Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1894 — Page 2

omwiw. Tariff Stories From Washington Leave Matters In Doubt. CLAIMS OF PROGRESS MADE. House Credited With Having the Best of the Situation. BUT SENATE CONFERREES DENY IT. Douyaut Speech nn<! Couilnct of House Conferrees Occasion Belief That a Solution Is Near at Hand—Strike Commission Outlines Its Work—Condition of Senator Voorhees — Conference Dead- " lock on Indian Appropriations—General Schofield's Confidential Orders to Troops During Strike Kiots —General News. Washington, Aug. 1. —The prospects of agreement on the tariff are much improved. For the first time in many days the house Democratic conferrees say that previous irreconcilable differences are in process of amicable adjustment. With much satisfaction the house members state to their associates that the senators yesterday showed a disposition for ( t the first time to meet the house half way. As to when a full agreement would be perfected there was some difference of opinion. One house conferree said it would probably be this week. Another thought it would be "soon.” j Chairman Wilson would not even admit ■ that the understanding had gone far , enough to warrant the prediction of a , speedy report. He said, however, that the conferrees had made progress. Senate conferrees came from yesterday’s meeting without showing the hopeful- j ness of the house members. They said the conference was as far from an agreement as it had been. While there was this conflict among those thoroughly informed of the inside workings of the conference, the general belief prevailed that the hopefulness of the house conferrees had some substantial foundation. Nature of the Gossip. One of the conferrees said that while no final agreement had been made on ' iron, coal and sugar, yet sufficient had been developed to show that an agreement could be reached which would be acceptable to all except possibly the full j senate, and on this latter the conferree i expressed some doubt. In this connection it has developed that Senator Caffery of Louisiana, who has been most active » on the sugar question, had a long and, it is said, satisfactory conference with Speaker Crisp and Chairman Wilson. An increased hopefulness that a bill will be agreed on is noticeable upon tha part of Democratic senators who are not members of the conference. There is probability of a report of par- ' tial agreement, and while this rumor at first appeared as a vague statement itsprobability was afterward confivhied by senators not members of the cons erence. The fact that the conferrees haye had the schedules other than those relating to sugar, coal and iron ore under consideration is one fact in confirmation of the report. JONES NOT WEAKENING. Arkansas Senator Sees No Signs of a Tariff Solution. Memphis, Aug. I.—A special to the Commercial-Appeal from Washington says: Senator Jones of Arkansas in an interview, says: “There is absolutely no truth in the re- , port that the senate conferrees are weakening on the vital points of the tariff bill and I see no sign of a solution. We are no nearer an agreem nt than heretofore, and so far as 1 am concerned we are ready to report to our respective houses adisagreement at once.’’ SCHOFIELD’S STRIKE ORDERS. ■ Confidential Instructions Show the Peril In Which Strikers Stood. Washington. Aug. 1. —The leaders of recent strike mobs who confronted the United States regular troops during the progress of the great strike probably did not realize how p“rilou-.y near they stood to violent death, for not only were the troops fully authorized to shoot into the mobs, but the commandingdjfficers were instructed to detail sharpshooters to shoot down individual rioters who were particularly active. The order issued by General Schofield July 9, and then regarded as confidential becau e : t might inflame excited crowd's. ‘ was to the effect that' "as a general rule the bayonet should be.used against mixed crowds in the first stage of revolt, but when sufficient warning has been given I to enable the innocent to separate from the guilty troops should make their blows eo effective as to promptly suppress all resistance to lawful authority.” Bynum on Tariff Bill. -j Washington, Aug. 1— Representative Bynum of Indiana is quoted as saying: “If looks as if there would be no tariff legislation. . Nothing radically different from the senate bill can pass that bodv, and the opposition of the president to it will deter a sufficient number of Demo crate in the house from voting to con cur in the senate amendments to defeat them.” Taking Chances For a Day. Washington, Aug., I.—The members of the house committee on naval affai-s who have been conducting the armor plate investigation left for Homestead last night, running thef'chances that tne tariff bill will not be returned to the house in their absence. They will be ■ gone but one day. Proposed Abolition of Banks. Washington, Aug. I.—Representati re < Boen of Minnesota has introduced a b ; ’l to abolish national banks and directing the secretary of the treasury to with draw all deposits of public money and 'V - return them to the treasury. jB ■ ■ ’ Enlarged Bankruptcy Hill. Washington, Aug. l.r-Senator George of the senate committee on judiciary has

