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J The Valentine Democrat VALENTINE , NEB. f. M. RICE , - - - - Publisher. TEMPLE TO GET BUSY IOWA RAILROADS NEGLECT SAFETY APPLIANCE LAW. .Federal Attorney Temple Receives In structions from Washington to Get After th'e 'Delinquent Roads and Enrich Uncle Sam's Treasury , Col. M. L. Temple , Unite * States district attorney for the southern dis trict of Iowa , has been notified that he must begin immediate action to collect penalties from every railroad in his district which has not installed proper safety appliances in freight I and passenger service The orders eame direct from Attorney General ( Bonaparte and were received at the federal building in Des Moines Friday. Last year Lewis Miles brought such suits against the Milwaukee in the Davenport division. Information upon which the suits must be based comes originally from the safety appliance Inspectors , who were sent out and vis ited Iowa , They reported their find ings back to the Interstate commerce commission. These gentlemen trans ferred the reports to the department of justice , and now it is up to Col. Temple to get after violating Iowa railroads with a sharp stick. Actions will be commenced in the various Jowa divisions at the next term of court. BANKERS MAKE AX ATTACK. Complaint Against Express Companies Filed with Commission. One of the most Important cases yet flled with the interstate commerce commission under the new railroad , law was presented to the commission by the American Bankers' association. In brief , the complainant alleges the 'express companies of the United States through their power and facilities as common carriers are usurping the pre rogatives of the banking associations and at the same time employing the capital of the banks of the country in the conduct of their business. It is alleged that the operations of the express companies in the conduct 'of their exchange business is seriously detrimental to thfe interests of banks and that the use 6f interstate facilities which the express companies have with the railroads enables the compa nies to seriously discriminate against the regular commercial operations of banking institutions. SUIT INVOLVES MILLIONS. Girl Begins Action for Possession of Valuable Oil Lands. f Property valued at $40,000,000 throughout the oil district of the In dian Territory is Involved in a suit of ilae Evelyn Hall , by her father , J. Eugene Hall , against the Cherokee nation , the Dawes commission , the secretary of the interior , and Ida Swannock , which was filed in the dis trict court at Bartlesville , I. T. , Fri day to recover forty acres of land in the heart of the oil district The suit is based on the Cherokee allotment act of 1902 , and a decision favorable to the plaintiff will reopen all contests heard by the Dawes com mission and nullify much of its work. In a contest between Miss Hall and Miss Swannock the commission .awarded the forty acres of land to Miss Swannock.- WAS POISON IN THE FLASK. Passenger on Train Accepts Drink and Dies. Peter and David Morad , of Phila delphia , traveling to Geneva , N. Y. , accepted a drink of whisky from Leo L. King , who boarded the train at Wilkesbarre. The three men finished the bottle and King produced a second end one. Peter Morad took the first drink out of it , when King discovered that he had given Morad a bottle con taining syanide of potassium. Morad immediately collapsed , and when the train reached Geneva he was hurried .to a. hospital , where he died in a few hours. King was arrested. He said he secured the poison for himself , in tending to end his life on account of family troubles. He gave his age as 29 years and said his mother was liv ing in Rockford , 111. i Wife Murderer Electrocuted. James Coruelius , the Canton wife murderer who was reprieved three times by Gov. Harris , was electrocuted In the annex at the penitentiary at Columbus , Of , at 12:10 o'clock Friday morning. Sioux City Live Stonk Market. Friday's quotations on the Sioux 'City live stock market follow : Butch er steers , $5.60@6.00Top hogs , $5.80. | ia Ice Drivers on Strike. ; Fifteen hundred to 2,000 drivers of fI f delivery wagons of the American Ice I of New York went * company , , on a 1 .strike Friday to enforce a demand for extra pay for extra work. Insurance Company Fails. A receiver has * been appointed for the Marquette Mutual Life Insurance company , of Chicago. The company 'has outstanding insurance amounting jto more than $1,000.000. BOOST FREIGHT COST. Western Rates to Be 5 Per Cent N Higher. Freight rates in the territory be tween the Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains will be advanced 5 per cent by the action of the western railroads in raising the minimum on carload shipments and other changes In classification. It has not yet been determined to cancel many of the car load commodity tariffs , though a few of these whose usefulness has passed will be cancelled and the commodity rated according to classification. It is the Intention to cancel