Audubon Republican.
J. Z. GRIFFITH, Pub.
AUDUBON,
AROUND THE STATE.
President. Cleveland has appointed
11. H. Trimble to be pension agent at
Des Moines and A. C. Brice of lowa to
be consul at Matanza, Cuba.
The buildings at the mine at Dean,
the operation of which was stopped by
strikers, were burned later. The fire
is supposed to have been of incendiary
origin.
The lowa Weather and Crop Bulletin
states that corn is generally in a good
condition, but that all other crops are
suffering from the extreme dry
weather.
The saloon license consent petition
required by the Martin law has been
completed at Sioux City, the necessary
number of signatures being secured
after a long and weary effort.
Charles Greenley, a young man 20
years old, while attempting to catch a
wild train passing through Brush
Creek, was crushed between a car and
the platform and instantly killed.
The State Bank of Dexter has been
authorized to begin business by Aud
itor McCarthy. It has a paid up cap
ital of §25,000. The president is A. H.
Savage; cashier, F. H. Filting; vice
president, J. G. Stanley.
The Dubuque & Wisconsin Bridge
Company met at Dubuque and elected
the following officers: President, J. A.
Rhomberg; vice-president, J. J. Dunn;
secretary, C. 11. Meyer; treasurer, Paul
Traut. It is expected that work on the
new bridge will begin soon.
Albert Kenrick, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Kernick, of Sioux City, fell at
West Seventh and Oto street and struck
his head on the curb so as to break his
neck. The accident was not observed
at the time, and when picked up a few
minutes after the boy was dead.
Dr. Moore, E. A. Grimwood, W. H.
Kattleson and O. .1. Felton have or
ganized themselves into a syndicate for
the. purpose of pushing the search for
the meteoric stone that fell recently on
the farm of J. J. Wozobo, three and a
half miles east of Oxford Junction. A
crib has been sunk twenty-six feet,
the last fourteen being in water and
quick sand. It is believed that the
stone has been struck at a distance of
about eight feet below the present
level of the excavation.
Charles Woolner, a supposed anarch
ist, one of a gang of tramps who were
caught in a box ear recently in the act
of abducting two little boys, Fred
Cling, aged 13, and James Mooney,
aged 11, who the boys state were ab
ducted from Aurora by the tramps and
who have been abused by these rascals,
was sentenced to thirty days in jail.
Woolner, when captured, had a paste
board box containing two sticks of
dynamite four to six inches in length,
the box containing about fifty caps,
and a coil of fuse ten feet long.
A little spark from a Northwestern
engine came near doing a great deal of
damage at the Union Driving Park, at
Council Bluffs, while the races were in
progress. It ignited the grass between
the track and the fence, and before
any one noticed the flames they had
been communicated to the fence, which
was soon on fire in a dozen different
places. Only a hundred yards or so
away were the north stalls, and the
main effort of the impromptu bucket
brigade was to keep them from catch
ing fire. The fence was broken down
for a distance of about fifty yards, and
the fire was finally extinguished. The
damage was not large.
Win. Winter, a 10-year-old boy, on
his father’s farm near Swaledale, made
a remarkable find. While engaged in
gathering “nigger head” stones for the
purpose of building a wall he discovered
an old pocket book containing SBO in
gold under one of them. The wallet,
an old style leather one. soon fell to
pieces when exposed to the light and
air. The money was all gold, no silver
being in the wallet. One of the pieces
was a gold half dollar, a very rare and
valuable coin, and is now worth sls or
S2O. The place of discovery was near
an old shaft sunk years ago while
prospecting for coal. Who it belongs
to or how it came there cannot be
imagined. There were no papers or
writing by which a clue to the owner
ship of the property can be obtained.
J The Eleventh district republican
teonvention has been called for June 20
at Spirit Lake. George I). Perkins, the
present congressman, and I. S. Struble
are the candidates.
Justice Vien decided the case against
Kerns, Limerick, Hall and Rachwitz,
the Wabash train thieves who have
had charges of conspiracy and breaking
and entering cars in the Wabash yards
at Council Bluffs, pending against
them. The charge of conspiracy was
dismissed as to each defendant, but
they were bound over on the other
charges and sent to jail in default of
S7OO bail.
