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The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

Chas, Erber guarantees every
thing as represented-not a single
Misrepresentation since organized.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

Sterling silver novelties, diamonds,
watches-go to Erber's. 5-3
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

Let us have the Floral Fair by
al. means.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14
TO THE PUBLIC:

We have the oldest and most reliable
repair shop In TcNurkana, DO uphOlSters
ing Of furniture, repairing chair bottoms,
trunks, guns, clocks, musical Instruments,
umbrellas, etc. Also repair bicycles, locks
and keys. Mattress repairing a speciality.
Samples for upholstering always on hand.
Call and see MS, or drop postal card.
Workshop No. 800 Vine St.
O-4-tf W, +. LOREN & co.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

New liue ladies' and geutlemeus
gold watches and chains at f. L.
Schusters the old reliable. 9-l3
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Ten dollar bedroom sets at Booths
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

Money loaned on all articles of
value, Ola gold aud SILVER bought.
53 Chas, S. ERBEB.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14
THE TEXARKANIAN
F. G. WOOTTEN, City Editor.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT, "A, 1898.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

Our stock OF saddles and harness
are now complete, Get our prices
before purchasing elsewhere,
The EDWARDS HARNESS Co,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

If you want the freshest and
cheapest groceries go to Y, j, Hob.
goods, 800 West Broad street
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

w II Booth has a show room Of
S5SliO on second noor completely
packed with fine furniture, Ten
car loads Just received. 81
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

You can get a free lunch daily at
the Chic saloon from 10 TO Il a, m.
Fresh beer on tap at all hours, tf.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-14

Chatfeld & Buhrman. 9-S
7, ]. Hobgood, the cash grocer,
will sell you goods cheaper than any
house.in the city, Try him. "a,
Chas, Erber guarantees every.
thing as represented-not Il single
Misrepresentation since organized.
Before making your purchase OF
watch, ring or pin, see Chas, S.
Erber He will save you money,
Don't cuss the cook for bad coffee
but buy from us and always have
a rich delicious cup.
WARWICK MooRE Co,
Full line of kodaks and supplies at
Chatfeld n Buhrman's, price 50, Sc,
$3.50 and $40. 9.S
NSN lluC ldulI0 dUN ktulltlutUN
gold watches and chains at f, H.
Schusters the old reliable 9-l3
Money loaned on all articles of
value, Ola gold aud SILVER bought
53 Chas S, ERBER.
If you want the freshest and
cheapest groceries go to y, j. Hob.
goods, 800 West Broad street,
You can get a free lunch daily at
the Chic saloon from 10 20 II a, m.
Fresh beer on tap at all hours, #.
w II Booth has q show room Of
S5SllO on second noor completely
packed with fine furniture, Ten
car loads Just received 81
Our stock OF saddles and harness
are now complete, Get our prices
before purchasing elsewhere,
The EDWARDS HARNESS Co,
Mic nnanl. M.Hl.,... s.. L.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
charge of the company store was shot,

