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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
BIG FIGHT PROMISED

When the MachlnIsts Strike for a Nine
Hour Day.
Net1 Torz Sun Special Se4v5cs
Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 23.-Preparations
to fight a monster strike of machinfsts
next spring for the nine-four day were
made at a meeting Of the administrative
council of the National Metal Trades asso-
citation, which ended to-day. To this
end large addition was made to the de-
Tense fund Of the association which is
reputed to have been nearly 81, ooo, 900 be-
FORE. -.-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
JAPS ARE BARRED
Ruling That They Cannot Become
Citizens of the u. s.

Olympia, WASH, Oct. 23.-The supreme
court has decided that a Japanese can
not become citizen Of the United States
The point came up directly In the matter
Of the admission Of q young Japanese
lawyer to the bar of the state. the law
making citizenship qualification for adj
m!ssion-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
.BARRlCADES IN STREET
Serious Strike Riots at Dunkirk,
France Law Is
j ~.T Proclaimed.

Paris, Oct. 23.-Further serious strike
disturbances occurred at Dunkirk to-day.
Barbados were erected and cavalry was
compelled to charge the rioters. Some or
the latter were killed or wounded. "A
mob set fire to barrels Of oil and other
goods on the quay and also set fire to the
house OF a mine owner. Martial law has
been proclaimed at Dunkirk.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
ENGLISH VIEWS +.
ARE CHANGING
The Traditional Enmity Toward
Russia Is Now Turned on
Germany.
The Russian Evacuation of Man.
churia Is Found to Be
Farce.
England Also Looks With Indiffer-
ence on the Work in the East
ern Mediterranean.
ye,v York SUI. SpeoiaS Sea'ptce

Ne,u Yorb Sun !Speoins Sea'rtce
London Oct. 23.---The Times discovery
that the Russian process of the evacuation
of Manchuria has involved a permanent
concentration OF troops along a well-con-
structed railway traVersing the populous
province is discussed quietly by the Eng
lish press. = W.
The truth is frankly admitted that Man
churia is little less than a province of
the Russian empire already and that the
European powers have been completely
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
, H. P. ABRAMS DEAD.

. Sherman, Texas. Oct. Fisherman H. Abrams
for fifty years active in railroad service and who
dispatched military trains out of Cairo ILL.,.
during the civil war, under direct appointment Of
President Lincoln, is dead. He had resided in
Sherman for twenty years.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
KILLED IN EXPLOSION

Spark From Young Lassgen's Pipe Sup.
posed to Have IgnIted Dyna-
mite Cap.
Special to The Journal.
st. Cloud, Mimi, Oct. 23.-John Lass
gen. aged %, of Rockville, this county,
was killed by an explosion of dynamite
yesterday afternoon. 1t Is supposed the
dynamite cap was ignited by a spark from
his pipe.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
-. IN THE UPPER DISTRICT ~
Most Of the Old Miners Are Given Places
. 49, To-day.

r. 49, To-day. 1850.
Scranton, Pa, Oct. 23.-Work was re-
sumed quite generally in the upper an
thracite district to-day. Eighty per cent
Of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
company's miners returned and We're
given work. - =. =,
About forty carpenters could not be
furnished work but were told that other
places would be found for them. Super
intendent Toby said that whenever the
company was unable to place the return
ing workmen in the places they had left
other places would be found for them as
soon as possible.
Operations were resumed at all the Del
aware & Hudson con1pany's collieries in.
the upper Lackawanna region except two
which were not ready.
About two-thirds Of the Ontario q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
Roosevelt Is Cheered.

Roosevelt Is cheered.
Paris, Oct 23.-President Roosevelt s
name was enthusiastically cheered In the
chamber of deputies to-day when M.
Jaures (socialist) urged the government
to follow the example Of the American
presidents conciliatcry attitude in deal
ing with strikers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
A NEW PHASE OF THE COAL STRIKE
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATIONARY ENGINEERS
. MAY REFUSE TO HANDLE HARD COAL.

