The Journal and Tribune from Knoxville, Tennessee • 1

Price Taflj, 2 Os4 Traiss tzi 5 Cts. ANEVENTFCt CAREER ENDS Capt H. W. Howgate, Once a Trusted Government Passes Away. flAVE 1 MItLlOOOUiAtt-PLANT.

Journal and Tribune Presents To Its Readers the Most Important Industrial Item- Chronicled in Many a Long Day. S0LDIE8S0N CENSUSIS ftBE TAKEN During the Next Year of All Those Who Believe In the Suffrage Movement AND WAIN A RAMPAGE Devens, of the Metal Trades Association, Says Machinists Violated Agreement Rev. Dr. Ament Is Going to wrecK baioon Kun bv a Fight the Alleged Slanderers of Missionaries. Woman Just Outside the Presidio Reservation.

KNOXVILLE, SimDAY, MORNXNG JUNE 2, 1901. NO LONGER' BOCNDBYII AFTERHAiES The Trouble Originates Over Action Taken By The Nation Against the Humorist and Sol And That Relations With Internationa! Association, of Machinists Are Closed. His Arrest on Serious Charge, Flight and Re-arrest Attended By Dramatic Features. Knoxville Iron Company Purchases 25 Acres of Land Irf The Lonsdale Addition, On Which a Mam- moth Mill Will Be Built. Fifteen Hundred lien Will be Giren Employment Branch of the Cos' pany at Harriman Will be Abandoned as Well as the Present One in Xnoxrille on Asylum Street Equipment For iht Hill-Steel Plant Will be Added Later, in the new home.

Tt will get coal frent its own mines at Bricewille and will be a position to compete successfully yriiti, any plant in the south. Work win begin just as soom as pos sihle and will be pnahed rapidly to conn pletion. The decision to Improve the plant waa reached by the full board of directors and officers of the company and has beea asjU tated for the past ten years. Much credit for the Improvements and plans is due to T. Stephenson, Vlcsi president and general manager.

He has? progressive Idea and has had much ta with the determination to enlarge. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. i The officers of the company, are as faW lows; President W. P. Chamberlain.

Vice president and fenerai T. Stephenson. 'Secretary and treasurer Otia 'A -Brown, i One directors are: W. P. Chamherlalmi T.

Stephenson, E. J. SaafordV XX. Chamberlain, of Chattanooga; WUUsmi Benscoter, of New York; David TUohirdj, ami w. b.

aieaa. Those interested: have. the. capital al -hand to. mak the contemplated improve meats and will doubtless cany she plan proposed to successful completion, aa4, give Knoxville one of the best plants IV One of the most important deals chronicled In the industrial Items of Knoxville was consummated yestsrday when the Knoxville Iron company dosed the trads for twenty-five acres of land for a new site for its plant.

The land was purchased from the Lonsdale Land company and lies along the Belt line of the Southern railway aear the new Gray cemetery. The present which consist of five acres or less, had grown entirely too small for the Knoxville Iron company and for some timeit has been looking for a suitable sits not only around this city but at other points. It was seen that the improveinenta in contemplation could not be made in tho present quarters and the selection of another ait became absolute ly necessary. The Lonsdale Land company learned of the contemplated move and Knoxville is much indebted to tt for the assured presence in the future of one of her largest industries. The Southern Railway also came to the rescue of Knoxville and offer ed substantial inducements in the way of rates and between the two Knoxville had the plant saved to her.

Knoxville Iron company hat, been in operation since 18G8, and Is 'en af the substantial industries of the city. Two years ago it bought the Lookout Iron company at Harriman, Tennv and has been running a branch business there, working about 300 me. Many indsce- mrats havs beea offered there, but it preferred its old home town if a suitable site, adapted to the near im prorements could be found. Big Increase in Force. About 200 men havs been employed here, but tbe consolidation, of the business i all' in one plant and tho additional in-.

crease in the capacity of it will take' about 1,500 men. The branch at Harriman will be aban doned, as will tbe old plant on Asylum street here and all will be moved into the new plant in the Lonsdale addition as soon as a new home can be completed. It is the intention of the company to double the capacity of the. plant which will reach an annual output of more than 50,000 tons of bar Iron. Million Dollar Plant.

