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The evening times., 1900-09-21
WEST END FORCE REDUCED.
strikers Expect 10 Shut Down the
Mocananua CoIIiery Tomorrow.

WILK ESBARRE, Pa, Sept. H.-The
West End colliery, at MOcanaquR. is
working with only half force this
morning. and slowly but surely tbs
strikers are reducing the number ct
workmen there. Since Monday 1T has
been the only colliery in the upper coal
field to be operated, and half dozen
organizers have been exerting all their
efforts 10 get the men out. On Wednes-
day they induced about twenty to quit.
yesterday sixty more Joined the strik-
ers and this morning l25 others stayed
away from work.
The operators fear the mine will be
closed tomorrow. III that event the tie up
in the upper coal ield will be complete
and not ton of coal will be mined. The
two washeries at Pittston are still in
operation, but the one at LuzeFne and the
No. washery in this city are idle. The
strikers at Luzerne have prevailed upon
the men TO ;eave the workings three days
in succession. The sheriff, it is alleged,
still refuses to answer the demands of the
officials for protection, because he fears &
conflict would result.
Employees "a the shops of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey at Ashley are be
ing laid off and the Wilkesbarre shirt fac
tory has shut down owing TO lack of coal.
Several factories have but a short supply
on hand and will not be able TO run longer
than a week or two unless they can repIen-
ish their stock.
The operators say the only coal to be
had is being mined in the Lehigh region,
and some OF this may be sent here. II this
is done it is predicted that 1t will pre-
cipitate trouble at once. This morning
Simpson & Watkins advertised for sale all
their company stores. These are located
at Forty Foot, Wyoming Duryea, Peck
vile, Mayfield, and CarbondaIe.
Preparations are being made today for
a big reception to Miners President Mitch
ell, who will be here tomorrew. The locals
from all over the district viii send repre-
sentatives.
William Palmer. chairman of the United
Mine Workers Executive Committee, OF
this city, in a statement issued this morn
ing said:
I'VE will be able to shut down the West
End colliery tomorrow morning. The
men now at work will quit tonight. We
are making steady gains everywhere and
have great expectations. The getting out
of all the men is a question that will be
solved in few days The daily reports
are an Indication of what is going to take
place. The miners are behaving them
selves nobly and no one has just grounds
for complaint. I was talking with Presi-
dent Mitchell over the long distance tele-
phone this morning and he il ormed me
that the men in the lower end the coal
field are quitting in large nu : and
he, with the assistance of the lead
ers, will have them all out in lays
Perhaps it would take a week, but they
are sure to come out despite all reports
to the contrary"
The evening times., 1900-09-21
APPEAL TO THE THRONE,
Chinese Peace commissioners Sub
nit Il Memorial.

SHANGHAI, Sept. 21-(3:15 d. M
Telegraphic communication has been re-
stored with Taiyvan-fu. where the Chi
nese court is now located This was de-
stroyed in June by Yu Hsien, the Gov
ernor of Shansi.
The Emperor and Dowager Empress
are considering memorial from Ii
Hung Chang, Liu Kun VI. and Chang
Chih Tung. three of the Peace Com
missioners. denouncing the leaders of
the Boxer movement and Prince Tuan
the President of the Tsung-li- Yamen;
Kang Vi. the President of the Ministry
of War who favored the rebels; Govern
or Yu. Gen. Tung-fuh Slang. whose
troops supported the Boxers; Ii Feng
Hang, the anti-foreign Chinese com
mander, and others.
1t is the usual custom for memorials
of this kind to be sent TO the throne
through the Privy Council. of which
Prince Tuan and other anti-foreigners
are members. This one, however,
reached the throne direct.
An edict was issued today, appointing a
Manchu teacher to the heir apparent in
place of the two tutors who committed
suicide.
LONDON, Sept 21.-A news agency des-
patch from Pekin, dated September IS,
says that American and English troops
have started for Sans Hai-Tien to capture
the arsenal there and drive out the Box
ers
The column Is 1900 strong and has four
guns. 1t was decided to send it after
conference between General Chaffee and
General Barrow, the second in command
of the British forces.
Gen. James H, Wilson is in command of
the column. 1t includes two battalions of
the Ninth United States Infantry, a de-
taehment of the Fourteenth United States
Infantry. and 500 British.
Advices from Nankin say the rebellion
in that province is spreading. A junk
which was apparently loaded with straw
was found to contain money and rifles and
a quantity of ammunition.
The restoration of the public commu-
nication between Shanghai and Taiyuen-
fu. the refuge place of the Empress
Dowager and the Imperial court, indi-
Gates that the Chinese rulers have sig
nified their wish to be put in touch with
the world, and that peace negotiations
will hereafter go forward more rapid
". The fact that the memorial from
Earl Ii and his colleagues of the Chi
nese Board of Peace Commissioners has
reached the throne direct, instead Of
passing through the hands of the Privy
Council and Prince Tuan, is regarded as
significant, and seems to show that Tuan
is in disfavor. The action of the En-
press Dowager on the memorial de-
nouncing Chinese officials who have aid
ed the Boxers in their assaults on for
eigners is awaited with great interest.
1t is now expected that uEder the advice
of Ii Hung Chang and his ass~ ciates
the Empress Dowager will do everything
possible to coneiliate the powers.
The evening times., 1900-09-21
THE PRESIDENTS BUSY DAY.
Receives Many Visitors, and VIII Go
to Canton Tonight.

