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THE GREAT CONFLICT.
Brisk Inauguration oh the Expected
Mill Operatives’ Strike. ♦
The Notices of Reduction st Which
ths Workers Rebel—Eleven Thou
sand Operatives Leave Their Posi
tions—Machinery Idle A “Vaca
tion Taken by Many—Schedule of
the Wages Affected—A Desperate
Struggle of Six Months in Pros
pect.
New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 20.—This
morning the cotton operators inaugurated
their general strike and nearly 11,000 are
idle. The machinery of but five of the
twenty-seven mills in the city is in mo
tion, and it is thought these mills will
soon be shut down with the others. The
manufacturers have nothing to say, but
the notices of reduction against which
the help rebel are still posted.
Secretary Ross of the spinners union
stated this morning that the members of
his union have lined up for a long strug
gle, and confidently expect that it will be
of six months’ duration.
Fall River, Mass., Aug. 20.—The manu
facturing situation to-day is in a very
much disturbed condition. Only about
one-third of the looms in the mills are
running, the rest of them being idle on
account of a voluntary vacation taken by
the weavers. The iron works, American
linen, Cornell, King Philip, Metacomet,
Kerr Thread mills, Globe Yarn, and Sand
ford Spinning mills are running as fully
as they were last week. In the other
mills the looms running vary from not
any to 1,400. There are not any manufac
turers who dare to say that the vacation
will end in one, two/or four weeks.
In two or three churches the leaders of
the vacation were denounced vigorously.
At St. Patrick’s church, where Rev.
Michael Cook is pastor, the people were
fui vised to remain at work and not be led
l?y would-b® labor leaders whose glib
tongues raise them to dizzy heights. The
actions of these men have impoverished
the people, and they arc little better than
anarchists.”
Much importance is attached to this
dlergyman’s words, from the fact thatjhis
church is in the center of a thriving mill
center of the city, and he is very popular
and most beloved in a congregation of
aoout :j,voo people.
’ The carders, spinners, fixers and slasher
tenders started at work in all the mills
as thej'promised to do at the meeting
held lust week.
• mviOBXnS DECREASE.
The quarterly dividends paid the stock
holders in the mills in this city did not
average quite 1 per cent, the last three
months. Returns show a decrease of S4O,
<so in the last quarter. Seven corpora
t’ons have passed dividends and between
seven and eleven paid dividends from
surplus accounts rather than from the
•arnings of of the past nine months.
Many of the mills are taking advantage
of the easy money market to renew the
machinery and motive plants. The quoted
prices of shares have reachedfrock-bottom
figures, and few offerings of choice stocks
are noted by the brokers. The total capi
tal stock reported is $20,918,000, but the
invested capital is not far from $40,000,000.
The per centage of earnings is 1.24.
• MOST IMPORTANT EVER OCCURRING.
New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 20. The
Strike promises to bo the most important
that ever occurred in the textile industry
in Massachusetts. The manufacturers
igust fight perfectly organized unions,
some of which are fairly wealthy. Nota
bly in this particular is the spinners’
union, which has a fund in its treasury
aggregating at least $30,0C(). The spinners
have voted, however, not to touch any of
this money for a month.
The situation in New Bedford is quite
different from that in Fall River. In the
latter city print cloths are manufactured
for the most part, and there is a larger
stock of goods on hand. Here, however,
the mills manufacture a finer grade of
goods, and some of them have orders
which would keep the mills busy for sev
eral months.
A conference yesterday developed a
new feature, which tbe operatives says
reveals the plan of the manufacturers in
relation to the impending struggle.
It had hitherto been supposed that, in
asmuch as' the spinners’ union was much
stronger than the weavers’organization,
the manufacturers would cater to the
spinners in the reduction and conciliate
them if possible.
Every mill posted its reduction sched
ule Saturday, and they were compared
by the labor leaders yesterday. While
the schedules are dissimilar, it was found
that the manufacturers had cut down the
spinners more than 10 per cent, in many
instances, while the weavers were not
cut at all. or very little. r
This ratio is preserved systematically
throughout the mills, and the operatives
believe that the manufacturers hope to
get the weavers back before many weeks.
As long as tbe weavers are not backed
by a strong treasury the manufacturers
think they will not hold out very long,
particularly as their wages will not be
changed and they will only be com
pelled to stay out through sympathy.
The manufacturers think by the time
they are ready to start up, the weavers
will be ready to come in, and that yarn
can be bought from other mills till the
•pinners are ready to succumb. But
there is no trepidation on the part of the
operatives. All are buoyant and confi
dent of ultimate success. Some of the
mills, no doubt, are preparing for a long
•hut down.
