Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1899 — Page 1

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considcrinc; the Lnr.c lixrEADi. TIRES OX WAR ACCOUNT. ReTcnnc for thr Fiscal- Yrnr Ended Ymterday I J5.CWSO.04XJ, AVhll'e 31 r. (ingc's Estimate Was 183,000,000. EXPENDITURES, $605,000,000 DEFICIT OF 9S9,.-50O,0OO, OH 27,000,OOO LESS Til AX WAs'eXI'ECTED, Army Cost ? -20,000,000 and the Navy 1. TOO.OOO, Against tx Total Normal Expense of ?SO,000,000.. ENLISTMENT ORDER ISSUED RECRUITS WASTED FOR OTIS'S THREE SKELETON REGIMENTS. Situation in the Philippines Discussed hy the Cabinet Crisis In the Alaskan Boundary Negotiations, c'pcial to the lndiar.apoUs Journal. WASHINGTON", June 30. The government revenues for the fiscal year ending with this day (to-day's actual receipts estimated) fcot up to $313.660,fiu), of which J2W.300.O0') camo from rustonw collection-, 272,600,00' from Internal revenue and 'SS6.523.0i') from miscellaneous .sources. The secretary of the treasury In his report to Congress estimated the receipts for the year at $45,-C).-y. classified thus: Customs, $1,OOU,000; internal revenue, JJ7),CO(,000 mlsccllantou?, $20.CO,C0). An enlarged volume of imports and a closer administration of the appraiser's oftlco at New York accounts for the Increase in custoirus receipts, and the receipt of $12,000"jO in partial payment of tho Central Pacific's indebtedness for tho increase u der the head of "miscellaneous. Internal revenue receipts are only slightly in excess of estimates. The expenditures for the year will bo wry close to $tf03,O0O,O00 and the d licit about $,5h,00v. or $:Tr,500,u0T) less than Mr. Cage's ctimut s. It Is due to say, however, that the secretary's estimates were ba?ed on the theory that tho military expenditure mteht be kept on a war footing to the end of the year. It was deemed best to maku provision in the budget for high pressure expenditures in that quarter. Tho figures for April, May and June show a fallii.g off of about J13.000.0nG In the army and. $500, a0 in the navy. The navy ii now Lack to about normal. No further contraction In army expenditure.-; is looked for. Indeed, It will be safe to count on an increase in that direction on at count of tho ca'.l for more Hoops. Tho army cost 0j0.Ou) and the navy $M,70C.CjO fcr the year, a total of J23S.7W,W against 5!5O.30O.X for the fiscal year A con siderable part of the $50,0u),000 defense fund voted by Conr-rreHS had been expended prior tt the COth of June, 1SDS, and appears in tho record of last year. Previous to the irpanlsh-wAmcrli-un war the normal cost of maintaining the army anil navy was $o,i, (mm). The foregoing figures do not Include the business of the Pu;oHlce Department, which runu about $105.'0-.0"j this year. The first orders were Issued to-day for rt-cruiting tho troops under the clause authorizing the enlistment of 35,0X men. The order contemplates enlisting men for th thrc skeleton regiments in the Philippine. Kcrruitins officers here have been instructed to recruit men with this understanding. The sltintion in the Philippines was discussed at the Cabinet meeting to-day and general satisfaction va;i expressed In th? administration's plana fur thr reinforcement of General Otis, which, contemplate the rconuiliitr cf active operations on a larcr scale when the rainy season closes Sept. 15. Secretary Alger reported tiiat enlistments were coming uf to expectations. "With :i view to officering tho regin;ent.i raised under the volunteer provisions 'of the army bill, the records of the officers cf the volunteer organizations which saw :ervico in Cuba and Porto Rico and which ::re now serving In the Philippines arc being carefully examined in order that recognition rray be given to such of thcrn as may de

sire to re-enter or continue in the service according t- their abiity and merit. Some T of the meritorious noncommissioned officers r may also be recognized. State lines are to be 1',-aored. Some regular officer? are also lo conunissioned as volunteer officers. The President ha been deluged with appli1 rations for commissions. Almost every ccnV gres-iDr.al caller has one orpore applicants r whom ho presses on the iiVsident'a atteiI tion. The President requests all his visitors If to rite their applications with Adjutant Gencrai Corbin. At the same time he makes it f clear in a general way that the policy of th administration in granting commissions I will oo to give preference to volunteer offip ccrs Tao shewed ability and who performed

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ports Zealandia, Sheridan. Valencia ana Pennsylvania, and include tifty-nine officers hi1 C4!t enlisted men. About half of the trcops aro recruits intended to fill gaps in the regiments in the Philippines caused by dath;-. disabilities and discharges. There arft about 3.000 recruits at San Francisco which are aLo intended tr rc-eruit the regular regiment-s in the Philippines up to their 'maximum strength of liS men to a company, including the Nineteenth Infantry, under orders for Manila and treops at San Fran-:i-ro. there are -i.wo ready to etart for Manila a.s soon transportation can be provided. The War Department is awaiting advices from General Otis before proceeding irtlvrly with the enlistments of volunteers .ndcr tho recent decision of tha admlnlstra- . A.

