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ANOTHER ATTEMPT
To Damage Property and Intimidate Nom
Union Miners.
FORTY FEET OF FUSE ATTACHED.
Kes of Powder Exploded on Porch of
CoIored Miners at Barndey.

Tuesday night II dastardly attempt
was made TO intimidate non-union
miners and damage property, this
time at Barnsley. The Barnsley
mine is operated by the. st. Bernard.
Coal Co., who employs non-union
men exclusively, and the work is
supposed to have been done By mem
bers of the United Mine Workers or
eanization. \ number of former
Barnsley miners, members of this
organization, are still at Barnsley,
living in idleness upon the charity
OF the organization, and it is claimed
that suspicion points strongly to
some of these as the perpetrators of
this deed.
The explosion occurred about IL
O'Clock Esquire Cato, of Dawson,
democratic candidate for sheriff,
spent the night in Barnsley. Just
after the, explosion he heard the
clock strike eleven. The report was
u loud one and wakened people q
quarter OF u mile away.
The keg of powder, with forty feet
of fuse attached, was put upon the
porch of the house occupied by a
colOred miner, John Duncan. The
long fuse of course gave the perpe-
traitors of the deed time to escape.
1t is not known how much powder
the metal keg contained but the ex-
plosion set the house. on fire and
blackened, scorched and blistered
the walls, ceiling and floor of the
porch. Being only confined by the
keg, regular metal powder can.
much of the force of the explosion
, was lost.
The cOlored miner who occupies
. the house went To work as usual
Wednesday morning. He is not one
of the scary sort. Anan who knows
him says it is fortunate for the pow
der burners that be did not get ou'
: with his shotgun before they put the
hill behind them.
Fragments of the keg and tAe fuse
are in the hands of the authdfities
and an effort will he made to vefify
the suspicious entertained.
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Ordinance

The city council of the city of
darlington do ordain as follows:
That any person who shall within
the limits of said city, bear, have or
carry, any deadly weapon, openly,
in such manner and under such
circumstances as to excite terror or
alarm, or to disturb the public re-
pose, shall be guilty of II breach of
the peace, and the person or persons
SO offending, and each of them shall
be fined, not less than one cent, nor
more than one hundred dollars, or
Imprisonment not less than five nor
more than fifty days, or. both so fined
and imprisoned.
WILLIAM +. BURR,
PAUL NJ. MOORE, Mayor.
City Clerk.
darlington, Ky, March l3. 1901.
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For Sale.

Household and kitchen furniture,
II set of school furniture-capacity to
seat % to 30 pupils, with blackboard
of over 100 square feet; one Estey
organ; one Warren upright piano; a
Classical and Scientific Library of
several hundred volumes with a first
class book case. Persons desiring to
purchase will please call on the un-
dersigned or his wife.
i-ll-4t HANSON BORING.
Madisonville.
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The l.. Il N. will sell round trip
tickets to Little Rock, Ark, at one
first-class fare for the round trip,
May II, 10 and lG, limited to June !,
account General Assembly of the
Presbyterian church in L. :.
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get work in the mines after the
United Mine Workers get pos
session of the property.
He is told if he don't quit work
as free man he will presently
be compelled to quit work by
force-the force OF these so-callcd
"brothers. He is told by these
walking saloons and arsenal (for
the organizer always carries his
bottle as well as his gun) that he
will be blown up by dynamite, or
shot by Winchesters, If hc don't
quit work. These are the peace
full % persuasive methods used
to get the 1000 miners in Hop
kins to join an order whose lead
lers are frequently rotten with
drunkenness and filth, many Of
them moral lepers.
But few Of the miners of the
county have been imposed upon
/ by these agitators. \ lot Of ne'er
do wells have listened and Joined
the order on promises of free gro
ceries and 10 work. 1t matters
not to such folks If the food is
/ taken from the mouths Of women
and children Of other counties
and other States. \ few GOOD
and honest men have joined the
order and quit the regular work
they were getting in the mines.
! A case in point: In January,
1900, man with n wife and
many children came to neigh
boring town wanting work. The
/ family was hungry and almost
naked. The man had worked on
a railroad section for less than
one dollar per day, had probably
never earned one dollar per day.
He got work in the mines and in
February earned $TI. During
the thirteen months ending Feb
ruary 2Sth, 1901, he earned by
loading coal, with his boys help.
S9Jf6G. or four times the amount
: Of money he ever earned before
in thclsame length of time. This
man was as happy as such Il man
could be, and well satisfied with
his place. Not 50 with the or
ganizer of the United Mine
Workers. With smooth lies thai
the evil one envied, this naT
was taught TO believe that hC
was not Il free man; that he wa
not getting enough wages; tha
he was imposed on and that he
should join the t.. NJ. W. an(
gets his "rishts: :" and this father
and husband who earned in Jan
uary $99.02 quit his work an'
joined the Union and again vii
be the tramp he was thirteeI
months ago. Does theF' reade
wonder that wives'.and mother
do not love such Il union? To then
it means hunger and nalledness
while the hired organizer revel
in the suffering lie has made. Blu
with all his seductive lies the or
ganiZer has made but little head
way in organizing the 1000 Hop
kiDs county miners. When MAJ
has joined the order and quit hi
work, another has been waitin,
to take his place, and there ar
! still two thousand honest and fre
! men at work in the mines of tn
county.
Do the people of Hopkins wan
to turn over its greatest industr.
to this organization?
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DARLINGTON FIRE
Burns Two Old Frame Business Houses
on Nam Street Next to Mrs.
Victory's Hotel.
HARDIN LAfFooN LOSES $3.50 CASH.
Loss Slight and No Insurance Except on
BORDERS and Nurphys Restaurant
EXCELLENT WORK OF FIRE lADDies.