all less than carload commodity rates , but as they were made to meet special conditions the shippers generally have not made any specific complaint * The call for the meeting of the western classifica tion at Charlevoix , Mich. , July 16 , was sent out Thursday. The docket contains 425 subject , many of which wei'e rulings Issued by B. O. Brecker , chairman of the com mittee since January 15 , 1907 , and will be revised by the committee. The most Important of the subjects is "to revise the minimum -weights , " on which special committees have been at work. There will be some changes In the furniture minimums , and rule A will be generally applied throughout the new classification. The most dras tic advance will be in liquid carbonic acid , which will be increased from 24,000 to 40,000 pounds. Binding twine will be Increased 10,000 and pianos 2,000 pounds in carloads. The minimum on farm wagons will be re duced to 40,000 pounds. THREE HANGED IN MISSOURI. Execution Occurs in Jail at Jefferson City. Hkrry Va'aghan , Ed\vard Raymond % and George Ryan , convicts In the Mis souri penitentiary , were hanged in the county jail at Jefferson City Thursday morning for killing a prison guard , John Clay , during a concerted attempt to escape from the penitentiary. Vaughan , Raymond , Ryan anr Hi ram Blake iri-Jd ; to escape from the Missouri penitentiary on the afternoon of Nov. 24 , 1905 , and in the outbreak. Blake and John Clay and E. Allison ; prison officials , were killed. Vaughan , Raymond and Ryan succeeded in get ting outside the prison walls but wire recaptured , Vaughan and Raymond being wounded. Ryan was sent to the penitentiary foi eight years from Kansas City. He was one of the three highwaymen who "held up" several saloons in Kansas City and St. Joseph in the winter of 1903-4 , the bartender in each instance being locked in the ice bo : : . Raymond had the same sentence for the same offense committed in St. Louis , and Vaughan was serving thirty-five years fr m St. Louis on a charge of assault with Intent to kiJl. CHILD ENTICED AND SLAIN. Mutilated Body of 8-Year-Old Girl Found in Basement. Eight-year-old Viola Boylan , of New York , who had been missing from her home in Second avenue since last Monday , was the victim of a most atrocious assault. Her body , horribly mutilated , was found In a coal bin in the-cellar of her home Thursday. She had been dead for many hours. No arrests have yet been made , but the police are searching for two young Italians , who they have been informed were seen trying to entice the child to enter a cellar with them several days ago. POINT FOR JUDGE LOVING. Evidence to Disprove Daughter's Story is Barred. In the Loving murder trial at Houston , Va , , Judge Barksdale ren dered an opinion as to the admissibility - ity of evidence by the prospcution tending to disprove the story told by Elizabeth Loving to her father of her ruin at the hands of Theodore Estes. The judge ruled the character of the girl or the man who was killed were not the issue and the truth or falsity of her story had no bearing on the case. The evidence will not ije sub mitted. Butte Mail Men on Strike. All the mail carriers of Butte , Mont. , went out on a strike Wednes day night , the men declaring they could not live in Butte on the present scale of wages paid by the govern ment. Body of Leo XHI. Not Removed. Recent Rumors in Rome that the body 6f the late Pope Leo XIII. had been removed secretly from its tempo rary tomb at St. Peter's to the Basilica of St. John , Lateran are unfounded. Weavers Strike in Rhode Island. A strike of 500 weavers at the Coronet net Woolen Mills in Mapleville , R. I. , began Thursday , when orders were given for the1 weavers to operate two looms on fancy work. Heavy Fire Loss In Birmingham. Fire Friday morning destroyed the Chalifoux building at First avenue and Nineteenth street in Birmingham. Ala. The loss was $300,000. Britt-Nelson Fight. The Britt-Nelson fight , scheduled for July 3 has been postponed until July 31 , because of the inability of Nelson to continue training owing to an abscess in his ear. / Schmitz Sentence Postponed. Passing of sentence upon Eugene E. Schmitz , of San Francisco , convict ed of extortion in the French restaur ant cases , was Thursday postponed until July 6. * v OIL FIELD WRECKED. Indian Territory Well Rigs Leveled by Storm. A terrific storm in the nature of a cyclone followed by a cloudburst swept the oil fields of northern Indian Territory between 8 and 9 o'clock Wednesday morning. Three persons are reported killed at ( Sapulpa. the heart of the great Glenn oil pool , whei4 the storm was fiercest. Frank Roper -is known to be dead and two' others are said to have been found whose names are not known. Water rushed down the streets of Sapulpa over a foot in depth. Plate' glass was broken throughout the town and the roof torn from the hotel. Over 150 derricks are reported down in the Glenn pool and it is said all the oil derricks in the Osage nation have been swept away. Fifty derricks are reported down