Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1889. lTAbULNGTON OFFICK-513 Fourteenth St. P. 8. Heath, Correspondent. JCEW YORK OFFl CK-204 Temple Court, Comer Beekraan and NMsau Street.

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C Rlgfca Hons and Ebbltt House. Johnstown Relief Fund. The generosity of the people continues to express itself in voluntary contributions for the relief of the suflerers. The Journal fund was yesterday increased by $104.50, nearly all of which came from outside towns. Following is a statement to date: Keeeived Jane 3 $470.25 Received June 4 459.80 deceived Juuo 5 27!.oo Kec-iret June J 47.50 Received June 7 100.00 Received June 8 20?.75 Keoelve l June lO 239.81 Received June 11 230.75 Yesterdays Receipts. John Pendergn6t. Indianapolis. $1.00 PrPsbvtjrian'Churcli, New Castle. 'ind 10.00 Proceed of concert, New Cantie, Ind C3.50 C itizens of Martinsville, Ind.... 30.00 104.50 Total $2,104.36 June 4 Remitted to Wra. McOveery. chairman relief fund. Pittsburg, Pa $800.00 Jnno 5 Remitted as above 300.00 June H Kemittecl as above 300.0O June 11 Remitted as above.. 073.001,975.00 Balance for next remittance $189.36 The Sentinel rages over the Journal's expose of its trickery in regard to the miners' strike. Nothing makes a sensa-tion-monger go mad as to prick his wind bags with the truth. Some of our exchanges arc attempting to prejudice Consul-general New with the State Department by representing him as corresponding for this paper while abroad. That would be a violation of State Department regulations, and Mr. New has done nothinsr of the kind. He has not written a line for the , Journal since he left for his post of duty. Alexander Sullivan, arrested for complicity in the Cronin murder, is the man who shot and killed Francis Hanford, a Chicago school teacher, in August, 187G. The attack on I Ian ford was upon slight provocation, and the killing was indefensible. Sullivan was indicted for murder and tried twice, the jury disagreeing on the first trial and acquitting him on the second. All good American citizens will agree with that clause of the verdict of the Cronin coroners jury which says, "that in our judgment all secret societies whose objects are such as the evidence shows that of the Clan-na-Gael, or United Brotherhood, to be, are not in harmony with and are injurious to American institutions." There is no room here for Anarchists or secret societies that plot murder. A New Brunswick paper, speaking of the President's purpose to enforce our rights in the Behring sea, says that the old saj-ing: "Tho Yankees want the earth,77 should be amended by adding, "and the sea also." The Yankees are not at all grasping, but what they bought they want, and want it bad, and their title deed to Alaska includes those little sealeries up north, and we propose to take them in out of the cold. Tut! The Boston Globe says? "The war tariff is a pair of handcuffs on the wrists of our people, not on the wrists of foreigners." It seems that a great many are willing to be handcuffed from the way they are Hocking from foreign lauds to this, while those who are handcuffed enjoy it hugely and stay. "The gates of Castle Garden swiug inward, not outward," said President Harrison, alluding to tho influx of immigration and tho few going out. Seattle has behaved exceedingly well; so have the people of tho Pacific coast. Tho recent lire in that city was a very disastrous one, and would have ).en so regarded by much larger cities tian Seattle. Since the fire very little outside aid has been received, and that mostly from the Pacific coast. Yet already the city is being rebuilt, schools have resumed, all the churches held serviced last Sunday, and business is rapidly reviving. It is a good illustration of Western pluck and enterprise Replying to criticisms on the slow action of tho great Monument Association of New York, cx-Govcrnor Cornell publishes a card saying that the association is not neglecting its duty, but proposes to act with great deliberation and to erect a monument for all time. It has 6130,000 6afely invested, and proposes to increase this to $1,000,000, though tho ex-Governor does not say how. He says the association is duly incorporated, with legal power of succession, and is under no necessity of acting hastily. Perhaps it intends to wait for the present fund to reach $1,000,000 by accumulated interest. The statement that the Clay county miners were able, under former wages, to earn only $5 a week, is utterly untrue. If any miner 'earned as little as that it was because ho did not wish to earn more. At 85 cents a ton an average miner . can easily earn $2 a day. Some d thexu earn much more than this. Tho