EXCELLENT NORk OF fIkt lADUttS.
Friday morning about three
O'Clock the cry of fire was heard
on Main street near the railroad,
followed by the unfailiDg loco
motive whistle alarm which al
ways tells the exciting news of
an incipient conflagration to the
ready: hearts and willing hands
of Earlington's people, always
ready to answer a distress call.
Almost simultaneously with
the sounding of the alarm, the
hose wagons, ladders, barriers,
ETC., of the volunteer fire depart
meet were gotten out and two
twO-inch streams were gotten
FROM the fire plug at the corner
Of Main and Railroad streets.
One TO the front and one to the
rear of the burning buildings.
1t looked at first as if the st.
Bernard butcher shop, a frame
building standing within four
feet of the adjoining burning
frame building, would also 90.
But the fire laddies said it didn't
rave to and it was not even
scOrched.
The fire originated in the old
house next to Mrs. Nictory's
hotel, owned by Mrs. p. B. Davis
and occupied by Borders d Muir
ply as ~ restaurant. Wilson
Borders, speaking Of it said he
had been up the night before and
had worked Friday and that he
lay down on the counter, face
downward, and fell asleep. When
he awole the room was atlame
and in getting out his hair was
singed and one hand slightly
scorched. There was some fire
in the stove and the probable
cause was defective flue.
The wind was in the most fav-
orable direction or the fight
would have been much harder
and the losses perhaps much
greater. Though even with un-
favorable wind it is possible the
fire might have been stopped be-
tween the butcher shop and THE
BEE office. o.
Mrs. 4. II. McEuen's large
brick residence, occupied by Mrs.
Victory's hotel, was scorched
and it is estimated that the paint
can be renewed at from $50 to
S75.
Mrs. p. b. Davis owned the
Z house in which the fire started
and Mrs. McEuen the other house
that burned. Both were old,
one-story houses and. neither was
insured.
Borders n Murphy carried $500
insurance on their stock of goods
and restaurant outfit.
LafI'oon a. Sisk had no insur-
ance on household goods and
stock of notions and pictures.
Most of their stuff was burned.
NJ. II. Lafioon, of the above
firm, over sixty years old, and a
brother of Hon. Polk Laffoon, re-
Gently sold his farm and came to
Darlington to go into business.
He had bought lumber to build Il
new house and on Friday went
to the bank and brought out $3.50
cash.. in bills, with which to pay
for his lumber. This money was
secreted about the bed and
dropped out on the floor and was
lurned TO n crisp. The pocket
book was found next morning
and sent to the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington in the hope
that a portion of the money could
be identified and redeemed.
The work of the Volunteer Fire
Department was superb and once
more proved the efficiency of
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Earlington's water system and
the ability Of the men who are
always looked upon as leaders in
such m emergency.
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On one Of the Indian reservations
in New York state is u toy factory
which employs several hundred In
dians all the year round. The toys
manufactured here are being ship
ped all over the world.
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Invasion of Hopkins County.


