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AMERICA'S UNEMPLOYED. Movements of tha Various Com monweal Armies. Iowa Farmers Aid Kelly Montana Coxey ites 1'niTukit the Action of United State Troops Senate Dlicuuci Allen's f'oxej' Resnlutlon. SEARING THE CAPITAL. Frederick. Md, April 25. Coxey's "band of peace marched out of Boons boio at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning. Reaching the top of South mountain they were met by Sheriff Tim Merman, of Frederick county, who explained that he had been ordered to appoint a posse to attend the army as long as it was in his territory. "1 have sum moned my deputies," ho said, "to allay the fears of the people along1 the road." Each horsoman was armed with two long six-shooters, some of them sug gestively displayed in the saddle holsters. They Can't Meet In Washington. Washington, April 8. The district commissioners cast a damper over the local supporters of Coxey's movement Thursday by refusing them permission to hold open-air meetings. The re fusal of the commissioners was based on a law that prohibits congregating on the public streets or parks or en gaging in loud and boisterous talking, and they state that they have no power to grant a permit. The Coxeyites are THE COXEV CRUSADE. Carl Browne, adjutant-general of the Army of tbe Commonweal and a notorious agitator, is represented in the first picture. The second illustrates the army on Its march with the colored standard bearer in the van. angered at this refusal, declaring the law never was intended to apply to orderly speech-making. Allen's Resolution In the Senate. Washington, April 28. Mr. Allen's resolution censuring the authorities of the District for proclaiming against the admission of the many armies now on the way to Washington was de bated in the senate. Senators Vest (dem.. Mo.), Wolcott (rep., CoL), Dolph (rep.. Ore.) and Gray (dem., DoL) opposed the resolution. Senator Allen vigorously defended his action. The resolution was displaced by Sen ator Harris' resolution that the senate until further order meet at 11 o'clock a. m. Senators Peffer and Allen ob jected to the pending resolution being displaced and demanded a yea and nay vote. The vote (which also showed the attitude of the 6enate on Senator Allen's resolution, resulted: Yeas, 54; nays, 6. Those voting on the negative were Senators Allen, Dolph, Frye, Gal linger, Kyle and Peffer. In the Coenr rt'Alene District. Washington, April 27. In view of reports from Idaho that a Coxey army is organizing in tbe Cceur d'Alene min ing district, in the northern part of the state of Idaho, and that an attempt may be made to seize a train, Attorney General Olney sent a telegram to the United States marshal of Idaho in structing him to prevent any unlawful seizure of trains and to swear in as many deputy marshals as may be nec fc;;sary to assist him. In case of his in ability to prevent violations of the law he- is directed to telegraph the facts to the president and ask the assistance of United States troops. GO BY RAIL. the Army In Montana Travel Eastward on a fetolen Train. St. Paul, Minn., April 25. Shortly After midnight Monday night about 500 men at Butte, composing the Butte contingent of the Coxey army, entered the engine house of the Northern Pa cific railroad, appropriated and pre pared for service an engine and pro ceeded to make up a train, composed of five coal cars and one box car. The railroad officials were kept in a constant fever of anxiety lest a col lisiou should occur. A warning was wired to the leader of the band to look out for other trains, to which reply was made that the regular trains would not be hurt if they were kept out of the way. Livingston, Mont., April 20. Sheriff Conrow received a dispatch Tuesday from Cullen & Toole, of Helena, at torneys for the Northern Pacific, in structing him to arrest Gen. Uogan on the charge of the larceny of a Northern Pacific train, and a warrant was sworn out by the company's local attorney to be served when Hogan arrived. Super intendent Finn left at 1:45 p. m. in his private car going east. St. Paul. Minn., April 20. Late Tuesday night United States Marshal Jiede received the following telegram from Attorney General Oiney: "Execute an laj'inction or other process placed in your hands by a United States court for the protection of persons and property against lawless violence by employing such number of deputies as' may be necessary. If execution is resisted by force wh'ch cannot bo overcome, let the judge issuing the process wire the facts to the president with request for mili tary assistance." Marshal Rede also received the fol lowing from Judge Caldwell: "Little Rock, Ark.. April 25. To the Uulu-U Slates marshal, district of Mlnneeo a. Si Tail. M:un. : If the. persons who forcibly oa,i liicjallr selm I ft train cf cars on ihe Northern Pacific in Montana belonging to the receivers of said road should