Mary Anderson, a domestic employed
in a sanitarium at Morning Side, a
suburb of Sioux City, met death in a
horrible manner. She was working in
the ironing room with the doors and
windows closed, and filled the tank of
the gasoline stove, but left the stopper
out. The room was filled with gas,
and when she started the tire again the
vapor exploded and her clothes caught
fire. She ran through the house and
called on the other servants to put out
the tire and then ran out of doors.
The doctor at the sanitarium put out
the tire, but all the clothes were burned
from the woman and she died.
IOWA
Hon. J. H. Preston has resigned as
judge of the Eighteenth judicial dis
trict, his resignation to take effect De
cember 1. Judge J. D. Griffin will not
seek renomination. It is probable that
Captain C. W. Keplar of Mt. Vernon
and Hon. J. L. Sheehan of Anamosa will
be the democratic nominees, while
Major William G. Thompson of this
place and Hon. W. P. Wolf of Tipton
are the most prominently mentioned
on the republican side.
The entire business portion of the
beautiful little town of Pleasantville
was destroyed between the hours of
2:30 and 4 in the morning. The fire
originated in the rear part of the large
general store of Erb Beem & Co., and
was probably of incendiary origin. The
loss will probably reach about §(>5,000,
with insurance of §30,000. The people
did noble work in saving the buildings
in the row north of the fire, also the
hotel building, and had the town pre
pared ample water facilities it could
easily have saved half or two-thirds of
the present loss.
Mrs. Betsey Smith, who recently poi
soned her husband at Des Moines, has
been indicted twice. The last indict
ment charges her with the attempt
ed killing of her husband two years
ago by shooting him through the tem
ple. Her nephews swear that one of
them arrived in the room before the
smoke had left the pistol and that she
tried to hire the other to commit the
crime. There is more than a prospect
for her neck to stretch, although the
attorneys say it will be next to impos
sible to find twelve men who will hang
a woman. It now looks if the murder
ers of Conductor Ridpath will get off
with light sentences if convicted at all.
In case these four persons are not hung
by the court it is said there is little
doubt but what the railroad men will
take the matter in their own hands and
do the work of the court for it.
Mrs. J. B. Root, who eloped from
Creston with her husband s hired man,
was brought to that city in company
with Scott, the man she eloped with.
A curious crowd assembled at the
depot to witness the meeting be
tween Root and his young wife, but
they were deprived of seeing a recon
ciliation, which they expected, for
it did not occur until the party
reached Justice J. B. Kirche’s office.
Then the little truant bride of a few
weeks threw her arms about the neck
of her aged husband and begged his
forgiveness. The husband was very
reluctant in granting the request made
by Mrs. Root, but after a few moments
of persuasive pleading he consented
and forgave and made up. Root notified
the justice that he withdrew the charge,
and Scott. Root's hired man, paid the
costs in the ease, and the elopement
affair was at an end —for a time at
least. After Scott paid the costs in the
ease he went to a pawn shop, procured
enough money on his watch to get
out of town, and left on the first train
east.
Fire visited Ottumwa a few days ago
and left desolation, death and destruc
tion in its wake. It started in a cooper
shop belonging to Jerry Seymour,
which has been on fire just a half
dozen times before. A locomotive
passing cast a spark which started a
small blaze in a bunch of shavings near
the building. The day was intensely
hot and the wind was blowing a gale.
It was fully a block to the next build
ing of any size, but between the two
were a number of trees and outhouses,
which were consumed by the flames.
When the fire reached the next build
ing it started before the gale, roaring
and licking up everything in its path.
The fire department apparatus was
useless. In less than two hours $200,-
000 worth of property, including thir
teen business buildings with eighteen
residences, was a mass of ashes and
charred debris. A last heroic effort
was made by 300 men from the pack
ing-house and the “Q” round-house,
and the flames were soon under con
trol. During the progress of the fire
injuries from falling timbers and per
sons succumbing to the heat and smoke
became so frequent that the physicians
who were on the ground improvised a
hospital and administered aid to the
unfortunates. There were about
twenty victims to the heat and smoke,
among which one, perhaps two, will
die. Several explosions occurred, be
lieved to be at the burning drug stores,
and to add to the terror a trolley wire
burned off and fell, knocking down a
horse and badly burning a fireman
named Rouse.
Recently the C., B. & Q. road took
from Carson 147 head of fat cattle
which were billed through direct to
Liverpool. England. They had been
fed by M. W. Ferguson & Son in Carson
■jownship. Pottawattamie county.
