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Watchman Warder (1899), 6 Nov 1902, p. 8

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RIM gmcuunom - ‘ I’M SAID IN“ FEW WORDS ggrphere was more 1'31 last winter than Winter 1 ever ‘.saw seen thousands 01 Stephen Shea. 5‘1}; would be dry goods “Out in the country it would no better if the schools were kept op- en mos-t of the summer and closed in the very severe weather of winter.” said Trustee John Cure rins of Islay; "It is getting to be a. hard matter 51 to get a well-cured piece of pork'o': said Mr. Albert Jewett. “If you get a. piece with fat and lean mixâ€" worth cooking. All the good pork seems to be going out of the country.” ' . looked for some real old Virginia. tobacco when I was south,” said Mr. T. C. Matchett, “but what I could get was vex? ordinary, for it seems that all their best goods are for export just like our best butter, bee! and pork. It seems that no odds where you live the best products are sent away for somebody else to eat." , saw four double headers, that i eight engines, take water at the station in 25 minutes on Sunday recently," said Mr. Thos. Brady. Mr. O. Bigelow : “The law should not allow any person to have more than $500,000.” 5‘People who Will not train their children make a great fuss when they are taught their mistake in the police court and pay dearly for it," said Mr. Baht. Nugent, Port Arthur, Nov. 5.â€"IL Hanna, formerly a business man of this place, Was killed in the Schreiber yards Monday, while coupling a. box car and the steam shovel car The Eong draw-head on the steam shOVel dipped, and Hanna’s head was aught between the platform of the hovel and the box can. Death Was ~stanta.1wo.usly. ‘There is a way of paving Kent-st that I have not seen menticned,” said Mr. Hugh Blaary. "Put a. _ ' asphalt, or some first-class paving, down the centre, and build from each side of that to the gutters with ordin- ary macadam. Then pass a by- law requiring all drays and heavy rigs to keep on the macadam,and let the light driving be done on the; centre strip." ‘The old soldier. Britten, got ahead of me pretty well,” said Sergt- Maior Martin.” He - told a Lumber is g0] es,” said M at Victoria. Ir. A. Campbell : “One of my horses Ir. ‘1 ‘Forty-eight years ago today, will. go up and smell a. locomoâ€" tive. but these gongs scare him so- that he would run away." Douglass of Smith’s i’alls : “Your .town seems like a. business place, but your streets are very bad, and your lightsâ€"well you have none. . Those posts make me think I am -in a. village. We have a. fine all-night electric ser- vice at the Falls. Rival com- panies there helped us to get a. good rate." . do not think there will be any spirited Referendum campaign in this county,” said Dr. Herriman. “The time is too short; and any- way people are Largely indifferent: The preachers are willing that people shall dies in their sins,the press thinks whiskey is a. good thing to take, and the politicians â€"oh my, they won’t touch the temperance question for fear of consequences.” I, said Sergtâ€"Major Martin, yesterday, “I was lying on the field of In- kerman with a. bullet in my leg and a. bayonet wound in the cheek ” am'very much pleased with this town and the country around it," said Mr. Chas. Milne of Dawson City. “When on my way across the continent 14- years ago. I saw! Ontario from the train but had no idea it had such farms as I saw in a. short drive out of this town yesterday.” hief Nevison : “I know there is a. bylaw against letting people have the council chamber for concerts. but the Orangemen got it for Wednesday night, by a. sort of mutual agreement." I have just come‘down from '{aren Lake ” said Mr. Geo. Jordan yesâ€" terday. “Some buildings are .;|-. others are under way and the nat- ural dam is being blasted out of the channel. Everything is going. well, and there is a. good demand for stock." ~VV‘ . Would be a. geod thing,” said a. dry gOods clerk. “if townspeople would not leave their shopping till Saturday afternoon. Often when the store is full of country people with money in their hands, Wait- ing to buy goods. grou shoppers take up the clerk’s time ' without buy- ing, We don't mind showing peo- ple goods without making Sales, but if these people woum make their inspection trips on some other day but Saturday, we would be much obliged. about my life to say (11.; But he was a 51" He got $69 and an Eng from me. ,I think the idea of building good streets by raising a large sum of money and spreadmg it. over a right Ste ‘ublished Every Head Wu Criminal. going up to reuuxu Mayor Ingle- “1 ria Harbor on Tm $27 a. thousand for a short. time ago 1.” He told a and must know all fe to say what hé was a. gv-mt fraud. 