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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-18
DEMAND INCREASE
 IN THEIR WAGES
All Railway Conductors and Train
 men Want More Money.

Chicago Dec. l i.-Reg1Stered at the Lexington hotel today are nearly all of the leading officials and members of the executive committees of the two powerful labor organizations. the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Train men. Tomorrow these officials are to hold a formal meeting to canvas the vote of the railway employees in the eastern territory on the question of demanding wage increases and concessions as to hours of work with the alternative of general strike ill the event of a refusal on the part of the railroads to comply with the demands.
 That a demand for a general wage increase will be made is certain, and it is the general opinion among these we'll informed as to the situation that the railroad companies will refuse to comply with the demand. This does not mean. however, that a general strike will be declared at once. The demands of the employees will be in the shape of a thirty days notice to open existing contracts: so that no conferences can be held with the rail- road managers before January 20. at the earliest. If the managers should refuse a conference, or reject the de-
 
 hoods require that the matter be again submitted to a vote of the men, which the labor officials say would require at least fifteen days. When strike vote has been taken another conference with the managers must be sought, so that it would probably be the beginning of March before any actual strike could take place.
 Should the threatened strike take place it undoubtedly would beco&ls one of the greatest struggles i'll tie history of the labor movement ,n America All of the operating en- ployes on the eastern roads would ne
 
 engineers and tiremen, who haye ol- ganizations of their own. The strike would affect all of the thirty-two railroads east of Chicago and EIf.n o! the line of the Chesa .,e;;,a anl G, 10.
 The list of demands to bt present n, tho two hrOfhprhoDlc rrI,ntlS HItcen articles and various s.,h ii" visions The first nine articles rcld.e tJ the details of pay for fire; sl> aaG passenger brakeman, baggaSemen aud fiagmen These call for advances of from 10 to 30 per cent. over the wages now paid. It is demanded that not over ten hours be required for days work in any branch of the service, and that overtime aftcs ten hours shall he paid for at p.0 rata rates.
 One of the demands that the rail- roads are almost certain to resist iS that which stipulates that deadhead' ing in freight or passenger service shall be paid for at full rates fol the class of service in which the meH are regularly engaged This means that where trainman or conductor ends his run at point away from his next point of departure and dead heads. as it is known in the service back to his starting point, he shall receive the same wages for the rur so made as he would be paid if h' were on regular run. In the sam' connection the demand is made tha trainmen running with light 1ocomo tive and caboose shall receive full wages.
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WANTED

More dwellings to rent. If your property is vacant it will pay you to place it with me for I have parties desiring to rent.
 FOR SALE Che corner lot on East 2nd. avenue, must be sold at once, bargain if sold in ten days.
 One dwelling and lot at No. 2220 West 17th avenue.
 FIRE INSURANCE I represent Old Line Companies, and ask share of your business. Also write accident and boiler insur- ance as we'll as security bonds. BUY AND SELL REAL ESTATE If you wish to sell see me.
 CHAS. HANCOCK
 113 Pine St.
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STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO
 IIIEA2 COIINEY

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO.I
 LUCAS COUNTY. Frank l. Cheney makes oath that he IS senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney aAd Co.,, doing business in the city of To ietlo, county and state aforesaid. and that said firm will pay the sun of ONE HUN DRIED DOLLARS for each and every case of catarrh that connot be cNred by the Use of Halls Catarrh Cure. FRANK ]. CHENEY. sworn to before me and subscribed ill my presrncc. this 9th day of December. A. D. 1886
 A. w. GLEASON.
 Notary Public. fScalA
 HaN's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mus cous surfaces of tho system. Send for testimonials free.
 F. l. CHENEY Toledo. Ohio. Sold by all druggists Iac. Take Halls Family Pills for constipat- Ion.
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SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
AUGUSTA Takes Last Game.

