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ERR S I L TI Wi ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOEr7 10 WCAEI.1f)AVA GREAT COAL STRIKE HAS BEEN SETTLEI oONCE'3SIONS MADE BY OPER&TOE AND OPERATIVES. As Arbitration Proposition Came From t! esistors =hrough Pierpont Morgan, on. Mooday-,ettement of Strike Followed Early Thursday Morn Jag-Commlsion to Adjust Differences. The great anthracite coal strik is settled at last. A commission c six persons, with a seventh, Mi Carroll D. Wright, as recordei will adjust differences betwee operators and miners. Presilen Mitclll of the miners will take th -e essary measures to call the strik of. . The president will urge imme dige,resumption of mining ani operations are expected to begii next week. Announcement that the grea strike was off was made by Secre tary Root with exuberant goo huior at the White House shortl: after i o'clock Thursday norning Organized labor l-as a representa tive-on the commission in the per son of E. E Clark, grand chief o the Order of Railway Conductors named as a sociogist. The presi dent idded Bishop Spalding, o Illinois, to the Jist of five member, suggested by the operators. A named the commission is perfectl] satisfactory to both miners an< operators. Assent of the miner, was given through President Mitch ell *nd Mr. Sargent, commissionei of nuigration and of the operator thYough Messrs. Robert Bacon an< George W. Perkins, of the bankinj firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co The final outcome followed a series of conferences, beginning with twc during Wednesday with Mr. Mitch, ell and .two during Wednesday night with Messrs. Bacon and Per -kins. Events moved quickly at the last, the president being deter mined on a speedy settlement. The commission will assemble ii a few days and choose a chairan probably Gen. Wilson. It the: will arrange for sessions and testi mony. The following official annonnee ment of the close of the strike was issue at the White House at 2i< a. m' Thursday morning. After a conference with Mr Mitchell and some further confer with representatives of th op~erator the president ha tdthe membe,rs of the com to inquire into, conside: ss upon all questions al 'between the operators anc BaIn the anthracite coal fields .(gn. John M. Wilson, U ,retied (late chief of engi ~4rU. S.A.), Washington, D. C. an officer of the engineer corp Seither the military or naval ser vice of the United States. M. E. W. Parker, Washington D. C.-as an expert mining engi -neer. Mr. Parker is chief statis tician of the coal disvision of th< United States geological . surve: and the editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal of New York NHon. George Gray, Wilmington Del., as a judge of a United State court. Mr. E. E. Clark, Cedar Rapids Is., grand chief of the Order c Railroad Conductors-as a sociolk gist, the president assuming tha for the purposes of such a commis sion the term sociologist means man who has thought and studie deeply on social questions and ha practically applied his knowledge Mr. Thomas H. Watkins, Scrat ton, Pa., as a man practically ac quainted with the mining and sell ing of coal. Bishop John L. Spalding, of Pec ria, Ill. The Presideut has adde Bishop Spalding's name to the con mission. Hon. Carroll D. Wright he been appointed recorder of the con mission. The settlement of the strike fo lowed closely the Proposition of the Operators. At a conference beld at the Whil 3Boue on Mnay night of th week, at which were present J. Pier pont Morgan, Robert S. Bacon, one of Morgan's partners, Secretary Root, Secretary Coetelyou, and President S Roosevelt, the following statement, explaining the position of the mine op erators in reference to the Pennsyl vania coal strike, and stating the con ditions under which they would agree to arbitration, which had been pre pared by the managers of the dif ferent coal properties, was laid be e fore the President by Mr. Morgan. The statement was then given to the press and the public by Secretary Cortelyon. THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT. e Secetary Cortelyon, by authority e of those preent at the White House', made public the following autho rized datement concerning the con ference: Mr. J.. Pierpont Morgan came to t Washington with his partner, Mr. Bacon, at the request of the com panies, who desired that as a matter of courtesy their statement should be shown to the president before it was made public. Having been laid before the president by Mr. Mor gan, it is now given to the press. To the Public: The managers of the different coal f properties comprising the anthracite coal fields, wish their position in the present strike