The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1902, Page 2

o b BRUTAL MOTHER TORTURES CHILD Beats Her Daughter With Nettles and Then Starves Her. Wife- of an English Magis- trate on Trial at the Old Bailey. LONDON, Nov. 20. — Extraordinary charges of cruelty on the part of a mother to her child, equaling the Mon- tague case. in the north of Ireland, which worldwide interest about ten years ago, are now being heard at the Ola Bailey. In the present case Mrs. An- nie Penruddocke of Compton Park, Wilt- shire, the wife of a magistrate and a created lirge landed proprietor, was charged with bru y assaulting and ill treating her 7-year-old daughter. The court was flled with fashionably attired women, many of whom were leaders of the county society of Wiltshire and close friends of the defendant. Several of the best known counsel were engaged. According to the Prosecutor, governesses statement of the Crown was corroborated by the cruelties had been go- © years and included beat- ing the child with nettles,” systematic neglect, ill-treatment, assault and partial One form of punishment was starvation. ake the child, which is named Leti- nd on the bough of a tree in In- clement weather for hours at a’ time. CREW OF THE GUNBOAT ISLA DE LUZON MUTINY Vessel Is Returning Home From the Philippines With Forty-Eight Men in Iroms. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—The Isla de Luzon, one of the Spanish gunboats cap- tured at Manila by Admirél Dewey, is en route to New York with forty-eight of her men in irons. The. vessel, which bas been doing guard duty in the Philip- or about three years, started re- for New York, proceeding from via Singapore. Advices reccived Manila at the War Department indicate that en the p to Singapore some of the ma- he boat shifted badly, creat- mong the crew and causing The result was the pture the Luzon was repaired Hongkong and it is said that the re- pairs were not properly made. Sh t of her crew in irons. | THOUSHNOS ~ IF STARWTON Southern China Visited | by Severest Famine 3 in Years. Rainfall Fails and Suffering Is Said to Be Heart- | rending. G Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Nov. 20.—Hongkong advices state that thousands of natives are dead or dying in Southern China, Tonquin and |Indo-China as the result of a terrible | famine, which has followed the most se- |vere drought known for decades in South- ern Asia, coupled with an almost com- | plete failure of the rice crop. | The gistress and suffering in Southern | China is beycnd description. Wells are drying and there is no systematic storage there, as at Hongkong and Shanghai. In Kwangtuiig and Fokien provinces the riv- ers are so low that only the lightest draught vessels can navigate. At Amoy the wells are émpty, and the securing of problem. The rainfall, there has fallen | from fifty-éight inches in 1837 and forty- six in 1898 to thirty-six ‘inches last year months of this year. While some .consiger the drought due to the failure of the southwest monsoon, the Government meteorologists account for it of the sun as evidenced by the sun spots. Pigs and oxen are being slaughtered by hundreds in the famine districts to pro- pitiate the gods of rain, but without re- sul! Missionaries writing from the interior provinces ‘say ‘that the situation is heart- iz unobtainable by a large proportion of the population. Quarantine Against Fever. LIMA, Peru, Nov. 20.—The sanitary board -has directed that all vessels from Panama must be quarantined while yel- low fever is existing there. There is a disagreement in the Cabinet over meas- es best adapted to meet the political Nov. 20.—There are several f yellow fever in Port Limon, | cases Costg Rica. the Railroad he only upon which he 1 the coast. Instead of Champerico had a mule, naged to reach he possessed, says Captain Teme, the travel- ined suit in whiclh he stood and the few doliars he had happened te have in his pocket when the was ashes began to fall. There are hundreds of similar cases, and, according to Captain Teme, but very few of the men| thus ruined: will attempt to re- from Guatemala ny photographs? 1yvthir ing Campbeil, 1 g a mala planter, who arrived vester- lay on the Amasis. I I want to for atemala.” I went there s ago. 1had 130 acres of cof- fee land that would have brought me in about $3000 gold this vear and was increasing in value every vear. | had nearly seventy-five per cent of the jand bearing and was rapidly getting the rest of it into shape. 4§ “My place wasat Los Quevas, about forty miles from Santa Maria. When the dust began to fall on October 24 I got right out and remained in Champerico un- til it cleared up. I went back again and saw all I cared about in a very short time. absolutely ruined. From what I learned just before I left Cham- perico the fall of ashes was still active. I think all of my ‘mozos,’ lid not. five ve as we call the native laborers, es-! caped, but am not certain Stock All Killed. “I know that all my stock was killed and all the stock in that @le Tgnh CHAS. KEILUS & CO. EXCLUSIV'E HIGH-GRADE CLOTHIERS Ed & & CRAVENETTS-OCOATS TROUSERS DAY & EVENING SUITS AT PRCES NOT HIGHER JTHAN ARE. CHARGED BY MANY DEALERS WHO-ARE-NOT-QUALIFIED TO COMDETE” WITH US. & &, & 13 Z % KEARNY ,STREET THURLO.