“The meeting of manufacturers Thurs
day was an adjourned session,” said a
gentleman who was present, "and was
not called because of the action of tbe
spinners, as supposed; in fact, the de
termination of the spinners was but
briefly touched upon. The meeting was
held to decide on some plan of reduction
whereby the best paid help in the mills
might be reduced and those who are
classed a* small paid help, either but
•lightly cut down or not touched at all.”
This matter was fully discussed, and
finally it was decided that each corpora
tion should regulate its own adjustment
of the cut down, which is from per
cent, to 10 per cent. In a great many in
stances there will be no cut down what
ever, it is said, while, as a rule, all of the
•pinners, who are the best paid men in
the different mills, outside of the officials,
will be affected by the new order of
things.
That the spinners would resent such
action wae the unanimous opinion of
those present, but the plan adopted is
considered the only one which will insure
the running of the mills without loss, un
der the present conditions of business.
Whether or not the operatives are suc
cessful, they will be more contented to
remain idle'in the summr months than
later in the seacon.
manufactcrebs weaken.
The developments in the great textile
•trike to-day are many and quite compli
cated.
During the early part of the day
the streets presented a holiday ap
pearance, as the thousands of neatly at
tired operatives wandered to andefro,
brimful of hilarity and confident of vic
tory. With the exception of a slight dis
turbance at the Bristol mill, where a
dozen operatives, who were at work,
were attacked by the strikers at noon,
without any serious result, the behavior
of the strikers was peaceful and or
derly.
As the day advanced signs of a weak
ening of the manufacturers were mani
fest. William D. Howland, treasurer of
the Howland and New Bedford Manu
facturing Company, took the intiative in
walking away from the manufacturers.
From the start he was opposed to the
strike, and his manly action to-day in
making concessions to his operatives be
fore the strike was inaugurated in his
mills has won for him the universal ad
miration of the public. Mr. Howland
said he had simply waived the cut down
till he can decide what action he will
adopt.
Mr. Howland's action will restore to
work about 1,700 hands, and most of them
represent families.
Late this afternoon Andrew C. Pierce,
treasurer of the Wamsutta mills, was
asked, in view of the action taken by Mr.
Howland, what would be the course of
the other corporation. He replied: "The
mills will lock up to-night for an indefinite
time.” His statement, ho said, not only
Applied to the Wamsutta corporation, but
to every mill in the city, outside of the
Brills controlled by Mr. Howland.
NATIONAL SPINNERS’ UNION.
Boston, Mass., Aug. 20.—The executive
committee of the National Spinners’
Union met yesterday. It was the senti
ment of the meeting that the action of
the New Bedford spinnersrin striking was
“just, as was also that of the Fall River
spinners in voting to accept a reduction.
It was voted to assess the spinners in the
country 50 cents a week for three weeks,
and at the end of that time if a settlement
was not reached to call a convention of
mule spinners in Boston.
THE FIRE FIEND.
A Destructive Conflagration Started
bv Incendiaries.
Bergen Point, N. Y., Aug. 20.—The in
cendiaries who resumed operations iu
Bayonne about a month ago, kindled, just
before I o’clock this morning, a fire that
destroyed about $250,000 worth of prop
erty. The blaze started in the former
gigantic plant of the defunct Carr & Hob
son (Limited) Company’s agricultural
works, extending from tbe juncture of
Avenue A and West First street, Bergen
Point, to the Kill von Kull shore and
terminus of the new Hudson county bou
levard. z
Those who first saw the fire say the
flames burst out simultaneously in several
sections of the works. When the Bayonne
firemen arrived at the works they found
that the hydrants in the immediate
vicinity had been tampered with, and
it required almost an hour s labor to open
the valves and get water on the flames.
By this time the drying shed, a long
frame building, and its contents were
burned to the ground. Then the flames
ruined the old machine shop, carpenter
shop and foundry, three large brick
buildings running parallel with a large
brick building about 500 feet long and
about 60 wide. This latter building was
also badly damaged before the firemen
got the blaze under control. The works
were occupied by the Makite Fire Proof
Construction Company, successors to the
Eastern Plaster Board Company and by
the Otis Glass Manufacturing Company.
The latter corporatien loses $50,000 on
machinery, material and stocks. The
Makite company’s loss is estimated at
SIOO,OOO on the drying sheds, machinery,
about 200 tons of cocoanut fiber, cork,
reeds and sedga, comprising raw material
and a large quantity of finished stock.
On the other buildings the loss is placed
at about SIOO,OOO. The property belongs
to the American National Bank under
the provisions of a mortgage given by the
former owners. About SIIXI,OOO of the
loss is covered by Insurance, several
policies having lapsed last week.
SWAMPED IN THE SURF.
A Whale Boat of a United States Coast
Survey Steamer Loses Five Men.
