bthe
southern half of Nebraska
degrees Thursday to 101.
continues, however, and
increasing. At Beaver City
jH^^^^Bthe nineteenth successive day
temperature has been 100 or
^H^Bj^^Fear of a water famine exists
HU^Biny towns.
MRS. DAVIS QUITE ILL.
^^HBe of Former President of Confed^^^^ eracy
Stricken at Portland, Me.
^^^Hlispatches state that Mrs. Jefferson
^H^avls, widow of the former president
of the confederacy, is quite ill at tne
Columbia hotel, Portland, Me., where
.! she arrived a few days ago to spend
the summer.
WHEELER ASKS FOR TROOPS.
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General is Anxious to Make Fete Day
at Newport a Big Success.
General Joseph Wheeler, marshal of
the coming fete day parade at Newport,
R. I., has sent to Governor Crane,
of Massachusetts, a request that the
? Second and Nintu Massachusetts regi
ments be sent to take part in tbe parade.
Gej^ral Wheeler is anxious for
the presele of these two regiments
served with him in the Santiago
rahipaign. It is thought there will be
3,000 men-in line, including the men
from the north Atlantic squadron, naval
apprentices, naval brigade, local
and state militia.
MOB DEMANDS VENGEANCE.
Clamor For Lives of Three Black
Brutes Who Assaulted White Girl.
A crowd of 2,f>00 excited men and
boys surrounded the Jail in Kansas
City Friday night, clamoring for vengeance
against three negroes who
criminally assaulted Miss Grace Davis
Wednesday night after knocking her
escort, Vernie Newton, insensible.
Eigh* men, two of whom have beeD
identified, are held at the jail. ,
GOVERNOR ASKED TO ACT.
Italian Consul at Vicksburg Asks Protection
For His Countrymen.
National Piazza, Italian vice consul
at Vicksburg. Thursday received information
of the lynching of two or more
Italians at Avon, a small station in
Washington county, Mississippi. A
mob of fifty or men are alleged to have
been hunting the Italians through the
nwaraps. Piazza has asked the governor
to afford his countrymen protect
tion.
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THE "ONLY WISE SOLUTION"
Noted Mississippi Ex-Chief Justice Delivers
Sensational Address on
the Race Problem.
At the Millsaps Normal school In
Jackson, Miss., ex-Chief Justice J. A.
P. Campbell, of the state supreme
court, and one of Mississippi's most
distinguished citizens, delivered an address
on the "only Wise Solution of
the Race Problem," which has created
a tremendous sensation.
Judge Campbell in his address took
ultra ground. In the first place he
boldly advocated the abolition of the
common school education for the negro
race, claiming *y it had done no
good whatever, ancPhad been productive
of much evil. The younger generation
had imbibed just enough smata
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solutely worthless and to attract them
to the towns, where they became loafers
and criminal characters, dangerous
to the community. The immense
appropriations which are being spent
every year in the southern states for
the common school education of the
negro, he says, are worse than lasted,
and are making more dangorous a
problem already complicated in the extreme.
'There can never be harmony between
the races in the south," declared
Judge Campbell emphatically, "until
there is a universal recognition of the
known fact in nature that the Caucasian
is the superior of the negro race,
and will insist on its natural precedence
and the authority which such superiority
gives witnin reasonable
bounds. Common school education for
the negro causes him to forget this
fact, and leads to dangerous desires
and aspirations for social equality on
his part which can never possibly be
realized. He becomes discontented,
dangerous, sullen and intractable, losing
his sole claim to consideration,
which is that ordinarily he is a good
worker.
"TV. rofiKii tn mnfcp this common
school appropriation for negro education
would require a change in our
state constitution, but,. I am convinced,
would not be obnoxious to any provision
of the federal constitution In fact,
the United States supreme court has
expressly decided that education is a
gratuity and not a matter of right to ,
be demanded equally by the races.
"But, since there seems to be an
opinion in many quarters that we owe
the negroes education, I would be In ,
favor of selecting a number of the best
specimens of the .race and educating
them well at the expense of the state,
as the government educates at West j
Point. These could then be turned
loose as missionaries among the race.
They would be proud of their superior
position, superior education and grate- i
ful to the state which thus set them ,
above their race, and would therefore
be fit leaders and advisers for the race.
The same principle of fealty which
causes a West Pointer to adhere to
the government would cause these .
men set apart for this special purpose ,
to stand for the best interests of the
state, and to give their race the wise
I counsel which their superior education
j and position would make fitting."
ITALIANS ASSASSINATED. .
