Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-04

District agreements will be made
| speedily. and am confident that The
| suspension of work will continue only
a few days
The executive board of the miners
/ union is In session today. iransactiDg
routine business. The members VIII
leave this city tonight and will 20 at
once 10 their respective districts to
represent the national administration
IN the direction of local strikes.
RENO, New. Mar. St-Notwith-
standing repeated donials 1t . COR
fdently assered today that Mrs. w.
X. Wander bill Jr.. formerly Mis- vi
ginia F.cr. daughter of the sdmors
| Comstock masnate OF Virginia City )
early days. viii Join Reno's colony
OF millionaire divorce seekers early
next wees. " ) VANDERBILT at present,
| IL in Saa Francisco. The law frni Of
Summerhe 4 & Curl.r VIII not deny n
confirm itc story. It Is asserted tbHt
Mrs Vanderbilt, during her in Reao.
will live in the Warru home.
The unhappy climax of this Wander
hilt romance Is a thing utterly beyond
the calculations of three notable wun-
n who made the match betwee beau.
tiful Virginia Fair and the then youth
ful Mr. Vanderbilt. The women were
Vanderbilt: Mrs. Herman Oelricns. a
sister of Miss Fair, and Mrs. Smy ie-
sant Fish. whose lofty position in New
port society had won for them The
Strategy" Indeed. there seems every
reason why the young couple should
have the happiest OF married lives.
They have three children.
WASHINGTON, Mar. alt is re
ported this afternoon that President
raft has selected L. w. Bowers, an old
Yale cIassman. and now solicitor of
The department OF justice, for the SUI
premc court vacancy caused by the
death OF Brewer.
INDTANAPOLIS. April 1.--Celebrat-
ing today the anniversary of the in
stitution OF the eight-hour day In the
mines of the country the bltuminous
miners faced an enforced holiday Of
unknown duration. In many states
after two years wage contest, last mid
night the miners quit the coal pits,
demanding their new contract must
provide for wage increase of > cents
per ton on screen coal and an equIva-
lent increase on run of mine" coal.
Conferences between miners and
owners in several districts and the
corresponding operators associations
have been arranged The adjustment
Of the difficulty may be matter of
weeks or days in the Brazil block coal
district of Indiana. for The latter op.
orators have conceded to higher wages
demanded from the miners. in Illinois
and western PENNSYLVANIA the powder
question and which party shall pay
the shot firers are the controversy
upon which there will be probably n
prolonged contest.
KANSAS CITY. April Although
the whistles at the coal mines in
southwestern interstate fields. lnclud-
ing Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and
Oklahoma, blew as usual this morning
practically none OF the men responded
to the call
LONDON, April 1.-The loudest cry
af ok ~ .,-dt O. l,.,
status Of British rule in Egypt was
forced by the London Express today
in an article pleading for more rigid
expressive measures in Egypt
If the Express statement Of con
ditions in Egypt is true, the public is
agreed that Colonel Roosevelt was
really in personal danger when he
dared denounce the nationalists In
Cairo. their stronghold. II Is no Sc
cret that seditiou is rampant among
the native officers of the Egyptian
army, the Express says, "and secret
societies are poisoning them against
the British and planning by means of
teIrorizing methods to sweep the Eng
lish out of the country"
WASHINGTON. April 1.-The Bal.
lineerPinchot hearing went on today
with Secretary Ballinger's counsel in
charge Of the presentation of evidence,
The taking of testimony in behalf of
the cabinet officer began last Sat
urday afternoon Attorney Vertrees
sharply criticized James r. Garfield
and Clifford Pinchot for their share in
the attack on the secretary. AS the
hearing progressed tho indication mul.
tiplles that the congressional commit.
lee is so seriously split along party
lines that unanimous report is be
yond possibility.
WASHINGTON. April 1.-The big.
gest fight since the passage OF the
Hepburn rate bill entered today when
The government filed with the supreme
| court of the United States brief in
p. the so-called Missouri river rate cases
| They involve the interests OF manu-.
| facturers, jobbers. merchants and rail
roads from the Atlantic seaboard to
the Rocky mountains The two cases
which have attracted the most atten
tion are those concerning the through