Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — Page 2

61)c democratic Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Putlisher.

FAIL IN THEIR DUTY.

THE RESPECTABLE CITIZENS DESERVE CENSURE. •.ratified His Spite and Died—Trouble Between Chinese Heathen and French Missionaries—British Soldiers Are Not Welcome in Cairo. Egypt. Plain Words to Chicago. Franklin MacVeagh startle! 300 members of the Union League Club at Chicago ‘Tuesday night. He told them In a speech on municipal reform at the quarterly dinner of the club that they, as factors in the legion known as the army of “good citizens,” who refuse to vote and “neglect the opportunities of city life.” are more criminally responsible than “the bad citizens known as the practical politicians who pick off the pavement what their betters cast away. ” Mr. MacVeagh did not say these and other cutting things in an offensive way. He spoke smilingly but earnestly ; his remarks were at first received with ill-concealed wonderment, but be did not abandon the thread that he took up at the beginning and sentiments that at the outset of his apeech caused evident astonishment were, differently worded, heartily cheered at the close of bis discourse The speaker advised his hearers not to make the mistake of most reformers, now that they were starting out, as be bad been civen to understand. on a municipal reform crusade, namely, “that they were the people”

TROUBLE IN CAIRO, EGYPT. Collisions Occur Between the Khedive’s Troops and British Soldiers. Much uneasiness is felt in Cairo, Egypt, regarding the outcome of two collisions which occurred there one Saturday night, and the other Sunday night, between the British soldiers and Egyptian troops. The fight was the result of the intense hatred felt by the Egyptians for the British, and bnt for timely interference of English officers of high rank a scene of carnage would have ensued. To add to the unhappy situation of affairs precipitated by the soldiers of Egypt, the civilians of Cairo did all they could to aggravate the trouble by aiding the native soldiers. It is reported that several were killed on both sides, with a number wounded, but the story cannot easily be verified, as a strong and temporarily successful effort was at once made to suppress the news and minute circumstances The city was patrolled Monday night by strong pickets under direction of English officers, MOBBED BY CHINESE. French Missions Are Burned anil Priests Severely Maltreated. The French missions at Hsianfu, in the province of Shen Si, have been burned by a riotous mob The priests in charge of the missions, after having been severely maltreated by the mob, were thrown ;lnto prison. The French government, through Its minister to China, has demanded redress for the outrago and has threatened to take energetic measures to obtain satisfaction should there be any delay in according justice to the missionaries, punishing the offenders and granting compensation for the loss incurred.

HORSE DISFIUUKER KILLED. Rejected by an Ohio Widow, He Bail Resorted to Spite Work. At Cameron, Monroe County, Ohio, John Bolon was shot by Bernhardt Martin. Bolon was a suitor for the hand of Widow Barbara Mellott, but was rejected by her. He continued to annoy her with attentions. Martin, who resides with Mrs. Mellott, ills mother-in-law. heard a noise, and, going out with bis gun, saw a man leaving the barn. He called to him to stop, but he kept on, when Martin fired a heavy load of buckshot into his stomach. He proved to be Bolon, and he had disfigured three horses In the barn by cutting their tails off. Bolon died. SIX OF THE CREW LOST. Bark Belmont, of Boston, Ashore Near Chatham, Mass. The bark Belmont of Boston, from Trinidad for Boston, with 4,837 bags of sugar to the American irugar Refining Company, ■went ashore on Beacon Hill bar, near Chatham, Mass., during Sunday night’s storm, and Is a total wreck. Six of the crew are lost, and three drifted ashore on a spar. The vessel was owned by John S. Emery, of Boston, and was valued at 910,000. She was insured for halt her value. The cargo was fully covered by Insurance. Last December she was extensively repaired and redressed. Pension Scandals In Minnesota. One of the thirty-four pension indictments turned In by the Federal Grand Jury was against Capt. Charles E. Thurber, of Rochester. Minn., for perjury. He appeared to give bail, which was fixed at 9LOOO. He is accused in the Indictment of having sworn falsely to the disabilities of Thomas M. Newell, a claimant for a pension. This Is the first time an old soldier has been indicted in the Northwest for perjury in pension mattera Purdue Commencement. The ninth annual graduating exercises of the school of pharmacy of Purdue University took place at Lafayette, Ind. Thirty-seven received diplomas. Crashed to Death. John Figley, a brakeman on the Zanesville and Ohio River Road, was crushed to death a short distance below Merriam Station. , Train Wreckers Foiled. An attempt was made made Monday at Huron, Ohio, to wreck the Atlantic express on the Lake Shore road, A large number of ties were piled between the rails on the bridge across the river. They were discovered by a young man who reported to the telegraph operator in time to stop the train before it reached the bridge. Woman Wants to Be Town Marshal. As one result of the franchise being extended to women in Colorado Mrs. O. a Hahen, of Newcastle, Is a candidate for Town Marshal and has three masculine opponents. After the town board had taken . forty ballots the board adjourned without making a selection. LoSt la N6rth China Sea. News Is brought by the steamer Belgic of the wreck of the B itlsh barkent ine Case City In the North china Sea, while on her way from Cheefoo to Amoy. The vessel B A total lots And- half her crew perished, including Capt. T. A. Rodney. UCtJ? rV >• ..• Centenarian Killed by the Cars. An east-bound freight train on the Pennsylvania Road struck Abram Felter in Warsaw, Ind.. Friday, mangling hb body terribly. One of his arms was lodged In the telegraph wires and his bead was carried on the pilot of the engine several miles before it was discovered. He was more than 100 years old. Kaur Buildings Burned. A most disastrous fire visited Lancaster, N. Y„ and wiped out a great portion of the business sec Urn of the town before it was checked. Over a dozen business blocks and private houses were destroyed, and the total ioes is estimated at over 910),000. Jirobably not one-third insured.

