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CONOHESS, 1 Cop Rtcpvtol I eta UArti LYN DAILY EAGLE. LAST EDITION. Entered at Brooklyn. N. P.

O. as Second Class Matter. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 11.

1902. VOL. 62. NO. 282.

22 PAGES. Copyright. 100C. Trade Mark ibt Brooklyn Dally Eal. "Eas.e" Hffistfire3.

THREE CENTS. BROOK THE LOCAL WEATHER PROBAIIILITIBS. Ruin to nlirlit and Sandnv: clinnsre in temperature; brink: mid probably hiRB nortnenat to eant vrlnd. MITCHELL SAYS THE UNION OF MINERS IS NOT ILLEGAL A STRIKE COMMISSION. BUT NO EXTRA SESSION.

REGISTER TO DAY. To dny In the nrrond day of lion. You i nn rritlntrr nt ny time np to in V. M. Thr pliwen for rcRlntrntlon will be found In tn ilny'n EhkIc.

Yon will lofie your vote If yon fall to rPKlnlfr, and it In nnfer to recinter nt onct. TO NIGHT AT THE ACADEMY. W. P. FOBD DIES IN LONDON.

Well Known Brooklyn Man Succumbs to an Operation. Word was received in this city to day that Mrs. William F. Ford of 50 Garden place had sailed on the St. Louis with her two daughters, accompanying the body of her husband to this country.

Mr. Ford, who was a very well known resident of Brooklyn, died on Wednesday after an operation. He had been ill for some, time with a complication of diseases. The family had left this country in the early spring, and had lived near London, whore Mr. Ford had business.

Mr'. Ford was a member of the Brooklyn and Baltusrol clubs and of the Manufacturers' Association. He was a member of the firm of Clarkson Ford, oil merchants. He had originally come from Louisiana, but had lived in Brooklyn for many years. STOBM SIGNALS OUT.

The following message was received at the local Weather Bureau this morning: "Washington. D. October 11 Northeast 6torm warnings are. displayed along the coast, from Baltimore to New York. Storm of decided character central over Georgia, moving northeast.

High east winds to night, continuing Sunday." H. S. DAVIS SAILS FOR HOME. Former Assistant District Attorney of Brooklyn Beleased From Prison Under First. Offender's Act.

London, October 11 Henry Shackleford Davis, the former assistant District Attorney of Brooklyn, who was remanded at a police court here October 4 on the charge of obtaining money by means of a worthless check, was released from Brixton prison today under the fn Bt offenders' act and bound over In a small sum to appear for trial, If called upon, within six months. Newton Crane, who defended Davis, pleaded extenuating circumstances and mental derangement as the reeqlt of an accident. Ho handed to the magistrate a dozen cable dispatches from Influential New Yorkers which had been sent to the United States embassy in the prisoner's behalf, and concluded with promising that all the latter's debts would be settled and assured the magistrate that Davis would be sent home on the first steamer sailing for the United States. The magistrate expressed a doubt as to whether he ought not to commit the defendant, but decided to give him the benefit ot the extenuating circumstances. Davis, later in the day, sailed for New York on board the Atlantic Transport line steamer Minnehaha.

THINKS HE SAW BARTELS. Ned Baldwin Tells a Queer Story About a Man Supposed to Be Dead and Buried. (Special to the Eagle.) Hempstead, L. Vj: Does the REGISTER TO DAY. To day In tlic xecmid day of reiritrH Cion.

Yon can rejriHter nt any time up in SI. The pined tor ronlstirntton I will be foniul In to Aay'n EnKle. You will lose yoar vote If yon fall to rcKlr, and it Ik nnfer to rciclnter at once. It would have with public opinion the weight of its character and the value of its and recommendations. Whether that would convert to power with executive and legislative government, based, or said to be based, on public opinion, would be seen.

The President Is convinced that a settlement on and of questions of fact is necessary, and that a commission of the sort outlined is the only instrumentality open to him. The President Deluged With Suggested Remedies. If a newspaper is flooded with suggestions, a President can be said to be deluged with them. Seme of them would be comic were they not earnestly put and did they not boar on an intense stuation. The source of them should not be disclosed now.

Public feeling is at too great a stress to make that defensible. One of them would hardly be thought possible off an opera bouffe stage, A corporation interested in the output of soft coal mining protests against any interference at all with the existing anthracite conditions Soft coal mining has suffered in the past by strikes of which hard coal mining has taken advantage and by which it has profited. Turn about is fair play. Now hard coal mining suffers and soft coal mining prospers. It is unjust to attempt to bring up hard coal mining to the reductions of the present large gains in soft coal mining! The next thing we shall hear may be a protest of Brooklyn undertakers against Board of Health efforts to stop the typhoid fever epidemic as a wrongful interference with the coffin trade and with the frequency of funerals.

