Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 10, 1892, Page 1

i o e———— PART ONE. I = PWENTY-SECOND LEGAL ASPECT OF IT COondition of the Homestead Trouble as Viewed by the Lawyers, SHERIFF M'CLEARY IS POWERLESS NOW There Being No Riot He Cannot Call Out a Posse of Citiz:ns, FRICK CANNOT SECURE AN INJUNCTION Peing Constructively and Actually in Pos- on of the Works Hoe is Out Off. WORKMEN ARE NOT EVEN TRESPASSERS They Are Keeping Off the Company’s Prem- cullar Turn of Affalrs—Re- ines— sults of Several Conferencon ~Men Unensy, [FROM YESTERDAY'S SECOND EDITION.| Pirtsnune, Pa., July 8.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bee.|—Plushed with victory, the striking steel workers are becoming defiant. The leaders are I8sing their control over tho men, who are becoming restiess. On all sides can be hoard groups of strikers denouncing the sherifl as a volitical trickster. They are suspicious of the leaders, who at a meeting advised them all 10 let the sheriff take charge of the mills, Tho town has been quiet all day, but the strikers are nervous from the coustant strain of watching and waiting for an aftack dur- ng the last few days, and it would not take much to set the community in an uproar. Sheriff McCleary, accompanied by Assist- ant Soll otty, left at3:80 this afternoon for Homestead for a conference with the leaders of the strikers at that point. Tue citizens of Pittsburg breathed more freely after that fact became known than they have done for a week. It was the first ove made by the authorities which had in it the ap- pearauce of conciliation. The doparture of Sherlffl McCloary was postponed until the hour namea for several reasons. e Couldn’t Kaiso n Posse. Up w alate hour last uight be still had bopes that a sufficient number of citizens would respond to his call to go to Home- stead, although he confassed that he be- Jieved such a movement would bear no fruit. This morning st 90'clock about. twenty-four reported to the sheriff with the in- men formation that if he would arm them they would go with him, aithough they had no ambition to shoulder guns or face strikers, who a few days had shown by tneir organi- ration that they knew how to fight. Ihe sheriff told the twenty-four citizens he had no arms and the law did not authorize bim to purchase any, and after an awkward silence of several minutes, during which time the high official of the county looked at the twenty-four as Sir John Falstaff is sup- posed to havo looked upon his recruits, ho told them to go home, “The sheriff then sought the consolation of lis private room, where he rematned until ho received an invitation to go to the Seveuth Avenue hotel, whero Ad- jutant General Greenland, General Wylie, Colonels Chambers and McKibben and Licutenant Rutleage were waiting to receive m. This conference lasted unul noon. When the sheriff returned to his offic e learned that & meeting of the strikers at Homestead had been held and thai Lawyer Brenaan, attorucy for the Awalgamated association, had advised the men to give the sheriff possession of the property. He Hnd No Right toa Posse, This intimation was a relief to the sheriff who hag, after coming from the meeting with the military gentlemen, been advised to issue more summonses and to enfore the law upou those that failed to respond. While he was considering this last proposition and yet pefore he had neard the bvews from Homesteud, he had been called upon by several well known lawyers, who informed him that the time had gone by for a summouing of a posse. They showed him that it was ouly in case of a riot thut a posse could be summoned, and there being no riot today he haa no authority to call upon citi- zoos to go to Homestead. Then the jaded and much criticised official saw a flash of light through the smoky at- mosphere of Pittsburg for the ‘rst timo since last Wednesday. Au hour later thero appeared before the sheriff ex-President Weike of the Amalga- mated association, and with him were Pres- ident Garland and Secretary Kilgallon of tho association, and Chris Magee, wno came in to help out the sherlff. This conferenco lasted nearly an hour, and before it was en- tirely over Weike came out and said in re- #ponse 1o a query of T BrE correspondent : *1 am well sutisfied with my mission and if nothing occurs to disarrange our vlans we aconow in @ fair way to a solution of this question. [ cannot at this time tell you any more. The sheriff is going upto Home- where auother confer- and after that we will séad this afternoon, ence will be hela kuow more.” Rexult of the Confe The conference encded soon after and Sher- it McCleary with Lawyer Petty, made a bee line for the Fourth uvenue depot, whera they boarded @& train for Homestead. Neither Mr. Magee nor Mr. Garlaod nor Kilgallon cared 10 say what had beeu said st the mecting, inasmuch as the whole mat- ter would have to be talked over with tto lenders at the mill. Aajutant General Greenland, who is known 90 represent the governor in this trausac- tion, was himself noncommittal when asked sbout tho conference held at the Seveatn Avenuo botel, but from one of his stuff the Intimation was obtained tbat much would dopend upou the results of the conferenco at Homestead. He sald that Governor Patti- son was fully advised of the situation, and would undoubtedly act if the sherlff was un able to briug about any satisfactory arrange- ment. Thiere is no doubt but thut the availibility of tho state militia wes discussed at tie & enth Avenue hotel conference, for a member of Adjutant General Greenlaud’s