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VOL. VII.
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DEPDTIES DEFEATED
Serious Clash at Orangeville,
. in Pittsburs: District.
EFFORT TO EVICT STRIKERS FAILS
Morning Bmttla In Which th Deputies
Are Badly WoMted and Com
pelled to LeT for
Washington.
Pittbbcrp, Sept. 7. Efforts to evict
the striking Winers of the Pittabarg &
Chicago Coil Company, at Orangeville,
one and a half miles from Gastonville,
resulted in a riot of no mean propor
lions, and the utter failure of the com.
pany to accomplish its object.
About 9 o'clock last night twenty dep
uties from Washington, Pa., in charge
of Chief Deputy Wethenll, reached Fin
leyville, where they were met by a large
crowd of strikers. Each deputy was
armed with Winchester and revolver,
bat in spite of this the strikers, beaded
by 100 Polish women closed in on them
and they were forced back and finally
retreated to Gastonville, followed by
about 200 men and women.
At Gastonville the deputies took re
fuge in the office of the company, where
they were kept all night, during which
time the building was bombarded with
stones and bricks and an occassional
shot was fired.
At 7 o'clock this morning the trouble
of the night reached a climax, when the
deputies sallied out from their besieged
quarters and started to march to Orange
ville. Headed by women, the strikers
rushed on the deputies with stones and
cluba and pick handles and the blows
fell thick and fast. One big woman
wrested a rifle from a deputy's hands
and struck him on the head with it, in
flicting a serious injury. By this time
1000 men, women and children bad
joined the crowd. They came from
Venetia, Snowden, Calamity and Fin
leyville. The deputies made their way to
Orangeville and took refuge in a vacant
house, closely followed by the mob,
which surrounded the building and
threatened to barn it. One of the strik
ers approached the house with a flag of
truce and a conference was held. The
deputies were ordered to leave town.
After a short parley it was decided to do
so. They emerged from the bouse i
badly scared lot of men and walking be
tween the opened ranks of the strikers,
started for Gastonville. Almost every
man in the posse was cut and bleeding
and several were badly hurt.
As the defeated deputies ran the
gauntlet, they were greeted with hisses,
curses and ridicule. The strikers then
closed behind them and marched them
to the station, where they took the train
for Washington. After their departare
the mob dispersed and everything is
quiet now.
FAMINE MENACES THEM.
Condition ef the Irish People Becoming;
Desperate.
New York, Sept. 7. A dispatch to
the World from London says :
The World's special inquiries through
out Ireland fully corroborate the alarm
ing predictions cabled Saturday of the
failure of the harvest and a consequent
impending famine. Crises of warning to
the government are rising in a crescendo
scale from all parts of Ireland. They
are not confined, as in former yeara of
distress, to the congested districts on
the western seaboard.
From Mullinger, one of the most pros
perous parts of the midlands, a corre
spondent telegraphs:
"The crops. are now irretrievably de
stroyed. It will be impossible for the
farmers to make anything of their ce
reals this year, as they are quickly
rotting. In the churches a prayer for
fine weather was recited, and if a change
does not come immediately, the crop
might as well be left to manure the
ground."
From country Wexford, noted as one
of the richest in the country, the tidings
are:
"The green crop may be described as
-a gigantic failure in county Wexford
this year. The greater part of the
potato crop is only fit for cattle feed
ing." From Fermanagh, a correspondent
telegraphs :
"At a meeting held here to ask for a
reduction in rents, the parish priest pre
siding declared that not since Black 1847
has the prospect for farmers In thia dis
trict been so bad. In several places the
potatoes have been a failure. Hundreds
of tons of hay have been ruined by the
heavy rains and floods."
From Carlow, known as ''the model
county." comes the following dispatch:
There is before our farmers an outlook
aa disastrous as it is possible to con
ceive, owing to the frightful weather. A
omaf ?"! nf err ii mt patIv remains in
the sucks injured beyond repair. In
many districts the farmers have been
unable to cut their crops, which present
the saddenimr spectacle of being leveled
to the earth by the persistent rainB. Ap
prehensions concerning potatoes also
have been dismally realized.
These evidences of the widespread
character of the ruin wrought by the
inclement season are merely samples
from numerous reports received. The
Irish government has adopted no meas
ure as yet to cope with the threatened
famine.
AUSTRALIAN CABLE NOW ASSURED
Its
American Terminal Will
Be At
Vincoarer, B. C.
