Dakota Farmers' Leader from Canton, South Dakota • Page 2

tr j-? A jt I a -x j- a FaMers' Leader CANTON, 8. 0. LINN, PublUher. 'BALKANS IN CRISIS WAR CliOtD COMES MONTHS AHEAD OF TIME. hitf'Htm that Prince Ferdinand Win lame Proclamation Ht Independence, WWcli It Feared Will Bring War Turkey.

flu French government 1a absorbed tin the Balkan crisis. Official advices which have been received at Paris lead the Temps to announce that at TIernova Prince Ferdinand, the relgning prince ot Bulgaria, will proclaim the independence of Bulgaria and will assume the tltleot "oaar of the "Rwnelia nflll be Included In the proclamation.7' says the Temps, "but probably Turkey will not acqulsce and Turko-Bnlgarlan is therefore likely. The only thing to Interfere with this program is Prince Ferdinand's possible hesitation at the last moment, but his resolution appeared to be The Temps adds that Austria is ready to compensate Turkey for the definite seizure at the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovnla toy the retrocession of San Jak of Novlporzar, which Is under partial military occupation by AustriaHungary in virtue of a convention between that country and Turkey. President Falieres, Prime Minister Ctemenceau and Foreign Minister Plnchon held a conference Sunday relattveto a latter from Emperor Joseph, which was transmitted to -'''the president Saturday by County SCbeve-noItenef-Metisch, the Austrian anubMeador, and which la understood be Identical with letters which have been to other chiefs of atate notlfylng them of Austria's In view of the change In the situation In the Balkans, "to tighten the "bonds" which unite Bosnia and Herze.govnla to Austria. Franee ls disposed to act cautiously In this matter.

If the treaty of Berlin la to he torn up the main fear is that this will be followed by a scramble for "compensation," Greece claiming 'Crete, Italy asking for Albany and oth er powers seeking similar acquis! -tlona. PE1USH IN FIRE. In -Several Persons Death New York Tenement. Several persona were burned to 4eath and many were Injured, one fatally, In a lire in a crowded tenement bouse on Mulberry street, New York, Monday morning. Several tenants windows and flre escapes when flames cut off their retreat.

jtttWd' on the first floor "in Cry goods stofce 'tfffd' ipteaa Idljnr There Is a Are escape on the front of'the building, but It of little use, aa the persons In the bulld- Ing loaf thalr heads, and chlldfan were thrown Ithe street. Fortunately neatly all of the children were caught tojr peraons on the side walk. At 4 o'clock Monday morning the poliee reported eight persons dead In the Ore. Four bodies had been removed from the building, those of two men, one woman and a little girl. MOB SLAUGHTERS FAMILY.

leatack Negro, wife and Babiee Are Shot to Death. Dave 'Walker, a negro, his E-year-old daughter and his baby child were killed outright, themother, who was holding the babe In her arms, was fatally ahot and three other children will probably die as a result of a mob's to the Walker home, near Hickman, Saturday night In addition the oldest son Is missing and la supposed to have been burned with the negro's cabin, which was llred by the mob. Walker had cursed a white woman and threatened a white man with a piatol. When the mob of about fifty ordered him to come from his house ha replied with a shot. The torch was then applied to the house, and as the occupants they were shot dowa.

CMt Strikcre in Riot. Twe hunderd men, most of whom are thought to have beeh cab drivers who went strike earlier In the day, lined up between Forty-Seventh and Sixtieth streets end Broadway in New York, BUurdtor night anti attacked passing cabs with the result that many were hart. The police dispersed the" rioters end arrested six men." Stoox City Jjhre Stock Market. Saturduy's quotation? on the Sioux Cltyllveatock market follow: Beeves, 93.4?@3.50. Top hogs, JC.7Q.

Mall from Irfmtlon. An enormous quantity of American njatl waa brought out from Euston statlon, London, Saturday afternoon to neat the Lusitanla at Queenatown, belag a portion of the first penny mail the United States. Business firms I jL am taking advantage of tha cheap mmtiA mit to send out masses, of advertis. Ing. torn, MM Wedding, Rencourt, near Greenville, Saturday Thomas F.

