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The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
BYRNES GETTING READY.
New York Police "Prepnrlng for War
I'm Time of Peace"


I'm Time of Peace"
NEW YORK. July 6-An vacations in
the police department have been stopped
by order of Superintendent Byrnes. and all
members of the force, from captains down,
who had left the city on their vacations
were to-day summoned by telegraph to re-
turn forthwith. At the 6-o'clock roll call
this evening every man on the force who
was still in the city. whether he was on
leave of absence or had day off," was
in his respective station house. A protract-
ed conference was held this morning at po-
lice headquarters between the superintend-
ent, the inspectors and all commanders of
precincts.
superintendent Byrnes is preparing for
i spread of the great railroad strike TO
this city and he does not intend to be
caught mapping. His experience during
past strikes in this city has taught the
superintendent a lesson and he will like
wise benefit by the experience in the pres
ent troubles Of the Western police who
seemingly did not prepare for war in
time of peace" 1t is the superintendent's
determination TO place the whole force on
a war footing, and by o'clock tomorrow
the whole OF 300 men Will be ready to act
as one man within an hours notice. The
captains were especially instructed TO keep
a sharp lookout for any advance guards
who may come 10 precipitate a strike. All
speakers or agitators are to be given
timely warning to be moderate in their
advice and 10 avoid any breach of the law
Where any overt acts are committed the
police are to make prompt arrests. Special
Instructions were given to commanders in
whose bailiwicks are located railroad
yards, shops and tracks and ferries likely
20 be affected should the strike reach this
citv
At none of the New York or Jersey CITY
terminals visible thus far any signs
of spread of the Western strike TO this
region. The New York and Chicago ex-
press which leaves Chicago at $3.50 D. m
went through on Thursday without trouble
and arrived AZ T:O5 this evening schedule
time. AT midnight the Chicago limited on
the Pennsylvania was six hours late. Off
cials of the different roads are of the opin-
ion that the strike will not spread to New
York or New Jersey. They say their men
are satisfied with the present order of
things. and have neither sympathy nor
affliation with the str xers. Ths New York
Lake Erie & Western has Withdrawn it's
Chicago train. No. II. General Manager
Laying. of the West Shore road. said to-
night his road had not received any through
cars from Chicago since Wednesday. The
Pennsylvania railroad officials declared that
their Chicago trains were coming in the
same as ever. with Pullman cars attached
ALBANY. y. " July 6.-Me1nbers of the
Tenth Battalion. State militia of New York
have been ordered to leave their addresses
with the sergeants of their divisions should
they leave the city. and to be ready to re-
port at an nStants notice.
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AT ROCHESTER,.
Mail Trains Deiayed-A. II. L. Men
Ready to Go Ont.


ROCHESTER,. n. Y. July 6-From $50
yesterday morning up to $40 this morning
no mail arrived here from Chicago At 6
a. m. Chicago mail arrived. but since that
time communication has again ceased. The
train service from the West is even more
demoralized. on the Central and West
Shore the trains. with few exceptions. were
running from one to three hours late But
these cars come through only from Cincin-
natl and Cleveland. or were made up at
Buffalo. No Chicago passenger could be
found on a half dozen trains which came
into the Central this morning Train No.
T. the Lake Shore flyer, due in Rochester
at 1870 a m, has not come through since
Wednesday morning.
At late hour tonight the local passen-
ger agent OF the Central * West Shore is
sued notice that. commencing tomorrow
and until further notice. the east-bound
Chicago limited on the New York Central.
leaving at 9.SS a. m. and west-bound at
I.Z3 u. m. Will be abandoned owing TO la
Dor troubles at Chicago.
Three carloads OF nonunion men, bound
for Chicago. from Boston, and other points,
passed through on the Central this morn
ing. and the crowd was about as tough a
contingent from CoXey's army as were ever
seen in this section.
Local members OF the a. r. L. say to-
night that they are. ready to go out when
ordered. and predict that within forty-eight
hours they will quit work. The local or
ganizatiOn has los members. mostly en-
ployed on the Rochester branch of the Urie.
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RIOTERS ARRESTED.
Charged with Obstrucfing Mafls-A
"Synpathetic" Sheriff.