to be understood, and therefore make the following state ment of facts: There are in the anthracite regions about 75 operating companies and firms and 147,000 miners and work men (of which 30,000 are under age) comprising some 20 nationalities and dialects. Of these workmen possibly one half belong to the United Mine Workers' Union, of which Mr. John Mitchell is president. That organ ization was originally formed in the bituminous coal region, and three tourths of its members are miners of bituminous coal, and.bitnminous coal is sold in- active competition with autjiraite coal Thie remaining-work men~ in the anthracite fields either belong -to no union whatever or do not -belong to the Mine Workers' Union. The present gtrike was declared by the Mmne Workers' union on the-10th Sday of May, 1902. Since that time many workma.n not belonging to or not willing to follow that organisa tion were working in and about the mines. From 17,000 to 20,000 are now at work. 'Many more have wished to work but have been prevent ed by a course of violence and intimi dation towards those working, and toward their families, accompanied by the destruction of properties and the fear of death or bodily harm to every man who wishes to exercise his right to work. A schedule is annexed hereto showing some of the things done to create this reign of terror, and every instance stated can be verified - by reference to the officers of the law -ivil and miltary-in the anthracite region. This violence has continued and steadily increased notwithstand ing repeated disavowals by Mr. Mitchell, and it is clear he either can not or will not prevent it, and that the rights of the other workmen can not be protected under his supre macy from mine workers' union. f WHY ARBITRATION WAS DECLINED. - The coal companies believe that t the wages paid in the coal regions -are for and full and all the business a in its normal condition has been : able to stand if the capital invested s is to have any reasonable return. .The profits have been small, severa. - of the companies have become bank -rupt and been reorganized several - times. Several have not paid divi dends, and the dividends of the of the others have been a small re d turn for the capital invested. It is not - however, the purpose of this state ment to discuss this question. The s undersigned are not, and never have - been, unwilling to submit all qnes tions between them and their work men to any fair tribunal for decision. - They are not willing to enter into arbitration with the mine workers' union, an organization chiefly com e posed of men in a rival and compe is tiie internet, and they are not will ing to make any arrangement whic will not secure to the men now wor] ing, and all now or hereafter wishir to work, whether they belong to ti miue workers' union or not, the rig] and opportunity to work in safel and without personal insult or bodil harm to themselves or their famihe For these reasons the arbitratiot heretofore proposed have been di clined. It will be remembered that at ti conference in Washington October we made the following offer: Thi we would take up at each collier any alleged grievance, and in th event of a failure to make a satisfac tory adjustment of the questions t issue to be submitted to the fine decision of the judges of the con of common pleas of the district i which the colliery is located. Thi offer was made by us in good fait and we desire here to reaffim it. The coal companies realize the the urgent public need of coal, an the apprehension of an inadequat supply for the approaching wint calls for an earnest effort to reach practical conclusion which will rF salt in an increased supply, and th presidents of the companies desir to make every effort to that en which does not involve the aban donment of the interests committe to their care and of the men who ar working and seeking to work i: their mines. This responsibilit; they must bear and meet' as bee they can. THE OPERATORS' PROPOSITION. They therefore restate their posi tion: That they are not discriminat ing against the United Mine Work erss but they insist that the minerm union shall not dissriminate againe >r refuse to work with non-unioi men; that there shall be no restric tion or deterioration in quantity o quality of woik, and that owing t the varying physical conditions o the anthracite mines each colliery i a problem by itself. We suggest a commission be ap pointed by the President of theUnit:e< tates (if he is willing to perfora hat public service) to whom shal ~e referred all questions at issue be ween the respective companies an< heir ownl employes, whether the; elong to a union or not, and thi ecision of that commission shall b cepted by us. The commission to be constitute< s follows: 1. An officer in the engineer corp f either the military or naval ser ice of the United States. 