Olympia, Wash., Aug. 20.—A special to
the Ledger from Oeosta says that on Sat
urday morning, while making a landing
through the surf at Joe Creek, fifteen
miles north of Grays Harbor, a whale
boat and crew of nine men. in command
of Lieut. Frotnan H. Crosby, United
States navy, of tbe United States coast
survey steamer McArthur, was capsized
and five meq are missing, named Lieut.
Crosby, John Frever. John Guamuniz,
William Mehm, Alexander Smith. At
present full particulars cannot be ascer
tained, owing to the difficulty of getting
news from that locality.
THE ACCIDENT CONFIRMED.
Washington, Aug. 20.—The coast sur
vey has received from Ensign Eaton, now
in charge of the coast survey steamer
McArthur, confirmation of the reported
drowning of Lieut. Crosby and four men
off the coast of Oregon. Lieut. Crosby
was a naval academy graduate and a man
of fine scientific attainments.
ARE NOW LAW.
One Bill With ths President’s Ap
proval and One Without It.
Washington, Aug. 20.—The river and
hartidr bill, officially known as “an act
making appropriation for the construc
tion, repair and preservation of certain
public rivers and harbors, and
for other purposes,” was received at the
department of state this morning, with
notice that having been presented to the
President on Aug. 7 and not having been
returned by him to the House of congress
in which it originated within the time
prescribed by the constitution of the
United States, has become law without
his approval.
The formal announcement is made that
the sundry civil bill was approved by the
President Saturday.
00XEYITE8 IN STRIPES.
A New Uniform Adopted by the Com
monweal Army.
Massillon, 0., Aug. 20. Coxey an
nounces that the proposed labor day com
; monweal demonstration in Washington
has been abandoned and the next attack
on the capitol will be made in December,
when congress reassembles. Prison
striped uniforms have been adopted for the
army, and Browne is now wearing it.
The referendum has been added to the
basic principles of the movement and the
whole enterprise has been reorganized
with a constitution and by-laws. The
word “Christ” has been dropped from
the title “put Os deference to a feeling of
misunderstanding.”
FATAL CASUALTY.
Freight Train Derailed by a Horse
With Fatal Results.
St. Louis. Mo., Aug. 20. —About mid
night last night freight train No. 97, on
the Wabash railroad, struck a horse two
miles west of Jonesboro, which resulted
in the ditching of the locomotive and
nineteen cars, and the killing of Engineer
C Welton of Moberly, Mo., and three
tramps named Birch Miller, William
I Andler and J. Thompson. A brakeman,
> fireman and six tramps were more or less
■ injured; fireman and one tramp probably
j fatally.
Charges Against Police.
j New York. Aug. 20.—Supt. Byrnes to
i day preferred charges against Police
Capt. John T. Stephenson of the Mul
berry street station. Capt. Stephenson
is charged with having received bribes
while in command of the Ixonard street
station. He will be tried before the com
missioners next Tuesday.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1894.
THE DOINGS OF DEBS.
The Put Taken by the A. R. U.'s
President in tbe Great Strike.
Testimony Taken Before the Strike
Commission—Systematic Reduction
of Wages Claimed to Have Been In
augurated by the Railroad Managers.
Charge that Gen. Miles Was in
League With the Corporations to
Suppress the Strike Debs’ Stric
tures on the Press.
Chicago, Aug. 20.—Eugene V. Debs of
the American Railway Union occupied
the stand for nearly four hours to-day be
fore the national strike commission.
He advocated a co-operative common
wealth, the abolition of the wage system,
and the government ownership of rail
roads. He told his side of the strike as a
connected narrative, which was fre
quently interrupted by applause from the
laboring element present.
T H. Morrisey, first grand master of
the order of Railway Trainmen, and
Grand Chief Clarke of the order of Rail
way Conductors, also testified.
Debs was the first to take the stand at
the opening of the day’s session. He said,
in answer to a question, that he was 38
years old. and in addition to being at.the
head of the American Railwa.v Union,
was editor of the Locomotive Fireman’s
Magazine. Hg testified that from the be
ginning he was opposed to a strike and so
told V. P. Howard. He then continued:
“I twice went to George M. Pullman aud
tb the town of Pullman to thoroughly in
vestigate the conditions arising at the car
shops. I found the employes were not
only notrgetting wages enough to live but
were daily getting deeper in the debt of
the Pullman company.
“No matter how offensive the] condi
tions there, the men were obliged to sub
mit to -them. When I found out all these
things, I immediately determined that the
American Railway Union should go to the
assistance of these unfortunate people.
