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2 THB PBOPJLS'S IOWA CITY, IOWA, THURSDAffrtRJLY 7.1892. TELEPHONE NO. 87 To the Public: V19 is it neisl mg AND REBUILDING In July we will commence the REMODELING- and ENLARGING of our store, adding to it the room on the 20x110 feet, and in order to avoid nuking or packing our goods we have decided to make a Clearing Sale of Men's Boys At such prices that you will be convinced on seeing the goods that you have never before bought New and Desirable Clothing At a genuine reduction sale. We advertise no prices as we real- Jze, as everyone must, that the quoting of prices is misleading, and a comparison of 'price 8 and goods is the only way that an intelligent conclusion can be arrived at. COAST TEASLEY, ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Mrs. Ruth Woodworthdied at Berlin, aged 104 years. Bismarck lias ffiren out that he if ready to be tried ot any charges which taijrnt be preferred. The tannery of Priehett Bonfrh at Mann's Choice. was buvned, the loss being Tbe annual meeting of the National Mnsic Teachers 1 association began Tuesday afternoon in Cleveland, 0.

An unknown young woman was by a Eock Island train at Muscatine, la. She was thrown into the river and drowned. Miners, whose carelessness caused the explosion in the Birlienberg mine, Przi- bram, Bohemia, have been sentenced to terns of imprisonment. President Harrison has signed tbe appropriating $50.000 for the erection of a statue of the late Gen. T.

Sherman in Washington. An unknown negro was riddled with bullets oy a posse of citizens near Jaa- per, Monday morning for attempting 1 to assault two white -women. The number of miles of rail way built in the United States the first half of this year was miles, 500 miles less tfcan for the same period of last year. Dr. Tragntt Beck, of Newark, N.

baa been arrested in Ebling, burg, Germany, for nsing- language disrespectful to the evperor while talking to an acquaintance. BUI WilltauM was arrested at Henrietta, charged with the mnrder of Mand Kramer, one of the three women who -were yictiins of the recent mysterious killing- at Deniaon. Near Qlidden, Earl Klver stabbed William Wolf in tbe breast twtoe -With a'dirk knife, inflicting wounds from which he died in a few minutes. The tragedy occurred during the progress of a dance. At an informal conference of between thirty and forty democratic congressmen, held in Washington Tuesday night, a motion was adopted Wcprew Ing the opinion- that the silver bill should be pasaed as it, came from the The bodies of Anthony B.

Craig and his wife, whom he had taken home from an insane asylum Saturday night, were found in their home la Dubaqae. by the police Tuesday night. It was evidently a case of wife murder and suioide by shooting. GATHERING BY CktfotlM Convention to Om ID Nicw YORK, July delejratM to the convention of Christian, Endeavor tocktiea rived In this city. Over have been assigned to various hotels and boarding-houses.

It is estimated that fully 30,000 delegates will participate in the proceedings of the convention. New York and Brooklyn will send about 10,000 delegates. The opening services will occur Thursday and will continue night and day until Sunday Hfteraoon. WHOLE FAMILY DROWNED. Bash Attempt to Croti a Swollen Stream Results in tbe Death of Three ALBIA, July 7.

Through the carelessness of Robert Inn is, himself, his wife, cnild, and the horse they were driving were all drowned while attempting to cross the Cedar at Hiteman Crossing. The creek was swollen with recent rains and running a mighty torrent. Innis was warned, but thought he could follow the old ford. A large number of bystanders were unable to lend aid owing to the rapidity of the current and depth of tbe water. Mortality from Cholera.

LoSTiox, July Times Si Petersburg correspondent says that according to the latest official report there were sixty fresh cases of cholera und ninety-one deaths in Baku on July 3. Six.deaths from cholera, are reported in various other places in Trans- Caucasia and nine cases are reported Tiflis. Victim of a Firecracker. FORT DOTHH, July 6-year- old daughter ot O. M.

Oleson, of Dayton, died Tuesday morning in agony from the effects of burm celved from fire set to her drew lighted firecracker. The not be extinguished before juries were received. rm jmm ft Short la Their NASHVILLE, Jiitr Gale and William bookkeeper, regpec savings bank, an i counts are i men left the the shortage morning. ffWE A NolM-J CHICAGO, Lyman, tion and tion BLOOD fLOWS. Sad Culmiuatiorj of Labor at tlie Uariiegift HUU, Locked-Out Workmen and Pinkarton Deputies Do Battle.

