TROPICAL TEMPERATURE.

The Republicans of Hopkins county are earnestly requested to meet at their several voting precincts on Saturday, July 27, 1901, at 1 o’clock p.m., to select delegates to the county convention to be held at Madisonville the following Monday, July 29th, 1901 at 1 o’clock, p.m. In addition to nominating a county ticket, the delegates chosen from each magisterial district will choose candidates for magistrates and constables. The basis of representation will be one delegate for every fifty and a fraction over twenty-five votes cast for President McKinley at the last November election, which will entitle each precinct to the following number of delegates:White Plains, 2; Nortonville, 1; Mortons Gap, 3; St. Charles, 4; Lake, 5; Northeast Earlington, 5; Barnsley, 1; Courthouse, 2; Elk, 3; Cotton, 2; East Hanson, 3; West Hanson, 1; Oak Wall, 2; North Nebo, 3; South Nebo, 2; Dalton, 2; Silent Run, 1; Charleston, 2; Dawson, 3; Ilsley, 4; Kitchen, 3; Manitou, 1; Richland, 2.J. B. Harvey, Chairman.Chas. Cowell, Secretary.

White Plains, 2; Nortonville, 1; Mortons Gap, 3; St. Charles, 4; Lake, 5; Northeast Earlington, 5; Barnsley, 1; Courthouse, 2; Elk, 3; Cotton, 2; East Hanson, 3; West Hanson, 1; Oak Wall, 2; North Nebo, 3; South Nebo, 2; Dalton, 2; Silent Run, 1; Charleston, 2; Dawson, 3; Ilsley, 4; Kitchen, 3; Manitou, 1; Richland, 2.

J. B. Harvey, Chairman.

Chas. Cowell, Secretary.

Deglan McGrath has typhoid fever, and his many friends are much concerned about him.

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The Fervent Heat Seems to Gather Strength With Each Succeeding Day.

Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana and Ohio Appear to Be Covered by the Hot Blanket—Deaths and Prostrations Numerous.

St. Louis, July 23.—Monday will go on record as the hottest day in St. Louis up to date.

At 11 o’clock the mercury stood at 102 degrees on top of the federal building, and was climbing at the rate of two degrees an hour.

At noon it registered 105 degrees and gradually climbed to 107 by the official thermometer, while street readings showed as high as 110.

The heat belt covers a radius around St. Louis of 100 miles. St. Louis is almost the central point.

About three o’clock in the afternoon St. Louisans experiences a veritable hot wave, lasting several minutes. It seemed as though the doors of the nether regions had been thrown open and a hot blast emitted that seemed to almost blister everything it came in contact with. As on Sunday, night brought little relief and sleep was almost out of the question. The protracted hot spell is having a depressing effect, and much illness, especially among the aged, is resulting.

Kansas City, Mo., July 23.—A veritable hot blast literally scorched this city Monday, breaking all heat records in the history of the local weather bureau. Sunday, Kansas Cityans experienced the hottest weather ever known here, the government thermometer reaching 104 and remaining above the 100 mark for seven consecutive hours. Two dozen prostrations, nine fatally, was the result. Monday, at 3:30 o’clock the bureau thermometer at the highest point in the city showed 106 degrees, while thermometers in the business district on the streets reached as high as 128. The thermometer at 8 a.m., registered 90, was 101 at noon, and at 3 p.m. broke the record at 104.6. Hardly a breath of air stirred. The suffering was intense, especially among persons compelled to work out doors and in the poor districts in the bottoms. Seven deaths from prostrations were reported during the day in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kas., and over thirty people, overcome by the heat, were treated. This makes a total dead for the two days of 16. Most of the victims were elderly people.

The highest previous temperature in history of the Kansas city weather bureau was 103, in August, 1896, but it only remained near that point for one day. Monday was the thirty-second in succession on which the temperature has averaged above 90 degrees, and the fifteenth in that time that the thermometer has gone above 100.

Sedalia, Mo., July 23.—There have been two deaths from the heat here. The government record of temperature, Monday, showed 106 degrees.

Jefferson City, Mo., July 23.—Monday was equal to last Friday as the hottest day of the season, the government thermometer standing at 114.

Des Moines, Ia., July 23.—The government thermometer registered 109 degrees here at 3:30 Monday afternoon, the highest official record in the history of Des Moines. Two deaths from the heat and numerous prostrations were reported.

