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VOL. LXVII.
LABOR TROUBLES |:
CHICAGO IN A STATE OF
RECTION.
Wild Scenes Enacted in the Windy City, -
Railroads Tied Up and Property De
stroyed. ~The Government takes
a Hold — Anarchism Afloat,
Chicago for the past week has been
the scene of the wildest disorder and
riot, which had its parallel only in the
great fire which destroyed the city.
Riot after riot has followed and much
valuable property has been destroyed.
The city is the center of one of the
greatest strikes in the history of the
country. Business and inter-state
commerce is paralyzed, the mails de-
layed, and disorder in general pre-
vails.
The trouble dates back to May 6th,
when the employees of the Pullman
car shops at Pullman, Ill, struck for
higher wages. The wages of the men
had been reduced several months pre-
vious by the company, with the un-
derstanding that when business im-
proved, the company would restore
the old rate of wages. The men sub-
mitted to this, until last April, when
a wave of unrest swept over the men,
and they demanded a restoration of
wages, claiming the improvement per-
mitted it. The company refused,
about 4,000 men struck.
For several weeks the battle between
the strikers and the company waged,
each side remaining firm, and refusing
to concede a point to the other. The
Pullman shops were closed down and
the strike finally assumed a favorable
phase for the company.
At this stage the American Railway
Union, a labor order at the head of
which is a man by name of Debs, be-
came interested in the strike, and the
union determined to bring the Pull
man company to terms, by ordering
members of the order to refuse to han-
dle or go out on trains to which were
attached Pullman cars. The A. R. U.
has great strength in Chicago and the
west.
The railroad employes refused to
handle trains carrying Pullman cars,
and struck rather than The
railroads were obdurate took a
and
do
and
80,
out on a strike, and for several
few trains were moving in or
day s|
out
est two locks, to where sever]
bs freight cars stood on the main
track. The mob needed neither ma-
chinery or tools or battering rams for
its purpose. Its leaders possessed the
strength born of frenzy. There was a
rush for the freight cars and in the
twinkling of an eye two of them had
been turned over completely, trucks
upwards, effectually blocking the track
over which the approaching cattle
train was making its way. The train
was not in sight and so the mob re-
traced its steps to the tracks of the
Rock Island and Lake Shore. Hereit
proceeded to overturn cars by whole-
sale. Two were placed across the cros-
sing of the belt line in order to rivet
the obstructions to the cattle train in
the event of the blockade farther west
being raised. Then other cars were
turned over on the Lake Shore and
Rock Island tracks at the rate of two
to a block for nearly a mile southward,
while the mob hooted and yelled and
cherred the crash made by each car as
it turned a somersault,
The seat of war in the great railroad
strike was transferred on Sunday to
Hammond, Indiana, just across the
border line and where, from an early
hour, mob violence reigned supreme.
Two companies of regulars were dis-
patched to the scene.
One man was killed and several fa-
tally wounded in a pitched battle
which followed.
Shortly after daybreak the north
bound train on the Monon road reach-
ed the depot. It was surrounded by a
crowd of strikers, boys and women,
and the engineer and fireman were
peremptorily ordered to get down from
the cab, and they were quick to obey.
One of the strikers then took posses-
sion of the engine and the train was
gide tracked. A telegram was sent to
Chicago asking for military assistance
to get the train out. At 11.30 o'clock
company D, of the Fifteenth infantry,
thirty-five strong, arrived in two
coaches.
The crowd was now nearly 2,000
strong and realizing the fact that rein-
forcements were necessary, a detail was
sent to the telegraph office with in-
structions to wire to Chicago for more
troops.
In the meantime Major Reilly or-
i to the side walks with fixed bayonets.
The regulars advanced, the mob re-
treated and for the time being was
This condition of affairs continued
intermittantly until four o'clock when
if a settlement was not immediately |
made, which would put over 100,000 |
Tuesday a warrant was sworn out |
for the arrest of Debs and the strike |
leaders, and they were taken before a | |
Justice on the charge of interfering |
with the business of the United States, |
obstructing the mails and also of pre- |
venting and hindering the execution |
of the laws of the United States
They are out on $10,000 bail. i
The strike leaders say they will call |
out every union man in the United
States if a settlement is not secured.
A committee called on the Pullman |
company requesting an arbitration,
but the company said they had noth-|
ing to arbitrate. |
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The Strike Broken,
The strike in Chicago and the west |
is broken. Trains, freight and passen- |
ger, are departing from Chicago and
other points, on time.
