Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1884 — Page 2

Sfrcjlcfflocratitjfnttnel RENSSELAER, INDIANAI. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher

NEWS- CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. A bill increasing the salaries of Judges of District Courts to £5,000 passed the Senate March 25, with the proviso that no Judge shall appoint to position in his court any relative within the degree of first cousin. A joint resolution was passed that Government laborers shall be paid their regular wages for holidays. 'Whf'n the education bill came up, Mr. Brown argued that its provisions were demanded by the enfranchisement of the negroes, and Mr. Bherman showed that the States were left practically without restrict ; on in expending the money appropriated. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: The Hen. David J. Brewer of Kansas, to be United States Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, to succeed Judge McCrary; Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, Solicitor of the Treasury, and Col. David S. Stanley, of the Twenty-second Infantry, to be Brigadier General. Thirteen members of the House of Representatives gave their views on the bonded whisky bill. Mr. Ellis asked leave to report a Joint resolution for the distribution of $125,000 among sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi, but an objection by Mr. York caused an adjournment. A bill for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and extending to the red men the protection of the laws of their States or Territories passed the Senate March 26. Speeches on the education bill were made by Messrs. Vance, Dolph, Hoar, Jonee, and Butler. The joint resolution giving a balance of $125,000 to the Mississippi sufferers was passed. The nomination of Aaron A. Sargent, now Minister at Berlin, to be Minister ai St. Petersburg was promptly confirmed. The House of Representatives passed a joint resolution providing for the distribution in the overflowed district of the Mississippi River an d Its tributaries of (125,000 of the unexpended appropriation for the relief of the destitute in the Ohio Valley. A bill was Introduced for the erection of a pedestal for the statue of the late Pres - ident Garfield at Washington. There was some debate on the bonded whisky extension bill. President Arthur sent to both houses a special message advising appropriations toward commencing the construction of three steel cruisers and four gunboats, to cost (4,28:1,000. The Executive thinks it Imprudent to delay work on these vessels lor one year. Ho also urges the appropriation of (2,000,000 for finishing four donble-turreted monitors. A bill appropriating Si,CO) to pay the claims of eleven persons for depredations by the XJtcs at the time of the massacre at White River *gencv, rassed the Senate March 27. The Committee on Library was directed to inquire into the expedt ncyof printing the official papers of President Monroe. A memorial was pres nted from the Legislative Assembly of Utah, protesting against the passage of m asures affecting the Territory wl hout a full investigation by a Congressional committee. A favorable report was made on the joint resolution to pay (25,000 reward for the rescue of the members of the Greely expedition. Mr. Hampton reopened the debate on the education bill with an appeal for aid by the General Government In educating the wards of the nation. In the House the bonded whisky extension bill was taken up Mr. Randall de ounced the measure as tending to give permanency to the internal revenue system. Mr. Blackburn made the closing appeal for the bill. A mo ion to strike out the enacting clause was agreed to, and the House confirmed the action of the committee by 185 to 88. The bl 1 for the retirement of the trade dollar was discussed without aotion. Mb. Palmeb, of Michigan, from the new Committee on Wom/m Suffrage, reported to the Senate, on the 28th ult., an amendment to the Constitution to extend the right lo vote to ■Women. A resolution was agreed to calling on the Sec etary of the Treasury tor Information as to what amount of the war tax of 1801 is unpaid, and whether the General Government has withheld money due to any State. Bills wire passed authorizing a r. ward of (25,000 for ascertaining the fate of the Greely explorers, and permitting vessels to unload bulky articles, under the superintendence of customs officers, at places to be designated by the S cretary of the Treasury. When the education bill came up, Messrs. Lamar and George earnestly urged Its passage, and Mr. Cullom advocated an amendment making the total appropriation (40,000,00 >. In the Honse of Representatives, a concurrent resolution was introduced for the tii al adjournment of Congress June 2. The Committee on Judiciary made an adverse report on the bill for the relief of William McGarrahan. A measure to permit the citizens of Indian Territory to organize national banks was favorably reported. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. Both houses adjourned to the 31st.

EASTERN.

A falling tree at Catawissa, Pa., killed three men. An exhibition was made at Salem, Mass., the other day, of the “paraffine Eoap” bleaching process, which takes but a few hours, and it is thought will revolutionize the bleaching business of the world. Carl Schurz, in a letter expressing his gratitude, declines to acoept the purse of SIOO,OOO which was being made up by his friends in New York, and requests that all contributions be returned. The Bell Telephone Company, at Boston, in experimenting with a No. 12 wire and an ordinary instrument, could hear the faintest whisper in an attempted conversa tion with New York. The nitro-glycerine house of the Rapauno chemical works, located opposite Chester, Pa., exploded from heat generated by nitric acid. Six persons were instantly killed. Many houses across the river were badly shaken by the explosion.

WESTERN.

