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1 i j Hi } i) ae “COAL MEN FAIL TO AGREE ON WAGE SCALE ‘Bituminous Operators and Miners Report Deadlock and Strike Near. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March 27.— Whe joint scale committee of the bi- { tuminous coal operators and miners of the central competitive district, after being in session one week, decided to- day to report a disagreement to a ses- sion of & julnt conference of miners and operaliors held this afternoon, ; The committee was In session but a| short time to-day, It met at 930) Po'clock and afier a half hour spent in general taik that bore no relation to ou question at issue, # motion was made and unanimously adopted that @ disagreement be reported. A formal report to this effect was made at the session held tais after- noon. ‘The national officers of the miners in the committee yesterday afternoon strongly reiterated tietr former decia- ration that under no circumstances would they sigi u scale at anything less than an advance in wages of 5.6 per cent. President Perry, of the Iu- nois miner’, sasured the operators that no Illinois union or district would be allowed to sign unless the advance was given to every union mine in the State. This ultimatum was recelved By the operators in silence, and an adjourn- ment was at once taken until this morn ing, when the motion to report a d! agreement Was at once offered by Pr ident Mitchell. of the Mine Workers @nd carricd unanimously, When the thirty-four ‘operators and +} miners came from the committee room ‘there were indications that each man was laboring under a nervous strain, i. President Jolin Mitchell, of the United )Mine-Workers, declined’ to make a wtatement. Mr. Mitchell sald 't would be deter- mined by the actlon of the conference when he would go East to take up consideration of the anthracite situa- tion. The Miners’ National Convention will be held immediately following the | adjournment of the joint conference. | Ehould this convention be held to-mor- | frow Mr. Mitenell could not reach tha} (Bast for a conference before Friday or M@aturday. ee 10,000 MINERS TO JOIN THE UNION, IRWIN, Pa., March 2%.—National Ex- fecutive Committeemen Joseph Sharp jend William Little, of the United Mine ‘orkers of America, were present to- yy at the opening of the convention Sealled to organize the 10,40 miners of jthe Irwin field. About seventy-five delegates were in attendance and addrsses on benefits of organization were made by the na- {tional officials. While the convention is hmeeting in executive session it’ was learned that resolutions will be offered providing for the unionizing of each mine in the district and demanding of the operators the adoption of the Pitt (burg working scale. OSBORNE WANTS TO PROSECUTE —— YLLOW DOS Would Gladly Take Up In- surance Cases if Jerome Would Appoint Him. James W. Osborne, who was de- fented by Willlam Travers Jerome in the recent election, declared to-day that he would eagerly accept an offer from the District-Attorney to act as special prosecutor against the In- g@urance grafters. “I am willing to make any sacrifice in this matter,” sald Mr. Osborne, “it Mr. Jerome will give me the opportun- ity, and I will prosecute these insurance “eases with the mime viror I would have shown had I been elected to the office sof District-Attorney, “If Mr. Jerome ‘will _amvoint me an assistant’ and turn these insurance cases over to me I will take them up At once and devote every moment of my time to thelr prosecution, 1 would ask that my hands remain absolutely un- fettered so that I might proceed at 7 not given free relgn in {handling the Insurance cases I would ot undertake the Job; I would not un- {dertake it’ in any Instance it 1 did not consider it a public duty from which no man should shrink. . “When I was running for District-At- terney lest fall T made it verv clear What action T would take In the ‘natter of prosecuting insurance officials, I made no extravagant statements, ror romises. I stmply sald that I would jay all the evidence before the Grand Jury, and that if indictments wero found { would prosecute them to the full limit of the law. “I mtand on the same grountl to-day that I did when I was defeated last fall. My opinions in the matter have not beon altered one Jot, nor could any- thing bring about a change tn them. Tt ‘would not be seemly for me to make any extravagant promises or any foro- casts of what I would do, I would do my duty as I saw It without fear or favor, and no more could be asked