Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1894 — Page 1

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jRIoting and Bloodshed in the Coke Region. Property Being Destroyed by the Strikers. TEN THOUSAND MEN OUT And Many Turbulent Scene Being Witnessed. i Btriker3 Attack Workmen and Many Are Injured. t'hr Situation at Chicago Vfrjr Serlna HnndrriU nt Laboring Men Lrarc Their Pnt ami the I'mplnver AMU t'et Kven hy Locking Unt he IleM The On I look. ot I'.n-ronrnKlnK-T:MO.N70YN. Pa.. April C The ftorm has broken. aM the semes, of l!U are being repeated throughout the fcoke region tonight. The big coke strike, With ;ill of if attendant rioting' ami dstructiort of property, is now in full force. This mormr.g th ctil of the Scottdale Convent ?on was obeyed by more than half the works i.i the cuke field, and it look fully ä.Ooü nv.i from their work. The situation is now one of great Jeril throughout he coke section, and mere destructive outbreaks are expected &t any time. The Scottdale convention, e '"cording to official rert.. did not declare for making the light general until Efter noori. Yet the announcement of the order has swept over this region like fire, and thre are few if any works, however isolated or remote, at which the news is not now known. The sum an! substance of the opinions Crf both operators and employes tonight Is that there will be no ovens burning fry tomorrow night in all the coke region, and as It has been said, "Wednesday T ill see the air as clear in this country bs it was before any coke -was burned b-re." The ranks of the strikers have beer, to reinforced this afternoon that tonight the lowest estimates give them 10,000 men. From the outset the strike has t-een turbulent, with a tendency to open defiance of law. There was rioting in several quarters last night. It 'has grown steadily worse, and today there were more serious outbreaks In this end rf the Meld. The men of the Oliver works left 1,500 tons of coke burning' up In the ovens. The company, to save the property, attempted to put some men to work drawing the coks, when the strikers made a, ferocious attack on them with stones and club?, driving thorn from the grounds. In the melee several men were badly hurt. The Oliver people have telegraphed the deputies and the wirks will be guarded after tonight. The coke will be drawn under protection of the sheriff. The greatest outbreak was at the famous Hill Farm mines near here. This morning about four hundred foreigners from Morrell and Wheeler of the Cambria iron company armed thempelves with guns, revolvers and clubsand started out to drive the men from the neighboring plants. They first VisLed the Humphrey works, and finding the men at work, drove them away under the muzzles of pistols. One workrrvan chose to stand at his post. He was given one minute to leave by a Hungarian, who covered him with a revolver. After driving the workmen away they continued their march to Anchor, where the workmen offered no opposition and Immediately left the works. The next engagement was at Hill Farm. The men were auietly at work when the mob of Infuriated Huns pounced down upon them, ordering them to leave at once. Some altercations followed, when the rioters enforced their demands by an attack, in which half a dozen workmen were seriously injured. During tne conflict twenty shots were fired. A negro was nearlv brained by a stone and very badly hurt. After all the men had been driven away the rioters began firing the shanties, but delisted at the frantic entreaties of the women and children. Superintendent Long of the Hill Farm had some of the Hungarians arrested for attempting to burn the property. Wild Foreign Klcmrnt Rules. At 11 o'clock it was reported to labor leaders here that the movement now embraces the entire coke region, and rot a plant will be allowed to operate without a struggle. The strikers openly threaten to burn the plants rather than pee them operated at present prices for labor, and if they attempt this loss of life will certainly follow. By tomorrow the strikers will muster 12,000 to 14,000 ment and In their present state of destitution they are reckless. The civil authorities admit tonight that they will not be able to cope with the trouble. There was a big meeting held here toright whih has just closed. The wildest of the wild foreign element Is In virtual command. They openly declared It the purpose of the strikers, as the sense of the meeting, to drive put every man who may want to work. The strikers have been greatly disappointed because of the failure of the national organization to send them aid and encouragement today. There I. as not been a national representative in the region for several days, and it is r aid that organization haa withdrawn Its eupport. 9ERIOIS AT CHICAGO. Fonr Thousand Painters and Iaperhn nicer a to lie Locked Oat. CHICAGO. April 2. Four thousand painters and paper hangers will bs out of work in Chicago tomorrow morning. About four hundred painters struck today. The boea decided to meet this method of partial warfare by a general locbcul wLich will take i-lace tomorravtf

I morning. This will probably draw in ; kindred trades, and the outlook is that It may develop into a general tie-up of all the building trades of the city. Elghteen hundred plumbers struck today. The