Ex-Governor Larrabee's coal mine in
the Black Hills, the sale of which to A.
L. Sweet of Chicago, failed of consum
mation. has been bought for $150,000
by New York capitalists. The area is
1,120 acres, estimated to contain over
8.000,000 tons of coal in a six-foot vein.
A railroad will be constructed to Min
nesula, eighteen miles east.
Not wishing a repetition of his ex
perience at the Des Moines term of the
district court. Judge Woolson gave
orders that unless cash was forthcoming
to pay witnesses and jurors there would
be no term at Keokuk this June. The
marshal arranged for funds and Judge
Woolson gave orders for convening of
the court on June 19 for the hearing of
civil cases not requiring a jury. Thirty
six of the petit jurors are summoned to
appear, twenty-six on the trial of civil
cases to be continued two weeks, the
other twelve jurors and grand jury will
appear .July 15. The trial of criminal
causes will begin July 9.
Dispatches from Portland, Ore., and
Vancouver. B. C., are to the effect that
that region is being devastated by ex
traordinary floods. The loss occa
sioned by the rise in the Frazer river
will exceed §4,000,000.
At Columbus, 0., Congressman
Joseph 11. Outwaite was nominated for
his sixth term in congress.
Tire case of Prendergast, the assassin
of Mayor Harrison, will not be tried
until fall. The case comes up June 11,
but will be continued until the Septem
ber term of court to allow Judge Chet
lain to preside, as he will be engaged
with civil causes until that time.
The treasury statement issued re
cently shows the government expen
ditures for eleven months of the fiscal
year were §340.000.000. while the re
ceipts were only §268,000,000, making a
deficit of §72.000,000. It is said the
deficit for the twelve months will reach
§78,000,000.
A dispatch from Sofia says: “Ex-
Premier Stambuloff and ministers who
formed the cabinet are under arrest.
Civil war has broken out. Two bat
talions of troops rebelled and demanded
the re-instatement of Stambuloff.
They were joined by the gendarms in
an attack on the troops who declared
for Prince Ferdinand.'’
Floods at Boulder, Col., washed out
bridges, railroad tracks and factories,
causing a loss of §500,000. Between
Boulder and the mountains fifty
bridges were washed out. Several
small mining towns were also swept
away. At Manitou, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo great loss is reported,
amounting at the latter place to
§IOO,OOO.
By the displacement of a switchpin
at Manville, a small station near
Marshfield, Wis., on the Wisconsin
Central road, a terrible wreck resulted.
Seven cars of a passenger train were
thrown from the track, taking fire at
once and all being consumed. Four
persons were killed and seven or eight
were injured, two or three fatally.
Hanker* anti the New Bond Issue.
Chicago, June 5. Local bankers
differ a good deal in their opinions of
Secretary Carlisle’s proposed new issue
of bonds. All are agreed that the
government must either issue them or
“go broke,’’ but there it ends. Lyman
J. Gage thinks there will be a good
deal of difficulty experienced in selling
the bonds. He thinks Chicago will
take few, if any of them. J. J. Mitchell
says he thinks the bonds will sell
readily and that Chicago can be
counted on to take from §8.000,000 to
§10,000,000 worth. J. J. P. Odell thinks
the bonds will sell slowly and that
Chicago will not want any.
Bunged with His Shirt Sleeve.
Okean, Ark., .lune 5.—A man was
found hanging to a limb of a small
tree two miles north of here and 100
yards from the Iron Mountain track.
Papers on the body bore the name of
G. W. Houston of Liberty, 111. His
skull was crushed. He was hanged
with his shirt sleeve. There was §SO
on his person.
Raises Tariff on American Goods.
Madrid, June 5. —lt is said the
Cuban budget will show a surplus of
$25,000, attained by raising the tariff
on American imports, lowering the ex
port duty on tobacco and sugar, and
admitting Spanish wines free with n
view to excluding French and other
wines.
Literary Notes.
In the Atlantic Monthly for June Dr.
Albert Shaw explains how Hamburg
learnt her lesson even before the chol
era struck her, and is now one of the
most perfectly protected cities.
The June number of the Midland
Monthly contains an article by Judge
Hubbard on “Kelly's Tramps" and an
other by General Weaver on “The
Commonweal Crusade,” with a dozen or
more photographic snap-shots of Kel
ly’s army in camp.