staff, when wsked direct what force could be brought wto action on short notice, promptly 1e- pled that tive regiments, two batteries and oue troop were virtually holding themselves in readiness at thut moment to march Quickly recovering, be said: 1 ao uot wean to say that any notice has been given for these various regiments to mssemblo at headquarters, but that a number of men armed aud fully cquipped cau be torown iuto Homestead before tomorrow. " Witk 1t was learned from a relinble source that Gooeval Wylio und bis staff were ut bowe o 0 the Liw's L, THE OMAHA YEAR. stead lato yestorday afternoon and that they had gone over tho ground and were fully ad- vised of the lay of the land. and that the governor had been informed of this. Every phase of this situation from a military and logal standpoint has been thoroughly dis- cussed. General Greenland admitted that he was very desirous of securing a peaceful settlemont of the trouble and had avised that every legal resource be exhausted bofore a all for militia. It was suggested that the courts of Allognony county might assist io a solution of the troudle by issuing an injunc- tion restraining the men from retaining pos session of the property. This proposition was laid before counsel, who returned the information that before such a proceeding could bo had they would have to show that the men at the mills were trespassing. As counsel understood it such was not the case, and this further shows the admirable organization of ‘the men at the mills, as well as the shrowd- ness of the men who are at their head, for itappears that the men are not in actual possession of the mills, but are pa- trolling along the track of the road nearby and are picketed on the Leights overlooking tha steel works and the Monongahola. As long as this state of things exists no in- junction could issue. GENERAL BUTLER'S VIEW e Asserts That the Carnegie Ma Have Violated the Law, Bosroy, Mass., July 8.— |Special Telogram to e Bee,| —General Bonjamin F. Butler has come out in an_interview relative to tho labor trouvles at Homestead, Pa., in which he declares that the Carnegio managers vio- lated the law. After reviewing the cuse at length, General Butler said: “I lave no words of justification of the action of the mob when the invasion took place, but I may be vermitted to remark when I sec many assertions that the Carnogie cowpany had the richt to protect its property, that perhaps that the workingmen, knowing that they were bring- ing that irresponsivle, illegal and murderou organization to shoot them down, might well have belioved that they had some right or could organize to protect their lives aud drive off the invaders who were acting with- out right and agaiost law. That question will vear argument. Deserted by the state autnorities, tho higher law of solf preserva- tion might bo invoked, notin legal justifica- gors tion for what they did, but cortainly in palliation. “Ifthe facts are as I have and 1 do not well soe how it take, such occurrences ought never to hap- pen again in this country, and the most stringent laws, as well of the United States 4 0f the states, should be passed to prevent it. Pinkerton’s body of cutthroats should be disbanded by law if the lesson thoy got st Homesteaa will not disband them. ~ ‘Cho oxistenceof such un organization under any form or pretext should be made felouies in whomsoever taking part in t. “I further, us a lawyer, beligve rully that those having charge of the Carnegie com- pany and organizing this riotous invasion could bo indicted and puuished with great severity under the present law for con spiracy to break the peace an1 commit mur- der, and I hope they may be if there is any law or justice in the state of Pennsylvania not overshadowed and controlled by’ misor- abie political considerations, "' stated them, can be & mis- GOVERNOR PATTINO. POSITION, Peunsylvania's Troops Wil Not Be S Homestead., Prrrsnueo, Pa., July 8.—([Special Telegram t0 TuEe Bre.]—Since Sherifl McCleary has acknowledged bis inability to cope with the strikers at Homestead ho nas called upon Governor Pattison frequently to furaish aid 1n guarding the works of the Carnegie com- pany. The goveraor has as often refused to call out tho militia. Tcnight was obtained from an emissary of the Rovernor, who is privately in the city, the reasons why the militiu has not been called out and why the govercor considers it will not be necessary to do so. Ho said: “The Carnegie Steel company, limited, & concern doing business in the state of Pennsylvauia, has presented to its men certain wage scales which they have refused to accept. Before the final issue between employer and his employes, the men were given a cortain day to accept or reject the wage ~ propositions. Previous experience should have taught tuese men that this firm was an organization of business: that it had adkered to its business obligations, It bas always beon understood 1a this country that in caso the business of A manufacturer was intertered with by outside persons that it was the business of the shoriff and his depu- ties 1o prevent any such interforence. The sheriff has endeavored to carry out this idea. it to He has failed. The company asks the snertff to restore its property to it, but before the sheriff made & demand of tho strikers they, through the advice of able at- torneys, voluntarily placed in the hands of the wutchmen employed by the company this same property. “The governor has been advised of this fact, He caunot see, therefore, why it is necessary to call out. troops when