Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, June 07, 1894, Image 4
I i ;m i i i t c ; t: P. ttj. utH ilii : : I m : Uj'I mi &e wl; no go ; '5 pattsmoutli gourn.il C W. IIICKMAX. Publisher. rLATTSlIOUTH. nebkastc, The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Regular Session. Is the senate on the Eflth Senator Hill (V. Y.) strain attacked the tariff bill and was bitter in denouncirg the income tax. A bill was Intro duced providing that all persons who receive pensions less than 113 per month shall have their pensions increased to that amount, and special provision is made that no widow's pen sion shall be less than $12.... In the house the bill to remit the 10 per cent, tax on clearing house certificates and other notes issued by private and state banking associations was discussed. The senate spent eight hours on the 2?th discussing free lumber, the debate being upon Mr. Hale's proposition to transfer lumber to the dutiable list In the house the time was occupied in discussing District of Columbia cr.ucrs. ix the senate on the C9th ult. a bill was in troduced making it unlawful for any person to kt-1 obscene literature or any other matter of indecent character, or any article intended for Immoral use by express. The tariff bill was further discussed In the house debate on the state bank tax repeal bill was begun, Mr. Cox (Tenn.) speaking In its favor and Mr. Johnson (Ind.) presenting the opposing argu ments. Adjourned to the 81st ult. Ox the 31st ult. the senate adopted a resolu tion declaring the senate to be In favor of a policy of non-intervention with Hawaiian af fairs. Senator Sherman spoke on the tariff bill, and during his remarks said the McKinley bill had been persistently misrepresented as a bill to increase revenue, when as a matter of fact it decreased revenue J30.000.000 a year. An amendment making all lumber duty free was adopted In the house a bill was passed for the appointment of an additional judge of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois, and the bill to re peal the state bank tax was further discussed. DOMESTIC. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the 26th were: Cleveland, .720; Philadelphia, .6S0.; Baltimore, .007; Pittsburgh, .067; Boston, .607; New York, .600; Brooklyn, .462; Cincinnati, .43; St. Louis, .429; Louisville, .S91; Chicago, .303; Washington, 111. Twc negroes were lynched near Clin , ton. Miss., for burglary. The New Jersey legislature ad journed sine die. The fire losses iu the United States during- the week ended on the 26th were estimated at 52,492,000. Mrs. Rii.et Yates pave birth to her twenty-fifth child at Springfield, O. She is 48 and her husband 61. The city council at El Paso, Tex., passed an ordinance that no woman shall be allowed on the streets wearing- what is known as the divided skirt. Judge Gresham's decision denying the power of the interstate commerce commission to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers was overruled by the supreme court. Nine million dollars was offered by an Eng-lish syndicate for the Elgin (111.) national watch company. A slab believed to have been in scribed in 1354 and to be a relic of the anti-nomain sect was unearthed at Fredonia. N. Y. The coinage of g-old at the Philadel phia mint during- the present fiscal year will reach SS0,000,000, the largest in its history. The Presbyterian g-eneral assembly in session at Saratoga refused to en tertain the appeal of Dr. Henry P. Smith from suspension for heretical teachings. Three companies of militia were or dered to Jlmonk, 111., where traffic on the Illinois Central had been 6topped by armed miners. A Baltimore & Ohio passenger train was wrecked by a landslide near Pine Grove, Md. and the engineer and fire man were killed. James Howard, while drunk shot and killed his wife at Pineville, Ky. She was holding in her arms a baby and her dead body fell violently on the child, crushing its life out. A heavy frost did great damage to fruit and other crops in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. An order from the secretary of war was received at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for three companies of mili tary to move immediately to McAles ter, I. T., to suppress the mine trouble and restore to owners the property held by strikers. The 115th anniversary of the birth of I nomas Moore was celebrated at Cen tral music hall in Chicago. Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, of Detroit, was the orator. Gen. Coxev has commissioned Gen Frye as commander-in-chief of the commonweal army of the United States. TnE soft coal operators of Pennsyl vania deemed that they would parley with their striking miners no longer, but would immediately procure new hands and work their mines, even if each workman required the protection of a deputy sheriff. A protest against the admission of Utah as a state was adopted by the Presbyterian general assembly at its closing session in Saratoga, N. Y. A fire in the incubator establish ment at Franklin, Ind., destroyed 110, 000 newly-hatched chickens. Ix the United States court at Indi anapolis Percival B. Coffin. Francis A. Coffin and Albert H. Reed were convict ed of bank wrecking. The giant Cunard steamer Lucania made the trip from Liverpool to New York in five days twelve hours and fifty-seven minutes, beating all reo ords. JosErn Guiles, alias John D. May, was hanged at Kansas Cit-, Tex., for the killing of Fireman Frank Martin while attempting to rob a train. Investigation shows that farmers of the northwest have abandoned wheat as their only crop. The decrease this year will be 25 per cent. Charles W. Buttz was found guilty by the investigating committee in Washington of attempting to bribe senators. Strikers visited a coal mine near Ottawa, 111., burned the tools and de stroyed the mine by removing the props. Lyman Palmer, aged 75, of New Or leans, was married to Mrs. Mary Palm er, aged 75, of Waukegan, 111. The couple have each been married three times and in spite of this the bride has never changed her name, all her hus bands being Palmers. The American Baptist Missionary union began its eightieth annual meet ing at Saratoga, N. Y. Addis Lewis, aged 24, was given life sentence at Newark, O., under the habitual criminal act and was also sen tenced to three years' imprisonment for larceny. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 28th was: Wheat, 61,830.000 bushels; corn, 7,643,000 bush els; oats, 2,087,000 bushels; rye, 801,000 bushels; barley, 102,000 bushels. Ex-Justice Sutherland, of Graves end, N. Y., convicted of misdemeanor in connection with the McKane elec tion frauds, returned from Canada and gave himself up to the sheriff. Joseph Q'CwiXKB was killed, and Bur nett Rowe fatally shot near Newport, Tenn., in a quarrel about a woman Gove. Matthews, of Indiana, and Fattison, of Pennsylvania, have issued proclamations warning striking miners of the consequences of riotous acts. The lower portion of Fueblo, Col was under water, heavy storms having caused the Arkansas and Fountain rivers to overflow their banks, and great damage was done. Memorial day was generally ob served throughout the country. Forty persons were injured, two probably fatally, by the ditching of a car loaded with excursionists on the Southwestern railway at Holts, Ga. Secretary Morton has appointed James D. Cooke, of Michigan, chief clerk of the weather bureau. The St. Paul limited was derailed and three cars telescoped at Mann ville. Wis., by a defective switch, re sulting in the death of six persons and the serious Injury of seven others. Arthur Davis and Guy Gilbert, two jockeys, were killed in a hurdle race at Phrenixville, Pa. Three men were killed and one seri ously injured in a freight wreck at Sharon, Mass. At Village Springs. Ala., Thomas Early, a miner, shot and killed Wash Bailey and his wife and then fled, pur sued by an officer, who shot and killed Early. Doyle's bronze statue of Horace Greeley was unveiled in Greeley square in New York. I. T. Burgis, a negro preacher charged with vile conspiracy against white women, was lynched by a mob near 1'alatka. Ha. A cyclone 200 feet wide passed over the northern portion of Sedgwick county. Kan., destroying a church and several other buildings and damaging crops. The large brick livery stable of J. T. Roberts at Galesburg, 111., was burned and twenty horses perished in the fire. Ex-Justice Sutherland must suffer imprisonment for two 3-ears and eight months for connection with the Graves- end (N. Y.) election frauds. The railway telegraphers at their annual meeting in Wichita, Kan., elect ed IV. V. Powell, of that city, as grand chief. Nearly 800 war department clerks in Washington were dismissed by Sec retary Lamont in - compliance with the provisions of the appropriation bill. In a fit of jealousy Michael Jansen fatally shot his wife at Butte, Mont., to whom he had been married thirty years, and then shot himself. Great excitement prevailed over the discovery of rich gold fields near Boise, Idaho. Fire at Arlington. Mass., destroyed four large icehouses and other prop erty valued at S125.000. The bank at Enterprise, Kan., closed its doors with liabilities of 520,000. Coxeyites in Wisconsin took posses sion of passenger cars on the St. Paul road and rode to Avoca. Pueblo. Col., was visited by the worst flood in its history. Several thousand people were rendered home less, property was damaged to the amount of 5100,000 