Refused to Dec?.mp When Ordered and
Mob Fills Them With Bullets.
Two Italians were killed and another ,
was seriously wounded at Erwin, ,
Miss., a small station some thirty
miles south of Greenville on the Riverside
division of the Yaoo and Mississippi
Valley railroad some time Wednesday
night. They ail came from Cefalu,
Sicity.
The three had been living near Glen
Allen, but on account of some trouble
were ordered to leave the community
by the citizens. This they refused
to do.
The Italians in the county are considerably
wrought up over the matter,
but no further trouble is anticipated.
Governor Longino was notified of
the occurrence, while the Italian consul
at New Orleans was also apprised
of the killing.
Kittridge Is Now Senator.
Thursday Governor Herried, of
South Dakota, appointed A. B. Kittridge
to fill the unexpired term of the
late United States Senator Kyle.
FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.
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Strike Leaders Hit Hard In Contempt
of Court Case at York, Pa.
In the county court at York, Pa.,
Thursday Judge Stewart rendered his
opinion in contempt cases growing out
of the molders' strike, in which George
W. Test, corresponding representative
of the Iron Molders' Union of North
America, and others were adjudged
guilty for violating the court's injunction
restraining them from picketing
and otherwise interfering with the
York Manufacturing Company. Test
and leaders of the strike were sentenced
to pay a fine of $260 and costs and
undergo imprisonment of thirty days.
PUT OFF AT BUFFALO.
Georgia Pen Pushers Reach Their Destination
In Fine Shape.
A special from Buffalo, N. Y., says:
The Georgia editorial party, composed
of the Georgia press and weekly associations,
were safely "put off at Buffalo"
Thursday evcniEg. All are well
and in the best of good humor. They
will bo the guests of the Lincoln hotel
while in the city.
CONDUCTOR SHOT TO OEATH.
His Negro Slayer Jumps From Car and
Also Meets Death.
On an excursion train returning to
Spartanburg, S. C., from Charlotte, N.
C., Sunday night. W. Dexter Kirby,
conductor on the electric railway, was
shot and instantly killed by a negro,
Wallace Hayiies. The murderer jumped
off tjie train and was instantly
killed.
Kirby was trying to stop a fight at
the time between Haynes and another
negro.
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Will Be Ready For Occupancy.
President Hartzog announces that
the new dormitory buildings fo Clemson
college will be ready for occupancy
when the college meets, and
aiso tnai 110 more young mgii wismag
to enter the college need apply, as ever}*
room Is already filled by those who
have been early in securing places.
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Anent Chai^ston Naval Station.
A Washington dispatch says: The
board of naval officers, headed by Rear
Admiral Hetiry C. Taylor, which was
charged with formulating plans for the
new naval station at Olongapo, in Suolg
Bay, P. I., and at Charleston, S. C.,
has completed its labors and its report
is now at the navy department.
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Meeting Was Strictly Private.
A secret conference has been held in
Greenville In which a dozen leading
manufacturers met Senator McLaurin
at a private house. Except that the
political situation was canvassed, nothing
is known of the obiects of the
meeting, as none of the participants
have anything to say.
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Constable LaFar a Hustler.
Chief Constable LaFar, who has accomplished
the wonderful record of
having whipped the blind tigers in
Charleston, is still administering severe
punishment, and there is consternation
in the ranks of the outlaw element.
By simply striking hard at the
tigers he has knockea them out of
business and by keeping up the warfare
the thirsty public is experiencing
more or less difficulty in buying
drinks.
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Grand Rally at Union.
A political meeting on a very big
scale is planned to be held in Union
August 8th and 9th. The adjoining
counties of York, Fairfield, Chester,
Spartanburg, Laurens, Cherokee and
Newberry are invited to participate.
The committee has not yet heard from
the speakers invited to address the
people on purely national questions,
but there will be no scarcity of material.
Nineteen speakers have been invited,
including Senators Tillman and
McLaurin, Governor McSweeney, former
Governor John Gary Evans, State
Chairman Jones, William Jennings
Bryan, former * Congressman George
Johnson, former Congressman John J.
Hemphill, Congressmen Latimer and
Talbert, former Congressmen Storey
and Wilson.
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Tillman Witnesses a Raid.
Senator Tillman, accompanied by his
wife and daughter, passed through
Charleston a few days ago en route
to McClellanville, where they will
spend a week fishing. The senator arrived
by the Southern railway and
just as he was leaving the station his
carriage was blocked by a crowd of
people who had gathered on a corner to
watch a blind tiger raid. The constables
had just completed a raid and all
of the beer and liquor and bar fixtures,
cash registers, and, in fact, everything
owned in the place, had been piled in
the street, waiting for a patrol wagon.