The special commissioner sent out West by the Chicago Tribune to investigate the gold region of the Cceur d’Alene Mountains, reports that there is no doubt of the existence of gold deposits along the banks of Eagle Cieek. On a forty feet above the water he himself washed out 15 or 20 cents' worth of gold from a handful of dirt, and another Chicagoan secured between 26 and 30 cents’ worth in the same way. But he does not undertake to say from this that there is gold in sufficient amount to pay. Claims are not being worked at the present time, owing to the deep snow, nor are they likely to be worko 1 for six .weeks to come. It is believed there will be trouble in the district on account of epposing claims when the mining season opens. Ail persons are warned against attempting to enter the region for the next six weeks, as during the spring breaking-up travel will be far more difficult than it was during even the severest portion of the winter. A gale of sixty miles an hour struck Denver, unroofing the City Hall and two of the finest blocks. A hurricane at Kansas City unroofed three dwellings and tore up the sidewalk for a distance of two blocks. The first through train from the City of Mexico reached Chicago on the 26th ult. The Legislature of New Mexico has passed a bill fixing the oapital at Santa Fe, and appropriating $200,000 for a building, notwithstanding determined opposition from Las Vegas and Albuquerque. The Illinois State Labor Association, in session at Chicago, adopted a platform demanding the abolition of the contract system tor convicts, the estabiisament of boards of

ai nitration, and the enactment of an eignthour law except for farm bands. Jndd Crouch and Dan Holcomb were held for trial at Jackson, Mich., for the murder of the Crouch family.

SOUTHERN.

A negro named Bill Johnson was banged by a mob at Gonzales, Tex., for brutally assaulting a respectable white woman. Fuller and more accurate details ot tho cyclone which recently swept through North Carolina make the disaster greater than first reports indicated. Eight counties were laid waste, nearly twenty people killed and wound' ed, and the damage to property will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars-* In Catawba County alone the loss is over SIOO,OOO. Some of the fanners in that county lost whole herds of cattle by the destructive elements. Some of these were blown a hundred yards away, and buried among the debris of the wreck. Over 100 houses were blown down in Catawba County. Eight or ten of the persons wounded will die. Hundreds of women and children escaped by crawling into caves in the mount' ains, cellars, and underground places. Sev eral women climbed up into the tree-tops, where they remained in their night-clothes throughout the fearful storm, and were found by their friends next morning and removed.

WASHINGTON.

Hon. David J. Brewer, of Kansas, has been appointed Judge of tho Eighth Circuit, to succeed Judge McCrary. Judge Brewer was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 1837. His father, the Rev. Joslah Brewer, was a missionary to the Greeks In Turkey. His mother’s maiden name was Emelia Field, she being a sister of David Dudley and Cyrus W. Field. Judge Brewer commenced his studies at Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn., but removed to Now Haven and graduated at Yale College in 1860. He has been a resident of Kansas for twenty-six years. The appointment of Brewer is a surprise to the friends of the candidates from the other States. They say generally that they doubt very much whether Brewer had any supporters outside of Kansas, and they do not understand the political meaning of the appointment. The lowa men are especially disappointed. They had hopes that McCoid would be appointed. Congressman Guenther, of Wisconsin, expresses considerable Indignation over the attempt of Secretary Frelinghuysen to transfer Minister Sargent from Berlin to StPetersburg. The act, he says, was unworthy of tho Government of a great nation. Gerl man-Americans are particularly annoyed. Military operations in the Soudan will remain suspended until October on account of the heat. The Egyptian treasury sent £IO,OOO to Capt. Chermside for distribution among the friendly tribes scattered from Suakim to Berber. Nothing can be learned as to the fate of Gen. Gordon at Khartoum.

POLITICAL.

John M. Hamilton, Governor of Illinois, has written a letter declining to compete further for a renomination. A bill prohibiting the buying or selling of grain or other produce on fictitious contracts or margins has passed the lowa Legislature. The House River and Harbor Committee intends to recommend an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Mississippi and its tributaries, and will limit tho remaining items to $0,000,000. The Minnesota State Republican Convention will be held May 1. The lowa editors, on their excursion to New Orleans, took a ballot for President, with the following result: Blaine, 20; Arthur, 8; Sherman, 5; Logan, 8; Edmunds, 5; Tilden, 5; Butler, 6; Flower, 2. One each for Harrison, McDonald, Hendricks, Morrison, and Conkling. For Vice President, Lincoln, 41; Hendricks, 5; Matt Parralt, 3. One each for Carlisle, Thurman, and Weaver. At the Trade and Labor Convention of Illinois, held in Chicago last week, the practice of employers in importing laborers and mechanics under contract was emphatically condemned, and a resolution in favor of tho George nationalization scheme was vigorously sat down on. The next convention will meet et Springfield. Ex-Senator Dorsey, in a letter to Congressman Springer, give 3 the names of prominent persons, heretofore not mentioned, as being connected with tho Star Itoute frauds. Springer refuses to give the names now, preferring to let them be made public through Dorsey's testimony when he appears before his committee. The fact that the ex-Secretary of State and the Senator from Illinois were assigned the placos of honor at a recent dinner given by William Waller Phelps, Blaine’s personal friend, is mentioned as showing that a warm friendship exists between them, and that Blaine will not stand in the way of Logan.