The only trouble seems to be in Bac- |
ramento, Cal., where there Is a dispo- |
sition to oppose the troops.
Debs and other strike
been arrested, and will
their misdeeds.
The President's action had a good |
effect.
leaders have |
be tried for
ms fA A RO
CANADA THISTLES.
Law Imposes a FPonalty for Fermitting |
Them to Grow,
Complaint is made that the C woud |
thistle is being permitted to grow |
along fences in several portions of this |
valley. All who have had to contend |
with this troublesome and fast grow |
ing weed know the great difficulty |
there is to get rid of it. While nearly |
all our readers know that it is against |
the law to permit this weed to grow |
the little effost that is being made to |
exterminate the thistle indicates that
the memories of the owners of land on
which these weeds are allowed to
thrive have become somewhat rusty as
to their duty. For the benefit of such
we herewith print the law and the
penalty on the subject.
It shall be the duty of every person
or persons and of every corporation |
holding lands in this commonwealth,
either by lease or otherwise, on which
any Canada thistle or weed commonly
known as Canada thistle, may be grow- |
ing, to cut the same, 0 ss 10 prevent |
such weeds or thistles from going fo]
same from |
ripening. Any owner of land refus |
ing to comply with the foregoing shall
war times. The broad expanse
lawn on the historic lake front, from |
the Chicago club far south of the Aud-
detachment of regulars was run into
dollars.
the Monon yards. Just as it was
| brought to a standstill several box cars |
If any person, persons or Ccorpora- |
| tions so holding land as aforesaid, on |
of the regular army from Forts Sheri- |
dan, Leavenworth and Brady, while |
sentries patrol the sidewalk to compel
the crowds of on-lookers to keep at
respectful distance.
The regulars number 1,200 men and |
the National Guard 5,000 men. In ad-|
dition to this the entire police force,
including the reserve substitutes and
new men, a total of 3,300, is available
for special emergency call. This makes
a total of 10,000 armed men that at less
than an hour's notice can be placed in
the field against the mob.
The town of Pullman is guarded by
a company of the state militia in an-
on the company’s shops. Thursday
the sky about Chicago was lighted up
with the glare of the flames from 200
or more freight cars that were burned
in the Ellison yards on the Grand |
Trunk by the strikers The loss to the
different roads from property destroy-
ed will be enormous. It is thought
that 500 freight cars were destroyed by
the strikers.
Wild scenes were enacted on Thurs
day on a stretch of railroad territory
occupied by the tracks of the Lake
Shore and Rock Island, and running
south for some three miles from the
board of trade structure in the heart of
the business district of Chicago. With-
in this strip, hardly more than a block
in width, and fringed on either side
with tenements or the humble homes
of railroad men and other wage work-
ers, a mob that aggregated not less
than 25,000 men, women and children
had complete control. Nearly a score
of cars were overturned on the nmin
tracks, others were fired, switches
were unlocked and rendered useless,
worst.
The riotous demonstrations began
aid of the cavalry and deputy mar-
mob, numbering 300 moved
{a half to the north. About the same |
time the Monon mail train came in|
from the south, carrying mail matter.
i likely to ripen seed thereon, shall neg-
| lect or refuse to cut and destroy the
| same, any aggrieved party that may
| before the mob assembled at the State
| street crossing, when a rope was thrown
{around a Pullman ear standing on a
evident intention of throwing it over
on the main track and preventing the
further passage of the train. There
were regulars on the engine, regulars
on the roof and regulars at the car
such a condition as was now immi-
inent. An officer on ‘the locomotive
gave the word and toward west and
toward east 8 volley was poured from
engine, roof and windows. Some of
the bullets went overhead, many more
| ploughed the ground, a few took ef-
| feet. Without waiting for further or-
| ders the regulars made for solid earth
and with bayonets fixed made a dash
for the mob on both sides of the track.
This manuevre, however, was hardly
necessary. Obscured by the smoke,
the mob had taken to its heels like
frightened geese. Not a few threw
themselves headlong on the prairie
where they laid flat so thoroughly
scared that i was a matter of indiffer-
ence to then whether the soldiers
trampled them down in the charge or
not,
The shediing of blood was in obedi-
ence to ordirs issued by General Miles
to shoot any person caught in the act
of blockingthe highway of interstate
commerce dr of destroying railroad
property usd in the carriage of Uni-
ted States rails.
