St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 September 1897 — Page 6

(T|jc JniJcpcnbcnt. ■ ’ —=* ■>V. -A. EXDLEY, Publisher. WALKERTON. - ■ - INDIANA. DIVIDES HIS WEALTHS RETURNED KLONDIKER WAS A A MAN OF HIS WORD. Struck It Rich and Fulfilled an Agreement Made with His Old Partner Fight Years Ago — Influence of Priests in the Hazleton Strike. When Neither Was Rich. Eight years ago J. E. Taylor was engaged in business in California with J. C. New. Business was dull and they were compelled to give up. M ithout dissolving partnership, the men decided to part and made an agreement that should fortune smile on either side they would divide. Taylor bought a ranch near Cedar creek, Idaho, where he now reside s. New went to Alaska, and was one of the first to make a strike in tin* new gold fields, securing three claims. He hunted up Taylor hist Sunday near Kendrick, in Fatah County, and gave him a title to a half-interest in the claims. '1 aylor also V received $27,000 as his share of the earn- . ings of the claims. He has been offered \ SIOO,OOO for the claims. Influence of Priests. S treat extent the Hazleton (I a.) have been restrained from open iolence by the priests, whose inirevails to a remarkable degree, •al turbulent meetings, which 1 to end in bloodshed, the priests ic among the excited foreigners ed them back. They warn the men thaA to destroy the coal companies property only to take food from their own moutlis by shutting off future employment. The priests, however, have no plea of mercy for the sheriff s deputies who shot the men at Latimer, and some of them are active members of the committee that is to push the murder charges in court. It is now Quite certain that no attempt will be made to arrest the deputies so long as the troops are camped at Hazleton. Gen. Gobin’s declaration taat he will protect the sheriff’s men jus! as long as he is in command has cooled the ardor of those who were for going about the matter hastily. The strike leaders and their attorneys deny the right of Gen. Gobin to enforce such an order, but they admit that he has the power. Athletes of the Diamond. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore ...83 33 Brooklyn . ...o4 65 Boston S 4 35 Chicago 53 67 New York .. .75 42 Pittsburg ... .51 <>•» Cincinnati ..67 50 Philadelphia .ol 68 Cleveland ...60 66 Louisville ...oO 71 Washington .55 62 St. L0ui5....27 92 Western Leag^nf the members of the W. t,. "marized below: Indianapolis 92 34 Detroit w - Columbus .. .81 43 Minneapolis .4W *»* St. Paul .. . .83 <!► Htmws City .40 ■ 9<i Mil waukee ..79 51 Gr’nd Rapids >t> 92 BREVITIES, Henry George is suffering from a stroke of paralysis. The skeleton of a huge mastodon has been exhumed on a farm near Waterloo, Ind. It is rumored in Panama that General Weylei has been captured by the Cubans. Twenty-four persons were killed by a collision on the Antioquia Railroad in Colombia. Mrs. Marshall, an American, was thrown from an omnibus in Paris and is not expected to live. John E. Redmond predicts that Ireland will suffer as much from famine next winter as it did in 1879. Again it is asserted in Spain that the Carlists are arming and perfecting a secret military organization. Thomas E. Edison has taken up the study of air ships. He says those already invented are wrong in principle. The Illinois State Normal University at Normal has opened with an attendance of over 550, the largest in its history. Yellow fever has appeared at Leon, in Western Nicaragua. Several natives have died of the disease recently, and it is spreading. A hurricane and tidal wave did immense damage to property and killed many persons at Port Arthur and Sabine Pass, Texas. The tinplate strike at Elwood. Ind., has been settled by concessions on both sides and the factory resumed operations with 1,400 hands. • Seth Low has formally accepted the Citizens’ Union nomination for Mayor of Greater New York, and his letter has been made public. Sarah Bernhardt had a narrow escape from drowning at Belleisle-en-Mer. but was rescued by .Marquis d’Harancoiirt, who was badly injured. The London Tinies correspondent nt Buenos Ayres says it is feared ther- that the Argentine harvest will be almost eii- | tirely destroyed by locusts. Paul Depierre, formerly viceconsul of the Fieneh republic at New Orleans, k i! ed himself in his apartments in New York, by inhaling illuminating gas. As a result of an attempt to send two electric trains over a single tr ick at top speed in a dense fog, twelve persons were seriously and two in all probability fatally injured in a collision on the Suburban Electric road near Chicago. The accident. occurred on Harlem avenue, not far from the race track, at a time when the trains of the Suburban road were crowded with passengers. Within a very few weeks Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, at present military attache of the United States embassy at London, will be court-martialed on the charge of discrepancies in his accounts as engineer otlicer while for some time stationed at Savannah, Ga. Capt. Carter's discrepancies are said to aggregate sl,099,0<)0. He was ordered home by cable. Dandy Jim trotted a mile in 2:10 flat on the half-mile track at Crawfordsville, Ind. W. R. Crawford is trying to arrange a match race between his iiu-keel yacht ^anenna and the Siren.