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has given General Otis to understand that he is to have all the men necessary In the conduct of the operations apalnst the insurgents. General Otis has been told this in ?o many words, the President having said to him in. effect that if he OtIs) did not have enough men it was his own fault. The President also realizes that tho better the men are eared for and their health preserved the more capable they will he of doing effective work and before the rainy sa?on began Oeneral Otis was instructed to prepare for it and In various ways was Rivn to urulerfrtand the President's elfplro that the soldiers ?houM bo well cared for and well fed." Gen, Leonard Wood was in Washington to-day. He camo at the request of the officials of the War Department to confer with the President and secretary of war regarding the situation in the Islands and to dlscu?a with them hii-futuro plans. General Wcod expects to leave for Santiago either to-morrow or the day following, ll.c has declined absolutely the offer made to become president of the Washington Traction and Electric Company, and will remain In the army. The; President and the secretary of war want him to remain In Smtlago, where he has been so successful. Some jlmo ago (leneral Wood sought service in the Philippines, but it was then, believed, as it is now, that his Services could not be spared in Cuba. General Wood, in talking of the conditions existing in Cuba, said that what the people there need was good schools, good sanitation in the cities and the enforcement of United States laws. General Wood says his advices from Santiago are such as to convince him that there will be no feiious outbreak of yellow fever. He says there has always been yellow fever there, and in some of the low dives It will be Impossible to prevent infection, but be

thinks it will not be serious, as the best of precautions have been taken by the United States authorities At the Cabinet meeting to-day a petition was read from Cuban planters requesting the abolition of the duty on breeding cattle. Although the duty Is only 51 per head, the request will probably be granted. In Porto Rico Secretary Alger reported that some of the planters were being considerably embarrassed owing to a provision of the old Spanish law which reserved twenty feet along tho coast all around the Island. This Intercferes with the plans of some of the planters for building piers. The negotiations in London looking to the arrangement of a modus vivendl llxlng the Alaskan boundary have again nearly reached a crisis. The several conferences that have taken place recently between Lord Salisbury and Ambassador Choate have been signally disappointing in results. At moments it appears that, a basis of under standing having, as It was thought, been reached, the details could be easily arranged, but it now turns out that these very details cannot be agreed on without tho sacrifice of the interests of many American miners, mainly those who were driven out of the Atlin district by the severe and discrlminat ing laws enacted by tho Legislature of Brit Ish Columbia, and this tho State Department is determined not to sanction. The United States ambassador has come to the end of tho concessions he is authorized to offer. and therefore the prospect of .a successful outcome of the negotiations is rather de pressing. Meanwhile nothing is said on either sido of a reconvention of the present high joint commission at Quebec, although the date set for the meeting at th-j last adjournment i r;i;!dl approaching. . Nothing is known here of the reported postponement of the meeting of the joint high commission from Aug. 2 until October. Neither the State Department nor the American commissioners aro party to the post ponement, though it Is not doubted the meet ing cannot take place on the date originally set, if at all, unless the modus is arranged meantime. Mrs. McKinley continues to Improve slowly, and to-day she received General and Mrs. Wcod. General Wood was Mrs. McKinley's physician before the Spanish-American war. There Is no truth in the stories that Mrs. McKinley is seriously 111 and that the President has abandoned all h!a summer plans In consequence. Lewis Shields, .son of John Shields, of Muneie. has been appointed a clerk and stenographer to Frank Dice, rural free delivery agent, at $l,On) per annum and expenses. Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day as follows: Goldsmith, Tipton county, Delia Green, vice Klisha Green, dead; Kigdon, Grant county, William H. Marklc, vice John M. Day, resigned; Weathers, Crawford county. W. N. lllackman. vice Julius F. Scott, resigned. The amQjnt of subscriptions to the Dewey home fund received to-day was T, making a total to date cf Jll.StTT. BATTLE IS IMMINENT FiLirjso i.NsriuircxTs active all AIIOL'M) SAX I'r.UNAXDO. Mrcncthonlnc Their Trenches and Preparing: for a Fight with AmcrcnnM Latter on the Alert MANILA, July 1, 10:10 a. m. A collision between the two armies at San Fernando fteems inevitable soon. The insurgents are active all around tho town and can be seen working In the trenches to strengthen their position. Day and night forces arc at work. It is estimated that 3,000 men were peen marching in the road north of town yesterday morning. The Americans turned out and manned the defenses expected an attack. The soldiers sleep in their clothes and breakfast at 4 o'clock in the morning so as to be ready for another daybreak assault. The commission of three Spanish officers who entered the Insurgent lines a fortnight ago to make a final attempt to arrange for the reload of the Spanish prisoners have not returned. Their long absence has occasioned alarm, but reports come, to Manila that they were received by Agulnaldo at Tralac and entertained hospitably. It Is said that Agulnaldo gave a bancjuct In their henor, all thj lcadlnK families of the rebel leaders being present and tho Cabinet attending, hence tho Spaniards in Manila hope that the mission of the commissioners will be successful. General Ovcnshinc is In the hospital, suffering with fever. General Gront is comrrandins his troops on the south line. 159 Mlnnesotan III. ST. PAUL, linn., June 3d.Governor Lind to-day received , from Lieutenant Colonel Frlederich, atManlla, a cablegram Mating that the efrectJy e sircngin 01 inc ininrvum rtesimcnt. Miryicsota Volunteers, was 0.0. Of tho t-ii m-.-iberahlp 1C0 men were sick. The regiment was doing " - rrilroad. There is no

