Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
March 13, 1908

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WMU OF Kennkbjek Tom-Mit VOL. XXXIX. AUGUSTA, MAINE, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 13,1908—TEN PAGES. NO. 63 CUT IN WAGES, Ten Per Cent. Reduction In Lowell, Mass., Mills. Not Wholly Unexpected Bill Not Pleasing to Help. Other Centers of Cotton Industry Expected to Follow. Boston, March 12.—A general re duction in the wages of the cotton mill operatives of the North will be made during the latter part of the month and following weeks according to mill men in this city and in several leading textile centers. A definite announce-^ rnent that the present wage scale would be lowered has been expected for some time in view of the fact that on Feb. 4 it was strongly intimated in mill circles here that a cut would have to be made. Today notices were posted in all the cotton mills of Lowell on receipt of the Instructions from the head offices here, informing the 20.000 operatives that wages will he reduced to average 10 per cent, beginning Monday, March 30. The mills in Lowell are owned by the Appleton, Boott, Lawrence, Massa chusetts, Merrimac, Hamilton and Tre mont and Suffolk corporations. All manufactures cloth except the Law rence Manufacturing Co., which makes hosiery and underwear. With tlie ex ception of the Stark mills of Man chester, X. H., whieli announced Tues day that a reduction of about eight per cent, will be made in the wages of the 1500 employes, the Lowell mills are the first in the cotton industry in New England to give positive notice of a cut. It is understood that practically all the cotton mills in northern New Eng land will post notices during the next few days announcing a reduction. In southern New England, there is some uncertainty as to the time a cut will he made. In Pall River a sliding scale agreement exists between the Manufacturers Association and the Textile Council, and under its terms no change can be made until May 25. Tile agreement is based upon the av erage margin between the cost of cot ton in the New York market and the selling price of standard 2S-inoh filxG4 'print cloths, the agreement living re newed at the end of six months. The last agreement became effective on Nov. 25. 1907. Since that time the margin has steadily fallen off. indicat ing that the 25,000 operatives in the association mills in Fall River will re ceive less wages in the spring. Under the present arrangements the average between the prices of cotton and standard print cloths governs tiie wage rate in the six months following the period in width the averages are com puted. The Fall River system affects direct ly the mills in that litv. East Taunton nr.d se/veral places, so that manufac turers of goods other than print cloths now usually make their changes in wage schedules without regarding con ditions there. Nothing is known here concerning (Continued on Page Three.) 7-20-4 ]0e. cigar. Actual increase for past twelve months. Two Million. Two llur. (I ret I Thousand. HI. C. Barnard Co. BROKERS 35 Congress Street, Boston. New York and Boston Stock Exchange Stocks and Curb Stocks sold for cash or on an original Eleven Payment Plan (No Margins.) BUY AMALGAMATED U. S. STEEL CAL. ARIZONA GOLDFIELD CON. NIPISSING EUREKA MINES CO. A consolidation of valuable properties in one of the com ing camps. When we visited this camp in July, there were only three producing mines. At this time there are be tween twelve and fifteen. The 8 per cent, preferred stock which will be listed im mediately upon the Curb, and will sell from $1.00 to $1.25 a share. Edwin H. Langston 101 Water St., Augusta, Me. LOCAL AGENT. luchTdltv BATTLESHIP FLEET AT MAGDALENA BAY.

