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FROM FATHERLAND IMPORTANCE OF THE LATEST ROYAL BETROTHAL. PROLONGED PERIOD OF EUROPEAN PEACE PREDICTED. Entente Cordiale Between Russia and Germany Reflected Clearly in the Conservatives Bound to Estrange the Emperor and Empress has a Rough Sea Voyage. Berlin, April important event which Emperor William was the first to announce yesterday at Coburgnamely the betrothal of Grand Duke Nicholas, czarowitch of Russia, to Princess Alix, of Hesse, is looked upon as cementing the now entente between Russia and Germany and bringing a prolonged period of European peace. There is no doubt that the betrothal is directly traceable to the influence of Emperor William.

The wedding feast continued at Coburg and Darmested until Sunday night. The conservatives went away from the last sitting of the reichstag with yet more embittered feelings against Caprivi. They are determined to continue the fight and efforts will be directed towards undermining firm position with the emperor. It is hoped that the next session of the reichstag will be hold in the newly built reichstag; but, President Lcvetzow has announced that the building will not bo ready until the beginning of 1895. The Empress of Germany had an extremely rough passage on her journey from Venice to Abazzia, on board the Christabel, The Christalbel shipped so much water that the crew was compelled to man the pumps and keep them working all night.

When the yacht and warship reached Plume it was only with the great difficulty that the imperial party landed. Emperor William, who was accompanied to the railroad station by the Duke of Saxe-Ooburg-Gotha and by the Prince of Wales, left Coburg for Eisenach this afternoon. DONE WORK OF THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE. Meml)crs Parade, Hold a Meeting, Petition Congress and Leave Washington for Home. Washington, April 21.

Workingmen's Protective Tariff league paraded, held a long meeting and presented a petition to congress today, but did it all in a perfectly peaceful manner. The resolutions recite the prosperity of labor under a system of protection and in the name of the representatives of of American workmen, without distinction or demand that no change be made in the existing tariff laws of the country. The members of the league left for home tonight. A committee of three will stay behind for a conference with the populist leaders. The workingmen will endeavor lo secure from the third party senators a pledge to antagonize the Wilson bill.

BANK STATEMENT. $82,008,025 Above Requirements now Held in New York. New York, April 21. weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Reserve, increase $1,177,025 Loans, increase 2,130,000 Specie, increase 1,178,900 Legal tender, increase 3,864,100 Deposits, increase 6,032,700 Circulation, decrease 369,000 The banks now hold $82,008,025 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent. mile.

JDND OF THIS WORLD. Prof. Rudolph Falb, of Vienna, Predicts It for Nov. 13, 1899. The records indicate that people have been looking for the end of the world at intervals ever since the world began, and predictions of this character generally receive very limited credence, but when a scientific man of the character of Prof.

Rudolph Falb, of Vienna, makes a prophecy of this sort it is at least worth thinking about. Prof. Falb has a reputation all over Europe for his meteorological knowledge and particularly for his extraordinay familiarity with the habits and customs of earthquakes. His predictions of these seismic disturbances have been remarkably fulfilled. His prediction of the great earthquake at Zante last year was published in the press dispatches all over the country the day before the earthquake occurred.

A not aor example of his accurate foreknowledge on this subject is shown in the fact that on March 31, 1803, he wrote to the Tourist club of Vieuna accepting an invitation to lecture about earthquakes, but adding that he would like to defer the lecture until after April 13, as an earthquake would occur by that time, which would aid aim in giving them enlightenment. Asa matter of fact an earthquake occurred April 8. and was felt all over southern Hungary. Prof. prophecies go back over a number of years, have usually been made from nine to twenty months in advance, and have in almost every instance been correct.

Now, however the prophetic eye has shot across a space of five years, and he says that Nov. 13. 1899 the erratic wanderer known to astronomers as the comet of 1836 will reappear and collide with our globe; then "the fireworks" By way of preliminary to the main however, it may be mentioned that, according to the program, New York is to disappear under a tidal wave next July 1 or Am gust, while Florida and California will probably become islands as the result of a submarine earthquake. The most unpleasant feature about these prophecies is, as already intimated, the fact that they are not prophecies at all. strictly speaking, but scientific predictions based upon scientific investigations into mundane anatomy.

