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The sun., 1897-09-09
ooAI MINERS I'M coNrEvrIox.
Ne Deoisiea ss to tho Acceptance OF the strike
eettlernent.

COLUMBUS, o.. Sept. s.-when the National
Miners Convention assembled hero to-day there
were l46 delegates present, Ohio, Indiana, ILL
nois, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia being
represented. Nothing was accomplished at to-
days session other than tho appointment of the
usual committees by President Ratchford.
When an adjournment was taken until to-mor-
row morning the sentiment among the delegates
seemed to be about evenly divided on the oues-
tion OF ratifying the agreement reached at tho
conference between the Miners Executive Board
and the operators hero last week, which pro-
poses that the miners return to work at q 65-
cent rate for the Pittsburg district and 56-cent
rnto for Ohio the same to continue In force
until Jan. l, when now scale shall be adopted.
The Pennsylvania and Ohio miners recognize
that these are the best terms which possibly
could have been secured for them, but there arc
those among both delegations who are opposed
to settlement on the basis proposed unless the
proposition Is made to include Indiana, Illinois,
and oI,t West Virginia. Tho ground Of their oppo.
TO the other fields, and that such action would
disrupt the organization. They maintain that
more creditable to the organization than the
adoption of an eIp"dient such as Is proposed for
many.
The outieok tp-piSht is very gloomy for set
55iemeht 5sI, though President Hatohford is cont;
thinks the miners In the entire competitive field
will be at work within week. President Farms
says that the proposition before the convention
carries an increase with it and that the miners
ought to be satisfied, as they have no assurance
that they can gain any greater concessions from
the operators by prolonging the contest
,President Carson OF Illinois says the miners OF
that State have been ignored and that they will
hght an acceptance of the agreement President
knight OF Indiana says the same regarding his
State, They will hold out for the original do
mand for CSC rate. large number OF tho
delegates have come here uninstructed, and
they hold the key to the situation. The dele
gates will have ono vote for each 100 miners
represented. President Dolan Of tho Pittsburg
district Is doing all In his power to secure
ceptanee Of tho proposition and q settlement Of
tho strike.
PIrTsBrRG. Pa. Sept. s.-Coal operators who
gathered here tonight said they felt so
sure that the Columbus convention would end
the strike that they had already given orders to
get the mines ready to resume work on Monday,
and perhaps earlier.
The camp 8 near the Do Armitt mines will be
maintained by the strikers, as Mr.. De Armitt
has announced that he will pay no more than
ffty-four cents ton eleven cents Iess than
other operators will pay.
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SPECIAL ARMoR BOARD MEETS.
II VIII Vet Consider O6ers OF sites for An
Armor Plant for the sale OF Plants.

Il VIII y0t Consider O4ers OF Sites for An
Armor Piant for tho sale OF Piants-
WASHINGTON. Sept. s.-The Special Armor
Board. appointed to consider the subject of
recommending tho establishment Of an armor
session to-day. and promptly decided that under
its instructions It had no power to consider the
many offers Of sites presented or the pur-
chase of plant outright delegation Of
Tennesseeans Is on the way to Washington
in the interest of q firm near Nashville
which wishes to manufacture armor plates for
the navy. and Offers from other parts
OF the country have come from concerns which
the board Is advised have no plant capable Of
manufacturing the class of armor required. A
number of towns have offered sites free TO the
Government. while some few small firms have
expressed a willingness to dispose OF their plants
such offers relating both 70 sites and the pur
chase of plant will not be considered by the
board.
governed call upon II to report what steps arc
necessary to establish an armor factory OF suf-
hcient capacity to meet the probable demands
OF the navy, with description OF tho plans OF
the building and machinery necessary for such
q factory.
The board Is also required to submit q state
ment showing the advantages or disadvantages
of the Government undertaking the manu-
facture OF armor and whether in Goyernmept
factory the manufacture OF armor only should
be carried on by procuring inRots. or whether
the factory should include plant for producing
steel used in armor making: Tho board Is
further required at as early date as practical
BILE to submit to the department form Of advor-
tisement for proposals TO furnish plant as a
whole or in part. The board will report to the
department before Oct. is.
The sun., 1897-09-09

