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( THE MORNING NEW*, I
< Established iB6O. IKcorporated 1888 >
| i. H. ESTILL, President. )
CHICi'S 1 111.
To-day a Turning Point in
the Strike.
ALL LABOR ORDERED OUT.
If the Order Is Obeyed the Danger
Will Be Grave.
•
DEBS UNDER ARREST.
lie and Four Others Held for
Obstructing Mails.
Their Bail Fixed at *IO,OOO Bach.
The Punishment for Their Offense a
Fine of From *I,OOO to *IO,OOO.
The Day Passes Without a Riotous
Outbreak, but Apprehension Felt for
To-day—The Railroads Claim to Be
Moving Trains More Freely.
Chicago, July 10.—There is no disguis
ing the fact that the local situation to
night in the labor troubles is more grave
than it has been at any time since two
weeks ago this noon, when the American
Railway Union issued its boycott against
the rolling stock of the Pull
man Car Company" with the view of
enforcing the demands of the strikers at
the town of Pullman. This is not the
view of an alarmist. It is the opinion en
tertained to-night among all classes of
the community, which are looking for
ward with fear and apprehension to what
the night or another day may bring forth.'
There was that same feeling of
unrest and foreboding in the
air that those who have witnessed
uprisings on the part of the masses in
England and on the continent remember
full well. There were, three times as
many people on the streets to day as wore
to be seen on any day for many months
past. Mine-tenths of the men and women
alike displayed some emblem. The ma
jority wore the white ribbon, emblematic
of sympathy with the strikers, and
against the use of the white ribbons the
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
has made a fervent, but apparently inef
fectual protest.
MINIATURE FLAGS.
Silken miniatures of the stars and
stripes, too, made their appearance this
morning, and before noon they were to be
seen by the thousands, serving the purpose
of boutonieres or being pinned to breasts.
In many instances these emblems of loy
alty to the national government, the
silent testimony of the wearer to the fact
that he was prepared to support and vin
dicate the laws of the country, was fast
ened with the significant bronze button of
the Grand Array of the Republic. Many
others, discarding both the white
ribbon and the stars and stripes,
wo to as an emblem a tri-colored piece
of ribbon which, like the flag, was in
tended as an evidence of their adhesion
to and support of the sovereign power of
the land. It was significant also that the
stars and stripes were hoisted on scores
of flag poles, Doth in the business and
residence district, that are generally bare
except on the Fourth of July, Decoration
Day and sirailiar national or local holi
days. The people on the streets kept
moving. There was no congregation of
crowds except about the military camps,
on the lake front and the government
building and in the region of the various
.headquarters of the labor organizations.
But as they walked they talked, and the
present and future of the labor situation
was the engrossing topic. So it was at
the clubs, in the restaurants, in the sa
loons and in all other places of public re
sort. In commercial circles there were
lamentations loud and deep, for retail
business of all kinds is in a slate of paral
ysis, and the wholesale trade is faring
but little if any better. Everybody
agreed that something must soon "drop”
to bring relief.
THE ARREST OF DEBS.
This morning, as anticipated, the arrest
of President Debs and his associates was
the sensation of the day. Thp president
of the American Railway Union and his
colleagues were brought in quietly and
without the lurid Area or outbursts
of popular indignation that had
been predicted. The grand jury,
composed almost entirely of out-of
town residents, occupied less time than
had been expected in reaching the de
cision that the evidence presented for its
consideration was sufficient to justify the
return of true bills against the leaders of
the union. No other result had been ex
pected by those who listened to the
charge of Judge Grosscup. and while al
though denounced with fury at
the headquarters of the various
labor 'organizations to - night it
is generally commented upon in
commercial and professional circles as a
masterly exposition of the line between
tlie legal and justifiable methods of trades
Organizations and defiance of the law. or
rebellion against the authority of the
United States The Jurists took the
ground emphatically that, while the right
of labor to organize could not he success
fully attacked, and that while it was the
l(n perishable right of a free man tu work
orquit work as he saw tit. and that while,
moreover, he wus entitled to all the fruits
snd strategy of work or of cessation from
Work, yet that at the same time, trades
prganizationg'are subject to the same laws
Is oilier associations ; that their leaders
tro also subject to the same laws govern
rng all other iiKki. aud tli.it no organizu
iuu, nor the lenders of such organization,
ffihe Jlofnitto Kctos.
could with impunity violate the laws en
acted for the government of interstate
commerce or the protection of the
mails. It was a memorable
scene, when, looking straight ahead,
with finger uplifted and speaking in
clear cut tones as though he would drive
his words like a dagger of steel into the
hearts of the jurymen. Judge Grosscup
said that the present emergency was to
vindit ate the law and that only, and that
if that law had been violated there should
be quick, prompt and adequate in
dictment. When the jury turned to
ward its consulting chamber there
was not a man within reach of the judge’s
voice that had not already made up his
mind that a return of indictments against
the leaders of the union would be as
quick and prompt as those responsible
for the putting into operation of tlje ma
chinery of the federal courts could possi
bly desire.