iREYFUS HOME

FAMOIS DEVIL'S ISLAND PHISONEIt LANDED OX FRE3CII SOIL. V! r 1 1 n n rr of nn Army of fmpiir Men SorceMfullr Evaded by the Authorities at Brent. PUT ASHORE AT QUIB0R0N AXD HURRIEDLY TAKEN BV RAILWAY TRAIN TO REXNES. Lnme Crowd "Witneed Ills Arrival ut the Conrt-Mnrtlnl Town, but There Wa Xo Disorder CONCESSION TO SOCIALISTS 310 Itn CONCILIATORY POLICY ADOPTED BY THE BELGIAN PREMIER. Subsidence of the Demonstrations at Brussels Twenty Itullnn Deputies Injured In a Free Fight. RENNES, France, July 1, 5 a. m. Captain Dreyfus landed at Quiboron and was conveyed by train to Brux, twelve kilometers from Renne?. There he entered a landau, accompanied by chiefs of detectives and of the prefect department, and was driven to Rennes, where twenty-live gendarmes waited his entrance into tho town. Ten of the gendarmes enlered a wagon and followed the carriage. The rest followed on foot. The party arrived at the prison without Incident. A large crowd assembled and witnessed the arrival In silence and without manifestation. PARIS. July 1. It is persistently rumored hero that Captain Dreyfus landed last evening from the cruiser Sfax, Capt. Cofflnieres de Nordecke, at l'Orlent, and immediately proceeded for Rennet. As tho telegraph ofilces arc closed, it is impossible to verify this report. It is also said the government had advices from the Azores, when the Sfax passed Fayal, that tho health of Dreyfus was precarious. This is said in some quarters to explain the anxiety to prevent the public seeing him. The Parisian publio is rather listless about his arrival; and there H no excitement at Itennes, where torrents of rain are falling, although the railway station th?re is full of reporters awaiting the coming of the famous prisoner. A dispatch rcohed at Brest from Itennes last night said the police were taking up positions around the railway station theie, und that everything indicated that Captain Dreyfus was already en route. It was re ported that he would reach Rennes at 4 o'clock Saturday morning. The same disp.itch also said that it was not known at Brest where the landing was effected. The weather was veiy heavy and it wag impossible to see yards from the shore along the coast Ir the vicinity of Brest, in consequence of the rain and dense mist. Excitement was at fever heat last evening when It was reported that the cruiser Sfax had already entered the harbor and wad lying oft the arsenal. Scores of journalists immediately put off in boats to investigate, but they failed to find tho warship. PEACE AT I1RLSSEL5, IlelKlnu Premier Forced to Make Conregions to Socialists. BRUSSELS, June Cu. At the opening of tho Chamber of Deputies to-day a motion v.as introduced amending the rules so as to allow the expulsion of any deputy causing a disturbance. The Socialists vigorously protested and violently anathematized the movers. M. De la Nanthcere, Rightist, defended tho proposal and delivered a caustic Indictment of the Socialists, who interrupted him by whistling, hooting and banging their desks. When quiet was restored tho Socialists drew moving piciurcs of the victims of the repression lying wounded in the hospitals, and demanded tx know who was responsible for such "unjustifiable horrors." The premier replied: ''It is I who caused tho strength of tho gendarmerie to be increased, on legal requisitions made before the repression commenced." This statement drew forth a storm of invectives and Socialist cries of "murderer." Subsequently several of the deputies appealed to the government to be conciliatory, whereupon the premier expressed the strongest desire for conciliation and si.id he was prepared to seek to that end. The statement was greeted with applause. In the midst of which the session was ended. The Socialists left tho house together, and M. Vandervelde, after receiviug permission of the police, addressed the crowd outside, Informing them of the ministerial statement and exhorting the people to calmness. The Socialist deputies were warmly cheered by the crod. It is believed the premier's declaration will appease the public. During the night stcnes were hurled at the windows of the premier's residence, the porter of which was hurt, and blood was smeared en the pavement in front of the house. Mobs controlled the streets till 2 a. m. The gendarmes charged the rioters several times and llnaliy fired ball cartridges. Ono rioter was bayoneted and two reporters were seriously injured. Saucepans and other domestic Implements were thrown from windows during tho night at tho troops. The Garette says one hundred persons have been injured during the rioting and that of this number eight were seriously wounded. At a meeting this evening convened by M. Van der Velde, the Abbe Daens, Christian Democrat, congratulated the Socialists on the success they had achieved and predicted the advent of universal suffrage. Two thousand persons accompanied the speaker to a train, singing the "Marsellalse." In view of the pacific declarations in the chamber that public meetings are now permitted the Liberal and Socialist newspapers declare that the government has capitulated. About 10 o'clock this evening a great Socialist procession." headed, by the Socialist deputies, paraded the streets, singing and ehoutlng.V When the Gitmde place was reached the demonstrators cheered Burgomaster Buls, who exhorted them to remain orderly. No excesses were, committed. LONDON, July 1. Th&'vBrurzels correspondent of tho Dally Zievrs "It r te regarded as certain that r.'rr.v" wculd have brc!:cn cut if tr-j :;

