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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-08-13


to talk of other matters and his visitor
was politely received. This is not the
first strike with which Mr.. Franklin has
heen connected, and he talks interesting
ly of former struggles. Speaking Of the
inclination of the miners to erect addi-
tional structures to those furnished by
the companies for homes Mr.. Franklin
said that the Italians and Hungarians
in the Pennsylvania region had a greater
tendency In this direction than any other
nationality
THE Italian and Hungarian miners will
Invariably build some little shacks in adj
dition to the house furnished by the COM
pany," said Mr.. Franklin, land some
times it is very difficult to convince these
men that the ungainly affairs mar the
beauty of their homes. They all want
to build cow stall and pig pen right
next to their houses and these they will
erect out of scrap lumber picked up
around the mines. You can well imagine
how these structures appear. Some of the
planks are longer than others and the
cracks are far from even. They insist
on having them, however. and they are
usually allowed to proceed.
II notice a slight tendency of that kind
among some Of the miners here at Johns
but it is not nearly SO marked as among
vania.'
Preparations Continue.
The Tennessee company is going ahead
steadily with their preparations for open
ing the mines regardless of the union.
A large boarding house containing forty
rooms is being fitted up for occupancy by
the new corners. Several wagons passed
the station yesterday between the hours
of four and five o'clock loaded down with
mattresses and other articles of furniture
for the new boarding house.
"W nat are those mattresses to be used
for?' was asked of one OF the miners.
For the legs / guess" he said.
In case the men are removed from the
company houses the union officials have
purchased a sufficient supply of tents and
in this way will give the strikers shelter
The union store houses will furnish them
food. BOIEMAN Z. BULGfsh'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-08-13

Take a ride on the Tobog-
gan Slide at East Lake. It
will make you younger.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-08-13
IRON PRICES ARE
REPORTED FIRMER
IMPROVEMENT NOTED A WEEK
AGO SAID TO HAVE BECOME
MORE MANUFACTURERS COVER
FOR LONGER PERIODS.

Rogers Brown & Co.'S Cincinnati report
of yesterdays date says:
THE Improvement noted a week ago
has become more marked and the week
past has served to emphasize the fact
that the feeling among buyers and sellers
is much better. Prices are stronger; In
some cases a slight advance being pub
lished. Sales of northern iron have held
up well and the amount of inquiry has
been very satisfying. An interesting feat
ure is the pronounced effort on the part
of many buyers to cover for more
extended period than they have been in
terested in for several months past Many
of the furnaces have now a well defined
scale covering the balance of this year.
This Is particularly true of the northern
companies In the south, almost without
exception, there is refusal to entertain
business for delivery after January l.
Consumption seems to be increasing
slightly, and at the same time product is
decreasing; not, however, at the rate
manifest four or five weeks ago, and in
dications are that consumption is about
equal to production at the present time.
The southern production will now be
increased in a slight measure. as 1t is un-
derstood that the Birmingham furnace
companies have mapped out a policy re-
garding the labor difficulties, which have
been present since July 1.
Virginia coke is moving In consider
able quantities into the Birmingham dis
trict. and the very recent placing of large
tonnage for Birmingham furnaces has re-
suited in a better feeling In the Virginia
district. This will likely continue for
thirty, probably sixty days. unless the
Birmingham situation shows sudden
change"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-08-13

The New York Journal of Commerce,
in commenting on the Iron output for
July, says:
Figures of the pig iron production, not
including charcoal Iron, show total Of
1882 1914 tons, a decrease of over $4,000 as
compared with June, when the output
amounted to 1.22s,222 tons. The high
water mark this year was 1,557267 tons,
reached in April. Notwithstanding the
light production, stocks on hand increased
to the amount of 1892 tons. The figures
also show that the active capacity fell
off from 27290 tons on July to 246,09O
tons on August l."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16
WAR NEWS EPITOMlZED.

