Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — Page 7

BULLETS AND BLOOD.

PROGRESS OF THE GREAT PELLMAS STRIKE. Great Riots at Chicago, Sensing ton and Hammond. United States Regulars and State Troops to the Rescue—Many Fatalities. JGreat dissatisfaction exists at A. R. U. headquarters at Chicago because of the quiet attitude of the strikers at Indianapolisand throughout Indiana. It was announced, Tuesday morning that fifty agitators had left Chicago for Indianapolis to stir up the “weak kneed" and bring matters to a crisis. Police were at once ordered to take extra precautions to receive these men. Great uneasiness existed at the Union Station alt Monday l ight and double guard was on duty. ,y' 1 a. m. Tuesday, a general strike Gig Four firemen from Cincinnati to St Louis was announced. It went into effect at midnight and involves more than one hundred men. A provision was made in the order to strike that all mail trains should be allowed to run without interruption, the Strike affecting freight firemen more particularly, At Chicago, Monday, the principal event of interest was the annonneement that at an all-night session of the allied trades unions, which ended„at 4 a. m. Monday, a general strike was ordered to take effect at 4 p. m. Tuesday, unless George M. Pullman should have agreed before the meridian of that day to settle the differences between his company and his striking employes by arbitration or otherwise. Grand Master Sovereign, however, decided to postpone the walkout until 7 o'clock Wednesday morning. Late Monday afternoon it was announced that President Gompers had called a meeting of the executive committee A. F. L. for Thursday at Chicago, and it was supposed that no radical measures would be inaugurated until after that meeting iiad indorsed the action taken by the allied unions. At 2 p. m. Monday a joint committee of the federated unions ofrGbicago called on Vice-Presicent Wfckos, of the Pullman company, and asked him to consent to the appointment of a committe of live citizens whose functions should be not those as arbitration, but to determine whether or not the Pullman company has anything to arbitrate. The committee, as proposed, was to consist of two citizens chosen by the Pullman company, two by the Circuit Judges, and one by these four. At the close of the interview Mr« Wickes retired with his attorney and returning after a brief consultation declared that the company could not receive the proposed committee. Regulations which prevailed in the government building at Chicago, Monday, were a near approach to martial law. Deputy marshals wero stationed on every floor and everybody was challenged who could not show that he had business in the building. More than 1,030 additional federal troops arrived Tuesday, morning, and railway business, it is believed, can »oon be resumed. The Central Labor Union, at Indianapalis, Monday night, indorsed the strike and voted to extend moral support aud financial aid to the American Railway Union in its manly struggle for the rights of labor. Ex-Union soldiers held a mass meeting at Indianapolis, Monday night. Patriotic speeches were made by Ex-Gov. Chase, lien. McGinnis, Thomas llanna, Gen. Carnahan and others. The following resolutions were passed unanimously in the midst of great applause and enthusiasm: lle it Resolved, That we, the comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic and Hx-Unjon soldiers, residents of tlv eity of Indianapolis, in mass conventioir assembled, do hereby express our unqualified disapproval of the riotous and unlawful demonstrations that have been and are now being carried on in different portions of the country. We do further denounce all parties engaged in said disturbances, and in the destruction of property and in the hindrance to travel and commerce, saying and believing that such unlawful conduct marks the perpetrators as enemies of our country and unworthy the lympathy of loyal and law-abiding jfftL tens. Resolved, That we, as Ex-Union soldiers regardless of political affiliations, but believing that loyalty to the United States, and obedience to the laws of the land are the crowning virtues of American citizen* ship, do most heartily indorse the loyal ana patriotic conduct of President Cleveland in his efforts to supprms the present riots throughout the country: and as citizens of tho State of Indiana and all her loyal peoplo have been honored in the patriotic course pursued throughout this crisis by our governor. Claude Matthews and Mayor Denny, our most earnest support in their efforts to preserve the peace, protect property and enforce the laws of the land, and do now tender our service to aid in preserving the peace und protecting property. A mass meeting of citizens at Hammond, Monday night, passed strong resolutions dtuf&tincing the use of the Federal troofjp and characterizing the shooting on Sunday as an unnecessary and uncalled for outrage. A demand was made on Senators and Representatives to use their influence to compel the government to pay damages to the family of Charles Floscher. Gov Altgold's course was also indorsed. The coroner, Monday, held an inquest on the body of Charles Floscher, who was killed by the soldiers, Sunday, and his verdict was that the “decedent came to his death by accident, occasioned by soldiers of Company 1), Fifteenth Infantry, U. S. A., shooting wantonly and carelessly into a crowd of peaceable citizens.” Federal troops were withdrawn from Hammond. Monday, nnd the Indiana militia is now in sole control of the local situation. All mail trains passing through, however, are guarded witli United States regulars. Gov. Matthews. Monday, received at least one hundred telegrams tendering mffitary aid. Gen, Lew Wallaco sent the following telegram: “If, in your praiseworthy intention to keep the peace by enforcing the laws, you see I can bo of service to you, please consider me at your orders. The Governor replied as follows: Thanks for your words of approval and tender of aid. I have faith In the intelligence and patriotism of our people to render unnecessary a call outside of the present organized force to restore peace and enforce laws. None, however could give better aid than they who so bravely fought to preservo all. Major Doxoy, from Anderson, sent the following: To Governor Matthews—ls an emergency arise, which I hope will not. my service with a thousand mounted men men from the gas Helds is at your disposal lo protect life, liberty and property. I onlv want forty-eight hours to mount and organize ready for duty. These will

