Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1894, Page 6

THE OM 5 DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER THE GRAND ARMY OF LABOR Something About (l} Oareer of the Federa- | tion's New President, by a mob in Tennessee; Nov. 8, four per- sons killed, 100 injured by a wrecked cir- cus tent at Terrel, Tex.; September 27, five men died with their boots on at a dance in Congress assembled after the holiday recess Fort mith, Ark.; July 20, hottest Gay in Sty S I R Y New York and Brook twelve persons | . on January but business was blocked | d 25 G | until the 8th for want of a democratic died of sunstroke. O December 25, at Sl | quorum. The Wilson tarift bill passed the ver Lake, Ore., upsetting o lamp at a Christ- | jouCiTo, Tye JoMeR 2ol BT pretel mas festival the death of forty-one | December 26, General J. B. Dennis, December RECORD OF THE LAST YEAR Remarkable NATIONAL AFFAIRS Array of Disasters Moro | Deadly Than War, —_— caused EARTHQUAKES, STOAMS, FIRES, FLOODS Passing of Men Distingnished in the Various Walks of Lifo-The strike Notable Events at and Abroad. Iecor: Home e [ The year 1894 has completed a record | of disasters by earthquake, fire and flood, at home and abroad, of labor troubles un equalled In numbers involved and duration, | of political events at homo and wars abroad, | which surpasses its immediate A briet summary of the | of the closing year statistical value | In the list of calamitous of the | year, earthquakes must be accorded first place. The firet of note cceurred in Greece, | April 20, destroying several towns and caus- ing the death of 300 persons. On April 2§ soveral villages in Venezuela were destroyed | and 10,000 lives reported lost. One thousand lves were lost durlng the thquake in Cohstantinople and Stamboul, beginning Ju y 9 and lasting *ks. The great | earthquake in apan, October 22, | wrecked or burned houses, killed 500 | persons and From October 16 | to November 13 fire, earthquake and vol- | canic disturbances in the New Hebrides destroyed and carried into the sea several villages, killed about 100 persons, and spread a layer of over the islands. T earthquake at Messina, November 17, caus the death of 200 persons. STORMS ON LAND AND SEA. Death rode many of the storms of the year on land and sea. Six lives were lost | torm in_Daltfmore, January 12. The blizzard of February 12, extending from western Kansas to the Atlantic, rul\\wl‘ great dumage to property and the loss of | fifteen lives. Fifteen persons were killed | In a huilstorm and cyclone near Longview, | Tex., March 18. A new building was wrecked by a gale in New York, October 9, killing eight persons. A cyclone near Kunkle, 0., May 17, killed five persons and | destroyed much properly. Six liv were | lost and much property wrecked by a cloud- | burst at Uvalde, Tex., August 20. A cy-| clone ditched a at Cumberland, Mo., September 12, two passengers and injuring ten. The tornado which swept Kossuth and Hancock counties, lowa, Sep- tember 21, ki led sixty-four persons, wounded many others and destroyed a vast amount of property. A watcrspout at Valencia, Venezuela, Scptember 28, kiifed 150 persons. Little Rock, Ark., w struck by a cyclone, October 2; four lives were lost, forty pe sons injured and $1,000,000 worth of property destroyed. Notable disasters at sea began January 28, with the wreck of the British bark, Port Yorrock, off the Irish coast, in which twenty- six lives were lost. Sixty lives were lost in the wreck of tie steamer Miilard off the Nicarauguan coast, February 17. The steamer Los Angeles wa wrecked near Monterey, Cal., April and four lives lost. A furious storm on > Michigan, May 18, caused a large number of and the loss of twelve and six lives in the Chicago and Milwaukee harbors, respectively. Thirty-six lives were lost by capsizing of a tug in the New York bay, Jume 24. The sinking of the Italian steamer, Columbia, in a collision in the Black sea, July 17, caused the loss of 1,000 lives. On August §, five lives were lost by the wreck of the United States coast survey boat off Gray's harbor. The storm on the Newfoundland banks, Oc- tober 10, caused enormous destruction to shipping and the loss of filty lives. On October 28, 111 lives were lost by the wreck of @ steamer off the New Zealand coast. A storm on the British coast, November 13, de- stroyed much property on land and sea, and twenty lives were lost. The same region experienced furious gales, December 22, and 100 persons were reported missing. On June 19 forty-five lives were lost by floods in Austrian Gallicla. July 19 severe storms raged in Kansas and north Nebraska. De- ctive frosts were felt in Nebraska, Towa and the Dakotas, May 18, A forty-mile wind swept eastern Nebraska, June 20. GREAT FLOODS. Great floods destroyed an enormous amount of property and many lves were lost in various parts of the country. May 21, city and farm property was swept away by floods in Pennsylvania and New York. Over- flow of the Arkansas river at Pueblo, Col May 31, destroyed property valued at $300,000 and drowned three persons. The Frazer river overflow in_British Columbia lasted the first half of June, destroying all kinds of property for hundreds of miles around. The Columbia and Willamette river floods in May and June caused enormous damage; water flooded the business section of Port- land, Ore. Floods in Minnesota and Wis- consin in the middle of January destroyed $2,600,000 worth of property. DISASTROUS FIRES. Numerous disastrous fires marked the year. A portion of the World's fair buildings wore consumed January 9 and the balance July 6; May 13 Brooklyn Tabernacle and Hotel Regent, loss $2,000,000; May, 16, 2,300 persons rendered homeless in Boston, loss $500,000; June 9, property valued at $475,- 000 destroyed in Dubuque, Ta.; June 16, fire in Jersey City, loss $1,000,000; July 19, Min- neapolis market house, loss $500,000; July 28, twenty-five lives