Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 12 July 1894 — Page 2

sm THE REPUBLICAN,

c'" "j Pvblithed by W. 8. Montgomery•

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®EERN FIELD .INDIANA

THE New York Sun "drops intoj poetry" over the incident which occurred in the Uniied States Senat© recently. The day was hot and San-i j* ator Call felt "calFed upon to drop both of his shoes on the floor and, elevate his feet to the top of his desk! —demonstrating the fact that he did not belong to the tribe of "sockjess" statesmen. All the Senators present are prepared to swear that

Senator Call, on that particular daj, did wear socks. This is one result of the tariff debate not anticipated, and a waiting country should be profoundly thankful that even this certainty has been evolved from the chaotic scramble which has been enacted day after day in the Senate chamber. It is pleasant to have, some things settled definitely as we' go along, even the risk of offending the sensitive olfactories of the great obstructionists who have met apliorically "held up" the country for many moons."

THE festive confidence man is un•usually active in the rural districts "this spring and continues to get [good, solid farmers who are "too poor to take the papers" to sign supposed contracts for agencies of various kinds that are to bring them a handsome income on a small ^investment of time and capital, but which shortly turn upas bankable notes for good round sums, which .they are compelled to pa}r. We imake it a point to report everything !of this character, and if our readers 'will only acton the wisdom that can easily be gleaned from our columns •from time to time in this regard, need never have it said to them that "Experience is a dear school, but •fools won't learn in any other."

THE American colonies at the beginning of the Kevolution were too jbusy to think about a flag or banner '•of any kind. They had not experienced any difficulty in rallying to the defense of their rights and were consented to fling the "Declaration" to the world in defiance and were prepared to defend those principles to 'the last. June 14, 1777. however, Jthe American Congress, in session at •.Philadelphia, resolved "that the flag •of the thirteen United States be ^thirteen stripes, alternate red and white that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation,"' and "on the admission of any new State [into the Union one star be added to fthe Union flag." Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress, was then employed to make the first flag, and as a consequence will live in history, la shining example of those who "have Jgreatness thrust upon them." To*dav the glorious blue field contains forty-four resplendent stars, and 'other gems are now in view.

The Crow Was ^Loaded.

Juneau News. Dick Willoughby relates an amusjing incident that happened to him fat Funter Bay.

Dick was driving a tunnel on a ledge back of his cabin, and was in the habit of leaving a stick of giant powder on a rock in a sunny place jit the mouth of the tunnel to thaw

On several occasions when he

went to get bis powder it had mys•teriously disappeared, and he was at loss to account for it. As it was ^considerable of annoyance to have to fro to the cabin and get more powder and wait for it to thaw, Dick

Iconcluded to watch proceedings and wait for the thief. .. He laid the stick of powder in its •usual place, and waited but a short time when he saw a raven sail out of a tree and,swoop down upon the exiplosive. The bird tore at the tough f',' paper cover until it could get at the powder, and then began greedily to 1. ^devour it. Giant powder is made up of nitro-glycerine, sawdust, and grease, and a whole stick of it makes a very hearty breakfast for a raven.

The stick had nearly disappeared Iwhen Dick thought it time to %javenge his loss, and was in the act of raisinc his rifle, when the fraven gave a defiant cawk and arose §.,/ {in the air with the remainder of the ^stick of powder grasped in its claws.

When up some distance the powder slipped from the bird's grasp and ^ame tumbling to the ground. Dick saw the powder drop and dodged behind a bowlder, fearing it would explodewhenit struck the rocks Lowlever, it did not. The raven perched

:in

a tree, and Dick drew a bead and •let drive. Immediately following the report of the gun Dick was not a little startled at receiving quite a shock and hearing a second and louder report, while the air was filled with small bits of raven meat

tand

feathers.

After the smoke of battle had cleared away, all that Dick could iind of that raven was the bill and telaws and a bunch of black feathers, •rhe shock of the bullet passi/in •through the bird's body had exploded J''- :the powder it had, devoured.