According to reports to Director Sage, of the crop bureau, and to local grain men, the past few days have been disastrous to Iowa corn, except in localities which have had rain recently.

Keokuk, Ia., July 23.—The weather bureau recorded 108 degrees of heat here Monday, it being the sixth day of temperatures above 100 and the thirty-second of above 90. All reports indicate that corn is being seriously damaged.

Sioux City, Ia., July 23.—The maximum temperature here, Monday, was 105, three degrees below Sunday’s maximum.

Topeka, Kas., July 23.—Three deaths and ten prostrations form Monday’s record of the heat in Topeka. The thermometer registered 106 as its maximum. It has been three degrees higher during the heated season, but the humid air made the day the most oppressive of the year. Most of the active work was stopped for the day. The Kansas river is very low, but the supply of water in the city mains is as yet plentiful.

At Lawrence, the state university reported the heat record for Kansas again broken, with the mercury at 106.5 degrees, the highest in 34 years.

Leavenworth, Kas., July 23.—At Fort Leavenworth, Monday, the weather bureau thermometer registered 108 degrees, as against 106¼ on Sunday. Capt. R. H. Allen, post adjutant, was prostrated by the heat, while at his desk in the afternoon, and taken to his home. Five other prostrations were reported.

Sylvan Grove, Kas., July 23.—The heat, Sunday, was the most terrific of the season. The thermometer registered and maintained 111 from ten until four o’clock. Monday morning at eight o’clock it registered 102. The drought still continues, with no signs of abatement.

Omaha, Neb., July 23.—The weather conditions, Monday, continued of the most uncomfortable nature. The temperature at 7 a.m. registered 83 and at noon the 100 mark was reached with 104 at 4 p.m., only eight-tenths of a degree below Sunday’s high record of the day. At 5 p.m. a refreshing breeze came up and afforded some slight measure of relief.

Springfield, Ill., July 23.—All heat records in Springfield were broken, Monday, when, for three hours, the mercury in the government thermometer stood at 107, the highest ever recorded. Thermometers on the street level registered as high as 110 in the shade. There were several prostrations. Director Guthrie of the local weather bureau states that reports from all over the state indicate that the corn is withstanding the heat and drought remarkably well.

Indianapolis, Ind., July 23.—Monday was the hottest day on record in Indianapolis. The official record was 106 at two o’clock in the afternoon. At the same hour thermometers along the business streets recorded 110 and 112. There were two deaths and three prostrations from heat.

At the camp of the Indiana national guard all drills were suspended. Sixty men were overcome during the day, but all rapidly recovered, with the exception of seven, who are in the brigade hospital. Many animals were stricken, and livery men are refusing to hire horses.

Cincinnati, July 23.—All previous heat records here were eclipsed, Monday, when the official government thermometer at the office of the local weather bureau reached 106 degrees at 2:30 in the afternoon, and remained there for about an hour. Fortunately the humidity at that time registered only 25, and there were but few prostrations.

The United States Government Will Garrison and Hold the Famous Stronghold.

New York, July 20.—In addition to the other bases of supply demanded in the Platt amendment, it is the intention of the administration to permanently retain Morro castle, overlooking the harbor of Havana. This the Washington correspondent of the World says is announced on the highest authority. It is the intention, says the World’s special, to occupy, control and defend the stronghold with United States troops after the government of the island has been handed over to the Cubans. The plan is to equip the fortress with modern artillery, in order that Cuba may be assisted in defending herself against outside interference, and also that the United States may thus have a guarantee against failure on the part of the Cuban government to carry out its pledges and the terms of the treaty now in course of preparation as between this country and Cuba. Under this treaty the retention of the fort is provided for.

At this time Morro castle is crumbling with the weight of years and is of small account as a fortress. Spain was 100 years in building it. The fort was begun in 1667 by Oregon Gaston, governor of Havana, with money from the receipts from Mexico, then owned by Spain. Millions of dollars were squandered upon it, and when it was completed it was acknowledged to be one of the most formidable forts in the world.

But Spain was not satisfied, and $3,000,000 more was expended upon the castle during the governship of Juan Francisco Guymas, who, when the work was finished, said: “Pass it who can.”

