Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1904 — Page 1

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RESENTS INTERFERENCE And Asserts He Will Continue to Live with His Five Wives and Many Children. WASHINGTON, March 5.-Admlss ions drawn from Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon Church, respecting his continued violation of the law forbidding polygamous relations with women, again constituted the features of the proceedings to-day before the Senate committee of privileges and elections against Reed Smoot, of Utah. The witness, angered by the persistent efforts of some members of the committee to obtain fron him every detail of his remission in obeying the law, turned on Congress and charged that body with J A. M A I A. s 1 1 1 lureriermg wunoui aumoruy in ins pn- t vate domestic affairs, and usurping the powers of the I'tah courts, which alone, he said, possessed the right to hold him to account for his conduct. Whjle the witness had been taken in hand by the defense for the purpose of cross-examination, the members of the committee in reality consumed the greater portion of the time, and matters were brought out along the line followed by the prosecution in the three first days of the hearing. The homing will be continued at 10:) Monday morning. When President Smith took the stand thi Morning Attorney Worthington asked him if he had any statistics showing the i proportion of polygumists in the Mormon population. Mr. Smith said his recollection is that when the Utah commission was Created In 1SW and undertook to administer the laws of th? Territory 12.000 polygnmists were excluded from voting. As the women vote in Utah, he said, and as it requires two women to one man to form polygamy In the State, probably the number of males excluded as poiygamista would not be more than 4.ULM. Senator Dubois exercised a right to question th- witness at this point and said the population then was about 220.000 and of that number there were about Co.uOU gentiles. He wanted excluded from consideration the number not in condition to enter a state of polygamy. He said President Smith's statement of the percentage of polygamy included suckling babe and children, and that he objected to having Mr. Smith's statement before the country unchallenged. MORMON STATISTICS. After a further statement of the number of polygamist families in Utah, Mr. Smith read from an interview he gave to a representative of the Associated Press in 1Ü02 showing the following: "In 1890, at the time cf the hte President Wiiford Woodruffs manifesto, there were i.l.'d such families. Ja October, 1890. it whs found that this number had been reduced as follows: By death, 750; by removals beyoud the confines of the Republic, t3; by divorce, 95; leaviug at that time 1,543. It is now ascertained that the original number has been reduced by 1,554 r 63 per cent., leaving ouly S9T still living and that the great majority of them are of advanced age." Senator Dubois asked if any United States officials now took statistics on polygamy, and the witness replied in the negative. "Then." said Senator Dubois, "these ligures are only church statistics." Mr. W'orthington asked regarding Mr. Smith's son, Hiram Smith, and was told that he is thirty-two years old and has a wife and children, but is not a polygamist. He is one of the twelve apostles. The first counselor now Is John R. Winder. He and his fellow-counselor and two apostles have been appointed since Mr. Smith became president. He said he could not say wh- thKr these men are maiutainins; marital relations with more than one wife, but that "they are reputed to be the husband of more than one wife." Iu regard to John Henry Smith, a cousin, Mr. Smith said their I tmiltes aie intimate and "I am strongly inclined to believe he is living with plural wives.'' Referring to Senator Bailey's questions yesterday in regard to the manifesto, Mr. Worthington read from a sermon of President Woodruff delivered a year after the manifesto against plural marriages, in which President Woodruff declared that he was moved and 1".(W0 Latter-day Saints were moved by the spirit of God to abandon the practice of plural marriages. Senator Bailey contended that it was in obedience to the demands of the law or fear of the consequences of the law that proved the revelation. Continuing he said: "For my part I don't have much faith in a d-ctrine that doesn t get a revelation commanding a change of conduct until there Is a statute compelling it." "All that, of course, is a matter of opinion." said Senator Foraker. "I don't think it Is a matter of opinion, either." said Senator Bailey. "1 myself have bee i. e. impelled to submit to certain rules lust because it was the law. and vicious law. at that. Just how far I would have submitted if 1 had received a revelation from Ood to do something else. I am not repared to say. I think the whole thing ras more a matter of law than of revelation." A SERIOUS QUESTION. "When the laws were passed which were not in harmony with tho teachings of our church." said Mr. Smith, "we held that they were unconstitutional. Of course, our own rules commanded that we obey the Constitution of the land, but we fought the validity of the new Jaws from the lowest to the highest court, and when it was settled by the Supreme Court of the United States that plural marriages could no longer be indulged in, of course, we were inclined to obey. Brit we had a revelation on our own statute books in regard to plural marriages, and It was not necessary to obey in OTOSff to obtain certain hi- ssinsrs that couldn't be received without obeying tU Wh-tner we should oby the law of the land or continue to practice the law of the ch n h was a serious question. "We hold that the president if the church Is entitled to ree.