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THE MORNING NEWS,
Established 1850i Incorporated 1888.
J. It. ESTILL. President.
PAXA IX A STATE OF SIEGE.
Troops in the Town and 1,500 to
4,000 Miners Surround It.
The Strikers Ready to Be Massed at a
Moment’s Notice—The Soldiery Arm
ed With a Gatlin*? Gun- Rumors that
Force Will Be Used if Necessary to
Compel the Miners at Work to Quit-
Trouble Expected To-day.
I'ana, 111.. June 10.—The mining situa
tion still remains in an unsettled condi
tion. Mounted patrols were placed
around the city last night, and a number
of guards at each coal shaft. One or two
drunken outsiders were arrested; beyond
this no trouble occurred. A company of
strikers numbering about 200 are camped
on the Sibley farm, about two miles west
of the city, and it is stated that they are
beir.g furnished food by sympathizers in
this city. Several of the guards report
local strikers trying to get out of the city
during the night with arms for the iu
vaders.
About 500 members of the First regi
ment of Chicago with a galling gun, ar
rive hero on a special tram this morning
at r, o'clock, and were followed at 9
o'clock by companies from Clinton and
Bloomington, and they are all in camp at
the base ball park.
STRIKERS IN THE TIM I! Hit. ,
( rowds of strikers are located in the
timber and near the railroad bridges all
around the city. It is variously estima
ted tiiat there are from 1.500 to 4,000 for
eign strikers in close proximity to the
< it.v, and they can be massed on short
notice.
The local miners vow they will not
enter the mines while the militia remains
in the city. So no attempt will be made
to operate the shafts to-morrow.
A meet ing of the minors will be held to
morrow, hut what the result will be uo
one seems to be able tp surmise.
Coming in small squads about IKK) in
vaders have entered the city and are qui
etly working with the local miners who
remain at work. Unfounded reports are
that strikers from several Outside dis
tricts will reach here to-morrow, and
that the miners must cease work here,
either peaceably or by force.
HAI.OONS KEPT CLOSED.
The saloons will remain closed until
further notice, and the streets are kept
clear of loafers.
Scouts who have just come iu report a
company of strikers numbering about 200
in camp about two miles east of town and
about the same number just south of the
fair grounds south of the city. A work
ing miner's house in the northern part of
the citv was stoned this morning about 8
o’clock, presumably by strikers.
The militia were out on dress parade at
7 o'clock, the catpp being surrounded by
several thousand spectators. The home
guards are out on duty again to-night.
Trouble is expected to-morrow.
THIRTY MISERS IS JAIL.
Peoria, 111.. June 10.—The sheriff and
his posse have returned to thiß city,
bringing 20 more prisoners. They found
no miners at Bartonville, Hollis, or
Kingston. The sheriff heard the strikers
had assembled at Kd wards Station, and
going there, found his prisoners. They
are now in jail. There were ten other
sirikers in jail before them. A large force
of deputies guarded the court house
square last night to prevent any jail de
livery.
CRIPPLE CHEEK’S CONFLICT.
The Deputies and the Miners Still
Holding Their Ground.
Denver, Col.. June 10. —Gov Waite was
up early this morning and very mad. that
tin miners and deputies in Cripple Creek
should continue to act in such a manner
as to provoke a row. “This thing must
he brought to a head pretty soon,” he de
clared.
At 10 o’clock he received a telephone
message from Gen. Brooks, who said:
'The sheriff telephones me that 1 misun
derstood him. He did not state that he
lould not control them, but that the con
dition of affairs mi-ht arise when he
could not. I did not so uiiderstand, but I
am willing to give him the benefit of the
doubt. His future conduct must decide
m,v course. I go to the Independence mine
this morning as soon as I> can
leave to meet Commissioner Boynton and
the sheriff, and will advise you of the re
sult There was desultory firing between
a detachment of deputies and some miners
this morning, between the Legal Tender
and the Victor mines. I ordered a com
pany of infantry out, but the firing soon
ceased. It was at long range. If the
mine owners do not take action to make
the .om promise effective, the National
1 bairds will have to stay hero all summer
and a collision can hardly be averted.”
To this the governor replied: “Report
from Aitman or Victor as soon as possi
ble the result of the interview. I.et Gens.
Brooks and Tarsne.v advise together and
give me their opinion of the necessity of
declaring martial law. Command the
sherifi to move his deputies to Cripple
• reek their position—before ho violates
the agreement.”
NEGOTIATIONS IN PROUKSS.
At 4 o'clock .Gen. Tarsney roported to
tb governor that negotiations were then
m progress to have the deputies with
drawn or disbanded. He said the mine
owners only wanted to be assured that
th y could work their mines on the
agreement. If these terms can be made,
w hi eh Con. Tarsney thought certain,
there would be in bis opinion, no necessity
mr a more stringent military interven
t "u. All the prisoners taken by the dep
ute s were turned over to Gen. Brooks.
• kiv. Waite readily consented to all
this, but added: “Tho armed deputies
must bo removed or disbanded. Do not
slacken your vigilance one particle.”