reported the house bankruptcy bill. As reported it is almost a new measure and much extended. It retains parts of the Bailey bill and adds 15 new sections which are largely devoted to details concerning the administration of the law. SEARCH FOR FACTS. Labor t'otnniUwlon Announces Date of Meeting and Plans of Proceedure. Washington, Aug. I.—The commission appointed to investigate the cause of the recent strike, consisting of Labor Commissioner Wright and Messrs. Kernan and Worthington, met here yesterday and formulated its plans. It was resolved to go fully into the questions at C ' J/ 4®? \ wSrX i CARROLL D. WRIGHT. issue between labor (whether organized or not) and employes in order that the report might be of advantage in the matter of legislation if any is to be accomplished. Oh Aug. 15. in the Chicago postoffice building, the inquiry will formally begin, where all facts, suggestions I and arguments are to be heard that ' either labor or capital may desire to preI sent. All persons having either a patri- ' otic or personal interest in the right l solution of the questions are requested to present views in writing at any time prior to the public hearing, addressing ‘ such to the “Chairman of the Strike 1 Commission, Washington.” Some preliminary work will begin at once. Anxiety About Voorhees. Washington, Aug. I.—Senator Voorhees’ condition ri not improved. Visitors represent his condition as serious. Great anxiety is felt for fear blood poisoning may result, which would undoubtedly prove fatal. The Indiana senator is much depressed in spirits. j Latest information from the senator’s sick room is to the effect that there has been marked improvement and that there are hopes of speedy recovery. Another Conference Deadlock. I Washington, Aug. I.—Conferrees on the Indian appropriation bill have come to a deadlock over some of the most important items inserted by the senate. An agreement was reached on all but 24 senate amendments, the senate receding in seven cases. The principal disagret ■ ment was over the amendment to ratify the agreement made .with the Yankton Sioux Indians of South Dakota. I. Appropriations and Disagreements. Washington, Aug. I.—Appropriations were the subject of discussion in the senate, a government printing office .site being the most interesting feature. Indian appropriations conference reported disagreement and the bill went bae’e The house, after discus-ion. instructed its conferrees to- insist on disagreement to the Russian thistle appropriation. Want the Queen Restored. Washington, Aug. I.—-The Hawaiian commission arrived last night, Mr. Parker.stated before retiring that the visit is to obtain President Cleveland’s answer to a request for the restoration of the queen. WAR RUMORS. Unconfirmed lieports of Another Naval Fight In the Far East., Shanghai, Aug. I.—News has just been received here of a desperate battle between the fleets of China and Japan, ■ in which the Chinese were defeated and I the Chen-Yuen, the largest battleship ex- ' cept one in the Chinese service, was sunk, and two other large Chinese vessels. said to be first-class cruisers, were captured or destroyed. The battle was hotly contested, but the Japanese appear to have handled their guns, ships and torpedoes with more skill that the Chinese. The Chinese fleet engaged carried nearly T.IKM) men and a large number of them are reported to have been killed or drowned. The report of a second naval engage ment is not-confirmed. _______ » CHINA’S NAVY USED UP. Loss of the Chen-Yuen anil Other Cruisers Ends the'Naval Campaign. i Washington, Aug. I.—The news of the Japanese naval engagement with China was received here by private telegrams from Tien-Tsin. If the report i. is. true, of which there is little doubt, it "j 'inearis’that. an end has been put to China’s fighting upon the, seas. The ■ Chen-Yuen must have started out from Taku after leaving the Chinese transports there. The two Chinese cruiserssupposed to have been captured or destroyed during the engagement which ended so fatally for the Chen-Yuen are the Chin-Yuan and the Foo Ching. China Will Fight Vigorously. ! London, Aug. I.—The Times’ Pekin correspondent says the sinking of tne , Chinese transport Kow Shing by Japan has completely changed the attitude of the Chinese government and that indications are that the war against Japan will be pursued with utmost vigor. Side Remark by Debs. Terre Haute, Aug. I.—ln conversation with two C. and E. I. firemen who lost their places by the strike, President Debs of the A. R. U..said that they had better get work if they could, as the strike was off every place except at Cl>icago. Weather Forecast. Indiana—‘■'ho .vers and probably thunderstorms; cooler in southern portions. ■

