The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 23, 1902, Image 2
TROUBLE NOW OVER
The Commission Appointed to Make
Terms to Settle Coal Strike.
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MITCHELL NAMED SOME OF THEM,
A Meeting of the Executive Board of
Mine Workers Called?Work May
Be Resumed Soon.
Waschington, Special.?The strike is
settled. Secretary Root announced at
1 o'clock Thursday morning that a
common ground of agreement has been
reached. The President has named a
>- commission of six persons to settle the
strike.
An official statement will announce
tbe names of the strike settlement
committee. It is believed that the
sixth representative will be chosen
from the ranks of labor. The President
will urge the immediate resumption
of work at the mines and the administration
believes the request will
be followed at once.
President Mitchell has called a meeting
of the executive board, and the
otrike will be called off at once and
Mining resumed in two or three days.
9ome of the members of the committee
were named by Messrs. Sargent and
Mitchell at the conference with the
Pttident and later meetings Sargent
officially represented the mine union
leader.
The members of the strike settlement
commission are: Brigadier General
John M. Wilson, EL W. Parker, of
Washington, D. C? connected with the
Geological Survey; Judge George Gray,
of Delaware; E. E. Clarke, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa; Thomas H. Watkins, of
Scranton, Pa.; Bishop John L. SpauldIng,
of Peoria, 111.; Carroll D. Wright
As named the commission is practically
satisfactory t<? both miners and
operators. Assent of the miners was
given through President Mitchell and
Mr. Sargent Commissioner of Immigration,
and of the operators through
Messrs. Robert Bacon and George W.
Perkins, of the banking firm of J. Pierpont
Morgan & Company. The final
outcome followed a series of conferences
beginning with two during the day
with Mr. Mitchell and two during the
wight with Messrs. Bacon and Perkins.
Bvents moved quickly at the last, the
President being determined on a
' apeedy settlement.
The commission will assemble in a
few days and choose a chairman, ft
then will arrange for sessions and tes*
tlmony.
Washington, Special.?The following
official statement announcing the close
of the strike was Issued at the WhiCe
House at 2:20 a. m.
After a conference with Mr. Mitchell
smd some further conferences with reprentatives
of the coal operators, the
President has appointed the members
of the commission to inquire into, and
pass upon all questions at issue between
the ooerators and miners in the
anthracite coal fields:
Brigadier General John M. Wilson,
H. 3. A., retired (late chief'of engineers
U. 3. A.) Washington, D. C? as an of*cer
of the engineer corps of either the
military or naval service.
E. W. Parker, Washington, D. C? as
an expert mining engineer. Mr. Parker
Is chief statistician of the coal division
of the United States Geological Survey
and the editor of The Engineering and
Mining Journal, of New York.
Hon. George Gray, Wilmington, Dei.,
.as a judge of a United States Court.
Mr. E. E. Clarke, Cecar Rapids. Ia..
grand chief of the Order of Railway
Conductors, as a sociologist, the President
assuming that for the purpose uf
aoch a term of sociologist means a man
who has thought and studied deeply on
aocial questions and has practically applied
his knowledge.
Mr. Thomas H. Watkins, Scianton.
Fa., as a man practically acquainted
with the mining and selling of coal.
. Bishop John L. Spaulding. of Peoria
p ML The President has added Bishop
Bpnulding's name to the commission.
Hon. Carroll D. Wright, has been appointed
recorder of the commission.
Beau voir Transferred.
Jackson, Miss.. Special.?The formal
sale and transfer of Beauvolr, the
home of Jefferson Davis, by Mrs. Davis
to the Bona of Confederate Veterans,
aras consummated Wednesday at the
opening session of the reunion of the
Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate
Veterans. The home will be used
as a home for indigent Confederate
Veterans. Mrs. Davis received $10,000
far the home.
Quarantine Raised:
Washington, Special.?The following
amendment to the quarantine regulations
removing quarantine restrictions
against the island of Cuba, was issued
from the reasury Department huraday:
*To Officers of the Treasury Departanent.
State and Local Quarantine Officers
and Others Concerned: On account
of the continued absence of any
evidence of yellow fever infection in
tae island or L'uoa aunog me pasi.
summer, the removal of quarantine restrictions
for yellow fever against said
island, usually effective on November
1, is hereby to be effective on October
IS. 1902. O. L. SPAULDING.
