Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1902, Page 1

¥ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, THURSDAY M(_)RN NG, SEPTEMBER TURNS DOWN SILVER Towa Democracy Mosts the Issue Bquarely and Ores houui. OLD-TIME LEADERS TURN PARTY ABOUT | Ex-Gevernor Horaoe Boies Leads the Fight Against Free Coinage. BRYANITES FORCE IT TO A DIRECT ISSUE Defeated in Osmmittes Renew Fight in Owmvention, with S8ame Result. PAY LITTLE ATTENTION TO THE TICKET PlnceRl Go Begging and the Conven- tion Names Those W Accept the Honor Ace tion. RICHARD BURKE flor:ey T JOHN B‘ DENI‘iUN 2t o8 !upremu C?Jl‘ull()MA‘! STAPLETON . CHAPMAN 'rnm.iu DENSO; _JESSE Clotik Bupteme Court... TRIPP Wpor(lrr!unuma Court...JOHN DALTON r. Commissione (From a Staft Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Sept. 3.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Not until the democratic state con- vention had been in session half a day, not until the speeches of the chalrman had been made, not until the full ticket had been pominated by acclamation did the really interesting part of the democratic state convention begin. It was after § o'clock when the resolutions committee reported. Tas committee had been in session since noon The :eport was read by ex-Governor fes, who for fhe first time since he was jlmhl! a candidate faced an lowa demo- ‘aratic convention. ‘The reading occupled halt an hour. The report led off with a plank which merely declared “Anew our faith in the fundamental principles of the ydemocratie party and renew .our allegiance thsteto.” / The rest of the platform re- lated to trusts, tariff frelght rates, in- Junctions, etc. ‘When the report was presented 8. A. Brewster of Creston, one of the four sil- wverites on the committee, presented & aubstitute for the preamble specifically en- 'dorsing the Kansas City platform. This was signed by four. The committees re- ported that there had been an agreement as to the division of time for debate be- twaan thosa who favored the endorsement and those opposed. This was the sl for & two-hours' debate among the gi of the party and a finer exhibtion of rough and tumble debating has not been wit- messed in any state convention in Jowa. ot Stiver. ‘Those who spoke for sil ‘were Colonel Mackey of Sigourney, J. J. Shea of Council Blufts, George Rhinehart of Newton, Walt Butler of Des Moines and General James B. Weaver. Those who debated for the report were Horace Boles of AV of Sloux debate at um- waxed warm and words epoken ‘were keen, The siiver men in thelr des- peration virtually threatened to bolt the ticket and predicted if the majority report ‘was adopted the republican plurality this year would be 150,000. Rinehart plea @8 & republican who had come over in 1894 on the bellef that the democratic party meant what it sald. Weaver pleaded as a populist who had now been with the party two years. Mackey pleaded one who had become democratic in war times to stand by free silver. Shea declared it w either repudiation or reafirmation and ac- cused those who favored the majority re- port of being emissa; of the republican: On the other hand, Horace Boles was the gommanding figure of the entire conven- tion and he pleaded with the convention to turn to llve issues. “To us,” he sald, %“the free coinage of silver at the exact tio of 16 to 1 in Iowa and In the United tates is today as dead any is that ever was burled. This is not saying that it may not become alive mgafn, but we recognize the fact as it existe.” Bashor, who had stumped the country for Bryan fn two campalgns, showed that since 1896 the democratic vote has been steadily de- clining in lowa. Judge Vanwagene: also been a free silver man, but sald it ‘Was not an fissue. Bury the Silver Issue. ‘The vote taken on the substitute with the result that the free siiver men mustered 344 votes to 384 for the oppo- nents of stiver, atter which the majority report was adopted as the platform of the party on motion of Walt Butler, a rank free silver man. The debate showed that the resolutions committee had had a hard struggle and the four siiverites had refused all overtures for a compromise. The resylt in the con- wention marks a distinct thange fn the party in this state and hundreds of gold @emocrats will this year take part in the campaign. Enthusiasm is Lacking. The convention was notable chiefly for .fi lack of enthusiasm and small num- ‘bers. Not for many years have so few persotis attended any state convention of the democratic party as this year. When * the comvention was called to order at 10:30 - o'clock there was just 365 delegates pres- ent by actual count, not half of the num- ~ber to which the counties were entitled. A large bumber of the counties were not ted ot all and others by only or two persons. The enthusiasm was all expended in reference to the question _of reafirming free sliver or not doing so. ml was all that the delegates had "though about up to the time for making mominations. The only census controlled by the free silver men were those of the Bixth, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth dis- tricts. In the Third district the Dubuque - delegation, which has always been for free silyer, were strongly against it. The Sec- ond and