BESIEGED BY TRAMPS. Citizens of Oakland, California, Have an Exelting Night. The elty of Oakland, Cat. has had many exciting events In its history, but nothing has occurred to compare with the turmoil caused early Friday m rnlng by a regiment of 64) unemployed men, which left San Francbco Wednesday to join Coxey's army in its journey to Washington. All Thursday night every man, woman and child In Oakland was on the streets, the riot alarm was sounded, the Governor was asked to call out the National Guards, extra police and deputy sheriffs were sworn in and armed with rifles Only a rash word or an unlucky shot was required to precipitate a conflict which would have resulted in the extinction of this branch of the industrial army. But the word Wav not uttered, nor the shot fired. GOOD TIMES COMING. Mercantile Agency at Last Discerns Signs of Hope. R. & Dun & Ca’s Weekly Review of Trade says: Improvement in business has continued since the President’s veto, whlcn has been sustained in the House, but the best news is the great decrease in the number and importance of the failures The number was 2.090 in January. 1.202 in February, and 1.0)5 in March. The commercial liabilities were 931.320,867 in January, $17.030.419 in February, and 814,736.893 in March. Wheat has been lifted about four cents by reports of serious injury to the plant, but the accounts are more than usually conflicting, and there is much uncertainty about the extent of the injury. Corn has declined Iji cents, with Western receipts of 2,596.139 bushels Fork illustrates the contrariness of the hog by rising half a dollar, with lard a shade better. The cotton market approaches stagnation.

NOT SUITED FOR WAR. Naval Board Report Upon the Feasibility of Using Whalebacks. The naval board appointed to investigate the feasibility of converting the whaleback type of ship Into auxiliary war cruisers has reported that these vessels do not present features which would make them useful as commerce destroyers or fighting ships, on account of the impossibility of mounting them with heavy ordnance. It would not be possible, to Install heavy ordnance on any part of the ship owing to their light construction ant} Jittle deck space. Only the lightest rapid fire and machine guns could be used at all, and for this reason the boar,) recommended that the whalebacks should not be counted upon for auxiliary cruisers in t me of war. COMPLEXION OF THE HOUSE. Reccnt Changes Give the Democrats a Plurality of Eighty-four. According to a Washington dispatch the seating of Messrs. O’Neill and English will not perceptibly affect ths relative political strength of the House of Representatives, yet the event affords an opportunity of presenting the figures. When the House met at noon Wednesday there were on the rolls 213 Democrats, 126 Republicans, and 12 Populists. Changes effected Wednesday and Thursday decreased the Republican vote by two and Increased that of the Democrats to the same extent. Assuming that Houk's successor will be a Democrat, the total strength of the several parties will then be: 'Democrats, 220; Republicans, 124; Popu. lists, 12.

THREE TRAIN ROBBERS HANGED. Triple Execution at Newport, Ark., for Last November’s Crime. The three train robbers. J. L. Wyrick. Thomas Brady and Albert Mansken. who killed Conductor W. P. McNally at Oliphant, Ark., Nov. 3 last, were hanged at Newport, Ark. All three necks were broken The men spent the night in prayer and preparation for death. When they found that all hope was gone they confessed that the story of the train robbery and murder told by George Padgett, who turned State's evidence, was true. All three united, howover, in asserting that Padgett planned the crime, drew the others into it, and then deserted them when his own neck was endangered. • Against the Charleston Militia. The scene of military operations in tht South Carolina dispensary war was transCharleston when Jerry D. Watts, the Assistant Adjutant General of the State, arrived with instructions from Gov. Tillman to disarm and disband the Fourth brigade, South Carolina Volunteers. The charges are that the brigade refused to obey the Governor’s order and repair to Darlington to suppress the insurrection. The Ad jutant General’s instructions are to take all the arms and accouterments back to Columbia.