RETALIATION OF THE STRIKE LEADERS.
Organized labor was prompt to strike
back at the latest manifestation of fed
eral power and authority. Hardly had
the word been flashed across the half a
mile of intervening ground between the
government building and labor headquar
ters that indictments had been returned
and warrants for President Debs and his
associates placed in the hands of the offi
cers of the law, when the committee ap
pointed by the trade and labor associa
tions of the city to urge upon the Pull
man company the desirability of sub
mitting the dispute with its em
ployes to arbitration, and which had
endowed autocratic authority in the
event of a refusal being returned, at
tached its signatures to the order calling
out every union man in the city from
midnight. Almost before the ink was
dry on this document, Gen. Master Work
men hovereign of the Knights of Labor
placed the official seal of the order upon
a manifesto addressed to the members
of the organization throughout the
country, declaring that a crisis had been
reached in the affairs of the nation that
endangered the peace of the republic,
that the flames of discord were being
purposely fanned by the railroad corpora
tions at the risk of the life of the gov
ernment, and appealing to the order,
and through it to the whole peo
ple, to lay down, the implements
of toil for a short season, aud under
the bane of peace, and with patriotic im
pulse, to create through peaceable assem
blage, a healthy sentiment in favor of an
amicable settlement of the issues in
volved. The manifesto was couched in
somewhat qualified terms, for while
in one portion it appealed to
the order, although its executive
officer was at the moment of
writing a little doubtful of his ground or
the scope of his authority, it later on
specifically ‘requested the membership
not to return to its usual avocations until
a settlement of the pending trouble had
been made known through authentic
sources.
This order, or request, or whatever It
might properly be designated, was wired
at once to the officers of every district
assembly throughout the country, with
instructions looking to its immediate
transmission to the executive heads of
each local assembly.
DEBS UNDER ARREST.
Four Other Leaders Also Taken in for
Obstructing the Mails.
Chicago, July 10.—Slowly but steadily,
calmly and certainly, as befits the supreme
power of a great nation throughout all
that wide stretch of its domain where
evilly disposed persons are taking advan
tage of an exceptional industrial condition
to incite violence and bloodshed,
the federal government is work
ing to the accomplishment of that
for which its power was delegated
to it by the preservation of order and the
safety of life and property. At Chicago,
in conjunction with the state and the mu
nicipality, it has already brought peace
out of the condition of war which pre
vailed last week. At San Francisco, Sa
cramento, Los Angeles and various points
in Colorado and Washington, where the
unruly are creating havoc, it has let loose
the dogs of war iu token of its intention
to have peace even if it has to light
for it. In this city, the
military army having accomplished
its purposes, the judicial army to-day
took up the orderly course of its duties,
which include the fixing upon the guilty
parties of the measure of their crime and
fitting of the punishment thereto. The
first step in this procedure was the as
sembling of the federal grand jury and
the delivery of the charge to it by Judge
Grosscup, not to be turned aside from an
exhaustive inquiry into the questions
which it has undertaken to pass upon by
mere technicalities.
DEBS’ DISPATCHES DEMANDED.
The effectiveness of the charge was
evinced at the outset by the brusqueness
with which it swept aside the plea of
privacy and privilege which the Western
Union Telegraph Company, with a due
regard ior the privacy of the messages of
its clients, was forced to put iu when the
Jury called for the messages from Presi
dent Debs to the members of his order
which had been transmitted over its
lines. The court held that public safety
was paramout to private right, and so
ordered that the dispatches be produced.
That it is the intention of the
government not to be too long about the
work in hand was shown from the fact
that the footsteps of the telqgraph official
who brought the dispatches had scarcely
ceased the echo along the corridor lead
ing to the grand jury room when that
body filed into Judge Grosscup's court
and announced that it had found a true
bill of indictment. Pending the arrest of
the person thus put under the ban of the
law, nis name remained locked in the
breast of the lord-high executioner and
the public was allowed to draw its own
conclusions from all the premises and
such preliminary data as it had at hand.
That President Debs was the man, none
doubted, and subsequent develop
ments Justified the surmise, for
Eugene V. Debs, president of the
American Railway Union; George W.
Howard, vice president; Sylvester
lveither, secretary; M. Rogers and J. S.
Merwin were all Indicted for conspiracy
to interfere with the United States mails,
llebs was arrested at the 1 .eland hotel at
5 o’elock and Keitber at Uhrlich’s hall a
half hour later. Bail was fixed at#l<),ooo
in each case. The penalty is a lino of
from #I,IHXI to $lO,OOO.