2. An expert mining engineer, ex perienced in the mining of coal an< ther minerals, and not in any Wa; onnected with 2oal mining proper ties, either anthracite or bituminous 3. One of the judges of the Unite< States courts of the eastern distric f Pennsylvania. 4. A man of prominence, eminen as a sociologist. 5. A man who, by active partici pation in mining and selling coal,i familiar with the physical and com mercial features of the buginess. wILL BE IM1MEDIATELY EFFECTIvE. It being understood immediatel upon the constitutio,n of the con mission in order that idleness an non production may cease instantl: the miners will return to work an cease all interference with and pei secution of any non union men wh~ are working or ,shall hereafter worn The findings of this commission sha fix the date when'the same shall b exfective, and shall govern the coi d:*ons of employment between th rapective companies and their oiw employes for a term of at least thre years. George F. Baker, president Phili delphia and Reading Coal and Irc company, Lehigh and Wilkesbari Coal company and Temple Iron con pany. E. B. Thomas, chairman Pen sylvania Coal company, Tillside Co and Iron company. WV. H. Truesdazle, president Del ware and Laickawanna and Westt Railroad company. T. P. Fowler, president Scrant< Coal company, Elk Hill Coal at iron company. R. M. Olyphnt, president Del sh ware and Hudson company. k Alfred Walters, president Lehi ig Valley Coal company. ie A note appended to the stateme: it reads: y "The schedule referred to in tb y statement was not brought from Nc s. York as it had not been completed is PRESIDENT MITCHELL, of the mine operators' union, whE seen by a representative of the Ass ie ciated Press on Tuesday, the dt 3' following the proposition of ti t operators given above, gave out tl y following statement: e "I fully appreciate with what an: s iety the peeple of our country a awaiting the end of the coal strik, The coal operators have not a< - dressed the miners' union or i a officers in making their public stati s ment. It is therefore inupossible fi h me to state the attitude of the mij ers at this time. I am now, as t have always been, deeply solicitot d of the interests of the public and ti e welfare of the mine workers wb r have been on a strike for the paa a five months. A formal statemei defining our position and intentioi e will be issued just as soon as we ai e in possession of the full meaning < the proposition of the operators." This statement was made by hii d at 8 o'clock after a silence lastin e all day. He had no intention < " making it until the correspondeni representing newspapers all over ti country called on him in a body an informed him that the general put lie desired to have an answer to tb proposition of the operators. Aft( giving it he was asked many quer tions regarding the attitude of tb men and the probability of the a< t ceptance or rejection of .the ne offer, but he had no reply to mat to any of these questions. He d< r nied that he had any knowledge < D what the new offer of the operatoi f was until it became public propert; * and also denied that he was in telE phonic communication with Pres dent Roosevelt. His attention we Scalled to the fact that most of tb 2 information from Washington id: Scated that the proposition would k -accepted and that the strike wi near at an end, but he stoutly mnaii F tained that neither his officers nc a the rank and file of the men had don Sanything to cause such an imprei sion to go out. SThe district presidents also maiE tain silence as to their persona s opinion on the proposition, excep ing President Fahy, who after k arrived from Boston today gave a - inkling as to how he viewed the ne Iturn of affairs. In reply to a quer: he said: "The strike cannot be settled witi out the consent of the men. a. are not dealing in gold bricks of an Ikind, and you can make any dedni t tion from that-you want." tAlexandre Young, corporatic counsel of Hudson county, N. Y has been arrested for kidnapping h: own child. After the granting of adivorce to Young and his wife, Mri Young was given custody of tt child, and this makes the third a tempt of the fathe'r to steal it. Only a Penny.. d "Only a penny," I beard them say, ' A penny for Jesus, if given each day, d Would send the Gospel to every -soul -Now sitting in darkness, from pole to pol o Only a penny from every one Who bears the name of God's own So 1 Only a penny! How small a sum, eBy the side of millions that go for rut To ruin the bodies and souls