Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 35, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 May 1894 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOAN'K, lubllsher. INDIANATub death of United States Sctiator Stock ItrUl ire. of Michigan, who had fur n long time been in delicate health, occurred in riileu on the UOth. oexurrcti in uilcago ou me wwi. Tub Illinois prohibition state convention assembled, on the ttd. In the (rami opera house in lUooinlngton, in which the prohibition party of the United State was lorn. .vM.t: Takt, of the United States court at Cincinnati, on the 1st, refused to restrain Receiver Felton from reducing the wages of the employes of the Cincinnati Southern railroad 10 per cent., to go into eiTeet forthwith. Ox the USth .lodge 11 null ey overruled the motion of counsel for Representative W. C. P. r.recklnridge for a new trial of the celebrated HreekinridgePollard breach of promise suit. Hond was fixed at f 100 for an appeal to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. The Chicago city council appropriated $100,000, on the 30th, to aid the health commissioner in stamping out smallpox in that city. Additional pesthouses will be provided, the ambulance service will be greatly improved, and the force of health ollicers will be largely increased. Nkws of Kditor Frank llatton's death caused a great shock to the many friends he made iu Rurlington. la., during his residence there as manager of the llawkeye. His mother, a sister and a number of his wife's relatives live at Mount Pleasant, In., and the sorrow there is general. Serious reports were received at Duluth. Minn., on the 3d. from the Mesaba iron range, where 1.S0O desperate miners, mostly Finns, armed with explosives were on strike for an increase of pay. Several companies of militia had been ordered out and sent to the scene of the disturbance. Kiotixo at Cleveland O, continued, on the 2d. the mob, over 4.000 strong, driving the employes from many factories and workshops, and greatly damaging the plants. They were finally dispersed by the police. Several companies of militia were ordered under arms and held in reserve. The strike on the Great Northern railroad was ended by mutual concessions on the 1st. The meeting between the company ollicers and the strike leaders was brought about and the happy result reached through the good ollices of a committee of St. Paul and Minneapolis business men. The limit of time given to Judge Long, of Michigan, in which to show cause why his pension should not be reduced having expired without the appearance of the judge or his counsel. Commissioner Lochreu, on the HOth, gave notification that the pension had been reduced from $7'j to 850 per month. The proposed meeting of Commonwealers on the steps of the eapltol at Washington, on the 1st, to awe congressmen and senators into a sense of their duty to the unemployed, was prevented by the authorities, and Messrs. Drowne and Jones, who were more demonstrative than Gen. Coxey, were arrested and jailed. Gen. Coxev, Marshal Rrowne and Christopher Columbus Jones were arraigned before Judge Miller in the Washington police court, on the morning of the 2d, charged with violation of statutes of the District of Columbia. A continuance was taken until the 4th, and the prisoners held in WOO bond each, which was furnished. Mil W.m. Astor Chanih.kr arrived at Cairo, Egypt, on the SOth, from Zanzibar, after hh second central African expedition, and became the guest of United States Minister Pcnfleld. He left on the 1st. for Vienna, going thence to one of the German health springs. Mr. Chandler will contribute a report of his explorations to the New York Geographical society. The mandamus case of Kttgene Gaddis against Secretary Carlisle to compel the latter to show cause why the former should not be restored to his position as a clerk In the treasury department, was dismissed by Judge Ilrndley, in Washington, on the 2Sth, with the statement that the courts had no power to interfere in the matter of removals in the executive departments. Ml.H Haiiuikt Ri.aink, the remaining single daughter of the late James G. Rlaine, was married yesterday to Mr. Truxton Reale, of Washington, formerly minister to Persia and to Greece. The wedding took place at the Rlaine residence, ou Lafayette square, near the White House, where Mr. Rlaine died, and marked the ending of the period of deep monrning for the family. It was reportrd in Paris, on the 3d, .hat five additional notes forged by Count Jills do Talloyrand-Perrigord, In the name of M. Max Lebandy, had turned up. The princess of Sagan, lias offered to fully indemnify M. Lebaudy on condition thatCountde TalleyrandPerrigord be confined in an asylum for n time and also renounce his rights as the eldest son in favor of hl.s younger brother. As A result of negotiations between the American and Canadian governments a band of Sioux Indians that has been camped in Manitoba since ISM will shortly be removed to the United States. They arc the remnant of the old Sitting Rull tribe, who with others took refuge In Canada after the Custer massacre. The Indians strongly protest against the removal, und trouble is feared

