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MINERS QUIESCENT Unwilling to Accept Responsibility fir Coal Strike; *' ?? * vNXIOUSFORCONFERENCE Mitchell Sends Letter to Baer With Request for Further Parley?Sets Forth Grievances of the mills,! w? President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers cf America has mailed to George F. Baer, chairman of the anthracite coal operators' committee, his reply to the committee's * communication rejecting the demands of the miners* organization. The letter, in part, is as follows: "Indianapolis, Ind., March 17, 1906. ?Mr. George F. Baer, Chairman, Philadelphia.?Dear ' Sir: Referring again to your communication dated March 10, with accompanying documents, and to our reply thereto, I ?* ~ fViif T hovo cnhmlUwl WI11C tv? OCLJt Uiai. 1 uai V uuwiu.vvv> to our committee the answer made , by vou; committee to the propositions presented by us. "It is unnecessary to state that we wore keenly disappointed to learn that our demands were rejected in toto. and that our arguments in favor ; of them had received so little con- j sideration at your hands that they J w<re practically ignored in your re- ; ply to us. "Wte have again reviewed the scale ! presented for your consideration; have compared it with the scale of wages paid for similar classes of labor in other coal producing states and dis- s tricts, and we are satisfied beyond the peradventure of doubt that the wages proposed are not in excess of?indeed that they are not as high as wages paid in the bituminous mining district of our country. "Judging from the language employed in your answer to us, it is perfectly evident that we failed to nake clear or that you failed to unlerstand the real import of the propositions submitted by us. "We wish to assure you that wo are not unmindful of the great public Interests involved in this controrersy as to our future relations, neither are we unappreciative of the splendid efforts made by the anthracite coal strike commission to establish a relationship between us that would insure a just and permanent peace; but, if you will refer to the award, you will find that the commission was in some doubt as to the permanency of its findings and expressed the hope that at the expiration of the award the relations of employer and employee would have so far improved as to make impossible such a condition as x ^ existed throughout the country in consequence of the strike in the anthracite region. "We had entertained the hope that our adherence to the letter and the spirit of the award and the absence of local or general strikes in the past three years would have appealed more strongly to your confidence, and that * we might reasonably expect serious consideration of our claims at this time. "While it may be true that, on the part of the operators, there has been no serious cause for complaint during he past three years, we wish to assure you that, in expressing this opinon, you do not reflect our views. Not nly has there been criticism among he miners, but what is more important, there exists much cause for criticism and complaints. "However, we repeat that the in? an TTO Of that ITU Vd'CatA) 1UYUHCU aiv.ou iwuv |.U<.? ., . are not willing to break off negotiations without first making further effort to reconcile our differences. We, therefore, propose that further conference cy conferences be held between now and April 1. "If this suggestion meets with your approval, we shall be pleased to . arrange with you a date upon which our joint committee may reconvene. I am yours truly, "JOHN MITCHELL, Chairman." TO FIGHT FOR TWO STATES. House FJepublicans Agree to Stand Pat on Their Measure. A Washington dispatch says: As the result of a caucus, which lasted for two and a half hours Thursday, the republicans of the house voted, 126 to 35, to stand by the statehood bill as it passed the house, and ask the senate for a conference on that measure. This vote followed immedi" "' - -- ?K,r A Y"? | ateiy aner a resuiuuuii uuuca uj iut. Mondell of Wyoming, representing the insurgents, had been defeated, 123 to 43. QUICK SALE OF BONDS. % Alabama Disposes of Big Batch Which Falls Due in July. The $7,437,600 of bonds due by the state of Alabama and maturing the first day of July have gone, save a . small amount, to a syndicate composed of New York, Birmingham and Montgomery bankers. The basis is 3.82 and 4 per cent fifty-year securities. The entire amount was subscribed