First districts were solidly against silver, The Ninth district was practically lllfl agalost it resolutions committee was composed ‘ the following person: J. J. Beerley, Purlington; E. H. Thayer, Clinton; Horae Boles, Waterloo; H. C. Bishop, Elkader John R. Caldwell, Ta: John P. Organ, Council Bluffs; and A,Vn Wi Stoux City, all opposed to reafirmatio; nd 8. A. Brewster, Ottumwa; C. O. Holly, Des Molnes; E. Q. Stuart, Chariton, and Ed- ward McDonald, Carroll, for indorsing the Kansas City platform, State ral Committee. ‘The wembership of the state committee made up as follow: u'n District—N. C. Roberts, Fort Maal- re-elecied. strict—8. W. Mercer, lowa City, —_— (Continued on Fourth Page.) HUNGARIANS PUNCHING HEADS Rioters Around Agram Beat Ca; Witas and Wife and Foree Guards to Fire, LDNDON, Sept. 4.—In a dispateh from Vi- enna the correspondent of the Daily Mail gives an unconfirmed rumor that the Ser- | vians at Agram have retaliated and massa- ered the Croatlans. AGRAM, Hungary, Sept. 8.—The procla- mation of martial law this afternoon has been followed by the bringing Into town and posting of more battallons of troops. The rioters have been overawed by the soldiers and this evening they are quiet. Opposition newspapers have been con fiscated and the Irbobrat, in which the ar- ticles which caused the riot appeared, will not be published during the continuance of the disturbance. A mob In the village of Vraboe stoned a detachment of gendarmes. The latter replied with a volley, killing one of the rioters and wounding several others. Many houses were wrecked and sacked last night. The rage of the mob w directed against the house of Captain Witas, a retired army officer, who yes- terday fired on the mob, wounding a man. The rioters erected barriers, tore up the fences, smashed the windows aud were pro- ceeding to storm the place when the militia dispersed them. The mob, however, soon reassembled and returned and the rioters forced thelr way into the house, which they wrecked. Captain Witas and his wife escaped. The rioters then sacked the houses of a number of servants and de- stroyed- the residence of a merchant. Al- though a state of slege has been declared at Agram and despite the fact that the principal bulldings and squares are occu- pled by troops, the rioting is Increasing. Numbers of peasants have arrived here from the country to help the Croatias Barricades are being erected and a virtual state of rebellion exiats. Early today mobs plundered Servian shops, pulled thelr stocks in the streets and set fire to them. Captaln Witas, who was returning to his home, was seized at the door of his home and dragged into the street, where the old man, despite his plteous entreaties for mercy, was terribly beaten. The captain was eventually taken to a hospital in a serious condition. Many rioters have been arrested. Reinforcements of troops are occupying the streets. GLACIER SWEEPS A VALLEY Ts Reported to Have Degtroyed Twenty Villages and Killed Seven Hundred Per " VIENNA, Sept. 3.—Correspondence celved here from Tifil aster which occurred August 27, when as a result of a landslide, supposed to have been due to selsmic disturbances, some twenty villages e destroyed and nearly 700 per- wons were killed. On the northern slope of Mount Kasbek lies the watering place of Tmenkau. Barly in the morning of August 17 subterranean disturbances were noted at Tmenkau, but the hundreds of bathers in the hot springs there scouted the idea of a catastrophe and in spite of warnings continued thelr bath- Ing. At 7 o'clock of that evening the entls valley where the hot springs are situated was filled with a deafening nol bling and “Toud | he valley stream welled to the dimen- sions of & mighty river, and sweeping along, it carried with it huge blocks of rock and fce. Then the bathers tried to escape, but it was too late.. The entire northern slope of Mount Kasbeck, with the glacler above began to move rapldly. Village after vil- lage was swept away and everything in the path of the landslide was destroyed. Within a few minutes the valley, nearly twelve miles long, had been devastated by a wall of rock, ice and earth. The valley was completely filled up to a depth of nearly 1,000 feet by the matter hurled into it. A flerce hurricane raged at the time and the bodies of people and animals were flung to a great height and dashed against the rocks. FLORENCE STRIKE A FAILURE Men Who Have Not Re Ready to Do S Are Filled. FLORENCE, Italy, Sept. 8.—The strike here began because the metal workers em- ployed by the Pignone iron works were di contented over the fact that the directors of the company executed orders for a firm at Leghorn during the recent strike there. This dissatisfaction led to friction and the workmen of the Pignone works made demands which the directors of the com- pany refused to entertaln. The Pignone company began dismissing the malcontents in its employ and the strike ensued. One of the directors of the Pignone com- pany aroused the enmity of the workmen because he refused to recognize the labor organization and the strikers demanded his removal. They also attempted to set fire to his hous ‘The labor leagues, assisted by the soclal- ist party, then engineered a gemeral strike with the view of preventing the defeat of the Pignone workmen. The movement hae resulted in the complete defeat of tha workmen; the compositors have decided to resume work and today only the Plgnone and other me workers, numbering 1,500 men, are on a strike. Most of ‘he places of these men have, meantime, & n filled and work Is proceeding. MACEDONIAN UNDER ARREST President of the Commitiee ia Placed Custody and Taken to Dubmitsa. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 3.—General Zont- choff, presidont of the Macedonian commit- tee, has been arrested at Dubmitza and brought here. The arrest of other members of the committee is expected. The Macedonian committee recently held a congress at Sofia. M. Sarafoff, formerly president of the committee, was then ac- cused of misappropriation of funds and of being the chief agent in the kidnaping of Miss Stone, the American missionary. A division Tesulted and the adherents of M. Barafoff beld a separate ¢ongress and elected another committee. PERFORATES °FRISCO EDITOR President Willlams of Jockey Club Puts Bullets Through Frederick ‘Mariott's Anntomy. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—Thomas H. Williams, jr., & well known horseman, pres- ident of the California Jockey club, shot and seriously wounded Frederick Mariott, pub- lisher of the San Francisco Ni Letter, tonight at Mariott's residence. Mariott was shot three times, one shot breaking his leg, PRESIDENT BAER ON STRIKE|WRIGHT SUGGESTS A PLAN|PELEE IS AS BAD AS BEFORE |CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Reading Company’s Executive Answers Quay and Penrose. DECLARES MINERS' WAGES ARE HIGH Tells the Senators that to Raise the Figure Means to Force Public to Use Bituminous Instend of Anthraecite, A JADELPHIA, Sept. 3.—President _ahaer of the Reading company and , p, Senators Quay and Penrose (" # prence this afternoon in the 3 he Reading company in this city in s “anthracite coal min- ers’ sirike wani ' Snly discussed. At the conclusion of ¢ Jonference President Baer issued a lengthy reply to the two sefi- ators. Among other things he said: “I recognize that it is your right and your duty as senators, representing the great ate of Pennsylvania, to do whatever can legitimately be done to end a strike that so seriously affects business and brings so much suffering to the women and children of the coal reglons. The newspapers’ story that I sald ‘The strike was a private affair which did not concern the public,’ is a reck- less fabrication. Rights the “Now, what 1 have sald, is that the man- agement of the business belong to the own- ers. In the case of the coal companies the law casts the management on the directors and officers, whose responsibility is to their stockholders, to the state and to the public. The right of the stockholders s to have 800d management and a fair return on their investment. The obligation to the state is to conduct the business in strict conformity to the laws it has established. The duty to the public is, 8o far as practicable, to con- duct the business so as to add to the com- mon welfare. “The coal operators say they cannot mine coal because the miners make demands which render it impossible to mine coal profitably, and the state has enacted laws prohibiting the employment of men in the mines unless they have worked two years in anthracite mines and therefore they cannot for the time being mine coal. How, then, under these circumstances, can there be any violation of public duty? If we yleld to the extravagant demands of the miners we will lose money. If we attempt to Increase the price of coal we will destroy the indus- tries depending on anthracite fuel. If we increase the price on the domestic sizes we will be called robber barons, oppressors of the poor, monopolists and enemies of man- kind. Cuse. Makes Four Propositions. ‘We have concluded,, therefore, that our duty to ourselves and to the public will best served by standing firmly on these prop- osition: First—That the vll- pald in the an- thrlclt. coal regions are, compared with pald in lke em| onment, fair lnd Jyst, and that men lling to work honestly can earn more money on the pres- d ent basis of wages t:d‘“ l|I| any utherulll- stry engaged In producing common c‘EI of l:‘o‘lllly in the Unl ‘:dbgt?l e add econd_That wages cenno nc creasing f coal, and to '“M h efi“ il restrict the minous ur abu fuel, an t'n‘t Hcltd mlrlal will cur- tall prodllcklon and result in depriving the miners of regular employment. Third—That_we are not fighting laber or- sanizations. We fully recognize the right of men to organize to protect themselves from oppression and to benefit themselv in any legitimate way, but we do oppo their unreasonable inferference with the discipline and orderly management of our business. We will not permit them to se- lect our employes. Nel her politics, reli ion, nationality nor membership in labor organizations shall bar any competent man from working for us. We are fighting the battle of freedom for the maividual and Eis right to labor on his own term: Fourth—That it is by reason of varying conditions at each mine Impracticable to adopt a uniform scale of wages for the whole region, but each colllery every