The sight was a vivid reminder to Senator
Tillman of what had been done in
the stirring days when he was governor.
When it became known that Senator
Tillman was in the carriage the
bar stuff was moved out of the way
and the police drove the crowd back so
that the carriage could pass. Senator *
Tillman sat far back on the seat and
paid no heed to the curiojus blind tiger
habitues who watched him.
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Blue Ridge Road Sold at Auction.
The Blue Ridge railroad was sold at
auction at Anderson last Monday and
bought by Fairfax Harrison, of Washington,
and B. L. Abney, of Columbia,
for $100,000.
Both are Southern railway officials,
but the road will be reorganized as a
separate system they declare.
The property consists of thirty-three
miles of completed railroad in South
Carolina, together with rolling stock,
right of way and franchises in South
Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia,
seventeen miles in completed roadbed
in Georgia, seventy-four miles right
of way in North Carolina, formerly
owned by the Tennessee River Railroad
Company, Blue Ridge in Georgia
and Tennessee River in North Carolina,
and one thousand acres of land
across Stumphouse mountain in South
Carolina.
The old Blue Ridge has interesting
ante-bellum history, having been built
in 1858 to Walhalla, when the war interrupted
the extension across the
mountains.
The tunnel through Stumphouse
mountain is a marvel of engineering
skill, it lacking only a quarter of a
mile being complete, and as it stands,
is over a mile in length through solid
rock. This was the dream of John C.
Calhoun to connect the west with tidewater
through coal fields and mineral
lands of Tennessee, Georgia and the
Carolinas.
If the Blue Ridge route is fully utilized
it will be one of the most picturesque
roads in the south. It has been j
in bankruptcy thirty years. It was j
bought by Governor k. iv. scou m
1872, who failed to pay, afterward
leased by the Southern and a receiver
appointed in 1S92. The Southern holds
a mortgage for two and a half millions.
It is rumored that the purchasers
will make the line from Charleston
and Columbia to Walhalla instead of
Greenville, thus shortening the distance
to Atlanta. j
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. To Test Revenue Bond Script.
A Columbia dispatch says: After
waiting the lifetime of a generation,
Mr. Wesley, the holder of more than a
million dollars of revenue bond script
Issued by South Carolina, will get the
case in the United btatc-s court fairly
upon its merits. Many plans have been
devised, but all have heretofore failed.
In December. 1S90, Mr. William H.
Lyles, of Columbia, who has been Mr.
Wesley's attorney, tendered to the
treasurer of Fairflem, in payment of
$15.16 taxes on a tract of land he owned.
cash to the amount of $13.1G and $2
in the revenue script, l.ie treasurer
refused to receive ihe tender on account
of the script and in due time
thf> Inrnl wac cnld fnr tavAS find OUT
chased ^y a North Carolinian. Action
is now being brought in the United
States court against the owner by Mr.
Lyles to recover possession.
. This is just where Mr. Wesley has
been trying to get for twenty-nine
years. It win now be decided whether
tne script is a valid obligation of the
state. It is believed by many South
Carolinians that it is. There is $1,800,000
now outstanding.
To get this case in the courts Mr.
Wesley years ago purchased from the
state che agricultural hall in Columbia,
paying $5,000 cash and tendering
the balance in bond scjip. Governor
Tillman immediately seized the building.
attempting to foreclose the mortgage.
After a long fight the state lost,
and the valuable property went to
Wesley. It was sacrificed rather than
risk getting the scrip in court on its
merits.
Mr. Wesley seems to have advanced
money to the radicals in the early seventies
cn this scrip, he acting in good
faith in the matter.
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Another Federal Appointment Planned
The story is going the rounds that
Senator McLaurin has planned another
federal appointment for this state,
which will aid him in his race for reelection
next year. It was announced
a few days ago on the best authority
that J. W. McCullough. of Greenvirr),
would be appointed United States
marshal at the end of Marshal Melton's
term, and this seems to settle the
rumors about the place going to other
candidates. McOollough is a democrat.
a member of the celebrated family
of that name, and has big Influence
politically in his home county at
Greenville. Of late years he has been
out of active politics, but has kept in
touch with the situation. He is said
to be in sympathy with the McLaurin
movement and this accounts for his
probable appointment. Melton's term
does not expire until early next year,
but it is said that tne appointment will
be announced in advance of that time.
TWENTY ARE DEAD.
List of Fatalities Resulting From Railway
Horror Is Being Increased.
