Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-15
The Situation at Southampton
Decidedly Unsettled.
Seamen and Firemen Threaten to
Abandon the Port in a BOdy-DOck-
mems Mass Meeting.
Outrages Committed by Soldiers on the Country
People-Practice Of Using RevoIyers
Arouses the Lion.
Affairs Badly Muddled.

special to the Gazette.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE situation at
southampton is chaotic, the various
bodies of strikers being at loggerheads
and neither workmen, employers nor the
public being able to prophesy to what
extent work will be resumed tomorrow.
At an immense meeting to-day of strik-
ing seamen and firsmen it was decided
that if their latest demands are not
agreed TO by noon tomorrow they will
abandon the port in body, leavin G nu-
msrous vessels without crews. There are
good many members of these unions,
however, who are dissatisfied with the
meagerness of the amount paid them by
the unions during idlensss, and who
therefore favor return TO work on the
conditions proposed by the owners. 1t is
possible that these malcOntents may be
strong enough to defeat The practical
carrying out of the resolution adopted at
to-day's meeting. John Burns will go
to Southampton again tomorrow.
DoCKMEN MEET.
There was a meeting of 10 900 dock
men in London to-day to consider the
Southampton situation. Tom Mann and
Ben Tiilett denounced the ship owners
and declared that the men had ample
cause for dissatisfaction, but regretted
that they had acted without authority
and in a manner which embarrassed the
responsible heads OF organized labor
throughout the kingdom. The meeting
also considered the Australian situation
and adopted resolutions pledging con-
tinued assistance to the strikers in that
country.
SCANDALOUS.
The national eacampment for rife
shooting at Bislri has been marked by q
disgraceful series of outrages committed
by the soldiers upon the country people
in the vicinity. The farmers have been
obliged at last to band together for mu-
tual protection and a constant feud Is the
result. ARRAYS are frequent and the
condition of affairs is so scandalous that
governmental interference can hardly
with safety be much longer withheld.
RACE OF PISTOL ToTERs.
Attention was recently called in these
dispatches to the alarming increase in
the use of the revolver in this country
AS result of this tendency the home
secretary has permitted the execution of
a man convicted of murder, although
the jury added to their verdict an eX-
preston to the effect that thev did
not think that the convict had in-
tended to kill his victim. Frances
Manteau, Belgian, was murdered and
the crime had no peculiar feature about
1t, for the unhappily reckless use of the
pistol has lately not been peculiar in
England. 1t was the general opinion
that the prisoners life would be spared,
but the authorities answered the appeal
for mercy with the statement that, hav-
ing regard to the dangerous extent to
which the practice of using revolvers
prevailed just now, it was absolutely
necessary to make an example.
sCUTTLLNG.
Another dangerous practice, and
novel one, is known as "scuttling. 1t
Is really running amuck, phenomenon
which was supposed to have been COZ
fined to the Malays of the East Re-
Gently, however, there have been fire.
quent instances in London and other
towns, until the public are
thoroughly alarmed. rThe souttler''
runs amuck in a crowd, stabbing right
and left, needless as to whom his victims
may be. There is talk of petitioning
parliament to punish scuttling with the
lash, as was done when garroting as
sumed an epidemic form in the large
pifiaa