there is no rebellion and no destruction of property The governor's position is that the militia was not organized to do police duty. It is not consistent with the purpose of guarding private property and denies that unless there is an assault made upon the property or men engaged ot work therein he has neither right nor authority to call ou the state troops.” ADVISING : MEN. Submission to the Legal Authorities Co selled by Labor Leaders, Howestean, Pa., July 8,—The situation in Homestead has moved one step nearer the next point. In the words of one of the press committee of the labor men: *Thero is nothing indieating what the next step will be. All there is to do is to watch the strik- ers and wait,"”” What this will be no one can tell. be that troops will be ordered here, but no ono can say that such is the case. The sueriff has taken one more step and made one more effort to obtain admission Yfor deputy shieriffs to the works, and one more effort, this time in the town of Homestead itswlf, to obtain a posse. He has failed in these efforts as he hus failed in all his other efforts, nud the question urises: **What next? This is tho question that all are unable to ausw Opinion of the Sherlil's Attor, The legal adviser of the shoriff, Mr. Petty, says that the firm 15 not in law or in fact 1n possession of 1ts works and that it must be put in possession of them. To the strikers a proposition has been submitted that they permit a deputy sheriff to peace- fully enter the Works Bna assume charge. ‘The men Leld a meeting at which the propo- sition was considered. It adjourned without reaching a conclusiou, though so far as it hus gone it1s in fuvor of the proposition aud in favor of & submission to tho law of tno land, and recognition of the regular coustituted authority, The men are iteatly susvicious, and arc ufraia that the proposi- tion of the sheriff has beniud it come sivistor movement, that the introduction of deputies is but cloak for more iwporiations. Lhoey suy that Piukertoas will follow the deputies, Hoth these latter they will resist with ali their force. T'ho men are advisiug tho strikers It may o permit the deputies to cowo iu peace- ably und take possossion of the works, but if it be granted the strikers insist as @ condition that the deputies shall be veither numerous L(F urmed, wna that they shull not make & muvs Lo protect ICONTINLED ON BECOND FAGE. | OMAHA, SUNDAY, AWFUL L10SS OF LIFE Explosion in the West Berkeley, Cal. Powder Mills, OVER ONE HUNDRED BLOWN INTO ATOMS Forcs of tho Explosion Felt Twonty-Five Miles Away, COMPLETE DEMOLITION OF THE PLANT Fragments of the Dead Workmen Being Gathered Up. STARTLING EFFECTS OF THE EXPLOSION Much Twelve Miles Awa, Damage Done to San Franclsco Narrow Escapes and Hair Ralging ixperiences of Some ot the Eiaplo Sax Fravcisco, Cal, July 9.—At 9:28 o'clock this morning this city was shaken from end to end by an explosion. What it was or where it occurrea no one could tell, Before the peoplo had recovered another, as severe as the first, again shook buildings and cuused windows to rattle, People began to realize that ouly tne exblosion of a powder mill could have produced a shock of that nature. This explanation had haraly been arrived at when at 9:30 there occurred o ter- rific explosin that shattered windows all over town, blew in sky lights, broke plate glass on Montgomery avenue, Califoruia street, Montgomery strect, Kearney street und thoroughtares, and caused people to rush into the streets as though the convul- sion was about to tumble all the buildings about their ears. Two More Shocks. The consternation was still at its hight when there followed two more shocks, littio less severe than the territic ones which had just been felt. Glass rattled into the streets all over the city and not a few buildings, ac cording to their Inmates, came near col- lapsing. Men in the tower of the fire alarm station were sure that the stracture was Roing to collapse. At the Palace hotel there was great fear among the guests, and all over the city there was created a feeling of alarm. The 1ntensity of the shock can be appreciated when it is known that it was distinctly felt at Sacramento, eighty miles distant, and that windows were cracked at Napa and other points along the shore twenty-five miles from the scene of the explosion. Along the east side of San Francisco bay there are a num- bar of large powder manufactories which have been scenes of periodical explosions in which & number of lives have been lost. Where the Explosion Occurred. At Highland about half a mile from West Berkely and also Berkely and Oakland are located the works of the Giaat Powder com- pany, cousisting of chemical works, mixing and packing houses, five large buildings in all, together with thre2 large powder maga- zines, and a number of smaller ones, and it was here that the explosion occurred this morning, The explosion began in the nitro- glycerine works and the concussion soon caused an explosion in one of the magazines. Flames also broks out to add to the danger, and though a wrecking train had promptly been sent from Oakland the efforts of tie crew were coufined to a large extent to keeping the people back from the scene. About 200 yards back was a large magazine containing 300 tons of black powder, the explosion of which would have caused con- siderable fatality Gatnerlng Up the Dead. The work of gathering up the remains of the dead was pushed forward as rapidly as Dossible, but Lhe sceue was one of such con- fusion and danger that the work was slow at the