bring the same into your district it will be your duty to seize the same and restore the possession thereof to the receivers appointed by the United States circuit court for your district. It will be your duty to summon a posse sufficient for this pur pose. The attorney general of the United States has been requested to procure a direc tion to the general commanding the department to render you any assistance necessary to exe cute this order." STOPPED 1V TROOPS. The Entire Hogan Army Under Arrest at Foraytne, Mont. St. Paul, Minn., April 27. Word was received by the Northers Pacific at 1 o'clock yesterday morning that troops from Fort Keogh tools a special train and went to Forsythe, where Hogan's men on board the stolen Northern Pacific train had stopped for the night, and placed the entire army under ar rest and secured possession of the train. No mention is made of a fight and it is supposed that no blood was shed. Billings, Mont, April 27. A few minutes before noon the stolen train of box cars ran slowly into town. The Coxeyites were overtaken by the spe cial train of the marshals just as they entered the limits of the city. After their arrival it was learned that the marshals' train overtook the Hogan contingent just as they were pulling away from Columbus (formerly known as Stillwater), and attempted to arrest the progress of the train bearing the 500 unemployed men who are in posses sion of the train. The leaders in charge mmm of the unemployed would not yield to the demands of the marshals to give up the train and instructed their men to go ahead, which was fioce. The two trains came on slowly during the fore noon until this city was reached, when a stop was ordered, and the conflict between the two bodies was the re sult. Spokane. Wash., April 20. An order has been issued by Judge II an ford, of the United States court, directing Dep uty Marshal Vinson to swear in a suf ficient force of deputies to guard the trains of the Northern Pacific road from seizure by the comruonwealers. This action was taken because of a re port, that a concerted movement is on foot to seize trains at Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma. IN UNCLE SAM'S HANDS. Train Stealers Must Face Most Serious Charges. Forstth, Moot, April 28. Seventy five deputy United States marshals ar rived Thursday afternoon and the II o gan contingent was turned over to them. The train, escorted by troops, started for Helena that evening. The prisoners will be arraigned in the United States district court with out delay on the charge of the theft of the train and disobedience of an injunc tion. St. Paul, Minn., April 28. Start ling information comes from Butte that deputies, pursuing the army, left just in advance of a mob 1,000 strong, and that It would be dangerous for them to return. Judge Knowles is considering whether or no to call on the president to declare the city under martial law. Snipping Rifles to Washington. Springfield, Mass., April 23. The United States armory in this city has just made a shipment of guns to Wash ington with which to fight Coxey's army in the event of an attack. The chief of ordnance at the capital ordered 100 Springfield rifles of the 45 caliber and sixty-five carbines dispatched at once. Maj. Rexford, in charge of the ordnance at the armory, sent the car bines by express and the rifles by fast freight. DESERT THEIR PLOWS. Enthusiastic Iowa Farmers Aid the Prog ress of Kelly's Army. Avoca, la., April 25. On Tuesday at 8:30 o'clock the commonwealers under Kelly's lead left Neola in wagons to the number of seventy-five furnished by the farmers of the neighborhood. Scarcely one of the wagons had arrived without food, clothing or blankets for the men, and the commissary depart ment was obliged to ask for ten more provision wagons, making twenty-two in alL The farmers have left their plows in the furrow during the best weather for spring work, and sent the horses to help Kelly. Some of them drove all nigrht to be in Neola on time, and twenty-five wagons met the proces sion on its eastward way to carry the footsore men over the hills to Avooa, 20 miles of road. Along this way only six farmers were seen working in the fields, and four of these said they had sent wagons. Will Wreck the Train. Adair, la., April 28. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad officials declared Thursday evening that the' would ditch any train which Kelly or his men might steal on their road. Yard master Hamilton, with due au 11. ' thority, distributed an armful of papers in the Kelly camp. Tney were notices to the effect that the railway company had received information that au at- ; tempt would be made to steal a train and warning them that in case of any such attempt they must bear the con sequences. Gen. Kelly, receiving one, said that the railroad need not worry about him or bis men, for, though a few men might try to steal rides, tramp fashion, the army would not board a train unless the train was donated or paid for. The army left Atlantic with 1,258 men in tbe column, showing that Kelly received about 200 recruits in Atlantic j His army is a variable quantity, for some days 100 to 150 men desert many of them to turn up next day. The Chicago Contingent. Chicago, April 25. The ironmolder have decided that they will go to Washington, independent of the main body of commonwealers. They claim that they will have 20,000 men in their ranks. They say they are confident of reaching Washington by May 14. Gen. Kelly and his western cohorts will be received by the armed police of this city in case they conclude to march this way. The council so ordered Mon day night and gave Chief of Police Brennan instructions that do not read two ways. lie must prevent the ad mission of the marchers within the corporate limits, simply because the aldermen believe that public safety de mands it IN COLD BLOOD. Brutal Murder of a Young Lady Id Cin cinnati. Cincinnati. April 27. At C:30 o'clock Miss Gilmartin left her home on Chest nut street accompanied by a relative, an elderly woman, and waited on the corner for a street car. When she was about to board it she saw O'Grady, who had evidently been awaiting her com ing. She hastened to return borne. O'Grady had been occupying a room across the street and haunted her. It was for the purpose of avoiding him ! that she had asked Mrs. Tibbies to ac company her to the corner. When O'Grady caught up with the girl he seized her by the hair and sent a bullet into her head. After she was prostrate on the walk he deliberately emptied his revolver, firing at her. Father Dominick O'Grady, whose last charge was that of assistant pastor in the diocese of Sligo, in the county of the same name, Ireland, is about SO years of age. His victim, Mary Gil martin, was about 19 years old. decided ly pretty, educated and fairly accom plished. She, too, was born and raised in Sligo county, Ireland. Miss Gil mar tin's mother died and on her deathbed she asked Father O'Grady to look after her daughter. Last October the girl determined to come to this country. He followed six weeks later, without permission from his bishop, and without any explana tion as to his strange conduct. He joined Miss Gilmartin in Springfield and went with her to Chicago, travel ing, he says, as man and wife. On their arrival in Chicago Miss Gil martin's brother was very angry at their conduct and urged his sister to return home. She refused and said in stead that she would come to Cincin nati. This she did, and arriving here several months ago went to board at the house of Mrs. Elizabeth Tibbies, a relative. Father O'Grady. after the Chicago episode, returned to his home in Ire land, but found that his disappearance was regarded as an elopement wita Miss Gilmartin and that he had fallen into disfavor with his bishop and su periors and had lost his position. The bishop refused to reinstate him and O'Gradj" returned to this country to find Miss Gilmartin. He came to this city, but before coming here provided himself with a vial of arsenic, showing that he meditated something serious. TIRED OF LIFE. Five Residents of Michigan Kill Them selves In One Day. Detroit, Mich., April 25. A suicide wave has struck Michigan, five deaths by suicide having been reported on Tuesday, the cause in each case being given as despondency. At Saginaw, Sherman Tenney, aged CO years, handed himself in his room at the Scanlan house; at Mus kegon Cornelius Danengar, aged 55 years, a thrifty Hollander, cut his throat with a razor; at Morenci, Ly man Aldrich, aged 75 years, a well-to-do farmer, took a fatal dose of mor phine and chloroform, and at Battle Creek Frank Stevens, a young unmar ried man, killed himself with a dose of poison. Mrs. Edward Ilof acker, a bride of a day, committed suicide at Kala mazoo with poison obtained before marriage. TO USE FORCE. Armed Strikers Marching to Tolnca. 111,. Determined to Stop All Work. Chicago, April 27. Three thousand armed miners from the Spring Valley district are marching on Toluca, with the purpose of preventing the miners there, who have ignored the order to strike, from working. Sheriff Lense sent two telegrams to Acting Gov. Gill for troops, one in the afternoon and one at midnight Gov. Gill declined to order out the militia, but has gone to Toluca to personally inspect the situa tion. Off tor the Pole. Aalesusd, Norway, April 20. The American north pole expedition under the command of Walter Wellman sailed Tuesday for the island of Spitzberfren on the steamer Ragnvold Jarl, which has beeji chartered for the purpose of the expedition. Experts here pro nounce tbe steamer to be the best ice boat in Norwav. Two Killed by Oaaollne. St. Louis, April 26. A five-gallon can of gasoline exploded Tuesday after noon in the house of Casimir Nigg, a farmer living on the old military road south of