The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1897, Page 3

FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1897. HOPE FOR THE HARVEST GROWS LESS Noted Men Write of the Gloomy Outlook in Ireland. GLADSTONE IS MUCH CONCERNED. Colonel Spaight Speaks of at Once Establishing Works of Relief. ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM’S SAD PICTURE, Scarclty of Food Staples to Be Fol- lowed by a Shortage In the Much Needed Fuel. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 1..—A spectal to the World from London The outiook in Ireland is not improved. On the contrary, the hope of any harvest grows less day by day. Mr. Gladstone is so impressed with the grave tidings that for once he has broken the e tosay pothing on pub! ever remotely, with po <. Acknowl- edging copiesof a report trom Ireland forwaraed to him by your correspondent, the ““Grand Old Man’’ repliesin an auto- graphic letter to-day: sa you for your kind attention to oue, rawn from public affeirs. is very sad and causes m W. E. GLADSTONE. 5 tone House, September 9, 1897. Colone! Spaight, an official of experience, who sounded the first note of alarm in the letter cabled last week, writes as follows reply to a request for a full exposition views: KILLALOE, COUNTY CLARE, and object in ealling dis- o effects of the eason was that necessary steps m t in time to meet the severe tr ich I regret to say, is cert to arise from inclem tseason. I have had exp upon all concerned s to the last moment and then en- oring to do what was required in & hur- , imperfect manner. The potato crop, gh not now the sole son i food for the r people, still undoubtedly was their main =. The potatoes in the mountains and lands are a total failure, small, iil- are potatoes pigs and fow1 e same district has been while the oats crop 1s se- and it will bs impossibie to es not clear up. At cold, with incessant aone. It is more er than September. One of of the peop'e, though is No one, ex- ea of the way this rity of 1he poor. necessary than rood, and r women . In , the only way to give reiief is to provide useful h would be & permonent benefi to ountry. This must be done with due 1ght deration by co Late Lecal Govern ie venerable Archbishop es: ST. GARLATIU'S COLLEGE, Tuay, Sept. 10.— t ¥ good of your pper 1o take such an ut poor people. From sall the ac- ut Inspector. of Tuam e of Tuam, embracing nearly half of County Mago and Galway, I am sorry to say ly could things be worse. Owing to the easing downoour of rain the potato, the food of our peopi even where not totally destroy t. T therefore regard it as certain that a general famine in 10 overtake us the before e have baraly re r y our with which to pure It is most hun g round the hat, but what can ger pierces the stone wall. The is greatly dameged, while the is 1n a bad way, and it may be said a fuel e meul, be ating to be e is s bad as a food famine. On the whole I look on the coming time as boding misery. I give you a gloomy picture, but I am sorry tosay a true one. JOHN MACEVL Archbishop of Tuam. 1 IHE BEAR, Parisian Popers Busy Shaping Future of the dlliance. [Copyrighted, 1897, by the Associated Press.] FEANCE the PARIS, Fraxce, Sept. 11.—Paris news- papers are still most busily engaged in shapinz up the future of France in com- pany with the Russian bear. The alliance is a topic for daily con- gratulations among most classes in France, and it has given the greatest pleasure at the Vatican, where the intrigues of Car- | dinal Kopn, the Prince Bishop of Breslan, to detacn Vatican sympaihy from France have met with but little success. The Y¥rench indeed, claim that the dual alli- ance has anolker partner in the Pope. Russia is preparing to reav a harvest from French delight at the aliiance, and i« about to issue a loan in Paris of a mili- liard of francs. In the meanwhile, to help smooth the way, the Russian Min- ister of Finance bhas issued a decree, which will go into effect in October, can- celing the law under the provisions of which the trust funds, bank reservesand moneys paid of public compazias are not allowed to bz invested in Fiencu under- takings. 