The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1901, Page 1

THe Only Paper in attle That Dares Vou. 3. NO, 141, SEATTLE, GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED EFFECTIVE AUG, 10 As Exclusively Forecasted Yesterday by the Star, President Shaffer |‘ Last Night Issued His General-Strike Order Against the Steel |: Trust--All Is Quiet Today--Tin and Enamel Wares Go Up 10 Per Cent.--What London Thinks of Strike. : ? & FE LONDON, Aug. T.—The Pv PARR Re ke, says “It is in the nature of a reve Note—Webaster defines piutocr ng News commenting on the ste PRESIDENT SHAFFER'S CALL. against plutocracy.” cy as “government by the rich.” PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aur Following is the text of the gen eral strike call issued last night by President Shaffer PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 7.—Consternation reigned among the atrik ers this morning when it was learned that two of the Clark milis had started up. The superintendent says that the other mills of the com Brethren—The officials of the pany will be started as soon as repairs can be made, and that the com. United States s rest have pany finds no trouble in securing men to re as union wo who are now striv ng for the right to ¢ q ecutive board au ¢ to issue a call on gamated and other union men in name and heart to jotn in the movement to fight for labor's rights. We must fight or give up forever our personal lbertien You will be told that you have signed contracts, but you never agreed to surrender those contr to the United States Sateel Corporation. Tt officers Throngs of non-union mien surrounded the plant this morning, seek ing work. A great crowd of strikers is now ar and orderly | All is quiet at the other mills in this cit, yand the mills, but they are quiet PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 7.—President Shaffer does not regard the arting of the Clark milis as significant. He says he understands that almost all the new men are negroes, and that the Amalgamated men will not bother them. ‘ Secretary Williams, of the Amalgamated association, said this after- noon that no other labor organization will be asked for material ald un- til the situation becomes such that it ts abso! necessary to have pre k "the mille rnold to them. set as the mille were, contracts such ald, | alt PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 1.—President Shaffer c to his om memeber, OS. Sarre yen agreed to any contract you toc an obligation to the Amalgam- od associa tle It now calle to help in the hour of need. “Unleas the trouble ts settled on or before Saturday, August 10, 1901. the mills will close when the last turn is made on that day. “Prethren, this ts the call to preserve our organization. We trust you and need you. Come and help us, and may right come to a fust cause. Frater nally yours “T. J. SHAFFER.” early this morning. He sald nothing of importance was in prospect for today. WELLSVILLE, ©., Aug. 7.—Wellsville is very quiet today. There | are no signs of trouble of any kind ‘ y NEWCASTLE, Pa., Aug. 7. —Pro nptly at midnight the men of the Shenango Valley steel plant. » branch of the steel trust, struck in ac cordance with the order of President Shaffer. They obeyed to a man. ‘This strike was ordered to prevent production of material that would keep other trust plants in operation, NEW YORK, Aug. 7.--The strike at the tin and sheet mills has be- gun to effect manufacturers of tin and enamel! ware, as the stock of tin Plate and sheet steel used in this industry is being depleted The manufacturers’ association today advanced the price of tin and enamel ware 10 per cent If the strike is not settled In the near future it ts expected that a further advance will be made. le | SAEEEE REESE EEE EEE E EE EEE EEE EERE EERE EEE EEE EEE OF Til paappnbanrrrapneeerpapapeerpeenhiephtenmnel PEEP EERE EEE ERED | | NEW YORH, Avg. 7.