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COMPANIES MUST
COLLECT THE WAGES
MANDATORY UPON OPERATORS
TO INSTALL CHECK WElGHMEN
OR DOCKING BOSSES WHEN RE-
oUEsTED BY MAJORITY MINERS

Scranton, June 29.--In a letter to Vice
President Il. D. Nichols Of the United
Mine Workers secretary of the miners
concliation board. Umpire Carroll d.
Wright today sustained the contention of
the miners that it is incumbent on the
companies to collect from the miners the
wages of the check weighmen, or docking
bosses.
The award of the mine-strike commits
sion In this regard was to the effect that
it was mandatory upon the operators to
install check weighmen or docking bosses
or both whenever requested by a majority
of the miners at any colliery, and that
the compensation Of these men shall be
collected and paid by the miners to man
ner in which a majority shall elect.
The Scranton Coal company. the Penn
syivania Coal company ard the Temple
company, employing 2000 men. refused to
collect for check weighmen and docking
bosses from the wages of such miners
as refused to make written assignments
authorizing the deductions.
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Port Arthur Engagement.

Che Foo, June 80. $3.50 q. m.-Fifty Eu-
ropeans who left Port Arthur June 20 ar
rived here today from Pigeon Bay. where
they embarked on a junk June @.
They say that In the naval engagement
of June 23 the Russian battleship Sevas-
topol was slightly damaged. Fifteen days
will be required to repair her. The tor
pedo dispatch boat Amur was also badly
damaged. The Europeans had not heard
of the result of the night engagement in
which the Japanese claim to have sunk
a battleship of the Peresviet type.
When the Russian feet went out of Port
Arthur the hope of all the residents were
high, and there was much disappointment
when the fleet returned to anchorage with
out engaging the enemy
1t is said that the Russian sailors have
no confidence in Rear Admiral Withoft,
but think If Vice Admiral Skrydloff was
in command the fleet could successfully
engage the Japanese.
The Russian fleet is now reported to
consist of six battleships. five cruisers
and twenty-four smaller vessels.
On June q the day on which the Euro
peans left the Japanese were reported to
be trying to capture Wefu mountain. q
strongly for Nfied position fifteen miles
from Port Arthur.
A Frenchman who had been in Port
Arthur since the war began states that
there are $4,000 fighting men there, nclud-
ing soldiers sailors; 5000 women and 120
noncombatants. Inc women and noncom-
batants are awaiting for a steamer on
which the Russians have promised TO take
them out of the besieged fortress. The
food supply is sufficient. The only suffer
ers are the Chinese who are without
money
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ONLY ONE PICTURE
TO HANG in HALL
PORTRAIT OF THOMAS JEFFER-
SON WILL HAVE A PROMINENT
PLACE IN THE DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION HALL.

st. Louis. June 29.-It was stated at the
headquarters for the national democratic
convention, which will convene in the
Coliseum on July 6, that the only por
trait that will be hung in the convention
hall will be one of Thomas Jefferson.
John l. Martin temporary sergeant-at-
arms of the convention, said that 1t would
hardly do to have portraits of living DEM
ocrats displayed as permanent fixtures in
the convention hall
Plans for the decorations have been
completed and the large hall will present
gala appearance Red, white and blue
will predomnate, but the Louisiana pur-
chase expostions colors will be a feature
of the decorative scheme. The dome Of
the hall will be formed of Ochre bunt-
ing. TIE walls will be decorated with nat
ional colors exclusively and the stage will
be done in star spangled effect.
The coats of arms of the several states
and territories will be placed at intervals
along the walls and on the platform. The
standards indicating the seats of the dele
cations will be of white, with red rims
and blue lettering.
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SENATOR CLAPP
HAS GREAT POWER
ON HIS DECISION AS PRESIDING
OFFICER OF MINNESOTA CON-
vENTIoN DEPENDS THE NoMI-
NATION FOR GOVERNOR.

