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The daily sentinel., 1901-09-18
City Dads Meet.

Council met in regular session last
night with Mayor Sampliner in the
chair. A number OF bills were allowed.
1t was decided that the old reservoir
would do, 30 bids for the construction Of
. new one we're not considered A FIRE
state bridges for protection In case OF
Ore. A filter was ordered built at the
pumping plant so that the water would
be properly filtered during the dry sea
son whom the river is low. 1t was de-
oided that the council as body should
attend tho memorial services tomorrow
afternoon.
The daily sentinel., 1901-09-18
TO THE PUBLIC.
Program of the Memorial Service,
to be Held Tomorrow After
noon by the People Of
Grand Junction.

In view OF the fact that il seems not to
be generally understood, the committee
on memorial exercises, in honor Of our
late beloved and honored President Nc
Kinley, hereby extends an invitation to
all orders. lodges, societies and organized
bodies and the citisens in general to turn
out en- nasse and fall in the line Of march
from the Methodist church to the City
park. Tho meeting time at the church
will be 1:3O pm.
LINE OF MARCH.
Form on White street at Methodist
church in tho following order:
Modern Woodman band.
Mayor and city council.
Ministers and speakers.
G. A. r. post.
Woman's Relief corps.
School children.
Woodmen.
Citizens band.
Eiks. .-=.-+--sa. s-s--s-l..-''-1-r-
Indian school.
Firemsn.
The public.
The procession will march east on
White street to Sixth; north to Grand;
west to Third; south to Main; east to
Fifth, and South to Park.
O. W. Rumble, grand marshal OF tho
day.
Any other society wishing to partici.
pate will be assigned place in the pro-
cession by the marshal of tho day.
PROGRAM AT oITy PARK.
Mayor Sampliner presiding.
Hymn. n..................R Rev. Thompson
Nearer My God to Thee" arranged by
G. r. Alexander.
........ Modern Woodman Band
Audience and children Of the public
schools will sing with the band.
Prayer Rev. Baylsy
Rymn-"Lead Kindly Light" "........
Rev. Martin
Audience singing.
Scripture lesson. ........... Rev. Ward
Sermon n..........R Rev. SandeEson
Music Citizens Band
Short Addresses, w. A. Marsh. ] q. Car
nahan, Henry w. Ross, 8. M. Wheel
or. Father Conway and Sups. Miller
America. :. Modern Woodm n band
Audience and school children singing
with the band.
Benediction. ..... ........ Rev. Lyon
After which taps will be sounded by
G. F. Alexander, and the firing squad
from Troop A, c. N. G., under command
Of Captain Kennedy. will give the last
honors.
Committee O. +. Caswell.
D. Baughman.
The daily sentinel., 1901-09-18
Gard Of Thanks.

For the many kindnesses shown US BY
neigbbors and friends during the sick
ness and burial OF out little one. We ex-
tend heartfelt thanks.
Mr.. and Mrs. q. G. Bsdwell,
Mrs. NJ. A. Bedwell.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
CENTRAL VERMONT MACHINISTS STRIKE

ST. Abans Vt May 1S-Two hundred and fifty
machnists and metal workers employed in the loco
motive department of the Central Vermont Railroad
shops struck to-day. their demand for nine hour
day having been refused by the company This is
the first strike in New England in connection with
the general movement among the maChnists of the
country for the nine hour day.
Besides the nine hour day at pay for ten hours
the machinists asked for certain concessions with
respect overtime and the settlement of future
labor troubles
committee representing the members Of the
interna tional union laid these demands before Will
lam Harsman. superintendent OF motive power. and
X. 5. Logan, general manager. The officials de-
Clined TO grant the demands and issued order
stating their Views. They also announced that any
employe who failed 10 report next Monday morn
ing. the time set for the change 10 into effect
would be considered as having left the service OF
the company
When this ultimatum was received by the men
they decided not TO wait until Monday. but 10 leave
work to-day
Less than twenty men mained at work to-day
Most of them non-Gni0n blaCkSmths. The
strikers have issued call for meeting. TO which
engineers. conductors and other tTainmen have
been invited. II Is believed they viii be asked to
Join the machinsts Some persons familiar with
the situation declare that there Is good ground FOR
the belief that the will he called back within
few days. as the shop IS badly crippled with work
acCumulating
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
MURDER BY TWO NEGROES.
\ LYNCHING THREATENED IN CON
NELLSVILLE, PENN.