EASTERN. Richard Croker has told his friends he Is willing to be Tammany’s candidate for Mayor of Greater New York. Three-score horsemeii at Coney Island have formed the Horsemen's Protective Association to promote turf interests. Passengers on the Teutonic, which arrived in New York Wednesday, naid $12,900 in duties on articles brought in their trunks. Wreckage of the freight steamer Nnronic, which left New York for Liverpool four years ago and was never seen again, has been found off ('ape Hatteras. Grover Cleveland has made a return to the assessors of Mercer County. New Jer* sey, placing a value of $29,999 on his residence and of $309,099 on his personal property. • Police interfered with the 1 ommy Ryan-Kid McCoy tight at Syracuse in the fifth round. Referee Siler called the eoiitent a draw. Ryan had McCoy "going ’ at one stage of the contest. The frigate Constellation, lying at the naval station at Newport, R. 1., celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of her launching. Salutes were lived and the old vessel was beautifully decorated. The strike situation reached a terrible crisis on the outskirts of Latimer, Pa., Friday afternoon, when a band of deput.V sheriffs tired into a crowd of miners. The men fell like so many sheep, and the ix citemcnt has been intense. Reports saj’ more than twenty were killed outright and more than double that many wound ed. James R. Willard. Elmer Dwiggins nnd Jay Dwiggins. who compose the firm of J. R. Willard A Co., bunkers and brokers, with offices in New York, Buffalo, Washington, D. ('.; Philadelphia and Montreal, assigned to James L. Siarbm'k, with preferences for $20,600 to W illiam 11. Osterhout. It is estimated th it their liabilities will reach $1,909,900. WESTERN. The yacht Uarda won the Nodawaj Yacht Club's race at Neenah. Miss Pound is Western tennis champion. She defeated Miss ( raven. Fire in the Peninsular Lea l and C Air Works, 1 letroit, did $65,000 damage. J, C. Cox. postmaster at Ayrs. 111., was struck dumb while smoking a pipe. All the big malting companies of Mi! waukee h ive finally joined the malt trust. Ohio gold Democrats have put up a full State ticket, headed bj Julius Dexter for Governor. “Buck" Murray, the first of the Eldon (low a i bank robbers to be tried. >-as found guilty. At the tri-state fair grounds in Toledo. Ohio, two aeronauts were so severely in jured that they will die. J. R. Hamlin, a commission broker. > formerly of Chicago, was found dea l n a ’ bathroom of a St. Louis hotel. • In sinking a tubular well at Golden. N. ' M., workmen sent the drill through titty feet of rich gold-bearing quartz. Mayor Edward F. Winkler of Belleville, 111., has been arrested for issuing a license contrary to law for pool selling at the St. Clair County fair. ...M " Anna Davlin of Dix »n. II!., wh , i{ she has been wraeulously cured at i> xj 2 Hill shrine in Wisconsin. An attempt was madt to wreck the Chicago "palace express” on the Alton Road by saturating a bridge just outside ? Alton and .setting it on tire. On account of the Nashville exposition . the Commercial Association of Chicago has abandoned the project of holding a carnival Chicago Day. Oct. 9. A. Vanatta is dead and E. Morrison and E. Kohn are in a dangerous condition at Willshire. Ind., as a result of .wallowing a great quantity of pills on a wag-r. The Spokesman-Review has weather crop reports from all sections of Eastern Washington and Idaho. From nearly all points come reports of weeping skies ami sodden fields. Continued rains arc b! no hing the grain and injuring wheat in the shock. The head-on collision on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe proves the worst disaster that has occurred on that system in many years. Ten people were killed outright or soon died of their injuries, and fifteen others were more or less seriously injured. The national conference