The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-15
NEWS In SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Resume Of important Events at Home and
Abroad Chroniclsd in the Issue of Aug. Ia.

Bolivar. One thousand men were slain In
the battle. the losses being i've hundred on
both sides.
The free miners at Tracv City, Tenn, put
the 800 convicrs employ ed there in box-cers,
and shipped Them TO Nashville, and then
burned the prison stockade.
It's thought possible that sailors whom
Mr. Borden was instrumental In sending to
prison for mutiny may have committed the
double CRIME at Fall River, Mass. for
which Miss Lizzie Borden is In jail.
Belivera won the 2:23 trot at Grand
Rapids, Guy. the free-for-all pace and
Martha Wilkes the 2:15 trot. the best time
In each race being. respectively. 2;lo, S'loA2
and 212.
League base ball-BroOklyn 70. New
York 2; Louisville 4. 81. Louis 2; Baltimore
o, Washington 3; Washington ., Baltimore
z; Cincinnati z, Pittsburg 3; Cleveland 6.
Chicago 2; Philadelphia ., Boston 2
Gladstone's foreign policy. will differ
from Salisbury's IN that he will not enter
alliances with continental powers de
will permit no one TO twist the lions tail.
however, without looslng the dogs OF war;
rFro,a the Second Edition ofthe Sunday Journal
Address tn American Toiiers.
PITTsBURG, Aug. lathe conference be-
tween the Amalgamated Association and
the executive council of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor ended this evening. Pres
ident GomDers and others OF the federation
have gone East. Before their departure
the conference issued the following state
ment:
"To the American Public:
'.SeIdom in the history of our country
have we witnessed the lines of battle so
clearly drawn upon the held OF labor as Is
now witnessed at Homestead. The Car
negie Steel Company, one OF the most gi-
gantic mOnopoiies OF the age, has underta-
ken TO reduce the wages OF It employees
from 10 to 40 per cent. In its desperation
and averice the company hired and brought
three hundred armed mercenaries tPinker-
ton detectlves) TO Homestead to invade the
homes of the men who created the millions
that the Carneges now possess. Under
cover of the Pinkertons the company en-
deRvored to Introduce pauperized and
degraded set of laborers to supplaDt our
fellow-American workmen. The contest
with the PiEkertons and Its results are
well known. SO many erroneous and false
statements have been published az to the
cause for which the men are so nobly con-
tending, their conduct during the struggle.
the present situation and their prospects of
victory, that we feel called upon to issue
this statement TO the American public:
lit is not true the men are receiving the
high wages generally supposed, nor do o
larger number own their own homes. We
have made q careful Investigation and find
that just before the lockout there were
S,421 men employed in the mills. Of this
number there were Is whose wages aver
tween IS and 81 per day; 81 averaged from
81 to s. per day; III averaged from Sl.6S
TO $3.50 per day, and 1,625 received ii cents
per hour or less. And. further. We find
to 10 per cent. own their homes, and about
Is per cent. more have their homes under
mortgage; the remainder pay rent, and
number of these have been evicted by the
Carnegies.
at is not true that the men are only de-
Tending the wages of the higher priced
workmen. 1t is in defense of the IA cents
per hour men as much as any other that
the Homestead workmen are making their
gallant tight. The cunning, calculating
company proposed that the scale should
terminate when the cold blasts of winter
penetrate with biting severity. The COM
pany desired TO place the men In tao dis
advantageous position OF negotiating with
them upon a new scale in January, instead
of as formerly In July.
Notwithstanding the military forces OF
the State of Pennsy lvania have been under
arms at Homestead for nearly five weeks.
and the entire country has been ransacked
to find beings so low as to hire themselves
TO the company. there are less than six
hundred persons in the mills, and less than
dozen skilled wOrkmen who can perform
the work required. The situation is such,
weconfideDtly assert, that at no time during
the struggle were the prospects of victory
as bright as they are now.
What the men In this contest need is
your su bstaD tial upport as we'll as oursym-
patty. The poorer paid men in Home
stead and other Carnegie mills where the
men are now out to help their brothers at
Homestead. are the ones who need your i'm
mediate help. and money is required to
maintain their manhood. honor and inter-
ests. Every worker and liberty-loving cit
iZen should contribute TO the financial sup
port of the brave men who to-day occupy
the position of the advance guard of the
labor movement of America. The strug-
gle at Homestead represents the issue be-
tween freedom and slavery, progress and
reaction. and must be maintained until the
workmen have some fair measure
S Vt. sssSTs gou fR the svey sss
contributed will be devoted to
the men engaged in this struggle. An eff
fectlve system of relief has been organized
with proper safeguards, and every cent
will be economically expended and riGIdly
accounted for. We also advise all work
Ingmen not to come to Homestead or Pitts
burg for employment until the pending dis
pute with the Carnegie Steel Company is
settled.
''Send all contributions to William Weihe,
president of the malgamated Association
of Iron and Steel-workers. No. 5l2 Smith
field street. PIttsburG, Pa, aud notify
Thomas j. Crawford. Box 1876, Homestead
Pa"
The address is signed by Samuel Comp
ers, p. j. McGuire, William Carney John
b. Lehman and Chris Evans, executive
council of the American Federation of La
NJ. NJ. Garland, Amalgamated Association;
Hugh O'Donnell, John McLuckie Thomas
j. Crawford and David Lynch for the ad-
visory committee.
Under the Liberty Bell
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13.-The remains of
Charles w. Riegin, the murdered boats
vans mate of the cruiser Baltimore are
lying IN state under the Liberty bell in In.
dependence Hall. This afternoon they
were gazed upon by thousands of fellow-cit-
liens The throng was permitted to pass
In shortly after II o'clock. and until q
O'Clock this evening o continuous stream
ofhumanity passed in double line through
the corridors of the building, entering by
the famous front entrance. from which thu
news of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence was announced, and emery
ing in the square In the rear. The bier
upon which the body rested and the walls
and windows of the rear hall were draped
in black, and the stairways and window
GASES were converted into floral balconies
Shortly before noon an undertaker's
wagon drove mp with the casket contain
ing Higgins body. and il was Immediately
borne into tho hall on the shoulders of the
guard of honor. selected for the occasion,
police. At the Same moment the
Tag floating above was hauled to
half mast When the spectators
who bad gathered In large numbers were
finally admitted they were allowed TO hle
past the coffin which was buried benea tn
the drapery and surrounded by the guards