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Tlie lyexington Dispatch. YOL. XXIY. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1894. X(> 25 1 * " ' ? * *? -1 ?** *- - I cocc en I/en ie ^rtiiikip I ^ ~ COXEY IN WASHINGTON. HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TOSPS.4KAS HE WISHEDi One of His Itlght Hand Mm Gjt His 1 Head Clubbed by the Police?Stirring: j ! ?Scenes at the Capitol?The Police are | Firm.. Washington, May 2.?Yesterday | was a perfect day with a brightly shin-; ing sud, which citizen Coxey took as a propitious omen, was the portion of the army of the commonweal for its demonstration In favor of the Coxey ! rrtariR hill. Shortly before 10 ^VAi & VMVkv o'clock Marshal Browne formed tne men in a hollow square, and standing in the centre called for three cheers for peace. The cheers were given and the commonweaiers waved their little cotton flags of peace, with which they had been armed. "Xow," cried Browne, "we'll march around the grounds and try it over again," and the band started up a slow i step to which eight communes walked in a circle to a point about 100 yards from the former camp. Here Browne formed them in a long line and put the men through a little drill with their j peace staves. Then he harangued them , counselling peace. Their banners of peace, he said, would be more forcible than all the guns and cannons in the world. The men cheered and Browne waved his hat. "Carry peace," cried Browne, ] "Shoulder peace," and with their little ' flags pointed upward at an angle be- 1 hind the head the commonweaiers i started off to show congress what it t should do. The bugle sounded, the < band olayed and the Scotch bagpiper brought forth a dolef ui souna iruui mo ? instrament. Just then the leader of < the commonweal arrived in his pony 1 phaeton. With him was Mrs. Coxey. 1 and in her arms she carried little "Le- < gal Tender Coxey," her babe of a tew weeks. Citizen Coxey held the reiDS. At 1015 Marshal Browne called out "attention" again, and with "shoulder peace" and "forward march," the com- f menweal army started for Washington, i led by Browne and Coxey and a pla- t |pon of mounted police. 1 Metropolitan police surround the ( capitol and patrol its corridors. Blue < coats can be seen everywhere, and visl tors are requested by ihem to "move on" and not to block the passages and t doorways. The main body of the guar- i dlaDS of the peace were stationed at j i the east front, where General Coxey was expected to attempt to speak. Bj ( 11 o'clock, an hour before the common- r _? Qf the* nanitol. 1 weal army was uuc ?? ?,?, thousands of curious men, women ana r children, had gathered around the t building to gain places of vantage to witness the much tailed of aDd long t expected appeal to CoDgress by Coxey I and his followers. i The route of the procession was down r Fourteenth street road to Mount Pleas- i ant, thence along Fourteenth street proper to Pennsylvania avenue to the [ peace monument and around the capl s tol grounds. Fourteenth street road t was very dusty and the marches were i plentifully besprinkled as they march- t ed along. r The commonweal moved at a funeral s pace and it was three quarters of an 1 hour in reaching Mount Pleasant, a su- 1 burb of the city. At the head of the i dusty soldiers of peace were three i mounted policemen. Then came Mrs. t "* T"?- ? Domiliot nraror of Annie -U. JL>igga, a J. vy UU9V V*I ? . . Kansas, in an open barouche, with her t husband and her two daughters. And then appeared Miss Mamie Coxey,typi- 1 fying "peace" mounted on a white pal- 5 frey. she is a blonde girl of 10. She t wore a suit of cream colored cloth re- < lieved by a big red bow at the throat, J and wore a little blue liberty cap. She 1 seemed perfectly at home on the pal- < frey, but appeared somewhat em bar-11 rassed and created a good deal o? ex- 1 citement. j < She nodded smilingly at the people j < who saluted her. Two old soldiers, one 1 ' a Confederate and the other a Federal, > both members of the commonweal, i' formed her guard of honor, marching ' on foot. Carl Browne followed on a ' large white stallion. Then, seven foot- ' sore musicians, Coxey, Mrs. Coxey and 1 *"' * * "r P/IYflV P.3.TTIP TlP^t 1 ilLLlt <A1 1CUUV1 \s\s-a.