of men, Or the millions that end in smoke-ai ethen, n A penny apiece from every one e Who is saved by the death of God's ov i Only a penny from young and old, n From the little lambs within the fold; eFrom the orphaned and widowed on - who share With all God's poor, in the Shepheri care, 3- Only a penny apiece from every one al Who prays in the name of God's own S Only a penny to show our love a- To Him who left his homie above er For this very work; and wbose last co: miand Left this mission to Christians in eve mland; id Only a penn y fro:ni every one To send the Gospel of God's own Son. a -Exchange ANYTHINGi ANYWHERIE. P b Brief Paragraphe Giving some of the Happ ning* of the World of Wen. Two men were killed, four fatally E is and others seriously injured in a mine explosion at Pawnee, Illinois, Fa1 Monday afternoon. The explosion was caused by too much powder in a blast, the concussion causing the coal n dust to explode with great force. " Those killed were 4,000 feet away yo ly from the point where the shot was his 1e fired. an( the Ambassador Choate and Gens. tio Corbin, Wood and Young were the sai e guests of King Edward at a lunch eon at Buckingham Palace on Mon- cra day in honor of Lord Kitchener, fai ts prior to the latter's departure for tio India. The health of Roosevelt was orc r proposed. a. It is thought that at least one hun- by is dred graves in Indianapolis have trit 1e been despoiled within the last three iml O months by medical students. Four On dead bodies were found tied in sacks De it in a dry goods box in the rear of the gre is College of Physicians and Surgeons of e this week. far ber An aerounaut, De Bradsky, and pe his engineer, Morin, were killed by tar f falling from a dirigible balloon near foil Paris on Monday.., The ropes by of s which the car was fastened to the alli e balloon broke from some unkrown sut cause, and the occupants were dashed aby to the ground, meeting instantaneous e death. The balloon disappeared in pul r the clouds. am n- pul e Governor Odell opened the New wa York State Republican campaign in ing w Brooklyn with a number of speeches po on Monday night. He asserts the ero right of the state to.intervene in the suL coal strike. our 's an< . A north bound fast mail, running we . at a speed of forty miles an hour, the sleft the track near Greensboro, N. C., the e on Tuesday, and went jumping on . the cross-ties for more than two hun. del e dred yards, part of the distance in. rae s eluding a high embankment, steel fit trestle and sharp curve. The train sbc rwas loaded with passengers, and it is my e almost miraculous that no one wa,s ass . hurt and the train very little damn- rae il aged. mu LI Clarence H. iafackay has beendo elected president of the Commercialta A Cable Company and the Postal Tele-ha n graph Cable Company, to succeedha W his father. pec _____ _____De The Crime of Circumstantial Evidence. ter e --ale S -History is full of instances where of innocent men have been hung for Th murder and other crimes on circum- tur n stantial evidence, the facts of the api ., case frequently not being known try is until many years after. the tragic ful a mistake has been made, but proba- saf 3. bly no circumstance of this kind has we Le ever carried with it a more shocking hol t- realization of the enormity of a mati'e the life being taken by the law because thr circumetances are apparently against of him than a case the details of which have recently been published. wh In Richmond, Va, on October the has third, John Wesley Hicks, con- era e, victed of the murder of Miltonpo Bourne, his son-in law, was hanged asc at Louisa Courthouse. rer Just twenty years ago, a man was miu hanged in Virginia because circum-pr d stantial evidence pointed 'o the con- in clusion that he had murdered for ful their money an old man and his wife cor mnamed Massey. So st:rong was the for evidence that everyone believed that wo the prisoner committed the crime; tin es but the sequel proves trhat lawyers, Co judge, jury and public were wrong. att L's The sequel is this: Just before arn Hicks paid the death penalty last on week he publicly coefessed that he f had committed the crime for which pr another had paid his life, detaihing pr the circumstances in such a manner by as left no doubt in his hearers' minds on ry as to his own guilt and the martyr domi of the man who had died assert ing 'is innocence. 'sti IA good .lesson this for judge and wi inry -Ex. p tRTY'S OPPORTUNITY AS SEEN BY CLEYELAND. -PRESIDENT BEl Is, VM TH 1T THE TIME 18 RIVE a D.