A Kansas City dispatch says: Up
to 11 o'clock Thursday two more victims
of Wednesday's collision on the
Alton railroad near Norton have sue
cumbed to their injuries, making a total
dead of 20. Mrs. J. A. Adsit, wife
of Dr. Adsit, of Hoopeston, 111., died
at 5:30 a. m. at St Joseph's hospital,
and Mrs. Hilda Hayslip, of Chicago,
died an hour later at University hospital.
Others of the wounded are still
in a precarious condition and may die
at any moment
DAIRYMEN CLOSELY WATCHED.
Atlanta Sanitary Department Determined
to Stop Sale of Impure Milk.
The Atlanta sanitary department is
making it warm for the dairymen who
sell milk in the city. Nearly every day
cases are made against dairymen
whose milk docs not come up to the
standard required by city ordinance.
The inspector secures samples of
milk from wagons or at stores, when
it is least expected, and the samples
are analyzed. If the analysis shows
that there is not enough cream in the
milk and too much water, a case is
made. Under the. milk ordinance the
minimum fine that can be imposed by
the recorder is $1.0.75.
NINETEEN STATES SWELTERED.
Hot Wave Was Still In Evidence In
Various Sections Sunday.
Reports to the weather bureau at
Washington showed that the hot
weather continued Sunday in nineteen
states and territories of the great corn
belt, the Ohio valley and the various
portions of the south. The states affected
include Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Nebraska. South Dakota.
North Dakota, Colorado and Michigan
OIL MILL CHANGES HANDS.
Big Chemical Company Purchases Mc
Bride Property at Newnan, Ga.
The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.,
which purchased the plant of the Coweta
Fertilizer Company at Newnan,
Ga., last year has now purchased the
Robert M^Bride oil mill situated there.
The oil mill has been operated by W.
C. McBride, and has been one of the
most thrh'ing enterprises of the city.
The Chemical company paid the sum
or $G2,500 for the mill.
VOTING BY SHOPS.
Ranks of Striking Machinists at Cin
cinnati Are Dwindling.
The report that the machinists'
strike was broken at Cincinnati was
confirmed Sunday when the men of
the Fay-Egan shops voted to go to
work in a body, 'these men were un
decided Saturday. The strike has not
been declared off. out the strikers have
decided to vote by shops, and in this
way almost all have voted to resume
work.
TO TEST CONSTITUTION.
Louisiana Franchise Law Will Run
Gauntlet of the Courts. '
The foundation was laid at New Orleans
Thursday for a suit to test the
validity of the provisions in the new
constitution of Louisiana and similar
provisions in the constitutions of other
southern states disfranchising negro
voters, and especially to test the constitutionality
of the grandfather clause.
TO WATERY GRAVES
Six Members of Happy Excursion
Party Swept Down by Waves.
BATHERS WASHED OUT TO SEA
Five Women and Girls and One Man
Were the Unfortunate Victims.
Trapped By the Incoming
Tide.
A Savannah, Ga., special says: The
twelfth annual excursion of the Hebrew
Gaemahl Hasad, commonly
known as the H. G. R., had a tragic
ending Sunday, six members of the
party being drowned. The H. G. H. is
a popular society with the orthodox
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scmble in Columbus and make up a
state ticket. Ten met met Sunday
morning in Cleveland and decided that
a bolt should be made, and that a new
party could enter the jQeld of Ohio pol
itics.
The attendance at the conference
it was stated, was larger and represented
a greater area in the state than
was expected by those wno called the
meeting.
A formal statement of principles was
submitted to the conference, and was
aaopted. This will be printed and
sent throughout the state to those who
are known to be faithful to the Nebraskan.
A convention was decided
upon to be neid at the Great Southern
hotel on the last day of July.
TROOPS GUARD MURDERER.
Florida Governor Protects Colored
Prisoner In Jail at Lake City.
Governor Jennings, of Florida, called
, out company H, state troops. Friday
night to protect T. J. Hampton, colored,
confined in Columbia county jail
at Lake City for the murder of two
white men at Fort White.
This was on advice of the sherifT,
who was informed that a mob of several
hundred was preparing to move
toward Lake City from the southern
part of the county for the purpose of
lynching Hampton.
A cordon of sixty soldiers was immediately
thrown around the jail and
the nrisoner in tr.e meantime quietlv
taken elsewlieit?.
Mining Strike In Northwest.
The biggest strike in many years
among the miners of the northwest Is
on at Rossland, Wash., and 1,200 miners
are idle. The strike affects the Leroi
and other mines owned by British
companies. The trouble started
through the locking out of union smelter
men.
