St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 22, 1892

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{SECURE YOUR TICKETIC To the last excursion of the season given by the i . * * lch. vo 43. _PRICE, FIVE CENTS. FIFTEEN BY CARRIER, rx. LOUIS. FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 22. 1892. — 7 N = * f O'Donnell and Ross Fail to Secure ‘he Pinkertons’ Official’ Statement of ~~ the Homestead Invasion. PROCLAMATION OF THE LOCKED-OUT MEN ON THE SITUATION, 3 No Remarkable Documents Added to the History of the Great Confilot—Robert _ Pinkerton Before the Oates Committee— Gov. Pattison Leaves Homestead—Sen- ator Peffer’s Plan to Settle the Oarne- g Lockout—At the Mills. PITTS, ’ Pa., July 22.—There was an- other big crowd of all classes of people in ’ Judge Magee’s court this morning in antici- pation that 0’ Donnell and Ross charged with leading the attack on the Pinkerton invaders at Homestead would be brought up from jail on the hearing for their release on ball. After the formal application had been filed by Attorney Brennan, O' Donnell's petition setting forth that he was not guilty of the charge made against him; that the said charge was not made in good faith, and that he always has been, andisnow desirous of preserving the peace, it was developed that the District Attorney desired to examine the evidence, and was consequently not prepared to go on. Judge Magee was anxious to set the hear- ing for 8 o’clock this afternoon, but this was not acceptabie, and finally it was made the special order for to-morrow morning. Incidentally, the Judge said that it the evi- dence was of a character indicating murder in the first degree he would insist upon suf- ficieht testimony being taken to enable him to reach a proper conclusion, but to this the private counsel for the Carnegies responded that they thought the proceedings to-morrow might be made very short. The prisoners were not brought into court. After the proceedings in court this morn- ing eight Pinkerton detectives who werein the Homestead mills on the day of the riot assembled in the omce of Warden McAlease in the county jail. Ten prisoners from different parts of the county were brought into the Warden’s private room and placed in a row inthe inside corridor. O’ Donnell was fourth in the row. The Pinkertons were then admitted one at a time, and inspect- ed each man in turn. Most of them took a second giance at the fourth man, and then moved on witha satisfied look on their faces. Not one of the number would saya word regarding the in- cident, hat | a shortly after, that one and a 2 nized O'Donnell as a participant in the bloody tragedy on July 6. It is thought from this that the Carnegies propose to establish the basis of a charge of murder in the first degree against O' Donnel, in order that the Court may refuse him bail. Messrs. Cox and Brennan, attorneys for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, have not yet filed in- formation upon which to base warrants for the arrest of Mr. Frick or any of his associ- ates. Discussing the matters in reply to questions of your correspondent to-day Mr. Brennan said: »The matter has not been dropped. Ac- tion in the direction of the prosecution of the mill owners will be taken as soon as our mode of procedure has been definitely de- cided upon. What is yet to be decided is whether we will rest the burden of the charge upon the fact that the Carnegie Co. brought an armed force into this State from other States, whose business it was to fight the eitizens of Pennsy- vania, or whether this shall be left out and the charge made simply upon the attack —— Homestead made by the Pinkerton orces. ‘*It seems to me that the officers of the com- pany will have a very uncomfortable time in efending the suits. They have said all along that they were not in possession of their works. If they stick to that, as they have all through this affair, then they can ha ve no de- fense inlaw. Not only can the officers be held, but 2 can be convicted upon the tharges. If they were not injcharge ot their works they had absolutely no right to send an armed force to get possession of them. The law provides a proper method for thelr re- gaining possession of their „ + many They must follow the methods laid down law. There can be no justification of their taking the law into their own hands. Now on the other hand, if they say they were in eS oftheir works they have o protect them with force if it be time. And if —e what possible right lect an armed force from United States to swoo gens of Homestead? pony are not nearly so comfortably situated as they would have people belleve. They are bound to suffer from the re- action of public sentiment in arresting the men for whom they got warrants yesterday. It is plain that they are not acting in faith. Thisis shown by the fact that they have arrested Burgess McLuckie and have proceeded against Hugh McDonnell. Ifthere are any two men in Homestead who should have escaped arrest they should. testi- mony which McLuckle gave to the Oongres- sionai Committee made it plain that he had nothing to do withthe fighting. He con ceaied nothing, but told everyth with the greatest freedom. He did nothing which he was not called upon to do as the chief execu- tive official of the borough. He did his aut as a man, asa citizen, and as Burgess. for doing this he was arrested. Lock at Hugh O'Donnell. It has been 0 doing these pan rested upon the charge of inci a riot and Going murder. AT THE MILLS, LITTLE REAL PROGRESS YET MADE IN RESUM- ING OPERATIONS. HOMESTEAD, Pa., July 22.