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THE DALLES, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1894.
NO. 210
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DEBS AND GOMPERS
: They Appear Before the
Strike Commission.
THE LABOR LEADERS' TESTIMONY
The President of the federated Trade.
Olre. Hi Opinion of Strike. .
in General.
Chicago, Aug. 25. President Dobs
was called again today, by the etvike
commission. In reply to questions, be
stated he did not favor compulsory arbi
tration in settling labor troubles. He
did not believe such a method would
prove universally satisfactory. Debs
said before the strike he had been among
the telegraphers, and the statement that
there were not more than 200 American
Railway Union men on the Bock Island
road witness said was absurd.
Samuel Gompera, president of the
American Federation of Labor, was the
next witness. He prefaced his testi
mony with an outline of the aims and
principles of the federution and gave
figures showing the membership.
Gompers reviewed the proceedings of
the conference. President Cleveland,
he said, had paid not the slightest at
tention to a message asking his aid in a
settlement of the strike.
Gompers told of the conference of the
heads of labor organizations in Chicago.
He said that after deliberations they de
cided to request President Cleveland to
settle the strike.
"We thought," Mr. Gompers said,
"that if Mr. Gladstone could do so in
the English etrike, such' an attempt
would not be beneath the dignity of the
0 president of the United States. Accord
ingly, a telegram was sent to Mr. Cleve
land asking his aid. To that he did not
deign to reply. In fact, he took not the
slightest notice of it.
"We considered the strike carefully,
and finally decided that we could not
order a general strike ; that it would be
an usurpation of power, and would for
many reasons be unwise. The delegates
expreased their sympathies with the
movement, and we soon afterward ad
journed." Mr. Gompers then read from the sec
retary's report a detailed statement of
the proceedings of the conference. Gom
pers implied that in the event of a gen
eral strike of all unions, all must agree
on the action, and he said it would have
been impossible for the conference to
have declared a sympathetic strike. He
was asked his opinion as to the methods
of preventing strikes.
"I do not condemn strikes, heartily as
do some men, he said. "I believe that
so long as the present conditions exist
they are neceseary, and I believe that
all strikes do good in calling attention to
the fact that the laboring men will not
be driven further down into poverty. I
think the action of the strikers in par
alyzing the railroads of the country was
justifiable."
The witness rather frank and uncom
plimentary regarding the strike com
mission. "I think this thing is rather late in
the day," he said. This examination by
the commissioners is rather in the
nature of an inquest on a dead body. I
do not anticipate good from the present
investigation."
r-. The witness had something he wanted
to say about the injunctions issued by
the court. He held these injunctions
were not rightly based on the interstate
"j commerce law ; that the law was not in
tended to apply to labor organizations.
He said the injunctions were based up
on court made laws, upon decisions given
in the absence of law. When Gompers
finished, the commission adjourned un
til Monday.
An error crept into last night's report
of the proceedings before the commission
investigating the Pullman strike. The
statement was made that Mr. St. John,
general manager of the Bock Island, tes
tified that a list of names bad been pre
pared for the General Managers' Asso
ciation COntaininc tha'nnmAn nf ITin minaf.
f active strikers. Mr. St. John made no
such statement, bnt testified that neither
the Bock Island or the association had
ever kept a blacklist, or had such at the
present time.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
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FIghtlnjc at Blaefields. .
New York, Aug. 26. The World's
special from Managua, August 25th
says: The bandits grow hourly more
bold. There is fighting near the city.
Firing can be heard. . The government
volunteers have been forced back. The
bandits are burning houses on the out
skirts of the city. A bumber of armed
men were captured near the city and
brought in. Some were publicly
whipped and others were imprisoned.
. New Yobx, Aug. 25. A dispatch
from Panama says: Refugees from
Blaefields, who have reached Colon,
say the Nicaraguan officials there have
been guilty of infamous brutalities.
Indians have been driven into the for
est and shot on sight, and the Nicara
guan soldiers have been assaulting the
helpless Mosquito women and "brain
ing infants" in their charge. Advices
from Greytown are that the British war
ship Mohawk has . offered to take the
Mosquitoes to Belize, and that another
British man-of-war is expected soon at
that station. From Managua it is re
ported . that British capitalists have se
cured the contract of the Nicaraguan
will ask England to protect Central
American states against a Mexican in
vasion. Washington, Aug. 25. Neither the
state or navy department is informed
officially of the stirring events said to
have occured at Bluefields, resulting in
the arrest of British Consul Hatch and
American residents by the Nicaraguan
authorities. They are anxiously await
ing official news, but meanwhile are sat
isfied that the American naval com
mander is fully equal to the task of pro
tecting all Americans in Bluefields who
are entitled to protection.
New Yobk, Aug. 25. A special from
Port liimon says: The United States
warship Columbia arrived here Friday,
and is taking on coal. She reports that
the Nicaraguan authorities have sent
fourteen prisoners from Bluefields to
Nicaragua City for trial. Two Ameri
cans and the acting British, consal are
among them.
Discussing; ITasion in Nebraska.
Omaha, Aug. 25. Nebraska democrats
held a conference in Omaha : today to
discuss fusion with ' the populists.
The question uppermost was whether
the party can consistently indorse the
nomination Judge Holcomb. There is a
strong sentiment among the Jacksonian
wing of the local democracy favoring
such a course, but the idea is being
strongly opposed by many prominent
democrats, "who urge the nomination of
a straight democratic ticket. Those
who look with favor upon Holcomb con
tend that a straight ticket if put up,
would mean the election of the republi
can ticket.'' No decision was reached,
and another meeting will be held next
week. - - -"
Opening; Ou by Keed.