"bayard, son of the Ambassador Bayard, was married ipiaa BUaabath B. Du Pont, a daughter Alexia Irene Du Pont and Alexia I. Du Pont. The of jETnitecr mates pmbmt. J.

Pttckett, superint- the Denver mint under aged MAY Oil Ll'ON MAiUdKi Students ot Illinois University In Wild Riot. Wild with rage Mayor Blaine, of Champaign, 111., early Friday morning pulled his revolver and llred at a University of Illinois student with whom the mayor had been having a hnnd to hand combat. The executive's aim 'was poor and the student, one of a large party engaged in hazing freshmen, escaped unscratched. "I will shoot to Mil the next time," said Blaine. "The mllltla ought to be called out." The gun play was one of the features of a melee between the sophomore band and the local police, resulting in the arrest of five students, B.

Smith, E. M. Benton, E. A. Stroud, H.

A. Tupper and a. Wilcox, who were lined in the Champaign police court by Magistrate Rogerson after they had entered pleas of guilty to disorderly conduct and reHistlng officers. The mayor, censured by some, says that President James asked the authorities to arrest all students misconducting themselves at all. Wednesday Congressman Nick Longworth, addressing the students, put himself on record as approving mild forms of hazing, and related Incidents in his college days at Harvard before the admiring students.

University authorities are Inclined to regret that the president's son-in-law expressed himself, in view of Friday morning's melee. It is hinted that Longworth's words might have been a spur. Frl day morning many first year men were "duokad" in a stream, a custom always rigorously and sternly banned by the faculty. Masked, the "sophs" pursued their occupation until the mayor and -police descended on them. TiaNNINO RANKS OF BM'K.

34,333 Deaths Among Civil War Vctcr. a us liast Fiscal Year. The report of the commissioner of pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30 shows that in the year there were 34,383 deaths among survivors of the civil war who were on the pension roll. This falling off was equal to about 5 per cent of the total and left 628,084 survivors on the roll. The total number of pensioners at the end of the fiscal year was 951,687 the statement shows that 188,445 widows of soldiers already have taken advantage of the law of the last session of congress increasing to $12 month the pensions to widows.

CITY IS ONE VAST GRAVE. Disaster in Indian Capital Bccomes Appalling. A correspondent of a Bombay, India, newspaper who has reached Hyderabad, the capital of the flooded district, describes that city as a vast grave. The streets and bazaars have been transformed Into a grewsome mass of stone, mud and decomposed flesh. It Is Impossible accurately to estimate the death roll In the stricken region, the correspondent declares, but some natives put it as high as 60,000.

HAZERS' victim may be dead. JKeatnuoky Student in Car and Shipped Away. Through a sensational story told at Lexington, by a small boy, it is rBg as certain Willie O. Smith, wfitf- disappeared from the state university Tuesday night, last week, was overpowered, bound and gagged, during.the course of hazing at the university, placed in a Queen and Crescent ear, the door closed, and Smith shipped away. The car was shipped out of the yards, but no trace of it can be found.

A' Shoots Woman and Himself. Drew Marshall, of Cairo, 111., shot Mrs. Frank Bechtel twice and then turned the gun on himself. He died Instantly and Mrs. Bechtel Is now lying in a dangerous condition at the city hospital.

Marshall was angered by the refusal of Mrs. Bechtel to leave her husband and two small children and elope with him. Uniform BUI of Lading. The traffic bulletin Friday printed a letter from Chairman Martin A. Knapp, of the interstate commerce commission, to C.

C. McCain, chairman of the uniform bill of lading committee, approving of the draft Of the new uniform bill of lading which Is to go into effect Nov. 1. "Teddy" Puts on Overalls. Theodore Roosevelt, began work at ThomsonvIUe, in learning when Friday morning he donned overalls and went into the wool room of the Hartford Carpet corporation's plant to take his place at the wool washing maclne.