$50, 900 acres. The coal crop dug
from under these acres sells for
one million dollars annually; that
is, the county receives Il royalty
or rental Of three dollars per
acre each year for its crop Of
coal. The 81, ,353,740 tons of coal
dug i'll the county in 1900 was
sold mostly outside the State ut
the best possible price the mar
het permitted. The working men
who dug this coal received in
wages, NOT less than $4,000 Of
this one million dollars. The
lumber men and farmers received
for the lumber used in the mines
many thousands of dollars. The
foundry men, wagon builders,
steel rail mills, engine builders,
boiler makers. tool makers, ETC.,
of the entire country received
many thousand dollars Of this
one million, for it takes all those
mechanical appliances, TO sue
cessfully mine and prepare coal
for the market.
At least 270 acres of coal lands
were exhausted, many thousand
dollars of taxes were paid, TO
keep the hundreds of mules and
horses needed to produce this
coal cost many thousands of dol
lars. When all these expenses
are added to the wages paid the
miners, only a meager profit is
left the owner of the mines to
pay him interest on his capital,
and renew his exhausted acres,
deprecated machinery and live
stock, to repair his houses and
shops and mines. No business in
/ the United States pays SO little
profit as coal mining. In Hop
kins county the miner gets full
81 per cent Of the entire receipts
from the coal sold, and the mine
owner that gets 6 per cent on the
capital invested, is Il great man
ager and Il fortunate man indeed.
Such are the business facts and
conditions that embrace the coal
1 industry of Hopkins county, a
condition of Justice TO the work
ing man, because he gets as wages
all the business \can pay, while
the owners of the mines, the men
women and children whose money
makes the capital; without which
hno coal could be mined, and re.
ceive q reasonable profit on the
money invested. For twenty-five
years the, best of harmony has
prevailed between the wage
earners at the mines and the
mine owners. During all these
years, this cordial relation be.
tween labor and capital has beer
regarded the marvel of industrial
enterprises. During years OF
business troubles and panics, the
capitalists stood between the
wage Garner and hard times,
Wages were not reduced but the
profit to the owners was cut oil.
And now what do we see? The
county is full of hired agitator'
from other States and Other
counties, whose purpose it is tC
destroy the harmony now exist
ing between labor and capital il
Hopkins county; whose purpose
it is to close up the mines of the
county, that an unholyI compact
entered into by operators and
miners of other counties, can be
enforced in this county. These
operators have offered the unior
miners employed by them five
cents per ton premium if they
will close up the mines of Hop
kins county, and organize the
free miners of this county ints
( the United Mine Workers OF
America. And what do the
! United Mine Workers propose tc
do? Nothing else than TO take
possession of the coal mines OF
tile county and manage the coaI
business themselves. They pro
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pose to say when and how long
the mines shall run, they propose
to say what mine boss shall be
employed. They propose to say
how much slate and sulphur shall
be picked out Of the coal when
| loaded for the market. They
propose to say that the first
charge on a wage. Garner is the
dues to the United Mine Work
ers Lodge, before food or medi-
cine, or clothing or doctor is con-
sidered. They propose that the
mines shall be managed by a bank
committee of three men whose
word is law. They propose that
the owners of the mines, the men,
women and children whose money
is invested therein, shall pay all
the bills and take all the risks.
They propose that the wages paid
shall have no reference TO the
coal trade, or to the markets, but
shall be arbitrarily fixed by an
organization that has not one
cent invested in the coal business
or anything else, and that is in
no way responsible in law.
I Under the present method of
doing the coal business in Hop
kins county, great trade has
been built up. The mines Of the
county are known as prompt ship
pcrs of coal. Contracts are al
ways filled in time, and because
Of those things, large additions
to the coal trade have been made.
All the markets of the world
are now open TO Hopkins county
coal.
Under the management of the
United Mine Workers, what?
Coal would not be allowed to be
shipped to Evansville, because
the other Mine Workers there
claim that market for the home
mines. Coal could not he ship
ped to other points in Indiana oI
1 Illinois. because other ''brothers"
claim the markets there. Coal
could not be shipped to Hender-
son, KY, for the same reason.
For the same reason coal could
not be shipped to Alabama OF
parts of Tennessee.
Then the weekly or monthly
strikes would disgust the custo.
! mers in numerous other markets,
and the coal trade of Hopkin.
, county would grow less instead
of greater. Note the means by
which the organization of the
United Mine Workers proposes
to capture the mines. The mem
bers of the order in Kentucky
hthd Indiana, also in other States
are assessed, and many Thousand
dollars raised and sent TO this
county to be used as the hired
, linen of the order choose. Mel
1 are hired with money or drink tC
work for the order and entral
ignorant men into it! These mer
claim that our miners should ge
g more wages; when the fact is, he
, is now getting better wages thai
is the union man. The fac
that the best price obtainahle ha'
been paid for the coal sold, tina
the miner now gets 81 cents on
of every dollar received, dom
, count with the paid agitator, wht
. is hired to lie; to deceive; t
destroy the good feeling that ha
existed for twenty-five years be
tween, the miner who receives
the wages and the mine owneI
who pays it. This hired walkin.
delegate uses all his eloquenc'
! on the contented workman, wht
has never before even dreamed
that he was oppressed or down
trodden, to have him believe h'
has lost his liberty and that hi
wages should be fixed by some
body in indianapolis or Russia
it may be, who knows nothing o
the conditions that SURROUND
HoNI.;,,e oo,,,fy
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Prospecting in China.