Hurt by Falling Walls. At Elizabeth, N. J., a brick wall of a building on Broad street In process of erection fell upon a gang ot bricklayers who were at work on a scaffold on the opposite wait The wounded are: James Fury, head badly injired; William Headly, fractured skull; legs broken, taken to hospital; Robert Ifwln, one arm broken and skull frretured. Hot Punishment for Pupils. Northampton, Mass., is greatly aroused over the action of a grammar-school teacher who had placed Cayenne peppfe” on the tongues of disobedient pupils. The school commissioners uphold the action ot the teacher. A Big Fire In Shanghai. Tuesday night a Are broke out in, Shanghai and despite all the efforts made to check the flames they spread in every direction. The fire burned all night, destroying 1,000 houses.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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WILL FACE THE ISSUE

GOVERNOR TILLMAN WILL TAKE CHARGE OF ALL POLICE. Tn an Addreaa to the Militia. He Declares that Unless the Law Is Obeyed H • Will Discharge Every Peace Officer In South Carolina. No Fear of Civil War. A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says that while press and telegraphic censorship is no longer exercised by Gov. Tillman, the chief executive has assumed control of the police force of the State. He has issued a proclamation under Section 519 of the General Statutes declaring municipal police and constabulary under his orders. The proclamation is as follows: State or South Cabolina, 1 Executive Chamber. - Columbia, 8. C. j Whereas. Section 519 of the general statutes of this State declares that "the Governor shall have authority whenever in his judgment it shall be necessary to arm the constabulary, and In any emergency to assume the sole control of the whole or any part of the municipal police in cities and incorporated towns, and to authorize the chief constable of the State or any deputy chief constable to command assistance in the execution of process in suppressing riots and preserving peace;” and. Whereas, It is made the duty of and ths power is given said police to enforce the statute known as the "dispensary law," but that instead of obeying the requirements of said law the said police except in a few towns have been an obstruction and are active aiders and abettors of those who are opposing the laws; and Whereas, Under the same statute the power 1» given the governor to appoint constables for the purpose of its enforcement: and Whereas, The rebellious and lawless element of society have hounded and insulted these officers and sedulously educated the public mind to resistance, causing several encounters, resulting in bloodshed between constables and illicit whisky sellers producing intense excitement and danger to the peace and welfare of the State; now Therefore I, Benjamin R. Tillman. Governor of the State of South Carolina, do issue this my proclamation giving full and official notice to the municipal authorities of every city and incorporated town in the State of South Carolina and to the police and marshals thereof that under the powers given me by said section 819 the emergency contemplated has arisen and does now exist and that I do hereby assume such control of the whole force of municipal police and marshals of the several otties and incorporated towns of the State. They are hereby ordered to enforce all laws on the statute books, together with all municipal ordinances and orders from municipal authorlttos not inconsistent with the purposes of the proclamation. As soon as the emergency which is now upon us shall no longer exist! will relinquish .control and restore the former status. B. R. Tillman, Governor. J. E. Tindall, Secretary of State. Are Not Ready to Obey. As far as Columbia is concerned, the dispatch says the proclamation has created great excitement. The Mayor when asked about it said that he had referred tho whole matter to the City Attorney, who is now considering the question. Chief of Police Radcliffe says that he awaits orders from the Mayor and will not act otherwise until instructed by him so to do. For the first time since Friday Gov. Tillman went to the State house Tuesday. He was accompinied by John Gary Evans, reform candidate for Governor. The citizens neither tried to hurt nor molest him, as many people thought would be the case when he appeared on the streets again. He is not going to be hurt in Columbia, but his action in assuming control of all the police in the State has created great indignation. The 400 or more troops remaining in the penitentiary were, by orders of the Governor, marched up to the State house. They were formed in line before the building and addressed by the Governor. The Governor said: “The dispensary law is on the statute books. I, as chief executive, have sworn that the laws of this State shall be respected, and, so help me God, I will exert all tho powers ot my office to see that the law is obeyed.”

The Governor was severe in his condemnation of the militia companies that have refused to obey orders. “Over at Darlington,” he said, “these band-box soldiers, these soldiers turned politicians, pranced all over the country and sent for re-enforcements to barrooms and whisky men, but they have never fired a shot at a single constable and they did not want to find them.” The Governor did not fear civil war. “It will not come and cannot come,” he said, “because the people are in the saddle and intend to remain there. One man told Mr. Yelldell here that he camo from Edgefield, my own county, with a shotgun to kill me Friday night. I will not mention his name. Threatened men live long, and I have never felt uneasy. “This riot is political frenzy. I shall not budge an inch from the stand that I have taken as the people's Governor. You may imagine from this that I am going to aggravate the trouble, but I am simply going to uphold the law. I could not have done what I have unless I controlled the railroads and the telegraph line. From this day the constables shall watch the policemen and report to me whether they are doing their duty, and if they do not obey my orders and if the authorities do not cooperate with me I shall call the Legislature together, and we will have the power given the Executive to remove those men and appoint others who will obey the law.”