MISCELLANEOUS. The week’s fires, where a loss of $lO,000 and upward was entailed, were as follows: Losses. Milwaukee, trunk factory $ 25,',09 Concord^Mich., busine-o houses lB.OO') KangHS tity. Mo., warehouse 15,< 00 1 oodhouse. 111., hotel 10,000 Greenville, Texas, City Hall and other build ngs .' 70,000 New York, electric candle factory 300,000 Baltimore, acid works 60,000 Chattanooga, Tenn., ax-handlc factory.. 15,000 Hillsboro, Texas, seven stores 50,000 Jacksonville, Fla., bnsines* block...’ 4>,000 Grayville, 111., stores and shops 75,000 Wilfcesbarre, Pa., mining property 20,000 Nashua, N. H., machine shops 21,000 Lancaster, N. H., tobacco warehouse.... 3 '.ooo Cheyenne, Wyo. T., Warren * Co.’s store. ICO,OOO Water! rd. Pa., saw and grist mill 25,000 Orange, Texas, ‘aw mill 20,0'0 Mc.amcra, 111, grain elevator. 10,< O') Brazil, Ind., two stores 10,000 New Berlin, N. Y., store 20,000 Auburn, N. Y., hotel 30,000 Iqna, lib. Hour mill 10,000 Americas, Ga.. hotel 80,000 Minister Sargent sent to Secretary Frelinghuysen a cablegram expressing his gratitude for substantial indorsement, but declining to accept a transfer to St. Petersburg. In reply to a second communication from Washington, Mr. Sargent stated that ill health caused him to take a leave of absonce, after .which he would formally announce to the German Government bis resignation.

FOREIGN.

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, died suddenly at Cannes, In the south of Franco.

Leopold was a great favorite not only with the Queen but aiao with the English people, by reason of his scholarship end intellectual attainments. He was a close student, a polished speaker, an enthusiastic patron oi sculpture, painting, and music, and wrote frequently and well for the magazines, and especially for the press, to which he was an enthusiastic though ..nonymoua contributor. Over two hundred persons taken frorrj an almshouse at Swineford, in the County o| Mayo, Ireland, have been shipped from Glaa gow, Scotland, for Boston. The United State! authorities will probably refuse them a landing.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Tories in Great Britain are represented as Jubilant over the outbreak at Cincinnati, as showing the incompetency of the republican form of government to protect life and property. Recent deaths: John J. Cisco, a well* known New York banker, formerly Assistant Treasurer of the United States; Henry BHurlbut, of Cleveland, a prominent railroad man; Hon. Henry C. Land, a leading citizen of Cincinnati; Francois Mignet, French historian; James llami.ton, of Bath County, Kentucky, tho largest short-horn cattledealer in the world; Editor Danielson, of the Providence (R. I.) Journal; Mrs. Sarah Smith, of Mattoon, 111., who had used tobacco al; her life, age 1103 years; Absalom Watkins, of Chattanooga, Tenn., one ol the oldest and best known editors in the South; Mrs. Kate N. Doggett, of Chicago, a prominent advocate of female suffrage, and President of the Woman's Congress for several terms; Augustus Schell, a veteran banker and Democratic politician of New York; Matt H. Finch, a prominent lawyer of Milwaukee; Mrs. Stratton, of New Haven, Ct., mother of the late Tom Thumb; Judge Grangor, of Washington, D. C., a brother-in-law of the late Stephen A. Douglas; John Parrott, the pioneer banker of California; Prinoe Leopold, known as tho Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria; the wife of Hon. George W. Julian, of Ind’ana (a daughter of the late Joshua K. Giddings). The Citizens’ Committee at Cincinnati, on Monday, tho 31tt ult., pasted resolutions thanking the Governor of the State and the Mayor of the city for their prompt action in dealing with and suppressing the riot. Gov. Hoadly w at requested by the committee to withdraw most of the troop 3, leaving the jail to tho care of special policemen. The barricades around the Court House square were wellguardod, and everything was quiet. There were vague rumors floating about that the German Socialists were collecting arms, ammunition, and dynamite torpedoes, and would renew the attack upon tho withdrawal of the troops. It has been ascertained that the Court House records, detds, mortgages, etc., are almost unharmed, save some documents dated thrty years back, and that the safe in which the wills wore kept Is Intact. All tho Judgos held a consultation touching the pressure of court business, and the County Commissioners reported tho Public Library as tho only available structure for court purposes. Several deaths among the wounded had occurred in the hospital, and many othors were in a dying condition. A number of bills were introduced In the Ohio Legislature, at Columbus, dealing with tho Cincinnati riots, among them one appropriating $600,030 to replace tho records destroyed in tho Court House.