President Morton Of That Union While
ing Reinaed, His Men Are Not-Abut e7 the Col
eres Are in Active Operation Today-some of the Men Are
Asked to Sign Contracts and Agreements Refuse Do So
They Do Not Go Work.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23

Following Is a copy Of the agreement
which the employees Of A. Pardee & Co.
at Hazleton were asked to sign:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
WITH SCOTT AND TAYLOR
John Thatcher OF Baraboo, WIS.,, Vet
eran Of the Mexican War,
Mustered Out.

Mustered Out.
Special to The Journal.
Baraboo, Wis, Oct. 23.-John Thatcher,
a resident here for over fifty years and a
veteran of the Mexican war, died to-
day, aged H., .. q s, zszs,.3*ss ;.
James Cary. brakeman. and Edward
Cane, employees Of the Chicago & North
Western, were killed by the cars yester-
day. a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
SHOWING THE EARTH's MOTION

Interesting Experiment in the Dome
of the Pantheon.
No.o York. Sum Special Servtoe
Paris, Oct. 23.-An interesting expert
ment under the auspices OF the astro-
nonical society of France took place yes
terday afternoon when ocular proof Of the
revolution Of the earth was given by
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
THE FIRST ACCIDENT

An Explosion Of Gas Occurs In Reading
80. e, Shaft.
Shamokin, Pa, Oct. 23.-In re opening
the Alaska shaft owned by the PhiladeI-'
phia & Reading Coal aud Iron company
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23

men are thought to be imprisoned. Up
to 10 O'Clock the breasts. had not been
jceached. 49, -
s@sss@@ ASKED no sleNePAPERs - >rassssz.
Why Some Of the Miners Refused to Re.
turn to Work To-day.
Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 23.-Only two Of the
twenty-eight collieries in the Hazleton
district opened up this morning.
Those operating are the Halle mines
breaker Of the Lehigh Valley Coal COM
pany, and the upper Lehigh mine Of the
Upper Lehigh Coal company. The Lehigh
Valley Coal company expects later in the
day to start up its Yorktown and Halle
ton shaft mines with about half the usual
force Of men. the workings not yet being
in condition to give employment to all
hands. Because Of high water or other
conditions, no effort was made to start the
twenty-slx collieries indicated. Some Of
them are sure to resume before the end Of
the week.
The collieries Of G. B. karkle & Co.,
at Jeddo, Highland, Oakdale and Ebervale
are in shape for resumption but only
small number Of men made application for
their places and gave verbal assent to
abide by the decision of the arbitration
commission as required by a notice posted
yesterday. John Markle announced that
as soon as sufficient number of men re-
port work will be resumed.
None Of the Coke Bros collieries re-
sumed because they asked the men to sign
an agreement not to interfere with nom
union men under penalty Of discharge.
The men had been instructed by the union
leaders not to sign agreements and all re-
turned home.
The Derringer colliery Of Coke Bros. is
on fire and the 1remen have been sent
there to get it under control. The fire
originated, it Is claimed, through the
carelessness Of workman employed dur
ing the strike.
Everything was in readiness for resump-
ton at the Cranberry & Crystal Ridge COL
lieries Of A. Pardee & Co., but as the men
reported for work they were asked to sign
an agreement similar to that prepared by
Coke Bros. & Co. This they refused to do
and the entire union force returned home.
At Silver Brook the mine workers re-
fused to return to work because it Is al
legged the company will not take back
twenty-seven Of it's former employers,
among them two sub-bosses.
Troops were stationed at or near most
Of the collIeries this morning, but no
trouble Of any kind occurred.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23

Any person working for this COM
pany guilty Of III treatment or mol
estIng any man who has worked dur
Ing the last strike or Of abusing any
member Of his family will be imnne-
dIateIy discharged.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
HAIR CAUGHT FIRE
Two Children of Wisconsin Burned

