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VOL. VI—NO. 239. CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1891.

THE LAW'S GRIP.

It One.j More E icirole3 the Throat of Anarchy in Cluc&go.

SKC'KT GAIHERIXCS BKOIiB' UP.

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ANA Wilis l* KMltl.KMS f'ONKlSCATKlK Nov. One hundred policeman. h.-aded by Inspector r.yinan E. Lewis and apt. John K. Miihoney. raided two anarchist meetings at Ni». .»l West hake street Thursday night. arrested twenty-three of tho leaders and tool tliern to the Desplaines street elation. Henry Miller. Daniel Sulicr. Ernest I tapper. John Ueis-h and onratl Messer were hooked on three charges carrying concealed weapons, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. The others were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting an otlicer. Conrad Messer is the only one known to have been connected with the events of live years ago. Thomas (irief pave bond for each man in the sum of S20U. 1

A (.'omplnte Surprise.'

The appearance of the police was a complete surprise to the disciples of Parsons and Spies. Some attempted to re.'.ist arrest and drew revolvers, but they were discovered before they had an opportunity to lire. Many red'flags bearing' incendiary mottoes were seized, anil a quantity of pamphlets urging the "down-trodden" masses to throw off' the yoke of the rich oppressors. '''lie meeting had been in progress ha. an hour. The halls on the third and fourth floors were crowded with men listening-to the agitators denouncing the police for interfering- with the memorial meeting at the West Twelfth Street Turner hall the night before. A score or more were in the saloon ou the ground floor drinking beer and talking of the time soon to come when they could ''use dynamite with good effect 011 the dogs of the law.'" 10very one was at fever heat when the doors of the saloon Hew open with a crash. Inspector Lewis and his men came pouring in. "Throw up your hands:-' shouted the inspector. Koine hands went up and some reached toward hip-pockets. Then there was a scramble and sculUe and the men who attempted resistance were under arrest.

Was Not At raid to l)le.

One fellow named Deshel drew a revolver, and when Otlicer Edward Newman seized him by the wrist with one hand and placed the muzzle of the revolver against his head, he cried: "Shoot Shoot! I am an anarchist and not afraid to die for the cause."

In the meantime inspector Lewis and CapL Mahone.v led seventy-five of the squad up to the meetings in progress on the third and fourth tioors. Owing to the loud applause and stamping of the anarchists within they did not hear the ollieers coming. Without a moment's warning the doors were forced open. Then there was a rush to tlie forward end of the hall. "Stand your ground?" shouted John Gleekner, who occupied a chair oil the platform. "Down with the devils!" cried some one else, lint the officers paid 110 heecL The command: "Throw up your hands" was given, and it was generally obeyed.

In both halls the red flags decorated the walls and red bunting draped the pictures of the. "martyred heroes" of 18S7. As the police entered tlunrooin some of the leaders attempted to tear down the flags and bunting, but before they could be disposed of the officers got them. "If we had known von were coming," said (ileckner, with an oath to the officers who were leading him out of the hall, "we would have been better prepared for you. It would not have beeen a one-sided fight then. Itut our turn will come. Wait! Only wait!"

TuUen In Hit* Station.

As soon as the police had secured the men each one was searched. Then the halls were searched and more Hags were found. On one in large gilt letters was printed "Anarchy forever," on another "Onward is our motto. In union there is strength The leaders among the crowd and those who had revolvers were taken to the Desplaines street station and locked up.

A Srrrut Meeting.

The meeting was at the old headquarters, where Spies. Parsons, Linug and the other "manyrs" used to advocate (lynainitejior the polite and burning the town. It was to have been a mass-meeting, but the action of Inspector IJubbard at the West Twelfth Street Turner hall the night before caused a change of programme. It was feared detectives might get in and get evidence that would lead to the arrest of some of the speakers. Thomas Grief, the proprietor of the place, who has often managed secret- meetings in the past, took the matter in charge. The street door to tho hulls was locked, and the chosen few who were admitted had to go through the saloon entrance. Grief himself stood at tho door, and only those known were allowed to pass.

AntIciput eil liy the Police.

Inspector Lewis had prepared for this. Officers from remote stations were secured and sent into the saloon to mix and talk with the anarchists. They soon learned that the meetings upstairs were not trade* union assemblies but of dibciplesof anarchy. Many of the old anarchist standbys, such as Munzcr, llehrens and Linnemeyer, were there, and the general tone of the conversation was of tho most violent sort

All this was reported to the inspec tor. He had prepared for it, and had the lieutenants from all the substations in his districts, with twenty-five men each, in readiness at the Desplaines street station. At 8:45 o'clock they reached the hall, and at once burst in the door.

