The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 18, 1900, Page 1

ek VOLUME LXXX\'III—.\’O..’ ]:10. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHINA’S EMPEROR AGAIN APPEALS TO THE UNITED STATES Kwang Hsu Sends a Message to President McKinley Asking for Beginning of Peac: Negotiations. Special Dispatch to The Call. riridges twenty dead women estroyed ing 1 seventy but fifty were for the Relief was miles to Viadivostok MAY CAPTURE CANTON. Sun Yat Sen and His Rebels Have Taken Huichow. Oct 17.—Advices from it is reported there that Sun the reformer, captured Huichow e Cantonese assert that ted the Insurgents ring rebellion, falls thus, the 1 be able to take Canton within n say , on the west- Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching Meet the Envoys. LONDON, Oct. 17.—The Chinese Minis- r Chih Chen Lo Feng Luh, asserts at peace negotiations have actually be- Peking between the Chinese plent- potentiaries and the representatives of powers in the Tsung li Yamen build- ings, which, he adds, have been iven over to the Chinege for that purpos DENIES EDICT WAS week Admi Ho, with the bulk of his forces, pursuit of protect sending 20 to garrison the | United States Marietta from Swatow, arrived at Hongkong, | coaled and proceeded for Canton. NEGOTIATIONS AT PEKING. WINT Companies and Individual the Anthracite S+ 444 HILADELPHIA, Oct. 17.—The great strike of the anthracite | mine workers of Pennsylvania, which began September 17, prac- tica ended to-day, when the Philadelph! and Reading Coal and Iron Company the Lehigh Valley Coal sh the sliding ir respective regions and to 1ce in wages of 10 per cent o ind | | agreed to abo | | an advz , the ad remain in operation thereafter. This ac- ds of the Scranton The decision was ence between rep- | | ar- of the different coal opera- e large coal carrying compa- | The conference began yesterday. i To-day’'s action was the culmination of | 1 recent meeting of the individual op- | erators at Scranton following the mine | | I workers' convention in the same city. Nearly all the collieries in the coal region b Z 4 I had previous to the mine workers' con- vention posted the notices of the advance | | JOHN MITCHELL, WHO HAS | of 10 per cent. The mine workers, in con- LED THE STRIKERS ON TO sidering this, demanded that the sliding VICTORY. scale in the Lehigh and Schuylkill dis- | & tricts be abolished, the increase to be |.| guaranteed to April 1, 1901, and all other dent Mitchell can only be conjectured. It = = 4+ | differences to be submitted to arbitration | Is belleved here fl;a! no Jfirder ltlo return in al o] S el every- , will be issued until a notice similar to or . THIEBAUT, THE FRENCH | | e e conmit. | In line with that of the Reading and Le- “’_.\:’} "I;Tf\‘\:*”"*“'*‘s AT | | e to induce the, Reading and Lehigh | high companies is posted at all the mines. 5 = | | comp: to abolish the sliding scale and | The Reading Company’s notice reads: + = — —4 | make the wage increase permanent fol- | “It hereby withdraws the notice posted srought by two Sisters of Providence, who | Jowed. It is conceded that the result of | October 3, 1900, and to bring about practi- | cal uniformity In the advance of wages in | the several coal regions gives notice that it will suspend the operation of the slid- | ing scale, will pay 10 per cent advance on | September wages until April 1, 1901, and ther by agreeing to maintain the wage | thereafter unti' fugsher sotice will take advance after April 1. This same opera- | UP With the mine empl:}'el any grievances tor, who requested that his name be not| Which they may have. used, sald in speaking of the conference; | NO formal announcement has yet been “It is up to the miners now. We have | Made by the Lehigh Valley Reilroad Com- agreed to everything and nothing remains | Pany regarding its intentions, but after now but for them to return to work as | \he Reading Company’s statement had soon as the notices are posted by the col- | Deen made public Vice President Garrett of the Lehigh Valley said: “Concerning our operations in the | Schuylkill region, you may say that the | action of our company will pe similar tc | that of the Reading Company. In other districts, however, certain conditions ex- ist—for instance, the price of powder— which must