

\-YI.YAMA. 



Insurance. Tin- ; ' fr 



'. 1896, was submitted in 



March. 1 -had 



a pro-|H-r.u- year. the premium receipt- fi 



*4"<UNNi niorv than ihr preceding year, 

 while Ui- losses wen- only a little over *'.'" 



uhile 



..T.n. In ma- 

 AOd inland bosfoeai the rail.- of |o-se- |.ai.l 



i'\ pt inioyivaiiiii companies i< iirviiiiiiins was 83*42 



A decision was given in Harrisburg, April *. that 

 un-l.-r years of age can not be 



persons u 



legally in 



La i 



.!, The 



emlHT shows that :.:!'? orders w, 

 that numU-r :?."U ha\e IH-.-II complied 



with. Tli. KO accjdent* reported 



than : 'hat nuiiiU-r were fatal, 



\ iiiajurity occurred in the 



ir-'ii ami -t.d WOrfcl in thr handling f products 



nachilicrv could ||. 't be u-cd. 

 Thirty baker- were prosecuted under tin* law. 

 r-oii- employed in tin- | 



under tin- juri-dictiou if tin- department, and of 



imber 4" 1 - -llbjert to till* ill-peel ion 



There an- 21.104 pr- n- employed betue.n 

 ,-<-s of thirteen ami sixi.-en \car-. Tin-re are 

 9.661 persons subject \ the ureat-ebop law- and 

 6,891 subject to the bake-shop laws. 



Th.- strikes and lockouts in ls!H> number. 



-i\e .if one general strike among hou-e paint- 

 er- that iiifluiltil 2(Ni>lmp<. T \vnit y-f.iir <-f tln-c 

 >tnk-. \vtT- "rd.-n-d by lal..r nrirani/ations. T\v-lvr 

 were successful, 4" iiiiMiccrs<ful. ami 11 partially so. 

 Th- total nuinlM-r of days lost on account of the 

 Mrik.-H wa- 



Th.- cn-at Mrikr In-^an i-nrly in .Inly. Tin* ordrr 

 of the national -\.-<-iH i\.- Imanl <-f tli- I'liilcd Mint- 

 W.irk.-rs \v l,y K).(MK) to ir>.(MO nini in tin- 



Pfttsborg district, Jolj 6, and tin- >trik- >oon Ju- 



ra 1. Th<- -trik-r> niarcht-d on tin- iniih-s 



when- men vrt-n- still working, and cainjM-d in the 



iM.rhood trying to induce them to strike. lut 



i^in^ violeiier. A meeting of operators at 



>ur. .!iil\ 89 OOaT COmpaaW mines 



d. adopted the- following among 



W- farorthf Adjustment of thi- strike 



and all que-tioiis and <-o"ntrover-ies connected there- 

 with by conciliation, employed in a joint conference 

 of miners and their employer-, and. failing an ad- 

 judication, by a tribunal of arbitrator- c..inpoM-d of 

 three United States judges or three other gentle- 

 men of national repute and in whom the entire 

 country can refx>sc confidence. 



" V> 1 willing to ail vnnce the wages 



of the miners, but find our-elvc- unable to do this 

 to the full extent demanded by them. 



.ih-.ve tin- prices that were paid prior to the 

 and now I* ing paid by one of the largest coal 

 in western IVn'nsvlvania. which com- 

 pany prc-M'i,:- the chief obstacle to the settlement of 



!lict." 



'- arrested, Aug. 5, at Middle- 

 town, for an attack upon nonunion men. The 

 marching men in the Pittsburg di-trict paid no at- 

 he sheriff'- proclamation warning them 

 to refrain from assembling ai.d marching: the court 

 was applied to for an injunction to re-train them 

 from interfering with miners still at w.,rk. and ..ne 

 was granted Aug. 12. The -triker- di-n-garded the 

 order of the court, and n an attempt of the deputy 

 sheriffs to enforce it. Aug. 1::. a lively scuffle ,'-. 

 curred. during which one man was 'accidentally 

 hurt, though no w-a|M.n were drawn and no blow's 

 were struck intentionally. 



