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CHAS. 6. MORxiAU, Bditor and Publisher.
VOL. 11.
LOVE AND DEATH.
Death beckoned Love, and said: “I Jam* thou
with me;
I gather every rose,
I dim earth s fairest shows,
All souls of men, all things in their detfve*
t. Wy sway confess—then why,
Smiling doth thou deny,
Slight one of guazy wing, my right in thee?”
•Love gently laughed and shook his shining
head;
‘‘Nay! /am sovereign king!
• Though every flower of spring.
All life before thy face grow wan with dread;
v> Should each rejoicing star,
In the blue Helds afar.
Swing blind through voiceless space, extin
guished, dead;
“‘Yet would I plume these wings, and mount on
high
To the great source of light.
And In fresh splendor dight
Return, the earth to bless, from yonder sky;
Wide Is the realm I own,
No shadow fills my throne;
Love is supreme, for love shall neviir dlo!”
Even as he spake, a phanthom pala and spare
Death dwindled, and as mist
By joyous sunshine kissed.
At Love's bright smile he vanished into alrl - T
And men with raptured ery, "
And songs of victory,
Hailed Love the king, thr.t ever crown shall
wear.
-Elizabeth W. Flske, m N. Y. Independent
Tfe-J&fiKnes
f®|Po THE~averagc
|| H civilian the
I- ' word ‘‘court
martial” calls
up harrowing
ithoughta of summary trials, decisive
action, terrible sentences and quick
retribution, intermingled with tor
menting visions of austere courts, de
jected offenders, and scenes verging on
fctu; inquisitorial abuses of old. A hor
jrible panorama of an execution in some
'secluded spot in the gray dawn haunts
the dismal fancy of the morbidly sensi
tive, and in the mind’s eye is depicted
the hapless and helpless victim as he
totters on the brink of an open grave
and receives the leaden messengers of
death from smoking rifles in the hands
of an unfortunate firing detail, who
are afterward seen to perform the sad
duties of a burial party.
In the face of such conceptions who
teonld regard the life of the soldier as a
toappy one? While such fancies may
not have been beyond the possibilities
of dread reality in that gloomy time
when families were divided and brother
fought against brother, they are in
time of peace too absurd to be enter
tained by intelligent persons, yet I
have frequently been asked if such
conditions now exist.
No, my innocent and civil brother,
such conditions do not exist, nor have
they ever existed in this glorious coun
try except in time of war, and even
then in flagrant and desperate cases
only. Discard your gloomy thoughts
and learn that in these piping times of
peace, when every little offense and
minor breach of discipline is investi
gated by either a summary, garrison,
or general court-martial, it is not an
uncommon occurrence for the genius
of comedy to enter the inquisitorial
chamber.
Who would think it? Comedy parad
ing before a court-martial! Even so.
A case comes to mind the ludicious
features of which came very nearly up
setting the dignity of the gold
decked members* of a court-martial
which was in session at one of our
western posts.
Private Schute of Company 11,—th
infantry, was arraigned to answer to
the awful charge of “conduct to the
prejudice of good order and military
discipline.” \ This charge is one of the
stereotyped kind which, like charity,
serves to cover a multitude of sins. It
is always on tap, is used extensively,
and will be found covering a large per
centage of accusations against military
offenders. When all other specific
charges covered by the articles of war
fail to meet the requirements of a case,
the somber and well-worn blanket of
“conduct to the prejudice, etc,” is
spread over a sheet of legal cap and
the entire omnibus hurled at the un
fortunate offender’s head.
In this, particular instance, the
charge was followed by a long-winded
specification wherein it was set forth
t hat the aforesaid'Private Schute "hav
ing been duly and regularly detailed
as barrack-room orderly, did become
intoxicated and did fail to properly
perform the duties of his office,” and
that "in his drunken and unsightly
condition he did walk through the
streets of the garrison. This to the
disgrace of the uniform which he
wore,” etc.
