Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THM PAST WEEK. | Progress of Labor Troubles at Ander*. '■ son-Women as Street Car Conductor* —Race War at Monroe—Ran Down bjr a Train at Brazil. Concessions to the Striker*. . '■* The wire nail trust has made concez-' sions granting men in the rod mills their old wages, and the mills at Anderson were | started, the strikers returning. The trust | officers announce, however, that absolutely no concession will be made in the wire and nail departments, where the reductions range as high as 40 per cent. The men held a conference and unanimously decided to stay out until the old wage | scale was restored. The trust then began carrying out 1 its threat to nail up the Anderson plants if the men did not accept the reductions. The men were not alarmed. Many say they will enter the regular army in preference to returning at the new wage. The trust also threatens to nail up its Cleveland plant, where a similar state of affairs exists. It has alreadyclosed its plants at Findlay and Salem, Ohio; Beaver Falls, Pa., and other place*. The men refuse to accept the cuts. Seven, hundred men are employed in the plant at Anderson. The strike at the Anderson iron and bolt works, which had been on for a week, was settled by the manufacturers agreeing to pay the scale paid by the Muncie mills. This is simply an equalization, and on an average is not a reduction. It is Mtisfactory to all, and the plants resumwl at once. Women in a New Field. ’ As a matter of economy the management of the Vincennes Street Railway Company‘advertised recently for women to act as conductors. More than fifty applications were made and five young ladies were selected out of the lot. The salary will be only about $5 a week or S2O per month. The uniform consists of a black suit of much the same pattern as that worn by girls in bicycling, and with/ similar waists. All will wear caps inscribed “Conductor.” The girls have gone regularly into service. No trouble has resulted ,but there is considerable talk and some indignation on the part of old employes. Race War Results in Death. & The second battle in the race war at Monroe City- was fought between twenty negroes and thirty whites. One negro was killed, and Constable Joe Barnett, who led the posse of whites, was shot in the hip. A score of shots was fired and stones and clubs were freely used. Many on both sides were badly beaten. During the battle the house was fired and burned. Run Down by a Train. A carriage containing Patrick Mooney, a civil engineer for the Brazil Block Coal Company, his wife and five children, and Miss Tena McDonald, was struck by a train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad north of Brazil. Miss McDonald and Miss Hester Mooney were fatally injured. Mr. Mooney:, his wife and two of the children received serious wounds.

Within Our Borders. I At Anderson, Johnson Reynolds’ regur t lator factory was burned. Loss, SIO,OOO. | At Kokomo, Ora Carver, a contractor, | fell from a building and was fatally hurt. John McCauley, pit boss at Jackson Hill mine, Shelburn, was caught by falling ' and instantly killed. At Connersville, the building known a* | the old Huston Hotel was damaged by fire ami jrgjer to the extent « The Enamel works plant at Porter was sold to Louis McCall of Chicago, who j will open an iron fence works with 100 j workmen. ~ " I i Charles Croppie, a bridge carpenter frs.m Bedford Junction, Ohio, was killed • on a bridge at Dunreith by a Panhandle 1 gray cl Lieut. Charles Slade of the 152 d Indiana volunteers, who lived at Goshen, died in the regimental hospital at Tam- J pa, Fla., of malarial fever. At Vincennes, Mrs. Fannie Darley was run over by a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway switch engine and badly ’i! injured. She cannot recover. Mrs. Frances Anderson, aged 78, a widow, living at Independence, committed suicide by walking out into the Wa- | bash near that place and drowning her- f 3 self in shallow water. It is supposed her mind had become unbalanced. Mrs. Hannah Clark, a wealthy widow 1 of Elkhart County, has given to the city 'of Elkhart the Clark Homeopathic Hospital end Training School for Surgeons j and Nurses. The building is modernly equipped and valued at $15,000. | The west-bound Air Line passenger was wrecked at Georgetown and Engineer I William Cravens of New Albany, John Elwood of Corydon Junction, a passenger, and an unknown tramp were killed. A switch engine standing On the track | without a signal caused the wreck. All union painters employed by mem- | bers of the Contractors’ Association at Indianapolis quit work. The contractors | have been paying 30 cents an hour, but at | a recent meeting resolved to pay “what " men are worth,” it being understood that I no more than 25 cents an hour would be paid. J George W. Hall of the State Board of | Health and State Veterinarian F. Balser i of New Castle have examined the dairy cows in New Albany which were affected with anthrax. They were found to be | improving, and as they are effectually quarantined a spread of the disease is not feared. Gas belt labor organizations and the strikers have taken steps to ascertain f whether the new Indiana anti-trust laws ,’3 are of any avail. The wire nail trust’* ’ action in shutting down and nailing up it* 9 plants because the men would not accept ■ wage reductions ranging as high as 40 ’ per cent affords an opportunity to test the J law. Gov. Mount has been asked to be- S gin proceedings. Fire destroyed four ricks of cornstalks | at Linden. These stalks cost $3 per ton I and are used in the cellulose factory. The total loss .will be near $2,000. Origin of fire unknown. Morrison Goens, head foreman of the Romona oolitic stone quarry, near Bpen- ‘ cer, was instantly killed by the breuking '9 of a derrick. The channeler which it > was lifting fell on him. . J George Oler, 50 years old, a prominent d Hagerstown farmer, committed suicide. 2 .He was found in a barn by his wife with 2 his head nearly severed and a raaor hr 2 his band. The motive is unknown.