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A CULL FOR HID
FROM
HOMESTEAD
labor Organizations Unite in
a Circular on the Pres
ent lockont.
STATEMENT AS TO WAGES.
The FiRht Being Waged Kot for
High-Salaried Workers Only.
President Gompers Addresses a MaBS
Meeting in the VUlsgre The Workers
Very Enthusiastic The Federation
Officers Not Afraid to Declare a Boy
cottCondemnation of the Attempt
on Mr. Prick's Life The Men Coun
seled to Keep Their Tempers The
Pinkerton Battle Called the Lexington
of the American Labor Movement
The Workers Put on a Bold Front AU
Along the Line.
The Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor finished its work in
connection with the Homestead affair at the
Duquesnc Hotel last evening. After the
mass meeting in the village was over the
council returned to the hotel and completed
the circular on the situation which is in
tended for the American people, and will
be sent broadcast all over the land.
President Gompers, Secretary Chris
Evans and P. J. McGuire returned to Xew
York on the last line. They expressed
themselves as well pleased with what had
been done. Mr. McGuire said the meeting
at Homestead was the largest ever held in
the town, and the people there are greatly
encouraged. The officers feel that the cir
cular will correct all false impressions, and
result in liberal contributions for the Home
stead people. Mr. Gompers said the writ
ten statement covered the ground and he
had nothing further to add. He remarked
that trade in general had recovered a little,
but he talked as if the ontlook was not any
too bright.
The Signers of the Circular.
The circular concludes by requesting all
contributors to send their money to Presi
dent Wiehe or Acting Chairman Thomas J.
Crawford. The document is signed by
President Samuel J. Gompers, P. J. Mc
Guire, President of the Carpenters'
Brotherhood; John B. Lennon, Secre
tary of the Tailors' "Union; Secre
tary Chris Evans, as the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Federation;
President Weihe, President-elect Garland
and Secretary Steve Madden, for the Amal
gamated Association, and Hugh O'Donnell,
Burgess McLuckie, Thomas J. Crawford
and David Lynch, for the Advisory Com
mittee. The circular followst
Seldom in the history of onr country have
we witnessed the lines of battle so closely
drawn upon the field or labor as it is wit
nessed at Bomostead. The Carnegie Steel
Company, one of the most gigantio monopo
lies of the age, has undertaken to reduce
the wages of their employes from 10
to 10 por cent. In their deipera
tlon and avarice they hired and brought
00 armed mercenaries, Pinkerton detec
tives, to Homestead to invade the homes of
the men who created the millions that the
Camegies now possess. Under cover of the
Pmkertons the company endeavored to In
trocmce a pauperized and degraded set of
laborers to supplant onr fellow American
workmen. The contest with the Tinker
tons and its results are well known.
The Claim as to High Tf ages.
It is not true that the men are receiving
the hich wages cenerahy supposed, nor do a
large number own their homes. VTo have
made a caiefnl investigation, and find
that just before the lockout there
weie 3,121 employed in the mills. Of this
number there wero 13 whose wages
averaged about $7 50 per day; 16 averaged
hetn een $5 and 57 per day; 51 averaged from
$1 to $5 per day; 1,178 averaged from $1 63 to
$2 50 per day, and 1.G2J received It cents
per hour or less, and further wo find
so many erroneous and false statements
have been published as to the causes for
which the men are nobly contending, their
conduct during the struggle, the present sit
uation and the prospect of victory that we
leel called upon to issue this statement to
the American public
From 8 to 10 per cent own their homes, and
about 15 per cent more have homes nnder
mortgage: the remainder pav rent and a
number of these have been evicted by the
Carnegies. It 1 not true that the men are
only aelendins the wages of the higher
puced workmen. It is In defense of the It-cents-per-hour
men a much asnny other that
the Homestead workmen are making their
pallant flRht.
i lie cunning, calculating company pro
posed that the scale should terminate when
the cold blasts of winter penetrate with
biting severity. The company desired to
place the men in the disadvantageous posi
tion of negotiating with them upon a new
scale in January instead of as formerlv in
July.
Jfot Grtllnc killed TVnrkmer.
Notwithstanding th o military forces of the
Slate or Pennsjlvania have been under
aims at Homestead for nearly live weeUs,
and the country has been ransacked to find
brings so low as to hire themselves to the
company, there are less than 600 persons in
the mill, and less than a dozen skilled woik
men who ca u perform the work requit ed. The
situation is such we confidently asset t
that at no time during the struggle w ere the
prospects ot victory as bright as they are
now. What the men in this contest need is
your tuDstaiitial support as well as your
s)inpath. The pooler paid men in Home
stead and other Carnegie mills where men
rib now ont to help tlieir brothers at
Homestead, are the ones who need your im
mediate help, and money is tcquired to
maintain their manhood, honor and inter-f-i.
Every worker and libeity-lovinc citi
zen should contribute to the financial sup
)it of the bravo men who to-day occupy
thi po-ition of the advance guard of the
labor movement of America
Tno struggle at Homestead represents the
lsne between freedom and slavery, progress
and reaction, and most be maintained until
the woikmen bae some lair meas
ure of lecognition from the Cai
ncgies. We fissure tou that every
dollar contributed will be devoted
to the men engaged in this contest. An ef
leotivc sj-stem of relief has been organized,
ix.li proper safeguards, and every cent will
bo economically expended and rigidlv ac
counted lor. We also advise all working
men not to come to Homestead or Pittsburg
lor employment until the pending dispute
with the (Jainegie Steel Company is settled.
The Address or President Compel-".