CUBKKXT TOPICS.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. In the senate, on the 2th. Mr. Hale iMe. resumed the tactic, pursued the day previous by Mr. Ablrlch, of taunting the democrats with their changed front upon tho tariff question. Several Miches were made on the bill, nfter vrh,ch " 11,0 'te cprescntlvo 1 illy, of .yjyjy,, wero uellvered In the house the army appropriation bill was tauen up ami cent ral lübato thereon exhausted- It was considered a short time by paragraphs for amendment when, the polutof nomtorum 11 UK mlscd. the house adjourned. In the Senate, on the Uli. seven hours were pent In discussing the tariff bill-several points furnishing round for heated arguments. IiurltiK the closing speech of the day Mr. Turple dnd.i thrice accused Mr Aldrlch of utterlnir untruths, which the latter intimated would not have been done except under the protect ton of the senate. . In the house the resignation of Representative Caldwell, of Ohio, was received and tiled. After the consideration of less Important buslne.s. the army appropriation bill was further considered and passed. IN the enate, on the 1st. durtnjj n ten-minutes' session, resolutions expressive of the sorrow of the senate nt tho denth of Senator Stockbridge were passed, when as a further mark of respect for the memory of the deceased the senate adjourned In the house the members pave more attention to the movements of the army of the Commonweal In their attempt to hold a mooting upon the steps of the eapltol than to legislative business. The proceedings were almost purely formal, and nfter the passage of resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Senator Stockbridge the house, at l::c p. m.. adjourned. In the senate, ou the 2d. the tariff bill being undercon.slderatton.no action was taken on the pending amendment, and the discussion was unmarked by any of those exciting incidents so common of late. Mr. Lodge said the republicans would welcome the responsibility of defeating the bill: and Mr. Squire denounced It as a political and commercial monstrosity .. ..In the house, a resolution directing an Inquiry Into the alleged unnecessary assault by the police upon citizens on the eapltol grounds, on tho 1st. was Introduced as a question of prlvelfce, but meeting with strong opposition was withdrawn. Consideration of the river and harbor bill was entered upon. In the senate, on the 3d. the tlrst amendment to the tariff bill tlxlng the time for the bill to go into effect was passed over tempo rarlly. When the second amendment was taken tip. Mr tjuay got the floor, and between htm and members who occasionally wjnt to his relief with remarks, the entire day was taken up without action on the amendment . . In the house, the session was devoted, in committee of tho whole, to debate on the rver and harbor appropriation bill, on which the end of the general debate was reached. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Edward L.v Mo.ntaOXE. Jil, banker, was arrested in New York, on the 1st, on a charge of grand larceny, and was arraigned in the Tombs police court, where he was admitted to bail. It is said that the larceny involves ITR.OOO, and that the complainant is Florence Davids or Laurence G. Davis. Jru.vN O. Davidson, the well-known artist, died at his home in Nyack, N. Y., on the 1st, of heart disease and j dropsy. Mr. Davidson's marine pic tures ranued among tue oest in tue country. In later years Mr. Davidson also acquired some renown as an author. The murder of City Marshal Whitnev of Missouri Valley, la., on the night of April 27, by "Reddy" Wilson, a notorious burglar and thug, has been avenged. At an early hour on the morning of the 1st Wilson was taken from jail by a mob and hanged from the railing of the city hall portico. Ex-State Senator Norman Roanmax, of Lyon. In., died on the night of the SOth on Ills eighty-first birthday anniversary. He held the position of state's attorney of Vermont from 1SS0 to lS."i. One of his sons is the present Iowa state dniry commissioner. He had lived in Iowa since 1S55. The fourth annual convention of the Association of Military Surgeons, representingsurgeons of the regular army, navy and national guard, began in Washington on the 1st. The delegates were welcomed to the city by Commissioner Ross, and President Cleveland made the convention a speech. 