Receives Many Visitors, and VIII Go
to Canton Tonight.
President Mckinley spent a busy morn
ing. He was besieged with callers prior
to the Cabinet meeting and the fact that
this would be his last day in the city for
several weeks led him to see nearly all
of the public me2 who arrived at the
White House.
The President and Secretary CorteIyou
will leave a 7:45 o'clock this evening for
Canton in a private car over the Penn
sylvania lines. 1t is uncertain when Mr..
Mckinley Will be here again, but it is
probable that he Will spend most of the
time between now and the elections at
Canton. Nothing was made public at the
White House regarding the likelihood that
he Will speak in Chicago to offset the
Democratic gains in Illinois.
The President received party of be-
tween 500 and 600 Odd Fellows this morn
ing in the east room. They are a part of
the home-bound delegates who stopped
in Washington en- route from the meeting
of the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Rich
nlond
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, paid his
respects to Mr.. Mckinley for a few mo-
ments before the Cabinet meeting. The
Senator, who arrived Monday night, came
North to recover, If possible, the body of
FIdACols Jones, WHO NdS drowned several
days ago. Mr.. Jones was private secretary
to Senator Morgan during the stay of the
latter in Paris on the Monetary Commits
sion.
Gen. Henry Bingham, of Pennsylvania,
was received by the President for a few
minutes Afterward General Bingham,
who is one of the closest friends of Mr..
Mckinley from the Pennsylvania delega-
tion, declared that he favored getting out
of China as soon as possible
The Americans have had enough of
war" he declared, land the people are
tired of tilis Pekin campaign. l think we
should get out of the empire as soon as
possible. We have nothing to gain there.
We want no territory. Germany is ac-
tuated by different motives in insisting
upon punishment for the Chinese leaders
IN the recent troubles. Our aim is to get
away from China as soon as we can
The evening times., 1900-09-21

The policy of the Administration re-
garding the Chinese crisis was settled at
the Cabinet meeting this morning. The
Government has rejected Germanys pro-
posal to join in Furnishing the officials re-
sponsible for the Pekin outrages, and has
decided to go ahead with the peace ne
gotiations with China in all haste The
President, in view of the uprising in the
Philippines, is more than ever anxious to
get American troops out of the empire at
the earliest moment.
The Cabinet meeting was attended only
by three members General
Griggs, Secretary Hitchcock, and Secre-
tary Long. but communication was had
with the absentees over the long distance
telephone The two last named returned
to Washington especially to be present
at the conference The meeting lasted
only little more than an hour and half,
for the President had already agreed upon
his policy of getting out of China as soon
as possible. Accordingly he desired only
the concurrence OF his advisors in the
plans he had laid. The discussion cen
tired around the attitude of Germany,
Russia. ana China, respectively.
The German request to join in furnishing
the Chinese responsible for the outrages
was disposed of in short order Mr. Nc
Kinley felt that the Philippine situation
so completely demanded all available
troops in the Orient, that he could not
seriously consider any policy which would
The request of Prince Ching to have the
peace conference go ahead at the earliest
moment was more in line with the purpose
of the Administration to get out OF China
as quickly as possible
No official announcement was made after
the meeting as TO the policy of this Cow
ernment regarding peace negotiations, but
1t is believed that the President agreed
substantially to Prince Ching's requests.
II j. uOL yet poSS4bi6, HONtNSE, 70 say "Hd'
authority Will be given Minister Conger
in carrying forward these negotiations.
After the Cabinet meeting the members
announced that the text Of the replies viii
be made public as soon as they are hand
ed to the Governments to which they are
addressed. That may be either late this
afternoon or tomorrow.
The character of the replies will COM
mend itself to the good sense of the Amer
lean people," said Secretary Long after
the meeting.
The evening times., 1900-09-21
NO FEVER IN GALVESTON.
Health Authorities Deny Reports of
Typhoid Epidemic

