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>* I / t ’■ * ruE IRWIN Q o d Er !z! 3 OB fflclal Organ of Irwin County. , G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r. FESSIONAL CARDS. a STORY, .’HYEIOIAN AND BURGEON, Gycamore, Georgia. UK ANTHONY, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Sycamore, Georgia l be located for tho present at the Dod- nuse. Patronage respectfully solicited. >V. Ejr-*- Cheap • Groceries at V i Rut -y utKokqia. I promptly attended lo at nil hours, eeitully solicit it shure of (lie public lago Office iu B. H Cockre.l’s store. J. F. GAKONUR, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Asbbdbn, Georgia. > answered promptly day or night, .weial attention to diseases of women iulron. TON SXHANGM, 31. D. .SPECIALIST. CORDEU.E, Georgia, asea of women, Strict ires, Nervous I priva e diseases. Strictures dissolv- iu 2 to 5 minutes by a smooth current ivuuism without pain or detention lu-inu-s; aud given to palieut in a vial ohol. Correspondence solicited and ifereuces given. Office north-east oor- iw.uies Hi HIK,'.. U. FHIZZELLE, LAWYER, McRae, Georgia. cticas iu the State and Federal Courts. fota,lo und Criminal Law Specialties. A. AARON, LAWYER, Ashburn, Georgia. lections and Ejectment suits a Snecial- -sfOffice, Room No. 4, Betts Building. \V. FDLWOOD, r, HEAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS, Tifton, Georgia. impt, attoulion given to all business. Office, Love Building, Room No. 1. UN HAItUIS. SHOEMAKER, Ashburn, Georgia, y prices are low and all work strictly Hiiteed. r DIRECTORY • CITY OF SYCAMORE. tayor—A. G. DeLoach. Jounoilmen—W. B. Dasher, I L. Murray. VI. Cockrell, E. R. Smith, J. P. Fountain, Superior Courts—First Monday in April i October. C. C. Smith, Judge, Hawkins- le, Ga. Solicitor General—Tom Eason. McRae, Ga. i/lerk Superior Court—J. B. D. Paulk, Ir- nville, Ga. Sheriff—Jesse Paulk, Ruby, Ga. Irwin- Deputy Sheriffs—C. L. Prescott, lie, Gn.-, Win. VanHouten, Sycamore, Ga. County Court—Monthly session, second onday; Quarterly session, second Monday January, April. July and October. J. B. aments, Judge, irwinville, Ga. County Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir- inville, Ga. Commissioners’ Court—First Mon- County Henderson. Commis- ay in eacli month. M. , oner, Oeilla, Ga. each Ordinary's Court—First Monday in ( aonlh. Daniel Tucker, Ordinary, Vie, Ga. School Commissioner—J. Y. Fletcher, Ru- >y. Ga. County Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwin- vile. Ga. Tax Receiver -D. A. Mclnnis, Vic. Ga. 0 Tax Collector—J. W. Faulk, Ruby, Ga. ■ Surveyor—M. Barnes, Minnie, Ga, < ~1 Coroner—Daniel Hall, Minnie, Ga. I Board of Education—Jno. Clements Chair- lian, Irwinville, Ga.; Henry Vic, T. Fletcher, Gi.; L. Ir- D. Jaylor, ■nvill®, Ga.; L. R. Tucker, Ga.; S. E. Coieman, CL.illa, Ga. Irwinyil.e, J Justice Courts—901 Dist. G. M.. Second Sliturday in each month. Marcus Luke. N. R. aud ex-offi, J. P.; Wm. Rogers, Bailiff, Irwinville. Gn. „ Second Saturday . , m 1421 District G M McNeese. J. P Kissi- eilh month. J. H. Bailiff, Ocala, , Ga. mse. Ga. James Roberts, 13S8 Dist. G. M., Third Saturday in taunt i. u. V. Hanley, J. P ; David Bailiff, Minnie, Ga. 982 ">uit, G. M., Third Wednesday in month C. L Royal, J. P.. Sycamore, Ga. . A. Joiies & P. Royal, Bailiffs, Sycamore, Ga. 988 Disk G M.. D. A. Ray, JS. P. & offici o J. P.. Sycamore, LODGE DIRECTORY- SvCHmoiv. Ludua. No 210 F. Ac A, At Regular uormnunieatinns, 1’iirl Saturday. W Story, W. M. : A. D. Ross, Secretary. Oeilla Lodge, F. & A. M.—Regular Sunday com¬ munication ihuisduy before the fih in each mouth. J. A. J, Heuderson, W. M.; D. W. M. Whitley, Sec’y, Oeilla, Ga. CHUaCH DIRECTORY. SYCAMORE CIRCUIT. Sycamore —2nd Sunday and Sunday night. Cycl'inieta—Fourth Sunday. Dakota--Third Sunday. Ashburne—1st Sunday and Sunday night. T. D. STRONG, Pastor. UNION PRIMITIVE BAPTIST, k Brushey Creek—4 h Sunday and Saturday Bpetnro Sturgeon Creek—2nd Sunday and Situr- ■kr Bknppwell—1st be I ore. ^^Balem—3rd Sunday & Saturday before. Sunday and Saturday before. Red. W. H. Harden, Pastor. *tle River—3rd Sunday and Saturday Ker's Hiy Meeting House—2nd Sunday and before ■ 'Giove—4th Sunday and Saturday r K»— 1 st, Sunday James and Saturday Gibes, Pastor. before HDD. NOXIOH. -Parties Kj are warned that lots no of hunting, land or flsh- 18, wdl bo »flowed on Nos. “In Union, Htorengrth and Prosperity Abound.” SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., JUNE 22, 1894. CURRENT EVENTS Epitomized in Paragraphs, Giving the Cream of the General News. A small boat containing