IRIliCMS bLi:S(KIlil:K9 going out of Ilia elty for tlio iinumcr can liave tliclr favorite paper font t6 them without extra oliargo. IN NOT H YING US to change the a.Ulrem plcaso give the paper'! old as well at iti new destination. EIGHT PAGES-5G COLUMNS. SCRANTON. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 14, 1S94. TWO CENTS A COPY. THE TRIBUNE HAS A LARGER BONA FIDE CIRCULATION AMONG SCRAN EN THAN ANY OTHER MORNING PAPER TON BUSINESS I RESIDENT BEDS OBLIGED TO After a Season cf Exaltation the Chief of Disturbance ' Sues foF Peace, WAN IS THE MEN REINSTATED Ihe Labor inim Make Overtures to the Railway Managers. KAYOR OF CHICAGO INTERCEDES He Carries the Message from Debs and Sovereign to the General Man agers' Association The Proposi tions Will Be Considered Today. Labor Leaders Still Insist That They Have Gained a Great Victory Rail way Officials Are Not Disposed to Hob-Nob with the Strike Leaders. Federation of Labor Is Shy. OiiifAOO, July 13. THE officers anil director of the American Railway union held a special executive meeting this tnoruing fur the purpose of mak ing ii proposition to the railway tuuiia-pt-is looking to a calling olf of the great strike, They agroed to order the (tnke oil if the railway malingers would give the strikers their former I oaitions, rxept tliose who bnve been convicted of crime. The proposition i) fall U flu follow-i: To the railway managers: The existing tumbles growing out of the Pullman strike luving ussumed continental proportions ni 1 there being unindi ntion of lelief from tl widespread biisint m demoralization n: I distress incident th.'ioto, tlie railway employers, through the board of directors ol r he American Kailwuy union, respert fiiilv make the following proposition as the br. -is ot hottleiiieut: J Uey agree to return to work in a ho ly Bl onco provided they shall be restored to their former positions without prejndicj incept iu case," if any thorn aro, who have b cu convicted of cruno. This proposition lo king to immediate settlement of the existing strikoon all lines of railroad is lr.i pired bv a purpose to subserve th pub lir good. The striue, small and compara tively uniuiportaut iu its inception baa extended iu every direction until it r.i w involves or threatens overy pub lic interest, but the peace security and prosperity of our country. The contest Las waged fiercely. It has extended t ar bevnud the limits of interests originally involved and has lnid hold of a vast num ber of industries and enterprises in no w so responsible for the differences aud d sagreemeut that lead to trouble. Fac tory, mill, mine and shop have been fi le iced, Widespread demoralization lias 6ay. The interests of multitied thous ands of innocent people are suffering. The common welfare is soriously menaced. The public peace and tranquility are per illed. Great apprehension of the future prevails. This being trne, and the statement will not be controverted, we consider it to be our duty us citizens and as men to make extraordinary effort to end the existing ptrilte and avert approaching calamities, who-e shadows are even now upon us. If ei ded now the contest, however serious in its con'equnuce-, will not havo been in vnin. Sacrifices have been made, biu they will buve their compensation. Indeed, if less us shall be taught by experience tbo troubles now so widely deplored will prove a blessing of inestimable value in the lrnnths and years to months to como. Tbo diff lenco that led to the present compli cii turns need not be discussed. At this supreme juncture every consideration of duty and patriotism demands that a innedy for existing troubles be found and applied. The employers propose to do their part by meeting their employers halt way, Let it be stated that they do not impose n'iy condition of settlement except that they bo restored to their former positions. They do not iiak the recognition of their civilization or of any organization Be lieving this proposition to be fair, reasona ble aud just, it is respectfully submitted wiih Ihe belief that its acceptance will re sult in the prompt resumption of traffic, the revival of industry and the restora tion of p 'ace and order. Respectfully. Eugene V. Debs, president; (i. VV. How ard, vice president, Hylvestor Keliher, secretary, American Railway union. Knowing that the General Managers, association would not receive a deputa tion ftom the American Railway u lion especially the officers who have been most active in the