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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21

They disclosed the fact that consider
able part of the committees time had
been devoted TO discussing the probable
effect Of high prices on the campaign Of
1900.
1t was said that several members Of
the committee are of the opinion that if
the prices of manufactured products
are maintained next year. with plenty
of work in sight, the Democrats viii
have hard row to hoe unless they
can show farmers and workingmen
they are not getting an equivalent in
crease for their farm products and
labor. 1t is the purpose of some of the
committeeman to organize bureau Of
information and education, whose duty
it shall be to gather accurate and def
mite information relating to trusts, cost
of manufacturing. selling prices to job
bers and middlemen, selling prices 10
consumers, wages paid and cost of raw
material They believe they win be
able to show that the present high
prices are the result of trusts and
combinations and, that workingmen
have been given but small proportion
of the increase in selling values.
This idea has assumed such tangible
form that it is predicted w. H. (Coin)
Harvey will be placed at the head Of
the bureau. None Of the committee
men would admit this matter had been
discussed. 1t is proposed to employ a
large staff of men to gather informa
ton which can be used in an antitrust
campaign. There did not seem to be
any disposition to shelve free silver as
an issue: all the committeeman said
free coinage was in the platform to
stay, but none of them said it would be
the dominant issue. Congressman VIM
Sulzer, of New York. appeared before
the committee. He said trusts would
be the issue in the East. James F.
Minturn, of New Jersey, told the COM
mittee practically the same thing
Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, and
Charles A. Towne, Of Duluth, both Of
them silver Republicans, told the com
! mittee that free silver was still 6
live issue in their States.
Ex-Gov. John P. Altgeld called on
Senator Jones during the day, and met
with a warm reception. Mayor Harri-
son did not call on Senator Jones.
Congressman Sulzer, Of New York
called on Mayor Harrison to solicit his
influence towards getting the Demo-
cratic Congressman from Illinois to vote
for him for the leadership Of minority
in the House of Representatives.
James f. Minturn, of New Jersey,
asked the committee to help the Bryan
Democrats of his State. He said the
New Jersey Democratic committee did
not have the confidence OF the Chicago
platform Democrats and that some Of
the members had voted the Republican
ticket. He wanted w. J. Bryan to
visit New Jersey and help straighten
things out.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21
RESUMED WORK.

BUFFALO. N. Y, November 20
Members Of all the building trades who
had been on strike out OF sympathy
with the structural steel workers. re-
sumed work to-day. The structural
steel workers themselves will hold .
meeting during the day. and then win
decide what their course Of action viii
be.
The machinigts OF the Lehigh Valley
shops who had been on strike for an
increase Of wages, returned to work
to-day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21
BULLETIN.

LONDON, November 20.-A special de-
spatch from Estcourt dated November *oth
says a report has reached there of a battle
at Ladysmith Wednesday, November 10Th
afternoon. Many Beers are said to have
been killed, and many are reported to have
been taken prisoners. The British losses are
reported to be much less. Another battle Is
said to have occurred Thursday. 1t is de-
scribed as the heaviest yet fought. The
while the British losses were comparatively
small.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. November 20.
President John Mitchell, Of the Unit-
ed Mine Workers of America, said to-
day that indications are that he win
order a strike of all union miners en-
ployed by the Susquehanna Coal Com
pany, of Nanticoke, Pa, and those
working for the Missouri Pacific, Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas, Cotton Belt and
Iron Mountain railroads, in Missouri.
Kansas. Arkansas and elsewhere in the
southeast. Late Saturday evening he
addressed a formal letter to Marion
Williams, general manager of the Sus-
quehanna Company, stating that the
labor troubles of the union miners en-
ployed by this company must be set
tied at once.
President Mitchell demands that the
company either treat with its own en-
ployes or the representatives of the
United Mine Workers. The trouble is
not over a wage scale, but grow out OF
an order making the miners round
up" their boxes with coal
Two of the southwestern companies
to whom kilograms were sent, have re-
piled. declining conference. They are
the Southwestern Fuel and Improve
ment Company and the Missouri Pacific
Fuel Company, st. Louis.
In answer to these messages, Presi-
dent Mitchell telegraphed
''The executive board instructs me to
say that unless conference is agreed
to and fair terms of settlement accept
ed, all mines on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, Cotton Belt and Iron Noun
tain employing union labor will be shut
down.
President Mitchell, discussing the sit
uation, said:
I'VE will not finch from our posi-
ton. The anthracite fields of Penusyl-
vania employ about 10000 men. and
our strike, if ordered, will affect from
$4,000 to 10000 men, or over 10 per
cent. of all the men in the State. The
effect win be widespread, owing TO the
unusual demands for anthracite fuel
everywhere. The Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company will be hit hard blow.
and cannot say how many others will
be affected. The southwestern strike
would bring out about $1,000 men. I
will give the Susquehanna people time
enough to answer my letter"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, November 20.
President Mitchell this afternoon de-
cided to hold conference in st. Louis
Thursday with the union coal oper-
ators of the Belleville, Ills, district, for
the purpose of cutting Off all shipment
OF fuel by them to the railroad compa-
MES involved in the contemplated
southwestern strike.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21
ON A STRIKE.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. November 20.
The day 1aborers in the block coal
mines in the Eighth district struck to-
day, demanding an advance from Sits
to 81 per day. The men are under con-
tract to work until April 1st, and tbs
operators say the advance will not be
granted. The strike throws 1000 men
out of work.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21

