The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 24, 1892, Page 2

eer UNCIVILIZED WAR! Twenty Men Killed and Many Wound- | ed at Coal Creek. MINERS ACT DECEITFULLY. Capt. Anderson Captured Under a Flag of Truce—He is Threatened With Lynch- ing-Gen. With the Enemy and Loses Your Men Killed and Six Wounded. Carnes Has a Brush KNOXVILLE, all its horrors and without the courte- ivilized conflict in which flags are res ted, is raging in the coal mining region and no one can what will be the end for the free miners are desperate and the advent of hun- dreds of soldiers and armed civilians has not awed them in the least. So far as can be learned at present, twenty men have been killed and as | Keller | many more wounded and Capt. Anderson, the hero of Coal Creek, is in the hands of the outlaws, having been 5 lin dastardly fashion under cover ofa flag of truce. Three times yesterday did the des- perate miners attack Camp Anderson, the last stockade of the convicts guard- ed by soldiers, and twice were they driven back. The third attack was raade about 2 o'clock in the afternoon by 3,000 miners armed with all sorts of weapons. As soon as the men were within close range Capt. Kellar Ander- son ordered his men to fire. They did so and several of the attacking hordes fell. The miners pressed on and soon capt- ured the stockade proper, which is some distance from the fort. The doors and entrances were thrown open and the miners began to order the convicts to leave and had them all captured when Capt. Anderson assemb!.d all his sol- diers at the side toward the stockade and moving the howitzers to that side began to bombard them. The miners stopped the work of or- dering out the convicts and turned to escape from the fusilade of riflle bul- Jets. Again and again their leaders begged them to fight, but they rushed down the hill to escape the furious on- slaught of the soldiers. With never a halt and never a rally they reached the bottom of the hill, bearing twelve dead and more than twenty wounded miners with them. They hurried far out of the sight and reach of the guns. During the afternoon three leaders of the miners were captured and their com- rades sent a flag of truce to the fort to parley for their release. Anderson met the bearers of. the flag, five in number, outside of the walls and was at once seized by the men, disarmed, held be- tween the captors and the fort and Tenn., Aug. 19.—War, in | tell | THE ROAD CONVENTION. The Practicable Method Favored For Im- proving the Highways. CHiiLicoTHE, Mo., Aug. 19.—The state road convention yesterday got pretty choc « to the question of good roads for Missouri by adopting the report of the committee on legislation and means, i 25 submitted by Hon. L.U. Ma sie, chairman, of Springfield. The -port of the committee classific d ades or cla ‘ or turnpike graded and sses: rt roads; ordi ¢ graded roac ns of not le length upon petition of a iajority | abutting property owners, who shall | pay not less than 25 cent. of the ads of th be of the ¢ xpense to const ips ar | road di sas fur as at of aroadmaker to | by the county court. und each ¢ employed The report calls for suct as will divert all dram shop licc the road fund of the counties, a poll tax and a levy of not exceeding 50 cents on the $100 val for the construction of roads of the second and third classes, and to levy ecial for roads of voters of an may vote to de n such taxes the first class as the county or road district termine. inal cases poses that the law be so amended as to exempt the state from the payment of costs in criminal cases except the sala- ries of officers, and that the a saved to the state, together with the tax on forcign corporations, be deliv- ered to the general road fund and dis- tributed to the various counties. In the view of the difficulty of raising money in various counties by direct taxation wherewith to build roads, it is proposed to ask the state to loan its credit to its various counties to the ex- tent of 10 per cent. of their assessed value for the purpose of road building and the submission of a constitutional amendment to omplish this end is called for. The report met with the hearty approval of the convention and ; a dissenting eral Assixtay HINGTON, Ang. 19. ant, of the Wa morn the cor arsenal dian once to e gove at IXnox- ville 600 stand of and 39,000 rounds of ammunition for use by the state anthorities in suppressing the mine riots. This action was based on a formal requisition from Gov. Buehan- an. Gen. Grant said that no applici n for troops had been received so far carried by main force to one of | 9. he imew, and added that he did not the hotels where a letter to his lool for one. Z lieutenant