^j ~ in a pheaton. Jesse Coxey followed on! < a spirited horse, and the rank and file |: followed him, When the army reached the peace monument it found a crowd IJ of 5,000 awaiting it. The procession 1 then wended its way toward the east. front of the capitol. ' i The sensation was soon over; the im- j J inense crowd on the eastern front of I the capitol saw Coxey, bareheaded, pro- > ceeded to the steps of the east portico I < and mount to the first platform about j' five steps. Here were stationed Captain j Kelly and other officers of the police j force. They met the general before he 11 had time to turn his face to the gath- j1 ered multitude and he was politely in-' formed that he could make no speech ! at that place. " "I wish to pnfpr a i V^oxey saiu ui iuj ,. ^ . _ protest?' I "No, sir," hrmly said the captain, "you can take no action here of any i kind. Ihe police were courteous but! very firm, and Coxey theD, bareheaded ! as be was, said: ."Well, then, I wish to re&d the pro- j ^^H^cannot be read here," said the j Coxey showed no inclination to yield | and he was unceremoniously hustled down the steps and out to the middle i of the broad plaza in front of the capi tol. He made no physical resistance,: but protested all the while,and a crowd ; gathered arouoa him and obstructed! the way somewhat; but It was not a 1 bustle of resistance, but seemed more I like curiosity. The police did not use : their clubs, no one was struck and the , immense crowd was handled in the kindest yet in the firmest and most ef fective manner. All who came expect- , Ing some serious trouble, and they were not a few, w* re disappointed. Coxey was not formally put uuder! arrest. He was simply put off ol the j capitol steps; far away off to prevent! his reascending. The middle of the pa-1 rade was jammed ana jostled about by i the crowd* some being thrown about in : every direction. The clanging of bells I on the cable cars, and the yelling and j surging of the mob made the scene j hideous. Mounted police dashed lntc*; the crowd, endeavoring to crowd them j back from the sidewalk and restore order, but for some time to no avail. It; became necessary to use their club3 as j a menace. Some'of the Coxeyites were jostled and crowded until they reached ; the wall of the grounds and it looked ; as though they were about to head for j the capitol. A rush was made by the 1 f mass of people upon the scene and j' many ran pell mell to the plaza tramp- i; ling down the shrubbery and vines. ,} About the east side of the capitol , pandemonium reigned, and the mount- i ed police made a charge to clear the! J way. Then occurred a scene scarcely j. ever seen about the big building. Men, i j women and children rushed for the side- ' walks, falling over and tramping on ! I one another in their attempt to reach ! J a place of safety. Finally the way was ! j cleared and out in the street could be ! seen the Coxeyites presenting a deplorable and comical sight in their rags J and tatters, after their contact with i j the yealding and surging populace. I Browne's personality was over. He j, rode h?3 mettlesome charger in forbidden paths and jumped him over the J stone coping to the eastern part of the port. A mounted odicer started after j him and as he resisted arrest, he re ceived a clubbing. Ilis head was cut but it is not thought that he was badly hurt; The incident started rumors af / loat as to general fighting but no such i thing occured. The plaza in front of ' the main portion of the capitol build- * teg is in appearance at this time just as is usual on a beautiful day when ? congress is in session. t The episode is certainly closed for the lay, and the affair of Coxey lasted not j over 10 muDites. He was taken by i the police to the edge of the crowd without any difficulty and entered his carriage. Captain Kelly said: : "Where you do go now, Mr. Coxey ?" "To our new grounds in southeast J Wa8hinington," the industrial leader t laid. He then gave the army order? to narch. The police authorities again ^ ihowed their courtesy in furnishing ? cim a suitable escort, aQd the weary ^ iisappointed "wealers" again started , >n a hot tramp for a resting place. TO BE INVESTIGATED. jj After sumo uuimpor<aut business ia ? he House today, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, isiDg to a matter of privilege, he said, offered the following resolutions: f Whereas, it is well known that the g Capitol grou&ds were, on May 1, over'tiLi by a large assemblage of people, ^ nclading a considerably number of the jj eguiar and special police of the dis- J incr, and Whereas, It is publicly stated that J he safety of the members of this ? -louse has been endangered, thereby J" naking it necessary for the House to *, ely un the clubs of policemen lor their ? )rorection. ^ Resolved, That this committee on , >ublic buildings and grounds be in- o itructed to inquire iato the question as ? ;o whether unnecessary force was used whether unoffending citizens were cru- ? illy beaten and whether the dignity of v his House has been violated; that the r laid committee have the power to send ? 