15. F. SciiiilVEit, wanted at Rrooklvn, la., for alleged fraudulent transactions involving fu.OOO, was arrested in Ivan sasClty, Mo., on the 1st The authorities had been looking for Schriver for several weeks. In a funeral procession at Leavenworth, Ivas., on the 1st. a team became frightened at an approaching electric car, and in the excitement three carriages were backed onto the track and were wrecked by the car. Many narrow escapes were experienced, and Mrs. RafTerty and Mrs. Phillips Raker sustained what were supposed to be fatal injuries. Rectoh Ahmvardt, the notorious anti-Semite, who was released from the Ploetzensee prison in March last, where he had been confined after Wing convicted of libeling the Loewe firm of Hebrew gunmakers. was sentenced in Rerlin, on the 1st, to three months' imprisonment for insulting Prussian officials during a recent speech. ILvitHisox Prick, aged 50 years, a second cabin passenger, committed suicide by shooting on board the steamer Saale soon after the vessel left 1 S-uthatnpton for New York, where he arrived on the 1st. Price was a native of the United States, but had resided in England for the last ten years. Rv an explosion W benzine in the cellar of a New York dyeing house, on the 2d, two persons were roasted to death and three others were terribly burned. The five-story building was almost instantly enveloped In tlatnes, and It was feared that three or four other persons perished. I Gen'. Momtisox's army, ::oi strong. j was ferried away from St Louis to the , Illinois shore, on the afternoon of the 2d, literally without purse or scrip, their entire commissary outfit consist ing of !150 loaves of bread and a couple of caddies of chewing tobacco. There was not a half-dozen blankets in the outfit The men had been harangued into temporary enthusiasm, and took up the march In apparent good spirits, At an early hour on the morning of the 2d a bomb was found on a window sill of the palace of Prince Hohenlohe, in Prague, Roheinia. It was fitted with an igniting device which reached to the ground, and would, if touched by anyone passing by, have caused the bomb to explode.

Rktvrns from the congressional elec

tion in the Third Ohio district, on the 1st, font successor to liouck, deceased, show that l'aui J. Sorg (dein.) carried the district by 2,000 majority over E. G. Rathbone (rep.). In ISthJ Houck's plurality was 4,:iu0. Mks. Catiikrinb Dix-Roi.i.ks, a slstet of the lato Gov. John A. Dl.v, and widow of the late John A. Rolles, judge advocate general of the navy, died in Washington on the 1st. Last January she lost her son, who was secretary of Harvard university. Japan has appropriated a large sum of money to maintain war ships at Hawaii. Rv the new treaty between Japan and Hawaii Japanese subjects in Hawaii are guaranteed the same treatment as that accorded to Hawaiian citizens, with the single exception of the privilege of owning real estate. EvEitvriiixo is again running smoothly on the Great Northern rail way. At every point along the line there were demonstrations of rejoicing when the news was given out that everything was settled. The steamer Faradav arrived at Halifax, N. S., on the 2d. from Rallinskelling bay, Ireland, with the end oi the Mackav-Rennett cable, which she had successfully laid across the Atlantic. At least 200 of the .100 Mexican troops sent to quell an uprising of the Yaqni Indians in Lower California were either killed or wounded by the Indians in ambush. The Kenwood mill, at Albany, N. Y., owned by Mrs. Sarah Townsend, and operated by Iluyck & Argersinger in the manufacture of felt goods, was completely destroyed by tire, on the 2d. together with a storehouse of the firm and three tenement houses. The mill employed 1"." hands, and its out put was the greatest of any felt mill in the United States. Loss, ?:T.O,O00; insurance, $100,000. TuiKTV-ElOHT of the democratic members of the senate met in cauens, on the 3d. and with but one dissenting voice that of Senator Hill, of New York passsed a vote of confidence in the finance committee, which asked that no amendments to the tariff bill