Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 August 1890 — Page 1

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Looking oat over the many homes of this eountry, we see thousands of women wearing" away their lives in household drudgery that might be Materially lessened by theuse of a few cakes of BAPOIalO. If an hour

saved each time a cake is used, if one less wrinkle gathers upon the face because the toil is lightened, she must be a foolish woman who would hesitate to make the experiment, and he a churlish husband who would grudge the few cents which it costs.

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Tho Now York Central's Manager Answers Mr. Powdorly.

STATEMENT OF HIS SIDE OF THE CASE.

In MnnlfVnto Ho Gives for the First Time Ills Reasons for DiAcUnr£lt)g the Mun All Eyes Turned

Toward Terns Uauto.

A WAITING GAMK.

NEW Yoitic, A up. 23.-The strike situation may be expressed by tlio word 'waiting." Every thing hlngos on tho mooting of tho supreme council of tho Federation of Railway Employes at Terro 11 an to Saturday. Master Workman Powdorly's address to tho Knights of Labor and tho public is generally regarded as a declaration of war, in which there will bo no quarter given.

Mr. Webb said in regard to Powdorly's proclamation: "I have not read it yet It is addrosBod to the Knights of Labor, and as I am not one there is no reason why I should fool compelled to road it. I do not believe there is much that is now In Mr. Powdorly's statement. It is not true that tho question was asked mo if I thought the public had no rights that the road was bound to considor and that I refused to answer. If such a question had been asked I would havo replied that the public had rights In tho matter. Thoro is nothing to Bay except that we are all ready for tho threatened fight. I do not believe that the Federation will order its mon out, and if it does I do not believe all of of them will obey."

Mr. Webb said that tho Now York Control now has 5,000 men undor pay and ready to take the strikers' places, and that ho has tho namos of as many more whom ho can call on if wanted. It was rumored that possibly the next movo would bo tho ordering out of all tho mechanics along the line of tho Contral road. On this point Mr. Wobb was questioned. IIo said that ton days ago ho ordered tho shops to bo closed and directed that only enough help bore tained to porforra tho actual necossary repairs that are roquirod each day. At the present time the company has fully 6,000 cars in course of construction at West Albany, and tho 1,200 men have boon laid oil. If tho mechanics are ordered to stop work by the federation the company Is fully propared to meet tho emergency, and as tho number ol mon that would bo affected is comparatively small their places would be rap idly filled.

State Arblt ration Commissioner Don. ovan on Friday sent letters to Messrs. Powderly and Webb inviting both to conference with a view to deviso moans elthor by arbitration or such other method as might be agred upon whereby the present and throatoned strikes may be settled. Mr. l'owderly replied that tho executive board of the ICnlghts of Labor Was roady to do any honorable thing to terminate the strike or avert tho threatened one. Mr. Webb's reply was another absolute refusal to arbitrate, and says: "I am net iiwnre of nny dlfTorence or grlev. anco existing between the company and Its em. ployes, and I must assume that the conference suggested by you designed to be between the officers of the company and the officials ol the K. of L. These official* represont not out employes, but persons who havo loft out service and have not asked to be reemployed, but who. throughthesosameofflo'.als of the Knights of Labor, have asked that the discharge by the company of cortaln porsons prior to the month of August be submitted to their investigation nnd to arbitration by some tribunal to bo selected in some way, a request which I have felt it to be my duty to decline."

Mr. Wobb came forward Friday ovoning with a prepared statement, ^vidontr ly prompted by Mr. Powdorly's manifesto of Thursday night. Wr. Wobb starts out with tho statement that "no man has boon dlsoharged by this company because he was a Knight of Labor or a member of any other organization." Then for tho first time since tho beginning of tho controversy Mr. Wobb names a list of offenses, among which are thoso because of which tho Knights of Labor arc said to bo discharged. He continues: "Tho compnny has dlschargod men, Irrespective of their membership in tha order of the Knights of Labor, for drunkenness, incapacity, breach of duty, insubordlnntlon and for lack of sufficient work to employ them nnd tt will contlnuc to do so whenever proper occasion arises. "Tho people of this State granted to this company the frnnchise and made It obligatory upon it to render certain services to the public, and provided that all its duties, including the employment nuil dischargo or all classes of agents, should be performed by certain officers and its offlcors do not propose to surrender, abandon or transfer tho dischargo of these duties, or any part of them to any one except their duly ap pointed successors. "It would be a moral and probably criminal neglect of duty for mo to omit to dischargo a switch-tower man for drunkenness, when upon his sobriety and fidelity to duty dupond the safety of the life nnd limb of some of the millions of passengers transported annually by this oompany. "Wo could temporarily supply tho place of a man who absented himself from work for two days without lcavo and without cxcuso, but what business, private or public, can bo carried ea under such conditions? What private or public business can bo carried on lubject to the dictation from the workman that tliorc shall be performed only this or that amount of work? What employer can tolerate lnsolcnco aud insubordination, based upon the belief that the offender will bo supported therein by a secret organlzatiota to which he bolongs, and by tho agency of which the employer's business can bo damaged or stopped? "The forogolng gives, without sotting forth the name or placc of employment, the causes which called for tho dlsohargo of tho fifty or sixty men referred to in Mr. Powdorly's •ppeal. For theso discharges and to avert a threatened strike I have been •ailed on by Mr. Powderly his associates to consent to the monstrous absurdity of satisfying, by some kind of arbitration or investigation, persons other than the constituted authorities of the company, that those causcs oxlstcd—a demand which as long as I occupy the position with which nm Intrusted 1 fool it to be my duty to firmly decline.".

