The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 09, 1902, Image 3
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Matters Discussed By the Bartow
Philosopher
| HE WRITES VERY INTERESTINGLY
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| MucSi Good Reasoning and Practical
Common Sense, Written in Cheerful
Language.
Atlanta Constitution.
Goldsmith in a short and pretty
preface to the "Vicar of Wakefield,"
sa\s: "There are a hundred faults in
this thing and a hundred things might
be said to prove them beauties. A
^ book may be amusing with many
errors or ic may be dull without a
single absurdity. The hero in this
story unites in himself the three greatest
characters 011 earth?the priest,
the husbandman and the father of a
family.
Strange that the author could write
such a charming story about the very
three characters he knew least about,
for he had no fitness for nor'experience
in either. It is not recorded that
he was ever in love or sought the com
- * ln/llno vet nic
pany ci viriuuus .juuu? iauuo,
ballad cf the Hermit in the "Vicar of
Wakefield" is admitted to be the tenderfst
and most perfect love poem
ever written. My father made me commit
it to memory when I was young
and there are at least a dozen verses
in it that 1 can cry over now and it
does me good. It is a comfort to weep
over these sad, sweet things. Langhorn
wrote a verse about a poor woman
with a babe at her breast hunting
over the battle field of Miaden for
the body of her husband, and when
she found him she knelt by his side
and wept and the big tears fell upon
the face of her child and mingled with
the milk he drew. "A child of misery
baptized in tears." A painting was
made of it, and Walter Scott says the
only time he over saw Burns he was
looking at that painting and crying
like a child. To read the lines and
/ imagine the painting is enough for me.
But if I had been Goldsmith I would
PPJ"* have set down the mother of a fam?
ily as greater than the father. Evan
Howell said he would not vote for a
curfew, for his observation was that if
the fathers would 6tay at home at
night the toys would and that'song of
"Where is my wandering boy :onight?"
wc ulfl not have been written.
But the fathers can't all stay at home
at night. They are wanted at the
store, the office, the counting room,
for on them depends the support of
the family. But many a tired mother
can sing. "Where is my wandering
husband tonight?" Alas, too many can
be found at the club, at the pool
room or the hotel, while the mother is
straining her mind to untangle that
hard sum. "If A and B can build a
house in thirty days and B can build
it in forty five days, how long will It
take A to build it?"
Take it all in all, it 13 the mothers
who are the hope of the world?the
, saviours of the children. They certainly
save the girls, for nobody has yet
sung. "Where is my wandering girl toright?"
If the fathers would do their
halt and save the boys it would be all
right. Oh. but for the mothers and
wives and sisters, what would become
of us without them? Since I haye been
sick sometimes away in the silenc
watches of the night, when, as Job
savsv "Deep sleep falteth upon a'man,'*
it does not fall upon a woman, for I
feej her gentle touch arranging the
cover and feeling whether I am breath
ing or not. Since I have been sick I
have never caught her fast asleep and
the other nieht she got hurt with me
because I slipped out In the hall and
called the girls down to make a fire
and heat some water, for I was lick
and suffering, and there was no hot
> water in the boiler. It is just as Scott
wrrfPrhen
pain and anguish wring the
brow.
A ministering angel thou,"
And as Coleridge wrote:
"A mother is a mother still;
The holiest thing alive."
I may have written it before, but will
write it again, that one night I agree 1
to stay with two dear little girls while
their father and mother went out to
tea at aa neighbor's. This pleased me,
for I am always happy in their company,
and they in mine. When bed
time came I undressed them and they
knelt by my knees and said their praters;
one of them was soon asleep, but
the other lingered aad said. "Gran'pa,
when papa comes home please tell him
I love him." Yes. I will." said 1.
"What must I tell your mamma?" She
closed her eyes and said. "Nothingshe
knows I love her." That express,
cs it. That child's father loves those
little girls dearly, but he keeps a drug
store, and is the prescription partner.
He goes to the store oerore nis cmiaren
get up. He has but an hour with
them at noon, and has to return to the
store soon after supper. No wonder
these little girls want him to know
that they love him. Boys are very deferent,
and when they get up in their
teens mothers lose their influence.