except those proposed by the commit tee be ottered. Mr. Hill gave notice that he should disregard the rule. Dil Lko.vard Sr. John, who receu tly visited the Chicago pesthouse, where there were more thanoOO patients lying stricken with smallpox, calls it a lazarhouse and a disgrace to Chicago. In the den of horrors," said the phystcian. "tliere is a siiatneitti kick oi ... l room and attendance for the sick, and the whole reeks witli filth." The French courts have confirmed an arrangement by which the executors of Raron de Reinach will pay 1,500,000 francs and Dr. Cornelius Herz 1,500,000 francs to the liquida tors of the Panama Canal to. liic adoption of this arrangement will put a top to the extradition proceedings against Dr. Herz. Ox the ;kl the Cedar Rapids (la.) jury in the case of Grand chief Ramsey, of the order of Railway telegraphers churned with unlawful Jintcrferencc with telegraph wires during a general strike of the telegraphers some months ago, found the defendant nol truilty. Rechen Koi.ij, of Alabama, has is sued a card in which he says he will not be a candidate for United States senator. The senate, on the "d, confirmed among others, the nomination ol Thomas E. Renedict, of New York, to be public printer. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Ix the senate, on ttie 4th. Mr. Quay continued his speech in opposition to the tariff bill, spending hours, assisted by Mr. Gallinger, in the presenting of figures and the reading of article from newspapers and magazines. The amendments to the income tax which had been agreed upon in the democratic conference were presented and laid on the table In the house the river and harbor appropriation bill was amended and passed. An evening session was held for the consideration of private pension and relief bills. oitic was resumed, on the 4th, on a dozen public improvements in Cleve land. O., and the shops that were looted on llie 2l were running mil oiast, protection being assured for every man who cared to work. The leastattempt to provoke a riot meant arrest, and Cleveland was policed as never before. Men were tnased at the central station in large numbers. In the southern part of Kentucky coal Is being mined in large quanti ties, and is sent to tins enstomers of operators in the Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and Pittsburgh fields. I hcreare many eolored miners in Kentucky, and It Is expected there will be a great deal of difficulty in organizing them. Pol'l'f.IST ClIAIHMAX MKI.OHEN of Minneapolis, .Minn., issued a call, on tho 4th. for a state convention, calling on all farmers to meet in wagons at the various crossings, and then pro cecd by the nearest route to M in neap oils and take the city by storm. The date is mt given. Consta hi.e Liniav, one of the best known ollicers in Essex county, Ont, was fatally shot by a farmer named Joseph Truste!, on tho night of the ltd About two months- ago Lindsay had Trtiskl convicted of cruelty to animals, and the latter vowed vengeance. AN attempt was recently made to force the circulation of a depreciated silver currency in Madagascar at its face value, whereupon the government, on March 20, issued a decree that sil ver without a gold guarantee should be no longer current. IN an attack upon the men employed at the Painter coke works near Scottdale, Pa., on the 4th, by riotous strikers, two of those defending the works were severely Injured and many of the rioters were shot down. Aunot'.h drapery warehouse and three adjoining buildings in Dublin were burned on the 4thi loss, 50,000, It snowed hard and the cold was In tense throughout Yorkshire, England, on the 4th.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Portland Harry Wilt was hand ling a pis.tol.whon tho weapon went off and a bullet penetrated his groin. All eiTorts to locate it proved intiie. in chances for recovery are slim. Matthew Rowi.es, a prominent farm- . ...-I ........ ... i.i ,. r.iti.iit er west oi nrazu, iuuiwuv Injured by Wing kicked by a vicious mule. One of the hoofs of .ho aulinal struck hlui with crushing force upon the chest, while the other struck a colt killing it instantly. Tin: pretty homo of Mrs. 