three times oyer. fc CLQ-QIDR MUST ANSWER, K ror Alleged Murder of Mrs. Mangrum at Nashville, Term.?City - is Stirred by Arrest. j ^ Dr. J. Herman Feist was arrested at Nashville, Tenn., Friday morning and placed in jail for the murder of \ Mrs. Rosa Mangrum, whose dead body was found floating in the Ohio river, at Cairo, 111., about six weeks ago, she having disappeared from Nashville on December 14 last. Dr. Feisc is a well known physician cf Nashville, and his arrest has caused a profound sensation. ! Mrs. Mangrum was a beautiful wo- t man and was highly connected in the Tennessee capital and throughout the state. Her disappearance and subse- J quent finding of her dead body in ] the Ohio river has puzzled the detec- tive forces of Nashville, St. Louis ] and Chicago. The warrant for the ar- 1 rest was sworn out by Chester Mason, ! a brother of the murdered woman. : Mrs. Mangrum was the wife of a 1 barber. The couple had had domestic 1 difficulties and last 'December Mrs. ' Mangrum said she would visit relatives in St. Louis. Mrs. Mangrum was 1 the possessor of considerable money 1 in her own name. No one has been found up to this time who actually ; saw Mrs. Mangrum leave Nashville. Her trunk, which was checked to St. Louis, was found in the baggage room 1 of a railroad in Chicago, and detects, -ac fn/vm tViot oitv WPrP fit OtlCP en 11 VU1 WLlUk. v*V%? ? v ? _ listad to aid the men from St. Louis ' and the local police. The detectives who made the arrest | claim to have circumstantial evidence against Dr. Feist, but they decline to divulge it at this time. Dr. Feist is known, however, to have borrowed ' money from Mrs. Mangrum, and it is ' claimed he was with her the afternoon of the night she disappeared. The warrant charges Dr. Feist with 1 both robbery and murder. By agreement between attorneys for the prosecution and defense, M!ag-' istrate Caldwell, without the hearing of evidence, ordered the prisoner's appearance before the county grand jury. Bail, which was fixed at $10, 000, was furnished after some delay and Dr. Feist was released from custody. An enormous crowd surged in the magistrate's court and out into the street during the proceedings, and excitement ran high when J. E. Mason, the aged father of the dead woman, made an attempt to get at the prisoner. The agitated old man was removed from the room by an officer, and out in the street a powerful looking man made as if to come to Mason's ;a?8istance. The officer drew his revolver and the demonstration oeased, the crowd falling back. Dr. Feist declined to discuss the case in any manner, meeting all questions with the same reply: "I have nothing to say." It is claimed by the detectives that on the night of Mrs. Mangrum's disappearance Dr. Feist had his horse and buggy out until a late hour and that the horse showed evidence of a 1 * *?*? ?"? Koincr rotnmpd tfl the trying trip upuu * wv*? v? .? livery stable where he was kept. The detectives allege that in the buggy they found two feathers from a lady's hat and that they have been identified as belonging to the hat of Mts. Mangrum wore the last time she was seen alive. REMOVED FROM BOISE JAIL. Alleged Murderers of Steunenburg Sent to Jail. Under a heavy guard, Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, who have been indicted for the murder of former Governor Steunenburg, were removed from the state prison in Boise, to the Canyon county jail in Caldwell, Idaho, against the protests of Governor Gooding. To forestall any efforts , at rescue, Sheriff Nicholas has sworn in dozens of deputy sheriffs who will patrol the jail night and day while the mining federation officials are detained. If this protection is not sufficient Governor Gooding will call out the militia. A SCRAMBLE FOR PROXIES. New York Life Officials Trying Hard to Retain Jobs. Samuel TTntermayer, counsel for | . the international policy holders' com- , mittee of the New York Life Insur- , ance company, has sent a letter to Alexander E. Orr, president of the "New York (Life, protesting In the name of the policy holders against ' what he terms the extraordinary ef- ; fort that is being made by the officers of the company to obtain proxies for the annual election, which is ' to be held early in April. BLIZZARD IN NEW YORK. Tail End of Winter Gave City a Decidedly Rough Day. It remained for the last of winter i to give to New York the first real touch of blizzard conditions experienced this season