of miners at Columbus. Ohio, accepted the 6.5 ; nt rate for the Pittsburg district, and th • men will return to work in ten days. Pr> >i dent Ratehford says it is as eomph ea national agreement of the wage question as the miners have ever had. After the close of the session of the letter carrieis’ convention, in San Francisco, a caucus of second-class city delegates was held and resolutions asking for reforms in the service were adopted. The ladies who accompanied the delegates from the East visited the mint and the Academy of Sciences. Late corn near St. Joseph, M has been seriously damaged by the prolonged drought and the crop will be much shorter than expected. Early corn is said to be out of danger, but many fields of late corn will be good only for fodder. The hot, dry weather has also injured the fruit crop and pastures are burning up, with stock water scarce. The dr eight is the most severe for many y> ars. Charles Savers of Chii-aco w ,t to b:< ! home Thursday night and found that - 'p I per was not ready. He upbraided his I wife. William, the elder -on. to >i< the part of his mother, and th.- father struck the boy on the In ad with a lighted lamp. Vcdella, the 20 rear Jd daughter, made a heroic attempt to save her brother from the father's violence. Iler cloth ’s caught fire and she died of burns. Stivers was arrested. Friday noon wheat was in good demand on the Chicago Board of Trade at the start at about ’ge improvement over Thursday's closing price for December ami le for September, h’or a supposedly defunct deal September went through some surprising gyrations, and it gave a good example of its galvanized style of agility by jumping to 31 within a minute or two of the opening. Dee inlier first went through a little of its parallel bar exercise, swinging itself around so swiftly ' that it was difficult at times to see whether it was head up or head down. That was merely the preliminary to its grand star performance of climbing up the backs and over Ihe heads of the bears, who flung up their hands in attempts to stop • its reaching the dollar mark. From iSGa: to DS'lc to begin with it rose to 98%c, 1 turned around and went back again to OSt/sC. Then it dropped to 97%e and rose from that in a gradual way to 'Ji qe.

From the latter point to 9914 c wm the work of about twenty minutes, and those fluctuations were all within the lust two hours of the session. Chicago leceived 269 cars, only twelve of them contract. Minneapolis and Duluth receipts were 4D(j cars, against 1,143 the corresponding day of year before. The steamer Cleveland with thirty miners from the Yukon and treasure varinusly estimated from $2(10,900 to $400,000, arrived at Seattle Friday night. Gloomier even than the advices of the steamers Portland and National City are the reports that the old Atlantic liner brings down from the north. Dawson and its tributary districts are hungry and demand food. There is a sullen note in the demand and the warning is to the transportation companies that continue to send rum to miners who want bread. I'he doors of the trading companies’ stores at Dawson were closed and burred on July 26, for they had sold all their provisions. Unsheltered Dawson has a mild epidemic of typhoid fever and n few have died for sheer want of necessaries that their money could not buy. There has not been licensed physicians enough to care for the sick. 'lhe' lack of food will drive bmdreds from the country, and it is expected that St. Michael's alone will shelter fully 31 HI during the long winter. Nearly every miner on the Cleveland belief he has turned his back on starvation ~y reiterates the oft-told warning. ’fj ste imei’ Eliza Anderson of ^esittm HL probably a wreck m ar Kodin k .. t te. Sound awaits in ah-omy f r the confirmation of the disaster.