The electoral bill Is virtually withdrawn. It is estimated that no fewer than one hundred persons have been wounded in tha rlotlngs. VIENNA, June 20. King Leopold f?nt a reassuring telegram to-night to his daughter, Archduchess Stephanie of Au5tria, regarding the political ' situation in Belgium. FIGHT IX ITALIAN DEPITIES.

(Mer Twenty Member Injured In n I!ov lii the Chamber. ROME. JitueS). In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the Socialists and extreme LfU i.t recommenced their obstructive tactics and created an immense uproar. The president of the houso combated the efforts of the obstructlonlsts'and finally the deputies left their scat?, crowded on the floor and tlere was such an uproar that the sitting was suspended. When it was resumed similar tactics were carried on by extreme Leftists, who crowded the floor. The tumult was deafening and eventually a free fight ensued and tha sitting was again suspended. A recret ballot having been ordered on certain bills, the Socialists rushed down to prevent it. Signer Scnnlo advanced first to register his vote but the Socialist deputy, Signor Bissolati dalt him a violent blow near the temple. Signor Sonnlo then seized him by the throat and coat collar and threw him down, receiving himself In the meantime numerous blows from the other Socialists who took pirt In the affray. While this tussle was in progress hand to hand combats were waging all around, and the Conservatives, SIgnors Santlnl and Bertolinl, used their fiMs upon the Socialists with great effect. , Signor Costa, Socialist, with his sleeves turned up, dealt blows right and left. Count Ferrucclo Macola, proprietor of the Gazetta dl Vcnezia, who, in his duel In March of last year, killed Signor Cavallottl, the poet and publicist, attacked Signor Di Felice, whose frieDdr cried "Beware of the murderer." General Polleoux, palo and stupefied, remained standing. lie was on the point of being attacked when Admiral Bettolo raised a chair and defended him. The galleries Joined in the uproar with wild cries and wcro. cleared. Signor Chinaglia, tho president of the Chamber, suspended the sitting. When the combatants were separated. Signer Sonnio persuaded the president to tesume the proceedings if only, as he put it, to afford "incontestiblc proofs of socialist violence." The secret ballot was again called for, with the result that there was a repetition of the disorder and fighting, together with an exchange of the hithiest insult?. It is rumored late this evening that the government has ordered the arrest and trial of tho four deputies who removed the urns. The Chamber being closed, parliamentary Immunity will cover theso Socialists after three weeks. At a later session of the Chamber, despite the entreaties of the president, who begged the deputies to be calm and to proceed to a vet, the uproar was redoubled, members flocking to the floor In front of the president's chair and finally upsetting the ballot boxes. The president thereupon adjourned the house until to-morrow. A Cabinet council was held this evening after which General Pelloux, the premier, conferred with King Humbert, who signed a decree closing Parliament. LONDON, July 1. The Rome correspondent of the Dally Mall says: "The Chamber of Deputies to-day (Friday) was transformed mto a vestal-!; battlefield. The tumult was terrific. More than twenty deputies were Injured la the struggle, Including Baron Sonnino. who was