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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
FOR DRoUrH sUFrn1sERs.
The Senate Favors an Appropria-
tiOn of $500. 900.


Washington special: Senator Pettigrew
is much g~ratiticd over his success in secur-
ing favorable action upon al amendment
to the sundry civil bill by which $500, 900 is
to be appropriated for the purchase of seed
grain for the drouth stricken region of the
northwest. The amendment has not vet
received the sanction of the House, and
it is probable that it will have some
difficulty in doing so. There was a
similar proposition in behalf of
the flood sufferers of the Mississippi VAL
ley a few years ago, and it was defeated
by the const%itutionalists of the Bailey
stripe. Besides this the members of the
House Committee on Appropriations are
organized for a lively fight upon the
amendments inserted in the appropriation
bills in the Senate. BY far the most i'm
portant of these are the clauses providing
for the payment of sugar bounties and the
French spoliation claims. lfthcsc items are
allowed to go unchallenged the total APP
preparations by the Fifty -third Congress
will exceed Il billion dollars by several
million. In their determination to keep
below the billion mark the House man.
ayers will be likely to slice off every pos
siblc item added by the Senate, and the
drouth sufferers seed provision is thcre-
fore in danger.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
BATTLE WITH BANK ROBBERS.
Council BluHs Officers Have a Fight
with a Gnnx of Desperadoes.

Council Bluffs Officers Have a Fight
with a Gang of Desperadoes.
For a short time Monday evening the
business streets of Council Bluffs were
transformed into a battlefield, and timid
people beat a rapid retreat in their efforts
to seek places of safety. The fusillade
IA caused by IN attempt of Deputy
O'Brien and three other officers to arrest
three men suspected of robbing the bank
at Griswold, Iowa. O'Brien and one of
the alleged robbers were seriously and
perhaps fatally wounded, while a motor
man was struck by a glancing ball. Two
of the three men were captured, though
the third made good his escape.
During the afternoon the Council Bluffs
officers were notified of the robbery of the
National Bank ut Griswold, Iowa, and as
a result the men were on the lookout for
the suspects. Just after dusk as one of
the officers was patrolling his beat he no.
ticed q man sitting in the Office of the Kiel
Hotel who answered the description tele-
graphed from Griswold. Deputy Sheriff
O'Brien was notified, and after taking q
look at the man he concluded that he was
one of the individuals who were wanted,
but not feeling like attacking a bank rob.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
HIS AUDITORS ALL ARMED.
slattcry and His Wife Again Lee
turc in Savannah.

Savannah, Ca, special: This has been
another day of intense excitement in Sa-
vannafl. Feeling seems to run high,
though there has been no hostilities of any
kind. Mrs. Slattcry lecturcd to 600 women
in Odd Fellows Hall IN the afternoon.
Many of the ladies at the lecture were es-
cortcd to the hall by their husbands.
Policemen were stationed in the square OH
which the hall fronts. No one was allow
ed to loiter about the building. Towards
the close of the lecture crowds
collected in the vicinity and Slattcry
and his wife were followed to their
hotel by thousands. Odd Fellows Hall
was crowded to its limit and many were
turned away in the evening. Fully 1000
men were in the hall. 1t is understood
that a large proportion were armed. On
all sides men We're heard saying that they
were ready for Il mob. Outside the hall
the entire police force, with the exception
of a few men scattered through the
audience, were distributed so as to COM
mand the entire vicinity of the hall. No
crowds were allowed to congrcgatc near
the building. Inside the hall Slattcry re-
ceived All ovation and throughout his lee
ture he was a%pplaaded and cheercd when
he declared that the riot the other night
had shown tho. necessity of Protestant or
ganization.
Slattery announced that lie intended to
remainIin Savannah until he could walk
the streets without police protection. His
presence here will keep up the excitement,
which has been intensified by the an
nouncement that an A. T.. A. organization
would be pcrfectcdhere at once. Conserve
ative men on both sides deeply dcplore tho
existing situation.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
STARVING In OHIO.
THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING
AMONG IDLE MINERS.
Sorrow and Want stalk Through the
Hooking vallcy-An Appeal for Aid
Which Has Not Been In vain-Re.
lief Supplies Pouring In.
Need Food and c1othes.