! Connellsvie, Penn. May 1S.-Five thousand
white persons surround the lookup in the Town
Hall here tonight Behind the bars are Will
lam Fairfax and his wife. Black El.' both col
ored. who murdered William Moore. assistant
yardmaster in the Baltimore and Ohio yards
here. Moore was struck with a brick on the
head and fell forward. Fairfax took his watch
from his pocket and his money from his cloth
ing, and then hurled the body over stone wall.
distance Of thirty feet. The fall broke Moore's
neck. and he died instantly.
Fairfax and his wife captured and
taken to the lookup. which in few minutes
surrounded by mob of infuriated men.
among them Moore's three sons. The crowd
kept batterng at the doors entreatng the off,
GERS to give up the prisoners, and shouting.
Bring him out to the roper' Lynch him. A
few minutes before 10 o'clock few of the ring
leaders succeeded in getting the inside and
opened fire with revolvers the negroes through
the cell doors For several minutes this fusillade
continued. The officers shot into the air to
frighten the people Suddenly down the street
came crowd of men bearing telephone pole
which the crowd speedily took and, using ii
battering ram. began to knock down the walls
of the building.
In the mean time Sheriff Mccormick. of Fay
cite County. had been informed. and with a
large posse is rushing to Connellsville from
Uniontown on freight train the intention be-
ing TO take the prisoners under escort and get
them into the Jail at UniOntown.
BY l1:3O O'Clock the mob had used the batter
ing ram effectively that the outer wall of
the building was broken through. and the negro
stood exposed that he could have been
dragged out. But the officers headed by Coun-
ty Detective McBeth. stood before him. thwart-
ing the work of the ram. McBeth said TO the
men at the head of the ram. IF you break
through the first man that enters the cell dies'
A man appeared with rope. but none We're
brave enough to face death at the hands of the
officers. At midnight the crowd still around
the lookup.
Connelsville. Penn. May 19.-At 1:iO this
morning Mccormick by a clever ruse succeeded
in eluding the mob. and placing the Fairfax
couple on a special train, started for UniOntown
jail with his prisoners
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
ABOUT HALF THE MACHINIsTs WIN
MOST OF THE BIG FIRMS HAVE ACCEDED
TO THE DEMANDS

According to reports received last night at a
meeting OF District No. Is Of the International
socation Of Machinists, which covers New-York
Long Island and New-Jersey far Paterson,
held in Odd Fellows Hall, No. 81 East Eighth-st.
not more than three thousand or four thousand
machinists will be called to go on strike to-
morrow to enforce the demand for a nine hour day
without any reduction Of pay.
About one hundred and fifty employers Of
nine hundred in the district have conceded the
conditions demanded but these hundred and
fifty are the larger firms and employ nearly half
the machinists in the district, it is said Many of
the others may Weld before tomorrow morning,
and the number of strikers may thus be materially
reduced.
Among the large firms whose employees will strike
are X Hoe & Co. and the Garvin Machine Works
The employees of the Worthington Pump Works in
Brooklyn may strike. This firm has conceded the
wage question.
Among the large firms that have conceded the
demands are the 1idgerwood Manufacturing Com
Psany' n,- the Otis Elevator Company. the Quntard
iron Works, the Mobile Company of America, the
I,;df.n1 Pelham Hod Hosting Company; the Western
Electric Company, the Consolidated Electric Light
and and Power Company and the Starin Shipyards
The strike Will he managed by George II. Warner
James B. Wilson and II. E Williams A head
quarters for the strikers has been established at
Odd Fellows Hail.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
JERSEY CENTRAL MACHINIsTs OUT.
SIX HUNDRED MEN ARE OR WILL BE on
STRIKE BY TOMORROW .4f

Elizabeth. y J.. Nay ls-About three hundred
Tnachinists employed I'm the Jersey Central Rail
road shops went out strike to-day. They want
ten hours pay for nine hours work hour and
n quarters pay for hour work for overtime up
10 o'clock: time and half for overtime between
10 o'clock and midnight. and double time after
midnight and all work Sundays and holidays.
The men have been working and have been paid
for nine hours day.
About ten days ago a committee sent notice Of
the demands to William Mcintosh, superintendent
OF motive power. and last night the men received
a circular containing n refusal OF the requests.
Forty employed in the Jersey City repair
shops Communipaw, last night gave notice
that they would on Monday join the strike inaugu-
rated at EliZabethport unless the demand for a
nine hour day and an increase Of wages should be
conceded.
Two hundred men employed by the Automobile
Company OF America In its shops in the Marion
district gave similar notice, but said a strike was
not expected. the men had received Information
that the request would be granted.
The maChinists in the Central shops in Centre
Vile and Phillipsburg. " J.. also out yester-
day 1t is estimated that the number OF men
ployed by the Central road at lis various shops IN
this State who are out Is six hundred
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
PINKERTON MEN WERE THERE.
lever RISE BY WHICH THEY WERE AD-
MITTED TO STRIKERS MEETINGS.
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l

