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The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
A PITCHED BATTLE.

A Fight Between OfRcers and Strikers In
the Pennsylvania Coke RegiOns-TwO
Women Reported Killed.
UNIONTowN, Pa, April 23.-Violence
has again caused death in the coke re-
gions, with the result that troops have
been called to the tragedy and all is in
a ferment.
During the second eviction Of Hun
garian family who had gone back into
their house the sheriff of Fayette coun-
ty and his deputies were attacked by a
mob. One of the Huns drew a revolver
and threatened to shoot the sheriff,
when Deputy Crawford started to take
the revolver from the man.
The officers were then overpowered
and driven away, but reinforced by
Sheriff Mccormick and a large force
they returned, when a pitched battle
took place between the sheriff's posse
and about 800 Hungarians, men and
women, in which a Hungarian girl was
killed aad others injured, among whom
are several deputies.
The battle occurred about 3 o'clock
in the afternoon while the members of
company c were lunching at the boiler
house. The deputies were trying to
keep the Huns from carrying back the
household goods which had been thrown
out of the houses in the forenoon.
A big strong Hun was fighting
with the deputies when Sheriff Nc
Cormick started to assist them. The
Hun saw him coming and tried to shoot
The girl who was near was engaged to
the big Hun and was fighting for him
with the ferocity of young ioness.
The deputies say the pistol went off in
the hands of the Hun and killed mis-
sweetheart.
It was learned at late hour last
night that in fight between the sheriff S
deputies and the mob two women were
fatally shot; one of whom died in a
few minutes, and the other can not live.
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STRIKING BACK.

western Roads Preparing to Take Up the
Cause of the Alton Against the Eastern
Roads.
CHICAGO, April 23.-An western rail-
roads are considering the advisability
of rallying to the support of the Chica-
60 & Alton in its fight with the eastern
roads.
The Chicago & Alton has fought bit.
terly and successfully the encroach-
ments of the powerful easterners-
Several months ago, before the trouble
with the Malta at New Orleans. the
eastern trunk lines made what was in
effect a peremptory demand on the
western roads to pro rate with them
west of Chicago and st. Louis on all
emigrant business from Castle Garden.
It was big concession to ask for the
compliance of the western roads would
mean the loss of a great deal of their
revenues.
A meeting was hastily called in Chi
cago to consider the demand When
he entered this meeting General Pas
senger and Ticket Agent Charlton OF
the Alton had blood in his eye. As
soon as order was called he stood up
and made an impassloned and vigorous
speech denouncing the action OF the
eastern roads.
He said that he would not make q
lower rate between Chicago and Kan
sas City or st. LOUIS and Kansas City
for Italian emigrants than he would
make for American citizens. The Amer
leans, he said, patronized the road year
in and year out, while the Italians were
never seen again and SO long as he was
at the head of the passenger affairs OF
the Alton he would not permit such a
discrimination
AS consequence of this position the
eastern lines were beaten and the
western lines to-day get as much for
carrying foreign emigrants west of
Chicago and St Louis as they do for
carrying American travellers.
This fight was won for the western
roads by the Alton and it would now be
the proper thing for the western lines
to stand by that road, for if the COM
mission fight is lost it will only be a
question of time when the emigrant
question will come up again.
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
BECOMING CRITICAL.

The Situation In the Coke Regions De
cidedly Critical-Strikers Continue De-
Hant.
ScorrDALE, Pa, April 22-Last night
the strikers began gathering their
forces to overcome the last and most
powerful issues brought to bear by the
operators, being now face to face with
two hated and feared institutions-the
Pinkerton detective forces and an inva-
sion of imported labor.
About 500 Pinkerton detectives will
be brought into the region by to-day
and distributed around the different
works where the most strenuous
efforts are being made to resume
There are said to be eight car loads
of them, and as the news of their COM
ing preceded them throughout the re-
gion there was constantly increasing ex-
citement. The men have bitter dis
like to the Pinkertons and have often
expressed the desire that they could
wipe them off the face of the earth.
Their coming only means further
trouble, which will certainly follow
owing to the hatred in which they are
held.
1t is reported that the Fricls Coke Co.
has engaged the services of 500 expert
enced miners from the Punxsutawney
coal fields with the intention of putting
them to work at once in their various
coal mines now guarded by the Pinker-
ton men. 1t is also stated that the
miners are coming with the full
understanding that they are to
assist in breaking the strike.
When the Punxsutawney miners
were on a strike few months
ago the contributions for their support
from the coke region miners were very
meager. Said a prominent labor leader
last evening: II have expected this
and suppose that the Punxsutawiey
miners think this their opportunity to
square accounts with the miners in the
coke regions"
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Farm Work Impe(led.