from any officer of the court.” Ea cass patts 8VEN FAMILY OF CAPT. JOHN WALSH, DEAD FIREMAN HERO, BOWED IN SORROW (Members of Capt, Walsh's family, posed specially for an Evening World staff photographer.) Aged Mother, White-Faced Wife and Five Children Grieve for Capt. Walsh. BABY LISPS HIS SORROW. Cries for Papa to Return and Keep Promise to Play with Him. A gray-halred mother, a white-faced, dry-eyed wife and five grief-stricken children waited In a Ittle flat in East | Twenty-thinl street until John F, Walsh was brought home to-day. The fireman hero who lost his Ife while obeys the command: of his chief during the fire at Bedford and Down-| ing Streets yesterday was a devoted | husband and father and son. H Mrs, Walsh, the widow, as If stunned by the terrible blow of her husband's | death, was unable to shed a tear since | Chaplain Smith brought the news of the Captain's death. “If enly I could o: said Mrs. Walsh to- “I would be able to do more for my husband's poor old mother | and my children, As it 1s I seem to be bound in ley bands.” J Cries for His Father. Tittle Jimmie, the three-year-old baoy, who cannot understand what has | happened, keeps asking for his father. “J want papa to come home,” the) child kept crying to his white-faced | mother. “He promised to come home and play with me."* “This time yesterday Mr, Walsh sat here with Jimmie in his arms," said Mrs. Walsh, “and when he left the house he sald he would ibe back early in the afternoon, I had a nice dinner for him and when the Chapiain came to the door I was so giad to see him I told him he must come rright in and have some dinner, too, I sald he must wait for Mr. Walsh to come home, for he would want to see the Chaplain. Then he told me what had happened. I guess I must have fainted for [ don't seem to be very clear about anything now. The five children, sharing their mother's anguish, alt white-faced, with silent tears running down thelr cheeks, laughed and told him he was getting bevter looking every day, and wher h Kissed me good-by he told me I was x foolish wire,” Mrs. Wash {sa good-look'! woman, und at the time of age was the belle of Fast third street. where as Fanny Keller s Wis known as the prettiest girl in the netghborhood, "We have years,” said Mrs, yours r mat= this house ten hy “but 1 don't lved_ in Wat See how T can ever bear the sight of the rooms again, now that John won't be here, ver since he was Injured at{ and Thirteenth street six but he was so big and weeks ago, - strong and’ brave some way or other cavonne Ara) -haired old mother weePs | T"Couian't. think of death ever coming udtoly, to him. I guess if he had been leas "We tried so hard to keep the news |brave it would have been better for from grandma." said Mrs. Walsh, pre Son Ser Foye uut_the neighbors told her and she | 4; My,, bov has been presi aa came Over fon Staten Inland to-day | thing,” said the aged mother. wiping Oh, no one Knows What a fool Sus-|the tears from her eyes, «He was band and father he W ‘a ‘the child. | ll through the Baltimore fire and he fen Were a0 “proud” of “him: We've | Worked like a hero there, ton. ‘Tnere been married twelve years and in all| hasn't been anything the wouldn't do. that thme he never spoke a cross word | 4nd to think that my son should meet to me. The children don't know what| With such a terrible death. Oh, he It means to have been scolded by their | didn't deserve it, He was #0 good. ae “His thot were atways for others, "He was thelr idol. We were the hap-| ang. ¢ (Lousnts were atways for other's. plest family in New York and now he| ‘having him in it. I'm Christian never speak to us again, woman, but its hard to understand why | db John had t go. Me was my second son | _ Joked at Last Good-by. to be Killed. “Anothue boy met. nis death | ‘When he went away yesterday I | been’ <—eee THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, MAKCH 27, 1906. st inan in the -vear-old Ger- back to| My papa was the bra orld,” lisped Mttle fi “Won't he ever some fe children are Wille, aged ten; Jack, aged five, and ged eleven ged eigh Jimmie, 2 knowledge of his bravery | hing for us all to be proud of," Walsh, “but it will never name had three times the roll of meri: and clear, He wes appoint- ed on the force in 1891 and In 15 made engineer of the cn was mado assistant foreman and foreman tn 19%, —__. BELIEVES TWO MORE ° BODIES ARE IN RUINS. apt 1 placed on his record wa Men w picks and shovels are digging into the smouldering ruins at Bedford and Downing streets in search of more dead that are Probably burted under the pile of debris, It is almost certain that there are two dead workmen in the ruins, from which six others were taken y rdayv but not until every brick and stone and every charred piece of woodwork has by being shocked with an electric wire."