| Show BY TELEGRAPH PER FEB WESTERN UNION LINE AMERICAN X A at I 1 C A N washington 8 today senator wilson of iowa reported favorably from the judiciary committee the following amendment to the pacific railroad funding bill whenever in tile the opinion oi of the president it shall be deemed necessary to the protection of the interests inte in and preservation of the security of the he states in respect of its lien mortgages or any other interest in the property of the several companies named in n the first firs t section of tills this act upon which a lien mortgage or other ance paramount to the right title or interest of the united states for the same property may exist the secretary of the treasury shall under the direction of the president ident or otherwise clear off such paramount lien mortgage or other incumbrance by paying the sums lawfully due in r respect thereof out of the treasury and the united states shall thereupon become and be aubro gated to tell tall rights and securities heretofore pertaining to the debt mortgage or other incumbrance in respect of which such payment shall be madland ma td making it the duty of the e bial attorney general under the direction of tle president to take all such steps and proceedings s in the courts and otherwise as shall be needful to protect and defend the rights and interests of tile the united states in respect to tile the matter therein contained civil service commissioner trenholm appeared before the ways ard means committee today to day to express his views upon the sections of the morrison bill touching rice he said 1 the duty on rice imported into the pacific states was paid kv by chinese laborers who were the consumers and wag wae almost the only tax paid by the Chinese mr trenholm told of the ill effect on rice plantations in this country resulting from disease during the war and said that if production No should he checked at this time it would be difficult or almost impossible to re lish the source of supply for a long period of years washington 8 senator john F miller of california died at his residence or oc connecticut avenue in this city at 1 10 this sit afternoon anoon after a prolonged illness alle while his has been regarded as precarious for many weaks past his death 0 day was sudden and unexpected at no time since his arrival in this city tu attend tile the session of congress has he been een regarded as v entirely re y 0 out 0 of dan an ger but ut he e showed such wonderful re powers and rallied so often fro from altac attacks s w which ich were regarded at the time AS necessarily fatal that his bis friends had been encouraged slid and even looked for his bis ultimate recovery his death was the result of a complication oi of disorders arising primarily from a severe wound in the eye received during the war 23 years ago the bullet remained in his head about twelve years before it could be extracted and the wound sapped his strength and andi rendered him an easy vie vic tim to disease the loss of sleep debilitated his system and asthmatic IC gym symptoms toms kept him inconstant in constant pain bri brights KI ts disease subsequently began its i insidious work and then disorders were developed develop gd but through all his illness the senator showed such nerve and will power that his physicians were encouraged to J hope he might possibly recover several operations were performed and seemed to when passed over tho city last night the senator complained of feeling much worse and com complained p i of asthma his physicians were quickly summoned and their attention seemed to have built him up again this morning dr pope made a careful examination of his condition as more favorable thelm it had been for several days adny past miss miller reminded her father that she sh had made an engagement with her cousin 0 U C miller to go to the capitol but she did not think she to go eo under the circumstances her father said it was wrong for her to th tb ink of staying home on his ai account count the doctor had said he was better and in fact he be did leel beel much stran stronger er himself he urged her so strongly that at last she consented and thus thu it ha happened ened by her fathers own consent she le was away froah hi his bedside when he breathed his last T the h e D news ew 8 of ii her er fathers death unnerved her completely the senator remained quiet up to about 13 12 when he became restless and asked for a doctor A messenger went for dr pope but before he arrived mr miller had bad passed away he was conscious to the last and took a sad farewell of his wife who had been at his bedside all day mr and mrs john M davis had called in a few minutes before and were also present when he died the senator leaves a wife and one daughter the remains will be taken to california for burial STLouis ST louis 8 it has been stated in reference to the transportation of mail that the knights of labor would permit only an engine and postal car at a and ad one coach to be run but it cs is now stated that they have abandoned this position and will allow full passenger trains to be run A report comes from frem dallas texas that toe the receivers of the texas P pacific have in con contemplation empl atlon ahe be arrest of the leil leading ding knights of labor and strikers at karsha marshall ii