-lve revelations inspired by the almighty Ood. President Woodruff nought guidance from the Lord and the Lord made it manifest to him thai it was bis duty to stop plural marriages. He proclaimed that revelation and it was submitted to the entire church and accepted by the entire churvh. and thus became bu fling, and fron th;i! day to this the law Of the land has been kept so far as plural marriages are concerned. Hut there Is a great difference between taking a plural wife cop.-ary t" law. and in taking care Of the wives tu ken ! ;-ire it was a violation Of the law. I wouldn't desert my wt.- 1 would not abandon my children. I will run my risks before the law." President Smith's roles shook with emotion. He showed Iuor. f.eimg than he had at any previous time exhibited as he leaned forward and said: "Hut it is to the laws nf Utah that I am answerable; it is the laws of my State that has the right to punish me. The courts of Utah are o: compefVnt Jurisdiction. Congress has no business to PKltrferi with my prH.ite affair.!. If the courts of my State do not see lit to call me to account for my conduct I cannot help It. Congress has no right to interfere it has no right to pry into my marriage relations and call tne to account " Cbairman Burrow at this point questioned ihr- witness. He said: "ou .say v.u wouldn't abandon your wives or your children. Why do you consider It necessary to luv issue fron, yur piuial wivcw In o r d e r oju.nti; ld Is S. lQJE 'j. ecu u

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MURDERER THEN FLED Victim Was the Ninth Member of Thirteen Club to Meet Violent Death. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 5. William Runyan, druggist and member of the Thirteen Club, who was murdered in his store on the night of Feb. 20, was slain by James E. Costello, according to the confession of Charles Krienke, made to the authorities to-day. Runyan was the ninth member of the Thirteen Club to meet a violent death. He was killed two weeks ago to-night at 10:30 o'clock. The crime created a great sensation and the police have been busy ever since trying to solve the mystery surrounding the murder. This afternoon Charles Krienke, who lives in this city, swore that James E. Costello shot and killed the Vistula-avenue druggist while trying to escape after his plan to hold j up the pharmacist had faHed. The confession was made this afternoon at 4 o'clock to Chief of Police McWeeny in the presence of Mayor Fogarty, State's Attorney Clarke and Miss Cass, stenographer. Mrs. Nellie Krienke, wife of the alleged murderer, was in the office of Attorney Clarke and heard her husband tell the story of the shooting. Krienke was arrested one week ago yesterday, but until yesterday afternoon denied that he knew anything whatever of the murder. He admitted being in the city.' but said he was at home with his wife during the entire night on which the murder was committed. His wife confirmed his statement. Yesterday afternoon Krienke was put through a severe cross-examination ami was in the "sweat box" for several hours. At last Chief McWeeny broke down the iron will of the crook and he admitted that he knew something regarding the shooting. Krienke to-day made a complete confession. "We went to the drug store," he said, "to get some money. My heart failed me and I left Costello, refusing to go into th store. When Runyan resisted and defeated Costello's plan of a hold-up there Was a desperate light. Runyan got the better of Costello and when he threw him over the platform in the window Costello shot him." Krienke, at the time of the murder, was staying with his wife near the scene of the crime. After Costello killed Runyan he ran through an alley leading from Marietta street to South street and left the city by the Grand Trunk. Costello is still at liberty, but the police expec to have him in custody before the end of another week. RENOM I NATION OF HULL TO CONGRESS DES MOINES, la.. March 5. -The Polk county Republican conventipn adopted resolutions declaring "faithful adherence to the time-honored principles of protection," as opposed to the so-called "Iowa idea." The convention was made up of delegates instructed for Congressman Hull, who won a victory over Judge Prouty in the primaries last Monday. The convention voted to instruct its delegates to vote for Senators Allison and Dolliver, J. W. Blythe and Governor Cummins as delegates at large from Iowa to the national convention. BOY'S COSTLY STEP. Ignited Match That Caused $ioo,ooo Fire Loss. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., March 5.-Flre started by a boy stepping on a match caused a loss of $100.000 in a building occupied by Reynolds & Hanson, dry goods dealers; J. H. and F. Hilsdor, grocers, and Stedbodino Brothers, shoe dealers. TESTIMONY SAID TO BE BASED ONJUGGESTION Remarkable Sociological Test to Unravel a Murder Mystery Is Being Made. BOY RECALLS HIS STORY CHICAGO, March 5. -Millionaire Toter Van Vlissingen has conducted a remarkable sociological experiment to unravel a murder mystery. Mr. Van Vlissingen acted on the theory that John Wiltrax, al hough convicted, is probably Innocent of the murder of four-year-old Paul Paszkowski. for which Wiltrax was sentenced to the penitentiary. It was mainly on the testimony of ten-year-old Julius Wiltrax, .on of the accused, that the defendant was convicted. The boy confessed to the police that hts father killed the child, testifying to the murder in court and later repudiated the testimony. After the father's conviction the boy was sent to a sch ! in which Mr. Van Vlissingen has been interested. It was as a result of this that Mr. Van Vlissingen began his experiment, lie took the boy to is j -al.ttial home and made him as out of the family. He dressed the lad as children of the r' i are dressed and soon transformed him. m tally and physically, from a child of the gutter to a bright and Intelligent boy. All the time Mr. Van Vlissingen has been trying to find out the truth of the boy's story. The lad Insists that he was forced t tell it by the police, that the details of the crime which he relates were invented by the police, and that he learned them by heart. He says it is a story of sugestlun and Intimidation. After two months of dai.y COB Utct with the bov. Mr. Van Vlissingen to-day declare. 1 a belief that the convicted man Is Innocent. Friends of Wiltrax for some time have been endeavoring to secure for hini a new trial. It is now believed that this will be granted and that the boy will bo an important wiinesa.

RUSSIA :" it RUSSIA WILL NOT FIGHT ON LAND UNTIL A GREAT IS IN THE FIELD Will Have Four Corps of Fighters Ready to Face Japanese May I. EXPECTS TO WHIP ENEMY By Sheer Weight of Men and Guns When the Proper Time Has Arrived. ST. PETERSRCRG, March 5. Although almost four weeks have elapsed since the Japanese first attacked Port Arthur, the war is regarded as hardly begun. Heavy land fighting, on which the fate of the campaign dopends. is not expected much before the end of April. By this time Rotate will have in the field, exclusive of the large army required to guard the railroads, four army corps, each with a cavalry division and an artillery brigade. All that has happened thus far, or is going to happen until these forces are in the field, is held, according to Russian view, to be nothing more than the prologue to the real drama. The crippling of the Port Arthur fleet. while it gave Japan command of the sea at the outset, is of relatively small improtance from the standpoint of the main strategy of the war whether Port Arthur stands or falls. Russians are determined to defend Port Arthur as heroically as they did Sevastopol. No large garrison will be retained there; 10,000 men are as good as 100.000 for defense, while the more men. the more mouths to feed. In addition there will be a division of Cossacks with mountain batteries on the peninsula to oppose landings and to harass the enemy. Vicerov Alexieff still retains his head(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COL. 4. SHOT HUSBAND, TRIED TO Kill SOU, TOOK POISON Deed of Mrs. Gustave Stanson that Ended in Death Only for Herself. AN ILLINOIS TRAGEDY ELGIN. III., March 5. After shooting her husband three times and trying to kill her seven-year-old son, Mrs. Gustave Stanson to-day locked her wouuded husband out of doors and carried her son to her bedroom, where she wrapped him iu blankets, applied a match and then lay down to die with him. The boy, finding his efforts to free himself vain, crawled under the blankets to keep from inhaling the smoke. Mrs. Stanson h ard the police, summoned by her husband, pounding on the door, and swallowed carbolic acid and fired a bullet into her throat. All three were taken to a hospital. Mrs. Stanson died later. Physicians extracted three bullets from Stansou's head. Roth he and his son will recover. Domestic differences caused the trouble. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION; ONE KILLED, 21 HURT LATRORE. Pa.. March 5. As the result of an explosion of powder and dynamite at the magazine of the H. 8. Kerbaugh Company near Iatrobe, Patrick Quinlan was killed and twenty-one persons were slightly iujured. Jacob Squibbs, whb was in his home half a mile from the explosion, was probably fatally hurt. Houas within a radius of a mile were toppled from their foundation ami window glass la houses twenty miles distant was broken.