A communication from tho Attorney General. stating that his fores of employes was too small to supply promptly the voluminous papers railed for, and a-king for more help, was presented in the Senate on the 31st ult. Favorable reports were made on bills for the erection of public buildings at Chattanooga, Opelousas, and Portland. A petition was piesented asking compensation to citizens of Kansas for property destroyed in the Cheyenno raid of 1878. Mr. Platt explained the provisions of his bill to organize the Patent Office In separate departments. David J. Brewer was confirmed as Judge of the Eighth Circuit. In the House Mr. Finrrty, of Chicago, introduced a resolution thanking Minister Sargent for the able, faithful, and dignified manner in which he discharged the duties of his office as Mnieter to Berlin. The Committee on Publte Health reported back a resolution directing nn investigation as tc the adulteration of t< od and drugs as not with.n the rrovince of Congress; hut it was recommitted, by a vote of 117 to 11A A resolution was offered by-Mr. Ni hols, i equesting the Sherman committee of the Senate to inquire into the circumstances of the liots at Cincinnati. Bills were introduced to giant tight of wav through Indian Territoiy for the Pacific and Great E stem Road; to make Ca land. Cal., a port of delivery; to repeal the internal revenue tax on tobacco and the distillation of apples and peaches; to equalize the taxation of foreign and domest c insurance companies, and to api ropriate $4(:0,00j for sufferers bv the overflow of the Mississippi. Robert Smalls was sworn in as a member from South Carolina. Mr. Bland led the debate on the trade-dollar bill, and urged the unlimited coinage of silver.

THE MARKET.

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CINCINNATI’S HORROR.

Three Days of Terrible Mob j Yiolence. Repeated Assaults Upon the City Jail. Burning of the Court House—Scores of Men Killed. - - ————— Borne months ago William H. Kirk, a re- j spected citizen of Cincinnati, was killed in | his stable by the blow of a hammer and I robbed of $lO3 in money, put into a wagon, j hauled off toward Cumminsville, and dumped 1 into Mill Creek, where His body was found two days later. Joe Palmer and William Berner confessed that they did the murder and robbery. On trial, a few days ago, Berner testified that Palmer did the actual killing, while he only looked on and got his share of the money. Much to the surprise and indignation of the community, the jury rendered a verdict of manslaughter against Berner, and assessed bis punishment at twenty years in tho penitentiary. The verdict was dcolared privately, by the Judge who tried the case, to be an outrage, and the jury, after leaving tbe court room, were hooted at by the crowd, with suggestions that they should be hanged. There was furious indignation among all classes in Cincinnati. One of the Jury was driven from the city and another severely beaten. A call for a mass meeting of citizens, signed by prominent business men, brought out an immense crowd, who literally picked the large] Music Hall until there was not evon standing room. The meeting, held Friday ovening, the 28th ult., was presided over by Dr. A. C. Kemper, and speeches were made by two or three leading citizens donouncial ory of the prevalence of crime and the lax administration of Justice. After the adjournment of the meeting a surging, howling mob started at once for the Jail. The bloody and exciting scenes that followed are chronicled In tho telegrnphio reports herewith appended: The jews that a lynching party was assaulting thrjatl sprf ad like wild-tire, and soon tho entire neighborhood swarmed with thousands. The advance guard of the would-be-Iynoaers arrived with a piece of joist and rushed down the steps leading to the basement entrance of the jail oflice. These were backed up by the crushing ci owd behind. First, a window was smashed and a wild yell went np from the crowd. Another shattered window and a wilder yell. Then the thump, thump of the improved battering-ram, pounding against tho office door, began, and every thump awoke a responsive yell. Bricks and stones were hurled at tho jail windows, and the shouting mob grew wilder as success 'seemed nearer. Tho door at last gave way and the crowd ponied into the jail office. Sheriff Hawkins and the few deputies who were luside were powerless to stem the fierce human tide, besides the S eriff had given orders that his officers ah' uld not use their weapons on the mob, believing that such a proceeding would only make bad worse. Wild wtih excitement in finding themselves in possession of the jatloffioe, it was short work to force the door to the cell floor. Boon the stairs and corridors, indeed the entire Interior of the jail, was alive with the mob yelling and hunting for the murderers they came to hang. They soon found their work had been for naught so far as Beraer was concerned. Disappointed and disgusted, the ardor of some of them bivan to cool.

