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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
MAssACRES THE RULE.

LONDON. September 22.--4 a. nj
The Moscow correspondent of tho
Standard says:
From a recent visitor to the Amur
region learn that massacres are tho
order OF the day with the troopan
are overrunnings Mnnch URIC. - m :
ders are issued by Cen. GIodokoff. But
it is quite certain that Emperor Nich-.
olas must be ignorant OF their nature.
My informant has seen a series OF
kilograms from one Manchurian COM
mander, every one of which beseeches
that he be allowed to spare peaceahle
citizens; burt the Russian indifference to
the lives of the common herd Is still OF
truly oriental type"
The same correspondent asserts that
troops by the wholesale continue ia
pour into Manchuria.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
THE BIG TRUST

That Is To Control All Telegraph
and Telephone Business, Discussed
by Uncle Russell.
NEW YORK, September 21.-Ru
mors in connection with the proposed
consolidation of the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph Companies were
discussed to-day by Russell Sage, sec
ond largest stakeholder in the former
company. Mr.. Sage said that reports
of such combination had been in cir
culation long time Up to the pres
ent time they had been talked over by
the directors informally but there had
been no definite or written PROPOSE
ton presented by either side. At a
meeting of the executive committee of
the Western Union yesterday, Mr.. Sage
said, he asked Gen. Eckert II there
was anything new in the talk Of con-
solidation and that Gen. Eckert said
there was not. Mr.. Sage said he did
not care to make any prophecies con-
corning the rumored consolidation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
OPERATORS ARE HELPLESS.

1t is an absurdity, from a business
point of view, TO even assume that
LMarkle or any other individual operator
could continue to pay higher rate of
wages than his competitors, the rail-
road companies. for any considerable
length of time.
This is fight Of all for each and
each for all, and to be successful there
must be no break in our line OF action.
1t ought to go without saying at this
late date that | am staunch advocate
Of the principle Of arbitration. and did
| not personally favor these principles
the laws OF the organization of which I
am president, make arbitration one of
its cardinal tenets
In indianapolis last January. $50
operators and $50 miners delegates
representing an annual output of TO-
100000 tons of bituminous coal in west
ern Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana and
Illinois, met in conference and mutu-
ally agreed that the miners earnings
should advance % 2-100 per cent.
As q result of this conference and
other similar ones In the States west
of the Mississippi river and south of
the Ohio river, 10000 mine workers
receive an advance in their earnings
aggregating s12.000.000 in one year.
thus precluding even the possibility
of strike for one full year. at the end
of which they will again meet in Joint
conference TO renew the contract and
make such changes in the wages paid
as are jutified and warranted by the
cost of production and the value of
coal in the markets. This, in my opin-
ion. is the ideal method OF averting
strikes and turmoil and securing for
labor and capital that share q the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
LII HUNG CHANG AT TONG KU.

Copyright. Associated Press)
TONG XII, September 19--yfa Shang-
hal, September z0.-Ld Hung Chang ar
rived on Tuesday at the Taku anchorage.
where he was visited by Rear Admiral
Remey and the Russian captain. He pro-
ceeded 70 Tong Ku to-day He was re-
ceived with no special honors and his
presence attracted little attention. Only
the Russian and Japanese officers called
on him: but later he had long confer
ence with Vice Admiral AIexcoff On beard
Russian warslltp.
Earl Ii, accompanied by a Rus4faa
guard Of SEVEN and hts own escort. the izz-
ter unarrned, but wearing the impprial
uniform. win proceed by special train 10
Tien Tsin. where residences has been
prepared for his occupancy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
QUIET EXCEPT AT SHENANDOAH

SHAMOKIN, Pa, September 21.-Every-
thing is quiet between here and Shenan-
doah, a stretch of thirty miles. At the
latter place, every colliery, excepting the
Cambridge, was closed down by strikers
this morning. the men maching upon one
operation after the other. They marched
to the Cambridge colliery to compel the
men to stop work, but an armed guard
held the mob back.
The crowd is still near the works and
riot is liable to occur any minute. Strike
leaders are doing their best to quiet the
strikers, 5000 of whom are Lithuanians,
Poles and Hungarians.
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A GRINDING MONOPOLY.