'or persons and papers, and report the L_ tacts in connection with this subject, vith their recommendation as to J ivhether any legislation is necessary in * ;he premises. ? Outhwaite suggested that the resolu- ^ Jon presented no question of privilege. In support of his contention that it t was a matter of priyilege. Johnson * said that in sight of the members of ;he House; within the shadow of the Capitol, citizens were cruelly and un lecessariiv beaten, and he asked that t be investigated, believing the pro- * seeding directly and vitally affected t :he dignity of the House It was dls- J graceful that such a thing should oc- ? :ur. In presenting the resolution, ^ Johnson said,he was not moved by any sympathy with the purposes or aims of ] :he Coxey army. He acted because: I tne clubbing took place under the pretense that it was to defend the mem- * hers of the House. No one here, he t said, was scared, but at the doors of the House, where the jurisdiction of Congress is supreme, citizens were . jlubbed, and he thought it ought to be J I T?APif i ' iu v cau^aicu. i The Speaker asked how that presented ; i question ot privilege. Those people j were violating the law. Johnson responded that he believed! it to be a question of the very highest j privilege. The Speaker suggested that the mat- j ter should be investigated in the police j court or other tribunal established for | the purpose, but that the resolution did j not present a question of privilege. | The matter was referred to the House j Committee on Tublic Buildings and i tlrounds for investigation. j Poisoned. j Columbia, S. C., May 1.?A special j to The Register from Butler, S.iC., says: i Seven negroes, an entire family, were poisoned near Rxhardsouville, Edgefield county. Tuesday. They were taken violently ill immediately after breakfast, which was followed by almost incessant vomltting. The dogs and cats that ate of the vomit died almost instantly. The doctors eav there is no hope of saving adv of the persons poisoued. No clue as to the guilty parties has been made. The posioned family was visited yesterdiyby several negroes of the neighbor I hood. I ExplaaloD. Baltimore. Md., May 5.?A special j to The Sua from Raleigh, N. C., says: j T'trr/-. ir... ?o H/-."1o?o ot I^nVvort inn and rind. ; wiu'3 lumber mtils, at. vViliiaoiston, ex- j ploded today. There were fifteen per 4 sons in the building, and all were id- * jured. Isaac Bright was dead when 1 taken out, and lour others are dying 1 Several of those lrjured were women who bad taken breakfast to their hus- , bands, who were emptoyed thrre. One 1 boiler wa3 blown thirty yards from its \ bed, i i A BASE SL4JNDEK i |? ON THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF j' SOUTH CAROLINA. . j3 ! ( The Kind ot Stoil that {s Published by j < ( Snino ot Ibe Northern Papers About t the People of the South?Nothing iiot J Lies. 1 New York, May 5.?When the av-ij srage Northerner "reads in the papers ;hat Governor Tillman's political i strength in South Carolina comes: * nainly from the farming population, I y ?L " Vs a Iro aF V\ A ' <vuu are x uc < uiuno ui tuc < * Populist party iu that State as beiDg j J iomposed of such honest, slo/V, hardworking, saving, church-going, sidehill:: 'armers as makes up the strength of ; ;he Republican party in the central, Northern and Western part of this State. This i3 a mi3take. The Pal-!: netto State countryman bears about j ;he same resemblance to the farmer of | n :his region as a highwayman does to a!, peddler. The horny handed son of toil IJ is portrayed in the Sunday school i ^ooks of a generation back doesn't; t ;xist in South Carolina. The man who ills his place there is called a cracker. [ Ifter you have heard a South Caroli-11 lian say that word "cracker" with the | peculiar intonation