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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-04-05
COAL MINERS STRIKE.
netween 10000 and Ib.oOo I'm ,..
''"o"rgh District ana 0.oOO in
the Irwin District out.

fittsburgh, Pa, April 3.-From t..
600 TO $4,000 coal miners in the Pitts.
burSh district and 1000 in the Irwin
u'Strict went on strike Monday. The
cause OF the trouble in the Pitts
burgh district is the dissatisfaction
over the dead work scale of the In.
annapolis agreement and was entire
~ unexpected. All the river mines
were forced TO close down by the re.
iusal OF the men TO work and Inanv
OF the railroad mines are idle. In
the Irwin district the miners want
an advance Of live cents per ton.
Good order prevails in both dis.
tricts.
The principal trouble in the Pitts
burgh district is over the run Of
mine rate and the pay for drivers
IAc drivers are not satisfied with the
advance Of five per cent. granted nn-
der the Indianapolis agreement. and
are asking an advance equal TO the
increase accorded TO the miners. or
twenty per cent. advance. At mines
Whcre the miners are satisfied with
Inc digging rate, they are unable to
work on account of the drivers be
ing idle. Under the provisions Of
the indianapolis agreement, which
went into effect Monday. the pay of
mine workers is higher than for
many years, and it is thought that
an amicablc settlement can be reach
ed without a prOlonged strike.
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TIT nSDAY.

Five men were killed and several in
jurcd in cayc-in on the street at
Spokane, Wash.
\ large quantity Of plows, hoes and
Observation-Disclosures reached
Santiago de Cuba, where they will be-
distributed free 10 those needing
them.
Producers Of coal in the Pittsburgh
district announce an increase in price
for April I, the amount being from
25 TO IS cents per ton more than the
present prices.
The state department adds its de-
NAL to that Of the Spanish foreign
Office relative 10 the Paris story that
the United States Lad completed the
acquisition OF the Danish West In
dian island.
The woman's emergency association
of kentucky urges due reverence
for the laws Of the state. \ call was
issued for mass meetings all over tho
state TO be addressed by ministers,
lawyers and other Fubllc-spiritcd men.
Lord Roberts has begun his march
TO Pretoria, having sent 10000 men
10 Glenn, ten miles north Of Bloem-
fontein. 4 few Beers are in that vi
cinity, although Lord Roberts does
not expect TO meet with any formsd-
able force until Kroonstad is reached,
which Is l3j miles from Bloemfontein.
". 5. Taylor stopped at Louisville.
Ky, on his way TO Butler county
where his sister died. While there the
governor made a statement concerning
his probable course in the event the
decision of the court OF appeals is
against him. He said he would make
no movement until the case is finally
settled by the supreme court Of tho
United States.
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FRIDAY.
The army appropriation bill was
passed by the house.

The army appropriation bill was
passed by tho house.
Joseph Merriam, United States con-
sui al Iquique, Chill. is dead.
The Beers have taken up strong
position on the Biggarsberg range in
4 rugged country.
I'm agreement OH the wage scale
having been reached. the Iowa miners
wll return 10 work
The miners scale has been signed
BY the operatorsat Pana. lll..and there
will he no strike there April ].
At Dexter. Mo-. Elijah Moore. aged
10. was sentenced to bc hanged for
numbering his father last November.
Ex-Alderman Charles JOY, OF Lead
vile, Col, was fatally shot by his
wife. The woman claims self-defense.
The funeral OF Gen. Joubert at Pre-
toria was well attended by all classes.
There were universal signs OF mourn
ing.
Queen Victoria has cablcd 10 Lord
Roberts asking him to convey To Mrs.
Joubcrt. widow of Gen. Joubcrt. her
sympathy at the death ot the general.
EN-Chicf Justice James II. Lewis
chairman Of the GOcbel reward fund
says that NoutScy will receive no por-
tion Of the money for his confession
DR. Francis Sinclair Harbnrin. for Y
years the curator Of the Corcoran
art gallery in Washington. died al his
home in Georgetown. lie was G1 years
old
The reports that Lord Roberts will
remain AT Blocmfontcin another
month are probably intended for
Bocr consumption. lie is preparing
for forward movement.
The striking machiniStS all over the
United States will return to work
and a board OF arbitration will set
tie their grievance, I'M agrcGnent to
that effect having been reached.
The Beers are concentrating in
force near Glen, ij miles north of
Blocmfontein. and as part Of Lord
Roberts forces have reached that
town, battle is imminent. President
Kruger boasts that the Beers will
rctakc Blocmfontcin within a week.
GOV. Nash refused TO honor IA requi-
sition issued by republican GOV. Tay'
lor, of kentucky. lie will not rccog-
nizc rcquisition from either Taylor
or Bcckham; both must sign the pa
per.
Morales and Gonzales, who were
found guilty of numbering country
man. were hanged at noon Friday in
the plaza in front of the church of
san Carlos. province cf PanGasin.
Philippine islands.
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WILL LECTURE.
Wcbstcr DuyIs. Assistant Secretary
of the Interior, Has rendered
His Resignation.

