The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1897, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1897. CONFERENCE OF LEADERS Labor Union Officials Discuss the Miners’ Strike. PROMISE THEIR ACTIVE SUPPORT. Reports From the Tied - Up Districts Encouraging to the Men. A FUEL FAMINE ALREADY AT CLEVELAND. Several Coa!-Dealers Have Been Forced to Suspend—Big Works to Close Down. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 9.— Labor lead- ers of teveral National organizations met ht at the Monongahela House to s the miners’ strike. The following | took vari: President Ratchford of the | Miners, Samuel Gompers of the American | Federation of Labor, J. N, Hughes, secre- tary of the Confederated Trades; Presi- nt Mahon of the Streetcar Men’s Union, President Counahan of the Plumbers’ Union, President Carrick of the Painters | and Decorators, President Thomas of the Pattern-makers, President M. H. Evans of the American Flint-glass Workers, and District President Dolun and District Sec retary Warner of the Miners, After the conference Counahan gave out the follow- ing report: ‘It was demonstrated that the suspen- sion is practically general in the bitumin- district, extending also to Kentucky und Tennessee. excepting a few points in West Virginia. It was dstermined that | every effort should be made on the part of | those present to secure the co-operation | and practical aid of organized labor for | the struggling miner. All circumstances | warranted the firmn conviction that the miners will nltimately achieve victory and | to tuat end the aid of labor and the sym- | pathetic public is invoked. It was also urged that a conference be beld by repre- | tatives of the miners and operators, with a view to arriving at a settlement.” Senator Mark Hanna's Panhandle mine was closed down lo-day. Thomas E.| X , the manager, told the men that | cuen if they were willing to work he did not desire them to enter the mine, as the | company had always been willing to pay the miners fairjwages, and believed thatif the mine were kept open the chances of a | 1l ending 1o the strike would be | likely. He wished, therefore, to have it closed down. Beventy-five men | were working in the mine yesterday. Strik ners are beginning to find their way into town, and dozens of them visited the headquarters of the United | Mine Workers this morning, | A number of diggers from Castle Shan- | non mines came to see if the company could not get enough men to work to dig coal 80 as to run two engines. The com- pany claims to have a contract to carry the United States mails, and.these must | be Lauled. The Castle Shannon Coal | Company has no railroad connections ana | it is believed the firm will be allowed to work enough men at the advanced price to keep their own machinery in motion, The operators point to the fact that all the mmes on the Pennsylvania road within the forty-mile limit have resumed operations and are shipping coal west, One operator bought from the Keystone | Coal Company fifteen cars which had been sianding on a sidetrack at 5 cents a | ton advance. The firm also contracted for twenty-five carloads a day as long as the sirike Jasts, The Centrat Traffic Association carries | all coal mined within a radius of forty | miles of Pittsburg 1o the lakes at 90 cents | per ton. This is called the forty-mite | limit. The mines on the Pennsylvania | Railroad coming within reach of that rate | are the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal | Company’s mines, capacily 250 cars per dayj Keystone Coal Company, capacity 200 car: Manor Coal Compan Cars; Pennsylvania Gas, 105 cars; Atlantic, 50 | cars; Berwind White Ocean mine, 100 | cars; Corey’s Duguesne mine, 25 cars; tne Hamilton and Elkins Gas Coal, 25 cars’ | pacity, and the Westmoreland Coal npany, 200 cars. Ca The Pennsyivania road claims to have sterted 1090 cars of coal westward, and has | promised to supply cars enough each day to ship equal amounts. The mines on the Pennsylvania road usually ship eastward or coke their coal, but in times like these, when orders are numerous for coal, these firms dispose of the coal at an advanced | price Private detectives in the employ of op- erators left for different points in Alle- gheny County this morning for the pur- poee of watching the strikers. The sending of private detectives was determined upon aiter the operators iailed to have deputy marshais appointed. They made an effort to have private de- tectives sworn in as such, but failed, so far as Allegheny County is concerned. The operators succeeded, however, in hav- ing deputy marshals appointed for the mines in Fayette, Washington and West- moreland counties. COAL FAMINE IN | | CLEVELAND, Already the Siluation Assumes a Very Grare Aspect, CLEVELAND, Osro, July 9.