Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1897 — Page 1

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\\ ONARCH-c iff fi New 136 East Wash. Sl* ji- ’ -“j Groceries. Tfl. New 13 E. WASH. ST. M it nnd telephone orders promptly filled ,V r funded. It goods are not as represented fc . . . i t stop In fiont of MONARCH. “Pure Food” Corn Starch—for Pudding—guaranteed to have no superior. This quality retails at 10c usually. Our pi ice Bargain in Laundry Soap Armours Soap —double wrapped, per cake.. .2}£c (Better than Babbitt’s soap.) Creamery Butter—nothing better made—received fresh daily, 20c pei pound; 5 pound jar y.oe Br< ik fast Cocoa, }4 pound can 20c ! + pound can lO c Healthy, flesh-producing dr;nk. Teas and Coffee, high quality and low prices. \ Handling fresh meats in hot weather is p .rticular w'ork. We are well equipped for this weather. The quality of our me its is excellent, and seeing them cleanly handled you can eat with relish. Our prices are right. Lemons Lemons Lemons lOc doz. 12c doz. 15c doz. BIG FOURRQUTE National Educational Association Annual Convention, At MILWAUKEE, WIS., July 6 to 9, 1897. Half fare, plus $2 membership fee. Special Ttv.rhprs’ train will run as follows: I. ' live Muncle, Monday, July 5 9:03 a.m. Anderson ;-j*. a. m. Reave Indianapolis 11:00 a. m. Leave Lebanon 12:39 p.m. Reave Lafayette 1:42 p. m. Arrive Chicago 5:45 p. in. Leave Chicago 8:00 p. m. Arrive Milwaukee 10:20 p.m. This arrangement gives a couple of hours to look around Chicago before leaving for Milwaukee. Tickets are also good on any tiain going July 3, 4 and 5 and all good to return leaving Milwaukee July 10, 11 and 12. with privilege of extenslon till Aug. 31. Satisfactoiy arrangements have been made for hotel arrangements and accommodations. For further particulars call on J. H. Woodruff, G. W. Benton, Indianapolis; W. R. Snyder, Muncie, or any Big Four sgent. Official Route to the Grand Lodge Meeting and Aniiuai Reunion B. P. 0. ELKS, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., July <i lo 10. One fare for the round trip, plus 60 cents. Tickets good going July 4 and 5 and returning until July 11, with privilege of further extension to leave Minneapolis up to and including July 31* Special train will leave Indianapolis 11:50 a; m., Monday, July 5, and run through to Minneapolis without change, reaching there by 8:50 a. m. nfxt day. Sleeping-car rates, $2 from Chicago per double berth. For tickets, space In sleepers and full information call on committee. S. j. Murray, J. L. Reach, F. M. Ryan, C. P. Balz and H. S. Beissenherz. secretary, or any Big Four agent. All Elks and their friends are earnestly solicited to jo.n this excursion. H. M. BRONSON, A. G. P. A.

Cincinnati Trains C., H. & D. R’y. Leave Indianapolis: Arrive Cincinnati: " 3:40 a.m. “ 7:30 a.m. *• 7:55 a.m. ** 11:20 a.m. " *10:45 a. m. “ *2:25 p. m. ** 2:45 p.m. " 6:00 p.m. M 4:45 p. m. m 7:45 p. m. 44 7:05 p. m. “ 10:50 p. m. DAYTON TRAINS, C., H. A D. Ry. Leave Indianapolis: Arrive Dayton: ** 3:40 a. in. “ 7:40 a. m. ** *10:45 a. m. “ *2:25 p.m. " 2:45 p.m. u 620 p.m. ** 4:45 p. m. “ 7:55 p. m, " 7:05 p. m. ** 11:00 p. m. TOLEDO AND DETROIT TRAINS, C., H. A D. RY. Leave * Arrive Arrive Indianapolis: Toledo: Detroit: *10:45 a.m. *6:40 p.m. *8:40 p.m. 7:05 p.m. 4:09 a.m. 6:15 a.m. •Except Sunday. Ticket Offices, Union Station and No. 2 West Washington street, corner Meridian. $2 Chicago and Return V/Jo JW onon Route Saturday, July 10. Tickets will be sold for all regular trains July 10, good to return July 11. Detailed information at Union Station and " West Washington street, corner Meridian. GEO. W. HAVLER, D. P. A. BROAD RIPPLE PARK The Coolest Spot in Marion County. JURY Ttl * BAND CONCERT AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JULrY .Ttll — Patriotic Band Concerts CAMERON’S BAND and MONTANDS ORCHESTRA Magnificent Fireworks Display On the River. Swimming Baths. Bathing Suits for rent. Splendid Boating. Come and enjoy a rule on the river. Meals and Lunches at Restaurant. Cars start from Union Station and Illinois street. get?"’Admission to Park free. Poor Little Billie Keeps the leading Magazines and Periodical and an assortment of fine Havana and Domestic Cigars. JOURNAL BUILDING CIGAR STAND. JOY AT HONOLULU. Hawaiian's Celebrated W’heu They Heard About the Annexation Treaty. VICTORIA, B. C., July 3.-At thi time the Warimoo, just arrived here, left Honolulu, the Hawaiian capital had only received n> ws that the United States annexation tr< ty had been sent to the Senate. The Honolulu Bulletin in commenting editorially on the matter, said that the Republican senators have forced the annexation issue tin./ only means to defeat the rapacious schemes of the Sugar Trust. The very Idea 01 annexation, however, caused a great celebration among the people, a good many of wiHjin summed up the situation as being one for America or Jupan to grasp.

THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.

Rutr; vonler this afternoon. Hot Hereafter The Fourth of July marks the beginning of the heated season. It needn’t be the heated term for the men, if they’ll take advantage of the Smoke Sale’s cool things. There’s a grist of coolness-catchers here that isn’t often seen anywhere except at the When. The smoke? Goods that are porous enough to let the breezes through are not the kind to hold smoke. The prices were fixed while the smoke was apparent. Now the prices are almost the only smoke indicators ■ jBT iOh. the glorvus Fourth is with us, \ /\ i r \ fl /"V /A K 1 IllQ An' I'm a goin’ to shout; ) iSa jLaOMl§ c £ns A g *mo But when they start the li-er-works ) H MR ft .ft ,g a H if HE I B I'll jes’ be lookin’ out. $1 VVI/ W \J VP A Oil 111 lllCr You bet I'll keep mj eyes peeled, > sA. M. % v WMIIIIIIVI An’ make ol’ Dobbin stop / -*■ His prancin’ an’ his jumpin’ ) • when the fi-er crackers < 1 lie Smoke Sale will help you do it. pop! j Here are a few of our coolness-makers: I won't take any chances ( On them bustin' torpedoes, s I Men’s $6.50, 87 and SS Linen Oash Suits $5.00 Fer I m lookin mighty han sum \ . In my new When clo’es; } I Men’s 84.00 Linen Crash Suits $2.08 An 1 don t want any cinders \ On my Smoke Sale suit, \ Wliito Thick TroiKen; and rD So I’ll sure be huntin’ cover j VV miCK J FOUSCrs 1.00 When the sky Blue and black Serge Coats and Vests, $3.50, Shoot! < w $4.00 and $5.00 ißut I’ll stay ontill the show’s out— ( I’ll see th’ whole affair ( \*f II f! W W J Fr’m Gin'r’l Wash’ton’s face in fire ( M /\ a S—2§ srr\ -4s“ T’ the las' spark in the air. ( \s/ B J 8I f 9 ra P K 4^ I’ll not run any resk at all < %_L 4 B I A tiJL ’lth my new When hat. < w N' when th’ Roman can’les blaze, < .-A'. . ~ , • , a: ac, Why, i’ll jes lay ( 83. Straws, in all braids 5^.48 doftn fiat! j /ill $2.50 and $3.00 Straws $1.47 a good idee he, struck me— Plain and fancy $1.50 Straws 97c (Thou’gh not ezaefly’(n SelMlne ! 75c and SI.OO Straws 47c < Ventilated Crash Bike Caps 25c An' a monstrous giunt pail, ) Liko Cans to mntrli inv suit 50c An’ gother all th’ fierworks smoke > Dike Raps IO nuitll .Ulj SUll ovc An' hev a big Smoko t tiS Children’s 25c Eton Caps 10c Sale! ) Summer Shirts Balbrig-gan Underwear 19c The best of 1897’s shirt-ideas are here, with the best of the rest of the men’s wear. Shirts “Fishnet” Undershirts for bicy- to fit all sizes of men and boys —sizes up to 19 clists 25c neck. Maybe one shirt in a hundred has a faint smoke aroma now —all at smoked prices: Socks—miles of ’em—three pairs for „ . OJS > 2dc, two pairs for 2oc, lr>c pair, „ „ . 11-1 Shirts 25c, 4oc and SI.OO 2oc pair and hig-her. s „ . . Soft Bosom Aeg-hg-ee, with or without colWash Ties, 4 for 25c lars and cuffs 69c, 98c, SL2S, $1.50 Tilt; When The When will close at 12 o’clock, noon, Monday.