2 Upon the heels of the appointment of the Czar's commission to consider the in- {roduction of aniversal and compulsory education throughout the Russian empire comes a strong crusade on the part of the Russian Bishops to stamp out sectarianism. The Bishops have agreed to demand cf the Czar that Tolstoi ana his followers be prose- cuted, that the sectarian schon's be closed, that the peasant communes be accorded the rizht to expel sectariang to Siberia, and that the publication of Lutheran books in the Russian languaece he pr hibited. The more violent of the Bishops furiher propose that the property of sec- tarians be confiscated. —— 70 ¥ISIT THE VILAYETS. Turkey Orders a Commission to Repair Damaaes Done in Avmenia. CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEY, Sept. 11. «-The Sultan has ordered a commission €omposed of {wo Mussulmans, three Ar- /mnians and cne Greek to visit the Arme- affairs connected, how- | rsonaily visited the | parts of the | 7 | that the charges had been made to preju dice the laboring men against him, and | said_he would wiilingly leave the case in | nian vilayets, which have been the chief sufferers from t.e massacre, and raisz funds to rebunild the Armenian schools, churches and monasteries and build orphanages, The commission will start immediately, The Marquis of Salisbury sustains his objection to allowing Thessaly to be re- tained by Turkey as a pledge for the pay- ment of Greek indemnity, and be insists that the Turkish troops must evacuate that part of Greece at once after the con- clusion of financial arrangements for the payment of the indemnity. COXSTERNATION AT MADRID. Excitement Cver the Capture by the Cubans of Victoria de las Lunas Continues. MADRID, spa1x, Sept. 11.—The excite- ment caused by the capture by the Cuban insurgents ob Vicioria le las Lunas con- tinues here. The Imparcial describes it as a catastro- phe for Spain. In official circles efforts are being made to minimize the import- ance of the Insurgents’ successes. The Spanish authoriiizs are convinced that an expedition is about to start with the ob- ‘L»«-t of speedily effecting the recapture of Jictoria de las Lumas. The Government has begun to adopt and enforce measures for the auppression of comments on the coadition of affairs in Cuba. EI Correo Espanol, a Carlist journal, has been seized for the publica- tion of an article tending to incite an up- rising. Goeneral Pando, it is stated, is to be dis- ciplined for his letter on the Cuban situa- tion, in which he declared that the time had come to fix the responsibility for the | present policy upon its promoters. —_—— GUATEMALA. CHAOS 1IN Moager Accounts of Sensational Events in the Repnblic, SAN JOSE, GUATEMALA, Sept. 11 (via| Galveston, Sept. 10, delayed in transmis- sion).—The censorship on all messages | from Guatemala is very strict, A brother of President Barrios and the wife of the Jefe of Quesaltenan were killed to-day The Piaza San Marcos has been taken possession of by the revolutionists. ! The mails are unsafe and it is probable | that they will be delayed for one week. | NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. They do the talking. The values they’re tied to are simply Wrap-ups. Every one’s talking about ’em. Thethousandsthat passed out of our estab- lishment Saturday dressed up for a little money would astound You. THEY'RE DOLLAR-SAVERS, THEY'RE VALUE-GIVERS ! We Have Shut Our Eyes to Cost. We Want Results. Qur Very Choicest Stock, in Fact, Every Department In the House Is Green-Tagged To-Day. SSLETSSENSSEESUEECO SR SC SO UL USSR SIESU T TE U CUES R WK a3 ) ot eght- \(‘ pm=r — - | Tewenty-Seven Sermen Drowned. PORT SAID, Eeyer. Sept. 1L—The British steamer Polyphemus, from Yoko- hama to London, has been damaged in a on near Jebeltar, an 1sland of the Red Sex, according 10 a dispatch just re- | seven of the crew were drowned. S s France Needs Much Wheat. PARIS, Fraxce, Sept. 11.—The Matin in an article on the grain supply says it will be necessary to imvort ,000,000 quintals of wheat this season on account | of the failure of the crops. The importa- tion of thie quantity of wheat will yield 140,000,000 francs duty. fe e | Applier for an Audience. | SAN SEBASTIAN, Spars, Sept. 1l | General Woodlord, the United States Min- | Queen Regent in order that he may pre- sent his credentials. S an g N William to Meet Joseph. HOMBURG, GerMaNy, Sept. 1L.—Em- peror William left nere for Totis, Huncary, where he will meet Emperor Francis Jo- seph and will attend the Austrian miti- tary maneuve = ages Ellers’ Advance Postponed. PESHAWER, I~pi, Sept. 1L.—The ad- vance of General Ellers’ column from Shaoaker has been postponed, owing 1o | volitical reasons, for forty-eizht bours. 0HI2 CAMPAIGN OPENZD. Foraker and Hanna Address a Big | Republican Gathering in the | Town of Burton. BURTON, Omnro, Sevt. 11.