PORTSMOUTH, November 20.-After
playing national airs, the marine light
infantry band struck UP ooh, Willie,
We Have Missed You"
This seemed to please the Emperor
greatly. He shook hands with Lieut..
Miller, who was in charge Of the band
and congratulated him on the rendition
of the music.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21
A VALUABLE PRESENT.

LONDON, November 20.-At the
Marquis of Lansdowne's suggestion, the
Queen has decided that her Christmas
present to the troops in South Africa is
to take the form of tin of chocolate
for each man.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21
TWO BATTLES At lADYSAHB
The News in London Alleges British
Success.

THE COMBATS THE HEAVIEST YET
FOUGHT, BUT THE ENGLISH
TRIUMPH APPEARS TO HAVE
BEEN AN EMPTY ONE-EST-
COURT is EVIDENTLY INVEST
ED-GEN. BULLER'S PROPOSED
RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY WILL
PROVE A MOST DIFFICULT UN-
DERTAKING - THE GENERAL
NEWS FROM THE CAPE.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21
THE Mt. PLEASANT MURDER THE EMPEROR IN ENGLAND.
A Great Demonstration at Portsmouth
Yesterday,

IN HONOR OF THE DISTINGUISH
ED VISITOR-THE USUAL ROY
AL GREETINGS EXCHANGED IN
THE PRESENCE OF MANY
THOUSAND PEOPLE = THE
PRINCE OF WALES DELIGHTED
WITH THE POPULAR RECEP-
TION-TdE VISIT HAS NO PO-
LITICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
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COURT RECESS.