be treated separately, and we have not decided cefinitely with regard to them. These matters are now in the hands of Superintendent Lethrop, whose headquarters are at Wilkesbarre.” Calvin Pardee & Co., extensive irdivid- ual operators in the Hazleton district, late this afternoon announced that they will post to-morrow notices similar to that of the Reading Company. This undoubtedly indicates what all the individval operators | will do. | T SRR NEWS SPREADS RAPIDLY. | Strike Will Now Be Officially De- to-day’s conference is a complete victory for the men. All the demands of their | convention are acceded to, and, as one of the individual operators put it ‘after the conference, the operators go a little fur- COAL MINE WORKERS HEIR BIG STRIKE Regions Agree to Grant Demands of the Men, Increase Wages and Abolish the Sliding Seale. B+ 42444044407 444443404444 44402444 4444444444444 9494444400404 44440 All the big companies and individual operators in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania ' have agreed to grant the demands of the Scranton convention, including an advance of 10 per cent in wages and the abolition of the sliding scale. The big strike, which was inaugurated on the 17th ult., is therefors practically ended, and the workers are expected to resume their labors next Monday. P44+ 400444404 000OQQOQOQQOQQQQOOQ¢§¢§§§499*06400004*v0#0#900000.} | and A. Pardee & Co., | Harry H. Stewart, a Stenograpaer of | Stewart left his wite and family in Cleve- WILL BE Operators in! One Hundred the Republi EW YORK, Oct. 17.—Benjamin B Odell Jr., secretary of the Re- publican State Committee and candidate for the Governorship of this State, believes that President McKinley will be re-elected, and not only that, but that President McKinley will carry New York State by 100,000 plurality. “I understand the Bryan meeting In -+ 34 +1 3l + ++ | New York was a bit disappointing,’ The first companies in the Hazleton dis- | Mr. Odell said. trict to take action similar to that of the !+ + i Reading Company were Galvin, Pardee & Co., operating the Lattimer collieries, owners of the Cran- | berry mines, both of them individual con- cerns. These companies will reduce the price | of powder from $275 to $150, which re- | duction is to be considered in arriving at | a net increase in wages. ! The news from Philadelphia spread | through the entire region with almost | lightning rapidity. Everywhere satisfzc- tion was expressed by the striking miners i and others. It is believed that the strike | will be officially declared off this week and that all the men will have a chance | to return to work on Monday. SUSPECTED OF KILLING I HIS INFANT DAUGHTER Cleveland, Arrested and Held | by New York Police. =~ | NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Harry Howard | Stewart, 26 years old, of Cleveland, was | arrested here on a charge of murder. | 11 land two weeks ago and came to New York, supposedly bringing with him his | H three-months-old girl baby. He was work- | UNITED STATES SENATOR R. NEW YORK STATE IN THE MCcKINLEY COLUMN Odell Figures Out a Plurality of Thousand for cans In the Land of Tammany. Special Dispatch to The Call ernor, when he returned to his car and liscussed the matter with several friends. he rock was thrown by one of & num- ber of hoodlums and I saw him throw ft. It struck my head, but my hat prevented it from woun In the light of the nd has given arcely worth ‘emembering for a momen This was a day velt in Ohfo. To-: triumph for Roose- the city of Cleve- |1and gave him a reception rivaling any simflar demonstration There was an immense of half a score of br ever made here. parade, consisting bands and dozens | of political organizations, inciuding many | which had come hither from other places to do honor to the candidate for Vice President. Superior street, the chtef thor- oughfare through which the parade passed, was ablaze with electric lights. suspended in loops crosswise and length- wise from tall pillars surmounted by flaming globes and decorated with ever- green. Along the brilllant course thou- | sands of brilllant rockets and flambeaus flared. The walks were thronged with men, women and children, who drew so near that the horses of the various mount- ed sections almost trampled upon them. | From the