Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1889 — Page 1

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ESTABLISHED 1823. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1889. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR-

THREE IIUNDRED KILLED.

A CARTRIDGE FACTORY BLOWN UP. Terrible Explosion of Dynamit In a Building; Filled With Working-men and Women Three Ilandred Killed and Ofr a Thonund Hart. Antwerp, Sept 6. A terrific explosion of dynamite occurred to-day in a cartridge factory in the vicinity of the bourse. The building was crowded with workmen and women at the time, and the loss of life was awful, the number of persons killed being estimated at 200, and the injured at about five hundred. The building at once took fire, and the flames added their horrors to the disaster. The cartridge factory waa situated behind he docks upon which millions of cartridges ere being loaded. It was adjacent to the etroleum stores and two large Russian petroeum warehouses were set on Sre and are now burning. Other stores are endangered. Police gendarmes and troops are assisting in the work of extinguishing the flames while priests and eisten of charity are looking after the injured. The city is enveloped in a dense smoke. Eighty thousand barrels of oil are burning. The explosion occurred in a workshop where old cartridges were being taken to pieces. Men . and women were actively at work breaking them up, and 25,000,000 had been partly broken up. The fire now covers two acres. The flames shoot up to an immense tight. Amid the roar of the flames there is a continuous succession of loud reports, supposed to be the ignition and explosion of packets of cartridges. Beyond the Kassian tanks and nobles sheds there are numerous houses burning. The shipping at the Africa and America docks is in danger. The loss will be many million francs. It will be impossible to extinguish the flames in less than twenty-four hours. Several vessels have been burned. Owing to the intense heat the firemen are unable to approach the flames nearer than 100 yards. The explosion occurred in the Corvileian cartridge factory. This establishment had been condemned by the common council, but the deputation permanente had allowed work to continue. The victims are mostly factory pirls. Windows three miles distant were shattered by the explosion. Midnight The latest estimate is that there Bre 500 dead and 1.0CO injured. The explosions continue. At the American docks all the ships have been saved owing to the favorable direction of the wind. The stained windows of the cathedral are smashed and it is feared that the steeple will collapse. The whole vicinity is strewn with debris. The dock sheds and hydraulic cranes are greatly damaged. The soldiers of the garrison and a large number of citizens are assisting the firemen. Many are dropping from suffocation. The scenes at the hospitals are heartrending. King Leopold has sent a telegram expressing sympathy and asking for particulars. The jeople are incensed at the deputation permanente for allowing work to continue in the cartridge factory. Astweep. Sept S. The fire which started in the cartrdgic-t0jr-rn Friday has at last t een extinguished. Several more corpses have been found, and the number of the dead will certainly reach 200. King Leopold and the cabinet ministers to-day visited the hospitals where the sufferers by the fire are being cared for. The arrest of M. Corvillan, the proprietor of the cartridge factory, has been ordered. THE ANTWERP DISASTER. One Ilandred and Thirty Whole Corpses Now in the Morgues. Antwerp, Sept. 7. The fire ia etill raging, all efforts of the firemen, assisted by the military and the populace, to quell it having so far proved unavailing. The docks and shipping are untouched by the flames, as the direction of the wind has been toward the town continuously. A judicial inquiry into the origin of the explosion has been ordered. It is now estimated that the number of deaths by yesterday's disaster M ill exceed two hundred. Two hundred and fifty persons were seriously, and three hundred e'.ightly injured. The firemen and troops were worked through the entire night on hourly Fhifts. Many of them succumbed to the heat and cmoke, and had to be conveyed to hospitals, insensible, on stretchers. All the workers have blackened faces and bear evidences of the sickening effects of the den.e smoke which clogged their efforts. "Work h now entirely confined to keep the fire from, spreading beyond the sheds and factories within the dry dock. The wind Etill continues favorable. Six million liters of petroleum are in flames. The oil, it is expected, will continue to burn at least until Monday. At the moment of the explosion many of the workmen jumped into the Scheldt in their fright and were drowned. A nuntar of sailors and custom officers were killed on board ships by the flying bullets and ships were riddled by the missiles. It is estimated that 2,000 tons of cartridges exploded. The noise was heard thirty miles away. The smoke which filled the air was greater in volume than that of a battle. Human heads and other parts of bodies vere found half a mile away from the Ecene of the disaster. One hundred and thirty whole corpses lie in the morgues and charred heaps of human remains represent an unknown number ot dead. The first officer of the Red Star line steamer Zealand was terribly w ounded on board his ship. The populace watched the flames all night. The noise of the exploding barrels of oil and the falling of the ruin? exactly resembled the sounds of a battle. Those who have been deprived of their homes by the fire are encamped upon the river banks. The water works which cost 80,000 are three parts destroyed. Tried to Barn the Town. Lascastes, Fa., Sept. 8. Wrightaville, a Bmall town on the Susquehanna river, opposite Columbia, this county, was a scene of terror last night, the police station and five barns being destroyed by incendiary fires. After the first fire a vigilance committee patroied the place, but failed to prevent the other fires. The last occurred early this morning, at which James Fiester, alias "Reddy" Mcfntire, was seized on suspicion of being the incendiary and locked np in the burning building frcm which, fcowever, he succeeded in escaping. He was afterward arrested on the charge of arson and taken to the York comity ia.il. Mysteriously 9Iissinr. PrrrsBrBG, Pa., Sept 6. O. L. otterson, of the wall paper nrra of Swindell 4 Otterson, Allegheny City, has been missing since Aug. 15. He waa then in New York, where he had gone on business connected with his firm. His friends are now in New York, but are unable to learn anything of hit whereabouts. They suspect foul play. Mr. Otterson was a man of exemplary habits. His accounts are straight with his firm.

