into CWfWWfWnkUJjtiifgi It , hi H i ! t WAR WITH UNIONS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION WILL UNITE AGAINST THEM. National Organization Adopts Resolution an Labor Qoestlea and Decides on a Counter Movement n Clastic Cur rency Mrdd-Dcfcat of the Eight Uaur Law Dcman dcd. New Orleans. Ia, April 17. The ilntunilri to the eoavaaUoa of kthe N'a tfamal Association of Manufacturer devoted pracOoally all at the time of Let mmIom today to the dlscoMkw of the Jabe- owostloa. There was much ulffereace of opiaton to the nature of the attitude which the or ganization should take toward trade uariOMism iM tne aeoate at ua Be caaae boated, bat when the adoption of a dtctaratkm of nrtaelMM was fla ally reached, the resolution embodylBg It m aeceotea ny a aaanimou toio. An effort was made to hoM the reso lution for Printing aad further coatM- -ratroa. but the delegate demaadea lwsMdiate action, and the protest was overruled. The resolutions, which Prestdeat Parry characterized as "the rdstorm of the association." are as follows - "We. the members of the National Association of Manufacturers. United States of America, In convention as embted at New Orleans, do hereby declare the principles whkh shall gov era this convention in Its work In con nection with the problems of labor: "1. Pair deallag Is the fundament al and baste principle on which rela tione between employes and employ ers should rest. "2. The National Association of Manufacturers! Is not opposed to or gaaisaUoaa of tabor as such, hut It Is unalterably opposed to Boycotts. MeekHets and other illegal acts of In terference with the personal liberty of employer and employe. "3. No person should be refuted caapteymeat or in any way discrimi nated against on account of member ship or non-membership la any labor argaaixstloe. and there should be no dlserisalnattoa against or laterfereace with nay employe who is not a mem ber of a labor organization by mem bers of sueh organization. "4. With due regard to contracts, it is the right of the employe to leave his employment whenever he sees fit. and It Is tbe right of the employer to discharge any oraploye when be sees fit. "5. Employers must be free to era ploy their work people at wages mutu ally satisfactory, without Interference or dictation on tbe part of Individuals or organizations not directly party to such contracts. "G. The employers must be unmo lested and unhampered In the manage ment of their bui!ncs and In the use of any methods or systems of pay which are Just and equitable. "7. No limitation should be. placed upon the opportunities of any person to learn any trade to which he ot she may be adapted. 8. -This asioclatlon disapprove absolutely of strikes and lockouts and , favors an equitable adjustment of all differences between employers and employes. "The National Association of Man ufacturer pledges Itself to oppose any and all legislation not In accordance with the foregoing declarations. BAtOIT LOADER A DODOCR. Toledo Evades Puriuers -Cholera Attacks Pershing's I'orce, Manila. April 17. Tho campaign Dgalnst tbo bandits In the Province of Albay has proved unsuccessful, the loader of tbe ladrones, named Toledo, evading a fight with the American forces. Tbo government Is preparing to organize another movement. Three hundred and fifty scouts and constab ulary arc now following Toledo's band and It- Is Intended to Increase this force. Tbe concentration system In Central Albay Is still effective. Cholera has Attacked Captain Per shing's troops, who are operating against tho Moros In tho Island of Mindanao. Five cases and many sus pected cases are reported. It Is sup posed tho disease was contracted pear Bacolod, which Captain Par thing's forco captured April 8. The sick have been cent to tbe hospital at Oamp Vlckars. Tho government will award a con tract to furnish 10,080 cariboos to ro tJock plantations. It Intends to soil these animals to tbe planters at cost and to expend half tbo gift of $3,000. 000 voted, by congress In restocking tho farms. right In Santo Domingo. St. Thomas D W. I., April 17 Tho Trench crulsor Troudo arrived hero to day from Santo Domingo City. She reports that fighting took placo there Sunday night and Monday morning botweon tho revolutionists and tho government troops, during which sev eral men wore killed and many woundod, among tho latter being a jioaman of tho German crulsor Vinota. Dominican government troops cap tured a fort, but were eventually re pulsed and tho fort retaken. When tho Troudo Balled the revolutionism were preparing to pursuo President Vasquez and his troops. Negotiations Are mocked. London, April 17. Tho Morning Post correspondent at Shanghai tele graph that tho tsoaty negotiations aro at a deadlock