We believed that any fair board of arbi
tration would have decided in favor of
the employes, and all we asked was arbi
tration. This the Pullman company ar
bitrarily refused. Not only this, but
when we asked them to examine into the
question to see whether or not there was
anything to arbitrate, they also refused
this.
“Very much has been said about an
alleged conspiracy against the railroads
and against hauling the mails. I want to
call the attention of this commission to
the fact that every meeting of the Ameri
can Railway Union was held with open
doors and that representatives of the
press were allowed to be present.
"If there had been any conspiracy con
templated. we certainly would have been
more secret about it.”
Mr. Debs then told of the several fail
ures of the American Railway Union to
secure arbitration from the Pullman
company and the subsequent inaugura
tion o* the strike.
“Not orly did the employes of the va
rious railroads strike because of the in
justice being done to the . Pullman em
ployes, but because the various roads had
grievances of their own, which I shall
proceed in time to show. We used our in
fluence to prevent strikes during the
world’s fair, as we did not believe it just
to the public to inaugurate a strike at
such at time. It was all that could be
done by the leaders of the labor unions
to prevent a strike. In view of the men
working throughout th' fair the
railway managers on many of the roads
promised an increase of wages after the
fair was over. Instead of doing this,
they began, immediately after it cloaqd,
to begin a systematic reduction of wages
throughout the country. No two compa
nies reduced wages at the same time.
This, to me, was a very significant ac
tion. It shows me that there was concept
of action among the various roads, and
that they did not wish to arouse the an
tagonism of too many railroad employes
at the same time.
President Debs said, moreover, no rail
road reduced the wages of all its men at
th&same time- but reduced them by sec
tions. He declared the American Rail
way Union viewed these reductions with
the greatest apprehension. The organiza
tion felt that the time had come to act.
He continued: “When the American
Railway Union met in convention in
Chicago on June 21, it was confronted by
these conditions as well as the state of af
fairs at Pullman.’*
“Was this convention called to consider
the reduction of wages or the Pullman
matter ?” asked Commissioner Wright.
“The convention was called for no
specific purpose. It was the regular
quadrennial convention, provided for by
the constitution.”
The witness then enumerated the fail
ures of the old labor organizations togain
redress for the grievances of the em
ployes. and they felt their only hope lay
in the American Railway Union, to which
they finally turned for help. When asked
what the outcome of the convention
which declared the boycott against Pull
man cars would have been had it not
been for the grievances of the Pullman
employes, Debs said there would have
been no strike but for the Pullman
trouble,- as the American Railway
Union, owing to the depressed condition
of the country, deemed it an inauspicious
time to strike.
"I would like to state,” said Mr. Debs,
“that the railroad companies have never
raised wages of their own accord. Every
increase in wages has been wrung from
them by organized labor.”
"I had no voice in ordering this strike
myself,” said the witness. “But if I had
had a voice in it, I would have ordered
it. I have no desire to shirk any responsi
bility. My record will show also that
I have always counseled against violence.
The telegram attributed to me which
read, ‘Save your money and buy a gun,’
though sent over my signature, I never
saw. It was sent by our stenographer to
his superior in Montana, and was not in
tended literally. It was merely a playful
expression current in Montana.”
The witness claimed that the men
would have wbn the strike had not the
courts interferred.
“It was not the soldiers.” he said, “nor
the old labor organizations, but the fed
eral, courts that kept us from winning.
By the arrest of tbe leaders the ranks of
the strikers were demoralized.
He charged Gen. Miles with being in
league with the railroad managers to
suppress the strike, and relates instances
where, as he alleges, men were made to
work at the point of the bayonet. The
refusal of the general managers tb accept
the American Railway Union's proposi
tion to effd tbe strike was then recited.
Mr. Debs denied that the American Rail
way Union had any antipathy for the
old organizations. “Within the
next three days,” said the wit
ness, “we are going to take
steps to unify all labor organizations. We
are willing to give up our positions and
sacrifice the American Railway Union to
accomplish the result and agree not to ac
cept an official Dosition at the head of the
new organization.” When the commis
sion took its noon recess President Debs
was still on the stand.
At I:3U Debs resumed the stand. He
testified that from the beginning the
American Railway Union and the strike
leaders had been badly treated by the
Chicago press. Interviews bad been dis
torted and many lies told.
President Debs said if there had been a
revolution it would have been directly
chargeably to the press of Chicago rather
than to the American Railway Union.
“Do you charge the general managers
with being responsible for the strike?”
asked Commissioner Wright.
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“Well, I could hardly go so far as that.
I believe, however, they had much to do
with keeping it up.”
“How would you gain the demands of
laborers on quasi-public corporations?”
asked Judge Worthington.