Neeu foO0 ana Clothes
In the Hooking and Sunday Greek
valleys of the Ohio, where pros
perity and happiness once held sway,
backed by healthy industry and good fell
lowship. at leust 10000 miners and their
familiesnre now destitute and dependent
entirely upon charity, and their condition
is so serious that starvation must come
to some ere relief can reach them. Hun
ger and sorrow and suffering have taken
the places of wealth, happiness and
health. The miners troubles began about
a year ago. There was some difficulty
with the mine operators regarding wages
and the workmen struck. The strike con-
tinued for weeks and months, until all the
savings of the miners and the unions were
exhausted. During the last part of May
the difficulty was settled and the miners
returned to work. the operators agreeing
to pay 60 cents a ton to miners in Ohio
and 65 cents in Pennsylvania. Presently
the operators of Pennsylvania violated
this part of the agreement and refused to
pay more than 55 cents a ton. This gave
them u chance to underbid the Ohio on
orators and work began to be slack in
Ohio.
Things went from bad to worse in the
Hooking and Sunday Greek valleys. The
miners had been in the custom of receiy.
ing their pay in the form of scrip" good
for purchases at the company's stores.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08

When work began to slacken the stores
carried the men on their books for q time,
hoping for better times. But finally this
was no longer possible and the miners
were refused credit. The miners of this
part of Ohio are noted for their proud
spirit. Their earnings had always been
good, thus keeping them above every
want, and their spirits had never been
crushed by reverses. So when they found
themselves in so serious a plight they
were too proud to ask aid, until finally
they were practically on the verge of star
walton. So far people outside of the i'm
mediately affected district had no idea
how bad was the condition of the miners.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08

los, was the scene of a terrible explosion a
little before noon. Thirty -scven men were
working in four levels when the disaster
occurred. Eleven of these have been res
cued, all in a dying condition. The re-
naming twenty -four have doubtless per-
ished. Over a dozen dead bodies have
been recovered. The miners were all mar
ricd men. When the news of the disaster
spread, women and children hurried from
Madrid. For some time there was serious
danger in descending. owingto the poison
vapors. In the course of half an hour
several of the dead were sent up. Then
it was feared that non of the thirty-scvcn
had escaped.
Later in the evening eleven dying miners
were discovered in a bunch. They were
probably overcome in an effort to escape.
The explosion is thought have been due to
the accidental breaking into an abandoned
chamber charged with gas.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
ANOTHER CUBAN REBELLION.
Promises to &c the Blcodicst of tho
Many RcvOlts There.

New York special: The outbreak in
Cuba is said to have Matched in New York.
1t is said cipher dispatches received here
by members of the Cuban revolutionary
party told that the revolution had been be-
gun. Jose Martin, twice banishcd from
Cuba, and Gen. Maxine Gomez, who com-
manded the eastern wing of Cuban rebels
in the revolution of 1868, left New York
two weeks ago for Vera Cruz, and news
received from Cuba tells that their landing
there was a signal for an uprising.
The movement will be known as the
Marti revolution, for it is Jose Marti who
will be the head of the provisional Govern
ment if the revOlutiOnists arc successful.
Gen. Gomez, who accompanied him, is
c0mmandcr-in-chief of the revolutionary
forces.
Men high in the councils of the Cuban
party here say that with the arms SNUG
gled into Cuba during the last few weeks
and those already in possession of the pa
triot forces, Gen. Gomez will he able to
arm 5000 men at once and many more
within a very short time. The plan of
campaign is more complete than any of
the numerous revolutions which have
drenched Cuban soil with blood. The Gu
bans will be handicapped in the matter Of
arms, but the leaders here say that their
countrymen know every foot of the hills
and roads and can endure privations which
would mean death to the Spaniard. They
fought ten years before, when their chance
for success was not nearly so bright as
now. Cubans here say they cannot help
but fail, as the Government has 1S,Oe
trOOpS on the island.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08

there can be no final solution of the dis.
tressing problem until there is a general
revival of the mining industry Of the val
leys. There is now no promise of this.
There is not the slightest opportunity
for fraud or imposition in the distribution
of the supplies. The relief committees
are composed of men of the best charac-
ter and intelligence. Many Of them are
lawyers, doctors and ministers Of the
gospel. In several instances the Mayors
of the towns where distress prevails are
the chairmen of the relief committees.
The utmost care is exerted to prevent any
person from drawing supplies from the
commissaries who is not worthy of char.
itv.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
FLEEING FROM HOT SPRINGS.
Epidemic of Smallpox Causes a
Scarc Mt the Health Resort.