ST. LOUIS July 6.-Warrants were issued
here for the arrest of seven men-L. II.
Crooks. W. s. Harris, Nicholas Fay, James
Hockey, Edward Walcott. J. n. McCurry
and l.. n. Miller, all of Moberly, Mo-
upon the charge of interference with the
United States mails. The warrants were
issued upon affidavits made by Wabash Off
cals who have had a great deal of trou-
BILE at Moberly since the strike began. The
men pulled the engineer of a mail train
out of his cab. 4 special train was sent
to Moberly Immediately upon the issuance
of the warrants. bearing deputy marshals
TO serve them. The men were arrested and
taken to Hannibal to await the action of
the federal grand jury.
Upon the affidavit Of Wells II. Blodgett,
general solicitor of the Wabash railway,
United States Commissioner Crawford also
issued a warrant for the arrest of Thomas
Dameron. sheriff of Randolph county, in
which Moberly is situated. The charge in
effect is that the sheriff has conspired to
interfere with the United States mails. hav-
ing sworn in as deputies one hundred or
more strikers, knowing that they would not
protect the railroad and mails.
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RESTRAINING ORDERS.
Strikers Enjoined at st. Louis by
Federal Judge Thayer.


ST. LOUIS, July Elm the United States
District Court United States Attorney
Clopton presented petition praying for an
injunction against E. V. Debs, the Amer
lean Railway Union ct al, to restrain
strikers from interfering with interstate
commerce. The petition is exactly on the
lines of that recently filed in Chicago and
elsewhere, and embraces in its provisions
the score of roads entering the city. The
petition was ordered filed and the judge
announced that he would act during the
day. When court reconvened Judge Thay-
er announced that he had decided TO grant
the injunction prayed for with some modi-
fications. principally of a verbal and local
character, contining 1T more especially TO
the conditions of the district in which he
has jurisdiction. The announcement was
accompanied by a statement by the court
of its reasons for granting the injunction.
The order was Immediately filed and the
necessary instructions given United States
Marshal Lynch to see TO the protection OF
the traffic of this judicial district So far
violence has been noted here, but 1t Is
expected under the protection Of the fed
eral court the roads will attempt TO put
new men at work. The result cannot be
foretold.
United States Marshal Lynch, pursuant
to the omnibus Injunction. has sworn in
seventeen deputies and placed tnem on
duty at the Union Depot TO protect rail-
road employees in their efforts to take out
trains. Attempts Will be made to move
ffelgnt trains tomorrow. A SInliur lOTCS
has been summoned for duty in the Frisco
yards.
At strike headquarters here to-day. a
message was received from Moberly, Mo,
stating that the firemen and engineers on
the Wabash had gone out there. Inquiry at
the Office of the general superintendent of
the Wabash in this city failed to cor
roborate this, however. All the clerks in
the general offices of the Mobile & Ohio
railroad in St. Louis have been laid off
and the shops of that road at Murphysboro,
ILL.,, Jackson, Tenn, and Whistler, Ala.
in the freight deI artments have been shut
down until business is resumed Seven
hundred men on that road are thrown cut
of work temporarily.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
Kerosene and Black Knot.
Country Gentleman.


We published some years ago an account
of limited experiments with kerosene ap-
piled to trees affected with the black
knot. But care was taken first to cut out
the knot, and apply the kerosene to the
cut surface. 1t appeared to answer we'll.
ana had but little trouble. We now OBJ
serve in the published statements that the
spread of the disease has been checked
or prevented by applying the kerosene di-
rectly to the knots without cutting. and
that the operation has been successful. In
whichever way the kerosene may be used
caution Is needed TO prevent the oil from
running over the healthy bark
1t may be applied with brush. the size
OF which should correspond In some degree
with the size of the trees or branches, and
two brushes of different sizes carried to-
gether for this purpose. 1t may be desir-
able to use the kerosene several times in a
sea son, and TO treat the freshly swelling
knots before they have fairly broken open.
This experiment is so easily performed,
and the material always at hand that We
now that the black knot is so prevalent
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07

hearty for which my thanks are due 20 Hoods
Sarsaparilla." j. L. COLE, Winterset, Iowa
Hoods pills cure all liver Ills, biliousness.
iaundice. indigestion, sick headache. 25c.
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Ftremep ONT at Kansas city.