Christian Converts Slaughtered.
The reported uprising on the island
of Quelpart, off the Korean coast, and
the killing of several hundred Christian
converts is confirmed in mall
press advices reaching the Japanese
legation at Washington.
PRAYED FOR RAIN.
All Church Denominations Join In
Supplication to the Most High.
At all the churches in Jefferson City,
Mo., prayers were made for rain. At
the Roman Catholic churches prayers
were said at each mass Sunday, while
the Methodist, Baptist. Christian and
Presbyterian congregations united in
a union service at the Presbyterian
church, and prayers for rain were of
, lerea.
BODY OF PIGTAIL BOILED.
Unique Process to Get Bullets Out of
Dead Chinaman's Corpse.
At San Jose, Cal., Friday night, cue
body of Lee Wing, a Chinese who was
murdered last March Dy highbinders,
was boiled In an iron cauldron by order
of the county authorities. This
process was considered necessary in
order to obtain the sixteen bullets
which were fired into the m^n. They
1 will be used as evidence in the trial
of Look Lee, alleged to be one of the
assassin*.
jews, cnieny irom rtussia. auu rmauu,
being of a benevolent character. One
of its features is an annual excursion
for the members and their families.
The excursion was to Daufuskie island,
twenty miles down the Savannah
river on the South Carolina side. The
beach at Daufuskie is a poor one, and
it has been largely given up as a resort.
This accounts in part for the accident.
'lhe day passed pleasantly enough
until between 3 and 4 o clock in the
afternoon, by which time the excursionists
were scattered all about the
island. A party of twelve or fourteen,
mostly women and children, decider
to go in bathing on the sea side of tho
island. Between the shore and tho
deep water there is a wash or sluice,
then a shoal and then a fairly good
shelving'beach. The tide was out when
the party noticed that the incoming
tide had covered the shoal and decided
to return. They were all right until
thev reached the sluice, where the wa
ter was running like a mill race. Almost
the entire party was caught and
a struggle for life began. Some managed
to get back on the shoal and a
few got across the danger spot, but
six?five women anu girls end one
man?were caught by the tide and carried
down. Their screams attracted
those on shore and the alarm was given.
There were no boats on that side,
and by the time word reached the other
side of u.c islands and the boats
were gotten out It was too late.
BRYAN'S FRIENDS AROUSED.
Ohio Democrats Who Remain Faithful
to Nebraskan Will Hold
State Convention.
On July 31st the oaio democrats
who believe in Bryan, the issues which
he represents, and which the recent
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STRIKE FUND WAS EXHAUSTED
Machinists at Cincinnati Deprived of
Support Decide to Return to Work
At Old Terms.
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The machinists' strike in Cincinnati,
which was organized May 20th, and
which involved from 5,000 to 7,000 employees,
has been practically declared
off. A secret mass meeting of strikers
was held Friday at which a formal
report was made that it had been
found impossible to procure assistance
in money from the headquarters in
wq oh in frtnn As the strike benefit fund
is ?hausted, the strikers were advised
to return to work. Already about 600
have applied for re-instatement, and
many more will do so.
No official statement was made by
the leaders of the strikers, and they all
refused to be quoted, saying that they
do not care to do anything that might
Affect the injunction proceedings
against them.
The strikers failing to receive funds
from Washington, sent an agent to
Washington to try to secure money.
His report was presented at Friday's
meeting, aud it was upon this that
fhe action, which virtually ends the
strike, was taken. It is said, however,
that the decision to return to work
was not unanimous, and that some
men will still hold out
A meeting of the shop committeemen
of striking machinists from the
various concerns affected was held
Friday night, rfter which a statement
was given out emphatically denying
the report that the strike had been
railed off. It was learned that while It
was left discretionary with the men in
I number of shops to return without
any odium being involved as deserting
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tne siriKe, seven iirms were yien.cu uui
on which the nght is to be prosecuted.
Should any of these shops attempt
to transfer their work to those in
which men returned the men have
igreed to refuse to handle It.
There were approximately 3,500 ma hinists
involved in the strike here
and of these the strikers say about 10
ncr cent have already returned. The
shops affected by the decision of the
inicn to continue the fight employ
about 1,100.men.
STRIKERS LOSE FIGHT.
The Machinists Gain Nothing By
Walk-Out at Newport News.
According to advices the big strike
of machinists at Newport News has
ended without any concessions being
gained by the men who went out.
President O'Connell, of the International
Association, said that the defeat
of the strikers at the Newport News
ship3*ards would have no affect on the
general strike of the machinists.