and some lives were lost. Officers dispersed strikers who were terrorizing miners at work at Pana, 111., and many arrests were made. An official treasury statement shows that the expenditures of the govern ment for the eleven months of the cur rent fiscal year have exceeded the re ceipts by S72.000.000, the aggregate standing in round numbers: Receipts, 8258,000.000; expenditures, S340.000.000. The boiler at a sawmill near Adehi, O., exploded, instantly killing Engi neer Joseph Shewler, Theodore Saw yer and Sherman Waite. Fire destroyed the greater portion of the business part of Maysville, Mo. Count Herbert Bismarck, son of Prince Bismarck, and family were pas sengers on the Normania which ar rived in New York. Corbett has declined to fight Jack son in Europe and has accepted the of fer of the Jacksonville (Fla.) club. The Central Trust Company of St. Louis failed for S100.000. The four-story building at Omaha occupied by the Manger Printing com pany and the Columbia Clothing com pany was burned, the loss being 200, 000. Conconully, a village in Washing ton, was swept away by a flood and Mrs. Almira Keith was drowned. A meeting in Springfield of Illinois coal operators to attempt to end the great strike ended in a failure. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Julia Marlowe, the actress, was married at Philadelphia to Robert Taber, formerly her leading man. Iowa democrats will hold their state convention at Des Moines on August 1. Mrs. Sarah Luttrell died at Rush ville. 111., aged 102 years. Congressmen were nominated as fol lows: Ohio, Twelfth district, J. 11. Outhwaite (dem.) renominated. Iowa, Ninth district, James B. Weaver (pop.). Indiana. Fifth district, L. P. Deturk (pop.); Ninth. A. G. Burkcardt (pop.). Illinois, Thirteenth district, CoL V. Warner (rep.). Pennsylvania, Twentr second district, John Gow (pro,). Rev. Edgar D. Gray, a well-known Baptist minister, who was chaplain of the United States senate at the time of President Lincoln's assassination, died at San Francisco, aged 80 years. Valentine Blatz, president of the Blatz Brewing company of Milwaukee, died suddenly in St. Paul, where he had gone on business. He was worth 815,000,000. The Illinois populists in convention at Springfield nominated John Ran dolph, of Fulton county, for treasurer, and Miss Lavina Roberts, of Pike coun ty, for school superintendent. The Missouri prohibitionists in state convention at Carrollton nominated for supreme judge R. B. Robinson, su perintendent of schools Miss Ellen Morris, and for railroad commissioner P. C. Yates, of Newton county. The platform declares for prohibition, national and state, absolute; favors nniversal suffrage; gold", silver and paper money all to be at par, and op poses national banks and issue of government bonds. The republicans of the Sixth Ohio district renominated George W. Hu lick, of Batavia, for his second term. Caft. Nathan Peters, said to be the oldest free mason in the United States, died at Amesbury, Mass., aged 81. He joined the masonic fraternity in 1828. FOREIGN. At St. Petersburg Count Sollogaub and four other persons, including two lawyers, were banished to Siberia for forging a will. Craven & Craven, worsted 6pinners at Bradford, England, failed with lia bilities amounting to S10.000.000. Five of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Norden were killed by the ex plosion of one of her boilers in the Bay of Biscay. The czar of Russia issued a ukase de priving ministers and governors of the power of appointing or dismissing sub ordinates. In the chess match at Montreal for the championship of the world Lasker beat Steinitz in the nineteenth and de cisive game. Sir Francis Johnson, chief justice of the supreme court of QueDec, died ot Montreal, aged 88 years. Signor Don Claudio VicuNA.who was elected to succeed Balraaceda as presi dent of Chili, was sentenced by the courts in Santiago to fifteen years' exile. Princess Josephine of Belgium and Prince Charles of Hohenzollern-Sig- mariDgen were quietly married at Brussels. Magnificent presents were received. A landslide caused a dam in the Punjaubriver in India and in the flood following its giving away 200 lives were lost. Names of the members of the new French cabinet were announced, with M. Dnpuy as premier and minister of foreign affairs. In the Hankou district of China the river Han overflowed its banks and in the flood that followed over 1,000 per sons were drowned. I Guiseppe de Felice, a member of the Italian parliament, was sentenced to eighteen years' solitary confinement for having incited disturbances in Sicily. Alexander Lindsay, his brother's three children and Mrs. William In gram were drowned in Smith bay at Smith's Falls, Ont., while