THE BRAZIL CONFERENCE. Adjournment After Making; the Usual Ap. pointuients for the Year. Bbazil, Sept. 9. Special. J To-day closed the Northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist church, Bishop Hurst of New York presiding. After a hot debate on high license the following appointments were made: Crawfordsville District II. M. Middleton, presiding elder; Crawfordsville, II. C. Weston; Clearmont, J. E. McDaniel; Covington, W. F. Swetzer; Crawfordsville circuit, R. Johnson; Danville, D. M. Wood ; Darlington and Potato Creek to be supplied; Hawville, C. N. Stockbarger; Ilillsboro and Waynetown supplied; Jamestown and North Salem, D. A. Rogers; Ladoga, C. A. Lawhorn; Mace, B. F. Ivey; Marshall, supplied; New Richmond, supplied; Newton, II, IL Dunlavey; Perryville, W. A. Smith; Pittsboro, C. B. Mock; Rockviile, J. G. Campbell; Itussell ville, I A. Buckles; Shawnee Mound, II. A. Tucker; Waveland, IL I Kindig; Yountzville, J. W. Lober; Crawfordsville, G. W. Gwitzer; Veedersburg, 11. Ross. Frankfort District J. A. Clearwater, presiding elder; Greencastle, II. O. Binghurst, S. W. Hayes; Darlington, W. II. Broomfield; Camden, T. E. Webb; Colfax, S. B. Grimes; Dayton and Mulberry, F. J Pavey; Delphi, J. A. Maxwell; Frankfort, W. B. Smutz; Kirkland, G. F. Kramer; Lebanon, W. P. McKinzey; Lebanon circuit supplied; Logansport circuit, G. G. Vaught; Micheltown supplied; Pittsboro, N. V. Brown; Romney, J. S. Wright; Rosstown, to be supplied; Rossville, J. 1. Martin; Stockwell, Samuel Godfrey; Thorntown, J. M. Stafford; Whitestown, J. C. Reeve; Zionsville, G. W. Bower. Greencastle District A. A. Gees, presiding elder. Greencastle, postofSce; Annapolis and Montezuma, O. B. Rippetoe; Bainbridge, supplied; Bellmore, II. L. Grimes; Brazil, Hendrix chapel, A. Lewis; Brazil French mission, L. Leveque; Carbon, J. II. Strain; C'arpentersville and Maysville, supplied; Clinton, David Ilendley; Coatsvillc, G. A. Bond: Fillmore, supplied; Greencastle, M. M. Parkhurst; Harmony, supplied; Ilarveysbure, supplied; Knightsvilie, L.P. Murlin; Morton, supplied; Newport, F. W. Gee; Plainfield, J. W. Carson; Sanford. C. Boyse: Staunton, E. C. Alford; Summit Grove, Thomas Meredith; Terre Haute, Ashury, I. Dale; Centenary, S. B. Town; Terre Haute circuit, T. J. Baseett, professor DePauw university. Lafayette District J. H. Cissel, presiding elder. Lafayette postoffiee; Ambia, W. B. Alford; Attica, II. N. Ogden; Rattle Ground, N. F. Jenkins; Boswell, W. E. McKenzie; Brookston, C. L, Harper; Fowler, O. C. Haskell; Goodland. .1. II. Claypool; Kentland, W. R. Clark; Lafavette, Congress-st., V. N. Dunn; Ninth-st., A.'W. Wood; Trinity, Frost Craft; West Lafayette, E. V. Claypool; Lafayette circuit, J. II. Worrell; Montruorenci, J. J. Claypool; O.Jard, supplied; Fine Village, E. M. Punkelbarger; Shadeland, S. S. Smith; State Line, William Hunt; West Lebanon, J. C. Kemp; Williamsport, J. T. Abbett; J. A. Totter, chaplain U. S. army. Laporte District Samuel Beck, presiding elder, South Bend postolfice; Argos, B. II. Beals Door Village, R. II. Landers; Kewanna, J. W. Schell; Laporte, S. P. Colvin: Laporte circuit district, A. Grime; Michigan City, J. W. Harris; Mariuont, supplied; New Carlisle, W. E. McLelan; North Judson, W. Goss; North Liberty, W. B. Warren; Plymouth, G. It. Streeter; Rochester, J. II. Wilson; Rolling Prairie, X. E. Tinkham; South Bend, First church, J. H, Hollingsworth; Grtce church, W. R. Mikels; Memorial, E. A. Shell; South Bend circuit, Clark Skinner; Union Mills, A. P. Bennett; WalKerton, W. A. Matthews; Westville, R. D. Utter; Winnamac and Bar Citv. J. S. White. Valparaiso District J. L. Smith, presiding elder, Valparaiso P. O.; Brook, J. Greenway"; Buruettsville, Jv Fo;cmjrt;Clu.te,rton, V. Hall; Crovrn PoinCTi" Tillotson; East Chicago, supplied; Hammond, L. Edmonson; Hebron, J. B. Smith; Lowell, J. J. Thompson; Medaryville, T. D. Moore; Monon, J. N. Harmon; Monticello, C. A. Brook; Morocco, F. Cox; Remington, supplied; Rensselaer, T. F. Drake; Rennsselaer circuit, IL M. Simmons; Rose lavn, supplied; Royal Center, J. B. Sites; Valparaiso, R. S. Martin; Valparaiso circuit, A. M. Varden; Wheeler, F. M. Ilemmingway; Walcott, J. D. Stafford. HOSTILITIES WILL NOW CEASE.