| TRy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEI
! Albany, Nav 18-The streetcar strikers and
1 their friends were dumfounded tonight when
| they discovered how badly they had been fooled
| by the United Traction Company on Wednesday
last. The company placed eight Pinkerton men
in their headquarters and meeting places with
out their knowing it. and result of ruse
the company is in possession of the names of
all the strikers who were planning before the
strike was declared off to njure them.
OF the sixty supposed motormen and conduc-
tors brought TO Albany that day forty were
Pinkerton men in the employ of the traction
company. While the trucks carrying the men
were being driven through Broadway and State
st. they We're mobbed by friends of the strikers.
Bricks. stones and clubs thrown and when
the missiles coming thckest eight of the
strangers jumped from the trucks and rushed
into the welcoming arms of the strikers, who
seemed TO regard them as converts. They were
taken to strike headquarters. where they have
been pampered and petted since.
When the strike was declared off this morn
ing OF the detectives. who had become
friendly with his host. frankly told him that he
was a Pinkerton, in the employ of the
company, and that jumping from the truck
during the fusiade was part of a carefully laid
plan. The detective expressed qualification be-
cause he had not been compelled TO carry the
deception further. Tonight the strikers de-
clare that the detectives could not have learned
anything important. they had conducted
everything in the open
The 9th Regiment. about six hundred strong
got away tonight at I:;}o O'Clock by special
train. Broadway lined with people who
generally speaking. sullen the men
marched by. Finally the drum corps struck up
Home Again" and this won applause from the
sidewalk crowd. The 9th boys bedaubed
with mud, and their camp equipment could not
have looked dirtier if il had been with De Wet
for two years.
The ODDS special starts al o'clock tomorrow
morning. There is an Enthusiastically ugly feel
ing among the more ignorant and unreasonable
toward the 23d men account of the unfort-
unate shooting on Thursday of Smith and
Walsh Nowhere is the death of these men re-
gretted more deeply than in the 23d itself The
early hour Of the regiments departure will
doubtless detract from the large attendance OF
strike sympathizers at their leavetaking.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
MISS ACKERuAy yOT HERE.

There a report current yesterday that Mary
Louise Ackerman and George F. Wentworth 'he
lawyer. who elOped some months ago. had re-
turned this city. but not living at thelE
old homes. Miss II L. Alderman lived at No y
West Fifteenth-st. II said that she was
staying at the home of Mrs. Bensel at NO 20
EdgecOmb-ave. a Tribune reporter called at W.
2O2 EdgecOmb-ave. and was told that Miss Acker-
man and Mr.. Wentworth were still in ;he west
Il have been asked by Miss Wentworth 10 re-
mail letters addressed her which are sent 10 my
home.'' said a person at that house MIS- Z. Fay
of No. 20 West Fifteen tlSt, is her SuaTdlan At4S
Ackerman recently wrote to Us that Mrs, Fdy -
sent her her usual allowance OF the money
held in trust for her. and which she Will get lulI
possession of in few years This allowance -
withheld understand because Mrs. Fay does nor
know the present address OF Miss AckerInah
What the amount of the allowance is l 90 not
lynN
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
THE COST OF THE STRIKE

Albany, May 1s-The strike has been twelve day.
IN Duration and the OF II in all ways is est,-
mated follows:
Loss OF life, two prominent citizens
Loss 10 the company:
Ihe clear profits OF the company for eleven davs
amount to sl2799 e3 - ~'
Salaries paid 10 ofle.els and clerks for which no
revenue is derived, $500 49,
salaries of forty inspectors $780,
salary or chiet inspector, eleven davs s33
transportation Of $50 non-union men from Neu
York at $40 each, s55S.
maintenance OF same four days 81 OSO
.. fsE OF seventy non-union men for three days et
Transportation Of ffty-four non-unton men from
Bunalo at S6 Is each. 1892 10.
Iotal cost TO the company, N7,i23 o.
Loss 70 the strikers:
Daily wages OF nine hundred men AZ an avAra GA
or 81 50 a day, sl7.s2O.
Loss 10 the county:
DAYS. $4,000 F' -t A
Pay OF one hundred deputy sherifs s22O0
transportation. maintenance and nav az the OH
Regiment for day So 500 F' - w "
Total cost 10 county, $500
Total cost OF strike 20 date:
Cost 20 company. 1890
Cost TO strikers. 81 $50.
COST 10 county. S3.70o
Iotal cost, s6s.e4S 0S.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
GTRLEY & JOHNsOy no REsUME.