—The sitna- tion in this e¢ity over the coal strike is becoming desperate. The Cleveland rail- roads are growing bolder in confiscating coal, and those who depend upon a reg- ular supply are becoming anxious. The schooner B. W. Parker of Detroit has been delayed 1n Cleveland since Sunday owing to the action of the Erie Railway. The boat was loading coal at the Cleve- Jand Shipbuilding Company’s works. An Erie engine backed on the high trestle which leads to the car-dumping machine and carried away thirty cars of coal which were to have been loaded into the Parker, T. e boat will have to go up light. Sev- eral boats were delayed to-day, owing to the difficulty in securing fuel. The Inter- ocean Company, one of the heaviest fuel- ing firms on the lakes, has only coal erough to last its customers a few days. Several other fueling firms have nearly exhasted their supply. The Pennsylvania and Ohio Fueling Company hassuspended business altogether in Cleveland. There is considerable fuel in the upper lake re- vion and some of it may have to be brought down here. It 1s generally ad- mitted now that the coal-dealers and mine-operators were very poorly prepared for a strike. The Morris Coal Company has ceased shipping coal altogether, and in fact coal- dealers as & rule bave delivered nearly all their co: to lie up, The vesel men say that the strike will cause all but the exceplionally Igrgs hoats | 4 M. Btyan Ts Being Botne Along on the Tide of P S— - roé\p;fity in Spite of Himself. 1 | The vessel men take, in- situation. They ho!d that it will improvi traffic and that the miners will doubtle: be victorious. The great plant of the Cleveland Steel Companv closed this morning owing 1o lack of fuel. A number of other plants are preparing to shut down. The coal-miners in the Wheeling and Lake Erie district won a great victory to- day. Colonel Myron T. BHerrick, receiver for the Wheeling and Lake Erie, received a dispatch at noon saving that only one man went to work at_Dillonvale. . This is ihe place where the Wheeling and L ke Eriedecided 1o make the test. Mr. Her- | rick said that he was inclined to believe | the men wanted work and he had secured ptotection for them. The full force of this intelligence can be appreciated when it is stated tbat Cleve- land manufaciurers and shippers ex- | pected that if matters came to the very worst the district covered by the Wheeling and Lake Erie would supply whatever coal was needed. Tuis means to Cleve- land now a practical tie-up. Of all the Clevelaud operators J. B. Zerbe, president of the Ohio and Yennsyl- vania Coal Company, is the most san- guine. He thinks the strike will be over in a few days and thinks the officers of the United Mine Workers’ Association are only making a grand-stand play. =y THE I1LLINOIS SITUATION, Miners at Work in Some Districts, in O hers They Are Out. SPRINGFIELD, Ilin, July 9.—The miners’ strike situation 1 lilinois is as fol- lows: All the miners in the Wilmington district, 3000 in number, are out. In Bpringfield district most of the miners are working. In Peoriadistrictthe minersare still working, but will meet to-day. The miners at Btaunton and Mount Olive have given out assurances that the Belleville miners would strike, but the Belleville men at their meeting decided to work. At Carlinville there is no strike. Virden and Auburn miners struck weeks ago. The miners at Assumption are out, but at | Pana and Taylorville they are working. At Westville, Vermillion Courty, the miners are out, but are at work ai Dan- ville. OTTAWA, ILL, July 9.—One hundred miners at E. Hacke’s shaft at Rutlana struck to-day. One hundred and fifty miners from Toluca marched across the county and met the Rutland miners as they appeared at the shaft. Fearin trouble tue Mayor of Rutland telegraphea the Sheriff that the si on was alarm- ing and asked for assistance. Deputies were sworn in. Word was received later that after the Toluca and Redlana strik- ers had paraded the streets the former left for home and all danger had passed. . DANVILLE. IrL, July 9.—At a meet- inz of the Danville operators to-day the mine-owners agreed to cffer the miners 12 cents per ton if they would agree to remain at work. It is hoped this will guvunt the contemplated strike next Sun- ay. Two Mighty Continents, North and South America, beside Guate: ala, the West Indies, Australia, and even Kurope, are the flelds of usefulness in which Ho:tet er's Stomach EBitters has demonstrated its value as an antidote 10 malaria, and as a remedy for dyspepsia, cons |- pation, rheumatism. neuraigla, biliousness, ner- vousness, and 10ss of appetite and sieep. The in. Babit .nts,the medical men of these coun ries, have spoken in 1o nucertain tones concerning the efli- acy of the great household umcdl, When the strike is declared off | there will be a heavy demand for boats, | | and the vessel men hope then to obtain better rates. deed, a very philesophical view of the MERCURY BOILS - (QUTOFTHE TuE | Hot Rays Kill Scores in| the Mississippi Valley. Factories Are Shut Down and Thrashers Leave Work in the Fields. Eastern Humldity Unprecedsnted, the Heat Rsaching 105 in the Shade. CHICAGO, IrL., July 9.