Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 1

I 3tilnme. VOLUME LVTII. NO. 261. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1899-TWEIVE PAGES.

PRICE TWO CENTS. OPPOSE THE GAGE PLAN. RAILWAY SEIZING ON THE RIVER. DEATH OF C. A.

PILLSBDRY UNIONISTS KILL NEGRO MINERS. BOER ANSWER MALE PUBLIC. SENTIMENT OF CONGRESSMEN AS LEARNED IN WASHINGTON. MINNEAPOLIS MILL MANAGES, A VICTIM OF HEART DISEASE. Official Text of the Tfrans-vaal's fteply to Engljmd Is Given Out ati Trouble at Carterrille Breaks Out Afresh and Four Men, Possibly Six, Are Shot to Death.

Legislation on Currency Likely to Be Conservative and ln Line with the President's Suggestion Failure of Asset Banking Scheme Probable-Varying Opinions on Gold Standard to National Banks Advisability of Smaller Silver Note. Illnes of a Few Honrs' Duration Only and the End Comes Unexpectedly His Career as Founder of the Greatest Milling System in Existence Establishes a Plan of Profit-sharingDeclines Many Offices, hot Is State Senator for a Xnmber of Tears. Pretoria. Chicago and North-western Company Fences Off a Valuable Strip Above the Wells Street Bridge. The Chicago and Northwestern railway-has cut a piece of the Chicago River off by constructing a new dock outside of the dock at the ruins of the old Air Line elevator.

Two pile drivers began work late on Saturday night, and by 6 o'clock last evening the dock had been completed. Filling in is all that remains to be done. The section of the river taken in is triangular, haying a face on the river front of over one hundred feet. At the west end It is thirty-five feet wide, and its value will be several hundred thousand dollars. West of Wells street bridge the dock runs in a straight line along the Northwestern yards to the east end of the old elevator.

The elevator was burned last summer, and the site was acquired by the road. Just here the dock line slants northward, ending at the docks of the Dunham Towing company in a little slip. The elevator dock was in bad condition, and when the pile drivers were lined up in the darkness, ostensibly to repair it, they took a line continuing the river front of the railroad yards. Many old rivermen maintain that the river bottom there never belonged to the road, and that there is no shadow of justification for appropriating it. TROOPS SENT TO SCENE.

CHARGE OF BAD FITH. Kruger Asserts He Made llormer Proposals at the Snggfes-tion of Great i Britain. I Opinion Held by Gov. Tanner and Others That a Deliberate Plot to Mnrder Was Executed. BATTLE FOUGHT IN STREET.

LONDON STILL IN THE bARK. FARMER INSANE OVER GOLF. Iowa Truck Raiser Watches the Gapne Until He Loses His Reason. characters, especially those from Pana and Coal Creek, Tenn. In the union at Carterville there are no negroes, and none reside in the city.

The contest, therefore, is as much a race war as a fight between union and non-union labor. In a strike occurred at the Brush mine, and since then Mr. Brush has operated his shaft with non-union men. The trouble which led directly up to today's battle is of one year's standing. The affair commenced when some months ago Brush discharged several men who acted as a committee to adjust grievances with his men.

He refused shortly afterwards to submit the settlement of all differences to the State Board of Arbitration. The other shafts, six in number, united in an agreement that they would submit all their matters to the board and abide by the decision. Mr. Brush refused to be a party to this agreement, but gave the men his word that he would pay the same scale as the other operators in the same competitive field. The State Board of Arbitration met in Carbondale, and the decision, which was binding to the other operators, was for a 33-cent scale.

In an interview in Springfield, the day after the decision was rendered, Mr. Brush refused to pay the rate, and his mines continued in operation when other shafts found it necessary to shut down. Gives Men More Money. About ten days later Mr. Brush, much to the surprise of his men.

advanced their wages to 33j cents, this being one-half cent above the scale, and has promised a greater Increase should the price of coal advance. The miners had taken the stand that he could at any time pay the scale if any other shaft in the field could, as his mine is more easily worked than the competing ones near at hand. The feeling engendered by this long contest has grown until every one in the vicinity of the mines has taken sides in the matter. Some weeks ago Mr. Brush was assaulted on the streets of an adjoining city, and since has employed a bodyguard to accompany him about the works.

Company of the Fourth Illinois, of this city, left late this afternoon for the mines. The company is under command of Lieutenant Thomas Louden, and is thirty strong. All preparations, it is said, had been made to storm the mines tonight and rid the vicinity of the negroes. GOV. TANNER SENDS TROOPS.

