Show al bloody FIGHTING at fort worth texas y aft t ia kb te i 91 fu W i secretary turners course the university boat raco by western f asad press to the HERALD f a sita panis april 3 do freycinet prime minister at a of the french cabinet to aay stated stat the situation in the baist had not improved FREDERK K i t w ax i secretary of general executive board arrives in st lonii ST Louis April 3 frederick turner secretary of jalu general exi rii tiye avard of the knights af labor and aia II 11 baney of alio saino arrived in aliis city from cincinnati this morning and tho rooms ot the local executive where they are now considering alie strike after this conference shall been of ac ron decided upon turner will at to hodio and ascertain lie intends to follow in re employing alie knights of labor A sep nJ with alie local committee and an agreement asre ement which will be presented to iloffe for liis signature turner in an interview this morn all po not b y new men who have been employ ed since the inauguration of the strike shall bo open to application frum the knights who apply ahall be employed and from them filially be select ed an arbitration which awill attempt to arrive at soma arnic ble understanding concerning grievances prie vances of the missouri pacific turner in reply to an in quira n he should request that alii striking knights of labor be re em 1 blued te plied 2 has ltv jer casa even hen te leavo been and becan expect a course by the railroad comi com i pany non we dont expect them 1 discharge competent men who have been employed during the strike timid we shall make demand nc ithe shall wb demand that those who have t ommittee tiona upon ha bu taken back fauch demand would be ini consistent with the principle ined downin our constitution ST LOLIS april 3 turner and chiq associates were air consultation with the joint executive board until aate 1 mr when they called at noi bt they hotel fur dinner neither alie precise charac er nor report ofa the conference of llila haa transpired yet the freight blockade at east st louis is practically broken alltha roads the cherio day of strikers indicted by the saint claar county brand jury two were taken to belleville by the arsi train batai in the day two engineer engines in the vandalia yarda were induced to tako their eai dinty back io tle house and an kuithe cairo yards was persuaded to abandon his another train of coal cama over the bridge at noon the sheriff hag sworn 11 a special deputies al th depre the various yards the babash is and send ing out traisia i FATAL ST LOUIS A hotel conflagration lose their lives st louisa april 3 at thia a firo was in the rear of tle planter on the of fourth and pine ta it was found aliat thea laundry roani as well as the drying room of the hotel and fiercely tho watchman and clerk awakened the guests a nui uber atho greatest excitement prevailed and for a time panic was expected hut as bome of thep nests naori and folind no dauper fri portion of the lass returned toi their rooms to procure such dobec n left int belr to escape several trunks were from lie third and fourth floors only 0 o ba dashed to One lady appeared at the third story window flod outher grin reach adfor one of the of the fire escape landed in short order on the sidewalk the firemen worked vigorously and at about ahe fire was extinguished and but for a coin the main of lintel suffered but little the firemen fir enen in making their rounda 9 through the building made a horrible disco tory on the fourtly noor ip the north hall they came bodies of bonin servant stumbling over them is mart their way li the they were conveyed to the dining room llope a doctor was called and every euort to resu tc tate made hubit wo ank and after over alre pro bounced dead the ladles aeto canu merely an fn robes their face blackened by the eken oh I 1 their hands abid anna wag peeled off c against in to e cape one aft and alio other ia tu be mary burk in aai other room pi liable acene wa biere B anfor dunae was found who proved to bo another triply o in the linen department alic daud were employed emp loye warf not au acar of the body 1 X W th t f Jl alsa sA swat 1 4 io 1 I i f 1 1 of another girl who died from suf foca alon was found laier making four deaths in all employee of the hotel biado ills escape with great only niter terribly from tho smoke when he reached the sidewalk blood from alx ar s and mouth three year ago alic hotel had a narrow escape it was about the sargio hour in the morning that the ti t i out and in lie fame place in the kitchen witia facing on a narrow alley in alie rear lives were lost the top story oatlie wing on tire A COLLISION AT LAST an open strikers find officers FT IV ty at 10 aliis pu pit at tile depot to see Sli criff cart ont a train cheh lie sau last hinitt lie would do air dio in ilic attempt at 11 clock nn 20 armed deputies back il into lit yard to ehko out a train