invariably given to j t, you will realize that it is b\ no j ? neans synonymous with honest far-i ner. ; A gentleman who has lived in South i Carolina for fifteen years,during which j ;ime he has kept eyes and ears very i vide open, told a Sun reporter, a few lays ago, some things about the crackxs, the origin, ways, and the signifi:aDce of tne situation iu reference to hem. "It ought to be generally known, and k ! don't think it is," said h6, "that the | 6 ^ODulist party in South Carolina does i lot include, as it does, I am told, in | om6 States, the good country farming I dement. The fact is we haveD't enough I _ if the good farming element to make a; h howing on. We have a class of people j e, ?ho own what were once farm?, but! -t hey don't deserve the Dame of farm rs. They're the crackers. There is p ometbmg more than ignorance and ' incleanliness, and lax morality in the r eal cracker. There's deep-seated dev- c> lishness, a natural love for liquor, and , g eat aptitude for murder and otner rimes. The cracker hasn't evolved j hese thiDgs out of his own inner con- 0 ciousness; he's come by them honestiy -if a cracker ever does come by anyhing honestly by heredity. He has a p ne lot of ancestors back of him. tl "These ancestors are of two kinds. a] fou can take your pickjthere's mighty p ittle choice betweea 'em. If you go ack some cenruries iu your history ou will had that at one time the Carib-1 ean 6ea was so infested with pirares ! g. hat some of tl e countries having an j J itereat in the New World decided to j. : ? . TKat. nl?iQri?jW t hi rr> I le&U lLieLLl uuu L no* ucaui u wu^ui % at of the sea and drove them Norrb. ^ 'he pirate3 landed and pushed up ' hrougn the country, finally settlmg r( own to lives of something rather y wrse than usefumess. There Is tne erm of the cracker, or at least, one of he germs. Now for the other part. Vhen the English settled in South | Carolina they were, in the language of | j oday, too strong to work. But the 2* rork had to be done, so they imported it laves from Eogland?convicts for va- d ious crimes, who were to serve out t. heir terms as slaves on the plantations, iome died in the process; others served ^ >ut, became free, and having nothing * o do, settled. There's your other germ. Jnite the two, and you have the crack- . t in his first stage. "How and where he lived for some b fenerations thereafter isn't clear?or d vhy, for that matter. But, he did live, " irobably by hunting and doing odd jobs md he became known as 'poor white rash.' Even the niggers looked down ? in the poor whites and up to the time _ if the war he was the most despised in- * lividual in the country, and the most t vorthless. The blocd of the pirate and t ,he criminal was still there, unmixed ; vith any better strain, for none but ? joor white would marry with poor vhite. But it was weakened and ;binned by laziness and laaction and z Irink and lack of opportunity. Then , :ame the war, and a change for the ^ ?oor white. No longer having slaves to \ vork their farms and plantations for * ;hem, the Bourbons, as the good fami- ? ies were called, drifted away from their * jountry places to the towns. They j :: :ould not soil their hands with spade or j ~ Dlough, and as their only other resort j \ ;hey went into business. Mark the re j t, ;ult. The farms fell into the hands of j ;he poor whites, being lirst divided up ; ^ nto small portions. i z "There you have your uoor white be- i i joining a land owner. You might sup- ! ? 3056 that he would develop honesty and : i shrift and ambition to improve his op- ^ 3ortunities to become a decent citizen, j j. [le doesn't. The pirate and criminal: strain is in him, emasculated by gene- j rations of contempt and degradation, t 3ut stiil there, and now it begins to show itself. Your cracker makes his j t wife and children work the farm while | z le hunts or ilshes at such times as he j a sn'c too lazy. When he gets money he! ?oes for moonshine whiskey and gets j t t. Why, the North Carolina moon- j t shiners run their blockade wagons for : -j :he crackers. That's where they sell! t ;heir moonshine, and they run the gov- j r irnment blockade and Tillman's block-1 t ide to do it. And wben the cracker j r full of whiskpv he isn't 'Door white ! r ;rash' any more. lie goes right bach ? ;wo or three centuries and becomes e ;bat mixture of pirate and EugJish ^ jonvict, and a