The mass meeting in the afternoon aroused
all latent enthusiasm among the locked-out
men, and 1,500 who crowded into the rink
cheered themselves hoarse over the encour
aging utterances of the leaders of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor. Last night confi
dence in victory prevailed alone. The
meeting was called to order by Acting
Chairman Thomas Crawford, of the Advis
ory Committee. Jerry Dougherty was ap
pointed Chairman, and William McConeg
' ley. Secretary. President Gompers was
introduced amid applause. He said:
One scarcely knows how to begin an ad
dress to his fellow worklngmen under the
circumstances whioh surround you in
Homestead to-dav. We find 'men who
dare to do that which they believe
and know to be rizht in deiense
of their homes, their wives and
children, and what tbey believe to be in de
fense of their fellow citizens of these
United States. I say that this is a peculiar
situation where citizens meet under the
gnus or the military of this proud State of
Pennsylvania.
The Carnegie Company owns immense
plants. They have introduced wonder
ful machinery, it is true, but they also pos
sess an enormous monopoly of Bteel billets,
and they want to introdnco a scale based
upon a minimum of prices for steel billets,
which they coutvoL I am informed that the
men consented to a large reduction, but the
firm wanted to reach men who mixht make
$6 a day, but they do not want to call
attention to mon working for si It a day.
They do not want to call attention to the
squalor and misery of those men. No, but
they spread such rosv reports that instead of
seeing the hovels, which I have seen, one
would imagine every one lived in a palace.
The steel workers have made a Carnegie
possible. Mr. Prick signalized his advance
ment to the proud position which he has by
issuing his edlot saving, "I will brook no In
terference from people who do not obey my
order."
The Introduction of the IMnkertons.
IaskiTany autocrat could assume a more
dictatorial attitude. Tou Homestead steel
workers, if there is a rosebnsh blooming It is
your work; if there is anything nnder the
sun which shines upon you, which makes
Homestead valuable. It Is your work. Tou
refused to bow down to this wonderful auto
crat, and the first answer he gave you
was to send that band of hirelings
into this peaceful community to force
you to bow down to him, and ulti
mately drive you from your peaceful homes.
I know not wno fired the first shot on that
memorable morning of the 6th of July, but
I do know that the hearts of the great Ameri
can people beat in unison and
in sympathy with the brave men of Home
stead. 1 am a man of peace and I love peace.
out i am iiko mat great man, ratricic uenry,
I stand as an American citizen and say:
"Give me liberty or give me death."
Animals cannot exist without food and
water, and the true American citizen cannot
live without his liDerty. The attempts of
Frick to bring two boatloads of vagabonds
into Homestead was the death knell of
the interference of Pinkerton detectives
with the rights of organized labor. I do not
indorse the attempt on Frlck's life. It cer
tainly did our cause no good.
Attacking the Focketboolc
I do not think it does any good to harm
even a hair on the bead of such men. It Is
better to touch their pocketbooks. and I
think that you will ngree with me when I
say that the Carnegie Company's pocket
book is being touched pretty hard Just now.
Mr. 'Gompers severely criticised Secre
tary Lovejoy, calling him, among other
things, "a telephonic voluble crank, who
talks without motion, and doesn't care or
know what he says." He continued:
I hear that Lovejoy has said that
if the Federation declares a boycott
on Carnegie production the officers
will be arrested for conspiracy.
Now, I don't want to pose before you as an
idle boaster and I certainly don't care to go
to jail, but I do say this to you: If the Ameri
can Federation believes that it will aid your
cause to declare a boycott on Carnegie
goods, 1 promise you that wben that time
arrives 1 will come within the borders of
this great State of Pennsylvania and declare
it to the world.
Above all don't lose your temper. Con
tlnne as you have been doing in waging
your fight under a curtain of apparent mas
terly inactivity, and last of all and more im
portant of all, don't work for Carnegie until
he comes to your terms.
The Speech of Secretary McQnlrr.
When Mr. Gompers sat down , P. J. Mo
Guire, Secretary of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America, was in
troduced. He said among other things
that the battle on the Homestead river
front was to his mind the Lex
ington of the labor movement, and
that in the end it might also prove to be
the Yorktown of the campaign, and that
Carnegie and all of his kind would be
loreed to surrender. After commenting in
caustic terms on the presence and behavior
of the militia and the methods of the asso
ciate of the company, Mr. McGuire con
cluded his speech with these words:
It Is a bad thing to whistle when going
through a graveyard to keep your spirits np,
but Secretary Lovoloy does It to the Queen's
taste. The mill looks like a graveyard and
the furnaces are crematories for "scabs."
John B. Lennon, Christopher E. Evans
and William A Carney made brief ad
dresses. They were listened to attentively,
but the speeches ot Gompers and McGuire
kindled the most enthusiasm.
THE LAUREL POISONER
Believed to Be One John Evans, Who Was
Seen Prowling About.
"Wilmington, Bel., Aug. 13. Dr. "W.
E. Haines, of Seaford, Del., who is treating
the six patients who were poisoned by
drinking from John Bosser's well, near
Laurel, reports that they are all doing well,
and indications are favorable to their ulti
mate recovery. The inquest yesterday was
started without the body which is to he ex
humed and the stomach analyzed before
the jury reassembles. The discovery that
the well has been poisoned was de
veloped by an analysis made by Harlan T.
"Wallace, who is associated in the drug busi
ness wit h Dr. Haines. The Bosser family
had been drinking the water from Thursday
night week up to last Wednesday morning
before the true nature ot their illness was
discovered.
It is now firmly believed that William
Evans visited John Bosser's farm Thursday
week while the family were away at camp
meeting. A man answering his description
was seen that day inquiring the way to Oak
Grove and toward night was seen beyond
Oak Grove, going in the direction of Cam
bridge, skulking across lots and evidently
trying to avoid being seen. The Bossers
believe he was at their place and put poison
into their well.
MISTAKEN FOE A EEITISHEB.
United States Marines I ire Upon a Steamer
In Bering Sea. '
Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 13.
News has jnst been received irom Oun
alaska that a detachment ot marines from
the United States steamship Yorktown fired
several volleys of rifle balls into the pilot
house of the steamer Polar Bear, seriously
wounding the chief engineer. The Polar
Bear is used as a tender for the canneries
lor Bristol Bay, and was returning to As
toria alter last season's work. While pass
ing through False Pass, August 1, she ran
ashore.
