Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 April 1894 — Page 1

VOL. VII-NO. 248

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THE OUTLOOK PLEASES THE LEADERS.

Tliev Claim That Mor« Than 198,000 Colliers llavH Laid Down Their Tools to a Number of States •—Latest Reports.

FROM MINKRg' HEADQUARTERS. COLUMBUS, O., April 88.— President

Jolin McBride, of the United MineWorkers, has watched the newspaper reports of the big ooal miners' strike, whioh began at noon Saturday, very carefully and mode comparisons with the information received by him. He estimates the number on strike at 188,100, as followst Ohio... 80,000 Pennylvalla 60,005 Illinois 24,000 Indiana.. Alabama.. Tei

Kentucky.., 4,003 vra 1,900

West Virginia,.,. 8,000 Indian Territory 1,700

0,000

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emiesaee.,, 4,000

This estimate does not include Colorado, from whioh state contradictory reports have been received. A few days ago word as received from northern Colorado that the miners in that state would join the strike. There are about 3,000 miners there. Since that time no definite information has been received.

Strike a Complete Success.

The strike, so far as Ohio and Pennsylvania are conoerned, seems to have been a complete success. The results in Illinois also have been much more encouraging than was anticipated. President McBrlde's first estimate of the number of men who would suspend work in that state was 15,000 out of a total of 85,000, but his figures show that there are fully 24,000 men out. In the northern section of Illinois he estimates that there are 10,000 miners out at Spring Valley, La Salle, Oglesby, Peru, Streator, Bracevlilo, I'r Rid wood, Coal City, Diamond, Gardner, Carbon H11L At the Danville and Grape Creek mines there are also 800 men out.

President McBride has received additional Information from State President J. A. Crawford of the Illinois miners, who is also a member of the nalioual executive board, that fully 2,000 men in the Springfield district have quit work. At Duquoin and St. John there are also 1,000 idle men. filluiitton In Southern Illinois.

The advices from the southern-Illi-nois mining region are rather meager up to this time. P. 11. Penna, national vice president of the United Mino Workers, is at Pana, one of the largest mining centers in that section of the Btate, and the latest Information from him was to the effect that a majority of the men there had voted to strike.

The attention of the miners' leaders will be devoted largely to Illinois during the next few days and meetings will bo addressed in the vicinity of Streator by State President Crawford. President McBride is hopeful that by May 1 the strike will have spread over the entire state of Illinois. He claims that the operators there are now trying to make it appear that tliey had not expected to force a reduction of twenty cents on May 1, but that the notices posted by the operators refute their statements. tight In Illinois and West Virginia,

It now seems that Illinois and West Virginia will be the buttle ground in the competitive district. President McBride estimates that in West Virginia out of about 9.000 miners 2,000 have suspended work. William Fahy, a member of the national executive board, and Edmund Thomas are at work in that state and will address a large number of meetings this week. A dispatch was received from the miners at Moundsville, W. Va., stating that the miners had been offered the seven-ty-cent rate demanded, and asking whether they should accept It and return to work. President McBride wired them not to accept under any conditions until further advised. He says that this will be one of the greatest things to be overcome in the present strike, as no doubt In many places offers will be made to pay the prices demanded and the miners will be Inclined to accept

On Tuesday state conventions will be held in both West Virginia and Illinois. It is expected that the action of tbo miners at these meetings will largely determine tho future of the strike in those states. President McBride believes that in West Virginia all of the miners except 1,000 at Winifred, where they have just passed through a long strike, can be brought out

All Out in Ohio.

In Onio there has not been a single report of a refusal on tho part of the miners to join the movement. President McBride says that so far as lie can determine there is only one place in Pennsylvania outside of the anthracite and coke regions where the miners have not quit work and that is at Tuttle Creek, whero about 1,500 men ure employed.

The pr-ess dispuiches indicate that in wtstern Pennsylvania 0,000 river miners and i),000 railroad miners are idle. President McBride says that this includes only the Pittsburgh district proper, and that a large number of miners on the dividing line have struck, among whom are the Scott-Haven miners and those at Irwin station. There are really about 12,000 railroad miners In western Pennsylvania and about 9,000 river miners, all of whom, it claimed, are idle.

In the Laurel and New Pittsburgh regions, on tho Kentucky Central railroad in Kentucky, President McBrido claims 2,000 miners have suspended work, and in the Jelllco and Newcombe districts in Tennessee about the same number. In the latter state this represents about all of the free miners. The men there have to contend against the employment of about 4,000 convicts in the mines, who, of course, cannot be brought Into the movement

Strike Extends to 1 own

I'reBS dispatches from Iowa indicate that none of the miners there have Struck, but President Mcltride has a

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telegram from Julius Froli stating that all the southern part of that state Is out There are about 8,000 miner* in the seotlon indioated.