Domestic. zeiia. Nsviouline. Ramoncita. and Elia
Bettins-Asnin., zsiIs, TO i; Homeiike, 8 to /,
High.hoe and PINK Chambray. each to 1; Domestic
70 billy Donovan. Rose in land and Ella DSy each
no TO !; Inspection 40 TO lonih 90 TO Hamoncita
and cruiskeen Lawn. each 90 to MAY Ro'eile 100
SECOND RACE.
For three and upwa ard, by subscription Of
oio each with $3.50 added OF which 500 to the sec
ond and $50 90 tho third six furonss main track
Turney Bros, b. g. Peat. l. by Jim Gore-Nannie D.,
n ciansy's b. m. Lsnbsnt. l. iio'tciayicnS.......s 3
N. +. Dryers ch. e. Cleophus, 8, l23 tsims),
ooidCrcst, Hanwell, Halnlug Cassette and Old sau
gus also ran.
Betting-AEainst CicophuH, TO .; Peat II 70 oi
Lambent. TO uoldcrrst, 10 to Haliling 70 to
toll.
The Golden Rod Stakes, el, 500; for two.ycar-olds
SS 10 S pS%nS. nss aa to the Winner
$1,000 TO the second 5000. and to the third 500;
ak and a half furlongs on turf
J. X. Keenc's b. c. Easter Gilt by CAndIemas-Ella
J: 2; McDSnsl Is ch. G. Central Trust lis tTaraD,. :
William Heudfies b. e. LAvcrock, lie (walker,.... 8
Mont dor, Gala Day, and Momentum also ran.
Bettine-Asanst Central trust to ); Momentum.
d'or and Gala Day. each 3 to l.
FOURTH RACE.
Tho September. te 500. for three year.ods; to tho
winner $1,000. the second $3.50, and to the third
Nlou; one nile anu three furlongs:
william Lambeera br. c. Challenger, by Marten-
hurst-Wand1 Ill, lU6 "a Clayton MINIMUM. l
J. Nadden's b. Partridge. 100 msl...........
Turney Bros. CHI c. Dr. Catlett ~ TX. WilliAms).
sunny SLOPE Buddha end Lincoln II. also ran.
Time 2:24A.5.
Beuing-AgGnst DR. Catlett, TO l; challenger and
Lincoln H. each to 3; Sunny Slope and Partridge.
each to Buddhn, is to /.
FIFTH RACE.
For three ear olds and upward; handicap; by sub
ecrtpton OF $40 each. with el 900 added, of which
$500 to the second and 500 TO tho third; mile
and furong:
g. W. stanton's b. @ Paul Kauvar. 8. by Pirate of
Penrance-SpTit, los (Smsl ..................
c. Littened. Jr.s. b. Miss Prim. g. SO (Mnher).
Bromley Co.'S br. h. Howar s.. 4, l0S Cayton)..
Flying Dutchman also ran.
Time, so 8.5.
Betting-Two TO l on Flying Dutchman; against
Howard S.. 81 = to Paul Kauvar, to !; Miss Prim.
l5toi.
sIXTu RACE.
For three.yearolds and upwa handicap hurdle
race by subscription OF $40 each. with $500 added,
OF which 600 to the second and $50 to the third
one mile and threoQuarters over seven hurdles on
turf:
CAsiila. 10 owens
n Kearnrys b. h. Brown Red. aged. 1877 CMaral.... Q
NJ Chamblets br h. Hilkenny. aged, 1872, (Eeitch)..
Forget, Hermaro Alakuma, and Counsellor Howe
also ran.
Time, $500.
Betting-Against Kilkenny, 5 to S; Baby Bill. TO
8; Forget 9t9 to /: Brown Red. 10 TO AiakumA 20
to Counsellor Howe, so to l; Hermano, 90 to /.
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arc puShed by munger.
Commenting upon this the Heraldo says:
"The theory that tho insurRents are staryinr
GOING TO PUNISH THE zUN1s.
Four Troops OF Cavalry VIII he sent to Secure
the Arrest OF witch Doctors.