At this point Mr. Early a cousin of Mr. Norment, who was killed by State Constables, yelled out: “Why don’t you obey the law yourself?” This created a big commotion in the crowd. One of the Governor’s sympathizers yelled out “Shoot him!” and both factions rushed up. The Governor called for silence and Chief of Police Radcliffe jumped off his horse and grabbed Early, commanding order, and took him away. As the Governor finished his speech there were deafening cheers from his troops.., An order was then read to the troops commanding them to return to their homes and extending thanks to the gallant and patriotic soldiers and 'Citizens who, at a moment’s notice, dropped their various avocations and pursuits to respond to his call.

APRIL ELECTIONS.

Result of the Contest in Various Municipalities. Returns collected, by. the Associated Press giving th'd results of the municipal elections throughout the country are as follows: 1 ; Cleveland, Ohio —Returns from Ohio towns show Republican gains. Wapakoneta elects the first Republican mayor in years. At Bellevue and Bucyrus, usually Democratic, the Republicans held their own fairly well. At Columbus the Republicans elect Bigger (Rep.) police' judge and two-thirds of the councilman. Youngstown elects Miller (Rep.) by 2,000 majority. The Canton Republicans elected their ticket by 500. The Republicans elect everything at Alliance by a plurality averaging over 700. At Dayton the Democrats elect the ticket by ov.er 800. The Republicans carried everything at Lima and Hamilton. At Cincinnati the vote on Mayor is: Caldwell (Rep.), 26,672; Miller (Dem.), 11,855; Horstman (Citizen), 19,912; People’s, 255; Prohibition, 79, On the reat of the ticket the vote averaged: Republicans, 28,000; Democrats, 14,000; Citizens, 15,000. Official returns from about one-half of Cleveland show that the Republicans have won. Returns from Northern Ohio towns show Re-

publican victories nearly everywhere. At Massillon Gen. Coxey’s candidate for Councilman in the Third Ward was only defeated I !^’the city vote. Thera has been a marked itunpase in the People's party vote. Chicago. lit Republicans made gains in Chicago's aldermanic election, and the body stxnds 4Republicans and 26 Democrats, instead of 38 to 30 as formerly. Political lines, however, were not closely drawn, and the positions of Assessor, Collector, Supervisor, and Clerk, in the various divisions, are filled by men in many instances who do not belong to the leading party. At Gale-burg the election was a landslide for the Citizens’ or Temperance ticket. Every aldermanic candidate on the citizens' ticket was elected. In Springfield the township and city election was a victory for the Repuolicans, who made a clean sweep, electing all their township officers ana every one of the eight Aldermen to be chosen. The town election in Aurora was non-partisan, as it has always been. The straight “citizens' ticket" was elected. In Quincy, Mayor John P. Mikesell is re-elected over Samuel Harrop, Democrat. The Democrats elect three Aidermen and other city officers. Das Moines —The Republicans elected their city ticket bv majorities of from 1,000 to 1,500. They also elected eight of the nine aidermen. At Keokuk the city election passed off quietly, the Republicans electing their candidate for assessor and three aidermen. The Democrats secured four aidermen. At Dubuque the Democrats elected their entire city ticket and all the aidermen. Milwaukee, Wis.—Reports indicate that the Republicans have gained all over the State. Of the four candidates for Circuit Judges, Clemenson of the Fifth and Marshall of the Sixth were returned without opposition. John C. Koch has been re-elected Mayor of Milwaukee and'the entire Republican city ticket goes in with him. The Republicans captured twenty-six out of the thirty-six Aidermen. Detroit—Returns from the municipal elections throughout Michigan show: In Saginaw the Democrats elected the Mayor by forty-six plurality. Republicans elect the other officers and all save one Aiderman. In Bay City Democrats elect Recorder ai.d two Aidermen. Republicans won in St Joseph, Benton Harbor, Kalamazoo, Adrian, Ann Arbor. Battle Creek, Cadillac,Big Rapids, Jackson. At Holland Democrats elected the Mayor. Lansing Democrats elected city officers except Mayor and gained control of the Common Council. At Marshall the victory is narrowly divided. Grand Haven Republicans get the principal offices, except Marshal. At Muskegon the Republicans gained. St. Paul, Mjnn. —The Republicans carried the cities of Fergus Falls, Albert Lea, and St. Peter. The Democrats were successful at Wabasha. The liquor people carried nearly every city and village in which an election was held. The majorities for license were: Fergus Falls, 189; Albert Lea, 153; Blue Earth City, 32; Farmington. 53. Hastings, Neb.—Republicans made a clean sweep, electing every man on the municipal ticket by majorities rangin’’’ from 600 to 700. Spring Hill, Kan.—At the city election here women were elected to fill all of the municipal offices, including Mayor, Councilmen and Police Judges.

WHEAT AND FRUIT.