Children of an imaginative turn of
mind will be glad to read “The Little
Dryad.” a pretty woodland fancy by
Mary L. B. Branch, with pictures by
Birch —altogether a sylvan combina
tion. which appears in St. Nicholas for
June.
The Scientific American is unques
tionably the post popular scientific
paper in the world. Its circulation
finds limits only where civilization and
consequent seeking for knowledge
ceases. Its illustrations are numerous
and a great feature. Every number
contains sixteen pages of useful infor
mation and a large number of original
engravings of new inventions and dis
coveries, representing engineering
works, steam machinery, new inven
tions. novelties in mechanics, manufac
turers. chemistry, electricity, teleg
raphy. phonography, agriculture, arch
itecture. horticulture, natural history,
etc. Complete list of patents each
week.
Miss Constance Fennimore Woolson's
last story appears in the June Harper’s.
Like most of her late work, it is a study
of modern Italian life, with an ex
patriated American as one of the prin
cipal characters. It is announced that
Miss Woolson’s Italian tales will soon
be collected in book form.
Mr. Hamerten has chosen for this
month's frontispiece of Scribner’s
Monthly “The Lighthouse," by Stan
hope A. Forbes. A. R. A., an English
artist of what is known as the Newlyn
School—men who paint the out-door
life of a Cornish fishing village.
THE COMMONWEAL-
St. Louis, May 31.—C01. Speed has
leit Kelly’s army. Five companies
went with him and they will go to
Washington by a different route.
Denver, Col., June I.—A local Coxey
army, numbering about 1,000 men, de
cided to take advantage of the flood
and float down the I’latte river to the
Missouri and then on to St. Louis.
They will begin building boats at
once.
St. Louis, June I.—Five hundred of
the Kelly men are now with Speed and
it is said Kelly will to-day be hauled
up before the courts and compelled to
give an account of the the finances of
the army.
St. Louis, June 2. —Kelly started for
Cairo yesterday. Speed will endeavor
to sell the boats he has and proceed
overland.
Leavenworth, June 4.—Sandersand
his men are yet in custody.
Albia, June 4. —Kelsey's army went
into camp here Saturday.
Cairo, 111., June 5. —Cairo has quar
antined against Kelly's navy, on ac
count of the men having been exposed
to smallpox. They will reach here
to-morrow.
Centralia, Ills., June 5. —Col.
Speed's army of 251 men camped here
last night.
Hawaii's Contest With England.
Washington, June S. Necker
Island, the prize for which Hawaiian
advices intimate the provisional gov
ernment and England are striving in
an ocean race between the steamer
Illand and H. M. S. Champion, has
been the subject of considerable dis
cussion in the last two years. The
island was for a long time in disputed
possession of Americans interested in
an island venture, and when it was
announced some time ago that the
English flag had been raised over the
little domain in the Pacific England’s
policy was severely denounced. The
island is described as being a lagoon
island with a reef of quadrilateral
form. Fish abound of a superior
quality, and birds arc extremely nu
merous.
Ran Into an Open Switch.
Alton, 111., June 5. —A Bluff line
worktrain ran into a string of cars
three miles east of here yesterday.
The accident was caused by an open
switch. Engineer Barnard was killed
and Fireman Harrison badly wounded.
Some of the workmen were injured.
Ovation to a Countess.
Queenstown, June 5. —An enormous
crowd awaited the arrival of the
steamer Etruria this morning to wel
. come the countess of Aberdeen.
Among the purposes of her visit is the
advance of the Irish Industrial asso
ciation. The countess was presented
with several addresses.
New Pent Makes Its Appearance.
Webster City, lowa, June 5. —A new
pest has appeared in the corn fields of
this vicinity in the shape of a small
yellow worm an inch long and is creat
ing havoc with the crop.
CONGRESSIONAL
SENATE.
Washington. May 31.—Resolution de
claring the United States will not interfere
in Hawaiian affairs and will regard inter
ference by any foreign power as an un
friendly act, passed. Peffer’s resolution for
information as to whether government
can, constitutionally, by paying therefor,
take possession for public uses of all coal
beds in the country was referred. Sher
man spoke against the tariff bill and after
executive session senate advantage.
HOUSE.
