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ACME MILLING CO.'S
Columbia Flour.
BEST IN THE MARKET
POLITICIAN SHOT.
Col. Fl. C. Parsons, of Virginia, Killed
by Railway Conductor.

CHARLESTON, w. Va. June 29.-Col
II. C. Parsons, proprietor OF the Natural
Bridge hotels in Virginia and ex-president
of the Richmond * Allegheny railroad. was
fatally shot by j. A. Goodwin, conductor
on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, at
Glady Inn, Clifton Forge, this morning.
Parsons had reported Goodwin for carry
ing negro women on his train without the
payment Of fare, and controversy ensued
which caused his death. Parsons was well
known throughout Virginia as prominent
railroad man and politician Colonel Par
sons died few hours after being shot
After discharging his pistol. conductor
Goodman went before w. w. Davis, Mayor
of Clifton Forge. and gave up his PISTOL
remarking that when the public had be-
come informed OF all the circumstances
connected with the affair he would be
Justified by the killing. He wired mes
sage to Col. Beverly Crump. Richmond.
his attorney, directing him TO procure and
take charge OF a certain important letter
hearing upon the case, which, ii Is alleged,
Colonel Parsons had written 10 General
Manager stevens. OF the Chesapeake &
ohio railway. seriously rejecting upon his
offfcial conduct and character.
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VIOLENCE AT CHICAGO.
Engineer and Fireman Assaulted by
n Mob.


CHICAGO, June 29.-The first overt act
of violence in the railroad strike occurred
this afternoon, when the engineer and fire.
man of an Illinois Central suburban train
were driven from their engine by mob of
two hundred men. They were pelted with
rocks and bricks and chased away. The
train south-bound from Chicago was
stopped just north OF the crossing at Burn
side Station. One striker drew the coupling
pin connecting the locomotive with the
, train and twelve others boarded the cab
and forced the engineer and fireman to
jump out. AS they did the mob began
to pelt them with stones. The engineer and
fireman fled for their lives pursued by a
portion of the mob while others backed
the engine to the roundhouse close at
hand, leaving the cars standing on the
main track. The episode fired the blood of
the mob and when, a short time later, a
north-bound suburban train approached it,
too, was stopped, the engine detached and
standing on the north-bound track. The
news was sent to the police station and a
force of twenty-five men FASTENED to the
scene and scattered the mob, which had
swollen to fully six hundred.
At Dauphin Park the police were COM
PEELED to disperse a threatening mob, and
at Kensington the police patrolled the
tracks all day, although no open violence
was ATTEMPTED.
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PRINCESS FLOUR
Best made Ask your Grocer.
CHARGED WITH FRAUD.
Arrest of Officers of Firm That Manu-
factured Steel Gun Castings.

PHILADELPHIA, June 29.-H. ". Bick-
ley. president; Frederick Bait, superintend-
ent. and James T. Anderson, of the PENN
sylvania Steel-casting and Machinery Com
pany were arrested by Deputy United
States Marshal Myers to-day, charged with
conspiracy in perpetrating frauds upon the
United States government in furnishing
steel gun castings. The affidavit upon
which the arrest was made charges that
on or about May 49, 1894. the defendants
conspired to defraud the United States by
duplicating the official stamp of the in
spector of ordnance, and in subjecting
specimens already stamped and separated
for casting for test to treatment different
from that received by the castings, which
would result in delivering to the United
states castings of quality inferior to the
specimens to that quality required by the
contract of said company with the United
States. In the hearing before United
States Commissioner Bell, Lieut.. w. Irving
Chambers testified to the details of the
charge as set forth in the affidavit. The
hearing was continued until next Tuesday.
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LOSS OF OVER 81, ,OOO,0 900
DISASTROUS FIRE IN SyOODRUFF,S
STORES, BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Several Buildings Burned, Two EN-
plOyes of the Union Ferry Compa-
ny Killed and Two Injured.

