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| Patrick Dolan. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Friday, Aug. 27, 1897.
JEERED AT BY
WOMEN.
Working Miners Hang Their Heads In Shame.
PRESIDENT DOLAN DISCHARGED.
Judge
McIllvain Said Dolan Had Not Violated Injunctions—De Armitt Evicts Miners From
Company's Homes and Will Clear Out All Strikers.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 27.—The wives and daughters
of the striking miners at De Armitt's Oak Hill mines, near Turtle Creek, took a
prominent part in the demonstration against the working miners.
A dozen or more women gathered at the camp
and with flags and banners marched along the road leading towards the tipple.
On their way they met a number of miners
going to the pit and they greeted them with yells and jeers. They derided the
miners who were working, and ridiculed them in a manner which caused many of
them to hang their heads in shame. The women say they will make a demonstration
every day hereafter.
The strikers claim that only 15 men are at
work in the Oak Hill mines and that the output was only 35 pit cars, while the
company officials say that 65 pit cars were mined.
Superintendent S. C. De Armitt and four
deputy sheriffs commenced the work of evicting the families of the Plum Creek strikers.
The work will be kept up until the company has possession of all its houses.
At Bunola the mine owners are gradually gaining
on the strikers. Forty-one men have started to work since Wednesday morning.
W. J. Brennan, attorney for the miners, is
preparing his answer to the bill of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company
in the proceedings against the miners' officials and strike leaders for
contempt of court. The answer will declare that the camp and marching is not
for the purpose of intimidation or menace to any one, but merely to indicate to
the men in mines that the miners generally are on strike and to demonstrate
their strength by a show of numbers.
Gus Datte, who is in charge of the sheriff's
deputies at Plum Creek, was told by the sheriff's attorney that under the
injunction he could not interfere with marchers who paraded with a band at their
head. The only ones he c an stop are those who are intimidating the workmen.
A large parade and meeting was held at
Turtle Creek without molestation from the deputies.
President Dolan addressed a big meeting at
Clare Ridge, Westmoreland county. Before leaving the city he gave the details
of his arrest at McGovern. He went before Judge McIllvain and was told that he
had not violated the provisions of the injunctions and was discharged.
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| Naniwa, Japanese cruiser. |
HAWAIIAN
NEWS.
Japan
Has Not Yet Decided to Submit to Arbitration.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27.—The steamer Mariposa
arrived from Sydney via Honolulu, with the following Hawaiian advices:
The Hawaiian government has not yet received
an answer from Japan regarding the offer to refer the immigration trouble to
arbitration. There is no change in the situation here.
The Hawaiian Star, commenting upon the
admission of Japanese that in case of trouble all the Japanese in Honolulu were
to meet at a rendezvous, says:
If we look up the Japanese correspondence
and the articles on the Japanese press, there is found frequent allusions to an
uprising in the islands. It is one of the excuses for the presence of the Naniwa
in our waters, should such a rising take place it would be very easy for the Japanese
government to repudiate it, if unsuccessful, and it would be very easy to reap
advantages were it successful.
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| Loading horses with hay on White Pass Trail. |
MINERS
IN CAMP.
Efforts
to Cross White Pass Failed. Abandoned by Many.
JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 27.—The latest news
from the North still confirms all previous statements regarding the in-going
Yukoners, their success and failures in getting over the trails.
At Skagway there is found a glutted
condition, no progress being made in going over the summit by what is known as
the White Pass, it having proved a complete failure this year. There are now
between 4,000 and 6,000 persons camped along the trail between salt water and
up five or six miles.
They will remain there, eating their
supplies, until spring or until they make up their minds either to go over to
Dyea or return to Juneau or the States. Many have already sold out and
abandoned the trip altogether, some gladly taking 10 per cent of the original
cost of their outfits.
Those who started via Dyea and the Chilcot
pass are getting along very well since the Indians are charging, at present,
only 85 cents per pound for packing from Salt Water to the lakes.
Under present conditions it is expected that
all who are now on that trail will safely reach Klondike before winter sets in.
Advices from the interior under date of July
24 are a repetition of what has been said before as to the richness of the
diggings that have been worked up to that date; also that some less valuable
finds have been made near Stewart river. High prices and wages remain as
heretofore reported.
Flour is still selling in the interior for $60
per sack of 50 pounds, and like prices are asked for other staple articles.
Miners who were employed in mines near
Juneau and who went to the Yukon river, have had their places all filled by
recent arrivals, so that there is now no special demand for labor here and it
will be worse than folly for a man to come to Juneau expecting to get work
during the winter months. He should be provided with money enough to take care
of himself until spring.
The weather has continued favorable for
those on the trail, and altogether it has been an exceptionally fine season for
outdoor operations and a comparatively mild winter is expected.
Will
Telegraph From Heaven.
RICHMOND, Aug. 27.—Joseph Fife, a negro
youth convicted of attempted criminal assault on Mrs. Marks, a widow, and who
subsequently confessed to two other like crimes, was hanged in the yard of the
city jail here. He ascended the gallows penitent and with the stolid
indifference about leaving this world which he had maintained from the time of
his sentence. His last words to Deputy Sheriff Ralston were: "I will send
you a telegram from Heaven on the 14th of March."
