Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1887 — Page 1

HO 1 iR : UV XXXI1I-NO. U. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1887. WHOLE NO. 1626.

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THIEVES IN THE TOILS.

The Eggert Kiilwiy XoVoery cf ttalfe . ücearthed it Pittsbsrg. &s?es cf Employes cf tie Pan-Handle Carnally Lc2j;ed ia J&I1. Its Amour, cf Property Sain Reche3' Nearly Hilf a iCllion DjIIar. Honaes in Yarioes Parts of Pittsburg Balded by tit Police and a Large tjuaniity of Property Recovered. fclVPKNUOr RAILWAY KOBUERY. Arrest of a Large Number of Employes of the Fan-Hanoi. Company PniSf ukg, April 11. The most impotrant air es la ever made in this part of the country were begun at an early hoar this morning, and the officers of the ran Handie Jia'Iroad now have in custody the most daring gang ot raiLroid robbers this country hasver known. How many members belong to it is not known, but they run up into tne hundreds. Their stealings extended over a period of two or three years and the amount stolen reaches nearly $.'00,000. Simultaneous arrests were made all along the line of the Pan-Handle Road between here and Columbus. Warrants have been in the hands of officers for some time, and the persons arrested will comprise nearly the entire freight men of the line. They include the conductors, brakemen, engineers and firemen. The ring-leaders of the gang are outside the railroad business, but are Known, and some of them are now believed to be under arrest. The first arrests were made about 2 o'clock this morning-, the police surprising eighteen men at their boarding houses. The men were taken at once to the jail. Further arrests were made between 2 o'clock and daylight, when forty-six men, all railroad employes conductors, brakemen, firemen and engineers were behind the bars. In speaking of the arrests a prominent officer of the Tan-Handle Road aaid: "For three years past the Pan-Handle Koad has been systematically robbed. Cars on sidings and cars in moving trains were broken open and goods stolen, including every description of merchandise. It is estimated that at least $300,000 worth of goods were taken, for which the company had to pay. In August last we cot a clew, and the company determined to push it to the end. Detectives were. employed, who followed no every scent, and finally we had the information upon which to proceed. When everything' was ready we decided to make a .move all along the line from Columbus to Pittsburg, and 2 o'clock this morning was fixed to strike the biow. About eighty warrants were issued for men in Pittsburg. I can't tell how many for other places, but it was at every point along the line. It will run up in the hundreds. It is the biggest thing of the kind that ever happened in Pittsburg, or in the world, for nothing like it has ever happened before. I can not tell who the men are under arrest, or who the ringleaders are. This much I will say, however, we suspect outsiders of being implicated in the robberies, but know nothing positive." Among those arrested was a man named Taker, against whom" there are thirty-eight charges. Early one morning, some months ago, at Sheridan Station, near tnis city, a train was stopped for water. An attack was made on tne crew, and in the fight the fireman was shot; be afterward died of his injuius. At daybreak it was found that two cars had been broken open and their contents stolen. Baker is accused of firing the shot that killed the fireman, and this is understood to be one of the thirty-eight charges against him. John H. Hampton, attorney for the Pennsylvania Company, was seen this morning in the ofce of the detective agency ,;where, sitting amid-t a hetei-o-rene-ous collection of plunder, he said: "These robberies bave been carried on systematically for several years. The company have long been aware that there was a leakaee somewhere, and as early as September, they quietly began investigations. Dtctives were placed on trains where the goods could be watched and the thieves caught. We have already discovered that the culprits were employes of the company. In September there were eighty ere we of freight trains on the Pan-Handie Railroad comiog into Pittsburg. Of these eighty crews no less than seventy-live were found to be crooked. A crew consists of a conductor, Hagre an and two brakemen. In some cases all the men were involved ; in others only part. The statement that the engineers and firemen were mixed in the robbery is wrong; cot a single one is involved. The goods were obtained by the thieves In various ways. In many instances the seals were broken, while in others hatchets were used to cut a hole in the end of the car, through which the men ciawled and took what they coveted. Then they reported the car in bad condition, claiming that the hole had been made by accident. The operations were all the result- of combinations. Arrangements were carefully made, and each rascal was assigned to his particular part of the work in much the came way as a bank robbery is conducted by professional cracksmer. I do not know that the members of the combination were oath-bound or anything of that kind, but it Is certain that a thorough understanding existed among them, and they acted in concert to cover one another's misdoings. A thing which alarmed us more than anything else was that they stole large quantities of whisky and drank it in the caboose. They needed vessels to hold the liquor, so they stole milk cans and keot it in them. Not daring to keep whisky openly in the cars, they tore up the flooring and hid it underneath, lien were continually reported drunk on duty, and the robability of disaster was something rightful to contemplate. All kinds of goods were stolen, including sewing machines, guns, revolvers, cutlery, silverware, cigars, clothing, liquors, groceries, furniture, and in fact every imaginable article that can be carried on a car were quietly removed. The depredations were committed all along the road, and the losers reside at point as far wtst as Denver. 'Fences' were established In this city where the stolen property was taken and then soid. the money being evenly divided among the crews. It is Impossible to give the aggregate value of the property stolen, but It will not reach $300,00"). as report J." The arrests have caused the greatest exeitcment among the railroad employes of the city. The scenes about the jail doors thi morning, where relatives had gathered to learn the cause of the arrests, were of the saddest description. Wives, children, parents, brothers and sisters, with tearstained faces, stood around the entrance to the prison eager to bear the latest developments, and pleading with the officers for dmfion to the jail to see the prisoners. As 1 o'clock tea more arrests were re-

