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Show CHICAGO'S STRIKE. The SUaatlon Amon; the Carpenters SreoLt Far from a Settlement. Set-tlement. TERRIFIC POWDER EXPLOSION IN PENNSYLVANIA. Speclo Import?. A SHrcr CrIU In Jlexlco. Kemmler's- Case Argncd. SEVENTY-SIX VESSEL PLUNDER. ERS CONVICTED. Anstrall.i Has a TreniecdoiH FIosJ. Kurj-ofaTornaJuanJ CloaJIjursl. B Tclcxrarh 10 the Nkws.1 . The L'iilraao MrlUe. Chicago, Jlay 10. Tlio old Master Carpenters' Asoclatlon,' u hldi reluseti to Like part lu arbitration arbi-tration proceetlliigs Willi "the atrik-InR atrik-InR carpeuters, is makltiR a strong fight to secure men. It in funning a union of non-union men, in opposition oppo-sition to the regular union, and has agents at various points in this country and Canada endeavoring to get men. The Carpenteri' Council Coun-cil lias secured the ptefence here of a Government agent to look out for Canadian carpenters imiorteU under un-der contract, and have picket out 'watching all the contracts in the hands of the association. The new bosses' aieociation is receiving re-ceiving daily accessions to Its ranks, and nearly ail the union carpenters are at work. '1 lie old Masters' Association As-sociation is making n strong tighten the new lf, Having made ar-rangtments ar-rangtments with the dealers in lumber and other supplies by which the new boti-es cannot get material except forcash, while the old masters mas-ters get the thirty to sixty days' time. Tlilswill cripple many of the small boscs tertously. The ol J association as-sociation lias also decided to hid for all contracts in competition with the new boMs at prices which will allow little or n. profit. Tbeuniou carpenterr- willrely chiefly ou their ability to call out thu other building trades from Jobs wlierc non-union men are employ ed and uju keeping keep-ing thu carpenters from accepting service uuder the old busses. Iu view of nil tlicfe, things, it would seem that thu eight hour fight had just begun iu this city. Awful 1'onsler Ilxploslotl. Sciu.VTox, Pa., May 10. The entire en-tire plant of the Consumers' I'owder C'omp.ini-, urar Win ton, wan destroyed de-stroyed this morning by an eiploelon and 11 rev The forte of tlie exploeion was terrific and was plainly felt in this city. It happened in Uie corn-lug corn-lug mill, and In rapid succculon the glazing, mixing and tacking departments depart-ments followed. Three workmen are reorted killed and several terl-outly terl-outly injured. All the buildings in the vicinity w ete artlally dettro til. Some families had very narrow escapes. es-capes. Seele IlorLi. XeV Vomr, May 10. The ex-poiU ex-poiU of siecle J.vt week amounted to 512,000, all gold. The imiorts were S 303,000, ot which 515,000 was gold and SWO.OOO silver. Tills Is the first week in many years that no silver was exported. This exception is u ndoubtedly due to the anticipated silver legislation. The abnormal lniorts of silver were due to the same caue. A special from Washington lays the statement lias been made during dur-ing the last two or three days that a corner in silver lias been consummated consum-mated in .New York. The uncertainty uncer-tainty regarding silver legislation helped the manipulation greatly. The government is now compelled to bring silver from Kngland. The amount held by the Sew Vorktrs is estimated by some at 510,000,000 in bullion and certificates, but conservative conser-vative accounts place the total bullion bul-lion at 51,000,000. While these figures would cover tbo bullion, they may lie Increased several millions mil-lions by silver certificates. It Is a fact that the government has ln-cn compelled to buy silver In .London, and to complete Uie deal the people-have people-have been keeping even with tne covernment in purchases abroad. They liave mostly covered thu market mar-ket in Loudon, lt Is also a fact that silver oireretl the government at the assay office in New York has been at a premium of two or three. Director of the Mint Leach this morning did not den the rumors of a comer, but said that no silver had been offered the government at New Turk; that it bad Iwuglit bullion bul-lion in Lioudnnand was storing It In. their assay office in New York. It was also storing what silver it had In tbe West and issuing certificates. Miter Crl-I. In Jfrxlco. City of Mexico, May 10. Silver is still rising, and n prominent banker today said if the advance continues It will produce, a crisis here. Kemruler'ft Oue In 1'onrL. ArmnnN, '. Y., May 10. The hobcat eorput writ In the rase of Kemmier,lanied by Judge Corbett,of ItuDAlo, came up today before Judge Underwood. The point raised was whether the court of Oyerand Terminer Term-iner of Krle county bad Jurisdiction to pronounce the sentence imposed. W. Bourke Cochran and others argued ar-gued for Kemruler and attorney-(ieneral attorney-(ieneral Tabor for Warden Durston. Vel I'lunilerer.. Dantzic, May 10. One hundred and tweuty persons were anested ou a charge of plundering vessels stranded near Hecla, a town on the Ilaltic nineteen miles northeast of Dantzic The trial ended to-day, and resulted iu thu courlctlon of seventy-six of the persons, who were jeach sentenced to one week's imprisonment The XfnhonilBn ftol!lerr. Takis, May 10. The present war has given new laeas respecting the valor-aud ferocity uf the soldiers of Dahomey. A French officer writing from Kotonon says that there are men In the army there, who have had fifteen years' experience with the fanatical Mohammedan fighters, bnt they never saw anything tiual to the reckless fearlessness of the Dahomian fighters. In the battle of March 4th when (he Dahemcy warriors rushed forth with their flintlocks upon the earthworks of the French, they were shot down on top of the fortification, and after theluttle ST bodies, including those of firuamazonsor female warriors were found "era 'tlio larapct. 'The only thought of tho amailants was to sby the foreign tut my, and liiey utterly forgut fear and precaution in their eagerness to kill. The French say that if Ihe weapons of IheDahomey fighters were not greatly great-ly Inferior to those of the French forces, they would have utterly annihilated an-nihilated tho comparatively email army opposed to them. |