To put his theories in as simple a fashion as possible, it may be said that Dr. Falb believes first. of all that the deep down interior of the earth is tilled with a molten mass which is subject to ebb and flow just like the waters of the ocean. Between the earth and this molten sheol, which is slowly cooling, there is only a shell of an average of eighteen miles in thickness, upon which we mortals live and love and die. In some places the crust is thicker than in others.

Where it is thinnest the confined terrible forces of the under world, chiefly in the form of gas, seek constantly to escape, and when the pressure of the atmosphere around the earth is lowest the gas finds an outlet, usually in well-defined districts, generally through the volcanic ventholes. But beyond the constant pressure of gas Prof. Falb has the theory that the sheolic molten mass beneath us is subject to the influence of the moon, which produces waves, and occasionally great tidal waves, which sweep round the inner crust of the world with terrific force, shaking the earth in its passage. Prof. Falb publishes every year a list of the days on which ho expects seismic convulsions.

These he calls these days are those when the moon approaches close to the earth. The critical days given by Prof. Falb for 1894 are stated in the order of maximum disturbance as follows: Aug. 30, Sept. 29, Feb.

20, March 21, Aug. 1. April Jan. 21, May 5, and Oct 28. Thus the most serious disturbance may be looked for Aug.

30 and the slightest Oct. 28. In connection with the great scientific contest between mother earth and the comet which, to use a phrase current in scientific circles, is to be in 1899, it is recalled that Jan. 14, GIG, ten people were killed in China by the fall of a meteor. In the year 823 thirty-five villages in Saxony were destroyed by the fall of a meteor, and many men and animals killed.

September 4, 1511, one man and four animals were destroyed by falling meteors near Crema. November 4, 1749, a meteor struck the mast of a ship that was crossing the Atlantic, killing five seamen. Each of these cases can be regarded as the fall of a small comet upon onr world. It is a comfort to know that some Vienna scientists believe the comet is going to get the worst of it, and point to the fact that the comet Lexell. when it vent too near to Jupiter, was thrown off its course and sent flying out of our planetary Ex.

MANEY IS FREE. LIEUTENANT ACQUITTED OF THE CHARGE OF MURDER. Kisses His Mother When the Verdict Is Congratulate Him. Chicago, April 21. jury in the Maney murder trial this evening brought in a verdict of acquittal.

On the first ballot the vote stood teu to two for acquittal, the minority being for a verdict of manslaughter. A fter a heated argument the jury returned for additional instructions and quickly rendered a verdict after receiving them. When Judge Gosscup read find the defendant, James A. Maney, not Lieutenant Maney turned and kissed his mother, who was overcome with emotion. In the meantime pandemoium reigned.

Officers crowded about Maney and voiced their approval of the verdict. Maney was charged with killing a follow officer named Hedberg at Ft. Sheridan. KREZ KNOCKED OUT- C. H.

HAMILTON NOW CITY ATTORNEY. Judge Sloan's Decision in the Aggravated Krez Takes an Appeal Milwaukee, April Sloan this morning handed down his decision in the quo warranto proceedings brought by Attorney Charles H. Hamilton to secue possession of the office of city attorney as against City Attorney Krez. He ruled that Attorney Hamilton is entitled to the office and ordered that Col. Krez vacate in favor of Mr.

Hamilton. The decision is in accordance to the New York decisions cited by Mr. Hamilton. Col. Krez took immediate steps for an appeal to the supreme court and the case will come up before that body within the next two weeks and will bo immeadiately disposed of.

Judge Sloan decided that that part of the law which extened the term of office of Mr. Elliott diming his incumbency of the city office is unconstitutional, thus 'overthrowing the claims of Col. Krez. Col Krez according to the stipulation. immeadiately yielded the office to Mr.

Hamilton, who will discharge the duties of city attorney, at least until the supreme court settles the case. WISCONSIN MILL BURNED. Clintonville, April grist mill and elevator belonging to J. N. Palmer Son.

of Embarrass, burned last night. Loss, $2,500. INTROSPECTION JUST BEFORE APRIL 1. Sunday is the day upon which we are reminded what we are the other 364 days in the Free Press-Gazette. NOT A BIG SUCCESS COAL MINERS' STRIKE DISAPPOINTING TO PROMOTERS.