He will go thorugh the other plants In turn. Great Horror in India. Latest reports from the flooded districts in India, which resulted from unprecedented rains, place the death list at 10,000. One village with 1,000 houses was entirely engulfed in mud. Wins the Marathon Racc.

J. W. O'Mara, of North Cambridge, Friday won the Marathon race from Boston to Brockton, Mass. Time (unofficial), 2 hours, 31 minutes and 20 seconds. Doesn't Go to Capital.

National Chairman Hltchcgck did not go to Washington Friday to meet Roosevelt. Ho said he expected to go to Washington at an early day on a matter purely personal. Cornerstone la Laid. Before a multitude of people and With impressive ceremonies the cornerstone of tfae Allegheny County Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial hall of the School of Mines of the new university of Pittsburg was placed in Friday. Tiihemataste sessions of the Irtterhitl tuberculosis congress was held Friday at Washington, during which a wide range of subjects not touched upon were discussed.

SSHSS A BIG roit COIN. Government HupHy is lxw, and t-liBMe of Silver is Resumed. Director of the Mint Lench has an. nounced that ho would this week resume the purchase of silver for subsidiary coinage. He stated that he expected to purcahse about 126,000 ounces each week for an indefinite perlad.

Director Leach said he was confident purchases would be made as long as there was an active demand for coin. The mint now has on hand only 6,000,000 ounces of fine Bilver and thle supply would soon be exhausted at the present rate of demand. For several months prior to the late financial stringency the demand for subsidiary coins was so active as to necessitate the operation of the mints to their full capacity, but the demand fell oft until there was an accumulation In tha treasury In April last of about In subsidiary coins. Early In the summer the call for silver dollars became more active and soon the supply was practically exhausted. Attention was then directed to halves and other subsidiary coins with the result that there Is only about $21,000,000 available, notwithstanding the fact that in September 1634,000 in silver subsidiary was coined and added to the stock on hand.

Leach expects a still stronger demand when the cotton crop begins to move and the decision to purchase more silver Is in anticipation of demand. BANKERS STAND PAT. Oppose Both Guaranty and Postal Sav lugs Plans. The thirty-fourth annual convention of the American Bankers' association came to an end at Denver, Thursday afternoon with the election of George M. Reynolds, of Chicago, president, and Lewis E.

Pierson, of New York, first vice president. Thirty-eight new members were announced and a vice president representing each of the states having representatives in the association was named. The convention also placed itself squarely on record as against the proposition, to guarantee bank deposits and to establish pos-tal sayings banks. A lively discussion occurred oyer the report of the federal legislative committee opposing both the guarantee of bank deposits and the establishment of postal savings banks. The resolution ofTered by the committee contained a condemnation of the guarantee only, making no mention of postal savings banks.

SAY LEPER IS CURED. Experiment in Honolulu Said Have Been Successful. Drs. W. P.

Brinckerhoft and J. T. Wayson have notified the Honolulu board of health that they believe they have succeeded in curing a leper by the Nastln treatment. The Nastln treatment for leprosy which Drs. Brinckerhoft and Wayson, of Honolulu, believe has resulted in the cure of a leper consists in the use of a preparation discovered by Dr.

Deycko Pasha, director of the Imperial Medical school at Constantinople, and Reschad Bey, senior physician of the same institution. Its composition and the method of treatment followed in connection with the remedy have not been made public. Health of King Charles. It was learned at Bpcharest, Roumania, that King Charles, who Is at Sinta, In the Carpathian mountains, recently suffered a faintlng fit which lasted for three hours. This was the origin of the alarming reports regarding his majesty's condition.

It was officially declared that the general health of the king was much im proved. Many Scientists Are Heard. With only two more days for section work in the minute studjy of every phase of the tuberculosis problem, the soven sections of the international tuberculosis congress convened Thursday at Washington. Addresses were made by scientists from all parts of the world on the many new questions which have arisen in the universal campaign. Bars Voting Machines.