Union station, riding in a gor- geously decorated carriage drawn by four | white horses, in company with Governor Nash’ and Senator Foraker, Governor Roosevelt was escorted, while bands played and cannon boomed salutes along the route of the parade to a large tent on Marcelline avenue, Newburg. the fron working district, where he addressed a large audience on the subject of prosper- ity. His speech was very brief. consisting of part of that delivered bv him an hour | later at Central Armory, In Bond street. ing for the Metropolitan Life Insurance | F. PETTIGREW OF SOUTH | |Senator Foraker opened the meeting at Company as a stenographer. | DAKOTA. ‘ the armory, making a strong appeal in be- Steward refused to make any statement. | 4 | half of the Republican ticket, and at the He was remanded for forty-eight haursl'l' ¥ in order to give ths Ohio authorities aa | opportunity to send forward extradition | papersr CLEVELAND, Oct, 17.—Stewart and ths child disappeared nearly two weeks ago. The bady of a- three-months-old baby, with its throat cut from ear to ear, was | “How was that?" he was asked. “In matter of numbers,” he replied. “But, then, that can be attributed to the weather. I am surprised that Mr. Bryan did not touch en the money ques: didate should have one platform for the taken from the lake Tuesday. The police | East and another for the West.” allege that it is that of the Stewart child. | ‘“What was your opinion of last night's | Stewart and his wife lived with the lat- | meeting?” ter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Wilson,| “It was a splendid affair,”” Mr. Odell | at 808 Superlor street. A week ago Mon- | said, with a very satisfled smile. “Very; day night Stewart arose between 1 and 2 % % but I think it indicated that President McKinley will carry New York State by at least 100,000." The Herald has made a poll of the fac- | ulties of the several New England univer- | sities and colleges to learn how the pro- | fessors and instructors will vote on No- | vember 6 next. The result shows that there | 1s an overwhelming majority for McKin- | ley. The total number polled was 328— for McKinley 271, for Bryan 20, for H ‘Woolley 2, undecided 33, non-committal 26, will not vote 21. The total number of professors and in- structors in New England and Western | Institutions whose views were asked, and their combined standing is: Total number polled, 1017; for McKinley, 756; for Bryan, 123; for Woolley, 23: undecided, 64; non- committal, 26; will not vote, 2. b i ANSWERS MANY QUESTIONS. Hanna Frequently Interrupted While tion, for I cannot understand why a can- | | close of his address Governor Roosevelt | was introduced. Governor Roosevelt | pointed to the prevailing prosperity, and i‘(aned attention to the non-fulfiliment of +* | I N SSSESSRRITE is IING | s HAIRMAN HANNA, WHO IS s PEKING, Oct. 16 (via Tientsin, Oct. 17, clared Off by the Miners. ,sw\?ké"gnm ,?‘1“"}.”2§°“‘ il CMARING A TOUR OF THE ' via Shanghai, Oct. 17).—Prince Ching and HAZLETON, Pa.. Oct. I7.—The news | | H"Rho‘ ind Senat i s - d"’,;;’ || BAD LANDS. fr 3 Li Hung Chang have addressed a joint [ from Philadelphia to-day that the Phila- | 4 | train bearing Sutlo 2 anml\1 a: ve | | meeting of the envoys, fixing Friday next delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Com- ::’8‘?‘:"(‘::’!;‘: %::"h" r(n:::i l‘ :1 ""(‘,’l’s“ E3 - 4 | for the time to d peace negotiations. y after a conference: with offi PRESIDENT TRUESDALE OF es o tral § akota in the dis- L . or e 5 \:;‘:e‘r x:ln(;ngncnmpnm:s hnd‘ ng:ee;l(a:l;:: | THE DELAWARE AND LACK- tricts where the vote as a rule is close and | Mr. Bryan's prophecies of evil. Since ¥ + tha: IMPERIAL EDICTS FORGED. | PRESIDENT HARRIS OF THE anthradite L aner SronoRn b | AWANNA ROAD. where farmers compose a greater part of | leaving Chicago last Wednesday morning. = NG A an oren P rpusht the population. Fourteen stops, varying | Governor Roosevelt's train has traveled "% Those Ordering Punishment of Higl | READING, I WHOSE ICE forth many expressions of surprise that |3 # | in lensgth from three minutes to an hour, | 1777 miles and has been handled on twenty f the lared Spuri AGREEMENT WAS REACHED. it should come so soon after the conven-| ———— — ; . Officials Declared Spurious. were made during the day, Senator Han- | lines of road. Sk . 