plumbing trade is Idle, for almost all the workmen are in the union. The men claim they want $3.7-" a day. Rosses are willing to pay but J3.2"., and want them to buy their furnaces, which cost $7. The men want the bosses to furnish furnaces. "Vote. There is a strike among the weavers of the Montreal wooln mills. The journeymen horseshoers of St. Louis have struck. Three hundred men are out. The weavers in the Hlverside mills at Olneyvllle, R. I., went out in a body. A general strike will follow. The strike in Simpson & Co.'s silk mill at Paterson, N. J., having been settled, the old hands returned to work. The plant and fixtures of the Memphis gas light company were sold at auction to satisfy a second mortgage of $1G0.000. The plant was bid in for 125,000. THE ARKANSAS DERBY. Itnckrene Wins hy a Short Head In n Desperate Klnlh. LITTLK ROCK. Ark.. April 2. The third Arkansas derby was run today. Fully 3.000 people were on the ground. There was lots of money at the track and the people were anxious to place it, but on account of the unsatisfactory prices against the horses the speculation was limited to a comparatively small amount. Sam Adler of St. Louis secured the exclusive booking privileges from the jockey club, and. while there were six stalls in operation, they were nil practically in the same book and there was little competition. It was a per cent, air-tight cinch book. The management of the club has been severely roasted by bookmakers who came here expecting to do business and found themselves excluded by Adler's contract with the dub. The betting public also join in the kick. The Hag fell on the drby to a good start, with Ruokreno slightly In the lead. Followday was second and Tilsit third. All got away pretty well together except ppwh.it ta, who got two lengths the worst of It. At the quarter Huckrene was a length in front of Followday, while John Cooper hid moved up to third place. Turning into the back stretch Cooper challenged Followday and moved into second place. There was no change In the respective positions of the leading horses until the stretch was reached. Here Powhatta, who had been trailing several lengths behind the bun.-h. came up with a rush and joined in the struggle for the leadership. Overton, on Cooper, evidently underestimated Buekrene's sprinting ability and intended to make a close finish. He waited too long, however, and in a desperate finish Ruokrene won by a short head. John Cooper finished four lengths in front of Powhatta. ROUGH AND TUMBLE FIGHT, In Which a Minlter Is tin Active Pnr-tl(-lin nt. FRKEMONT, O., March 30. This city was the scene lacst night of a rough and tumble tight, in which the Rev. G. J. Shackleford of the Protestant episcopal church of this city, was one of the principals. A meeting of the democratic executive committee was being held at the same time that an A. P. A. nutting was in progress across the street. The two meetings adjourned at about the Fame time and Frank O'Farrell. a catholic lawyer, made some uncomplimentary remurk?, which were overheard by Mr. Shackelford, although not Intended for him. He excitedly declared that he would not allow any man to insult him and rushed at O'Farrell. A struggle ensued, and they both went down on the pavement, with O'Farrell on top. Friends Immediately Interfered and the combatants were separated before either had received much injuries. PROMINENT MAN IN TROUBLE. He Is Charged rith Ilubblng n Southern Pacific Train. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. March 20. The preliminary examination of Alva Johnson and Oeorge Smith, who were arretted a few days ago on the charge of having robbed the Southern Pacific train at RoBario on Feb. 13, took place this morning. Johnson is a prominent citizen .owning a large ranch near here and great interest was manifested in the trial. The only significant development was that the description of the wagon and team given by Johnson on the day of the robbery occurred tallied exactly with the description of the wagon used by the robbers to carry away their booty. KEPT IT SECRET And Very Coolly Jeopardised the LlTe of Their Kmployea. LOUISVILLE. Col.. March 30. The Hecla coal mine, the largest in the northern Colorado coal district, is burning fiercely In three or four places. The fire broke out two weeks ago, but was kept from the knowledge of the 150 miners until last night, when an explosion occurred. Now the miners are all out and an attempt will be made to suffocate the fire. BRIDGE FELL ON THEM. Three Workmen Killed and Others Seriously Injnred. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 30. A special to the Republic from Bristol, Tenn., says : "At Radford, Va.. this afternoon, while tearing away an old bridge which connected the east and west wards of the town, the structure fell, carrying down eight of the workmen. Three were killed and five seriously wounded. Contractor Frank O'Connell was among the Injured." PERISH IN THE FLAMES. Plumbers Ilnrned to Death Summer Cottage. In QUINCY, Mass, March 31. Cornelius G. Murphy, aged forty, and Timothy O'Mara, thirty-two. of Boston were burned to death in bed at a summer cottage at Squantum Beach, near this place. They were plumbers and had been at work m the house until late In the evening and decided to stay over night, although they first intended to return to Huston,