Expresses the Opinion That the Carterville Killing Was Deliberate Murder by the Miners. Springfield, 111., Sept. 17. Special. Governor Tanner said tonight: This afternoon I received a message from Captain Sam T.

Brush, owner and manager of the mine at Carterville, stating that a mob had attacked and killed five of his negro miners, while waiting at the Illinois Central depot for a train; that the Sheriff would be unable to control the situation, and was powerless to arrest the parties, and asking me to order troops to Carterville. Knowing something of the condition at that place, and without waiting to hear from the Sheriff, I immediately ordered Lieutenant Lowden of Company of Carbondale to proceed at once to Carterville, by special train, if necessary, to suppress the riot, protect life and property, but to report to the Sheriff of Williamson County for orders, in WASHINGTON BUREAU CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Washington, D. C. Sept. 17.

Quiet Inquiries have been instituted by political leaders to determine the status of the next Congress on Congress to Be the question of cur-Conservative rency legislation the on Currency. coming winter. The replies as yet are not sufficiently in detail to indicate exact results, but from the opinions gathered it seems evident that the currency legislation at the coming session is likely to be exceedingly conservative. The asset banking scheme, fathered by Secretary Gage and the Indianapolis conference, is apparently out of the question. Controller Dawes' report on the subject has rendered it difficult for the advocates of the Baltimore plan, as it used to be called, to receive much consideration.

At the same time many members of Congress object to making any concession to the flat money sentiment, which was and still is back of the free coinage agitation. There is considerable unanimity among Republican members for a scheme of currency reform generally along the lines laid down by the President. The popular plan is to permit the national banks to issue bond secured circulation up to par, reducing the tax to about a quarter of a cent, and permitting banks to be organized with a capital down to $25,000 in small towns. To this extent the President's plan Is generally acceptable, but there is some criticism of the plans for a general reserve, in which shall be held paper notes redeemed in gold until they are again paid out in gold. Some members fear this would result ln serious contraction of the currency whenever the banks took a notion to achieve such a result by raiding the gold reserve and thus locking up the notes.

Others believe this temporary contraction is the best possible safeguard for the reserve, as It would tend to prevent the gold raids by making money scarcer. On the whole, the reports show that the President's plan is generally favored by Congress. It seems likely that the greatest variance of opinion will be developed over the declaration for the gold standard. The ex- Variance of tremists favor a law Opinions on requiring the pay- Standard, ment of all notes in gold at the option of the holder. Conservatives, particularly in the Senate, are opposed to this.

There are now outstanding of silver certificates and in case of a positive statute they would be added to $90,000,000 ln Treasury notes, $345,000,000 ln greenbacks, and $240,000,000 in national bank notes, or a total of about a billion dollars" worth of paper currency to be redeemed on demand in gold. Burlington. Sept. 16. Special.

The first authentic case of golf mania, as distinct from golf enthusiasm, must be credited to this city. A German farmer named Gottlieb Hackermann is the victim. The links of the Boulevard Golf club are situated ln a picturesque suburb of the city known as Sunnyside, where Hackermann has his truck gardens. All the time Hackermann could spare from spraying his cabbages and picking bugs off his potato vines he spent upon the links, greatly interested in the game. Yesterday his son found the farmer in the cabbage patch spoiling the kraut prospects, but having a great game of golf.

His baggy pantaloons were rolled up and his fat calves were wrapped with strips of red flannel. In the old man's hand, in place of a brassy, was his heavy hickory cane with a crook handle. With it he was smashing the cabbage heads to pieces in a vain effort to loft them over the hen coop. The old man said he was playing golf. He is rational on other susbjects, but is out of his mind on the game.

it has been of a rudimentary sort, which left much to be learned. The use of the Fortune for the purpose will require that it be fitted up with one four-inch gun, two six-pounders, and one one-pounder. The Fortune was built at Boston just after the civil war. At the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. which is to be the headquarters of the Franciscan order in America, a significant sermon was delivered by the Very Rev.

Father F. Kearney, the Provincial of the Dominican order ln this country. He declared against the American idea in Catholicism and said the church was opposed to the so-called spirit of progress. Recent news from Vice President Hobart is far from encouraging, and some of his friends here express Roosevelt the opinion that his May Succeed health will not justify Hobart any actlve participa tion in the next national campaign. Since he was taken ill in the South last spring the Vice President has been in a condition which has caused alarm for the future.

His recovery is not doubted, but physicians and others say his continuance in good health will probably be dependent on withdrawal from active politics. The President admires his official subordinate in a way not at all usual as between the two offices and still hopes that Mr. Ho-barfs name may be put upon the ticket next June. Should he appear to be unable to endure the strain of a campaign Mr. Hobart would be forced off the ticket by his own friends, and then the administration would be compelled to pick a new candidate.