—In this little | town was hed this afternoon one of the | three meetinzs by which the Ohio Repub. lican campaign was ovened. Several hun- |dred Republicans from Cleveland and neighboring towns, in ali about 8000 peo- ple, attended the meeting. The speakers were Senators Foraker and Hanna, ex-Governor Charles Foster | and President J. J. Sullivan of the Ohio | League of Republican Clubs. Foraker i paid a high tribute to Mr. Hanna, acd de- | clared that Obio could not afford to dis- pense with his services in the Senate. Senator Hauna, after alluding to his { canaidacy for the United States Senate, took up the newspapercharge that he was | a “labor crusher.” He insisted that he | had always been a friend of workingmen, Ohio to recognize labor. He declared | their hands. | In conclusion Senator Hanna spoke of the complimentary referenc to his candi- dacy by Senator Foraker and alluded to | recentn wspaper stories of ill feeling be- | tween them, saying: *I wantto say right | here that so far as I am concerned it will take more than the united Democratic_press of the State of Ohio, headed by McLean’s Enquirer, to make a break between Foraker and me. I know him to be too zood a Republican for feuds. | If there ever was a time when the Repub- licans of Ohio should stand together it is mow.” Conductor Burbank and Engineer Ostrander Blamed—Known Dead Now Eleven. DENVER, Coto . Sept, 11 —A special to the News from Newcastle, Colo., says: | ¥rank Burbauk, conductor, and Engi- | neer Ostrander, deceased, of the Colorado Midland Railway, are charged |y the Cor- oner’s jury with being responsible for the frightful wreck which occurred here a few minutes past midnight Thursday night. Tue inquest was held this morning. | The jury decided from the evidence thai the conductor and enzineer attempted to arrive at Newcasile siding upon the time | allotted by order of the train dispaicher | i | to the Rio Grande passenger west bound. Conductor Burbank was released on his own recognizance this morning, and after the verdict was announced he was not re- | arrested. The verdict was received with- | out any surprise. g | The death of Rev. Alexander Hartman | of Herschock, I and the finding of the | body of Engineer Ostrander increases the number of known dead toeleven. The | Joroner’s researches among the ruins | ve convinced him that from six to ten more persons met death in the awfal acci- dent. This materially reduced the origi- nal estimate. R McKinley Touche: the Button. SOMERSET, Pa., Sept. 11.—President McKin ey reccived many callers to-day | and this evening at the Endslee residence. | To-night the President, accompaniel by | his brother, Abner McKin'ey, walked to the Western Union office, where he | touched a button that openeu tne electri- | cal display at the Cleveland exposition. The President and Atiorney-General Mc- Kenna held a long consultation to-aay and drove into the country. McKenna will remain bere till Monday, when he wi.l sccompany President McKinley 1o Washington. It is hinted that important information will be given the public soon after their arrival in Washington, | and declared that he was the first man in | g e RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WRECK. | | Jobn Treible, a Deputy Shenff. { Yow'll long remember Yes, double the prics @ month hence. The pat- terns are very pretty. Brown Overplaids that are so stylish. : Many other colorings. OUR GREEN TAG Suits. | their valwes. | Has got a hold of ’em. He'syour . | ister, has applied for an audience with the | S ! y | Mascot. Price to-day ' ceived from the island of Perim. Twenty- | Then good-by to these pre‘ty | A FEW TINY %-&*%%%H%%é% GREEN TAGS Are on some remarkably pretty Melton Overcoats, deep velvet i('nZ!(zr, in blwe, black and a pretty sktade of brown. Not many of ‘em. Just a few. Per- Lhn,/)s your size. &$10 in other | stores. GREE -TAGGED TO-DAY O-11-15-15 KFARNY ST. | | THOSE GREEN TAGS ARE WONDER-WORKERS Youw'll find ’em in owr Swellest Swits, on everything that is new for could wish for. ‘all and Winter. Single and Double Breasted Sacls ; Every color that yow the new Cutaway. Green-tagded to-day —gB8. 50.— They’re on owr richly tailor-made Overcoats ; those Royal Blue and Black Kerseysy; that dressy Blacl Clay Worsted; the swell Box Tan Covert Cloth. Green-tagded to-day S0.—- — 4B Wherever wyow find a Green Tag on ’em don’t hesitate. They're either an $18, $16 or $15 Suit or Overcoat. They're Green-tagded ARTER THE - SLAUGHTER AT LATIME | | | Twenty-One Corpses in the Shanties of the Strikers. OF DEATH. Forty Others Are Badly Hurt, Including a Deputy Sheriff. A DAY FULL OF IMPOR- TANT EVENTS. Warrants Ou: for the Arrest of the Deputies—Militla on the Scene. HAZELTON, Pa., Sept. 1l.