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VOL. VII—NO. 285. RAW FORDS VILLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1893.
WILSON WINS.
The House Passes Bis Bill for Unconditional Repeal
SILVER PROPOSITIONS REJECTED.
The Final Vote Shown a Majorltv of 130 Against Silver—Votes on the Vanoil* Amendment)—The Proceedings In Detail.
VICTORY FOB REPEAL.
WASHINGTON, Aug-. 29. The house on Monday voted on the Wilson bill to repeal the purchasing clause of the Sherman law and the various amendments. The reBult of the voting shows a solid majority of 100 in the house against silver, the majorities ranging from 77 against the revival of the Bland-Allison act up to 129 in favor of unconditional repeal. Following is the vote on the various propositions:
80
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to
1
ratio
The resolution contained in theorder of procedure on the silver question was reported by the clerk, providing for a vote first upon free coinage of silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1, the second for free coinage at the ratio of 17 to 1, the third at the ratio of 18 to 1, the fourth at the ratio of 19 to 1, and tho fifth at the ratio of 20 to 1. The sixth question on the order calls for the revival of the BlandAllison law of 1878, which was repealed by the Sherman laiv of 1890: and the seventh and last is on the Wilson bill to repeal the Sherman law in terms as follows:
The Wilson BUI.
So much of the act approvod July 14, 1890, as directs tbe Becretary of the treasury to purchase from time to time silver bullion to the aggregate amount of 4,(00,000 ounces, or so muoh thereof as may be ottered In each mouth at tho market price thereof, not exceeding one dollar for 87ni gnilin* of pure silver, and to Issue in payment for such purchase treasury notes of the United States, be and the same Is hereby repealed. But this repeal shall not Impair nor In any manner affect the legal tender quality of the standard silver dollars heretofore coined, and the faith and oredlt of the United States are hereby pledged to maintain the parity of the gold and silver coin of the United States at the present legal ratio or such other ratio as may tK: established by law. .'Sviy
No Further Amendments.
Mr. Bailey (Tex.) asked if, in the event of all the amendments included in the order being defeated, it would be in order to propose an additional amendment germane to the subject. Speaker Crisp replied that as at present advised he would answer no, that the order provides exhaustively all that the house may consider but that when the time came to formally present the question the gentleman might be heard. 16 to 1 Defeated.
Mr. MeMillin (Tenn.) offered an amendment providing for the free coinage of the product of the silver mines of the United States, but Mr. Bland (Mo.)objected to even having it read, saying that such a proposition was out of order.
The Wilson bill having been read, Mr. Bland offered his amendment—that of free coinage at thooratio of 10 to 1 —and it was defeated by a vote of yeas 1-3, nays 225, amid applause from the anti-silver men, who hod rallied one more majority than they expected.
Anti-Silver Majority Increases. The vote on the second amendment (17 to 1) was then taken. The stampede of the silverites was greater than ever, and tho amendment was snowed under bv 220 nays to 100 yeas, a majority of 126.
The 18 to 1 free coinago amendment was then rejected—yeas, 102 nays, 239. The vote on the 19 to 1 amendmentwas: Yeas, 104 nays, 238.
The 20 to 1 amendment was likewise rejected yeas, 121 nays, 213. 'J hen the vote was taken on the Bland-Allison act and resulted: Yeas, 130 nays, 213.
The final vote on the Wilson bill was: Yeas, 24 nays, 110. Volt! 011
the Ifepciil 11111.
Following is the vote by which the Wilson bill was passed: YEAS. Adnms Gear, Paschal, Alilerson, Qeary, Patii.rson Aldrlch, ucissenhalner. d'ena), Apsley, CJUlet (N. Y.), Payno, Avery, Gillette (Mass.)Payntcr, llabcock. Ooldzler, Pearson, llaker IL), Gorman. Pendleton
iN.
Mrosham, (Tex.), Grobvcnor, Pendleton Grout, (tV. Vn.), lialues, Perkins, Hull (Minn.). Phillips, Hammond, Piggou, llare Post, Harmon, Powen, iiartcr, Price. IlauRcn, Uaiidull, llayes, Kay, Heluer llaynt r,
UaldnlK, Bond, Ilartholdl, Bartlett, Huru'lg, llelrten, Heltzhoover, Berry, Bingham, Black ((!».), Black (111 ), Blair, Houte'lo, Braitan, llrawlcy, Urccklnrldge (Ark.), Breckinridge (Ivy). Biulz, Brlckner, Brookslilre, Uroslus, Brown, Bunn, Burrows, Bynum,
Campbell, Cannon (Cal.), Capehart, Caruth, Catohlngs, Causey Chlokerln* Chllds, Clanoy, Clarke (Ala.), Cobb (Mo.),
For. Agaimt. Agalnit.