best, The flames at the burning packing and mixing houses wero terrific and drove the crowds back repeatedly. Chinamen were huddled together in littie kuots with scorched faces and hands, and their suffer- ing was inteuse. Even surgeons wero veuted from passing the guards, fortho largest of the plack powder magazines lay just over the brow of the hill, and flames from the burning wreckage were croeping noarer and nearer. Just about the magazing could be seen evidences of the expiosion. On the western slove che scattered timbers of the giant powder house were blazing furiously, while a vellow stream trickling down toward the bay showed where the con- teuts of the acid tunks had emnptied them- selves. Allthe mixing and packing houses of 'he black powder department and sulphur mill were in ashes. The damage to the black powder works sloue will amount to over 75,000, The tirst explosion that occurred caused the giant powdor magazine to go up. The blacP powder mills lay directiy in the path of the explosion, and burning brands were neaped upon the already wrecked ouildings ano among the frightened Chinamen, Un pre- ed China en Missing. for a loug time impossible to gain of the number of lives lost. The declined to give any particulars most of the men empliyed were uames were not obtainable. and as Chinese the However, an estimato was made et 1 o'clock that there were 104, of whom 101 were China men, but there was reason to believe that that estimate was not near the real number, The cause of tne explosion is sud to have been the upsetting of 8 bottle of acid in the office, whica set fire tu the building. Early this afterncon no one would ap- proach the magazine which haa not exploded and which contained over 800 tons of gisuy powder and dynamite. Fortunately, how- ever,the fira kopt away from the main maga. zine. Three White Men Dead. Three white men who were working in the nitro-glycerine house were killed. They were: JOHUN BOWE. WALTER DICKERSON. CHARLES GUBERLIGE Tho head engineer of the glycerino bhouso was blown tweuty feet and knocked sense- The first explosion gave the men in other departments warning, aud they ran in time to escape, Mrs. Paloter of West Berkeley, who was sick, was so affected that she is veileved to be dying. A boy named Borehero was blown through the roof of one of the buildings. He will die. The body of a Chinaman was found ou the rallroud trace half a mile trom the works. The remaius of a Chinese boy, frightfully mangled, were found uear the sccue. Joun Farley, @ workman, walking near the mix- g house, was biown into the bay, but swam out. Toe beales of turee white men less, MORNING JULY 10, [ wero found in the ebeis, tereibly mangied. Impossible to Estimare tho & of Lif The accounts gerfiwe tho list of dead among the white wéiployes to (hose three men. It is almest impossiblo to ascertain the exact number of Ohineso who are killed. Only two bodiés of Chinamen were found up to this writing. Thebodies of the dead are now in Oakland morzue. One of the most striking features of the explosion was the extent of damage in the way of broken windows that 1t causod in this city, twelvo milos from the scene, The officers of the Glant Powder company were present after the explosion, As they saw the wreck of nearly every structure they exprossed gratification ut the extremely emall loss of 1ife consideriag the tarrific ex- tent of the explosion and the Isrze number of men employed. They say it is almost im- possible to estimate the loss, but say §200,000 will probably be the outside figure for the damage to the powder ‘works. The San Francisco Chemidal works, owned by Egvert Judson and J. L. N. Snepard, wore com- pletely destroyed; and their loss is not far from #150,000. — STILLIN DARKNL. . Mediieval Superstitions Resurrectegd by a Criminal Trinl nt Cleves. LCopyrighted 1892 by Janes Gordon Bannath.\ Benriiy, July 9.—[Now York Herald Cable—Spocial to. Tue Bee.)—The trial of Wolf Buschoff ¢, Cleves for the murder of little Johann Hegemann last year, has filled almost as much space in the German papers this week as did Prince Bismarck’s inter- views, It [snot the murder itself, though that was horrible that has caused so much excltement but the fact that the accused is a Jew, while ‘the lad, who, is said to have bled to death, was a Chris- tian, Anti-Semites declara the child was sacrificed, and through their papers have rovived the old accusations that the teach- ings of the talmud tend to justify the offor- g up of Cnristians. The court house at Cleves has been crowded overy day since the begitning of the trial, and every triflo which seemed to make against ov for the prisoner has been duly commented on. Buschoff is a butcher. His trade, his creed, his supposed dislike for little Johann, the fact that the shed'at Xanten 1 which the slaughtered childgvas found stood acar his shop, the disappearance of six or seven pounds of blood from the body, and the failure of all attempts to connect tho crima with any other persoa, have all been pointed out as proof presumpjive of the prisoner's guilt by the anti4Semites. On the other hand the accused and his co-religionists have refuted statements with rogard to tho insti- gators of the prosgention, aud uot only in the press, but in their sworn evidence in the court, have denied that there is any ground for the awful, aud one would think mou- strous, assertion of thelr foes that the Jews use Christian blood iu their rites. Suffer Through latensé Bigotry. Few Christirns know much about the talmud; fewer still believe that it defends murder, but there are fanatics who hold aifferent views, and donot strink from pro- claimiug it. I tatkel to one myself last woek. Ho was . by bitth a Jew, had been a rabby, and after ertbracing Christiauity haa endured imprigonriest'and violence for his new faith, e . 