| been gone cver will the firemen and ; Caer Malsh : LLUS Fe70771779 police feel sure that the list of dead| will not be swelled. While the laborers prodded the the firemen, who lost four of penions under the f. about, their faces and hands blackened THREE DEATHS AT_ SEA ON SLAVONIA Two Men Commit Suicide and Child Dies—An Interesting Stowaway Aboard, PILLON SISTER WN COURT AG [This Time They Vainly Seek to Have Hotel Manager and Clerk Punished. The Cunard IIner Slavonia, from Med- iterranean ports, docked to-day. Sho The Phillon sisters, Katherine and reported that during the voyage there Ch@rlotte. continued to apoear in court rare ta en * to-day, bobbing up again in the Jeffer- mee S among her passen- 4. Market Court in thelr effort to a ‘have Manager Mark A. Wells, of thi When the vessel left Glbr i : y Hotel Rarstow, and T. 1. Hall, th March 15 the second steward signed cierk of tie hostelry, punished for ae Paul Fdelstein as a third-class atew- tegea disorderly conduce ard, The man had plenty of money and} : i 3 n | They failed, for Magistwate Steinert was of fine appearance. On this ac-) would not entertain a complaint. count the second steward said to him:/ me Polllons chanel that the two Y, you dun’t, want to sign as &)men hail remarked In the hotel cor- third-class steward. You know the na-|ridors tait they were undesirable ture of their work, don't you?" guests, expressing the wish that the Edelstein replied that he did, but|voung women “bent {t,"" &c. But Char- Would sign just the same. Three days! lotte and Katherine ihave § lease and later he was missing. He found und it Is supposed’ jumped oves: | Won't “beat it" until the lease expires, boar pires taken to then ahiprs ospieey oes im CED UNTIL SHE g LOST HER HEEL Text, Gay AUTO Beane anig AEE ERS urse hanged himself Then This Festive Maiden Asked a Cop to Help— Result: Arrest. ar oon Made of ‘his bed sheet. hat same. afternoon four-year-old Anna Spear died from. ni c aon sore tied at nee? tural causes, en ie ves: was about to leave Fiume, Robie Strynfel, a Hungarian, tried to board as & steerage passenger, He had money, but. no passport, 0 Was not permitted to buy a ticket. Somehow he boarded the vessel, how- ever. and was not discovere? potil ves- terday afternoon, ‘Every few days the ship's surgeon assembled the steerage passengers. for melical examination while the ship's help washed down tho main deck. While doing this they put @ huge block In the funnels to prevent water from rushing into the steerage- room. Four of these «xaminations were made during the trip and each time Stryfels escaped discovery by jumping into a plugged-up funnel. He tried the trick yesterday, but through an over- sight the block of wood had not been placed in the funnel and he slid down twenty-four feet into the steerage-room, where the medical examination was being ‘held, He was placed in custody and turned over to the Immigration au- thorities to-day. It is. believed he will be permitted to land, a3 he has plenty of money, A very pretty maiden dancing merrily at Third avenue and Thirteenth street assisted by a young man who trici hard to keep step with his fair com- panion, attracted the attention of Po- Neeman Farrell, of the Fifth Street Station, The young man grew tired and clung to a@ friendly lamppost, The girl kept on dancing. All of a sudden the young woman a We t jen ‘0 And the Plenty, had. ACT IL. she pinned her faith ford Ad, Fe stumbled and rolled to the sidewall. The policeman approached. “I thave lost my heel,” the fair dancer seid. “WIN you fix {t for me? “The girl is discharged. The man is fined $7," was the verdict in Yorkville Police Court. The woman gave her name as Dolly Marmon, twenty-six years old, of No. 63 South Second street, Brooklyn, She sald she was a telephone girl. The man safd he was Frank Panolatich, twenty- eight years off, of No. 62 West Ninth street. Both were well dressed. —_————.