THOUSANDS OF MEN REFUSE TO GO OUT. Operations in Many Districts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Tied up. and Wyoming Miners Not at All in Sympathy with the Movement. Colchester, April is no indication of a miners' strike here and none will take place. Rock Island, 111., April the Coal Valley Mining mines, the men are still at work and no I trouble is looked for.

A report from Mercer county is to the effect that; the men in the Gilcheyst mines quit this morning. Danville. 111., April Miners at the Fairmount shafts went out today. The Consolidated Coal company will have a meeting tomorrow to decide the matter of going out. Peoria.

April thousand miners employed in this county and at Farmington, Cuba, St. David, Bryant, Dumferliue, Middlegrove and other places in the Peoria district, composed of the three counties of Peoria. Fulton and Tazewell, joined the strike today. At many cities miners refused to go out. Munphysboro, 111., April meeting of 300 miners this evening ordered a general strike in this county.

Twelve hundred men will obey the order. Canton, April miners at Dumferline, Bryant, St. David and Norris went out today. Spring Valley, 111., April miners of Spring Valley, La Salle, Ogelysby, Peru, Seatonville, Leed and Loreyville quit today. The places employ nearly 7,000 miners and every man is otit.

Duquoin, 111., April 21 miners are out at Muddy Valley, St. and Duquoin. N4l prospects of settlement. Streator. 111., April a mass meeting of miners in this city this afternoon it was unanimously decided to obey the instructions of the Columbus convention.

Des Moines. lowa, April 21. miners of this section are not influenced by the strikers in other places. All mines are in operation. Leavenworth, April 21.

miners of this section did not go out on a strike today. Pittsburg, April 21. anticipated strike today did not occur in this district. Baltimore, April with presidents, managers and operators of leading coal mining companies indicate that there will be no general strike among the Maryland miners. Macon.

April Bevier miners all suspended work today. The men working at Ardmore, I. decided not to go out. Cincinnati, 0., April the Bellaire district there are 6,000 miners, but not more than half struck today. Operators in this district are with the men so long as they will insist on the scale for Pennsylvania operators.

The same conditions exist in Herking Valley. but the men all went out there. In Jonathan Creek valley a thousand men went out in the Coshertou district all the men went out. Miners and operators are co-operating to compel Pennsylvania and West Virginia to pay the scale. Men generally are out in Kentucky.

Huntington, April to expectations the miners in Huntington and Broadtop region today did not strike. Wellsboro, April thousand coal miners at Arnot, Antrim, Morris I tun and Fall Brook, in Tioga county, obeyed the order of the United Mine Workers association and went out on a strike today. Cleartleld, April this section all mines shut down today. In the Houtzdale district, to which at least 0,000 men belong, every man is out. Phiilipsburg, April 21.

thousand miners and laborers are idle in this district. This does not include several thousand miners in the Dubois and Puuxsutawney districts, who are also out. Gallitziu, April the sixth bituminous district of Pennsylvania fully 0,000 men are on a strike. Belief out. April 21.

in the Snow Shoe and Karthans district, numbering over 1,800, went on a strike at noon. Tacoma, April 21. special to the News from Franklin says the coal miners of Washington have decided not to strike. Charleston, W. April best information obtained from many coal operators indicates that few if any of the Kanawha miners will go out.

Men in other fields quit today, however. Cheyenne, April 21. far as can be learned not a single miner went out in Wyoming. BUILDINGS TUMBLE DOWN AND PEOPLE ARE KILLED. The Historic City of Thebes Doomed Fifty Houses Fall There and the People Leave in Feels the Disturbance People Need Succor Immediately.

Athens, April has been great loss of life in addition to destruction of property by earthquake shocks which still continue. The inhabitants everywhere have been alarmed today by fresh shocks and it is feared that the worst has not yet happened, as the weather continues close and misty. The shocks today injured the northern wing of the palace here in several places. A large stone fell out of the gate of Haddrian. But the general damage to this city and Piraeus, the port of Athens, was slight aid there has been no loss of life here.

The villages around Atalanta have suffered terribly. Larymui, Proskina. Malesina. Mazi, Pelta and Martino are in ruins, serious damage has been done at Chalds and at several villages on the island Euboea. At Thebes about fifty houses fell during one of the shocks this morning.