To the reading of the foregoing bud
get of seriousness the unmanacled
prisoner listened in painful and patient
silence. When the judge advocate of
the court asked him what he had tosay
the stolid face of the bronzed warrior
underwent a transformation and took
on a soul-stirring air of injured inno
cence as he very modestly asked that a
pica of not guilty be entered.
On behalf of the prosecution three
witnesses were introduced who testi
htil in support of the heinous oilcuscc
ite Jfel Cxllß.
alleged to have been committed by the
prisoner at the bar. So positive and
conclusive was the testimony of these
witnesses that the judgvs advocate of
the court deemed it unnecessary to call
upon others who had been cited to ap
pear. He rested the prosecution on
the overwhelming evidence adduced,
but to give the trial the proper leo-al
flavor he asked:
Private Schr.te, what have you to
offer m defense?”
Rising sl owly from his chair Private
Hchute gulped down a big lump of
something which had gathered in his
thro?,t—he was an old hand at the busi
“et-s, having earned the sobriquet of
tLe guard-house lawyer—and, raising
a pair of pleading eyes, the warrior
spoke in tremulous tones:
‘May it please the court, Private
Gunn, my ‘hunky’ [a soldier bedfellow],
was with me on the day in question,
and 1 wish to introduce his testimony
as to my sobriety at that time. I also
desire to testify in my own behalf.
That is all I have to offer, and I con
fidently rely on the justice of the
court.”
Resuming his seat with a self-satis
fied air he looked around at the mem
bers of the court to see wlrether his lit
tle speech had pleased them on ac
count of his airy and refined manner of
doing business.
Private Gunn, who was in convenient
waiting, was called. After being duly
sworn, according to law, he testified to
the identity of the accused and stated
that on the day in question he was in
the company of the prisoner, who, he
alleged, was not intoxicated at any
time.
Considerably startled by such con
flicting testimony, old Maj. Bali, the
president of the court, dropped the
newspaper which he was reading,
other members of the court awoke
from a lethargy into which they had
pardonably fallen, the judge advocate
opened his eyes in mild astonishment,
the prisoner smiled complacently, and,
looking straight at Private Gunn, who
was now the cynosure of all eyes, he
remarked: “That’s all.”
Glad enough to escape, Private Gunn
turned to leave the room, but before
he could make his exit he was called
back by the president of the court.
“Do you mean to positively assert,”
asked that officer, “that Private Sehute
was not intoxicated on the day in ques
tion?”
“Yis, sorr, that’s what Oi do,” an
swered the witness, as lie cast an af
fectionate (fiance at his “bunky.” “Oi
wuz wid him nearly all th’ day an’ he
niver got full.”
‘‘Did you see him drink any liquor at
all?”
“W-e-1-1, s-o-’m-e,” responded the hes
itating Ounn, “but he wuz niver
drunk.”
“How many times did you sec him
drink?” interposed a natty second lieu
tenant, whose curiosity was now ex
cited.
“Oh, jist a few toimes, sorr.”
“How many times do you consider a
few?” asked the officer.
“Not many, sorr.”
“That’s equivocation!” cried the lieu
tenant.
“Oi dunno, sorr,” responded Gunn,
“but he wuzzent full.”
“Answer the gentleman’s question,”
said the judge advocate, who came to
the relief of the puzzled witness. “Did
you see the prisoner drink, say, five
times?”
“Yis, sorr.”
“Did you see him drink ten times?”
“Y-i-s, s-o-r-r.”
“Did he drink oftener than ten
times?”
“01 guess he did, sorr.”
“Private Gunn, remember that you
are under oath. Did you see the pris
oner drink fifteen times?”
“Oi did-dkln’t count ’em, sorr, b-b-but
Oi sh-sh-shouldn’t wonder if he did,
but he niver got full,” answered the
stammering witness as he cast his
eyes upon Schuto with a please-for
give-me look that had its effect on the
court if not upon the prisoner.
The members of the court looked
significantly at one another. It was
plainly evident that all were extreme
ly interested if not greatly amused by
the hesitating manner of the now un
willing witness.
