Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Page 2

Sljeglrntocratic Sentinel or. w. McEWE>', Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA.

BIG SUIT BY OLNEY.

GUNNING FOR THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC ROAD. Death in a Horrid Blast—Alabama Troops in the Field—A Pennsylvania Man Who Does Not Want Much—Labor Leaders ta Jail. Playing; for a Bis; Stake. In the United States Circuit Court at Los Angoles, CaL, a most important suit sras filed by United States District Attorney Dennis and Special United States Attorney Call. under the special direction of Attoi%ey General Olney, it being a bill In •qaity against the Southern Pacific Company, of Kentucky. The bill asks that •11 corporations which have combined with the Southern Pacific Company be separated from that corporation and the agreement under which they are now working be annulled 1 and cancelled. If the Government vins, J It means the Central Pacific of California, of Arizona and of New Mexico, and the; Sants Monica branch, the Long Beach branch, and in fact all lines which go to make up the Southern Pacific system, will bo separated and operated by their own aet of officers. The combination forming the Southern Pacific of Kentucky is alleged to be in a conspiracy to retard and restrict commerce The bill Is brought under the same United States statute under which proceedings against the Southern Pacific striking employe .were commenced as conspiring to retardycommorce. i BLOWN TO BITSt ' A. Dozen Killed by Exploding IJynaitiitc. The znest horrible, accident which has over occurred aboul tiffs mines In tho Hazleton (Pa.) region tljok place at Na 8 Stockton Mine Tuesday morning. Two I hundred sticks of—dynamite exploded among a crowd gs men who were preparirpg to go to theirJ'dajPs work. All of these unfortunates jvero“scatterod and-torn to fragments. JTbeSfe’xact number killed la not positively known at this writ- ! lng, but It is between eight and •leven. Tile tfue cause of the explosion trill neve/ bejknown, as none of the mon are living. Although the oxploslon took place yards below the surface the ■hock was felt three miles south and adjoining ty)9| mine Na 2 Stockton. From : the mine a rescuing party rushed passageways to No. An jthese men approached the bottom S thesated slope they came up w ith • und other laborers groping the darkness. Pushing forward toward the bottom, they came upon a terrible scene. Huge timbers were twisted agjd torn and scattered about promlscu- ! pysly. Rocks and debris were everywhere. was strewn human flesh, legs and of tho unfortunate victims, and Trofn’j . the jagged sides hung two shattered bodies. Sot one of tho several bodies was left sufficiently Intact to permit Identity.

TROOPS FOR PRATT MINES. Tim Battle, In Which Three Men Were Killed, Arouses the Authorities. Intense excitement prevails at Biriningbam over tho attack by striking miners on the guards and negro workmen at Pratt mines, resulting in a bloody bat.tlo in watch three men are known to have been billed outright and -a number wounded, ■avexal fatally. Forty-two striking minors Mere Jailed on the charge of murder, and fifty more will he arrested, A monster citizens’ indignation meeting was hold to denounce lawlessness and urgo action to suppress it. Governor Jones ordered cut fifteen companies of troops and put the others under cautionary orders. TO SUE FOR 8470,000,000. Pennsylvania Man Claims to Be the Heir of Robert Edwards. Diehard Wood Woodard, of Marshalltown, Pa., has engaged counsel to bring halt against persons in the city of New York to recover $470,030,000. He claims to bold evidence to prove that he is the only descendant of Robort Edwards, who in 17fi4 bought thirty-five acres of land where Trinity Church now stands. This land was leased to King George for ninety-nine years, at the expiration of which the heirs were called for, but none appeared. The claimant is u great-grandson of the orig*»*l Edwards’ sister PrudenceDebs Gets Into .Tail. Eugene V. Debs, President of the American Railway Union, went to jail Tuesday. Bo did George W. Howard, Vice President; fiylvester Keliher, Secretary, and L. W. Rogers, director of the same organization, lie. Debs and his associates wero coni■kitted by Jddgo Seaman in the United Mates circuit court la default of bonds for 58.900 each. • At least a score of Chicago’s dtlzens bffered to go security for the quartette’s appearance next Monday, but they /••dined their kindly offices

