Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1889 — Page 4

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TERMS PER TEAR: ting cepy (Invariably In Adviuce.)-. .B1 00 We ak democrats to War 1a min.l and wWt their D tat par Th'n they come to take subscription and make up club,. Ajrenta in Ving up dubs 9eo for anr information Vsired. Addew TUE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 10. "Man's Inhumanity to Man." The Journal takes up the cudgels against the utriking miners of Clay county. This was to be expected. In every issue between capital and labor, between industrial freedom and industrial slavery, be tween corporate rapacity and human flesh and blood, the Jouma in to be found on the side of the former. It always stands for the oppressor and never for the oppressed. Its columns are always at the service of the wealthy and the powerful, rever at the service of the poor and the teak. . Ever since these Clay county troubles began the Jonrna has been persistently misrepresenting the situation, an! has done its best to convince the public that the miners, and not the corporations, were at fault. In Tuesday's issue it declared that "there wero always two sides to a strike, and in a majority of instances the matter in controversy could and should be adjusted without resorting to that forcible and arbitrary method." The Sentinel deprecates strikes, as a rule. But as to this Clay county strike there are no "two sides" to it. There is every reason to believe that it was deliberately brought about by the operators; that they purposely made exactions of the miners to which it would be impossible for them to eubmit, with a view to shutting off the production of coal for an indefinite period. They had an eye both upon the laborer and the consumers. A long period of idleness, they calculated, would reduce the latter to such a condition that they would he glad of an opportunity to go to work at any terms that might be offered, and the suspension of production would bring the market into such a condition that an extra fifty cents on the ton could easily be extorted from the consumers to compensate tbe operators for their losses or rather want of profits in the meantime. This was the program which was foreshadowed at the conference in this city last February and more fully developed at the subsequent conference at Columbus, when the Indiana operators named their ultimatum and withdrew. They have since refused several propositions of arbitration, and some time ago notified the miners not to send any more committees to them unless for the purpose of accepting the starvation wages they had offered. Now when it is understood that at the rate of wages paid and the amount of work given them for the past two years, these miners have not been able to earn, on in average, So a week each ; that the proposition now offered by the companies means weekly earnings per miner of only from to $P.75 ; that these companies have not, to anybody's knowledge, reduced the fancy salaries of their high officials; that the leading stockholders continue to live in magnificence in Chicago upon the profits they have accumulated from the operation of these mines during the la.t few years when all these things are understood, every person with a heart and sense of justice will confess tbat there are no two sides to this controversy. Even if these facti were not known, the refusal of the operators to arbitrate is their sufficient condemnation. The Journr admits that it puts them tecmitvfy in the wrong, but It adds: It is presumable, however, that they felt they lad offered as much as they could possibly afford to pay, anJ were unwilline to submit to an arbitration which inizht require them to pay more. In the lat resort an employer rangt be the judee of what waes he can afford to pay. In this case tbe difiereuce between the operators and miners was not jrreat, and it is questionable whether the miners would not better have accepted the reduction than to have truck. Half a loaf is better than no bread, and reduced wages are preferable to none. We are not able fitly to characterize this language. We cannot do justice to it brutality and meannesa. The Jovrnn tcicks it "presumable" that these Chicago millionaires "had offered as much as they could popsibly afford," and, therefore, exruses them for refusing to submit to an arbitration "which might require them to pay more." Two of the arbitrators, be it understood, would have been chosen by the millionaires; two by the minors, and the fifth by these four. If the company could not hope to get a fair judgment from five men, so selected, then the whole principle of arbitration is false, and there is nothing for it but that wcrkingmen hall accept whatever pittance wealthy corporations may offer them, even if it is not nfficient to supply the simplest requirement of food and raiment. Indeed, the Jntrrrwl says so in so many words. It says that the miners would better have accepted the terms which the Chicago millionaires offered them than to have struck ; that half a loaf i better than no bread ; that "in the it retort an cm j 'oyer must he, the pvije of what u-nart heran afford to av ;" and that "miners who are getting in wages considerable more than one-half the groes product hare not much caue to .This is simply infamous. It is a disgrace to those who inspired it, to the man who penned it, and to the newspaper which printed it. But it aptly illustrates the spirit and practices of our modern slave drivers, of whom the Indianapolis Jourw is a mouth-piece. In point of fact the coal miners in Clay county and throughout the country are in a stateof virtual slavery. Their condition if much below that of the African alaves in the days of the "peculiar institution." These at least had food to satisfy their hunger, and raiment to cover their nakedness. They had comfortable shelter, opportunity for recreation, good treatment in sickness, care in their old age and Christian burial when they died. The coal miners have no assurance of any of these things. They epend the most of their lives underground ; they are in constant peril of life and limb; their earnings, even when they are employed, do not enable them to supply themselves or their families with tho

comforts of life, or to give their children the opportunities which belong, as a matter of eternal justice, to every human being. Meantime, the employers masters is the better word of these unfortunates live in palaces; are surrounded with every luxury; deny themselves nothing that money will buy; and some of them, the while, pose as Christians. And their newspaper organ coolly tella the victims of their rapacity and cruelty that they "will hive to take their chances;" that they "can hardly expect to get the old starvation wages." It's the old, old story of man's inhumanity to man. But there is a Goi in heaven and there is a future. Human flesh and blood will not always be held so cheap.