Bill to repeal tax on state bank issues
was taken up and Black continued his
speech in favor of the bill. Walker, Mc-
Laurin and Wheeler also favored repeal.
SENATE.
Washington. June I.—The senate to day
discussed the compromise amendment to
the sugar schedule of the tariff bill with
out action.
HOUSE.
Bill carrying out the award of the Paris
tribunal of arbitration for protection of
seals in Bering sea passed. Bill to repeal
state bank issue tax was discussed without
action.
SENATE.
Washington, June 2.—-Hill's resolution
authorizing secretary of war to institute
condemnation to secure possession of cer
tain portions of the battlefield of Gettys
burg was adopted. Tariff bill was taken
up and sugar schedule was considered.
HOUSE.
House went into committee of the whole
on the bank tax repeal bill and several ad
dresses were made for aud against the bill.
SENATE.
Washington, June 4.—The senate took up
sugar schedule of tariff bill and the entire
day was consumed in its consideration
without action.
HOUSE.
The entire day was spent in discussion of
the state bank tax repeal bill.
SENATE.
Washington, June s.—The compromise
amendments to the sugar schedule were all
adopted to-day, and by their provisions
the bounty on sugar will terminate Jan
uary 1, 181’5, aud raw and refined sugars
are taxed 40 per cent ad valorem. An
amendment by Peffer for free sugar was
lost, Hill voting with the republicans for it.
HOUSE.
Day was spent in discussion of the state
bank tax repeal bill.
Missonri Prohibition Ticket.
Carrollton, Mo., June 2. —The Mis
souri prohibitionists met here yester
day and nominated a state ticket. The
platform declares for prohibition, na
tional and state, absolute, and for
universal suffrage; favors gold, silver
and paper money, all to be at par; op
poses national banks and issue of gov
ernment bonds, and the election of
President and Vice-President by direct
vote of the people. The following
ticket was nominated: Supreme
judge, R. B. Robinson of Barton
county; superintendent of schools,
Miss Ellen Morris of Kansas City
Will Attempt to Resume,
Philadelphia, Pa., May 30 —The
bituminous coal operators of the
Clearfield district at their meeting
here yesterday decided not to arbi
trate, but will send men to work their
mines at once.
Illinois Central Out of Coal.
Freeport, 111., .June I.—The coal
famine is being severely felt on the
Freeport division of the Illinois Cen
tral railroad. An order was issued
yesterday that three passenger trains
be abandoned June 1.
TRAINS STALLED BY FLOODS
Foor Held at Lamar, Colo., Where the
Bridge la Down.
Lamar, Colo., June 5. —Fifty feet of
the south end of the bridge across the
Arkansas river gave way before the
flood and last night twenty-five feet
on the north end was swept away.
The river covered all the bottoms and
was a mile wide at the bridge.
The Santa Fe tracks east and
west are submerged, and at Powers,
seven miles west, several hundred feet
of track is washed out All the irri
gating canals are filled and some of
them broken. A number of farms
along the river have been greatly
damaged, the crops being washed out.
Four passenger trains west-bound are
held here. The river is slowly falling
and it is believed the worst is over.
Denver, Colo., June 5. —J. E. Mur
den, contracting freight agent of the
Union Pacific, who walked from Cen
tral City to Golden, says: “Every
mine in Central City and its vicinity is
flooded and there is not a vestige of
placer mine left in Clear Creek. The
mining men in Central City estimate
the loss to the county at 8500,000. It
is not known when the Gulf will com
mence running trains again to Central
City and Georgetown. I counted sixty
six washouts.”
Portland, Ore , June s.—The flood
is extending. A further rise of six
inches will cut off the gas supply of
the city. Retail stores are full of
water, and many small houses have
begun to go to pieces. The railroads
are almost tied up. No word can be
received from Columbia river points
or from Washington. The flood will
interfere with the elections to-day.
Immense damage has been done at
The Dalles.
ALLOWED CHILDREN TO DIE
Caused by a Greed for the I.ife Insur-
ante at Bay City, Mich.
Bay City, Mich., June 5. —A sensa
tion has been caused here by the pub
lication of an interview with Sanitary
Officer Wyman in relation to the
deaths of certain children from al
leged neglect of parents in
cases of diphtheria for the
purpose of securing the small
amount of insurance upon their lives.