'Ihornton, an eccentric woman uvui KniL'htsville. east of Rrazil, was burned to the ground the other night When the llatues were discovered t lie neighbors rushed in. Mrs. Thornton was found In n room where the tlatnes burned the fiercest, and they had to overpower her and carry her outside, when she attempted to ritsli ikick aim perish In the Haines. It was then dis covered that she was a raving maniac. It is believed that she fired the build ing herself and sat down complacently to await the end. She will be sent to the asylum. Tin: preliminary examination of Squire John W. Rechtlolt, at rortianu, charged witli forgery, was postponed the other day for thirty days, lieciidolt went back to jail in default of fl.000 bond. Johnnie SntNKi.i:. aged S years, was fatally injured by being run over by a loaded dray at Portland. He was sitting on the w.tgon, and loosing his bal ance fell under the wheel His hijuries are internal A GKNEK.U. revival of business is re ported among the window-glass manu facturers of Indiana, and most 01 the plants in the state are expected to re sume work within the next two weeks. The big DcPauw factory at Alexandria will start up on .May 12. Cocntkiu'eit $10 bills are alloat at Columbus. Son.v water is said to be hurting the beer trade at Muncie. A TKi.KiMioxt: company on the mutual plan has been organized at Pendleton. A new water company is altera fran chise at Crawfordsville. Eo Reiskha ut, aged eight, was killed bv a switch engine at M. Wayne. KxinirrsTowN may soon be connected with the long distance telephone line. Sai.oonists are being prosecuted throughout Muncie for running with out licenses. Wksi.eV Wik, the alleged deed forger, who escaped from Anderson a few days ago, after being put under ar rest, was located in an old log house near Linwood and rearrested. Geoiioi: E. Hicks, traveling salesman for M. O'Connor .t Sons, Indianapolis, has disappeared, leaving an alleged shortage of Sl.OOO. A coxsi'iitACY among the federal prisoners at Indianapolis was discovered in the nick of time. It E r it k s e N t A t i v E Conn has intro duced a bill in congress appropriating money for a fog whistle in the harbor at Michigan City. Thkhe is a supposed case of small pox at Connersville. Gkkenfiei.1 sold $20,000 worth of water works bonds to a Cleveland firm at a premium of $ 2,732. Edward McCoal, under arrest nt Winchester for bigamy, is said to hava five wives, with possibilities of more that are not known of. John Lewis, a young man of Rrazil, was murderously assauueu oy .uneit Carpenter, the owner of valuable mining land at Carpenter's Mills. Lewis drove on Carpenters land, which angered him, and he grarped a hoc and struck Lewis a crushing blow on the head. It is believed Lewis will recover. A Porter count man has been stead ily advertisinr.' for a wife for two years. The other day he succeeded in ins nuest a Nebraska young woman agreeing to join with him in matrimonial traces. At Anderson, Llias Skinner, a wag on-maker, suicided with morphine. He had been drinking heavily. Tin: nost olllce at Willvale has been discontinued. There is a ranch near Crown Point with a capacity of hatching 1,000 chick .ns per day. At Huntington a "Jack the Peeper" was shot and wounded by a woman. Mrs. Edward Wharton sat at her win window and watched the peeper gaz ing into the windows of the residences of A. W. Radcrand William Grim, next to her own home. She got her revolver, and when the man came around to convenient point Mrs. Wharton fired twice. The man screamed and hobbled away. He was tracked a square by bloody tracks, showing that lie was wounded The populists of Madison county headed by Leroy Templetoti. candidate for governor in '02, are at the head of a movement to have nil delegates go overland in buggies and wagons to the state convention, which will be held in Indianapolis about May 22. The move ment has been kept quiet Letters have been sent out to all of the comity central committees, asking them to in terest their delegates in the scheme. They propose to start three or four davs ahead of time, and allow time to stop and make speeches as they gradually draw near to Indianapolis. Thev will form Into platoons. Many of the counties have been heard from and every one Is in favor of the scheme. It is safe to predict that Leroy Templeton will again be nominated for gov ernor. Capt. Feux Hawkins, of thesteatner Tell City, died at Evansville of pneu monin. after being ill ten days. The remains were sent to Louisville for in torment Martin Corex. living northeast of Warsaw was found dead in his corn field He had evidently cominittei suicide earlv in the day, as the body was quiet cold. No sign of a struggle was evident about the spot At Logniisport Mahlon Roderick, the ox-school teacher, vrnn fouod guilty of forgery nnd sentenced to four years In the penitentiary. lls mother and brother both care direct evidence ncainst hin.

DUN'S TRADE REVIEW.