—Twenty- one corpses he to-night in the frame shan- ties scattered about the hilltops of the town, and forly maimed, wounded and broken figures lie on the narrow cots of the Haz:iton Hospi Ot these it is al- most a certainty that five will be added to the death list belore another dav dawns. Such was the execution done yesierday teeth, upon about 150 ignorant foreigners, whose toial armament consisted of two little panknives. These facts are undis- pued stand The dend: benski, Steve Urch, Andrew Yerhman, John Frauko, John Zernawick, Frank Kodet, John Zaslack, John Sheka, Antone Greekio. John Turnasvich, Andrew Yurich, all of Harwood; Andrew Zimenski, Adam Zimenski, John Burksi, Stanley Sagdrski, Sebastian Bozo- stoski, John Futa, Adeibert Czata, all of Crystal Ridge; Andrew Collick, Rafael Becke- wicz, of Cranberry. The injurel who are at dzath’'s door: Clemens Plotack, Caspar Dulass, John Bonke, Andrew Staboni, Jacob Tomashonias. Forty otbers were badly hurt, including | All of these men ranged in age from 18 to 45 vears of age. Th:yv wereall foreign- ers—Hnungarians, Poles, Lithuanriaus and Slav-. The situation to-night is intense, as the | day was full of event and incident, First | and foremost, the purpose these mea had | in view whben their march received 11s tragic end was consummated. The 1500 workers in the Latimer mines, to whom t! ey were bound in an effort to induce them to join the strikers’ ran’s, have laid down their picks and have sworn to do no more work until all the demands of all | FIVE AT THE POINT]| by the Deputy Sheriffs, armed to the | Here is the ghastly rvoll as it| Andrew Nickowski, John Cho- the men at all the mines in the district have teen conceded. Next in importance was the issuance of warrants this afternoon for the arrest of Sheriff Martin aud 102 deputie:. These were issued at the insiance of the Unitet Hungarian Societies. They were made outin the name of Josenh Mehalte, presi- cent of tue St. George Society, of which ly all the dead mirers were memters. Robert P. Riley. manager of the An- thracite Detec ncy, took charge of | the documents, tut up to & late hour to- | | night they had uot been executed. Sheriff Martin, who spent last night at | his Wilkesbarre home under a strong guard, came 10 Hazelton tbis mornine { with the Ninth Regimen' of the Tnird | Brigade. His presence in toan was not | knosn uniil Jate in the day. Then 1t | was found that he was still under the | guardian-hip of the soidiers and h= could | not be reach = This aiternoon Constables Airy and | Gallagner made an effo t to arrect A | Hess, who led one company of deputi | last nizht, but he nad sought shelter | within tne militery hines kapt bv the | Ninth Regiment and they refused 10 per- mit the constables to pass the guard. The warrants charge murder, assault and bat- tery and thr:atening to kill. A third event ot no less importance was | the offer made ty Suverintendent Lawell of the Lehigh and Wilke:barre collieries to grantan increzse of 10 per cent over the Lehigh basis to the men of the company, | about 2000 in numoer. A big meeting was sider his offer, and after much discussion and speechmaking it was decided to ac- | cept the proposition. But little confidence iollows this decision, as it is taken for granted that a: on as the men return to work pressure tfrom the men still out will be bronghit to bear to restore them to the strikers’ ranks, and 1t 18 admitted that there will be 2o resistance. Th s was oniy one of three mass-meet- ings held to-day. Another at Harwooa adopted resolutions expressing sympathy for “our murderea brothers who were shot ai Latimer,”” and continuing in this For venrs we have been oppressed by C. Pardee & Co. by the paymeut of starvation wages. They have deprived us of our iiberty | by compelling us to deal in their company | store. They have forced us to purchase pow- der at five times its actual value and have otherwise tyrannized Us in Ways too numer- ous to mentiou, 5o that we are 1o longer iree men, but siaves. peacetully 1o seek redress for our grievances. Noto:e man among us was armed. Our m Sion was not to take human life nor to destr property, but to go and meet our feilow- emple of the same compauy at Latimer who were in sympathy with us. We were opposed on the pubiic kighway nnd without provocation were shot down like dogs. Resolved, That we deplore such resistance to the right 10 assemblie undmare’; that we | look upon such snooting as unprovoked and ! uncalled for, and