A crowd of men armed with long-range
rifles appeared from behind the bluffs, and,
without warning, fired upon the steamer.
She finally got away, left for Ouoalaska
and reported tne aflair to the captain of the
United States steamer Adams, who said the
commander of the Yorktown left- a detach
ment of marines at False Pass with instruc
tions to allow no vessels to pass by, and it
was probable that the marines mistook the
Polar Bear for a British poaching steamer.
THE CBAHPS GET THE C0NTEACT.
That Is the Inform itlon Given by the Inman
Prrnldsnt Hlmseir.
Philadelphia, Aug. 13. Clement A.
Griscom, President of the Inman line
steamers, arrived from Europe to-day on
the steamship City of New York, and was
interviewed on the subject of placing the
Inman steamers nnder the American flag.
He announced that he had secured from the
British Admiralty the release of its con
tract for the use, in case of hostilities, of
the City of Paris and the City of New
York.
The owners of the Inman Line, he said,
are prepared to place their vessels under
the American flag, and also to build two
large additional vessels for their fleet, pro
vided they obtain the Government mail
contraot for Great Britain and the conti
nent William Cramp & Sous, of this city,
he declared, would build the vowel
KNIGHTS IN A WRECK.
THE TRAIN WAS A SPECIAL CARnYJNQ
FEJJNSYI.VANIANS.
All or the 14 Injured Live In the Eastern
Fart or the. State or In New Jersey
Grand Commander Codding Was on
Board.
CLINTON, Ta., Aug. 13. A special pas
senger train loaded with Knights Templar
returning East from Denver, was nearing
the city on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad this morning when one of the
sleeping cars was rolled down a 20-foot em
bankment and two others left the track.
Strangely enough no one was killed, though
14 were hurt, one of whom, Ruben Beisel,
of Hazelton, Pa., is badly injured. He is
bruised seriously, has internal injuries and
his a bad cut on his head. About the time
of the wreck of the passenger train two
freight trains collided some ten miles west
of the city on the same road, no one being
injured.
The train consisted ot an engine, Daggage
car and seven sleepers, proceeding along
the line of the Lehigh Valley Sailroad in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with Grand
Commander Codding, of Pennsylvania, in
charge. Through an accident of some sort
to the fifth sleeper it jumped the track and
derailed the other two lollowlng it. The
last one turned completely oyer and landed
in the ditch beside the road.
Aside from Mrs. Charles Ehoades, of
South Bethlehem, Pa., and Buben Beisel,
of Hazelton, all were able to proceed on
their journey. Mrs. Khoades and Mr.
Beisel were taken to Clinton and cared for.
The following is a list of those who were
injured but who were able to proceed:
V. H. Everhart, Easton: Samuel Wells,
Stanhope, N.J.: S. S. Cook and wire, Newton,
N. J.; Hiss L. C. do Hart, Easton; Mrs. Harry
Haines Easton; W. H. Obert, Lehighton;
Miss Wells, Stanhope, N. J.: C. E. Brunkman.
Lehighton: J. W. Fitz. Washington, N. J.;
John Pursel, Phillipsburg, N. J.: J. Eilen
berg, Phillipsburg, N. J.; Dr. C K. Davison,
Stanhope, N. J.
It is expected Mrs. Ehoades will be able to
resume her journey to-morrow.
ROWED 220 MILES.
Adventures of Flsbermen In DoTles Who
Lost Their Ship In a Fog.
Halifax, N. S., Aug. 13. The Glouces
ter schooner Helen F.Whit ten left Glouces
ter seven weeks ago and went to Western
Bank. After obtaining bait she went to
Portland, Me., and landed it. She then
baited and two weeks ago went to Tahave
bank. On Tuesday, at 7 o'clock in the
morning, AJonzo Monsoe, George Jessup,
John Lougup and Andrew Strickland left
the vessel in dories to set trawls. The dory
ocenpied by the first two had a compass but
no sail, while that occupied by the latter
two had a sail but no compass. A thick fog
prevailed and when the work was done they
could neither find the vessel nor each other.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the fog .lifted
a few minutes and the two dories sighted
each other long enough to get together, but
the fog again settled densely and the men
decided to row for land.
They pulled all night and the next day.
On the second night, as they were becoming
exhausted, they abandoned one dorv and
retained the one with the sail. With brief
rests they stuck to their oars until 11
o'clock Thursday morning, when the steamer
Lunenberg picked them up 15 miles off
Sambro and took them toLunenberg, bring
ing them back here yesterday. They were
sent to .Boston to-day by the American
Consul. Their hands .are very sore from
rowing, and their feet are swollen from
wearing rubbsr boots. They., rowed 220
miles, 'and during that time had but one bis
cuit and a little water.
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KOI AH EXPENSIVE' 0PEBATI0K.
It Won't Cost Over S3.500 to ray Tor the
Big Gold shipmnt.
Washington, Aug. 13. The exact cost
of carrying the big gold shipment across the
continent is not known at the Treasury De
partment, but Assistant Treasurer Whel
pley says it will probably not be more than
fe,500 altogether. It was hauled by the
railroads under their regular mail contracts,
and came through as registered mail. The
assistant treasurer at San Francisco had 00
boxes made especially lor the shipment at a
cost of $1,000. Then there were the personal
expenses of the 51 men who went out to San
Francisco and guarded the treasure on its way
East; These were the principal expendi
tures. The laborers at the mint at San
Francisco were pressed into service to pack
and load the money, the regular employes
of the railway mail service guarded it, the
arms which the guards carried were taken
from the arsenal, and the mail wagons of
the postofEce department were used to carry
the boxes to and from the cars.