The Cruel Work of Monopoly. There appears to be no depth to which the Journal will not descend to screen the millionaire coal operators of Clay county in their attempts to starve the miners into submission. The article printed Thursday, signed W. A. W., is a tissue of the most outrageous and unblushing falsehoods ever put into print. W. A. YV tells of miners who, he saj's, earned as high as ?:X), $40 and even $T0 a week during the last year. There is no miner on earth, working all hi9 waking hours from week's end to week's end, who could earn such sums as the.-e at the wages prevailing in Clay county for several years pat, and the Journal knows it The men have worked not from choice, but from necessity less than half time for the past twenty months, and during that period have not averaged as much as Sö a week. A largo proportion of their earnings has been stolen from them by the robbing screen system a method of plundering labor compared with which the practices of the highway-slugger are highly respectable. The rent of company houses, and the pluck-rne stores, carried on in violation of law, have absorbed most of the remainder. Meantime the operators, who claim that they have not been making any money in Clay countr, have been revelling in pplendor and luxury in Chicago. The condition of affairs in Clay county is a blot upon American civilization. Nearly six thousand poverty-stricken people in a single county, where no calamity has occurred to cause destitution, flocking to relief stations to draw a dole oi corn meal or an ounce or two of bacon, supplied by public charitv, is a spectacle which no humane person can contemplate without feelings of profound sadness. Even more pitiable is the spectacle presented by the public journal which uses its columns to aggravate the sufferings of these poor people, and to discourage the public from coming to their assistance. This is done, of course, in order to facilitate the program of the coal monopoly, which is to literally starve the miners into submission. There is destitution and suffering plenty of it in Clay county. Hundreds of little children are going to bed hungry every night. Hundreds of women Bad-faced, weary, overworked, prematurely old are without food except the scanty morsels served them by the charity whose sources the Indianapolis Journal is trying to dry up. Hundreds of men, able, willing and anxious to work, are denied the opportunity to do so, except upon terms that mean a condition worse than slavery. The humane, Christian people of Indiana ought to come to the assistance of these unfortunate people in their unequal struggle with the brutal greed of corporate wealth. They ought to Koe that their actual necessities are supplied until the coal companies are willing to treat them as human beings. Mrs. De La Hunt's Case. It is theexpreesed opinion of the inspired organ that "the explanation in regard to the Cannelton postofiice completely exonerates the president in that matter, and should put a stop to all unfavorable criticism." That is rich, indeed; but what follows is a good deal richer. Thus: This is the case of the soldier's widow, Mrs. PK LA Ilt'ST, wt'ite removal by President Clerdanl ira gn-erdy roi,ime,kd only Gen. Jfarritnn. in a speech mud, in the senate in the glimmer of 1.". lieinj an applicant for reapI)ointmcnt under this administration, Bhe and ier friends naturally expected that PresidentHarrison would restore her to the position from which she had been unjustly removed. The appointment of another applicant, a Mr. Zimmerman, was a surprise to Mrs. De la HINT and her friend and has been made the cause of severe criticism of the president by democratic papers. Upon its face, and in riete of Gen. Harrison's sjteech in the senate, the failure to appoint Mrs. I)K LA IICNT did look tfranye, but the explanation now given to the public is perfectly frank and satisfactory. The inspired organ proceeds to explain that "out of about öS.OUO postoffices, about 3,000 are called presidential offices, while the rest, some ööt00, are called 'fourth class.' The president may, of course, appoint any fourth-class postmaster, but he very seldom does. The commissions of fourth-class postmasters are not even figned by the president. They are signed and forwarded by the postmaster-general, and never come before the president at any stage of the proceeding, unless for gome special reason some particular case is brought before him." This stuff carries its own commentary. In so far, if at all, as it exonerates Pretideid Harrison from responsibility for the failure to appoint Mrs. Df. la Hi st, it condemns Senator Harrison for attacking Mr. Cleveland in the senate for not retaining Mrs. De la Hint. If President Cleveland was responsible in that case. President Hap.risov i responsible now. If President Harrison is not responsible now, President Cleveland was not responsible then, and it was indecent for S tiator Harrison to attack him. Tin "inspired organ" wants people to lelieve that "the president (Harrison) was undr the impression that Cannelton was a presidential office." Everybody of course knows better than this. Cannelton is in the president's own state, and there is nothing Beviamin Harrison has kept such close track of during his entire political career as the Indiana postolfices. And as to this particular office he must have been especially well informed, in view of his investigation three years ago, resulting in the "great speech" in which he described the case of Mrs. De la Hunt as "infinitely full of pathos and indignation" (?. The infinite pathos and indignation are now relieved by a good deal of humor. The Evansville Journal the ablest and decentest republican ' newspaper in Indiana takes a very different view of this Cannelton business than that of the in-