Political considerations, it is said, will center about New York. When Governor Roosevelt was a guest at the White House, according to the general belief, he declared himself in favor of the renomination of President McKinley, and ln return was assured of the friendly influence of the administration for 1004. For this reason it is believed the Governor would not care to be a candidate for second place next summer, for in late years Vice Presidents have not been promoted. Senators and Congressmen who arrive from all over the country, however, say the expansion sentiment is predominant, the military influence noticeable, and they believe Roosevelt's choice for second place will be forced upon the convention by public opinion, provided, of course, Mr. Hobart is forced to retire.

They say the name of the young war Governor would add great strength to the ticket, particularly because his personality would in a great measure counteract the influence of the Alger regime ln the War department. Roosevelt appears still to be the idol of the army, chiefly because of his reputation for the care of his men, and the volunteers are supposed to be imbued with the Idea that he opposed General Alger In their behalf. According to these Congressional birds of passage, assuming the retirement of the Vice President as an unavoidable fact, Roosevelt will go on the ticket whether he wants the place or not. Details of the July imports Indicate that the growth in importation is largely in the class of materials used in manufactures and ln Facts tropical foodstuffs. In the seven months xtegaraing ending with July the Importations, importation of raw fibers for use in manufacturing amounted to $13,200,530, against $10,383,321 in the coV respondtng months of 18PS iwd in the same, time of 1887.

Rubber tra tAtft.ji in the seven months of 1889 were against $15,554,792 in 1898 and $11,052,936 in 1807. Imports of raw silk for use in manufacturing amounted ln the seven months of 1S90 to $20,381,197, against $15,227,303 for 189S and $12,380,160 In 1897. In tropical foodstuffs the increase was also apparent The imports of fruit and nuts in the seven months of 1899 were $10,989,623, against $7,749,208 in 1898 and $9,014,118 in 1897; cocoa. $3,548,146 in 1899, against $2,316,970 In 1898 and ln 1897, while of sugar the imports of the seven months of 1899 were $67,777,398, against $48,973,680 in the corresponding months of last year. i The entire navy afloat will be furnished with suitable means of self-preservation at sea.

Orders have Each Man In the been placed for a Navy Is to Have large number of cork a Cork Jacket Jackets, to be placed a oorK jacKet-. on board a the veg sels in commission. Each officer and man afloat will be furnished with one of these devices. There has always been a limited number of these jackets carried by ships of war, but it has never been considered necessary to provide for every one on the ship. It recently occurred to the authorities if such precautions were worth taking at all they were worth taking for the benefit of everybody instead of for a few.

WAR ON FRICK AND CARNEGIE. Purchase of Coal Lands by Illinois Steel Company Opens a Wide Field of Rivalry. Pittsburg, Sept. 17. Special.

The recent purchase of $2,000,000 worth of coal lands In Payette County by officials of the Illinois Steel company and the American Wire company, it is stated, means that the Federal Steel company will now declare open war against the Carnegie Steel company and its allied concerns, the H. C. Frick Coke company. The Federal company officials have long" -watched for an opportunity to start a rival coke industry and become independent, and soon all of the Federal company concerns will be in a position to use nothing but their own coke. This brings the Carnegie Steel company face to face with a concern which, after the the event thai the Sheriff wa.

on ao sround- resrfrtt "uld be. -it ts said, that tha '7 I also ordered Captain Hersh of Com coke plants are in operation, can compete with it on almost equal terms in the steel-making industry. NEW HONOR FOR CLARK E. CARR. Gajesburg Citizen Said to Be Slated for Place on the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Minneapolis, Sept. 17. Special. Charles Alfred Pillsbury, the head of the milling system of Minneapolis, died today. The cause of his death was heart trouble, resulting from an enlargement of the stomach, due to insufficient exercise.

He was 57 years old. Mr. Pillsbury was not feeling well on Saturday and decided to remain away from his office. In the afternoon, however, he drove down-town. In the evening he played cards with Mrs.

Pillsbury and retired at the usual hour. During the night the action of his heart caused alarm and physicians were summoned. They found the patient In a critical condition, his pulse being high, and although every possible means was employed to reduce his temperature the effort was for a long time unsuccessful. Mr. Pillsbury remained rational, however, and conversed with his wife and others.

At 5 o'clock this afternoon he suddenly raised his hand to his neck, tore open his shirt as if to secure air, gasped, and expired. At no time during his illness had he expressed the belief that his death was at hand. Mr. Pillsbury was born at Warner, Merri-mac County, N. Oct.