Carondelet, completely de stroying the building. Two children were killed, two adults fatally injured and one seriously burned. GRANT THE IIEK0. His Praises Are Sounded by Many Eloquent Speakera Observances of the 72d Anniversary of the Famous Soldier's Birth at lena. 111., and In v Number of Other Cities. keeping his memory green. Galena, I1L, April 30. This town resounded with the echo of that artil lery which was music to the ears of Ulysses S. Grant and in memory and imagination the people fought again the battles of their hero It was the anniversary of his birthday, and the people did honor to his name. Fine oratory thundered the praises of the soldier from the pulpit, brass bands crashed music in his honor, the stars and stripes waved in the sky, children's voices united to sing his glory. The exercises began early in the afternoon. A parade was formed and the column moved to Turner hall, headed by the Galena Juvenile band costumed in bright zouave uniforms. The line was formed by Company M, Galena, L N. G., the local and visiting posts of the Grand Army of the Repub lic, odd fellows and other social or ganizations. The march was brought up by carriages containing the com mittees and prominent guests. Turner hall, although a large room, was by far too small to accommodate the crowds that pressed into it and the overflow was compelled to be con tent with such a celebration as it could make for itself in the parks and in the streets. Rev. E. C Arnold, of the First Methodist church, opened the proceedrngs with prayer. After a short selection by the band, 'Maj. He'-ham introduced Hon. Luther Lull in Mills, the well-known lawyer of Chi cago, who was the orator of the day. Mr. Mills delivered a most eloquent and polished address on the character of Gen. Grant and his services to his countrj', and the great audience at the close fairly thundered forth its appro bation of his sentiments. The Imperial quartette, of Chicago, sang the nation al anthem, the audience joining in the chorus. The chaplain then pronounced the benediction. While these exercises were going on in Turner hall another equally interest ing programme was being carried out in Grant park. Several hundred school children of the city marched out to the park and, gathered about the foot of the Grant monument there, rendered a pretty programme of choral songs and recitations. A profusion of flowers were left at the base of the monument. An informal reception in the evening closed the day's celebration. 11. H. McClellan was master of ceremonies. An impromptu programme was ren dered, consisting of brief addresses by Laflin Mills, Messrs. II. II. Kohlsaat, James W. Scott, Judge C. C. and E. W. Kohlsaat Maj. Moses I. Handy, of Chi cago, and others. New York, April SO. The Hamilton republican club celebrated Grant's birthday with a reception at Holland er's, which was largely participated in. Philadelphia, April SO. Gen. Grant's birthdaf was celebrated by a banquet of prominent republicans from all parts of the state at the Union league. Chicago, April 30. At the Marquette clubhouse Friday night a banquet was given in observance of the 72d birth day of Gen. Grant Speeches were de livered by ex-Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois; ex-Gov. Alger, of Michigan, and others. CLYSSKSiS lilt ANT. Brief Sketch of the Career of the Great Commander. Ulysses S. Grant, eighteenth president of the United Slates, was born In Clermont county, O., April '17, 182i He spent his boyhood in as sisting bis father on the farm, a work more congenial to his tastes than working In the tan nery of which his father was proprietor. He attended the vHlage school, and In 183S was ap pointed to a cadetshlp at West Point, grad uated in 1S43, and was commissioned second lieutenant in Fourth Infantry, stationed at Jef ferson barracks, St, Louis. Took an active and honorable part in the Mexican war, and entered the City of Mexico a first lieutenant. Was pro moted to a captaincy in 1853. Resigned his commission in lt&4 and settled on a small farm near St. Louts. In May, 1S0, he movea to Ga lena. 111., and there became a clerk in his fa ther's hardware and leather store. When the civil war broke out he declared himself an ardent unionist. June 17, leOl. ho was commissioned colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois infantry; promoted to be brigauler general of volunteers August 7. On November 7 he defeated a superior force of confederates at Belmont. On February 12, 1862, he began the investment of Donelson, which ended four days later in the surrender of nearly 1.",(XX) con federates. He was made major geueral of vt)l unteers for his gallant services, but soon after relieved of his command at the instigation of jealous rivals. Was restored to his command March 13, 186, and then began his wonderful career as a soldier and strategist. His victor ies and battles at Pittsburg Landing. Corinth, Vicksburg, etc., are