Washington, April 3.-Webster Da-
Wis, assistant secretary of the inte-
rior, Monday rendered his resignation
lie will 90 on the lecture platform
in the interest Of the Beers.
In an authorized statement given
Monday, Mr.. Davis says that as re-
suit of his visit to the Transvaai he
feels impelled to tender his resigna-
ton as assistant secretary OF the IN
terror. lie will at an early date de-
liver a lecture in this city in the in
terests Of the South African repub-
lies.
Mr.. Davis feels that this is the best
way to arouse the enthusiasm OF the
people in behalf Of those republics.
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CONDENSED NEWS.
Hews OF the week Given I'm small
space - Interesting Happenings
Throughout the Country.
MONDAY.

Eleven more cases Of bubonic plague
were reported from sydney, y. :. w.
The recent floods i'm Uruguay have
caused great destruction Of cattle and
wheat.
Former United States Senator
phictus Sawyer was buried at OSh-
kosh. Wis.
The sealing schooner Newfoundland
returned to st. Johns. y. f., with
2l.000 seals
The Turkish government has COM
piled with Russia's demands regard
ing ralroad concessions in the Black
Sea district.
\ British convoy, under command
of Col BroadwoOd. fell into a Boer
trap near Bloemfontein and the en-
tire force was captured, including six
guns.
The schooner Abraham Richardson.
of Bangor. Me. coal laden. WAS
sunk oil East Chop. Vineyard Haven.
Mass. and is total loss. The crew
were saved.
Henry Russell and Sid lcnnie, alias
Henry Ferguson. two notorious
crooks. have been arrested IN Ncw
York city for robbiug a restaurant
in that city.
Two fircmcn were killed by falling
walls in fire which destroyed the
Central high school at OwasSo, Mich.
Three other fircmcn were seriously
injured. and two school boys were
badly hurt.
The Chinese government has set
tied" with the British government,
the controversy arising ont of the
murder on December last Of Rev. Mr.
Brooks. a missionary. The murdcrcrS
will be punished.
John W. W Mckimm, aged %, Of
Kansas City. Mo-. shot and killed his
brothcr-in-law. DIR. g. I. Shaw. while
the latter ~was reading a Sunday
school lesson to his little daughter.
McKimm was insane and imagined
some wrong had been done him.
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TWO MEN ASPHYXIATED.
Geo. FIoccben and Richard Cooley
Found Dead I'm Il Hotel In
Tcrrc Haute, Ind.

Terre Hautc. Ind, April George
Floeckcn and Richard Cooley were
found dead in bed at Smiths hotel
Monday morning from asphyxiation.
They had turned Tie gas on when
they went TO bed Sunday night, sup
poscdly by accident. One story is
that they had been drinking. They
were dead when the room was enter
ed Monday morning at o'clock.
Floeckcn worked at the car factory,
but Cooley was not employed. Both
were about SO years old.
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House Passes O Resolution Asking
the Secretary of the Treas
ury for Information.
WANT An ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURES.
The Resolution May Furnish tho
Basis for the Reduction OF
the War Tax.
The Debate en- the rorto nicnn NH
Brgun la thc scuntc--rhc Pnb-
lie Galleries We're
Crowded.