. Old Orchard, "Me., Aug. 25. Ex
Speaker Thomas B. Reed opened the
republican campaign here this afternoon
with a speech which called forth the
heartiest cheers from the thousands
present. Reed's main - effort was to
prove ihat "the democratic party had
shown itself incapable ot ruling the
country satisfactorily not only to the re
publicans but to a large minority which
help to compose the party."
"Worden Soundly Thrashed.
Woodlasd, Cal., Aug. 25. It has
leaked out that Worden and Hatch, the
alleged train-wreckers, had another fight
in jail yesterday. Worden was soundly
threshed. Worden has prepared a com
plaint charging J. F. Douty, secretary of
local union No. 285, American Railway
Union, of Sacramento, with embezeling
$1300 and a gold watch.
May Start Up Monday.
New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 25. It
was learned this evening that an attempt
would be made by the Bristol corpora
tion to start its mill Monday, and that
the officials have .requested the opera
tives to report for work. The Weavers'
Association will make an effort to keep
the operatives from going to work.
A. Ked action in Wages.
Elwood, Ind., Aug. 25. The window
glass, manufacturers in 30 towns and
cities in the gaB belt have decided to
demand a reduction in wages of three
percent. The glass-workers declare they
will never submit to this reduction, and
will stay out rather than accept it.
Latest U.S. Gov't Report
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Killed by His Father.
Boise, Idaho, Aug. 25. A distressing
gunning accident was reported from
near Paris in this state. Phil Margetts
and his 18-year-old son Henry were out
shooting grouse. The boy was some 30
yards in advance' of bis father. The
latter was putting a cartridge in his gun.
When he closed the breech the cartridge
exploded and the charge struck the boy
in the stomach. "Father you have shot
me," Henry cried. "Can't yon do some
thing for me." When his father reached
him he was vomiting blood and in a few
moments he was dead.
Hobo Sent to Jail.
Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 25. In the po
lice court this morning Gustave Lang,
chief facotum of the hobo army, was sen
tenced to six months' improsenment.
The eight wounded hobos from yester
day's riot who were transferred from the
hospital to the police headquarters were
also sent down for three months. They
were a sorry-looking lot with bandaged
heads, but received little sympathy from
the police justice, who made short work
in disposing of them.
Swept Jty A Hurricane.
Odessa, Aug. 25. A terrible hurri
cane has swept over the sea of Azof.
The force of the' wind raised heavy
waves, which have swept many of the
sea coast villages, not leaving a house
standing, and drowning a large number
of people. In addition several steamers
have been lost during the hurricane and
the entire crews have been drowned.
STONE THAT BENDS.
Peculiar Formation of Itacolumite or
Flexile Sandstone.
Geologists tell us that "one of the
most marked and well-known charac
teristics of stones and rocks in general
is their extreme rigidity," but there
are really some specimens that are
more flexile than wood, bending under
the slightest pressure without break
ing. The best known and most abun
dant of these flexile stones, says the
St. Louis Republic, is itacolumite, an
elastic sedimentary deposit found
chiefly in South America, but not un
known in the United States, being fre
quently found in large quantities in
the mountains of North and South
Carolina, and occasionally in Georgia.
The flexibility of itacolumite is readily
understood when the stone is subjected
to a microscopic examination. All or
dinary sandstones are rigid and brittle,
but in itacolumite the grains are ce
mented by mica and sericite, which
confer the flexible property to the
stone as a whole. Viewed by a strong
polarized light it is plain to be seen
that each separate grain of sand in a
slab of itacolumite is -surrounded by a
cement of the flexile mica and sericite,
and that veins of the same cement
ramify in every direction, imparting to
it a peculiar elasticity, a flake of such
stone two feet in length and two
inches thick "sagging" five inches in
the middle when both ends are held up
by some support.
Origin of the Menhaden Industry.
Mr. Robert F. Walsh, in the Popular
Science Monthly, thus recalls the origin
of the present menhaden industry: It
was in 1S50 when an old lady, Mrs.
John Bartlett, of Bluehill, Me., boiling
some fish for her chickens, observed a
thin scum of oil upon the surface of
the water. Some of this she bottled,
and when on a visit, to Boston soon
after, carried samples to a leading oil
merchant, who encouraged her to bring
more. The following year the Bartlett
family industriously applied their gill
nets and sent to market thirteen bar
sels of oil, for which they were paid at
the rate of eleven dollars per barrel.
In the following year this family made
one hundred barrels. Then the value
of menhaden oil having become recog
nized, many oil presses of a more or
less imperfect construction were es
tablished along the coast, and the in
dustry developed so rapidly that with
in twenty years the yield of menhaden
oil exceeded that of the whale from the
American fisheries.
Australian Natives Dying;
The aborigines of Australia are stead
ily ' dying out, although the colonial
government spends a considerable sum
on; their support. Victoria and New
South Wales have very few blacks left
at all, and the number lessens every
year. .
Nero had bulging eyes and was very
near-sighted.
Julius Caesar had weak digestion and
was subject to epileptic tits.
. General Deficiency Bill Signed.
Washington, Aug. 24. The president
today signed the general deficiency bill,
the last of the appropriation bills.
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