\M’ BLOCK Guate- ! My place is/| Continued From Page 1, Column 3. | neighhorhood met a similar fate. | | | They were cut off from food, the !rivers just dried up and they smothered in that pungent ddst by hundreds. “Although it did not suffer as i much as did our district, I think Quezaltenango practically ruined. The earth there is in a ‘cons(flmt state of tremble and the | people are getting out as fast as they can gather together their i I know one, man { there who belongs in Seattle. H | name ‘is Rooney. He has a livery business in Quezaltenango. He was in Guatemaia City at the | time of the eruption and he is go- ing to stay there. He has sent a man to Quezaltenango to wind | up his business and transfer his | stock to Guatemala City.” | Campbell says that Albert | James, a planter in the Retalhuleu | distri had on his plantation machinery alone worth more than $8300,000. The plantation itself | was worth at least $1,000,000. | This place was completely wiped | out and James is now poor as his | humblest employe. The Adolfo | Meyer plantation, in the same | neighborhood, and also de- | stroyed, was worth more than $7350,c00. is | | Campbell says, there were 2000 “mozos” employed, and of these at least 500 were killed. HURRICANE " SWEEPS OVER | PLANTATIONS OAXACA, Mexico, Nov. 20. —A hurricane of terrific violence and great destructiveness has swept over the interior portion of the States of Oaxaca and Chia- pas. Many coffee plantations have been completely ruined. The losses on the Santa Rita and Morolos plantations, situ- ated in the Juquita district, alone amount to more than $100,000. In the State of Chiapas, where the ashes from the Guatemala volcano Santa Maria had already wrought much damage to the coffee plantations, the hurricane completed the work of destruc- tion. MINISTER SAYS ACCOUNTS ARE ' EXAGGERATED | i I WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—A. Lazo Arriga, the Minister from Guatemala, has just received from his Government letters and telegrams stating that the reports published in this country about encugh water for daily use is a serious | and twenty-five inches for the first eight by variations in the phygical condition | ing.- Enongh rice for daily existence ! LLY 10.000 LIVES| On one finca near his own,| THE SAN FR CISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MEM_BER OF PARLIAMENT 1S STONED BY RIOTERS Thomas Russell, Liberal-Unionist Representative i’rom\South Tyrone, Who Is Opposed to Home Rule for Ireland, Is Assaulted at Dromore After Addressing a Public Meeting Tl - | | | ] 1 | e | 1 |1 | UNIONIST MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PAZLIAMENT WHO WAS | STONED BY A MOB| AFTER ADDRESSING.A MEETING AT DRO- { MORE, ONE MISSILE STRIKING HIM ON THE HEAD. — 3 1 ELFAST, Nov. 20.—Thomas Rus- sell, the Unionist member of Par- liament, was stoned’ by a mob | after he had addressed a meeting | at Dromore last night. The riot- ed the hall where Russell had | made his speech and caused him to seek refuge in a neighboring house, whence | he tried to escape in a carriage. The mob { discovered him and bombarded the ve- | hicle with stones. Russell was struck on e | | | ! the loss of life and property caused by the eruption of the Santa Maria volcano are exaggerated. While it is true that a part of the present coffee crop is lost, the dispatches say it is generally ex- pected that most of the plantations of the affected district will recuperate. The loss of life was very small, and the President of the republic from the first | moment adopted . the most energetic | measures of relief, which the dispatches | say avoided considerable suffering and preserved peace and order in the af- | fected region. | Minister Lazo Arriga to-night em- phatically denied reportsél-éat bands of robbers were swarming desolated sections, robbing and murdering refu- gees, and said the official correspond- cnce just received by him showed that such outrages could not be perpetrated. ANARCHY MAY FOLLOW AWFUL WORK OF RUIN CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o. Revolution, and _ perhaps anarchy, is likely to follow in the wake of the de- struction wrought by the eruption of Santa Maga, which’ devastated the cof- iee districts of Guatemala. Through an | official source a letter has been re- ceived which shows that the country is probably totally ruined and has at least received -a setback from which it will not recover for years. The letter says: “While the eruptions were in progress the feast ‘of Minerva was being cele- brated - with great ~ merrymaking in Guatemala City, and no effort was made ! by the Government to postpone it. This continuance of the hilarity at a time of national disaster greatly incensed the people. - Serious civil disturbances are threatened. Officials are now endeav- oring to prevent the truth from becom- ing known. The loss of life is great, but the Government will not make pub- lic the number. = “For twenty miles about the volcano ashes and mud fell, covering adjoining fincas, or coffee plantations, from three to ten feet deep, destroying not only the growing. trees, but also the future productiveness of . the plantations. ‘Within the zone affected by the erup- tion—and that is practically the entire coffee-bearing belt—nearly all the live- stock was killed by “the sulphurous fames which were emitted from the orater.