charge Of the company store was shot,
beaten and kicked until fatally wounded.
1t was shortly after noon when the
trouble began. The operat tors have known
for weeks that there would be riot and
bloodshed the moment it was attempted
to unload the negroes at the mines, and
they were prepared for trouble. A stock
ade had been erected, with block house
in the inclosure, in which thirty-two Chi
cago police officers with loaded rifles were
stationed.
No sooner had the train steamed in than
fusillade was opened upon the miners
from the guards in the block house and the
fifty guards in charge of the train. Then
the slaughter began. The miners return
ed the fire, and soon dead and wounded
men numbered the ground. AT the east
end of the stocksde where the train stop
ped the scene was awful. The miners
who were making thir demonstrations
were to the south Of the stockade, but over
in the field east of the Chicago and Alton
tracks was a crowd of miners. The guards
in the tower and on the train commenced
picking them off, and here is where the
miners lost all their men who were killed.
The train met a furious volley of bullets
tending to kill The volleys We're kept up
for fully ten minutes, until the uselessness
of remaining became apparent to the
trainmen, and the train was sped on TO
Springfield.
Then the miners turned loose and pan
demonium reigned. The men were crazed
at the slaughter of their comrades, and as
a result there were terrible excesses. j.
+. Eyster, manager of the coal company
store, YVES espied in the streets and set
upon. He was first shot down and then
his body was frightfully mangled
OF the dead, six are miners, one a Chi
cago and Alton detective, one stockade
guard-Al Morgan of Chicago-and two
detectives, w. w. Carroll and W. w.
Clarkson. The wounded include eight
strikers, six Pinkerton and Thiele men
and seven guards at the stockade. Thos.
Preston, formerly lieutenant If police
in Chicago, was killed by the militia. He
was on guard at the stockade and failed
to respond to an order to halt.
Troops were sent by Gov. Tanner to
protect life and property and he asked
the Federal authorities to allow him to
use COL Culver's regiment. He insisted
the soldiers should not aid the coal mine
operators in their purpose of working inl-
ported negro miners, and he declares the
operators ought to be convicted for caus-
ing the bloodshed. Mr.. Lukens. the COM
pany's manager, is quite as vehment IN
his denunciation of the Governor for his
failure TO send troops sooner.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

DANGER IN FRANCE.
Jules MeIine Utters Serions Warming
Against Agitation and Unrest

Jules Meline, premier of the French
ministry preceding the present Govern
ment of NJ. Brisson and who presided at a
banquet of the Association OF Railway
Employees at Epnal. France, uttered a
serious warning against the agitation and
unrest in France, class troubles and
strikes. Referring to the divided state
of society thc violence of polemics and
the sectarian spirit displayed in politics, -
he said it was impossible to see France
thus torn by factions and devoured by po-
litical passions, while daily the principle
of authority was undermined, the army
was weakened, and the institutions upon
which rested the security of the nation
were shaken. without thinking OF that
opening in the Vosges through which an
invading army could pass" or without
thinking of ''some unforeseen temptation
being offered to the foreigner" The adj
versaries of France. however, had no need
to declare war, said NJ. Meline. They
were content to wait the exhaustion Of
France
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

The expected tragedy at Yirden. H.,
was enacted Wednesday. A train load of
negro miners who were brought to Virden
to take the places of the men who were
on strike was met by mob of strikers.
yariously estimated at from FIVE hundred
to fifteen hundred, and battle ensued,
in which many We're killed or wounded.
The striking miners had been awaiting
the coming of the negroes for several
days. They have been armed during all
OF that time and have paraded the streets
or the town, openly avowing their pur-
pose to prevent the negroes from ding.
The tragedy is the result of determin-
ed effort on the part of the Chicago Vir-
den Coal Company to employ negro min
ers brought from Alabama to take the
places of miners on a strike. The strik-
ers were equally determined and both
sides sought to win by force of arms. Fir
ing began when the train loaded passed
the station and continued all along the
line of the stockade where the principal
battle took place. Here the miners were
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Odds and Ends.

A captain in the navy ranks with
colonel Ia the army.
If all flesh is grass men ought to be
less shy of lawn mowers.
The people of London are computed
to spend S6,000,000 daily.
When a man doesn't wed widow his
marriage is mistake
1t takes the man in the moon nearly
month to make UP face.
The well bred man may be selfish, but
never In little things.-Life.
Restaurant dining Is becoming more
than ever the rage In London.
1t seems that no previous Prince OF
Wales has been a grandfather.
A streak Of luck is good thing, IL 1t
doesn't go as 1t came-Iike streak.
If man finds dollar he invariably
spends two in celebrating the discov-
cry.
We are too lazy to love and to hate,
so we slide into ndifference.-Boston
Transcript.
Having to work very hard every min7
ute is as good for mans soul as relig-
ion.-Atchison Globe.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
CAUSE OF THE MINERS, sTRIK
Conditions Leading Up to the Trouble
at Paua and Virden.