st. Paul, MINI, June 29.-The question
of who will be the republican nominee
for governor of Minnesota appeals to
hinge on the decision Of Senator M. E..
Clapp, who. az presiding officer of the
convention, will rule whether or not the
contesting delegates will be allowed to
vote on the adoption of the report OF the
committee on credentials. Each of the
principal contestants. Judge Loren W..
Collins and Former Auditor Robert c.
Dunn, believe that the decision of the tenn
porary chairman will be in his favor.
Senator Clapp himself. of course. refuses
to make any statement on the subject.
OF the 1175 votes in the convention over
three hundred are brought into question
by contests inaugurated principally by
the Dunn adherents.
There has been considerable talk OF a
bolt from the convention tomorrow and
the nomination Of two tickets, but the
delegates themselves. or a majority OF
them, do not seem to take kindly to this
plan Of the leaders. However, Congress-
man Eddy stated tonight that II was
his opinion that there would be double
feader convention. although he refused
to state which element was likely to bolt
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SENATOR COCKRELL
GETS MISSOURI
DELEGATES TO DEMOCRATIC MA
TiONAL CONVENTION ARE IN
sTRUcTED TO VOTE FOR THE
SENATOR FOR NOMINATION..

Joplin Mo-. June 29.-The democratic
state convention to elect thirty-six dele
gates to the national convention at St.
Louis tonight selected the following dele
gates-at-large:
United States Senator Stone, Gov. A..
M. Dockery, Congressman Champ Clark
and Congressman d. A. DeArmond.
Thirty-two district delegates were also
chosen. The convention was controlled
by the so-called machine" element,
which is opposed to the faction which is
supporting Joseph w. Folke OF st. Louis,
candidate for governor.
The convention endorsed Senator +. M
coelsreil FOR President Dy adopting the
following resolutions:
Recognizing Senator Francis M. Cock
! rel as one of the ablest and most distin-
gulshed Americans and one who has the
respect of the entire nation. we hereby
instruct the delegates to the national con-
vention to support him for President Of
the United States as long as his name is
before the convention and to use all hon
orable means to secure his nomination"
The delegates were Instructed to vote
as unit on all questions in the ma
tiona1 convention.
w. A. Rothwel of Moberly, chairman
Of the state democratic committee. was
elected for national committeeman.
The convention adjourned at 1877 this
(Thursday) morning.
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WHITE ILLITERACY
MORE IMPORTANT
DR.. PHILLIPS, IN SPEECH AT ST.
LOUIS, SAYS EDUCATION FOR
NEGRO is NOT so MUCH NEED
ED AS FOR WHITES.

ST. Louis, June 29.-Superintendent ].
II. Phillips Of the Birmingham public
schools addressed the national educational
convention this afternoon. DR.. Phillips
said In part:
THE public school as a factor in
southern life is comparatively modern in
stltutlon. Outside a dozen cities there
can be found today but few men and
fewer women who have received even q
part of their training in the public school.
The masses who patronize the schools in
the south today do so on account of their
growing faith in the state-supported
school as an institution of democracy.
The primary need Of the stouth today Is
a more liberal infusion Of this spirit Of
true democracy as represented by Jeffer-
son a hundred years ago; the realization
of the American ideal, which opens wide
ly for every child, of whatever race or
color, the door of opportunity.
"A second fundamental condition of edu-
catonal progress is found in the southern
industrial and economical department.
THE third condition of educational de-
velopment in the south is found in her
complicated sociological parliaments. Here
lies the chief obstacle. While the south
is not Indifferent to the problem of negro
illteracy she has reached the deliberate
and solemn conclusion that her greatest
and most serious problem is the illlteracy
of her native white population. While
the southern states have only "a per cent.
of the total white population of the Unit
ed States, they have GA per cent. of all
the white illiteraes over ten years of age
in the country. The needs of the rural
south are today enlisting the earnest
attention of our best thinkers and the best
educational movements in the breadth of
its scope, the earnestness of its spirit
and the intensity of its ardor is without
a parallel in the southern educational
Listoryo
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Genera! oku Has Not Retired.

London, June 29.-The Toxic CORE
spondent of the Times says that the re-
port sent out from st. Petersburg q
General Oku's retirement is ridiculeq in
Japan, where the delay In forcing a great
battle is well understood to be the habit
of japanese generals in not striking be-
fore the deliberate completion of all their
preliminaries.
The correspondent says that an impe-
rial ordnance declares that all graduates
of merchant and marine schools which
are officially recognized, also mariners
who have served for a certain time on
merchant steamers, are eligible for the
national reserve.
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WILL PROVE CHARGES.
Citizens of Albany Want to Sustain
DR.. Broughton.