Washington. April B. When the
house met Monday Mr. Payne (N. ~,
the floor leader of the majority. pre-
scntcd resolution, which WAS adopt
cd, calling upon the secretary OF the
treasury ior information IL to whcth-
CT the war revenue act created Il sur
plus. and all the details concerning
The revenue under that act with esti-
mates OF expenditures. The prcscnta-
ton or the resolution calling as it
does for information which may fur
nish n basis for the reduction OF the
war revenue created considerable in
tcrcSt.
MIR. Richardson Crcnn.) asked If it
covered anything save the internal
revenue taxation under the war rev
cnuc act.
MIR. Payne replied that it did not.
There was no division on the adoption
of the resolution, which was rs fol-
lows:
Resolved, That the secretary OF the
treasury bc, and he hereby is re-
qucstcd. TO inform the house Of repre-
scntativcs whether. in his opinion
based upon such knowledge as he has
the present laws for the raising OF
revenue are creating and will continue
10 create surplus III the treasury
over and above the wants OF the gov
crnmcnt, and il so. 10 what extent
at the end Of the current fiscal year
and a like report as to the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1871.
The senate convened AZ II o'clock
Monday in ORDER that the debate ON
the Porto Rican bill might be cX-
tended. The public galleries were
all crowded.
Mr.. Bate Crcnn). after the Porto
Rico bill had been laid formally before
the senate, delivered his announced
speech in opposition to the pending
measure.
No disposition is manifested in the
senate to disturb the war revenue
taxes during the present session Of
congress. Republican members OF the
senate committee on finance who are
in the city agree in expressing the
opinion that the session is too far adj
vanccd to Justify any effort i'll that
direction at the present time.
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STRIKES IN CLEVELAND.
Lnthers Quit Work, Throwing Out
PIasterers-PnIntc VIII Like
Iy Declare Strike.

Cleveland, o., April 3.-About 125
fathers also struck Monday. They
have been getting p: cents yard
for piece work and $50 day. The
demand is for 3 cents yard and 50
Il day.
Cleveland, o., April 3.-As result
of the fathers strike about 800 plas-
tcrers are thrown out of employment.
IT looked as though the painters
would declare a strike at meeting
to he held Monday night.
President O'Conncl, OF the machin-
lists union, and officials Of the national
metal association. are expected here
Tuesday. They will cndeavcr, it is
said, to settle the machinists' strike.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-04-05
TWO MEN ASPHYXIATED.
Geo. FIoecken and Richard Cooley
Found Dead I'm Hotel In
Terre Haute, Ind.

Terre IIaute, Ind, April 3.-Gcorge
Floecken and Richard Cooley were
found dead in a bed at Smiths hotel
Monday morning from asphyXiation
They had turned the gas on when
they went to bed Sunday night. sup
posedly by accident. One story IS
that they had been drinking. They
were dead when the room WAS enter
ed Monday morning at o'clock.
Floecken worked at the car factory,
but Cooley was not employed. Both
were about 80 years old.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-04-05
Concessions Revoked

Washington, April S.-Secretary
Root has issued an order revoking the
license granted TO Mr.. Ramon var
des for the use of the water OF the
river La Plata in Porto Rico to Gre
ate electric power for a railroad lie
has also announced that the depart"
ment will grant no franchises or IL
censes in the island until the estaD-
lishment of civil government there.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-04-05
Emily COghIan Insane.

New York, April 3.-Miss Emily
Coghlan, sister of Rose Coghlan. the
actress, and herself well known on
the stage, was taken to the Bellevue
hospital apparently insane. She has
been i'll several days and Sunday she
became so violent that her physician
directed that she be sent to Bellevue.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-04-05
A Strike ut Joliet.

Joliet, Ill.,, April "a general
strike of workmen in the building
trades at Joliet was declared Mon
day. about 800 men being involved.
The demand generally is for an eight
hour day and an increase in wages
of five to fifteen cents an hour.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-04-05
Cotton Compress Plant Durns.