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CRA.WFORDSY1LLE, INDIANA- SATDRDAI, AUGUST 23, 1890—EIGHT PAGES

DAILY JOUKNAL.

,t. J. Holland was the first of the fivo members of tho executive board of tho Knights of Labor who aro stopping at the St. Cloud Hotel to leavo this city. He left Thursday night for Buffalo, which will bo tho principal headquarters of the strikers. Messrs. Devlin and Wright will leave to-day. Ono of them will go to Albany nnd the other will establish boodquartors at somo other point of importance ou tho road. Mr. Powderly, the ^General Master Workman, and John J. liayos, tho secretary of tho oxecutlve board, will establish quarters here, probably In the As tor Hoaso.

The August grand jury was dlschargod Friday for the term. It did not find any indlctmonts against those conuocted with tho railroad strikes.

Steps are being takon to insure a mass-mooting in this city next Tuesday evening In support of tho Central strikers, and partioulaAy to decry tho employment by tho road of Pinkorton 'mon.

BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 23.—-Men to take tho strikers' places are arriving on most of tho trains. Thirty-eight firemen reacbod here about 8 o'clock Friday morning, but pn learning that they wore expected to take tho switchmen's placos all but five of them refused to go to work and were dismissed without

pay or transportation home. CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 2a.—When Chief Arthur, of tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineors, was asked what reply ho wished to make to Mr. Powdorly's open letter addressed to him through tho Associoted Press, ho instantly said that ho would bo phased to give Mr. Powdorly tho information ho sought The letter, howovor, must bo addrossod to him officially, as ho nover paid any attention to letters such as was published. Tho position of the engineers was well known, but Mr. Arthur would be glad to emphasize it If Mr. Powderly addressed him a letter in an official way.

TEUHE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 23.—Intense interest Is felt In tho meeting of the supreme council of tho Federation of Railway Employos to bo held in this city. The members of tho council are arriving. At the firemen's headquarters little information is btainablo. Grand Secretary Dobs says ho has no official information concorning tho refusal of Webb to arbitrate, but if the newspaper reports aro true undoubtedly the council will order a gonoral strike. Replying to Vico-Presidont Wobb's statement that only a small portion of firemen will obey tho order of tho executive oouncll, Debs said "If tho strike is ordered every flroman will go out to a man, the Vanderbllt lines will be oompletely tied up, and it will be the first big, desperate strike of the Federation. Railroad mon are unanimous in the opinion that the executive council will not hesitate to order the strike.'

Chief Sargent arrived Friday night He said that he was individually entirely in accord with Mr. Powdorly. Mr. Powderly and his representatives had gono to Mr. Wobb and asked the reason for the discharge of three men from the New York Central road. Mr. Webb had flatly refused to have any thing to do with Mr. Powdorly and tho latter had called in tho federation.

Mr. Sargent went on to say that thore was no disposition on the part of the employes to fo.'co matters. All they wanted was a clianco to present tholi grievances to the officials of tho Van dorbilt. system and have a just arbitration of tho existing difflcul ties. As to tbo final result of the session of tho supreme council Mr. Sargent doclarod that the public need havo no approhension. The .council realized tho responsibilities which had beenplacod on its shoulders.

Each mombor of the council was a man who hat1 been through a similar crisis before. no hasty action w-ould bo taken.