\ “People who are fleeing from villages ang towns from near the voleano de- clare that the eruption came from small craters at the foot of the volcano and that the big volcano itself is still slum- bering. That part of the country is de- i | 1 — the head, but not serfousty injured. Thomas Russell, Liberal-Unionist mem- ber for“South Tyrone, began another land campaign near Belfast early in October. He declared that 80 per cent of the land- lords were ready to sell their land under a fair scheme and suggested a new basis for land purchase under which the state would give $30,000,000 for the bernefit of the landlords. Russell is opposed to home rule for Ireland. : oo o] Ee_x;tcd, the people coming to Guatemala ity. “Decrees fixing the price of the ne- cessities of life have been issued by the Government, but foreign houses have cabled canceling their orders. There- fore, with® nothing coming in, God knows what will happen when the pres- ent supplies are exhausted. Exchange is very high, and increasing at the rate of‘ 100 per cent per day. ‘Santa Maria is not the only volcano which threatens Guatemala. Several others, including Fuego, at Antigua, are emitting smoke and showing other evi- dences of unrest.” This letter bears date of November 1. It was said at the State Department that United States Consul General McNally intends to leave Guatemala as soon as possible. He has made a report to the department dealing with conditions since the eruption, but because Guate- mala is a friendly nation he was re- stricted from predicting its ruin. GROUND OPENS AS EARTHQUAKE RUINS A HOME SA_N JOSE, Nov. 20.—Fears are en- tertained for the safety of a number of San Joseans at the Mordaunt coffee plantation, in since the eruption of the Santa Maria volcano. Captain Charles Mordaunt of this city and his wife and six children and Mrs. Charles Merdaunt Jr. and little son were at the plantation when last heard from. Their place is but forty miles from the Santa Maria_vol- cano and twenty miles from Tapa- chula. S The last heard from the Mordaunt party was by letter dated there Septem- ber 23. This was from Mrs. Charles Mordaunt Jr., daughter of Police Cap- tain Brown of this city, and was sent to her mother. In it -she states that about two weeks “efore there was an earthquake that lasted forty-eight hours about the first of September. This de- stroyed the Mordaunt home, and’ the family were then living in tents. Mrs. Mordaunt stated that the ground had opened in great fissures two feet wide, in which the bottom could not be seen, £ Insane Man Seeks the Emperor. LONDON, Nov. 20.—A special dispatch tro:g Vienna, published to-day, an- nounced that a well-dressed individual, evidently insane, accosted a sentry on duty at the entrance of the Hofburg at midnight and sald that he was the Em- peror’s son Rudoiph and that he wished to sce his Majesty. The stranger, who is said to be a merchant of Hamburg, was taken to the guardroom and searched. A revolver was found in his pocket and also a white stave, which he called his “magic wand.” He was committed to an asylum. i N the state of Chiapas,| OVEMBER 21, 1802 COUNTIES WILL NANIE DELEGATES Miners Return tothe Old Method of Forming Convention. Review Is Made of Issues Which Are Pushed to the Front. O L B A conclusion reached in the closing hours of the California Miners’ Associa- tion conyention which received very little attention is, nevertheless, of considerable interest to the miners in all sections of |the State. The fact is that there were | seldom as many as 100 persons in the con- | vention hall at any one time during the convention. None of thesc were delegates Iin the sense that they were elected as isteh by county conventions of miners. | Mining students from the University of i California dally formed at least one-tenth of the total attendance. | (The reason that there were not more actual miners in the body to pass upon is- sues that are of “serious moment to the | mining industry probably is that there | was _no obligation upon any one to be |present. Early rains have brought actual | | mining operations near in the mountains. | There was work at home to be looked out i for, and there was little glory in attend- | !ing anonymously a convention that had {no roll call and no list of those present | excepting