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BULLETS ASD MM.

PROGRESS OF THE GREAT PULLMAN STRIKE.

Great Riots at Chicago, Kensington and Hammond.

United States B«gal«r» and State Troops to the Kescu —Many Fatalities.

Au an parly hour, Friday, mobs began to assemble about the junction points of the railways at Chicago and before 9 o'clock it was evident that a great battle for supremacy was on. Mayor Hopkins telegraphed hastily to the Governor, asking for live regiments of militia to aid him in preserving tho peace.

Two strikers were killed outright and others injured in a riot in the Illinois Central yards at Kensington. The strikers began collecting and by 10 o'clock five hundred men were rushing up and down the yards, overturning freight cars and blocking the tracks. A force of shout 150 deputy United States marshals and Cook county deputies charged the mob at various places, driving small squads of men from the yards. The Illinois Central milk train came steaming slowly from the south. The mob charged it and in a trice the engine was detached and the cars overturned. The crew had already tied, and the strikers, mounting the engine, carried it back half a mile, when, opening the throttle, they jumped from the cab. and the locomotive rushed forward at full speed, dashed into the wreck and tore through the derailed cars until it was thrown on its side.

The crcwd mounted the wreck with exultant cheers and held high carnival until the force of deputies had prepared to charge. As they came down on the run they wore met by a shower of stones and coupling pins, and, halting, opened fire.

For a moment the mob wavered as tho bullets cut through their ranks, and then, with a howl, they charged the little force of deputies, who retreated to a safe distance lo await reinforcements. Police details wen1 hurried to the scene, and tho rioters continued the derailing of cars while waiting for the expected attack, carefully concealing the dead and injured men. A frantic appeal was senc to Chicago for assistance and troops were dispatched to the scenc.

Two of the strikers arc known to have been killed. The number of wounded can not be stated. At Iiurnside fifty cars were burned by the strikers. The milk trains on the Ft. Wayne and B. & O. were also attacked, but the mobs were driven off.

At .1 p. in. a riot broke out at the Union Depot. The mob was trying to ditch a train. At 3:10 frantic appeals were sent to the Mayor from J?ifty:lirst street and the Rock Island tracks for assistance, to suppress a mob which threatened to destroy everything in sight. Mayor Hopkins again appealed to the Governor for troops. Apparently a sufficient number of United States troops were not sent to Chicago. A dispatch from Washington late Friday afternoon stated that At-torney-General Olney was still firm in a determination to protect property and said that the Government would fill Chicago with soldiers if it became necessary and crush the strike at a single blow. There was to be 110 temporizing, 110 compromising with the strikers. The railroad companies must be permitted to conduct their business unmolested, if the entire array of the United States has to be brought to bear. General Miles was well supplied with all necessary force to carry out his orders, and if reinforcements are necessary they will be forthcoming.

Great excitement prevailed at Sacramento, Cal., on the Fourth, because of the strike. The situation was of the most serious character. The militia had been called out. but were ordered not to fire under any circumstances. Three companies were ordered to drive the strikers from the depot. Tho scene was at once tumultuous and the situation threatening. For a few moments tho soldiers hesitated, then they wavered, and then came to a blunt refusal to move against the excited strikers. A few minutes later all the troops turned their backs upon the turbulent mob at the depot and quietly withdrew to the armory. A deafening shout announced the second victory of the strikers over the railroad company, and their lirst victory over the State militia. When the troops had withdrawn to their armory and the jubilant strikers and their sympathizers were loudly celebrating their victory, a new source of danger became apparent. A body of fifty strikers apr peared 011 the scene armed with rilles and ammunition. It was learned that the Garibaldi guard had turned the contents of its arsenal over to the strikers.