TIIE TILT OVER THE TELEGRAMS.®
This afternoon E. M. Mulford, manager
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
puny, was called before the federal
grand Jury to produce tele
grams sent by President Debs. Ho
refused on the ground that they
were privileged communications Ho
was notified by Judge i .rosscup to appear
with the telegrams He again objected
and sent the matter to the general attor
ney of the company. The matter
was under long consideration and the
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 11,1894.
company’s attorney sought on every legal
provision at his command to avoid the
process on the same point made by Man
ager Mulford—that the communications
were privileged and in the custody of the
company as such. Judge Grosscup’s
notice wafc imperative, however, with the
word that unless the telegrams were pro
duced Manager Mulford would be sent to
jail. Evasion being impossible, the tele
grams were produced in court at 3:30
o’clock p. m The general attorney was
in his office in M’ew York, and the consid
eration between the Western Union offi
cials was all by wire.
HANNAHAN ARRESTED.
Vice Grand Master J. J. Hannahan, of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
was arrested early this morning at bis
home and taken before Commissioner
Hovne. The warrant charges him with
interfering with interstate commerce and
the passage of mails. He is also accused
of hoarding an engine on the Western In
diana road and inducing the engineer and
fireman to quit work. Hannahan de
clares he is innocent of the things
charged against him, while District At
torney Milchrist says the government
has a good case against him.
CRISIS OR COLLAPSE.
To-dav Expected to Mark a Turning
Point in the Strike.
Chicago, July 10.—The plan of the lead
ers for to-morrow is to call out first all
organized labor in Chicago, and then to
proceed from town to town until the en
tire country is paralyzed, or Pullman
gives in. The immediate effect on Chi
cago, if all the trades obey the order to
strike, will be to throw from 50.000 to
100,000 people out of employment.
Touching the outlook for the future,
outside of Chicago, it may be said that to
day’s dispatches were almost uniform in
tenor to the effect that normal conditions
had already been restored, or that they
were rapidly approaching that state, and
there seems no reason at this writing to
suppose the progress toward a complete
resumption of trade and traffic will meet
any serious check as the coming days
shall succeed each other. In other words
it does not seem possible with all
the forces of law and order as now
urrayed; with the leader put to his own
defense at the bar of justice: with their
ranks beginning to be depleted by deser
tion and with the strain which they have
already endured, that the American Rail
way Union can rally its forces from a
struggle which must needs be long and
discouraging at the least. Apparently,
therefore, their only hope of triumph lies
in the aid which they hope to get from
union labor outside of their organization.
THE ORDER TO STHIkV
As this is being w.itten, the order for
all classes of labor in Chicago to go on a
strike to-morrow is being promulgated,
and it is expected that that of General
Master Workman Sovereign of the
Knights of Labor, calling on all members
to strike, and all who sympathize wifh
the Pullman strikers all over the country
to come out with them, will follow
quickly.
How generally these orders will be
obeyed is problematical; to a great extent
their effect has been already discounted
by the stagnation of business, and it is
known that some of the longest headed
of the labor leaders themselves believe
that action has been postponed too long
to be fully effective.
At sunset to-morrow this nation will
probably know whether the situation is
one of crisis or collapse.
RESUMPTION OF TRAFFIC.
The Managers Explain That New Men
and Troops Make It Possible.
Chicago, July 10. The statements
emanating from the General Managers’
Association announcing the gradual re
sumption of through passenger train ser
vice have evoked numerous inquiries from
the east as to whether these conditions
were being Drought about by the return
of the strikers, by the securing of new
employes or by the aid of the government.
A categorical query on this point was
submitted to the officials of the General
Managers’ Association, and the following
official reply was returned: "The-grad
ual resumption of through passenger
traffic, so far as Chicago is con
cerned. is beipg effected with new
employes and the protection afforded
them by the troops. We have contended
from the outset that we have enough
men to run our trains if they were
allowed to work without molestation,
and that the partial tie-up has been due
solely to the action of the mobs and riot
ers. The truth of this contention is de
monstrated in the schedules showing the
gradual resumption of passenger traffic.
It is useless to deny, however, that with
out the aid of federal and state military,
we could not have done as much as w-e
have in this direction, and that with the
military withdrawn the situation would
be as bad as ever. What we are doing
is being solely done by the aid of the
troops.”
SITUATION OREATLY IMPROVED.
The following statement was issued to
night by Chairman Egan of the General
Managers Association:
To-day the railways in the city of Chicago
handled their usual number of through pas
senger and mail trains. Many of them have
resumed suburban service. The numi er
of freight trains. loth in and out
of the city, on all lines, has largely
increased since yesterday. Ihe backbone of
the strike was broken yesterday. Nearly all
of the requisitions for men wanted by the dif
ferent roads have beet, filled.
The railway companies have nothing to say
as to the prosecution of Individuals who have
violated the laws. 1 hat matter is left in the
hands of the government. -
John M. Egan.
MEAT TRAINS MOVED.
The Packing Houses Succeed in
Making Shipments.