On Mondiy President Cleveland is-
sued a prclamation ordering the
strikers and mobs to disperse to their
homes, and discontinue the riot and
violence, md allow trains to run.
This has dine more towards clearing
the » and bringing the mob
element to | sense of its responsibility
than could have been accomplished by
all the pelf projected conciliation and
meditatio ncommittees in a month.
The prociagation was printed in the
English, Blhemian and Polish lan.
guages.
The city pas comparatively quiet on
1 Tuesday. Trains were
$418 [13
days’ notice in writing to such per-
sons, to destroy such weeds; if the
the thistles
destroyed, the aggrieved party may
enter upon or hire other persons to en-
ter upon such premises and cut down
and destroy such Canada thistles, and
the person doing the work can recover
from the the owner by law compensa-
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Got His Finger Smashed,
On Friday, Professar Clarence Da-
vis, who is serving a term in “Fort
Condo’ on the hill, was fooling around
his cell door and accidentally pushed
the same shut on the middle finger of
his right hand, smashing that mem-
ber so badly that the only thing that
could be done was to amputate it.
Drs. Seibert and Hayes performed the
operation. While the same was being
done Davis was put under the influ
ence of ether, and it is said that when
he regained consciousness he first
laughed, then sang, and then began to
ery and pray, fearing that he was
going to die, and it required five min-
utes’ time and the most eloquently
persuasive powers of the two doctors
to convince him that he wouldn't and
get the man quieted down. — Daily
News
Marriage Licenses.
The followi marriage licenses
have been iy 3 the past week:
Stephen Kaserak and Elizabeth Ue-
aky, of Philipsburg.
Samuel L. Condo, of Rebersburg,
and Mary Jane Kleckner, of Mifflin-
burg, Unian Co,
Walter H, Weaver, of Clearfield, and
Mary A. Baney, of Snow Shoe,
Elmer E. Owens and Lizzie Swarts,
of PLlipies.
. Watson, of and Stel
aa 0 Clarence,
Harry BE. Fleisher and Ellen M.
Confer, of Potter twp.
Harry Hull, of eidtontd, and Ma
Rs Glyn yf Sao
and Melissa Barger,
of gh phi
CAPITOL GOSSIP
STRIKE COMMENDED.
{ The Authority of the Federal Government
to be Maintained at any Cost The
Tarif Before the House.
WasniNaroN, July Grover
| C leveland’s marvelous backbone was
| never more creditably displayed than
in the crisis now upon the country,
9.
the Presi-
dent of the United States is at all times
Fed-
eral government, which was defled by
the stopping of mail facilities guaran-
| ernment, and by the refusal of rioters
| to obey the judicial orders regularly is-
sued by the United States courts,
he did not hesitate to order that
{army be used to uphold the authority |
i of the government.
i more than he that men
i been killed by the militia, but
| not blind to the fact that it
and
No one can regret
should have
he
better
in
is
for a week past and he has not yet suf-
ficiently recovered to actively resume
his duties at the Treasury, but he at
tends the cabinet conferences which
are daily held at the White House
with President Cleveland to decide
upon the telegraph reports hourly
made to General Schofield of the
movements of the army and the con-
dition of affairs at Chicago and other
places where there are disturbances,
es es pl
ACHURCH BARRED TO MOURNERS,
The Deacons Refased to Allow
Preacher tv Enter.
a Strange
A funeral barred out of a church at
Pottstown was the result of an old row
in the congregation. A child of
Ephrimn Brunner, of Glasgow, was to
be buried at the Hill Chureh ce metery,
and Rev. 1... K. Evans, of Pottstown,
was engaged to conduct the
The Brunner family was notified by
Deacon Jacob D. Weller that they
could not have the church if Rev.
Mishler, the regular pastor, did not
conduet the When the
cortege arrived Church the
the mourn-
services,
ceremonies,
Hill
doors were locked against
at
that men who openly defy
{should be shot down than that
| handed anarchy should be in control |
| even for a single day of any portion of |
|our country. He intends that the peo- |
enjoy their mail facilities
the laws
red-
|
ithe UU. 8. Courts shall
| no matter what
money or blood,
maintained | |
be
may i
the cost in|
and his entire cabinet |
and an overwhelming majority of ( on- |
be
, are behind
him.