Better Shape Than When It Left Hamp ton Beads and Ready For Any Service at One Day’s Notice. Ran Diego, dal,, March 12.—A wire less iiK-s&jfE'received late Wednesday nigtit by" the Point Loma government wireless station was to the effect that Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans and his big battleship fleet arrived oft' Magda lena bay early Wednesday night. Ac cording to the message the fleet lay off Magdalena until early Thursday when, it proceeded into the bay. The news that the big fleet has arriv ed at Magdalena bay comes as a big surprise. The itinerary of the long voyage beginning with the start from Hampton Roads on Dec. It; last did not call for the arrival of the ships at Mag dalena until Sunday so with their ar rival at the Mexican bay Wednesday night the fleet is almost four days ahead of time. It has been known for some weeks past that the "big sixteen" would ar rive at its practicing ground ahead of time, but it was never suspected that such an excellent showing as this would be made. The important fact about it is that most of the four days’ gain in time was made on the last stretch of the voyage from Callao. Previous to the visit at that port, not withstanding the various stops, they were at tlie full length called for in the itinerary. It is said that an official message was also received from Rear Admiral Evans himself Wednesday night at the wire less station here to be transmitted to Washington reporting his arrival with ali of the ships in the fleet in even better condition than when they sailed from Hampton Hoads and thitt-the. en tire fleet is prepared: fb sail for* any j destination at an hohr’s■'notice. •_ i The news that the fleet had arrived j at Magdalena bay early in the even- i ing was received at the wireless sta tion at 20 minutes past midnight. The message further stated.; that target) practice would be started by the fleet’ just as soon as the targets are set up and placed in' tWt‘ir'^-respective posi-j tions. It is expected that this will be i done Saturday or Sunday and that the j battleships will begin practice the first j of next week when they will go after the world’s records in target Work. The work of towing the targets for the fleet will be done by the transport Huflalo which arrived at Magdalena a few weeks ago and by the Mare Is land navy yard tug Fortune which passed Ran Diega last Sunday en route to the Mexican bay. The Dower California Developme nt i Co’s, steamer St. Denis left Rail Di ego Tuesday bound for Magdalena hay with a party of prominent citizens of Sun Diego to welcome Rear Admiral Evans. Included in the party are Mayor Joan F. Forward of Ran Diego; Col. D. C. Collier, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Senator D. A. Wright, chairman of the invitation committee for the Evans Citizens' committee of this city and Judge I,. D. Boone, mem ber ot the same committee. It was at liist intended that this party would arrive at Magdalena bay ahead of the fleet but owing to the warships' record run from Callao northward this will not lie possible. The Rt. Denis will ar rive at Magdalena Friday morning. The party will remain there only a 'lav or so and will then return to San Diego. News was also received by wireless Wednesday night that the supply ship Culgoa, one of the auxiliaries of the ‘'Big Sixteen.” is expected to arrive here March 1?. It is this vessel which sailed from Callao ahead of the fleet for the purpose of picking tip a full cargo of fresh supplies San Diego and Dos An geles merchants were successful bidders on furnishing these supplies to tile navy. The big new cruiser California which lias been at target practice during the past seveial weeks, left Magdalena bay Wednesday afternoon for San Diego and is expected to arrive Friday morning. The California will join Admiral Sebree's squadron here. Admiral Sobree with his "pathfinder squadron” composed of the Tennessee (flagship) and Washington, so named because it sailed in advance and paved the way for the big battleship fleet on its long cruise from Hampton Bonds, has been anchored off flan Diego since last Saturday. They came hero from Santa Barbara, where they had made a stop of four days. The Tennessee, Washington and Cali fornia will remain at San Diego until next Monday when they will leave for Son Pedro to make a short visit. The run was made through the torrid zone, after a cruise which had already covered more than 10,fH») miles and is taken as a remarkable demonstration of the fitness of the machinery, halls and crews under the most tiving test to which battleships of any nation were ever put. The waters in and about