Reports by Special Correspondents from Twelve States. Reports have been received by the Farmers’ Review from its special correspondents in twelve States, as to the injury done to wheat and fruit by the recenf severe cold weather. The damage to wheat is small in the aggregate, but very bad in some localities where the plant had made rapid growth. The disaster to fruit was widespread, the States where the trees were m st forward suffering most. In the northern sections of a number of’ the States the larger fruits were saved, for the reason that they had been held back in development. WHEAT. In Dlinois the crop as a whole has certainly Buffered considerable from the freeze, though how much damage has been done cannot be told till a period of warm weather develops the uninjured wheat. In some counties it froze to the ground, but may be all right. In Indiana tho damage appears to be less than in Illinois, and most of the correspondents report the outlook good. Some fields where the plant had jointed are reported killed. In a few counties it is estimated that the crop will be cut down a third. These sections are not numerous, and the general condition for the State is fair. in Ohio the general condition remains from fair to good. The late freeze did damage mainly on clay lands, but in many sections the snow covered and protected the plant. The fields that look bad from the effects of the cold will doubtless recover, being uninjured at the roots. Michigan wheat shows little effect of the freeze. The crop was hurt some by the cold, but in most counties the plant was either covered by snow or so backward in development that it escaped. In Kentucky the damage to wheat is considerable. The plant was growing rapidly under the effects ot the warm weather in March, and when the cold came it caught the plant at a stage of growth where it is easily injured. The crop has been cut short, but how much no one can tell at this time. In Missouri the wheat is reported injured in some sections, and in others only retarded. Its general condition is fair, and it does not now appear that the aggregate damage was great. In Kansas some of the wheat that had been closely pastured is reported so badly killed that it will have to be plowed up. Some wheat on old ground is reported hurt by drouth and wind. In most of the counties, however, the outlook is favorable. In Nebraska wheat has been damaged some by high winds and late freezing, and the general condition is poor. According to reports not more than halt a crop will be harvested in some of the counties. In lowa little damage Is reported, and in the counties that raise winter wheat the outlook is generally good. In Wisconsin most of the counties escaped any great disaster, but In some the crop appears to be seriously retarded. It is hoped that the development was not so great at the time of the freeze as to make the Injury permanent. FRUIT. Nearly all kinds of tree fruit In Illinois have been killed. The late blossoming apples have escaped and some of the small fruits. The same is true of Indiana and Ohio in a smaller degree. In Michigan most of the fruit seems to have escaped with the exception ot peaches and strawberries. In Kentucky the fruit is quite generally killed. In Missouri great injury has resulted. In Kansas, peaches and plums are killed, but in many counties apples appear to have escaped. In Nebraska the damage has been considerable. In lowa and Wisconsin the injury to fruit is not believed to be great.

Sticking Close to Home.

A local paper of Moravia, Cayuga County, N. Y., says that George Dumore, a prosperous farmer, who has been a resident of that town nearly eighty years, has never been outside the township. The well-known villages of Cortland, Homer, Genoa and Aurora are within ten miles of Moravia, but Father Dumore has never been in either one of them. He has a brother and a sister who have lived eight miles from his farm for over sixty years and he has not seen either of them for for-ty-five years. A neighbor of Dumore's, Nathan Tuthill, 74 years old, has lived at Moravia fifty years and was never inside the village tavern or postoffiee. He has lived half a century in one house and never slept or ate a meal in any other house. He never tasted liquor, beer or tobacco and never wrote a letter or signed a note or other obligation. Another neighbor of Dumore’s is Seth R. Webb, aged 83 years, who has been town clerk for fifty-four consecutive years.—New York Tribuna.

