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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
WENT ARMED TO THEIR WORK.
Result Was That They Gave Some Strikers
Rude Surprise.

Rude Surprise.
Washington. Ind. Oct. 12.-Late yes
terday afternoon coal miners from
Montgomery and Cannelburg came to
this city and Joined in with the local
strikers. They numbered 500. about fifty
women, wives of the strikers, being in
the crowd. They at once marched to
Cabel x Co.'S No. mine. two miles
south Of here. where about nifty non-un-
ion men are at work The strikers
secreted themselves behind fences, corn
shocks, etc. and awaited their chance
to swoop down on the mine and drive
the men out. The miners had a tip of
the mob's presence and were prepared.
When the mob advanced toward the
mine IL was met by the non-unionists
who had Winchesters ndpistols drawn
Seeing this the strikers retreated
without a blow being struck. The nom
uniOnists marched from the mines in a
body and came to this city. Just after
leaving the mines the women in the mob
threw stone and clubs at them. striking
several. but not injuring them. The nom
unionists acted wisely and did not re-
sist the attack of the women One
miner. John Kellar. was captured by
four of the women and given a severe
eating. They warned him not to go to
work again
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
NEW TEACHER ENGAGED.
f. y. Bonnen TO be In Charge of High
School Business Department.


School Business Department.
The board of education at its
monthly meeting last night engaged
E. n. Bonnell, af Davenport, to
supervise the business department at
the High school, fixing his salary at
$75 per month. The arrangement of
appropriate exercises in the schools
on Lafayette day, Oct. 10, was delegated
to Supt. Young. 1t was decided to
open another room in the Kemble
school for fourth and fifth grade work
in order to relieve the congested
condition of the other buildings. The
board tabled a proposition from the
Central Union company for the Plac-
ing of a telephone in each of the
school buildings. The purchase of
four typewriters for the High school
was authorized. The following bills
were allowed:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
AT PANA AND vIRDEN.
Mayor Penwen Discharges the First Po
lice Force and Appoints a New One.

Mayor Penwen Discharges the First Po
lice Force and Appoints a New One.
Pana, Ills. Oct. 1Z-warren PenweII,
mayor, believing that the city police
were in sympathy with the striking
miners. discharged the entire force yes
terday afternoon and replaced them
] new men who were in sympathy with
the coal operators. The bonds of the
new police were filed by the operators
and men favoring their side of the is
| sue. The first fruits of the change was
a fight which had only been delayed
from time to time by the fact that one
Of the participants. A. c. Burton, had
been on the deputy force and thus es-
capped. Upon his dismissal from the
deputy force he was Immediately sworn
in on the police force.
First Result Is a Fight
While he was passing the corner of
Locust and Second streets a miner
named Jack Boyle, ex-president of the
union miners. said something to the new
officer. whereupon Burton undertook to
arrest Boyle. and an encounter ensued.
Soldiers who were patrolling that sec
ton of the city put both men under ar
rest and started them to the guard
house, but both were released upon Civ
ing bond for appearance Oct. 13. Eight
of ten members of the city council stated
last night that they would discharge the
new officers and reinstate the old ones
at he next meeting of the city council.
Company Fortified at yirden.
Chicago. Oct. 12.-The Virden corre-
spondent of The Evening Journal teIe-
graphs: The situation of the coal min
ers' wage war at this place is more
critical than at any time since April 1.
and the aspect of affairs sinister in the
extreme. On the one hand the Chicago
Virden Coal company has surrounded
its shaft house and twenty acres of
land. on which have been concentrated
some fifty company houses for barracks,
with a stockade of Pinch planks eight
feet high. Within this stockade the COM
pany has a body of men for guards, 200
Springfield rifles and ten cases of riot |
guns. which carry No. II cartridges, full |
of buckshot. Fred w. Lukins, general |
manager OF the company, remains in |
personal command of his forces almost |
night and day. and declares he will de- |
fend his property from attack to the |
last ditch. He is a youngish man with |
a muscular physique and a countenance |
of vigorous determination.
Miners in Camp Outside.
On the outside of the stockade there |
is warlike preparation and plan of
interfering tactics which is carefully |
carried out in all details. There are
four camps along the railroad tracks.
and a regular patrol of the railroad |
yards Is kept up. The strikers have very
little shelter. only sentry box here and
there, but they built fires of logs and
they have a kitchen north of the stock
aGe where great boilers of coffee are
made during the night for the men on
duty. They have also an arsenal where
their weapons are stored which are not
chesters and shotguns stacked along the
fence of the roadside
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
NEWS RECEIVED AT THE CAPITAL.
President OF the MIneworkers of Illinois
Informed of the Hight.