^ 11 tide Os Skaguay has come t<> St. Michael s. There are m arly s»ki men there ’innble to get up the liver. The embryo argonauts hold meetings, but their protests and demands fall upon deaf ears. Ninety dollars' premium was paid for passage on the H imilton. The summer output of gold has veen very light and there may be a falliug off it: the winter produ ’tion. SOUTHERN. Lutic A. Lyttle, a colored girl, has been admitted to the bar at Memphis, Tenn. It is alleged that a mistake was made in the survey of the bound try line between TvnmsM’e and Georgia iml that Chattanooga is in the hitter State. Seott and Reuben Gray, brothers, and ] noted Kentucky desperadoes, hive been captured til Bnrdvvc!!, and are held for the minder o£ J. 11. Bord m in March, 189-1. Customs inspectors nt Lnrejo, Texas, found an unclaimed valise on a train with SjiHi.ts i worth of diamonds, jewelry and other valnablv- in it. H>- believed it was stolen by an American from n Spanish officer. The S2OO,<MM> valise seized by rust »ms officers at Laredo, Texas, belong to Benor I'edro Trucbn of Ynnvjrns. Mexico. On returning from a journey Aug. 9 he handed it to a Mexican whom he mistook in the dark for one of his servants. WASHINGTON. Consul General Marattn reports to the State Department that for the six month* ended June 30. 1*97. there unr rreeiv.’d at the Mell ourne, Australia, mmt. ’UP. 214 ounces of gold. This came frurivAti*trail.i and the surroundim; islands^ A recent act of (’oimrer* >» r^s^iaiblc cording to ulna act noqiiien maj . in the District of Columbia wiihoof « cer ! titieate from the diphumitic re;>;esettat vc of the alien's country slating that t>e contemplated wedding would be legal in that country. Achilles de Lisle of Belgium, the rssistant librarian nt the Catholic University, and Miss Mary Allen of Washington were one of the couples, and John Killy and Miss Ahern, an etquislte product of Erin, the other, to nm foul of the law. The wedding guests were assembled nt the church when the law was brought to the clergyman’s notice. The difficulty whs overcome, however, t>y everybody taking the boat for Ak xandrin, Ya., where the knots were tied beyond ihe pule of the district law. FOREIGN. The Ministry of l ine Arts at Rome has officially denied the story that Mus eagni. the composer, attempted to commit suicide. An Anglo-German syndieate. including the Rothschilds, has otlered the Brazilian Government t5jMMf,iMHi f,, r the Centra! Railroad of Brazil. Father OHivier has been removed from tin- pulpit of Notre Dame. Paris, because of the wruion he preached al the time of the charity bazar fire. Brazilian Government for • s suffered severe losses in contlict with the fanatics at Canndos. Tiie insurgents used dynamite with terrible effect. M ij. Rafael Gonzales, military c«tn maiider of San Nicolas, Cuba, and Lieur. Col. Yillaverd fought a duel with swoijjs, and the former was killed. Nuttal, champion swimmer of England, gained additional honors in the 599 yawls world's championship by defeating Cavil], the Australian champion in 6:63’4. Jose Ventre, the French anarchist. wh-> recently arrived in Mexico from Spain, will be expelled from the country as a nieious foreigner under the Federal Coi. stitution. The Colombian Government, it is portefi. has transferred to the (JovC^nient .f Gr< it Britain the fr.im hi-e for the < oinplet ion of the l’amima ('ilia!, abandoned by the 1- reneh. t he crisis n the grain trade in Southern Rus- i h is been enhanced by the mtlux of a hah score of Hungarian commission, ers. who are purchasing wheat at anv price at which they can obtain it. Premier Ascarraga denies having written to the leaders of the political parties saying that the Government at Havana would prefer war with the United States to the intervention of that country in the affairs of Cuba. Consul Monoghan, at Chemnitz, has informed the State Department that Germany is steadily increasing her tr.iij, with Mexico, and that for 1896 it amounted to more Ilian in 1895, when it 16.300,060 marks. It is now declared in Berlin that no written alliance nor even a verbal treaty was made between France and Russia the phrase “allied nations” being used by the Czar at M. Hanotaux’s request to save the French Ministry. Sempan. the anarchist who shot Barcelona police officials, was retried by the court martial and sentenced to death. j t is expected the supreme council of wi r will annul this and indorse the former sentence of forty years' inqirisonment. A dispatch from London says: “A paajp