The Probable Knd of the Hatfield. McCoy Feud Sentenced For Life. Pi.neville, Ky.. Sept. 5 The trial of Wall Hatfield has been concluded. The jury found him guilty of being accessory to the act of murdering the three McCoys Tolbert aged thirty-eight years; Randall, nineteen, and Farmer, fourteen. Alexander Musser confessed to the murder of Farmer, the youngest, and both were sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Their trials are the result of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, which hascaused so much terror on the line of Kentucky and West Virginia during the past two or three years. It would be difficult to ascertain just how many lives have been sacrificed in this famous vendetta. Indeed, it is doubtful if anybody knows. The bloody doings of the two trihes first began to be made public the latter part of 1887, and since then scarcely a month has passed without news concerning the feud. There have been several trials but few convictions. Now that most of the murderous gangs on both sides are dead or in prison there is likely to be a cessation of hostilities until another generation comes on. SUNSET COX DYING. A SeTere Attack of Pneumonia Seriously Threaten the Congressman's Life. New York, Sept. 9. An eveningpapersays: "Congressman Sam Sullivan Cox is dying at his home. No. 13 E. Twelfth-st Four days ago he was confined to his bed by an attack of what he supposed to be malarial fever. This rapidly developed into acute pneumonia, which has defied the best medical skill. Yesterday his physicians gave up all hope and announceo that the days of the statesman-humorist could be numbered on the fingers of one hand. Congressman Cox was to have lectured on his visit to Yellowstone park before the Sleekier association to-morrow night." At 3 o'clock this afternoon Mr. Cox was reported as being very low. A conference has been held by his physicians. Messrs. Ixckwood, Skidder, Wynloop, and Sauer of Washington. The result of the conference showed that while Mr. Cox is very low there is no immediate danger. At 10 o'clock to-night Mr. Cox's condition was apparently unchanged. His doctors say the next twelve hours will decide whether he will recover or not. FIVE KILLED. Terrible Ilesnltsof the. Kxploslon of an 1111. not Boiler. CAPvßOXDALE, Ill.,J5ept 9. A boiler on the farm of John "W. Snider, east of this city, exploded. Five aen lost their lives, namely: JOHN W. SNIDER. THOMAS LYGET. ANDREW J. LYGET. JOHN BIGGS. ISAAC MILLER (colored). William G. Spiller had a Jeg broken. All the men except Lygethave families and all resided in this city. A Kavlsher Hanged. St. Loci, Sept. 3. A mob of armed white men surrounded the jail at Columbia, Mo., early yesterday morning, overpowered Sheriff Evans, and took from his cell, George Bush, a negro seventeen years old, charged with outraging a little white girl of five years, and hanged him from one of the windows of the court house. lrownd In the Mine. GOLD EX, CoL, Sept. 9. The White Ash mine was flooded to-day. Ten miners are known to have been lost, but their names can not be learned, except: MR. ALLEN, JOHN MURPHY, JACK MORGAN. LaFoIIette's Last Circular. Columbus Herald. An interesting question is: Who pays the postage?

CR0NLYS SLAYERS FREED

BECAUSE OF OFFICIAL STUPIDITY. A Lake View Policeman Had Them Under Arrest, ilut the Captain Let Them Go Lawyer Forrest's Desperate Trick A Jury May lie Secured. Chicago, Sept. 9. It seems that although a great deal of matter has been published about the Cronm murder, the true story of the discovery of evidence at the Carlson cottage has never been told until now. It is also singular that the reporters who were working on the case never discovered that on the night of May 7, three days after Dr. Cronin was killed, two men, now supposed to have been Kunze and Cooney, were arrested and taken to the Lake View 6tation and discharged in the morning by Capt King. A local paper stated recently that there was a certain Irish officer upon the Lake View police force who was suspected of direct implication in the murder of Cronin. Other such totaterients were printed by the same paper in later issues. Finally the officer determined to tell his story, which is now made public for the first time. Officer Isaac Robinson has been on the Lake View force for several years, and has always borne a good reputation. He is an Irishman by parentage, but is not a member of any Irish secret society, Robinson had the beat in which the cottage was located, and it was his duty to patrol Ashland-ave. and the intersecting streets for several blocks north and south of the Carlson house. At different times before the murder Robinson noticed men going in and out of the cottage and noticed lights within it. He thought the cottage was not occupied and asked Carlson who the men were that went into it and why the lights were lighted. Carlson told him that he had rented the place to two men who sometimes slept in the cottage and who expected 6oon to move in their furniture and commence housekeeping. On the night of May 6 Robinson saw a man crawling out of the basement of the cottage and accosted him. Robinson has never seen Burke, but he believes that Burke was the man who talked with him that evening. He said that he and his brother were renting the cottage and that he had been in the basement simply to see if there was not a good place there to store some old furniture. Robinson