SIX MEN ARE SHOT

RIOT AND MURDER IN THE COKI REGIONS. ) Btx Mea Dead and a Dozen Mortal!) Wounded aa the Reenlt of One Day*! Biotinc—Scores of Striker* Arrested and Tried for Murder. Pitched Contests Fougrht. Wednesday was an exciting day of riot and bloodshed, of reckless disregard of law and property in the Penn- ' sylvania coke regions. Nearly 10,000 I striking coke-burners, according to a i dispatch, are inarching from place to place destroying the machinery at the ooke ovens and driving the workmen away. They are armed with sticks, old muskets and revolvers, and unless they are promptly subjugated more bloodshed will certainly follow. Fayette and Westmoreland Counties from Uniontown almost to Greensburg have been converted into a vast battlefield. At night armed sentries are picketed on every hill top. Their figures as they shift their rifles from shoulder to shoulder stand out darkly against the sky. Below them on the hillsides glow the long rows of coke ovens with their canopy of half-lumi-nous smoke. A few workmen skulk from place to place in mortal terror oi being brained by some blood-thirsty striker hidden away in the shadows. The valleys and fields are sprinkled with camp-fires, around which the striking cokers are bivouacked. Al) day long parties of them, led by wildeyed. unkempt Huns, have been parading from mine to mine, wheedling or coercing the workmen into joining their ranks. Six M -n Killed Outright. Six men were killed outright Wednesday and a dozen more seriously if not fatally wounded. The rioting began early, and the climax was reached when a body of strikers, numbering several hundred, marched to the Davidson works of the H. C Frick Coke Company at Connellsville, where men were working. Deputies had been placed to receive them and opened fire. The strikers returned the fire and | charged, driving the deputies and me , from the plant. Chief Engineer Pao I dock, of the Frick Company, ran up in the tipple of the works. The strikers I followed, arid shot him in the back of I the head. They threw his body to the ovens, forty feet below. They then tried to fire the tipple, but left when they saw the deputies returning with a large force from Connellsville. Hearing of Paddock’s murder, hundreds volunteered to avenge his death. The pursuing party overtook the strikers and opened fire. The strikers fired in return, but ran on. Three strikers fell; one was killed instantly, shot through the body, and two others were fatally wounded. Another of the strikers was killed by a deputy at Bradford, a mile distant. Eleven strikers were captured after the first battle, and the pursuing party kept up the chase until Dawson, seven mi'ej distant, was rea-hed, where fifty-three more strikers were captured. The lawabiding element had its waj- and the prisoners were hurried to jail. Scottdale is the center of the trouble. All the meetings have been held there, and the residents are being terrorized almost hourly by parades of the maddened strikers. Some of the American laborers have expressed themselves as willing to work under the old scale, but the Hungarians are not only unwilling to accept the terms offered them by the employers but they are driving all of the Americans away from the ovens. The delegate convention called Tuesday wai stormy from beginning to end. Some of the men wanted a strike at all the works, others at the worksnot paying the Frick scale, while still dthers wanted to declare the strike off until the organization can be completed and the men better prepared for a battle. The convention broke up about 2 o’clock. Before adjournment the radicals pushed through a resolution declaring a general strike. The demand is for 90 cents pier 100 bushels for mining and an advance of 12 pier cent, on the Frick scale for all other work. When the convention adjourned the delegates were sent back with instructions to urge all the men who are out to remain firm and to work dili- : gently to extend the strike. The Frick and W. S. Rainey companies are most seriously affected. Rainey was among the first to ask the sheriff for protection, and his belligerent attitude has brought the ill-will of the strikers down upon him. The concerns affected are the Oliver and the . Cambria iron companies and the LaI mont and Moyer works. I Men from neighboring plants began gathering in the vicinity of Oliver,and lat 8:30 over 1,000 men had collected, i There is a large contingent of Amer- : lean workmen and a few foreigners at . Oliver who are not in sympathy with the strikers, and they refuse to go out, . One Slav ran into the company’s store i and asked to be protected. Then the great mob gathered around the store and attempted to go in and get the man. The deputies on guard brought | their Winchesters into position for action and threatened to shoot if the men tried to force their way into the store. The mob yelled and hooted and threatened to burn the store or blow it ‘ up if the man was not given up. I Serious trouble was imminent, and to avoid it the company officials told the ■ Hun to go with the strikers. He did so, and the strikers left at once, marchi ing toward Leith and Brownfield, the ! big Frick works, where the men are I working and do not want to strike. , They were headed by a drum corps, and created much excitement as they I passed through Uniontown. Nearly all were Slavs. The Leith men had I placed pickets in town, and when they ' saw the strikers coming back to Leith, half a mile distant, informed the ■ men, giving them plenty of time to get . out of sight.

Telegraphic Clicks.

Three persons were injured by the explosion of a bomb in a restaurant in Paris. Corbett will demand Jackson's $lO,000 as a forfeit if the negro refuses to fight in America. Trouble has arisen in settling the differences between the Union Pacific Road and the Western Immigration pool. Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, addressed the Loyal Legion of New York on “The Duty and Value of Patriotism.” An angry mob of 2,000 attacked the Queen’s Own, the crack regiment of Toronto, while < n parade, and a serious fight ensued. In the Senate a bill was passed permitting horse-racing in tfie District of Columbia, but prohibiting pool-selling and book-making. Seven persons were' killed and several seriously injured by jumping from the windows of a burning hotel in Frankfort-on-the-Main. In the Pollard case at Washington Judge Bradley administered a stinging rebuke to people who attend tfie tritu out of morbid curiosity.

CURRENT COMMENT.

The Prenderfaat Stay. The ropp which Prendergast did not stretch was not Wifely saved.—New York World. The reprieve of Prendergast is more than a Chicago scandal. It is a national outrage.—New York Recorder. Give the ’awyers time enough and they will prove that Cat ter Harrison committed suicide.—Minneapolis Tribune. The day of Prendergast’s execution has been postponed, but for all that he is getting nearer the end of the rope. —Baltimore Herald Prendergast’s mind may be unlalanced, but he was eane enough to know what he was about when he fired the fatal bullet. —Troy Times. And now the point is to be raised that Prendergast is legally dead and cannot be executed. And yet they say we have lynch law.—lndianapolis News. The claim now is that Prendergast has gone insane since his trial. The antics of the Chicago bench are enough to make anyone mad. —Minneapolis Journal. The reprieve of Prendergast, the man who murdered Mayor Harrison of Chicago, is a mistake. The assassin was tried and found guilty. He should be hanged.—Albany Argus. If Prendergast has the usual luck of insane murderers he will, on the testimony of “experts, ”be sent to an asylum for a few months and be discharged “cured” on the testimony of some other “experts.”—Detroit News. The scope of the inauiry might be profitably extended so as to include the sanity' or honesty of the parties resnonsib e for this miscarriage of justice. It is now claimed that whether found sane or insane he will escare the gallows.—Cincinnati T.mes-Star. His fellow-prisoners in the Cook County jail shouted: “Hang Prendergast,” while a lesser murderer was paying the penalty. Their apprehension of the principles of essential justice is clearer than that of the Chicago judge who stretched his authority to reprieve the assassin of Chicago’s late Mayor, Carter Harrison.—New York Telegram.