The coal miners strike, which has had
such a sanguinary elimination at Virden,
was begun last April. The miners insist
ed on a scale of wages adopted at the
miners national convention at Columbus
The operators refused the terms demand
ed, and the miners offered to leave the
matter to arbitration This the operators
refused to consider, and when the State
Board of Arbitration went to Pana for the
purpose of settling the difficulty, if posi-
bic, the opera tors declined to join in the
investigation. Then the lockout began.
In August the operators grew tired of the
situation and undertook to fill the strik-
ers' places with imported negroes, and
since that time Pana has been in a state
of siege. Sheriffs have guarded the ne
groes, who have been working behind
stockades. The Penwell and Springside
mines were protected with stockades and
the negroes were safe behind them. When
ever an imported miner appeared in the
streets he was roughly treated.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
News of Minor Noe.

The value of the annual plum crop in
France is $3.000.000.
Great Britain has 294 torpedo boats
and torpedo boat destroyers.
: Nfnety-two flour mills in North Caro-
lima grind all the wheat grown in the
State.
Thirty kegs of beer were consumed by
the guests at a wedding of foreigners at
Shenandoah. Pa.
Vienna has a cabman who has been
fined twenty times for trying TO bring 5i-
cyclists to grief.
While Berlin has only one-nineteenth of
the population of Prussia, it pays nearly
one-sixth of the income tax.
It will require weeks TO form an .inteili-
gent estimate OF the losses sustained in
Colorado by the recent forest fires.
A balloon line from Europe to America
is the projected enterprise of a Vienna
company hesded by Count Zeppelin.
out or n total German population of
431 in the capital of German East At
rica, Dares-Salaam. los are officials.
The enrolled members of tn Metho-
dist Church in Canada IS 2s0,537, one
fifth of the entire population Of the Do
nainion.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

curry and potash seemed to add fuel to the
awful flame which was devouring me. / was
advised by friends who had seen wonderful
cures made by it, to try Swifts Specific. We
got two bottles, and felt hope again revive in
my. breast-hope for health and happiness
again. | improved from the start, and a. COM
plete and perfect cure was the result. S. s. s.
is the only blood remedy which reaches desr
perate cases. MRS. I. w LEE,
Montgomery, Ala
OF the many blood remedies, s. s. s.
is the only one which can reach deep
seated, violent ,ses. 1t never fails to
cure perfectly and permanently the
most desperate cases which are beyond
the reach of other remedies.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
TWO MEN DIE AT SPRINGFIELD.
Victims of the Riot Expire on Reach
ing the CAPITAL.

Great excitement was created in Spring
field upon the arrival of the train over
the Chicago and Alton road that had pass
ed through the battle at Yirden. 1t con-
sisted of three coaches. baggage car and
caboose and contained about 100 ne
groes and fifty or sixty deputies. 1t was
literally riddled with bullets. The win
dows had been shot TO pieces. The sides
of the cars we're peppered. and piece was
shot out of one of the driving wheels of
the engine. Here seven wounded men
were taken from the train and conveyed
10 st. Johns Hospital, where two of them
subsequently died
While the train was lying at the depot
State President Hunter of the miners or
ganization and other leaders of the min
ers put in appearance and induced about
half of the negroes on the train to leave It.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
SENTIMENT AGAINST OPERATORS
Opinion General at Virden That the
Miners Have Won Victory

Everywhere. according to Virden re-
port, sentiment is against the mine own
ers. 1t is the general opinion that The
miners have won a victory, though at a
terrible price. Miners stood guard al the
stockades, and the Chicago and Alton
tracks all of Wednesday night, fearful
that an attempt would be made to bring
the SPECIAL with the imported miners on
boari back from Springfield. The min
ers claim that the first shot was fired from
the train by a guard. A miner fired
shot into the air as the train approached
the town, as a signal for the miners to
assemble and resist the landing of the ne
groes.
Adjutant General Reece, in command
of the soldiers, said he had unmistakable
orders from Gov. Tanner to prevent fur
ther trouble, to protect lives and property
and to prevent operators from bringing
imported labor into the town. He called
upon the men at the stockade with Col.
Sergeant Mcknight of Girard. a member
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

After the negroes who were brought
from Alabama OH Aug. "a We're put to
work the miners coerced the Oyerholt
brothers to write note calling the min
ers out, but when released by the strik-
ers who had captured them the note was
repudiated. On Sept. IA another batch
of negro miners were put to work in the
Penwell mines. Two weeks later one of
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
A WEEKS RECORD OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.
Superior's Water Supply in Danger
Suicide Near Palmyra-Bound Over
at Sturgeon Bay Fond du Lac Conn
ty Farmer Killed.