The JtepitlHetl In Their tempts tu 1,41 nd. Am Killed WonnUrf on Both Klrikort to B. Uomlu. WAB IN HOMKSTEAJI, July Capital and labor have clMhed at UomeateaH. and the town is red with blood.

Never in the bloody history of riotn In this rlcta- ity, save the frre at railroad lots of 13T7, has there been such carnage and such a battle. The 300 who came in a boat to Homestead in the early morning have desolated many hearth, and their short hare aroused anqh dMpera- tion that it ia aafe to that before the men would now allow the mill to be operated by men-union they would burn it over their heada. Mbnj KllUd Carvgie'a managen attempted to land PtnkerUm men at the Homeatead works at 4 a. m. The a tempt waa re- eiated by the locked-out men and a battle with funs eturaed, in whioh seventeen men are reported to have been killed and fourteen injured.

Three hundred Pinkerton men anted with were brought from Pittsburgh in barges in the light of the early morning. The itriltcri had been advised of their coming and had gathered with their frisndu to the number of 6,000 OB i the landing when the barge arrived. The PJnkertons were advised from the shore not to attempt landing. They persisted, and aa one of their number started down the gang plank he fired his gun. The shot was answered by the strikers, and a fusillade eOaued which lasted for half an hour.

After the first fusillade the 1 boats withdrew from the shore and desultory firing was kept up on both sides for several hours. During this time the strikers secured a cannon, and, planting it on tbe opposite side of tbe river, placed tbe guards between two fives. Set the IMver AS re. About 10 o'clock tbe men on the bnrges made another attempt to land and a desperate battle followed, in wMeh rifles in the bands of the strikers and Finkerton men and the cannon did terrible execution. While this fight was in progress the strikers poured oil into the river above the barges and set it on tire.

The boats were soon surrounded by flames" and caught fire in aeveral places. The guards were unable to witnatand this new element and finally at 11 o'clock they were forced to withdraw and return Ijp Pittsburgh, Gather for Dffonnt. "They come. The Finkertons are coming!" shouted a horseman riding at lightning speed as he dashed into Homestead at 1 o'clock in the morning and alarmed the leaders of tbe strikers at their headquarters. There was immediate action.

Tbe secret signals, lonj? ago planned and arranged, were set working, and from both sides of the Monongahela "iver answering responses came. The story of the fall of Warsaw might be written again. "To arras to protect our homes cried 3,000 strikers, and nearly as many men, women and children Slowly came the steamer Little Bill towing two model barges loaded with 350 Plnkerton owl and iron police, Winchester an abundance of ammunition. The scene on shore The thousands of people wem 1 bled on the bank of the firer 09- Homestead tide. An tbe up the crowd w- posite the Jbfe up and -then i the la that it to attempt to get into Mill iueloture In the of a crowd which WM BOW ready to do battle to tbe It wu aJl over ao quickly that not until the boats re- tnrwd to Uie kbelter at tbe log did the the damage done their Killed aad The list Of killed and injured, far as it la poRsible to learn up to the present, is aa follows: Kiuan--William Froy.

Fov, John WSV bi'd, jiiucts. Mmltiiel Murny. captain of sipjiubuut 1,1 tUf BUI. Jolut SUM Wut-u, John Uorrit, kit i-a in itHuiiii IIUMJOHU man mhiwe body WM rarrtcil itwtkv by frit-lulu, four mul workers, mitt workei No. 4.

nlwt heaU ftw monnoti lutyr. PlnkL-noii Je- 101'live, iiiiknown 1 unknown man, killed tuiUntly wh( L-SIUHW at Tom), IT. IUJDKKD--Henty In tbe lArtl; John Kane, aerloaaly luiurrf; Mtrtlu Mrrry, ID left iWe, Kungarlkti workmnn, shot while Htooplnx Murray, will protwoly die; WelA wwkmnn. phot while Attempting body of Murray, will probably dla; Andrew Somlw, ucrlouslj nounOrU; Georee Killer, tWeH shstwred; W. Kline, guasbot wound 1n httad, dj-lnt: Albert Gett, hot In rlKhtlef, vlUrecovar: utikuown hurt; P.