denison big springs fort worth and aaa other points A dispatch from sedalia mo says there are cars laden with perishable freight in the yards there ther e aud that there are several hundred car loads liadi s of oranges sidetracked side tracked aloag the road between there and fort worth all the men employed at Ca below there enere quit work this morning this is an Imp important point as it is the river bert terminus iaus of the kirkwood bra branch uch of the missouri pacific railroad and large quantities of freight for foi the east are transferred across across the river there the iron mountain road also passes parses through that place and the yards of the two roads are quite extensive now everything is still at the transfer and the boats are laid up and the yards and shops deserted freight cars many of bf them lalen laden stand on the track the men are holding il a meeting and discuss discussing ing tile the situation the brotherhood R of brakemen Brak eroen here have neiti nt notified iti d superintendent Dickins at the union depot and the tunnel Com company that they are willing to continue work it they are not required to handle the cars bead belonging to the missouri pacific road many of tills this order are also knights of labor and all those employed on the missouri pacific went out with the other men fort worth 8 A mass meeting of the knights of labor was hel dhere tonight at which the peD pending Ting strike was discussed the situation grows graver each hour passenger traille traffic on the transcontinental divi division siou of the texas and pacific will it is thought be discontinued owing to the dad bad condition of tile the croaa road cattlemen are bosine large sums by the present f freight blod blockade kade sedalia mo 8 the central committee of the knights of Y abor will order that after today to day all se the members of that organization employed upon the passenger trains on the missouri pacific railroad shall cease work but that the mall mail cars must not pe be interfered 11 with notice was posted at the jacw railway depot this morning announcing the suspension of all vie tiie brakemen and conductors orson on the st louis kausas kansas and the he lawrence kansas bra branches liches of that road the brakemen are now holding a meeting at which their future course coure will be determined their discussions are held in strict se cresy I 1 san antonio tex 8 the local differences between the knights of labor and their employers on the southern pacific railway have been settled and the strike here is at an end marshall al texas 8 no work is being arsh in g done an by the mechanics of the texas telas pacific railroad at the shops here A stecial special guard has been sp appointed pointed by t the e knights of labor to guard the compan companas comp anys ls property from acts of violence the he fight at this point now consists pf af th the demand by the knights that the organization be 1 recognized by the railroad officers all other grievances have been practically settled 4 A rumor is current here that 1000 additional dit ional knights will be ord ordered er ed out tomorrow to morrow and this will ab absolutely sol stop all passenger and f freight traffic on the gould southwest system atchison Ks 8 tae missouri pacific employed heri here in number went out today to day on orders from sedalia all the central branch freight trains stopped thOu though gli a train of uve live stock was permitted to come through patrol committees guard the companas comp anys avys property and jermit only passenger trains to run the strikers have prepared a schedule of grievances which simply incorporates tha th demand made by the texas strikers akers hartford conn 8 the new york new haven railroad co has decided to raise the pay of laborers laborer on all divisions from to per day be 1st ast SINGULAR coincidence coias philadelphia A 18 grand master workman powderly of the knights ot labor organization who is in this city attending a meeting of the Gei general aeral executive AB board ablard dard said fa blight to toa a representative of the associated press that he had received no summons to st louis to settle the difficulties between fie the strikers and the goold system of roads and that there is no significance ance in the fact that so BO many strikes are now in progress in the states oy of the knights of labor it is a coincidence merely said he land and there is concerted action contemplated by the order as has been suggested J the he strikes being incidental and I 1 aia chi cal chiefly fl owing 11 t to 0 the fact that this is just the te owl be beginning g taing of the spring trade trad e and t the opening of prosperity in busness business 21 FIGHTING THIC KNIGHTS philadelphia p 8 plumb manufacturers of edge tools in frankford this morning locked out adlof all of their employees as an initial step in the contest with the knights of labor the firm made objection to the rhen men coining the knights of labor Labo randon and on saturday ay posted up a notice re requiring quirin 9 all their men to renounce that organization this morning the employees consulted with the firm and the trouble was thought h to be ended but subsequently t the e proprietors changed their minds ai and aid d a shutdown shut down has resulted tile the firm say they will sell