Some say it is bad associates. Of
course that has something to do with
it, but Cain didn't have any that we
know of. and yet he killed his brother.
Environment is a big word, but it covers
everything that a boy inherits or
that he gets from association. One day
* a friend of mine, a Hebrew, said to me.
uMajor. I polieve you does love your
^ childurn better dan a.vbody in Jctov
n." ' Oh. no. I reckon not." said I.
Don't you love your children?" "Vy,
yes, of tourse: b it I pelieve you vouM
die for your sbildrun better dan anybody
in de town." "Oh. no. I reckon
net." said I. "Don't you love your children?"
Vy, yes. of course, but I pelieve
you vould die for yours?" said I.
He pondered a while. "Yes, I pelieve I
vould: dat is. for all?except Frank."
Frank was his bad boy and gave him
troudle; but Frank turned out to be a
good boy, and ish one of the best citizens
of Atlanta.
One of my best old-t'm* friends was
^ a Norwegian, and was killed during the
war. He had some good, amiable
I daughters, and had two sens, who were
4 bad. very bad, aijd, as I was mayor of
f ' the
town, they gave me trouble. Their |
father was a member of the council, an i
elder in my church, and I had favored
his boys as much as possible; but one
night, just before Christmas, they
broltfe into a hardware store and stole
a keg of powder and hid it in their
stable loft. They had planned to blow
nn tho / alnhnoRP The eitv marshal
(old Sam Stewart) found it and arrested
the boys and brought them before
me for trial. I put it off until next
morning. That night I went to see the
father and mother. She cried, of course,
and he choked up 2s she talked. "Mine
poot friendt?I has been prayin' over
ciis ting about mine pcys and it seems
to me do goot Lord say mine poys is
goin' to queet. Dcy take it all from
me. I has been in de calaboose in
Stockholm a hundred times, but von
day I queet. I shost quect rigt off all a
sudden, and I peiieve if you will try
my poys one more time dey will queet."
And sure enough they did quit, and
grew up to a good manhood. One of
them is the cashier of the largest bank
in Memphis, and the other the head of
a hardware house in Louisville, Ky.
Sometimes I think that it is the halo of
a mother's prayers that reclaims many
a wayward boy. If the voung man
would only stop and think?think of
the watches of the night when he was
a teething infant tugging at an empty
breast for milk while the poor, tired
mother changed him from side to side
and longed for the morning. I have
wondered how they survived it, and
why they would go through the ordeal
again. A man wouldn't, and not all of
them will help and comfort the poor
T'other when she feels for the first time
her first born's breath. But we must
not give up the May be they will,
like the prodigal son, come to themselves
and "queet." BILL ARP.
4,000 /"lore May Strike.
Birmingham, Ala., Sperial.?If the j
orders of the officials of the United
Mine Workers are obeyed 4.200 miners
in the employ of the Tennesee Coal,
Iron & Railroad Company will be idle.
The strike inaugurated several days
ago on account of the failure of the
company to deduct $1 from the minora*
wages without a written consent from
each miner, has extended to the Blocton
and Blue Creek fields. The Tennessee
Company will make an effort to begin
work at Blue Creek Monday morning,
but the result is problematical.
LABOR WORLD.
Kansas farmers offer as high as $2.50
a day and board for harvesters.
All ihe miners in the White Oak district
of West Virginia have returned to
work. .
Sewer laborers at Chicago have
struck for an increase of twenty-five to
fifty cents a day.
It is said that the Southern textile
mills employ 50,000 children under sixteen
years of age.
Farmers in Ontario. Can., find it
difficult to obtain help, even though j
$1.75 a day and hoard Is offered.
The strike of the Chicago City Railway
employes has been compromised,
the men. however, gaining many concessions.
French miners have voted to demand
an eight-hour day. this to inoludb time
taken for meals and in going to and
from their work.
Among the working women in Belgium
there are 30.000 who earn less
than thirty cents n day. Only 9000
earn more than fifty cents and only j
395 more .than eighty cents a day.
The 'work of organizing the retail
drug clerks of Baltimore into a union
to affiliate with the Federation of Labor
has begun. An eight-hour work
(lay will be demanded by the union.
There are now six cities in the Sheet
Metal Workers' National Alliance,
which was formed recently, as follows:
Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn,
Pittsburg, Chicago and Atlantic City.
