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The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
WOUNDED MEN ARE
 TAKEN TO SPRINGFIELD

SPRINGFIELD, H., Oct. 12.-The special train on the Chicago and Alton which brought the Alabama negroes from Virden had eight wounded men, all deputies except one, who was col Ored miner, who were taken to the Springfield City Hospital. Of these one man died tonight, William w. Carroll, a deputy sheriff. He was shot three times, enc bullet passing through his neck from the right side, another pass ing into the temple In the right side and the third entering the brain over the eye, crushing the skull. Another train. which arrived at g o'clock to- night, brought up six wounded men, who are at St. John's Hospital Those at Springfield Hospital are:
 William Clarkson, an inmate of the Old Soldiers Home at LeavenWorth, Kans.. deputy; skull crushed; will die.
 H. A. Kyger of Bloomington, engineer on train; shot through arm.
 William Masser of St. Louis, deputy; shot through head, shoulder and hands; will probably recover.
 James Palmer, deputy; shot in left side of face, arm and side; will recover.
 Palmer had just been mustered out of the Third Nebraska Regiment He re- fuses to give his home.
 Patrick Mack of Virden, employed by the operators of the Chicago go-Virden shafts; bullet went through his thigh; will recover.
 Ernest Ryan, a colored miner from Alabama bullet went through his head; will recover.
 John M Hunter of Pontiac, the presi- dent of the Illinois District of the United Mine Workers of America, lies at the Collins House in a critical condi- tion Mir. Hunter got on the train which Ia miners thiG citU this afternoon and engaged in conver- sation with two of the colored miners. Some of the deputy sheriffs saw Hun ter. and when the train was between North Grand avenue and the North shaft, and was going at the rate of
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13