BROOKLYN, June 29.-Shortly after
o'clock this afternoon fire broke out in
Woodruffs stores on Furman street. The
fremen were enabled to prevent the flames
from communicating to the adjoining
stores. f Z and D. and the rnpn Ferry
Companys buildings. The store houses
saved contained the most valuable portion
of merchandise.
About o'clock this evening. when the
f1remen were in hopes that the fire was un-
der control, the flames burst forth with
greater force, and it at once became evident
that the buildings K and III were doomed 1t
was about 9:15 D. m. that the south wall
OF warehouse X was seen to bulge out,
and a moment later fell with a terrific
crash. There were four men, employees of
the ferry company, who were on a trestle
work which runs through the yard. They
were playing a hose the company's
property when the wall fell. Three of them
were caught beneath the falling wall,
while the fourth jumped and escaped. A
rescue party was formed, which in a short
time succeeded in bringing their limp
bodies out of the debris. Two of them
had been killed outright. while the third
man received injuries which will probably
result in his death. Following are the
dead
JOHN G. BARROW.
JAMES PRENTICE.
The injured
SAMUEL sOLAN. right leg cut off be-
low the knee: will probably die.
ANDREW MILLER, cut about the scalp.
At about midnight the flames were
thought to be under control. The burned
buildings were valued at $4,000, while the
value of their contents was 81. 100000. MAX
ing total loss of s1.O75.OOO. said to be fully
covered by insurance.
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MIR. DEBs SPEAKS.
An Address to Railway Men-Does Not
Eenr

CHICAGO, June 29-Presdent Debs to-
day issued an address to the railway men
OF America setting forth the causes and
objects OF the present strike. In his ad
dress he says:
1.-The struggle with the Pullman COM
pany has developed into contest between
the producing classes and the money power
of the country This was what Lincoln
predicted at the close of the war. and IL
was this reflection that gave the great
emancipator his, gloomiest forebodings
We stand upon the ground that working
men are entitled to just proportion OF
the products of their labor This the Pull
man company denied them.
Continuing, President Debs calls upon all
workinzthen to refrain from acts of vio-
lence, and in conclusion says: Il have
faith in the great body of railway en-
they will maintain an unbroken front in
spite of any opposition that may be
brought to bear against them ! am per.
fail"
1t was reported to-day that Debs would
be arrested by order of the United States
Court. In regard to this rumor Debs said:
''I anticipate no trouble with the courts
and 1 hardly see how I can be arrested
until / commit or cause to be cornnlitted
some overt act of violence against the
lines which the courts now operate You
VIII notice that Judge Caldwell says that
on the Santa Fe. He says though as soon
as the men leave the comDany's or the
courts employ they must in no way IN
terfere with the running of trains. Ger
tainly they will do that. for they are
under orders to resort to no violence.
Judge Caldwell admits that the men have
a right TO quit work That is what we
contend for ard we are therefore salts
fed with the courts ruling. The receiy-
ers' control over the Santa Fe is just
the same as a managers power over any
line. We realize the Importance of avoid
ing any trouble with the government and
we have neither wish nor intention to
hinder the carriage of the mails. The
situation grows more encouraging each
day. We feel that we have succeeded as
far as could be expected. There have been
no outbreaks far and shall try our
best 10 prevent any. Our policy will be
one of moderation. As 10 the intention OF
the railroads to import men, / will say
that all they can procure viii be only a
drop in the bucket. There are ton many
thousand skilled hands out to fill their
places so as to give even half chance
to run trains. American sentiment IS too
strong against who take strikers
positions to permit very large body OF
workmen TO act as subs at this time"
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An AGGREssIvE FIGHT.
General Managers Decide tn Hire
New Men and Protect Them