struggle for enpremacy over the railroads, it was decided to have President Debs and Vicf-Prtsident Howard go to Mayor Hopkins with the proposition and ask bis good services in prosentiucr the oon- dition of settlement to railway man agers. WILL NOT RECOGNIZE DEBS. When the mayor arrived at the of fice of the Ck-nnral Managers' Associa lion be found that the regular meeting had adjourucd and E St. John, of the Eock Inland road, the only munager present. Mr. St. John said he would receive the proposition and lay it be f, re the next meeting. He was re quested to call a special meeting, bat declined to do so. He consented to lis ten to the gentlemen, because they were the mayor and a prominent irember of the eity council. Ho de dclarod that he fcwould have nothing to do with Debs or any other labor Under. After leaving the proposition with Mr. St John the mayor returned to bis office. Mr. St. John bad pre viouFly said that the general managers wonld not recognize the labor lenders in any way, and it waa because of this statement that Messrs. Debs, Howard and Sovereign did not present their proposition in person, but delegated the present attention of the mayor. Chairninu Egan said, informally: "The general mannger will, nuder no circumstances, have a conference witli Mr. Debs on any subj ct. They will retain in their employ the men who filled the strikers' places and are coin potent." Mr. St John said later that the pro position would not be submittal to any SURRENDER meeting of the General Managers to day, and would not be considered by them before their regular meeting to morrow, "if," he added significantly, "it be considered at all." The railways operated their principal passenger trains todiv as they have been doing for several days past, aud moved some freight. No change was made in the national and state troops guarding the lines but United States Marshal Arnold began reducing his force of deputies. Judge Gross cup today gave the federal grand jury additional instructions advising them that in case evidence was presented showing that the mails were delayed and inter-stuta commerce interfered with as the result of an agreement by railway officials or othors in order to create public sympathy, it constituted a conspiracy, aud no matter how high in position the individuals may be they are not exempt from in dictment and trial. FEDERATION OF LABGR SKY. Will Put Up Hooey, bat Its Komberi Do Not Care to Strike, CiiiCAUO, July 18. After an all day seseiou the conference of the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor ended by declaring that at the present time a general strike of the allied trades would be unwise and in judicious. ' The only other business transacted by the coiueronce was the parage of it resolution recommending that the American Federation of Luborapnropri uiu $10,000 to assist Eugene V. Debs in the cases to be brought and now pend ing against bim iu the Federal courts. The following is a portiou of the pro pounds as adopted by the conference: The great iudustrinl upheaval now agi tating this country has been carefully, considered in a conference of the executive committee of tbo American Federation of Labor and the executive officers and rep resentatives of the National and Interna tional associations and Brotherhoods of Railway men called to meet in the city of Chicago on July 12, lVJk In the light of all evidence attainable and in view of the peculiar complications now enveloping the situation wo are forced to the conclusion that the best in terests of the unions vr.f!l.iated with the American Federation of Labor demand that they refrain from participating in any uuy geueral or loc:d suilte which may be proposed in connection wiih the railroud troublo now prevail ing. Iu making this declaration we do not wish it uudeistood thnt we arc in any wy antagonistic to labor organiza tions now struggling for lite or justice, but rather to the luct that the present contest bus become surrounded and besot with complications so grave iu their na ture that wo cannot consistently advise a courso which would but add to tlio general contusion. PRESIDENT'S POSITION. His Talk In Rogard to Appointment of a Commission JSIisoonstrutd. Washington, July 14 The presi dent has been somewhat annoyed today by tha porsist nt attempts in some quarters to make it nppear that he had appointed an arbitration board nt the request of labor leaders. Nothing ir further from the truth. The eominis sion which be has agreed to