Magdalena hay are Strange sailing g’ruand for the offi cers of the fleet, most .of whom have gained .their. craft"of seamanship along the Atlantic .coast,' and for this reason the entrance was not toe closely ap proached during the night. Magdalena lias been used as an American naval- hasa by the vessels of the Pacific coast and by stray cruisers from (lie Atlantic squadron hut it now holds the greatest number of warships it has ever known and the echoes of the harbor hills soon will he awakened with a roar of guns far be yond anything ever heard on the Pacific coast. Naval oTleers here on board the Ten nessee, Washington and Albany marvelled today at the speed with which the fleet has been brought from Callao to Magda lena. Kven the least calculations mado after the Increased speed of the sldps was announced by wireless did not put the fleet into Magdalena hay before late this afternoon or tonight. COAL FOR EVANS. Three Colliers At Magdalena Bay to Replenish His Supply. Panin. Monica, Cal., March 12.—The t'liited Stater torpedo boat Preble. Captain Freeman lias arrived al Vt nice direct from Magdalena bay, where she had been for a week. The vessel will go lo Port Dos Angelee and take on coal that will enable her to continue her voyage to Pan Fran cisco. When the Preble left Magdalena hay on Monday morning, there were in the harbor three colliers, with coal for Admiral K vans’ battleships and (Continued on Page Ten.) Scout Cruiser Birmingham Averages 24.32 For Four Hours. Boston, March 12.—The new scout cruiser Birmingham. a product of the Fore ljiver Shipbuilding Co., com pleted successfully the second of her government contract requirements to day by maintaining for four hours a speed of 21.22 knots an hour in a run down the Xew Kngland const. In tile screw standardization test in Pe nobscot bay yesterday it was found that to reach her contract speed of 24 knots an hour, the Birmingham's screw would have to make 1S7.23 rev olutions a minute. During the four hours today, the screws average 191.CG revolutions a minute. Front that aver age the cruiser’s speed was ascertain Thr.se in cargo of the Birmingham on the trial said the cruiser was not rushed and that after more than the required screw revolutions had been attained the fire room pressure was kept at 2*4 inches, although the con tract permitted a pressure of five inches. The feature of the run was the al most entire absence of any vibration throughout tlie ship. The coal con sumption also proved satisfactory, but I this wiU he ascertained in the 24-hour trial at a 12-knot speed upon which the Birmingham started at C P. M. today. The 2l-1ieur endurance trial at 22'j knot speed will be made Saturday. NORTHERN LIGHT I A GROWING FAVORITE ALL DEALERS PETER LeFRANCIS SONS Manufacturers, Cambridge, Mass. I0 days and 5 minutes. She cleared Sandy Hook lightship at 11.09 A. M. March 7. She travelled over the long route, the total distance traversed being 2932 knots. Thp average of knots an hour for the whole trip was 2-1.42 as against her own previous record of 23.90. The eastward (lady average of the I.usltanla Is 23.6*. The best day’s run was 575 knots, with en avt-rago of 21.77 an hour. This was made on Tuesday. On Jan. 29, the Mauretania covered the same distance in a day. while bound east. The highest average run an hour by the German trans-Atlantic liners is 23.58, made by the Kaiser Wilhelm II.

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GARDINER Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Card of Wellesley are visiting' friends in the eity. Mrs. James Oenthner and daughter I.uoy liave returned from a visit to friends at Augusta. Mrs. S. B. Hathorne and Miss Maud j Marson of Richmond visited Mrs. Dan McPhec this week. Daniel McPhee and sister, Mrs. Jane Kiliain of Ellsworth called upon friends at-fctouth Gardiner Thursday. The Starlight Whist Club met Wednesday evening with Mrs. Edward Rice of Augusta. They were very pleasantly entertained and refresh ments were served at the close of the play. Two of the members were ab- i sent on account of illness. The lecture upon the Passion Play at Grand Army hall Riven last evening by Airs. Ella M. Keith of Worcester, Mass., under the auspices of the W. C. T. IT. was well attended. The views were excellent and were coupled with an interesting description of the Pas sion Play at Oberamergau by Mrs. Keith, who has twice attended it. Oilicers Mealy and Blaisdel! of the Humane society went to Hallowell yes terday and visited the stable of W. ri. j.ynn to look »it his stock. They found one horse in very poor condition and two heifers in fair condition. The of