This protest was made in absolutely good faith by parties brutally destitute of humor, on the one band, and of humanity on the other. Can one wonder some corporations are hated? Worthy men urge in eloquent letters that troops be sent to the disaffected regions the commanding officers be instructed not only to restore order, but also inoculate the operators with sentiments of pity for errant and suffering humanity! A colonel or a major general of the regular Army inoculating a combination of capitalists would not find precedents in Hardee's tactics or in Jomini's or Halleck's works on strategy, or in Molineu.x's manual on "Military Management of Mobs." All Sorts of Plans Emanate Prom Capital and Labor. The suggestions are not confined to capitalists or to philanthropists. One from labor sources received by a Cabinet officer is believed to have been that the Secretary of the Treasury exhaust the destructive power of his office in putting the screws on the banks, and that he keep them on until the operators recognize the trade unions! The burglar who asked the policeman, as a friend of his. to smash the windows of a store he would like to rob understood the value of government as a protective and predatory ally.

The men who know more law than judges and attorney generals are named legion. They vehemently urge the arrest of the operators for not mining coal, when the miners won't mine it, and when the law says only miners can mine not that mluors must nine XT. jilicfs urge that the miners' unton be arrested on the ground that they are 'Interfering with an article of commerce between the states. The article Is not commerce. Commerce is what cannot legally be Interfered with.

Commerce is the carriage of it. With commerce no one is interfering, on any evidence that has led to complaint in any suit. There could be no Interference alleged that would not be as chargeable against operators as miners. For the thing charged is inaction, and inaction, no matter for'what cause, equally characterizes both. Popular Misconception of "Eminent Domain." The lay authorities on "eminent domain" are entitled to the floor.

They forget that Pennsylvania is a state not a foot of whose soil can be taken by the national government except by her consent, except on the ground of national defense. National defense is defense against powers with whom the nation is or may be at war. Between Pennsylvania and the United States is no war. No foreign power is invading Pennsylvania. The United States cannot even assist Pennsylvania to put down domestic violence unless and until Pennsylvania asks that that be done.

Without that asking the United States could deal with violence that destroyed interstate commerce or stopped the mails or violated the orders of Federal courts. None of these things has been alleged. Were the United States would have to await Pennsylvania's refusal or default to correct them herself. If the United States be asked or required to interfere to restore order, then order will be certainly restored. But that will not involve the enforcement of recognition of the union on the operators, of abandonment of their claim for recognition of the union or of mining on the miners.

There is a point where "eminent domain" comes in. If a state of things persists in which mining Is not and cannot be resumed, that state of things can be dealt with by Pennsylvania. It can take possession of the mines, not as an owner or as a conflscator, but as a sovereign and can run them under martial law, with what employes it can get and on what terms it may will. That is within its extreme power under an extreme exigency. It is "eminept domain" mode spell "eminent necessity." The United States could neither precede nor oust Pennsylvania in such a work.

Operators Regarded as Men Who Are Leaving the Public Out of the Account. The mixture of narrative and comment I have given Is necesBary to harmonize the need of suggesting facts and views here with the duty of preserving confidence and of not disclosing sources of information or the personality of Informants. But I would be unjust to my readers If I did not say that there is no such degree of divisions of opinion here as there is in New York, on the merits and demerits of the case and of the body of Paul BarteK.reat quK tly In a tile, family, but plot' In Greenfield Cemetery, at this place or I the pleadings. were still in vain. Mrs.

Lynch IS SHOT BY HER FATHER Men of Mary Lynch's Family Take Vengeance on Her Alleged Betrayer. JAMES MORSE MAY NOT LIVE. Lynch the Father and Lynch the Brother I Say He Sprang at Them When They Demanded Mary. Actuated by an impulse to wreak vengeance on the man whom he thought had led astray his daughter and ruined his once happy home. James H.

Lynch, 37 years old, a respected resident of the Eastern District for many years, went to the Raines law hotel at Wythe avenue and South Eighth street early this morning, accompanied by his son, and it is alleged shot the proprietor, Jaroes Morse. Morse is now in a precarious condition in the Eastern District Hospital, with a bullet in his back on the right side. Just above the hip, all the attempts thus far made by the surgeons to remove the bullet have been futile. Lynch and his sou, James of 231 Bridge street, were arrested on the scene a few minutes after the shooting and are now In custody awaiting the result of the victim's injury. The elder Lynch made a statement to the police soon after hiB arrest.

In which he took all tho blame for the affair, fully I exonerating his son, whom he requested to accompany him to Morse's hotel when lie went in queBt of his daughter, Mary, 25 yc ars old. who had been away frow home for nearly two weeks. Lynch, who is well known In the Eastern District and bears an excellent reputation, I formerly lived with his family 232 South Third street. Among the tenants in the house was Morse, who occupied npartments with his wife and four children. A friend I ship cropped up between Morse and tho Lynch family, and, according to the latter, the hotel I man evinced a strong liking for Mary Lynch, 25 years old, a good looking brunette.