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Ah! only a friendy guide post after all." Harry and the Guide Post. HAS IDENTIFIED PICTÜBEJF PRINCIPAL Alleged Portland Forger Says Knox, Held at Columbus, Gave Him the Checks to Cash. EXAMINATION IS WAIVED Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND. Ind.. March 5. Prosecutor Roscoe D. Wheat scored a point this evening in the Gordon forgery case. He succeeded in inducing Gordon to identify the picture of Robert K. Knox, now held at Columhus. O., as the man who had given him the raised checks of $1,500 and $5.000 to cash. An affidavit with the picture attached was then drawn up and the signature of the prisoner. H. R. Gordon, was attached to the affidavit. Gordon at first hesitated about signing it. This places such strong evidence against Knox that probably It will be impossible for him to secure release from prison at Columbus, on habeas corpus, while the return of Governor Herrick is awaited. Gordon was arraigned before Justice Lewis this morning, and waived examination. Bond was placed at $10.000, in default of which he was remanded to the Jail to await the action of the grand Jury. PASSENGER TRAINS FOUND IN SNOWDRIFTS Occupants Rescued with the Aid of Stages Paths Shoveled Over the Hills. LEWTSTOWN. Mont.. March 5.-Three stalled trains on the Montana Railway have been found between Harlowton and I'bol and two trains are tied up near Summit. The passengers, about twenty in all were rescued by stages, which shoveled a path over the hills to the track. Snow plows are unable to buffet the blizzards and nothing but a thaw will open the road. BAH IS GUILTY Ii TKJRST DEGREE Jury Declares the Bogus Lord Killed James P. McCann, the St. Louis Horseman. THE PENALTY IS DEATH ST. LOUIS. March 5. After deliberating for almost three hours, a Jury in the case of "Lord" Frederick Seymour Rarrington, tried for the murder of James P. McCann, a St. Louis horseman, to-night returned a verdict of guilty of murder In the first degree. The penalty is death. Barrinton's attorneys immediately filed a motion for a new trial. Rarrington sat motionless as the verdict was read. When asked if he had anything to say. he replied, "nothing." He was then taken to Clayton Jail. SENDS BULLET THROUGH HER ASSAILANT'S BODY Mrs. Brauer Probably Fatally Shoots J. M. Bertram in Defending Herself. ALLIANCE. Neb . March 5.-Mrs. Frederick Rrauer to-day probably fatally shot J. M. Rertram, who, she alleged, attempted to criminally assault her. Mrs. Rrauer s husband was absent and the woman says Hertram forced laudanum down her throat during a struggle. She broke away and HCWlm a ritte sent a bullet through Bertram's body.

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AND GIRLS AND DANCE E F Hall a Square from Police Station Open by Official Sanction Long After Midnight. MANY WAITERS ARE BUSY Serve Young Lads and Companions Without Question Police Pay No Attention. At 12:30 o'clock this morning, one hour and one-half after the time set by law for saloons to close at night, beer was served openly at Germania Hall, at Delaware and Pearl streets, apparently without any fear of intervention by the police. No question was asked by the waiters or the two bartenders as to the age of persons ordering the drink, and men and women sat at small tables, or crowded around the bars, drinking and singing. Every Saturday night, during the winter months, a dance is given at Germania Hall. It is generally believed that the dance is conducted by the Germania Pleasure Society, but Victor Jose, lessee of the hall and proprietor of the barroom, and not the Germania Society, is the one who gives the dance. Youth is no bar to entrance and boys with girls scarcely out of the short frock stage jostle and crowd with men and women and laugh and drink with them, makiug merry at these Saturday night affairs uutil late Sunday morning. The police are aware that this is being done. The music from the orchestra, playing the dance tunes, can be heard late at night and early in the morning, by anyone standing in front of the police station, one square away. The dances have never been interfered with. Last night two men were kept busy working behind the bar at the rear of the balcony on the third floor of the hall and were busier at 12:30 o'clock this morning than they were earlier in the evening. "You see." explained one of the waiters, "the good guys don't begin comin' in until it gets late. And say, they sure spend." Probably a dozen waiters wt?re busy early this. Sunday morning, serving beer to the thirsty dancers seated at tables iu the balcony. brunken men and women, even boys and girls, were plentiful. Several young men who had imbibed more than they could take care of Insisted on greater license than is countenanced even at these dances and were ejected by special policemen. Last night the crowd was large. At one table an observer saw three girls, in appearauce mere schoolgirls, with three youths, not one of them a day over seventet n years of age. drinking beer. Two of the children were intoxicated and the others