"Assistant Secretary."
Buchanan to Be Tried.
Nacogodoches. Tex., Special.?A preliminary
trial will be granted Jim
Buchanan, the self-confessed murderer
of the Hicks family, next Tuesday, and
the negro will be brought hqre for
trl&L Five hundred citizens of this
county have guaranteed a fair trial
protection. The concensus of
cpinion, however, is that the militia
ar State Bangers must be sent here to
#rer?st hie execution by a mob.
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SENATOK MORGAN'S VIEWS.
He Does Not Believe the Coal Strike
Settlement Permanent.
Baltimore. Special.?Senator John T.
Morgan, of Alabam, now visiting in
this city, was interviewed on the coal
strike and on the isthmian canal outlook.
Speaking of President Roose
velt's success in bringing about arbitration,
the Senator said: "I am very
glad that a modus vivendi has apparently
been formed, and I should think
the Republican situation would be relieved
considerably. In a matter whero
the comfort and prosperity of the
whole people are concerned, we should
not entertain any question of party advantages,
but should consider the general
welfare. But the strike question
has only been put to sleep for a time.
You will find much debate and attempted
legislation in Congress and in Legislatures
cf States containing minc3,
which meet this winter concerning the
status of mines. The so-called question
of capital and labor is a broad
one. Mr. Hill, in New York, has taken
the wrong idea of handling the fuel
question through the exe-clse of the
right cf eminent domain. It is a municipal
matter, the regulation of a public
utility such as a ferry, turnpike, or
a street railway. Attorney-General
Knox expressed the right idea when he
said: 'Let the common law define the
wrong and then frame the statute to
apply the remedy.' The common law
has defined tho right of the State or
municipality to make regulations for
the health, comfort, convenience or
protection of the public for hundreds
of years.
Touching on politics, the Senator
" T A e?A V? o f fVi/i
?>aiu. i uu uui ocr mac vuv>
have anything to gain bx controlling
the next House of Representatives. 1
do not believe the Democrats of this
country want to constitute themselves
a clog to legislation, yet that result
would naturally follow. With the two
branches of Congress or opposite political
faith, the government will be seriously
embarrassen. There is nothing
to gain by a consition of this kind. It
would not be any advantage to any
one."
Asked what he thought of the prosrects
for the construction of an isthmian
canal. Senator Morgan said: "I
have always felt confident that when
the whole matter has been gone over
the Nicaragua route will be accepted
as the only practical location. The
money has been appropriated, and I
do not believe any commission of meu
or scoundrels will be able to prevent
if and cause the money to be converted
back into the Treasury. Mr. McKinley,
with the wisest policy which was
ever exhibited by any President, was a
firm friend of the plan, and Mr. Roosevelt.
who is unmistakably sincere and
honest, is carrying out his policy. Recent
railway developments indicate
that J. P. Morgan and th eother great
financiers have accepted the fact that
the isthmian canal must be constructed.
He recognizes the fact that the
canal will be built and he wishes to
control the gt-eat tonnage which must
be carried from all over the country
east of the Mississippi and south of the
St. Lawrence to Pensacola, Mobile,
New Orleans and Galveston.
News in Brief.
Senator Harris, of Kansas, one of the
Democratic leaders of the Senate, who
went to Europe this summer in the interest
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
said on his return here today
that he had on a pair of shoes made in
New England, which he had purchased
abroad for 20 per cent less than the retail
price in this country, and tljat he
knew no better object-lesson for -the
people in the cause of tariff reform. He
said that he would take them off and
save them for use in the campaign and
that he proposed to exhibit them on
the stump as a concrete example of the
way the American consumer is forced
to pay for the same thing ihore than
the consumer abroad, through the aid
cf the tariff.
Washington, Special.?The annual
I rpnnrf nf the commissioner of immi
gration was made public Saturday. It
shows that of the 648,743 immigrants
who arrived in the United States during
the last fiscal year were 466,369
males and 182,374 females. Of the entire
number of arrivals Italy br.ppliea
178,375. an increase of 42,379 over the
number for 1901; Austria-Hungary
171,989, an increase of 58.599. and Russia
107.347, an increase of 22,090.