"We never had any hope that the
Newport News men would win," he
said. "They did not go out until two
weeks after they were ordered out and
tney nave Deen constantly voung on
the question of returning to work. We
were not ready to expend our funds
on men not ready to carry on the fignt.
There were only 300 machinists out
against 6,000 other employees remaining
at work Their return to work may
have an effect on some ot the small
shipyards in this section of the country.
On the Pacific coast, however, between
6,000 and 7,000 men are out,
practically all in San Francisco, and
these will not be affected. The general
strike of the machinists has now
simmered down to a question of endurance
of the two sides. We have no revocation
of the strike order lm eontemplation.
There are 8,000 machinists
still out throughout the country."
President O'Connell admitted that
the collapse of the strike at Cincinnati
was likely to have considerable
effect on the / neral strike, as Cincinnati
has been regarded as the most important
point among the cities involved
in the strike. President O'Connell
reiterated that there is no intention to
call off the general strike and declared
that the order would fight it out to the
end.
IMPORTED MEN AT WORK.
Southern Shops at Columbia Outwits
Striking Machinists.
With tho aid of a mounted squad of
policemen, the Southern railway was
able Friday to outwit the striking machinists
and landed four men in the
railway shops at Columbia, S. C. The
train bearing the non-union men was
heavily guarded. The police stood
guard at the station and the car was
sent past the band of jeering strikers.
This was the first batch of new men
the company got in without interference
from the strikers.
MRS. BONINE INDICTED.
Washington Woman Must Answer For
Murder of Census Clerk Ayres.
The grand ury at Washington, D. C.,
after several weeks' Investigation, has
returned an indictment for murder
against Mrs. Ida Bonine for the alleged
killing of James S. Ayres, the young
census clerk.
BOER LEADER SURPRISED.
Steyn's Brother Captured By Britons,
n... O. l_l : If
DUl oic/n nimacii b9t>a|/6ji
The London war office has received
the following dispatch from Lord
Kitchener, dated at Pretoria:
"Broad wood's brigade surprised
Reitz, capturing Steyn's brother and
others. Stevn himself escaped in his
shirt sleeves, with one other man oniy.
The so-called 'Orange ltiver government'
and papers were raptured."
Baltimore Strikers Give Up Contest.
Friday about two hundred machinists
at Baltimore gave up the fight for
a nine hour working day and decided
to apply for reinstatement in the shops
of the Maryland Steel Company at the
old terms.
Chiii's President Dead.
Senor Federio Errazuriz, president
of Chili, who had been in feeble health
for more than a year, is dead. He was
elected president June 25, 1896, for a
term of five years, which began September
18, 1S9G,
STRIKE ORDER IS EFFECTIVE'
Steel Workers Cause Shut Down of!
Many Big Plants of World's
Greatest Trust.
Reports received in Pittsburg, Pa.,
Monday from all sources connected
with the great strike of the steel workers
indicate that the members of the
Amalgamated Association had matters
well in hand and that the strike order
was being generally obeyed. Reports
from various points where the American
Tin Plato Company, the American
Steel -ffoop and the American Sheet
Steel Company are located told of a
shutting down of these plants. In
many cases the plants had been shut
J 1? *u~ efHlro nrHer which
UUWI1 UJ IUC in 01 auwv V <.?,
affected the sheet steel and the steel
hoop companies only. The last orber
brought out all of the union plants of
Ine American Tin Pla.e Company with
the single exception of the new m..*
in Monessen, which is stin running.
At the Amalgamated Association
headquarters i- was said that the figures
given out Saturday night regarding
the number of men who would be
actually idle in the mills of the three
companies had been proven correct.
This number is placed at 74,000.' The
strike, although one of the greatest
that has been declared in recent years,
will affect Pittsburg but slightly.
The huge steel strike 200,000 men,
roundly speaking, are thrown out of
work. They were employed as follows:
American Tin Plate company.. 25,000
American Steel & Wire Co 24,000
American Sheet Steel Company. 22,000
American Steel Hoop Company. 14,000
American Bridge Company 14,000
National Steel Company 8,000
Federal Steel Company 20,000
National Tube Company 20,000
Carnegie Company 50,000
Total 199,000
80UTHERN PROGRESS.
New Industries Reported in the South
During the Past Week.
The more important of the new industries
reported for the past week
include a canning factory at Ocala,
Fla.; coal mining companies at Stevenson.