Chattanooga, August 1S.-(Speciai.)-
The Lookouts lost the last game of the
local season in a very warm contest in
which both teams were after Vansycle
almost constantly. Lou Castro, manager
of Augusta, protested the game for
two reasons. First because the umpire
did not put Meek out of the game aft
err he had ordered him out, and second
because he failed to call the game an
hour before the scheduled departure of
his train.
The Lookouts lost the game after AL
cock caught a fly making the third out,
and quickly dropped the ball which
rolled to the pitchers box. Vansycle
declared Alcock had muffed the ball.
Augusta then made two runs. Chatta-
nooga made a great rally in the eighth
inning having the bases full but could
not score. The score: R. H. E.
Augusta .........0 900 010 02-4 8 2
Chattanooga DOL 002 00-3 9 8
Batteries: Pierce. Billiard and Car
son; Kenna. Clarke and Meek. Time,
1908. Umpire, Vansycle.
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l Atlanta. August 1S.-(S Special THE
fielding of Wordsworth and Henline was
the feature of the game this afternoon.
the last of the series. and the first won
by Birmingham in Atlanta this trip.
Score, 4 to /.
The greatest feat of all in the field
ing line came in the ninth inning,
when Sid Smith drove a line ball be-
tween center and right. Moleworth
came from center towards right on the
dead run and with long dive grabbed
the ball with his body at an angle of
some so degrees with the ground. The
catch saved a certain homer.
The Barons outplayed the coming
champs. They found Rogers in the
seventh inning and before Smith could
make a change the game was tied up
for keeps.
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ENGINEERS READY
FOR BUSY SESSION

Savannah, August 1S.-Temporary or
ganixation Of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, now in union meeting
here with the grand international auxil-
larry. was effected this morning with j. L.
Written, general chairman of the South
ern railway engineers, as chief engineer,
and c. E. Paul as secretary.
Today's discussions by the engineers
were full of interest for the brotherhood
members T.. j. Hoskins of Knoxville
urged the Importance of a written consti-
tuition for the brotherhood to be ratified
by the divisions. T. H. Hiner Of Men,
phis talked of the difficulty Of taking UP
the grievances of individuals in the con-
vention proper, yet to be held, owing to
its size. He also spoke of the duties of
members of the order toward other MEM
bers when they are in adversely.
General Chairman Green of the Atlantic
Coast Line engineers, said there was
need for concerted action by the en-
gineers in the southeastern territory and
discussed harmony of relations between
employer and employe.
At Thunderbolt tonight the delegates to
the convention were entertained at sup
per.
Tomorrow the entire day will be spent
at Tybee beach.
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Indianapolis. August 1S.-The wonderful
indianapolis motor speedway will be
opened tomorrow with what promises to
be the greatest automobile race in the
history of that thrilling sport. Tonight
one of the most representative arrays of
space-annihilators ever brought together
in a single carnival of speed is figura-
lively painting and putting, eager to start
in the grim contest with Father Time
at noon tomorrow.
The speedway itself is a marvel and
must be seen to be properly appreciated.
A track more than 60 feet wide and two
and one half miles in circumference, with
a straightaway course of more than a
mile at the finish. awaits the high-pow
cred space devourers. The practice work
augurs well for the smashing of many
records and shows that the promoters are
not far from right when they call it the
greatest race course in the world
Zengel, driving Chadwick, covered
the circuit in two minutes today and
drove a mile in AZ So seconds. Nor was
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Y. M, C. A. Wins Another.

Columbiana, August 1S.-(S Specially
The Y. M. C. A. team from Birmingham
made q clean sweep of the series by
defeating Columbiana today by the
score of 10 to 5. Fancher, who was on
the mound for the Y. NJ. C. A., had the
home team entirely at his mercy. while
the Y. M. C. A. had little trouble in
solving Taylor's slants. They got 10
hits, while the home team was able to
get to F'ancher but for four scratch
hits Heck, the Y NJ. c. A third base
man, electrified, the fans by his phe-
nomenal fielding, and Mccoy took
everything that came in his territory
without the semblance of a bobble.
The Y. M C. A. boys left at noon for
Clanton, where they play series of
games during the remainder of the
week. The score follows: r. H. e.
IN. O. A. .220 201 1910 10 2
Columbiana .... 100 120 100 5 3
Batteries Fancher and Stevenson
Taylor and Lyons.
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BRIDGE ACCIDENT
Is VERY SERIOUS