was not satisfied with the explanation, but he did not think he was warranted in arresting the man. At 9 o'clock the next nicht, May 7, Robinson turned the corner on ltoseoe-st and came upon two men who were talking together in the shadow of a little real estate office 100 feet south of the Carlson cottage. They had the door of the office open and were talking about hiding something under the floor. Robinson decided to make an effort to discover who they were and what they were doing there. One of them, who was shorter than the other, spoke in broken English, with a German accent, and said that they had lost their way and wanted to get down town. He said that they were painters, and lived on the west-side. Robinson asked them why they were standing and talking on the corner if they wanted to get down town, and why they did not ask some one in the neighborhood and find out the way. The tall man, with a dark mustache, who spoke with an Irish accent, answered evasively, and Robinson determined to arrest them. Just as he started for the patrol box a man ran across from the direction of P. O'Sullivan's barn and asked what Robinson was going to do with the men. Robinson recognized this third person as the man he had seen crawling from the basement of the Carlson cottatre, and told him he was going to take them to the station-house, and if the stranger said much would take him along. The man said no more when he saw tire officer recognized him. Robinson went to the station with the two men and they were questioned by Capt. Wing. They gave their names and supposed addresses and repeated the story they had previously told to Robinson. No charges were entered against them on the books, consequently the officer does not remember the names they gave. They were taken down stairs, kept in custody until morning and then released by Capt. Wing's orders. "What's the use of sending them to the Bridewell to cost the city of Lake View 25 cents a day," said Capt. M'ing to Robinson. The two men thus discharged, it is now believed by Officer Robinson, were Kunze and Cooney. Their description answers that of the two suspects very closely. At the time of their arrest it was not believed that Dr. Cronin had been murdered, it being supposed he had left the city of his own accord. Two nights later Robinson says he saw one of the men he had arrested coming out of the cottage after inidnighL He did not accost him, because he considered he had been rebuked by Capt. Wing when he discharged the prisoners. Robinson talked with the neighbors about the goings on in the cottage, and concluded that there must have been a crime committed there. lie told Carlson of his suspicions, and young Carlson went into the cottage and found the blood stains. The thought that Cronin had probably been killed in the place suggested itself to Robinson and he told Capt. Wing of his suspicions. Capt. Wing listened to his story, but did nothing. Robinson learned more about the strange occupants in the cottage, and again spoKe to the captain. Three times in succession the officer claims to have told Wing of his belief that Cronin was killed in the cottage, but nothing was done until the week after Cronin's body was found. Lieut. Scheuttler was sent from the Larrabee-st. station to Lake View, and, while talking with Capt. Wing, learned of Officer Robinson's suspicions. Schuettler went to the cottage and examined the blod stains and satisfied himself that the murder had been committed there. Robinson has not yet been summoned as a witness by the state. SMOOTH MR. FORREST. He Steals the Blood-Stained Planks of the Carlson Cottage. Chicago, Sept. 9. A sensational affair in connection with the Cronin trial occurred this evening in the noted Carlson cottage. About 5 o'clock Mr. Forrest, one of the attorneys for the defendants, drove up to the cottage accompanied by three other men, and after paying the usual admission fee, entered with his companions. The only inmates of the cottage at the time were Mr. and Mrs. Lingren, the son-in-law and daughter of the old Carlson couple. They showed the visitors about the interior, griring the customary description of the supposed incidents of the fatal night of May 4, and pointing out the blood stains on the floor and walls which are inclosed by & railing to keep relic-hunters away. Lawyer Forrest asked Lingren to show him where O'Sullivan, the ice man, resided, and Lingren accommodatingly took him to a window in the end of the house and described the locality. While the pair were thus engaged Forrest's companions jumped over the railing, and with 6harp tools rapidly cut out such portions of the flooring and walls as they wanted. Lingren turned and saw them, and after endeavoring in vain to make them desist, shouted for aid. Old man Carlson came rushing in with a cocked revolver, but Forrest's companions were tire parr d for such a contingency, aod disarmed the old man. The party theo entered their carriages and drove back to the ciiy with the blood-stained boards, presumably for use as an exhibit ia the trial. . Duelists In Hock. Salem, Ala., Sept 9. The Hon. W. A. Huff, would-be duslist, and his friend, Capt Roff Sims of Macon, were arrested this afternoon. The two were taken to Opelika. Huff was placed under $10.000 bond to keep the peace, and Sims under $2,500. Both are still in the custody of officers. Rattcrson, the other duelist, is still in hiding.