Lightning's Fatal Work. Of four boys who were fishing In Argo Xiuke near Denver daring a thunderstorm James Burrell was instantry killed by a flank of lightning and his body forced to the bottom of the lake, where It stuck in the mud; Robert Uenry was paralyzed, and ! the other two were stunned. At Colorado flprtags a 6-year-old boy was struck and 'Mien picked up was found to be badly horned, ‘ totally blind' and unconscious. He nlll not recover. Practical Jdba. Costs Two Lives. T. A. Hawley, a practical joker, took up m loose plank In a bridge ajq Edwards, Colo., and when Mlnnis and Clarence Fleick and William Burnlson drove upon the bridge, Hawley said: “You" cannot crass here.” The horse became frightened e»a backed off the,bridge. Hawley jumped teto the river and rescued the girl. He went back for the brother and both were browned. Burnlson swam out; For Docking Horses’ Tails. Summonses have been Issued for Millionaire William Fellowes Morgan, bis wife coachman on a charge of cruelty to Mtmels in docking the tails of their horse it Mr. Morgan Is a well-known club *ma in New York City and his wife belongs to the fashionable set. Escaped Ihe Death Chair. Ths sentence .of Mra HalllJay, to be electrocuted at Albany, N. Y., has been commuted by Gov. Flower to Imprisonment tor Ufa. she having been found insane by th* commission appointed by the governor. ■ Kept the Ball ot ' fcreral members of a Sunday school Jfrfcrty which went into a strip of moods near Ashley; Pa, had a narrow es--0090 from An infuriated bulL They were towofl from injury and possible death by the herald efforts of Frank Breyer. a young woh, who kept the bull at bay until the Children bed coached a safe distance. 1 4 The Very & Ames Is Lost. American bark Mary & Ames, Capt. Tonwles, bound from Sumarang, Java, tor Delagoa Bay, South Africa, has been •hlkadoned ot see in e sinking condition, ■cowa! members of the crew were saved ood leaded at Maugatsiotra.

I YHE COMPANIES MUST! FAT. If They Keep Bringing Immigrants Her. Who Are Detained. Herman Stump, Superintendent of Immigration. has addressed to the attorneys of the steamship companies a letter in which he says that their communication addressed to Jotfn G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, on the subject of maintenance of immigrants, has been referred to him for reply. He says tbe.questiou raised Is nq longer an oppn one, having been settled by numerous official communications. which ;he quotes He adds: “The various steamship companies have heretofore acquiesced in these decisions and the ? ractice of this bureau and have conformed to said circular. undergoing examination, i and until fipalty discharged and landed or I deportoJ. will be fed and cared for while at Ellis Island at the expense of tbd steamship company transporting them. Tne 1 company should avoid this expense by making the proper examination at the port of departure, refusing passage to immigrants whose landing here would be the subject7of so much doubt us to require critical/examination " . 9 " ARBITRATION AT LAST. President Cleveland Takes the Matter in Hand for Investigation. 1 It was officially announced at the White Hduse Thursday night that the President will appoint a commission, by tho authority given him by the arbitration act of (jIBBB, to investigate the labor troubles at Chicago and elsewhere and report to the President and Congress. This, determination on the part of the President was arrived at after an interview with Secretary-Treasurer Hayes of the Knights of Labor, McGuire and French of the executive commltee. and Mr. Schoenfaber, who were introduced to the President by Senator Kyle, and who came bearing credentials from tho American Railway Union, the Pullman employes, and several labor organ izati ns. This action of tho President Is regarded by labor leaders as a vindication of their Cause, and gives them great satisfaction. Assurance Is given that tho investigation will touch not only upon the attitude of the railroads but also upon the Pullman Company, Pullman employes, and Pullman town. JOT IN WASHINGTON. Reception of Nows that the Strike Had Been Declared Off. The telegraph, says a Washington correspondent, has brought to Washington no more welcome news fur many a day than the dispatch from Chicago telling that Debs had declared the strike off. The Information was at once Hashed to the White House, thesCapitol and all of the departments. Theyeveninr papers rdsbed extras on the street," arid half an hour after tho first reception of tho newp everybody in tho city knew of it In conijequonce there was joy and gratification throughout the town. Tho President rocelyeds the news after calling the Cabinet to order, add announced the news to tho Cabinet hitaself. 'i be news had an electric-light effect on the gloom which has pervaded the .White House for a week. And tho cloud of care which has darkened the President’s face melted away before tho warmth of the lirgt smile his advisers had seen ,for a fortnight.,. HUNDREDS OF HOUSES BURW. ISlg Fire in. Hungary Attended with Loss ~ of Life. 'Fdur hundred houses were destroyed by fire at Lovete, Hungary. Six persons perished and a large number of families have been rendored destitute. A party of peasants ut Brojanco discovered a man In the act of setting fire to a ham. They beat him until he was Insensible and then threw him Into tho (lames. Ho was burned to deutii. It Is supposed that ho was the author of several other fires which had occurred in the neighborhood recently. Too Large A Bonus. Evon it the Nicaragua canal bill should pass the House it would find considerable opposition in the Senate. Senator Dolph, a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, was one of the men who early espoused the building of tho canal. But he has several objections to the bill as it was reported from tho House committee and to the bill as It Is pending in the Senate. He Is in favor of Government aid and Government coutrol of the canal, but Is not satisfied with the provision In tho bills which givo tho company $7,000,033 of paid-up stock, and thinks it Is too large a bonus, besides the payment to the company in United Statos bonds, equivalent to cash, for all that It has extended on the work. He says that the company is also allowed to take up and cancel Its outstanding bonds and stock, although the money It has expended is represented by such bonds. Senator Dolph suys that tho payment of the $7,000,000 is a bonus to the company for the concessions It has from Nicaragua, und considering tho prosept conditions of tho company and the work on tha canal he thinks it is much too large.