—The United States Stee! corporation officials maintained their customary attitude"of silence today regarding the spread of the Amalgamated strike. Morgan's Wall street organ today Gays the strike order is received with satisfaction, as it solves the prob Jem of shutting down several planta which the trust has been anxious to et off its hands for some time. SHOP-OWN a | Y, MC, A, Tennis }¥. M. CA. which began last even ing at the olf University grounds }resulted in the following scores - | First clase—Dougherty beat Lewis, a: pe ® Aug Went out on! 4 ie week. 1. — Re-| to close formation, now in | Myers beat Bronson. Second clase—| The Seattle Metal Trades associa. ; re beat Alien. Drew and French | tion has rejected all overtures to began the playing this morning. settle the long machinists’ strike, It |has declared for « straight ten-hour day in ali shops regardiess of every- eget RS thing. Today, through Will A. Parry, SAR ay Pe tina jassociation sent word to the peopl Bg, Sita f: Blind | | of Beattie that it will give no reasons n for found for this decision, which means that | the city’s tron working industry ts ' tions throughout) VALLEJO, Cal. Aug. t—Two un. | "poe the neg’ time since the atrike re [mE out of work $000| known Eastern men who had been | was called, over two months ago Se- ‘ he aa 4 ; weeks, disappeared on the night of per a sae The were that the ; + & non-union! the Selby-amelter gold robbery. The|Mine-hour day is not to be granted | ary 4 os hetdbten trative * | reached them last evening. It broke pegmater, wi “shot and seriousty | peas | leve they may be the guilty | gown all hopes of speedy settlement | this morning in an alterca- | F 5 raised high by thelr committee’ Midibows etriker » trace has been discovered of | tonceasiona to the employers and , the great quantity of stolen gol4,| caused some rearet. Then came General situation ts unchang-| wor are there any developments to. @ay to the finish. “Death to the union” is under-| | ptood to be the manufacturers’ slo- gan. With the union agreement | [Waived and everything unton rejected | ‘save the union iength of day, the |atrikers had reached the Umit, and| refusal to shorten working hours is| | understood to mean that the shop- ine desire to drive the unions entirely out of thelr shops. |_ This morning Chairman Brick _) PHILADELPHIA. At 1 but one store. }gathered his strikers’ committees at garding the Philadelphia wholesale grocers|situation wai It was found Course, of the wholesale grocery! jook wit bade ga that the full strength of the Western he North look with suspicion on the scheme, | Central Labor unica, with 48 unions Arust, the North American says thinking it impractical is behind the strikers, with weekly ‘The trust will operate under the| +o aenianen donations to the cause, made by Gils of “The Math ractessie | . Goldsmith, manager of the| weekly assessments on all union The National Wholessie| «\iwabacher wholesale grocery, rid-|men. Also that the body of strikers Grocery Co.” It will be incorporat- | jcusey the thought of forming a “gro. |"#eding support 1s small, but large iked today fF | the battle. Nearly 180 have lef the state of New Jersey, and will be|an expression on the practicability |Heattie for other cities takine there capitalized at $100,000,000. of such an undertaking, he sald families, thus relieving the drain on | Mearly all of the 27,000 whoteseie|_ “It !# entirely impracticable, | the strike fund. grocery houses in the United States | *°rmine @ manufacturers’ trust and ee eA ' @ mercantile trust are two distinct This meeting decided that the fight will be drawn into the trust, unless | propositions. The manufacturer is Assumed the same phase as the! the plans of the promotors fall short.|in a position to completely controt PAstern steel strike, that the men pos P chairman of its press committee, th prada a fT result in a tie hanging around here for the pant two|attie’s tron trades workers today pressions of determination to fight Their Position » Sad On | | headquarte A review of the 4 in September, under the laws of | cery trust.” When enough to be effective tn continuing Included in the objective territory | hi# business and govern the output, 7°° Aehting for principle now, not| for wages. The resource but any man with capital can enter A resour of the are the state of Washington and the|the mercantile business and estas union were declared suMoient to war- ant indefinite continuance of the éntire Pacific coast. lish himself at once in opposition to ja mercantile trust. Such a strike, if It is not deemed necessary It ts intended in the small cities.) trust cou! to_use extreme measures to settle it Yesterday negotiations to open the trust 4 not hold together.” ix lean