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BLOODSHED IN ALBANY.
The Law Defied by a Howling Mob
of Men, Women and Boys.
Albany, N. Y., May 14.-When
darkness fell this evening several
thousand weary street car strikers and
sympathizers went to their houses,
but they were replaced by as many
more, who took up the vigil to pre?
vent the United Traction men from
running their cars with non-union
men. The darkness brought some con?
fidence that there would be no attempt
before morning to move ecars, for
two attempts made in broad daylight
had brought bloodshed and riot on
such a scale that the local police, as?
sisted by scores of deputies and Pink?
erton men, had been unable to quell
the disturbance. Gae man lies in the
hospital seriously wounded, one of
the cars the company attempted to run
is in the gutter of a street nearly two
blocks from the car house, wrecked,
and the trolley wires are cut in several
places, practically crippling the road.
Near the car houses are thousands of
men, women and children, wrought up
to a pitch of frenzy that bodes ill if
the doors of the car house open to let
ont another car. Inside the car house,
afraid even to look out of the grated
windows, are about seventy-?ve non?
union men, whom the company ex?
pects to use in running the cars.
Early this morning there were about
one hundred and fifty of them, but by
night fall sixty-five had deserted and
joined the ranks of the strikers. The
men claim that they were brought
here under misapprehension and that
they supposed they were going: to
Philadelphia.
This afternoon the police practically
admitted that they were powerless to
take care of the large crowds on the
streets if cars were ran, and General
Manager McNamara immediately call?
ed upon Gen. Oliver, in command of
the 3d brigade, for protection. He
said: **We intend to run our cars if
it takes the entire National Guard of
the State to protect us."
Gen. Oliver issued an order assem?
bling at their armory tonight the 10th
battalion of Albany, comprising four
companies of the National Guard of
Infantry, and the 3d signal corps,
mounted. Gen. Oliver said that he
would warn the remainder of the 3d
brigade to be in readiness for a calL
The riot today was full of exciting
features.
Exciting Scenes when Non-Union Men
Arrived in the City.
Albany, N. Y., May 15.-So serious
is the situation here tonight over the
Traction company strike that Gov.
Odell postponed the continuance of a
trip to State institutions which he
had undertaken and returned to the
executive mansion. Two thousand arm?
ed soldiers are now within the city
limits, more are coming and 2.500 are
in readiness to move to Troy when Gov
Odell so orders. The streets are
thronged with excited men, women and
children and the otherwise quiet day
terminated in bloodshed. A dramatic
element was added to the day's fea?
tures by the sudden death of Adjt.
Gen. Hoffman.
As long as the traction company
does not attempt to move cars or bring
in non-union men, the crowds on thc
street remain good natured except for
taunting the soldiers and police, but
the instant an attempt is made to
work on the lines or bring non-union
men in the crowd becomes frenzied
and bloodshed results.
Citizens saber-slashed, non-union
men with broken limbs and bloody
faces, women and children trampled
under foot, soldiers maimed with fly?
ing missiles and leaders in the crowds
beaten with muskets were some of thc
results of the day. Anticipating an
attempt to^move the street cars in
Troy, Maj. Gen. Roe has ordered the
13th, 14th, rand 47th regiments of
Brooklyn. Troop C of Brooklyn, the
Second signal corps, the 17th separate
company and the Third battery, which
carries Gatling guns to hold them?
selves i unreadiness to move immediate?
ly.
Mob andfmilitia closed in combat
I - ------ jmra
late this afternoon but by the accident
of fortune there were no serious cas?
ualties. It was the introduction of
more non-union men to take the places
of striking traction employes that pro?
duced the violence. Seventy-five non?
union men reached the union depot
shortly before 6 o'clock and their de?
livery at Quail street barn, a mile and
a half away, was made with a dash
under cavalry escort with mob resist?
ance in almost every block. Frenzied
men swarmed through the police lines
surged around the fast moving caval?
rymen and fought to get at the cowed
non-union men inside the circle of
galloping horses.
The rays of the setting sun gave
glint to busy sabers but wielded by
forbearing hands, seldom descend in
serious blows. Several of the mob
were knocked down by cornered caval?
rymen but the record does not yet
show the score of a single fatality. In
the passage through the streets few of
the non-unionists escaped the flying
bricks and stones that were hurled at
them but less than a dozen were
badly hurt. The courage of near?
ly a dozen of the non-union
men failed them in the opening
spurt through the crowds and they
sprang from the wagons that carried
them to mingle with and be lost in
the crowd.