Morro eventually became the most dreaded of all the prisons of Spain. Men of all classes, rich and poor, high-born and humble, have entered its gates never to return to their friends. It was really more as a prison than as a fort that Morro became known throughout the civilized world. Hundreds upon hundreds of men have died the slow death of despair in its subterranean vaults. From it there was no escape unless the magic power of money was at hand to aid the unfortunate.

Some years before the war of this country with Spain Morro castle was restored to its original use as a fort and Cabanas became the principal prison of the island and one of the most wretched in the world.

Intense Heat in the Central Valleys and Middle Rocky Mountain Region.

Outlook for Corn Less Favorable—In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky is in Need of Rain—Practically Ruined in Missouri and Kansas—Other Crops.

Washington, July 24.—Following is the weather bureau’s weekly summary of crop conditions:

Intense heat has prevailed another week throughout states of the central valleys and middle Rocky mountain region, with only local showers over limited scattered areas. Maximum temperatures of 100 degrees or above were of daily occurrence over more or less of the territory named. Under these conditions the drought has been greatly intensified, and its area largely increased. Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and portions of Nebraska have suffered most, but the conditions are now critical from the lake region, central Ohio valley and Tennessee westward to the middle Rocky mountain region, including the greater part of Texas. Portions of the middle and South Atlantic states continue to suffer from excessive moisture, but very favorable temperatures have been experienced in these districts, and also on the Pacific coast, where the week was cooler than usual.

The outlook for corn is less favorable than at the close of the previous week. In Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri early corn is practically ruined. With early and abundant rains in these states late corn would probably make half a crop or less. The condition of the crop in Iowa is more favorable than in the before-mentioned states, and copious rains with moderate temperatures within a week would greatly improve prospects for a large part of the crop. In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, more particularly the western portions of the last-named states, corn is now seriously in need of rain. In Illinois the crop has not yet sustained great damage, but will be materially reduced unless the drought is relieved within a week. In the middle Atlantic states the conditions have been highly favorable for corn and its condition is further improved.

Moisture has done considerable injury to winter wheat in shock in the middle Atlantic states. Harvesting continues where unfinished, in the more northerly section east of the Rocky mountains, and is in general progress on the north Pacific coast.

Spring wheat harvest has begun over the southern portion of the spring wheat region, where, as a result of premature ripening, the yield and quality is much impaired. Over the northern portion, where the crop is now ripening, its condition continues promising.

Harvested oats have suffered some injury in shock from moisture in the middle Atlantic states, and the unharvested crop from premature ripening in the northwest, while rust has caused injury from the upper Ohio valley.

Haying is mostly finished and a fine crop was secured in North Dakota, Minnesota, the lake region, Ohio valley, portions of the middle Atlantic states and New England.

In portions of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida the condition of cotton has improved, but in the two last-named states and in the Carolinas it has suffered from lack of cultivation. Rain is greatly needed in Tennessee and over the western portion of the cotton belt, where, however, the crop is generally withstanding the drought well.

In the Ohio valley, Tennessee and Wisconsin, tobacco is suffering much from drought, especially in western Kentucky, and has been injured by rains in Maryland; elsewhere the crop has made favorable progress.

Throughout the central valleys the prospects for apples have been further reduced, and no improvement is reported from New England and the middle Atlantic states. On the whole, the fruit outlook is not encouraging.

Helena, Mont., July 21.—Fierce forest fires are reported raging west of Missoula. The Northern Pacific and Anaconda companies have large forces of men at work endeavoring to prevent their spreading. There are several distinct fires, and the loss will probably be heavy.

New York, July 23.—The race between the Constitution and the Columbia on Long Island sound, Monday, again demonstrated that the Constitution is the faster fair-weather craft. In a light breeze and smooth water, over a 21-mile course, Columbia was defeated 4 minutes 18 seconds.

Naples, July 23.—Signor Francesco Crispi is now in a state of exhaustion. The members of his family and some of his best friends and political followers have been summoned here, as it is feared that he will die.

New York, July 23.—The United States torpedo boat Adder was launched at the Crescent ship yards at Elizabeth, N.J., Monday.

Threshing wheat, gathering blackberries and discussing the dry weather is the order of the day.

Misses Allie and Annie Campbell, of Nebo, are visiting relatives here.

Mrs. Bradley Croft, of Empire, is very sick with typhoid fever.