Springfield. ILL.,, Oct. 12.-Tele-
grams To State President Hunter. of
the mineworkers of Illinois, say a
battle was fought today between the
striking miners at Virden and the
negroes imported from Alabama. He
is advised that the guards on the
train bearing the negroes fired re-
peatedly into the crowd of miners on
the platform of the depot as the train
reached the station, killing 10. The
governor will probably order Battery
Il from Pana. as it is reported there
is vet to he an effort TO get the ne
yroes into the stockade, and the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
INDIAN WAR IS AvERTED.
HostiIities in Northern Minnesota Agree to


Walker, Mimi. Oct. 12.-Indica-
tions are that war will be averted. The
Indians will surrender. Father HON.
anutz, Gus Beaulieu and Chief Bimung
went to the hostile camp last night
and held long conference. and met
large number of Indians, who alluded
TO the late fight as ''little fun and
laughed at the fears of the whites
Soon terms of surrender We're ar
ranged and the commissioners say
the hostiles will return to the agency.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
Typographioai Union Meeting.

Syracuse. y. Y. Oct. I2-Yesterday
afternoon the Typographical union voted
down a proposition to create sick ben
eft fund under international control II
also voted down a proposition to change
the vote approving membership in the
union from thrce-fourths to a majority.
The committee on shorter work day eX-
poets TO make its final report today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
street Car to Mile Track Races.

The fair ground cars will connect
with a n free bus line for Davenport
Mile Track races this week. Ample
accommodations will be provided to
carry every one to the races for .
cents. Take the Northwest Daven-
port fair ground cars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
Democratic Committee, Attention.

All democratic ward and county
committeeman are requested to meet
at Turner hall at 8 O'Clock Thursday
night All active democrats are also
invited TO be present.
j. W. CAVANAUGH.
Chairman County Committee
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
Gen. Grant To BE a Guest.

Toledo. Oct. 12-General T. ID. Grant
has signified his intention of being a
guest of the Army of the Tennessee at
its annual reunion in this city, Oct. &c
and q. He Will be accompanied by his
mother. Mrs. L. S. Grant.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12

Berlin, Oct. 12--The emperor and
empress of Germany and suite
started this morning on journey to
the holy land. They 90 direct to Con-
stantinople and thence to Palestine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12

Boston. Oct. 12.-John NJ Forbes,
president of the board OF directors OF
the Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy
railroad. died at Milton today
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
Military party Arrives Later.
To Cure a Cold in one Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has
L. b. @. on each tablet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12

To he entirely relieved of the aches
and pains of rheumatism means 4
great deal, and Hoods SarsaParilla
does it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
Hard CsaI-Coke-Wood,

Indiana block. Athens lump and
nut, superior soft egg. camel, hard
wood and kindling.
Z. b. MCKowN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12