The girl's father developed a strong dislike for i the advances Morse is alleged to have made, toward the girl, and to avoid him as much as possible he removed his family to the house at 267 Division avenue, where they now live. About two weeks ago Mary disappeared from home, and when the search which was Instituted by her parents proved of no avail Lynch concluded that Morse knew something about the girl's absence. He investigated the matter for several days, but was unable to learn anything to confirm his suspicions. The search was continued without success until a few days ago, when Mrs. Lynch, the girl's mother, loarned that her daughter was living Morse's hotel.

She went to the place and saw her with her to return, but the girl was deaf to all entreaties and declared that she was content to remain where she was. For two days, the mother triod in vain) to fcat ed to. tell her husband' of her' discovery roallzing that something desperate would result, and she kept the secret until last night, when her husband confronted her with the fact that he, too, knew of the girl's whereabouts. He said that he had accidentally learned that his daughter was being kept at the hotel and was living as the common law wife of Morse. Mrs.

Lynch then admitted that she had known of the matter and had tried to get the girl home, and as they talked the case over Lynch was barely able to control his i grief. Shortly before midnight he left the house and was Joined soon afterward by his son. The two men went to the hotel, at Wythe avenuo and South Eighth street, and found that the place had been closed for the night. They heard a slight noise In a rear roam and. after considerable knocking, a sirt "a' nlsto! to his father and that the latter stepped to one side and fired a shot.

Morse, on seeing the weapon, turned his back slightly and the bullet struck him on the right side of the back, imbedding Itself just above the hip. Policeman Falvey of the Clymer street station, who happened to be in the neighbor hood, ran to the hotel, and, entering the back room, found Morse lying unconscious in a I pool of blood, while Lynch and his son stood close by. The other men had fled from the room at the first sign of serious trouble. As the officer approached the two excited men the younger Lynch drew a revolver from his pocket and handed it over, but his father quickly Informed the officer that he had done the shooting, and that his son was In no way to blame. Falvey promptly communicated with the Clymer street station and Captain Hardy and several detectives hastened to the hotel.

Morse, In the meantime, had been treated by Dr. Deutsche of the Eastern District Hospital, who pronounced the wound a serious one and hurried the patient to the hospital, where an attempt was Immediately made to locate th bullet. As Boon as the Lynches had been placed under arrest by the detectives they were taken to the hospital, and Morse, who had. been slightly revived positively identified the elder Lynch as the man who had shot him. He added feebly that the revolver had been handed to the alleged assailant by hla son.

Lynch and his son were then taken to tho Clymer street Btatibn, where a charge of assault was lodged against them. When asked by Sergeant Pinkerton what had prompted him to make the attempt on Morse's life. Lynch said: "This man robbed me of my daughter and cast a jloom over my once happy home. Mary was a good girl until he took her from me. I found out night where Mary was and wont there to bring her home, but as soon as 1 told Morse what I had come there for he sprang at me, and in self defense I shot him.

I did it all myself and my son only accompanied me, and is entirely btnmeless" Mrs. Lynch knew nothing of the affair until early this morning, when an officer went to her home and told her that her husband and son' were under arrest for attempting to kill Morse. She appeared I at the Dee avenue court tnts morning when they were arraigned, and displayed remarkable fortitude during the proceedings. She said to several reporters: "It was simply a case of a girl who knew nothing of the world and a man who knew all about it. A weak girl going wrong." Lynch and his son were held without ball by Magistrate Higginbotham for a furthor hearing.

During the shooting It is that the girl over whom the trouble was caused was upstairs. Friends of the wounded mnn say that she was simply employed In the hotel. Try the Cnfe Monfacne. luncheon, from to P. M.

103 lOu Montague Bt. Adv. OPEN AIB STBIKE MEETING. Twelve miners from the Pennsylvania coal fields am around town to day distributing hand bills advertising the open air meetini! to lie held to night on the Borough Hal! stops by sympathizers of the striking coal miners. Addresses are to be made by Samuel Gompers.

C. F. Adams, Ernest Crosby antl ex Assemblyman Wright. A delegation of striking miners will be present and may be called on to speak. FIBEMAN HTJBT AND MAT DIE.

Patrick Quail, the tillrrman on Fire Truck No. 18, while on the way to a fire this morning was thrown from his seat by the hind wheel of the truck, striking the curb at Delancey and Attorney streets, Manhattan, and probably fatally hurt. When taken to Gouverneur Hospital Quail's skull was found to be fractured and his body is a mass of bruises. SIX CENTS FOR DR. MULRY.

Nominal Damages in His $25,000 Libel Suit Against the Eagle. Dr. Lawrence V. Mulry, now of Yonkers. but formerly of Brooklyn, received a verdict of 6 cents damages at White Plains yesterday.