Albany. Ca, June 29.-As a sequel to the
attack made by Chief of Police West
brook on Rev Len G. Broughton In a bar
Der shop on Monday. May 6, Lippett today
received the following communication
signed by twenty-four prominent business
and professional men:
"Sir; Chief of Police R. N. WestbroolS
having a card in yesterdays Herald de-
nouncing the charges made against him
by Rev. L. G. Broughton from the pulpit
at the auditorium last Sunday afternoon
as false and malicious, and demanding of
him the name of his informant and the
source of his information. therefore the
undersigned citizens, to relieve DIR.
Broughton from further trouble, and re-
sponsbility, have taken the matter in
hand and after a thorough investigation
unanimously request and demand that
your honor call meeting of your board
that we may come before it by attorney
and prove by evidence that the charges
are true. If proven, we demand the re-
moval of Chief Westbrook."
The incident has aroused much feeling.
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SOCIETY BELLE
FOUND IN CREEK
BELIEVED THAT MISS PAULINE
EDWARDS WAS ASSAULTED
AND THEN DROWNED BY HER
AssAILANT-vlRGlNlA TRAGEDY

Danville Va, June 29.-Miss Pauline Ed
wards, the daughter of well-known
farmer and belle of the neighborhood in
which she lived, was drowned in a creek
near her home in this county. The body
partly submerged, was discovered before
the young woman was missed from her
home. Yhe discovery of the body was
made by farm hand. There was every
evidence of foul play. The young wo-
mans clothing was torn and disheveled.
and the sod on the bank of the stream
was loosened, as If in struggle.
1t is believed that the girl who was
not more than 16 years of age. was as
saulted and that her head was after
wards held in the stream until she drown
ed The water In the creek is not more
than few inches deep, which eliminates
the possibility of her having fallen in
and drowned. Clasped in the cold fing-
ers of the dead girl was found a piece
of cloth which might have been a part
of a mans coat.
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worlds Fair Grounds. st. Louis June
o.-The rumor became current in st.
Louis today that Mr.. Duinont could tell
who damaged the gas bag Of his big air
ship. and statement to that effect was
published in an afternoon paper. When
shown this statement Mr.. Dumont said to
the Associated Press:
ut Is ridiculous What motive could
have for such an act? 1t is claimed that
I wanted to force the fair management in
to granting a concession to show my air
ship and charge admission, but that is
not true.
II cannot see why anyone should make
such an accusation against me. l certain
ly have nothing tokgain. 1t will probably
cost me 5000 before the damage is re-
paired l have the gas bag packed and
ready to ship, and hope to send It away
for Paris tomorrow, but perhaps it will
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SANTOS DUMONT WILL GO
TO PARIS FOR REPAIRS

be Friday before I can ship it, I myself
shall go to Paris and superintend the re-
pair work.
Professor Meyers has said he can repair
the damage here why do you not let him
do it?" was asked
Because" replied Mr. Dumont. .I do
not think Professor Meyers or anyone
else this side Of Paris can make the re-
pairs. If Professor Meyers repairs the
bag he can go up in the ship. I will not
trust myself In It,
Il shall leave dH the machinery of the
airship here and take only the damaged
bag to Paris / expee- 10 return to Amer
lea in about six weeks and will then make
an ascension"
Charles f. Morrison who was arrested
and confined In the fair grounds police
station on charge of having used q
knife on the gas bag was released tonight
the authorities being of the opinion tha
there was not sufficient evidence to jus
tify holding him longer.
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Split in Republican Ranks is
Very Serious
NEITHER SIDE WILL GIVE IN
AS Between Governor Lafollette and
a Democrat Members of the Stall
wart Faction Are Open In
PreferrInu Democrat.
BY wArrERsoN sTEALEY.