The General Managers' Association, late Thursday evening, issued a summary of tho situation in and around Chicago. Tho public were warned that travel was dangerous by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois in the neighborhood of Thirty-lirst street because of the stoning of trains by strikers and sympathizers. Police protection was demanded for the Western avenue yards 011 the C., B. & Q. The Illinois Central suburban travel was considered safe. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe had practically resumed business between Chicago and Denver. Baltimore & Ohio still in trouble and freight business entirely abandoned. Situation at Stockyards growing more serious. Rioting was reported all along the line of the Rock Island—-mobs overturning freight cars, barricading tracks, wrecking property. The United States Marshal from Indianapolis with twenty deputies reached Huntington, where trouble is feared.

Governor Altgeld, of Illinois,Thursday* sent along letter to President Cleveland demanding the removal of federal troops from Illinois. Following is the President's reply: Hon. John 1'. Altgclil, Governor ol Illinois,

Sprlngileld, 111.: Federal troops were sent to Chicago in strict accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States upon tho demand of the Postolfice Department that obstruction of the mails shonid be removed. and under the representations of the judicial officials of the United States that process of tho federal courts could not be executed through the ordinary means, and upon abundant proof that conspiracies existed against commerce between the United States. To meet these conditions, which arc clearly within tho province of fedoral authority, the presence of federal troops in the city of Chicago was deemod not only proper, but necessary, and there has been no intention of thereby interfering with the plain duty of the local authorities to preserve the peace of the city.

GKOVER CLEVELAND.

Governor Altgeld, Friday, addressed a

lengthy reply to President Cleveland's dispatch of Thursday, protesting against the presence of Federal troops in Chicago, and discussing in an exhaustive way the doctrine of "State Rights." Following is the President's reply: "WASHINGTON, July 6,1894. "John P. Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, Springfield: "While I am still persuaded that I have neither transcended my authoirty or duty in the emergency that confronts us, it seems to mo that in this hour of danger and public distress discussion may well give way to active effort on the part ot all authority to restore obedience to the law and protect life and property. "GROVER CLEVELAND."

The President is watching the development of the situation at Chicago with deep concern. He is advised of every movement as reported to the War Department and the Department of Justice. Secretary Lamont, whose family is absent, has temporarily taken up his abode in the White House, so that his opportunities to consult the Prdsident are frequent. Attorney-General Olney also spent a good portion of his time, Thursday, at the WThite House and War Department. Apprehension is not confined to Chicago alone, but the progress of the disaffection in the tar West is a source of great solicitude to the officials. Sacramento, Cal., is looked upon as a particularly threatening point.

President Debs issued an address at Chicago, Thursday night: He declared that the Pullman employes who struck on May 6, did so entirely of their own accord. Their action was spontaneous and unanimous, a revolt figainst a series of deep seated wrongs of long standing. Labor leaders not only had no part in it, but those connected with the American Railway Union advised against it. The employes at Pullman had virtually become the slaves of the corporation. At the time of the strike they were in arrears for rent alone to the extent of $70,000. Within a short time they would have become hopelessly involved in debt, and would have mortgaged soul and body to the Pullman company. This had resulted because, whilo wages had been reduced, tho cost of living had remained the same. The employes from the beginning had been willing to arbitrate their difference with tho company. This was still their position. The claims of the company that there was nothing to arbitrate was absurd. Committee after committee waited on the officials of the company, but was always repulsed. Tho company was and is still as unyielding as adamant. What could be done to restore peace and confidence? The A. R. U. stood ready to do anything in its power that was honorable to end the trouble. It simply insisted that the Pullman company shall meet its employes and do them justice. The latter would accept any reasonable proposition. As to the charge that this was a sympathetic strike, the employes had done only what the corporations had done. Other organizations of workingmen had felt the oppressive hand of corporate capital. They would not be called out, but would go out. As to his own Dart in the strike Mr. Debs said it was not ordered by himself nor by any other individual, lie had never ordered" nor called anybody out. Under the rules of the American Railway Union members could only strike when a majority of their number so decided. One vote of the delegates in this instance was unanimous. Whenever men have struck they have done so of their own free will. "Inclosing." said Mr. Debs, 'let me repeat that we stand ready to do our part toward averting tho impending crisis. We have no false pride to stand in the way of a settlement. We do not want 'official' recognition. All we ask is fair pl'av for the men who have chosen us to represent therii. If the corporations refuse to.yield and stubbornly maintain that there is 'nothing to arbitrate' the responsibility for what may ensue will be upon their iieads and they cannot escape its penalties."