HED AT LUST The Tariff Debate Senate Is On. in the Senator Voorhees Making the First Speech. DEFENDS THE INCOME TAX, Vigorously Upholds the Free Wool Feature, And Denounces the Proposed Sugar Bounty. He C'hii rnrtrrlrr the- Infinities of the McKinley System In no Inmlntnkuhle Torrn ilne for the Indiana. Senator nt the Clone of Ills Effort The Point In the Speech. WASHINGTON. April 2. The principal Interest in the senate today centered in the speech of Senator Voorhees, the chairman of the committee on I finance, who thus launched" the tariff question upon the sea of senatorial debate. While his speech was read from manuscript, it was delivered with all the fieri' energy which characterized his usual extempore efforts. There was an unusually full attendance both on the floor and in the galleries, and the conclusion of his speech was greeted with a hearty burst of applause. He lauded the Walker tariff bill of ISIS as "blessed and glorious memory." and regretted exceedingly that, this bill did not more closely resemble it. He vigorously defended the income tax feature and the free wend clause, and as vigorously condemned the sugar bounty and reciprocity features of the McKinley bill, the former being characterized as a "jumble and fraud." and the latter as r.n "unconstitutional freak." He called attention to the fact that today was the 150th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson, "that great emancipator of mankind." and quoted extensively from Mr. Blaine's "Thirty Years In Congress." The Senator's Speech. Senator Voorhees. as is his usual custom, read his speech from a convenient desk made of large books piled upon his desk. He said: Mr. President Great abuses in government, strong by the sanction and growth of years, imbedded in powerful interests of privileged classes, created, fostered, encouraged and protected by the laws themselves, have raroly, if ever, in any age, been promptly and totally eradicated, except by forcible-revolution and bloodshed. Such Is the concurrent ami unbroken testimony of history. The spirit' of peaceful and practical reform, on the other hand, is a reasoning and progressive spirit, moving forward step by step, no matter how radical and thorough its ends luui aims may be, and overcoming the most gigantic evils with patient wisdom and courage, rather than by violent and wholesale assault. The protective system of tariff taxation, as developed and fastened upon the business and labor of the American people, especially during the third of a century past, growing worse at every stage. Is a system of Indescribable injustice and oppression, an.t yet who will contend that all its vicious principles and workings, ramified as they are, through every branch of trade and commerce, can be annihilated by a single blow or totally wiped out by a single legislative enactment? For the bill now under consideration no such claim 1 made, but in its behalf can be truthfully asserted, and will be successfully maintained, that it accomplishes a vast work In the field of tariff reform, embodies a great relief to the people from iniquitous existing burdens and constitutes a long stride, though not a final one, toward the approaching day of a full and perfect deliverance. Sir, I challenge the attention of the senate and country to the great and commanding fact, that by the provision of this bill, the seeming paradox of a reduction of tax and at the same time an Increase cf pub- I lie revenues will be reconciled when it becomes a law. I will not top to consider at thlä point the vast individual robberies committed in protected markets, the untold and Incalculable millions of blackmail levied by American manufacturers for their own pockets on their enforced customers when cut off from all outside competition. It Is enough for my present iiurjmw to say that we have liberalized American markets, made them more acceslble to the traffic of the world, and, while not establishing f-ee trade, we have made trade freer and more even-handed between the manufacturer and th. consumer. Hut over and above and beyond this wide and well-known Held of extortion and injustice, it will be found from the schedules of this bill, that the tariff taxes now officially ascertained and paid under existing laws, on the wants, necessities and daily consumption of the laboring men, women and children of the United States, have been reduced more than seventy-six millions per annum. These reductions are as follows The Tax on Necessities. On chemicals. $1,000.000; on pottery, $1,900,000; on glass, $l,5JO,onO; on metals, $12,500.000; on wood, $300,000; on tobacco, $3,3iJO,0uO; on agricultural product. $3,300,000; on spirits, wines, etc., $l,5oo,on0; on cotton manufaetufactures, $G.0nO,O; on woolen manufactures, $-i3,50O,0iO; on silk manufactures, $2,500,000; on paper and pulp. $300,000; on sundries, !.CO,0'-0; transferred to the free list, $12,170,000. Total, $7ti, 670.000. To this roust be added the further imposing fact that the bill provides for a full and ample revenue, largely in excess of present supplies, with which to meet all the requirements of the public credit. Such a consummation as this, so full of relief to the people, and of strength, safety and honor to the government, may well atone for the Imperfectness and shortcomings alleged against the pending measure, and will constitute the rock upon which the temple of tariff reform will be built, and against which, in the ameliorated future, the gates of averice, fraud and oppression shall not prevail. With such a beneficient and stupendous result now plainly within the reach of the American people, almost ready for their eager enjoyment, I envy not the party, nor the man. nor the set of men. who shall constitute themselves a hindrance and an obstruction to its