The president of the court—an old
veteran who bad grown gray in the
service, wjiose heart was not half as
hard as the strong lines in his face—
arose from his seat and, assuming an
air of dignity which the twinkle in his
gray eyes belied, addressed the wit
ness:
“Private Gunn, this court is not to
be hampered by prevarication or half
answers. What we want is the un
varnished truth without qualifying
opinions. You say that the prisoner
drank fifteen times, but that he did not
become intoxicated. Now, between
what hours did he take those drinks?”
“Betune tin o’clock in th’ mornin’
an’ wan o’clock in the afthernoon.
sorf.”
"What kind of liquor did he drink?”
“Whisky, sorr; nothin’ in it.”
"Whisky!” exclaimed the astonished
officer. "For three hours you observed
the prisoner drinking whisky at inter
vals of but twelve minutes, and yet
von have the temerity to say to this
court that he did not become intoxi
cated?”
“Ah, share, major, it was sutler’s
whisky. ”
“No levity, sir!” thundered the ma
jor, who suppressed a smile as he
asked: “Do you know what the word
‘intoxicated’ means?”
‘‘Share,” replied the witness.
“PEARIiESS IN AUXi THINGS.”
BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS., SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1893.
“Well, what?”
“Plain drunk, sorr.”
The dignity of the court was suffer
ing. All the members were required
to hide their faces lest their apprecia
tion of the ridiculous might be ob
served.
Recovering from the mirth-provok
ing effect of the answers of the wit
ness, the major corrugated his brow
even more deeply, and to the intense
amusement of the other members ol
the court he again resumed the attack:
“Do you know sir, when a man is in
toxicated?”
"Shore an’ any wan knows that,” re
plied Gunn.
“Never mind about any other per
son,” said the major, in rigid tones; “do
you know it?"
“Av coorsc Oi do.”
“Then according to your opinion, in
what condition must a man be to be
considered intoxicated?”
“Shure, whin he’s loaded, sorr.”
“Tut, tut!” testily ejaculated the
major; “that is not answering my ques
tion. What I want to know is what
the condition of the man must be, his
balance of mind, his condition as to
usefulness or helplessness, his ability
to walk and talk, his—”
“Oh, well, that depinds,” interrupted
Private Gunn.
“Depends on what?” excitedly cried
the major.
“On what ye moight consither bein’
drunk,” calmly responded the wit
ness.
“That's exactly what I am laboring
to ascertain,” said the major, as he
gazed at the ceiling vainly trying to
recover his composure. “When do
you consider a man drunk, or intoxi
cated, or full as you term it. Come,
sir, give us your unhindered ideas oa
the subject.”
“Faith, Oi will, major,” slowly re
sponded the witness, and, after lower
ing his head and stealing a furtive
glance at his “bunky,” he raised his
eyes and said: “As Oi obsurved befoor,
major, it depinds intsirly on wan’s own
ideas. For mesilf Oi don’t think a man
can be called downright drunk till he
topples over an’ has to grab a root to
kapa from failin’ off the earth.”
Had the flagstaff fallen on the mili
fctry justice shop it would not have
cieated more consternation than did
this parting shot fired by Private Gunn.
Hut offended pride soon reeled and tot
tered before the unique and uncompro
mising definition of the Greek for
and dignity flew helter-skelter
from the composition of the court as
the drollery of the answer penetrated
the bumps of wit on the craniums of
the members. The pressure was too
great, and a chorus of laughter as
sailed the walls of the rooms, severo I
THE BifdslTT OF THE COURT WAS 60HB.
ly disturbing the equanimity of the
adjutant’s clerical force, who were
driving quills in the adjoining room,
and who instantly thought that justice
had gone mad.
Well-preserved chunks of that laugh
are yet lodged in the crevices of the
plaster-cracked walls of the courtroom
at old Fort Y , and whoever visits
the post is not permitted to depart
without learning the origin of the by
gone saying: “Grab a root.”