complaint will be taken up and Investi- gated by the superintendents and adjusted whenever it is just. I rsonally offered to Mitchell and his district presidents to g0 with them ana investigate any griev- ance. Nothing te Arbitrate. “You see, senators, none of these things can be the subject of arbitration. You cannot arbitrate a question of wages when an increase will destroy the business and a decrease will be unacceptable to the workmen. We cannot arbitrate a question as to whether mining operation and bus- iness generally shall be managed under the common-sense rule of law and equity by the owners and the servants they have lected, or by a labor organization. You cannot arbitrate the right to protect your property and your workmen from the mob rule of labor organizations who boldly pro- claim a purpose to destroy property and endeavor to make their proclamation effec- tive by killing and Injuring their fellow workmen who refuse to join in their law- lessness. When John Mitchell ordered tho engineers, firemen and pumpmen to desert their posts he knew that unl the opera- tore could supply their plades the mines would be destroyed, and with their de- struction 140,000 men with thelr wives and children dependent upon their labor would be deprived of work for a long time. “The operators were compelled to em- ploy police at their own expenmse to guard the new men employed to man the pumps to save their mines. The guards and the law authorizing them are denounced, and when private citizens like Beddall murdered the state authorities are de- nounced for sending troops to preserve the peace. Today that gallant soldier, General Gobin, who fought with such distinction in our civil war, and than whom no juster | man lives, is bitterly maligned for pro- tecting the property and lives of Pennsyl- vania citizens. Can such questions be ar- | bitrated ™ Willing to w Book: President Baer devotes considerable space to the attempts at arbitration mede by the Civic Fedoration. He says every phase of the case was fairly and fully dis- cussed and that the coal companies offered to produce any books that would throw any light on the matter, showed the bal- ance sheets of various companies, pointed out that the three anthracite coal-carrying companies, the Reading, Lehigh Valley and Erie had not paid dividends on their stock for years, produced the records showing coal sales and showed how 40 per cent of the anthracite coal is sold in the market below the cost of mining. The reply con- cludee as follows:, You see, senator whole subject fully’ and 1 to show you that sound business manage- ment makes it impossible to increase wages. We know that the wages are fair and re tively high, and {! the leaders of the bitumtuous’ mine workers not. for jelfish purposes, Invaded the anthracite flelds our men would have continued fto work peacefully and contentedly hlvo discussed this h ndeavored WABASH, Ind., Sept. 3.—. ol ll. lccuunll of yJohn isure who ‘aemand b ‘. m to lurn aver the of s Tevealy & shortage %n mvunnmfl . Tiber to his suc- [ty are | Commissioner of Labor Offers Solution for Miners' Strike and Similar DI, en. WASHINGTON, Eepl 3. “m report of Carroll D, Wright, tssioner of labor, on the -nlhrull- coal strike, was made public today. Commissioner Wright finds that there is no confidence existing between the employes and their employers. This, he belleves, is one of the chief causes of the dificulties be- tween the operators and miners, and says that it would be reasont and just for the operators to concede at omce & nine-hour day for a period of six months as an experi- ment Ho suggesis that there should be organized a joint committee on conciliation composed of representat!| of the operators and of a new union of anthracite employes, which all grievances should be referred for investigation, and that their decision should be final and binding upon all parties and that there should be no interfefence with the nenbnion men. In the course of his report, Commissioner Wright says that the facts seem to show the officers of the miners’ union, with per~ haps one or two exceptions, believed that many of the alleged wrongs endured by the miners might be corrected by appeals to the employers. ' Their attempt, however, to cure conferences between the represent- atives of the mine workers And the mine operators proved fruitless and the miners themselves decided that a strike should be organized. All the operators whom Mp Wright met disclaimed distinctly that thev had any an- tagonism to union labor as sueh. They did object seriously to some of the methods adopted by the union, and they felt that when asked to make & t with the unions the latter should themselves in a positlon to be pecuniarly responsible for carrying out such vontracts. The miners see little dificulty in adopting the system of payment by welght, but they claim that they are systematically de- frauded by the arbitrary action of the bosses, who determine. what deductions shall be made for impurities and they claim they are defrauded when paid by the wagon or car load. When it is shown that coal, says Mr. Wright, contained a varying quantity of refuse as it comes from the mine, it s difMcult to see the fores of the argument