in the party were having rude tun at their expense. Women, faces snowing lines of dissipation, sat side by side around the tables with girls whose fresh, rosy countenances are yet unmarked by the life they are Just beginning to lead. In order to get into one of the Saturday night dances at the hall the man pays 35 cents for his ticket and 10 cents for each companion. Formerly an extra charge was made for checking wraps and overcoats, but in his generosity the proprietor of the hall uow checks them free. On the third floor of the building is the dallOt hall. Colored electric lights around the wall and a cluster of lights in the center give the otherwise barren-looking room a cozy appearance. The orchestra sits on a stage at the cast end of the dance hall. At 1 o'clock this morning, Sunday, the hall was crowded, beer selling was going on and the dance showed every evidence of lasting until daylight Fatnl Fall From a Wlntioir. BALTIMORE. March 5 August Wächter, father of Congressman Frank C. Wächter, of the Fourth Maryland district, fell from the third story of his home, at 217 Penn street, this evening, and died from the hock within an hour. Mr. Wächter w is sevenf y-nme y.ars nil It is thought he was attacked with vertigo as he sat beside the open window.

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Delegates, Amid Exciting Scenes, Reject Operators ' Ultimatum 200,000 MAT DROP PICKS APRIL FIRST A nnual Interstate Moi rment Is Dissolved and Hope for Settlement Rests Upon Referendum I 'ote POSSIBILITIES OF THREATENED STRIKE. Number of miners involVed 200,000 Daily output in tons which is menaced 900,000 Daily loss of wages to miners $512,000 Daily loss to operators $80,000 Estimated total loss of six -weeKs' suspension to miners and operators $18,000,000

Amid a scene challenging in suppressed excitement any that has ever been witnessed in this city the annual interstate movement inaugurated seven years ago by the coal operators and miners of the competitive States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania came to a sudden and fatal end late yesterday evening by a majority vote of the 800 delegates of the L'nited Mine Workers against the compromise and ultimatum of the operators. The miners' vote was decided at 3 o'clock in an executive session of the organization in Tomlinson Hall in the face of a protest from President John Mitchell and the other national officers. The joint convention was called together at 4 o'clock byChairman J. C. Kolsem and on the roll call by States the miners voted solidly against the proposition and the operators unanimously in favor of it, with Indiana conditioned on a few minor reservations. While the action of the miners does not mean that a gigantic strike is certain to take place on April 1, of this year, when present contracts expire, It does cast aside every hope but one to prevent the clash. An amicable settlement hangs by a single thread and that is that the miners, when they convene in a final session to-morrow morning refer their decision to a referendum vote of the different locals of the four States. If the locals vote to strike then all hope of a settlement will have vanished; if they vote to accept the compromise an adjustment may be effected. It is believed that the convention to-morrow will refer their action of yesterday to a referendum vote before declaring the strike. Never in the seven years' history of the interstate movement has a session of the joint convention of operators and miners equaled that of yesterday evening in decisive action and strained expectancy for an interceding hand. Occupying the greater part of the floor to the right and the entire balconies, sat the rugged minors, their action fixed, while to the loft in lesser numbers sat the operators firm and prosperous looking. In their faces the realization of the importance of the moment was more plainly visible than that betrayed by the grim faces of the miners. Immediately after Chairman Kolsem r ped for order the proposition of the operators to sign a two-: t ar w;iRe scale on a basis of 5.55 per cent, less than the pres. i.t scale was put to a vote. It was lost by the miners of the four States voting no. A subdued confusion followed the vote, while Frank L. Bobbins and John Mitchell held a private consultation before the convention. They talked for several minutes and resumed their seats. Mr. Robbins then moved that the convention adjourn sine die. Mr. Mitchell seconded the motion. ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE. Before a vote was called leaders of both sides came forward and conferred with each other in undertones for several minutes. The subscale committee was then requested to meet in the anteroom and the members withdrew. They returned in fifteen minutes and without further words the secretary was requested to call the roll by States on the motion to adjourn sine die. It was carried unanimously. That the referendum vote will be the method by which a final attempt will be made to avert the strike is almost certain. A meeting of the executive board of the l'nited Mine Workers was held last night and while it was said that no definite action was taken, it is understood the board will recommend this measure at the convention to-morrow. It was also said that organizers will be sent at once among the various loeal unions of the State to present the detailed situation before the men in the mines in order that they may be prepared to vote upon the question iu a clear light. PLEA OF THE MINERS. In the convention yesterday the miners were taken by surprise when the operators made a motion to adjourn the convention sine die. It was an unexpected move and caused noticeable consternation. When the subscale committee met during the suspension of business that followed the motion, the miners of the committee, through President Mitchell, asked that the operators give them more time in which to bring their organization into line. The miners asked that committees be appointed from each State to meet here again in two weeks, when they promised to be prepared to vote In favor of the compromise. The operators refused the request, saying that their terms had bten rejected after all reasonable time had been granted the miners. The members of the subscale committee were unanimously in favor of signing the compromise. The most notable feature of yesterday's events was that the miners assembled "in executive session voted down the compromise after It hnd been advocated and Indorsed by President Mitchell. Vice President Lewis. Secretary Wilson, Patrick Dolan. Denny Sullivan. W. T. Haskins and others of the strongest leaders of the organization. The miners were in secret session from 10 o'clock yesterday morning until 4 o'clock last evening, with an hour's recess at noon. During this time the question was debated in loud and fiery speeches, but when a rising vote on Its acceptance was taken at 3 o'clock it was defeated by a large majority, notably in the balconies where sat the delegates from the outlying St c. s, who were given a vote on the proposition. It was then that the United Mine Workers for the first time in its history icted against the wishes of John Mitthell and its national officers. President Mitchell, who desired with his whole heart to accept the compromise, and thereby save the interstate movement from a dishonorable death, made a strong speech advocating the acceptance of the concessions of the operators. He reviewed the history of the movement, pointed out Its strength, not only to the miners, but to organized labor in general. He was followed by Vice President Lewis, members of the scale committee and other leaders, who advocated the adoption of the proposition. When the measure was finally lost by the adjournment of the joint conference. President Mitchell seemed on the point of a collapse, so affected was he. While he did not lose his self-possession, the chagrin that he felt was most visible. He lighted a igar and left the hall alone. MUCH DISCONTENT. There was a good deal of discontent among the miners last night, espe 'Lilly those who favored the compromise as the only way for an amlcuble settlement. It was felt by some of the miners and the operators that a fatal mistake had been made lu

bringing the entire convention of the raited Mine Workers back to the city and giving the delegates from States outside the competitive field a VOtl on an issue that should have been handled by the miners of the States concerned. With few exceptions, the delegates from outlying districts voted against accepting the compromise ;.nd thus rtgured materially in the tinal outcome. Another fact to which the def-Mt of the compromise was attributed was that a large number of miner delegates came to the conference bearing Instructions from their locals to accept no reduction, and th y were forced Into a negative vote. The feeling among the oierators last night was that the Interstate movement had been dissolved for good and former amicable relation could be restored only by the organization of another such movem-nt In the same manner as th one just ended was formed. Their attitude is that of men who have done all in their power that Is reasonable to prevent war aud to preserve peace. They declare that they will stand together upon their rejected overture and will meet whatever trouble the future may bring forth. They have shifted the responsibility of a strike upon the shoulders of the miners. Their position was given last utght in an interview with Frank L. Robbins, who said: "We conceded half our ground and gava the miners a proposition based upon the conditions of the timeq, not only in the mining Industry, but In othr trades. AVo consider it a magnanimous offer and we were led to it by the desire to preserve peace In the industrial world and the Integrity of the interstate movement. 'Ave would not have made such an offer on a one-year contract, but iVIt that the assurance of peace for two years warranted a concession embodying a two-year contract. In making the concession, the operators took upon themselves the responsibility of criticism from their constituents and already we have received many tele grams and letters from operators not attending the conference condemning our action of giving in to the miners. The op.11 tors of the four States will stand together; we have no other platform bet that Ok the compromise and that Is our position." PRESIDENT MITCHELL TALK.