"There are two ways. One is the way
adopted by the old brotherhoods: That is
getting a schedule of wages gradully from
the employers. There has been little
good in this mode of procedure. It takes
a strike to win sometimes, but I don’t be
lieve the railroad employes of this coun
try could win a strike to-day if they were
all organized imone brotherhood, because
the courts are against labor. I can show
in twenty years of writing that I have
always been opposed to strikes, but I
think that there are times when they are
justifiable, no matter how much thepublic
is discommoded. ,
President Debs said he did not think
the general managers were always to
blame in reducing wages because their
orders came from a higher source. He
believed the American Railway Union
and the spirit of organization among
laboring men would always be strong.
He predicted that more serious trouble
would occur than ever before.
“Now,” continued Debs, “you have
asked me how I would avert railroad
strikes. I believe the government owner
ship of railroads would be far better than
the railroad ownership of the govern
ment. I do not believe any lasting good
can come.of and I do pot think
the government supervision of the rail
roads would answer the purpose. In
such a case as that of the Pullman
company. I believe that compulsory
arbitration would be of benefit! A state
court might be of some good tor
ordinary labor troubles. . I would, iff
such q ease, have a trial of the difference
by jury. lam in favor of. some system,
however, that will result in mutual good
feeling, and neither strikes or compulsory
arbitration can result in anything but ill
feeling. LI am in favor of licensing rail
road employes.: i - '
Mr, Debs,?wasi BKiss-hxaniined Com
nrisioner Kernan,, who sought to bring
out the point that a state board of arbi
tration would be of benefit in Adjusting
laboA troubles. He admitted that it
would be of temporary benefit, but ad
, vocated aboVeall things .tlje government
ownership of the railroads, notwithstand
ing Mr. Kernan pointed out that such a
state of affairs would probably be im
practicable.
“I believe in abolishing the wage sys
tem,” said the witness. “I believe in co
operative wealth.” “In other words,
you believe in state socialism,” said
Chairman Wright.
“Well, in the essential points of state
socialism. The wage system is nothing
more than slavery.”
Mr. Morrisey of the order of train
men told of tbe conference of labor
leaders at the Briggs house, and he was
followed by Grana Chief Clark of the
order of the conductors. He favored
licensing railroad employes, while Mor
risey opposed the idea.
> George M. Pullman has been asked to
appear before the labor commission to
give testimony as to the difficulty between
himself and his employes. It was said
to-day that Chairman Carroll Wright of
the commission had a personal interview
on Saturday with Mr. Pullman, and in
formed him that he would be requested
to testify. Whether Mr. Pullman had ac
ceded to or declined to comply with the
request and what course the commission
would pursue in the event of Pullman
proving contumacious, would all appear
•in proper time in the proceedings of the
commission. Mr. Wright said.
It was said also that requests similar to
that sent to Mr. Pullman were sent to
several of the general managers. So far
as couffi be learned only one of them has
responded thus far. . ‘
TILLMAN TALKS.
He Delivers a Caustic Speech to a Few
Columbia People.
Columbia. S. C., Aug. 20.—8 y request
Gov. Tillman delivered to-night an ad
dress on Main street to about 300 people,
about half of whom were reformers. He
was well received, though at times he re
ceived many jeers. He spoke of the city
of Columbia in a caustic way, apd ridi
culed its management' as being under the
domination of men who were antagonistic
to the whole of the rest of the state.
He proposes to criticise President j
Cleveland as often as be violates the
democratic platform, which he had spit
upon; that Cleveland had betrayed his
party, and had balked the democratic
senators and representatives in Congress
in their desire to carry out party pledges:
that Cleveland was in league with the
money powers of the northeastern section
of the country, who were intent upon
keeping tbe volume of silver as small as
possible. That he thanked God that he
would leave Columbia ina few'months, but
that his place would be filled by a man
who would keep the people down, as he
had tried to do.
Officers Elected.
St. Louis. Mo., Aug. 20.—The grand
lodge of the United States order of
B'Rith Abraham in session here to-day,
elected the following officers: Grand
master, Samuel Dorf of Baltimore; first
deputy grand master, Jacob Pearl of
New York; grand secretary, Leonard
Leisersohn of New York; grand treas
urer, Moses Luberisky of New York, all
re-elected.
STARVING AT PULLMAN.
Terrible Condition of the Families of
Unemployed Strikers.
Gov. Altgeld Leaves the Capital to
Investigate the Situation and Ex
tend Aid—His Visit to the Homes of
the Sufferers and What He Saw—The
Strikers Have Lived for Ten Months
on Outside Aid—Relief Associations’
Funds Well Nigh Exhausted.
Chicago, Aug. 20.—Gov. Altgeld, in his
official capacity, came from the state cap
ital to-day to personally investigate the
condition of 1,600 destitute ex-employes
of the Pullman Palace Car Company,
their wives and children.