A Xawk Mt of AlroCgHdllloti tulruiMtnl to I)ere IIhIm-m, Home I'H AkiiIii! y the lVopIti of Ü" t'l'Ued Ktute. Sustained lir ' Sldlm fiilth In the I'uttirr of Their Country. New York, May 5. R. G. Dim A Co. 's weekly review of trade, issued today, says: It Is now. ns It 1ms teen for nearly n yeartho nm:ir-ment of iiitflllluent observer Unit the United States suffer so little from tho reverses uhleh utlierlamls sliare, tmt which fidmore heavily here than any here else. The pastweeU has xoen events which would iuftlco to causes or to explain much disaster, such as strikes of all bituminous coal mines ana eol;e workers, with numerous riots; Mrlkes of many thousnmls of men In other employments: lopp.v;e of many mann fncturlii works In cotnoquence; nrrentof traflie on evernl Kreat railroads by lawless proceedlnco. mul the march of discontents! men, in nil numnerlni: several thous.imRtowanl the nntlonal ennltal in the hopo of controlling lew Iskolim: the lowest nrico ever known for wheat, and almost the lowest prices ever known for commodities as n whole, exports of K.til,coJcold Instead of uhnormally cheapened prospect, and the fall of the treasury told re-t-crvo lelow the ttOO.CM.lXW limit are slunlileant of widespread dlfnculty. Yet the volume of tiuMncs 1 but 31 3 per cent lexs than n year ao. ami in some directions slirtis of Improvement appear even now. and the sublime fnlth of tho people In their future Is shown In the general lellef that the strikes and disorders will iiulckly.dlsit!iear. Kavorltn: weather t.a Vronpht a dls. tlnct chance In reports an to condition oi winter wheat anil a to acreage In corn unit cotton. It Is also important that prices of Iron ami te'l pro.lucts promptly advance. In huh wer to the stoppacn of soar works throuah strike sineo U Indicates that tha r scent im provement in the apparent dem ind was of a substantial character. At IMttsbursh. Ullio. Philadelphia aul New York, prices have Generally vlvaiK-e.l. thousii ir regularly, and In bar Iro-i quota tions apjK-ar n shade weaker, llesemer ptir a advanced TS fonts to el. sfel t ll!"ts si to it W), ami plate u:tl i-truetunil Iron and sfel id wire rods aro stronccr. ;.:anv reason that the a lvanre may he maintained, at least for ntlme. lecauso cost will rise If strikes succeed, and if they fall. Kvnuso of the demonstrated existence of a demaml. substantially equal to tho full product of works thus far started. Tn.' shots imlutrv. which has fallen leh!nt the shipments of Inst year only 1.' per ceut. In April. Is soniewhit les a- tivi ihm or late. iui fair tmslrje.ss Is rejxirb'd iu heavy sues. ami some Improvement in the demand for women's wear. Another point of encouracemeut Is the heavy buying of wool, amounting to G W.'.foi pounds for the week nfthe three chief markets, azainsi I fidi.u) last year: and In April sales were 2lWft- jKinnds aalast !r.!KKDo last year As thesi- sale have for years lieen in steady relation to the entire consumption of wool. lt Is fair to infer that. In -spite of the stoppare of nai? Important work, and Pi Mdte of uncertainties us to labor and as to Wzllation. consumption will continue lanre for ami) weeks at lr-ast. The enormous unsold stock of wheat, which has jnarte a lower nverace of prlcet In I-ehru are. .Mnr.-li iintl APrn man was ever Known in my previous month, has depressed May wheat to the lowest point oi record, althoush west ern receipts w"re iu-si-.o. azaiuv t:v vii last year, and Atl intlt exports l.l ia.s. asralns l.Sts.CMt) last year. The decline for spot nas iteen slight. with no rhanK" for Julv. Corn yielded a quarter, exports falllne suddenly 1 elow. while western receipts nearly doubled Iat year's, and pork products were lower. Cotton speculators, who have seen larver receipts f'oni plantations In April than a year airo. have lost faith and srlp with f.ivorlnc nccounls of acreage planted, and the price declined an eighth. Kailroad agreements promise itette r thins ns usual, tut the cross earnings of nil ro.ids reporting in April were 13.7 psr cent, less than last year, followlnc a decline or 15.0 In March and 11.0 in February. Such returns are but moderately cncournglu?. It Is more Impor