. in regard to the shooting of tlio worn
-1,1 L ’. (Jen. Tarsne.v stated to tho governor
that it was due to the carelessness of the
u puties. They advanced up the canon,
ai, d a lot of miners had mistaken them
1,,r an armed lmd.v strengthening their
position and had fired upon them. No
casualties resulted.
THE TROUBLE SETTLED.
Cripple Creek, Col.. June lU. 11 :Sop. m.
•ho labor trouble in this district was
settled to-night by a definite agreement
Messrs. Haggerman. Moffat and the
smaller mine owners at Colorado Springs,
aid between the county commissioners
’’"d Gen. Brooks at a meeting hold at
1,1 militia headquarters in Altman this
' cuing. The terms of this agreement
ere:
1 That the deputies wfil he at once with
u '.a"“from the tamp
that tho mine owniys shall lie given im
““••Hate aim laiaccalile possession of their
hr 'lierty.
I hat the. militia shall furnish protection
*, > l " miners und the mini's.
4 that troops shall remain in the district
at least thirty days, and as much longer as
the commanding officers may deem neces
sary to secure perfect smoothness in the
operation of the mines
5. The miners are to deliver up to the com
manding general all arms of their own nnd
those taken from others, tOßp'her with all
personal property belonging to others, bor
rowed or otherwise acquired, and all material
taken from the mines.
6. The troops are to be stationed at Cripple
Greek, Barry and Victor, with headquarters
at Altman.
*■ Persons for whom the sheriff has war
rants shall be arrested Oy Gen. Brooks and
shall be turned over to the sheriff at Colorado
Springs.
The deputies will break camp at Victor
to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock anu will
start at once for Colorado Springs, where
they will disband.
DEPUTIES FIRED OS.
This morning a party of nine deputies
loft the independence mine, where they
had been stationed, and started to
ward Cripple Creek, intending to
return to Colorado Springs. Be
fore starting they had been made
a by means of field glasses that the
hills were guarded by armed men, but
they did mot believe that they were in
danger since the militia were supposed to
be in control. After proceeding about
a half mile from camp they
were shot at, and before they
reached their companions some 2(H)
shots were fired. Many of the leaden
missiles struck in close proximity to ithe
party, and all were evidently intended to
hit. By good fortune, however, none of
the party was harmed. The deputies
maae no reply whatever to the firing,
their orders forbidding any shooting.
Commander Boynton immediately noti
fied Gen. Brooks of the occurrence. The
general replied that he would send out
and have the firing stopped, but that he
had no authority to take any arms from
the miners. One hundred and fifty of
the miners stood guard for the militia
men during Saturday evening.
STRIKERS USE DYNAMITE.
They Also Capture Tw-o Watchmen
and Burn a Bridge-
Massillon, 0., JunoMO.—ln spito of ef
forts to burn bridges and destroy trains,
the Cleveland. I.orraine and Wheeling
railroad is. still transacting business and
the coal blockade is broken. The military
have control of the southern diiision,
and the anxiety now is for the territory
between Massillon and Urichsville.
Early this morning dynamite cartridges
were exploded under one of the coal
trains, but the fuses were too long and
the explosions did not take place until
the last car had passed. Links and pins
were found wedged at one of the cross
ings. Between Crichsville and Midvale
300 miners captured two bridge watch
men and burned the structure, blocking
the road four hours.
PROVISIONS FOR THE TROOPS.
Columbus, 0., Juue 10.—Col. J. L. Rog
ers, with the commissary sergeants of
the. regiments of slate troops, now on
duty in the mining region in the eastern
part of the state, arrived here to-night to
purchase subsistance. The storekeepers
in the mining region refuse to sell sup
plies to the soldiers Col. Rogers left at
once with several carloads of provisions,
saying some of the troops were actually
suffering for something to eat.
SOT APT TO AGREE.
The question of whether the confer
ence of miners and operators will reach
an agreement to-morrow is extremely
doubtful tonight. Tile miners’ delegates
held several consultations to-day. but to
night are not communicative as tp the
results. President A. A. Adams, of the
Ohio Miners' Association, who is
holding back the approval of
Ohio from the settlement on tho CO and
09 cents per ton basis, has to support him
a resolution adopted here lust Friday
night by the executive board of the Ohio
miners, which declares in favor of adher
ing to the demands made as to wages
when the strike was ordered. Be is a
very stubborn man and it is predicted
that the other miners in the conference
will not be able to shake him from his
resolution.
A BRIDGE IIURNBD AT GOSHF.S.
Martin's Ferry. 0.. June 10. —One
hundred and forty feet of The bridge at
Goshen, on tho Cleveland, Loraine and
Wheeling railroad, was burned early this
morning. Ihe guards were overpowered
by 40) hundred miners. Six companies
from the Sixteenth regiment have gone
to the scene.
ATTEMPTS TO WRECK TRAINS.
Zanesville, Ohio, June 10.—Two at
tempts were made this evening to wreck
Baltimore and Ohib trains by placing
obstructions on the track at Deep Cut,
four miles east of this city. Both were
luckily discovered before any trains were
derailed. Section men wore ordered out
to-night and every mileof track from here
to Bellairo is patroled. Tho water sta
tion at Gibsons, east of this city, was
burned by the striking miners last night.
WEST VIRGINIA’S LABOR WAR.
Reports That a Desperate Battle Is in
Progress.