W. S. Kirchofer, Baraboo's city engi-
neer, has resigned his position there to go
to Superior to make an analysis of tn 'ity
water supply and TO suggest some plan for
purifying it, The city supply is taken
from number Of wells located on point
which projects into the lake and it has
been found that the sewage, which comes
into the lake near by, goes through the
sand into the wells and back TO the city.
The water also contains iron which en-
ables certain species of bacilH to crsate
much damage in the pipes by filing them
with rust and also destroying them. The
plant is worth S1,125,000 and there is
danger of its being ruined if the present
cond;tions aanfinua
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
TROUBLE FEARED AT PANA.
Private Guards and Armed Soldiers
Parade the Streets,

1t is feared the effect of the battle be-
tween the miners, deputies and hired
guards st yirden will be to Precipitate
trouble In Pana, where the same eondi-
tions precisely exist, except upon greater
scale. Eight hundred miners are 7ut Of
employment at Pana. and the places of
these men have been filed by imported
negroes. Feeling runs high over the Vir-
den incident 1t has been found neces-
sary 10 place private guard on duty, end
ssldiers nsrads he streets
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

There is more catarrh In this section Of the
country than all other diseases put together and
until the last few years was supposed to be In
curabe For great many years doctors pro-
remedies ami by constantly falling % cure with
ocal treatment pronounced II ncuTable Science
has proven eatdTFh to be "a constitun 1nal dis
ment Halls Catarrlt Cure manufactured by K.
j. Cheney & CO.. TGIe5e. Ohio. is the only con-
Stjtufi0nal cure Oh the gaarket IL Is taken ifl-
terualiy ia doses from t0dTops 70 a teaspoontul
il acts directly ON the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system. They offer Cne hundred
dollars for any case II fails 20 cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials ADDRESS,
H. j. CHENEY & co, Toledo, o.
fesT- Sold by Druggists, "a.
Rails Family Pilis are the be l.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Notes of Current Events.

Mrs. Lille Tzenberg Of Nicksburg, Miss,
died Sunday night from the effects Of a
spiders bite
Ex-Treasurer Weber of San Francis
co. Cal, has been convicted Of embezzHng
S76,242 of public funds.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has de-
cided that railroads in that State must
furnish separate coaches for negroes.
Four major generals of volunteers and
twenty-five bri sadier generals OF volun-
teers are to be mustered out Of the United
States service 81 on.
1t is stated tint q proclamation viii be
issued in China threatening the in6iction
of capital pun shment upSn any person
Insulting Euro,eans,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Presence Of State Troops Causes LuII
In the TuruuIt NJ Nirder,

Presence Of State Troops Causes Lu11
in the Tumult at Virden.
The arrival of Battery Il from Pana at
midnight Wednesday was the signal for
peace in Virden. The tunult of the streets
had not suhsided before that time and
threats of blowing up the stockade with
dynamite were freely made by the more
hot-headed of the miners. When the troops
arrived skirmish line was thrown out at
once by Capt. Craig and the streets clear
ed. Seventy-five men were found in the
strikers hall and made to come down to
the street and hold up their hands. They
were searched and all weapons taken from
them. This action was general through
ont thp citvS
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Election Nntiees Served.

Operator King of Chicago, owner of the
Green Ridge shaft at Carlinville, has
served ejectment notices on miners occu-
pying company houses. King has received
no rent since hast May. The miners are
given twelve days notice to leave, at the
end of which time, il is asserted. they are
to be supplanted by imported men.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Death Under a Train.

A man was killed between Palmyra and
Eagle by the west-bound passenger train.
The remains were picked up by a freight
train following close behind. The body
was mangled beyond recognition. The
man was standing on the track and as the
train reached him he threw himself in
front of it. He was apparently young.
A book found in his pocket gave the fol-
lowing note: when my body is found, mo-
tify my poor, dear father, Pat Kenny, 130
South Water street, GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

their number appeared on the streets and
was attacked. This precipitated riot
and the negro was arrested. a call was
made for troops, which, after having beer
previously refused by the Governor, ar
rived on the last day of September.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Wagon Passes Over Neck.

Frank Beaucage, a town of Osceola
farmer, fell from his wagon the other
evening and broke his neck, dying instant
~. Mr.. Beaucage owned two farms. He
was hauling oats from one to the other.
Suddenly a tug unhitched and threw the
driver down Immediately in front Of the
wagon, which passed over his neck Mr..
Beaucage was about 81 years old and
leaves widow and family of eight chill
dren
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Murderous Assault.

George Thomas, William Carmody and
George Papeneau of Egg Harbor were
bound over to the Circuit Court at Stur-
geon Bay by Justice Dehosen on the
charge of stealing and assault with in
tent to kill. Emil Lemer is in a precari-
GUS condition at his home in Egg Harbor
from the effects of having been beaten on
the head with rocks, his skull being frac-
furpd
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Sacrificed to
Blood Poison.

Those who have never had Blood Poi
son can not know what a desperate con-
dition it can produce. This terrible
disease which the doctors are totally
unable to cure, is communicated from
one generation to another, inficting its
taint upon countless innocent ones.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Stolen Trea.ure Recovered.

The $4,000 stolen from its hiding place
under Joseph Streuzbachs woodshed floor
at Stevens Point few days ago was re-
turned to the old hermit by Sheriff Whee-
lock, who received $1,000 as reward.
The sheriff refuses to divulge the name
lax
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
Nearly Burned to Death.

At Manitowoc, smoke was seen issuing
from one of the upper rooms of the build
ing used by Wenzel Sladky as a saloon
and boarding house and fire alarm was
turned in. Cpon entering the room, Tillie,
the little 212-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sladky, was found with her clothes
burned off her body and the bedding of
the room on fire. The little girl is so seri-
ously burned that her recovery seems inn
possible. The child was playing with
matches
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

.in force and they were opposed by a
strong force of guards. The train, rid
died with bullets, pulled out and proceed
ed to Springfield, without unloading the
negroes. After a desperate fight the
guards retreated to the stockade and the
men went to town, where the man in
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

taint. The little one was
unequal to the struggle,
and its life was yielded
up to the fearful poison.
For six long years I suf-
fered untold misery. /
was covered with sores
and ulcers from head to
foot, and no language
can express my feelings
of woe during those long
years. ! had the best
medical treatment. Sew
eral physicians success
sively treated me, bat all
to no purpose. The her.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
MINERS IN BATTLE.
Meet the Deputies in Deadly
Conflict at Virden.
STATE TROOPS SENT,
Fourteen Were Killed and Many Fatally
Wounded by Rifle Bullets.

Effort of the Coal Mine Operators to
Bring Negro Miners from he South
Causes Trouble Twenty-Five More or
Cars Are Riddled with Bullets
Tanner Sends Troops.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
ARRIVAL OF BATTERY h.

of the Governors staff, and notified the
that all arms must be surrendered.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

Some years ago was inoculated with poison
by a nurse who infected my babe with blood
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

business cards, not exceeding ave Hnss q. o.
Legal advertisements st legal rates. Adysr4sss-
naonts inserted with no specinsd time wfu b
published until ordered out. ana ol,,rg.d sc~ -.
sordingly All bills payAhls quarte1T.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
County Officers.
SOCIETY DIRECTORY

OOCIEIY DIRECIOH
~~~0OoDNO~ON~0~O-~-~~N~0
BELLE LODGE A. +. & A. NJ. NO. a.
IL Meets the First and Third Wednesdays Of
zach month. Hall in Williams block.
VIROQUA LODGE. /. y Q. F.-MEETs Ev.
cry Saturday night in Williams block
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19

NIROQUA ENCAMPMENT, I. o. O. f., NO
80. Meets every Monday even ng