tnnt that the Orett Northern xtrlke has ended, and that vigorous action bv the nu thorttlcs prevent- Interruption of other line by bands of tramp. In view of strike-' und pold exports it Is evidence of much contdcncc that railroad stocks have declined only 13 cents per $10) durin the week, while reports atout letri-Iatlon have lifted trust stocks C7 cents. notwithstanding legal proceedings 1-eun iu Illinois and threatened here. Money markets have not been disturbed by the Inrge outgo of gold, which was taken mainly from the treasury through redemption of notes. The continued flow of unemployed money hither Is not a sign of health, nor the outgo of gold. Instead of wheat at CI cents, or cotton at 7 3. The demaml for commercial loans of the better class does not Increase, but there are more numerous applications for loans on questionable paper from the Interior. A CRITICAL SITUATION. The Miners Alone the Mrnnli Kangn OiiIt Kent from Yloleiien by the lreeure of TriHip. ViRGiNMA, Minn., May 4. The situation is still critical along the Mesaba range, but the miners have kept them' selves in the background to-day in the face of state troops and SL Louis county deputies. The one exciting event'of the day was the departure of thirty miners, armed with rilles and shotiruns. for Mountain Iron, for the purpose of preventing the opening of the mines there. A telegram from that point to-night says they were suc cessful in this. A company of state militia will go to that point to-morrow morning. The men at the Olive mine and Draka fc .Stratton's went to work under pro tection this morning, and have not been molested. The strikers are ugly and are restless and nervous. They are mostly Philanders and desperate. The miners have threatened to blow up the militia with dynamite during the niirht. hut Capt, llidwell has out such a stromr nicket line that it will be impossible for the strikers to reach the main body of the men. The Franklin mine men say they will organize as soon as the troops leave and shut down all the Mesaba retrlon mines again unless their de mand for SI. .Mi a day is granted. Do Not Wiuit In Strike. ItiniWAK, Minn.. May i. There is no strike in this locality. There was some talk of the Virginia strikers coin ing over here to force the Canton min ers to quit, but they nave not apnearcd. Although the wages are small the Canton miners do not want to strike. The Aohlnnd lMtrlc. Lkxinoto.v. Ky May ". An effort is being made to lind out the standing of the candidates for congress from the Ashland district, and a poll at Paris resulted as follows: Owens, IRS: P.rcckinrldge. 00: uncertain, 17. llourbon county will be the most strongly-con-tested county in the district. At North Middletown, in the sumo county, the poll resulted: Owens, 4R; Itrecklnrldgc, . It is thought K. K. Settle will witli draw from the rncc after next week. The polling here shows a majority for Hreckinrldgc, but his friends realize that his re-election is doubtfuL

RIOT AT SCOTTDALE, PA.

4 Itlnody Haiti at the PhIih,.,. Work Itrtwet'ii llvputlr ami StriUir. Two of the Heft-ndt'ra I'rnlt.ibl)- I ni,,, liijurt-tl. und nt Leist n Score n( ICIutrrs lleportf! Shot llmvii u, win' cliotrrn YVor Troultlo feared, Co.-.VK!.!.svilXK, hi., May r - ri Rt the Painter works, near Se.nH.ii,. resulted iu the wounding of ten stnU ers and serious injury to Stipt. j,lt and 11.11. Hoddy.tlu) book-keeper of t company. White and ltoddy wer., tet ribly beaten by the inob und butU nu, die. The plant htnrted up at ..ci.ie with about one-half of thecompl.-in,., of men. Two hours later tho stt,.u,, bogan to assomhle near the w-.rtt Stunt! of the inen ln-onine frightcutaud went home, hut most of them r inaiiied. About 0 o'clook a committee w; sent into the mine to rennest the nu to come out, anil, upon their ivfusji the mob, headed by a score oi hkt.women, attacked the plant. ltoddy, assisted by a dozen lep ties, stood guard, ami when the im came up with a rush, White lired p.,i blank into their ranks. A IIuiilm-:; woman fell with a bullet In her Ui Maddened by this, the mob, wi,j. nuniltcred a couple of hundred, c!..s in on the deputies, who, driven it. close quarters, and blinded bv t shower tif missiles, were unable to i: their Winchesters. After emptying their revolvers, tii tied and the inobsurroutnled Vliit- ;i ltoddy. A burly Hungarian atia.