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MISCELLANEOUS. Promise has been given by the American Federation of Labor to support the Fall River (Mass.) strikers. On the 1st the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. notified shippers that the company will not receive freight for Yokohama, Japan. at present. The doors of the State bank at White Pigeon, Mich., capitalized at $251,000, and one of the oldest financial institutions in the southern part of the state, have been closed. On the 1st the three plants of the International Harvester Co. at Chicago, closed down, for an indefinite period, and 15,000 workmen are thrown out of employment. Counsel for the Western Federation of Miners, are devising ways and means to enable the deported Cripple Creek (Col.) miners to return to their homes. On the 31st 23 persons were hurt as the result of a rear-end collision between two large trolley cars on the shore line of the Cleveland, Eastern & Painesville railroad near Nottingham, O. The report of the United States geological survey will show that the United States, in 1903, exceeded all previous records in the production of coal. The total amount of the output of the coal mines of the country during that year was 359,421,311 tons, an increase of nearly 58,000,000 tons, or 19 per cent. over the preceding year. As the result of a cloudburst the towns of Douglass and Silver Star, near Sódaville, Nev., are reported to have been swept away. A flood in waves four or five feet deep swept away houses and great property damage was wrought. The packing house strikers, at Chicago, have issued a statement in which they give the cost of killing stock at the yards and many details of the work there, showing by their figures that the packers are able to pay much higher wages than demanded. Dispatches from Mukden, of the 1st, report that Gen. Kuropatkin's army is hemmed ir. by the Japanese armies of Generals Kuroki, Nodzu and Oku, who are pressing him so closely that his capture is imminent. His position near Hai Cheng is no longer tenable. Twelve hundred workmen at the Pullman car works have been laid off since June 1, because of lack of business. On the 1st Edgar G. Bailey, the union hack driver of Kansas City, Mo., convicted of the murder of Albert Ferguson, a strike breaker, was sentenced to be hanged September 17. A dispatch to the Morning Post from Shanghai, on the 1st, said it is-reported that eight reussian torpedoboat destroyers had escaped from Port Arthur, and it was feared that they would prey on shipping. The Japanese are reported to have occupied every position surrounding the besieged fortress of Port Arthur with the exception of Golden hill. Both sides are said to have suffered tremendous lceses in the operation necessary to bring about this state of affairs. On the 1st the cotton mills of the Scott Manufacturing Co. at Lowell, Mass., were shut down for one month, throwing out 1,640 operatives. The suspension of work is due to the dull goods market. Fully a score of persons were injured, two of them fatally, in & headon collision, on the 1st, between two trolley cars on the Boston & Worcester street railway, three miles from Westboro, Mass.