ordering the surrender ae of the fort was thrust before him rh and he was ordered to sign it. Threats Totepo, O., Aug. 19 fire which were in vain. He asked only to be shot | started in Delta was not brot yt under and that his grave should be marked so | control until fe re de- that his family could find it. He was | stroyed, including a hotel, the: Atlas then locked up in a room, guarded by a | printing office, seven grocery stores, band of men commanded by Burt Lind- | two saloons, two barber shops, say, brother of the United States dis- | three livery barns, a drug store, the trict attorney of Eastern Tenness¢ a notorious character. It that he would be lynched. and was hinted At 11 o'clock the news came that Maj. Carpenter's forces had reached Offutt’s, five miles south from Coal Creek, and had started on foot for Coal Creek. By this move it was hoped to surprise the rioters, whose pickets were deployed only three miles from Coal Creek, and thus get into Fort Anderson from the rear. Gen. Carnes and his comm Offut’s at 11 o'clock and there learned that 500 miners awaited them at Knapp’s Summit, about mile from ek, and three cattle guards were filled with dynamite. Hearing this, he left the train, formed his men into colurans and started on the march to Coal Cree The night was dark and the road wound thro ber. ad reached ve miles east of Clinton the advance skirmishers heard voices in the timber and challenges were answered with a volley which seemed to be all around them. No one was hit and the skir- mish line fell back on the main body which was now rapidly advancing. fhe militiamen stood to their work like veterans and in ten minutes the miners were in full retreat, with them their wounded. their dead were left behind them in the underbrush. Gen. Carnes’ casualties amounted to four dead and six wounded. The wounded men were placed in am bulances and ta march to Coal Cree! over the mountains ( quainted with the cc reach his goal unless the miners have mustered a sufficient force to surround his command. A telegram from Coal Creek, received at noon, announces that another en- gagement has token place between the soldiers and miners. Gen. Carnes ad- vanced on the depot and captured it without firing a gun. He then moved on toward Fort Anderson and the miners fired on the soldiers. One sol- dier, Walt Hall, was killed. One miner was killed and three wounded. Col. Mager telegraphs from the of war that Capt. Anderson is s' the hands of the miners and grav for his safety are felt. The troops have charge of the town of Coal Creek and the miners have retreated over the untain. ithe t train from Nashville bearing the Springfield rifles and Nashville volun- teers arrived here at 11 o'clock. The men were joined at once by 200 citizens rnes from here and the consolidated troops j to Coal Creek. =o ers and laborers left Abeut 100 mi | Middleboro, Ky.. for Coal Creek last night. Capt. John M. Brooks, manager » Middleboro Town Co.. received a Sia from Sheriff Holloway, of | Knox count ra Joan of guns and ammunition t Lo’elock this morn- ing. The local militia company was ab-; sent and the captain wired back to that effect. 1 the heavy tim- | express office, Musonic hall, seven dwellings, thre vilive buildings, a baker two butcher shops, a bank, clothing store, dry goods store, seve ware store und a photo- The estimated at $200,000, pi urtially loss is al insur ian MiN Prand. CoLtuvEus, Ind... Aug. a farmer and miller an order sent for the sate « a fanning mill, shipped him as a Fo 1 car loads, chines, were shippe one of which was to be : hae ate order he had s note f{¢ the mach brought, effected by cepting th Was lent Su the 1 HINGYON, son: ine an order prc hiladel- Cleveland—Cleve at, dd Pittsburgh—Pittsbur St. Louis—St. Louis, 1 Louisville—Louisville, Sorrowfal Aug. 1 News, oO the labor troubles in Amer- “There like these riots in the experience of the last generation. It is the saddest dis- appointment to lovers of liberty in the history of our time. It is useless to say t America is no worse neighbors. If she is no better off, she inetly failed etlectio —The D: | Loxpoy, referri ng t | has di Drowned St. PETERSBU the Vol . Aug. 10.—.A steamer jni-Novgorod during heavy storm. Many of the passengers 8 jumped overboard and atter mpted to} the shore by swimming, but} were drow arr badl ) were bruis was The Hogg and Clark democratic fae | tions in Texas have placed | tickets in the ficld t is to be in! nses to, ution to be appropriated | The report calls attention to , the enormous amount of costs in crim- | id by the state and pro-, nount so, | has been nothing} off than her! “ae MISSOURL MORTGA Some Interesting Figures Furnished By the Census Bureau—A Comparison Be- tween Kansas City and St. Louts. Wasuineton, Aug. 19.