V-The new home will possibly be a steel structure. The new nulls will call for an expenditure of about $500,000 but by the time all the contemplated improvements are added it will cost not less than one million. The plant wQl be equipped with all 'the modern and up to date machinery and will have waste heat boilers, gas pro ducers, etc To Add a Steel Plant. It is the intention of the company to a steel plant just as soon as convenient after the plant has got into its new and permanent home. The plans will be prepared in Pittsburg and will be np to date in every particular.

It will be one of the largest and best equipped plants in the south. The company will be admirably located al American Suffrage Association. Victory is Reported In Passage of Bill Securing Mothers Equal Eights With Fathers. Minneapolis, June I. At the session of the National American Woman Suffrage assocition today Susan B.

Anthony, chair man of the committee on resolutions, reported that sbe had addressed the Ameri can Federation of Labor and secured au thorization for its president and secretary to sign a sixteenth amendment petition. Petitions and letters had been sent to a long list of conventions of various national organisations. Half of the states of the union were on the program for reports of state presidents. Annie B. Wood, for California, reported an increased membership.

Susan R. Ashley, of Colorado, reported that as large a per cent of the registered women voters in that state -cast their votes at Of the men. Elizabeth Boy ton Barnett, oMDinois, reported an important victory in the passage of the bill securing mothers equal rights with fathers in the guardianship of minors. Laura M. Johns presented the report of the committee on the civil rights of women, (showing what been done towards securing legislation in New Jersey, Delaware, Arkansas, Georgia, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia repealing or modifying laws harsh to women or children.

The issue of the afternoon was whether the convention should decide to have a census taken during the next year, tr as soon as possible, of all those believing in the suffrage movement, willing to sign their names as such; A motion to this effect was made by Dr. Marble, of Wash ington. An amendment was made by Miss Laura Clay, of Kentucky, to the effect that only names of those willing to Dav dues be included After a great deal of discussion the ongiufti iuvuvu was cairicu. SZCrtETSOCTETIES And labor Unions Are Still Worrying Bef orated Presbyterian Synod. Pittsburg, June 1.

Discussion of the report of the committee on secret societies took nearly the entire morning session of the Reformed Presbyterian synod of America. Several sueakers, including ex-Moderator Foster, made vigorous addresses on the subject. Rev. J. W.

Carlisle, of Newburg, Jf. J. C. McFeeters and T. P.

Stephenson opposed a resolution prohibiting membership in labor unions, on the ground that it favored capital. A standing vote to recommit the resolutions and have them made stronger than carried by a vote of 71 to 52. The committees, after a few minutes consideration, changed the resolutions to read as follows: "That we reaffirm our testimony against all secret oath-bound societies, and that we regard" membership in most of the labor trades and unions as at present organized controlled, as dangerous, and remind our members that the lay of Christ firbods joining any labor union which has either an immoral obligation or a promise to keep involiate 'as long as life cemains' any Tites oj regulations, the issue of which he is necessarily Before the recommitment of the resolutions -was adopted the order of the day was called for. Xhe discussion will be continued Monday morning. Evangelical Lutherans.

Des Moines, Iowa, June 1. The Evangelical Lutheran general syneni-today. cel ebrated the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of a western superintend- ency of home missions and the appoint ment of Dr. Samuel B. Baniitx, of Des Moines western secretary.

A reception was tendered him by the delegates at the Savoy hotel this afternoon. Defaulted on Payment. Washington, June 1. The Washington Traction and Electric company, which controls the electric lighting plants and all the electric railways in the District of Columbia except the lines of the Capi tol Traction company, navmg defaulted in the payment of interest June 1 on the bonds of the corporation, a movement for reorganization of the company has been inaugurated. Mulligan's Troubles.

Seattle, June George Mulligan, of Kansas, who claimed tonight that he was assaulted and robbed of $17,. 000 today wss himself placed under police surveillance. He confessed today that he was not robbed, but had put his money away and made up the story. Secured His Freedom. Birmingham.

June 1. Louis ,0. Gravely, of Danville. Ya who shot and killed L. Levy, ol this city, three weeks agov: was released from jail today.