Wrecked by Miners. The miners of Fontanot, a station on the Big Four, a few miles west of Torre Haute, Ind., added murder to their crime of stopping trains and attempted lynehings. An engineer and fireman, who had nothing to do with the strike, were maneled to death under the wrecked engine of a derailed train, 'ihe train wrecked was Na 7ou tfco St, Louis division, which left Indianapolis on time. The train was running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour when it struck an open switch and went down an embankment about eight feet high. 'J lie engineer and iirotnan were , under the wreck, ground to pieces. The engine, bag-gage-car, express-car and the day coach were piled in the ditch, a broken mass The wreck was undoubtedly the work of a lawless mob of tulners that possessed Fontanet aud stopped and siletrackod five Big Four freight trains to show their sympathy for the railroad strikers. The trouble was so threatening that Sheriff Stout, of Vigo County, and several deputies went to Fontanet. No passengers were seriously injured. The National Game. Tiie clubs of the National aud Western Leagues stand as follows In the championship race: f National league. '' l'er ' 1 Pei W. L, cent. . W. L. cent. Baltimore.. 43 21 .t;7i Cleveland. .36 so .649 Boston... ..40 24 .657 Cincinnati.Sl S 6 .463< New York. .40 27 .607 St, Louis. .61 4o .437 Pittsburg. .30 31 ~ss7jChio&go. ...26 43 .368 Brooklyn.. .85 23 .556 Louisville .2» 46 .333 Philadelphia '2B .550; WashingCnia to .273 WESTEBN LEAGUE. . Perl,, Per W. L. cent.| , W, L. cent. Sioux City.l3 21 .*72:Grd Rapidiwfl S 6 .300 Toledo 38 26 . slJ4|lndian’p’Usißs l J4|lndian’p’Usiß 36 .178 Mlnn’p 11s .36 32 .629 Detroit 27 30 .400 Kansas C’y.34 33 .MWMilwa’kee .17 41 .203 Refuse to Treat. Chairman Et John, of the General Manazars’ Association, with the consent and advice, informally expressed, of a mal rlty 6i the members of the association, Ims emphatically refused to recognize Eugone V. Debs or any of the A. R. U. leaders of the strike In the settlement of the strike. This may cause further trouble. Dillon Divorce Case 1 Sent Hack. At Ottawa. Ont, the Dillon divorce case was killed for this session by being thrown back to committee. The disposition of the House was to kill the bill ou the grounds of collusion. James Dillon son of a French count residing In MontroaL Shoots Down a Dozen Dancers. A gay throng of dancers at LaDdmesser’s Summer Garden at Hacelton, Pa. was thrown Into the wildest panic Saturday algbt by an Italian, who, for revenge, shot

i down a dozen persona Five ballets ter* 1 fired into a crowd of fifty young men and I women by Gtovana Perna. who narrowly I escaped death «t the hands of the angry i men. Tbe revengeful sen of Italy fired five ballets In rapid succession Into the crowd,' and about a dozen persons were hit by the leaden missiles, and tev- ; oral of the wounded dropped to tbe floor. ! Women screamed and ihe men shouted to each other to lynch the Italian. They made a rush for him, but l'erna darted ■ from the pavilion and lied down the street. He was hotly pursued by a crowd of men who knocked him down and pummeled him badly, ’then Constable John Kennedy i fought his way'througb the crowd and resI cued the Italian and hurried him to jsi’. i The crowd followed, but he was put safely behind the prison bars I’eraa was held under SI,OOO bail for trial Noae of tbe aouuded are In a serious condition. SHOWS TRADE SOUND, Withstands the Effect of Both Strike, and Tariff Talk. R. G. Dun & C'a’s Weekly Review of Trade says: When circumstances are duly weighed the strength and soundness of business lu Uil, country are amazing. With tbe second city In the country in tho hands of a lawless und murderous mob, besides many other cltlps und towns, with railway traffic almost entirely stopped over the vast area between Toledo and ihe Pacific, with Presidential proclamations declaring the existence of an insurrection and ihe passionate answer ordering half a million men to stop work, with a prolonged strike of coal miners not fully ended in many States, and with differences between the House and Senate on the tariff question so wide that duties affecting mining and manufactures cannot be anticipated, industries and trade nevertheless went on with sublime confidence that the people and tbelr government would soon restore order. The shrinkage of busiuess and tbe depression of values have been unexpectedly small, the failures relatively few and unimportant, and there are even signs In some industries of actual progress toward recovery from previous troubles, BIG y.XPRESS ROBBERY. Bold Thieves Secure 811,GOO Belonging to the United Smelting Company. Tho Great North western Express Company was robbed of $11,600 atWickes, Mont,, Friday morning, The money stolen belongs to the United Smolting Company, and was for use in paying off employes of the Alta mine, near Wickes. It was sent through Bach, Cory & Co., because their store at Wickes furnishes miners with supplies and buys their time checka Robbers intercepted the express wagon, held up the driver, took out the safe containing the money, put it into their wagon and made off to tho hills. Every man within a radius of ten miles Is out hunting for the robbers ans It seems impossible that they can escape GAS EXPLOSION STARTS A FIRE. P. H. Dougherty Thrown from a Window of a Toledo Hotel. A terrific Explosion startled the viciuity of the Huron House. Toledo. Ohio, two squares from the custom houso, Friday morning. Gas had accumulated In the basement, and when the kitchen fires wore ignited the gas exploded, tearing the lower part of the building to pieces. The guosts wore thrown from their boda P. H. Dougherty out of a window, ills daughter sbiged au infant and swung from a third-story window into a tree and thence to tbo ground, saving the child’s life. Many leaped from windows The fire department stopped the flames after SI,OOO damage bad boon done.