Wwhy it should not be weighed and the minet pald for the work he does. At least the operators, he thinks, eught to share in the lose of mining impurities, The demand of the miners that wages be Increased 10 per cent in the gates per ton to those men who perferm Gomtract work and 10 per cent reduction iu the time of those who work by the day, is backed by the statement that after the. increase which was grasied in 1900, the prices of all com- modities in the mining. region were ad- vanced accordingly. They that It s exceedingly difficult for "0- to live properly on the present wages. The reduction of time is put forward by the miners and backed by the statemen that their work takes only in a year and for the des o mines, eto., go on yptwe hours a day and every day The increase in wages which the mell de- mand would mean about 46 cents increase. The totul amount of wages pald in the an- thracite flelds last year is stated by the operators to have been about $66,000,000. The Increase under the original demand of the Ohlo miners, the operators state, would be about $20,000,000. COTTON CONDITION IS Low Product of South Almost Ten Points Below Average for Past port of the Agriculture, 1 avesage condition of cotton on August 26 to have been 64, as compared with 81.9 on July 25, 714 on August 24, 1901; 68.2 on s;?l“mb" 1, 1900, and a ten-year average of The present unprecedented low average, which is two-tenths of a point lower than the condition of September 1, 1896, is due maloly to the reports from Texas and Ala- bama, in both of which states the prevail- ing conditions are nothing less than Al trous. The averages of condition in the dif- terent states are as follows: Virginia, W North Carolina, 80; South Arkansas, 75; Tennessee, 82; Mis- souri, 73; Oklahoma, 76; Indian Territory, WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL terfor and Postofice De- partments. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—(Special Tele- | sram.)—The comptroller of the currency | has approved the National Livestock bank | of Chicago as reserve agent for the First | National bank of Brooklyn, Ia. The contract for carrylug the mall from Crow Lake to Funston, 8. D., has been !awarded to R. Y. Hazard of Funston. Dr. G. W. Cornell has been appolinted | a pension examining surgeon at Knoxville, Ia, and Charles Bunce at Hastings, Neb. Postmasters appointed: Nebraska—Frank Schram, Tarnoy, Platte county, vice A, C. Leas, removed JIowa—Willlam J. Toohey, | Juniata, Buena Vista county; Charles Wild- man, Lynoville, Jasper county. South Da- kota—Willlam N. Hartup Winans, Rob- erts county. NO DUCHESS IN THE GROUP t H on's Callers uela Comcealed About Th Pernons. OfMicers Deny t Had WASHINGTON, Sept. who have just returned to Washington from Néwport tradict absolutely the story that the duchess of Marlborough went aboard Admiral Higginson's flagship. As- sistant Secretary Sanger with a party of triends went aléngside the flagship and asked permission to come aboard, which Admiral Higglnson granted, but the duch- ess was not of the party. 8.—Naval officers niform Rate f River. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—At an Informal Trunk line officers held Bere yesterday arrangements were per- fected to malntain uniform rates on all shipments of freight eastbound from Mis- sourl river points. The truak I it is added, will demand their full share of the regular tariff and any western roads mak- ing cuts will have to stand losses, 4, 1902—-TEN PAGES. LE COPY FIVE ries from Martinique of Death and Destruction Are Oenfirmed. SOUFRIERE IS ALSO BELCHING LAVA More Than One Thousand People Known Have Been Killed, ‘While the Loss to Property o Pe Estimated. to CASTRIES, Island of St. Lucla, B. W. I, Sept. 3.—The zone of destruction of Satur- day night's eruption of Mount Pelee, island of Martinique, paralleled that which de- stroyed the town ‘of St. Plerre in May last, but it spread some five milles more ea: ward. The projection of destructive matter | southward from Mount Pelee was almost | identical with that of lnst May. The area | embraced Morne Rouge, the southern spur | of Mount Pelee, on which beautiful hill was | the sanitarium of St. Plerre, dividing the | Capote and Champs Dore valleys on the | east and Ajoupa Boulllon and Marle Relne | on the west, the market gardens and cattle | farms which supplied St. Plerre. { The inhabitants were removed from this area, and also from the villages of Lorraine and Basse Point, at the b of Mount | Pelee, after the May catastrophe, but they | were sent back by the government last | week. The gendarmerle of Martinique offctally | reports that 1,060 persons were killed and 150 injured by the last showers of flery hall. The war ship and the steamers are | taking the Inhabitants from the coast vil- lages, where people of inland places have also gathered for safety. Survivors who have reached Fort de France describes the eruption as being the most violent yet experienced. The deto- nations were heard at the island of St. Kitts, The St. Vincent volcano, the Soufriere, was In eruption simultaneously. Awful detonations were heard along the southern {slands to Trinid: PARIS, Sept. 3.