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THE coni ' NT AMERICAN.
VOL. XIIV.
the strike.
Great Tie-Up of Railroad Traffic
and General Commerce.
ANARCHY RULES IN CHICAGO
The United States Military Called Out to Pro
tect Property and Insure the Transmis
sion of the Mails—Burns Cars.
The great strike inaugurated by
the American Railway Union in
order to force a boycott on the
Pullman cars has developed an
alarming state of affairs. A state
of terror has reigned in Chicago
for ten days the like of which has
never before been known in this
country. Business, not only in
Chicago, but in various parts of the
country affected by the lines on
which strikes have been in force,
Ihas been paralyzed. Chicago itself
is in a state of anarchy, and the
government, to transmit the mails,
has ordered the United States army
out to preserve the rights of the
government.
IT LOOKS WAR-LIKE.
A dispatch from Washington
says: At the nation’s capital the
fact is recognized that prevailing
conditions are entirely out of the
ordinary and that provision must
be made for such a massing of
fighting men as has never before
been seen in a time of peace if the
authority and dignity of the federal
government and processes of its
courts are not to be laughed to
scorn for an indefinite time.
The strike question is so infec
tious at certain points that the
president and his advisers believe
it would be unwise to withdraw
any more regular troops from the
country west of Chicago.
It is therefore in contemplation,
should the forces, federal, state and
municipal, already gathered hero,
[,be unequal to the task of restoring
order, to send here the ten compa
nies stationed on the Canadian
•diorder with the reserved intention,
if circumstances rtwmtnd It, of ex
ercising the right to call for the 20,-
000 men of the crack military regi
ments of New York and Pennsyl
vania.
GREAT DESTRUCTION.
Chicago, July G, 10:30 p. in.—The
mob continued its work of destruc
tion on its march to the stock yards.
Both gangs met at Forty-ninth and
Halsted streets, and continued
their march to the vards. The 350
cars in the yards were completely
destroyed, and when the mob
reached the stock yards they divi
ded up into small gangs and sepa
rated among the big packing
houses. It is feared that the worst
is to come and that the crazed mob
will destroy the big packinghouses
during the night. On its leturn
march the rioters set fire to four
cars standing on the Grand Trunk
tracks just west of Ashland avenue.
The cars were loaded with baled
twine. An alarm of fire was sent
in from Forty-ninth street and
Ashland avenue, but it was several
minutes before the firemen reached
the scene. The overworked horses
were so exhausted that it was with
i difficulty that they could be forced
off a walk. The firemen in this
district had responded to nearly
sixty calls during the past twenty
four hours, and as they reached the
tracks they were received with
jeers and curses by a mob of Bohe
mians, Poles and Italians. Hie
firemen succeeded in quenching
the flames before the cars were
completely destroyed, but had hard
ly cached the engine houses again
when they were called out from
the same box. The mob had set
fire to the cars again. This time
the worn out firemen made but fee
ble efforts to extinguish the blaze.
At 9 o’clock the ears had been re
duced to ash es.
In the face of the anove Altgeld
says he is competent to keep the
chop and protect properly. A
l Highest of ail in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
1\ Powder
absolutely pure
dozen Gatling guns should have
been turned loose on the mob.
Chicago, 111., July 7.—This has
been the most turbulent day in the
history of the great anti-Pullman
strike. There have been numerous
conflicts between rioters and the
forces of law and order, and the
morrow is likely to see even great
er trouble.
Today’s incendiarism began in a
new quarter, the Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy switching yards at
Crawford, just west of the Haw
thorne race track. Fully a dozen
freight cars in the yards were burn
ed this morning at daylight. The
destruction of the cars was com
plete.
POLICE AND MOR IN A STRUGGLE.
Just before daybreak a mob of
nearly 1,000 men entered the yards
of the Monon road and set Are to
freight cars standing on the tracks.
A squad of police was hurried to
the yards and succeeded in clear
ing the tracks and quenching the
flames. The mob remained at a
short distance while the police
worked on the fire, and when the
blaze was extinguished the crowd
of rioters closed in on the officers,
and a hand-to-hand fight raged for
several minutes.
The mob armed themselves with
stones, clubs and coupling pins, and
were rapidly driving the police
from the yards when Sergeant Mo
ran ordered his men to fire. The
policemen sent half a dozen volley’s
of bullets into the mob, and several
of it tasted cold lead.
SEVERAL MEN SHOT.
As the men fell they were quick
ly dragged back and escaped under
cover of darkness. The railroad
tracks at Fifty-third street are cov
ered with blood in several places,
showing that the bullets took effect.
The police succeeded in arresting
four of the mob.
A mob started to tear up the rails
of the Pan Handle road, at Fiftieth
street, at 9 o’clock this morning.