About this time a squad of fifteen policemen, who had been stationod in the tunnel that leads from the jail to the court-house, were brought into the jail oorridors and began to clear the mob from the second floor, or the rotunda. , At 9:55 the fire bells struck the ominous 621, the riot alarm, and followed by a regular alarm,, as for fire, giving the number of the box located at the court-house oorner, just back of the county jail. The alarm statted thousands of people all over the city, and from all directions they flocked by scores, by hundreds, toward the county jail. Police, too, to the number of thirty or forty were hurried to the scene in patrolwagons. Bricks and stones were hurled through the jail windows, and down at the jail door was a gang of men with axes or sledges,heavilv pounding on the jail door. The crowd in the meantime every few minutes broke out in bloodthirsty cheers, groans, hisses, and maledictions on the murderers and Hamilton County justice. There were no less than 600 men in the crowd for every officer, and the mob showed the most dogged determination and fierceness from the first. Onoe a light was struck in an up-stairs room of the Sheriff’s residence, and men were seen carrying pictures and furniture out of the room. One man attempted to close the inside Bhutters, but instantly the mob hooted at him and a shower of bricks and stones riddled the glass and broke the shutters to splinters, and effectually cleared the room. But for self-pro-tection the gmg of men with the axes, at the doors below these windows, called out to the mob behind them to oease throwing stones, as they accomplished nothing except to scatter the broken glass down on the heads of those at work at the doors. At 11:30 o'clock the sound, of axes at tho Oonrt street entrance announced that a fresh attack was Ivelng made from another direction, and cheer after cheer rent the air. When the wagon Btaried through tho crowd of people who were densely packed around it the greatest consternation and excitement was created. Col. Reilly arrived shortly after the riot alarm was sounded, and after taking in the situation entered the jail throuch the Court House and tunnel. At just about midnight the mob on Sycamore street succeeded in battering open the entrance a second time, and swelled into the ja 1-office. Here they were stopped by the heavy iron gate shutting off the office fr< m the jail pi oper. Behind this were the policemen awaiting the attack, which was not long in being made. The mob had a heavy piece of timber a foot square and eighteen feet long. Fi.ty men swung this back and forth against the iron gate, and in a very little time they broke it squarely in two in the middle. Then followed a hand-to-hand fight between the police under the leadership of Col. Reilly, the Chief of Polioe, and the mob. Tho first man to enter through the breach was a negro, who was instantly seized by half a dozen policemen, who hustled him up stairs and locked him up. Other rioters, to the number in all of twenty-five, were similarly treated, and were all locked up in nrper oells. Under strict orders from Chief Reilly, not a shot was fired du ing all this melee, although several of the fighters, both rioters and officers, were knocked down and more or less injured. All sorts of weapons, knives, and revolvers were captured with th? prisoners. It was impossible to ascertain any of the names of the rioters at the time of the arrest. The officers did not stop for that, but carried them off to the uppermost cells as rapidly as possible. The mob was too muoh for the offloers, however, and while a few hundred were left down stairs to fight the polioemen, hundreds of others carried the heavy battering-ram up-stairs to where the murderers’ cells were. The mob continued determined. At exactly 12 o'clock a heavy beam borne by strong men was applied to the south Sycamore entranoe, and after three or four vigorous blows the door gave way and the crowd poured in. Almost Immediately afterward th. y made their way into the corridor. “Where is Berner's cell?” was the cry. Some one'answered: ’’No. 13,” and that number was soon found and a vigorous battery began. At this time the military began firing from above, and the mob were at once arrested in their mad career, and forced to retreat, though very sullenly. It is charged that the militia shot reckkssl,. and some of their number were wounded. Corporal Cook, of Company I, was shot in the chest, and another private was shot through the ear, and another In the mouth. v

Officer Adam Mechley was struck on the head with a brick and knocked senseless. He was taken off in a patrol wagon. Officer Von Seggcrn was shot In the heal near the ear, but not fatally. The shot came from s:>me one on the Inside. The crowd had forced its way into the jail yard and soon learned the way jo the underground passage. Some of these started Into the tunnel while the few police at that time at hand attempted to stay them. Another man, a citizen, was shot in the arm above the elbow. All the windowp of the basement and first and second stories of 'the jail residence are broken in, toe sash torn out, the doors broken down, iron gratings torn out or bent into nil sorts of strange shapes lrom the force of bowlde s and heavy beams applied to them, and there is general destruction. The stair-ways, some of them, are considerably demolished, even though of iron, and inside doors are battered and broken. At 12 o’closk the people were in full possession of the lower reception-room of the jail for the second time. A brawny fellow, a blacksmith, they said—was at work with a sledge-hammer upon the iron barred gate leadlug to the cell room. It gave gradually but surely before what seemed herculean strength. As bar by bar was shattered, cheers arose from the crowd back in the reception-room and jail-yard and were taken np by the crowds out*lde. Slowly but surely the 'iron gate gave way, and