The case had for two days been on trial before Justice Gnrretson. He had sued the Brooklyn Dally Eagle for $25,000 damages for alleged libel. Tho publication complained of was made on March 16 last. The testimony showed that In an article giving the riews ot Dr. Mulry's arrest ou a warrant obtained by Mrs.

Eliza Mulry, who accused him of perjury, these words were printed: "Dr. Mulry is well known In Brooklyn and Long Island. He has been active in litigation. In 1890 he married a second wife while his first wife, from whom he had not been divorced, was still living. Last year he was sued for illegally conveying property by a burlesque actress." W.

N. Dykman, who represented the Eagle, presented testimony showing that Dr. Mulry had been Interested as plaintiff or defendant in a number of suits and that he had been sued by a burlesque actress as charged. On the implication of bigamy the testimony showed that Dr. Mulry married his first wife, Celia, in 18S3 and was divorced from ber In 1830.

In 1885 he married Lucy Smell, as was shown by a certificate of marriage and by signed and sworn admissions by Dr. Mulry. In 1890, after divorcing his first wife, be remarried the second wife, who later secured a separation on his own admissions that he had slapped her face and benlen her with a brass rod. The testimony showed that the article of March 16 was legitimate news and that proper even unusual care had been taken in verifying all essential facts reflecting upon Dr. Mulry.

It was admitted that the date of tho alleged bigamous marriage was erroneous. Cornelius J. Earley and Thomas 3. O'Neill, plaintiff's counsel, made a determined effort to have the certificate of marriage and the Judgment rolls In Mulry's divorce and separation ieuits. ruled out.

but they were admitted by Justice Garretson. The Jury was out but a short' time when It returned with the verdlc; above noted. CANADA SETS WE. Steamship line Between Halifax an4 Liverpool With $1 1,000,000 Subsidy. Dominion Against Beciprocity.

Boston, October 11 Sir Frederick Borden, Canadian minister of militia, who is a visitor in this city, in an interview, to dey, made known the fact that the Canadian and British governments had decided to jointly establish a fast Atlantic steamship service between the Halifax, N. aud Liverpool ports, with an annual subsidy of $1,125,000 for ten years. Sir Frederick also Bald that Canada was net seeking reciprocity the United States because she was rapidly developing a large foreign In other The statement of the minister In regard to the proposed Canadian Transatlantic steamship service Intimated for the first time that real progress had been made In London In settlement of this question. It is practically decided, Sir Frederick said, to establish without delay a service beginning with 20 knot boats, to be accorded a subsidy of $750,000 per year from the Canadian government and $375,000 additional from the British government. He could not say yet whether the Canadian Pacific Railway or syndicate of steamship companies comprising the Allans, Elder Dempster and other lines would get the contract.

The steamers will make their terminus in winter, at least, at Halifax. The terminus in the United Kingdom will probably be Liverpool. The Initial 20 knot service, while not us fast as swiftest ships of lines running from New York, are the best for Canada under present circumstances and thla speed, said Sir Frederick, is not by any means the end of what It is intended to make the service. A new fleet of ships will be built and there will be frequent sailings. The Canadian minister said that the new service would be established at an early date.

With reference to reciprocity between Canada and the United States Sir Frederick said that a fair treaty would be advantageous to both countries, but that Canada had become a great competitor of the United States in many llns of the British tnarkot. In dairy products particularly she had made tremendous strides. When the old reciprocity treaty existed between the United States and the Dominion of Canada the trade of maritime provinces and ot a large part, of the other provinces was in the hands of a few merchants of New York and Boston. Now Canadian merchants export direct. At various times in the last twenty years Canadians have made advancements, declared Sir Frederick, in the matter ot reciprocal arrangements, but they met such cold receptions at Washington that they latterly have become convinced that the government there was not disposed to make a fair agreement, and Canada has, therefore, turned her attention elsewhere, with splendid results.

SPAT ON TBOLLEY CAB FLOOB. George H. Meyers, who says he Is a Pinkerton detective and lives at 145 Bergen street, Brooklyn, ivas this morning a prisoner in the Morrlsania court, charged by Inspector Tlerney of the Health Department with spitting on the floor of a West Farms car at One Hundred and Forty seventh Btreet a'nd Third avenue. Meyers admitted that he had done as charged and Magistrate Meade held him In $100 ball 'for the Court of Special Sessions. THIEVES STEAL FUBS.

Thieves last night broke into the fur storo of Edward J.1 Lineek at. 845 Broadway and tarried off $40 worth of. furs. Scotch W'fcUUy. Xli whloky of king and commonaro alike.

Ady; It May Be Hill's Speech, a Speech by Coler or the Presence of McLaughlin. AN AIR OF MYSTERY TO DAY. Senator Hill Arrives With a Gripsack Full of Manuscript, Ready for the Fray. To night's Democratic rally at the Academy of Music Is organized on a scale that promises to make it a very big evorg. Chairman John L.