The city is in a state of panic and destitution. The terrified people have rushed in crowds away from Thebes, believing that the end of the world has oome. Conflicting stories are told as to the loss of life. The government is tonight sending a warship to Thebes with 500 tents a large number of surgeons, a detachment of engineers and supplies of food for the destitute people. Reports of the earthquake Friday show that the shocks were most severe and that the damage done was much greater than was at first supposed.

The town of Neapille, near Atalanta, is a heap of ruins. A number of persons were injured in Talanda and Chalcis, seventeen miles from Thebes. Thebes suffered most of all. Its inhabitants will have to be promptly succored by the government, as they are said to be without food or shelter. Thebes is on a height anciently occupied by the Cadmeian citadel.

It has a population of about 0,000. MEETING OF PAN-AMERICAN BIMETALLIC ASSOCIATION. To Be Held iu Washington May 22- Congress to Be Memorialized to Restore Silver to a Ratio not Exceeding 16 to Gall a Halt from Our Denver, April C. Fisk, president of the Pan-American Bi-Metallic association, has issued the following call: the present to be an auspicious time to accomplish something substantial for silver, by restoring prosperity and contentment among our people, oonffdeuce in our rulers and institutions, conferring untold blessings ou the human race, a meeting is hereby called to assemble in Washington, D. on the 22d day of May, composed of representatives from the United States, South, Central and Old Mexico, and all the states thereof, to memorialize the congress of the United States to restore silver to its ancient right at a ratio not to exceed 16 to The call then briefly recites tbe silver legislation and the present financial condition of the country and closes as follows: there not patriotism, manhood and womanhood enough in the people to call a halt from our rulers? Let their brain, brawn aud sinew meet at the capital of the nation.

Let petitions be circulated in every precinct of the land and forward them to the convention until the voice of 40,000,000 pt-ople shall resound in the ears of congress that we may ascertain whether this is in fact a government of the people. Our demands should be respectful but firm. This is a great and patriotic task. If we but seek divine aid and guidance our efforts will be crowned with success. COURT REVIEW IT.

Indiana Legislative Apportionment Not under Judicial Authority. Indianapolis, April deciding the complaint of A. W. Wishard to set aside the legislative in Indiana of 1893, Judge Brown today sustained the demurrer of the state, holding that it was not under the jurisdiction of the court to review the action of the legislature. JURY DISCHARGED.

Denouement of the Bennett Murder Case. Marshalltown. lowa, April jury in the Bennett-Wise murder case had been out forty hours without agreement. At breakfast this morning Henry Desch, one of the jurors, was taken seriously ill and was thrown into violent convulsions. It is thought he will die.

Judge Hindman was obliged to dis- charge the jury. It was about evenly divided till toward the last, when it stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction. SOUTH CAROLINA LIQUOR LAW IS VOID. The Pet Stale Dispensary Scheme Which Has Caused so Much Trouble and Bloodshed Is Declared to Be a Dangerous State Monopoly. Columbia, S.

April Tillman state dispensary liquor law has been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of South Carolina, two justices concurring and one, Justice Pope, (Tillmanite) member of the bench, dissenting from the opinion. The decision was rendered by Chief Justice Mclver. Justice McGowan assenting. The decision was rendered in a composite ease. The ground on which the law is declared unconstitutional is that it ere ates a monopoly for the state.

Chief Justice decision declares the law unconstitutional in nearly every respect, and especially holds that it cannot stand on any vital point. The profit to the state is declared vicious. Gov. Tillman says ho is not talking; that it is time only for action. EXTRA SESSION PROBABLE.

Charleston, S. April an hour after the news of the supreme court's decision was received here, upward-; of 200 blind tigers miracuously recovered their eye sight and were running full blast. The general impression here is that Gov. Tillman will call an extra session of the general assembly to pass anew law and will then take it up to the state supreme court, which meets July Ist, and will be Tilmanite in politics oy the qualifications of Justice E. B.

Gary. CUTS HIS THROAT. Lancaster, April S. Kilto. residing at Rockville, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a knife.

The cause of the deed is unknown. HIS ARMY WILL WALK GEN. KELLY CANNOT SECURE RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION. BATTERED BRIGADE TO MOVE TO WASHINGTON OVERLAND. Feverish Uncertainty in the Army and at Council Bluffs and Omaha Passes for Several March and Wagons to Haul It Provided.