The phrase was adopted as a by-word
throughout the garrison, and its popu
larity became widespread, but it did
not save Private Sohute. That warrior
was found guilty, and was duly sen
tenced by the court. He was not sen
tenced to be shot or hanged, but, to
speak in the vernacular of our enlisted
soldier boys, he got “five and ten,”
which is an abbreviated and familiar
way the boys have of expressing the
sentence, which read as follows; “And
the court does therefore sentence him,
Private Schute, company B, —th in
fantry, to forfeit to the United States
five dollars (?5) of his monthly pay,
and to be confined at hard labor under
charge of the post guard for the period
of ten (10) days.”—Chicago Times.
—One of an admiring group around a
certain conscientious woman of bound
less tact recently asked her what she
found truthfully to say when adoring
parents exhibited unpromising infants
or their pictures. The tactful woman
smiled with justifiable pride at the
score of anxious feminine faces turned
toward her; “1 alwa* s exclaim ar
dently: ‘Well, that is a baby,’ and,”
with dancing eyes, “it is, you know.”
Aunt Dinah—“Whafoah yo’ wears
brack, Dekun Ebony? Yo’ am not a
widower.” Deacon Ebony—“l is eco
nomical, honey. One brush do me foah
a hatbrush, ha’rbrush, clothesbrush,
shoebrush an’ lloshbrush.”— General
Manager.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources,
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
In the senate, on the 28th, the resolutions for
the election for officers of the senate, W. E.
Cox, of South Carolina, as secretary; Richard
D. Bright, of Indiana, as sergeant-at-arms, and
Rev. Mr. Milburn, as chaplain, coupled with
conditions that they shall not enter upon the
discharge of their duties until the 30lh of June,
up to which time the present incumbents are
to remain in office, were offered and went over
for one day. The ease of Senator Roach, of
North Dakota, was brought before the senate
in the shape of a resolution offered by Mr. Hoar
directing the committee on privileges and elec
tions to investigate the allegations of criminal
embezzlement and to report the facts and what
is the duly of the senate thereto. The resolu
tion also went over, the senate adjourning after
a session of only thirty-live minutes.
In the senate, on the 2i)th, the report of the
committee on privileges and elections in favor
of the three senators appointed by the govern
ors of the states of Montana, Wyoming and
Washington was taken up, and the discussion
which followed indicated concurrence with Jhe
views of the minority of the committee adverse
to the admission of the three senators. The
question went over, the senate soon after going
into executive session.
In the senate, on the 20th, the session was de
voted almost wholly to the debate on the ques
tion of admission of senators appointed by the
governors of the slates of Montana, Wyoming
and Washington, after the legislatures of those
states had adjourned without making regular
elections.* Mr. Mitchell, a member of the com
. mitteo on elections, spoke for nearly three
hours in opposition to the majority report of
the committee, which favors admission, but
confessed, in the close of his speech, that the
die was cast and that the majority report
would be adopted. The senate then went into
secret session.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania has
signed pardons for Abe Buzzard, the
Lancaster outlaw, and James S. Dun
gan, the cashier of the hank of America
of Philadelphia, and one of the wreck
ers of that institution. These pardons
were recommended by the state hoard
of pardons.
When asked what he would do with
reference to the slates prepared by
congressmen for the apportionment of
federal offices within their several dis
tricts President Cleveland is credited
with saying; “I will smash them.”
On the 30th Ex-Secretary Bayard’s
nomination as ambassador to Great
Britain was promptly confirmed by
the senate in executive session, with
out the formality of a reference to com
mittee.
On the 31st Mrs. McKenzie, widow of
the late Alexander McKenzie, ex-pre
mier of Canada, died in Toronto, Ont.
On the 31st Admiral Gherardi, with
the Philadelphia, Baltimore, York
town, Vesuvius and Cushing, arrived
at Fort Monroe, Va.
On the 31st the funeral of Gen. Ed
mond Kirby Smith, the last of the full
generals of the confederacy, took place
at Sewanee, Tenn. The religious serv
ices were conducted according to the
Episcopal ritual, of which church the
deceased general was a member.