- .S SOA
st. Louis special: The train from the
south brought fully 800 badly scared pas
scngers from Hot Springs, Ark, who left
that popular resort in a hurry to escape the
smallpox. They declared that the disease
is epidemic and that ncighboring towns
have established a rigid quarantine, the
authorities at Malvern compelling the
trainmen to lock all passengers from the
Springs in the cars while trains are pass
ing through that town.
+. T. Brewer of Springfield, ILL.,, one of
the passengers, made the following state
mcnt:
1.-THE people are pouring out of Hot
Springs panic stricken. Every available
seat was taken i'll the train and a great
many more would have left could they
have got away. The visitors there are just
beginning to learn The truth. l have in
side information, and know that there are
not less than scventy-tive cases of the dis
ease in HOt Springs, and about half of
them are in the midst of the city,"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
DISASTER In MEXICO.
PASSENGER TRAIN GOES DOWN
A CANYON.
Forty.Two People We're Killed and
Thirty OF More Seriously Injured
-slattery and His Wife Again Lee.
ture in Savannah.
Awful pisoster in Nfcx,co.

City of Mexico, via Galveston, special:
An excursion train coming into the city
on the Inter-Oceanic Railway met with an
accident. While rounding IL curve on the
side of the mountain five coaches jumped
the track and vent down the canyon.
Forty-two people were killed and thirty
or more seriously injured. The accident
occurred about forty kilometers from this
city. Wires have been down and it has
been impossible so far 10 get any details Of
the awful disaster.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
FORGOT THE EXPRESS cAn.
Arizona Train Robbers Hold Up a
Train. but Get N

Tucson, Arizona, special: When the
westbound overland reached Stems Pass
two masked men appeared OH the station
platform armed with ~slX-shooters, One of
them got into the engine and covered the
fireman and engineer with guns and told
them to cut off the car next to the tender.
and as soon as this was done the engineer
was told to proceed. When they had gone
about three miles they stopped. The
bandits carried a sack full of what appear
ed to be dynamite. This they placed be-
side the roadbcd when the engine started,
and then they discovered that they had
left the express car behind. The bandits
INDUCED in considerable strong talk and
then, mounting horses that were fastened
to a tree near by, they rode to the south.
The engine and car returned to the rest of
the train. The passengers were badly
frightened. Many crawlcd under their
seats and remained there until assured
that the danger was over,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08

The News w.

If Congress agrees to the proposition
to kill off all the Alaska seals this year,
the sealskin sacque will cease to brighten
young men out of marrying.
The convention of White Ribbon Wom-
en- ut Washington are asking "What are
our special needs ut the national capital?"
Better boarding houses, probably.
President Cleveland can't accept the set
of plate presented by the Brazilian Gov
eminent. Uncle Sam ties a string to n
present offered one of his officials.
There is nothing wonderful about
"Prince" Hafiz being found im~pecunious
in New York. Lack of cash is what
brings most titled gentlemen over here.
A lot of boys in a Pennsylvania semi
nary for both sexes have been expelled
for invasion of the women's wing Of the
building. Is this what ~co-cducation leads
to?
China's Emperor has ordered that nil
the defenders Of -Hai-Wei shall be
beheaded. As they are all in Japanese
hands. they have the joke on His Ma.
jesty.
A t~rip-hammer with q striking force of
125 tons is being made for the Govern.
ment. Send 1t to Washington to hammer
the peoples will into the heads Of Con.
gressmen.
The padrone system has come to light
In Boston. where eight natives were liv-
Ing upon what they compelled a dozen
boys to beg. A Yankee is never too proud
to learn.
Those Long Island Methodists who
have had q strong spring Of water burst
forth in the basement Of their church
should trade edifces with q Baptist CON.
gregaton
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08