eaVy re1norcennents for Russia reported
ing toward Harbin and through Manchuria
Japan is said to have already 10000 troops at
Chemulpo.
No develops to the movement Of the vladi-
vOstOck
Belaed reports OF the Chernulpo con-
tlnue TO flow in, having evidently up by the
censor and released bloc further
testimony to the GOODNESS Japanese
ADMIRAL the courage OF the Russian commander and
ms men In moving out to hopeless fight,
Gent sympathy Of naval commanders powers
gathered in Chernupo men who SO
9any went forth to certain defeat probable
AS grave International questions from the
acts or naval commanders gratifying the
captain OF the United States Vicksburq
cry effort to keep himself entanule
From Port Arthur the unexpected announce
rnent that the Russian in
or Korea or the South of Japan Two injured
teshps 1t is said, have repaired the
fleet The news lacks verificaton
n1ent OF troops to Cheulpo nnia-
dos feet must fight decisive
M Kurino, in interview Berlin, that war
was directly due to the viceroy, Admiral Alexieff
Japanese reported having gained sure foothold
in Manchuria.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16
THE NEWS lNDExED

PAGE !.
Senator Hanna Dies.
Japanese Get Foothoid in Manchuria.
PAGE III.
Brings Suit After Twenty-Five Years,
Japs Are Liked on the Coast.
Family Poisoned by Food.
PAGE w.
Grigsby Will Probably Be Removed.
5aIfour Gets Vote OF Confidence.
PAGE1V.
In the Sporting Wortd.
Winnipeg Bonspiek
PAGE VII.
Of Interest to Women.
PAGE TX.
Wheat Goes to the Dollar Mark IN Lo-
cal Market.
PAGE X.
May Change Studies in Graded Schools.
Elderly Couple Marry on the Quiet.
Warm Time at County Board Meeting.
Must Pay the $4,000 Verdict.
Prohibitionists Open Their. Campaign.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16
Special Cable to The Globe.

PETERSBURG Feb 1B-It is officially admitted b the
government that the obtaining
foohold in Manchura force opposed
to them has
tonight caused sensation No intnoation
is given where
but they probably nenn-
Port Arthur and at the Yal river tpdas
dispatches state the Japanese
were fighting on the north side OF the river
HUNDRED THOUSAND JAPs EMBARK
Special Cable o
Copyright, 1904 York Herald)
SHANGHAI, Monday.-Advices from Nagasaki
more than 100000 upon
transports ana sail within the next week. The
set out from several different arrangements
for the already completed
The points at which the troops will dsebar kept pro-
found secret boom is being laid
Nagasaki harbor
RUSSIANS NEAR HARDIN
Copyright, 1904, New York Eerald)
PORT ARTHUR via chefoo, Monday, p. eastern
Irlxutsk. They nearing
All the military trains arriving
greeted with applause Alexe
the czars viceroy is making his headquarters at Mukden
Manchurian trains running regularly bringing
plies from Siberia.
Within days japanese torpedo boats have
been sighted short distance Arthur,
have been no new engagements Recent arrivals from Port
Arthur report all quiet The bank is operating and receiving
deposits from vadvostock Prices risen per
RUSSIAN FLEET MOVES.
The Russian fleet is moving direction Korea,
to lombard the will leave
Arthur. damaged In the first
The third probably will be repaired within week.
RUSSIAN HINT MORE WARS.
to
Copyright, 1904 New York Herald)
ST. PETERSBURG, Monday Opinion growing here
that Mr. Hays note, if maintained certainly
complications general feeling regarding
echoed in the yedonoosti
which says today
war unfortunately will not settle the matter as
Of the British completely
isnes Russia"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16
IS GREEN A FORGET? j?
Civil and Criminal Actions
Against New UIm Man.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe
NEW ULM, Mimi, Feb. 15-Sliver D.
Green, son of ]. j. Green, editor of the
News of this city, was arrested today
charged with forgery. His hearing was
continued until the 25th inst, and he was
released on $500 bail. The case grew out
of divorce proceeding started just a year
ago. Mrs. Green at that time sued for
separation, charging cruelty to both her
self and their infant son.
The suit was dropped and the wife re-
turned to live with her husband on MS
making certain promises and agreeing to
pay her $500 in cash; $3.50 Of this sum
was In the State Bank OF Lamberton and
Mrs. Green held a certificate Of deposit.
Green, 1t Is charged, made out a bogus
certificate Of deposit on the Citizens
Bank of Staples for $400, forging the
name of the cashier, c. F. May, and in
duced Mrs. Green to exchange, She Is
suing for the $780, and the state Is push
ing the forgery charge.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16
LANDS To Be OPENED
Work on Devils Lake Reser-
vation Is Expedited.
Globe Special Washington Service,

