The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1900, Page 1

TR UAta kate eaten oiled ‘WHA TIEN—P ATR. PRICK ONE CENT. —_ OS NIGH . EDITION OPERATORS MEET, PLANNING FIGHT. ae Mining Superintendents Confer and Prepare to Operate Col- lieries---Hundreds of Dep- uty Sheriffs Sworn In. SCRANTON, Two important conferences with the strike of the miners of the Lackawanna and Wyo-| ming Valleys are features marking the fourth day of the struggle in (his) region, One of these is the outcome of} daily meetings which some of the) mining superintendents have been, holding, and which to-day {# to bring together the heads of the three big) companies, the Lackawanna, Dela- ware and Hudson and Pennsylvanian Coal Company, and many of the In dividual operators here for the final oonalderation of plans to force the working of some of the mines at least, It ls announced that the various superintendents have been very ac- tive along certain lines and are now roady almost any day to make a de- termined show of strength against the atrikera, They will, it has been learned to- day, centralize men at certain col- 20, connected | Pa, Sept anthracite lierles and operate them, under the} protection of the law {f necessary For this Jatter emergency they have had some hundreds of made deputy sheriffs and watchmen, Their confidential runners have canvassed many of the miners and laborers at their homes, and the opin- fon Is that an entering wedge is al- most ready to be driven in the stronghold of the strike, District No, 1, where there is to-day no change from the conditions of yesterday The other meeting of the day ‘s that of the District xecutive Board, at strikers’ headquarters, this afternoon, It will deal with the ef- fort of the big companies to make a working stand, all the features of which they are informed of, and they say they will be prepared to offset It, There will also come before the) tributions. Board the troublosome washery question, The Oxford, Bellevue and Damond washeries went to work this morning, a8 well as three smaller ones, The Lackawanna Com- Dany has been successful in working many of \ts foremen at the three places named, —— STRIKERS GAINING. Induce Men to Quit Weat Kad Cate Mery, the Stronmhold of N fonlem, | men} The fifth article on the strike by Miss Olivia How- ard Dunbar, of The Evening World, describing the cutting down by the miners’ families of their scanty food supply into strike rations, appears on page 2 of to-day's issue. Miss Dunbar is the only woman correspondent actu- ally on the field studying one the century, and all should read her articles, TALKS, CROKER'S DAILY NO TRUSTS TO “STRIKE.” oe Come from Earnest Democrats, | Richard Croker wae {mn a oheerful humor this morning when he read of Senator Platt'® remark, ‘Croke: | Croker, Croker, I've heard that name J thousand times to-day.” Tt made Mr Croker laugh heartily and he threw him. wolf down Into an easy chair and sald swered for him, saying: “There ts noth- ing in it whatever @ taking about the mattor Mr | Croker reverted to the subjeot of con- This matter appoars to be formewhat distasteful to him, and all the regedt publications as to his contribu tons have annoyed him, “Phin tale about contributions and my putting a lot of money in (he campaign s all bow,’ sald Mr Croker "I wlah T had a lot of money to put into the campaign, | would be glad to do it The money to ruh the Democratic cain: paign comen from Democrats who cons tribute what they can afford. Thar tn all there t* to it. “These reports about my puiting « pile ne brough |#ot money from me, but they have not (tpeetal to The ing World ) | successful i WILKESBARRE, Sept. 20.--The| Mr Croker chuckled we he awl thie f@rikore made a great gain at the! “Bverybody who thinks he o to have some money comes to me after ‘West Bnd colltery at Mocanaqua to- day, when, after four days’ hard wor the organizers managed to get fifty of the men out of the 600 employed to atrike, With this wedge in the stronghold of non-unioniam the strikers lope ia @ few days to shut down the col- Nery and make the strike in the up- pev coal feld complete, At present out of a dinirict em- gloying 75,212 me: the 460 at the oat End are the only ones working nd it ls the only place where coal ‘s being mined. a ———— WEATHER FORECAST. for the thirty-alx ding 8 P.M. Priday, Bi for New York pity vietwity: toomiehet to-night. winds. aud waine warner Fresh seelng these reports in the papers and ks Por some help.” continued Mr Croker, "Tt is nonsense fo talk about (he matter, We raise money from tnd! viduals who contribute what they ean and they are not asked to do It either "We have no trusts to fall back on for money, We have got to get {t from ‘hore who Want to see the Democratic Ueket suceeamtul,”' Mr, Croker was told Hanna sald that there thing ae truats, “That ts all we want him to say," eald the Tammany chief, “Let him go right on saying jt and {¢ will help us, Mr. Croker enjoyed or seemed to en: Joy the ertticlame on the big Bryan meeting on Ovi, 18, He said that they were only advertioing !