The ride of the non-union men
through the city was the dramatic
spectacle of the day. At five o'clock
the Third signal corps, mounted and
armed as cavalrymen, formed a hollow
square around the non-union men who
had just arrived at the depot.
Five thousand men tagged at their
heels and jammed in around them and
thousands more crowded into the in?
tersecting streets.
Fifty policemen formed in cordon
about the waiting Dragoons and tried
to force the crowd back. The street
was cleared but the walls of humanity
on the sidewalks held firm and could
not be moved. A broken alleyway
that runs along the southside of the
union depot was the stage of the open?
ing scene. Into it were driven four
flat-topped open trucks. The crowd
recognized them as the same vehicles
that had carried the first batch of
strike breakrs and had greeted them
with groans. Suddenly a side door of the
depot was thrown open and up the al?
leyway toward the waiting teams
marched the non-union men. Once
they were all aboard the drivers
brought their teams out into the
streets, the cavalry closed in around
them and the race was on. The flying
column dashed into State street for
the run up the hill past the capitol.
Here the crowd was as dense and des?
perate as the other and men plunged
in and around the galloping horses.
One rider was cut off from the crowd,
brought his saber down on the face of
one of his antagonists and a line of
blood marked where it struck. Two
blocks up State street and a clever
military ruse blocked the down town
mob. Two companies of the Tenth
battalion were concealed in Chapel
Street and when the cavalry escort
dashed past they ran across State
Street and faced the pursuing crowd
with fixed bayonets. The new line
wavered and broke on one flank, but
in the main the movement was suc?
cessful. But the strike breakers were
not yet free. Smaller crowds gathered
at various points along the route to
the barn and they threw stones when
the non-union men rushed past.
There was another wild scene at the
barn where thousands more were as?
sembled. The infantry repeatedly
charged into the crowd substituting
butt for bayonet and after much effort
a passage was opened for the scurry?
ing cavlcade and it was safe inside the
inclcsure.
Sixteen of the strike breakers were
injured during the ride and many of
them stunned, weak and scarred, had
to be helped from the wagons. The
strikers say that 18 strike breakers de?
serted during the ride and that less
than 50 were safely landed in the
barn.
In a hollow square of infantry pro?
tected by lines of pickets that reach
into every bisecting street and outer
skirmish line in circular form that
encompassed all, the traction tower
wagon was moved out of the barn this
afternoon and two hours were spent in
repairing trolley, wires. The heavy
force of guardsmen and the stringency
of the protective measures seemed to
awe the crowds that surged around
the outer skirmish line and there was
no disorder. The soldiers were jeered
and derided but no one offered them
violence. The city is quiet at mid
nignt.
Both the strikers and the railroad
people claim that there has been no
further attempt at negotiations for a
settlement.
The company says that it will pro?
ceed to move cars tomorrow under
guard of the soldiers and Gen. Roe,
in command of the troops, says he
will asisst to the best of his ability
with his 2,200 troops.
THE CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
Albany, N. Y., May 16.-Five hours
of conference tonight with all the
warring elements represented, failed
to settle the Albany strike of street
railway employes.
The strikers waived all demands
for the removal of the nine non-union
men. The executive committee of the
United Traction Company will consider
the proposition in the morning and
may accept it and settle the strike.
In the meantime, Maj. Gen. Roe in?
tends to take every precaution, and at
midnight ordered out the Ninth regi?
ment of New York. It will arrive here
tomorrow afternoon 800 strong, and if
the strike is not settled will assist in
opening up the other lines of the
traction company in this city.
William Walsh, one of the men
wounded by a bullet from a squad of
the Twenty-third regiment, defending
a car, died at 10.15 tonight.
Leroy Smith, shot in the same
melee, was slightly improved at mid?
night.
The shooting of Smith and Walsh
had a very depressing effect upon the
members of the Thirty-third regiment,
and tonight when stones were thrown
at the picket men around Quail Street
barn, they did not fire into the dark.
Two privates were hit and hurt, but
they did not care to take the chance by
firing. It was held by the officers
and men generally that the order to
fire was entirely justified, but there
was general regret at the consequences
of the volley. With the addition of
the Ninth regiment tomorrow there
will be over 3,000 guardsmen in Al?
bany.