and night by vigtlant miners deter minedly awaiting their arrival
 To-day the Chicago and Alton lim- ited, due to pass here at 10 o'clock, shot through en route to Chicago an hour late, displaying flags on the rear indl- eating that a special was following. Immediately the word was spread and a dense crowd of miners lined the sta tion platform, while another collected at the entrance of the stockade, half a mile north of the station. D. B. Riley, a Chicago and Alton detective, stood guard a the switch at the south end of the station platform to see that IL was not tempered with.
 At 12:40 the special train passed the station and signal shots were fired from the south end of the train. annOunc- ing the specials arrival. Immediately shots were fired from the moving train and outside and the battle was on. A few moments after the train had passed the switch where Riley was stationed and while he was talking with two citi- zens he threw up his arms and dropped dead with a bullet through his brain He was the first man killed.
 The train continued to the stoCkade the miners firing into it all along the route, and the negro passengers re- turning the fire. The moment the train reached the StOckade the miners opened a desperate fire with Winchesters re- volvers and firearms of all descriptions. The negroes on the train answered with a steady fire. The miners and the train were enveloped in a cloud of smoke and the shooting sounded like a con tinuous Yolley. Engineer Burt Tigar
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received a bullet in the arm and dropped from his seat. His fireman seized the throttle, pulled it open with a jerk and the train was under speed carrying a load of wounded negro pas sengers to Springfield.
 How many were wounded is not known. The train stopped at the stock ade but two minutes. Its departure did not cause the firing to cease. The tower of the stockade was filled with sharp shooters, armed with Winchesters, and they kept up a steady fire into the crowd of union miners. Eye witnesses say that miners were killed after the train had departed. It is not known how many men are stationed behind the walls of the stOckade, but an es- timate is placed at between twenty-five and forty It Is claimed that six within the stoCkade were wounded, but those inside refuse to hold any cOmmuniCa- tion with the outside and nothing au- thentic can be learned. Word was, however, sent from the stOckade to the physicians in town that their services were needed.
 The supply and provision store of the Chicago Virden Coal Company is known as the Climax Trading Com pany, with Superintendent J. F. Eyster in charge. At 2 o'clock, after the firing at the stockade had subsided, an at tack without a parallel in the history of the trouble, was made on Eyster in this store on Main street, one block from the depot, which will probably cost him his life. He was sitting in his store when his telephone rang and he was instructed from the stockade to secure physicians and hurry them to the place. Eyster jumped into his de- livery wagon and, securing two doctors, rushed them to the mines.
 He returned to his store, climbed out of his wagon and was just entering the door, when the cry was raised that Manager Fred Lukens of the miners was with him. With rush a thrOng of infuriated miners pressed toward the store. Eyster ran behind a coun- ter with a revolver in each hand. The miners pressed hard after him and as EySter spTang upstairs he and the min CTS began shooting simultaneously. He ran to the top of his building and jumped behind a chimney, while the miners ran into the street and opened fire on him again. Chips flew from the brick chimney and Eyster ran from cover across the roof of another store. firing into the street below as he ran. From there he crossed to the roof of the Bank of Virden, where he reloaded his revOlvers. Blood was flowing from a wound in his side, but with dOgged determination, against terrible odds, he
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continued his flight. Jumping to the roof of the Rae & Gish drug store, he halted behind a projection from the roof of the building he had just left and emptied the twelve chambers Of his two revOlvers.
 Then, springing from the cover, Fly ster dashed ahead amid a rain of bull lets to the roof of the Steed building, the upper story of which Is known as Miners Hall. He either fell or jumped through the skylight and landed in the arms of a crowd of miners who seized him and carried him downstairs to the street. Other hands seized the almost unconscious man and dragged him into the middle of the street. Local police men drove back the crowd and carried Eyster to the city square across the street and laid him on the grass. Fly ster was motionless and supposedly dead. Tn a few minutes he was seen to raise his hand and wipe the blood from his face. Two men sprang at him, and with the ferOcity of tigers, began Jumping on his body and strik- ing him on the head with stones. With a yell the angry crowd charged into the square to kill Eyster. The police charged In a body and fought their way to the center of the mob, where they took a stand over the prostrate, battered. bleeding man. A carrier was procured and Eyster was taken to the Buckless Hotel. He had been shot through the groin and Is terribly bat tered up about the head. The phys1- cians say that he has barely chance for recovery.
 The dead miners were removed from the vicinity of the stockade to hotels and livery stables, and the wounded miners were taken on filters to the sta- ton and taken to Springfield tonight on the o'clock train.
 nTs n6 admittance to the stockade late to- night The list of dead and wounded inside the stockade follows:
 A. w. MORGAN, Chicago.
 WOUNDED.
 H. Gritgesell, shot In shoulder O. !. Snyder, shot in face and legs.
 James Sickles, Chicago, shot in leg.
 Frank Wilder, Chicago, shot in arm. Thomas McIntee, Chicago, shot in leg,
 Two doctors were at work with the wounded and communication with them was prohibited.
 The stockade surrounds about twenty acres of ground in a square and is made of pine boards an inch thick, set edge to edge about twelve feet high. On each of the four sides, about midway, Is a small watch tower containing a guard armed with a Winchester mere are three entrances, WHICH are
 closely guarded by half dozen armed | sentries day and night The fight to- |. day occurred at the east entrance. There are about thirty-five big. strong men stationed inside the stockade to-
 night, each keeping watch through a loophole. The four towers have been deserted.
 Manager Lukens remained at his desk in the office all night issuing or ders to his men.
 Manager Lukens said tonight: "The blood of every man shed here is on the Governors head. He Is absolutely out side of the law and has no justification
 whatever in refusing to send troops.
 His public statement that the miner
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
SHOT DOWN BY MILITIA
 AT THE STOCKADE

VIRDEN, H., Oct. 12.-A detail of militia at 10:50 tonight killed ex-Lieu- tenant of Police Tom Preston of Chi cago at the stockade. He was standing outside the stockade as guard The militia gave the bystanding miners the command to halt and Preston stepped back to the gate. The militia fired and he was shot in the stomach. He was carried in. the off ce of the stockade, where he expired.
 Battery D of Galesburg, H., under Captain Craig, numbering 160 men, ar rived here tonight from Pana
 Adjutant General J. N. Reece came from Springfield with the militia to- night.
 He said that ex-Lieutenant Preston was not killed by the militia. He said that when the guard at the stockade had dodged into the entrance at the militia order of hands up," revolver shot was fired from the darkness and Preston fell mortally wounded Gen eral Reece said the militia did not fire a shot, and Preston was killed with a revolver by some one unknown
 The recent census showed 62 900 Prot estants among the 31.000.00O people of
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
DECLARES MINE OWNERS
 ARE GUILTY OF MURDER
Governor Tanner of Illinois Scores the Men Who Are Importing Negroes
 to Replace Strikers.