The grand jury failed to find an indictment against, him. 6 American Anarchists. Marseilles; Jane 1-It has been ascertained that the two anarchists, one a Spaniard and the ether an Italian, who were -arrested in Madrid on suspicion of beinc implicated in a. regicide plot, arrived here ms steerage -passengers from America May "11. i-i' i -K-: -llrs.

ircKinley Condition. Washington, June was sjuMraneedf al the white hoswe this teornug that Mrs. IMcSanley'S condition, shows Improve nsentjr The Alleged Doping of a Returned Soldier. His Companions Endeavor to Avenge and Riot Following it With Difficulty Subdued. San Francisco, June 1.

A mob of sol diers, numbering 500 or 600, indulged in a riot last night and wrecked Mrs. Powers saloon, one of the many drinking, places just outside the Presidio reservation. There are a great many conflicting stories as to the origin of the trouble. The soldiers of the Forty-sixth infantry were mustered out of the service yesterday and the men given their discharges and pay. Most of the men had several hundred dol lars coming to them and they did considerable drinking in the Presidio resorts.

A man by the name of Morgan, of the For ty-sixth, was found unconscious in front of Mrs. Power' saloon. Two of Morgan's companions took him to camp for treatment. The doctor pronounced it a case where drugs had been administered. The news spread rapidly about the camp and soon theie were a dozen or more men innning to Mrs.

Powers' saloon. They de manded reparation for tne drugging of their comrade, but any knowledge of the affair was denied. Two or three ex-soldiers lounging abont the place sided with the woman and ordered the soldleis from the piemlses. They went back for enforcements and spread the leport that two of their companions had been killed in this iloon. A mob, made np of members of the For ty-fifth and Forty-sixth leglments, then rushed pell mell through the Presidio gates to the saloon.

Stones were gathered on the way and then the place was stormed. t-verj window iu the place was broken. the bar and fixtures smashed and the In. terlor demolished completely. The gas lets were snapped off and the coal oil lamps ovei turned.

The place caught fire and a policeman broke through the crowd and rang the fire alarm. Ky that time the Infuriated men were yelling to burn the place and lynch the one helpless nan. Hat ri. who had been driven Ziom the place. Officers Xi ted to rash.

through erowMut were stopped, in spite of the efforts of the pe lice to protect Harris the soldiers cut and neat mm terribly. Finally when the sqnadron of cavalry and provost zuard of sixty men from the 'Forty-fifth arrived. passage was made through the ciowd and rris was taaen to a safe place. The efforts of cavalry and guard to disperse the crowd weie futile. The fire hose was turn-ed on.

This and the entlie guatd of the post helped to restore order. Mis. Powers estimates the damare at 2. 000. Not a thing was left intact in T3e saloon.

A carefnl Investigation of the renort thai- some of the soldiers had died from drugged; "i provea mar suen waa not the case. Morgan, of the Forty-sixth regiment, was the only man whom it is thought might man iuc virum or a urug. An investigation of the ilot will be made uj me pouce ana military officials. HARD UPON JAKVIS. West Point Appointee Will Lose Out Because of Predecessor's Suspension.

Washington, June 1. The recent action of the war department in dismissing and suspending several cadets for mutinous conduct, has created a situation said to have been unprecedted in the history the academy. Cadet Charles Telford waa suspended for a period of one year. Under ordinary circumstances he would have graduated in June, 1002. His suspension has the effect, however, of deferring his graduation for a year.

His appointment is credited to the congressional district of Utica, X. Y. In anticipation of a vacancy in that congressional district in June of next year young man named Jarvis has been selected as Telford's successor. Alfhmurk Jarvis would be eligible for the vacancy June, 1902, he will not be eligible iu June, xiaxj, for the reason that he wiil have passed the age limit in the Interim. The question has therefore arisen as to whether Jarvis shall lose his appointment the military academy on account of conditions for which he was not.

responsible ia any way. Although there ha never been a similar case -before the de partment it is felt that there is no help for Jarvis and that he will have to his appointment. IN UNCLE SAM'S FAVOR Supreme Court Will Decide Philippine Case, Says a Chieago Paper. frMn Washington says: jine supreme court nas another sur- prise in store for the country. Unless it changes its mind between 'now and' Oc tober, tne date of its next meeting, the court will decide the Philippine case in favor of the government.