be good, honest workingmen that believe in law and ordeh C. T. Doxey. A mass meeting of ex-soldiers was held at Shelbyville, Monday night. Resolutions indorsing the action of Governor Matthews and tendering support were passed. The Governor also received'the following dispatch from Muncie: Williams Post, G. A. R.. heartily Indorses the President’s proclamation and your prompt action in the present crisis. It is resolved the majesty and supremacy of the law should be maintained at all hazards. Frank McGrath, Commander. Miners’ riots in the Grape Creek region, near Danville. HI.. Monday, resulted in a deadly volley from the State militia. Two women were killed. The soldiers intended to fire over the heads of the mob but made a miscalculation. Later in the day a fireman on tho Terre Haute road was killed by a stray shot at the Fairchild street crossing in Danville. This fatality resulted from a quarrel in a crowd that had assembled to see the train come in and was entirely accidental. The man who fired the shot was not apprehended. The killing of the two women so frenzied tho mob that they at once began to collect all the guns to be found in Westville and Grape Creek. These arms were stacked in one of the saloons at Grape Creek. What the final outcome will be can not be foretold.

John J. Hannahan, Vice Grand Master Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen, was arrested at Chicago, Tuesday. The complaint on which the warrant was issued charged that on July 7.Hannahan boarded an engine on the Western Indiana and induced the engineer, George Bradey, and the fireman, J. C. Trail, to leave the engine, thereby stopping the train. Hannahan was indignant when he was before the commissioner, and protested against being compelled to give 83,000 bail. “I don’t care for myself,” said he, “for I can give that amount. Don’testablish such a precedent.” When he was told that $3,000 was the usual bail, he said no more. Mayor Hopkins, at Chicago, Monday, announced that no labor meetings would be permitted until matters have quieted down. No serious trouble was reported in Chicago, Monday. The B. &O. brought in a heavy coal train during the day for tho water works under guard of United States soldiers.ZHad it not arrived when it did the water works would have been compelled to close down. Trouble broke out among the miners in Vermillion county, Monday evening, and Marshal Hawkins at Indianapolis received telegrams from the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road asking for deputies at Clinton and* Norton Springs and at Brazil. At Clinton 150 men took possession of the freight train, derailed three cars across the track, and drove the crew away. They said passenger trains could run, but no freights. Deputies were also asked for at New Albany and Evansville. The strike is a faiiuro at Milwaukee and the railway officials - stated that they had no trouble in handling trains. A correspondent of the Inter-Ocean at Alexandria Bay, N, Y., denies that Secretary Herbert has been there in consultation with Mr. Pullman. He obtained a written statement for the Inter-Ocean, but was denied an interview. The written statement by Mr. Pullman is as follows: There is no solution practicable unless those who wish to be employed at the Pullman shops realize and act upon the rule of business, that the aggregate cost of a piece of work must not exceed its selling price. A continuous violation of that rule must wreck tho Pullman shops or any other shops and permanently stop all work of -its employes. This company can not control the selling price of cars, and it cannot pay more for making them than it can contract to sell them for. It is impossible to submit to arbitration whether or not it shall be so, and that it shall be so is the only demand made upon the company.