WASHINGTON. November 9.-The
United States Supreme Court to-day adj
journed for the usual Thanksgiving recess
Of two weeks.
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AL GREETINGS EXCHANGED IN
THE PRESENCE OF MANY
THOUSAND PEOPLE = THE
PRINCE OF WALES DELIGHTED
WITH THE POPULAR RECEP-
TION-THE VISIT HAS NO PO-
LITICAL SIGNIFICANCE
PORTSMOUTH, England, November
20.-The German imperial yacht Ho-
henzollern entered the harbor at 1905
a. m. to-day and was welcomed with
salutes of the guns of the warships and
forts. The emperor and empress and
their two sons landed at 1920 and were
welcomed by the Duke of Connaught,
who wore the uniform of the German
hussar regiment, of which he is honor
airy colonel and by various court dig
nitaries.
1t was a typical November morning,
chilly and foggy, as the Hohenzollern
loomed in sight, escorted by the Ger
man battleship Kaiser Friedrich III,
and a fiotilla of eight British torpedo
boat destroyers which met the German
ships outside Spithead.
THE IMPERIAL YACHT
flew the British naval flag at her fore
mast, the German flag at her mizzen
and the imperial standard at her main
mast. AS she entered the harbor the
British admira1's flagship and eight
other warships, gayly bedecked, manned
yards and Numbered a royal salute,
which was returned by the Friedrich
III. A detachment of 1900 soldiers
and 900 seamen forming a guard of
honor was drawn up on the jetty and
presented arms as the Hohenzollern
was moored alongside with the imperial
party standing on the yacht bridge.
Emperor William wore the uniform of
a. British admiral and the two young
princes wore simple sailor boy suits.
The Duke of Connaught, accompa-
MED by Admiral Seymour, Gen. Sir
Baker Russell, number of gorgeously
attired court functionaries and the
boarded the Hohenzollern and were re-
ceived with
A ROYAL SALUTE.
Warm greetings were exchanged with
the Emperor and his sons. After his
majesty had held a brief court the En-
press appeared, dressed III a fawn-col-
ored costume, and participated in the
greetings.
The jetty presented the gayest and
most animated appearance, and accom-
modated large number of privileged
spectators. Bunting and German and
British flags were displayed every
where.
While the piles of baggage were be-
ing landed the bands played German
and British national airs. Soon after
the dispatch of the train with the bag
gage and servants, the royal special
train was drawn UP, and about eleven
of the imperial party and others landed
and were received by the naval and mill
itary officials. The Empress was the
recipient Of
A HANDSOME BOUQUET.
The civil authorities were introduced to
the Emperor, who later inspected the
troops and sailors forming the guard of
honor.
Their majesties and royal highnesses
took the train for Windsor at 11:30
amid salutes from the warships, bands
playing national anthems and cheers
from the crowds thronging every point
of vantage outside the dock yard. The
imperial suite includes Count Won Eu-
lenberg, Count Won Buelow, Admiral
Won Sendenhibran, Gen. Won Schell, Col.
Pritzcluitz, Col. Won Rasch, Count Won
Platen, Lord Churchill, lord-in- waiting
to the queen, and the Dowager Lady
Churchill.
PORTSMOUTH, November 20.-After
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21
A BIG MINERS STRIKE
Threatened by President Mitchell Of
the United Mine Workers.

ABOUT FIFTEEN OR TWENTY
THOUSAND MEN WILL BE IN
V0LVED-THE CAUSES WHICH
HAVE LED TO THE Diff
CULTY-STRIKE ORDERED IN
THE EIGHTH INDIANA DIS
TRICT-oTHER LABOR NEWS.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-18
Personal AND OTHER WISE.

An Ohio man who has been dumb fer ff-
teen years took a notion to talk the other
day and found it dead easy.
Dispatches from both Manila and Wash
ington indicate that Admiral Dewey's home
coming will be a go-as- -you-please affair.
The Samuel ]. Tilden residence at Gram
mercy park, New York, was sold the other
day for $1SO,OOO, which was 100000 less
than 1t cost.
A San francisco man has had bis stom~
ach removed and yet he eats, thrives anc
grows fat. He boasts of his immunity
from dyspepsia.
Thomas Paine now has a monument on
the old Paine farm in New Berlin, N. Y, and
it is to be surmounted by newly modelled
bronze bust. costing 5000.
When Roswell P. Flower was a boy he
worked in a brickyard for $1.50 a week.
Later he secured a clerkship at $3.50 week
and out of this salary he saved 81 900 in six
years. Then he went into business anc
the rest followed naturally
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec the designer
of weird posters, is said to have gone crazy
and now there is more or less speculation as
to how much of craziness there was in his
poster work. 1t was generally more fam
tastic than that of any other poster maker.
John r. Hanan, owner of the steam yacht
Sycamore, is to be decorated by Queen Vic
toria, it Is said at Newport, for his rescue of
William Gordon, sailing master, his wife and
daughter and six members of the crew of the
British brigantine Caspian in West Indian
waters last month.
President Angel of the University Of
Michigan has offered to furnish to the gov
ernment a number of young men, literally
educated and OF good natural parts, who will
pay their own expenses abroad for several
years if they can be assured of places in
the consular service afterward.
BY an act of the legislature, signed last
week by Governor Roosevelt and now a law
of the state of New York, the theft of a
play or opera held by it. author or owner
under the common law is declared misde-
meanor, punishable by fine and imprison-
ment. Two years ago congress did the
same for plays or operas held under the
copyright law. In the state of New York,
therefore, the dramatic author is protected
whether he holds his property under the
common law or under copyright.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-18
HOME COMING OF DEWEY.