GALVESTON, Sept. 21.-The reports
sent out from here and published in some
OF the Northern newspapers that typhoid
fever had broken out, that there were
some three or four hundred eases, and
that the disease was fast becoming epi-
demic. are characterized by the Board of
Health and leading physicians abso-
lutely false. They say that no disease of
any infectious character has as yet made
its appearance and none was expected IN
der the vigorous measures Of sanitation
in vogue.
General Manager Polk, of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad, states
that all lines entering the city from the
west and north will resume full traffic
service today. This will improve present
conditions wonderfully. revive commerce,
and relieve the ocean tonnage pressure
Twenty-one vessels are now IN port i've
of which weTa blown aground by the
storm All except the three Mallory
steamers and those aground are awaiting
repairs to the wharyes so that they can
begin receiving cargoes when the railways
bring the freight IN.
The work of distributing relief to
the destitute while being conducted
upon a more systematic basis, is aggravat-
ingly slow TO the thousands of applicants
of all ages and conditions who stand in
long lines at each sub-station for hours
before their time comes TO get their daily
supply It is very humiliating to delicate
and refined women. bereft OF all they had,
to be placed in such a position aEd some
other and better mode of distributiol.
should be adopted.
Life insurance companies will lose
heavily by the storm, and, in all prob
ability, much litigation Will grow out
of the adjustment of losses. Thousands
of bodies were either hastily buried or
eremated without any proofs of identi-
fication being taken. which is requt-
site the life insurance companies will in
sist upon
The sanitary condition of the city is
daily improving except in the vicinity of
the masses of debris cast up against
the southern part OF the city The work
OF disinfecting is vigorously prosecuted
and the health board positively declares
that not more than the usual amount of
sickness will follow the awful calamity
The largest loss in a single family
by the food is that Of the Rattesaus,
who resided down the island. or a
family of forty-fye, forty-two were lost.
The evening times., 1900-09-21
DEMOCRATS OF CONNECTICUT.
State Convention Nomfnates Samuel
j. Bronson for Governor

State Convention Nomfnates Samuel
j. Bronson for Governor
HARTFORD. Conn. Sept. 21.-With an
abundance of enthusiasm for MIR. Bryan,
the Democrats of Connecticut today
quickly placed in nomination a State
ticket and selected Presidential e.ec-
tors.
The convention was called to order
shortly after 10 O'Clock. The credentials
committee reported no contests. The
name of Delbert E Cary, who a day or
two ago was reported as certain of the
nomination for Governor was not present.
ed. All the nominations were by accIa-
nation, as follows:
For Governor-Samuel ]. Bronson, Of
New Haven.
Lieutenant Governor-Cyrus G. OK
with New London.
Secretary of State-Janes P. Woodrl #
LitchfieId.
Treasurer-Edward c. Pinney, Stat
ford
Comptro1Ier-William L. Hunting, East
Hartford
The platform renews the allegiance Of
the Connecticut Democrats to the party
ratifies the Kansas City declarati n of
principles, and enthusiastically endorses
the national nominees.
The evening times., 1900-09-21