It will be another decision by a decided bench and most extraordinary grounds, to-wit: 1. That the United States has never declared its intention to retain the Philippine archipelago indefinitely snd the only declaration of policy which had been made was in the other direction, looking toward a mere temporary oecu-pation. the United States being a sort a trustee for the. people of the Philippines as it was a trustee for the people Cuba. 2.

That in any event the United States the time the doty complained of (the fourteen diamond rings! was collected was not in the actual possession of the Philippines, but that the United States was waging war for sweh possession and such control ms United States had wss limited to the operations of xnilitarr authority. Bloody Eiot at Corunna. Cornnna. Spain. June' The riotine here yesterday had more serious results than at first supposed.

men ad woman were killed and the. hospitals filled, witn wounaeo. Jianv arrests have been made, Xhe rioters used rerolv- r. i freely. I dier the Noted Missionary May Bring Actions.

He Feels Certain That Ee Can Se cure the Backing of Eon. John Wanamaker. Setrott, June 1. The News this even ing publishes an interview with Rev. Dr.

W. S. Ament. one of the American board missionaries in China, which was ob tained by J. Martin Miller, former war correspondent in China, at Dr.

Ament'a home la Owosso, Mich. Mr. Miller says Dr. Ament denied that the missionaries looted in China, and said: "The missionaries have been slandered for twenty years to my knowledge. There is no use denying these lies, but nevertheless I am fighting these slanderers with all my strength and am in tbe right trim for it.

Furthermore, we have a man who will put up the money to fight the people who persist in these false reports to the end, and that is John Wanamaker, cf Philadelphia and New York. He is a Presbyterian and to my knowledge has offered money for this purpose. I feei very much, like bringing an action against Mark Twain. Webb O. Uayes.

son of ex-president, is another man I am after. I am going to Fremont, Ohio, to una mm." TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. All the suits in the Arbuckle-Woolson coffee litigatiou have been dismissed without prejudice. Dr. D.

B. Purinton, president of Deni-son university, has received an offer of the presidency of West Virginia university. It is said that the captain-general has been warned of a foreign anarchist plot to kill the king and queen regent of Spain. William S. Reno, aged 59, a well known captain and pilot on the Ohio river between Pittsburg and Louisville, is dead.

The grand jury called to Investigate charges of. bribery in the Hawaiian legis lature, is still in session ana nas maae no report so far. If the administrations approved of the general government scheme of the Phil ippine commission received, tne government will be inaugurated July 1. Brigadier-General Frederick Funston has been assigned to command the fourth district of the Department of Northern Luzon, with headquarters at ban Isidro. The comparative statement of the gov ernment and expenditures shows that during the month of May the total receipts were aud the expenditures $42,136,500.

Another large shipment of crude oil from the new Texas oil nelds, amount ing to 30,000 barrels, has arrived in New lork city by the tank steamsnip Atlas by the Standard Oil company. The Iron branch of the wage" committee report to the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin workers conven tion was finally adopted. The sheet steel scale was also agreed upon. There is keen speculation as to the identity of the new men who will enter the Northern Pacific directorate under the commercial treaty of peace subscribed to by the rival interests in the prop erty.

The negotiations of the Wickers Sons Maxim company of England for the purchase of the Bethlehem Steel company have been abandoned and according to one of the New York bankers inter ested will never be resumed. Dismissed by Castro. Willemstadt. Curacoa. June 1.

fVia Ilaytien cable.) President Castro, of Venezuela, has dismissed Senor Galavis, the attorney-general because of his opinion in the last judgment 'in the case of the New York and Bermudex Asphalt com pany. PICKETING AND BOYCOTTING Are Held by an Ohio Judge to be in Violation of Law. Dayton, Ohio, June 1. Judge Knmler today enjoined the Metal Polishers union from interfering with the business of the Dayton Manufacturing company. The court held picketing and boycotting as flagrant violations of law.

The case has been bitterly contested for a year. Strike at Paper Hills. Holyoke, Mass- July 1. Two thousand employes of the paper mills in this city Eagle Lodge of Paper makers and the stationary firemen's unions, the mills involved including all the plants of the American Writing Paper company. Chemical Paper company, Newton Paper company.