__—_ Thone Itehing Palma. (From the Newark News.) “There 1s a good deal of skin trouble in this town, I judge,” “What makes you think 40?" T've seen twenty men going into that office butlding in the last half hour, and AcT 11, ‘DANNY MAHER ISN'T ENGAGED 10 WED Jockey Cables Denial that He’: to Marry Sir Edward Cooper’s Daughter. Danny Maher, the American jockey now riding on the Enelish tracks. to-day cabled a vieorous denial of the story that he fs engaged to marry Slr Edward Cooper's Waughter. Lewis N. Long, Maher's partner in the Hotel Saranac, at Forty-second street and Broadway, received the cable message. ‘According to Mr. Loag, the story of Maher's engagement to the daughter of the Baronet, for whom he rides by the way, was given out by an ex-valet of the ‘jockey, a \dscharged employes, with the {dea of injuring Maher's in- terests abroad. It is necessary for Maher to maintain his good reputation {n (England racing circles and ewn a hint of a marriage to this employer's daughter wouldn't help him any. Mr. Long accordingly 43 authorized to say that the story is absolutely without foundation, ALDERMEN REJOICE OVER SALARY BILL Passage of Measure Increasing Pay to $2,000 Makes Them Feel Good. When the members of the Board of Aldermen inlet to-dny there was great joy over the news dhat the Assemb:y had las: night passed the Storey bill increseing the salary of Aldermen to $2,000, Thy present ewlary is $1,000. “And we have good reason to believe the Senate will also pass the measure and that the Mayor will sign {t," ex- claimed Alderman Patrick Higgins, fairly bubbling over with joy “They ought to make ti $5,000 while yy are at ft," commented Aldenman Gripenhagen, “I earn that amount by the work J put dn in my district. My doorbell is yanked a dozen times a night, and neither Sunday nor holiday js my own. I nwouldn’s work as hard in my private business for $5,000 a year, {But does the clty promt by Alder- manic act ” asi Bt - men ivity 2” asked Alierman Reg! owling, Sur exclaimed Senator John C. Pitageraid butting in, ‘so you fellor would like the city to pay you $5,000 a year while boosting your constituency, ‘Well, I supose that’s natural," oo Wanted Advice, (From the Gan Francteco Cail,) If you, have a dollar spend Like a king; pene Hor World ‘'Situat!.a'’ they all were ecratching thelr palma as Gute aidn't. bir, i ney hurried along, , Probably some in specialist has office there?” is, not exactly. . It’ juarters, and a heres Get the best there is, my boy— Bre it wing. Meee For a dollar may bu. ‘Or ma; 'No—thait, it i Aiton boss's, headay Ss ee TRANSFER RULE NOT Magistrate Crane Lectures Met-| ropolitan’s Lawyer, but Fines Man Who Beat Conductor. | The street railway company should give transfers at all times. Condactors should take pennie: The pr mt transfer rule is bad and works hardship. It cannot be enforecd. ‘The company cannot make a rule a law. Magistrate Crane to-day gaye these opinions from the bench in Harlem Court, as the result of a back-platform asyault case growing out of the pe nies-and-trangfer peculiarities of th Metropolitan Street Railway. John Ryan, twenty-four years old, a Columbia law student, living at No. 456 Lenox avenue, was fined three dollar. for assaulting Thomas O'Brien, a con- ductor on the Lenox avenue ne, Ryan said it was worth it O'Brien's face corroborated him, Accomiing to Ryan's story he boarded @ southbound car to-day snd offered five pennies in tans, He sald O'Brien Jerked his hand away In refusal, so that the pennice fell to the pluuform, While both men were stooping to pick them up, Ryan save, the Conductor asked sarcastically if he was playlag craps, Later he refused Ryan a trans- fer. ‘This led to a dispute so warm that at One Hundred and Nineteenth street they came to blows. When Po- Ho:man John Pox took Kyan off the car O'Brien's face was in bad shape. ‘The conductor said Kyan dropped Wie pennies deliberately, and later took his pad of transfers and tore off one, On Second thought he wasn't sure but that he had given Ryan the transfer while In a dazed condition. He sald conduc- tors are hot allowed to turn in pennies with their reveipts at the company's office, and so didn't lke to take them, Addressing the Metrepolitan's law representative more than the conductor. Macistrate Crane said: his transfer rule now being enforced Is a bad one. The same In the matter of taking pennies, which works hard- ship to the public, Just the other day my Httle daughtetr came home all un- herved and trenbling because a_con- ductor had abused her when she oftered ten pennies, all she had, in fare for herself and'a friend, he transfer sien isn’t seen by old or rear-sighted people, who a . near the door. I know an old lady left her spectacles at home and abueed for asking for a transfer, company can't make a rule Into a lay. You're getting your money out of the wblic and ought to be decent, The rule 3 Unreasonaric, and I doubt that you can enforce Jt." Inspector I testified that the cfllces, and sald the new transfer rule was working nicely, He declared It the present rule were not tn foi the railway might as well cease bus ness, 2. Kalser Misses Cruise. BERLIN, March 2.