“THE DAY WE CELEBRATE.” Fourth us July Exercises at the Tennessee Exposition. NASHVILLE, July 2.—The Fourth of July celebration at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition to-day attracted thousands of people. The ceremonies of the day took place within the exposition grounds and were of a very interesting nature. The first event was a parade of the Vanity Fair aggregation, from 9 a. m. to 9:20 a. m.. the procession being headed by Fischer’s Centennial Band. At 10 there was a military and civic parade, composed of a detachment of the Centennial Guards; FischVr’s Centennial Band; Chief Marshal \V. C. Smith and staff; United States army bands; battalion of the Fifth Regiment, United States army; First Regiment Band; National Guards State of Tennessee, Company E; First Regiment National Guard, State of Tenn’essee, Company A; First Regiment National Guard, State of Tennessee; Battery A, Tennessee Artillery, and forty-five young ladies in decorated vehicles, rvpreronting the respective States in the Union, with mounted escorts, bands, Sigma Alpha Episolon fraternity, decorated tallyhos, band, a brigade of citizens, clerks and artisans, each company carrying a small United States flag in columns of fours. At 11 o’clock exercises were held in the Auditorium. Rev. James I. Vance, D. D., read the Declaration of Independence, and an oration was delivered by Hon. J. M. Dickinson. The afternoon programme included athletic exercises by selected teams from Vanderbilt University, Nashville Athletic Ciub and a battalion of the Fifth Regiment, U. S. A., pony races and a dress parade by a battalion from the First Regiment National Guard, State of Tennessee. A magnificent fireworks display was given tonight. The attendance during the day was enormous. LIKE PRINCESS CHIMAY. Mrs. Hradliury Prefers to Cull Her Elopement u Romance. SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.—Mrs. Bradbury, the wife of a Los Angeles millionaire who elop-d with H. Russell Ward, now talks freely of her escapade. She and Ward have taken rooms in a lodging house in the Tenderloin district, and, after ordering a meal from a French restaurant, she said: •’You may call this either a love match or a scandal. I prefer to call it a romance. Colonel Bradbury was a kind husband, but I have happiness with Mr. Ward. He can support me, and 1 have no tear of desertion.” Mrs. Bradbury denies that she pawned all her jewels, but confesses to a shortage of ready money. She proposes to have a good time, ami seems surprised that her capitalist husband has not pursued her Mr. Ward prefers not to talk about his wife and children, who are now abroad. Y. P. S. C. E. IN MORMONDOM. TliouHiunlM of Young Christian.* at Salt Like City. SALT LAKE, Utah, July 3.—The Christian Endeavor trains arrived this morning, the lirst delegation being that from Ohio, about seven hundred strong. The city is beginning to fill up with the visitors, and the reception at Salt Lake beach late this afternoon was well attended. Eleven trains were delivered to the Rio Grande Western at Grand Junction between 3 and 7:50 o'clock this morning, and eleven more trains followed them closely. About three thousand people arrived here from Grand Junction between 3 and p. m., and five thousand more will arrive before daybreak to-morrow by the same route. The oth'-r delegates arriving to-night will be served with dinner and then go to Garfield Beach The Union Pacific people moved fortytwo special trains from the Missouri river

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between Wednesday evening and Friday noon, and estimate that they carried 65 per cent, of the Christian Endeavor people to the Rocky mountains on their two main lines. Every train was run on schedule time without accident. The delegations due over the Rio Grande Western are those from Kansas, lowa, Chicago, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin. Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, and the Field, Farm and Fireside party from Ohio. The Southern Pacific will take out of Ogden fiftytwo special trains by Tuesday morning. The Oregon Short-line is bringing in heavy trains from Montana and nothern points. Advance Guard at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.—The first do taehment of the Christian Endeavor hosts reached this city late last night. About 500 members of the society came in three sections of the regular Eastern train. The first of the special trains will arrive on Tuesday morning. “BESSIE” WAS A MAN. Young New Yorkers Bought Ice Cream for One of Their Own Sex. NEW YORK, July 3. For seven years the young men employed at 208 Wooster street made love to "Bessie,” the pretty forewoman in a hat factory at that place. She had black eyes, glossy, raven hair, a good figure—she was worth fighting for—until now, when they have found out she is a man. Nobody suspected her. She wore her clothes just like a girl, talked like one, set the young men by the ears, teased them, let them buy oceans of ice cream, which she ate—all just like a girl. Perhaps they would have gone on believing Bessie was a girl if she had rot suddenly eloped with pretty Sophie Goldstein, a real girl this