The lowest bid the Treasury Department
could obtain from an express company for
hauling the money was 13 per $1,000, or
60,000. This, of course, would have in
cluded the risk of loss in transit by accident
or theft. The Wells-Fargo Company, which
controls all the territory west of the
Missouri, made this rate.
A ECEAMBLE FOB C0ESET5.
Slobs of ZanesTllle tt omen Break Show
Cases and Close Cp Stores.
ZANESVILLE, Aug. 13. Special. War
between rival drygoods dealers.Drucker and
Sturtevant, over corset sales led to a mob
of women taking possession of each store
to-day, breaking show cases and counters
and compelling proprietors to close their
doors.
The rivalry has been going on for weeks,
and finally corsets were advertised for to
day at 5, and then 1 cent Nearly 1,000
women surrounded each store, and alter
doors were closed one dealer threw corsets
from the second story window and the
women scrambled in the streets for them.
Several in the crowd tainted, but none were
seriously injured.
THEEE 8EEENAhEES SHOT
By the Bridegroom They Were Torment
ing, Who Narrowly Escapes Lynching.
Titusville, Aug. 13. . Three
yonng mill hands, John Wentworth, James
Ellis and David Johnson, were shot by
George Clifton Friday night at Newton, a
station on the D., A. V. & P. B. B., about
10 miles east of this city.
Clifton had just been married, and the
boys were giving him a sharivari. The
weapon used was a double-barreled shot
gun loaded with birdshot Wentworth and
Ellis are badly hurt, the shot taking effect
in the head, lace and abdomens of each.
The sight of Ellis' eyes is destroyed. There
was strong talk of lynching Clifton before
the officers could get him to jail.
Tile Next ncmpment in Indianapolis.
Chicago, Aug. 13. The George H.
Thomas Post, G. A. B. last night indorsed
Indianapolis as the place of holding the
next annual encampment It had practi
cally been decided to hold the encampment
in this city, but as Chicago has so many vis
itors at that time it was thought Indian
apolis would be better able to entertain the
encampment, and the action last night
virtually decides in favor of Indianapolis.
Representative Warwick III.
Washington, Aug. 1& Bepresentative
John G. Warwick, ot Massillon, O., is lying
seriously ill at the Biggs House in this city.
About a week ago he was taken with a se
vere attack of dysentery which continued
tor some days. It, however, finally yielded
to treatment, bnt left him in a weak condition.
JUDGE GRESHAM OUT
In a Statement at Last, De
nying That He WU1 Make
Any Speeches at All.
WON'T DISCUSS .POLITICS,
But Claiming to Owe No SlaTish
Obedience to. Any Party.
EX-GAUGERS ON THE WAR5dTH,
The Force to Ee Greatly Cut flown Under
the Xew Law.
SFKAT0R HILTi WILL TALK FOR GR0TER
Thompson, Conn., Aug. 13. Judge W.
Q. Greshom and wife have been the guests
of J. W. Doane, of this city, since last
Wednesday. This afternoon Judge Gresham
made the' statement to a reporter that he
would deliver no speeches during this cam
paign. He was questioned concerning the
statement given the press recently by Chair
man Taubeneck, of the People's part, at
St Louis, to the effect that he had con
cluded to take the stump in the interests of
the third party and would make an open,
ing speech at Indianapolis the latter part of
this month, Mr. Taubeneck claiming to
have received this information from George
O. Stoll, chairman of the State Central
Committee of Indiana, to whom it was al
leged Judge Gresham had written.
The Judge said the statement was made
without authority; that he should make no
political speeches during the campaign.
The Judge was asked to give his views on
the political outlook, but answered that he
did not wish to discuss the subject When
asked concerning the truth of the Indian
apolis special to a Boston paper, in whioh
Chairman Stoll claimed that the Judge
woald take the stump, Judge Gresham re
plied that he had not known Mr. Stoll, and
had no communication or correspondence
with him, and that his first answer covers
his reply to the contents of the Indianapolis
dispatch. He declined to disouss the plat
form and principles of the People's party.
When asked what he had to say, if any
thing, as to the reasons given by Indian
apolis Bepublicans why he could not an
tagonize the Republican party, he replied
that as an American citizen he considered it
his duty to vote according to his convic
tions, and that he owed no slavish obedience
to any party. He said he intended to return
to Chicago in a day or two.
A telegram from St Louis says: Chair
man Taubeneck, of the People's party Ex
ecutive Committee, received a letter this
morning from Hon. Paul Vandervort, of
Nebraska, ex-Grand Commander of the G.
A. B., stating that John M Thurston had
taken the stump in the interest of the Peo
ple's party, and Is now making a tour of
that State in behalf of General Van Wvck,
the People's party candidate for Governor.
Mr. Taubeneck has sent to Indiana for
Judge Gresham's original letter, recently
referred to in these dispatches, andp'rjbmises
to make further statements whenfhV re
ceives it --r-Ti
EXrGAUGERS ON THE WARPATH.
Twelve Ont or Twenty at Philadelphia Get
the Bonnes and Are Mad.
Philadelphia, Aug. 13. Specia'.
Close upon the heels of the wholesale dis
charge of Bepublican workers from the
mint came the announcement to-day that 12
of the 20 gangers employed in the internal
revenue office had been dropped, and that
the others would also be removed gradually
under the recent aot of Congress doing
away with gangers and requiring rectifying
houses to do that part of the work, together
with the stamping. As the act was passed
upon the recommendation of President
Harrison, he is getting all the blame for
the removals, and it is safe to say that
nothing ever done by the present adminis
tration, even during the fight for delegates,
has stirred up so much dissatisfaction and
antagonism as those removals made on the
eve of election.
While the names of the 12 have not been
given out, it is known that they are promi
nent workers, for the entire lorce of gangers
is composed of picked men, appointed by
David Martin, leader of the combine, with
a view to hard and practical work, and
every one of them is good for several di
visions, at least in a close fight The lead
ers and their followers do not hesitate to
openly condemn the administration, and un
less there is some change in its policy
the Bepublican majority in Philadelphia
promises to be small, for in the words of
one ot the members of the combine, "you
can't expect the boys to pitch in and work
after they have just been fired out of a posi
tion." The new act, which goes into opera
tion, will affect all tne internal revenue of
fices in the country.
