Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-18
DEBS' APPETITE GOOD
Passed a Fairly Comfortable Night
in Jail.
REFUSE 70 TALK 70 WFERVEVERS
More Train Wrecking Attempted
by Strikers. -.
GOING BACK AT PULLMAN

| Aoo' July lb-President Debo
passed fairly comfortable night at he
county JAIL and early today ordered a
good breakfast brought in from a ne.xhbor-
ing hotel He refused to be seen by inter
viewers. and he and his associate. re-
H Aimed In their cells
Before IL am. Debs came down from b,.
| cell to meet his stenographer who had ar
| rived with a bundle Of mail for him. The
| iaoor president was In good humor Il hsd
the eest nights sleep had In a month or
| TWO. said he. nothing disturbed me noe
| even the ghost Of that man who WAS hang
ed the other day. and whose spirit is said
to be roaming about in here. / have ab.o-
iuteiy nothing to add to what I have al
ready said concerning our arrest. We are
mere and viii atay here until next Monday
| at least"
rour strikers threw a switch I'm front OF
| Wisconsin Central passenger train last
nieh' ana deraiied the engine. baggage car
anu Two coaches The train was moving
slowly. and nobody was injured. One OF
| the men was arrested
The first break in the ranks of the Pull
| man strikers has occurred 10 HoIlanaers
having beel put back to work on the
| tracks back OF the Pullman foundry The
| men quit work when the strike was de-
| ciared and stayed out until now No effort
was made by the other strikers to prevent
the men from going to work.
| The American Express Company has Is
| sued a circular to its agents withdrawing
INSTRUCTIONS. issued June -. requiring ali
| silpn ents TO be receipted for ''subie.t 10
risk or delay OH account of strikes
Albert Miles was shot and probably IA
taly wounded at 10th and Halstead sire It's
last evening by Oscar L. Vardman Both
men before the strike, were endowed as
engineers by the Switching Association al
the stock yards. When the strike was de-
elarei both of them went out. yardman,
however, returned to work last Moniay
Miles still remaining out Last evening. as
Nardman was returning home from go-k.
4 ne was-met-st-the corner OF 5oth and Hal
stead sueets by Niles and three other men.
A quarrel ensued. Miles endeavoring 10
persuade Nardman to leave his work again
Nardman refused to do this and he p..
assaulted by Miles and his companions
To defend himself he drew a revolver. Al
the sight of this Miles and his companions
turned and ran. but as they did SO Vard-
man nreu one shot. The bullet stru N
Miles In the small Of the back. and he fell
70 the ground, while the others escaped
Miles was taken to the County Hospital.
where the physicians said he would die
Nardman went to the stock yards police
station. where he gave himself up
Moving the Regulars.
Mayor Hopkins denied a report thar he
has been taking steps to secure the re-
moval of the federal troops from the city.
he stated he would not order the return Of
the military today
Asked IL he had consulted with General
Miles as to the withdrawal of the troops
the mayor said:
No. General Miles has nothing to say
about II. The department at Washington
attends to that. A general NAV he q his,
man In city like Chicago. but like a Con-
tom
The butchers conti,uo 80 ,-...,-. -. -
at the stock yards. Vice President Hazard
OF the butchers union went to work todav
The sheep butchers at Armours have re-
ceived raise OF - cents a day IN their
wages and 4I-2 days work a week has
been guaranteed them. All the houses were
killing stock today
Vice President Hownrd's Statement.
At the county jail today Vice President
Howard Of the A. II. L. made the follow
ing statement:
This thing is going to be a test case
We don't consider ourselves bigger than
the law, and, Incidentally, we think the
railroads are not. We are getting some
evidence for the coming legal battle. and
we consider IL pretty fair grade. Here
is letter 1 have received telling Of eN,t-
dence that most Of the freight cars burned
here in Chicago was done by the women in
tne employ or the General Managers Asso-
ciation. One of the secret agents Of q ce--
tain company on the night of the big fire
was seen with two men going through the
yards with hand car loaded with innam-
mable waste, which they lighted and sys-
ten at;caly threw among the cars This
agent overheard a conversat ton between
the men. from which he CLEANED that they
were paid S2o0 down and were TO receive
$500 more when the job was done This
understand, was before the troops were
called out. An effort is now being made to
arrest these two men.
We further have very positive evidence
10 af
at Blue Island was a Pinkerton man. en-
ployed by the railroads. and IL is significant
that although he could he easily Identified.
he has not been arrested. IL is said that
case will not be entirely one-sided''
At Chrlich's Hall, the A r.. L. headquar-
ters. a larger crowd was gathered today
than for several days past. The arrest OF
the leaders was discussed by the excited
groups that stood about the committee
rooms and Railways. and the action of the
authorities was severely criticised
Several of the local organizers delivered
shcrt addresses, and the usual claim that
the strike was still on were heard.
On the Northern Pacific.
TACOMA. Wash, July ls.-Three hum
dred and fifty-one new employees have been
put TO work on the Pacific division OF the
Northern Pacific since the strike began.
Practically all the old engineers have re-
turned TO work Many OF the swItchmen.
conductors. freight clerks and some of The
hfcinen VINO quit have applied for their DO
sitions, but not all could be taken back as
new men had been engaged. The road
would be in operation usual from end to
end, the officers say, but for the guerilla
warfare that is being continued The force
or deputy nIarshals In this state has been
reduced from 100 TO 80. All bridges are be-
ing guarded by regulars.
Butte Awaiting Regulars.
BUTTE, Mont. July ls-Attorneys of the
Union Pacific and Northern Pacific roads
here state that their roads will move trains
In and out of this city as soon as a suffi-
cient force of regular troops arrives Butte
contains fully 5000 members Of different
labor examinations. all of whom sympa-
thize with the strikers.
Several bridges between this city and
Lima were burned yesterday and one
blown up with dynamite. President Calder
head of the A. r.. L. says resistance
will be made TO moving of trains by troops.
banquet to Murderers.
BRAZIL. Ind, July ls.-A most unique
banquet was given here last night. More
than 500 citizens from Knightsville and the
neighborhood where the recent stoning to
death of the Nandalia engineer. Barr. oc-
currad rama A bsa farensu "a he fxusr