—The Martinique com- mittee met at the Ministry of Colonies to- day and decided that $100,000 should be immediately sent to Martinique for ai tribution among the sufferers from the la eruption there. | provision will The Martinique fund now amounts to over $1,700,000, of which $300,000 has been distributed. This is in addition to tho $300,000 sent to the island immediately after the catastrophe of May and the sub- scriptions obtained in the United States and other countries which were sent direct. A sum of over $1,400,000 is consequently avallable for relief work. TWENTY-SEVEN ARE INJURED| on Santa Fe Near Brown- woo FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. rail wrecked the westhound passenger train on ‘the Guif, Colorado & Santa Fe rallroad last night, fitteon miles east of Brown- S r‘v@! iy 293 Mrs. R. W. Humphries, skull fractured; will probably dle. Misses Alice and Kate Humphreys, gerously hurt, not fatally. Lynn and Agnes Humphreys and two Humphreys boys, badly brulsed. All the Humphreys are from Houston. Mrs. K. B. Haskins and three children, Brownwood, bruised and cut on hands. Jeff Crossland, Temple, badly cut. Mrs. M. T. Gllbert and son, badly cut on the head. George Brownlee, Zephyr, Tex., face cut Robert Bradbury and Steve Hayes, Zephyr, slightly injured. Miss Ana Johnson, residence unknown, a teacher entoute to Ballinger, Tex, badiy Injured. R. N. Usselton, Temple, back sprained. B. Maxwell, mail clerk, hip injured. Miss Della Hill, Killen, head and hands cut. Miss Mary Adams, Georgetown, head cut. Mrs. Pulliam, Belmont, Gonzales county, shoulder sprained. Lee Lebett, Waco, badly hurt. B. F. Baker and J. W. Jackson, Brown- wood, slightly bruised. Lee Hall, Brownwood, cut on head. The train was running on schedule time when suddenly the engine and cars left the track and, after jumping over the tles for & few yards, the cars turned over the em- bankment. The injured were placed on a relief train and taken to Brownwood this morning. INVESTIGATING A HOSPITAL Chicage Coroner Makes Charges Bodies of Those Who Died to Be Exhumed. dan- Cleburn, CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—Charges by Coroner Traeger of carlessness in the administration of the Presbyterian hospital and a decision to exhume the bodles of two women who died mysteriously in that hospital were the developments growing out of the polsoning of Mrs. Moore by Miss Etheridge. TI bedies to be exhumed to ald in the fnvesti- gation were deaths which occurred in the hospital August 28. The husband of Mrs. Katherine Dubski will ask Judge Chetlain tomorrow for permission to take up the body of his wite, which is buried in the Bohemian cemetery, while Robert Moore, whose wife admittedly was polsoned, s expected to come from Rensaelaer, Ind., to make prep- arations for disinterment of his wife, who is buried in Hopestown, Ill. Relatives of Mrs. Marla Stewart are holding a conference with & view of presenting a similar request to the court for an examination of her re- malns. Coroner Traeger's charge of carclessness is based on fallure to report to him deaths of Mrs, Moore and Mrs. Dubskl. The hos- pital suthorities have confessed they were in doubt as to the cause of death. * “They should have refused to issue death certificates in each case,” seld the coroner. “Then they should have reported the mat- ter to my office immediatel; The hoopital authorities state in reply that there was nothing unusual sttending the deaths of the three women. TWO THOUSAND NECESSARY # Decide to Have In- t When that Are Assured. | KANSAS CITY, Sept. 3.—The National | Assoclation of Postoffice Clerks today con- sidered plans for having their salary bill become @ law at the mext session of con- gress. It was decided that when 2,000 members should signify their willingness to take out policles an ineurance depart- ment would be establisbed. Forecast for Nebraska—Fair and Warmer Thursday and Friday Temperature & Yesterday: our. p.om.. gasgas EEEEL T WOULD COMPEL ARBITRATION‘I Governor Stome Proposes to Have Spe. cial Session Strike Dispose of Troubles. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 3.—"An extra session of the legislature would cost the ate less money than it Is costing to main- tain the militia In the anthracite region | and suppress riots.” In thos@words Governor W. A. Stone ad- dressed some of his friends during his visit here concerning his purpose to call to previ an extra session of the Peunsylvania leg- | islature and try to end the anthracite strike. He i sald to belleve that by this mean the strike could be terminated in less thame thirty days. The plan he pro- poses is a compulsory arbitration law Under a carefully thought out scheme which he bas prepared a committee ap- pointed under his proposed law would ar- bitrate the strike whether the strikers Ample or operators were willing or not. be made to compel both sides to accept the decision. The prin- clpal feature is to compel the two parties | to submit showings to a third party for & decision. The courts have repeatedly up- held the primciple lnvolved. The scheme involves a sweeping appli- cation of the principle of the injunction, both against capital and labor. BRAMWELL, W. Va., Sept. 3.