Chicago, July 10.—A train of fifty cars
loaded with dressed beef left the stock
yards this morning about 3 o’clock for
New York. The train was made up
secretly during the night and was deliv
ered to the Fan Handle road.
TWO MORE TRAINS SENT OUT.
Union Stock Yards, 111., July 10.—Under
the protection of the Chicago Hussars,
two companies of infantry and cavalry
troop 1) of the State Guard, to
gether with a company of federal
troops and a squad of mounted
liolice. Swift & Cos. sent out a train
of thirty-llireee cars of dressed beef
shortly before noon to-day. The beef
will be hurried through to Liverpool.
Quite a crowd of hangers-on gathered at
Fortieth and Halsted streets as the big
passenger engine of the Michigan
Ceutral coupled onto the train, but
no demonstration was attempted on
tiie part of the crowd. Ou top of
each car, u militiaman stood with loaded
rifle ready to fire at the first sign of vio
lence. Tne Chicago Hussars, in fatigue
uniform and mounted on their coal black
steed* cleared the tracks of small crowds
and escorted the train down Fortieth
street to tho Michigan Central main lino.
This afternoon Armour & Cos. started
a train of beef over the same road.
Since Friday the big packers have suc
ceeded in getting out nearly 100 carloads
of beef and provisions in wagons.
Men have been at work day and nicht
hauling the beef to the down town stores,
from where it is shipped by boats to
lyoints on the lakes. Several carloads of
provisions have also been sent to eastern
cities bv express.
This morning the George G. Meade l-’ost
No. 444 of the (j. A. It. of Englewood ten
dered its services to the government.
SQUALLY AT THE YARDS.
k
Packing House Gangs Clear the
Tracks of Obstruction,
Union Stock Vards, 111., July 10.—
Shortly after 7 o'clock this morning Nel
son Morris and Armour Jfc Cos. put a gang
of men at work clearing the tracks at
Forty-seventh and Loomis streets. A
crowd of nearly 2,000 men and boys
gathered about the workers and for a
while the situation was considered criti
cal. The men at work clearing tne over
turned cars from the rails were without
protection, police or military, and a call
was quickly sent to the stock yards
station. Capt. O’Neill sent two squads of
police and a company of malitia to guard
the men and disperse the crowd.
LABOR’S GENERAL STRIKE.
The Order to Quit Work to Be Issued
Within Twenty-four Hours.
Chicago, July 10.—The committee ap
pointed >byi the' mass meeting of trades
unions, held Sunday nightito arrange for
the arbitration of the Pullman boycott,
failing to do which by 4 o’clock to-day a
general strike was to be ordered, reported
this evening that their efforts had failed,
and the trades unions were left to carry
out the decision of the meeting and de
clare a general strike. The strikers de
clare that the general strike will be de
clared within twenty-four hours, the
strike involving not less than 150,000 men.
Newsboys Boycott Papers.
Chicago, July 10.—One thousand Chi
cago newsboys decided last night to Join
the boycott. They announced the result
of their meeting during a parade of the
streets at 10 o’clock In a body they
trooped to the various newspaper offleos,
swarmed up the steps, through the doors
and proclaimed their intention. The news
boys’ boycott will be forced against six
newspapers, three morning and three
evening issuos. They were enlisted in
the cause b.v the energy of the American
Railway Union, and they will not sell
copies of the Herald, Tribune, Inter
Ocean, Mail, Post or Journal.
Miners to Be Called Out.
Chicago, July 10.—After a conference
with President Debs, Vice President
Howard, General Master Workman Sov
ereign and others last night, it is stated
that President Mcßride of the National
Miners Association dogided to call out 45,-
000 miners engaged in furnishing coal for
the boycotted railroads to-day. If this
“walk-out” be ineffectual, according to
the declaration, 40,000 additional men will
be ordered to lay down their picks.
SACRAMENTO’S SKIRMISH.
The Federal Soldiery Oo Prepared to
Do Soma Shooting.
San Franciso, July 10. —The crisis at
Sacramento will be reached in a day or
two, for the United States troops left for
that city early this morning. Their pur
pose is to move trains at any cost, when
the regulars reach the capital. Some of
the strikers have deadly weapons and
intend to use them if necessay to prevent
their plans from being overcome. If re
sistance is offered to the United
States soldiers the probability is that
there will be slaughter , at Sacramento.
The troops go prepared fdr a siege.
Four foot batteries stationed at Presidio
and one of the two foot batteries that
have been guarding at Catraz got them
selves in readiness last night to go on
board a steamer, which left Presidio
wharf this morning. Two gatling guns
were put on the boat. Each man had 200
rounds of ammunition, which amount sig
nified that these troops will, if necessary,
do a great deal of shooting with their
Springfield rifles too. Col. Ingraham
led the force himself.
A CONFERENCE.