at Turley , I. T. At Majze , I. T. , houses were overturned arid brick buildings demolished. Muskogee - kogee suffered no serious loss. The general loss throughout the oil fields will be enormous , but at present cannot be estimated. Many wells are running wild , the oil flooding the land. A conservative estimate places the number of rigs blown down in the Glenn pool at one-third the total. The combination oil and gas well at Sa pulpa was struck by lightning and the fire cannot be brought under control. One building of the Creek orphans' home was struck and destroyed. The total loss by the storm is estimated at $500,000. NEW TRL1L IS REFUSED. Federal Judge Rules Against the Standard Oil Company. Federal Judge Landis , of Chicago , refused a new trial to the Standard Oil company , recently convicted of making shipments at illegal rates be tween Whiting , Ind. , and East St. Louis. After a denial of several mo tions on the part of the defense the court announced he was desirous of obtaining information regarding the financial resources of th'e Standard , and ordered J. H. Howard , former auditor of the Alton , to take the wit ness stand. After questioning Howard and sev eral other witnesses without obtaining much Information , Judge Landis or dered the issuance of subpoenas , re turnable July 6 , for the officers and directors of the Standard Oil com pany and the Union Tank line. Un der the order the district attorney may summon John D. Rockefeller , H. H. ' Rogers or any other man connected with the Standard that he may desire to question. BOMB THROWN INTO THRONG. Horrible Outrage Committed in Rus sian City. A bomb was thrown Wednesday in to Erivan square , in the center of Ti- flis , Russia , which was thronged with people. The missile exploded with ter rific force. Many persons wei e killed or injured , and windows and lioors shattered over a large , area. The po lice are preventing all approach to the scene of the outrage , , It later appeared that the outrage was connected with an attack on the treasury. A treasury wagon contain ing § 125,000 , escorted by Cossacks , had reached Erivan square when the bomb was thrown and the explosion followed. The bags containing the money disappeared. Boy Held for Capital Crime. Clyde Glidden , aged 7 years , is in jail at Parkersburg , W. Va. , on a charge of incendiarism , it being al leged that he burned two houses a week ago. The houses were occupied and the families barely escaped with their lives. The penalty for the crime of which the boy is charged in that state is death unless the jury recom mends mercy , and then it is life im prisonment. 1 New Cruiser Launched. The scout cruiser Chester , one of the latest types of fast warships for the United Spates navy , was successful ly launched Wednesday afternoon from the yard of the Bath Iron corpo ration , of Bath , Me. Harvard Closes 271st Year. America' oldest educational institu tion , Harvard university , Wednesday closed its 271st year , graduating a class of 550. Portugal's Cabinet to Stay. It is officially announced that King Charles and Premier Franco are in accord and that there is no prospect of a ministerial crisis. 18 Months More of Cuban School. The announcement of Secretary Taft that American intervention in Cuba will continue eighteen months was re ceived at Havana with slight interest. WESTERN , LEAGUE BASEBALL. Schedule of Game ? to Be Played at Sioux City la. Following Is a schedule of the West ern League games to be played at Sioux City in the immediate future : Omaha July 6 , 7 , 8 Denver July 9 , 10 , 11 Pueblo July 12 , 1314 Des Moines July 15 , 16 , 17 Lincoln July 23 , 24 , 25 ' Fear Outbreak in Russia. Disquieting reports are coming from Krassnoye-Selo , Russia , where a dozen regiments are camping. The temper of the troops is bad , and every day there are misunderstandings. Carrie Nation Arrested. For entering a saloon and raising a disturbance in Washington , D. C. , Car rie Nationa was arrested on the charge of disorderly conduct and placed in the house of deten ' n. MOTHER SLAIN BY SON. Boy Murders Her Because She Had Punished Him. The supposed * accidental shooting of Mrs. Thomas McCoy , in , the north west part of Rock county , by her 10- ye.ar-old son , proved to have tfeen a case of deliberate murder , the boy having confessed to County Attorney Douglas and later to several other persons that he shot his mother be cause she had punished him severely. The shooting occurred Friday. Sat urday the officers went.out to hold the Inquest , at which it was developed that the shooting was intentional and the coroner's jury returned a verdict ac cordingly. The boy had claimed that h ; hot his mother accidentally while shooting at a , meadow lark , but he confessed to the county attorney , and later to sev eral persons , that he shot her inten tionally , and gave as a reason the fact that she had been in the habit of pun ishing him severely. In his confession he stated that he got the gun in the house while his mother's back was turned , placed loaded