ported. " They were captured at the paycar while receiving their wages. This nates a total of fifty-six cow in jail here, and it is supposed that as many more have been apprehended at other points along the line. Consternation prevails among the proprietors of the "fences" and dens where the goods were secreted and sold. In one instance, the proprietor of a notorious den was detected in the act of burning stolen property. A telegram just received from Dennison, Ohio, states that J. R. Dunlap, the leader of the gang, was arrested there this morning. The following are the names of the parties lodged in jail this morning: Conductors John Hastings, Mac Roberts, J. P. Brennan, L. Black, H. P. Kuhn, Thoruas C. Shay, T. H. Hanley, Wm. Isett, Charles Watson, Charles Shanks, C. Langacre, Clyde Laughlin. Brakemen J. C. Lawson, V. E. Myers. Edward Wolf, I. F. Haggerty, Robert Mackey, M. C. Connelly, George Schrier, S. Goodman, J. A. Fisher, W. T. Lavelle, Thos. Vincent, A. I. Collis, Wm. R. Eoale8, John A. Bowser, Michael Joyce, M. C.Martin, George Morris, T. O. Gutehall, A. Griffiths, M. B. Doyle, John Dcnavao. John Martin. Wm. Roth, John Sweeny, T. W. Abers, J. W. Richey, Wm. Briggs, John Kirkwood, J. F. Wright, J. A. Taylor, H. W. McCune, H. C. Thompson, J. T. Kinny, Michael Keilly, Thomas Long, Samuel Fritch, James Young. even more arrests have been made, but the nances, have not yet been recorded.

Nearly two hundred warrants are still out and it is expected that the list of arrests in this city will be swelled to eighty before night. A number of houses in various parts of the city were raided to-day and a large quantity of goods recovered. Every man arrested had stolen goods somewhere. Among the prisoners are several desperate characters who were wanted by the police for other offenses. They were all armed and, when not taken by surprise, resisted arrest, lumbers overpowered them, however, and all were safely lodged in jail. A special dispatch from Dennison says the officers have arrested James and W. Collis, with several thousand dollars' worth of velvets and high-priced dry goods in their possession, articles taken from the United States bonded cars en route to Chicago, St. Louis and other points West. Busby, the worst man in the gang, slipped his handcuffs and recklessly threw himself from the train while it was going and escaped. The most important arrest here was brakeman Young. He called at the jail to see one of the prisoners this morning and was immediately locked up. At first he protested his innocence, but finally admitted that he hall a lot of the stolen prop erty at his home, and told how the goods bad come into bis possession. His confession will, it is said, convict thirteen crews. Telegrams from Cadiz, Steubenville and points west of Columbus report the artest of a large number of railroad employes imElicated in the robberies. The preliminary earing will be held on April 1ft. GATHERING THEM IN. Rapid Work in Arresting the Thieves Efforts to Conceal Their Tracks. Pitts kurg, April 11. The thieves who were not arrested at their homes were taken from their trains. To do this it was necessary to display the red light at the Second-avenue crossing and side track the trains as they came in. This was so quickly executed that when the thieving crew musteied on to the little platform to ask what the red light meant they could see glistening on the wrists of each other the fearful implements of justice by which the officers gathered them together. Conductor and brakemen looked aghast at each other as the guilty knowledge of their crimes came before them. Train after train was side-tracked until the alleged thieves were pulled and the caboose cars containing many evidences of their long continued depredations were cut loose and searched. The combination to rob a freight train necessitated the guilty knowledge snd actual participation of the conductor, the middle brakeman, one or more, and the rear brakeman or flagman. It did not, of the necessity, take in the front brakeman or flagman, nor the engineer or fireman, but the others had to be in to make it work, and it did work. It was not required that they should wreck trains to rob. They were finer lingered operators than that. They were no mere gatherers-up of scattered goods, like the mob who carried off the Lama at the riots; not they. Every excuse which they knew could not well be denied was given for broken cars when they neglected, which they frequently did, to seal or lock them up again. The Governmtnt bonded cars were broken perhaps oftener than the ordinary Union Line or common freight cars. In these they always knew they could get choice goods. Silks, cigars, rilies, all kinds of imported firearms and caddies of tobacco seemed to be some of their necessities. Boxes of Ehoes and a general run of merchandise for their every day use were foand openly in the caboose cars of each train. Hundreds of boxes which had contained the finest of imported cigars were found on these trains, boldly used by the men to hold their caps and overalls and lanterns and waste stuff. So bold had they become that the United States regulations, strict as they are, had lost all terror for them. Whilst the custom-house officers were trying to trace the goods, and the merchants here and elsewhere were corresponding with the shippers, and the special agents at special pay were wondering how this could possibly be, and loading down the letter books with theories which Hew around as indefinite as smoke, the operators smoked their Havanaa within the very shadow of the court or custom-house and laughed at their masters who suffered the loss. Fires were in progress to-day all along the line of the Pan-Handle road, made up of st Hfl nd out of the caboose cars, that the evidence of things not seen may be wanting when the trial comes. Word was telegraphed along the road for the particular of each case. Freight trains have hauled up at water stations and a delay made till the caboose was swept and garnished, and in doing so evidence has been procured against unsuspected railroad men which it will be hard to overturn. Almost every man arrested had from one to ten pawn tickets for all sorts of articles on bis person. It is alleged that every pawn shop in in the two citiei is represented on the tickets. An amount of several thousand dollars Is said to be recoverable in this way aione. About the Pan-Handle yards to day there was a scene of quietness than indicated that something unusual had hapfsned where there is usually a scene of noisy cstle. The crews of men that had been arrested tad left a large number of trains deserted. There were twenty-four of these trains piled closely together on the aide tracks in the yards. The detention of freight, however, was only temporary. The railroad officers had taken special precaution to continue moving their freight Eromptly. An extra force of sixty men ad been employed. These were put on the deserted trains in place of the arrested employes. When it became generally known that a large number of men had teen arrested, applicants far position?