0ld Weller would no doubt have put more trust in the alibk invoked by Buscho than in the evidence of the exparts who huve maintained that the wound which killed Johann was not made, as presumed, with a butcher's kuife, or the scholars who have smushed the anti-Semitic interpretation of the sacced Jewish books. If Buschoft can only prove that alibi—and it looks as it he would—he can escape. Meanwhile I hear from the correspondent who has watched tho trial for the Horald that au unpleasant im- pression has been made at Cleves by the transparent eagerness of cértain pecple to exonerate Buachaff, Whatever may befall the prisoner, until the crime has been brought home to some one elso, numbers of bigots will believe as they now do, that the Xaatea murder was a sacrifice. Sanday and the Sacred Kalser, Germans have bsen grumbling a great deul this week about the abbatarian ordiuance, vet it did not. inconveaience them somuch. The flow of beer went on un- checked, aud although the enforced rest in the lutter part day slightly lessened tho profit of the shop keepars, the employor's loss was outweighed by the employes’ gain. Tne people who seem to have gained the least by the new decree are the olergymen, whose churches are nat crowded more than usual. Tam told thaton Sunday lastthe Kueiper, on the contrary, was thronzed. By way of contrast to some of the graver recent opisodes I may mention the case of a woman named Anana Meyer, who has just been tried at Hamburg, Auna, who belongs to the class Known as the “Unfortunute,’ had committed the hideous offense of flout- ing the GGerman emperer one night by siog- ing disrespectful songs about his majesty. In London or New York she might have been bad up as drunk aod disorderly. Here they do things otherwise. Anua was ar- raigoed for “Majestwts bsleidigung. I may add she was acquitted. MELTZER, AGROUND IN UKU! United States War Yessel Yautic in Danger of Being Damaged | Copyriuhted 1572 ly) Ja na1 Gordon Bennsatt, ) Varraraiso, Cofli, (vis Galveston, Tex.), July 9.—(By Mme-ic._qnlq to the New York Herald—Special to Bui Bee. ) —Tho Herald correspondent at Bdamos Ayres telogranhs that the United States war vessel Yantic nas run aground om Paso Marques in Uruguay river. He (slso roports a furious gale and hursicanes at Moutovido, The streets of the eity idundated and tus docks are flooded over. Thetgale was accompaivd by heavy seas: 'Afl the telograph lines northiward are dowi. The influenza epids increase. Contradictory reports have been received from Yuguaron relative to the rumored sur- renderof General Tayares; sows confirm and others aeny the story, but it seems certain that the revolutionistsan Rio Grande do Sul will resist up to thie Last moment. Tne field trials Uyt Argontioe govern- ment of the new Kweupp rapid firiug guns have proved successii loshows aL immense Frightfal Boller Explosion, Gexeva, July 9.—0n Lake Geneva a boiler on one of the steamars at Ouchy exvloded. Twelve were killed ang forty injuted. Many passengers were bIOWR 1uto the lake aud res cued by boats. The Death Koll, Rose, July @+Cardipal Francesco taglini, archbisbép of Bologue, is dead. —_ reasgu (he Hank Reserve. ew Yous, July 9.—The bavk statement shows the reserve bas decreased §2,510,000 and cpecie tap decremsod $061.000, The bauks uow bold $15,570,000 in excess of re- quiremeuts, Bat —— W hen you go t Dauvar stop at the Ameri- can house. Mates §2.90 to #4.0). Kowoacled throghout. 1892 NDAY IXTEEN PAGES. ISOME FRESH FACES When Parliament Meets Many Old Familiar I Forms Will Have Vanish:d, PECULIARITIES ~ OF THE ~ CAMPAIGN Incidents of the Hustings Worthy of at Least Brief Passing Notios. GLADSTONE HAS GAINED BUT LITTLE His Majority Will Be So Slizht that He Cannot Accomplish Much, MUST GO TO THE PEOPLE ONCE MORE Home Rale Cannot Be Pashed Through the House ut This Session—Anothe rop- ular Verdiet on the Subje Scems Inevitabl [Copyrighted pdans Gorhn | Lospoy, July 9.—[New York Herald Cablo—Special to Tue Bee.|—Having re- turned trom tiold of battle unhurt, 1 am once more at liberty to resume dispatehes to you as a memborof parliament. A good many of my comrades have come to grief, but upon the whole, so far as we have gone, tho changes of the personnel of the late House of Uommons are not so extensive as we all looked for, and mone of them can be de- scribed as of the very first importance, for Mr. Ritehie, though a cabinot minister, is scarcely a man whose absenco would create a great, irreparable gap; bosides ho will be provided for by one of those little frisndly arrangements which the government knows how to bring about, but it will have to be done quickly, for I judge that the days of Lord Salisbury’s power are numbered, Ho will not be so very baaly beaten, but I cannot see where he is to maks up the losses already sustained. As matters stand even now, hecould scarcely be saidto haven working majority. Well, but does it look as if his rival would get onet i think not. A dead heat is almost impossible, but each party may be left in a practically help- less conaition. Some Features of the Campaign. On the issuo of home rule the country is still indifferent or hostile. No enthusiasm for it exists excopt among the Irish. Many elections have been decided by personal or local causes. In some