Globe Special Washington Service,
1417 Street.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Feb. 15.-sur
veyor General Williams has been in
structed to hasten the work of surveying
the Devils Lake Indian reservation lands
in North Dakota, embraced in the tract
to be opened by the bill of Hansbrough.
pending now in the senate, and work of
allotting lands to Indians will be COM
pleted so the public may be admitted to
the tract in April or May. A favorable re-
port was made today on the senate bill.
The bill passed the house last week.
The senate today passed CANDLES bill
for the sale of disconnected tracts. of land
heretofore opened for settlement and en-
try. Walter E. Clark.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16
RUSSES CAN'T REPEL JAPS
LATTER SECURE A STRONG FOOTHOLD IN
s MANCHURIA AND WILL NOT BE GAINSAID.

lighting Reported in Progress the North Side of the Ya
Rver--A Hundred thousand Japanese Troops Will Soon
bark tor koreaRssan Fleet Is Reported Advancing Toward
Korea Southern Japan and May Intercept japanese Trans
ports---Kurino Says AIexeff Brought War On
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16
GLOBES WAR NEWS IS EXCLUSIVE.

Publishers
the the snhk the
CO 0c he bel
THE GLOBE, Paul. hginn.s ~ ' a' 80 1oo7'
aM is
n mas aken action IN fhe matter Of the copyright which
tnAnk WIFI gve all the protection
Our dispatches oopyryhfsd both
Know and we will advise
m we have to fest copyright
Yours
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16

Continued on Sixth Pege.)
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16

In ST. Paul and vicinity today.
Fair and Warmer.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22

At the recent meeting of the
West Virginia Educational asso-
citation a committee was appoint
ed to consider and report plan
for the organization of league
for the improvement of school
grounds. The committee worked
out plan with much care, but the
association did not have an oppor-
tunity to consider it, the closing
session being overcrowded with
business. The plan prepared by
the committee will, therefore be
presented to the Educational con-
ference to be held at Morgantown,
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22

The facts in connection with the
sad and deplorable death of Engi-
neer Christopher T. Seavert, at
Braden Station yesterday morn
ing, were substantially as appear
ed in last evenings issue of the
Oil Reveiw.
The unfortunate man fell off a
pump, head first, into a rapidly
revolving fywheel. The victim
was terribly cut and bruised about
the head. The engine was stop
ped as soon as possible, but not
in time to save the mans life.
He expired in about fifteen min
utes after the fatal accident oc-
Cured. The direct cause of his
death was due to a compound
fracture Of the skull.
Mr.. Seavert was in the 62d year
Of his age, and was a native of
Germany. He had been in the en-
ploy of the Standard Oil company
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22

The several committees OF the
Sistersville Fire department have
been at work for the past few
weeks making plans for the Sep
tember celebration. The carnival
begins on the 18th of that month
and the West Virginia and Ohio
Valley Volunteer firemen's con-
vention will be in session the 13tE
18th and 10Th. The management
has the choice of a number Of
good carnival companies, and will
only contract with the best. To-
night a meeting has been called
to further perfect arrangements,
and as President Gregory will
be compelled to attend the extra
session of the Legislature at Char
lesion next week, Treasurer E. B.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22
GRAND TIME
in SEPTEMBER
The Firemen are Working to Present the Finest
Carnival and Tournament Ever Given in the
City.