live person! was upset on a lake near Vermillion, Ohio, aud three of the occupants wero drowned. Dr. Purcell, of Denver, who joined the Coxeyites as surgeon, lost his life by the overturning of hi3 boat between Brighton and Prattville. At Horn Lake, Miss., George Mose. ley, a negro, was shot and killed by R. P. Dodson. The killing is said to have been in self defense. A warehouse at Chattanooga, Tonn., containing 00,000 bushels of grain, collapsed. The building was of cor¬ rugated iron and is a complete wreck. Brazil is still having trouble with insurrectionists in the Province of Rio Grande Do Sul, and has been com¬ pelled to send reinforcements into tho State of Paranagua. The Salvadorians have revolution, ized again and taken unto themselves a new president. Tho United States consulate was a refuge for foreigners during the trouble. The penitentiary board of control of Mississippi has cited Win. Spain, a contractor, of Washington comity, to appear and answer to the ehargo of unlawfully shooting a convict. Two sisters, Maggie and Bessie Claney, and Thos. Clanton and John McCluskey, were drowned in South¬ west take, two miles from Brewster, N. Y., by the capsizing of a boat. A fire lasting from 6 to 11 o’clock, laBt Saturday evening, raged through the lumber yards of Dubuque, la. 25,000,000 feet of lumber went up iu smoke, involving a loss of a half a million dollars. The California orange crop is re« ported short on account of late frost. The total product of southern Califor¬ nia is estimated at 40,000 car loads, which is said to be 20 per cent below the yield of last season. S. C- Griffith, a young man of Tam. pa, Fla., was struck on the temple by a base ball and killed. His skull was fractured, fie was at the bat when hit, and the pitcher has not been ar¬ rested as it was purely accidental. Charles ol J. H. Gatliffo ITTinn, one of I.Iano, the murder, Texas, ers nuui: has been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. We have heretofore noted the conviction and sentence of Hammond, his accomplice. Ed Patton, a convict employed on the WiFzinski place, Washington county, Miss., has been recommended for meritorious conduct, He pre¬ vented the escape of soveral convicts, in doing which he was forced to kill one. Cholera is epidemic in Poland. As Warsaw 48 new cases and 21 death in twenty-four hours have been reported. Eighteen cases and nine deaths were reported at Plock and fourteen cases and six deaths at other infected places. Frank Middleton, the 15 year old sou of Mrs. Gtorge Middleton, of Sa¬ vannah, Ga-, vas drowned while bath¬ ing iu the pond at the old water works of that city. One of his companions tried to rescue him and was nearly drowned himseif. Two white biys at Williamsburg, Texas, were assaulted by McElroy, two negroes and one of them. Albert had bis There skull is crosheiji in and that can the not live, a report negroes were arrested and taken from the officers and banted. The big Coal muse at West Point, New York, a stricture 200 feet lone by 50 feet wide, and containing 150 tons of coal, was turned last Saturday, with 200 yards of the elevated rail¬ road trestle work. The lire is said to have been causedoy the explosion of a barrel of oil. Passenger traingoing west and an east bound freighPni iacajack, the Georgia Pa¬ cific collided near 12 miles west of Atlanta, '.li Nealy, colored fireman on the f fight was killed. The engines were adly damaged and three box and one mails car thrown from the track. At Bredon, West 1 Va., five young women they slung got knives into a fifht, aid pistols and the would way make a Mexican rarr-hero kick himsell for envy. Mrs, Li^ie Maynard was killed and Jennie IMorris mortally wounded. It is thoi ’ht the quarrel originated from joalusy. A day or two aftej the event ou> news columns contaied an account o 3 tbo peculiarly atrocitjis murder an mutilation on the 2|th April, neai Staunton, Va., of MM Lottie Row< by Lawrence Spiller,j negro, Tim murderer was hung lgt Friday. His confession has been polished. Mrs. Jennie Alexaner, a handsom* young married woinar of Chattanoo¬ ga, has been missing sice last Satur¬ day. The police have ot been able to find a trace of her. he is described as of small stature, having curly, liSxbswS f”S ST STS' nve men on account of scarcity ol coal, and two trains have been taken off. The Jackson water works are mixing wood with coal. The Illinois Central is transfering the coal it had stored along the southern division to the Chicago division. Several days ago tlio Coxeyites ieti Denver on boats built for that pur¬ pose and started down