—Increased ac- tivity is noticeable inside the big mili fence to-day. Non-union workmen are coming in by squads of from ten to twenty at atime by boat from Pittsburg, and some have got in unobserved through the town of Homestead. The number of excursionists and sightseers who come here every day and the presence of Gen, Snowden’s guards makes this possibie. Something like 250 non-union men are now in- side the mill. The armor plate mill, the open heartn mul and the press shop are Te, Frick and Supt. Potter are making great ef- forts to convince their old men thatthe — can be run without their ald. | The tonnage men are too well informed ot the true condition of affairs inside the mill to bealarmed at the seeming activity... They know that the mills now in partial operation halt. a Gozen non-union steelworkers from the Carnegie mills at Braddock, They know that 250 green men cannot run a plant where 8,800 experienced hands were employed one month ago. The effect upon the day laborers and ig- norant Huns, Poles and Slavs may not be the same, but none of these men, with possibly half a dozen exceptions, show signs of weak- ening. Mr. Frick confidently expected two-thirds: of his old hands to return before the expira- tion of the time which he set. The leaders of the strike, therefore, claim a victory in hold- ing their men together, for not 1 per cent of the entire number has returned to his old place. They are confident that they can con- tinue this state of affairs indefinitely. The moral and financial aid which continues to pour in confirms them in this belief. Tha company, however, looks for a stam- pede, and as long as both sides continue in these positive views of the situation the day of settlement will remain distant. Gen. Snowden and his 6,000 troops are evi- dently here to stay, and there is much dis- satisfaction among the soldiers, who were suddenly called away from their usual occu- pations, at what they term unnecessary de- tention, when a few companies would be ample to guard the Carnegie works. A mill official said that the company’s office in Pittsburg is loaded down with applica- tions from competent men, anxious to secure work at Homestead. He says he considers the operations at the works as having:start- ed to-day and thatthe company has conse- quently kept upto the declarations it has been making all along. As to the refusal of the old hands to take advantage of the ‘‘Last day of grace’’ yesterday, he said that the lat- ter expression did not mean that the men would never De re-employed, but that no po- sitions would be kept for them, and that when they returned they would have to take whatever was to be given them. PATTISON’S DEPARTURE. The departure of Gov. Pattison about noo time was the event to-day in Homestead. His destination was the State Capital. Just before leaving the seat of war the Governor stated emphatically that no change had been made in the orders to the troops, and that none was being contemplated. If there had been any hope that the Governor would make a personal investigation among the locked- out men during his presence in Homestead the expectation was disappointed. Up to the time of taking his departure for s- burg he confined his movements to an official farewell visit to Gen. Snowden’s headquar- ters on Shanty Hill. None ofthe local lead- ers of the strike were invited directly or indi- rectly to lay their case before the Governor, and for their part they showed no disposi- tion to ask his aid in their difficulties. Onthe slope going to see Gen. Snowden Gov. Pattison passed alongside the long rows of two-story tenement houses, known as Company Houses, and on the ot the hfll he was almost within a stone w of the habitations which take the name of Shanty Hill. Onthe ps of nearly all these Shelters people flock to the doors at spe a served any moment an eviction notice. None of the dreaded slips of paper were dis- tributea during the Governor’s stay in Home- stead. Atthe mill men’s headquarters the ranks were reported as solid as stone. walls, but the line of men waiting for admission to ‘the room of the relief committee was stretched out to nearly doubie the length of any day yet. Around the main gate inthe mills the gos- sip was that a total of about fifty men had been taken within the fence since sundown last night. Astojust where the reinforce- ments came from, how they got in or who they were could not be learned. in the bus- mess portion of the town center thejbullying spirit being evidenced by some of the militia officers and men was declared to be growin more and more unbearable and in the en with so many idlers in town, it was asserted to be almost sure to produce serious trouble, In opposition to this, Col. Green, the provost marshal, the official directly responsible for the preservation of order, reported that the twelve hours elapsing had been without a sign of friction in any way,shape or manner. Sheriff McCleary, after a ten days“ stay in Homestead, left on the same train with Gov. Pattison. The Sheriff’s destination was Pittsburg. The two officials engaged in earnest consultation at Muphall Station while waiting for the train. Only a company of soldiers and less than a dozen civilians wit- nessed the departure, which was without demonstration of any kind. The train whizzed through the center of the Homestead mills inclosure and then out into the town of Homestead, where only a moment’s stop was made. The Governor sat at one of the win- dows of the rear coach, speaking to noone and apparently in deep cogitation. PINKERTONS’ PLEA. OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THEIR CONNECTION WITH THE HOMESTEAD INVASION. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22.