3, 1842. At the age of 21 he graduated at Dartmouth College, having diversified his collegiate studies with teaching as a means of self-support. He soon went to Montreal, where for six years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, most of his time being employed as clerk. He married Miss Mary A. Stinson Sept.

12, 1866. She was daughter of Captain Charles Stinson of Goffstown, N. H. His Career in Minneapolis. Mr.

Pillsbury came to Minneapolis in 1860, and soon afterwards purchased an interest in a small flour mill located at the falls of St. Anthony. At that time there were four or five mills In Minneapolis, but they were old-fashioned, using buhr stones for reducing the grain. Mr. Pillsbury applied himself diligently to the details of the business.

He was always alert to adopt new methods, and he resolved to make the best product possible. He soon secured the latest machinery and devices, and built up a great trade. These improvements in turn stimulated the wheat growing industry of the Northwest, for it brought hard spring wheat from being an inferior grade in the markets to the first rank, giving it a preference over the softer winter wheat of lower latitudes. In 1872 Mr. Pillsbury had gained such prestige and success that he associated his father, George A.

Pillsbury, in the business, and greatly enlarged Its scope and operation. His uncle, John S. Pillsbury, had from the beginning been interested with him. At a later period his brother, F. C.

Pillsbury, was admitted to the firm, which continued as Charles A. Pillsbury Co. until the acquisition of the property by the English syndicate, which now controls it. mill were added by pmi, Ajb9 or lestW the Pillsbury the Empire, Excelsior, and Anchor mills. These were all rebuilt and fitted with modem machinery.

To supply them with wheat a millers' association was formed, whose buyers penetrated all parts of the Northwest, and made selections from the grain fields of the best wheat for the Minneapolis mills. A system of elevators for the storage of the vast supply of wheat needed to keep the mills in operation was built along the lines of the railroads penetrating the wheat districts of the Northwestern States. Builds Largest Mill in Existence. Not content with these achievements, the milling firm determined to build a new mill. It was located on the water power of the east side of the river.

Mr. Pillsbury visited Europe to study the process of milling in vogue there and went to Buda-Pesth, the seat of the celebrated mills, which then produced the best flour known to European tastes. Having mastered all the science employed in the business, he proceeded with the equipment of the Pillsbury A mill. When completed it had a capacity of 7,000 barrels of flour per day, and was then and remains today the largest and best flour mill in the world. To say that Mr.

Pillsbury organized a milling business producing 15.000 barrels of flour per day, year in and year out, with the accompanying methods of securing a constant supply of 70,000 bushels of wheat per day, and of distributing the products in the markets of this country and foreign lands; that the business has prospered through droughts, panics, and strikes, and that no combination of carriers or grangers has been able to crush or cripple it, is sufficient witR--out words or eulogy to characterize the sagacity, enterprise, and breadth of mind which planned and the firmness of the hand which had held the helm. Mr. Pillsbury remained in the conduct of the vast milling business until 1890, when the and business were sold to an English syndicate, which acquired besides the Washburn milling property and the water power of the falls of St. Anthony. Mr.

Pillsbury remained as the manager of the property and one of the three American directors, receiving, it is said, the largest salary paid to any business manager in the whole country. His System of Profit-Sharing. In connection with the milling business, Mr. Pillsbury became widely prominent in benevolent and economic circles by his early introduction of and persistent adherence to a system of profit-sharing with his employes. The profits of each year, after assigning to the capital invested a reasonable interest, were divided between the labor and capital on a fixed and equitable basis.

Under this practice as high as $25,000 per year has been distributed among the employes of the firm, while at the same time they have received liberal wages, and are not made liable for losses in the business. It is understood that he claimed no consideration of benevolence ln this unique distribution of profits, but placed it on the ground of business prudence, like insurance and kindred safeguards. Mr. Pillsbury repeatedly declined office and political honors. The unanimous nomination of the Republican party as Mayor of the city was declined.

The only exception during his residence in Minneapolis was in accepting the office of State Senator, which he held for a number of years. This service, occurring in the winter and occupying but ninety days each year, did not seriously interfere with business engagements. Mr. Pillsbury was a man of buoyant spirits. He had robust health until a year or two ago.

The trip he took to Europe last winter was to recuperate his health. His large fortune was liberally used in tZn 0t pubUc interests and dis tributed in the channels of charity. He was long a trustee of Plymouth Congregational Church, a constant attendant at worship, and a liberal supporter of mission enterprises. He leaves a widow and twin sons, who will attain their majority in January Washington, D. Sept.

17. Clark E. Carr of Galesburg, 111. and formerly Minister to Denmark, is in Washington and it was rumored tonight that he would be the successor of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Calhoun, who intends to practice law in Chicago. General Carr said in response to an inquiry that he was not a candidate for the position and that he had heard nothing to lead him to believe that his name was under consideration.