H. cmpHlBot deteotlvea, shot la Iftt leg; 1, Boflunii, nlwt la rffht leg; SukMtl WWln, shot in aboulder: Dttnlel Lwier, snot in luwfl. rirlAt at Short After the flrat repulse the banled off into riyer and the firing waa renewed, continuing at in terrain for aeveral hours. The firet shot ot the engagement came from the barye. It was aimed at a big Hungarian who at the water's edge.

The ball went wide of the human target, but it was the signal to the Pinker ton men to begin, and for a full tan minutes they continued to fire. The first fall WHB Michael Murray, a heater in one of tbe mills. He was shot in the left side and fell face downward on a pile of tones. Close be- aide Murray stood a Hungarian. He stooped over Murray's prostrate body, and as he WM in tbe net of raising him be staffjrertd and fell by the side of his comrade.

This bloody spectacle roused the crowd and with a hoarse eheer half a dozen men rushed to the place where Murray and the lay. They picked up the bodies and carried them behind the trestle. One of the rescue rb, a Welshman, who refuMd to give his name, was shot in the left leg just as lie raised Murray's head from, the ground. Murray and the Hungarian were carried to Dr. Puraan'a office, and after a he.sty examination he announced tht both men would probably die.

Six of the wounded men were brought to the Homeopathic hospital about 9 o'clock. Striken Forced At 7:45 there was another collision between the workmen and their adversaries. This time tbe scored first blood by firing a tit the bouts. Four of the Pinkerton men dropped in their tracks, but their associates quickly returned the fire. The captain of tlic steamboat Little Bill, which curried the T'inlcerton men, was wliot dead.

Then after moments of in- difecvifflinate Bring on both sides tbe skirmifih ended. The victim of tlii apparently unpremeditated collision WHS Henry Streiffel, ISyeartof ago, formerly employed at UIR working a helper. He was. shot through tho left roast and lived only a few moments. The strikers than went to work constructing a stout barricade of steel hart, tus a.

line of deft-nne on the bank overlooking the (spot where the Iwate anchored. Jichind this barrier of was (i cannon, antique as to but M.U1 capable of dOUg serioua MOiaffe if htrikera tetf W4 rlK incme tM (Uretticte ol the btrpea and the men on the watched 1U approach with then the Little Bill ID between the bargea and the shore, but ou reaching water the ear of fire came to a heat, however, wu intent and the little steamer was toon amoking hot A All this time eoutluuouh fliv WAS kept up and it estunaU'd thut 1,400 were fired during brief engagement At 11 o't-lock nine men wont reported killed, among them this captain of the who WM wounded early in tlui flirht. The number of wounded was variously estimated. It was said thai it would reiK'h twenty at leant, nnd that a number ot theso would The df twtivos at the house of tlie forotn. were hemmed in aud at the mercy the workmen, who held the position of adYtanaKv on the batik.

or t'linik. A Hag truer- dibplwyi'd by the Pinkerton men and was shot down. It ivus hoibted the aeooiid time with the same result. The thiril titne tiro flag wan riddled with bullets, nnil hardly of it left to hoist airaln. The mill workers havp htuml that the militia 1ms been ordered here, and they now to be dMmninod to rid place uf every Pinkfrtoti man before the pet here.

11 innIM iiviuK rutnl. DOMKKTKAD, July T. --The Strikers sent out a number of men to Pittsburgh Tor dynamite. These men returned at 2 oVlock with a number of The striken went up a cheer and moved in body toward river, where they set to work to destroy the barges in the, fctvetKn. A number of piuKed men throw HID bombs.

Tlio esplobloa could bo liewd termUes. The strikers retreated out of the way, leaving the picked force to throw the bombs. The result is not yet known on account of the amoke and confusion. to the Sheriff MoCleary (tent a telegram to Oov. FattiMui urfaounctm? the riot and the Inability of uuthoi'lties cope with the lie awkod for iostnuitiout).

The govoi'rJw replied that the local uuthoritifN miwt cxhuuttt every menus at their commund for the prenervation of pcuoo. The aherlft tliou teleprupliud the governor that he could not meet the emerguney, and htm to iwt at once. for Hit InVMtlKMtinn, July Cuminctti, of California, has lutrotlucod in the rusoltitlun the appointment, by the speaker, ut tt committee of fiva membur.s to and repurt on the (Sinuses of strike at the Homesteiul lallld ami the conditions pruduuiug lliu BUOIO, etc, BUSINESS IN CONGRESS. Vlllbuitprlntr 'Mi Klltfr In thfl Kuiidrj Civil Will, WAHftiSOTOSf. July Uie liouno the conference report on the river and liuxbor bill with HKTecd to--llil to The motion minlc ycMtcrdrvy by Mr.