inc Arrest OF WITCH uOCtOrD-
SANTA FE, n. NJ. Sept. s.-Major Nordstrom.
U. s. A. acting agent In charge Of the Pueblo
Indians In New Mexico, returned to-day from
the Zuni Indian village. where he has been in
vestigating extraordinary Affairs.
In February last an Indian OF some influence
in the tribe was taken sick. and. despite all tho
efforts OF tho medicine men. death re-
suited. AS Is customary with tho Zunis, tho
medicine men sought a scapegoat upon which
to place the blamc for the failure OF their
herb teas and fantastic ceremonies to save life.
They proclaimed to the tribe In solemn council
that their medicines had been bewitched and all
their efforts counteracted by the baneful iniiu
encc OF a certain old Indian woman.
In order TO strengthen their hold upon their
the woman should be punished and made to con-
fess. Accordingly six priests visited the woman
at night. kicked her from her dingy mud
where. in the presence OF the assembled
priests. she was suspended by her wrists and
tortured until she made full confession that
trums. Miss NJ. A. Desette. the United States
Ind ian school teacher at the pueblo, intertered
early the next morning. and through her nurs-
ing. the woman, whose ago Is 70, survived the
This is the third barbarity of the kind that has
occurre! at Zuni within the last ten years. and
Major Nordstrom has resolved to put stop TO
It and to punish the offenders To this end he
Department since he assumed the duties OF
agent in March last. and to-day he ex-
pressed much satisfaction over the telegraphio
tcrior Department had adopted his uRgestons,
and called upon the War Office to concentrate
four troors OF cavalry at Zuni to aid the civil
arrest of the Indians responsible for this and
similar outrages.
The sun., 1897-09-09

Tho entries for tho amateur golf champion
ship, which closed on Tuesday, were given out
yesterday by Robert Bage Kerr, Secretary of
the United States Golf Association. There arc
far more entries than had been expected and
the struggle for supremacy will doubtless prove
interesting. The following In a complete list Of
tho entries:
DeyeFsux Emmst. westbTook Golf Club II. J.
WhishAm, D. r. Forssn. W B; smith scL A smith
q. y. Flake. onwentsia Club; spot,~ ood ID. Bowsrs
otsego Golf Club; Q. A. shaw. the Conntry Club.
BroOkine. Mass. John Aorehead. W. J. Patton W. c.
Carnegie. W. ". Murray. B. T. Horne, J. o. Horne. H.
PittsbuTg; Hobart Moor~ and De Koven Towner. EK.
moor Country Club; ChArles h. Macdonald, George s.
willetts, v. shaw Kennedy, Willism Borden. Russell
TyarS howard Norris. Jarvis Hunt and L. s. FrOSt
Chicago Golf Club; Louis Ais. Milwaukee Country
clubs Lawrence Twesdis ELmoor Country Clubi
Jam, B. BreeSe. Tuxedo uolf CLUB; James Tying.
Morris County Golf Club, Morristown; jasper Lynch
Lakewood Golf Club; A. y. Heistrom. Buffalo
Country Club; Lloyd T. Boyd. Milwaukee Country
Club; Joseph $. Thorpe. Cambridge Golf Club;
Club OF Rochesteri A. n. Goats. Newport Golf CLUB;
A. II Fenn Palmetto Golf Club; W. @. Stewart, See
bright Golf Club; FindlAy Douglas, Fairfield County
Coli Ciub; II. N. Hartman, Knollwood Golf
W. Il. accswlsy. Merton Cricket Club, Hayor.
ford. Pal, H.; Q. Leeds, MyoP!a Club; Lau-
Lakewood Goh Club: Robert CrOwell N. V. Painter.
Cleveland Golf Club; W. X Belts shinnecook Hills
O. C.; John Reid. Jr., New Haven O. G.; j. R. Chad.
County Clubs II. Il. swsny Albany County Qlnb;
FoxhsI Reene, RockAway Hunting Club Cl1N A.
Pierce. EsssK County Club Manchester, 1A1S-, plnd
fhihp n Prescott Washington Coli Club. u
The sun., 1897-09-09
GolT at LenOE.