time. They left the city three weeks ago, and are living in Chicago as Air. and Mrs. Feingold. Sophie is pretty and twenty-two. She lived at 93 Monroe street and worked in a paper box factory, also at 208 Wooster street. Bessie was her friend. When it became known about a year ago that Sophie was going to he married Bessie became heart-broken. "She” swore if Sophie married “she” would kill herself. Sophie broke off: the engagement, and from that day they became closer friends than ever. About two months ago Sophie went to room with Bessie just across the street from the former’s old home. Her sister was amazed shortly after to see Bessie in men’s clothes. She asked Sophie what this meant, and was tcld that Bessie was a man and that they had been secretly married. Feingold, or "Bessie,” after he had his hair cut, never went near the factory. The employes there never saw him, her or them in the new dress, and were astonished when Abraham Greiger, an ex-employe, wrote from Chicago that Bessie w r as there as a married man, and that Sophie, his bride, was with him. Nobody at the factory could offer any motive for Feingold s disguise. One of the women employed in the factory said she knew "Bessie” in Russia, and "she” passed as a girl there from childhood. DISTRIBUTORS’ RATES. Little Probability They Will Be Reduced for Chicago's Benefit. CHICAGO, July S.—-It has developed that the conference of executive officers of Western roads and members of the National Merchants’ and Travelers' Associations next Tuesday has been called simply for the purpose for affording the executive officers an opportunity of explaining in a graceful way the reasons which prevent the roads from making reduced distributors’ rates in thte way thej’- have been asked to do. When tfie call was first issued the supposition was the roads were prepared to recede f' m the position originally taken by them, out they now appvar to occupy it as firmly as ever. An announced conference between the general managers of the .interested roads and the mayor and corporation council was not held to-day.

It will not be before next Wednesday, and it is doubtful if one will be held at all. Railroad officials now say that travelingmen are opposed to the proposed ch’eap distributors’ rates, because if they proved successful many firms would make them the excuse for dispensing with the services of their traveling men. New Terminal* In New York. CHICAGO, July 3..—An agreement has been reached between th’e Baltimore & Ohio, the Central of New Jersey and tu'e Philadelphia & Reading by which these roads secure new terminals in New York city. Commencing July 12 the ferryboats from the Jersey Central station will land passengers at the foot of Whitehall street, making direct connections with the Second, Third, Sixth and Ninth avenue elevated roads, the Brooklyn ferries, the Broadway, Columbus and Lexington avenue cable lines and the Belt line. Two new ferryboats have been built for the service. W A NTS THFftE-CENT FA RES. Why Atlanta’* Mayor In Fighting n Street-Ilailway Consolidation. ATLANTA, Ga., July 3.—Mayor Collier gave anew turn to the fight between the city and the Consolidated Street Railway Company to-day by announcing that his real object in seeking the dismemberment of the system as announced In these dispatches yesterday, is the securing of 3cent fares. The mayor holds that if the six systems which were united to form the Consolidated, were operated separately, the competition would force a reduction of fares below 5 cents. The ground on which the breaking up of the combination will be asked is that it is a combination of competing lines and thereby violates the State Constitution. EGYPTIAN* RELICS. Ilread Made for Raineses II Containing Mummified Mice. NEW YORK, July 3.—A loaf of bread, molded, it is said, in the days of old Rameses, and the mummy of a falcon were brought to this port by the British steamship Bretwalda, which arrived at quarantine late Wednesday night. The relics are the property of Captain Alkman, of the Bretwalda. They were presented to him during a recent visit to Alexandria by S. Cummings, an Egyptian antiquary and a personal friend of the captain. The loaf of bread contains mummified mice, and is said to have been taken from an ancient Egyptian tomb of the time of Rameses II The relics have been offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. STOLEN BY GYPSIES. Long-Lout St. Loots Boy Fonnd by the Father in Arizona. PHOENIX, A. TANARUS., July 3.—At Mesa City yesterday, D. L. Hammond, of St. Louis, found his long lost son, known there as Harry Creelman, whom he had not seen for eighteen years. The boy. it is said, was stolen by gypsies at the instigation of a rejected lover of his mother. The information of the boy's whereabouts was given to the father in response to a circular letter by ex-Marsiial Clark. Burned to Death in a Mine. LEAP, S. D„ July 3.- Yverill Mrnnnck. foreman of the Winona mine, was burred to death and two sthers w.ll probaolv die as the result of a strange aecnl- nt. A gasoline pump at the bottom of the shaft refused to work an 1 ihrie men went to in vestigate. Gasoline had escaped and covered the water in ’he -haft. Tneir candles ignited It and they were surrounded by fire. Manyon and Smoker stumbled away and escaped, but Dimmick fell on a hook which held hint while he burned to death

INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM PRESIDENT RATCHFORD TELLS WHAT THE COAL MINERS WANT. He Says They Intend to “Strike Forever from Their Limb* the Fetter* and Shackles of Slavery.” MINERS NOT ALL HARMONIOUS * DIGGERS IN A FEW SECTIONS WILL REFUSE TO QUIT W ORK. Between 100,000 and 200,000 Expected to Obey the Request of the Executive Board and Officers. ♦ PRESIDENT KNIGHT’S VIEWS STRIKE ORDERED AT Tl|E BRAZIL MEETING BY UNANIMOUS VOTE. —* . General Suspension Agreed to by the Pittsburg District Miners—Action at Other Convention*. • ♦ COLUMBUS, July 3.—President Ratchford, of the United Mine Workers of America, says of the miners’ strike July 4: "The exact date of the miners’ national suspension has been a matter of speculation with the newspapers of the country for weeks past. We are very thankful to the press for the friendly mention which this great movement has received from every quarter. With the press and the public it is not a question of whether it should or should not take place, but rather a question of when shall the movement for living wages he inaugurated? Independence day was chosen as a day well befitting our demand. It is the anniversary of our political independence; let it also mark the beginning of an era of Industrial freedom and. as our revolutionary fathers freed themselves from foreig-n rule let the miners of the country free themselves from the domination of their oppressors and strike forever from their limbs the fetters and shackels of slavery. Independence day cannot be celebrated by American slaves in a more patriotic manner than to make proclamation to the world that they shall no longer submit to Industrial servitude. Our present suspension is not of our choice; it is forced on us by continuous reductions in wages until the point is reached where living by our industry is no longer possible. "Our miners everywhere throughout the country are ready for it as a last resort and there is no doubt that it will be the greatest movement of its kind this country has ever seen. Reports from every mining section indicate the temper and determination of the miners and shows conclusively that this movement must continue until living wages are established. The convention held in Pittsburg to-day will be unanimous in their support. Those miners who have been forced by poverty and the cruelty of unscrupulous employers of that district to sign ironclad contracts will throw them up, as they should do and join the suspension. I am not fearful that the miners will in any case violate law or order; this will be a peaceful contest. Violence must not enter into it in any degree. Public opinion is with us; telegrams and letters from men in all walks of life are pouring in indorsing our actions. The great body of the people is on our side and we mean to retain their support by strict adherence to law and order. "The independence proclamation of the United Mine Workers of America is ‘that industrial despots and despotism must forever be suppressed.’ With this inscribed on our banner and with 300,000 men imbued with a spirit to carry it aloft success will crown our efforts.”

CONDITION IN INDIANA. Even Operators Admit Miners Are Not Receiving; Enough Pay. Ppr-rin! to th< Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Incl., July 3.—President Knight, of the United Mine Workers. Indiana district, who was at the meeting of the miners of the block field at Brazil today. says he has no doubt that all the block miners will come out. The meeting to-day was a representative one, but not so large as was desired, having been called on short notice. It unanimously favored a strike, but the question was referred to another meeting to be h’old Monday. Mr. Knight’s opinion of what the block men will do is based on his knowledge of the men present to-day as to their representative character. The miners’ president now believes that all the 8,000 men in the State will Join in the strike. He places the total number at that figure, notwithstanding the state mine inspector’s report shows 6,400 for the first of the year. It will not be known before Monday or possibly Tuescay how' many men have not joined in the strike. Those who have been working and who worked to-day left their tools in the mines. The others in th*e more remote districts may w'ant to have verification of the authenticity of the call for a strike. The officials have been keeping the purpose to have a strike secret to prevent the operators accumulating a supply of coal, and for that reason some of the miners not having heard the proposition discussed may doubt the authenticity of the call for a strike. President Knight’s comment on the editorial suggestion of the Journal this morning that an arrangement might be made to limit the supply and make the price was: ”1 wish to God it could be done. Something of the kind must be done. The people do not realiz’e the condition of the miner. It is easy to say it is his own fault he does not make a living, but the fact is there are not