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Carpenters of Boston and vicinity get
So a day.
Cincinnati city hospital nurses work
eight hours.
Holyoke, Mass, girls formed House
work Girls Union.
PHILADELPHIA bricklayers receive a cent
a minute for days work.
San Francisco building laborers won
1925 per day for eight hours work.
Minneapolis, Mimi, building laborers
have made a demand for % cents an
hour
Bricklayers in Germany receive from
Z to 8 cents an hour and work ten hours
a day.
Building laborers at Cleveland, Ohio,
have asked for $2.40 a day, an increase
of 40 cents.
Eleven fourishing labor unions have
been formed in Winona, Mimi, in the
past month.
Blacksmiths at Wheeling, Bridgeport,
Martins Ferry, Bellaire and Benwood,
w. Va, have formed a union.
There is a movement on foot among
/
ploy none but temperance men.
Providence, r. l., labor unions plan
to raise $4,000 before Jan. ], 1905, with
which to build labor temple.
Bricklayers at Toronto, Casda, have
made a demand for weekly payment of
wages They are now paid semi-weekly.
Newspaper men of Spain have formed
a union, and viii demand a minimum
wage Of S3S a month and one day OF a
week
Textile workers Of Lancashire, Eng
land, have determined to run labor cam
didates for Parliament at the coming
election.
There are 10000 boys and girls be-
tween ten and fifteen years Of age at
work in factories and mines in the Unit
ed States.
There is a great scarcity Of labor
among the iron workers, boilermskers,
maehinists, pattern makers and molders
in British Columbia. The wages Of
boilermakers is $3.50 for a nine-hour dag
and for pattern makers 81 for a nine
hour day.
Carpenters and joiners on the north
tAbh NRa1A Va I'll ltlHN " III huAAtA a III
Their reduction Of Cd week, dated from
July J.
The Native Labor Association in the
Transvaal, South Africa, is endeayoring
TO obtain 5000 men from the Portu-
guese territories, and failing IN this, wiz
apply for permits for the immigration Of
thousands Of Films.
Denver (Colo) local Of the Order Of
Railway Clerks Of America, similar in
scope to the several brotherhOods, has
been organized. This newest Of protec-
tive and fratcrDn bodies Of railroad en-
ployes has taken in 1000 members with
In the past three months.
A great strike Of masons is reported in
Switzerland The employers are meeting
the demands of the men in many in
stances.
Carpenters and voodworkers In Der
lin, Germany. have made a demand for
Increased wages and improved condi-
tons Of employment: 1900 men are af-
fected. and the employers threaten g lock-
out, the demands having been refused.
Representatives Of the Cheyenne
Cwyo) Journeymen CarpenterS Union
and the Master Builders' Association mat
and ratshed the agreement reached Goa
eegning the wage scale. AL 5ourneymsn
win receive IS cents al hour hsrsaftsa
regardless 4 skin
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16

MANY DIE IN FLOOD.
Hundred Perish and Big Cotton Mills
Crumble in South CAROLINA

ACTI&n As)LtOu
Crurnble in South CAROLINA.
BY a tremendous cloudburst from rs
to 100 persons lost their lives at Spar
tanburg, S. c., and at Pacolet aud Cliff
ton. The great cotton mills which have
built up the neighborhood to a high state
of prosperity, were wiped out by the
same flood. The Pacolet mills, at Spar
tanburg, thus destroyed, were the prop
erty of Victor n Montgomery, who own
ed the mills at New Holland, Ca, which
were crippled by the tornado near Gaines
vile a few days before.
The storm settled over Spartanburg
Friday night, gathered force until it
brought a giant cloudburst, the downpour
from the clouds sweeping away the dams,
which in turn settled into a vas1 swirling
stream, which rushed through the valley
where the mills were situated.
Saturday afternoon the waters were
roaring above the homes in a settlement
where on Friday a thousand laborers
were busy. The property loss, it is be-
lieved, will reach 100000. Many cot
tages were swept away in the terrific
food with their inmates, who were asleep
when the storm burst upon them and
cut off their chance of escape.
Pacolet and Clifton are situated in the
defiles of two valleys and most of the
homes of the workmen are located in the
valley near the mills in which they la
bored. Their situation was trap-like, and
the bursting cloud filed the valley with
its food of water.
The Pacolet River rises in the noun
tains forty miles above, and ordinarily it
iC ts-l,
for the cotton factories. 1t is now
giant mill race.
The greatest disaster was at the village
of Pacolet. There were three cotton mills,
known as Pacolet Mills Nos. /, and 8.
Nos. / and have been washed away,
together with a number of warehouses
filed with cotton goods and raw cotton.
Besides the mills at Pacolet the Pres
byterian Church, a hotel, livery stable
and a number of dwellings were washed
away by the flood. The water is running
through the windows of the Southern
Railway station there. Box cars stand
ing on the tracks were washed away. All
the water power dams on the river are
gone. The flood carried away at least
three bridges on the main line of the
Southern Railway.
President Twitchell, of the Clifton
mill, located at Clifton. S. c.. telegraphed
to f. ]. Pelser, one Of the largest stock
holders, that No 3 mill there is wrecked,
No. 1 and No. 2 partially destroyed and
several warehouses swept away. The
ditpatch said There has been heavy
loss of life. Glendale mill (No. / Con
verse; is intact, but the dam and several
warehouses have been swept away"
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FLAMES SWEEP SEVEN STATES.
Fierce Forest Fires Devastate Vast
Areas of Land.