serlot'iy hurt. Baron Sonnino is the leader of the majority and the probable future premier. Tho Chamber will now be closed until November.0 PACED BY A LOCOMOTIVE CYCLER CIIAHI.ES M. MtlirilY RIDES A MILE IN r,7 4-r SECONDS. AVonderfnl Fent on Ronrd Trnek Laid llctvtcen the Rolls In Wtnk C011Jltlon nt the Close. NEW YORK, June 30. Charles M. Murphy, of the Kings County Wheelmen, rode a mile on a blcyclo, paced by a locomotive, in 37 4-5 seconds to-day. His course was a two-mllo board track on a siding of tho Deng Island Railroad. Murphy followed an engine and a day coach, theiatter being provided with a hood, which acted as a wind shield for the rider. The board track was laid near Maywood. I I., and extended from that station two miles east, and was as nearly perfect to a level as skill could mako it. Fully 2,000 people saw Murphy make his daring ride. Engineer Sam Booth had his hand on the throttle of Engine 71 when the word was given to start, ten minutes past 3 o'clock. The cngino started at a rapid rate, and before four hundred yards had been traversed was running at a rate of more than fifty miles an hour. Murphy was keeping well within the hood. As they neared the beginning of the mile stretch the pace was a mile a minute, and a cloud of dust obscured the rider from the view of the spectators, who lined the banks on either side. Entering on the epace which would test his speed, Murphy, in reply to a query, shouted, "I'm all right; send her along." but there was no necessity for his remarks .-egarding speed, as the engineer was sending the big steam flyer along at top speed. The quarter was reached in fifteen seconds and the half in 23 2-5. The timers for the three-quarters were Messrs. Bieges. and Stoll, the former registering 44 and the latter 414-3. At the finish two of the watches showed f.7 4-3, one 37 3-3 and another 58 and the fifth iT;. which was held by Sheriff Creamer. The timers agreed that Murphy had covered the distance In 57 4-3 seconds. Those on the back platform who watched Murphy all through his wonderful ride stated that the rider's handle bar had knocked against the rubber buffer at least six times, and each time the concussion sent him back fully six feet, but Murphy always had strength enough to regain this distance. During the last quarter of a mile tho rider covered the ground for the greater i part fully a wheel's length outside of the hood, but as he passed the finish he was close up. Just then two strong men on board the train reached down and seized the rider by either arm and lifted him aboard the car In safety. Their action "undoubtedly saved Murphy's life, because he was then in such a weak condition that had he been allowed to remain on the wheel he would hve been unable to control it, and a serious if not fatal accident might have happened. t ; ; ' Murphy was carried to the front part of the tar and laid on a cot. where a physician administered to him, andln less than five minutes' the cyclist was able- to converse with thrs around him. Murphy seemed dazed at first, and said in answer to queries as to why he fell hack so many times: "I did that so that I might not come In contact with the planks, which were being torn up in front of me." IUer on. however, he dli not refer to this,-but raid continually: "Boys. I've alt my felt that I could do tr. Nor that I hare drr.s it I am satisf r nr. n cr-i rz.y .ctr-.trs. C?fcre tha tr : 1 i, I i i .urr-by h-d ro

