| Show FEDI ItATION OF 1AMOIt t Futurs a lustul Sating Hank Law Ho 1 IortorVVork Nashville Tenn Dec 14 A lbs 1 opening of todays session I of the American Federation of Labor several sev-eral protests were made against the agnst credentials of the delegates and after some discussion It was declared that t the delegates should be seated and the > matter rtrd to tho grlevlce com wither Leltera from the maor of Donnr cda Colo and the officers of Oh chamber of commerce of that city Inviting the 4 FederatIon to holds Its I convention I there were read Congratulatory telegrams J tele-grams received from New York Topeka Tope-ka Kansas City and Peorla wero also read A letter was read from the National cc Na-tional W C T U rea sympathy j sym-pathy with the lob movement I and urging that a stand be taken by the I orgaslanhion agllnt Mlool Isaac Cowan of Conoda W1 InvIted to addr II reonvea lion In regard < to I the strike of the engineers In Great I Britain and responded He explained the situation I He said It grew out of f r t ldt Vt attempt to establish the eight hour day The flrst lockout occurred In July J last and about I yOCi 3 and 0 sixty thousand men I were without work since the lockout Since the lockout the men have been supported by the Federation of Great 1T rt al N Britain He said the English engineers ewe In great need and they asK as 510150cr I wow the AmerIcans The cmmltt on rlutlon ole1 a rsluton raorln the tlblhmnt of postal saving hanks by Congress and adIln the rtar to l8ue a 0 circular authorizing Immediate action in the male A motion to have 1 bill drafted by the Incoming executive committee providing for the establishment I estab-lishment of postal savings banks and secure Its Introduction In Congress vvna ndonted dc Th rort of George McNeil fra ternal delegate to the Britsh convn m ton was welch The report of the cx ut counci wa rad hy Vice Irl I dent McGuIre The report gave a full rlw of the worl of the lat year explaining the methods of the council r an1 the rsuls or each movement 0 which came under their Jurisdiction I The committees efforts at organization organiza-tion were reported and their settlement or duff ereneesea betwen varloos I unions throughout the country I was referred to the committee on report of C J oneea lIve councils WIll sees Mancl see lij hlterapprni I Nashville Tcnn Dec 14A firm tngham special to the Uanner savs I dn J Lools dod Jola 13 oanrm negroes who hnve ben attending the united State court hero as wIt nesscs agalnt ale al-e vvhlte apper steve mordered In a foul al 055cr last night I ITeanrtly In Lamar county DetaIls ace mealer dot I Isect dC that the pw are oullod out r their I homes and shot down The I gornmnt has ben notlfle and fu ther trouble la I feared Tu ComI Wh I < n bholok Washington Dec UA British corporation 1 cor-poration has arranged to start a shoo actor at Oalashlels Scotland < capable capa-ble of turning out 20 000 pair of shoes weekly and Consul FlemIng at IMIn burg says that la I the beginning of an attmpt to eompto with America In shoe mnk0ng0mfTho Irllsh reports chow that more than 45 per cent of the total nofshosa Into tho Drltlsh colonIes are ot American manufacture man-ufacture > ra I I Scranton 1u Dec 14One and possibly pos-sibly two lives were lost and 171000 worth of property destroyed In a disastrous dis-astrous flit which started at midnight I i I J last night In Duricx and almost I ruined I the business portion of the town Wm I Law a mine superintendent oil I tnd the toro buiding t050vo own books and pa poison el burned to death Ills body was reeovered lids morning John Pleasantlno Is missing and them Is I little doubt but that he perished In tho llames Nine store buildings and four dwellings were destroyed Whtla the fire was In progress a mob iootel I several stores stealing hundreds of dollars dol-lars worth of goods 10 n u 11 London Dee It Jimmy Harry of Chicago with his second Wattley the secoml of the late Walter Croot at Newcastle England 1 1 Angel the manager of the National Sporting club and the referee and timekeeper of te boxing match during which on thrIll thr-Ill Inst Walter Cbcoot was fatally Injured In-jured were f gfO up on remand today to-day at the Uow street police court on i tho charge of manslaughter They I wee remanded on ball lhe depositions cutor deposi-tions will be cent to tho public pros e WfWW < Jt |
