Carbondale Free Press from Carbondale, Illinois • Page 1

NO. 7. FBBB PBB88-VOL. XXII, NO. 38.

nART30NDALE7 SATURDAY. 'SEPTEMBER 23, 1899. Whole Number 477. I We take great pleasure in announcing the date of our GRAND FALL OPENING, frcrn 9 a. m.

till 9 p. m. We will have on display one of the largest and most magnificent stocks ever seen of Millinery and ladies' Dress Goods, consisting of all the latest novelties, Shirt Waists, swell Dress Skirts, and the celebrated "Beifelcl" Cloaks, Capes and all styles, this season's make, and at the lowest prices, such as THE LKADKK always intends to make. The largest and grandest display it has -ever been our. pleasure to present to an admiring public.

Our Miss Smith has spent the past four weeks in the market, studying the latest and selecting only the newest creations. You are Cordially Invited to Attend. PRESBYTERY TO MEET HERE. Bringing Together Many Prominent Divines of Egypt. PAIN'S GREAT SPECTACLE AT CAIRO FAIR.

Southern Illinois Death of Dr. OlllClTK. The of Cairo will meet in the Presbyterian church at Carbon dale next week. The program will be of great interest and the public is cordially invited to attend. The following is the announcement for the exercises From Monday, the 25th to Wednesday the 27th: MONDAY JJVKN1NG.

Eov. R. Stevenson, Carmi. TUBSDAY KOniSNOON. exorcises, llev, D.

Bu inner. Faith and AKnofiticism in Actual Life, Rev. B. C. Swan, D.

Meaning of MyHterious Truth, Rev. Huffh B. DouslaBS, Mt. Vernon, Preaching, Rev. J.

0, Hough, Olney. RCCOSH, TUESDAY AITURNOON. AgainHt Fancy in the Pulpit, Rev. H. Stevenson, D.

Oolcoiula. Requisites in the Interpretation of Scripture, Rov, S. E. Taylor, Fairilold. Discussion.

Place of the Bible in Library Rov. John Giffon, Flora. Grand Aim of Christianity, H. Cooper, Hnrrisburg. Tuesday, 7:30 p.

a sermon wil be delivered by Rev. S. E. Taylor, of Fail-field. The presbytery will then be formally organized and a modera tor for the session elected.

Wednesday, devotional exercises at 8:30 a. followed at 9 o'clock by the regular docket. Reports of commit tees And discussion of same will con stitute the business of the day. Such great interests as foreign education, college aid, will re ceive attention. Wednesday evening at 1:30 ttfere will be a popular meeting in me filter est of foreign missions.

Rev. GilTen of Fairiield, will speak on "The Monthly Dr. Ira C. Tyron of Shawneetown, on "Motives fo: Foreign Mission Work," and Dr Knox, of Cairo, on "Methods of Rais ing Money for Foreign Missions." This will be a fine opportunity ti hear some of the leading ministers the Presbyterian church in Southern Illinois. A cordial welcome and goo audiences are requested.

rip to the St. Louis exposition and a isit to the great plant of the Globe- Democrat, where they were shown he workings of a great metropolitan aily. The citizens of Bast St. Louis id everything possible for the enter- ainment of the visitors and the vholesale printer's supply houses the great bridge offered every ourtesy. Tho following officers were elected or the coming year: W.

Watts, Nashville. Vice J. Kern, Belle- Parker, Vienna. J. Soil, Grayville.

Executive T. Scott, Jarbondale; Charles Boeschenstein, Sdwardsville, and P. F. Murphy, East St. Louis.