Mayor Hopkins approves the President’s proclamation and telegraphed to the President to that effect. He denies having ever expressed dissatisfaction with tho Presideht's course. Congressman Hammond, in an interview at Washington, condemns the recent shooting of innocent spectators at Hammond in the :tr.) igest terms. Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, is trying to got all the Mayors in the country to unite with him in a petition to George M. Pullman to arbitrate. The President Monday evening, issued another proclamation similar to that of Sunday night, directed especially against strikers in the States of North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado and California, and tha Territories of Utah and New Mexico, and especially along the lines of such railroads traversing said States and Teritories as are military roads and post routes, warning them to disperse and cease from all unlawful acts and obstructions. A San Francisco dispatch, July 10, says that the strikers in that section of the country are fully armed audit is generally believed will resist the troops on all occasions, The A. 11. U. arsenal at Sacramtffito holds 1,600 rifles and plenty of shotguns and ammunition. In the face of this warlike attitude of the A. R. U. the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers tendered their services to tho railway companies and announced that they were ready to return to work. Superltendent Fillmore replied that the railway was not ready and promised tho men that he would notify them if he decided to accept their services.

An unknown man at Chicago attempted to kill Vice-President Wickcs, of the Pullman company, Tuesday, with an infernal machine. The Hig Four shops at Indianapolis closed down, Tuesday, because of the strike, throwing six hundred men oqt of employment. General Master Workman Sovereign, at Chicago, late Tuesday oven in", issued a proclamation calling on all Knights of Labor in America to quit their usual avocations and show their sympathy for the A. R. U. by refraining from all work until Mr. Pullman consents to arbitration. Mr. Sovereign denounces Pullman in strong terms and says the ilames of discord have beep fanned by railway corporations. In conclusion Mr. Sovereign says: If the present strike is lost to labor It will retard the progress of civilization and reduco tho possibility of labor to ever emancipate itself from the thralldom of greed. The dignity of labor and all tho victories won in the past are at stake in this conflict. I beseech you to be true to your obligations in this hour of trial. Court the co-operation of the generous public. Stand firm and united in our common cao«o and the victory will be one of peace and prosperity for the faithful. Mr. Debs also issued an address to the

,A. ,R. 0. Tuesday evening urging all strikers to absolutely refrain from acts of violence. Mr. Debs predicts that the stoppage of work will become general, asserting the people are with the strikers, who, he says, are merely contending for justice for their fellow-workingmen. Gen. Miles stated Tuesday evening that h(? did note look for any more serious trouble. Nor did he .believe there would be apy serious interruption of business from a general strike by organized labor. He stated that there were 50,000 union laborers in Chicago who might quit work, but that there were 200,030 men who work who belonged to no organization who had to work for a living, to say nothing of the tens of thousands of unemployed who could fill the places of every striker. A gang of incendiaries burned the Monon bridge over the Little Calumet river four miles south of Hammond, Tuesday. Gen. Robbins detailed Company E, of Elkhart, to go to that point, and a wrecking crew went along to rebuild the bridge. Twelve hundred people attended the funeral of Charles Fleischer, who was shot by tho U. S. troops, Tuesday afternoon. At Spring Valley, 111., Company C, of the Fifteenth regiment. State militia, came in collision with a mob of strikers, who attacked them viciously with stones. The soldiers finally fired into the mob killing two men' and wounding several. The mob was made up of Poles, Huns Lithuanians, and a few Italians. Tne situation in California became more dangerous, Wednesday. Twice during the day the troops were ambushed at Sacramento. Six hundred U. S. regulars arrived and went to the support of the State militia, but subsequently withdrew. They had no sooner left than strikers on the wharves opened fire on the militia. Two hundred shots were fired. A Japanese boy was killed accidentally, A train under guard of U. S’. regulars was derailed by strikers between Sacramento and Davisville. The engineer and three private soldiers were killed. Five other soldiers were dangerously injured. Harry Knox, leader of the strikers at Sacramento, is- | sued a statement denying, all knowledge |of the outrage, Col. Graham, in comj mand of the regulars issued orders extend - i ing the picket lines and placing the city practically under martial law. Two other trains were ditched at Oakland and great damage was done to railroad property at various points. The ultimate effect of the appeal issued by Grand Master Sovereign of the Knights of Labor, calling on all knights throughout the country to quit work, and the order issued about the same time by the representatives of allied labor in Chicago to do likewise, can not be foreseen. All that is now definitely known is that the Knights of Labor at all points heard from, including nearly all of the larger centers of population in the United States,remained at work, Wednesday, with practical unanimity, and that, in Chicago, tho number of members of the allied trades which remained at work so far outnumbered those who quit as to make no appreciable change in the industrial appearance of the city Tho leaders, however, say there is nothing in the the situation to cause them discouragement. Attorney General Olney sent a telegram, Wednesday, to special U. S. Attorney Walker, regretting the great mistake made by the officers in seizing Mr. Debs’ private papers. Ho stated that the Government’s case was too strong and righteous to warrant any questionable methods to secure evidence. Knights of Labor contemplate the impeachment of Attorney-General Olney. Judge Grosscup, at Chicago, Wednesday, called the deputy marshals into court and reprimanded them for the seizure of Mr. Debs’ private correspondence and peremptorily ordered the return of ail such papers. The officers set up the defense that the seizure was unintentional and oniv happened because the papers were in confusion with the records of the A. R. U. Mr. Debs expressed himself as satisfied with the apology.