murderous, treacherous, j foul brute he is. E^ery cracker car- j ^ ies his gun and a knife back of him. I c Ele uses the gua first but the koife is lis favorite. That's the pirate in him. j rackknife slashers, we call 'em. I've ie?n two of them alter a knife light,! t md?well, it was worth going miles ; 1 aot. to see. f "If necessary the cracker wll stand c id and fight face to fane. Moat of 'em s ire d-ad shots, for they have lots of 11 practice hunting. But their favorite a ?ame is to lie in amoush and shoot a man down as he passes. When a man 11 [3 iounu on some moeiy ruau wim a bullet through him and his pockets stripped we call It a 'cracker killing.' They're killers all of them, those fellows, but they'd rather do their killing from a safe cover. As long as its only cracker that kills cracker nobody cares md nothing is done about it. When a ;racker kills a decent man he does it in mch a way that he leaves no tracks, fle'll wait for years for his chance. So :here isn't much chance for the law to :ome in there, either. In two of the Northern South Carolina counties, Lancaster and Chesterfield, they averige about thirty murders a year togethir, and you can bet a cracker is the nurderer every time. Yet there hasn't )een a hanging in either county for fifeen years. It's either cracker kill :racker, aod nobody cares, or it's a :racker killing, with a respectable victim and nc clue to the killer. "There was a case a couple of years igo up in Lancaster County. A promi lent man cf some means up there ran icross two drunken crackers who had tome in town on a bat one evening. Dhey were in front of the postoffice. )ne of them slapped him on the shoul ler and said witn a maudlin laugn: " 'How are y' J udge ? Are y' reckonln' o God us some licker?' "The Judge, who was a very dignifi:d maD, drew himself up, shook ( he cracker's hand from his shoulder, md started on, when the other cracker tepred in front of him with an ugly ook. "'You can't shaKe us off so easy,' ; aid he. 'We're as good as you now, ,n; you can't call it high on us. You in't any too good yourself.' "'You're a drunken ruffian,' exlaimed the Judge, pushing the man side. 'Pass on or I'll have you locked , ip."'Not by a damn sight,'shouted the racker. 'I'll fix you,' and drawing a nife he lunged at the Judge, but miss- < d him. ] "Instantly he was covered by a dozen , evolvers in the hands of a crowd . ?ho were at the postoffice and who had een the whole thing. They would ave tarred and feathered those crackrs but for Jhe J udge begging them off. | 'en months later the Judge had oc- . asion to drive to a neighboring town. ' [is buggy and horse came back with- r, ut him. We found him dead in the ' Dad at the edge of the woods. A ttarge of buckshot had struck him in J le back of the head. We couldn't nd those two crackers to lynch them. * hat was a cracker killing, and it's , ulv one of many. "Those are the men that make up f le strength of the Tillmanite party. J hey're the Populist. Tillman makes : iem constables and gives them guns, ! d they're just longing for murder. J hey are the liquor spies that coaie to ; iarch our homes and to shoot us down we ob^c. Can you wonderthat the ! eople ot Darlington fired on these off J ?riog of criminal convicts and pirates, : lese scum of the conn*ry, these worthss, treacherous, murderous crackers? * .s long a3 Tillman uses them as dogs ) set on the peoole in south Carolina ) long he will find the people ready to , )sort to arpied resistance."?New rork Sun. ; Sweeping the Senate. Washington, May 1.?For the third ! me in a short space of five weeks the enate met today only to hear the anouncement of another gap made in s ranks by death. A fortnight ago toay funeral ceremonies were held in le Senate chamber over the remains t Senator Vance of North Carolina, 'hree weeks before the like sad cere- , losiai had taken place over the re- ' lains of Senator Colquitt of Georgia. , ind today the announcement was ; lade ot the death of Senator Stockridge of Michigan, who died yester- ! AfKnn f rrrr\ OhnQ . av iu xiic uiucl un v uouoors had died in Washington. The ; meeting of the Senate today had been ! iostponed from 11 a. m. to noon, so as o give Senators an opportunity of iayiDg their last tribute of respect to he memory of Mrs. Morgan, wife of he Alabama Senator, whose funeral ook place this morning; and in the Chaplain's opening prayer they