appoint eventually under the law having no power beyond that of making a gen eral investigation of the strike on the railroads which led to bis proclama tion. The investigation commission when orgauized cannot enter at nil into the differences between the Pullman com pany and its employes. It will confine its work exclusively to the Djbs Amer ican Railway union and the railway General Managers association. The president has been compelled to explain this to several statesmen, who men tioned arbitration to him today telling tbum very positively that no arbitra tion was contemplated iu bis assurance to the committee that called on him. EDITOR HART VICTORIOUS- Controller Itaoea Defeated in His Effort to Reduos Expenses. Special to the Scranton Tribune, Pittston, Pn., July 13, Judge Wood ward today decided in favor of the plaintiff in the case stated between Theodore Hart, proprietor of the Pitts ton Gazette, and the couuty commis sioners involving the question of pay ment for printing the annual county statement. The commissioners had ngr.ed to pay $:!00 for this advertising, the contract being made in Deo.. 1893. When Controller Reese was asked to draw warrants for thesvi amounts for the Several papsre that published, ho refused, offering, however, to piy $U2, or a total of fl.OOO, whioh he claim-d was the total amount allowed by law. A test case was made as to bis right to interfere and it was decided as abovu stated. ERASTU3 WIMAN IS FREE. Released Upon $30,000 Bail Pending D-cliioa Upon Appeal New York, July 13 Ersstns Wimnn was today released on $30,000 bail pending the decision of the general term of the supreme oourt on his ap peal irom tue judgment or forgery ren dvred in tho court of .oyer and ter miner. Judge Barrett today fixed bml at that amount, and it was furnished by Charles Broadway Rouss. wlionu'tli tied as bondsman in the sum of $00,000 on bis house, JNo. UH'J fifth avenue. From the district attorney's office Mr. Wiman wont to the couuty court house, where his bail was accepted and nis release iroin tue Tombs ordered ly tinuge ueorge v. Andrews of the su preme court. Mr. Wimnn then wont buck to tlio I oin us to get bis Derionul ell'eots, and thence went to the office of General Trncy, his counsel, and after. ward to his sou's bouse on Staten Island. BIG FIRE AT LOCK HAVEN. Seventeen Families Hindered Homeleoa by a $30,000 Blc Lock Haviin, July 13 Fire thnt swept through the center of Milhall inisatteruoon destroyed twenty houses and that many stores. The Wilt hotel, Brady's hall and the Christian church me among tue uuuatngs ournea. v cnteen families ore homeless toultrht. The total loss ia rntimutad t till) 000. Fire engines from thii city aud hSelletoute sxtiuguisbed the fire. STATEMENT OF PULLMAN The Company's Position Is Fully Explained by the President. OPINION OF THE CAUSE CF STRIKE Detailed Account of the Affairs of the Corporation from the Company's Standpoint Reveals tha Fact That the Car Shops Have Been Operated at a Loss This Was Explained to the Committee in May Last Other Points in Reference to Management and Condition of tlio Concern. Nkw YoitK, Jnlv 13, pjNEORGE M. t'ULLMAN arrived M-l in this city this morning from II n Alexandria Bay, accompanied vsJ by Robert Lincoln. They worn driven to the Mnrruy Hill hotel, where tney nail break Innt. From tho hotel Mr. Pullman went to his office, where ho announced that Inter in the day he '"Jul make a statement concerning tho itrike, Shortly before 8 o'clock Mr. i oilman gave out the following state ment: There is hardly nuythinrr now to be said as to tho position of the Pullman company, but 1 have so many indications of the facility with which my expressions and tuoso authorized by me, have become dis torted and tlius misleading to the public and of an entire forgetting of my earnest efforts to prevent the strike that perhaps it is well that 1 should again uiiiko a uuinic assurance that the deplorable events of tho last lew weeks hnve not been caused by the Pullman company taking an obstinate stand iu n debatable matter nutl refusing to listen to reason. Tho leaders of the disorder have not hesitated to har ass the public by all means iu their powor because, as they say, the Pullman company would not submit to arbitration, nnd now that the disorder seems to be quell jd, they are reinforced in their clamor for arbitra tion by some prominent newspapers, but, f-o far as I know, by very lew, if any business men in the country. H hat is the demand concealed under tuo innocently rouh ling word arbitration? A little more than a year ago tho car shop nt Pullman wore i i a most prosperous con dition, woi k was plenty, wages were high and the condition or tho employes was in dicated by tue fact tint tho local savings bttuk bad or saving deposits nearly 70(1.