Coxey’* Army. The judgment of Mrs. Coxey, No. 1, in securing a divorce has been handsomely vindicated.—Washington Post It is scarcely proper to pray for Coxey’s army. They expect to prey for themselves. Cleveland Plain Dealer. There should le no mystery about “The Great Unknown” of Coxey’s army. His name is Dennis. —Boston Globe. At its present rate of progress the Coxey Commonweal Army is bound to get to Washington before the Capitol is moved to some other city.—Chicago Record. The good people at Salem, Ohio, fed the Coxeyites on jelly cake. By the time they reach Maryland they will probably turn up their’ noses at toothsome terrapin.—Washington Post. The worst difficulty that Coxey’s army has to contend with is the fact that stringent vagrancy laws are in force at all the principal points on its line of march. —St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. Gen. Coxey’s army may do something in the interests of retorm by calling attention to the inadequate provisions made by most jails for the accommodation of large numbers of people at once.—Washington Star.

The Breckinridge-Pollard Case. Col. Breckinridge's halo is gone and he has only one Wing.—New York World. The original Adam has this to his credit: He did not attack the previous character of Eve.—Chicago Post. The testimony reveals that Miss Pollard was engaged to three unmarried men and finally sued a married man for breach of promise.—Atchison Globa. Instead of being a pillar of the church it is now asserted that Col. Breckinridge was never more than a rhetorical minaret, pointing the wav upward, not going himself.—New York Tribune. As author or actress Madeline Pollard's fortune seems to be made. To the woman who gets herself into a statesman’s life his impecuniosity after the verdict is of small consequence.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. , The assurance from Miss Pollard that she will write a book giving a ‘detailed account of her checkered career is one of the severest blows Col. Breckinridge has yet received. This is a case to which “would that mine enemy would write a book” is not applicable. —Detroit Free Press.

South Carolina in Trouble. The pity grows" that the people of South Carolina cannot resist the liquor as well as they resist the liquor law.— New York Advertiser. Apart from the revenue derived from it. South Carolina has certainly not made a startling success of the saloon business. —Philadelphia Call. The peop’e of South Carolina can stand a good deal, but they are not quite ready to submit to wanton search and seizure.—Minneapolis Tribune. The theory that the State can manage private business better than individuals can do it has received a serious setback in South Carolina.—New York Advertiser. The South Carolina dispensary liquor law has proved a lailure, in spite of Gov. Tillman's efforts to make the country believe that it is a success.— Baltimote American. Gov. Tillman of South Carolina, envious of the “war” fame of Govs. Lewelling of Kansas and Waite of Colorado, started in to have a war on his own hook.—Kansas City Star. It seems to be due to Gov. Tillman of South Carolina to say that he is showing a wonderful amount of pluck in enforcing the distillery law there. The whole liquor interest is arrayed against him, and he has succeeded in besting them so far.—Boston Herald. Governor Waite. Gov. Tillman has supplied the blood. Will Gov. Waite forward the bridles? —New York World. Colorado and Waite and South Carolina and Tillman both show that it is costly fun to elect cranks for Governors. —Baltimore American. Gov. Waite conducts himself like a man who spent -his youth feeding a naturally weak mind with a diet of dime novels.—Kansas City Journal. When Governor Waite married he was told that 'man and wife are one. But until recently he never knew which was the one.—Chicago Post. When he thinks about Governor Tillman's little affair in South Carolina Governor Waite's complexion is said to turn purple.—Chicago Record. There is a growing suspicion that Gov. Waite is something of a bluffer, after all, and doesn’t really care about wading in blood much above his shoetops.—Washington News.