lost, 3,000 rendered homeless by forest fire, which destroyed Phillips, Wis.; July 80, 20,000,000 feet of lumber destroyed in Minneapolis; August 2, sixty acres of the Chicago lumber district burned, loss $2,000,000, four persons cre- mated; August 6, fire at Adair, Ia., loss $§100,000; forest fires in Minnesofa reached a disastrous stage on August 31, and by September 8 six towns had been wiped out and 500 to 600 lives lost; destructive prairie fires swept Sheridan and Cherry countles, Nebraska, October 25; November 14, forest fires in the mountains nears Boulder, Colo., did $1,000,000 damage. DEATH BY EXPLOSION, Bxplosives and explosions added large numbers to the mortality list. The first was the explosion of a powder mill at Rifton, N. Y., January 6, killing four persons. On February 12 the explosion of a bomb in a Paris restaurant killed twenty-three persons; February 13, thirteen killed in a mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa.; February 16, thirty-one saflors Killed by ‘the explosion of a steam pipe on the German fronclad Brandenburg, off Kiel; March 23, five persons killed in a dynamite works at Black Run, Pa.; April 7, ixteen lives lost by explosion of fireworks at Petershurg, Va.; June 15, 200 miners killed by fire damp explosion in Austrian Silesia; Juve 22, fire damp killed eighty miners in a Welch coal mine; July 17, eight persons killed by giant powder at Hazleton, Pa.; July 19, dynamite killed seven persons in & boat off Portsmouth, Eng.; August 24, thirty-seven miners asphixiated in a mine at Franklin, Wash.; September 4, sixty per sons killed by dynamite at Rio de Janelr July 16, four federal soldiers killed, fourteen wounded, by explosion of an_ artiliery cais. son In Chicago; November 20, geven men Killed in a coal mine explosion at Wheeling, W. Va. predecessors, leading historical and events possesses events three we northern 4,155 injured 700, ashes Lak FATALITIES BY FIRE. Eight inmates of the Boone county, Ia,, poor house were burned to death, January 24. Nive firemen lost their lives and six were injured in the Davidson theater fire In Mil- waukee, April 9. The destruction of the St Charles hotel, New Orleans, April 28, caused the death of five persons. Four children were cremated in a tenement fire in Chicago July 23, Three firemen were killed and 208 houses destroyed by fire In Washington, August 25 Falling ‘walls killed six firemen and injured 10 in Detroit, October 5. Four lives were lost in a fire in Houston, Tex., October 16. On October 27, sixteen persons Were cremated In a lodging house in Seattle, Wash. The burning of a tenement in New York, October 30, caused the loss of five lives. Among the miscellancous fatalities were the following: January 12, nine persons drowned by the foll of a bridge at Whilams- burg, L. I.; March 30, coftapse of a stand- pipe at Peoria, Ill., killed five persons; Oc- taber 17, militia fire into a wmob attacking the jail at Washingtou, O., killing elght per- sons and wounding fifteen; April 81, six Begro members of an incendlary gang killed | sons killed | ber. persons; five more were fatally injured and | eleven wounded, | RAILROAD FATALITIES. | The prominent railroad fatalitles were as foliows: January 2, rear-end collision on the Union Pacific at Linwood, Kan., 4 per- sons killed, 5 injured; January 15, 15 per- injured by collisic of trains Hackensack, N May 30, 6 llves lost, many Injured in a wreck on the Wisconsin Central at Marshfield, Wis.; July 24, 8 men killed In a collision near Queen City, Tex.; August 9, Rock Island train thrown from bridge near Lincoln., Neb., and eleven lives lost; September Killed, 40 injured in a collision at Apilly } December 21, 19 persons killed, 60 injured in the wreck of the Manc er express at Chel- | ford, England STRIKE HISTORY Labor troubles on a larg the coke workers' strike ending with an attack Unlontown, April 20, elev In the fight, On Mae 4 the wives of strik- ing cokers started a riot at Scottesdale, Pa., | resulting in the death of three persons, The great strike of coal miners for the restoration of the old wage scale began April 21 and lasted until June 11; 000 miners in five states were involved. The sirike on the Great Northern rallroad system began April 16, and ended with a victory for the strik May 1 Ore miners on the Mesabe ran northern Minnesota, struck and looted mining property May 3. On May 24, strikers were Killed in a battle with deputi guarding the coal mines at Stickle Hollow Pa. On the following day eleven men were killed by striking miners and l)le shaft | blown with dynamite at Cripple Creek, Colo. The cause of the strikers at.the Pulln N works was espoused by the American Rail- way union June 27, and the boycott of Pull- man cars declared. On July 3 federal and state troops were called out to quell strik- | ing rioters in Chicago, Sioux City, Santa Fe, N. M., and § al, Six men were killed and several wounded and much property destroyed in the Chicago railroad yards on the 6th. On the 7th the militia fired on the str in Chicago, kill- | seven persons and wounding a large num- On the same date fede troops were ordered to open the Central, Unlon and Northern Pacific railroads to traffic. Rioting ccurred at Hammond, Ind., on the Sth; federal troops fired on the mob, Killing two nd wounding many. Partial martial law was declared by the president. The block- ade on the Union Pacific was broken. On the 10th the Knights of Labor throughout the country were called out, but did not respcnd President Debs and other officers of the A. R. U. were arrested for conspirac, state troops fire on a mob at Spring Valley, 11, killing two and wounding six. The strike began to wane in Chicago on the 11th, the walkout of sympathetic trades failing to ma- terialize, On that date a train conveying federal troops was wrecked nsar Sacramento, killing the engineer and three soldiers. Pres- ident Debs and his associates were