—The situa- field is very alarm- ing. Tonight at Simmons’ creek, as the non- union miners were leaving the mines, a vol- ley was fired at them by strikers hidden on the mountain side. The guards returned the in- The fire in the Pocahontas mine two large streams of water have been pouring into it It is sald the fire has ex- to which the chief entrances are from the West Vir- ginia side, and that there is no prospect of prom- tion in the Flat Top cos fire. jured. continues So far is known no one w to rage, although since yesterday. tended to the other three mines, subdulng the flames soon. The los ises to be enormous. CUTS FREIGHT RATE ON SUGAR Paul Makes First Move in Fight st. Against the Rall-Water Lines. CHICAGO, Sept. for Missouri river points and points fur ther west, The initial move in the fight has been made by the St. Paul, which has announced A”nfllflflh on sugar, dkouu ext (14 3.—(Special Telegram.) —Rallroads westbound from Chicago are about to enter into a determined struggle to rega’e and preserve the immense ton- nage originating east of here and destined PRESIDENT IS HURT Suffers Painful But Net Serious Injuries in Oatastroohe at Pittafield. SECRET SERVICE AGENT . CRAIG KILLED andau's Oollision with Eleotrio Oar Mars the Teur's Ending. MOTORMAN AND CONDUCTOR ARRESTED Former Denies Early Warning, but Oganot E]phm. | THEY ARE CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER Now Out on Bail, but Will Be Held for Grand Jury—Roosevelt Han Returned on Hi to Oyster Bay. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Sept. 3.—The yacht Sylph with President Roosevelt aboard anchored off Oyster Bay shortly before 8:30 this evening. PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 8.—The presi- dent of the United States escaped a tragle death by only a few feet in a collision be- tween his carriage and an electric street car in this city today, while one of h's most trusted guards, Secret Service Agent Willlam Cralg, was instantly killed, and David J. Pratt of Dalton, who was gulding the horses attached to the vehicle, was most seriously injured. President Rocsevelt him- self was badly shaken up, but received only a slight facial bruise. Secretary Cortelyou, who occupled a seat directly opposite the president, in the landau, sustained a minor wound In the back of the head, and Gov- ernor Crane, who sat beside the president, extricated himselt from the wreck prao- tically without a scratch. The carriage was demolished by the impact of the rapidly moving car and the wheel horse on the side nearest the car was killed outright. The crew and passengers of the car escaped in- Jury. The president and party were driving from this city to Lenox, through South street, one of the principal thoroughfares of Pittsfleld, which was lined with cheering people, and the catastrophe occurred in the plain view of hundreds whose happiness at the advent of the nation's chief was suddenly turned to grief. Thousands had poured into the ecity in the early morning from the nearby country te see and hear the 5 eddices at the city park had been loudly cheered. At the conclusion of the exercises he wished to make a brief call ‘on former Senator Dawes, whose house in Elm street is but & short distance from the park. The presi- dent's carrfage, in which he had ridden from Gover Crane’s home at Dalton, was accordingly driven to the Dawes resi- dence and carriages containing a number of other gentlemen in the party followed, President Roosevelt's call was & shott one. nd ther carriage returned ¢ e oy and the St. Paul's move will be lollowod by other western lines. This is merely a test case, put in with a view of ascertain- ing the effect of such a rate on commodi- ties from the east. The new sugar rate is made to compete with the water-rafl route from New York by the way of Galveston and the other gulf The Mallory and Morgan steamship Iines make a 33-cent rate on sugar from New York to Missourl river polnts. This 1s but a trifle In excess of the present rate from Chicago to Missourf river points; so that practically none of the trafic moves across country. The low steamship rates ports. are made in connection with the raliro lines extending from the gulf ports to Mis sourl river points, viz: The Missourl P; cific, Texas Central. CONVENTION ENDS IN A ROW Party in . Greatly Belles Name, Quaker its Union PHILADBELPHIA, Sept. 3.—The state con- vention of the union party was marked by scemes of wild disorder which resulted in a split and the holding of two conventions. One faction of the party fa- vored the endorsement of the democratic state ticket, headed by Robert E. Patt'son for governor, while the other faction fa- vored the republican ticket, headed by Sam- uel W. Pennypacker. Each side tried to get control of the con- vention machinery. In the mixup plstols and knives were flourished, some men were struck by “black jacks” and others by chairs. The Pennypacker adherents stormed the platform and amid great cori- fusion indorsed the republican ticket. The Pattison faction under the marshalship of Recretary Riter of the union party, retired and assembled at the Continental hotel, where Pattison was endorsed for governor and Gutbrle for lieutenant governor. It is believed that the whole proceedings will be taken into court. KANSAS WOMAN FOR MURDER Mra, Stella Guinane is Held at © with Man Who Gives No Name. CHANUTE, Kan., Sept. 3.