the Platte. The river was Hush and in many places rough. At a railroad bridge where barbed wire had been stretched be¬ tween ilia piers and was just under ihe wator, some boats were caught >n the wire ana upset. When camp Was made fifteen men were missing. Three bodies have been found. Pat Cox. a noted outlaw southwest Virginia, was killed near Wise court house while resisting arrest. A few weeks ago he killed one of his cousins and fatally wounded another. Being surrounded, near an illicit still, by a posse conducted by a deputy sheriff, he tired on them, seriously wounding two. The sheriff’s posse returned the fire and he was killed, Marion Watson, a youth of 18, was drowned while seining in Jones’s mill pond on Annuteheo creek eight miles from Rome, Ga, His friends made an effort to save him and very nearly succeeded in getting him into a boat, when he sank beyond their reach and rose no more. The body was recover¬ ed. He was the son of Mr. Noble Watson. In Atlanta the other day Ophelia Williams, colored, seeing her husband at the house of Mary Favors, next door, went and ordered him home. A fight between the two women resulted. Ophelia, after hurling a brick at Ma¬ ry, started home. Stooping to grasp another missile that happened in her path, she fell over—dead. Her rage had brought on apoplexy. A bridge at Midvale, Ohio., ou tho Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling rail¬ road, was set on fire and and destroy¬ ed- The officers of the company say tne sheriff refused to protect their property and also refused to call out the militia.—A coal train was tired on at Flushing, Ohio, and the crowd was at one dispersed by the militia.— All the armed militia of Ohio, exsept one regiment are now in the field. The Yaqui Indians are depredating in Mexico. They attacked a hacienda near Nacoroy, and though it was well fortified, they killed five of the de¬ fenders, with a loss of only three. Another place iu that vicinity was attacked by the same band and all ranche buildings, with several thous¬ and bushels of grain, were burned. Several murders of white settlers in Yaqui'river valley are also reported. A rebellion which has been brewing some time in Corea, has assumed for¬ midable proportions. Having raised an army of 50,000 men they have de¬ feated the government forces in the district of Tsingla, and issued a man¬ ifesto, in which, among other things they say that foreigners must quit the country. They aro well provided with arms. British war vessels are on the alert to protect foreign inter¬ ests, and an American ship has been ordered tiiere. Rev. W. Murdock, pastor in charge of the M. E. church, South, at East Rome, Ga., recently assumed editorial management of the Evening News, a secular daily paper, and began to take a hand in politics. Presiding Elder Pieice has removed Mr. Murdock from his charge and suspended him from the ministry until the meeting of the North Georgia conference, hold¬ ing that the preacher owes his services to the church and must not devote himself to secular employments, espe¬ cially those of a political cast. Michael McGowan has sued the city of San Francisco, Cal. He sets up that the hospital surgeons of that city, while he was in the hospital for treat¬ ment of an ulcerous ankle, put him under the influence of an anaesthetic and, without his knowledge or consent, cut from his thighs seven strips of skin an inch and a half wide and from four to eight inches long, which they used to repair the faces of a Frenchman and a French woman who bad been badly burned. He further complains that said Frenchman has taunted him with his misfortune. For ail, which he asks the court to give him judgment against the city for $25,000. Tho citizens of Round Pond, O. T., are making war on the Rock Island railroad because the company estab¬ lished a depot at a rival town and re¬ fused to stop trains at theirs. They placed a wagon on the track to stop a train. A stock train cut right through it, but was ditched further on where the track was torn up, and twelve car loads of cattle were killed. The citizens are massing with arms to pre¬ vent the repair of the track. The company is arming its men and a lovely time is in prospect. The gov¬ ernor of Oklahoma has called for United States troops to conserve the place. Thirty railroad men have been arrested and are guarded in jail, and train loads of armed men are rushing to the scene. Corean Insurgents Dispersing. ly.Ttat "to AT THE CAPITOL. A Synoprs of What It Being Said and Dene at Washington from Day to Day r One . Hundred „ . and , * ..... itty-Flrsi , .ayi , senate bill was introduced by Mr. Hoar,and referred to the judiciary corn mitteo, to release the estate of tho Into Lei and Stanford from the government claim against it, as lo any lien such claim may have on property given or bequeathed to Stanford ty.