were emmded of the death of their associ,te from Michigan, whose desk and hair, in the outer row of Republican eats, were covered with black cloth. Ln unusually large number of Senators ?ere present at the opening prayer. [Che formal reading of yesterday's jourLai was dispensed with and then Senaor McMillan, the colleague of the deeaserl Senator, made the announce oent of Stockbridge's death. The isual resolutions were then offered by dcMillan and were agreed to. They xpressed the great sorrow of the Senate at the announcement of Mr. Stocked ge's death and provide for a comQtttee of seven Senators to attend the uneral at Kalamazoo, Mich. Senators McMillan, Erye, Washburn, Cullom, rones of Arkansas, Gibson aDd Blanhard were appointed cuch committee ,nd then, at 12.10, the Senate adjoumd until tomorrow at 11 a. m. Two Lives Lost. New York, May 2.?At 2 o'clock his afternoon a large quantity of benme stored in the cellar of the dyeing ind cleaning establishment of C. Jolly b Son, 61 and 63 East Twelfth street, ' - J - -1 V ??? J ? n r? f Vi/-> (X Tffl nf 1 xpioueu. J.mmeuiai.eijr WO UIO-OWIJ milding was enveloped in flames. Twenty persons in all are employed by he firm-of Jolly & Son, of these, four Den and one woman were working in he cellar when the explosion took ilace. Two of them, a man andawonan were burned to death. The other hree men were terribly burned. Those imnloved in the upper floors, mostly ;irls, escaped to the adjoining building n safety. The man and woman who vere killed have been identified as Le pold Cheron and Mrs. A. Fluermann. A Terrible Accident. Braiiili, iioumania, April 30?A erribie accident occurred here today. The white pier was crowded with peo>le in holiday attire, bound for Galatz, >r ihe Danube, and waiting for the teamer which was to convpy them to hat place, when the pier gave way ind threw aboat 120 people into the eaters. Many excursionists it is be- i ieved were drowned. met OIL* en 10 Internationa) ActloD Necessary lor K&ha bllitatlon of the White Metal. London, May 2.?The international bimetallist conference was formally opened in the Mansion House today. The opening address was delivered by ex-Lord Mayor Sir David Evans. A large number of delegates were pres ent, including some of the best known of the British and foreign financiers. Among them were Sir William Houldsworth.M. P.; W. L. Litterdale, ex-governor of the Bank of England; Sir Da via uaroour, exsecretary loine inaia council; Henry Chaplin, M. P.; Samuel Montague, M. P.; Brooks Adams of Boston, Mass.; M. Vanderberg, president of the Bank of the Netherlands, Amsterdam; G. M. Boissevaini of Amsterdam,; Alphonse Allard of Brnssels; George De i^avelleye of Brussells; Henri Cernushi of Paris, president of the French Bimetallic League; David Murray, president of the chamber of commerce of Adelaide, South Australia, and president of the South Australian Bimetallic League; Hugh M, Matheson Alderman and Sheriff Dimsdale, a London banker, Thomas Salt, late president of the Bankers' Institute; Sir Malcomb Fraser, agent general In London for Western Australia, and A. J. Balfour, exChief Secretary for Ireland. Letters were read from Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, the president ot the Bank of France and others, regretting their inabllisy to be present. A paper was read by Prof. Shield Nicholson, on the fall in the general level prices in relation to the appreciation of gold and the divergeuce in the relative value of gold and silver, and a general discussion of the subject followed. The conference was presided iver by Lord Mayor Tyler. Cablegrams were read from Senators Sherman, Voorhees, Aldrich, Murphy, Brice, Piatt, Davis, Carey and Cullom, wishing success to the conference and ;o the cause of bimetallism in England. A. J. Balfour, in course of the discission, said he did not believe that jovernment regulation of coinage, if t were done in the direction of making t more stable and a fairer measure of ralue, could be justifiably opposed. Che nations of the world were now, he laid, standing face to face with a great langer, which could only be averted )y the rehabilitation of silver to it pro>er commercial function. In order to io this international action was absoutely necessary. Balfour said there were three quesions with which bimetalllsts had to ;ope. They were these: Was a double tandard possible ? Was it j ust ? Was