Among the men arrested with revolvers was David Sutter, a Buffalo

anarchist, lie was taken niter 11 hard struggle by Officers Suisrott ami Garey. Officer Wi' h-u-i- grabbed Krnst Ivilbaski, who gave a-. his home New York, lie was in the act of drawing revolver, (lilieer Ncwann took a revolver from a man v^u »as trying to py.'wnt the officers .nun entering the saloon.

Inspector Lewis was well pleased with the siicceus of his elVort. "I do not propose to let them gain a footing. If they had been cheeked at the proper time there would have been 110 haymarket mas-acre four years ago. I.ut as long 11s 1 have charge of this district 1 will not allow them to preach treason, dynamite am! destruction. Let them go to South Ameriea if they are so fond of revolution and bloodshed."

A BIG SHORTAGE.

Kx-Tr«« iHinvr T»in»«r, of Ihe K. of I.., flat in H»1 'omUt(nn. TOI.KIMI. ()., Nov. l:{,—Tiie sensation of th«» K. of 1.. convention Thursday was the report of a committee appointed at the last session, at the request- of tumoral Secretary ilayos, to examine the books, which he found in a very bad condition. Ex-Treasurer Turner refused to appear before them'or to (five up the bank deposit hooks, ean.eled checks, and other documents in his possession. They mude the best investigation possible in the alsence of these documents and find there is over #1.000 unaccounted for, even crediting Turner with $17,001), which his statements show to have been expended, but the books of tlie order show a Imlanec of $14,000 entirely unaccounted for. The report was ordered printed.

In discussing a complaint from the linkers' union of Rochester, N. Y., delegates from all parts of the country complained bitterly of unfair action by the American Federation of Labor toward the knights. The remainder of the session was devoted to minor matters.

DEATH OF DONN PIATT.

Tliu Wrtl-Known .lunrniillHt KalU ft Victim to l.uiiK l-'cvur. C'l.KVKi.A.Mi. O.. Nov. Ut. —Donn Piatt died at. 1! o'clock Thursday afternoon at his home at Mac-o-Che. in Logan county, lie had been ill only a. week with lung fever, and his condition wa not considered alarming until Wednes day. He attempted to make his will, bit became speechless anil was unable finish it. He was born at Cineinnat .lune 10. ISilU, and is best known for hi. career at the national capital as edito: of the Washington Sunday Capitol. In 18SS he edited ltelford's Magazine. At the time of his death he was engaged upon a biography of Gen. George II. Thomas. His latest work for the press was a series of letters to a Cleveland paper ou the issues and candidates of the late campaign, which attracted wide attention. Col. Piatt hud been twice married. and his second wife, for many years an invalid, survives him. The funeral will be held Sunday.

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A TOWN IN ASHES.

Fire Whil'tl t'iiuHi's l.oml of S400.000 Ultii Suburb of Tuui|iil, Kin. TA.MI'A, ria., Nov. is. About 5 o'clock Thursday morning lire broke out in the center of Ybor City, a suburb of this city, whose principal business is*eigarmaking. The buildings were chiefly of wood and burned like match-boxes. A small hotel when the lire caught was in ashes in less than thirty minutes and the Dames spread rapidly in all directions, consuming altogether two hotels, one boarding house, four bar rooms, three barber shops, one drug store, four restaurants, six dry goods stores, one jewelry store, one boot and shoe store and the market house. The merchants saved only a small portion of their stocks. The loss is set as SlOll.OOO. with 81-5,000 insur ance. nidi Kike 111M Chief.

VAI.I'AIIAISO, NOV. I:S.—The report has just reached here from Santiago that Pedro V. Gandarillas lias shot and killed himself at his hiding place on a farm in the mountains in the vicinity of the capital, lie was Itahnaceda's minister of agriculture in the first cabinet formed by the dictator. The cause of his suicide was the fear of persecution on the part of the junta.

A ConllHgi-Htion In Clilnit.

SAN KKAXCISCO, Nov. IH.—Advices from China say that 1.800 houses were destroyed by a big fire in Ilancow, on October :i. Thirteen thousand people were made homeless and it is thought that a number of lives were lost in the conflagration. Another fire at the same place only two days after the first one destroyed 200 other dwellings.

A IIOIIM* fur Oll Men.

HITI'AI.O, N. Y.. Nov. 18.—John Blochcr, one of ItulTalo's.wealthiest citizens, has bequeathed his tine residence at Delaware avenue and Huron street to be used as a charitable home for aged men, and has provided for the endowment of the institution with almost his entire fortune, estimated at 82,000,000.

A llrrtkonmn's Kate.

FOSTOHIA, O., Nov. 13. William O. Enser, a brakeman on the Nickel Plate, as making a coupling between a box and a lumber car when a projecting board struck hiin, crushing his head between the car and board, and instantly killing him. He was SO years old, married, and lived in Fort Wayne, Ind.