1 an English Watch in of them. ding it over .rs is the right , Higinbotham. ry it would be Thursday to record Pric’ ngle. “1 was \r on Tuesday a, vear 1 813.3 and I age other haYt lum- saic lTHEMINERS’DEMANDS Reitentes in Tom Language tho Do- mands Made at tho- Shunokln Con- vention â€" Operator! W111 Amer in Three or Four Dhytâ€"Ask For Higher Wage: and Short- er Hours With Reasons. uuw-~v- , __ ment of the anthxacite mine workers' case, which was filed .With the strike 7~ ”7.4. _ “In support of this demand In wbmit the following TWO”:â€" Read Gough’s advertisement Statement Filed With the Mine Strike Commission. \V ulku Vuv ww--â€" --w_ ___, “First. an increase of 20 per cent. upon the prices paid during the year 1901 to employes performing con- tract or piece work. " A-A-._b v- v- VV of the following reasons:â€" “(1) The present rate of wages is much lower than the rate of wages paid in the bituminous c0al fields for substantially similar work. “(2) The present rate of wages is lower than is paid in other occupa- tions requiring’equal skill and train- mg. "(3) The average annual earnings in the anthracite coal field are much less than the average annual enm- ings in the bituminous coal fields for substantially similar Work. “(4) The average annual earnings in the anthracite coal fields are mixh less than the average annual earnings for occupations requiring equal skill and training. 77 '_ AL- __ BY REPRESENTATIVE MITCHELL. “Fourth, the incorporation in an agreement between the United Mine Workers of America and the anthra- zise coal companies of the wages which shall be paid and the condi- tions of employment which shall ob- tain, together with satisfactory me- tho'ds for the. q'diuannent of criov. antes wmon may urns trom time to time, to the end that strikes and lock-outs may be mnemsary. Luv“ rvvâ€" ‘ “(8) The Wages of anthracite mine .vorkers are so low that their chil- dren are prematurely forced into the breakers and mills, instead of being ~upported and educated upon the earnings of their parents. Ubnfvâ€"‘-v .icw of the dangerous character of the occupation in relation to acciâ€" ”Hits, the ‘ liability to serious aind permanent disease, the high death rate. and the short average life inci- dencAto this employment. (6) The annual earnings of the mine workers are insufficient to main- win the American standard of liv- v.1“... â€"â€"-â€".. “____ fl 7 w “(5) 'The rate of wagu in the u:- vhracite coal fields is insumcient to o'npensate the mine _workers in "The second demand is similar to he fust, in that it is designed to ncrease the hourly rate of wages of mine workers employed by the hour, day or week, and all the rea30ns ap- plicable to the first demand are ask- ed to be applied to the second with repetition. "(72 The increased cost of living has made it impossible to maintain a. "air standard of life upon the basis ;=i present wages. an'd has not only yrevented the mine workers from se- curing any benefit from increased prosperity, but has made their con- :ition poorer on account of it. .“In addition thereto we submit the following:â€" “(11) Shorter hours improve- the physical, mental and moral condi- ticn: of the workers. “(12) Shorter hours increase the in- tensity and efliciency of labor. “(13) The tendenCy of national and State go ernment of organized trade and of production generally is toward shorter hours. “(3) The excessive ton was origi- nally intended to compensate the op- erator for the weight of the small sizes of coal which were then dis- c,arded but which are now utilized and sold, and therefore there is no present nemity for, the use of any other than the legal ton. “(5) The change of the present. system to the one asked for would prove a, .strong {aetor in allaying suspicion and discontent among the mine workers. V7“{9)”Wa:ges are Below the fair and ‘ust earnings of mine workers in this industry. ' “(4) The adoption of this 8318 would remove an incentive, ‘both. t, the operator and the wor' er, to cheating and dishonesty. and would allay jealouSy among't“e miners and prevent unjust discrimination and favoritism. “Third, the adoption of a system by which coal shall be weighe’d and paid for by weight wherever practic- able; the minimum rate per ton to be sixty cents for a. legal ton of 2,- 240 pounds, the diflercntials now ex. isting at .the various mines to be maintained. “(10)'The ten-hour day is 'detri- mental to the health. life, safety and wellâ€"being of the mine workers. “(14) A working day of eight hours is sufficiently long for the best interests of the workingmen and of the community. “(1) Measurement by the legal tou wherever pragticable is the only honest and just system of measuring the earnings of mine workers “(2) When the operators sell or transport coal it is on the basis of a legalfionéot 2,240 - poqnds. This demand is made on account of the following reasons: “Second, a. redmtion of 20 per ent. in hours of labor, without any ‘rduction of earnings, for all emâ€" loycs paid by the hour, 'day or week. Hazelton, Pa.., Nov. “(1) The unthragite mine workers .