Heers stated that the stoek was not properly cared for and had not been cleaned out for some- time. There was no hay in the stable. The stock was moved until the owner puts the stable in order to receive it back again. A Masquerade Party. The Iota Sigma Society of the Con gregational church gave a very suc cessful Masquerade party at the par ish rooms last evening. About 30 cou ples of young people, the greater part of whom were in‘costumes, joined in the grand march. Noticeably among the costumes were Thomas Blanchard as a wltcli, Mary Shepard, Indian girl; Josephine Shepard as Spanish girl; Ruth Robinson and Paulo Williams as Kate Greenway girls: Hazel Anne as a grandmother; Gertrude Beckwith as a gypsy and Florence Scott ns a bride, with Lucille Quimby accompanying her as flower girl. Bames were played and refreshments served during the evening. The committee in charge con sisted of Arthur E. Smith, Miss Taula Williams, Roland Blanchard, Miss Ruth Robinson and Miss Gladys Pot ter. Funeral of Joseph M. Stanford. The funeral of Joseph M. Stanford was held at 2 o’clock yesterday after noon from his late residence, River road. South Gardiner. There was a large attendance of neighbors ami friends of the deceased anil some beau tiful floral tributes were in evidence. The pull bearers were Charles Cobb, Clarence Kincaid, Jere Preble and James Potter. The body was placed in the tomb to iiwait burial. J. At. Stan ford of Portland and Dr. Fred Baxter and son of Bangor were among those from "lit of town in attendance. Slight Morning Blaze. The house of James Snarr on High Hoi horn street caught fire about 8 o’clock yesterday morning from a de fective chimney and the tire had burn ed through on the roof when discover ed. it was extinguished, however, without calling out the department. The prompt action of D. C. Burr, who was driving by at the time in getting ladders to the roof undoubtedly saved the blaze from assuming serious pro portions. .Mr. Burr is a veteran fire man and formerly ran with the old Washingtons. Mrs. Eva C. Reed. Mrs. Kvn Reed, wife of F. E. Reed, died yesterday at her home on Maine avenue, after an illness of about a year. The husband, five daughters and a son survive. RANDOLPH. I, W. Goodf'-peed has been re elected superintendent of schools. 11. W. I’easlee went to Castine yester day to visit his sister, Mrs. Perkins. Airs. Frank Lambert and two chil dren left yesterday for Romford Falls. Members of the degree team of Ken nebec Cnnmmn lery, T O. G. C. will give n social this evening at .he home of Airs. Walter Morgan, 52 Windsor street. Through the efforts of Mrs. Ftar.k Stevens an individual eomimmion set iias been presented to the Randolph Mi thodisl church. The set was used for the first time last Sunday. There was a large attendance at the supper given last evening at the vestry >r the Methodist church by the Ladies’ Auxiliary. Following the supper an interesting lecture upon “Modern Aris tocracy'' was given by Rev. John Wat son. pastor of the Methodist church at Roothhay Harbor. Mr. Watson, who came to this State front the West is a forceful and oleoquent speaker and his lecture happily combined pathos, wit and huntor. The lecture was. the first of a series to ho given by Smith Chap ter of Tipworth I .vague. HALLOWELL. S. F. (Mazier of Boston is here on a visit with friends. Asa Libby will leave today for a short trip to Portland. M. XI. Johnson went to Boston yester day on a short business trip. Mrs. Joseph Willett is visiting her parents Xlr. and XIrs. Thomas Pooler. Xlrs. Susan Pattern has returned front an extended visit with friends in Bane, .Vt. Old South sale this evening and after noon at the vestry. Cooked food and aprons. Xfr. and Mrs. Sontuel George returned yesterday from a visit with relatives in Warren. Miss Helen Aldrich has accepted a po ■“iti»n wit!' tin- Tlallowell Heart Cure Co. «.f thin city. Don't forget the Box social and Slave sale i.t Cold >n Cross ball at 7.lift o'clock this cm ning. Earle Hobbs lias so far recovered from at’ attack of the grip as to be able to be out rut the streets yesterday. ilr. and Mrs. Wm. McBain arrived in this city from Barrc, Vt„ yester day and will make their future hotne here. Service inspectors of the X. E. Tel. Tel. Co. completed their tests in, this cny yesterday and moved on to Augusta. Bocal Representative Fuller has in stalled a 1 ‘ck box for any Journal items at .1. O. 'Whittier's snore. Please sign all communications. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Haines have dis posed of their farm in Litchfield and lot the present will make their home with Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Smith of this city. Harry Lord of Outer Central street reports seeing a deer feeding near his barn the first of the week. Mr. Lord was so near that he nearly laid hands on him. In tlie item Tuesday morning re ferring to tlie surprise party given to Lincoln Parlos. the name was given wrong. It should have been Lincoln 1!. Parks. Tlir class nC the High school will present the play “The Country Minister” at Augusta March 20, under the auspices of the Pythian Sisterhood of that city. Word has been received front Cali fornia to the effect that Alex Clark, formerly of Hallowell, is seridusly ill. Mrs. cln*-k and daughters are passing the winter nere. The peopl of Ilallowelt are fast be coming acquainted with the Picture theater by the way that they turned ou! last evening. They have special songs v. Inch are making n successful hit: “Panama,” and “Hyo, Hye, My Caroline.” Ollietr TUaisdell of the Humane So ciety Thursday forenoon v|site4, bis prize was also a pack of Congress playing cards. Miss Aida Hayward scored the lowest number of points for the ladies. Her prize was a lemon. Frank Fairbanks won the “booby” for the gentlemen, and received a pair of colored specta cles. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Merrill, Mrs. W. A. Whiting, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Towle, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Kempton, Dr. and Mrs. Knickerbocker, Mr and Mrs. K. A. Maxim, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Woodman, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Leighton, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Telle. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Penniman, Mrs. Winnie Gale, Charles Benson, Fred Benson, Miss Edith Itenson, Mrs. Sarah Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ber ry. J. P. Bishop, Miss Flora LaCroix, Mis- Hazel Shaw. Ralph Parker, Frank Fairbanks, S. Lee Woodman, Mr. Faulkner, Miss Williettc Moody. Mrs. Lydia Moody. Roy and Martha Thom as, Aida Hayward, Carl Hinds, Mrs. Frank Barr. E. IC. Wood, E. P. Mar tin, Miss Ida Morrill. R. A. Baird, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Charles Tibbetts, Elmer Fortier. Fred Drapcau and Mrs. Hel en Kimball. Birthday Surprise Party. About c:> friends and neighbors of Edwin Laughton gave him a surprise party at his home in West Winthrop Wednesday evening, in honor of his birthday anniversary. Ice cream and cake were served to the visitors and the evening most pleasantly passed at games and other amusements. Mr. Laughton was presented with a nice dress suit ease by his lriends and with a sum of money by his mother. Those present were: Miss Blanche Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. Delford Stan ton. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frost, Glen don and Frank Frost, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Perry and Caroline Perry, Mr. and Mrs. W. X. Kimball and Miss Ethyl Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Par rich, Agnes and Malcolm Parrish, Wil I lie. Howard, Elwood and Fred Buzzell. I Miss Lucy O.irr, Miss Elsie Davis. Walter Keith, Philip Walters, Willie Currier. Miss Jennie Gray. Bernard Davis, Carle ton Wood, Fred and Harry Frost, Zadie Danforth and Miss Elsie Moore. Sturtevant Hill. Beil Hayden. Ed. McLaughlin and George Kahetl Jr. have been getting out logs for I. Veaten, with Chns. Cum mins's OV.-I1. Mis. Frank Bales anil niece Lola were recent guests at Mr. Brown's. Miss Weston was a recent guest of relatives in the village. Denis Shepherd is working for Everett Macomber. Fr°d Reynolds is b aring down Ids old house, preparatory to building a new one this spring. Everett Willi Mils has purchased four cows of Kd Brooks. Mr. Brooks is go ing a wav. Tvhile coasting down \h adow l.ilt We.lnesdav eft* moon. Maria and Bay Bates met with an accident. Miss T'.ates received seratehes on the face, but Ml*. Hates escaped without injury. The sled was demolished. This is tl;o third line* this winter that Miss Bates lias met with a similar accident. EAST WINTHROP. Howard Drake is sawing wood for M. IS Hevvett. J. E. Spear passed Saturday and Sunday with his daughter in Augusta. Alice Longfellow was calling on friends in town recently. Charlie Stewart was calling on friends in Manchester Monday. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Kaulknham and little daughter were recent callers at W. F. Hewlett's. Ruby Jackson and the Misses Carr were recent visitors at William Lyon’s, Manchester. W. W. Albee was in town recently. E. B. Spear was at V. C. Jackson’s Monday. G. W. Whitting was in town one day last week. F AIRFIELD. Diphtheria In Fairfield. Every precaution is being taken to prevent an epidemic of diphtheria in this village, since the illness and death of Lona Ferland. One more case has been reported, the 8-year-old son of A. H. Frye, living near the Ferland home. All the town officials and doctors are taking every known measure to pre vent an outbreak. The Lower Gram mar school, in which the Ferland girl was a pupil, has been closed, the Catholic church fumigated, people cau tioned, the Board of Health looking after every exposed point and afford ing every known protection. it is hoped that no further cases will be reported. Lona Ferland. Lona Ferland, aged 8 years, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ferland, Water street, died at 7.30 Thursday morning, after a short illness with diphtheria. She was taken ill in church Sunday. A doctor was called Tuesday evening, but nothing could be done to save her. The home had been quarantined and was promptly fumi gated. The interment will be early this morning and will lie private. Mrs. Ellen Eaton. Mrs Kl!ci> Eaton of Skowhegar. died this morning at lire late home of creeping paralysis aged *1" year.-., after a- long illness. She was the wife of the late Horace Eaton. Mrs. Eaton was very well-known in this town and had a large circle of friend.-. The fun eral services will be held at i t*. .'.I. aturday from her lot bona. Mis. Eaton was a sister of the hue I'lnr! s E. Dim n of this villagi. SKOYVHEOAN. Skowhegan Grange. At the regular meeting lu-hl \v. .'.m .-day evening in tlie l’lons.int stn.■ t start ed by the Turf, Farm ami Home, were awarded- First, a Webster's nimbi idled dictionary, valued at $10, Mrs. V.\■ lyu W. Pratt; second, a Webster's ah'i Igml dic tionary, valued at $3, Airs Ilia; 11. Crow ell; third, books to the value of ?3, Airs. Emma W. Goodrich; fmulli, fifth and sixth, a year’s subscription to the Turf, Farm and Home. Airs. F. FI. 1 fill, Afrs. II I. Howell and Perigrine White. Search and Seizure At Hartland. The Knforcement deputies paid a visit Wednesday to the Park House in Hart land. The proprietor, Harry Williams, was arrested and brought here that af ternoon. A hearing was held before Judge O. It. Bachellcr in the municipal court. He waived the reading of the warrant and pleaded not guilts’. The charge was a search and seizure process. A small quantity of liquor was found. Ho was given a line of $100 and costs and CO days in jail. An appeal teas taken and bonds in the sum of $ivo furnished for his appearance at the Marsh term of court. His sureties Were G. H. Webb and K. I\ Viles, both of this town. WATERY ILLE. George Murphy In Critical State. A letter was received In this city Thursday by John Murphy, a brother of George Murphy, who was injured Wednesday morning1 at Squaretown by an accident in the woods, which stated that tlie injured man had been taken to his home in Bingham, where ho is still in a critical condition. His skull was badly injured, the scalp being al most all torn away and in order to save his life it will be necessary to trepan the skull. THE MINERS CONVENTION Meets At Indianapolis to Settle on New Wage Scale. Indianapolis, Ind, Mart'll 12.—The national convention of the United Mine Workers of America met here Thurs day to agree upon a course of action because of the failure of the operators and miners of the central competitive Held to agree on a joint wage schedule in place of the present one which ex pires April 1. The wage scales for the various bituminous fields of this country and Canada are based upon the scale fixed in the central competitive field consist ing of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and west ern Pennsylvania. Failure to agree up on a joint meeting to fix a scale in this field has caused Pres. John Mitchell to call a national meeting of the miners to take decisive action. Indications are that four propositions will be consider ed by the committee. The first will be to adopt wage demands and then issue a call for a joint wage conference, opening the door to all operators who may wish to come in, to sign a scale and keep their mines in operation. The se put into effect before the expiration of the Fall River agreement, which, except sentimentally, has no relation to the X \v Bedford situation. The Rhode Island schedules are invariably based on those of New Bedford and not on that paid in Fall River. Manufacturers give as reasons for the change in wages the depression in the cloth market, the high cost of cot ton and lower prices for goods. They also say that the existing wage sched ules are the highest paid since the Civil War. Many of the mills will con tinue tn curtail production until busi ness improves. The cotton mills in New England number 340 out of load in the United States. Of 300.000 cotton operatives in the country the New England mills em ploy at the present time about 183,000, a slight reduction front the number nt work last year. K ill River ltas 30,000 operatives, Rowell J. a Mi; Xcv. Bedford 2o,i"to; Manchester. N. II., 15,fMk,; Rhode Isla.nl, 31,000 and Lewiston, Me.. 0500. No Notice At Lawrence. Lawrence, Mass., March 12.