shells in .three empty chambers , put the weapon in his pocket , followed close behind her to the field where she was going to plant some beans , and while she was getting the seed ready for planting he , at the distance of about ten feet , drew the gun , and , deliberately aiming it at the back of her head , fired'and ' killed her instantly. After she fell he shot her again in the side and then dropped the gun and ran to where a couple of his brothers were working In the same field. The weapon used was a five-shot double action 38-caliber revolver. Mrs. McCoy was a widow and was living on a Kinkaid homestead. She leaves five young children. The boy Is under arrest. BIG BLAST AT STONE QUARRY. Powder Used to Clear Mass of Dirt from Face of Rock. The biggest blast ever put in at Vancourt's stone quarry at Nehawka was fired recently. It consisted of 153 kegs of blasting potwder and was made for the purpose of stripping the in the nature of an experiment to see whether it was cheaper to use to see whether it was chaper to use powder or teams for its removal. Holes were drilled through the dirt twenty feet to the rock and fifteen feet back from the face of the ledge , and enlarged at the bottom by the firing of dynamite. Twenty-five kegs of pow der were then put in each hole and the charges were fired by electricity. A muffled roar was heard and an im mense volume of dirt and smoke shot 300 feet into the air and a mass of dirt 300 feet long , 20 feet thick and 15 feet deep was Itfted bodily and thrown a distance of twenty rods each way from the blast. Mr. Lundberg , the foreman , says that the experiment was a success , as he has moved 60,000 cubic yards of dirt and uncovered 750 cars of rock with six days' actual work and a total cost of $250. NEBRASKA CROP CONDITIONS. Rainfall Continues to Be Below the Normal in Great Portion of State. Section Director Loveland has is sued the following crop report , sum marizing the conditions for the last week. The week was mostly warm and clear , with light southerly wind. The daily mean temperature aver aged about the normal. The weekly average was 72 degrees in the eastern counties , and 67 degrees in the west ern. The daily maximum tempera tures were for the most part between 80 degrees and 85 degrees. Showers occurred quite generally Monday afternoon or night and Friday or Saturday. The total weekly rain fall was from one to two inches and exceeded the normal in a number of southeastern counties , but in a greater part of the state the showers were light and the rainfall was decidedly below normal. It Avas less than half an inch in most of the western In f of the state. The total rainfall ' April 1st to date averages about three- fourths of the normal. Generally Monday , Tuesday and Friday were partly cloudy and the rest of the week was clear. t Selling School Lands. Deputy Land Commissioner Shjvely Is out this week auctioning off school lands , and his sales are not unlike the annual mill end sales of dress goods , for he Is selling the odds and ends of real estate not heretofore secured by lucky Nebraskans. The price paid is very satisfactory to the board of edu cational lands and funds. Barrel of Whisky Explodes. William Szewczyk , 2502 South Twenty-fifth street , Omaha , was in jured at the saloon of John Flfla , Twenty-seventh and J streets by the explosion of a barrel partially filled with whisky , Monday evening. He was striking a match over the open bung of the barrel when an explosion fol lowed. Rock Island to Federal Court. The Rock Island has filed its cross- petition and application for removal from the state to the federal court of the suit brought by the attorney gen eral for an injunction to prevent the railroads from interfering with the en forcement of the legislation enacted 'by the recent legislature. Baby Left in Outhouse. When the little son of John Muhl. residing in the eastern part of Grand Island was about to go into an out house he discovered there a little in fant. He ran into the house and told about the discovery. The baby was alive and well , and pulling away lusti- at a nipple adjusted to a bottle. 9. Looking Up Gibson Bill.- A Lincoln lawyer was at the state house recently looking up the bill to prevent brewers from operating or RAILROAD VALUES WANTED. Commission Needs to Know In Order to Decide on Rates. While It is not overlooking anything near at hand the state railroad com mission has already cast its eyes at the next legislature , and in all proba bility it will recommend that an ap propriation be made to Investigate and find out the real value of railroad property in Nebraska. Unleps the na tional commission does this within the next year , it is likely the Nebraska legislature will be asked for the money and the work will either be done by the commission or by a committee * appointed for that purpose. Member Clarke believes it is essen tial that the true value of railroad property in Nebraska be discovered so that the commission may proceed intelligently to make freight rate * without fear of