Omaha, April Kelly today lost all hope of securing railway transportation for his army and tomorrow the battered brigade will move from Weston on to Washington. overland. A call for provisions was issued late this afternoon, and tonight the Knights of Labor hall was packed with enthusiastic workingmen. Sufficient food for several march was promised and wagons and teams to transport it were provided. Whatever route is chosen the objective point will be Chicago, which the commonwealers regard as an oasis.

The day with the army and at Council Bluffs aud Omaha was a quiet one as compared with the feverish uncertainty and threatening aspect which marked the preceding twenty-four hours. A monster demonstration is arranged for tomorrow and 10,000 workmen are expected to march to Weston to bid the little army good-bye and God speed ou its journey eastward. The authorities do not anticipate trouble. EARLIER ACCOUNT. Omaha, April At 1U o'clock today not a move bad been made by the Kelly commonweaiers at Weston, and the frenzied rescuers from Omaha and Council Bluffs had disappeared completely from view.

The wild work of yesterday and last night seemed to have wearied the crowds and they were late about congregating. The continued freezing weather also had the effect of cooling the hot-heads, as did the announced determination of Gen. Kelly to move his army east across lowa by means of wagons. A special to the Bee from camp at 10:30 a. m.

says: Threatening weather has caused Gen. Kelly to delay his march back to Council Bluffs until noon at any rate. He is waiting to hear the result of the efforts of General Manager St. John and W. H.

M. Pusey to secure a train for the army over the Rock Island. lie is favorably impressed with the suggestion of Mr. Edward Rosewater that he secure teams and make the trip overland to Washington, and he is already receiving encouraging responses from the farmers to his appeal for assistance for this purpose. Kelly expresses the hope that his friends in Omaha and Council Bluffs will strictly observe the law even though they are laboring under great excitement.

The army has only enough provisions to last for another meal, and then if relief does not come they will be compelled to go back to the Bluffs. Reports from all towns near here are to the effect that the people have no means of getting the stuff to the army. Kelly thinks he will not accept the proposition for transportation to Kansas City by water except as a last resort, as it will not laud him any nearer to his desired destination. At noon today Mayor Bern is issued a proclamation warning all people in i the city against interfering with the I property of the railways, j. A largely attended meeting was held in Knights of Labor hall at 11 and speeches were made by many labor leaders.

All seemed to be at sea as to the best course to pursue, but every speaker denounced the railroads in most vigorous language. Weston, April army had a court-martial tidal this morning. The court was composed of all the captains of the army and Col. Baker. A.

Madison, a private in company H. was tried for violating rules of the industrial army by furnishing and using liquor in the camp and he is alleged to have been spying on the men in the Interest of the railways. These charges were proven and he was found guilty by the court and was ordered dishonorably discharged and publicly drummed out of town. Madison is a new member, having enlisted at Chautauqua. At 12 o'clock Gen.

Kelly declared that if transportation was not secured for his army between now and morning he would begin moving on foot eastward through the state. Advices received here are meager but Kelly hopes to soon hear good news. Avoca, lowa, April reception here tonight was fully as flattering as that which was accorded him at Neola. Company rejoined the army during the afternoon and after an abject personal apology from each member, Kelly mustered them back Many of the men are anxious to seize a train, but Kelly firmly refuses to put himself within the power of the law. The real object of the march to Washington has heretofore a mystery, but tonight Kelly consented to outline to an Associated Press representative the plans.

Should the army be refused an approach to the capitol, Keliy will, upon his arrival in Washington, he said, take four of his men and appeal to Congressman Pence, of Colorado; McGuire, of California, and Senator Allen, of Nevada. Through their efforts he hopes to be allowed to draw up his men where the law makers of the nation must see them. congressmen have already been pledged to present a memorial in our Kelly said. "That memorial is now being drawn up by a wellknown Washington firm of constitutional lawyers and will be ready for us when we reach our end. Our demands as set forth in the memorial will be al)out as follows: We will ask the commission already in existence to look after redeeming arid lands in the west to proceed with their work.

We will ask that the men In the great army of the unemployed be put to work on irrigation. "My idea is that by the time these arid wastes are wrested from sage brush and jack rabbits and have begun to bloom, the men who worked there will have saved enough money to carry them through the first farming. They can settle on the lands they have reclaimed and within a short period will have developed from homeless wanderers into sturdy fanners and property owners. That in substance is our demand. If we can only get to Washington, if we can let the law makers see we are bread winners, honest and sincere; we will be successful in our mission, for our demands are not unreasonable.