In the British House or commons
John O'Donnell defied the Premier,
shaking his fist in Mr. Balfour's face.
The Soufriere volcano is again in
eruption. A mass meeting at Kingston
denounced the government of St.
Vincent and opposed enforced emigration.
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President Castro is reported to be
making a desperate stand at La Victoria.
the battle with the insurgents
still continuing.
The Austrian budget of $345,265,087
was presented in the Relchsrath.
Firmin, the Haitian insurgent leader,
is aboard the cruiser Cincinnati,
and is reported to be going into exile.
Chancellor von Buelow in a speech
asked the German Helchstag not to
increase the duties in the new tariff
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The steamship Germanic was in a j
terrific storm off the British coast.
The Boer generals were enthusiastically
received in Berlin.
It is expected the Anthracite Strike
Arbitration Commission will hold its
first meeting in Washington next
week.
Prof. Robert#T. Hill believes the
phases of the moon have something to
do with volcanic activity.
The members of the Naval Construe- j
tion Board differ as to the horsepower j
required to maintain the' speed of the i
two new armored cruisers being de
signed.
The United States led the world in
the production of coal in 1901. i
A convention of mine workers was
called to meet at Wilkesbarre. P^,
next Monday to consider the President's
proposition to sttle the strike.
It is expected that work in the mines
will be returned Thursday.
The failure la announced of GilSon
ft Co.. bankers of New York.
MITCHELL'S POSITION
The U*ke Leader Makes Statement
to the President
IS CONFIDENT OF FINAL OUTCOME.
Says That the /liners' Convention
Will Agree to Abide By Award of
Commission.
Washington. Special.?The response
of John Mitchell, president of the Uni
ted Mine workers to rresiaent ttoosevelt's
notification that he had appointed
a commission, was made public
Friday. It informs him of the action of
the executive board of Districts 1, 7
and 9, in calling a convention and
agreeing to recommend unanimously
the resumption of work and the submission
of the differences between the
"operators and the mine workers of
the anthracite coal fields" to the commission.
The reply expresses confidence
that the convention will agree
to the arbitration of the "eminent and
impartial men" chosen by the President
and expresses gratitude to the
President for his patriotic effects to
bring about an honerable settlement
of the strike. The reply goes at length
into the grievances of the miners and
concludes with the expression of the
hope and belief that from this arbitration
will come "a com- He. satisfactory
and permanent solution of the
troubles which have vexed tue anthracite
field from time immemorial." The
President, in his telegram to Mr.
Mitchell, announced the appointment
of the commission and said: "It is a
matter of vital concern to all cur people
and especially to those in our
great cities who are least well ofl
that the mining of coal should be resumed
without a day of unnecessary
delay."
Mr. Mitchell's reply recounts the efforts
of the miners to secure arbitration
and goes Into a defense of the
union and its demon''*. sa'Mng: "If
our D'orfer of arbitration or impartial
investigation had been accepted six
months ago, instead of now. there
need have been no strike. We have
been so eager, Mr. President, to respond
to the people's demand for coal,
that" during the progress of the strike
we have more than once offered arbitration.
but we have invariably been
met with the reply that 'we will not
permit outsiders to dictate to U3 in
the management of our affairs. We
have nothing to arbitrate'
"Now that the managers of the companies
have been compelled by you
and a thoroughly aroused public conscience
to recede from this position,
we are proud that the firmness and
the heroic endurance of our men and
women in support of their rights ana
of a vital American principle have
won the victory.
"fbe pooi, under-paid mine workers
of these coal regions, who toil hard
from early morning until late at night
for a livelihood, nobody supported by
organized labor in this and other lands,
have taught these corporation managers
a useful lesson of civic and social
duty. We exult over this tribute to the
dignity of labor, because it is the triumph
of right and of good public policy.
"We do not. however, exult over our
opponents; we appeal to them now.-as
we have from the first, to turn their
eyes to the future and to co-operate
with us in an effort to establish better
relations between employer and employee
for the advantage of both.