crime j® mm. Texas Boy’s Eyes Gouged Out With an Awl and the Victim Drowned. TWO FEARFUL EXPLOSIONS. Kansas Woman and Children Overcome by Poison While En Route to Indiana on a Visit—Cask Containing •110,000 In Gold Lost or Stolen--Walls Fall In Texas, but No One Hurt—Bank Robbery. Terrell, Tex., Aug. I.—On the W. C. McCord farm, about six miles southeast of this city, a most sensational and peculiar crime has been committed. Peter Gibson and Murrow Jackson, both colored, lived on the farm. Two of Gibson's children and Jackson’s tt-year-old son were playing together near a tank. Withan awl the two larger boys gouged one of the little boy's eyes out, afterward throwing him in the tank to prevent him from going home and telling on them. They then dragged him up the bank, gouged several holes in his body, threw him in the tank again and held him under the water until he was drowned. They then concealed his clothes in a brushpile 200 yards away. The body was found and the boys placed under arrest. They confessed. DREADFUL EXPLOSION. Three Men Killed and Two Hurt In a Blasting Experiment. Chicago, Aug. I.—An explosion in the Dolez & Shephard stoneyard and quarries yesterday during blasting resulted in the death of three and the serious injury of two other persons. The dead are: Frank Corbin, 33 years old. Scott Clark, 48 years old. Richard Clark, 20 years old, son of Scott Clark, killed instantly. The injured: C- H. Rudd, scalp wound and badly bruised and cut about body; will recover. William Kerr, slightly injured about head and body. The accident was the result of experiments with an explosive made by Rudd, which is very powerful but which Fa was trying to improve. The victims were i*rribly mangled. POISON IN THEIR FOOD. Woman and Children En Route to Indiana Taken Violently 111. Kansas City, Aug. I.—Mrs. William Hough and five children, ranging from 4 months to 14 years, were taken from a Rock Island train yesterday afternoon deathly sick from the effects of poisoning. They were taken ill after eating a dinner prepared at their home near Brewster, Kans., before leaving on a trip to visit relatives in Indiana. It is believed tha the foed was poisoned and every indict l ' ion pointed to arsenic. T e victims stiff -red terrible agony. Two hours of hard work put all on the way to recovery. A /hen she had sufficiently recovered Mrs. Hough said she was sure the poisoning was accidental, as she had no enemies. STOLEN GOLD.

Cask Containing 850,000 Disappears In Transit to Paris. New York, Aug. 1.-r The mysterious disappearance of a cask of gold while in transit from Havre to Paris has been confirmed by Lazard Freres of this city, who was the consignor to Lazard Freres & Co. of Paris. The cask contained §50,000 and was one .of 40 shipped by the French line steamer La Touraine. All of these were taken from the steamer at Havre and placed on the train for Paris, bnt when the consignment reached s destination one was missing. There s no, satisfactory solution of the mysterious disappearance. The shipment .was fully insured. The railroad company’s theory is that the cask was left on board the steamer. WITH DALTON TRIMMINGS.\ Citizen and Bandit. Killed In a Baid on an Oklahoma Bank. Guthrie/ O. T., _ Aug; ~L—Chandler was the scene of an attempted bank robbery with Dalton trimmings yesterday. Five men rode into town, dismounted behind the Lincoln County bank and while two stood* guard three rushed in and demanded the cash. They got only S3OO lying loose on the counters. J. M. Mitchell, a barber who gave the alarm, was killed, and Ernest Lucas, aged’?l and a member of the. gang, is dying. He says it was the notorious Co’Ok crowd. The shooting occurred as the bandits were fleeing. Charged With Theft of Bank Funds. Little Rock. Aug. I.—J. B. Suttler, well known in this city, for man)/years a banker, Sunday-school superintendent, Populist leader aud editor, is said to be a defaulter. It is alleged that when he recently left for Austin, Tex., he was short as assistant treasurer of tiie Little Rock M. E. conference and had embezzled Winfield Me norial church funds, Suttler telegraphs a denial from Austin. Locomotive Blown to Pieces. Winnipeg, Aug. I.—At Field station, on the Canadian Pacific, a locomoti-e boiler exploded. Engineer Wheatly and Fireman Hunt were instantly kille I. George Kemp, brakeman, was terribly cut and internally injured. «i.vl>erience<l Miner* Killed. Sonora, Cal,, Aug. I.—The -explosion of 35 pounds of giant powder in the Golden Gate mine caused the death of Lafayette Carr and John Mangram, two experienced miners, yesterday. No One Injured. Dallas, Tex., Aug. I.—Yesterday a partition wall of brick buildings collapsed on Elm street. No one was injured, as first reported. Fusion In North Carolina. Raleigh, Aug. I.— A fusion of Populists and Republicans was arranged for here yesterday on the stateXicket so far as committees of both parties could arrange it.