pay-rolls show that soiuo have earned as high as $42, $43 and $44 a week. Read the figures in another column. Some miners do not caro to work more than livo or six honra a day, while others work ten hours or more. Being paid by the ton, the longer they work the more they earn. At the old rate of wages a miner who earned only $5 a week could not have worked more than three hours a day. THE CRONIN CASE. "The developments in the Cronin murder case are sensational, but not surprising. It has been evident from the beginning of the investigation that the murder was tho result of a factional feud in tho Clan-na-Gael, intensified by a personal quarrel among prominent Irishmen. It is impossible for an outsider to understand Clan-na-Gael politics or to know the secret currents and countercurrents that shape its acts. Ostensibly it is an organization to promote the cause of Irish homo rule and independence. In reality it seems to be a breeding ground for Irish feuds. Its officers have handled a largo amount of money, and this was probably tho corner-stone of the conspiracy that led to Cronin's murder. The coroner's jury did its work well. From the beginning it had little or no help from tho Chicago police, which was handicapped and honey-combed by Clan-na-Gaelism. The jury took up the investigation after the finding of Cronin's body, and followed every clew to its end. They seem to have acted intelligently and fearlessly. As the investigation proceeded the outlines of tho murderous plot became more and more apparent, and suspicion pointed strongly to certain persons as implicated in it. The jury's verdict throws additional light on the subject. The arrests are very important. That of Sullivan, the ice man, and of detective Coughlin and Woodruff was foreshadowed by the evidence. The arrest of Alexander Sullivan was more of a surprise, while that of Maroney and McDonald, in New York, was entirely unexpected. They are believed to bo deeply implicated in tho murder. These arrests and others which are likely to follow will create a profound sensation. They show how extensive were the ramifications of the crime. The trial of these men will mako a celebrated case, and be an event of international interest. It is to be hoped Chicago courts and juries will have the nerve to do their duty as bravely as they did in the Anarchist cases, regardless of political influence or outside pressure. Let justice bo done, though the heavens fall. If tho defendants are innocent let the fact be ascertained; if they are guilty, let them suffer the cousequences.

THE IRISH-AMERICAN. There is no prouder distinction in America than to be called an IrishAmerican. It is estimated by some who have studied the census tables that 25,000,000 of tho 05,000,000 people composing our population have more or le6s Irish blood in their veins. That no one blushes at the mention of his Irish extraction, but rather boasts of it, is tho highest possible compliment to Irish character. But should this shut our eyes to outrages that are perpetrated in the name of Ireland! Rather, ought not this fact make .the Irish element of society and every other good element tho more determined that no wrong should be perpetrated in the name of Ireland! It did not need tho findings of the coroner's jury in the Cronin case to fix upon that Irish league known as tho Clan-na-Gael the perpetration of that murder. From tho beginning every circumstance pointed in that direction, and the verdict of the jury only formulates universal opinion. The most alarming feature of this sad affair is that every single development proves that at no stage of the conspiracy which ended in the murder was it an individual grudge. What ever there was in it affecting individuals was made tho cause of tho clan as such, though no official records have yet shown that it was an official act. That could hardly be possible. Dr. Cronin was murdered by tho league, those immediately concerned acting for the league. There are several of these Irish organizations more or less interlocked with each other, all having the same end in view. All of them are more or less secret, oath-bound societies. Some of them include in their membership Irish men of talent and high 6ocial position; 'but this does not justify their existence on American soil. No true American fails to heartily sympathize with Ireland in her wrongs; but all true Americans, whether just naturalized, coming from the green island, or descending directly or remotely from Irish ancestry, or naturalized from any other country, or descending from any other stock, wish to help Ireland; but as Americans, not as Irishmen, or as Germans, or as anything else. That Irishman is a hypocrite and a dangerous man who takes tho oath of allegiance merely that ho may plot more successfully against England, and he should bo marked and be punished for his treason against his adopted country. Just what ought to be done or what can be done in the premises is not now plain. At least this much is possible: those clans and leagues, as political factors, must be resisted at any cost. The developments which 6how that a very large per cent, of tho police force of Chicago belong to one or more of these leagues, and that policemen are implicated in the Cronin murder, are not tho most alarming de velopment of late years. These leagues, by their adroit management, have laid their hands upon much higher forces than the Chicago police force, or any other city's police force. That they dic tate candidates at will and control elec tions is much more alarming. A league or a combination of leagues in America that can hold their power over tho United States Senate, and forbid resolutious of condolence and sympathy on tho death of such a friend to America as the late John Bright was, is in a fair way to dictate any line of policy they may want. If conviction follows tho arrests in the Cronin case, it will be on account of an

awakened public sentiment against the danger already apparent. To bo an Irish-American is to be in the front rank of American citizenship; but to be an Irish assassin, or to bo controlled politically or socially' by a malevolent, murderous league, is to bo a coward and a party to the wrongs perpetrated.

