Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-12

afternoon at Brinton for the troops to q
into the great camping grounds Just soutl
of the Brinton station. When 1t WA
nearly O'Clock train rushed by will
every window crowded with soldiers. Hal
an hour later another special train ladel
with the Eighteenth infantry came up, bu
stopped at the water tank. Major Ka,
said the destination of the fore
had been changed from Brinton 3,
Blairsville, where the whole power of west
| ern Pennsylvania will rendezvous befor,
midnight. It was stated that the Who'll,
| militia force Is to be in Homestead 30 earl,
Tuesday morning that the proposed recep
| ton will be an impossibility. It will re
quire Eve large trains to transfer tn,
troops now at Blairsville to Homestead
and the transportation Is being retained
for the early run tomorrow. All the sol
diers expect to be camped at the mills In
Homestead before q. m. Tuesday.
TO BE ARRESTED FOR MURDER.
PITTsBURG, July lit is announced
on what is considered to be good authority
that the Carnegie Steel company is about
to begin prosecution against the leaders
of the Homestead riot for conspiracy and
murder. The company Is said to have re-
tanned several of the best criminal lawyers
of western Pennsylvania and instructed
them to institute proceedings at once. A
flash light camera Is alleged to have been
used from the tower of the Carnegie mill
during the riot and the pictures of the
men thus obtained are to be used as evil
ence. % The arrests are expected as
soon as the national guard go on duty.
UNION MEN VERSUS NON-UNION.
An open Fight in Idaho-The Shut
Out Union Men are Attacked and
March on Their Assailants - The
Mines Barricaded-A Trainload of
Giant Powder Exploded I'm Front
of n Mill, Blowing IL Into Atoms
A BODY OF Non-Uniou Men surren-
der Troops I'm Readiness for the
scene OF Trouble.
WALLACE, Idaho, July 1.-THE strained
situation in the Csur d'Alene labor trou-
bies eliminated this morning between i've
and six o'clock. The events of the day
previous consisted of challenges from the
non-union men at the Frisco and Gem
mines to the union miners of the town of
Gem, and all seemed to indicate a speedy
rupture. Both the Gem and the Frisco
mines were guarded by men behind barri-
csdes armed with Winchesters, and as the
canon is narrow where the mines are To-
Gated, the men behind the barricades could
sweep the two railroad tracks and the
country with bullets. The Gem mine
barricade is within three hundred feet
nf ha ant nf hn af
Gem. This morning at O'Clock miner
from Gem started for Burke, When oppo-
site the Frisco he was fired upon. he
ran back several hundred yards to Gem,
where the shot had been heard, and soon
the miners gathered with arms They
marched in body toward the Frisco mill,
located directly in front of the mine.
When scarcely within rifle range volley
from the Frisco mill greeted the miners
and lead whistled all about them.
They scattered and a regular battle en-
sued. One miner and one non union man
were killed and six wounded during the
engagement. The miners in the meantime
went around the hills up the canon above
the mine, loaded car with $50 pounds of
giant powder, and sent the car down the
track toward the Frisco mine. Directly
in front of the mill an explosion occurred,
SCATTERING the mill to splinters. The nom
union men then showed the white flag and
surrendered. They were marched down
to the miners union hall and guarded,
no indignities being offered after the sur
render. While the fight was going on at
Frisco the guards at the Gem suddenly
began firing volley after volley into the
town of Gem, Kidding the buildings. John
Ward, citizen, was shot through the arm
and Gus Carlson, a union miner, was shot
and killed. Attempts to recover Csrlson's
body were met with volleys from the Gem
and it was not recovered until
an hour afterwards. No shots were re-
turned from Gem until the armed miners
from Frisco, half mile above Gem, re-
turned.
At 8 o'clock a. m. truce occurred aud
the sheriff, district attorney and deputy
United States msrshals appeared on the
scene. The train was stopped by armed
guards at the Gem mine. The sheriff took
the mail on his shoulders and passed on to
him, but dropped when they learned his
identity. So far as can at present be learn
ed there were four killed and about ten
wounded, though there may be bodies
under the Frisco mill. Two of
the killed are Gus Carlson and
Harry Cummings, union miners. The
other two are non union men, names IN
known. Among the wounded are John
Ward, Hugh Campbell, J. w. Gankardo-
ger, union miner, shot through the hip,
will die; Gam Peters, George Pettibone,
union miner. Frisco and Gem were the
only non-union place in the east end of
Cour d'Alene. There is still excitement
everywhere, but no further trouble is ex-
pected. About seventy men in the mine
The cause of the strike was the dem land
of the union miners of the district for
SO so per day for every man worked I'm
The mine-owners held that
unskilled men should be paid So. When
the miners refused to accept the scale the
mines were closed. The owners declared
excessive freight rates were the cause of
the reduction. The lockout was begun
April by the mine-owners' association
and 5000 men were thrown out of work.
Since then the mine-owners have been
making a struggle to run their mines with
nom union men under guard. The tension
has been great for months. The example
at Homestead, Pa, and the decision of the
United States court at Boise making per-
petual injunction against the miners
union brought matters to a head.
PORTLAND, Ore, July 1.-THE local
manager of the Thiel detective agency
said: 1--WE have few men in nearly
every mine In the Ceuer d'Alene district
since the strike began, but they are there
merely as lsborers and have no arms. We
have been expecting trouble, but the
mine owners throughout the union were not
prepared for long struggle and would
soon return to work. l received a dis
patch from Wallace this afternoon stating
that Ivory Bean of Boston, one of our
men, was shot and killed"
TROOPS In READINESS.
RoIsE Cry, IDAHO, July 1l.-Governor
Wiley has ordered Companies A, 1 and Q
of this city to report at 8 a. m. and hold
themselves in readiness to proceed to the
scene of the Cuur d'Alene mine troubles.
1t is not thought that an effective state
can be sent there. United States Marshal
Pinkhsm has laid the matter before At
torney- General Miller at Washington, the
outbreak having been in defiance Of the
federal court injunction.
George william Curtiss HI.
NEW York. July 12.-The Tribune says
George William Curtiss seriously i'll at
his home on Staten Island.
The Election in England.
LONDON, July 1l.-At midnight the total
rafurpa ohn-ai that he conservative h.d