livings 'enough for all of them. The trouble is that some of the operators want trade arrangvd so they can work their mines full time 'every day.” President Knight believes it will be an orderly strike, because the men haw learned how greatly they lost prestige in previous strikes by lawlessness, of which although only a few were guilty was attributed to all. The law-abiding miners will, he hopes, see to it that the reckless and lawless fellows are restrained. The mining industry of Indiana has not made much gain in the past eight or nine years. From one cause and another the output has not been notably increased. Illinois has trebled and Ohio more than doubled in the same period. It has been the contention of the operators that the miners have nftt responded quickly enough to competition. with the result that each time the reduction has been effected in wages it has come late and after the competitors of Indiana coal have captured the market. There has been a steadily decreasing scale of wages until now both sides realize that It is at bedrock. The miners call it "starvation” wages and the operators sav it is lower than the men ought to be paid. In the previous decade the output more than doubled. For the year from October, 1879, to October. ISsO. the output was 1,996,400 tons with $1,135,562 invested in the industry. The next year the output fell off <20,00u tons

although the capital was increased $300,000. There was a boom then and a strike. In those days operators made a great deal of money. For the year of 188 ft the output was 3,6(6,000 tons, with a capital of $2,081,000. FYom that year on the business did not progress, although many new mines were opened. Tire largest optput of any one year was in 1893, when the total was 4.494.311 tons. The next year it was 140,000 tons less and in 1894. the year of the big strike, it was 3.440,333 tons. In 1895 it went to 4,*312.084 and last year was 4.068,124. Last year there was a prolonged strike in part of the bituminous field, which caused a falling off greater than the 243,960 tons difference from the previous year, the exceeding output of the block field in Clay county accounting for the discrepancy in the figures. The capital now invested is sl.750.000, of which a considerable proportion comes from Chicago and has come into the State in the past ten years. The capacity is much greater than ten years ago, chiefly by reason of the fact that there are a number of machine mines with the most improved mining machinery. During last yvar twenty-one new mines wvre opened and fourteen abandoned, leaving a total of 121. These gave employment, when there was any employment, to 6,413 men Inside the mines and 699 on the outside. Clay county, with its block field, had 2,216 miners and twenty-nine mines; Parke came next, with 816 men and fourteen mines; Sullivan next, with 613 men and twelve mines; Greene, 614 m*en and seven, mines; Vermillion, 412 men and four mines; Daviess, 376 men and ten mines; Vigo. 248 men and seventeen mines; Pike, 4;32 men and five mines. The other counties in which coal is mined had less than two hundred men to a county. These counties are: Fountain. Gibson, Knox. Martin, Owen. Perry, Spencer, Vanderburg and Warrick. In January of last year 7.239 men were employed inside the mines. There have been as many as 8,000 miners in the Stare. The figures for the State by counties are for the first of the present calendar year. Probably there ar*e not now 6,O<X) miners in the State. In estimating the number of miners it must be borne in mind that the trade is not what it used to be in the respect of there being a distinct class of men engagvd in digging coal. In the earlier days of coal mining in the State the minor was a trained coal digger, usually a foreigner, whose father before him, and if from some parts of England, his mother too, were coal diggers. Now it is almost the rule that the man who works in a coal mine has taken to the work because of idlvness in his osvn occupation. It is this fact which largely contributes to the surplus mining labor and makes It possible for men to get only a day or two of work even when the mines are running at good capacity. Taking the whole number of men employed at all the mines last year the average wages was less than $2 a week. Operators and miners say that if all the Indiana mines were operated at full capacity they could furnish the year’s supply of coal in three months. While there is no display of had feeling at present, the miners believing that a suspension will exhaust the supply and perhaps bring about a better condition, yet it is well enough to consider the fact that if the strike is prolonged there will be outbreaks. The inciting cause of the troubles in 1894 was the passage through the mining districts of trains of coal from outside the strike territory, principally from Kentucky, in this State. This aggravated the men because they understood that this coal would help defeat their object. At Shelburn, In Sullivan county, the strikers uncoupled a train of Kentucky coal coming over the Evansville & Terre Haute road and bound for Chicago, and at another time burned an entire train right under the noses of the militia.