events too well known to need repetition here. On April 9, 1865, Geo. Lee surrendered to him at Appomattox Court House, the remainder of the confederate army consisting of 27.000 men. Grant's forces had never been more than one-third greater than those of his antagonist, and he had constantly fought on tho offensive. After the close of the war. Grant returned to Washington to superintend the dlsbandment of the armies. This worn was scarcely begun when President Lincoln was assassinated. This event made Andrew Jackson president, but left Grant the most conspicuous flgura In the country. In July, 1866, he was made gen eral of the army, a rank especially created for him. In 1868 he was elected president as tho candidate of the republican party, and re elected In 1872. Soon after leaving the presi dential chair he set out on a tour of the world, and afterward engaged in various business enterprises one of which (his connection with the firm of Grant & Ward) no doubt hastened his end. His death occurred on July 23, 1885, oa Mount MacGregor, near Saratoga. N. Y. His widow. Julia Dent Grant, is now a resident of New York, but will, it Is said, remove to Wash ington in the near future. Starvation in Michigan. Iron Mountain. Mich., April SO. Poor Commissioner McClintock handed his resignation to Chairman McNaugh ton of the county board Friday afternoon. Five hundred idle work men had met and unanimously passed a resolution giving him two hours to leave the city or suf fer the consequences. Every one who marched through the streets was given an order for two dollars on the poor commissioner good at any store. Dur ing the afternoon 300 orders were is sued to married men. A conserva tive estimate places the number in the city absolutely without food at 2,500. WILL SOON BE THERE. Coxey Outlines the Plan for Ills Entrance to the CapltaL Gaithersbcrg, Md., April 30. Coxey has been receiving reports from Rock ville, the gathering point for the com monweal clans. Twenty-four men are already in camp at the fair grounds in that city waiting for the arrival of ihe army. The plans for the march into Wash ington are now nearly completed. This morning the army will leave at 9 o'clock for Camp "Legal Tender" at RockviUe, where it will remain for the night On Sunday morning the march will be resumed, reaching Brightwood park, just inside of the Dis trict of Columbia and 2 miles from Washington, on the evening of the same day. On Tuesday the n arch to the capitol will be made. The arrangements for the day are in charge of Marshal J. B. Osborne, one of Browne's old California friends. Coxey said on Friday: We intend to march up and hold a meeting on the capitol steps. The constitution guaran tees us our rights to meet and petition for re driss of grievances, and that Is all we expect to do. If we can't meet and do this It is almost time for another revolution. We will keep off the grass around the capitol Of course I appreciate as well as any one else the fact that the preserva tion of the grass arouuu the capitol is of more importance than the saving of thousands from starvation. Any laws tending to prevent our meetiKg are unconstitutional and void, and we have plenty of time to test the matter. The people do not intend to see us Imposed on." Washington, April SO. Chief of Po lice Moore said that the Coxey army could parade down Pennsylvania av enue so long as its component parts conduct themselves in an orderly man ner. That is one of the rights of an or ganization, he said, and the police do not intend to interfere. They cannot, however, march into the capitol grounds. THE MINERS' STRIKE. Leaders .Issue a Hopeful Itulletln Detail ing the Situation. Columbus. O., April 30. The mine workers of the country are to be regu larly furnished with bulletins on the strike situation. Ofticial bulletin No. 1 was prepared Friday afternoon at the national headquarters of the United Mine Workers. The bulletin will be mailed to 400 mining districts. Miners are enjoined to "remember the resolution of the convention that none go to work until a general settle ment is made." Then follows a greet ing and detailed reports of the number of men out. The greeting advises that no attention be given newspaper re ports, and encourages the strikers. The following statements are given with detailed information regarding each state: PrcnsylVanla leads the fight with 53,000 In line. The strike in the coke regions of that state, where over lO.CvAl men are out, makes the sus pended miners of Pennsylvania 65.U0J. In Mary land the miners have not yet joined the move ment. In West Virginia about one-half of the miners hav? struck. In Virginia the Pochontas field is siili at work, and will continue. In Ohio, out to a man. Kentucky and Tennessee reports show 6.0JU men Idle. The miners of Alabama are out, and there is every Indication the strike w ill be long. The miners of the bituminous