Unskilled laborers are very scare at
Cincinnati, Ohio. The wages have
gone up from $1.35 to $2 a day, and
even to $2.25. The city is paying $1.75
a day of eight hours, and many jobs
have gone begging.
Workmen employed at the Cia de
Construcciones Metalicas, at the City
of Mexico, Mexico, went out on a strike
recently. The strike was made because
a demand for more wages and shorter
hours of work was not complied with
by the employers.
NEWSY CLEANINGS.
China will not secure mini experts
from the United States.
Japan has ordered a complete armorplate
mill from a Sheffield tirm.
The rainy season in Nicaragua has
started, but is four months late.
New Zealand has purchased one of
the largest coal mines in that country.
Major-General Corbin declares that
the German Army is among the best in
the world.
A music trust is reported from Italy
to do away with the great number of
>ublishers.
Since August .10 there have been
."235 cases of cholera in Egypt, with
GG51 deaths.
The French Government proposes In
the coming budget to reduce sugar taxation
by $8,000,000.
The big lioness Sultana, of the Faris
Zoo, has been successfully operated
upon for appendicitis.
An understanding has been reached
by German steamship lines which puts
an end to competition in Brazilian
rates.
A new rich scold field has just heen
discovered in Northwestern Arizona,
but lack of water hinders development.
So many thatched roofs in the Transvaal
were burned during the war that
a boom in American galvanized iron is
expected.
The agricultural and pastoral industry
of the Argentine Republic is iu a
critical condition in consequence of
ng-continued drought.
The New Zealand Government has
uvited tenders for a direct monthly
freight, passenger and mail steamship
service from New Zealand to South
Africa.
King Edward has approved the issue
of a second' South African war medal,
bearing his own effigy. It will be
granted to troops which participated in
the latter phases of the war.
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL!
A $200,000 Finishing Plant.
Last February the Manufacturers
Record announced particulars concerning
the extensive finishing plant to b?
established by H. N. Wheat, president
pi Gatfney Manufacturing Co., and his
associates at Gaffney, S. C. The construction
work has since been in progress,
and will bs pushed steadily to ,
completion. Nicholas Ittner of Atlanta,
Ga., being contractor for the main
building, a 100x250-foot structure. It
has been decided that the Gaffney
Manufacturing Co. will own and operate
the new plant, and Its capital
stock during the past week was increased
from $S0&,)00 to fl,000,000 in
order to pay for the plant. As was stated
previously, this plant will contain
equipment for bleaching yarns and
piece goods, dyeing yarns, warps and
piece goods, printing piece goods, and
for washing, soaping, tentering, calendering
and finishing cotton goods by
the various processes in use. The Gaffney
Manufacturing Co. operates 67,010
spindles and 1400 looms on plain print
cloth, and when the finishing plant is
completed will change its product to
fancy dobby weaves, dress goods,
waistings, etc., in accordance with announcement
made last February.
Messrs. Lockwood, Green & Co., of
Boston are architects?and engineers for
this finishing plant.
Plens For 80,000 Spindles.
The Manufacturers' Record announced
last week particulars regarding contror?f
a tVio Hon Riror Pntvnr
& Manufacturing Co., for the construction
of a $300,000 dam and power-house
on the Dan river near Danville, Va.
The contractors?the J. W. Bishop
Company of Providence and Bostonare
now preparing to proceed with the
work, and will push it to completion
as rapidly as possible. The Dan River
corporation has now about decided as
to the character and extent of the cotton-manufacturing
plant to be built In
connection with those water-power developments.
It contemplates building
for 80,000 spindles, with looms and
other machinery in proportion, but has
not definitely determined as to the
character of goods to be produced.
A $53,000 Improvement.
The stockholders of the J. M. Odell
Manufacturing Co. of Bynum, N. C.,
held their semi-annual meeting last
week. Improvements were decided upon
to require an expenditure of about
$52,000, and new stock for that amount
will be Issued. The capital thereby increased
from $58,000 to $110,000. The
betterments will be mainly the installation
of 150 looms (so that the company
can manufacture into cloth the
product of yarn from its 6.000 spindles)
and the construction of a new dam ten
feet high to replace the present fourfoot
dam. W. L. London of Pittsboro,
N. C., was elected secretary and general
manager to succeed Clarence P. Emorj,
lately deceased.