commenced to flock to the depot by the scores. THE STOBT OF DETECTION.

The Special Agent Who Ferreted Oat the Robbers Explains Iiis Methods. Pittsltrg, April 11. To Joseph Rue, special agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Detective Gilkerson, of this city, is due all the credit of running the thieves down. In an interview with Rue this afternoon the following account of the inception of the robberies, their detection, the modus operandi of their execution, etc., was gleaned. Mr. Rue said: "Two years ago we decided to dispense with locks on the cars and introduced our present system of seals. The seal is of lead, is about the size of a five cent piece, and is about one-eighth of an inch in thickness. The wire used in connection with it is of one-sixteenth inch iron wire. There are curia in it to prevent its being pulled through the lead seal. The method 01 using it is as follows: The wire is pushed through the seal, then through the hasp of the car door, then back through the seal again, forming an unbroken circle. An instrument then Is used in impressing the seals. That in use, say in Pittsburg, stamps rtpon the inverse side the letters Bg' 'Tr,' and upon the obverte side 'P. St. L,' thus Indicating that the car is intact when it enters the P., C. and Bu L. Railroad, bound west. The two wires are embedded at the same stroke as the letters are imprinted. This understood, I will give an idea of the inception of the robbery and its discovery by the officials of the road. Eastern-bound trains were not molested. Western-bound trains have been the sufferers. As near as we can estimate it these robberies have been going on for two years. At first there was timidity and they only occurred at long intervals, then daily growing bolder and more general until just lately every train was a sufferer. We became cognizant of the robberies through claims, submitted by New York to the road, on the strength of their Western customers allegations of broken packages both in bulk and in severalty, the evidence in each case being positive that the packages were opened In transit. "We were puzzled a long time by the robberies, as our reports from Western points showed that the seals were always teemingly intact. For a long time we blamed the extraction of goods upon the roustabouts at piers twenty-seven and twenty-eight in New York and the Dock street station at Philadelphia, as nearly all of our western-bound freight was put in the cars at either one or the other of taese three places. We employed detectives and all imaginable devices, and found finally that our employes at these points were above suspicion. As I am in charge of all crookedness on our road east of Pittsburg, it then became my duty to follow the robbers up to this city. After a most exhaustive search of the entire division of the Pennsylvania Railroad up to Pittsburg, I came to the conclusion that the robberies were committed west of Pittsburg. We then devoted ourselves entirely to the western division. After two months' work we found that the robberies were committed between Pittsburg and Dennl8on ; that out of eighty crews, seventy-five were practicing a great scheme of robbery. we were nauiy staiieü at nrst by the lactff that the seals on the cars were generally found intact when the cars reached Columbus on their wsy westward. Then commenced a system of espionage cn every mile of siding between here and Dennison. Day a d night the watch continued. Meanwhile, marked and decoy goods were used. We found that local freight was generally untouched; that the robberies were committed on Union Line shipments. Well and good. One dark night one of our brightest men stumbled against the mystery of the seals and the method by which they were successfully tampered with. Concealed behind a car, he saw the freight crew come to a Union Line car. The wire was pulled out of the seal, the door was thrown open and the car entered. In a short time the men emerged carrying a lot of plunder. They made off to the caboose and the conductor pulled back the door, ran the wire through the seal where it had been pulled on t, and with a board struck it a bow. Tbe wire went back to its place, the blow united the Boft lead again without destroying the lettering on either side, and the seal was apparently untouched. I saw one of these, and it was only by tbe closest scrutiny that a person could detect tbe sign of tampering with it. All this made clear, our course was much easier, the individuals of these crews were each traced down, and I may say here that so closely were tbe stolen goods located that out of all the arrests we made last night and this morning there was not one man but had stolen stuff either upon him or in hts room. Of course you understand that oar methods used in ascertaining all this can not be made public Suffice it to say that we have our hands on every thievish employe, and we are within easy reach of those who are not arrested. When I say we, I mean, of course, Mr. Gilkison first, as to him belones the exclusive credit of the rich haul that filled the drag net. I can give a few Illustrations of the f pirit of these employes. In one case, just lately the pursuit was so hot that twenty-live boxes of fine cigars were hastily burned in a caboose stove. In another case a tip resulted in two bolts of fine silk being thrown from a caboose into the Monongahela Iliver while crossing the Pan-Handle bridge. In another instance a crew broke open a car and found it full of organs. One of the men was so enraged by finding nothing of the stealable kind that he thrust an iron bar into the organ and ruined it. We lhave evidence that a freight conductor broke into a car, opened a piano and sat and played it all night, stopping at midnight to eat his supper off of the polished top. The same fellow was thumping a piano in a dive last night when captured. Another brakeman, who lives on Wylie avenue, stole a bolt of cloth, had a suit made for himself and gave the cloth for two other suits to two of his friends. Another man baa become an expert on a stolen accordeon. In all my experience of twenty-nine years I never saw such a taste for miscellaneous stealing, everything except a coffin and a blacksmith's anvil Las been stolen and made use of. Some of bur detectives assured me this morning that not a man was arrested but had from half a dozen to a dozen pairs of clean socks of tbe finest quality and a large assortment of shirts of all kinds." GOT ALL THE MEN THEY WANT. No More Arrests to be Made At Pittsburg Flfty-Six In Jail. FirTMJCEo, April 11. Special Agent Rue, stated to-night that the total arrest number sixty, of whom there are fifty-six in tbe Pittsburg jail. One of the men named Black was released on bail. J. F. Gibbs, was also released this evening. He is an officer of the company and his arrest was a mistake. Two of the men in the Pittsburg jail are from Dennison, Ohio. Two others arrested at Dennison are still there. Another arrest, that of Elmer Young, was made at East Palestine, Ohio. Deputy Mayor Gripp, before whom the warranta were sworn out, has fixed tbe hearing for next Manday at 10 a. m. The clf.ee cf Detective Gillie sen ii

