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HUTU ftW out!) ron m SUMTKB WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. ^Consolidates Aug. 2,1881. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aiins't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Establifthed Jane, STJMTEB. S. C., WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19.1898. Jfew Series-Vol. XVIII. So. 12 fa M?fym anb Jbntiptt Piilis3isd Srsry ff eiassdsy, Grt o&teen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : $1.50 per annum-in advance. IPTISTIBIXXST: On?Square first insertion......T....,"$l 00 livery subsequent insertion-._50 Contracts for three months, or longer wil s made at reduced rates. * All communications which subserve private a teres ts will be charged for&sadvertiemects. Obitaariea and tributes of respects will be zed for. BLOODY BATTLE ET WEEN MINERS AND NEGROES. T?rden, III , Oct. l2.-r-The little >wa of Virden is comparatively quiet to-night after a day of riot and <**t5ioodshed, resulting from the long expected clash between the onion miners and imported negroes At -, 12.40 o'clock this afternoon a Cbi . ea^o and Alton special train, bearing 200 negro miners from the south, arrived at the stockade around the Chicago-J ?ton Coal company's mines, and. immediately the firing began. The list at 10 o'clock to-night stands seven dead and 18 wounded For the past two weeks rumors I Have reached Ytrdio that a train hav i iag negroes from Alabama would reach the city and the Chicago and Alton depot bas been surrounded day and night by miners awaiting their . arrival To day the Chicago and Alton lim? ited doe to pass here at 10 o'clock through en route to Chicago an boor late displaying Sags on the rear in? dicating that a special waa following lediately the word was spread a dense crowd of miners lined the station platform, while soother >wd collected at the entrance of stockade a half mite north of the 'station. D E Kiley, a Chicago sod Alton detective, stood guard at a switch ut the south end of the sta vioo platform to see that it was not tampered with Ai 12 40 the special train passed the station and signal shots were fired from the sooth end of the train announcing its arrival. Immediately shots were fired from the moving train and ootside and the battle was on A few moments after the train bad passed the switch where Kiley was stationed, and while be was talking with two citizens, he threw op his arms and dropped dead with a bullet through his brain He was the first man killed The train continued to .the stockade, the miners firing into it all along the route and the negro passengers returning the fire The moment tbe tra?a reached tbe stockade the miners opened a desperate fire with Winchesters, re voivers sod firearms of all deserip tiona. The negroes on toe train an? swered with a steady fire. The miners and the train were enveloped in a clon? of smoke and the shooting sounded like a continuous volley Engineer Tijrsr received a bolle! in the arm and dropped from his seat H?s firemen seized the throttle, pot!* ed it opes and with a jerk the train was ender speed carrying a load of wounded negro passengers to Spring field. How many were wounded ia not known The train stopped st the stockade bot two minutes Its departure did not cause tbe firing to cease The tower of tbe stockade was filled with sharpshoot ers armed with Winchesters and they kept op a steady fire i oto the crowd of onion miners Eye witnesses say the miners were killed after toe train had departed. It ia not known bow maoy men are stationed behind the walls of the stockade, bot an est? mate places them between 25 and 40. The sopply sod provision store of the Chicago Virden Coal company is known as the Climax Trading Com? pany, with Sopt J F. Eyster io charge At 2 o'clock after the firing at the stockade had subsided an at tack withoot a parallel is the history of t c trouble was made oo Eyster in his store oo Main street, one block from the depot, which will probably cost bim bis life. He was sitting in his store when his telephone rang aud be was -Instructed from tbe stock? ade to secore physicians and horry them to the place Eyster jumped into his delivery wagon and securing two doctors rushed with them to the mines. He returned to his store, climbed out of bis wagon and was just entering his door when the cry was raised that