speedy fulfillment. Faults and imperfections can. of course, be alleged and pointed out; eonce anions are apparent which have been unwillingly made in order to secure its passage; articles on the free list as they came from the hou.e have been made dutiable under the duress of a small majority here, but deeply as I regret the necessity for these changes, I do not hesitate that the bill, taken as a whole as It now stands, with its combination of lower taxes on the necessities of life, and at the same time Increased revenues for the government, wiil be hailed as a subetantial measure of reform and relief by the great producing masses of the American people Manufacturing Interests which, a hundred years ago, were. Indeed and in fact. In their Infancy ard were nursed and fostered while yet in the cradle of their birth, are now the colossal task-masters of the whole people, commanding tribute from every day's labor beneath the sun, haughtily striding from the corridors of this capltol and issuing their edicts. In the tones of dictators, for or against the enactment of pending measures In the halls of congress. Those who own and represent these swollen and arrogant Interest do not hesitate to declare on what t?rm a bill vitally affecting seventy. mlUloaa cf people will bo permitted,

to become a law. and In default of what provisions lor financial profits for themselves they will Insure Its defeHt. In the hard-working days of attempted tariff reform they are met everywhere, and, as a rule, bear themselves as favorites of power generally do. The McKinley Latr a Gigantic Crime. The enactment of the McKinley law In 1) was a gigantic crime, not only against every worklngman and worklngwoman in the United States, but also against every individual manufacturer and against all manufacturing Interests. It was not so designed by Its authors, but such was Its real and Inevitable character. It declared a policy so flagitious In principle, so rotten In morality and so ravenous In Its exactions In the absolute wants of life, that Its possible duration wa only a question of time when the next elction by the people should occur, and yet the vast manufacturing Interests of the country were tempted and seduced Into accepting Its delusive bribes and into an eager adjustment of themselves to its alluring though evanescent and short-lived provisions. If the reward of laior had ever been increased as an incident or consequence of Increased tariff duties on foreign imports, nothing would tx easier or more gracious to the advocates and lenetU-iarles of protection than to show that fact. 'Hie very reverse, however, is true. It can never be forgotten that the enactment of the McKinley law in October, IS'."', was followed almost immediately by a reduction of the wages of ail workers In Iron pnd steel, beginning at Homestead, in Pennsylvania, under Carnegie, resulting in bloodshed and wholesale murder, and extending to all rarts of the country ard to almost every branch of manufacturing industry. Mr. Voorhees defended the ad valorem system as fairer, horester and more easily understood than specific duties. On the subjecf of the sugar schedule he said: Duty on Sngar. Absolute free trade In sugar Is an attractive theme, but no such thing has ever existed for a single hour since the organization of this government, A moderate duty has always been imposed on sugar, and it has always been a stanch revenue support to the government. In that great model of a democratic tariff for revenue only the tariff of lS4t it was declared in short and simple phra.se that "sugar of sll kinds" and "sirup of the sugar" were subject to a duty laid tax of 30 per cnt. ad valorem. The fact that the duty tax on sugar has Inured more to the government, and less to the profit of the private parties, than any other tax known to tariff legislation may be stated as the main reason why the democratic party has never made an issue against it. Evey dollar collected from a tariff tax on sugar and pall into the treasury relieves some other article of even higher necessity in the economy of life, in the imposition of tariff taxation. During the present fiscal year, ending June ?,'). there will be paid by the treasury $12,30.01) as lounty to the producers of suar, and every dollar of this vast sum is first collected from those who plant com, raise wheat and engage in all the various pursuits of labor. Nearly thirty millions of bounty money have been handed over to the sugar-makers of the United .States since the law went into operation, and each year the sum is rapidly increasing. It was thought when the law was under discussion that the bounty would not exceed $S,000,Oa) per year, but the stimulating influence of such an enormous donation to the manufacturers of sucar was greatly underrated. If the law is to remain unrepealed, the time is near at hand when it will confer, as a mere gratuity, more than $29,'o.tt per year on a small fraction of our population engaged in no public service, but in their own private enterprises. The Whisky Tax. In turning to anothc subject, on which much ignorant and Vome malevolent criticism has leen expended, my task Is easy, and the way smooth. In securing a sufficient revenue for the support of the government, with, an li.ht a tax as possible on the necessaries oi life, 1 havo at all times earnestly favored an Increased tax on whisky. I would be glad today if the pending Mil provided a tax of $1.20 per gallon. Instead of fl.io, as it does. Revenue