fishing. The American fishing schooner Rob ert J. Edwards was wrecked on Sable island, near Halifax, and all hands lost. The failures of eleven firms doinjr business on the bourse at -Buenos Ayres were announced. LATER. A petition was presented in the United States senate on tne 1st from the "New England Industrial Armv" asking legislation that would guaran tee work to the unemployed. The tariff bill was then taken up and the great battle over the sugar schedule be gan. In the house the senate bill providing for the carrying out of the award of the Paris tribunal of arbi tration for the protection of seals in Bearing sea was passed. The state bank bill was further considered. At the evening session private pension bills were discussed. Owing to a rebellion in Corea the lives of Americans were in peril and a warship was asked for. There were 183 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 1st, against 237 the week previous and 238 in the corresponding time in ls'X.i. Frank RuLLARD.a negro. was lynched at Jackson, Tenn., for attempting to murder Miss Thomas, a white girl. Two thousand families homeless and a property loss of S3, 000,000 was the estimated result of the flood in the Frazer river valley in British Colum bia. By the capsizing of a sailing boat at Buffalo, la., Mrs. II. Hoppens and her two children were drowned. Bkadhtreet's financial review says uncertain tariff legislation and strikes have caused general stagnation on all street, New 1 ork. The rebels derailed a train near San Salvador loaded with government troops, and 200 of the soldiers were killed and 122 wounded. In the bribery investigating at Washington Representative Warner, of New York, testified that he had been approached by agents of the sugar trust. The public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the debt decreased S40,87a during the month of Mat-. The cash balance in the treasury was $117,8.54.335. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $.S'J5,02,225. ( Coal operators in six states notified the leaders of the strikers that they proposed to open the mines by force. Advices from Portland, Ore., say that the flood in the Columbia river continued to increase, and the fertile bottom lands along the river from the Rocky mountains to the sea, a distance of 600 miles, were all inundated, crops were all ruined, houses washed away and stock drowned. Thousands of per sons were homeless. UNDER WATER. Appalling Loss of Life and Property at Pueblo, CoL, by Flood. Pueblo, Col., June 2. Pueblo has been visited by the worst flood in its history. Several thousand people were rendered homeless and property was damaged to the amount of S100.000. Four breaks in the levee on the north side and two on the south side have flooded the region between Eighth street and the river on the west in a zigzag course, thenco to Fourth and Main, Second and Santa Fe, and everything- south of and including First street. On the south side the flooded area extends from West Fourth street bridge through the Rio Grande yards to Union avenue. Practically everything west of Union avenue irom the river to C street and all west of Victoria avenue, Stanton & Snyder's addition, is under water. The loss of life and damage to prop- ' erty are appalling. For 3 miles up and down the banks of the Arkansas the water was from 3 to 15 feet deep. Trees were uprooted and street cars carried over 100 feet from their tracks. Only a few unfortunates were able to save any of their household effects. Most of the dwellings were only one story, and were either entirely sub merged or carried off their foundation by the current. The carcasses of horses, cows, dogs and sheep floated around in the whirling water. The flood brought with it mud and sand, filling cellars of the business houses and first floors of the stores with from IS inches to 3 feet of slimy mud. SIX LIVES LOST. An Open Switch Causes a Frightful Disas ter at Manville. Wis. Marshfield, Wis., June 1. The St. Paul limited was derailed and three cars telescoped at Mannville early Wednesday morning by a defective switch, resulting in the known death of six persons and the serious injury of eight others, as follows: Judson Higelow. head brakeman. Point; George Gebhart. fireman. Point; James Hubbard, engineer. Point; O. V. Mosely. news agent Point; W. B. Russell, civil engineer, Stevens Stevens Stevens Stevens Stevens Point: Mrs. Wagner. Hutternut. Mrs. CI. H. Brown. Irene. S. I)., one rib bro ken; Henry Shover. Marshtleld. shoulder dislo cated: W. D. Hogan, a passenger. Butternut, bruised about the head and hide: Fannie Harth. Sprlugdule, 111.; William Ryan. Stur geon Bay, ribs broken; Arthur Turnion. Chi cago, cut on head; Dr. Weltzel. ;idden, hurt