Trifcey, of New York, to refer the silver bill to the committee on banking and currency, lost--yens, nnyis, 10H. Sir. Williams, movciJ tj reconsider. Mr, lllund luovi-fl to lay the latler inotiun on the titbit. Mr.

Hland'w motion WHS carried by viva vow vole --Uli to Sa--but Mr, Traccy ilemiitiiJed the yemn wad und thf HE CANNOT SEKVE. WiUiim J. OawpboU Deoliwt AU Honor, Notlfiw Prvtldtnt of Hit cicion Not to Accept the Ikan Comnjittw Chairtnanahlp. 7. J.

intentioit to from of the republican nation at committee was formally announced TneiHiay. Seven repnblioaua, Chairman imld a three IHUHV with Harrinon at UM white houM TutHMltty aftorniKin. Uie of which the fotlowinjf utatraient Mr, Campbell: 1 iwlwtwl clml rmnn at ttM It WM will) vbo OUtlMtM- dtrtUndlnf my ttwn pendlint mlfht rMtdnr for ma to UL-I in MiMofiy (uliy UDtteriUxMi by ttto rtmimUtw dtrflctlf Slucn UH oomraUtw to my tu rpnllor It prM fur ma to IM aliKtrmitn, and I thn Tlt(ht to tlutt I not Umlpr thu mthorlt.T In ut by IbBiMlliMiklfointntlWfi wilt the rowinltltxt wltKIn tte next iryl tbftt totiisnliire win mental Mirly Ai that meet ing 1 will tormaltj tondnr ny mid iiiv itmvntMor wtM lllmi be cliwU-d. Mv aiu-iraaor will Mi Ity tbii eiMitttve coinmlllfifl. in autliorlinJ ny tUHOliitlon by ralloiml Umrrylug Hut Hli OrlKlnal Chairman Cum bull wavi till with pleanuru when a him la the unk'-vooni of the IIOUM, whore ho wan Intend luff the work of Tlb- bltt putting upon typti-ivHitcn short this i-eanlti of the "I au merely carrying out my original pinna," lie remarked, "looking to an orfrun; ration Mifi wxecntlvfl uomuittteu fof etunpaiirn ptirpohen.

That WM all I prom 'nod a week ago when thin jxmttlon of elmlrmtin WM offered me. At, that time I tiiadtt an ueuuptHtioe conclltliinttl upon a fttutrry tirrnnfrement of my (MTHnnal and every UUP, InehiJlnjf undnrntnud mv pOMltlon par- An to the compitiiyon of the coinmittet', that tnattfr will be at.Tpnrted to in the cif day ur Uvvand tltoa I will I HI at liberty, hhall upon the imtkmul uomtult- 1ir, not at lu C'ntrAqo, July -Mr, CBtniibcU'n de- tOlniUlori 'was uot tud, When ho rcaclief! ulty from WinhlTtgtOB ivtM'k nffo lu' refused to diiuois pltmt of of the committee, rftiiwiitl to du so was nttrlbntod to iiln reliiftunoe to (lliwnw 1 pinna wliiish would be carried (tnl by others. jittyrr fgrmnllv accepted the pohitiun. It with wellltnown thnt liin here, particularly J'lilHp D. Armour, objoc-ted lo Air.

Cuinjilieira (k-votinff lite whole of l(wf for loouilis to piliiiei. Oilier du-ntM ata objected. Then, un account of liculth of tin- inetnlx'M of hiH family, Mr. i object wl to npendtafr ijf )ilh limn uwuy frutn CliiunffO, mid nulbiml cMu mi mid Uto i ImpreHHed with iik'ii i the be in New York, und cod Id rwt be to tii-licvu that. wiiMDcctwBiii'y lisli tcrniwiritry qtrnrtei'h nt 4nwjriF fur L' hat mi mi.

i A i II. 0. I'ayun wiutU Sj-nnlor Ntiwyer dncted Ot poult ion is to tw.