through China's re fusal to abolish all tbo Internal cus lom.houscB In accordance with tho American demand. China admits, foro the flro In reached. Thl will Adds tho correspondent, that over 1000 require an estimated 450,000,000 gal-cuatom-houBes, aro still open. Ions of water. SAINS CMCCK PARM WORK. Winter Wheat Looks Well-frost Nip Fruit In California. Washington. April 16. The Weather Bureau Issued the following weekly summary ot crop conditions: In tho districts east ot tho Rocky Mountains during the week ending April 13, tho temperature haj been highly favorable fer growing vegeta tion, but farm work was very general ly retarded by rains In the Lake re gie, central valleys and Atlantic coast district, while cotapialat of lack of saoteture are received from portions of the Central and West Gulf states, la the Central and Northern Rocky Mountain districts and on the North ern Pacific coast the aoason Is very backward, and Washington and Oregon have suffered from coW. wet weather. la California, the coadltloas have beea generally favorable, with the exception of some damage by frosta. Tbe eoadltlon ot winter wheat Is generally excellent, and It has made splendid- progress since the flrnt of the mvaim. in ine upper uaio ancy. however, the freeze of the -tth and Sth caused war Injury. On the whole tbe coadltloas of the crop In the winter wheat belt east of tbe Rockies Is more proattelng than tor years, in Califor nia the outlook Is also promising, but In Oregon and Washington the condi tions of the crop aro less favorable, specially In the hut named state, where about one-third ot the acreage will be resown. Spring wheat seeding Is nearly com pleted In Iowa and Nebraska, and Is progressing well In South Dakota; none has yet beee sown in North Da kota and In Northern Minnesota, but In Southern Minnesota tamo has been mwd on rolling lands. By the cloo of March, which was a very mild month. all fruits were unusually far advanced. The reports now Indicate that many varieties of fruit have suffered severe ly for the moath, partlculary the peach. la California, while some damage has beea done by frost, the outlook Is favorable; on the North Pacific Coast the season is so backward that fruit has not beea exposed to Injury. TWO KILLtJD BV TORNADO. Storm Sweeps Over Remote Part of Ala baraa With Deadly Brtrct. Birmingham. Ala.. April 18 A spe cial to the Age-Herald from Bvergreen. Ala., says: News has Just reached here by tele phone cofiflrmlng rumors of heavy tos of life and property In the neighbor hood of Peterman and Durnt Corn, wrought by tho tornado which passed near there yesterday. Ten persons are known to have been killed, numerous barns and residences and outhouses were swept away, entailing a loss which will reach high In the thousands. On account of the bad condition ot tho wires communication Is dlQcult. II. P. Salter and bis mother and child were riding along a road and were opposite a clump of trees when the storm overtook them. A heavy tree that was uprooted by the wind fell across the wagon, crushing all ot tho occupants to death. Several residenc es were demolished, tbo timber falling on tho occupants, killing or injuring all within the buildings. It will probably be several days be fore a correct Hat of the casualties ran be obtained, as there Is neither telegraph nor railroad connection. Tbe heavy rains have rendered the roads almost Impassable. Peterman Is In Monroe county, and la not within 25 miles of a railroad or telegraph sta tion. All the news so far received hu come over tho telephone lines which are several miles from the path of the storm. WIND SUCKED CKIiEK DRY. Freak of Tornado That Visited Illinois Score of People Injured. Sprlngfleld, III., April 15. Ono death, a fatal Injury and a scoro or mora of Injuries resulted from a tor nado that swept Logan, Dewett and Piatt Counties this afternoon. Tho fa tallty occurred on tho Halsadarser settlement, a farming community three miles from Atwood. Piatt Conn ty. The home of Clifford Halsadarsor was demolished, and after the storm Halsadarsor's Infant son was found dead 300 feet from whero tho house stood. Ills wife was hurled across the street and fatally Injured. Mrs. J. I). Martin's homo was do stroyed and soveral guests wero pain' fully Injured. Deer Creek, In Logan County, where tho storm first struck, was swept dry of water. Reports from this district state that three bouses were destroyed and a number of people- more or less Injured. Supervisor Schanaour'a handsomo resldonco wn destroyod. The family of several children and a numbor of visitors, 15 In all, sought safety In tho cellar, and the houo wnB torn from over thorn. The homos of Samuel V. Baldwin end Gus Knecht woce destVoyed. Mrs, Baldwin