that if such slaughter is not { murder in iaw it surely must be before high heaven; that we denounce sucn action by tae | Sheriff and his men as_crusl and wi ltul mur- der. We plnce ourselves before the bar of public opinion and app-al to the good ci { of tais Sinte and county and ask them ens tuere | tion. | Resolved, That we extend our sympathy to the iriends and reintives of those who have fallen, and prey te God that those now dead | will live in our memories as martyrs to the cause of down-trodden labor. The third meeting was the most larcely atteiided. It began at Hazel Purk about 5 o’clock this aiternoon and adjourned to an open place at one end of the city, where it was in progress to-night. The purpose of this meeting was also to extend sym- held at McAdoo in the afternoon to con- | We had assembled together | | was justification or WATrant in such assassina- | T | Then came the Thirteenth, then the | Fourth, the Sixth from Lebanon, the | Twelfth from Williamsport, Battery B | from Phenixviile, the Governor’s troop { from Harrisburg and the city troop of | Philadelphia. The two latter bodies did not reach here until to-night. General Gobine, commander of the Third Brigade, arrived early in the morn- inzand established headquarters in the office of the divisien supcrintendent of the | Lebigh Cosl Company, from which point he assigned ihe commands 1o points on the outskirts of the city. The Thirty ninth was sent to Hazel Park, command- ing the road from Brighton, and another from Latimer, The Twelfth was sent to Donegal Hill, on the opposite side of the town, ho'ding the Janesville road. The second battalion of the Eighth Regiment was placed at Audenreid, and was later | joined by the Fourth. The Thirteenth went to Latimer and | | took up a position ovarlooking the mines | toward which the strikers were marching when the spooting occurred. The Gov-: ernor’s troops remained at brigade head- uarters, and Battery B was distributed among the different commands. Besides its usual equipment the battery has two breech-loading pieces and two Gatling guns. General Gobine expressed his gratifica- tion at the absence of hostility shown to the incoming troops. *I will not permit the marching of large bodies of men along the roads,”” be added, “*and all such will be ordered to disband immediately. My mission here and the mission of the sol- dier is to maintain law and order.” The town itseif looks as if it were in a | state of siege to-nizht, as the booted and | spurred warriors are to be seen at every | turn. The presence of the troops has suf- | ficea to maintain order thus far, butitis | not repressing public opinion, which is | almost unanimous in condemning in the | most severe terms the action of the depu- | | ties lest night. *‘Official murder’” is the | phra-e on almost every tongue, and for | | substantiation of the charge attention is directed to the fact tnat the deputies car- ried Winchesters, each man having tvelve | rounds of ammunition, each a revolver and a box of cartridges, while the march- ing strikers were defenseless, havinz | unanimously surrendered whatever weap- | ons they may have had pefore the march was begun. Moreover, the fact remaiis that many of the victims were shot tnrongh the back. The first volley from the deputies, an- expected as it was, created such indescrib- | able consternation that the men stam-| pedea and fled, and 1t is not questioned | that while they were thus in headiong flight the deputies poured volley afier volley into the terror-stricken crowd. Many prominent citizeasof the town have drawn up a formal protest, not only against the action of the Sheriff and his deputies but against the calling out of the | militia, which they declare was unneces- | sary. | I?\ spite of this, however, the uneasy | feeling increases. The sirikers have made | up their minds, as several of them said to-day, to remain in perfect quietness till Monday. At 11 A. ». of that day the bodies ot the | unfortunate men who fell under the leaden storm will be laid eway. Services will be | Tield in the Polish Catholic Church, where requiem high mass wiil be celebrated. | Then tue ¢crpses will be interred in the | Polish Cometery. Tney will ve laid in a circular plot and the congregation to which they belonged will, it is announcad, ersct a monument. | | The meeting at Latimer to-day was held not far irom the pot of last night's con- | a ! ing called the morgue, a one-story wooden | ot life and property will be guaranteed on all pathy and to decide upon a course of ! action in