LATEST. _ AT SACRAMENTO. Friday, at Sacramento. Cal., was one of the most exciting days in the history of the strike. A company of regulars escorting an engine were tired upon by strikers. The troops returned the Are and several men fell. Two were picked up by police and removed to the hospital, and will die. Both men denied that they were connectediwith the strike. United States Marshal Baldwin shortly after patrolled the city with all tho force at his command and proclaimed martial law. He called on the people to return to their homes and remain there till tho trouble was over, but the crowd remained upon the streets in defiance of the order. Later in the day, however, comparative quiet was restored and the railway succeeded in getting a train to Rocklin. AT CHICAGO. The conference of the Federation of Labor adjourned, Friday evening, after having decided against a general strike. One thousand dollars was voted for the defense of Debs. A lengthy address was issuecMrom which we make the following extracts: A general strike is not desirable. In making this declaration we do not wish it understood that we are in any way antagonistic to labor organizations now struggling for right and justice, but rather to the fact that the present contest has become surrounded and beset with complications so grave in their nature that we cannot consistently advise a course which would but add to the general coufusion. The public press, ever alive to tho interest of corporate wealth, has, with few exceptions, so maliciously misrepresented matters that, in the public mind, the working classes are now arrayed iuopen hostility to federal authority. This is a position we do not wisli to be placed in, nor will we occupy it without a protest. Industrial contests cannot beenterel into at the behest of any individual officer of this conference regardless of the position he may occupy in our organization. Strikes in our affiliated organizations are entered into as a last resort. While we may not have tho power to order a strike of the working people of our country we are fully aware that a recommendation from this conference to tlmn to lay down their tools of labor will largely influence the members of our affiliated organizations, and appreciating tho responsibility rest'ng upon ns. and the duty we owe to all, we declare Jt to be the sense of this conference that a general strike at this time is Inexpedient, unwise and contrary to the best interest of the working people. We further recommend that all connected with the American Federation if Labor now out on a sympathetic strike should return to work, and those who

contemplate going out on a sympathetic strike are advised to remain at their asaal avocations. By this railway strike the people areonce more reminded of the immense forces held at the call of corporate capital for the subjugation of labor. For years the rajlroad interests have shown the lawless examples of defiance ,to injunctions, and have set aside laws to control them. They have displayed the utmost contempt for the interstate commerce law, have avoided its penalties and sneered at its impotenev to prevent pooling, discriminations and other impositions on the public. President Debs, Friday, submitted a proposition to the general managers offering to declare the strike off on condition that the men be all be taken back except those convicted of crime, but the managers refused to consider it. It was understood after this rejection that Debs would renew the strike with all the power at his command. Grand Master Sovereign, in an Interview, also said that he would standby the A. R, U. and would make every effort to tie up the railroads.