dis trict of Indiana are solid, and the probabilities are that the block coal miners will join the movement on May 1. Everything indicate the whole state of Illinois will be practically idle by May 1. With the exception of Kith Hill. Mis souri is in line. Kansas miners are at work Part of Iowa is idle, and the question of all coming out will be settled at the coventioa at Albia Mar 1. The miners of Indian Territory are still out About 1,300 mtn quit work in Colorado April -1, but it Is not probable tbe strike will btoome general in that state. Let tbe spirit of calm determina,ivi coniiuue. In a abort time the stocks of coal w... ca"e disap peared and your victory Is assured." DEBS' ORDER GOES OUT. A tieneral Tle-l'p Follows Failure to Settle ; the Great Northern Troubles. St. Fail, Minn., April 30. All ef- ! forts to settle the Great Northern strike have failed, and President Debs, j of the American Railway union, short- j ly after noon Friday issued orders for a : strike on all the Minnesota divisions of : the Great Northern. This completes , the strike from St. Paul to the coast. i Early Friday morning President : Debs, Vice President Howard and one j or two others called on President Hiil j anil asked if they could resume their j conference with him. He promptly ac- j quiesced. Before going into the con- j ference President Debs said the men had not altered their demands in j the slightest, nor did they intend : to do so. Just what the men expected j to gain by the conference is not clear, I but Mr. Hill left the way open for a re- : newal of negotiations for a settlement i at any time and they took advantage j of his invitation to see whether war j could not be averted. Iloth sides ex- i pressed themselves as firmly opposed to ! granting anything demanded by the other, although the men demanded their old wage schedule, while Mr. Hill simply asked for submission to arbitra tion. It was after this conference was over that the order making the strike g-eneral was given out by President Debs. Everything is closed up in these two cities and along the lire of the road. The brotherhood men, although not actively joining the strike, seem disin clined to work with nonuniou men and fear the possible dangers of green men on the switches. Agricultural Appropriation HilL Washington. April 30. The bill making appropriations for the support of the department of agriculture for the liscal year IS95 was completed by the house committee on agriculture Friday. The amounts appropriated by the bill have not yet been footed up. but they approximate $2,450,000. as compared with an appropriation of $2, 328,000 for the current fiscal year. KIU Die or .Starvation. Lander, Wyo., April 3a Hundreds of elk have been found in this neigh bor hood that have died from starvation. The supposition is that they were driv en frum the mountains by the cold weather. The death of so many elk is deplored, because of their scarcity, there being few in existence outside the eon tines of Yellowstone park. Itrooklyn Takes In Suburbs. Albany, N. Y., April 3a Hoth houses : of the state legislature nave adjourned tine die. Kills were passed annexing o the city of Brooklyn the towns of Flafr bush, Gravesend and New Utrecht. HURT BY STRIKES. Business of AU Kinds field I tack by Labor Disturbances. New York, April 80. R, G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of tirade says: "When accounts of great strikes and labor disturbances crowd all newspapers It Is idle to look for much improvement In business. That every week of Idleness for so many men must appreciably lessen the aggregate power to purchase products of labor Is evident. But in spite of all some improvement still appears. Continual reports of changes in the tariff till add to difficulties of producers and dealers. With continued business depression and new crops drawing near even the unlimited sup plies of Idle money do not kindle speculative hopes. "The increase in liabilities of firms failing still continues, and the aggregate reported for the third week In April was only Si7:2,S2, and for three weeks of April t8.8K8.588, of which t'i.110. 1W were manufacturing and J3M1, 095 of trading concerns. Tbe failures have been very equally divided as to sec tions, the east having the larger number, with liabilities of ti277,000. tho south 12,572,9J0 and the west ?2, 138,000. The failures this week have been 180 In the United States, against 216 last year, for tbe first tlmo in many months bowing a decrease, and in Canada twenty-nix, Malnst tweDty-two last year. The list includes none of great Importance" Bradstreet's says: "The general business situation throughout the United States is less favorable, as is shown by reports from more than fifty important dis tributing centers. A specially depressing Influence is the strike of U7.00J bituminous coal and coke operatives in twelve stales. Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and Duluth are feeling the strike, the effect In vessel interests at these and other lake ports being very discouraging. Duluth ore ship ments are delayed for want of return coal car goes and railroad companies have begun to dis charge coal train employes. Only two cities of the' thirty-live reporting in central, western and northwestern states report material im provement in general trade this weik Indi anapolis and Kansas City and even at those points the gain is slight. Activity in the stock market is checked by the labor disturbances and the delay in reaching a conclusion oa the new tariff bill. "A feature at Chicago Is in sales of dry goods equaling the average of previous weeks, other lines not making so favorable a report. St. Louis reports Its general business situa tion fair, although characterizing the demand as of a haud-to-moutii varlty. The decrease In demand from jobbers at Omaha and uiher Nebraska points Is attributed to activity of farm work. Trado at St Paul. Minneapolis and Duluth, as at other points farther west, is very unfavorably affected by the tie-up of tha Great Northern railroad. Merchants at cities In North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Wash ington are carrying reduced stocks, purchasing for needs only, and railroads traversing that region report a marked falling off in through as well as local shipments." FOUR MURDERERS LYNCHED. Assassin of Citizen Uoyce in Louisiana Strung L'p to a Trrs, New Orleans, April 30. A special to the States from Tallulah says: Four more of the Boyce assassins were cap tured Thursday night, and when the posse who had charge of the prisoners reached the Shear ly place, about 2 miles from Tallulah, a crowj of twenty mount ed men met them, overpowered the officers and took the four assassins to the Crescent place, and on the ground where the villainous shots were fired by the assassins that killed Mr. Boyce the four lead ers. Shell Claxton, Comp Claxton, Scott Harvey and Jerry McCly, were hanged to a tree about 100 feet from where they committed their fiendish deed. The executions were conducted very quietly, the people living in the vicinity knowing nothing about them until morning, when they were surprised to see the four assassins hanging near their doors. Every effort possible is being made to capture Tom Griffin, the only one of the assassins at large. There are seventeen negroes in jail here. They will be tried by a jury and it is considered by all that the ones the law does not hang will go to the penitentiary. SEVEN HORSE THIEVES KILLED. Swift Justine Meted Out by Vlgllants of Oklahoma Territory. Hennessv, O. T., April 30. Farmers residing near Independence and Arapahoe, little country post offices in the Cheyenne country, have been bothered considerably of late by an organized band of horse thieves, who have stolen over fiftj- head of valuable horses. Vigilance com mittees were organized and last Tues day found the trail of thieves leading to the direction of tireer county, in the Panhandle of Texas. They overtook the thieves 20 miles from the Texas line with ten horses. Seven out laws were in the band. The igilants surrounded them in a bunch of cedar and killed five of the party and the others surrendered. They led them to a neighboring tree, put them on two horses, with their hands tied behind them. The horses walked from under them, and thej- swung into space. The vigilants then riddled their bodies with bullets and left the dead men in the forest, food for vultures and moun tain lions. TOLEDO TO EUROPE. Fight Vesnels Carry the First Shipment of iraln on tbe Direct Koute. Toledo, April 30. The first ship ments of corn direct from Toledo to Europe are being loaded on eight Cana dian vessels. This is the initial move in CoL S. C. Reynolds' scheme, which he worked out last summer ou an extended tour through Europe. The grain will be taken to Kingston and there transferred to St. Lawrence river barges, which will load it in ocean steamers at Montreal. The fleet will return for another cargo immediately, and in all about 3,000,000 bushels of corn will be shipped abroad in this way during the spring. In the early summer it is expected that about 5,000,000 bushels of wheat will find its way to European markets on the same route. Henry Newman to., New Vork Cloth iers, Fall Tor St, SOO.OOO. New York, April 30. The failure is announced of Henry Newman & Co., among the largest wholesale and retail dealers in clothiers' supplies iu this countrv. The firm had a branch house in Chicago. The liabilities are placed at 1,500.000; the aisets are f'JOO.OOO in merchandise at cost, $500,000 in good accounts, $120,000 in cash, and enough in other accounts to bring the surplus up to $400,000. The firm ob tained an extension from its creditors six months ago, but it is reported that it was unable to meet maturing obligations. 4 4. ; - .... .-'.. . .... L. , A .... ; y yy