SUGAR TRySX_INV*SXIGATION. Published Testimony Taken by the Committee Covers 033 Pages. After some unavoidable delay, the complete testimony taken by tho r'enato sugar trust investigating committee has been printed complete, together with all the reports made at the various stages of tho investigation and a complete index nihdo by Harry Smith, clerk of the committee. The testimony covers 622 page* add the index, giving a synopsis of testimony and containing a complete reference to tho proceedings, thirty-two pages. Japan Is In for War. A dispatch to the London Standard fron Berlin states Hint tho North German Gazette, a semiofficial organ, commenting upon British mediation In the CbineseJanancse dispute regarding Corea, says that such mediation does not necessarily mean a settlement of the question, as It is perfectly dear that Japan wants to profit by the troubles to push tho Chinese out of tho peninsula. It is a warlike symptom that Japan lately not only charterod transtorts but bought them at any price, as the chartered ships must be restored to their foreign owners in tho event of war, in order to avoid a breach of neutrality. Ditched by a Mol>. . ■ Three United States soldiers and a locomotive engineer were 1 killed by tho wrecking of a Southern Pacific train near Sacramento, Cal., Wednesday, evidently tho work of a mob, who had caused the train to plunge off a trestle. A mob is known to have made threats that no train would reach the bay and a large force of desperate men left Sacramento, evidently to carry tho threat Into execution. Houso Will Investigate. The House Committee on Interstate ana Foreign Commerce decided, af.er a long and spirited session, to investigate the labor troubles growing out of the Pullma; 3lrike. r 7 . Eight Coke Strikers Shot. A body of !mported negro coke-workers, fired into marching strikers at Summit, Pa. Eight n>eu were shot.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 50 ® 5 uo Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 CO ® 6 25 Sheep—Fair to Choice a m ©j 4 00 Wheat—No. a Bed r. 6 ® 67 Cobn—No. 2 4; ® 44 Oats—No. 2 36 & 37 ItVE—No. 2 48 9 49 Butteb—Choice Creamery..... J 7 ® 17;$ Eggs—Fresh 9 @ 10' Potatoes—New, per brl 1 75 ioi 2 25 INDIANAPOLIS. 2CO ® 4‘75 Hogs—Choice Light 4 r.o ® 5 60 Sheep—Common to Prime 2 0> 9 3 59 Wheat—No. 2 Red ...... 6UK>@ r>i>6 Cohn—No. 2 White 45 ~9 46 Oats—No. 2 White 47 ® 43 ST. LOUIS. Cattle.. 310 @4 75 1 HOG'S. 3 00 6 00 pWheat—Noofrilled;... V 63“ (ij 6S!j I Cobn—No. 2;.-... .y. 41 9 42 OAIV—NO. 2.,... 31 <a 32 Rye—N&. 2...... .L, to 9 62 CINCINNATI. Cattle 2 to @ 4 75 HOgb 4 oO @ 6 60 chest 200 «« 3 75 Wheat-No. 2 Red M „ eg 9 581 k CokN—No. 2 Mixed f,n @ ni Oats—No. a Mixed: 64 @ 64>6 Rye-No. 2 6i 53 DETROIT. Cattle » 2 60 @ 4 50 H° fis 400 & 5 su Sheep 2 00 9 3 75 Wheat—No. 1 White C 6 & (,7 Cobn—No. 2 Yel'ow... 4» 9 61 Cats—No. 2 White 45 & 45'A TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 55 9 50 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 46 ® 47 Oats—No. 2 White 47 9 m Rye—No. 2 4a 9 6i • BUFFALO. W’heat—No. 1 White ci ® 61)2 No. 2 Red 68 9 60 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 48 ,rti 49 Oats—No. 3 White 61 «s 61 MILWAUKEE. W’HEAT—No. 2 Spring 64 @ 65 Corn —No. 3 43 44 Oats—No. 2 White 41 9 4114 BabLET—No. 2 63 9 64 Rye—No. 1 so ® 51 POSE—Mess 12 26' @l2 15 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 o> & 6 00 Hogs 3 7.5 9 j 75 Sheep.. soo @«no Wheat—No. 2 Red 00 «* ei Cobn—No. a 48 ® 49 MSt9 53* Butter —Creamery 14 10 Eggs—Stata .... J 12'4@ 1314

DEATH ON PARADE.