New Men and Protect Them.
CHICAGO, June G.-The session Of the
General Managers Association. beginning
at noon to-day, gave every indication that
the railroads are preparing for a long and
determined fight. Telephones were being
run to the associations headquarters addi-
tional rooms were being fitted up ard other
preparations were in progress Shortly
after the beginning OF the session Wilh1m
jellousiy- guarded door to the meeting room,
was Immediately admitted. His visit was
regarded as significant. and IL was rumOred
that IL was the intention OF tie railroad
people TO arrest the strike leaders.
After the meeting General Manager Earl
road, said that those present had decided
to pursue an aggressive policy. 1T Wis de-
termined at the outset, said Mr.. Earring.
that we would have to fight this strike
All the roads represented have determined
TO secure men to take the place OF those
who hays struck New men 1re being en-
pl0yed now, ard they WI be put TO work
vzriotis roads vsre received and considered
The Fort Wayne. the Alton and the Chlca-
90. BURLINGTON & Quincy reported that some
of their men have struck since lass night
We closed our shops at Milwaukee to-day
owing to the present trouble How long
thew win remain closed / cannot say.
There is no truth In the rumcr that Pinker-
roads to protect their employees and their
property" Mr.. Earring stated that trains on
his road are running to-day, and that there
has been no serious trouble since the de-
railmenf of a passenger train In the Chlcd-
60 yards last niGht
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STRIKE ON AT CINCINNATI
About Five Thousand Railway
Employees Quit Work.
Riot at Ludlow, KY, Last Night-Tie-
Up ON the Missouri Pacific at st.
Louis-No Freights Moving.
snec,.1 - the Indianapoiis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
HAMMOND, Ind. June 2s.-The Pullman
boycott has assumed alarming proportions
at this point tonight Both the Chicago Ss
Erie and the Monon roads are tied up and
no trains are running over either road at
this station. Early this afternoon strikers
began congregating on the State line. and
when train No. on the Erie arrived 10
was Immediately seized. and is yet In the
hands of the strikers. As soon as 1t was
stopped the Pullman cars were cut OF and
pushed on a side track and the rest OF tha
train is standing on the main track. Just
behind that is the local accommodation
due to arrive here at 6:15 o'clock on ths
Monon, and train No. s, due here at s:S5
o'clock, that was one hour late. II waz
met at the State line by nearly one thou
sand strikers and stopped This train Is
composed of two mail cars. two baggage
cars, four day coaches and four sleepers,
and is in charge OF conductors Ihomzou
and Holmes and engineer Gibbs AS soon
as the train stopped the engineer gave up
his seat to Kid Merriweather, one or tbs
strikers, who pulled the train on down to
the depot.
Sheriff Frederick and posse Of twenty
deputies arrived here at o'clock bus
and at o'clock this evening wired Cow
ernor Matthews for. troops. Robert Froths
OF Coney Island, N. Ys one OF the pas
sengers on train No. on the Erie. sent
the following message 20 Governor Mat
thews:
Train No. on the Erie. with nearly 100
passengers, including forty old ladies and
Children on board. stands on the track OUT
side OF Hammond Train officials refuse
to move it. saying the train is IN posses
sion of the State OF Indiana. Women and
children suffering. What shall we DOR
This message was signed by six oe tho
passengers. This afternoon United States
Marshal Hawkins arrested Alexander II
Shields. president OF the local branch OF tho
American Railway Union; Walter St. John
and J. II. Rossitter. VINO are charged with
being the leaders Of the mob that held up
the Monon train Wednesday night III Gov
Matthews should send militia to-night
there will be trouble and possibly blood
shed, as the strikers are determined that
the sleepers now In their hands shall not
be claimed. They claim that in one hour :
time they can get 1900 men here from
Pullman, Kensingfon and Grand Crossing,
and will fight for their rights.
This afternoon two deputy sheriffs from
Cook county. who came across the stats
line to get something to eat. were arrest 4
by the local police under the charge OF inl-
personating officer. A special ira d
took Marshal Hawksns> and his prlsoner s
to indianapolis late tonight.
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switchmen Will Not Go Ont.

CHICAGO, June 2s.-The switchmen viii
not go out or a strike. This result was
reached at midnight after long and heat
ed discussion on the part of 6lo members OF
the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association at
the Great Northern. Grand Master Bar
rett presided over the meeting, and the
vote was close one, though half OF those
present declined to vote for against the
resolution. They represented the eleven To-
cal lodges of the order and twenty-five
railroads in Chicago. Many of the men
were those who voluntarily went out in
sympathy with the strikers and were
urgent in their efforts to convert the
others to participate in the strike. A reso-
luton was adopted as a compromise that
the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association
sympathizes with the strikers, but it can
not recognize the authority OF the X. r. u.
to call out the members of the association.
During the strike members will not take
positions vacated by strikers, Will not work
with scabs and will not work under police
Drotection
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ALL ROADS AFFECTED.
Incidents of the Strike at Chicago
What Both sides Say.