Textile Notes.
Anderson (S. C.) Cotton Mills held i
Its annual stoekholde.s' meeting last
week and declared the usual annual
dividend of 8 per cent. This action was
taken notwithstanding the fact that
about half of the company's machinery
has been Idle since last spring because
of the destruction of the dam that had
been fnrpishing power. This dam is,
hawever, about rebuilt and the mills' j
full complement of 61,000 spindls and
1,864 looms will be in operation next
month.
Tennessee Woolen Mills Co. of McMlnnville,
Tenn., reported last week as
incorporated, etc., will expend. about j
$3,000 to put in condition for operation |
the plant It acquired. The work is now
in progress, and manufacturing is ex-,
pected to begin next month. All the :
machinery and supplies needed have '
been purchased. The company is
rAnltflH7A/? Qt AAA \f T T*aaa V*oa
veen elected secretary and treasurer.
Mention was made last week of a report
stating tbat Thos. Hirst of Vine- \
land N. J., was looking for a site at
Petersburg, Va.. to establish a rug
factory. The report has been confirmed,
and Mr. Hirst intends to establish
such a plant if he can .mtain a suitable
location. Mr. Hirst is connected with
the Hirst Smyrna Manufacturing Co.,
operating a plant of 300 looms at Vineland
and capitalized at $250,000.
Messrs. H. E. Fries and Thoma3
Maslin have purchased the Twin City
Knitting Mills at Winston-Salem, N.
C., and will organize company to continue
its operation. The plant has
been in the hands of a receiver for
some time. It has twenty-four knitting
machines, uses electric power,
manufactures underwear and dyes Its
own product.
It is reported tbat the Liberty Silk
Mills Co. of Paterson, N. J., will build
a large branch mill at Norfolk, Va.
A movement is on foot for the establishment
of a cotton mill at Marshall,
N. C. Local investors have subscribed
$28,000, and a proposition from a
North Carolina manufacturer to furnish
additional capital is now being
considered. Messrs. Chas. B. Mashburn,
J. J. Redmon and J. R. Swann
orr> o nnmrnitt^P in
The Victor Cotton Mills of Charlotte.
N. C., will meet, as was stated last
week, on September 29 to consider
plans for enlarging the plant This
will be a special mee-ctng of stockholders
to consider the erection of a weave
shed and the installation of 400 looms.
It is understood that the improvements
will be voted.
It is rumored that J. L. Erwin, of
Newport. Tenn.. and associates will establish
a cotton mill at Murphy. N. C.
Royal L'ag & Tarn Manufacturing
Co.. Charleston. 3. C.. will build and
equip a schoolhouse and tender instructions
free of charge to the children
of its operatives. This company
just completed several months ago its
?223,C00 plant for spinning yarns,
weaving bag cloth and manufacturing
seamless bags.
In referring to the report mentioned
last week that the Lane Mills of New
Orleans intended to add a 20,000-spindle
plant, the company states: "The
announcement is somewhat premature,
nd we are not ready as yet to give any
information."
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PALMETTO NEWS BRIEFS.
Items of Interest Gleaned From All
Farts of the State.
Found a Baby Boy.
Chester, Special.?There was great
c-Mfitement in the neighborhood of th.j
Southern depot early Saturday morn
ing occasioned by the finding of a nicely
dressed, apparently six weeks old j
white ha by boy. It was found lying
on the warehouse platform last night
9 o'clock by Ellen Price, an old darkey
living near the depot. She was passing
along by the warehouse and heard
its faint and lonely cries in the dark.
She was overcome with excitement
at the time, but summoned u.) courage
enough to care for it, and take it into
her cabin for a night's lodging. Early
this morning she reported the matter
to police headquarters, and all day
people of both races have gone to the
Price house to look at the baby
stranger without home and parents.
The baby was comfortably wrapped up
and supplied with three changes of
clothes and the following note was left
beside it: "This child I leave in the
hands of some dear one, trusting that
it will be cared for, as I am not able
10 care for itmyself. I leave it here in
the sight of the Heavenly One. Christ
Jesus." Unless the city authorities can
find some home for it here It will be
sent to the county poor house. The
police are working on the case and are
trying to find whence the child came.