The bloodshed came after a day of
peace. From early morning the
crowds had melted away before bayo?
nets and shotguns, cars had been ope?
rated under heavy guards and there
was an impression that the spirit of
turbulence was wanting. There had
been some minor demonstrations, par?
ticularly in North Albany, but not a
shot had been fired and as the day had
passed along, the running of cars at?
tracted but little attention. The vol?
ley fired on Broadway by a squad of
the Twenty-third infantrymen, in
which Leroy Smith and Wm. Walsh,
well known citizens, fell mortally
wounded, changed all that. It stirred
and the feeling of hatred as the excit?
ing tidincrs swept through the city
and the guardsmen were bitterly de?
nounced. Neither of the men had
been guilty of any offence but were
caught in a crowd, some member of
which had stoned the guardsmen, and
by mischance were hit. The distur?
bance was not a serious one and "mur?
der" is the title applied by inflam?
ed public sentiment to the shooting.
The guardsmen seem but to have fol?
lowed their duty was soldiers for they
were under orders to shoot if assault?
ed. The bright prospect of a settle?
ment of the strike has not served to
allay the growth of vindictive feeling
and if the present situation continues
acts of bitter revenge and violence may
be expected.
It was on the last run of the sol?
diers that the tragedy of the day oc?
curred. The cars were on Broadway
moving northward and a constantly
swelling crowd was gathered about the
union depot. The first of the workday
folk had been released by the whistles
that sounded through the manufactur?
ing district and they were pouring
into the streets. Near Columbia street
a truck blocked the way of a car, and
urged on by the crowd, the driver re?
fused to move on as speedily as desir?
ed. Some one in the crowd threw a
stone, but it went wide of its mark.
The crowd was very noisy and there
was much confusion. The car finally
moved forward into the next block
and another stone was thrown at it.
There was a sharp command and as
the car slowed down four shots were
fired from it. Leroy Smith lounged
on the steps of his store, Wm. Walsh,
his business neighbor from across the
street, was his immediate companion
and a small crowd hung about near
them. It was into this crowd that the
guardsmen fired at a range of less than
twenty feet. Smith and Walsh were
both shot in the abdomen, and fell
where they stood. A third man. Wm.
Rooney, was slightly hurt by a glanc?
ing bullet. Some of the guards step?
ped from the car and reloaded their
pieces. The startled crowd fell back
at the first shot, and a moment later
the guards sprang aboard the car and
were rapidly wheeled from the scene.
Smith and Walsh were hurried away
to hospitals for surgical care and an
angry mo!) swarmed into thc street to
curse and denounce the guardsmen.
Fairmont. W. Va., May 15.-Six
miners lost their lives, five were fatal?
ly injured and three seriously burned
in an explosion at the shaft of the
George's Creek coal and i rom com?
pany at Farmington, seven miles west
of this city on the main line of the
Baltimore and Ohio road this morn?
ing.
ROBBING THE CHINESE.
The Exorbitant Indemnity Which They
Cannot Pay.
Washington. May 14.-A cablegram
from Mr. Rockhilf, our special com?
missioner at Pekin, received at the
State department today, mentions the
receipt by the ministers of the re?
sponse of the Chinese envoys to the
ministers' demands for indemnity.
The dispatch indicated briefly that
the Chinese represent that an annual
payment of 810,000,000 is the full extent
of their power, and it will take thirty
years to discharge the debt at that
rate without interest. Mr. Rockhill
makes no mention of the subject of
interest, nor does he touch upon the
means by which the money is to be
raised by China, or say who is to
guarantee a loan necessary to be made.
It appears that the Chinese feel them?
selves obliged to submit to the powers
in this question of indemnity as in all
other things, and though realzing
their own inability to assume this in?
debtedness of 450,000.000 taels, they
feel obliged to make the effort. Mr.
Rockhill has been instructed to con?
tinue his efforts to secure an abate?
ment of the total indemnity, but in
the present disposition of the Powers
little hope of success is entertained.
Pekin, Sunday, May 12.-The offer
of China in reply to the statement of
the ministers of the foreign Powers as
to the losses sustained by nations and
individuals in China has been received.
The answer commences with an appeal
for mercy, saying that the country is
impoverished. The answer explains
that the utmost China can offer is
15,000,000 taels annually for the next
thirty years. This amount will be
raised as follows: From salt, 10,000,000
taels, from the liken tax 20,000,000 and
from native customs f 3,000,000. The
communication further asserts that
were this done it would leave the
country unable to meet the expenses
of Government without assistance. It
is therefore, requested that the foreign
customs be increased one-third, and
the receipts therefrom to be given to
China for the purposes of Government.
The ministers refuse to discuss this
answer until it has been considered by
them in meeting.
CHINA'S REPLY NOT ACCEPTA?
BLE.
London, May . 15.-Dr. Morrison,
wiring to the Times from Pekin, says:
"The Chinese reply to the ministers
of the Powers is not acceptable. For
the first time in the history of diplo?
matic relations with the Chinese a
French translation accompanied the
dispatch. "
AMERICAN BRIGANDS IN LUZON.