-mneratic Vlctory-Repubtlcsns Ihould Not B. Permttued to Occupy Our Tariff Reform Grond-P;ght ing $hauidu't Cease. " To representative of The New rk Evening Post, who asked. him views in regard to the outlook for i ihe duty of the Democracy in approaching congressional elec as, ex President Grover Cleveland d: 'It seems to me that if the Demo cy is really in earnest it cannot largely to increase its representa a in the next congress, but in ler to do so I think there must be onstant and stalwart insistence n the things which are recognized all to be true Democratic doe. ies. Of course, by far the most )ortant of these is tariff reform. this issue, I am satisfied that the mocracy is face to face with a at opportunity. All of the signs the times point to a recognition, beyond all party lines, of the _ efits which would accrue to the ple by a readjustment of the if, and it would be worse than ,y for the party under the stress mny temptation or yielding to any irement to permit this to be ordinated to or overshadowed by other issue. 'The present restlessness in Re )lican circles on this subject, often Dunting to protests against Re )lican pr.tective theories, should en the Democracy of :n impend danger.. I mean by this the sibility that our opponerts may wd us from our position on. this ,ject, if we allow them to do so by lukewarmness and indiffei ence i to occupy our ground, just as permitted them to crowd us from ground that belonged to us on question of sound money. 'I am very much pleased with thze iverance of, the New York Democ. y on the tariff issue, and it was and proper that the Empire State ld sound the right note. It is clear conviction, that the bestI Irance of success for the Democ y in the next national canmpaign t be found in a sincere and unre ting insistence upon its old time1 trine of a fair and beneficent f adjustment. This insistence ld be from now on. It need f, dly be said that success will de- g d upon the presentation of tariff trine not only recognized as truly ocratie by those who may be ned veterans in the party, but commending itself to the hosts ~ the younger men of our land. t musands of these await the oppor ity to espouse a cause which must eal-to disinterested love of con- I and which is based upon thought regard of all our people and the sty of the mnstitutions under which live. To these young men no e >e is offered for the realization of t ir patriotic aspirations except ough the conscientious endeavors :he Democratic party.t 'am at aloss to understand by t at process of reasoning the notion gamed a footing in certain Demo tic quarters not only that no im tance attaches to a Democratic endency in the next house of resentatives, but even that it ht be advantageous to party spects in 1904 for it to continue its present minority now. Power warfare ought to be regarded as tinuous, and if the results battled a are worth having at all, they are rthy of our best efforts at all ies and under all circumstances. istant vigilance and unrelenting ack are essential to victory, armies Scaptured by first driving in the bposts. "I cannot believe that the bright )spects of the Democracy in the sent campaign are to be marred any lack of hard work and strenu s fighting." The extensive sale of fine live ck at auction during Fair week 11 give all an opportunlity to ima Fresh - Ogsiers! FRIED, STEWED, 3ROILED OR RAW. renderloin Steak, Fish, Game, Ham and . Eggs, Etc. . COOKED - IN FIRST-CLASS MANNER-I knd Served on Short - Notice at - S. B. JONES' RESTAURANT. RIPKS! Our Soda Fountain offers so many de licious and whole some Drinks that we know not which to mention first. )ur Ginger Ale Is in great demand be cause so refreshing. Unfermented. Grape Juice Beverages are popular. Of course there is nothing quite takes the place of our Milk Shakes. Come here for your Soda Drinks. laves' Drug Store. P. S. Order your Cream ly the gallon from us. ev Firtire Store! Wheii you are in Newberry don't til to call at the New Furniture tore of SHELLY a DEAN, ak of Mimnaugh's, on Friend street, y buy your Furniture. Their goods re all new and just from the fac ries, up to date in finish, style and rorkmanship. We carry a full line of mits, ~eds, Bureaus, Safes, Chairs, Rockers, Tables, fact everything in the house fur ishing line. We are also prepared > do first class repair work on Vatbes, Clocks, Jewelry, Musical netruments, Sewing Machines and 'urniture of all kinds. Give us a rial and be convinced that we are de cheapest in town. Yours for low prices, NeWvberry, 8. C. I Have Just returned from the North with ,beautiful selection of Fewery, Clocks and Silverware, d invite you all to inspect them. Prices Reasonable, Your Watch and Clock work solie. ted, and work guaranteed. Thanking you for past favors, and oping for a continuance, I am yours or the money. Jewelear anrd Opian.