Manager Fred L?? sens of the mines was with bim. With a rush a throDg of infuriated miners pressed toward the store Eyster ran behind a counter with a revolver in each band The miners pressed hard after, and as Eyster sprang op stairs he and the miners began shooting simultaneously. He rac to the top of his building sod jumped behind a chimney while tl miners ran into the street and open? fire on him again. Chips flew fro the brick chimney and Eyster R from cover across the roof of anoih? store, firing into the street below J he ran From there be crossed the roof of the bank of Yirden wbei he reloaded his revolver?. Blood was flowing from a wooc in his side, but with dogged dete ruination against terrible odds ? continued bis fight. Jumping to tl roof of the Rae & jGisb drug stoi he baited behind a projection be hs jost left, and emptied both of si: chambered revolvers. Then spring ing from cover, Eyster dashed abea amid a rain of bullets, to the roof < the Steed building, the upper s tor of which is known aa Miner's hal He either fell or jumped through tb skylight and landed in the arma of crowd of miners who seized him an carried him down stairs to the stree Other hands seized the almost uneoi scicus mao and he was dragged int the middle of the street Local policemen drove back tb crowd and carried Eyster t the city square, across tb street Eyster waa motionles and apparently dead The polic left him lying and * attempte to "disperse the crowd Ina te^ minutes Eyster was seen to raise hi band and wipe the blood from hi face. Two men sprang at him an with the ferocity of tigers bega jumping on his body and strikio bim on the head with stone? With a yell the angry crowd charge into the square to kill Eyster. ; ? The police charged in a bc dy an fought their way to the centre of tb mob, where they took a stand ove the prosirate man A carrier wa produced and Eyster was taken t the Buckle's hotel He had bee shot through the groin and is terribl battered about the head The phy s i ci an s stale that be bas barely chance of recovery. The dea miners were removed from th stockade to hotels and livery stables and the wounded miners were take on litters to the station house an< and taken to Springfield tonight. Au Associated press represent! ti ve-secured admittance to the stock ade tonight The Hst of the dea< and wounded inside the stocka d are one dead and eight wounded. Manager ' Lakens said to night ..The blood of every man shed then is on the governor's head He ii absolutely outside of the law an? has no justification in refusing t< send troops " Yirden, III., Oct. 12 -A detail o militia at 10:15 o'clock to night kill ed ex lieutenant of Police Tom Pres ton of Chicago at the stockade. Hi was standing outside the stockade ai guard The militia gave the by standing miners the command to hal and Preston stepped back to tb< gate. The militia fired and he wai shot in the stomach. He was car ried into the office in the stockade where be expired Battery D o: Galeeburg, III., under Capt Craig j numbering 160 men, arrived to nigh! from Pana Chicago, Oct. 12.-Col. Young ol the Firs$ Illinois volunteer cavalry re ceived orders to night to report ? Springfield immediately with troop? 4, B, 0, and D of his command These troops will leave at ll o'clock to morrow morning and from Spring field will be hurried to Yirden. Springfield, 111, Oct. 12.-Thc special train on the Chicago and Al ton which brought the Alabama ne? groes from Yirden had eight wound* ed men-all deputies, except one, t colored miner, who were taken to the Springfield city hospital Of these one died to-night, Wiiiam W. Carroll, . a deputy sheriff. He was shot three times. Another train which arrived at S o'clock to night brought up sis wounded men. The miners are gathered in little knots on the streets of the city to? night but there have been no demon? strations. They say they recognized some o? the negroes who arrived here from Yirden this afternoon ae some of those who came up three weeks ago from Alabama, and refused to go to work at Yirden, and I who were sent home at the expense of the Miners union Springfield, Ills.. Oct. 12 -Gov ernor Tanner this evening, regarding the Virden riot, said : ' Mr T C. Louch, president, and Mr. Lotkin, superintendent of the Virdea Coal company, at 12 30 to? day made good their threats to land a trainload of imported laborers from the