PIrTsFIEID. Mass. Sept. s.-Young Robinson
furnished a sensation to-day In the match play
for the Ambassadors Cup on the Lenox links
crowded with cottaRers and their guests and
many followed the pair around the course. Bo-
fore the second round OF match rlay began
terday, playing nine holes. The match was
repletc with brilliant shots. Thompson, having
The best OF luck and playing good golf. won.
The drawings for the seml-h tomorrow re-
suited In Taylor against Deveraux. and Bishop
against Robinson, Jr. The summary:
second Round-Natch play for the AmbassAdoT's
Cup-Bishop beat GreeneAf, q up and to play; TAy'
lor beat James, up and : to play; DeysTanL beAt
DeheTediA up and Z TO play Robinson beat Thomp-
son. uD and 10 play.
The sun., 1897-09-09

pIns SCORES MADE By uoiiips. cutsinG. sat
TFnvta-


Ashapponed year ago, young Harry Holllns
and W. Bayard Cutting Jr. were tho star
players at tho westbrook Golf Club tournament
yesterday. Hollins. Jr., play cd gamc that was
unsurpassed. Ho played with Travis, and they
had the crowd with them. for somo 200 persons
followed tho two az they made tho round. A
feature OF tho tournament was the presence OF
many golfers OF motto. Joseph II. Choate, Jr.,
represented Harvard. and there were many
other players from q distance.
Both the Hollins's succeeded in qualify ing,
which was the first time on record that q father
and son have been so prominent in golf. Young
Cutting. a week ago. defeated II. NJ. Hartman
for the Governors Cup Mt Newport, and that he
would finish In tho first sixteen was foregone
conclusion.
The course has been enlarged since last year
and It is now one OF the best nine.holo courses
in this country. The scores were very good,
many making rounds lower than so. Tho gen.
eral aspect OF the Westbrook links Is most pic
turesquo Tho level turf Is crossed by q series
OF tho highest earth bunkers ever built in this
country. They were laid out by Willie Dunn
four years ogo. The links were well calculated
TO bring out the best golf that there was in tho
players.
Ono OF the women who watched the match
was Miss Boatrix Hoyt, the woman champion OF
the Unitod States
Tho draw for tomorrow II Travis and Dixon.
Barnes and DR.. II. H. Curtis, Hollins, Jr., and
James Brown. Townsend and J. II. Choate. Jr.,
w. b. Cutting and II. Tappin, L. Tappin and Fl. b.
Hollins, Sr, J. G. Powers and George Clark.
Alex Morten and q. e. Armstrong. The scores:
The sun., 1897-09-09
WHO IS THIS sELR-poIsoyERs
She Called Herseir G. Duny When Buying thu
CarbolIc Acid sho Drank.

A rather good-looking woman staggered out
Of the hall at 1854 West Forty third street last
evening with lace handkerchief pressed
against her mouth. She appeared TO be in
great agony. When she reached the sidewalk
she fell in hnp. Charles Becker OF s9s Ninth
avenue, who happened to be passing. ran to her
assistance He tried to lift her up but she
too heavy for him. She declined to
answer any questions as to her identity.
Policeman Darcy Of the West Forty seventh
street station discovered that the woman had
taken carbolic acid. She held glass in her
hand, and the policeman found an empty vial
and another glass in the hall. The woman
was removed TO the Roosevelt Hospital, where
1t was said her condition critical.
1t was learned that she bought an ounce Of
carbolic acid in the afternoon at the drug store
OF Max Zagat at Forty second street and Ninth
avenue. There she gave her name as q. Duffy
and said she lived at 500 West Forty second
street. Mrs. Larkin, who is the housekeeper
at that address, said she knew OF no such
woman. The would be suicide is not known at
the house in which shc poisoned herself.
She is about feet inches tall, weighs lao
pounds. and has black hair and blue eyes. She
wore light sailor hat, standing collar and
black tie, light shirt waist, and a reddish black
skirt, black Isle thread ST ockings, and low-cuh
shoes.
The sun., 1897-09-09
b. e o. LITIG ALTON.
Answer to tho Effort to Mako Certain Bonds
Preferred Lien.