and two farm hands took refugo In a smokohouso In which they wero hurled several hundred feet and painfully Injured. Hooding Burning Mine, Sydney, N. S. V,'.. April JC Through a sluice cut through a darn opening Into tho old workings, wator is now pouring into trio burning col liery No. 1 of tho Dominion Coal Com pany, at tho rato of nearly 3,600,000 gallons an hour. Tho rnlno Is flooded up to tho seventh level, and there aro four more levels to bo flooded bo. CANAL AT RAPIDS BOARDOP ENGINEERS TO MEET AT PORTLAND MAY II. Decision on Plans Will Then Be Reached May Modify Marts Plan to Keep Within Limit -Will Also Uxamln Route Schema for Continuous Canal From Big Bddy to Celllo. Washington. April 15. Representa tive Moody, before leaving Washing ton, had n final conference with tho member of the Board of HnglRcers having under consideration the open lag of tho Columbia River from The Dalles to Celllo. and waa Informed that the Board will meet In Portland May 11 to coastaer raoro fully all data that has recently been collected by Major Langfitt regarding tho portion ot tne river to be Improved. Mr. Moody says that, while It la Ira poetlble to say what the Board will finally report, Ita conclusion will largely depend upon calculations to be baaed on data that has boon com piled by Major LangfltL bearing on the several modifications or substi tution for the Harts' project Mr. Moody also had under consider ation with the engineers tho removal of ono of the reefs at Ten-Mllo Rap Ids, with a view to facilitating steam boat navigation up to the lower end of the proposed state portage road. That proposition will be considered by tho Board when It meets. Tbe Board will prooabty visit tbe obstruc tions in the river and will determine for Itself the need of blasting on this reef. Having viewed the river, dur ing the Summer, the Board at Its coming meeting will havo opportunity to see the stream at the hlah atnie of the water and form a better Idea of tne volume of water to be controlled. The Beard will make an extraordl nary effort to devise a practical plan that enn be carried out at a coat not exceeding Captain Harts' estimate for nis original scheme, and there Is some hope that such a plan may eventually be found. In the light of data that has been collected by Ma jor LaagfitL tbe Board will be able closely to estimate the cost of the several modifications of the Harts' project that have been proposed and will also be ablo to estimate the cost of other schemes that have been brought forward by other engineer. Mr. Moody has urged that If tho Harts' plan in an amended form Is not agreed upon, the Board seriously consider the proposition of a contln uous canal from tho Big Kddy to Ce lllo. and determine whether or not 4ucb a canal can be built by making use of natural cbannels through tbe rocks to the south of the river, at a cost not greater than Harts' estimate. This suggestion will be Investigated and. If It proves fcaslblo at reason able cost, may be accepted, as tho ad vantages of a continuous canal are recognized by many of the officers. CtaiNBS CRASH IIUAD-ON Four Are Killed and Two More Will Die Detail. Meager. Halifax. . "8.. April 13. Four per sons killed, two fatally hurt, at least one missing, and several others slight ly Injured Is the record of a head-on collision on the Intor-Collonlnl Rail way which occurred Just before mid night last night near Windsor Junc tion. 17 miles from Halifax. The poles and telegraph lino along tho roadsldo wero wrecked, and this city was cut off from communication with the outside world for hours. Tho trains In collision wero the Canadian Pacific Railway express from Montreal and Boston for Hall fax, and a fast freight from Halifax for Montreal. Tho conductor nnd driver of tho freight had orders to tako tho siding at Windsor Junction and lot tbo express cross, but. for somo unknown reason, Driver wpo land, of the freight, ran mtt the Junction on tho main lino and met tbo express two miles boyond. It Is thought that Copcland may havo lost control of his train, which was made up of 75 cars. Tho freight waa running 26 mllos nn hour, nnd tho oxpress, which was two hour late, was traveling about 45 mile- an hour. Both trains wore hauled by new and powerful locomotives, and they crashed together on a lovel pleco ot road skirting n lake. Proposed Treaty With Cuba. Havana April JR. Minister Sntilrea today outline to President Palmn and Forolgn Secretalry Hnldo tho detail of the pormanont treaty botweon Cuba arid tho United Stntos In accordance with the proposition prepared nt Washington. Tho nnval stations ngroemonl. tho ratification of which Is now pending In the Senate will not bo reoponod, but It Is understood that ownorehli) of tho stations la covorml In tho treaty, Jn addition to tho Isle or 1'ines and tho I'mtt nmciximont fcaturo. There la no doubt that a permanent treaty will bo concluded soon. Coal Mine Explosion. Kansas CJty, April lG.