rearrested July 12, charged with contempt of court. The hearing began July 23 and continued at intervals until November. Judge Woods ren- dered his decision December 14, finding the defendants guilty The sympathy trike In the South Omaha packing houses began Au- gust H; the Omaha militia was ordered there n the 10th and recalled on the 16th. THE DEATH ROLL. The death roll of 1894 contains the names many persons eminent in their profe sions, whose reputations were not circum- scribed by national boundaries. Mmong those prominent in public life were: I L. Valeoratia, ex-vice president of Mexico, Who died January 4; Baron Crewe, home rule member of the House of Lords, January M. Waddington, French ambassador to Eng land, January 13; ex-Congressman Calkins of Indiana, January 29; Congressman George W. Houk of Ohio, February 10; Loufs Kos- suth, Hungarion patriot, March 20; Sena. tor Colquitt of Georgla, March 26; Senator Vance of South Carolina, April 15 Senator Stockbridge of Michigan, April 30; John Jay of New York, May 6; ex-Governor Rodney M. Price of New Jersey, June 7; Willlam Walter Phelps of New Jersey, June 17; Sen- ator Bishop W. Perkins of Kansas, June 20; ex-Governor Robinson of Kansas, August 17 ex-Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood of Iowa and General Nathaniel P, Banks of Massa- chusetts, September 1; ex-Governor and Ge eral Stoneman of California, September Comte de Parls, September 8; ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania, Septem- ber 7; ex-Premier Mercier of Quebec, Octo- ber 30; ex-Governor and ex-Senator Joseph E. Brown of Georgia, November 80; ex-Gov~ ernor Leon Abbett of New Jersey, December 3; Sir_John Thompson, Canadian Premier, December 12, The list of military men includes General Emile Millenet, father of the French army, January 21; Confederate General Jubal Early, March 2; General Henry W. Slocum of New York, April 14; General James Barnett Fry of Rhode Island, July 11; General A. J. Pleasonton of Pennsylvania, July 26; Major General Joseph Holt, August 3. The legal profession lost Judge James W. McDill of Iowa, February 28; Chief Justice George W. Stone of Alabama, March 11; George Ticknor Curtis, noted constitutional lawyer, March 29; John Graham, noted crim- inal lawyer of New York, April 10; David Dudley Field of New York, April 13; Chiet Justice Coleridge of England, June 14 Chiet Justico James Gilffillan of 'Minnesotd, De- cember 16; Hon. T. M. Marquett of N braska, December 22, The roll of deceased educators comprises Elizabeth Peabody of Jamaica Plains, N. Y., Jacuary 4; Paul W. Forscheimer, Ger- man archacologist, January 10; Prof. Oswald Seidensticker, University of Pennsylvania, January 11; William Dwight Whitney, prot fessor at Yale; June G; Prof. Joseph A. Armstrong, eminent Syrian scholar, August 14; Prof. Herman von Helmholtz, German master of physics, September 8; Dr. Mes Cosh, ex-president ‘of Princeton college, No- vember 16; General E. K. Scammon, ex- professor at West Point, December 7; Col- onel Michael Frank, father of the public school system of Wisconsin, December 27, Religious circles lost Mgr. Faicet, bishop of Bruges, France, January 4; Rt. Rev. Francis MeNierney, Roman Catholic bishop of Albany, N. Y., January 2; Rev. Patrick A. Corrigan, noted New Jersey' priest, January 10; Dr, W, P. Patterson, Presbyterian minister, Chi- cago, February 28; Rt. Rev. M. O'Farrell, Roman Catholic bishop of Trenton, N. J.. April 2; Cardinal Ledochowski, prefect of the propaganda, July 20; Rev. David Swing, eminent Chicago divine, October 4, Journalism lost George W. Childs, pub- lisher of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Feb- ruary &; Norman L. Monro, a noted New York publisher, February 24; Frank Hatton, edi- Washington Post, April 30; Edmund ra during a fog at scale began with in Pennsylvania on the works at n men being killed | the ur 1 of English publisher and critique, May | John Walter, publisher London fTimes, November §; Francis Marquart, editor Parls Figaro, November 1 On June 11 Muley Hasson, sultan of Mo- roceo, and on November 1, Czar Alexander Russia, gave up their scepters, The death roll of eminents in other pro- fessions includes: George P. D, Healy, portrait painter, Chicago, June 28; John Newell, general ‘manager of the Lake Shore railroad, “August 20; Nelson Beardsley, Al- bany, N. Y., millionaire, January 1 Rosina Vokes, actress, January 29 Mackaye, theatrical February Billy Edwards, noted pugilist, March 13} George Baker, inventor of the submarine torpedo, March William McGarrahan, noted claimant of the new Idra quicksilver mines, April 24; James Wright, prominent Philadelphia merchant, June 6; John Quincy Adams, son of the sixth president, April 14; Benedict Rand Harburger, nestor of Ause trian musicians, January 10; Hans van Bulow, distingulshed German planist, Febru- ary 18; John B. Scott, Pittsburg iron manu- facturer, February 13; Mme. Patey, noted English singer, February 25; Anton Ruben- steln, composer, November 20; Prof. Brown Sequard, eminent physician, April 2; Dr. F. L. Sims, physician, Memphis, November 23; Austin Henry Layard, noted Eoglish author, July 6; James A, Froude, English historian, October 20; Robert Louis Stevenson, novel: ist, December 8; Jesse Seligman, New York banker, April 23; Bugene Kelly, New York banker, December 19; Ferdinand De Lesseps, tamous French_engineer, December 71 John Sickels, New . York, inventor of the hand fire epgine, November 23; Victoria Vokes, actress, December § Locally, the death roll include Hon. Charles W. Goodrich, Mareh 3; Experience Estabraok, March 26; Henry Grebe, May 10; Wil C Wakeley, July 81; Julius Thiele, September manager, 1; Fred Drexel, October 4; Chauncey Wiltse, | and decided in favor of the employ ported with amendments by the senate com mittee March 20, was debated in the senate from April 2 to July 3, and pasced by al vote of 89 to 34. The amended bill passed