THE BEEF COMBINE.

Kansas Cattle Raisers Relate Their Experience. Kansas City, ScpL 9. Before the senatorial dressed beef commission to-day ex-Gov. Glick of Kansas testified that the prices of cattle had depreciated 40 per cenL in thirty years, the cause being the establishment in Kansas City of a great packing intv?ret, which had developed first a great competition among the sellers of cattle, and afterward a combination among the packers, which was sa powerful that its members could buy the cattle at their own prices. He said: "I have shipped cattle to Kansas City and have placed them on the market here at the market price. The packers' buyers protested that the price was too high, and assured me that if I did not want to sell at their price I could reship my cattle and send them to Chicago. I did that several times and found each time that the Armour-Morris-Swift combination controlled that end of the route too. I was forced in the end to sell at their prices." The effect of the depreciation in the prices had been to drive many cattle-raisers of Kansas out of the business altogether. The packers also controlled rates on the railroads to an extent, and the packers of Kansas City had almost ruined the butchers of Atchison, and would have done so entirely had not the city council passed and enforced a city ordinance requiring the inspection of beef on the hoof. Witne?ses said there were many buyers on the Kansas City market, but they were afraid for their lives almost They were practically controlled by the combine. This combination had lowered the price of cattle. Chicago controls the markets of the country. According to witnesses, the railroads discriminate heavily in favor of the packers. The price of beef to the consumer remains as high as ever. A. J. Morris of the packing firm of Morris, Butts t Co. was sworn. His testimony was given very reluctantly, and his answers were given only after deep and long consideration. Several times Senator Vest was obliged to put on the thumb-screws to call forth any response to 6ome of his questions. He asserted that the dressed beef business was going to the dogs quite as fast as the cattle business. There was too much competition. None of the packers were making money. Senator Vest contradicted this statement with a clipping f.-ora a Chicago paper, in which the reporter showed that the profit on each head of cattle handled by a packer netted him a profit of $12. Mr. Morris sneered at the statement There was nothing like that amount of profit in the packing business now. The reporter did not know what he was talking about. "We're losing money," he said. "What makes vou stay in the business, then?" asked Mr. Vest. "Pride and the hope of better times." "Are not the packers attempting to drive slaughtering butchers out of the business?" inquired Mr. Piumb. Tha witness replied reluctantly, but was at last forced to admit that his customers had received threatening letters from one of the packers in the combine. The witness had seen the letter, but did not have it with him at the time. The witness' firm was not in the combination. They themselves had received threatening letters, but they did not fritjhten them at all. The witness had no personal knowledge of a combination between Armour, Swift, Morris and Hammond by which the territory east of the Mississippi was divided between them in such a manner that neither would encroach on the territory of the others. The prices of dressed meats were fixed, he thought, by the individual firms each in his own territory. Gov. Glick also said that there were no adequate sanitary regulations at the Kansas City yards. He thought congress should stamp out Texas fever. Senator Vest said that was just what congress would da. Senator Coke said it shouldn't be called Texas fever, for it was as prevalent in other sections as in Texas, Numerous witnesses gave their experience on the Chicago market Tbey found that there was no eonyietition between buyers, and that when once they refused a bid for stock that was the last they would see of buyers until the shippers were ready to sell at a lower figure than had been first offered. The unanimous opinion of witnesses was that a combine exists among the packers. MINERS HOLD OUT. They Refuse to Accept the Starvation Wages Offered. SrniKG Valley, 111., Sept 9. The miners held a mass-meeting to-day and declined to accept Mr. Scott's ofier of a fifteencent reduction, which, they say, with the terms proposed, is really a reduction of 55 cents a ton. Resolutions were adopted denouncing Mr. Scott's proposition as both unjust and unreasonable, as the men could not make a bare susistence on the terms ollered, and declaring that it had not been sufficiently demonstrated that there is any reason or necessity for such reduction. The resolutions declare that the men are ready and willing to resume work on the same terms as have been accepted by the Streator miners a reduction of 1)4 cents a ton, with the same conditions as last year, the operators charging nothing for house rent during the lockout and furnishing coal to miners at cott Resolutions were also drafted' to be presented to the governor, inviting him to make a personal investigation, and setting forth that the Spring Valley company, after having induced men to come here and buy property and securing the payment of the same by mortgage, and also ottering inducements to merchants to come here after getting the mines fairly developed, had shut down indefinitely, leaving the miners and others who ; had invested here in a state of bankruptcy; also appealing for aid and asking that a portion of the emergency fund be given to the suffering people here and requesting that a special session of the legislature be called. The miners appointed a committee to notify the officials here, but were told by the general manager that no committee or organization would be dealt with, and that the men would have to come to him personally. BURNED IN A RAG HOUSE. Girls and "Women Have a Frightful Experience in Albany. Albany, N. Y., Sept 9. P. J. McArdle's rag warehouse burned. So quickly did the fire spread that the employes, consisting of some fourteen women and girls at work in the sorting room, and ten men and boys in the office or about the building, were forced to jump for their lives. Carrie Swartz, who weighs over 200 pounds, crashed through an outhouse roof, breaking her arm, several ribs and sustaining internal injuries. Mrs. Mack jumped from the fourth story, seventy feet and fell upon a pile of "scrap iron. Her condition is critical. Richard Gamble, a bookkeeper, fell through the shaft and was badly cut and bruised, but the inhalation of the flames caused his death. Mrs. Ellen Frafik, who jumped from the fourth floor, and Mrs. Ellen McShane, who fell through the elevator shaft, sustained fractured limbs and nevere. bruises, but not necessarily fatal injuries. Several others received severe injuries. Loss about $80,000; insured. Of Interest to Ient Soldiers. An Associated Press telegram from Washington the other Jay said that "arrangements have finally been completed whereby the surgeon-general can furnisn free the sound discs invented by II. A. Wales of Bridgeport, Conn., to those who are receiving pensions for deafness or are still in the army. In regard to the above Capt Wallace Foster of this city, secretary acd treasurer of the silent army of the deaf Aoldiers, sailors and marine, wrote to the surgeon-general. He received a reply from which the following is taken: Wales' sound discs are of use only when there Is a perf ration of the drum of the ear, and probably not ono in tbousan 1 cues of deafness la pensioners (i. e. old cases ot deafness) would be benefited by them. No benefit has been derived from the d'scs in any one case In which they hats been furnished from this otfice, ao4 to !t them any further trial in the face of our knowledge of their mode of sction and of the conditions existinfln thtears of men who have beeu deaf for a quarter of a centarv, would be not only uelem, but inadvisable as tending to suggest a hope of hearing which would end assuredly in diappolotiuent Unfortunately an item was published in the press Uptchf stating that arrangements bad been made by tbisoffic to furnish Wales' discs to all deal pensioners. 'o such arrangement has been made, for, as already stated, these discs are of no value in the class of cases to which our pensioners belong.

DIED TO SAVE HER HONOR.