These nine railroad corporations,
besides producing approximately u per
cent OF the hard coal, are the sole car
riers to tidewater of all coal mined in
the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania
and for this service Of carriage a
charge from 10 to GO per cent per ton
according to the size of the coal, is
made. Incredible as it may appear,
they charge three times as much TO
carry a ton of anthracite coal one hun
bred miles as is charged to carry a
bituminous ton of coal the same dis
lance.
Il, speaking for the 10000 mine
workers this day on strike, recognize
these railroads as our real enemies,
and name their presidents as the men
responsible for refusal to arbitrate or
even confer upon the differences which
have grown up, not between them and
the organization L represent, but be-
tween them and their own employees,
who, through delegates selected by
themselves, met in convention in the
city of Hazleton on August 10, and
framed list of grievances which We're
mailed to the general superintendent
of the mining departments of these
railroads, accompanied by an invitation
to meet in joint convention on August
q for the purpose of discussing and,
IL possible, agreeing upon such change
in the scale of mining and conditions
of employment as were warranted by
the conditions of the coal industry.
We can only regard such Independent
operators as the G. B. Markle & Co. In
the light of fellow victims with our
selves, suffering under excessive freight
rates as we suffer from low wages and
fnhuman conditions of employment,
and we should regard arbitration with
any or all of such individual operators
as absolutely not calculated to advance
the cause Of the great body Of anthra-
cite mine workers, but, on the con-
trary, to bring their certain defeat for
even were the board of arbitration, say
In the Markle case, TO award all that the
men desired, that award could be lived
up to by Markle only so long as the
strike continued elsewhere.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
TROUBLE WAS EXPECTED.

PHILADELPHIA, September 2.-The
tragedy that has been looked for since the
coal strike was inaugurated came sudden
ly and Unexpectedly at Shenandoah this
afternoon.
posse hurriedly gathered together by
Sheriff Toole, of Schuylkill county. to meet
an emergency. was forced to fire on a
mob that was threatening workmen on
their way home under escort.
A man and a little girl were instantly
killed and seven other fell more or less
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
A HEAVY FORCE.
Twenty-Five Hundred Men to BE on
the Ground to Preserve Order.

Twenty-Five Hundred Men to BE on
the Ground TO Preserve Order.
HARRISBURG, Pa, September 21.-
Three regiments of infantry, battery
and a troop of cavalry, were ordered
out at midnight by Governor Stone to
assist Sheriff Toole in maintaining or
der in the SchuylkiU region. This &C
ton was taken after a conference be-
tween the Governor Adjutant General
Stewart and Gem Gorbin on the urgent
solicitation of Sheriff Toole, the Borough
council of Shenandoah and many prom
inent residents of the locality. Gen.
Gorbin has been placed in command of
the provisional brigade and started from
here tonight with his staff on a spe-
cial train for Shenandoah. He will es-
tabllsh headquarters and expects to be
on the ground with 250 troops by 5
O'Clock Saturday morning.
The organizations which have been
selected for this service are the Fourth,
Eighth and Twelfth regiments, Battery
c, of Phoenixville, Governors Troop
of Harrisburg and the Third Brigade
headquarters. COL Richardson has
taken charge of the movement of the
troops and the camp equipment and
tents. Major General Miller, commander
of the division, has been summoned to
Harrisburg, and is now on his way
from Franklin. Attorney General Ell
kin has also been called here from Indi-
ana to advise with the Governor. Bat
terry c is equipped with gatling guns,
and is one of the best drilled organiza-
tions in the guard
Gen Goblin Is the senior brigadier of
6he division and commanded the pro-
viSional brigade which was ordered to
the Hazleton region after the Latimer
shooting In 1897. Governor Stone re-
received telegram early this evening
from Sheriff Toole advising him that
three persons had been killed and that
fifteen were injured at Shenandoah by
the strikers firing upon posse of citi-
gems who were protecting party of
non-union miners on their return home
from work. The sheriff said he was UNI
able to cope with the mob and tina. the
pSesence OF troops was necessary to the
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protection of life and property in the
community.
Later In the evening kilograms were
received by the executive from d. R.
James, president of the borough coun-
Gil, OF Shenandoah; w. A. Lathrop,
general superintendent of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company; R. C. Luther.
general superintendent of the Philadel-
phia L Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany; H. S. Koercher, for the Lehigh
valley Railroad Company, and fifty
citizens of shenandoah. urging that the
sheriff's request for troops be honored
as quickly as possible.
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SWEARING IN DEPUTIES.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, September a.
When Deputy Recorder Holcombe closed
his office this evening he had sworn in
over 400 special officers. AS fast as tworn
in the officers are assigned to some idle
colliery, where they do police duty. So
far their services have not been needed.
but the operators say stitch in time
saves nine, and they do not propose to be
caught like the operators in the Lehigh
and Schuylkill regions.
The coal famine in Wilkesbarre and sur
rounding towns is becoming more acute
The public schools of this city may have
to close If cold weather sets in.
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TWO STEAMERS BURNED.
The War Eagle and Carrier destroy
ed at Their Moorings at 81. Louis.