MINERS SHOOT

FIRE IXTO A TnAIV LOADKD "WITH COLORED NOXl.MOMSTS. Kill a Womnn Who Wan with n Tarty of Coal Dlesern Employed to Work. in Pits Ncnr Cartervillc, 111. PANA RID OF BLACK MINERS MORE EX ROUTE TO EVAXSVILLE TO TAKE STRIKERS' PLACES. ConncHuien of the Pocket City En dcavorlnjc to Adjust the Mine Troubles by Arbitration. SHUT-DOWN OF MANY PLANTS E3IPLOYES OF NEARLY ALL IRON, STEEL AND TIN PLANTS IDLE. Failure to Slrn the Scale Throws. SO,. OOO 3Ien Temporarily Out of WorkStrike nt the Homestead 91111s. MURPHYSBOUO, 111., June 30.-At 3 o'clock this morning Conductor William Bryan's train on the Johnson City branch of- tho Illinois Central, bearing forty-seven negro miners from Pana, was shot Into by a crowd of miners at Lawder, in Williamson county. One negro woman was killed by a bullet through her heart. The negroes were brought by Samuel T. Brush, superintendent of the St. Louis and Big Muddy mines, near Carterville, to work in his mine, where there is now a strike. The miners', tllty in number, were armed with rifles and were hidden in the grass behind the country depot. When the train stopped the leader, who was an Italian, got on the platform and commanded the negroes to set out. Conductor Bryan interfered, but was stopped by a revolver being held before his face. The train began to move and the miners poured in their fire. Conductor Bryan yelled to the ncgroe3 to throw themselves on the floor. All escaped serious wounds except the woman, who was killed instantly. Half a mile further the negroes were unloaded and placed under charge of guards. They were then marched to the mine. Intense excitement prevails at tho Carterville coal field and bloody riots are expected as the feeling has been Intense for weeks. Few Negroes Left nt Pnnn. PANA. 111., June CO. Sheriff Downey and his chief deputy, Doyle, ariived from Taylorville this morning to make, an investigation cf the condition of affsdrk Jn the miners strike situation. The sheriff conferred with Mayor Corman and other officials. Sheriff Downey offered aid to local officers and assisted many blacks who were without funds and houses, also, giving them food to supply their wants on their homeward journey. Forty-six negoes departed to-day for Oskaloosa, la., thirty for Evansville, Ind., fifty for Huntsville and Moberly, Mo., and sixty-five to-night for Alabama and Tennessee. At the union station they refused to bid farewell to the operators and sympathizer?, but, on the contrary,. grasped the hands of Sheriff Downey, his deputy. Mayor Corman and Chief Kiely, as well as those of all union miners' officials, and with professions of gratitude bade them farewell with the expression: "We will never forget you people for your kindness to us." There are only twelve blacks remaining, and they will leave for Birmingham to-morrow. Many of their sympathizers are leaving with them. It is reported that all the mines will be reopened within tho next month with union labor. New Scale In Missouri. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 30. The report comes from Bevier to-night that the troubles of the union coal miners and the "friendly operators' throughout Missouri have been settled by the adoption of a new scale, with an agreement for an elghfhour day and for arbitration of differences which may arise in future. The. new scale Is on a mine-run basis and provides for T5 cents a ton at Bevier, liuntvllle and Rich Hill, SO cents at HIgbee and Elliott, 8fi cents at Vandalia, il cents at Richmond and Lexington and $1 at Marceline. The Kansas and Texas Coal Company, which has mines at Bevier, is not included in the settlement,' and the union will continue the fight against this and three other big companies operating in Missouri, Kansas and Indian Territory. The "Big Four" companies continue to import negroes to operate their mines. Another tralnload of negroes arrived at Bevier today and another tralnload was brought into Tower City. The negroes came from Pana, 111. Evansville Council Takes Action. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 3). Prominent business men took hold of the miners strike situation and spent considerable time this afternoon trying to get the warring factions together, but failed because the operators would not consent. The City Council met and spent three hours to-night trying to formulate a basis for arbitration. The miners consented to allow the Council to proceed, and National Committeeman Dilcher, against whom, the operators havo a prejudice, will retire to the background and let President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, represent the strikers. The operators will give an answer to-morrow. The operators are quietly Importing miners here and will try to start their mines .with nonunion labor. Fifty negroes arrived from Pana this morning. The strike thus far has cost more than J30.000 In wages. r ; STRIKE AT HOMESTEAD. Employes Dismissed for Joining: the Amalgamated Association. PITTSBURG. June CO. The. Post to-morrow will say: "A strike was inaugurated at the Homestead steel works to-day which may rival the famous battlo between capital and labor which was fought on that famous spot seven years ago. The dischargb of fifteen men at the plant during the past three weeks Is at tho bottom of the trouble. Thei5 men wcro dismissed because of their affiliation with tho newly-formed lodge of tha Amalgamated Association. The strike, of whatever proportions it may be, was precipitated to-day, when a committee of nlno men. who sought the reinstatement of tho discharged men, were also discharged for tha r-arae reason. Cui.-rimendenr Corey Ir.fcrmtd Ewrta itizl no crr:ur;J rtn ttcu!.! t5 r: V ) C I. r

w as decided to stand by the organization and in the event of tho discharge of any o2 their members all would strike. When the nine men were discharged to-day they were not permitted to return to the mill and the walk-out was not immediately carried out, but eventually one of the men gained aecc?s to the workmen, with the result late to-night (.ifcordins to the prc5ident of the Amalgamated Association at Homestead. that two thousand men have quit and nil departments ore more or le.s crippled. 'And by noon to-morrow, said the president, 'the big works will be closed as tight s in 1M2. Tho fkillei men are nil organized, he continued, 'and the laborers arc entirely in sympathy with the movement. There are four thousand men employed in the big works and the company says there are only about 2 or coo of them wh) are skilled In tho usual acceptance of that term." OVER 50,000 MUX IDLE.