raised from dls'tille! spirits, the purchase and consumption of which is never a necessity of life, is a deep gratification to me, ami the fact that twenty millions of the surplu accruing undr the bill will be furnished by the tax on whisky, is a genuine Joy to my mind. My sincere regret is that more money for the government was not obtained from the same source, and, consequently, less from other sources of a different character. I have no hesitation in declaring, upheld, as I am. by the secretary of the treasury and by the commissioner of internal revenue, who have both recommended every step taken on this subject, that one of the wisest, safest, most useful and ncestiary provisions in the pending bill Is that Increasing the tax on distilled spirits and granting an extension of the time they may remain in ond without being driven out of the country. For the Income Tax. ' Speaking of the proposed Income tax, which he warmly upholds, Mr. Voorhees said: The proposition contained In the pending bill to lery a tajt of 2 per cent, on all net incomes of corporat'ons -nd of individuals in excess of $t,u00 per annum is so just and

equitable toward the hardworking taxpayers of meager resources throughout the entire country that not a word in its defense or explanation would seem necessary here or anywhere else. Hut the narrow and corroding selfishness of riches has been aroused by this simple measure of justice into fierce resentment and contention. We hear, on all hands, the dictatorial voice of Individual and corporation wealth demanding that It shall not be disturbed by the slightest touch of the tax-gatherer, whatever may be the demands of the government, or the oppression of toiling masses. For no earthly consideration would I paint an unjust or overwrought picture of the dangerous pretentions and intolerable arrogance of accumulated wealth now manifest in this country, but speaking in the fear of my Maker I devoutly believe that the end of endurance has been reached, that a time has come for a test to be made between the power of hoarded money and the power of productive lalr, that the people from thM time forward, more than ever lefore. will organize and take rapid and heroic measures against the continued anl brutal dictation of the plutocracy, against the paramount influence of wealth, against the rule and supremacy of the rich in Bhaping the llnojicial policy of the government and their own interests. The Wool Schedule. Referring to the wool schedule, he said: If I believed wool on the free list would hurt the farmer. I would not vote for the pending bill. It Is a matter of actual demonstration, however, which has been often made, that free wool, accompanied by such reducM rates as can then be placed on manufactures of wool, and which are placed on them in this bill, is one of the greatest blessings that befall the farmer. If the farmer hhould get an Increased price for his wool by reason of a tariff for Its protection, he will pay It all out and much more to the manufacturer as a duty on woolen goods when he next buys a flannel shirt, an overcoat, or a ralr of trousers. Mr. Voorhees concluded as follows: When the day shall dawn in which the farmer, the mechanic and the wage-worker shall alike have the right and the privilege to go Into the open, liberated markets of the land, buy where their hard-earned money will buy most for their wants, with none to molest, to assess, to levy, to take toll, or to tax, then indeed will the millenium of labor have come, and all the sons and daughters of toll shall rise up and call their government blessed. Sir. this Is the birthday of Thomas Jefferson; I'.l years ago today he came Into the world, "the greatest manclpator of thought, philosopher of liberty and teacher of the natural rights of men ever known In human history. The blows he struck for freedom, for justice and equnlltv In government are yet resounding throughout the earth, and they will never cease to be heard until the last shackle of privilege and tyranny is broken. Ten days before his soul took flight from his mountain home, he wrote his parting words to his own countrymen, and to all races of mankind. With this great dying message before us, and in its spirit, we take new courage and go on with our work. "All eves are open, or opening," he said, "to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass ot mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God." Hail, mighty message, and hall its speedy and certsln fulfillment! All hail the counsels of Thomas Jefferson In this hour of caste based on wealth, of privl'ege granted by law. and of monopoly fastened ou the Uvery of labor;

THE SPf SYSTEM