having them set aside. While nothing was said about the value of railroad property as found and fixed by the state board of assess ment , it is supposed the commission Is willing to take the word of Mr. Eustis , of the Burlington , that all rail roads have a taxing value and a com mercial value which are different. Mr. Eustis made this statement before a legislative committee last winter. AXSLEY MAN IS IN TROUBLE. Same Bunch of Cattle is Assessed In Logan and Glister Counties. B. J. Tierney , of Ansley , Custer county , has appealed to the state board of assessment to cancel the as sessment of a bunch of cattle either In Custer or Logan counties , in both of which they were assessed , and his appeal has raised a nice point for the board to pass upon. Tierney owns a ranch in Logan county and on this ranch the cattle were kept until just before last April , when he moved them to Custer county , intending after feed ing them a short time there to ship them on to South Omaha. While be ing fed in Custer county the assessor placed them on the Custer assessment roll and the Logan county assessor did the same thing. He appealed to the Custer county board of equalization to have the item stricken from the as sessment rolls , but was turned down , consequently the 440 head of cattle were assessed in two counties. Tier ney claims the cattle were In transit while in Custer county and should not have been assessed there , though he does not care which county releases him. He notified the board he would appear in Lincoln when convenient to the board. * YOUNG RANCHMAN IS DROWNED. Becomes Entangled in Reeds in Lake and Sinks. Nile Latta , son of Milton Latta , the Well known rancher and inventor , was drowned in Long lake , about thirty- five miles south of Valentine. He was j driving some cattle into the lake , ani , his horse following , got into deep water - { ter , and , becoming frightened , refused ! to return to shore. Latta then left his horse and endeavored to return to the bank , but in some manner he be came entangled in some reeds and , , after violent struggles , sank. He is a young man , well known , and leaves a wife to whom he was married just a week ago. His body has not been recovered - covered and may never be found , as the reeds and rushes make it very diffi cult to drag the lake. FIRE IN OMAHA FLAT. Dwellers Have Narrow Escape in Ear ly Morning Blaze. At an early hour Friday morning fire broke out in the Martin flats , an old four-story apartment house locat ed at Seventeenth and Webster streets in Omaha , and occupied by a large number of families. The building is of wood and offered little resistance to the flames. One man is reported to have jumped from the third floor and was badly injured. The building will be a total loss and in a monetary way | will not amount to more than $10,000. The name of the man who jumped from the third story cannot be learn ed. It is learned on further invest- gation that all the occupants of the building were rescued. York Eptvoith League. The York district Epworth league convention closed Monday night at Aurora. About fifty delegates were in attendance. The principal speaker was R. N. McKaig , D.D. The officers ' elected for the ensuing year are : President , H. C. Seidel ; secretary , A. I * J. Armstrong ; treasurer , Charles S. Brown. Woman Accidentally Shot. Mrs. Arthur Babcock , wife of a prominent stockman west of Lyons , was accidentally shot through both limbs. Mrs. Babcock is an expert rnarkswoman , and had been out ex terminating a litter of young skunks , and had handed the rifle to the hired hand , who in some manner accidentally - c ally discharged it. e Degree of Honor Convention. The annual convention of the De gree of Honor of District No. 2 , com prising the counties of Gage , Richard son , Pawnee , Johnson and , Saline , con vened at Beatrice with about 100 del egates present. Mrs. S. E. Gould , su perintendent , called the convention to order , after which Mayor Reed deliv ered the address of welcome. a Five Hundred Per Month. rj Mrs. Julia Montgomery Pratt , who recently returned from Boston to * Omaha to prosecute her divorce -ase J against Col. James H. Pratt , has lied an affidavit in the district court de claring it will take $500 a month to support her in the manner In which she has been accustomed to live. S is Arapahoe Wants' Stock Yards. Arapahoe wants the Burlington to & build large stock yards at that place P and to hurry un matters has appealed - _ AN UNDERGROUND GARDEN. Indiana Man Propose. , < o Mukc Coa * Vegetable * . Mine Produce Col. Frank B. Poser , who during last winter experimented with an underground winter's winds blow he - - . den producing radishes , onions , tulips babiscus and numerous other vegetables and flowers. , He declares that he has already demonstrated underground garden Is onstrated that his a success and not merely a dream. lhis developing his plan orv fall he will begin a large scale and proposes to have garden ' " his Cable and the- den /'truck" for own and friends , allL