—The sub- committee of the House Committee on Judiciary, charged with the investigation of the Homestead labor troubles, resumed its sessions in this city to-day. The investiga- tion, it will be recalled, was begun in Pitts- burg, the inquiry there being devoted to the outbreak at Homestead and the difficulties of the Amalgamated Association with the Car- negie Co. The hearing here is to be devoted to the organization and management of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Robert A. Pinkerton of the Pinkerton agency was the first witness called. His brother, William, Mr. Guthrie of New York, with his attorney, and Messrs. Hays, Wright and Devlin of the Knights of Labor were also in attendance. Before the examination of witnesses was proceeded with Mr. Devlin of the Knights of Labor submitted a number of questions which he wished the committee toask the witness. Chairman Oates received the questions and gald they would be considered by the com- mittee and if found proper would be asked. The committee then went Into secret session to consider the questions submitted by Mr. Devlin; also a statement submitted by the Pinkerton brothers, and at the conclusion of the secret session the committee took a re- cess until 1 o’clock. The following is the statement submitted by the Pinkertons: To the Judiciary Committee of the House of Rep- 1 : You have asked us to appear before you and testify in regard to the business conducted by us under the name of Pinkerton es National Detective Agency. The present inquiry by your committee arises from the recent deplorable events at Homestead, in the State of Pennsylvania, and we are informed that a statement on our part of our connection with strikes and of the general method of carrying on this branch of our business will aid the committee in its investi- tion. Orne agency was founded in 1850 by the late Allan Pinkerton, and during the last twenty years it has frequently furnished private watchmen to protect the property of individuals and corporations during strikes. The men employed by us in this strike were selected with great care, and only after a full investigation of their characters and antecedents. Not a single imstance can be cited where we have knowingly employed unreliable or untrustworthy men, or where any of our watchmen have been con- victed ofacrime. Moreover, we have seldom per- mitted our watchmen to carry arms for the purpose and life, unless they were é egal authorities or sworn tion of these departments means ‘that Mr. are manned by bosses, superintendents and: thefr arms only as the last extremity in order to pro- tect life. We have consistently refused to permit our watchmen to bear arms without special legal au- thority or deputy sheriffs, even when on private property, and we have no intention of varying from this rule in the Homestead strike. first requested to send watchmen to protect the Homestead plant and property of the Carnegie Steel Oo., Limited, we refused to do so unless all our men should be sworn in as deputy sheriffs be- fore going to Homestead. We were then assured that the Sheriff of Allegheny County, Pa., knew that our men were going to Homestead to act as watchmen and to guard the property from violence. We wete farther assured shat the Sheriff had prom- ised immediately upon any outbreak or disturbance to deputize all our watchmen as sheriff's deputies if it became for the protection of life and property, On that condition only did we consent to furnish about 300 watchmen, a large number of those men were our regular employes, who could be thoroughly trusted for integrity, prudence and so- briety. The remainder were men who we employed from time to time or who were known and recom- mended to us. They did not go into the State of Pennsylvania as an armed body or force, and we should not have per- mitted or assented to this. ‘There was ‘no intention or purpose whatever of arming them until they were on the property of the company at Homestead and not until, and unless they had been sworn as Sheriff’s deputies. Tne Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Gray accompanied our men, being on the tug tow- ing the barges, and it was distinstly under- stood that he had authority to duly deputize them in case of necessity. The boxes containing the arms and ammnnition were shipped from Chicago and were to be delivered at the Home- stead yards. The instructions to our men were that they should not be + Unlegs previously deputized by the Sheriff. Ad a matter of fact the boxes on board the barges were not opened and arms and ammunition were not distributed until after the strikers had commenced firing on the watchmen and it became evident that it was a mat- ter of self-defense, for life or death. Klein had been murdered by those strikers and about five other watthmen shot and wounded before our men began their fre in self-defeuse. Even then It was impossible to attempt to shoot those firing at the barges, because the strikere made a breastwork for themselves by placing women and children in tront and firing from behind them. Not a single woman or child was injured by Gur men. When our men surrendered, the leaders of the strikers solemniy promised protection to prop- erty and life. They knew that bur men surrendered because the wounded required attention and for the purpose of saving further loss ofjife. After the sur- render all our men, including the wounded and helpless, were brutally beaten apd robbed by the strikers, andthe leaders madeno real or honest ef- fort to protect them. Our men were robbed of watches, money, clothing, in fact everything, and then mercileessly clubbed and stoned. Connors, unable to move or defend himself, was deliberately shot by one of the strikers and then clubbed. Edwards, also wounded and belpless. was clnbbed by anotner striker with the butt-end of a musket. Both died, and gubsequently another watchman became insane and committed suicide as a result of the fearful beating after haying sur- rendered. All our men were more er less injured. The acts of the strikers, after our men surrendered, would be a disgrace to savages. Yet, because done in the name of organized American labor, sympathy, if not encouragement, is shown for such deeds by part of the press and by political demagogtes. The statement further holds thatthe prin- ciple involved is larger than the dispute be- tween the Carnegie people and their men. The Pinkertons ad no quar- rel with labor. If owners might not employ watchmen then capital is at the mercy of secret organizations, whose tyranny and @Gespotism,’’ says the statement, exceeds anything ever known in the history of the world. The societies in the immediate communities by threats of murder, are determined upon ruin and de- struction of property, if their demands, no matter how unreasonable or unpractical, are not complied with.