st. Louis Republic; Dewey will be the
most satisfactory return from that $50, ,0O0 600
Philippine investment.
Philadelphia Record: Admiral Dewey did
not stand upon ceremony when he went to
Manila; but he will approach his own be-
loved land with more deiberation. He is
not afraid of the masses of the people who
love him, but OF the getters-up Of personal
demonstrations who magnify celebrities in
order to magnify themselves.
san Francisco Chronicle: The proposal to
build Admiral Dewey fine home and settle
a fortune on him recalls the fact that several
heroes Of the civil war were similarly re-
warded Grant received houses in phladel-
phia, Galena and Washington, and sherman,
Sheridan, Farragut and Porter were either
domcled or given large sums of money
AS Dewey is a widower he may not choose
to maintain a private residence, but he
probably would not mind owning a fine
rentable mansion for all that.
Louisville Courler-Journal: 1t might be
we'll, before passing the hat around for Ad-
miral Dewey, to first find out whether he
will consent to that sort of thing. The ad-
miral is far away; he will be on the high
seas for months and beyond communication
for weeks. In the meantime both his ardent
admirers and those who are desrous Of using
his name to advertise their own should re-
strain their impulse to circulate subscription
papers in his behalf. There are more and
better ways of testifying our appreciation
of our gallant sailors services to his coun-
try than through dollars and cents.
Detroit Free Press: when a man to whom
has been entrusted a great responsibility
proves fully equal to his task and success
fully carries out an exploit that adds new
luster to his country's greatness, Is 1t pos
sible to appreciate his deed in dollars and
cents? On the contrary, is it not repugnant
to good sense and good taste to attempt 1t?
But perhaps the most serious objection to
the proposed plan lies in the doubt as to
whether Admiral Dewey would care to re-
ceive that sort of recognition or would re-
gard it as much of an honor. The admiral
is a fine type of the American naval officer,
modest and unassuming, but self poised and
self-respecting, placing duty above all things
else and regarding the highest possible re-
ward for services rendered to be the con-
sciousness of having advanced the glory OF
the flag and the welfare of native land.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-18
TINE TO STOP THIS.
General Wheeler's Profession of
Loyalty to the Lost Cause.

THE armies of the south laid down their
arms but not one iota of their belief in the
truth and justice of their cause did they
surrender" said General Wheeler at the
Charleston reunion of former confederate
soldiers. So long as the south does not be-
ieve in future secession or desire reStora
tion of negro slavery, it may believe what it
likes about the justice and wisdom of the
principles OF slavery and secession at the
time the south fought for them. But 1t
would be wiser for a man of General
Wheeler's prominence, when he feels i'm
PEELED to make a speech such as this, to ex-
plain that he is speaking of the past and not
of the present.
Foreign commentators, who are just now
keeping an unusually close watch on the
United States, would be likely to draw
rather unfortunate conclusion from such an
utterance. Filipino. for example, or even
the better informed German, reading General
Wheeler's speech would naturally infer that
the south is only looking for a favorable OPP
portunity to make another effort to disrupt
the union and that this domestic peril of the
United States might be used to advantage in
any diplomatic quarrel with u.s. In fact the
Spaniards did have such an idea regarding
southern loyalty before the recenl war began.
If this portion of General Wheelers speech
probably derive more encouragement from 1t
than from all the pamphlets Edward Atkin-
son ever compiled. General Wheeler might
even expect to receive a communication from
the Filipino leader suggesting an alliance
for the accomplishment of a common pur
pose.
1t 10 not to be supposed that General
Wheeler or any other southern man desires
such an impression to go abroad regarding
the loyalty and patriotism Of a considerable
section of the inhabitants of the United
States. 1t would be we'll, therefore, If the
United States is expected to take new and
more influential place among the nations of
the world, and especially If it Is to be con-
sdered as having an interest in their dlplo-
matte squabbles, alliances, etc, for former
confederates to limit their oratorical efforts
to eulcgy of the bravery and genius Of their
soldiers and let the principles for which they
fought rest undsturbed in the grave Of the
lost cause.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-18
HERE'S A HOWDY 10.