washington, June 29.-tSpeeial)-The
seriousness of the Wisconsin split Is now
admitted by the republican managers
and a leading republican politician said
today that the chances favored the de-
feat of their electoral ticket next No
vember. A despatch to a republican
newspaper today says;
at may as well be stated now as later
that IL the electoral ticket gets between
the upper and lower milestone 1t will suf-
fer. Both sides to the contest got out of
their way to profess loyalty to Roosevelt
and to the national ticket. l am con-
vinced that they entertain perfect 10y
atty. That is, up to the certain point,
and that point is reached when the Stall
wart half-breed interests are at stake
LafoIIette Not Loyal.
Governor Lafollette would not consider
The national ticket twenty seconds if he
saw his own game going to the bad. For
the stalwarts there is too much at stake
acre at home for them to take into con-
;ideration the question whether Wiscon-
sin shall go democratic or republican in
he next presidential election.
'The democrats expect to put out a
sound ticket headed by former Governor
Peck. If the Lafollette crowd should be
seated by the supreme court Mr.. Peck
will get thousands of republican votes.
1t would be one way to smash Lafollette
and l am safe in saying that the demo-
critic ticket would be mighty popular,
Republicans make no bones of saying
that as between Lafollette and demo-
crat give them the democrat"
Fitzpatrick Talks.
Representative Fitzpatrick of the Sixth
Tennessee district says: II believe that
the ST. Louis convention will be wise,
conservative and rational in its plat
form and nominations. The south is
thoroughly aroused and will give loyal
support to the nominees. l am of the
opinion that Rooseveltism and the race
question, as brought about by the recent
pronouncement of the Chicago conven-
ton, greatly increases democratic
chances, and, in fact, will be leading is
sues in the campaign. Therefore we
ought to nominate a candidate whose
views upon this important issue are
known l think with clean but con-
servative democratic platform and a can
didate who believes in its declarations
we have an excellent. chance to win In
November"
Mr.. Fitzpatrick will go from here to
the st. Louis convention.
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TOWN is WIPED OUT.
Tornado Plays Havoc In the Little
Hamlet of New Boston.

Fort Worth, Tex, June pa spe-
cial to the Recoru from Texarkana
today says:
at is reported here tonight that the
town of new Boston, twenty miles
southwest of here, was wiped out by a
tornado, and several people were killed
or injured. Telegraph and telephone
wires are down."
No further information can be OBJ
tanned tonight.
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YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED
AND THROWN INTO RIVER

threshold Of the Teachoul home and It is
said that the deed was the result OF jeal-
cusy and dependency. The recollection
of this affair offered an explanation Of
supposed suicide when the body was first
found. New evidence greatly compIicat-
ed the case, however. and the police are
at sea in their attempts to solve the
mystery.
Miss Teaehoul who was only Is g
of age, left her home in Minneapolj =
urday ostensibly to go TO the MnT : lis
Business College, where she wa ,tu-
dent Nothing more was hear her
until her parasol and umbrella found
late in the afternoon just be ? Mime
haha Falls in Minnesota Par q ne body
was found ten miles down o am from
this point o
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TURKS ARE WORRIED.
Minister at Washington Has Confer
ence With Secretary Loomis.

Washington, June 29.--Chekb Bey
Turkish minister at Washington, has
had long conference with Assistant
Secretary Loomis, the subject OF
which neither Oh them care to discuss.
1t is believed, however, to be con.
nected with the projected visit Of the
United States naval fleet in Mediter-
ranean waters to some Turkish ports
about the time that Minister Leish-
man returned to Constantinople from
France and is ready to resume his ne
gotiations with the porte for fuller
recognition of American interests In
Turkey.
1t is certain that the Turkish gov
ernment has taken notice OF the
American naval programme and 1t is
assumed that certain inquiries are be-
ing made as to its purpose.
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HARD BLOW TO THE TALENT.
Anti-PooI Room Bill Passes the Louis
lana Senate.

New Orleans, June 29.-The Hunscker
anti-pool room bills passed the state SEN
ate this afternoon by vote of 80 to 8.
This means that the seven pool rooms do
ing business in this city and Others
throughout the state will have to close on
September 1.
Governor Blanchard will sign the bill at
once. Some Of the pool room people are
of the opinion that the bills are unconsti-
tutionaL The penalty attached to running
a pool room or being employed in one
will be fine of not less than $500 or not
more than $500 with Imprisonment for six
months.
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ALABAMA GETS $21,e42.
Acting Secretary of War Makes Appro-
preparation for Militia.