crowded with the many trunks and stolen goods, all of which have been labeled as from whom taken, the date and conditions. They will all be carefully guarded, to be used as evidence against the men. Tbe goods are valued at several thousand dollars, which may be greatly increased by tbe contents of the dozen or more trunks which have not yet been opened. At the jail all was quiet, and no more prisoners were expected to-night. It is understood that no more arrests will be made here. In fact Detective Rue aaid they had all the men they wanted, except a few no longer connected with the TanHandle road, who are located and will be arrested within the next few days. Confession of the Leader or the Gang. Pittseceg, April 11. At a late hour tonight J. R. Dnnlap, who is regarded as the ringleader of the gang, made a confession to the detectives, in which he Implicated several outsiders, and located "fences" at Dr-nison, O., New Philadelphia and other places. THE LATTER DAY SAINTS.

General Conference of the Mormon Church Yesterday. Pkoyo, Utah, Aprils. At a general conference of the Mormon Church to day epistles were read from Presidents Taylor, Cannon and Smith, of the first presidency of the church. It congratulates the people upon the peace ana prosperity mat is attending them, and of the increased growth of Mormonism, notwithstanding the efforts of its enemies to the contrary; exhorts them to be vigorous observers'of the duties and stand true to tbe principles espoused from the organization of the church and the various agencies employed to eflect its overthrow. Falsehood, tradition, deep-rooted prejudice and violence have tried in vain, and a new crusade has been inaugurated in the form of legislative tyrrany carril on by cunning adventurers and reckless fanatics. Referricg to the Edmunds law of 12, it says the ground taken by its promoters was that tbe violation of the soundst political principles, even the Constitu tion itself, both praiseworthy and justifiable if necessary, to take the political rule of Utah away from the Mormon majority and give it to an anti-Mormon majority, and, having so acted in the past, it is not unexpected that other more outrageous at ttmpts will be made to accomplish the purpose.' Their success in securing the pas sage of tbe Ldmundi law emboldened them to make the most extraordinary demands for further legislation. It says in regard to the Eimunds-Tu:ker law: It is generally considered that no such law was ever enacted in this country before, and its parallel is only found in medieval times, when men's ideas were confined to such gran's as despotic govern ments chose to give them. The whole bill betrays an attempt to pave the way of the domination of the majority bv tbe mi nority, because the majority is composed of members who are unpopular, on the church. A BLOODTHIRSTY CHINAMAN, He Makes a Desperate Attempt to Marder , a Whole Family. Chico, CaL, AfJvrf S. 