Friday night lawless mobs of firebugs worked at a score of points in the southern part of Chicago. Alarm after alarm followed in quick succession and at 11 p. m. the glare reflected from the heavens showed that the work of destruction continued. The Panhandle yards from Fif-ty-fifth street to Sixty-third street, eight blocks, were amass of fire. Ten tracks, containing from l.OOD to 2,000 cars, half of them loaded, will be a total loss. No water being at hand the fire burned itself out. The Panhandle station at Sixty-third St. was also fired and destroyed, The Grand Trunk yards at Elston were a sea of flame and fiOl) box cars are supposed to have been burned. All efforts to check the flames were futile. At Hyde Park, near the World's Fair grounds, forty cars were burned. The shops of tho Illinois Central at Iiurnside were destroyed. At the Stock Yards flfty toughs were discovered skulking from point to point starting fires wherever possible. The aggregate of the losses to the railroads will be enormous. Miles of their tracks have been ruined by the fierce heat hundreds of switches, signal towers with their expensive mechanfsm, were utterly ruined. Thousands of cars and untold quantities of merchandise of every imaginable description have fed the flames and gorged the larders of thieves valuable locomotives have been wrecked and disabled miles of tangled wires and prostrate poles litter the ground. The loss in the Panhandle yards alone is estimated at $1,200,000,

The First regiment of the State troops, 750 strong, went to Ilydo Park and Kensington. The Second, with about the same number of men, followed shortly after, being assigned to tho Stock Yards district, under direction of Police Inspector Hunt. The Third regiment, COO men, were placed on duty in the district north of Thirty-ninth street. The Seventh regiment, 700 men, is held in reserve, together with Battery D, at tR* Michigan avenue armory.

At 3 a. m., Saturday morning, all the fires were under control or had burned themselves out and no further immediate trouble was anticipated.

President Debs, at Chicago, Friday evening issued a proclamation warning all strikers against any violation of any State, National or municipal law. He concluded as follows:

Let it be borne in mind that if the railroad companies can secure men to handle their trains, they have that r'.ght. Our men have the right to quit, but theirright ends there. Other men have the right to take their places, whatever the opinion of the propriety of so doing may bo. Keep away from railroad yards or rights-of-way, or other places where largo crowds congregate. A safe plan is to remain entirely away from places where there is any likelihood of there being an outbreak. The railroad managers have sought to make it appear that their trains do not move because of the interference of the strikers. The statement is an unqualified falsehood, and no one knows this better than the managers themselves. They make this falsehood servo their purposo of calling out the troops. Respect the law, conduct yourselves as becomes men, and our cause shall be crowned with success. EUGENE V. DEBS.

The Local lodges A. R. U. at Indianap­

olis, Thursday, extended the Pallman boycott to the Indianapolis News and Journal. ***$

LATER.

1 Rioting continued at Chicago all day Saturday. Mobs attacked railroad yards on nearly all the lines, overturning cars, blockading tracks and setting fire to property of all kinds. At Forty-seventh and Loomis streets. Grand Crossing, at 3:30 p. m., a battle between the strikers and the police, sustained by State troops, occurred. Six men were killed and an unknown number wounded. At Gen. Miles's headquar ters tho number of dead and injured was placed as high as twenty, The rioters attacked tho troops with stones and revolvers and provoked the return fire which resulted so disastrously.

A great mob took possession of the Lake Shore property at Fifty Seventh street, and great destruction ensued.