GB0VEB IS VEBY QEATEPuX
For the Snpport Offered nim by the Em
ployes of a G nss Factory.
New York, Aug. 13. E. P. Gleason, an
extensive glass manufacturer of Greenport,
L. L, recently sent a letter signed by sev
eral hundred employes of his factory to
Grover Cleveland, congratulating him on
his nomination to the Presidency. Mr.
Gleason yesterday received the following
reply:
Git at Gables, Buzzard's Bat, Mass,
To Mr. E. P. Gleason i
Mr Deab Sib Please accept my thanks for
your personal congratulations on my nomi
nation to the Presidency and for your earn
est pledge of support. While this is most
gratifying to me, I must confess that I am
doubly touched by the letters which accom
pany yours, signed by the employes in your
worts, tendering their congratulations and
expresslnz their confidence arid regard. I
am more thanpleased with this manifesta
tion on their part, ' because it f nrnlshes
strong evidence anu suppoit for my conten
tion that our fellow citizens who earn their
living by dally toil appreciate the merits of
a question Involving their Interest and the
good of tho country when pioperly pre
vented to their consideration. I should like
to express to them directly the encourage
ment and satisfaction which their assur
ances afford me. but, not knowing precisely
how this sbonld be done, I hope that yon
will convey to them my acKnowledgements.
Hoping that the faith and confidence which
you and they exbress Is not misplaced, and
assuring you and them of the determination
to follow steadfastly the course marked out
for my political gutdanoe, I am very truly
yours, Grover Cleveland.
KOBE THAR A MAJ0BITY HEEDED
To Secure Senator Davis' Re-Electlon by
the Minnesota Legislature.
St Paul, Aug. 13. A decision which is
certain to cut considerable of a figure in the
Senatorial election next fall was rendered
by Attorney General Clapp yesterday. That
official holds there will be no eleotion this
fall, for the reason that under legislative
enactment all members of 'the Senate hold
over, making their term four instead of
two years.
una senate consists or 20 iiepuDUcans,
I ijCl III ( (111 iM is 1 1 m m J
MJjSh yftfhj Tennessee Convicts Driven -M
iwHl IwCK! L Ht on EreigIlt Car8 M
wISSIIJBm lllf lHSWPHIL and the Stockades M
IliP BUENED' BY WORKMEN. A
VMmf Mj fcS&j1hTJirl 1 Mm MrwMtt S&&J A Secret Oath-Bound Organization 'S
wSlfft inifcp&4 sl IllflClS fc JK' ffiifflw v IrM ili Fxecutes a Skillful Coup. 1
IfflnMK w v" WMlmwMA eMm pbisonees break foe liberty. 1
PlTWV yfyfe' WwmIT I PT ntwiM ' TTffflMlf BeTeral Maie Good Tlieir Escape After , m
WsT- -CJMiif .Jl II mSglV, Vaf if )vSmU Fatal Shots Were Fired. jj
ItHiuHBUku1i vi'yra, "cZrAUM mVsjSU' I vHH i Willi. lllHaHHlrTw'tXoyBi tmKrJs IQEkkt. i . 1
W U xyfmn iZ&S&m. mstjzW -mm
three of whom are classed as Independent
Bepublicans; 13 Alliance and 15 Demo
cratic members. The Bepublicans must,
under the ruling, secure more than a bare
majority of the House to insure the return
of a Bepublican United States Senator to
succeed C. K. Davis.
WRIGHT'S CAMPAIGN PLAN.
The Democratic State Chairman Selects
His Mne Division Assistants Brennen
and Clarke Chosen for the Supervision
of the Local Work.
Philadelphia, Aug. 13. Special
Immediately following the Democratic
State Convention, Chairman J. Marshall
Wright established headquarters at Allen
town, and lost no time in proceeding upon
a plan of party reorganization in every
county. The scheme of conducting the
campaign by division chairmen,
with bureaus in nine leading
centers of the State, has met with warm ap
proval by the leaders, and Chairman
Wright states that when headquarters open
at the Girard House, September 5, there
will be a complete plan of campaign, in
which nothing shall be wanting to bring out
the Democratic vote. Special effort will be
made to educate public sentiment on the
tariff question, and to this end every voter
in he various districts will be supplied with
an abundance of campaign literature.
Chairman Wright has steadily refused to
mere than indicate his plans, but a series of
mass meeting? ore now in course of prepara
tion under Secretary Nead's supervision,
and thev will cover every town in the
State. The division chairmen will have
charge of the meetings, and among others
on Chairman Wright's list of speakers ap
pear the names of Senator Carlisle, Gov
ernor Boies, of Iowa, Congressman Springer,
Senator Gorman, Governor Abbett, W.
Bourke Cockran, Speaker Charles F. Crisp
and William S. Holman, the great ob
jector. The division chairmen are: First Divis
ion, Benjamin F. Meyers, with headquar
ters at Harrisburg; Second Division, Fiske
Conrad, Tyrone; Third Division, W. J.
Brennen1 for Pittsburg and Allegheny, and
Austin Clarke, of Wnynesburg, for Arm
strong, Butler, Beaver, Lawrence, Fayette,
Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Washington
and Westmoreland counties, comprising the
rest of the district; Fourth Division, Perry
D. Clark, Warren; Fifth Division, J. S.
Snangler, Bellefonte; Sixth Division, P. F.
Hyatt, Lewisburg; Seventh Division, J. M.
Healey, Fottsville; Eighth Division, Mi
chael Cassidy, Mauch Chunk; Ninth Divis
ion, C. H. Krumbhaar,Philadelphia.
HILL TO TAKE THE STUMP.
