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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
HAVOC AT CONEY ISLE.
Waves Roll High on the Beach and
Sweep Away the Front of
Ocean House.

New York, July 14-Unusually high
tides and strong winds for the past 48
hours have played havoc with the sum-
mer resorts of Coney Island. Brighton
Beach has been attacked vigorously by
the waves. The amphitheater. which
was recently moved back one hundred
feet to be out of reach of the surf, is
still in danger of being washed away.
During yesterday the old Ocean
house was surrounded by water, and at
IL o'clock last night the entire front of
the hotel was swept away. 1t is feared
that the building will go to pieces.
The lawn in front of the hotel Bright
on was entirely demolished and the
lawns in front of the Oriental and
Manhattan Beach hotels were all wash
ed out and the flower beds uprooted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
BLOODSHED ILLINOIS.
Striking Belgian Miners Attacl
Negroes Who Had Taken
Their Places.

Danville, Ill, July 14.-Strife between
the miners commenced in this district
last night About 400 or 500 Belgian
strikers and other foreigners gathered
at the Pawnee mine, and when a cage
full of colored miners who had been at
work reached the top of the shaft they
were assaulted with different kinds of
weapons, some using knives and others
slaves.
One of the colored miners secured a
revolver and defended his life. Shots
were fired, wounding several strikers.
This infuriated the striking miners, and
they retaliated by an exchange of
shots
Later the strikers attacked a train
on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois car
rying working miners to the city. The
miners inside the coaches opened fire
and about so shots were exchanged. It
is reported that one miner was killed.
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TO PUT IN MACHINES.
Pittsburg Operators are Planning a
Surprise

Pittsburg, Pa; July 14-It developed
have been quietly planning a coup
which is expected to bring diSmay to
the miners 1t is the intention to at
once equip the mines with machines
and do away with a great many dig
gers. When the mines are ready to
start miners will be imported and put
to work under heavy guard, and the
premises barricaded after the manner
pursued by the Carnegies during the
great strike of '92
With the cooperation of the other
operators J. A. Beadler, of the Webster
Gas Coal company, located on the
Monongahela river will take the initia-
tive. The operators claim this action
becomes necessary because the West
Virginia people are gobbling all of their
contracts. 1t goes without saying that
the diggerS will resort to every means
to prevent the carrying out of the pro-
posed scheme.
1t was reported at the miners head
quarters here last night that the 1000
miners in the Washington run district
were getting ready to march on the
Sickle Hollow mine and bring out the
$50 men working there. The attempt
is to be made on Friday or Saturday.
This mine is shipping daily 100 cars,
and is a menace to the success of the
strike. A movement is also on foot
among the strikers along the Pan Han
die to march to Boone and Allison
mines and compel the miners there to
out there will probably be a repetition
of the bloody scenes that characterized
the closing of the strike of 1894
1t is probable that Eugene V. Debs
will spend a few days in this district.
The local officials are making an eff
fort to have him address several meet
ings here before he goes to West Vir-
Ginia.
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MARK HANNA IS SICK.
Work and Worry is Wearing Him
Out and He Fears to Go Away.


Washington, July 14.-Senatcr Hanna
is far from being a we'll man. He keeps
up appearances and attends to his SEN
atorial duties, but to his friends he ad-
mits that he is laboring under a great
strain and feels the need of rest His
principal trouble seems to be an al
most complete loss of appetite. A few
nights ago a close friend invited him to
dinner.
Il will come out to see you and spend
the evening"" said the senator, but do
not ask me to sit down to a dinner ta-
bic. The very sight of food in abund-
ance makes me sick"
The senator is also troubled with
SleepleSSnesS, and his insomnia has
made him very nervous Being man
of robust appearance, his condition
would not be realized by his friends eX-
cept for his own confessions.
Since they have learned of his indis-
position from him, his friends are urg-
ing on him the necessity of a complete
rest, and some of them are suggesting
to him the advisa bility of a trip to Eu-
rope the only way of securing it. AS
long as he remains in Washington the
office seekers are certain to make life
a burden to him, and it was the realiza-
ton of this fact which led President
Mckinley to offer him refuge at the
White House.
The senator did spend two nights at
the executive mansion, but as soon
as he learned that his visit there was
occaSioning criticism, he moved back
again to the Arlington. He would like
very much to go away for couple of
months where the office seekers could
not reach him, but he is afraid that the
senatorial campaign in Ohio demands
that he should not be far away from the
battle ground.
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SWEPT DOWN A RAVINE
The Water Rushed a Mile Down
the Mountain Side
To Where Were TWOBrickyardS
With LabOrerS' Homes.
HOUSES DEMOLISHED
And Their Occupants Carried
Away Without Warning.