Chairman Heathcote of the striking
committee and his colleagues had written
a letter to the governor, telling him the
former employes of the company who were
out of work were in a starving condition,
and that their families were also suffer
ing for want of the necessities of life.
After a thorough investigation, the gov
ernor found that this statement of the
condition of the people in Pullman and its
vicinity who went out on a strike several
months ago was not exaggerated. He
also found that there was no longer any
strike at Pullman; that all the old men
had been applying daily for work for the
last ten days. All not employed are now
suffering*, men and women instead of
strikers. ‘ ..
The governor learned in a short time
that the great strike was off, and that
starvation was on to a distressing extent
and he proposes to relieve the unfortunate
people as quickly as he can get the city
and county authorities to act.
He said to a reporter after his visit to
the suffering community: “I was met by
several of the Pullman officials, and also
by the chairman of the strike committee
and other men who had written to me
about the condition of their people there.
I asked them to take me to the homes of
those in want. I visited a great many
houses. I wfint into the kitchens and
bedrooms. There is no question
about the conditions which exist in Pull
man among those who are not at work.
All the strikers have been living for the
last two and a half months on what has
been given them by the labor organiza
tions and charity. I spent half a day
among them and, although I confined my
visit to Pullman. I extended my inqui
ries to Kensington and Roseland, where
many of the people in distress live. I had
a consultation with tbe Pullman officials
and I found no difference of opinions
as to the conditions nor as to
the extent of the distress. The officials
agreed that nearly ail the strikers had to
subsist on what had been given them by
charity and, the relief association for the
last ten weeks. The relief committee
finds that its support is exhausted, and it
is not able to furnish much more. When
the works closed, 3,250 were on tbe pay
rolls. There are 2,200 employed in the
shops, of that number over 600 are new
men, and the remaining 1,600 are from
the original employes. So there are 1,600
former employes not at work. Os
these 500 or 600 liv# in Pullman and have
families. The distress is great among all.
All have offered to return to work for the
last ten days. All have been applying
daily for work and cannot get it. The
company, tells them it has no work to give
them, but would give them work if possi
ble. ' 1 expect to see more people in refer
ence to some course to pursue in the mat
ter to-morrqw, The relief committee’s
supply has become so reducted that it was
able to give out last .Saturday to each
family only two pounds of corn meal and
two pounds of oat meal.”
A DEAD GAME SPORT.
A Devotee of the Jackpot Released by
.’“J ... the Governor.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20.—Fred Cooper,
known all over the state as a “sport” of
the “dead game” variety, was released
from the' county jail to-day after a four
months’ residence there on account of his
penchant for the festive jackpot.
Cooper, who is a brother tb ex-Mayor
Cooper, was arrested in Savannah and
brought to Atlanta. He was wanted as
a witness before the grand jury vfrhich
was investigating charges of bribery
against city detectives who were said to
have guaranteed the local tin horns
safety from the law in consideration of
so much in hand paid.
A little later on Cooper was caught in a
game, and sentenced to six months or a
fine of $l5O through the unrelenting ef
forts of the detectives. He could not pay
the fine, but after four months in jail
asked the governor to let him out by the
payment of one-third of the sentence.
Early this morning the jail was set
afire by a reckless prisoner, and for a time
it looked dangerous for the building and
its inmates. During this emergency
Cooper rendered valuable services to the
jailers, and this morning the governor re
warded him by granting his petition.
Before going to jail, Cooper took an oatq
of reformation.
ANOTHER ENTRY.
001. Hansell of Thomasville a Candi
date for Col. Harris’ Place-
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20.—Another entry
was made to-day in the contest over the
secretaryship of the Senate, made vacant
by the death of Col. Bill Harris of Worth
county. The latest candidate is Col. C. P.
Hansell of Thomasville. . Col- Hansell has
for years been assistant clerk of the
House under Col. Mark Hardin, and is
one “Os the best known men in the state.
FLATTERING OFFERS.
Thomasville, Ga., Aug. 20.—Capt. C.
P. Hansel, for many years a clerk in the
House of Representatives, will be a can
didate for clerk of the Senate. He has
flattering offers of support.
The Kabyle War.
London, Aug. 20.—Spain, Italy and
Great Britain are sending warships to
Mazagan, to which place the Sultan of
Morocco’s troops retreated after having
been defeated by the Kabyle rebels. Ma
zagan is now beseiged by the Kabyles.
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THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
Visit of Secretary Smith—Preparing
for the Populist Rout.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20.—Secretary Hoke
Smith to-day telegraphed Chairman Clay
that he would be in Georgia the first
week in September and tendering his
services to the campaign committee. • Sec
retary Smith will make one speech id
Atlanta. He will also speak in one or
two other of the larger cities.