Forest fires, caused by the forty-nine
days drought, have enveIoped the entire
eastern section of the United States and
Canada in their grasp
Thousands of acres of timber land
have been laid waste, villages have been
obliterated and the danger to life and
property is increasing hourly.
Immense districts IN Maine, Vermont,
New Hampshire New York, Connecticut,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania are broad
sheets of fame, and along the southern
shore of Long Island, encroaching as
elise to New York as Train Meadows,
jus. outside of Long Island City, the
fires have gained such Roadway as to
cause the suspension of all other work
to prevent their further spread.
John d. Rockefeller has big force of
men sprinkling his gardens and watch
ing for fires which might start in his
100000 private park of 1000 acres.
Fires, started by locomotive spark,
have burned over hundreds of acres, near
Lakewood, N. ]. The famous marble
palace of George Gould lies directly in
the path of the flames, and is surrounded
on all sides by dry pines
Millions in property have been de-
stroyed Handsome estates on Long ISL
and and in the Adirondacks are surround
ed by the flames, and hundreds are aban-
doning their homes and fleeing for their
lives. Two Maine towns, Sherman and
Crystal, have been burned out and the
people forced to fee. Montreal is still
the center Of a Gordon of fierce forest
fires which extend as far east as the
province of New Brunswick. Quebec
itself has been in serious danger.
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GOVERNMENT FOR MoRos.
Legislative Council to BE Appointed
Wood Probably First Governor.

Wood Probably First Governor.
The Philippine Commission has enact
ed bill providing for the government of
the Moros. Governor Taft and Nejor
General Davis jointly drafted it. The
measure practically makes the Moro
province an autonomous colony Of the
Philippines, which the Philippine govern
ment controls, and creates an appointive
legislative council to provide local laws,
the Commission reserying the right to
amend or annul them. The council is to
be composed Of a governor, secretary.
treasurer, engineer, attorney and super
intendent of schools. Governor Taft will
appoint these officials. The bill will ex-
tend the jurisdiction of the Philippine
courts and cOnstabulary to the province
and will recognize Moro laws which do
not conflict with American laws. The
measure also directs the codihcation of
tribal laws, creates Moro courts, pro-
vides that the Philippine courts shall try
cases between Moros and Christians,
gives the province its net customs and
forestry collections and authorizes the
council to abolish slavery. The province
is divided into FIVE districts-Sulu. Fam
boanga, Lanao, Cotabato and Davao.
The bill provides for partial military gov
eminent, and it is expected that General
Leonard Wood will be the first governor
of the Moro province
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The Pope favors American brides for
Italians, not only because Of financial adj
vantage, but because Of the benefit to the
torpid Roman nobility.
The National Board Of Fire Under.
writers has concluded that it Is unwiss
TO influence" legislators. A resolution
to that effect was adopted.
AS the result Of a cavern in the lower
level Of the Liberty Bell mine near Tel
luride. Colo, two men we're crushed 70
Death and two others were badly injur-
ed.
Senator Beverage Of Indiana has de-
clared unequivOcaliy that he viii not be
a candidate for the Republican nOmina-
ton for the presidency. lie wants to
DO reelected Senator.
The woodmen Of the World conyen-
ton in Milwaukee took new departure
in adding TO its eligible list bituminons
coal miners and seafaring men employed
on lakes and rivers
The annual report Of the United States
Rubber Company, the rubber trnst.
shows gross earnings to be s., 1873. 7j7.
and the total net income S2,774. 39s,
which after deducfing interest and bad
debts, left a surplus for the year Of ST.
342, AS.
Two Missouri Pacific freight trains
met In head end collision In the weS
yards at Jefferson City. Mo, badly shsk-
ing up both train crews, but not killing
anyone
A man in Buenos Ayres became in
sane from violent emotion. on learning
that he bad won the big prize In lot
terry. He went TO a church, drew a ~
voiver and fred at the priests.
A 6eet Of four steamers to handle
freight cnly between Vancouver. b. q.
Australia and New Zealand 10 TO ba In
auzurated By Il. A. Alley a. Co o. Ia
coma Mr.. Aiisy IL now In Auckland.
n. T., arranging for the starting OK ~
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| New York.

