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went to the meeting in company with his brother Henry. Arriving there, he saw nothing to speak from and saw the wagon near the corner of Randolph street. Someone suggested that the wagon should be taken to Randolph street, but he said that the crowd would interfere with the street cars there. Before he began to speak he asked where Parsons was, and was told that he was addressing a meeting at the corner of Randolph and Hateted streets, and he went there with Henry Spies and Scbnabanlt to find him. The witness said he then returned to the wagon with Schnaubeit. He did not see Schwab, as Schnanbelt said he had gone to Deering to address a meeting there. “Did you go into the alley with Schnaubeit?" the witness was asked. Answer—No, sir. The witness stated that Schnaubeit could not speak English, and he could not have conversed with him in that language. Spies said he made an ordinary speech at the Haymarket. He said he told the meeting that the masses were being degraded. He then saw Parsons, and the latter began his speech. He remembered unimportant portions of Parsons’s speech, but could not remember what Fielden said. He said he remained on the wagon daring all the speaking. He saw the police on Randolph street, and heard Captain Ward give the order to disperse. He said he was helped off the wagon by his brother Henry and another man. When he had reached the sidewalk he heard a detonation, “And 1 thought,” said the witness, “that the police were firing a cannon to frighten the people.’’ He said he went to Zepfs Hall when the firing began. “Did you light the bomb?” the witness was asked. Spies smiled, showed bis teeth, and reBlied,8 lied, “I never did.” He said he did not see chnaubelt in the alley, and denied Gilmer's story. He said that the interview which Mr. Wilkiuson, the reporter, had with him last January, was substantially true. Spies said he had had two dynamite shells in hie office for three years. These were given to him by a man who sailed for New Zealand. He told the reporter in January, as printed, that there were three thousand armed Socialists in Chicago, and described to him how the police and soldiers could be fought. He had told the reporter, as stated on the trial, that the dynamite was a child of the future and would prove a great leveler. Spies then made what the prosecution call a fatal admission, fully corroborating their claim that the armed section bad a seeret caucus and had prepared for an attack on the police. Spies said he wrote the word “Ruhe,” which appeared in the Arbeiter Zeitung on May 4. He said, the night before, he received the following letter: “Mr. Editor, please insert in to day’s letter-box the word “Ruhe,”in prominent letters. He said be did not know it had any importance, but the next day Bslthasur Ran said it was decided by the armed section to have the word as a sign of warning that they should keep their powder dry for use against the police. He told Rau that that was foolish, and asked Fischer to inform the armed section that it was a mistake. Spies then described his arrest by the police. He declared that the superintendent of police called him a “Dutch hound,” and “whelp, and made an attack on him. Spies said he kept dynamite in his office to experiment with, and carried a revolver, thinking it was a good thing to be armed. He declared that, on the night of the Haymarket riot, however, be had left*his revolver with ex-Alderman Stauffer. The court hen adjourned. Fifteen minutes before the opening of the afternoon session there was not a vacant seat in the court-room. The fact that Spies was the witness under examination lent an extraordinary amount of interest to the session. The effects of the ordeal of the forenoon were apparent on the face of the “arcb-Anarchist” when he came in with the other prisoners. He was very pale, and looked anxious and worried. His voice was hoarse and had a hollow sound. When the Judge ordered that he resume the stand, he drew a long breath, as if preparing for a terrible ordeal, which he evidently expected the crossexamination to be. He was cross-examined by Mr. Ingham. “How long have you been editor of the Arbeiter Zeitung?” “About six years.” “Were you editor-in-chief?” “No; there was really no editor-in-chief.” “Were you not looked upon as the head of the editorial deDartment?” “Not so by those connected with the paper. The editorial department was governed by the publishing company.” “What position did Schwab hold on the paper?”, “The same as I did; that of one of the editors.” “And neither of you were responsible for thecharacter of the expressions of the paper?" “No, air.” “How tnuoii were you paid for your services?” “Eighteen dollars per week.” “And Schwab?” “The game.” “What position did Fischer hold?” “That of compositor merely.” Spies, in answer to further questions of a similar nature, stated that he was a paid employ on the Arbeiter Zeitung: that he looked over the editorial articles before they were published, but was not responsible for tbeir tone. “Were you editor of the Alarm at any timel’ : “I took charge of it for a short time once, while Mr. Parsons was absent.” “Did the Arbeiter Zeitung furnish the money for the defraying of the running expenses of the Alarm?” The defense objected; but after a dispute between the attorneys the witness was told to say whether he ever received any money for the Alarm. He had done so, and had paid out some for expenses incurred by that publication. He at first could not remember, and then admitted that he had written articles signed “A. 8.” “How many bombs did you have in your officer “Four.” “When did you get them?” “They were brought to me some years ago by a man who said he was from. Cleveland. ’’ “What kind of bombs were these?” “Iron, percussion bombs.” “What became of the man who brought you the bombs?” “I never saw him again. He said, if I remember, that he was going to New Zealand. ” “And when did you get those Czar bombs?” “I never got them. That is an invention of that reporter. A man came there while I was at dinner and left them there. He left