Independence, Wis, Oct. 23-Two chill
dren Of John Eichmann Of Traverse Val
ley, about Ave miles northeast Of indie
pcndence, we're burned to death to-day.
They were cooking potatoes outdoors and
their hair caught fire. They were and
8 years old. = -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23
LOEFFELMACHER ESCAPES
He Had Been Arrested for Attempting t.
Blow Up ThreshIng Outfit
With Dynamite.
SpeciaI to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
st. Peter. Mimi, Oct 2S-Young John
Loeffelmacher, arrested and brought here
on the charge OF attempting to explode
dynamite in a threshing engine owned
by John Mans and Adam Weniger es-
capped this morning. Sheriff Mcmillan.
while arranging for the preliminary hear
ing left the boy In care of his father
and the escape was made at that time
The father was arrested for aiding his
sons getaway and has put UP $50 to pay
the expenses of O. search.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-23

this morning an explosion Of gas occurred
as Robert Mowneh and Aaron Dreher
walked into No. 1 slope. They were
blown about twenty feet and were badly
burned about the head and face. The
gas extended deeper into the mines and
while a, rescuing party removed the two
victims another body Of men began work.
ing their way into the breasts where five
men are thought to be imprisoned. Up.
to 10 O'Clock the breasts had not been
reached r., 80 49,
The National tribune., 1902-04-17

ming back to Kramer's led mule, stripped
the haversacks, canteens and kettles off,
mounted. and rode forward to join his
companions.
Kramer stopped long enough to strip the
bride and saddle from Sandy's horse. so
as to give the poor brute a chance for his
life. He then piled his household goods
on his own horse, and took look around
to get to the rear of the fight
AS 81 and the rest gained the main road
they saw coming into it from the other
side FIVE wagons, evidently belonging to
a forage train which had been sent out
from around Barnwell, and was returning
loaded high with tops and blades of corn,
tied up in bundles, as is the custom in the
South. One wagon had just reached the
ford, three were strung along behind it,
while the fifth was still in the side-road.
Disturbed by the yelling and the sights
the drivers had dismounted. and were hud-
died together, whip in hand, gazing up the
road to see what was happening.
And idea flashed into Sis mind.
We'll set fire TO them wagons, and
stand them fellers off," he exclaimed.
Pete, skip over there, and make that
other teamster drive in. Then make him
cut his mules loose. and you set fire to the
load. Got any matches|
The National tribune., 1902-04-17
PERSONAL.

The grave closed over Il picturesque
character at Los Angeles, Cal, last week.
Col. Blanton Duncan was the son Of Hon.
Carrot Duncan, one OF Kentucky's most
brilliant Representatives, and was born
IS years ago. He grew up handsome,
fascinating, and pugnaciOus, and inherited
a large property. He graduated from col
lege at the head Of his class, was admit
ted to the bar, and Immediately began O
most stormy life. He was first a Know
Nothing, and was one of the leaders In
the bloody riot at Louisville in 1885, Then
he threw himself into the Secession move
ment, and tried to drag Kentucky into the
rebellion. He raised the first rebel regi.
ment in Kentucky and armed and equip
ped it at his own expense. But he soon
quarreled with everybody under and over
him and spent most of the war at Augusta,
Ga, at the head of the bureau for print.
ing Confederate money. He was a vol.
luminous writer of fiery newspaper
articles. He returned to Louisville after
he war, refused to enter the Greeley
movement, but started daily paper in the
interest of the candidacy of Chas. O'Con.
nor. Later he-was one of the most radical
of the Greerback leaders. Then he went
to Texas, and later to Los Angeles. He
was engaged in various visionary enter
prises, but one of them turned out very
prOhtably. He bought hundreds Of acres
of arid desert land and announced that he
was going to irrigate il with artesan
ellis. Everybody laughed at him, but he
sank his wells all the same, and they gave
him an abundance of water. In 1892 one
of his friends, who was editing Il Repub-
lican paper, was called East in the midst
OF the campaign, and left Duncan In
charge. Duncan came out strongly for
Cleveland, and claimed to have carried
the State for MIN. He demanded a big
office as his reward, was laughed at and
raised big row.
Gen. Ira NJ. Hedges, Past Department
Commander of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public, of New York, died at his home in
Haverstraw, n. Y, April 8, in his 63d
year. He served in the 95th n. Y.
The National tribune., 1902-04-17
THE NEW COMMISSIONERS OF PENSIONS.