UNANIMOUS FOR STRIKE. Action of the Pittsburg; District Coni Miners. PITTSBURG, July 3. —The coal miners of the Tittsburg district, in delegate convention here to-day, decided unanimously to comply with the order of the national executive board to strike, and all tho union miners in the district will lay down their tools to-morrow morning and enter on a struggle for better wages, which promises to bo one of the longest and most bitterly contested fights ever known in the labor world. The delegates to the convention left for their homes full of strike sentiment, each man promising a complete suspension of work in the mines he represented. The miners’ officials have completed arrangements for a series of mass meetings, to be held throughout the entire district, and it isf believed tho effect of those meetings will be to bring out every digger in the district, those who are under ironclad agreements as well as the others. Twenty-one thousand men are usually employed in the Pittsburg district. Many of these, however, have not been working regularly for some time. In the Clearfield district 25,000 miners are employed when the mines are running, and District President Dolan says the whoie district will also go out. The number of men in other States who are concerned in the present strike, so far as can be estimated, are as follow’s: Ohio, 25.000; Illinois, 40,0'X); Indiana, 9,000, and in West Virginia about 22,000 men, a total of 142,000, all told. The miners employed in the vicinity of Greensburg will not join the strike, but, on the contrary, are preparing for a rush of work. The Greensburg, Madison, Hempfield and Caiibon coal companies employ about 1.500 men who have been identified with the miners’ union, and have always been paid the highest scale of wages. The miners are mostly Americans, and many of them own their own homes in that vicinity. The inauguration of the general strike means steady w*ork for them and as much of it as they" can perform. During the general strike of two years ago the miners and operators of Greensburg literally coined money, and their experience at that time is guiding the men now. District Dolan to-day received the following telegram from National President M. D. Ratchiord, at Columbus, O.: “We are out for living wages. The issue must be met squarely and determindly, and success will attend the greatest movement the country has ever seen.” The miners’ officials here to-night say that idleness will prevail in the mapority of all the.rail and river mines in the Pittsburg district. The claim that the struggle for higher wages will he of short duration and that by reason of the great demand for coal for the lake trade at this season of the year they will be granted an advance before the operators lose large contracts for the future delivery of coal. The miners’ officials now claim that a conservative estimate fixes the number of men who will go on a strike in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois at two hundred thousand. They hope to increase this number as ihe strike sentiment grows. ■ ♦- BRAZIL MASS MMETING. All Miner* Present Notified to Suspend Operation* at Once. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., July 3.—The block-coal miners of this district met here to-day and were addressed by W. J. Knight, State president of the United Mine Workers’ Association. Mr. Mcßride described the suffering condition of the mine rs throughout the country, claiming that this locality wits about the average, and the miners here are in a pitiful condition on account of little work and poor pay. He read the circular issued by the executive officers of United Mine Workers ordering a general suspension of work, and concluded his address by saying that he believed a suspension would be naturally beneficial for both miners and operators, as there had been an overproduction of coal for the past three years. The markets are crowded, and it is impossible to dispose of coal at any price, he said. His remarks were loudly cheered, showing that the crowd was in sympathy with the movement. Z. Wells, of Clay City, was called on, and said the miners in the south part of the county were in favor of doing anything that would better their condition, as a majority of the workmen were actually in want of the necessaries of life. A motion was carried by a unanimous vote to suspend work. As all the miners of the county were not represented, another massmeeting will be held Monday to give those not present to-day an opportunity to vote. By tlie feeling of the meeting to-day it is evident that the miners will surely respond to the call and make a firm stand in their fight for bettei wages. IX SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. Miners of the Belleville District Too Poor to Strike. ST. LOU S, July 3.—Coal operators, most of whom own mines in Illinois, are preparing for the threatened strike, and so are the consumers of this city. Orders enough have been received during the past five or six days to put in operation all the mines in southern and central Illinois, The St. Louis coal market was never in a more demoralized condition. It draws most of its (Continued on Second Page.)