Carbondale was recommended to he executive committee by the a'sso- iabion as the place to lie selected for he next meeting, which will in all jrobability be held early, before the leat of the great political battle of 1900 begins, and we expect to tender BARTH WILL GIVE YOU THE BEST VALUES IN School Shoes! for Misses and Children Child's Uontfohv luco (kid tip) Child's Dontfola button, QHn IWttip. tO 11 Child's DoiiRola lact', houvy soli', to 11 MlSHCS 1 DoilROhl lllt'L', heavy solo, to '2 MI.MHCH' box calf lace, 11 to '2 MlHHOH 1 box calf nnd kid Into, 11 to a Hlt'Kiint lino suhool shoos for i hulios' for $1.25, $1.15 1.25 1.25 1.50 Tor Boys and Youths Youths' Htitiii calf luce, 1 Youths' satin calf luce, 1 OK 9 to 13 Youths'. satin nncl boxcalf luuo, to 2........ Hoys''Kanfruroo calflttce, heavy Hole, to Boys' dress shoes, black u'nd tun, Hoys' extra heavy football shoo, to 1 Kf) I ULf 1 Kf) uu vv Hf) J-'or boys wonriiiR men's Bison Kivo Rood wuarorH for $1,26, $1.50. $2, Ask to HOC our New Fall Styles in Ladies' and Gentlemen's Shoes.

arth Shoe Co. If ve please you, toll others; if we don't, tell us. 75 Headquarters at t. Patten Son's. New and Second-hand School Books and all School Supplies at lowest prices.

Prescriptions carefully prepared at Old Reliable Store. Cairo The bill boards of all towns cities within a radius of 150 miles Cairo are plastered with posters, an nouncing that "Cairo Pays the which calls our attention to the that the city of Cairo ie making th greatest effort of its existance to giv a grand fall carnival, or free sfcree fair, which shall eclipse anything the kind given in this section of th country. All of the business men the city have entered into the spirit the undertaking, and you hear noth ing at Cairo now except the free stree fair. There will be on the streets free to everybody, high clasa vaude ville and variety performances, aero batic feats, baloon ascensions, para chute drops, wire and rope walking juggling, dancing, and indeed almos every conceivable kind of amusemen will be going on at. several place during the entire day.

There will five brass bands enlivening the sbem with music during the continuance the fair; but the. great and cardina feature is the battle of San Juan, givei by the great Pain Firework Company Pain's spectacular and pyrotechnica productions are known the worli' over, and this battle of San Juan i their latest effort, and it is said t3 bi the grandest thing of the kind eve presented in the world. The expens of getting this feature has been ver great, and a very large sum of monej was easily raised by subscriptioi among the merchants, who have dis played unusual enterprise and liberal ity in getting up this entertainment. There will be reduced rates on al transportation lines and it is that great crowds will visit Cairo see these free entertainments. AVI 11 in The Southern Illinois Press Associa tion held its annual meeting at th National hotel in East St.

Louis las Friday and Saturday, September 1 'and 16. The attendance was unusu ally large and the meeting was th most enjoyable in the history of. th association. Besides the excellent program, th attending members were entertainei by a. trolley-car ride to Belleville, BLOODSHED AT CARTERVILLE Three Companies Called of State Out.

Militia FIVE NEGRO MINERS KILLED OUTRIGHT. of Egypt a right royal I. ihe editors Mori! About AVutorworks. The committee appointed by the city council to procure plans and specifications of an electric light and water system met Wednesday in consultation with A. J.

Hainsworth, of Indianapolis, the engineer whom they had mployed to make the plans. They agreed as to the location of the water mains and hydrants and arc lights. According to the scheme there would be thirty-five hydrants to be used by the city and forty-seven arc lights instead of thirty-four as now, all but five of which are paid for by the city. The committee will not in all probability make a report to the council until the regular October meeting, at which the council will probably take definite action in the matter. The matter, of water supply has resolved itself into one o'f two things.

It will either have to come from the Muddy river or artesian wells. The well water is not suitable for steam purposes; the river water is not the best for drinking and cooking use. The river water, however, could be made good for the latter purposes by filtering. District, Kciimions. A meeting of representatives of the Grand Army of the Republic posts of Jackson, Perry, Washington and Randolph counties will be held on the fail- grounds at Pinckneyville, October 5, "big Thursday" of the Perry county fair, for the purpose of organizing a district reunion association.

This is not designed in any way to interfere with the present organization of the soldiers and sailors of Southern Illinois, but to accommodate the comrades who are getting too old to take long journeys. By having annual reunions at places in the counties named the distances would not be great and many of the old soldiers could come in their own conveyances. The counties above named are especially requested to send representatives to this meeting. Chris Stollur Aivardoil A verdict waa rendered this week in the circuit court for $040, in favor of Prof. C.