- u(K), of which nearly ad was the property of the employes. Our pay rolls for that year show an average oaruing of over dill) per annum for every man. woman or vouih on tho roll. Then came the real panic aud depression of last summer. MANY CANCELLED ORDEliS. Many customers Btopped negotiations and cancelled ordors, and our working force had to be diminished from neariv 0,000 to about 2,000 in November, 1,s9:t. Ihe great; ousineiS depression existing throughout the country had naturally re sulted in a wage depression audtheotily hope of getting orders was by bidding for work nt prices as low as or lower than could be made by other shops, and this, of course, necessitated a reduction in the wages of tho omployes at Pullman. This was arranged sati-factorily as I supposed, and iu close competitions, disre garding all account of capital and machin ery, 1 secured enough work to gradually increase our force to 4,2.10, the number on rolls last April. Nine weoks ago tho car shops at Pullman wore working with car building contracts enough on hnud to keep them going for about sixty days, and with all business forecasts leading to tho belief that no considerable new orders could be soon hnd. The most important of the work in hand had been taken by me in competi tion at prices which were less than the ac tual co:'t of the company of delivering the cars, without reckoning tho use of capital and plant. This work wan taken to keep tho large force of men employed and to postpone, and with the hope of avoiding tin num berless embarrassmouts to all clas-ios of people at Pullman aud its vicinity of a closing dowu of tho works, to prevent which the company considered it a wiso policy to operate the shops temporarily at an actual loss. In this condition of things came the agitation seeking to crento a la bor organization embracing all railway employes and apparently other industries, MOTIVIC OF THE STIUKE. It is my belief that the controversy at Pullman was merely a movo in tho greater scheme, these shops being elected, not on account of discontent in them, but because of their prominence in various ways, and because of tho chance ot a show of justi fication for n simultaneous and causeless attack upon, the railways or the country for tho.use, under the long-timo contracts by three-quarters of thorn, of the Pullinau sleeping car system, a branch of the com pany's business totnlly distinct from its manufacturing of cars for sale. In the early part of May a committee of employes demanded a restoration of the wages of a year ago. 1 explained to a committco minutely aud laboriously the facts showing that tho company was al ready paying them more than it was re ceiving for their contract work, and I of fered them for complete assurance, and to end all question, an inspection of our books and contracts iu baud. This, aud the beginning at once at Pullman of a promised investigation of a number of shop complainants, appeared to end all trouble, but a day later, under tho excitomont of their recruiting into a new organization the workmen closed tho shops by abandoning their work.thus themselves doing what 1 was strenuously trying to prevent being done by the depression ot tho building business, and tho employes who quit their work have deprived them selves mid their comrades of earnings of more than $300, 000 up to this time. AN UNFAIR DEMAND. The demand made before quitting work was that wages should be restored to the scale of last year, or in elloct. that the actual outgoing money losses then being daily incurred by tile company lu car building should be (leliDorntuly increased to an amount equalling about one-fourth of the wages of the employes. It must be clear to every business man nnd to every thinking workmau that no prudent om nlover could submit to arbitration the question whether he should com mie sucn a piece oi uosiness iony. Arbitration Blways implies acqui escence in tho decision of the arbitrator, whether favorable or advorse. How could I, as president of the Pullman company, couseut to agree to thnt if uuy body of men uot concerned v.ilh the inter ests of the coiiil nuy's shareholders should. as arbitrators, for any reasons