Charleston, W. Va., June 10.—Five
companies of state militia were last night
at Boggs’ Run and six more arrived this
morning. Tho reports received by the
governor indicate that no serious diffi
culty has been met with, in coping with
the strikers, though a telegram yesterday
stated that obstructions, consisting of
stones and crossties, were being con
stantly placed on the truck. Gen. B. D.
Spilnian, who is in command, had the
plainest orders from the governor to
stand no resistepce. but to move' out all
trains at whatever cost. In order to do
this it was found necessary to put a com
pany on every train and keep it there un
til Ohio soil was reached.
At 2 o’clock the governor was advised
that the situation was growing more
grave. Over 800 men thronged the yards,
which extend practically from Beuwood
to Wheeling, over three miles. The dis
patch also stated that a party of 150
strikers had crossed tne mountain to in
tercept the west bound trains hauling sol
diers and coal.
A BATTLE REPORTED IN PROGRESS.
Wheeling Crock, W. Va., June 10.—
Passengers on trains passing through
here report that they hoard the firing of
gatling guns at Moundsvilic. W. V'c...
where a battle between West Virginia
troops and minors is reported to be in
progress. It is reported by trainmen
that two strikers have been wouudod by
bayonet thrusts at Moundsviile.
DANTZIC’S EPIDEMIC
Prof. Koch in Confer-nee With the
Local Health Officials.
Berlin, Juno 10.—Prof. Koch has gone
to Dantzic to confer with the local health
officials concerning the cholera epidemic.
All the public bathing places in Dantzic
have been closed and three steamers have
t ecu iiiiido ready to patrol the hm oor.
The sanitary stations are already in order
for the epidemic.
There were flfty-Hvo fresh | cases and
twenty-nine deaths iu liUMian Poland
lust week.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 11,1894.
A BATTLE WITH STRIKERS.
One Killed and Several Wounded by
Seven Deputy Slierifls.
The Fight Follows an Attempt by the
Officars to Rescue Four Workmen
Seized by the Strikers and Shame
fully Abused—The Captives Believed
to Have Been Run Into tho Moun
tains During- the Fight—Another At
v tempt to Be Made to Rescue Them.
Uniontown, Pa. June 10.—A battle be
tween seven armed deputies ami a mob of
300 strikers occurred -this morning at 9
o’clock at the Lernont No. 3 works of the
McClure Coke Company. One striker, a
Slav, was killed and two other Slav
strikers were fatally wounded. The
deputies were surrounded and fired upon
by the strikers before they shot.
The incidents leading up to the battle
began last evening, when a mob of several
hundred strikers, mostly from the Trot
ter works of the Frick Company, gath
ered ul tho Pennsylvania railroad depot
at New Haven and took prisoners four
workmen who are employed at the Valley
works of the Frick Cbm pan y, and wero
on their way home at iTcisenring. The
names of the workmen are John DeLaney,
Oliver Attleby, John Britt and John Fur
lough. When they stepped off the train,
the mob surrounded them and marched
them away.
SHAMEFULLY ABUSED.
The workmen were covered over with
chalk and big placards with “Scab,”
“Blackleg ” and other epithets lettered
thereon. The men were then marched
through the street, escorted by the hoot
ing mob, and taken to the Trotter and
Lieseuring plants, where they were
paraded through tho streets between the
company houses. Tho strikers jeered
them, and the women spit upon them and
hit them with stones and clubs. They
were even marched past their own homes
and their wives and children permitted to
view them in their helpless condition.
Sheriff Wilhelm dispatched Deputy
Sheriff Allen with his deputies to rescue
the workmen. Deputy Allen arrived at 6
o’clock. At no time was he able to over
take the mob having the men in charge.
Deputy Allen liuailv learned that the men
were being passed from mob to mob. it
was found that the four workmen had
been taken to Morrell, and from there to
Youngstown and tiien to Lernont, where
the battle occurred.
THE BATTLE.
Early this morning, after placing dep
uties to prevent the strikers from tak
ing their prisoners elsewhere. Deputy
Allen returned to Uniontown for further
orders, and was directed to rescue the
prisoners. Returning to Lernont, he
found two deputies retreating before a
howling mob of Slavs. As Deputy Allen
rode up a Slav fired his revolver at him.
The bullet passed over his headi Several
of the mob then began firing at
the officers. Deputy Allen's revolver was
defective and only two shots wero fired
by him. Five of his assistants came up
and began firing with their Winchesters.
About fifty shots were exchanged, the
mob slowly advancing, the deputies re
treating, until re-enforced by other depu
ties, when a stand was made. The mob
then began to disperse.
(TWELVE ARRESTS MADE.
Sheriff Wilhelm was again notified
and sent thirteen more deputies. An
hour later twelve of tho mob were ar
rested and brought to jail.
The Slav who was killed was found ly
ing in the road, shot through the body
by a Winchester ball. Two other**
were found in houses near by, both said
to be mortally wounded, having been
shot through the thighs. The strikers re
fused to give the name of tne Slav killed,
or of those injured. They wanted
the officers to take the dead striker with
them when making the arrests. One of
the men arrested was shot in the arm.