KANSAS CITY. July 6.-The tie-up is
still extending at this point. The Kansas
City. Fort Scott & Memphis was added 10
the list OF suspended roads this morning.
All the firemen on that road went out
There is little. if any. improvement, in the
service of the Rock Island. the Wabash
and the Chicago &, Alton. The Hannibal
& St. Joseph, a Burlington branch, is still
imperative. The Santa Fe is making a good
showing with its passenger trains in ana
out, but up 10 this morning Ii had succeed
ed in moving only one freight train. al
though IL has been putting forth every
effort TO move freight trains for week.
The Burlington is tied up here tonight
by a strike of it's night switchmen. The
Fort Scott & Memphis night crsws are also
out and that line is box tight at this point
The Santa Fe officials declare they VIII run
trains according TO schedule time to-mor-
row. Every man, from engineer TO brake
man, that goes out on a freight on this
line will be sworn in as a United States
deputy marshal and will carry arms.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
Ur,x Outlook at West Superior.

WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, July 6.-The
Omaha passenger service is fully restored.
The ST. Paul & Duluth trains have all
stopped. and there are rumors that the
Eastern Minnesota employees are going out.
One thousand coal beavers and 'longshore-
men struck for a return of last years sched-
ue. The companies offer Sl75 a day for
dock men and 81 day in the hatch. Men
are coming in from the ranges. The Amer
lean Railway Union has promised to help
the dock strikers. The dock men are ugly,
and trouble is feared. Provisions are get
ting scarce, and a meat and potato fam
inc is threatened here. Prices have doubled.
General Jeffreys, of the CoXey contingent,
delivered revolutionary harangue 10 the
cfrilx
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The Colorado City, Col. branch OF the A.
r. L. has voted not to go on strike.
The A. r. L. lodges at Desota, MINI,
have surrendered their charter and will
stick TO work, although twice ordered out.
The Joliet A. r. L. have decided TO sup-
port the strike The engineers have re-
fused to work without their own flrefnen.
The Fort Madison Qa) passenger train
going east Thursday night struck OBJ
struction. ditching the engine and killing
the engineer and fireman. 1t is believed
to have been the work Of strikers.
A batch OF new men engaged by WASH
ington represen' ative of the Baltimore a
Ohio road TO work on its Western lines
as substitutes for the striking employees
left for Chicago yesterday and more ex-
pected TO follow.
The Omaha and Grant smelter. at Denver.
Will close down tonight, and the Boston
and Colorado and the Globe may close
next Tuesday on account of lack OF fuel and
ores caused by the railroad tie-up. thou
sand men will be thrown out Of work.
Between eighty and one hundred men
passed through Pottstown, Pa, yesterday,
bound for Chicago TO take the places OF the
railway strikers. Agents of the Western
roads. in certain cases, offered as high as
S150 per month, with a guarantee OF five
years work.
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men ixho were arrested at Barstow for
alleged violations of Judge RosS's nonin-
terference Injunction. The Santa Fe road
also dispatched trains for San Bernardino
and San Francisco. Nonunion crews
manned the trains. The Southern Pacific
company was not so successful. A train
sent TO Santa Anna yesterday was aban-
doned to-day. Conductor Willetts refused
to bring il back to Los Angeles. The
Southern Pacific train for San Francisco
could not be got out of the yards
This afternoon Rev. L. W. Ravelin was
arrested by deputy United States mar
shall on a charge of having made an in
cendiary and fiery speech tending to ex-
cite the strikers to rebellion and calling
upon them to disobey the Constitution and
laws of the United States He was arrested
at his residence and is now in Jail. His
bond is placed at 81 900.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
Cable Notes.

A decree has been issued revoking the
order against allowing Sicilians to retain
possession Of arms.
Since Sunday eighty cases of cholera,
twenty of which were fatal, have been re-
ported at st. Petersburg.
The Paris Figaro says that Santo, the
murderer of President Carnot has ad
dressed letter to President CaSimir-Perier,
asking for money with which TO mitig tie
the rigor of the treatment he is receiving
in the Lyons prison.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
Action Taken in Kansas.

TOPEKA, Kan, July 6.-To-morrow viii
witness a change in the strike situation IN
Kansas, when officers will begin and as
fast as possible arrest all men who have
been Identified with the strike and those
who are agitating the matter. There are
now nearly two thousand names on the
when found. The originator of this new
move was United States District Attorney
w. G.. Perry, who commenced proceedings
in the United States Circuit Court before
Judge Foster under the conspiracy act of
1890 to restrain Eugene V. Debs, George
w. Howard, Of the American Railway
Union and all its members in any way
interfering with the transmission or in
any way interfere with the interstate COM
merce operating through the State of Kan
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
CIover-Leaf shops Closed.