—Reports from various places in the Mississippi Valley indicate that the heat is almost unprece- dented. In Aurora it was probably the hottest, the temperature there at 10 A. u. being 103 in the shade. The factories there have shut down until the hot wave is over. There were thirty prostrations, At Peoria the mercury reached the 100 | mark, and a number of fatal cases of pros- | tration were reported. Alexander G. Tyng, the oldest grain-dealer in Illinois, died suddenly from the effects of the heat last night. At Golden, near Quincy, Miss May Schwartz, aged 17, was driven insane by the heat. Decatur sweltered under a tem- perature of 99. Three deaths there and many prostrations are reported. The thermometer at Madison, Wis., registered 97, with two fatal prostrations. | A similar temperature was recorded at } Eigin, Ill. Four persons were stricken down and one died. Five deaths and eighty prostrations oc- curred in Chicago to-day. At 10 o’clock to-night the temperature was 87 degrees. | The Government thermometer at 8 A. . registered 83 degrees, the bottest at that time of day in the history of the local weather bureau. By 10 o’clock it had risen to a trifle over 90 above. The hu- midity is unabated, with scarcely a breath of air stirring, what little breeze there is being from the south and rendering the situation still more uncomfortable, MUNCIE, IxNp, July 3.—This has been the hottest day ever known here. E. D, Dabois, who recently came from Chicago as suverintendent of street railways, was prostrated; aiso Cyrus Richardson, Jacob Meisker, Timothy” Hardwick, John Rich and many others. The glass works were compelled to close on account of the heat. Among the prostrations to-day is that of Rev. Augustin Bolton, pastor of St. Mon- ica’s Colored Roman Catholic Chuich, and one of the foremost colored Catholic clergymen in the West. His condition s critieal. KOKOMO, Inp., July 9.—This was the hottest day here for sixty years, the ther- mometer registering 105. The workmen Lon thy Greeutows Fiks quis york og account of many of their force being prostrated. PADUCAH, Ky, Julv 9—The hot wave 18 caus:n - suffering all over western Kentucky. Many prostrations are ported. Illinois Central below hare struck, declar- ing they could not work. Thrashing crews are abandoning their machines. LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 9.—The maxi- mum reached this morning by the ther- mometer was 95 at 11 o’clock, after which the mercury gradually receded until 12 o’clock, when another upward spurt was 1aken, which sent it bubbling out of the tube. Three deaths are reported from the inrense Lieat ana many prostrations. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 9.—The mercury touched 88 degrees at 8 o’clcck this morn. ing., There wasone death and several prostrations, DAYTON, Onro, July 9.—Three deaths from the heat have occurred in the past few bhours. The thermomeler registered | 93 at noon. CINCINNATI, Omro, July 9 —The tem- perature continued very eclose to €6 all day. The record of prostrations for the thirty-six bours end ng at 9 o’clock to- night was jeventy-three in this city, with tifteen fatalities in Cincinnati, Covington | and Newnvort. BOSTON, Mass,, July 9.—The tempera- | ture here to-day was 93 according to of- ficial figures, of snnstroke. LOCKPORT, N, Y., July 9.—The tem- perature has remained &bout 95 for the week and there has been much suffering, James Clark, 68 years old, while work- ing in a hay-mow to-day was overcome by heat and died in a few minutes. Oneother case, probably fatal, is reported. NEW YORK, N, Y., July 9.—The heat caused seven deaths in this city to-d and one in Brooklyn., The heated spell begimuning to have its effect upon the in- tensely morbid part of the population. The police reports show more than the usual number of suicides. Insane cases are also becomine frequent. PADUCAH, Ky, Juy 9.