Wednesday. A rine, powdery snow, driven before a north east gale, which reached a maximum velocity of 40 miles an hour. , < FRAITORS AND CURSAmong Trustees of K'tw York Life Says Hamilton, SCATHING ARRAIGNMENT Insurance Attorney Just Returned from Paris Breaks Silence Before I Legislative Committee at Alby in Sensational Testimony. Andrew Hamilton appeared before the insurance investigating commitee at Albany, N. Y., Thursday afternoon and broke the silence which he aas maintained, except for his statement brought from Paris by John C. McCall, ever since his name was first mentioned in the investigation in connection with the great sums of money shown to'have been paid to him during the past ten years on accouct af his legal and legislative work* for the New York Life and other insurance companies. It would be difficult to exaggerate the sensation produced by his unexJ K\r f li ri cr\DDr?h [JtCltJU ayyccu uiivc auu uj LUG .. which he made or the intensely dramatic character of the whole episode. His face flushed and his voice trembling with passion, his arms upraised and his fists clenched. Judge Hamilton poured forth a flood of denunciation and invective upon the members of the board of trustees of the New York Life Insurance company, several of whom were present, designating them "curs and traitors," and paying especial attention to one unnamed whom he described as "the Pecksniff of three' administrations, the confidant of the Beers scandal and author of the Beers pension, who rotates through one administration and another and thinks that he is going to oe an indispensable member of yet auother." The only name he mentioned was that of the late President McCall, in reference to whom and to whose death he displayed marked emotion. He spoke of Mr. McCall as a. victim, as having been shouldered with the blame?"the only one, the dead man, killed, that they drove to his grave and deserted"?and declared that the memory of this man had appealed to . him "to come down here and say something for him and just a word for myself." He declared unequivocably that every payment to himself by the New York Life was made with the knowledge and approval of the trustees, especially of the finance and auditing committees. He declared again and again tnac the payments were proper and legitimate and that he had no apology to make for himself or for President McCall. One of his most interesting statements was that in -spite of reports to the contrary, the so-called "Paris account" was actually, reported and approved by the auditing committee. The first applause from the great crowd that quickly filled the great assembly chamber as soon as the fact of Judge Hamilton's presence became known about the building, broke out with a roar of laughter after his reference to the enthusiasm with which, I ho said, his victories for the New1 York Life were received by the officials of the company. "They would come and pat me on the back," he said, with a bitter sneer, "these men who would not know me now; they would come in and pat me on the back and say, 'You did it.'" A storm of applause followed his scathing reference to the "yellow dog" as a dog of courage and loyalty. "But the curs who stood around this funeral that has occurred, the curs who knew of these transactions and shrunk into their shoe3?they are the curs?and that is the reason that I come before you and say that the great interest of $2,0b0,000,000 of life insurance and $400,000,000 of assets can never be safely intrusted to the hands and administration of a lot of curs." Judge Hamilton's appearance was totally unexpected by the committee. JEROME TO VISIT GEORGIA. New York District Attorney Will Address State Bar Association. William Travers Jerome, district attorney of New York city, will be the guest of the Georgia Bar Association, which meets at Warm Springs in July. In order to have the distinguished jurist and political reformer as its guest, the 'State Bar Association has changed the date of holding the annual meeting of the lawyers from July 4 to C inclusive to July 13, 19 and 20. stancifer out on bond. Father Puts Up $1,GC0 in Cash and Son is Released. His father having put up a cash bond of $1,000 for his apDearance in court, Edward Marlon Standifer, the hnshnnri nf the woman who killed her sister, Miss Chappell Whlsenant, was released from the tower in Atlanta and left the city immdiately with his father and mother for Gadsden, Ala. PASSENGERS ROAST: | I I In Burning Wrecks of Two j Trains in Colorado. A FRIGHTFUL SMASHUP j; !1 Denver and Rio Grande Trains Crash : Together in Blinding Snow Storm t and Scores Lose Life?Caused by Sleeping Operator. j 1 ? i i A wreck accompanied with horrors j exceeded only by the Eden disaster, j . which occurred August 7, 1904, on j \ the line of the same railroad, resulted I i from a head-on collision of two pas- j senger trains on the Denver and Rio J * Grande railroad, four miles east of j ^ Florence, Col., at an early hour Fri- j i day morning. j , According to the latest dispatches ! from Pueblo, conservative estimates i 1 on the total loss of life place the num- j , ber of dead at thirty-five. Rio Grande | , officials insist that the exact number j of persons on the two trains cannot | < be ascertain; that it is impossible, j , 'S. F. Lively, night operator at | 1 Swallows, whose alleged failure to ! 1 deliver orders to train No. 3 is sup- J posed to have been the cause of the | wreck, has been in the employ of ! . the road for many years. He was j , relieved from duty Friday night, and | J will be suspended until alter tne mat- i ter is thoroughly investigated by the ! 1 officials. The trains were the Utah-California express No.3, westbound, from Denver, and the Colorado-New Mexico express, No. 16, eastbound from Leadville and Orand Junction. They met on a sharp curve, and were less than two hundred yards apart when the engineers discovered that a collision was imminent. It is known that the engineer of the westbound train put forth every possible effort to bring his train to a stop, ' but his efforts were fruitless, and, although he succeeded in checking the speed of his train, the crash that followed was beyond his power to prevent, and he went to._his death with his hand on the throttle, faithful to ' his charge. This mucn is vouched for by his fireman, who, seeing the uselessness of remaining in the face of sure death, jumped and saved himself. | 1 Of the conduct ef the engine crew of i the eastbound train, it can only be said that they died at their post, for no one lives to tell the story of their heroism. The disaster was made more horri- ^ ble by the manner of the death of many of the passengers. Fire swept ! over the wreck, engulfing the victims in a caldron of flame and leaving only charred and blackened bones to tell ! the tale of slaughter. In a blinding storm wnicn maae it almost impossible for the trainmen to see ahead, the two trains collided 1 head-on at a point midway between Portland and Adobe, 25 miles west of Pueblo, at 2 o'clock in the morning. \ The Utah and California express No. 3, westbound, left Puebltf over an hour and a half late, and was given J orders to meet the Colorado and New Mexico express, No. 16, eastbound, at ( Florence. This order was changed, { and the westbound train was directed j to pass the eastbound train at Beaver, j about 12 miles east of Florence. The order should have been deliv- | ered to the train crew at Swallows, but for some reason still unexplained, the operator there neglected to do so. j * In the meantime, the eastbound had ; received its order, and expected to ' meet the westbound train at Beaver. * In the forward' coach of the west- 1 bound train every seat was occupied 1 by passengers, most of whom were r homeseekers on their way to the * northwest. A number of foreigners were among them, and in their terror they gave rp life without making any attempt to reach safety outside the * burning car. Paralyzed with fear and with prayers upon their lip3, they sank to the , floor of the car and were roasted ; ^ alive. j i !" POISON IN WOMAN'S STOMACH. Result of Analysis Made by Georgia 1 State Chemist. The Georgia state chemist, who | I c made a chemical analysis of j f the stomach of Mrs. Reason ; t Handley states that he found cJ strychnine, and that is supposed to t have caused her death. p Reason Handley, the husband, is a held in the Irwinville jail on the r charge of murder, and will be tried i x i r at the coming term of superior court, j c | TO COMPETE WITH SALOONS. ) Baptists in Chicago to Inaugurate ^ Club Rooms, Etc. A special settlement designed to compete with neighboring saloons and ^ dance hall?, offering opportunities for refreshments as well as club rooms, ^ o rrvmnoainm and indoor games, is r a t,J to be built by the Second Baptist * Church in Chicago. Within a radius E of three blocks of the church there ^ are eighty-three