The supreme court of Michigan Thursday directed the rejection of the vote in one precinct of Spaulding township, Menominee county, at the recent republican primaries for governor because voting machines were used. The court ruled the machines allowed no means to keep the ballotf of each party separate. To Contest Carter Will. Leslie Dudley Carter, son of the actress, Mrs. Leslie Carter Payne, who makes his home with his mother and stepfather at Tarrytown, announced that he will contest the will of his father, Leslie Carter, of Chicago, who died last Friday, and whose Will'cuts his son off without a penny.

Tribesmen in Rebellion. The natives of Angola, a Portuguese possession in western Africa, revolted and attacked the fort at Pon Lulse recently. After a sharp fight they were repulsed by the garrison, but two Portuguese were killed and several were wounded. More Fighting in Persia. 'fyC A telegram from the Turkish "consul at Tabris.

Persia, says indiscriminate bombarding of that town con. tinues. Bubonic Plague In Ecuador. The bubonic plague has made its reappearance in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and there are at the present time three cases. During the month of September six new cases of plague were recorded there and there were threr deaths.

Boot Returns to Ofltoe. Secretary Root, who has been speeding the summer at his Clinton, N. resumed his duties at the state department Thursday and catled at the White House. He is in excellent health. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE NEWS WAS ROIiltKllV OXIA FAKK? Creditors So Allege Aguiiiht a Storekeeper.

charges ngalnM John C. Cantonwlne, of Armour, are made by three Sioux City creditors In a petition which has been filed in the federal court at Sioux Falls, asking that Oantonwlne be declared a bankrupt. The petitioners are the Sioux City Iron company, the C. Khcnkberg company and the H. A.

Baker company, all of Sioux City, and the Citizens' State bank, of Armour. They have claims In the following amounts: Sioux City Iron company. $187.25 the C. Shcnkbcrg cumpany, the H. A.

Baker company, $1 and the Citizens' State bank, of Armour. Mr. Cantoriwine on September IS created a sensation by Hnrniin( lug that the safe in his store had been robbed of in paper money. $2,000 111 gold and $H00 in silver. C'an- tonwine said that as far as he had known he was the only one who knew the combination of the safe, and yet the safe had not been blown open by the alleged robbers, but ul been opened by the combination.

Cantonwine offered a reward of for the apprehension of the thief or thieves. In the petition which has been filed in the federal court the charge is clearly made that Cantonwine was not robbed at all. The petition says that Cantonwine did and with intent to cheat and defraud hi.s creditors remove or cause to be removed from his store a large amount of property, including the sum of $35,000 in cash, which he has concealed and continues to conceal and to keep beyond the reach of his creditors with Intent to cheat and defraud his creditors, and for the purposes of hindering, delaying and defrauding his said creditors in the collection of their accounts. United States Marshal Bullock, in accordance with an order issued by Judge Carland, of the federal court, has taken possession of the property of Mr. Cantonwine, pending the determination of the bankruptcy proceedings instituted against him.

The order for him to show cause why he should not be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt is returnable in the federal court on Oct. 10. Mr. Cantonwine will have a period of five days after that time to file his answer to the petition filed by the creditors who seek to have him declared an involuntary bankrupt. Mr.

Cantonwine was engaged in the general merchandise business, and in addition carried large stocks of farm machinery, vehicles and hardware. His institution was one of the largest retail establishments in South Dakota. FATAI. WRECK AT PAHKE15. John Hanson Killed in Crasli of Stock Trains.

section of stock train No. 26, onthe Northwestern line, en route from Pierre to Sioux City, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning ran into the first section, which was standing In the yards at Parker, and killed J. Hansen, a stock shipper of Bcftsford. The firnt section of the train, in charge of Conductor Frank Angle, was taking water when the second section crashed Into it, completely splitting the caboose, which caught fire and was burned up. The trainmen in the ill fated caboose saw the oncoming engine in time to give a cry of alarm and then jumped.