"We forgive them Aelr arrogant refusal
to deal with us, and in this hour
when they are forced to acknowledge
their anability to operate their mines
without our consent and co-operation,
we hold out the right hand of friendship
and ask them to join with us in
securing amicable relations and wholesome
conditions in this region. We forgive
them even the false accusations
trMoh thpv marip ncainat ua. The nre
tense of the operators that they were
unable to produce coal because Intimidation
kept from work men who were
willing to work, has been proven false
by the fact that the protection which
they demanded has decreased rather
than increased the number of men
mining coal. The operators declared
> that they would have nothing to do
with the United Mine Workers of
America, but they have found it neceseary
to recognize the power of the
Wnitad Mine Workers of America,
through you, Mr. President, and seek
terms of peace which will enable them
to resume their business of mining and
selling coal. The recognition of our
strength thus forced upon the operators
by stern necessity we eyault over,
not in narrow spirit, but because we
believe it marks a forward step toward
a new era. Upon the foundations laid
through wax, we are ready to Join with
| them ip building for hotter conditions
I and a long lasting peace. The United
Mine Workers of America, since its organization
in the anthracite field, has
constantly sought to establish.
" 'First. To be just to both parties.
We have never made demands beyond
the ability of the industry to pay on
a basis of equitable division of profits
between labor and capital.
" 'Second. Amicable relations between
employers and employes, the
latter speaking through their organisation
and their organization aiding
the companies m maintaining discipline,
adjusting all difficulties by
conciliatory methods, averting local
strike and lockouts and securing
stable and satisfactory conditions to
the industry.'
"Our organization by the same
methods which we Lave proposed
here, has secured just such relations
and just such results on the coal
fields of the country. Organization,
like an individual, must stand upon
what it has done and the life it has
lived. We invite scrutiny and investigation
of our record and character.
In the soft coal fields we have joint
conferences with the operators and
with them we have Just diferences,
we sign joint agreements together
we preserve discipline, settle disputes
and maintain harmony and stability
in the trade.
"Upon our past record we are willing
to stand or fall. We have, time
and time again, invited the anthracite
operators to adopt these business
methods and to deal with us on this
basis. Despite repeated rebuffs, wt
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persisted, but they resented any attempt
upon our part to organise their
employes; they refuse our overtures
for amicable discussion and possible
atisfactory adjustment of wage dlferences
in Joint conference.
"When the inevitable conflict came
an tbey attempted to Justify themselves
upon the false pleas that ours
'3 an irresponsible organization. When
ve demonstrated our responsibility
.hey then asserted that we were a
awless organization which was domilated
by violence. When society atr.-.rtcd
to interfere to settle the
rike thev declared their divinely ap
intra iu uc icl aiuut'. ivum
reports cf national and State governments
tried to mediate, they resented
the 'meddling by politicians.' # Cat
thanks to you, Mr. President and to
the power of public opinion, they have
been brought to a realization of the
fact that the interests and welfare rf
the American people cannot be ignored
with impunity.
"By the eminent tribunal which you
have named we have confidence that
justice will be done our people. We
are glad to have a chance to appear
before such a court empowered to consider
and dispose of all questions at
issue. First among these is the demand
of the mine workers for increased
wages and a reduction in the
hours of labor; second, is the relations
which ought to exist between
the employers and the organization
which the men have formed and which
they authorize to speak for them."
Syod in **sion
Mechunlesburg. Pa., Special.?The
Potomac Synod of the Reformed
Church of the I'niied States is meeting
in7 annual session here, North Carolina.
Virginia, Maryland and central and
southern Pennsylvania being represented
by about 150 delegates. The Synod
organized by electing Rev. John M.
Schreck, of Washington, pastor oi
President Roosevelt's church, president;
Rev. N. H. Skiles, Woodstock,
Va? vice president; Rev. H. N. Bassier,
St. Thomas, corresponding secretary.
I LABOR WORLD.
Germany lias 995,000 trade union*
lata.
Warren, IL I., carpenters have organized.
Toronto (Can.) lithographers will
form a union.
Plans are on foot to build a labor
temple at Topeka, Kan.
Fleetwood, England, carpenters have
struck against piecework.
Marine engineers on the Great Lnkes
have adopted last year'6 scale of wages
for next year.
There are 22.~>.413 masters and men
employed in the merchant marine of
Great Britain.
In the past twenty years in only onefifth
of the coal strikes have the meu
secured their demands.