Pretoria, Sept. 17. The reply of; the government of the South African republic to the latest dispatch, dated Sept. 12, of the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, after acknowledging the receipt of the British note, proceeds In part a.a follows i The government deeply regrets jthe withdrawal, as the government understands it. of the invitation contained in the British dispatch of Aug.

23, and the substitution in place thereof of an entirely new proposal The proposals, now fallen through, contained in the Transvaal dispatches of Aug. 19 and Aug. 21, were elicited from this government by suggestions made by the British diplomatic agent in Pretoria (Conyngham Greene) to the Transvaal State Secretary (F. W. Reitz), suggestions which this government acted upon in good faith and after specially ascertaining whether they would be likely to prove acceptable to the British government.

This government had by no means an Intention to raise again needlessly Ihe question of its political status, but acted with the sole object of endeavoring by the aid of the local British agent to put an erfd to the strained condition of affairs. Risk to the Transvaal This was done ln the shape bf a proposal which this government deemi, both as regards its spirit and form, to be ko worded as. relying upon intimations to thl government, would satisfy her Majesty'! government. This government saw a difficulty as to the acceptance of those proposals by the people and Legislature of the Transjvaal, and also contemplated possible dangem connected therewith, but risked making them on account of a sincere desire to secure peace and because assured by Mr. Chamberlain that such proposals would not deemed a refusal of his proposals, but would be settled on their As to Joint Inquiry.

"As regards the joint commission, the Transvaal adheres to the acceptance of the invitation thereunto given by her lajesty's government, and cannot understimd why such commission, which before waji deemed necessary to explain the complicatf details of the seven years' law, shoulct now deemed unnecessary, and why it should now without much, inquiry, be thought possible to declare this law inadequate. Further, there must be a misapprehension if it be assumed that this government was prepared to lay proposals for a five years' franchise and a quarter representation of the new population before -foe Volks-raad for unconditional acceptance. As to the language, this government never made any offer such as is referred to, considering, as it did, such a measure both unnecessary and undesirable. Rejects the Conference. The proposed conference, as to the Joint Commission of this government is likewise not unwilling to enter upon, but the difficulty is that an acceptance thereof is made dependent upon the acceptance on the side of the Transvaal of precedent conditions, which this government does not feel at liberty to submit to the Volksraad; and.

moreover, the subjects to be discussed at the conference remain undefined. This government ardently dslres and gladly accepts arbitration, as its llrm intention is to adhere to the terms of ti London convention of 1884." The dispatch concludes by trusting that the British government on reconsideration may not deem it fit to make mole onerous or new proposals, but will adheije to Great Britain's proposal for a Joint Commission of Inquiry, as previously explairjed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the imperial Parliament." i London Still in the DaSrk. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE- London, Sept. 18. 3 a.

m. The Question of peace or war is literally locked tonight in the bureau drawer of the Colotiial office. President Kruger's reply to Chamberlain's last note reached London today. The message was decoded and transmitsd to Mr. Chamberlain at Manchester, buti whatever are its con-tents they will not disclosed till 9 o'clock Monday, although if is understood a summary was given out at Pretoria last (Sunday) night.

The colonial officials are besieged by inquiries, but decline to disclose tie nature of the message. I In the meantime rumor is ur.afUmoU3 in characterizing the reply as unfavorable. The five years' franchise offer is withdrawn, the period again fixed at seven yt.irs, while suzerainty is Repudiated. If this be true, war seems inevitable. English prestige in south Africa cohld never stand such a rebuff.

The past history of the Trar.svaal, however, shows that it Is always the unexpected which has happened. When wariias trembled in. the balance, Kruger's dilatory tactics have cropped up In the nSckjof time to avert actual hostilities. This happen when the dispatch is made public iomorrow. The limit of British patience, however, -s nearly reached.

The British forces in south Africa is now strong enough tcf take the offensive, while the men in charge at Cape Town are known to be anxious fo a fight. Chamberlain's Personal fiews. Mr. Chamberlain's own personal views, according to those claiming an inimate acquaintance with the Colonial Sectary, are that further negotiations are onlr a waste of breath, and that the time has cme to act. The Cabinet Ministers are all wittf na day's call, and th first indication tllat things have really taken a serious turn U1 be the summoning of a Cabinet which is Carbondale.

111., Sept. 17. Special. The long-expected clash between the union miners at Carterville and the imported negroes employed by the Big Muddy Coal company came at noon today. Four negroes are known to have been killed, one mortally -wounded, and several others slightly.