UP GOES
FLOUR.
Interview
With Two of Cortland's Leading Millers—Corn Advancing too.
For the last few weeks the price of wheat
has been steadily rising. For a time the local dealers in flour tried to hold
the prices at the same figure, thinking that wheat would take a drop. But the
time soon came when it was impossible to maintain the old price unless they
wished to sell every pound of flour at a positive loss.
A STANDARD man to-day had a little talk on
the subject of wheat and flour with two of Cortland's leading millers: Mr. T.
L. Corwin of the Tisdale mill, and Mr. E. D. Wood of the Wickwire roller mills.
Mr. Corwin deals chiefly in spring wheat,
while Mr. Wood uses winter wheat. Mr. Corwin says that No. 1 hard wheat which
he last year bought for 60 cents per bushel now costs him $1.24 per bushel at
wholesale. It takes about five bushels of wheat to make a barrel of flour, so
that the consumer can do a little figuring if he chooses on his own account to
see what the price of flour must be. The ordinary brands of flour at this price
[sell] for what ought not to retail for less than $1.50 to $1.75 per sack.
Every one of course knows that four sacks of flour make a barrel. The price of
flour has risen about $1.50 per barrel. He did, however, sell yesterday
thirty-five barrels of low grade flour at $4 per barrel. Three months ago he
sold this same flour for $2.25 per barrel.
Mr. Corwin says he believes that the price
of wheat will go 20 cents per bushel higher within sixty days. Speaking with
Mr. W. D. Tisdale of the same mills this morning he found that Mr. Tisdale prophesied
that wheat would fall 20 cents per bushel within sixty days. Both gentlemen made
a minute of their forecasts in their note books and resolved to see which of
them was right. Mr. Corwin said he took his forecast from the general looks of
the crop, while Mr. Tisdale was watching the sales and prospects at the produce
exchange.
Mr. Corwin quoted statistics to show that the
crop in the United States a year ago amounted to 450,000,000 bushels. This year
the crop amounts to 500,000,000. On account of the hard times during the past
year the home consumption fell off 35,000,000 bushels, many people eating more
corn meal. Last year at this time there were stored in the elevators 75,000,000
bushels of wheat. This year so great has been the call for wheat from abroad
that there are only 32,000,000 bushels of wheat in sight anywhere, including
both that in elevators and that on the water being shipped from the elevators.
It is said that the call for American wheat from other countries amounts to
200,000,000 bushels. Probably this is overstated, but if there is a call for
half of this amount there will still be a shortage in the crop and the price
will go higher.
So unsteady is the market now that he doesn't
dare quote the price on flour at all in advance. He quotes a price to-day and
delivers his goods. To-morrow if he has an order he quotes again and delivers.
He bought a carload of wheat in Buffalo at $1.03 5/8 a few days ago and paid
for it and by the time the carload had reached Cortland the price of that same
grade of wheat had risen to $1.24. He bought a carload of red wheat at 96 cents
and when it arrived four days later that same wheat was quoted at $1.12. These,
said Mr. Corwin, are some of the reasons why flour has advanced in price.
Mr. E. D. Wood said that in speaking of
winter wheat and flour made from it there was a difference in price that must
be recognized between that and spring wheat, and the relative prices of the two
had exactly changed position since last spring. Then winter wheat was worth
from six to eight cents more than spring wheat. Now the reverse is true. This
is because so much of the spring wheat has been shipped out of the country that
the demand for it has increased. Mr. Wood says that he now has to pay from
$1.10 to $1.15 per bushel for winter wheat. His Red Seal flour has advanced $1
per barrel, his T. H. and his Snow Drift brands have advanced $1.20 per barrel,
and other straight grades $1 per barrel. The Washburn flour was yesterday
quoted at $6.58 per barrel in carload lots.
But we have got to go West this year for our
wheat, said Mr. Wood—and they have quantities of it there. Farmers of New York
state have lost thousands of dollars on their wheat crops this year. The
American Miller sets the figures at $1,500,000. When out in Cayuga, Ontario and
Genesee counties early in June Mr. Wood found the wheat looking finer than he
had ever seen it before and all wheat-raisers were exultant at the appearance
of the crop and the rising price owing to the demand for wheat from abroad. But
then came the long rains and eight-tenths of the whole crop of New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio was ruined. It grew not only in the bundle shocked up in
the field, but grain that had not been cut grew standing, and the sprouts were
so long that it made it impossible to make bread flour of this wheat. Some of
the manufacturers of wheatlets and other breakfast foods are doing a fine thing
though. They are buying this wheat at 55 cents per bushel, and the process which
they put it through in making the food removes all the evil effects of the
growing, so that it is just as good for them, and they are advancing the prices
of their goods on account of the general advance in wheat, but are buying the wheat
cheap. About two-tenths of the crop in the section mentioned will be made up into
inferior grades of flour, and the rest will be sold to make whiskey, or wheatlets,
or for chicken feed or for feed for stock.