tables of bis neighbors to be taken from the mine garden. The plan of this garden presented it self to Col. Posey two years ago when * he , together with Attorney W. Z. Ben nett of Boonville , bought up several hun dred acres of hilly and broken land neair the little town of Yankeetown. It is on * this land that the mine is located. He-s believed that plant life would thrjve un der artificial light , and 'said ' so. Them he proceeded to prove his theory and did ? it by producing tulips and carnations , which flourished and bloomed in the gacr- den he laid out in the old mine. In one of the old rooms of this abnn- doned mine Col. Posey arranged a bedK for the plants. The plants needed light , . , so he arranged a small acetylene gas lamp * so its rays would fall evenly over the- bed. Within a short time flowers were * growing rapidly , and in less than halfi ? the time usually required for such vegeta tion to bloom , Col. Posey's "dream" wasr realized , and he was giving away flowers , to his friends in midwinter. An aetyene gas plant large enought to supply light for an ordinary dwelling ; , will be installed in the mine and tfie- lights so arranged that they will distrib ute their rays equally over the ground in * which the plants are growing. Mr. Posey * eays that he will raise radishes , onions , . , lettuce and other vegetables and various * , kinds of flowers during the next winte ? ; , LONGEST STEEL BRIDGE ! . Ke\v Hell Gate Strnctnre to Bo * TUree Miles Long- . Another ttep in the progress of tile * Pennsylvania railroad's New York tunn P extension was taken recently when planso for the East river bndge of the New- York connecting railroad were submitted * to the municipal art commission for itsi approval. This bridge will form part of & steel viaduct more than three miles * long , connecting the New York , New Ha ven and Hartford railroad system in the- Broni with the Long Island and the- Pennsylvania. It will be the longest and * heaviest steel bridge in the world. Eighty- thousand tons of steel will be used , ins its construction. It will carry four rail road tracks imbedded in stone ballast so * as to render the structure noiseless. Plans for the bridge over the waters o5 the Hell gate show a steel arch span of" 1,000 feet between abutments. These- abutments are stone towers dividing the-- arch bridge proper from the steel viaducts * that form approaches to it. The towers * will rise to a height of 200 feet and wilK contain Brooms needed for railroad opera tion. The tracks themselves will be 14O feet above the water. . A New Sheet Metal Workers' Union or ganized recently in Red Wing , Minn. San Francisco retail grocery clerks met recently and formed a union. The Kansas City ( Mo. ) Labor Tem ple Association has decided to commenos- work on its building. The total membership of the Women's Trade Union League in Great Britain is * in excess of 135,000. . The Brooklyn silver workers' strike for- the nine-hour day resulted in a complete * victory for the men. In the Gloucester ( England ) district the foundrymen's wages have been ad1- vanced one shilling a week , with one- hour's reduction in time. One of the pioneer labor unions of this * country is the Journeymen Stone Cut ters J of Newark , N. J. , organized May lOi. 1834. / The headquarters of the International * Union of Carriage and Wagon Workers * of America -will shortly be established ii > Washington , D. C. The Horseshoers' Union of Boston has * won its increased scale for the current : year and all the men have returned t < work. V An immigration bill now pending in the- British Columbia Legislature imposes ac * . educational qualification , which it is be lieved will result in barring Chinese , Japs-- and Hindoos. In Boston many of the labor unions , make their meetings interesting and in structive by having men well versed on * , trades and mechanics deliver short ad dresses or lectures bearing on the prac tical in the particular trade of the union * , addressed. More than 90 per cent of the stereo- typers and electrotypers of the United * States and Canada are within the ranks- of the union , while in many of the larger- cities it is not an uncommon thing to ffn& every workman at the business a member- of the union. An important step toward conciliation * has been taken on the northeast coast oF England by the decision recently to es tablish a conciliation board for the re-u- ° latum of wages and the settlement or trade disputes , and with arbitration , should the parties fail to agree. Wages of the coal miners of England' and \\ales are to be increased 5 per cent- This applies to all - underground labor and ! the > WafS and o surface Iab ° r engaged on , screens in manipulatin- the coal. ° / A strong branch of the American Fed eration of Labor has been established ins Mexico , me organization takes in alfc ? ° rS \ ° far the membership confined to Americans who work m ? ' sanization has new ma-.ubers in the southern re public and the jsomiw is held forth tha * he membership will soou be doubled.