-A special to the Journnl from South McAllstor. I. T., snys- FJvo men woro killed and two iiovorely burned today by a gas explosion In Mlno 77 of tho Kansas & Toxas Coal Company at Carbon, I. T. Tho cause of tho explosion Ib un known. Sovortty-fivo men woro In tho mine, but all escaped Injury nxcopt tho fovon who wero working In the chamber whore tho explosion occurred. CUT IM TWO BY STHAmiR. Schooner Run Down on Out? Two Chit drtn and Sailor Drowned. St. Louis. April IS. A special to the Republic from Galveston, Tex,, says: Tho schooner Margaret I Wan! waa rammed and sunk by the South ern Pacific steamer Kl Rio, 25 miles east of GalvcJton Bar, Inst night Two children of Captain McKown. of the schooner, wero lost and one sen man of tho same veeseL- Aceordlng to Captain McKown. all his lights were burning brightly and every possible signal made to avert tho collision, but the big steamer bore straight down upon the deemed vm sol. cutting her In two and sending her to the bottom Immediately. From account of the colllsloa given by the engineer. Clark, ami Chief Mate In galls. It was about 3d seconds from the time of tho coHoslon until tho Ward sunk. The captain had his family on board. They were asleep In the cab in. The mato saw the steamer nnd started to ring the bells. Tbe whole crew turned out; all bells were ring ing, the whistles wt blowing, all hands on deck were shouting for dear life and both anchorage lights were showing when the It Rio struck the schooner carrying away her alt-gang way and wheel-bow and cutting Into the cabin. All hands took to the rigging. Cap tain McKown had his son In his arms, but was struck with temcthlng In gel ting Into the rigging and the little fel lew slipped Into the sea. Mrs. Mc Kown gave the little girl to one of the sailers who was lost In trying to savo her. RAISUD FROM 71113 D till P. One ol the Spanish Ships Sunk by Dew ey's Fleet nt Manila. Manila. April It. The warship Reins Christina, the flagship of Ad miral Monte Jo. which waa sunk by Admiral Dewey, was floated and beached yeeterday. The skutetona of about M of her erew were found la the hulk. One skeleton waa evidently that of an officer, for It bad a sword by Its side. There are fifteen shell boles In the hull of the Reins Chriatlaa. one made by aa eJght-lfch and others smaller. The main injection valve Is missing, showing the ship waa scut tled when abandoned. The hull .la In fair condition. Captain Albert R. Coudvn. torn mantling tbe naval station at Cavlte. took charge of the remains of tbe sail ors, etprt-sslng a dedre to give them an American naval funeral. The Spanish residents are anxious, bow ever, to ship the skeletons to Spain. and It Is suggested that the transport Sumner convey thorn to Spain by the way of the Suez Cannl In June. A wrecking company la-endeavorlng to raise all thS sunken Spanish war snips. PERUVIAN CIVILIZATION. Dr. Max L'hle Mas Been Able to Trace It Back 2,000 Yeara San Francisco. April 13. Tho car Host American civilization, for ante dating tho genorolly accepted limits of prc-CoIumbua culture, ha been Ltrnrcd In Peru by Dr Max Uhle. di rector of the anthrologlcal excava tions and explorations ot tho Univer sity of California In that country. Whore heretofore Inrn traditions had led scientists to bollove that Peruvian civilization extended bark only n few centuries before tho coming of tho Spaniards, the archeologlcol work of Dr. Ublo tins established the fact that a great civilization flourished 2000 year earlier, at tho loat esti mate, and that a cultured race, of higher development than tho Inens, wn In existence boforu tho Trojan war. Thl remarkahlo discovery follow as a result of the studies made In the two expedition which Dr. Utile led in recent years at tho oxponio of Mr. Phoebo Hearst and under tho aus pices of tho 'University of California. DAM BURSTS IN COLORADO. Irrigates Valley Too Suddenly and I)rlc Out Resident. Delta. Colo.. April H. The dam of tho Bonnoy rosorvolr, near Olatho. 