the house—182 to 105—on August 3, and be- came a law, without approval of the prest- | dent, August 27. On the following day the first session of the Forty-third congress closed. Senator Walthall of Mississippl re- | signed January 18. President Cleveland ve- toed the Bland scigniorage bill March 29 House bill, repealing the federal election laws, pasged the sena ebru 7. January 17 Secretary € le decided upon | the first issue of bonds to replenish the resorve, and bids were invited for the issue November 12 LOCAL BV The Metropolitan Depot c was incorporated on January Judge Dundy issued an order reducing | wages of Union Pacific employes. The order | t aside by Circuit Judge Caldwell, and of employes and officials or- | dered with a view to amicably settling the question. The conference assembled in Omaha March 17, and on the 23d ad- | journed without result. On the 20th the question was taken up by Judgs Caldwell e represented | when the TS, pany of Omaha On Jant was a conference temperature were by the cold wave of January 24 mercury registered 21 degrees below zero at 7 a. m., and the simoon of July when the mercury went up to 106 degrees in the | United States signal office at 2:30 p. m. Dr. | George L. Miller was nominated surveyor of the port of Omaha March 12. Reporter Percival of The Bee was adjudged of contempt by Judge Scott March 24 Mr. E. Rosewater on April 24. On April Archbishop Hennessy ¢f Dubuque began in Omaha an inquiry into tha charges against the bishop of Lincoln, but court and plaintiffs wero unable to agree, and the prom ired trial was abandoned. The Kelly con- tingent of the commonweal army from San Francisce arrived in Omaha April passed on to Council Bluffs, and on the 16th began their eastward march on foot. M, 1 the | body of Miss Maud Rubel was discovered | in the Tenth strect tenement. Sam Payne, charged with tho crime, was captured June | 13, convicted of murder in the second de- gree November 20, and sentenced to im- prisonment for life. Mrs, Notson and her two children disappeared December 8. On | December 16, C. A. Cromwell of Minneapo and F. N. Hayden of Chicago, representa- tives of the Fidelity and Casualty company, shot and wounded by John Hunting- ssistant bookkeper, in the Citizen ank, Council Biufs. Immediately Huntington shot himself, dying in- extremes of guilty | and after stantl The notable conventions held In Omaha during the year were the Interstate Irriga- ; Ancient Order of Hibernians, Homeopathic soclety, June of Republican clubs and State Undertakers' association, June 12; Ma- sonfe Grand Lod, of Nebraska, June 20 democratic state silver convention, Junc and republican state convention, August X The most destructive fires in this cinity were the Morse-Coe shoe factory, October 13; the Hammond packing house, November 2, and the Exposition building and Baptist church, December 4. NOTABLE EVENTS ABROAD. The severest cold spell of the century pre- vailed in Northern Europe January 5. Fierce anti-tax riots broke out in Italian cities Jannary 7. On January 26 the reconciliation of Prince Bismarck and Emperor William was effected. Rt. Hon. William E. Glad- stone, prime minister of England, resigned March 8 and was succeeded by Lord Rose- bery. Parliament assembled on the 12th. Admiral Da Gama, leader of the Brazilian rebels in Rio harbor, surrendered March 12, Defeat of the French ministry in the Cham- ber of Deputies May 22 was followed by resignation of the members. The intefna- tional celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Young Men's Christian association began in London June 5. The assassination of President Sadi Carnot of France took place in the city of Lyons June 24. Santo, the assassin, was arrested, tried August 1, convicted August 2 and guillotined August 16, Casimer Perier was elected president of France June 28. Jose Salvador Franch, the Spanish anarchist who threw a bomb into a theater in Barcelona November 7, 1893, Killing twenty persons and wounding fifty, was exe- cuted November 21. An extraordinary so- cialistic demonstration occurred in the French Chamber’ January 27. On January 30 the United States cruiser Detrolt, Admiral Ben- ham, fired on one of the insurgent war ves- sels in the Rio harbor, and compelled the rebels to respect neutral vessels, Chancellor Von Caprivi and Count Euhlenberg resigned from the German ministry October 26. The Armenian massacre, in whicn 8,000 to 10,000 Christians were reported killed by Turkish soldiers, took place at Bittlls October 8. STORY OF THE WAR. The war between Japan and China was in- formally opened July 10, although Japan's formal declaration of war was not fssued until July 8. On the 25th a Japanese man- of-war sunk a Chinese transport, 2,000 lives being lost. On the 30th a Chinese armored crujser was sunk by the Japanese nav The great naval battle of the war occurred at Hal Yang Tao, September 16, resulting in a decisive victory for Japan's fleet, the Chi- nese fleet being sunk or driven ashore. The battle of Ping Yan occurred September 17, Japan's troops routivg the enemy and cap- turing 16,000 prisoners. Port Arthur fell into_the hands of the Japs on the morning of Novamber 21, MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS. There were numercus train robberies and attempted robberies during the year. Two occurred in the vicinity of St. Joe, Mo., Jan- uary 10 and In the first the robbers looted the traia, but in the second they were trapped_and shot down. September 18 the Santa Fe trsin was held up at Gorin, Mo., and considerable plunder secured. Twenty thousand dellars was taken from a Southern Pacific train in Arizona October 1, but the bandits ad booty were captured. A Kans sas City & Memphis train_was held up by Cook's gang at Waggoner, I. T., October 20, and an unknown amount of plunder secured. In the list of bank robberles two are notable —the raid on a bank in Longview, Tex.. May One robber and two