'Furtbrr details latirg to the murder of Mrs. Joseph Biu ion by the Chinese cook shows that the murder was most cold blooded, and is only equaiea in atrocity tjy the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Wickersham, of Sonoma County, about a year ago, also by a Chinese cook Mrs. Billion, two daughters and a farm employe named w. u. Weaver were at supper, when the door opened suddenly and a shot was fired from a rifle by Hoah Henry, the Chinese cook. The bullet passed through Weaver's left shoulder just over the heart, and he fell prostrate. Mrs Billion turned to see from whence the shot came, and received a bullet which pierced her heart and produced instant death. w eaver, notwithstanding Ms serious con dition, managed to shut the door, and barricaded it. The Chinaman fired a shot through the closed door, but without tiiect. He then procured an ax, and after partly breaking the door, chaneed his mind and left the immediate vicinity of the house. Annie Billion weat to the doer to note tbe direction of the murderer's flight, but a shot from Henry's weapon caaed her to hastily retreat, and again bamcade the door. The murderer then disappeared. Meanwhile their daughter succeeded in leaving the house unobserved by the Chinaman, and gave the alarm at et. John, which is a little over a mile from the ranch. The pursuit, which was imme diately organized, has thus far proved fruitless. It the fugitive is caught he will certainly be lynched. He is eighteen years old, and has been in the family's employ several yeais. yo cause is known for the crime, except he was forced to as sist in house-cleaning, to which ha ob jected. Mr. Billion was absent at the time. A Tribute to Beecher, St. Lovir, April 10. At a meeting of the members of Temple Israel this afternapn, a proposition to subscribe $300 to the Henry ward Beecber monument fund was unani mously adopted, and the following telegram sent: . To the Board of Trustees, Plymouth Church, Brooklyn: Temple Ivrael of St. Louis subscribes I to the fund for building a monument to Uearj Ward Beecher, prompted by the love we gratefully owe him for the sake ot that divine principle of liberal thought be immortalized by his blessed life. S. If. Sonnexchein, Rabbi. Shot Through the Head, Cavpton, Ky., April 7. James H. Ross, an old gentleman and a good, quiet citizen, living near this town, was shot through the head to-day by James Buchanan, who was drunk, and now claims to know nothing about having committed the crime. Ross died soon after being shot. Buchanan refuses to talk, refuses counsel or witnesses, end it is thought will lose his mind. He waa a quiet, peaceable man when sober. Driven Prom His Home. Dcbliit, April 11. Daniel Grace, a farmer, of Kllbarry, County Cork, has been evicted after a most determined resistance. A forr- of police went to his house early Saturday morning for tbe purpose of evicting him, but he had erected barricades and succeeded in keeping the officers at bay all day. To-day the struggle was renewed, but the police finally effected an entrance. Race for Two-Year.Olds. 1.05D0N, April 11. The Newcastle and Gofclirth Tark meeting oegan to-day. The Gosfirth juvenile plate for two-year-olds was won by C. Perkins filly Belle Mahone, H. Hall's colt Friday second and J. Boyce's filly Lady Cashier third. Belle Mahone won by three lengths. Lady Cashier was a bad third. There were six starters. England' Treatment ot Ireland. Rome, April 11. In consequence of England's treatment of Ireland aod the attitude of the Irish clergy on the Irish question, the Pope has charged Cardinal SLmeoni, prefect of the Congregational of the Propaganda, to make a thorough inquiry Into the whole matter and to draft iietiuctions for the Irith bishops.

FRIENDS OP IRELAND.