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ABOUT NTHIKF.N. —• N As there are thousands of laborers looking for work, and thousands of people East West, North and South are out of work who would be glad of a chance to get work and earn weekly wages, We are Inclined to believe that all having work would be glad to retain their positions. But this Is not the case. For weeks and months the papers have been full of accounts of strikes. Thousands of laborers who had work, laid down their tools; not only this, but these men compel others to do likewise, or, they keep others, by force, from taking up work In their place, and lu many cases body and life are In danger. Many of our people can not understand how this can be, and wonderinglyask: “How can it be possible ' that some men quit work, while others are j looking for work and can not obtain any?” I But the question may be easily answered and understood, if we understand what a j strike is, aud what are its purposes, j If a strike would simply be an opposing I of work on the side of the wageworkers, it 1 would be difficult to understand, that j thousands at this time, when work is scarce j should lay down their tools and refuse to ■ work. But tbis is not the case, no more so . than war is the drilling of troops. The strike is actual war. War waged between i the working man and the giver of work. ; These two tactions Are opposed to each 'other, tiie same as two nations. Where ' two nations are at war with each other, ; they try to do all the damage to o»e an- | other and finally force the enemy to terms ;of capitulation, bolt is with capital and labor, aud as Is often the case in war, that I the aggressive party is looser, thus we rind I that in most cases the strikers are loosers • in tiie end, even if they uttaiu what they , were striking for. Tiie aggressive party in a strike are the workingmen. What the workingmen try to attain is their own profit, no matter how [ tiie person employing tliem may fare, eveu if he be bankrupt,d. Such advantages i sought are higher wages, shorter days, better and safer shops ami last, but not least the agreement to abide by laws made by the labor organizations, uo matter w hat they may be. It is true, they try to settle tiie disputes about wages, etc., witli their bosses, but this settleriient is all one-sided, i. e. they place their terms before the bosses and simply ask them to agree to these terms, if this is done, well if not, they go out, and thus try to ( force tiie opposite party to their terms. All working men lay down their work at once, not to look for other work, that may pay them better: for a striker, as a general rule, does not look for work at all, as under their rules he is even prohibited to accept work, even if offered to him. A striker does not quit work because his boss does not suit him. No, as a striker, he has it to do with his boss, this is the man lie wants to force to his terms. Naturally such a state of things exercise a certain pressure on tiie employer. It is the interest of tiie employer to keep his factory or shop running ns long afyhe is able to work with a protit. Whoever takes this profit away from them harms them. During a strike this profit is not only lessened, but totally stopped, if tiie strikers succeed in keeping the products away from the markets. Let me explain. At the coal strike all miners quit work and would not allow any coal to betaken from the mines, and no coal was mined, tiie consequence was that tiie mine owners could pot till their contracts and who was tiie loser? Both parties. Is it not the case that the wage workers would not strike if they were tiie only ones to lie the losers. In short, tiie object of a strike is to harm tiie employer as much as possible. This is still better to be seen if we follow the further developments of a strike, if the striker would have laid down his work, because his job did not suit him, what would it concern him if another man took his place. The case is different. All kinds of taettts are employed to hinder tiie places left vfcant to be filled by others. For this reason the unions have been started and those belonging to these unions have sworn not to fill vacancies which have been made by members of the union striking, Others , againpre kept from filling vacancies by threats, promises or pistols and any person who may go to work is looked upon as a traitor. Why? To harm the employer as 'much as possible is the motto. And still another point. Stock which may be on hand is guarded by the strikers, stopped on the road or eveu destroyed. This is not all; to make sure of their measure and to more effectually harm the employer, the strike Is extended to other corporations of the same kind. This is the case in the Pullman strike where almost all traffic on the roads out of Chicago was stopped. In the last strike .the Pullman workmen had a perfect right to lav down their work, but this was ail they had a right to do. But what was done? A so-called sympathy strike was gotten up forbidding all rail roads to carry Pullman coaches, and if tiie railroads refused to obey orders, force was used to compel them to come to time and even property was destroyed. It. is true tiie strikers claim to have issued orders to their men not to use such measures to aceompiish their end or aim of the strike; but is it not true, that they were the cause of these depredations, even if indirectly? Were they not the cause of stoppW cd.. merce? Were not they the cause of want in thousands of families? Were not they the cause of men being killed? Or can they put the blame ou the shoulders of Others? They may say Pullman and the, railroad companies are the cause of all this trouble, why did they not come to our terms? Very well. What then if this had been done? Would not these same, men (Pullman and the railroad companies) then have acknowledged that sueli men as Debs and others of the same kind are the government? Would we not then have anarchy pure and unadulterated in a very sfiort time. It is true the employer < do not do as they should toward their labm era, but 1 do not believe strikes will better the condition, but make it worse; experience has taught us so. A Laborer.