Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 May 1891 — Page 1

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VOL. VI-NO. 195.

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Statf try, jj 6'rye a/id.

Sardines, Sweet Pickles, Oranges, Pine Apples, Poles,

IRountree's Bazaar, 110 Main Street.

(Search where you will, go where you may, you will tail to find the BARGAINS in HOSIERY, now to be found at

IROUNTREE'S BAZAAR.

[Our line of Fancy Styles and Fast Black Hosiery is unequalled in this market. To parties who have used our goods it is not necessary to recommend them. All favorite styles, colors, shapes and prices—from 10 cents up.

The choice we offer is excellent. The chance for you is extraordinary. Here, too, you find the Best Darning Cotton.

Call Early And Get the Benefit Of These BARGAINS.

D.W.ROUNTREE

SPRING SUITINGS

In all the Latest Styles.

COLMAIN,

206 E.Main.3d doorfromGreen

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iniiuij iiiJifym iflp&y yvmfts wmp -ESHir

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(Dingnnsr anil Cnrrrrt (£rntrs of ivrfrartiatL.

Mr. Klmo can always be found ami will be triad to sec all who have errors of vision,.at the Old Hclmbl 'Jewelry Store of

KLINE &. GRAHAM, Main St., Opp. Court House.

LET'S HAVE A PICNIC.

The Only Place to Get a Complete Outfit Is at D. L. LEE'S.

Corn-Beef, Fine Cheese, Bananas, Lemons, Lines,

THE DAILY

Deviled Ham, Smoked Tongue. Dates, Figs, Cigars. Sinkers,

In Fact. Everything You Want for a Day's Outing. Camping Parties Please Call at

THE OLD RELIABLE. D. L. LEE.

CHEAP GROCERIES

Aru not to be sneezed :it Take advantage of our it is too late.

We are going out of the Grocery Business

And will hereafter deal exclusively in hardware.

Vancleave & Houlehan

Fewer Hours of Toll and Wages Asked For.

MAY-DAY STRIKES IS MANY CITIES.

Illinois. I own nn,l Indtiiim Minor* Ccn-

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SntiNo irm.ii. 111.. May 2.—State "President Goings. of the Illinois Federated Miners' union, returned from Chicago and reports that the conference with the coal operators in Chicago was satisfactory to the miners. lie said an agreement was readied to hold a joint session of the miners and operators of the state some time next week, the time and place of the conference to he fixed to-day. It was agreed to suspend all operations at the mines until after this conference, hut the miners want it understood that no strike has been ordered and that none is on.

Other points in the Illinois coal fields report a quiet condition of affairs. In Saline county not :i mine has stopped operations, ilock Island advices say that every mine in that county, as well as in Henry and Mercer counties, is working, and the men are satisfied with their condition. I Vermillion county there is no trouble or indication of a strike, and in St. ('lair county, while the men took a day off, there was no strwe. and operations will be resumed.

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Potted Game, Best Olives, Nuts. Candy, Fish Hooks, Rifles,

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cut-sale before

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1891.

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Operations—I.ul.or

Trouble* Klnowhere In Amerieu.

IN ft.l.INOIS.

DrQrojN, HI., Ma}" 2.—Every mine on tlu? prairie was closed down Friday morning and l.-iou miners and mine laborers came out on a strike for eight hours a day and weekly pny* Several operators, anticipating the strike. In-t week posted notices for the men to clean up their places ami lake out their tools before May i. But one mine is now running (the Egyptian) and it is paying the wages demanded and working under contract. J'ully 4.000 people are directly interested in the strike here. All the miners south of here are out. The outlook is for an idle summer in "Egyptian" mining circles.

All the

mines in this district stopped work Friday. Neither miners nor operators have proposed ii ha sis of settlement for the coming year.v The miners are under the instructions of t-h"ir state ofliecrs and no demand will be made until sanctioned by them.