Vaxcouver. B. C Sept. 7. The fol
lowing-named telegraph magnates held
a closed meeting in Vancouver in con
nection with the proposed cable line
from Vancouver to Australia :
George G. Ward, vice-president and
general manager of the Commercial
Cable Company; S. S. Dickenson, sn
perintendent of the company at Canso,
Nova Scotia, where the Canadian Pacific
line connects with the Atlantic cable;
R. V. Day, secretary to President John
VV. Mackay: J. Wilson. Pacific coast
superintendent of Canadian Pacific tele'
graphs; L. W. Storror, superintendent
Pacific Postal Telegraph Company,
After the meeting no news of a direct
nature could be obtained regarding the
business transacted, but statements were
made that inside information obtained
warranted the announcement that a
Canadian Pacific cable from Vancouver
to Australia wouia oe an assurea iact
at a comparatively early date, and that
the present meeting bad to do with
some very important preliminary ar
rangements in which Millionaire John
W. Mackay is to take a very prominent
part.
Mr. Starrer stated that his company
would of course handle the Pacific cable
work at this end, and that he, with
others, would inspect the proposed land
ing stages io British- -Colombia, at once.
The entire party will leave Victoria to
day. '
LIBERALS COME INTO POWER
Report That Sands Will
be Premier
of Spain.
New York, Sept. 7. A Herald spe
cial from Barcelona Bays that it is stated
on the highest diplomatic authority that
the present Spanish government will go
out within a fortnight, and that the lib
erals will come in. The Herald's cor re
spondentln ..Washington, commenting
on the above, says :
The officials of the state department
have not received any information of a
change In the Spanish ministry, but
they have believed ever since the death
of Canovas that it is quite probable the
conservative ministry would be succeed'
ed by one headed by Sagasta.
Such a change has been hoped for by
the administration, for the reason that
it is believed that the liberals would
pursue a coarse in regard to iCnba very
dmerent from that followed bv the con
servatives, both before and since the
death of Canovas, and that if Senor Sa
gasta should come into power he would
receive with favor the new offers of the
United States, to bring about an end of
the insurrection, which Minister Wood
ford is to make.
From Chicago to the Yukon.
Chicago, Sept. 7. "Klondike or sink"
is the motto of the members of an expe
dition which purposes to navigate from
Chicago to the mouth of the Yukon river
in the schooner George Sturges. The
Sturges will sail from Chicago in about
a month, manned and provisioned for a
trip of six months' duration. At the
end of that time, if all goes well, the
craft will be among the icebergs in
Behring sea and the doughty mariners
will be getting ready to ascend the Yukon
in the spring.
The George Sturges has been purchas
ed by a party of men beaded by Adolph
Freitscb, captain of the little yacht Nina,
which crossed the Atlantic. The vessel
will sail down the great lakes and the
St. Lawrence river to the Atlantic and
thence south, rounding Cape Horn and
up the Pacific coa9t to the Yaokon.
At the mouth of the river the Sturges
will be left while the crew starts for the
gold fields, and when the crew cares to
return she will serve as a treasure-ship
to bring back the nuggets. '
Dr. Wyman Is Hopeful,
Washington, Sept. 8. Surgeon-Gen
eral Wyman says the yellow fever situa
tion looks decidedly hopeful today. No
new cases have been officially reported
to him, although there are newspaper
reports of three new cases at Biloxi. He
has wired Dr. J. J. Lemon at Biloxi
concerning this report.
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Conditions at the Camp.
THERE IS A SCARCITY OF FOOD
Fifty Death From Soarvy Some Vela
able ClaimsYukon Klver Steamer
Wear Aground.
Eureka, Cal., Sept. 8. The news by
the steamer National City, from St,
Michaels, corroborates all that has been
said of the prospects of short rations
in the gold diggings of the upper river
daring the winter. This steamer
which connected with the river steamer
Healy at the mouth of the river, brought
three passengers. One of these is J. A
Ralston, of San Francisco.
Six thousand men in the mines about
Dawson City is the estimate of Ralston
who came down on the National City
with F. . Leonard, of Nanaimo, and R
B. Lamb, of Portland. The supply of
the necessaries of life to feed these men
be says, is totally insufficient. In fact
be estimates that the stores will be ex
hausted before the winter is half over,
when the famine will be on in earnest,
especially as the number of men in th
country will be greatly augmented by
late arrivals over the passes. There is
whisky, beer and all kinds of liquor in
profusion, he save, but their places could
have been better filled on the steamers
with flour. It is not that the men in
,ha hftV8 not tha mone- to bn
,aDDUe. bnt the Btocka of the B"tore. are
inadequate,
He says there is gold and lots of it in
the Klondike, but it is generally still in
the ground. It is believed that the
claims now located will turn out fifty
tons of gold thia winter, if the scarcity
of food does not prevent full operation
He gives a rough guess that the Klon
dike is good for $250,000,000 before
'petering ont." '
Mr. Lamb, of Portland, is authority
for the statement that over fifty men
have already died of scurvy this sum
On the way down the river from Daw
son City, which place the iiealy lett
August 14th, the steamer Weare was
found hard and fast on a bar. She was
passed on the 16th. being then about
1200 miles from the mouth of the river.