Shut-Dorr ti of Nearly All Iron, Steel nnd TIn-rinte Plants. PITTSBURG. June CO. The last day of the scale year of the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers ended at midnight. While definite figures cannot be given to-night as to how many men will be idle to-morrow, it is known that more than 30,000 of them will be forced to quit work, temporarily, at least. Secretary. John Williams, of the Amalgamated Association, however, gave it as his opinion to-n'ght tha. a settlement would be reached in the near future. There is no animosity, and both sides seem to be in favor of coming to an agreement. Subordinate lodges of the Amalgamated Association are taking a vote on the proposition from the manufacturers, granting an advance of less than 20 per cent., while the new scale calls for an advance of 25 percent. As soon as the returns are in a conference will be held. Up to midnight six firms had signed the new scale and work will be continued at their plants. The firms signing are: The Lcckhart Iron and Steel Company; How, Brown & Co.; Wayne iron works; Zug & Co.; Kittanning Iron and Steel Company and Keystone rolling mill. All plants under the jurisdiction of the American Steel Hoop Company and the Republic Steel Company began work at midnight under the new scale. Secretary John Jarrctt, of the Association of Iron and Steel Sheet Manufacturers, tcday signed the sheet mill scale for all the firms afhiiated with the association. This scale calls for an advance of il per cent, for tonnagemen and 13 per cent, for day hands. This scale affects about 23,000 skilled workers and a similar number of unskilled workers in different parts of the country. At the Oliver iron mill and Jones & Laughlin's pLant scales independent of the organization have been presented, and while the men are not organised at these plants, they expect to receive the same as tho Amalgamated scale calls for. An answer is to be given them to-morrow. All of the tin-plate plants throughout the country under the jurisdiction cl the tinplate trust chut down at midnight and will remain closed until an agreement on tho wage scale is arrived at. This alone will throw out of employment about 50,00 men. At Etna the Spang, Chalfant & Oo. men struck at midnight, claiming they would not return until the scale is signed. This mill, with the Morehead Brost & Co. pljiht at Sharpsburg, where negroes were substituted for white men two days ago, are expected to be battlefields, and a crisis will probably be reached to-morrow or Monday. As to i.he report thut it is probable agents will bo sent across the Atlantic to secure workmen, the labor leaders say manufacturers would be foolish to import workmen of whose capabilities they know nothing. It has been proven, they say, that the European mechanic cannot compete with the American, and Just at this time the manufacturers cannot afford to experiment. The workmen in general assert that they were never In a better condition to suspend. Their organization is in a good condition financially, and work can be procured for the asking. They seem unanimous in their demand and have no fear for the future. The Shnt-Down at Montpelier. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELIER, Ind.. June CO. To-night at 12 o'clock the employes of the Montpelier plant of tho American tin plate works walked out and the big mill was shut down pending a settlement of the tcale. There are only four plants In the country not In the trust. They aro located at Dcmmlcr and Harrisburg Pa., St. Louis. Mo., and Cleveland, O. Signed at Iljy View. MILWAUKEE, Wis., June CO. The scale of wages as adopted by the Amalgamated Association at Its national convention was presented to Superintendent Reis, of the Bay View plant of the Illinois Steel Company, to-day, and was signed by him. The scale provides for an increase of 23 per cent, to 500 men. The dan City Shut-Down. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., June 30. The tin-plate 'factory at Gas City closed to-night until the difference on the wage scale Is settled. The tinning department will run for about a week, or until the plate has been exhausted. There are at present about five hundred employes at the Gas City mill. . . . . WALKOUT POSTPONED. PackinK-IIoiiMC Employes May Not Quit In n Body To-Day. CHICAGO. June . The Chicago Packing and Provision Company o-lay shut dow.n, announcing that It woulJ not attempt to operate Its packing house until the strike was over. Practically all the other packing houses were in the market to-day buying hogs for packing purposes, and but few evidences of- a strike were apparent at the yards. A general walk-out of the packing-house employes, which was contemplated for tomorrow unless a general adjustment ef the wage question was had with the piekers. will not take place for a few day If at alL Several secret mectlng3 were held ly tie strikers to-day to discuss the advisability of taking action looking toward a general strike. It was the generally expressed opinion that if the order for a walk-out were postponed for a few days the chances fcr success would be much better, as in tho meantime an organization could be perfected. Many of the employes stxongly argued against any further extension of the strike at the present time. Leaders of the strike are. however, organizing their forces and if the attempt is cuccessful a general, tie-up of the packing houses will be brought about A mass meeting of stockyards laborers will be held Sunday afternoon. Arrangements have been made to secure the attendance of speakers representing the. Building Trades Council, and in this way unions will be formed among the discontented workmen.- The strikers eay the whole success of their movement dpends upon the mass meeting Sunday afternoon. If the demonstration is well attended and a large organization is perfected, the rtrikers claim they can close every packing house in the district, thereby forcing the proprietors to grant the desired incre&re ia pay. Vct TenC ;ryc. - J in th?