In Alabama President McBride says thero are about 8,000 minerB idle, having quit work two weeks ago. There, oa in Tennessee, they have to contend against the employment of convicts in the mines.

Mr. Wlison, a member of the national executive board, is In Maryland and has wired President McBride that he addressed one of the largest meetings ever held In tho state at Frostburg and that the men there voted to suspend work. He will hold meetings at other place# in Maryland this week and President McBride expects that by May I all the miners In that state will be out

Cause of the Strike.

The miners are striking for the restoration of the inter-state wage agreement whioh was abandoned during the summer, first voluntarily by a small number of miners in the Pittsburg district. and thus forced a reduction in every competitive district in the United States.

Many operators in this district declare that It Is Impossible to pay the wages asked by the minors, and say they are satisfied to permit the mines to remain Idle. But this does not represent the seutiment of all tho operators, many of whom acknowledge that the wages demanded could be paid if all would keep faith and not seek an advantage.

Kallroads Affected.

The suspension of work by the miners will seriously affeot the business of many railroads, and from one-half to four-fifths of the train orews will be laid off pending the settlement of the strike. Among the roads most likely to be thus affected are:

The Hocking Valley, Toledo and Ohio Central, Ohio Southern, Columbus, Sandusky and Hooking, Wheeling and I^ake Erie, Clevelhnd and Marietta, Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling, Cleveland and Oanton, Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, and nearly all the lines In Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana and other states where the strike prevails.

Effect Will lie Serious.

Should the strike be effective to the fullest extent anticipated, the effect upon the country will bo Incalculably Injurious, as the strike will enforce the suspension of many trades dependent upon the coal industry, and may seriously affect the operation of the railroads of the country in the states where the miners Will go out

ON THE MARCH.

Kelly and Ills Meu Resume Theli Tramp Through Iowa. NEOLA, la., April 23.—At 8:80 a. m.

on Sunday Gen. Kelly's army of 1,800 commonwealers left Weston on their march to Chicago. It ended the day's tramp at this place with a spectacular welcome. It was escorted over the winding clay road by the farmers, many of whom came 25 miles, with brass bands. It was the strangest spectacle Iowa over saw. Well lu front of the long line of battered humanity rolled the eighteen wagons of provisions, loaded heaping full, and as many more wagons were waiting lu front of Neola city hall. They were the substantial evidences of the Iowa farmers' movement to feed and care for Kelly's army until tho Mississippi river flows across the line of march.

This morning the farmers and citizens of Pottawattamie county will mass 150 two-horse teams and box-wagons in Neola and the entire Kelly contingent will be carried to Avoea, 18 miles further oast. Tuesday morning the Cass county farmers will carry the army to Atlantic, 20 miles east of Avoca, and in relays of 15 to 20 miles a day, either on foot or in fanners' wagons, the Kellyites will reach Des Moines. This is as far as the line of mavch is definitely known. Des Moines people have told Kelly that they would feed and house the army when It arrived at the state capital and held out strong hopes that from Des Moines the army would go to Chicago by rail.

This towu was crowded with people as the hour approached for the army to appear. The mayor and city officials and a committee of citizens, headed by the Neola band and all the school children of the city, marched to tho bridge over Mosquito creek to meet Kelly's army. Tho children carried flags and on the clothing of each child was pinned a silk badge upon which was printed: "Neola militia." This said a committeeman, was Neola's answer to Gov. Jackson's order calling out the state militia when Kelly eutered Iowa. The Kellyites marched into the oity singing "Marching Through Georgia," and then tho Neola band joined the Underwood band, and Kelly's army, with two brass bands, eighteen wagons of provisions and 2,500 excited, checring men, women and children escorting It, paraded in triumph through" the streets to the camping grounds in the grove. There the addresses of welcome were made, the freedom of the city given to the arm3T, and soon the coffee was steaming and good, thick beefsteaks sent appetizing odors through the camp. The men were hoased in livery stables,, the city hall and vacant buildings.

Cull for a llluietalllo Meeting. DENVER, CoL, April 28. CoL Flsk, as

president of the Pan-American Bimetallic league, has decided to Issue a call for a convention of the league at Washington to commence May 28. The uprising of the Coxeyites is the reason given for this extraordinary cali, and the people of tho United States, Mexico and South America aro asked to send delegates.

Klltort I). Monroe Drops Dead.