The boat had been on the bar for twenty
days and the Healy laid alongside, took
off her passengers and some of the
freight and then proceeded on the way,
leaving the unfortunate boat hard and
fast aground, with small chances of get
ting off before the river closed.
Ralston says that one of the best
claims on Eldorado creek is the property
of James Hall, of Missouri. It will turn
out at least $1,000,000. Claim No. 12 on
the Eldorado is also very rich. It is no
uncommon thing to take out two ounces
to the pan from any part of the claim.
What wealth is coming on by the
steamer Excelsior cannot be estimated.
Those of the passengers of . the Healy
who came to St. Michaels were very ret
icent as to their store of dust. "
With the exception of Ralston and his
companions, all the passengers ot the
Healy took passage on the Excelsior,
That vessel left St. Michaels the night of
August 26th with 80 passengers. They
put in Ounalaska for coal, and Captain
Anderson, of the National City, is of the
opinion that the Excelsior should arrive
in San Francisco today.
When the National City left St. Mich
aels the Cleveland was taking ballast,
and expected to sail for the Sound on
August 30ih. Many of the passengers
who had tickets for the Cleveland took
passage on the Excelsior.
E. Leonard says that the Weare had
on board 150 passengers and about $1,
500,000 in treasure. This was trans
ferred to the Healy and taken to St.
Michaels. .A considerable amount of
this will arrive in San Francisco on the
Excelsior.
When asked why he returned, Leon
ard said :
"I found I had to get out or starve.
There are about 4000 men in Dawson
and not more than a third of them have
work. If you have not a stock, of grub
you can't get work at any price. I bad
provisions for three months, and no one
wanted me. I had not enough to work
my own claim until Spring. Jim Duns
mnir, the Eldorado king, has bad $30,-
000 worth of provisions ordered for some
months, but has not been able to obtain
more than a fifth of it, even with the
cash put up in advance."
Those coming out, however, did not
bring all of their clean-upa with them.
Leonard cites -numerous instances of
men who had cleaned up from $50,000 to
suw.uuu, Dut naa fatten away barely a
third of that. The men Bay they made
nothing themselves except as wages at
$15 for a month or so.
In regard to discoveries on Stewart
river, Rolston says that there were many
rumors of rich strikes, but op to the
time he had left Dawson nothing definite
had been received.
The National City made the trip in 11
days Irom St. Michaels, where she left
65 eager goldseekers. ,
It is very doubtful wheher any ot the
passengers who went up on the National
City will get through this year. The
small boat which some of the passengers
had taken np on the deck of the steamer
has proved a disappointment. Her ma
chinery has gone wrong, and she draws
too much water. There is enough pro
visions in the party, however, to winter
it out and proceed up the river when
spring opens. .
The Cleveland was expected to sail on
the day after the National City's depart
ure. The Excelsior left St. Michaels
twelve hours before the National City.
Captain Anderson reports that on Aug
ust 28th he passed the steamer -Humboldt,
but did not epak to her, and that
she in all probability arrived at St.
Michaels the following day.
SONS OF VETERANS.
Delegates to the Encampment are
Rapidly Catherine
Indianapolis, Sept. 8. The young
men who sit in the councils of the Sons
of Veterans of the United States are
registering at the hotels. The bead
quarters train that will bring Com
mander-in-chief James Lewis Rake, of
Pennsylvania, will come by way of Cin
cinnati, and will arrive here this after
noon. Ihe Western men under com
mand of Rudolph Lo ben stein of Chicago,
the quartermaster general, and the
bearer of official documents, will reach
here.today.
Many Grand Army posts of this state
have accepted invitations to participate
in the parade and it is estimated that
4000 veterans and sons of veterans will
march.
Cincinnati is working' for the next
encampment.