A committee representing the chamber
of commerce, board of trade and mer
chants’ association of this city had a con
ference with the Oalclaud strike leaders
this morning, the object being to bring
about an understanding that might lead
to some arrangement for a compromise by
the two contending forces, but no propo
sition tending toward a settlement was
made. No concessions were made on the
part of tho strikers, and unless the com
mittee can offer them something in accord
ance with the position they have held all
through!the trouble, there is no indica
tion of an immediate settlement.
DANGER OF BLOODSHED.
San Francisco, July 10, 9 r. m. —Col.
Graham with 800 regulars from Presidio,
five galling guns and two Hotchkiss guns
embarked on the ferry steamer at
Alameda this forenoon and were taken to
Mare Island. There the command was in
creased by 800 marines and all were loaded
on two river steamers and started for
Sacramento. When this news reached
Sacramento the strikers became wild.
There are now over 8,000 of these strikers
in Sacramento to resist the federal and
state troops. Flushed with their victory
over the United States marshals and
police on Tuesday last, and a complete
victory over more than a thousand stato
militiamen on the following day,
they are iu just tho mood to
resist the regulars to - morrow.
There wjs means of transimrta
tion from Vellojo by trains, but as soon as
the strikers at South Vallejo heard the
regulars were coming they "killed’' all
the engines, ditching one, and spiked tho
switches, thus effectively blockading the
track. This afternoon the crews from
the Charleston, Monterey, and indepen
dence were landed at Mare Island for riot
drill. They comprise about WXI men, and
will leave for Oakland to-night.
In the face of the general preparations
of the strikers for resistance, the atti
tude of the locomotive engineers is at
tracting attention. Representatives of
the brotherhood waited upon General
Superintendent Fillmore at Sacramento
this morning and announced that they
were ready to return to work at a mo
ment's notice.
At all points in the stato, except Sncra
mento and Oakland, the situation has
turned against tho strikers.
ON GUARD AT SAN JOSE.
San Jose, Cal., July 10.—At 5 o’clock
this morning sixty deputy sheriffs com
posed mostly of prominent citizens, as
sembled iu front of the court house and
marched to the broad gauge depot, to
gether with twelve deputy United States
marshals and eighteen policemen, where
all are now on guard.
Troops arrived this morning from Agri-
cultural Park and went to the armory,
which is within five minutes' walk of the
depot. It was feared this morning that
there might be trouble before tho trains
which were to be started out to-day
readied San Francisco. At 10 o'clock
the blockade was broken and a train left
for San Francisco unattended by exciting
incidents at the depot.
MADE THE ROAD SMILE.
Shopmen Strike Just When There Was
Nothing for Them to Do-
Gainesville, Tex., July 10.—The mem
bers of the American Railway Union in
this city, over fifty in number, quit work
yesterday . They were mostly shopmen
and had lieen laying off for twenty days
because there was nothing for thorn to do,
but arrangements had been made to re
sume work yesterday, when an order
came from Agitator Debs to strike, so
they declined to go to work, to the de
light of their employers, who reully had
nothing of importance for them to do.
A MOB SURROUNDS A TRAIN.
Galveston, Texas, July 10, 10 r. m.—
The strike on the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe by the Americnn Railway
Union did not assume a serious phase till
7:30 o'clock p. m . the time for tho de
parture of the Santa Fe northbound pas
senger train from the utiion depot, with
two Pullmans attached. Just prior
to the departure, a crowd of about 300
congregated about the union depot on each
side of the train. As the gong sounded
for the train to pull out, a rush was made
by the strikers for the Pullmans, and an
effort made to uncouple them. This was
successfully resistod by a detachment of
police aud a posse of deputy sheriffs, and,
after a sharp struggle, the train cleared
the depot and departed without further
Interference.
After being thwarted in this attempt a
body of strikers visited the Santa Fe
yard, ran off the crews of two switch en
gines, which they killed on the track and
demolished the windows of the cabs of
each. A large crowd of strikers and tlielr
sympathizers are now congregated around
tho station of the Santa Fe, where a
strong detachment of police and deputy
sheriffs are stationed to protect the in
coming Santa Fe trains.
Four Santa Fe passenger trains aro
now tied up at Temple, Tex.
REGULARS FIRE ON A MOB.
Two Men Killed-The Mob Was Ston
ing the Soldiers.
Spring Valley,lll., July 10.—A company
of regulars commanded by Capt. Conrad
came Into collision with a mob of strikers,
principally miners, this afternoon at the
Rock Island railroad station, and after
patiently enduring volley after volley
of stones, fired into the mob, killing two
men and wounding several others The
mob was largely composed of Huns,
Poles, and other foreigners. Their threat
ening demonstration yesterday and this
morning had caused the presence
of tho troops, and tho at
tack began before the soldiers
had landed from the train. After his
soldiers had been well pelted with stones
and the mob threatened to run over his
men, Capt. Conrad gave tho order to fire.