Ala., Hubbardsville, Ky., and
Phllippi, W. va.; a $1,000,000 coal and
coke company at Clarksburg, W. Va.;
two $100,000 coal mining companies at
Elk horn, W. Va.; a $2,000,000 coal
mining and development company at
Parkersburg, W. Va.; a $500,000 coal
storage plant at New Orleans, La.; a
cold storage plant at Staunton, Va.; a
$100,000 cctton compress at Little
Rock, AFk.; a $2&,000 compress at Ackerman,
Miss.; cotton gins at Shiloh,
N. C., and Belton, Texas; a cotton
mill at Graham, N. C.; an $85,000 distillery
at Columbia S. C.; a $30,000
eiectric light and power plant at Temple,
Texas; $35,000 extract works at
Charleston W. Va.; a fertilizer factory
at Columbia, S. C.; a ^.25-barrel
flouring mill at Ashwood, Tenn.; a
$25,000 furniture factory at North
Wilkesboro, N. C.; a $100,000 hardware
company at Pine Bluff, Ark.; a harness
factory at Griffin, Ga.; ice factories at
Brooksvllte/ Fla., Stateville, N. C., and
San Antonio and 8tephenville, Tex.;
a $100,000 lumber company at Waldron,
Arky* a $50,000 lumber company
at Fitzgerald. Ga.; a $25,000 lumber
company at Scarboro, Ga.; a $100,000
lumber company at Mancnester, N. C.;
a $25,000 lumber and planing mill company
at Hattiesburg, Miss.; a $25,000
marble company at Statesville, N. C.;
a $275,000 mining company at F^yetteviile,
N. C.; a $500,000 mining company
at Del Rio, Texas; a $250,000 oil
company at Somerset, Ky.; a $250,000
oil company at Alvin, Texas; a $300,000
oil company at Beaumont, Texas;
a $300,000 oil company at El Paso, Texas;
oil and gas company at Russell*,
ville, .Ala., and Somerset, Ky.; a $50,000
oil, gas and mining company at
Lexington, Ky.; a $300,000 oil, asphaltum
and mining company at Wheeling,
W. Va.; a $50,000 oil mill at LaGr&nge,
Texas; a $2,000,000 oil refining and
asphaltum company at Beaumont,
Texas; a planing mill-at Burke, S. C.;
a saw mill at Wilmer, Ala.; sewer pipe
works at Bethlehem, Ga.; a stave factory
at Trenton, Tenn.; a telephone
company at Glasgow, Ky., and a $300,000
tin plate mill at Clarksville, W. Va.
?Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
MORE STRIKERS RETURN.
Long Contest Is Now Practically
Ended at Cincinnati.
Two thousand machinists, who have
been on strike at Cincinnati since May
20th, returned to work Monday. This
practically ends the strike in that city.
The strike managers had announced
their intention of concentrating their
attack upon certain plants, while permitting
men to work elsewhere for the
purpose of obtaining funds. At one of
the plants designated, however, 600
employees formed in line and marched
in a body to their work, thus destroying
the strongest hope of the strike
leaders.
BRITONS MAKE ANOTHER HAUL.
Boer Laager captured ana i mny-une
Prisoners Are Taken.
Advices from Cape Coloney state
that Colonel Scobell's column surprised
and captured Scheeper's laager at
Cambdeboo, July 14th, taking thirtyone
prisoners and capturing a quantity
of ammunition and stores. Scheeper,
with the bulk of his commando, escaped.
There were no British casualties.
Most of the prisoners are rebels.
DEADLY VOLCANIC OUTBURST.
Hundreds of Lives Are Lost in Java
From Sudden Eruption of Mt. Kloe.
Oriental advices give details of a
terrible destruction of human life
which occurred in northern Java by a
sudden and terrific outburst of the
volcano Kloe. All the coffee plantations
and other estates for forty miles
around were destroyed by showers of
ashes and stones, together with great
-.treams of lava and mud. Hundreds
.t natives and a numeer of European!
perjsfcedi
SHOWERS A RELIEF f
Portions of the Drouth-Stricken
Section Blessed With Rain. M
TORRID WAVE IS ON A DECLINE ||
Benefit to Crops, However, Is of Small
Value and a Further Downpour
Is Only Assur* <
a nee of Safety.
A special Monday from Kansas City,
Mo., states that a portion of the : J
drought-stricken southwest has been .
relieved by rain during the day. Great
good has already resulted to crops, '
and, as there as prospects of a further
hpiipvpd thousands
uunuiaii) ib am wvw. -w ?. ^
upon thousands of dollars will be sared
farmers on stock and crops. Nevertheless,
much greater quantities of
rain must come beiore a lasting benefit
is done. In the portions of central
and western Missouri, western Kansas
and the territories, still untouched by
rain, conditions remained unchanged
for Monday, the temperature ranging
from 98 to 106, the latter at Hutchinson,
Kas.