18 to 1 ratio 123 225 .i 102 IT to 1 ratio 100 820 126 18 to 1 ratio IU2 238 13? 10 to 1 ratio 101 238 134
181 IfM 101
Uland- Allison act 136 218 77
On the Wilson bill to repeal the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, unconditionally, the vote was: For ropeal 240 Against uo
Majority for repeal ,...130 The Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—At 12 o'clock noon, when the speaker called the house to order, nearly every seat in the house was occupied, the unusually large attendance of members giving evidence of general and individual interest in the matter in hand. Chaplain lladdaway prayed briefly, and in a voice inaudible at a distanco of more than 10 feet from the desk, for an especial gift of wisdom and judgment to rightly settle the question before the house.
After tlio reading of the journal John M. Wevar, of New YorU, who had not before taken his seat, appeared at the bar of the house on the arm of a colleague and was sworn by the speaker.
Order of Voting.
Henderson (111,)Herd, Henderson __ lteilly, (la ), Heyburn, Uondrls, lilchards. Hicks. Klcliardson, Hlm-u, (MUt), Hltl, KUchio, lIolman, lloblnson, Hooker (N. Y.),Husk, Hopkins (111-), Russell (Conn).,
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ouck (O.,) Kyau, (Tenn.), Schwerhorn, Hulick, Kcranlon, Hull. Settle, Hunter. .jhaw, Johnson(lud.), Sherman,. Johnson (N.L. ),Slckele, Joliuaon (.0 ), Blye,
almnlss,
Caldwell,
it°lel«r, Krlbbs, Laooy, Laphav, btwgoa,
Cogsweu Oompton,
uoopor (fla.), »h,W Cousin* Covert Grata
tamers, P«rry, iprinRor, lephenaon, gte^hcms,
Stone
U'»0,
••r#f
W. A. Stone
Lester,
ttorer,(Ky.),(Pa-),
tone
Leslie, Lookwood, LoudensUCWi nob, net, ahoo, Marshall* Martin. Marvin,
8oouibf,
0HQ1
"Itrong, Iwansoo, ilbot, iwnejr, lylor (Ind.), lomas, 'raeey, Tucker, Turner, Jurpin, Tyler, VPdegraff,
iM*
MoCloary,
Dalie
pdegri 'an voorhts (N. Y.) Van Voorhls(O) Wadsworth, Walker, Wagner, Warner, Washington, Waugh, Weadook, Wells, Weber, Wheeler, (III), White, Whiting, Wilson (O.) Wilson (W.Va.)
Y.),McOreary. MoPsnnolfl, oDowell. oEttrloUi
Daniel Da vn, De Forest^ Dingier, Doinver, BSoTO, Prspeii Dunn. Dunphy, DurborOw, Edmunds, English, Eraman, Mutcbjflr. Everett (Mass.) NorthWaT) Fellows, Fielder, Fitch, Fletcher, Forman, Funk, Gardner,
Meyer,
Mff,
Moon. Morsfc
Ma}.
iS) .. Wise, erralL. Wolvcrton, Neill, (Msgs.), Woomer, NeUl,
(Pa.),
Wright (Mass),
Wrlfjbt,
(Pa.)-84a
NA.TA.
Abbot, Altken, Alexander, Allen, Arnold, Bailey, Baker, BaakUesO, Bell (OoL), Bell (Tex.), Blanohard, Bland. Boatntr, Boen, Bowers (N. C,), Henderson Bowen (CsL), (N- 0. Brasob, Hipbur Broderiok, Hermat
McCullocb, McDoarmon, HcKeighan, MoLaurln, McRao, Melkeljohn, Money, Morgan, Mosos. Murray, -i Nolll, Newlands, Pence, Plcklor, Richardson, (Tenn), Bobbins, Robertson, Bayers, Sibley,
Fyan, Ooodolfhi Ora
40.).