TOLEDO. o., July 6.-This morning Re
ceiver Galloway, of the Clover-leaf road,
received a telegram from Frankfort, Ind,
signed COMMITTEE" containing the in
formation that the A. r. L. at that place
had decided to tie up his road. Mr.. Gala
way acted promptly and emphatically, wlr-
ing General Superintendent Mills. at st.
Louis, to lay off every employe whose
services are not actually required TO run
trains He also issued orders 10 close up
every shop on the line from end to end.
In explaining his action, Mr.. Galloway
said: I'VE can't afford TO spend so a DAY
10 earn 81 in revenue"
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
The Governor Prepared to Act.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, July Gov.
Stone to-day sent Acknowledgement Wick
ham to Moberly with instructions TO report
Immediately what steps are necessary to
put the Wabash Railway Company in full
possession Of it's property and suppress all
sorts of disorder incident to the strike.
Informal information here is to the effect
that one hundred strikers are among the
deputy sheriffs sworn in at Moberly. This
is not promising. The Governor is pre-
pared to call troops from three directions
into Moberly. and will not hesitate if the
local officers fail in their duty. The sheriff
of Mississippi county has telegraphed that
the Birds Point blockade on the Iron
Mountain is being relieved under the pro-
teCtion of IDENTITIES.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
No Aid for striking s,vitchmen.

f KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 6.-Aiiles ".
Barrett, national president of the Switch
mems Mutual Aid Association, was here
to-day to attend a mass meeting OF the
railway employees. He told the switchmen
that if they quit work they must not eX-
pect aid while out or help in getting back
when the trouble is over from their or
ganization. Mr.. Barrett admitted that half
of the members of the SWitchmen's Mutual
Aid Association were now on strike. These,
he said, were subject to expulsion from the
ord
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
WAR ON DEBS.
RAILWAY Conductors WiII Fight the
4. X. L..

DENVER, Col, July 6.-The Order of
Railway Conductors will tomorrow begin
war upon L. Y. Debs, his order and the
strike. The first step will be TO expel from
the order all members who have gone out
on strike on the order of Debs. This de-
cision has been arrived at because OF sew
eral reasons. First, members of that order
who stopped work violated the laws of the
order: second. by their acts the striking
members have weakened the influences Of
the order, which has always been strong
that il has never been called upon 10 strike
in order 10 gain desired point. 1t is in
tended TO punish the disobedience and to
stop the weakening of the orders influence.
Following the example of the engineers
of the Denver K Gulf system. the conduc-
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Debs Restrained at Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, July 6.-The Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul read has taken de-
cisive measures to protect it's property.
On application of Attorney-gensral Olney,
through District Attorney Wigman. Judge
Seeman. OF the United States Court, grant
ed an injunction restraining President
Debs and his local assistants from in
terfering with all railroads in Wis
consin. United States Marshal Pratt
to-day swore in fifteen special deputies
to protect the property of the st. Paul
road. In the event, which is not immedi-
ately apprehended, of violent interference
with the trains Marshal Pratt will make
a request for federal troops to enforce the
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
OyeraveG DIV Yroons.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. July 6.-The pres
ence of four companies of State troops here
has effectually awed the strikers. and the
Wabash Railroad Company to-day got one
passenger train east and one west both
guarded by troops. The troops were COM
PEELED to charge the strikers at various
points. One striker caught Colonel Cul-
ver's sword and attempted to take ii from
him. The yards for their entire length are
guarded by troops
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
KELLY'S ARMY HEARD FROM.
Stranded at Yanceburg. KY, and the
Men Without Food.

VANCEBURG, KY, July 6.-General Kelly
and his army of commonwealers are
stranded at Moore's Landing, ten miles
above here, where they were left by the
captain of the towboat Connell. Kelly re-
fused TO give up possession of the barge,
and the captain went to Cincinnati to Sc
cure the assistance of United States mar
shals. The army is in destitute condi-
tion and has no food. The men are forag
ing off the farmers and causing great un-
eaSiness among them
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Light Artillery Drilled.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, July 6.-To-day
was veteran day at Camp Van Etten, the
blue and gray mingling in fraternal union
and marching together. The companies that
drilled to-day were the Emmett Guards, of
Washington, for the maiden class; Govern
or's Guards. Of Austin, for the maiden;
Helena Guards. for the maiden 1ndianap-
oils Light 4 .tillery. Seally Rifles, for the
interstate, and the Chicago and Hale Zou-
aves for the Zouave prize. The prizes will
be announced Tomorrow
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
Editor Stead on Pullman.