TERRIBLE EXPLOSION AMONG UNCLE SAM’S MEN. Ranks of Federal Troops Stuttered While Oat lor Sammcr Day Drill Exercize in Chicago—Four Men Killed, Seventeen Injured, and Nine Horse* Dead. Cause of the Disaster Unknown. By the explosion in Chicago of an ammunition chest belonging to Battery P of the Second Artillery, from Fort Riley, Kan., four soldiers were instantly killed, eighteen other people, soldiers and spectators, were wounded, and nine artillery horses were killed. The carnage producol by the discharge of the forward gun caisson, leaded with the death-dealing sh rapine i shells and steel percussion shells, was frightful. The houses in the neighborhood of the scene of the explosion, which was the intersection of Grand and Oakwood boulevards, were riddled by the, projectiles of all kinds from shrapnel bullets and canister and j arts of the gun carriages. Two of the soldiers were literally blown to pieces. Their j Indies, mangled beyond recognition, were picked up 2 0 feet or more from where the explosion took place. The people for b ocks around were stunned !by tho concussion. Windows were ' shattered b'oeks away from the accident. und the pc pie rushed out into j tho streets in alarm, thinking it was a jdynamite bomb which some one had ! sot oil. Ail except five of the injured were soldiers of the regular army. The accident occurred at 1:45 o’clock. Tho detachment, consisting of three i troops of cavalry and one battery of

EXPLOSION OF THE CAISSON.

artillery. wa3 proceeding south on Grand boulevard to Washington Park. Capt.-Dodds from Fort Riley was in command. With him were troop'B of tho Se enth Regimen’, Capt. Varnum; fro ]> 10 of tho Sixth Regiment, Lieut. Byer: and two pieces of artillery of battery K. under c ramand of Lieut. Gavle. •Sol<].*er* JiTow.i ICip.li In Air. Troop F was in (he lead, with troop B following. Behind this came the artillery, and troop E brought up the rear. In this order the soldiers were riding, .lust as the artillery reached the intersection of Oakwood boulevard the-o.x]*lo ion occurred. First there cum j a terride, concussion which blew tie men * cateid on the C'ussojj. ■high in utheu'r arid prostrated tKo artillery horses and the nearest cavalrymen. Tiiis was followed immediately by a series of lesser explosions. These caused much less slaughter than tho lirst. Donovan and Doyle, two gunner treated on the exploding caisson, wore i In-own hundreds of feet into the air. Their mangled remains were afterward found gOO feet or more away from the scene, F* uallv terrible was the fate of Joe Galley, of Troop B, just behind the explosion. 11 is head was crushed by the sheds. Tho caisson was totally wrecked. Bits of the wheels were

AFTER THE EXPLOSION.

driven, into the buildings on both sides of the street, and birely enough was left in tho re ad way to indicate the spot’where the vehicle had stood. The lour horses were lrightfully cut and mangled by the shrapnel. They plunged about in agonies on the ground for a few moments and then lay still. The hor.-es on the second tiaceof arti'lery right, behind the explosion fared little better. All except one were killed. Tho cause of the explosion remains a mystery. As nearly all the cases in the ammunition chest were discharged, the cause of the accident will never be discovered. It is supposed, howevyr, to have bean caused bv the accidental unscrewing of an imperfect shrapnel shell cap.

JUDGE DEFIES THE ARMY.

Detachment of Regular Troops Ordered from a California Courtroom. , At Sacramento, Cal., during the henring of a writ of habeas c rpus for tne reloase of three Dunsruuir strikers before Judge Gatlin, a detachment of regulars marched into the courthouse with the evident intention of taking the prisoners. Judge Catlin immediately and called upon persons who’ were present to resist any attempt of the solders to take' away the strikers. Thu .excitement in, the court-room was intense. Several of the spectators reached tor their hip pockets and announced their determination to follow Judge Gatlin’s instructions to prevent the regulars from taking awav the prisoner . Others securely barred the doer leading to tie eo rt-room an t threateningly declared their intention re isting the regulars. While the e> citement was at fever." heat the a ?i lant District Attorney arose and Waved the regulars back. He then commanded them to return to their quarters at the depot.

FIGURING ITS COST.