epirpd organ. In speaking of the white house apology, it says : The Journal has already expressed itself plainly in the matter and has nothing to take back. When a party or iu representatives make a mistake, H does not follow as a matter of course that honest party newspapers most justify their action and try to make the "worse appear tha betters reason." It was a great mistake to appoint Zimmerman over Mrs. De la If tnt, and time will prove it. The friends oftlte latter hare papers in the case constituting a complete record that trill be worth ten thousand votes in this state to the democracy in the hands of such artful politicians as Gray and Voorhees. That record, in the cane of a clove national contest, iroufd he sufficient to turn the scale and elect a democratic president. We HAVE READ THE PAPERS AND KNOW WITAT WE ARE TALKING AICT. 1'hey trould turn the scule even in JlJino is in the hands of such a manas Gen. Palmer. Tut democratic party could ueli afford to bvy thce papers regardless of expense. The best thing that the administration can do is to make reparation for this mistake the best way it can. The men responsible for it and there are others besides Mr. Posey will have a lively time during the next political campaign in explaining their action. Some of them are ft.-pi mots for high elective positions in this state. The best thing they can do is to repair this great wrong before the excitement of a close political contest commences. These remarks lend piquancy and zest to the evidently inspired intimation in the always inspired organ that "It is vot itiililrly that somethini may yet be done j'nr her." Mrs. De la Hi'nt. Certainly not. Something will of course be done for Mrs. De la Hi nt. And it will be done quickly very quickly. Those papers, yon know !

"The IxHit of the Mail Service." The demoralization of the postal service is not confined alone to Indiana. In this state the service has been abominable for the past feixty days. The most 6tupid and amazing blunders have been committed almost daily by the political bummers who have been installed in our city postofiice or put in charge of the mail cars running in and out of Indianapolis. It has recently taken from four to six days for Indianapolis newspapers to reach Monticello, a distance of fifty miles or so. Letters addressed to well-known citizens, long established in business, whose names appear in display letters in the city directory, have been returned to the senders because the addressees "could not be found," or have been forwarded to Cincinnati, and cent back from there, finally reaching the persons for whom they were intended, letters have been sent out from the Indianapolis office within the past few days, postmarked "Aug. 27, 1SS0." Route agents have come in from their runs with their work only half done, and the efficient and experienced men who had been displaced to make room for them have been called upon to finish it. These area few illustrations of the manner in which the postal service in Indiana is being carried on by the "Billy" Pattersons, and the Marshal Woods, the Bagbys, Hamlins and Mooreswhom the administration "of many prayers" has installed in this most import, ant department. It appears to be the same way all over the country. Beports of missent and delayed letters and newspapers come from all quarters. A republican, who is a member of the Boston scientific society, w rites to the Herald of that city that some of his letters apparently miscarry, as he can get no answers to them, and that it took him three days to hear from an adjacent point in New Hampshire. The New York Time prints a communication which shows that a letter was mailed in New York, May 31, at C p. m., and was not received in Boston until June 5 at 7 p. m. The St. Louis liepvblic mentions several cases where letters mailed in that city and plainly directed to places in Missouri were sent on circuitous routes, one occupying twelve days in its transit. The New York A'c, a republican paper conducted by colored men, has had within a month more than live hundred complaints from tmbacriliers in all parts of the country of failure to receive the Aye. But what else was to be expected? Hundreds of the most efficient and competent men in the mail service have not only been removed, but to a great extent their places have been filled by former employes, who had been discharged for incompetency or neglect of duty, such as Pa ri. Vandervoort of Omaha, who was dismissed by P. M. (Jen. Gresham for insubordination and for absence from his post 2tV days in the year. It would be idle to look for decent service under such circumstances as these. Hovej's Insane Folly. Atty.-Gen. Michexer Saturday evening filed a petition for rehearing in the Carson case. This action was wholly unexpected and shows that Alvin P. Hovey and bis co-conspirators are determined to keep up their insane crusade against the public interests, regardless of consequences and regardless as well of decency, good faith and the obligations of their official oaths. The Carson case involves the title of the board of trustees of the insane hospital. When they were elected by the legislature Gov. Hovey refused to issue commissions to them. Mr. Carson, one of the trustees, applied for a writ of mandate upon the governor requiring him to issue such commissions. The governor and the attorney-general made an agreement with the trustees of all the benevolent institutions that this should be considered a test case as to all of them. The governor agreed, if the case was decided against him, to issue commissions to all of them. They, in turn agreed if the case w as decided in his favor, to abandon their claims to the offices. All the trustees, in view of this agreement, contributed to the expenses of conducting the 6uit. It was decided against the governor in the court lelow, and this decision was unanimously reaffirmed by the supreme court. The governor thereupon issued commissions to the trustees of the insane hospital, abandoning the contest as to them. He squarely repudiated his agreement with the trustees of the other institutions, however, refusing to issue them commissions, and compelling them to begin legal proceedings to secure their rights. The proceedings resulted in a decision in their favor (in the Itiley case.) The governor refused to abide by this decision, but gave notice tbat he would file a petition for a rehearing. The filing of this petition was delayed several weeks with the obvious purpose of delaying action by tho court until atter the summer vacation, which extends until September. And now it is followed up by an attempt to reopen the Carson case, the questions involved in which have been three times passed upon by the supreme court, and always ia denial of the governor's absurd pretensions. Such trickery, and tuch trifling with