The mob broke for the timber when tho
firing began and has not assembled since.
The troops went back to Chicago to night.
COLLAPBINO AT CLEVELAND.
The Backbone of the Strike There Be
lieved to Be Broken.
Cleveland, 0., July 10. -At noon to-day
the indications are that the backbone of
the strike has been broken. One crew
has been put to work on every yard in
the city, and each of the roads has suc
ceeded in making up and sending out at
least one freight train. There have beon
no signs of disturbances. All the firemen
employed by the Big Four, who have
been ou strike, returned to work tills
morning. It now looks ns though the
strike would speedily break down, and
to-night every yard be fully manned and
actively at work clearing up the accumu
lation of cars.
FELL FLAT.
Chattanooga’s Incipient Strike Al
ready a Failure.
Chattanooga, Tenn., July 10—The in
cipient railroad strike here has fallen fiat.
To-day all trains, both freight and pas
senger, are running regularly and tho
men are working cheerfully. The agent
of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Eouis road announced this morning that
his road would resume the operation of
freight trains.
The Alabama Great Southern has not
the slightest difficulty in securing com
petent men to take the places of the strik
ing firemen. All foars of further troublo
are gone.
CRESCENT CITY CLASHES.
All but One of the Switchmen Out on
the Queen and Crescent.
New Orleans, La., July 10.—All but one
switchman on the Queen and Crescent
have gone out, and the firemen drop off at
Meridian, where they reside.
The strike on the Illinois Central has
not increased. A labor committee has
been granted an interview with the mer
cantile bodies at 11 o’clock to-morrow.
The labor bodies propose to hold out the
threat of a general strike in order to se
cure the release of the imprisoned agita
tors.
Big Four Firsmen Out.
Cincinnati, 0., July 10.—At midnight
the Bremen on the St. i-iouis division of
the'Big Four railway, which extends
from Cincinnati to St. Louis, went out.
The Big Four Bremen on the Cincin
nati end struck to-day. Following this
came an order from the management of
the company discharging all employes in
the machine and repair shops, fully 8,000
in number. The reason assigned is the
lack of work. They are assured they
will be reinstated as soon as work Justi
fies it.
A Split at Fort Wayne.
Fort Wayne, Ind., July 10.—The Broth
erhood of 1-ocomotive Engineers, after a
prolonged heated discussion, decided not
to go into the boycott.
At a mass meeting the Wabash engin
eers, firemen and brakemen all voted to
strike and the locomotives are being
managed by engineers from the Lehigh
Yalle.v road, discharged from that line
during the last big strike.
Strikers Burn a Bridge. •
Hammond, 111., July 10. —A gang of in
eemliarles set fire during the uighttou
trestle and bridge over Calumet river,
three miles south of here on the, Motion
road. It wus completely destroyed and
truffle effectually blocked, It was not
guarded. The udlitia had been sent to
patrol the Erie bridge, four miles south
of here, and one on the Nickel Plate, four
miles southeast.
Ocala Rifles Ready to Fight.
Ocala, Fla., July 10—The services of
the Ocala Rifles were tendered President
Cleveland in the following letter, which
was telegraphed him this morning:
Ocala, flu , July In, 1884 —To Urover Cleve
land President of the United Slates; Ihe
Ocala Kllies fifty strong, tender you their
services In the tnnintenanoe of law and order.
We are rendy to move at an hour s notice
iS'gned ) It. E Davidson,
Captain Cos. A. Second Florida Battalion.
A Blockade Raised.
Toledo, 0., July 10.—A special to the
Blado from Ashley, 1 nd., on the Wabash
road says the blockade has boen raised
there. Sixty non-uuioii men aro at work.
Hiram Agler, president of the Ameri
can Railway Union at Asnley, was ar
rested by United States deputy marshals
last night for interference with inter
state traffic, and taken to Indianapolis.
A Strike at Meridian.
Meridian. Miss , July 10.—Nearly 800
men on tho Queen and Crescent system
walked out here. The Queen and Cres
cent shops have also shut down. The
Brotherhood of Locomotlvo Firomou
passed resolutions to walk out and stick
to the American Railway Uniou.
No freight trains aro moving from hero
on the Queen and Crescent system.
Want to Resume Work.
Toledo, 0., July 10.—The strikers on
the Wheeling and Lake Frits and Ohio
Central railroads have telegraphed Presi
dent Debs for i>ermission to go to work,
ns they have no griovunee and think it
foolish to remain out. President Ikdis re
plied that he had called a meeting of the
advisory board and would notify them
later.
Refuse to Obey Debs.
Pittsburg, July 10.—Tho employes of
the Pittsburg and Western railroad re
ceived an order to-day from President
Debs to go out on strike at noon to-day,
but after holding a meeting this uftor
noon it was decided not to comply with
the order, and the employes havo tele
gruphed President Debs to that effect.