ciiizens 'were killed in the fracas, and the remaining robbers fled with $2,180. ' Bookkeeper Seely, who squan- dered $350,000 of the funds of the Shoe and Leather bank, New York, fled November 20, was captured In Chicago December 11, taken to New York and sentenced, December 22, to elght years' fmprisonment The original Ccxey commonweal army moved out of Massillon, 0., March ar- rived in Washington April 30, and was eject- ed from the capitol grounds May 1. Danlel Coughlin, the last of the Cronin suspects, was acquitted on second trlal in Chicago, March 8, The republican constitution of Hawali was promulgated July 4 and Sanford B. Dole declared president. Charles Mitchell and James Corbett fought for the world's iamplonship at Jacksonville, Fla, January 5, resulting in the defeat of Mitchell in b rounds, lasting nine minutes. The famous Pollard-Breckinridge case ended in a verdict for the plaintiff in Washington, April 14, Breckinridge met his second de- feat In the contest for the congressional nomination in the Ashland (Ky) dis- trict September 15, On July 13, P. E. Prendergast, assassin of Mayor | Harrison, was executed in Chicago Adjutant General Tarsney of the Colorado siate militia was tarred and feathered by masked men at Colorado Springs June 23, | The United States steamer Kearsarge was grounded and wrecked on Roncador reef, off the coast of Central America, February 2, psca LW, Hint t heater Managers. Many more people are driven away from the theaters by bad, suggestive titles, repulsive, tasteless and vulgar picture posters, than are ever drawn to the boxoffice by such pictures and titles. The great mass of the American people, says the Dramatis Mirror, are right minded, clean thinking, self-respecting men ague. P . CONSTANT WORK (N BEHALF OF UNIONS | Tendeney Toward Prizs by & Wise Father-ileader in Ohlo Miners' Strike—fiid Work In the Buckeye State Leglsiatare. al election of John McBride of the miners' unlon as president of the American leration of Labor there has been a great demand among the working people to learn something of his career. John McBride's father, was ono of the early settlers enga Fighting Chocked Since the Thomas McBride, f Ohio, and d in mining work soon after John was ohn went into the at the of § later he began as a helpe of 12 years was a full was of powerful build was soon after entering upon the work a miner recog- nized as a good workman among his associ- ates. At the age of 16 he inclined toward prize fighting, but the good sense of his father prevented a coming labor leader from being spoiled in the fistic art. The surroundings of the boy were such as stimus lated his regard for physical prowess, and his splendid strength and endurance great temptation enter the fistic Thoams McBride, however, had seen world a good many years in a short and knew the folly of such a course. At his father's earnest tation John at last gave up the cherished hope of his boyhood and continued his work in the mines along With his father. When he was 18 years old he was elected secretary of the local union of the Miners and Laborers Benevolent as- oclation, the chief organization of the mirers at that time, In the T arawas Valley homas McBride, the father, was a delegate to the convention of striking miners from ono end of the valley, while John MeBride, the son, and present pregident of the Ameri- ederation -of Labor, headed a delega- ) from the other he father was a cool headed man, even tempered and dispass slonate. He was chosen one of the repre- sentatives of the miners to meet with the operators at Akron and arbitrate the ques- tions at issue between the men and their employers. The failure of the strike car- tied down the miners union. The union lied enough members to organize a strike again in 1875, which was again lost, and the union distupted. COMES TO BE A LEADER. Hitherto John McBride had held a subor- dinata position in the organization, but his qualities for a leader were noticed by many of the men. In 1877 the Miners Prote tive union was organized at Massillon, 0., With John McBride as president. He was then but 23 years, but during the next three years he built up the miners unia as it had never been before. He was the leader of the great strike iz tae Massillon trict in 1880-81, whlch was the first real fight ever made by “the miners in America., The — final defeaty1of the miners agaln disrupted © the ' union and left McBride boyeotted by the operators. Not an operator in the district would employ him. . The miners came to his rescue, however, and igave him a position as checkweighman at the Grove mine, then owned by Clark & €o. of Cleveland. The olher operators protested against his reten- tion even in t position, but the firm re- fused to make any fight against him. It was not long, howpver; before the mine changed hands and McBride was discharged. That fall he was a candidate for the legis- lature and came within sixty-three votes of election, He then gave his attention again to organizing the miners. The Ohio Miners association, was. brought into belng In 1882 and he was chosen its president. Year after year he was re-elected. The name of the order was changed, but he re- mained at its head until the Progressive Union and Natfonal Assembly, No. 135, Knights of Labor. were united in 1890 to form the United Mine Workers at that time. McBride could have been the head of the new organization, but he declined because of his official position as commissioner of labor of Ohio under Governor Campbell. A year latex he was chosen leader, however, and has been at the head of the National union of the Mine Workers ever since. In 1883 McBride was elected to the legislature and re-elected in 1885, HE DEFEATED THE BILL. Probably no more Interesting passage in his life can be named than that which grew out of the introduction in the general as- sembly by Colonel Seth Weldy, in 1886, of what was known as the Weldy