Chicago, August 18.-Ten persons were
injured and six others had narrow es-
capes tonight when 250 feet of the Twelfth
street bridge over the Chicago river
and viaduct collapsed. 1t was thought
at first that several had been killed, but
workmen digging in Nthe ruins until late
tonight had not found any bodies.
The bridge was closed on its west ap-
proach for construction work on the rail-
road viaduct underneath. The accident
occurred just after a street car stopped
part way acros sthe bridge and 30 pas
sengers had alighted to walk over the
dangerous portion to get another car Inc
passengers were hurrying In huddieo
group when there was loud rumplng
and a crash and the footway sank pc
meath them, carrying many OF them 10
the pits below.
Many escaped by climbing to side UNI
bers These, with the car crews, pesah
the work of rescue. and most OF the IN
jured were taken out before the ponce
ambulance came. Several were 1ouno
with legs and arms broken and internal
injuries.
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Zengel alone in his wonderful perform
ances as many of the score or more driv-
ers of the track completed the circuit
close to that time. Just before making
his fastest lap. Zengel went around the
big ellipse in 2:O2.
Oldfeld, Strang, Dewitt, DePalma,
Chevrolet, Miller, Ryall, Burman. Nom
sen, Lyle, Heina, Aitken, Bourque, Den
ison and the two amateurs, Arthur Grei-
ner and Ed Harne of Chicago form a
galaxy of stars of a caliber that cannot
be surpassed Each of these men has
braved death many times in the hght TO
devour space at a superhuman pace and
each is confident he will gather greater
laurels than ever in the three days OF
tearing around and around the big
track.
While all the drivers were on the
speedway today during the two hours
from noon until o'clock allotted TO
practice the majority were content with
simply tuning" their powerful machines.
few like zengel Oldfield, Chevrolet
and others tore off some dizzy laps on
the big course but the majority were con-
tent with only a few circuits at what
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The Crackers Score.

Atlanta made her only run in the
sixth inning, when with one out Jordan
walked and Newton singled him to
second. He scored on McMurray's sin
gle, Newton being thrown out at third
on the play. McMurray went to second
on the throw in and was killed at the
plate when he attempted to score on
Walkers hit.
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MONTGOMERY WINS
IN SEVENTEENTH

Nashville August 1S.-Montgomery and
Nashville battled II innings this after
noon, victory resting with the visitors,
TO 3 The game was tied up in the fourth
and fiercely fought from there out. In
the seventeenth. for Montgomery, Ker-
win secured short hit, Whteman sac
riiced and Osteen and Hart each sent
liners into left field. netting two runs.
Nashville also secured three hits and
sacrifice in this inning, and had the bases
full when Bay came to the bat. He fell
SNORT, however and the side was retired.
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BarOns Win and Boston Threatens
VIII Thrill Today.
Great Auto Races Drawing CrOz0dS

they call a moderate pace, but which
would be terrific to the layman.
The racing will open at noon tomorrow
before what is expected to be record
breaking crowd There are five events on
the programme for tomorrow. The 2bO-
mile race is the future of the day, but
the 10-mle free-for-all handicap, which
has 20 entries, is expected to furnish
enough thrills for even the most blase
speed-mad spectator. While 1t is not
probable the entire 20 will start, 1t is
certain that there will be at least 20 ma
chimes tearing around the immense oval
Starter Fred ]. Wagner of New YORK
will formally inaugurate the speedway
when he starts the seven machines in the
five-mile stripped chassis race at noon
The other events on the programme are
another five-mile and a ten-mile stripped
chassis race.
Indianapolis has become the Mecca of
the Automobiles of the entire country
and every hour brings more In machines
and on trains
Hundreds from nearby cities are driving
their cars into the city and many eastern
ers are here A caravan" of about rs ma
chimes arrived from Chicago tonight.
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Law Declared Invalid.

Lincoln, Neb., August 1s.-Judge w. B.
Rose, of the supreme court of Nebraska,
today handed down his opinion declaring
the non-partisan judiciary act passed by
the last legislature invalid. The law was
knocked out chiefly on the ground OF its
attempt to inhibit praise or censure Of
candidates by political parties was an
Arrangement of the right of speech. An
oral opinion declaring the act invalid
was delivered month ago.
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Runched Hits Did Il.