The supposition is that it was brought
tiapo. r\r* r>T\a nf fho nnrtVi hrmnit trains
of the Southern railroad.
How He Escaped.
Florence, Special.?Amos Singleton,
a negro convict, escaped from the gang
about 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning,
having filed his chains while the guard
was sleeping. It was reported from
Sumter today that while fleeing he shot
Policeman A. D. Owens there Saturday
night. Singleton was sentenced to five
years on the gang for the shooting of
Truluck, at Tjmmonsville, about two
years ago. He had served part of hi3
sentence. He was a bad darkey, and
Owens, whose life has paid for his fidelity
to duty in trying to arrest the escaped
convict, had been warned against
trying to take him. The story as told
the State's correspondent was that the
policeman saw the negro and called to
him to halt, but the negro ran behind
a house and the officer followed him.
Just as he turned the corner the negro
fired, the ball taking effect instantly.
The negro had turned as soon as he got
behind the house and was waiting for
his pursuer. His home was in Sumter
and after his escape Superintendent
Powell of the gang went over there to
look for him, but returned yesterday,
reporting that nothing had been heard
from h:.m. Evidently the negro was
lying in concealment until Mr. Powell
left.
Anderson's New Road.
Anderson, Special?The secretary of
State of Georgia has issued a charter
to the Tennessee, GeQrgia and South
Carolina railroad. This is the new road
which is projected to run from Charleston,
Tenn., to this city. It is learned
here that there has been a delay in
securing the charter in this State. The
South Carolina law provides that no
charter shall be granted to a railroad
unless at least one of the corporators
is a resident of the State. This requirement
was overlooked in the application
for a charter recently made to the
secretary of State, and the defect will
be remedied in another application
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wmcn is soon 10 dc maue. irir. w. jd.
Frink of Chi:ago, who is one.of the
promoters of the road, has been in
correspondence with Anderson parties
and writes that he will be here during
the latter part of this month, and that
he is anxious to meet Anderson people
and explain his scheme fully to them.
He declares that the road will be built,
and says that work will commence on
securing the rights of way, making
surveys, etc., as soon as the charter is
secured.
A New Railroad.
Melbourne, Victoria, Special.?The
South Australian government has intioduced
a bill for the construction of
a railroad from Adelaide to Port Darwin,
on the land grant system. Three
months after the bill passed tenders
are to be invited from Europe and
America. Those persons sending in tenders
are to designate the area they require.
The bill limits such area to 75,000
acre* for a mile.
The Boat Line.
Columbia, Special.?Those who are
chiefly interested in the establishment
of the boat line on the Congaree have
not found the takers of stock among
the smaller merchants that was expected,
but one of the chief men concerned
in the formation of the company
stated Saturday afternoon that
this would have no effect; that thcv
had determined to establish the line
and it would be established in accordance
with previous announcements.
There will probably be important developments
in the matter on Monday
next.
Declaration cf Peace.
Washington. Special.?A dispatch received
at the Colombia legation from j
Bogota, announces an official declara- !
lion of peace in four of the depart- j
n.ents of the republic. Preparations are ;
making in Columbia for the election of
a Congress to deal with the Panama
Canal and other Important subjects
and the official announcement of peace
is a preliminary step to the election
of members of Congress.
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LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS.
Many Matters of General Interest la
~">nori raragrspus.
The Sunny South.
"Tom" Clark, a negro who confessed
to several murders, was
burned at the stake at Corinth, Miss.'
Rer. J. Wm. Jones, of Chapel Hill,
N. C., has been elected secretary of
the Confederate Memorial Association,
vice Gen. John C. Underwood.
Application has been made for :
charter to build an electric railroad
from Cleveland, Tenn., via Benton to
Ducktown, Tenn. Estimates are made
that it will cost $400,000.
Pine Bluff, Ark., Special.?Walter
Sullivan, a young negro, was lynched
Wednesday at Portland, Ashley county.
Sullivan was' charged with shooting
D. J. Roody, a white man, in the
back.
The stockholders of the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad were called to
meet in Louisville, assembled in the
rooms of President Smith at noon.