—The bill to reclassify and pre- scribe the salaries of railway postal clerks was passed. It provides for seven classes, and salaries ranging from $808 to $1800.—The tariff bill w r as resumed and thirty-six paragraphs disposed of. Pending consideration of schedule “H”—spirits, wines etc— it was agreed that it be acted on under the five minute rule on Monday, and at 6:10 the senate adjourned, House.—M r. Turner of Georgia asked unanimous consent for the con¬ sideration of a bill amending the act creating circuit courts of appeal, but objection was made, and the Indian appropriation , . bill was resumed ,, in com- mittee of the whole, under the five mmute rule. Mr. Wilson, of Wai-h- uigton, ottered an amendment proliib Iting the appointment of agents from other states or territories than the one in which the agency to be filled is lo¬ cated. The amendment was ruled out, and debate, chiefly political, was continued until 3:35, when the mittee rose and the housed adjourned, Ono Hundred aiul Fifty -second Day, Senate.— Mr. Morrill of Vermont gave notice of an amendment to the naval appropriation bill, providing that the superintendent of tho naval observatory shall be a person selected from civil life, learned in the science of astronomy, to be appointed by the president and confirmed hv the senate, and to receive $5,003 per annum.— The tariff bill was resumed. Three schedules, spirits, cotton manufactures and the schedule of hemp, flax and jute were disposed of. Cotton bag- ging, The was exempted from duty.—When wool schedule was reached, Mr, I’cffer gave notice that tomorrow he would move a reduction of the exist- ing rates about 40 per cent. Mr. Quay gave notice that he would con- tinue the speech he began on the 14th of April, of wnich several install¬ ments have already been spoken__At 6; 10 the senate, after somo executive business, adjourned. liourib. A resolution by Mr. Baily of Texas was favorably reported the commiitcc on priming and agreed to, for printing 6,000 copies of a com- pilation of all messages, proclamations Knd inaiiguial addresses of presidents of the United States from 1789 to 1894 inclusive, and 10 0'00 copies of the report of the bureau of ethnology, —Ihe day was devoted to District of Columbia matters and at 4:25 the t "'' ,o e adjourned. Due Hundred and Fifty-Third Day. Senate,— The wool schedule was taken up and the day was spent in useless coloquy and speeches in oppo¬ sition to the amendment of ihefinanoe committee, which puts all classes of wool, not mahufactured, on the fiee list, and at 6 p. m, the sonata ad¬ journed. House. —The biil to appropriate $100,000 out of monies duo the estates of deceased colored soldiers, now in the treasury, to the national home for¬ aged and infirm colored people in the District of Columbia, was passe 1, af¬ ter the adoption of an amendment providing that the institution should not at any time become a charge upon the United {States treasury and making the entire expenses of tho homo a charge upon the revenues of tho dis¬ trict.—After the passage of a private relief bill the house at 2 o’clock went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropiation bill, Afler dis¬ posing of 27 pages of the bill Ihe com- mittee rose and the houso adjourned. One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Day, Senate— Mr, Vest, on the part of jtho finance committee, stated the com¬ mittee had no objection to an amend¬ ment of that part of the tariff bill re¬ lating to an income tax specifying the benevolent and beueficiary societies Jcxempt from the tax more particu¬ larly, although the bill, without such amendment. provided for such ex¬ emptions.—Mr. Morgan offered a res- olution asking the secretary of the treasury for information as to gold coin received since Nor. 1, 1893, what .part of it catne irom the sale of bonds, to what persons the bonds were sold aud what payments or redemptions have been made in gold coin or bullion since that date. Agreed to.—Mr. Hoar offered a resolution, which was agreed to, requesting the president to communicate, if not incompatible with public interests, any threats of retaliation, made to this government by any foreign government for the proposed imposition of duties on sugar,—Three senate bills providing an additional circuit judge for the 7th, 8ib and 9th judicial circuits, each, were passed.