| the country who have come to partici-
pate in the peace jubilee celebration.
| and the welcome that was accorded to
| the head of the national government
was enthusiastic in the extreme. At the
| station to welcome the distinguished
guests to the city were King Ak-Sar-
Ben " in person. and the board of gov
ernors of the Knights of Ak-Sar-B Ben
and also the Equestrian club of South
Omaha.
Procession to the City Hall.
The festival of Ak-Sar-Ben was held
last week and the newly crowned king
had ordered that his knights exert
themselves nightly to do honor to the
beloved ruler of the nation. The presi-
Dental reception committee. composed
of prominent Omaha citizens and their
wives, was also at the station. Each
member Of the committee with his wife.
was given one particular guest to escort
to the proper place in she line of car
riages which was in waiting, and each
performed the tasks allotted to him
without hitch. AS soon as all were
seated the procession started under es-
cort of the equestrian Gibbs for the city
hall. The line ofscarriaGes moved north
on Tenth street and west on Farnam to
Eighteenth. Along the whole line the
crowds on each side of the street and
in every window kept up a continuous
ovation.
Visitors Review Parade
The buildings were generously decora-
ted with red. white and blue, and with
the Ak-Sar-Ben colors-red. yellow and
greenland numerous pictures of the
president appeared in the windows of
stores and offices. The streets were also
strung with lines of incandescent lights
over each causeway and arches of col
ored incandescent lights at every street
crossing, making the whole line of
march as light day. At the city hall
the party alighted and the visitors were
assigned to seats on a temporary plat
form from which they reviewed a mag
nifcent parade of forty floats The
floats were the same which had taken
rart during last week in the Ak-Sar-
Ben parade of Tuesday and the electric
parade of Thursday, and the two gor-
geous parades combined made a mag
nificent spectacle.
Military Party Arrives Later.
The train bearing the military party
and the diplomatic corps was delayed
about an hour and a half after the pres
idential train got in. Enthusiastic crowds
were on hand at the Union station,
however, to greet it, and as the visitors
were escorted by the reception commit
tee through the streets to the reviewing
stand they were loudly cheered all
along the route. The people paid voci-
ferrous homage to the heroes of Santi- |
ago, honoring the memories OF the war
in the midst of their jubilance for peace. |
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12

John T wilcox. OF Janesville. Wis.
died at the state hospital for the insane
at Mendoza. aged 90. He was a we'll
krovn Free Mason and member OF
the Grand Army OF the Republic
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
WAR IS RAGING At V|RDEN.
The Arrival of Negro Miners Preciptates Bloody
Struggle
A GREAT NUMBER KILLED ALREADY
NUMBER KILLED AL
Final Appeal to Gov Tanner for Troops Has Been
Made---Fight Still On.

miners say they will fight to the bit
ter end.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12

Virden, ILL.,, Oct. 12.-The arrival
of the negroes from the south this
afternoon was followed by desper-
ate battle. Five hundred shots were
exchanged between the strikers on
one side and Sheriff Davenport and
his deputies and railroad police on
the other. 1t is thought at least
twenty men on both sides were killed
and wounded. The best information
is that 10 are killed, fatally wounded
and seriously. A Chicago & Alton
policeman named ID. Kiley is among
the killed.
When the train arrived bearing the
negroes fully 1,5OO armed miners
were lined up on each side of the
track. The train stopped in front of
the gates of the stockade and the
trouble began. Dozens of shots were
fired from the stockade at the white
men while the strikers were half a
mile away.
The widest rumOrs are afloat, one
to the effect that so miners were
killed. The greatest excitement pre-
fthAlS anu LiCA iAC
arms they can to defend themselves if
the trouble spreads. Women and
children are fleeing to their houses,
and barricading the doors. 1t is re-
ported the miners were fired on from
the stockade after the train went
through.
Mayor Nall has sent to Girard and
Springfield for doctors and nurses.
Manager Lukens was fired upon by
the strikers when trying to escape
from the shaft.
Sheriff Davenport thinks that pos
sibly 100 are killed and wounded.
Others think the estimate too large.
sherin's Final Appeal.
Sheriff Davenport made what he
said was final appeal to the COVER
no- for troops at Virden. He wired
that 1000 strikers were Parading and
the situation was beyond his control. |
The governor replied that no troops |
would be sent to assist the mine own
ers or miners. Troops would only be
sent when necessary to prevent riot
or blcodshed.
Tanner Sends Troops.
The governor has just received a |
telephone message from Sheriff Daven-
port. at Virden. that the fight is still
going on and over 100 are Killed. The |
governor ordered battery B and the |
Sons of Veterans companies at Pana
to proceed at once to Virden. He also |
ordered Col. Hamilton, commanding
the Sons of Veterans, to rendezvous
four companies ut once at Springfield.
Every Deputy Killed.
St. Louis, Oct. IA Carlinville |
(ll.) special says it is reported that
every deputy in the stockade at Yir-
Ion ;S Gi1IeJ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
To Cure Constipation Forever.