Without transacting any business, adjournment
was taken until November
5. None of the Eastern directors were J
present.
Atlanta, Special.?After one of the !
most bitterly contested campaigns in
this city's history Evan P. Howell received
the nominating vote for mayor
in the city primary. Mr. Howell was
one of the founders of The Atlanta
Constitution. His opponents were
former Mayor James G. Woodward
and Alderman Harvey Johnson.
Representative W. B. Berry, of
Coweta county, Ga., Is very ill at his
home at Newnan, and it is hardly prob- |
able that he will be able to take his
place in the legislature when the session
meets here next month. He was
taken suddenly ill several months aga
and has not been able to leave bit
bed since that time.
At The National Capital.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued a circular identically the same
as that given out Tuesday in New
York, with this addition: "The other
satisfactory securities referred to
must for the present be the State or
municipal bonds of the character permitted
to be accepted by savings
banks under the laws of such States
as have legislated on the subject" I
A second operation was performed
on President Roosevelt's injured leg,
the abscess falling to heal as successfully
as was expected.
The total sum paid In government
pensions from the Revolutionary War
to and including the war with Spain
is placed at 12,900,854,302.
At The North.
Seven thousand men are engaged
In the elaborate army maneuvers at
Fort Riley, Kansas.
A special from Sylvangrove, in central
Kansas, says that place was
visited last night by a snow storm
which developed into a fierce storm
of sleet.
William Cotter has been appointed
manager in charge of operation of the
Missouri Pacific railroad company, St.
Louis and Iron Mountain and Southern
railway and leased operated and
independent lines. He will make his
headquarters in St. Louis.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Philadelphia and Reading express
train late last night at Broakes crossing,
a short distance below Pottstown,
Pa.
W. H. Truesday, president of the
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western,
is himself a sufferer from the coal
famine, say6 a Greenwich, Conn., dispatch
to The World. He is said to have
offered a wholesaler in New York
$1,500 cash for 100 tons, and was re
From Across The Sea.
Turkish troops killed 52 and wounded
112 Bulgarian revolutionists in
Macedonia.
Captain Sverdrup's Arctic expedition
received a great welcome on its
return to Christiania, Norway.
Edmund Jellinek, the Vienna bank
officer who embezzled $1,150,000, has
been found dead.
United States marines continue to
preserve free transit on the Isthmus
of Panama.
Manila, By Cable.?The American
column under Captain Persching,
which went cut against the Maciu
Moros .in Mindanao, has attacked the
enemy' and captured three of their
forts. The Moros stood but a short
time against the American artillery
fire. Twenty Moros were killed and
many were wounded. There were no
American casualties.
A section of French opinion favors
help by the Latin race to South
American Republics which may be
menaced by the United States.
Surgeon J. C. Perry, at Manila, reports
to the War Department that
cholera was introduced into the PhilipDines
in Chinese vegetables.
MisccI'an~ou? Atstters.
Members of the American Federation
of Catholic Societies are signing
a petition to President Roosevelt to
use his good offices to end the strike.
The American coal strike already
has made an impression on the British
coal market, and if it continues
for another six months householders
in London will have to pay $20 a ton
for fuel, says a Tribune dispatch from
London.
After vain efforts to find some language
which could be understood by
the unknown man who was recently
taken from the Bowery to Bellevue
hospital, where he was treated for!
malaria, the doctors have decided the
patient is insane. He was taken to I
the hospital on September 1st, and all
efforts to get him tq talk have failed,
although fifteen languages were tried.
John Mitchell, in another statement
for tho miners' side of the coal strike,
answers arguments of George B. Baer
and Abram S, Hewitt
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RIOTS IN NEW YORK
Strike of Street Car Men Threatens
Serious Consequences. ?
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NATIONAL GUARDSMEN CALLED OUT .