The Louisville Courier-Journal says that on all issues except the tariff there is absolute agreement in tho Democratic party. . Will the C-J. tell us what are the other issues! But be they never so many, does the C.-J. imagine that tho people can bo drawn away from this one American question, whose influence on all other questions is so overshadowing! It is too late now for tho C.-J. to censure Mr. Cleveland for not adopting the CJ.'s suggestion to make tho tariff question a paramount question in his very first message, or to plead the baby act and assert that "it was not the "tariffthat beat the Democracy, any way." The C.-J. is, however, not so far out of the way when it suggests that the best hope of the party as to a leader lies in the possibility that "some mute inglorious Milton," some obscure Polk or Pierce, may be in present obscurity awaiting the call pf tho party. It says, "Our next President may bo hid somewhere in tho cornfield, the canebrake, or the 6tars. Who can tell!" Sure enough! Our local sensationalists are completely outdone in tho following headlines from tho Cincinnati Enquirer of yesterday: Starvation in the Heart of Indiana Women and Children Crying in Tain for Bread. Shocking Distress in the Brazil liming District. "God Knows We Need Help, But They Can't Down Vs." Royalty Amounting to a Quarter of a Million Dollars, Tet in the Shadow of the Mines Hunger Stalks Abroad. Drawing Lots for nations of a Small Piece of Bacon. NotEnoitgnto Go Around Among the Anxious Waiting Ones, And Heart-Rending Despair Is Pictured on the faces of Brace Men Fighting Against Awful Odds. How do the good people of Clay County like the advertising the sensationmongers are giving them! TriE Boston Globe, an intense freetrade journal, in attempting to make a point against protection, talks of the small receipts of a farmer from a bushel of corn, and saysthat within twenty-five years it has been so valueless that farmers have used it for fuel. The Globo is mistaken as to dates. It was in 18G1 that millions of bushels of corn were used for fuel for want of a market, even at 10 cents a bushel, but that was under the Democratic.policy of free trade and high interests. There has not been a nubbin of corn used for fuel since the passage of the Republican tariff; too much demand for it at good prices for home consumption under Republican rule. If the Globo wishes to again have corn used for fuel, let it re-enact the Democratic tariff of thirty years ago. That may suit Boston, but it will not be satisfactory to farmers. The Interstate-commerce Commission, some months ago, submitted to the Central Labor Union several questions intended to call out suggestions from that body regarding the safety of employe's on railroads. The committee to whom it was referred has reported in favor of several changes, such as doing away with oil-lamps and coal stoves, and providing for better brakes and a more uniform system of coupling, and then recommends that these improvements be enforced by a national law requiring railroads to pension all employes who are crippled by railroad disasters, and also the families of those employes tha are killed. This penalty for disobeying tho law has the merit of originality. Hon. Sam Randall is pleased with tho election of Col. Calvin S. Brice as chairman of the national Democratic committee. He says Brice made a gallant fight before, and is not responsible for Democratic defeat. "The freetraders did that for him," says Mr. Randall. To an inquiry whether tho freetraders would control tho party in the future, ho replied: "Free trade is' a back number. The Democratic party has some hindsight, if it did lack foresight." We infer that Mr. Randall expects the Democracy to "get together" on a protective tariff platform. We trust they will not insist on crowding the Republican 'party off. Serious complications connected with the Johnstown flood are likely to result in insurance matters. Many of the buildings that w ere burned had been first destroyed by the flood. How far a fire insurance policy covers the wreck of a destroyed building must be decided by the courts. But the greatest difficulty will grow out of life insurance policies. Very many were killed of whose death no satisfactory proof can be furnished. The loss of policies is a small matter, if the death can be proven, and it is in no spirit of captiousness nor a purpose to defraud, that life companies must bo careful in this matter. Now comes the foreman of the Leon Bailey grand jury, and says that under Bailey?s prompting he signed over sixty indictments of Republicans' without knowing their contents or comparing them with the prosecutor's notes. These indictments were signed in Bailey's room instead of in the grand jury roomt and in their presence, as the law requires. There ought to be a penal statute to reach a prosecutor for such conduct. It is probable that an indictment would lie against Bailey for conspiracy. The usual alarm, due about this time of the year, as to the sugar crop is already sounded. The weather is said to have been very unfavorable for a' few weeks in Cuba and other West India islands. Well, wait awhile. We will soon make all the sugar wo can use from the beet, and then let it rain in Cuba; we will have cheap sugar. It has been decided in Russia that women mav be physicians, but they must confine their services to children and adults of their own sex. The thermometer was in the nineties last Sunday in New York, and the Herald says the sermons were not the best, only fair to