great public interests is disgraceful. It is too bad that there is no agency, under our system, by which it can be promptly punished. Its results have already proved very serious. Confusion and demoralization prevail in the blind and the deaf and dumb institutions. The discipline is relaxed, the old boards of trustees naturally enough are exercising but a perfunctory supervision of affairs; the new boards are without authority, and everything is, so to speak, at sixes and sevens. If the governor succeeds in his efforts to stave off the Riley case until the supreme court adjourns, this lamentable condition of affairs will continue until fall, and perhaps longer. The legislature, at its last session, made liberal appropriations for additions and improvements to these institutions, the early completion of which is urgently demanded. But these appropriations cannot, of course, be utilized until the deadlock is broken, and it cannot be broken until Hovey comes to his senses, or finds every expedient of delay and obstruction exhausted. The trustees of the insane hospital have entered upon theirduties; have appointed a new superintendent and reorganized the entire official staff at the hospital. The governor's action in attempting to dispossess them wili produce the same condition of affairs at this institution that prevails at the deaf and dumb and blind institutions. It is difficult to account for Gov. Hovev's actions upon any theory consistent with his sanity and integrity. It has been suggested that his mind is affected, and the suggestion is plausible. But if he is crazy, there is certainly method in his madness. If, on the other hand, he is mentally responsible, he is either the roost crafty and unscrupulous demagogue or the most obstinate and wrong-headed individual tbat ever sat in the executive chair of Indiana. From any point of view, he is certainly a most unlovely figure to contemplate.

Since the above w as put in type a theory has been presented to the writer which seems plausible. Gov. Hovey, it appears, has senatorial aspirations. So have other republicans who arc in Gov. Hovey's confidence, and it is hinted that they are encouraging him to continue in his course of folly and madness in order to disgrace him before the people, and render him an utter impossibility in the senatorial race. Certainly a cleverer adaptation of means to ends was never made. Atty. Gen. Michener's name is mentioned in this connection. He is a shrewd and unscrupulous politician, and entirely capable of resorting to such expedients to destroy a political rival. Prohibition in Kansas. The prohibitionists are rery emphatic in their claims that prohibition has proved an unqualified success in Kansas. There is a good deal of. testimony to tbe contrary, however. Judge Widamax, the probate judge of Comanche county, tells the Voice, prohibition organ, that prohibition "has closed reputable drinking places, but has increased the number of dives, the number of drunkards and the rate of taxation." , Mr. JX ( P. Waggoner, the leader of the Atchison bar, general counsel for the Missouri Pacific railroad, and one of the few democrats who voted for and advocated prohibition, says: I am now convinced that it is a failure. It is impracticable in cities, and has done a great deal to retard business and immigration. It builds uj) a system of spies, of joints and of general hypocrisy, all ot w hich are bad for the community. Prohibition in Kansas is really what has given such a boom to Kansas City, in Missouri. It drove out of this state a good many wholesale dealers and others who went to that city and began to boom it. The result is that it has now grown far beyond any place in Kansas and no city in the state can hops to rival it. Then, too, prohibition h?s depreciated values here. A good many people who don't believe in such laws, but who are orderly and law observing, have moved away, preferring to to go to other cities where there is no such restriction on their liberty. Mayor Kelsey of Atchison, a repubcan, says: "Where it has hurt business it has not stopped drunkenness." It is said that Atchison has been at a stand-still ever since prohibition was adopted, eight years ago. Stores which formerly rented for 1,000 a year are now idle because the owners cannot get ?200 for them, and local sentiment lays the blame chiefly to prohibition. It is not strange that other states are reluctant to try for themselves the experiment which seems to have produced euch results in Kansas. The Rockport Jjrniocrut predicts that "Grover Cleveland will be the democratic nominee for president in 1892, if he can be induced to accept." This seems like a safe prediction at this writing. But it is a long time until 1802 long enough, perhaps, to develop some western democrat with the right stuft" in him for the presidency. The Sentinel would like to see a western man at the head of the democratic ticket in 1892, just for a change. But if the nomination goes East again, thero is no earthly doubt that G rover Cleveland will be the man. One of the officers of the Cambria iron company of Johnstown says that about tw o thousand of the company's employes were lost in the flood, but that their places can be at once filled without the slightest difficulty. Just think of it! Two thousand men in the service of a single corporation are suddenly swept out of existence, and their loss does not occasion the ieast inconvenience not eveD a momentary Hurry in the labor market. Is there anything quite as plenty and quite as cheap in this republic as human beings? At the meeting of the national democratic committee on Wednesday a general interchange of opinions on the political outlook took place. The great majority expressed themselves as heartily in favor of carrying on the fight in behalf of tariff reform, which Mr. Cleveland began and led in 1S8S. They believe we can win on that issue in 1892, and they do not propose to weaken in any degree. As to who will be the candidates in 1S92 they agreed that it was too early to sjeak. "Give us Harrison and Protection" shouted the Clay county miners who came to see Benjamin last July. Well, they have got Harrison and Protection. And still they don't seem to be happy. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Reader, city: The membership of the leading religions denominations in tbe United States in 1S83 was as follows: Roman catholic, 7.200.MO; roethodist episcopal, 4,rtT9,.529: baptist, 3,W1,65; presbyterian, l,136y3; lutWan. 937,600. We ar unable to give the wealth of these respective denominations.