They Commit Horrible Grimes Includ?
ing Murder and Rape.
Manila. May 14.-Detectives and the
police have broken up a band of Amer?
ican brigands, who have been operat?
ing in the province of Pampanga,
north of and not far from Manila.
George Raymond, Ulrich Rogers and
Oscar Mushmiller have been captured,
and Andrew Martin, Peter Heise, Geo
Muh and two others are still being
pursued. This band committed out?
rages, murder and rape at Bacalor.
Pampanga Province in that vicinity,
and on Sunday last they killed Henry
Dow, an American. The band some?
times represented themselves as Amer?
ican deserters and at other times as
American soldiers. George Raymond
wore the uniform of a captain. Ray?
mond and Marijn were formerly police?
men in Manila.
History in the Philippines.
Washington, May 1(5-Tangible evi?
dence that Gen. McArthuris prosecut?
ing an active campaign of education
in the Philippines comes to the war
department in the shape of a number
of copies of a condensed "history of
the United States of America,7' which
has been published under the Military
Governor's direction and is being scat?
tered broadcast for the enlightenment
of the Filipino race.
The history, although necessarily
condensed, is very comprehensive. I?
is printed in both English and Span?
ish in alternate pages. The frontis?
piece is a map of the United States.
Then follows a presentation of facts
concerning the physical features of
this nation, the separation of the
American colonies from Great Britain
and the nation's growth after inde?
pendence, both as to territorial and
industrial development. The govern?
ment itself is then taken up and set
forth in detail, national state and local,
and the outcome, and concludes with
the full text of the constitution, its
amendments and the Declaration of
Independence.
The publication of this little volume
marks the first opportunity which
Fillipinos generally have had to read
for themselvees the fundamental laws
of the United States of America.
MEMPHIS REUNION PROGRAMME.
The Sons to Have a Prominent
Place in the Picture.
Memphis, Tenn., May H.-The fol?
lowing is the official programme of
the coming Confederate reunion :
Tuesday, May 28-Morning, 10
o'clock, meeting of delegtes in confed?
erate halls. Calling to order by tem?
porary chairman, George W. Gordon.
Invocation by the Rev. J. W. Jones,
chaplain general, U. C. V. Address
of welcome by the Hon. Benton Mc
Millin, Governor of Tennessee, on be?
half of the State. Adress of welcome
by the Hon. J. J. Williams, mayor
of Memphis. Address of welcome by
the Rt. Rev. Bishop Gaiter, on behalf
of the Sons of Veterans. Address of
welcome by Ex-Senator T. B. Turley,
on behalf of Memphis Veterans and
executive committee. Address of wel?
come by the Hon. Tim E. Cooper, for
Daughters of the Confederacy, the
Confederate Southern Memorial As?
sociation and to the representatives of
the Jefferson Davis Monument Asso?
ciation. Address of welcome by Lieut.
Gen. A. P. Stewart. Brief address by
the temporary chairman turning the
hall over to the Veterans. Response
by Gen. J. B. Gordon, commander-in
chief of the United Confederate Veter?
ans, and acceptance of the hall. Call
of States for members of committees
on resolutions and credentials. Ad?
dress by Bennett H. Young.
Afternoon, 2 o'clock, business ses?
sion of Convention.
Wednesday, May 29-Morning, 9.30,
business session of Veterans.
Afternoon, 2 o'clock, business ses?
sion resumed.
Thursday, May 30-Morning, busi?
ness session of Convention.
Grand parade of Veterans.
United Sons of Confederate Veter?
ans.
VETERANS AND SONS OF
VETERANS.
Tuesday, May 28-10 a. m., Joint
meeting of Veterans and Sons of Vet?
erans, Confederate Hall. Address of
welcome and response.
2 p. m., Convention assemble in reg?
ular session at the Auditorium.
Wednesday, May 29-10 a. m., Conven?
tion assemble in regular session. ? p.
m., Convention assemble in regular
session. 10 p. m., Veterans' ball to
sponsors and maids of honor at Con?
federate Hall.
Thursday, May 30-Division ses?
sion of Sons of Veterans. Grand
street parade of Veterans and Sons of
Veterans.
LEFT ON THE DOORSTEP.
The Story of a Three Weeks Old
Baby Girl.
: Tuesday night about midnight the
Rev. R. P. Pell, president of the Pres?
byterian College for Women, went
down to close the front door before he
retired. He heard a noise which he
at first thought came from a cat. He
looked around to run the animal awTay
and was amazed to find that the noise
was made by a little baby.