CANTON, ill.. M*iv 2.—Taylor & William's, operating the mini's at St.. David and Norris. have po.st.ry notices of a reduction from 75 cents per ton to 07t£ cents. The men arc out, hut iulve'uot yet decided to strike.

.! r., 111.. May 2.—'The largo

coal mine operator?, at drape Creek, including the drape Creek Coal Company, the Spellman Coal Company and Miko Kelley, suspended work indefinitely Friday, throwing a thousand men out of employment. The operators claim

that on account of overproduction, it is not profitable to work the mines. Tho Danville miners are all at work. They receive sixty cents a ton. live cents less than the drape Creek rale. lo\VA

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OSKAI.OOSA, la.. May 0. —The executive board of the state association of the miners held a meeting here Friday and issued tin* following order: "To

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board lm- ordered .von cut fer the establish* nicnt of the pUrliMieiir won? day. unit you will remain out until ftinljt.r orders from said board

This ian independent action by tho Iowa union and will be followed in part only. Many of the miners will return to work.

Miscreants set lire to shaft No. 7 of the Consolidated Coal Company's works Friday morning and cMoo.omi worth of property was destroyed. The miners in the employ of this company had fused to join in the general Way 1. Attempts burn other shafts.

OnrMWA. la.. May 2.—Iho coal miners' strike is general throughout southeastern Iowa, and trovers the Des Moines valley coal fields. At Keb the miners made

-maud. At the great

Cleveland mines the men made a formal demand for an eight-hour day, and declared they would vfay out until it was granted. At !lit« man tho men are out. but as they ha\e '-.ai'c no demands it is confidently expectci. that they will-resume work Monday. At Foster the men notified the operators that eiirht hoir-s would be a dav's work hen alter and quit. The miners at. M\ste: observed labor day. but. have po.ved notice that work will be resumed lo-dav, as they understood the general strike had been de-hired off. At Diamond the men are out, but intimate that they

may resume work early in the week. The men at the Phillips mines are out, but, like those at Flagler, have made no demands and protest that this is not a strike.

IN INDIANA.

I A N A O IS

Ind., May 2.—Two

thousand miners in Clay county went out Thursday night and Friday 1,000 of them held a' meeting at Brazil. Seeretarv Itn.sscll received a letter from fctate President Comiskeya asking the men to return to work. A. committee of five was appointed to confer with the operators, bate in the afternoon they reported that the operators demanded that the men return to work at last year's scale and that they sign an individual agreement waiving their rights under the law requiring a biweekly pay day and the weighing of joal before screening. This the miners werc^unwilling to concede, and after adopting resolutions condemnatory of the operators' terms an adjournment was taken till Monday, when another conference with the operators will be held.

There is no change in the situation in Davis county. Uuilding is stopped in Terre Haute by the carpenters' strike for nine hours at thirty cents. Friday the bosses offered twenty-five cents, but the men would not accept. The briekmasons and h« dcarriors also went out to-day for higher wages. These are the only labor trobles of importance in Indiana.

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11.. May'J.—The coal op

erators of this field have posted noticcs olTering last year's scale of prices. Mining was suspended here Friday and a general ineetiiiLrof miners held, but no definite action was taken. The feeling is paeilie.

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111.. May 2.—The only labor

dilliculty here is between the journeymen carpenters and the bosses over a demand for thirty cents an hour as a minimum: nine hours to constitute a day's labor. The matter is in the hands of an arbitration committee. (*iiic o. May 2.— Labor t:.iy was celebrated in hicago by a grand parade of fifty or more labor organizations and a monster mas'—meeting on the lake front. The demonstration was- fully the equal of former years. At night the different unions held entertainments at their halls.

Ind., May 2.—The

union painters: and tinners, about 400 men. struck Friday. The painters demand eight hours and thirty-five cents per hour, the tinners nine hours and twenty-nine ecnts per hour. The employers refuse to grant the advance.