\. He again de- clared that Senator Murphy wan the leader of the State, — BATTLE IN CHINA. | Alllew that was Senator ho such (Copyright, 1960, by the Assteiated Pree.) TAKU, Sept. 20,—The Allien at- of the greatest labor wars of |; | Big Chief Says All Funds! ‘That's good, Did the old man say | that? | Mr Croker wan apked if tt wan iru] | Uiat Senator U1) was placed al the head { any qummittee to sollell funda to jhumitate him = § Murphy an- of money In the campaign tae! 1 iol of people around trying to! The [ “ctrewlation Books Open to All.’’ STANCHFIELD _ ON TRUSTS. | Democratic Candidate Talks to Drummers and Hotel Men. | 100 Truste, with Eight Bill- jons of Capital, Face the People, John BR. Standhfield, Demooratic ean didate for Governor, spoke to the Com: mercial ‘Travellers’ and Hotel Man's Antl'Troat League in the hall at t ant’ Broadway today, ‘There was & larme crowd present, Harry W. Walker, who presided, be- fore introducing Mr. Stanchfeld, sald that he had just made a tour of the ftate and found that everywhere the irust amue- was overshadowing every other Mr Walker said he had attended @ vf the commerotal travel- Jers held in Buffalo on Baturday, Rev porta from all over the weatern part of the Binte were read at thie moeting which showed that not only commercial travellers but all classes of middiemen, Irrempective of party, were atoused over the question of truste. Mr. Btanchfeld sald: “'Woo be to the man who presente the subject of trusts to the intelligent electora of the Pmpire State’ is the challenge extended (o the Democratio partly by Lieul.-Gov, Woodruff in hie @peech as temporary chairman at the Baratoga Convention, 1 accept the tesue, and from now on ehal| endeavor to convince the voters of the Bmpire State that the Democrat- | 0 party is the friend of the people and j the foe of the trust “The trust ie jer an instrument for immunity or a mon- strous power for evil, "IE Its effects are benign, why ahould both parting, in different phraseology, conderan 11? “TEAL makes for evil, why Is tt allowed to flourish to ao unprecedented an ox- j tent in the frulttul soll furnished hy the {Administration of the Republican | party? Benmtor Hanna ts made to way in an Interview in yesterday's morning papers that If (he (rusts have not destroyed compesition, have not eantroiied pri And are not (he curse of the countey they are alleged (o be, then they ought {0 be Jet alon “The unieriying question for ua to conmider is whether he tates a correst premise uring (he paat two years truste have come into emistence with a capttatteation of over eighi billlone of dollars, They represent an amount of power and! money vast beyond ihe dreama of avariee, “There are in existence today more than 10 truste governing not only we luxurion but (we necempities of our every-day life. “Theme reat egmtions of capital represem the untiloation of every impor | tant industry in the jand. ‘They take EW YORK, THURSDAY, TRO BKPTE ‘NOT NEEDED, MBER 20, 1900. SAYS PITTSTON’S MAYOR The great struggle PITTSTON, Pa, Sept To the Editor of The Evening World between capital and | 20, abor which now engulfs this region and has stopped the exodus of thousands of tons of coal from this city daily has not only disturbed the entire world, but brought upon this city finaneial ruin on every hand, The 8,000 miners of this distr ing citizens, and | believe will not submit to violence Under any circumstances the great crowd of 16,000 miners who took possession of this city on Tuesday demonstrated this fact beyond any possible doubt Troops, | believe, will be unnecessary in this re- gion, striking miners t are all law-abid- If trouble arines it will not be the fault of the THOMAS J. CORCORAN, Mayor of Pittston BROOKLYN, 00070020802 NEW YORK D00000200I—3 RESULTS AT GRAVESEND, | within thelr embrace not only everything | that is used in the upbuilding of the | country, but what we and wear and ua an well | "If the truste #0 formed are able by the diaminval of help. the removal of exeoutlve administrations, and the jdeatruction of the vocation of the cam | mercial traveller, to pay a dividend | | \ipon the wtock Ismued to represent twice the Vaue of the property which they leonteul, and pay to the capt ere anil | pro motere of (hem enormous sims of) | money in return for the «cock that is} | Aoated among Me innocents and gulll-} | blew of the lawd, how long @ time will |elapme before the 100 wil) sons dated inte Nfty "The trunt destroys competition, be- cause when one is formed \iselese and surplia plants are dismantied for the, purpose of remtrioting and limiting the supply, The effect of thia incontestbly f is @ rive in prices, The Untied States Leather Trust has absorbed the tanneries of the land. et portion of the Stat and eastern parte of Pennaylvania, an all the men who tad tut upon the Investment of these tannert have been turned adrift to seek other and new employment, “The trusts have demonatraced two} propowltions: “WMret, they have caused the neces: aitien and corforis of life to tnerwage in prloe. "Macond, (hey have lowered the prices of what most people uve to sel The coat of bullding materia spparel hap Inore in a ft eat. hed comparatively ables and bet | fearly onesthi short time,” ec tacked the Petang forts at daybreak, |How the Amertenn Traveller Dines, AT HAWTHORNE. HIK va w2 lm Neat ¢ \ @, Tegner Belle 3 rE ar = ; AT ST, LOUIS, res, t \ finer 3 yim luo 3 ae panes y NORKMAN FELL DOWN ELEVATOR SHAPT, a t ! Heckenoard ) whilea work vm M tyet treet age Madiou ayer e ret 8 te yn OLICEMAN RESCUES DROWING MAN, “ is 0 ‘ M880 Kiaridg: roel fe erboard trom the Thy rang abd Darrow ts tape drownig ff ‘ 1 Mulhall rereuod him BROKER DEAD)" firm to B Bilary Ander The | Habilities were put at $2,000.00, Iwo thirds secured AFTER CRASH Mr, Hatch, Nimpelf a sextuagenarian ©) fat Nie partners® conduct keenly, bul ~~ — kKnowlng that Po how ineate vrooding over his wrongdoing ne forgave Charles B. Foote, of Foote him, sithouth sr Hatch's own private | fortune oba bs jor & Hatch, Dies at His [Mr fumes funesel wilt ye eit trom Country Home. LARurinral is e alee hao, the Race Charles H. Pos Hatch & Foote junior pariner of whieh firm he wrecked | by wild sseoulations, died at 3 o'clock This afternoon at his country home, | Dreante, NJ He nad been seriour Ml for over # month Dementia and melancholia indivoad (he! Daretic paralyats that caused his death Foote Was over slaty years old. For more than thirty years he was well knows in Wall sireet, the firm of Hatoh | house in this city In at lO West Forty wixth street PETER BOWE ILL. Ba-Sheri@ Vietim of Stroke, bat Sow Hell Be Oat of Di Major Peler Howe, ex-@herif of New York County, la setiously |{) om hie home, ® Wea One Hundred and Nine & Foote being founded in 1867, teenth treet, from a para ytic ahook Mr. Hatoh wan the Stock Raohange |" AF attacked jn Hurtig & Hea memoer, while Mr ne had eniire | Muvie Hall iaat night ‘The ta charge of the afaire ac 18 Wall atrent | Of Te church Were admininveredt and 3 Nassau atreet, 1 was on account| MUL he Ie now believed to he oul of of thie that Poote was able to spend @| immediate danger quarter of # million of the firm's money| Major Bowe is yrolght yeare old in apeculation without hie partner {1 MI he med (Ne Kurty-secohd kvowlng It. Foote speculated under (he Faroese? Hegimen and bere through mes of well-known Wall gtreet ut the cll! war with {! aa Major, eur His speculations went on for inree or ous auction busine four years, Foo eelth graduaiy In 167 he wa ae a Bheriff on ay breaking down under the veerat strain pmilcTaminans (eke! He frrendé aim of losing the firm's money and doce (fe only aberift r left the offer ing his pariner, } with no troup fe When he fell seriously it) Sept, 1 the all . hooks were gone over, Foote’s queer fees mient by Car or Cab— piss Pe Nes cpap AR gel Se, oat of tee! sador Italy, He bee so nowded cne| Where Sunday Werld Wants ams fides 0M. ae Be il WHATHER-P AM, { “ Cireuiation Books Open to All.” | PRICE ONE CENT, a oa oa WIN: FILIPINOS _ OUR TROOPS LOSE 33 PER CENT, IN FIERCE FIGHT. oo WEALTHY WIDOW MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT ove \No Light on How Mrs. Kerr and Mr. Bailey Were Shot in the Adirondacks, MacArthur Reports 43 Killed and Wounded 30 Miles from Manila Two Officers Killed, One Wounded. Hebbobieltielelololololeteietoiellelolotllelolelotoloteltolotoltotelo! vole and Balace are eubsten- inowrgents, Vea~ ‘tes and ave jeout « for munteipal erganioas Hearaph linen m, 182 miles, \* ve not been moleated for Ave In y tree ple are busy pl jain refame to ane alive orcasional troabte, ‘a Report. I I I I A (Aperial