Harris, HartmaBi Batoh, Heard,
Burae_. Oamlnetit Cannon (111),
8obb
Hopklnl (Pa.), Simpson, ^uason,
««sr
lark (Ma), (AJa./, uookrell, Cofleen, Cooper (Tex.), Kem,
Smith, Snodgrass, Btalungs, Btockdale, Btralt, Sweet, Talbert, Tarsney, Tate, Taylor (Tenn ), Terry,
Jonel,
Kllgore, Kyle, Lane, Ls timer, Lmogston,
Cox, Crawford, Culberson, Curtis (K»n.)i Darts, De Armond, Denson, Dlnsmors, Dookei Ellis Ellis [Yeas—Democrats, Nays—Demoorats, TB| republicans, 24 popu lists, tL]
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Wheeier (Ala.), Williams (111.1, Williams (Miss.),
Mil, Matlojy, Marsh, 1ST
Vlli
Wllson( Wash.) Woodard. —110. republicans, 103
Catchings (dam., Miss.) gave notice that he would ask tho house to consider the rules to-day, and then the house adjourned.
SEATS REFUSED
Those Mea Appointed by Governors TTlll Not De Admitted. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—The senate on Monday by a vote of 83 to 20 decided that Mr. Mantle, of Montana, aud Mr. Allen, of Washington, are not entitled to seats and that a governor of a state has not the right to appoint a senator to fill vacancies oaused by the oxpiratlon of a regular term not happening by resignation or otherwise.
Senator Piatt (Conn) from the com mittee on Indian affairs reported a bill authorizing eertaln Cherokee allottees or claimants to purohasa land held by them. The bill was passed.
The bill allowing the banks to inorease their eirculation up to the par value of the bonds deposited by them was taken up, the question being on the amendment offered by Senator Cockrell (dem., Mo.) for the redemption of such 2 per cent, bonds as may be made and the payment therefor in a new issue of treasury no tea The vote was taken without the discussion being renewed and the amendment was cejected—yeas, 23 nays, 29.
Senator Cockrell then offered an amendment authorizing the holders of any United States bonds to deposit and to receive in exchange legal-tender notes equal to the face value of the bond. The bonds are to be held in the treasury subject to redemption in the same amount of legal-tender notes, which are then to be destroyed. No Interest is to bo paid on the bonds while they are held in the treasury, but when they are again withdrawn tho interest is to be paid, less IK per cent, per annum.
Senator Voorhees (dem., Ind.) chairman of the oommittee on finance, advised the friends of the bill to vote down all amendments, and said that today the senate would be engaged in other business and then this bill, as a minor feature of the extraordinary session, Would have to take a subordinate plaoo and give way to the great and major proposition that had brought congress together. Ho intended that the country should understand that he pressed tha national bank bill and asked a vote upon it, and deplored the delays that had taken place. If it fell, its fall should not be laid at his door.
While discussing tha subjeot the clerk of the house was announced with a message that the house had passed the bill to repeal part of the Sherman act. The bill was Immediately (on motion of Senator Voorheea) referred to the committee oa finujoe, tho chairman of which stated that there would be a meeting oI the finance committee to-day, when there would be very prompt actios In connection with the house bill tfid with the measure already reported from the finance committee.
Tho discussion of Senator Cockrell's amendment was resumed, but without action on it the senate prooeeded to executive business and soon adjourned.
Reciprocity OonvMitlon.
DULUTH, Minn., Aug. 99.—The executive commlttoe of the reciprocity convention has decided that the next convention bo held here between October 1 and the l&th. The committee will meet before the convention meets to prepare a platform and scheme of reciprocity and some proposition as to deep-water navigation.
Baseball.
National league games on Monday: At Brooklyn—Brooklyn, S Chicago, 1. At Boston—Boston, 4( Cleveland, 3. At Baltimore—Cinolnnati, 3 Baltimore, 2. At Philadelphia—Philadelphia, 14 Louisville, 8. At New York—Pittsburgh, 3 New York, 2. At Washington—Washington, 6 St. Louis,
Portions of the South Vipitod by a Disastrous Hurricane.
SAVANNAH AND OTHER TOWNS SUFFER
An Knorraou* Amount of Damnge lotie to Troperty and Crops—A Number of Lives Lost and Many 1'ersons
Are Missing.