A Tammany Leader Gives Away a Part of
the Senator's Surprise.
New York, Aug. 13. A prominent Tam
many officer says that Senator Hill will
take the stump in October and will make a
number of speeches in this city and State.
Most of the speaking will probably be done
in the interior of the State, but he will
make one or more speeches in this city, and
probably in Brooklyn. His first speech
may be made at Tammany Hall.
Two monster mass meetings will be held
at the Wigwam on Fourteenth street in the
interest of the National ticket, at which
some of the greatest orators in the country
will make speeches. The first of these meet
ings will be held about the last of Septem
ber. The other will take place in October.
The plan of campaign agreed upon by the
Tammany leaders is to do work for the Na
tional ticket first, and put off the local fight
to the three weeks preceding the election.
k
CLAIMING ALMOST EVEEYTHINi
General Field Says the People's Party Is
Going to Sweep the United Statea.
Memphis, Aug. 13. General Field, Vice
Presidental candidate on the People's party
ticket, passed through Memphis to-day on
his way to address a meeting of citizens at
Bipley, Tenn. To a reporter the General
spoke enthusiastically, claiming that his
party would break up the solid North, the
solid' South, the solid G. A. B. and the
Bolid negro vote. Said the General:
"We will carry every State west of the
Missouri river, viz.: Colorado, Nebraska,
Kansas, Nevada, Wyoming, Washington,
California, Montana, North and South Da
kota. Then we will carry one-third of the
electoral vote in Michigan. Iowa is doubt
ful, but General Weaver, the head of the
ticket, is lrom that Statej and our chances
are good." Of the Southern States General
Field claims North and Seuth Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Texas, probably Ten
nessee and very probably Arkansas.
Harrison's Lette:
Nearly Ready.
Loon Lake, N. J.,
ciated Press corresp
JAug. 13. The Asso-
ndent called upon
day and asked him
xjieuienaut .tranter iuiu
concerning a report hat President Har
rison would take th stump in the North
west He replied: 'The president has no
such plan. Mr. Hadiison is now working
on his letter of acceptance, and it will be
ready in a day or sol
Campaign FuiJJ by Subscription.
New" Yobk, And 14. The World to-day,
in a double-leaded editorial, says in part:
"To-morrow we shlll lay the foundation of
a Western Democi&tic campaign fund, to
be built up by pipular' subscription. It
will be a natiunaLttund. Already we have
sought and obtained the co-operation of iour
of the most poent Democratic journals in
tne country.;'
HYPNOTISM m POLITICS.
CHAIRMAN HaerITT If Profetior Whitney can't harmonize the
BURIAL OF A DUMMY
To Allow a Broken Bank's President
to Get Away to Mexico.
A BROTHER REPEATS THE STORY.
President Harrison Pardons a Man Who
Doesn't 1 hank I!im
BECAUSE IIE HAD BUFFERED SO L0XG
rPFECUL TZLXOKAU TO TIHt OISPATCTT.l
Danville, N. Y., Aug. IS. The bitter
ness between the brothers Faulkner, who
owned and were convicted of wrecking the
First National Bank at Danville, has not
ceased with the pardon by President Har
rison of the manager of the bank, James
Faulkner, which was reported in TnE Dis
patch last Monday. As intimated then,
James Faulkner will not be further prose
cuted. Since James Faulkner's second liberation
he has been talking freely with his ac
quaintances and has revived the story that
his brother, General Lester B. Faulkner,
did not die on January 27, 1890, but that a
dummy was buried and the General left the
country.
When General Faulkner died or 'fled,
according to his brother he was out on bail
on an appeal from a conviction whioh meant
seven years' Imprisonment if the conviction
was affirmed. General Faulkner was liv
ing apart from his wife, from whom he had
never been divorced, and she knew nothing
personally about his death. There was
great secrecy about it and the announce
ment made a stir at the time.
The Albany Journal first printed the story
in March, 1890, that General Faulkner was
alive and n ell in Mexico. That story has
never been disproved by the most effectual
test exhuming the body and James
Faulkner now says that they did not dare
go to that extreme in the denial of the re
port Story of the General's Conspiracy Reported.
James Faulkner reports the charge that a
conspiracy existed to pass off a gardener's
body as she General's, and bo says he knows
that a mask was made for the gardener's
corpse. The story told by James Faulkner
about this branch of the case is as follows:
"I do not believe that my brother is dead,
and I have heard lately, from parties I be
lieve to be reliable, that he is engaged in
the banking business in Mexico. In Jan
uary, 1890, when his death was reported
I was in confinement and viewed the
scene from a distance. Lester had
a nicely fixed-up ranch about eight miles
southwest of the villaee. Knhn and Allen,
who were mixed up in the bank's failure.
were both at the place where Lester is said
to have died. According to them the fu
neral was to take place on Thursday, but
the body was buried on the previous
day (Wednesday), a very suspicious
circumstance. There were many other sus
picious circumstances. Why, I know a
prominent Buffalo business man who told
me the name ot the person who made the
death mask for the corpse buried ou that
occasion."
General Faulkner's death, as reported at
the time, occurred under unusual circum
stances. Just before January 27, the day
he was reported to have died, he was
around and in apparent good health'
He was sick and died at Dr.
A. T. Bacon's house, on his farm.
No announcement was made of the death
until the day of the funeral, when it wai
announced that the body would be buried
the next day. Oniv a few persons saw the
corpse. Eev. W. It Ward, who performed
the services, did not see the face, it is now
asserted.
The Lively Corpse RecozniZ'd.
A farmer who was drawing a load of wood
to the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad, just after 4 o'clock Monday morn
ing of that week, says ho saw a man coming
toward him across lots, whom he
recognized as General Faulkner.
He corroborated the railroad man's
story that this man boarded the caboose of a
Lehigh Valley Bailroad freight train, which
runs over the Erie Bailroad tracks to Buf
falo. THe undertaker, however, says: "If
General Faulkner Mas not dead wheu I got
him he was dead when I got through with
him." Outside uf the undertaker tncre are
two positive witnesses to the death Bev.