the bombs with the book-keeper. I never saw him before or after.” During this examination the witness was very uneasy and his voice trembled perceptibly. His agitation increased when the examination was continued, as follows: “How much dynamite did you have in your office?” “Two small packages.” “Where did you get it?” “Os a powder company." “Why did you purchase this dynamite?” “Oh. I had read a great deal about dynamite; 1 thought I would like to investigate further.” “Why did you wish to investigate further?” “Ob, on general principles; I can’t say further.” “Did you e ver experiment with bombs?” “No, sir.” “Did not you go to Springfield end witness some experiments with bombs?” The witness answered evasively, and the question being repeated in another form, the defense objected. The objection was overruled, and the witness swore that he had never experimented with bomba “Was dynamite distributed from the Arbeiter Zeitung office?” “The office was not run for thatpurpose.” “Were bombs ever distributed from there?” “No. sir." “Did you not tell the reporter (Wilkinson) that they were?” “Never." The witness said he had been a member of the American group of Anarchists, and stated that he had considered himself aa Anarchist for about eight years, but when he was asked whether he had spoken often at the meetings of his groups, the defense objected on the ground that the matter had not been brought up in the examination. The Judge finally ruled that the question was admissible, and Spies braced himself for a fresh encounter with the Prosecuting attorney. The witness admitted that he had addressed a great many meetings, but be could not tell what proportion of his listeners had been Anarchists. “Dkl you ever handle dynamite or bombs, except as you have already testified to?” “I have answered that 1 never did.” “Have you known Herr Most?” “Yes.” “Did you receive this letter?” (handing the witnees a letter addressed to him and sighed by Moat), “1 did.” “Did you answer it?” The defense objected, and the examination was suspended while the court read the letter. “You may answer,” said the court “I do not remember." “Hew long have you corresponded with Most?” Objected to. Sustained. “In whose handwriting ia thia postal card?” /handing Spies a postal-card.) The defense ob-

jected, read the card, and Mr. Foster asked if the State contemplated bringing in anew defendant. The defense, including all the prisoners and lawyer*, appeared very nervous, and Spies looked the picture of despair, though be tried to swiDg from side to side in his chair and twist his mustache with an air of nonchalance. The court having decided that the objection was just, the examination was continued. Both the letter and the poetal-card were again handed the witness, and he was asked: “Yea or no?” whether or not he received them. The question was evaded for a while, the witness finally admitting that “he must have received them, as they were addressed to him.” “Did you send the writer of this card the directions asked so shipment of the stuff mentioned?" “I answer positively, I did not” “Did you write this circular?” (the revenge circular.) “I did.” “Did you cause the words ‘workingmen arm yourselves and appear in force* to be expunged?” “I did.” “Why?” “Because it seemed ridiculous, and would keep people away from the meeting instead of drawing them to it” “Did vou write the expression ‘workingmen, to arms?’” “Well, yes; I did.” “Why did you do that?” “Because I wished to arouse the ignorant working people to a realization of the wrongs heaped upon them. I wrote what many before me have written, and urged what others have urged, what the Constitution allows them to urge and what will be advocated till some good has resulted.” “You intended to excite your readers to frenzy and provoke the revolution about which you have so often preached, did you not?” The defense objected. Both attorney and witness had become excited, and were speaking loudly and vehemently. Spies attempted to assume the bold front of one who considered himself a martyr, but further than a higher pitching of his voice, his aspect was still that of a craven in an almost hopeless race for his life The witness defined the expressions “Social revolution” in stereotyped phrases, and the State was allowed to present the letter above referred to in evidence. It was signed “Johan Most,” and commenced “Dear Spies,” and was ae follows: New York, 2, 10, ’B. Dear Snies—Are you sure that the letter from the Hocking Valley was not written by a detective. In a week I will come to Pittsburg, and I have an inclination to go also to the Hocking Valley. For the present I send some printed matter there. The “rich. H.“ always existed but on paper. I told you this some mouths ago. On the other hand, I am in the condition to furnish “medicine” and the genuine article at that; directions for use are. perhaps, not needed with the proph. Moreover, they were recently published in tho French Appliances t can also send now. If you considei the address of Buchtel thoroughly reliable, I will ship twenty to twenty-five pounds. But how? Is there an express line to the place? * * * The organization here ia not tbetter nor worse than formerly. Our group has about the strength of the North Side group in Chicago, and then, besides this, we have, also, the Soe. Rev. 01., the Austrian League and the Bohemian League, so to say, three more groups. Finally, It is easily seen that our influence with the trade organizations is strongly growing. We insert our meetings only in the Fr., and cannot notice that they are worse attended than at the time when we yet threw weekly one and a-half to two dollars in the mouth of the N. Y. V. Z. Do not forget to put yourselves in communication with Drury in reference to the English organ. He will surely work with you much and well. Such a paper is the more necessary as the Truth is indeed getting more miserable anq confused from issue to issue, and in general is whistling from the last hole. * * * Greetings to Schwab, Rau, etc., and to yoo also. Yours, John Most. P. B.—To Buchtel I will, of course, write for tho present only in general terms. The postal card was also presented, and vras as follows: “A Spies, 107 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. L. S.— I had scarcely mailed my letter yesterday when the telegraph brought news from the 11. M. One don’t know whether to rejoice over that or not. The advance in itself is elevating. Sad is the eircnmstances that it will remain local and therefore might not have a result. At any rate, these people make abetter impression than the foolish voters on this and the other side of the ocean. Greetings and a shake. Yours, J. M. Drury, I suppose (hope) can now and then receive upon tickets.” When the letter aud postal card had been read, the witness was excused, and as he went to his seat, he heaved an Audible sigh of relief. The lawyers for the defense then entered upon a whispered consultation, which lasted till the court requested that they proceed. Captain Blaok responded by calling Parsons to the stand. His manner was in odd contrast to that of Spies. It was suave and conciliatory in the extreme. Parsons had not been accused of possessing an extraordinary amount of courage, and he assumed no attitude indicative of self-acknowl-edged martyrdom. He was smiling and colloquial. Few questions were asked. The witness was allowed to tell his story unaided, and it was extremely commonplace, apparently being copied closely from the testimony regarding his movements given by the witnesses for the defense. After he had told how he had attended the Haymarket meeting from the one held shortly previous at the Arbeiter Zeitung, in answer to a request for speakers, and how, having made his speech, he interrupted Fielden to suggest an adjournment to Zepf’s Hall, as it looked like rain, and getting the speaker’s reply that he was about through after relating these details, the witness said: “I then went to the saloon near Zepfs Hall, where Mrs. Parsons and Mrs. Holmes had preceded me. I went with a Mr, Brown, suggesting to him that we get something to drink, as speaking had made me very thirsty. When we arri ed at the saloon Fischer was there. We dranL, and after conversing a little while I began to wonder why the crowd didn’t appear. After a little while we went to the door and shortly I saw a flash and heard a loud exnloslon.” “What did you observe then?” “I saw a large number of what appeared to be repeating revolvers raised in the air (illustrating with his bands) and saw them emptied of theircharges, one after another as rapidly as possible. When the revolvers appeared to be empty then the firing ceased.” Captain Black—Now, Mr. Parsons, tell the jury, or repeat to them the tenor of your remarks during your speech at the Haymarket The witness was now plainly in his element He held in his hands a quantity of notes, and at once assumed the attitude familiar to all whobave heard him make any of his numerous speeches on the lake front and at No. 54 Lake street to the Socialists of the city. He turned from side to 6ide in bis chair, addressing spectators, judge, jury and lawyers in turn, and gesticulating freely with both hands. His Haymarket speech, thus repeated under oath, was extremely peaceful in its character at first, and bristled with statistics illustrative of the burdens borne by the laboring classes. “Monopoly,” the “Capitalistic press,” “Slaves of workingmen," etc., were expressions often repeated Instances when the militia and deputy sheriffs had used force to quell Labor disturbances were dwelt upon by the witness, “Aud,” be said, “I then asked my audience what was to be done about it? Are you going to submit tamely to being trampled upon like dogs, or will you take up arms agaiDSt your oppressors and save yourselves from hunger and desperation and your children from infamy ? Someone in the crowd then said, ‘We are ready to do it now.' I said that now was not the time, and went on to further illustrate the need of a revolution.” The witness went on in thi3 strain for some time, and excited the momentary interest of his hearers by remarking: “1 said to my audience, so-called reformers assert that drink makes men poor. Show me one man who is poor because he drinks and I’ll show you twenty who drink because they are poor.” As an illustration of the indifference of the capitalists to the sufferings of the poor, the witness referred to the expression of Vanderbilt, “The public be damned.” Parsons’s speech occupied nearly an hour. At the conclusion of it he was turned over to the State. He told Mr. Grinnell that he was born in Montgomery, Ala., and had been in Chicago thirteen years. “What has been your occupation for the past three years?” “I have been editor of the Alarm. ” “Did yon, in your speech at the Haymarket, tell yonr audieuce that the Times had advocated the putting of strychnine in the bread of workingmen; that Scott, of Pennsylvania, had advised controlling them with rifle#; and that the Times had been the first dvnamiter in this country?” “Yes, sir.” “Did you advocate retaliation by the same means?” “No, sir; £ simply told them to defend themselves.” “What did you mean, then, by the expression, ‘To arms! to arms? 1 " “I referred to the condition of the strikers at St. Louis, and said that if you are struck down by capital and your wives and children are trampled upon like dogs, then, if necessary, arm aud defend yourselves." The witness exhibited no little shrewdness in evading the questions of the State’s attorney. He was excused, and the court adjourned.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1886.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Farmer Robbed and Almost Murdered in Wabash County—Boy Killed at ShelbyYille —Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. A Wabash County Farmer Robbed and Beaten by Highwaymen. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. % Wabash, Aug. 9.—Last night, at 11 o’clock, as John Morris, of LaGro township, was passing through the covered bridge over the Salamonie river, two miles from LaGro, he was stopped by three meo, who knocked him down, and while two held him the third went through his pockets and secured all the money. He had $35. They then gave him a severe beating, and left him senseless in the road, where he was discovered and picked up several hours later. Morris’s injuries are quite serious, and he has since been coo fined to his bed. There is no clew to the highwaymen. Northern Indiana Normal SchooL Special to the Indianapolis Journal Valparaiso, Aug. 9. —The Normal school at this place has just closed its thirteen year. For the past two weeks commencement has been in full blast The graduating periormances in the various departments have been unusually interesting. The number graduating in the varions departments is as follows: Law, seventeen; elocution and oratory, twenty-three; musical, fourteen; scientific, seventy six; classic, fifteen; total, one hundred and forty-five. This is perhaps the largest number completing a course daring the history of the institution. The enrollment here during the past year has reached over two thousand. There are representatives from neariy all the States and Territories. Many of these are teachers seeking greater efficiency, others aspirants of that honorable calling, while others still are searching for knowledge on account of the pleasure in the search and the certain joy in the possession. The Northern Indiana Normal is the largest school of the kind in the United Statea This fact speaks for itself. Fifteen of the county -school superintendents of Indiana have received their education here. State Superintendent John W. Holcombe was a teacher here prior to his election, and said recently in a speech to the studenta here: “1 believe this institution is doing more good for the cause of education than all other institutions of the kind in the State.” During the present summer vacation of three weeks substantial improvements will be made to the college buildings. The entire structure will be overhauled, recitation rooms modified, and the various divisions changed and enlarged. This has become a necessity from the large attendance. The new structure will be brick, will be painted, and the college surroundings made more attractive. Professors Brown and Kinsey are men alive to the interests of the cause of education and spare no pains in making their work and their education a success. The recent commencement has been the most interesting and complete, and the best patronized at home and from abroad, which has ever occurred in the history of the school. This part of the State, in fact the State, may congratulate itself on having so large, successful and healthy an institution in its midst.

An Old Crime Recalled. The Jeffersonville Times says that among the many eccentric and singular beings wbo are eonfined in the Southern prison is William Hamlin. For twenty-six years he has been a convict, and sixteen years of that time has been passed in one cell. He presents a weird and unprepossessing appearance. Huge masses of matted hair fall over bis shoulders, and a long snow-white beard adorns his face. All daylong he his bony fingers between the bars, looking vacantly at the opposite wall, and sometimes for months not deigning to speak to anyone. At other times he will repeat long chapters from the Biole with surprising accuracy. The crime for which Hamlin is serving a life sentence is one of the most fiendish in the anDals of the State. In 1860, he, with two brothers, Peter and: Saul Bennett, ware employed by a wealthy farmer living in Jefferson county, near Madison. The farmer’s family consisted of himself, his wife and five little children. He was reported to be quite wealthy. One night when the wintry winds were howling about the house and the farmer and his family sat before a huge log fire, which blazed cheerily on the hearth, Hamlin and the two Bennetts entered, bearing an ax in his hand. With one blow Hamlin dashed out the farmer’s brains. His horrified wife wsb then killed in a similar manner. The little children screamed agonizingly, and clung to the bodies of their murdered parents, calling for that protection which could no longer be given. The inhuman brutes, frenzied by the work they had done, rained blow af*.er blow upon the little children, killing all of them. The murderers then searched the house for plunder, but found only S2O in the farmer’s pocket. To complete their horrible night’s work,*the bodies were piled together, the house set on fire and burned to the ground, unnoticed by any of the neighbors, owing to its isolated position. Hamlin and the Bennetts were arrested on suspicion, and one of the latter made a full confession. At the trial Hamlin defended himself, and attempted to prove, by biblical quotations, that the murder was justifiable. Each of the trio was sent up for life, the two Bennetts dying in prison. Henry County Agricultural Fair. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. New Castle, Aug. 9.—The thirty fifth annual fair of the Henry County Agricultural Society commences at New Castle to morrow. The society has built anew floral ball, band stand and forty additional box stalls for horses and cattle. They have also built anew exhibition building forty by sixty feet, in which to display the old relics on exhibition. Wednesday is old settlers' and school children's day. The meeting promises to be the best ever held in eastern Indiana ExFovernor Porter, Hon. William D. Foulke, Hon. James N. Huston, Gen. William Gross and others will bo in attendance, and make speeches. The panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg is on exhibition, and all available space is taken up on the ground with exhibits of various kinds, but the exhibit of old and pioneer utansii3 creates greatest interest Prominent Citizen Fatally Hurt* Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomixgton, Ang. 9.—Word from Paoli, Orange county, states that John H. Coplinger, a prominent citizen of that place, met with a fatal accident this morniDg. He was riding out to work on a wagon, when, going down hill, some boards slipped on the horses, when Mr. Coplinger fell to the ground and was fatally kicked. He was carried home, but cannot recover. He is one of the first citizens of the county. Horse-Thief Detective Association. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Frankfort, Aug. 9.—The annual meeting of the Wabash Valley Horse-thief Detective Association commenced its session in this tity to-day. Two hundred delegates, from twenty counties, are present They are having a big welcome at Coulter’s opera house, addresses being delivered by Hon. J. C. Suit and W. H. Russell, of this city, and Judge Paul, of Crawfordsvill The convention will continue to-morrow. Boy KilUxL Special to tho Indianapolis JournaL Shelby yille, Aug. 9.— Orie Barns, son of Henry Burns, and about sixteen years old, met his death by * peculiarly shocking accident at noon, to-day. The boy had unhitched the team from the beer-wagon of Mr. Daniel DePrea, and was riding one of the horses to the stable. As the boy was passing through an alley he ob-

served soirib apples hanging on a limb, and he checked the horse and stood up so that he could reach them. As he let go of the limb the horse became frightened and ran away. The boy was entangled in the harness and*dragged at least one hundred yards with his head on the ground. Hb only lived a few minutes after being picked up. His skull was badly crushed. Man and Money Missing, Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Lafayette, Aug. 9.—Last night Charles Klumpe, night clerk at the Labr House, failed to report for duty, and thia morning it was discovered that about SBOO, which had been given him by the Sheckenberger faro bank, to place in the office safe, was missing, except about slßin small change, which remained in the bottom of thesaek in which the amount was deposited. Klumpe has not been heard from to-day, and it is believed he has left the city. The supposition is that he lost the money at poker, and fled to bide the disgrace, as he frequently had the handling of thousands of dollars placed in the hotel’s keeping. which he could have taken had he been so disposed. Klumpe has always borne a good character and moved in good society, and his downfall is a surprise to all. A Fatal Fall. Ppecial to tho Indianapolis JournaL Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 9.—John Schmitz, member of the firm of Schmitz Bros., bakers and confectioners, fell from the third story of the establishment to-night and was instantly killed, his skull being crashed in. Previously he had been taken to his room in an intoxicated condition. He came here about a month ago from Brazil, where he was proprietor of an establishment, which he left in charge of his wife, and purchased an interest in business with his brother. The deceased was twenty-eight years old and leaves a widow and two children. She Married In Haste, and Now Repents. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greensbttrg, Aug. 9.—Myram B. Montrose, a pleasant-appearing man, came here last December and played the role of a detective. He met Clara Golden, a miss of sixteen summers, and by his fascinating manners induced her to marry him. In a few days he left suddenly, and she has not heard from him since. It was not long, however, until word reached her that he had one or more wives elsewhere. This girl today filed an action in court asking to have her marriage with him declared null and void. May aud December’s Troubles. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greensbttrg, Aug. 9.—Julia E. Melloh sues Wm. H. Melloh for divorce. She alleges that last February, when she was nineteen years old, he, being sixty-three years old, induced her to marry him by the promise of SI,OOO in money and a horse and bnegy. After the marriage he refused to keep thia promise, and treated her cruelly, and on two occasions even threatened her life. She was compelled to leave him. and now asks alimony for $2,000 out of his estate, supposed to bo worth $4,000. Man Run Down by a Train and Killed. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Aug. 9.—John Barrett, a section hand on the Wabash road, was run over by the fast train due here at 7:40 this evening, and almost instantly killed. He was at the time walking along the track, inside the city limits, and a little west of the station. The deceased, who was a rather aged man, leaves a family. Until recently he was watchman at the Lafayettestreet crossing, in this city.

Minor Notes. At Delphois, Christ Kluerhaus was kicked on the head by a horse and almost instantly killed. On the Seven-mile prairie, in the northern part of Hendricks county, 276 rattlesnakes have been killed this summer. A young son of John Byers, a prominent citizen of Shelby ville, fell out of a loft, on Sunday night, and received dangerous injuries. The tobacco crop in the southern part of the State was severely damaged by hail last week. In some places the leaves were torn to shreds. Thomas Morgan, while working in the city gravel pit at Logamsport, bad both legs broken, the bank caving in. Other workmen barely escaped being buried. Andrew Eldrtdee, of Lexington, sold a bill of railroad ties, which did not belong to him, to John James, amounting to $250, and was made to disgorge at the pistol's mouth. A large roller flouring-mill is to be erected in Ligonier, at a cost of $25,000. The parties come from Wauseon, O. A store house, with a capacity of 80,000 bushels of wheat, will also be erected. Incendiaries burned a frame house on the farm of Z. T. Dungan, three miles south of Huntington. The house was filled with agricultural implements. Loss $700; insured for S4OO in Ohio Farmers’. Charles Wicks, of Albion, committed suicide at Ligonier, last Friday, by taking laudanum. He parted with his wife some time ago, and this preyed upon his mind to such an extent that he took his own life. Mrs. Ruth Chandler, a widow, whose home is in the western part of Greene county, is in jail at Bloomfield, charged with iufauticide. Her brother-in-law, named Madden, ie also in jail, charged as an accomplice after the fact. A farm house, situated near Elkhart, belonging to Levi Hartzler. burned down’ on Saturday, causing a loss of $2,000. There were ten cans of dynamite in the house, but it was, fortunately removed in time to eseape an explosion. Isaac Miller, a prominent farmer of Wells county, went squirrel hunting last Friday. Not returning, search was made, and he was found dead with a bullet-hole through his head. It is not Known whether the killing was accidental or a suicide. Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Gaines, of Shelby county, yesterday celebrated the golden anniversary- of their njarriage at their home, six miles east of Shelbyville. At least 200 persons were present, among whom were Edward Cornelius and wife, o£ Indianapolis. The thirty-second annual temperance rally of Union county was held near Liberty, on Saturday, with about six thousand people in attendance. Addresses were made by Rev. Sam Small, Hon. E. B. Reynolds aud W. O. Wilis, of Detroit, Mich. Mr. Small received SIOO for his address. Mr. Miller, a farmer living north of Albion, has quite a curiosity in the shape of a stalk of the common thistle which is quite peculiar in many respects. The stalk, instead of being round and of the usual shape, is about a quarter of an inch thick and five or six inches broad, surmounted by a heavy, bushy top. It ia a queer freak of nature. Alfred Stone and wife, an aged couple, who live in Morristown, Shelby county, were awakened a few nights ago by two masked burglars, who thrust their revolvers into tho old man’s face, and demanded to know where his money was. The old man tried to get up, but they threatened him with death, and, after vainly searching the house without finding anything, they left The White-lick Association will hold a Sundayschool convention at Plainfield, Aug. 1L Many Sunday-school workers will deliver speeches, prominent among whom are J. E. Sherrill, of Danville; R. N. Harvey: T. J. Connor, of Indianapolis; S. H. Huffman, of Seymour; Jane Worrell, of Clayton; and J. M. Tinder, of Sti!osville. C. P. Jacobs, of Indianapolis, will deliver the annual address. * Wilkes Mays aud Grant Newton, two colored citizens of Greencastle, engaged in a quarrel over a little yellow dog belonging to Mays, in Cawley’s saloon. A desperate fight ensued, and Mays whipped out the proverbial razor and slashed Newton in a horrible manner. Mays is a desperate character, and has been the principal in a score of shooting aud cutting scrapes since he has resided here. A turtle was recently found t a a farm near Clayton, and on its back was the inscription, “1783.” For some time the turtle was viewed with admiring gaze, because it wae thought to be 103 years old, but the ever-mischievous small boy eventually appeared and ditclosed the faot that a month previous he bad caught the turtle and cut the name of that year on its back. Probably a similar reason could be given for the “ad-

vanced age" of many other turtles that have been found with inscriptions carved oa their backs. Pleas Griffey, a prominent business man, and until lately engaged in the hardware business, died at Sbelbyvi'ile yesterday, aeed about fifty* six years. He was a Mason and Oddfellow, and was widely Known' throughout Shelby county. He will be buried to-morrow. Robert Thompson’s steam elevating grain warehouse, at >iima, Lagrange county, burned early on Sunday morning, with contents, consisting of 5,000 to 6,000 bushels of wheat owned by individual farmers of this county. It was only partially insured. This warehouse was one of the largest on the G., R. &L railway. Othniel Read, a man about forty-five years old, was reminded to jail, yesterday, by Esquire William S. Johnson, of Greensburg, in default of a bond for S3OO, after a preliminary examination on the charge of rape, committed on his niece, Lethia Read, fifteen years|old. daueht jr of Reason Read, of Adams, Decatur county. The wife of the defendant aud the mother of the girl are sisters, and the men brothers. Clay, which promises to bo valuable for manufacturing purposes, has been found on the farm of Charles Fribloy, in Etna township, Kosciusko county. It is very fine in texture, aud while it has the general appearance of what is known as blue clay, only of a finer quality, it burns to & beautiful drab color, and apparently is as bard as iron after passing through the kiin. Mr. Friblev says the vein is about ten feet in thickness, and the supply is apparently inexhaustible. The report in regard to a misunderstanding between Mr. DePauw and Mr. Ward as to the museum at the University, is denied. It is said that none of the collections have been removed, and that the Stiver cabinet and the fine museum bought of Mr. Ward and presented by Mr. De Pauw at the expense of $2,340, remain intact and are in no danger of being interfered with. On the contrary, valuable additions continuo to bo made, and in addition to rooms already occupied, one of the largest halls in the university has been assigned to Professor Jenkins for accommodations required. The tenth annual meeting of the old settlers of Putnam, Owen. Morgan, Monroe and adjoining counties, in connection with a soldiers’ reunion of the late and Mexican wars, will be held at Quincy, on Thursday, Aug. 12. Addresses will be delivered by Gen. John Coburn, of Indianapolis; Gen. M. D. Manson, of Crawfordsville; Dr. Alexander Martin, president De Pauw University; Presiding Elder W. R. Halstead, of Indianapolis district; Hon. R. W. Miere, of Bioomineton; Captain David Beem, of Spencer, end Elder George W. Terry, of Stiuesville. Governor Isaac P. Gray has been invited, and will be present if possible. Some time ago the Journal published an item the mysterious presence of water in v uerent rooms of a house near Goshen, the source of which was unknown. Later, characters in the shape of writing made their appearance, and while these things were kept up, an invitation to investigate was accepted, the result being that a young daughter was detected in the work, aided by her mother. They are Ornish people, and the theory offered by the neighbors for such conduct on the part of the mother and daughter is that the woman and her JiusbandT live unhappily together, and that aho took this means to rid herself of him. But it lias now failed and she will have to try something else.