J. Peterson, another stockman from Beresford, succeeded in jumping from the car in time to avoid the orash, but his head and back were seriously injiired in alighting. Hanson, the dead man, apparently was asleep and did not hear the alarm. presumption is that he. was killed Instantly.

The body was burned to ashes. Hanson leaves a wife and five childreiu Hanson and Peterson had been west of Huron buying up stock cattle for feeding purposes and were returning with them. Seven cattle were killed and many other cattle were so badly injured that they will die or have to be killed. Dr. Hofer, coroner, arrived from Marlon Junction, viewed tho wrcck and decided no Inquest would be necessary.

He took charge of the ashes of the dead man. LAHlvIN OCT OF PRISON. Executive fcleniency Extended to a Former Black Hills Man. One of the in South Dakota is John H. Larkln, formerly a resident of the Black Hills, who has just been released from the Sioux Falls penitentiary in accordance with a pardorr granted him by Gov.

Crawford, on the recommendation of the state "ioard of pardons. Larkln was serving a term jears for forgery. While intoxicated he forged a check for a small amount. At the time of committing the crime he was a resident ot: Belle Fourche. Larkin is an ex.to't a'-nographer and bookkeeper.

W. E. Iliniaan Dies of Injuries. William 13. Ilinman died In the Samaritan hospital nt Aberdeen Friday as tho result -of1 Injuries received by being struck by a railroad train.

Heir to 27.000 Marks. Mrs. Theodore Sothman, wife of a well known farmer residing near Gregory, has beeir ollicially advised that she has fallen heir to the sum of 27,000 marks (about $ttr300) by the death of a wealthy relative at Hamburg. Germany. To Mitchell Next Ycar.

Tne uuainess session of th? Baptist State association at Pierre have been finished and the place of the meeting for next year fixed at Mitchell. Fire at Ccmervlllc. Bonines' grocery store and bakery at Centervllle were destroyed by fire. Nothing was saved. The stock was valued at $4,000 Insurance 3,500.

The lire originated in the attic and was thought to have been caused by an electric light Niw flood Iueori'iorafcxl. Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Dakota and-Western Railway company at Rapid City with capital $100,009. CATTLE SHIPMENTS. Drought Has lu liclh Fourclio Uistrlct. Inroads by the Milwaukee railroad on the north and the drought of the past summer will reduce the number of cattle shipped from Belle Fourche this season to below the figure of last year.

In 1897 over 1.700 ears of cattle and sheep went to market from here, but this year it Is expected that the number will not exceed 1,200. Other the western part of the state will make up The total and the shlpmehts from the western half of South Dakota this fall now are expected to top the number of 1907. Stockmen In Butte county, where most of the cattle are now to be found, experienced an unusually dry, hot summer, and some cattle were therefore held over for another year rather than drive them over the ranges to market. Shipping facilities are greatly improved with two instead of one railroad, and the long drives across the country are mostly done away with. While Kelle Fourche continue to get the larger part of the shipping, many small towns along the line of both the Milwaukee and Northwestern railroads east of Rapid City have this year become shipping points, thus doing away with Rapid City as a factor in the shipping world.

LAWYERS I liOCK TO DALLAS. Young Legnl Mgiit-s Fairly Suann New Town. The young city of Dallas, in the intoxicating prosperity Incident to the Tripp county land opening, is just now claiming distinction on many points, but it Is only within the last day that one person was to take a census of the lawyer population of the place. It Is claimed as an actual fact thut there are more than 150 and probably close to 200. This takes no of the daily transients, but includes merely those permanently local! il or temporarily located "until after the opening." A very large proportion these attnriieys are young men who just finished school during the past year, finding the profession well represented in most ol the older communities they were attracted to this new country In the hope of striking a less crowded field.