ANOTHER HORROR IN NEW JERSEY. Annie Leconey Foully Assnulted and Her Throat Cut From Kar to Ear Robbery Added to Murder Miscellaneous Crimes of a Day. Camdex, N. J., Sept. 9. A most brutal and horrible murder was committed this morning, at Leconey's mill on the old church road, two miles beyond Merchantville. Annie Elizabeth Leconey, the twenty-eight-year-old niece and house-keeper of Chalkley Deconey, the miller, bad her throat cut from ear to ear by a brute who first attempted to outrage her, and who, after the murder, added robbery to his more fiendish crime. At an early hour this morning, the occupants of the house arose, and Annie Leconey prepared breakfast for her uncle and a colored farm hand, named Garrett Murray. They ate about 6 o'clock, and went out in the fields to gather melons to take to market The niece remained alone in the house, waiting for another colored farm hand, Frank Lingo, to come to breakfast This Frank Lingo, who is suspected of the murder, is a man about fifty years of age. He had worked on the farm as a day laborer at irregular intervals since last June, and was engaged by Leconey to help gather the truck to-day. The miller worked busily in the field with Murray until after 7 o'clock and wondered why Lingo did not put in an appearance. Shortly after 7 o'clock Lizzie O'Donnell, a girl residing on a neighboring farm, came running down into the field with horror depicted upon her face and cried: "Oh, Mr. Leconey, come up to the house quick. Annie has been murdered. I saw her on the floor with her throat cut" The miller ran up to the house followed by Murray. On the way the O'Donnell girl told him she had gone to the house and, opening the door, was horror-stricken at seeing Annie lying on the floor with a stream of blood running from a gash in her throat. Uy the time the miller reached the house his neighbor, William Larring, who had also been alarmed by the girl, was there. The sight that met their gaze in the dining-room was a most horrible one. Lying on her back on the floor between an old fashioned settee and the stove was Annie Leconey, her head resting on the cushion of the settee, which had suddenly been dragged olf onto the floor during a struggle. Her thront was cut literally from ear to ear and by the side of her head was a keen-edged butcherknife with a sharp point and a blade seven inches long, with which the foul crime had evidently been committed. The cushion on which the girl's head had lain and the carpet were soaked with blood. The life fluid had soaked through the floor seams and trickled down in a little pool on the cellar floor. It was evident that there had been a desperate struggle. Miss Leconey's clothing was nearly torn off. The attempts of the brute to felononsly assault her and her struggles against this probably caused him to take her life. Aft committing the crime the man went up stairs and ransacked the bed-rooms for money. From Mr. Leconey's room a pasteboard box containing $200 in bills was taken. Underneath the box was a wallet containing $240 and two bars of silver and currency, but these were not disturbed. The murdered girl had all her savings, amounting to $42G, in a trunk in Mr. Leconey's room, but the trunk was not unlocked and the money was found intact Lingo was arrested this afternoon while at work on the Ham farm, about a mile from the scene of the murder. He made no resistance. Upon arrival at the Leconey residence he was searched, but nothing of a criminating character was found on him. He is married and has a family. He is known to have left his home at 5 o'clock this morning to go to work on the Harn farm. He arrived at the farm at 6:15 o'clock and had not left there until the time of his arrest Detective Burr is of the opinion that Lingo is not the guilty party. The murdered girl was of a pleasant disposition, of exemplary habits, and very popular among her neighbors. Her parents resided at Waverly, O., and her body will be sent there for burial. She acted a housekeeper for her uncle, Henry Leconey, who ran the mills, until his death early last spring. lie left an estate said to bft worth ;?2r,U00, and his niece had a claim against it for seven years' service as housekeeper. It is said that Charley Leconey disputed this claim of his niece on the estate, but so far as known they never had a quarrel. LONDON'S GREAT STRIKE. The Strikers Refuse to Accept the Terms Offered Jty the Dock Companies. London, Sept. 8. The lord mayor of London, Bishop Temple and Cardinal Manning have written a joint letter in which they recount the negotiations conducted by them with the dock companies with a view to the settlement of the strike. Tbey expressed surprise at the strikers' repudiation of the terms agreed to by the dock companies, and declare their opinion that if the men continue the strike they will forfeit the sympathy hitherto accorded them. The strikers held another large meeting in Hyde park to-day. The proceedings were orderly. Mr. Burns in a speech declared it was a mistake to suppose that he had agreed to the proposal of the arbitrators. He invited tho strikers to declare whether or or not they would accept the proposal. A loud shout of "No" went up from the crowd. Mr. Burns, continuing, said the strike committee were pre(ared to hold out for three weeks more, but le believed the directors of the dock companies would concede the strikers' terms before another week had passed. Mr. 'fillet visited the lord mayor this evening and proposed new terras to commence in October. The lord mayor demurred, but promised to use his best endeavors to persuade the dock directors to agree to the terms. It is probable that a compromise will soon be arranged on the basis of increased wagea beginning in November. "tho Strikers Gaming Ground. LOND05, Sept 9. The directors of the dock companies refuse to depart from the terms offered by them to the strikers. On the other hand, however, additional wharfingers to-day signified their willingness to grant the demand of the men 6 pence an hour. The fund for the benefit of the striking workmen was augmented bv tubscriptions amounting to 1,500. The leaders of the strike conferred with Cardinal Manning this morning. Work has been resumed at thirty-three wharves. The men received the advance in wages proposed by Mr. Lafone. JJtintti of lr. Ilenrr Jl.nlnger. New York, f-ept. 8. Dr. Henry Meningcr died at his residence in Brooklyn to-day after a brief illness that was directly traceable to wounds during the late war. Henry Menineer was born in In Germany, fr.'tu which place his father had to fly for politicl o flenses, with Tarl Schurz and ticn. Franz fclgel. Henry served in the war oi the rebellion! n tne ranks, and was correspondent of the New York Jhvne. In lSi5 he was editor and publisher of the Newberne (N. C.) Rrpnblimn, the first republican fnperpublUhel in the Southern Atlantic states. was later e!ect"d secretay of stat? of North Carolina on the republican ticket. ince his return to Brooklyn he had been an alderman aod oroner. He belonged to the O. A. R., the array of the rotomac and the military order of the loyal lesion,) Nearly Kosittd to Death. Maxistee, Mich., Sept 8. The barge cf Charles Eeitz caught fire yesterday afternoon near Point bauble from sparks in hay on her deck. The fire consumed considerable bay, besides burning portions of the vessel and her sails. The alarm started two men frbm their sleeping berths in the forecastle. They rushed up stairs, and finding the hay near the door ablaze, the first man passed through with slight injuries. John Newmeyer, a deck hand, attempted to follow, but being barefooted, fell into the flames and was almost roasted. Twothirds of his body ic seriously burned, besides bis feet, hands and face. . The physicians have no hopes of his recovery.

TO HEtP LABOR'S CAUSE.