seeming good to them, so decree? I would havo to open shops, employ workmen at wages greater than tueir woric count oe soiu tor, and continue this ruinous policy indefinite ly, or be accused of a bra'-Ji of fnitb. Who will deny that such a question is plainly not a subjoct of arbitration? Is ic not thou, unreasonable, that the company should bo aslced to arbitrate whether or not it should submit such a question to arbitration?S Removing the origiual and fundamental question one stage does not help tho matter. The orig inal question would still rotu dn. C'au 1, as a business man, knowing the truth f tho facta which I have stated, bind myself that I will, in any couliugoucy, opjn and operate tue Pullman car shops at what ever loss if it should banpeu to be the opiniou of some third party that I should do so? Tho auswer seems plalu, TUE HEAL ISSUa. The public should not permit the real question beforo it to bo obscured. That questiou was to tho possibility of the creation and duration of a dictatorship which could make all tho industries ot the United States, aud the daily comfort of millions dependent upon them, hostages for tho granting of any fantastij whim of audi n dictator. Any submission to hiin would bavo been a long step iu that direc tion and iu the interest ot every luw abid ing citizen of the United States was uot to bo cousidored for u moment. A few words aro pertinent as to some industriously spread charges against the company. One of those charges is that rents are exorbitant, and it is implied that the Pullman employes havo no remodybut to submit. Tho answer is simple. The averago rental of tenements at Pullman is at tbo rate ot ifit per room per month and the routing of houses at Pullman has no relation to the work iu the shops. Em ployes may, nnd very many do, rent tholr uouei outside of the town and the buildings and business places in tho town aro rented to employes or others in competition with neighboring propertied. In short, the rent ing busiuoM of the Pullimtn company is governed by the samo conditions which govern any other large owner of real es tate, except that tho conipuuy itself does directly borne things which in Chicago are astmim'd by tho city. If, therefore, it is not admitted that the routs of landlords should be fixed by arbitration, and that those of the adjoining towns of Kensing ton and Roseland should also bo so fixed, it cau hardlv bo asked that tho Pnllmau company should abandon the ordinary rules which govern persons in that locutiou. A9 TO CIlAllOES FOK WATER As to tho charge for wator, the company until lately had contracts with tha village of Ilydo Park unuor which it paid 4 cents per thousand gallons and pumped the water itself. Tue gioss amount paid the village per month lor the water cousutned by the tenants was almost exactly the gross sum paid by tho ton ants therefor, bineo tho inclusion of Ilydo Park and Pullman within the city of Chicago, the compmy paid the city about 7 cents per 1,000 gallons and, not having increased tlio charge to tho ten ants, is paying for the wnter consumed by them about ioOO per year more than is charged to tlnm. The company ins mad? repciitod efforts to dissociate itself from the supply of wntor to the tenants, but tho city ot Chicago has as yet failed to apply the ordinary frontage rates to thu houses and shops in Pulimnn, although this is done in the adjacent to.vus. STOCK NOT DILUTED. Strenuous efforts have also been mado to creato prejudice against the Pullman company by charges that its stock is heavily watered. The 1'ullmau company was organized twflnty-ie.7wn yetrs ago with a capital of ?.',ooo,00 1 of which two- third?, represented tho appraised value of its capital, theu held by three owners; and ono-third represented tho appraised value or its rranchises ana existing contracts. The company has grown until its sleeping car servico covers l-o.O.'O miles of railway or about threo-fourths of the rnilway system of the coun try and that iucreuse of servico has necessitated increases of its capital from time to time until it is now tflill, 000,000. Every share of this increase has been of fered to stockholders and sold to them or to others in the ordinary course of business at not less than par In cash, so that for every increase outstanding the company lias received 8100 iu cash. There aro over 4,000 stockholders of tho company of whom more than one-nan ane women and trustees of estates and the average holding of each stockholder is now