The sanitary officer says that the cases
have occurred so often that he is forced
to believe that the shameful neglect
and carelessness of parents were due
to the fact that the lives of their chil
dren were insured. Experience has
convinced him that in several in
stances innocent lives have been sacri
ficed to an insatiable greed for gain.
The policies range from 815 upward
and are carried by a company which
makes a specialty of juvenile business.
Where children had died of diphtheria
because medical assistance was called
too late the fact was brought out by
the sanitary officers on inquiry of
parents as to their neglect that the
lives of the little ones had been in
sured. The unfeeling manner in which
the explanation was made left no
doubt in his mind that the lack of at
tention was premeditated, and that
little regret was felt at the result
GREAT MUSEUM OPEN.
Field Columbian Dedicated to the Peo-
pie at Chicago.
Chicago, June —ln the presence of
10,000 enthusiastic Chicagoans the al
ready famous Field Columbian
Museum, the epitome and memorial of
the World’s Columbian Exposition, was
formally opened to the public
Saturday. The dedicatory exer
cises were brief and simple, and at
their conclusion the people took pos
session of the splendid gift presented
to them by the generosity of Chicago’s
philanthropic citizens. The doors
opened to-day will not be closed on
any day in the year, and this noble
monument to Chicago's enterprise and
public spirit will always be accessible
to all who wish to enter it.
Hunt for Alien Laborers.
Washington, June s.—Superinten
dent Stump of the immigration bureau,
treasury department, is taking steps
to prevent alien contract laborers from
taking the places of striking miners in
the coke and coal regions of Clearfield
and Connellsville, Pa. Two inspectors
were sent to Pennsylvania to-day to
look out for alien contract laborers,
and instructions were also sent to im
migrant commissioners at Atlantic
seaboard ports to watch incoming
Rt.eairu»r«
Murdered Ilin Coachman.
Birmingham, Ala., June 5. —W. L
Lunsford, a wealthy young man, shot
and killed his coachman, Arnold Tay
lor, a negro, yesterday. Lunsford
bade Taylor clean a horse. Taylor
hesitated and Lunsford shot him.
Lunsford gave himself up and is now
in custody of the sheriff.
Vigilant Under Full Sail.
New York, June s.—The German
steamship Slavonii, which arrived this
morning from Christiansend. reports
that yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock,
off Montauk point, she passed the
yacht Vigilant, under full sail, mak
ing between ten and twelve knots per
hour.
Eats Strong Soap and Dies.
Chester, 111., June s.—James Mur
ray, a convict in the prison here, sen
tenced from Marion county for lar
ceny, yesterday secured a large bar of
lye soap. This he ate and died in con
vulsions.
Strike Situation in Missouri.
Jefferson City, Mo., June 2.
State Coal Mine Inspector Charles
Evans has returned from a visit to the
mines of the state and says there are
less than 1,000 miners at work in the
entire state. He does not see any in
dications of an early settlement of the
strike.
Did Germany Score a Point?
Paris, June 2.—lt is now rumored
that Germany paid Turpin SBOO,OOO for
the new engine of warfare which Tur
pin is said to have invented.
LABOR DIFFICULTIES.'
Strikes and Disturbances Reported |
From All Sides.
Pittsburg. June I.—Gov. Pattison J
has ordered the striking miners to dis
perse. and has notified the militia to be
in readiness for any emergency.
Cripple Creek, Col., June I.— The
authorities have given notice that law
lessness must cease and a special ses
sion of the grand jury has been called
to investigate the troubles in this
vicinity.
Des Moines. June 1. —In order to
husband the supply of coal at their dis
posal, numerous lowa railroads have
discontinued a train or two. Yester
day the Des Moines Brick Manufactur
ing Company closed down, thus throw
ing 125 men out of employment. Sim
ilar reports come from all the large
cities of the state.
Cripple Creek, June 2. —Everything
was quiet at the strikers eamp on Bull
Hill yesterday, but the vigilance of the
strikers was not lessened and it is be
lieved the United States authorities
will have to be called upon to compel
them to disperse. The banks, fearing
a'riot, have shipped to Colorado Springs
and stored in the safety vaults, SIOO,OOO.
Scottdale, Pa.. June 2. —Five hun
dred and sixty-eight colored men from
West Virginia have been put to work
in the mines here.