THE NATION’S SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Oar National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Proposed. and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. In the House, on Wednesday, the motion to pass the seigniorage bill over the President's veto Was defeated. In the contest between Messrs. Hilborn and English for a seat from California, Mr. Hiltorn was beaten. The Senate continued its debate, with the tariff bill as the subject The Senate Thursday considered, without final action, several minor matters, and continued 'the tariff debate The urgent deficiency bill, appropriating something over (1,000,000, passed by the House James Trier, elected to succeed Mr. Brawley as Representative of the First South Carolina District took his seat The Senate bill to give effect to the award of the Paris tribunal, prescribing regulations for the protection of fur seals In Behring Sea, was passed. Bills were passed authorizing lhe construction of bridges across the St Louis River between Wisconsin and Minnesota at Duluth and G.osse Point Afier the deficiency was disposed of the consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill was resumed. The Senate does not appear to relish its own pudding, for on Friday the tariff debate was delayed by lack of a quorum. The House went ahead with appropriation bills again. First, however, a bill authorizing the city of Hastings, Minn., to construct a wagon brlge across the Mississippi River was passed. A bill to Increase the amount of lands in the Yellowstone Park Reservation now leased for hotel purposes from ten to twenty acres was passed. Mr. Headers >n sent to the clerk’s desk and had read an appeal to Congress against the further extension of secondclass mail privileges. More than 250.000.000 pounds of second-class mall matter was carried by the malls last year, it said; 5.402 news publications were started last year, and the efficiency of the mail service was crippled by the limitless quantities of second-class mall matter carried. Mr. Loud, of California, opposed the amendment on the ground it would swamp the department. It would cost the United States, he declared. $10,000,000 annually. Mr. Loud offered and advocated au amendment to increase the appropriation for railroad transportation from $25,500,000 to $20,900,000 on the ground that the former sum would prove inadequate. It was defeated. The evening session was devoted to pension bills The Senate Monday resumed consideration of the Wilson bill. Mr. Walsh was sworn in as Senator from Georgia to serve out the term of the late Senator Colquitt. The House was depopulated. Threefourths of the members were at the Senate listening to Senator Hill’s speech. Those who remained were occupied with District of Columbia affairs. 'I be bill to allow bookmakers to operate at the meetings of the Washington Jockey Club met with such opposition that It was withdrawn. Only one bill of any Importance, providing for Si gas in the District, was passed. There was a small attendance lathe galleries when the Senate convened Tuesday and there was scarcely a quorum of., Senators visible. The bill Introduced some time ago by Senator Peffer for the improvement of public roads was reported back adversely by Senator Kyle. Mr. Quay’s resolution that the Senate should hear a committee of the organizations of the workingmen of the United States in opposition to the tariff bill April 21 was objected to, and a resolution ty Senator Allen requesting the Secretary of the Interior to Inform the Senate of the names and postofflee addresses of those whose pensions had been suspended or cancelled since March 4, 1893, and the reason for such suspension or cancellation vent over without action. The Wolcott resolution for the coinage of Mexican dollars at V n,ted States mints was finally agreed to, and the Wilson bill came up again. In the House bills were passed for the protection of game in Yellowstone Park and for the punishment of crime in the park by the extension of the laws and jurisdiction of the Wyoming United States District to its territory, to grant chief justices in Territories power to appoint commissioners to take proof of land cases. The House then went into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the postoffice appropriations bill

Gen. Lee and Private Lee.

Robert E. Lee, Jr., bears a striking resemblance to his father, Gen Robert E. Lee, says a Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He rose to the rank of captain in the Confederate army, entering as a private in the famous Rockbridge artillery’ when he was but 18 years old. He was counted one of the bravest and most tireless fighters in the ranks. An interesting incident is related of how he met his father after a hot battle in which young Lee had taken an active part. The artillery was parked in an open field the day after the first fight at Cold Harbor. With the other members of his company Private Lee had sought rest beneath the cannon. One of his comrades called out: “Bob. here comes your father." A figure begrimed with the dirt and smoke of battle crawled from beneath a cannon and stood up to salute and greet Gen. Lee,, who was riding on a tour of inspection. The greeting between father and son was affectionate, although the General had to look closely to recognize his offspring. .

What She Said.

He was a small boy and he was very much interested in the telephone. The pretty telephone girl at the Fifth Avenue Hotel put him on a tall chair, and calling up a chum on the long distance wire, placed the receiver in his ear. He was so delighted that the first thing that he told his mamma was that he had talked with a lady in Boston. “And what did you tell her, dear?” “I told her ‘hello,’ and then I told her my name.” “What did she say?” “She said ‘sput, sput, sput, sput’.’ " New York Herald.

MISSING LINKS.

California has a 3,300 acre prune orchard. Victoria, Australia, had a gold output of about $15,000,010 last year. Westminster bridge, built in 1750, was the first in which the foundations were laid by the aid of caissons. Some of the Comstock mines are so deep that no means has yet been devised to overcome the excessive heat. The green ants of Australia make nests by bending leaves together and uniting them with a kind of natural glue. As there were just thirteen marriages in Henniker. N. H., last year, the brides are all the objects of superstitious solicitude. Civil engineers say the wings of the butterfly display the greatest possiqle lightness combined with the greatest possible strength. In what are called “looming mirages” distant objects show an apparent extravagant increase in height without alteration in breadth. A Georgia girl iVho raises pigs marks them bv cutting their tail? off very short. She says it takes a bushel less' corn to fatten them thus. American buggies ate superseding those of English make in London ana Paris. The only light, graceful vehicles in Europe come from this country. A curious growth with unusual results is reported from Tombstone, Ari. The roots of a tree are said to have grown arouna a water pipe and caused it to break.