Iron ke on @ nine-hour day were to be cloned, having heen |comnl i by business men acting as | mediators Today the absolute 10. hour edict ta siven out by the a This morning B. Cortese, [president of the Corliss Wneine « jot Detroit, one of the biggest em- ' plovers of machinints in the country, and representative in congress of | the first district of Michigan, reach od Meattle on a pleasure ¢ It wan learned that he at the Be- , Aug. 7—The house of |attle hotel and inter 1 business men started a movement to arbi- trate, and to ask Congresaman Cor Up Against Plumbing Law Assistant Plumbing Inspector C R. Frasch this afternoon swore out] a complaint against Geo. H. Brown ® plumber, for the violation of the| plumbing ordinance in doing some| work at 1652 Twenty-second avenue.| He in alleged to have used the wrong weight pipe and made bad connec tions contrary to orders given by th inapector. { ° - | Lonpe Restaurant Keeper Arrested | Commons today unanimously adopt 5! P.—. Able, a restaurant keeper o¢| © @ motion to present address Of | lias to act as chairman of the arbt ; ed Jetec. |S¥mpathy to King Edward and Kaisa. |tration board. The idea never bore Snares. Wen. geventes by ¥ ; fruit, as Secretary Mitchell, when th @ Phillips last evening ling Jhelm on the death of the Dow proposal mentioned to him without « Ieense. He was|ager Empress Frederic the association would resent any in m0. - — terference in strike matters by any outalders Charged With Stealing Says He Beat Her Mr Clise Emphatic Clark, @ notorious woman President Clise, of the chamber of arrested by Officer Freeman ear ainat the man Morning on suspicion of hav Mra, Mary Toombs of thins city swore to a complaint In Judge | Commerce, advined # 4 quantity of clothing | husband, Robert Toombs, with beat-) Wn rh +, ecttis the trina, Lacel tas house in which she had been |!6 her neas men have heen repeatedly re- im Tacoma. The missing cloth pulaed in arbitration efforts. The found in her epartments and chamber of commerce wil! probably by the owners. or Gordan Discharged not become Interested unlews asked a | Judge George this morning din-,Y one or } » . Stole Clothing charged Willian Gordan from the '"® Interents.” “ ie Foor of Tom Turner, No. 19 in| Charge of robbing Hugh MeCon “Mine Hours In My Shere block, was entered Inet DAUEHCY Of a horne. A civil sult on eresmman Corliss, though not and @ large amount of cloth. | the Maine grounds is now pending in 1 to # an ch man of th . > the superior court. The judge heid ration committee, said of the ‘The matter is now in the|that there was no grounds for a) strik of the pollc lertminal action. | “I think the strike should be set-! WASHINGTON, } Sl Me ie ie ie ie te ee eee eee eee eed WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug. 7 The object of the visit of the Ma- rll Y | few voting, a union man said: “The W. T. Whitney secured a permit in} ide: 4 OBS INAC MARKS HE the city engineer's office today to| fact! there has been @ conriderabl Metal Trades Association Stands Firm in a Position That | ‘The tennis tournament of the toca), Bears the Ear-Marks of Poor Common Sense—Having No Ground to Stand on, They Refuse to Discu | that man should work eight hours, rest eight hours and hay het hours for recreation. We will uit WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, CAREFUL! U.S.GUNBOAT STOPPED 10 COLON 1901, {At Present There Is No France Gets Ready 3 Liquor Sold at Parks. Battleships. RRR TORR RIOR fete * % The open sale of liquor at the Lake * WASHINGTON, D. ¢ Aug * - PARIS, Aug Uinpute be- | —The atate department has re. w| Washington parks has been stopped tween Frank and Turkey as to the |® auested the navy department to # bY Chief of Police Sullivan, Yester on . # wend a warahtp to Colon, Colom. * 4 patr 1 detectives pa _ basdhguand natan- | & bia, on account of the revolu- | led the parks and report that tindple, has taken a somewhat sert: | @ tion in that country & | fale of liquor is going The ord us aspect # ‘The gunboat Machias will bo ® Jators et tne tinuoe ieee at io Three French battleships have | * #ent * rand ad iw 7 tion will be taken on we ¢ ‘ , been ordered to be held tn readiness! y account of the holding up of a %| th Up to tt t ‘ @ demonstration tn Turkish |» ¢r ane-lathmian train by th ine ® he been ¢ ents. waters * wurgents, the United States be- # It in expected that this der atra *® ing bound by int tional ® from her position, # on this road is not {nterfered ® & with. * * * IS DELAYED: lohias at this time is to keep an eye The Young Defaulter Is Still In on the situation and see that no American interests are tnte County Jail with If, howeve the tna should grow so formidable an te beyond the power of the Colombian! 