instances a man has literaily bought bis way in, not by spending money just lately, but by “'salting” his con- stituency very carefully for a series yea othing can stand agawst that. 1 ob- serva that rich men who can afford to bo generous to their constituencies seldom lost their seats. Blundell Maple, for instance, can count a majority of thousands. On the other hand ono of the London mem- vers wEo -has.beer: lavish 1 gifts has been rejected for a total stranger. All sorts of unexpected things have happened. Gladstone's influence is certainly waning, ovenn Scotland and Wales, but s party plus the [rish vote is still strong enough to put the conservatives n the minority. Tuat's why Salisbury will have to retiro at least for the time, In many Eaglish boroughs there are enough Irish electors to turn the scale. I havo about 8,000 of them in my constituency. Talways find it dificult to contend against them, Thoy poll their last man, tho priests bringing them up o the booths as in Ireland. Not more than 47 per oent of them voted this time, miss is as good as a mile, and 5 men out of an electorate of 11,000 are not able to hand They very nearly got me down, but a over my constituency to the FParnellites, It fs not waly the Irish vote of Ireland which has to be reckonea within theso latter day politics, responding vote in England. We shall have naturalized Freachmen in the new parlia- ment, and & Parsee from Bombay, a repre soutative of “labour.” They may not get ot very well, but their intervention cost Glau- stone two or three seats, and great is the o.d man’s wrath thereat. One or two of tne socialist’s craft got in, butthey will soon find their level. ‘ Some notorious bores have been swept away, happily for us all. New ones may arise, but at least we shall have a change. Gladstone Ha No Cinch, John Morley may very likely lose his seat if ho takes oftice and has to seek a re-eloction, He reccived a severo shaking up this timo. Anotber sign of Gladstoncs failing influence is there has been no uphoeaval, no grand turn over, no such destruction of the unionist party as many predicted. We aro about half way through and notliog has oc- curred to make the world hold its breath. Gladstone at tho stdrt had only thirty-four cats 10 win out of Gi) to efface Salisbury’s majority and has not done 1t yet. That 1s a good deal to say. Will this election secuve home rule! As suredly not. We must have one more fight in the country before Ireland can get a parliament. Gladstone's mgjority will not justify him in attempting to rush a home rule bill through Parliawent. The unionists will be powerful enough to compel him to tako the verdict of the peopie once more, A long vista of yours stretches befors us to think iu bafore home rule can be decided ons way or the other. Gladstoue's death would atany time remove the guestion from the fleid of active politics and give 1t a purely speculative interest. Evidently, then, its tinal success is highly problematical, A Meyuer or PARLIAMENT, LONDON FINANCIAL REVIEW. but the cor- — 1 With Few Excoptions Business Has Been Nearly at a Standstill, [Copyrighted 1592 by James Gordn Bennett, | Losvoy, July 0.—[New York Horald Cable—Special to Tur Bee.|—Except in a few special securities, business has been nearly at standstill in the exchunge. The markets have been without feature. Funds aud Indian rupee paper remain uncuanged, ‘The principsl movement in foreign goveru ment securities is a fall of 1){ per cent in Greek boads. ‘Thespeech in connection with tbe budget, disclosing the unsatisfactory fi- nancial condition of the country, and Pary selling has caused & decline of seven-six teenths of 1 per cent in Spanish aud one-fourth of 1 per cent fn Italian, but Egzyptian wnd Portuguse improved oue- fourth of 1 per cent. Argentine lssues closed dull, one-fourth of 1 per cent to oue-half of 1 per cont lower, due to premium on gold ad vancing to 221 per cent. Home railways de- velopea no very decided teudency while tho absence Of business has prevented any important change in prices. A smasll decline bas taken Brigoton deferred, Southeastern place in deforred, Nortbheastern wud Caludonians, BEE. — THE \ % Weather for Omy € Vieial'y—= Threatening Ly clsaring; warmsr. Page. 1. Logal Complica * Homestead. Terrl Explosion s n Franck No Home Rule This Time, Tt 2. Base Ball G th's Washington Lotter, day In Congress, St dohn's Baptism of Fire, 4. Editorial and Co 5. News from Nebraska Towns, Among the Stite Chautauquas, Helfonsteinism Receives n Death Blow, About n New Labor Organization, 6. Counclt Blams Al News, 7. Last Week in Soclety Nebraska Manufacturers Notes, ment, 9. Blsmarck at Sov Where ¢ Hiteheock 110, Death v 11, Omahu's Trad Gratn, Provio 1ts Surroundings, Carefully Reviewed, s and Live Stock, oh I Announcements. 12, Secret Socioty Nows. What Omaha Teachers Read, 13, Wag Mother Eve n Slonde? More Factories Propos A Nebraska Girl in ¢ 16, Summer Sports Review while Great Western, ern and Metropolitan mark a moderate im- provement. American railways have been dealt in to a fair extent for Saturday, moro espcially as business is so vory quiet in every direction, Thero has scarcely been any domand for money. Short loans have been ootained at ono-ualf of 1 por cent. Tho discount market has beon a shade havder, but biils continued scarce, Those for two and three moiths were quoted at seven- cighths of 1 per cent. London, Northwest- Ductors Are S St Persusneng, July 0.