ed at Their Moorings Mt 81. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, September 21.-Fire burned
to the waters edge the steamer War
Eagle. Of the Eagle Packet Company,
and the Carrier, of the Calhoun Packet
Company.
Joseph Schultz bill clerk of the War
Eagle, was burned to death while asleep
on the dock.
Both steamers are a total loss, which is
estimated at 10000.
Two wharf boats belonging to the Eagle
Packet Company were also damaged
A number of passengers were on board
the Carrier when the fire started, but all
we're aroused and got TO shore safely
The crews Of both boats, with the excep-
ton of Schultz. escaped uuinjured.
1t is supposed the fire was started from
the pipe Of one OF the colored firemen,
smoking contrary to orders.
At the time OF the fire both steamers
were tied TO their wharf boats at the foot
of Olive street.
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WANTS TO SELL Gas.

Special to the Register
PARKERSBURG, ". Va, September
Am effort is being made by David
Lamb, owner of several good gas wells
at Barlow, Chic. to organize company
here and pipe gas to this city. He says
he can sell it at less than half the pres
ent price
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
INHERITANCE TAX

On Huntineton's ESTATE VIII Net
New York State More Than $780,
900.
NEW YORK, September 21.-The in
heritance tax on Coils p. Huntington
estate viii amount to more than $780,
600. In an estimate prepared for Comp
troller Coler and submitted TO State
Comptroller Theodore P. Gilman to-
day, it appeared that transfer charges
on specific requests alone would
amount to $4,000.
It is estimated that his estate is worth
$50, 900 900.
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RAILS. S26.

NEW YORK, September 21-Repre-
sentative of manufacturers of steel rails
who have been In conference here late
ly for the purpose of exchanging views
concerning the price at which rails
should be sold on the basis of the pres
ent cost, have decided that $z6 per ton
at Chicago and eastern mills would be
reasonable.
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To Aid Sufferers.

NEW YORK, September 21.-The New
York Credit Mems Association passed a
resolution recommending the advisability
of the extension of credits to customers
who suffered loss or whose property has
been destroyed, and suggesting the grant
ing of new credit and further concessions
as may be helpful and necessary to enable
the victims of the Galveston disaster 10
re-establish themselves once more.
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TEN GOLFERS CLOSED.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21.-General
Luther. of Pottsville,
to-day telegraphed to President Harris,
of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal &
Iron Company, that ten more of the
thirty-four working collieries of the
company were closed by the strike this
morning
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FIVE TRAMPS KILLED

And Four Badly Injured In Rail-
road Wreck in Kentucky.
CINCINNATI, o., September I'll
In a freight wreck on the Queen &
Crescent route at Sadieville. Ky, to-
day. five tramps were killed and four
badly injured. Ernest West and Rob-
ert MCGEE, both colored, of this city,
are the only ones of the dead that have
been identified. The injured are
Charles Rowe, James Pearson and Fred
Gfinke, all of Detroit; Robert Brown,
of SseubenNille, Ohio, and Leonard
Tucker, of Adams, Ohio. Tucker and
Rowe will die.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
A WATCH.MAN SHOT.

desperate Attempt of Wouid-be
Assassin TO End the Life of a
Harmless Workman.
SHAMOKIN, Pa, September 21.-
Evan Davis, Waterman at Hickory
Ridge colliery, was shot early this
morning by an unknown person as he
was patrolling the colliery. The bull
let entered his left side, infiicting a
serious. if not fatal wound. Davis saw
man run toward the engine house and
before he fell to the ground from ex-
haustion he fired six shots at the fleeing
assassin, but none OF the bullets ap-
parently took effect.
The colliery is an isolated place, and
Davis was compelled to crawl one mile
on his hands and knees before he could
procure aid at a mine house.
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COMPLETELY TIED UP.