Itullrmd Losses, in Chicago Alone, Caused »*r the strike May Ke-ieli 58.000.000. One of tbe General Managers in speaking of the cist of the great strike t > the rail in Chicago alone said that the lo ses to the loads might go as high 1 s 0 <‘,COJ. The loss occasioned by suspended traffic will be the largest item, but the destruction of p o| erty will be by no means a small one. > early CO i Panhandle cars were .destroyed in one blaze, an 1 of this number ninety-eight contained merchaadi e It will be ' necessary to learn what the e cars contained before anv computation! of loss can b: mode. With the city limits tower houses have h en burned and tracks been Ur i up. Damage has been done in many railroad shops, and enormous ! ki.ms ex ended in delonding the roads

UNCLE SAM FINALLY KILLS THE GIANT OF POLYGAMY.

against rioters. What the railroad companies will do in the way of demanding: financial redress from the county and city has not been determined by the General Managers* but many suits are expected. The commission men of South Water street wi.l meet to formulate a plan of action in regard to claims against the railroad companies, ft was estimated that the claims would aggregate $590,000, and that the losses of the commission men would not be less than SI, T 500.000. In Chicago and vicinity, including Hammond, eight or, indirectly, ten live-! were lost, the victims being killed outright or afterwards dying of their injuries, while the number of wounded, as lar as reported, was fortyone. At east nine, and probably ten, lives have been lost throughout the West outside of Chicago. This dce3 not include those killed and injured by the explosion of the caisson o;i a Chicago boulevard.

CONSPICUOUS RAILWAY MAN.

John M. E"an, Chairman of the General Managers’ Strike Committee,, •Tbhn MTSEgan is one of the most conspicuous figures in the railroad world by reason of his recent position as

Chairman of the General Managers’ Strike Committee. Mr. Egan is a native of liew England, but is more widely known in the West, having gone there at an early age. He is 413 years of age. When a boy he ent:red the machine shops of the Illinois Central-Railway, and at 19 was a clerk in the freight depart-

JHN M. EGAN.

ment. Ho soon entered the engineers’ office, and in 1877 became Chief Engineer of the Southern Minnesota Railroad. Later he became conne ted with the Southern Pacific, and in 1881 was cho en General Superintendent of the St. Paul. Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway. In 188* be assumed the management of the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas Citv Railroad, and in 1890 became president of tho company, a position he held until April of tho pres ent, year. He knows all about the rairoad business, and by nature is peculiarly qualified to fight and put d„wn strikes.

FAVORS ARBITRATION.

Senator George Winti a Board Created with Powar to Settle L ibor Dispute . James Z. Goorge, United States Senator from Mississippi, introduced, a bill in tho Senate to create a board of labor arbitration; Senator Goorge is a

native of Georgia, and is (38 yeai’9 old. His father having died in his infancy, he removed with his mother when ho was 8 years old to Mississippi. Though qui’e young, he served in the Mexican war. In 1854,and again in 1860 he was elected reporter of the High Court of Errors and Appeals. In iSUL he

was a member of the convention in Mississippi which passed the ordinance of sece-sion. and he voted for and sigued that instrument. He was a Brigadier General of the State troops, and held other offices during the war. In 1879 he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, but resigned his seat on the Supreme Bench to enter tho Unit id States Senate in March of 1881. He was re-elected in 1886, and again in 1892.

A DEADLY WEAPON.

The New Kiot Gun Which Can Disable 150 Men to the Minute. The “riot gnn” with which United States Marshal Arnold armed his posse of deputies during the rei ent trouble

THE [?]OT GUN (Showing the eartridge full size.)

iim of brass. Its outward appearance is very much like the ordinary shotgun shell, but its surface is thicker and much stronger. The six cartridges may be fired in half as many seconds, thus throwing seventMwo scatte ing bullets, any of which would inflict a serious wound at eighty yards distance. The magazine may be reloaded easily within a half-minute. It is calculated I that with tbs shot of each cartridge |

UTAH IS ADMITTED.

scattering it is discharged, the gun, in the hands of a fairly accurate shot, is capable of disabling 150 men to the mmute. Marshal Arnold claimed that five men' armed with these weapons and fairly protected could easily dis* pose,of a my,b of 50,000 rioters.

Monument to Be Eracted on the Historic ,I’, >, 4 Battlefield. The design given below is for a monument to be erected to the memory of Gene al Washington upon thf

battlefield at Chadd's Ford, Pa.,which is historic by reason of the met that it is the only engagement of importance of the Revolutio n a rv war in which x the colonial forces were defeated when under the command of Ge ne ral Washington. The shaft • will cost about* $15,1X10. It is to be sixty feet in height, and

woig i about 180 tons. Tho base will coniain a historical room about 13x9 for the store go of relics of the groat tattle.