—No notices oi a wage reduction by local mills have been posted as yet. but it Is rather ex pccled that there will be a cut here be fore long. Reduction Expected At Manchester. Manchester, N. II.. March 12. -Officials of several nf tin- Fading cotton mills In this city said to lay that no agreement bail been reached among the local manu facturers lvlntiv to a general reduction of wages. The feeling is general, how ever. that the aethin taken in I.owell to il iv will sooit t»e followed in this oltv. New Bedford Owners Reticent. Ni w Iteilfmil, .Mass.. March 12.—No no tices of a wag redta *n have been posted in the e.itjou .its of this city and the mantiCm. Mirers orally are ret icent regard! j their fiiti-e plans. They say, liowew that the textile business at the pr. sent lime is very much depressed. News to Lewiston Men. Lewiston, Mo., March 12.—The action oC the Lowell cotton mills in ordering a 10 per cent, mlr.ctinn In wages was news to Lewiston manufacturers Thursday af ternoon. They lmd no notices of any' such action in the Lewiston mills. No Reduction At Saco. Biddeford, Me.. March 12.—No notices of a wage reduction have been posted In the Pcpperell mills in Biddeford or tlio York mills in Saco. No intimation has been received here of any contemplated change in the present scale, so far as could be learned at the counting rooms Thursday. A SPECIAL CENSUS Will Be Conducted by Fre-chmen Among Their People In America. t Woonsocket, R. I.. March 12.—A de tailed census of the French population in the United States is to be begun within a short time under the general direction of the national committee of French Canadians, which was chosen at the convention of the French Cana dians of New England in Springfield in 1901, to look after the national in terests of persons of that parentage. It is planned to organized local com mittees in all the cities and towns throughout the country in which tho population includes French or French Canadians anti to assign the work of taking the census and furnishing local data and statistics in these places to these sub-committees. The headquar ters for the census taking will be In Danielson. Conn., the home of Presi dent Oiner La. Rue and See. C. J. Le Claire of the permanent committee of the national cause. Mrs. Clark Acquit* ted of Kidnapping. New York. Mar ’ll 12.—Mrs. Maude O. Clark was acquitted by a jury today of having kidnapped her 5-year-old son Carleton Clark from his parents by adoption. Dr. and Mrs. Geza Kremer of this city. Mrs. Clark took her sou from a friend of Mrs. Kremer several months ago and carried him to Boston. When Mrs. Clark was arrested in that city and brought to New York site as serted that it had been stipulated at the time of adoption that she could re gain possession or the child at any time upon payment of $500; and that she paid part of that amount to Mrs. Kremer. THE ANTI TRUST LAWS. Conference With ‘he President Relat ing to Proposed Changes. Washington March i—An import ant conference was 1.. el at the White House last night, aril, in a sense, to day, respc ;ng amendments to tho Sherman anti-trust laws. The propos ed changes in the law. it is expected, will be along the lines suggested by the conference of the Civic Federation held in Chicago a few weeks ago. No concrete results were reached and it is likely that further conferences will be j held. The President, it Is understood, is desirious that a bill embodying tho conclusions of the conference, be sub mitted to Congress for passage at this session. PARKHURST FILES CHARGES And Ask* Removal of Mayor McClellan and Police Comr. Bingham. Albany, N. Y., March 12.—Charges against Mayor George B. McClellan and Police Commissioner Theodore Bingham of New York with a demand for the removal of each from office were filed today with Gov. Hughes by Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parklmrst on behalf of Society for the Pr vention of Crime of New York City. Gov. Hughes declined to comment on tho charges, which allege neglect of duty in non-enforcement of the liquor lax law.

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