Newburg N. Y, July 14.-MetZingah
reservoir in Fishkin mountains near
Mattewan, burst at o'clock this MORN
ing owing to the heavy rains. The wa
ter ran into the creek, and two miles
below near Duchess Junction, washed
away brick yard buildings, including
boarding house occupied by laborers.
Nine of them were drowned and 20 9TH
ers are missing.
Two hundred yards of track was
washed away. Trains are stalled on
each side of the beach. There were two
reservoirs in the mountains, the lower
one half mile distant from the other.
The upper dam gave way letting the
volume of water into the lower reser-
vOir. This also burst and the water
rushed down through a ravine. Van
Buren and Timany's brick yards on
the Hudson just below Duchess juno
ton are mile distant from the site
of the lower reservoir
Without warning the flood reached
them through the raVine and made ter
rible havoc. Buildings We're torn in
pieces and their occupants carried away
in the flood
The water works system was operated
by a private company and supplied the
villages of Mattewan and Fishkill-On-
the-Hudson.
A temporary trestle has been built at
the break of the Hudson River railroad
track and the Montreal express south
bound has passed over.
1t will be late this afternoon before
trains can be run on time.
At o'clock seven bodies had been
recovered. Two of them were those of
Peter Mulligan and wife, who kept one
of the two boarding houses for the
brick yard laborerS that We're swept
away by the flood. The names of the
others are not known. 1t is reported
that 20 are still missing Tons of earth
and sand We're washed down in the
flood and men are digging into this
mass to recover other bodies.
Trains were stalled all the way from
Fishkill to Poughkeepsie. One of these
was a Cook excursion train, the passen-
gers on which expected to start for Eu-
rope today.
The reservoir is situated in the Fish
kill mountains about a mile east of
Duchess Junction. 1t collects the sur
face water from the north side of South
Beacon and the south side of a neigh
boring mountain and is 500 feet above
tidewater. Its overflow reaches the
Hudson by way of small stream
known as Towanda creek.
At the west end of the ravine are the
devastated brick yards. The reservoir
is oval shape and about 500 feet long
and 800 feet wide and 80 or So feet deep.
1t is used as an auxiliary supply to the
regular water works system of Matte
wan and Fishkill. from the main
source of which it is distant about four
aem is a considerable lake near North
Beacon, which has massive masonry
and is intact. A second reservoir, sit
uated much lower down the mountain
which was built TO reduce the pressure
into the pipes, is also unbroken. These
Duchess Junction reservoir though all
three feed into the same piDeS
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COAL MEN
WHISTLE.
Operators Talk Cheerily of the
Strike Outlook
While Mines and Factories Are
Closing All Around Them.
NOW 1T is DE ARMITT
Who is Said to Hold the Key tC
the Situation.
Ten Mining Companies i'm jack
son County, o., Surrender.