middling, and the people were 6leepy; and it exhorts the preachers to wake the people up, for there is no reason why religion should languish because the mercury has gone up.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Dr. Minor, of Cincinnati, is busy upon a book which will be a compendium of all the bad things said about doctors in all lands and all ages. It is expected to be the largest book ever printed. - The proceedings of the Japanese Parliament are reported verbatim by means of a stenographic system original in Japan. The characters are written in perpendicular rows from right to left. Bryce Williams, one of the few survivors of Waterloo, died recently in Perth. He piped to tho Seventy-ninth Highlanders on the field, and also took part in the entry of tho victorious British army into Paris. The Sultan will hereafter keep cool while sitting in state, as a system of fans, worked by a shaft from the rear, can be Bet in motion when ho desires. The power behind the throne will be a muscular Turk, who turns the crank. Mrs. Ashton Dilke manages to take care of her household, run a newspaper, discharge her duties as a member of the London school board, and has on hand a scheme to defeat the wiles of certain French legislators. Sir Francis Cook, the venerable Englishman with a Portuguese title who is now the husband of Tennie C. Claflin, denies tho story that he is preparing to secure a divorce from his gifted wite. Sir Francis is seventy years of age, and is quite wealthy. He has a large family of children by a former wife, and he is said to dote on his present spouse. May Wreck James is tho unhappy cognomen inflicted upon one of the innocent infant survivors of the Couemaugh disaster. The child is three weeks old, and at the time of the fioort had not been named. It was being dressed by its mother when tho flood came and was swept from her embrace. It was rescued seven miles down tho river the next morning, after having been on tho water the entire night. Miss Laura White, who, when a student at Ann Arbor, was the first to solve a problem in mathematics sent over from one of the English universities, who studied architecture in both this country and Europo. is now practicing her profession in Louisville. But the country is still safe, as neither she nor women like her can vote, unless it mav be for school directors or some such soul in certain places far East or far West. Mk. Braplaugh's motion to abolish perpetual pensions has shown up the peculiar history of one of them. On the list is a small pension standing to the credit of a Scottish peer for tho fulfillment of a sinecure office. For two generations not a penny has gone into the family cotters. This peer's grandfather, being in need of ready money, sold the pension to a Portsmouth money-lender, whose heirs and assigns draw it to this day. The embassadors to Germany from tho Sultan of Mandara have had a lively time in Berlin. Bismarck gave them a pleasant reception at Wilhelmstrasse palace. He presented the dusky diplomates with bracelets, and in return they gave him a magnificent spear sent to him by their Sultan. After indulging in wine and beer the negroes executed a war dance in the Prince's parlor. They broke several pieces of furniture, but were readily forgiven. They were much impressed by the stature of Bismarck, who towered above their tallest representative. The Duke of Portland is the luckiest man in England. When he was born the chances against his ever holding his present title were very great. But he became a peer very early in life, and his income is sufficient to keep a whole multitude of wolves from the door. His racing stable consists of only sixteen horses, but he has won the Derby two years in succession, and this season he will probably carry oli' the leading three and four-year-old events. He is as fortunate in love as in other wa3fs, and is madly devoted to six feet of . handsome Ehglish girlhood. Princess pk Mktternicii will visit Paris in a few days. Very seldom does she come, because Parisian society is not what it was before 1870; because, unfortunately for society, the cocodettes of the empire are now assigned a second rank. It was the Princess who found Worth; it was she who made Virot the fashion. She was spoken of in the salons, in tho clubs, in tho newspapers, and a witticism without au owner was always attributed to the Princess de Metternich. ho played, she danced, she sang French songs and Viennese songs, but talked so wisely and so well that an old philosopher said of her: "That woman is a marvel; she is