conspiracy bill. The measure had a short life in the house, but a stormy one. Weldy had been elected as a miners' candidate, and acted with them the first session. Then the Hocking Valley Railroad company retained him as one of its attorneys, and the next year he brought in his measure against conspiracy at the com- pany’s instigation, as the miners believed. The bill provided for the punishment of any one who counselled or led a strike, and fixed heavy penalties of both fine and imprison- ment. — As the miners put it, the bill de- fined conspiracy to be any attempt to strike Without the consent of the employers af- fected. When Weldy introduced the meas- ure, Menke,-a labor member from Cincinnati, moved Its rejection by the house without consideration. It was on the heels of the long and intense coal strike in the Hocking valley in 1884, which tho miners had lost, and the fecling on both sides was very bit- ter. Weldy made a three hours' speech in favor of his measure. When he concluded Me- Bride made a speech two hours in length in reply, which is remembered as one of the most forcible and earnest specches ever heard ‘n the assembly hall of Ohio, Perhaps not half a dozen such speeches have been made there in the last two decades. He did not ask that the bill be rejected, but answered the arguments of its author in emphatic and convincing fashion. The measure was not rejected, but McBride's speech killed it be yond the hope of resurrection. It went td a committee and was never heard of again The strike in the Hocking valley coal re- glon in 1884 was one of the fiercest contests in which labor ever engaged in Ohlo, For months the condition of things in the valley bordered upon war. The operators brought | In Pinkerton detectives to protect their property, and the miners were wild with indignation McBride, at the head of a delegation frem Straitsville, went to Governor Hoadly and appealed to him against the use of armed men in the valley by the operators. The governor was a careful lawyer, and afier some consideration told the men 'there was | no law on the statute bgoks of Ohio which could be invoked to prevent men from going | hout with guns in’ hand so long as the weapons were not edhcealed. Quick as o flash McBride asked \f the miners had the same right o carry gund as the Pinkertons The governor was fofced to concede thaf there was 10 law to prevent it. The leader |- of the miners exclaimed ““That is all we want. We will arm and t see whether, if anyone has to be hurt, it will be Pinkertons as ‘well as miners.” Governor Hoadly did mot 1ike this inference from his position, but the logic of it was not to be disputed. He appealed to the men not to take up arms I that fashion, but they did not listen. At the ‘dictate of McBride the delegation returied to their homes and in a very few day$ the miners began to appear about the towns with shotguns in | their hands. They drilled in 4 conspicuous | manner, and the Pinkerton men were alarmed It was not a great while before the operators saw the danger that was certain to come from their policy, and the Pinkertons were withdrawn. John McBride owes much to the even temper which he born carrie mines as a water age ars; (wo years | the age He , and at fledged and miner. was was a fleld the time, strike of 1872 of his inherited from and wonmen who want the best—not the poorest. For every quarter of a dollar | drawn to the boxoffice by an indecent or| suggestive poster, $100 is driven away. 1-'ur} one man or boy who goes to see a play of suggestive title, 300 women and matinee | girls and at least half as many men slay away. These are the eternal verities of (he modern theater. R his father. Few of the men who have worked with him bave ever seen Lim lose control of himseM. Perbaps one of the reasons for this s that, prior to 1885, when he began to use it as & medicinge, he was a total abstainer and hardiy knew the taste of liquor. He has always sought to be fair in his treatment of both employers and men. und endeavored 0 pursue a moderate and temperate course in dealing with all inter Oregon Kidoey Tea cures all kidney trou- bles. Trial size, 26 cents. Al druggists, ests. Never bave his appeals to the men degenerated to the level of mere abuse of | public of quite large fish in its murky depths. and bire across gnawing bone One across the pond (o where something gan devouring his prize BUCCESs [ This done, however. on the surface of the figh. died and floated to Why? Send 10c¢ in postage for Sole big Catalogue. agents Peninsula Stove E are now displaying in our warerooms a stock Stoves tha prices, from the have elegant Oak polished, from $15,00 and upwards lor suits in all cov upwards, Carpet: makes of Carpets the Ingrain, In can see in any firs be Pecause we save you from 235 to 35 per cent. on each purchase. We wili epen an_account with you if you wish us {o do so, CREDIT GIVEN J will to your S also Estat Oak Heaters. the employers, which has been the frequent instrument used by labor agitators to the passions of their men. He has alway been a firm advocate of arbitration and con- cillation, and for years has upheld compul- sory arbitration as a valuable reme dy in the ttlement of differences between employers and employes. — The American Federation of Labor has declared against this policy, but its new president is nevertheless an earnest believer in it. Mr. McBride owes something of his prog- ress to his wife, who w a teacher In the schools of Massillon at the time of her marriage in 1874, Under her direction the man of 20 spent many hours in hard udy, and thus did for himself what he was nied an opportunity of doing in the schools when a boy. His wife is now dead. Four children survive her, the eldest, a daughter, having graduated from the Massillon High school last summer, The youngest is now 9 years old. Mr. McBride is a great reader and a convinelng talker. By those who know him best it is said