The State Federation of Trades Holds Its Fifth Annnikl Convention. The fifth annual convention of the State federation of trades met Wednesday in Workingmen's hall on II Washington-st President Levy called the body to order at 10 o'clock, there being delegates present from New Albany. Connersville, Itushville, Muncie, Lafayette, Evansville, Richmond, Logansport, South Bend and Fort Wayne, besides those from eighteen local unions. The first business was the appointing of a committee on credentials, consisting of Messrs. J. N. Winters, T. M. Gruelle and O. II. Stivers. After this had been done a recess was taken until 1:30 o'clock that the committee might have an opportunity to report On re-assembling the report of the committee was read and adopted. Among its recommendations was one that the delegates from I). A. 100 be refused admittance because of the action of that assembly in supporting V. J. Keileher in his war on the early closing movement Committees on finance resolutions and state of the order were next appointed. The address of President Levy was interesting. He reviewed the work of legislation accomplished during the past year, giving a brief description of the growth of the organization. He spoke of the benefits to be derived from the centralization of the laboring classes in order to give moral and financial aid to brethren in distress. The past year, Mr. Levy said, the organization has been carried on more strictly on a trades union basis than ever before. The results are flattering and members should feel gratified at the lavorabie progress. The report of ,secy. Hannigan consisted largely in suggestions for the building up of the order. Speaking of the past year he said that twenty new unions, representing various crafts, in various of the larger cities throughout the siate had been organized and nor the organization is composed of sixty unions. Mr. Gruelle's report, from the committee on legislation, was incomplete and the committee was granted further time to complete it. Resolutions were adopted as follows: Continuing the Labor Signal as the official organ; encouraging the early closing movement; indorsing nnion labels; condemning Mr. Snyder of Connersville for running a "rat" cigar lactory. A resolution indorsing the nationalists was read but no action was taken. The secretary was instructed to celect men to prepare and read papers on all labor questions at the next meetin; of the federation. Resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy for the Clay county miners; indorsing the new school book law as a move ia the right direction, and advocating its amendment in order that school books may be furnished free; indorsing the election lew of the last legislature; expressing sympathy with the Loudon strikers. The report of the committee on the state of the organization showed organized labor throughout the state to be in a very satisfactory condition. The finance committee reported the total receipts for the past year ?120.93; expenditures, $.119; balance, 27.74. The eight-hour law was indorsed, as was also the law giving the government ownership of railroads and telegraph. A committee on platform to form a plan for discussion in the subordinate lodges was appointed as follows: Messrs. J. T. White, M. T. Farn ham, William Langstaff, W. J. Smith and J. N. Winters. The officer of chief organizer was created, he being given the power to appoint deputies. The following are the new oßicers: President Emil Levy of Evansville; chief organizer, T. M. Gruelle; secretary-treasurer, John Han. nigan, Lafayette. Vice-presidenhs First district, Andrew Zeber; Second, Martin Cahill; Third, Alonzo W. Horning; Sixth, C. II. Stickley; Seventh, JobnR. Pankin; Lighth, Charles Smith; Ninth, Charles J. Wilson; Tenth, George Parrish; Eleventh. Samuel M.Bell; Twelfth, Lewis Gritiith; Thirteenth, J. F. Suchaneck. The next annual meeting of the federation will be held here Tuesday, Sept Id, 1S00. SOUTH DAKOTA DEMOCRATS Nominate Candidates For State Offices Conventions Flsewhere. Hcron, S. Dak., Sept. 5. At 1 o'clock this morning the democratic state convention adopted a platform indorsing and upholding tariff reform; congratulating the people on statehood; opposing constitutional prohibition; sympathizing with labor organizations and pledging assistance to them; favoring minority representation and arraignine Dakota republicans for extravagance and mismanagement in territorial a flairs. This morning the convention made the following nominations: (iovernor, E. P. McClure; lieutenant-governor, A. W. Pratt; secretary of state. Otto P. Miller; auditor, J. 11 Horton; treasurer, A. D. Hill; attorney-general, II. Fellows; superintendent of public instruction, G. H. McFarlane; commissioner of public and school lands, II. S. Volkmar; supreme judges, S. U. Buskirk, C. H. Winson and D. Mcl-aughiin; congressmen, L. O. Jewries and S. M. Booth. New York Prohibitionists. Sybaccse, N. Y., Sept 5. The prohibition state convention to-day nominated the following ticket: Secretary of state, Jesse II. Griffin; comptroller, Mr. Rand of Lonawand; treasuer, J. . Bruce; attorney general, C. A. Hart; state engineer and surveyor. A. J. Kenyon; judge of the court of appeals, W. J. Farrington. Terrltorlnl Nominations. Walla Wlla, W. T., Sept 5. The republican territorial convention yesterday nominated ex-Gov. E. P. Ferry of Seattle for povcrnorand John L. Wilson for congress. The platform adopted devotes itself to denouncing the democracy and tariff reform. WHEN WILL THE TRAIN ARRIVE! The nailroad Companies Cannot He Compelled to Maintain llulletin Hoards. Judge Briggs of the Green county circuit court decided Monday that penalties cannot be enforced against 'railroad companies for failure to post a blackboard at each depot showing the arrival and departure of trains, if they are on time, and if not how late they are. A state law provides a penalty of J2j for each ollense. The liig Four has been lined $43,10 for failure to observe the law, and the Pennsylvania company $4,000. The latter resisted payment, and secured a judgment in its favor. FAT OFFICES DISTRIBUTED. President n&rrison Makes the Custom House Appointments. Washington, Sept 9. The president tonight made the following appointments: George W. Lyon of New York City to be surveyor of customs for the port of New York. Theodore B. Willis of Brooklyn to be naval officer of customs in the district of New York. Ernst Nathan, to be collector of internal revenue for the First district of New York. Hanged Himself. ArnoitA, III., Sept 5. Dr. David Tilton Brown, a wealthy retired farmer, hanged himself in his barn, near Datavia. last night Dr. Brown was at one time chief of the famous Bloomingdale insane asylum of New York and was regarded as an authority on the treatment of insanity In 1875 he himself became insane and went to Europe for treatment where it was supposed he died in an Edinburgh, asylum. During all this time, however, he has been living in comparative seclusion on his beautiful farm near Batavia. lie was no doubt suffering from insanity when he hanged himself. HI ew Vp the Offloe. Pcblik, Sept 8. A bomb was exploded on Smith Barry's estate to-day, demolishing the offices and destroying all the private papers and important documents. Four of Barry's tenants, who have been boycotted for paying rent contrary to compact to-day, expressed contrition at a publio meeting and oSered large compensation, but the meeting refused to remove the boycott, ,

SORE OX 3IR. B. HARRISON.