The work of clearing the track in tho Grand Trunk yards at Forty-ninth and Ashland avenue, where debris from the hundreds of burned cars littered the tracks, was completed, Sunday, under police and military protection, the monotony, however, being enlivened by occasional police rallies when the gatheringe of idlers watching the work became too large and threatening. At 4 p. m., when the finishing touches had been put on the work, nearly all the onlookers had disappeared and the troops, laborers and police were withdrawn. No sooner had they got well out of sight, however, than a gang of 800 men suddenly appeared, and with crowbars, picks and shovels, tore up about an eighth of a mile of track before word could bo got to the police department. They fled before another charge of the police and the work of repair is again being pushed forward.

Mayor Hopkins in an interview, Sunday night, said he thought there would be no more serious trouble. Continuing, he said:

The shooting into the mob by State troops Saturday afternoon, lias shown the lawless element what it may expect if it persists in its outbreaks against law and order. The thugs and criminals, who have been masquerading as striking workmen. evidently believed the soldiers would not fire on them. Now they know better, and they will, if I am not mistaken, be more carcful in the future.

The storm center Sunday was at Hammond, Ind. Saturday night a mob was in possession and no troops in sight. They ransacked the Western Union telegraph office, overturned freight cars and committed all kinds of depredations. Five railroad employes were wounded at the hands of the mob, one fatally. The outbound Sunday passenger train from Chicago, on the Monon road, was brought to a halt by the men. Engineer and firemen were.made to dismount and the locomotive was quickly '•killed" by opening a valve and allowing the water to run out of the boiler.

The active leaders of the mob were not local strikers or known to the Hammond people. Under their leadership, however, the town was terrorized throughout the night, and railroad traffic paralyzed. Boldly operating in tho center of town, the mob had nearly everything its own way. The woret trouble came about 3 a. m., when in a skirmish with railway employes, three men were laid low in a buueh. Two other railroad men were badly injured in other encounters. The man whoso wounds are supposed to be mortal is 11. H. Miles, an employe of the Interlocking Switch Company.

Sunday afternoon in attempting to move the north bound Monon train at Hammond the United States troops were compelled to fire into a crowd of striker.-! and sympathizers. Chas. Fleishcher was instantly killed and five others seriously injured. None of the persons shot were strikers but merely onlookers. At 5 o'clock ten cars came in over the Michigan Central bringing about two hundred soldiers. The train also had a wrecking car attached. The crew had been clearing up the tracks which all the way from Kensington had been blocked by overturned box cars. The Michigan Centaal succeeded in removing all obstructions by 7 o'clock and several trains were run out from Chicago.

Gov. Matthews, at midnight, Saturday, ordered out the State troops to go to Hammond. Eight hundred men from all the points north of Indianapolis received orders to mobilize at Hammond by Sunday night. Sheriff Fredericks sent to the Governor, Sunday morning, the following dispatch:

United States marshals saved they are in bed. Send militia to get them lrmie. Everything else wrecked. About twentyeight box cars turned over across the. tracks. One Pullman car burned two with windows all smashed. On tho Monon every telegraph operator driven from his office. Employes pounded. I wa? powerless to stop the rioting, which I have told all along. Thare will be no danger now in the daytime, but look out for breakers at night." I have been up ail night and am going to bed.

After sheriff Fredericks dispatch had been sent the mob learned the fact in some way and an attack was made on tho W. U. Telegraph office. The operators were driven out and the office wrecked. Then they beat with a coupling pin the switch inspector, though he was not seriously "wounded. During the night cars were overturned on every track so as to wreck trains on three or four roads. Tho windows of the Pullman coaches were riddled with stones. At a late hour

Sunday night

all was quiet at Hammond.

LATEST.