t expedient? Scientists and econonists answer these questions with an iverwhelmtng "yes." He would not ay whether the closing of the Indian ninta was a wise sten. but he did not loubt that it was the most striking atempt that a civilized government, had tver made to solve a monetary difficul:y that was directly due to monometitlism. Balfour said he saw sigDs of a change n English opinion. The leading comnercial men had abandoned their form?r hostility to bimetallism and come to ;he conclusion that the only way to neet the grave danger was to restore silver to its former place as a circulating medium. Mr. Balfour also said it was a mere iream to suppose that each State was jble to regulate it own currency independently. It was absurd to talk of taking an isolated view of the British currency when the action of the United States, which had not been taken in concert with or from any friendly feeling towards Great Britain, had forced upon India and England the adoption of the astounding system which now prevailed in India. England's present isolation was selfish and stupid. He speke personally and for no party, he n?i/^ OCfelU Leonard H. Courtney, M. P., read a paper on "The practicability of main taining a ratio between gold and silver under an international bimetallic agreement," and a discussion of the paper followed. Letters in support of bimetallism were received from Gen. Francis A. Walker, Archbishop Walsh and Prof E.B.Andrews of Brown University. A letter was read from Mr. H. W. Cannon, president of the Chase National Bank of New York, in which the writer said that the solution of the problem of bimetallism rests with Great Britain Dr. Arendt, the eminent German financier, expressed views similar to those contained in Cannon's letter. A Peeullar Accident. Giffood, S. C., May 3..?The mail carrier Taylor from here to Seminole, met with a peculiar accident to his buggy Satur day. While slowly driving alonsr the public road he met Mr. femith riding Mr. Cane's tine stallion and as he reined out to one side 01 the road the stallion became unmanageable and as the mail buggy got by the side of the stallion he began kicking the buggy with all the rapidity his strength could muster until his legs were pinned in the spokes of the wheel. The mail carrier narrowly escaped being killed, and he managed to get bis horse detached from the buggy when the stallion made a terrible (ft'ort to relieve his legs, and in doing so smashed up three of the wheels of the buggy.?Register. Mad Miners, Iron Modntain, Minn., May 2.?All work baa been stopped in the eastern portion of the Mesaba Range and mob rule prevails in this city. The sheriff, utterly unable to cope with the lawless and reckless miners, has called on Governor Nelson tor troops. An armed gang of 300 foreign workers who struck yesterday at Oliver, Ohio, Iron King and Franklin mines, reached here today and marched through the streets of iron Mountain, terrorizing me citizens. They forced the miners in the Mountain Iron and Rathbone tntnes to stop work and join them, and also stopped work in White & McDevitt's sawmill. The rioters declare that work in all industries must cease. Fifty deputy Bherlffs have been sworn in. A conflict is feared and the town is in an uproar. KlUllJNtf KAJ5BLE. CLEVELAND TERRORIZED BY A FOREIGN-TONGUED MOB. i | Factories Bombarded and Gutted?Police | Do Gocd Service?A Regiment Under Arm(-To Resist the Mob With Dynamite. Cleveland, Ohio, May 2.?After the riotous demonstrations of May day the police department awoke to the necessity of prompt action, and it was determined. to disperse any gathering that threatened tmnhio Thia U1U uwutuuc UU the part of the police seemed to anger the men, and they were in a very ugly mood this morning. There was a gathering in the public square, as there has been daily for the past two weeks, and then a start was made out Ontario street; presumably to interfere with a squad of forty street cleaners. Thirty-five officers were sent after the men in patrol wagons, and they charged the mob and scattered it. Several heads were broken in the melee. A crowd of several thousand men then invaded the manufacturing district in the "Fiats." The workmen were driven from the Standard Paint Works, and then an attack with rocks and clubs was made on the Variety Iron Works. The building was badly used up, but the employees escaped. Then the