Mr.. Auguste Mathez, in Mines |
and Minerals, Scranton, Pa, for
April, in an interesting article on
Prospecting in China, says:
Our party consisting of myself
and two assistants, Messrs. Ire
land and Field, left Denver in |
February, 1900, to examine some
mining concessions in Northern
China for Il New York syndicate.
We sailed from Vancouver, on
the Steamship Empress Of China
to Shanghai, thence on small
steamer up the Yellow Sea TO
Taku: from Taku we went byrail
through Tien-Tsin to Peking.
Our trip from Denver to Pc
king occupied just about a
months time and brought us here
in the latter part Of March.
! Within few weeks of our ar
trivial at Shanghai the ice in the
Yellow Sea had broken and navi-
CATION had opened for the season
| from Shanghai north, several
steamers having preceded us to
Taku.
1t is optional with the visitor
to China whether or not he shall
see China before he reaches Pc
king, but there his option ends.
We were delayed in Peking
two weeks through Chinese red
tape in the preparation of our
passports, which by the way we
were never required to show.
| While there making our prepara-
tions too, for the trip north,
vague rumors came several times
from Tien-Tsin of a contemplated
Boxer uprising, but we were OF
the majority Of unbelievers in the
consummation of that movement
and calmly went on with ouI
preparation. We were wisely
advised by our minister, Mr..
Conger not to take an escort OF
. Chinese soldiers, who surely
would have been in the way and
might have been dangerous, SC
we only added TO our party an
interpreter, Mr.. Edward Lowry,
. whose wife's dairy Of the siege
of Peking appeared in the No
vember number of McClure's
, Magazine, and some Chinese SER
: wants.
t There were many things to car
: ry OH our trip besides our sur
veying and chemical apparatus
r for Chinese food is undesirable
: and their drinking water impos
1 sible, except when boiled Will
| coffee and tea. The sewage of ;
a populous country finds its way t.
+ the rivers and streams and th(
s sidead are buried above ground, tC
n imisQuote Edwin Arnold "thC
/, dead are many and. the living are
s not few" So the water from the
{ streams is impure and the wateI
: from the shallow wells, which are
= in frequent use in the cities ant
= surrounding country is worse
n During our stay at the hotels o
5 Shanghai, Tien-Tisn and Pekin:
= we only saw plain water drank a
e table once and that was Il Japan
e ese at breakfast in Tien-Tsin
c The usual beverages are minera
water, ales and wines. We wer,
t fortunately able To provide our
Y selves with American canne'
goods, bacons, hams and Apollin
aris water in Peking.
The Chinese cart is Il combina
II tion of Roman chariot and emf
:, grant wagon, the lower part char
II lot, the upper part emigran
?, wagon.
h 1t required twelve of these cart
I to carry our stuff. Each cart wa
f provided with twoanimals driver
5 tandem without, other reins thai
i Il single cord attached to tn
II foremost beast, which cord by tn
I way was seldom used, as tn.
, guiding was done almost entirel,
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England has one clergyman TO ey-
cry go people; Ireland one to every
,270.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-30
Very True.