of his visit this one boss had by his
docking process reduced the miners out
put fully forty-f1ve tons and he believed
he was pleasing the mine owner
In another instance. the inspector
caught a boss using his docking preroga-
tives on cars which had less than one-
half Of 1 per cent waste. The man was
reported to his employers and was dis
charged.
Yes" said Mr.. Roderick, there are
many bosses about the mines who are era
vens But then. on the other hand, have
seen cars sent out which would have 40
per cent waste in them. The good careful
miner is often made to suffer willfuIly.
The careless man needs docking to make
him to be honest with his employer, and
to use more care in loading his cars
The docking boss" has caused more
petty strikes among the miners than all
other conditions combined. To check him
the miners persuaded the Legislature sew
eraI years ago to pass the Check weigh
man law" by which they could protect
themselves by putting man of their own
selection alongside of the eompany's man
been opposition to this Law by the opera
tors, and it is practically 8 dead one.
The Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen
are today greatly interested in the situa-
tion hereabouts. P. H. Morrissey, of
Galesburg, H., their Grand Master, has
been asked to come on at once by the dif-
ferent grievance committees here. He will
nd hal q
conference On Sunday a general meet
ing of all the trainmen of this entire sec
tion will be held. Already Frank Hawley.
of Chicago, Grand Master of the Switch
mems Union. is here and the matter of
handling ''scab' coal Will be considered at
the switchmen's meetings at Carpenters
Hall this evening.
General Superintendent Loonis OF the
Lackawanna ColIieries. said this morning:
There can be no general arbitration OF
this strike The proposition is absurd, and
anthracite miners Know it. Rates of wages
for the same class of work are necessarily
different. because the conditions of the
several mines make them So uniform
wage scale is impracticable in the region,
and particularly so as to the Lackawanna
and some of the other companies All that
arbitration might accomplish may be the
recognition OF the Miners Union, but we
will never consent to this, because the
union is dominated by the bituminous coat
men,
This is one of the hard and fast de-
eisions reached by the superintendent at
their recent conferences. and is in line
with the attitude of the operators in the
HazIetnn district
The evening times., 1900-09-21
RUSSIA'S CHINESE POLICY.
Sought Onl. 90 Restore Peace and
Preserve the Empire.

Sought OnI. 90 Restore Peace and
Preserve the Empire.
The State Department today made pub
lie a new translation of the Russian note
of August IS, il which the imperial pur-
poses of China are set forth This trans
lation is made from lie official text. The
newspaper version printed September 1
was loose and in some respects inaccu-
rate The new version as to Russia's poll
cy follows:
The Immediate ends aimed at by the
Imperial Cover nnent since the beginning
of the disturbances hat have broken out
in China were as fellows:
81 To safeguard the Legation OF Russia
at Pekin and to insure tna safety OF RUS
sian subjects against tee criminal inten-
tions of the Chinese Insurgents, and,
- To extend help ~ the Government
at Pekin in its struggle with the insured
zionist movement with a view TO the ear
lest possible restora tion of the legal Or
der of things in the Middle Empire.
When all the interested States subse-
quently determined to send troops to
China by the same ends the Imperial Gov
ernment proposed that the following fun
damental principles be adopted for the
guidance of the action taken in conse-
quence of the aennts that were taking
place in that equity
First, the maintenance of harmony
among the powers.
'Second-The integrity of the former rule
of government in the Chinese Empire.
''Third-The setting aside OF all that
might lead TO a dismemberment of China;
and lastly,
"Fourth-The restoration at PeKn,
through common efforts, Of the legally in
stituted central Government, which would
be competent to ensure by itself order and
tranquility in the country
Nearly all the powers agreed in these
several points.
with this as its only object. the I'M
periaI Government has remained and pro-
poses in the future to remain unalteTably
true to the above mentioned programme
of action.
While the progress of events, such as
the attack on our troops at Niuchwang
by the insurgents, as well as a series of
aggressive actions of the Chinese against
our territory on the border. notably
the entire unprovoked bombardment OF
BlagovistcheGsk, constrained Russia
to occupy Niuehwang and march
the Russian troops into Manchuria, these
temporary measures, exclusively acquired
by the necessity Of providing against the
aggressive acts OF the Chinese insurgents,
cannot be taken Is implying selfish views
of any character, which are entirely for
efgn to the policy of the Imperial Gov
ernment.'
The evening times., 1900-09-21
MINES CLOSED BY FORCE.
Foreign Strikers Adopt Violent Meu-
sures in Pennsylvania.