Internally; K. A. Twitchell, Minneapolis, head cut. The opinion prevails that the wreck was the result of criminal tampering with a switch. It does not appear that it could be out of place except by be ing tampered with, and it is said some wrecker had caused the terrible acci dent by a murderous act. The town of Mannville. where the accident hap pened, was almost totally destroyed by tire last fall, and since that time there has been little there except a railway station. It was formerly a lumber center and a large sawmill was oper ated there. FREE LUMBER. An Important Amendment Accepted by the Senate. Washington, June 2 When the, tar iff bill was taken up several amend ments offered to the lumber paragraphs looking to a duty on rough lumber were voted down. Senator Allen moved to strike out paragraph 17$: Lumber of any sort, planed or finished, on each side so planed or finished. f0 cents per m. board measure; and. if planed on one side and tongue J and grooved. $1 per m; and, if planed on two sides and tongued and grooved, fl. N) per m; and In estimating board measure under this schedule no deduction shall be made on account of planing, grooving or tonguing. Senator Ves surprised the republic ans when he announced that the amendment would be accepted. As amendments were being voted on with out debate this was agreed to 35 to 24 a strict party vote. Senators Peffer and Allen (pops.) voting in favor of it. This will put all lumber on the free list. KELLY AT ST. LOUIS. The Loral I-abor Unions and Ulg Crowd Welcome the Army. St. Louis, Ma- 30 Kelly's army, 1,100 strong, arrived in St. Louis Mon day evening from Alton. 111. The com monwealers' fleet came to anchor off Ferry street, near the city waterworks, and the men went ashore, where they will spend their time in camp until the march, or rather the sail, to Washing ton is again taken up. They were wel comed by the local labor unions and a big crowd of people. A good supper, provided by the trades and labor unions of the city, awaited the travelers on their arrival. ' Let Hawaii Alone. Washington, June 2. A resolution was reported from the committee on foreign relations and was agreed to unanimously, declaring that of right, it belongs wholly to the people of the Hawaiian islands to establish and maintain their own form of government and domestic polity; that the United States ought not in any way to interfere therewith, and that any intervention in the political affairs of those islands by any other i government would be regarded as an 1 act unfriendly to the United States, i The vote was taken by yeas and nays and the result was announced as yeas, 55; nays, none. Saves Blooey at Chicago. Washington, May 80. Maj. Pollock, chief of the Indian division of the in terior department, who represented the secretary at the annual award of bids at Chicago for Indian supplies, has returned to Washington. He says the prices were lower than ever before. The government saved 00.000 on the beef contract, the largest on any specification, although proportionate gains were made on the smaller con tracts. Fire In a Tenement Ilotme. New York, June 2. A terrific explo sion, followed by a fire, occurred at 4:.'50 o'clock a. m. in a distillery on the ground floor of a double tenement house, 129 Suffolk street, resulting in the death of Lizzie Yaega, aged 4 years, and serious injuries to four other persons. Twenty fami lies tenanted the building. ITS JUBILEE. Tha Fiftieth Anniversary of the Birth f the Y. M. C. A. in London, London, June 2. The thirteenth in ternational conterence of the Young Men's Christian associations of all lands has begun here. Entertainment has been provided for all the dele gates, of whom about 2,000 are ex pected. There are about 200 del egates from America. Nearly every civilized country in the world will be represented. By special per mission of the council of the city of London a large pavilion has been erected on the Thames embankment. It seats 21,000 people, and in it all the delegates will be served each day with lunch and tea. It is handsomely deco- GEORGE WILLIAMS. Founder of the Y. M. C. A. rated with the flags of all nations. This conference is called the jubilee celebra tion because it commemorates the fif tieth anniversary of the organization of the first Young Men's Christian as sociation by George Williams June 6, 1844. The most important meetings will be held in Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's cathedral and Albert Memorial hall. The regular daily sessions of the conference will be held at Exeter hall. The languages of the conference will be English, German and French. The opening services in Westminster abbey were set for 10:30 o'clock, but an hour before that time