Clawson and Secretary W. E..
Doran will have charge of matters
in his absence. One of the feat
ures of the fall festival will be
hose races, and large prizes will
be offered in order to secure a
number of the best running teams.
Another attraction will be free
OK roast given by the firemen. In
order to make the affair COM
plete success funds are necessary,
and Capt. John Reedy, in charge
of the Soliciting committee, will
begin tomorrow to call upon the
business men and citizens of the
city. This is a good cause, and no
one should refuse to aid the fire
men. and we do not believe that
the boys will have any trouble in
securing a sufficient sum TO meet
all requirements,
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22
REMAINS OF c. 7. SEAVERT
Taken to Duke Centre, Pa, this Afternoon for
lnterment.f

for the past twenty-eight years,
and had been in charge Of the
Braden Station as engineer ever
since it was established. He was a
practical mechanic, and was held
in hisk esteem by both the com
pany and his associates. He was
a member of the X. Of P. order of
this city, and also a member of
the K. o. II. M. lodge of Duke Cen
ter, Pa. His remains were brought
to this city today and shipped to
Duke Center, where they will be
inferred by the side of his wife,
who preceded him to the Great
Beyond a few years ago. The
body was taken on the l 81 train
this afternoon, and was accom-
panied by his daughter, Mrs. Mo-
ran, and J. W. Frampton of Bra
den Station, and G. Fl. Alexander
Of this city. Mr.. Alexander goes
as representative of the K. Of P.
lodge of this city.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22
sISTERsvILLE, w. VA.
State Bank-Incorporated 1892.

Mr.. Davis and tell him how proud
/ am he is to be the Vice Pres
ident," said the boy.
cit rains too hard" said the
nurse. The boy was in a rage. =
CANT 1 prayed for him every
day, now that God and I have
made him the candidate, amt /
going to get a chance to say good
by7 l won't 60 till l see him ]"
Senator Davis was told over
the telephone of the boys wish.
He looked out at the rain and or
dered his horse. An hour later
Everett sat on Senator Davis
knee listening to a bear story.
Last night Mr.. Davis said:
81 shall support the platform
completely. / shall not be a fig
urehead in the campaign. / am
going to the Democratic State
convention at Parkersburg Au-
gust 3, and shall be ready to talk
politics in my speech. F"
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22
TO BEAUTIFY
SCHOOL GROUNDS

July % and %, and will doubt
less be adopted. Its purposes are
~. to cooperate with the Agri-
cultural Experiment station Of
West Virginia university in en-
larging Virginia school grounds +;
(2) to improve and beautify West
Virginia school buildings without
and within; (3) to establish and
maintain libraries in West Vir-
ginia schools. 1t is proposed that
the membership fee shall consist
of a pledge to devote at least one
day each year to the furtheranca
of one or more of these purposes
in the way that may seem most
practical to the members.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22

Elkins, W. Va, July 22.-The
clatter of hoofs through the vii
lage today bought the people to
their doors to see the military fig
ure of Henry Gassaway Davis,
Democratic candidate for Vice
President, mounted on his big
Kentucky thoroughbred, riding
through the rain toward the Davis
Memorial Hospital.
Seven-year-old Everett Sweek-
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22
DAVIS DOES A KIND ACT

er was pronounced by the doc
tors to be hopelessly i'll of hip
disease. Senator Davis heard of
Everett and brought him to the
hospital. The surgeons worked a
miracle and Senator Davis paid
the bill. Everett prayed v'Ee-
mently for Senator Davis every
night to return. Today they tod
him he could walk and was 20 go
home.
"Not till / go up and thank
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22

Croquet sets at McCoy's Book
store.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-03
SHORT GRASS SYRIAN.

The Ness County News relates that
two Syrian women t@rried at the Santa
Fe station a short time Tuesday. ana
while there gave Station Agent c A.
Crebhs a few lessons in writing and aritn-
n-etic. Their characters ran from the
orhand side. and looked Ike nondescript
specimers OF the jim-jams turned loose
one, of the women told the agent that he
looked pretty smart. and that he might
learn 20 write and Tiger in the same
way by close application Tor hundred
years. but that she rather eouo'eo IL
Mr.. Cobbs has the matter row under ae-
yisement. and may enter upon the study a
ri.rle latat. On
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-03
OF COTTON COR.
NER.