—The informa- tion solicited by Senator Cockrell con- cerning the mortgage indebtedness of Missouri has been given out in full by | Superintendent Porter. During the ten years, 1880-1889, 448,085 real estate mortgages were made, an ineurr indebte dness of The debt remai fi 1890, is ortgages, i representing secured né of this debt .625 incumbers 10, 21 acres, and §112,$91,147 ineumbers 155,44: lots. In four counties whe was made it was per cent. of the mortgages is a debt in estate purcha when not as: and the pore ent th he ascertained that 70.8: d for real objects, would be somew incurred for thes: ated from the other are often a most striking results of gation are gained by a parison of St. Lov and Kansas Ci The latter cannot be completely sepa- rated from the remainder of Jackson county, in which it is situated, but, nevertheless, the comparison is not ma- y impaired because it must be emade between St. Louis city and J The per capita mortgage debt of debt Some of th the invest com- son. St. Louis city is $91; of Jackson county, $445. The mortgage debt of St. Louis ity -T1 per cent. of the ‘true value of the taxed real the in Jackson county vent. St. Louis city has a population in- reuse of 89 per cent. in ten ye 5 y an increase of 157.91 per and Jackson county an increase of 97 per cent. . Louis eity and Jack- son county have 52.47 per cent. of the xisting mortgage debt of the state and 5 per cent. of the state’s population. The real estate mortgage debt in force Jannary 1, 1890, shows a total for jackson county of $71,406,968. Of this 1,457 is placed on lots and the re- mainder on ac ARBITRATION REFUSED. t McLeod Terms His Striking Em- +s Outlaws and Rejects Overtures of ste Boara. Pini ADELPHIA, A 1.—The follow- mete m was sent by President Me- rod, ie Reading railroad, to Gen- ntendent Bonzano, of | no, General Superin - . OrF1cy PUILADELPHIA & READ. 2AD CO., PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. t of yourm York st $395 t :m. of 0 arbitration. You are Uthatin the opi this compa inst on 0} face of the existing | MARKET REPORTS. Kansas City Live Stock. Wsas CITY, Aug. 19 are representative sal BEEF AND SHIPPID 2 34.05 333 Wyo....L XAS AND INDIAN ¢ $55 818) 10) B16 ELS shipped yesur wes ripts, 420; for ood The follo muttons sales 68 lambs. (6 34.70 oll0 3.55 46Col. mut... 894.3) we) 4.50 Chicago Live Stock Market. CHICAGO, Aug. 19.—Hogs—Receipts, official yesterday, 22,451: shipments y 6,540 over, about 10,00; quabty poor. ket active and firm: best gradesg@lle higher: other grades unchanged. Sales ranged ) for light; for rough packi 5.8) for mixed: & 5.90 for heavy ing and shipping lots 4.40935. 40. Cattle— Receipts, 1 yesterda shipments 13,191; market fairly activ Sheep—Re 303: shipm and firm; al pric ‘ipts, 4,000. nts yesterda prices a trif oficial yester as City Grain Market. Mo., Aug. 19. | the t to-day cash wheat w | than yesterday, though some early sales were | but ‘sc dow t F ny in all slowly Mixe sold and. prices w re Cases. A Vad Plaze at Vandali: Vanpaiia, Mo, Aug. 19.—A fire ov- urred in the north business portion of 210,000 worth of to- over ng losses are , the last in this cit und builder, tion of one ice court contractor the inst Mrs. Maria Pomeroy Dead. “Mrs. 2 Iter for- who ac- IWITMT town of at Newman, Ill, 20,000 on 500 popula- tion, od out The { alone. Three French office been ilesia. have owitz, and ala My: mple ger, ¢ arpenter, at Morriston, Ind., ‘and was killed al- | most instantly. Cashier Davis, of the Iron Hall, has | refused to surrender his books to the | investigatiug comm Be: John B. Klegg, editor of the (IL) Journal, has Ogden and will be sent to the asylum at Kan- } kakee. The Canadian Pacific hes obtained possession of the new e which is be- ing built along the Canadian side of the Niagara river. The president has appointed William | Harrison Bradley. States consul at Ryder, dismissed. Pierre Lorillard has purchased from of Illinois, United Copenhagen, v' | paid being $27,500. One engineer and fireman were killed jured by a head-end collision on the The citizens of Wyatt park, a suburb | of St. Joseph, Mo., have taken prelim- | inary steps to have the charter of the Wyatt Park feited. Mrs. Hawley Chapman, wife of the demented ia ing on the for the purpo: but Septembe Fresident Diaz | the government ¢ 1 make her de- York. ared forfeited Tact with Pritecher | for the imp ment of the harbor of Coatsecoalec “he contractor ‘failed to deposit the guarantee required. lat svislature | iolatian | She was | grain | fell |p been declared insane | Messrs. 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