Knoxville, Tenn., June 2.—Four
thousand miners at Coal Creek have
struck.
Washington, Ind., June 2. —Strikers
are interfering with trains carrying
coal.
La Salle, His., June 2. —One hun
dred and sixty-seven families, over
1,000 persons, are destitute here.
Oskaloosa. June 2. —Some one set
fire to a pumping station at shaft No.
6, but the fire was put out without
much damage.
Columbus, O. —On account of the in
terference with the progress of coal
trains by strikers troops may be or
dered out.
Leavenworth, Kas., June 4. —A set
tlement has been reached here and the
miners are at work.
Des Moines, June 4.—The water
works are running with sufficient coal
to last a month. Small consumers feel
the squeeze.
Colorado Springs, June 4. —There
are 700 armed deputies now at Cripple
Creek, and when the number reaches
1,000 an attack will be made on the
strikers on Bull Hill.
Springfield, Ills. ,June 4. —It begins
to look as though the strikers would
have to give in unless the railroad men
come to their aid and tie up the roads.
Indianapolis, June 4. —Fifteen com
panies of militia with a Gatling gun
have gone to the coal district around
Cannellsburg to prevent strikers from
staying the progress of coal trains.
There has been no trouble since this
arrived and the railroads are repairing
the damage done.
Charleston, W. Va., Junes. —Miners
in this section are rioting and have
begun destruction of property. Four
working miners were shot at Powelton.
The troops will probably be called out:
Denver, June s.—Sheriff Radford of
Los Animas county has made a demand
on the governor for troops.
Springfield, Junes. —Sheriff Dowell
of Williamson county telegraphs the
governor from Marion: “Am powerless
in the hands of 1,000 men and women,
armed with dynamite and guns. Am
compelled to withdraw my forces at
Carterville.”
Sullivan, Ind., June 5. —Miners yes
terday attempted to blow up a bridge
near here but fortunately failed. Over
the state strikers are still interfering
with trains. At Farmersburg the
militia fired on the strikers, killing
four men.
Colorado Springs, June 5. —A battle
is looked for at Cripple Creek at any
time. The deputies have been
strengthened and possess plenty of
ammunition. They will soon march
upon the strikers at Bull Hill, who
number 1,300 men and who are armed
with Winchesters and a large quantity
of dynamite, which is planted all along
the approach to their breast w orks. If
a battle occurs it will be a bloody one.
Oskaloosa. June 5. —The troops have
been ordered home from Evans and
Muchakinock, as the marching miners
have dispersed. The miners at those
places continue to work and it is
thought others will now resume.
Denver, June 6.—The conference be
tween Gov. Waite for the strikers and
Hagerman and Moffatt of the owners
resulted in an agreement on $3 for
eight hours. Upon hearing this the
strikers at Cripple Creek laid down
their arms. The deputies failed to dis
band because the agreement was
not satisfactory to the operators,
and the strikers again took up arms.
The militia has been ordered to Cripple
Creek.
Columbus, 0., June 6. —The executive
board of the United Mine Workers de
cided to call a conference of miners
and operators in the various districts
on June 9. The lowa conference will
be held at Oskaloosa.
Oskaloosa. June 6. —At Evans yes
terday the 200 men on a strike and
thirty women made a march and tongue
lashed the men going to work, but did
no further harm. Two hundred Jasper
county miners have arrived here from
Otlev.
Sullivan, Ind., June 6. —The rail
road track is blocked w ith burning coal
and one train w’as blown up with dyna
mite.
Marion, Ills., June 6. —Strikers are
interfering with trains and have com
plete possession of the city. The gov
ernor has been called on for troops and
has ordered three companies to report
here.
McKeesport, June 6. —Yesterday
evening as the workmen who took the
places of the strikers at the. National
Coal Works were leaving the works
they were attacked by 1.500 men,
women and children and each given a
beating. The mob now has posses
sion of the works.
Coxeyites Take Possession.
Boscobel, Wis., June 2.—An lowa
contingent of Coxeyites, after waiting
all day for transportation east, took
forcible possession of the passenger
train going east last night and could
not be ejected.
Ohio Paper Mill Burned.
Dayton, Ohio, June 2. —The Ohio
Valley paper mill burned at Miamis
burg yesterday. Loss, $50,000, insur
ance, $25,000. The mill was owned
by J. H. Friend & Co.