Cleveland, O., July 4.-The fate of
the great coal strike now depends upon
the course of the miners in President
De Armitt's mines, say local coal op-
orators. Until the strikers succeed in
inducing these men to come out there
can be no coal famine and failure to
close these mines means loss OF su-
premacy in districts which the strikers
now control In the inaction OF the
strikers yesterday those operators VINO
have consistently and persistently re
fused to concede the possibility OF the
strikers attaining their end found much
encouragement.
B. B. Zerbe was confident today that
the strikers cannot close down the
West Virginia mines or the De Arm1tt
mines. There is plenty of coal being
mined as it is, said Mr.. Zerbe.
THE only thing new in the situation
that l know Of" said Colonel Myron T.
Herrick receiver for the Wheeling &
Lake Erie railway, ''is that the price OF
coal is dropping. received seVerdl
letters in my mornings mail offer1nS IS
coal at reduced prices. They seem to
indicate that there is plenty of coal on
hand, while the output of the mines IN
operation is sufficient to supply the de-
mand. The Wheeling & Lake Erie mas
40 days supply
What significance do you attach to
the dispatches announcing the closing
down of shops at Akron, Canton ana
other places because OF lack O1 1OeA@
Il take it that when there is not
much to do it is not economy to run
your works at full blast. Take the
Wheeling & Lake Erie. There is not
a great deal of freight to handle and
we have less trains running. 1t is un-
doubtedly true that the prices of coal
are higher now by reason of this strike.
Probably a good many shops which
have been running short-handed be-
cause of slack business will take this
opportunity to close for awhile
The report that the MonongaheIa mines
at Pennington, W. V, have struck is
untrue. Some coal is going from West
Virginia on the Baltimore & Ohio and
Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling, but
the Wheeling & Lake Erie refuses such
freight. Nothing is being done through
out eastern Ohio. Organizers in West
Virginia are preparing for their big
fight i'll that state.
Columbus, O., July 1.-THE Jackson
county operators, ten companies, have
posted notices that they will now pay
the rate asked by the miners and pay,
when the strike is settled on the basis
of that agreement.
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his terms. If true uniformity was
secured here, however. it would so in
voIve the interests of the other btu
minous states he said, that ultimately
there would have to be a chain of uni
formity in all the states that would cost
much money and require considerable
time to accomplish. He promised the
board all assistance in his power in Sc
curing a settlement upon the basis pro-
posed, but said under no consideration
would he treat with the United Mine
Workers.
President Do1an and Secretary War
ner of the Mine Workers were before
the commission and reeited their griev-
ances. They disputed much that Mr..
De Armitt said and questioned his sin
cerity. They Claimed that when 80 per
cent of the operators had been secured
for uniformity, De Armitt agreed to it,
but later he found a technical loophole
and availed himself of it to repudiate
his original proposition. The board
will meet De Armitt again and will en-
deavor to get the operators together
for the purpose of inducing them to
make another attempt to secure true
uniformity as outlined by the former
at yesterdays conference.
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PLENTY OF COAL NOW.
Fears of a Shortage Have Disappear
ed and E.ive Drops

Pittsburg, July 1.-THE fear of a coal
shortage which caused a scramble for
the black diamonds and a heavy adj
vance in prices on Monday is over and
unless the miners strike continues for
many months famine is not now ex-
pected.
There is at present an abundance of
coal in the market and thousands of
bushels seem to be available. Opera
tors are in daily receipt of letters from
the mines east and north of Pittsburg
offering them large quantities of coal at
from IS cents to $1.25 at the mines on
freight rates varying from "a to SO
cents. While the visible supply on the
vile does not exceed 1000, 900 bushels
the operators say calls can be made on
the Clearfield district where coal can be
obtained without difficulty and at rates
as reasonable as could be expected.
The present quotations for coal. run
from the mine, are $1.25 to $1.50. On
Monday sales were made a. $1SO.
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CHICAGO BICYCLES TAXED.
It Will be ST. on Each Wheel-Other
Vehicles Taxed.

Chicago. July 14.-Every bicycle in Chi
cagO will pay a yearly tax of 81. if Mayor
Harrison signs the ordinance which the
council has passed. Vehicles of every
description are taxed from 81 to S12 per
annum under the provisions of the same
ordinance.
In the city there are estimated to be
330. 900 bicycles and sufficient vehicles to
make the revenue derived from the ordi-
nance $1,000, 900 per annum. Every dollar
of this is to be expended upon the repair
and keeping in good condition improved
streets.
Mayor Harrison says that far as he
has studied the ordinance he is in favor
of it and thinks he will sign it. The vote
by which the council passed it was 50 to 16.
The ordinance provides that besides the
tax of 81 per annum all vehicles shall
bear the following annual tax:
One horse 50; two horses So; three horses
s.: four horses 81; six horses $10.5O: eight
horses S12
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ALL DE ARMITTs FAULT.
One Owner of Coal Property Says the
N. z. & Cleveland is Respon-
sible for the Strike.