Causes a Pitched Battle in South Carolina, Darlington Being the Scene of the Trouble. FOUR MEN ARE KILLED. Two of Them Are Spies and Two Citizens. Fierce Expressions Against the Governor. The City Wild Tilth Uxcl lenient, AH the Sjmpnlhv lirlnR Tilth tlie ("Itlxciin The Chief Execatit c Calls Ont the Troop and Tiro t 'om pi n leu Itefnse to Rpspoml, ST. LOUIS, Mo., March CO. Special to the Republic; from Columbia, S. C, says: "The passions aroused by the dispensary law and the spy system had the long expected result in the fight at Darlington this afternoon in which at least two spies and two citizens were shot to death and three other men were badly wounded. This city is wild tonight All the sympathy is with th? citizens and the air i filled with fierce expressions against the governor, the dispensary law and the spies. The fight occurred at 3:30 p. m. at the depot as a body of armed spies were leaving the town. In the fight Frank E. Norman t, a prominent young insurance man and a man named Redmond from North Carolina and Constables MeLemon and Pepper were killed outright. Chief of Police Dargan, K. D. Lucas find Lewis Normen t were shut and dangerously wounded. When Governor Tillman received the news a hasty conference was held with Adjt.-Gen. Farley, a special train was ordered and the three local, militia companies were ordered to assemble at their armories. Col. Wylie Jones of the Palmetto regiment was ordered at 3 o'clock by the governor to proceed with troops to Darlington. It at once became a question whether the militiamen, all sympathizers with the citizens of Darlington, would go. The members of the Columbia zouaves and Governor's guards assembled at their respective armories, but refused to go to Darlington, declaring they would disband first.. News has been received here tonight to tbe effect that the spies were surrounded in some woods near Darlington by angry citizens, who were ber.t on avenging the wrongs done them. Governor Tillman having failed to get the Columbia militia to go has ordered out the Charleston militia. This created intense excitement in that city and it is not probable that the Charleston troops will go. Adjt.-Gen. Farley left on a special train for Darlington at 10 o'clock tonight. The Light infantry of Sumter refused to go to Darlington, but Farley will be joined by the guards of Manning. It is suspected that the enraged people of Darlington are determined upon exterminating the spies, and they are not likely to be Interfered with by the military from other towns. Nothing has been heard from Darlington in four hours, and this is taken as an Indication that the citizens are in a dangerous mood. SHOT A CITIZKX. One of the Conntalile Kill n Man and the llattlc Starts. COLUMBIA, S. C, March 31. The battle between the dispensary constables and citizens of Darlington was not at all a premeditated affair upon the part of the citizens. Two young men. Floyd and Rogers, had a fight at the depot, where dispensary spies were congregated ready to leave town after making raids. Chief of Police Darllngan went to the station on hearing of the fight. About this time Frank Norment and Redmond and several prominent citizens came up on bicycles on business. Constable McLendon interfered in the Floyd-Rogers controversy. Norment was sitting on a barrel. Redmond also interfered at this Ioint. Meanwhile the chief ot police was trying to keep the men apart. Some words passed between Redmond and McLendon. McLendon drew a pistol, put his arm over Rogers and shot Redmond. He then shot F. K. Norment and was thereupon shot himself. Other constables then opened a fusilade with Winchester rifles. MeOulloch and other citizens returned the lire with pistols. Constable Pepier was killed, being shot through the heart. McLendon was shot through the abdominal cavity. One spy was shot in the leg and another had his nose shot off. F. K. Norment was Instantly killed, being shot through the mouth The police chief was shot through the body. K. D. Lucas was shot through both sides with live bullets. Redmond was shot through the neck. L. W. Norment was shot In the arm and side. A bullet was stopped by his pocketbook, otherwise he would have been killed. The spies cleared the platform and vicinity of people with their Winchester rifles and then fled the town pursued by citizens as soon as the news had spread. When Governor Tillman received telegraphic news of the affair he ordered the Columbia battalion to go to Darlington on a special train. Darlington was reported in possesion of lis citizens with the sheriff and civil authorities powerless. The militia companies threw down their guns and disbanded, declaring that if they went to Darlington it would be as private citizens and for the purpose of assisting the people of the town. The governor's guards held a meeting lasting two hours before deciding what to do, there being about a dozen members who favored obeying orders. By this time several thousand citizens had gathered about the guards' armory and packed the street and building to the very doors. Indignation was expressed on every side at the indecision of the guards. It was reported at one time that the guards had decided to go and a large part of the crowd greeted this report with three groans and hisses "for Tillman's body-guard" and swore they would take their guns away from them. The crowd was in a volcanic state. Adjt.-Gen. Farley and aides were hissed as they came down stairs. The crowd was compose! of the bet people of the town, from bank presidents and city aldermen to laKre-rs. Finally the guarda decided not to go. Threats