Up to the seventh the Barons had
made just one hit, but in that inning
they made up for the deficiency and
gave Rogers walloping he will re-
member. Manuel hit safely and Gygli
followed with a safe one to right. Then
Kane rolled a slow one to third and
beat Walkers throw by a hairs
breadth. Larsen went out from New
ton to Smith, Manuel scoring and ty-
ing the score. Fleharty singled and
Gygli scored. Kane moved up to third.
Atkins was sent in and Rogers yanked
out. Henline singled and Kane counted.
ELAN famed and Wordsworth did the
same.
In the ninth inning Larsen walked.
Fleharty hit to Atkins, who tossed to
Newton at second for a force. Henline
hit to Newton, who threw to Jordan
for force. Henline stole second, and
came home on Ellams triple.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Pittsburg Scores Twice.

Pittsburg, August 1S.-Pittsburg took
both games of a double-header from st.
Louis today, the first 8 to and the sec
ond to 1. The visitors secured all their
runs in the first game before Pittsburg
scored. Philippe was relieved after the
fourth inning and Adams did not allow
a hit. not a visitor reaching first in the
next five innings.
Raleigh, st. Louis 19-year-old pitcher
from California, allowed Pittsburg but
two hits in the second contest but Cam
nitz also did well, the visitors going out
in order during the last six innings. The
winning run was made in the ninth. when
Barbeau was hit went to second on
Leach's sacrifice, to third on Clarkes in
field hit and home on Wagner's sacrifice
fly. Score of first game: R.H. e.
Pittsburg ............... 600 OH 03$-6 10 o
st. Louis ................ 010 200 0O0-S /
Batteries Adams and Gibson; Backman
and Phelps. Time, 30 Umpires john
stone and Kane.
Score of second game: R.H. E.
Pittsburg ............... col 900 00l-2 l
st. Louis .............. 010 900 000I 0
Batteries Camnitz and Gibson; Raj
eigh and Phelps. Time, 1:0. Umpires,
tombstone and Kane.
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Score:

'-Batted for Viebahn in the seven
tenth.
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EccentrIc Character Dead.

Houston, Tex. August 1S.-An aged
man who was run over and killed last
night by a train at a street crossing In
Houston has just been identified as Doc
Shuelz, so years old, the well-known &C.
centric dog fancier. In 1893 Shuelz drove
an ordinary wagon filled with many va
rieties of dogs from Houston to Chicago
10 the Worlds fair. A large collection of
dogs Ia left at the dead mans home at
Beauchamp Springs, although poverty
had oyertaken him.
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GAMES TODAY.

Birmingham in Nashville.
Memphis In Little Rock.
Atlanta in Montgomery.
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Some WehS of The BaY0ns

the former first sacker returning to his
first love. The combination continued
to work well, neither making an error,
and both getting bingles.
The game yesterday was called at 2:30
o'clock in order that Birmingham might
catch a train for Nashville where the
Barons open today.
Ronibson, Dickson and Manuel will
work against Nashville and 1t Is prob
able that Birmingham will again sting
the Volunteers. Bernhard's crew has
caused the locals no serious worry this
season.
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Tate Spring. August 1S.-(Special.)-
The following golfers qualified in the
first 16 in the handicap tournament of
the Tate Spring Golf club for the Au-
gust cup:
f. C. Stockdell, New Orleans, La; w.
H. Gowan. Knoxville. Tenn; j. c. Allf-
son, Nashville, Tenn; J. A. Ball,
Charleston, s. c.; H. Tutwiler. Bir-
mingham, Ala; III. II. Goforth, Knox
vile, Tenn; e. B. Crawford. Birming-
ham; f. II. Mallard, Brunswick, Ga;
Brooks Morgan, Atlanta. Ga; w. w.
Crawford, Jr., Birmingham; M Fl.
Wells, Jacksonville, Fla; II. Block,
Atlanta, Ca; G. ]. Ashe, Knoxville,
Tenn; William Morrell. Savannah, Ga;
c. H. Godfrey Atlanta. Ca Edward
Ashe, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Sporting Ne1Os
BaronS Easily Defeat
The Atlanta Crackers
RAUB RETURNS TO
THE GAME TODAY

Tommy Raub will probably get in the
game this afternoon.
His five days spension-imposed be-
cause he forgot himself when Umpire
OBrien took away a game from Biz
mingham and slapped the phiz of the ex-
Bowery cop-began last Saturday morn
ing.
When the sun went down yesterday
Raub was restored to honor. He will
probably break up the game this after
noon with a hit with men on bases.
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Famous Cook ls Dead.