Der si~ngle-handed and alone, he called to
his assistance Deputy Sheriff Hooker,
and in company with Officers Peterson
n Ware the party entered the hotel Office
and invited the suspected man to take O
walk.
AS the hyc men left the hotel two 9th.
ers. who had been sitting near, arose and
followed, keeping several yards behind.
The suspect was conducted toward the
county Jail and just as they reached the
steps of the court house Deputy O'Brien
dropped behind, telling his prisoner to
walk in front. AS he did this the two men
who had been following the party whip.
ped out their revolvers and commenced
firing at the officers. This was the signal
for a general encounter, and, pulling their
guns, the officers returned the fire, the
prisoner and the two strangers separating
from the officers and shooting as they ram.
For some minutes the fusillade was
kept up. citizens and other officers join
ing in the battle, which had become gen.
eral all along the line, until the despera-
does were overcome and two of them plac-
ed under arrest. They gave their names
as John Reilly and James Wilson. As
soon as they We're secure behind the bars
the officers started to look for the wound.
cd. and in the search they discovered that
Deputy O'Brien was severely wounded,
a ball having struck him in the abdo.
men, entering the body and lodging near
the spine. Reilly was hit in the groin,
the ball penetrating some two inches.
The third man, who is supposed to have
been one of the robbers, escaped and fed
In searching the men at the Jail their pock-
cts yielded a large number of postage
stamps and a quantity of small change.
A sack of nickels was also found which
they had evidently thrown away.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
"A BREAK IN THE CABINET.
Postmaster General Bisscll Send.
i'm His Resignation.

HO5S1lluStcr 131SSCll SC0OS
i'm His Resignation.
Washington special: Postmaster Gen.
eral Bissell placed his resignation as a
member of the Cabinet in the hands of
President Cleveland, TO be accepted upon
thea appointment of his successor. Though
rumors of the coming retirement of MIR.
Bisscll have been rife for some time the
official announcement, when it was made
caused something of a sensation. The
statements which have been made that a
disagreement between the President and
MIR. Bisscll caused the resignation was
known by almost all in official circles to he
without the slightest foundation, and
therefore the usual interest and gossip
which usually attaches to the retirement of
a Cabinet officer was entirely lacking in
this case, as it was conceded by all that
only the personal desire of Mr.. Bisscll to
resume his lucrative law practice actuated
him in taking the step which he did.
Though in the department and con-
grcssiOnal circles the air was filled with
names of possible candidates to succeed
MIR. Bissell from states ranging from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and to Florida OH
the south, still the feeling was uppermost
among men i'll official life that the l'resi-
dent would reward in some way the UNI
firing devotion of Congressman Wilson of
West Virginia to the administration
throughout this Congress.
They said this opportunity had arrived
and it can be stated that unless the Prcsi-
dent changes his mind Mr.. Wilson'S name
will go TO the Senate as the successor of
Mr.. Bissell, and il is not improbable that
he will he honored by an immediate con-
tirmation III the part of the Senate.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
Pirates in the Red Sen.

Suez special: Several Red Sea profess
sional wreckcrs have been arrested for pill
laying the steamer Y%arrowdale, recently
wrecked in the Red Sea. The Yarrowdale
was towcd into Suez Harbor OH January
so by the Egyptian Government vessel
Aida. conveyed by the Berger Wilhelm,
while on a voyage from Barry to Batavia.
The Yarrowdale is Il British steamer of
1906 tons register.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08

New York special: George l.. Pease,
tice president of the Shocan Leather Ma
tional Bank up to Il few days ago. died at
his home in Brooklyn. For the past two
weeks MI. Pease had been in bed, and all
winter long had been ailing. Worry over
the $3.50, 900 d~efalcation of Samuel c. Sccly
and Frederick Baker had much to do with
his illness, and, ii is believed, fastened his
end. MIR. Pease has been q director of the
bank since 1883 and its. vice..prcsident since
zoos
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
Sugar Crisis Only Tcmporary,

Vienna special: AT a meeting of the
budget committee of the Reichsrath, DIR.
Won Pienar, Minister of Finance, said that
the crisis in the sugar industry was merely
tra%nsitory. He was opposed to a reduce
tion being made in either the export pre-
MUM or the import duty OH sugar. He
declared that the Governmcntdidn not favor
the endeavors that were being made to
form Il syndicate for the purpose OF raising
the price of sugar in Austria.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
DEFIEs THE U. s. COURTS.
"A. II. U. Officer Makes a Revo,u
ttonnry Speech to Laborers.