saloons. % JELLOW FEVER SCARE. Doctors of Several States Called to New Orleans for Consultation. Case Was Not Yellow Jack. I-Icaitli officers of Mississippi and \iabama were called to New Orleans Saturday to investigate a supposed :ase of yellow fever on which local Physicians had come to no agreement. Dr. Iron, president of the board 5f health, furnished the press with he following statement: "The case oi Jules Ebernz was reported to be of much suspicion on Monday afternoon, March 12. Drs. Denegre Martine and J. M. Batchellor diagnosed the case as catarrhal jaundice. Dr. Hamilton Jones, after :hree days' observation of the case, reports it as yellow fever. The health officers of Mississippi, Alabama and Texas have been notified is per copy inclosed. The case was .reated as a suspicious case from the aeginning and every precaution was taken." Following is a copy of the telegram mention in Dr. Iron's letter as sent to the state health officers of the three adjoining states: "New 'Orleans, March 16, 1906.? Committee appointed to investigate suspicious fever case. Charity hospi tal differs as to diagnosis. Invite you to come. C. H. IRON, M. D., ' President State Board of Health." Dr. Batchellor, house physician of the Charity hospital, when asked regarding the case, said that the patient was Jules Ebernz, an oyster shucker, aged 30 years. He was taken to the hospital from a lodging house on March 8, and it was understood that he had been ill about seven months. Dr. Batchellor said he had diagnosed the case as catarrhal jaundice, and had seen no reason to alter his diagnosis. He had treated and observed hundreds of cases of yellow fever, and was positive that the patient was not suffering from that disease. Ebernz had been at the hospital for about seven days, but his physiccian has had ample time to examine his illness and satisfy himself as to its nature Unanimous agreement of the physicians from the states named, of the local physicians and of the representatives of the United States that the patient did not have yellow fever was the result of the autopsy held Sunday on the body of Ebernz. FEW BODIES RECOGNIZED. Majority of Victims of Horrible Wreck Cannot Be Identified. Twenty-two dead and twenty-two Injured is the latest estimate of the casualties in the wreck of the two Denver and Rio Grande passenger trains which collided 25 miles west of Pueblo, Col., early Friday moraing. Only seven of the dead bodies can be identified and only one of these retains sufficient outline of features to be readily recognized. Two telegraph operators are hetd In the public mind to be responsible for the disaster, although no formal Indictment has gone out against them. Both have been ordered discharged from the service of the road. A coroner's jury has been empaneled, and will investigate the accident. FOR POISONING HUSBAND. Louisiana Woman is Convicted and Given Fifteen-Year Sentence. Charged with poisoning her huscand with strychnine in order to be free of marital ties and to marry a rounger man, Mrs. Bettie E. White, 58 years old, of comely appearance, las been convicted of manslaughiu. n the district court at Rayville, La., )efore Judge W. J. Gray, who sen:enced the woman to a term of fif;een years in the penitentiary. UNCLE SAM MAY TAKE HAND. \ttorney General Wants to Know About Lumber Trust in Mississippi. The United States government is ibout to take a hand in the investigation of the alleged lumber trust in Mississippi. TO REFUND CAMPAIGN CASH. Trustees of New York Life Agree to Pay Sum of $148,000. The New York World says: At a inference in the office of a downown lawyer, it was agreed that the rustees of the New York Life Insurnce company who were members of he finance committee during the residential campaigns of 1896, 1900 nd 1904, and were cognizant of the lolitical contributions made by the Jew York Life, should reimburse the ompany to the extent of $148,000. preferred grave to pen. foung Man Convicted of Burglary Suicides in Jail. Ernest Vaughn, a young man who vas tried in the superior court at Jeorgetown, Ga., for burglary, found ruilty and sentenced to the peniteniary for seven years, committed sul :iae Dy laiung morpmue. x-uyaiuicmo worked faithfully to revive the young can, but all their efforts were unavailing. 