Speaker Crisp and Senators Walsh and
Gordon have also tendered their iser
vices. Chairman Clay has also received
a letter from Judge Turner notifying him
that he will be able to report to the cam
paign committee for duty the latter part
of this week. He will probably go upon
the stump for the state ticket on Satur
day. Chairman Clay has wired him for
an engagement on that date. Capt. H. H.
Carlton of Athens, the latest entry into
the senatorial race, has offered his ser
vices. Maj. Bacon and Col. Garrard are
already doing active service and will con
tinue in harness unt|l the day of victory
arrives.
Congressman Livingston was in the
city to-day, on his way home. While here
he made a call at democratic head
quarters, and personally put his name
upon the list. He has opposition in bis
district in the person of ex-Senator Rob
ert Todd, the populist nominee, but will
dispose of him in a few rounds.
Col. Tom Cabaniss, although he will
not go back to congress this time, has
written the state committee that he is
ready to answer the call of the party at
any time or place.
Mr. Atkinson, who was in the city to
day, will take the stump next Thursday
at Greenville, Meriwether county, and
from that time on continue in the thick
est of the fight. Next Saturday Gen.
Evans will prove his loyalty to demo
cracy at Jonesboro, where he will be the
centrals figure a in j one oof the biggest
events of the campaign. Gen. Evans will
have with him on that day Senator Gor
don and Hon James Blount.
While these are shelling the woods of
Clayton county, Mr. Atkinsqn, Col. Bob
Berner and' Controller General Wright
will hold forth at Canton, Cherokee
county. , ■ '' -
To-morrow Hon. Du pen Guerry and Col.
Bob Berner speak, at Jeiferson
county, while Hon. Joseph James speaks
at Alpharetta.
For Wednesday, Chairman Clay Ims
sent Hon. W- R- Rankin to Dallas, while
Maj. Bacon is booked for -Spring Place,
Aug. 22; LaFayette, Aug. 28; Jones
county, Sept. 1; Warrenton, Sept. 4, and
Tifton, Sept. 5.
Col. Garrard speaks at Dallas to-mor
row, Cedartown,; Aug. 22; Monroe, Aug.
23; Covington, Aug. 24; Conyers, Aug. 25;
Cumming, Aug. 27;- Clayton, Rabun
county, Aug. 28; Hiawaisse, Aug. 29;
Dahlonega, Aug. 80; Blairsville, Aug. 31;
Dawsonville. Sept. 1; Lawrenceville.
Sept. 3; Donelsonville, Sept. 4, and
Clarkesville, Sept. 5.
Gov. Northen will take the field early
in September.
Plans are being discussed for a big
rally in Atlanta during Secretary Hoke
Smith’s visit. If it can be done. Speaker
Crisp, Senators Gordon and Walsh and
several other of the big guns will be on
the programme with special low excur
sion rates from all points to bring a big
crowd to hear them.
Information received at campaign head
quarters shows that Watson and his co
adjutors are making a desperate bid for
the negro vote. Their plan is to work
upon the negro preachers and through
them pledge the colored brother to vote
the populist ticket. This sort of work is
being pushed in Taylor county, where a
preacher named Lawrence, from the
Tenth district, openly announced that
he had been sent by Watson to preach the
doctrine of populism as he would the re
ligion of God.
As the populist campaign progresses, it
becomes more and more patent that Wat
son is manipulating things solely for the
advantage of his congressional aspira
tions in the Tenth district. He has
brought down a good deal of censure on
himself already from his brethren, who
begin to see through him on account of
this, and an open rupture between him
and Judge Hines is looked for as
a certainty before the cam
paign grows much older. Judge
Hines, it is understood, does not think as
much of the populist apostle from the
Tenth as he did a few months ago. He is
beginning to Mcognize the fact that he is
being used as a manikin, like the balance
of his party, by the shrewd Watson, and
if inside reports are correct is about
ready to rebel openly by denouncing Wat
son as a dictator and a populist for reve
nue only.
AN OPEN SWITCH.
A Miscreant’s Act Results in a De
railed Train.
Lexington, Ky., Aug. 20.—Some mis
creant threw a switch at Brennen, on the
Cincinnati Southern road, six miles south
of here, Saturday night, and when the
midnight Florida special came along,
going at the rate of twenty-five miles an
hour, it ran through it, demolishing the
engine, derailing five coaches, and
seriously injuring the engineer and fire
man, Ed and John Bradley of Cincinnati.
The passengers escaped injury.
The First Florida Sea Island.