LAWRENCE. Kan, April 2a-The COM
plant is quite general among the farm
ers Of Douglas and surrounding coun-
ties that the excessive rains this week
and last have seriously impeded spring
planting. The ground is SO thoroughly
soaked that plowing is not to be thought
Of In some parts of this county it will
q week or two before the ground can
be plowed at all. This is especially
true in the bottoms east of the city and
on the Wakarusa to the south. 1t is es-
timated that from five to six inches OF
rain have fallen around here during
the past week.
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
IN CALIFORNIA.
President Harrison Received With HonOri
in the Golden State.

President Harrison Received With HOnOrs
in the Golden State.
Los ANGELES. Cal, April 23.-The
presidential party entered the state of
California at Fort Yuma at $50 o'clock
yesterday morning, when Mr.. Harrison
was presented with large quantity of
beautiful flowers and fruits.
When the presidents party reached
Indio it was received by large and in
fluential delegation, including Gov.
Markham and staff, ex-Gov. Perkins,
Senator FELTON,, Judge Van Vleet of
Sacramento: S. NJ. White, of Los An
geles; Col. C. F. Croker. vice-president
of the Southern Pacific railroad, and
Mr.. Stump, chairman of the republican
committee.
Gov. Markham made an address of
welcome. The president made suit
able response, and afterward shook
hands with a large number of people
Several Indians, including Chief Cab
son of the Indio tribe, who is over 100
years of age, presented an address to
the president asking for justice and as
sistance. The ceremonies took place
on the platform of the station.
AS the train rolled into Los Angeles a
salute was fred, the people cheered and
all the bells and whistles joined. The
city was lavishly decorated, the feature
being the profusion of flowers Gala
lilies seemed to be the favorite flower,
and they were seen on every side. The
ceremonies opened with the street pa
rade in which all the United States
troops, militia, G. A. R posts, civic
organizations in the vicinity partici-
paten and escorted the president and
his party through crowded streets.
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THE SHORTENED SURPLUS.

The Treasury Exercised About Raising Suf-
fcient Revenue For Maturing Bonds.
WASHINGTON, April a3.-Treasury Of
fcials are beginning to discuss ways
and means to meet the $50, 100000 ~
per cents which fall due September l.
The heavy appropriations of the last
congress and the falling off in customs
receipts leave a very small prospective
margin-too small for bond-paying on
any extended scale. Including the
$40, 900 in minor coin, there was sur
plus in the treasury of about $751;
OO0,O 900 on the 1st of April. That
will be considerably reduced on the 1st
of May. 1t is becoming apparent
that the apprehension of Secretary Fos-
ter that the surplus will not be suffi-
cient to enable him to provide for the
payment of the AZ per cents upon ma
turity is well founded. There is no au-
thority of law for extending the period
of payment, nor for providing for re-
funding the maturing bonds and issu-
ing other bonds to take the place Of
those to be redeemed. But the credit
of the United States cannot be allowed
to protest, and, therefore, something
will have to be done, even if the treas
ury should be empty. No act exists
authorizing the secretary to act. 1t
is very serious condition, and not
a debatable theory which con-
fronts the treasury department. Under
somewhat similar circumstances, in
1881, Secretary Window arranged with
the holders ola maturing loan to eX-
change bonds representing it for other
and lower-rate bonds, to be exchanged
at the option of the government There
was nothing else to do. and when con.
gress assembled the action of the secre-
tary in thus preserving the public credit
was promptly legalized. 1t looks at
this time rs if Secretary Foster will be
, called upon to adopt some such extra
ordinary method in order to provide for
the redemption of the loan which will
1 become payable on September l.
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Another Free-Trade Prop Gone.