sooth and attempted to put them to workin the mines at the point of the bayonet and the muzzle of the Winchester (such laborers being drawn largely, if not entirely, from the criminal class, ex-convicte, who learned their trade while doing terms in the penitentiary of Alabama) after having been fully advised atd having full knowledge that the landing of such imported laborers would precip? itate a riot I had wired them that if they brought these imported labor ers they did so at their own peri), and under trie circumstances, woi be morally responsible and crimina liable for anything that might h pen. "The killed and wounded are larg idle miners who were on the outsit The others were the hired gaarda w were brought along by the coal co nany. Most, if not all of them, w non-residents of Illinois. There is means of learning theil" names whereabouts, for the reason that tb declined to give them oat, knowii perhaps, that they are criminally 1 ble for murder, as they had no perm sion from any officer in Illinois auch ?zing or deputizing them to act as der. ty marshals or deputy sheriffs. "These avaricious mine owners ba so far forgotten their duty to sooic as to bring this blot upon the f ! name of oar State ; they have gone I ea OG gb, yes, too far, as they bad f: warning from me, by wire and te phone, that the importation of lat rbioh brings to oar State an aodesii hie class of citizsns had to stop, a I say now to scab, and all others, tl thin is a thing of the past, that it sh not be tolerated in illinois while 11 governor. These meo, the preside and officers of the eompaoy, prec itated this riot by the bringing in this imported labor-are guilty murder, and should be, aod I belie will be-indicted by the grand ju I and tried and convicted for this heiuo j offense." HISTORY OF THE TROUBLE Chicago, Oct. 12 -The difficulty the Virdeo mines originated on Ap 1,189S, when the miners of the Four District of Illinois went ont on a stri instituted by th? United Mine Werket Trouble followed at once at Pana, b the Virden miners remained qoi through the summer. The strikers h asked for 40 cents a too aod we offered 28 cents. Actual disturbances at Virden begt September 25, when the Chicago*Vi den company, the principal mine owne at that point, imported 100 negro from Birmingham, Ala. Wheo the train arrived with the on board, it was met by a large boc of armed onion miners, who threated to shoot the first negro that steppt from the oars. The- negroes we finally prevailed upon tc return to tl south and*the minea were not operate President T. C. Loners of the Ch os gc-Virden eompaoy then proceed? to make preparations to get otb miners. On October 9 Sheriff Dave port notified Governor Tanner th; there would certainly be trouble ac that State troops were needed to pr serve the peace. Governor Taoner ai vised the mine officials against impor i og miners-that be was opposed to tl system-that while there was no law I keep them oat of Illinois, be did oi feel it to be his daty as governor to at the arm of the State to give protectio to mine owners io operating their mint with this class of employes. Superintendent Lakens, according I Governor Tanner, replied that iz ecioes would be roo at all hasard? that the eompaoy woold employ SOB labor as they taw fit ; that they wool import this labor and operate tba aio< with it, eveo if they bad to do it*t tb point of the bayonet aod the maizie < the Winchester No troops were feet. The oezt day Mr. Loaekt notified th governor that his minen woold be ope rated, aod demanded the protection < the State. Tho matter had bee brought before toe State board of arb tratioo aod that board decided io favo of the miners, bot held that to iojoi tice had been done the Chicago-Virde eompaoy. From this poi ot the trouble has bee a dispute between Governor Tanne and the mine operators, carried on b telegraph and other communications The governor steadily refused td ca! oat the State troops, aod charged tb operators with importing ex-convict and an undesirable class of workmen. The operators declared that the mei they desired to briog to their mine had been cboseo for their ability am their capacity to become good citizens They also said they were williog t< take baok the strikers at the soale o 28 cents a too, bot that they could no open their mines at the exborbitan demaod of 40 cents The mines, it ii claimed, are