The rain which fell at the end of a V||
drought of from four to eight weeks'
duration covered southwestern Missouri
and portions of one-third of Kansas,
taking in the southeastern corner
of the Sunflower State from Riley and . ^
Dickinson counties uown to the Oklahoma
line. The first break came Sunday
night, when fairly good rains fell i ^
in Barton and Green counties, Missouri,
and on the Oklahoma border in
Kansas; in Cowley and Chautauqua %?Jj
counties and along the Union Pacific -j|
road in Riley county. Tnese rains, v-?
whi.e good, were not sufficient to place ^
the burned crops out of danger. Monday
morning a heavy rain fell in the ^Jg
vicinity of Joplin, Mo., and, traveling
west, covered portions of Montgomery,. r.'i
Butler and Sedgwick counties, Kansas, g
Around Joplin there was a heavy fall
for ten minutes. At 10:30 o'clock a M
soaking rain tell in Cherokee county, v5|3
across tne line in Kansas, preceded by ;||j|
hail, benefiting pastures and small
grains Immensely and bringing relief .
to crushing plants In the zinc mining "Jlj
district.
During the afternoon a heavy rain
fell In the vicinity of Coffeyvllle, E1-.
dorado and Wichita, Kas. At Coffeyvllle
the people held a jubilee on the
streets during the rain. Two conn- . ^
ties west from Kansas City, in Jefferson
county, Kansas, a fui. inch of ; Jj
rain fell in the afternoon, 'while in m
Kansas City a temperature of 101 prevailed
and hardly a cloud was visible.
"MISTAKE," SAYS BRYAN. ^
Nebraskan Sarcastically Comments on ' -M
Action of Democratic Convention.
In an extended comment on the platr ^
form adopted by the Ohio democratic IM
convention, W. J. Bryan criticises the
convention for its failure to reaffirm ^
the Kansas City platform, and for
what he regards as the weakness of :
some of the planks it did adopt Mr.
Bryan insists that the convention
made a mistake in making himself
(Bryan) an issue, and says: . T-oBj
"Mr. Bryan is not a candidate for :
any office, and a mention of him might
have been construed by some as an
indorsement of him for office. The vote
should have been upon the naked prop- ' 8|
osition to indorse the platform of last
year, and then no one could have excused
his abandonment of democratic ;?|
. principles by pleading his dislike for
Sfr.^ryan."
Referring to the platform, he con- *
tmues;
"The, convention not only failed, but
refused ^to Indorse or reaffirm the Kan
sas City platform, and from the manher
in which tli-e ^Qld element has re- v-jsj
joiced oyer this f^pre of. thsjynvention,
one would suppose that th^malp
object of the convention was not to %
write a new platform, but to repudiate ^
the one upon whicn the last national -5
campaign was fought The gold pa- /-??
pers assume that the convention re- fM
fused to adopt the Kansas City plat- $5
form because it contained a silver
plank. If so, it would have been more - |!j
courageous to have declared openly
for the gold standard. If the gold ^
standard is good, it ought to have been v
indorsed; if bad, It ought to have been r
abandoned. To ignore the subejet en- ~
tirely was inexcusable.
"The money question is not yet out ^
of politics. Every session of congress
will have to deal with it Republicans V,
declare that it is dead, but they keep
working at it" ?
Mr. Bryan comments on parts of the vplatform,
especially those referring to U
state and municipal affairs. He in- J
dorses the nominees of the convention
and urges their support
Lightning Destroyed Factory.
rni- - Mntrtp vnrVfi nnp at
X utr uaiuu^i iuviu<
the largest factories of its kind in New
Orleans, was struck by lightning Monday
nijrht and completely destroyed.
Loss, $200,000. . ^ *-11
Strike at Newark Ended.
The strike of the machinists in^jewark,
N. J? which has been pi^?ged
for many weeks, came to an ^FMonday.
All the men returned ufpork at ' /
the terms offered by the bosses.
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LOUISIANA NAvAL MILITIA
V - X
Makes Pop Call at Pensaroia, Fla., ^
and Receives* Royal Welcome.
The United States ship Stranger*- ;?fa3
having on board fifty men and officers
of the Louisiana naval militia, also
Governor W. W. Heard, of Louisiana,
arrived at Pensacola, Fla., on annual
cruise Sunday.
Mayor Jones and a party of distinguished
officials and citizens made an
official visit to the vessel Monday
morning and a reception vu tendered
in the evening.