STRUNG TO- THE BRIDGE.

CORYDON'S MURDERERS LYNCHED. A Quiet Mob of About Two Hundred Men Makes Quick Work of the Desperado To Hang Till Morning History of Their Crime. Corydov, Ind., June 13, 2:30 a. m. Special. Devin and Tennyson were hung by the mob from the bridge west of town, a few minutes ago. They refused to sav a word, or make anv confession. The members of the mob were not disguised. They got into the jail by cutting down two iron doors. The captain gave orders that they were not to be cut down until 9 o'clock this morning, and the mob dispersed. The mob was a most quiet and orderly one, numbering about two hundred men. They covered the sheriff with Winchesters and revolvers and forced him to give up the keys. Devin and Tennyson were remarkably cool and collected and took their impending fate stoically. At the bridge they were given an opportunity for prayer, which they declined. They made no explanation of their crime. Corydon, June 13. SpeciaLJ The double lynching occurred at so late an hoar last night The Sentinel correspondent could only send a brief dispatch. The following account is complete: The threats that had been made continually here since Sunday to lynch James Deven and Charles Tennyson, the would-be-murderers and robbers of James D. Lemay and his niece, Lucy Lemay, were carried into execution this morning about 1:30 o'clock. An hour before two or three men were seen riding slowly through the town. Presently, without any signal, men came ealloping in from all directions, and each posse reached the jail abont the same time and blockaded the street in front of the jail, with their horses' heads facing the jail door. About twenty masked men in front, dismounted and covered the four or five guards of the jail with revolvers and demanded the keys to the jail. Cries were heard from the mob for the sheriff to deliver the keys, and declared they would have the prisoners or burn the town. They succeeded in finding the sheriff in a hall leading through the sheriff's honse to the corridor, but he absolutely refused to deliver the keys. When they ascertained that they could not get the keys, their leader called for hammers. An iron rail was quickly bronsrht and used for a battering-ram, and with it tried to break through the corridor door leading from the outside. Failing in the attempt, they hurried in front of the jail building, and passin: through the hall to the corridor door, which they found unlocked, they broke open the door to the main part of the jail with crow-bars and sledge-hammers. They found the prisoners locked up in the cells, and they were not lone in breaking open the cell doors and bringing the doomed men out. Ropes were placed about their necks. Six men holding each prisoner, they dragged both to a bridge across Big Indian creek in the western part of town, and, tying the ropes to the bridge, the prisoners were pitched overboard and swung into eternity. The ropes were one inch thick and abont ten feet long. When the mob dispersed their leader left orders that he wanted the dead men to hang until 9 o'clock this morning, but they were taken down at seven, and an inquest held. There were fully 200 men in the mob, the most of whom, it is supposed, were '"White Caps." They were in town about thirty minutes. Mr. Lemay and his niece, although badly wounded, are progressing gradually toward complete recovery. Last Friday night the two men who were lynched at an early hour this morning stopped at the residence of James I. Lemay, a wealthy farmer who resides near Corydon. They were well dressed, apparently about twenty-five years of age and represented themselves to Farmer Lemay as t-tock buyers. Mr. Lemay had his wife prepare supper for them, and while they were eating he armed himself with a revolver, having had his suspicions aroused by their actions. After they had finished their supper they and Mr. I-eruay's family sat down on a porch and engaged in conversation until about 8 o'clock, when the st rangers suddenly arose, with drawn revolvers, and ordered the members of the family into the house, remarking that they meant business. Mr. Lemay and his wife went into one room and were followed by one of the strangers and his niece, Miss Lucy Lamay, and a young farm hand went into another room and were locked in by the other stranger, who followed them. Mr. Lemay drew his revolver, and the stranger who confronted him began firing, emptying his pistol, a five-shot Colt's revolver. All of the shots took effect, two of them penetrating Mr. Lemay's bowels, the others penetrating his hands and arms. The other tdxanger fired one shot which passed through the young lady's rieht breast and lodged in her left breast. Mr. Lemay, although badly wounded, opened fire on the men and put them to flight. An alarm was given, and a number of neighbors soon arrived, some of them starting in pursuit of the strangers, while others went to Corydon for medical assistance. The two would-be murderers escaped, but were finally captured at New Albany and taken to the Harrison county jail at Corydom RUN DOWN BY A TRAIN. Frightful Accident In Canton, O., Four Persons Instantly Killed. Canton, O., June 12. At noon to-day the west-bound limited express on the Tittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad ran down a horse and buggy containing Lawrence and Teter Streb, brothers, and two boys, brothers, Edward and Frank Sefert. The two Strebs and one of the boys were instantly killed and their lifeless bodies ilung a distance of thirty feet forward at the side of the track. The heads of all three were crushed beyond recognition and their bodies badly mangled. The other boy suffered like injuries, but lived about half an hour without gaining consciousness. The horse was killed, and, with the buggy, thrown a distance of 100 feet Lawrence Streb was a Canton merchant, and Peter Streb a wealthy farmer. Both were middle-aged and married, but neither had a son. Recently they decided that each should adopt ä boy from the catholic orphan asylum at Louisville. They did so this morning, taking the two Sefert boys, and were on their w ay home with their adopted sons when the awful fatality overtook them. Tho placo where the accident occurred is a grade crossing in the middle of the town. Residents say the train was running at from forty to fifty miles an hour. A CITY DESTROYED BY FIRE. Ten Thousand IVople Itnrned and Trampled to Death. San Francisco, June 15. The kteamer City of Tekin arrived yesterday from Hong Kong vi3 Yokohama. The Shang Ilai Courier of May 10 contains news which the latter received from a correspondent at Chung King to the effect that Ln Chow, a city of some importance in upper. Pangtsze, was reported as being nearly destroyed by fire a month previous. Seven ont of the eight gates of the city are aaid to have been destroyed, and the loss of life, burned and trampled to death, it estimated at ten thousand.