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the Pacific Coast, have written the Treas ury Department, asking 1t to take steps to stop the practice of towing immense rafts of logs on the Pacific. It is shown that these rafts are frequently broken apart. vessels being greatly imperiled by Call 'itif iotf the he marrow escape of the steamer Zealandia from disaster by colliding with a huge raft of logs is made part of the re port to the Treasury Department. The path of navigation the report says, from San Francisco to Vancouver is strewn with these broken up rafts and the neces- sity of the remedy is urgent.
 Commissioner of Navigation Chamber lain in replying to-day to these appeals,
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13

eighteen miles an hour, it Is estimated, the deputies attacked Hunter and pushed him off the train. A man who happened along later In a buggy saw Hunter lying near the track in an un- conscious condition and placed him in his buggy and took him to the Collins House He is still unconscious.
 Governor Tanner tonight wired the War Department. asking if the Fifth Illinois Infantry could not be placed at his disposal for use at Virden. Colonel Culver, the commander of the Fifth. has rendered his services and those of the regiment to the Governor.
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
BLOODSHED AT A COAL
 COMPLAINTS STOCKADE

had the same right to fight for his property which was his labor. as the mine owner did to protect his property, inspired the men to the action which they took to-day in firing upon the train as soon as 1t came into our town. "
 Tonight Ed Green of Mount Olive, a union miner, died of injuries received In to-day's shooting. This makes total of eight dead.
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
Work of the Baptists.

WOODLAND. Oct. 12.-The Pacific Bap. list Association convened at o'clock this afternoon. There was a good attendance Devotional service was followed by an ad- dress by the president, Rev. A. J. Cubic of Petaluma. Papers were read by Rev. A. M. Petty of Dixon and Rev. A. M. Russell of Napa.
 At the evening session Rev. M. Slaugh. ter of Chico led the praise service, and Rev. w. C. Driver of Vacaville preached the sermon. The association will be in session five days.
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
MAYOR PENWELL HAS
 DISMISSED THE POLICE

PANA, H., Oct. 12.-Mayor Penwell, who is the son of a prominent coal op- orator, has discharged the entire police force, charging them, 1t is said, with sympathy for the strikers. New men were sworn in, but eight of the ten City Councilmen announce that the new off, cers will be removed at the next Coun- oil meeting
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
STATE TROOPS NOW
 ORDERED TO SPRINGFIELD

CHICAGO, Oct. 12.-Colonel Young, of the First Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, re- ceived orders tonight to report at Spring field immediately with Troops A, B, C and D, of his command. The troops will leave in the morning.
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
REPLY OF THE MINE OWNERS.

CHICAGO T. Louck of the 
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  follow procedure obtaining shall the officials
  the government of this State coored population convicts whether colored ti of this constitution aside the whm of Illinois, We shall determine Governor annu stitution and his
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says he has no authority to act. but sug gested that a remedy might be found in the act of September 19, 1890. While con cedng that the three mile limit laws af- fecting navigation might be set up as bar to proceedings under this act. Com missioner Chamberlain suggests that In the absence of inspectors of Eeamboats, the Collectors of Customs could file infor- nation before the District Attorney Much would depend on the disposition of the Judge to remedy this evil, but Con- missioner Chamberlain points out that it would be worth while to apply this remedy
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13

THE DEAD.
 ED WELSH, Springfield.
 FRANK BILYEAU, Springfield. ALBERT SMITH, Mount Olive. JOE BITTERLY, Mount Olive. ERNEST KEUTNER, Mount Olive. A. H. BRENEMAN. Gtrard. D. H. RILEY, Chicago and Alton de- tective.
 WOUNDED.
 Ansl1 Ankel. Mount Olive. Gustav Wevsiep, Mount Olive. Ed Upton. Springfield.
 Thomas Jennings, Springfield. Joe Haines, Gtrard; shot In leg. Joe Runk, Girard; shot in stomach. w. 4. Herman, Girard; shot in hand. Joe Baston, Mount Olive; shot in stomach.
 Joe Sprim, Mount Olive; shot in arm. Bart Tigar, engineer Chicago and Alton Railroad; shot in arm. J. F. Eyster, superintendent Climax Trading Company: shot and beaten. It is said that six men were wound ed inside the stockade. but this is not verified, and those inside the stockade refuse to communicate with outsiders. For the past two weeks rumors have reached Nirden daily that a train having negroes from Alabama would reach the city, and the Chicago and Alton depot has been surrounded day
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
PROTEST AGAINST
 TOWING LOG RAFTS