F. X. Hooper, of Baltimore, Md., has
invented a rotary printing press which
prints two colors at once from Prince
ton curved stereotype plates.
On the Ist Cobson Peacock, editor-in
chief and principal owner of the Print
ing Bulletin, of Philadelphia, died sud
denly of heart failure.
Emperor William of Germany has
given his consent to the proposal that
the whole of the imperial opera shall
appear in London in 1894.
Koczalski, a piano prodegy, has giv
en a series of recitals in Berlin. His
performances were largely attended.
Next winter he will make a tour of the
United States.
It is now stated that William Brad
ford Miller and Miss Alma Nunne
macher, of Milwaukee, were married
about six months previous to the Pass
Christian (Miss.) tragedy, and that the
marriage certificate was found among
Miller’s effects.
Secretary Morton of the deport
ment of agriculture has appointed Ed
ward Sheldon, of Nebraska, western
agent of the bureau of animal industry,
vice M. Pickerell, of Nebraska.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the morning’ of the 2Sth Peter W.
Person, a wealthy livery man of South
Omaha, Neb.; who was living apart
from his wife, was found dead in a bed
in his office with his skull fractured.
The murder had evidently been com
mitted with a club found on the prem
ises.
A disastrous fire at Afton, la., on
the morning of the 28th, destroyed a
half block of the business portion of
the city, causing a loss of thousands of
dollars. This is the second conflagra
tion within a few weeks, both fires de
stroying about $50,000 worth of prop
erty.
Chas. Tomes, local manacrer for the
American Preserves Cos. at Buffalo, N.
Y., has disappeared, leaving a letter
stating that he is a defaulter. The
amount of his shortage is placed at
somewhere between SIO,OOO and $20,000.
On the 29th a tightly-corked cham
pagne bottle was picked up at Ocean
View, Va., containing a letter dated on
board the White Star line freighter
Naronic, February 19, and signed by
“John Olsen, Cattleman.” The writer
stated that the vessel had been struck
by an immense iceberg, and was then
sinking. One boat which had put off
had gone to the bottom with its living
freight, and a similar fate awaited all
hands, as no boat could possibly live in
the storm then raging.
On the 291 h St. Barnabas’ Protestant
Episcopal church, of Baltimore, Md.,
was destroyed by fire: loss, about $60.-
000.
Latimer, the recaptured double mur
derer, is existing on bread and water.
The solitary cell in the Jackson (Mich.)
penitentiary, in which he is confined, is
smaller than the regular size, and con
tains nothing but a straw mattress on
the floor. No one but the chaplain is
allowed to talk with him.
The steamer Haytien Republic, it is
said, has smuggled ton tons of opium
through the port of Tacoma, Wash.,
during the past few months, under the
eyes and by the collusion of custom
house officials.
On the Ist Miss Effie Clark, of Spo
kane, AVash., a member of the North
west university freshmen class at
Evanston, 111., was shot and instantly
killed by F. Ross Smith, who then fa
tally shot himself. The cause of the
tragedy was Miss Giant’s rejection of
Smith as a suitor.
Duke’s tobacco factory, in New York,
was burned on the 2d; loss, 1400,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The national guard of Pennsylvania
will probably encamp at Chicago during
the World’s fair, the usual summer en
campment at Mount Gretna being
abandoned and the trip to Chicago
taken instead.
On the 31st there were 1.54 New York
policemen on the sick list.
The Austrian war office lias accepted
the bullet-proof cloth invented by Herr
Silandor, engineer resident in Paris.
The cloth is a third of an inch thick,
and is said to be much more pliable
than that invented by the tailor Dowe,
in Mannheim, Germany.
During the week ended on the Ist
there were 1,149 deaths in New York
city, against 1,135 the previous week.
There were 273 deaths from pneumonia
and 14 from la grippe.