MANY REPUBLICANS DISCONTENTED. Hun g;ry Office-seekers Severely Denoune ing the Administration For Its SlownessReducing the Surplus by Bnj lag Uish-Friced Honds. Washington, Sept 7. Special The last days of August in Washington were med by the republicans in the district in holding meet ings denouncing the administration. The Associated Press doubtless gave full information, end it is hardly necessary to repeat what has already been told. It is enough to say that the republicans assembled at the two meetings gave themselves the name of "shoats" "lean, hungry shoats," said one. It is too bad after six months of broken pledges and reckless violation of the civil service law that the "lesn and hungry" were obliged to meet in a publio hall and air their grievances. To think that an administration that bought its way into power should be the subject of such fierce denunciations on the part of its friends. It is ever thus. An administration that commences its official existence by violating the cardinal principles upon which it rode into power always tumbles ignorniniously into the ditch. However, the two meetings held by republican malcontents is one of the least of the enibarassaienis of the party ia power. It is well known that Blaine, in his canvas, denounced the policy of Secy. Fairchild in loaning money to the banks, although he knew to withdraw the deposits would create a financial disaster, yet now his own party being six months in office have incrf-aed the deposits in the banks rather thau diminished them. Secy. Fairchild did the best he could to keep money afloat all the time, exhorting conirress to reduce the taxes. Secy. Windom pursues the same policy with regard to loaning money to banks, but wants the taxes made higher and the burdens upon both more oppressive. The policy, in other words, of the last administration was to loan the money as a temporary makeshift, and as soon as possible reduce the taxes to a revenue fctandard and permanently relieve the people, while the policy of the present administration is to make the loan to the banks perpetual and make the taxes still higher and give no relief to the people. The action of Secy. Windom so far has been to make rulings that makes the tariff higher on worsteds, and when the surplus gets too big and a money panic is threatened buy the bonds at a high premium, thus robbing the people by refusing to give them lower taies. and enriching men who own bonds far beyond what they contracted to receive. It may be said Fairchild did the same thing! True he did buy bonds, but while he was thus letting the money out, as stated above, he was supporting a policy that would reduce the surplus by leaving the uocey in the pockets of the men who earn it. That is the diil'erence between the two parties. It is also true that Harrison's administration six months old one-eighth of it gone witnesses duller times and more big failures than has been seen in the country in the same length, of time for many a day. Here in Washington the locking up policy is severely felt Ask a republican business man on F-st one who does not want, or expect an office what he thinks of the good a republican administration has been for the city, and you will speedily learn that wide mouth of the 4th of last March has been changed to a mournful pucker, as he looks at the small returns of a day's sales. If such are the results in a city where 10, OuO office-holders are paid twice a month, what is it in other cities where government money is not disbursed? In six months, when universal prosperity was promised, big wages and good homes to bs given to the wage-earner i, the failures are innumerable, and the starving miners of Illinois and Indiana send back to the airy speeches of University park a sorrowful echo. A prominent republican in Washington who contributed largely of money and time to elect Harrison, standing idly in front of his big store cries out, "Ah, for a return of such an administration as Cleveland's." And this is no fancy sketch, as any one who visits the capital can see. Just at this time the administration has something else to do besides relieving the people. It has taken a deep interest in the "confederate brijradier." "Mahone and repudiation" in the saddle, and the grandson of his grandfather kneels humbly at his feet. The small, long-whiskered boss went to the white house, and had a conference, while men from the North, cooled their heela in the ante-room, aod a new birth was soon announced. Harmony had been restored, patronage given over to the man who for his own purposes wants to rule Virginia, the tantalizing epithet "confederate brigadier" was for a time put aside, and Mahone and Harrison started anew in the race for plunder in the year A. D. 1 vS3. "Public office" was never more clearly made a "private snap" for corrupt purposes. The November election will tell the tale. It is well known that with the offices alone Mahone and Harrison do not expect to win, but it is quietly whispered that Quay's money is not all gone, and with that the hope to forge the chains a little tighter on the wrists of Virginia labor. The administration still manages to turn out democrats before their commissions expire. The black flag has been naiied to the mast head, and from this time on civil service reform is but an empty name. It has no form or substance. It has been determined by the powers that be to ignore it, and before Harrison's administration becomes history the father of the child will not recognize his offspring. A CABINET MEETING. . The Question of an Extra Session ot Con. Cress Discussed. Washington-, Sept 7. Secy. Windom w& at the white house at 9 o'clock this morning at the request of the president After a long consultation he came back to the treasury, where he. procured some official papers and returned in time to join the cabinet meeting, which was called at 11 o'clock. The others present were Seeya. Proctor, Tracy and Noble, P. M.-Gen. Wanamaker and Atty.-Gen. Miller. Before the cabinet got together, Mr. Casson, one of the Samoan commissioners, and Representative Peters of Kausas, had short interviews with the president The cabinet was in session over three hours. It is understood that nearly the entire time was devoted to a discussion of the advisability of calling an extra session of congress. The impression is that a negative decision was arlved at A Switchman's Carelessness. Greenville. Ta., Sept 8. A vestibule train on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad ran into a freight train near Shenango, Paw, shortly after midnight Baggage-maxter Cleveland of (Salamanca, N. Y was instantly killed and Engineer Johnson and Fireman Walters seriously, but not fatally, hurt. The solid character of the coaches prevented any serious damage to the passengers. Accident caused bj switchman failing to close switch, yy i Oeorje Allen Captured. Grekx wood, Miss., Sept 8. George Allen, one of the principal leaders in the late trouble in Leflore county, and the villain who shot his own brother because Its refused to go with the rioters, has been captured at Indianola, Sunflower county. A deputy sheria has been sent there to identify and bring him back to the scene of his crimes. . Fell From a Second-Story YTlndew. Atlaxta, Ga.,Sept 8. Dr. n. II. Tucker, one of the most prominent baptist minUter of the South, was probably fatally injured early this morning by falling from a econd-story window in which he had taken his seat He is still alive but his life is despaired of. Will ot Leave Home. LONDOX, Sept 8. A dispatch to the Chronicle from Rome says: 'The pope has abandoned the idea of leaving Rome, the German government having mediated in his behalf and assured him that in the event of a war Italy would strictly respect hi position,"