wisdom itself concealed by a mask of jolly." COMMENT AND OPINION. Every true American, wherever he was born, should inflexibly oppose ali secret political societies. Milwaukee Sentinel. The law should be so changed that the plaintiff in such libel suits should give bonds to pay the expense of the suit if he does not prosecute or is beaten. This is simply justice, aud would prevent blackmail. Leavenworth Times. Whatever this body may be called which orders murder at the will of a committee, it is one which should be rooted out of existence, for it is less a danger to individual life than to the life of our civil institutions, the very sources of which it corrupts and demoralizes. Philadelphia Telegraph. It is to the interest of both parties, as it is to the interest of tho couutry. to have the tariff question settled on a stable basis, and tho party will be held to the heaviest responsibility which hesitates most in this emergency or most obstructs the adoption of a satisfactory compromise. Washington Post Much of the reckless legislation that disfigures the records of legislatures and congresses is due to the immature judgments of young politicians and the false impression that public men aro worn out and useless at a time when thoy are best titted to counsel the people. Baltimore American. When the college attains its true ideal, it will make its chief work the development of origiual powers and faculties; teach tho student his own proper position in the world of thought and action; and give him a mental equipment which will do him goad service in his first battle with the world. New York Commercial Advertiser. To what extent is theChicago police composed of and controlled by men capable of shielding, not to say conspiring with, murderers! Not only Chicago but the public generally want light thrown upon this inquiry. It is too pertineut to the case and too vital to the security of life to be put aside or dropped out of view. Chicago Inter Ocean. Tuese transcendental doctrines aro no new thing, aud they have always led, during all the centuries, to just such practices as thqse of Mrs. Plunkett. When people discard common sense and pretend to be inspired, there is no telling just where they will come out; but some of them are pretty sure to end in immorality and ruin. Now York Mail and Express. It would seem that electrical science must be much further advanced than it is before it can exactly decide what is a painless, as well as an efficacious death through its agency. Hanging is certainly a painless death, andasloug as capital punishment must endure it seems to be the best way of disposing of condemned criminals. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Certainly if. with all the warnings we have had and all the illustrations we have seen of the character of much of tho tlood which is pouring in upon us, particularly from the 6ontb of Europe, we neglect much longer to devise and enforce new regulations we can hardly blamo the poor-house and prison ollicials of foreign countries for taking advantage of our supinencss. Boston Journal. w Tightening the Bonds. Washington Tost. It hasbeen repeatedly charged that "British gold'' was being sent into America to foster free trade. Now, if the public could only be persuaded that the present influx of British gold for the brewer' syndicate would foster free beer the bouds between the countries would be btronger than ever

OPERATOBS AND STRIKERS

Both Claim They Have Made No Money in Working in Clay County Coal. Wajres That Some Miners Earn Put Them Be yond All Danger of Want The Disturbing Politician and His Selfish Motives. From a Staff Correspondent of the Journal. Brazil, June 12. Both miners and oper ators in the Clay county block-coal region say that neither has been making money. This does not mean that the operators ad mit the miners claim that the latter have been unable to save anything on tho wages paid, nor must it be accepted as a miners' indorsement of tho operators' statement that there is no money in Clay county coal. The miners, of course, say there is no profit able return in it for them, and the operators assert that investments after invest ments have been lost in the coaL About two years ago," said a citizen of Brazil, "the syndicate, as we call it, or tho Brazil Block-coal Company, as is its bnsinesk title, began to see a profit in its property. That has passed, however, and tno company is io u rated along with the others as a non-divi-dend bearing investment. All in all, there has been more money lost in the mines here than has been made. Tho cost of mining is no little thing when you get down to tho details of the list of expenditures. Here are some of them, beginning with the pay of miners. After that come the day laborers, who get a wage equal to tho price of mining two and ono-half tons of coal. Thus if a miner is paid 00 cents a ton, the laborer gets $2.25 a day, or, at 85 cents, $2. Then come the clerical force, mine t imbers, T-iron, royalty, wages of engineers, bank bosses, mules and the cost of