SHENANDOAH, Pa, Sept 21--This
mining town was aroused early this morn
ing by band OF 600 strikers, principally
Hungarians. Lithunians, and other Slays.
They were determined to stop work at
the collieries. All were armed with black
jacks and clubs. At daylight the for
eigneFs formed on east centre and south
Main Street, near the Pennsylvania depot.
Every miner who went toward the col
Iieries by foot, trolley car or train was
stopped. If he rebelIed, he was beaten and
driven back.
One trolley car came along with eight
miners on board. They were dragged off
and beaten The miners who were as
saulted were English, Irish, and Amsr.-
cans and were over 150 men in aunl-
Der. During the assault the foreisa
strikers shouted loudly and terrerized
everyone IN sight. Some stores were
closed. The Reading Consrany's Indian
Ridge and Shenandoah City colIleries
had to shut down.
The strikers then marched to the Keh-
ley Run coliiery an individual concern,
drove out the breaker boys compelled the
men on duty 10 blow the whistles and then
they forcibiy stopped the colliery and ston-
ed the miners, who .gere driven TO their
homes. They smashed the breaker win
dows and did other damage.
At 645 a. N. they had marched on the
Kohinoor, West Shenandoah and Turkey
Run Galleries and forced them to shut
down amid great excitement. Many more
were hurt at these points
Chief Burgess Brown attempted to dis
perse one of the mobs. but was oyerpow
cred and beaten. He was not serious hurt
The greatest excitement prevails The
deputy policemen are powerless.
a clerk by the name of KEEPER was
badly beaten. Foreman Albert Smith
was badly hurt. and 1t is said that he
was thrown into creek.
a big mass meeting was held here last
night, which was addressed by President
Mitchell The strikers say they will next
move on Aahanoy City.
The evening times., 1900-09-21
FEWER MINES RUNNING.
Workmen Continue to Join the
Ranks of the Strikers

SCRANTON, Pa, Sept 21.-No particu-
lar developments are anticipated on this
the fifth day Of the anthracite coal miners
strike, so far as the Lackawanna and Wy
oming Valleys are concerned District
headquarters here were early astir this
morning. members of the board, with sew
eral organizers, preparing for a round of
work, finishing up the enrolment Of mem
bers and centring attention on the wash
cries.
The Lackawanna Company had three of
these washeries going this morning-the
Diamond, Bellevue, and Oxford. At the
latter they had new men, and the other
two were running with mine foremen as
laborers. TIE Bowen, at Taylor. also man
aged to keep going, and is turning out
more marketable coal per day than ii for
merly did in a week. Most Of il goes to
the farming country trade.
The Murrin and the Barton washeries at
CarbondaIe failed to start this morning,
their employees having Joined the union
yesterday through the efforts of Henry
Collins, the district committeeman in
charge of the branch headquarters estab-
nshed there.
The mine foremen and others who hold
petty official places about the workings, are
regarded by many as being more RESPONSE
bic for the present strike than any other
agency. The miners regard them as ty-
rants who think they serve their employ
ers well by imposing hardships upon the
men working under them.
Edward Roderick, the mining inspector
fho
ing his third term as such, has observed
this boss in all his different phases. This
morning he related one particular in
stance. Having been called to Olyphant
one day recently to enquire into some ac-
cident he was in one of the breakers of
the Delaware and Hudson Company when
the continual changing of the bell of the
docking boss" or check weighman at
tracted his attention. The coal was COM
ing up out of a vein known to be fairly
clean, and containing only a small per-
centage of waste, yet, every time the bell
changed, the men at the foot chalked off
the car that had just gone up. The penal
ty was 500 pounds dockage every time the
bell rang The inspector was within hear
ing of the bell forty-fve minutes and all
that time, he says, it kept dingling, a car
coming up every minute.
Roderick called the foreman and told him
to find out the condition of the coal, and
when the docking boss was asked why he
docked so many cars he wonderingly ask
ed if that man was one of the owners"
The inspector ordered every car that had
been chall1ed to be marked clean, and he
warned the docking boss to be more care
full Roderiek says that in the brief time