At 4 o’clock a special train brought ten
more deputies to Lernont, and then took
the wounded men to the hospital at Con
nelisville. Many others are believed to
have been wounded. None of the deputies
were injured.
DANGER OF ANOTHER FIGHT.
At 5 o’clock a posse of 2.4 deputies in
charge of Deputies Allen, Altebaugh and
Richards, armed with search warrants,
left for Cool Spring Hollow, after search
ing the Leraont houses. It is believed tho
the four workmen were taken during the
trouble, and are hidden away iu the
mountains. The posse will rescue the four
men at all hazards. Several hundred strik
ers live in the vicinity of Cool Spring
and a conflict may occur. The deputies
have not returned or been heard from.
Sheriff Wilhelm said to-night that he
would not ask for tho militia on account
of to day’s trouble. He says he is grow
ing heartily tired of the warfare, but so
long as his deputies are not overpowered
will tight away in attempting to maintain
peace and order. Several hundred arrests
are expected to follow for the kidkuuppiug
of the men. •
A SI.AV TERRIBLY BEATEN.
Connellsville. Pa., June 10. —John Bare
haak, a Slav, who has been working at
the Valley Works, was captured by ’Job of
his countrymen at Morrell this evening
and terribly beaten. He was taken tef a
bridge, whore preparations were well
under way to hang him before the
mob would listen to the counsel of
cooler heads. Barohaak was .escorted
half a mile up the road and liberated,
llis fale is unknown. The strikers have
stationed a picket line on the outskirts of
New Haven and Connellsville. watching
for the new men who arc reported to be
coming in to start up the Trotter plant.
BRIDGE BURNING.
Inc nd.ia.rioa at Work on tho R ailroads
In Alabama.
Birmingham, Ala., June 10.—At an
early hour this morning a bridge on the
Linton branch of tho Louisville and
Nashville railroad was burned. This is
the ttiird railroad bridge that has been
burned within the past four days, and all
of which fires aro supposed to have been
of incendiary origin. An investigation this
morning showed that the Linton bridge
was set on tire.for brush and oiled timbers
were found at either end. Suspicion
points to iic striking miners, but so far
nothing has been learned that will war
rant the arrest of the suspected strikers,
who were known to have been lurking iu
the vicinity of the fire only a few hours
before it started.
Yesterday morning on the Kansas City.
Memphis and Birmingham, near Adams
ville, in front of a limited mail from Mem
phis, a bridge was tired, but tho tire was
discovered in lime to prevent thfi train
from running into it.
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
The End of the Debate on the Tariff
Not in Sight Yot.
Washington, Juno 10.—The fourth draft
of the pending tariff bill, which was laid
before the Senate for consideration on
April 2, names June 31) as the time when
the law shall go into effect. That day
ends tho fiscal year, and through all the
prolonged debate which has sinco occu
pied the Senate, Senators Jones and Har
ris have contended that they would begin
collecting duties under the new law with
the beginning of the new fiscal year. The 1
present condition of things hardly sui>- 1
ports their belief. There arc several
very important schedules yet to be con
sidered. to say nothing of matters that
have been left open ponding final •action, ;
when the bill comes out of the committee
stage and goes into the Senate.
QParagraphs 84, 85 and 80 in the china
schedula have the House bill rates given j
for the reason that the committee re- i
ported no changes. Changes were !
suggested in the Senate, however, but no
action was taken pending the arrival of
certuin data from tin* treasury,
and these three items were
temporarily passed over. They have not
since been takeu up, but will be
considered later on. So also another vote
will bo taken on sugar in the open Senate.
The tobacco schedule, which presents a
radical change from the House bill, was
agreed to formally in committee of the
whole, with the understanding that
definite and final action should be post
poned until tho vote was taken in the
tieuate.
The spirit schedule will probably bo
completed tomorrow. The wool sched
ule and the putting of raw wool on the
free list—questions which will follow—
are bound to call out protracted debate.
l’rolific subjects'of discussion will also
be found in the rates fixed on silks, pa
pers, and in the sundries schedule, where
coal will bo found.
Pearl buttons and gloves will bo made
the basis of considerable talk, and the
iree list can hardly he disposed of in a
day. Three great items iu the free list
agricultural implements, lumber and raw
wool—will be stubbornly fought for the
purpose of making a record, nut without
hope of changing the result.
When the bill has b. en finally consid
ered in the committee of the whole and
reported to t,'ge Senate, the struggle over
sugar will be renewed.
Meanwhile, the condition of the appro
priation bills is giving tho democratic
leaders uneasiness, and if they do not get
through by J une 30, joint resolutions, ex
tending the terms of the present appro
priation bills will have to be passed.
IN THE HOUSE.
The order of work for the Houso this
week is pretty clearly blocked out by the
managers, but that the House will fulfill
their desires is very uncertain.
Monday will be devoted to the affairs of
the District of Columbia. Then tho In
dian appropriation bill, of which seven
pages were considered last weok, will bo
taken up under the five-minute rule. It
is the hope of'Mie leaders that it will bo
out of the way h.v Wednesday night, but
the outlook is not flattering. If the bill
shall drag along later in the week, a sum
mary end to the debate may be secured
by means of an order from the committee
on rules.