were uttered against Governor Tillman. Some one cried- "Let's break open the state dispensary ar.d throw the whisky out," and a start was mad, but after a half hour of fervid eloo,ueru,'C from dry goods boxes the crowd was dissuaded from its purpose. News comes f ioni Darlington that two spies surrendered last night and are now In Jafl. About eighteen others are surrounded in a pwamp. They offered to surrender If guaranteed their lives would be spar?d. but the citizens refused this and the men may meet death before long. Governor Tillman has notified the Atlantic coast line railroad that under the general statutes he will take possession of that road and all telegraph lines aiij run them under his supervision. This is to prevent communication with citizens of Darlington. Telegrams from Winnsboro state that the militia which was ordered to Darlington by the governor has refused to go ana has disbanded. The governor ordered Gen. r.ugnen to take a corps of the Fourth brigade and proceed to Darlington. Tlie companies met today and refused to go, a decision which was greeted with cheers from the poplc-. The governor has ordered the Sally rifles of Orangeburg to come to this city on special train immediately. The absence of advices from Darlington gives color to the suspicion that the people of that section are preventing the use of the telegraph. A body of armed, citizens left this city today to aid the pxjple of Darlington in their war upon the constables. In view of reported threats of lynching the governor and destroying the. dispensaries, penitentiary guards have been detailed to protect the governor's mansion and the dispensaries. Passengers from the scene of hostilities last night report large gatherings of frenzied men and boys along the line of the railroad and at the depots aimed with shotguns and rifles. At each stopping place the cars were entered and search made for the constabulary. It is report til that the Florence dispensary was raided and looted during the night. In compliance with tlie governor's orders Adjt.-Gen. Watts hns taken the arms of disbanded militia armories for safe keeping. The armory of tho Richland volunteer rifles company has just been entered by citizens bent on seizing the arms to prevent the authorities from getting them. Governor Tillman is hastening forward country companies to aii the constabulary and sending telegrams offering the service of as many men as may be necessary to uphold the law. The Charleston companies have refused to obey orders and will disband. The casultles as far as known are as follows: Killed: Constable M'LFNDON. Constable PEFPF.R. Citizens LEWIS DERMOND. FRANK NORMENT. The lat named died this morning. The injured were citizens Paul Rogers. K. D. Lucas, Chief of Police Dargan, and others unknown. DARLINGTON, S. C. April 2. Special to the Associated Press. There Is but little news to bo given out from Darlington today as absolutely nothing of a startling or even an interesting nature has occurred. There is not a more quiet town in the state than it has been today. The town is still under martial law and the troops are still here and they have marched and drilled all over tlie town, but that it is all the have done. They could do nothing else, as not even a school-boy scrap or d og fight has occurred to mar the serenity of the day. The town is again taking on its usual every-day appearance and the business houses are open and trade is being conducted as ouietly as formerly, and if it were not for the presence of the military the town would present its ordinarv appearance. COLUJIUIA, S. C. April 2. Special to the Associated Press. The Newberry rifles, which have been guarding the state house and acting as censors of all dispatches at the telegraph offices, notified Governor Tillman today that they had resigned and that their arms were at his disposal.

HE KILLED THEM ALL. A HOKMlKF.ll Mt RDCns HIS FAMILY AXD COMMITS SMCIUK. He Had Ileen Ont of Work for n Ixng Time und Despondency Led to the Aivfnl Crime The Ilutllen of the Dead .Stretched Out on the Floor. DOLO EVI LLE, N. Y., March SO. Fritz Kloeti.er, a shoemaker, killed his wife and thre children at his home tonight and then committed suicide. He had been out of work for a long time and despondency is supposed to have led to the deed. For weeks he has been selling off his furniture, piece by piece, to pay for bread for his famly. The bodies of the entire family of five were found stretched on a few blankets in a back bed room. BIG FIRE AT BORDEN. Flames Destroy the Ilaiiie Portion tit au Iutlinnu Town. LOUISVILLE. March Tl. Early this morning Chief .Marker of New Albany received a telegram from Horden, Ind., twenty-eight miles north of that city, stating that the town was on fire and. asking for assistance. A special train was furnished by the iAiuisville, New Albany V Chicago railroad, but as an engine was expected from Salem, only the hose reel was taken. t'pon arriving the Uremia from New Albany were unable to render any assistance, as the enpine from Salem had not arrived. The fire started in a mill, communicated to Shoemaker Ä: Co.'s huge general store and quickly spread until two .locks had been destroyed. Loss estimated at $7.",li0: small insurance. Several years ano the same quarter cf the town was destroyed by fire, and the buildings burned today were nearly all new. The tire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. THE COLORADO DIFFICULTY. Attorney-General Lngley Applies for n AVrlt of Mandamus. DENVER. April 2. Attorney-General Lngley applied to the supreme court this afternoon for a writ of mandamus to compel Messrs. Orr and Martin of the ol police board to turn over the property of the police department to Messrs. Mullins and Harnes, the governor's new appointees, pending the settlement of the question as to who are the lepral members of the board. The new board Is waiting for some further action in the supreme court before attempting to perform business. It has deckXd. however, to remove H. M. Behmeyer as chief of police and appoint Senator Hamilton Armstrong. Armstrong is not a resident of the city, but Governor Waite Bays that makes no difference.