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Coi.ijMitrs, ()., May -.—Tho miners and operators of Ohio have adjusted their difficulties on a basis of seventy cents for mining in the Mocking valley and a nine-hour day. The scale for machine mining was left open for future adjustment between the o|erators and miners interested. No strike or trouble is anticipated in Ohio fields for the next year. llloT AT

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May 2.-••The attempt

to put a gang of non-union men to work unloading the twelve lumber barges that have been wailiny at the docks here for several days resulted in an ugly riot shortly after no.iu. in which both the Fisher brothers, proprietors of one of the yards, and Perrv. a junior partner of Wood. .!enks »v Co., besides a number of workmen, were seriously assaulted. The police charged the strikers and Sergt. Sherman and several patrolmen were seriously beaten in the fight that folh iwed. "Vlie exact number of strikers and non union men injured cannot, be ascertained, nor the extent of their in juries.

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ST. l.orts. May 2.—The carpenters and joiners have once more scored a victory against their employers. Two years ago they fought for thirty-five cents an hour and an eight-hour day aud won. Friday they asked forty cents an hour and got it. The St. Lous team owners, 500 stroiur, have won their strike airainst their employers. They asked for a day ami got it.. The architectural ironworkers to the number of :r»0 men have gone out for an eight-hour day and an advance in wages from three and one-half to seven and one-half cents an hour, according to the grade of work. The marblesctters. who arc members of the association of marblccutters of the United States, have struck for an advance of twenty-live cents a day.

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PiTTsnritiiH. P:L, May ti.—The strike in the building trades for eight hours was inaugurated Friday morning. Tho number of men known to be out are: Carpenters, t.M.N) stonemasons, 700: bricklayers, 000 or 700 slateroofcrs, 400. Some twenty small linns already conceded tho eight hours and thirty-five cents per hour to carpenters, but they do not belong to the lluilders' exchange. President deorgc S. Fuluier, of the latter organization. *-ays the men cannot come back even at nine hours, as the contractors propose to make it a perfect freezeout, and change certain obnoxious rules of the carpenters' union.

Friday morning between 5,000 and 0,000 railroad miners of the Pittsburgh district went out. «n strike. Their old scale expired '1 hursday and they went out pending an adjustment of wages, their strike having nothing to do with the eight-hour question. 11uN iN

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Pa., Mav "—The pro

posed general strike of the Pennsylvania bituminous miners has been indefinitely declared off. and the work will therefore continue as usual. The Huntingdon. Uedford and Cambria county miners were dependent on the action of the Clearfield region men, and tin* latter having decided that not enough money was in the treasury to justify a strike, it was abandoned. The men arc thoroughly orgsmiged, and their grievances may result in a shut down at any time.

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coin:

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portuUiin ot thousands of tons of limestone, ore and oilier msiteriuls.

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.MUYFE.—Tho buttle of or

ganized labor for tho eight-lionr workday in this city waS bepun Friday. •Miout 4,000 men in the building trades struck work. The housesmiths' union led the litfht for eiffht hours, while tho frumers' union miule a demand for 1111 increase of five *eut* an hour.

Small armies of men maruhinp to tho tune of the "Marseillaise," carrying red lla^s and transparencies, the latter denouii(rini,'all monopolists, approached Union si]-.:are Friday nitfht from various directions to participate in tho ureat eight-hour labor demonstration held uuder tlie auspices of the Central Labor federation and the socialistic labor party. It was estimated that there were b.OOU people in the cro\vL

"OLD HUTCH" FOUND.

The Famon* Chicago Speculator I* at KvaiiHvlllo, Ind. Why lie I.eft Clil-cuko-IIo SturtH Home, liut tenrm tho

Train ut Tcrro lfnuto. EV

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Ind., May 0.—B. P.

Hutchinson, the missing board of trade man of Chicago, is now in the custody of the chief of police, who is awatiing instruction from Mr. Hutchinson's son, to whom

message has been 6ont

The old man was walking aimlessly about the streets when arrested and appears to be entirely unbalanced in his mind.