his policy will be to unite all the labor organiza- tions of the country under one head and undertake to right many of the admitted Wrongs to labor through the ballot box. He 15 a strong advocate of the political program of the American Federation of Labor and be- lieves that workingmen should support such men for public ofiice as will heed the just appeals of labor. Labor Notes, The playing cards advertising the Cigar- makers union labor are now on sale in most parts of the state. The American Tin Plate company of Mun- cle, Ind., will open two new mills, giving employment to over 300 men. The Anderson, Ind., Foundry and Machine company has finished an addition to its casting room which will increase the capacity one-half. The report of the Missourl commissioner of labor shows 1,473 manufacturing establish- ments in the state giving employment to 59,000 hands. One of the blast furnaces of the Barnum- Richardson company at East Canaan, Conn., that has been idle for a year is getting ready to start up January 10. Local Nebraska unions are electing dele- gates to the fourth semi-annual meeting of the State Federation of Labor, which meets at Lincoln January 19, —_—— THE FOREST FIRES. Lears Eating Fish Hoiled In the Ponds— Snakes In the Flames' Van. Black bears feasting on parboiled fish is one of the sequels to the recent fires that raged in the lumber districts of central Penn- sylvania, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. John McCurry, who lives near Driftwood, tells of this strange incident in backwoods life: A terrific fire had swept over a low lying district about half a mile from the Sus- quehanna river, devouring the fallen hem- locks and underbrush with a fierceness that was startling. The second day after the fire, when the ground had become cool enough to allow trave:sing, McCurry started into the burned district to look after some park piles. He followed a deep ravine for a mile or more, when his course changed and he made his way in the direc- tion of the river. In May last, when this stream overflowed its banks and the twenty fect of extra water deluged the narrow West Branch valley, it formed lakes and ponds where before had been dry land. In one particular spot, which was much lower than the surrounding country, being naturally swampy, the river water made a pond from two to four feet in depth. This water was kept quite fresh by the constant accession made by a strong spring in the neighbor- hood. The pond was hemmed In on all sides by rhododendron, swamp hemlock, and water birch. In addition to the interést attached to this pool because of its very odd forma- tion, was the fact ihat it contained fish, Lumbermen who stood by its edge on several occasions saw the unmistakable movements They had been carried In with the strong sweep of water during the May flood, and were caught in the pool when the water receded, The men who saw the fish declared that they were carp of large size This pond was directly in the wake of the cent forest fire, and its borders of hemlock fed the flames in thelr mad race country, As Mr. McCurry neared the pond, but before he was in sight of it, his attention was attracted by a low growling, much like the noise made by a dog when Climbing up from the depths of the ravine, McCurry, who was now within fitty yards of the pond, was surprised 0 see two monster black bears busily engaged devouring something at the water's edge. of the pair was evidently afrald of other's mo nts, for he kept up a constant chattering as he chewed at white looking object which he held In forepaws. It was some time before could determine what sisted of. Suddenly one of the black fellows made lunge Into the water and waded the his McCurry the bear's feast con- a carefully lay float- ing on the surfa When bruin picked the object up McCurry saw that it was a figh he old fellow waded back to shore and be- It was some time before the bears had gotten all they wanted they shambled off across in the direction of to the chagrin of the young woodsman, who, aside from a small uxe, was unarmed When the bears had made bold to inyestigate th bruins' attention to the pond. He lttle lake several dead was decidedly warm, and thie situation soon presented itself to him. 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Another Incident of the recent forest fires in the Pine Creek region Is related by Sam Campbell, who works in the woods near Biackwell's. Sam was one of a crew of men sent out to ‘“back fire” (fight fire with fire), and he declares that their experlence was most thrilling. While setting fire to a thicket that crowned a rocky ridge he and his crew were startled to find themsclves suddenly In the midst of a lot of rattiesnakes. The forest fire was advancing up the side of the hill at a rapid rate. Its whistling, whirring sound as it devoured the hemlock tops was terrific, and the men were bent on building a line of fire to start toward it, hoping that when the two lines met the fury of the flames would be subdued for lack of ma- terfal on which to feed. It was while thus employed that they en- countered the snakes. The ground seemed to be literally alive with rattlers, the rep- tiles crawling in the direction of a rocky bluff not more than 100 yards distant. The men were all equipped with high-topped leather boots and paid little heed to the snakes, stepping on them as though they were but harmless old sticks. Campbell says that the rattling made by the reptile could be heard above the roar of the dis- tant flames. The “back fire” made by the men caught dozens of the crawlers, and they were burned to death. When the flames advanced o close that the snakes saw fur- | ther escape was fmpossible, they would coil |up in a heap, darting their heads angrily at the tongues of flame, then relapse, when the heat overcame them, a moment later to be devoured. Campbell also tells us of a strange sight which he and his men saw