finally went dowm far enough to admit of two or three men entering abreast Just before this Sheriff Hawkim, perhaps because he found the resistance of the police almost passive, sent for the party of about forty citizen soldiers, who were under arms in their a-m----ory hard by. These men were ma> ched over and were taken into the Jail through tbe tunnel tom Main street Just as the p-rty working at the gates were about to take possession of the cell-room the order was given to tire, or at least firing commenced. Tne result was, beside the distressing casualties, to give the police, for the moment at least, moral control, 'i hey took advantageof this and cleared the jail tlirongh the Sycamore street entrances, while the wounded were taken out by the Main street way. A portion of the mob broke into the armory of the State Guard and captured all the guns and ammunition of tbe troors, and thus armed, returned and confronted tbe militia. The miliary again fired on the mob, killing four and wound ng fifteen. The mob returned the fire but did no damage. The heavy firing drove the crowd away, but the mob worked with fiercer de ermination than ever. The jail was fired by rolling coal-oil barrels into the base- ! merit and tiring them. At the same time a cannon was brought up by a crowd of about fifty i men, the leader of whom said they were thirsting for revenge. The cannon was fired a number of times, but produced no effect. The police by this time (4 am.) had gained full control of the jail, and the greater part of the mob had dispersed. A summing of th- casualties of this night of horror snowed eight persons either dead or dying, and seventeen wounded, some of them dangerously. It now appears that Berner, after his sentence, was disguised and placed in a buggy with Deputy Sheriff Dominick Devoto and driven to Linwood, where they got aboard the Morrow accommodation, and went to Loveland to await the arrival of Criminal Deputy Joe Moses with the necessary papers for his committal to the penitentiary. It became known that Berner was at Loveland and a crowd gathered. V. hen the train with Moses aboard came in, and Devoto and Berner went to board it, the crowd made a rush for Berner. He ran through i the car and escaped, and is still at large. Quiet reigned throughout the early part of the day, but, in anticipation of arenewa of trouble. Gov. Hoadly ordered three regiments of State troops and two batteries to the city. Thi apprehensions of the Governor and of the city authorities were fully realized. Early In the day anonymous circulars were distributed through the city,calling for the organization of a vigilance committee of 300 in ea<h ward. A Gatling gun was taken to the jail, and the streets were barricaded by polioe and soldiers for 100 yards. A militia regiment was plaeed inside the jail, and seven-ty-five policemen were stationed outside. About 8 o’clock stones were thrown through the jail windows, and povftid dynamite cartridges were displayed by rioters. At 10 o'clock the treasurer's office in the court house was set on fire. The troops fired on tbe mob from the windows, with deadly effect. Captain Desmond, ot the militia, endeavored to suppress the flames and was shot dea iby the rioters. The fire-engines were not allowed to work. The yells of the mob could be beard for six blocks, and they appeared to be thoroughly organized. The Dayton militia arrived at the depot, but found it impossible to reach the battle-ground. The flames consumed the court house, with the county records and one of the most valuable law libraries in the United States. The 14th regiment marched to the jail at midnight, but the 4th regiment turned back to the dope t after hearing of the atrocities being perpetrated. About 10 o’clock a. m. the Gatling cun was turned upon the rioters wlih deadly effect. The mob broke Into the Armoiyof Battery B, took three cannon, and dragged them several miles, creating intense consternation. A polioe squad fired on them, aud recovered the pieces, but not before the mob had broken seveial stores open to search for

ammuni.ion. The artillery was turned over to the Sheriff. Firing between the mob and the militia stationed about/ the jail was kept up at Intervals through the night. Twenty-eight persons were killed, and sixty or more severely wounded. The police were entire masters of the situation shortly after midnight, and the Sabba r h broke on a quit t but very fever sh city. Smoldering ruins, pools of blood, and pickets -of militia marked the secthn about the Court House and jail. The monetary loss was fully fl 000,00 >. All the criminal indictments were destroyed, and now the e is nothing to show against the prisoners in the jail. '1 he county records are safe. Five r ead bodies lay on Sycamore street. 'J he wounded had sought shelter behind protecting buildings on Walnut street, and pool after pool of blood spotted the ground, while in the hallways the floors were smeared with blood. The troops were lying on their arms, taking such rest as they could get when not called for specif duty. The polios, worn out, were also lounging about in such manner as was most comfortable. The prisoners in the jail were looked in the r cells, tre i.bling with fear. Not one slept through the night. One of the saddest episodes of Saturday night was the killing of Capt. John Desmond. He had been apprised of the purpose to bum the Court house, and was Bent with a squad of militia to try to put out the fire. The mob fired on him and the ball crashed through his head. At the same time Private McGuire was shot through the breast and fatally hurt. Capt. Desmond was a young lawyer of much promise, a fine-looking soldier, the pride of his regiment, and one whose loss is on every account deeply deplored. The fire engines were powerless; first, because the firemen ret used to go out without an escort of t oops, and second, because the ciowd could easily have cut the hose and prevented the use of the engines. Bo the lire had its way. Mayor Stephens on Sunday morning ordered all saloons closed for twenty-Tour hours, and it was fairly complied with, He then asked Governor Hoadly to send on all the available militia, and special trains were soon set in motion, the Sixth Regiment, from Chillicothe, being the first to arrive. All persons were warned to keep off the streets after dark. At 8:30 last evening the rattle of the Gatling gun showed that the conflict with the mob had recommenced. Biiggs Swift, a prominent packer, while conversing with a friend on Seventh street, was seriously wounded by a volley fired by the militia. The tioters broke into Music Hall, whence they were ejected by two companies of the 6th regiment. After this the mob dispersed, and quiet was restored. The casualties of Sunday night’s fighting include eight men killed and fitteen wounded. The total killed for three days was seventy-five; wounded, lou. It appears that Berner, one of the murderers of Kirk, who escaped at Loveland, ran several miles up the track, spent some hours in an empty freight ear, and ttien took to the woods. He was found by two bailiffs, who were driving along in search of him. He gave way to tears like a child. The officers drove to Fosier’s Crossing, remaining until dark, when they proceeded to Columbus, and placed the prisoner in the penitentiary, notwithstanding aetermined attempts to lynch him T. C. Campbell, the Cincinnati lawyer, who was Berner’s chief counsel, has been warned away from the city. Following is a partial list of the killed and mortally wounded: James Condon, ■ carriage blacksmith; John Havenkamp, ccal-cart driver; Fritz Havemyer, hodcarrier; Fiank Hettusheimer, employed in furniture factory; Ben Fink, shoemaker; John Sagger; Joseph Bcsold, cigarmaker; Mike O’Day, driver; Anton Fohler, John Dickey, Frank Bergman. Thomas A. Green, colored; Anton Singer, shoemaker; John Goebie, bartender; Sam B-enan, Jacob Metzer, stonecutter: Fred Sleus-er, bartender; four bodies unidentified; John J. Heanessy, Henry J. Reiser, an unknown man, Walter Fay, Peter Koell, brewer; C. Breslau, Capt. J. J. Desmond, of the Lytle Greys; Police Officer Joseph Stern, Polioe Officer Pnilip Nunn, Henry Kates, cabinet-maker; C. T. MetMaxy Smith, Will Batts, P.Raabe. John Hetten. calf, Jesse Bright, John Griffith, Martin Rafferty, shelm, Alfred Hopkins, Charles Bloom, J. Camper.

