The age-herald., 1901-08-12

miles south of Savannah on the line of the Seaboard Air Line railway the charred trunk of the body of Joe Wash ington, the negro ravisher of Mrs. J. J. Clark, was found today, mute evidence of the dreadful tragedy of last night.
 Washington was captured at Liberty City yesterday afternoon and brought to Ways Station. He was taken before Mrs. Clark who identified him positively as the negro who had assaulted her.
 The negro's positive identification by his victim sealed his fate. There was a mob of 400 men clamoring at distance for his life. but the leaders of the mob, numbering less than dozen, carried into execution the plans of vengeance they had formed. The rest or the mob was not permitted to come within 100 yards of the place where Washington met his fate. This was at spot few feet from the railroad track and not 800 yards from the house in which the negro committed the crime. He walked to his death with out A tremor and met it without a prayer or an appeal for mercy. He admitted his guilt of crimes incident to the princi- pal one, but to the end stubbornly refus- <-<->-<>-<-~<<<<<-<< a condition existing today that places this country on the eve of one Of the greatest revolutions that ever could oc- cur in the history of the world"
 MT. Williams said the Knights of La bor, represented by President simon Burns of L. A. 300. had come forward with money and encouragement. That portion of the same body under Master Workman Parsons had instituted proceedings in Ohio and Indiana to prosecute the trust on legal grounds.
 Keeping a Close Watch.
 The strikers and their leaders kept a close watch on the strike situation today. The early reports were unfavorable to them, for they showed that the re- sponses to the general order to go out had not been as large as they had been led to expect They seem confident, how ever, that more men would decide to strike today and that the showing by Monday would be satisfactory to them
 President Shaffer spent the day quietly at his home and gave out nothing for publication.
 The day at McKeesport passed without any startling developments
 The indications are that the Demmler plant of the American Tin Plate Com pany will start up soon. Superintendent Pitcock has been recalled from a vaca- ton, and work is being pushed rapidly on high board fences around the plant Steam is being kept up in the boilers and all indications point to an early resump- ton.
 The rolling men Of the National Tube Company have been ordered to report for strikers make the boast that but few will respond. The company officials. how ever, seem to have no doubt of their suc- cess.
 At Newcastle there are now 5,700 men out of work through the strike. But one furnace. the Neshannocck, Is now in operation, the others having been blown out This indicates long strike. as they simply would have been banked down If the intention was to resume soon
 The American Tin Plate Company this fences about the Shenango and Greer plants. The fences are sufficiently high and strong to resist any but the most determined onslaught. and their erection now seems significant. Crowds of strik- CTS watched from a distance the work with scowling looks
 A meeting will be held tomorrow for the purpose of organizing the furnace men into the American Federation of Labor Nearly 900 furnace workers have been thrown out of employment by the closing of the mills.
 3:20 am.-The fires were pulled at the Republic mill and Planters at o'clock because of lack of men. The Lindsay and McCutcheon mill in Allegheny also gave up the attempt to start.
 The pudding furnaces of the rolling mill at McKeesport were fired last night nreparatory to start of the mill at 3 o'clock this morning. The management now has score of extra coal and iron police on duty. Every Amalgamated man in McKeesport has been ordered by President Shaffer to go on picket duty about the tube works at 2:so this morn- ing and endeavor to dissuade non-union men from going to work. but in no event to endeavor to prevent them from doing so by force.