LEFT DEATH IN ITS TRACKS. SAVANNAH, Oa., Aug. 29.—This city presents a scene of dt wlation. Death and disaster have marked the path of the terrible cyclone which raged along the coast Sunday night. The ruin at quarantine is immeasurable. Nothing is standing where one of the finest stations on the South Atlantio was twenty four hours ago except the doctor's house, and how this weathered the fearful gale is miraculous. The wharves are gone, the new fumigating plant which has cost tho city so much money is in the bottom of the sea, and nine vossels whioh were waiting there for release to oome to tho city are high and dry in the marsh and no doubt will bo total wrecks. The Cosnino was the only vessel which managed to keep afloat.
Many Drowned.
Tho tug Paulson arrived in the oity at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. It brought up sixty passengers from Tybce. Mr. Kevers, one of them, said four negroes engaged in clearing tho railroad tracks were drowned. A sailor and the cabin boy on the schooner Harold, which is on its side on North beaoh, drowned. It is reported that eight of tho orew of a terrapin sloop which went ashore on tho South end were drowned.
The Hotel Tybee is considerably damaged in front and verandas. All the bath-houses are gone. The K. of P. olub-house was washed away and two of the cottages of the Cottage club are gone. The railroad pavilion is all right, as is Cupt Blun's house. The Naylor house is damaged slightly. The Butler house is gone. Mr. Starr's house was washed into the woods. The Atlantic olubhouse is all right. The Ranche and Rambler club-houses wero wreoked. The railroad traok is cleaned out. Henry Green's house was burned. Qeorgo Bossell's oottage was swept out to sea. The North End is practically oleancd out.
The water swept with tremendous force over this part of the island, railroad tracks being carricd from 200 to 500 feet. The Chatham's club-house is badly damaged. Tho pavilions on the beaoh are gone. So is the switch-back. An empty train is in tlie woods. Trains on all roads are coming in irregularly, and some of them have entirely stopped for the purpose of repairing washouts. Tho church steeples are demolished and at least 600 large trees are blown down all over the city. The Tybee road is under water for tho entire distance, and in many places it is entirely washed away. There is no communication whatever with Tyboe except by water.
Ruin In SaTaunali.
A view of this city at daylight Monday morning revealed a scene of wreck and ruin that surpassed that after the great hurricane of 1881. The streets were impassable from the debris, fallen trees, twisted roots, masses of brick fences and broken branches of trees were piled across the sidewalks and in the square and broken wire strewn in every direction.
It is impossible to estimate the damage as the result of the storm, but it was very general and it is safe to say that it will go up in tho hundred thousands and perhaps into- the millions. Nearly every ono if not quite all the property owners in the city have boen damaged to some extent and some to the amount of thousands.
Bodies of tlie Drowueri Picked Up. The list of fatalities is gradually growing and it is Impossible to tell to what extent it will go. Several bodies of drowned persons were picked up daring the morning and searches are now being made for others which are missing. Every hour seems to bring some new story of a death as a result of the storm. The drowning of A. C. liner, assistant oashier of the Central railroad bank on Hutchinson's island, was one of the most unfortunate fatalities of tho storm. Mr. Ulmor owned a farm on the island and had gone over to pay off his hands and attend to other dutieB. There were bruises on Mr. Ulmer's face, and it is supposed be struck against an outshed when he jumped from his barn as it was about to blow down. Stowurt was bruised in the back. Miller, his dairyman, has not been found, and it is presumed he was drowned also.
Other Victims.
The other fatalities so far reported are as follows! Tony Holmes (colored) orushed In a house en HutoMason island four unknown negroes drowned en the Bramptons plantation 4 miles from the elty Lewis Garoett (colored) ran lato a live trolley wire Tattler Squire, a t-year-old colored boy, drowned on Hutohlnson's Island John Williams, Mary Butler and Sarah Greece, drowned on a rice plantation south of the olty.
Many Missing.
There are forty to fifty other persons who are reported missing, and it Is supposed, as nothing has been heard from them, that their bodies will be found lator. Twelve bnrks and barkentines which were anchored at quarantine station were blown high and dry upon the marsh and some of them were carried by the storm across the marshes on to an island 2 miles distant from the station. One of the vessels at Tybee was completely capsized and three of the elub-houses on the island were blown to pieces. Others were flooded and the people sought shelter wherever they could. The wires are all down and Savannah is nlmost entirely shut off from telegraphic communication.
Foar Aro Killed at Korndvlllo.
RAI.EIQH.
N. C.. Aug. 29.—The town
of Kernsville was struck by a terrific
windstorm Monday. One hundred 'nouses wore blown down and four persons killed.