The contest lor. commander-in-chief
promises to be spirited. Commander
Rake is seeking re-election. The other
candidates so far are John R. Neely of
Washington, L. L. Dilley of Iowa, F. C,
Stimson of Michigan, and Charles P,
Darling of .Massachusetts.
ANTI-HOB PEOPLE PREMATURE.
An Unneccessary Protest Sent
to In-
dlana's Governor.
Indianapolis, Sept. 9. The report
sent out from El wood, Ind., several days
ago to the effect that the negro residents
of that town bad been notified that they
must leave town within a week has.
brought a letter of protest to Governor
Mount from the anti-mob and anti-
lynching association at Springfield, O.
The association suggests that the gov
ernor should exercise his authority and
stop any such action.
Upon receipt of this protest Governor
Mount wrote to Mayor Finch, of Elwood,
asking for information that would tend
to refute the reports, and expressing his
determination to protect the inalienable
rights of every citizen of the state with
out regard to color.
To this letter Mayor Finch has jest re
plied denying the truth of the report.
The mayor says the story is a manufac
tured one, and that the Elwood negroes
are not to be molested.
Another Andree Pigeon.
Nashville, Ills., Sept. 8. When Pro
fessor Andree left in search of the north
pole it was not made public that arrange
ments had been made by William Os
borne, a business man of Coulterville,
Ills., whereby he would be kept inform
ed as to the whereabouts of the explorer
by pigeons.
One of the birds sent with Andree has
returned to this place, almost two
months overdue. The bird carried a
note about its neck written on extra
heavy notepaper, but weather has ob
literated the writing bo it cannot be told
whether the expedition is a success or a
failure. The only word of the note not
completely rubbed out .is "latitude."
The pigeon has a silver plate attached to
its left wing with '.'Andree, 31," stamp
ed on it.
The next bird is due in a few days.
It Saves the Croupy Children.
Seaview, Va. We have a 'splendid
sale on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
and our customers coming from and
near, speak of it in the highest terms.
Many have said that their children
would have died of croup if Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy had not been giv
en. Kellam & Curren. The 25 and
50 cent sizes lor eale by Blakeley &
Houghton. .
Wanted A girl
to wait on table at
; e9 2t
European House.
AN AWFOL DISASTER
Santa Fe Collision the Worst
on that Line in Years.
TEN EMPLOYES WERE KILLED
Remo-ral of tne Dead and Wounded Ac
complished With Difficulty W.
J. Bryan Tells of Bis
Experience.
Emporia, Kan:, Sept. 9. Last night's
head-on collision on the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe proves to have been
the worst disaster that has occurred on
that system in many years. Twelve em
ployes were killed outright or died of
their injuries, and fifteen others were
more or less injured.
' Trains over the Santa Fe will be ru
by way of Ottawa for a few days. The
cost of the wreck to the rail -v ay is esti
mated at $100,000.
ab tne passengers and trainmen re
covered from the shock of the explosion
they looked for the injured and dead
Far down in the heaps of the debris
sounded wailing voices of men pleading
for aid. While the rescuers were work
ing to get at the unfortunates, fire broke
out in the wreckage of the forward
coaches, and a cry for water went op
Water tanks were torn from their fasten
ings in the coaches that could be entered
and blood-besmeared men carried them
over broken timbers to quench the fast-
spreading flames. The dead and man
gled bodies of four victims were dragged
to the grass beside the track. After her
culean efforts the flames were finally
subdued, and the work of rescue made
more easy.
Engineer Brannan was found under
bia engine, dead. Engineer Nate Hoi
lister was thrown thirty feet from his
engine and was picked p dead. En
gineer Frisbey was picked up some dis
tance from the track, fatally injured
Benjaman Walter, his fireman was ter
ribly mangled. Shnrley and Gonzalla,
firemen on No. 1, were badly injured,
and died after being removed from - the
wreck.
ine tour postal clerks on Mo. 1 were
all found. They were R. O. McGee. W
F. Jones, M. J. McGlade and Claude
Holiday, all of Kansas City. Holiday's
legs are broken and he is injured inter
nally.. M. J. McGlade was crushed and
bruised about the head and body and he
died -shortly before midnight. Jones1
legs are mashed and his head is badly
cat. McGee's legs are crushed.
The postal clerks on the fast mail
were A. Dorn and J. F. Saner. The ex-
press messenger was killed and C. W,
Van Cleve, a brakeman, is fatally in
jured. Alter a time a reliet train ar
rived and the injured - were taken to
Topeka.