WASHINGTON. Oct. 12-Hugh Craig. president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. and A. N. Simpson, presi- dent of the Ship Owners Association of
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
IMPORTED NEGROES CAUSE A TERRIFIC BATTLE AT VlRDEN Arrival of Train Followed by the Killing of SeVeD Men at
 the Yards. MoDy Are Also Wounded During the Fight Witb UnioD MiDers-Deody Work of
 Shorpshooters.
Special Dispatch to The Call

little Virden Is cornpara- oloodsheo miners Chicago and AL special the south arrived at the Coal Companys mines and i'm
 ediatey list at 10 o'clock tonight stands - deada and wounded.
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13

The recent census showed 62 900 Prot estants among the 31.000000 people of Italy.
The record-union., 1898-01-02
A PRIVATE HERD.
John Crouch of Butte County Has
Several Fine Elk.

John Crouch, the wealthy and popular
pioneer rancher and stock-raiser of Chi
co, is the proud possessor of herd of
elk, some thirteen in number At least,
there were thirteen until holiday week,
when he killed a noble. fat buck which
dressed about 500 pounds, and dis
tributed five cuts among his numerous
friends.
To Dr. G. NJ Dixon of this city he
sent a choice four-rib, fifteen-pound
roast, which was enjoyed at New
Years dinner by the doctor and mutual
friends of Mr.. Crouch in Sacramento,
who all drank to the latter's long life
and prosperity and that Of his noble
herd of elk.
The buck killed had antlers extending
six feet from head to tip, with spread
of seven feet from tip to tip. The head
and skin will be stuffed and mounted
for preseryati ton
The record-union., 1898-01-02
Hotel Arrivals.

Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel
yesterday: Samuel Openes. S. w.
kaufman. Chicago; Ben Hendrick and
wife. John Lausen. Otto Zeigler. c. E.
Sim. t. f. Baker, Ole Oleson Company:
G. E. Tucker, Russell Palmer, New
York; L. r. Drake, Sacramento; w. W.
Adams, San Francisco.
The record-union., 1898-01-02
Chickens Stolen.

On Friday night thieves entered the
yard Of Mrs. York at 1918 street and
stole a number OF chickens. They even
removed and carried away the bolt of
the alley gate.
The record-union., 1898-01-02

Frosty weather; bursted pipes &C
to Miller Bros. they fix them right
Timers and plumbers, 111G j St.
The record-union., 1898-01-02

The FL Dorado. SIG j, keeps only the
best of liquors on hand.
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Price Reduced

To SC. best Aft oak wood. Fair Oaks
Wood Yard. 10th and @ SITS.
The record-union., 1898-01-02

Try McMorry's Soc rea- 531 N.
The record-union., 1898-01-02
SPECIAL NOTICES.

BAKER & HAMILTON, wholesale hard
ware, bicycles, carts, buggies, carriages,
pbaetons, Balm farm and header wagons.
Send for catalogue.
The record-union., 1898-01-02
Lasting Quality Perfume.

Genuine perfume Of high grade man
ufacture, the kind that lasts. Low il
price, high in quality. P. F. McMorry
Druggist, Sixth and K.
The record-union., 1898-01-02

Secretary Of State L. H. Brown +
rapidly recovering from his recent IL
ness.
The record-union., 1898-01-02

Electrical lamps at scott's. sos J. !"
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PUFFED vu SOLD 9;2,,-
EVERYWHERE.
BY ALL.
A. ]. Stevens Cigar.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
stockholders of the Capital Gas Company
will be held at the office of the company,
Front and 7 streets, in Sacramento, Cali
fornia, on TUESDAY, January Is. 1885, at
II o'clock m, for the purpose of electing a
Board of Directors for the ensuing year
and to transact such other business that
may come before the meeting for consider
alton.
ja1-td C.H. CUMMINGS, Secretary.
The record-union., 1898-01-02