ALII ANY, Aug. 23.—Telegrams received in this city locate tho causo ol Mr. Powdorly's letter to Chief Arthur as occurring in this section. The charge Is that tho striking Knights of Labor firemen's places in this city woro takon by tho rolicf force of engineers,thus giv lng practical aid to tho road In fill ing vacancies. Tho inference drawn was that tho engineers aro hostile to the strikers. It is sale to say that In and about this city there are at least ten locomotive brotherhood men doing tho work of tho strikers. The Knights of Labor men horo claim that Chief Ar thur knows nothing of this, and that It will now bo stopped.

In the pollco court the four Pinkerton mon charged with creating a disturb anco last Sunday were admitted to bail in tho sum of 8500 ach, except in ono instance where a man was charged with firing on tho crowd, and his bail was fixed at §1,000.

CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—From an old con ductor of tho St. Paul system It was learned that tho trainmen of tho Northwest aro holding a series of secrot meetings, tho first of which at Milwaukee last Sunday was attended by 1,S00 men. Meotinga aro to bo hold on suocesslvo Sun' days at Dos Moines, St. Paul, Omaha and Denvor. and the chief toplo of dls cusslon will bo that of federation. If fedoration of all tho trainmen's assocla tlons is completed, as at present pro posod, it will constitute the strongost labor organization ever formed.

All shipment of dead froight from the Union Stook-Yard Company's yards was suspended Friday morning, the employos of tho Railway Switching Association quitting their jobs and rein-

fusing to return. Tho strike volved 800 mon and was caused by domand on tho part of tho engineers and firemen for an increase In pay per hour —a domand which had been made to tho officials and refused as unwarranted. The switchmen wore dr^tqi lflto tfife strike by tho stoppage of work on tho part of tho engineors and firomen but they aro roady to give tho strlkors all tho assistance oos^lblq. ThlitJx

four engines my Mle in tho yards .ill day. Two hundred cars of beef blocked the tracks and not a car of dead freight was snyved, for not a wheel in the yards was turned. Tho engineors havo been receiving 2S conts an hour nnd ask for an increase to 30 cents. The firemen have been paid only 10% conts an hour and ask for 20.

RATHER SHAKY.

Wall Stroot Excited Over tho Tight Money Market.

ERY HIGH RATES ASKED FOR LOANS.

Prlvatr Manipulation In I'art Itcspnmlbla for tiio stringency No Four* Kntertainod of a Serious Panic—Williloin'i Action.

MONEY IS HI«n.

NEW YOUK, Aug. 23.— II G. Dun & Co. *8 weokly review of trado says the signsof monotary disturbance which were noticed in previous roviows wero not misleading. At Philadelphia money was tight, at Chicago in strong domand, at St. Louis unusually scarce at 7 to 8 per cent., at NowOrleanstightening.atDenor and St. Paul in good demand, nt Milaukee moro activo at 7 per cent, firm at Kansas City, and rather tight at Detroit a 7 per cent. Tho obvious and only sufficient relief is tho liquidation money speculations in stock, in wheat, corn, oats, cotton, leather, hidps, coffee, wool, and especially in sllvor bullion, which havo locked upenormous sums. In silver alone about 810,000,000 has been locked up to wait for higher prices, in grain several times as much and in other products many millions, while the condition of tho markot for securities was indicated by tho fall, averaging about two dollars a sharo In a single day on activo stocks, when money becamo tight. In addition tho enormous imports, intended to anticipate tho ponding tariff bill, havo virtually locked up for an indefinite timo many millions paid for goods and in duties on them.

NEW YOUK, Aug. 23.—The stringency the money market Thursday was sharpor than since tho May panic of 1884.

Tho oarly loans wero mado at 25 por cent., but the supply at this figure v/as saon exhausted, and the rates moved up to 40, 50, 00, 70, 80, 90, and boforo 1 o'clock the prevailing rate was 00 per cent., or equal to legal interest and a promium of yi per cent, a day. After 1 p. m. tho rate advanced to 14 per cent, a day and legal Interest, etjual to 100 per cont por annum.

The first call for money Friday showed tho market to be active and stringent. Good paper was grabbed as soon as offord and tho early loans wero made at por cent, premium and interest. Exchange was also down another on tho pound, and tho rate is now approaobing tho gold-importing point

During the afteniQon several big loans wero made at 30 and 35 per cent, tho drop being encouraged by offerings ol good paper. Renewed rates woro generally per cent premium and now loans1 por cont and interest. The banks are conservative. At 3 o'clock it was announced that S10,000,000 4s would bo offered for immediate redemption at 126. Tho general tightness is oxpocted by Wall street men to last for several days. The only chanco of avoiding continued stringency, in thoir opinion, is tho prompt action of the Secretary of tho Treasury. Toward Mr. Windom, therefore, all eyes aro turned.