To-jiiht there is a report that the bodies of two more negroes have been found near the Brush mines, which would swell the list dead to six. One company of militia has already arrived at the scene of trouble and others are on the way. It is feared that before reinforcements arrive an attack will be made on the Brush shafts, as the troops now on duty number oniy thirty men, and could hardly be expected to cope with the superior force of well-armed miners. The feeling against the militia is bitter. The union miners say the conflict was precipitated by the taunts and threats of the negroes.

On the other hand It is strongly asserted that the killings were deliberate murders, the result of a prearranged and deliberately executed plot. Captain Brush eays his men were attacked while waiting at the depot for a train, and that they did nothing to bring on a conflict. The fact that no one on the other side was hurt is regarded as suspicious. The Bead. The known dead are: BLACK, JOHX.

BRADLEY. HUSE. FLOYD. THE REV. T.

J. PRENTISS, WILLIAM. i. The Wounded. The mortally wounded: Ct'MMTNGS, SIM.

Floyd was a preacher who was known at Virden and Pana. He accompanied the first contingent of negroes from the South, which attempted to land at Virden on Sept. 25, 18ft atd addressed the people of Virden in the public square on the evening of Sept. 25. He also with the party which caused the fatal battle at Virden.

on. Oct. 12. It is MMfce was brought from Pan a to Carterville Willi the negroes who are Bow at work in the Brush mines. Caiomlngs received a wound in the head just under the left eye, another in the left Hide, and a third in his right knee.

He probably will die before daybreak. Start of the Trouble. When the battle occurred few people were on the streets, many being at church and others at diniver. The negroes came into the city in the morning, intending, as they stated, to go to the county -seat to attend church services, there being no colored meeting place In the city. In front of a meat market were several union miners, whose places had been filled at the Brush colliery by the negroes.

The feeling toward the negroes has been intense for many weeks, only the presence the State troops, which were last week withdrawn, having kept the opposing parties apart. Words were passed between the men and the negroes left for the mines, claiming. It Is said by friends of the union men, that they would return with help and run the Union men out of the city. Whether their threats were real or whether they simply made use of the words to intimidate their enemies is not known, but about noon the negroes were seen coming down, the highway that leads from the Brush mine to the city. There were thirteen in the party.

They passed through the Oty and to the depot without being molested or without hostile demonstration. At the depot the war of words was renewed. A shot was fired, by the negroes, it is claimed, the ball piercing the fleshy part a small boy's hand. The miners appeared on the scene and the negroes began throwing' stones at the men, who started eown the main street of the city. Fire on the Negroes.

They had not gone far before they were reinforced by fifteen heavily armed men, who once opened fire on the negroes. They started to run, but before they had gone a Mm three fell dead, literally riddled with uhets. still the pursuit was continued. WJd when only one block from the police station another negro was killed. A little runner on an Sim Cumrrflngs fell mortally unded.

The pursuit was continued until not a EE? was on the streets, the fleeing ones wKing refuge in the Village of Greenville, surrounds the shaft. is known that two other negro miners were wounded, one in the hand and the other the arm, and reports which cannot be mESL state that two others receld to tne battle claim not more thr Sh0tS Were fired and only two or from the fleeing negroes. If such is we ract the aim of the men engaged in the tue was deadly, as out of thirteen negroes wne were wounded. Communication with the mines could be Bwri! telePhone. no one wishing to pass guards there.

Mayor Takes a Hand. HlrL the over. Mayor ned them on the ord.r'l ClOSe 10 toe Brush mlnes. His as were not to Are unless fired upon, but P6m4t 016 negroes remaining at the becfm Dter the He he did this WM t0ld the nsroes had threat-teiMA, the dty and run th unlon jJr their homes. El Bush haa been connected with the hoL 8haft for many yrs- ln is fcJrl I 18 weU thought of, although he reeL Glared he would never cognize the union.

TeWi threatened trouble. Mr. Brush shaft bven for on vb bagbt firearms, and, it is lie wnTV procured a cannon, which he said Bta 8haft 8hould be attacked. Ed fc b11 through strikes before, tf dSltd fc be bard LAURIER'S TRIP TO CHICAGO. Canadian Premier Will Leave Ottawa on October 7 and Return on the 12th.

pany of Newton to proceed with his company by the quickest route to Carterville, and to report to Colonel Bennett for riot duty. At the same time I ordered Colonel Bennett of the Fourth Regiment, who lives at Greenville, to proceed to Carterville at once and take charge of the troops. I also directed the commanding officer of Company of Mount Vernon to prepare and be in readiness to move on short notice. At 4 o'clock, two hours from the time I received the message from Captain Brush, I received a message from Lieutenant Lowden of Company of Carbondale stating that he would leave on a special train for Carterville at 4 o'clock. Later, at 4:15, I received a message from Captain Brush, stating that later reports showed that seven of his men were killed and two injured, and that a large armed mob of men was between Carterville and his mine, and that one company was not sufficient.