all operated in accordant with the Stale law. Sheriff Davenport has been in sym pathy with the governor, and says ht does not want to enforce laws that wil briog labor into the State, and offeree to resigo rather than undertake the task. One huodred Springfield miners re inforoed the Virdeo etrikers on October 10, armed and determined to prevent the oegroes from going to work. Arm? ed men have since been practically io possession of the town. Manager Lakens of the Chicago? Virden company swore out a writ of injonction agaio6t 34 of the landing strikers. These men had ruo out of town four ex-policeman, who bad been hired by the operators. The strikers ? had not displayed violence against others anti! they began to suspect that more oegroes were to be brought io No Negroes to,Land. THINGS VERY UNSET? TLED IN THE MINING DISTRICTS OP ILLINOIS. Virden, lil., Oct. 14.-Rumors have been flying fast to day, and not even the best informed bad any defi? nite idea as to what would develop daring the night Reports that an? other trainload of negroes was on its, way here kept the excitement at a high tension, but the militia are in complete possession of the stockade, and are closely guarding the railroad property. The coroners jory heard a large number of witnesses to-day, but did not conclude its work. The inquest will last till Monday or Tuesday. Warrants were sworn ont to day before the local magistrate by an officer of the Miners' Union charging President Loucks, Manager Lukens and other with "conspiracy to mur? der," bot on advices of the military officers in charge here they were not served. This action, however, caused. Col. Young to refuse to allow several guards who had been employed by the coal coal company' to depart for their hornee in Chicago, as he thought they might be needed as witnesses. Six ex-guar<i: from St. Louis, who came np OD the train oarrying tbe blacks Wednesday, and who were more or less seriously wounded, were allowed to leave for homo, after a consultation, participated in by Col. Yoong, Man? ager Lukens, Coroner Hart, Police Magistrate Roberts and Attorney Patter. Three of tbe men were so badly iojored that it is necessary to carry them to the train. Three hundred miners from Virden, Carlioville, Nilwocd and Greenridge attended the funeral of ?. Breo era ac at Girard to-day. There was no dis? order. General Manager Lukens of the Chicago-Virdeo Coal company, to-day made a statement denying the charge that the company is not willing to pay its miners living wages. He claimed that some of the men were making over $6 a day. Col. Young's Illinois cavalry to-day relieved Battery 6 of guard duty in the city. Col. Yoong is ranking officer and will be in command of all troops here. All trains with freight or passengers stopping here are carefully sea/cbed for negroes. Two hundred members of the First cavalry and.Third infantry, noder command of Col. Yoong, are here to-day and 175 more are expected. These, with the 128 men io the Gaiesburg battery and- Elgin company of the Sons of Veterans, will give Col. Yoong a force of over 500 men. WILL NOT LET NEGROES LAND Paoa, Itt,, Oct, 14-A telegram was received to-day from Virdeo, saying that to ali probability Operator Lakens of tbe Chicago Virdeo Coal company woold attempt to land at Paoa. tbe imported negroes whc, after a bloody riot, were shat oat at Virdeo Aooofereooe was immediately held by telephone between Capt. Harris, com? manding tbe militia here, and Adjt. Geo. Reece and Goveroor Tanner of Springfield. The conference resulted io the goveroor orderiog Capt. Harris to immediately pat OD a guard at each of the coal mines and at the approaches of eaeh railroad ioto Paoa, and ooder no circumstances to permit any import? ed oegroes to Und io Paoa. Capt. Harris, after a ooofereoce with the miners' prescient, Craven, ordered the miners to get their goos and be in readiness to assist him in preventing the oegroes from landing. The mioers readily oomplied with his request. Chicago, lil., Oct 14-Complica tioos, which threaten to assume greater proportions than the dash betweeo Fed? eral and State authorities during the railway strike ander Altgeld's admin? istration, promise to grow oat of Gov. Tanner's action in refusing to allow the Alton road to unload negro miners at Virden. General Soliotor Brown of the Chicago and Aiton left for Spring? field to-day as