is spreading throughout Ireland over the terrible prospect of the apparently complete failure of the harvest. Reports from HO parish priests from counties Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone, all tell the same piteous story of ruined crops, impending destitution and famine.” The Hawaiian annexationists are very much worried over the difficulty of an alleged attempt on the i>art of the anti-an-nexationists to influence Senators Morgan and Quay who are there on a tour of investigation. They say that Senators White of California and Thurston of Nebraska, who will lead the fight against annexation in Congress this winter, will also visit Hawaii and attend the mass meeting of natives, which, it is alleged by the annexationists, has been called for the purpose of convincing Morgan and Quay that the natives bitterly oppose annexation. It is stated that Senators White and Thurston will superintend the drafting of a monster petition to Congress, in which the Hawaiians will assert that the government was torn from them through the action of American Minister Stevens. It is also alleged that the mass meeting will be conducted entirely by Hawaiians, and will be made as dramatic

ns possible. The idea is to work upon the sympathies of Senator Morgan and to i><rau:iUe him, it possible, that the natives have been deprived of Iniids amt power by a handful of rich and powerful whites, backed by a treacherous American minister. It is believed that ex-Queen Liliuokalani may arrive on the same steamer ns the Senators, and that she will address the people at the mass meeting. IN GENERAL. Canadian cricketers again defeated the United States team nt Toronto. President M. E. Gates of Amherst College is said to contemplate retiring. At Toronto, Ont., Ware defeated Lefoy 6—2 and 6 1 in the tennis tournament. The American Society of Professors of Dancing has declared that waltzing is romping and not to be permitted longer in well-conducted ballrooms. Carrier pigeons have again been used (successfully in transmitting messages from the North Atlantic squadron, fifty miles from Norfolk, to the navy yard at tlmt place. A company is being organized in San Fran'asco and will be incorporated under the laws of Arizona which has for its object the construction of a narrow gauge railroad fran tidewater on Prince William S’ nnd up the valley of the muehtnlked of Copper river, nnd thence across the divide to a point <m the 5 ukon River near she boundary line. The uamc of the <'”mpnny will be the Alaska Cent! d Railway Company, and it' cajatnl s- -k $5,(MKt.tssi. The promoter of the enterprise is Uol. John Umlcrwood, n former extensive railroad contractor. As» >• iat<*d with him. be ssys, are Elijah Smith of New York, the controlling spirit of the Oregon Improvement Company, nnd John W. t’mlnhy and P. I». Armour, th' ( hicago packers, and one or two local capitalist*. 