consequence of last night'scatas- | flict.. It was decided to take no action trophe. Throughout the day the city given up to excitement, wh suppressed character, has been more ominous than turbulence would have been. The Mucoming of the Siate trcops, whicti began at an early hour this morn- ing, served to cow the s'rikers and their svmpathizers, and no further demonstra- tion was made than the gathering at streei corners of knots of men und nomen in muttered but intense discussion of the sbooting. To-night there are fully 2500 so!diers camping in town. The first to arrive was the Ninth Regiment from Wilkesbarre. has been b, by its until Mondav, when a committee consist- | ing of four Poles, four Italians and four | Hungzarians will visit the operators and notify them of their intention to remain out with the other strikers until every de- mand is granted. The hospital wasa heartrending place to-day. ere all day long groups of sunken-eved, sallow-cheeked women, many bearing children in their arms, hung about the steps and eagerly watched | the doors. Some sat in stony silence, as 1 less mournful could be heard at ths build- structure which ordinar.ly does duty as a stable. Here lay four more bodies. The long line of cots on either side of the “wounded’’ ward in the hospital present a ghastly spectacle. { The time when the Coroner’s inquest | will be held issiill undetermined. Last | night the jury impaneled by that official | viewed the bodies of the eleven men who | were killed and to-day they viewed the | ten adaitional victims, bot the formal in- quest will not occur until matters have | shaped themselves into finality by the death or recovery of the wounded men. Dr. Theodorovich, secretery of the Aus- | trian Consu! at Philadelphia, arrived to- night and heid a long conference with a number of prominent Hungarians, preach- | ers and citizens. 1t was announced that prosecutions will be instituted. The! question of obtaining indemnity ior those Hungarians killed” who were not citizens of the United States was aiso considered. e GUVERNOK'S PILOCLAMATION. Will Call Out Troops, if Necessary, to Preserve the Peace. HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 1.—On ac. countof tne slaughter afternoon at Lati- mer, in the coal region, the Governor to- ned the following proclamatios A8, It has been represented to me by the proper authorities of Luzerne County that riotous demonsirations exist in various sec- tions thereof, whereby the lives and property | and the pence and safety of the p-ople are threatened, and which the civil authorities are unable {0 suppress; and, wherers the constitution and by-laws of the commonwealth authorize and require the Governor, whene ver it may become necessary, 10 empioy the mili- | tary of tne State to suppress domestic violence | and preserve the peace; | Now, therefore, I, Daniel H. Hastings, Gov- | ernor of the comnionwenlth, do hereby ad- monish all good citizens ‘and all persons | within the eye and under the jarisdiction of | the commonwealth against aiding or abetiing | any such unlawful proceedings; and I do hereby notify them that tne iives and property of ail citizens of the commonwealth will bg protected, that the laws will be enforced, that the humbiest citizen wiil be protected in his rightto earn_a livelihood aud in the enjoy- mentof his home and family, and the safety occasions, at whatever cost; and 1 do hercby command ail persons engaged in rlotous demonstrations and unlawful eonduct, threntening the peace ana dignity of the commonwenith of Pennsy.vania, (o disperse | forthwith 10 their respective places of abode, | warning them that persistence in violencs of | unlawful assemblage will compel spch use of the military arm of the commonwealth as may | be necessary to enforce cbedience to the laws | and the maintenanee of good order. i Given under m hand and the great seal of | | | the State at Harrisburg, this 11th day of Sep- tember, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and ot the | commonweaith the oue hundred and twenty- second. By the Governor: J. E. BARNETT, Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth. ————— F ACCEPT THE OPERATORS TERMS. Outcome of the Interstate Miners® Con- v ntion. COLUMBUS, Oxro, Sept. 11.