He reported to police headquarters
and asked that an officer be sent out.
Meanwhile the infant was cared for at
the college. The waif is a little girl,
about four or five weeks old, healthy
and pretty. Her clothes are not of
the finest material, but very nicely
made. The baby's fine condition and
the neatness of its clothes indicated
anything else than poverty.
Mr. Pell not being in position to
care for the little one, turned it over
to some good women who conduct the
"Door of Hope." There the little
one is now. and she is being well car?
ed for.
The child had not long been on the
porch when Mr. Pell found it. for
some one had been on the porch not
half an hour before, and the waif was
not there then.
These facts were willingly given by
Dr. Pell yesterday.
It is probable that the bundle was
brought into the city on one of the
night trains and deposited on the
porch of this inviting and homelike
place. The State.
Berkeley, Cal., May 14. The de?
gree of doctor of laws has been con?
ferred upon President William Mc?
Kinley by the University of California.
Only twice before, since the founding
of the University in 1SC>S, has this de?
gree been bestowed by the institution.
ATTEMPT TO ANNUL LEASE ?F
THE SOUTH BOUND.
Because the Seaboard is a For
eign Corporation.
Columbia, May 17.-From the ver?
dict against the South Bound in the
Watts damage suit, and the failure to
pay the judgment has grown a most
interesting legal proceeding-an appli?
cation for annulment of the lease of
the South Bound railroad to the Sea?
board Air Line, the appointment of a
receiver for the South Bound and an
injunction against the operation of
the road by the Seaboard. The pre?
liminary rule to show cause has been
issued by Judge Gage and it is made
returnable on Wednesday next. It is
asked that the court annul the leases
of the South Bound railroad to the
F. C. and P. railroad, and the
subsequent lease of the South Bound
company's property to the Seaboard
Air Line company on the ground that
both the Florida Central and Penin?
sular and Seaboard Air Line compa?
nies are foreign corporations and nei?
ther of them have been incorporated
in South Carolina as required under
the acts of this State. The matter is
one that is full of legal possibilities.
All the papers in the case were serv?
ed yesterday afternoon. The attorneys
for Watts who have taken this step
are Messrs. P. H. Nelson and Jno. P.
Thomas, Jr., of this city and Attor?
ney General Bellinger. The matter
will no doubt be productive of a very
lively legal battle. It will be remem?
bered that recently about 13 miles of
the track of the South Bound railroad
was levied upon to meet the judgment
in the Watts case. The track has been
advertised for sale to the lowest bid?
der.-The State.
The War in South Africa.
London, May 15.-The Pretoria cor?
respondent of the Times in a letter,
dated April 16, says :
"In another fortnight the South
African winter will have arrived, and,
unless the Boers are prevented from
moving north to the bush veldt and
hostilities are somehow ended, there
will be another spell of severe and
unsatisfactory campaigning in an
impassable country, together with
five months of comparative peace in
the two colonies, to be broken by a
recrudescence of guerrilla operations
all over the country when the spring
rains enable the enemy to operate on
the high veldt.
i ?4But this will mean no respite to
j the troops, no moving into winter
j quarters, but only a continuance of
I the most demoralizing warfare that
! can be undertaken."
j The correspondent then describes
j "a strenuous scheme which is on foot
! to prevent the enemy retiring north
into winter quarters," but he does
not appear to be very sanguine of its
succass.
"The figures of the intelligence
bureau," he says, "show that there
are still between eighteen thousand
and nineteen thousand burghers avail?
able for service, although no com?
mandos are known to exist larger than
eight hundred men."
Corn Cornered in Chicago.
Chicago, May 15.-May com, which
has been cornered on the board cf
trade and which has been rather inac?
tive for ten days, advanced to a new
high price record today, when it sole"!
at 60 cents per bushel. This is the
highest price since the corner of May,
189*2. Phillips, who formed the cor?
ner, bid the market up, but only a
few small lots. It was rumored on
'Change that he had permitted shorts
to settle for 500,000 bushels privately
at 60 cents.
A Black List Sustained.
Chicago. May 16. -In the Superior
Court today Judge Baker decided tli.v.
it is legal for employers to maintain a
black list. The ruling was in fhe casv
of Annie Condon against several stock
yard packing firms. The plaintiff was
a labeller and can painter and joined
a strike last year against a reducti^r
in wages. Sinoe that time, sh&
claims, she has been unable to secure
employment. The Court ruled that
the various firms had a right to tal c
protective measures against persons
who had quit the employment of otht r
firms without valid reasons.
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