fully 1,000 peo ple had assembled in the .abbey yard and waited patiently until the verger should give the order for the opening of the doors. It was the first time in the history of the abbey that its use had been granted for a gathering or service of this character, and as a nat- ural sequence extraordinary interest attached to the event. The contingent from the United States was one of the first to arrive. It was escorted to seats on the right of the center aisle immediately front ing the lecturer. The delegation was headed by ex-Postmaster Gen eral John Wanamaker and Mor ris K. Jessup. Then came the dele gates from New York, followed in or der by those from Illinois, Ohio, Penn sylvania, Massachusetts. Missouri, the provincesof Ontario and Quebec, Min nesota, Michigan. Indiana, California, Kentucky, Kansas, Louisiana and Wis consin. When the procession of priests had reached the sanctuary the regular morning service of the Episcopal church was at once commenced. The lessons were read by Archdeacon Sin clair, while Bishop William Boyd Car penter, of Ripon, offered the closing prayer. The musical portions of the service were rendered by the cele brated full choir of the abbev. with Musical Director John Frederick 1 Bridge presiding at the organ. The sermon was preached by Rt- Hon. and Rt. Rev. Frederick Temple, bishop of London and provincial dean of Canterbury. He re viewed the origin and develop ment of the Young Men's Christian association and paid high tribute to the work it had accomplished. He made special allusion to the manner in which it ramified foreign countries, and especially the United States. At the conclusion of the sermon the "Dox ology" was sung and the service ended with the pronouncing of the benedic- ' tion. j After removing their vestments Bishop Temple and other of the dis tinguished divines were introduced to the delegates. The formal opening of tne business sessions 01 tne congress took place in Exeter Hall this after noon. Addresses of welcome were de livered in English, French. Germain and Italian by Rt. Rev. William M. Sinclair, principal archdeacon of Lon don, and responses were made in be half of each of the visiting, delega tions. The bishop of London preached at night at a meeting and reception at Exeter hall. George Williams, the founder of the association, who has just been knighted, was present and was given a reception. Prince Berna dotte, Count Bernstorff, chamberlain to the German emperor; Lord Kin naird. Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Culyer, Bishop John P. Newman, Rev. George A. Hall and many other church lead ers were on the platform. Archdeaeon Sinclair read an address of welcome to the delegates. The present gathering, besides being the jubilee of the association, is the thirteenth universal conference. These international conventions have been held every three years since 1855. The first universal conference was held in Paris. Death of Dr. Henry Van Aernom. Washington, June 2. Dr. Henry Van Aernum, an ex-congressman and pen sion commissioner during President Grant's administration, died at his home in Franklinville, N. ". Injured by a I'owder Kxploslon. Scranton, Pa., June 2. A peculiar explosion of powder at the Glenwood mine of the Erie company near Jermyu caused the severe burning of seven men, some of them fatally. They are: James Compton, Wil liam Jones. Edward Williams, Anthony Lyons, John Taffy, Thomas Casey and Michael Rob erts. One of them carried a keg of powder on his shoulders as they were entering ehe gangway and the explo sion that resulted is believed to have been caused by a spark from a lamp ,carried by one of the others. i NEED THE TROOPS. Indiana Sheriffs Say Force Will Be Neces sary to Subdue Strikers. Indianapolis. Ind., June 2. A tele gram was received at the governor's office Friday night from Sheriff Lem ing and Judge Heffron, of Daviess county; asking for troops to quell armed strikers at Cannelburg. It is stated that there are 200 of them, bub the number is expected to increase to 600 in a short time. They have seized the trains on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and are not only refusing to let any coal pass, but are acting in a lawless and insolent manner, defying the sheriff when he read to them a re straining order issued by the local court. The sheriff states that he is unable to organize a posse of citizens large enough to cope with the strikers, who refused to acknowledge the serv ice of process. The prospects are that mail trains will not escape interfer ence, as the miners are excited and be yond the reasoning point. Private Secretary King wired Gov. Matthews, who, with Adjt. Gen. Rob bins and their wives and other state officials, were