CHICAGO, June 29-The railway block
ade continues and the number OF men
on strike was greatly increased to-day.
The packers at the stock yards tried to
induce the strikers to take eight train
loads of beef held by them through, as
their refusal to do would result in
throwing thousands of men at the yards
out of employment The men refused and
the trains were returned to the packing
houses. The packers say they will be
afraid to send perishable freight out of
the yards while the strike continues, as
they fear it will become tied up on the
road where it would spoil. The result is
that before very long the stock-yards
business will be paralyzed whether the
railroad employees in the yards strike or
not. To-day two trains of live stock on
the Santa Fe and on the Illinois Central
outside OF the yards remained on the track
because the trainmen refused to move
them.
The Chicago & Alton is badly crippled.
Passenger trains have been but in fairly
good shape. Freight traffic is badly con-
gested and much perishable goods is being
ruined The Railway Union officers claim
that they will have the road tied COM
pletely.
President Debs says that within twenty
four hours matters would SO shape them
selves that strike the Burlington
would be effective Said Mr.. Debs: '1t is
life or death with one of the two sides.
We must kill the managers association
or ii must disrupt organized labor In
America for years to come"
The contradictory news about the action
of the Milwaukee & st. Paul road was
supplemented by the statement of the
chief clerk of superintendent Barr that
the only two Pullman run out OF
Chicago by the company had been dropped
for the present The official order. he
said had gone out aud during the res,
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Movements of Steamers.

NEW YORK, June 2s.-Arrived: Nor
MAMMA. from Hamburg; Virginia, from
Stettin; Britannia, from Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL, June 29.--Arrived: German
ic. from New York; Cevic, from New York
QUEENSTOWN, June 29.-Arrived: Et-
ruria, from New York
HAMBURG, June 29.-Arrived: Columbia,
from New York.
LONDON, June 29.-Arrived: Austrian,
from Montreal.
HULL. June 29.-Arrived: Colorado. from
New York.
NAPLES, June 2s.-Arrived: Necker. from
New York.
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QUIT AT NOON.
Strike of Employees of the Hooking VAL
ley Railway.

TOLEDO, June 29.-President Waite of
the Hooking Valley railway, refused to
accept the scale demanded by the employees
and the men struck at noon to-day. Moth
ing but mail trains are running. There
was trouble at the shops of the road at
Columbus at $40 and detachment of po-
lice was sent T.. the scene
COLUMBUS, o., June 29.-Ninety yard
employees of the Columbus. Hooking Valley
& Toledo railroad in this city have quit
work. The Pullman question does not enter
into the strike. The men demand an adj
vance in wages.
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Madame wrights Murderers Hanged.

KANSAS CITY. No.. June 2e.-The two
gallows to-day. Harry Jones was hanged
al Independence, Mo-. soon after O'Clock,
and two hours later John Clark was exc
cuted in Kansas City by the sherin and his
assistants. who carried out the law against
Jones Nine. Wright kept an employment
office in that city, and Jones and Clark
killed her. the men claiming unintention-
ally. while robbing her office.
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Mr.. Egan said: 81 anticipate before the
close of the strike serious trouble. A large
number of the men have struck without
just understanding what they have struck
for, and when they find their places being
taken by new men they are bound to grow
desperate. 1 do not look for any easy
termination of the strike, but we will GER
tainly be prepared here after to-day to
secure all Of the new men that we wish
and to bring about as early termination
of the strike as possible. Except in a
few instances the general train services
of the roads have not been interrupted,
and, while it will take time to get order
out of the chaos that has been precipi-
tated, We will do this. / do not anticipate
the slightest difficulty In getting all of
the men that we need, and they will be
practical railroad men. We are in the
fight to stay, and there will be no COM
promise nor give up
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poax Eoupa I'm the whirIpool.