There is nothing that portends general disaster, but big dealers say -elief to tho money market must come from abroad. Wo must offer our goods and our securities to foreigners at such prlaos as will induce them to sond us their spare cash.

It will take Wall street a long tlmo to recover from the scare It had Thursday, although in actual results the damage was very light. Brokers and tradors are ltooping very qulot and asking what caused it Nobody seems ablo to gi^-o a satisfactory answer. Tho prevailing opinion is that somebody has been toying with the market, but tho actual fact Is that tho screws wero tightened and thoro was not money enough to go around.

Thoro is no denying that tho stroot is shaky. The stringency in money overshadows every thing, not excepting tho Central strike.

One of tho reasons for tho present stringency is that Neflf York banks havo been drained of all their surplus money. It is said that there are not a dozen banks in tho city whoso reserves of cash havo not fallen below tho porcontago of deposits required by tho National banking law, nnd even theso banks are having a hard struggle to keep their funds intact. Practically the banks are no longer lending monoy in the market, and Iho supply of money availablo among individual capitalists is unusually limited. Business men in Wall street especially thoso who conduct tholr business on a limited capital, aro known to be in a seriously straitened condition, and it is u-ot to bo wondered at that there was something liko a money panic.

From January 1 to4ato there has been an lncroaso in tho net cash holdings of tho United States Treasury of aboutS16,000,000. It has boon suggested that perhaps 80,000,000 of that sum came from the profits on coining silver dollars. Allowing that, the balance, 810,000,000, must have como from tho channels of trade. At tho samo timo tho National bank notes outstanding havo decreased $13,250,000, and the oxports of gold baro exceeded tho imports by about $8,850,000. Iloro lias boon a drain upon tho circulating medium of tho country of $31,900,000,

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Cbarlos Youngoren was horribly manglod Friday by tho explosion of a chtrge ol dynamite at Chippewa Falls, Wis.

John N. Insley, of Oskaloosa, Kan., killed himself Friday. Ho was short In his accounts as administrator of an estate.

Tho sovontli annual reunion of thosoldiers and sailors of Southern Illinois will bo held at Duquoin Octobor 1, 2 and 3.

The strike of minors In tho Borinago district, llt'lgitim. is spreading, the total number of men now idlo boiiig 11,500.

William Alexnndor, a 17-year-old mulatto, was lynched near Baton Rougo, La., Friday for an attempted assault on an 11-year-old white girl.

W. T. Clark, of Cleveland, O., lias been elected president of tho Union Veterans' Union at tho National encampment at Lakeside, near Clovoland.

H. C. Gans, cashier of tho Bank of Commerce of Owonsboro, Ky., died three mouths ago, and an examination made of his books shows a shortage of $1,900.

Tho reports of tho Baltimore & Ohio Company for tho later months of tho fiscal year show a slight dccroaso in net earnings, but for the first ten months they are 81,000,000 in oxcoss of last year.

Judgo lloach entered an order in tho Supremo Court at New York Friday discontinuing Colonel William Dudley's action for damages against tho Now York Times Publishing Company for alleged Hbel In publishing tho "Blocks of Five" letter.

Thursday night's storm was particularly severe along the lino of tho Western Maryland and Hanover ,fc Gettysburg railroad. Washouts wero numerous and several bridges wero swept away. Hundreds of trees wore torn up by tho roots and thrown across tho track by the furious winds.

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JOI.IET, 111., Aug. 23.—Ono hundred and forty sistors of convent schools, spending their vacation in this city, held an election for thoofflco of Mother Superior Friday. Sister Lucy, who has held tho office the last throe years, was ro-olocted for tliroo years moro. Her district includes the States of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Missouri. 1'ho ordet is that of Sistors of St. Franeia.

Killed by an Kxplodlni Cannon. ATIIKN'S, l'a., Aug. 23.—On Friday during a sham battlo at tbo soldiers' oucampment a cannon was prematurely discharged, instantly killing Will Bossom, aged 20 years, fatally injuring James N. Castamore, aged 20, and tearing off the thumb of Gabriel L. Mullock.

An O'ltcilly Memorial ."Mooting. BOSTON", Aug. 23.—Mayor Ilart has issued a call for a public memorial mooting for September 2 "to give expression to tho loss sustained by all our peopla on tho doath of John ltoylo O'Reilly," and to take appropriate action thereon.

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