Great dissatisfaction exists at A. R. II. headquarters at Chicago because of the quiet attitude of the strikers at Indianapolis and throughout Indiana. It was announced, Tuesday morning that fifty agitators had left Chicago for Indianapolis to stir up the "weak kneed" and bring matters to a crisis. Police were at once ordered to take extra precautions to receive these men. Great uneasiness existed at tho Union Station all Monday night and double guard was on duty. At 1 a. m. Tuesday, a general strike of Uig Four firemen from Cincinnati to St. Louis was announced. It went into effect at midnight and involves more than one hundred men. A provision was made in the order to striko that all mail trains should be allowed to run without interruption, the strike affecting freight firemen more particularly,

At Chicago, Monday, the principal event of interest was tho annonncemont that at an all-night session of the allied trades unions, which ended at 4 a. m. Monday, a general strike was ordered to take effect at 4 p. m. Tuesday. unless George M. Pullman should have

agreed before the meridian of that day to settle the differences between his company and his striking employes by arbitration or otherwise. Grand Master Sovereign, however, decided to postpone the walkout until 7 o'clock Wednesday morning. Late Monday afternoon it was announced that President Gompers had called a meeting of the executive committee A. F. L. for Thursday at Chicago, and it was supposed that no radical measures would be inaugurated until after that meeting had indorsed tho action taken by the allied unions.

At 2 p. m. Monday a joint committee of the federated unions of Chicago called on Yice-Presicent Wickos, of the Pullman company, and asked him to consent to the appointment of a committe of five citizens whose functions should be not those of arbitration, but to determine wThether or not the Pullman company has anything to arbitrate. The committee, as proposed. was to consist of two citizens chosen by the Pullman company, two by the Circuit Judges, and one by these four. At the close of tho interview Mr. Wickes retired with his attorney and returning after a brief consultation declared that the company could not receiye the proposed committee.

Regulations which prevailed in the government building at Chicago, Monday, were a near approach to martial law. Deputy marshals were stationed on every floor and everybody was challenged who could not show that he had business in the building. More than 1.030 additional federal troops arrived Tuesday, morning, and railway business, it is believed, can soon be resumed.

The Central Labor Union, at Indianapolis, Monday night, indorsed the strike and voted to extend moral support and financial aid to the American Railway Union in its manly struggle for tho rights of labor.

Ex-Union soldiers held amass meeting at Indianapolis. Monday niglit. Patriotic. speeches were made by Ex-Gov. Chase, Gen. McGinnis, Thomas Manila. Gen. Carnahan and others. The following resolutions were passed unanimously in the midst of great, applause and enthusiasm:

P.e it Resnlvd. That we, the comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic and ex-Union soldiers, residents of the city of Indianapolis, in mass convention assembled, do hereby express our unqualified disapproval of the riotous and unlawful demonstrations that have been and are now being carried on in different portions of the country. We do further denounce all parties engaged in said disturbances, and in the destruction of property and in the hindrance to travel and commerce, saying and believing that such unlawful conduct marks the perpetrators as enemies of our country and unworthy the sympathy of loyal and law-abiding citizens.

Resolved, That we, as Ex-Union soldiers regardless of political affiliations, but beiieving that loyalty to the United States, and obedience to the laws of the land are the crowning virtues of American citizenship. do most heartily indorse the loyal and patriotic conduct of President Cleveland in his efforts to suppress the present riots throughout the country: and as citizens of the State of Indiana and all her loyal people have been honored in the patriotic course pursued throughout this crisis by our governor. Claude Matthew 3 and Mayor Denny, our most earnest support in their efforts to preserve the peace, protect property and enforce the laws of the land, and do now tender our service to aid in preserving the peace and protecting property.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

In the House. Thursday, the tariff bill was received from the Senate at 1 p. m. A cablegram of congratulation was received from Brazil on the USTH anniversary of American independence. This latter event excited Democratic applause, and the bill was laid upon the Speaker's table. A joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to continue the. employment of mechanics and laborers in navy yards who have been discharged on account of tho failure of Congress to pass the necessary appropriation bills was passed after some tart remarks from Messrs. Cannon and Reed. The bill to subject to State taxation national bank notes and United States treasury notes consumed the entire afternoon and no conclusion had been reached when the House adjourned at 5:15 o'clock.