This is all the Information I have up to this time on the subject, from which it would seem that these negro miners were waiting at the depot for the train, probably expecting to leave the place temporarily or finally. While I have no information by whom the trouble was precipitated, it seems to me from what I know and the fact that no one was killed other than the negro miners, that it was a case of premeditated murder. If I am right in this conclusion, the officials of Williamson County should use every means possible, and that vigorously, to bring the guilty persons to speedy justice, and in this I promise the cooperation of the whole National Guard if necessary. This is a blot on the name of Illinois and will be a disgrace to Williamson County unless quick and vigorous action is taken by the county authorities. The law-abiding citizens of Williamson County should rise to the situation and support the officers in restoring order and in the arrest and conviction of the guilty parties." The Governor received the following message late tonight from Sheriff Gray: Company has reported to me.

Situation critical. Many armed men in Carterville and vicinity of Brush mine. One mllitta company not sufficient to disperse mob. JOAB GRAY, Sheriff. The Governor then sent the following message: Lieutenant Lowden.

Carterville: Do not hazard lives of your men against too great odds. You are a soldier and the commanding officer. As such do your duty. You are on the ground and must he the Judge of the conditions, as the responsibility rests on you. Have ordered Mount Vernon Company also Company B.

to report there to Colonel Bennett. JOHN R. TANNER. This message was sent to Sheriff Gray: Joab Gray. Sheriff, Carterville: Have ordered Company Newton, and Company F.

Mount Vemon, to report to you for duty. You shall have all the forces necessary to enforce the law and bring guilty parties to "justice. JOHN R. TANNER. JOKAI, THE NOVELIST, MARRIED.

Hungarian Author, Now 74 Years Old, Weds a Young and Pretty Actress. Ottawa. Ont. Sept. 17.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier stated today that lie would leave for Chicago Oct. 7 and return to Canada on the 12th. BULLETIN OF CHICAGO, MONDAY, SEPT. 18, 181M. banks would at once turn In the sliver certificates, receive gold for them, and convert that into gold certificates, leaving the silver practically redeemed at par at a direct heavy loss to the government.

Then, too, many members are opposed to the positive redemption of national bank notes ln gold unless the depositor is given the same option. For such reasons, according to reports received, a large fraction of the Republicans, and possibly a majority, hesitate to make the redemption of all notes in gold, and they do not see how they can make a declaration as to the greenbacks without a dangerous discrimination against silver and bank notes. There is an apparently growing sentiment that the legislation on the money standard should take the form of withdrawing from the Secretary of the Treasury the option of paying interest and principal of bonds in either gold or sliver and specifically conferring the right of choice upon the creditor of the government. This, it is said, would establish the foreign credit of the government completely, enabling It to secure gold at any time by a bond issue at low rates, leaving the greenbacks and silver certificates to supply the demand for domestic circulation. It is believed, from what can be learned here, that the Finance committee of the Senate is not disposed Circulation to House e-i Ar measure.

There is ot 6uver ga(d tQ be actlve sym. Certificates. pathy in the Senate with Senator Allison's scheme to maintain the parity by forcing the silver certificates into retail circulation, thus rendering their presentation for redemption less probable. At present considerably more than half of the silver certificates are in demoninations of $10 and over. It is believed they should be reduced to denominations of $5 and under, thus meeting the constant demand for small bills and at the same time, by rendering them necessary to retail business, reducing the danger of their being used to raid the gold reserve.

The Senate plan would ultimately lower the denominations of the greenbacks also, reserving the national bank notes, for which the banks are responsible, in denominations of $20 and upward. With this it is proposed to authorize the issue of gold certificates denominations corresponding with the coins themselves, whereas now the minimum is $20, with the result that in retail transactions the gold itself is too heavy and the certificates too large. It is figured out by some of the conservative Senate leaders that the silver notes in particular, and the greenbacks If possible, should be forced out of the banks and Into the hands of the people for small change, and then the declaration of the actual gold standard could be made without the element of danger which exists now. for bills of large denominations accumulate in bank vaults and hence are easily obtainable for redemption purposes, while small notes are in daily demand and would seldom be presented for redemption in large quantities. One of the belated signs that the navy has ceased to be entirely a canvas service appears In the orders given Friday for the Last Traces of use of the naval ship Canvas in Fortune as a gunnery Vanishing, training vessel at Newport, R.

where the government maintains a school for naval apprentices. There Is a similar ship at Annapolis for the naval cadets and the results attained with the Standish at the Naval Academy have been such as to suggest the assignment of the Fortune for the same purpose at Newport so that apprentices who are under instruction for duty as blue jackets and gunners may be the better qualified to discharge the tasks devolving upon them. The training of the apprentices hitherto has been largely such as could be given theni on board the old sailing ships which mm in service from the canvas navy. Therehas been instruction of course, in gunnery, cut Weather predictions for the next twenty-four hours: Threatening, with probably light showers; continued cool. Sun rises at 5:43: sets at 6:04.