washington. June 29.-Acting Secretary
Oliver of the war department has made
the usual annual allotment of the 81
100000 appropriated by congress to pro-
vide arms and equipment for the organ
lied militia of the United States.
The apportionments are:
Alabama s21 e42 Arkansas. s17,952; Col
orado ss973; Florida, 9s73 Georgia, $25, ,9s2;
Kentucky. s25,932 Louisiana, s17s52; Mary
land. s15,95s; Mississippi s1ss47 Missouri,
ss5. .9o5: North Carolina. s23937; District of
Columbia. s1s,ss4; South Carolina. SIT. .952;
virginia, s2s. 9e'; West Virginia. sis.sss;
Arizona, s57s7; New Mexico. 1924; Okla
homa, sl3,10S; Hawaii, $500.
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MILITIA is CALLED OUT.
Soldiers VIII Protect Jail In Which
John Vaughan Is Confined.

Memphis, Tenn, June pa special
to the Commercial-Appeal from Oko-
Iona, Miss, says:
A company of state militia has been
called out at this city to protect the
iail here in which is confined John
Vaughan, a negro, charged with the
murder of Annie Lucas, the sweet
heart of the prisoner Threats of
lynching had been made against
Vaughan by members of his own race
and the sheriff OF the county wired
Governor Vardaman for troops as a
guard for the jail. The governor
promptly called out the local military
company. All is quiet tonight.
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Commits Suicide,

Salt Lake, Utah, June 29.-John
sharp Williams, aged "a, son of Farley
T. Williams, general counsel for the
oregon Short Line railway, commit
fed suicide today. Williams was for
merly a student at Leland Stanford
university and the Van Rensselaer, In
stitute of Technology at Troy, N. Y,
and was forced to leave school on ac-
count of failing eyesight.
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ST Paul. Mimi. June 2s-An autopsy
held over the body of Miss Ruth Teachoul,
which was found In the Mississippi river
at this point last night, revealed the fact
that the young woman had been strangled
before being thrown into the river, and
that her head had been brutally pounded.
The police declare that the murder is one
of the most cold-blooded ever reported
In this city.
The case is one of complete mystery. A
year ago the name of Miss Teaehoul,
whose home was Minneapolis, was prom
inently connected with the suicide of
Mrs. Robert Taylor. the wife of an en-
ploye in the state auditors office. Mrs.
Taylor ended her life almost on the
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FEARFUL HAVOC WROUGHT
BY TORNADO IN MOSCOW

Moscow. June "a tornado swept the
city this afternoon. causing enormous
damage. Forty-fve persons were killed.
and thirteen injured are being cared for
in the hospital.
Two villages near here in the track of
the storm were destroyed. One hundred
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cHAT1AHoocHEE RIVER uP.r
Navigation Which Has Been Suspend
ed VIII Low Resume.

Columbus, Ca, June 29.-(Special. THE
Chattahoochee river rose ten feet at the
Columbus wharf today, the result of
recent rains up the state. A government
boat. columbus. arrived at the wharf
this afternoon and regular steamboat
navigation, which has been suspended a
few days, will now be resumed. General
rains fell over this section yesterday and
today.
The remains of Mrs. Fannie Dixon Mar
tin. who died Monday night in Birm'ig-
ham, were buried today in Columbus.
her old home She was daughter Of the
late 7. J. Stone.
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JUDGE KYLE ENDORSE }
BY BOOKER WASHINGTON

Washington, June 29.-(Special) 1.-The
appointment of Judge Osceola Kyle as
one of the three judges for the Panama
canal zone was made upon the recon-
mendation of Booker 7. Washington
several days ago, had been practically
selected by the President for the purpose
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TRACK HANDS ARE KILLED.
Men Were Loading Material When
Engine Struck Them.

Rochester, N. Y. June 29.-Two men
were killed, a third Is not expected to
live, and another Is seriously injured as
the result of a train on the New York
Central railroad running through a gang
of track hands at Otis station late today.
The dead are:
John Toal and Joseph Otz.
John Spain Is at the homeopathic hos
pital with a broken back and Patrick
Flynn had his right leg amputated. The
men were engaged in loading material
when the train struck them.
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Jackson Smith Promoted.

Cincinnati, June pa telegram was
received here today from Mexico City
announcing that jackson Smith, for
merly division passenger agent here
of the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road. had been made general passen-
ger agent Of the new merger of the
National Railway of Mexico, the Mexi-
can international railroad and the In
taroceanic Railroad Of Mexico.