Dick Stanley has a bran new girl at his house.

Charles Fox and wife, of Orange Grove vicinity, were guests of W. F. Crick, Sunday.

Rev. Moore, of Madisonville, preached at Rock Springs, Sunday.

Otho Price went to Earlington, Monday to see about getting a job in the round house.

The picnic at Mannington was a success in every way, being a rival of the Lakeside Park picnics. Mesrs. Meacham and Bowles, of Crofton, were there to keep order and they performed their duty well.

Gus McIntosh, of Mannington, is quite ill with fever.

Rev. Shemmel is conducting an interesting meeting at Highway school house.

Lucian Hight has been very sick for the last few days.

Mr. and Mrs. Long, of Casky, attended the picnic at Mannington and remained over till Sunday with relatives.

Mrs. Pyles, of Crofton, is visiting her daughter-in-law here.

The protracted meeting at Cole’s Chapel has closed, with thirteen additions to the church.

We will wager a glass of lemonade that there are more girls here of frying size who want to catch fellows than any other place of like size in Kentucky.

Meacham Davis and wife, of Kelley, visited here last week.

Odie Davis, of White Plains, was in this vicinity last week, taking options on land for an oil company.

Mrs. Ollie Crick has just returned from a three weeks’ visit to her daughter who lives near Highway.

There is talk of a grand picnic to be given at new New Empire some time during August.

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Our enterprising watchmaker, W. G. Barter, has moved his jewelry-store from Jno. X. Taylor’s drugstore, to the adjoining room, which was formerly Alexander barber shop, and has greatly increased his stock.

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Through Chair Cars to Texas.All Cotton Belt trains carry handsome Free Chair Cars, Memphis to Texas, without change You can adjust the chairs in these cars so that you will have an easy seat during the day or a comfortable place to sleep at night.Besides Chair Cars, Cotton Belt trains carry Pullman Sleepers at night and Parlor Cafe Cars during the day.Write and tell us where you are going and when you will leave, and we will tell you the exact cost of a ticket and send you a complete schedule for the trip. We will also send you an interesting little booklet, “A Trip to Texas.”F. R. WYATT, T.P.A., Cincinnati, Ohio.E. W. LaBEAUME, G.P. and T.A., St. Louis, Mo.

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Crescent SanitariumCOR. FIRST AND WALNUT STS.EVANSVILLE, IND.The Crescent Sanitarium wishes to call the attention of the public to the fact that it has been open for the reception of patients for a year and a half, during which time over 150 surgical operations were performed without a death or a single case of blood poisoning. Patients have all advantages of hospital facilities, and at the same time enjoy all comforts of home life thus avoiding the restrictions and publicity necessary in public hospitals.A corps of trained nurses are in constant attendance, thus avoiding delay in gratifying the slightest wants of the patient.A. M. HAYDEN, M.D.J. W. PHARES, M.D.

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A corps of trained nurses are in constant attendance, thus avoiding delay in gratifying the slightest wants of the patient.

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GILLILAND—We are authorized to announce John R. Gilliland, of Ilsley Precinct, Postoffice address St. Charles, a candidate for County Clerk, subject to the action of the Republican party.

MURPHEY—We are authorized to announce C. H. Murphey, of Madisonville, a candidate for County Clerk, subject to the action of the voters of Hopkins County at the November election.

HARRIS—We are authorized to announce J. F. Harris a candidate for Jailer, subject to the action of the Republican Party.

GOWER—We are authorized to announce G. W. Gower, of Madisonville, a candidate for Jailer, subject to the action of the Republican party.

LYNN—We are authorized to announce W. H. Lynn as candidate for Assessor of Hopkins county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention to be held on Monday, July 29.

A rabbi, of Wabash, Ind., offers to sell to the Postoffice Department a discovery by which he claims the mails can be carried across the Atlantic in two days. This beats the Jews.

A Cleveland man who would not support his children was arraigned in court by a humane agent and fined $100 and costs and given ninety days. His sentence will keep him in the work house for eighteen months—a good place for a man who will not work outside.

W. H. Lynn announces as candidate for Assessor of Hopkins county subject to the decision of the Republican party in convention at Madisonville Monday, July 29. Mr. Lynn is thus far the only candidate to announce his candidacy publicly. He is a man well qualified for the place, knows the county and its people well, but says with commendable patriotism that if there is a man found who wants the place and is better qualified than himself, he is for that man.