keeping them, along with many other expenses, until the cost of a ton of coal put on the market is not less than $1.85 or $1.40. that was when block coal had no competition, before natural gas and crude oil ran it out of a first-class market." That is the way the operator talks, and the miner, questioning the accuracy of tho statement, in return says that he cannot make money at W cents. That assertion the operator meets with disbelief, and in proof claims that with IX) cents a ton. or at 85, or even at the price now offered, 70 and 75 cents, summer and winter rates, he can live well and save money if he is so inclined. But the walking delegate who. in this case, tho political pettifogger has supplanted, wants the world to look at tho hovels miners occupy, even when they get 90 cents. Driving into Ben wood, the district in which it is claimed tho suffering. exists, one sees a row of cottaces which ' would command a lent in this city of 81- to 15 a month. Each cottage has lour rooms and a good-size yard. This cottage costs tho miner6 a month when he is getting ninety cents and 5 when he has the eigUty-hve- ; cents rate. Rut there is the second class or houses, not so good, but comfortable, for which the miner pays only &4 a month. One of tho third class of houses costs him for rent &1 a month. It is the improvident miner who occupies the latter. There aro miners content to earn enough to uuy good food, comfortable clothing, and a shelter in one of the three-dollar houses. There are others who work longer and get more pay In the aggregate, but yet do not care to keep pace with those who utilize every hour they can in the mines. It is the latter who own their homes, or are able to pay the 0 rent, and put in those houses many of the home comforts that one who does not work steadily cannot get. The work is there if he is willing to make use of it, and some do so only to the extent of obtaining money for the barest needs. It is upon the complaints 'of this class that Senator Byrd bases his statement that many miners have not, at 90 cents, made more than $5 per week. He would have the world believe that all miners in the block-coal region are reduced to such meager pay. But the pay-roll of one of the largest companies, the Jackson, disproves the Senators statement. When last year's prices for mining prevailed this pay-roll shows that the average earned by each miner was 10, at 85 cents a tou. In running down tho list of names one can find where many earned $15 per week, and as many more $20, while others, working only J a short time, and laying ott raucn longer, cot from $1.50 upward to $5, 0 and $7 per week. They were not steady workers, and were content to see others getting excellent wages turned over to them every two weeks. For instance, a colored miner with the Jackson comnauv, at 83 cents a ton, earned in two weeks $57.20, or $28.G0 a week. After November 1, last year, when the 00 cents or winter rate took effect, he drew for his work during the first two weeks 05.4'J; the next two weeks he got 54,51, and for tho two weeks ending December 10, was paid $t.70. or at the rate of &1.S5 a week. But there is a white miner who did better. During the last two weeks for the summer rate. b5 cents, ho was so industrious that ho got 71.3? for his labor. When he was paid IK) . cents a ton ho made $84.27 for the first, SS8.27 for tho second, and $S7.56 for the last two weeks of . the time from which these figures are taken. That brought him up to Dec. 10, and tho 00 cents was in force until May 1, this year. It was on this last dato that, a number of miners outvoting the more conservative, struck, because the operators offered only 70 and 75 as the summer and winter rates. The men who made the highest wages went into the mines at 7 o'clock in the morniug, and remained there until C o'clock in the evening. Those who are content with less work, but want more wages, began work at 9 o'clock in the moruiug and quit at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Their is another class who, after digging their two car-loads a day. will do no more. At seventy cents a ton tho industrious can average about 2.25 per day and tho others 1.75. Out of this come those conditions tbat prompt politicians to falsely represent that the whole block-coal region is one of wretchedness. The woe and starvation are only to bo found in the imaginations of reporters supplied with false statements by those who wish to use . the strike to promote their political ends. As an example of what such influences do, a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer told to-day in his paper a harrowing tale. It was a chapter on want and suffering wholly without parallel in modern times. An evening paper here says: "He (the Enquirer corrcsnondeut) said privately to a gentleman of this placo that ho believes the situation to be badly overestimated. He paid he found the greater portion of the miners in good condition., possessing property of their own, good gardens, p.nd cows, ana pigs enough to keep them from starvation for