C. Stotlar, as salary for his services as principal of the Carbondale city schools for the term of 1898-9. The professor claims that he had been employed by the board and that they rescinded their action and employed another teacher. The board claims that it made no'contract with him and that the rulings of the court in this case were manifestly unfair and partial. The case will be carried to the appellate court.

Captain Frank 'JYolcr. The election for officers of Company consequent upon the retirement of Captain Barton to accept a commission in the provisional army, was held at Carterville Wednesday and resulted as follows: H. F. Teeter, captain; Charles H. Taylor, first lieutenant; John Knight, second lieutenant.

The new captain has been an efficient of- and will make an excellent commander. Dr. Thompson Dr. George J. Thompson, nephew of T.

W. and M. M. Thompson, of this Blomly lit, tlio Illinois Central Suspects IlndVr Arrest the Vodoral Court. This city was thrown into an unusual excitement last Sunday noon by the news that there had been a battle at Carterville in which several men had lost their lives.

Later news confirmed the fact and added to the excitement. Supt. Brush was at his home and on receiving reliable information he telegraphed Gov. Tanner the facts, who immediately ordered Lieut. Thos.

Louden to go to Carterville at once with Company and assist the sheriff in preserving the peace. A special train was ready by the middle of the afternoon and conveyed the company to the scene of the riot. As near as we are able to learn the following are the incidents leading up to the bloodshed: On the Friday previous several negroes, who were coming to town from the Brush mines, were ordered to return. Early Sunday morning fifteen negro miners started for town, but before entering they sent forward two as scouts, who were promptly ordered back, and it is claimed that they made threats that they would return with help and run the union men out of the city. About noon thirteen nonunion negro miners came down the road leading from the mines and entered the town, and went straight to the Illinois Central depot, where they met a crowd of white miners.

A war of words first took place and then it is said one of the negroes fired a shot which pierced the fleshy part of a little boy's hand, who was standing by. Meanwhile miners appeared and the negroes began to throw rocks. At this point band of about a dozen white men appeared upon the scene armed with Winchesters and "opened fire. The negroes scattered and ran, pursued by the whites. One squad of the negroes followed the switch, which runs through the edge of the city, and when about a block from Elles Bros store three of them fell dead, riddled with bullets; about a block from the police station another dropped dead and a little further on another fel mortally wounded.

One the negroes, when first shot started to run and fell directly in froni of Mayor Zimmerman's residence, ir full view of several ladies seated on the porch. A white miner ran up to him and blew his brains out with rifle. The dead negroes are: Sid Cummings, Henry Barnum, John Black, Huse Bradley and the Rev. T.J.Floyd, a negro preacher. Two others were wounded.

As soon as the battle was over Mayor P. Zimmerman deputized a large force of citizens to guard the approaches to the city, with orders to permit no negro miners to enter the city. The prompt arrival of Company and later Companies of Newton, and of Mt. Vernon, restored peace to the disturbed community and all the mines in the vicinity have since been running as usual. The funeral of the five dead men was held Monday.

They were buried near the shaft in Greenville. A large number of arrests were made Monday and Tuesday, but most of those taken were enabled to prove an alibi. At the present time nearly twenty men are being held for the crime, among whom are Willis Carney. Wm. Kelley, West, Leonard and Charles Shadowens, Mathew Walker, John Wallace, Elmer James and Mulkey.

Had the white miners of Carterville not lived under constant apprehension of violence from the negro non-union miners, this unfortunate tragedy would probably never have occurred. But having been at high tension so long it was but natural for them to Beltz, Wm. Cauder and Jim Galway to six months in the Sangamon Bounty jail for intimidating noh-un on miners and for sending information of Supt. Brush with the car load of Pana ne- groes which was fired into. The cases of Zeke Morgan and Roy Bowman, who assaulted Supt.