On the Ist the steamer Newport, from
Colon, arrived at New York, bringing
as passengers eighteen Bolivian Indians
for the World’s fair at Chicago, under
the charge of Senor Sirocco, of La Paz,
Bolivia. These natives of South Amer
ica are the first of their kind who have
visited the United States. Among them
is Jose Santos Manani, who is 9 feet 10
inches in height, 25 years of age, and
weighs 418 pounds.
On the Ist the members of the inter
state commerce commission, accom
panied by several stenographers, left
Washington for Charleston, W. Va.,
where inequalities in rates will be in
vestigated. The commissioners will
cover the southern circuit before re
turning to Washington.
On tlie Ist the third session of the
seventh Dominion parliament was pro
rogued.
The Beethoven museum located at
Bonn will be inaugurated with a festi
val lasting from the 10th to the loth
of May. Several of the greatest Ger
man musicians will take part.
Nearly 0,000 immigrants arrived at
New York by the steamships on the
afternoon of the 81st and the morning
of the Ist. This is the largest number
since last October, when the cholera
was brought over from Hamburg.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
The trouble in the Indian Territory
,s already straining the credit of the
Choctaw government. Scrip is being
issued bs buy supplies and pay the
militia, and the scrip is now going at
89 cents on the dollar. A still further
reduction is inevitable if the trouble
continues.
William R. Shaw, cashier of the
Lincoln National Bank, at Bath, Me.,
is a defaulter to the amount of $50,000.
Rev. S. 11. Buchanan, the Cumber
land Presbyterian minister who is
charged with embezzling $9,000 of the
State’s funds while acting treasurer of
the Arkansas State insane asylum, has
been indicted by the Pulaski grand
jury-
One man in Jonesboro, Ark., and
another one in the country near by are
dead as the result of a whitecapping
expedition.
A Virginia man appears to have pro
duced the best smokeless powder which
the United States army has tested up to
date. The test was recently made at
the Frankfort, Pa., arsenal with ex
cellent results, and a request was sent
for additional and larger quantities of
the powder.
By the explosion of a locomotive on
the tracks of the Choctaw Coal & Rail
road Company at Wilberton, I. TANARUS., on
the 3d, four men were instantly killed
and their bodies blown to atoms.
It is not likely that the Cherokee
strip will be opened until July 5.
A large amount of land contiguous
to Macon, Ga., is being sold to English
capitalists and Western people for set
tlement by colonists.
J. R. Whipple, of Boston, Mass., and
W. H. Sellers, of Haverhill, Mass., aged
22 and 20 years respectively, reached
San Antonio, Texas, on the 2d on horse
back, having made the journey from
Boston in that manner.
Col. A. G. Margrath, the war gov
ernor of South Carolina, is critically ill.
The Mason-Ford Compaq, lessees of
the Kentucky penitentiaries, have de
clined to renew their option of four
years on the Franfort and Eddyville
penitentiaries, and have surrendered all
of the prisoners to the State.
The appearance of several cases of
genuine spotted fever at Elwood, Ind.,
has given great alarm lest it should be
come epidemic. The city is an awful
sanitary condition.
TERMS: SI.OO Per Annum in Advance
A BURNING MINE,
Th Fire In the Tt’elUou Shaft at Shame*
htn. Pa., Costa Ten Human Lire—The
Victims were Caught, I.lke Kata In a
Trap, by an Overpowering Volume ol
Smoke—Distressing Scenes Around the
Mouth of the Pit.
Shamokin. Pa., April 2. —The fire
which occurred in the Neilson shaft
yesterday morning l and which resulted
in such a terrible sacrifice of lives,
started about twenty feet from the bot
tom of the slope, where is an oil-house
which is used by the men to change
their working clothes for others before
leaving the mines, i
About 6:50 o’clock a Hungarian was
filling his lamp and it exploded, ignit
ing the oil about him. He rushed from
the oil-house and the flames spread with
rapidity. Attempts were made to sub
due the fire, but those who started to
do so were compeled to flee for their
lives. They succeeded in retching the
bottom of the shaft and were hauled to
the surface along with some belated
miners who owe their lives to the fact
that they did not go to work at the
usual time. -
The ten men who ioet their lives
were at work in the Red Ashe vein,
located nearly 100 feel above where the
fire broke out. Through an air-way
from the lower vein to the Red Ashe
vein the smoke poured, suffocating the
unfortunates like rats in a trap.