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KUK. Pa., Nov. 18.—Fred

Weber, the only inmate of the Wayne county jail, committed suicide by strangling himself, lie left a nJftsaying that the place was too lonely, and gave that as a reason for hU act

Fortune for Sirs, l'urimll.

LONDON, Nov. is.—It is reported that the contci-t regarding the will of Lady Wood, Mrs. ParncU's aunt, has been settled on a liusis vhnt gives Mrs. Parnell about £40,1X10, or one-half of the estate, the remainder to be divided up among tbe other heirs.

THE Iii.\L\ R015BERS.

Ouly Two M011 In the Gang Whloh 1 Looted tho St. Paul Express.

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE ROBBERY.

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Mn.wAriiKi:. Nov. i.*i.—Two men composed the •tgnngM of robbers which attacked the St. Paul train at Western Union Junction, Wis., early Tuesday morning. There was no attempt at interference with the people on the train. The attack was directed on the express ear, which was robbed of a portion of its valuable freight. The express messengers were overpowered and from So, 000 to $10,000 taken away. Tho money belonged to the American Express Company.

At the Points of Wiuclieaters. After robbing the ear the engineer, fireman and express messengers were marched to the highway, about a mile distant, at the point of Winchesters carried by the gentlemanly road, agents. Tlieu they were told to go back to the train and their captors disappeared in the direction of Kacine. Several search parties are hunting, but so far without results. Western I'nion .1 unction is about 50 miles north of Chicago, and the express, which left that city at 11 p. m., made the run in a little over two hours. The robbei® boarded the express and Etmiknown to anyone made their way to the tender and lay in wait for the favorable moment About a mile north of the station the rireman, Hdward Averill. began shoveling coal into the firebox, when he was startled by a noise, and, on turning about to ascertain the cause, found himself covered by a rifle in the hands of a masked man. Another gleaming barrel was pointed at. the head of Kngineer Mc­

Kay. One of the robliers cried: "Don't move an inch till we tell you or we will blow the top of yonr d—d heads off."

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lOngineer McKay was: directed to run the train to a point within about 1 mile from Western Union .1 unetjionl Here the engineer was commanded- tOi stop. Both men were ordered to .4tep down out of the cab and get in line ahead of the robbers. They were' marched to the express car under cover.

I'Hclt !yu l»llt«.

One of the robbers rapped on the** floor at the side and ordered Messenger Murphy to open it This the latler refused to do. Then a bomb waB thrown through the window and the demand was renewed. Still tjie plucky messenger refused to open the door. Another bomb was thrown, thi« time squarely at the door. A terrible explosion followed, the force of which can be imagined when it is known that the heavy timber sill of the car was broken in two. A large hole •was made in the door, and before the echoes of the explosion had died a\tay, and amid the smoke and dust, one of the robbers sprang into the aperture and covered the messenger and his assistant' with revolvers. Moth men had been thrown down by the terrible concussion. Even then it was some time before Murphy would consent to surrender the keys to the safes.

The explosion had thrown the inside of the car into the greatest confusion. The safes which the robbers were bent on securing were buried beneath the boxes and packages. Fireman Averill was compelled at the point of it revolver to get into the car and uncover the safes while the robbers, with the exception of the one who stood guard over him, took care of Engineer McKay and stood ready to receive any of the passengers or trainmen that might attempt to come to the rescue of the express car. Two of the three safes on the train were thrown out of the door and dragged off" a short distance, when, after a delay of uboul half an hour, the train was permitted to proceed on its way, arriving in this city at 'J:20. a. m.

After lite Thieves.

Dispatches were sent, to the authorities of Kacine, Chicago and Milwaukee and to the railroad and express cornpanics' headquarters in those cities. Prompt action was taken, £nd as fast as special trains could be made ready detectives were scut to the scene of the robbery. There are twenty-two detectives working on the case belonging to the city forces and the companies. l-'rfghtetied i'asseiiKer*.

The scene in the passenger cars while the robbery was being perpetrated was ludicrous in the extreme. The curtains were immediately pulled

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down and (lie inmates began secreting their money and valuables, hiding them in their stockings and about the car. None of the passengers was molested but they were informed that if they interfered they would bring down trouble.

Coullii*t Open Two .Sufe*.

The money chests taken by the robbers were three in number. One was Messenger Murphy's local chest and the others were combination safes containing bank remittances for Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Murphy had the key for his own safe and was forced to give it to the robbers, but the keys to the combination safes are kept at the terminals and the messengers do not know the combinations of the locks This fact defeated the robbers, who hud to content themselves with the contents of the local safe, which, it is thought, did not amount to more than 810,000 at the outside. It is estimated that the combination safes contained upward of 850,000. The crew of a later train found the combination safes unbroken near the scene of the robbery and and placed them on the fast mail train, which brought them to this city.