Next in order willcomo the bill to erect
a government printing office ou one of the
public reservations in the city. Mr.
Hatch’s anti-option bill, or Mr. Cooper’s
bill to tax greenbacks as other money is
taxed. These three bills are marked for
consideration after the. Indian bill is out
of the way, and before the general de
ficiency bill shall be called up. The order
in which they will be considered.-how
ever, will depend upon the action of the
House itself.
LIStUOR WIELDS AN AX.
Five Men Daagzrously Wounded by
a Man Crazed by Drink.
Chicago, Juno 10. —While crazed with
liquor, John Cane, a tinner, to-day cut
four men with an ax, and almost killed
a policeman who attempted to arrest him.
His victims, who wore taken home, ot
to the county hospital, are:
Joseph Schultz, cut in the head.
Janies Reilly, cut in the head, not ex
pected to recover.
Ernest Drummond, cut in the head.
Charles Fisher, blacksmith, stabbed iu
the side: condition critical.
Thomas Birmingham, police officer, cut
in the head; wound dangerous.
Tho trounle began in Fisher's black
smith shop. Cane got into a quarrel with
Fisher, and drawing a long knife, stabbed
him several times in the side. Then the
wounded man went home nud induced
Schultz, lietllv and Drummond to return
to the blacksmith shop. When
his friends tried to prevent
| him, Cane seized an ax and in
dicted the wounds. Tffe crazed would
be murderer kept everybody at a safe
i distance by flourishing his deadly weapon,
i When Officer Birmingham tackled him.
j Cane fought viciously with the axe and
finally laid the officer's head open. Offi
cer Burke came up while Cane was stand
ing over his victims and terrifying the
spectators, and felled his prisoner with a
blow from his club.
ROBBERS IN A DEPOT.
They Hold Up Two Men and Secure
Over 35800.
Fort Gibson, I. TANARUS., June 10.—Two
masked men at this place last night held
up H. C. Cox. agent of the Missouri Da-,
cafic railroad here, and A. M. Hensley,
the operator. Tho robbers appeared at
the ticket window an hour after
tho night express had passed, und cover
ing the men with their Winchesters, or
dered the door opened. The safe was
open and most of llie money on the table
After taking over #BOO, they took a gold
watch and chain from Hensley. A posse
is in pursuit.
A FIGHT WITH HORSE THIEVES.
Two Men Roported Killed and One
Seriously Wounded.
Guthrie, O. TANARUS., June 10.—According to
news received from thcSeniinoles, deputy
United States marshals of tile Fori
Smith court have had a fierce fight with
Winchesters with a band of horse thieves.
I it is reported that one of the marshals
was seriously wounded and John Fletcher
and Harry Newcomb killed.
, KILLED BY A MUD SLIDE.
Two Trainmen Lose Their Lives While
Clearing a Track.
Lead ville, Colo., June 10.—A Midland
freight train encountered u mud slide
, west of hero yesterday, and trainmen as
sisted the section hunds in clt aring the
track. W hile this work was going on an
other slide came down, klliin.' two train
men and seriously injuring two section
• hands.
SILVER’S USE IN GERMANY.
Nothing Practical to Result lrora the
Commission’s Sittings.
The White Metal’s Enthusiasts Claim
that tho Government Recognizes the
Theoretical Correctness of Their Po
sition—The Government Unable to
Undertake Its Rehabilitation Single
Handed, However.
Berlin, Juno 10.—The imperial currency
commission has adjourned and its min
utes and speeches are in the hands of the
printer. The original intention of tho
commissioners was to keep their pro
ceedings secret, but. with the gover
meuts approval, they eventually decided
to make all tho debates public,
and thus forestall all false reports
which interested persons might
spread. The commissioners who are
friendly to silver have urraiigod for a
cheap pamphlet, in which the wholo
record of their sittings will be set forth
at great length. Tho commissioners held
twenty sittings of six hours each, yot
they left the entire silver problem in Ger
many exactly as they found it. Only the
most sanguine of them expect any practi
cal result In tho future from their labors.
CLAIMS OF TIIK SILVER MEN.
Dr. Arendt, the most ardent of the sil
ver men, and a few of his closer follow
ers, contend that the German government
has become convinced of tho theoretical
correctness of bimetallism, although it
recognizes the impossibility of Germany’s
undertaking single-handed the rehabili
tation of siivor. Dr. Aremlt says ho is
convinced that the German silver mines
must be abandoned if the present prices
continue, and that with their abandon
ment will end much of the zinc and cop
per production on Gorman soil.
Herr Von Kardorff, who sat in the com
mission as the representative of the agra
rians and their over-mortgaged constit
uents, professed in a published interview
to ho well satisfied with the commission’s
work. “When we mot,” he said, “tho
gold men were stronger numerically than
the bi-motallists, but the latter carried a
motion that no votes should be taken on
any of the points to be discussed, tho ob
ject of the inquiry being merely to provide
the government with information concern
ing the currency question."
DH. HANBKRGEH WORSTED.
Horr von Kardorff said, also, that Dr.
Banberger, chief of the militant mono
metallists in Germany, came off second
best in his contest with the silver .men,
and suffered the mortification of hearing
his arguments reduced to absurdity by
j Dr. Arendt und his sympathisers.