-k the latter with a hatchet, feilt him to the ground and was nix to ileal the deathblow when .lasTarr knocked the 1 1 Ungarin n b. with a club. While was dragged it the engine house to escape the iiu v the strikers. Hy this time the d.-i ties rallied and three volleys, wert- Si, in quick succession, forcing the tn .lt retreat over the hill in utter rout A number of strikers were earc from the battle-Held, and it is Wliv they were killed. Dr. W. M. ('..!,. company physician, states that lift, strikers went down in the Mi eharges. These men and one w..n were carried oil the ground af the ilr.t charge, and when the n llnally retreated they bore nwav least ten more. Three of them w left near the works. One of them shot through the thigh. ant through both legs, and the third I a bad wound in the groin. The affair has caused the most tense excitement here. It is f. the foreigners will avenge the of their countrymen, and that t.iibut the beginning of riots in all p; of lite region. It would not be prise to the people here shoul I strikers resort to the use of dynau tc blow up the works. Hupt. White was taken to the i nellsville hospital, and it is th;i he will not .survive. Kwing IN was orouglit to tins eitv -cared for. The foreigners were t ried to the adjoining house and e.t for by Drs. Rogers and Fetters, s! iff Richards of Favette county is u the scene of the battle with forty t armed with Winchesters, and hak ready arrested four persons char with being implicated in the riot The CMmmltlea Not so Nttmrroiis ThuuB lit Further Trouble. Frure.l .SroTTPAi.K. Pa., May .". anf White, the deputy sheriff who w -i badly beati.it during the riot at Pa er s. is at ins Home in Lonneusv and it is thought he is fatally inju E. It. Roddy, the bookkeeper, is i. serious Injured as was at fi est -posed, and will be able to leauhome in a day or two. It appears that only three of the rioters v fchot, two of them being arrested. The operators are still detenniiM start their works and the strikers as determined to prevent them if sible. The district olllclals have ceived no reply from the opera t" whom they sent letters inviting t to meet this morning at 10 o'clock. the indications are that there wi. no conference. The operators now elaiiu thai M tv-four of the plants made idle bv strikers will be started, but the 1; leaders claim that the strike ren practically solid from Fair Chanc Mount Pleasant. Those who liav turned to work an; nearly all Hug speaking men, and this fact fur enrages the foreign element, who determined to remain out to the Late last night It was reported ltlidney's men ntMoycr had deeid quit work. There will likely be tro at this and other plants to-day. AN ALARMING SITUATIO.' Striking Cokcr .nc inhibit: Iti-nt MIrhlt-r-Thf Ktt-lt-iii-ii t Intro-" CoNNKU.ytM.K, Pa., May 4. -Tin uation is very alarming in this sec of the coke region to-night. Mob' asvembltng in the Vanderbilt re anil at the Moycr plant, preparing an attack to-morrow morning formidable display of deputies in t tedious Inst night frightened the v ers, and they concluded to wait a i favorable opportunity. To-night sounded the tocsin for the rensscml of the mob, and the strikers arc u ered at the points agreed upon, companies have armed a large f-ri men. and are fully prepared to r the attack. The Dunbar Furnace Co. will tempt to lire up Hill Farm plan morrow morning Their stock of is exhausted and the works tint' tired up or the furnace banked. A large force of armed men will t the works at midnight. The work will go to work at :l o'clock morning but no trouble is e.p'cte fore R or (1 o'clock. The Dunbar strikers haveh-en most determined In resisting tl tempts of the operators, and will u an attack If Hill Farm Is fired up The Painter riot has stirred til foreign elements. The Hs Slavs are maddened at the slaugut' thc'.r countrymen and have Kc bio.! thirsty. They have resolved i revenge. One of the leaders mh'J1 this eveninp Unit the most ' cenes of the strike are yet to c