Nicvv YOKK, April 28.—Elbert B. Mon roe, a member of tho United States board of Indian commissioners, dropped dead at 0:30 Saturday evening at Ills home near Tarrytown from a stroke ol apoploxy. lie had been driving and had just reached home. As he entered the hall of the house he fell, and when servants reached him life was extinct

Charles Schultz, a young farmer living near Roekford, J11., was thrown under a harrow by a runaway team and fatally injured.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 23,1894 PRICE 2 CENTS

HUNDREDS PERISH.

reolan Towns Devastated by an Earthquake.

HISTORIC THEBES IS DESTROYED.

Btrty1 Persons Killed In One Village and Thirty-Nine In Another—Churches Fall While filled with

Worshipers.

I AN AWFUL CALAMITY. ATHENS, April 28.—A severe earthquake was felt throughout Greece at 7:80 p. m. Friday. Much damage Is reported to havo been done. An official telegram says that the town of Thebes was totally desti-o.yeu. The inhabitants are in a sad condition, being almost entirely without food or shelter, and the officials request that tents and other requisites be sent to them. The shock was very violent at Atalanta (Talanda) and Chalcls. Many houses were thrown from their foundations and much damage was done. The towns of Vole and Larissa were also badly damaged. Reports from other parts of the country are that the earthquake was every where felt and more or less damage done. Athens escaped without any damage. Thebes Is on a height anciently occupied by the Cadmeian citadel. It situated 20 miles from Livadia, and lias a population of about 8,000.

Panlo at Thebes.

At Thebes about fifty houses fell during one of the shocks. The city Is in a state of panic and destitution. The terrified people have rushed In crowds away from Thebes, believing that the end of the world has come. Conflicting stories are told as to the loss of life. The government is sending a warship to Thebes with 500 tents, a large number of surgeons, a detachment of engineers and supplies of food for the destitute people.

Hundreds Slalu.

LONDON, April 28.—The latest news from the earthquake-stricken district of Greece is contained in the following dispatch from Athens:

The earthquake shocks that began at about 7:80 o'clock Friday night continued with more or less frequency. The death list will reach into the hundreds. All last night the oscillation of the earth was noticeable and the people of this city were in a state of semi-panic. Telegraph communication with many parts of the country is badly interrupted andiit is almost impossible to get news of the towns that must have been affected by the shocks.

In three villages—Maleslna, Proskina and Martino, all In the province of Locris—my persons were killed.

Horror In a Church.

The mayor of Larymni telegraphs that a heavy shock occurred at Proskina while vesper services were being held in the parish church. Tho walls of the churoh fell, burying all tho worshipers in the ruins. Hardly a person in the church escaped without Injury. Thirty were taken out dead. Houses were thrown down in other parts of the village and the money loss Is great Scores of the villagers are practically ruined.

Whole Families Killed.

At Malesina houses tottered and fell as though built of cardboard. In this little village sixty persons were killed. In some cases entire families—fathers, mothers and children—were taken out of the ruins dead.

At Martino thirty-nine persons were killed. Here, as at Proskina, the parish church was the scene of the greatest number of fatalities.

In the vicinity of Athens the fatalities were less numerous, lmt the damage to property is immense. Tho offices of the Austrian Lloyd and other steamship companies were partially destroyed. The church of St. Ellas, on Castella hill, between the Pireuus and Phalerum, has been racked beyond repair and is tottering to its fall. The domes, walls and mosaics of the famous Byzantine church of Daphne are very seriously damaged.

King Start* on a Uetlef Expedition.

King George, in the royal yacht, has started for the maritime districts that have been devastated b}' the shocks. He was accompanied by the minister of Interior and other officials and together they will decidc upon tho measures that must be taken to alleviate the distress among the people.

Tho government will be compelled to adopt extraordinary measures to help the poor in the districts affected. Steps to this end have already been taken and tho state authorities are giving quick responses to the calls that are being made upon thein.

The total number of deaths thus far reported is 1(10, but there is scarcely any question that this number will be augmented when the more remote villages are heard from.

As this dispatch was being sent from Athens a sharp shock was felt that for a time caused consternation in the telegraph office.

Eight Villages Destroyed.

A dispatch to the Times from Athens says that the earthquake destroyed eight villages in the district of Atalauti. In this district alone fortyeight persons were killed and Beveral hundred were injured. The monasteries of St. Martino and Proskina were destroyed. The pier at Pal 11 was rent asunder and sunk below the waters of the harbor.

Large bowlders were detached from the mountain of liragana, and some of them fell upon shepherd's houses that were clustered at the foot of the mountains. All the inmates of the huts were crushed to death.