1: was stated by the federal auth government to handle, and remult in t orities ay th i be nc vein. th ‘ rhe | Mterruption of American commerce, : SHAMOKIN, Pa, Aug. 7.—Th of blue Jackets and marines | Nearing In tho ca United Mine Workers offcials of this landed. the defaulting r district went to Haaleton this morn-| It ix poasible that Rear Admiral| haps one week. I ing to meet the officials of other dis-| Casey, In charge of the Pacific Coast| en bonds and is « J mond station, will be directed to send a! county ja tricts In an important conference to! Yeenel trom hin fleet to co-operate be held tomorrow to discuss plans for| with the Machias fighting the « companies, which need will not allow a union committee to T A inapect me CITY HALL. collieries, The conference may re- senildaslaibinae sult In a general strike A bership cards at ther . — | BADGES ARE rthern railroad tracks on | Street Railway Men Will W Chairman Thomson of the board | | . _ : -|of public works today signed the| The trainmen of the Seattle Elec- | WASHINGTON, D. C, Aus. 7—!1-ae which will give to J. R. Taylor| tric Co, will wear the badges recent a | } Joseph Prather, who was a member|the use of 200 feet of Jackson street | jy by the company lying west of Raliroad avenue, On| east, the vote taken yesterday pon Guiteau, the murderer of President! “Dich he is to construct @ gridiron | noon and last night, to determine the arfield ts dead at his home tn this| S84 Approaches. He is to pay &N/ question, resulted in favor of accept- nual rental of $15 agrees not ing the badges. An interesting fea wid ead we wlhad to charge fer use of che gridiron any. less ft the vote is the fact that out thing in excess of the charges made| o¢ @ membership of nearly 400, only by the city for similar gridirons own-| 53 yotes were cast—all being “Yes ed by the city | Asked to explain the cause of #0 wupp { the jury which convicted Robert 7 years. Jar among the members on the badge erect a four-story and basement ft to cont $30,000. it will be used ing the ee, a pera | ed of the matter etened grew the way | neh cagreren-ie-anatnnas eevee mae was conducted and did not care how | Osenr Sherwood, « deck hand of | the eteamer of Washington | - ‘ fee. He slipped and fell, seriousiy| PARIS, Aug. 7—Rappe! (newspe- tied by arbitration or mutual agree-| injuring his back. He w: moved | Ber), im a Capetown dispatch, asserts men should be given a hearing. - ot ey 4 | serious condition of his health. | George Wood, an alleged newsboy, | was sentenced to 10 days in the chain Lalla, also of the same clase, were given 24 hours to leave town mately see eight hours « day, and I believe that the genius of American labor can accomplish much in| WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 7.— clght hours’ work as his foreign com-| ‘The anniversary of the American petitor can in ten. ccoupation of Mantia, Aug. 12, 189¢ The Cor ops are working nine ’ hours « day, the strike being on but | Will _be celebrated with a convention | things terminated.” | was injured last evening on the Yes: | ment. I am a believer in organized | to Providence hospital in the ambu.| that Gen. Lord Kitchen will soon re- | gang by Judge George yesterday aft Oscar Sherwood Injured | - | HIS HEALTH © oe ler wharf while a al labor and in the nine-hour day. The lance. | turn to Kagiand, on account of the Ten Days in Chain Gang ernoon. Frank Williams and Dick a few days. Seattic shop-owners say ®t Salt Lae city by Philippine vet- ———— - Seattle wages average 63 per cent,|erans, ‘The meeting will — higher than those of Eastern shops. | several days. | Mr. Corlige says Detrott machiniat — | FOUNDLING HOME | are pa: rom §2.50 to $3.80 for nine | hours, and t moulders in one of, Fremont Schoolhouse his shops are paid from $2.09 to $4.00 “ }_ The directors of the Seattle! for nine hours. ‘The old school house at Fremont,| Foundlings’ home have started on which has been overhauled and re-/ their annual canvass of the city for Lt to Give . | modeled, will be ready for ocoupan- | financial ald. The home which ts! Chairman Parry, of the Employ-|cy by the Mth of this month situated at $13 Alder street, is now ers press committee, sald, when awk.