many days." It is not probable that the men will be out of work much longer, as there is a disposition on tho part of the operators to concede the one point upon which there is any particular difference. When negotiations were broken olf, tho operators retiring with the ultimatum that they could not pay more than 70 and 75 cents, the miners a.sked. if they accepted that rate they would bo given extra . for "low'' coal. Ono company, the miners say, wished to give it. but tho others objected. Now it is said the operators are willing to give tho miners 70 and 75 cents straight and p:iy the extra for low coal they demand. But all depends upon how much further the politicians can exert their banefnl inllueuce. There is somethiug beyond tho senatorial aspirations of Cray and Voorhces mixed up iu the affair. While McQuade, the ex-Mine Inspector, says he is not a candidate for sheriff of Clay county, ho is, however, hoping to get out of the miners enough votes to put him iu the county auditor's othce. Upou his aspirations, it comes from one who has made this feature of the strike a study, that deal is based. With McQuado the candidate for auditor. Ilorsttield, a miner, ami who, as ono of the committee seeking outside relief with Senator Byrd's assistance, has been energetic in spreading broadcast stories of starvation, expects to be assisted as a candidate for sheriff. To make this arrangement more binding it U said that ono Kennedy, a Kepubiicau. has joined them with the desire to serve Clay county as treasurer. Ho wishes, it is said, to get votes going and coming. Krouse, also a Kepublican, aud eecretary of tho central relief committee, as well as ono of the leaders of the strike, is down for Kennedy's deputy. Thus, there are two Democrats and two Bepublicans

who aro workinc their political interestsoa the idleness of the miners and their suffering, granting that the tales they tell aro true. It may b asked what trie Democratic Senator Byrd is alter. He is ia training for the gubernatorial nominatioa in ISC w. a. w. Hearing lkth Sides. Before the CJovernor takes any decisive step in regard to calling for relief for the Clay county miner he will hear both sidca of the controversy. Yesterday he and tho operators were together two hours or more, when he heard from them what they had ollered the miners. From their stand-point theyjexplained tho conditions under which their product suffered through a limitation of market and the necessity of meetiugcompetition. Tbey left the Governor a few minutes before 5 o'clock, and it was expected that a committee of miners would succeed them in the Governor's ollice. But at the last moment it was learned that the miners could nb$ come until this morning.

BAILEY'S WORK REVIEWED. A Startling Statement from the Foreman fa United States Grand Jury. During the past few months a number of local political agitators have disappeared. Their vocation was tho defamation of men of honor and character, aud while they were at their work their very insignificance enabled them to continue without punishment. Retribution has overtaken some of them, aud the time of others is at hand. Leon Bailey will bo remembered as a prominent figure in local politics during tho past threo or four years. During the presidential campaign ho was the mouthpiece to utter charges that no Democrat of reputation or standing dared acknowledge. They brought tho grist to him stealthily and ho ground it and put his brand upon it. Bailey's conduct before the United States grand jury while he was assistant district attorney will probably never have a parallel in this or any other community. By confession of their foreman the jurors returned: blocks of indictments without knowini? what they were. William T. Leonard, the foreman, signed, sixty-three indictments in Bailey's room, while tho rules of tho court require that they shall be signed in the grand jury room, in the presence of tho jury and by their dictation. Mr. Ieonard further stated to District Attorney Chambers and his assistant, Mr. Cockrum, that he did not know what these indictments were, or whether they were correct or not. He says: T was called into Mr. Bailey's room in a hurry, ana l signea indictments . lanv tention of the iurv to the- evidence on which they wero based, or without even knowing myself whether tho indictments were correct or not." Bailev could not have found, if Mr. Leonard has been correctly reported, a foreman more to his mind, no matter whero he had sought for one. Tho recklessness with which these indictments were found may be seen from the results of tho work of the grand jury that has just adjourned. Of Hailey's indictments the following were reviewed: David T. Francis, illegal voting: Amos Walker, illegal voting; Samuel B. Esminger. swearing in illegal voters; Ollie Hoff man, illegal voting; W Uliam w. l'ayton, swearing in illegalvoters; Ira Thompson, illegal voter; Morton O. Fuselman. swearing in voter; Frank Keeder. illegal voting; James - M. Fletcher, illegal voting; Mvron C. W hitcomb, illegal voting; Melvin C.Wright. 