“ The Mollie McGuires, the Chicago Stove Co. 's strike, the C., B- & Q. stfike and others are referred to in detau asa basis statement made in the paper that large strike aas thown that these labor or. ganizations will murder and destroy property out of sheer wantonness and revenge. It was morally certain,’’ concludes the statement, from the threats of the men themselves that the strikers at Homestead would resort to similar violence’and at- tempt to destroy the property of the /Carne- gie Co., if any attempt were made to\supply their places by non union men. The employment all over thecountry by banks and private people of watchman is re- ferred to, and then the subscribers to the statement affirm that their counsel assure them that they have violated no law, Federal or State;that they had the right to employ and send men to Homestead to act as watchmen; that if they were attacked they had the right tokill if absolutely necessary for self-defense; that they had the right to bear arms on the premises of the Carnegie Co., in order to protect life and prop- erty whether or not they were deputized by the Sheriff of Allegheny County; that we had the right to ship arms from Chi- cago tothe Carnegie yards at Homestead for the purpose of arming our men if and after they were deputized by the Sheriff; that in View .of the attack on the barges our mer had the right to bear arms und to defend themselves, and that all their acts in firing in self-defense from the barges after the attack on them were legally justi- fiabie under the laws of the United Statesand the laws of the State of Pennsylvania. The paper is signed by Wm. A. Pinkerton and Robert A. Pinkerton. Chairman Oates calledthe committee to- gether shortly after lo clock and Robert A. Pinkerton took the stand. Ohatrman Oates stated that the committee had examined the questions submitted by the labor people, and, as the Pinkerton people did not object to an- swering them, they would be propounded. Mr. Oates then took the list and put the ques- tions as follows: 1. What are the names and residences of the prin- * * composing the so-called Pinkerton agency? 2. State the number and location of the offices, principal and subordinate, of the agency. 3. Whatisthe nature of the several branches or kinds of business which the agency undertakes to conduct? 4—What number of fire-arms and weapons of offense, of all kinds, were subject to your control or owned by youragency on July 4, A. D., 1892, and where were they deposited? 5—State the number and the names and residences Suse persons regularly in your employ on said 6—W hat authority do you exercise or claim to ex- ercise over your employes as to obedience of orders? Are they required to bear arms and go whereever ordered by the principals of the agency and perform whatever service is imposed on them? Are any of your contracts with your employes in writing? If yea, produce one or more of them. State under what circumstances you entered into the agreement with Mr. Frick or his associates to guard the works at Homestead, Pa. Who first broached the negotiations endingin the employ- ment? Produce all correspondence relating thereto. 9. Was this your first agreement to supply men to Mr. Frick or his associates? How many men and on what terms did you supply them inthe matter of the difficuity in the Cornelisville coke regions? 10. How many men were you requested to furnish in the Homestead matter; within what time and what localities did you obtain them? How were the barges on which your men were transported to Homestead constructed as to the de- fense and protection of persons upon them? 12. Were the barges lined with iron or steel plate _— ‘ous strength to resist small arms of every n 13. Were not the men onthe barges entirely se- cure from any attack from the union men of Home- stead, solongas they remained behind the protect- ing sides of the barges? 14. Why were barges employed to transport the men from Pittsburgto Homestead instead of ordi- nary modes and means of travel by land and water. 18. State the number of men on the barges, the amount of fixed ammunition and the number and kind of fire-arms of all kinds. and by whom the said ammunition and arms were supplied. 16—How many of the men on the barges were old and trained employes of your agenc What au- thority had they over the new recruits in respect to — — them to use and dear fire-arms at thetr command and direction? 17—State with particularity where the who were finally taken to Homestead were assembled 9 through what States and by dy ne — of railroad they were transported to tts urg. : 18—State precisely the object in placing the large number of firearms on the barges and whether it was not understood between the principals of the agency and Mr. Frick and others representing the Carnegie works at Homestead that the men on the barges were tocommit a breach of the peace or to use force to recover on of these works if nece ° 19—State whether it was not the intention of the superior officers of the barges, and whether they had not been instructed to fire on the so-called locked out union workmen at Homestead and to take life if it was necessary to obtain possessien of these wi the 8 at ad, without the request or n of the State or of any municipality tnerein d your agency first make effort to ob- he consent or Guthe the Mxecutive of uthoryty of the ennsyivania, or did you ever taking armed N ee Rover? | 5 the Uni with arms ose two barges on the navigable waters of 2 poy pied “with mon 22 loaded ammanition, that you to place 8 — 4 and loaded, upon the —— 9 eee have your employes ou t ente upon the busi- mento protect the Property of ers against so-called 01 ve so-called lock- WHERE THEY STAND. THROUGH A PROCLAMATION TO THE PUBLIC THE MILL MEN ANNOUNCE THEIR POSITION. HOMESTEAD, Pa., July 22.