on this trip. They were crossing a strip of burned ground when the attention of one of the men was attracted by a moving object In the boughs of a big hemlock. The crew stopped to in- vestigate. About twenty feet above the ground, on a large limb near the trunk of the tree, sat a full-grown catamount, and in | her paws she held a kitten, It was' evident |#he had taken refuge in the tree from the | advancing forest fire. The kitten scemed ost dead, while the parent “‘cat” was ap parently dazed from heat and smoke. The old one swished her tail nervously to and fro and gazed down at the men as they luddled around beneath the tree. One of the crew felt his foot come in contact with something soft, and glancing down discovered the half burned body of another kitten. Th mother had evidently failed to reach a point of safety with both her young, or having done %0 had lost her hold on one, and he fell to death in the v MORE WOMEN THAN MEN, The Former Outnumber the Latter in New York State, There are 50,000 more women than men in the state of New York, says the New York | Sun. The universal law governing such mat- | ters makes the female population of a long settled country or district higher than that of one newly settled or partly developed, and o | {in the New England states the number of | women is in excess of the number of men, while in the western and Paclfic states this | is reversed. There are sixty counties in the state of New York and in only twenty-six of these do the | male inhabtants outnumber the female. | Oddly enough, and for no reason that is | known, the excess of men is greatest in those | counties which are nearest New York and Brooklyn, though in New York and Brooklyn | the women outnumber the men. In this city | the excess of female over male inhabitants is | 20,000; in Crooklyn it is 17,000, | The migratory disposition of men s much more pronounced than that of wome d to this pecullarity, in part, is to be 1 | the inequalities which are noticed in many countles. It is a fact not generally known | that there is a higher male than female borth rate, and if other causes did not operate to re duce the disparity there would be In every community more men than women. The rea son that this is not the case 18 that the ratio of deaths due to accidents and violence is nuch higher among men than among woinen The casualties of warfare fall almost ex For delivered any descripti or” telegraph W. H. BOOTH & CO Kansas City, Mo, | uaranteed, prices on Corn or Feed of on in car loads lots, Write Welghts and grades g — WM. LOUDON, Commission Merchant Grain and Provisions. Private wires to Chicaj All business orders Board of Trade, rrespondence solicited, Office, room 4, Ne rk L Omaba. Telephone li‘{)!.Yu % Lifs Bulldag g0 and New York, placed on Chicaga shipwrecks and accidents are men The majority of sulcides are men, way the higher birth higher death rate. It may be sald, in a gen- eral way, too, that the ordinary laws of health are more generally observed by women thaj by men, chiefly. In this rate s offset by the AR BRANCH BUILDING, Recollections of the (nlcyon Days of and County Looms, The petition filed in the U. St. Louls recently by the rocelvers of the anta Fo and 'Frisco railronds asking pers mission to discon(inue the operations of bepe tain branch lines, chiefly in western Kunsas should recall the not very distant day whery the people and the railroad builders wera stepping on one another's hecls to get these branch lines started. Today it is alleged, and probably very truthfully, ‘that they do nog pay expenses. Without 'inquiring fnto the equity and justice of the endeavor to anpul the contracts of a few years ago which promised to operate these branches, says the Kansas City Star, it {s interesting to recall the fecling which existed between the piople and the railroads in the days when “the dirg began to fly.”” That was nearly ten yearg In that day the chief end of man was t get the new road. The township in Kansag that was not eitlier voting bonds or counte ing the vote, or getting ready to vote, wag considered a “poky old slow conch’ and was sometimes called bend Delegations of cltizens ons om horseback and citizens s visited rallway officlals and them the fullness of the earth, with a clean bill of sale, if the road was built. When railroad men were not receiving such delegations they were themselves skirmishing around looking for some spot on the map as big as a pin's head that had not been scratched by the track of u raflway. Kansas editors who haye since turned popullsts and are abusing the railroads used to order all orts of jubflant roosters and smoking cannons and snorting locomotives for display on their front pages the week the bonds were voted and the day. the first pult of smoke from the engine on. the new road was visible on the distang horizon of “College Hill” or “Fairmount Place.”s When the railroad came there was al an_excursion on flat cars “‘up the branch” and back. Then came the contest for the “shops” and the “end of the di= vision.” Committees were appolnted in eyery town along the line to see the president of the road. Endless junkets were made. Promises without number were glven, If every town in Kansas had the “shops’ which was promised there would not be engines enough on the American continent to fill the stal's. Every town was to be the end of a divislon. A new line was projected from every village and hamlet, which was ‘cut off” from the main line for either exas trade” or the “California route metimes these “cul offs” were started and were called by high sounding titles, with the name of the village worked into immorta) famo between names like Now York and Gal= veston. ‘These are the “branches’ that are ausiog the trouble now — Oregon Kidney Tea cures all kidney tious nited States courg on foot, in carriag, promiged clusively on men, The victius of murders. bles. Trial size, 26 cents, Al druggists, .