Well, we'll. well! What will the tar
iff-is-a-tax" editor do now? He has
made the increased duty on tin plate
his greatest card, and now it is blown
away in one breath. We have been
told that the poor man would have to-
pay that quarter of a cent extra duty
OF his dinner pail. and we have almost
been left to believe that new coin
would have to he made that this tax"
might be- paid. at least till we made our
own tin plate in sufficient quantities To
reduce the price. But now we are told
by Congressman Niedringhaus that the
foreign tin-plate workers have agreed
to sell the American market all the tin
plate we want without any added cost
ON account of the increased duty. So
the poor :vorkingman won't have tn
scrape together that quarter of cent
after all But what will the frec-trade-
tariff editor do? This tin plate tax
was his greatest and almost only stand
by. And now that prop is gone. Well,
he must send to the Golden club and
get some new ones from headquarters.
But he must hurry up. for they are get
ting very weak over there. and won't
hold out much longer. So make hay
while the sun shines, free-traders. IL
will soon enough be all mOonshine with
w
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The President at Pasadena.

PASADENA. Cal, April 24-The presi-
dent and party spent two hours in San
Diego. The programme included break
fast at the Hotel Del Coronado, a street
parade and public exercises on the
plaza, which was profusely decorated,
as were also most of the business
houses along the route. Gov. Markham.
Senator FELTON, and Gov. Torres and
staff, of Lower California, joined in
welcoming the president and party. AS
the procession was passing the military
barracks on H street a national salute
was fred
At one point of the march the process
sion passed through a line of $500 gaily
dressed school children, who showere6
the president and Mrs Harrison with
flowers
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
LABOR TROUBLES.

Continued Rf0ting in the Pennsylvania
Coke RegiOns-Big Strike In Detroit.
UNIONTowN, Pa, April 24.--Yesterday
was one of the most troublesome and
exciting days since the great coke
strike was inaugurated- A serious
riot occurred at Monarch in the morn
ing and another was reported in the
afternoon in which it was said five men
and two women had been killed. For
tunately, however, this report was
without foundation. The riot re-
suited in the probably fatal wound
ing of one man and the serious injuring
of a woman, and the sheriff of Fayette
county, with his deputies. was defied
and the sheriff himself assaulted, shot
in the hand and beaten and cut with an
AK in the hands of an infuriated Hun.
garian woman.
AT Leiscnring No. 2, otherwise
known as the Monarch works of the
Frick company. the sheriff and his
deputies had made twelve evictions
when the sheriff was attacked
'Glashgo. She fred at him with re-
-volver several times, hitting him in the
leg. He closed with her and after a
desperate struggle, which caused a
crowd to collect, he took the weapon
away from her.
The woman became infuriated and
noted like a mad person. She caught
up an AK and attacked the sheriff, cut
ting him seriously on the foot. Fearing
fa%, ffor nf tho on0n1nfar
the sheriff then shot the woman,
-wounding her in several places, infiict.
ing perhaps fatal injuries.
As soon as the woman fell a Hun.
garian man caught up another AK and
tried to finish the sheriff with it. The
sheriff shot this man in the mouth,
wounding him severely. He was then
attacked by other Huns but was res
cued by his deputies, after he had shot
one of the Huns in the thigh. 1t is
thought none of the men will die.
DETROIT STRIKERS
DETROIT, Mich, April 24.-The en-
tire system of the City Railway Co.
was paralyzed yesterday morning.
Nine hundred stove molders quit
work and joined the strikers to proven,
the running of cars Tracks were torn
up on three lines over night and obstruc'
tions were placed ON every line.
The men hired to take the strikers
places refused to take out the cars, and
the police were tired out
On jefferson avenue an attempt tC
run cars was made but given up. On
Gratiot avenue not car was sent Ou,
owing to the lack of crews. The same
situation prevailed on Cass and Third
avenues. On Trumbull avenue the
track was barred at intervals by sub
stantial barriers of timber. backed uI
with stones. Another method of Grip
pling the service was adopted. The
switches and turnOuts were at many
points filled with concrete, 50 that {
pick was necessary to clear them.
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TRUCK FARMING.