—The great | miners’ strike, which was declired on Ju!ly 4, was brought to an end this even- | g, so far at least as Western Pennsyli vania, Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia are concerned, by the action of the inter- state convention of miners, which has been in session here since Wednesday. | After a day of voling and wrangling the | convention adopted a re:olution accepi- ing the proposition of the Pitisburg op- . erators. The vote was 495 for and 317 against ac- cepting the terms of setilement and 11 votes were not cast. The delegates from | Iihnois, who had 250 votes, were unani- mousiv against settleme Indiana and Wesi Virginia voted solidly to accept tne operators’ proposition, but there were scattering votes among tnose 'rom Ou:o and Pennsylvania against it. The resolu- tion is as fo lows: Resolved, That we, the miners of Pennsyl- vania, West Virginia, Ouio, lndixna and | | | | if unaware as yet of what had happened, while others were bowed and bent beneath uncontrollable storms of grief. - Daring part of the day lamentations no | Iilinois, in convention assembled, do nereby agree 10 accept the proposition relommended our National executive committee, viz, 65 cents i the Pittsburg district, and ail places in the above-named States where a rel- | to give the color of law ! deputie: | superio: i killed men exercising their rights under | his charges ative price can be obtained, to resume work and contribute literaily 10 the miners who do not receive the advauce, for which the fight must be continued to a citter finich. Resolved, That the National officers’ execu- tive boara’ and district presidents sct us an sory board for the purpose of providing and means for the carrying on of the wherever necessary; provided, how- that no district resume work for ten , for the purpose of giving miners fu districts time to confer with their operators and get the price if possible, While ten days is provided for the men to resume work itis probable that manv of the Ohio and Pitisburg mines will be re- opencd Monday. The lilinois miners wiil be called in convention at Springfield on September 19 to determine what shall be done in that State. A resolution was adopted denouncing the action of the deputies in firing into the crowd of strikiug miners at Hazel- ton, Pa. strik> eve GOMPERS ON THE TRAGEDY, Bitterly Denounces Both the Operators and the Sheriff. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11.—Presi- dent Gompers of the American Federa- tion of Labor, after bitterly denouncing the killing of the men near Hazelton as a brutal murder, said: “The men were marching on the public highway. They had as much right to march to Latimer or any other place on the highway as the Sueriff or Governor of Pennsylvania, or the President of the United States. “The mine operators, in the madness of their supposed power and in their effort to enslave labor, have used judges and courts to the most flagrant violation of the constitutional rights of the people. The Shenif and taking their cue from their , have carried out this policy and the constitution and law. *In his published explanation Sheriff Marun makes an effort to secure the fivor of our native Ameri- cans by repeatedly empbasizing his statement that the miners he killed were i reigners. It may be true that these men are not nrative Americans, but they were the men brought here by the greed and cunning of the mine overator, and so long as they submitted to be starved no word as to their foreign birth was heard; but now this cry of foreigner is like acloud of dust raised 10 obscure the crime. “The miners will win their humane ana heroic struggle. They deserve to win. Their conduct has challenged the admira- tion of their friends and sympathizers.”” HIDEGUS CHINESE SLAVERY. San Francisco’s Police Departmsnt Arraigned for Failing to Stamp Out the Evil. CHICAGO, Irn, Sept. 11.—Editorially commentirg on the allegations concern- ing “*Chinese slavery in America’’ made by C. F. Holder in the Sep:ember num ber of the North American Review, the Times- Herald says: The San Francisco police and agents of the Treasnry Department have had a long experience with the oriental im- migrant, and it spesks poorly for either their honesty or their vizilance that they bave not stampe! out the hideous practice. If Mr. Holder had not mada so boldly we should never have dreamed that tuere was one spot in iree Amnerica where slavery— and slavery far more horrible tian the industrial ser- vitude of the old South—flourished under the eyes of the Gi nment offieinls. The dfficuity of deann the native cus- toms of Chinese cannoi excuse the failure to adequately punish the miscreants. It Mr. Hoider’s aliegations go uncontra- dicted the facts constitute a grave indict- ment against the State of California and rful stain on the administration of