They had half a dozen rails off the
ties when the police arrived. Sev
eral persons in the crowd drew re
volvers and fired at the officers.
The police returned the fire and
wounded two of the mob.
A telephone message was sent to
Capt. O’Neill at the stockyards for
help, and Col. Moulton, of the mili
tia, sent Company B to the scene.
Before 10 a. m. the officials of the
Grand Trunk telephoned the police
that large mobs of men were mov
ing toward their shops. Police were
hurried to the point of danger.
At 11 a mob was firing cars and
other property on the Chicago and
Northern Pacific railroad near the
western city limits. Five compa
nies of United States troops from
the lake front were sent there.
MARSHALS DRIVEN OFF.
Deputy United States marshals,
who sought to prevent blockading
of the tracks of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois road at Stuart ave
nue and Twenty-third street, were
driven off by the mob. Embolden
ed by the success, the mob made a
show of greater violence, and began
tearing up the raiis. They were
scattered by a force of regulars.
A mob began to gather in the
yards west of Halsted street, where
a train of beef is standing on the
tracks. Capt. Ilartz, of the regu
lars, with two companies, proceed
ed to the scene of disturbance.
BRUSH IN THE STOCK YARDS.
The troops drove the crowds out
of the yards and established a dead
line 200 feet from the cars.
Fire inspectors were busy re
pairing broken locks and wires of
the fire signal boxes, which had
been plugged and broken by the
mob last night. In several instan
ces the police were compelled to go
half a dozen blocks out of the way
in order to send in an alarm of fire.
SERVED WITH THE INJUNCTION.
President Debs and Vice Presi
dent Howard, of the American
Railway Union, have been called
upon to answer one more injunc
tion from the United States courts.
This morning papers were served
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 12. 1894.
upon them by Deputy United States
Marshal Jones, commanding them
to appear at Indianapolis on July
18 to answer any charges that may
be preferred against them, and en
joining fhem from destroying prop
erty or from interfering with mail
trains or the interstate commerce
act.
President Debs simply smiled
when he saw the papers, and said:
“It is the same old story; we are
enjoined from doing something
that we have not done and do not
propose to do. If any members ot
the Union commit any overt act,
the organizations will join with the
authorities in their pioseeution.
Strict orders have been given for
all railroad men to stay away from
the yards, and these orders are
being obeyed. Our speakers at all
meetings today are also warning
our members not to indulge in in
toxicants.
TROOPS FIRE ON A MOB.
Chicago, July 7.—A mob gathered
at Forty-ninth and Loomis streets
about 4 o’clock this afternoon, and
began setting fire to cars and rail
road property. The police under
Inspector Hunt charged, but the
mob would not desist. Then state
troops opened fire and shot down a
large number, killing’ several and
wounding many more. The dead
and wounded were left lying on the
streets for the mob to fake care of.
The cause of the fight was an
attack on a wrecking train made by
the mob. The Western Indiana
workmen had partially succeeded
in clearing away an obstruction,
when the mob drove them away.
The firing on the mob was done
by Company C, of the Second In
fantry, state troops, thirty-eight
men strong, commanded by Capt.
Mahon. The mob had been grow
ing ugly for some time, and Capt.
Mahon concluded it was about
time to beat a retreat. His com
pany, accompanied by six police
and twenty deputy sheriffs, began
to move siowiy oft, guarding the
train. Second Lieutenant Reed
was struck down, and suddenly
Yardmaster McKee, of the Grand
Trunk, was compelled lo_.fi re at
several men who made a rush for
him. This opened hostilities and
the militia, deputies and police
poured lead into the mob as fast as
they could pull triggers. The sol
diers fired anywhere from two to
six rounds each and the others
emptied their revolvers.
No firing was done until Second
Lieutenant Reed had been struck
twice on the temple with stones.
He is believed to be dangerously
wounded.
THE RIOTERS 50,000 STRONG.
The area covered twenty-five
square miles which the rioters cov
eted with their incendiarism. It is
estimated that in the district men
tioned, not less than 50,000 rioters
were out at one time and another
during the day, but the ground was
so thoroughly patroled by the po
lice, the marshals and the military
that they found little opportunity
for getting together in large num
bers as they have been doing here
tofore, still some of them at the
stock yards found time for indulg
ing in the grim humor ot laying
out a graveyard in due order and
erecting headstones at the graves
therein, bearing the names of their
pet aversions, including that of the
president of the United States.
One feature of toe day was the
showing of its teeth by the building
trades council of the city, including
the steam fitters in big packing
houses at the stock yards, with a
threat that it was merely a prelim
inary to calling out its 25,000 mem
bers and the tying up of all build
ing in the city.