BALTIMORE. Sept. s.-The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad receivers yesterday filed an answer in
the United States Court to the suit of the Union
Trus. Company OF New York. brought to compel
the receivers to include tho $4,000. 900 mort
gage bonds OF 1888 in tho same class as the con-
solidated mortgage bonds OF the Nercanti tile
Trust Company OF New York. This is an effort
10 make the 1855 mortgage bonds preferred
lien. The suit grows out OF the refusal OF the
ceivers 10 pay interest on the bonds due Aug.
last.
The receivers. after detailing the reasons for
the issue OF the consolidated mortgage bonds.
say that since the making OF the consolidated
mortgage the road has contracted obligations to
a large amount on the credit OF its ownership
OF the main line and branches uninCumbcred by
any mortgage lien, in addition 20 those recited
In the consolidated mortgage and the mortgage
itself and that 1t would be great hardship on
creditors to have the mortgage of 1855 made u
preferred lien.
They deny intention OF discriminating against
tho securities. and assert that the interest the
consolidated mortgage bonds was paid from
earnings OF the properties held under the con-
soiidntGd mortgage and clearly applicable to the
purpose. They also deny the right OF the mort
gage bonds OF 1885 to be considered preferred
lien.
The sun., 1897-09-09
IS 1oMmER,s BoDY IN THE LAKEp
He Writes to an VndertaLer That He Has
Drowned Himself In Central Park.

He Writes to Undertaken That He Has
Drowned Himself In Central Park.
Joseph Machovsky. an undertaken OF 1878
Avenue A, received q postal card last night.
written in bohemian. OF which tho following 10
o translation:
"You will find my body in the lake at Eighth
avenue and Seventy-second street in Central
Park You will ind letter In Annies hat box.
When my body IL found take 1t TO the store. I
want TO be buried Friday morning. Before you
tell anybody go and tell my wife TO give you
that letter. II, LoMMRR,
"322 East Seventy-third street"
MachoVsky notified at once the Park police.
and a search was begun for the body. Al lom-
mer's house 4 letter was found addressed to his
daughter in which he said that he had killed
himself because persons to whom he had lent
money had not rctutned IL. His wife said that
he had left the house at O'Clock, saying that
he would return at q.
Up TO a lato hour last night no trace OF the
body had been discovered.
The sun., 1897-09-09

Mrs. schneider's Suicide Not Discovered Until
Last Might.

About three months ago O poorly clad wo-
man Of so moved into the big tenement at 351
East Seventy first street. Beyond saying that
her name Schneider. the woman volun'
teered no Information about herself. and the
other tenants were unable to find out anything
about her. She rarely spoke to any one in the
house. and, she stunned company, her neigh
Soon Mrs. Schneider was all but forgotten by
them. She never went out except to bny sup
plies. and no one ever called TO her. Her
rooms were on the top floor OF the house.
About month ago the other tenants began
to notice the absence Of Mrs. Schneider. Her
rooms were tightly closed, and they thought
she had gone away on visit Last night
Janitor James McGovcrn broke down the door.
He found Mrs. Schneider hanging by rope in
the doorway between the kitchen and parlor.
She had evidently been dead for a long time.
There was an overturned chair near by, and It
is thought she stood on II while adjusting tho
moose around her neck and then EiCkcd 10
away. The body WAS removed to the Morgue.
The sun., 1897-09-09
FREE BATHS At HOT SPRINGS.
Thoasands or Helpless IndiEent Persons Cared
by Their Use.

WARRINGTON. Sept s.-The Secretary of the
Interior has received the annual report of w. J.
Little, Superintendent Of the Hot Springs Reser-
yation, Arkansas. Business has been fairly good
during the year. There are SIS baths in opera
ton, with a capacity of 7.725 baths day. He
complains of the practice of drumming" or
.capping" for the lighthouses and hotels. The
bathhouse drummer and doctor are all In COM
bination against the unwary travellers. He
ports that since tho opening OF the free bath
houses thousands OF helpless INDECENT persons
those using the FREQ baths reported great bene-
at, and in many cases n cure. The total number
OF FREQ baths given during the year was LAO. 100,
at a cost OF S2.727.
The superintendent devotes considerable space
to the Wilmington avenue lake reserve whore
a beautiful park is being constructed. The eX-
pense OF the reservation last year was Sl2. 794.
and the receipts SlS, $50.
The sun., 1897-09-09
G.l.ss more wlas the st. Lessr stakes.