| ‘The bullding, which formerly con-| crowded with children ranging in| ed why « nine-hour d. tained but eight rooms, has now 16.| age from 1 week to 13 years. The We refuse to gi The building & being equipped | expense of keep up this work is standing by ¢ with @ modern heating and ventilat-! approximately $200 a month, which have nothing to say. That ing plant on the gravity system. jie donated by citizens. Mrs. O. H. and I say {t for the associat 1| The intertor appotntments and fur-| Ryther ts now rm of th represent.” | nishings will also be strictly modern. | assisted by Mra. Ida Roberts: ome, DEAD GIRL IN AN IRON BOX FOUND UNDER A TREE AT RACE-TRAGK In @ rusty fron trunk at the new|necond he imagined himself a rich) positive that the remains are un- race-tr near South Park, the skuil| man mistakably those of a young girl of and bones of a girl about 15 years of ebout 15 years who had auburn hate. } Long hair of that color age were found yesterday afternoon| Calling a number of his felloW|on the skull, From ipods by men working on the new race-| working men, he, with their help, un-| deductions the girl had undoubtedly track. Coroner Hoye was not noti earthed the bor When on the| met her death foully fied of the affair until this morning. A Gruosome Find ground the box was found to be ohe foot wide, the same in depth, and two| Skul! Fractured—Bones Broken and then went to investigate the! feet jong. It was covered with| Her skull is fractured in several | eheets of solid tron. he men, who| places and several bones are broken k yesterday|had assembled, soon took up the|To have packed the body in the box treasure theory and were counting|{t was necessary to cut it up into up their shares when once the box|pleces. In that condition it wae was opened. With the use of a pick|found, The perpetrators of the ion | the end was knocked in, but instead| crime may never be known. The old { seeing # pile of shining gold fall|adage that “murder will out” may out, the bones of a human body were] in this singular case, find an excep discovered. After a hurried examin-|tion, For upwards of three years While digging under tt, Burns’ #hovel| ation ‘T, W. Thompson, one of the| this body has lain in its tron casket suddenly atruck something that gave| men, hastened to the nearest tele-| beneath the sod, shaded by an im matter, Shortly after 6 o’cl afternoon T. F. Burns was working race-track on an excavation at the of the King County Pair associa A atump was directly in the line of the trunk and had to be removed resistance. Upon closer examination| phone and notified police headquar-| mense poplar tree, When tt was put : ters of the grewaome find. The box| there the place was desolate, and fo the corner of an fron trunk was re-| 0.8 14 contents were removed to the| people lived anywhere near Haa| vealed. Like a flash visions of Capt. river bank a few feet from where| not the racetrack been bulit the | Kidd and his hidden tri 4 across Burns’ mind. ABSTAINERS HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 7.--The thirty-first annual convention of th ure pass-|ie was found, and there Coroner| body probably never would have beeo In that brief | Hoye viewed the skeleton and he ta| discovered Small Pox Stamped Out Smallpox at Latona and Brooklyn WHERE Is HE 2 has been stamped out. ‘The patients at Latona are of quarantine | PHOENIX, Artz., Aug. 7.—Senator They will be ordered out at Brooklyn| Clark of Montana has left Jerome tomorrow. where the copper miners are on| Roman Catholic Total Abstinence ~—- etrik It is rumored today that the] Union of America was opened here WEATHER FORECAST. miners had formulated a plan te today, It will continue in session | kidnap him nator Clark hy until Saturday, There is a large! Seattle and Viotnity.—Tonight and| stated that he would “see the gre attendance from all parta of the|T day, fair; Nght west to north| grow up in the streets of Jerome be country. | winds. fore he would yield to the strikers. STAR. 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