Another feature was the patrol
ing of sentries before the federal
subtreasury, in whose vaults lie
some $15,000,000 of Uncle Sam’s
money, which Gen. Miles thought
might prove a temptation to some
of President Debs’ followers not to
be resisted, especially in view of
the fact that they are not very
flush just now.
SHOOT TO KILL,, SAYS MILES.
General Miles has issued very
plain instructions to the troops.
They are ordered to accompany,
support and assist United States
marshals in aiding the dispatch of
mail trains under the interstate
commerce act; in removing tres
passers and men obstructing or de
stroying the lines of railroad en
gaged in interstate business. Should
the crowds encage in any act of
hostility the latter are ordered to
resist with the use of arms, if-neces
sary. An officer at army headquar
ters says that in military lah.uage
this is the equivalent to orders to
shoot to kill.
STRIKE SITUATION ELSEWHERE.
Win. Hogan, a fireman, was fined
at Miiiueapoiis Saturday for in
timidating a non-union man inter
fering with trains. At Trinidad,
Coio., arrests of Santa Fe engineers
are being made for refusal to take
out trains.
Trains are running irregularly at
Raton, N. M., and engineers and
fireman have been ordered to re
port for duty.
A Union Pacific engineer and
fireman were brutally beaten by a
mob at Ogden, Utah, Saturday.
Michigan Central employers at
Detroit have d2cide<l to remain out
as individuals, seriously interfering
*yith the operations of trains.
Louisville and Nashville em
ployes refuse to obey Debs’ order to
strike.
Members of the 7th Regiment, N.
Y. N. G., have been ordered to hold
themselves in readless for a call to
arms.
Freights have been abandoned at
Montgomery, Ala., and a food fam
ine is threatened.
The strike of the A. R. U. ot Nash
ville Tenn., continues, and efforts
are being mode induce brotherhood
members to make common cause
them.
Firemen struck on the Kansas
City, Fort Scott and Memphis ami
Bifiuingham roads at mernphis Sat
urday, tying up the systems.
The Omaha and Grant smelter, of
Denver, Colo., has been compelled
to shut down because of the strike,
and 1000 men have been thrown
out.
No trains have reached Creede,
Coio., for seven days, and unless
there is a speedy assumption of
traffic* all mines will close down.
Twelve strikers arrested at Ra
ton, N. M., among them an ex
member of the Legislalure, are in
jail at Santa Fe,
The Chamber ot Commerce at
Tacoma, Wash., denounced the
strike. Judge Hanford instructed
the Grand Jury that two or more
pers ytis banded together to obstruct
trains v*ro guilty of conspiracy.
The local lodge of the A. R. U. at
San Antonio Tex., are awaiting an
order from Debs tying up the South
ern Pacific, the International and
Great Northern and the San An
tonio and Aransas Pass Railroads.
Union and nonunion men in mass
meeting at Tyler, Tex., declared in
favor of the strike.
At Las Vegas, N. M., there has
been no disturbance in connetion
with the strike until a train load
of United States Deputy Marshals
arrived en route south. The engin
eer deserted the train here. A depu
ty attempted to arrest him and force
him to continue, but City Marshal
Clay refused to let the deputy take
him. The episode created bad feel
ing against the deputies.
DIME READING-"
Pleasant Evening at Mrs. Frederick’s—An
Interesting Program.
A dime reading came off at Mrs.
J. S. Frederick’s on Tuesday eve
ning last, at which time the follow
ing program was carried out:
Piano solo, Miss MeEwen; vocal
solo, Mr. Benedict; solo, piano ac
companiment by Miss Jessie Smith,
Miss Cowherd; piano solo, Miss
Jessie Smith; vocal duet, Miss
Chapman, of Atlanta, and Mrs. A.
B. Cunyus; vocal duet, Miss Lula
White and Mr. Benedict; vocal
solo, accompaniment by Mr. Scho
field, Mrs, Henry Stiles; recitation,
Miss Norris; vocal solo, accompa
niment by Mr. Schofield, Mrs. A. B.
Cunyus; vocal solo, accompaniment
by Mr. Schofield, Miss Chapman;
vocal solo, accompaniment by Miss
Estelle Caihoun, Joe Calhoun; gui
tar solo, Tom Gilreath; piano solo,
| Miss White; vocal solo, accompa
j niment by Mr. Schofield, Mrs. Har
ris; piano solo, Miss Sallie May
Akin.
The singing by Mrs. Stiles, reci
tation by Miss Norris and playing
by Miss Jessie Smith, are all spe
cially worth mention, while it is
only necessary to -ay that Mrs.
Harris and Mrs. Cunyus sang as
usual.