NJ
hRE I0Tk the only unfavorable devel-
I--J opments of the week, and.
while these may not prove far reaching
In their effect, their first result is seen
IN greater conservatism. Dispatches re-
garding trade conditions at the leading
cities are generally encouraging. Rail
way earnings in May were 12.7 per cent
larger than last year and 25.4 per cent
greater nhan IN 1901" according to r. G.
Dun x Co.'S weekly review Of trade.
Continuing, the report says:
There is still an inclination to defer
the placing of contracts for iron and
steel. The United States Steel Corpora
zion has bought 10000 tons of pig iron.
chiefly for delivery during the third quar-
ter, but the recent readjustment of QUO
tatiJns has not stimulated general actiy-
ity in the industry. On the contrary,
there is still hope for further conces.
sions, and buyers are disposed TO get the
full benefit.
"1mportations arc no longer encouraged
and domestic producers are prepared to
accept more export orders than was pos
sible when home markets were under
great pressure. Railway improvements
and extensions are again under consid-
GRAFTON, and much work wifi be done
when confidence is restored regarding the
labor situation
Textile industries show no material
Improvement. Sellers of cotton goods are
unwilling TO accept contracts for distant
delivery and even in immediate business
there is little disposition to accept the
prices offered. Interior trade reports are
less favorable, Western business being
affected by floods, while droughts in the
East and numerous strikes restrict con
sumption. Conditions as to wooden goods
are practically unchanged
Prospects continue bright in the foot
wear industry. The average of domestic
hides is again higher, and Colorados sold
on par with native steers.
Failures this week in the United
States 1872, against BOG last week, 119
the preceding week and 21S the CORE
spending week last year, and in Canada
"a, against last week. IA the preceding
week and is last year"
Bradstreet's Trade Review.
"The country's foreign trade promises
well, failures are down to low mini
mum, and bank clearings, though reduced
by dizziness in stock speculation, point to
record totals outside of few important
speculative centers.
Numerous strikes in the building
trades limit demand for lumber, brick,
builders hardware, and, in fact, all class
es of building material but structural
material remains surprisingly good in
view of this. 1t is stated on good author
ity that the coal trade was never in bet
ter shape than at the present, and the
consumer continues TO pay freely the
entire cost Of last years great strike.
Wheat, including -four. exports for the
week ending June 4 aggregate 4,70S,995
bushels. against 4,6T7,6TS last week,
4,600, 055 this week last year and 6,644,-
644 in 1901 Wheat exports since July
l aggregate 210,2S0,S05 bushels against
23S,024 ,901 last year and 0,501 $3.50 in
1900. Corn exports aggregate 1,0l3,S7l
bushels, against !, 179 739 last week, &c.
254 year ago and 2,455, l02 in 1901.
For the fiscal year exports are 62 ,450 10
bushels against 25,9S6.S51 last season
and 167, 624 300 in 1901.
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The. News ~
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That gallant man-owar, the Arkansas,
has captured another Mississippi mud
bank.
Mr.. Roosevelt is lover of horses,
but he distinctly disapproves of dark
horses.
Teddy" has now been whisk- broomed
by the attentive porter in nearly every
State in the Union.
Give Grover Cleveland a good bass
hole and you can have the presidency Tor
all he cares as long as the FISH bite.
The first rowboat fatality of the season
is reported, and, like most of its kind,
was due to the FRANKS of playful idiot
Fortunately the merger between Mr..
Hartman and his vermifo1m appendix
was dissolved without damage or excites-
ment.
Somebody must be holding back the
shirt waist man or he would be coming
along about now. Let the holder tighten
his grip.
If things keep on as at present who
can say that the consumers may not be
moved to organize and demand the right
TO exist?
marks Great Britain may consider itself
annexed to this country as another Of
our island possessions. -
1t is interesting to learn that Senator
Quay is going TO retire permanently from
politics. 1t is quite while since Mr..
Quay retired permanently tie last time
1t Is expected that at least some of the
polar explorers now setting forth viii
arrive safe and sound upon the lecture
platform some time within the next three
years.
A future governmental report is ex-
pected 90 explain away the peculiar fact
that a soldier killed in q Filipino dis
turbanee" is quite as dead as one killed
in a regular battle.
Before accepting any specific sum as a
just compensation for the canal rights
some Of the Colombian officials mean TO
learn definitely whether that is really ali
that Uncle Sam can be made to give up.
Diplomacy Is a queer game. Among
all the powers now protesting against
Russia's occupation of Manchuria 10
there single one that has not known
from tie FIRST that Russia was in Man
churia for keeps7
Having observed the comparative ease
with which Russia has bitte1 OF and
mRsticated the MRnchurian morsel.
France Il eTincing signs Of desire -
regale itself with n little tidhit q The
soutkern side Of CANA
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A damaged footballer has just been
fitted at London hospital with a celu-
loid nose.
Thomas Hanlan. accused of deserving
his wife and clipping with Ada Bethel, 10
years old. narrowly escaped lynehing by
women at Mound City. Mo.
The Mercur. weekly paper published
BY a group of young literary men in
Strasburg, was recently eOnhscateo on
the charge of lese majestic. A radical
student named Hans PageI, the response
BILE editor Of the paper. thereupon shot
and killed himself and his sweetheart
AT the demand of Gen BOhrikoff. the
governor general of Finland. NJ Savon,
the Swedish consul ar Nystsd, Finland,
has been dismissed for participation in
the anti-Russian agitation
The St Louis Court of Appeals hand
"a down q decision in the case Of John
81. King vs. the Phoenix Insurance Com
pauy that verbal contract Of insurance
by an authorized agent Is binding.
All business was suspended at Home
stead. Pa, and the town took holiday
Ia honor Of the dedication Of the C. NJ.
Schwab free industrial school and the
formal opening Of the institution built
and TO be maintained BIZ the president
Of the steel covporatsOa-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
SHIP SINKS; 100 DROWN.
French Steamer Liban in Collisio,
Goes Down Near MnraeiIIa.