A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa., relative to the strike of the stationary firemen says:

More mines were in operation and more coal was hoisted in the Wyoming valley today than any day since the stationary fireman’s strike began. Despite any action that may be taken by the officers of the United Mine Workers’ association, the fact cannot be denied but that the United Workmen as a body are anxious to get back to work. How long they can be kept out by the executive heads is entirely problematical.

History is repeating itself in the matter of union dictation to men who would work if they were not interfered with.

Eugene V. Debs in a speech at the Kankakee, Ill., Chautauqua last Saturday had this to say on the question of the steel strike:

“There is no use for the Federation of Labor to bluff, for it simply injures the cause of labor with the American people. The Federation has not two million members. It has not half that number. When it says it can raise $500,000 a week, it is simply bluster and blow. It cannot raise $5,000 a week. I have had experience in raising money for strikers. It is not thus that strikes are settled.”

Eugene ought to know what a strike bluff is and seems to speak honestly this time.

In this issue appears the announcement of G. W. Gower, of Madisonville, for Jailer of Hopkins county, subject to the action of the Republican convention, which meets at Madisonville next Monday, July 29. Mr. Gower is well and favorably known throughout the county and has served very acceptably in the past as city marshal of Madisonville. No one is better qualified for the office than he. He is making an active canvas for the nomination and says if his is favored by the convention he will do his utmost to see the entire ticket elected in November.

We quote from Glenn’s Graphic a comment on what came near being a serious riot at the county seat on Monday of last week:

There is no one who is in favor of law and its enforcement who can or will defend these men in their unlawful acts of last Monday. Here in Madisonville, a town that in the past has been noted as being the most quiet and orderly in the state, an officer in the discharge of his duty attempts to arrest a man for an offense committed. The man refuses to be arrested, two of his race come to his rescue and they interfere by demanding that the officer shall turn the man loose and go and arrest the other—a white man, before they would agree to the arrest. These men were not citizens of this county, some of them were not citizens of the state, they are colored men from elsewhere, yet in broad daylight, in the presence of the people they defy the officer of the law.How do the people of Madisonville, of Hopkins county like this state of affairs? Are they pleased to see colored men from elsewhere parade our town with pistols and when an officer attempts to preserve order and enforce law, have bullies set up themselves in defiance to the constituted authorities?

How do the people of Madisonville, of Hopkins county like this state of affairs? Are they pleased to see colored men from elsewhere parade our town with pistols and when an officer attempts to preserve order and enforce law, have bullies set up themselves in defiance to the constituted authorities?

Business men of Wellsville, Ohio, which place has for the past several days been called the “storm center” of the steel strike, have been using their influence to prevent the steel workers joining President Shaffers’s strike for union supremacy. Confronted, as they are, with what seems a certainty that if the present trouble goes much farther, the Wellsville plant will be lifted and taken across the line into Pennsylvania. Many of the men realize the force of this argument which is emphasized by the fact that they are themselves owners of Wellsville property, the value of which is dependent upon the regular operation of the steel works at that point. One prominent man, however, opposes the position taken by the merchants. Mayor Dennis, who seems to think the votes lie in the direction of union workmen and sympathizers, says the business men ought to keep out of it.

Sam Jones says many reckless and foolish things, but he also says some very true and sensible things. Referring to strikes and the rights of the laborer, he says:

I believe a dozen men or a thousand men or a million men have a perfect right to strike whenever they gentlemanly please—lay down their implements and quit work, and right there and right then they have done everything they have a right to do by human and divine law, and when they do any more they outlaw themselves and ruin their cause. Capital has a perfect right to discharge labor whenever it gentlemanly pleases, but when capital says “I will not employ you, and no one else shall employ you,” then capital has outlawed itself and damaged its cause. Capital has as much right to run around to the employers of labor in this country and beat up or cuss down anybody that will employ their discharged men as laboring men have to hang around the shops and mines from which they have been discharged or voluntarily severed their connection, with sticks and rocks and say to capital: “We won’t work for you, and nobody else shall work for you.”

Samuel’s English may be a little lame at times, but the proposition he here lays down is based on sound sense and justice.—Nashville American.