1 The projiosrd road w ill be about <522 mile* I long. Senator Perkin* and Capt. Goodall ’ arc mentioned a« jHisAble members of the Board of I » r>’. tors. The news by the steamer National City ‘ from St. Michael’s corroborates nil that oi ..u >f short ratibfis In the Alaska an'it HW|»|||U upper river during the « Inter.”T!ie steamer. w Inch connected with the river steamer J. J. Healy at the mouth of the river, brought three passengers into Eureka,Ual. One of th< «e is J. A. Ralston, of 214 Mc- . Callister street, San Franclsi-o. He says ■ there is gold and lots of It iu the Klondike, ’ but it is mostly still in the ground. It is believed that the claims now located c mid • turn out fifty tons this winter if the scarcity of food did not prevent full operations. He gives n rough guess that the Klondike is go>d for s2.'a >,< a a >,(» s i before petering out. Six thousand men In the mines about Dawson City is the estimate of Ralston. The supply of the necessaries of life to feed these men. he says, is tvtaily insuflleieut. In fact, he estimates Unit the More' will be exhausted oof,,re t w inter is half over, when the famine w ill be on in earnest, and esjH’cially as the I no;’uber of men in the country will bu gscat y augmented by the lu r arrivals over the passes. There is whisky, beer and all kinds of liquor in profusiot, he s::ys. It is not that the men in the <-> mtry have nut money to buy supplies, but that the stocks of the stores are inadequate. Ralston says that one of the best claims on El Dorn lo is the property of James Halhtck, of Missouri. It will turn out at least $ 1. 1 Claim No. 12 on El Dorado is also very rich. It is no uncommon thing to take out two ounces to the pm from any part of the claim. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle common to prime, s3.(*» to $5.75; h gs, skipping grides. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. • iir c;e-■ s2.on to $4.59; w l ,, \ LI re !. to b’.ie; Corn. No. 2. 3oc 32 oats. No. 2,19 c to 2b : iv. . .\ . 2,51 ctos3 . butter, . » II , !<■>' to 1* : eggs, fre'h, 12e ’ ■ 13. ;i -w ;■ ’al ■ 59c t” 69c p. r bushel. Indianapoli- Cattle -1. , ■ ing. CUiOJo c.-,.50; pgs, choice ! _-ht, .S3.O'» to SL.»o; :..mon 'o cbeii’e, $3.9U to 54.00; \Ce u. No. 2,96 cto 98c; c >r.i, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c | to 23c. St. Louis —Cattle. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to SASO; sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, SI.OO to $1.01; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29e to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye. No. 2,49 cto 51c. Cincinnati- ('attic, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.(10 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No, 2. 97c to 98c; corn, No. 2 d, 31c to 33 to 22c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.59 to $5.50; hops, S3.(HI to $4.59; sheep, $2..50 to $4.90; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.(M); corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, 59c to <>2c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 rod. 99c to $1.00; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 330; oats. No. 2 white. 19c to 21c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c; clover seed, $3.75 to S3.SO. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 spring, 97c to 99c‘ corn, No. 3,39 cto 32c; oars, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1. 51e to 53c; barley, No. 2,49 cto 47c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo—Cattle. $3.09 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat No. 2 red. $1.93 to $1.04; corn. No. 2 yellow, 3oc tu 3ic; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.56; hogs, $3.50 to $5.06; sheep. $3.60 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.04 to $1.66; corn. No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 12c to 19c; eggs, Western, 15c to 17c.

STRIKERS ARE Sfflf Marching Miners Brutally Slain by Deputies. OVER A SCORE KILLED Dead and Dying Coal Delvers Fall Like Ten Pins. Outskirts of the Little Town of Lati* mcr, in the Great Pennsylvania Coal District, the Scene of a Bloody Slaughter—Shooting Held to Have Been Without Provocation and Revengeful Cries Arise—Troops Are Called Out to Preserve Order.