AT HAMMOND. A mass meeting of citizens was held Friday night. Addresses were made by lion. Chas. F. Griffin. Rev. Herzberger and others. Mr. Griffin said that it was high time loyal citizens of Hammond should let the outside world know that the resolutions passed at a citizens’ meeting last Monday night not the sentiment of a majority of the citizens of this city; that the meeting had not been advertised so that anyone except those in sympathy with the strikers could know anything about it, and that it was the purpose of the persons who called the meeting to keep the loyal people away. Resolutions of the strongest character were parsed denouncing Mayor Reilley, Sheriff Fredericks and their hundreds of deputies as totally inefficient and incapable of dealing with the serious situation of the times. Disgust and alarm were expressed at the disloyal sentiments voiced by the mass meeting of strikers and their sympathizers held on the 9th. The actions of Gov. Altgeld were denounced as dis loyal and anarchistic. The death of Charles Fleischer was deplored, but the responsibility for the" same was laid on Mayor Reilly, Sheriff Fredericks and the United States Deputy Marshals who permitted grant violations of law day after day until the presence of troops became a military necessity. The resolutions approve heartily of the prompt, firm and patriotic action of President Cleveland and Gov. Matthews in furnishing military protection to life and property, and *he appointment by President CleyeUnd of a committee of arbitration. A movement was inaugurated looking to the organization of a committee of safety. Gen. Robbins is keeping the State militia busy. Every two or three hours during the night detachments patrol the city. Details have been sent to various points in Lake county and are doing efficient police duty. The “boys” at first were received with great disfavor by the people but are now treated with the greatest hospitality.

HARRISON ALSO.

The Ex-President Denies a Rumor and Forcibly Expresses His Sentiments. Ex-President Harrison, Wednesday afternoon, at Indianapolis, received a letter from J. W. Riggs, a member of the New York Constitutional Convention, say ing that a criticism, imputed to him, of President Cleveland's, use. of federal troops, had been disapproved on the floor of the House, and asking him if the imputed statement was true Gen. Harrison telegraphed the following reply: “Indianapolis, Ind., July 10,1894. “James W. Riggs. Albany, N. Y. “Friends should not have expressed criticism of a sentiment imputed to me so disparaging as well to Ay reputation as a lawyer as to my patriotism N s a citizen, without better evidence that the imputed views were authorized than a newspaper dispatch, I not only did not express any criticism of President Cleveland's action, but I have distinctly and always maintained that it was not only the right, but the duty, of the President to enforce the laws of the United States everywhere without askinganybody’sconsent. I acted upon this view of the. law when, as a soldier, I marched under the orders of the President into States whose governors had not only not invited us. but were resisting us. As President I further maintained this view of tne President’s Dower and duty; and now, as a private citizen, I hold myself ready, as a part of the po3se eomitatus of the country, to aid upon his call in the enforcement of that view of the national authority.

BENJAMIN HARRISON."

TWO EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

FJlt In Conttantlnople—The People Flee, ing In Alarm. Two violent earthquake .shocks were felt at Constantinople, July 10, at 13:20 p. m. Each shock lasted about twenty seconds, and, though some damage was Jone, the extent of it is not known. The inhabitants have become greatly alarmed, and fled from their houses in anticipation of further and more serious disturbances. The shocks did much damage to the city, and several peoplo are reported to have been killed. All the public offices, the banks and tho Bourse were closed The population was so terrified that many thousands of people camped out in the open air. Two disastrous fires occurred and telegraphic communication was interrupted. Four fresh shocks of earthquake were felt. Wednesday. Many houses have fallen at Stamboul. At the Grand Bazar the jewelers’ quarter fell, occasioning the greatest confusion. The merchants fled in terror, leaving the valuables behind them. Many shopkeepers and passersby were burled beneath the ruins. It is impossible as yet to give the number of people killed and injured, but it is known that five were killed and in the suburbs over 150 were buried beneath the debris. Other points report a number killed.

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION.

The annual convention Y. P. S. C. E. ol the Fulled States, convened at Cleveland. Thursday. A mammoth auditorium had been constructed for the occasion, with a seating capacity of 10,000 people."' The hall was crowded at every session. The address of welcome was by Gov. McKinley. There are now 29,030 organizations of this society in tho United States. English typewriterjjirls are called typists.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