such as was supplied by volun- | tary registration with the secretary of i the convention. | Fortunately there were no contests on the floor of the convention to test this {haphazard system of making up a con- | vention. Presumably the votes there were passed satisfactorily represent the res | nishes of the miners of California. Stiil | the danger was evident. At a meeting of | ,one committee, for instance, there were | present principals and attorneys repre- jsenting a_ great specuiative moneyed in- { terest in California that is alien to min- ,iug and might be aniagonistic to it, as it ihas already been proved to be in some | parts of the State: The action of its rep- resentatives has already led the Secretary ion foot an inquiry concerning the ac- | quiremeht of timber claims on certain [lands that are claimed by miners to be mineral and to have been actually worked for longer of shorter periods as such. | Just before closing the convention a {motion wag introduced, and the conven- tion adopted it, which devolves the ele tion of delegates to future conventions upon the county miners’ assoclations and other accredited bodies, which was the rule before the convention of last weck. The old by-laws and the constitution of the California Miners' Assoclation hold | good until the constitution is amended in this regard, which cannot be for another | vear at least. MEASURES SUMMARIZED. Some general and concise review of the | measures that went through with the ap- iproval of the convention will prove ac- | ceptable to those who had neither the time nor the opportunity to attend the deliberations in Golden Gate Hall. Two leading topics were foresf reservations and debris dams. The convention did not geem to want any more of the former, but a good many of the latter. Prior to the convention the Supervisors |of Plumas County adopted resolutions | disapproving of the permanent establish- ment of the Lassen Buttes and the Dia- mond Mountain forest reservations, ‘“or of any other forest reserves covering any of the unappropriated public lands within Plumas County.” The objections formulated by the Plu- mas Supervisors are summarized easily. The Supervisors say that the establish- ment of the proposed forest reserves would prevent the construction of a rail- road intos the heart of the timber belt; that the private holdings of timber lands contributed more than one-fourth of the revenues of Plumas County and that the owners of a large part of these lands have been paying taxes on the same for twenty vears; that to prevent the construction of a railroad into the timber belt would be a manifest injustice to the timber own- ers by reducing the value of their hoid- ings and the taxable vaiue of the lands in the county; that in the mountainous country a second growth of timber rapidly replaces the old; that to establish forest reserves would arrest development that is now promised Plumas County; that lumbering will be one of the principal in- dustries of Plumas County for fifty years to come and that ““to spread a blanket of forest reserves over this rezion, as proposed, would paralyze business, with- hold railrcad transportation and thus pre- vent the development of our agricultural and mineral resources.” Considerations of this sort were urged upon the committee on resorutions of the i California Miners' Convention. These conclusions may be combated by | the California Water and Forest Asso- ciation, which has been largely instru- mental in having millions of acres of the public domain in this State temporarily withdrawn from entry as the possible basis of a large system of forest reserves i extending practically from one end of the State to the other. Orle resolution adopted by the Plumas County Supervisors, which may be dis- cussed, as the whole matter will be given as much publicity aswossible, is as fol- lows: o Thir_Plumas s an elevngé intermoun- in county, its valleys ranging in_altitud from 3500 16 50O feet, and its mountain bar: riers reaching an elevation of 7500 fest. The ‘mofsture laden winds come from the south and southwest. To reach Plumas these must sweep up the western slope of the Slerras and over their' lofty summits. At this high alti- tude and in a'greatly reduced temperature, the vapor of the atmosphere -is condensed ~and heavy precipitation follows as rain or snow. These are the conditions causing precipitation in Plumas County, brought about independently of the presence or absence of our commercial i timber. The presence of our forests may bLe due, in part, to heavy precipitation, but the latter is due to the topographical conditions mentioned, and not to the forests. ‘We therefore submit that the presence or ab- sence of merchantable timber in the proposed Lassen Buttes and Diamond Mountain Forest Reserves will have no effect upon the precipi- tation in either Plumas County or other por- tlons of the State. *Forests are the result, in a measure, of rainfall, not the cause. If the reverse bo