While I lit- new towns to he open ed in Tripp county will probably absorb small portion ot' the delegation the majority of the young legal lights are peifcctly willing lo regard tho situation as a joke. DKATll PENALTY I'Olt HAYES. Jury Convicts Black llills Man ot Murder. For the first time in ten years a Jury at Dead wood lias reunited a death in the trhil of Charles Hayes, alias William Dunn, for the murder oT Fred Kamuelson at Spearfish two mouths ago, after a sonsntioinil trial in which the girl sweetheart of the two men was the. star witnesses lor the State.

The jury rernriinecl out but two and a half hours and returned a verdict of guilty in tlie with a recommendation that Dunn bu hanged While public sentiment was strongly against tho prisoner, the sovority or the verdict was totally unexpected Jealousy over the affections of 16year-old Lena Schaar caused the crime for which Dunn must suffer. Dunn found Samuelson In company with the girl and shot him without warning. ENDS YANKTON MIONE WAR. Bell Company Sells Its Local Exchange to tlic Independent. The Northwestern Telephone company, part of the Bell system, after months of negotiation has sold Its Yankton exchange to the local independent company.

This closes a long struggle with the independent company and with the city council over the Northwestern's franchise, which has been in the-courts for a year or more. The exchange was purchased for $1,000, the old company reserving some of its property and all us ton lines. It will retire permanently from the city and the two exchanges will be consolidated and a new exchange built Child Nearly Cremated. The 5-year-old son of Doescher, of Armour, was left asleep in the house while the father went to the theater to escort his wife home. The child awoke during his absence, lit a lamp and upset it on the bed.

The parents returned while the bedding was ablaze and extinguished the flames. The child's lower limbs wore severly burned and may cripple him for life. Girl Praji'Rcd to Death by Horse. The 11-year-old daughter of A. Chapman, living twenty miles south of Fort Pierre, was dragged to death after having been thrown Crotn a poriy and her foot catching jn- the stirrup.

The child was terribly bruised by the dragging and kicking and was dead when the pony was en South Dakota Opens. The University of South Dakota opens this year under the most auspicious circumstances. The attendance Is greatly Increased ever that of the same period last year and the indications are that it will be the largest this year in the history of the institution His Cement Contract. One of the largest cement contracts yet let at Deadwood is about to be awarded. At present about one-half of tlic city sidewalks are cement, and it is proposed to complete the rest, part of the work being done this fall If practicable, and the remainder in the spring.

Lawrence Comity Fair. Over people attended first annual of the Lawrence County Fair association held at Spearflsh. The horse racing showed some good entries, the money being carried away in almost every case by Black Hills owners, The poultry exhibit, judged by W. C. Ellison, of Minneapolis, was declared the' best show of its kind ever seen In the Black Hills.

U.S.G01LHESTME 3,125 LIVES III A TEAR Geological Survey Statistics Show 5,314 Persons Were Injured La 1907. W0BST IN WEST VIRGINIA. Death Bate Among Miners in That State Is 12.35 Per ThousandBlasts Not Greatest Danger. Trti, Eleven Horses Cremated. The large new barn of Joseph Glancer, a farmer living four southwest of Bridgewater, together with eleven head of horses, 1,500 bushels of oats, hay, harness and wagons, was totaly destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $3,000, partially Insured.

The origin of the fire Is a mystery. Hearst Ticket jggl Tha petition for the independence, or Hearst party ticket, has been filed with the secretary of state and will be plaoed upon the ballot for the November Accidents iu coal mines of the United States during the lust calendar year esulted in the death of 3,125 men and Injury to 5,314 more, according to statistics made public by tbe geological survey. Tlie death record among the coal miners during the year was greater by than iu liKKl, and is said to have been tlie worst year in the history of the coal industry. The figures do not represent the full extent of the disasters, as reports were not received from States having 110 mine inspectors. West Virginia reported for 1907 the heaviest death rate, 12.35 per thousand employes, and that State also showed the lowest production for each life lost tons.