Moon sets at 4:36 a. m. IMPORTANT NEWS AND FEATURES ACCUSES CLERK OF FORGERY. Supt. May Says M.

j. Sampson Secured Over $2,000 Before Leaving the City Seen in New York. Serious charges are made against M. J. Sampson, the missing ex-chief clerk of the Special Assessment department.

Superintendent May said last night that Sampson had forged his name to a check before leaving the city. The superintendent said also that Kittle Turner, a young woman residing ln Thirty-first street, had telegraphed her parents that she had seen Sampson in New York on Thursday. Sampson left a wife in this city, and she is aiding Mr. May ln tracing her husband. Sampson, Mr.

May said, took with him over $2,000 when he disappeared a week ago The greater portion of that sum was represented by two checks for $2,020, which Sampson, Mr. May stated, had cashed at the Hibernian Banking association after forging the superintendent's name. Sampson received a check for $2,020 on the Continental National Bank from R. F. Conway contractors, for money due the city.

The check was payable to the order of John A. May, and Sampson, according to Mr. May, after affixing the latter's signature to it under the stamp of the secretary of the Board of the Local Improvement, took the check to the Victor Manufacturing company, 167 Plymouth place. He Induced the secretary of the company. Charles Boese, to deposit the check in the Bankers National Bank to the credit of the firm and give Sampson two checks in exchange.

One was payable to the order of John A. May and was for the amount of $1,078, while the other for $232 was payable to Sampson's order. Sampson, after receiving the checks, had them certified by the Bankers National and it is said had them cashed at the Hibernian Banking association. He then left the city. TALK OF DEWEY FOR PRESIDENT Senator Hanna Says His Declination Should Settle it, but Democrats Are Said to Be Insistent.

Pages. 1 Negroes Killed at Carterville. Oppose tbe Gagre Plan. Death of Cbarles A. Plllsbnry.

Boer Answer Made Pnbllc. 2 Democrats Call Trusts Chief Issue. First Meeting of Council. 3 French Treason Conrt to Meet. Jest at German Ministers War.

Mr. Perry Qnlts the Fall Festival. Speaker Reed's Political Farewell. 4 Preachers Take Trusts for Teit. Mason Gold-Hunters Return.

5 Lucanin's Delay Due to Strike. Doetor Tells of Ending Lives. Consul Mernn on Jews In France. 9 London Banks Fear War. Sermon by Dr.

Fmil G. Hirseh. West Chicago's Loss in Taie. lO New Baseball League Omnulic. Sew Vork rogilintlc Oossip.

ork of Football Elevens. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE NEW YORK WORLD AND THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Buda-Pesth, Sept. 17. Marius Jokai, the celebrated Hungarian poet and novelist, who is 74 years of age, was married here Saturday to Arabella Grossnagy, a pretty Jewish actress of 23 years.

The couple will spend the honeymoon in Venice. The first wife of Jokai, the most productive and genial of Hungarian novelists, was Rosa Laborfalvi, the greatest of Hungarian tragediennes, whom he married in 1848, the year when he proclaimed the famous Twelve Points of Pesth." In ISAM he followed the Hungarian government to Debreczin, where he edited the Abendblatter. and he was present at the capitulation of Villages Aug. 28. To escape being made prisoner he resolved on suicide, but was hindered by the fortunate arrival of his wife from Pesth.

She had converted all her jewels into gold and the pair found their way on foot through the Russian army, reached a safe hiding place in the wood of and at last ot to Pesth in Pages. 8 Short Story. 8 Eontenoy. i Finance. lO Lake Marine.

Pages. Editorial. 7 Dramatic. Society. 8 Literary.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS. New York, Sept. 17. Special. When Senator Hanna was asked his opinion as to Admiral Dewey being a Presidential candidate in 1900.

he said: "Dewey for President? I read what Admiral Dewey himself said that he would not accept a nomination. It seems to me that what Dewey said Railed. Arrived. Port. HAVRE La Champagne.

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