Chicago, July 14-Mr J. w. Ellis
worth, president of the Union National
bank, and who has large coal interests
in Ohio and Pennsylvania, said today
that he did not think the strike would
be settled within a month, perhaps not
for six weeks. 1.-The New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal company" he said,
lis practically responsible for the min
ing troubles for the past three or four
years. Its interest is small compara-
lively, but large enough to unsettle the
price of wages and the cost of coal in
competitive markets. 1t is responsible
for the present strike. The scale price
as agreed upon was go cents in the
Pittsburg district. The New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal company agreed to
be bound by that. The operators went
so far as to accede to the demand of
that company in 1895 that company
stores be abolished
Some time after work was resumed
the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
company asserted that the full 81 per
cent which had company stores had not
given them up and that, that was
condition upon which it was paying it's
scale, it would not be bound by the 60
cent rate. 1t compelled it's men to
close a new contract at 81 cents.
1.-The miners and operators have la
bored under this condition long enough.
The dictation of this company must
cease. or it should take its coal to nom
competing points. The company mines
just coal enough to fix the price.
THE present situation will probably
last 80 days longer, perhaps six weeks
1t may be fixed US as in 1894 after the
miners are starved out and the opera
tors have sustained as heavy losses as
they can bear-by ignoring the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal company
all the other operators agreeing upon a
scale of wages and to maintain the
price. Work will be resumed. A few
months later we shall have the same
conditions, the Cleveland and New
York Gas Coal company will be paying
a less rate, and the other operators will
be gradually forced down and then will
follow stoppage of work The New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal company
has an advantage of six cents in the
price of mining, and that is sufficient
particularly at this time when compe-
tition is SO keen, business is partially
paralyzed, and every cent on a ton is
taken advantage of by the consumer"
Two divorce cases have been filed in the
district court. In the first the husband
asks for divorce and in the second it is
the wife who is wronged. Herman John
son, who was married in 1893 makes some
serious charges against his wife, Lottie
and concludes by saying she has deserted
him. Mrs. Lou l. Mckenzie makes SINH
lar charges against Frank Mckenzie to
whom she was married in 1889.
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WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
Auditor Fagin Shows How County
Funds are Expended


Auditor Fagin has made his annual re-
county levy for general revenue for next
year be placed at mills, which is the
same levied last year. The valuation in
general is lower than last year SO that the
amount to be raised will be smaller.
The report shows in detail the saving
to the county in the general expenses.
Auditor Fagin finds that the expenses for
the past year We're $87, ,1Ss 10 while for The
year Immediately preceding they were
$118, 11114, a decrease of $50, ,929.04
The report shows that the decreases
were in the following items: Assessments
81, ,o7250; asylum for the poor, s, ,229. S5.
Bridges, $3.417.34; court house, So, ,427.15;
district court, $4,S57. 43; fair grounds, $631.-
60; INDECENT poor, $97684; inquests, 1924. 20;
jury commissioners, $24; light 1896. Sc; mis-
cellaneous, $508. so; printing, $137. .3S; roads,
800; stationery and supplies, $131.76; jury
fees, $3.50; taxes, $29.26; teachers exami-
nations $24 telephone service, $5955;
treasury examiners, Sc; water, $7001s
grand jury, $1,60S07.
The greatest saving in the costs
in the district court, the expenses being
$12, ,4s1.47 against ST., ,348. 80. Auditor Fagin
ascribes this good showing to Judge
Hazen, who, he says, has facilitated the
business of the court greatly.
The increases in the expenditures over
the previous year are as follows; Burial
ex-Union soldiers, 81. .O65.50; elections, $40
"a; fuel, $163.62; fugitives from justice,
s431 49, insane poor, sSSO.40 Jail, $12489;
judgment and costs, $3.50; justice courts,
81, ,11O53; light, $203.44; probate court, $179--
II; salaries county officers $96.72; stone
quarry, $7OO.O7.
The greatest increase was in the justice
courts, which the county was compelled
to pay. The fees have been cut down by
the auditor but asSiduous constableS have
succeeded in working up greater number
of criminal cases, there being 358 as COM
pared with 207 the year before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
ANDREE IN A STORM.
His Balloon is Nearly Carried Off Be-
fore He is Ready.