—The tariff bill was taken up Mr‘toe°ta ll “,^"toT'u d “tU $1.00 a Year In Advance. House.— The bill by Mr, Turner, of Georgia to amend tbo act organizing ihe circuit courts of appeal, so as to permit appeals from judgements there- of in cases where receivers are ap¬ pointed without accompanying injunc- tions, was passed.—The Indian appro* priatmn bill was taken up ill commit- tee of the w ] 10 | e) considered until 4 : 85 an ^ w ithout action or progress to rdg completion of the bill, th«- j lou60 adjourned. One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth DnyJ Senate— A senate bill was passed providing for the establishment of tive experimental stations in different parts of the country, for the purpose of developing silk culture. The bill appropriates $£,000 annually for each station, to bo expended under agricul- the direction of the secretary of tmc. —The tariff bill was resumed at 10:30, and the wool schedule discussed by I lie protectionists until 6:30, when the senate adjourned. House. —In committee of the whole consideration of the Indian appropria- lion bill was resumed. An amend moot was agreed to prohibiting tin employment of any man as farmer or gtockma „ wlw )la8 notf for five years lie xt preceding ills employment, been entirely engaged in that, business, y 0VC |. ;l j 0 tliet* amendments were dis- | cusso( j voted on and lost, taking up the time until 5 p. in. when the house adjourned. One Hundred and Fifty Sixth Day Senate,— No action resulted from (he talk on the wool schedule in tho senate to-day. —A bill to provide for the expenses of printing’, and sonic other expenses was passsed; and short executive session, and then, at 0:80, adjournment. House —A resolution from the committee on rules was reported di- recting the immediate consideration of the Indian appropriation bill, be- ginning with page 51, under the live minuie rule, until 3:30, when the pre- vions question shall be considered as ordered on all pending amendments and on the passage of the bill. The resolution was adopted, but at 5 o’clock the reading of the bill had not been concluded and a recess until 8 was taken, the evening to be devoted to private bills. ------—- 15 > His ° w » Ha,ld » Dr. J. B. Hinkle, who shot and kill- ed Dr. J. B. Worsham at Americas, Ga., in December 1S92, is dead, and a coroner’s jury has given it as their verdict that he died by his own hand. His trial came on last January, and lasted three weeks. He was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. His case was reviewed by the supreme court, which affirmed the sentence. When informed of the re- suit he immediately' began to arrange j,u for his departure. He wrote a letter to w if e and sons declaring his iuuo- C ence, aud that he had been convicted through the perjury of the slate’s wit- nessess, that ho killed Worsham in defense of his unarmed son whose life Worsham was about to take, and he flffimred this declaration with an oath, iu the full realization of the fact that he was about to enter into the presence of God. He declared his forgiveness of all who had wronged him, and ex¬ horted his wife and sons to forgive them, lie was found in his cell un¬ conscious, Every effort was made to save him, and he rallied for a while, but the poison had done its work too well. He soon sank again and died FLEEING Fit OBI IHE PLAGUE. Fiftr.rn Bundrid liraths at Hong Kong Natives Panic Stricken. 'ihe bubonic plague is creating a panic, Half the natives of Hong Kong, China, have lied the city. ifbere have been 1,500 deaths, Many Europeans have been seized with the illness, aud one has died. Industry is paialyzed. A hundred deaths now occur daily. The government ex- peels a failure of the opium unsanitary revenue and proposes lo deslioy the native quarters of ihe city, RIRS. M.IKY LEVSE A Candidate for ihe Nomination ol Congrcssmaii-at-Iiai ge. Mrs, Mary E. Lease, while still sick at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Olathe, is strong enough to sit up and hold a conference with her political friends. She has sent word to her associates in the city that she will make special effort to be there Tuesday to attend tho Fopulist convention and that she expects to be a candidate foi Congrassmau-at-large. Mrs Lease says she is entitled to a no miuatior and expects to got it. Rlutruring* of Discontent. The Massillon district miners have adopted resolutions denouncing Gov¬ ernor McKinley for sending state troops “for the purpose of assisting the coal aud railroad operators to de¬ feat the minerb in an honest effort to maintain living