Take Cascarets Candy Cathsrtic 1oc or 80
IL c. c. G. fan TO cure, druggists refund money
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-12
Tanner sends Troops.
Every Deputy Killed.

St. Louis, Oct. IA Carlinville
(nl.) special says it is reported that
every deputy in the stockade at Vir-
den is killed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08

plague spot, to rid ourselves of an
annoyance that has become intoler-
able. The world looks on and ap.
proves. 1t sympathizes with our
Efforts as it applauds the patience
which We have shown in the past.
The greater the crisis the more re-
straint is put upon Spain by the gov
ernments of the old world, the more
the bondholders, both directly and
speaking through the governments
they are able to influence, point the
finger of warning at Spain and com.
mand her not to break the peace.
Spain is to-day the most harassed
and unfortunate country on the face
of the earth. Poor China's lot is en-
viable compared to hers, for the Chi
nese are people without the keen
pride and sense of honor which
mark the Spanish people. Yet Spain
is falling almost as low as China
and becoming ward of civilization
She is virtually in chancery to day,
being guided by self appointed
friends and by creditors who are
anxious to save her from herself.
She has not reached that state of
helplessness in which the powers
openly interfere with her independ-
ence and seize her territory and
command her to do this or that, but
this stage will come If she goes to
war with America. She will be-
come derelict or fall in fragments.
For all these reasons it is pretty safe
to conclude the chances of war be-
tween Spain and the United States
are only as two in ten, and that
whatever else happens Cuba is sure
to escape from the clutches of Spain,
That Cuba will gain her independ-
ence, or something equivalent to it,
is almost certainly written IN the
book of fates.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08
LIKE RATS IN A TRAP.
Levee at ShawneetOwn, Ill., Gives
Way Without Warming,
And Within u Few Minutes Time One
Hundred Souls are Rushed Into
Eternity.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, April 1.-The
levee at ShawneetOwn, ILL.,, broke
last evening, and the entire town is
flooded from twenty to thirty feet.
Shaw eetown is seventy five
miles below Evansville, on the Ohio
River. 1t is situated in valley of
extremely low land, with hill skirt
ing it in the rear, and with a twenty
five foot levee in front, running from
hill to kill. The town is very much
in the position of fortified city,
and when the levee gave way a
mile above town under the pressure
of the very high river, the water
shot through twenty-foot opening
and struck the place like hurri-
cane, sweeping everything before it,
Evansville sent two steamboats,
with food and blankets to the scene.
The loss of life is estimated at some
thing like one hundred.
The disaster came when the great
majority of the people were in their
homes eating supper.
Tie break in the levee occurred a
mile above the town, and was with
in ten minutes more than half q
mile wide. A stream of water
twelve to twenty feet deep, carrying
half of the current of the food
raised Ohio, descended on the un-
suspecting people.
1t came down in great rush like
a tidal wave. There was no slow
rising of the waters to give warning.
The houses on the outskirts were
lifted up and rolled over and over.
Most of them were torn into splin
ters. Their inhabitants were drown
ed in them.
Nearer the centre of the town
some brick structures stopped the
onrush Of the water for a few min
utes, but about two-thirds of the
dwellings were lifted from their
foundations and floated, carrying
them into the current of the river.
After few minutes the horror Of
the situation was added to by the
catching fire of large house that
had started down stream with the
others.
The people on the roofs were al
ready in danger of being thrown of
by collision with other floating
houses, but The appearance of this
floating firebrand added horror. AS
it struck one house after another in
its zig-zag course some caught fire
and their unfortunate occupants
were compelled to intrust them
selves to the mercy of the swirling
water on pieces of wood to avoid a
more terrible death by fire. The
break in the levee flooded four miles
of the valley land aud cut off com
munication on two railroads, the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
and the Louisville Il Nashville.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08
BRANN KILLED.
The Editor ofthe "Iconoclast' Meets His
Death In Duel.