eighty-six shares, ono-llf th of them holding less than six share each. DUN GO'S. WEEKLY REVIEW. Trade Reviving in SpitJ of Depression Caused by Strikes Through out the Country. New YoitK, July 13 R. G. Dim & Co.'s Weekly Trade tomorrow will say: "Whon circumstances are duly weight ed, the strength and souudess of busi ness in this country during the past two weeks are amazing. With the second city in the country in the bands of a lawless and murdorous mob, besides many other cities and towns, with railway traf no almost entirely stopped over the vast area between Toledo and tho Pacific, with presidential proalamu tions declaring the existence of an in surrectiou aud dispassionate answer or' dering halt to a million men to stop worn, with a prolonged strike or coal miners not fully ended in muny states, and with dilt reuces between the house and senate on tariff questions so wide that duties uffecting mining and manu factures cannot be anticipated, indus tries and trades have nevertheless gone on with sublime hope that the pooplu and their government would soon re store. The shrinkage of business and the depression of values h.ive been nnej pi ctedly small, tho failures relativ.-iy weak nnd unimportant. Stocks have recovered u little with restoration of order, and are slightly higher than a week or two wseks ago. Speculation in prodtiots have been tame with great uncertainty us to ueiny of shipments. Wheat is slightly lower in profound disregard of the govern mont r-port indicating a yield of less thun 400.000 ouo ousueis, ami as the official estimate of yield in 1893 was more than 100,000,000 bushels short of actual exports and consumption, it is really assumed that another ducrep nncy us large may spring from similar causes. Receipts and exports in the present disturbed condition or business are not significant. Corn bus ad vauoed a little, though accounts indieate a good yield. The decrease in failures exhibited last week is followed by good returns for July 8. ,Tbe total number for the pst week has been 237 iu the United iStates against 374 last year, aud iu Cauadu 49 nguitHt Idolast year. CAUGHT FROM THE CABLE. Captnin Hickok, of the Yale team in England, strained his knee in hsmiuor throwing yesterday. Mme. Cnrnot vacated tho Elysee palace yesterduy and tools up her new residence at Avenue ue Itiua, Frince and Princess Bismarck started from.Fiiedricksruh yistorday for Scholer hantcii, where Count and Counters Her bert, uisniarou will join them. DEMOCRATS ARE DISCOURTEOUS 'rcatmcnt ot Republican Conferees Resented J by Mr. Iklc. 2EGARDED AS SERE BYSTANDERS The Unusual Proceeding Commontcd Upon by Senators Allison, Sherman and Aldrich Rivar and Harbor Bill Passed and the Legislative, Execu tive and Judicial Appropriation Is Rushed Through at a Rapid Pace. The House Transacts but Little Business. Washington, July 13. ENATOR HALE'S resolution dl s reeling the chairman of the sen- ate cnnfert'43 on the tariff bill to "zs report u full aud free confer ence Mas not not yet been held was taken up in the senute today, discussed for sn hour and a half and then, by com mon consent sot aside on the calendar. Mr. Halo in justifying the roi- olntiou said that no one could teii what had become of the tariff, and that so fur as the senate and the country were conoernod, it was a lost bill. Mr. Voorbees, while disclaiming any disrespect or lack of courtesy to tho Republican conferees, defended the courso pnraued by tho Democratic con ferees as being iu the interest of speedy action on tho bill. They desired to perfect it, he said, on their own lines of action before submitting it to the full conference committ;e. Three Republican conferees, Sena tors Allison, Sherman and Aldrich, spoke of the course pursued by tho inn j irity conferees iib unusual, aud Mr, Allison bum that if tho minority con' ferees were to be more bystanders at the formal conference It would be hot ter to have the conference committee dissolved without delay. Mr. Sherman thought that tho majority coufrei should confine themselves to such por tions, of the bill us presented political questions. After this matter was laid aside the river nnd harbor bill was pissed and conference with tha house was asked. Then the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation was rushed through nt the same rapid rate, only the paragraphs providing for a re-organization of tin exocutlvo depart ments being reservad. B.tyond adoptlug the report of con ferees on t'ue bill