Its Spread Directly Attributable to Native * _ Superstition. The spread of the black plugue in China was due to a great extent to the superstition of the natives. In Hong Kong it was by a mere matter of 'accident that the European authorities learned of the disease, as the natives carefully concealed tr>e spread of the contagion. Placards were brought to : Hong Kong from Canton, which reveal I the deadly suspici in of all foreign | means of treatment. These placards | warned all people not to go to Hong ! Kong nor to permit their wives and children to go, because they I wou'd tail victims to the foreign ! doctors, who were chopping up all j side persons in order to make medicine ! out of their eyes and bones. No ! amount of explanation has yet sufficed j to eradicate the deep-seated suspicion i that all foreign doctors are on the still j hunt for the eyes of dead Chinese. The people cannot understand thart? j European medicine does not value cerI tain parts of a body for medicine, be- | cause their own pnysician-, who are j mainly quacks, insist that by eating certain parts of the bodies ot animals one may secure the b st qualities of those animals. They cling to this belief, ani therefore such absurd stories a-, those of Christian missionaries killing native children to secure their eves I find ready credence, i In Hong Kong th s silly suspicion of I foreign doctors led to thousands of unj necessary deaths. When the physii cians began house-to-house inspection | for patients stiffening from tho plague there was a tremendous clamor. Placards were posted not to permit the foreign devils to enter their homes, as this search for patients was merely a | ruse. These warnings also declared i that many who were removed were not suffering from the dread disi ase, but had been selected as spee’ally suitab:e for furnishing medicines. In the excited condition of the public these placards and rumors crea.ed such an outburst of fanatici-m that the doctors were forced to give up the house inspection for two da* s. Before they relinquished it, however, they were actually stoned by crowds which followed them in the | streets. The police detailed armed j Sikhs to accompany the doctors but this was found to promote dan. er of an insurrection, and it was finally decided to yield to native c amor. After two | drvs the inspection wa3 lesumed, the j native Governor having issued a procj lamation warning every one from in terfering with the doctors. All pu- : tients, however, were tran ferred to j the native hospitals, as the Chinese absolutely refused to use the European I hospital.

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in Chicago is really a cross bet\\ een the Gatliny gun and the Fiench mitrailleuse. .It mayl be defined as a ! repeating shot- j gun. but is the ' most powerful 1 hand arm ever; loaded with pow- ! der and shot. The weapon is ofi lar ; er bore than J the average army ri but ! weigns losl Its l magazine has ! room for six H-1 caliber car-! t idges. Each cartridge con-; I tains .. . drams of ; -owder and 1 j b Cishot. Between the snot ; and the powderi ate two eighth- 1 inch comp essed pa er wacs The i shell of the car- | tridge is of pa- j per, backed by a !

An unknown negro was lynched at i Biloxi, Miss. I Thirteen men and women working l in a deli at Delmo, Prussia, were | killed by lightning. Harris g. Hadley, a noted jCrim- ; inal, has been arrested at | for hor.e stea.ing. / ! Two children named Carls top lay ; down in the railway track*'at Borden- : town, N. J., and were killed. Mail from the East which had been delayed for seven daps reached ban J riruisco by way o' Seattle. A traction engine and team went through a bridge at Lima, Ohio, killing .iaeob-Allen and the team. Searchers for Cook Colgate, doserte 1 by the Carlin hunting party, have returned to Missoula, Mont., empty-handed. Minnesota’s Supremo Court decided in favor of the r epublicans in tie contest for control of the municipal assembly of St. Paul. CommonWealers encamped in the vicinity of Washington ate in dire straits for food, and desertions are daily taking place. ' It is said the Czar has announced his intention to pardon on the occasion of the wedding of the Czarowitz and Princess Alix of Hesse a large number of persons con vie,ted of political offenses The Czarina, it is also said, will found a charitable institution in honor of the marriage.

AT BRANDYWINE.

BRANDYWING SHAFT.

THE BLACK PLAGUE.

Telegraphic Clicks.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation's Capital —What Is Being Done by the Senate and Ilonse—Old Matters Disposed Of and New Ones Considered. The Senate and House. The Semite is tuakint up ior lost time, and is now dtapusitijr ot the appropriation bills at a rapid rale. The record for Wednesday is three—tho diplomatic and consular, the invalid pension and the military academy appropriation bills. In the House the Mcßae land grant forfeiture bill was passed, ’the bill unVJiKJs the act of September 29. 1890, which in substance declared the forfeiture to the Uulted Slates of lands theretofore granted to States and c irporations to aid in the construction of railways to the extent only of lands opposite to and cotermlnoas with the portions of such rat!-' ways as were not rompleted and operated at that time* The bill passed Wednesday extends the forfeiture to the portions of the several railways to aid in toe construction of which the grants were made which were uncompleted when the time expired within .which the roads were respectively required to be completed by the several/ laws making ike grants. The Senate bill granting a right of way through the White Etrth and Fond du Lae Indian reservation to the St. Paul, Minneapolis ana Manitoba Railway was passod; also a bill to authorize the Biloxi and Backbay Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Bay of Biloxi in Mississippi. Thursday two more Important appropriation bills were passed by the Senate, the army and the fortifications appropriation hills, while some progress was made on the river and harbor bill. The only interesting discussions ot the day occurred during the conslderai ion of the army bill Several bi(ls of minor importance were passed, ahd cohferrees were appointed on the military academy and diplomatic and connular appro) rlation bills- The House agreed to the Fouato amendments to the bill for ihe admission of Utah as a State, and, after discussing a bill for retiring officers of this revenue cutteh servicte, under the special order adopted Wednesday, it proceeded with the consideration Of hills reported from tho Foreign Affairs Committee. Eleven bills were passed, none of na* tional importance.