— thorities of Kasan, in the eastern partof European Russia, have sent a uumbor of tents to towns along the Volga for the pur- pose of providing accymmodation for cholera patients. The numbor of deaths from the disease contivues very nhich, and there are uo sigs of the epidemic abating. Dootors are scarcs, and many of tha strickon people arc unable to obtain propar attention, [if- teen deaths from choiera have occurrea in Easeli, a town of Parsia, on the southwest coast of the Caspian sea. aree, Mho military au- Cholera Sure Enosugh Loxnoy, July .—A dispateh from Paris to the Lancet, the authoritative British med- ical journal, says: Already 150 deaths proves the character of the cbolera epidemic here. ‘The ofticial council of hygieno mado a mis- take in concealing the facts and resorting to the foeble stratagem of secracy. The Lancet adds that thero 1s no disguis ing the great extent of the epidemic which prevailing in twaaty-four communities and the suddeuness of doaths, Tae Laucet concludes cholerine.” “It is cholera, not Rioting In Li riek. LaMeRick, July 9.—There has boon rioting 1n this city, during which all the windows of the house of Mr. O'Keefe and otber anti- Parnellits leaders wera smasted. The riot- ers were at longth dispersad by the officers. Several arrests were made. - - N OLDEST CITIZEN. TOW. Death of Richard Thomas at 1 History. Cepanr Rarios, In., July 0. —[Special Tele- gram to Tne Bee.| —Richard Thomas, the oidest man in Iowa, died at his home in Ma- rian todsy. He has resided in this state for Kon over fifty years, So far as can be ascertained (not knowing himself) Mr. Thomas was born about 1781 in Baltimore, goiug from there to Wayne county, Ohio, in 1810, In 1324 ho re- moved to Richland county, Ohio, in 1537 he came to lowa, then in 1540 he camo to his present farm, which adjoins_ Lhe city of Ma- rion. He was married to Juha k. Joues in February, 1865, sho being about fifte years younger 'than her husband. Mr. T'tomas was in the war of 1512, and was also ono of the first settlers in Marion township. Money Not Essont Cepan Rarins, Ta., July 9.—[Spocial Telo- gram to Tue Bre|—Frank Collier, the cc- ceatric Chicago lawyer, arrived here Thurs- day moraing, and although without a cent, procecded 1o take the town. After picking up everytuing he could got hold of und ex- pressing it to himself in Chicago, bargaining for several furms sud a lurge amount of live stock, driving all over tho town in a carriage, e was arrestod last evening for aisturbing the peace aud locked up over night. This morning when his trial was cailed ho pleaded mot guilty and asked for time to summons witnesses and wus given titl 11 o'clock. Nearly every prominent man in tho city was served with a subpwaa, When calied again tho case was continued for ten days ana Collier was placed in the cnstody of an officer and permitted to go whore he pleased. He will be sent’ to Chicago tonight. He takes ovorything good naturedly and evi dently enjoys the notoriety ho has obtained. Sal Men Flned, Crestoy, Ia., July 9. —[Special Telegram 0 Tk Bre. | —Judge Davis today fined four- teen saloon men £3) eacia for violating the j prohibitory liguor ay e AN News Hard to t Hanipax, N. 8., July 9.—Itis hard to get any particulavs of tho fire disaster at St Johns, N. K., as tho telagraph office has buen destroyed, It s stated thut two-thirds of the city is destroyed, and it is reported that six childron and oné mun were burned to death. ‘The parliament buildings are amoug those destroyed. According to the latost uc- counts )0 buildings were destroved. Thero is much suffering among the people, who are uomeless, ‘I'ie mazor has anpealed to other cities for aid, A report, dated at St. Johus at 1 p. m., says the south side is now on fire A ig tire' is coming aown Fresh Wa'er val- ley. Tne south side contain d an oil factory wsuva oil stores. Another dispatcn says a fire broke out at the back of the city ot a place called Monkstown roud. ‘This is the southern portion of the city thut cscaped last night, At 1:3) p. m. communication again ceased. Tho fire had broken out afresh in two new quarters since noon on the south side in the oil factories sud Monkstown, the best residonco part of the ' city. A steamer with reliof sails for St. Johns to night. Twelve huudred people thero are homeless, —~ Purchased un Hlinols Road, Sriixarien, 1L, July 9 —Under a decreo of foreclosure against tha St Louils, Altou & Sprangfield road under suit brougiut by tbe Farmers Loan and Trust company avd At lautic Trust company of New York, ren resenting together #1,500,000 of nouds, the roud was sold hore todiuy ut muster's sale to Henry O'Hura of St. Louis, president of the St. Louis, Chicago & St. Paul railroud, The cousideration was $1,000,000, H, A. Fisher was appointed general manager of the road t be extended to St Louis, making 120 miles of road, und 15 to be putin first-cluss condition with new equipments - DeWitt's Sarsaparilis cicansos the blood, inoreases Lthe appetite and tones up the sys tow, It hias beuefitted many people who huye sufferod from biood disorders, It will help you. — - DaWitt's Sarsaparilla destroys such poi- sous us scrofula, skin disvases, eczoma, rhev- wativin, It timely use suves muny Hves Y sueemn. I CARNRCIE IS SORRY 1 | PRGES 1 TO 8. NUMBER 22. He Rofuses to Expross Any Opinion Save] That Ho Deplores tha Riot. INTERVIEWED WILE ON HIS COACI Caught By a Now York Herald Reporte! Qut with a Pleasure Party. PAPERS ARE ABUSING HIM| BRITISH Misfortune of thy Amoriow Manufioturare Philanthropist Maliciously Distorted, PROTECTION IS VICIOUSLY ATTACKED! Every Free Trade Paper in Engl Al the Door of the Tarlf—What 