Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 July 1894 — Page 2

(The ?ikc Countg § fworrat M KcC. STOOPS, Editor audJProprietotPETER SDURG, - - INDIANA The marriage of the crarowit* to the Princess Alex of Hesse will take place in January,'"'! It is estimated that 2,000,000 people Witnessed the procession of the Carnot funeral eortetpe to Notre Daiwe and the Pantheon on the 1st. Prop. Dean, of Oxford (England) university, was found dead in his bed, on the morning of the ?d, having died during the nightof apoplexy. iKtlie New York tax list, montly "completed, the estate of W. H t anderhilt is assessed at $8,000,Wf*0, and that of Jay Gould at $10,000,00*. Brokers McCarthy and Chapman, "who refused to answer questions before »the Sugar irvestigating "committee, ■were arraigned in court at U ashington «on the 2d. ^ The houst, on the 1st, disposed of a "question of ’much interest to postmasters, being’the allowance of third-class .salary te fourth-class postmasters where such oflices have done a thirdclass business. The failures in the United States, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., for the week ended on the 6th, were 181, as against 334 for the corresponding week of last year. In Canada the failures were 34. against 23 last year. \ —---*- s Ten’houses were destroyed and twen-ty-five were badly damaged in lludaPesth, on the 2d, by a fire which caused a loss of 500,000 ilorins. During the fire a wall fell, killing two policemen and injuring several firemen. The Cincinnati lViee Current says there will probably be 475,000.000 bushels in the total wheat crop this year, .and 65,000,000 bushels marketable surplus carried over, making the coming year's exportable surplus 160,000,000 ■ bushels. Mayor Hopkins, in the name of the ■city of Chicago, sent a telegram to •George M. Pullman, on the 5th, urging upon him the necessity of arbitration, and requesting him to return to that city and do all in his power to set•€le the great strike.

Ax Blue Island, 111., United States Marshal Arnold and his deputies, 'backed up by federal soldiers, commenced, on th* 4th, arresting every •person detected in the act of intimidating Rock Island employes, or known to have threatened life or property. On the 5th General Master Workman Sovereign received from Mr. Debs a forwarded telegram from Joseph Lee, master workman of District Assembly £2, embracing all Knights of Labor from Council Bluffs to San Francisco, requesting him to call out all the memf hers of that assembly at once. Judge Winde, of Chicago, entered a decree, on the 2d, presented to him by the United States district attorney, with the consent of the Gas trust, the effect of which is to absolutely dissolve the trust and compel the gas companies and individuals interested in the trust to operate their interests separately. A kiot, which it required the militia to quell,w'as caused at Butte, Mont., on the 4th, by two saloon-keepers decorating the fronts of their buildings with bunting forming the letters **A. P. A.” A special policeman was shot through the heart and instantly killed, and two other persons were seriously injured. A severe earthquake occurred in *Tokio and Yokohama. Japan, on June 20, * causing destruction of life and property. The ground cracked andt -•sunk. One hundred and seventy houses were thrown down. A disastrous fire broke out in Yokohama at 3 p. m., and was not extinguished until 7 o’clock. With the utmost informality and with not even a word of comment, the -tariff bill as it was passed, with amendments, by the senate, was, on the 6th, laid before the house by Speaker Crisp, and ordered to be printed and referred do the committeee on ways and means. • It came aoout in the regular order of Business, and was disposed of in only «o many words as were necessary to estate its title and destination. On the 2d Judges Wood and Grossnup, of the United States district court for the northern district of Illinois— which also includes the greater portion of Indiana and Wisconsin—issued an injunction restraining all strikers, their friends, sympathizers and those whom they may incite from interfering in any way with the transmission of the United States mails or with any interstate traffic either passenger or freight. Bxithe application of the torch of the incendiary another great fire occurred on the World's fair grounds at Chicago on the 5th. The Terminal station, Administration, Electricity, Mining and Agricultural buildings .and part of the Transportation building were destroyed, 800 acres being burned over. Many spectators of the seene of awful grandeur who had taken up a position^pn the moveable sidewalk had a narrow escape frdm death by fire or drowning, hut were happily rescued by boats. The strike situation in Chicago became truly desperate on Tthe 6th. Thousands of frenzied strikers and tlieirs sympathizers went from point to point applying the torch to cars and other railroad property. Hundreds of freight ears, many of them loaded with valuable freight, were burned. One fliq company responded to over sixty calls during the twenty-four hours until horses and men were completely i exhausted. The local and military anthorities seemed utterly unable to control the mob or to afford protection tf> persons and property *

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IK BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. THE senate was not in session on the 30th.... In the house, after objection had been made to the consideration of carious bills by unanimous consent, committees were called for reports. and the readjustment of salaries and allowances of postmasters at Guthrie and Kingfisher, ORla., was taken up. but withdrawn without action. Twenty-nine pension and desertion bills were passed, and the senate amendments to the house bill fixing and defining the units of ndetrioal measurements were concurred in. In the senate, on the 2d, the amendments to the tariff bill, agreed to in committee of the whole, occupied almost the entire session—the ] great mass of them (those on which no special votes were called for) being agreed to in bulk. An amendment offered by Mr. Hill, making the repeal of the sugar bounty take effect on the passage of the act. was agreed to. The sugar schedule was then passed without further amendment. The railroad troubles In the west were the subject of two resolutions bearing on the eocstion of federal authority in the matter of moving trains .In the house a resolution directing the commissioner of labor to investigate and report upon the conditions attending the employment of women and children, their wages, sanitary surroundings and cost of living, wass passed. In the senate, on the 3d. the tariff bill, amended to take effect August 1, IBM. was passed—39 to 34—by a strict party vote, except Mr. Hill <dem. JJ. Y.), who voted with the republicans against the measure. The populists divided their strength. Messrs. Kyle and Allen voting in favor of the bill, and Messrs. Peffer and Stewart against it. Previous to the final voce, several amendments were disposed of, that of exempting salaries of United States judges and the president being defeated—34 to 36.The house was not in session on the 3d. Thu senate was not in session on the 5th.... In the house Secretary Cox of the senate appeared and announced the passage,, with amendments, of the tariff bill by the senate, and asked the house to agree to a conference on those amendments. The bill was laid on the speaker's table. Some bills of minor importance were passed, and the bill permitting states und territories to tax greenbacks and treasury notes the same as other forms of money and personal property are taxed, was taken up. and its discussion occupied the remainder of the session Ik the senate, on the 6th, during a session of tout one hours’ duration, several bills were passed, including the one continuing the employment of mechanics and laborers at the several navy yards, pending the passage of the naval appropriation bill.' Several bills referripg to the great railway strike were offered and referred.In the house the tariff bill was laid before the members by Speaker Crisp and ordered to be printed and Yeferred to the committee on ways and means. The bill to permit states and territories to tax greenbacks and treasury notes was passed—171 to 41. Several bills of minor importance were passed during the morning hour.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. On the 30th the Cook county (111.) grand ju»v indicted Edward Corrigan, John Brener, J. Burke and Joseph Ullman, of the Hawthorne race track, Chicago, and President Wheeler of the Washington park track. The charge against each is maintaining a gaming place. 1 Requiem services in honor of the late M. Carnot were held, on the 1st, in most of the leading cities of Europe and were attended by the French diplomats stationed in the various cities. Memorial services were also held in New York and Washington. The jury in Judge Payne’s court, at Chieago, after two hours’ deliberation returned a verdict, on the 3d, finding Patrick Eugene Prendergast not insane or a lunatic, and therefore responsible for the murder of Carter Harrison. If ho other legal technicality intervenes the assassin will be hanged on the 13th. Three lines of railroad were forced, on the 1st, to abandon their tracks at East Atchison, Mo., on account of encroachment by the river. Vice-President Harahan, of the Illinois Central Railroad Co., on the 30th, gave George M. Pullman a most unmerciful scoring on account of his responsibility for the prevailing costly railroad troubles, declaring that if he looked into his affairs mare and took the word of sycophantic subordinates less such a state of affairs might not have come about. The effects of the great railroad strike were beginning to be felt seriously with the opening of the month in Chicago and other cities dependant upon outside supplies of food stuffs, the prices of many commodities, by reason of the real or anticipated scarcity. having been raised to almost prohibitive figures. The national administration, on repaee sen tat ion of the railways, has appointed Edwin Walker, attorney of the St. Paul road, to assist United States Attorney Milchrist, at Chicago, in prosecuting offenders against the postal laws. A train on the Florence & Cripple Creek railroad went through a bridge, Hear Canyon City, Col., on the 2d, and a laborer was killed. The noticeable feature of the spreading of the railroad strike in support of the Pullman boycott, was the organization, on the 1st, of a strong A. R. U. division in Philadelphia. Closing arguments were made in the Prendergast insanity trial, in Chicago, ob the 2d, Mr. Harlan, for the defense, making the opening speech. He closed with the declaration that Prendergast was no more insane than the assassin of President Carnot of Franee. Mr. Morrison spoke for the state and Mr. Darrow closed for the prisoner. The senate passed the sugar schedule, on 'the 2d, practically as it was adopted in committee of the whole. The executive board of the Chicago Trades and Labor assembly were, on the night of the 1st, given power to declare a. strike in all the branches of trade in the city in support of the Pullman strike. According to a treasury statement issued on the 3d, the pubiie debt, interest and non-interest bearing, is $1,016,807.816. The people's state convention of Wisconsin, held at Milwaukee, on the 4th, nominated D. R. Frank Powell, of LaCrosse, for governor. The populists of Michigan, in convention at Lansing, on the 4th, nominated A. W. Nichols, of Greenville, for governor. By the premature explosion of a cannon fire-craeker in Detroit, Mich., on the 4th, George Boyer was fatally burned and George Ficke was made totally blind. Both were boys.

The Southern Railway Co. hel**4 ]fg vestibuled limited twenty minu* M Washington, on the night of th e 3^ }n order to enable Viee-Presiden t Stevenson to catch the train after t'M passage of the tariff bill. The ^president, with his daughters and se a(mI friends, were booked for Green' j|*r>ro N C bv this train for the Four ^ The mother of the, Gen. Boulanger died in Paris, oA ^ aged 92. The latest proj^jjtfor a monument in which the peopj^^f Washington are to be interested is in memory of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame. The monument is not to be in Washington, but on the site of the old John Brown fort a*c Harper's Ferry. A committee has been appointed, of which Fred Douglass is one of the members, to solicit subscriptions. Forty dwelling houses were destroyed with their contents at Hudson, Mass., on the 4th. The firemen worked with a will, but their efforts were in vain, and it was finally found necessary to blow up a number of houses to save the town from destruction. The loss is estimated at between 8750,000 and $1,000,000, mostly insured. Ex-Gov. Edward B. Winans died at his home in Hamburg, Mich., on the 4th, of heart disease. While he had not been in good health for several < months, the attack which proved fatal was sudden and of short duration. Frank Benadavm, convicted of the murder of Laraanuel Bailey, at Muneie, Ind., was refused a new trial by Judge Monks, and judgment passed on him. He will go to the state prison north to spend a term of fifteen years at hard labor. On the 5th Maj.-Gen. Schofield authorized Maj.-Gen. Miles to send six companies of regular infantry from Fort Leavenworth. Kas.. and two companies of regular infantry from Fort Brady, Mich., to .Chicago. By the assistance of United States marshals, the Chicago & Alton road got 2,000 blockaded passengers out of Bloomington, 111., on the night of the 4th. The packing of hogs, according to the Cincinnati Price Current for the week ended on the 4th, amounted to 240,000, against 260,000 for the corresponding week of last year. The Santa Fe railroad raised the blockade in Colorado, on the 5th, on both freight and passenger trains. Advices from Hayti, of the 5th, state that a revolution in that country is imminent. Jack Leach, a Pueblo (Col.) bartender, refused drinks to a United States marshal, on the 5th, and stepped out on the sidewalk to talk. R. E. Taylor, a deputy, fearing violence, shot Leach in the left eye, the mao dying in an hour.

the ways ana means committee 01 the St. Louis school board estimates the cost of maintaining the schools the coming year at $1,590,113.40 and the income at $1,600,478.25, leaving an estimated balance of $10,864.85. The lumber yards of J. H. Worden, at Cedar Springs, Mich., caught fire on the 6th, and were completely destroyed. Two million feet of lumber were burned. The loss is covered by insurance. Dealers at Galveston, Tex., wired their congressman, on the 6th, asking him to seeure some consideration foi wool in the tariff bill from the conference committee. The keeper and guard at the St Joseph (Mo.) workhouse were indicted, on the 7tli, for falsifying the pay rolls. The Louisiana legislature passed a bill, on the 7th, authorizing sheriffs to maintain and use bloodhounds is tracking criminals. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The senate was not in session on the 7th.......In the house the tariff bill was reported back from the committee on ways and means, with the recommendation that the house non-coneur in the senate amendments and agree to a conference. There was not a dissenting vote on the motion to non-concur. Speaker Crisp appointed as conferees on the part of the house Messrs. Wilson, McMillin, Turner and Montgomery, democrats, and Messrs. Reed and Burrow’s, republicans. Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, announced the death of his colleague, Mr. Lisle, and the house adjourned. President Cleveland issued a proclamation, on the 8th,. reciting the trc-a-bles existing in the state of Illinois and especially in the city of Chicago, by reason of the Pullman boycott and railway employes’ strike, and warning all innocent persons to keep aloof from riotous gatherings, and thus avoid the danger incident to a performance of thier duty byjfederal soldiers called out to protect life and property under the care of the government. A mob of 200 hungry miners from Spring Valley, 111., invaded the town of Ladd on the 8th. They looted all the stores in the place. A general store with a $3,000 stock was left empty. The defense of the looters was that they were hungry. They were Poles and Bohemians. The sheriff of Bureau county called for troops, but the governor told him to get a posse. It was reported at the General Managers’ association headquarters, on the 8th, that a mob was burning cars and committing other depredations on the Panhandle tracks at Twenty-first street. Chicago. The police were at once notified. The Twenty-first street crossing is nearer to the business center of the city than any point at which trouble had hitherto occurred. During a fight between the police and a mob at Fifty-third street, Chicago, on the 7th, the officers being slowly pressed back received orders to fire. The crowd carried off their dead, if any, and wounded, but several clots of blood on the tracks after the battle showed that some of the bullets took effects Four of the rioters were arrested. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 7th shows the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $2,668,625; loans, increase, $13,709,400; specie, decrease, $1,263,400; legal tenders, increase, $2,409,000; deposits, increase, $15,260,500; circulation, decrease, $646,700.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Columbus, the case of the state vs. Cyrus Brown, for shooting and killing his wife August 19. 1893, who was convicted and sentenced to be hanged April 10 last, but granted a new hearing by the supreme court, has been set for trial the first day of the next term Df the circuit court, September 24. Three homing pigeons traveled from Anderson to Elwood, 18 miles, in 17 minutes. Three masked men entered the home of Albert Renhaus, at Leo, Allen county, the other evening at 9 o'clock, and threatened Mrs. Renhaus. She called to her husband, who was about j to retire. When Mr. Renhaus entered the room the intruders fired on him. One bullet entered his neck and two ^others entered his right breast near the heart. The masked men turned and left the house and physicians were called to attend Renhaus. .The man can not live. No reason is assigned for the crime, as Renhaus is an Ornish farmer who was never known to have had an enemy. No clew whatever to the desperadoes. Mrs. Emklink Dotson, aged 60, has brought suit for divorce from her husband, Alexander Dotson, aged 70, at Goshen. Hiram Cooper was caught in a jam at Ardmore park, Indianapolis, by people struggling to get on the cars, and he was thrown underneath the wheels. He died in the city hospital, at which institution he was born fourteen years agflfe The storm did §.*>,000 damage at Richmond. Seymour is pining for a fire-alarm system. Jeffersonville's street railway system will probably be sold. Edward Stallman, aged 9. was drowned in the Ohio river at Evansville. Benjamin G. Perkins, the Linden agent for the American Express Co., the Monon and Clover Lead railroad at Crawfordsville, was arrested on complaint of F. G. Fargo, general manager of the express company, charged with the embezzlement of a large sum of money. Perkins has acknowledged his guilt. Fire destroyed St*. Ann's Roman Catholie Church, Terre Haute, a frame structure, doing damage to the extent of about $5,000. Last mass had been celebrated, and the congregation had been dismissed half an hour before the janitor discovered the blaze in the rear j of the altar.

Alphonses Cloutier, a teacher m St, John's school (Catholic), Indianapolis, was awarded damages of $15,000 against the Consumers’ Trust Gas Co. by a jury. The plaintiff suffered permanent injury, including blindness, by an explosion of natural gas in the cellar of the school. He went into the eellar and struck a match, which ignited the gas and blew him into a corridor. It was shown that the gas had leaked from the defendant company’s mains into the cellar. The crew of a Lake Shore freight train had an exciting experience the other night at a point midway between New Carlisle and South Bend. A number of tramps boarded the train. Their appearance was the signal for a general discharge of revolvers. After a lively fusilade the tramps attacked three persons riding on the train, and. notwithstanding resistance, succeeded in robbing their victims of all valuables. One man was slightly injured. Miss Lizzie Glendenning, aged 19 years, was found dead from self-poi-soning, the other morning, at the home of her parents, near Seymour. In a note she stated that her despondency •was due to betrayal and desertion by a young man of Seymour. Two women have been arrested charged with blackmail at Anderson. Fifty-nine students graduated from the state normal school at Terre Haute. Over 1,000,000 bricks will be used in paving La Porte's streets this season. Henry Kleinsciimidt, a well known confectioner of Indianapolis, after dinner the other day. at his home, remarked to his wife that he would take a nap. His wife soon after found him with a handkerchief over his face, which she attempted to remove. Mr. Kleinschmidt objected, and she turned away. Almost instantly she heard him gasping for breath, but before she could reach him he was dead. There is a supposition that he committed suicide, with morphine and prussic acid, and, an autopsy has been ordered. Kleinschmidt was a prosperous business man. lie had previously attempted to kill himself. Mrs, Daniel Etcuison, of Indianapolis, was the mother of sprightly twins, six months old. One child was taken violently ill and died in a few hours. Without knowing that the trouble lay in some condensed milk it had been fed on the other child was fed from the same can and its death followed. The coroner found the cause to be toxine poisoning. John North way, one of the old-time contracting plasterers of Indianapolis, while overseeing the work of his employes, suddenly reeled forward and died. He was 60 years old. The cause was due to a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. . 1 The republicans of the Twentyeighth judicial district nominated J. J. Todd, of Bluffton, for judge. C. W. Kennair, of Montpelier, was named for prosecuting attorney. A CASE-resembling smallpox has de veloped at Hudson. John Day, of Shelbyville, a painter, went to the city cemetery and swallowed a half ounce of laudanum. Out of work. Mrs. Mary Gerhart and daughter, Miss Ollie Quinn, have been -placed under arrest by the Anderson authorities They have been levying a tax cn at least a dozen of the wealthy merchs nts and farmers in the county. They are also wanted by the authorities at Danville, Lebanon, Muncie, Kokomo, Hartford City, Logansport and Madison. They came from Findlay, 0., to Anderson.

PROTEST AND APPEAL. Ikt AmrrlcM Xftllwmy Union nnd Knight* of Labor Present Their Cnae to Pfeeldent Cleveland as the Statement of LongSuffering and Starving Laboring Men Against Grasping and Grinding Corporate Employer*. Chicago, July 8.—After consultation between the board of directors of the American Railway union and General Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor, the following was sent to Washington last evening: Chicago. July 7. ISM. To Horn. Grocer Clevelawl, President of the United States, Executive Mansion. Washington, D. C.: Dear Sir:—Through a long period of depression. enforced idleness and low wages, resulting in widespread poverty, and in many cases actual starvation, the working people have been patient and law-abiding, and not until the iron heel of corporate tyranny was applied with the intention to subjugate the working people to the will of arrogant monopolies did they make any effort to stay their oppressors. The Pullman strike was not declared until the employes of the Pullman company were driven to the verge of starvation, their entreaties spurned with contempt, and their grievances denied a hearing. So refusal to handle Pullman cars was declared by any railway employe until all propositions looking towards arbitration and conciliation were rejected by the Pullman company. Notwithstanding the facts set forth above, which were known to the public and the national authorir ties.-you have seen fit, under thejguise of protecting the mails and federal-property, to invoke the service of the United States army, whose very presence Is used to coerce and intimidate peaceable working people into a humiliating obedience to the will of their oppressors. By your acts, in so far as you have supplanted civil and state authorities with the federal military power, the spirit of unrest and distrust has so far been augmented that a deep-se^ed conviction is fast becoming prevalent that this government is soon to be declared a military despotism. The transmission of the United States mails is not interrupted by the striking employes of any railway company, but by the railway companies themselves, who refuse to haul the mails on trains to which Pullman cars were not attached. If it is a criminal interference with the United States mails for the employes of a railway company to detach from a mail train a Pullman palace car. contrary to the will of the company, then it holds true that it is the same criminal interference whenever a Pullman palace car is detached from a mail train in accordance with the will of a railway company, while said mail train is in transit. The line of criminality in such case should not be drawn at the willingness or unwillingness of railway employes, but at the act itself, and. inasmuch as it has been the common practice of railway corporations to attach and detach from mail trains Pullman palace cars at will, while said trains are in transit and carrying the mails of the United States, it would seem an act of discrimination against the employes of the railway corporations to declare such acts unlawful interference with the transmission of the mails, when done by employes, with or without the consent of their employers.

in view or inese racis we iook upon me rarfetched decision of Attorney-General Olney, the un -American injunctions against railway Imployes and the movements of the regular army as employing the powers of the general government for the support and protection of the railway corporations in their determination to degrade and oppress their employes. The present railway strike was precipitated by the desire of the railway corporations to destroy the organizations of their employes and make the working people more subservient to the will of their employers: and as all students of government agree that free institutions depend for their perpetuity upon the freedom and prosperity of the common people, it would seem more in consonanoo with the spirit of democratic government if federal authority was exercised in defense of the rights of the toiling masses to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But. on the contrary, there is not an instance on record where in any conflict between the corporations and the people, the strong arm of the military power has been employed to protect the working people and the industrial masses from the ravages and persecution of corporate greed. But the measure of character has been in the line of declaring the corporations always good and in the right, and the working people always bad and in the wrong. Now, sir. we pledge to you the power of our respective organizations individually and collectively for the maintenance of peace and good order, and the preservation of life and property, and will aid in the arrest and punishment of all violators of the Civil and criminal laws of the state or nation. In the present contest between labor and railway corporations we shall use every peaceable and honorable means at our command consistent with the law and our constitutional rights, to secure for the working people just compensation for labor done and respectful consideration in accordance with the inherent rights of all men and the spirit of republican government. In doing so wo appeal to all the liberty-loving people of the nation to aid and support us in this most just and righteous cause. The American Raulway Union. By Eugene V. Debs, President. Order or the Knights or Labor, J. R. Sovereign, General Master Workman. THE MOB AT SPRING VALLEY. Further Depredations by Anarchistic Foreigners Fired by Free Whisky. Spring Valley, 111., July 7.—Emboldened by being' uninterrupted in their looting expedition last night, the vicious mob of foreign anarchists committed more depredations- yesterday, and being filled up with the beer and whisky that saloonkeepers have given them in response to their demands and their threats they are tonight in a condition to do any act of violence. Since early morning the mob of 1,000 men and women has terrorized the citizens. This afternoon the mob went to Samuel Horner's butcher shop and demanded meat. The proprietor refused, and then the mob rushed in, beat the men in charge, compelled them to cut up the meat and then helped themselves until all the stock was gone. 'The mob then turned its attention to grocery stores, and at several they were given provisions. Those who refused to give goods to the mob were threatened with looting, and it is probable that the next twenty-four hours will see the destruction of these stores. It is reported that 200 men from this place are on the way to Ladd, a little mining town four miles distant, to loot the coal company's store at that place. ? -*- Incendiary Mobs at Work in Chicago— The Firemen Exhausted. Chicago, July 8.—SupL Fitzgerald of the Stock Yards Transit Co, stated this morning that a mob set the big hay barn belonging to the Stock Yards Co. on fire. This barn is an immense structure, and was supposed to be fireproof. The loss will reach at least $30,000. Mobs began the work of burning freight cars on the .Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road again this morning. Fires were started In box cars at Sixteenth and Paulina streets, at Sixteehth and Reber streets and other points

A PROCLAMATION. President Cleveland brae* a Warning «•* Q Innocent Bystander* to Remain Peaee- ' ably In Their Homes and Thus Avoid Dangers Incident to the Suppression of Mob Role by Soldiers of the l al ted States Army. Washington, July 9,—At a late hourlast night President Cleveland issued the following proclamation: W H eke as. By reason of-unlawful obstructions, combinations, and assemblages of persons. it has become impracticable, in, the judgment of the president, to enforce, by,the ordinary course'of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States within the state of Illinois, and especially within the city of Chicago within said state: and Whereas. For the purpose of enforcing the faithful execution of the laws of the United States and protecting its property and removing obstructions to the United States mails in the state and city aforesaid, the president has here employed a part of the military forces of the United States; Now. therefore, I. Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, do hereby admonish all good citizens and all persons against aiding, countenancing, encouraging, or taking any partin such unlawful obstructions, combinations, and assemblages; and I hereby warn all persons engaged in. or in any way connected with, such unlawful obstructions, combinations and assemblages, to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 18o'clock noon on the 9th day of July. Tnose who disregard this warning and persist in taking part with a riotous mob in forcibly resisting and obstructing theexecntion of the laws of the United States, or with inters fering with the functions of the government, or destroying or attempting to destroy he property belonging to the United States or unf der its porteetion. cannot be regarded other* wise than as public enemies. Troops employed against such a riotous mob will act with all the moderation and forebearance consistent with the accomplishment of the desired end: but the stem necessities that confront them will not certainly permit discrimination against guilty "participants and those who are mingled with them from curiosity and without criminal intent. The only safe course, therefore, for those hot actually unlawfully participating is to abide at, their homes, or at least not to be found in the neighborhood of riotous assemblages. While there will be no hesitation or vacillation in the treatment of the guilty, this warning is especially intended to protect and save the innocent. _ . In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed." Done at the City of Washington this eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thoiissand eight hundred and ninety-four and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighteenth. [Signed.] Grover Cleveland. By the president; Walter Q. Gresham. r Secretary of State. The proclamation was communicated to Gen. Miles by Secretary Lamont who telegraphed as follows: In view of the provisions of the statute and of the purpose of giving ample warning to all innocent and well-disposed persons the president has deemed it best to issue the accompany-, ing proclamation to-night. This does not change the seope of yonr authority* and duties nor vour relations to the local authorities. You will please make this know to Mayor Hopkins.

Can’t Sec the Need of It. Chicago, July 8.—Mayor Hopkins •vas this evening shown the President’s proclamation. After perusing the manuscript carefully he said: “I do not understand the necessity for this action. I have been around Chicago in every part of it for thirteen hours. I find everything quiet. There has been no mob, no conflict with the local authorities, and no disturbance generally. What trouble has occurred to-day seems to be over the border line in Indiana. At the same time, I am not prepared to comment on or criticise the president's proclamation. DEBS’ DEFI. The President of the American Railway Union Keeps on Talking. Chicago, July 8.—President Debs in an interview with a United- Press reporter last evening said, in speaking of the riots and shooting by the troops: “You can say that I greatly deplore the rioting and disturbances, and regret the shooting down of men who, I am informed, were really in a part of the mob that caused the trouble, I certainly do deplore this most unfortunate occurrence. Yet it cannot be said they injure our cause. Any mob is dangerous. You can find a crowd Of people assembled through curiosity to look upon some sight. Some little thing will start a crowd, some trivial, unimportant matter, and perhaps before a realization of the act itself or the consequence there is a riot. Innocent people have probably gathered together as spectators and jammed in the crowd are in no wise to blame* for the trouble ensuing or in no manner interested beyond being spectators. Yet with a rush comes the riotous demonstration, and even disinterested and indifferent bystanders are suddenly; aroused by that terrible power of a mob and frantically participate in whatever is done. I cannot say that the strikers are to blame in this matter—ip fact, I am confident that they were in nonvise instigators of the trpubie. “No, I do not think that I or my associates are responsible. Corporate power and the unwise action of the government are solely responsible, Mid this will certainly be borne out, by the facts. “In regard to the reports that I am to be arrested I have nothing to say. If I have many way violated a municipal, state or federal law, I am willing to stand the consequence and take my medicine. I am sure I have done nothing in violation of the law. No, I will not go to jail if arrested upon a bailable charge. I can tell you this: I can furnish two million dollars bail in two minutes if necessary. I have engaged a lawyer on the strength of the reports of impending arrest, and will fight the matter to the end. WRECKED AT WANN. Fatal Accident to the Big: Four New York » Express From St. Bonis. St. Louis, July 9.—The Big Four New York express train that left here at 8 o’clock p. m. ran into a freight, train at Wann, 111., fifteen miles north, of East St. Louis, at 8:45 p. m. Oliver Davis, the fireman, received mortal injuries and the engineer was seriously hurt. The freight train had not pulled far enough onto the switch to allow the express tc pass and the ia boose of the freight train was shattered. ’ •