Last Friday the President astonished
everybcsy-even the appointee himself
by announcing the appointment Of Capt.
Eugene +. Ware, Of Topeka, Kan, as
Commissioner of Pensions His name had
not been previously mentioned by any one
in connection with the office, or with any
office, though he had recently been selected
as one of the Board OF Visitors to West
Poiat, and the President had not limited
his intention to Capt. Ware. 1t was one
of the surprising moves which the Presi-
dent had thought out wholly by himself,
but it electrified everybody, who knew any
thing Of the appointee. They are unani-
nous in the assertion that better sclec-
ton could not have been made. and that
Capt. Ware, or Gene Ware" as he is
generally known west of the Mississippi,
has il n high degree the qualities which
will fit him for successful administration
of the office.
Eugene f. Ware was born in Hartford,
Conn, in 1871. but his parents removed
The National tribune., 1902-04-17
THE NATIONAL WASHINGTON D. c. THURSDAY APRIL H. 1902

Evans, Capt. Ware has intellectual gifts
and attainments which have attracted the
attention of educated, bright, thinking men
all over the country, and won the friend
ship Of the President before he had ever
met him.
4. Differing also markedly from Mr..
Evans, Capt. Ware is a frank, genial,
wholesome-natured man, who has been a
leading spirit even among such men rs
have built up greatly and strongly the
splendid State of Kansas, in which he was
one of the pioneers, and has been actively
helpful in all her wonderful progress
While any change in the person of the
Commissioner of Pensions would have
been welcome, this selection seems to be
particularly happy one, and hopeful of
all that we can reasonably ask.
Our warm thanks are due President
Roosevelt for it.
The National tribune., 1902-04-17
Work of the Pension ONCE.

The report of certificates issued for the
week ended April . shows:
Army invalid: Original, 4: increase, 4Ol; re-
issue, 175; restoration. 4; renewal, Il; sup
Elemental. Z; duplicate, so; accrued, 155.
Army widows, etc: Original SO: reissue. g;
renewal, 40; duplicate, II; accrued, l. To-
tai. 122.
Navy invalids: Original 1; Increase, 1; re-
issue >; accrued. f. Total, s.
Navy widows, etc: Original, 3; renewal, L
Total, g.
Old Widows: Renewal, 1.
Army invalids (war with SPAIN: Original,
ST. increase, 1; reissue, 5; duplicate, l: ac-
crued .. Total, %.
Army widows. etc (war with SPAIN: Origt-
nal. "a; reissue, ?; duplicate. 1. Total 81.
Navy inyalidS (war with SPAIN: Original g.
Army invalids tact of June -, 1890: Origi-
nal. 262; increase. G15; additional. 1S3; re-
issue. u; restoration, 4 renewal, 81; supple
mental, 5; duplicate, 81; accrued, III. Total,
1851.
Army widows, etc (act of June %, 1890:
Original $50; reissue. 81 restoration, 1; re-
sol.
Navy invalids (act of June %. 1890: origi-
nal, 10; increase, IA; duplicate, 4; accrued, 4.
Navy widows. etc (act of June Of. 1900:
Original, Q; duplicate, 1. Total 10.
Mexican War survivors: Increase, 8; re-
issue, "a; supplemental, 2; accrued, .. To-
tai, 46
Mexican War widows: Original, IL.
Indian Wars NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: Ac-
crued. ..
Indian Wars QSs2-1s42l-widows: Original.
L. duplicate. l. Total, s.
Totals-Original, SIS; increase, 1,037; addi-
tional. 1SS; reissue, 2SI; restoration. 8; re-
newal, 81. supplemental, 10; duplicate, 123i
accrued, 1868. Total, 1921.
The National tribune., 1902-04-17
DECORATION DAY