Messengers of the American Express
Company have received a voluntary
increase in salary of ten per ceut.
Female factory employes at Flint,
Mich., average ninety-one cents a day,
aud one-half are employed by the piece.
Glass bevelers at New York City
have struck to enforce demand for a
nine-hour day and a new scale of
wages. i
Day laoorers are in great oemnnu
at St. Louis. Mo., and wages Lave advanced
ten per cent, in tLe past two
months.
A movement has been inaugurated
among the Northumberland, England,
miners for a general strike as a protest
against the coal tax.
Every member of the Cigarmakers'
Union at Jacksonville, Fla., contributes
twenty-five cents a week toward advertising
their union label.
In Great Britain there are 1,903,000
trade unionists, and but 1,600,000 in
the United States and Canada for
about twice the population.
There have been nearly 700 strikes In
Great Britain during the past twelve
months, sixty-eight per cent, of which
have been settled in favor of the men.
PROMINENT PEOPLE. , j
'Arthur Gardiner, cycling champion
of 1897, is entering the automobile
business. I
Oxford University has conferred the
degree of doctor of civil law on Ambassador
White.
Emperor William has bestowed a
ueeoraiKm on i^apiam s>veruruy, me
Arctic explorer.
Sir Conan Doyle has declined to
stand as a Liberal-Union candidate hi
Central Edinburgh.
Dr. Joseph Parker, the famous
preacher, lias been ordered to give up
all work for six months.
Mr. Kruger, former President of the
South African Republic, has just
passed hi* seventy-seventh birthday.
King Christian of Denmark has
gazetted Anton Hegner, the American
'cellist, a Knigbt of the Danebrog Order.
Dr. N. C. Morse. President of the
Iowa Association of Railway Surgeons,
let the heaviest physician in America,
weighing 325 pounds.
Count Tolstoi is said to he writing
another book in his old age. It will
deal with his impressions 01 the mill
tary revolt in the Caucasus, 1850.
Andrew Carnegie has given $50,000
to Eastbourne, Sussex, for the establishment
of a library, for which the
Duke of Devonshire has given the site.
Bernard Moses, of California, a member
of the Philippine Commission, will
retire on January 1. and will make a
four of Europe, afterward shaping his
affairs so that he will be able to take
up his college work in the University
of California.
Rear-Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge Is
the oldest living officer of the Navy.
The records show that he entered the
Navy as a midshipman on January 1, i
1818, at which time he must have been
at lest fifteen years old. He is, there- ]
fore, probably ninety-nine. His eldest
eon. Rear-Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge,
Jr., is sixty-six years old.
The monogram fad is all right, but
better let it alone. There are tlmea
when positive identification might be
' embarrassing. i
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
An Incentive to the South.
The Galveston News makes a good
point when it says that another argument
in favor of cotton manufactories in
the South is found in the recent
scheme to grow in Africa cotton for
European manufacture.
There seems to be a well organized
movement among ine umcaauue witon
spinners with a view to securing
their raw material from British territories
in order that they may eventually
become independent of the American
product. Their recently organized British
Cotton Growing association has the
endorsement of Coloniel Secretary
Chamberlain, it is said, and has assurance
of help from all the colonial governors.
Similar movements are be.ng
made in both France and Germany, and
extensive preparations are gciug on in
Africa, South America and Mexico.
It is explained that while efforts will
be made by the English association to
improve the quality and to increase
the output of Indian cotton, the chief
hopes of its management are apparently
centered in Wist Africa, which is
said to be capable of supplying 3,000,000
bales of cotton annually?which
would be quite sufficient for the Lancashire
spinners' use, and in the British
Soudan the completion of the
Suukim-Berber railway will, it is
thought, vastly stimulate cotton culture.
It is predicted that in the course of
time and the progress of changes thr.t
are going on a comparatively smau
amount of raw cotton may be sent from
the United States to Europe. Two
causes will operate to this end.
One of these is the growing demand
of our home mills; the other is the falling
off in the demand of the European
mills v/hich have hitherto depended
upon the American cotton producer for
material.
The South is manufacturing its cotton
more and mere largely into the
finished product, thereby increasing
steadily the profits of its crop.
The prospect of increased cotton production
in Africa may prove a blessing
in disguise by stimulating the great increase
of cotton manufacturing in the
South.