Street Car Windows Smashed and
Non-Union Conductors and flotormen
Stoned. '
Glens Falls, N. Y., Special.?As & re- '
suit of new activity of the striking motormen
of the Hudson Valley Electric
Railroad Company, soldiers of the National
Guard are again guarding the
peace of this town and, though Sunday -*
has seen no rioting, an uneasy feeling
prevails. The militia company of this
place, which had been dismissed to its
armory Thursday last, was called out
again Saturday night, and is now pro- .
tecting the power house and othei
property of the railroad company at
Glens Falls. A squad also is guarding
a bridge at Sandy Hill, having bee i
J sent there following a report that one
1 of the canal bridges was to be blow;i '
up. The riotious mob which held possession
of Glens Falls for four hour*
was composed of sympathizers of the
I ctrlborc .mil the nnllfp fnrCP WAS TJOW
orless against it.
A mass meeting called by the labor
I organizations to express sympathy for
the strikers was the origin of the disturbance.
It was planned to hare the _
| mass meeting in Bank Square,* and
when permission was refused ill-feeling
resulted. Headed by a band the
strikers and labor leaders formed in a
parade throught the principal streets,,
the ranks of the paraders being augmented
by sympathizers and boya who
at the first opportunity created disturbances.
The riot was precipitated by
the arrest of a man who made insult- '
Ing remarks to one Of the non-union
employes and each car passing was the
object of a demonstration. At Cool*a
Switch, four cars were stalled at one ?
time. They were soon abandoned, che
non-union motormen apd conductors
placing themselves in the hands of tho
police for protection, or deserting to
the strikers. The car windows were
smashed and a fusilade of bricks and ^
stones thrown at the cars. Conductor
Currier, of Brooklyn, was so badly,Injured
by rough handling and being hit ^
in the head with missiles that he is
in the hospital in a serious condition.
The last car from the north which
came Into town about 11 o'clock car-'"
rled mall sacks, which were removed
to the railway offices. About this time
a company of the National Guard un- .
der Captain Mott made its appearance,
and, marching to the jail, took the motormen
and conductors under orotection.
In marching to the carsdemam
mnHp QnH thp mill
tia used the butts of their guns and
threatened to shoot several times. Under
heavy guard of soldiers the seven
stalled cars were run down toward the ^
power house, followed by a mob. Hi
the outskirts of the city riotlous demonstrations.
were made, and stono V
throwing indulged In, to which the soldiers
responded by volleys of bulleta, >
e-Vir>r>tlncr In thp air however.
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Against Child Labor. "
Chicago, Special..?J. Hampton Moore
of Philadelphia was elected president
of the National League of Republican
clubs by acclamation. The league platform
as adopted endorses President
Roosevelt's administration, upholds the
protective tariff, deplores the coal
strike and urges a speedy adjustment,
condemns combinations of capital
, whose purpose is self aggrandizement
at the eipense of workingmen of the
public or to increase the cost of the
necessities of life. The platform says:
"We depreciate the employment of children
of tender age at prolonged and
exhaustive labor in mills, factories and
mines and in all unhealthful vocations
as an evil which calls for such legislation
by the proper authorities as will
protect the young in their morals,
health and growth."
Railroad Track Blown Up.
Tamaqua, Pa., Special.?At an early
hour Sunday morning a section of
track on the Silver creek branch of the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad was
hiown un with dvnamite. The exDlo
aion shook the houses in New Philadelphia
and Silver Creek. When the
workmen's train reached the scene of
the explosion this morning, a farce^
of 50 deputies were on hand to escogipP
them to the colliery. T'
Will Not Name Delegates, *
Philadelphia, Special.?Mayor Ashbrldge
has declined to comply with
the request of Mayor Maybury, of Detroit,
to appoint a delegation of citizens
to attend a conference to be held
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ways and means for obtaining a reasonable
supply of coal from the mining
regions of Pennsylvania and West Vir- ,
ginia. The mayor's reply is as follows:
"Governor of Commonwealths, clergymen
and citizens are actively working
for settlement of strike in coal fields
in this State. My judgment is differences
will be adjusted and work resumed
before date of conference named."
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To Succeed Cummlngs.
New York, Special.?Conventions
were held in the old Tenth congressional
district to nominate candidate^
for the unexpired term of the late %
Amos J. Cummirtgs. The Republicans
nominated Henry Birrell, who is also
the candidate nominated in the new
Eleventh district, which includes a
great part of the old Tenth. The Democrats
nominated Edward Swan, a lawyer.
Wm. S. Devery*^rc3idcd over the
,Democratic convention.
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