Washington. May 1S-The firm of Gurley & John
son. brokers. will resume business within the next
week. and will pay dollar for dollar their
debts. Such the arrangement made at their
office to-day. Roth the members of the firm were
present, but they were engaged with customers
and Mr. Houghton. who has long been connected
with the house, spoke for them. There has been
no failure" Mr.. Houghton said. las as we
can get an adjustment of New-York accounts
and collect the moneys due the house will pay dol
lar for dollar and have handsome balance be-
sides. There will be meeting OF creditors be-
tween now and Monday night when proposition
will he submitted which we have already been
sured by the principal creditors will be accepted.
Business will then be resumed. The firm. however,
be reorganized.'
Mr.. Houghton said that the assets of the firm
amount almost S500.0C0 most Of them collectible
accounts while the liabilities less than S2000 00O
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
ST. LOUIS FIREMAN FELL TO DEATH

St Louis. May 1s.-While fighting a fire which
threatened destruction to the five story brick build
ing at No lll5 Oive-st late this afternoon Edward
Green. assistant foreman OF Engine Company No.
p. slipped from line OF hose. upon which he was
descending from the roof to q ladder and was
dashed to death on the stone pavement sixty feet
below. The accident witnessed by several thou
sand persons who had gathered 10 watch the prog
ress OF the fire. r1oment after Green fell to his
death four other fremen, caught In the same tran
made the perilous descent on the hose in safety
amid The cheers and handcapping of the multitude.
The fire broke out in The upper part of the build
ing, and was confined there by the firemen. Half
dozen firms occupied the structure, and they sus-
tained loss estimated at 10000 which in the
main was caused by smoke and water.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
FOR JACKSONVILLE RELIEF.

In addition to the letter from the authorities of
the Roman Catholic Church in the city that they
would take up collection in their churches on
Sunday, June ,. for the Jacksonville sufferers the
Jacksonville relief committee of the Chamber of
Commerce and the Merchants Associa ton has re-
ceived replies from the following in response to the
appeal which sent 10 the churches of this CITY:
From the Rev. DR.. William r. Huntington rector
of Grace Church, who wrote that his church had
already taken up a collection for the suffering.
from r. ]. Lewand. OF the First Church of Christ
Scientist, 10 the same effect and from the Rev
c. T. Walker pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist
Church. colored. who wrote that the colored
churches would take up the collection suggested
Contributions received by the joint committee of
the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants As
ISOLATION up TO p. m. yesterday for the Jackson
willie sufferers:
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
STATEMENT OF THE UNION.
TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES LEAVE CITY

Albany May Is (SpeciaD.-The non-union men
especially employed by the United Traction Com
pany to take the place OF the conductors and
motormen on strike have all left the city.
They came here at good wages. and. having
earned them, are content 10 surrender their
places 10 the old ;nen. The National Guard Of
neers by strategy put the non-union men on
board railroad trains without subjecting them
10 any serious attack. They were taken IN two
bodies TO the West Albany station Of the New
York Central and there found special trains
which conveyed them to the Central station
here, whence they departed in various directions
A Few stones were thrown at the first detach-
menS, bet the second was unmolested.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
CONTRADICTIONS TO JACKSONVILLE.

Jacksonville, Fla, May IS (SpeciaD.-A sensation
was sprung at the meeting OF the executive COM
tnittee to-day, when the Rev. Father Kenny an
rounced that the labor unions issued orders TO
me sawmih employees TO quite work after to-day
because the price of groceries had been advanced
Inc committee will investigate this matter and IT
- Hopeo trouble VIII be averted. The relief fund
mas received TO date n total cash cortr,bu,,o, 30,
s o. ahis is exclusive of the States contri-
t,ei ~ sZooco and the 1900 balance from the
e leFel lsod OF lsSS. which, IL Is expected will
gS .uriea over 70 The relief association next week
ne wneeIoatrows, five hundred In number re-
oervep ,,y from TIE New-York Chamber of Commerce
heading the river front " e "oiA VI ouiA-
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
SET 4 BULLDOG on BOYS.

MAN CHARGED WITH THE OUTRAGE
LOCKED UP.
Patrick NcManus ffty-six years Old stable
man, living at No 536 West Thirty-sixth-st
was locked up in the West Thirty-seventh-st
station last night. charged with setting his
bulldog on a number Of small boys who were
playing in vacant lot at No. 53S West Thirty
hfth-st
negan. eight years old. who lives at No. 535
West Thirty -fifth-st.. that the boy among
those at play in the lot, when McManus set his
dog the boys. The animal caught hold of the
boys clothing and tore his coat into pieces. and
then buried it's teeth in the boys left arm and
back.
large crowd gathered and the dog was
driven away. Policeman Issing arrested Nc
MauuS. DR.. LiddOn examined the boys in
juries and found that they were slight. Fin
negan went home.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
THE INDEBTEDNESS OF HATANA.