It is a matter for regret that
| Pat smocratic governors of states and
| few Democrats Congress
| have confused the of
i rights with the patriotic policy which |
the President has It
mistake. There is be
connection
in should |
question states |
adopted, f |
there can
the
the
in
no |
between Noth-|
administra- |
two.
ing bas been done by
tion to interfere with the rights of any |
state, and nothing will be done. It is |
for the preservation of the rights of
the National government that the
President has ordered that the tied up |
Pacific railroad shall operated
provided for in their charters
tary post roads, and that U, troops |
the mails are not!
obstructed upon any railroad and that
be as
i i
ame mili
=,
be used to see that
The government that does not main.
tain its own authority cannot retain
of its peo-
iple. The United States government |
i claims no authority to interfere with
or any other strikers, but
the means for
and the!
| defiance of National authority it may |
be relied upon to act, as long as Presi- |
dent Cleveland is at its There
is nothing in common between a pa-!
triotic American and the teachings of
anarchy, and there cannot be a doubt |
that President Cleveland will receive |
the thanks of all good Americans for |
the promptness and decisiveness with
which he has acted in suppressing an-
archist tendencies,
There is no mistaking the sentiment |
which caused the Democrats of the |
House to vigorously applaud the plain |
words of Chairman Wilson concern- |
ing the Senate amendments to the tar | |
iff bill, which the House refused to!
concur in and which are now being!
considered by a Conference committee |
of fourteen members—seven Senators
and seven Representatives. Mr. Wil
son said concerning the work of the
Ways and Means committee of the
House: ‘the committee performed
their work honestly, deliberately and
to the best of their ability. The bill
was based upon the principle that, in
gathering revenues, taxes should be
levied upon finished products and not
upon raw material, which was in ac-
cordance with a great fundamental
Democratic idea. The bill comes back
from the Senate and does not recog-
nize that principle. Only wool and
lumber have come back undisturbed
by the Senate amendments.’ The
Conference committee held its first
meeting today. Daily meetings will be
held and progress will probably from
time to time be reported to the House
and Senate, but it is hardly possible
that the committee can conclude its
labors inside of two weeks, although
there are not more than twenty-five of
the amendments over which there will
be any serious difficulty in coming to
an agreement,
It can be stated on the authority of
leading Democratic Senators that there
is no foundation for the stories sent
out from Washington, that Senator
Hill was to be read out of the party by
a Democratic caucus. There is a gen-
eral feeling of regret among Democtat-
ic Henators that Mr. Hill should have
voted against the tariff bill, and a few
of them have said harsh things of him,
but there is no disposition to force him
out of the Democratic . On the
contrary, the disposition is to treat
head.
i
take himself out of the party.
ers, lev, Evans told
{ that he would hold the services at the
grave, which he did. Goshenhoppen
classis and this congregation have for
time had difficulties
the deacons
between
able Reformed
minister, a native of Gregg township,
| where his parents still reside.
Rev. Evaus is an
WM
One Profession that is not Crowded.
Amid the of announce
ments of collegiate graduation one fact
The
multitude
stands out in bold relief: contin-
While the other leaf and professson,
and medicine,
crowded,
are already
the new output of
over-
graduates
doctors and
yn ministers of the Gospel as
in the preceding years. Most of their
hopeful young fledglings know,
dimly, that there are from five to
f flerce and unremunerative
them ere they
practice that will
make them independent, and that the
is as long on lawyers and
at
least
Can
a
chances from the beginning are ten to
that they will reach that
coveted eminence. And most of these
when they chose
their professions that there was plenty
and that the
ble living
far smoother and shorter in that
A majority of the denomi-
nations lack for ministers and offer
No one can say that the
harder than the
Why, then, our
young men so unanimously pass it by.
The reason will probably found |
in the ruling chamcteristic of the age.
h. The
possibilities of extreme wealth that
exist in a commercial or professional
the min-
istry. Hence, the young man passes
the latter by, though by choosing the
ministry he would in all probability
never
oellege boys know
is
do
be
{as a lawyer or physician, or a large
business in trade or manufacturing.
An
Power of the Press.
The immense power a local news-
the town in which it is published or
hardly be estimated. Further, it is a
matter that is seldom considered as an
important factor in a town’s prosperi-
ty, for the simple reason that business
men generally do not give it a thought.
He who will partially consider this as
sertion will be convinced of the truth
of it. The local paper is very natural
ly biased in favor of the place of its
publication and if given a fair living
patronage by home business men will
guard well their interests just as the
merchant guards the interests of his
individual customer. Bat if a niggard-
ly support is doled out tb it, and it is
compelled to solicit custom from
neighboring cities, it cannot in justice
to those patrons exert itself in behalf
of its own town as it otherwise would.