true, then the great acreage of frujt trees planted and grown in Sacramento Valley and other parts of California would have greatly increased the precipitation in the fruit-growing sections, a fact not in evidence. THE DEBRIS DAMS. The line of reasoning adopted by the California miners in convention regard- ing the additional debris dams needed that hydraulic mining y revive has been given at considerable length in the publi- cation of the convention's resolutions on that topic in The Call. The éssential idea may be reached more directly for conve- nience of the miners who were not pres- ent. This is that the construction of the straining dams and barriérs on the Yuba River, upon which work has begun, opens the way for the construction of like bar- riers upon streams throughout the mining field, with the conseauent revival of hy- -draulic mining upon terms advantageous to the miners and not detrimental to the agricultural interest of the State nor to the navigation of the rivers of California. A recommendation was adopted to so amend the law as to provide for the con- trol of the State Mining Bureau in every regard by the trustees of the bureau, and for an appropriation sufficient to carry on the work of the bureau thoroughly. The intent of the change in the law as pro- of the Interior to some moves and to set | Jof some of these acts as MINE-WORKERS' VES ARE SHORT Physicians Give Testi- mony Before Arbitra- tion Board. Economic and Saciological Features of Coal Indus- try Studied. = B ZAIN SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 2.—The econ- omic and sociological features of the an- thracite coal industry and the effec§ em- | Ploymeat in ‘and about’ the mines has ! upon the health of the mine workers were the prinicpal subjects brought before the | arbitration commission to-day by the at- I torneys on each side of#the controversy. | While there was an entire absence of oratory or briliant cross-examination, which marked the proccedings during the | last few days, the cross-examination nevertheless had the close attention of | the Commissioners and they gained much | information the veral features | touched upon by witnesses. G | The afternoon session was particularly | interesting, because it brought out much | expert testimony on the question of the | health of the mine workers. Three physi- | clans who have practiced in Seranton or Wilkesbarre took the stand for the miners and in substance testified that the occu- pation of a mine worker was “very un- hea]thful” and shortened his life. One physician, Dr. F. P. Lenahan of Wilkes- { barre, who says he has had a long experi- ence among mine workers, testified that fully 99 per cent of the men who work in the mines are anemic. Their health is impoverished and their general condition is below par, thus decreasing. their earn- | ing powers. The principal ilis suffered by i the miners, the physicians said, were miners’ asthma, rheumatism and lum- | | bago. | Dr. John O'Malley of Scranton said that lat pest moftems he had seen miners’ lungs as black as anthracite ifself and Dr. Lenahan testificd he had personal knowledge of a man coughing up coaldust nine years after he left the mines. He | sald he had information that a man had coughed up coaldust fifteen years after | he had left he mines. It was also stated | that % per cent of the miners who reach- | ed the age of 50 years are afflicted with | some form of rheumatism. \ The cross-examination of Rev. Dr. Peters, who had studied the anthracite | coal industry and written a book on the subject, ended to-day and he left the wit- ness stand shortly after the noon recess. He began his testimony yesterday. Copi- | ous extracts from his book were read and placed on record. Ex-Congressman Wolverton, counsel for | the Reading Company, read much of the | | the debate and the matter pertaining to violence in the 1900 strike and also read articles written by Dr. Roberts during the progress of the | late contest, in which he described in | strong language the acts of violence, in- | timidation and boycotting committed dur- | ing that suspension. His articles spoke “brutal out- | rages” and he also branded the union’s action in calling out the steam men in June as “foolhard In explaining hi artizles Dr. Roberts said that he did not wigh to infer that the organization wa responsible for all the lawlessness com- mitted. The doctor said vesterday that newspaper accounts greatly exaggerated | the amount of lawlessness in the coal re- | gion, but Wolverton's reading of Dr. Rob- i erts’ description of serious acts of vio- lence and boyeotting afforded much | amusement for the attorneys of the coal | companies. Dr. Roberts gave it as his opinion that attempts to have non-union men form | separate organizations were instigated by i parties opposed to organized labor. In attempting to show the carelessness of the miner contributed materially to the | danger of his occupation, Chairman Gray interposed with the remark that a margin of carelessness incident to human nature must be taken into account when estimat- ing the dangerousnes of any hazardous occupation. The interest in the Commissioners and their investigations has not decreased. Each day hundreds of men line the streets and watch the arbitrators walk from the hotel to the courtroom. The Commission- ers continue to hold dily conferences. Duke of Marlborough Resigns. LONDON, Nov. 20.