making appropriations for the payment of pensions for the year ending Juno 30, lSUo, the bouse accomplished but little business and that only of a preliminary nature. The entire session of the day was sp 'lit in consideration of measures on the private calendar. Two of them uro known as the omnibus resolutions recommending in bulk thirty-ieven claims amounting to $1,010,000 to the court of claims for investigation were ordered to be reported to tbe bouse un favorably. One bill was given a fav orable recommendation and the rest of the session was occupied in discussing a fourth. At 6 o'clock the customary recess was taken until 8 o'clock, the evening session to be for toe consideration of private pension bills. COMPROMISE ACCEPTED. PhlUipsburs miners Will Work at the 45 Cent Basin. PiiiLi.trsBURO, Pa., July 13. To night at a meeting of the miners em ployed by R. B. Wiybton & Sou, they agreed to go to work at tbe compromise price. The meeting was addressed by W. 13. Wilson. By Monday tbe Al teon and Phillipshurg railroad will have its road completed between Houtzdale and this place, whore it con nects with Beach Creek railway. Samuel Langdon who is president of the road and who has several large mines in the Houtzdale region will start his mines at 45 cent basis on Mon day. Of tbo 18.000 miners in the bitumi nous coal uiiues iu this state in the Pittsburg district, 14.000 are working at the compromise and 2,000 out of the remuiuiug 4,000 who have not received tbe advuiico rale are iu the Beech Creek and Clearfield region. The idle men in this region are now begining to re ceive support from the miners that are now at work. Eight hundred dollars have recently been received from the bard coal region. Barracks iu which to house new men were completed at CouldaleNo. 4 mine operated by the Conltlule Coal company today. DETERMINED POSITION. No Member cf Americia Kailway Union Allowed on Waldo'e Road. Lima, O., July 13 Superintendent Waldo, of the Cincinnati, Hamilton und Dayton, has taken a determined position with tho strikers. lie has no tified all the men out at points along the line to report for dutvatonus, stat ing that those who fuilod to do so Would bo discharged. ' He also stipulated that ho wonU tiko buck no men who were members of the Auiercau Railway uuioa. CONNAUGHT HARBOR TROUBLE. Belligerent Striken Hubiuel by Ohio Nallonnl Querdimen. CONNAUCIHT IlAlilJOR, O , July 13. Company K, Film Ohio National Guards, of forty-lour weu, arrived at midnight last i.ig.it and proceeded to the harbor this morning. Tuvy inarched to the docks and (dosed them to all of the strikers of Ashtabula, about S00 iu number. The police made eight arrests ot loaders from Aahtu l.nla, nud in doing so fired several shots aud clubbed on man for drawing a re volver ou an officer. About 100 of tho Ashtabula mou took a boat for Ashtn ti n I toon afterward and the remainder withdrew ubout town. Sheriff Allan arrived with the militia and is in com mand. Captain Day says a majority of the men refused to strike at the meeting last night and will go to work this afternoon. Lust night the Btrikors tried to board tho Grecian aud take the buckets from the hold, but the captain aud bis men kept them off, by throwing hot water. All is quiet now. PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR. Important Arrett of a Polish Student and Hie Sister. St. PsTERsmjita, July 13 The police of Kirpitschuaja. recently arrested a Polish studeut who was suspected of being a member of a Nihilist seoiety. Upon searching his lodgings anE iglisb made bomb was found; Further in vestigation enabled the police to ar rest another student and the let ter's sister. These three arrests led to tbe discovery of sertaln documents of an. incriminating nature. The brother and sister, it appears, had long been sought after by the police. The judicial inquiry whioh followed is said to Lave revealed an extensive plot against the life of the czr. CHURCH TO BE CLOSED. Aroliblchop Eyau Doldee to dive Ot. Mary's Cong-reiration a Vaoatlon, Reading, Pa., July 13 Owing to the complications among tbe members of St. Mary's Polish Catholio congrega tion of this city, which have culmina ted in frequent disturbances tbe past two years, Archbishop Ryan, of Phila delphia, bus decided to close the church for the present. He has written to Mayor Shanaban to that effect. PEERDERGAST HANGED. The Assassin of Harrison Dies Quietly Without Indulging in Speech Making Upon tho Gallows Chicago. July 