William J. Bryan was interviewed
o his experience in the collision. H$
said : "I have traveled thousands of
miles on railroads and I was never in a
wreck before. I did not feel the shock
very severely where I was, but from the
way things looked, I cannot see why we
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were not an xiuea. xne scene nere pre
sented is the most terrible I have ever
seen. It has made an impression on me
that cannot leave me in my lifetime.
"Is it true you were the first man to
reach the scene from your car and go
to the rescue?" he was asked.
"Please dont eay anything about
that," Biyan replied with a deprecating
gesture. From passengers present it
was learned that Bryan was the first per
son to posh forward to the assistance of
the victims; that be assisted to carry
the first body recovered, and that so
long as there was any necessity he was
foremost in the work of rescue. Mr.
Bryan and David Leahy, a Topeka news
paper man, were in the smoking-coachl
of the west-bound train. The two men
jumped out of the same window without
their hats or baggage, which was after
wards burned, and escaped practically
without a scratch. Bryan reached Em
poria about midnight and remained at
the hotel until morning when be re
sumed his journey. .
Claude Hollister, of Topeka, had both
legs broken and shattered in half a dozen
places. When the rescuers laid him on
the grass beeide the track he turned to
one of the group and asked him if he
would pull through. When assured that
be would live, if he was brave, he said :
"Ami not brave? Look at my legs
dangling, and then ask me to be brave. I
suppose they will have to be amputated,
but I will bear the operation and live
through it.
William Frisbey, engineer of the fast
mail, whose residence is in Topeka, waB
conscious until he died. He said:
"I did not see the other train until I j
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A. B. Adams, who is among the in
jured, was on hia way to Mexico from
New Jersev with registered bonds
amounting to $800,000 and a great deal
of other valuables. They were all burned
in the fire that followed.
It is supposed that a handful of
charred bones taken from the wreck
luring the day is all jthat is left of
Messenger Saner. Route Agent L. F.
I.yttle, of Welle-Fargo Express, was at
the scene when the bones were found,
and near them picked up a watch, which
he identified as Sauer'a.
Behind the west-bound train that was
wrecked was a freight train. Its
engineer stopped at Lang for orders.
He says today that a red light, the dan
ger signal, hung out by the operator
there to warn the west-bound passenger
to stop, wsb burning so dimly and the
glass was smoked so badly he could not
see it till he bad left hie cab and gone
close np to it.'
' PLEDGED' TO SUPPORT SPAIN.
Alleged Compact Entered Into by
Eag-
land and France.
St. Louis, Sept. 9. Corate Henry de
Penalo, who baa been visiting friends in
St. Louis for a few days, said that the
rumor of an understanding between
Spain and other European countries,
lookag to a check upon American inter
ference with Cuba, was confirmed by in
formation which came to him from high
authority. De Penalo has been intro
duced in St. Lonis as a member of an -old
Spanish family whose sympathies
are with the Carliet party, bat whose
connection with high politics in Spain
keeps him posted on most of the im
portant diplomatic movements: He
said:
"Some time last September when the
Cuban question was so much agitated in
the United States, even to the point of
furnishing planks to the declarations of
presidential conventions, Senor Canovas
del Castillo, then premier of Spain, re
ceived assurances from the English and
French governments through their repre
sentatives in Madrid that they would not
permit any action on the part of the
United States other than a very perfunc
tory recognition of belligerency of the in
surgents.
On August 5th before leaving Paris, I
learned from trustworthy sources that
this assurance has been renewed Gen
eral Azcarragua, the new premier, has
received the French and English ambas
sadors, who have once more assured
Spain of the sympathy of their govern
ments and ot their willingness to give
'diplomatic help."
Cuba's New Tariff.
Madrid, Sept. 9. The Official Gazette
today published the new customs tariff
of Cuba. Nearly all American goods are
subjected to lower duties.
The Grandest Remedy.
Mr. R. B. Ureeve., merchant of.
Chilhowie, Va., certifies that he had
consumption, was given up to die,
sought all medical treatment that money
could procure, tried all cough remedies
he could hear of, but got no relief; spent
many nights sitting up in a chair; was
induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery,
and was cured by the use of two bottles.
For pttst thiee years lias bei-n attending
to busines, and says Dr. King's New Dis
covery is the grandest remedy ever made,
as it has done so much for nim and also
for others in his community. -Dr. King's
New Discovery is guaranteed for Coughs,
Colds and Coeumption. It don't fail.
Trial bottle free at Blakeley &Houghton's
Drue store. (2)
For Rest Furnished or unfurnished
rooms, at the Krause boose, corner Fifth
and Court streets. ,
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