'V ' ' - : ; i NEGRO AND A MULE Medium Through Which Mur- ; M der Mystery is Solved. TRICK OF VENTRILOQUIST M Superstitious Darkey Throws Light on j Butchery of Christmas Family. Son and Son-in-Law of Murdered Man Are Arrested. i Following the arrest Wednesday at Dothan, Ala., of Will Christmas, a son, -'"iffa and Walter Holland, a son-in-law, in connection with th6 triple murder ol the Christmas family, new ana sensa- ^ tional developments were brought to tight Thursday, through the medium ; of a detective; his assistant, a ventrll-^ vj|| 5 oquist, a superstitious negro and the 3 negro's mule. ^4 The detective, who has been at work on the case, declares the whole m^cforr 4c caIvdH Wo haQ hoon noftf Cottonwood, where the Christmas mur- '|jl . ^ ders were committed, for several weeks, hiding in the woods in the guise of an escaped murderer from "f Georgia, and hiring a negro to bring ,3 him his meals. He suspected the negro knew some* Z&MM thing of the crime, and with the aicl^ 1 ot a concealed ventriloquist, talked to' _ J the negro through a mule. The' negro's superstition was aroused and he v told the details of the murder to the J|| mule. The arrest of Will Christmas * and Walter Holland followed. The murder of the Christmas family .3?..;$ was one of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in the section, and^ :J|^H until reeent developments, has been Wfi >| a complete mystery. The affair ereated so much indignation that nearly $2,500 is on deposit in the Do than ; .|| banks as a reward for the arrest ot tjjjMM the murderers. FOR CHURCH IN JAPAN. - M Northern and Southern Methodists Get Together and Make Plans. . At a meeting in Baltimore Thurs- tja , day of representatives of the Methodft.JoAAnol Pliiirnh anH tho Wftth. | I VUU* VA4 MMVk ^ , ,_ odist Episcopal Church, South, acting under authority conferred by the gen- ,J9 eral conference of the two churches; -/IfflB there was formed the Methodist Epis- -i|jS ,v% copal Church of Japan. 'Ifl Those taking part in the conference ^ ^ included Bishop Earle Cranston of Washington and Rev. Dr. C. W. Smith of Pittsburg, both of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Bishop A. W. Wii- . , son of Baltimore, Bishop Charles W. Calloway of Jackson, Miss., Rev. Dr. -Jw; H James Atkins of Nashville, and Rev. Dr. W. R. Lambuth of Nashville, rep* [ resenting the southern Methodists. -::<M The agreement under which the '?M m new church was formed provides that at the next annual conference of ' the two churches in Japan, there shall % -rfsjk be selected delegates to the first convention which is to be held at Tokio, in May, 1907, when the actual life of-";J the new church will begin. m The Methodist Episcopal Church of ^ig Japan will start with three annual,- ~ conferences, more than one hundred -JiBl missionaries, seventy-five Japanese ordained preachers, 7,000 members, 189 Sunday schools, with 12,205 schol- cg3 M ars, thirty-nine schools and colleges, :,-jM with 3,936 students, a publishing house and more than $200,000 worth of prop- 'Jgjg| MARSHAL KILLED BY NEGROES. Officer Shot From Ambush While At- ' Jf tempting to Make Arrests. |j Tom Robigson, marshal of Winokur, Ga., was shot and instantly killed by negroes at that place Wednesday eight. A crowd of negroes were shooting on the streets, and Robinson start- J i| ed toward them for the purpose of .."jjflH putting them under arrest. , ^ One of them hid himself and opened fire with a rifle. He shot at Rob* : ||g^ inson four or five times before he was shot by the marshal and instantly yil- ;J||H ed. At this juncture another negro - ' opened fire on the marshal w'ti a J double-barreled shotgun, killing him in- f] stantly. 'Wat PARKHURST PLOT A HOAX. 1 Perpetrator Confesses and is Prompt. ;.|i ly Arrested for Perjury. The alleged plot to assassinate Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst was oil a noax, according to a confession mada in court at New York Thursday by Lawrence Rogers, the man who told the story upon which the jnvestigation of the alleged plot was based. ~ Rogers was promptly arrested on the ;|jS8 motion of District Atttorney Jerome and held for the grand jury on & ^|a charge of perjury. ! VICTIMS OF AN ASSASSIN. ' ~|j | Young Man and Young Lady Shot from Ambush. , Lee Stewart and Miss Willie Davis, while standing in the doorway cf the :|a| young lady's home at Florence, La^ Thursday night, were shot from ambush by an unknown party. Stewart . died of his wounds, and the young lady is believed to be fatally wounded. David Roach, a clerk in a local mer- ^ cantile establishment, is held pending an investigation.