Resolved, That the treasurer Is hereby
authorized TO pay per cent premium on
all state warrants issued against the gem
eral fund until July 1, 1899, and when in
terest Is paid upon said warrants the amount
OF said interest shall be credited to the
permanent school fund, sufficient to reim-
burse said fund for the amount OF premium
paid the balance of said interest to be
credited to the temporary school fund.
This resolution, just passed by the
State Board of Educational Lands and
Funds, is intended to give notice that,
because state warrants are in so great
demand as investments for idle money,
the state has been forced to increase
the premium rate of the purchase of
warrants for the school fund from 1A
per cent TO . per cent.
This must be a most humlliating con-
fession for the popocrats who consti.
tute the state board. After having
made campaign after campaign deny
ing that any prosperity was possible
under the gold standard and asserting
that there is not money enough in the
country to do its business, they are
confronted with situation in which
money is so plentiful that interest rates
must be reduced to nearly per cent
basis in order to procure state warrants
for investment purposes.
If this situation were peculiar to the
interest-bearing securities issued by the
state, these officials would doubtless
swell up over the thought that the i'm
proved credit of Nebraska was due en-
tirely to their own administration. But
the fact Is that all securities of this
character whether issued by state,
county, city or school district, are
equally sought after by people with
idle money on their hands, and the in
terest rates have been reduced every
where through the competition of the
buyers.
The value of warrants drawn against
the public treasury is fixed by the pre-
vailing confidence in their prompt re-
demption. The general improvement
of commercial and Industrial conditions
and the noticeable disposition of tax
payers TO meet their obligations without
incurring the penalty for delinquency
convinces capitalists that warrants
backed by Nebraska property are as
good as gold and as safe as United
States bonds.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-18

Importance Of this development. No pros
perity can be permanent or substantial In
which the vast army OF wageworkers do
not fully share. 1t is through their ex-
penditures that money is put and kept in
circulation. They are the chief consumers,
and 1t is in supplying their wants that the
great American home market the greatest
in the world, is created. obviously, then,
high wages are at once the best indication
and the surest guarantee OF good times.
When the people are generally employed at
wages which place within their reach all
the comforts and many OF the luxuries OF
life the consuming power OF the country
undergoes an immense expansion, and the
prevailing prosperity propagates and multi
plies itself.
The converse happens OF what occurs
when times are hard Then the tendency
is from bad to worse; now 1t is from
good to better. Instead Of vicious cir
Gle beneficial circle is established, and
the greater the number OF people employed
the higher the wages paid, the wider the
field for enterprise and the larger It's re-
ward.
To what does the country owe this happy
state of things? To what else but to the
application OF republican principles in the
conduct of the national government. 1t Is
no mere coincidence that while Cleveland
spelled disaster. Mckinley has proved 10
have been an advance agent of prosperity
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-18
THE PEACE CONFERENCE,

The international conference to con
slider suggestions of the Russian gov
ernment in regard to military and naval
establishments, with Il view to curtail-
ing armaments and to an agreement
among the powers in the interest of
peace, will meet at The Hague, capital
of Holland, today. The first note Of
the cars minister for foreign affairs
proposing the conference was issued in
August of last year and in January last
a second circular was sent out suggest
ing topics for discussion. These en-
brace an agreement not TO increase
naval or military forces and the CORE
spending budgets for fixed period, an
endeavor to find means of reducing the
forces and budgets in the future, inter
diction of the use of any new weapon
or explosive of power fuller than now
made, restriction of the use of the most
terrible of existing explosives, forbid
ding the employment of submarine tor
pedoes and similar contrivances, agree
ment not to construct vessels with rams,
acceptance of the principles of media
tion and arbitration In such cases as
lend themselves thereto.
Twenty-siX nations will participate in
the conference, represented by men dis
tinguished in diplomatic, military and
naval service. Russia having initiated
the conference will take charge of ii at
the outset One of the most eminent of
Russian statesmen, Baron de Staal, will
be its president. 1t is said that there
will be no disposition on the part of the
great powers to interfere with Russia S
prior rights in connection with this
novel method of discussing the gravest
issues of modern civilization. They
will stand aside and leave Russia to
take charge of the conference, define the
scope of the proceedings and propose
practical measures and lines of action
When Russia has had free field for
giving form and direction to the work
of the congress, the other powers, great