—Emperor Will- lam delayed starting on his proposed Mediterranean cruise to see the out- come of the Algeciras Conference and r, of the company, | WAGHATES TD LAW, SAS COURT? FIGHT. 60-CENT and burning s s wep anented ae tour cabooses, and I find Grape-Nuts | Grape-Nuts has made a new man of AT SENATE TOUASEAT SMT HAS BEN CLOSED Last of ‘lestimony Given in Long Inquiry Against Utah Senator. WASHI ch 2—The in- ny In proceadings agalnat ot Was concluded day. ‘The arguments will be made day next week to be agreod upon | Ti ings have ox- three Jovaph Googhegun, bryner, of suit 1 wis of Congress, brought before ttee on Privileges an, Atul’ ateed Sinoot e Wild exumined this forenoon A. 8, Wortiit Sinoot, concert est ot th Mormon Church In sugur factor! Utah and Moro, “The witness t that the Ch: had financed these fhauewtied toa sugar suceced, but that ch nor the Slormons however. that the two have Mormon om director: Ing the a fals in “ow ren. concerns of Salt Li sand showed that Genti Yof a majority of th ‘cial Gold Dust, 4h. pic 15 for Be apt 1) oF. ha Soap Borax, P&G, 20 Mule’ 4 Ammonia Silicon PARENTS GIVE eration James plosion of guso Feb, 20 last, Paterson General Hospital. and mother of the injured boy, who ta fitteen years old, submitted to the sur- | goon’s knife for the benefit of thelr son. nibly the fuce, body and lind: by | died a few days later, | tins have since recovered, his heallug, 1Zine Wesh THER SKN TO. SAE BOY'S LIFE Cuticle Taken from Their Backs to Cover Explo- sion Victim’s Limbs. PATHRSON, N. J., March 27.—An op for the grafting of skin on McGowen, a victim of an ex- ne at a silk mill om aus been performed at the The father MeGotven and Rosie Beigner were ter= burned by the explosion, about Two other vice in the case of MeGowen the skin on face aixl bodv showed signs of buc that on his lower limbs as in bad conuition from tie thighs to. the fest, It was decided that nothing but skin- grafting would afiord relief and the voy s parents expressed their entire willingness to bave the skin cut from the ks and. transferred to their son's mbs In order that a cure migBt ve effected. ‘The operation, which was ned vesterday, took two hotfrs, de the tors say it will be a few days can form an opinion a to tot the pkt A Housecleaning Sale of Housekeepers’ Sundries for the Entire Week. Dust large Weather Dusters 230 Corn Parlor Brooms. 180 Whisk Brooms... So Biasell's Hatt Floor Broom: Avo Clowes Hampers .. 1 Clothes Pins Hanging Wood C fe Bread ‘Toaster. Boards. tep Ladder Chali seell’s Standard Sweepers, Table O' Clow, 54 wide, yd with smoke and their clothes grimy and he Pre L toa man Is ih of thea> to-day comaent is t that ‘60 per cent. of liters connected with ite y No. WM met “or ) mM ir com-| made on the fa fire fi Comp injury. WEDNESDAY, Wash Dre Regular Prices 75c. and $1.00. OAS COURT Serve Notice of Appeal from Action Taken by State Commission, ALBANY, March 27,—The Consolidat- ed and other gag companies in New York City affected by the order of the State Commission on id Electric- ity, fixing the price of ) be charged #0 cents a thousand feet, ed upon the com lon and nn Attorney-S. ud appeal to tse Appellate Deartment mpinies servin participate In the wpps the Consolidated G: Company, Central Vnion Gas Com Northern Union Gas rd Gus Light Jam Gas Com- New York Mutual Gas Never Sold of New York. | Me while a bi passed by the Lesislature and appr. by the Ma 3 awalt- ing the signature of or. 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I have no more burning dis- tress In my stomach, nor any other symptom of indigestion, I can di- gest anything so long as I eat Grape- Nuts, and my brain works as clearly and accurately as an engineer's watch, and my old nervous trowbles it {s now so late he has abandoned it. The Hamburgz-American Line ‘enm- ane Bambi bad been parkered for hia wee urine fe. tho. Irn} Yacht Hohensollern ho ‘longer being have disappeared entirel . Name given by Postum Co,, Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reasoin. Read the little book, “The Road to -Wellville,” inj , Bleck, Mixed. Refuse Su CEYLON AND Sealed Lead Packets Onlys Trial Packet 10¢ at Your Grocer’s Not just as good as others, but in. comparably the 1nDIA THA. bstituies. Miss Beignee *