The time has passed when the South
depended mainly upon raw cotton. The
South realizes that her great future in
cotton lies in the manufacture of the
bulk of that crop.?Atlanta Journal.
Through the Indian Territory.
The Muscogee Southern Railroad
has been incorporated in Oklahoma to
build a railroad from Arkansas City,
Kan., southeast through the Indian
Territory to Shreveport, La., 300
miles. The incorporators are C. N.
Haskell, W. T. Hutchings, W. R. Eaton
and Charles H. Roser, all of Muscogee,
and they are said to be backed by
Philadelphia capital. This new line
might be used by either the St. Louis
& San Francisco, the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Company or the Rock
Island system, but the backers of the
project are hot yet disclosed.
S. A. L. Reaches Birmingham.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.,
and the St. Louis & San Francisco
Railroad Co. have made an agreement
under which they will jointly use the
Birmingham Belt Line, and the Seaboard
also retains its right to lay
tracks in Birmingham under franchises
granted by the city council. The
Seaboard thus gains access to the
Birmingham district for its extension
from Atlanta.
Textile Notes.
Excavations are now being made for
the buildings for the White Oak Cotton
Mills near Greensboro. N. C. The
work is in charge of a builder, and the
owner will do the construction work.
It will be recalled that this plant wa3
announced last spring as to be built
by the Proximity Manufacturing Co.
of Greensboro. It will have 60,000
spindles and 2,000 Ioohu for manufacturing
denims, as previously
stated. About $1,250,000 will be invested.
The Weatherford (Texas) Cotton
Mills will install fifty knitting machines
to constitute the knitting plant
reported last week as to be instal'-ad
by the company. This company will
then use the product of the 3,500
spindles it is now installing, instead
of selling yarns in the market. No
contracts have been awarded for the
knitting machinery required.
Waco Knitting Mills of Waco, Tex.,
wants to buy 24s cotton yarn, also
Egyptian yarns.
J. B. Martin of Raleigh. N. C., will
establish a knitting mill to employ
about sixty operatives. He will erect
building 36x90 feet to accommodate
the machinery.
Gecrgia Manufacturing Co.. of
Gainesville, Ga., haa put in operation
Its 3,300-ring-spindle yarn mill, idle
for three months. Fifty-five operatives
are employed.
Charlottesville Woolen Bills at
Charlottesville. Va? was sold at public
auction last week. R. P. Valentine
was the purchaser at 16.300, and intends
to put the plant in operation.
This plant has five sets, twenty-nine
looms, and uses both water-power and
electricity to operate its machinery.
Its product is uniform goods.
H. E. Fries of Winston-Salem, N. C.,
who purchased the Twin City Knittins'
Mills recently, will continue the
plant under the title of the Royal
Mills. Mr. Fries will be president, and
Ledaaux Siewers, secretary-treasurer.
Columbus (Miss.) Hosiery Mills intenhds
to double the output of its
plant. Contract* has been awarded for
the required machinery, and the additional
equipment is expected to be
in oosition by November 15.
New York capitalists interested in
the textile industry propose assisting
in the establishment of small cotton
mills in Mississippi. Their plan is to
establish plants of from 5,000 to Id,000
spindles, and to furnish from 25
to 50 per cent, of the capital required.
Local investors in each enterprise are
to furnish the remainder.
A. F. Parker, cotton and woolen
manufacturer of Houston. Texas, has
submitted a proposition to citizens at
McKinney, Texas, for the establishment
of a cotton and woolen mill in
that towfa. A 175,000 plant is contemplated.
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* FUBTBEK ACTIVITY V
Volcanoes in West Indies Become 1
Threatening. 1
Kingstown, St. Vincent, By Cable.? ^
A terrific eruption of the Soufriere volcano
commenced Wednesday night.
During the preceding day (Tuesday^
the eruption was very slight. At 8
o'clock Wednesday night there ware indications
of an eruption. Rumbling
noises were heard and they increased
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UDtll i) o ciock, wueu uic ?
canic giant belched out its deauly contents.
This eruption was followed by
a brief lull.'Then from 10 o'clock until
4 o'clock in the morning the upheaval
continued. The outbreaa was accompanied
by an incessant and confused cannonading.
