Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — BIG SUIT BY OLNEY. [ARTICLE]

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.