Franklin Paper company, Excelsior Paper company and Will Parsons. Paper company of this city, and the Hampshire Paper company and Carew ,1 f' i'aper company or JSonth Hadley Falls. The two mills which granted the demands of their employes, the Whitinsr Paper fttf-amnnv tKa V11S Psaa Mtmnaiiv are not asectea. lae textile manufactur er? have been given until Monday to meet the demands of the workmen. The Ger-mania mills have granted the demands and this afternoon a conference is being held with officials of the Farr Alpaca company, which is said to promise an amicable settlement with that company, o- Strike on the Central.

Buffalo, N. Jnno Lr About 400 machinists of the New York Central railroad and their helpers, numbering- about fifty, struck today for ten per cent, increase in wages. ITarble Workers Out Cincinnati, June 1. Four hundred and fifty marble workers today, struck because employers refused to. agree to, the scale demanded, which had.

been presented with a request, that it be agreed to by Jon 1. a a in in on of of at one sre ra As a Volunteer Ee Gained Distinction in Battle of (Hriclcamaugm. an Able Scientist. Washington, June 1. Captain Henry W.

Howgate, formerly signal officer in the United States army; died suddenly this afternoon of cerebral hemorrhage, at his home, in this city. He was sixty-seven years of age. Captain Howgate hid been living with his daughter, and his health up to a short time before his death was good. Captain Howgate has a singular and eventful life. While a trutsed official cf tbe signal service he was charged with ap propriating a large amount of government funds, and placed under arrest.

His flight was attended by many dramatic features. for by a ruse he got away from a govern ment officer having him in charge while the latter supposed his prisoner was tak ing a bath. For vears he remained in hiding and not until fourteen years alter nis escape was he located dj secret service detectives as proprietor of an obscure book store NeW York. For some time before his ac tual re-arrest Ihe authorities here were aware of his presence in New York, but they were disinclined to take mm in as there was considerable doubt con cerning the evidence the old case, it was nnauy aeciueu 10 unug nun waviw, and former Onief Dmmmond made the arrest. He was brought back here, tried and convicted.

After serving a sentence in the Albany penitentiary he returned to Washington last December. Captain Howzate was known as a sci entist of ability. He gave much attention, to Arctic researches and was the author of what is known as the Howgate colonization plan for reaching the North by means of stationsaiong the route. His attainments were such that he doubtless would have mide a name for himself in the scientific world had it not been for his misfortunes. Up to the time of his death he firmly believed in tbe colonisation plan as the one most practical for reaching the pole.

Captain Howgate wa.fean in England. In l2 he was appointed second lieutenant in the Twenty-second Michigan) voisnteers and served to the end of th4 war with distinction, earning promotion for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Chicamauga and. in the Atlanta sampaign. At the close of the war he entered the regular army and rose to the rank of captain in the signal corps. "POPE'S LITTLE SOLACX," William A.

Willyms, Oracle of the Negro Race, Will be Buried Today. New York. June 1. The Herald says: Tomorrow will occur the funeral of William A. Willyms, the sacristan of the Roman Catholic church of St.

Benedict the Moor. The sacristan was known throughout the United States for his learning and literary attainments. It was the great object of his life to become a priest. His father was a slave and lived on a plantation at Mt. Vernon, ad joining the home of General Washington.

1 oung lllyms was in ashington, if. for a few years and then, through the influence of friends who were impressed by the aptitude which he show ed in study, was sent to Rome when he was about 20 years of age, in 1S56. He studied in propoganda for several years. Mr. Willyms was in the same class with Archbishop Corrigan.

Mr. Willyms was in Home in the days of Pone Pius IX. He was known as "The pope's little black." The outbreak of the civil war made it impossible for Willyms to return to this country as a priest. Ho was never ordained, seeing that it would be a mistake to attempt to take orders. He spoke Latin, Italian and French with fluency.

Mr. Willyms was regarded by persons of his race as an oracle. He knew all tbe old families of the south and their great history. It is thought that among bis papers will be found many documents which will prove of literary and historic value. He was a frequent contributor to magazines and church publications.

The journals devoted to the interest of the negro race in this country contained many contributions from his pen. CHAFFEE AND TBOOPS Arrive at Nagasaki on the Way to ITanila. Washington. June 1. The war department was informed today by cable that General Chaffee, with his troops on the transport Sumner, had arrived at Nagasaki on the way to Manila.