wages.” The basis of thr strike settlement has been reoeived by the miners with muttecings of dis¬ content. Waylaid and Killed. James K. Bond, an ex-member of the Louisiana Legislature, last was Saturday way¬ laid, shot and killed night by John Jones, colored. Bond leaves a wife and six children, VOL. V. NO. 6. STIUKL SITUATION. r ven j S) R.suits and Outlook Among tbs Mining Districts Everywhere. Mr. Beddow, superintendent of the Sloss Iron and Steel Company’s mines atCoalburg.issuedacallforthepur- pose of proposing lo tbo strikers to 1 return to work at 45 cents. A meet- j ing extended was held alt and who the would proposition work, was and to j it was announced that the mine would j j he started up Monday morning. Only a few men showed up at ike mines, Tbo company, in consequence of this 't&ew practical rejection of their offer, with- all previous propositions, and itegan to serve strikers who occupy the company’s cabins with notice to vacate them, * • * The conference of operators and miners at Columbus, O., representing Pennsylvania, Indiana ami Northern { Illinois, agreed on a scale lo go into effect June 18th and continue until May 1, 1895, provided that tho scale agreed upon for ihe Pittsburg district shall be generally recognized and observed. An inter-slate board of arbitration, to consist of four opera¬ tors and four miners, is provided for, to consider and determine any inequal¬ ity complained of as between the dif¬ ferent fields included in the list to which the scale of prices is to apply. * * * At Lamont works, Lniontown, . I’a., a IjgLt occurred between a mob of 800 strikers aud seveial aimed deputieo, in which one striker, a Slav, was killed and two mortally wounded. On ‘ho evening before several hundred i strikers seized iout workmen, who 810 employed at the valley works of the Frick company and were going home, covered them over with clialk and big placards with scab, black- leg and other epithets lettered thereon and escorted them through the streets, hooUn ° aa ', jeen " g - B P at n P°» «“m “ ll | ... hlt < heul stones and clubs. They were marched past then own i bo h ie t wives.and ^ddren could v ew the.m They took them to Mom lithen to Youngstown, and from there to La- “® nt - Hero the mob bred on the the t °® oe i' foui. s , wh ® woikmen, ^ k ! np b n and ®®i' the fight ensiled with the result stated above. The f° ur raen wer ® reecued afterwards at Fair Chance and sent home. ■ * * * j The feeling among tho Ohio miners ; generally is strong against accepting the ! Columbus compromise. A. A. Adams president of the Ohio minors who, op- posed the settlement to the last and ref used to sign it, is addressing miners in the mining centers urging them not to accept it. He is a very radical lead- er and holds theories closely allied to anarchy. * * * The Slraitsville, Ohio, miners have held no meeting to consider the Co¬ lumbus compromise, but say they will uot go to work. * * * Eight thousand miners in mass meet¬ ing at Goucester, Ohio, adopted reso¬ lutions declaring the settlement pre¬ mature aud declining to accept it, * * * A mass meeting of about 2000 miners was held at McDonald, Pa., to decide whether they should abide by the terms of the Columbus compro- mise. It was decided to await tho official lfotice of the agreement from president McBride. The feeling was strong against accepting the 09 cent rate. It was reported that president McBride had been hung in effigy at Hayes station. The foreign element is becoming desperate, being Qn the verge of starvation, 5j4 * * More than twenty mines in the Cripple Creek region, Colorado, have resumed operations. * * * The Coal Creek miners, in the Brice* ville district, Tenn., including those of tie Block Diamond, have returned to work at the old scale. * * * While the men of company K. s 8th Ohio militia, wore lying around their camp near McLainsviliCf, they were suddenly attack by about thirty strikers with clubs aud rocks. Cap¬ tain Waybrecht, seeing that the assail¬ ants had no lire arms, ordered his men to lay aside their own weapons. The result was as he expected. The Foies. Hungarians and Italians, who composed tho attacking parly, were beaten and routed with no casualties more serious than bruises aud super¬ ficial cuts on either 6ide, H* * * A mass meeting of miners at La¬ Salle, III., resolved to accept nothing less than last year’s mining prices, denounced the Columbus agreement and demanded the resignation of Mc¬ Bride and others who were parties to the compromise. The meeting was composed of miners from Peru, Lima and Oglesby. Advertise in this Paper