Shea, who has supervised the arrangements, says that there will be a vast crowd in attendance and the best oratory the party can provide. District organizations have planned to attend in force. Mystery surrounds the important features of the rally. Something dramatic, which has not been referred to. is likely to happen.

Some of the Democratic managers say that the dramatic episode win be In the oration of David Bennett Hill, when ho tackles the coal barons. Others say that it will be in the appearance of Hugh McLaughlin In a stnge box. There arc a few people who think that these theories are wrong, and that the I sensation of the evening will be the unex pected entrance of Bird S. Color, candidate for governor, at the moment when enthusiasm Is at Its climax. Mr.

Coler was. In the beginning, announced to speak. It now appears that this announcement was premature, not having been approved by Mr. Hill. When Mr.

Hill got to town he fixed it so Mr. Coler would not. be notified of his nomination until next Tuesday. Then people began to say that Hill had muzzled the candidate. Mr.

Coler's friends got angry and said that he musr. speak. Among the rank and file, who have no information. It Is variously said that Mr. Coler will speak, that be will not speak and that he may aud he may not be there.

Mr. Shea, who is Mr. Coler's manager, said genially this morning that he hadn't heard anything about it and then hurried away. Whenever Hugh McLaughlin was asked to 6olve the mystery he looked grimly and speechlessly out of the window. Senator Mc Carren said, with apologies, that he didn't know.

James Shcvlln. replying to a question, remarked: "1 haven't asked Mr. Coler. How could I know?" Commissioner James Kane, who referred, to Mr. Coler as a "sawduster" at Saratoga last week, thinks the matter is not a mystery, but a Joke.

He does not think the candidate will appear. Mr. Hill came down from Albany this morning with a grip full ot manuscript. In addition to his own speech he had. it Is said, the proofs of the one which Is to be delivered by George Raines oE Rochester.

Mr. Raines was chairman of the State Convention that slaughtered Mr. Hill as well as Mr. Coler In 13i He was then affiliated with Mr. Hill's enemies.

They are very' jfood friends now, but Mr. Hill thinks it is Just si. well for 'him to mad Mr. Raines' epeech for typographical errors. Controller.

Edward. M. Grout Wilt preside at the meeting and his speech wfH bo. th Jlrst to bo delivered. Mr.

Hill asked Mr. I I. ha Aanll Uluifl in nunc, la 9aiu, date for Governor, but later Mr. Hill had to yield to the demand for Mr. Coler.

Mr. Grout's prominence In the first Coler rally Is considered a great, stroke of policy by Mr. McLaughlin. Cha'rman Shea and his associates are busy this afternoon amplifying the original list of vice presidents, which, being made up of volunteers, was altogether too small. When completed this list will be largely made up of names chosen outside the Wlll oughby street, organization, and will include Fusionists, Shcpardites.

Radicals, Single Taxt rs aud Kempnerltes. Mr. Coler's friends are saying to day that he is positively determined to make a stumping tour of the state before election. Mr. Hill, ll Is said, is equally determined to prevent him.

While the Albany man Is In Brooklyn this matter will be argued out. 3500,000,000 GBOCEB TBUST. All the Big Wholesale Houses Will Be Combined After Election. St. Louis, October 11 A combine to include every wholesaler of groceries in the United States, with united capital of over half a billion dollars, is well under way.

Already between thirty and forty of the leading wholesalers of the country have signified their willingness to form a combination, the details of which will be given out about November 5. George D. Hanford of New York City is engineering the deal. Already a large number of the leading wholesale grocers in the East have been seen by Mr. Hanford and nearly all have expressed themselves in (avOc of the plan.

An outline ot this plan, as expressed by an official, is as follows: "It is proposed to take over the business of the entire line of wholesale grocers in the United States. One great corporation will be formed, which will buy outright the buslnes and good will of all the firms. A central office for the accommodation of the officers of the company will be maintained, probably in Now York. "This central office for all of the leading grocery products will do the buying for all the houses In the corporation. It is expected that this will enable the company to buy In such large quantities as to greatly reduce the first cost of the goods." WOMAN DEAD AT AGE OF 132.

Colored Person Said She Was Born in 1770 and Investigators Believed Her. Chicago, October 11 A woman who, according to her own report, was living at the time of the Boston Tea Party and the meeting of the First Continental Congress, Is dead at the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People. If the reports of her age should be correct, she was the oldest person in Illinois, and nosslbly In the United States. I The woman was Ellen Stewart, a slave before the Civil War, three times married and mother ot four children, the last of whom i died several years ago of old age. According I to her story, she was born in 1770, and con i scquently was 132 years old.