Huge chasms opened lu the earth about Atulantl. A large number of houses swung to and fro on their foundations for a time and then collapsed,

found Dead.

DEVIL'S LAKH, N. D., April 23.—Judge James F. O'Brien, a few days ago appointed district attorney for North Dakota, was found dead in his ollice Sat in-day. Death was due to heart failure.

Albert Egcrt was killed by tho explosion of an oil tank at Grafton, Wis.

The Steamer

LOB

Highest of all in Leavening Tower.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report

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ABSOUSIEIY PURE

DEATH ON A REEF.

Angeles Lost in

the Pacific.

STRIKES A ROCK AND SINKS AT ONCE

Four Bodies Washed Ashore and It Is Feared More Lives Were Lost—Mont of Those on Hoard Rescued by a

Passing Steamer.

MONTEREY,CaL, April 23. —The Paclflo Coast Steamship company's steamer LOB Angeles, bound north from Newport, CaL, and way ports to San FranOlsco, ran on the rooks at Point Sur lighthouse, 80 miles south of Monterey, between 9 and 10 o'clock Saturday night. The steamer sank within a few minutes and the passengers and crew took to the boats. Three boatloads reached shore at Point Sur, and the first news of the disaster was brought hero by messenger Sunday. Two other boat loads and a raft containing other passengers and members of the erew were met by the steamer Eureka Sunday evening. The Eureka brought them to Monterey. Several lives were lost in the accident, but how many Is not known. Four bodies have been recovered.

Story of the Disaster*

From those who arrived on the Eureka it was learned that the Los Angeles reached Point Star lighthouse about 9 p. m. The captain, who had retired, had given orders to have the third mate call him when a certain number of revolutions of the wheel had occurred. The mate failed to do so and tho steamer went upon the rocks at 9:15 o'clock, and in ten minutes It sank.

When the vessel struck the crash awakened every one. Frightened men and screaming women and children swarmed the decks in their night clothes. The officers and crew ere the first to recover their senses, and preparations were made to abandon the rapidly sinking steamer. Those of the crew who remained behind sought first to save their personal effects, but so rapidly did the vessel settle that only a few minutes elapsed before the second mate called out the warning: "All hands to tho rigging."

Where Three Were Lost.

The vessel's stern was all under water and the water was rushing In forward. It was while the icen were thus imperiled that three of their number were drowned. These were Fireman Nolan, S. N. Sheridan, an aged citizen of Ventura, who was enroute to Sun Francisco to visit his son, who is telegraph editor on tho Morning Call, and a passenger not known to tho seamen.

The vessel, spiked fast upon the rocks, settled no further Into the sea. The men on the spars remained in their positions until one of the boats returned from shore. They were eventually landed with others of the survivors on the rock* at tho foot of Point Sur lighthouse.

The captain, when the vessel struck, instantly ordered out the four boatB and a raft of two floats. Two of the boats containing fifty men succeeded in reaching the shore. Two others and tho raft kept out to sea. Chief Engineer Wallace, In charge of one of the boats, saw the steamer Eureka and sue ceeded In getting within hailing dis tance.

Are Rescued by the Eureka.

The steamer lay to and sent out boats to search for the others of the party They soon found the raft with seven personB aboard, whom they rescued, and Sunday morning at 1 o'clock they picked up the other boat containing seventeen persons. They sent word to those on shore and offered to take them aboard the steamer, but owing to the roughness of the surf they failed to do so. Four dead bodies had been recovered, and Capt. H. D. Leland of the Los Angeles was reported In a critical condition by his brother, Capt James Leland, of the Eureka. All the women and children were saved aud brought here on the Eureka. The survivors who reached the lighthouse In tho life boats arrived here Sunday night in wagons and joined the passengers who escaped to sea In the lifeboats and on the raft and who were rescued by the stea mer.

The Lost Vessel.

The Los Angeles was due in San Francisco Sunday. Its passengers and crew numbered about seventy. Owing to the almost inaccessiblc point at which it was wrecked the names of those lost have not been learned.

The Los Angeles was an old vessel, having been used by the Pacific Coast Steamship company for twenty years. Before that It was a United Sates revenue cutter, and was called the Wyanda. It became useless to the government and Goodale, Perkins &. Co., the agents of the Pacific Coast Steamship company, purchased it and put It Into service as a freight and passenger boat between San Francisco and southern way ports.

A

Dangerous Spot.