5 tion of Saturday last. President Mitchell | 0'clock In the morning, took the child 5 Wz | — - PEKING, Oct. 17.—It is regarded as cer- | 4 Pl s S Mitchell | 4 m beside its sleeping mother and left | na-making speeches at Redfield, North- | ain that all the imperial edicts ordering :0"_:‘93 M"!;Z R;agfng ::m::r'w:"“‘um' the house. He was traced to Philadei- | ville, Groton, Andover, Bristol, Bradlny,iymam TRAILS HANNA. ' punishment of high officials were | llery managers. This notice will be prac- e v's action. | phia but refused to return. Bryant, Lake Preston, Desmet, Eiroy, A+ forged and were concocted with the idea | tically similar to the Reading Company’s | declined to say whether the union would el Loy .| Making Personal Attacks on the Re- Iroquois, Aberdeen and Webster. A good | t pr ing all advances on Paoting-Fu. | notice, the phraseology only being |let the men return to work at the col- | RUMORED BULLER WILL { deal of spice waa put.into the spéechdi'at publican Manager. ey ns, a ing and | Li Hung Chang | changed. I look for a resumption of op- | lieries where the operators had accepted SUCCEED LORD WOLSELEY | e alar e e e e .n‘ HURON, St D., Oct. 17.—Senator Petti- t deny its authenticity. erations by Monday at the latest. The | the miners’ proposition before all the com- times by P a g part | of the audiences, who desired to hear | grew will follow Senator Hanna's train ; grtig i s . " . General Sir Redvers Buller has been sum- | not slow to make thelr wishes known. | Republican manager. He began to-night 5 SIS D e S nots ! marauding bands have become | gone over. ways that mine coal will auiekly follow | //lCq% om South Atrica to succeed Lord | This was true especially at Aberdeen, |at Watertown, - Senator Hanna having here, however, t t ublesome In the vicinity of the summer | Just how soon the offical order notify- | the Reading Company and grant accept- Wolseley as commander-in-chief, Lord | where Senator Hanna was constantly m_‘ talked there last night, and will speak to- £ w 10 megotiations they palace and a punitive «xpedition is befug | Ing the men that the strike Is ended and | ance of the proposition and that all other | Roberts declining to accept the position terrupted during his speech by questions i morrow at this place. n cease military « | to return to work will be issued by Presl- | operators will do the same. without a free hand. errup | In nis recent speeches Senator Petti- iized to proceed against them. CONCENTRATING NEAR CANTON |@%%¥ B : T i regarding various phases of the trust is- | 3 3 % sue, Senator Hanna apparently enjoyed | rr?'ths maIe pe:omr !ah:eu‘c s on ’Se';\a(; ese interruptions and invariably p | toF g o e bt i v i o 8 | by the Republican train to-day evidences is known here of any purpose a to act indepe i R ntly Rebels Prepare for Important Move Against Chinese Troops. Cable to The Call and New York Her- yright, 1900, by the Herald Pub- rs in dealing with ¢ out to-day that Ru nee in submitting pro s a basis of negotiations s ago M. de Wollant an instruction from vernment, had specifically declared the purposes of Russia in China, which included “maintenance of a common ad joined w posals presented 2nd th accordance w we . 17.—Rebels are con- the district surrounding An important movement is ex- in a week which will efther = rebellion or give it new power. The Chinese authorities urgently need re- inforcements. The whole movement is di- rected against the Government officials, but the Chinese and native Christians are fleeing from the region and are being rob- bed and 1ll treated by bands of ruffians. ENGINE AND his Go pected wi smash tt sgreement among the powers; mainten- ance of the former state of organization na; removal of everything that lead to the rartition of tue Celestial | re, and the establishment with the ed powers of a legal central govern- t at Peking, able alone to preserve rder and tranquility in the country.” In | FOUR CARS view of this declaration the authorities GO THROUGH A BRIDGE are inclined tc redit all the reports | "L showing a policy different from what 1t | coSineer and Fireman Killed in a prescribes. | Wreck on the Southern Pacific —— Near El Paso. BRAVE WOKELLBROUGHT HELP. | LpNvER, Oct. 17.