Prof. Suess. when interviewed as to tho
I work of the commission, said that he was
present merely as an observer who was oe
cassionall.y called upon to give impartial
testimony. He believed that Count von
Posadowsky. secretary of the imperial
treasury, had been deeply impressed with
the difficulties of the existing situation,
and had been convinced that some reform
was unavoidable.
Director Russell, of the discount
companv. who as a monometallist is
second in authority only to Dr. Ban
borger, praises highly the impartiality of
the government towards tho investiga
tion. He thinks that mu< h good will re
sult from the commission’s labors for,
leaving all else out of consideration, he
says, tho statistical information gathered
by the commissioners will bo most useful
whenever enactments as to tho currency
of the empire shall be considered.
AN IMPRACTICABLE SCHEME.
Dr.’Arendt’selaborate plan for the i"suo
of silver certificates by international
agreement, Director Russell said, was so
dangerous and impractical that Dr.
Arendt’sown friends could not find the
courage to support it, and absented them
selves from the sittings in which it was
discussed. “No practicable method of rais
ing tho value of silver was suggested in
the commission,’’ is Director Russell’s
general verdict, ‘‘and if Germany ever
adopts a compromise in tho direction of
bimetallism, the motive will, in all prob
ability, be political and diplomatic, rather
than technical and economic.”
A LABOR INQUIRY CALLED FOR.
The Vorwaerts, organ of tho social
democratic central committee, after com
menting on the commission’s work, de
mands the appointment of an imperial
labor committee to Inquire into the con
dition of the unempioped and the causes
of the prevalent distress among laborers.
Such an inquiry, it says, Is needed much
more than was the currency inquiry.
The North German Lloyd and Ham
burg-Amerii an steamship companies
have taken Etcps to establish jointly an
emigrant station at Illowo, Hast Prussia,
where steerage passengers will be re
ceived, examined, washed and disinfected
before going aboard snip. The sheds at
lUowo will ( over some 450 square metres.
An official notice says that the cholera
was brought to Myalowivz. on tho Last
Prussian frontier, by a Russian tramp.
The members of the health hoard are
convinced tbut tho cholera is not likely
to spread far from tho frontier. All the
patients have been isolated, and no fresh
ruses have been reported lor several
days.
A CAVALRY ATTACK BY NIOIIT.
At tho coming manuevers near Killing,
Emperor William will command, in the
presence of the czar witz. a grand
, cavalry attack by night. All the latest
military inventions will be used in this
attack. Balloons with electric search
lights will illuminate tho field and elec
tric lights will be attained to the lances
of tho riders.
The pope's attitude toward cremation
was announced on Wednesday in tho
Untholic dioccusan council of Breisgau.
His opinion is that cremation, while
heretical in principle, may be allowed
under special conditions, whh li amount
to a guarantee against a public scandal.
Tht! Catholic clergy may o llcialo at ser
vices over bodies which aro to b ■:
cremated, but not at a crematorium.
THE BEER BOYCOTT*
An army of social democratic spies are
kept busy watching saloons suspected of
smuggling in I oycotted beer over night.
Many are kept moving from saloon to
saloon every day, concealing their rela
tions to the social democrats while eailiug
for boycotted beer. Any saloon keeper
serving this beer to them is forthwith de
nounced in the social democratic journals.
The employers, however, aro closing up
their ranks, and the owners of one
brewery lets threatened to closenls doors
and quit business unless the boycott he
abandoned. Sixteen firms have sub
scribed 80,000 marks for the benefit of the
saloon keepers suffering most heavily
from the boycott.
Dr. Ton Boettiehere, secretary of tho
isterior, has been cyiumande i by the cin-
peror to make a detailed report concern- )
ing the boycott enforced by the* social i
democrats against the breweries.
FOUGHT LIKE KILKENNY OATB.
Irishmen Go For Each Other With
Scythes and Pitchforks.
Dublin, Juno 10. An old woman who
owned half an acre of ground at Nenagh,
county of Tipperary, died Friday without
leaving a relative or specifying an heir.
Her neighbors quarreled over tho pos
session of her land yesterday. Koine 30
men fought with scythes and pitchforks
round her house. Eventually they
broke down the doors and beat, each other
with tho candles which had stood around
the body. W hen the fight was ended two
men lay dead at the doorstop and five
others were too severely wounded to
walk from the scene of the conflict.
A farmer mimed Dwyer, living near
Nenagh, was killed in another agrarian
quarrel on Friday.
FRANCK’S ROW IN SIAM.
A Rumor That the Murderer of Gros
gurin Was to Be Seized Denied.
Paris, June 10.—The Temps denies tho
report that tho French at Bangkok in
tend to seize Phrayot, who murdered the
French Inspector Grosgurln. TlieKlamese
government lias shown its reluctance to
produce Phrayot in court, owing to the
impression in Bangkok that there was
danger of his falling into their hands.
Tho Nation publishes an unconfirmed
report that the government has ordered
the warships now at Kaigon to go to
Bangkok to support France s demand for
Phrayot’s punishment.
Steeple Chase of Paris.
I’aris, June 10.—The Grand Steeple
Chase (le Baris was run to-day* at Auotil.