SCRANTON, Pa, September 21.-
President Nichols, of District No. 1, in
formed strike headquarters here this
afternoon that the West End Coal Com
pany's mine at Mocanaqua, which has
resisted the efforts of the strikers to
close it, was tied up at noon, making
complete the suspension in the Wyo-
ming and Lackawanna valleys
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
QUESTION OF WAGES
NOT 50 IMPORTANT As
UNION RECOGNITION.
ANTHRACITE OPERATORS THROW
OFF THE MASK AND STATE
THEIR POSITION.
DENY TIE MINERS RIGHT
TO HAVE ORGANIZATIONS.
THOUGH THEY HAVE FOR YEARS
MAINTAINED AN ORGANIZA-
TION THEMSELVES.

Would Rather Give Up All Prospects
of Contracts Than Treat With the
United Mine Workers - Declare
There Will BE no Breakdown If
Not n Pound of Coal Is Mined All
Winter-Membership of Bitumin-
Gus Miners in the Union Given as
An Excuse.
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SHENANDOAH Pa, Sept fired crowd of
called to
mine workers and
coery property quitting sheris small whom
the ground tie Indian Ridge col
ery Reading the wokngmen their homes
shortly walked
reached the ehigh Valley railroad
station gathered large
men,
This followed by shower Many of the
picked up
his
The order
terrible results the sheriff and his
posse the Ferguson House, they
Sheriff aerward tegraphe to Harrisburg and asked
Philadelphia and telegram sent him
ruckav hot in the eye.
Edward c,,e aged about so sta. bullet near
Anthony sHarn sno, wrist by
shot shoulder the back
shot left side serious 10 sa1nre ballet
Foley Boss
work they Iehigh
after number
They Lloyd stable where they Imprisoned
twenty deputies
Indian Ridge sy escorted some
deputies
OVER FIVE HUNDRED SHOTS FIRED
meantime firing five hundred shots and the mob hurting missiles of
a
finally dispersed the sheriff deputies retired
prominent hotel Shenandoah
During windows broken buildings wrecked
Der injured.
The foreigners held meeting tonight and trouble feared unless
idea working oiees
consented to do
THE MOB IS SCATTERED
dropped Foreigners no they
refuse to care for the
council held resolutions
militia.
O until
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HAZLETON. Pa, September FL
President Mitchell tonight issued the
following:
open letter to the public.
'tHAZLETON, Pa, September q.
ITO the Public:
Fully conscious of the vast public
interests involved by the great contest
now being waged between organized
capital and underpaid labor, and as
much has been said and written upon
the subject of arbitration in the pres
ent anthracite coal strike. as president
of the United Mine .forkes of Amer
lea, l am compelled to define my own
attitude and the attitude OF my official
colleagues and the striking mine work.
erS toward the coal operators in way
so clear and definite as to leave no fur
Their room for misunderstanding. The
striking mine workers recognize as
their real opponents in this struggle for
a slight amelioration of the hard grind
ing conditions of the average miners
life, nine railroads which with their
presidents are: Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, Alex. J. Cassat, president;
Lehigh Valley Railroad System, AL
fred Walter, president; Delaware Il
Hudson Railroad Company, R M Oily
plant, president; Delaware, Lackawan-
ma & Western Railroad Company, w.
III. Truesdale, president; Central Rail-
road Company of New Jersey, j. r.
Maxwell, president; Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad Company, Joseph H.
Harris, president; Erie Railroad and
New York, Susquehanna & Schuylkill,
Irving A. Stearns, president; New York,
Ontario & Western Railway, Thomas b.
Fowler president
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
THE HOWARD TRIAL.
Defenses Finishes It's Testimony and
Case is Nearly Finished.


FRANKFORT, Ky. September I'll
In the trial to-day of James Howard,
charged with being a principal in the
Goebel shooting, DR.. Philips. of Clay
county, was recalled and said blow on
Towards head in 1896 had affected his
memory and made him absent-minded
at times.
c. II. Robinson said he was in the
Board of Trade Hotel talking to How
ard about Clay county people when a
man came in aAd announced that Goe-
bel had been shot. He had met How
ard on the street just few minutes be-
fore and walked to the hotel with him.
On cross-examination Robinson said
he had told several persons that he
heard the shot and saw Goebel fall, but
declared he said it in joking The de-
Tense rested its testimony at O'Clock
this afternoon. Several witnesses for
the prosecution were heard in rebuttal.
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CALLED HOME BY RIOT.