—The week of heat culminatea at 5:20 tuis afternoon in a tornado, which swept over West Ken- tucky and Southern Iilinois, and near! all telegraph and telephone wires ar down. Railroads are blocked by fallen trees and highways are impassab e. An electrical bolt struck the office of the Langstaff-Orme mills, ruining electrical There were (wo fatal cases fixtures and badly shocking Prei- dent George Langstaff Jr. and Miss Harris, a bookkeeper, Cap- tain Philip Bauer of Golconda, Ili, an engineer on tha Uity of Clarksville and Parker Holly, were seated in the Three Rivers mill when the lightning wrecked it. Holly escaped by running, but Bauer was stricken dowr. beneath a huge mass of masonry at the acorwav as he ieaped into the street and instantly killed. FULL OF XEaLS AND RICHES, Myrs. Julia Maffitr, a 5t. Louis Pioneer, Passes sway. 8T. LOUIS, Mo, July 9.—Mrs. Julia Maffitt, a pioneer of St. Louis, and the richest woman in this eity, is dead at her howe in this city, aged 81 Mrs. Muffitt’s grandtatler, Pierre Chou- teau Sr., was one of the originai members of the American Fur Company, and from 1798 to 1804 passed his time in the West- ern woods trading with the Indians. His company prospe:ed so rapidiy from his perilous work that he retired wealthy in 1804, and acceptod an appointment from President Jefferson as the agent for all Indians west of the Mississippi River. The Chouteau family was the most | promineni of all the eariy French settlers in Missouri, and the name forms no in- considerable part of the history of the West, as yell ag St Louis and (ko Staje, | _ signature of i re- | Two hundred employes on the | | EOLD CONVENTION CLOSES AT DENVER Meeting of Mining Men That Promises Good Results. Resolution Demanding Un- limited Coinags of Silver Voted Down. Salt Lake City Is Selected as the Place for Holding the Next Sesslon. DENVER, Coro., July 9.—The first busi- ness of the last day’s session of the Inter- national Gold Mining Convention was the selection of a place for holding the next convention in 1898. J. 0. Buckley of Wisconsin withdrew Milwaukee from the contest. After the call of States had been finished, and before the vote was announced, Mr. Montgomery of Nebraska withdrew Omaha and moved that Salt Lake City be declared the unanis mous choice of the convention. The mo- tion was carried. Angus M. Cannon thanked the convention for the honor be- stowed upon hiscity. An animated debate was precipitated by J. Jacobs, representing the National Travelers’ Protective Association, as to the sianding of his organization in the conven- tion. It wasagreed that hebe recognized and allowed a vote separate from any State or Territory. The following resolutions were intro- duced and referred: By O. W. Crawford of Iilinois, that for the purpose of stimu- lating the mining industry Congress be memorislized to establish in each United States Land District in the mineral pro- ducing States a Government experiment- ng and testing station, on plans similar to Government agricultural stations,where ores may be tested free of expense 10 the rospectors; by Judge Brown of West irginis, to change the name of the con- vention from the International Gold Min- ing Convention to International Mining Convention. The chairman uogoinlod the following committe- to take the necessary steps to- ward securing the ge of a coustitu- tional amendment e lishing a Cabinet department to be known as the Bureau of Mines and Mining: La‘e Pence, Colorado; M. H. Herring, Texas; J. R. Hodges, Penn- sylvania; William F. Bechel, Nebraska; E. V. Smalley, Minnesota. The committee on resolutions submitted its report. It was considered section by section, speeches being limited to five minures, . The section memorializing Congress 1o e ———————— The fac-simile throw open ull mineral lands on Spanish land grants in California, Arizona, New Mexico ana Colorado to location as mining claims was adopted. The resolution asking Congress to throw open the asphaltand gilsonite lands on the ncomphagre Indian Reservation in Utah to mineral locations was adversely re- ported upon. A motion to lay the report on the table and to adopt the resolution was carried by a vote of 93 to 22. Then Angus M. Cannon of Utah spoke against tho resolu- tion and moved that the whole matter be laid on the table. Ris motion prevailed. Two resolutions providing for the ap- pointment of a committee to take such | steps as may be necessary to secure a re- codification of the mining laws were ad- | versely reported on. The convention ais- agreed with the report and referred the resolutions to the committee already ap- pointed for this purpose. The resolution relating to the proposed new Cabinet Bureau of Mines and Min- ing was adopted ana referred 1o the spe- cial committee already appointed. Resolutions of thanks to the Govern- ments of Venezuela. Belgium, Italy, Swe- den and Norway, Denmark and Mexico, for the interest they have taken in this convention by sending representatives, and to Professor George Knapp of Illinois for valuable relics