13. Prendergnst, the murderer of Garter Harrison, was exe cuted at 11.48 this toorniug. The af fair was without sensational features. After breakfast Prendergnst listened quietly to the ministrations of Father Biirrv. Twice be made a request for chocolate and two quart pitoiier were taken into him. At 10 o cloak bheria Gilbert ontered the cull aud read the death warrant. Prendergnst made no direct response to the official, but re- maiked aside to Father Barry: "Wo may yet hear from the goveraor." Meanwhile the phyaiehns composing the jury, the members of the grand jury now in session, and about 200 ticket holders, had been admitted lo what is known in the jail as the "death corridor. At 11 o'clock the deputy sheriff on the scaffold raised bis hand to com mand silence, and one minute later the procession rounded the upper corridor and came in view. Sheriff Gilbert led the way with Father Barry close be hind. Prenderast walked between the deputy s hen 11 aud half a dozen dpU' ties brought up the rear. It was ap parent to everyone that tbe condemned man was on the verge of collapse, he was nevertheless determined to pre sent a nervy front. He looked straight ahead and seemed unconscious of the sea of faces before him. Just as the white shroud was being tied around bis neck he took a long breath and every one imagined that be was about to make a speech. In a sec ond, however, he bud set hie teeth to gether, while his face grew red and white by turns. The two deputies led him to the doortrap, quickly adjusted the noose and drew the white cap over his head. His limbs seemed to tremble for a secoud and then there was a movemont from uuder the white robe, us though be waa bracing himself. The signal was given to the unseen ex ecutioner, tbe body swung round und rouud. There was one brief convulsive struggle aud the murder of Carter Har rison was avenged. The body waa surrouudol by a jury of physiciuns, and us soon as life had bouu pronounced extinct the body was cut down. The jail officials said after tho execution that the condemned man had requested an indulgence of twenty miuntes after reaching the scaffold for the purpose of making a speech. He was dissosded from bis intention, bow ever, by Father Barry. INJURED IN D'L. & W. YARD. Edward Gaughen, of Bellevae, filet With a Distressing Aeoidnnt. Edward Gangban, of 204 Fifth ave nue, employed as a brakeman in the Delaware, Luckawanua and Western yards, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon by being struck by a yard engiue as be was just starting for home after bis day's work had been finished. Ha tolls a remarkable story concern ing bis cusi , From bis statement he was wulkiog along one of the tracks of the yard that skirt the emtaakment on wbion runs the maiu Hue of the Dela ware, Luckawanua and Western rail road. This was about 8 o'clock in the afternoon. As he w, s walking along the switch engine steamed up behind and he was struck by it, being draggod quite a distance, at leDgth falling io I ue sido of the track. No person saw the accident Def.ill him and be laid along the tracks in a semi-unconscious condition until 13 o'clock last night. At various times be called weakly for help, but no one beard bis cries. About 9 o'clock, as he states, he became a little stronger and managod to creep until be reached Laoka wanna nveuue uear tho First National bank. Thore be was observed by Police OfBoer Thomas Jones, who immediately tele phoned to the Moses Taylor hospital for the ambuluuce. At 1 o'clock this morning Gaughan was brought to tbe hospital. A Tkidune reporter saw tha injured man lust night. Both hands were ter ribly smashed, the right beiug awfully lacerated. It is probable that this bund will have to be amputated. He was otherwise severely injured about the back and fuce. Ho is 20 yeurs of age, married and has a wife aud two children. Those who know him say that he'is industri ous aud temperate in bis habits. WEATHER FORECAST. Washington. July 13. Forecast fur Saturday: tor Eastern Pennsylvania. followtU lu local thunderstorm, tttnils, thiftinij to north; cooler Saturday evening. For IVMrarn 1'ennsvlvania, lower showers, winds $IUft ina to north, oooier. j ojear FILM'S GREAT OFFERING -OF 11 &X Tk l?" K 150 Full Eleven Quarter Marseilles Quilts at These we consider the best goods we ever sold at the price. 510 and 612 Lackawanna Ave. MINERS' '1 Wholesale and Retail H. A. Kingsbury 313 Spruce Street. 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