Twenty-two strikers were killed, thirteen fatally injured and between sixty nnd M’venty more or less injured near Hazleton, Pa., Friday, by deputy sheriffs under command of Sheriff Martin, and, the dispatches say, without sufficient provocation to warrant even a clubbing. The entire region is wildly excited over the affair, and citizens.of all classes are talking of what they consider a terrible outrage. An indignation meeting was held at night, and Governor Hastings has been asked to order an investigation, and in the meanttme to place the command of the deputies in other hands than those of Sheriff Martin. The citizens also ask that the deputy sheriffs concerned in the affair be dischargee from all authority and disarmed. They say the local police force is quite competent to take care of the strikers if any disturbance occurs. Governor Hastings calhd out the Third Brigade of the State militia in order to prevent further bloodshed. Following their general custom, the strikers a-'Hiibb 1 Er-lay morning and marched to the Hazle mines. Th? men were nt work there, but were forced to quit. From there the march was taken up to Latimer. Ihe men walked without any sjwcial organization, mu—i as any body of men w ild tiii'erse a road. 1 Ley were elated by their suet e<s m driving out the men at the Haz’e mines and their feeling of jubi'a: i < <>mi»ined w ith tlieir antipathy for the operators, had somewhat aroused tl.om. ihe ru.id the men trnver-”d was the pa!> , ■ highway. As they tea lied the outskirts of the nulling vil’aee of L inner the marchers were met by a crowd of doputivs, under Sheriff M irtin. 1-■ i were the usual kitid of diputi’ S. men and boys otU of work. The strikers wen ordered to halt. Being on n publie h_awiy the strikers refused. With little < eiemotiy they kept wnlkinc. mutiering imprecations on the men with rilies. Firing Im Begun. Sndenly one of the special officers rais’ d bis rifle nnd tin d point blank at the miners. It was the signal tor a fusillade. - i'be men nud aho were wearing the Steel badges of deputies lired volley after volley into the marchers. Several fell dead at the first volley. The horrified cries of the miners could not drown the steady "< rack,” "crack" of the rifles. The miners stood terrified for a moment, the leaden balls mowing down their comrades. A few shots were fired byk. Then, yelling and crying, they broke and ran for the woods. The scatter of the marchers did not stop the tiring. As they tied in terror the deputies spread out, each one seemingly picking his man, anM shot the fleeing men. The striker staggered and fell in every direction. Bodies of the killed lay here and there on the road and in the ditches, i’iteous cries in foreign tonga s came from the injured, some of whom were vainly trying to crawl to shelter. Pleadings to the deputies to cease tiring mingled w ilh the cursings of the less injured. The injured in the woods crawled away to safely. When the deputies has cx-hauU’-'l the magazines of their rifles they ceased firing nnd some turned their attention to the wounded and carried many of them to places where they could be more comfortably treated. ,The deputies seemed to be terror-stricken at the deadly execution of their.zuns. The people of Latimer rushed pell-mell to the <-ene, but the shrieks of the wounded drowmsl the cries of the sympathizing and half-crazed inhabitants. As as the news of the shooting reached Hazleton there was consternation. Within teii minutes the streets were blocked w ith ex’ ite l people. Trolley cars on the Latimer line were sent to the scene of the killing, and doctors and clergymen responded promptly. A- the bank of the trolley road men | ' l’iv in everv position: sonic dead, others I dyim:. Thr ■ bodies, fa. <> do a nward, lay ' along the in< !i .e. and thrw others were but i short distance away. On *he other side of the road as many more bodies lay. The schoolhouse was transformed into a temporary hospital, and some of the wounded were taken there. The colliery ambulance was summoned to the place as soon as possible, and upon its arrival wounded men xvere loadtx] into the wagon. All along the hillside wounded were found on the roadside and in the fields. Many others who had been carried to a distance could not be found. One of the strikers, in his dying statement said that there were no weapons of any kind among the marchers, for before leaving Harwood on the tramp across the mountain a meeting was held and resolutions passed forbidding any person to carry weapons. This factrwas wrifiial by not finding anj weapons on those who were killed or wounded. The dead xvere searched and no weapons were found on stem. Sheriff Martin in a detailed statement of the affair admits that he gave the command to fire. Told in m Few Kinos. Prince Bismarck is suffering from neuralgia of tlie face. Robert A. Magee, a bachelor farmer who lives near St. Matthias, Minn., xvas robbed of $1,500. At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company A. L. Mohler xvas elected president. Three tramps who were stealing a ride were fatally injured in the wreck of a St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train near St. Louis.