8 Republicans of the Thirteenth Illinois district took 159 ballots at Champaign without choosing a candidate. Hunry A. Bischoff, editor of the Black Diamond, at Chicago, and once a famous singer, committed suicide by shooting. Fire almost entirely destroyed the village of Edon, an Ohio town of 800 inhabitants. Eighty buildings were burned. It is estimated that thousands of acres of grain <in Minnesota and the Dakotas have been ruined by the excessive beat. In the presence of an .audience of five thousand, at Topeka, Kas., Mrs. Anna L. Diggs called Mrs. Mary E. a liar. Geo. M. Pullman is at his summer home at Alexandria Bay. N. Y. A dispatch to the Inter Ocean, Sunday, stated that the magnate is sick and refused to be interviewed. Lord Randolph Churchill is at a Chicago sanitarium undergoing treatment for the morphine habit, The distinguished English nobleman is accompanied by Lady Churchill. Justice Barrettr-in the New York Supreme Court, Thursday, granted a certificate of reasonable doubt in the case of Erastus Wiman. This acts as a stay of sentence and prevents tho commitment of Mr.'Wiman to the penitentiary. Millionaire Culver, of St. Louis, who has already done so much for Lake Maxinkuckee, is preparing to establish one of the finest military schools in the country there this fall. It will be opened September 34, in charge of a corps of the ablest instructors. Gen. Dan Macauley, at one time Mayor of Indianapolis, died at Manauga, Nicaragua, Friday, July 6. Gen. Macauley had been for skime time connected with the Nicaragua canal company, and was in that country on canal business when he died. Mrs. Macauley was visiting her sister at Indianapolis at the time of the General’s death. Gen. Macauley was buTied with military honors at Manatig 1 by order of president Zalaya.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

In the Senate, Tuesday, after the transaction of routine business, Mr. Peffer spoke at length. He discussed his resolution which looks to the Government control of the raihvays and coal fields and the adoption of the doctrine of a single tax. He appealed to Senators to listen, for while he was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, nor an alarmist, yet he had often sailed the attention of the country to what seems to him to be within the range of an ordinary man's horizon—the public danger. All his propositions related to one fundamental error which the country had fallen into—the danger of allowing a few men here and a few men there to usurp the Governmental functions. All the public functions should be exercised by Government officers. Mr. Peffer said that when tha Pullman company established what the people of the world believed to be an ideal community, in which Kll should have equal rights and none special privileges, every one commended it for its philanthropy. But the charges for rent and for the necessaries of life were deducted from the men’s monthly pay, and when their wages were reduced, the men submitted, but asked that their rents and taxes be reduced, but found that they were in tho power of a corporation without a soul. He referred to the arrogant attitude of Pullman and of the Pullman officials, and read from

the morning papers and dispatches of the Interview of the Chicago aldermen with Vice-President Wickc3, during which the latter iterated and reiterated: “The Pullman company has nothing to arbitrate.'’ Mr. Hawley, interrupting, said: “The relations between Pullman and his men have nothing in God’s world to do with the situation in Chicago.” Mr. PefTer arraigned Congress for its defense of monopolies. Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, followed in a brief speech, saying that when a great city was threatened with bloodshed and tire, any representative on the Senate floor descended very low when he talked as did the Senator from Kansas. The woe which threatened was not sectional and he spoke not from a Southern standpoint, but as a citizen of this great nation, and he urged that the law be enforced. It was the right of the laborer to dispose of his labor without Interference from Debs or any one else. Senator Daniel, of Virginia, offered iTsnbstTtute for the resolution of Senator Peffer indorsing (he action of the President. There were many calls for a vote on the Daniel resolution, but Senator Gallinger asked that it go over, and this was equivalent to an objection. Th» postoffice appropriation bill was then taken up and passed. The Senate then took up the diplomatic appropriation bill, on motion of Mr. Blackburn. He yielded to Mr. Faulkner to move to take up tho bill for the admission of Utab Territory as a State. The bill was passed with the Senate committee amendment, and without debate or division. The Senate went into executive session and at 5:43 o'clock adjourned. The Senate, Wednesday, disposed of appropriation bills at a rapid rate. The discussion on the pension bill took a wide range. Senator Cullom led the attack on Commissioner Lochren and Secretary Smith, while Senator Palmer acted on the defensive. Mr. Daniels’ resolution indorsing the President’s action In the strike and commending his firmness, courage and patriotism, was adopted as a substitute for Mr. PefTer’s resolution. An amendment favoring arbitration was defeated—ll to 33, The Mcßae land grant forfeiture bill was passed by the House, Wednesday afternoon. The bill amends the act of Sept. 29,1890, which In substance declared the forfeiture of the United States lands heretofore granted to States and corporations to aid in tho construction of railroads to the extent only of lands opposite to and coterminus with the portions of such railroads as were not completed and operated at that time. The bill passed extends the forfeiture to tho portions of the several railroads, to aid in tho construction of which tho grants were made, which were uncompleted when the time expired within which the roads were respectively required to be completed by 'the several laws making the grants. It involves portions of the grants of twentyfive roads, the principal one of which Is the Northern Pacific, and will restore to the public domain about 54,003,000 acres aln the Senate, Thursday, more appro-

prialion bills were considered. An Interesting dlseussidn on the army bill took place. Several bills of minor Importance were passed. The House. Thursday, agreed to the Senate amendments to tne bill admitting Utah. No bills or importance were passed. At 3 p. A. the House adjourned.