—The Advisory Committee on the Homestead lockout has prepared a statement of its position in which thecommittee signifies its recognition of law and other peaceful means as the only elements that shoula have took partin the settlement of the present trouble; pledges itself and the. workingmen of Homestead to refrain from violence and lawlessness. The full text of the statement is as follows: The most evident characteristic of our time and country is the phenomenon of industrial centraliza- tion which is putting the control of each of our great national industries Into the hands of one or a few men giving those men ad enormous and despotic power over the lives and the fortunes of their em- ployes and subordinates—the great mass of people; a power which eviscerates out national constitution and our common law, and directly antagonizes the spirit of universal history in its world-wide struggle after lawful liberty—a power which though ex- pressed in terms of curr speech as the right of employers to manage business to suit them- selves,’’ is causing to Wan in effect nothing less than a right to manage the country to suit them- ‘gelves. ‘ . * of Messrs. Carnegie, a, Pa., have built there chools and its churches; thful co-workers with ofthe mills; have in- oftheir savings in the community in the ex tion of spending their lines in Homestead and Ofworking in the mill during the period of their efficiency. In addition to the ordigary gifts and advantages of our Government, the Naffonal Legislature has seen fit to especially foster an protect by public . taxa- tion the industry of ng mills and the State of Pennsylvania is to-day guarding it at a great and extraordinary expense. ee desiresto express to Therefore, the Comm the public as its firm lief. that both the public and the employes afom@paid have equitabie rignts and interests in the said@@pill which cannot be modi- fied or diverted with da process of law. that the employes have the richt continuous employment in ‘the said mill durih emcieney and good be- hayior, without regar to religious, political or economic opinions and ime that against public policy and Subversive of the funda- mental principles of A ican liberty thata whole commuaity of work mg be denied employment The employes in the Phipps 4 Co., at Homes atewn with its homes, 1 have formany years bee the company in the bu vested thousands of dol or suffer any other detriment on account of membership in a ch . political party, or a trades union; that ris our duty as Ameri- can citizens to resist byyevery legal and ordinary means the unconstituti , anarchic and revolu on- ary policy of the Cara Co. which seems to evince a contempt of public andgprivate interests, a disdain of the public conscience HF its refusal to submit to lawful arbitration and e lawless importation of a band of armed merce sto forcibly deprive the employes of their equitadle rights in advance of any legal adjudication there n, and without previous of Allegheny County end own that we will prose- cute the said public a private interests in the courts of law and equityyand that we demand of Con- gress and the State 3 distinct assertion of the principle that the public has an interest in such concerns as that a Homestead, and that the State has a duty to adjudge the affairs of such con- cerns when occasions ma require. Finally, we desire te state emphatically that as defenders of and petitio=fers for law and order, we pledge ourselves to refrain from violence and law- lessness, that we rest our cause which is the peo- ple’s cause, the Cause o ertean liberty, against anarchy on the one hand ana despotism on the ether, with the courts, the Legislatures and the publie con- science. TRANSPORTING NON-UNION MEN, STEAMERS CARRYING THEM FROM PITTSBURG TO HOMESTEAD. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 22.—The steamer Tide left the wharf here at9o’clock to-day for Homestead with about forty men on board and she will continue to make trips all day, carrying men to Homestead in connec- tion with the Little Bill, which took up a load early this morning. The boat was guarded by asquad of policemen to prevent trouble atthe wharf or at Lock No.1. At the office ofthe Tide it was learned that the boats would be busy all day and it is evident thata large number of men will be sentup. All morning men with satchels and bundles were coming to and going from the offices of the company and it looks as if the company were carrying out theirintention and making good their claim that all the men needed could be obtained. Assoonas the Tide left their men, evidently watchers, went in the Monongehela House and sent messages by the Western Union, evidently to Homestead to notify the men there the boat had left. THIRTY FROM PHILADELPHIA, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 22.—J. Ogden Hoffman, agent for the Carnegie Steel Co. in this city, employed about thirty steel workers yesterday, and dispatched them to Homestead last night. Thin were con- ducted with great secrecy. The advertise- ment in the morning papers asked those in search of work to call at an address on Arch street, whence they were sent to the compa- ny’s Office, and if satisfactory promptly en- gaged. 0 SIGNING THE SCALE, LITTLE INDICATION OF TROUBLE AT CHICAGO AND JOLIET. CnIcaGo, III., July 22.—The Amalgamated scale has been signed by the Illinois Steel Co. as far as it applies to the rod and wire mills at Joliet. Secretary W. B. Perkin said this morning that the scale had not et been presented at the other mills. de; gardin the shut down at the Bay View milis of the company, near Milwaukee, Mr. Perkin declar ed that the cessation of opera- tions was due immediately tothe fact that the old scale time had expired, but was not to be taken as an indication that the scale agreement would not be renewed there. The men, he said, want rest, while the company is desirous of making necessary repairs. The North Chicago, Bridgeport and Calumet plants are in operation, a good deal of work on hand being contracts diverted to the com- pany by reason of the Homestead strike. „TAKE YOUR HANDS Or. SENATOR PEFFER’S PLAN FOR THE SEITLEMENT OF THE CONTEST. WASHINGTON; D. O., July 22.