—The Duke of Mari- borough has resigned the office of pay- master general and has been succeeded by Sir Savile Crossley, M. P. | The Duke's resignation is due to his| impending departure for India to at- tend the Delhi Durbar and has no polit- | ical significance. et 2 Sentence of a Swindler. TRENTON, Mo., Nov. 20.—W. B. Law- rence, who, by misrepresenting himself as the agent of State Superintendent Carrington, sold books to school districts | in different parts of the State, was to-day | convicted. of obtaining money under false pretenses and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary. .rrH-H'-!-l‘H'I-H'H‘H-!-H—H-I-.‘ posed is to take from the. Governor the | control that he now has in the matter of making appeintments to the. bureau and giving it to the trustees. Several appropriations were recommend- ed that the interests of the miners and of the State might be promoted. The appropriations include one for the State Mining Bureau, which has already been mentioned; appropriations by both the national and State governments for the construction of the additional debris dams sought for, one to determine how to best conmserve the water resources of the State and one to provide for a fire patrol for protection of the forests. 3 It will be seen that the measures of the miners, as embodied in their resolu- tions, are vigorous and that to carry them out to logical conclusion will neces- sarily involve a great amount of work. In considering the much discussed Polar Star mine case the recommendation was that If the issues constitute a denial of the right to operate a hydraulic mine un- der the provisions of the Caminetti law and a permit granted under its provis- ions, the assoclation shali proceed to test the questions involved in the appellate court and that the executive committee of the association shall take the necessary steps to have the questions tested. That is concise, and as the association in con- vention adopted the recommendat‘.n the time may not be far distant waen the Polar Star case wlill lead definitely in one direction or another. LOCATION OF CLAIMS. Many other measures were indorsed, in- cluding the continuation of agitation i l-gnr of the mincral lands bill. The réSolution concerning the amendment of the statutes in reference to the location of mining claims is in full as follows: Resolved, That we heartil; ment of Sections 2319, m’ (mavor“the l;‘l(:enlg. Revised Statutes of the United States, con. cerning the location of mining claims, so that | the locator shall be accorded a reasonable and , definite_time within which to finally mark | his surface boundaries on the ground: so tha all local rules, regulations and customs of min- ers and all State and Territorial law on t| locations of mining claims shall be abolished ; and so, that while liberal provisions shall bo mMade for the protection of the locator hwhe holds and works his claim in good faith, the law concerning anniual assessment shall ‘mos; effectually/ check the present injurlous prac um‘ll;l‘?i?' mlnlmx Cll’lm!_ year after year wi el 3 g Hens 2 Lot | retary-Treasurer Hays was informed ity of committee on legislation representatives of our naf action n - our and the California tional Congress, 0513 OF LABOR WIN THE FIGHT Outvote the Socialists in New Orleans Convention. Charges Made Against Presi- dent Gompers Are Found to Be Untrue NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20.—The Social- ists came within 400 votes of securing con- trol -of the convention of the American Federation of Laber to-day. The strug- gle lasted nearly all day and a number of able speeches were made on both sidcs, notably those of D. A. Hayes, James Dun- can and President Gompers against the Socialists, and Victor Berger, Max Hayes |and W. B. Wilson, of the United Mme Workers, in behalf of the reselution in- | troduced by Delegate Berger and amend- ed by Delegate Wilson in a manner ac- ceptable to Berger. The debate lasted until 6 o'clock this evéning when & roil- call showed 4774 votes against the amend- ment of Wilson and 43 in faver of it. The miners voted solidly in favor of the amendment. No business was transacted in the con- vention during the day other than that of repory of the mittee which investigated \the Gompers Shaffer trouble. Gompers was completely exonorated o the charges of infidelity te the prin ples of trades unionism. The report of the special committee whi¢h has con ducted the investigation repoyted to that effect to-day to the convention. The committee reported that when Shaffer appeared before