Great Demonstration in London to Protest Against the Coercion EilL Grrfn Banners id Irish Emblems Conspicu ous in the Ranks of the Panders. i Mcticn Denouncing- the Bill Off erei and Carried Amid Great Eathusiisik Speeches by Lord Mayor Sullivan, of Dub lin, and Michael Davitt Threatening Letters ta the Czar Flashes. PROTEST OF BRITISH WORKMEN. Large Demonstration llnlLondon Against the Irish Coercion Bill. Lomon, April 11. The day appointed for the great demonstration in London against the Irish coercion bill now before tte House of Commons opened brilliantly, the weather being balmy and the sun shinirg brightly. Vast crowds of people are marching toward Hyde Park, where the meetings are to be held, from every district of London, with bands, banners and carriages filled with leaders in the day's exercises. The utmost enthusiasm prevails in the great throng. Many f the banners exhibited bear portraits of Mr. Gladstone, Michael Davitt and Father Keller, and the inscription "Justice for Ireland." ägfl Fourteen platforms for the use of orators have been erected in Hyde Park, and occupy the whole frontage facing the fashionable Park Lane. All those taking part in the proceEsion from the east to the west end of London wear green rosettes to imitate the Irish emblem, the shamrock. A large force f police is held in reserve for an emeagency. The gathering in Hyde Park this afternoon was the largest ever held in London. The people were enthusiastic but orderly. A motion protesting against the coercion bill was oflered simultaneously from the fourteen platforms, and carried amid great enthusiasm. The Socialists stole a march on the police and erected platforms, from which several speakers delivered orations. They afterward held a noisy meeting in Trafalgar Square. Mrs. Gladstone watched the anti-coercion procession from a window in Paccadilly, snd was given an ovation by the men in line. Estimates of the attendance at the meeting vary, but it is certain that 150,000 perfons, including on-lookers, were present. The procession took an hour and a hall to file into the park. The first contingent was f omposed of the members of the Rob ert Emmett Lodge; then followed a large cumber of Irish temperanc 'odges, Radical workmen's clubs and . social democratic societies. Numerous bauds of music were in line. While pas&iug the Carleton and other Conservative clubs the bands plsyed the "Dead March in Saul" and the ' Marseillaise." Green Banners and Irish national emblems were conspicuous in the ranks of the paraders. Among the mottoes displayed in the banners of the Radicals were these: "Justice to Ireland." "Friendship, not Bayonets." "No Co ercion." The effect of the careful arrangements that had - been made to avoid confusion at the park was seen in the admirable order in which the paraders grouped themselves around the fourteen platforms. Tbe greatest throng gathered at the platfoim from which Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin, and Messrs. Conbeareand Will iam Redmond, members of Parliament, sroVe. Lord Mayor Sullivan, in the course of a most tfitctive speech, asked: "Is it the wish of the workmen of London that the homst, hard-working tenantry of Ireland shall be forever crushed down?" A tremendous responsive "o" re sponded throughout the park. The mention of the Queen, as about to celt brate her jubilee by signing away the liberties of the people of Ireland, brought fonh a torrent of hisses, and the mention of Mr. Chamberlain aroused a tempest of groans and hisses, with cries of "traitor." Mr. bullivan, in concluding, assured his hearers that the demonstration would carry hope and joy Into the hearts of the Irish. It would cheer many a poor struggling man to know tbat England was no enemy of Ireland. "In return." hesaid, "don't let them believe those who say the irith are mortal, implacable enemies of England. Tbat is a falsehood worthy of the bottomless pit. Cheers Let there be an end of oppression and injustice, and there will be an end of hatred." Prolonged cheering I Michael Davitt appeared at a socialistic platform. He referred to tbe demonstra tion as a proof of the approaching solidar ity of the people of Great Britain and Ire land. In proportion as the masses beean to understand each other, so the classes becsme alarmed. The privileged classes well knew the inevitable tendency of the men movement and Bought to crush the Irish leaders, hoping to prevent the En clih people following the example set them by the Irish. But they hold the fort In Ireland. ICbeers. On the day on which tbe crimes act should become a law they would either have to give up the struggle that had been waged for centuries, and lie down as slaves, or render the system im possible of duration. They would follow the manlier course. The classes had in the past built a bridge of hate across the Irish sea; the people would pull it down and errct a bridge of love between the toilers of Ireland and the honest workers of Eng land. ICheersl. John Burns, a Socialist leader, followed Mr. Davitt. He declared that the state of Ireland justified a civil war, and tbat the English people were rpady to as&Ut the Irith peasants in a revolt. At 4:30 o'clock a bugle sounded, and at tbis prearranged signal a resolution con demning the crimes bill was put simultaneously at all of the platforms. The resolution waa carried amid a roar of cheers. Threatening Letters. Lokpos, April 11. The Times correspondent at St. Petersburg says It is reported that the Czar, before returning to Gate erne a on eunesoay, iouna letters on mi writing table In the winter palace tnreat ening him with death. ALLEGED ELECTION FRAUDS. Great Excitement In the Northern Michigan Peninsula. Milwavkkf. April 8. A Marquette, Mich., dispatch says there is great excitement all over the Northern Michigan peninsula over alleged frauds in the recent election, which places in doubt the fate of the prohibition amendment. The Iron Wood authorities are reported to have sought legal advice, it being charged that voters by tbe hundred jrere imported from Wisconsin to vote against tbe amendment. The frauds are all alleged to have occurred la Gogtbic

Courty. Tbat the most wholesale

fraud war carried on there seems apparent The revised returns cut down tne vote against the amendment to 8,450, allowing Bessemer nearly i,you. 11 Bessemer County is thrown out, and there is no doubt of the contest, the Stated has cer tainly earned the amendment. MASHED HIS SKULL. A Horrible Murder Xear Cerulean Springs, Kentucky. HorKiKviLLE, Ky., April 10. A rail road contractor from Cerulean Springs re ports a horrible murder at a boarding house on the Indiana, Alabama and Texas Railroad, about a mile distant from the bprings. Two laborers Pgrdy and Tompkins roomed together. One night re cently cries for help and loud noises were heard in the room. Persons entering, found Tompkins alone; he talked wildly, and said somebody tried to cut his throat. Examination showed only some trilling scratch? s, and further search showed Purdy covered up in bed with his skull beaten in. Tompkins could give no coherent account, and denied all knowledge of the deed. Purdy was known to have a large amount of money in cash and postal orders. Suspicion was directed to Tompkins, who was searched and the money found on his person. He was placed under arrest A large number of railroad laborers gathered, and with difficulty were prevented from lynching him. THE WARDS OF THE NATION. Indians Claim Title to a Large Tract of Land in New York. Bcffaio, April 11. The suit of the Eentca Kation of Indians against Harrison B. Cbristre, of Brant, Erie County, was before Judge Childs in the Supreme Court tc-day. The Indians claim title to about 150.0C0 acrf s of land in Erie and adjoining counties on the ground that the treaty of ls'2G was not ratified by the United States Be nate, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, and that, therefore, the present owners of the land have not good title to that which they hold. Further, that inasmuch as they are treated as wards of the nation, the lime which has elapsed is no bar to action. Judge Childs said he recognized the great importance of the suit, and that, inasmuch as it would have to be taken to the highest court in the land for final determination, he thought it best to save time by directing a judgment in favor of tbe defendants. General Strong, for the plaintiffs, conceded that a speedy course through the courts would he best, as the farmers are very much agitated over tbe suit. Death of Jona Aylsworth. Attica, April 10. Jonas Aylsworth, a prominent citizen of this place, died yes terday of paralysis, aged fifty-three years. Although his death was not unexpected, it has cast a gloom over tbe city, because of bis prominence in bubiness circles and the high esteem in which he was held by every one. Mr. Aylsworth was secretary of the Attica Milling Company, in which bus iness he has been engaged for many years. The deceased was a prominent member of the Masonic lodge here, having been secretary for the past fifteen years. In this position he performed his duties more to the satisfaction of the members than any others who had previously filled it. He will be buried by the order. The Governor of Stanley Falls. LoM'Oif, April 11. The contract with Tippo Tibb. made by Henry M. braniey. the explorer, in behalf of King Leopold of Belgium, provides tbat Tippo Tibb shall receive a salary of 300 yearly as Governor of Stanley 1- alls and shall be allowed to pursue legitimate trade anywhere he likes. He will, however, have to uphold the au thoritv of the Congo Free State, and ap point a deputy to fill his office during his absence from trie rails. The deputy, on the death of Tippo T'bb. shall succeed him as Governor, provided Xing Leopold approves. Treating the People to a Scare. Cork, April 11. A letter from Rev. Mr. Kennedv appears in the Cork Herald, sayirg that the suspicious vessel seen off Ycugbal is the Gulvare. which left au American port ten days ago. He says it is pait of a Government plot to treat the people to a scare in order to assist in passing me coercion Din, anu iuai lue vessel will cruise between Queenstown and Youghal and try to enter, purporting to land dvnamite, when the Government will be ready to arrest. The paper asserts the scheme originated In Imbun castle. A Ghostly Find. IX)üAKsrOKT, April 10. Late last night while young Fender and a companion were near tbe Vandalia Railroad bridge over the wabseh just below the mouth of k.el Kiver, fishice. they saw something in some drift wood against one of the piers, which, after looking carefully, they decided were the remains of some person, and reported it at once to tbe Coroner. About two months ago a broken and empty ccfSn was found floating in Eel River just above the city. It is thought that these may be the remains that were once in that coffin. Results of a Family Ouarrel . Meauville. Pa., April 10. During faintly quanel last night Mrs. John Bucnholtz seized a lighted lamp and hurled it at her husband's head. The burning missile exp'oded and in an instant both hus band and wife were enveloped in names. Buchholtz dragged his wife from the burn ing building, but she was so badly injured that death relieved her sufferings at an early hour tbis morning. Buchholtz was also terribly burned and is now dying. Mother aud Son Drowned. Detroit, April 10. A Free Press Bay City special says: William Mavis, aged twenty-six, and mother were drowned at a late bour last night, eight miles from Bay City, In a dredge cut along the side ot the road leeding to Quannacassee. near which place they lived on a farm. They were re turning borne and it is thought the horses took fngbt aBd they were thrown from the wagon. The bodies were recovered to-day. The dredge cut is twenty feet wide and eix feet deep Newspaper Comment. Lokdox, April 11. The Daily News, commenting on the Hyde Park demonstration, says: "Tbe demonstration shows that the bulk of the working population of London have returned to hearty cooperation with the Liberal party, determined to do justice to Ireland. That is the sufficient and ennobling reason for which they gave up their holiday. They refused to take ease while iniquitious oppression was being done In their name." Death of a Methodist Divine. New York, April 8. Rev. Dr. EUj ah H. rilcber died yesterday In Brooklyn. He was born in Athens, Ohio, in 1S10. In 18C0 he entered the Methodist ministry and served as an itinerant pastor for fifty years in MicbigRn. In 1S82 he suffered a stroke of apoplexy from which he never recovered. He left a widow and five children. One son is a missionary In China and an other an army eurgeon.

LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

Sermon by President Joseph Smith at Their Conference Yesterday. II Vlcoronsly Denounces the Mormon, . Doctrine of Polygamy A Public Bap. tism Other Services. 11R DENOUNCES POLYGAMY. President Smith's Sermon at the Confer. ence of the Latter-Day Saints. Clevelakd, April 10. There was a large attendance of outsiders at the conference of Latter-day Saints at Kirtland to-day, the attraction being the sermon by President Joseph Smith against the Mormon doctrine of polygamy Mr. Smith began his sermon by the emphatic declaration: 1 nave no belief in this philosophy ot polygamy. ' I am identified with a people many of whom have gone over with the extremists and cast their lot with the ad vocates of plural marriage. I desire to ' state publicly that I am not of their number. I need make no personal onslaught ' on those who accept the polyga mous clause in the Mormon re ligion, nor shall- I. We ouga: lj take it for granted that God knew what he was about when he created the world. When the earth was ready for man, God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. If he had intended two wives for Adam he would bave given them.; to him. When Adam and Eve were joined together they were immortal and the mar riage was celestial. fow, there came a time when it was necessary to begin populating the earth over again. Men. and women bad sinned, and God wished to crush wickedness out of the world. If he had made a mistake as the creation in giv-' ing Adam but one wife, here was a grand opportunity to reverse the order of things and give Noah wo wives. Did God do so? No. He commanded Noah to take one wife and his servants one wife. Do not you, my brethren, believe that God is wise enough to have improved that . opportunity to rectify any error in judgment in parceling out to man but one helpmeet? But God had another opportunity to correct the mistage, if one had been made, when he led Levi and his wife out of the land of Judea. If God had desired to reverse his judgment in giving Noah but a single wife be cculd have put himself right, but he did cot do it, I take these three great events as proof positive, unanswerable and overwhelming that God intended man to bave but one wife." The speaker went on to say that the Latter-day Saints stood committed to the doctrine of single marriages. Further proof of the error of polygamy, he said, was found in the 23d and 24th verses of tbe second chapter of Genesis. There was afterward a public 'marriage, Sister Mary Goodin, of Pittsburg, being joined to Brother John TV Lake, of Canada. There was also a public baptism. To morrow will be devoted to a business session. A Young Brute Foiled. Peec, April 10. A brutal outrage is re-' ported from the northeast part of Wabash County. Ella, the eleven-year-old daughter of George Elliott, who lives near Servia, had taken her father's dinner to the village, where he was employed, and was lightly tripping home when she met a lad of her acquaintance named Robert Derf. The young man made insulting proposals, which were repulsed, when Derf threw the girl to the ground and attempted tD accomplish his infamous designs. She made a determined resistance, and the little one's clothes were nearly torn off in the struggle, while her body was considerably marked. Her screams brought, assistance, and Derf -fled. He was found a few hours later ar.d arrestod. The feeling against the brute is intense. Only Three Cents a Mile. Wabash, April 10 The Cincinnati, "Wabash and Michigan Railroad Company will hereafter collect only 3 cents a mile from passengers over its line, the charge heretofore having been 4 cents. This action was not compulsory, as a clause in the Charter of the company permits It, for the period of ninety-nme years, to collect not more than 4 cents a mile. The company made the reduction believing the increase in travel resulting therefrom will compensate it for the cut of 25 per cent, in the tariff. A Bor'sman'a Lncky Escape. Louax? ät, April 10. Nate Stuart, who jumped his bond about the holidays, charged with embezzling the funds belonging to tbe Saberling Manufacturing Company in Ohio, was arrested in INew York by Detective Gallagher and J. D. Ferguson. Stuart's bonosman arrived here oa the midnight train. 8tuart will be held to answer at tbe present term of court. It was a very narrow escape of his bondsman, J. D. Ferguson. A Child Horribly Burned Seymour, April 10. The dine-year-old1 daughter of Mr. James Blair, of this county, took some matches to her father, who was in the field, last evening to set fire to seme stalks. The little girl's clothes took fire, and her screams called her father, who ran to her rescue, but failed to reack her until ber clothing was burned from her body. The little form is burned to a blister from the hips down. Gang of Thieves Captured. . Rich m ok d, April 10. Dandv Jim Clart, Charley Van Zant, John Welsh, Harry Ionard, Martin Durkin and John McAvoy were all remanded to jail yesterday, each in default of $100, to await trial on the charge of stealing railroad iron. The arrest of two more belonging to the gang will probably be made to-night, and a well-kDOwn character will also be on the rack for "fencing" their stuff for them. Wiped Out by the Flames. Hem'EBon, Ky., April 10. The town of Coryoon, near here, was almost destroyed by fire at 1 o'clock this morning. Fifteen houses in the business portion were reduced to ashes, leaving only two standing. The loss is estimated at $40,000; insurance, 110,000. The fire is supposed to hav originated in a restaurant and from a defective flue Joseph Skipped. Wabash, April 10. A sensation has bcea created at Rich Valley, this county, by the. charge of betrayal which Miss Mary Walts,, a comely lass, has preferred against Joseph Small, Bon of George SmalL a prominent grain dealer. A warrant was issued for Joseph's arrest, but he skipped out, and the officers are now hunting for the youn?. roan. Joined tbe Boycott. Cleveland, April 8. The Lake Shor. and Michigan Southern Railway ioinet the boycott against the Western lines this morning by issuing a confidential circular to its ticket-agents Instructing them toi turn to the wall the coupon issues o thiity:fcui Uses,