New Mexico stood next on the list with a death rate of 11.45 and a production of 77,322 tons for each life lost. Alabama was third, with a death rate of 7.2 per thousand and a production of 02,535 tons for each life lost. Missouri had the lowest death rate, heading the roll of honor with .95 and 499,742 tons of coal mined for each life lost. Statistics do not bear out the popular idea that most mine disasters result from explosions. Of the total number reported during the last year 947 deaths and 343 injuries resulted from gas and dust explosions and 201 deaths and 416 Injuries were caused by powder explosions.

The chief cause of death among the miners, the report claims, was the falling of mine roofs and coal. Such disasters caused 1,122 deaths and 2,141 injuries. E. W. Parker, chief statistician of the survey, asserts that much benefit will result from the action of Congress in appropriating $150,000 to investigate mine disasters and take steps to decrease the number of accidents each year.

He says one of the greatest needs of the coal mining industry 1 Hie enforcement of military discipline In the operation of the mines. of the Unemployed. Reports continue to come in from various charity organizations in American cities telling of a gloomy outlook foi the coming winter on account of tihe vast number of unemployed men and women. As bearing directly on this situation Bureau of Labor at Washington has just issued a report on the policy of European countries toward the unemployed. Germany has made great strides by troducing public employment bureaus nnd by taking care of tramps.

In Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark the incorrigible idle have been forced largely into work homes, where they are, however, well treated. All the countries of have apointed special commissions to deal with this problem. Colonies for the un employed are favorite remedies and public relief works are being started in places. Castro's refusal to permit the Brazilian diarge d'affaires to assume charge ol French interests in Venezuela is the latest fuel thrown on the smoldering fire ol Venezuela's international complications. Speculation is rife in Caracas as to whether or not Brazil will look upon thii action as an insult directed at her and what France will do towards getting representation here for her interests after ithis rebuke.

The international cotton congress, meeting in Paris, adopted resolutions inviting all confederated associations in various countries interested in cotton to join in a harmonious curtailment during periods of distress arising from over or under production another invites tihe European governments to study and the extension of colonial production of cotton a third instructs tlie cotton contract commission to place before the exchanges of Europe a recommendation for the substitution of the net weight basil of purchase for the present basis, which allows a shrinkage of 30 pounds in bale of 000 pounds and a fourth looking to the introduction into Europe qf mutual mill insurance system in vogue in America. The funeral of the Baron Speck von Sternberg, German ambassador to thi United States, was held at Lutzchena, family estate near Leipsic. At Nuremberg the German Social Democratic Congress has held its annual congress and the report showed a gain ol 10 per cent In the organization. A delegate from the British Social. Federation spoke at length against allow-' ing the governments of the two nations to decide on war or peace over the heads of the He argued that the socialists of both countries aJionld work together for peace.

At tfae meeting of the Orientalist congress in Prof. Panl Haupt, of Johns Hopkins onitersity of more, had an exciting discussion with several of tfae Jewish rabbis, who Were present, Prof. Hanpt maintaining that Christ was not a Jew, but an Aryan. By the middle of the week over 900 cases of cholera bad been reported at St Petersburg and more than "sixty deaths and several members of the upper class had been attacked by the disease. A coun' cil of doctors was held and all saloons were ordered closed after 5 o'clock, as the use of alcohol said to be fsrorabls to the advance of the scourge.

Barbers' Protective Union at Han Francisco, has $17,000 in its treasury. Labor troubles are again to the fore in Holland. This time the trouble Tilbourg, where 1,000 men are out, The American section of the boot shoe workers' international body more than $100,000 in its There is a movement und" a btiilcliug trade sjj American Federation of N. D. The 1,200 bridge and strike at Wolverhampton.

not to return ti terms offered. The International I'aiuters and I)ejrators of increased its membership movj since April 1. San Francisco carpenters wn strong efforts to obtain the conveirT the United Brotherhood of Carpi-uteri and Joiners iu 1010. According to a recent report of the Associated Blacksmiths' Society of Great the surplus funds of the organization amounted to over $120,000. Belfast (Ireland) employers have given notice of a.

reduction of 2 shillings a week ill the wages of iron molders. It is rumored that the men will resist the reduction. Under the revised law governing the employment of women and children in Italy, night work is forbidden for all females and for males of less Chan fifteen full years. There is a movement to organize all the unskilled workitigmen of Montreal, Canada, into a big federation along the lines of the Knights of Labor which existed in that city about tft-enty years ago. The railway trackmen are planning for the establishment of a home for their aged and indigent members.