The outside world, to whom information
of cotton king is always sort OF
court news, has been dumfounded at the
somewhat sordid revelations since the
Sully failure. Tie speculative world has
not been surprised at all, because 1t is
accustomed to such discoveries under
such circumstances. 1t listens readily
enough, in the heyday of a speculation's
success, 20 the stories Of foreign financial
institutions and great local banks behind
the DEAL but it knows well enough
that the hackers brought TO light in court
will be Of another calibre.
In the most celebrated recent intsance
among commodity corners, similar re
ports of great institutions behind the
wheat king" of the period were on ev-
erybodys lips. When he went bankrupt,
it developed that the young mans father
had provided the needful for his flir5
and had been trying for months to get
it back. A bank was really behind the
famous Cincinnati wheat corner of 1881;
but ii was a bank whose president was
misapproprating it's funds The ''institu-
ton support in that episode ended with
a story of the penitentiary. Possibly the
most extraordinary of all such episodes
of deal rumor and disillusionment was
the career of the young gentleman who
rode on the crest of the Wall street wave
of 1884, and then failed with liabilities of
SIC. O0O, 900 and assets of SCI, 900. Instead of
the inside government influence" and the
foreign connections which gossip had
ascribed to Ferdinand Ward, the trial
which ended in a trip to Sing-Sing prov
ed that his hackers were a retired
army general with a small fortune. and
weak national bank where the specula-
tors checks were overcertifed
One of the few attempts to depict
Speculative king in fiction represented
the career of the markets idol as ending
in the discovery that the great million
aire had. after all, been only a common
forger and cheat. Probably Dickens drevs
his Merdle. of Little Dorrit' from life.
but he can hardly have been right about
the forgery. Prolonged success in the
markets needs a firmer basis than that
The young man who lately engaged in
raising" stock certificates and buying
banks on such collateral came nearest 10
it. But he was not a Napoleon.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-03

cloths for domestic requirements Still
another important cause is, as already
noted, the great increase in prices of cot
ton cloths due to the high price of cot
ton during the last year. The reduction In
expectations of cotton cloths from the
United States to China was from &c.
o., S36 in the eight months ending with
February, 1902. to sec, 07s in the eight
months ending with February Of this
year
To other sections Of the Orient our ex-
ports show an increase, TO total to Asia
in the eight months ending with Febru-
airy being s3S, SOS, al, against 81 .314, 4S2 in
the same months of last year, reduction
of s2.347,741, while in the exports TO China
alone the reduction is 1926, T5. thus in
dicating an increase to Asia other than
China.
To Russia, both in Europe and Asia,
the exports from The United States con-
tinue to show an increase. To Asiatic
Russia, including Port Arthur and the
Immediately adjacent territory, which is
under lease from China. our total exports
in the eight months ending with Febru-
airy were s77l.lSo, against 1868, 7ls in The
the Black Sea, Sl,355. Soi. against 81, SIS, 45s
in the same months of last year; and to
Russia on the Baltic and White Seas,
81 ,361 9l4, against $3.50, Az in the CORE
spending months of last year. Thus the
total exports TO all Russia in the eight
months ending with February, 1904, Were
SASS, SOS, against 81, 194.e34 in the CORE
spending months of last year, an increase
of s3,126. 9S4 For the month OF February
alone, our exports to Russia were s., 9S6,
919, against s.. 327.2f4
One especially interesting feature of the
statement Of our commerce with the vari
ous countries is that of trade with the
new republic of Panama. The statement
shows the exports to and imports from
the republic of Panama for the months
of January and February Our total ex
ports to that republic in the two months
named were S3l1,0S7, and our total i'm
ports from that country, sl55,s9i. For
February alone our exports to Panama
were SIS, 1877, and our imports from Pan.
anna, $S067O. Thus the trade with The new
republic in the first two months of its
record runs at the rate of nearly IS, 900 OBJ
per annum.