—A Special to the Sistery . | News from El Paso, Tex., says: A fatal * of Frovidence GuMB Bas- | U0 e on the Southern Pacific sians to Besieged Missions. | to-day sixty miles east of this city. A VICTORIA., B. C.. Oct. 17.—News is | bridge gave away as a westbound freight brought by the Empress of Japan that I ;::umro:lr“om:'?r:v" ‘tl ;“d the engine o 'ars went down. four fathers of the Missions Etrangeres, | g i;cor John Schaffer and Fireman W. with their converts, defended Santaize,| g Eiason were killed. Recent heavy Manchuria, for two months against Chi- | rains had weakened the foundations of the nese regulars and Boxers before being re- | bridge. 5 PRESIDENT McKINLEY WILL VISIT SAN FRANCISCO IN APRIL NEXT the train was running through a thinly populated part of the State and stops were brief and infrequent Senator Hanna spent about half of his time at the various sta- swered them. During the afternoon while | Special Dispatch to The Call. was formed to-night to participate in the launching of the McKinley asking him to attend the launching of the battleship. one night during this visit. ised a visit from the President, and at an early date will arrange B ) OS ANGELES, Oct. 17.—A Los Angeles Society of Ohioans, with seventy members, McCarthy of the Union Tron'Works was present and announced that President Mec- Kinley had definitely promised to visit San Francisco for the ceremonies, which will take place in April, the exact date to be determined at the President’s convenience. A month ago the San Francisco Society of Ohioans sent an invitation to President gold plate. According to Louis P. McCarthy, who is working under the direction of the Na- tional Republican Committee, absolute promises have been made by the President that if the launching is delayed until April he will be present. This was agreed to. in a personal letter, also agreed to be the guest of the San Francisco Society of Ohioans on The San Francisco society has arranged to hold a monster re- ception in Mechanics’ Pavilion. The Los Angeles society, just organized, has also been prom- for a fitting reception. tions in shaking hands with the erowds, | who nearly dragged him from his car on | one occasion in the effort to shake hands | with him. At Webster he was visited in | his car by a delegation of Sloux Indians | from the Sisseton reservation. These In- dians are all voters. meeting of the day was held to-night at Huron, where the train stopped for the Ohio next spring. Louis P. and Frye and Victor Dolliver made ad- dresses of considerable length. e ROOSEVELT STRUCK ON HEAD. Governor the Target of a Young Hoodlum at Cleveland. The invitation was upon a night a boy standing some distance away threw a rock at Governor Roosevelt, while the latter was leaving the tent in company with National Committeeman Herrick of Ohio and others. The rock struck the Governor on the head. Quick- ly the Governor's companions closed around him and hustled him into a pass- ng car, on which he was borne away. “1 was not hurt at all,” sald the Gov- President McKinley, oo The most important | night, and where both Senators Hanna | CLEVELAND, Oct. 17.—At Newburg to-‘ | of a personal campaign were seen. At | Redfield men distributed a circular con- | taining an attack made on Hanna by Pet- | tigrew in the Senate. in which he charged that the Cramps Shipbuilding Company contributed $400000 to the Republican campaign fund four years ago. It also | charges that Senator Hanna bought his way into the Senate and offers proofs of | the charge. Senator Hanna has studiously avoided | referring to Senator Pettigrew in any | way, as the State and national leaders | have told him he might overreach his | purpose by attacking his foe personally. | ANOTHER NOVEL BET MADE. | Santa Clara Man Takes Chances on Towing Another Across Continent. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—John Thom- son of Santa Clara, Cal., has applied for a patent upon a rubber-tired cart-wagon. | He has made a bet with Arthur Turner under the terms of which in case Bryan | is elected Thomson is to wheel Turner | from Tulare to Washington in time to witness the inauguration. Turner is to be seated in this cart with rubber-tired wheels, which is to be attached to a bi- cycle, and Thomson is to pedal the bieycle across the continent.