CONVICT LABOR.

The Vicious Contract System Brought to the Attention of Congress. [Washington Telegram.] At a meeting Of the House Committee on Labor Representative James was unanimously Instructed to favorably report the bill providing that it shall be unlawful for any person In • the employ of the United States, or any State, to contract with any one to hire out as laborers prisoners confined In any prison or jail for the violation of any laws of the United States. The violation of the act is made a misdjineanor, punishable by a fine of from SSOO to SI,OOO or imprisonment from one to three years. Mr. James has prepared areport to accompany tho bill. It says that in some cases the State prisons have taken personsconvioted for violation of the laws of the United States without cost to the Federal Government. and then, in order to make the arrangement prontab e, have inhumanly treated theta. The contract system, the report says, is wholly adverse to reform. The prisoners are treated as dumb beasts, boing driven to work by men whose only aim Is to get a certain amount of work from them every day, men who look upon the convicts os only so much machinery for making money, and whoso chief recommendation for the position is that they are the h ghest bidders lor the human beings hired by them. At a wedding in Hannibal, Mo., the bridal march was played on a mouth organ.

THE TARIFF.

The Question Considered by tH Democratic He use Caucus H at Washington. H A Large Majority Pledged to Snppfl| the Morrison or Some Similar- IS Bill. H Mr. Carlisle’s Proposal Relative to latH| nal Revenue Taxes—The Minori- H ty’g Position, H The proceedings of tho caucus of Democratic mambers of the House, called S| the purpose of outlining some action the tariff question, are thus reported by Associated Press at Washington: Through<B| most of the session, which lasted from 8 p.BB till midnight, tho attendance was very there being only ten members absent, they on account of sickness or absenoe the city. Carlisle moved that the the present Congress be adopted as tbe of the caucus, except that the debate carr.ed on under five-minute Limitation speeches. This was agreed to. It a,so decided, before the business the evening was entered upon, a future caucus should be called the written request of twenty mombers. iB Morrison then s ated tbe ob.ectof He said it was for the purpose of com au understanding, if possible. on tariff lation. The Democratic members of Ways and Aeans Committee, who belie a reduction of the war tariff, had a measure on which they desired to an expression of opinion of the members of the House. It has been nounced in the press, he said, that those were not successful In controlling tho ization of the House of would oppose any measure for war taxes or the discussion of such a ure by this Congress. He stated that the taxes derived from internal revenue, at one time jlelded the Government 000,000 a year, had been from t me to tijH reduced until only tho revenue on malt liquo s, and distilled spirits remainiß He said he did not believe in any further duction of the internal revenue as a rnattß of principle, but as a Democrat desiring monv in tho party, and for the sake B harmonizing conflicting views, he wovH a: reo to repeal tho tobacco tux and to reduß the tax on brandy distil ed from fruits, piH vided such action could be had in counecttß with the reduction of customs duties. SB the purpose of testing the sense of the ctß cus, Mr. Morrison said he would offer a rfl olution which he did, in effect that the Ways and Means Committee bB should be taken up, and that after reasonalß time for discussion “a bill" should be pass<B Mr. Hopkins ottered an amendment to tB effect that the caucus should not be bindhß upon individual members. A long dlscusslß lollowed the offering of the resolution, whijß was participated in by Messrs. Morrisoß Eaton, Converse, Blackburn, Randall, HoB kins, King, Morse, Cabell, Reagan, RoB crans, Tully, O’Neill, of Missouri, MoAdcß Wilson of West Virginia, Warn, Dorshoiß er, Hutchins, Hoblitzell, Holman, Niohoß Hardeman, Beach, Spriggs, Adams of SB York, and Bland. fl Mr. Randall briefly counseled moderatiß and conciliation, and suggested an unexoitß conference, with a view to agreeing some bill for which all Democratic membeß could vote—a bill that would provide tbr B moderate reduction of customs duties and B the same time of a partial reduction of tB internal-revenue taxation. As to making tB tariff bill a subject of caucus action in tB sen%e of controlling a member's vote, he saß it was contrary to Democratic principles, aB contrary to the principles of representariß government to attempt to bind any one onß great economic qu6-*tion, and thus seek H compel a representative to vote against tB known opinions and interests of his eonstitH ents. ■