â€"The state- ! can It is said that. Emma: I Haywood, striking him on I :epeate'dly with a. revolver. *hree severe wounds. Premature Explosion o! m lire- worh in New fork City. New York, Nov. 5.â€"By a series of explosions of pyroteChnic bomboand other fireworks last night, among the Vast multitude gathered In Hadl- son Square to witness the ascension of an airship. and the display of the election returns eleven were filled outright, many being blown almost to pieces. and at least fifty injured. many of them fatally. It is estimated that at least 80,- 000 persons throngo'd the Square at the time of the explosions which were succeeded by a {rightful panic, in which hundred were throw down and trampled un'da foot. wa- Figures from the congressional 'diaâ€" tricts in the State game the dongs.- tion as 20.Rmanicans to 17 Demo- crats. The present state is 22 Re- publican! to 12 Democrats. The Demomts made gains in the State legislature, but the gains were not suflicient to endanger the Republican hold on the seat in the United States Senate now held by Thomas C. Flatt. God 8““ Republican. Philadelphia, Nov. {Srâ€"Estimates from more than half of the counties in Pennsylvania outside of Philadel- phia and Allegheny Counties shows gains (or the Democratic State tic- ket. These gains are offset, however. by heavy Republican gains in Phila- delphia and Pittsburg. ~The returns indicate a Republican plurality in the State of from 150,000 t'o 200,- 000, of which Philadelphia contri- butes over 100.000. and Plttsburg from 80,000 to 40,000. The Repub- lican loss in the anthracite coal re- gion was not as heavy as anticipatâ€" ed. Incomplete returns from the representative districts of Pennsyl- vania indicate that the Republicans willha'o an increased majority in the Senate and House of Retire-enta- tives. m. m. men. vow m uncoun- uy district: was lighter than two years ago, but Coler’l was .130 low- er than Stanchfield’s in the name year. ed. Two witnesses only were called. Henry Ladd swore that Edward Jar- \is of Waterford gave him a. railway ticket from Brantfond to Waterford and return to vote. Edward Jarvis admitted this, and also that he gave tickets to {our other voters. North. Norfolk'a Simcoe, Nov. 5.â€"\ttor a. trial last- ing only five minutes yesterday. Dr. F. S. Snider, Conservative member- elect for Nomi: Norfolk, was unseat- Five hundred policemen and all the ambulances in the city were summon- ed, and the dying and those most seriously Injured were removed to the hospitals. In addition to these many of the wounded were taken awayby friends. Nine men in charge of the fireworks display were pieced under arrest immediately after the explosion. The agency was admitted by Wal- ter Cassels, K.C., for Dr. Snider. As the five charge. proved had reduced the majority to eighteen, and as, after a careful analysis of the other charges, he could not hope to Mafia the court hold that the sewing clause would apply, he suggate'd that it would be in the interests of all par- ties that the seat be-vacated. ' Mr. W. R. Riddell, K. C., for the petitioner, accepted the suggestion. and the seat; was declared vacant. tached. Denver, Colo., Nov. 5.â€"â€"Wm. D. Haywood. secretaryâ€"treasurer of the Western Federation of Hinem'. and a candidate for State Senator on the Socialist ticket, shot James Bramâ€" or, a. epecial goliceman, here last night. Haywood fired two shots, one taking. effect in his face and the other in the arm. Bramer will recov- 4 RC. Pilgrims on March Seek Shelter In Bush at Stoney Creek. Fort Warren. Nov. 5. â€"â€" Although the Doukhobors have said there would be no winter V-hite they were on their life-long journey, snow fell hoaVily Monday night. The pilgrims' condition is now said to be pitiful. "i he main body. some 450. are bud- dled in a. willow scrub at the bottom of Stoney Creek. Fires have been lighted. Dry oatmeal is the staple article of diet with the pilgrims. Monday they had their mid-day meal at. Binscarth. The donations of food made by citizens were distributed by several men. The whole concourse stood reverently barchcaded and bowed while a prayer was recited and a. short chant sung. A few carried prairie roses. They were passed around and partakcn of by all: W. HAVELE. JAMES MW. The Victoria loan and Savings Co. Authorized cum: - - $30,030.» ELEV” KILLEDâ€"II”! mmm. ll rd “Ice, t I) Al‘owed on Deposits 2 ' ° comprum'ed ha't‘yeu ; withdmwxble any day DOUKHOBORS IN 5N0‘VS‘I‘OReL Socuust Shot a Policeman. omoefiours 9a. m. to ’ 4.30 p. m. Elect. In Now Out. Paid on Debenture. Half. ywly intercsw Coupons at- was”! . LINDSAY attacked the head inflicting lamb.» REPUBLICAN VICTORY the electiom held yesterday in forty- two sum the Republican control of the House of Representatives is aa- sured. The National Senate was not in any doubt, as there are few vo- cant seats this year. The majority in n... u-..