'A .-hingt.!!!. I'M.. 



d l-'inlev \ illc. \\ \\rie me! by a lal'-je 



crow.; 1 their FHends, Kach deputy 



was armed with a fill, and a re\l\er. lnil in spile 

 of this the striker-. In-ailed by 1<K> Polish \\tniien. 

 doM-d in <>n them, and the deputio recci\ .-<! roti^h 

 M-nt. They were gradually forced back, and 

 linalh nville, followed b\ aliout 



'J(M> men and Women. At < ia-t"U\ llle the deputies 

 t....k refuge ill the i'llii-e of the e..m|iany. \\here they 



uept all night, during which tlie'buildin_ 

 bombarded with stones and l-ri.-k- and an oi-.-a^i.-nal 

 shot wa- tired. 



At lock in the morning the trouble 



.-d a climax \\hen the dcpm ie* -allied ,.m tr,,ni 

 their i|uar . l.-d b\ the women, the -irik- 



er- ru-lu'd mi the deputies with stones and clnb> 

 and pick handles, and blows fell thick and fa-l. 

 One big woman wrested a nlle from a depul\'- 

 hand- and -truck him on the head with it. inllicting 

 serioii* injury. I$y this time UMMI in- n. women, and 

 children bad joined the crowd. The depiitie- slowly 

 made their way to Orangeville. never firing a -hot. 

 and took refuge in a vacant hou-e. closely f., 11. .\\.-d 

 I iy the mob. which surrounded the building and 

 threatened to burn it. Finally, one of the striker- 

 approached the house with a flag of truce, and a 

 conference was held. The deputi- l.-ivd 



\e |..wn. and after a short parley decided to 



The crisis of the trouble wa- reached Sept. Hi. 

 when a band of deputy sheriff- tired into a mob of 

 miners at Lattimer. killing or mortally wounding 

 .' 1 and injuring ab.i ut 10 others. Sheriff Martin, 

 who was in command of the deputie-. had ordered 

 the marching strikers to turn back, and n ad . he 

 proclamation to them. A fight ensued, ami the 



depllt ie- Were ordered to lire. Troop- of lh' 



lioiial (Juard were sent to the scene of trouble. 



Sept. Hi. between Ifi.lMMl and l^.lMMIcoal miliel> ill 



the Pittsburg district returned to work, in ao 

 ance with the action of a convent ion. ant h<-ri/ing 

 the men to re-uine work in all mine- complying 



with the provi-io||s of the M-celit scale adopted 



at Coluinliii-. 



There were outbreaks during tin- few day- fol- 

 lowing, some of them by mob- of women, but no 

 serious injuries were reported. At Ha/Id., 

 men wen forced by the women to (juit work: at 

 Lattimer they made a raid upon men returning to 

 work, but were checked by the militia. A breaker 

 . r M-.i.low was burned. Sept. 21. with a loss 

 of about *:><MMM). 



The sheriff and his deputies who shot the -triker- 

 ! arre-ted. and were held for trial. 



They entered bail 111 the sum of $<;.(HHI eaeli. I 



for murder and $1.(HK) for feloniously wounding. 

 On trial, they were acquitted. 



The estimated cost (.f the strike for the Pittsbnrg 



di-t ri.-t alone was $5,000,000 to $7.000.<HM). of which 

 .M.(HK wa- in wages lost by voluntary cessation 

 of work. 



rants were drawn on the State trea-ury for 

 $115.000 for the payment of expenses incident to 

 the calling out of troops. 



Memorials. An eque-lrian statue of Washing- 

 ton, erected by the Pennsylvania Society of the 

 Cincinnati in Philadelphia.' wa- unveiled Max ir>. 

 The (Governor proclaimed a public holiday in ac- 

 a nee with a resolution of the Legislature, a n< I 

 the members attended in a body. 



A -tatue of Stephen (iirard on the west pla/a of 



the City Hall in Philadelphia was unveiled M 

 The fund- .tributcd by alumni of (iirard 



College and ciii/.-n-oi Philadelphia, and the date 

 of the unveiling wa> the one hundred and twenty- 

 seventh anniversary of the birth of Stephen (Jirard 