Magnitude Of IN Industry Whose Exist.
once IL Due Almost Entirely to Pro-
lection.
The following facts are CLEANED from
a recent bulletin from the census Office
relative to an industry whose existence
is almost entirely due to protection:
Truck farming is distinct from
market gardening. 1t is carried on at a
transportation being necessary.
Upward of 800, ,OOO, 900 is.invested in
this industry, the products reaching q
value of S76, ,5O7.15 on farms after pay
ing freights and commissions, and real
lied upon 534. 44O acres of land. There
are employed in this industry a16.765
men. 9,SS54 women and 14,S1i children.
aided by 1866 horses and mules and
IS. 97I. .206. 20 worth of implements. The
Norfolk district. embracing 45,S75
acres, shipped products valued at
s., ,692. $50: South Atlantic district ILL.,
al acres, products S1S. 1886: Missis-
sippi Valley, 36,l acres, products
s., ,979, 7s3.
Nearly seventv-five per cent. of the
truck produced in the United States
comes from belt of country along the
Atlantic coast lying east of a line drawn
from Augusta. Me-, to Macon, Ga: from
southern Georgia. Alabama. and Flori-
da: along the north and south lines OF
railroad in the Mississippi valley from
the Gulf to Chicago, st. Louis and Kan
sas City. and from the celery districts
of Michigan and Ohio. More or less of
the truck, however. is produced in all
the States. The following figures show
the total acreage of the leading vege-
tables grown upon truck farms Of the
United States: Asparagus. S7.979; beans
(string or snap). 1a,6O7: cabbage. 1904;
kale, 2. 062; spinach, 20. 195; Irish pota-
toes. 2s,O46; beets. 2.42O: celery, 1881;
cucumbers, 4,72l; watermelOns 144, ISL:
other melons, 3S, AT; peas, ST, 1862: sweet
potatoes, %, 721; tomatoes. D., S02; mis-
cellaneOus Vegetables, S2.601."
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
a Warning For the south.

At the Chattanooga banquet to celc-
brate the manufacture of basic steel,
which Mr.. Grover Cleveland declined to
attend. probably because he would
have been obliged to eat from tin din
ner plate brought into existence by the
Mckinley bill. little incident occurred
which ought to be recorded in the coll
umns of the American Economist. Mr..
Mckinley was present and made n
speech. Turning to Mr.. A. NJ. Shook.
the general manager of the Southern
Iron Company. he asked:
'And can you make steel permanent
" in Chattanooga" Mr.. Shook replied:
I'VE can. unless there shall be adverse
legislation.
And if there shall be adverse legis-
lation," retorted Maj. Mckinley with
great energy and felicity. you will
know from what source it will come.
In these words of the great champion
of protection is contained a warning
which should be needed by those who
have the interests of the south at heart.
She cannot afford to sacrifice her great
industrial future to old prejudices and
antiuuated political ideas.
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
Texas streams Raging.

81. LOUIS, April a4.-Dispatches from
several points along the Brazos and Ma
vasata rivers in Texas say that those
streams are on the rampage and that
much damage will be done in the low
lands. At Hearne numerous drowned
cattle are floating down stream Hunts
vile reports the arrival of the first mail
coach in five days, and the outlook in
Madison county is gloomy. The coun-
try adjacent to Navasata has been de-
luged by heavy rains and the Brazos
and Navasata are nearly outside thei.
banks. The Brazos, in the vicinity OF
Hampstead. is reported 70 be running
over in low places
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
Fighting Standard Oil.

FINDLAY, O., April 24.-An interest
ing contest is being waged between the
Standard and Manhattan oil companies
for the control of the Ohio field. The
Manhattan is the most powerful in
dependent company operating in the
field and what makes the fight
the more bitter is the fact that
the Manhattan is composed OF the
same men who a year ago sold to the
Standard Oil Co. for 81, 600, 600 and then
ut once reinvested the money in new
oil territory. The Standard has com
menced selling Ohio oil for fuel at two
cents per barrel delivered
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
Tobacco Yield.

WASHINGTON, April as.-The census
Office has issued a statement of the acre
age and yield of tobacco for 1889 show
ing increases over the last census of
SIS. .sas acres and 10, O5a, 40 pounds The
amount produced in Kentucky has in
creased over 81, ,OOO, 600 pounds a2d there
has also been a substantial increase in
North Carolina. Tennessee. Ohio. New
York and Wisconsin. On the other
hand there has been a more OF less
serious falling off in Virginia, Mary
land, Connecticut, Massachusetts,. Penu-
sylvania and Missouri. The figures are
liable to slight notifications in the final
revision
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
Under Difficulties.