Tne rocks at Point Sur, which are cluster of ugly spurs about 1 mile from the shore, have long been a menace to navigation on the southern route. In 1885 the Ventura, a handsome steamer which was at that time the largest vessel in the service of the Pacific Coast Steamship company, was lost on these rocks.

HOME NEWS.

Telegraphic Dispatches from Various Towns In Indiana.

Swallowed Up liy the Earth. LAPORTE, Ind., April 28.—The Chi

cago & West Michigan railroad bridge over the sink liolo in Lily lake in this city went down again Friday night, carrying with it 150 feet of track. Nearly 100 car loads of pine logs have been put In this sink hole, but so far thoy have had no moro effect than to hold up tho bridge for a few hours. Twenty cars of timber were brought here Saturday from Michigan and a force of fifty men are at work putting it in plaoe. The sink hole seeins to be bottomless, as 90 feet of piling readily disappears from sight

Dr. Newman Out on ISontL

MUXOIK, Ind., April 23.—Dr. W. p." Newman has been released from tho Hartford City jail by furnishing bond. He has been confined for a month past on a charge of betraj'al preferred by Miss Addle Early, of that place. Newman enticed the girl to Muncle, she says, under promise of marriage. Newman abandoned the girl who caused his arrest It was since discovered that he has a 17-yoar-old wife in Detroit Miss Early has very mysteriously disappeared.

Lawyer Bailey Murdered,

MUNCIE, Ind., April 23.—At the "coroner's investigation Sunday of the death of Lemuel Bailoy, which occurred Saturday night in Frank Benadum'B saloon, charges of murder were mado against Frank Benadum, owner of the saloon and a well-known Munclo resident Michael Gorman, his bartender, and William Watson, a glass blower, whoso home is in St Louis. They have been arrested and are in jail, being refused bail.

Shocking Accident at a Funeral. DECATUR, Ind., April 23.—While the

procession following George Stuckoy's romains was en route to the Berne cemetery near here a passing team became frightened aud ran away. This started others, aud before the affair ended three teams and eleven people were piled in the road. Mrs. Frank Warner was instantly killed and three others received wounds that will result fatally,

Died In Trying to Save a Friend. BOURBON, Ind., April28.—Frank Bax­

ter, of this olty, was drowned Saturday evening in attempting to save the life of a comrade. While fishing, Simon Waltz and Mr. Baxter were running an outline when the boat upset Baxter swam to shore, but upon hearing cries of help from Waltz started back to his rescue. He w»s taken with cramps and sank. Waltz was also drowned.

Ue Fauw Ulass Works to He Sold. ANDERSON, Ind,, April 28.—An order

from the Floyd county court requires the sale of the De Pauw plate-glass works and Iron plant at Alexandria. It has been found necessary to settle the famous De Pauw estate Indebtedness, which is placed at 1475,000. The plants are two of the largest of tho kind lu the United States and furnished employment to 1,800 hands.

Death of a Pioneer.

VALPARAISO, Ind., April 27.—Ellas Axe, a pioneer of this city, died Saturday morning of erysipelas, aged 75. He had been a resident of this city for sixty years. In 1847 Mr. Axe founded the Christian church in this city and has Berved continually as elder and treasurer forty-seven years.

Uold Found In a Gravel 1'lt. LEBANON, Ind., April 28.—Gold has

been discovered In a gravel pit recently opened on George Dulin's farm, 0 miles east of this city. Some of it has been sent to an expert [to be assayed. Several California '49ers have formed a local company and expect to work the find.

Drops Dead at a Dinner Table. SIIELBYVILLE, Ind., April 28.—Mrs.

Oscar Worland celebrated her 67th anniversary Sunday, and while her children, grandchildren and many friends were enjoying the festlvites and she apparently was In the height of glee she dropped dead at the table.

Robbery at Warsaw.

WARSAW, Ind. April 28.—A daring and successful burglary was committed at the residence of Mrs. D. Moody, a wealthy widow and prominent society woman in this city. About 1800 worth of silverware, besides other valuables, was taken.

La Porte Courthouse Accepted. LA PORTE, Ind., April23.—Tho county

commissioners Saturday accepted the new courthouse from the contractor. Tho structure cost 8325,000. The com* mlBsloners have fixed upon June 7 for the dedication:

A Violent Death.

VALPARAISO, Ind., April 28.—Charlea Dalky's mangled remains were four?'' on the Chicago & Erie tracks Saturday morning. Dalky Is tho third man killed by tho cars in this county in a week.

Eyes Gouged Out.

ANDERSON, Ind., April 23. Whll« working at the Arcade file works Saturday evening William Davis had both eyes gouged out by a piece of flying kteel.