the resait of a conference between the officials of the road. Steps will be taken by the Alton to secure legal redress for the alleged law lees Feizure of the road by the govero? or. The official? of the Alton make DO attempt to conceJ ??eir anger, and cast the blame upon the governor for interfering with a oommoo carrier which has authority to act as such ander the State laws. Springfield, III , Ost. 14 -Gov. Tanner to day sent cavalry troops D and B of the Springfield and Bloom ! ington, and Co. F of Macomb, Sons of Veteran regiment, to Pana, to re? place the troops reoalled from there Wednesday and sent to Virden. The oolorcd miners taken from the train here Wednesday are still herded at the citj ball and fed by public char? ity. Proceedings aro expected in the United States court by mine operators to restrain Gov. Tanner and the militia from interfering with colored meo who want to work. NEGROES GOTTEN OUT OF SPRINGFIELD Springfield, 111 , Oct. 14.-While over 2,000 miners were lined op in the street near the Church of the Immacu? late Conception ready to follow the re? mains of <t their deceased companion, Edward Welsh who was killed io the riot at Virden,Wedoesday, to the ce etery, the 106 imported negroes from Alabama were quietly smuggled out of the city and sent to St. Louis. A subscription was taken up among tbe business men this afternoon and the money hurriedly raised to get the negroes out of tbwn. Tbe Seventh Corps. Jacksonville, Fla , Oct. 13.-An order was issued from headquarters to? day by which the Seventh army corps is changed from three divisions to two divisions of two brigades each, this change being made necessary by rea? son of the many regiments recently sent away to be mustered out. As at pres? ent arranged, the corps consists of 12 infantry and two cavalry regiments as follows : First Tesas, Second Louisiana, Third Nebraska, Ninth Illinois, Seoond South Carolina, Fourth Illinois, One Hundred aod Sixty-first Iodiana, Sixth Missouri, Forty-ninth Iowa, Seoond Illinois, First North Carolina, Fourth Virginia and Seventh and Eighth Uni? ted States oavalry, the two latter now being at Huntsville, where they will remain until further orders. Gen. Coppioger is to command the cavalry. In aoeordance with recent orders of the war department, Brig. Gens. A. S. Burt, Lucius F. Hubbard and James H. Barkley are relieved from farther duty. Definite orders have not as yet been issued as to when the corps will leave for Savannah. PROP. HART RESIGNS, Prof. J. W. Hart has handed io bis resignation to President Hartzog, to take effect.on November 1. He will go to Kingston, Ontario, where he has been elected superintendent, of the dairy branch of the school of mining and agriculture. This sobool is one of three maintained by the government of Ontario for the education of cheese factory and creamery operatives. Professor Hart is a native Canadian aod was in the employment of the Can? adian government before oomiog to Clemson, having been in charge of the central experiment dairy farm at Ottawa, aod of tbe experiment station dairies at Kingsolear and Sussex, New Brunswick. The college is un* fortunate in losing bim, for Mr. Hart ts considered here as tip top in his profession, and it will be remembered that the cheese exhibited at the Atlanta exposition by Clemson, made under his supervision, took the first premium over high class competitors. Until the board meets the dairy de? partment here will be pot io rare of Professor Connor assistant agricultu? rist, who ie himself something of a dairyman -Clemson Cor. News aod Coarser. The New York Prese says : "Books, books, books. The great balk of books in America is published by about one hundred firms, io four chief cities. The output is about 5,000 titles, io editions of from 100 to 1,000,000 copies. Very expensive books are limited to editions of 100 copies. Tbere are works of fiction of which from 20,000 to 100,000 copies are sold in a year Editions of school books, from 50,000 to 500,000 copies, are common enough. Tbe Applet oas for many years sold over 1,000,000 copies of Webster's 'Speller' annually, and a Cincinnati firm sold every year over 1,000,000 copies of the Eclectic Series Tbe American public pays every year $50,000,000 for general literature and sobool books. Over 20,000 Peet High. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 13-The G. H. Eldredge geological survey party, which has just returned from the Cook's Inlet country, is said to have discovered the highest mountain in North America. The peak, which towers far above Mount St. Elias, is situated in Alaska, to the right of the Sushitna river. The government topographer took triangulations of the elevations, as? certaining by scientific calculations the exact height of the peak, which he declared to be more than 20,000 feet. The mountain was named Bull shae, a word spoken in exclamation by the Indian guide of the party upon first beholding the wonderful peak. Toe members of the survey are re ported to have expressed the opinion that an ascent of ?ullshae would be almost impossible, so precipitous are its sides. Before The Highest Trib? unal. Washington, Os. H.-The Wiley Sinkler case, involving the constitn tionality of the old registration law o? Sooth Carolina was heard to-day is. the United Staten sarpreme eonrt. Charles A. Douglass appeared for the plain i ff in error, aod Attorney General Barber represented the State* The oase came up on appeal from tb? circuit court for the district of Soots? Carolina. The complaint alleged that the regis? tration officers "willfully refused1* te? permit the plaintiff to vote for con? gressman, aod claimed damages io the sum of $2,500. The defendant de? murred, alleging that the plaintiff failed to set out that he was a daly re? gistered elector. Jadge Si mon too sus? tained the oral d?marrer aod the case comes up squarely on merits of law. Lengthy argument was heard oo both sides. If the court should over rale Judge Simonton, the case will go back for the jury to say what damages should be awarded. The court took the case under ad? visement. The decision will hardly be rendered for several months. Sites For Two America** Camps Already Selected. Habana, Oct 12l-The sites for at least two American samps have already been selected by the com misi?n appoint? ed for that purpose. The first will be outside Guaoabacoa, across the bay from Habana, and the second will be at Gaanajay, 20 miles from here. The main object in view io the selection of the camps, beside their healthy IooatioB, is the possibility of approaching them, from the sea without having to enter the harbor of Habana, which is con? sidered to be the source of infection. At a private conference at the palace yesterday Gen. Wade requested Capt. Gen. Blano to cause the evacuation at the earliest possible date of two pelts on the island, in order to facilitate the immediate briogiog of relief rations into Coba. Col. Kowan ?od his aide-de-camp ar? rived here last night, thus completing their trip from Santiago The colonel bad an interview with. Gen. Gomez and fonnd the insurgent* commander eager to co-operate with' the United States. Gomez was io favor of the Ccbacs being disbanded as BOOTS as the Spaniards evacuate the island and a permanent form of government is established. It is probable that Gomez will be elected preeideot. He is in favor of a general election, in which Cabans and Spaniards will alike take part and in whioh ali taxpayer? will have a vote and voice. A note was handed to oar commis? sioners yesterday by the Spaniards* treatiog of the fortresses, batteries aod fortification and defences of the islaocV as belonging to the United States, whioh shows that some progresa- is being made in the work which tba military commission were to carry oat. Neal's Place m Demand. The General Assembly at its oes* session will elect the superintendent of the Pcoiteotiary. Cel. W. A. Neal* DOW holds the place, He will be a caodidate for reelection, bat a multi? tude are ambitious to get the office.* The entries have cot yet closed, bot the following is the formidable list ap to this time : Kepreseotative T^nks L. Caoghmso, of Salads ; Kepreseotative H. H Crom, of Bamberg ; Kepreseot? ative J. H. Wbartoo, of Laurens ; Quartermaster J. E. Jaroigao, of Ma? rloo ; Mr. John W. McCullough, of Daliogton N. W. Brooker, of Colum? bia ; Kepreseotative E. E. Yeroer, of Ocooee ; Kepreseotative John M. Bell, of Aiken ; former Marshal J. K. Han ter, ,and probably Mayor T. J. Lips comb, of Colombia. There is talk of others running for the, place. The happiest ladies are those using the. Whitesewicg machine. If jon want a new organ for your- oifl one-* see Randie. POWDER Absolutely Pur? ROYAL IAKJMQ POWOCR CC.. NEW VOflk.