The express e^r on reaching Milwaukee was unloaded and taken to the shops for repairs. Among the guilds taken out. a bale of cloaks wits fairly blown into ribbons, having the appearance of having been through thrashing machine. A number of bats, known amouir ladies as "shapes," were torn mid riddled into a shapeless mass. Messenger Murphy's clothing was stripped into shreds, and it is a miracle how he escaped with his life. Several holes in his hut and coat sleeve were probably made by stones in the dvna•mite bombs, as there are a large nuinlerof these sticking in the sides of the car, where they have penetrated hall '.way through'the heavy boards at the

Side.

SHynthe I .OHM IB About M-1,000. It is nekt to impossible to get any reliable figures as to the express Souipany's loss. General Western Manager Antisdcl says the amount iu the local safe and the two packages takeu could not have been more than 8-1,000 at the outside. Others place it at Slb.000 or $20,000.

BITS OF INFORMATION.

The California national bank at San Diego. Cal., closed its doors Thursday. Fire at Addison, Micli., Wednesday night did 830,000 damage partly insured.

It is alleged that trichina! have been found in American pork at Solingcn, a towu of Rhenish Prussia.

The twenty-seven breweries in Cincinnati, Covington and Newport are likely to be consolidated.

From July 1 to November 1, lS'.ll, 822,822,77.1 in gold was returned from Europe to the United States.

During the month of October S2,0-t(l pensions were granted, the first payments on which aggregated $4,358,005.

P. IJ. Wolfe, of Clinton, la., has been appointed district judge to succeed A. flowat, who resigned on account of illhealth.

Stepheu Ratuer, a former living near Huron, S. I)., was killed during .a storm Wednesday by a windmill blowing down on him.

A steam launch belonging to a Spanish man of war lying oil Villa Sarcia was capsized in a gale Wednesday and five men were drowned.

It is said that Joseplius Colleit, of Terrc Haute, Ind., contemplates building a railway parallel to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois to Danville.

James Dolivcr, of Pittsburgh, resigned from the Pennsylvania bdard of world's fair commissioners and Mayor Merrltt was elected in his place.

The jury in the case of Woodruff, the embezzling state treasurer of Arkansas, after being out from 0 a.m. Wednesday, reported Thursday noon that they were unable to agree, but the court refused to dismiss them.

A Fatal ICrror.

DENVKK, Col. Nov. 13. —Mrs. Herman 'Lcidncr, of Sidney, Neb., died ut her room in the Vincent block Thursday morning from the effects of a tcaspoouful of carbolic acid which she swallowed, thinking it was castor oiL

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Civil I.UWM HUCIIICIIIIIHI.

LONDON, Nov. IS.—Following close upon the sweeping denials made, by the Urazilian foreign minister, which in substance asserts that tranquility prevails throughout llru7.il with the exception of some local trouble in Rio Grande do Sul, comes a dispatch from Itio Janeiro which shows that the stale of all airs is not so peaceful as the foreign minister's dispatch indicates. This dispatch says that Dictator dc l-'onscca has suspended the opera tiou of the civil laws and has annulcd the guarantees to Urazilian citizens. Tins is held icre to show that the dictator lepends upon the military and naval orees to uphold him in Ins usurpation dictatorial power. Furthermore, he lias appointed a commission for the summary trial of those persons who decline lo aceept his dictatorship aud whom lie terms insurgents.

Cmi. t-'n-iciiiilc/. ill i'rlMIIII.

As evidence of the truth of the reports that everything in Hi.: political situation in lira/.il points to a revolution against the dictator, the dispatch says that Gen. Fernandez, who is said to be one of the principal leaders the revolutionary movement, has been arrested by the dictator's order and lodged in prison.

The dispatch further says that discontent is spreading among the troops and that the garrisons stationed ut several places, numbering in all about 4,000 men, have declared against De Fonseca.

Militia .loin in the Kevolt.

WASHINGTON, NOV. IJ.—Information has been received at the department of state to the ell'ert livat in three towns in the Hra/Jlian province of Rio Grande the militia has joined the citizcus in opposing the domination of tho Konseca government.

ICelielH (trowing Holder.

VAI.PA it A ISO, Nov. i:t.--Latest advices from the state of l!io tirandedc Sul in Jirux.il say that the revolt against Dictator I Yiiscca continues to spread. The insurgents' ranks are increasing in size hourly and the rebels show great boldness. One hand fu 113" armed attacked and captured the town of Santa Ana on the river Ino, north of the capita!. 1'orto Alcgro. They were led by (Jen. l*ernandcz. A number 01 prisoner* wen? tuitcn. Very little resistance was made, and us a consequence no one was killed or wounded in the capture of the place. This would indicate that Santa Ana, .which has a population of ^,500, is at heart friendly to thv '/evolutionists.