Mr. Hutchinson says that the reason he left Chicago was because his son was taking steps to have him sent to an insane usylum. He does not think he is insaue, and he certainly is not. violent or unreasonable, Jut several parties who have known him in Chieairo are satisfied that his mind is not right. He says that in the last three months he has lost over 000.000 and blames his son for his] losses, savinu that if he had been led alone ho would have come out all right. lie also says that his deals now on hand, if properly manipulated, will bring him a profit of 8500,000. lie seems to have sutlieicnt money with him for all his wants. He claims that all the business he has ever transacted was legitimate and that he

IIA Ind., May 'J.—"Old

Hutch" arrived here Friday nitrht from Kvansville. He left the train here, although he had a through ticket for Chicago.. An effort was made to have him re board the. train but he refused and started up town in a cab. No trace has been found of him since.

BASEBALL.

Score* Made by the CII

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American association: At Cincinnati —St. Louis, Cincinnati, 1. At Colum- President bus—Columbus. 2: Louisville. 0.

Western association: At Kansas City —Milwaukee, 11 Kansas City, 0. At Omaha—Minneapolis, 6 Omaha. 5. At Lincoln—Sioux City,

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Pa.. May —The of

ficials of the Pennsylvania system aro figuring up the losses"to the railroads caused by the coke strike. The average number of cars of coke shipped out of the region when in full operation i*» 1,^00 daily. Over 1,000 of these go west, ami since the strike was inaugurated twelve weeks aifo the losses foot up over S2,200,000, or an average of about $11,500 per day. The average rate per ear was about Indirectly the railroads have suffered more than these figures indicate, as the furnaces thai have not been able to secure coke have been banked. This has shut off the traos-

Lincoln, 0. At

Denver—St. Paul, 4 Denver, Illinois-Iowa league: At Ottumwa— Ottumwa. 10 Ottawa. 0. At Davenport

PRICE 2 CENTS,

Highest of all in Leavening Power—U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17,

the

Natural Can CuMKet- 11 Disaster to »r(oimlle (O.) Fire Department.

-:. O., May 2.—About. S:

o'clock l-'ridav evening an alarm of iire called^the department to the stable of Mrs. Creamer. While the iiremen were working a tremendous explosion suddenly occurred. Natural gas collected in a lire cistern and iguitcd from the engine. The force of the explosion raised tho heavy engine 8 feel into the air and then dropped it into the hole. The wounded arc: Truman Southern, fatally injured Engineer Hover, Charles Hagis and Thomas O'Brien, badly hurt.* Many others were struck by flying debris. One boy is unaccounted for and it is feared that be is in the bottom of tho well under the engine.

AIk,!P to Succeed J'roctor.

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i. May 2.—Cen. Veazey,

commander in chief of the grand army, who is here, sa that Secretary Proctor will succeed Kdmtindsin the I'nited States senate and that (ien Alger will go into the cabinet as Proctor'* buccea* sor.

Maj'or Mo^bv. of Cincinnati, has announced that snnday theatricals will not be allowed in that oity next seo001).

1889,

Powder

ABSOUJTECT PURE

Terrible Rosult of an Explosion of Powder.

SAD FATE OF FOUR WORKING GIRLS.

A Flrownrk* Factory In Now York Destroyed

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Thre« Unfortunates \rt

Humori to Donth— Another Din of lliir Injurlen.

FLAMES.

YO May 2.—An explosion of

powder in a little one-story structuro in the rear of the building at 902 Uuion avenue, near One Hundred and Sixtysecond street., caused the death of four persons Friday and severely injured another. There were two small buildings back of 902, both occupied by George Kreamer, a manufacturer of fireworks, who lived over tho store in the front building. Kreamer employed about a dozen young girls and two or three boys. Just before 3 o'clock in the afternoon there was a flash in one of the buildings, in which there were at the time six or seven persons. Three of the girls were stunned and blinded by the explosion aud almost in a moment were burned to death. They were: Lillie Hammond, 10 years old Mary Lynch, 17 years old Jennie

Harpley, 17 years old. One little girl, Lottie Horn, aged 14, the daughter of a saloon keeper at 043 Washington avenue was so severely burned that she died about six hours after the accident. George Kreamer. the proprietor of the place. was severely, but it is believed not. dangerously burned about the arms :md head. The lire itself was of little account. The flames wfcre quickly extinguished, and as soon as I possible the bodies of the girls were taken out of the ruins.