Birmingham’s Blockade Raised.
Birmingham, Ala., July 10.—The situa
tion here Is decidedly encouraging. All
the railroads sent out freights north and
south, the Louisville and Nashville get
ting out abouttwenty. Passenger trains
are almost all on schedule time and there
has been nothing to indicate that a strike
is in |irogress.
Troops in Oamp at Austin.
Austin, Tex., July 10.—The government
has no officials news from the strike on
the Santa Fe railroad, and the impression
is that everything is quiet. All tho state
troops are In camp here and are fully
prepared for duty should their servloes
be demanded.
Won’t Oo Out at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa., July 10. -The call of
President Debs for the nssistanoe of the
railroad men in this district has met with
little response. Very few men can be
found in favor of going out now or at any
other time unless they have some griev
ance.
Buffalo More Hopeful.
Buffalo, July 10.—Railroad officials are
less apprehensive than for several days,
and express a belief that the crisis has
passed so far as Buffalo is concerned, and
that there will bo no trouble here.
CONSTANTINOPLE IN A PANIC.
Shocks of Earthquake Strike Terror
to the Hearts of the Turks.
Constantinople, July 10.—Two violent
earthquake shocks were felt here at
12:80 o’clock this afternoon. Each shock
lasted twenty seconds.
The inhabitants have been completely
alarmed and are fleeing from thoir homes
in anticipation of other and mure serious
disturbances.
The damage throughout tho city Is con
siderable and it is reported that several
persons were killed.
Tho bourse, banks and public depart
ments have been closed and many persons
are camping out, fearing to re-enter their
houses.
Two disastrous fires have occurred since
the shocks.
Telegraph and telephone communica
tion is. interrupted.
THE MOST SEVERE ON RECORD.
London. July 11, 8 a. m.—The Daily
News correspondent at Constantinople
says: "Yesterday’s earthquakes were the
severest that have been felt here within
living memory.”
MISS KAISER’S MURDER.
Marcellus Hardee Now Accused of the
Crime.
Jacksonville, Fla., July 10.—Two
months ago near Jensen, in this state,
Miss Kffiser, a pretty girl, was murdered.
Her head was severed from her body.
Tho girl had been attacked while in the
woods near her home, and an attempt had
been to ravish her. No clue was found
at the time to the murderer, though
several parties were under suspicion.
The case dropped out of public notico
until this afternoon, when Marcellus
Hardee, a young man belonging to a
wealthy and prominent family of Jensen,
was arrested for the crime. Doteclivo
Rhodes of Baltimore worked up the case,
and ho claims to have plenty of evidence
against Hardee. He says that Hardee
met the girl and made an improper pro
posal to her. This she resented, and
then Hardee attempted to ravish her.
The girl fought him, and Hardee used a
knife, severing her head from the body.
Hardee has beon under suspicion frotn
tho first.
M’KEES PORT’S MACHINISTS.
The Men Return to Work After Being
On Strike Two Months.
McKeesport, Pa., July 10. -The machin
ists and foundrymen at the National
Tube Works returned to work this morn
ing This is the first break in the big
strike which has been on for the pust two
mouths, for an Increase in wages. All
the morning men reported for work, und
by noon a large number were employed.
There was no disorder. It Is the general
belief that the strike is broken.
PHENDEROAST’S CHANCES POOR.
Oov. Altgcld His Only Hops to Es
cape the Qallows.
Chicago, 111., July 10.—At S o'clock
this afternoon Judge Halley of the Illi
nois superewe court announced that he
would refuse to issue a supersedeas in
the, ease of f'rcndergait, the assissln of
Mayor Harrison. This apparently makes
certain the hanging of Frendcrgsst on
Friday. July 18. About the only hope for
I'aenuergasl Is interference by Gov. Alt
y •■id
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FATAL ROW OVER A WOMAN.
An Italian Artist Killed by a Stereo
typer of Atlanta.
The 81ayer Pleads Self-defense—An
Open Knife Found In the Dead
Man's Pocket—The Italian Sup
posed to Have Regarded His Slayer
as a Rival for the Favor of Their
Landlady.
Atlanta, Ga„ July 10.—Michael Fon
tauo, an Italian sculptor. 35 years of age,
was shot and killed by Ilerschel McDon
ald, aged ID, this morning. McDonald la
a stereot.vper in theemploy of the Atlanta
Constitution, tho son of a Peters street
saloon-keeper. Foutano. who came to At
lanta a month ago from Augusta, where
his relatives live, has done no work here,
though a first-class artist. The coroner’*
Jury found a verdict of murder after in
vestigating the killing, but the evidence
brought out did not throw much light
upon the cause of the trouble. McDonald
and Fontano, who was a handsome man,
evidently of the educated and better class
of Italians, were seen walking together
on Nelson street a few minutes before the
killing occurred.
