Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-05-20
Fortieth Year.
amicable agreement being reached be-
tween them and the railroad officials
and the strike avoided.

and the strike avoided
Milwaukee, Wis, May IA COM
mercial war, which it is said, will ex-
tend throughout the entire country
has been started by the grocers of this
city against the manufacturers who
allow their goods to be sold in de-
partment stores. The retail ,grocers'
association of Milwaukee has PASSED
resolutions not to handle any products
that are placed in department stores.
This action is the beginning Of a
warfare against the competition of the
A grocery departments of the depart
ment stores, which compete with the
retail grocers. 1t is predicted that
forty one branches of the National
Grocery association will take similar
action, which will practically cover
the entire country.
sDenver. May 14.-There is no change
in the strike situation here this morn
ing. The number Of union men now
on strike is $500.
Cincinnati, Ohio, May 14.-William
Daily and Louis Burbank, Adams Ex-
press company employees, who were
poisoned last night, along with three
others, who drank poisoned whiskey
from bottle addressed to Mrs. Kate
Noble, of this city, and which became
broken before its delivery, are SER
iously ill at hospital here. Benjamin
Wicker, another employee, died last
night. Mrs Lucy Mccormick was ar
rested today at Memphis, charged with
sending the package to Mrs. Noble.
New York, May 14-Frederlck W.
Hollis, who was rendered the position
of umpire in the settlement of the
claims of Germany and Italy against
Venezuela, has declined the appoint
ment owing to pressure of private
business.
New York, May ICE. Fl. Hartman
arrived here at 10:40 this morning.
He walked from the train to his auto
mobile. In an interview given out
from his vehicle he said that he had
suffered from slight attack of appen-
dicitis but had received the very best
attention and had recovered and he
expected to sail for Europe on May
20.
San Francisco, May 14.-Under a
balmy sky and on the green sward of
Union square, this morning, Presi-
dent Roosevelt participated in the
dediction of a magnificent monument
erected in commemoration of the vic
tory of Manila bay. The president
was escorted from his hotel to the
square by all the marines Of the war
ships in harbor. On the stand from
which he addressed the assembled
multitude were officers of the warships
in the bay and officers of the British
flagship Grafton. The presentation
was made by James d. Phelan and
was responded to by Mayor Schmitz.
In his address the president urged
practical work at sea for the navy,
particularly in workmanship, saying:
Remember that the shots that count
in war are the shots that hit
The president then proceeded to
/ Berkeley to take part in the COM
mencement exercises. Later he went
to Oakland, and thence aboard the
torpedo boat Paul Jones to Vallejo to
lay the corner stone of the Y. NJ. G.
the benefit of seamen.
Immediately after banquet at the
union league club tonight, the presi
dent will leave for Yosemite.
Greensburg, Pa, May 1.-The
breaking out anew of the forest fires
on Chestnut fridge has aroused the
greatest CONSERVATION throughout this
section. More homes were burned
last night At Lake Hollow a big
mill was burned and all telegraph and
telephone connections were destroyed.
The weather continues dry and the
prospect of arresting the progress of
tue SCCHA AOpCACco-
University of California, May IA
Citizens of Berkeley, united with the
faculty and students of the university
this morning in rendering a tremen-
dous ovation to President Roosevelt.
The thoroughfare leading to the col
lege campus was thronged with thous-
ands of town people, while an amphi-
theatre, where the commencement ex-
ercises we're held, additional thous-
ands of students. and the university
alumni gathered to greet the party.
Immediately after their arrival the
presidents special party was driven to
the amphitheatre on the campus, es-
eorted by the ninth U. s. cavalry.
The president was met with yolley
of cheers and the Harvard yell by the
assembled students. Following the
formal exercises, President Wheeler of
the university conferred the degrees
upon four hundred graduates
Then turning to the president he be-
slowed upon him the highest honor
that the state can bestow, that of doc
tor of laws. President Roosevelt was
alfred in flowing academic robes,
trimmed with purple, to represent the
degree, and the blue and gold as the
colors of the university.
Again did President Wheeler intro
duce the president, but this time as
Theodore Roosevelt, doctor of laws"
The president responded with an
eloquent address in which he paid a
high tribute to President Wheeler and
the state university. At the close of
the exercises he took a private electric
car for the journey to Oakland where
he was accorded an equally enthusi-
astic reception.
Denve, Colo, May 15.-The joint
executive committee of organized
labor, owing to the refusal of the
Citizens Alliance to agree to arbitra-
tiOu between the employers and en-
ployes directly interested in the ques-
lions at issue in the strike, called out
one Thousand additional men during
the forenoon today.
/ The unions ordered out today were
the brewery workers. beer bottlers.
beer wagon drivers, retail clerks, gar
ment workers and hOrseshoers. The
total number of strikers now are four
thousand.