THE DUNKARDS IN COUNCIL.

Germaa Baptists Gather In Conference in An Old Virginia Town. Harrisonburg, Va., June 12. Special The German baptists ordunkards of the United States are holding their annual conference here. The town is located twenty-six miles northeast of Staunton and 100 miles south wet of Harper's Ferry, in the famous Shenandoah valley of Virginia. It w as the scene of many conflicts during the war. The battle of Tort Republic and Cross Keyes, fought between the forces of "Stonewall" Jackson and those of Gens. Banks, Fremont and Shields, in 1S62, took place within twelve and nine miles, respectively, of this place. The surrounding country for many miles is exceedingly fertile and handsomely improved. Three weekly newspapers are published here. The dunkards form a large per cent, of the population of this section of the valley, and here, as elsewhere, they are a plain, pleasant, honest and industrious agricultural people. They possess fine farms, cattle and horses, and have neat homes. As a church sect the3' had their origin near Wertemberg, Germany, 173. As is generally well known, they do many things quite differently from other Christian churches. Their dress and habits in this section are characterized by the early patterns of the German fathers. This is very plain, the men wearing their coats all of one shape and without buttons, except a couple near the collar; their hats are low crown and broad brimmed; their hair is worn long, while their beards rarely ever embrace a mustache, but only the growth on the face and chin. The woruen wear small white caps beneath large bonnets, a small cape upon their shoulders, straight, plain dresses, and no flounces nor frills. These people are opposed to going to war, do not generally sue each other for the collection of debts, but adjust all such difiiculties iu church meetings. They do not allow members to solicit any public office, but holding such olfice is allowed, if it come unsolicited. The brethren salute one another with a kiss when they meet, and the sisters salute one another likewise. The church observes certain ordinances of the oil Jewish dispensation, not generally ht!d to in the tenets of other churches, namely that oi f-jet washing and eating 'lamb soup," at stated times, within their churches, where it is prepared. They bring their children up in the paths of sobriety, industry and piety. Of the annual conference it should be said that fully six weeks had been spent by the committees in arranging for the meeting, which is composed of state district representatives and a delegate from each congregation, having a regularly ordained elder, in the following etates, which are now represented here, as follows: Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, California snd also Denmark, Europe. The organization consists of Elder S. S. Möhler of Missouri, moderator ; J. G. Rover of Mt. Morris, 111., writing clerk; John Wise of Kansas, reading clerk, and Enoch Eby of Missouri, door-keeper. The standing committee, which is composed of the state district representatives, has thirty-three members present. The delegates present number nearly three hundred. The state district delegates from Indiana are Amos B. Peters of the North district, J. II. Wright of the Middle district and Lewis W. Teeters of the South district. The following ministers are iu attendance from Indiana : J. W. Metzsrar, Jacob Snell, Daniel Shively, Daniel Wysone. W. R. Deeter, Samuel Leekrone, J. C. Murray, S. S. Ulery, Davis Yonce, Daniel Sneli, R. II. Miller, Noah Fisher, Robert Metzgar, Joseph Sheplar and many others. From the executive committee, composed of Messrs. F. K. Ciine, president ; B. A. Myers, treasurer, and P. S. Thomas, secretary, the accompanying figures give some idea of the vast arrangements hero made, yet wholly insufficient to meet the wants nf the many thousand who are gathered to this Mecca. There are seven larpre buildings temporarily set up, in w hich 100,000 feet of Virginia pine lumber h.is been used. The tabernacle is 100x150 feet, and has a seating capacity of nearly five thousand persons. The dining hall is 50x50 feet. The cooking hall is 48x50 feet, the restaurant is 50x72 feet and the lunch-room 20x140 feet. Within the cooking-hall are three large boilers, in one of which over two thousand two hundred pounds of beef is boiled at one time. The collee boiler has a capacity of about three hundred gallons, and this is kept busy, whilst the other boiler heats about the same number of gallons of water. There has been supplied for this occasion eighteen beeves, averaging over one thousand seven hundred pounds, over seven thousand pounds of bread, 900 pounds country ham, 1,500 pounds butter, 