—Mrs. Stella Guinane and s man who refuses to give his name were arrested here today in con- nection with the murder in this city on Thursday night last of E. V. Dickey, a stockman from Dewey, I T., who was killed for his money. Ball was fixed at $10,000, which neither could give. Mrs. Guinane is the wite of Willlam Guinane, who was eent to the penitentiary from Chapute over a year ago for grand larceny. Movements of Ocean Vessels Sept. 8. At New York-Arrlved—Onl Waldersee, from Hambu At lA\erpoal~Arr|de —~Noordland, from Philadelphia, vll Queenstown; Oceanio, from New York, via ueennow Balled— Haverford, for Philadelphia, ueens- town: Teutonic, for New York, via Queens- town! _At Queenstown—Arrived—New England, from Boston, for Liverpool, and proceeded without communicating, ovlin, to a gale. Salled—Ivernia, for Liverpool, for Boston. At Hong Kong—Arrived—Tartar, Vancouver, B, C., At Genoa—Arrived—Cambroman, Michaels and Naples. At Antwerp—Sailed—! adelphla At Brow from Boston, ol PR Cherbourg—falied—Katserin Theresia, from Bre for New York Naples—Arrived—Lahn, from New k., via Glbraitar and Genos, and pro- £ g Southampton-—Arrived—Philadelphia Salled—Kaiserin Maria Theresa, from Bre- men, for New York, via Lh-rbouu via Bt Nederland, for Phil- land, Aver- Head—Passed—New En for Queenstown and emen and Southampton, Rock Island, Santa Fe, Kansas City Southern, Illinois Central and Houston & today from via Yokohama and Hiogo. | Maria | After a few minutes' delay the journey to Lenox was begun. Meanwhile the mounted escort of police officers and the carriages containing the newspaper correspondents who have accompanied the pres dent on his tour had started off ahead on the road to Lenox and were some distance in advance of the president's equip: Three of four other open carriages fell in line immediately behind the landau In which the pres dent rode with Secretary Cortelyou and Gov- eronr Crane. Secret Service Agent Oralg, who throughout the New England tour h been almost constantly at the president's elbow, was on the driver's box beside Coachman Pratt. Out through South street is a broad, smooth highway. The tracks of the Pitt field Electric street railway are laid in the center of the road, with ample room for teams on each side, and scores of vehicles of every description followed along this road behind the president’s party, Shortly after he left the park an electric car which had been fllled with passengers at that point, started toward Lenox, well behind the procession. It passed all of the teams and was about a mile and a half out from the city at the beginning of Howard hill and was nearly up to the president's carringe, which was traveling on the west s'de of the highwa; Just at the foot of Howard hill the road bends a little and teams are compelled to cross the street rallway tracks to the east side. The rallroad then continues at one side of the street, in d of in the center. Just at this point the upgrade of the hill begins, and but a short distance beyond the crossing there is a rrow bridge spanning & small brook. The trol- ley car approached the road crossing un- der a good head of speed, with gong clanging, just as the driver of the presi- dent’s carrier turned his leaders to cross the tracks. On each side of the chief ex- ecutive's carriage rode two mounted troopers of the local cavalry company and the horsemen on the left of the landau had turned ont> the track with the trolley car immediately behind them, though some yards distant. Alarmed by the clanging gong, they both turned in their saddles and waived vigorously to the motorman to stop his car. Almost at the same instant Governor Crane, who quickly preceived the danger, rose to hie feet and likewise mo- tioned to the motorman, When the Crash The latter, in great excitement, des- perately tried to stop his car, but it w too late. It crashed into the carriage as a loud moan went up from the frensled onlookers who thronged the roadside and | who, but & moment before, were cheering | the president. The horsemen managed t» get the frightened animals out of the way just ip time and the car struck the rear wheel of the carrl: on the left side and ploughed through to the front wheel of the vehicle, which received the full force of the blow. The carriage was upset in the twinkling of an eye and one borse fell dead on the tracks. The other three | powerful grays attached to the vehicle | started to run and dragged by them and pushed by the force of the car, the wrecked carrl was moved thirty or forty feet. Agent Craig fell from his seat immediately {in fromt of the car and it passed com- pletely over his body. Driver Pratt, in falling, struck the dead horse immediately in front of him and rolled off clear of the car, thus escaping & similar fate. Pr dent Roosevelt, Governor Crane and retary Cortelyou were thrown together in the bottom of the carriage. Almost instantly a score of men jumped to the heads of the frightened horses and stopped their further progress. Governor Crane was the first to get to his feet, es- caping entirely unhurt. He turned imme- | diately to the president, helped the latter me.