Try McMorry's SOC uncolored Japan
tea; E. B. tea, 60c; G. P. tea. 75c; P. F.
Japan tea. 40c: 531 NJ street.
The record-union., 1898-01-02

On New Years Eve. at their resi-
dence, Mr.. and Mrs c. J. Leneir enter
tanned the President Of the N s. A. w
Club and some friends. The evenings
pleasure began with game Of whist,
The record-union., 1898-01-02


Capitol Lodge, No. 81, /. O. o. r,
held its eleventh ladies' night on New
Years eve, which proved to be one Of
the most elaborate entertainments in
the history of the lodge. At the con-
cluSfon Of the programme a banquet
was served in two separate rooms Hon.
Grove L. Johnson presided as toast
master in one room and 0. w. Erie
wine in the other. The whole affair
was continued to a watch meeting"
and the old year was passed out in
merry style. The following was the
programme:
Opening address, Grove L. Johnson,
T. G. r.; song. America" audience:
vocal solo, F. Bellhouse; piano duet, III
Trovatore." Miss NJ Erlewine and
Frank Haight: vocal trio. Mrs w T.
Smith. Misses f. Smith and p Jackson:
recitation. Miss Alice Fassett; harm
solo, Miss Belle Johnson; cornet solo.
Edward Plunkert; duet, harp and vio-
lin. Misses Belle and Edna Johnson:
vocal solo, Mrs. Harry Thorpe piano
solo. Miss Callie Shartzer. recitation,
A. w. Watson; violin solo, Miss
Lulu Morrise; vocal solo, W. II.
Dunster; vocal quartet. +. Bellhousc.
NJ. X. Barrett, w, H Dunster and Ed,
Gerrish. Aud Lang Syne" was sung at
the close of the banquet
The Committee of Arrangements
We're: c. e. Baker. W. A. Stephenson,
w. S. Harvie. Professor j. w. Johnson,
w. II. Tade, Henry Sharstzer and 4.
w. Watson.
Secretary Of State L. H. Brown IS
rapidly recovering from his recent III
ness.
On New Years Eve, at their resi-
dence. Mr.. and Mrs. c. J. Leneir enter
tanned the President of the ". s. A. W.
Club and some friends. The evenings
y<lo
The record-union., 1898-01-02

Miss jeanette Birdsall and Miss Flor
ence Jones went to Woodland friday TO
attend the football game played there ON
New Years Day. During their visit
they were the guests of Mrs. ID. Halsey.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-31
FRANK DAMON APPROVES.

Editor Star: Permit me to express
my hearty appreciation of your vigor-
Gus editorial regarding the Aala park,
as printed in The Star of today. It
would, indeed, be most unfortunate
should this project, which has receiv-
ed the enthusiastic support of the
community fail of accomplish
ment. The many letters which were
addressed to the different newspapers
relating to this matter, some time
since, bore abundant evidence to the
widespread feeling that this peoples
park was a move in the right direc-
ton. No more suitable place could
possibly be found for such an under
taking. The fact that it so near the
homes of large section of our COM
munity, who most need it, to whom
it would be the greatest boon and
blessing, is a matter to be most care
fully considered. To destroy the pos
sibility of such breathing spot in the
most crowded part of the city, when
it would be daily comfort and de
light to thousands would be a back
ward step, which would later on be
bitterly regretted. l am confident
that a large majority of our citizens
are strongly in favor of this park and
at this particular point, and would
hail with delight its speedy opening
to the public.
Respectfully yours,
FRANK w. DAMON.
Honolulu, March 20, 1898.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-31
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that Leong
On, Ho Leong and II. All Nee have
this day withdrawn from the firm of
Wing Wo Lung d Co., and notice is
hereby further given that Poo Lung,
Mar Coo, c. Kim Fook, Sal On Kee,
Goo Quon Heen, Goo Chou Tong. Goo
Chung Ching and Won Yet Len have
this day been admitted as members
of the firm of Wing Wo Lung & Co.,
doing a general merchandise business
on Hotel street. Honolulu, II. |.
WING WO LUNG & CO..
BY r. AHKING,
Manager.
Honolulu. December 2S, 1897.