NIAGARA FALLS ~. Y. June 29.-The
almost naked body of a woman about
TWENTY-FIVE years old was taken from the
Whirlpool this afternoon. and, from appear
ance, il is the remains of a suicide, The
body was In bad condition. The only bit
and cloth-top shoes, black corset and
badly-torn corset waist. Nothing has thus
slightest cIew TO the identity of the
fortunate woman. The remains had been
In the whirlpool since last Saturday.
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tion Of the knights OF St. John closed
with the eIestion of the following officers
Supreme president. John Wilhelm, Cleye-
toronto. second vice president. j. b.
Todenbier Detroit: supreme secretary NJ
Rowan Evansvillle Ind; trustees. A Neu-
pert. Buffaio. and j. +. Tobin, West Vir-
gfnia Evansville, Ind, was selected as
The convention concluded with sfSe on
Iske Frie. the installation of the new offi-
Gers IA king place upon the steamer
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Troou. Needed Mt Cairo.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. June Ex-Governor
Altgeld to-day received a lengthy telegram
from J. T. Harrahan, vice president of the
Illinois Central at Chicago, stating that the
property of that road at Cairo was in great
danger of ruination by strikers; that the
sheriffs that might be sworn in, but had
received no notice from the sheriff of that
county, and State troops were asked for.
The Governor wired the sheriff at Cairo
for facts. Colonel Boyle was sent from
here to Cairo this evening TO investigate
and report the situation at once. Com
panies at Belleville, C1rbondale and Olney
were ordered to be ready to proceed to
Cairo at any m mute.
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Don,t want Armed Men.

CHICAGO, June 9.-Infornation was re-
ceived to-day at the headquarters of the
strike committee that the local detective
agencies were calling in their outside
forces and engaging new men for the pur-
pose of having them sworn in as deputy
sheriffs and placed in the yards of the
railroad companies. The heads of the local
lesor organizations held n hasty conference
and decided that IL armed men were
placed in the railroad yards 1t would have
a tendency to cause rioting. To avoid this
Ii was determined to use every effort TO
prevent the representatives of the detec-
tive agencies from going into the yards.
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Freiubt service Dead.

BLOOMINGTON, H., June 29.-The Pull
man boycott struck the Alton to-day when
an order was received from organizer
Lynch, Of the American Railway Union.
for the men TO go out, owing TO the Atoms
refusal TO stop Pullman service. since
6 a. m. all has been dead in
the freight service. The men re-
fused 10 have live stock moved, and the
stock probably Will be put in the stock
yards The morning trains, having no Pull
mans, were not molested.
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resolution was introduced providing that
the order should side with the general
managers association, but IL raised such
storm that the man who offered IL was
compelled to withdraw it. The only action
taken by the meeting was that all an
nouncements relating to the attitude OF the
order toward the strike will be announced
formally by the order as a body. and that
the officials must refrain from committing
the organization in any manner.
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On the WISCONSIN Central.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, June 29.-The Wis
consin Central is tied up tight and
grievance committee has been named by
the American Railway Union to manage
the strike between Abbotsford, Wis. and
st. Paul. The Brotherhood engineers have
refused to work with nonunion firemen
and are thus tacitly helping the American
Railway Union. Ten brotherhood firemen
from Waukesha arrived to-day, but only
one could be induced 10 take an engine
out The interurban trains between here
and Eau Claire are permitted to -un for
the present The Omaha men are not
out yet, but expect to be soon.
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DENVER, Col. June 2s.-The Southern
delegates TO the Republican League con-
vention have abandoned the idea Of organ
izing a Southern league. I'VE were not
treated exactly right In the convention"
said w. n Connen, secretary OF the Ten
nessee League, but we have nothing 10
say except that we Will run our own busi-
ness as we like. We will let the Colorado
people organize their voters and we win
orgarize ours"
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NEW YORK, June 2s.-Captain Friets-h,
of Milwaukee, and his forty-foot schooner
rigged cockleshell, the Nina, has arrived.
on his way from Milwaukee to Stockholm.
He Is Swedish sailor. and built his boat
especially for the adventure of crossing
the lakes and the Atlantic
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negro Hanged and Shot.

SULPHUR SPRINGS, Tex. June %
John Williams. colored. who was charged
with killing Mrs. AL Waltz and mortally
wounding her husband. was taken from. the
sheriff's posse yesterday and Tynched- he
was hanged TO a telegraph pole and the
body afterward filed almost full of lead