—In the Senate to-day, Mr. Petter of Kansas called up his labor resolutions and said there were only three ways to meet the difficulties which now ween employers and employes. ae pont the Government to take its hands offand let employers and employes settle them there for them - selves. This he admitted, was unpopular, Another way was for the Government to take hold and regulate the rates of wages. This was regarded as un- constitutional. The third way was for the Government to deal with the great labor em- ploying establisnments as it did with the private lands of the peo le—condemn, seize and pay for them. This, he thought, would be regarded as still more revolutionary than the second proposition, but he submitted there was no other way to arrange these dis. putes except through the bloody gates of war. Therefore he recommended to the Government the following proposition: Take your hands off and let the employer and em- ploye settle this matter for themselves. The resolutions were referred to the Committee .) of Florida, also took the uestion, calling up the of Voorhees f d his the r armed of one te Mr. Call, in su Th the workingmen of the Chinese population in Montreal, Toronto and other Canadian cities, which the Superin- tendent of Chinese Immigration states has THE DOOR IS OPEN. — —y—„-̃ — Cholera Can Sweep Unchecked Across the American Continent. CANADIAN OFFICIALS ALARMED AT THEIR DEFENSELESS CONDITION, Pacific Coast Porta and the Gulfof St. Lawrence Invite the Plague Von Caprivi Jealous of Bismarck—Chinese Invading the Dominion-—Goeneral For- eign News and Briefs. MONTREAL, Quebec, July 22.—Prominent medical men of this city have sounded an alarm against the danger which they declare threatens Canada from Asiatic cholera on the Pacific as well as on the Atlantic coast. The quarantine regulations on the Pacific and the Gulf ot St. Lawrence are most defec - tive. The attention of the Canadian Govern- ment has frequently been called to the defec- tive system, but nothing has been done to remedy it. Dr. Lefevre, Chairman of the Vancouver (Sritish Columbia) Board of Health, declares that the danger on the Pa- cific is very great, and extreme precaution is necessary against the dissemination of cholera ani small-pox by immigrants and passengers from China and Japan. THE PLAGUE IN EUROPE. ST. PETERSBURG, July 22.—Six cases of cholera and four deaths have occurred at Kolomena, sixty-eight miles from Moscow, where there are extensive factories worked. Two deaths from cholera have occurred in a village near Moscow and two in Moscow. Private advices from Moscow state that cholera has broken out at Nijni Novgorod and that official reports to the contrary are untrue. Galician papers report that differences have arisen between Russia and Persia owing to the fact that a number of Persians have died from cholera in Baku. Persia has demanded compensation on the ground that Russia has | not taken proper sanitary precautions. A DIPLOMATIC FAILURE. THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO RESISTS ENGLAND’S BLANDISHMENTS. TANGIER, July 22.—Sir Charles Evan-Smith, the British Minister to Morocco, who some time ago went on a mission to Fez, and con- cerning whose safety some anxiety was felt owing to the fact that he had not been Heard from for some time, arrived here to-day on board the British war ship Amphion. He and his party were received with the customary ceremony. Sir Charles was accompanied by Col. Parr of the regiment, Maj. Baynes of the King’s Rifles, Surgeon-Captain McPherson and Maj. Mens of the Gibraltar garrison. Lady Euan-Smith, Miss Smith and Miss Kerri- son were also of the party, which traveled from Fez to Rabat, where they embarked on the Amphion. Advices fromthe British camp at Fez to July 16 confirm the reports of the failure af Sir Charles Euan-Smith’s mission, which, it issaid, was due to French fmtrigue,. It is said that a French mission will visit Fez in September with the object of negotiating a treaty similar to the one Sir Charles Euan- Smith sought to negotiate, The Capitale of Rome says that all the European powers will concentrate naval squadrons at Cadizin order to be ready to proceed to Morocco, where the question be- tween France and the Sultan is becoming complicated and threatens to cause discord between France and the powers interested in maintaining an equilibrium on the Mediter- ranean, - JEALOUS OF BISMAROK. VON CAPRIVI WATCHES THE EX-CHANCELLOR’S EVERY MOVEMENT. BERLIN, July 22.—The Hamburger Nachrichten nas published another article on the selec- tion of Gen. Von Caprivifor the Chancellor- ship. Inthisarticle itis admitted that Gen. Caprivi may not have endeavored to obtain the post, but was selected by the Centrists, who used every effort to displace Prince Bismarck. Chancellor von Oaprivi Imagines that Prince Bismarck is striving to supplant him and is painfully anxious when any symptoms of a rapproche- ment between the Emperor and Prince Bis- marck appear. The official press then regu- larly begins to revive the uneasiness of the Emperor by saying that Prince Bismarck’s opposition is aimed at the throne, while really it is those cherishing political ambi- tions who are struggling to gain favor with the Emperor, With this Prince Bismarck has nothing to do. Chancellor von Caprivi’s personal influence occasioned the dispatch instructing Prince Reuss not to attend the Bismarck wedding. Prince Bismarck and his family will leave Kissengen for Varsin next Tuesday. The Prince will stop in Jena in response to an in- vitation from the students of the University. The visits which Prince Bismarck planned to make in other German cities are said to have been abandoned at the earnest solicita- tion of his friends. Freiherr von stumm, who retired from the German Embassy at Madrid on account of his futile intercession with the Emperor for Bismarck, has been at Kissengen for the last few days, and is thought to have been chiefly instrumental in altering the Prince’s purpose. DOMINION AFFAIRS. CANAL TOLLS LIKELY TO BRING ON A CLASH OF ARMS. OTTAWA, July 22.