LONDON, July 6.-The Westminster Ga
zette to-day prints an interview with w.
T. Stead on the subject of the Pullman
strike. Mr.. Pullman he declares. is an in
dustrial cZar. who makes his philanthropy
pay dividends. He (Mr. Stead would not
be surprised If the present struggle should
show how easily Industrial war can de-
veiop into a civil war The railroad is the
Achilles heel of capitalism, and America
depends upon the railroad to an extent to-
tally beyond conception in Great Britain.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
nInxcmenfs of Steamers.

NEW YORK, July 6.--Arrved: Fuerst
Bismarck. from Hamburg; Cuffic, from
Liverpool
ROTTERDAM. July 4.-Arrived: Mas
dam, from New York.
BALTIMORE. July 6.-Arrived: Polyne-
sia, from Hamburg.
TORY ISLAND, July 5.-Passed: Prus-
sian, from Boston.
HAMBURG, July 6.-Arrived Rugia
from New York.
LONDON. July 6.-Arrived: Rosiarian,
frnm Montreal.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
Drowned in Three-FOOt Water.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
BUTLER, Ind, July 6. - Samuel May.
aged twenty, was drowned this morning at
Perkeys mill, six miles north of this place.
In company with a younger brother and
another lad. he started with a leaky boat
on a fishing excursion. When forty feet
from the shore the boat filled rapidly and
sunk Sam was seized with cramps and
sank in three feet of water.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
500 Passengers Held Up.

KANKAKEE. ILL.,. July 6.-Five hundred
passengers from Big Four and Illinois Cen
tral trains are held over in this city. Two
trains await the opening of the blockade at
Kensington, and two mails cars carrying
through nail are also detained All hotels
are full and many passengers are com
PEELED to remain in the coaches. All fac
tories are shutting down for lack OF coal,
and the electric-light. street-railway and
water plants are ecOnomiZing to the utmost
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
The Time for Less Work.
Baltimore Sun.

There is solid ground for the belief that
the American people of to-day are happier
in hot weather than their grandfathers
or even their fathers were. To begin with.
we work less and play more in the sum-
mer time than they did. The long vacation
used to be known only 10 the bench and
bar. All professional workers know it now.
The minister. the school teacher, the doc
tor and the lawyer are all agreed TO do
as little possible in the way of profess
sional labor while the thermometer is at its
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struci, by order of Sovereign.

PORTLAND. Ore. July 6.-In obedience
to an order from General Master Workman
Sovereign. the 'longshoremen's branch of
the Knights of Labor struck here this morn
ing The men refused to unload freight
from the Union Pacific steamer State OF
California. which arrived from San Fran
cisco last night. The ofncials had no
trouble in securing nonunion men. The rail-
road situation here remains unchanged. The
Southern Pacific this morning dispatched
local freight trains
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
Trains Guarded by Deputies.

MOBERLY. Mo, July 6-The situation in
this city is not much improved, and such
trains as are moved are twelve to twenty
four hours late. The north-bound train
tied up here Monday pulled out this after
noon four days late, under the guard of
sheriff's deputies A train from st. Louis
this morning brought about forty armed
men, who are supposed to be here TO take
the places of strikers. So far violence
has occurred and Sheriff Dameron antic-
ipates TO difficulty in preserving the peace.
The trains tied up here are being gotten out
of the way slowly
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-07
~ Conway.

PITrSBURG, Pa, July 6-The strike on
the cleveland & Pittsburg railroad has
reached Conway. twenty-three miles west
Of this city. where the yards OF the COM
pany are located. All freight trains are
tied up at that point and nothing has come
through to-day. All through passenger
trains from the west were delayed this
morning. the only trains arriving being
those made up at Fort Wayne and Column
bus In this city the situation is more
alarming than at any time since the strike
was inaugurated in the West. The men on
the Cleveland * Pittsburg road are expect
ing orders 10 go out, but the prospects of