1 swearing in voter: John Butler, illegal voter; Isaac N. Ilarawick, swearing ia voter; Kobert Probasco, illegal voter; Jos eph R. Congden, swearing in voter; Samuel Ulnnger, illegal voter; Charles c. irwm. swearing in voter; Conrad IL Crossley, illegal voter: Albert B. Tavlor. swcarinir in voter; Albert Mowrey, illegal voter; Albert 15. lavior, swearing in voter; James .Morton, illegal voter; Charles K. James, swearing in voter; John B. Jones, illegal voter: Isaac N. Cotton, swearine in voter: James Thomas, illegal voter; William Blakelej-, swearing in voter; Omer Meyers, illegal voter; Jesso Houkee, illegal voter; Walter Price, illegal voter; Amos Frice, swearing in to ten Marshall Hollings worth, advising bribery; James Kogers. illegal voting; Oliver W. Vorhis, swearing in voter; James Orr, illegal voting; Joshua Ealy, swearing in voter; Joseph Millikin, illegal voting; Benj. J. Keoton, swearing in voter; John C. Anderson, illegal voter; Thos. Roberts, swearing in voter; Clarence Brockway, illegal voter; Omer C. Brockway, swearing in voter; John Knoppf illegal voter; Nicholas Jaggers, swearing in voter; Joseph Bricked, illegal voter; Geo. A. Anderson, swearing in voter$ Samuel Hume, illegal voter: Frank Mathias, swearing in voter; Edward T. Appleby, illegal voter; Anthony Cruthers. swearing in voter; Daniel Moneyhon, illegal voter; Deloss D. Marr, swearing in voter; Lewis A. Lucas, bribery; John Cronk, bribery; John Carson, bribery; George Bailey, bribery; Charles Blunk, illegal voting; Joseph H. Hunter, illegal voting; Oscar Bishop, illegal voting; Benjamin Boyer, illegal voting; John C. Vannata, swearing in voter; Elvin Light, illegal voting; Hugh M. Light, swearing in voter; Melvin Light, illegal voting; Hugh M. Light, swearing in voter; Herbert II. White, illegal voting: John Bird, swearing in voter; Edgar McMillan, illegal voting; William McMillan, swearing in voter; Charles Fielder, illegal voter; Albert O. Marsh, swearing in voter; Wilbam W. Macy, illegal voter; John E. Markle, swearing in voter; William Whitesell, illegal voir; Jefferson Savage, swearing in voter; (Thomas Brennan, illegal voting; Lafavetto Moore, swearing in voter; Joseph W. True, illegal voter; Eli Krouse, swearing in voter; David Mitchell, illegal voting; John Lewis, swearing in vote; Earnest A. Shultz, illegal votinir; John Short, swearing iu vote; Edward J. Baker, illegal vote; David S. Ohr, swearing in vote; Thomas M. Wilcox, illegal voter; William Murphy, swearing in voter; Joseph W. Mo3'er, illegal voter; Jonathan Dillon, swearing in vote; Philip S. Meyres, illegal vote; Jonathan Dillon, swearing in vote; W. H. Meyers, illegal voting; Jonathan Dillon, swearing in vote: G. H. Jones, illegal voting: Jonathan Dillon, swearing in voter; John Joyce, assaulting officer; Wood, Hildebrand, et al.. kidnaping voter; J. F. C. Kobinson, illegal voter; John C. Williams, swearing in ' voter; Spencer 'Tousey, illegal voter; Derk DeKuiter, A. A A i A. swearing in voter; Augustus oicwan, illegal voter; Edward M. Jones, swearing in voter; Joseph Delaney, illegal voter; Edward M. Jones, swearing in voter. After going over this mass of matter, only nine new indictments were found, while seventeen of tho above cases are still on the docket undisposed of. Tho other indictments thus enumerated were dismissed as being unworthy of consideration. The First Duty and the Leoion. Philadelphia Record. Long homilies on the causes and consequences of the Johnstown disaster are now the rule at the fireside and in public places, and particularly in press and pulpit. Tho first duty in the face of this catastropho is to help repair it by contribution. The lesson of it i to look after unsafe reservoirs andtobnild towns and citieson high ground. It is well known that great Hoods will pour down, but there is no het season for their coming and no means of staying their march toward the ocean. Irifeli Geurroftlty. riiilaMilila North Amtr:ui. Poor as Ireland is, and much a she herself is in need of money, sho c omes generously to the aid of the Johnstown sufferers. The contribution is not a mite, cither, for $5,000 is cabled a a first installment, with a promise of more. When Ireland's great poverty and her need of money to relieve suffering wihin her own borders are taken into consideration, the iiift.of the little green isle is princely, and will not soon bo forgotten by the gratef ul people of America. i m FoolUhnen Audit Dlft'.tter. Pittsburg CLronicle-TVlrjrriinli. A three-weeks-old Johnstown child, unnamed at the time the Hood occurred, has been christened May Wreck. The littlo thing had a narrow escape from death, but that is no reason why it should be burdened all through life with uch a name. IrUh Dollars Yertus tho Queen's Sympathy Philadelphia Rrcord. There was quite a difference between th Queen's cabled sympathy on Saturday mid the solid $5,000 lump of sympathy cabled from Dublin the very aamo dv,

without comparing them with the prosecutor's minutes. I signed indictment! in many instances without calling tho at-