It is proposed to acquire a tract of 500 acres near Fort Scott, as the location for tho Institution. Swansea carpenters and joiners have made a demand for an advancc in wages of a penny per hour. As conciliation boards now rule the rates of wages in the British building trades, the matter -will doubtless be settled by conciliation or arbitration. The officials of the International Brass Molders' Union, which was organized in October, 1904, report that their membership has now reached 10,000 in this country. The union has established a sick benefit fund and also a death and burial fund.

Sacramento, wishes to have a labor temple, and has sent to each union a copy of the plan to raise funds to erect the structure. It is proposed that each member of a union shall buy $15 worth of stock, and pay it in sixty monthly installments of 25 cents. In Denmark several stoppages of work have taken effect. Owing to the lithographic workers insisting on eight hours, which the employers did not see their way clear to comply with, they went out, to which the employers responded by locking out the men within the printing (except the daily press), and the paper industries and bookbinding, the men in their turn striking at all the daily papers In the country, except the socialistic. The Frick Coke Company of Pittsburg having decided to start up at once 75 pet cent of all its ovens, and requiring 5,000 men for that purpose, has sent word to the cokeworkers who returned to Hungary last fall that they ere now wanted.

The Frick people claim that their efforts to man the ovens with home labor (have proved fruitless. Nevertheless, labor leaders say that they will force the contract labor law into action to prevent the re-employment of the men from Hungary. Socialists and members of labor unions tihorought the country are taking up the case of Jan Eouren, a Russian revolutionist who recently was arrested Philadelphia on tihe demand of agents of the czar that he might be extradited and tried In Russia for high treason. Petitions are in circulation pointing out that Pouren, being a political refugee, should be sent back, and urging tJie federal luthorities to release him. Delegate from various labor bodies are to preWBl the petitions to the president.

President Lewis of the United Mine Workers signed an order calling off in the coal district of Birmlnghaffl, Thursday, the chief reason given being that Gov. Comer had prohibited the ase of tents to house the striking miners. This and' other severe measures employed by the authorities had discouraged the strikers. The owners said that most of the 17,000 men would be taken back on the open shop basis. The 800 militia on duty for the two months during which the strike existed were sent home.

At Dunmore, near Scranton, when the managers of the Mountain shaft of tihe Pennsylvania Coal Company were taking to work 500 strike breakers to take the places of men and boys who liad gone out as a protest against the discharge of a breaker boy. and because of excessiveSocking, a fight took place between the strikers and the state troops, who had been called to protect the property of thecompany. Several volleys were fired before the angry workmen would disperse, and two women, one carrying a baby, were mortally wounded. Labor unions were almost unknown in Newfoundland up to 1802. Then the only organization for the protection of the employed was the Typographical' Union.

Since then, and especially of recent years, unions and societies have-. Bprung up on all sides. Owing to the failure of the coal operators in Wyoming to reach a scale agreement with the United Mine Workers, all the miners were called out on the A 1 f. 1 30th to the number of 7.000. The operators had demanded a reduction of 15 cents a day for some classes of workmen and 10cents for others.

British coal owners in the federation krea hare given notice of a 5 per cent reduction in wages the matter will, in due course, come before the conciliation board. If the parties are unable to the dispute will probably be referred toLord James, of Hereford, as. umpire by the consent of both Employees of tlie metals industries in Finland have had considerable trouble with in and notieo was given last week to the effect that a lockout would be declared for all metal Industries in Finland, outside Helsingfors, if the metal workers at Jacobstad wf did riot resume work..