Little Rock. Ark. April 3.-News
reaches here that the Newport Com
press company's plant burned Mon
day morning entailing n loss OF $780,
900. Seven thousand bales OF cotton
were destroyed. The losses are COW
ered by insurance.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-04-05
81. Louis Carpenters strike.

st. Louis, April 3.-Two thousand
carpenters and 1900 painters IN ot'
Louis and East St. Louis struck Mon
day for higher wages. The painters
asked for an advance to 37Hs cents an
hour. while the carpenters want 40
cents. Both demands were re1used
by the Master Builders ASSOCIATION
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Co,ton Comnrcss Plant Burns.

Little Rock. Ark, April 3.-News
reaches here that the Newport COM
press company's plant burned Mon
day morning entailing loss OF s4oo'-
600. Seven thousand bales of cotton
were destroyed. The losses are COW
cred by insurance.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-04-05
New Wage Scale In Effect.

Altoona, Pa, April 3.-The new
scale for mining bituminous coal
went into effect Monday, and 5000
miners in this section are now re-
ceiving the highest wages in thirty
years.
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rour Hundred Men ON strike.

Watertown, n. Y, April "A strike
was inaugurated at the works OF the
New York Air Brake Co. Monday
morning. Four hundred men are out
No trouble has occurred.
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View Amateur Record.

San Francisco, April 3.-Alfred
Plaw, of the University of California
smashed all amateur collegiate rec
ords for the sixteen-pound hammer
throw, sending the missile 100 Iee' .
inches
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Eour Hundred Men on strike.

Watertown, v V, April "a strike
WAS inaugurated Mt the works of the
Now York Air Brake Co. Monday
Four hundred men are out
No trouble has occurred.
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Altoona, Pa, April 3.--The new
scale for mining bituminous coal
went into effect Monday, and o'ooo
miners in this section are now re-
ceiving the highest wages in thr'y
Years.
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u,,giur at Macon, Ga.

Macon. Ga, April 3.-Allen Fuller
, Negro. was hanged here Monday for
he murder of Mrs. Eugenia Hamilton
po4tIe an aged white woman.
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u..n uoxinr Law signed.

Albany, n. Y, April 3.-Gov. Roose-
welt has signed the bill repeating the
Horton boxing law. 1t goes INTO ei'
feet September ], next s.
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Macon, Ca, April 3.-Allen Fuller
a Negro, was hanged here Monday for
the murder of Mrs. Eugenia Hamilton
Pottle, an aged white woman.
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sbipment of si,3o3,oso for the pay
ment of soldiers in the rh,npp'"''
isft the sub-treasury in New York.
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lar a share, when nobody else would
touch it, has thoroughly examined
this property, and says : 1T is the
first mines have been willing to
ask MY friends to invest their
money in from the time l left the
Verde mines until now"
Miles Gibbons SIS L. SSth Street,
New York a mining expert of more
than a quarter of a century expert
ence in all parts of the world, says
over his own signature, with the
exception of the gold mines of the
Rand South Africa l have never
seen mining property equal to the
property of the Greene Consolidated
Copper Company"
The small smelter now running
on the property has, during IS
days actual operation smelted A.
600 tons of ore, producing two
million and eighty thousand pounds
of copper matter averaging 81 per
cent. copper, % ounces of silver
and twelve one -hundredths ounces
Of gold to the ton. Eight thousand
feet of development work has been
alone thereby opening no ore re-
serves sufficient for many years
continuous run.
The various mines or claims on
this property. seven miles long by
21a wide covering 1000 acres-the
Verde property has 200 acres -
have consolidated their interests
with a capital stock of S.
900, 900 and the plant will be in
creased to 500 tons daily capacity.
Some of the business men of our
town being impressed with the pos
sibilties Of the copper business and
having personal acquaintance with
all the projectors of the Greene
Consolidated Company have care
fully examined the probable values
and chances of "Cananea PROPOSE
tion," to use the western expression
and being satisfied that the property
is at least III copper country and
the mines producing ores that aver
age IL to IS per cent. copper, have
decided to buy a considerable block
of stock on which they have had
an option for some time pending
their investigation. X.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-04-05
TIE COPPER AGE. =