their works before they will submit to the interference of the organization the men held a meeting this afternoon but no action was taken PITTSBURG pa pai 8 breeds reeds coal works near dunbar danbar pa in the con delleville nellsville Dells nells ville region was the scene of a terrible explosion of gas as this afternoon about 3 at the time of the explosion sixteen men were at work eleven have been taken out gut badly burned others are still in the mice and are believed to be dead those taken out are seriously injured but physicians are of the opinion that some of them may recover Connell sv ille pa 8 shortly after noon today to day a series of explosions took place in the uniondale Union dale mine minest at D unbar Dunbar four miles from here by which three men were killed and twenty others received injuries which will prove fatal in at least four cases the cause ot of the explosion was tire fire damp there were 23 men inthe pit pic the first explosion occurred about 12 1230 this afternoon it was terrific ter and was followed by two others in quick buccey sion the first explosion caused the death of three men and injured three the rest ru ran toward the mouth of the pit and before they reached it another explosion occurred the lights were brownout blown out the dust blinded the men and the passage ways were blocked up and cut off all escape the pit was on fire and a horrible beath awaited the imprisoned miners nine of them who had bad been working in another erry managed to kaake their way out before hobt of at the pit 1 it was choked choke dup up the force of ta tuu shock can be imagined as it forced the men in the morrill calvin and wheeler adjoining to drop their tools and ruth panic stricken to the top the ground rolled and quaked so that many fell down and three in the morrill mine were violently thrown against the walls and seriously injured everybody rushed to the wall of the union dalu dale mine Cp columbus lumbus shay of the mahoning Ma boning honing works and jack shy henderron eudemon ot of the calvin mine headed the rescuing party and went to work wita picks and shovels to force an entrance in a few ino moments ments an opening was made and several forward to enter thamine the mine 1 but were repelled by the violence of the flames it took several minutes for the smoke and tire anre to clear away the cries of pain anoche and abe moans of tile the injured were pitiable they were ayi lyial 0 g i in n every direction buried under the masses of debris several of them were horribly burned twelve of them were found in in a dying condition two others were mangled almost in an unrecognizable mass THE KILLED ARE AKE john Joh williams aged 45 yeas years leaving a wife and four children J jseph cope iliner aged 50 years wife and nine children among the injured are jacob copo cope aged fifteen years he car not live cal martin nineteen years hieman he cannot live several others will be maimed for life mine inspector J J davis and auarles connor a member of tile the board of mine aline examiners left for the witte mine this evening to enquire into the cause of the explosion ST luuis louis 8 10 all freight traffic traffie ove the bridge was entirely suspended this clio morning and none except casseh passenger er trains have been allowed to pass over since last night the passenger trains are made up by the yard masters ad d bridge superintendents who also dolli do all the switching stitching necessary to bring trains iraids into position at thi the union DepO tEach road is obliged to own engines in making up and trani transferring ferring its cars as none of tile the bridge engines are in use the idge C companas Comp anys en engines gi nes and fire firemen pien have not as yet gone out but they Y rc fe f fuse u e to do any of 01 the work W which c us lias her tao fare been do done ne by the shop ma men suc suan 0 a repairing cleaning etc when an engine becomes injured or its machinery needs cleaning there ther els as no one to do the works work and the en engine i ne input aside all passenger trains af for or the eart and wes es have sue succeeded deeded in starting out this t bl is morning but all have been more ar less delayed on account of the difficulty few men are in the yards and deppt depot of experience in a making up trains i PITTSBURG pa V the miners at latrobe pa who yesterday for an 1 faaee of lo 10 per I 1 cent res re sinned timea wath ib ta darthe the conceding the advance NEW YORK 9 the strike of the carpenters and joiners omers has been fal nearly al all of the employers empl have granted the demands of the uen men and tae latter have begun work again under average wages of per day tit fit nine hours and eight hen licurs rs on saturday me men n are now out fifty resumed work at noon today to day under the new agreement 9 mrs benjamin harris hams brewster wife of ex attorney general brewster died at her residence in this city this morning naw YORK 9 lazard fieres have ordered in gold bars and co for shipment LITTLE ROCK 9 0 this orning an lin the iron discharged twenty five truckers all the freight clerks and notified the transfer companies to clear tile the depot of all ail freight TROY N Y 9 on th the cstreet estreet car lines between troy dansingburg Lansing burg cohoes and waterford no cars started this morn morning |