But, Mr. Wood said, the price of corn is
jumping too. Speculators in Chicago seem to be leaving wheat to-day and going
for corn. Corn that a few days ago was worth 27 1/2 cents was yesterday selling
for 40 cents, and it is going higher. In Germany they use a great quantity of
rye. Their rye crop is poor this year and they are turning to American corn.
Yesterday morning Mr. Wood said he had an option till noon on corn in Chicago
at 40 cents. He bought a carload at once, but in spite of the fact that they
offered it at 40 cents in the morning and said that that price would hold till
noon, when his order went in they charged him 41 cents. But he was satisfied,
as the price had reached 43 cents before night, and he had saved two cents a
bushel on a carload.
Mr. Wood says he is buying all the state
corn he can of farmers in this county, but he cannot get near as much as he
requires. Cortland county farmers, however, raise much more corn than wheat and
will be benefitted much more by the advance in corn than they will lose by the
ruination of the wheat crop.
BREVITIES.
—The D., L. & W. R. R. carried over 250
people from Cortland to the State
fair at
Syracuse yesterday, and nearly seventy-five to-day.
—Mr. Jas. F. Costello, the collector for the
Cortland Athletic association, is in his office in the club rooms every evening
from 7:30 to 9 o'clock.
—All will be interested in the prospects of
a new manufactory to be started at McGrawville, which is noted in our
McGrawville letter to-day.
—One of the important cases to come before
the grand jury next month is that of Patsey Galvin, who is accused of the
murder of Thomas Lavan at Preble last March.
—In police court this morning one drunk paid
a fine of $3, four tramps were given suspended sentences of ten days and an
Italian, John Shelkel, was sent to jail for ten days for vagrancy.
—Baseball enthusiasts should bear in mind
that only four more games will be played in Cortland during the league season,
and only two of these will be on Saturdays—one to-morrow and one a week from
to-morrow.
—The funeral of Mrs. Lettie Buell Woodward,
wife of E. E. Woodward, will be held at her late home in Truxton to-morrow
afternoon at 1 o'clock, instead of at 10 o'clock as stated yesterday. The
burial will be in the Cortland Rural cemetery.
—The baseball game to-morrow afternoon will
be a hot battle without a doubt. Auburn is the opposing team and as the fight
between them and Palmyra for first place is a hard one, the Maroons will do
their best to win, while the Cortlands will try equally as hard to gain the
victory. Yerkes will probably pitch for Cortland and Murphy for Auburn.
—Several of the students who expect to enter
the Normal school this fall have applied to Dr. Cheney to see if he has heard
of any places in town where they can board and perform some kind of service in
part or full payment for their board. If there are people in town who desire
such assistance in return for board they will confer a favor by sending name
and address to Dr. F. J. Cheney.
—Constable Fred Bowker with a search warrant
visited the farm of
Charles
Lang yesterday and secured a wagon which Patrick Dwyre alleged before Justice
Kelley had been taken from his possession by Ed Williams. Mr. Lang purchased
the property of Mr. Williams, not knowing that there was a claim of its having
been stolen. The wagon was returned to Mr. Dwyre.
— Lewis Rolison of Apalachin lost his life
yesterday by slipping and falling into a threshing machine. He had been feeding
the machine, and the threshing was through. He stepped up on the top of the
cleaner to sweep the litter into the feedbox before stopping the motion. His
foot slipped and he fell into the feedbox and was drawn into the cylinder. It
took forty-five minutes to get him out and he died soon after.
McGRAWVlLLE.
Crisp
Local Happens at the Corset City.
Albert Mudge of Cortland called on friends
in town Thursday evening.
Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Pritchard are at the State fair to-day.
M. W. Boon and sister, Miss Tillie, who lived
in the Baker school district in the fifties, are visiting relatives and friends
here. Mr. Boon speaks highly of the improvements which he can see in the thirty-six
years since he has visited the place.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Barber, old residents of this
place and now of Chicago, Ill., are visiting friends in town.
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Phelps are visiting their
daughter, Mrs. Byron Widger, at Harford.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Crane are visiting their
uncle. D. H. Crane on South hill.
The Standard quartet gave their friends
farewell serenades Wednesday night. Prof. Bailey leaves Saturday for Cazenovia.
Mrs. Dr. J. J. Rogers and her daughter Mary
of Wilkesbarre, Pa., are the guests of N. H. Gillette and family. Mrs. Rogers
is the only living sister of Rev. C. L. Rice.
It is reported that T. P. Taylor, mayor of
Bridgeport, Conn., who was here over Sunday, purposes to start a paper box factory
here at once. Mr. Taylor is a wealthy manufacturer of ladies' goods and paper
boxes in Bridgeport and is a son-in-law of Henry Hammond of this place. While
here he looked over the old box factory and the Bean & Anderson buildings
and expects to purchase or build at once. Those who know Mr. Taylor's energy and
financial standing feel satisfied that this business will be on a scale that
will be of benefit to McGrawville. This will give us two box factories and room
for more.
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