11y Now Laying Trouble at the They Say. [Copyrighted 1892 J vnse Gord vs Ranustt) Loxnoy, Jduly 8, —[New York Herald Cable —Special to Tur Bee. | —Andrew Carocgle, who received news of the riot at Homestead! simultancously with the frecdom of tho city of Averdecn, has been on a two days' conchyy ing tour with a party of frisuds, their distin tion belng Ranuoch lodga, Caraegio's Scotch | seat, whicu is situated forty miles from'| Perth, The coach, with 1ts party of occus pants on board, rattled up to Dunaluste hotel at noon today, when a reprosontativ of the Herald approactied Mr. Carnegio and asked him if he had anything to suy as to tha condition of affairs at lis work ! “The strike is most devlorable,” ke said Y “and the news of the disaster which reacheds moe at Aberdeen grioved me more than 1 can tell you. It came on me like a thunder bols{ from a clear sky. I must poutivoly dechne! 1o enter on discussion as to the morits or da-Y merits of the case. Al L will say is that the strike did not take place in the old Card negie work, but the dificulty has beeu e tirely in the rocently acquired works.'" { Ono cannot help noticing the kesn delight| with which the people of Great Britain view)| the aifficu'tios at Homeostead. This is mainly due to the fact that Carnegie' bas been looked on as the high priest of American pratectionism from a ropublioan standpoint, and that he has always been' J§ loudest in his claim that the higher the des! &ree of protection awardad to the mAnufaci! turec the higher price he must got for his goods and with the pravaleuce of high prices must como correspondingly high wages. But tho inconsistency of Carnegie’s position is mado especialiy’ manifest 1o Kongland by the introduction of | Pinkerton hirelings to protect his prope. iy srom the probable assault at the hands of the very men who were the first to be benefited. by the operations of the McKinley bill. Down on Carnegle and Pinkerton, British papers have bsen uncompromiss ingly critical of Curnegie's course, some of them going so far as to call him “‘the blatant apostle of triumphant democracy.” The, Chronicle today in u severe arrai gnment off the courso pursued by the managoment of the Homestead mills, whera the slaughter took piace, says that it is another evidence of the inability of the Awmorican state law to afford adequate protection to life and prop- orty. Pinkerton’s mon are denounced fin scathing terms, and much surprise expressod that they should be permitted to carry arms while the power of the state authorities is still unimpaired. Among Americans in London is John W, Bookwalter of Ohio, who owns extensive works av Springfield, O. Iu the course of & conversation today ou the subject of the strike he said: “The dcmocratic party could not have prayed for a better illustra- tion of the sham of protection than thas which 18 now held up to view at Homestead. Claruegio has gone bofore congress for the past twenty years with his doctriue of pros tection aud like a good subservient body congress has always given him what ne desirca. Ho has advocated and Las received protection, ad nauseam, but his theories, instead of proving a blessing to the workmen who were first and foremost in his }* ilunthropio mind, have found a lodgement in the bullets of the Pinkerton’s Winches- ters, I, ton, am a manufacturer on a large scalo,” said Bookwalter, “and send my pro- ducts o compete in the markets of the world. I am uot staggering undor the op- pression of the protective tariff like Carnes gie, but am obliged to puy heavy dutios on my raw material. Still [ am not callod upon to euforce reductions of wages, simply be- cause 1 am satisfied with a rossonable profit.”? BLuses ROM THE WORKM N. n Statement Cuse, Hoyestean, Pa., July 9.—The following statement was given out tonight by the Homestead steel and iron workers : “Homestead employes’ answer to the Car- negio company “The differouces existing botweon tn Carnegie company sud their employes av Homestead havo drawa from H. C. Frick a statement of the points in dispute which akes necessary a reply 1o order that incors rect improssions may nov bs received by the public. It is asserted that the employes com- bined with others of their trade, forming an f Their Side of the They Make Amalgamated association to obtain absolute control over the Home- stead works. This charge can only boe eupported to the satisfaction of those who dony tho right of the employe to euter 0o- jections to any conditions offered by the em- ployers. The workingmoen at Homostead, uor atauy other of the hundreds of mills organized lnto the Amulgamatad association, nave no desire to dictats the wagos they shull receive, but thep soe no good reason why they should.not exerise their privilego of engaging with their omployor in the cor troversy through which tho rato of compen- sation for their laboris fixed. Tho workmen are now, s they always have beon, propared tw maot tho representatives of tho company aua diseuss the provisions contained in the scale submitted to thewm.” Not the Men's Fault, If the conferences already having been. held failed to bricg about o settiemenc it caunot be said that this was the fault of the workingmon. The scale under which the men st Homestead were working was are ranged in July of 133 Tae rvate of wages Vids fixed ording to the selling price of 4xi HBossemer atesl billets, the wages advancing and de- cuniog with .the selling priea of tho artioles, it was provided jbat ho minimum snould be $25. Complaint ls made that no minimuwm should have beon iue 85100 upo: