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Show BARCELONA-RIOTS. Strikers, In Complete Possession of llic tltjr, Charged by.Jtounted -it'ollce. THC GOVERNOR ISSUES A PROCLAMATION. PRO-CLAMATION. Anarchists; arc..lelltrr Engaged in I'uiufntlng Discontent Among Workmen. THCVAIXNC!A"STRIKCRS RESORT" ,TO FORCE. - I A Mother and Daughter Cruelly Iltinlertd.-Chicago's rcited Wheat Harkcl. Br Telexrarta to tbc New j.) mors IN HAKIXI.ONA. Til ('oternor I.MtrwMMrouir I'roe-Intuallou I'roe-Intuallou to Map (tie Itlofrr. Uakckw.va, May 3. Tho riotous striking held complete rosscs-don or this city yesterday. .For a time, they stopied the tram cars, threw one rrom the tracks aud smashed It. Bodies of the strikers proceeded to the various printing cfilccs throughout through-out the city and by threats com-Jiellid com-Jiellid tbecomposltomto lenvework. nconsequcnci-,110 newspapers were I ublisbed yesterday. L'iacards have been scattered broadcast, urglrjg the striken, to pillage Uie city. Mounted police charged the rioters'. Tho latter lat-ter resisted, finally compelling them to retire. In thu evening three rcgi-tneuU rcgi-tneuU nrrhed In the city, and the gove-nor Issued a proclamation threatening deoUi to thu strikers who interfered with men willing to woik. The mob -lowly dispersed. At midnight quietness prevailed, the street Icing comjaratlvely deserted. de-serted. Ilisfcaredthatiurthel'riot-ing Ilisfcaredthatiurthel'riot-ing will occur. The anarchists are actively engaged In fomenting trouble. Thfj have called meetings iu various parts ot thu country fur Sunday, and declare the time has arrived fur Hie Ixgiuniug ofn social revolution. Noon. Notwithstanding (he fear that further trouble is imminent, thu public marktt opened as usual. A number of workmen have resumed re-sumed work. The authorities liave no ilouU tlist they will be able to put down any dburder, and recommend recom-mend thu proprietors of manufactories manufac-tories an i sno to keep their establishments estab-lishments oj en. TIIK SAN IKANCIMX) STUIKJ. San FJiVNCisou. May 3. Carpenters Carpen-ters numbering !3) and 750 mill workers struck yesterday for eight hour. :The carpenters relusc to support the mill workers' strike, ou the ground that they violated the agreement with thu cmpioNers in striking. Till: IltlMI j-TRIKK. I'l'mj-V, May 3. Tlie striking etupluyes of thu Great Southern and Western Itillway resumed work today to-day onthut-oiupaiiy's terms, on the advlcu of Archbishop Walsh. THE VAUSM-IA STRIKERS. Maiiiui, May 3. In Valencia the strikers tried to force tho hands Iu the government tobacco factory to leave work, but Uie civic guard prevented tlieni. Theexccutivucom-mitUc Theexccutivucom-mitUc of thu socialists have called a tuasj meeting fur tomorrow. The men will march to the residence of l'rimeMInL-UrS.ig:bta,and present ai-clittoii asking the government to introduce a bill in the Cortes making mak-ing eight lioursa legal day's work. Tlin FItE-tt-I srKIKKRS. i'AKis. May . The strike at Tourciing bat become general and thu strikers arc parading the streets and stopping all kinds or work. Large relnfoaements of troops have arrived to akl the authorities lnpre-servinj- order. Atltouluhc a conference Is being held at the town hall betwi.cn the master and delegates representing the working men, with thu olject of endeavoring to secure a settlement of the deferences between them. AK ir was. Busto.v. May .1. Tlie carpenters' strike is practically over. Trmiteralur-. Chicago, May 3. New York 13, New Orleans US; St. Louis 62; Cincinnati Cin-cinnati 62, Chicago .V, Winnipeg llnlt or j (nl&ollc lll5lop. Kalamazoo, Mich., Maya. Ilo-maii Ilo-maii Catbolle lilsbop Borgess, who was stricken with p-iralysbj lostSun-day, lostSun-day, died this morning. i StpoUnne I'nIU riool. PrvKANi: .Falls, May 3. Melting Melt-ing suot Iu the mountains has caused a rapid rise In the Spokane nivcrand tributaries. Many families fami-lies have been compelled to move out of the houes ou tho low lands. There is not a drop of water in tho city mains, thu high water haying washed away the mains which aro laid at tho bottom of the river. The mayor has notified property owners !o employ watchmen to guard their property. Jlotlirr And naushlrr ainnlrteu. B.1I.TIHORI-, Mayi Mrs. Sarah HUney, n widow, aged 77, and htr daughter Caroline, weru f round murdered in their beds this morning. morn-ing. The skulls were crushed In with a blunt instrument. William, Blancy, grandson of tho old Lidy has been arrested. Bobbery Is the suprax-cd motive. An Exellnl -Atirnt itntUrt. Ciiicaoo, May 3. The excitement excite-ment on 'Change is Intene this ms.nifn" Jult- ulrit Anv.! ... ouo cent higher than the closing yesterday, at a range of 31 J fcDlJ. It continued to advance rapidly under a heavy demand from "short," which rose by rapid strldt s to 9 JJ and by tcji o'clock.alttr two option.