The transport Kentucky from Manila tcfattle nas arrived at Nagasaki. Remey's Departure. Washington. June 1. The navy department received a cablegram from Admiral Bemey today announcing his departure from Auckland -for Wellington, N.

aboard his flagship The Brooklyn. CoL Jackson Betired. Washington. J'sne Col. Henry Jackson, commanding the Third cavalry.

was placed on the retired list today on a ceo nut of axe. He is a native of Eng land and was appointed to the army from Illinois. BE5TJHED AT IHDNIGHT. lliddlesboro Iron Furnaces Are Again Placed in Operation. iliddlesboTO, Ky-, June The Mid- dlesboTO iron furnaces, owned by the Vir 'tatdi Iron Coal company, headquarters BioVTenua resumed -operation at (midnight, after a year's idieaesa.

He Declares Members Will Admit of no Interference With IXsvnage-. aent of Their Sadness, Xw YorkTnne 1. Henry F. Devens, secretary of the National Metal Trades which says that the council holds that the machinists, by declaring a general strike hare violated the agreement'made year ago, and tha therefore, the employers are no longer bound by it. Then follows a declaration of principles adopt-.

ed by council. The declaration la in part aa follows: "Since we (the members of theMetal trades association) as employers are're sponsible for the work turned out by ur workmen, we must therefore hare full discretion to designate the men we consider competent to do the work and determine the conditions under which our work shall be presecuted. While disa-rowing any intention to interfere with the proper functions, of labor organiza- tions, we will not admit of any interference with the management of our business. "Disapproving absolutely of strikes and lockouts, the members of the association will not arbitrate any question with men on a strike. Neither will this associ.v tiou countenance a lockout on any arbi treble question unless arbitration has failed." On the question of employment, the statement says: "No discrimination will be made against any man because of his membership in any society or organization.

The number of apprentices. helpers and handy men to be employed will be de termined solely by the employer." On the question of methods and wages the statement: declares that employers Khali be free to employ their work people at wages mutually satisfactory. One paragraph adds: "Employes will be paid by-the hourly rate, by premium system, by piece work. or contract, as tbe employer sees fit. it is the privilege of the employe to lea re our employ whenever he sees fit "and it ts the privilege of the employer to discharge any workman he sees fit.

The above principles being absolutely essential to the successful conduct of our busi ness, they are not subject to arbitration. Arbitration is recommended in cases of disagreement in matters not covered by the declaration of principles. Members of the association who refuse to comply with the recommendation will be denied the support of the association unless it approves its action. Hours and wages are to be arranged by the local association. Mr.

Devens said that a copy of this statement will be sent to George H. Warner, business agent of the machin ists on Monday. He added: "This will close Onr relations with the International Association of Machinists. We are not going to bother with them further." ATJ.WraAPES May be Asked to Inaugurate a Sym-' pathetic Strike. Chicago, June 1.

President MeDlcan and Business Agent Roderick, of district No. 8, International Association of Machinists, kft tonight for Toronto to confer with President O'Connell, of the international organisation, relative to tho strike of the machinists now in progress in Chicago. It is assumed the trip will Le tor the purpose of urging sympathetic action on the part of the allied trades. The total number of machinists who are now out ou strike la this city is approximately l.fcOO. The number was not increased' today.

Manufacturing employers whose machinists have gone out will meet this afternoon to consider plans lor terminating1 the local strike. "While I am In Toronto attending the biennial convention of the Sterna ttonal Association of Machinists," said Business (Agent Roderick this afternoon, "affairs here will be taken care of by my assistant, Mr. Ireland. The association will countenance no violence and 1 think there will be no trouble, Today I have received a large number of manufacturers asking for private, secret settlements, and within a few days several hundred men will be at work." Some of the striking machinists are already returning to work. Employes of five members of the Chicago Machinery Manufacturers association who refused, to 6ign the agreement submitted by the union agreed to accept a slight increase in wages today.

The men disobeyed the orders of Business Agent Roderick and accepted concessions offered by their employers. Prepared to Resist. New York, June 1. At the meeting of the executive board of district 15 of the National Association of machinists tonight the ultimatum of the Manufacturers association of the metal trades was received and the- secretary was directed to reply that the workmen in district 15 would hgbt ue question at issue to a fin ish and were prepared to -stay out all I if Strike on the A. G.