-. President John Mitchell visibly showed the effects of the strain under whi h he was ateattring at the close of the confeenca last night. "I am too tired to talk mu h." he said. "Tho adjournment of jthe convention means practically the disruption of our Interstate movement and points sfVongly tow.mis strike in the competitive districts April L Of course something may eo-nc up in the meantime by which wc can get together and heal the breach. The miners will hold another session of their convention to-morrow morning (Monday morning.) The executive board will meet to-night to frame a scries of resolutions defining the attitude of the miners on the question. The resolutions will be presented to the (invention for ratification on Monday morning." W. S. Bogle, of the Indiana opera 1 rs. said last i.i'-iht that if It comes to a strike Indiana will stand resolutely with the operators and the employers will close their mines on the ttrst of April. While Indiana mines are more susceptible to an Inflow of water than are the mines of the other States, a difficulty miRht arise In letting the mines lie Idle. Questioned on this. Mr. Rogle said that every mine Ls supplied with sufficient number of pumps to allow a small force of men In keep them drv. There was a general seutlment among the operators that the miners In rejecting tha compromis oneid. were not quite a war of the momentous step which they were taking. It Is believed that they expected the oierators to give in at the last moment and did not realize that the operators wet e making their last offer. When the vote adjourning the convention sine die was concluded, a noticeable silence fell upon the miuers. Hardly a man moved iu his seat. The operators were filing out of the hall before the miners br m to arlre. They were requested to sit down by President Mitchell, who called the session of tha convention and asked if there was any more business to come before the body. Nothing was done and the sc salon adjourned to meet Monday morning. After the culmination of the crisis last evening, groups of miners could le seen rtn almost every down-town corner talking over the situation. Many of them regret the clash of the two parties of the Interstate metvemnt. which has ben thei- pride. Tin re were many discussions amona the delegates, and it is believed by many that a change of mind Monday may turn the tide of action and the fluul decision will be raferred to a referendum vote. OPERATORS DISSATISFIED. As soon as the de.-islon to adjourn sine die was reached, the operators left the hall rapidly and returned to their headquarters at the Clay pool, where the majority pre pared to leave the city at once. A goodijr number remained In the lobby discussing tha abrupt end of the conference, which It was thought at the beginning of the day would end in an agreement. A number of the operators remained over Sunday, but most of them left the city last night. At 9 o'clock a meeting of the Joint conference was called, at which the proposition ef the operators was read. It embraces the following terms: That there shall be a reduction of 5 cents a ton In the cost of mining P4-lnch mesh s reen lump coal in west-rn Pennsylvania thin vein, In the Hocking valley, th basing district of Ohio, and in the bituminous and block mines of Indiana. In the bituminous districts of Indiana and Illinois a reduction of 3 cents a ton on minerun pick mining; a reduction of 4 cents a ton on screen lump coal In weetem Pennsylvania thin vein and In the Hocking valy I.;i.-uir distt n t of Ohio, and a reduction of I nts a ton on the mine-run machine mining in Indiana and Illinois. The terms of the compromise would also reduce the wages of the drivers, track layers, timber men. water haulers, machine haulers ..n? bottom e.m.-rs from f2 SA a day to $2.41 a duy and plpemen would also t reduced from f.'..'..' to 12.36 a day All other outside day labor, which is now receiving $2.26. would be given SJ 23 a day. Day laborers receiving $2.2 day would not be affected by the compremie aa they are not mentioned In Its terms. It Is estimated that should this compromise be finally accepted by the miners it would result in a cut in their aagregate wages of about PMH a year. The iminntant provision Sa the compromise is that the contract must be signed up for two years. GREAT l.NDl'STRIAL CONFLICT. The condition which accompanied tha vote of the Indiana operators on the compromise was that the price of mine-run and screen-lump coal be left to the district conventions for settlem nt. They maintained that it was a matt, r f internal difference and should be adjusted in tha district organizations. Should the situation involve itself into a strike of the miners of the four COaepettttvo States, as many believe will be the ultimate end, the wwunu w ill be tout routed