Stockholm, July 14.-According to a
dispatch from Hammerfest, Norway,
the northermost town of Europe on the
Qual-oe island (Whale island) the Off
GERS of the steamer Lofoten visited Mr..
Andree, the aeronaut, at Danes island,
on the northwest coast of Spitzbergen,
on the 10th. Mr.. Andree stated that he
would not be ready to make the start
for the north in his balloon until the
18th.
A strong storm from the south near
ly carried off the balloon on the second
instant, he stated, and since that time
the north winds had been continuous.
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BANK OF YORK FAILS.
Had Capital Stock of $50, 700 and De
posits of $4,000.

Washington, July 1.-THE comptroller
of currency has received telegram an
nouncing the failure of the Nebraska Ma
tional Bank of York. Neb. The bank s
capital was $4,000 and according to its
last report had individual deposits of S37,
900 and owed $4,000 borrowed money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
FUSS ABOUT FLAG.
Portugal Sends Man to Investigate
s the Tearing Down of Her Colors.

Monterey, Cal, July 14-Henrique
Laidley, Portuguese vice consul at San
Francisco has arrived here to investi-
gate the incident of the tearing down
and burning of the flag of Portugal
which Manuel Ortins,a Portuguese gro
Ger had hoisted over his place of busi-
ness on the Fourth of July.
Consul Laidley says that if the trou-
BILE cannot be satisfactorily explained.
Portugal will demand an apology from
the United States. The crowd which
hauled down and burned the Portu-
guese emblem was composed of young
men.
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GOV. DRAKE HAS A FALL.
Sustains a Severe Injury to His HiI
Where de was Wounded
During the War.

Des Moines. Ia, July 14.-Governor
Drake was injured today by a fall on
the steps of the capitol. He struck on
his hip, which was penetrated by a
bullet during the war. The injury may
prove serious. as his physician had ad-
vised him that a severe blow there
would be dangerous.
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OMAHA GETS 1T.
Kentucky Gets President of the Re
publican League and Nebraska
the Next Meeting.

Detroit, July 14.-Crawford of Kentucky.
National league.
The committee on place and time of
next convention has selected Omaha.
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BRYAN'S OREGON TOUR.
Made Speeches at All Stops Between
Lebanon and Portland.

Portland, Ore, July 14.-William J.
Bryan began the week with a speech at
Lebanon early Monday morning to TO-
600 people, and closed with an address
at night in this city to an audience of
Il, 900. Mr.. Bryan addressed large
crowds at nearly every Station en- route
to Portland. Yesterday he spoke at
Malla Walla Pendletnn and La Grande.
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CLEVELAND REVERSED.

Washington, July 14.-President Nc
the operation of ex-President Cleve-
lands order consolidating the pension
agencies
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A NJ. Thomas, the co1ored lawyer is to
be married in Kansas City July 2S to Mrs
Fannie McCurtIey, a teacher in the schools
at that place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14

Judge VIM Thompson is in Topeka to
try the ''pro tenn cases. He will be here
for two three days. He will hear the
cases in which Judge Hazen is disqual-
fed for one reason or another from pre-
siding.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-16
The Refuge Is Tracy.

The nomination of Mr.. CHARLES w.
DAYTON on the George ticket unquestion.
ably adds great strength to that movement.
1t makes clear the mistake of any fright
ened citizens who may be contemplating
voting for VAN WICK of Tammany as the
surest way of preventing GEORGES cleo
tion. All the strength that DAYTON brings
to GEORGE he takes from VAN WICK.
The man for anti-George men to support
is BENJAMIN f. TRACY, the Republican
candidate of a permanent, splendidly or.
ganized and victorious party. Republicans
or Democrats seriously Interested in the
good government Of the nation represented
by the st. Louis platform, and in the good
government of New York city guaranteed
by the career and character of Gen. TRACY
himself. may vote the Republican ticket
with the conviction that it is the best on
its own merits, and with the coincidence that
through it is the way to GEORGES defeat.