presented to the con- vention, were adopted. N. E. Guyot, a member of the resolu- tions committee from New Mexico, offered a8 minority report declaring for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16to 1. The adoption of the re- port was seconded by another New Mexico delegate. Instantly balf a dozen dele- gates were on the floor declaring the re- port out of order. The point made against it was that the order of business elimi- nated all political questions from discus- sion. The chair sustainea the objections and the minority report was refused con- sideration. It was expected that the silver resolu- tion would be brought up again this after- noon, but better counsel prevailed and the matter was not touched on. It i« gen- erally conceded that it wasa mistake to have broached such a subje; S the con- vention was entirely foreign to all poli- tics. The resolution asking Congress to give mines and mining a place in the President’s Cabinet was passed this after- noon as were several other minor resolu- tions. Beveral plpfl;! wuratroad at the after- noon session, the most important bein one by Charles J. Moore, M. E., of Crinnlfi i Creek, on “The Crippie Creek Formation," The convention tnen adjournea sine die 1o meet next year at Salt Lake, To-morrow the delegates leave for Crip- ple Creek in the morning, where they will be the guests of the great camp till Sun- day. A iarge number of them will then leave for Balt Lake to attend the Trans- Mississippi Congress there on the l4th —— Boston Millionaire’s Daughter Misatng. inst. BOSTON, Mass., July 9.—The Herald says that pretty Grace Stevenson, aged 25, lefi her home in Brookline on the even- ing of April 26 to go on a short errand and she has never returned. A search through- from Boston failed 10 reveal the siightes inkling of her whereabouts. She is the daughter of James Stevenson, the mil- lionaire real ;sl e operator and owner of RAIL TRAFFIC T0 THE NEW WEST J. P. Morgan Planning to Secure Complete Control. Foreclosing a Giant Mortgage on the Baltimore and Ohio System. Jolned With the Vanderblits, He Wil Soon Hold the Lehigh Valley Road. BALTIMORE, Mp., July 7.—New York attorneys have secured the court's per- mission to bring suit against the Balti- more and Osio Railroad to recover on the | mortgage for $5,000,000 issued in 1877. The interest was due June 1and the com- pany defaulted. This means the speedy foreclosure and reorganization of the road by J Pierpont Morgan and other New York financiers. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 9.—The Journal says that J. Pierpont Morgan will shortly resume the management of the Lehigh Vailey Raiiroad. Recently when the Lehigh Valley was in dimcull!es Philadelphia capital mostly came to its aid, the large Farker estate shouldering most of the responsibility. This estate in its turn became involved in a way, and Mr. Morgan, representing the numerous English stockholders, obtaineJ an option on ail the Parker holdings. This has given him an absolute control of the road. Itis known that so far advanced are his plans that be has determined to subtitute either Edwin K. Winter, the former president of the Northern Pacific, whom Mr. Morgan elevated to that position, or else Dr. W. Z Webb, the second vice- president of the New York Central, who 1s a son-in-law of the late William K. Vanderbilt, as president in the place of M. E. P. Wilbur. o It is presumed that it is the plan of Mr. Morgan to make the roads in which he is interested with the Vanderbilts practi- cally controli all traffic to the West, except that which can never be taken away from the Pennsylvania. The acguisition of the Lonigh, together with 1he Leading, would give him a large hold on the coalfields and also absolute control of the region lying about the St. Lawrence. Already the Central has established a line of steamers running three times a week from Clayton to Montreal to compete with the Canadian line, and it is known that Dr. Webb and the Central's general passerger agent, G. F. Daniels, have been for some time past industriously buving real estate along the St. Lawrence. The control of the Lehigh Valley wouid do anay with the rival road which the Central now experiences in the summer traffic to the Thousand Islands region. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 9.—The Chi- cago- and Northwestern Railway has agreed to sell to a syndicate $20,000,000 of ninety-year bonds, to be issued under a mortgage to be determined upon at ‘the directors’ meeting next Thursdav. The price is private. The bonds bear 3)§ per cent interest. WEST VIKGINIA. P e The Resumption Promised at Dillenvals Did Not Ucour. WHEELING, W. 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