PRENDERGAST HANGED.

Tha Asaanln of Mayor Harrison Fays the ; Penalty.

PATRICK EUGENE PRENDERGAST.

Patrick Eugene Prendergast, who killed Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, last October, was hanged at Cook county Jail, at 11:46 a. m., Friday, July 13. His counsel had exhausted every possible expedient and worked assiduously in his behalf up to Friday morning. The prisoner died game and made no remarks after leaving his cell. Pregdergast had announced his intention to make a speech from the scaffold, but was dissuaded by Sheriff Gilbert. The assassin bore up much better than was expected.

BIG FOUR WRECK.

A Train Ditched by Striking Miners at Fontanet. At 1 o'clock, Friday morning, July 13, Big Four Express No. 7, west bound, was wrecked at Fontanet, by strike sympathizers. Engineer Mochrman, of Indianapolls, and fireman Fleck, of Mattoon, were buried under the wreck and instantly killed. Their bodies were crushed into an unrecognizable mass. The engine, baggage car, express car and the day coach are piled in the ditch a broken mass. The train was running at a high rate of speed, and when within a quarter of a mile of Fontanet it dashed through a misplaced switch. The crash was heard by the sheriffs and deputy marshals, who had been at tho scene of trouble all day, and a crowd soon gathered at the scene. The wreck is undoubtedly the work of a lawless mob of minerj that had possession pt Fontanet all day Thursday, and stopped and side-tracked five Big Four freight trains during the day to show their sympathy for the rail road strikers. The trouble was so threatening that Sheriff Stout and several deputies went to Fontanet.

THE TARIFF CONFERENCE.

Senate and House Committee* Meet and Adjourn. Monday was the first day of the conference of the Democratic conferees of the two Houses on the tariff bill. The House members pointed out the radical change in the policy involved in the Senate’s departure from the free raw material platform and from the ad valorem system, and asserted that the Senate bill was not all that the country demanded in the way es tariff reform. The Senate representatives replied in effect that it might be true and might be admitted by individual members to have proved the most radical bill that could be passed in the Senate, and announced a determination to stand for the bill practically as it passed the Senate. Adjournment followed without action. Judge Rupe at Indianapolis, Wednesday, rendered a decision in the case of the, city vs. the Commercial Club, for an accounting for the balance of $17,000 left from G. A. R. Encomument funds, holding that the Club has a right to retain $12,00J which was paid in upon the first and second subscriptions, but farther holds that the payment of #5,030 to Secretary fortune was illegal. An anarchist who is suspected of plotting the life of Casimlr-Perier, President of the French Republic, was arrested at Junquera. in the province of Gerona, Tuesday, and taken to Barcelona, where he was locked up.

A Popular Wave.

Cincinnati Times-Star. Never in the entire history of troubles between capital and labor were more satisfactory and welcome protests filed against the compromising results of a labor conference than is the protest said to have been filed by a lot of Huns near Wheeling Creek yesterday. They said they would not accept the ierms of the compromise, packed their few effects, and to the number of thirty started back for the lanii once ruled by Attilla, the “Scourge of God.” if all protests could be thus emphasized, where the dispute lies between Americans on one side and foreigners who came here with the avowed purpose of never becoming Americanized on the otheV, the day would draw near rapidly when labor and capital would learn to war no more, when white-winged peace would hover over all their deliberations. The exodus of these few Huns is no less welcome to the loyal labor element of this country’ than was the exodus of Attila and his hosts to PopelLe: the Great. If the Visigoths and Vandals, the nihilists, socialists, et al. of the country would but imitate the example the thirty Huns set yesterday the dawn of better days -could at once be traced in the bori zon. J. Pierrepont Morgan is credited with the intention of erecting a monument over the unmarked grave ol brave Molly Pitcher, of Revolutionary celebrity, which lies near West Point, pdjacent to the Morgan country seat at Highland Falls, on tht Hudson.