Jias never made a business promise

that, lie has not carried out or given was iiinuly completed by the aid of scraps of clothing and small articles of jewelry that were recognized "by tho

a good reason for not doing it. He says he is far from being a pauper yet. The chief of police telegraph -d to his son. C. Hutchinson, in Chicago, asking what to do with the captive and received a reply to release him, but to keep nn eye on him and report his movements to Pinkerton, who had the case in charge.

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It was only after the mo*t. careful ex-

animation that the bodies were identilied, although it was known which of I the girls at work in the place had been killed. Their faces were disfigured beyond recognition and the idcutiiicntion

victims' families. Kreamer could give no explanation of how the explosion was caused. He manufactures small fireworks and did not keep a hinre quantity of powder on hand. Py Hie people living in the neighborhood different theories were advanced, tne most plausible being that match had in some way been carelessly dropped upon a pile of loose powder.

BACK TO 'FRISCO.

The Pri\

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-Davenport, 7: Aurora, 1. At Quincy I an address of welcome, to which tho —Joliet. 0: Quincy. X. At Cedar Kapids —Rockford, 0 Cedar Kapids, &.•

FATAL EXPLOSION.

Kettn-n* to tin- California

.Mel mpolis ami IH llantjuetcd. SA

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In Friday's Pro

fessional liuinon.

National league games on Friday resulted as follows: At Chicago— Pittsburgh, 5 Chicago, 2. At Cleveland—Cleveland, 12 Cincinnati, J). At Brooklyn—Brooklyn, HJ Boston, 0. At Philadelphia—New York, 11 Philadelphia. M.

Ncisro, May 2.—The presi

dent and party returned from Santa Cru/. shortly before noon Friday. When the ferryboat, reached the landing a committee of citi/.ens headed by Mayor Sanderson met tie party with carriages-,and the president, Post-master-General Wanamakcr and Secrerctarv Husk were taken to the rooms of tlfe chamber of commerce, while others of the parly proceeded to the Palace hotel, where they had lunch.

Harrison, accompanied

by a committee of business men, ascended to the rooms of the chamber, followed by members of tho commercial organization of the city and ot the Mexican veterans, California pioneers, and scientific and other associations. President Taylor of the chamber of commerce then delivered

president responded. The banquet at the Palace hotel at night in honor of President Harrison was attended by 2.*0 guests. Tho affair was conducted on an cluborato scale and was the closing nature of tho president's visit to this city.

THE DIRECT TAX.

Llftt of the Statch tout Territories Helmhunted and the Amounts Kereived by Kueh.

S IN O N

May 2.—The following

payment has been made by tho treasury department up to Apr* 'JO on the act of March 2. Ib01. to reimburse the states and territories the amount of the direct tax levied under the act of August r, ihoi:

Arkansas, $150,272 California, S20S,427 Colorado, £'^,11*0 Delaware, §70,* 772 Illinois, S'.'.Vi,701 Indiana, 5710,144 Kansas, £0iU»s: Maine, £357,703 Massachusetts, fcMO.iut* Michigan, $42U.b05 Minnesota, Sh0,02i Missouri, $040,058 New Hampshire, .$181,601 New Jersey, 6382,015 New York, S2,UlH,3ai North Carolina. ?st77,h: tl Ohio, $1,1132,020 Tennessee, $s V2,0l2 total, 30,282,030.

Tragedy at Ahliland, Win.

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Wis., May 2.—Christ Lund

shot and falall}' wounded Christ Haguo in a saloon row Friday. Lund then went to a room over his saloon and shot himself through tho head four times. He was dead when found.