Recitation at Arlington
1t Is needless | should tell you
OF the history of Sumter,
How the chorus OF the cannon shook It's
walls
How the scattered navles gathered,
How the irOn-ranked battalions
Rose responsive 10 the country's urgent calls.
1t is needless that ! tell you.
For the time Is still too recent
How was heard the first vindictiye cannon's
peal;
How two brothers stopped debating
On a sad, unsettled question,
And referred it 10 the arbtrating steel.
1t is needless that tell you
OF the sOmbcr days that followed
Stormy days that III such slow succession
OF Antietam, Chlckamauga,
Gettysburg, and MurfreesborO',
Or the rocky, cannon shaken Kapidau.
1t was not a war Of conquest:
1t was fought to save the Union,
1t was waged for an Idea Of the right;
And the graves SO widely scattered
Show how fruitful an idea
In peace, or war, may be In moral might.
Brief indeed the war had lasted,
Had it ragged in hope of plumber;
Bricfer still had glory been It's only aim.
But its long and sad duration
And the graves it has bequcathcd us,
ptheT motives, Othef principles, proclaim.
Need mention this idea,
The invincible idea,
chat so seemed to hold and save the Ma
tons life;
That, resistlcss and underwriting
Undisheartcncd by disaster,
Seemed the soul and inspiration Of the strife
This idea was Of freedom
Was that men should all stand equal
That the world was Interested in the fight;
That the present and the future
Were electors who had chosen
Us TO argue and decide the case Alright.
And the theories Of freedom
Those now silent bugles uttered
WI! reyerberate with ever growing tones;
They can never be forgotten,
But Will work among the nations
TIL they sweep the word Of shacklcs and Of
thrones.
1t is meet that we do honor
To the comrades who have fallen
Meet that we the sadly woven garlands
Irvine.
Where they buried lie Is sacred.
Whether meath the Northern marble
Or beneath the Southern cypresstree or pine
Nations are the same as children
Always living In the future,
Living in their aspirations and their hopes;
picturng some future greatness,
Reaching forth for future prizes,
With Il wish for higher aims and grander
scopes.
:
1t Is better for the people
That they reach for an ideal,
That they give their future nations better
lives;
Though the standard he unreal
Though the hope meets no fulfiment
Though the fact in empty dreams alone sur
wives.
II the people rest cOntented
With the good they have accomplished
Then they retrOgrade and slowly sink away
Give Il nation an ideal,
Some grand, noble, central project;
1t, Ike adamant, refuses to decay
'Tis the duty of the poet,
'Tis the duty of the stateman.
To inspire "a nations life with nobler aims:
And dshOnOr will o'ershadow
Him who dares not or who falsely
His immoftai-fruited mission lnlsproclaiins.
The National tribune., 1902-04-17
IMMENSE ADVANTAGES.

The new Commissioner Of Pensions pos
sesses several very distinct and immense
advantages over the incumbent.
l. He is a lawyer-a very good one
and has all his life devoted himself to find
ing out just what the laws say, and how
they should be applied. This is an enor-
nous advantage over Mr. Evans, who
knows nothing of law, and is disposed to
regard it as something to prevent his do
ing what he wants to, and what "a smart
man" should find some way of circum-
venting. Mr.. Evans not only knows no
law, but he has always been very much
indisposcd to learn it. Even the lessons
which his official superior, the Secretary
Of the Interior, has tried to grind into
him 10y overruling and reversing him were
i'll received and bore no fruit He is
ignorant OF and defiant as to not only the
laws passed by Congress, but equally so
as to the common law and practice as to
crcdibility of witnesses, weight Of evil
dnnce. and amount of-testimOny necessary
to prove Il case. On the other hand, Capt
Ware is man who started out with the
idea that laws are made TO be executed
He devoted five years of his young man
hood to a vigorous enforcement of the
laws, where Henry Clay Evans put in 121
days at making out Quartcrmaster re-
turns I'm fair hand" Then he devoted
himself to hard study for years to acquire
4 knowledge of the laws and their appli-
cation to particular cases, while Henry
Clay Evans was occupied in making sharp
trades with Tennessee farmers for con-
dcmned Government mules and wagons
Capt. Wares intimate knowledge of the
law has brought him prominence in a
State where good lawyers abound, and we
have therefore solid grounds for hoping
that he will give us the full and rigid exc
statute books, without any prejudices
haseS, or vagaries of his own. This is all
that we desire.
>. Capt Ware was thorough soldier
and one who went in at the start and
stayed until the finish, and then took a
turn at the Indian-fighting, to make good
measure. He has about 1000 days Of
hard, active, constant service in the field
to contrast with Henry Clay Evans's 121
days in the Quartermaster's Department.
A man who served in, marched, camped,
and fought with such sterling regiments as
the LIST and 4th Iowa, and 9TH Iowa Cav.
and won his way to a Captains commits
sion among such superb fighters was made
of no common stuff. He had TO be a man
all the way through. and of very differ
ent mold from the one who, though still
older than he, begrudged his sorely beset
country a bare 12i days of clerical sery-
ice in 4 comfortable Office.
3. Differing markedly from Henry Clay