it he declared that he had not at any time,| either in writing or otherwise, made any charges against Gompers of infidelity lo trades unionism, nor did he desire to before the committee, P. J. Sheridan, who introduced the res. olution which resulted in the investiga- tion, was asked at the hearing if it was true that Shaffer had made any charges before the last convention of the Iror Steel and Tin Workers against Gompers and. he replied that he had. Shaffer de- nied it. Sheridan offered to read the minutes of the meeting at which the charges were said by him to have beey made. Shaffer objected to this, becayse the minutes were those of a secfet meeting and if read by Sheridan it would involve him in trouble with his own organization for divulging the inner workings of the convention. The convention decided that the ques- tion of veracity between Shaffer and Sheridan was something with which it had nothing to do, and- there being no charges against Gompers there was nothing to do but return a finding to the effect that Gompers was completely ex- onorated. This was done, and the re- port was adopted by the convention. From 2 o'clock in the afternoon unmtil 1 the debate went on, President Gom- pers being the last speaker. He urged the union men to adhere closely to union principles, declaring that their success would be greater than-it would be it they followed any other decision than that under which they were organized. A | motion made by Delegate Harter to lay the matter on the table lost. A roil- call was demanded, the vote beipg ou the adoption of the Wilson amendment to the Berger resclution. It was lost by a vote of 4744 to 4344, -— ENIGHTS OF LABOR ARE AGAIN AT WAR Secretary Hays Causes the Arrest of Five Prominent Members of the Organization. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—The feud which has'existed for some time In the | Knights of Labor has broken out afresh and Simon Burns and John Ternan Pittsburg; Henry A. Hitt, Thomas H. Cannon, Boston, of New York; and J. F. | O'Meara have been arrested on a warrant narging forcible entry. It is cfaimed t these men came here from Niagara Falls, where one faction of the Knights had been holding a convention, with the intention of getting possession of the headquarters of the organization. It is further charged that they entered the building through an upper window. Sec- of the movement and he immediately swore out the warrants for their arrest. The cases were called In the Police Cougg fo- day and the hearing postponed until Bat- urday. The men were released on $100 bail each. OoF mmenz OF THE PACIFIC COAST everal Changes Are Mads in the Postal Service and More Pen- sions Granted. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Postmasters commissioned—California: Annie O. Rus- sell, San Simon; Christen H. Christensen, Altamont; Annie C. Bachels, Goodyears Bar. Oregon: Robert G. Hoffer, Cleone; Walter E. Eakin, Hopewell. Fourth- class postmasters appointed: California. Charles E. Pillsbury, Amalie, Kern Coun- ty, vice Willlam E. Rogers, resigned; C. A. Mercer, Big Trees, Calaveras County, vice James M. Hutchins, resigned. Station No. 54 of San Francisco post- office will be established January 1, 1%3, at 806 Devisadero street. These pensions were granted to-day— California: Original—Francis L. Pratt, Pomona, $10; Harry Cohen, San Francis- co, $ (war with Spain). Increase, reis- sue, ete.—George R. Crow, Los Angeies, $30; Irad M. Henderson, Santa Rosa, $8; Robert R. Moore, Los, Angeles, $12. ‘Widows, minors and dependent relatives —Julia Roche, San Francisco, $3; Eilen D. Hall, Trask, $8 (Mexican war). Ore- gon: Increase, reissue, etc.—Wiiliam Rehtz, Port Orford, $§I12. Washington: ‘Widows, minors and dependent relatives —Euretta J. McDonald, Issaquah, $5. Army order—Contract Surgeon Stephen M. Long goes from Alcatraz Island, Cali- fornia, to Fort Duchesne, Utah, STREET RAILROAD DEAL IS FINALLY COMPLETED Inter-Borough Rapid Transit Com- pany of New York Secures the Manhattan Line. N NEW 'YORK, Nov. 20.—It was definitely stated in official quarters last evening that the control of the Manhattan Rail- way Company has passed into the hands of the Inter-Borough Rapid Transit Com-~ pany, more familiarly known as the Sub- way Company. An official statement to this effect will probably be issued within a few days. Negotiations having this ob- Ject In view have been secretly carried on for some time. Yesterday they reach- ed a stage where the scheme is assured. The consolidated company will have control and operate ninety-seven and three-fourths miles of road located in Greater New York and controlling prac- tically all the avaflable franchises not possessed by the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. g i Increases Customs Duties. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 2.—As a consequence of the fluctuation im the price of silver, the Nicaraguan Govern- ment has to-day increased the customs duties by 150 per cent.