VtOnuFy speech 10
st. Louis special: l.. w. Rodgers, lieu
tenant of +. V. Debs, addressed a largely
attended meeting of members of the st.
Louis Trades Assembly. In the course of
a rather sensational speech, in which he
referred to the arrest of himself and COM
p%anions, Rodgers said:
81 stand for law and order and the A.
r.. U..an otticcrof which l am and through
which L have been made a vicariOus vic
tim. say to you W. have got to reassert
the constitution of our fathers and wrest it
from the grasp of the lceches of monopoly.
am under sentence of the United States
Court, and God knows 1 have always been
u true American. l am Il revOlutionist.
and | defy the United States Courts to put
IL bit in my mouth. They cannot do it I'M
ill that master of breath shuts mine off.
We simply stand on rights that good, true
brave men in 1876 bought for us with their
blood, and if you are men you have got to
make the same fight against the plutocrats
who are daily putting the lash to your
backs.
sit is a question between monopoly and
free government. l am American, and if
if you intend to be free men and free
women you have got to come out fairly and
squarely for all freedom and all the law
that Thomas Jefferson wrote and that
Monroe and Jackson made all the nations
of the earth respect.
~ want you people to stand squarely
with mt and rcassert that the American
flag is no dirty rag of dishonest plutocracy,
but an emblem of the common people,"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08

Lean, of that city, alone contributing ST.
600 worth Of -four to the district Of dis
tress. The city Of Cleveland gracefully
came into line; Toledo followed, with
Chillicothe. the ancient capital, abreast,
and Dayton came next. Since then there
were generous contributions from many
other points, and the situation is now
much brighter, although there IL not yet
any permanent improvement, inasmuch ~
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
Died from the Bite Of a Dog.

Trenton special: Mrs. Josephine Light,
colored, aged % years, who was bitten by
a dog last December and was taken with
c%onvulsions a few days ago, has died of
hydrophobia. When tho. woman was bit
ten she had the wounds cauterlzed, and NO
evil effect was felt until early last week.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
Trusted Teller Turns I'm Short,

Lynchburg, Va, special: Walker G.
Hammer, for twenty years the trusted teller
of the First National Bank, was arrested
here charged with embezzling $3.50 600 Of
the banks funds. The announcement
startled the community. Hammer is
bonded for $4,000, and the bank will lose
only 5000.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
Ten Million Drawn For Pensions

Washington special: The Secretary of
-ie Interior issued a requisition upon the
treasury for $lo.s5O,OOo for the quarterly
payment of pensions at various agencies.
The amounts are disbursed at agencies as
follows: Columbus, 49, 900; Washing
ton, S ,a50,Oo0: Boston, $l,SOO,OOO; Detroit,
s1,7Oo,OOO; Augusta, Me-, ESOO,OOO, and San
francisco. $75O.OOO.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
Influenza Ravagcs at Munich.

Influenza Ravagcs at Munich.
Berlin special: Three thousand people
in Munich are down with influenza.
Censorship Over Cuban Messages.
Paris special: A dispatch from the
Temps from Madrid says that strict CEN
sorship is observed over telegraphic mes
sages to and from Cuba. But it is known
that considerable forces of troops have
been e n to the disturbed provinces and
gunboats are cruising along the eastern
coast of Cuba in order to prevent the land.
ing of filibusters.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
Fours Selling mt a Bic pricc.

New York special: A sale of the new
government As, when issued, has been
made at 1191l4l for $4,000. The negotiable
receipts issued by j. p. Morgan & Co. are
accepted as equivalent to the DO nds when
sSSued.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
Giving the GYPSY Moth a Show.

"sshHK tnc 0yPby N1OtII u SHOW.
Washington special: The conferees of
the two houses have agreed to strike out
the Senate amendment to the appropria-
ton bill making; an appropriation for the
determination Of the gypsy moth.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
New Mexico Mine Horror.

Albuquerque, N. NJ, special: A dispatch
to the Morning Democrat says: The White
Ash Coal Mines, three miles from Cerril.