There were incandescent
clouds and sparkling matter ejected.
After 4 o'clock the disturbance gradually
decreased, but the noise of the
boiling caldron is still audible in the
districts near the volcano. Both craters
of the Soufriere were apparently
active, they have been steaming all day
long. Stones fell everywhere. At South
em points the sand is half an inch
deep, the depth gradually increased towards
the volcano. Kingstown and
other Southern points of the island
have not been damaged. Reports from
the windward district are awaited. The
sand ejected by this eruption has a
stronger sulphuric odor than any previously
thrown out. One square foot of
it weighed exactly one pound.
Kingstown, Island of St. Vincent.?
There was a slight eruption of the
Soufriere volcano between 8 and 9
o'clock Wednesday night and it increased
to a full eruption at 1 o'clock
Thursday morning, lasting until 4:30
a. m. It was accompanied by a fall of
cost said. Kingstown was not damaged.
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"A TOWN PLUNGED IN DARKNESS.
Bridgetown, Island of Barbadoes?
Volcanic dust from the Soufriere volcano,
on the island of St. Vincent, is
falling here and has caused a stoppage
of business. The shop-keepers are closing
their stories and are returning to
their homes. It was so dark at 10
o'clock in the morning that it was necessary
to light the lamps.
LOUD DETONATIONS HEARD ANDGLIMMERING
LIGHTS SEEN.
Batte Terre, Island of Guadaloupe.?
Between midnight and 3 o'clock loud:
detonations were heard and glimmerins
lishts were seen in thes direction.
of the island of Martinique. There were
two earthquakes yesterday at Lea.
Saintes island, off the southern end of
Goudaloupe and at Marie Galante island,
southeast of Goudaloupe.
The Tennessee Synod.
Chattanooga, Special.?The Synod or
Tennessee of the Presbyterian church,
adjourned to meet next year at Asheville,
N. C. It was recommended that
a new Presbytery be created to be
known as the Presbytery of East Tennessee.
A movement was started to
consolidate into one institution Washington.
Greenville and Maryville. and
Tuscalum Colleges, under the care of
the Synod. These colleges represent
property worth over half a million dbV .
lars and 780 students. Washington Col
lege was chartered as an academy in
1783. and is known a3 the oldest educational
iastltution west of the Alleghenies.
The Synod has sent 27 missionaries
to the foreign field in the- ,
past five years. ?
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Wife Murderer Insane.
New York, Special.?In the case of
Harry Rose, the stage manager. wh>
was indicted for the murder of hiswife,
Isabella, a few weeks ago. Abraham
Hummell entered the special pie.*
for Rcrc that his clieri is now insane
and was at the time of commission of
the crime. He asked that the prisoner
be committed to an insane asylum. Tha
court directed that the Toombs physician
examine Rose and make a report
to him of the subject
Turkish Revolutionists.
Constantinople. By Cable.?It is declared
in government circles that the
revolutionary bands have everywhere
been defeated and that after a sharp
engagement in the Krexena defile between
a force of Turkish troops and
insurgents the Bulgarians were dislodged
and dispersed. The Porte understands
that the Bulgarian govern
ment has Anally decided to suppress
the Macedonian committee.
Negro Murderer in Jail.
Rusk. Tex.. Special.?After nearly
.a week of eluding mobs, Jim Buchanan,
the negro murderer of the Hicka
family, was safely lodged in the east
Texas penitentiary. Early this morning
the military company at Henderson
was re-enforced by three other
companies and the negro was put
aboard the special train without a. j
move being made by the mob. The j
train came through without an efTort
being made to interrupt its progress.
The Governor has directed two of the
companies to attend the negro to Nacogodoches
for trial next week.
News Briefs.
The Livingstone Lumber Co. of Livingston.
Texas, has been chartered.
with a capital stock of <100,000.' The
incorporators are Harry H. Monteith
and Isaiah A. Dye of Livingston and
Charles B. Kelly of Chicago.
Messrs. Eugene F. Verdery, H. G.
Barrett, Henry C. Perkins and others
have incorporated Planters' Cotton
Factorage Co., with capital stock of
$6,000, and privilege of increase to
$50,000. They will conduct a general
cotton factorage and brokerage business,
etc.
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