The Senate held a short session, Friday, and adjourned at 1:35 until Monday without having transacted any business of importance. 1 In the House, Friday, the Cooper bill to tax greenbacks the same as other money passed--176 to 41. The only point of interest in the day's proceedings was the taking of the tariff bill from the Speaker's table and its reference to the committeo on ways and means, but this was unattended by any outbreak or by any excitement or remarks. Several unimportant bills were passed. The House took a recess until 8 o'clock, the evening session being devoted to private pension bills.

In the Senate, Monday, Mr. I'efl'er offered an omnibus resolution providing: (1) That all public functions ought to be exercised through public agents

(2)

that

all interstate railroads ought to be brought under one control and the supervision of public officers, and charges for train transportation of persons and property throughout the United States ought to be uniform, and that the wages of employes ought to be regulated by law and paid promptly in money (3) that all coal beds ought to be owned and worked by the government, and that the wages of the employes should be paid in money when due (4) that all money used bv tho people ought to bo supplied only by the government of thi! United States, and that tho rate of interest ought to be uniform in all States f.") that all revenues of the government ought to be raised by taxes on real estate. The resolution went over. The balance of tho day was devoted to consideration of tho naval appropriation bill.

Isaac Goodman, nearly eighty years old, a pioneer of Madison county, has been removed to the Prison North. lie was convicted of receiving stolen goods, and ho was a member of tho Dundee gang of thieves which gave tho authorities so much trouble. Some months ago Deputy Sheriff Coburn, of Anderson, attempted to capture burglars in the act of robbery at Summitvillo, and there was a dangerous affray, in which he shot and dangerously wounded Dick Goodman and was himself badly hurt. Dick Goodman is still nursing his wound and is likely never to recover. Thorn p. May, his companion, was capturedjand sent to prison for nine years. The senior Goodman nearly beggared himself in paying surgical and attorney fees, and just before his own conviction he deeded what little property remained to his wife.

DEBS INDICTED.

Also Several Other A. R. U. Of--ficials.

AU'Are Arrested and Afterward Koleaeed on Itnil—Ouick Work by tlie U. S. Grand Jury.

The Federal Grand Jury, called in special session at Chicago, Tuesday afternoon, after receiving the instructions of United States Judge Grosscup, after two hours deliberation, returned indictmentis against Eugene V. Debs, president of tho American Railway Union George W. Howard, its vice-president Sylvester Iveleher, secretary, and L. W. Rogers, one of its directors, and shortly thereafter thefour men were arrested. They are charged! with conspiracy to commit an unlawful::! act, that is, to block the progress of the* United States mails.

Joined in the indictment with the fours leaders of the Railway Union was James Munoin, the Rock Island striker who threw the switch which derailed a mailtrain at Blue Island on the night of June 30. Debs, Howard, Keleher and Rogersi were taken into the office of District At-? torney Milchrist, immediately after their1 arrest,'and after a few hours' detention were released on bail by Judge Grosscup, their bond being $10,000 each.

The fedoral grand jury spent but a shorttime on tho case of Debs and the other? leaders of the strike. The case against them for conspiracy had been prepared? some, days ago by Attorneys Milchrist. and Walker, and the grand jurors had? been at work two hours when the indict-s ment was ready to be presented in court.It was based on some of the public utterances of Debs and the other leaders, and this was clinched by the original orders, in writing, sent out by Debs directing mens an the different railways to quit theirwork and thus stop the running of mail. trains. A large number of telegrams sent, by Debs from his headquarters giving di-. rections which extended tho blockade of the trains, were submitted to the grand jury by F» M. Fulford, manager of the? Western Union telegraph company, under: a subpoena issued by the United states-, court.