Among the visitors present were:
Misses Justine and Allie Erwin,
Atlanta; Miss Bearing, Washing
ton, D, C.; Miss Lorraine Bradley,
Mississippi; Misses Elliott and
Nightingale, (with Mrs. Stiles,)
England; Miss Ruby Freeman,
Calhoun; Miss Ella Johnson, La-
Fayette; Miss Graves, Atlanta;
Miss Lula White, Montezuma ; I)r.
Cox, Savannah, and Mr. Smiley, of
Atlanta. The attendance was the
largest had for many meetings.
DON’T GET LEFT.
What we need just now is buyers, folks who
spend the READY CASH.
Here’s Richness.
Our entire stock of Dry Goods, Shoes, Cloth
ing, Notions, &c., at
AGT(JAIi#GOST.
We v/ill offer any and every piece of goods
in our house at cost for
SPOT CASH.
only. This sale is positively and absolutely
as advertised. Follow the crowds to our
store for bargains unrivaled and unap
proachable.
Spot Cash is What We Want.
<!PORTER & VMHAN!>
A PLEASANT EVENING-
The Little Folks Entertain Their Seniors in
the Cause of Missions.
That was a unique entertainment
that was given by a party of eight
little girls on Monday afternoon,
July 2nd, at the home of Mrs. G. H.
Aubrey. It was a missionary en
terprise in juvenile hands. The
children themselves were the sole
managers. They would allow no
grown folks even during the dread
ed drills. The parlors, in the eyes
of the little actresses, were, as they
expressed it, “packed and jammed.”
The awe inspired bv such an au
dience at first sight soon changed
to delight when the baskets were
handed around, and eight eager lit
tle heads counted out the silver
profits. It was monometalism, and
silver was the standard.
The program read: Duett—“Des
Freischietz,” Weber Rosa Aubrey,
Octavia Aubrey; Reading—Chris
tine Lumpkin; Song—“ After the
Ball,” Marian Aubrey, Marian
Brumby; Recitation—“ Tom, Tom,
the Piper’s Son,” Harry May With
ers; Song—“ The Girl I Left Behind
Me,” Octavia Aubrey; Recitation—
“My Kitty,” Marian Aubrey;”
Piano Solo—“ Alma Waltz,” Octa
via Aubrey; Recitation,“ —A Great
Mistake,” Lulie Lumpkin.
Epworth League Entertainment.
Within two vreeks our iittle city
will be the recipient of one of the
most unique and delightful enter
tainments ever given in this pari
of the country.
It will be conducted entirely by
the local talent of the place, and
under the auspices of the Epworth
League. Instead of young perform
ers, the dramatis persona? will be
men and women past middle age,
and the play will represent primi
tive customs and ideas. It will be
so well placed that the residents of
the county outside of Cartersvilie
will be amply repaid for their at
tendance on the evening it occurs.
Keep this entertainment in mind
and you will have more hearty fun
and innocent enjoyment than you
have known since the war.
A fuller notice will appear in
next week’s Courant American.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
World's Fair Highest Award.
New Business.
Mr. Henry Weatherly, late of
Dalton, is preparing to open :t new
business at the T. R. Jimc' brick
on the corner of Bank block . and
Main street. He will deal in dry
goods, gents' furuisnmg-i and kin
dred lines. Mr. Weatherly is a
good business man with experience
and his business will be quite an ad
dition to the city. The building is
being overhauled in the interior
with a view to convenience and
will be well adapted to his require
ments. A partition will run through
the center from east to west and he
will occupy the southern or corner
half.
Base Ball.
The Cartersvilie boys did not
play quite so well in their second
game with Marietta last wepk.
Marietta reinforced with the Y. >f.
C. A. club’s pitcher from Atlanta
and played with much more spirit
and confidence. The score stood
at the end Hand 11 in Cartersvilie’s
favor. Dr. Turk, of Stilesboro, act
ed as umpire anti showed impar
tiality and efficiency in his decisions.
The Cartersvilie boys have ar
ranged with the Cedartown club
for three games on the grounds
here, the first of which was played
yesterday evening.
Picuic at Rowland.
A pleasant iittle party went out
to Rowland springs yesterday to
spend the day picnicking. The
leading spirits and instigators of
the occasion were Dr. and Mrs.
Benham, and it was intended as
a kind of family affair, with a few
outside friends invited. Among
those in the p.vrty were: Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Strickland and son,
Mrs. Will Lumpkin and daughter
Miss Bessie, Misses Lucy Jones, Pet
Graves, Maud and Ernie Norris, Dr.
C. H. Cox, Mr. Jere Field, Dr. and
Mrs. W. I. Benham, Mrs. A B.
Cunyusand Miss Bearing.
Death of an Infant
Little Pauline, the 14 months old
infant of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Milam, died on Friday evening last
and was buried in the cemetery
Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Milam
haye the universal sympathy of the
people in the loss of their sweet
and only child.
NO. 1.