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The Great Standpipe at Peoria Collapsed, Killing a Boy and Injuring Several Other Persons, THREE OF WHOM WILL DIE. Six Houses Swept from Their Foundations, Streets in the Vicinity Covered with Water, Several "Workmen L'scapc Instant Death Tlie I'mprrty Lom Mill lie Very Heaij All Was Confoaion avjid Terror When lie Accident Occurred The ripe Crushed LlLa an Ke Miell. rEOIUA, 111., March SO. Shortly after It o'clock thL momicj the citizens of Peoria were startled by a dull roar that came from the direction of the West BlufY. In a few minutes a fire alarm had been turned in. Shortly after th patrol wagon and ambulances were dashing up the street to the corner of Bourland and College-aves. This Is the spot where the great stand-pipe of the Peoria water company was located. "W"ren within two blocks of the place all wer obliged to stop. Great volumes of water were rushing through the streets, houses were floating away, fences were demolished and four feet of water was rapidly spreading over the vicinity and flooding the sewers of the city. All wa confuplon and terror. Investigation showed that the massive stand-pipe, 123 feet In hlght, twenty-five feet in diameter, had collapsed. No warning was given to the people in the vicinity, but with a few sharp cracks and a dull roar l,5"X),O0a gallons of water were precipitated to the ground. Several workmen wore engaged on the tower at the time it fell, and how they escaped Instant death Is miraculous. The pipe stood in a vacant lot used by children as a playground. One cf them, Frank Hogan, was caught between the mass of steel and literally crushed into the earth. Will rumors were immediately afloat and distracted mothers and wives could be seen gathering In the vicinity. Thousands of citizens came from all parts of the city and workmen at onro sot to work as soon as the water had run off sufficinetly. The great pipe lies crushed like an eggshell across the vacant lot and Into the street, five or six houses across the street being swept from their foundations and carried away many feet. One large house is in splinter?. The property bss will not be less than $-0.000, and beside the death of the ona lad mentioned, three others cf the Injured will die. A list of casualties Is aa follows: Dead: FRANK HOGAN. caught beneath the falling tower and instantly killed. Fatally injured: Frank Caldwell, -frightfully injured and Will die. W. I). Norriss, terrible gash in temple, will die. William Kennedy, badly crushed and cut, will die. Injured: Rollo King, Chailes Llrtlefield. Howard Anderson, Clyde Howell. Charles Needham. Frank Gaddon. John Iluber, Alfred Gross, Hazel Isom. Mrs. J. B. Trapp. Mrs. William McGrath, Bertha Norman. WALSH FOR SENATOR. (overnor Xorlhen Appoints the Ai KUta Editor to Succeed Colqnttt. ATLANTA. C'a.. April 2. Governor Northen thl Morning1 anointed Patrick Walsh, editor cf the Augusta Chronicle, as senator to succeed C'olcjultt. Patrick Walh has been for years a prominent figure in Georgia and held in general esteem all over the South. He never has sought public office before. His time has bn given to his newspaper, which he has been conducting for more than a quarter of a century. He is known to the people of the South because of his philanthropy and patriotic efforts to advance the industrial and commercial interests of his section. He is imposing of figure on the rostrum. J He is a ready and extemporaneous speaker and eioquent on all occasions. He orpanlzed and carriM throush to success the Industrial exposition Of th South and the Georgia state lair, which was held at Augusta. Ga.. last fall, lie was a national commissioner at larpe from Georgia b the world's fair at Chicago. Mr. Walsh is lifty-four years of ace. In manner he Is strictly courteous, always approachable, seemingly deferential or conciliatory. Iiis speeches are noted for their bold denunciation of sectional animosities in the Svuta or North. THE COMMONWEAL ARMY. t'oxej's Itecruits Lncamp in Pittabaric n ''veil nburl. SFWICKLET. Pa.. April 2 Tlie Commonweal army encamped twelve mile. from Allegheny City after a long march of eighteen miles, and pitched its tents on the Crime farm, in the heart of Sewickley. Pittsburg's fashionable suburb. The residents flvked out curiously to see the notorious Commonwealers. who looked even rougher than usual after the sweat and dust of the long march. The Prenilerrrast Investigation. CHICAGO, March 27. With little prospect of securing a hearing the investigation into the sanity of rrendergast, Mayor Harrison's assassin, was called before Judge Chetlain again today. The state made an application as soon as court opened that the case be continued ten days. It was publicly conceded by the state that court could further extend ihe execution of the death sentence.

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