LONDON. Sept. s.-The st. Leger Stakes of 2b
soverelgns each for threeyear-olds. the owner
of tho second horse to receive 800 sovereiGns
and the third 100 sovereiRns out Of tho stakes.
was run over the old st. Leger course labout
mile fprlonEs and 80 ysrdsl at Doncaster To-
scriptions. was won by Mr.. J. Gubbins's bay
colt Galtee More. by Kendel, out OF Morganette.
bery'a bay flly Chelandry was second. and Mr..
j. II. Keene's bay colt st. Cloud II. third. Five
More. IS TO ] against Chelandry. and 3S TO
against St. Cloud IL
The sun., 1897-09-09

The Philippines Commander Telegraphs .,
Madrid for DO, 900 Reinrorcenents.

Mhdrid Tor DO, 600 Reinforcemcnts.
MADRID Aug. 26.-Gen. Primo do Rivera,
Captain-Goneral Of tho Philippine Islands. tele-
graphs that he needs 25. 900 relnforcements. In
spite of this the Government says that the situ.
alton in the islands improves every day ana that
the hour of complete pacihcation approaches
III the insurgents occasionally take the often
sive, the Ministers say. at is only because they
are pushed by hunger"
Commenting upon this the Herdldo says:
Tho theory that tho insurgents are starving
was invented In May. and so We must conclude
that Aguinaldo, the Philippine Generalissimo.
and his men know about fasting q great deal
moro than Tanner. or that we spaniards are
easily fed on deuson."
1t Is said that Gen. Polavieja will soon re.
place Primo do Rivera in the Rovernorship OF
tho Philippines. He has been received twice by
the Queen. and later he held q secret conference
with the Under Secretary of War 1t willlbc re-
msmbered that Polayieja resigned his post
when Canovas refused to send to tho islands
the reinforcements for which Primo de Rivera
Is now asking Many persons fear that tho
insurrection has already recovered from its
deserters in Cavite early this year. Over two
hundred officers will start for Manila by the
first mail steamer from Barcelona
The sun., 1897-09-09
Lost Two Men NJ Sea,

The Nova scotian ship Oweenee. which arrived
yesterday from Hiogo and was detained for dis
infection, lost two men on her voyage. On May
Henry Gloe, able seamen. OF Germany. %
years old, fell from the crussjack yard into tho
sea and was drowned. On July 10 Il. .Nolstad,
ablo seaman. OF Norway, tum bled oyerbogrd
The sun., 1897-09-09
The Colorado Midland sold.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Sept s.-The Colorado
Midland Railroad was sold under the hammer
at Colorado City to-day. Henry T. Rogers of
Denver representing tho Central Trust Compa-
ny OF New York. bid it in for S29O.OOO, tho
upset price ixed by the United states courts. 1t
Is given out that reorganization has already
been arranged. and that it will be effected in
New York city Immediately. The road was
Into receivers hands Feb. ., 1894. and for II Sec
ond time May !. 1895. The sale to-day was to
satisfy tho first mortgage and consolidated
mortgage bonds.
The sun., 1897-09-09
BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETS.
City ana Normal ColieEes Get oooS. 600
bricks from Grants Tomb for the schools.

HTlCkB IFuHl UIuHIu HuIlU TUT Iuo ScuUOIH.
The first meeting OF the Board of Education
after the summer vacation was held yesterday
afternoon. The trustees Of the Normal College
and OF the College OF the City o' New York also
held meeting. A resolution was passed ep-
propriating to the colleges $S25 ZOO for their
expenses during the coming year. or this
amount $4,000 is for the College OF tho City
OF New York.
At the meeting OF tho Board Of Education
A. w. Edison Of Worcester. Mass, was elected
Assistant Superintendent OF Public Schools.
with n salary of 81 900. Tho board voted to
appropriate $ll5.s2S.ss for the purchase OF q
lot on ll2th street between Fifth and LenoH
avenues for q new school site.
A letter was read from tho Mayor in which
he notified the board that the 2l2 bricks from
Grants tomb which he had presented to tho
public schools of this city were ready for the
board whenever they were wanted.