In an interview,after being released,Mr.: Debs compared the condition of affairs in this country to that in Russia, and said his arrest was like an act of the Czar, lit:' denied having committed any crime and: expressed his willingness to abide the? consequences of all his public acts. In conclusion Mr. Debs said:

The arrest will not deter us from oun work. We will go on just exactly as we have done. If we were to do differently itwould be an admission that we have been in the wrong.

LATER.

A mass meeting of citizens at Ham-| rnopd, Monday night, passed strong reso-| lutions denouncing the use of the Federal troops and characterizing the shoot-1 ing on Sunday as an unnecessary and| uncalled for outrage. A demand was-f made on Senators and Representatives to use their influence to compel the government to pay damages to the family of Charles Flescher. Gov. Altgeid's course: was also indorsed. The coroner, Monday, held an inquest on the body of CharlesFlescher, who was killed by the soldiers,. Sunday, and his verdict was that t-h« '"decedent came to his death by accident,, occasioned by soldiers of Company D. Fif-i teenth Infantry, U. S. A., shooting wan-i tonly and carelessly into a crowd of peaceable citizens." Federal troops were: withdrawn from Hammond, Monday, audi the Indiana militia is now in sole control 5f the local situation. All mail trams! passing through, .however, are guarded with United States regulars.

Gov. Matthews. Monday, received at least one hundred telegrams tendering military aid. Gen, Lew Wallace sent tho following telegram: '•If, in your praiseworthy intention t.o keep the peace by enforcing the. laws, you see I can be of service to you, please CJO-,, sidcr me at your orders.

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The Governor replied as follows: Thanks for your words of approval and tender of aid. I have faith in the intel-: ligence and patriotism of our people to.render unnecessary a call outside of the': present organized force to restore peacijl and enforce laws. None, however coukr: give better aid than they who so bravelyfought to preserve all.

Major Doxcy. from Anderson, sent th following: To Governor Matthews—If an erae-r^ gency arise, which 1 hopewiil not. my service with a thousand mounted ine.i men from the gas Melds is at your disposal to protect life, liberty and property. only want -forty-eight hours tomounl and organize ready for duty Tiiee wi.j be good, honiist workingmen that believe in law and order. ('. T. Doxt^.

A mass meeting of ex-soldiers was hel I at Shelbyville. Monday night. Resoh.* tions indorsing the. action of Governoi Matthews and tendering support wer passed. The, Governor also received th* following dispatch from Muncie:

Williams Post, G. A. R-. heartily mi dorses the President's proclamation an your prompt action in the present crisi-. It is resolved the majesty and snpremac' of the law should be maintained at a.I hazards.

FRANK MCGKATU. C-ommander. Miners' riots in the Grape Greek region. near Danville, 111., Monday, resulted in deadly volley from the State militia. Tw women were killed. The soldiers intende to fire over the heads of the mo': jbut made a miscalculation. Later iii ithe day a fireman on the Terr Haute road was killed by a stray sho. ,at the Fairchild street crossing in Danville. This fatality resulted fro.u a quarrel in a crowd that had assembled to see fthe train come in and was entirely accidental. The man who fired the. shot wa: •not apprehended. The killing of the two {women so frenzied the mob that they at pnee began to collect all the guns to be ifound in Westvilleand GrapeCreek. These (arms were stacked in one of the saloons at (Grape Creek. What the linal outcome iWill be can not be foretold.

John J. Hannahan, Vice Grand Master Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen, was arrested at Chicago, Tuesday. The complaint on which the warrant was issued Charged that on July 7,Hannahan boarded an engine on the Western Indiana and in'duccd the engineer. George lira ley, and •, tho fireman, J. C. Trail, to leave tho onigine, thereby stopping the train. Hannahan was indignant when he was before tho commissioner, and protested against being compelled to give $3,000 bail. "I .don't care for myself," said ho. "for I cat give that amount. Don'testablish such a precedent." When he was told that{3,00t vas the usual bail, he said no more.