S. Birmingham, Abu, June 1. The machinists in the Alabama Great Southern railroad shops went out on strike at 8JiO o'clock this morninjr to enforce the 9-hoor demand and other demands recently made by the machinists of the Southern railway, which system -controls -Alabama nd Great Southern. The total number of men of both roads now oat in this city is Strike Settled. Milwaukee, June 1.

An Evening Wisconsin special from Kenosha. -Wis, says the strike in the Simmons foundry was settled this afternoon and 1,000 men-will return to work on Monday. Satisfactory wagss wers- screed upon pending the adoption of a new scale. its kind in the south. v', gUOVitXr.

C7FIC2 CX Elects Officers at a 2f eeting CTt13 Saturday. -i iThe charter of the KnoxvUls Office! company having been? i returned froni Nashville, its incorporators met and or-i ganized yesterday. The capital stock osV the new enterprise was Immediately anb-; scribed and the following officers elect as President E. J. Ssnford.

Vice president and treasurer O. Dead erick, peroral- Ui. T. RmntnrA i Plans are now being drawn for the Dig omce Duiiuing to ds corner of Prince street snd Church avenue (including the Deaderick building), and just as soon as the same are com- pleted construction contracts will be let. The building will be either seven or eight stories in height.

I westers" inrcoir. beahch To be Established at City Hills Pox tforth Knoxville Section. J. M. Creamer, manager of the Western Union fat this city, has just completed a -number of improvements to tbe service.

Among them he has secured a direct wire into New York city. A new sub-office is to be opened this week in the office of J. Allen Smith at the Urge flourinf mills. This sub-station will handle business for points north of the Southern railroad, and messenger boys will be kept there, the same as at the up-town branch office at the Hotel Imperial. J.

R. Cal-lan, who was formerly a Western Union operator here, has recently returned from Texas, will have charge of the new ranch office. democratic nomination for county court clerk Is Assistant City Comptroller Jobs E. McMillan, -Uttle John." as be la known to bis friends to dlstlncnish him from comptroller, John A. McMillas There is a "whole baacb of candidates for tbe democratic nomination for register.

A Hrt of tbeae was published some time since In Tbe Journal and Tribune. BoberS Brlce seems to be the favorite st this stage of tbe race. For county Judge several democrats are being mentioned, snd this may prove a most Interesting race for the nomination. Judge J. M.

King aad Squire A. Donald Collier bave botb announced themselves to their friends. Squire Walter M. Fits-germ Id Is alto being mentioned frequently and If be decides to eater the race will be a strong factor. Judge King has been there before snd knows tbe way.

Squire Coiner's friends claim be tbe strongest, man In tbe county before tbe people ana never was beau. Jadge King baa also saad a reputation for popularity ta bis races before tbe people, and Squire. Fltsgerald oe-monstrsted bis running powers when be wss elected Jostle of the peace. It ts bard to forecast the winner. More candidate axe expected te announce.

They simply esnt bold back ana snow the early bird the whole field tm themselves. CANDIDATES FOR COUNTY OFFICES FAST APPEARING So Far They Are All of the Democratic Persuasion, But There's a Fins Large Bunch of Them Coming up to the Hark. Tbe candidate bee (not a new speetes) Is already beginning to boss about the ears of many democratic politicians, hungry for court bouse positions. Tbe county election is more than a year off, yet a number of candidates are announcing, or having, their friends announce tbem, for the different Offices. 1 For circuit court clerk, there are four democrats spoken of, tbe present Incumbent, B.

A. Brown, being a candidate for re-election. Others are Lawrence 11a- bry, tbe deputy circuit court clerk; James L. jUnson, the deputy trustee, snd Charles Armstrong. Mr.

Allison nas formally n-noBnced his candidacy to his frnnds and they are already seeing tbe voters tn his behalf. For criminal eoart clerk, James T. Joy as Robert P. Williams will probably seek tbe democratic nomination. Mr.

Joy Is cbief deputy sberuT under Sheriff James W. Fox. Mr. WllUama Is day desk' sergeant at police Mr. Joy Is legsrd-ed as one of the strongest men In his par-' ty- sad Boh WllUama Is known as a hastier sad a politician- The only democrat who has thus' far been, mentioned fa 'connection" with the:.