Alachua, Fla., Aug. 20.—F. E. Williams
of Alachua has for the past three years
shipped the first bale of sea island cotton
from Florida. Saturday he shipped to
Butler & Stevens the first bale from
Florida this season; the weight was 423
pounds, and the quality pronounced bv
Mr. Williams to be fine.
Passed by Their Lordships.
London, Aug. 20.—The House of Lords
has passed the equalization of London
ates bill.
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BUT FEW CONVERTS.
Att, mpt of Col. Breckinridge to Storm
e Opponents’ Home Town.
Lexington, Ky., Aug. 20.—The Breck
inridge storming of Hon. W. C. Owen’s
home, Georgetown, to-day was a failure
so far as converting citizens of Dickin
son’s old home to the Breckinridge faith
was concerned. Special trains were run
from all points in the Ashland con
gressional district and probably 2,000 peo
ple landed in the city. Upon nearly
every house and on the Lancaster hotel,
where Col. Breckinridge stopped,
placards were thickly tacked up bearing
the device “Our Candidate, Hon. W. C.
Owens.”
The speaking took place in the court
house, which held only about 600 people.
There were probably 200 women present.
Col. Breckinridge was introduced by Dr.
John Lewis, who said that he did not con
done the adulterous acts of Col. Breckin
ridge. but was not willing to desert a
friend in need. The colonel was on his
metal and did his best to convert some of
his Scott county opponents, but his drag
ging into the campaign the name of their
idol, Rjchard M. Johnson, was too much,
and not a man extended the colonel his
hand of sympathy.
The colonel reached Georgetown before
any of the trains arrived, but passed
through the streets unnoticed to the
hotel, where a few people entertained
him till his friends came ip.
There was an exciting' incident during
the speaking. Prof. J. Poyntz Nelson of
this city was shot through the left thigh,
and for a while the excitement ran high,
but it was soon found that the shooting
was accidental, the wound being inflicted
by a pistol in the hands of George Glass,
a Breckinridge man. who was trying to
shoot a negro with whom he was involved
in a difficulty. Both Glass and the negro
were arrested.
RIOTOUS FOREIGNERS.
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Workingmen at Pullman Repulse
Assailants Without Police Aid.
Chicago, "Aug. 20.—This morning a mob
of 150 unemployed Italians, Poles and
Bohemians attacked a party of men who
were on their way to work in the brittle
yards*. at Pullman. The workmen re
pulsed their assailants before the police
arrived* -Nobody was seriously injured.
At the Pullman works 500 men were re
fused employment. Supt. Middleton.
said: .‘‘The only chance now for new men
is for,,them to take the places of men who
quit work. We have all the men we
shall need for some time and we are
manning all departments with a force
sufficiently large to do the work we have
on hand.”
SCHOOL CASE DECIDED.
Catholic Sisters May Teach in the
Garb of Their Order.
Ebensburg, Pa., Aug. 20.—Judge Barker
to-day handed down a decision in the
suit brought by W. T. Kerr, state coun
cilor of the Junior Order of United
American Mechanic, against the board of
directors of the Gallitzen school, to pre
vent the employment of Catholic sisters
wearing their religious garb, as teachers.
The judge decides that sisters may te em
ployed as teachers; that they may be at
tired in the garb of their order, and they
may be addressed by pupils by their re
ligious names, but refuses to allow the
Catholic catechism taught. The costs
were divided.
HOME-MADE CURRENCY.
Seizure of a Lot of Kansas Money for
Use in Small Towns.
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 20.—United States
secret service detectives have received
here a box containing 70,000 due-bills,
which have been passing as currency in
the small towns of Kansas. Detective
Murphy seized the bills at Topeka, Kan.,
on the ground that they were made in
imitation of United States currency. The
bills are as large as the 10-cent currency
notes which were in circulation many
years ago, and paid by merchants to
farmers for crops, calling for their face
value in goods sold by the issuing mer
chaat. No arrests were made, but the
business was ordered to be stopped. ,
ANOTHER CHANGE.
Thia Time a College Bred Man Will
Edit the Athena Banner.
Athens, Ga., Aug. 20.—The Athens
Banner, sold recently at sheriff’s sale to,
Hamilton McWhorter and James M.
Smith, has again changed hands. The
entire outfit was purchased to-day for
$5,000 by Charles Phinizy and Edward
Upson of Athens. The new management
will assume control Sept. 1. Stephen
Upson of the class of ’9O at the University
of Georgia has been engaged as editor,
and Barrett Phinizy as business manager.
Backed as it is now with an abundance
of brain and money, the success of the
paper Is assured.
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Work Resumed.
Wheeling, W. Va., Aug. 20.—A large
number of men resumed work here to
day. The big Riverside Tube Works
went on full time, after months of par
tial idleness, and the Wheeling steel
plant also resumed operations.
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