Damage In Columbia.
COI.UMIUA, S. G\, Aug. £9.—All the South Atlantic coast as fur as can be ascertained from this wrecked point, with much of the interior, bus been swept by the West India hurricane which lias been playing such havoc for several days. The wires are down everywhere, buried beneath ruins, and information is meager. The fury of the hurricane is unexampled in interior Carolina. I'or eight or ten hours the hurricane held the country relentlessly in its clutches, and men and beasts alike were powerless to contend against tho surging wnr of the elements. Hundreds of lofty trees were ruthlessly torn from their roots. Houses and other property went the same way, though it was a peculiar feature of the havoe that the damage to this class of property was not so serious as to other classes. The electric railway, tho railroads, the telephone and telegraph companies were the greatest sufferers. All these institutions wero as completely stopped as if they had suffered a paralytic stroke. Columbia has been for almost the whole day cut off completely from tho outside world.
Wori,t for Sixty-Seven Years.
An old citizen remarked: "No storm ever visited the stato to be compared with this since the storm in September, 1826, sixty-seven years ago. The only time, too, that we have ever had a rainfall to approach this in severity was in March, 1841, when it rained steadily for sixty-throe hours. That was the timo when Augusta was washed away and many people were drowned."
All were just beginning to hope tor better times in the fall, notwithstanding the financial crisis, when this storm came. Now the crops are wiped away and with them the hopes of the farmers. The crops have been mowed in the fields and tho poor people, with money scarce, are going to have great difficulty in recovering from the shock. The loss is over 40 per cent of the eifr tire crops.
Florida Suffers Pf.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., A
01
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oity has been cut off from communication with the outside world since 8 o'clock Sunday morning. Tn this city the velocity of the wind was 88 miles per hour. Hundreds of trees were blown down and signs disapeared before the gale. Scores of dwell ings and public buildings were entirely or partly unroofed, oausing (Treat damage from the rain, whioh fell in torrents. The most serious damage was to the Park opera house and the Oooan Street Presbyterian ohurctu At Mayport (mouth of St. John's river) all the buildings suffered more or less and the old Atlantio house was completely demolished. At Pablo beach the sea encroached upon the railroad track and the premises of oottuges and the wind played havoc among them.
St~ Augustine reports the water comlag in over the sea wall and damaging business blocks. Linn hotol was unroofed and badly drenched. About thirty or forty yachts and small eraft were badly damaged or oompletely destroyed. The fate of other localities in Florida as well as of the south side territory invaded by the storm Is still a sealed book. The wires are down in every direction from Jacksonville.
Twenty-One Persons Hurt. FOUT WORTH, Tex., Aug. i9.—A looal cyclonic storm Sunday blew down a small church on Stratton's ranch, 4 miles from Cleburne, and wounded twenty-ono persons, broken limbs being the most serious Injuries.
LYNCHED FOR KILLING A BOY.
•ummary Tunlshment of a Negro at Newcastle, Ky., by a Masked Mob. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 29.— Between 1 and 2 o'clock Monday morning thirty horsemen rode into Newcastle, ICy., and waking up Jailer Head told him they had a prisoner. When Head appeared with the keys the visitors, most of whom were masked,overpowered him and let themselves into tho jail. They were after a negro named Leonard Taylor. Securing their man tlioy took him about a quarter of a mile out on the road to Franklinton and hanged him to a tree. Taylor's crime was an unprovoked assault upon an Italian boy peddler a week aga The negro struck the boy over the head, fraoturing his skull and causing his death.
CHIEF ARTHUR TO SETTLE.
Ann Arbor Damage lilt Compromise* for •2,000 and the Payment of Costs. TOLEDO, O., Aug. Judge Ricks ha3 made an order allowing the receiver of tho Ann -Arbor Railroad company and Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, to settle the 1300.000 damage suit brought by the railroad company against Chiof Arthur during the late trouble. Arthur agrees to pay &2,500 and the costs in this case, and also the costs in the case of the Ann Arbor against the Pennsylvania and other connecting lines that were brought into the affair.
Refused a Mew Trial.
SPKIN'OFIELD, 111., Aug. 89.—Judge Allen, of the United States distriot court, overruled the motion of the de. fense for a retrial of the Bonton-New-by case. In doing so he expressed a belief that the defendant had sufficient capacity to commit orimoi that the case was rogularly and fairly tried, and that the prisoner was guilty a* charged is the indictment
PRICE 2 CENTS
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ABSOU/TELY PURE
ROUTED BY POLICE.