100 gallons" apple butter, 600 dozen eggs, and large quantities of lard, potatoes, prunes, oranges, lemons, peanuts, bananas, sugar, salt, milk, sausage, etc., 200 sets knives and forks, 200 sets plates, 200 sets cups and saucers, and 500 dishes, of from five to nine inches. The grounds are densely dotted with tents, and visitors bunk within these at night, whilst the citizens of the town and surrounding country for miles have every room packed with people. SEATTLE'S BURNT DISTRICT. The Work of Clearing: Away the Ttebria Begun in Karnest. Seattle, W. T., June 12. The work of clearing away the debris in the burnt district began yesterday in earnest. All the contents of the vaults of tbe various banks have been found to be in perfect order. Telegraph, telephone and electric light wires are being rapidly replaced. The telephone system will be in operation in a few days and the electric light in a few weeks. The water works are already in operation. Railroad and steamboat transportation has hardly been interrupted by the conflagration, though considerable inconvenience has been experienced by both in landing passengers. Business houses are finding locatiors in tents and temporary structures. Schools have started up again and all the churches, except the Trinity episcopalian and the roethodist Protestant held services as usual Sunday. The daily newspapers are all issuing as usual. Oilers of aid continue to pour in, together with much money and more provisions. Xo statement of the losses can be made more accurate than that already given. The loss is placed at $15,000,000 and this, it is lelieved, will be found to be a good estimate. Contributions of cash now aggregate SIO.SOO. A Two Legged Colt. SHELBYV1LLK, June 13. Special. A colt was born to-day belonging to Arch Evans, who lives west of here, that is a freak of nature. The colt has but two legs, and those behind. There are no front legs, nor any signs of any, and not even any Bhouldcr bones. The neck commences where the ribs end. It has to be held up to nurse, but will soon learn to balance iUelf. Several hundred people have seen it to-day, and hundreds more will view it tomorrow. What you need is a medicine which is pnre, efficient, reliable. Snch is Hood' crsaparilla. It possesses peculiar curative powers.

DOUBLE TRAGEDY IXKX0X.

A WIFE MURDERED BY HER HUSBAND. Seth Murray, After Killing Hie Ppoose, Commits Suicide With Pruttslc Acid The Details of Two Horrible Crimes Near Vlnceunes.

Vincknxes, Ind., June 12. Special. A horrible murder, culminating in the suicide of tbe murderer, occurred this rnornin? on a farm four miles below the ' : city. Seth Murray, aged fifty -two, and his f wife, aged fifty-four, after partaking of breakfast, indulged in a periodical quarrel to which their five sons and two daughters paid but little attention. After leaving the table the boys went to the fields, and the girls proceeded with their usual household duties. Mrs. Murray went into the smoke-house to ekim milk, and w hen about to emerge therefrom with a crock of lacteal fluid in her hands she was fired upon by her husband, who emptied the contents of ; a single-barreled breech- loading shotgun into her abdomen. The woman reeled and fell prone to the floor, and while in this position the irate husband rushed in and seizing a corn-knife dealt her a terrific . blow, almost severing her head from her body. Tho oldest son, hearing the report of the gun, hastened to the house and ar-' rived just in time to prevent his father from killing his (the son's) wife with th? bloody cudgel he had in his hand. The son and daughter-in-law then carried the lifeless boJy of their mother into the house. While they were thu3 engaged, the murderous father ran a distance of 10".) yards and digging from tbe ground a phial of prussic acid tbat he had secreted ' at the root of a tree, drained its contents. A half hour later a member of the family, hearing his agonizing groans,was attracted . to the epot where the old man lay. Aid was summoned promptly and the husband was conveyed to the house a corpse. The report of the tragedy created the utmost excitement, and the first conclusion was that jealousy prompted it, but the most diligent inquiry failed to disclose any each motive. The coroner's investigation, which was very thorough, did not elicit the least bit of information touching on the direct cause of the dreadful crime. Members of the family and neighbors testified that their father was mentally sound aud had no occasion to be jealous of his wife, also that he had not been drinking. The only satisfactory theory advanced is that he was driven to the deed by rage acquired in the quarrel with his w wife. CALVIN S. BRICE ELECTED