Mr. "Ward and Dr. Bacon.
James Faulkner savn he was the tool of
others and lost 100,000 of his own money
in the failure. Ho docs not thauk Presi
dent Harrison at all for his pinion. "II I
am entitled lo mv pardon nor," lie said, "I
vras entitled to it 18 months ago. I was
dragged around the courts lor three yeari,
and helped win cases for the Government.
The arrangement was that I was to plead
guilty, receive my sentence and be at once
pardoned."
Qaeen Tic. Stntt Ton the Mnrtt.
New York:, Aug. 13. Judge Lawrence,
in the Supreme Court, to-day decided that
Queen Victoria will hare to find surety to
the amount of $250 for court costs it she
wants to bring suit against the Standard
Asphalt Company to recover $9,000, the
value of a quantity of asphalt alleged to
have been stolen from Trinidad.
Back Diphtheria Not -preadlng.
MoKeespobt, Aug. 13. Special
There were no new cases of black diphtheria
reported to-day, and the doctors here think
there is very little danger of it spreading.
The patients are all doing well.
factions, Til give vp.
AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE.
CHILDREN OF A MILLIONAIRE LEARN
HE WAS MARRIED.
They Thought Him a Widower and Them
selves Ills Sole Belri A Woman Comes
Forward With the Claim That He Was
Her Husband In the Sight or God.
NevtYork, Aug. 13. Special When
Jacob Halsted, the millionaire, died in
June, 1891, it was supposed by every
body, his family included, that he was a
widower. His wife, Mary Elizabeth Hal
sted, died in 1876. Mr. Halsted left five
children. February 15, 1892, one of his
daughters, MaryE. Halsted, received a let
ter from Mrs. Floria Von Ax claiming to be
Halsted's widow. Mrs. Von Ax said:
"He said he considered me his wife un
der the laws of the State of New York and
in the sight of God. He said he would
take me to his borne and acknowledge me
to tne world as his wife if it were not for
his daughters; that at his time of life he
could not become estranged from his chil
dren." In this letter Mrs. Von Ax also asserted
that Mr. Halsted had visited her during
the last years of her life almost daily be
tween tne hours of 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock
in the afternoon, in the evening when his
children were out of the city and often In
the morning. He would never stay after 6
o'clock when his family was home because
he said hU absence from dinner might cause
comment He promised her many times
that he would always care for her, and that
when he died he would provide for her.
This letter was considerable of a shock to
the Halsted family. It was placed in the
hands of John M. Bowers, their attorney,
and it was not long afterward that suit was
begun by Mrs. Von Ax. Yesterday Mr.
Bowers applied for a bill of particulars. In
the
original papers lurs. y on ax simply
made general claims and accusations. Mrs.
Von Ax doesn t want to give a bill of par
ticulars. Her side is told, however, in
affidavits made by her in formally opposing
the petition. One of these affidavits says:
"My late husband was a professing Chris
tian and an ardent churchman. Thus he
once wrote me that he considered a viola
tion of the seventh commandment a worse
sin than rnurder, and so, during Lent of
1889, he brought me a copy of the Book of
Common Prayer, turned to page 255, and
went with me through the prescribed cere
mony of marriage. There were present at
the time my maid, Helene D'Enghien, and
my French instructor, George Bafiiard."
BUFFALO SWITCHMEN OUT.
They Begin an Authorized Strike for Higher
Wnges and Shorter Hours.
Buffalo, Aug. 13. The switchmen on
the New York, Lake Erie and Western, the
Lehigh Valley or Beading and the Buffalo
Creek are on strike. Its object is virtually
to obtain higher wages, although the ques
tion of the 10-hour day is involved. The
decisive action was taken at a meeting of
the local organization of the Switchmen's
Mutual Aid Association of North America
last evening. The strike begins at midnight
The Switchmen are those employed to
couple cars, make up and send out trains,
and in a general way perform the work
around the yards. They are not, as the
name would seem to imply, those who turn
the switches. The strike was fully sanc
tioned by Grand Master Sweeney, who was
present at the meeting. About 200 men
thus far are out The men who struck last
night demand that their pay be $65 per
month for night switchmen "and $70 per
month for night conductors; 60 per month
for day switchmen and 565 for day conduc
tors, 26 days of ten hours each to constitute
a month's work. It is claimed that the
roads against which the strike was ordered
were only paying 21 and 22U and 19 and 21
cents an hour for night and day work respec
tively. THE DISPATCH DIRECTORY.
The issue of The Dispatch to-day consists
of 20 pages made np in two parts. The
table below will assist hasty readers of the
second part:
Page 9.
EvoLtsrt'WAOisrxlROX Henry Tnckiey
Early Dats rx Oil .Thomas Mellon
West Pocst Plebis. Foriiqx Nbws.
Gladstone's Cabibxt.
Page 10.
THB MUSIC WORLD. TOT S rnUTUALISTS.
Page 11.
Shall Acvexttsiitexts CLAssmzn.
rage la.
SOCIETY Doixgs Jlirlon C. GslUher
Tiieatbical Nxws.
Page 13.
THE SflDSTOirr SEN J. A. HlU
Br autY at the SintiNE Dot Dimmlck
A Texas Chuck Waoo.v..... Alice MacGowm
The Virtue in Kaiv Margaret II. Welch
Page 14.
Am atz era athletics Horace J. Bin
' Page 15.
Future OF Russia Frank G. Carpenter
The Saratoga or Japan EUPerklni
Mekcyfou the Beast ReneEache
The Last Sioxal. DoraRurten
Pag 18.
GCXSTA OF eftuxe T. C. Crawford
A CojiTUrxxT's Heart J. Orton Eerbey
Late elictbio News.
Pace II.