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NO BOUNTY ON SUGAR BEET GROWERS Ml ST BE C ONTENT WITH THE PROPOSED DUTY. V _4 Amendment Introduced by Senator Alli*on Withdrawn In Face of a Heavy Fire from the Opposition. * •—* STORMY SCENE IN SENATE THREATS MADE BY' MR. JONES TO HOLD IT* THE TARIFF BILL. Administrative Sections and Several Amendments Adopted, but Important Features Yet Fending. NO AGREEMENT FOR A VOTE 4. TUESDAY". HOWEVER, MAY" SEE THU 31E.V81 RE IN CONFERENCE. Proposition to Tax Stock and Ilond Issue* and Transfers Favorably Received by Congressmen. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, July 3.—The Republicans turned the sharpest corner of the whole tariff debate in tna Senate this afternoon and the masterly manner in which a retreat from dangerous ground was executed filled spectators with admiration. Tho trouble was over the finance committee’s amendment to pay cent per pound bounty on beet sugar. The object was to encourage the production of sugar beets and to incidentally quiet certain opposition to tho Hawaiian treaties pending and proposed. The opposition rose right up on its legs and screamed, serving notice that if the proposition were not withdrawn the tariff bill might not become a lav/ for many weeks if not months. Senator Jones led tho assault and he had the Republicans in a panic in about a minute. A hurried caucus was held, with Senator Allison as the storm center, and in less time almost than it takes to tell it the offensive amendment was pulled down. To be sure, it was removed by Senator Allen and supported by Senator Kyle, but it has no longer any standing or party backing and will not stand in tha way long. The fioor scene was amusing to the extreme. Never did a dignified Senate committee evacuate a chosen position quicker. It Is estimated that fully twenty thousand farmers in the States of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska are making experiments in sugar-beet culture on a more or less extensive scale this year, and that with any sort of encouragement the number could he increased to 100,000 in a couple of years. Following are the provisions of the amendment providing for a bounty on beet sugar: ‘‘That on and after July 1, 1893, and until July 1, 1903, and no longer, there shall ba paid from any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, under the provisions of Section 3689 of the Revised Statutes. to the producer of sugar made from btxus grown within the United States during the calendar year 1898 and each succeeding calendar year until July 1, 1903, a, bounty of one-quarter of 1 cent per pound, under such rules and regulations as tha commissioner of internal revenue, with tha approval of the secretary of the treasury, shall prescribe. The producer of said sugar, to be entitled to said bounty, shall have first filed, prior to July 1 of each year, with the commissioner of internal revenue, a notice of the place of production, with a general description of the machinery an<s methods to be employed by him, with an estimate of tho amount of sugar proposed to he, produced in the current or next ensuing year, and an application for a license to so produce, to be accompanied by a bond in a penalty, and with sureties, to be approved by the commissioner of internal Revenue, conditioned that he will faithfully observe all rules and regulation,* that shall bo prescribed for such manufacture and production of sugar.” It is then directed that the internal revenue commissioner shall issue a license to the sugar producer. * * The effort made by Senator Allison to get the opposition to agree to having a vote on, tho tariff bill on Tuesday of neSt week failed, but it is believed, nevertheless, that a vote will he taken on that day. The hill will hardly be In conference more than a week or ten days.

The impression prevails that the stock-ex-change tax will be a part of the pending bill in its final form. When the project wua first announced there was a disposition to K-gard it as tentative and designed merely, to get the bill into the hands of the conference committee, and there to leave t?tv> solution of the general revenue problem* But Congress is taking very kindly to the suggestion, and the Republican leaders, aa a rule, express their satisfaction that so easy a way has been found out of the difficulty. Treasury experts estimate that the 5-per-cent, tax on sloo of original issue will yield $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 a year. Any reorganization would lie treated as an original Issue. Under the decisions of tha courts it will probably be thought best to exempt from taxation transfers of county and city bonds, as well as United State* securities. It is moreover asserted that this tax on stock transactions will hit the but feet shops and all illegitimate dealing* squarely. If they are dealing in stocks u. government agent will collect the tax, while, if they do not pay the tax, the gambling nature of their operations will be disclosed. Following is the text of the portion of the amendment fixing rates: "Bonds, debentures or certificates of Indebtedness hereafter issued by any association. company or corporation on each hundred dollars of face value or fraction thereof. 5 cents; and on each original Issue, whether on organization or reorganization of certificates of stock by any such association, company or corporation on each hundred dollars of face value or fraction thereof, 5 cents, and on all transfers of shared: or certificates of stock in any association, company or corporation, on tuc’n hundred dollars of face value oi fraction thereof, 2 cents.” The amendment enters into great detail in providing the mode of putting the proposed law into operation, in providing for the prevention of fraud, etc. The exemptions from the operation of the act are set forth in the following section: ‘‘All bonds, debentures or certificates of Indebtedness Issued by the officers of the United States government, or by officers of any State, county, town or other municipal corporations, shall bo and hereby are exempt from taxation: provided, that it is the , intent hereby to exempt from liability from taxation such state, county, town or other municipal corporations In the exercise only of functions strictly belonging to them in their ordinary governmental and municipal capacity; provided, further, that stocks and bonds issued by co-operative building associations shall be exempt from the taxation herein provided.” It is made unlawful to have* recorded any instrument in writing requiring a stamp without one affixed, and no such instrument is to be admitted as evidence in a. court of justice. Counterfeiting stamps or the dies from which they are made, or ia any manner defrauding the government in