Almost the entire town gathered In
the vicinity of the burning mine, from
the air passages of which great volumes
of smoke were issuing. The scenes were
most distressing. The wives and chil
dren of the imprisoned men uttered
agonizing cries, and implored the men
in the crowd to rescue their loved ones.
_ About midday a rescuing party of
six brave men went down the shaft and
entered the burning vein. The smoke
was so dense that they were compeled
to lie down on their stomachs and keep
a wet sponge to their nostrils to avoid
suffocation. When they had proceeded
a short distance, they came across the
bodies of two men locked in each oth
er’s arms. They were the Brennan
brothers, James and Michael. Further
on the bodies of eight more were found,
making ten dead in all.
The bodies were removed to the sur
face with much difficulty. They were
taken to the blacksmith shop where
the most pathetic scenes were witness
ed. '1 hree of the men were married
and had large families. The others
were young men, averaging less than
25 years of age. Only two mules were
taken out alive, hive were found with
their necks resting over each others
bodies. How they got together in this
position is a mystery.
BROTHERHOOD ENGINEERS
Resolve to AM Their Ann Arbor Brethren
by Simply Resigning Their Positions
Rather than Haul Ann [Arbor Freight,
and the Courts Can not Compel Them
to Work.
k Toledo, 0., April 3. —Meetings of en
gineers and firemen were held in this
city yesterday, at which it was decided
to stand by the Ann Arbor strikers, no
matter what the decision of the court
expected to be handed down to-day
may be. When asked what action
would be taken in case the decision is
adverse to the men, the leaders say that
Ann Arbor freight will not be touched
under any condition. The suggestion
that this could not be done with re
spect to the law if the courts decide all
boycotts illegal, brought out-the fol
lowing statement:
“The injunction has been brought
to prevent Chief Arthur from order
ing the engineers on roads connecting
with the Ann Arbor to refuse to handle
freight and cars of that road because
there is a strike among its engineers
and firemen. We have no doubt that
the preliminary injunction granted by
Judge Ricks will be made perpetual.
That does not prevent the men qutting
work, does it. The fact is that Chief
Arthur has not the power to order a
boycott or strike anyway. The mem
bers of the brotherhood simply quit
without orders of anyone and it will
be a task for the court to reach the
power which causes the boycotts by
means of injunctions. We shall simply
resign from the service of our employes
when we are asked to do Ann Arbor
business.”
Judge Ricks will open court at 9:30
o’clock to-day and will give his deci
sions in the cases for engineers who are
charged with contempt of his manda
tory order issued on March 11 in Cleve
land. He will also read the decision
reached by himself and Judge Taft on
the application of the perpetuation of
the order restraining Chief Arthur
from ordering a boycott on the Ann
Arbor or roads handling Ann Arbor
freight.
Bolivian Indians for the World's Fair—
The Greet Bolivian Giant.
New York, April 3.— The steamer
Newport, from Colon, which arrived
yesterday, brought as passengers
eighteen Bolivian Indians for the
World’s fair at Chicago, under the
charge of Senor Sirocco, of La Paz,
Bolivia. These natives of South Amer
ica are the first of their kind who have
visited the United States.
Among the Indians is one of the
largest men In the world, Jose Santos
Manani, a native of La i’az, who is
known as the “Great Bolivian Giant.”
Manani is 9 feet 10 inches in height,
is 25 years of age, and weighs 413
pounds. He is married and has sev
eral children. He intends to remain in
Chicago during the entire exhibition.
It is the intention of Senor Sirocco to
exhibit the Indians before President
Cleveland prior to going to Chicago,
NO. 13.