The native Greenlander is said to
have remarka BILE partiality for a stoOp-
ing position. The family food is usually
served in a dish, which is set upon tho
floor, while the partakers sit round
upon a great bench, and dive into it
with their fingers. They have no tables,
and it seems rarely to strike them that
the dish might be set upon a chest, or
anything which would bring it into a
convenient position.
Fridtjof Nansen, in 1.-The First Cross
ing of Greenland" tells the story of q
young European lady's housekeeping
experience on the island.
She had one day some Eskimo girls to
do her washing. and when she went
into their room to see how things were
going on, she noticed that her hand-
maidens were all STOPPING over the tub,
which stood on the floor. Naturally
thinking this an awkward position, she
had some stools brought in, and placed
together. so that they might serve as q
support for the tub.
She then left the girls to their own
devices, but entering the room an hour
later, was astOnished to find that the
tub was still upon the floor. while the
washerwOmen stood upon the stools.
and bent down to their work from that
elcvation.-Youth's Companion.
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To Exclude Cndesirables.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-Secretary OF
the Treasury Foster is very much inter
ested in the immigration question. Not
only will he do all in his power to en-.
force the existing laws prohibiting the
landing of the undesirable classes, but
he says he will give the matter consid'
erab!e attention in his report. Mr.
Foster thinks the present laws are no'
strict enough, and he will recommend
to congress that the lines be drawn
closer. There is evidently a strong
feeling everywhere, the secretary says
on this subject. and legislation that vii
keep the ignorant hordcs from southern
Europe out of the United States will bt
received with approval.
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
The Tonnage of Subsidy.

The maritime nations who have paid
their money have had their choice of
ships. The nations paying no money
have had necessity lay its hand upon
their steam marines.
The sea-going steam vessels OF the
world. over one hundred tons, recorded
in Lloyd's Register Book, measure H.
9S5.312 tons gross.
OF the shipping under British, Ger
man. French, Spanish and Italian flags,
there are 1869, sos tons. Thus the
flags of these five nations, the principal
powers of Europe, all of them subsid-
izers of steam tonnage, cover S2.32 per
cent of the steam shipping of the world.
The flag of subsidy par excellence, the
British flag. covers G3.32 per cent. of 1t,
nearly all engaged in foreign trade.
Comparing small things with great,
the flag of the United States. in foreign
trade. covers but the insignificant pro-
portion of one and half per cent, OF
the sea-going steam tonnage of the
world. We have paid nothing and. In
the nature of things, have received as
we have pal nothing for nothing.
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29
KANSAS DELEGATION.
About Two thousand Going to the Confer
ence at Cincinnati.

About Two ThOusand Going to the Confer.
ence at Cincinnati.
TOPEKA, Kan, April 22.-The ma
tional conference to be held in Cincin-
natl May 10 for the purpose of organ
izing third party will, if calls con-
tinue to be issued by the Kansas or
ganization in touch with the new move
ment. contain an unlimited number of
representatives from this state. The
Farmers Alliance, the Citizens Alli-
tual Benefit Association and Knights
of Labor have already made
provisions for delegates to the
number of 2,sOO 1t was supposed
that this included all, but Levi Dunn
bauld, chairman of the Peoples party
state central committee, an Organiza-
ton intended to unite all the others,
has prepared call for delegates to the
conference, which will be published It
states that the members are authorized
and requested to attend the conference
as delegates. Each congressional dis
trict is entitled to ten delegates and
the chairman of the district committees
are requested to appoint them. But
this is not all; two delegates are
called for from each county and the
chairman of the county committees are
authorized to appoint them. This makes
a total of 2S9 delegates called for by
Chairman Dumbauld to represent the
Kansas peoples party at Cincinnati,
which brings the grand total of the
Kansas representatives to more than
| 5000. OF course all these will not go,
| although the estimates of . number OF
gentlemen high in the councils of the
new movement place the number OF the
Kansas delegation who will attend at
1000. Ii there should not be more than
one Kansas delegate in six 60 to Gin
cinnati it would require a solid train OF
fifteen coaches to carry them.
The Globe-republican., 1891-04-29

How the Tariff on Eggs Works In Boston.
It is said that certain Ohio and Indi-
ana produce shippers propose to dis
patch several car loads of fresh eggs to
this market in few days The present
duty of five (5) cents a dozen enables
them TO undersell the provincial eggs,
with which they propose to compete.
To-day's Ohio price for fresh selected
eggs, f. o. b, is thirteen cents dozen.
Consumers can look out for drop in
the retail price if the scheme fructifes.
BOSTON Commercial Bulletin.