Brush at Murphysboro, was continued until October, on account of the sickness of Morgan, and will probably be tried in Cairo. Mine Milliners An examination for certificates of qualification as mine managers was held over Patten's drug store Tuesday, the 19th inst. The examination was conducted by Hugh Murray, member of the state board of examiners, assisted by Evan John, of this city, district mine inspector, and Da- 1 Wallace, of Carterville, county nspector of Williamson county. Candidates were present from Gallatin, Saline, Johnson, Williamson, Jackson, Perry and Washington counties. Out of the forty-three taking the examina- only two failed to pass.

liaison is Still on Top. A fight growing out of the mining troubles occurred in Police Magistrate, jghtfoot's office Friday morning. Dan Bat-son and two miners, John Crowelland Richardson, of Carterville, met and renewed an old quarrel that had happened in Carterville, with the result that Batson beat both men badly with the butt of his revolver. Batson was under arrest at time for assaulting Howard Mun- icr. city, died at his home in Makanda at 7:30 Thursday evening.

takes place this (Saturday) morning. IN SOCIETY. A Party, Two a Family Mr. and Mrs. P.

Leary had a family reunion at their residence on Walnut and East streets Sunday 'last. were present Mrs. J. W. Strong, of St.

Louis, Miss Mary Leary, of Council Bluffs, and John Leary and The day was most happily spent. Mrs- Strong returned to her home Miss Mary Leary will depart within a few days'for Council Bluffs, where she will take up her work in the deaf and dumb school at that place. Miss Hattie Davis, of De Soto, and George Boucher, of Murphysboro, went over to Chester Sunday and while in that city were wedded. Both the young people are prominent in their respective communities. They will take up their residence in Murphysboro.

A jolly crowd of young people were entertained by Miss Hattie Bo wyer on Tuesday evening-. Those present were, Misses Beula Besse, Maude and Grace Phillips, Bertie Mertz, Fannie Hill; Messrs. Ross, Hunter, Fitzgerald and Keller, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Parkinson.

A wedding occurred Sunday, Sept. 17, at the residence of Lemuel Boren, two and one half miles west of Carterville. Nellie, youngest daughter of Mr. Boren, was married to Mr. Benjamin Byars; Rev.

Alex Keown, of Carbondale, officiating. Spi-rial Trains for Fair. The Illinois Central will provide the following train service for the last two days of the Murphysboro fair, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 28 and 29, giving a rate of one fare for the round trip. Du Quoin, Benton and intermediate train leaving Benton at 7:05 a.

Du Quoin at 7:55 and reaching Carbondale at 8:33 a. m. will connect with a special train leaving Carbondale at 38 and reaching Murphysboro at 9:10 m. Returning leaves Murphysboro at 5 p. m.

This train will accoramodatea.il persons along the line from Benton to Carbondale via. Du Quoin. One fare for the round trip. A sad tragedy occurred at Arcoia on V. Thursday of last week.

Miss Carrie Lents, daughter of S. R. Lentz, I. C. ticket agent at that place, committed suicide by shooting herself through the head.

Miss was a graduate of the University of Illinois, class of '97, and was one of the brightest and most popular young ladies of that section. The cause of her rash act is think that the first shot would mean a A nice family in the city will board and room a worthy young lady student during the fall term of school for her help in doing the house work. I can furnish a young man who is willing to work for his board. I will also help to locate roomers and boarders. PROP.

FRENCH. ctu TT Tho funeral si B' nal for a general scrimmage. However this may be, it is the general opinion of the people of Carterville that quiet will not be restored there until the imported darkies leave, of which there is no immediate probability. coroner's jury returns a verdict holding Wes and Lem Shadowens, Willis Carney, Will Kelly and other parties unknown responsible for the death of-'the five negroes. Hester handles the chinery made.

best farm ma- in tin? V. S. Court nt.Sji Judge Allen sentenced Lindolph supposed to be the death of her fiance Orlie, son of Judge Hughes, of Mattoon, who was murdered on the same day by Charles Wilder, an employee of the D. E. R.

R. at Mattoon. A murder was committed at Rock Creek, Hardin county, last Saturday week. James W. Patton, an influential and prominent farmer of the county, killed Joe Irby, his hired hand, by striking him on the head.

with a piece of timber. The deed was the outcome of a drunken row, both parties being under the influence of liquor,.