Idle Men In Chicago Make a Threatening Demonstration.
HELD IN CHECK BY THE BLUE-COATS.
An Unruly Blob Marches to the Doors of Slegel, Cooper St Co.'# lllg blore, Intending to Tlunder It, Hut Is
Driven Uack.
AX EXC1TINO SCENE.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.—Chicago wituessed on Monday the nearest approach to the looting of one of its great department stores, that of Siegel, Cooper & Co. that has ever taken place in the history of the olty. The store was saved from being raided by tho presence, the active and efficient work done by Chief of Detectives John Shea and Assistant Chief of Poliee Joseph Kipley.
The movement on State stroet was one of those extraordinary things which unorganized mobs sometimes do. It had no leaders and seemingly had no purpose except a wild desire for action on the part of the men who had been standing quietly for hours listening to speeches in almost every modern language. "Siegel & Cooper!" "Siegel & Cooper!" "On to Siegel & Cooper's!" rang out in a clarion voice from a self-ap-pointed leader of a rapidly-swelling mob of 1,200 men headed by a few dozen loafers, thieves, thugs and other unemployed criminals which had collected in an aimless, vicious way at the lake front after the speaking at tho daily massmeeting of the unemployed had closed. Tho trouble began from the moment when Assistant Chief Ivipley notified the leaders of the mass-meeting that no more streot parades would be tolerated. Angry howls greeted this announcement from the stand. Several speakers advocated parading tho stroets despite the police orders.
Advised to Arm ThemseiTcs. One speaker, Harry Silverberg, who says he is a cigarmaker, threw out his chest like a lucky lottery patron, worked himsell up into quite a perspiration, and after denouncing the present condition of things, existing governments and the Chicago police, boldly advised his bearers to "come armed to to-morrow's meeting." This was greeted by the wildest ohecrs, which were repeated again and again. At the close of the meeting it was announced that there would continue to be meetings held daily. After the mooting Silverberg was arrested. News of the arrest quielfly spread. The crowd hearing it became furious. Sullen threats were made. With a sort of lutng-dog manner and under-the-breath cursing the crowd moved slowly and sullenly up toward Van Buren street.
Called for the Black Flag.
Some one called out, "Wlrere's the black flag?" "Black flag! black flag!" reechoed the crowd, but it was not forthcoming. It had been in the crowd at the statuo during the afternoon but was not unfurled. The crowd filled the street from curb to curb. Fruit stands were run over but not plundered. Light vehicles were jerked about in a spirit of viciousness. The crowd was swiftly beooming a mob. It was nearing the danger lino.
The Word Is Given.
A short distanco south of Van Buren the mob was startled and thrilled by a voice in clear, loud tones: "Siegel & Cooper," "Siegel & Cooper," "On to 8iegel fc Cooper's!" The 1110b had its oue. Men's faces whitened, their hands instinctively ollnched. and on the double-quick they started for the great main entrance to Siegel & Cooper's. A roar of mingled voices filled the street. It grew in voleme. It sounded like a storm. The mob had reached tho sidewalk immediately fronting tho entrance. Then the police sprang in. The detectives, who wero almost without exception veterans who have fought through many a street fight, wont In on that crowd and through it very swiftly. They used only their hunds and ohlefly pulled tlio men about, but in thoae cases where resistance was made the hand was doubled s,nd put into action. inside the store a panic was about to ensue. The great mob wus seen rolling rapidly to the entrance. Clerks' faces blanched. Customers eagerly hurried to escape down aisles to the north and south exits. It was bargain day and the great store was jammed wii,h women, young and old, on tlicir shopping trips. They could not hurry out. Harrison street stution was telephoned tor help.
Before the crowd on tne outside had time to do any mischief Assistant Superintendent Kipley and Inspector Shea swooped down at the head of thirty or forty oflicers in plain clothes. In less than five minutos tho 1110b was flying in all directions, pursued by the officers, who kicked and thumped the surprised beligerents with remarkable cest and vigor. Several thousand spectators were attracted to the scene and State street for blocks was black with people.
Inspector Shea kept his officers busy moving the orowds, and after half an hour's turmoil the excitement diod oul and business went on us usual. No arrests wero made, the police acting so promptly that neither the ringleaders nor their followers had time to do any actual harm, even if they were so inclined.