FAILURES FEW1

,S3U FOR MX MONTHS AGAINST C'Al SA3IE PC11IOO LAST 1 EAR. Llabllltlea hat 1 R.7 1 1 .OOO. (omrfd. trlth f7J.S10.7KT for the First J Six Months of ISPS.' TWO BOOMING INDUSTRIES' DE.MAND FOR inON AND STEEL SEEM- , 1NCLY WITHOUT LIMIT. Orders fcr Roots and Mine l.nrpe, anil Shipment from tbe Ft TOreak lnp All Previous Records. GENERAL . BUSINESS GOOD VOLVME fiF EATER THAN EVER AND PRICES STILL ADVANCING. Shipments of American Manufacrnrra Abroad Now Over One-Third of Total Domestic Exports NEW TORK. June CO.-R. G. Dun & Co.s weekly review of trade wlit say to-morrow; Failures for the second quarter of 1W have been 2,00 in number, against 2A" last year, with liabilities of JSO..OH against last year, and for the first half of 1K-0 failure were 4,2, against last year, with liabilities of StS.Tll.uoO, against ;71,24tJ,TS3 last year. Nearly half of the Juno liabilities are due to one failure, not strictly commercial, covering some banking concerns, a promoter and a railway equipment company, for 13,1C6,, In essential features a loan and truit concern. With it banking failures amount to $X4:;G,ooo for thj half year, leaving for commercial failures 27o,0C3, against $67,4Mf63 last year. Manu facturing were 1i3,0o0.C00 for the half year, against $30,709,144 last year, and trading were $23,000,000, against fOJo.OJ last year. The demand for Iron and steel seems to have no limit. Scarcity of pig ijas raised the price $1 a ton for local coke at Chicago, ll.lo, to $19.75, for bessemer at Pittsburg and $1.73, o $17.75, for gray forge, and 75 cents, to $l3.2-, for anthracite No. 1 at Philadelphia, with fcome iron selling at these quotations at all points for early delivery. Efforts to get foreign contracts out of the way are met by fresh orders from, Europe at last week's prices. Some furnaces have started with contracts for their whole year's product, but others are yet delayed. Prices of pi average higher than at any other time sin." February lSO. end prices of finished products .higher than since March. 1S91. Lillet are hardly obtainable, bar and plate orders are refused quite largely because works ire overcrowded, sheet mills havo much stronger demand at the West, but less at the Eat, and structural works report 26,000 tons required in two new Eastern contracts. Tho continuing demand, in spile of raisins prices, astonh.hta everybody. Cok ovens 17,45?. at work put out for the week 1SI,K72 tons, the heaviest week's work ever known at Connellsville. Tin is stronger at 2 cents and copper nt IS cents for lake, but lead is dull, with hope of an end to the Colorado strike. Another industry passes all records loot and shoe shipments from the East. 4X.bl3 cases, exceeding those in any other month cf any year for four weeks, and the demands for speedy delivery show enormous distribution in all directions. New order are lare und several months ahead. Wool sales of S,173,KJ pounds, of which 2,S5,!XK) were domestic, reveal a speculation scarcely less obtrusive than in XKu when il(!i7,(00 pounds were sold in the hum-i weeks, against 23,7CS. in 112, when the mills were well employed. Cotton mills arc doing well in spite of the fall In cotton, as the demand gives them enough to do ut current prices. Wheat receipts at the West In four weeks have been 2LWL53S bushels, agalmst 41J1.C:S last year, and Western receipts in . Juno have ranged between S.7&4.528 bushels in lVt r.nd S.CCl.rTS In 1KG. Beyond question tho farmers and the speculators and elevator owners in farming regions believe that about SO cents here is as much as the ol old IVCl wheat will fetch, although extorts ha been for four weeks S.SW.SCS burhH from Atlantic ports, against J5.OI2.ftS7 last year, nnd 2.445.71: from Pacific ports, against l,2),7Cfl list year. It is not surprising that with such receipts the price has dropptd IV2 cents, ard corn also X 11 2 cents with exports in four we ks of lltVSM bushels, against 127o,703 last year. ' Failures for the week have been 1S1 In the United States, against 251 last year, and 22 In Can;d, against 15 last year. tilAi'llAL Tit AlJE. 3lor Business In First Half of lfrOO than 1" vr r Trannuctrd In Sn me Time. NEW YORK, Juno CO. Bradtrect's tomorrow will says: Though reasonably quieter in many lines, the strength cf thu general buslnc- situation remains apparently unabated, and the half year closes with tlw commercial and linanclal e-ommu-nity contemplating very satisfactory returns in tho recent past and manifesting a tc.no of cheerful confidence regarding th outlook for the la?t half of 1W. In the volume of business done tho it half of 15". 3 will certainly rank higher than the lxs hitherto experienced and the netib,'rL V rvq prices which was such a Latun.- of the pa t spring has done much to r ccirciU trud r to thu admittedly narrow mariius f no'ts which modern business opetaiions tend toward making ierraanent. -( Touching thi mattcr.it mUht 1 Kd th.st staplo prices to-day are in a rrvijority of instance? well above ;iotatlons ruling: for norae yearn ;pit. ih general level, in fact, King iY highest since early in 15PT. In sorno Instance, of cours?, notably in iron and steel, iecent advances have brought the l vel f prires well above anything reported since rOC,tihugh It ir to be remirkM that much ! th buincss done in that industry" this spring at old levels, the most sanguine tbservets In this line having failed to accurately giuga tht real proportions of the late d ivance. That the transportation Interests l-ava shared to a large degree- In tic li:V.nes;s resulting from -several years of large cropa and active demand is proved by the current good returns, the best prol-itly rttrted far this yeur cr.l ."..'.Ir;.!!: t r r''-'rr :. naln ovfr ell rr:, - r ' rAhs. r.-tT.-:: ' r

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