On HccitLEBKitBT Hill XdMott
The Unjcst Stewabo Rev. George Hodges
A bTOBT Of COLUMBUS LATE SCIENTIFIC NEWS
Page 18.
Review of Sports John D.Pringle
Obqans in Politics...- .Bill Nje
NoTis and Queries.
y Page 10. '"
The market RxrosTS. Oil Field Nxws
The Gband aiuit. Sxcsxt Societies
Page SO.
The sunn resobts. The Outtno Hotels
TROUBLE IS BREWING AT COAL CREEK
SFSCIAL TItlOBAM TO TOT DISPATCH.!
Nashville, Aug. 13. Startling news
was received to-day from Tracy City, a
town about 100 miles from this city, on a
branch of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis Bailway, where extensive coal
mines belonging to the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Bailway Company are located.
This company leases the convicts from the
State and has had 390 convicts and probably
400 free miners employed in the mines.
To-day the prison stockade at Tracy City
was burned by free miners, and there is an
other crisis in the lease system, which has
for year3 been odious to honest labor. The
wires between Tracy City and Sewore, the
nearest telegraph station, were cut by the
miners, and it has in consequence been very
difficult to obtain full intelligence of the
uprising.
At 5 o'clock this morning a committee of
miners awoke E. O. Nathurst, superintend
ent of the mines for the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Bailroad Company, and asked him
that the miners be allowed as may hours'
work in each week as the convicts.
A Secret Oath .Bound Organization.
Mr. Nathurst replied that he would sub
mit the matter to the company and do what
he could. The committee then left and Mr.
Nathurst, knowing that a secret, oath
bound organization had been formed some
weeks ago for purposes unknown, at once
began to suspect trouble.
He went to Deputy Warden Burton and
together they began to circulate among the
miners who were gathering in groups and
try to influence them to keep quiet Their
efforts were of no avail.
Slowly the ominous air of suppressed ex
citement became tinged with open threats
of destruction to the stockade or a battle.
At 8:30 o'clock an organized body of 150
men, 100 of them armed and SO apparently
unarmed, advanced npon the stockade. To
capture it wa3 the work of a moment
Without undue confusion, every piece of
?ropertv belonging to the Tennessee Coal,
ron and Bailroad Company was carefully
removed to a safe distance and the con
victs, who were in the stockade, were led
out under guard.
The Convicts Loaded on Rox Ca'
Then the -rorch-'rtS'ta2plie
o'clock the buildings were a mass
The miners at once proceeded to tht
took possession of the convicts, ma.
them to the railroad station and loader
them in box cars. The trainmen, being
covered with guns, were compelled to leave
with the train at once. Next the telegraph
wires were cut and a guard was placed over
every engine in the yards to prevent the
carrying of the news down the mountain.
When the train had reached the country
between Sewore and Mount Eagle the con
victs cut the train in two and 10 or 15 mads
a break for liberty. Several shots were
fired. Matt Wilson, white, was killed and
Tom Smith, colored, wounded. Six or
eight made good their escape. Great ex
citement prevailed among the convicts, but
they were finally gotten under control by
the'guards.
The news of the trouble was conveyed to
the Governor by the telegram to Baxter.
At the time of Its delivery there were in
the Governor's office B. Bennett, John A.
Wilson and John Lewis, a committee of
miners from Coal Creek, who had come to
request the removal of the soldiers from
that place and assure the Governor that if
this was done there would be no further
trouble.
News Came at an Unfortunate Time.
The committee stated to the Governor
that a bad feeling existed beetween the sol
dires and the miners which might result in
serious trouble if the former remained. The
committee was appointed at a meeting of
miners held a few nights ago, when it was
decided not to trouble the convicts if the
soldiers were removed.
The Governor was much pleased with the
report the committee brought, and had
about made up his mind to recall the sol
diers next Monday when the telegram was
handed to him. The committee was in
formed of the contents. They at once left
and will hasten back to Coal Creek to await
any possible trouble that might occur there
by reason of the aflair at Tracy City.
Two of three members of the State Board
of Prison Inspectors are out of the city, but
Governor Buchanan ordered the N. C & St
L, Bailroad Company to have the convicts
who were kept at Cowan brought to Nash
ville, and arrangements were made at the
main prison for the reception. The" Gov
ernor said the convicts would be kept hero
until a new stockade could be built, when
they would be returned, as had been dons
at Coal Creek.
The presence of State troops at Coal Creek
for the past eight months, and the frequent
disturbances between these soldiers and ths
free miners there and a reduction in work
ing hours at Tracy City, have tended to in
crease the feeling of uneasiness among the
Tracy City miners. For several days there
has been "rumors of bad feeling existing
among these men and that an outbreak was
bound to occur at any time.
A Tery Misleading Eoport.
This Information, coming to the knowP
edge of Governor Buchanan, he at once dis
patched O. B. Wade, State Superintendent
of Prisons, to Tracy City with instructions
to make a full investigation and report at
once. Superintendent Wade obeyed the in
structions, and on the following day tele
graphed to Governor Buchanan that every
thing was quiet and nothing had transpired
to warrant the reports that had been circu
lated. In the meantime there were report
that the miners at Coal Creek were anxious
to have the Governor remove the soldiers
stationed there, and that they were signing a
petition asking the Governor to act prompt
ly, an assurance being given that the de
parture of the troops would mean a restora
tion of peace.
Following the reDort from the Superin
tendent of Prisons to the Governor came s
letter early this morning from EL O. Nat
hurst, superintendent of the mines of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Bailroad Com
pany, to Nathaniel Baxter, Vice President
of the company, in whioh the whole situa-'
tion was reviewed, the communication con
cluding with the assurance that everything
would remain orderly, but the unexpected
happened at noon,'' Mr. Baxter received a
telegram from JUr. Nathurst, announcing
the deslruclior ft the stockade and giviug
a brief rcsurr " 'tie cvcu;j ot me
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