REPORT OF \ COMMISSION ON THE CITY's
FINANCES.
Havana. May 1S.-The striking stevedores and
lightermen have returned TO work. agreeing 10
leave their grievances to arbitration
The committee appointed to investigate the
Indebtedness of Havana. the sources of revenue
and the methods necessary to secure the pro-
posed additional loan of S15J0O0.0OO report that
the present bonded Indebtedness is 50 693, POI
and the floating debt S2.I65.331. and that the
income of Havana would be $3.Jo0,O00 with
proper management of the waterworks markets
and slaughter houses and higher tax on alco-
hol Deducting the interest on the old and new
bonds. this would leave $4,000 00D for municipal
expenses. which would be sufficient providing
the educational expenses continue 10 be paid
from the State funds.
The commission objects to handing the
management of city prcperty security for
the loan. and recommends that all guarantees
this basis be rejected.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
MEN TO GO OUT IN OTHER PLACES

Hamilton, Ohio. May "Reminiscences OF this
city have decided 10 refuse the demands OF the
men appears inevitable.
Cleveland, Ohio. May 1S.-The manufacturers
association of this city has made no reply or taken
any action in reference to the demands OF the
machnsts. and IL is conceded by both sides that
the will go strike Monday morning Sew
eral firms have granted the scale presented by the
machinsts. but II is said that fully twenty-five
hundred men will go
Milwaukee. Wis, May 1s-Large employers OF
machinsts in this city have declared they will not
grant the demands of the men, and strike OF COO
machnists Monday is considered certain. Pat
tern makers to the number of $50 also have de-
manded shorter hours and more pay.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
MAY PROMOTE FOR BRAVERY.
COURT OF APPEALS UPHoLDs ADVANCE
MENT OF POLICEMAN WHO SAVED
THREE LIVES.

The Court of Appeals. it was announced at Police
Headquarters yesterday. has decided that Rounds
man John P. Leary. who saved three lives at the
Windsor Hotel fire. legally promoted TO his
present grade Leary promoted by the old
Poliee Board in recognition of his bravery without
having passed the Civil Service examination. The
Civil Service Board objected and Learys pay as
rounosman was held up, though he has done duty
as roundsman. he will now receive his back nav
The Court Of Appeals declares that the Police
commissioner has right TO promote a member OF
the department without examination for a deed OF
exceptional bravery not coming within the regular
scope OF his duty a policeman.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
CONNECTICUT MACHINIsTs TO GO OUT

New-Haven. Conn May 1S.-Strikes of machinists
in large shops in Hartford. Bridgeport Derby, An
sonia. Norwak, Waterbury. New-Britain and possi-
bly, other cities of Connecticut expected next
Monday a result of the refusal of manufacturers
TO accede TO the demands of the International As
socation of Machinists for a nine hour day. Sew
eral thousand machnists In this State organ
ized, II IS estimated, and except in Danbury manu-
facturers have refused TO grant their demands.
In Bridgeport the eight hundred members of the
union voted late last night TO come out Monday.
after a letter read from the local association
of manufacturers saying that the demand would
not be granted. Ansonia and Derby manufacturers
assert that the demand In violation Of agree
ment entered into between the International Asso-
citation of Machinists and the National Association
Of Manufacturers The WhitloCk Machine Company
and the Driggs-Seabury Gun and Ammunition Com
pany will close their plants tonight for In
definite period, and the men look upon the situation
there 8 practically lockout.
In NOrwalk Waterbury and New Britain prep
arations being made apparently for prolonged
strike by both the labor leaders and the manufac
New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
A NEW HOTEL NEAR MADISON SQUARE

A TWELVE STORY STRUCTURE To BE BUILT ON
WEST TWENTY -FIF"TH-ST.
twelve story freproof apartment hotel is TO
be built near the Hoffman House. The land on
which the hotel will stand was sold yesterday
by Ranald III. Macdonald & Co. for Cole Morris
and other persons. This deal represents an
outlay of about S1.0OO.0O0.
On the land bought site for the hotel now
stand two buildings. known as Nos. Is and 20
West Twenty -fifth-st. They four story
brownstone dwelling houses. and are on a plot
90 by 100 feet. The hotel will be almost oppo-
site the home of the Rev DR.. Morgan Dix In
begun.