In the Senate the river and harbdr bill was passed Friday without debate and otherimportant bills taken up The House agreed to the retort of tho eonferrees on the pension appropriation hill. It makes hut slow progress with the tariff. The remainder of ihe day was devoted to the consideration of private bills. Although several were debated none were passed. At 5 o’clock the House took a recess until 8. The evening session was devoted to the consideration of private pension bills. Two more appropriation bills—tho legislative, executive aud judicial and the District of Columbia—were disposed of .by the Senate Monday. This leavos but four more appropriation hills, to be considered —t'ne Indian, agricultural, sundry civil and deficiency—and of these only the first has come from the committee. 'J be conference roporton the military academy appropriation bill was agreed to. Tho House, by a vote ot 125 to 27. adopted a resolution offered by Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, indorsing the action of the President and the administration in suppressing lawlessness iu connection with the strike. Tho remainder of the yras spent in an effort to press' tho Bailey'lsankrupi cy bill, bn*, although it. was engrossed, and read a third time, the quorum failed- op tho final vote. In the Senate Tuesday, the following House bills were passedg JXo~ authorize the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi at Duhuqwe, Iowa; providing for the resurvoy of Grant and Hooker Counties, Nebraska. Consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill Was then resumed, and Mr. Hansbrough offered an amendment appropriating 81,000,000 for the destruction of the Russian thistle upon tho bill as a “rider.” A point of order "as made against it by Mr. Cockrell. but 1 y a vo’.e of 20 to 22 the Senate decided the amendment to be in order, and it was adopted. 27 to 24. '1 he House passed the Bailey voluntary bankruptcy bill by a vote of 127 to 81 and devoted the remainder of the day to business reported from the Judiciary Committee. Only two bills, however, were disposed of—one to create an additional Circuit Judge for the Eighth Judicial Circuit and the othermaking United States railroad corporations, for the purpose of jurisdiction, citizens of the States through which they pass or into w-fiich they go.

How Miners Are Robbed.

In discussing the treatment received by the miners from the operators in the coal regions, where pluck-me stores, dcckage, etc., are common things, Henry D. Lloyd related the following: “The most glaring and outrageous, the most-utterly damnable case of systematic oppression ever known was at Spring Valley, 111., about ten years ago. W. L. Scott—happily he is dead—organized the company and built the town. Miners were iured there by good wages and bought homes. " When the men had their homes half paid for 50 per cent, were locked out. When their mortgages had been duly foreclosed the other half were locked out and their homes went to the spoilers. There was no violence. n>up:oar, no militia. The miners teemed to think it was all right There was a singular thing happened at Spring Valley. The last lockout left but few men at work. They held a meeting ana decided to work only half time—they were earning but sl6 per month—and let the men with families stand off starvation a while longer bv working the other half. This would not do for the proprietors. When the" knew it they shut d wn work and everyone starved at his leisure.”

Left $300 to Her Dog.

There is a little dog named Bobby, a Skye terrier, in New York, that should feel extremely ha >pv, and very probably there are man/ pe >ple in the great metropolis and elsewhere who would like to swap places, tut of cour.-e not forms, with that dog. Eobby, by the will of his mistress, Mrs. Kunegunda Kugler, is left S3OO during his lifetime. Of course he hasn't got the money himself, for dogs can’t Use money; but it is held in trust for him. The will says nothing about his heirs, so probably the trustee; will use the balance after Bobby’s death. There are a good many people who would hasten the end.

This and That.

When ants are unusually busy foul weather is at hard. Many scientists row believe that the atmosphere is not less than one hundred mile; deep, and may be two hundred. On manr railroads of Germany the j station agents are paymitted to keep j bees, w inch thus form a small source j of income. The laborers in every occupation arc paid from two to five times as much in the Unite! States as in any country in Europe. In 1813 William Burton patented a loe motive that was provided with legs and feet b. hind to push the machine 1 along the track. IP a person suffering from whooping asks advice of a man riding on a piebald Ijorse. the malady will be cured by doing what the min tells him to do, Miss Mary Proctop, daughter of the late Richard A. Proctor, is a deep student of the science of astronomy. She recently de iverod a lecture in Brooklyn on "The Giant Sun and His Family," which, though prepared for children, provtd instructive and entertaining to adults.