To lie Chairman of the National Demo j cratio Committee Two New Members. New York, June 12. This morning thcorridors of the Fifth-ave. hotel wersr crowded with democratic politicians fromall parts of the country. At noon' the democratic national committer was called to order for the first time since the death of Mr. Barnum. The members of the committee, who have been in town several days, were reinforced last night by a number of others, , while the morning trains brought the number present almost up to the total membership. The busines? of the committee to-day was to take action upon the death of William H. Barnum, its chairman, and the election of his successor. Other business of importance transacted was the seating of two new members of the national committee, onq from Connecticut, in place of Mr. Bar-. num, and one from South Casolina, in place of Col. Dawson, and the election of a member of the executive committee in . place of the latter. Shortly after noon tbe committee was : called to order and Carlo French preEented resolutions expressing regret at tb.9 death of William H. Barnum, eulogizing the deceased as a citizen and etatesman, and for Iiis fidelity, liberality, impartiality, pound judgment, tireless energy and acute penetration into the causes of political results. Senator German spoke at length upoa. tho good qualities of the departed leader and the resolutions were unanimously adopted. Secy, of the Committee S. P. Sberrin of Indiana then madean address on the death of Capt. Francis W. Dawson of South Carolina, in which he paid a high tribute to his worth and memory aud briefly reviewed his lite. He also presented resolutions testifying to regret st his death and th high esteem in which he was held by the . committee of which he was a member. These were also adopted unanimously. The nomination of Calvin S. Brice to b chairman of the committee was then made by Judge Mclltnry of Kentucky and was seconded by Senator Gorman. He was unanimously elected. The other business of the meeting was the acceptance of Carlos French as Connecticut's representative and D. M. Haskell for South Carolina. '011CE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice 1. hereby ciTn tliat the iind-rsirnM bduly qtijilife'i administrator of tb mats of Henry Hüter, bte "f Marion cennty, Tcdisns.deceaMjj. Said estata i urpf'! to he oWent. FBEDtlMKA HILKER, .K6mx. Jamen B. BlacV, Atty. 12-5t , WEAKTO INSTANT RELIEF. i inal our tu io flat t .a er return. Sufferer Iwis tr. firt of youthful error, rarly flernr, lo etaniVxM. etc, 111 lrm of a impi rewri itm 1t a!drKin C. J. MASON, Post Office BuX 3K, Sew Vork. 1 1 "'"'T 7- r i'i 'r, le "hanr of oft.- vtyM of tLj'-AL lULKUrirr riM.s. Prrmaariit rMltWi I WANTED. wonheiiüeyr. Nooanvawi iir or pT-t !i:rw. itiiilTt let;r'" J. (TiHtLASkM. Baac'r, Sil aia tu, " U.tm:. O. Tj II TrUTO Thom P. Simpson, WWtiirtos, r M I i N I ,N P-C. N uy's fe nnttl patent oh1 fill-Ill Vytained. W rite lor Inentr'VuM 2-o-nt samples rr.tt Ui i wha. ri i.' TT,em-Tori.C. We wish few itiea to aell or irnorf-i hr auraple to the whleie and retail trade. Larieet manufacturers in our line. Inclose 2-eotit lump. W ftze! $.1 per day. IVrreAnrnt portion. So po',i answered. M r.ey advanced for wiigea, dtrertisir etc. t-entenniaJ Manuiaoiurirg Co., Cincinnati. O. Adr. 17-31 ,k7 rr to ro a month can be mape workJ I f Inc for u. Amenta preferred ho can furnish e'horss and (de their hole time to the btuiie. hpare moment way be profitably employ d alao. K few varnncie in t-wn ar.d citiea. B. F. Jonn A Co.. 10U9 Main-st., r.iohmor.d. Va. N. B. Lad ie employed also. Never mind a hont aendmr atanp for reply! Come quiet. Youra for bit, B. F. ). Co. AGEXTS WANTED. Ü7fCTO$330A MONTI! CAN BE MADK WORKTyrt 7 I 9 for na. Aient preferred who ran fumlh a hore and rr their whole Urne to the bn1nea. Ppare moment niay be profitably employed a)o. A few earciea In l.im and eltlea. B. F. Johpaon St 0.. looj M'n-M.., Richmond. Na. N. B. Lad tea es ployed elao. Never m!d enoat -dirf attain for reply. Cense quick. Your for b.t, B. F. J. A Ce.