The offlclala of the institution in which she died, after an investigation as thorough as could be made, credited her statement. TWO KILLED IN TBAIN WBECK. Terre Haute, October 11 An eaBt bound Big Four freight train ran into the rear ot another freight train in the center of the Wabash River bridge here, last night. Two men were killed and six seriously Injured. The rear train was running at a high rate of snood when it struck the rear end of a slow train.

Both train crews claimed to have the right of way. HABBOB FOG BOUND. A thick fog hung over the upper, bay and both rivers all ttits morning, impeding ferry boats and other craft about the harbor. Thw various tow'lhg companies only undertook to do such transfer work as was absolutely imperative, and, all craft were compelled to work their ways, around the harbor with ut" most caution to avoid danger q( Refuses to Talk of Conference, Saying Interests of All Will Be Subserved by Remaining Silent. AID OF FEDERATION House of a Deputy Dynamited and Girl Injured Bevolvers Discharged at Quarters of Soldiers.

Wiikesbarre, October 11 President Mitchell arrived at strike headquarters from New York shortly before 10 o'clock this morning. He was immediately taken in hand by interviewers, but he steadfastly declined to talk of his New York trip for publication. In answer to a question why he should maintain such extreme reticence regarding his visit, he said: "I think the best interests of the operators, the miners and the public will be subserved by my remaining silent." Mr Mitchell's attention was called to the letter of Vice President Willcox of the Delaware and Hudson Company to President Roosevelt, in which he maintains that the miners' union is an illegal organization. The strike leader hesitated to say anything for a moment, and then replied: "The miners' union is organized along the same lines as all labor unions In the country. If the miners' organization is illegal, so are all the others, and I say our union is not illegal." This is the extent of Mr.

Mitchell's talk to the press representatives this morning. All efforts to draw him out on any ether question was a failure. Mr. Mitchell had an engagement in Boston to morrow, bat he was compelled to day to cancel It owing to a pressure of business here. There was a rumor that President Mitchell would go to Washington, but he denied It.

The leaders of the strike are now looking to the American Federation of Labor to help them In their fight. The federation has a membership of nearly 2.000.000 and Its purpose is to assist organized labor generally. The miners' union is the strongest trade in that organization, and they now feel that the federation should come out and take an open, active interest in the struggle. There is a report here that this will be done in the form of an appeal for assistance to all the labr organizations in the country. House of a Deputy Dynamited.

Pottsville, October 11 The house of Albert Dry, a Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron deputy, near Mlnersvllle, was dynamited about midnight and his daughter was injured. A neighbor named Dltzel and two others are held under suspicion. Bocks and Bullets for Soldiers. Mount Carmel, October 11 Early this morning persons on a hill close to the Sixteenth Regiment encampment began hurling rocks and discharging revolvers at the of Doers' quarters. After a Half dozen bullets fell into the camp Lieutenant Colonel Rick ards and forty line and staff officers who had been apprised that an'attack was to be made on the camp, left their quarters and ran In the direction the firing came from.

The officers shot several times ahead of them, but at daybreak no signs of the soldiers' assailants were found. REPEAL DUTY ON COAL MOODY. Secretary of Navy Says It Was Smuggled Into the Tariff in a Cowardly Manner. Madison, October 11 Secretary of the Na.vy Moody, addressing a great Republican concourse here last evening, declared that the duty of 67 cents a ton on anthracite coal "was smuggled Into the tariff act in a sneaking and cowardly manner," arid ought to be repealed at the short session of Con gress. He declared that the President could not constitutionally send troops Into the coal regions without a call from the Pennsylvania i authorities, nor could he neize anthracite lands by the exercise of eminent domain.

"And if he could," continued Mr. Moody, "I should, for one, resist the latter action to the utmost, for I have seen far too much of the extravagance of government owner ship to want more of it. Its printing costs i the government twice or thrice what private concerns would pay for it, and the 17.000 men in the navy yards get 70 per cent, more per hour than those In the Cramp yards, this being due to numerous holidays, short hours, etc. "The people appealed in vain to the coal operators to co operate with miners in efforts to bring an end to the strike. Now when these operators appeal to Congress not to take off the duty of 67 cents on anthracite coal their appeals likewise will be rejected.

Let them have their pound of flesh, but they must take it without one ounce of blood. "The fathers ot our country guarded the power of the President with arrl to the Army by inserting in the Constu. "'on the proviso that no money can be takej, from the treasury without the consent of Congress. Until the Legislature of Pennsylvania shall call, upon the President for troops he has not the powefr to act. Why does not Congress seize th mines? It has not the power.