Death in u Duel.
WACO, Ten, April LIN the midst of
busy preparations for city election
meetings., while bands we're playing
and scattering hand-bills from their
decorated vans, calling the people to-
gether, w. G. Brann, editor ofthe Icono-
clast, and Capt NJ Y. Davis, met and
fought a revolver duel to the death.
The com mbatants met just at o'clock
this afternoon on South Fourth street,
and after exchanging a few words, both
began empting their revoivers into each
others bodies. When the battle was
over Brann was found to be perforated
in the left lung, the left thigh and the
right foot Davis was shot through the
right lung and through both of his
arms.
The difficulty between the two men
grew out of the Brann-Baylor feud of
last year. Capt Davis daughters are
pupils of Baylor University and the
references made in the IconOclast to
Baylor, which were generally constru-
ed to mean reflections on the moral
character of the pupils and faculty,
brought fourth from Capt. Davis a
denunciation OF Brann delivered in
language most forcible and direct.
This afternoon Brann and his busi-
ness manager, w. II. Ward, were oppo-
site the steet from the Cotton Belt Of
flee and were seen CROSSING the street
together going in the direction of
Frenchs book store, Capt. Davis office
icing betw cen the book store and the
Cotton Belt office. When Brann and
Ward reached the front of the book
store, Capt. Davis was in front of his
office. The words that passed between
them were terms of reproach, and they
lost no time in getting out their
weapons.
About ten seconds were occupied in
the shooting, at the enc of which Brann
and Davis lay bleeding and w. H.,
Ward, Brann's business manager, was
shot through the right hand, the bones
being shattered.
Brann and Davis are both dead.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08
GarwOOd's Sarsaparilla-for the BLOOD
guaranteed to cure. A. b. RAINS
MUSTARD SEED.

Money is itself a clean thing, but
great many dirty men handle it.
An honest man never knowingly
employs rascal to do business for
him.
The frivolities Of fashionable life
are on the border land of immor-
ality.
If you want employment, you
must go where there Is something
to do.
If you desire to rise above other
men, do your work better than other
men.
A well governed temper is one of
the principal characteristics Of busi-
ness talent.
Men who have failed to control
themselves will not succeed in con-
trolling others.
If you aspire to high position, you
must be prepared for great labor and
strong opposition.
Praise yourself, and others will
curse you; praise others, and they
will praise you. Men are generally
good for their debts.
Some peoples mouths are always
set for scold, and are easy on trig-
ger. Be sure to keep TO the rear of
such an one, for she's Ioaded.
Keep the rnind alive, il you wish
to keep the body alive. II you are
old, and sit in the chimney corner
thinking of death, you will die.
Speculation is usually not carried
very far till the word drops the So
The crooked letter disappears just
as crooked practices begin.-hol-
stOn Methodist.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08
SANCTUM SENTIMENTS.

Col. Tom Neal, editor of the Dyers-
burg Gazette, once said that an edi-
tor had no business running for Of
flee now; that it wasn't his business
to be great, but to make other folks
great.-Bristol Courier.
An exchange inquiries: IF Miss
Ouri should borrow Miss Issippi's
New Jersey, what would Della
Ware?" I'llask'er. (Alaska.)-Chat-
tanooga News.
The attitude of the United States
toward Spain recalls the order of
the Judge to M'liss, who was stand
ing up and talking in court. "Sit
down, Miliss,n said the Judge. II
won't" said Mliss. "Then stand
up" said the Judge, Il will be
obeyed. memphis Commercial
Appeal.
II it were not for the fact that the
Spaniards can not read We might
clean them out of Cuba by firing an
edition or two of the yellow journals
at them.-Courier Journal.
II you want the news, UnroId
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08

ALICE MITCHELL, the murderess
of Freda Ward, died last Thursday
in the insane asylum at Bolivar.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08

Snow fell in Hickman county
Tuesday morning, and the fruit crop
is partly if not altogether killed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08

THE pants factory and woolen
mills of the Peacher Mills Company,
near Clarksville, were burned Tues
day morning. The origin OF the tire
is unknown. The loss is $4,000 in-
surance, $4,000.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08

MICHIGAN will probably appropri-
ate $5OO,OOO for war purposes, and
will also increase the militia COM
panies to $50.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08

IN the event of war with Spain,
it is stated on high authority that
France will be neutral.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-08

INDICATIONS point to settlement
of the Cotton Mills strike in New
England next Monday.