“ will probably be sixteen. THE RESULT IN NEW YORK STATE WashingtOn, Nov. 5.â€"At midnight last night Chairman Grigsi made; statement claiming the House would be Democratic {tom 10 to 12 votes. He added to his speciacntions of gains three in California. one m Win- consin, tWO in mchxgw. and two in 199 Republicans, 150 Democrats. 7 Populistl, with one Vacant out. giv-' ing the Republicans a. majority or 41 over all. New York. Nov. 5.â€"At midnight. .--. -;-u.. flimsy-man Bannock of the New York. Nov. 5.â€"At mamgnt last night Chairman Babeock o! the Republican Wind Committee sent the following telegrem to Sen- ator Hana. Chairman of the Ne tionaa Republican CemmIttee :â€""Re- turns coming In slowly. Very nu.- tactory outside New York City. Think u: estimate of 204 Republican members in sale. Heve elected (our Washington, Nov. 6:1: 3.30 gun. the rpmrns waived here indie.” tho Republicans'hn elected 196 Repro- sentativu to the next Home. the “amounts 176, and Independent. 8 W Odd! lulu. New York, Nov. 5.â€"In 1|le of n phenomenally large vote in New York; and King's County for Bird 8. Col- or, Democrat, the returns up to a. late hour last night. indicated the re- election of Benjamin B. Odell. Ro- publican, to the govu-norahlp of New York State. by from 6.000 to 9.000. (“olvr'a plurality \in Grater New York exceeded 15,000, a surplus of 3,000 above the claim nude by Charles F. Ila-phy. leader of Tun- lâ€"x-any Hall. 33th. even that [one vote Was not. sufficient to ova-coma the, Republican papritieu ((9111 up should not be compelled to make or sign individual agreements. but should have the right to form such organization, and choose such agents and officers as they desire to wet col- lectively instead of individually whim they deem tho? their best interests on outlawed thereby. "(2) Agreements between employer: and employes through Workingmufn organizations are the ordinary meth- od of regulating production and wag- a in the bituminous coal fields and in “ther large industrials. and am btnelicial, successful and in keeping with the spirit of the times. “(3) Unions 0! workingmen tend to the better discipline of the men and to the improvement of their physical, moral and mental cohfition and to the preservation of friendly relations between employer and employe. poet. from evidence in their hmda, that. Mr. Maser: has been involved in newly all tho can. refer-ed to. bo- cause the circumstances in each ha. been similar. Hr. Mason. who u 5 middle aged ma. ha ban 3 vial. ot menu] trouble for which no cu treated a the New ' lulu st Waverly. He has been out o! m b- intimation . year. - 03000 In: 0 '3! Created. Strathroy. Nov. 5.-â€"Dona!d Rom son of Farnia. fireman on the Grand Trunk. had his lr-g: (rushed here ya- terdm'. while a'fiusting the ntfi :11: :0 of watt-r tank rm under dill "(4) Experience shows that the trade agreement is the only eflective method by which it is possible to regulate questions arising between employers and employee in large in- dustries, and that a. trade .greemcnt is the only possible way to establish the relations between employers and the wage earners in the anthracite fields on a. just and permanent basis. and. as far as possible. to do away wizh any causes {or the recurrence of such dizllculties as those you (the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission) have been called in to settle. “Respectfully submitted. ~ "(Sign-:d) John Mitchell. "Representative 0! the Anthracite Mine Workers." The Commission Working 83rd. Although yesterday was election day the Anthracite Strike Commie. sioners continued their investigations so that they can finish their tour of the mining region as soon as posv sihle. The commission left here dur- ing the morning for Shamokin. where John Fahey, President of the United Mine Workers of the 9th District. will board the special train and accom- pany the arbitrators through that territory. The day will be spent in visiting the mines in and about Shsmo‘iin. Prominent Plano mmw 3mm of luv larder-on. Assaults. Boston, ”385., Nov. 5,â€"Owing to the murderous ausnult cases which have occurred in Cambridge, Brook- line and Somervillc within the past few months. two of which have ' r1» sul ed funny. the state police yes- terday arratod Alan G. Mason 01 Boston. a well-known and wealthy business man, member 0! the piano manufacturing firm of Mason a; nun- un. . [ruminant club man all a W grudugto. The police In.- ALAN G. 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