Ixiutch won. Swanshot was second,
Veuil thlid and Caucase fourth. The
betting was 7 to 2 against Louteh ; 12 to 1
against Swanshot, 20 to 1 against Veuil
and 40 to 1 against Caucase. Thirteen
horses ran.
Italy’s Cabinet Crisis.
Romo, June 10.—Premier Orispi has
failed as yet to find an easy means of set
tling the present crisis. Admiral Brin,
formerly minister of foreign affairs, has
been summonod to Rome and is expected
to arrive at midnight.
CORBETT’S COMING COMBAT.
If Jackson Flunks Fitzsimmons Will
Bo Challenged.
New York, June 10.—Joe Vendig, of tho
Jacksonville, Fla., Athletic Club, was
to-day asked how tho negotiations of the
club for tho Corbett-Jackson fight were
progressing. He said the club had offered
Peter Jackson every inducement to fight
in Florida, hut that the negro hesitated
about giving a final answer. His objection
that a man of Ids race could not get
fair play in the south was all nonsense.
Vcnclig has coiuniunleutod with him
guaranteeing fair play if he will fight in
Jacksonville. In case Jackson declines to
meet Corbett in Florida Vending contem
plates making an offer to Fitzsimmons to
meet the champion. He feels confident
that Fitzsimmons will accept. The
Jacksonville club has not yet decided ou
the size of the purse it will offer for this
match, but ho believes It will be $35,0(10,
the same as that offered Jaclcsoii and
Corbett.
FOUR DROWNED.
Death Ends a Sunday Pleasure Sail
At Brewsters, N. Y.
Brewsters, N. Y.,June 10.—Two sisters,
named Maggie and Bessie Bianey, and
Thomas Scanlon and John McCluskey, all
of Brewsters, went boating this nfier
noou on Southeast lake, about two miles
from here. The boat upset and (ho lour
were drowned.
'i'llis evening the bodies of Bessie
Bianey and Scalon were recovered, but
up to a late hour to-night the bodies of
the other two had not been found.
FIVE DROWNED AT VERMILLION.
Vermillion, 0.. June 10. While ont on
the lake near here this morning a small
boat containing five persons was upset
and threo of the occupants were drowned.
The names of the dead are: Amos Lark
ins, aged 15; Mildred Larkins, aged 12:
Bessie Ainsworth, aged 17. The bodies
have not been recovered.
CATHOLICS UNDER FIRE.
A Presbyterian Preacher Indulges In
a Bitter’Attack.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Juno 10.—Uev. W.
J. Trimble, one of the leading Presby
terian pastors hero, surprised his con
gregation to-day by preaching a bitter
American Protective Association attack
on the Catholic church. His subject was
specifically the relations of tile American
Protective Association and the Catholic
church on social, moral and political con
ditions in Chattanooga. Ho closed by
saying that the ( atholics could not escape
the conflict which was hourly growing
uearer. '
PASSED FORGED CHECKS.
A Nephew of Senator George
Arrest at Memphis,
Memphis, Teun., June 10.—Dr. W. K.
Saunders, a nephew of United States
Senator George, of Mississippi, occuuiod
a cell in tho central |>olice station last
night charged with forgery. He came to
Memphis a few days ago, and for tho
past few days has successfully passed
nearly a score of forged checks ranging
from *IK to WOO each.
Saunders confessed his guilt when ar
rested and broke down completely. He
is said to be addicted to the cocaine habit.
OVERCOME BY HEAT.
Contortionists and Excursionists
Prostrated at Warsaw, Ind.
Warsaw, ind., June 10.—While the Mil- :
lor twins, contortionists, wero giving an
exhibition at Lake Side pork, in this
city, before4.ooo excursionists from South
Bend and Anderson this afternoon, they j
wore overcome by the boat. Many of the
audience wore prostrated, i. J. Mom-say
nud Mrs. S. B. Cant/., of South Bend and
Raymond Miller, one of the contortion
ists, will not recover.
MISGUIDED DEMOCRATS.
Cleveland’s Policy Denounced by a
County Convention.
Arkadelphia, Ark., June 10. - The Clark
county democratic convention yesterday
put itself on record as opiiosingtlio Cleve
land administration. After nominating
candidates for county offices, the conven
tion adopted a resolution denouncing
President Cleveland's financial policy in
strong language.
DAILY. 110 A YEAR,
oCENTS A COPY.
WEEKLY. 8-TIMF.S A WEEK, *1 A YEAR. I
A WOMAN IN A LION’S JAWS
A King of Beasts Turns on His Tamer
During a Performance.
The Brute’s Passions Fired by the
Approach of His Feeder With Raw
Meat—The Girl In the Act of Giving
Kim a Good Night Kiss in the Mouth
When He Drove His Teeth Through
Her Jaw -Her Condition Precarious.
Coney Island, N. Y., June 10.—MUa.