attending a ball dedicat ing the new armory of the Terre Haute rifles at Terre Haute. The governor returned here at S o'clock this morn ing. The militia of the state, it is un derstood, has been ordered to get un der arms and the Indianapolis com panies are busy cleaning up their rifles. It is expected the- will start to-day. Gov. Matthews has been placed in a delicate and trying position by Attor ne' General Smith, who, in an inter view, denies that the governor has power to use the troops except at the expense of the count- calling for them, as the state fund for the purpose is about exhausted. The governor, how ever, says he will use ever' dollar in the treasury to preserve the peace. Terke Haute, Ind., June 2. Gov. Matthews will wait until Sheriff Mills, of Sullivan county, makes one more effort to move the captured coal at Shelburn, on the Evansville & Terre Haute road, before he orders out the militia. That the militia will have to be ordered out there is no doubt in the minds of those who best understand the situ ation at Shelburn. Friday morning j the sheriff again read the governor's proclamation to the men, but they did not listen to it with respect. Some turned away and stopped their ears. They were determined that the coal should not be moved, and when the engiue was coupled to the train the men and women climbed up, set the brakes and uncoupled the cars. Sheriff Mills saw that he could not succeed and abandoned the attempt. He tele graphed to the governor at Indian apolis and the governor telegraphed him to meet him in Terre Haute, where he and his staff and the state officers were coming to attend the opening re ception at the armory of Company B, the local militia company. The sheriff and Judge Briggs of the Sullivan court, whose restraining or der the men had scorned a few days ago, with Evansville & Terre Haute officials, came here on a special train and met the governor Friday even ing. The governor was not satisfied tnat the sheriff had exhausted all of his resources and sent him back to try again with a posse. Judge Briggs assured the governor that he would assert all the authoritv of his court to help secure a posse. The attempt to move the train will be made this morn ing. There is considerable doubt about securing a posse. The people are mostly in sympathy with the min ers, not in capturing trains, but in the cause of their strike, and would be loath to take up arms against them. Terre Haute. Ind., June 2. Within a few days an effort will be made to effect an interstate agreement be tween the coal miners and operators of Indiana, Ohio and the Pittsburgh district of Pennsylvania. President John McBride, of the United Mine workers, will seek to have this done waiving the stipulations that he has hitherto made that Illinois must be in the agreement before the men in auy state would be allowed to sign a scale. The failure of the Springfield meeting to bring that state into line has left the leaders of the miners' or ganization the alternative of an inter state agreement with the other states or a prolonged strike and the consequent disruption of the labor organization which has acquired a numerical strength of 100,000. With Illinois out the scale of wages is not likely to be as high as it otherwise would have been. The Ohio and In diana operators have worked in unison with McBride in the effort to force Illinois into line and will help form the smaller interstate association. New York, June 2. Capitalists in New York who control the chief coal railroads in Ohio state that the soft coal strike, so far as Ohio, Pennsylva nia and Indiana are concerned, will un doubtedly be settled next Tues day or Wednesday at the lat est. An understanding, they say, has been reached with lresident Mc Bride of the United Mine workers whereby it is expected that the op erators of these three states will meet the men half way. The Ohio mine owners, it is said, finally saw that it was to their interest to offer the men an advance of ten cents a ton, although the latter demanded twenty, and, ac cording to Mr. McBride, the Ohio dis tricts are willing to compromise on that basis. Statehood for Utah. Washington, June 1. It is confi dently expected that the bill for the admission of Utah as a state will be come a law before the end of the pres ent session. It has already passed the house of representatives and has been favorably reported by the senate com mittee on territories. There is some opposition to it on the republican side of the senate on the ground that Mor monism has not been wholly crushed out, but a majority of both parties will doubtless vote fox the bill, and it only awaits the conclusion of the tariff de bate to be taken up for consideration- I! I s N A .