Mr. Shaffer, the man who is at the head of the big steel strike, said in a speech at Wellsville last week:

Many of the older workmen present who have worked with me in the rolling mills know what the word “strike” means. In those old days we used to close the mills, throw out pickets, guard the railway depots and lay in a good supply of intoxicating spirits, thus priming for mischief and depredations of any sort. If persons thinking other than we did came to take our positions they were beaten and sent out of town. We do differently now.

It would be interesting to know just when strikers began to do differently. Such words as these by the President of the Amalgamated Association would be far more impressive if spoken at the end instead of the beginning of the strike. Let us hope that they can be spoken then.—Courier-Journal.

The strike ordered by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers for the purpose of coercing three of the companies embraced in the United States Steel Corporation will be regarded with keen interest by all persons acquainted with the grounds on which the manufacturers of the United States are able to compete with those of Great Britain and other European countries. We do but state the naked truth when we say that, if this strike should prove successful, our employers of skilled labor would be gradually subjected to disabilities which, ultimately, would put an end to the hope of competition with their transatlantic rivals in the markets of the world.

The fundamental difference between the powers of extensive, quick and improved production possessed by American manufacturers, on the one hand, and by British manufacturers on the other, is that, by comparison, the latter are now, and have been for a good many years, under the heel of the trade unions. In almost every branch of British manufactures the trade unions prescribe, not only the rate of wages and the hours of labor, but also the amount of work to be performed by a given workman in a given time, and the kind of machinery to be used. Instead of opening a career to energy, assiduity and talent, the whole system of British industry, as organized by the trade unions, is adjusted to a low average capacity of diligence and of intelligence. Far from being encouraged, a vigorous or a specially skillful workman is discouraged from turning out more than the average amount of product during the fixed hours of labor, as also for working overtime for extra pay. Improvements in machinery intended to economize time or labor are eyed with suspicion and can be introduced only after long delay and with the utmost difficulty. In England, as compared with the United States, the inventor finds no incentive. The result is that now the British manufacturer is unable to vie with his American competitor in branches of industry where rapidity of execution is essential, or where the employment of the latest mechanical devices is indispensable to the cheapness or the perfection of a product.

It is indisputable that American labor associations are organized on the same fundamental principle which actuates the trade unions of Great Britain. That is to say, their aims, demands and regulations are based on the primary assumption that the whole industrial system should steadily keep in view the interests, not of employers, nor of workmen exceptionally gifted in intellect or character, but those of the great mass of operatives possessed only of average physical, mental and moral qualities. The inevitable outcome of such a system, where it is carried out with a completeness now approached in Great Britain, is a reduction of a nation’s industry to a dead level of achievement to a status of Chinese stagnation with respect both to quality and quantity. Such would be the drear and hopeless prospect which would confront our manufacturers, should our labor associations gain the nearly absolute mastery of industrial conditions which the trade unions have managed to acquire in the United Kingdom.

Should the present steel strike prove successful, our labor associations will have made a long stride toward the acquirement of such mastery. The strike has been ordered, not because of any disagreement between employers and employed with regard to wages or to the hours of labor, but because certain companies have refused to put in the hands of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers the means of forcing every non-union workman employed by those companies to join that society. Were the principle asserted by the Amalgamated Association to be accepted by the three companies now subjected to coercion, it would presently be applied to every constituent company of the United States Steel Corporation, and, this colossal combination of capital once conquered, all outside representatives of the iron and steel industries would, of course, speedily succumb. From that moment all the employers of skilled labor in this vast field of production would be at the mercy of the employed, firmly organized as they all would be in American counterparts of the British trade unions, with regard not only to the rate of wages and the hours of labor, but also to the encouragement of inventive talent and the introduction of improved machinery. The bright, and thus far continually brightening, outlook of the iron and steel industries of the United States would have been eclipsed forever.

There could be no better time than the present to answer once for all the question whether American manufacturers of iron and steel will bow their necks to the yoke which their British competitors have long found too heavy to be borne.—N.Y. Sun.

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The Lehigh Valley Coal Company today secured a preliminary injunction from Judge Halsey to restrain a number of striking employes from interfering with the firemen at work at the Maltby colliery Swoyersville, and from gathering about the homes of the workmen, intimidating them or molesting them by the picket system or any other way.—Exchange.

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