—Speaking with reference of the proposal of Judge Chipman to impose a toll upon all Canadian vessels passing through the St. Clair Flats Canal, a member of the Cabinet said that he would like to see the American Government attempt to seize a Canadian vessel for refusing to pay toll, The canal, while constructed with United States Capital, was indisputably in Canadian terri- tory, which fact the engineers of the United States Government have admitted. Howev- er, he did not for one moment believe any such step would be taken by the United States Government. CHINESE INVASION. QUEBEC, July 22.—The alarm that has been Caused by the very large emigration of Chi- nese eastward from the Pacific coast appears to be warranted in the startling increase in doubled within the past four months, while after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Rallroadithe numberjof Chinamen returning to China was largely in excess of the number of past eighteen ve exceeded departures for the Celestial Empire by 56 per cent. . ‘stances, andthe many new acquaintances. when they heard of his arrival were so told. One prominent merchant here, a great ad- mirer of his, who also accosted him, was in- formed by Kipling that he did not wish any | The worst treatment was received by the Pen and Pencijl Club, to which the principal artists and literary folks of the Dominion belong. They tendered a reception in their beautiful club rooms, but without even going tothe trouble to inform them to that effect he failed to appear, and slighted them ina manner which will never be forgotten. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. MOUNT ASTNA’S ERUPTION CONTINUES IN VIO- LENCE. CaTANIA, July 22.—The eruption of Mount tna continues to increase in violence. The lava flowing down the western side of the mountain is advancing rapidly. A fresh stream of lava now threatens the village of Nicolosionthe south. Continual jshocks are felt in the vicinity of the volcano and some of the shocks are felt as far as Syracuse, fifty miles distant. 4 GLADSTONE’S PLANS. Lonpow, July 22.—The present plan of Mr. Gladstone appears to be to get the Irish mem- bers to ald him in rigging up the electoral machinery in orderto secure him a majority in the next- general election enabling him to laugh at the Irish vote. His plan is not un- adroit although the Nationalists are hardly so simple as to cut their throats by helping to execute it. A NOTABLE WEDDING. ~ Maprip, July 22. — Ex-Premier Sagasta’s daughter Esperanza was married yesterday. The couple received an enthusiastic greeting from the crowd, and bands in the streets played ‘‘Riego’s Hymn, the Spanish ‘‘Mar- seillaise.’’ The presents to the bride are valued at over $200,000, including a rich gift from Queen Regent Christiana, FRENCH DAHOMEY EXPEDITION. PARIS, July 21.—The French Dahomey expe- dition will start from Kotonou for the inte- rior in September. Norain has fallen in Da- homey since July 1, and it is expected that the climatic conditions for the expedition will be excellent. FOREIGN BRIEFS. Robert Lansing has been appointed Advisor to the Mexican Legation at Washington, in piace of Mr. Foster, resigned. It transpires that Mr. and Mrs, Hecksher of New York, believed to have been killed by the landslide at st. Gervais, were not in that vicinity at the time. The German Ministry of the Interior has is- sued orders’ to the frontier guards to main- tain constant vigilance in order to prevent the entry into Germany of Russian Jews. CASUALTIES. An Iowa Town Devastated by a Tornado— Briefs. OTTUMWA, Ia., July 22.—A terrible tornado swept over the mining town of Hiteman, just west of here, yesterday, blowing down and unroofing residences. Several persons were injured, one man probably fatally. The tor- nado struck Hiteman without warning. The first building to suffer was the Welsh Union Church. The mammoth store of the Hite- man Supply Co. caught it next and ruined. The Wa to Coal Co.’s b barns were the neat to under And in — — were a mass of ruins, the flying timbers endangering lives and seriously in- juring many. At least twenty dwelling houses were wrecked and as many more un- roofed. A regular panic occurred amon the people and, as they ran to cellars an caves for protection, many were struck with Aying timbers or carried from their feet. Only one was seriously injured. He is a miner whose name could not be learned. ELECTRIC CAR WRECKED. BROOKLYN, N. Y., July 22.—A trolly carat Coney Island was deralled by a broken rail and crashed into aniron pole. Several pas- sengers were injured, the most serious being John J. Davis of this city, knocked insen- sible, cut and bruised; Charles McLaughlin of Brooklyn, bruised and severely cut; Mrs. Charles a badly cut, and Mrs. Oharles Welzer, Brooklyn, cut on head and face and badly injured. The car was filled with passengers returning home aftera day’s merry-makingat the island. The injured passengers had their wounds dressed and were sent home, withthe exception of Mrs. Welzer, who was so severely hurt that it was not deemed wise to remove her to her home, She was removed to a near-by hotel. BRAKEMAN KILLED. NEVADA, Mo., July 22.—Ira Powell, aged 25, a brakeman onthe Missouri Pacific, in at- tempting to jump from the pilot of an en- ine, slippedand fell yesterday in front of he train, killing him instantly. His remains were taken in charge by the Nevada Brother- hood Trainmen, embalmed and shipped to Frankford, Ind., where his parents reside. CRUSHED IN AN OMNIBUS. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 22.—The new om- nibus ofthe Continental Hotel was caught between two cable cars on Market street, and crushed to kindling. The driver was proba- bly fatally hurt, and Miss Susie Kirwin, the pe singer, and her sister, Ars. Wliiliam 1 ir, the only passengers, was severely in- ured. CASUALTY BRIEFS. Two laborers were killed and fifteen others need by the collapse of a building in which were sleeping, twelve miles north of Logansport, Ind. The were all Italians and employed upon the Chicago Natural Gas- pipe Line. Near Pleasant Hill, Mo., at 2 o’clock this morning, an unknown man was killed out- right, and Clyde Capeland and Fred Ritchey, who live near Butler, Mo., were terribly mangled while stealing a ride on a Missouri Pacitic freight train, Charles, the 83-year-old son of Lawrence and Mary Keebler, residing four miles from Charleston, Ind., was disemboweled by two massive Newfoundland dogs yesterday which the little fellow was caressing when they fell upon him. Ane woman who attem to prevent the brutes devouring child was also attacked. NG. . Proficiency Attained at the Carthage Mil- itary Camp. CARTHAGE, Mo., July 22.—Adaj.-Gen. B. F. Wickham arrived this morning to inspect Regiment No. 20fthe N. G. M., now in camp two miles nortn of this city. The boys in blue present a fine appearance when on dress parade, drill and are soldierly in deport eis ie ELE. Ade age N " N F „„ r Tite eR Re PRS me N pe ee ig hay a few A Mexican Bandit Shot for His Des- perate Crimes, — . — TWO OF HIS VICTIMS TORTURED TO DEATH BY FIRE. 4 . Fitting End to a Record of Unparalleled Atroolties— An Indiana Photographer Charged With Wife-Poisoning—Two Alleged Accomplices Arrested—Battle With Tramps—Criminal Record. ZACETECAS, Mex., July 22.—In the little mountain town of Tilaltenango, this State, Candelario Prez, one of the most inhuman and desperate criminals of Mexico, was yes- terday shot to death by due process of law. Prez was a man of about 40 years of age and for the past three years he has been the lead- er of a band of brigands, who have kept the people of Tialtenango and vicinity fn a state of constant terror. Thres weeks ago Ramon Morales and Oarmen Pluvo, two promi- nent merchants of that started on an overland journey for Zacatecas. They bad in their possession $500 with which to buy goods in this city for their CENTS PER WEEK, store. They were attacked when a short dis *, 15 ‘ + 2H tance out from Tialtenango by Perez and hi band. The merchants made a brave resist- ance, Killed three of the bandits and wounded Perezinthearm, The brigands finally over- powered them, however, and by direction of Perez both merchants were taken to their rendezvous in the mountains and there hor- ribly tortured, Their fingersand toes were cut off one dy one and then they were tied to stakes and a fire built around them, slowly roasting them to death. CRIME NEWS. AN INDIANA PHOTOGRAPHER CHARGED WITH WIFE MURDER. Hanno, Ind., July 22.—Photographer 0. G. Page, whose young wife died in Bangor, Mich., July 5, of poison, under suspicious circumstances,, was arrested last night charged with murder. Mrs. Eliza Tobin of South Chicago, Page’s partner, was arrested onthe same charge. They were committed without bail. Albert Taylor, an employee in charge of their place of business at South Chicago, was brought to the city at midnight and placed under arrest. Mrs. Tobin was taken to Crown Point, while the men were locked up here. The dead woman’s father was here and said that an analysis of the stomach revealed the presence of arsenic. The examination will probably held at Crown Point next Tuesday. e affair has been conducted so secretly that further facts are unobtainable. BOY INDICTED FOR MURDER. CHICAGO, III., July N. - Robert Doughty, alias Roddy, a mere boy, was indicted for | murder and embezzlement by the Grand- ‘| jary yesterday. His victim was James Rey - nolas. Roddy worked for the Cold Blast Feather Co. and from them $400. With part of the money he bought two revolvers and induced the olds g adventures. start they engaged a olds was fatally shot ran away, but surrendered ia Cincinnati. A FUGITIVE CAPTURED. LITTLE Rock, Ark., July 22.—Deputy Sheriff R. B. Barnett passed through Dalark yester- day, having in charge Joe Copeland, wanted in Dallas County for murder and grand lar- ceny. Copeland killed a negro at Fordyce about eighteen months ago. His friends went on Ris bond and he fied the country. Considerable money was spent by his bonds- men in running him down. inally they located him at Brownwood, Tex., and he was arrested there by Barnett on Monday. He will be tried for murder at the mber term of the Dallas County Court. BATTLE WITH TRAMPS. CUMBERLAND, Md., July 22.—The Baltimore & Ohio operator at Patterson’s Oreek was at · tacked by a gang of Italians last night at a late hour, Three oftheir number had deen put ot a passenger train there by the con- SUSY BURGLARS. MascoutTag, III., July 22.—Burgiars forced an entrance into the house of M. Bartholme of West Mascoutah last night. The family was drugged and the house ransacked for money. About F was secured the rob- bers. The residence of A by, was bur „ There no clew to SENTENCE DEFERRED. Sr. Josern, Mo., July 22.—Juage Parker of the United States District Court to-day an- George W. R. Howell and ts who * boy to promise to Bef : m * 7 POST-DISPATCH to Its Want Advertising Po & trons, Tuesday Evening g. August 23, 98. N 4 2 4 * 3 = nounced that he would withhold judgment in 4 u the ts. M was made and the Howells gave LIBERTY AND DEATH. New Yoru, July A.- Two prisoners, ons q white manand the other a negro, escaped from Blackwell’s Island yesterday. They pT a COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED. jumped into the East River 9 255 3 swim Island City side. a ie eS tas the White man Ee :