Try a system of liberality in the mat-
ter of advertising expenditure and
mark the result.
The Canse of Fainting.
fainting proceeds from different
causes, the most common being a dis
turbance of the circulation of the blood
in the brain. Foran ordinary faint-
ing fit lay the patient flat. Great harm
has often resulted from the treatment
by ignorant people in trying to make
the patient sit Up OF propping up the
head on pillows. To send the blood
back from the heart to the brain, the
flat posture is
at thie patient lie bo
JULY PREDICTION.
Rev. Ir] BK. Hicks Tells the People What to
Expect,
Rev. Irl R. Hscks in his July num-
ber of the World and Works gives a
forecast of the July weather. The
month will open with storm move-
ments intensified by the equinox of
Venus and the moon. The 2nd
and 8rd will be centers of the storm
movements, Violent storms will prob-
ably appear from the 2nd to the 4th.
These storms will be attended by a
very warm wave that will be followed
by a cooler one. A severe warm wave
is due from the 7th to the 1lth, and
this wave will culminate in heavy
storms with rain, hail and
wind. Unless storms appear about
the 8th, 9th and 10th the heat will con-
tinue until the 13th or 14th.
disturbances are expected in many
of the globe, Many storms,
much cloudiness, local cloudbursts and
heavy downpours will figure in the
storm period from the 17th to Zist
Heavy hail storms may also come in
this storm period. Great heat may be
expected on the 25th and 26th,
er weather will follow this brief
hot wave. The last July period runs
from the 20th to August 3, and hot
weather is promised at thistime. The
greatest general heat will reached
in the last days of July and the first
week in August.
new
electrical
Beismic
paris
Cool-
but
be
cs — A ——————
Racy and Rich.
The Montgomery News, of Hillsho-
ro, TIL, thus expresses its views on Irl
R. Hicks’ refusal to permit his weath-
er forecasts to be published in the
pers.
Rev Irl R. Hicks in the June num-
ber of Word and Works has given no-
tice that hereafter he will not permit
publishers of newspapers to reprint
his weather forecasts. He claims that
by allowing the papers to publish
them they have filled the land with
the products of his unrelenting toil at
the sacrifice of his only means of sup-
port.
can of course prosecute any paper that
publishes his forecasts without permis-
gion, Hence the readers of the Mont-
gomery News will have no more Hicks
weather unless they for
Word and Works. No morestorm pe-
riods, no more earthquakes, no more
reactionary disturbances, no more
equinoxes, no “unlooked for down-
pours,” no more conjunctions, adverbs,
adjectives or prepositions of Jupiter
and Neptune. Hereafter our readers
will have to be contented with
mon, old-fashioned North Carolina
weather. The cyclone may crack its
tail around our homes but it will pass
by unheeded. Earthquakes may shake
the dishes off the cupboard shelves,
spill the molasses and scare the cat in
the dead hour of night, but we will
think it is the mules kicking in the
barn. The rumble and roar of the
thunder may sour the milk in the cel
lar. but the children will imaging it's
the old man snoring. Spots on the
sun may come and go and create no
ripple on the surface of our tranquility.
Comets may sail around in the sky as
thick as buzzards in hog cholera time,
but we will heed them not. Meteoric
stones may pelt us in the back of the
peck and we will cuss the neighbor's
children for throwing rocks. Siars
may shoot athwart the heavens in
flocks and herds and droves, bul we
think they are lightning bugs and go
to bed undisturbed.
We are sorry for some of our readers
who have been in the habit of buying
umbrellas when Hicks predicted rain
and building storm cellars when he
said there would be cyclones, but as
far as we are individually concerned,
Hicks can take his old weather and go
to thunder with it. It don’t suit us
anyhow.
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A New Coin Needed,
The Detroit Journal favors the coin-
ing of a ninecent piece, in deference
to modern business usage, which has
apparently abandoned the dollar and
half-dollar as standards of value in the
price list of commodities, and adopted
in their stead the more alluring nine-
ty-nine cents and forty-nine cents.
That the mark-down figures have be-
come factors in retail business is cer-
tain; and that their use is destined to
become more general is likely enough.
The idea of cutting rates on the deci-
mal system hardly grates upon conserv-
ative sensibilities; yet if shopping wo-
men can shape the economic policy of
the country itis not at all unlikely
that she may yet dictate its system of
coinage in accord with her sweet will.
me ——— i SS
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