We copy the following very peril
nent article from the NorthtieId NelOs:
Societies and all kinds Of organiza-
tions are dependent upon the press
for publicity. Notices OF meetings,
public gatherings and many items cal
uulated to advance their interests are
gladly published by the newspapers
but when these organizations have
small job Of printing it is often given
to a printing office which has no con-
nection with a newspaper. Take for
instance the recent meeting Of the
Washington County Veterans associ-
alton. Every newspaper in the coun-
ty gave it liberal space, publishing
the program and many items of inter
est relating to the proposed reunion.
It had small amount OF printing and
it was natural that it should go to q
Montpelier printing Office because
those in charge were residents of that
city. The two newspapers there have
large and modern job offices in con-
nection with their plants, but the
printing was placed with small job
office, while the newspapers gave the
association free Of charge, 25 times
the publicity that resulted from the
printing. The amount received from
the printing is small consideration
but an appreciation of the efforts of
the newspapers to make such gather
ings as great success as possible is
highly valued. This case is not in
tended as q specific criticism but sim
ply an Illustration of what sometimes
occurs through the thoughtlessness of
the committee Or party having the
adver tising in charge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-30

The following business was transacted
by the probate court during the past week.
Samuel S Lunt estate, Derby License
granted administrator to sell real estate.
Edwin B Weed estate, Lowell. John M,
Whitcomb appointed administrator. An
drew Richardson and NJ. " inchester ap-
praisers and commissioners.
Harriet B. Wilson estate, Derby. Exec
utor's and appraisers inventories returned
and accepted.
James n. Sisco estate, Jay. Will pre-
sented for probate by o. S. Annis, custodi-
an thereof. Referred to Octobtr 9TH next
at Newport.
Charles S. Hinman estate, Charleston.
License granted administrator to sell real
estate.
Rhoda Z. Fuller, non compos, Derby.
Guardian settles his account.
Ellen j. Baxter trust estate, Derby. Ex-
ecutors of H. D. Holmes, former trustee
settle their account. Decree of annual
income made.
Edwin c. Spencer estate, Charleston.
Bette A. Spen Ger appointed administrative
Il. II. Tracy and NJ. F. Gay appraisers and
commissioners.
George n. RamsdelI estate, Lowell.
Commissioners report returned and ac-
cepted.
Kittie E. Hough, minor, Barten. Guar
dams final account allowed.
Edward G. Blake estate, Derby. Com
nissioners' report returned and accepted.
Mary J. Gray estate, Coventry. Admin
Estrator settles his account. Decree of dis
tribution made.
Mary L. Cook estate, Coventry. License
granted to convey certain real estate.
Samuel Cook, spendthrift, Troy. Appli-
cation filed by ward for termination of
guardianship. Commission issued to H.
G. Cleveland and II. B. Cushman, two JUS
tices, to hear and report.
Mary Gilbert estate, Westfield. Admin
i5trator's inventory returned and accepted.
Ira Woodcock estate, Troy. Appraisers
inventory returned and accepted.
Joseph Elliott estate, Barton. Commits
sioners' report returned and accepted.
Catherine Reed estate, Derby. Last will
presented for probate by Alice G. Reed,
executrix named therein. Referred to Oct.
Il, 1901.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-30
State News Items.
Grave Charges.

DR.. J. A. Dow of West Topsham is
under arrest, charged with setting fire
to and destroying the greater part of
the business section Of that commu-
nifty. He has been released uuder
$4,000 bonds to appear at hearing
set for October 2.
Vermont State Teachers Association
mont State Teachers Association will
be held in Burlington, Oct. "a 26, 1901.
Of tie speakers already engaged the
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following may be mentioned: Pres.
G. c. Chase of Bates college; Rev. w.
j. Long, the naturalist and author of
"WiIderness Ways" "Ways of Wood
Folk" etc., of Stamford, Conn; Hon.
Henry T. Bailey, state supervisor of
drawing for Massachusetts,. The
schools of Burlington will be in ses
sion all day Thursday and will be open
to inspection by visiting members of
the Association. On Thursday after
noon there will be a general high
school and college conference on
English and college entrance require
.ments in English. The regular ses-
sions of the association will be held
on Thursday evening, Friday morning
and Saturday morning. Friday after
noon will be given up to an excursion,
Friday evening to the banquet under
the charge of the Schoolmasters' Club.
Later in the evening Pres. and Mrs.
Buckham will give a reception in
Billings library. Special attention is
being given to the exhibits, including
the large collections at the college
AS the association is now out Of debt
and on good business basis, no ex-
pense is being spared to make the
program as attractive and helpful as
possible. This will undoubtedly be
one Of the largest educational meet
inps ever held in the state