ILLINOIS. (Tailings from Correspondence and Gleanings from Exchanges. Clear Creek Baptist Association is in session at Jonesboro. Hog cholera is said to be raging in portions of Edgar county. St. Paul’s Church, Springfield, has made a call for Rev. F. W. Taylor, of Danville. It is estimated that ten million pounds of fish are taken from the rivers of Illinois each year. The effort of Knights of Labor and Greenbackers of Marion county to combine has proved a failure. Five prisoners in the Paris jail beat the bars out of the prison door with a stone and quietly walked away. At the Murdock camp-meeting, near Oakland, the attendance on Sunday was estimated at folly forty thousand persons. A Mount Carmel magistrate united in marriage a seventeen-year-old boy and a widow of thirty. The boy was the widow’s third husband. Yellow water-lilies are said to grow in only two localities in this country. They are found in abundance near Peoria. They are now in bloom. The colored people of Alexander county have called a conference to discuss the feasibility of placing in the field a negro ticket for county officers. The encampment of the Second Brigade, I. N. G., at Camp Lineolu, near Springfield, ended yesterday. It has been very satisfactory in all respects. Nauvoo expects to make 300.000 gallons of wine this year, besides selling SIO,OOO worth of grapes. One firm in Warsaw is preparing to make 20,000 gallons of wine A White Oak farmer killed seven large rattlesnakes in two days while working in his hay. No rattlesnakes had bean seen in that vicinity before for years. A Jacksonville mother ties her children to trees with long ropes, and then leaves them to play about the lawn without being afraid that they will run away. A party of twenty boys went snake-hunting on the prairie, near Gallon, and in three hours killed 134 rattlesnakes, twelve blue racers and several garter-snakes. A bird’s nest containing four young birds was found in the draw bar of a cattle-car which passed tbrousth Tilton last week. The car bad come from Kansas City. Hundreds of birds were killed by the furious rain-storm which visited Decatur Thursday evening. Under one tree in the City Park forty English sparrows were found drowned. Mattoon secures its water supply from a well fifty-five feet deep and fifteen feet in diameter, which stands full all the time, notwithstanding the immense quantity of water used from it. A man living one mile from Wayne jumped off a moving railway train near his home, in order to save walking back from town. His arm and bip were broken. He thinks now It would have been better to have walked back. The Hancock County Holiness Association is preparing for a large meeting at its own grounds, north of Carthage, commencing Aug. 11. L. B. Kent, of Bloomington, and Frank Ashcraft, two revivalists, are to conduct the meeting. Grasshoppers are becoming very numerous in the western part of Clinton and east* lortion of St. Clair counties. They are dam* corn seriously, some fields being almost iirely stripped. Thus far the pests seem confin*. to one locality, but it is feared that their ravages will increase. William Cole, a resident of Litchfield, apparently died on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, from a congestive chill, with which he was seized a few hours before. Although he has all the appearance of being dead, his body sull remains warm, and his friends believe it to be a caso of suspended animation. The fire at Chenoa, a few days ago, occurred at midnight Before morning a number of the burned business firms moved the remnants of their stocks into the Exchange Hotel, and were ready for business by breakfast time. A bank, an insurance office, a drug store and. a dry-goods store occupied the four corners of the hotel office when the landlord woke up in the morning. The Saloon- in Charlestown, Clark County. Charlestown Special. % Yesterday Hamilton Hanger opened a saloon, and displayed a modest sign over the door, like this: “The Road to Hell!” This created great excitement, and all day groups of angry citizens stood on the street-corners discussing the situation, aud threatened trouble if the divs was not closed. Last night Hanger was the recipient of a lrtfer written with red ink. and signed “Vigilance Committee," ordering him to immediately discontinue the sale of liquor and forever remain away from Charlestown. Their request was complied with, and the drugstores axe again supplying the demand. To thoroughly cure scrofula, it is necessary to strike directly at the root of the evil This is exactly what Hood’s Sarsaparilla does, by acting upon the blood, thoroughly cleansing it of all impurities, and leaving not even a taint of scrofula in the vital fluid.