JLA'. 1 11. 1 ! 11 ” PERISH IN A WRECK. Twenty-five mangled and BURNED IN COLORADO. Awful Head-End Collision Occurs Between Passenger and Freight Trains — Some Victims Caught in Debris and Roasted to Death. Collided on a Curve. The most disastrous railway wreck that has ever happened in Colorado occurred Friday morning a mile and a half west of Newcastle. A Denver and Rio Grande passenger train, west bound, collided with a Colorado Midland stock train going east, wrecking both engines and several cars in both trains. Shortly after the collision fire broke out in the ruins. The mail, baggage and express cars, smoker, day coach and sleeper were burned. A number of passengers who were not killed outright but who were pinned in the wreckage and could not be extricated perished in the Hames. There were about 200 passengers. It is estimated that twenty-five persons were kill-

ed and as man.v more bruised, scalded and. burned, of whom at least six are likely to die of their injuries. The accident occurred at the worst possible point. Two minutes later the engineers could have avoided the wreck, ns each could have seen the approach of the other's train. The trams collided on a curve or bend round a mountain, ami there was no opportunity to avoid thewreck or even to slacken speed. The surviving trainmen say the trains were not running fast, but the fact seems to be that both ihe passenger ami freight were going at full speed--about twenty miles an hour for the passenger and the freight ten or twelve. The Rio Grande Junction Road, on which the wreck occurred, is a joint track operated by the Denver and Rio Grande and Colorado Midland companies. It is a single standard gauge track seventyseven miles long, rutming from Newcastle to Grand Junction, connecting the txvo roads with the Rio Grande Western. The road is on the west bank of the Grand River and nearly all the way are high bluffs on one side of the track and the stream on the other, it being from fifteen to twenty feet below the track. Reported I nline of the Accident. One report as to the cause of the accident is to the effect that Conductor Burbank of the Colorado Midland stock train made a mistake of ten minutes in figuring on the time whim the Rio Grande passenger train passed Newcastle, and that therefore he was chiefly responsible for the disaster. Engineer Ostrander of the stock train could either confirm or deny this report if he were alive. The passengers in the day coach fared the worst. Out of twenty-nine people iu that coach only six are now knoxvn to have escai>ed. As in all similar accidents, the engine men xvere first to lose their lives. Engineer Ostrander went doxvn with his hands on the lever. Robert Holland, fireman on the passenger, was so badly hurt that he died. Engineer Gordon of the passenger may live, although he is badly injured and nt first was thought to be fatally hurt. He xvas thrown over a barb-xvire fence by the force of the collision. Hines, the Midland fireman, xvas so badly hurt that the doctors who examined him sai^J he could not recover. He was shockingly nan, the postal clerk, will was terribly scalded. Two express messengers on the Rio Grande train saved their lives, but their escape was a thrilling one. The express car of the wrecked passenger train was enturely consumed, with its contents. FAILED IN ThE J ATTEMPT. Peter McNally, the Boston Swimmer, Couldn’t Cr^oss the Enclish. Channel. Peter S. McNally, the Boston swimmer who made an attempt to swim the English channel, was in the water fifteen hours, in which time he covered thirtylive miles. McNally suffered severely, the sxvelling of his hands giving him great trouble, while from time to time he was seized with cramps in his legs, neck and arms, causing a drawn, haggard look about his face. At last he became unconscious and was forcibly dragged into a boat three miles from shore. He quickly recovered from his exhaustion. In an ii>PETEK S. M’XALLY. terview he said: “I discovered that the channel xs as really much longer than I thought, and found the currents to be all that Boyton, AY ebb and others told me. I am of the opinion that it is impossible for any cne to swim from Dover to Calais, as the currents would all be against him. I shall make no more attempts this year.” Besides being the best sxvimmer in New England, if not in the country, McNally has a xvonderful record as a life saver. His feats in this direction have svon for him the highest recognition of the Massachusetts Humane Society and of the United States Government. Since 1872 McNally has probably save*] more than 100 lives; he cannot himself tell how many. Notes of Current Events. President Barrios of Guatemala wag educated in this country and is a gradmate of Yale. Premier Azcarraga has failed in his efforts to reunite the warring sections of the Conservative party. Bert AYalker, a school teacher of Decatur, Ind., maddened by insane jealousy, shot and instantly killed his xvife. Aristocratic residents of Lenox are anticipating pleasurably the contemplated visit of Prince Alexander George, young•st son of the Duke and Duchess of Teck.