We will combine with Coxey if we can reach Washington in time, but if not we will go The mayor and city officials visited Kelly tonight, assuring him of their sympathy and assistance and the townspeople crowded around the camp until nearly midnight. Tomorrow the army will go by wagons to Atlantic, where they will remain all day for rest and then move on towards Des Moines. Col. Baker, who was deposed by Kelly today, announced tonight that he would not return to the army, but will follow in its wake and give the people an expose of financial methods. The people of Avoca place little confidence in Baker's statements.

VS arrants were received here tonight for the arrest of two women, Edna Harper and Annie Hooten. who accompanied the army from Council Bluffs and who were with the crowd who captured the train and ran into camp Friday evening. The warrants were sworn out by the Union Pacific company. Little effort was made to serve them tonight, the women being given an opportunity to return to Council Bluffs where they can secure their bonds. It is thought by sympathizers that serious trouble is likely to follow the attempt to arrest the women in Council Bluffs.

MUTINY IN THE ARMY. Neola, April army awoke today to liud itself iu a state of mutiny. The young general promptly rose to the occasion and before the march eastward was begun a colonel had been stripped of his rank and a company of fifty men dismissed. The first, trouble arose during the night when Col. Baker issued orders contrary to those of Kelly, who had instructed that no one be allowed to leave the camp.

Baker told the men that they could leave the camp if they wished. Baker was promptly expelled. During breakfast a more serious trouble occurred. A man in company of Sacremento, quarreled with a comrade and drew a knife. His opponent seized a club and began to use it.

Kelly ordered the three men transferred to another company. To this company objected, and when the general ordered them into the ranks they refused to go. and company C. was disbanded. Loud denunciations of Kelly were heard, some of the men openly accusing him of appropriating funds donated to the army to his own use.

Col. Spread, in whose regiment company C. belonged, made an appeal for his men, but Kelly was obdurate. He ordered a sergeant to call the roll of company and as each man stepped up he was asked if he was willing to join another company. Officers and men said they would go forward as company or not at all.

They were ordered to give up their baggage and leave. Col. Spend, who is extremely popular with the division, then began an address. He was deeply affected as he told the men of his deep sympathy for them. men do not count in such a movement as he declared.

is the principle. I know and love everyone of you but I must leave you and go Spoad extended ids hand and with tears streaming down his sun-burned cheeks said brokenly, The men rushed forward and with wet eyes and in broken voices bade their chief farewell. will follow you, they said, we have been unjustly When the last farewell was said Spead turned away with his handkerchief to his eyes and walked down the bluffs alone to join the main body. At last Ca pt. Moss stepped the men and asked if they were willing to follow him on east.

Spead will bring Kelly he said, we will be back in the army before After a brief consultation the men declared their willingness to go, gave three cheers for Spead, and marched toward Avoca, where the army was to spend the night. Kelly then marshalled his troops and the march to Avoca, eighteen miles away, was begun. The farmers of the surrounding country had provided about 100 wagons and the greater part of the men were carried. One or two companies were compelled to go afoot. The men were vigorously cheered and every mile or so farmers met the ranks with wagon-loads of provisions for the army.

Dinner was taken in a pretty grove about nine miles from Neola and the army reached Avoca about on time. The industrials received an ovation as they marched into the town and were well provided with rations. The St. Paul road began running trains into Council Bluffs today, but no attempt to seize a train was made. The march overland will be continued quietly until Des Moines is reached, but there the men expect to secure a train.

Gen. Kelly today showed his roll to an Associated Press representative. It showed that 1,365 men marched into Neola yesterday; that twenty recruits were secured at that place, and with the fifty men who were discharged today that 1.330 men. exclusive of officers, reached Avoca. Many men who have attempted to enlist have been refused owing to the belief that they were tramps; but Kelly says that he will take 5.000 out of Chicago when he leaves there for Washington.

The great strike of coal miners is about to begin. FICHT WITH TORIES DISGRACEFUL SCENE IN UNIONTOW N. PE NSYLV A NIA. MOB OF WOMEN ATTACKS THE SHERIFF AND DEPUTIES. Incensed at the Arrest of a Troublesome Striker They Charge the Squad of Officers with Many Fight Felled and Stabbed.