Augusta. Ca, August 1S.-Pickens
Wells, one Of the most famous barbecue
cooks in the south, dropped dead today
while preparing cue. Pckens prepared
a barbecue at which President Taft was
the honored guest some time ago. White
men here are raising a fund to erect a
monument to him as a tribute to his
fidelity and high character
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WORDSWORTH HAS
NOT LOST A SON

By some means 1t became circulated
yesterday that Carlton Wordsworth, man.
ager of the Birmingham club, had lost
a son.
This was untrue. Wordsworth never
had son.
Last evening the manager wired the
sporting editor of The Age-Herald as
follows:
please correct report that 1 have lost
a son. l never had one to lose"
1t is unknown how a report of that
nature could have leaked out.
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Hogan Yancey. the Baron outfielder,
who was hurt in Mondays game against
Atlanta, is not seriously injured &C
cording to a message received last night
from Manager Wordsworth.
1t seems that in sliding to base he
injured himself in such a way that 1t was
necessary for him to be out of the game
for a while.
Manuel is playing rightfield and Is hit
ting the ball hard. His stick work was no.
ticeable yesterday and the day before.
McGiivray and Gygli were switched yes
terday, the big fellow going to second, and
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jacksonville Quits Cold.

Jacksonville, Fla, August 1S-To-
days South Atlantic league game was
forfeited to Knoxville, 8 to 0, the local
owners refusing to allow their team TO
play with Westervelt as an umpire.
Immediately following the game the
owners of the team turned their fran
chise over to the league and the pros
pect of baseball in this city is awaited
with much interest. 1t is rumored to-
night that other citizens will take the
club. In the meantime, the team will
be carried by the league.
At Columbia Columbia g. Savannah 8.
At Macon: Macon 0, Columbus l.
Second game: Macon, 8, Columbus 0.
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Decrease In Coal Production.

Washington, August 1s.-(Special.)-The
geological survey issued today a report on
coal produced in the United States for
1908 The figures for Alabama are H.
O04 ,593 tons. as compared with IA, 250, 454
tons in 1907, a decrease of 2,645.S61 tons.
in round numbers the estimated decrease
in the value of the coal as compared
with the year before was 50, 900.
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Dynamite Found in Coal.

London. August ia dispatch from
Portsmouth to the Daily Graphic says
there is much alarm there owing to the
discovery thrice lately of supposed dyna-
mite cartridges among coal shipped to
Portsmouth for the battleshlps. The lat
est find of this character was during
the coaling yesterday of the cruiser Duke
of Edinburgh The correspondent says
the mystery has not yet been explained.
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Patents Issued.

washington. August 1s.-(special)-
Patents issued: W. A. Biles of Birming-
ham, composition roofing and producing
it; A Brigden of Albertville, cultivator;
J. C. Brown of Evergreen, power rigging
for pushing railway rails up grade; w.
H. Hudson of Montgomery, trephine; M.
d. Self of Bessemer, trolley retriever; II.
A. Smith of Gurley, hay rake; j. Wiki
inson OF Birmingham, marine turbine.
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CAROLINA ASSOCIATION.

At Anderson: Anderson, 5; Greenville, 4.
Second game, Anderson, 5; Greenville, 8.
A Spartanburg: Spartanburg, 1; Green's
boro, 4. Second game, Spartanburg, 2:
Greensboro, 5.
At Charlotte: Winston-Salem, 4; Char
lotte g. Second game, Winston-Salem,
0; Charlotte, 0; II innings-dark.
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DANGEROUS perelict Afioat.

Washington, August BIN view OF In
formation received by the treasury de-
partment concerning the wreck of the
British steamer Anglo-African, located IN
the Atlantic ocean, as a dangerous dere-
lict about five miles from Cape Henry.
Va, the revenue cutter Seneca, which
was directed to destroy the wreck, has
been Instructed by wireless not to blow
up the vessel, but to place buoy upon
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po.tmaster. cat FurIouoh.

Washington, April BY order Of POST
master General Hitchcock, postmasters
of the third and fourth classes In tho
state of Georgia are granted leave Of
absence for as many lays, not exceeding
five, as may be necessary to enable them
to attend the annual meeting of the Geor-
gia State League of Postmasters Of the
fourth class to be held at Macon, Ca, Sep
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