Upson Nut and Bolt Works were attacked. A loaded train of coal cars was uu tue iracx near Dy. The crowd mounted upon the coal and bombarded the Upson Works. For a time it looked as If these buildings would be demolished. At this point the crowd began to become frenzied, and the noise made struck terror through the entire flits. Most of the crowd carried clubs, and as a body the men had an ugly appearance. On Scranton avenue, near the Cleveland, Canton Southern tracks, the crowd gutted a scrap-iron warehouse, some of them becoming possessors of dangerous weapons thereby. The police, who had charged the mob on Ontario street, went to the Upson Nut Works, and no sooner had they taken possession of the works than an angry mob numbering thousands surrounded it and howled for revenge. All the police of the eighth preceinct were called out when it was learned that the rioters had penned thirty-five police in the Upson works. Learning that a reinforcement of officers were coming, the crowd turned its attention to Fauihaber's furniture factory, on Scranton avenue, and broke all the windows. They were about to loot the place when the extra police arrived and chased them down the street The police headed by Capt. English and Capt. Burns, chased the crowd down to Abbey street bridge, and the crowd took possession of the bridge and began throwing stones and bricks at the pol ice. The police,with drawn revolvers backed up by the patrol wagons, charged, whereupon the mob fled in all directions. The DoJice pursued, and took in charge all they could get hold of. There are fewEoglish speaking people in the mob. It was a rabble composed almost entirely of foreigners. There were fully four thousand of | them when the crowd was at its greatest strength. It dwindled rapidly, uuwcvri, wuau me ponce goc to wora. Mayor Blee issued a proclamation during the afternoon calling upon all citizens to refrain from assembling together for purposes of riot and disorder, and stating that all the powers vested in the city govemmeut will be used to enforce the law and maintain order. The mayor also held a consultation with the officers of the Fifth Regiment, and as a result six companies of that regiment, together with the Cleveland Grays and the City Guards, were ordered to assemble in their armories, subject to calls for service by the mayor. During the afternoon another mob visited the works of the United Salt Company and drove the men from their work. The rioters then proceeded to the Cleveland Rolling Mills, where they had a conflict with the police. There was about ten minutes of fierce clubbing, and then the crowd gave way and scattered in every direction. Seven of the rioters, all with broken heads, wcic ancsucu. The Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling railway contractors, at work in Brook* lyn Village, haye place., charges of dynamite ia the hills surrounding their works and connected them with electric batteries. Dynamite bombs have also been prepared for the defence of their workmen. Fearing trouble during the evening, a squad of 150 police was stationed in the public square to prevent any gathering there. The people of the city are filled with fear tonight that the mob will resort to the torch or dynamite and attempt to destroy factories and private residences. A Republican Landslide. Indianapolis, Ind,, May 1.?May elections were held through Indiana today. The ODly cities Dot voting were Indianapolis, Fvansville and Logansport. Terre Haute elects the whole Republican ticket by majorities ranging from 900 to 1.900, Tbe Republican gain on the mayoralty is 880 Union City give the Usual Republican majority. At Valparaiso, where the Democrats bad a majority 01 iuu two years ago, me ?tepablicaQ majorities range from 75 to 300. A.t Kokomo the Republicans win by largely increased minorities. Brazil, usually close, goes Republican. Lawrenceburg, usually Democratic, elects fli A Aritma D AtMikli/inr* *? ? J tUn* A wc tunic xbc^iuL'iik/au utact, nuu buico out ot dye councilmeu. LaPorts and Michisan City, usually Democratic, both g) Republican by increased majorities, as doe3 Kendallville, Bloomington, Franktortaud Osborne. Green Castile, Elmwood and Irtviu, the gas belt cities, show iocreased Republican majorities. New Albany, usually 1 000 Democratic, elects every Republican but one councilman. LaFayette goes Republican with a gain ot 500,