15 mile Trom this city, gave way oarly today, causing dnmsgo estimated at from 160.000 to 175.000. T ho reser voir Is owned by tho Garnet Ditch & Reservoir Company and furnlslios water for Irrigating the Garnet nioeu. Tho company' houso bolow the dnm was ilomollslinil. nnd It occupant bnroly escaped with tholr llvoa. being forcod to wado through Hovoral fool of wator In tholr night clothor. Rider were ent out to notify tho farmer living nlong tho Uncompatv grco River nbovo Dnltn, and It I thought that all esoapod boforo tho Hood reached them. Crops In tunny piacos win no riiinou, ami covornl hundred lioad of cattle nrn roportoil na lost. Tim Donvor & Rio Orando track was wanned out for n distance of about throo-quartOM of a inllo. She Wants No Reform. Pukln, April 15. Tho Dowager Km pross has Issued nn edict repealing tho comprohonlsve ntnmp taxation Bclicmo, whlrh Yuan Shi Knl, Gover nor of tho Provlnco of Chi LI, was about to Innugurnto throughout thl province. Tho edict assign tho nov. erty of tho peoplo as tho reason for tho repeal of thu schomo, but It la bo lloved Yuan, Shi Kal's enumlaa pro cured It for tho pdrpoHo of crippling his proposed reforms, Dr. Lyman Abbott I now at work on a biography of Heurf Ward Ileecb er. Thin paper edition of standard works, bound lu limp I'atW. are growing lu favor with liugllsh pub Ushers. The Ithrp Publishing Company Is sues Irving Bacheller' third novel, "Darrel of the BIcmcU Islrs." It denl with life lu the north before the war. H. R. Crockett latent story. "Strong Mac." Is a tale of life on the moor of Scotland, with a later shifting of sceno to Hpaln durlug the peninsula war. K. P. Dutton h Co. have Just pulx Halted the new hook on "Italy nnd the Italian," by Hdwnnl 1 1 ill ton, vvIiomi "studies In tbe Uvm of tho HuliiU" h already nude favorable eommettt. The Hcrlbiier announce a novel by France Powell cntllltd "The House ou the Hudson." Thl maiden work of a new writer I described aa "blending tbe chnrncterlstlc of a detective story with ttiove of a passionate and force ful drama of love." Mary Catherine Crowley, the au thor of "The Heroine of the Htrall." a romance of Detroit In the time of Pott tlsc, 1m written another novel with Its scenes laid In that Interesting see tlou. but with the war of IHI'J for the historical background. Richard (1. Badger will lu the only aile(tito rendering obtainable of Tannhauner," the romance ujon whteh Wagner mot famous tper Is based. It Mug translated In a xM ami spirit- fd manner from the original German by Charles (!. Kendall. Mlsa Ottllle LUJcnerant. the anther of -The Thrall of Lvlf tbe Lueky." ha written another historical eel. ThU time she has choen the rusiod of the Danish conquest of Britain for her theme and haa decided to call the tale "Tbe Ward of King Canute." It will be putdUhcd at au early date by A. C. McClurg Co. McClure. Phillip K Co. annotinre The Blue (towe." by Frank I. Nu. sou, author of "To the llml of the Trail." It la a story of mine and min er lu thrt gold region of the Roeklea. Hlnci Bret Hnrte wrote of the "Forty Nluera" In California and nloiu the transcontinental trail the mining world baa completely cluuigt-d. It will probably to a surprlwi to many to be told that Joseph Conrnd, the author of "Youth," I not wrltliitf In hi native tongue when he write In Kugtlsh. Mr. Conrad I. It ecni. a Pole, and wn born In n southern province of Poland. HI father wn a noted critic and pot, who edited u patriotic review at Warsaw. "Ronald Cnrnaquay, a Commercial Clergy tun n," n novel ou the pre for curly Issue by thu Maonlllan Com pany, will find many render. Thit never-falling hunter and pa I be of n pastor rotation with hi eoimnum Hon. hi trustee and .oiHit of the women of hi (lock huve been skillfully handled by the author, Bradley Oil man. For the last twenty yi-nr hardly n spring lut gone by that litis Hot wl coined n new volume of short Urft from the pen of lint Hnrte. Hi dwtlh hit May brought many etpreloH of regret that thl annual cotttrlliHtbM to gtiotl fiction could no longer go on, Mr. Marte's literary executor have found, however, thnt he left mnteabtl ready for una more book, which will be pub lished under the title of "Trent1 Trust." It contain seven storied. In which some of tit- favorite oharacttir havo one more word to my. Tlin iltial OniMsti-oplin. "My dearl" sold a frlglitout.1 tin" band In tho middle of tho night, hHk lug hi wife, "where did you put thnt bottle of strychnine" "On the sliolf next tn tbe pop-pur-mint." "Oh. Iord!" ho groaned, "I've swal lowed It!" "Well, for goodnew nk." whltJUuretl hi wife, "keep iiltu or you'll wake, tho baby," Philadelphia Ledger. . Deceived, F.tliol-You miy Algy ha boon heart loiily deceived by u young wenwn. Did mIio Iwid him on to think' thnt h)iu loved him? Mny-Oli, no, Kim led him on to bo llovo that ho didn't care, n rap fur him, iiml thou when ho enrulojsly pro posed nccepted him on the spot. Ono Dlllltmliy In itio Wny. "I can marry any girl I plenBo." re marked tbo Wlso (luy, ' "Ych, but you don't nooin to please any of them," murmured tbo tilmnU MugM'hlluilolplila Record. Try I n n (Juiuk Modioli. BlngH-Whnt nro you going to do with that Mick of dynnmllo, old iimnl Bangs-l'm going to blow n uJQnla plaator oft my chost.-liidlauntioll , Journal.