French Steamer Liban in Collision
Goes Down Near Marseilles.
A terrible shipping disaster occurred
a little distance from MarSeilles at noon
Sunday. when two passenger steamers,
the Insulaire and the Liban, both belong
ing to the Fraissenet Steamship Com
pany of Marseilles, came into collision,
The Liban was started for the shore. the
captains purpose being to run aground.
but the vessel sunk and over 100 of her
passengers and crew persisted.
The steamer Liban left Marseilles sun
day morning ON her regular passenger
trip 10 Bastia. Corsica. and was run
down and sunk by the Insulaire off the
Marie Islands The collision was wit
messed from the pilot boat Blechamp,
which was about two miles distant. The
Blechamp Immediately repaired 10 the
spot TO render assistance. The force of
the collision had cut great hole in the
Liban's side, and she already was filling
with water rapidly. Her captain saw
the only chance was to run the steamer
aground and the Lban was headed full
speed for the shore but within seventeen
minutes of the collision and while still
in deep water the fore part of the steam
er plunged beneath the waves and a few
minutes later had entirely disappeared.
In the meantime the Blechamp and
the steamer Balkan, also belonging to
the Fraissenet company, and other yes
sells had drawn near the sinking ship and
were making desperate Efforts to rescue
those on board. The Blechamp picked
up forty persons, many of whom were at
the point of exhaustion. The Balkan
rescued thirty-seven passengers, and it is
known that in addition TO the passengers
seventeen of the crew were also saved
Officers of the steamer Balkan de-
scribe the scene just before the Liban
disappeared as a terrible one. AS the
vessel was sinking she was inclined to
such an angle that her masts struck the
water, causing an eddy, which made the
work of rescue most difficult. A mass
of human beings were elnging to the
laundering vessel and uttered despairing
cries as she went down. At the same
time the boilers exploded, intensifying the
horror. For a few moments the victims
were seen struggling in the sea, then the
waves closed over them and all was ST
lent. OF about 100 passengers who were
aboard the Liban il is feared that at
least half were drowned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
CHICAGO WATERS STRIKE.
Many Leading Hotels and Restaurants
Affected