The world is apparently entering
upon a new copper age. AS the
invention of the steam engine ush-
cred in the present iron age, so the
development of electricity intro
duces the new copper age.
Iron is the structural metal and
the locomotive and elevator made
its use profitable in 50 many ways
that its use has increased hun
dred fold in less than hundred
years.
Copper is the metal which con-
ducts with the least loss and the
greatest efficiency, the electric cur
rent, and the use of electricity is
increasing the demand for copper
more rapidly even than steam in
creased the demand for iron.
Electricity as motive power is
new, but IN its infancy. AT the be-
ginning of the twentieth century it
is in about the same comparat i've
stage of development that the steam
engine was in at the beginning OF
the nineteenth century. All kinds
of development proceed much faster
now than formerly, and between
1900 and 1850 there is likely to be
a greater increase in the use of cop
per than there was in the increase
OF the use of iron between 1906
and 1900
The worlds consumption of cop
per in 1890 was more than double
what it was in 1898. During tho
next ten years its use is sure to in
crease faster than i'll the past.
Where is all this copper to come
from? The worlds production o
copper in 1898 was 4S2 ,9o5 tons
More than two-thirds of this came
from four sources I. The Rio
Tints mines of Spain. 2. The
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Lake mines Of the United States.
Z. The Montana mines. 4. The
mines of Arizona and Sonora, Mex
leo
The production Of the Rio Tints
mines has slightly increased in the
past year or two, but the produc-
ton of the Lake and Montana
mines nave shown a decided falling
off, so the only source of supply on
which the world can depend with
confidence for the supply Of its
greatly increased demand for cop
per, is the Virgin mines Of Arizona,
and Sonora, Mexico.
In the ten years, from 1880 to
1899, the world only doubled its
production of copper, but Arizona
and Sonora more than quadrupled
their production. and more than
half of the total increase i'll the
worlds production came from the
Arizona and Sonora mines.
The people WHO bought Lake
copper mining stocks twenty years
ago, or Montana and Arizona cop
per mining stocks ten years ago,
are the millionaires of to-day.
John D. Rockefeller made a good
part of his money out of copper,
and William A. Clark and Marcus
DAILY made all of theirs out of cop
per mines.
Ii we can judge the future by
the past. and any dependence can
be placed on the indications of the
present, the men who buy the
stocks of good and we'll managed
copper mines, i'll such copper pro-
duclng countries as Arizona and
Sonora to-day, will be the million
aires OF ten and twenty years hence.
Of course, there are fakes in Ar
izona and Sonora, as we'll as else
where, but there are also good and
honestly managed mines, with pros
poets more promising than were
those OF the United Verde, of Ari-
zona, the stock OF which, only ten
years ago was offered at 81. 90 per
share, and went begging at that.
To-day 1t sells for $500 share and
has paid sixteen millions Of dollars
dividends.
Among the new copper districts
that have come into prominence
within the last two years, and
which will soon be ranked with and
eventually eclipse the four compare
lively old mining districts of the
world, is that of the Canaca noun
tains, of Sonora, Mexico, less than
one hundred miles south of the
| great Verde mines Here the
Greene Consolidated Copper Com
pany own over 7 900 acres OF copper
ground, on a portion OF which there
are some old native works, where
some hundreds of years ago the o/N
peobh, then inhabiting that coun-
try, extracted ores that must have
been of great richness. for the re-
fuse. of which there are great piles
or dumps on the ground, produces
from six to twelve per cent. cop
per, when run through the smeltel
of the company now owning anc
operating the property.
Prof. Geo A. Treadwell, NJ. +
who located and commenced the
development of the United Verde
mines. about ten years ago, ano
sold stock to his friends at one dol
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Dainty
Wash Goods.

Designers, weavers and color
blenders have fairly outdone
themselves this season. Never
IN the history of cotton textiles
has so much art, SO much re-
fined taste been displayed. It's
only very modest little invest
ment for you to make to secure
a new summer gown or two,
and think of the satisfaction OF
choosing from all of this crisp
uewness. Dimities, in all the
colors for spring - neat ana
pretty-Ioc the yard. Finer
quality, I5c.
i are in need of Furniture.