Umoutown, April Oliver plant near here was the scene of disorder and bloodshed today. A striker named Michael Fetzko stoned the coke drawers while they were at work. Sheriff Wilhelm and deputies arrested him. when about fifty women assembled and demanded his release. The officers warned the women not to interfere.

Then the whole crowd of cursing, screaming women charged the squad of men. attacking them with every conceivable missle and weapon except fire-arms. Blood flowing from a number of the men in a moment, and when some of them had been knocked down they were forced to fight back, Mrs. Fetzko, the leader of the furies, rushed at Deputy Sheriff Richards with an uplifted axe. He evaded the blow and knocked her senseless with a revolver.

A cry was raised that she was killed and the bedlam of savage excitement cannot be described. She revived after twenty minutes. When she struck at Richards the other deputies threw off restraint. A number of women were felled with blows from maces, others stabbed with bayonetts or beaten with the stocks of Winchesters and the sheriff had great difficulty in preventing the men from shooting them down. The situation tonight is alarming.

THE MARKETS. REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTERS. Liquidation of May Wheat Interests the Feature Declines and Pork Is Lower. Chicago, April by May wheat holders has been the feature. Long stuff has been coming out all day and the indications are that a considerable line yet remains to be liquidated.

Crop news is more favorable. A little rain has fallen in California and it is hoped this is the forerunner of more. The visible supply decreased moderately and the amount on ocean passage increased last week. The demand from abroad does not increase with the decline in prices, as it, should to insure a better market. The liquidation of the May interest is expected to last a few days longer.

The July premium has widened to 2 1-4 and is likely to show a stili greater difference. Corn and declined moderately in sympathy with wheat and lack of outside orders. The conditions with regard to corn are still favorable to holders, but speculation is so light that they have no effect on prices at present. offered product moderately, apparently for the purpose of catching some stop loss orders. The market is nervous and advances quickly on the appearance of buying orders.

SUMMARY. Chicago, April weak; cash, 57 l-2c; May, 57 7-Sc. Corn easier; cash, 38c; May, 38 3-Bc. Oats easy; cash, 32 l-2c. Rye, 48c.

Barley nominal. Flax, 1.22. Prime timothy, 4.25@4.30. Pork lower; May, 12.321-2; July, 12.47 1-2. Lard lower; May.

7.55; July, 7.15. Short ribs lower; May, 0.45; July, 6.35. Cattle: Receipts. market 15 (520 lower; prime to extra native steers. 4.00/7/4.25; medium, 3.50(7/3.85; 3.75.

Hogs: Receipts, 20.000; market closed weak; mixed, 5.15(9)5.30; heavy, 5.80(7/5.85; light, 5.25 Sheep: Receipts, market demoralized; top sheep, 4.50; top lambs, 4.50(54.75. WALL STREET STOCK. New York, April 23. stock market opened weak. A brisk selling movement sent prices down 1-8(51 per cent, the latter in Union Pacific, 7-8 in Chicago Gas and New England, 34 in Reading and Northern Pacific preferred and 5-8 in St.

Paul. In later trading declines were recorded at 2 per cent in Sugar, 13-4 in New Jersey Central. 1 5-8 in General Electric, 1 in Atchison and American Tobaoco, 7-8 in Lead. Money on call easy at 1 per cent; prime mercantile paper, 2 per cent; sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bills at 4.88 88 1-2 for demand and 4.87 (54.871-4 for 60 days; posted rates, 4.88/7/4.80 1-2; commercial bills, 4.861-4 (54.86 1-2. Silver certificates.

6134 last bid; no sales. Bar silver, 63 1-S. Mexican dollars, 50 34 PROF. SMITH ACCEPTS. Will Be Professor of Greek at the University.

The following dispatch was received last night: Nashville, April Charles Smith, professor of Greek at Vanderbilt university, has accepted the professorship of Greek offered him by the University Wisconsin and will go there at the close of this term. APPEAR. Chief Justice Decides to Take the Case on Briefs. Washington. April 23.

case of John Y. McKane was called up in the supreme court today, but no attorney for McKane appeared. Chief Justice Fuller decided to take the case on briefs and give counsel until Friday to file his brief..