TEE RED DEVILS MUST GO. Gen. Wallace Talks of the Indian Deviltries Committed in New Mexico. Chaco and the Mci’emas Horror —Tie General’s New Novel, and His Present Literary Engagements—-Politics in General. Nrwr Torfc Mail and Express. General Lew Wallace, of Indiana, author of Beu Hur, and ex-Minister to Turkey, was at the Murray Hill Hotel, yesterday, as lively and full of animation as when he rode about and studied that fatalistic race along the Bosphorus. His hair, which is long and dark, fell in a tuft over his high forehead and rested on his immense shaggy eyebrows, that look like jutting crags over his piercing, eagle eyes. He resembled a literary Occidental Bashi-Bazouk, only he didn't have on a fez and failed to cross his legs under him when he sat down. He conversed with a Mail and Express reporter at length. “Yes," he said, “I have gone into the lecture field, and will begin my season at Chautauqua. My lecture will be on the Turks in Turkey. Then, on the 9th rast, I shall lecture again at the same place, and read the Chariot race from Ben Hur. My following engagements will take me West.” “Are you not writine a Turkish novel?” “Yes, but when I will finish it I havo no idea. I worn on it at odd times. I cannot tell you much about it now, only that it will be a Turkish romance, with the scenes laid in Turkey. The characters will not be all Turks. As to what name the novel will have or bow the plot runs I cannot tell you anything, for the reason that I have not definitely settled those preliminaries yet. It is like an egg not yet hatched; a rooster or a hen may be the result, or a complete fiasco. Bat ray lecture engagements will engross tny time to such au extent 1 cannot make any promises as to when I shall have that romance ready for publication.’’ “You took a long trip out West recently.” “Yes, I went Mexico. I own an interest in a mine in the San Simone district, situated in the southwestern part of that Territory. That country is fast going back to its original desolation. In the southwestern parte of New Mexico and the southeastern districts of Arizona the prospects are terrible* The Indians have terrorized those sections to such an extent everything is stagnant and paralyzed. When I arrived at the railroad town from whence I had to go to my mine, the people advised me not to attempt such a hazardous undertaking. They said it would cost me my life. I hired an escort of twelve men, gave them rifles and plenty of ammunition, and started out. When 1 camped at night I put out guards and had reliefs just as in war times. It had to be done to save an attack from prowling bands of hostile Indians. On the route I found towns deserted, ranches destroyed, the ranchers and their families having been murdered by Geronimo, or some of hia bands, business everywhere was at a standstill, and a scene of ruin and devastation met the eye on every band. Houses charred and partially burnt, standing with no signs of life about, only the bullet-ridden door and the blood upon the floor, told the tale of the murder that had been committed upon the citizen and his family who fought until death overtook them. When I arrived at the mines I found everybody armed. The miner when he went to work took hia rifle and ammunition with him, and kept it by while at work. No one dared to step out of bis house without boing armed. Geronimo and the murderous Apaches nnder him were liable to swoop down at any moment. “It is a shame that the authorities at Washington receive that bloody-handed murderer, Chief Chaco. He ought to be turned over to the civil authorities of New Mexico and tried for the murder of Judge McComas and family. The true story has never been told. Judge McComas was my partner in the mine out thev& After the Indians killed the judge they subjected his wife to inhuman treatment and then murdered her in a most fiendish manner. I saw the marks of the struggle with the poor women. It was shocking, too horrible to relate the particulars of bow they treated Mrs. MoCoroae before they finally killed her. Why, the San Carlos reservation in the southeastern port of Arizona contains about 5,000 Apaches. It is a nest for Geronimo to recruit from. Whenever a warrior under him plays out and desires to convalesce, Geronimo gives him permission to go back to the reservation. The warrior hides his gun and walks in. apparently repentant and with no wish to go back on the warpath. He is received with open arms, and eats and grows fat. Then he buys ammunition with the things be has stolen from murdered settlers and either sends it or goes baek himself to Geronimo. That is the little game they play.” “What is the matter that the government doesn’t suppress them?” “The government doesn’t take any interest in the Indian depredations. It sends a small force out there to suppress the Indians who know the country well aod easily elude pursuit. General Miles is very efficient and does all he can. But what can he do with such a small force. We want enough troops to surround and cutoff these murderous bands of Indians. If the government would give permission to the settlers to organize companies they would soon make many good dead Indians. If I had my way I would distribute the Indians all over the United States. It is sheer nonsense to keep as many as five huadred Indians together on one reservation, as that of the San Carlos. When the Indians are separated and mixed in with the millions of whitee in different States and Territories, then, and only then, will these outbreaks cease. The Mexicans are as anxious to capture Geronimo as. the settlers. They have suffered and many have been murdered by the Indians. It is a great pity to see a fine country like that of New Mexico and Arizona laid waste py savages. A handful of troops cannot suppress flying bands of Indians; that fact by this time seems pretty well demonstrated. It is rather galling to the settlers to hear that old Chaco has met with a cordial reception at the capital. Capital punishment is what he needs if the law is carried out.” “Have you heard in your travels how tho Democrats enthuse over their President?” “Everywhere I have gone he has been the recipient of the most low-mouthed expressions of utter detestation from members of his his own party. Why, even the red-mouthed mugwumps, who once rolled their tongues in hymns of praise, have shut up and say nothing. Disgust and disappointment have come to all tho Democrats along the line, and their desire is to throw him overboard as soon as possible. Their criticisms on hia civil-service reform pretensions are severe and just. They say that if the President had taken a decided stand on the question in action as well as speech, then they could have found no fault But while he only half way carries out civil-service reform he doesn’t give satisfaction to anybody. Democrats urge that he should either take a decided step against civil-service reform or carry out strictly the law and keep in all the Republicans. Then no complaints could be found on that ground. But even with all the opposition to President Cleveland the Democrats may nominate him again. If so, he will be defeated. Mr. Blaine will be our next President.”

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