HAD A QUARREL,
They were talking to each other as if
they had had a quarrel. McDonald, in
his statement after arrest, said Fontano
had whipped him at the house of a Mrs.
Bell, where he was a boarder, but he was
trying to make it up as they walked
along. Fontano would not have peace,
however, and McDonald claims that when
he shot him ho was in the act of striking
him. An opea knife was found in tha
dead Italian’s pocket, which goes to cor
roborate McDonald’s plea of self defense.
After shooting Fontano, who died almost
instantly, tho bullet entering his heart,
McDonald ran toward his home, which
was in the neighborhood.
CAUSE OK THE THAOEDT.
The original quarrel which brought on
the killing appears to have been on ac
count of Foutano’s landlady, Mrs. Belle.
Young .McDonald attempted to teasa
the Italian about tier. He told him that
she was going to Tyheo with him, and
asked him if he wouldn’t like to go too,
Fontano evidently regarded McDonald as
a rival, and the young fellow’s taunts
made him exceedingly angry. McDonald
is confident that he will be able to clear
himself on a plea of seif defense.
GEORGIA’S GOVERNS HIP.
The State Executive Committee Dia
cuss ii the Campaign.
Atlanta, Ga., July 10.—The state demo
craotio executive committee met at tbs
Kimball house to-day with the following
members in attendance:
Judge Allen Fort, chairman, presid
ing. ,1. W. Nelms, George R. Brown and
A. S. Clay from the state at large, and
Clarke Howell of the national committee,
making him an ex-officio member of tha
state committee From the Fourth, T. C.
Crenshaw was present; from the Fifth, J.
N. Haile and W. T. Kirnsey; from the
Sixth, E. E. Found; from tho Seventh,
I). B. Hamilton; from the Eighth, H. W.
Baldwin; from the Ninth, George Bell
and Howard Thompson; from the Tenth,
T. L. Hunt and from the Eleventh J. L.
Beach.
From the state campaign committee,
which met in conjunction with the execu
tive committee, there were present: C-
S. Northern chairman; T. B. Neal, W. L.
Calhoun, R. L. Berner. H. H. Cabaniss,
H. T. Lewis, James E Brown. H. W.
Hill, W. B Burnett, A. D. Candler and
E. H. Callaway. The First, Second and
Third districts wore not represented.
ATKINSON PRESENT.
Hon. W. Y. Atkinson was present and
took part in the discussions of the com
mittee.
The business of the committee was tha
discussion of the gubernatorial campaign.
It was decided to get everything ready,
hut not to put out speakers until after
the nomination is made and a platform
adopted.
The meeting of the committee brought
together some well-known people not con
nected with the committee, but who camo
on to talk politics. Among them was
MaJ. A. O. Bacon, candidate for tha
Senate. He expressed himself as per
fectly satisfied with his prospects.
Judge Spencer R. Atkinson of Bruns
wick was also here.
Judge Henry of Rome, a candidate for
re-election with opposition in the form of
Judge Turnbull of the city court of Rome,
was also among the crowd.
O. O. Strickland and Judge Hutchin
son, rival candidates lor the Judgeship of
the, circuit, were here, together
with Hon. J. Y. Allen and Hon. M. W.
Beck, rival candidates for Ithe judgeship
of the Flint circuit, the position now filled
by Judge Hunt of Griffin.
HARD ON HARCOURT.
The Govornor Declines to Pardon the
Imprisoned Actor.
Atlanta, Ga., July 10.—This morning
the petition asking for the pardon of Ed
win Harcourt, the actor who was sen
tenced to the penitentiary some time ago
from Columbus for stealing diamonds
from a well-known society young lady of
that city, was presented to Gov. Northen,
and was by him refused on the ground
that he could see nothing in the case
which merited executive clemency. The
refusal of the governor to grant the par
don was a great disappointment to the
plucky little wife of the imprisoned man.
For the past two weeks she has been
working hard to secure her husband's re
lease. Mrs. Harcourt succeeded in enlist
ing Sam Jones and several promiuent At
lantians in hercausc, but their efforts were
unavailing.
SHOT BY HIS SON-IN-LAW.
Tho Particulars of the Tragedy Not
Known.
Tennille, Ga., July 10.—Mr. J. G. Joiner,
who lived about six miles south of this
place, was shot and instantly killed this
morniug about 8:80 o’clock by W. J.
Busii, his son in-law. The direct cause
of the shooting is not known here. Mr.
Wood, who brings the news from the
scene of the killing, says that Bush's son
said that Bush did the shooting.
Mr. Bush lias Mr Joiner's farm leased
for five years. Koine three mouths ago
they had a serious difference, and Mr.
Joluer shot at Mr. Bush and wounded his
(Bush's) wife: st this lime Mr. Bush bad
Mr. Joiuer arrested upon a warrant u
keep the peace, but tile court failed to
bind him over to keep the peace.