Beatrice, a lion tainor, at the London Zoo,
who is giviug a wild animal show on the
Old Iron Pier, at West Brighton, had a
narrow escape from being mangled to
death to-night by a lion, It was just 11
o’clock, and tho inclosure on the pier
whore the animals are on exhibi
tion was crowded with people. The
last performance of the day wae
being given and Beatrice appeared in the
ball, climbed up the ladder leading to the
cage of the wild lions, and entered. There
are two big Asiatic lions in the cage, a
male and female. Bolla is tho female’s
name and Brutus tho male’s. Tho latter
is a great pet of tho lion-tamor, and she
plays with him for 15 minutes
at every performance. Her act
with tho wild beasts closed by
opening his mouth and kissing him. She
always succeeded in kissing the brute un
til to-night. While she was making her
bold attempt to 3tnack tho lips of Brutue
to-night, the man who feeds the lions
made his appearance near the cage with
a box of raw reef.
THE IIRUTE SEIZES ITER.
Brutus caught sight of the beof, and
in a moment he unfastened Beatrice’s
hold on him and sprang upon her. Both
had a lively tussle, which finally re
sulted in the lion-tamer falling to the
floor, and the lion grabbing tho left side
of her face in his mouth. The women
and children in the audlouco screamed,
and tho men rushed around the hall, look
ing for clubs and sticks with which
to bent tho lion away from the
woman. In a few moments, Manager
B’arrare and Trainers Bronco and Ord
way rushed In with pitchforks. After
plunging the forks several times in the
head and body of the lion they managed
to make him loosen his hold and got the
girl out of the cage. She was uncon
scious and blood was pouring from her
face as she was carried Into tho office.
Dr. Hill was suinuiouod and tho woman
was put to bed.
THE WOMAN DELIRIOUS.
When the doctor arrived tho woman
was delirious and opiates had to be given
to quiet her. Upon examination Dr. Hill
found that the lion had succeeded In
sticking three of hla big teeth through
thi* woman’s left jaw. Other parts of her
face were also chewed. It took some
time for the surgeon to stop the flow
of blood. Dr. Hill sakl to-night
that it was the worst case of animal blto
he evZ*r saw. The woman is delirious at
midnight, and Dr. Hill says she is in a
precarious condition.
Milo. Beatrice is 20 years old. Her
father was n lion-tamor, und she weut
into the business when 12 years old. She
came from London with tho show three
weeks ago.
GOXFY OUT OF HIS CELL.
Browne and Jones Also Return to
Their Comrades.
Washington, Junh 10. Coxey, Brown®
and Jotcs, the leaders of the common
weal, were released from jail at!) o'clock
this morning. No demonstration attended
ttieir departure. They shook hands with,
tin) deputy warden and watch of
ficers. thanked them for their ion
siderate treatment und entered a
carriage driven by Oklahoma Sam, drawn
by four commonweal horses. At tho dis
trict line the ’wealers from the camp
wore drawn up in line to receive tho dis
tinguished party. They unhitched tho
horses and themselves hauled the liber
ated leaders to the camp. Coxey and
Browne spoke duriug the afternoon.
MAY STAY t.'NTIL WINTER.
Coxey said it now looked as though tho
men might extend their stay at tho capi
tal into winter. He said he was going to
make an address on July 4 nt Knoxville,
Ky., for which ho would bo paid $250. He
aiso h id other engagements to speak dur
ing the prez.t nt month. A census of the
camp to day showed 54K men present.
In speaking of his chances for his elec
tion to congress, Covey said that lie was
not acquainted with the situation of af
fairs in the Mussllion district, as he had
not been at homo for about three months.
Advices received from there, however,
indicated that he would be successful.
SMITH ORGANI/.INO A NEW CRUSADE.
Pittsburg, Pa., Juno 10.—Louis Smith,
“the unknown” of tho Coxey army, now
ehiof organizer of populist clubs, has di
rected a letter to the presidents of the
twelve liubs organized iu Pittsburg, noti
fying them that a great demonstra
tion will tako place Thursday
evening. After the demonstration
recruits will be taken to form the People’s
Political Industrial Crusaders. Those men,
must, the letter says, be enthusiastic and
ready to go out for two or three months
and inarch all through this country.
The letter directs the solicitation of
subscriptions to purchase tents, donations
of food, horses, wagons, etc., to helptba
army start.
WENT THROUGH A BRIDGE.
Four Lives Probably Lost In a Rail
road Accident in Manitoba.
Winnipeg, June 10. —A fatal accident
occurred yesterday to tho through Cana
dian Pacific oxpross near Fort William.
A burning bridge gave way under tho
train and four cars were precipitated
into the river Mattawa. The cars took
lire 1 rum the bridge und wero consumed
with all mail and express mutter.
Mrs. Barker, of Klkliorne, Man., was
drowned, and Express Messenger Brown,
of Tor a to. is missing. It is also feared
that two others are drowned. Among
tiie injured are Mrs. Bieic, of Middle
viUo. Midi., badly bruised; Fireman
Whitehead, seriously Injured; Engineer
Elms, slightly injured.
Mrs. Lease for Congresß.
Topeka, Kas., June 10.—It is announced
here that Mrs. Mary Leas® will be nomi
nated by tho prohibitionists for congress
man-at-large for Kansas. It is also ex
pected that this nomination will be in
dorsed by the populists.
Nr.il Works Burned.
Pottstown, Pa., June 10.—The Ellis and
Lessig Nail Works wero burned here this
morning, entailing a loss of *IOO,OOO,
partly covered by insuruuc*.