ALLENTOWN, Pa, September I'll
Sheriff John Toole, of Sohuylkill coln-
ty, came here to-day to attend the fair.
but he was intercepted by telegram
summoning him home because Of coal
mine riots at Shenandoah. He left at
11:45 a. m. on special train made up
by the Philadelphia & Rreading rail-
road
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COMING EAST.

w. y. Bryan Cancels All HIS Dates in
Illinois-May Come to West vir-
ginia.
CHICAGO. Sept. 21.-Wiliam ]. Bry-
an has Cancelled all his dates in Illinois.
and Will MAKE speeches in the east in
stead.
Mr.. Bryan may be prevailed upon to
speak In Delaware Maryland and West
Virginia, as well as in New York.
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IN JAIL AGAIN.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, September
21.-Jack Henderson,, who was recent
" pardoned out of the penitentiary,
where he was serving term for rob-
berry, is in jail again on another charge
of robbery. He is charged with taking
watch out of the pocket of an old man
who was intoxicated
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SERIOUSLY HURT BY A HORSE

Special to the REGISTER.
PARKERSBURG, ~. Va. September
21.-Last Sunday, Austin Wells, while
in his stable attending his horse, fell
under the animals feet and was injured
about the head. His injuries were
thought to be slight and little attention
was paid to them, but to-day he is in
very serious condition and it is feared
he can not recover.
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RoCKHILL AT PEKIN.

WASHINGTON, September 2f--A
cablegram was received at the StatA
Department to-day from Minister Con-
ger dated Peltin IL. announcing the ar
rival of Special Commissioner Rockhill
at Pekin on that date.
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TFF wEATHER.

WASHINGTON. n c.. September n
For Western Pennsylvania and O7io-Fasr
Saturday and Sunday warmer In northern
portion Saturday; variable winds, shifting
to sontherly.
For West yirginia-Partiy cloudy satur-
day and Sunday: variable winds
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WILL MAKE NO SPEECHES.
President Mckinley VIII Take No
Active Part I'm the campafzu.

WASHINGTON, September 81
President Mckinley, accompanied by
Secretary Cortelyou, left Washington
at 7:45 this evening for Canton. The
train is due at Canton at 1858 to-mor-
row morning.
The President has not made I'D his
mind how long he will remain in Can
ton 1t can be stated positively that
ne Will not take any active part in
speeches.
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NINE GREAT RAILROADS
Miners REAL ENEMIES.
STATEMENT TO THE GENERAL
PUBLIC
PLACING BLAME FOR TROUBLE.
INDEPENDENT OPERATORS LIKE
MARKLE, ARE FELLOW
SUFFERERS

With the Miners whose Wages Are
Ground Decentralization With
Such Producers Could Bring No
Permanent Good Even Though the
Miners should be Awarded All
They Demand--A Fight of All for
Each and Each for All.
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FIRST BLOOD SPILLED IN
THE BIG NINE STRIKE.
Sheriff TooIe and His Posse Fired Into Throng
Of Riotous Foreigners at Shenandoah
SHOT RANG FROM A SALOON
This Was Followed by Shower of Stones, and a
= Threatening Demonstration by the Mob.

Sheriff Gave the Order Fire. and Two Dropped Dead-One
Little Girl the Other Foreigner Who Got Bullet in His
Eye-An Appeal For Soldiers Was Sent at Once. and by
Midnight Three Regiments and Battery Had Been Called
Out
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AGREE WITH GERMANY

BERLIN, september zI---Ibs German
foreign Office has received replies from
Italy. Austria and France. agreeing with
out reserve. 10 Germany's China proposal
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22

last night In dispatch received from Pc
kin, under date OF Sunday. September 10.
via Taku. September 20. Gen. Wilson, with
so Americans and 900 British troops and
six guns. marched westward that day and
the Germans were to move the following
day September 10 70 cooperate in taking
Pei-Ta-chu, where the enemy was sup
posed TO be in large force. The American
commander. II was added. would attack
from the west and the Germans from tho
east The dispatch also said that Gen.
Wilson would then take the San-Hai-Tien
Sank af-Tien?l arsenal