A general strike affecting all employees
of every important hotel and restaurant
in the loop district of Chicago was call
ed Friday. At 10 o'clock sharp the
union committees, representing the cooks,
walters, mattresses, bartenders and mis-
cellaneous hotel and restaurant help
swooped down upon the hotels and res
taurants inside the loop. A peremptory
demand for immediate union recognition
and the concession of the unions de-
mands for increased wages and better
hours and working conditions was made,
and wherever refused strike was call
ed Immediately.
Six important hotels and restaurants
were clos I'd Thursday night The en-
ployes answered the union strike call to
a man, although the proprietors declare
that in some cases nor over half of their
help are members of the unions. Thurs
day strikes were called at Vogelsang's
restaurant, Kings restaurant and lunch
room, the Union Hotel and restaurant,
Potter's restaurant, the Grand Pacific
Hotel and the Chicago Beach Hotel. In
each case the tie-up was complete.
The first strike was called a. VeScl-
sang's restaurant. The union zen caught
him with a lot of dinner cooked up"
and being unable TO serve it as usual the
resultant loss is estimated al nearly
$500. At Kings restaurant the loss from
food on hand which they were unable to
serve was said to be $3.50.
Some statistics of the Chicago walters
strike:
Hotels affected ....... IS
Restaurants affected ... 90
Employees out ............ 1900
Persons Inconvenience daily. 100000
Persons dependent for food on
restaurants and hotels ....... 100000
Loss per day to employers. -. $4,000
Loss of employees in wages. ..... $1,000
Loss to employees in tips. 1890. 5000
Demand of Recognition of
union.
Plans of strikers-Tie up every restau-
rant and hotelsin Chicago
Marshall Field, the great Chicago mer-
chant, in an authorized interview de-
clares that the business of his house is
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
TOO MANY RURAL ROUTES.


As the result of investigation the dis
covery has been made that one-third
of the rural routes in the Southern States
and one-fifth of those in the North, par
ticularly New England, are improbable.
There has been enormous demand for the
establishment of rural free delivery routes
and former Superintendent Machen did
not always exercise the best judgment in
complying with the requests of members
OF Congress. In consequence some of
these routes will be abolished. A big
fight against The viii BE made by states
men who rendered favors to Machen and
who have secured more than one re-elec-
ton on the strength of their securing the
establishment of rural routes. But Post
master General Payne admits that the
expenses are so heavy some of the I'M
profitable routes must be abolished.
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UNEARTH BIG LAND swINDLE.
Victims Said to Have Been Found in
Every State.

Indictments were returned by the Uni
ted States grand jury at Columbus, Ohio,
against John A. Cobb Of Bainbridge,
Ohio, and W. H. III. Miller, S. E. Stru-
BILE and G. w. J. Wolff of Newark, Ohio,
for misuse of the mails in connection
with alleged fraudulent and deals. Sew
eral other men who have not yet been
arrested are under Indictment on a sim
liar charge. The government inspectors
claim to have unearthed land swindles of
were carried on by men operating in
widely separated localities. Large tracts
of timber land for which fraudulent
deeds were given to purchasers were of
fered for sale in Tennessee, Kentucky,
West Virginia, Missouri, Texas and
Michigan
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launching Threats in wisconsin.

A mob attempted to take q wife muir
derer from the officers st Tomah. Wis.
but was prevented by the militia and on
Gers. and the prisoner was taken to
Sparta
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN FAVOR.
1t Will Soon Be Generally Spoken by
People in Phflippinez.

Tha. English will be the generally
spoken language of the people of the
Philippine Islands in the near future is
the confident prediction of Franklin III.
Kendall, who is in Paris on his way
home from the islands, whittier he went
to investigate the needs of the country
in the matter of school books. Mr.. Ken
dali says the Tagal dialect will soGp die
out, as it can never serve the needs of
people that are in rapid process of edu-
cation. Spanish he finds, is weakening
before the all-conquering English, and
the children are picking up the language
of America with amazing rapidity. MIR.
Kendall finds furthermore that the
American teachers are delighted and sur
prised at the aptness with which the
children learn what is taught them.