Nothing can be seized under the right of eminent domain except for the use of the people. "Then, in spite of the unconstitutionality of this method, the Democratic Btate convention of the State of New York indorsed such a move, as did also the Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin recently." MONTANA AIDS THE MINERS. Butte, October 11 The various labor bodies of Butte have raised over $3,000 for the benefit of the striking coal miners of the Pennsylvania anthracite fields. Under the auspices of the miners' and smelters' unions it is proposed to give a ball, at which it is expected every union man In Butte and vicinity will attend or buy a ticket. There are about 8,000 miners and smelter men in Butte alone, and is expected to raise about $10,000 lor the Penn sylvanians.

25 CABS OF COAL. Harrisburg. October 11 Twenty five cars of anthracite coal mined and broken this week at the colliery of the Lykens Valley Coal Company were shipped from Lykens yesterday. There were no demonstrations as the cars were started for Harrisburg on their way to Philadelphia. The breakers at Lykens and Willlamstown are being operated without interference.

WANTS 840,000 DAMAGES. A libel filed this morning in the United States District Court by P. Sanford, owner the vessel Ross, against the steam o' Birmingham, for $40,000. The plaint charges that his ship, while lying at anchor the Savannah River, was run Tnto by the City of Birmingham and seriously damaged. Outline of the Administration's Plans for Dealing With the CoaS Situation.

UNPLANNED POLITICAL RESULTS National Party Leaders Not Seeking to Gain Advantage. From the Crisis, Yet Changes May Come. (Correspondence of the Eagle.) Washington. October 10, 1002 There will be no extra session of the present Congress, for these reasons: From now to election, November 1, less than 24 days, every Congressman will lie busy in the campaign. From election regular session of the expiring Congress, the first Monday in December, which happens to be the first day of the month, will be only 27 days.

Thus in less than 01 daj's the regular session will besin. Presidents give at least tiO days" notice of an extra session. Delegates from the Sandwich Islands and Alaska have a right to lime enough to get here, a right as well based as that of members whom railroads could bring to the capital in a few hours. An extra session of the Congress must be counted out of the factors with which to deal with the strike. It does not follow that the Congress in regular session will not be equipped with facts bearing on the strike.

Facts are being accumulated, every day. They are not, however, set in a form which the Congress can officially accept or with which it can officially deal. It. will undoubtedly investigate for itself. But, on the other hand, the President will have to deal with the facts, to present them to the Congress in his message, "communicating the conditions of the country, with recommendations on the same." According, ifcanbe positively expected that the President will get the facts in official form for statement to the Congress in his message.

A President obtains facts by agents of his own designation. This President has obtained some facts through Carroll D. Wright, the head of the Labor Bureau. They have yet to be put in official form. Other matters, not yet obtained or set forth in the form of facts, are Important.

President to Appoint a Strike Commission. President Roosevelt asked John Mitchell to advise the miners to go to work, on the promise of an examination by a commission whose recommendations the President would labor to have carried out. The request of the President wan declined by John Mitchell, who said that the operators had already refused to abide by an arbitration proposed by him to be made by any commission the President might appoint. Mr. Mitchell added that as the Presldentojuli.Jioi,j3liid.

thfi ipor3 tnrsi, the miners could. hot be: expected to go to work without conditions to which the other parties in interest would not agree. This separated the commission idea from John' Mitchell, but the idea itself remained. No doubt, is entertained here that the President will appoint a commission for his own information and that of the. Congress.

Its appointment may be expected at any hour. The facts it will have to establish will relate to subjects still in dispute, such as: The actual number of miners at work; the actual number out of work; the truth or falsity of the statement that miners, and, if so, how many, are kept from going to work by organized terrorism and of the counter statement that the miners as a body voluntarily abstain from mining, and will, pending Iho recognition of the union; the truth or falsity of the murders, that is, whether strikers committed them or the Coal and Iron police, and how many have really occurred. The strikers are stigmatized as outlaws and also are characterized as law abiding men as a rule. The Coal and Iron police are declared to be upright and resolute men and are also declared to be criminal scum and discharged or pardoned convicts, ready for any employment, so low a lot that they regard even miners as aristocrats on whom they will war, if paid by operators, who are regarded by them as merely other aristocrats. The murders are, on the one hand, put at twenty and are all laid to strikers.

On the other hand, they are as stoutly put at only seven and four of them are laid to the Coal and Iron police the three others being laid to outlaws, not strikers. Conflicting Evidence in the Hands of the President. There is just as much evidence before the President to substantiate one set of statements as another. In point' of fact, there is ho evidence, only assertions. Men here, like newspaper readers at home, believe these assertions according to their preferences or prejudices, or to the vehemence with which they are made.

The same estate of affirmation and contradiction exists concerning the reports about the amounts of coal now actually mined, with this difference: No evidence can be obtained as to where the coal, now claimed to be mined, is forwarded. It is known not to be forwarded to the Bast. The West is spoken of, but the President's advices are that the West does not know anything about that coal. These are among the unsettled matters. They represent some of the subjects to be reported on by a commission of inquiry to the President for himself and through him for Congress and the country.