-, had advanced In prc-twrtlou. prc-twrtlou. May is selling at 33; June . Continued re-crts or the drought In the Northwest aru the ilnci-al raui-u or the advance. Thu excitement iu tho wheat pit continue, value lluetuting wildly After July wheats hail cone un to J on tho reports of dry weather thu sky here liecome over cask This started a selling movement, whl.li quickly beat thu price down to 021. Then Uie clouds broke and started tho buying movement again, and tho seem- fii the pit becamu wll irr than ever, in Tact, the exclte-munlw exclte-munlw as at a Itch celdouvVitncssed on thebuin'.rikescliuibed unsteadily unstead-ily UU atlisr) July w 34 quoted at 31 June tfcXsJiO in various parts of thu pit, and with o mighty shout the figure Loomed to one dollar. ThcJMrbl.Ctuirrn. riiicAoo, May 3 The Marble Cutters' Union last night resolved to demand eigliMiours work with nine hours pay in Uie retail roirble yards. Tins morning some of the losses conceded the tit mands orthe 3Wu men Iurolled. About hair or Uio iiianlng mill employers conceded conced-ed ,bu men's dcnuuiU temporarily. Tlie continuance will depend ou the oUiera doing likewise. llnnU SUIftnrnl. New York. May 3. Tho weekly bank statement shows leserve decrease de-crease of $201500, specie decrease $ J2I.S00. Tho banks held $3JS,00o in excess ot rule. Sntttlen Dealti. ' lOSKKia, N. Y May 3. Mrs. Kate Hairer, wife or William A. Harf-.r,or tho.firm of Harper t Co and caughter or Col. Beecher, son or llcnry Ward Beecher. has died suddenly rrom rupture of tho heart. nd ,(n rrom kru. Valparaiso, May 3. a report has bwrh received that the British ship IncJtcapeKocl, from San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Pebruary 24th, fur Queeni. town, when In latitude 53 south, lon- gitudo 75 west, experienced heavy weather, during which her decks were swept away, and that Captain Armour and four or her crew were washed overboard and drowned. Tbc report also sad that part of her cargo was Jettisoned. A Cnrfon-i Crowi! A-Memble-i. Nkv York, May 3. The Senate committee on clUes, of which Fas-sett Fas-sett is chairman, sat again today to hear further developments concerning concern-ing Uie workings pf Uie city departments. depart-ments. As it was known Uiat Mayor Granfwonld be a witness, to exculpate himself from thi charges orMcCano, the committee room was filled to the doors. Grant was present pres-ent with Bourk Cochrane, his counsel. coun-sel. Faiwett and other members of tho committee were on hand early. McConn was again put on the stand. Cross-examined, he re-told the story about furnishing supplies to Uie family of his broth-jr-in-law, Crokcr. Questioned as to Uie date "when Crokcr came to him with ilSO.WO, witness said be could not tell the precise date. lie was surprised sur-prised at Croker having J1S0,- 000 with him, as there was plenty or money at that time among .tho people connected wIUi the board of aldermen Croker said 10 him... there were two aldermen whom ho wanted to reach and Tom Adams knew them. Croker subsequently subse-quently said he bad seen these two aldermen and understood every-Uilng every-Uilng was satisfactory and "I kliewy'hesaid, 'romebody bad been seen". Who were those aldermen? "A. riersun and Wendel." (Sen-saUon.) (Sen-saUon.) Witness said he had been on the Ist of terms wiUi Croker unUl Mayor Grant "came In between them." Witness conUnued: "Croker had been misled by his advisers, men who hold high positions in this city. It is these men who have driven him rrom home and family. 1 refer to Grant. I think it Is a disgrace to tills city Uiat a man like Grant should be Its mayor." Ioae. WasiiiSotoX, May 3. Tlie Hop kins bill was called up. The motion was to table Uie motion mo-tion to reconsider the vote by which tho IIouso yesterday refused to order tho copyright bill tolls cn-grctsmentand cn-grctsmentand third reading. The Speaker ruled that the time alloted to the committee on Judiciary Judi-ciary liavlng expired, it was not in order to call up the motion till the business from that committee was again under consideration. Tho House- went into session of the committee of tho whole ou the diplomatic and consular appropriation appropria-tion bill. Ttie uklHbatna .Settle nient. Washisotos, May 3. Springer, who prepared the Oklahoma bill, says: The error as to the date of the President's proclamation In opening a portion of the Territory to settlements will not Invalidate the law If the clause containing Uie error is Invalid. The only effect will be to authorize Uie secretary of the interior to issue patents to claimants under the homestead law for anywhere within the Territory,Inftead of being restricted to the limits or land opened to settlement settle-ment by the terms or the proclama-tbnofthe proclama-tbnofthe prc!dent or March 23, ISiO. DeAlh or Sennlur Ilrek. Wasiiinotojs, May 1. Senator Beck, or Kentucky, dropped dead in the Baltimore and Totcmac station sta-tion this afternoon. , |