Mr. Carlisle said ho was desirous of havirHj the caucus come to some agreement, if ble, on the reduction of tho ttulff. In to do so anJ secure such reduction, ho woulßS agree to repeal the tobaeoo ta <• and ail connected w.th the same, and to a on brandy distilled from fruits to 10 cents gallon. Messrs. Reagan and Holman harmony, and opposed all efforts to bind bers of the party by the action of the oaucuHl Both declared that the action of the should bo regarded as menely persuasive. HI Several members announced that they were opposed to tho Morrison but the predominating sentiment was in favor of considering the bill and to a measure that would receive the sanctkH| of tho House. Besides Mr. Randall, MesarHl Tully and Eaton opposed tho measure. MH| King offered a resolution to the effect that Hi committee consisting of seven members <H| the Houso and six Senators be appointed consider and report at a future catH cus, on the pending proposition. TtH| resolution was voted down. MB) Morrison moved that the HopkitHg amendment be modified so as to that the action of the caucus should b.nding upon individuals except to such aH| extent as each member might feel influenccHj by the wish* s of the majority .of his associateH This amendment was adopted. He then calleHi the previous question upon Mr, HopkinH| amendment as modified, w hich was 114 to 57. The resolution was then adopteH by a yea a»d nay vote—ll 4 to 57. The ing is tho resolution as amended and adoptecHi; Resolved, That the bill commonly known the Morrison tariff bill shall be taken up consideration at the carlie-t practicable day, anHj reasonable time for debate allowed thereon, after such debate that a bill be passed for a reH duction of duties and war-tariff taxes. the adoption of this resolution shall not be conH sidered binding in controlling the individmH action of Democrats, except to the extent thaH each member may feel that he ought to be InH fluenced by the expressed opinion of the moB jority of his associates. m Mr. Carlisle then offered tho following olution, which was adopted—Bß to 57: • H Resolved, That, in < rder to reconcile conflictH ing opinions and secure legislation reducinH taxation, a plan for the reduction of taxes aB the present session of Congress shall embrace provision repealing all internal reveuue taxes oiH tobacco, snuff, and cigars, and special taxeH connected therewith; and also reducing the taH on brandy distilled from fruit to 10 cents peH gallon: Provided, such repeal and resolutioH shall nut be made except in connection with H reduction of tariff duties. H The large vote against considering Morrison tariff bill was the subject of muefl comment after the adjournment of the cauH cus. Opponents of the bill assert unhesitatH ingly that the fifty-seven Democratic voteH cast against the caucus lesoiution, togetheH with nearly every 6olid Republican vote iiH tho House, will certainly de.oat the bill when* ever it comes up for action. H

A Boy Dies from the Effects of a Drunk.

A recent dispatch from Oarlinville, 111.1 gays: Thomas Fogarty, a youth 16 years ofl age, was found lying in an insensible condlfl tion in tho southern part of the c'ty Sunday® morning, investigation revealed the faefl tint be and two ot. er boys had appropriates a jug of whisky belonging to a passenger all the depot and got beastly drunk., He rel mained tn a comatose condition tujttFfio'clocll in the evening, when he diedi/The otheifl boys reached home and were savqn. H

SPLINTERS.

Jumbo is to be taken to England early ini October. I Wyoming Territory has but eight organ-1 tied counties. I 1 Col. Frazier, of Lexington, Mo., found a! nest of forty rattlesnakes, and killed most of! them wl.b a club. I A gold watch, with a ballet in the back ofl the case, where it lodged after going through! he time-piece, belongs to W. R. McGunuigle,! ot Saginaw, Mich. It Saved his father’s life! during tho war. ■ In the room of a kleptomaniac in London! were found over 900 umbrella a. jg