Hence, a commission, by whose recommendations neither the miners nor the operators in advance will agree to be bound, bo named by the President to report and recommend to him. Carroll D. Wright for Chairman of the Commission. That Carroll D. Wright will be the head of that commission may be taken for granted.

Every one has confidence in him. A New Yorker and a Pennsylvanian are suggested for the two others, a Democrat and a Republican, business men preferred, unless a man of pre eminent distinction, commanding the homage of the whole country, regardless of politics, could be secured, which Is not thought likely. It would be improper to tell who are being canvassed or approached for this duty. The commission, when announced, should be protected from the comparison of Its members with others under tentative consideration and those others should be protected from comparison with the commission. There is no need to enlarge on the fact that such a commission would have no power.

was a stranger burled there through mistake? This question is agitating the minds of tho many friends of Paul Bartels. who formerly kept a bicycle store in Mineola. He went South last winter and worked in Baltimore. One day word was received here that he had been fatally injured by a dummy engine. Bartels was taken to a hospital, where be died In a few hours after his accident.

His body was shipped to this place, conslgped to C. E. Cornell, an undertaker, and his parents identified the remains as those of their son. His young wife was also positive that it was her husband's body. The principal feature of the identification was the fact that Bartels had three fingers ot his right hand missing and this was found to be the same with the body in charge or Mr.

uorncu. 'v i. i that vri natrtwin a young man formerly employed by Bartels in door was opened, and they were his bicycle shop, met Bartels In Philadelphia Accor.llcg to. the stories; told to the police, last week and conversed with him. Upon Lynch and his sen promptly went to he rear his return Baldwin related to many of his room and round seated at a table with friends the story of his meeting with the i several trienas et.gaSed in a card gam man who was supposed to be dead and burled.

Just the man I am looking for. The parents of the deceased say that no mis Lynch alleged to have said as he ad take was made In the identification and that vanccc anl Morse. Before he had reached it was the body of their son which was ship 1 the cel. i of the room Morse had jumped to Ded from Baltimore 's feet aud was mak.ng toward the two men. An Eagle reporter called on C.

E. Cornell, Stories dillcr as to what folio ed, but the the undertaker who prepared the body for PHce learned subsequently from the wound hnrlat When asked for a statement he sa "I don't think that any mistake was made, although I never knew young Bartels in life, but the identification was complete and both his parents and his wife were satisfied. Mr. Bartels wanted to go to Baltimore to Identify the body and return with it, but I told him it was a needless expense and that I did not know his son, so I had the body shipped by the hospital authorities direct to me at Hempstead and prepared It for burial. The head ot the corpse was swathed In bandages, but I removed these, and the features were not maimed or disfigured, so there would be no difficulty in identifying the body.

The funeral took place last April and I feel satisfied that there was no mistake." DR. CANFIELD ACCEPTS. Will Go to Worcester From the Church of Our Father on. Grand Avenue. The Rev.

Dr. A. J. Canfleld, pastor of the Church ot Our Father, Grand avenue and Lefferts place, has decided to accept the call to All Souls' Worcester. He sent word to this effect to the people there last night, after he had resigned his pastorate here.

Dr. Canfleld will assume his new charge as soon as he can be properly released here, as the people do not want him to be in any hurry. Dr. Canfleld at first declined the call to Worcester, this fact having been announced in the Eagle, with his reasons. A committee of six men from the Worcester parish visited Dr.

Canfleld early in the week and labored with him a long time to induce him to change his determination. Extra inducements were offered and Dr. Canfleld told the committee that he would give them his decision on Friday. This be did last night by writing his acceptance and resigning his charge here. Dr.

Canfleld feels that he can now carrv out his deBlre to retire from the strenuous work of a lareo city parish, and be near his country home at Warren, Mass. 2TO MANDAMUS FOB THIS COP. Justice Cochrane has handed down a decision denying the application of Edward T. Burns for a writ of mandamus to compel tho Police Commissioner to rank him as a detective sergeant. Burns was promoted by Commissioner Murphy, but wsb reduced by Commissioner Partridge.

Justice Cochrane holds that the law under which the former Commissioner acted is unconstitutional. Assistant Corporation Counsel Walter S. Brewster represented the city In the suit. The of Autumn anil thp multi colored Day Line trips better than ever. Adv.

two parties to It. The operators are here regarded as men who are leaving public opinion, public rights, public needs and public suffering out of the account, and who are ignoring mat ters which here give grave cause for oven i the direst apprehension. The view may be wrong. Not to say that it is prevalent, would be to falsify the situation. The bearing of the operators to the President is declared by his advisers to hav" ca ried disrespect to insolence.

Neither he minis advisers affect, to think that he feared, fawned on o. flattered. Pip in democratic docney. rlrfc cnc" eourtici ship, Hi it all accounts, was wanting. If the bbct was dthur to arouse Un Continued on Page 3..