of 20 cars when i fady the train pulled out tor the smith and readier mcw orieana cro sint two mile chuili ft the city sherill tind posse was attacked at 1 a regular battle ensued three were shot to pieces and several of the strikers arc supposed to leavo been killed the name of the deputies wounded anre and dick townsend vill die ST bonis april p in A dispatch to tho fort texas fe aiS 1 an attempt giai just been made to sart freight trains in the missouri pacific alord ul ord sneed and townsend are mortally wounded and nere shot aown in heir tracks intense excitement prevails preva ilg A later I 1 ort worth special says citizens are arming on all aides ohp fiirst is anina on between the strikers and fifty mounted police the are well armed with winchesters Win chesters and everything js in an extremely icv erih conditions 3 pro p ro several hundred merchants and bitis koiv marching down anin street towards the of the conflict which is baill in pro eresa alii are armed with winchester rifles and saven nien are now dead and a number wounded tho gun stores aw closed and under guard ST LOUIS TOPICS r t soma trains are and some are not threatening si louis aprils the resumption of freight traelic by the missouri pa cefic and the iron mountain railroads has now become nn acknowledged fact for the past jew jays officials have been lending but a rep number of trains which although at first than ahey tomed to before the strike yesterday assumed their cipro natural proper tiona anil to da y it ja expected they will be as laru as ever no hindrance or interference to therun freight trains upon the roads is anticipated east si louis is now becoming a point of interest it is ex peeled that the of the road centering in this city will find it a difficult task to effect a resumption of freight altheir cal er m this direction have with few excel tailed and although they hav announced moral suasion as of interference areder fall tors ortto a adro violent method and are de t enjoined that no freight shall be moved until thee is ended the last on ru freight rains and tt ill to day make every oti ortto attain eliat end attempts shall he biado itis serious trouble willen jhb telephone inquiry aprie 2 indian corn atkins wag examined by the telephone tee today to day and rehearsed alie story of the as heretofore hereto fure rela tedi inquired if the regarded it as proper for a member of to i ift the witness wit loome libat j denied his interest was a gift ho had agreed to pay whatever assessments sess ments w ero ng ary to develop an unknown quantity 1 lr eden inquired alfe witness ita d ever used liis domcia to further the inte rosta of atio pan fotion Ko tion earth raid the witness stepping en back of the chair apon which 18 leaned aud no man can look me in alio anca and eay BO I 1 would cut my band asi at the wrist before I 1 would do such a thing the light bauo wint april S the university boat race on the thames this morning the sk y iwas cloudy the er wind pretty etring at the start and durant the race jhb water was lumpy koput to a test alio of elih in the contest uettia was in favoron favo the crt w the river banks wera crowded wui thousands of people making abb race an event for a holiday A large crowd of rodiah and ill clad appeared on the f to remind the hollday mak era w mon incapable of nijol ing cheso ip alona ho headed by a band and bearing a banner callini attention to the distress among the unemployed abo cutroma bill luiNG ton april 3 the ways and means today to day took up tha culum bill us upon at yesterdays meeting and added to it the freal list ofha a n bill ba frer aa i lumber alfh ailts flax hemp and woul ads also addel to ahe alre list under tle headd dutiable goods alio cherul ral cotton eche dulee of the bui were with relating to fine qualities of cottan boqi und sonar duties ere reduced 10 pr cent alf mii jw f R the at an end new april 2 one of iho bitterest railroad rate wars that the western roads leayo ever known has probably come to an end continental apol was broken on the of february by the achison topeka asanta ifo 11 cut in he rates between new york and san francisco all of he lines hi alio pool met and tho result has been that travelers and freight have cono to california points at ex tr emely low rates it is understood aiming railroad men that president astory practically presented his until to president Huntin fiton of the southern pacific on thursday and that mr asked until today to day to answer it and by telegraph be did answer and immediately hia announced to shippers atiat the rates would be to tho old basis aner atchison agents have not yet received orders on the they are expected every hobirt bank statements NEW april ia trieba afe statements show a reserve decrease oS the bauks now bidd in ortho lesal rule to the mediterranean LONDON annl 3 the british ad roi ralty has ordered foier do boats to proceed bothe licau |