Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-22
ATTEMPT AT ARBITRATION
STRIKERS ASK PACKERS TO
TAKE BACK WoRkMEN.

lANE DAWN WOhfN"@'r'
n Refused They viii Start Packing
House and Call Out More Men
Heat Causes Deaths and Prostra'
tions-The country's Wheat Crop
President nonnolly of the striking
unions makes another attempt al ar
hitWtion with the Chicago packers,
asking them TO take back the stflkefs
whose positions have been illed since
the strike by non-union men. II TINS
request IL denied the allied trades az
the stock Yards numbering In all
about $4,000 men, VIII be called out
| IN an effort to bring the packers TO
terms. \ flank movement by the
strikers has developed In the an
nouncement by President Donnelly
that In conjunction with William
Sterlin, vice president OF the buteher
Workmen's union, John Floersch, Sec
lretary Of the packing trades councH,
and Philip Murphy champion butch-
or of the west. recently employed by
| Swift q Co, he will start small
packing house where union butchers
may secure supplies at prices when
enable strikers TO purchase meat
without contributing 10 the profits OF
/ the big packers.
/ The operating forces OF big plants
are approximately about half the
normal strength. All are doing q
great deal of killing. Armour Co,
with 1000 men employed, slaughter
ling cattle at the rate of l40 an hour
and Nelson Morris a Co, with l,SOO
/ men at work, slaughtered 100 swift
I 4 Co. have 1000 men IN their plant,
I killing 100 cattle and loo hogs an
| hour The failure of the packers and
aF.tff af.. - az
h rs 10 reach an agreement has caused
Ian upward tilt IN the prices OF meat
/ and poultry az New York and many
/ butchers find It hard to get an ade-
quate supply OF meats. The outlook
/ Is discouraging Meat that has been
/ in cold storage for months Is being
! brought out and disposed Of
I The difficulty IN settling the strike
I Is that while both sides are willing
| to arbtrate neither is disposed to al
low the other 20 dictate the condi-
I tons under which arbitration should
/ be agreed TO, Both sides are holding
/ themselves In readiness FOR a pro-
/ Ionged conflict
/ Hawaii wants the government to
I help II provide for the leper colony
land the scientific study of the dis
/ ease. In Hawaips leper settlement at
/ Molokai there are 95l native Ha-
lwaiians "a Chinese, 10 Portuguese. 10
4 English and German, five Americans
land four negroes and Malays. Lep-
rosy, is not it Is alleged, contagious.
| Aaron Timbers. Jonas Sims and
William Austin, the three colored men
| who confessed to assaulting and rob-
bling Mrs. Elsie Biddle OF Burlington,
] y. J., have been sentenced to AZ
years each in the state prison by
Judge GRskill at Mount Holly. This
Is the extreme penalty for the crime
The men were Immediately hurried TO
the state prison al Trenton.
Santos Dumont, the aeronaut stat
ed AZ London where ne arrived from
America Friday, July Is, that ne has
no intention of returning to the Unit
ed States to compete in the world $
fair aerial flight He believes the
bag of his airshlp was cut by crank
and not by a rival He says the loss
10 him IN money was $4,000 and that
Iii would have taken At least two
months to repair the damage.
The disturbance Of n hornets nest
led 10 the death Of William Forbes Of
Stewartstown. y. H, in an unusual
way. Forbes was moving grass with
a seythe when he struck the hornets
nest. IN defending himself from the
attack Of the Infatuated insects he
dropped his scythe and was about TO
step out of the way when he tripped
and fell The blade of the seythe
passed entirely through his body and
he died almost instantly.
The trustees of Western Reserve
university, Cleveland. O, have voted
to establish an anti-tubercular dis
pensary In connection with the medi-
cal school. This Is the second dis
pensary Of the kind to be opened in
the United States. The function of
the dispensary Is chiefly preventive.
II registers those who are infected /
with the disease. locates houses in
which tubercular people live, and ed
ucates the people along fundamental I
hygienic lines.
The Texas state chairman Of the (
populist party has issued an appeal I
to former ponulists TO withdraw from
the democratic party He says that 4
the latter IN its haste TO secure the .
support Of capital and a campaign .
fund. out Hannas the republicans. II \
is trying to outbid the republicans for
plutocraCys favor" He declares that 1
the populist party Is now the only
party that stoops so low as to appeal
to the common people"
Several thousand Christian Scien-
lists assembled at Concord. n. H., 4
Sunday, July II, to take part in the
dedicatory exercises of the ediflce Of
the First Church Of Christ, Scientist. I
Four services We're held. The new
edifice is a beautiful structure, seating !,
900 persons. and its erection was +
made possible by Mrs, NJ. b. G. Eddys .
gift of $l20000, which was augment
ed by many smaller contributions
Mrs. Eddy has recently promulgated 4
a new bylaw, forbidding members to
haunt her drive" as they have done +
in great numbers, awaiting the pass
ing of her carriage She objects TO
such intrusion except on public occa-
sions when she has the privilege OF
seeing others and of being seen.
The Daily Trade Bulletin, Chicago, <.
Tuesday, July 49, credits the United
States with a wheat crop of 6lO,0O0,-
600 bushels and claims that reducing
supplies to a minimum, the surplus
for export may be 142.000,00O bushels.
Exports last year were 12l,00OoOo
bushels and the average for the past .
Is years 170,0O0,OO0 bushels. Supplies
of flour and wheat in America are
about $4,000 less than last year,
while the amount Of wheat in farmers
hands is 100000 bushels less. Ac-
cording to the Bulletin, the worlds
wheat crop for 1904 is 140,OOO,00O TO
$50. 00O0 600 bushels less than last
year. An increase in Asia, 1t IS de-
clared. will offset the decrease in the
United States. The decrease is chief
~ in Europe and mainly in Russia,
Austria Hungary and
Italy.