to The Riverine World.) WASHINGTON, Sept. An offietal despatch from Gen, MagArthur, given, ont today, confirms the reports of pe- newed and formidable: aetivity on the pert of the Pilipinos He tells of the batthe at Mavitaa, ta Taguna Sept. 16 where Capt, David D. Mitched, with 19 me and 4 officers, attached the Fillp'noe #> strong, in an I» trenohed position, and after joming #9 per of thelr men had co retreat, (en, MacArthur Jeseriben the one CALLS FOR TROOPS, theoumhout Tae provinoe, on ander Gen. Caitles, en thus ee Cone derabe activl ” Misoting reported widinity’ Chitis i ‘ and Weteila, Isabella provines, Ther 4 nents eptimaied #® probably much exe x tod but sufficient foree to make nk A Or in Meer erelofore qu'et 4 ") in the tocan proyinges Samuel # yA 4 oM. Young (Meijadler(enerat) reporte is Yl iamerous smal) affaires and hae called | sy emphatically for more force that io *) Kingebury'e squadron Third Ca and | Morte Hattailon Pith Infantry deem eo! him: other battalion Fifth same t destination upon arrival t Country oorth Pasig, ineluding all of | Bulacan very much disturbed and nu. 1% merous contacts with emall parthee |: (hrougbour that district. south of Paley 4 cluding Tayad: ovinee (Lunon)., ‘ jrame conditions obtain. ‘This aetivily t has been anttetpated and reported upon + MRS SALMA A KERR » letters Aus % * * © and cable debated ltebtebatotalebedebette-eobelebelebelnloletelabelejaledubebatelatetotateletetlatetelt | iy 1 Mra Saima A Kerr, Wealthy widow of | * Adirondacks two years, It) Jehaunsey J Kerr oad member of the 1) forty iniies trom North IN HOT BATTLE. ; ; ie lard an only ve reached in buclt wellknown Coe family of New Yorke te) 0 . mountain trails) Sep! WW David Do Mitehell (Captate iyne the North W sin the A 1 ee rts near there) Pifieenth infantry) ety men Come in miler from a radiroads | and few pany | th Infantry, from @inte prive nomya| WiC a pn elating of Mem. Kerr . wd lita Mb Bales. Dr Charlee T Dade. of 6$|!0an. Laguna Province, attacked tnoure ettgie manner & Fifty winth street, and nie own} gent Gen Caliles, who had sa) men ie At the mnie camp jlem Charles Halle fimmedinie family, MF. Coe has been position at Mavita . A omemuer of the famour Poiiad@spnla! spoading the Aummer in the woods, It De aie: fabt-enpued, whlen t J ty be Mis. Kerr's flance,| Wa planned fy break camp Bept. 26 and we Ainty, ae ‘ f the al pushed from (he front with great per- rlevoueiy Wounded by (liv sume bullet, | return to the aly tre Kerr ait Halley were guivt while] According to @ despatch recetved trom] tinactty by Mitehell aorass causeway fh @ canoe lant Th y ‘The bullet] North Creek tong and (hough water watst-deep, Coop. ame fede) (he bushes wlong the shore | Dr Dade himaeit shot the man 4 Ve. atiael. Wider. Capigs GUNNER ft ie rumored hey miwht nave deen | wom accident A deer ran be-| ; . Soda bat twain Or. Dae + said, and the| Cooke, with forty men Company Ky PMs | oMee (eres rlaht lem too been amp noe and he missed hie whot, the bul-| teenth Infantry, ant ten men Company jimted a dah. and, a r ‘ | wountiog Mts Kerr and Mr Bidleye! 4 phoety-seventh Volunteer Infantry, Hanh and nueneR ane in conatal of ur charles 4 ould net reash enemy's: SRI | angh *, Nya Dy pe rn found cause of high water in sem of lake heen summoned to her ide a m th wiloh could not be orosmed, — Be hy le eaperted a Homme ue was uh ‘ " th te RB Fra who | detuile of the shooting, She gaid recent raing ‘This very much impeded daumhter of the 1a fy brother did htend to return! (made @ f " k Bere, e it Sey 4 flensive action, . k etired ‘ * from i} merchant ott hia tore Jan NORMA) Jnieates, Tn ' OUR TROOPS RETIRE. ne wih ‘ 1 J adiressed ‘ , ne at Fatty Lehn fay Dr Dade) After an hour and twenty minutes ‘ ' hac fa ine ati) after Sept, OC Aghting command withdrew (9 @int> Hie owing. Mr Kerr's | rome patients here Who Wl) Joan, Upon renewal operations thet ' * . | found thet Inatirwenie had ewoaped from aiininier at Newburg sie Tea that tne | saviiac previous niet, mort of them hace 1K fialiow wed a ea Kerr and Mr ou ) doudt golag back Into contiguous fa prosper cil ia F Ne de r barrios, to dleappear for time being or | Bool w er wan Mage by: Prev, ii cabled into fel In a9 peac WOLCOTT DECLINES, | fo sfc! (ve utes man made by Pret | a causal into ced again a8 practi Waeiingion ‘hel Mer Woleott Rad ac- | amigos | HOBTON Sept The Journal an-| cepted. Casoalticn which all osourred Mitelm nounces that ox ‘erner Roger Wol Full tables at boarding-houses elle command, consisting of 19) mem & cot will not accept the port of Amman: | eats